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Today, we are pleased to announce that several updates to the Thomas FX website have just gone live.

We wanted to make it easier for people to follow us on Facebook and YouTube, so we enhanced the graphic icon links to these social media sites making the linkages more visible. You can now click through to the Thomas FX Facebook page and YouTube Channel via colorful links located at the very top of every page on our site, and also from the icon links on the left naviagation portion of every page.

If you have signed up to SUBSCRIBE to NEWS from Thomas FX in the past, you may, or may not, have received one of our email newsletters. The evolution of digital media has, from our point of view, made our "Newsletter" obsolete . . . having been replaced by the Thomas FX Blog.

Accordingly, we have eliminated the old newsletter SUBSCRIBE option from our website and instead are now presenting an option to subscribe to a live feed directly from our Blog. It is the orange icon at the top and left side of every page, next to the YouTube icon.

Subscribe Today! . . . Click the Orange Button

If you have previously subscribed to our newsletter, and are still interested in being automatically updated whenever we post news on our Blog, please click on the orange RSS Blog Feed icon and re-subscribe.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but think you will be much happier with the convenience of receiving our very latest news . . . . literally as it happens!

Stay tuned . . . these are just the first of the many updates to thomasfx.com that are in development. At Thomas FX, change is the ONLY constant as we continue to strive to improve our customer service delivery model at every single level of the company.

Meanwhile, thank you for your patience everyone.

Transmission Inc., a modern content production studio that offers full production, post, and new media creative services in Los Angeles and Vancouver, has booked Thomas Studios.

Transmission will be working in Thomas Studios this week producing a rock video for the popular metal band "Seether".

Seether , originally from South Africa, is currently on tour across Canada and the United States with a musical style they promote as " post grunge / alternative metal "  . . .  Good tunes guys! Kind of like a polished version of Nickelback, who they also gig with, but with more attitude. If you haven't heard their music before, have a listen. 2012 Tour Dates Here.

Special thanks to Transmission for choosing Thomas Studios. We are all looking forward to hosting your project this week.

We put the word out last wekend that Thomas FX was looking for a new Controller and I thought some of you might like to know how things are going, especially if you are one of the people who sent us a resume.

We are down to the "short strokes" with a couple of well qualified candidates and should soon know whether one of them will be suitable for the position. However, we are still looking at resumes, with more arriving every day.

One thing that stands out in most resumes is that many CGA's change jobs every single year! Based on our experience hiring CGA's, it would appear that EVERY YEAR is LEAP YEAR if you are a CGA.

Believe it or not, there is a CGA Instructor, reportedly at Langara College, who actually tells CGA wannabes they should not stay longer than a year in any positon if they want to get ahead in the accounting "profession" ! We know this because one hopeful CGA applicant shared this with us. As a recent immigrant to Canada, she wanted to get a potential employer's perspective on what she was being taught. I will leave you to imagine our response.

From our point of view, hiring a CGA is a very risky business. True to form, and our current Controller is no exception, every year that we hire a CGA the person leaves within the year, almost to the day, and we have to replace yet another Controller. This wastes a tremendous amount of our time and causes a great deal of chaos in our company. Adding insult to injury, we then waste even more of our time teaching the latest CGA hire our business, only to have them leave a year later as well.

Accordingly, this time we are going to do things a bit differently. If you are a typical CGA who has been taught to leave your employer every year, please do not even apply for a position at Thomas FX. We are only interviewing serious candidates who can demonstrate a well-established pattern of stability in their careers.

Let me be more clear . . . If you are a "professional CGA job-jumper" please do not waste your time sending us a resume, because we are not going to waste our time reading it. However, if you are one of those (rare) true accounting professionals that has built a solid career, helping employers to build their companies while you build your accounting career, then you will fit right in at Thomas FX and we would love to hear from you.

We are currently recruiting a key member of our management team . . . one of a select group who will be offered equity in our company, a member of the next generation who will build on our proud 44-year legacy  . . . an accounting professional who will have a "hands-on" opportunity to demonstrate leadership and shape the future of Thomas FX.

Just three weeks ago, I reported that more than 54,000 people had downloaded videos from the Thomas FX YouTube Channel. Since then, the number of downloads has jumped to more than 57,000 . . .  a whopping 1,000 downloads each week.

To put that number into perspective, here is a photo of New York's Yankee Stadium where more than 57,000 people gathered for a Mass with Pope Benedict XVI in April of 2008.

If all the people who have viewed one of our youTube videos were to congregate in one place at the same time, this is what it would look like. Now THAT . . .  is a LOT of people!

If you are one of our 57,000+ viewers . . . . Thank You for checking us out! Visit often. We are always adding new content.

We were surprised to learn this morning that our Controller will be leaving us in two weeks.

Roger has unexpectedly accepted another position and will be working with a friend who moved to Canada from China just a few weeks ago.

If you, or someone you know, might be suitable for the Controller role at our company, please go to our ad on Craigslist to find out more.

This is an opportunity for a serious accounting professional to stand tall and cast a big shadow on the world.

" X " marks the spot . . . Thomas FX . . . and the time to act is now!

Thanks in advance for your help everyone!

At Thomas FX we like to give our customers quality choices and are always on the lookout for new products.

Here is the latest addition to our Fake Ice & Icicles website catagory . . . 1 1/4" acrylic ice cubes. These artificial ice cubes are the most realistic cubes we have found . . . . so far.

The edges of the cubes are partially rounded, just as the edges of real ice cubes melting in a glass would be. There are even air bubbles in the cubes, just like the air bubbles in real ice cubes.

This is a nice addition to our established line of artificial ice cubes that include acrylic ice cubes measuring, 3/8" , 5/8" , 3/4" , 1" , and now 1 1/4" .

We still manufacture our popular realistic rubber ice cubes that look like ice cubes that have just come out of your refrigerator . . . and they actually float! If you prefer, we can purchase a block of optically clear rubber ice that you can break into floating ice chunks or chips in sizes of your choice.

In addition, we offer two sizes of acrylic ice chips for people who prefer a crushed ice look in their film production, photo shoot, live event, or store window display.

Shop Online , or come into our North Vancouver store to view artificial snow and ice products in a fully appointed Snow & Ice Display room where three types of variable lighting can create a lighting environment similar to that which will exist on your set or display.

Some of you might have noticed that Thomas FX Blogs are being posted twice onto our Facebook page. Our IT team is in close contact with the app development engineers that are working to solve this annoying problem. Happily, everyone hopes to have a solution soon.

Last year we embedded a software app called RSS Graffiti in our Blog code. Using RSS Graffiti, every time we Blog, our Facebook page is automatically updated. This is very helpful in that it enables us to keep in closer contact with everyone. So far feedback has been very positive, so we know that it has been working.

Unfortunately, last Friday RSS Graffiti did a major upgrade to their code. Since that revision went live, all of our Blogs have been double posted to Facebook. According to our web development team this is happening to many RSS Graffiti users. So please rest assured that the software engineers are hard at work on resolving the issue.

We have invested heavily to make http://www.thomasfx.com/ a useful and powerful tool for customers worldwide, and we have built a very complex website.

Despite the fact that we have already burned more than $1,000,000 in development time and corporate resources, our development team is still hard at it. In fact we are currently approaching the launch of yet another major build that should enhance our service delivery model even further.

If you are one of our Facebook fans, please hang in there with us until the bugs in the new RSS Graffiti code have been ironed out. Meanwhile, we do apologize for any invonvenience that this annoying glitch might be causing.