The Peterborough Ex opens August 7th and runs until Sunday, August 10th. This year's theme is "Celebrate & Educate", and you can see the entire schedule of the festivities. New this year is the "Road to the Royal Butter Tart Competition".
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Head Downtown today (August 7th) from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m. for the 5th Annual Caribbean Street Festival. Taste Caribbean food, and see live entertainment on Hunter Street between George and Water.
"Organized in early August to loosely coincide with Independence Day in Jamaica and Bermuda, the Festival has grown each year with more entertainers, food vendors, businesses and non-profits exhibiting their wares! Children’s activities will be available in the Kids Zone and community members can enjoy live entertainment; both local and regional, sample delicious Caribbean-inspired food from local restaurants, browse various merchandise outlets, and experience the unique carnival culture that the Caribbean has to offer!"
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We've got surprises that you'll have to be there to see! :) pic.twitter.com/g3Uy2mDtRw
— Caribbean St Fest (@CaribbeanStFest) August 6, 2014Anything can happen in Peterborough, like growing a zucchini in your garden weighing in at nearly 8 pounds. Take a look at this tweet sent out by Peterborough's Karla Sampson...
Again, feast your eyes on this...
One more time... WOW...
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Aaron
From as far back as my early teens in the mid-90s, people from friends and family to strangers on the street have told me I have a resemblance to Adam Sandler. This timeline works because it was around this time when Sandler was a big star on SNL and was branching off onto the big screen. From looks to personality, apparently we have a lot of similarities. Recently, my daughter—who isn’t quite 4 yet—was watching Sesame Street. The day’s guest was Adam Sandler, who has always been one of my favourites. When she saw him on the screen, she immediately told my wife that he looked like me. This further cemented the opinion, and I’m good with that!
Adam
Here are 9 distinct similarities I have with Mr. Sandler...
1. People assume that I’m hilarious. I’m slightly humorous. More situational comedy and quick wit than straight up joke telling! A Sandler strength.
Aaron
2. He always gets the attractive girl! From Kate Beckinsale and Salma Hayek to Jennifer Anniston and my personal favourite Drew Barrymore, he is always with someone who is a league above—like I am with my wife.
3. We both love our grandmas!
4. Neither of us is particularly good at hockey. Golf on the other hand? Pure Champions!
5. We are both inexplicably loud at times.
Adam
6. Snappy dresser: check
7. Black sunglasses: check
8. Baseball hat: check
9. Overall good looks: double check
—by Adam Sandler, er, Aaron Elliott, Sales Director/Featured Post writer, PTBOCanada.com
Adam? Aaron? Doh!!
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Local illustrator Jason Wilkins has scored a sweet gig for a Kraft Dinner social media campaign. As he tells us, "I got an email from Scott, a producer at Anomaly, the creative ad agency for Kraft Foods. His creative team thought my illustrative approach to caricature would be perfect for Kraft Dinner's upcoming Facebook campaign. Throughout the month of August, fans will post pictures of themselves enjoying Kraft Dinner in creative ways. I'll then draw caricature versions of the winning entries which will be posted to Kraft's Facebook page. Being a longtime fan of KD, it's just awesome to be teaming up with them to create something their nearly half a million Facebook followers will enjoy!"
Take a look at the Before & After launch image to campaign...
BEFORE..
Before image of a huge KD fan
AFTER...
Jason's caricature of person that will kick off the KD campaign
Here are some more samples of Jason's illustrative caricature work...
Learn more about Jason on his Facebook page.
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Beth Visser (photo credit: Rebekah Littlejohn)
For the most part, social media is an incredibly positive, rewarding experience. Yet most everyone online—including us at @Ptbo_Canada—has experienced some form of trolling from time to time. That is, those who try to bait you with mean-spirited, manipulative, vindictive and disruptive tweets that far cross the line over "debate". We conducted an email interview with Beth A. Visser, Ph.D., a personality psychologist who teaches at Trent University's Oshawa campus, to learn more about troll/bullying behaviour and how to deal with them. Read our Q & A below...
PTBOCanada: Beth, is trolling/bullying more pervasive online? What is a good definition of an "online troll"?
Visser: Bullying is pervasive on- and offline. It’s more difficult to think of an offline equivalent to trolling. It would be like going to a party in disguise and making obnoxious and inflammatory comments, hoping that the party-goers would turn on each other and the gathering would be ruined. Internet communities give such a person far more opportunities to spread the chaos. There are lots of definitions out there, but basically, an online troll is someone who uses deceptive, disruptive, and inflammatory tactics to create unpleasantness and chaos in an online community.
PTBOCanada: Is there a significant difference between trolling/bullying or are they one in the same really?
Visser: People sometimes use the terms used interchangeably, but there is a difference— particularly in motivation. Trolls like causing havoc. These individuals will seek to create disruption in online communities, and some research has suggested that they will do so to alleviate boredom, get revenge on a community, seek attention, and gain pleasure. The damage that a troll causes often seems pretty pointless. Online bullying, on the other hand, tends to be about targeting and hurting a particular person or persons.
PTBOCanada: OK, say you are being "trolled" online. What is the best thing to do in that case? Ignore them? Block them? Repond to them in any way?
Visser: The standard advice is “don’t feed the trolls”, and that’s a good course of action. Blocking them can work, with the troll simply moving on to an easier target—but of course, a motivated troll can always come back under a new name. Trolling isn’t fun when no one engages. (Note that the situation would be different if you are the targeted victim of cyberbullying/harassment. We’re starting to see more arrests in these cases.)
PTBOCanada: How does one distinguish between debate/negativity and when it crosses the line into "trolling"? What's the rule of thumb regarding knowing when to "disengage" and not reply to them on Twitter or block them altogether?
Visser: That’s an interesting question. From the perspective of the “troller” or debater, there is a motivational distinction. Trolls want to have fun at the expense of the rest of us, whereas the passionate debater may be highly invested in a particular point of view. If you know anything about the posting habits of the other person, you might look for whether they have a history of creating havoc everywhere they go and on a variety of topics (or conversely, no history at all because they constantly change identities), or whether they simply have a strong point of view on one particular topic. For a troll, the fun ends when you disengage. Even with a sincere debater, it’s reasonable to let the other person know that you’ve both made your points and you won’t be discussing the topic with them any further.
PTBOCanada: What personality trait(s) cause a person to troll? Are they generally like that "offline" as well? Is an alter-ego created for some reason online?
Visser: In my research, I investigate the so-called “Dark Triad” of personality—that is, psychopathy (callous, manipulative, irresponsible people who lack empathy), narcissism (grandiose sense of personal importance, entitlement) and Machiavellianism (cynical world view, willingness to use deception and manipulation to achieve one’s goals) in “normal” people. Recently, some researchers have made a compelling case that everyday sadism (i.e., sadistic personality traits that don’t warrant clinical attention or assessment) should be added to make a “Dark Tetrad.” Recent research out of the University of Manitoba has shown that Machiavellianism, psychopathy, and everyday sadism were related to enjoyment of trolling in their student and community participants. Sadistic personality traits were the best predictor, suggesting that people troll because they like it. The Dark Triad/Tetrad of personality is associated with social malevolence offline as well, so it doesn’t seem to be the case that our mild-mannered Dr. Jeckylls turn into Mr. Hydes once they have access to the internet and a little anonymity. Mr. Hyde may have a whole lot more opportunity to express his social malevolence online though.
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For more information on Beth Visser's research, check out her website Bethvisser.com. You can email Beth here or follow her on Twitter here.
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Yep, amazing local photographer Jay Callaghan came through again. He captured this photo of the International Space Station flying above Peterborough last night...
What a great pic from Laura Copeland, one of the coolest we've seen of the superslide at zoo.
Update via our Facebook page, here's one Chris Nickle took of his son in 2012...
Combining the photos, eyes of a superslide...
As Jango's owner Ray Henderson tells us about capturing this image of one of his Stars Wars kittens, "I was working on my laptop and Jango saw a bird, it's a beautiful pic." Or Jango's just realizing there is a whole other galaxy out there.
These beauty tees are available at Pedal 'N' Paddle below Silver Bean Café at Millennium Park. Buy one, and tweet us pictures of you rocking one. Community pride.
Twitter is talking them up...
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