![]() ![]() Editorial comment: These last three options are unique to NovaMind, by the way, and give mind maps produced with this program a unique visual appeal.Ĥ. You can also resize it, flip it horizontally or vertically by dragging its control knobs, and enhance it using a reflection, rounded or chamfered corners. ![]() Advanced image handling options: Not only can you attach an image to a topic by dragging and dropping it onto a topic. Editorial comment from Chuck Frey: You won’t find a more colorful, inspiring collection of software-produced mind maps anywhere else on the web than NovaMind Connect.ģ. When you have a mind map you would like to share, you can upload it to NovaMind Connect directly from within the program. You can use these as starting points for your mind maps, or as examples to see what you can do with NovaMind. Share maps and leverage the NovaMind Connect community: NovaMind Connect has hundreds of Mind Maps which you can browse, search, and download. NovaMind also offers many other options to customize the workspace to meet your needs.Ģ. In addition, you can use the dialog box launcher (the little square at the bottom of a command group in the ribbon bar) to access the advanced formatting functions, and then leave it open as a floating window to give you quick access to the full range of formatting functions. Then whenever you select a command from the ribbon, it will close again, giving you the full working area. For example, you can double-click a tab on the ribbon bar in the Windows version of NovaMind to hide it and give yourself more space for the Mind Map. Customize your workspace: The user interface of NovaMind is customizable so you have easy access to the features of the program you need at the time. ![]() Here are 8 lesser-known capabilities of NovaMind that can help you to increase your productivity:ġ. Ltd., enthusiastically embraced this idea when I asked him to provide me with a list of little-known, under-appreciated but very useful features that can be found within his innovative NovaMind software. Last November, I wrote a post on “ 10 little-known things you can do with MindManager Pro.” I’ve decided to expand this into a series of blog posts, covering each of the high-end mind mapping programs in turn. So this is actually quite useful to someone like me!įor all of the details, please view the blog post about this update on the NovaMind website.Most of the high-end mind mapping programs have so much functionality that many users don’t realize all that they are capable of. Rather, we group them into project folders. ![]() Why is this useful? Some users, including me, don’t always place our mind maps in one centralized folder. Recent folders: In addition to recent documents, you can now access recent folders. This should be especially useful to new users of NovaMind. All of these maps are fully editable, which means you can easily customize them to meet your needs. Each listing in the gallery includs a summary and visual preview, so you can see what you’re about to download. The gallery view lists numerous business-oriented map examples, including a marketing plan, business building using mastermind groups, preparing presentations and more. These appear to be some of the best maps from the NovaMind map sharing gallery that the developer has updated to be compatible with NovaMind 5. New map gallery: NovaMind 5 for Windows now connects with an online gallery of over 50 example mind maps that you can use as starting points for your maps. All templates, including the ones supplied with the program and those you ve created, are accessible via the file/new menu. Office 2010 style application menu: NovaMind 5 now follows the model pioneered in Microsoft Office 2010, with map creation, open and export commands are all centralized into a single drop-down menu.Įnhanced template capabilities: In this latest update to NovaMind 5 for Windows, you can not only create a new mind map from a template, but vice versa – you can save a mind map you’ve created as a template for future use. New boundary shape: To mirror the addition of the cloud topic shape, boundaries in NovaMind 5 can now have a cloud shape, which is also modifiable in the advanced settings panel. The advanced settings panel now has a “cloud slider” that enables you to modify the shape of the clouds in your mind maps. New topic shapes: NovaMind 5 for Windows now includes a number of new topic shapes, including: Parallelogram Left, Parallelogram Right, Arrow Left, Arrow Right and Cloud. This is a free update, which you can install the next time you open the program. NovaMind has launched another update to its Windows based mind mapping software program that offers some nice enhancements to the program’s functionality and usability. ![]()
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![]() Ⓒ Taiki Kawakami,Fuse, KODANSHA/“Ten-Sura” Project Faced with this new reality, Rimuru is forced to decide. But unfortunately, many humans in this world still show hostility towards the other creatures of this land.Īnd although Rimuru shows compassion for humans, he himself is not exempted from their hatred. With the help of his new friends, Rimuru establishes a new country called the “Jura Tempest Federation.” A paradise where all creatures could live together as equals. With the use of his wisdom and courage, he makes friends wherever he goes despite the differences they all face. During his travels, he encounters dragons, goblins, dwarves, and even fierce ogres. ![]() Satoru, now Rimuru, sets out for adventure in this strange new world. Along with his new body, he was given a new name, Rimuru. After his death, he was then sent to an alternate world, and reincarnated into a slime. But death wasn't the end of Satoru's story. Satoru Mikami was just your ordinary desk jockey, casually walking down the street, when all of a sudden, he was randomly stabbed and killed. What is That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime ? 【 That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Collaboration PV 】 ![]() Note: Announcements for both Chinese versions will be released by their respective management companies. More details regarding the event, including its launch time, will be released at a later date. That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime crossover detailsĬoming soon to all global versions of SINoALICE, the crossover with popular TV anime That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime marks the first-ever simultaneous worldwide collaboration for Yoko Taro’s twisted tale of girls from myth and fiction battling to the death.ĭuring the collaboration, characters from the TV series will make a special appearance in the world of SINoALICE and take part in a special story scenario. SINoALICE's first worldwide collaboration! (subsidiary of GREE) and Square Enix are proud to announce a SINoALICE X That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime collaboration, coming soon to SINoALICE, the mobile fantasy battle RPG from the mind of Yoko Taro ( NieR:Automata, NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, Drakengard series). SINoALICE X That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Worldwide Collaboration Revealed Hit TV Anime Coming Soon to Yoko Taro’s Mobile RPG ![]() ![]() ![]() The feeling was that The Power Station was more successful at the time. I think Arcadia has stood the test of time better, maybe. Duran Duran - Notorious (1986) Tabbed by: trevgreg Email: Tuning: Standard Ive seen a few interpretations of the main riff online. "It was the two ends of the band really, wasn't it? You had the arty end and the rock end. Was it cocaine-fueled? Yeah," Roger Tayor would admit in an interview years later. "I did a lot in Arcadia, and a little bit in The Power Station. ![]() RELATED: Dancing on the Valentine: Duran Duran's Biggest HitsĪrcadia highlighted the more atmospheric and esoteric side of Duran Duran, calling in a cavalcade of superstar guests, including David Gilmour of Pink Floyd, Sting, Grace Jones, Herbie Hancock and Carlos Alomar to make the band's debut album. Notorious (Deluxe Edition) Duran Duran POP 1986 Preview By 1986, Andy Taylor was already on his way to a solo career and the band’s synth-heavy sound that ruled over MTV for the first half of the decade would cede its influence to hair metal and its somewhat louder guitars. Duran Duran: Notorious Music Video 1986 G 4 m IMDb RATING 6.7 /10 43 YOUR RATING Rate Music Music video for Duran Duran: Notorious. Simon Le Bon, Nick Rhodes and Roger Taylor would launch Arcadia. Notorious American Science Skin Trade A Matter of Feeling Hold Me Meet El Presidente Vertigo (Do the Demolition) So Misled. DVD Information: Approx running time 107 mins. The band's stratospheric success caused all sorts of friction with the "Fab Five." As a way to reset, the group split into two camps: John and Andy Taylor would team up with Robert Palmer and Chic drummer Tony Thompson to form the bombastic rock band Power Station. Producer Daniel Abraham, Duranduran, Jonathan Elias Notes Includes 8-page booklet, 5 postcards, folded poster approx 30cm x 38cm The original recording of 'Drug (Its Just A State Of Mind)' has been restored to the albums running order. By 1985, Duran Duran had spiraled out of control. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() You will never find a VSTi that captures every nuance so don’t get too micro on the details. You most likely have a bias to what a piano should sound like based on the one you have. You may also have one of the biggest hurdles we had going against you. Generally speaking, more expensive the VSTi - the more customisable it is - so its a lot of work. I think the day we turned a corner was adding a long sustaining reverb to the bottom end and had a wet mix of about 2%. It also required a lot of creativity with different reverbs, using different reverbs for lows, mids and top end. It may not need saying, but if you are using a basic non-weighted midi controller, the performance may be off.įor different sections of the music we had to apply different velocity curves, and narrowing the wide stereo sound most VSTi’s tried to apply. Invested money in expensive VSTIs and what eventually worked was not the VSTi used but the input. I spent a year in a studio trying to get a real piano sound and it was frustrating. I’m utterly baffled by why Cubase “Pro” has such toylike pianos and I dread what I’m going to find for other traditional instruments in Cubase “Pro”! With the stock synths, Steinberg should call this Cubase “Am”. The overall sound is rather “dead” compared to the real instrument because when you strike a key on the real instrument there are all kinds of sympathetic vibrations with the other strings, with the case, and with other bits of hardware, that you don’t get with the synthesized piano - although I agree that there’s no reason why they couldn’t try to synthesize those.īut overall the PianoTeq is a huge improvement over the pianos in the stock Halion instrument, so at least I can resume my composing. The notes in the lower-middle octaves of the PianoTeq have some unnatural metallic resonances but I was able to control those with EQ. ![]() (I own an actual, acoustic A, so I have a close basis for comparison) I guess my point is don’t diss it before you try… or ‘investigate’. That doesn’t mean the sound is great necessarily, but I think in terms of complexity it can absolutely be done.Īs with sampling I don’t know if this model does that. Perhaps they do when they sample, perhaps they don’t.īut it would seem to me that you could create an algorithm that rapidly and relatively easily figures out what ‘string’ needs to do what. You’d have to sample resonance for ‘inactive’ strings when chords chords are played, different velocities, and more. Are you going to capture them all or just some? Suppose you play a chord fairly high up mp, that’s going to yield different results than a chord far lower played f. The difference however is that if you want to do it right then for a sampled piano you’d really have to decide just how many combinations you want to capture. Meaning the decision ‘equation’ is equal to both sampled and modeled. As a matter of fact I’d say it’s in a way equally complicated in that you have to take into account which strings are being pressed and exclude them and then add the sympathetic resonance of the rest. You could easily emulate that as well, no? If you’re only talking about sustain pedal pressed = generate sound from all non-pressed strings that doesn’t seem to complicated. If even one string in a piano is vibrating other strings will vibrate sympathetically if their dampers are lifted, as they would be if the sustain pedal is pressed. ![]() ![]() ![]() It can't edit text-but it does include all the annotation features you need to markup your documents. Want Preview-style markup features that work everywhere? Xodo is the PDF editor to use. Sejda Price: Free to edit 3 documents per day including up to 200 pages each from $5/week for Web Pro or $69.95 perpetual desktop license for unlimited edits and batch processing ![]() Sejda packs an impressive suite of features into an easy-to-use editor that’s ideal for your one-off PDF edits. You can also start from scratch with a blank document, perfect to make a new PDF form. Also, it adds the same formatting to all text in one text box, so you can’t italicize or bold one word in a paragraph-instead, create a blank space, then add a new text box for the formatted word and drag it in. So if your PDF uses an uncommon font, your best strategy is to select the text, switch to a similar font included with Sejda, and then make your edits. Sejda struggles more with editing text using custom fonts than other PDF editors (as you can see with the italics text above). Among those single-purpose tools is a surprisingly feature-filled PDF Editor that, yes, lets you edit text and add form fields for free. It’s designed around a set of tools to rearrange pages in PDFs, merge documents, crop or rotate pages, add headers and footers with page numbers, recognize text with OCR, split PDFs into smaller documents, and more. Need to edit text in a PDF? Sejda is the rare free PDF editor that can edit text or add form fields to a PDF. We also tried to find the software with the best value for price-and found four apps that stood out as the best tools to edit, collaborate, and convert PDF files. We looked at both PDF annotation and editor apps in this roundup, checking to see how they displayed PDF documents, if they worked well, and if they could edit PDFs without deeply changing how the original PDF document looked. They can also create new PDF documents and forms from scratch. When you need to replace an image, change the text in a PDF, add new form fields, or edit anything else in a PDF, they're the apps you need. These tools-including Adobe Acrobat, Foxit, and more-often look like Office apps with detailed toolbars and menus, and can cost hundreds of dollars. The most professional PDF software is PDF editor apps. You can't change the core, original PDF text-but you can add to it much like you might write notes on a printed document. These let you add comments to PDFs, rearrange pages, add shapes and arrows to call out things in the document, and insert new text blocks and images into the PDF. Then there are PDF annotation apps, including macOS Preview, Xodo, and most mobile PDF apps. They're built to help you read PDF files like you would a book, and help you flip to the page you want, search through the book, highlight text, and perhaps fill out PDF forms and sign them digitally. The PDF apps you've likely used the most-Adobe Reader, Apple iBooks, Windows Reader-are PDF reader apps. For more details on our process, read the full rundown of how we select apps to feature on the Zapier blog. We're never paid for placement in our articles from any app or for links to any site-we value the trust readers put in us to offer authentic evaluations of the categories and apps we review. We spend dozens of hours researching and testing apps, using each app as it's intended to be used and evaluating it against the criteria we set for the category. All of our best apps roundups are written by humans who've spent much of their careers using, testing, and writing about software. ![]() ![]() As much as he loved puzzles, he couldn’t see doing them as much more than a hobby. He attended the University of Arizona, where he was a copy editor for the student newspaper, the Daily Wildcat. “One day I discovered you could link words together.” “I was into building things, Tinker Toys, Lincoln Logs,” he said in a 2013 Philadelphia Inquirer interview. His mother was a nurse who moved him and his brother to Tucson when he was 10. “I always felt,” he told the Plain Dealer, “the English language was the best toy a boy ever had.” Reagle, who started constructing crossword puzzles at age 6 and made his first puzzle sale, to the New York Times, at 16, clearly took delight in the work. He went on to compare Reagle’s puzzles to the way an O. But there’s such a vivid personality that comes across (and down) in Merl’s clever themes and clues, a wit residing in an unusual mind that I would say is singular in puzzledom.” Zaillian said in a 2013 Cleveland Plain Dealer interview that before he started doing Reagle’s puzzles, “I don’t think I ever thought about there being an actual person behind the process of crossword construction. His playfulness with language attracted well-known writers as fans, including screenwriter Steve Zaillian, who won an Oscar for “Schindler’s List.” For a puzzle that featured song titles with one word scrambled, the answer to “Anagrammy-winning baking song?” was, “YOU OUGHT TO BE IN PIE CRUST.” For a puzzle he called “Movies That Shouldn’t Be Shown Together,” one of the answers was “DRIVING MISS DAISY NUTS.”Īnother, called “But Cereally, Folks,” had as a clue, “New cereal for Southern California?” The answer: “SMOG CHEX.”Īnd he loved anagrams. ![]() ![]() ![]() 1 tablespoon coriander seed, toasted 1 tablespoon fennel seed, toasted A few nasturtium flowers or leaves 1/2 cup Diamond Crystal kosher salt (or 1/4 cup fine table salt) 1/2 cup sugar 2-3 teaspoons grated orange, lemon or lime zest One 1 pound (approximately) salmon fillet Edible flowers, for garnish Crush the coriander and fennel roughly in a mortar and pestle or pulse them in a spice grinder. Nasturtiums are a little more unexpected: Both petals and leaves add a fresh, radish-like flavour that’s delicious tucked into your bagel and cream cheese. Once cured and thinly sliced, the delicate white and purple flowers of blooming dill and chives are ideal for garnishing your gravlax. A dry cure of sugar and salt, spiked with citrus, spices and perhaps some peppery nasturtiums, is rubbed heavily over a fresh fillet, which is then weighted down and left for 24 hours. Garden Gravlax Serves 10-12 Curing your own salmon is surprisingly simple. St-Germain, an elderflower liqueur, is available in most liquor stores, and you can even buy bottles of elderflower syrup at IKEA. Or seek out ingredients such as bottled rosewater or dried culinary lavender to help bring your brunch into bloom. Just ensure your flowers have been grown chemical-free (your florist should know – or pluck them from your own garden to be sure) and that you can positively identify the variety. A fresh brunch menu that combines spring flavours and flowers - The Globe and Mail Wednesday, March 31, 2021 (Great news, too, as Fleurs de Villes has pinned down June dates for a return to Robson and Alberni with springtime blooms!)Running December 4 through 13, Fleurs de Villes Noel is a chance to get some fresh air and exercise, do a little shopping, and enjoy the talents of our local florists.You'll find the map and details about each of the presenting florists online here.Here are some images of last y. Other Fleurs de Villes events have been curated around Vancouver over the past few years, though this is the second time there's been a Christmastime display. Be sure to adhere to social distancing best practices as you enjoy your self-guided stroll.Fluers de Villes takes places at various times of year in cities across the globe, from London to Seattle, as well as in several Canadian cities. Fleurs de Villes: Free self-guided walk through downtown Vancouver's Christmas floral trail - Vancouver Is Awesome Wednesday, March 31, 2021ĭecember with a stroll in downtown Vancouver highlighted by 30 beautiful fresh floral installations.It's the second annual Fleurs de Villes Noel Vancouver, a holiday celebration featuring top florists from around the city and their stunning displays, set up along Robson and Alberni streets. Use the map to follow the 'Floral Trail' as you walk past the stunning creations, displayed outdoors for all to enjoy. Johns, Atlantic Beach, Middleburg, Fleming Island, Neptune Beach and Callahan.Head over to its website for a closer look at the arrangements!Runners up: Kuhn Flowers, Arlington Flower Shop. Looking for something in particular, or want to make a custom order? They’ll work to make it happen.Ordering outside Jacksonville? No worries. Your choice for Jacksonville’s best florist.Hurst offers an arrangement of bouquets and gifts that are perfect for any occasion. – Pro tip - shopping for a special occasion? Looking to tell that special someone you’re thinking about them?Two words: Hurst Florist. Jacksonville's best flower shop: Hurst Florist - WJXT News4JAX Wednesday, March 31, 2021 ![]() He plans to attend a vigil with friends.“I think I fee. ![]() “I like using different colors to heal.”Calls have been pouring into Boulder Gardens Florist for arrangements and deliveries to the police departments, the memorial and the families of the victims.Heidi Lunsford, an employee at the flower shop, says flowers help people showcase their support and cope with the tragic loss at a time when many feel helpless.Aaron Pilling dropped by the shop and picked up ten red roses - one for each victim - and two bouquets of flowers. He moves quickly with each arrangement, but behind every perfectly placed flower, there is intention.“You know, you can’t take it away, but I get to be in a position where I can help that healing process with creative energy,” Dusk said. He’s been there for about a year but has 22 years of experience. Flowers arrangements and roses are moving fast at Boulder Gardens Florist as people pay their respects for the lives lost in the King Soopers mass shooing in Boulder Monday.Joshua Dusk is a florist at Boulder Gardens Florist. Local Flower Shop News Grieving residents pour into Boulder flower shop to show support for victims - The Denver Channel Wednesday, March 31, 2021īOULDER, Colo. ![]() ![]() EPOCH is normally $2.83, rymdkapsel is $3.99, SpellTower is $1.99, and Kingdom Rush is $1.99. Keep in mind that as these are all mobile Android games, pricing is generally far lower than on PC games. ![]() Also, Ridiculous Fishing is at least buggy and laggy on one tablet where I tried it (Dell Venue 8), though it works fine okay on an Acer A700 (Tegra 3 1920x1200). And as for Ridiculous Fishing, its name is absolutely accurate, and it has very little to do with actual fishing – instead you dodge fish on the way down, grab as many fish as you can on the way up, and then go crazy with your gun as they launch into the air. ![]() Moving to the bonus titles, Kingdom Rush is a pretty standard tower defense game with four tower types and a variety of upgrades to the towers, along with special abilities to help boost you when needed. Swordigo is a typical platformer with you jumping and stabbing/slashing/spelling your way through the world. SpellTower should make vocabulary fans happy, with its game of words and several different modes available. rymdkapsel on the other hand is a bit difficult to describe it’s a strategy/resource management game mixed with Tetris base building – you build your space station and fend off attacks, while trying to uncover the monoliths and gather resources. I’ll update this next week when additional content is announced.Īs far as the games go, EPOCH is an Unreal Engine powered strategy/action game – you tap to target enemies and swipe to dodge, take cover, and reload, with additional power-ups available. It’s not quite as convenient as snagging updates through the Google Play Store, but that’s part of the package at present. The HB app should also alert you with any updates, though I’m not quite sure how that will work as these are the first games I’ve snagged via HB for Android. Once downloaded in the Humble Bundle app, you can then install the games and you should be all set to play. In total, the six games will require 767MB for the APK files, and presumably additional space after installation, so plan accordingly. EPOCH is by far the largest of the bunch, tipping the scales at over 500MB Kingdom Rush weighs in at 133MB, Swordigo is 49MB, Ridiculous Fishing is 41MB, rymdkapsel is 30MB, and SpellTower is 12MB. Then launch the Humble Bundle (beta) and sign in to your Humble Bundle account, and you should be able to download all of the above packages. First, you need to get the Humble Bundle (beta) Android apk and install that (I used ES File Explorer to install it and it worked fine feel free to use something else). Installing the games on Android also involves a bit more work than your typical Steam key redemption (or GoG DRM-free package). ![]() Note that all of the above links/scores are for the iOS releases, but again this bundle is only for Android users. ![]() Soundtracks are also available in FLAC and MP3 format for Kingdom Rush, Ridiculous Fishing, rymdkapsel, and Swordigo. As you can see, the average score for these mobile games is actually very respectable, at just over 85%. Pay more than the current average ($4.94 and rising) and you unlock two additional titles: Kingdom Rush (iOS 12/2011, 89%) and Ridiculous Fishing (iOS 03/2013, 91%) – the latter being the other Android debut title in the bundle. The four titles available with any contribution are EPOCH ( iOS 11/2011, 77%), rymdkapsel ( iOS 08/2013, 85%), SpellTower ( iOS 11/2011, 84%), and Swordigo (iOS 03/2012, 86%) – the last being an Android debut title on this bundle. And as an added twist, all of the games are only available for Android this round. Two of the games in the current bundle are also debut titles for Android, making this potentially more attractive than usual. Options for supporting charity this time around consist of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Child’s Play Charity. And for those of you who haven’t been keeping track, there will likely be several more added to the bundle next Tuesday. Need more games for your mobile Android device? Humble Bundle has you covered, with their latest set of six games. ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a wonderful event! This is another great opportunity to present the amazing ‘Elemental’ on the closing of this 76th Cannes Film Festival and to think about our lives in such a powerful way. “Pixar Animation Studios, with ‘Up’ - directed by Pete Docter -made Cannes history by opening the 62nd edition of the Festival in 2009. Atomic Heart Distressed Logo Classic T-Shirt By Stebop Designs From 19.84 atomic heart Photographic Print By jpegarts 15.93 The Twins Classic T-Shirt By Jesus Loves Ponies From 22.32 u2 suitcase heart pattern Sticker By clad63 From 1.46 Atomic Heart Sticker By Bakkes20 From 1. “For many years, the Cannes Film Festival has welcomed animated films from around the world,” Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the Cannes Film Festival, said in an official statement. It was created for audiences to experience on the big screen and I love that it’ll make its world premiere at Cannes.”ĭocter, director Sohn, and producer Denise Ream will join members of the film’s voice cast at the festival. “Directed by the extraordinary storyteller Peter Sohn, ‘Elemental’ is so funny, full of heart and, frankly, stunning to see. “As we all emerge from our pandemic cocoons and come together in story rooms, animation dailies and impromptu brainstorming sessions, it’s a joy and honor to have Pixar back on La Croisette,” Pete Docter, Pixar’s chief creative officer, said in an official statement. “Elemental” opens in theaters on June 16. The show will chronicle a woman reconstructing her identity in the 1960s after being dismissed by her husband and her entire social circle, with Leslie Bibb and Laura Dern also starring. This came to be known as Moore’s law, which has set. Moore was a Fairchild co-founder who went on to co-found Intel and famously observed that the number of circuit components you could put on a chip would double at a fixed rate, around every 18 to 24 months, Lee says. It’s a kind of retrofuturistic romp back to an imagined past perverted by. One figure who came to prominence in this space was Gordon Moore. ![]() The film’s original score was composed and conducted by Thomas Newman. Atomic Heart is an alternate-history shooter cut from the same cloth as BioShock and MachineGames’ Wolfenstein series. Peter Docter (“Up,” “Inside Out,” “Soul”) executive produces, with Denise Ream (“Cars 2”) producing. “Elemental” is written by John Hoberg, Kat Likkel, and Brenda Hsueh, with a story by director Sohn, Hoberg, Likkel, and Hsueh. The voice cast also includes Ronnie del Carmen, Shila Ommi, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Catherine O’Hara, Mason Wertheimer, and Joe Pera. ‘Monster’ Review: Hirokazu Kore-eda Riffs on ‘Rashomon’ in a Poignant Melodrama About Rushing to Judgment ![]() ![]() ![]() In the early days when I started the cash and carry business, I was told that it could not be done, but my contention was that the people of Toronto and Ontario would welcome the opportunity to carry their groceries home, The two came away convinced that a similar style of operation could work in Canada. With customers allowed to browse freely, pick up their own goods and then pay cash at a central checkout counter, with no credit or home delivery, operating costs were reduced. The pair had heard of the Piggly Wiggly "self serving store" in the United States and travelled to Memphis, Tennessee, to see it in operation first hand. While cash stores were not new, the idea of allowing customers to select their own merchandise was a new concept. Loblaw and Cork, friends from the days when both worked as young clerks in the Cork family grocery store, believed they could cut costs by introducing self service combined with cash and carry. Home delivery, by wagon, was usually included free of charge. Other goods, such as sugar and flour, had to be individually weighed and the order then tallied by hand and added to the customer’s account. Customers typically had to wait while a clerk fetched items from behind a counter. The traditional grocery store provided a high level of personal service but was a labour-intensive operation. Milton Cork opened the first Loblaw Groceterias store modelled on a new and radically different retail concept, namely "self serve". In 1919, Toronto grocers Theodore Pringle Loblaw and J. in Western Canada and Northern Ontario, National Grocers Co. Loblaw's regional food distribution divisions include Westfair Foods Ltd. Most of Loblaw's 136,000 full-time and part-time employees are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers, with the exception of workers at The Real Canadian Wholesale Club in Alberta, who are members of the Christian Labour Association of Canada. He will be replaced as president and CEO by Per Bank. Robert Sawyer is the current COO of Loblaw and announced his intention to retire at the end of 2023. Weston, is the chair of the Loblaw board of directors, as well as chair of the board of directors and CEO of Canada-based holding company George Weston. It is controlled by George Weston Limited, a holding company controlled by the Weston family Galen G. Loblaw is the largest Canadian food retailer, and its brands include President's Choice, No Name and Joe Fresh. Loblaw operates a private label program that includes grocery and household items, clothing, baby products, pharmaceuticals, cellular phones, general merchandise and financial services. Loblaw Companies Limited is a Canadian retailer encompassing corporate and franchise supermarkets operating under 22 regional and market-segment banners (including Loblaws), as well as pharmacies, banking and apparel. George Weston Limited (47% as of 2016) ĭominion Stores in Newfoundland and Labrador ![]() |
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