Avatar 3D on Panasonic HDTV (click or larger image)
There is nothing in home theatre that compares with the excitement of watching a 3D movie.
Your next TV may be a 3D capable set, despite the naysayers in the media.
3D picture quality is superb and active 3D glasses are no longer a barrier to the 3D effect. Continue reading
When you subsidize an organization, it has no reason to be competitive. That’s the CBC.They are not really trying to keep up with the times.
The CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards is a great idea to promote Canadian talent. Unfortunately Radio 3 don’t have the time or initiative to make their web page compatible with mobile devices that most of the audience use. Continue reading
22 Minutes Movember contest - Olivia Chow with what's his name (photo Facebook)
I was splitting my sides laughing after this week’s episode of 22 Minutes
The show is getting funnier despite being in its thousandth season. Eat your heart out Carl Reiner.
Flushed with optimism, I jumped on my computer and entered their Facebook Movember contest.
It’s one of those crazy things you do for fun not the prize. Grow a mustache and take your picture. Continue reading
PBS Guthrie Theatre HMS Pinafore
HMS Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan’s most popular and comedic operetta, kicks off the fall season at PBS today.
The satiric comment on British mores for pomp circumstance and class idiocy gets a broad and bawdy performance by the company at the Guthrie Theatre.
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Living in the Material World
UPEI Professor Sean Hennessey, working for Tourism Research Centre at UPEI or himself?
The rising scandal of fraud at UPEI has retiring President Wade MacLauchlan sending in his chief janitor Gary Bradshaw to sweep it under the carpet.
Allegations of fraud have been made about the operations of the Tourism Research Centre at UPEI in a letter to the Canada Revenue Agency.
According to the letter (ATL) and statements in the PEI Legislature, the husband of the Dean of the School of Business set up a shadow to defraud the government and or UPEI.
Using that company he was able, through a connection in the Department of Tourism, to divert funds that should have gone to UPEI and to obtain duplicate payments for himself. Continue reading
In a story entitled Ebert closes TED conference with emotional talk – and a laugh, CNN secretly calls the moment at the TED conference “ugly.”
Thanks CNN for perpetuating the discrimination against people with disabilities as “ugly” when they look different.
How do I know? Check out the original title for the story which is found in the permalink – roger-ebert-closes-ted-conference-on-ugly-note
That’s what Richard Galant, the writer who set the story up in WordPress, called his draft. Then he published the story with that ugly title. Continue reading
Dharma auditions for Bob Dylan's band in 1999 segment of Greg and Dharma
The episode from Greg and Dharma is called Play Lady Play. Greg plays the know-it-all who misses seeing Bob Dylan because he dismisses Dharma’s band as inconsequential.
Dylan plays straight man, accompanied by T Bone Burnett and other musicians.
The cameo by Dylan was unannounced and surprised viewers back in 1999.
As usual, the YouTube copy has been taken down. The German language version follows the story break.
Dharma & Bob from dagb on Vimeo.
CBC and The Star falsify tax costs for 'the story' - click for larger graph
In the rush to get a headline, both CBC and The Star have resorted to distorting the facts about companies who help Canadians with disabilities.
When the basic facts in a story are wrong, how can we rely on the rest of the story for balanced reporting?
The truth behind the Disability Tax Credit is the real scandal. Continue reading
Nodar Kumaritashvili, died on dangerous luge track in Vancouver officials ignored warning
The death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Muaritashvili may have been preventable according to secret emails uncovered by the CBC.
Vancouver Olympic organizers (VANOC) were warned long in advance that the track was too dangerous and too fast.
In March 2009, VANOC head John Furlong wrote “Embedded in this note (cryptic as it may be) is a warning that the track is in their view too fast and someone could get badly hurt. An athlete gets badly injured or worse, and I think the case could be made we were warned and did nothing.” CBC Continue reading
Disability Tax Credit is only worth $1,000 and less than 40% of taxpayers who qualify get it (illustration Stephen Pate)
Stories this week in the Toronto Star and on CBC Investigative Reports mislead the public into believing the cost of the Tax Credit is spiraling out of control at $5.9 billion annually.
The truth that the DTC costs taxpayers $415 million, 7% of the CBC report. Neither media would correct their stories.
Less than 40% of Canadians with disabilities who qualify are able to get past the gate keepers at the Canada Revenue Agency.
See - Dispelling the myths about controversial Disability Tax Credit
The CBC and Star purport to be running an expose of National Benefit Authority, a company which helps the disabled get their deductions. More about that later.
Both stories are full of whopping distortions. We emailed the reporters with the facts but they did not correct their stories. Continue reading