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Our role in the music business

How we affect the music business

Tala El Hallak

American University of Beirut

SOAN 207

Professor Jad Melki

How we affect the music business

Artists need to have records companies in order to promote their records and market them. Moreover we will see that there are different types of companies. All those companies care about is business and money. They would do anything in order to increase the money entering the company. Some of the people who work there might even hate their jobs, and might hate music but continue working there for money, especially when it’s a big company. We will talk about the advantages and disadvantages of each of those label companies.

Musicians are often confused and don’t know what record company they should go for. In my opinion, beginners might as well start with smaller companies such as the independent ones. In addition we will see how most of the songs turn around the same topics, and same themes. Some of them in different countries might be banned.

We will see as well how a dominant leader in music sales can fail and lose his place as a leader in the market.

Unfortunately business and money have become the main reasons for all the decisions taken.

How we affect the music business

Each and every artist belongs to a Record label company that promotes his songs and markets them. Throughout this essay we will see how fans can support their artists even though there are problems with the label companies. Then we will see the different aspects of each of Major labels companies and Independent labels companies. Finally we will discuss an issue concerning Wal-Mart and how it affected both artists and consumers.

Artists Album’s Name Universal Sony Warner Music EMI Independent Label Rotana
Mariah Carey The Emancipation of Mimi The Island DEF Jam Music Group
Shakira Laundry Service EPIC Records
Michael Jackson Thriller EPIC Records
Elissa Tsadaq Bmein Rotana Records
Justin Timberlake Justified Zomba Recording

..all this time A&M

Tribute Virgin Records
Elton John

The one Rocket Records
Enya A Day without Rain Reprise Records
Pink Floyd The Division Bell EMI
Total number of Albums An album list price Total cost of my albums

My collection

Breakdown of the cost of a single CD at $15.99 A breakdown of the total cost of my collection of $2398.5
Musicians’ unions $0.17 $23.98
Packaging/manufacturing $0.8 $120
Publishing Royalties $0.82 $120
Retail Profit $0.8 $120
Distribution $0.9 $144
Artists Royalties $1.6 $240
Label Profit $1.7 $264
Marketing/Promotion $2.4 $260
Label Overhead $2.91 $456
Retail Overhead $3.89 $575

According to the above chart, the Label companies are the most to suffer from the free downloads of albums. Their overhead and profit in addition to the marketing profit will drop a lot. Artists can find alternative ways to generate money.

There are several ways for fans to support an artist they like or a band. Every artist needs to have a record label in order to produce, distribute, manufacture and promote his album. A record label is a company that directs “the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion, and enforcement of copyright protection of sound recordings and music videos” (wapedia.mobi/en/record_label). But wouldn’t it be possible to support an artist by pressuring a dominant music company particularly when fans find it irresistible to wait for the record label to release the expected album or delay its release for unreasonable excuses? Such is the case of the Lupe Fiasco long waited release of his album in Manhattan, where protestors assembled in front of Warner Music Group demanding the release of the ready album.

Another way of supporting an artist would be through the internet via facebook and other social networks. For instance, creating a page concerning a particular artist could motivate all the fans to join the page and support him. When an even comes up such as a concert, people and fans show support when they come in big numbers. Therefore a way of supporting artists would be by assisting to the concerts or events organized. An artist would then feel encouraged.

There are two types of record labels, the independent ones and the major ones. The independent labels also known as “indies” offer less money for the whole process of recording, producing, manufacturing, distributing… However independent labels give much more attention and importance to the artist than the major labels do. They are in a way guiding the artist and taking him from step one. Owen Husney says “You can get them working side by side with you”.  He means that independent labels really focus on the few artists they have that are signed up.

Major labels offer much more money than independent labels do. Therefore they may offer a large investment in the process of recording an album, organizing tours and concerts, video clips and more. Not only money plays an important role but the good connections as well. Major labels know well their business and are well connected everywhere. This could help the artist in his career. Although major labels have all these advantages, artists can sometimes encounter difficulties and problems because major labels connect with a variety of artists and not all of them are successful. That is why the big associations can sometimes get rid of a certain band or artist because of the low number of albums that were sold. Major companies can’t give everyone all the attention needed because of the amount of artists involved. “You can find yourself with a record out that isn’t getting much promotion and a label that doesn’t return your phone calls” (musicians.about.com/od/beingamusician/a/majorlabelpandc.htm). Some people who work at major label companies don’t have a passion for music. Their main concern is business and specially money. We don’t find this or rarely do in the independent labels companies. This could lead the artist in a wrong direction and probably end his career.

A big difference between an independent label and a big label is the kind of music that is promoted. Major labels put out a variety of songs and genres that include several artists because as we said previously, major labels have a large number of bands and artists. Alternatively independent labels usually promote the same type of songs and artists. There certainly are qualitative differences between both of the companies because major labels have more money and permit themselves to pay more for quality. Since Independent labels are financially less powerful than Major label Recording companies, it is normal that the production of the music gets affected.  But the drawback of having to deal with an indie label company is the marketing and promotion sector which demands a big amount of money. “A lack of funding means a smaller budget for recording, production of physical disks, packaging, distribution costs, tour support, merchandise, etc. Another significant issue caused by a lack of budget is that proper marketing for the artist is sacrificed” (Othrow Jonathan)

Based on what I saw in my music collection, I can tell that there is less freedom of expression and more control by the censorship in Arabic music. Issues such as politics, religion are banned from the music companies. “Artist that address issues such as politics, sex, religion, minorities and the like have been and continue to be persecuted” by Ziad Rahbani. In the US, most musicians agree to keep a clean version of their songs specifically in megastores (such as virgin, wal-mart…). They try to avoid mentioning anything about their beliefs and thoughts, homosexuality, abortion. For instance Nirvana changed its song title from “Rape me” to “Waif me” for megastores.

Yet we don’t find any of these topics in Arabic music. They are totally banned. In the US, it is very possible to find the album as it was recorded (including the swear words, and unwanted topics) in stores.

After looking in my records collection, I noticed that generally most of the songs are about love whether they are English or in Arabic. Musicians avoid songs about politics or religion because most of the time they are banned. Love is generally the theme that dominates most of the records collections. People have different cultures, different values, and different ways of viewing things. Therefore when an artist writes a song about any topic, all that matters is his point of view because people for example could interpret the lyrics in a different way depending on their social backgrounds or traditions. Some people even avoid listening to songs that go against their cultures or values even though they like its beat. For example some people would refuse to listen to Akon’s song “Noisy neighbor” because he describes a woman next door getting undressed.

Finally some large companies who used to be dominant leaders in the sales of CD’s are now failing and are thinking small.Wal-Mart for instance who used to be very important for its records sales is now focused on small stores and not expanded everywhere. Wal-Mart is offering so many discounts and different offers. One of the reasons for getting small would be to fit in densely populated places. Another reason is to attract people to the market because the lower the prices are the better it is for the customers. But some people lose their jobs and stay unemployed. So they can’t even afford to buy anything even with the low prices. “Cheaper is not better if it causes pressure on the suppliers as well as lowers the standard of living for the employee. The low prices become only a better deal for the retailer not for the consumer” (Business and society)

In conclusion we can say that in general all that matters in some companies is business and how to make money as fast as possible. Even if the work is not correctly done, it doesn’t matter as long as it brings money to the company. Therefore artists should be careful before choosing whether they should sign up with a Major label company or an independent label company. Both have advantages and disadvantages. It is up to the artist to see what is more convenient depending on his status. Artists need good record labels in order to be successful and to give everything in their music. They should keep in mind as well the idea of censorship. An artist who disobeys the law and states different fragile topics mentioned earlier, might get into trouble and even know the end of his career.

-Rahbani, Ziad. (2009, June 18). Retrieved from

-Wikipedia. Retrieved from

-Husney, Owen. (n.d.) Major Labels vs. Independent Labels. Retrieved from

-McDonald, Heather (n.d.) . Major record label deals: pros and cons. Retrieved from

-Othrow, Jonathan. (2010, May 16). Indie vs. major: which record label contract is right for you? Retrieved from

http://www.musicthinktank.com/mtt-open/indie-vs-major-which-record-label-     contract-is-right-for-you.html

-Business and society. (2008, April 27). Is Wal-Mart good for America? Retrieved from

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Pure Forskolin Extract Review

Pure Forskolin Extract Review

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Perhaps the strongest weight loss supplement on the market today, Coleus Forskohlii Extract or "Forskolin" is a 100% natural supplement that is extracted from the root of the Coleus Forskohlii plant; which is a member of the mint family. The Forskolin plant grows in Nepal, India and Thailand.  It has also been long used in traditional Asian medicine.

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Warburton overnighter

Just a few pics at this stage. Day 1. A brilliant ride to Warburton via Whittelsea, Kinglake, Yarra Glen, Healesville (for lunch), then the Black Spur to Marysville and then along the  Reefton Spur to our digs at Warburton. The Reefton run was probably my favorite part of the day’s riding – though not everyone shared that view.

Day 2 we headed for home through Healesville and up the Melba Hwy to Yea for lunch. At this stage the temperature had risen to the high 20’s. After a pleasant lunch stop under the trees in Yea we headed for home via Strath Creek, Broadford and Bacchus Marsh. The last part was a bit tedious and quite hot on the bike with the temp hovering around 32C in Bacchus Marsh. All up a terrific weekend with 16 motorcycles (5 that were 2-up), lots of good riding and fun – and not a drop of rain! Door to door, we did 648 kms on the ZX14R.

A quick break in Gisborne.

Some Italian exotica at the Healsville Bakery

After a break at the end of the Reefton Spur.

Dorothy and I took a stroll around Warburton. It is really picturesque, however, the township seems as though it has seen better days.

Yarra River flows through the township

A rare occasion when I was on the wrong end of the camera (iPhone 6S actually)

Socialising at the hotel

Photo credit above pic: Gentle

The most handsome beast there!

Below: Lunch stop in Yea on the way home

Try a little tenderness

Much thanks to Gentle (Ron) for organising a terrific weekend and leading Saturday’s run. And thanks also to everyone who attended and contributed to making it a successful, fun couple of days.

Post Script: This entry from 2008 on Wikipedia regarding the Black Spur made me smile

In March 2008, the Victorian state government has allocated $547,000 to improve motorcycle safety on the Black Spur. Stage 1 of the works has involved reducing the speed limit from 100 km/h to 80 km/h, effective Thursday 29 May 2008.[4]


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Well, I suppose it really began back when Daylight Savings Time ended.

The little dwarf pomegranate (Punica granatam var. nana) I got in April is over a foot tall now. It was quite happy outside on a sunny patio all summer; I didn’t prune or shape it at all and it formed a nice compact little bush. When I brought it inside in October it shed a few leaves – no surprise there, and the top growth continued rather spindly, also no surprise. Then it started flowering. That was a surprise. It’s currently sitting in a south-west facing bay window, so I entertain a few hopes of little pomegranates in a few months.

Out in the garden, I’ve mounded the roses, but not yet burlapped them. This November has been fairly but inconsistently mild, but it looks as if the cold is here to stay now. All I’ve got left to do outside is wrap up a few things, bring some potted plants under cover (garage or basement) and empty the rainbarrels. Oh, and the patio fountain needs to be emptied and brought in too.

The worm bin I started in February has exceeded all expectations. The compost it produces is very rich and dense, almost fudgy. That makes it difficult to use as a potting medium, so I might look into trying different bedding materials to see if that makes a difference; currently I use shredded paper. I might try shredded dead leaves (free, like old paper) or coir (coconut fibre; requires a trip to the garden centre and not free). Some people aren’t happy about a bin of worms in the house all winter, but I think they’re worth their weight in gold. Especially if it means I don’t need to trek through a foot of ice and snow to get to the compost bin in winter.


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Piccolo Bar Cafes

Pierro Marazzi first came to london as a fifteen year old boy from Piacenzo ,Italy not from a large family his he left them back home and came to london to find work.
He originally had his heart set on becoming a priest and was to join the seminary but this was not to be, on arriving in london he settled in the Clerkenwell area which had a large Italian community he got his first job as a kitchen hand in a small restaurant in Grays Inn Road.
He worked in several restaurants over the years building up his extensive knowledge of the catering trade .
His first real taste of running a a cafe for himself was for an Italian couple in Queen Victoria Street, in the city just by Blackfriars Station he ran this on his own for a year or so and eventually took over the lease from the couple who retired from the cafe.
Pierro started work in his first Piccolo Bar in 1969-70 he took the name “Piccolo” from a small flute literally meaning “little one” soon after this in 1974 he opened Piccolo Bar number two at no7 Gresham street in the city the self taught chef from Piacenza opened another two cafes Buckingham Gate now sold , and the splendid Piccolo,Mayfair run by good friend Louise and team.
Having worked with the cab trade for over 30years providing good tasty food for hungry London cabbies he was recently recognised by The Worshipful Company of Hackney Carriage Drivers for his outstanding service to the trade you can see his certificate hanging pride of place in Piccolo,Mayfair right next to Lennox Lewis.
At 67 years of age (young) he still has a hand in the overall running of the cafes helped by his handsome son “Fabio” he told me to put that in or no interview.
We at Taxi Guides of London would like to thank for letting us hold our meetings in the upstairs dining area while getting this venture off the ground supplied with coffee an goodies.
We wish you all the best in the future keep up the good work from all of us cabbies out there.

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Old London Police Phone Box.

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History Of the River Police

I don’t know haw many of you watched the ‘Flotilla’ or river pageant for the Jubilee celebrations in London, but if you did then you will have almost certainly seen the Thames River Police at work. I myself was sitting opposite here in Rotherhithe at the Angel Pub and saw a pleasure boat try to turn back upstream right in front of this building. Needless to say the boats of the Thames River Police swarmed around it and persuaded it to carry on downstream.

In 1799 Parliament passed an act allowing work to commence on the building of docks in the area that we now calldocklands. The reason for this was that trade in Georgian Britain had expanded so much that facilities, and crucially protection, was needed for ships when they docked loaded with goods from all over the world. Around a half a million pounds worth of goods were being stolen, an enormous amount in today’s money although low pay meant that many of the 33,000 dock workers felt this was part of their pay. Much of it was being lost by the West India Merchant’s Company.

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River Police Station

You can visit various parts of the river on our Classic Tours of London

Even before this act, Ex master and JP John Harriot and Magistrate Patrick Colquhoun proposed a police force of fifty men with premises right here paid for by the company. It cost about £4,200 to set up and was judged a success when it prevented £122,000 worth of pilfering.The force they created prefigured the Metropolitan Police by thirty years so it is interesting to note the police as we know it was created to prevent commercial crime. Not surprisingly it was unpopular and in the first year a mob of 2000 dockers attacked the station here and tried to burn it down. The officers fought back bravely and saved the station but Gabriel Franks was shot and killed, thus becoming the first British police casualty.
In 1839 they were subsumed into the new Met Police Force and re-names Thames Division.

Todays ‘Marine Police Unit’ covers not only the Thames but also small rivers, canals, lakes, docks and reservoirs which as well as having safety issues attract criminal activity. Some of the boats used bear the names John Harriot and Patrick Colquhoun. The old building here has a morgue as bodies are often recovered and a museum that can be visited by appointment.
If you want to get a feel for the operations and life of the modern Marine Police Unit as it is snow called you can read William Boyd’s excellent 2009 novel Ordinary Thunderstorms which features a Marine Policewoman working the Thames.

Tower Bridge

Tower Bridge

Want to find out more on what we know, why not book a tour with us, email us here or call 0800 955 0688

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Eton Boys Club – Part 2

In 1907 Gerald Wellesley, 22 years old, arrived in Hackney Wick and quickly realised that there was a problem with the “Missions scope” for the young boys and men were all dealt with but, not those in between.
So in 1909 he took twenty 18 years olds who had attended the mission to form the “Old boys club” which opened in near by Daintry Street. The Etonians who came to work with the boys became more involved in the members lives, more than just organising sports and tuition, they would appear in court if say the boys were caught playing football in the streets on a Sunday so Gerald Wellesley asked for pitches to open in parks and open spaces on a Sunday but, in doing so fell out with the clergy of the Eton Mission. Introductions into the City and letters of recommendation were normal as were start up capitol for small business and loans were all common practises to members.

There were many clubs that came into being from the Eton Mission. “The Otters swimming club”, a boxing club, The Harriers, a running club on Victoria Park road, Eton Manor rugby club, and Eton Manor athletics club are all still in existence.

In July 1913 the Eton Manor boys club moved into Riseholme Street which now housed three clubs – the boys club 14-18, the young boys club 18-25 and the old boys club 25+. The new club house was located next to Victorian Park Station north of Wick road on the site of the old manor house and manor farm now formed the Eton Manor club. Gerald Wellesley, Alfred Wagg, Edward Cadogan and Arthur Villiers all old Etonians setup the Manor Charitable Trust to finance and manage the Eton Manor clubs. Through old Etonians and friends in the highest areas of society donated to the trust. The list of donors was described as the finest of Edwardian society.

The club house and gym were the finest of the time, and the boys were encouraged to excel and well known public people and sportsmen were invited to meet and inspire the boys.

In 1923 thirty acres was bought across the river lea in Leyton know as the Wilderness which became a vast sporting Eden. After the 1948 London Olympics Arthur Villiers a director of Barings Bank bought the Olympic running track from Wembley stadium for the Wilderness. Arthur had no artistic pleasures but took to driving around the continent after World War 2 and was seen gazing at the “Campo Santo” and the leaning tower in Pisa Italy and more importantly the lights that illuminated them at night. Once the running track was installed at the Wilderness this was quickly followed by floodlights and became the first track in England to be floodlit.

Eton Manor closed in 1967 due to many issues but, mainly due to a compulsory purchase order for the building of the A12. The Wilderness however, 45 years later, will form part of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park where the Paralympic tennis will take place. You can see this on one of our taxi tours in London The Olympic legacy will see the Wilderness continue its long tradition with sport and will become the National Hockey Centre.

In 2007 £50,000 was awarded by the Heritage trust to create a permanent oral history of Eton Manor through its existing members accounts and pictures which can be seen at the Bishopsgate Institute.

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Eton College Boys Club – Part 1

The Eton college mission arrived in Hackney Wick in 1880. At the time is was widely reported that “The boy problem” where each year the youth were sent out without aid, sympathy or help from the state, with only the church or private help available.

The “boy problem” was widely recognised on both sides of the Atlantic. London and New York was a hotbed of “gangy tendencies” which was regarded as a natural tendency of childhood to adolescence. So the issue was how to manage this “Tendency” and the solution was to change the anarchic clandestine gang into a well organised and highly visible club. To this day we constantly hear of the same issues that gang members require mentors, people to look up to and a place to belong.In 1880s New York philanthropists failed to manage the gangs, however here in London churches, colleges and schools began to set up clubs and the Eton college mission arrived in Hackney Wick in 1880. Eton college undertook to staff and pay for the Eton Mission before the more famous Oxford and Cambridge universities arrived in the mid 1880s.

Toynbee Hall in Commercial Street was started by Balliol College Oxford in 1884 where Pierre de Coubertain the founder of the modern day Olympics visited on several occasions in the 1880s as part of his research to improve educational practises.

“The moral force of a gentleman’s company did as much if not more than practical and financial help”.

The Eton Mission was the size of the Eton college playing fields and was located in between Hackney Marsh and the North London railway. The area at this time was described as being of “the very poorest class”.The Eton mission boys club was located in Mallard Street and was described as a “rough boys club” so in 1883 a more gentler club was formed from the mission Sunday school and setup in nearby Selwyn Street and both clubs eventually merged to form the Eton Mission boys club.

Old Etonian EMS Pilkington wrote “I have searched Moggs guide to London and have set of for Victoria Park station”.
Many of the Etonian students who came to Hackney Wick lived in nearby Polver street accommodation….part to coming shortly.

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St Katherines Dock tour information

St Katherine’s Docks lying between London docks and the Tower of London built on 23 acres The architect was Philip Hardwick he collaborated with Telford on the designing of the warehouse and other buildings. The waters consisted of a large basin of 1.5 acres leading to 2 docks of irregular shape of 4 acres each These were surrounded by sturdy warehouses of yellow brickwork 6 floors high supported by heavy Tuscan columns of iron and providing 116.000 sq metres of storage area to house such commodities as tea rubber wool marble sugar tallow matches and live turtles. The warehouses were unusual in being built close to the water having little unloading area for transit sheds in front of them so that goods could be immediately stored when they were unloaded. The lock to the river was somewhat narrow so was unable to admit large ships, and this probably led to the fact that the docks were never used to their full capacity. In 1864 the St Katherine Company merged with that of the London Docks. The Docks closed in 1968 and sold to the GLC for £1.5 million which was less than the original cost. Taylor Woodrow built the ugly and obtrusive Tower Thistle Hotel. The magnificent warehouses have been converted into shops restaurants cafes and pubs with offices above or replaced by modern residential and commercial developments which the waters have become a marina for luxury yachts.

Why not take a tour of London and take in St Katherines dock and the surrounding areas like tower bridge and the tower of london

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Ivory House Tour information

Ivory House is the last warehouse of the original project. It was completed by George Aitchinson clerk of the works to St Katherine’s Docks Company. The original fire resistant construction has brick arches and wrought iron beams, circular cast iron columns and brick outer walls and wrought iron roof trusses. It also has an Italianate tower stone string courses at the top of the walls. But the building has a dark tainted past in that it was the storage area for ivory on its way from elephant to the piano trinkets and boxes that have always been so collectable. A photograph dating from the 1890s has a caption that reads that to fill these rooms it would have required the slaughter of 30,000 elephants.

Preserved on the Quay to the South is one half of the unique double leaf footbridge of 1828 by Thomas Telford one of the earliest moveable iron bridges remaining in Britain. Its structure is reminiscent of the bridge in Ironbridge, Shropshire. The present footbridge was built to replace this one and is also retractable.

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Dickens Inn, St Katherines Dock

The Dickens Inn, has nothing to do with Dickens except that his grandson also called Charles opened it in 1976. The original building which probably dated from the 1790s stood on the Thames side site just east of its current location. It is not known what it was originally used for, perhaps for brewing or as a spice warehouse. In the 1820’s its timber frame was encased in a more modern brick shell to make the warehouse conform to the architectural style of St Katherine’s by Thomas Telford. The building survived the war only to be condemned for demolition for redevelopment in the 1970’s.

The Dickens Inn at St.Katherines Dock

The Dickens Inn at St.Katherines Dock

It was reprieved when they discovered the interesting timbers concealed inside the exterior skin of brick
It could not stay on its original site as this had been earmarked for housing under the St Katherine dockland development scheme. The 120 ton timber shell was moved some 70 yards and erected on this present site. The original timbers tailboards and ironwork were used in the restoration and the building reconstructed in the style of a three storey balconied inn of the 18 century.
The top room is the Dickens Room, the 1st floor is the Pickwick room and the ground floor is the Tavern. Real ales and the in house brewed Dickens own bitter is drawn from casks as are the Spirits and Sherrys which are drawn from wood, and it has sawdust on the floor.Pevsner says rather pithily the pubs present beguiling weatherboarded and galleried exterior by Renton Howard Wood Levin Partnership 1975-6 is a fantasy, fantasy or not it is an attractive and obviously successful pub.

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11 Free Microsoft Tools You’re Overlooking | PCWorld Business Center

11 Free Microsoft Tools Youre Overlooking | PCWorld Business Center.

Much is said these days about the “cloud.” How you can work, store data, photos and share all of it with co-workers, family and friends using (largely) free online tools from Google, Yahoo, Box.net, and many other web application players.

It’s not that well-known, however, just how many good (and free) tools that Microsoft makes available. Not all of them are cloud-based, but many of them are, allowing the same freedom of access and sharing capabilities as the other more well-known tools.

Introducing an All New Box: Simplicity Remade

Introducing an All New Box: Simplicity Remade « The Box Blog – Read about new features, interviews and more.

I’ve had a Box.net account for some time now, but have just recently gotten into using it heavily. Box.net basically provides storage in “the cloud” – that amorphous thing that all the Microsoft commercials refer to lately, and you’ll find it discussed on most computer- or software-related blogs as well.

Just as I’ve been a long-time proponent of web-based email services, first with Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, and now everyone’s favorite Gmail from Google, Box.net provides storage for files, as well as sharing tools that let you collaborate with others. Those “others” can be anywhere in the world, as long as they’ve got an Internet connection. I think it’s safe to say that nearly all business people these days have a connection to the Net. They can be co-workers, other freelancers, or others in your business.

Box.net offers free storage that allows for 5GB, and ramps up through a number of other storage size options aimed at individuals or business accounts, and even enterprise level accounts.

WindowsZone: OffiSync–Synchronize MS Office with Google Apps

WindowsZone: OffiSync–Synchronize MS Office with Google Apps.

OffiSync Open Document Dialog Box in MS Word 2010

Those of you either using or thinking of using the Google Apps online suite of tools will find this interesting. OffiSync, a free download, provides a toolbar for your Microsoft Office applications that allows instant access to your Google Apps document space. You can save to, and open from, your Google Apps documents as if it were just another hard drive connected to your system.

OffiSync can be downloaded and installed in less than ten minutes – more if you need to hit Google Apps and create an account. Hint: If you have a Gmail address, or a Google Account of any kind, you already have access to Google Apps. Simply go to google.com/apps and login.

If you need to sign up for Google Apps, try the free version, still available at that link.

Beauty of the Web – IE9 Beta Product Guide

Beauty of the Web.

IE9 Beta Product Guide, very helpful. Watch movies and get information covering Fast, Clean, Trusted and a catch-all Top Features. Also available in PDF or XPS document formats for download.

IE9 Beta First Impressions

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IE9 Beta - Can it compete with the upstarts?

I almost always try the beta or test version of software. I am not so much into testing for testing sake, just trying out new stuff, before it is widely available. I tried the test Win95 interface for Windows NT 3.5, back before NT 3.51 adopted the new Win95 interface outright. For that matter, I took part in the Windows 95 “Preview Program” – little more than a glorified Beta test, for which I paid – $35.00? – to take part in. What was I thinking?

Ah well, with the IE9 beta, I again am trying the beta version, for the same old “trying something new” reason, plus one other… I’m curious, you see. I’ve NEVER been excited or very impressed with Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser. Pretty much as soon as Netscape Navigator was available, I grabbed it and didn’t look back. Same with Netscape Communicator, Mozilla Firebird (yes, it was called Firebird until they had to change the name). What will the IE9 Beta bring to the browsing table? Can it compete with upstarts Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, not to mention Opera?

I’ve always used IE, through its various iterations. The bare bones IE2, the barely can remember it IE3, IE4, which was not “that” bad… IE5, which I didn’t really like, IE6, which I pretty much hated (along with all other IT/web development folks)… then IE7, which was a big improvement over IE6, and then IE8, which, all things considered, is not a bad browser at all. Which is a good thing, considering that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer still holds nearly 65% of the browser market.  Read more of this post

What’s Yahoo’s “Plan B” For Search?

image It doesn’t sounds like there is much of a “Plan B” in Yahoo’s playbook. This will throw the SEO world for a loop. Everyone is trying to formulate a strategy for the Microsoft-Yahoo search “merger” – and now the possibility that it may not happen at all.

Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan outlines here how Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has downplayed search in the last few months.

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DALLAS – September 25, 2017Infomart Data Centers, a national wholesale data center provider, announces that its President, John Sheputis, will participate on a panel during DataCenterDynamics Colo + Cloud – Dallas, taking place at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel in Dallas, Texas.

During the panel session, “The Cloud Transition and Why It’s Confusing,” Mr. Sheputis will discuss the challenges data centers face with cloud adoption as well as the true opportunity with cloud as an IT solution.

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September 26, 2017; 3:00 – 3:40 p.m.

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AJ Byers, CEO, Root Data Center

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Founded in 2006, Infomart Data Centers is an award-winning industry leader in building, owning and operating highly efficient, cost-effective wholesale data centers. Each of its national facilities meet or exceed the highest industry standards in all operational categories of availability, security, connectivity and physical resilience.  Recognized for its consistent excellence, Infomart Data Centers is dedicated to maintaining its reputation of reliability and best-in-class management while offering flexible solutions to meet the needs of its clients.

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Clarification from Sentosa Leisure Group on alleged rape case

Posted by temasektimes on May 11, 2012

Sentosa Leisure Group has sent us an email in response to an earlier article published yesterday on its part-time staff being allegedly involved in a rape case at Sentosa beach.

Its manager wrote that they can only confirm the employee in question is a part-time staff and not whether if he is a foreigner or local.

13 Responses to “Clarification from Sentosa Leisure Group on alleged rape case”

  1. Ken Lee said

  2. What kind of “clarification” is this? Rape case means rape case.

  3. Stirrer said

    What kind of clarification is that?
    First it was reported as Indian FT, now they “clarify” they are not sure which animal was it??

  4. C.H. Tan said

    Yet again another cheapo company only looking for cheap sfaff.. There are alot of life guard in singapore and why Sentosa L G employ such type of people. Understand every year there are still water and open water Champ. competition and why non of the people are ask to take up part time. Ahha. it is because there are to expensive to employ and FT are cheap.

  5. Blood suckers said

    If not, then why the Sentosa leisure group don’t openly clarify what is the nationality of that rapist.

  6. speechless said

    huh? they need to ask the staff if he is a ft or local? i thought he say they got to hire ft for this job coz local dun wan do?

  7. tccs said

    catch no ball? Sentosa need to explain what was the discrepancy between TRE article and its own statement to the press mah.

  8. Emeritus Wannabe said

    Are there too many of the same kinds in their midst that they are not sure of which?

  9. FR said

    Dear Ms Zee,

    #1 Why are you contacting TNP and Shinmin when the report came from Lianhe Wanbao?

    #2 Who is responsible for the initial fact that he is “an Indian national”?

    #3 If the fact that he is a “part-time life guard” is correct, how likely is it that the fact supplied from the same source of him being “an Indian national” is not correct?

    Look forward to your reply here.

  10. FR said

    #4 “We would like to request for a correction to the quote attributed…”

    May I ask what was the actual quote that Suzanne Ho actually said?

  11. Invictus said

    Aiyoh Sentosa, you can tell us that the staff is a part timer and works on an ad-hoc basis. You can even inform us that he is required to ‘assist’ police in a rape case. Obviously you know who he is. And yet now mysteriously you can tell if he’s FT or local ? Very odd HR system you have, no ??

  12. Unquestionably believe that which you said. Your favorite reason seemed to be on the web the simplest thing to be aware of. I say to you, I certainly get irked while people consider worries that they just don’t know about. You managed to hit the nail upon the top as well as defined out the whole thing without having side effect , people could take a signal. Will probably be back to get more. Thanks

  13. Megan said

    Are they trying to protect foreigners…..

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Worldwide Bourse

I have talked about the resurrection of the American Dream and the creation of empowerment zones that exemplify the true definition, not the pseudonym for welfare zone, but real empowerment comparable to the Homestead Act where farmers got free land provided they operated profitable farms and paid their taxes.  Well, truth be told, we have to balance the budget first, even when government investing is a good idea, you still cannot spend what you don’t have.  The next president of the United States may not be able to implement any such thing even if he or she believes in it and voters should elect the right man for the time (what I liked about Santorum).  But I would like to discuss another issue that was brought up at several of the Republican debates at the heart of primary season, foreign aid, and a remedy for the future.

The candidates discussed whether or not that money allocated for aid for any and all foreign countries should be reset to zero.  Former candidate Governor Rick Perry followed up with the remark even Israel.  Well, this would be rather problematic with respect to America’s accord with Israel when the Israeli state was established in 1948.  So foreign aid should be must be greater than zero to Israel and possibly exception taken in a few others.  But this is not to say a virtual zero cannot be achieved.  Do politicians not know algebra?  Zero is not the lowest number in the universe—what about all numbers with the little minus signs in front of them?  Truth be told, we are both the nation with the largest deficit, in the vicinity of $14 Trillion, AND we are the largest debtor nation.  While countries like Israel need foreign aid greater than zero, some countries who owe us should be reset not to zero, but to balance due, please remit!  Cannot do much with a nation like Greece who filed for bankruptcy, but there are others we should start calling for our debt.  Then America can play the role of the credit counselor and work out reasonable payment plans and forgiveness of part of the nations’ respective debts owed to America over the long haul.  Even if we allow many nations to short sell us, we can still make a huge dent in our deficit.

Then what?  America balances its budget and creates a small surplus.  You cannot just bring everything you took away back—America will go right back into debt.  And with the effect of inflation, possibly a larger deficit with less effort.  If we cannot restore third rail entities such as Social Security and Medicare, we certainly cannot go back to lending foreign countries large sums of money, or disburse excessive aid money.  What about that third wheel?  Can’t give away aid money.  Can’t lend.  What does that leave?  Venture capital; investing in a foreign country’s economic success, the way stock traders invest in a business’s success.

Sure George Washington would have cringed as he recommended isolationism with no permanent alliances with any foreign country.  But two-hundred thirty-three-six years later, we are a worldwide economy.  American soil is too limited in natural resources now a day to go back to the days of the Father of our Country albeit the wisdom of Mr. Washington shall never be taken in vein.  Once the budget is balanced or if a balanced budget is just around the corner,the president, when he or she attends the next G-20 Summit, should suggest the creation of a Worldwide Bourse to allow America and any other strong financial nation to invest in a developing nation, such as the middle-Eastern nation recently sowing seeds of democracy.  Interesting word—bourse.  The Bourse in pre-twentieth century Great Britain was one of the world’s first major trading exchanges; mainly commodities such as corn and wheat, as corporate stock did not really exist in those days.  A Worldwide Bourse would allow strong financial countries to invest in developing countries and there would be no need for American or anyone else for that matter to loan them money at the risk of not being paid back or giving away foreign aid like money grows on trees.

Like I said, America has to balance its budget first, but it is a strong thought for the future.  Not only economically, but larger investments can be made for those developing nations choosing to be democracies, and America (or any other democracy) would have the option not to invest a penny in a nation that insists on tyrannical rule putting its people through tyranny and oppression.  This is in no way a substitute for putting a stop to outsourcing and manufacturing in America, but the investment will trickle down to the reconstruction of the American Dream with respect to resources we need that our own soil can no longer provide.  Let’s have a plan for this bourse that we can vault for now, but unleash in a big way in due time, in God’s time.

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USA Exhibit on the move

The USITT announced today that their exhibits for the 2007 Prague Quadrennial have begun the long journey to Prague.

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USITT PQ USA 2007 Exhibits Heading Towards Prague

After more than two years of preparation and nine months of construction, the three exhibits representing the United States at the Prague Quadrennial have begun their journey overseas. All three exhibits are sponsored and supported by the United States Institute for Theatre Technology, the professional association for design, production, and technology professionals in the performing arts and entertainment. A team of faculty and students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by Tom Korder and R. Eric Stone, completed the finishing touches in the last few weeks, making the structure of the exhibits came alive with the design contents.

A unique feature of this year’s National Exhibit will be areas allocated for the display of puppets and costumes. Among the puppets on display is an animated model for Michael Curry’s paper ghosts from Cirque du Soleil’s new production, The Beatle’s LOVE, used to visualize George Harrison’s song, While My Guitar Gently Weeps. Susan Hilferty’s design for Elphaba, the witch in Wicked, will greet visitors at the entrance of the USITT PQ USA National Exhibit.

The Architecture Exhibit highlights 17 performance spaces for the next generation, focusing on training facilities for universities and colleges, professional theatres, and performing arts facilities. Two projects emerged as featured designs: the Class of ’62 Center for Theatre and Dance, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts from Architect William Rawn Associates; and the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York from Architect Gehry Partners, LLP.

The Student Exhibit includes cubicles representing 16 theatre design training programs across the country, and production photos, props, and costumes from several more. Distinctive facets of this display are the “Design as PerformanceÃ¢â‚¬ DVDs and live performances to take place on a stage within the exhibit.
The construction team hosted a gala reception for their UIUC hosts on March 27. The guests were impressed with the high quality of the work accomplished by the staff and the dedication of the student team who volunteered their spare time throughout the year to work on the project. While the endeavor involved a great deal of challenging work, the team enthusiastically agreed seeing the exhibits as completed pieces made their efforts worthwhile. Now, the student team is looking forward to seeing the exhibits from the other countries.

The team will be reunited with the exhibits in Prague on June 10, when the set up for the entire PQ begins. Upon arrival, the exhibit pieces will be delivered to their pre-assigned locations in the Industrial Palace, and the team will have three days to assemble all three exhibits. This PQ will be the largest ever in square footage as well as number of participants. The gala opening for all exhibits will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, June 14, 2007.

USITT’s Vice President for International Activities Alexandra Bonds serves as commissioner for all three exhibits and assembled the curators who selected which works would be included in the Student and National exhibits. Richard Pilbrow organized the curators for the Architecture Exhibit.

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I shall never forget meeting her for the first time, her shy smile and light conversation; she was so full of life and promise as many young women are.  Her soft skin glowed with health and youth- how could I ever have known what tragedy would lay before her? That for only a few months after knowing her, loving her, that her life would fade away, as did mine into the darkness, and for thereafter I would know her only as a ghost?

I loved her in life and I loved her in death, and for many years sought ways to cheat time and to change what I had done, change events: but time was stronger than I, and my enemies used it against me. I could not undo that had been done.

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Many people today do not believe in ghosts; that those who are no longer walking this earth are somehow still alive somewhere, or that their memories somehow haunt the places they loved and can be seen and felt by the living.

It is my observation that more people experience ghosts than is actually realized; that they do not talk about such experiences for fear of being seen as strange or over imaginative. We often fear what we do not understand. If we see a “ghost” what does it mean to us? Why has this occurred?

That night in 1967 when I first walked through the doors of the Old House after being freed from my coffin by Willie Loomis my past and future rolled into one.  There was an air of timelessness that washed over me as the cobwebs hung over the windows, the fireplace and the face of my beloved Josette. Through the layers of dust the 18th century was more real to me than the 1960s. At any moment I fancied that I would hear the footsteps of little Sarah running down the stairs calling my name. But she was gone, long gone and another child spoke my name instead.

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Young David Collins, a strange but astute boy spoke to me of seeing ghosts in the Old House and even believed me to be one at first; he was even disappointed to find out that I was not a ghost…but yet…in a way he was correct.

I was “alive”, yet not truly alive, not only in the physical sense but also in a spiritual sense, for this time I found myself in was not my own. I had broken the laws of nature by my very existence and should have been a jumble of bones in my tomb alongside my family. But here I was, living still, walking in the moonlight  of a night, when most normal people were sleeping in their beds. Perhaps I was a living ghost, for I was consumed with the past, vainly attempting to recreate what I had lost, whom I had loved.

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My preoccupation with the ghosts of my past led me to attempt to turn a living woman into one, which proved disastrous. In my pain and desperation to regain what I had lost, I  was suffering from what I now believe to be some sort of temporary insanity- I was blind to the depths of the suffering I caused Maggie Evans in my efforts to make her become Josette. I needed her to be Josette- in my anguish all I could see was the resemblance to my lost love and that was enough for me at the time.

To my eternal shame and regret after this vivacious young woman lost part of herself and was taken away by Dr. Woodard to Windcliff, I then turned my attentions to Victoria Winters, whom I had always felt an attraction to from the moment we first met. Her innocence and gentleness charmed me, and we shared an interest in the past and a love of literature.

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Much later on, I told her that loving me would have been the greatest mistake of her life, although I wished that hadn’t been true- for by then I was human once more, with a future I felt I could offer her, (although perhaps an uncertain one) and  found that my chance had been snatched away from me in the guise of Jeff Clarke.

I spoke earlier about how I came to help Vicki and Jeff – in actuality he was Peter Bradford, a man from my century, and a ghost of sorts himself. The irony of my efforts to protect Vicki from the worst parts of myself for so long, fighting against the desires that drew me to her, then the genuine love I felt for her ( finally realizing that she didn’t and would never return my love) was not lost on me when her fate seemed to be to love another ghost.

Vicki slipped into the past to be with Peter and I followed them to ensure that this time they would escape the gallows- my curse had cheated me of Josette, but I resolved not to let Vicki suffer the same fate due to the schemings of the one who had cursed me- enough had suffered due to my wrongdoings. Fortunately I was successful, but I had to hurt other people to do it, which I am ashamed of, but I won’t go into that for now.

I still think about Vicki and her preoccupation with ghosts and the past- she was very much taken with Josette for a time and I used this to my advantage and encouraged it. Was I to blame for her travelling back to 1795? I can say with all certainty that this was her undoing- for there she met Peter Bradford, who despite his love for her ( which I could see was as true as mine for Josette) sealed her fate. She would not be swayed from her determination to leave her own time and join him in the past.  I learned much later on, to my great sorrow, that she and Peter had not had long together- the Leviathans saw to that, or more precisely, Jeb Hawkes. Vicki became a ghost herself- falling from Widows Hill.

I considered travelling back to 1796 again and looking for Vicki to prevent her death, but Eliot Stokes and Julia talked me out of it, pointing out to me the inherent dangers of changing events and the risk to myself.

“We have had enough messing around with time Barnabas!” Eliot stated firmly, “Look how close we came to not getting back to 1971- not to mention the dangers you faced in 1897- leave well enough alone.”

“He’s right Barnabas,” Julia said, “You can’t save everybody, and it was Vicki’s choice to go back with Peter.”

I paced the room anxiously then went to stand in front of the fireplace, leaning on the mantle.

“I know that! But I can’t help feeling responsible-”

“Oh Barnabas,” Julia sighed, “When will you stop doing this to yourself?”

“Doing what?” I said, turning round and giving her a warning look. Eliot looked at me then Julia curiously.

“You know what,” she replied quietly. Then to my relief she changed the subject, asking Eliot if he had read some medical journal she had lent him. I walked away and sat in my chair and stared into the fire, as images of so many I had loved and lost haunted me.

“You make the past so beautiful,” Vicki sighed to me her eyes shining wistfully.

“ Don’t leave me Barnabas..” Josette sighed.

“ Barnabas don’t turn away from me..” begged Roxanne.

“Barnabas….Barnabas?” I felt a hand on my shoulder. I was jolted into the present by Julia looking down at me with a concerned look.

“Where’s Eliot?” I asked.

“He left, as he has a lecture to prepare for.” Julia smiled.

I hadn’t even noticed he was gone, so far away I had been.

I stood up and realized that now at this very moment at least, there were no ghosts, just the present – in the form of Julia. She at least had never been a ghost to me- dear Julia, always loyal, by my side since I had known her; even when going into the past with me, she had always been of the present.

“Are you- are you alright Barnabas?” she asked me.

“Yes,” I said, “I was just thinking about the past, but perhaps now I must think of the present.”

“Yes, the past always gets you melancholy,” she said pointedly.

“It’s a curious thing to be out of time,” I told her, “I should have died almost two hundred years ago, but here I am. Was this meant to be, like it was for Vicki to leave her own time?”

“I don’t know Barnabas,” Julia said, “I don’t think we’ll ever know.”

I thought about Quentin, perhaps he felt the same confusion and disorientation I often felt. I made a mental note to ask him one evening.

I sat down in my chair again, suddenly feeling tired.

“You look exhausted Barnabas, why don’t you get some rest?” Julia suggested.

She started opening her bag and I knew what that meant.

“No, I don’t want a sedative!”

She pursed her mouth and gave me a guilty look, knowing that I knew her only too well. She had the good grace not to try to deny it.

“Well, it’s getting late, I’ll be going back to Collinwood. Goodnight then Barnabas.”

“Goodnight,” I said. “I’ll be over tomorrow. I shall see you then.”

Sensitive to my need to be alone, knowing me as well as I knew her, she quietly left me sitting by my fireside, alone but for  the ghosts that were as much a part of the Old House as the very bricks, wood and stone that formed its very foundations.

In the old house

I sat silently in contemplation- I could never forget those I had loved and lost, to do so felt like I was not honouring how I had came to be in this time- they were part of my life, my story, but I also came to realize that my story was still yet to continue; this time not with ghosts of the past, but with the living, the people I knew and loved right this moment. There were many new stories awaiting.

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Liquid Paper with Deafcult - An Interview

O frescor de uma nova banda ainda em criação, não é todo dia que encontramos por ai, certo?

Mas aqui no TBTCI sim, e o Deafcult de Brisbane, Austrália é exatamente o caso de uma novíssima banda que acabou de soltar seu ep homônimo fazendo conexões com MBV e Airiel, ou seja, pegando o shoegazer clássico e atualizando-o com extrema sutileza e elegância.

Simplesmente um dos melhores discos que vieram ao mundo até este momento neste maravilhoso 2015, e vejam, a banda tem apenas quatro meses, que futuro hein!!!

***** Interview with Deafcult *****

Q. When did Deafcult started, tell us about the history...
Deafcult around 4 months ago. All of us are in other bands but we decided we wanted to be in a band with four guitar players.

Q: Who are your influences?
I'd say bands like the Jesus and Mary chain, ringo deathstarr, mogwai, vaselines, pinkshinyultrablast and mbv (of course)

Q. Make a list of 5 albuns of all time…
1.loveless- mbv
2.psychocandy- Jesus and Mary chain
3.come on die young- mogwai
4.lift your skinny fists- Godspeedyoublackemperor
5.parklife- blur

Q. How do you feel playing live?
Anxious! Because there's so many people in the band it feels like it could fall apart at any moment hahahaha

Q. How do you describe Deafcult sounds?
I think it's noisy pop music. It's sort of punk sounding but droney and melodic at the same time.

Q: Tell us about the process of recording the songs ?
We recorded with this great guy called Cameron smith at his studio incremental records. We recorded a lot of vocals all very late at night and then recorded the music it was weird doing it backwards but I quite like the effect.

Q. Which new bands do you recommended?
Cameron smith who recorded us plays in a band called Spirit Bunny which is phenomenal. I think someone plays a Commodore 64 and someone else plays a circuit bent Casio then cam plays these cool beats under it all! Amazing! Then another band from brisbane called Low Season who sound kinda remind me of Lungfish are awesome they have new record coming out so everyone should check that out.

Q: Which band would you love to made a cover version of?
 I'd love to cover a song by The Knife I reckon they have a great sense of melody but still manage to make it sound dark.

Q: What´s the plans for future....
We are going to start writing a full length record. The deafcult ep was kinda just a demo that has all the first songs we wrote on it.

Q: Any parting words?
Thanks to everyone who has checked out the new ep. We sort of only thought a few mates would listen to it so the support from all over the world has been amazing!


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The ICA is celebrating it’s 75th Anniversary season with a plethora of great performances and exhibits. Dance/Draw is a landmark exhibit which explores the dynamic relationship between visual art and dance. This exhibit includes work by nearly forty artists, while exploring the multi-faceted relationship between dance and drawing from the past forty years. If you love history, art and movement, then we bet you’ll enjoy this special exhibit.

Major support for this exhibition is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Ronald and Ronni Casty, the HBB Foundation, and Jacqueline Bernat and Adam Hetnarski.

Dance/Draw, The Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston, October 7, 2011-January 16, 2012. To purchase tickets, please visit the ICA’s website.

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Superficial v.s. Deep

"The best moments of my life don't make it to social media." -Rosalynn Mejia As a hopelessly right-brained student, I have managed to avoid almost any mathematics-involved sciences courses my high school offers for these past four years. This past Thursday, I was filling out a worksheet for my regular Human Anatomy class about Anatomical… Continue reading Superficial v.s. Deep

16 Things I’ve Learned from Being 16

April 11th, 2017 marked the day that I officially turned 17. It marked my completion of the buzzed about, film worthy, notorious age of 16 years old. Personally, I think this is a tremendous accomplishment on any grounds. Below are, appropriately, 16 life lessons I've learned about being a 16 year old girl, and some… Continue reading 16 Things I’ve Learned from Being 16

3 ways to be a Jesus-like friend

“Most people need love and acceptance a lot more than they need advice.” -Bob Goff, Love Does. Listen. It's all too easy to begin to disregard what a friend is saying when they've been talking about the same thing (say, a boy or a conflict they had with someone) over and over again. And that's more than… Continue reading 3 ways to be a Jesus-like friend


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What You Say Isn’t Always What You Mean

I love using witty commercials to get a conversation going with my clients about the importance of social skills and these two Citibank commercials are perfect!

I love Citibank’s tagline: Wouldn’t it be great if everyone said what they meant?

For people who struggle with social skills, life would be easier if everyone said what they meant.

This is especially true when dating. People want to avoid awkward moments, so they mask their true intentions with niceties. Most people want to avoid hurting others’ feelings so they tell “white lies”.

Some cultures use more direct language but here in America, our language is filled with indirect and implied language in order to reduce awkward situations and appear more polite and agreeable.  So, it’s important to think about others’ thinking to figure out people’s true intentions.

After you show these commercials, use examples like this to keep the conversation going about the need to think about others’ thinking:

This is a conversation that happens on a regular basis in my home. My husband gets a lot of practice thinking about my thinking just to figure out what’s for dinner! The implied language is in parentheses.

Husband: What should we eat for dinner?

Me: I doesn’t matter. (It does matter)

Husband: We could make hamburgers.

Me: We could… or we could make tacos. (I don’t want hamburgers)

Husband: What about steak?

Me: We already have the ‘fixins for tacos. (I don’t want steak either)

Husband: Ok… Tacos it is.

Me: Perfect! That was easy.

Husband: It SURE was. (It was NOT easy. Why didn’t you just say you wanted tacos in the first place?)

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Use this visual to help your students or clients think about the thinking of others. Help them learn to pick up on clues from context, tone of voice, and body language to help them figure out what people REALLY mean. Then, ask them to come up with their own examples of how people don’t always say what they mean.

Get creative and have fun!

Michelle Garcia Winner  has a great book that contains many useful worksheets related to indirect and implied language. I couldn’t do my job without this book!

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You can purchase it here:   Social Thinking Thinksheets for Tweens and Teens

Check out my Teachers Pay Teachers site for more social skills activities. You can find it here: The Creative SLP

2 Questions for YOU and YOUR Students

The beginning of a school year is a great time to do some self-reflection and goal setting, for both students and teachers. This year, try a more creative approach to help them reflect and set goals for the year. Instead of the boring, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” or “What do you want to accomplish this year?” show your students this video and have them answer these 2 questions:

Two questions that can change your life from Daniel Pink on Vimeo.

Daniel Pink’s book, Drive has been out for years, but I still get the best ideas from it and apply it to my work with children and education. I’ve been thinking a lot about executive functions lately and this video fits perfectly with the use of “self-talk”. Asking your students to think about their own life and encouraging them to ask themselves what they want to be remembered by will help motivate them throughout the year.

After they write their own sentence, help them create a visual art representation of it to feature their sentence and display it in the classroom. At the end of the week, have them reflect back on their week and answer the 2nd question. Have them write a few sentences and answer what went well and what they could have done differently. When I worked in a school, my teacher friend and I actually submitted a video with our sentence and our students’ sentences. Daniel Pink used a few of them in this video! See if you can spot me in it at 1:43  : )

What’s Your Sentence?: The Video from Daniel Pink on Vimeo

Here’s my sentence for this year:

“She helped teachers and students develop and discover a love for creativity and passion.”

What’s yours?

Discover more great ideas from Daniel Pink here: http://www.danpink.com/

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I’ve always wanted to start a blog, but never felt I ever had the time that was necessary for me to be proud of the end result. I procrastinated for nearly 12 years as I worked as a speech-language pathologist. I initially worked in the public school system, then in private schools, and ultimately and currently in a pediatric therapy clinic. Oddly enough, I somehow found the time over the years to develop profiles on Teachers Pay Teachers, Pinterest, Twitter and Instagram. I’ve had so much fun working on those profiles that now I feel I have no more excuses. I no longer have school faculty meetings or IEP meetings to attend, so NOW is the time! Over the years, I’ve developed a passion for many areas in the field of speech-language pathology, education, and brain research. My hope is that this blog will be a useful resource for parents, slps, educators, and kids as a go-to for all things speech-language, as well other topics that interest me. I hope you ENJOY!


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(Guest Post) “Introducing: Doe Deere”

Courtesy of Mama Mia.

Introducing: Doe Deere

Doe Deere is the owner and founder of Lime Crime Makeup Company, a makeup brand known for empowering women with unconventional colors that truly stand out.

Deere grew up in New York City but is a native of Russia. In 2008, she launched Lime Crime and has steadily attracted a legion of loyal followers in the years since. Deere herself has also taken on a pseudo-celebrity status, becoming the face of the brand in many ways.

Part of Deere’s popularity as an Internet personality is inspired by her beauty and creative look. She uniquely wears a style of makeup with bright colors that defines her company. Her look and style truly fit with Lime Crime and its marketing initiatives.

Since childhood, Deere has had an imaginative creative mind. Painting was one way that she expressed herself. And in her twenties, Deere experimented with plenty of different colors to see if any resonated with people. Glitter and bright colors quickly became the norm for Deere and in 2004 she started an Ebay business called Lime Crime, which was the first name she could think of. Deere sold clothes on Ebay and wanted her makeup to match the colors of the items she sold. One of the first things she launched was the Unicorn Lipstick that still remains one of the brand’s most popular products.

Here’s a video interview of Doe at the 2014 PHAMExpo:

Lime Crime’s products are made with non-animal ingredients. As one would expect, one of the brand’s most popular colors happens to be a bright lime green. Speaking to the empowerment of women that the brand communicates, Deere also feels that the Lime Crime name represents not being afraid to try something different.

Her artistic background landed her a spot in Inspiring Female Entrepreneurs by Self-Made magazine. Deere is a unique figure in the makeup world and has inspired plenty of other female entrepreneurs to follow their hearts and take risks. As she’s said many times before, the keys to success in the business world are creativity, hard work, and dedication.

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Is Sydney the world's best tourist destination?

Apparently so, says a reputable international travel magazine. Obviously travel is subjective, though, and one person's holiday heaven is another one's holiday hell. For that reason, I find these surveys a bit of a bore. Sure Sydney is a stunning city (and this is coming from a Melbournian), but the world's best tourist destination? I would argue that Australia is the world's best destination and Sydney is simply a part of that. After all, as a world city, how does Sydney stack up to New York, London, Barcelona or Paris, to name only a few? Perhaps these surveys need to more specific. As in, Sydney is the "world's best tourist destination for coffee". Hang on, that is Melbourne's claim to fame. Or is it Havana's? Or Rome's? Or…? While we're at it, what about the world's worst tourist destination? I am sure there is a survey out there that Sydney has rated highly in this category. On a trip to Europe a while ago I was told that "whatever you do, you have to go to Albufeira in the Algarve in Portugal". Apparently there was no point going to the Algarve without spending time in Albufeira. It turned out to be overcrowded, with swarms of bad British tourists, over-priced everything, uncomfortable and unfriendly. Yet just down the road is the fishing town of Tavira that is absolutely beautiful in its solitude. We ended up running from Albufeira and spending the week at Tavira. Funnily enough, I caught up with a friend recently who had come back from Portugal and chastised me for recommending Tavira. A "waste of time", he said, then explained how he had been drunk for a week partying in Albufeira with a bunch of new Aussie mates. All good fun, but horses for courses, I say. Have you ever had a place recommended and been completely let down or visited somewhere on the back of some award and thought "what a hoax"?

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Meghan Markle departs 'Suits' after engagement to Prince Harry

The prince revealed he popped the question over a roast chicken dinner at his London cottage.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 28 (Reuters) - U.S. actress Meghan Markle has wrapped up her role on legal drama series "Suits" after seven seasons, USA Network and Universal Cable Productions said in a statement on Tuesday, a day after Markle and Britain's Prince Harry announced their engagement.

Markle, 36, played Rachel Zane on the cable network drama, rising up the ranks from paralegal to lawyer. The character is engaged to be married to Mike Ross, played by Patrick J. Adams.

Markle has completed all her filming for the seventh season, which will return in early 2018, the network said.

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"We want to send our most heartfelt congratulations to Meghan Markle and Prince Harry on their engagement," USA Network and Universal Cable Productions, both units of Comcast Corp, said in a joint statement.

"Meghan has been a member of our family for seven years and it has been a joy to work with her. We want to thank her for her undeniable passion and dedication to Suits, and we wish her the very best," the statement added.

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Markle and Harry, 33, announced on Monday they were getting married in May 2018.

The couple met on a blind date in July 2016 and said their relationship had blossomed "incredibly quickly."


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Affordable Optimization Services – The Primary Preferences That Ought to be Considered Any Time You’re Looking At Getting a Organic Optimization Organization.

Posted by Angela on September 18, 2017 in History of European Antisemitism |

If you’re planning to sell any sort of service or product online, you’re eventually going to have to optimize your online site for the Search Engines, to be able to boost traffic and sales.

A long time ago, it was quite simple to draw in effective traffic, as a good content-driven site, with good products, was enough to obtain a Internet site ranked highly in the major search engines. Your competition has increased one thousand times over consequently, with huge amounts of Sites existing online now, making for several very stiff competition in your community of Online Search Engine placement and rankings.

This surge in competition has given rise to numerous different styles, and lots of various ways of Web site optimization. Optimization is simply the approach to making a website “Google Search friendly”, by using methods of enhancement which will increase rankings and placement by placing the internet site higher within the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages).

Anything from software to enhance rankings and placement, to Search Engine Management and Marketing Firms exist, with a lot of online merchants becoming confused about what or “whom” to utilize and the ways to effectively take advantage of the various services to enhance rankings and placement.

The genuine battle appears to exist between people who favor “Organic SEO” rather than the ones that prefer “Non-Organic SEO”. The term organic is defined by Webster’s Dictionary as: instrumental; acting as instruments of nature or of art to a certain destined function or end (Webster’s: 1913: 3).

Organic SEO, also known as Natural SEO, is regarded as the time-consuming, as well as the most tedious way of organic search optimization company for placement and rankings. However, it is vulnerable to longevity of results, as it features a focus on content, meta-tag enhancement using proper descriptions, keyword enhanced copy in the appropriate specified densities of search engines like google, and link exchanges. Additionally, keyword dense reports, articles, and other content materials are usually added in a routine fashion to some site to keep up the densities necessary and increase rankings and placement.

Organic SEO, if done efficiently in the step-by-step approach, can literally promote more visitors and rankings for a long time. Additionally, it may contain overall marketing costs, as the usage of PPC (Pay Per Click Marketing), will not be needed as much with this method. The key drawbacks using this type of SEO, however, are the length of time it will require to properly implement each of the steps necessary, and the length of time it requires the Search Engines to thoroughly spider and index a site containing implemented Organic SEO.

Non-Organic SEO, also known as Artificial SEO, may take various forms, and can apply certain Organic SEO in conjunction with other techniques. These techniques can include software generated keyword enhanced pages, some types of re-directs, whereby traffic is shunted off utilizing sites, making use of their permissions, and software generated doorway pages and meta-tag descriptions. There are various techniques that could be employed including rather controversial ones such as hidden text full of keywords, and tiny text.

Overall, Non-Organic SEO methods are usually popular, because it is a significantly quicker ways to rankings and placement. Links could be purchased from “link farms” that are simply 51dexypky specializing in the promotion of links to others.

Although Non-Organic SEO can quicken rankings and placement initially, care needs to be given when you use any one of these methods. If keyword dense pages are automatically generated en masse, the major search engines might view large sites, with large numbers of such pages as “Internet Search Engine Spammers” as well as a likelihood of being banned does exist. Moreover, pages may initially place quite high, simply to drop lower quickly, as search engines like google still place an incredible concentrate on good content, that is not usually focus in the Non-Organic sort of SEO.

In general, it genuinely is dependent upon the overall reason for an internet site, and the longevity of results desired by a Web master/site owner. Additionally, it is determined by how rapidly results and sales are important. For many seasonal sites, such as holiday-theme sites that only remain up for a couple of weeks or months, then the quicker method of Non-Organic SEO could be very effective. Alternatively, if your Web master/site owner promotes a product or service which they are committed for a long time, or perhaps a lifetime, then Organic SEO would definitely be the better option of optimization method.

Regardless of what form of SEO methods are chosen or implemented, a continuing campaign of optimization does must exist, because the parameters that can be used as the rankings and placement by the various search engines, change frequently, and research into current methods should be done routinely.

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Wall Mounted Storage – Would This Online Site be Right For You.

Posted by Angela on October 2, 2017 in History of European Antisemitism |

Garage is built primarily with regards to having some safe and convenient place to park cars, vehicles, or trucks when they are not being used. But more and more individuals have turned this space into a more functional, storage room. As a way to develop into an effective storage room, you just don’t stack whatever belongings you have in every corner in the garage. You don’t want this space to become a house of monstrous piles of clutter, which means you must design it in a way that everything stacked in there is piled in the most efficient and organized manner. Maximizing its space will allow you to achieve this. And installing wall mount storage is among the simplest ways to get started on the job.

The wall offers the largest part in the garage, so this seems the right spot to create and organize the storage system. Converting it into garage wall storage is simple. Using the right tools and organizing systems, you may have that storage room you need quickly in any way. There is not any should remodel or renovate the walls. All that you should find would be the right garage wall storage systems offered in wide varieties in the marketplace. They are able to come as hooks, brackets, shelves, racks, and supports. Through the aid of bolts, screws, and nails, installation is a matter of minutes. Just make sure they are bolted sufficiently strong to not fall off anytime. Also, make sure they are mounted tough enough to contain and hold those belongings you require stored.

Most garage wall storage systems offered available in the market are constructed out from plastic, metal, and wood materials. Selecting from these options ought to be carefully done. In that way, you might have wa11storage systems consider some aspects including damaging factors, loads, aesthetics, and budget. Garage wall storage systems made of plastic materials are excellent against moisture and temperature changes. Those made of wood are fantastic for aesthetically-inclined people that prefer natural and timeless try to find the storage room. While the ones that are constructed with metals are mostly ideal for long-lasting use as a result of tough and sturdy design, although there might be concerns concerning the construction as not being too ultra-resistant against moisture. If you want one that lasts long years while looking great using the garage room, be wiser when deciding which to get selected to suit your needs.

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My Mom is Super Mom

With Mother's Day on the horizon I was thinking a lot about what I have been through personally when it comes to my son.  We have definitely had our battles.   But he is a little fighter and I have no qualms about admitting that we have it good.  There could be so many worse… Continue reading My Mom is Super Mom