Font Generator - Make Your Own Handwriting Font With Your Fonts

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:05:48 +0000

YourFonts.com is an online font generator that allows you to create your own OpenType fonts within a couple of minutes.

Your own handwriting turned into your very own font
Create fonts with more than 200 characters
Optionally include your signature and digitally sign your contracts
You’ll have your very own font within 15 minutes
Preview your font for free
Make as many fonts as you like
Use your fonts on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux
Personalize your digital scrapbook pages and invitations
Make your own “family handwriting history”
Use your fonts in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and every program that you own
Just $9.95 (plus $5.00 if you upload both template pages) - only purchase if you’re satisfied!

Evernote - Capture Everything, Access Anywhere, Find Things Fast

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:45:26 +0000

Capture everything.
Chances are, if you can see it or think of it, Evernote can help you remember it. Type a text note. Clip a web page. Snap a photo. Grab a screenshot. Evernote will keep it all safe.

Organize it.
Everything you capture is automatically processed, indexed, and made searchable. If you like, you can add tags or organize notes into different notebooks.

Find anything fast.
Search for notes by keywords, titles, and tags. Evernote magically makes printed and handwritten text inside your images searchable, too.

Help yourself remember everything!

Dropbox - Syncs Your Files Online and Across Your Computers.

admin — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:31:40 +0000

Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers.
Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they’ll be instantly available on any of your other computers that you’ve installed Dropbox on (Windows, Mac, and Linux too!) Because a copy of your files are stored on Dropbox’s secure servers, you can also access them from any computer or mobile device using the Dropbox website.

With Dropbox, your files are always in sync.
Let’s say you’re editing a document at home. As soon as you click ‘Save’, Dropbox will sync this same file to all your other computers (and now your mobile devices!) instantly and automatically. It’s as if you saved the document to all of your computers. This gives you the freedom to work on any of your computers and always have the files you need.

Dropbox lets you share files easily.
You can easily share entire folders or photo albums with Dropbox. Simply put the folders you want to share in your Dropbox, and invite people to them. You can also send people links to specific files within your Dropbox. This makes Dropbox perfect for team projects.

With Dropbox, online backup is automatic.
Any file you put into your Dropbox folder is automatically backed up to the dropbox.com servers. Even if your computer has a melt-down, your files are safe on Dropbox and can be restored at any time. While the free 2GB account is perfect for backing up your documents, Dropbox offers larger accounts (up to 100GB) for backing up your music and video collections.

Dropbox lets you go back in time to undelete or undo changes to files.
Every time you save a file in Dropbox, Dropbox syncs it to our secure servers. Dropbox keeps a history of every change you make so that you can undo any mistakes and even undelete files. By default, we keep 30 days of history for all your files. We also have an unlimited undo option called “Pack-rat”.

Dropbox replaces:

Emailing file attachments to yourself and other people
Using USB drives to move files between computers
Renaming files to keep a history of previous versions
Complicated backup software and hardware
And more!

Sync your files online and across computers with Dropbox. 2GB account is free!

Incorporate a BC Company

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 14:57:12 +0000

Canada Media Fund (CMF)

admin — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 21:11:32 +0000

The Canada Media Fund is a not-for-profit corporation that supports content creation for television and other digital platforms. This year, the CMF will deliver 350M$ in funding. Through the Experimental Stream, the CMF will encourage the development of leading-edge, interactive, digital media content and software applications. Through the Convergent Stream, the CMF will support the creation of innovative, convergent television and digital media content for consumption by Canadians anytime, anywhere.

http://www.cmf-fmc.ca/index.php?&page_mode=create#

B.C. Boosts Film Production Tax Credits

admin — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:31:57 +0000

February 4, 2010 - VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government announced Wednesday changes to the provincial tax credit system that gives the video game industry its first major tax credit and sweetens B.C.’s labour tax credit for the film and television industry.

The credits, announced by Finance Minister Colin Hansen and Kevin Krueger, Minister for Tourism, Culture and the Arts, provide for a new BC Interactive Digital Media tax credit of 17.5 per cent of labour costs in the development of video games. It also sweetens the labour tax credit for foreign producers, raising it to 33 per cent from 25 per cent. The qualified labour expenditure cap rises from 48 to 60 per cent, and the digital animation and visual effects tax credit rises 2.5 per cent, from 15 to 17.5 per cent.

Aside from raising the labour cap, there was no improvement for indigenous film producers making Canadian projects.

The changes, subject to approval by the legislature, would apply to productions with principal photography beginning after Feb. 28 of this year. The Interactive Media tax credit applies to video game development projects that begin after Aug. 31, 2010.

The B.C. film and television industry employs more than 20,000 people and production spending in 2008 was worth $1.2 billion. Figures for 2009 have not been released.

SOURCE: http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/increases+film+production+credit/2518958/story.html

Later Hours of Liquor Service for Vancouver Restaurants | CONTACT ME FOR ASSISTANCE WITH APPLICATIONS AND COMPLIANCE

admin — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:42:41 +0000

Hours of Liquor Service for Food Primary Licensed Establishments (Restaurants)

On October 8, 2009, Council approved a bylaw amendment establishing new regulations for Food Primary licensed establishments. Under the new regulations, licensees may apply for a permanent amendment to their hours of liquor service, as outlined in this section.

View the agenda and minutes of the October 8th meeting, including a video of the proceedings.

» New Regulations
» Application Process
» Contacts

New Regulations

Hours of liquor service

The bylaw amendment establishes the following hours of liquor service in restaurants:
- 1 am closing time Sunday through Thursday; and
  2 am closing time Friday and Saturday
A half-hour tolerance period, after which drinks must be removed from tables, applies.
Restaurants that have existing closing times later than 1 am on weekdays and 2 am on weekends must adopt the new closing times by December 31, 2009.

New Operating Regulations

The bylaw amendment establishes the following new operating regulations:
- During all hours of allowable liquor service, restaurants must offer the full restaurant menu to customers;
- During all hours of allowable liquor service, restaurants must ensure that at least 50% of sales at the restaurant in any eight hour period are for food; and
- Restaurants must keep sales receipts for all sales of food and liquor for at least one year, and show them to the Inspector upon request.

Consolidated Business Licence Classifications

The bylaw amendment consolidates business licence requirements for licensed restaurants.
Licensed restaurants no longer need both a Dining Lounge and Restaurant (Class 1 or Class 2) business licence. Now, licensed restaurants only need either a Restaurant Class 1 with Liquor business licence, or, for those that offer patron participation entertainment (such as dancing and/or karaoke), a Restaurant Class 2 with Liquor business licence.

Increased Business Licence Fees

The bylaw amendment increases the 2010 business licence fee for licensed restaurants by $3.00 per seat, and by a 4% inflationary increase.
The 2010 business licence fees for a Restaurant Class 1 or 2 with Liquor are as follows:
- New licence: $686.00 plus $8.00 per seat
- Renewal: $636.00 plus $8.00 per seat
The new fees will appear on the 2010 business licence renewal forms

Application Process

The following is the application process for a permanent amendment to the hours of liquor service in Food Primary licensed establishments.

Guidelines

Step	Agency/Licensee	Action
1	Licensee	Complete and submit City of Vancouver (COV) and Liquor Control and Licensing Branch (LCLB) permanent change of hours application forms along with the appropriate COV application fee to the Licence Office.
2	City of Vancouver	Staff will inform the Licensee the requirements of the public notification process, as per Provincial requirements, which will include site signage.
3	Licensee	To provide the City of Vancouver two photographs indicating the wording and the location on the site of the signage erected.
4	City of Vancouver	Staff will review public comments received, sign Part 16 of the LCLB permanent change application form and provide comments to the General Manager of LCLB on the application. Staff will then notify Licensee that signed LCLB application form is ready to be picked up.
5	Licensee	Picks up signed LCLB application form from COV office and submit, with appropriate fees, to the LCLB Victoria Office. Third party operators cannot complete and sign this form.
6	LCLB	Processes application per current policy and approves or refuses applications as required.
7	LCLB	Advises the Licensee and the COV of their decision.

Application Forms

The operator must complete the City of Vancouver application form and submit to the Licence Office, along with a completed Provincial application form (PDF, 263KB).

Application Fee

Submit $75 application processing fee to the Licence Office along with the required application forms.

Site Signage

A site sign, notifying the public of the application, must be posted in the window of the licensed establishment for 14 days. The sign must conform to size, shape and lettering indicated on the Sign Advertisement Format (PDF, 12KB).

Contacts

Licence Coordinator at 604.871.6461, or Assistant to Licence Coordinator at 604.873.7954.

Liquor Policy Staff at 604.871.6659 or 604.871.6988.

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Questions or Comments? E-mail: licenseoffice@vancouver.ca

Motion Brought to Vancouver City Council to “Encourage and Expand Performance Venues”

admin — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:09:57 +0000

MOTION ON NOTICE

Encourage and Expand Performance Venues

Moved by: Councillor Heather Deal

WHEREAS a thriving creative sector is vital to the continuing economic and cultural
success of Vancouver, and

WHEREAS live performance venues for music, theatre, literary, visual and media arts
make up a part of that creative sector, and

WHEREAS Vancouver has the highest percentage of its workforce in cultural industries
among Canadian city-regions, and

WHEREAS local artists and entrepreneurs face a variety of challenges in opening and
operating performance venues including (but not limited to) fire code and building
codes, liquor license by-laws, zoning restrictions and start-up costs, and

WHEREAS many of these challenges are identified in the Cultural Facilities Priorities
Plan,

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

A. City Council direct staff, in consultation with the Cultural Facilities Advisory

Team, to convene a Round Table to provide advice on;
• Opportunities and options for enabling the creation and sustainable
operation of live performance venues,
• Current barriers to the creation and operation of live performance venues;
• Solutions to address the barriers for the creation of performance spaces in
nontraditional venues and locations (art galleries, retail stores, etc.)
• Potential impact of liquor by-laws and Special Occasion Licenses on
performance venues and suggestions for requested changes to liquor by-
laws,

B. Council direct staff to consult relevant City departments to identify base life-
safety standards, issues/barriers and recommended solutions for enabling the
development of live performance venues, in particular small and medium sized
independently owned venues, and

C. Staff report back to Council by the 2009 summer break with a plan for
implementation of recommendations based on A and B above, including
immediate actions.

http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/cclerk/20090505/regu20090505ag.htm

Client Bill of Rights (adapted from New York State Bar)

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:00:10 +0000

You are entitled to be treated with courtesy and consideration at all times by your lawyer and the other lawyers and personnel in your lawyer’s office.
You are entitled to an attorney capable of handling your legal matter competently and diligently, in accordance with the highest standards of the profession. If you are not satisfied with how your matter is being handled, you have the right to withdraw from the attorney-client relationship at any time (court approval may be required in some matters and your attorney may have a claim against you for the value of services rendered to you up to the point of discharge).
You are entitled to your lawyer’s independent professional judgment and undivided loyalty uncompromised by conflicts of interest.
You are entitled to be charged a reasonable fee and to have your lawyer explain at the outset how the fee will be computed and the manner and frequency of billing. You are entitled to request and receive a written itemized bill from your attorney at reasonable intervals. You may refuse to enter into any fee arrangement that you find unsatisfactory. In the event of a fee dispute, you may have the right to seek arbitration; your attorney will provide you with the necessary information regarding arbitration in the event of a fee dispute, or upon your request.
You are entitled to have your questions and concerns addressed in a prompt manner and to have your telephone calls returned promptly.
You are entitled to be kept informed as to the status of your matter and to request and receive copies of papers. You are entitled to sufficient information to allow you to participate meaningfully in the development of your matter.
You are entitled to have your legitimate objectives respected by your attorney, including whether or not to settle your matter.
You have the right to privacy in your dealings with your lawyer and to have your secrets and confidences preserved to the extent permitted by law.
You are entitled to have your attorney conduct himself or herself ethically in accordance with the applicabe Code of Professional Responsibility.
You may not be refused representation on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin or disability.

Granville Street Closure: Public Opinion Survey

admin — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:25:14 +0000

Many local businesses and people attending the Entertainment District have responded positively to the Granville street closures and will suggest that the street closure be extended south to Davie Street. Take the confidential survey before September 12, 2008 HERE