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I'm asking if you can do a favor for me and in the process help a very worthy organization.  I'm a board member and supporter of N.O.T.E., the National Organization for Transplant Enlightenment.  An easy way to help N.O.T.E. is through a new Yahoo!-powered search engine and online shopping mall called GoodSearch.com.  The more people who use this site means more money will go to those in need. 

What if N.O.T.E. earned a penny every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support transplant recipients ? Well, now it can!
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charity its user designates. Use it just as you would any search engine and get quality search results from Yahoo.

GoodShop.com is a new online shopping mall which donates up to 37 percent of each purchase to your designated cause. Hundreds of great stores including Amazon, Target, Gap, Best Buy, ebay, Macy's and Barnes & Noble have teamed up with GoodShop.  Every time you place an order, you’ll be supporting N.O.T.E.
Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter N.O.T.E. as the charity you want to support. 

Please help me spread the word to your friends and family.

You can also read about GoodSearch in the NY Times, Oprah Magazine, CNN, ABC News and the Wall Street Journal.

Thank you so much for your help.

Cathy Straka

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MOBILE PRODUCTION VEHICLE (MPV) LAUNCHED BY STYLIST SHELLEY RUSH

Mobile 40’ Hair & Make Up Trailer Owned by Professional Image Consultants

 Tampa, FL  – April 23, 2008 – Shelley Rush, Owner and President of PROFESSIONAL IMAGE CONSULTANTS (PIC), announces that the wheels are rolling on the 40-foot Mobile Production Vehicle (MPV) now available for television, film and other location productions.  “We recognized the market need for a complete mobile production vehicle while working on countless onsite and in-studio tv and film productions,” stated Shelley who has an acclaimed 15-year career in professional make-up artistry.

 Shelley is noted as a leader in her industry having built a team of nearly two dozen licensed hair and make-up artists working under her PIC banner. Providing services for clients to include film, television and a 24-hour network shopping facility, Shelley has a reputation for maintaining high quality and artist consistency in a business that operates on tough deadlines and often in less than ideal settings.

 “We’ve definitely met our challenges in the application of beautiful make-up in cramped, high-traffic areas,” laughs Shelley who admits she’s finished many a production dreaming of a Los Angeles-quality, professional make-up trailer. “Now we have it!” she adds.

 The 40-foot long trailer is beautifully appointed with 13 foot ceilings and includes a lounge area, full kitchen for craft services, complete bathroom with shower, and separate production office. Beauty services are provided in a 12’ x 8’ salon with two make-up stations and a sink and has state-of-the-art creature comforts that include 3 flat screen Sat-Televisions and Mobile Internet “Hotspot”. The unit is completely self-supporting with a 5500 Kilowatt generator, 100 gallons of fresh water and provides comfort and privacy in a one-stop production facility for talent.

“The Florida production community will welcome this production support facility,” says

Director Al Footnick who often hires Shelley for high-profile productions.  “Often the talent is forced to sit outside or find space on a crowded set. The PIC vehicle will enable producers to allocate a specific and professionally designed area for hair and make-up in a fully contained unit that will keep them fresh and ready and equally important – in one place.”

Shelley and Professional Image Consultants are planning to roll out at least two more Mobile Production Vehicles (MPV) this year in Florida with future expansion throughout the Southeast.

 For an online tour visit www.PROF-IMAGE.COM or call 727/725-7771.

 Media Contact: Terri Hartman 813/767-7915 Terri@hartmanmediagroup.com
Guy Balson
Film Commission Manager

Dear friends,
We just received our first large shipment of 2007-2008 production guides. If you would like one, please e-mail me your name and address so that I can easily copy and paste it onto a shipping label, and I will mail you one immediately.
Guy Balson
Film Commission Manager

St. Petersburg/Clearwater Area
Convention & Visitors Bureau
13805 58th Street North, Suite 2-200 • Clearwater, Florida 33760
P: 727.464.7241 • E: Guy@FloridasBeachFilm.com
F: 727.464.7277 • W: www.FloridasBeachFilm.com
 
Home to Fort De Soto Park • America’s #1  Beach • 2005
Home to Caladesi Island • America’s #2 Beach • 2007
NEWS RELEASE

Media Concepts, Inc., announces the new DV Crane II. It is in stock and looks great. Jib arm extends from 61" to 92" from tripod center. New design allows mounting directly to the sticks, no head needed. Extending the arm is much easier than the previous model. No more pulleys and wires. Just loosen the locking knobs and extend to whatever length you need.

Setup is quick and easy and can be done by one person in just a few minutes. An arm at the back of the jib allows for manual tilting or the ability to lock the camera in position. Weight limit is about 8 lbs. Media Concepts is offering a package with the DV Crane II and a Bogen tripod base for $995.00.
For more information contact Rick Smith at Media Concepts, Inc. mcijvc@tampabay.rr.com
JGS is pleased to announce its new HD Services Bureau:
SONY HDCAM
SONY HDV 1080i
PANASONIC HD-100
PANASONIC P-2 card reader and ingest
Loading and renting firewire drives for any SD or HD format of your choice
Outputting any of the above or SD from your drives
Down conversions, Up conversions and Cross conversions from most HD
and SD formats
CLOSED CAPTIONING
Blu-Ray authoring / output / dubs, etc.
HD production crew with New PANASONIC HPX-500 HD Camera (tapeless)
Final Cut HD Studio 5.1 w/ our award winning editor

SD & Other Services
SONY DVW-700 Digital Beta 4:3
We also have a 12 by 12 green screen and 1500 s/f insert stage.  
AVID Media Composer
Webfiles, “name your bandwith and Codec!
All types of Podcasts too.

We look forward to serving your ongoing production needs at any stage or
phase of the project.

Of course all of our usual tape based duplication and DVD/CD & printing services are
alive and well. No one offers more formats or options for the professional training/marketing and commercial spot market.

Jay Gross
JGS Media Services
10781 75th Street
Largo, Florida 33777
727-546-7900  (Main)
727-546-8640 (FAX)
800-874-8466 (Toll Free)
www.jgsmediaservices.com
The New Smyrna Museum of History had a grand opening on November 11, 2006. The museum was completly redesigned from the ground up with a new exhibit on the Turnbull Colony. Silver Image Interactive, Inc. was responsible for all of the media associated with the new exhibit.
After nine months of research, scripting and production, Silver Image Interactive, Inc. gave the story life with eight videos and an interactive touch screen program. Newly acquired research materials updated older information and brought the historical interpretation into greater accuracy.
The interpretation begins with a video introduction presented on a 42" plasma display. Visitors sit while they are introduced to the largest British attempt to colonize North America at any one time. A brief history of the political climate at that time (1763) helps set the stage for the rest of the story.
As the visitors walk farther into the exhibit, another video describes how settlers were gathered from Greece, Italy and Minorca. They left their countries, their homes and families to begin an adventure in the New World. Eight ships crossed the stormy Atlantic with 1403 settlers. They arrived with 1,255 people. Silver Image used digital state of the art players to visualize story.
Visitors see a representation of the ships as they arrive in New Smyrna in 1768.
Interactive station allows visitors to interact, read and hear in detail different elements of the story. Visitors can spend up to thirty minutes with the touch screen program that describes “Life, Labor and the Land” that the settlers experienced at the New Smyrna site.
The next program is a fourteen-minute video presented on a 42" plasma display and synchronized with lights on a fourteen-foot, three-dimensional map of the original site. This interpretation allows visitors to see the complexities and the amounting problems facing the settlers and their leader, Dr. Andrew Turnbull. The series of programs help provide a look at the conditions of weather, harsh living conditions, lack of food, political unrest and the settlers’ difficulties in taming this wild Florida land.
The next video program is displayed on an LCD monitor from a digital player that provides the audio portion to handsets or, if desired, speakers for group tours.
It is the culmination and realization that all of the efforts and work spent over eight years was soon coming to an unhappy end with the few remaining settlers eventually leaving New Smyrna and moving to St. Augustine.
Through all of the hardships, the people were resilient and the series of programs brings that fact to life.    Once filled with hope and promise of a New World, they left their unfortunate circumstances, only to find that their destination would also be filled with struggles. Yet, they worked as indentured servants, trying to make a success out of this land. They learned new trades, learned to live in harsh conditions and found that they were a strong and determined people.
The final video kiosk has three different sets of video interviews with over forty minutes of interviews from local descendants of the original settlers.
This exhibit brings the story of the settlers from the Mediterranean to a level where visitors can see and hear, to the best of history’s resources, the most up-to-date and accurate account of the life and fate of the New Smyrna settlers.
The fate of the Minorcan settlers may have had an unfortunate outcome, but their descendants continue to live on in St. Augustine and some in New Smyrna.
A Minorcan proverb that survived over these last three hundred years states,
“In darkness God gives you strength.  In light, you have your own.”
Merrily Miller and David Rosenblatt of Silver Image Interactive, Inc took the media portion of this exhibit from concept to final form in a little over six months.
For more information contact Merrily or David at 727-251-4114 or info@silverimageinteractive.com

Silver Image Interactive, Inc.