Ask not what your planet can do for you…

Even before the summer heat wave arrived the environment was in the media again. In June, Premier Dalton McGuinty subsidized the automotive industry with $650 million to investigate green cars. Around the same time, Mayor David Miller spruced up his plans – pun intended – for a greener Toronto, and all Ontario schools received a free copy of Al Gore’s hard-hitting documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth’. A short time later, the Ontario government announced its commitment to match the federal government’s energy-saving rebate program, making homeowners eligible for up to $10,000 for their home efficiency efforts. This was an appealing incentive for Ontarians who were being challenged to meet McGuinty’s ambitious 2020 environmental targets, which require a 30 per cent improvement in efficiency. Clearly, there was the political will, but the way remained a mystery,

Ontarians were taking a keen interest to increase their knowledge around environmental issues. More importantly, they were also taking action by incorporating reusable canvas bags into their shopping routines, replacing standard light bulbs with CFC light bulbs, cycling to work and more. But, even for the keenest of wannabe environmentalists there were no tangible solutions between Al Gore’s “ten things to do [to help stop global warming]” and high level dreams of wind turbines and solar farms.

Only the voice of an altruistic upstart Ontario company, EnWise Power Solutions, presented a solution that would not only educate southern Ontario homeowners, it would turn their education into action. Like similar companies, it offered a ‘home energy audit’ that demonstrated in just 60 minutes where and how energy was being wasted. However, only EnWise went beyond this by introducing a truly turnkey solution, offering homeowners best-in-class recommendations to counter energy inefficiencies, installed those solutions, and even provided financing if homeowners want to fast-track their environmentalism beyond their current means. Homeowners now have access to an easy and affordable solution which can also get them up to $10,000 in those government rebates – another reason why now, a season later, EnWise remains in the words of its CEO, Peter Hwang, “…the only company in Ontario providing a convenient solution to an inconvenient truth.”

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Panini: "Star" EP

A1 Beats mimicked from Donna Summer's 1970s/80s disco "I Feel Love" given a housey update with sharp string stabs and a wandering string melody. A dreamy, slightly urgent, quizzical progressive house track is the result.

A2 Emptier dubbier version given a breakbeat, truncated vocal sample but little else, and never quite seems to get going as a result.

B1 Fuller version with complete, although debatable, female vocal and piano highlights with stronger strings to support.

B2 Probably the best of all the other three into one track. Teasing, gradual build from the start uses flanged vocal loops rather than the whole lyric, strings are used almost as improv but there's enough balance between the Donna Summer bassline and a better, funkier beat. Mainly instrumental but a good, curious, toe-tapping house builder all in all.

Label:	Not On Label
Catalog#:	FRUG 4
Format:	Vinyl, 12"
Country:	?
Released:
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	House, Trance
Notes:
Rating:	3.0/5 (1 vote)
Submitted by:	elisel

Tracklisting:

A1		Untitled
A2		Untitled
B1		Untitled
B2		Untitled

You've got...the same again but with a new title

Movie review of "You've Got Mail".
Published on facebook.com, 6th May 2007.

When Harry Met Sally is a classic rom-com.

Sleepless in Seattle was entertaining. By the time of this movie the Hanks & Ryan partnership had become formulaic for me, and I was longing to see Ryan in something other than a cheeseball romantic comedy. Besides, it's difficult not to be distracted by Ryan's ever-enlarging trout pout, and the genuine statistical likelihood of her lips actually popping like bubblegum in an out-take.

This is just a more-of-the-same, cheesy, mushy, will they/won't they cuddly christmas movie with the inevitable happy ending. To be honest, I'd have liked this better if Ryan, Hanks, or both of them had been crushed under a massive pile of books or run over by an amazon.com truck at the end, just to make it a bit twisted. No such luck though. Maybe there'll be a pornographic one later, "You've Got Male"...

Hadi Mahabadi, VP & centre manager, Xerox Research Centre of Canada (XRCC)

Sorry to hear that you are leaving Xerox. I and I am sure most of XRCC staff that know and worked with you are missing you. I appreciate your efforts and your contributions to XRCC and therefore to Xerox PR which were very valuable.

Thanks a lot and wish you the best in next job and beyond.

Hadi

Sasha & John Digweed: "Renaissance: The Mix Collection" DJ mix CDx3

Over ten years on and it's still probably the best mix CD I've ever heard.

Three mixes of Leftfield's "Song of Life" in a row? Inspired. It also includes one of my favourite tracks of all time (Moonchild's "Variations on a Theme"). If house music ever had to be represented by one album alone, I would choose this as the ambassador. Sublime stuff. Get it, buy it, steal it, rip it if you don't have it already.

Label:	Renaissance
Catalog#:	RENMIX1CD
Format:	3 x CD, Mixed
Country:	UK
Released:	14 Oct 1994
Genre:	Electronic
Style:	Progressive House, Progressive Trance
Credits:	DJ Mix - Sasha & John Digweed
Notes:	3-05 was originally credited to artist Sublime, which is an alias of Havana. The track was called "The Theme." This is verifiable throughout the database.
Rating:	4.8/5 (127 votes)
Submitted by:	dkyf

Tracklisting:

1-01	Leftfield	Song Of Life (Lemon Interupt Mix) (5:26)
		Remix - Lemon Interupt
1-02	Leftfield	Song Of Life (Dub For Life Mix) (4:02)
1-03	Leftfield	Song Of Life (Steppin' Razor Mix) (2:16)
		Remix - Steppin' Razor
1-04	Bedrock	For What You Dream Of (Full On Renaissance Mix) (6:19)
		Featuring - Carol Leeming
1-05	Rhythm Invention	Chronoclasm (2:37)
1-06	Disco Evangelists, The	De Niro (Spaceflight Remix) (6:06)
1-07	Mephisto	State Of Mind (Quiet Mix) (1:43)
1-08	Moonchild (3)	V.O.A.T (Original Mix) (5:28)
1-09	Sunscreem	Perfect Motion (Boys Own Mix) (10:09)
		Remix - Heller & Farley
1-10	River Ocean	Love & Happiness (Junior Boys Own Super Dub) (4:27)
		Remix - X-Press 2
1-11	That Kid Chris	Keep On Pressin' On (Didn't I Show You Luv Mix) (5:48)
1-12a	Remake	Bladerunner (4:24)
1-12b	Inner City	'Til We Meet Again (Brothers In Rhythm Perkappella) (4:24)
		Remix - Brothers In Rhythm
1-13	Bump	House Stompin' (Big Bump Mix) (7:02)
1-14	F Machine	Child Bride (Feedback Max Mix) (4:28)
		Remix - Feedback Max
1-15	M People	Renaissance (John Digweed's Full On Mix) (7:41)
		Remix - John Digweed
2-01	Fluke	Slid (PDF Mix) (4:43)
2-02	Funk Machine	Let's Get This Party Started (Party Mix) (5:20)
2-03	Fluke	Slid (Scat & Frenzy) (5:01)
		Remix - Justin Robertson
2-04	Corrado	Trust (Pink Mix) (5:02)
2-05	MBG	Trance 1 (Oriental Psycho Estmix) (2:01)
2-06	Hysterix	Talk To Me (Sasha's Full Master Mix) (7:04)
		Remix - Sasha
2-07	Annadin	Angel (7:18)
2-08	Virtualmismo	Mismoplastico (Dirtysyncomix) (3:30)
2-09	Virtualmismo	Mismoplastico (Original Remix) (5:29)
2-10	Fishbone Beat	Always (Psychedelic Martini Remix) (3:39)
2-11	Grace	Not Over Yet (Perfecto Mix) (5:47)
		Remix - Perfecto
2-12	Secret Life	She Holds The Key (H.A.L.F. I'm A Believer Mix) (4:16)
		Remix - H.A.L.F.
2-13	Funtopia	Do You Wanna Know (Gut Drum Mix) (5:07)
		Featuring - Jimi Polo Remix - Justin Deighton , Paul Brogden
2-14	V.F.R.	Tranceillusion (Original Mix) (3:16)
2-15	Kym Mazelle	Was That All It Was (Def Mix) (7:07)
		Remix - David Morales
3-01	M People	How Can I Love You More (QAT Mix) (7:20)
		Remix - Sasha , Tom Frederikse
3-02	Moby	Go (Nightime Mix) (5:19)
3-03	Jaco	Show Some Love (Original Dub) (6:38)
3-04	Spooky	Little Bullet (High Velocity Mix) (6:20)
3-05	Havana	Sublime Theme (Dub) (3:48)
3-06	Shawn Christopher	Another Sleepless Night (Bassman Mix) (4:17)
3-07	Unity 3	Age Of Love (Trance Dub & Fantasy Mix) (4:48)
3-08	EMF	They're Here (D-Ream Dream) (6:10)
		Remix - D:Ream
3-09	Solar Plexus (4)	Solar Plexus (3:31)
3-10	Havana	Ethnic Prayer (Euro Mix) (5:32)
3-11	2 Bad Mice	Bombscare (3:32)
3-12	Age Of Love	The Age Of Love (Watch Out For Stella Mix) (6:14)
		Remix - Jam & Spoon
3-13	My Friend Sam	It's My Pleasure (Club Mix) (5:24)
		Featuring - Viola Wills Remix - Rick van Breugel
3-14	Lemon Interupt	Dirty (4:03)

Cover story secured whilst 'on the fly' at a Xerox event in San Francisco, March 2005.

I had only been in my role at Xerox for one month at this point. The amusing story behind the shot is that I had to try to persuade Andrew McKay to shoot Anne in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, rather than in front of Alcatraz! We managed to achieve the compromise you see here rather than the original headline he had in mind, "Mulcahy Sets Colour Free".