On the heels of the Nurses Season 2 start of production release, Global proudly announced today principal photography and casting for its latest scripted original series, new legal drama Family Law.
With filming beginning March 2 in Vancouver, Family Law is produced by SEVEN24 Films (Heartland, Wynonna Earp) and LarkProductions (Motive, Fortunate Son), created by Canadian award-winning author Susin Nielsen (Robson Arms, Cedar Cove), with Jordan Canning (Nurses, Schitt’s Creek) directing the pilot episode.
Set in Vancouver, Canada, Family Law follows lawyer and recovering alcoholic Abigail ‘Abby’ Bianchi (Staite) struggling to put her career and family back together after hitting rock bottom. As a condition of her probation, Abby is forced to work at her estranged father’s (Garber) firm, Svensson and Associates, and practice in family law for the first time while forging new relationships with the half-brother (Smadu) and half-sister (Williams) whom she’s never met. The result is a dysfunctional family law firm operating to help other families with their own dysfunctions.
Set to premiere on Global later this year, the 10-episode, one-hour drama follows a group of flawed family members who reluctantly work together at their father’s law firm in downtown Vancouver. The legal procedural stars a talented all-Canadian cast including:
Jewel Staite (Firefly), as recovering alcoholic Abigail ‘Abby’ Bianchi
Victor Garber (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow) as Harry Svensson, Abby’s estranged father and head of the firm
Zach Smadu (The Expanse) as Daniel Svensson, Abby’s half-brother who is displeased to be working with Abby
Genelle Williams (The Expanse) as Lucy Svensson, Abby’s half-sister and considered dad’s favourite child.
Additional casting will be announced at a later date.
Produced by SEVEN24 Films (Heartland, Fortunate Son) and Lark Productions (Motive, Fortunate Son), with Susin Nielsen (Robson Arms, Cedar Cove) serving as showrunner, Family Law is executive produced by SEVEN24′s Tom Cox and Jordy Randall, Lark’s Erin Haskett and Andy Mikita. eOne will handle distribution for the series outside of Canada. For Corus, Susan Alexander is Production Executive; Rachel Nelson is Director, Original Content, Drama, Kids and Factual; Lisa Godfrey is Vice President of Original Content, Corus Entertainment.
inboxAds announces the introduction of their WordPress Plugin to compliment their plug-and-play email monetization.
Just as their Platform, The plugin allows content creators, such as bloggers, authors, coaches, and others, to monetize their email newsletters through the WordPress platform directly.
Email-based Newsletters are not only a great way for publishers to reach their existing audience but offers a great new avenue to boost revenues.
The added revenue could even help the publisher to improve the newsletter and cover the expenses involved when creating, editing and publishing the newsletter.
The plugin also offers content creators, such as bloggers, authors, coaches, and others, monetize their email newsletters through the WordPress platform directly.
That’s because publishers have complete control over their content, says inboxAds CEO Laurentiu Vladan. He points out, “Monetizing emails puts publishers in charge of distributing their newsletter. It permits them to own their relationship with their subscribers, as opposed to having to bow to the will of a third-party platform.”
He adds, “The new WordPress plugin allows publishers to monetize emails with native ads embedded in the newsletter’s text, directly from their website’s WordPress platform.”
How does it work?
It only takes a few minutes to get it up and running. All a publisher needs to do is follow a few simple instructions, choose where they want to insert the ads, and publish their newsletter.
The plugin works with a wide selection of newsletter plugins, easily allowing publishers to add ads to their newsletter even without coding knowledge.
You can even track each campaign’s performance on a user-friendly dashboard provided via the plugin.
You can easily install the plugin via the WordPress Plugins section of your website by searching for “inboxAds” or visiting the link below to learn more about the plugin.
The Humble Book Bundle: Jumpstart Your Maker Space by Make: Community just launched on Monday, February 24 and will be live through Monday, March 16. Get a jumpstart on a bundle full of projects to make the most of all the technology in your life! Featuring projects for drones, 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and much more, this bundle allows you to make technology work the way you want it to.
Pay as little as a $1 or more and receive:
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 1
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 02
Craft: Volume 01
Craft: Volume 02
Jumpstarting the Raspberry Pi Zero W
Make: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi
Pay even more… $8 or more and receive the following:
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 03
Locked contentCraft: Volume 03
Locked contentJumpstarting the Arduino 101
Make: Getting Started with Arduino
Make: Getting Started with 3D Printing
Getting Started with 3D Carving
Pay even more… $15 or more and receive the following:
Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 04
Craft: Volume 04
Jumpstarting JavaScript
Getting Started with Drones: Build and Customize Your Own Quadcopter
Make: The Makerspace Workbench
Make: Workshop Mastery with Jimmy DiResta
Make: Getting Started with Soldering
Make: Getting Started with CNC ( Learn to Use CNC Machines )
The Popular cryptocurrency trading platform, Kucoin is a new one-stop cryptocurrency trading solution branded a Kucloud.
Kucloud partners will be given the ability to set up their very own cryptocurrency exchange in as little as 72 hours. The solution allows access to features such as spot trading, margin trading, staking, fiat gateway to up to 150x leverage futures trading in their local markets.
Not to mention access to the same highly scalable solution which Kucoin uses.
The platform offers two products, XCoin and XMEX which leverages the key functionalities of KuCoin Spot platform and KuMEX Futures platform.
Both services backed by its “world-class architecture, risk-management system, high market depth & liquidity, all-around customer support and more”.
Where is this idea coming from?
“The idea of KuCloud started in 2018 as a concept called ‘subnets’, with which we intended to give our exchange a powerful advantage when expanding into new markets since each new exchange can act as a separate entity,” said Johnny Lyu, co-founder of KuCoin. “Now we go one step further and upgrade the ‘subnets’ to KuCloud, eliminating the difficulties and hassle of opening a crypto exchange, allowing all our partners to build crypto-related platforms with us to contribute to the liquidity and mass adoption of crypto.”
To celebrate the Introduction, Kucoin is now offering an early bird privilege of zero-cost to launch a crypto exchange.
So if you are looking to start a cryptocurrency exchange and like to take advantage of the million-dollars savings in R&D being provided by this platform and not to mention fuel your success, Kucloud is the solution.
Looking for a Jamaican Classifieds Platform to sell your house, car, animals(cat/dog), jobs, furniture, services… You have come to the right place. In this post, we have researched the best Jamaican classifieds around.
JAMAICA CLASSIFIED ONLINE IS THE BEST JAMAICAN CLASSIFIED SITE PROVIDING FREE ADS POSTING FOR INDIVIDUALS BUYING AND SELLING ITEMS. YOU POST IT AND WE’LL SHARE IT WITH THOUSANDS OF JAMAICANS ON OUR SITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS. LET US DO THE WORK FOR YOU. POST YOUR AD FOR FREE NOW!
The Gleaner is Jamaica’s #1 Newspaper Classifieds and thus the very first go to classifieds. They are not only available in print but online.
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So there you have it, The best Jamaican classifieds platforms. Share your favourite classifieds or any classifieds sites we forgot below in the comments section.
TORONTO, Feb. 19, 2020 /CNW/ – Facebook and music share something special — they both bring people together and enable expression and community. Across our platforms, Canadians have long celebrated their shared love of music and today we’re excited to announce the launch of music on Facebook and Instagram in Canada. With the launch of music stickers on Facebook and Instagram Stories and other creative tools, Canadians now have new ways to express themselves, discover artists, and share music that matters to them.
Canada has a rich music ecosystem. These new experiences are made possible through new partnerships with music publishing societies and organizations, as well as labels and distributors in Canada. To ensure the music experience on Facebook and Instagram reflects the diversity of Canadian artists and interests, we worked closely with a range of partners and artists, and consulted with local experts.
One of the ways this comes to life is through the music people can search and share. We’ve created unique Canadian-specific themes, so when searching for a song to include in a personal video or Story, people across Canada will find a huge library of music by Canadian artists. This includes beloved icons, chart-topping artists, as well as indigenous artists like Snotty Nose Rez Kids and Francophone artists like Marie-Mai, in addition to millions of international songs.
This is also an exciting moment for Canadian artists and songwriters. We’ve seen artists and songwriters reach new audiences, build their brands, and connect and engage deeply with fans through our products. We’re excited to do more to connect people on deeper levels with the music and artists and songwriters they love and offer artists and songwriters new ways to build their brands.
“Music has no language, and platforms like Facebook and Instagram allows it to transcend boundaries,” said Marie-Mai, platinum selling Quebec pop singer-songwriter. “The launch of these new music features enables me to connect more deeply with fans, build my brand reaching new audiences, and gives my music a platform to be heard around the world.”
“We are working to bring voice to Indigenous experiences, to empower our youth, and to ensure greater representation in music here on Turtle Island (Canada) and around the world. We’re excited to see Facebook and Instagram launch these new tools and provide a platform for us to better reach and connect with our fans,” said Yung Trybez and Young D of Indigenous hip hop duo, Snotty Nose Rez Kids.
Music and Lyrics on Stories People across Canada will now be able to add a song to their photos and videos on their Stories. Simply open the camera on Facebook or Instagram, or select a photo or video from your gallery, touch the sticker icon, add the Music sticker and search from a library of songs. If the song has lyrics, they will automatically pop up, and you can use the lyrics as a reference point to select the section of the song you’d like to include. Tap the lyrics to change the animation and text style, and move the lyrics around, rotate or resize it like you would a normal sticker.
Here’s more information about the new experiences launching today.
Music on your Facebook Profile Now you can also add videos with music to a new music section on your Facebook Profile. In addition, you can pin songs at the top of your Profile so your friends can learn more about your musical taste. Songs fixed to your Profile will visually show the artist and the track. When your friends play a song on your Profile, they will be able to hear a clip on Facebook or tap through to listen to the complete track on a streaming platform. They can add the same song to their Profiles or click to visit the singer or band’s Page.
Music Questions Sticker in Instagram The popular Instagram Stories questions sticker also now has music! Your friends can respond to your questions sticker with a song from the music library – and you can then share your favorites to your story. There are also new visual effects in the Music format on Stories that respond to beat and sound.
What’s to Come We’re excited to work together with music partners around the world to bring these features to life in additional countries, like we have here in Canada. We look forward to continuing to innovate together to create new ways for music to be a part of the way people share, connect and express themselves on our platforms.
Attorney-at-Law and Founder/Chairman of Pulse Investments Ltd.
Pulse Investments Limited (PULS) held their Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Company on Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
The shareholders approved for the increase of the companies Share Capital from 1.95 Billion shares of no par value to 7.5 Billion shares of no par value. An additional 5.55 Billion additional shares.
Ultimately the company acknowledges the desire for a 3:1 stock split but has not acknowledged the targeted amount to be raised.
“THAT THE SHARES IN PULS BE SPLIT, ON THE BASIS THAT 3 (THREE) ADDITIONAL SHARES BE ISSUED TO SHAREHOLDERS FOR EVERY SHARE CURRENTLY HELD BY THEM IN THE COMPANY.”
The board has the option to use these shares as a way of raising new equity through a renounceable rights issue, conduct a stock split, or do a combination of both.
Thought it reassures via a blog post that ” The split by itself is not a fundraising measure – it’s usually a tool to make the stock more attractive for trading – but the rights issue is. “
The Company will use this additional capital to “acquire new companies and buy out leased property”.
“ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE CONSIDERING, AND THIS IS BY NO MEANS FINAL, WE HAVE HAD OVER THE YEARS OPINIONS FROM SHAREHOLDERS AND OTHERS THAT PULSE WOULD BE BETTER SERVED IF IT OWNED THE PROPERTY IT NOW LEASES,” SAID PULSE CHAIRMAN AND MAJORITY OWNER KINGSLEY COOPER.
Villa Ronai
Capital Use?
One such property is Villa Ronai, a property which spans nine-acres in Stony Hill, St Andrew. The property is currently owned by Mr Cooper with Pulse holding a 50-year lease. The property offers accommodations for guests and is slated for the addition of 68 suites as well as the construction of residential units in a new development called Pulse Homes.
“We are thinking of Villa Ronai at this time because of the current investment that is being made and also the plans for future investment in terms of Pulse Homes, and so on,” Cooper said.
The Company issued a global note worth over $250 million earlier in January with $65 million of that amount being dedicated to settling bank debts held by pulse. The remaining $185 million will be split between the Villa Ronai property and Pulse Homes project with the first phase of the Villa Ronai development slated for summer 2020.
Pulse also eyes expansion of its creative business segment through acquisitions, with an eye on a cosmetics company, and radio station IrieJam which broadcasts from New York and primarily targets Caribbean nationals in the United States.
“The stock split is proposed because once the stock price gets to a certain level, we find that there seems to be a barrier to subsequent trades or further growth in the value of the stock. So splitting the stock has proven beneficial in the past. It increases liquidity and it makes it easier for investors to come into the company,” Cooper said.
At year ending June 2019, Pulse scored a net profit of $653 million from $1.06 billion of combined revenue and other income. At half-year ending December, the company made $473 billion in profit from combined revenue and income of $603 million.
The Pulse stock, meanwhile, is up 72 per cent year to date. It closed Tuesday at $10.32 per share, valuing the company’s 1.63 billion of issued shares at $16.8 billion.
The purpose of these shares will be determined during a PULS board meeting scheduled for February 26, 2020.
Searching for an online nation Simulation Game? In this article, we provide a list of the best online political/nation simulation games from someone who has played several entrants on the list.
Online political and nation simulation games provide an opportunity to create a new nation with you as the country’s leader while competing with other countries in real time. Some games even allow you to begin as a politician, with a community of players competing for various positions.
In no particular order, below are the best Online Politics and Nation simulation games you can find online.
Game based on real life political, economy and military structure. You, as a player, have the chance to compare your skills of economic, strategic and diplomacy thinking, defending and building your own homeland in vast community of over 78 countries and thousands of players. You can be next world market monopolist. Next country dictator or democratic ruler. You can decide the fate of the planet with your brothers in arms. All is up to you and your way to DOMINATE.
Forge your path, and climb the ladder to become one of the greatest politicians in history. Stick with the status quo or throw out the rules. Serve your constituents or put your own goals first. Fight for what you believe in or fight for power. The choice is yours, but can you survive the battle for the hill?
vMundus – is a free browser-based multiplayer strategy game. The game is based on real-life economy and politics. To build new companies and country infrastructure, research new technologies or conquer other countries, first, you will need to extract resources and produce useful products from them. The more resources your country controls, the more powerful it is. In this game you are the boss of your people, you can train them and send them to war or work in your own or other player’s factories, organize resistance wars in other countries or reveal your own country from invaders. You can organize or join unions, create your economic system and much more. Join us today!
Earth Empires is a free browser-based strategy game where you take control of your nation’s military and economy. Command your country’s military to attack and defend against your enemies. Execute attack strategies to relieve opponents of their resources and land. Strategically invest in technology to outpace the economies of other countries. Ally with your friends or make new friendships by joining a clan. Conduct military operations, govern your country and build your empire.
Continuing the legacy of Earth:2025 – one of the first massive multiplayer browser games – Earth Empires brings a fresh new spin to a classic style of gaming.
Atmoburn is a free, browser-based, massively multiplayer, real-time space strategy game.
Built around a fully modelled universe with hundreds of thousands of systems and their associated planets, players can build thriving space empires. Join a faction to work with others to further your faction’s goals, or fly solo with your purpose.
A completely open research system allows incredible customisation and personalisation of your ships and fleet compositions. Test your brains and brawn against the best the universe has to offer.
a simulation game that puts you at the head of your nation. Form your government, grow your nation’s wealth, and expand your borders by conquering a new land. As a leader, your decisions affect your population and your political power so lead wisely!
NATIONS At Risk – A free new text-based nation simulation game(Development Stalled Indefinately)
Nations At Risk is a free browser-based multiplayer nation simulation game. Create a country, choose your government officials, build and level up various constructions and wonders and recruit your army to conquer your enemies. Mould your national politics in the national parliament and your international reputation in the Planetary Union Organisation. Join or create an alliance and team up with other players and decide your path of politics and war together.
Politics & War is a free-to-play browser-based persistent massively multi-player online game where you create your own nation and rule it. Forced to make gruelling political decisions you are truly in charge of Politics & War. Play together with friends and strangers, pit your armies against each other and wage war, or work together cooperatively for mutual prosperity. In Politics & War, you call the shots.
You can also access the game through the Politics and War apps available on the Play Store and App Store.
Cyber Nations is a free browser-based nation simulation game. Create a nation and decide how you will rule your people by choosing a government type, a national religion, tax rate and more.
Build your nation according to your choosing by purchasing infrastructure to support your citizens, land to expand your borders, technology to increase your effectiveness, and military to defend your national interests.
NationStates is a nation simulation game. Create a nation according to your political ideals and care for its people. Or deliberately oppress them. It’s up to you.
Project Terra is an advanced, complex, and free online nation simulation game that aims for total realism through continuous development and improvements. This game presents the player with thousands of options.
Choose from among various government systems, which laws you wish to propose, a mega-city’s worth of buildings to construct, what resources to trade (and which resources you will keep), all while managing your population and workforce, and building, researching, and deploying numerous military units.
With over 50 complex, interactive nation variables allowing you to lead a revolution, form a new nation, and rule it as you choose!
Simcountry is an Online Digital World where you are the president of a country or a leader of an empire.
You can play a peaceful game or you can try to conquer many other countries and create a powerful empire. You can create digital assets that can be traded on the open market for Simcountry Gold Coins and can be exchanged for cash.
Some play Simcountry as CEOs of Enterprises that build corporations in many countries, sell their products on the market trade assets, and develop into large economic powers. Many players run both countries and enterprises.
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Is our summary of one of our entries wrong? Did we forget your favourite Online Nation Simulation or Political Simulation game? Share it with us below in the comments and we will update it accordingly.
For more exciting lists like this one, check out our gaming-category.
Tired of Swiping right? Ghosted conversations? No Name is a dating app with a whole new kind of perspective.
This post is not related to the chat app found on the App store for iOS devices.
What makes the NoName App so special?
It addresses the heart of issues faced by other dating apps, issues such as Security, Privacy and Dead-end Communications.
Instead of swiping through profiles, A user of the app will post date to meet in person. This creates a sense of mystery for the user which gives added layer to first impression convos.
How does It Work?
A user of the app simply posts a date on the name app. This eliminates the whole swiping/conventional match, messaging and plan cycle found in other dating apps.
Dates are thus based on one’s personal preference/interest could be anything from a meal at your favourite restaurant or dance at a fancy club, You choose the time and the venue for the date.
The users then sit back and awaiting the requests from which to select or you could just request to join dates posted by others via the feed on the apps home screen.
How does this Solve Privacy and Security Issues?
First Names can only be revealed via app messaging or on the actual date, once both users have agreed to meet in person.
Profiles are only visible only when the user will post date or send a request to dates posted by others (in the latter case, visible just to that one person).
Profiles don’t present names or social connections which present users the opportunity to stalk and research a particular date.
Sure you chat within the app but only meet in person based on an agreement between users. The app users are also given impressive control over the app’s privacy and control.
An added level of security is the fact that all potential members of the app are screened and approved by an internal team which currently includes a pre-launch list of over 12,000 subscribers being reviewed.
“Virtually, we’re taking away the endless swiping needed to enhance your chances of securing a match, by establishing dates and leaving the conversations for when face to face. Our intent is to champion an app that will perhaps bring a higher level of security to dating applications, whilst being largely reflective of the user’s time for efficient matching,”
says Kanav Puri – No Name App Founder
The NoName Dating app is available on both Google Play and the App Store.
So if you’re looking for a truly different, private and controllable dating experience, NoName looks to be a great solution.
Looking for an alternative to BitTorrent or uTorrent? In this post, we will go into not only alternatives to these torrent clients but also the top BitTorrent clients for Windows.
Legal Note: While torrent files might exclusively be known for their role in facilitating piracy, there are many perfectly legal files such as open-source software and public domain material that are distributed via torrent files.
The legality of your download is all dependent on whether the copyright holder has given permission for the file to be distributed in this manner.
BitTorrent is the namesake of the very protocol that makes the download of torrents possible. Bram Cohen, who authored the BitTorrent protocol back in July 2001 was its original creator.
The Ad-supported Torrent client is currently developed and maintained by BitTorrent Inc. which also operates uTorrent. The BitTorrent Classic Torrent client is available for Windows, Mac and Linux powered devices.
There is also the news client dubbed BitTorrent Web which unlike the classic edition, doesn’t have a desktop User Interface but will instead open in your web browser along with giving you the power to watch films while they are being downloaded to your system.
The company that operates the BitTorrent client was recently acquired by TRON, A cryptocurrency which is integrates BitTorrent + TRON via their Project Atlas.
Owned and Developed by BitTorrent, uTorrent is yet another ad-supported torrent client with a much smaller installation footprint. The application has over 150 million users it is the most widely used BitTorrent client outside China.
PicoTorrents is an ultra-friendly torrent client designed to be a friendly BitTorrent client for Windows with high performance and low memory usage.
It is my personal recommendation which guarantees a much faster download of your file when compared to other clients which are ultra sluggish depending on your device.
Free Download Manager not only helps to manage and accelerate your average downloads on Windows and Mac but also torrent files.
The app allows you to adjust traffic usage, organize downloads, control file priorities for torrents, efficiently download large files and resume broken downloads.
The Torch Browser is a media-friendly web browser that ships with a built-in torrent client. It is useful if you are someone who downloads a lot of media files.
Frostwire is not just a BitTorrent client but also a Cloud Downloader and media player.
Features: in-app search, Preview/Play while downloading, Selective file downloading, Media Player and media library.
A cloud downloader allows you to store downloads on a server as opposed to directly on your device. Cloud downloaders are a benefit if you have a slow or inconsistent internet connection.
Tribler is a torrent client that differs from others on this list by being packaged with built-in encryption, onion routing and hidden seeding using a Tor-like network.
The client also has a built-in search which allows you to find torrent files easily without the help of a website or browser. It also has a video player which allows you to play videos being downloaded even before they are complete much like WebTorrents or BitTorrent Web.
Tribler is unique for having a built-in reward system that can be converted to crypto but has the issue of being to slow per my experience get testing it against Picotorrents which downloaded a file in minutes compared to Tribler.
Did we forget one of your favorite torrent software on the desktop? Share it below in the comments and don’t be afraid to share your thoughts on the clients that made our list.
Can’t make up your mind? The following are very resourceful websites that can give you an additional perspective or help you further make a decision for the right torrent client.
