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New York City Waterfalls

Opens Mid-July 2008-Mid-October 2008

Mayor Bloomberg, and the city of New York have commissioned artist Olafur Elaisson to bring art to the New York Harbor this Spring. Four electrically powered waterfalls will be positioned throughout the New York Harbor (Lower Manhattan, Gouverner’s Island, and Brooklyn) they will all be visible from the South Street Seaport. The Circle Line Ferry (which provides transportation to and from Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty) will be the sole provider of a tour around the waterfalls through New York Harbor.

Check back there will be more to come!

News12 Long Island, NY did their normal Pre-Storm Winter coverage as they do before every snow storm that hits Long Island. I allowed my self two precious more hours of sleep this morning as when I opened one eye and looked out the window everything was covered in a thick blanket of white. Living in a densely populated but not highly traveled part of Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, NY (map) my street is still yet to be plowed even once, but my SUV (Cheap Gas LI) allowed me to float through the snow (generating a sensation very close to skiing) and get to work.

Hempstead, Long Island, NY (map) has recently purchased new technology which allows Hempstead Township to get ahead of the storm. February 22, 2008 the New York Times ran a story saying that the year-end snow storm had left many Hempstead, Long Island, NY residents complaining about the roads that lay in the town’s jurisdiction rather than the county’s or the states.

The roads in Hempstead, Long Island, NY should not be too snowy this morning. As a result of the many complaints that came from not only town residents but town officials whom had found themselves stranded with their employees December 30th, 2008. Hempstead bought new technology from a Canadian company called Epoch. I have always wondered why life doesnt come to a screaching hault every time it snows in northern provinces. The science behind it is as follows. They launch a Pre-Storm assault on the roads. In other words the salt spreaders take to the street hours before the storm hits and spreads a watery mixture of finely ground salt sand and clay. This makes it harder for the snow to stick to the roads before the snow even begins to fall; making ths plow’s jobs much easier and more efficient, and leaving the salt and sand spreaders to complete the mixture after the snow removal has begun.

Hopefully this kind of technology will be come a staple at all of the dispatch stations across Long Island (map) as all of its residents on especially on the North Shore know that one thing Long Island surely does not lack is hills which can become very quickly very trecherous and dangerous.

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Madison Square Garden , NY was host to the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show this weekend. Thousands of dog lovers, breeders, and most importantly show dogs and their trainers flocked to Madison Square Garden, NY for the Dog Show. It is the 132nd Annual Doge show which started on Thursday, February 7, 2008 and the final celebrations will close off with the Metropolitan Dog Club Best in Show Brunch at Cipriani Dolci, Grand Central Station.
This year there were three new breads introduced: the Plott: a hunting hound an intelligent, alert and confident animal, the Tibetan Mastiff which is believed to have been the origin of many working breeds which we see today known for its protective spirit especially towards women and children, the Beauceron is a French herding dog know for herding and guarding large flocks of sheep and high levels of endurance, intelligence, and ability to learn quickly, and command of respect, the final new breed for this year is the Swedish Vallhund an old Spitz-type breed known for being small, powerful, fearless and sturdily build.
The best of breed list can be found here and the breed results here

This is a tantalizing film about a naive girl who has runaway from home and finds herself unknowingly falling directly into the underbelly of the London underground. Joanne has lived the fast life of London for a long time and knows what it will do to a girl like Kelly. This movie ends with a great twist and leaves you yearning for more it will be showing at the Cinema Village through this weekend.

The internet is continually changing.  To keep up with the changes and grow with the times companies whom have sold their products online in the past have been making efforts to streamline their web stores.   Internet marketing has become more and more “intelligent” through the tracking of customer’s buying habits and history.  This has allowed companies to target their audiences very specifically allowing for a much higher success rate.

Social Networking sites have especially taken advantage of this resource with mixed results.  It has had success in the sense that ads on pages are targeted directly to the user which has raised the “click through rates” (for those of you non-internet advertising savvy CTR as defined by Wikipedia). 

Facebook took this concept one step to far and in November had to readjust their policies as users were finding that the broadcasting of user’s online purchases to be an invasion of privacy and inappropriate.
As users change their status, add photographs, “tag” their friends in pictures, change details in their profiles etc. Facebook automatically generates a news-feed which gets sent to all of that user’s friends.

Facebook implemented Beacon.  Beacon is a program which posts news-feeds every time a Facebook user would make an online purchase.  This very quickly became a problem; users quickly became resentful of their purchases and spending habits broadcast ( New York Times.)

Personally I find Beacon an invasion.  I choose what information I want to make public on Facebook and would not want my purchases made public; or at least enable me to easily decide which purchases I want made public and which I don’t why should I become free advertising for these multi-million dollar companies could I at least get some compensation for my bill boarding?

Internet Marketing and Advertising is a great venue through which to get the word out about your business be sure to visit our sample ad page to familiarize yourself with our options, here is an example of a full page ad which would drive traffic directly from natural Google searches to your website.

More advanced quotes have been released for the film “London to Brighton”:

Alison Bailes, Lyons & Bailes Reel Talk

Georgia Groome and Lorraine Stanley give astounding performances….a frighteningly real, visceral piece of film making.

Be sure to go to the Cinema Village this weekend and catch “London to Brighton” an unforgettable edge of your seat thriller.

I began a project doing promotional work for a film called “London to Brighton” getting the word out about its US premier at the Cinema Village, NY February 8, 2008.

Today, as I posted the advance quotes released by critics such as Scott Hoffman, Moviepicturefilm.com I actually came across another film which is being released “Caramel”.

I was born in New York City, New York and have had the city coursing through my veins ever since. My parents are both immigrants my mother from France and my father from Lebanon. “Caramel” is a film set in modern day Lebanon depicting the lives of five women.

The director states:

“…I wanted to show a different Lebanon a Lebanon that you do not necessarily know…” She emphasized that: “…I was not going to talk about the war again…”

In a country which has been rated as the 8th least peaceful countries she wanted to bring a film which showed the people living their daily lives humanizing a country which has been torn by war for centuries now.

I have not spent much time in Lebanon and have always wanted to become more familiarized with my Lebanese culture. It touches on many issues taboo in the Arab world here is a report on NPR

“London to Brighton” has been praised by Scott Hoffman, MoviePictureFilm.com as being:

“A stunning cinematic achievement!”

“Unforgettable! Brilliant, intense and uncompromising. Prepare yourself.”

“A thought provoking shocker! It will stay with you for days.”

I look forward to hopefully catching Caramel this weekend at the Angelika Film Center