On March 1, 2012 at 6:00 p.m. READ ‘n’ Feed will be hosting it’s annual event at the Western Development Museum.

READ ‘n’ Feed Celebrity Auction is a wonderful evening filled with fun, laughter and good times!  Click here to get your tickets.

READ ‘n’ Feed is a volunteer literacy organization that provides literacy services to adults, families, workplaces, and community.  Their goal is to support and promote literacy in the community.

This years Master of Ceremony is John Lagimodiere.  Celebrity guests include Tearrius George, defensive end for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and more!  This is going to be a great evening.

Guests will enjoy savoury tapas while bidding on fabulous silent auction items such as VIA Rail train tickets, shrubs and a one-hour consultation with Rick Van Duyvendyk from Dutch Growers and Garden Centre.  The exciting live auction offers opportunities to bid on packages featuring local celebrities such as :

- George Rathwell: Director of Education for Saskatoon Public Schools

- Mike Lieffers: Team Canada Wakeboard Coach

- Jennifer Campeau: MLA for Saskatoon Fairview

-  Charlie Clark: Ward 6 City Councillor

- Clive Weighill: City of Saskatoon Chief Police

- Jason Leo Bantle: Wildlife Photographer

- Jeffery Straker: Singer/Songwriter

-  Suzanne Paschall: writer of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, journalism and songs

- Brent Loucks: Talk Radio Host

- Penney Murphy: Entrepreneur

- Travis McBain: Racecar driver

- David Frobes: MLA for Saskatoon Centre

- Jill Smith: CBC Television News Saskatchewan host

- Costa Maragos: CBC Television News Saskatchewan host

Check out www.READSaskatoon.com for a further list of local celebrities that will be donating their time and talent.

At last years READ ‘n” Feed Michael Lieffers and wakeboarding on the river caused frenzy at a couple of tables.  We’ve seen this man in action, and so it is no surprise to us that the crowd was going wild. He and Sheri Sieferling with Waterski and Wakeboard Saskatchewan have supported this event three years in a row.  Their support continues, as they will be attending this year’s event.

If you have been to READ ‘n’ Feed in the past you know how quickly local celebrities are sold, so be sure to bring your visa if you want to be able to outbid competitors.

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Picatic is proud to introduce Picatic speed starring the one, the only, Chuck Norris!

This quick, funny, two minute, cartoon will entertain you, while informing you about the Super, Awesome, Powers of Picatic.  Yeah that’s right – Super Awesome Powers!

Rather than us listing over a hundred features we offer you, we have broken down our features into simple steps through an animated video.

If you are putting on an event, let us help you.  We guarantee, your gonna like what you see!

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Do you ever have those days you wish you could get out of bed, not comb your hair, wear an oversized shirt (as in 2-3 sizes too big), a pair of ripped pants, or pants that have multi-colors and are baggy, string together any possibly color combination you can imagine from your closet, leave your house, look AMAZING and have people follow your fashion?  Well, now you can.

Click here to buy your tickets to an Epic 80′s event hosted by All Events Entertainment and Rock 102. Bring on the 80′s!

Headlining the radical event will be one of the best Canadian party bands, TROOPER! Other Canadian Favorites such as The Headpins, Harlequin, and Black Book Value will compliment them.

Patrons of all ages can attend this event and for the 19+ crowd, there is a beer garden for you to let loose, have a beverage or too, and swallow enough liquid courage to attempt your break dance moves you use to bust out in the 80′s.  Please post those pictures to our facebook page after your evening!

This notorious era is remembered for the outrageous clothing that includes neon (the louder the better), stirrup pants, shoulder pads, scrunchie’s, parachute pants, slouch socks, leg warmers, and spandex.  The tighter the clothes or the bigger the sweaters, the better your outfit will be.

Reebok, Jordache, Esprit, and L.A Gear were necessity brands during the 80′s.  You know you owned them!  Did you also own Hypercolor shirts and acid wash jeans? Those were must have’s too.

As much as people joke about the fashion faux pas that were oh so stylish in the 80′s, it is the most popular era to relive.  Think of how many times you’ve been invited to an 80′s party or an 80’s cabaret.  It’s fun every time you attend.  You get to wear those clothes you have been saving, and you get to rock big hair with over sized accessories.

So, what will you need to attend this cabaret?  Let’s break it down!

Women’s fashion that was made in the 80’s:

Hair and Make-up – The bigger the hair, the better.  Side ponytails with scrunchies are always a good idea.  Crimping is a must as well as adding bright neon colors to your do. If you are adventurous, dye your hair pink, orange, or an interesting color of yellow.  If you have more then one scrunchie hold on to it.  There is more than one use for those bad boys.

The brighter your make-up, the more 80′s you will look.  You should think of bright pink lips, dark or sparkle blush, bright blue eye shadow, and your eyebrows should by filled in with a dark brow pencil.

Outfits – This list is extensive so point form was a must for this section.

- Oversized sweat shirts

- Shirts that fall off one shoulder

- Any shirt with shoulder pads

- A shirt that allows scrunchies to be tied on to the bottom

- Shirts with 3/4 sleeves

- A sweater tied around your waist

- Neon anything

- Acid wash jeans accompanied by leg warmers

- Stirrup pants

- Jeans with zippers on the side

- Mini skirts (the shorter the better)

- Leather skirts

- Spandex pants

- Spandex pants that look like jeans

- Big dresses – lace, puff, and bows

- Dresses that are way too tight and way too bright

- Any tight workout gear including leotard, leggings, leg warmers and a sweatband (Jane Fonda and Olivia Newton John wore these outfits best)

- Slouch socks

- Socks with lace ruffles at the top hanging over your hightops

- Jellies (Jell Shoes)

- High-tops

- Reebok’s

- Oversized accessories these include, cloth necklaces, friendship necklaces and bracelets, swatches, slap or snap bracelets, ring watches, fingerless gloves (like Madonna), anything that has rhinestones on it, and of course ribbon barrettes

Gentleman’s fashion that was made in the 80’s:

Hair – The things men did with their hair in the 80′s was truly amazing.  You have nothing but options reliving this moment in time.  You can get a wig with long layers and bangs.  You can sport a Mohawk and dye the tips.  The mullet is a must for the 80′s (business in the front, party in the back).  For those who do not know what the mullet is: it is short hair in the front with gel to keep it in place, with long hair behind your head that is probably tousled.

If those options don’t suit you, you can attempt to rock long wavy hair or frizzy hair with bangs.  Basically, anything you want to do with your hair is acceptable.  And we do mean anything.  Putting a bowl around your head and cutting your hair was even cool, this hairstyle was the mushroom cut.

Outfits – Dwayne Wayne glasses were popular along with Ray-Bans, in case you want to accessorize your face.

- Rock band shirts

- Black and Neon

- Leather Jackets

- Jean jackets

- Chains on Leather

- Rolled up sleeves

- Pastels

- Skinny ties

- Leather ties

- Sleeveless shirts

- Parachute pants

- Zebra Pants

- Tight leather pants

- Acid wash jeans/Stone wash jeans

- Sweatpants with the elastic at the bottom (any color)

- Crocodile Dundee hats

- Rimmed hats

- Doc Martins

- High tops

- Large chains

- Crosses on necklaces

- Fingerless gloves (like MJ)

Adidas, Izod, and Jordache were must haves for men in the 80′s!

Now that you know what to wear combine any of the above items to create your righteous outfit. With the outfit taken care of, we can focus on brushing up on our 80′s slang and lingo.

Words you will want to use frequently include – Epic, righteous, like, radical, totally, spaz, way/no way/yes way… add way to any yes or no answer, outrageous, dude, gnarly, gnarly dude, bogus, bodacious, and so.

If it’s your fist time speaking 80′s, or you have been out of practice for a while, no need to worry, we’ve created a few sentences for you to brush up on.

“This 80′s party is like so totally rad!”

“That is like so totally awesome dude!”

“No way dude” and the appropriate response to that question would be, ‘Way, Dude”.

‘That is like so totally bogus, what a spaz”

Now that you’ve got the outfit, information, and the lingo down pat you’re legit, as in ‘Too legit to quit”.  Thank you MC Hammer for making that term popular.

Last but not least have a great time and don’t forget to post your pic’s!  We would love to see a picture from your wild 80’s night out.

Tell us, in the comments below, about your 80′s style and the crazy outfits you wore.

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Picatic.com is featured in Now News in an article discussing, “Why luring start-ups from Toronto to SF is a good thing”.

Picatic.com is part of the Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) at RocketSpace, a shared workplace for start-ups.  Picatic’s new headquarters are located in this brilliant office space, merely blocks from Twitters headquarters.

The CTA offers a three-month government-run program to launch technology companies into Silicon Valley.  The government of Canada has been supporting this program for decades with the arts.  Their goal is to export talent with hopes of impressive returns flocking back to Canadian soil.

So far the program has been a complete success.  Another incubator is rumored to be moving into the nearby Mission Bay area for Canadian’s to continue working in the epicenter of technology.

The remainder of blog has been directly borrowed from Joshua Erretts, “Why luring start-ups from Torotno to SF is a good thing”.

“But like those arts programs, the Accelerator seems like perfect fodder for right-wing talk radio.

It is, after all, funded by taxpayer dollars. And the goal is to help emerging Canadian companies from places like Toronto make it in the Bay Area and beyond.

So I went to the downtown SF office space with all the cynicism of an angry YouTube commenter. I wanted to know, if these companies are working online, why can’t they just work from King and John? Why do they have to be in downtown SF, where the rent is somewhere in the vicinity of Barry Bonds’s salary?

“Proximity,” says Jay Parmar, at the Accelerator with his Saskatoon-based event management start-up Picatic.

This part of the country has about a third of all investment money in web business. The key is finding it.

The Canadians here point to meetings with Marc Benioff, CEO of salesforce.com, who responds to just about any email from an entrepreneur.

“You hear anecdotes about the executives who didn’t take these meetings, who didn’t have time to meet Mark Zuckerberg,” says Andrew D’Souza of Top Hat Monocle, a Waterloo company moving to King West soon. “Now they take those meetings.”

The point is, this part of the world is for the web what Wall Street is for bankers, the Vatican for Catholics and Ossington for 905ers.

As a micro-funder of these web start-ups via my tax bucks, I wondered what my return on investment is.

The benefit to Canadians is in the creation of a start-up economy here. Take BC company Summify, not part of the program but an example of how Canadians moving to the Bay Area bring cash up north.

Summify basically collected popular tweets and grouped them by subject. Twitter bought the company and moved it to San Francisco. Summify’s original investors – Canadians, one hopes – all get their dividends from the sale, money that goes back to Canada.

This sort of profit is incentive enough for other Canadian investors to put money down on other start-ups.

The more investment north of the border, the more a start-up ecosystem thrives in places like Toronto. And then more innovation.

Thierry Weissenburger, Canadian Consulate General and the brains behind the whole Canadian incubator idea, perhaps says it best.

“Innovation happens outside the box. And it’s about shaping the future. That’s the whole goal here’.”

Written by: Joshua Errett ( joshuae@nowtoronto.com). To view the full article, click here!

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