Friday, March 20, 2015
Friday, September 05, 2014
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Laughing matters...
Marky started clowning in 1991 and soon had a large following and was in demand at parties all around Anchorage and the Matsu Valley. Marky and Friends started in 1992 and put Marky's clowning and balloon art together with the most talented face painters in the state, a perfect party pairing! Marky expanded his new troupe, centered around the talents of his wife, a former Miss Alaska, PJ Williams, and her skills with a paint brush. PJ created transitory works of art on living canvases, plying the craft of face painting, and they soon had a lucrative booth at the Alaska State Fair and were finding themselves booked at both private and corporate events around the state. Marky and PJ were constantly on the lookout for additional talented artists to supplement their events, and soon had a small core group of some of the most skilled face and body painters in the state, receiving their basic training from PJ, and later attending workshops in face and body painting around the world to further perfect their craft. Marky and Friends, as they have come to be known, are based in Wasilla, but serve Alaska and the world. Marky and Friends venue credits are too numerous to mention in this limited article, with Marky being Alaska's premier clown for many years with a talent for making over 200 balloon animals and art. His favorites are rainbows, fishing poles, laser guns, bows 'n' arrows and two hearts on a magic wand. Many of Marky's balloon creations are former top place constructions in balloon twisting competitions. Marky has done seven contracts for the Japanese theme park Huis Ten Bosch, spending a total of two years in Japan. He has been on national Television in Japan five times, and local Alaskan television many times as well as featured in many Japanese commercials.
Marky's face painters are constantly perfecting their craft by attending conventions, teaching classes and staying up to date on the latest products and techniques. Of utmost importance are the materials that they select, paying the premium prices for the finest professional face and body paints available, an expense that is reflected in the unsurpassed quality of their work. Marky and Friends have had their awesome face painting booth at the Alaska State Fair in Palmer for 20 years, with featured painters coming up from as far away as Florida. The Alaska State Fair booth is by Pioneer Plaza next to Colonel Mac's Popcorn! Over the years Marky and Friends have not only moved up the trail to the current preferred position they now hold but have improved their booth from the classic blue tarps to the current professionally constructed booth which optimizes space allotment while assuring a smooth traffic flow, as Marky and Friends often find themselves with lines rivaling those of the famous Turkey Legs and Sling Shot.
And in March 2012 Marky got a new website by Webmusher Design of Wasilla. The new site features hundreds of images from Marky's many years of entertaining around Alaska, Japan and England. You can also keep in constant contact with Marky and Friends through the Facebook Group linked off the website. Visit http://www.markyandfriends.com and remember to bring your smile.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Marky and Friends bring more than just balloons and paint to the party.
Certain to be the focal point of any gathering your patrons will delight in watching World class artists create face paintings that have won acclaim and awards around the world and have been published in leading trade journals, news papers and magazines.
For the finest in all around family oriented wholesome entertainment at your next event you really should take a look at Marky and Friends website, you will be entertained.
http://www.markyandfriends.com
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
An Open letter from Susan Patch
Why is Mimi Rothschild trying so hard to pin all her bad press on Helen Hegener and Heather Idoni?
The facts: Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel and Learning by Grace, Inc. sued Heather Idoni for posting a series of links to websites critical of the Rothschild/Mandel homeschooling "academies." Heather did not create the sites linked to, she merely linked to them.
When Helen Hegener of Home Education Magazine linked to Heathers site and wrote an editorial relating her own experiences with Rothschild/Mandel she was named in the lawsuit as well.
To read Mimi Rothschild's "Speaking the Truth in Love" blog entries one might get the impression that Helen Hegener and Heather Idoni are the only two people who have ever spoken out about her business activities. Mimi Rothschild is doing her level best to demonize Helen and Heather and convince the homeschooling community and the world at large that it is she who is the victim, it is she who is being unfairly persecuted and that it is all Hegener and Idoni's doing. Apparently Mrs. Rothschild is in denial of the hundreds of forum entries, other blogs, consumer protection websites and homeschooling websites critical of her and her businesses on which she herself has responded vehemently denying everything for many years.
The reality of the situation is that many, many people over many, many years have been speaking out about the Rothschild/Mandel businesses and there is a great deal of information on the internet to prove that. Anyone can do a simple search on Yahoo, Google or any search engine. Go check Yahoo Answers, or a generic search for "Mimi Rothschild" on blogs/forums/news or web-wide on Google or any other search engine and you will find, in addition to Mimi Rothschild's own prolific self-promotion, hundreds of websites detailing her various "homeschools" and customers experiences with them.
Now Mimi is trying to set herself up as the victim of cyber-bullying, cyber-harassment and telling anyone who will read her blogs that it is all a pack of lies made up by two mean people out to destroy her. She has even gone so far as to turn this into a new business opportunity by starting a website about cyber-bullying dedicated to Helen and Heather. One that is nearly all merely cut & paste from a free Federal website. Mrs. Rothschild has made up story after story to explain why these two women are waging a vendetta against Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel and Learning by Grace, Inc. The truth of the matter is that there is no vendetta. There is no campaign to destroy Mimi being waged by Hegener and Idoni.
On August 25th Mimi Rothschild began a series of blog posts that have been dedicated to destroying Helen and Heathers credibility and accusing them of posting all sorts of lies about Mimi all over the internet. The truth is that except for one post by Helen Hegener -on her own website and Facebook comments - approved by her attorneys and linking to the Federal Court case and a short piece explaining her side of the story and that was re-posted by others with permission, there have been no blog posts about Rothschild/Mandel at all by either Helen or Heather. Not one. Anywhere. Mimi insists there are many. She insists that anything that appears anywhere speaking out against her is part of a carefully orchestrated plot by Idoni and Hegener. Even when the blog owners tell her it is not Mrs. Hegener or Mrs. Idoni writing Mimi insists that everyone loves her and if there is bad press anywhere about her it must be Hegener and Idoni doing it.
This would be comic if it were not so pathetically sad. If it were not doing real damage to real people. She is playing to an audience of her own imagining, trying to trivialize her own bad public image by destroying others. She is trying to make herself out to be a tragic heroine while viciously attacking others. She is trying to say that where there is smoke the defendants in a lawsuit she filed against them must have set the fire. She is playing the divert attention card, playing the victim card, the sympathy card and the righteous Christian crusader card all at the same time.
Mimi Rothschild's house of cards is crumbling.
© 9/13/2011 Susan Patch The opinions expressed here are solely my own.
The facts: Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel and Learning by Grace, Inc. sued Heather Idoni for posting a series of links to websites critical of the Rothschild/Mandel homeschooling "academies." Heather did not create the sites linked to, she merely linked to them.
When Helen Hegener of Home Education Magazine linked to Heathers site and wrote an editorial relating her own experiences with Rothschild/Mandel she was named in the lawsuit as well.
To read Mimi Rothschild's "Speaking the Truth in Love" blog entries one might get the impression that Helen Hegener and Heather Idoni are the only two people who have ever spoken out about her business activities. Mimi Rothschild is doing her level best to demonize Helen and Heather and convince the homeschooling community and the world at large that it is she who is the victim, it is she who is being unfairly persecuted and that it is all Hegener and Idoni's doing. Apparently Mrs. Rothschild is in denial of the hundreds of forum entries, other blogs, consumer protection websites and homeschooling websites critical of her and her businesses on which she herself has responded vehemently denying everything for many years.
The reality of the situation is that many, many people over many, many years have been speaking out about the Rothschild/Mandel businesses and there is a great deal of information on the internet to prove that. Anyone can do a simple search on Yahoo, Google or any search engine. Go check Yahoo Answers, or a generic search for "Mimi Rothschild" on blogs/forums/news or web-wide on Google or any other search engine and you will find, in addition to Mimi Rothschild's own prolific self-promotion, hundreds of websites detailing her various "homeschools" and customers experiences with them.
Now Mimi is trying to set herself up as the victim of cyber-bullying, cyber-harassment and telling anyone who will read her blogs that it is all a pack of lies made up by two mean people out to destroy her. She has even gone so far as to turn this into a new business opportunity by starting a website about cyber-bullying dedicated to Helen and Heather. One that is nearly all merely cut & paste from a free Federal website. Mrs. Rothschild has made up story after story to explain why these two women are waging a vendetta against Mimi Rothschild, Howard Mandel and Learning by Grace, Inc. The truth of the matter is that there is no vendetta. There is no campaign to destroy Mimi being waged by Hegener and Idoni.
On August 25th Mimi Rothschild began a series of blog posts that have been dedicated to destroying Helen and Heathers credibility and accusing them of posting all sorts of lies about Mimi all over the internet. The truth is that except for one post by Helen Hegener -on her own website and Facebook comments - approved by her attorneys and linking to the Federal Court case and a short piece explaining her side of the story and that was re-posted by others with permission, there have been no blog posts about Rothschild/Mandel at all by either Helen or Heather. Not one. Anywhere. Mimi insists there are many. She insists that anything that appears anywhere speaking out against her is part of a carefully orchestrated plot by Idoni and Hegener. Even when the blog owners tell her it is not Mrs. Hegener or Mrs. Idoni writing Mimi insists that everyone loves her and if there is bad press anywhere about her it must be Hegener and Idoni doing it.
This would be comic if it were not so pathetically sad. If it were not doing real damage to real people. She is playing to an audience of her own imagining, trying to trivialize her own bad public image by destroying others. She is trying to make herself out to be a tragic heroine while viciously attacking others. She is trying to say that where there is smoke the defendants in a lawsuit she filed against them must have set the fire. She is playing the divert attention card, playing the victim card, the sympathy card and the righteous Christian crusader card all at the same time.
Mimi Rothschild's house of cards is crumbling.
© 9/13/2011 Susan Patch The opinions expressed here are solely my own.
Monday, April 11, 2011
Logos and branding
Just a few of the logos I've worked up recently...all images ©Webmusher or the respective client.
Contact bill@webmusher.com for your design needs.
Monday, October 12, 2009
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RAID also provides twice the read rate of a single disk to increase performance. When multiple requests are made for the same data, demand can be distributed between two disks therefore decreasing response time for data access.
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We operate out of two world class datacenters, ThePlanet and NAC. These two locations provide our clients with complete redundancy.
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ThePlanet is located in Dallas, Texas and offers complete redundancy in power, network connectivity, and security. The network architecture utilizes the enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper M20 routers and Cisco switches. The network is fully meshed and redundant with 10 tier one backbone providers with at least 1Gbps or greater uplink which includes AboveNet, AT&T, Broadwing, Global Crossing, Level3, nLayer, Sprint, Time Warner, UUNET, and Verio. Datacenter
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Intel Dual Xeon Servers
Our servers run Dual Intel Xeon processors with 2-4GB of RAM and RAID protected hard drives providing the power, versatility, and reliability required for high end servers. The combination provides outstanding performance and headroom for peak workloads, resulting in faster response times.
Raid Disk Mirroring
RAID is short for Redundant Array of Independent Disks and used to mirror data on two disk drives simultaneously to ensure data integrity. Disk mirroring protects from loss of data by instantly switching to the other disk with no interruption in service if one of the disk drives fail without requiring data restoration from a backup.
RAID also provides twice the read rate of a single disk to increase performance. When multiple requests are made for the same data, demand can be distributed between two disks therefore decreasing response time for data access.
Red Hat Linux Operating System
We exclusively use the Red hat Linux operating system (Enterprise & Fedora) on our servers. Linux is one of the most popular server operating systems in the industry today due to it’s scalability and track record as the most stable operating system on the market. It is constantly under active development which insures a reliable, secure, and robust platform for web hosting environments.
We operate out of two world class datacenters, ThePlanet and NAC. These two locations provide our clients with complete redundancy.
ThePlanet Datacenter
ThePlanet is located in Dallas, Texas and offers complete redundancy in power, network connectivity, and security. The network architecture utilizes the enterprise routing and switching engines from Juniper M20 routers and Cisco switches. The network is fully meshed and redundant with 10 tier one backbone providers with at least 1Gbps or greater uplink which includes AboveNet, AT&T, Broadwing, Global Crossing, Level3, nLayer, Sprint, Time Warner, UUNET, and Verio. Datacenter
NAC Datacenter
NAC is located in Parsipanny, New Jersey and considered one of the best networks in the world. NAC is one of the largest providers in the Massachusetts to Washington DC area, with core market focus in New York and New Jersey and has connections to multiple tier one backbone providers including Level3, AboveNet, UUNET, InterNAP, Genuity and over 300 peering points and transit providers spanning three countries within North America and Europe.
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