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Sep282018 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Academy Awards Neglected Actresses

Featured, Movies

This is not meant as a definitive list and does not include any who are active today. Lillian Gish (1893-1993) Had the Oscars been created in 1915 or 1920, there is little doubt that Lillian Gish would have won one or more statuettes. As it was, by the time of the first Oscar ceremony in 1929, her career as a leading lady was mostly over and she spent the next sixty years playing mainly supporting roles in film or acting on stage or in radio and television. Nevertheless, she was nominated for, but lost, best supporting actress for her role in Duel in the Sun (1946) and arguably deserved consideration for her work in The Night of the Hunter (1955), The Unforgiven (1960), The Comedians (1967), and her last role in The Whales of August (1987). She was given an Honorary Award by t...

Sep282018 by Carol JamesNo Comments

How to Secure Your Business

Business, Featured

Securing your business means preparing it for worst-case scenarios, and ensuring that you’ve got plans for any problems you face. It’s your responsibility to ensure that you’re never caught totally unawares by issues and problems that could have been prevented or mitigated, and as such a guide such as the one provided below should prove invaluable for business leaders looking to protect their business from occasional periods of instability. Listed below are four key criteria with which the security and stability of your business will be guaranteed, should you take the right steps. Legal Some businesses are undone by legal disputes that quickly eat up the company’s reserve cash. These disaster scenarios happen more often than you’d expect, and contravention of business law can be a s...

Sep272018 by Paul Linus1 Comment

Guide to car painting – spray painting, cracked clearcoat, kolor

Automobiles, Featured

Paint is essentially a mixture of binders, resins and pigments. It’s the pigments that give the paint its color and the rest to bind it all together. The usual paint on a production car is what is termed one Pac, which uses a basecoat and a clear coat together. The term Pac, or Pak, or PK, comes from the German words for paint components. That’s why the most often used aftermarket paint is called two Pac – it is a base color plus a clear coat that goes on top. House of Kolor Then there are the really serious paints, such as the House of Kolor, which has hundreds of different finishes that can be layered in any order or way to achieve a unique appearance. Here’s an example of how serious it gets - paint experts measure paint thickness in microns. On a standard everyday car t...

Sep272018 by Gaurav PrabhakarNo Comments

How New-Age Technologies Help Financial Companies Overcome Challenges

Featured, Finance

The financial institutions have been facing several challenges over the past few years – many of which revolve around competing with non-traditional innovators, restoring public confidence in the industry, and working in new economic circumstances after the financial crisis. One of the main reasons why the financial sector is facing multiple challenges is that they are still using old technology and following traditional trends. But managing risk and opportunity is what the financial industry knows very well. With the rise of Fintech in the digital world, financial institutions need to adopt new-age technologies and delight consumers with enhanced banking experiences. But before we talk more about these advanced technologies, let’s find out some of the major challenges the financial ind...

Sep252018 by Paul LinusNo Comments

Music brief: Paul Henry Smith, his digital orchestra in the making

Featured, Music

Imagine a composer who has just polished off the score for a major orchestral work. It looks good on paper, but where can this composer rustle up a string section, a couple of horns, winds and the timpani in order to bring his creation to life? This is where Paul Henry Smith and his Fauxharmonic Orchestra step in to the rescue. Using a digital orchestra, Smith turns a score or MIDI file into a full recording. Once the recording is drafted, a composer is offered the opportunity to review and request changes. And since each score is kept on file forever, the composer can come back and rewrite or add any part to the recording, even years after the original recording was made. The Fauxharmonic Orchestra: Digital Technology Making It Easy to Record Orchestral Compositions Smith not...

Sep92018 by Paul LinusNo Comments

A Brief About French National Cinema

Featured, Movies

Culture French national cinema and the cultures it has developed have existed within many particular subject matters and trends over many decades. These subjects and trends cover a wide range of topics from World War II and heritage films to questioning masculinity. French films also declare a palatable and selective approach towards cinematography and style which compliments each of the aforementioned popular domestic influences. World War II The article will discuss the extent to which French filmmakers have been able to create a distinctive national cinema using World War II as their subject matter. The article looks at the fall of the Gaullist political ideology in particular during the mid seventies. The main focus is on how some French filmmakers have perceived the Gaull...