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Solution for HTTP 500 Error SAMLResponse Problem

2011-11-06T16:15:00.000-08:00

Collage: A solution for SAMLResponse problem
Image credit: Tetris puzzle
2011 @ itceremony.blogspot.com

I have spent a few days debugging a problem while scripting a login with the OpenSSO using VUGen Load Runner. No matter what I did, I would get an HTTP 500 error with Java exceptions that points to a SAMLResponse problem.

Analysis of initial recorded (not correlated value) showed presence of "\r\n" characters inside of the SAML response. Meanwhile it would show as "&#xa:" in HTML script or "%0A%0D" in URL protocols.

Finally, it dawned on me that those characters were generated by the IDP and should be in the request, but only in proper encoding. Once I recorded in HTML and converted a picked correlated value to TargetSourcing="PLAIN" in web_convert_param() function, everything started to work.

Hope it helps those poor souls that like me spend hours looking for solution on the Net.

Letter to Ray

2008-09-15T19:14:00.000-07:00

Dandelion wine [Вино из одуванчиков]
2008 @ itceremony

By chance I came across one of recent Ray Bradbury book of essays.
To say that he was my favorite writer in childhood means to say nothing.
I would walk in -30 C something freeze for his new book in our distant Siberian town library.
Now almost 40 years later, living on the same continent but a bit north though, I have found out that nothing has changed that I am still under the spell.

It is probably his wild imagination and old world humanity that still attracts me to his books.
Most of all I was surprised to find a novel “A Milestone at Millstone’s: Bondarchuk remembered” that Bradbury tells a story as three Russian directors including Sergey Bondarchuk meet at the Hollywood with a bunch the most powerful and talented directors: John Ford, Billy Wilder, Tony Richardson, etc…

In the midst of all introducing and mutual pleasantries the Russians hear of Bradbury name.
They were so excited and happy so that the god-like people were quickly discarded and 3 of them drunk vodka with Ray till “the rise’s state”, i.e. under the table.
About the timing since this essay is undated, the event probably happened around 1967 and he wrote it 20 years later in 1987 but published in 2006.

In his own words:
"I have never written about that evening until now.
Even as I write, it seems an inordinately fantastic time. The Russians can not have loved me all THAT much. But they DID. I must be lying through my teeth. I am NOT."

Of course we DO love you Ray! Just go to Russia if you can.

Google Developer Day 2007: Live University

2007-05-31T09:39:00.000-07:00

GoogleDeveloperDay2007: Webcast Schedule
Live Webcast: Now Streaming Live Session in London: Better AJAX: Chris Prince, GEARS Engineer, Google
Credit: Google

Google Gears: Enabling Offline Web Applications
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline.
Features
Google Gears consists of three modules that address the core challenges in making web applications work offline.
LocalServer
Cache and serve application resources (HTML, JavaScript, images, etc.) locally
Database
Store data locally in a fully-searchable relational database
WorkerPool
Make your web applications more responsive by performing resource-intensive operations asynchronously

XForms: The IBM Gets Back at IT!

2007-05-15T16:15:00.000-07:00

Figure 4. The Menu Page
Credit: ibm > developerWorks > XML >
Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 6: Wrapping it up
by Nicholas Chase

The game [Sudoku] is over. XForms is in serious [accounting] business.

This six-part series demonstrates how to leverage the power of XForms in conjunction with MySQL and PHP to create an online accounting tool called X-Trapolate. Every good programming technology possesses a range of problems it excels at solving. This series highlights some of the problems that the XForms solves effectively, such as the need for live calculations and greater interactivity. Part 6 of this six-part series takes a final review and lessons learned approach, making sure there are no gaps in the final application and looking at future possibilities.

ibm > developerWorks > XML >
Use XForms to create an accounting tool, Part 6: Wrapping it up
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xformsaccttool6/
Nicholas Chase

Part 1: The making of X-Trapolate
An overview of forms and functionality
20 Mar 2007
Stony Yakovac

Part 2: Logging in and accounts
Leverage the power of XForms for user authentication
27 Mar 2007
Stony Yakovac

Part 3: Developing asset management functionality
Building budgeting and billing forms into X-Trapolate
3 Apr 2007
Stony Yakovac

Part 4: More asset management and reporting
Track user requests regarding assets in X-Trapolate
17 Apr 2007
Nicholas Chase
Stony Yakovac

Part 5: Developing liability management functionality
08 May 2007
Tyler Anderson
Stony Yakovac

Part 6: Wrapping it up
15 May 2007
Nicholas Chase

Read an editor's notes about this ongoing series on creating an XForms accounting application.

links:

XForms and the Chasm What XForms Need to Become a Mainstream Technology

Moore also noted that both early late majority buyers would be more willing to use a technology if it was buried deeply in a complete solution. That way the IT managers don’t have to sell the technology to management, just the solution. Similarly, once third party developers start building accounting or complete solutions for vertical industry using XForms the buyer will not need to know or care how the solution is being delivered.

Dr. Data Dictionary
April 14, 2007

XTech2007 - XMLForms - do I need them?

Now in XTech2007 - arrived in time for the afternoon session of XMLForms by Steve Pemberton. XMLForms allow you to pass XML into/out of forms rather than relying on HTML. In includes things like validation - if you tell it something is a date, t5hen you can check in makes sense as a date. And there’s stuff about credit cards, etc. So it makes sense to adapt them for - say - chemistry so that we can check data and molecules on submission.

Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - petermr's blog: A Scientist and the Web

XForms and Internet Applications: Writing a Sudoku Player with formsPlayer and XForms

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Canada Hosts WWW2007

2007-05-08T20:45:00.000-07:00

Plenary Speaker: Tim Berners-Lee
Title: The Two Magics of Web Science
Credit: iw3c2.org

It sounds like a blufr question: Do you know that Canada hosts the 16th International World Wide Web Conference?
no way!
way!
WWW2007: 8-12th May, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Welcome to Canada!

A year ago we posted WWW2006: Future of the Web is eXtensible Collaboration material, and, now, we are ready to move from the semantic web to the web science.

Tim Berners-Lee confirmed as a plenary speaker. He will address the emerging discipline of Web Science, and the global opportunities provided by the Web.

The Two Magics of Web Science
Abstract:

Web Science, of course, is largely engineering, as is computer science. But Web Science is different. When you design a new Web technology, it involves both technical protocols and social conventions. These work together to produce the new system, a computer-mediated interaction between two people. The first magic (process we don't understand) is when that interaction between two people scales to produce a new macroscopic phenomenon. The link between the microscopic and the macroscopic is fascinating. When we look at our macroscopic world and sigh, and wish it were better, it then takes a creative magic to see what new microscopic design could have the right effect. The creative leap of many neurons, and the collaboration of many people are the most exciting parts of the whole process, and what the Web has been about from day one.

WWW2007 has a five-day structure (Tuesday to Saturday), featuring 12 tutorials, 8 workshops, 4 plenary speakers, 111 refereed papers, 119 posters, 7 panels, and 10-12 invited industry speakers, 940 delegates, from 40 countries (including 6 from Russia and 117 from Canada).

Program Highlights

Sunday, May 6, Pre-conference Events / WC3 AC
Monday, May 7, Pre-conference Events / W4A, WOW, WC3 AC
Tuesday, May 8, BUILDING THE WEB
Wednesday, May 9, THE GLOBAL WEB
Speaker: Tim Berners-Lee
The Two Magics of Web Science
Thursday, May 10, MINING THE WEB
Speaker: Prabhakar Raghavan
Web N.0: What Sciences Will it Take?
Friday, May 11, WEAVING THE WEB
Speaker: Bill Buxton
Social Networking and Web Communities
Saturday, May 12, THE WWW AND YOU
Speaker: Dick Hardt
An Identity Story

Future Conferences:
WWW2008 - Beijing, China
WWW2009 - Madrid, Spain
WWW2010 - Open For Bids!!!
WWW2011 - Bangalore, India

links:

WWW2007: Designing XForms, XML Backplane, etc.
Friday May 04, 2007
by John Boyer

My talk will demonstrate a schema-initiated drag-and-drop design experience for XForms using the Lotus Forms Designer.

John Boyer (IBM): Designing XForms (25 mins)

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April 12 - Space Day of Yuri Gagarin

2007-04-12T10:23:00.000-07:00

12.IV.61 — The Day of Cosmonautics
12.IV.61 — День Космонавтики
by Сирус В.
Credit: Plakaty.Ru

"Земля - колыбель человечества, но нельзя вечно жить в колыбели!"
Константин Э. Циолковский, отeц русской космонавтики, (1857-1935)

"The Earth is a cradle of the mankind, but it is impossible to live forever in the cradle!"
Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, Father of Russian Astronautics, (1857-1935)

Русский космизм - самобытное направление русской философской мысли. Его плоды мы празднуем сегодня.

Russian Archives Online > The Gallery > Yuri Gagarin

The first human in space, Yuri Gagarin said:"Let's go!" and became a hero.
I can not say better about the Yuri's Day on the Net than you can read in the post "Yuri Gagarin - Celebrated by Google" in Zooogle by NullVariable.
I did not miss the logo but I missed the Yurisnight Party. OK, next year.

How search engines celebrate this day:

Yandex: yuri+gagarin

Google: yuri+gagarin

LiveSearch: yuri+gagarin

WebCrawler: yuri+gagarin

Yahoo!: yuri+gagarin

Snap: yuri+gagarin

Russian Archives Online > The Gallery > Yuri Gagarin

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XForms and Internet Applications: Writing a Sudoku Player with formsPlayer and XForms

2007-03-08T18:57:00.000-08:00

XForms and Internet Applications: Writing a Sudoku Player with formsPlayer and XForms

XForms for Fun Using formsPlayer
Proof of the Concept 2006

Play Sudoku using Windows Internet Explorer and formsPlayer
Step 1. Download formsPlayer

Play Sudoku using Windows Internet Explorer and formsPlayer
Step 2. Fill in the grid

Play Sudoku using Windows Internet Explorer and formsPlayer
Step 3. Enjoy the result: “Hello, you won!”

developerWorks: IBM's resource for developers published an article by Nicholas Chase

Use XForms to create your own Sudoku game, Part 1: Create the game

Abstract: It's no secret that Sudoku is one of the hottest new trends around. This two-article series shows you how to create a game client that requests new games from the server, detects legal and illegal moves and the end of the game, and saves the current game for later. It also shows you how to generate new games for the user to play. In part one, we create the basic game client.

27 Feb 2007

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Practice Scrum with an Inventor

2007-02-20T13:35:00.000-08:00

Presentation: The Roots of Scrum
How Japanese Manufacturing Changed Global Software Development Practices
Dr. Jeff Sutherland, Certified Scrum Master Training and Inventor of Scrum Process
JAOO, Aarhus, Denmark, 28 Sep 2005
Source: InfoQ.com

Just a comment:

A ScrumMaster Monkey using ba can eventually types a sonnet of Shakespeare.

An agile technology helps to survive our aging society.

Обезьяна ScrumMaster, используя ba может в конечном счете напечатать сонет Шекспира.

Проворная технология помогает выживать нашему стареющему обществу.

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David Phillips' Mission to Teach Science to the World

2006-12-09T18:34:00.000-08:00

Flyer:: Stoicheff Lecture 2006:: A Little Light Relief

Prof. Sir David Phillips OBE Imperial College, London
Credit: University of Toronto:: Institute for Optical Sciences & Royal Canadian Institute

The Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the advancement of science in partnership with the Institute for Optical Sciences, University of Toronto presents:

Holiday Season Stoicheff Lecture 2006

A Little Light Relief: Science of Photo Medicine

Prof. Sir David Phillips OBE
Hofmann Professor of Chemistry;
Senior Dean, Imperial College London , UK

When: Sunday, December 10, 2006
Time: 3 pm
Venue: J. J. R. Macleod Auditorium, Medical Sciences Building, University of Toronto
Location: 1 King's College Circle
Google maps
Queen's Park Subway Station
PLEASE NOTE: Sunday parking at U of T is $7. Pay and Display parking voucher machines (near entrances to the campus) accept credit cards. TTC is recommended.

Light, particularly sunlight, has always occupied a mystical power over all civilisations and is commonly held to bestow good health upon recipients of its rays.
That there is both truth and fallacy in such beliefs will be demonstrated in this lecture, which deals with the science of photo-medicine. The subject encompasses effects of light on the skin, diagnostic uses of light, and therapeutic aspects.

We will concentrate on the latter, but not before a brief consideration of harmful effects of solar radiation.

Therapeutic uses include treatment of skin complaints such as psoriasis, treatment of neonatal jaundice, and photo-inactivation of viral, bacterial and fungal infections. The laser has revolutionised some aspects of medicine, and laser applications discussed will include surgery using infrared and ultraviolet lasers and the use of lasers plus chemical sensitisers to destroy tumours selectively (photodynamic therapy).

The topic is illustrated with many demonstrations, and gives an overview of the subject from the point of view of a chemist.

Public Lecture – All are welcome, especially ages 13-18
Free admission and refreshments

links:

Extract from the Demonstration Lecture
A Little Light Relief
By Prof. David Phillips
Credit: Imperial College Television Studio

UK science guy brings laser medicine show to U of T
29 Nov 2006 by Sonnet L’Abbé
Professor Sir David Phillips, a popular science commentator and BBC media personality, will bring his world-touring lecture on the use of light in medicine to the University of Toronto on Sunday, December 10 at 3 pm..
Credit: University of Toronto -- News@uoft

CHEMIST'S MISSION TO TEACH SCIENCE TO THE WORLD
...Professor David Phillips is a man with a passion for lecturing...
Imperial College. IC Reporter, ISSUE 20 (6 FEBRUARY - 19 FEBRUARY 1996)
Staff Newspaper of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Imperial College London Home Page
Professor David Phillips, OBE
Senior Research Investigator
Faculty of Physical Sciences: Department of Chemistry
PUBLICATIONS
Credit: Imperial College London

SEE THROUGH WALLS WITHOUT “X-RAY SPECS”
31/05/06 by David Welsh, London Press Service

Imperial College London - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Imperial College London is a British academic institution focusing on science, engineering and medicine, complemented by a business school. It is consistently ranked in the top three universities in the United Kingdom, and top ten worldwide...

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Future of the Web

2006-10-31T10:10:00.000-08:00

Smart sites to power semantic web
Credit: BBC NEWS/Sci-Tech/Audio/Video RSS BETA

This post is republished.

The 15th International World Wide Web Conference: 23-26th May: Edinburg, Scotland, United Kingdom

On BBC NEWS this week:

Watch an extended interview with Sir Tim Berners Lee
Smart sites to power semantic web

The big talk at the WWW2006 conference is about the semantic web with its promise of an "intelligent" net.
Pallab Ghosh caught up with Sir Tim Berners-Lee - the man who invented the world wide web back in 1991.

SEE ALSO
The big talk at the WWW2006 conference
Internet experts look to the future
02:10 mins

links:

WWW2006 - WWW 2006: 23-26th May: The 15th International World Wide Web Conference
http://www2006.org

WWW2006 Podcast Series
http://www2006.org/rss/www2006.xml

See you next year at WWW2007 in Banff, Canada!

WWW2007 - WWW 2007: 8-12th May: The 16th International World Wide Web Conference: Banf, Alberta, Canada
http://www2007.org/

links for 2006-05-26
By Angela Kille in killeblog 2006-05-26

Recommended Online Resources on Speaking and Presenting from Info Career Trends - Lisjobs.com’s Professional Development Newsletter - May 2006 (tags: presenting) Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop at WWW 2006, Edinbugh Includes links to papers presented at workshop (tags: folksonomy tagging conferences www2006) College Students...

Бернерс-Ли рассказал о семантической сети...
In Киберпанк Портал : Russian Cyberpunk Portal 2006-05-26

Сэр Тимоти Бернерс-Ли в ходе выступления на конференции World Wide Web 2006 в Эдинбурге (Шотландия) ... реализации проекта по созданию так называемой семантической сети (Semantic Web). Проект Semantic Web ... Semantic Web, подчёркивает, что данная инициатива превзошла все ожидания. Работу над многими технологиями...

A bit of history:

WWW1999 - WWW 1999: 11-14th May: The 8th International World Wide Web Conference: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
http://www8.org/

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WWW2006: Future of the Web is eXtensible Collaboration

2006-05-26T13:32:00.000-07:00

Smart sites to power semantic web
Credit: BBC NEWS/Sci-Tech/Audio/Video RSS BETA

The 15th International World Wide Web Conference: 23-26th May: Edinburg, Scotland, United Kingdom

On BBC NEWS this week:

Watch an extended interview with Sir Tim Berners Lee
Smart sites to power semantic web

The big talk at the WWW2006 conference is about the semantic web with its promise of an "intelligent" net.
Pallab Ghosh caught up with Sir Tim Berners-Lee - the man who invented the world wide web back in 1991.

Recommended Online Resources on Speaking and Presenting from Info Career Trends - Lisjobs.com’s Professional Development Newsletter - May 2006 (tags: presenting) Collaborative Web Tagging Workshop at WWW 2006, Edinbugh Includes links to papers presented at workshop (tags: folksonomy tagging conferences www2006) College Students...

Бернерс-Ли рассказал о семантической сети...
In Киберпанк Портал : Russian Cyberpunk Portal 2006-05-26

Сэр Тимоти Бернерс-Ли в ходе выступления на конференции World Wide Web 2006 в Эдинбурге (Шотландия) ... реализации проекта по созданию так называемой семантической сети (Semantic Web). Проект Semantic Web ... Semantic Web, подчёркивает, что данная инициатива превзошла все ожидания. Работу над многими технологиями...

Tim Horton: A Phenomenon of Chosen Words

2006-04-02T19:47:00.000-07:00

Don’t play with hazardous words

It might come through. It might happen in a real life.
This is a response for a query “Tim Horton explosion at a coffee shop” from Google:

Fullspectrumottawa.com - Tim Hortons Coffee: The Phenomenon Of The One-Armed Commuter

...After spying on them awhile, you notice another element that most have in common. Their coffee of choice comes in a dark brown receptacle with two bright red words pasted on the front. Tim Horton’s has become ‘the’ choice for morning commuters in Canada’s capital. With the explosion of coffee houses around the city, including the likes of The Second Cup and Starbucks, why would a Tim Horton’s coffee be so popular?
It must be patriotism, right? ...

observation by: Scott D. Brown
2004 fullspectrumottawa.com

One man dead in suspected bomb explosion at Toronto Tim Hortons

TORONTO (CP) - The heart of Toronto's trendy Yorkville shopping district was shocked to a standstill Sunday after an explosion killed one man at a Tim Horton's outlet...

Lauren La Rose, Canadian Press
Published: Sunday, April 02, 2006
2006 CanWest Interactive

The Tim Horton's coffee shop in Toronto near Yonge and Bloor streets
April 2, 2006

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Sudoku: Would You Like to Play XForms?

2006-03-29T18:23:00.000-08:00

XForms for Fun Using formsPlayer

Please get a Sudoku puzzle inside of one web page with no script.
To use it you need IE 6.01 or later, as well as the formsPlayer XForms engine (fP) plug-in for the Internet Explorer 6 browser.
It is a basic version of a Sudoku just created for proof of the concept. But you can play the Sudoku game even when you are offline. You can save the results and quit; and start again from where you left.
My thanks to Mark for his un-stoppable work to promote XForms.

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PBwiki: Helps Develop Your WebSandwich

2006-02-15T20:50:00.000-08:00

On Monday, January 09, 2006 we submitted our nominations for Best Web Application for Weblogs at Sixth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2006 Bloggies

Something that helps you publish, make comments, anything that has to do with developing a weblog.

Nominee: pbwiki
URL: http://pbwiki.com/

Thanks David & pbwiki team!

Now we want to spread the word about PBwiki:

Check out the PBwiki tour!
Get a free wiki at PBwiki.com.

XForms + Controls = formsplayer

2006-02-15T19:58:00.000-08:00

WebCrawler Search for "xforms controls"

XForms: Custom Controls
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/XForms:Custom_Controls

Chapter 3: XForms User Interface Controls

User interface widgets collect user input and are responsible for providing a pleasant end-user experience when interacting with an application. The presentation and interaction exhibited by such widgets determines the look and feel of the user interface. When using markup languages such as XForms, such user interface widgets are created by special markup constructs called user interface controls in this book. We begin our technical overview of XForms with a tour of the available user interface controls. Each such control adds a specific type of functionality, and will be introduced alongside examples that motivate its use.

http://safariexamples.informit.com/0321154991/bookch3.html

3.2 Common Aspects Of XForms Controls

XForms user interface controls are used to collect user input. The various XForms user interface controls provide a consistent markup interface to ease authoring. The XML markup is designed to be familiar to today’s HTML authors, while overcoming some of the idiosyncrasies found in HTML forms. This section presents a high-level design overview before presenting the syntactic details of the various user interface controls. In doing so, we will cover all aspects of common markup found in XForms user interface controls.

http://safariexamples.informit.com/0321154991/bookse14.html

Using XForms in Office Applications
Keywords: Authoring, Case Studies, Application architecture, Document Creation, Content Management, Electronic Publishing, Integration, Metadata, Publishing, Structure, UBL, XForms, XSLT, DocBook, OASIS Open Office format, OpenOffice.org, StarOffice
Lars Oppermann
Software Engineer
http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xml04/papers/110/xml2004_ideadb.html

Prepare for the transition from HTML forms to XForms
By Tony Patton
http://builder.com.com/5100-6371_14-5055047-1.html

Get Excited
XForms Controls

View all the XForms controls in action, including on-the-fly validation, hints, help, date picker, menus, radio buttons, and checkboxes. This example also shows how to switch between different sections on a page with tabs, and how all the captured data is stored into an XML document.

http://www.orbeon.com/software/get-excited

XForms
Elliotte Rusty Harold
Software Devlopment 2005 West
Thursday, March 17, 2005
http://www.cafeconleche.org/slides/sd2005west/xforms/XForms.html

XForms
Creating Forms in XML
By Jennifer Kyrnin
http://webdesign.about.com/library/weekly/aa091701a.htm

Interactive XForms School

Interactive, cross-platform tutorial on W3C XForms. Learn how you can benefit from open standards. No special software is needed, beyond a modern browser with the Macromedia Flash plugin, thanks to the Mozquito Desktop Engine.
This information is in part taken from the O'Reilly book XForms Essentials. Used with permission.

http://xformsinstitute.com/

Validator of XForms documents

An interactive, Python-powered validator of XForms documents of all sorts. Works with multiple host languages.
This information is in part taken from the O'Reilly book XForms Essentials. Used with permission.

http://xformsinstitute.com/validator/

XForms + XSLFO
Klaas Bals, CTO of Inventive Designers

XHTML + XForms UI & Model => XForms Model => XForms Processor =>
XHTML + XForms UI + pseudo-* => CSS Engine + Stylesheet => Interactive Output
They use Chiba as XForms processor.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/chiba/

http://www.understandingxml.com/archives/2005/11/xml_2005_confer_1.html

XHTML 2.0 - XForms Module
XForms Form Controls
http://hades.mn.aptest.com/htmlwg/xhtml-m12n-2/mod-xforms.html

XML Forms Generator

A standards-based, data-driven Eclipse plug-in that generates functional forms with XForms mark-up embedded within an XHTML document from a XML data instance or a WSDL document. (This is an ETTK technology.)
Update: October 14, 2005
Support for Eclipse 3.1.x; uses Eclipse Webtools Project (Eclipse WTP); analyzes XML Schemas backing XML data instances; improved generation from WSDL documents; new renderer support; conversion utilities that enable form documents for different XForm renderers; and many forms enhancements.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/xfg

IBM Task Modeler
An Eclipse-based tool for rapidly creating and analyzing models of human activity for DITA and user experience design.

What is IBM Task Modeler?
Task Modeler is an Eclipse-based software tool for modeling human activity as a hierarchy of tasks and related elements. An information architect can use it to design DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) maps. A usability practitioner can produce either classic HTA (Hierarchical Task Analysis) diagrams or RAG (Roles and Goals) diagrams. The tool can be used in a workshop, during a field study, or at one's desk to rapidly create, explore, analyse, and share these models. Task Modeler is easy to learn, responsive in use, and adaptable to evolving practices. It creates attractive, expressive diagrams that inform and engage design stakeholders.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/taskmodeler

IBM compounds its XML toolset

A new addition to the Emerging Technologies Toolkit means disparate XML technologies can now be used together
IBM is hoping to push forward adoption of Web technologies like XML, SVG and XForms with an update of its Emerging Technologies Toolkit. The toolkit, based on the open source Eclipse IDE, has been enhanced with a compound document editor, an XML Forms generator and a set of XML tools for Java.

Jonathan Bennett, 06 May 2005
uk.builder.com
http://uk.builder.com/architecture/web/0,39026570,39245617,00.htm

XForms and Internet Applications

Stuff to do with producing a new generation of Internet Applications...biased towards XForms!
Mark Birbeck is the founding director of x-port.net Ltd., the company behind formsPlayer, an XForms processor that fully implements the W3C's XForms specification.

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2006-01-26T12:09:00.000-08:00

IT World Canada predicts the way ahead
By: IT World Canada Staff
IT World Canada (10 Jan 2006)

As technology professionals, we move in unpredictable spheres of innovation. But early this year, the editors and staff of IT World Canada gathered around, blew the dust off the old crystal ball and took a murky peek inside. Here are seven meaningful insights into what we believe will matter IT-wise in 2006.

Getting IT means understanding technology's purpose in business. And it's safe to say that in 2006, IT and business will work far more collaboratively.Text

Outsourcing at the fringe of new future

The practice of handing off a range of IT infrastructure and IT-enabled processes to third-party service companies is poised to move significantly down market to smaller business customers. This is the new frontier for outsourced IT services in 2006.

However, that service delivery will need to come through a range of new and unique types of service offerings and approaches. Companies like IBM Corp. and Sun Microsystems Inc. have been among those championing the concept of IT infrastructure delivered as a sort of computing "utility" service, similar to providing electricity.

Late in December, Hewlett-Packard Co. joined the crowd, announcing infrastructure- and application-provisioning services for businesses that need the use of servers and applications to handle temporary surges in computing demand. It's the rise of the utility types of IT infrastructure and business services - an evolution of outsourcing, away from long-term engagements to "pay as you go" computing.

Expect traditional IT service providers, communication service companies and potentially a new breed of IT utility service provider to push hard on a concept that's been much discussed but marginally executed.

A fraction less of IT-business friction

Getting IT means understanding technology's purpose in business. And it's safe to say that in 2006, IT and business will work far more collaboratively. Business Intelligence - scorecards, metrics and performance management applications used to make more intelligent business decisions - has been experiencing a consolidation trend as vendors pull their disparate BI applications into one platform.Text

With competition in almost every sector growing increasingly fierce, and the number of players dwindling, this cross-fertilization between IT and business has become a prerequisite for survival.

Companies able to collect and act on data in real-time, for example, are the big winners. Real-time analytics is one area that demonstrates the opportunities inherent in IT-business alignment, and the dangers when that alliance is absent. This is clearly a space where business and IT must work together, where the CIO and CEO must join forces.

The stats indicate that folk on both sides of the divide are getting this message loud and clear. Last year, 75 per cent of CIOs surveyed by CIO Connect said they were the source of new ideas for business products. Likewise, two-thirds of business managers asserted that their knowledge of IT was improving.

BI ripe for consolidation

Business Intelligence - scorecards, metrics and performance management applications used to make more intelligent business decisions - has been experiencing a consolidation trend as vendors pull their disparate BI applications into one platform.

Users want to standardize their BI tools with one vendor across the board and SAS Institute and MicroStrategy could look to expand their offerings in 2006, as more companies are jumping into the space to challenge the incumbents.

As spending on intelligence increases, look for one of the IT heavyweights new to this market to gain an immediate foothold through the acquisition of or merger with one of the incumbent, pure BI players in 2006.

Enterprise vendor SAP is moving into the space, as is Oracle, which adopted a clear growth-through-acquisition strategy in 2005. Both IBM and Microsoft are also expected to move more boldly into BI.

Smarter tools for mobile workers

Enterprise mobility has redefined the way businesses operate and drive productivity among employees. Technology that can transform the handheld into a virtual mobile workspace will be the direction for enterprise mobility in 2006.

Mobile technology has evolved from a telephone system into a converged communications tool, offering much more than e-mail and Internet access.

Field service agents are plagued with forms and reports to be submitted to head office for invoicing and database updating. The handheld devices of 2006 enable mobile workers to accomplish all these tasks wirelessly.

Late last year, Rogers and HP announced mForms, an iPaq-based mobile tool that transforms paperwork into electronic forms. Expect more telecom companies to partner other vendors such as RIM and Palm.

Mobile technology will be focused on transforming enterprise mobility into measurable productivity tools. Wireless broadband networks like cellular 3G and Wi-Max are pushing the pace of the mobile evolution.

Faster data on the fly

The wireless market - with two emerging high-speed technologies set to take off in 2006 - holds promises of innovation and invention over the next 12 months.

The new Bell, Telus and Rogers 3G cellular networks, offering peak speeds of 2.4Mbps (average rates of 400Kpbs-700Kbps), will give mobile workers broadband access to more data on the go, as well as videoconferencing over cell phones and other handheld devices.

In the fixed wireless market, Wi-Max is delivering high-speed Internet connectivity to rural communities that don't currently have access to DSL or cable broadband. Eventually equipment providers will offer devices that can roam between Wi-Fi, Wi-Max and 3G networks, giving business users wireless services in almost any given geographic area.

Umbrellas for spit storms

The one constant about security threats is the perpetrators will always move on to new means of creating havoc once the victims begin to catch on to their current methods.

IT environments in 2006 will need broader umbrellas for a safer shelter. Viruses have typically wreaked havoc to desktop PCs and laptops - now cell phones and PDAs are also being targeted. As mobile workforces and business agility push the WLAN to an ever-widening network, we expect an outbreak this year of the mobile virus, commonly referred to as a "spit storm."

Another developing threat is that of the router worm, which can be embedded in the routers residing on networks and cause considerable damage to traffic even before it reaches an end-user's system. As hackers and virus writers begin to exhaust their traditional avenues of attack, they will increasingly turn towards these relatively untapped points of entry.

And the usual worms, viruses and large-scale spam attacks aren't going away in 2006.

Government adopts Three-P partnerships

Public-private partnerships (P3s) will give a distinctly competitive edge to government IT contracts in 2006. P3s are arrangements between government and the private sector to provide public infrastructure, community facilities and related IT services.

P3s are characterized by the sharing of investment, risk, responsibility and reward between the partners.

Government enters into a P3 when it lacks a specific capacity, when that IT function is not a core government business or when it can be outsourced. For example, IBM is working with aboriginal communities to create opportunities in IT skills development, investment, youth mentoring and fuller economic participation by aboriginal businesses.

These 2006 technology trends and predictions were compiled by the editorial team of IT World Canada Inc., publisher of ComputerWorld Canada, Network World Canada, CIO Canada, CIO Government Review and IT Focus.

Copyright © 2005
ITworldcanada.com

ECL: Semantic Observations

2006-01-24T18:00:00.000-08:00

English as a Computer Language = XML + WEB 2.0
Visual credit: MS Clip Art Gallery

Computer Autism

I have asked my friend with a distinct flavor of autism how she manages to survive the intricacies of the ESL and she answered: “Just imagine what the computers feel!”

The Ultimate Puzzle

How to get across the lifetime of the government having in one boat Tories (the wolf), Liberals (the cabbage a.k.a cash) and NDP (the goat)?

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Why this chicken crossed the Conservative Road?

Beautiful and poisonous people…

articles:

What Is Web 2.0
Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software
by Tim O'Reilly
09/30/2005
O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Note:
A French translation of this article is available at web2rules.blogspot.com/2006/01/what-is-web-20-par-tim-oreilly-version.html.
A Korean translation - [Tim O’Reilly] Web2.0 posted in Trend by comgot http://blog.nobleness.net/comgot/archives/30

Semantic Web, Here We Come
A consortium of blogging startups wants to give deeper meaning to the Internet by giving people tools to categorize web pages.
December 16, 2005
Red Herring, Inc.

Web 2.0 for Designers
In: Columns > Web 2.0 Design: Bootstrapping the Social Web
By Richard MacManus & Joshua Porter
Published on May 4, 2005
Digital Web Magazine

Web 2.0 для дизайнеров
перевод Сергей Яценко
Агентство интернет-маркетинга ASDK

archeology of the future
археология будущего

Web 3.0

To you who feel like failures because you spent last year honing your web skills and serving clients, or running a business, or perhaps publishing content, you are special and lovely, so hold that pretty head high, and never let them see the tears.
As for me, I’m cutting out the middleman and jumping right to Web 3.0. Why wait?

by Jeffrey Zeldman
January 16, 2006
A List Apart Magazine

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Support the Third World: Nominate it for the Weblog Awards™

2006-01-09T20:17:00.000-08:00

Sixth Annual Weblog Awards: The 2006 Bloggies

The 2006 Bloggies are now in progress! Visit the site to vote for your favorites.

Millions of blogs.
Thousands of nominees.
151 finalists.
Thirty winners

At the start of each year, Nikolai Nolan runs the Weblog Awards™, where the public votes on the best weblogs in thirty categories.

From now until 10:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT-5) on Tuesday, January 10, 2005, anyone can nominate their favorite weblogs.

The Bloggies are open for their 6th year of awards for the Best Blogs, and you, our readers and fans, determine who the winners will be by nominating your favorite blogs.

1. Best Web Application for Weblogs
2. Best Australian or New Zealand Weblog
3. Best Asian Weblog
4. Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog
5. Best European Weblog
6. Best British or Irish Weblog
7. Best Latin American Weblog
8. Best Canadian Weblog
9. Best American Weblog
10.Best Tagline of a Weblog
11.Best Podcast of a Weblog
12.Best Photography of a Weblog
13.Best Craft Weblog
14. Best Food Weblog
15.Best Entertainment Weblog
16.Best Weblog About Politics
17.Best Web Development Weblog
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30.Weblog of the Year

Nominations fall into the following categories, and according to their rules - you can nominate a blog for more than one category (and each category has up to three or four slots, so you can nominate more than one per category as well)!

You can support The Third World by nominating it in the 2006 Bloggies. Your vote is important.

To do so, go to 2006.bloggies.com and enter us in “Best New Webblog” or/and “Best Canadian Webblog” or/and "Best Community Weblog" or/and whatever...

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MEME: Links & Tags Make BlogBusters

2006-01-08T00:05:00.000-08:00

Top 100 Blogs meme

Bold those you’ve linked.
Italicize those you would like to link.
Underline those you own.
Add at least 2 blogs to the list at the bottom you link and own.

Technorati Top 100 Blogs List

The biggest blogs in the blogosphere, as measured by unique links in the last six months.

1. hatena.ne.jp: 295,369 links from 51,252 sites.
2. Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: 69,096 links from 18,944 sites.
3. blog.yam.com: 67,257 links from 18,747 sites.
4. Engadget: 62,497 links from 14,231 sites.
5. PostSecret: PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. By frank warren: 22,661 links from 13,283 sites.
6. Daily Kos: State of the Nation: 53,972 links from 10,860 sites.
7. The Huffington Post: 44,581 links from 8,131 sites.
8. Gizmodo, The Gadget Blog: 19,237 links from 7,075 sites.
9. Instapundit.com: 32,351 links from 6,682 sites.
10. Michelle Malkin By Michelle Malkin: 37,206 links from 5,847 sites.
11. Crooks and Liars By John Amato: 23,120 links from 5,803 sites.
12. spaces.msn.com/members/samzhu: 16,440 links from 5,705 sites.
13. dooce: 10,680 links from 5,677 sites.
14. Blog di Beppe Grillo: Grillo's gags have tackled financial scandals and political corruption By Beppe Grillo: 16,052 links from 5,397 sites.
15. Thought Mechanics By Theron Parlin and Matthew Good: 7,103 links from 5,384 sites.
16. Lifehacker, the Productivity and Software Guide: 13,406 links from 5,006 sites.
17. spaces.msn.com/members/locker2man By locker2man: 13,636 links from 4,910 sites.
18. Herramientas para Blogs Herramientas para spaces. Un blog sobre personalización de los spaces By Marcelino Madrigal: 13,534 links from 4,852 sites.
19. Think Progress By Judd Legum: 23,530 links from 4,849 sites.
20. Official Google Blog: 11,510 links from 4,793 sites.
21. Drew Curtis' FARK.com: 7,895 links from 4,689 sites.
22. Open Palm! Youth means limitless possibilities. By Open- Palm ! ™: 20,773 links from 4,533 sites.
23. Gawker, Manhattan Media News and Gossip: 12,967 links from 4,509 sites.
24. kottke.org : home of fine hypertext products: 11,238 links from 4,407 sites.
25. Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: 18,369 links from 4,392 sites.
26. Wonkette, Politics for People with Dirty Minds By editor wonkette: 12,484 links from 4,320 sites.
27. spaces.msn.com/members/chattie555: 14,064 links from 4,236 sites.
28. Easy Start To The Day: 13,301 links from 4,142 sites.
29. manabekawori.cocolog nifty.com/blog: 9,937 links from 4,131 sites.
30. A List Apart: For People Who Make Websits: 9,013 links from 4,130 sites.
31. The Space Craft: The Official MSN Spaces Team Blog: 11,654 links from 4,042 sites.
32. spaces.msn.com/members/MSN SA: Tag your space in our huge family, which is the home for MSN spacers from all over the world. By Anki Wang: 11,323 links from 4,031 sites.
33. spaces.msn.com/members/huangmj By huang mj: 13,536 links from 4,003 sites.
34. shiraishi.seesaa.net: 5,880 links from 3,993 sites.
35. Power Line: 20,599 links from 3,972 sites.
36. spaces.msn.com/members/lwhanz1981530: 8,693 links from 3,875 sites.
37. Weebls Stuff News: 11,957 links from 3,850 sites.
38. Eschaton: 19,853 links from 3,768 sites.
39. Xiaxue.blogspot.com Everyone's reading it. Have you ever seen the blog of a goddess? By Xiaxue: 7,000 links from 3,664 sites.
40. spaces.msn.com/members/princesscecicastle: 10,538 links from 3,583 sites.
41. spaces.msn.com/members/atiger: 9,643 links from 3,541 sites.
42. Joystiq: 17,247 links from 3,478 sites.
43. lgf: this is true internet dictatorship By Charles Johnson: 16,536 links from 3,432 sites.
44. blogs.yahoo.co.jp/nosz50j: 7,750 links from 3,394 sites.
45. www.AndrewSullivan.com Daily Dish: 11,274 links from 3,393 sites.
46. The Best Page In The Universe. By maddox: 5,496 links from 3,378 sites.
47. Metafilter | Community Weblog By Matt Haughey: 14,468 links from 3,285 sites.
48. Joel on Software: 6,990 links from 3,282 sites.
49. AMERICAblog: Because a great nation deserves the truth: Liberal US politics blog with a particular focus on activism and news about the Bush administration, the religious right, and gay civil rights. By John Aravosis: 16,450 links from 3,211 sites.
50. The Superficial | Because You're Ugly: 8,270 links from 3,204 sites.
51. Something Awful The Internet Makes You Stupid: 5,850 links from 3,165 sites.
52. Overheard in New York: The Voice of the City: 6,705 links from 3,117 sites.
53. spaces.msn.com/members/gouy2k: msn space technic, modification By hot wind: 10,517 links from 3,048 sites.
54. Blogcritics.org: Superior Bloggers on Music, Politics, TV, Film, ...: 10,101 links from 2,941 sites.
55. Hugh Hewitt: 12,094 links from 2,921 sites.
56. MAKE: Blog: 8,463 links from 2,872 sites.
57. BuzzMachine By Jeff Jarvis: 11,247 links from 2,855 sites.
58. Captain's Quarters By Ed Morrissey: 18,275 links from 2,849 sites.
59. The Web Standards Project: 4,471 links from 2,824 sites.
60. spaces.msn.com/members/king19120 this is my world By Mr. Lonely: 9,377 links from 2,810 sites.
61. Defamer, the L.A. Gossip Rag: 6,730 links from 2,799 sites.
62. Mark's Sysinternals Blog: 5,470 links from 2,797 sites.
63. TechCrunch By Michael Arrington: 7,662 links from 2,758 sites.
64. The Volokh Conspiracy: 12,872 links from 2,711 sites.
65. The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW): 32,928 links from 2,697 sites.
66. Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Blogger: Microsoft geek blog. Writes about the technology industry. By Robert Scoble: 7,875 links from 2,658 sites.
67. Stuff On My Cat: 4,710 links from 2,655 sites.
68. Micro Persuasion: Steve Rubel explores how new technologies are transforming marketing, media and public relations. By Steve Rubel: 9,771 links from 2,632 sites.
69. Google Blogoscoped: 10,253 links from 2,617 sites.
70. WRETCH Album and Blog: 5,547 links from 2,578 sites.
71. spaces.msn.com/members/slim By slim: 7,608 links from 2,570 sites.
72. Pink Is The New Blog | Fingers Firmly On The Pulse By Trent Vanegas: 4,767 links from 2,511 sites.
73. A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals): 5,612 links from 2,500 sites.
74. The Corner on National Review Online: 14,336 links from 2,497 sites.
75. spaces.msn.com/members/hcy521: 7,643 links from 2,472 sites.
76. Seth's Blog: 5,862 links from 2,459 sites.
77. Informed Comment: Middle East, foreign affairs, religion, Islam and history are discussed by a professional historian. By Juan Cole: 10,013 links from 2,456 sites.
78. TPMCafe || The Coffee House: 7,284 links from 2,441 sites.
79. blog.livedoor.jp/aki09041: 7,505 links from 2,441 sites.
80. Om Malik on Broadband : On Broadband, VoIP & The Next Generation By om malik: 9,658 links from 2,421 sites.
81. The Doc Searls Weblog : Friday, January 6, 2006 By Doc Searls: 5,351 links from 2,416 sites.
82. Michael Yon : Online Magazine: 8,255 links from 2,410 sites.
83. Microsiervos: 8,902 links from 2,386 sites.
84. The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom a load of stuff by Joe...:5,403 links from 2,363 sites.
85. Gothamist: 7,357 links from 2,314 sites.
86. BILDblog "Notizen über eine große deutsche Boulevardzeitung." Watchblog for the German tabloid "Bild" Zeitung By BILDblog: 6,670 links from 2,309 sites.
87. Techdirt. Easily Digestible Tech News & Analysis By Mike Masnick: 7,357 links from 2,289 sites.
88. toothpaste for dinner daily drew drawings: 4,838 links from 2,275 sites.
89. blog.so net.ne.jp/atsuya furuta: 5,436 links from 2,262 sites.
90. WIL WHEATON DOT NET By Wil Wheaton: 4,863 links from 2,258 sites.
91. VG Cats Updated Mondays: 4,074 links from 2,244 sites.
92. Dog Blog: 2,347 links from 2,234 sites.
93. John Battelle's Searchblog By John Battelle: 6,764 links from 2,231 sites.
94. blog.livedoor.jp/insidears: 6,749 links from 2,218 sites.
95. MilkandCookies Sorry, We're Open By Jaxon Brooks: 5,087 links from 2,207 sites.
96. RedState.org: A conservative collaborative weblog focusing on politics, news, and activism. By Mike Krempasky: 8,866 links from 2,180 sites.
97. Scripting News: 1/6/2006 By Dave Winer: 5,621 links from 2,170 sites.
98. Scott's "SiteExperts" Place: Web developers, Web developers, Web developers! MSN Client architect who shares his thoughts on DHTML, AJAX, Client Frameworks, etc., and how we are engineering MSN properties. By Scott Isaacs: 5,928 links from 2,169 sites.
99. Wizbang Full Feed With Comments: Explosively Unique...By Kevin Aylward: 13,080 links from 2,163 sites.
100. Autoblog: 34,158 links from 2,158 sites.
101. The Third World by itceremony links from 4 sites.
102. The Arts Junction by itceremony links from 1 site.

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itceremony

Enter the Devosphere

2006-01-06T14:23:00.000-08:00

Enter the Devosphere: Artem Kaznatcheev, Saskatoon, Saskatchevan, Canada

"Welcome to what I call the Devosphere. A web log dedicated to my musings. Expect to see politics, technology, reviews and everything in-between on this site. I am not a newspaper; however I will never post something as fact unless I am assured it is true. If something I say is incorrect mention it to me. I am tolerant of everyone’s opinions, so voice them in your comments. If you want me to get back to you about your comment then please include your email address and I will try to reply."

Some Posts

* Canada vs. Russia
* Book Review: The Da Vinci Code
* Google PC
* Authoritarian Russia
* Microsoft's Lack of Innovation
* Broke and Happy vs. Rich... and Happier?
* Rotting Our Analytical Minds
* Mortality
* Why We Hate IE6 Part 2
* Microsoft Live Battalion

Artem, thank you. Let's keep in touch.

Celebration 2006: Uphill Blue Mountain & Upscale Oliver Bonacini

2006-01-04T13:54:00.000-08:00

Reflections and Anticipations in New Year Eve of 2006

We decided to celebrate the 2006 New Year Eve at Blue Mountain Resort in a way that is called kind of “read-only”: not to stay for a night but drive, ski, go for dinner and join the crowd of strangers at midnight, countdown, enjoy fireworks and come back.
So, we did and we have no regrets.
Sorry, our dear friends, but this year 2005 was so brutal that I personally wanted to be an anonymous in the midst of a joyful party.
But first, we drove to the top of the mountain, to the Nordic center near the scenic caves. The center was closed but it was so beautiful around, quiet and all pine trees in frost were magical.
And just in 10 meters from this silent kingdom were a lot of skiers and snowboardists going down with noise and enthusiasm under the fog and artificial lights.
After reviewing all the Village tourist attractions around 9 pm we took a chance to dine at the Oliver & Bonacini café•grill at the New Westin Trillium House hotel, which still has some marks of construction.
Everything at the Peter Oliver and Michael Bonacini’s enterprise was great: service, style, and presentation and on top of it their greatest point: quality and freshness of ingredients. Nobody even winced when we dropped in wearing our (almost) sport clothing amid people with substantially bigger bank accounts and evening outfits.
Au contraire: a manager took pains to find an excellent spot for us.
Alors, we had simple food:
[V] spiritual Julienne (called Melting Mushroom & Goat Cheese Spread with assorted pitas, organic corn chips & crisps),
[V] Seafood Fettuccini with a Tiger Shrimp & a Giant Scallop & Calamari,
[V] incredible Southern Barbequed Back Ribs with polenta & a smoky tomato glaze,
[V] excellent Canadian vines (especially Riesling from Vineland, ON)
[V] tasteful dessert.

We got home at 2 AM and felt that time was well wasted.

Happy New Year!

We are looking for continuation of our Blue Mountain’s winter adventures: cross country skiing, dog sledding, ice fishing, snowshoeing…

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ARTICLES:

foof network: MICHAEL BONACINI: Recipe Collection Show Descriptions
by foodtv.ca

A taste for success, with a side order of risk
Oliver and Bonacini stomach inhospitabilities of the hospitality industry
William Hanley, Financial Post
Published: Saturday, October 29, 2005

ON SITE: BLUE MOUNTAIN: CONDOMINIUMS
Final resort suites going on the market
By SYDNIA YU
Friday, December 9, 2005 Page G5Key
Special to The Globe and Mail

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fellow friendly friends, anyone gonna be free from January 27 - February 9, 2006?
cause...it's....WINTERLICIOUS!!!
27 Dec 2005 by Sam Hsieh

time for a huge blog that's a day overdue! hehehe
well, i had a fabulous time for on tuesday...just proves that if things are meant to be.. then everything would turn out alright..
it was a challenge planning this ski trip to blue mountain.. so many obstables to overcome and some that seemed impossible. But, it was a successful trip and honestly the highlight of my so far miserable holiday season. seriously, it has been nothing but stressful and prison like. whatever..
29 Dec 2005 by aivoz
Thursday, December 29, 2005

High Park Ski Club News
New Member Information Night
Posted January 4, 2006 by Sheryl Graham

Do you know someone who is interested in learning more about the club? HPSC hosts information nights for potential members to find out information about the club and to meet and mingle with all members.
Date: Jan. 12, 2006
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Where: Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor St. W.

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What’s the Buzz: timbl’s blog?

2005-12-22T09:48:00.000-08:00

What is SO special about having a blog?

Why when the creator of the first website published his first post ever on his blog we could find this news around the globe with the headlines: Web Inventor Starts A Blog, A New Blog from WWW Founder, Tim Started His Own Timbl's Blog, The Web Master Has A Blog, The Timbl's Blog Is Born est.?
Actually, how about a semantic analysis of this blog. How do we know that this is the Tim’s authenticity under this narrative? On the Internet nobody knows you are a Tim.

It is involving the narrator and 9 times in a small text present personal “I” or derivative pronouns.
Style is rather argumentative: criticizing or comparative.
People in 2005 started a thing that is called blog that has a design that lets to be a serial creator (taking in account not only text but photo, images, video, audio, etc.).
The Web is a publishing medium becoming the publishing medium.
People need a creative space.

This skews the image a bit but let’s look at the message…

People in 2005 started a thing that is called blog that has a design that lets to be a serial creator (taking in account not only text but photo, images, video, audio, etc.).
The Web is a publishing medium becoming the publishing medium.
The message is the Blog idea (browser/editor) is what Tim had in mind when he stated the WWW in 1994.
He IS Tim (89% probability).

On the Internet nobody knows you are a Tim (substitute...) unless you prove it.

Thanks to Tropes.

PS: timbl, please, turn ON the comments option. Comments are more important than posts. At least for the muse of the semantic web.

LINKS:

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Wish to Be a Virtual Globalizer?

2005-12-12T13:02:00.000-08:00

Do you wish to be a virtual Sony’s globalizer?

Check the Sony’s DNA out on compatibility.
Sort from 1 up to 5 following components of career:

[V] Creativity
[V] Curiosity
[V] Communication
[V] Globalization
[V] Professionalism

Хотите стать одним из представителей Sony?

Проверьте свою "генетическую" совместимость.
Отсортируйте от 1 до 5 следующие компоненты карьеры:

[V] Творчество
[V] Любопытство
[V] Коммуникация
[V] Глобализация
[V] Профессионализм

SonyGlobalCareers.net - Sony Global - Jobs/Careers

Sony Corporation - Global Headquarters

Sony: Добро пожаловать: Россия

What Are 91% of Households Doing?

2005-12-11T19:24:00.000-08:00

Calculated Question

Forrester.com published in Ten surprising facts about consumers and technology:

The blogosphere is tiny — and a bit incestuous.

Three percent of households publish blogs; 6% read them.

The State Of Consumers And Technology: 2005
Teleconference
Original air date: September 1, 2005

Presented By:

Ted Schadler
VP & Principal Analyst
Forrester Research Inc.
tschadler@forrester.com

Charles S. Golvin
Principal Analyst
Forrester Research Inc.
cgolvin@forrester.com

www.forrester.com

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Do you blog?
CCMatthews Poll Results

15% I have my own blog
2% I add comments regularly to others' blogs
9% I view blogs regularly
12% I seldom view blogs
29% No
33% What's a blog?

Volodia

2005-12-09T21:44:00.000-08:00

Володя

Video: All About My Friend:
In Memory Of Volodia

a small documentary dedicated to memory of Vladimir Kirianov

Reflecting of Lennon: Come Back to the USSR

2005-12-08T08:29:00.000-08:00

Reflecting of Lennon we come back to the USSR.

Imagine ...

Lennon lived, Lennon lives, Lennon will live!
Lennon lived, Lennon is alive, Lennon will live!

Леннон жил, Леннон живет, Леннон будет жить!
Леннон жил, Леннон жив, Леннон будет жить!

Ленон жил, Ленон живет, Ленон будет жить!
Ленон жил, Ленон жив, Ленон будет жить!

Is Lennon still an icon to the young?
The Beatles may still be revered, but is John Lennon's music and message of peace resonating with young people today - 25 years after his death?
By Stephen Dowling
BBC News

Симферопольские битломаны почтут память Джона Леннона
12:29 Новый Регион
В 19 часов они придут в центр города к памятнику Ленину и зажгут свечи.
...Мы решили сегодня вечером собраться у памятника Ленину, потому что Леннон жил, Леннон жив, Леннон будет жить...
NR2.Ru: Российское информационное агентство «Новый Регион». Версия 2.0

Buzz Your Biz With Blogz

2005-12-07T08:35:00.000-08:00

Buzz Your Biz With Blogs!

Buzz Your Biz With Bloggz!

Buzz Your Biz With Blogz!

Pursuit Of Employment: How to Become Skilled at HTML

2005-12-06T18:42:00.000-08:00

Pursuit Of Employment: How to Become Skilled at HTML

Tough Creativity Under Blog Search

2005-12-06T13:17:00.000-08:00

It is Hard to Be Inventive on the Blogger

Everything is written, everything is discussed.

Wandering around the topic “How to write an HTML code” I found a lot of deep thoughts about the subject from the blogger’s universe.

Don’t think that anybody makes coding for you, mark up your ideas yourself.

Not only google your subject, but blogle it or search on Blogger.
Bloggers blog their posts and bloggle on the Blogger.

387 posts matching Blogic
10 posts matching Bloggic
1162 posts matching Blogical
13 posts matching Bloggical
10 posts matching Blogital
Your search - Bloggital - did not match any documents.
Am I an inventor of a new word: bloggital as a derrogative from being digital on a blog medum?

Next:
Blanguage
Blogaria
Blogin
Blogomania
10 posts matching Blogomaniac
Bblogomaniac was born 6:50 pm - August 24, 2005
Look at me!
24 Aug 2005 by crobet - References
I hope no on reads this first and depressingly boring blog! I have much road to cover before I am skilled and convincing as a blogomanic! My new word of the day; blogomaniac!!! 6:50 pm - August 24, 2005 - Crobet is out!
crobet - http://crobet.myblogsite.com/blog

9,178 posts matching blogia
philoblogging
Philosophy of blogging
Am I an inventor of a new word: philoblogging as philosophy of blogging?

Finally I found my subject "How Not to Teach HTML".
500,278 posts matching How not to teach HTML
How not to teach HTML
12 hours ago
A friend of mine recently approached me needing some help on a simple HTML assignment. Granted this wasn’t for an actual HTML course, but I still found it odd that something so…ugly...would still be taught as a viable web design method. ...Just imagine how much easier it would be to teach XHTML and CSS compared to this mess.
Philosophy - http://erraticwisdom.com/

Bloggraphy 2
Blography 359
Blogos 730

Think like a blog. Act like Google.
Think globally. Act bloggally.
Think locally. Act blogally.
Just blog.

How to beautify the word blog?

Bloggal
Bloggalization

Am I an inventor of a new word: bloggalization as a global phenomenon of blogging?
Yes and No. We have already had Blogalization 650

A blog (Web log) is a locally global e-publishing.
A web (Web site) is a globally local e-publishing.
Blogging is easy like talking.
Blog should sound like rhetoric not like talking.
126,704 posts matching Rhetoric

253,735 posts matching Millionaire
Your search - Bloggionaire - did not match any documents.
Am I an inventor of a new word: Bloggionaire as a blogging millionaire?
No, looks it's late. 2 posts matching Blogionaire

If I am writing a book I am a writer. If I am writing a blog I am a publisher. Blogging like a vehicle driving, it could be a bus, or a car, or a van or whatever. I still can not think about commercial side of blogging.

Become digital, a human being.
Become a blogger.

918,574 posts matching blogging.

Незнакомая “РОССИЯ!” в Нью-Йорке

2005-12-03T20:55:00.000-08:00

“РОССИЯ!” в Гугенхайме

Из заметок Канадский День Благодарения в Новом Йорке

Наконец пришло время рассказать миру о трех днях проведенных в октябре в Нью-Йорке.

Единственная идея этой поездки была увидеть “РОССИЮ!” - выставку в Гугенхайме и навестить парочку дорогих друзей.

Наша поездка на авто до Нью-Йорка была приятна и без особых прецедентов, это был последний солнечный день перед неделей холодных дождей и вытекающих из этого неудобств. 81 шоссе очень хорошее, это одна из разновидностей скоростной трассы, но к сожалению из-за сезонного ремонта временами мы ехали по одной полосе.

Мы предприняли маленькое путешествие в Овсего, который был принят нами за Отвсего, и есть по крайней мере 3 других вариации этого названия. Овсего расположен на берегу озера Онтарио, и это - место, как сказано в описании, мемориала войны года 1812. Случилось так что это было местом, куда судно с британскими вооруженными силами приплыло на американский берег, англичане взяли склад с оружием и возможно с провиантом не обращая внимания на сопротивление американской милиции и возвратились на земли Британской колонии. Здесь нет никакого отношения к Наполеоновской войне 1812 года. Фактически, мы искали Русский Православный монастырь недалеко от Овсего, но мы нашли его на нашем пути назад в 2 часах езды от Отвсего. Однако это будет предметом описания другой публикации.

На следующий день мы поехали в Манхэттан и непосредственно в Музей Гугенхайма, используя членские карточки от Художественной Галереи Онтарио и даже бесплатно провели нашего друга.

Video: Alphabet of Russian Art

New York: Guggenheim Museum: RUSSIA!
Unprecedented Exposition of Russian Art
Credits: Music: Boris Bazourov;
Visuals: New York Guggenheim Museum
itroom video: 2005

Эта выставка - огромное количество русских шедевров в одном месте, ошеломит любого русского. И где? В Гугенхайме! Месте, где только авангардистское и абстрактное искусство правило балом и где на самом верху музея я видел пустое полотно с названием: "В этом полотне нет ни капли искусства".

Это представление российского искусства было сделано продуманно и с размахом, да и весь Манхэттан был украшен русскими артефактами.

К нашему удивлению довольно много человек знали предмет очень хорошо и могли дать лекции по таким деталям как каноны изображения икон или тонкости русского религиозного раскола. И они были американцами. Холодная война оставила метку на людях, которые были образованы и профессионально заняты российской культурой и искусством.

И еще в тот день, а это была последняя пятница октября, музей организовал тусовку для друзей, и мы были приглашены. Это было странно и место стало еще более диковинным с ди-джеем и отвязной молодежью, общавшейся на первом этаже под строгим наблюдением русских святых. Но среди многих молодых людей Вы могли легко определить русско-говорящий студентов, гордо исследующих с их друзьями обширное российское культурное наследие.

В подвале была устроена небольшая выставка картин СоцРеализма, но не много людей знали об этом. Мы встретили женщину вероятно из Брайтон Бич, которая показала нам картины и была наполнена гордостью что имела к этому какое-то отношение.

Unknown "RUSSIA!" in Guggenheim
From notes about Canadian Thanksgiving in New York

НС

Unknown "RUSSIA!" in New York

2005-12-03T20:39:00.000-08:00

"RUSSIA!" in Guggenheim

From notes about Canadian Thanksgiving in New York

Finally, now it is time to tell the world about 3 days in New York in October.

The sole idea of this trip was to see the "RUSSIA!" – an exhibition at the Guggenheim and also to visit a few dear friends.

Our trip to New York was uneventful but pleasant; it was the last sunny day before a week of rain and misery. Highway 81 is nice and a different form of the throughway but unfortunately they had a couple of maintenance strips and we took a small trip to Owsego which was mistaken for Otwsego, there are at least 3 other variations of this name.

Owsego sits on the shore of Lake Ontario and it is a place as they said of memorial of the War of 1812. Just it happened to be a place where a ship with British military came to the States side, took the guns and possibly some provisions from the rag-tag American militia and went back. There is no relation to a Napoleonic War of 1812. Actually, we were looking for a Russian Orthodox monastery around there but we found it on our way back in 2 hours drive from this place. Nevertheless it is going to be a subject of another post.

Next day we went to Manhattan and to the Guggenheim Museum directly, using our reciprocal benefits of being members of the AGO and even took our friend with us.

Video: Alphabet of Russian Art

New York: Guggenheim Museum: RUSSIA!
Unprecedented Exposition of Russian Art
Credits: Music: Boris Bazourov;
Visuals: New York Guggenheim Museum
itroom video: 2005

This exhibition is a mind–boggling experience to any Russian to see many great artifacts in one place. And where? At the Guggenheim! A place where only avant-garde and abstract art would rule, where at the very top I have seen an empty canvass with the title: "There is not a drop of art in this painting".

Nevertheless this presentation of Russian art was done thoughtfully and extensively, all Manhattan was marked up with Russian art pieces. To our surprise quite a few people knew the subject matter very well and would give lectures on such topics like details of icon paintings’ canons or fine points of Russian Religious schism. And they were Americans. The Cold War left a mark on people who were educated and professionally occupied with Russian Culture and Art.

More over on that day, it was last Friday of October, they had a party for members and we were invited. It was a blast and the site became even more outlandish with DJ and groovy youth mingled on the first floor under the inquisitive supervision of Russian Saints.
But among many young people you could easily spot Russian speaking students proudly exploring with their friends the vast Russian cultural heritage. I remember a heated discussion in front of Deineka’s "Defense of Sevastopol" about who was fighting with whom and a Yugoslavian woman who said that she regrets the fall of the Soviet Union which was a precursor to destroying of the Republic of Yugoslavia.

In the basement there was a small exhibition of Soc Realism paintings but not many people knew about it. We met a woman probably from the Brighton Beach who showed us the paintings and was beaming with pride of having relation to this exciting event.

Незнакомая “РОССИЯ!” в Гугенхайме
Из заметок о Канадским Дне Благодарения в Новом Йорке

NS

Please Don't Steal It Blog It

2005-11-22T20:04:00.000-08:00

Writing for the Web
Comments and links about the fast-changing genres of Webwriting

Steel White Table - Dilbert Doesn’t Have A Blog
The Dilbert Blog is by Scott Adam, although it isn’t about Dilbert. It’s about
Scott Adam. For example, from October 24, 2005>>>

This Magazine: Because Everything Is Political

This Magazine Blog

2005-10-12T20:21:00.000-07:00

Video: All About My Sister:
In Memory Of Tamara

a small documentary dedicated to memory of Tamara Kharissanova

TAGS:

Tamara Kharissanova Sister Editor Russian Language

BLOGS:

The Print Advertising Blog
Why Do You Learn Russian? 9 Oct 2005
by Waseem Sindhu
'Ne za chto, tebe spasibo.'

LINKS:

Learn Russian Easily:
This free online language teaching website was established by a Russian speaking person who after about 10 years of studying English has made a conclusion that traditional educational methodologies have their absolute limit of a possible level of mastering the language.
Al Polonski is an administrator and chief-editor of a free online Russian language tutor, Learn Russian Easily, based on the method of extensive reading. He can be reached through the website http://learnrussian.hut1.ru

2005-09-29T21:44:00.000-07:00

MIFF Day 7: School Day: Learn Your Environment by Playing with the Environment

COUNTERBLAST
Culturejam : Hijacking Commercial Culture
Carly Stasko

2005-09-29T20:20:00.000-07:00

MIFF Day 7: School Day: What's Money Got to Do with It?

METRO COUNCIL CHAMBER
11:00 AM to 12:30 PM

During this session participants have discussed a lot of questions. There is just a part of them:
How to make Canadian schools more effective according to high than ever expectations of parents and teachers?
How to teach and develop extremely productive individuals for a competitive economy?
How to measure success of students' performances?
Is education a cornerstone of democracy?
How to build competency of an educational leader?
What factors define efficiency of a school?
If you would like to know answers ask (from left to right) Berisford Richardson, Malton Area Superintendent, Peel District School Board; Peter Cowley, Director, School Performance Studies, Fraser Institute; Rita Paul, Literacy Teacher, Driftwood Public School; and Dr. David Johnson, Professor of Economics, Wilfrid Laurier University.

© vk

Только ли Дело в Деньгах?

В течение этой сессии участники обсудили много вопросов. Это только часть из них:
Как сделать канадские школы более эффективными в соответствии с более высокими чем когда-либо ожиданиями родителей и педагогов?
Как преподавать и развить чрезвычайно производительных людей для конкурентноспособной экономики?
Как измерять успехи студенческой активности?
Как повышать компетентность образовательного лидера?
Какие факторы определяют эффективность той или иной школы?

TAGS:

McLuhan Festival of Future
McLuhan Festival
Toronto Media
Toronto

BLOGS:

McLuhan Reversal
McLuhan's wake: massaging the medium

2005-09-27T20:51:00.000-07:00

MIFF Day 5: The Media Is the Message

The McLuhan Festival is spinning off with the speed of information distribution.

The conclusion of the whole day of discussions: we create a medium for a purpose to distribute a message that this is the end of the medium.

There were lectures and presentations about:
* unprecedented opportunities of tomorrowÂs new media culture and the end of IT revolution;
* revolutionary changes in media technology and the rise of an artistic global culture with a special Canadian place in this process;
* allowing the Internet and democracy to become webocracy and creating new aristocracy;
* the patterns in the media chaos: the cable channel as distribution medium for peer-produced content and a person as a virtual broadcast corporation (a producer, an advertiser and a viewer).

I believe that on Sunday, on the Internet Day we will discuss a topic of the death of the Internet. Even today there was an opinion do not use a PC because it controls a person's life (sounds Orwellian).

Learning the lesson of the day we are adding a new feature to our blog structure: ADS - advertisements (smells parties, complimentary food and handy goodies).

Фестиваль Маклюэна раскручивается со скоростью передачи информации.

Вывод после целого дня обсуждений: мы создаем какое-то информационное средство с целью распространения сообщение о конце этого средства.

Были лекции и обсуждения о:

* беспрецедентных возможностях новой культуры СМИ и конца революции ИТ;
* революционных изменениях в технологии СМИ и повышении артистической глобальной культуры с особым местом Канады в этом процессе;
* сплаве Интернета и демократии, чтобы стать вэбократией и созданием новой аристократии;
* новых структурах в хаосе СМИ: кабельный канал как среда распространения содержания и человека как целой корпорации: производителя, рекламодателя и зрителя.

Я полагаю, что в воскресенье, в Интернет-день мы обсудим тему затухания Интернета.

Даже при том, что уже сегодня было мнение не использовать ПК, потому что он является средством контроля (звучит как Оруэлл).

Делая выводы из прошедшего дня, мы решили добавить новую рубрику к нашему блогу: ОБЪЯВЛЕНИЯ - рекламные объявления (чувствуется запах угощений , неформальных встреч и маленьких сувениров).

TAGS:

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McLuhan Festival
Toronto Media
Toronto

BLOGS:

McLuhan Reversal
McLuhan's wake: massaging the medium

BlogTO: Toronto Life Just Doesn't Get It
Read our comment to this post:
"Did I have time to read the article? No.
I read it only after your blog paid attention to the Media column. I read it in both formats: a magazine and an on-line version. We even set up a content-analysis of the "Blog's Age" which shows that blogs are about time but magazines are about money. Show me the money, Baby!
Will I still subscribe on the Toronto Life magazine? Yes, I will. Will I read BlogTO? Yes, I will. They compliment each other. Journalists are posting blogs, bloggers are writing articles. Maybe next year during the third McLuhan Festival bloggers should set up a special section "Blog's Age" or/and an interactive event "I blog TO"?"
Posted by: Olga at October 5, 2005 09:15 AM

LINKS:

Media Day ~ revolutions, media chaos, network television alternatives, satellite radio
Design Day ~ think global, act local, design the world
rabble.ca ~ news for the rest of us

ADS:

autogrill ~ a modern italian restaurant

2005-09-25T15:51:00.000-07:00

The Weekend Well Wasted (WWW)
I wish I could follow "not a day without a line"...
But either you live or you write. This weekend we did a half-and-half.
On Saturday we went to the Prince Edward County to enjoy one of the last days of summer, to buy some local vegetables and eat at one of new fancy places that claim their part of culinary fame from Toronto heavy weights. Two hours there and two hours back, not mentioning that I was doing 140 km/h. Traffic was so good at $1.045 per gallon, what is going to happen after $2.00?
Spent a couple of hours at the Sandbanks Provincial Park almost no people and the sank is so white, so microscopic, Picton, Bloomfield, Carrying Place.
At the Milford Bistro which was closed at that time we spoke with Michael Potter, the chef and owner who recommended to go to Bloomfield to the Carriage House and he took a reservation for our next visit.
The Carriage House was a terrific and price-wise deal. Exquisite! It is scary to imagine what you have to pay for this meal in Toronto.
We also bought some vegetables at the Kleinburg farm and by 9:45 PM we were at home.
Today it was the Word on Street event. So much maculature ('junk' from Latin), a lot of people and too few books that I would like to buy. Two of them are Leo Panitch's "Socializm Revival" and "Malevitch and Film" by Margarita Tupitsyn.

TAGS:
slow-cooking
organic
Prince Edward County
Gourmet Food

LINKS:
gremolata: fresh food fine wine gourmet media

2005-09-22T11:19:00.000-07:00

From TIFF to MIFF using SWA

A deep semantic web analysis (SWA) of two subjects: the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and McLuhan International Festival of Future (MIFF) shows significant correlation (+0.8) between them. The link is William Marshall & Co. They are the medium.
We are still preparing our review of the rest of the film festival, and tomorrow we are ready to start to volunteer for the MIFF. Volunteering options are opened and MIFF is looking for "enthusiastic, motivated go-getters who are eager to participate in a world-class festival that examines the future of culture, community, business and technology."
If interested, please contact Karen Sihra at ksihra@mcluhanfestival.com.
We would like to discover relationships between Karl Popper's ideas (third world of ideas) and Marshall McLuhan's ideas (digital media).

От пункта ТМКФ пункту ММФБ с помощью семантической сети.
Глубокий семантический анализ двух объектов: Торонто Международного Кино Фестиваля (ТМКФ) и Маклюхан Международного Фестиваля Будущего (ММФБ) показывает существенную корреляцию (+0.8) между ними...

TAGS:

McLuhan Festival of Future
William Marshall
Toronto

BLOGS:

girish: Toronto International Film Festival
BlogTO: Things I learned at TIFF this year
Toronto Film Festival
Full Coverage of the TIFF Including Headlines, Photos & Video Blogs from www.macleans.ca

2005-09-19T22:47:00.000-07:00

Pursuit Of Employment

2005-09-17T04:45:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets Saturday, September 17, 2005

Last Minute Tickets

10:00:00 AM Mario's War CUMBERLAND 2
10:30:00 AM Iberia PARAMOUNT 1
10:30:00 AM 3 Friends VARSITY 8
12:00:00 PM Mrs. Harris RYERSON
12:00:00 PM All the Invisible Children VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
12:30:00 PM Frankie ISABEL BADER THEATRE
2:30:00 PM Turnabout JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO
2:30:00 PM No Direction Home: Bob Dylan ROY THOMSON HALL
3:00:00 PM Workingman's Death CUMBERLAND 2
3:00:00 PM Drawing Restraint 9 VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
3:30:00 PM Zozo ISABEL BADER THEATRE
6:00:00 PM Harsh Times RYERSON
6:00:00 PM Last Hangman VARSITY 8
9:00:00 PM Pick Up the Mic ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

OUR CHOICE:

We Feed the World

Programme: REAL TO REEL
Director: Erwin Wagenhofer
Country: Austria
Year: 2005
Language: German, Portuguese, French
Time: 96 minutes
Film Types: Colour/Digital Betacam

REVIE:

consolatinchamps by James McNally

Workingman's Death

Programme: REAL TO REEL
Director: Michael Glawogger
Country: Austria/Germany
Year: 2005
Language: Russian, Basha Indonesia, English, Ibu, Yoruba, Pashtu, Mandarin, German
Time: 122 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm

See you at the Festival!

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2005-09-16T04:43:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets Friday, September 16, 2005

Last Minute Tickets

9:00:00 AM Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon CUMBERLAND 3
9:00:00 AM Dreaming Lhasa ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
9:30:00 AM Tsotsi PARAMOUNT 1
9:30:00 AM White Masai RYERSON
10:00:00 AM Couple parfait PARAMOUNT 4
10:15:00 AM Someone Else's Happiness VARSITY 3
10:30:00 AM Amants Réguliers PARAMOUNT 3
12:00:00 PM Unfinished Business VARSITY 7
12:15:00 PM Vers Le Sud PARAMOUNT 1
12:15:00 PM Dam Street VARSITY 1
12:45:00 PM Gentille PARAMOUNT 2
12:45:00 PM Matador RYERSON
2:15:00 PM Twelve and Holding VARSITY 8
3:00:00 PM Myth VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
3:30:00 PM Drawing Restraint 9 RYERSON
8:00:00 PM Wayward Cloud RYERSON
9:00:00 PM Nanook of the North VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
11:59:00 PM SPL RYERSON

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2005-09-15T04:28:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets Thursday, September 15, 2005

Last Minute Tickets

9:00:00 AM Thumbsucker PARAMOUNT 2
9:00:00 AM All About Darfur ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
9:30:00 AM Porcelain Doll CUMBERLAND 1
9:30:00 AM Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story PARAMOUNT 1
9:30:00 AM In Her Shoes RYERSON
10:45:00 AM War Within VARSITY 8
12:00:00 PM Black Bull ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
12:45:00 PM Dam Street PARAMOUNT 3
12:45:00 PM Slow Burn RYERSON
1:00:00 PM Trahison CUMBERLAND 2
1:15:00 PM Heart of the Game VARSITY 8
3:00:00 PM Gronholm Method PARAMOUNT 1
3:00:00 PM a/k/a Tommy Chong ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
3:00:00 PM U-Carmen eKhayelitsha VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
3:30:00 PM Free Zone RYERSON
6:00:00 PM Enfant VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
6:30:00 PM Matador ROY THOMSON HALL
6:30:00 PM Temps qui reste RYERSON
6:30:00 PM Runaway VARSITY 8
9:00:00 PM Dear Wendy RYERSON
9:30:00 PM Myth ROY THOMSON HALL
11:59:00 PM Great Yokai War RYERSON

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The New Your Times
Critic's Notebook

50's Pinup Lives Again at Toronto Film Festival

By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: September 15, 2005

TORONTO, Sept. 14 - The closer the 30th Toronto International Film Festival inches toward its Saturday close, the more difficult it becomes to classify this sprawling, exhausting event. With 256 features from 60 different countries in the program - including a whopping 109 world premieres - the festival has become something of an endurance test for attendees...

Read the rest and make your choice.
It's two more days and nights.

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2005-09-14T13:34:00.000-07:00

TIFFG Day 7: Added Roy Thompson Hall shift on September 17

From : Christopher McKinnon
Sent : September 14, 2005 4:07:36 PM
To : "Christopher McKinnon"
Subject :TIFFG: Added RTH shift on Sep. 17!

*This is a group e-mail sent to all Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) volunteers.*

How do you do?

It's Day 7 already. Can you believe it? Only three more days and things will begin winding down, but before we even think about that there are a number of last minute opportunities popping up. Check out the new postings below! (Preference for adding these shifts will go to volunteers who have already registered and need only 1 or 2 more shifts to meet the 4-shift requirement and qualify for a party ticket.)

We still need a few good volunteers (about 40 of them) at Roy Thomson Hall on September 17th from 12:30pm to 7:00pm. If you would like to add this shift or other RTH shifts, please email Anja Capel for details Â> acapel@torfilmfest.ca

We also need more volunteers at the Varsity in the mornings. If you are available to work a morning shift at the Varsity (7:15am to 1:45pm) on any of the remaining days of the Festival, please email Dan Williamson at dwilliamson@torfilmfest.ca

You should be receiving GREEN vouchers at the end of shifts for the rest of the Festival. The GREENS are also valid for select Cinematheque Ontario screenings this fall Â have a look at the back of the vouchers for redemption details and keep an eye on the Cinematheque website to see what's playing: http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/cinematheque/home.asp

And one last item of housekeeping before we get to the postings...

Party Ticket Pick-Up
happens in the Volunteer Office
Saturday, September 17 between 10:00AM and 6:00PM

Please bring I.D. to pick up your ticket in person.
If you cannot make it to the Volunteer Office to pick up your ticket, we will release your ticket to a third party if that person has a signed note of permission.

And now, on with the postings...

Chris

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CONTENTS

- Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities

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INFO DESK
Thursday, September 15
1:00pm to 5:00pm
Duties: Providing information to Festival guests.
Need: 2 volunteers
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: INFO DESK in the subject line.
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FRONT LINE ASSISTANT
Thursday, September 15
9:00am to 1:00pm
Duties: Providing general support and assistance to the TIFFG Reception staff.
Need: 1 volunteer
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: FRONT LINE in the subject line.
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LINE CONTROL
Friday, September 16
6:45am to 1:15pm or 1:00pm to 7:00pm
Duties: Answering questions and directing line-ups.
Need: 2 volunteers for each shift
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: LINE CONTROL in the subject line.
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OFFICE ASSISTANT
Friday, September 16
9:00am to 1:00pm
Duties: General administrative tasks.
Need: 1 volunteer
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: OFFICE in the subject line.
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GREETER
Friday, September 16
2:30pm to 5:30pm
Duties: Greet guests and usher them to the appropriate area.
Need: 1 volunteer
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: GREETER in the subject line.
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DOOR PERSON
Saturday, September 17
9:00am to 1:00pm
Duties: Using an access card to allow staff, guests, and volunteers into a closed building. There is plenty of down time, so please bring reading material.
Need: 2 volunteers
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: DOOR PERSON in the subject line.
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TABLE RE-ASSEMBLY
Monday, September 19
10:00am to 2:00pm
Duties: Putting TIFFG's boardroom back together and moving some furniture around.
Need: 3 volunteers
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: TABLE RE-ASSEMBLY in the subject line.
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Christopher McKinnon
Assistant Manager of Volunteers

Toronto International Film Festival Group

Phone: 416-929-4705
Cell: 416-709-9615
E-mail: cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca
Website: www.tiffg.ca

INSPIRE. CELEBRATE. ILLUMINATE.

2005-09-14T05:06:00.000-07:00

The Junction Arts Festival Toronto Ontario Canada

2005-09-13T23:40:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Last Minute Tickets

9:30:00 AM Vers Le Sud PARAMOUNT 1
9:45:00 AM Walk the Line RYERSON
10:30:00 AM Proposition PARAMOUNT 4
11:00:00 AM Shore CUMBERLAND 2
11:45:00 AM William Eggleston in the Real World CUMBERLAND 3
11:45:00 AM Little Trip to Heaven PARAMOUNT 2
12:45:00 PM Perfect Day PARAMOUNT 3
12:45:00 PM Where the Truth Lies RYERSON
2:00:00 PM Manderlay VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
2:15:00 PM Stranded in Canton CUMBERLAND 3
3:15:00 PM Festival PARAMOUNT 1
3:30:00 PM Everything Is Illuminated RYERSON
4:15:00 PM You Bet Your Life PARAMOUNT 4
5:45:00 PM Mavericks: Albert Maysles ISABEL BADER THEATRE
6:00:00 PM Everlasting Regret VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
8:30:00 PM Amants RÃ©guliers ISABEL BADER THEATRE
9:00:00 PM Notorious Bettie Page RYERSON
11:59:00 PM Metal: A Headbanger's Journey RYERSON

ATTENTION: THIS IS NOT AN AD, THIS IS JUST FYI
The Bell Reelounge

A lounge space, located just outside Roy Thompson Hall & open from noon to 10 p.m. It's the place where festival attendees are invited to relax and enjoy Bell's services and exclusive content that will help enhance their festival experience.
Guests can stay connected and watch festival news and information on Bell ExpressVu HDTV, surf the TIFF website to get more information on last minute ticket alerts through Bell Mobility, or listen to movie soundtrack using Sympatico Music Store.

Bell has also created an online Bell Reelounge (www.bell.ca/reelounge) where you can access Bell's exclusive offerings and TIFF information 24/7. The new online microsite contain film festival information including, personal festival and film review blogs, movie soundtrack and music downloads, movie and celebrity ring tone downloads, daily celebrity gossips and red carpet highlights, and an online contest for a chance to win a Sony Home Entertainment System ... and much more.

Also to watch out for the Bell Street Teams that will be present at various key festival locations including Roy Thompson Hall, Manulife Centre, Cumberland Theatre, and the Elgin Theatre. The Bell Street Teams will provide festival attendees with added value service by acting as stand-in's at ticket line-ups in addition to entertaining the crowd with trivia games for a chance to win instant screening tickets and Bell Best Seats (VIP seats at Roy Thompson Hall). They'll be sure to showcase Bell's 10-4 technology by using the new handset as a communications tool for the street team execution.

TIFF Volunteer Blog
Ten nights of Midnight Madness volunteering at the 2005 TIFF
Blog with Jason Reitman - director of "Thank You For Smoking", starring Robert Duvall and Katie Holmes
Read review blogs of Volunteer Stacy and Kim - the Festival Fans share their insights and experiences
Post your own revies

H a v e _ a_ p r o d u c t i v e_ t i f f u n_!

2005-09-13T09:02:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Russian Translation of The Road Less Traveled
By Tom Hall, Director of Programming, Sarasota Film Festival

Our humble attempt to interpret a piece of Tom Hall's article The Road Less Traveled about
Philip Groening's film Into Great Silence.

ТМКФ: Перевод на русский язык публикации Тома Холла Дорога, Которой Редко Ходят
Том Холл, Директор Программ, Фестиваль Фильмов Сарасоты

Это наша скромная попытка интерпретировать часть статьи Тома Хола "Дорога, Которой Редко Ходят" о фильме Филипа Гроенинга "В Великом Безмолвии".

ЗАМЕТКИ С ПОСЛЕДНЕГО РЯДА
Том Холл
10 сентября 2005
ТМФК |

Дорога, Которой Редко Ходят

... Я провел первые три дня фестиваля, посещая те фильмы, которые, возможно, не попадут под радар. И сегодня, наконец, я попал в точку. Избегая журавлей в небе и предпочитая иметь синиц в руках, я не нашел что – нибудь подходящего, чтобы тронуло меня или привлекло внимание как материал для подготовки будущих программ.

Пока только один фильм действительно очаровал меня; это фильм Филипа Гроенинга «В Великом Безмолвии», трех часовое исследование ритуалов ежедневной жизни в монастыре Большой Шартрез около Гренобля, Франция. Монахи приняли присягу молчания, так что само собой разумеется (и тут нет игры слов) в фильме очень мало диалогов. Вместо этого в большом количестве звуки монашеской жизни; звоны колоколов, скрипение половиц, провторения молитв, и звуки костров, потрескивающих в небольших алюминиевых печках.
Фильм прекрасно передает ритм и повторение ежедневных забот монахов, и не пытаясь копаться в их психологии. Мы никогда не узнаем, почему они выбрали монашескую жизнь, каковы их мнения о религиозной жизни, как монахи относятся друг к другу вне их молитв и обязанностей. Вместо этого мы просто углубляемся в их среду, и камера Гроенинга хорошо подходит для этой задачи, двигаясь между ярким светом и блеклой темнотой, приближая лица монахов и показывая средним планом их деятельность, а также красивые панорамные виды монастыря и глубоко сфокусированные виды его интерьеров.

Гроенинг схватывает этот ритм ежедневных обязанностей, следуя за его динамикой при редактировании фильма, и после первого часа наедине с абсолютной тишиной на экране, я оказался полностью поглощенным в мои собственные мысли; анализируя мои мысли об образах, о порядке в ежедневной жизненной рутине, о проблемах религиозной посвященности. Вы могли слышать каждый звук в кинотеатре, и я не думаю, что я преувеличиваю, говоря, что зал стал продолжением монастыря: каждый шелест обертки шоколада, каждый кашель, звук включающегося и выключающегося кондиционера, беседа в кинобудке; мир кинотеатра буквально разделил физическое пространство с спроектированным пространством монастыря на экране. Базен возможно бы плакал.

Честно говоря, я вообще не хотел диалогов. Это фильм, который дает зрителю полную свободу быть вовлеченными в образы и придать им собственные смыслы , давая и пространство и время для размышлений. Да, но есть и моменты диалога:
монахи молятся и поют, по воскресеньям им они едят за общим столом и потом прогуливаются вместе за пределами монастыря. Эти сцены дарят нам два лучших момента фильма; когда монахи наконец общаются, они обсуждают проблему полезности мытья рук. В другом эпизоде в великолепном общем плане мы видим группу монахов катающихся по склону Альпийских гор.

Я нашел, что этот фильм выделяется от других неигровых фильмов, которые очень стараются спрессовывать историю о жизни и реальную жизнь, и он блаженное облегчение после просмотра большинства фильмов, которые я пока посмотрел в течении ТМКФ.
После просмотра фильма «В Великом Безмолвии», фильм «Дневник Сельского Священника» показался мне таким же динамичным как и «Убить Билла -1», и спокойствие пришло ко мне также, как и страстное желание замедлить мою собственную жизнь, дисциплинировать себя, чтобы ценить сосредоточенную концентрацию, и стремление устоновить мои собственные ритуалы, когда я вернусь домой.
После нескольких дней посредственных историй на экране, кто бы мог подумать, что лучшим средством от них будет никакой истории вообще?

*Базен (Bazin) Андре (1918-58), французский критик и теоретик кино.
**ТМКФ, Торонтовский Международный Кино Фестиваль
***Машина переводит TIFF как РАЗЛУКА
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Our Web Ontology, Virtual Reality, and Artificial Intelligence (WOVRAI) machine Leeza gave us first lines of future announcements of Philip Groening's film Into Great Silence:

Collective Solitudes

Absolute Chartreuse

The Apology of Asterism in Ever Expanding World of Indulgence

165 Minutes of Digital Meditation

An idea of the monastery doesn’t look bad at all.

Poetry of spirituality and humanity overcomes deliberate video processing.

Philip Groening indignantly denies influence of Andrey Tarkovsky, while having a direct quote in his movie. But he is right: he comes to the same spell from the opposite end.

Наша машина онтологической сети, виртуального мира, и искусственного интеллекта (ОСВМИИ) Лиза выдала нам заголовки будущих статей о фильме Филипа Гроенинга «В Великом Безмолвии»:

Коллективные Одиночества
Абсолютный Шартрез
Извинение Созвездия в Когда-либо Расширении Мира Снисходительности
165 Минут Цифрового Размышления
Идея о монастыре вовсе не выглядит плохо.
Поэзия духовности и человечества преодолевает преднамеренную видео обработку.
Филип Гроенинг с негодованием отрицает влияние Андрея Тарковскаого, имея прямую цитату в его кино. Но он прав: он приходит в тому же результату с противоположного конца.

Will continue....
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Courtesy of Leeza

Пожалуйста, пишите Ваши размышления.

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Into Great Silence
Philip Groening

2005-09-13T06:05:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets for same day tickets Tuesday September 13, 2005

9:00:00 AM North Country RYERSON
9:15:00 AM Delicate Crime PARAMOUNT 4
9:30:00 AM Seven Swords PARAMOUNT 1
9:45:00 AM Bee Season PARAMOUNT 2
9:45:00 AM Bubble VARSITY 8
11:45:00 AM Someone Else's Happiness PARAMOUNT 4
12:30:00 PM Ghosts...of the Civil Dead CUMBERLAND 3
12:30:00 PM Proof RYERSON
1:00:00 PM Entre ses mains PARAMOUNT 2
2:15:00 PM Isolation PARAMOUNT 4
3:00:00 PM Opa! VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
3:45:00 PM Stoned PARAMOUNT 2
4:00:00 PM Neuvaine CUMBERLAND 2
4:00:00 PM Mavericks: Laurie Anderson RYERSON
4:30:00 PM Hiro CUMBERLAND 3
4:45:00 PM Attente PARAMOUNT 4
6:00:00 PM Dam Street PARAMOUNT 3
6:00:00 PM Romance & Cigarettes VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
6:30:00 PM Walk the Line ROY THOMSON HALL
7:15:00 PM Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story RYERSON
8:45:00 PM American Gun PARAMOUNT 3
9:45:00 PM Slow Burn RYERSON
11:59:00 PM District! RYERSON

BLOGS:

Technorati searh for "Into Great Silence"&"Philip Groening"

2005-09-12T05:40:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets Monday, September 12, 2005

2:00:00 PM Brothers of the Head PARAMOUNT 2
2:30:00 PM China Blue ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
3:00:00 PM Caché VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
3:15:00 PM Saints-Martyrs-des-Damnés PARAMOUNT 3
3:30:00 PM Tim Burton's Corpse Bride RYERSON
4:15:00 PM Little Athens VARSITY 8
4:45:00 PM Heart of the Game ISABEL BADER THEATRE
6:00:00 PM Black Sun ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
6:00:00 PM Trust the Man RYERSON
6:00:00 PM Vers Le Sud VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
6:30:00 PM Perfect Day PARAMOUNT 4
6:30:00 PM North Country ROY THOMSON HALL
6:45:00 PM Wassup Rockers PARAMOUNT 1
6:45:00 PM Willow Tree VARSITY 8
7:30:00 PM Giant Buddhas VARSITY 3
7:45:00 PM Fetching Cody ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
8:30:00 PM Aerial JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO
8:30:00 PM Half-Moon for Margaret JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO
8:30:00 PM India JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO
9:00:00 AM Winter Passing PARAMOUNT 2
9:00:00 AM Quiet VARSITY 8
9:00:00 PM Dave Chappelle's Block Party VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
9:15:00 AM World's Fastest Indian PARAMOUNT 3
9:30:00 AM French Guy CUMBERLAND 3
9:30:00 AM Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story PARAMOUNT 4
9:30:00 AM Pride and Prejudice RYERSON
9:45:00 PM Black Bull ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
11:30:00 AM Evil Aliens CUMBERLAND 2
11:45:00 AM Sorry,Haters VARSITY 8
11:59:00 PM Bangkok Loco RYERSON
12:00:00 PM These Girls PARAMOUNT 4
12:30:00 PM Revolver RYERSON
12:45:00 PM Oliver Twist PARAMOUNT 1

2005-09-11T19:36:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Day 4: Pics From The Back End

TIFF: Day 4: ACE Office

TIFF: Day 4: ACE Office

TIFF: Day 4: Press Office

TIFF: Day 4: Press Office

TIFF: Day 4: Press Office

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Tom Hall has gone out of his way to avoid any film he's likely to catch before the end of the year anyway and instead seek out "films that may have travelled under the radar.... Only one film has really captivated me so far; Philip Groening's Into Great Silence, a three-hour exploration of the rituals of daily life at the Grande Chartreuse monastery near Grenoble, France."

2005-09-11T05:09:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Best Bets Sunday, September 11, 2005

1:30:00 PM Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ROY THOMSON HALL
3:00:00 PM Seven Swords RYERSON
3:45:00 PM Day Break PARAMOUNT 4
4:00:00 PM Saignantes CUMBERLAND 3
5:15:00 PM Twelve and Holding VARSITY 8
6:15:00 PM Backstage PARAMOUNT 1
6:30:00 PM Pride and Prejudice ROY THOMSON HALL
6:45:00 PM Attente PARAMOUNT 3
8:15:00 PM Well VARSITY 3
8:30:00 PM Noon Time Activities JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO
8:45:00 PM Stoned PARAMOUNT 1
9:00:00 AM Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico PARAMOUNT 3
9:00:00 PM Neuvaine PARAMOUNT 4
9:00:00 PM Entre ses mains VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
9:15:00 PM Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela CUMBERLAND 3
9:15:00 PM Someone Else's Happiness PARAMOUNT 3
9:15:00 PM Harsh Times RYERSON
9:30:00 AM Workingman's Death ISABEL BADER THEATRE
9:30:00 AM History of Violence RYERSON
9:30:00 PM Shooting Dogs PARAMOUNT 2
9:45:00 AM Familia PARAMOUNT 4
9:45:00 PM Pick Up the Mic VARSITY 8
11:59:00 PM Isolation RYERSON
12:00:00 PM Elizabethtown RYERSON
12:00:00 PM Oliver Twist VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)
12:30:00 PM Into Great Silence ISABEL BADER THEATRE
12:45:00 PM Sketches of Frank Gehry VARSITY 8

2005-09-10T19:43:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Russian News

Press Release ITAR -TASS
Фильм известного российского режиссера Александра Сокурова "Солнце" включен в конкурсную программу юбилейного 30-го Торонтского международного кинофестиваля. Об этом говорится в пресс-релизе дирекции престижного киносмотра, поступившем в среду в ИТАР-ТАСС.
Фильм "Солнце" заявлен в номинации "Мастера" наряду с лентами таких режиссеров, как Мартин Скорсезе, Ларс фон Триер и Стивен Содерберг. Картина, посвящённая японскому императору Хирохито, является продолжением тетралогии о великих исторических личностях ушедшего столетия, начатой Сокуровым в 1999 году фильмом "Молох", посвященным Гитлеру, и продолженная вторым фильмом — "Телец", о Ленине. Бюджет картины составил 2,5 миллиона долларов, из них 45% — средства, выделенные Федеральным агентством по культуре и кинематографии РФ.

Кинофестиваль в Торонто, стоящий, согласно рейтингу Международной ассоциации кинопродюсеров, в одном ряду с фестивалями в Каннах, Берлине и Венеции, пройдет с 8 по 17 сентября. В нем примут участие 335 фильмов из 52 стран.

На юбилейный фестиваль ожидается приезд Энтони Хопкинса, Моргана Фримэна, Гвинет Пэлтроу, Романа Полански, Пирса Броснана, Томми Ли Джонса и Гая Ричи.

В ходе киносмотра состоится 109 мировых премьер. В одной из номинаций будут также представлен российско-американский фильм "Виктория Гамбург".

Валерий Ахадов Valerij Ahadov

Монреаль-2005: Искусство выживания

Валерий Кичин "Российская газета"

Фестивальная драма в трех частях
Где? Война монстров
Что? Московский Гаврош
Как? Время и бесы
(О конкурсной ленте мы говорим с ее режиссером Валерием Ахадовым.)

Российский фильм участвует в конкурсе кинофестиваля в Торонто
Источник: Lenta.Ru 8 сентября 2005 г.

Фильм Александра Сокурова "Солнце" участвует в конкурсе юбилейного 30-го международного кинофестиваля в Торонто, который открывается 8 сентября. Канадский кинофорум считается одним из крупнейших в Северной Америке и мире, отмечает Reuters.

Фильм российского режиссера об императоре Японии Хирохито будет состязаться в программе "Мастер" с картинами Стивена Содеберга, Мартина Скорсезе, Ларса фон Триера, братьев Дарденнов (каннских лауреатов 2005 года), Терри Гиллиама. Энга Ли и другими.

Еще один отечественный фильм, "Космос как предчувствие" Алексея Учителя покажут в программе современного мирового кинематографа.

Фестиваль в Торонто считается одним из четырех важнейших кинофорумов в мире и одним из самых влиятельных. Он знаменит своей панорамой независимого кино, сравнимой только с фестивалем "Сандэнс". Кроме того, Торонто - это главный вход на североамериканский континент для европейских и азиатских фильмов. С фестиваля в Торонто начинается "оскаровская гонка".

В Торонто стартовал 30-й международный кинофестиваль
Новости Фестивали, 08 сентября 2005, 22:28:13

Сегодня в Торонто стартовал юбилейный 30-й международный кинофестиваль. Фестиваль в Торонто считается одним из четырех важнейших кинофорумов в мире и одним из самых влиятельных. Он знаменит своей панорамой независимого кино, сравнимой только с фестивалем «Сандэнс». Наград на этом фестивале не дают, но попасть в программу Торонтского феста уже честь, потому что именно он открывает европейским и азиатским картинам путь в кинотеатры Северной Америки. С фестиваля в Торонто начинается оскаровская гонка.

В этом году в кинофоруме примут участие более 350 фильмов из 52 стран мира. Возможность пробиться на экраны США и Канады в этом году представилась трём российским картинам: «Солнцу» Александра Сокурова, картине Алексея Учителя «Космос как предчувствие», а также «Постельным сценам» Кирилла Серебренникова — 70-минутному видеофильму, состоящему из семи новелл.

Каждый год на смотре в Торонто собираются все сливки современного кинематографа. Помимо показа фильмов Ларса фон Триера, Михаэля Ханеке, Стивена Содерберга, которые уже принимали участие в других фестивалях, в Торонто состоятся мировые премьеры «Оливера Твиста» Романа Полански, «Зоны прилива» Терри Гиллиама, а также байопика Мартина Скорсезе, посвященного Бобу Дилану.

Посетить фестиваль собирались Энтони Хопкинс, Гвинет Пэлтроу, Терри Гиллиам, Пирс Броснан, Гай Риччи, Томми Ли Джонс, Морган Фримен и Роман Полански.

Фестиваль продлится с 8 до 17 сентября.

Лента.ру
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Артишок представляет: Торонтский фестиваль: кино против “зеленых”
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05.10.99
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После встречи с Богартом я сразу отправился в аэропорт. Огромный, его трудно было не заметить - мне нравятся трудности. Зарегистрировавшись, я пошел в крошечный бар, где с легкостью можно было потратить оставшиеся до посадки двадцать минут и столько же долларов. Время - деньги. Но, если обычно за время платят мне, теперь плачу я, и считаю, что плачу недостаточно. Интересно устроен мир - берешь среднюю продолжительность жизни, считаешь, сколько в семидесяти годах часов - получаешь отпущенное тебе время. Отнимаешь от этой цифры время на сон и на развлечения - получаешь восемь рабочих часов. Теперь умножаешь восемь часов на свою заработную плату в час - получаешь отпущенные тебе деньги. Идешь в банк - получаешь всю сумму, за неделю пропиваешь, а потом умираешь. Вот вам и лучший способ борьбы с демографическим взрывом! За жизнь нужно платить, и не важно, прожил ты двадцать лет или семьдесят; главное - сумма, которую ты потратил. Время - деньги, и их с каждым днем все меньше.

Объявили посадку на рейс до Торонто, мне - туда. Двадцать долларов в баре - как раз та сумма, после которой хочется лететь. Если не в самолете, то хотя бы на пол. Торонто - замечательный город, куда ни ступишь - везде асфальт, первый город, где ведется борьба с зеленым цветом. Ни одного дерева в центре - обстругали ветви и превратили в столбы, перекрыли импорт огурцов, груш и зеленых яблок, переучили коров на грибы, перекрасили кленовый лист - в красный. Наверное, поэтому здесь чрезвычайно развито кино: голубой экран, небо, море, ни травы, ни кустов. Даже в Новый год вместо елки торонтцы наряжают небоскреб, на каждом этаже лампочка другого цвета - вот тебе и гирлянда...Само собой, американские доллары в Торонто запрещены.

Торонтский кинофестиваль сравнительно young, в Европе ему, пожалуй, соответствует Берлинский. Young people - new names, - я лечу и повторяю свой английский. В Торонто не живут англичане, но там каждый говорит по-английски. -Why у нас не так? Думаю о другом... на философские вопросы нет ответов.

Пересекаем воздушную границу - черту, за которой американский воздух становится канадским - и правда, здесь как-то легче дышать...Итак, 1976 год - первый кинофестиваль в Торонто, задуманный в качестве поддержки национального кино, кинофестиваль постепенно меняет свою концепцию, превращаясь в один из крупнейших кинофорумов. 1999 год - согласно опросу читателей газеты “Лос Анжелес Таймз”, кинофестиваль в Торонто - number 1 в мире. Именно здесь были открыты такие таланты, как Педро Альмодовар, Кшиштоф Кислевски, Аки Каурисмяки, Гес Ван Сэнт...Однако, фестиваль не забывал и о канадском кино, можно сказать, на его базе оно и выросло, став тем самым единственным деревом, которое было решено не вырубать, хотя, возможно, дело в том, что на этом дереве вечная осень...

Я закрываю фестивальный буклет. Интересный. Не такой интересный, как канадское кино. Я люблю канадское кино, очень жаль, что у нас его плохо знают. Например, Дени Аркан - это имя мало кому о чем-нибудь говорит. Между тем, “Иисус из Монреаля” - один из лучших фильмов восьмидесятых, удостоенный специального приза жюри в Каннах. Речь в нем о том, что Иисус и сейчас среди нас, мы просто его не замечаем. Его сразу не узнать - не раньше, чем его распнут. Так же и с самим фильмом...снятый десять лет назад, он до сих пор не вышел у нас на видео. Пройдет еще десять, и в памяти останется только Понтий Пилат, тот самый - из Монреаля.

Другое имя - Атом Эгоян, пару лет назад получил в Каннах приз за режиссуру. Уникальный режиссер, канадец армянского происхождения, он смешивает свою двухцветную кровь, создавая неспешные медитации, сравнивая жизнь с деревом: прошлое - это корни, будущее - листья. Листья желтеют и падают на землю - становятся корнями, из них поднимаются новые деревья и вот кругом уже стоит лес. Эгояну больше повезло - фильм-каннский лауреат “Славное будущее” все-таки вышел на лицензии. Удивительный фильм, способный изменить ваше представление о современном кино, другое дело - способны ли вы измениться?

Без сомнения, самым известным у нас канадским режиссером является Дэвид Кроненберг. На первый взгляд может показаться, будто в восьмидесятых этот режиссер снимал качественную фантастику, а в девяностых обратился к интеллектуальному кино. Это не так. Кроненберга на протяжении всего творчества интересует одна тема - перверсия, испорченность, насилие, то состояние, когда человек перестает быть человеком (“Муха”), когда у него появляются сверхчеловеческие способности (“Сканнеры”), когда новые технологии убивают в нем разум, превратив в машину (“Видеодром”), когда благодаря наркотикам он перестает различать пол (“Голый завтрак”), когда человек раздваивается, срастается с другим человеком (“Сиамские близнецы”), когда мир за окном начинает двигаться так стремительно, что ты перестаешь отличать красоту от уродства (“Автокатастрофа”), когда ты начинаешь принимать смерть за жизнь (“Экзистенц”).

Самолет садится на посадочную полосу, ему здесь уютно, есть время пообщаться с другими самолетами. Жизнь самолета короче человеческой - он падает всего один раз и уже никогда не поднимается. Самолет мстит за несправедливость - редко падает один. Падает со скоростью света - с этого света - на тот.

Кинофестиваль в Торонто для многих ограничивается знаменитым кафе “У Рика”, там можно встретиться со звездами, выпить пятизвездочный коньяк и посмотреть канадский фильм. Помню, в последний раз я смотрел там “Карту человеческого сердца”. Не уверен насчет производства, но действие фильма происходит в Канаде, в Монреале. В центре - любовь мальчика-эскимоса и девочки-полукровки, в центре - карта человеческого сердца, на которой время оставляет путанные следы.

- К “Рику”, - говорю я таксисту, мы трогаемся с места. В глазах таксиста читается уважение, но вместо этого я читаю вывески за окном. Минут через пять такси притормаживает у роскошной витрины. “У Рика” - необычное кафе, на его витрине представлен весь ассортимент, даже дымящийся кофе с булочкой. Рядом - скромный постер с Расселом Кроу, сегодня он гвоздь программы. Неожиданно рядом с его крупным именем вижу свое мелкое - значит, если он гвоздь, то я молоток.

Протягиваю таксисту десятку...похоже, он недоволен. Подумаешь, Роберт де Ниро! Я плачу ему за то, как он водит такси, а не за то, что им восхищается сексуальное большинство Америки. Америку в Канаде не любят, считают американцев тупыми. Там был недавно случай. Лукас хотел назвать свой новый фильм просто “Призрачная угроза”, без всяких “Звездных войн”. Провели социологический опрос, и оказалось, что шестьдесят процентов американцев считает, что режиссер за свою жизнь снимает всего один фильм. То есть, назови Лукас свой новый фильм просто “Призрачная угроза”, они начнут сомневаться в том, кто снял “Звездные войны”.

Рассказываю этот случай де Ниро. Жду...ничего не происходит. Машу рукой и направляюсь в кафе. Слышу осторожный смех из такси, с каждым шагом он нарастает. Если подождать еще полчаса, то де Ниро поймет, что смеялся над собой. Stupid Americans! Захожу в кафе и чувствую, как у меня за спиной идут конечные титры...

Вокабуляр к выделенным словам:
Ван Сэнт, Г - на лицензии можно приобрести три фильма Ван Сэнта - “Психоз”, “Мой частный штат Айдахо”, “Умница Уилл Хантинг”.
Вечная осень - кинофестиваль ежегодно проводится осенью.
“Карта человеческого сердца” - фильм - лауреат токийского кинофестиваля и нескольких премий канадской киноакадемии. Вышел на лицензии.
Кислевски, К - выдающийся польский режиссер, автор “Декалога” и трилогии “Три цвета”. Все три фильма трилогии можно приобрести на лицензии. Если вы их еще не посмотрели - настоятельно рекомендуем - в кино сложно найти что-нибудь лучше.
Кроу, Рассел - австралийский актер, получивший с десяток премий за исполнение главной роли в фильме “Скины”. Фильм вышел на лицензии.
Эгоян, А - помимо “Славного будущего” можно заказать на лицензии предыдущий фильм Эгояна “Экзотика”.

Лицензионные фильмы, о которых идет речь в статье, вы можете приобрести в магазинах "Океан" и "Дары моря", в гастрономе напротив зоопарка и в киоске напротив "Острова Сокровищ".

2005-09-10T07:28:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Like Father, Like Son

New York Times review THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, Jason Reitman, USA

The Son Also Directs by Sharon Waxman
September 10, 2005

Thank You For Smoking

Programme: SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS
Director: Jason Reitman
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Language: English
Time: 92 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
Rating: 14A
SCREENING TIMES:
Friday, September 09 6:30 PM RYERSON
Sunday, September 11 9:15 AM PARAMOUNT 2
Saturday,September 17 9:15 PM RYERSON

Mavericks: Ivan Reitman

Programme: MAVERICKS
Time: 90 minutes
Film Types: Digital Betacam

SCREENING TIMES:
Tuesday, September 13 9:30 PM ISABEL BADER THEATER

NEWS:
Toronto International Film Festival 2005 In Photos - Part One
By M&C News Sep 10, 2005, 12:29 GMT
monstersandcritics.uk.intellitxt.com - Monsters and Critics.com, UK

Toronto International Film Festival, Day One by Hap Erstain, Palm Beach Post

Kicking and screaming (Toronto film festival diary) by Peter Bregg, Macleans

Robert Downey Jr. calls low-budget Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 'smart , heartfelt' by Erin Henderson, National Post

Water opens Toronto Film Festival, BBC News
Largest public turnout

2005-09-10T07:04:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Big Fat Brooklyn Lobster

Graphic representation of Semantic analysis of BROOKLYN LOBSTER using Tropes software :

Family

Money

Our Web Ontology, Virtual Reality, and Artifiсial Intelligence (WOVRAI) machine Leeza gave us fist lines of future announcements of this movie:

Christmas is coming: Films are getting Oscar's potentials.
Скоро Рождество. Фильмы выдвигаются на Оскара.

Save a family business.

How to get to the Oscar's ceremony?
Passion, passion, passion.

Big Fat Brooklyn Lobster

Post-CrashDotCom's Hopes for America learning from Lobster Business .

In China (funds) US Trust!

Russians are gaudy "per hour, per night". Sheepshead reservations about Brighton Beach.

"I will teach you how to make my coffee, Salim"

In real estate there is nothing sacred, even a family business.

Will continue....
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Courtesy of Leeza

TAGS:

Brooklyn Lobster TIFF Tropes Software Oscar Ceremony

LINKS:

TIFF: Whedonist actors in Canadian film
by Drifter @ 2005-09-11 - 07:46:27 pm

Blogging at the Toronto International Film Festival
Oliver Twist vs Truman Capote

indieWIRE: TORONTO

Film Freak Central TIFF Coverage

If anyone is interested, here's the Corpse Bride Press Conference from TIFF

Toronto Dispatch. 3.
Writer and producer Shannon Gee is a veteran dispatcher for GreenCine

A Volunteer's Look Inside the 2005 TIFF (Part 2)

TIFF: Best Bets Sunday, September 11, 2005

2005-09-09T22:33:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Martin Scorsese Presents BROOKLYN LOBSTER, Kevin Jordan, USA

World Premiere Friday, September 8, 2005

Dan ny Aiello said about Kevin Jordan: “This kid made me feel brand new.”

VARIETY.COM
Oscar gets an eyeful at Toronto fest: Frears, Polanski, Scorsese head North
By Tamsen Tillson, Ian Mohr

The Globe and Mail Review
Films are being screened at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival.

BLOGS:
Beeing There -- Toronto International Film Festival lineup unveiled
Curtin Jane
Girish

2005-09-09T21:47:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Ballets Russes legend Frederic Franklin and filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller in Toronto / September 8, 2005
Fredy is always busy.
Revies

2005-09-09T21:27:00.000-07:00

TIFFG Day2: In the thick of it...

Subject : TIFFG: In the thick of it...
From : Christopher McKinnon
Sent : September 9, 2005 10:23:50 PM
To : "Christopher McKinnon"

*This is a group e-mail sent to all Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) volunteers.*

Ladies and Gentlemen,

This is it, we're here in the thick of the Festival and up to our ears in great films (1), great news (2), and exciting celebrity sightings (3). In that order:

1. Check out your "Best Bets" for films at http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2005/boxOffice_bestBets.asp

2. Festival Centre is on it's way. Michèle Maheux, Managing Director of the Toronto International Film Festival announced last night that we have raised $132 million of the $166 million we are seeking to build the new Festival Centre at John and King Sts. See the news at Variety.com: http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117928833?categoryid=13&cs=1

3. Yesterday, the fabulous crew of Ace volunteers were paid a visit by the one and only Roger Ebert, as he poked his head into the Volunteer Office's Ace Lounge looking for directions to the Press Office. Who says that Aces have more fun? We do!

And now, here are some quick notes and Volunteer Opportunties:

* You can now redeem your pink vouchers at the Advance Public Box Office (Manulife Centre) for tickets to Festival Public Screenings. Details on how to redeem you pinks are on the reverse of the voucher.

* Remember that you can also use your vouchers to rush P & I Screenings. Here's the P & I Schedule: http://www.tiffg.ca/content/industry/2005/pressandindustry.asp

* Remember that if you absolutely must cancel a shift (and we cannot stress enough how important it is that you do not cancel shifts willy-nilly), you must give at least 72 hours notice. Please use the Online Cancellation Form, located here: http://www.tiffg.ca/content/getinvolved/volunteercancel.asp

That's all for now, but expect an update email daily from now until September 17th!

Chris

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CONTENTS

- Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
- Volunteer Office Hours and Location

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ROY THOMSON HALL
Added shift on Saturday, September 17 from 12:30 pm to 7:00 pm.
If you are a RTH volunteer and would like to add this shift, please contact Elvie Choi at echoi@torfilmfest.ca or 416-929-5961.

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Volunteer Opportunities in the next few hours or days
What to do if you want to volunteer: Below are this week's volunteer opportunities. If you are interested in any of them, please follow the directions and e-mail me or the staff person (Mbabazi, Anja, Steven, Dan, Lucy, Elvie or I) in charge of the position with the appropriate subject line.

You will receive a confirmation e-mail only if you are selected for any of the shifts below. Regretfully, due to the volume of e-mails our staff receive, we will not be able to let you know if a particular shift has already been filled. Let us know if you are interested in volunteering for more than one shift, that way if your first choice has been filled, you may still get your second choice. We welcome responses from first-time volunteers, so please don't be shy!

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PROGRAMMING
Gallery Assistant
Dates : September 12 and 13
Time : 4:30pm to 8:30pm
Duties : Watch equipment in a the gallery, and ensure that patrons do not touch anything.
Need : 1 volunteer (same person for both days)
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Gallery Assistant in the subject header.
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PROGRAMMING
Gallery Promoter
Dates : September 12 and 13
Time : 11:30am to 4:30pm or 4:30pm to 8:30pm
Duties : Engage the public passing by the gallery and increase the number of patrons flowing through the gallery.
Need : 2 volunteer per shift (same people both days)
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Gallery Promoter in the subject header.
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PROGRAMMING
Book Launch
Date : September 10
Time : 1:00pm to 8:00pm
Duties : Assist Canadian Special Events staff at the sale table of a book launch.
Need : 1 volunteer
If you are available and interested in this shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Book Launch in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Ryerson Info Desk
Date : September 14 and/or 15
Time : 9:00 am to 2:30 pm
Duties : Staffing a desk with brochures, providing information to Festival patrons about Festival Group initiatives.
Skills: Must be outgoing and personable.
Need : 1 volunteer (each day)
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Lucy Borland at lborland@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: RYERSON MARKETING in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Ryerson Info Desk
Date : September 15 and/or 16
Time : 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Duties : Staffing a desk with brochures, providing information to Festival patrons about Festival Group initiatives.
Skills: Must be outgoing and personable.
Need : 1 volunteer (each day)
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Lucy Borland at lborland@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: RYERSON MARKETING in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Elgin Info Desk
Date : Thursday, September 15
Time : 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Duties : Staffing a desk with brochures, providing information to Festival patrons about Festival Group initiatives.
Skills: Must be outgoing and personable.
Need : 1 volunteer
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Lucy Borland at lborland@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: ELGIN MARKETING in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Elgin Info Desk
Date : Thursday, September 15
Time : 5:00 pm to 10:15 pm
Duties : Staffing a desk with brochures, providing information to Festival patrons about Festival Group initiatives.
Skills: Must be outgoing and personable.
Need : 1 volunteer
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Lucy Borland at lborland@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: ELGIN MARKETING in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Paramount Info Desk
Date : September 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 17
Time : 8:30 am to 2:00 pm
Duties : Staffing a desk with brochures, providing information to Festival patrons about Festival Group initiatives.
Skills: Must be outgoing and personable.
Need : 1 volunteer (each day)
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Lucy Borland at lborland@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: PARAMOUNT MARKETING in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Paramount Info Desk
Date : September 11 and/or 13
Time : 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Duties : Staffing a desk with brochures, providing information to Festival patrons about Festival Group initiatives.
Skills: Must be outgoing and personable.
Need : 1 volunteer (each day)
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Lucy Borland at lborland@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: PARAMOUNT MARKETING in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Counting Ballots
Date : September 10 - 16
Time : 4:00pm to 8:00pm
Duties : Counting and sorting ballots.
Need : 3 volunteers (per evening)
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: COUNTING BALLOTS in the subject header.
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MARKETING
Sorting Ballots
Date : September 10 - 13
Time : 12:00pm to 6:00pm
Duties : Counting and sorting ballots.
Need : 8 volunteers (per day)
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: SORTING BALLOTS in the subject header.
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SALES OFFICE
On-Site Assistant
Dates : September 12 - 17
Time : 9:00am to 1:30pm or 1:30pm to 6:00pm
Need : 3 volunteers
If you are available and interested in these volunteer shifts, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: SALES OFFICE in the subject header.
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TECHNICAL
Screen Masking
Dates : September 10 - 14
Time : 8:00pm to ??? (each night)
Need : 1 volunteer
Preference will be given to volunteers who have already signed up for shifts with our Technical Department, or volunteers with techinical experience who are available all 5 nights.
If you are available and interested in these volunteer shifts, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: SCREEN MASKING in the subject header.

Christopher McKinnon
Assistant Manager of Volunteers

Toronto International Film Festival Group

Phone: 416-929-4705
Cell: 416-709-9615
E-mail: cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca
Website: www.tiffg.ca

INSPIRE. CELEBRATE. ILLUMINATE.

2005-09-08T20:35:00.000-07:00

Ballets Russes: l'Humanité, L'égalité, la Fraternité, la Beauté

The rousing heart of the film is the reunion of more than one hundred Ballets Russes dancers from around the globe in New Orleans in 2000.

Баланчин говорил: «Балет - не интеллектуальное, а визуальное искусство. Балет надо СМОТРЕТЬ. Это как прекрасный цветок. Что вы можете сказать о прекрасном цветке? Все, что вы можете сказать, - это что он красив».

В 1909 году великий князь Владимир поручил Дягилеву основать Русский балет в Париже, который с самого начала стал кузницей исполнительского мастерства. Хореографы Михаил Фокин и Леонид Масин, композиторы Клод Дебюсси, Морис Равель и Игорь Стравинский, художники, включая давних приятелей Дягилева по годам учебы в России Бакста и Бенуа, - все они взаимно обогащали друг друга, вращаясь в огромном творческом синтезаторе. Среди легендарных танцовщиков Русского балета, приглашенных из Мариинского и Большого театров, были Анна Павлова, Фокин и неподражаемый девятнадцатилетний Вацлав Нижинский.

2005-09-08T10:27:00.000-07:00

TIFF: Day 1 - Rush Line for "The Sun"of Sacura-va-sun

Yesterday was the Day Zero. Tonight is the opening night with the film Water, the final part of the Elements trilogy of a Canadian director Deepa Mentha.
Don't forget that 19 more Canadian movies is receiving world premieres at the festival.
Let's stay united for 10 days with celebrities, makers, watchers, sellers, critiques, buyers, journalists, bloggers, 'tiff-team-membrz', and 'voooolunteers'.

Вчера был День Ноль. Сегодня вечером - премьера фильма Вода, заключительной части трилогии Элементы канадского директора Дипы Менты.
Не забудьте, что еще 19 канадских фильмов заслужили на фестивале мировые премьеры. Давайте объединимся в течение 10 дней со знаменитостями, изготовителями, зрителями, продавцами, критиками, покупателями, журналистами, блоггерами, 'рганизатрами', и 'доообровольцами'.

What do we have for tonight as a left-over in the box-office:

7:45:00 PM Ballets Russes VARSITY 2
8:15:00 PM Douches Froides VARSITY 4
9:45:00 PM Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang RYERSON
11:59:00 PM Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic RYERSON

A bit about Ballets Russes:

Ballets Russes legend Frederic Franklin and filmmakers Dayna Goldfine and Dan Geller will be in Toronto for Q&As after all public screenings and are available for interviews

Ballets Russes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article

Authors about the documentary

Watch the trailer

An "enormously absorbing pic", (Variety, Feb. 15, 2005), Ballets Russes is being distributed in the US and is coming soon the Australia and Canada.

Ballets Russes inspired generations of dancers. A San Francisco couple is keeping their spirit alive on film. by Allan Ulrich, Special to The Chronicle / Tuesday, August 24, 2004

"Alicia Markova (now 93), Maria Tallchief, Irina Baronova and Tatiana Riabouchinska (two of the three celebrated "baby ballerinas"), Nathalie Krassovska, Yvonne Chouteau, Frederic Franklin, Mia Slavenska, Marc Platt and George Zoritch, to cite the most prominent -- add up to a chronicle of ballet in the 20th century."
This generation, Geller notes, was true pioneers. "In the 1930s, for a young person to go into ballet was like running away to join the circus."
What astonished Goldfine and Geller was the dedication of this generation of artists; dance simply coursed through their veins. After retiring, many, like Zoritch and Riabouchinska, continued to teach. Some, like the luminous, 85-year-old Baronova, are writing their memoirs. Others, like Platt, traded ballet for Broadway and the movies. A former member of the corps, Yvonne Craig, ended up as Batgirl on TV.

Ballets Russes Documentary Release
Vancouver, B.C.-based Critic/Historian Leland Windreich just forwarded the following information from Dayna Goldfine of Geller/Goldfine Productions regarding the release of the documentary on which they started production in early 2000:
"...it has just been picked up by a few distributors who plan to release it theatrically before ultimately distributing on DVD/VHS. In the U.S., Zeitgeist Films will distribute and has arranged for its theatrical premiere to take place in October at NY's Film Forum. In Canada, Capri Films will distribute and will likely do a theatrical release just after Zeitgeist's, in Australia Hopscotch Films will do the same."

Erte/Opera & Ballets Russes

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.- The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents 'Erte/Opera & Ballets Russes/Dance: Theater Costume in LACMA's Collection,' on view through April 4, 2004. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art is one of the few institutions in the world with a sizable group of costumes from the historically and aesthetically important Ballets Russes (Russian Ballet). Featured in this exhibition are thirty spectacular couture costumes created for opera singer Ganna Walska by the renowned fashion and graphic designer Erte. Twenty-two ballet costumes designed by such artists as Henri Matisse, Natalia Goncharova, Sonia Delaunay, and Leon Bakst will also be presented. When the Ballets Russes troupe was introduced in Paris in 1909, it was the major force of an artistic revolution in dance and music that ran parallel to the radical changes in the plastic arts that Europe experienced in the first part of the 20th century. All the costumes and graphics, done during the late teens and 20s, are reflective of the period's fascination with things 'Oriental'-the fantasy, luxury, opulence, and exoticism Europeans found in the culture and arts from such distant lands as Persia, Russia, and China.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was made possible in part by LACMA's Costume Council and Museum Service Council. Curator: Kaye D. Spilker, associate curator of Costumes and Textiles, LACMA.

The Moscow Times on-line Saturday, March 16, 1996

Erotic Ballets Russes Revisited
By Rosalind Gray

In 1895 Sergei Diaghilev, the founder and genius behind the Ballet Russes, was only 23, yet he already had a clearly defined sense of himself. With irony and panache he exclaimed: "I am, first, a great charlatan, though with dash, second a great charmer, third cheeky, fourth, a person with a lot of logic and few principles and, fifth, someone afflicted, it seems, with a complete absence of talent."

A century later, the legacy of Diaghilev and the circle of designers and dancers who worked with him continues to delight and intrigue, as is demonstrated by a major new exhibition at London's Barbican gallery and its accompanying catalogue and a substantially revised history of "Leon Bakst and the Ballets Russes" by Charles Spencer.

Январь балетомана
Timeout Петербург
24/01/2004

Мариинский балет наконец вернулся с продолжительных зарубежных гастролей. Январь обещает массу важных событий. После двухлетнего перерыва на сцену возвращается Ульяна Лопаткина. Собственно, она уже танцевала в Мариинском театре на знаменитом майском гала-концерте в присутствии звезд мирового политического бомонда (говорят, президент Путин заметил, что наконец-то все встало на свои места и нет никакого сомнения, кто есть "гордость русского балета"). Но тогда это был эскиз, генеральная репетиция возвращения (она танцевала короткую миниатюру Фокина "Лебедь"). В январе Лопаткина появится сначала в фокинской "Шехеразаде", а затем – в "Бриллиантах" из "Драгоценностей" Джорджа Баланчина. Это, что называется, возвращение по полной программе. Лопаткина долго готовилась к бою. ...
С выцветшей фотографии на Миллисент Ходсон смотрели артисты легендарных дягилевских Ballets Russes. Они были сняты в костюмах, гриме и позах балета Стравинского – Нижинского "Весна священная", с которым связан не только самый громкий скандал в искусстве XX века(побоище на премьере в Театре Елисейских полей и последующее безумие Нижинского), но и практически вся эволюция искусства ХХ века. ...
Но и это не всё. В январе в Мариинском театре начинается двухмесячный марафон, о котором все русские балетные артисты мечтают вот уже 15 лет – с тех пор как увидели уникальную видеозапись из Парижской оперы, на которой странный 38-летний человек в очках, непрерывно жующий огромный сэндвич, разучивает с восходящей суперзвездой Сильви Гиллем балет со странным названием In the Middle, Somewhat elevated. В искусстве (в балете, в частности) начиналась эпоха "неомодернизма". Странным человеком в очках был американский хореограф Уильям Форсайт, сегодня признанный единственным наследником Джорджа Баланчина, а через Баланчина – и наследником Мариуса Петипа, а значит – великой хореографической традиции Мариинского театра.

Мариинский театр
Павел Гершензон

Russian Ballet
* Ballet in Russia
* Marinsky Theatre
* Bolshoi Theatre (Moscow)
* Ballets Russes
* Alexander Benois
* George Balanchine (Balanchivadze) (1904-1983)
* Vaslaw Nijinsky (1890-1950)
*Nureyev
* Baryshnikov

2005-09-06T08:03:00.000-07:00

TIFF Still a Lot of Volunteer Opportunities This Week

TIFFG: Opportunities Update - Holiday Edition

CONTENTS

- Upcoming Volunteer Opportunities
- Last Recruitment Session. Ever.
- Volunteer Office Hours and Location

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Volunteer Opportunities This Week

What to do if you want to volunteer: Below are this week's volunteer opportunities. If you are interested in any of them, please follow the directions and e-mail me or the staff person (Mbabazi, Anja, Steven, Dan, Lucy, Elvie or I) in charge of the position with the appropriate subject line.

You will receive a confirmation e-mail only if you are selected for any of the shifts below. Regretfully, due to the volume of e-mails our staff receive, we will not be able to let you know if a particular shift has already been filled. Let us know if you are interested in volunteering for more than one shift, that way if your first choice has been filled, you may still get your second choice. We welcome responses from first-time volunteers, so please don't be shy!

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THEATRES OFFICE
Labeling Walkie-Talkies
Date : Tuesday, September 6
Time : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Duties : Printing labels, affixing said labels to the walkie-talkies, and then sorting everything.
Skills: Must be efficient, organized, and have attention to detail.
Need : 5 volunteers
Reward: You will earn 2 pinks for TIFF!
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Affixing Labels in the subject header

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FILM CIRCUIT
Runner
Date : Tuesday, September 6
Time : 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Duties : Delivering letters within the city. TTC Day-Pass will be provided.
Skills: Sense of direction, map reading ability, and knowing your way around Toronto would be very helpful.
Need : 1 volunteer
Rewards: You will earn 1 pink for TIFF!
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Runner in the subject header

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OPERATIONS
Table Disassembly
Date : Tuesday, September 6
Time : 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Duties : Taking apart a large table and stowing it away, rearranging furniture.
Skills: Lifting expertise and familiarity with a screwdriver are imperative.
Need : 1 volunteer
Rewards: You will earn 1 pink for TIFF!
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Table Disassembly in the subject header

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PROGRAMME ADMINISTRATION
Stuffing Envelopes and Delivering Letters
Date : Wednesday, September 7
Time : 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Duties : Labelling and stuffing envelopes. Delivering letters to hotels.
Skills : A flair for detail. Someone with a bike or a car is preferred.
Need : 1 volunteer
Rewards : You will receive 1 pink for TIFF!
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Envelope Stuffing and Delivery in the subject header

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TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
Moving The Projector
Date : Wednesday, September 7
Time : 9:00 am to 1:00 pm
Duties : Assisting the Tech staff to carry a heavy projector up to the projection booth and assisting with installation. HEAVY LIFTING!
Skills: Must be able to lift 50lbs. You must wear shoes or boots.
Need : 1 volunteer
Rewards: You receive 2 pinks because this is HEAVY LIFTING.
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Projector! in the subject header

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TECHNICAL DEPARTMENT
Moving Platter Racks
Date : Wednesday, September 7
Time : 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Duties : Lifting heavy platter racks up to projection room. HEAVY LIFTING!
Skills: Must be able to lift 50lbs. You must wear shoes or boots.
Need : 2 volunteers
Rewards: You receive 2 pinks because this is HEAVY LIFTING.
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Platter Racks! in the subject header

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MARKETING
Brochure Distribution
Date : Wednesday, September 7; Thursday, September 8; or Friday, September 9
Time : 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Duties : Visiting Toronto nighbourhood retailers, restaurants, and cafes and asking them to display TIFF brochures.
Skills : Should be outgoing and prepared for a full day of walking!
Need : 6 volunteers (per day)
Rewards : You will receive 2 pinks for this shift, because it is 7 hours long.
If you are available and interested in this volunteer shift, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Brochure Distro in the subject header

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THEATRES
Cumberland Theatre Entry Point
Date : September 8 through 17
Time : 8:00 am to 1:00 pm
Duties : Sign in volunteers, press and media. Answering questions. General customer service.
Skills : Ability to stand for long periods of time. Preference will be given to volunteers with prior experience at the Festival. Must be available all 10 days of the Festival.
Rewards : You will receive 2 pinks for each shift.
If you are available and interested for these shifts, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Cumberland Entry Point in the subject header

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THEATRES
Varsity Theatre Entry Point
Date : September 8 through 17
Time : 7:00 am to 1:45 pm
Duties : Sign in volunteers. Answering questions. General customer service.
Skills : Ability to stand for long periods of time. Preference will be given to volunteers with prior experience at the Festival. Must be available all 10 days of the Festival.
Rewards : You will receive 2 pinks for each shift.
If you are available and interested for these shifts, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Varsity Entry Point AM in the subject header

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THEATRES
Varsity Theatre Entry Point
Date : September 8 through 17
Time : 1:15 pm to 7:45 pm
Duties : Sign in volunteers. Answering questions. General customer service.
Skills : Ability to stand for long periods of time. Preference will be given to volunteers with prior experience at the Festival. Must be available all 10 days of the Festival.
Rewards : You will receive 2 pinks for each shift.
If you are available and interested for these shifts, please email Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Varsity Entry Point PM in the subject header

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VOLUNTEER DEPARTMENT
Volunteer Captains
Date : September 8 to September 17
Time : Morning and afternoon
Duties : Assisting Theatres staff with logistics of supervising volunteers, problem-solving, and offering support to Theatres volunteers.
Skills: At least 2 Festivals of experience as a volunteer in our Theatres.
If you are available in the mornings or afternoons during the Festival and you have previous experience as a volunteer in our Festival Theatre Venues, please email your resume to Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: Captain in the subject header

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ADMINISTRATIVE DEPARTMENTS
10-Day Volunteers
Date : September 8 to September 17
Time : Days (probably 9:00am to 5:00pm)
Duties : Various administrative duties.
If you are available for all 10 days of the Festival and you would like to be considered for a volunteer position with one of our administrative departments, please email your resume to Christopher McKinnon at cmckinnon@torfilmfest.ca with ATTN: 10-Day Volunteer in the subject header

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Details for the 30th Toronto International Film Festival®
LAST RECRUITMENT SESSION. EVER.

FOR MORNING VOLUNTEERS!
These final recruitment sessions are open to NEW or RETURNING volunteers who are able to sign up for at least 4 morning shifts during the Festival.

WHAT:
A recruitment session is where you sign up for all volunteer shifts for September 8th -17th and for pre-Festival shifts. We are adding 4 more dates to give you a final opportunity to sign up for MORNING SHIFTS.

WHO:
Anyone who is available for at least 4 mornings between September 8 and September 17 is invited to attend a session. Please feel free to invite any trusted friends or acquaintances to a session, where they will receive additional information and have all of their questions answered. All new volunteers must bring a résumé with contact information for two references (either work, volunteer or character) with them to the session in order to sign up.

WHERE and WHEN:

Tuesday, September 6, 12:30pm
at

THE VOLUNTEER OFFICE
Cumberland Terrace
Main Level
Closest Intersection is Bay / Cumberland Sts.

See you there!

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TRAINING INFORMATION

ALL Volunteer Office volunteers
When: Tuesday, September 6, 6:30 pm - 8:00 p.m.
Where: Volunteer Office, Cumberland Terrace, mezzanine level

ALL Operations and Info Desk volunteers (Only for volunteers with CONFIRMED shifts)
When: Saturday, September 3, 10:00 am or
Tuesday, September 6, 10:00 am or
Wednesday, September 7, 10:00 am
Where: TBA

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VOLUNTEER OFFICE LOCATION AND HOURS
Volunteer Office: Cumberland Terrace, Mezzanine Level (enter from Bay and Cumberland Street entrance and take the escalators one level up)

Volunteer Office Hours:
Sep. 6 and Sep. 7 : 9:00 am - 7:00 pm,
During the Festival: Open everyday Sep. 8 - Sep. 17: 8:00 am - 7:00 pm.

WANT TO PICK UP EXTRA SHIFTS? Come to the Volunteer Office at Cumberland Terrace on the Upper Terrace, to choose from the sign-up sheets. There are lots of shifts available!

HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR SCHEDULE? Email Anja Capel at acapel@torfilmfest.ca

CONTACT INFORMATION
VOLUNTEER HOTLINE: (416) 929-7119
OFFICE FAX: (416) 929-0747
EMAIL: volunteers@torfilmfest.ca

For specific Volunteer Office comments, praise or concerns, email: Mbabazi at mkasara@torfilmfest.ca

Mbabazi Kasara, Manager, Volunteers and Interns
Christopher McKinnon, Assistant Manager, Volunteers
Anja Capel, Database Coordinator, Volunteers
Steven Landry, Database Assistant, Volunteers
Dan Williamson, Database Assistant, Volunteers
Lucy Borland, Volunteer Department Intern
Elvie Choi, Volunteer Department Intern

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Toronto International Film Festival Group
Toronto International Film Festival Group website: www.tiffg.ca
Toronto International Film Festival website: www.bell.ca/filmfest

Please note, if you are enquiring about job postings from the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG), they are listed at www.tiffg.ca

To add or to remove your name from the weekly volunteer opportunities and postings broadcast e-mail list, please e-mail volunteers@torfilmfest.ca

TAGS:

tiff volunteer opportunity

2005-09-02T21:31:00.000-07:00

На берегах Хюронии построен инукшук.

2005-09-02T10:51:00.000-07:00

The Junction Arts Festival

2005-09-01T19:12:00.000-07:00

USA Deluge - 2005

Американская Свобода
Автор: Кагаров Ф.

2005-09-01T08:44:00.000-07:00

Are You Ready to Write Markup Tags for Your Semantic Web?

"Web, Standards, Tags and Semantic"
"Сеть, Стандарты, Метки и Смысл"
Markus Upus-Lee

"Wisdom, Justice, Firmness and Moderation"
"Мудрость, Правосудие, Твердость и Умеренность"
Markus Aurelius

This is an attempt to translate an interesting article about limitations of the Semantic Web.

First, the attempt.
Second, the original article "Bootstrapping the semantic Web" by Jon Udell
Third, a MS Word service of WorldLinlo Powered Translation (it's still too far to see the light at the end of a semantic tunnel - мы еще слишком далеки, чтобы видеть свет в конце смыслового туннеля, работать надо. Семантическая сеть сделает жизнь осмысленнее.)

Корректировка Смысловой Сети

Попытка Тима Бернерс-Ли придать содержательный смысл Сети получает поддержку с неожиданных сторон.
Заманчиво проводить параллели между карьерами Альберта Энштейна и Тима Бернерс-Ли. Они оба сделали преобразовывающие мир крупные достижения и затем преследовали еще более великие идеи. Энштейн, конечно, никогда не нашел единую теорию поля, которую он искал в течение трех десятилетий. Много людей думает, что идеи семантической Сети Бернерса-Ли покажет одинаковую иллюзорность.
Все мы можем представить желательный результат: одну из версий Сети, где составляющие связаны явно, а не просто c совпадением слов. Но скептицизм приветствовал технологии "семсетей", возглавиляемые Бернерсом-Ли в Сетевом Консорциуме. Подход основан на том, что получило название "онтологии", которую Сетевой Консорциум определяет как "представление терминов и их взаимосвязей." Критики утверждают, что мы никогда не договоримся (или последовательно применим) об онтологии - и они указывают на Google (Профиль, Товары, Статьи) как доказательство того, что мы не нуждаемся в ней.
Но есть пара компаний, с которыми я столкнулся недавно, которые думают, что есть что-то посередине. Одна из них - Semagix, которая предлагает инструментальный набор программ, названный Свободой, чтобы помочь разработчикам создавать и затем строить специфически-ориентированные онтологии. Возьмем случай прикладной программы посвященной антиотмыванию денег. Онтология можно получить из достоверной информации о людях и компаниях, как например Dun & Bradstreet и Hoover's. Учитывая такую структуру, автоматические классификаторы могут прочитать неструктурированные документы - электронную почту, архивы новостей, Веб-страницы - и приложить их к структуре. В результате Semagix говорит, что вы можете ответить на вопросы типа, "В каких недавних новостях упоминаются те компании, которые разделяют директоров с компанией X"?
Digital Harbor или Цифровая Гавань (Профиль, Товары, Статьи) использует такой же подход. PiiE компании (Профессиональная Диалоговая Информационная Среда), первоначально наполнена как богатый интернет-ориентированный инструментальный набор программ-приложений, в последнее время переместился к "профессиональной онтологии." Компания Digital Harbor использует Fusion Сервер который помогает разработчикам определять совокупность терминов и их отношений, наполнять эту структуру организованными данными, и затем к этому прилагать неструктурированные данные. И как это делает Semagix, Digital Harbor также акцентирует слияние онтологии и данных так, чтобы пользователи могли "соединить точки."
Конечно, это никогда не так просто, как мы бы хотели представить. Например, рассмотрим компанию Eliyon, которая собирает общественную информацию о более чем 22 миллионов человек, чтобы поддержать продажи, пополнения и другие приложения. Как оказалось, я могу один числится несколькими из этих людей. В дополнение к моей текущей должности ведущего аналитика Центра Тестирования InfoWorld, я обнаруживаюсь как исполнительный редактор журнала Byte и автор журнала Linux. И хотя все это было когда-то точным описанием меня, я никогда не был членом Blue Titan, и я не изобретатель RSS.
Верно, что я мог зарегистрироваться на сайте, определить мои уточненные данные, и произвести чистку неправильных. Но подтверждение подлинности моих данных с кредитной карточкой, для того чтобы обновить мой профиль, который Eliyon имеет, - обреченно для меня на неудачу. В июне, в моем сетевом журнале, я предложил альтернативу, которая удовлетворяет меня: я поддержу мой собственный профиль в Сети и сгруппирую свои данные любому, кто нуждается в этом.
Голосующие против семантической сети думают, что людям и организациям не накладно укладывать машиночитаемые факты о себе. И сегодня, это совершенно верно. Но когда другие будут подбирать факты о Вас – и поскольку это будет возрастать – то тенденция может измениться. Индивидуальные попытки самообороны могут в конечном счете объединиться, чтобы улучшить смысловую Сеть.

Bootstrapping the semantic Web
Tim Berners-Lee's quest to give the Web meaning receives aid from unexpected quarters

Strategic Developer, By Jon Udell
December 03, 2004

It's tempting to draw parallels between the careers of Albert Einstein and Tim Berners-Lee. Both men made world-transforming breakthroughs and then pursued even grander visions. Einstein, of course, never found the unified theory he sought for three decades.
A lot of people think Berners-Lee's vision of a semantic Web will prove equally elusive.
We can all imagine the desired outcome: a version of the Web where items are related explicitly, not merely by co-occurrence of words. But skepticism has greeted the "semweb" technologies that Berners-Lee has been spearheading in the W3C.
The approach is based on what's called "ontology," which the W3C defines as "a representation of terms and their interrelationships." Critics argue that we'll never agree on (or consistently apply) an ontology - and they point to Google (Profile, Products, Articles) as proof that we don't need to.
Two companies I've encountered recently think there's a middle ground. One is Semagix, which offers an application toolkit, called Freedom, to help developers create, and then build on, a domain-specific ontology. Take the case of an anti-money-laundering application. The ontology is derived from authoritative information about individuals and companies provided by the likes of Dun & Bradstreet and Hoover's. Given such a framework, automatic classifiers can read unstructured documents - e-mail, news feeds, Web pages - and attach them to the framework. As a result, Semagix says, you can answer questions such as, "Which recent news reports mention companies that share directors with company X"?
Digital Harbor (Profile, Products, Articles) is taking a similar approach. The company's PiiE (Professional Interactive Information Environment), originally pitched as a rich Internet app-dev toolkit, has lately shifted toward "business ontology." Digital Harbor's Fusion Server helps developers define a set of terms and relationships, populate that framework with structured data, and then attach unstructured data to it. And as does Semagix, Digital Harbor emphasizes fusing ontology and data so that users can "connect the dots."
Of course, it's never as easy as we'd like to imagine. Consider Eliyon, a company that's gathered public information about more than 22 million people to support sales, recruiting, and other applications. As it turns out, I am several of those people.
In addition to my current title, InfoWorld Test Center lead analyst, I show up as executive editor of Byte Magazine and contributor to Linux Magazine. And while those were once accurate descriptions of me, I have never been a member of Blue Titan's board of advisors, and I am not the inventor of RSS.
It's true I could register with the site, coalesce my correct identities, and purge the wrong ones. But authenticating with a credit card in order to update a profile that Eliyon owns is a nonstarter for me. Back in June, on my Weblog, I suggested the alternative that would suit me: I'll maintain my own profile on the Web and syndicate my data to anyone who needs it.
Semantic-Web naysayers think people and organizations can't be bothered to assert machine-readable facts about themselves. And, today, that is undoubtedly true. But when others assert facts about you - as they increasingly will - the tide could begin to turn. Individual acts of self-defense may ultimately combine to bootstrap the semantic Web.

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Bootstrapping смысловой стержень

Quest Бернерс-Ukryti1 Tim для того чтобы дать смысль стержня получает помощь от непредвиденных четвертей

Стратегический Проявитель, Жон Уделл
03 -го декабрь, 2004

Оно уговаривает нарисовать параллели между карьерами Albert Einstein и Бернерс-Ukryti4 Tim. Оба сделанного люд мир-preobrazovyvat6 прорывы и после этого последованные даже более грандиозные зрения. Einstein, of course, никогда нашл унифицированную теорию, котор он изыскивал на 3 декады.
Множество людей думает зрение Бернерс-Ukryti1 смыслового стержня докажет равн неуловимое.
Мы можем все представить заданный исход: вариант стержня где детали отнесены точно, просто чо-vozniknoveniem слов. Но скептицизм приветствовал технологии "semweb" Бернерс-Ukryti4 имеют spearheading в W3C.
Подход основан на вызвано "ontology," W3C определяет как "представление термин и их interrelationships."критики спорят что мы никогда не согласимся дальше (или последовательно приложите) ontology - и они указывают к Google (профилю, продуктам, Статьи) как доказательство мы.
2 компании, котор я сталкивался недавн для того чтобы думать там буду а средний уровень. Одно будет вызванным Semagix, которое предлагает toolkit применения, Свобода, помочь проявителям создаться, и после этого построить дальше, домен-speqificeski ontology. Примите случай анти-деньг-anti-money-laundering применение. Ontology выводит от сообщения из авторитетных источников о индивидуалах и компаниях обеспечено подобиями dun & Bradstreet и hoover's. Дали такой а рамки, автоматические классификаторы могут прочитать unstructured документы - и-мэйло, весточку питания, страницы стержня - и прикрепляют их к рамкам. В результате, Semagix говорит, вы можете ответить вопросы such as, "которые недавние выпуски новостей упоминают компании делят директоров с компанией X"?
Гавань цифров (профиль, продукты, статьи) принимает а подобный подход. PiiE компании (профессиональная взаимодействующая информация Окружающая среда), первоначально сооруженная как богатый toolkit апп-pro4vitel4 интернета, имеет последн перенесено к "ontology дела."помощь сервера сплавливания гавани цифров проявители определяют комплект термин и отношения, заселяют те рамки с составленными данными, и после этого приложите unstructured данные к ему. И как делает Semagix, гавань цифров подчеркивает сплавляя ontology и данные так, что потребители смогут "соедините многоточия."
Of course, никогда как легко по мере того как мы хотел были бы представить. Рассматривайте Eliyon, компанией которая будет собранная общественная информация о больше чем 22 миллиона людей для того чтобы поддержать применения сбываний, завербовывать, и другого. Как оно повороты вне, я несколько из тех людей.
В дополнение к моему в настоящее время названию, аналитик руководства центра испытания InfoWorld, я показываю вверх как executive редактор кассеты байта и contributor к Кассета Linux. И пока те были раз точные описания меня, я имею никогда не будьте членом доски голубого Titan's советников, и мной изобретатель RSS.
Оно поистине я смогло зарегистрировать с местом, коалесцирует мо правильно тождественности, и продувают неправильные одни. Но authenticating с кредитом прочешите для уточнения профиля Eliyon имеет будет nonstarter для меня. Задняя часть в июне, на моем Weblog, я предложил алтернативу которая одела бы я: Я буду поддерживайте мой собственный профиль на стержне и синдикате мои данные к любому оно.
Naysayers Смыслов-Sterjn4 думают люди и организации не может докучайте для того чтобы утвердить machine-readable факты о себе. И, сегодня, то будет несомненно поистине. Но когда другие утверждают факты о вас - как они все больше и больше воля - tide смог начать поворачивать. Индивидуальныйа акт self-defense может предельно совместить для того чтобы bootstrap смысловой стержень.

2005-09-01T05:53:00.000-07:00

The Web is a development platform, software is a service, and Google is ready to "ship" a personal software.

The Web as development platform

One company in a different industry, yet with a similar philosophy, is Salesforce.com. The company has built a hosted platform, called Sforce, which lets developers customize Salesforce's applications.

As a proof of concept, Salesforce integrated its customer resource management service with Google Maps and is toying with a few other Google services, including AdSense and Sidebar, said Adam Gross, senior director of product marketing for Sforce.

Gross said companies, such as eBay, Yahoo and Amazon.com, that treat their Web sites as customizable platforms, offer a starkly different technology vision to developers than traditional software companies do.

"We are very much competing for the hearts and minds of developers and bringing very different value propositions and ideas," Gross said. "One model says build for Windows and the Microsoft 'stack'; the other says build for the Internet."

Gross noted that some of the software industry's leading lights are working hard on making the Web a platform. Not so surprisingly, some of those high-powered engineers work at Google.

Two well-known former Microsoft development executives - Adam Bosworth and Mark Lucovsky - are now Google employees.

In his personal Web log, Bosworth articulated his belief that the future of software development is on the Web, not on an individual machine.

"The platform of this decade isn't going to be around controlling hardware resources and rich UI (user interfaces). Nor do I think you're going to be able to charge for the platform per se. Instead, it is going to be around access to community, collaboration and content," Bosworth noted in an entry from last year.

Bosworth wrote that Web pioneers such as Amazon.com, Google and eBay have for years made their services available via Web services APIs to encourage third-party applications and drive Web traffic.

Google faces formidable competition from the other Web portal companies, and financial returns from its expanded product line and developer outreach won't be totally clear for some time, said Gartner analyst Allen Weiner.

"It's a logical path," Weiner added, "but we won't know the outcome for a while."

Google aims for Web developers' hearts and minds
by Martin LaMonica , Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: 8/26/05

2005-08-31T11:22:00.000-07:00

The Toronto International Film Festival ® is coming into the town.
The 30th, the 3rd in the World, and the third for us.
Ten days that could shake your imagination from Thursday, September 8 to Saturday, September 17, 2005.

Looking forward to meet interesting people like an internationally acclaimed sculptor Uga Drava (the gargoyles on the Mississauga One Park Tower are his) or an internationally acclaimed moviefreak Girish (his blog will show you the best moments of the TIFF).
Thank you Mbabazi, Chris, Lucy, Dan, Steven, Anja for having us as volunteers for the fest.
TIFF is the best place to volunteer and meet old and new friends like Zjenia and Margarita, Ludmila and Volodia, Lili and Volodia, Patricia, Peggy, Yuryi, Marina.

Some media stats:

The 30th Toronto International Film Festival showcases 335 films from 52 countries, including 256 features, of which 84 per cent or 109 are world, international, or North American premieres, and 67 features are directorial debuts.
Visit the Festival's Official website at www.bell.ca/filmfest or call the Bell Infoline at 416-968-FILM.

What is on my list this year:
Film search for all of the Russian movie directors

Bed Stories
(Postelnye Stseny)

Programme: VISIONS
Director: Kirill Serebrennikov
Country: Russia
Year: 2004
Language: Russian
Time: 70 minutes
Film Types: Colour/Digital Betacam

SCREENING TIMES:
Thursday, September 15 6:15 PM ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
Friday, September 16 2:45 PM VARSITY 7

SCREENING WITH:
Twilight

Twilight
(Sumerki)

Programme: VISIONS
Director: Victoria Gamburg
Country: USA/Russia
Year: 2005
Language: Russian
Time: 21 minutes
Film Types: Colour/Digital Betacam

Dreaming of Space
(Kosmos Kak Predchuvstvie)

Programme: CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
Director: Alexey Uchitel
Country: Russia
Year: 2005
Language: Russian
Time: 90 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm

SCREENING TIMES:
Wednesday, September 14 7:30 PM VARSITY 1
Wednesday, September 14 7:30 PM VARSITY 6
Friday, September 16 9:45 AM VARSITY 1

The Sun
(Solntse)

Programme: MASTERS
Director: Alexander Sokurov
Country: Russia/Italy/France/ Switzerland
Year: 2005
Language: Japanese, English
Time: 110 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm

SCREENING TIMES:
Friday, September 09 9:15 AM PARAMOUNT 1
Saturday, September 10 1:30 PM ISABEL BADER THEATRE

Oh, almoust forgot, for all who loves Russian ballet:

Ballets Russes

Programme: REAL TO REEL
Director: Dan Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Country: USA
Year: 2005
Language: English
Time: 118 minutes
Film Types: Colour/BW/35mm
Rating: PG

SCREENING TIMES:
Thursday, September 08 7:45 PM VARSITY 2
Thursday, September 08 7:45 PM VARSITY 3
Saturday, September 10 3:15 PM PARAMOUNT 1

One more film search with the keyword "russia":

I am
Director: Dorota Kedzierzawska - Poland (studied at the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow)
VISIONS
SCREENING TIMES:
Saturday, September 10 7:30 PM VARSITY 2
Monday, September 12 5:00 PM JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO

Kinetta
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos - Greece
DISCOVERY
(In the off-season after all the tourists have left for home, there is a sudden spate of murders. An unnamed plain-clothes cop (Kostas Xikominos) with a pathological weakness for luxury cars and naughty Russian women investigates the killings.)
SCREENING TIMES:
Friday, September 09 5:30 PM JACKMAN HALL THEATRE - AGO
Sunday, September 11 12:45 PM CUMBERLAND 2
Friday, September 16 4:00 PM VARSITY 4

The District!
Director: Áron Gauder - Hungary
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
(Richie and his pals build a time machine, go back to the Stone Age and arrange for mammoths to be buried on the future site of their ghetto. They then return to the present to reap the rewards. Naturally, they don’t pull off the scheme without a snag: the oil fields attract the ire of the international community including Vladimir Putin (who uses the district’s Russian hookers as spies), the Pope, President George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden (who is hiding out in the basement of a local falafel shop)
SCREENING TIMES:
Tuesday, September 13 11:59 PM RYERSON
Thursday, September 15 12:15 PM VARSITY 4
Thursday, September 15 12:15 PM VARSITY 5

The Porcelain Doll
Director: Péter Gárdos - Hungary (began making films while studying Russian and Hungarian literature and linguistics at Eötvös Loránd (ELTE) University.)
VISIONS
SCREENING TIMES:
Tuesday, September 13 8:00 PM VARSITY 2
Thursday, September 15 9:30 AM CUMBERLAND 1
Saturday, September 17 9:15 PM CUMBERLAND 4

OK, one more film:

Dreaming Lhasa

Programme: DISCOVERY
Director: Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam
Country: India/United Kingdom
Year: 2005
Language: Tibetan, English
Time: 91 minutes
Film Types: Colour/35mm
(For many in the West, Tibet is the last romantic place left on earth. But beyond the stately mountain ranges, saffron robes and timeless traditions lies a struggle unfolding very much in the here and now. Dreaming Lhasa is the first film to capture both the majesty of Tibetan Buddhist culture and the complexity of its ties to the outside world. Dub reggae, family honour and the CIA all have their place here.)
SCREENING TIMES:
Monday, September 12 6:00 PM PARAMOUNT 2
Wednesday, September 14 10:00 AM PARAMOUNT 3
Friday, September 16 9:00 AM ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

Now it's your time...

2005-08-19T16:01:00.000-07:00

Светлой памяти нашей матери
Серебренниковой Елизаветы Леонтьевны
18 сентября 1911 -7 августа 2005

Мотылек

Л. Модзалевский

Расскажи, мотылек,
Чем живешь ты дружок?
Как тебе не устать
День-деньской все порхать?

- Я живу средь лугов
В блеске летнего дня;
Ароматы цветов
Вот вся пища моя!

Но короток мой век,
Он не долее дня;
Будь же добр, человек,
И не трогай меня!

Butterfly-1

L. Modzalevsky

Tell me, Butterfly,
How is the life treating you, my Buddy?
Haven't you tired yet?
To flit around for the whole day?

- I live among meadows
Under the shining sun;
Fragrances of flowers,
Here is all my food!

But my era is short
- It is not longer than a day;
Be kind, Good Fellow,
And don't touch me.

Butterfly-2

L. Modzalevsky

Tell me, my Butterfly
How are getting you by?
Haven't you tired now,
To flit all day around?

"I dwell amongst the meadows
In the dazzling sun fire;
And flavors of the flowers
Is the only my diet.

But my life is like a dream
It is less than a day;
So, be kind Pilgrim
And let me fly away"

2005-08-06T09:29:00.000-07:00

Live and Learn

Among of zillions of blogs on the Blogger you can comb clicking on the Next Blog button, I came across one refreshingly sane and colorful Rurality blog.
So, I realized, that even we live maybe not inexact lush settings such as Alabama but for a big Urban sprawl as Toronto, we are not doing so bad with our organic vegetable garden, sauna, and evening tea party with a samovar and slow- cooking food made out of our own produce.
So there are a Black Russian reddish ("red'ka" good for your spleen), cherry tomatoes (native American), and yellow beans, just few of vegetables available right now.

Живи Проще

Среди огромных количеств блогов, которые вы можете прочесать на Блогере нажимая на указатель «Next Blog», был найден освежающе позитивный и красочный блог «Сельский Час».

Может быть мы и не живем в таком прекрасном месте как Штат Алабама, но для такой большой «деревни» как Торонто, мы устроились не так уж и плохо с нашим маленьким огородиком, сауной, вечерним чаепитием с самоваром и монастырской пищей, приготовленной из овощей нашего собственного сада.

На фотографиях вы можете видеть русскую черную редьку (полезна для вашей селезенки), помидоры- вишни (коренные американцы), и желтые бобы, те овощи, что сейчас созрели.

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