TV-Filmed Version of Powerful Autobiographical Play "WHY HISTORY MATTERS: The Choctaw Project" Available on DVD
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(ContentDesk) May 22, 2006 -- There have been an overwhelming number of high-praise reviews of Ray's touching live performance of A Killing in Choctaw; his enthralling film documentary A Killing in Choctaw: the Power of Forgiveness; and his multi-award-winning PBS special and educational program Why History Matters: the Choctaw Project. It is now possible to own a copy of Ray's acclaimed real life account of growing up in Jim Crow-era Alabama. See for yourself what all the excitement it about! Why History Matters: the Choctaw Project is available at www.CarlRaye.com -- $20.00 (includes shipping & handling). Parents should view this DVD with their children; every teacher with his or her students ... an important 75-minute lesson in Black History.Los Angeles Public Broadcasting Station KLCS-TV/DT created a set replicating the porch where Ray's father was murdered and the Alabama courtroom where the actual trial took place. They filled the courtroom with jurors and spectators, then studio taped Ray's live performance for airing on its program "Facing History and Ourselves" and for Los Angeles School District curriculum.
KLCS Channel 58 aired the film documentary and the play WHY HISTORY MATTERS: the Choctaw Project in October 2005. Subsequently, the program won several distinguished awards: * May 2006 Aurora Awards' "Platinum Best of Show" - the highest award for directing* May 2006 Videographer Awards' "Award of Excellence for Creativity in Cinematography"* March 2006 Silver Telly Award - the highest award for cultural programming* March 2006 Bronze Telly Award for achievement in set designThe New York Times ran a full feature story on "A Killing in Choctaw: the Power of Forgiveness" and commented on its significance for race dialogue in America. :: For interviews, press kits, invitations to lecture or perform his one-man play "A Killing in Choctaw," please contact Toni Beckham | 408-499-3664 | Toni @ PRetCetera.com :: To learn more of Carl Ray's fascinating story or his bi-annual Black College Tours, please visit www.carlraye.com/bctour.shtml.
Photodex Corporation Releases ProShow Gold 2.5, the Newest Version of Its Award Winning Slide Show Software for Photo Enthusiasts and Professionals.
Photodex Corporation today released ProShow Gold 2.5, the newest version of its award winning slide show software for photo enthusiasts and professionals.
ProShow Gold 2.5 allows users to easily and efficiently create quality multimedia slide show presentations to share with friends and family.
Slide motion effects, captions effects, over 280 quality transitions, and unmatched performance make ProShow Gold the industry leading tool for creating quality DVD, PC, and Web slide shows."ProShow Gold 2.5 is the next logical step in empowering consumers to get the most out of their computers and photos.
Even in the last year the industry has produced better digital camcorders, higher resolution digital cameras, and lower cost DVD writers.
ProShow Gold is an excellent way to get more value out of these new and exciting technological advancements," says Paul Schmidt, President, Photodex Corporation.Based on user requests and feedback, new enhancements in ProShow...
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DVDO iScan? HD+ Now Shipping ? High Resolution Video Scaling Engine
Building on the momentum from the award-winning iScan? HD, the iScan HD+ adds scaling of high definition sources (720p, 1080i), and HDCP support over DVI.
It utilizes Anchor Bay Technology's Precision Video Scaling? technology, and incorporates other digital video and audio technologies such as Automatic Chroma Upsampling Error Correction AutoCUE-C? and Precision AV Lipsync. The DVDO iScan? HD+ sets a new standard for upconverting, cross-converting and even downconverting all your video sources. Whether it's your VCR outputting 480i, your DVD player at 480p, or your Set-top-box at 720p or 1080i, the iScan? HD+ will scale the output to perfectly match the optimum resolution of your display - 720p, 1080i, or any user-defined resolution up to 1080p including many preset resolutions (1366 x 768, 1280 x 720, etc.) for popular projectors and display panels.
It is HDCP compliant over DVI, and also accepts your legacy 480i/480p analog sources.In addition to providing greatly...
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Legal Software Available In Spite of RIAA Battles
On February 11, 2005, a press release on the RIAA's web site stated a report that was submitted To the Federal Government detailing piracy problems in over 60 countries. This report identified countries whose protection of intellectual property is inadequate and proposes sanctions for the top priority countries. As stated on the riaa.com web site:"The report was submitted under a provision of trade law known as "Special 301" through which USTR identifies countries whose performance in the protection of intellectual property is inadequate. Identification under Special 301 can have a number of ramifications, and can lead to the imposition of sanctions (for countries identified as Priority Foreign Countries), the suspension of trade benefits under programs such as General System of Preferences, the initiation of disputes in the World Trade Organization or under other regional and/or bilateral agreements." Since the Napster decision in 2001, the internet has figured out a way to capitalize...
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ChillArt to be Distributed in the USA
(ContentDesk) November 12, 2005 -- ChillArt Ltd., a leading provider of ambient plasma art on DVDs and other media, announced today that due to popular demand it will distribute its new collection of ChillArt DVDs in the U.S.A., Canada and South America through ChillArt LLC from its new American headquarters near Boston, Massachusetts.ChillArt is a revolutionary experience in sound and vision;
an exciting new DVD collection which presents an anthology of beauty on film from exquisite places around the world, and provides real footage that creatively capture shape, form, contrast, sound, texture, color and movement.
The result is an enticing variety of amazing live paintings that fill a flat screen and enhance your mood.Divided into four themes:
earth, wind, fire and water, every one of the fourteen films on each DVD offers a unique journey to delight the senses and calm the soul.
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Costly Web Copy Pitfalls
One secret to a site that sells: Look at your site from your customer's perspective. Another secret: Watch out for these common web copy pitfalls. Welcome to?nothingLook at your site's web copy. Does it begin with "Welcome to??" If so, get rid of it. It means nothing.
It doesn't speak to your customers. It's just a waste of your customers' time and space. Rather than the worn out phrase, "Welcome to?" try a statement that captures the essence of your company, explaining it in terms that'll benefit your customers. Instead of "Welcome to Crazy Dave's CD Emporium," try "Crazy Dave's CD Emporium, where you can find quality CDs and crazy prices."Where do I go?If you track your site's metrics, look at your customers' paths. How many customers get past the home page? If it's less than desired, there might be a problem with your site's navigation.
If you're one of those people with mega-content sites, add an internal search to help your customers find there way. If you're a smaller...
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Alchemy Four produces an accessible and effective multimedia DVD to expand the market potential for Storage Tek?s new StreamLine (TM) SL8500 modular library system.
Longmont, Colorado (ContentDesk) March 17 2004--
Contracted by StorageTek (STK) to introduce the new StreamLine (TM) SL8500 to their global clientele, Alchemy Four produced an accessible and effective multimedia DVD that replaces the need to move the large modular library to each sales site.
Capturing the excitement about this new flagship product, the multimedia DVD uses technologically sophisticated design to introduce the technical points and sales details to each potential customer, and provides a platform from which to launch the pitch. Producing three distinctive videos, Alchemy Four supported STK's marketing goals concisely.
Principle photography took place on the STK campus, including ancillary material shot on HD in a controlled studio setting.
Composited on a computer animated background depicting an example datacenter, and utilizing an original soundtrack and voice-over track the three videos, on DVD, is unified in the singular purpose of...
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MP3 Downloading Zone Announces Upgrades to It's Service
MP3 Downloading Zone, the best place to download music on the web, has gotten even better. A recently expanded members' area, upgraded servers and new software allows MP3 Downloading to give you an unparalleled music experience. MP3 Downloading is introducing three must have software programs to help you add convenience, improve the quality of and manage your MP3 collections. DVD-Shrink, MP3 Shield and DeepBurner are all offered as a free bonus to our valued members and will revolutionize the way you do MP3.DVD-Shrink allows you to save your downloaded movies to either DVD or CD-R. This is a great tool that allows you to easily save your downloads to DVD or CD-R for viewing with family and friends.
MP3 Shield solves the problem of inadvertently downloading corrupt files. If you have ever downloaded a file only to find out that it is corrupt after you have downloaded, you know the frustration, well, with MP3 Shield and you will never again encounter that problem. DeepBurner solves...
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CD Backup Made Easy
Today, CD Writers are very common and CDRs and CDRWs are cheaper than ever. While most people use their CD Writers to create music CDs or to copy files, CD-R and CD-RWs can also be to store backups in an easy way. A normal CD can store 650MBs of data. This number can often be doubled to 1.3GB using an efficient compression algorithm. Since most backups are often smaller than 1.3GBs this makes CDRs or CDRWs a perfect solution for storing backups.
CompressionIn order to use the CD media more efficiently you will probably want to compress your backup before writing it to the CD. Compression can often reduce the size of a backup by 50% or more, doubling the capacity of your CDs. If you have ever tried to compress a 1GB file you probably know that this will take a lot of time. Since WinBackup compresses files on-the-fly, backup operations will be performed considerably faster. The built-in compression also reduces the need for a large temporary storage location and makes it much easier...
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How To Clean A Coffee Maker
Ever wonder how to clean a coffee maker the right way? Drip coffee makers need to be cleaned at least once a month to keep your coffee tasting good.Cleaning your coffee maker takes away hard water deposits, old oils from previously brewed pots and other impurities that can make your coffee taste bad.A mixture of 1 part vinegar to 2 parts water is the best way to clean a drip coffee maker. Mix a full pot of the vinegar and water mixture, pour it in your water reservoir and turn the coffee maker...
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Online Degrees: Stay Home and Get Smarter
We all know that an education can improve your standing in life. A college degree can increase your opportunity to enjoy a better standard of living, and also bring you career fulfillment. But what if you don't have the time or ability to quit your job and go to college full time?Many busy people choose to attend night classes on a part time basis. While this is a good solution, it can take many years to earn a degree this way. Plus, you have to take the classes when and where the college offers...
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Cost-Effective Ideas from Los Angeles Business Card Printing
Owners of small or big businesses, managers and heads of companies and even officers of social organizations eventually avail of business card printing services. Why? It is a well known fact that business cards are important advertising tools getting you recognition above other competitors. Once distributed depending on its paper and design quality, business cards maintain in the prospective client's hands. Do you and your company need business cards printed out for distribution among your clients?...
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How To Sell Santa?s Slip-Ups
Shoppers spent more than $15.5 billion this Christmas on gifts on the Internet alone. Just imagine how many millions went to unwanted polka dot sweaters, electric nose hair clippers, and thigh masters. That wasted cash piled up under the Christmas tree. We've all had it happen to us. In fact, you had it happen to you this year.
You unwrapped the pretty red bow and tore through the shiny paper on that present from your Uncle Mortie, and immediately, you had to put on your best poker face.How...
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Electric Scooter Parts
Electric scooters are mostly used for transportation in places where gas-powered scooters are prohibited. The main working parts of an electric scooter include a rechargeable lead-acid battery of suitable capacity measured in volt-amp-hours, and an electric drive motor of desired watts and RPM. The vehicle speed depends on the battery capacity (A/hrs), physical size and weight.
Generally positioned beneath the foot rest area, the charging time of a battery varies with the battery...
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