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Choosing the ideal real estate agent can be a tough deal for someone who does not have the required knowledge about the field. In that case, it is better not to trust any layman estate agent and only get help from the best. Hence, here are some of the major factors that can influence the way you choose the Top Frisco Real Estate Agent.
Keep a track
Getting to know about the former clients that the estate agent has worked with in the past can also be quite helpful. If you are working with an estate agent for the very first time then make sure to ask him to provide a complete list of clients that he has previously worked with. This also includes checking for the license and other disciplinary actions for legal formalities. This can be done by getting in touch with the state's regulatory body.
Testimonials can be a huge factor in choosing an agent. Hence, make sure to ask for the desired credentials of your estate agent and see if he should be liable to handle the authority that is being given to him. They can make you aware of the time period for which the estate agent has been active in the business. Such qualities make them an ideal real estate agent in Frisco.
Check for the designations like-
- Certified Residential Specialist- it is a coveted certificate for all the residential specialists after getting specialized training to manage the real estate.
- Seniors Real Estate Specialist- another desirable certificate that allows working with senior members of the society as a real estate specialist.
- Accredited Buyer's Representative- this certificate is quite helpful in offering additional assistance in representing the buyer's according to the transactions done.
Experience matters!
Gauging an agent's knowledge in the applied field is also quite essential to building up the trust factor. For that, his prior experiences can be quite effective that will help him to analyze the issues quite strategically. A qualified estate agent may as well show his professional awards as a part of his achievements. Hence, make sure to look for such disciplinary actions that can have a huge effect on your work.
Make the right choice between a listing agent and a buying agent. Listing agents are the ones who assist the work of sellers. Hence, if you do not have your work in that field, it is better not to get one of that sort for your task. It is better to check for the listing agent before hiring him as he may be working as a dual agent.
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Such agents have unique qualities to handle uncertain situations and thereby can make a huge impact while closing the deal. Client centered-service should be the main motive of your estate agent and if he is unable to offer the same, then there is no point in working with him.
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Joan Miro
The grade 1/2 students watched this video of the famous Spanish artist Joan Miro. They then tried to use some of his techniques and painted their own 'Birds and Insects' painting.
Art Show Photos: 22nd October
What a wonderful 60th birthday Celebration we had on Saturday the 22nd October. Despite the horrid weather it was lovely to see the community visit our school. Again our very talented students produced excellent artwork for all to enjoy at our Art Show. Well done SAEPS, Mrs Price and I are so very proud of you all.

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The academy has installed a cashless catering system which uses biometric (finger scanning) technology. The aim of this is to develop a more efficient system which has many other advantages. These include alleviation of many of the problems associated with cash in academys, e.g. loss, theft and bullying and discourage the misuse of dinner money through spending in shops outside of academy.
For further information on the Cashless Catering System click on the link opposite.
Year 7 - Dining Room 1 (1.10pm - 1.40pm)
Year 8 - Dining Room 1 (12.10pm - 12.40pm)
Year 9 - Dining Room 2 (1.10pm - 1.40pm)
Year 10 - Dining Room 2/Technology Plaza (12.10pm - 12.40pm)
Year 11 - Dining Room 2/Technology Plaza (1.10pm - 1.40pm)
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Prep and cook time: 30 min
Difficulty: medium
Cannot be frozenIngredients:
For the dressing:
1 large red chilli, seeded and finely chopped
1 large lemon, juiced
1/2 tsp Dijon mustard
1/4 tsp granlulated stevia
120 ml | 4 fl oz | 1/2 cup sesame oil
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500 g | 18 oz sirloin steak, trimmed of excess fat
2 tbsp sesame oil
250 g | 9 oz | 8 cups mixed salad leaves, e. g. baby spinach, lettuce, rocket, etc.
1/2 small red cabbage, shredded
1 red pepper, cored, seeded, and sliced
3 tbsp almonds, or blanched hazelnuts, chopped
1 large handful mint leaves, to garnish
sea salt
freshly ground black pepperMethod:
1 For the dressing: Whisk together the chilli, lemon juice, mustard, stevia, and some salt and pepper in a small mixing bowl.
2 Whisk in the sesame oil in a slow, steady stream until incorporated. Set aside until needed.
3 For the salad: Rub the steak with the sesame oil. Season with salt and pepper.
4 Heat a non-stick frying or saute pan over a moderate heat until very hot. Carefully lay the steak into the pan, away from you, and leave to sear for 4-5 minutes until golden-brown underneath.
5 Flip and cook the other side for a further 4-5 minutes for medium-well meat. Remove from the pan to a plate, covering loosely with aluminium foil.
6 Arrange the mixed salad leaves, cabbage, pepper, and almonds on serving plates.
7 Cut the steak into slices and drape over the salads. Spoon over the dressing and garnish with mint leaves before serving.


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Fake UNILEVER PURCHASE ORDER #091223 for acknowledgement delivers Lokibot
We are still seeing a lot of Lokibot hitting the UK. We don't bother to post about most of them, because the subjects & emails are so generic that there normally is nothing particularly identifiable about them. However overnight we received a whole slew of emails that are very identifiable. I received about a dozen since about 9pm last night all addressed to various email addresses under my control. ( All caught by spam filters & Malware quarantine settings) This email with the subject of "UNILEVER PURCHASE ORDER #091223 for acknowledgement" pretends to come from Jon Strachan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
They use email addresses and subjects that will entice a user to read the email and open the attachment. A very high proportion are being targeted at small and medium size businesses, with the hope of getting a better response than they do from consumers.
You can now submit suspicious sites, emails and files via our Submissions system
Remember many email clients, especially on a mobile phone or tablet, only show the Name in the From: and not the bit in <domain.com >. That is why these scams and phishes work so well.
Unilever has not been hacked or had their email or other servers compromised. They are not sending the emails to you. They are just innocent victims in exactly the same way as every recipient of these emails.
UNILEVER PURCHASE ORDER #091223 for acknowledgement.zip : Extracts to: UNILEVER PURCHASE ORDER #091223 for acknowledgement.exe Current Virus total detections: Anyrun |
C2: http://184.108.40.206/4/fre.php
One of the emails looks like:
From: Jon Strachan <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Date: Sat 08/12/2018 08:12
Subject: UNILEVER PURCHASE ORDER #091223 for acknowledgement
Attachment: ea00ba32a5.zip
Body content:
Dear sir,
I hope this email finds you well.
Please find attached order for your acknowledgement and kindly send the proforma invoice in order to proceed with the request foradvance payment.
Awaiting your reply.
Thank you.
Jon Strachan
Vice President – Supply chain
Unilever UK Limited
Unilever House
Consumer Careline: +44(0)800 01 01 07
The information contained in this electronic transmission message and any of its attachments is intended for addressee(s) only and may contain confidential information. If you are not the addressee(s), please notify the sender and delete this message completely. Any views expressed herein are those of the individual sender except where the sender specifically states it to be the views of Unilever.
Unileveris neither liable for incomplete transmission of this electronic message nor for any delay in its receipt. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or taking any action in reliance on the contents of this electronic message is strictly prohibited.
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Received: from [220.127.116.11] (port=55178 helo=hunimo.com) by my email server with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:128) (Exim 4.91) (envelope-from <email@example.com>) id 1gVXkx-0001cV-Va for firstname.lastname@example.com; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 08:14:36 +0000 Received: from [220.127.116.11] (helo=User) by hunimo.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from <firstname.lastname@example.com>) id 1gVXic-0004Rc-27; Sat, 08 Dec 2018 08:12:13 +0000 Reply-To: <firstname.lastname@example.com> From: "Jon Strachan"<email@example.com> Subject: UNILEVER PURCHASE ORDER #091223 for acknowledgement Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2018 00:12:09 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0070_01C2A9A6.17A83620" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-Id: <firstname.lastname@example.com>
All these malicious emails are either designed to steal your Passwords, Bank, PayPal or other financial details along with your email or FTP ( web space) log in credentials. Or they are Ransomware versions that encrypt your files and demand large sums of money to recover the files.All the alleged senders, amounts, reference numbers, Bank codes, companies, names of employees, employee positions, email addresses and phone numbers mentioned in the emails are all random. Some of these companies will exist and some won't. Don't try to respond by phone or email, all you will do is end up with an innocent person or company who have had their details spoofed and picked at random from a long list that the bad guys have previously found.
The bad guys choose companies, Government departments and organisations with subjects that are designed to entice you or alarm you into blindly opening the attachment or clicking the link in the email to see what is happening.
Please read our How to protect yourselves page for simple, sensible advice on how to avoid being infected by this sort of socially engineered malware.
There are frequently dozens or even hundreds of different download locations, sometimes delivering the exactly same malware from all locations and sometimes slightly different malware versions from each one. Dridex, Locky and many other malwares do update at frequent intervals during the day, sometimes as quickly as every hour, so you might get a different version of these nasty Ransomware or Banking password stealer Trojans to the version we list here.
Be very careful with email attachments. All of these emails use Social engineering tricks to persuade you to open the attachments that come with the email. Whether it is a message saying "look at this picture of me I took last night" and it appears to come from a friend or is more targeted at somebody who regularly is likely to receive PDF attachments or Word .doc attachments or any other common file that you use every day.
The basic rule is NEVER open any attachment to an email, unless you are expecting it. Now that is very easy to say but quite hard to put into practice, because we all get emails with files attached to them. Our friends and family love to send us pictures of them doing silly things, or even cute pictures of the children or pets.
Never just blindly click on the file in your email program. Always save the file to your downloads folder, so you can check it first. Many malicious files that are attached to emails will have a faked extension. That is the 3 letters at the end of the file name. Unfortunately windows by default hides the file extensions so you need to Set your folder options to "show known file types. Then when you unzip the zip file that is supposed to contain the pictures of "Sally's dog catching a ball" or a report in word document format that work has supposedly sent you to finish working on at the weekend, or an invoice or order confirmation from some company, you can easily see if it is a picture or document & not a malicious program.
If you see .JS or .EXE or .COM or .PIF or .SCR or .HTA .vbs, .wsf , .jse .jar at the end of the file name DO NOT click on it or try to open it, it will infect you.
While the malicious program is inside the zip file, it cannot harm you or automatically run. When it is just sitting unzipped in your downloads folder it won't infect you, provided you don't click it to run it. Just delete the zip and any extracted file and everything will be OK. You can always run a scan with your antivirus to be sure. There are some zip files that can be configured by the bad guys to automatically run the malware file when you double click the zip to extract the file. If you right click any suspicious zip file received, and select extract here or extract to folder ( after saving the zip to a folder on the computer) that risk is virtually eliminated. Never attempt to open a zip directly from your email, that is a guaranteed way to get infected. The best way is to just delete the unexpected zip and not risk any infection.
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La Bella Italia – Lingua e Cultura
At this summer school we shall attempt to revise and extend our use of Italian, while exploring some favourite aspects of the culture of Italy. Planned for intermediate students, there will be an emphasis on speaking and listening with plenty of stimulating language activities. In true U3A style, you will be invited to contribute to the course on an Italian topic of your choice, for example some history, a favourite work of art, a film or whatever you feel would interest other participants and promote discussion. We shall communicate with you before the course to ensure a balanced and varied programme.
Between GCSE and A level/CEFR B1/B2
Teaching Style: Group Work / Discussion
Tutor: Heather Westrup
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Seasons2018-19Everton News
Hilton joins Marine on loan
Everton Development Academy Goalkeeper Joe Hilton has joined Marine on loan until the end of the season.
Hilton, 19, moved to Everton from Manchester City in 2016 and has featured mostly for both the Blues' Under-18s with a handful of outings for the Under-23s.
This season has seen Joao Virginia come in and move ahead of him in the pecking order for the U23s with Hilton more often watching games from the bench. Hilton becomes the 17th Everton player to go out on loan this season.
Marine play in the Evo-Stik Northern Premier Division and currently sit in 19th position in the table. Their league campaign concludes on 27 April.
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1 Posted 12/01/2019 at 16:31:03
Can we loan them Niasse and Dowell to help them stay up?
2 Posted 12/01/2019 at 19:02:53
3 Posted 13/01/2019 at 08:25:49
4 Posted 13/01/2019 at 11:47:51
One really positive side of all the new TV deals and schedules in the Premier League nowadays is it allows people to watch both their Premier League team and a local non-league side, often on the same weekend. I get to see most games now, with all the rearranged Sunday, Monday, early Saturday matches rescheduled for TV, or whatever.
We've had Tranmere goalkeeper Paddy Wharton on loan recently, who's done a good job for us in the past month or so. I'll certainly keep people updated on the progress on Joe Hilton, if that's what people want, when I get to see him in action – hopefully in our home game against Stalybridge on Saturday.
It's been a real struggle for the team in recent years, battling relegation right down to the wire, year on year now, it seems. Marine are Liverpool's biggest non-league club, but we need all the help we get can from the likes of Everton. It's why the club offer deals such as half-price tickets on matchday to anyone with an Everton or Liverpool season ticket.
Despite the woes on the pitch, and no real playoff charge for approaching a decade, the fanbase remains strong and there's surely potential there. Against Salford in the FA Cup in October, we had a crowd of 1,789, but it's difficult to keep the casual fans coming. The club needs all the support it can get, and I do urge any Liverpool-based TW'ers to try and have a taste of the non-league football experience sometime this season.
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6 Posted 13/01/2019 at 19:22:51
I think Im correct in saying they have never been relegated in their 125 history, so Mariners dont bother looking what the league below is!
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put (one's) finger on (something)
1. To recognize or recall fully, clearly, or correctly. (Usually used in the negative.) I can't put my finger on what this is reminding me of. There's something off about her story, but I can't put my finger on it.
2. To recognize, identify, or determine the fundamental aspects of something. Well, I think you put your finger on it when you brought up the issue of tax increases for lower earners.
put your finger on something
COMMON If you put your finger on the reason for something or the truth about something, you say what it is exactly. He put his finger on a major weakness of its education policy when he said that the country needed improved education, not perpetual experimentation. It was Dr. Stockton who had put his finger on the truth. Note: If you cannot say exactly the reason for something or the truth about something, you can say that you can't put your finger on it. Had they known each other as children? At school? She couldn't put her finger on it.


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Facebook no longer the top place to work in America
A year ago, Facebook touted its ranking as the top employer in the U.S. by employment site Glassdoor. How things have changed in 2018.
A year later, Facebook has slid to No. 7 on Glassdoor's annual ranking of employers, which is based on thousands of employee reviews of senior management, compensation and other workplace concerns. Several employers including In-And-Out Burger pulled ahead of the social media giant, Glassdoor said.
The tumble comes as Facebook has struggled with a series of scandals, including the Cambridge Analytica allegations and new revelations that Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg asked employees to look into billionaire George Soros' financesafter he criticized the company.
To be sure, Facebook remains one of the top employers in the country, according to Glassdoor's ranking. Yet the company's drop may reflect rising anxiety about the tech giant's mission, as well as long-standing struggles to balance sometimes brutal work hours with a healthy lifestyle.
"The company is full of self-inflicted wounds and senior leadership (Mark [Zuckerberg], Sheryl) live in an absolute impenetrable bubble of privilege and cluelessness," one reviewer, who has worked at the company for more than a year, wrote on Glassdoor's site.
Facebook earned an overall rating of 4.5, based on a 5-point maximum rating, down from its rating of 4.6 a year earlier. Taking its place in the top slot is consulting firm Bain & Co., which earned a 4.6, Glassdoor said.
"One of the themes we saw in Facebook reviews this year was poor internal communication — internal teams not being organized in such a way that they can address some of the problems that have been raised," said Andrew Chamberlain, chief economist with Glassdoor, in an interview with CBS MoneyWatch. It's very likely people are seeing Facebook in the headlines, and they're not being prepared for it internally through communication. They're not sure how to connect it to their daily work."
Across all companies with employee reviews, the average score is 3.4, Glassdoor said.
Plenty of reviewers awarded top scores to Facebook, lavishing praise on its generous benefits and pay. But the past year's turmoil seems to be weighing on employees. One worker noted that executives' "motives will always be suspect" after the series of scandals.
Another said, "Having Facebook on your resume is no longer a plus, actually can work against you."
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Chamberlain emphasized that most Facebook employees continue to give the company high marks, citing the high pay and generous perks and benefits. But he noted that the kind of rapid growth the social network has experienced in recent years can weaken corporate culture, diluting a founder's original vision and changing a company's values.
Some computer engineers are avoiding taking jobs at the social network, citing concerns about fake news and criticism about Facebook's approach to privacy, The New York Times reported last month. With more than 33,000 employees across the world, Facebook continues to hire. It now has more than 2,600 openings for full-time workers.
Job applicants are asking questions about what types of tasks they would be asked to do at Facebook, the Times noted.
"I've had a couple of clients recently say they're not as enthusiastic about Facebook because they're frustrated with what they see happening politically or socially," Paul Freiberger, president of career counseling group Shimmering Careers, told the publication.
Mission versus pay
Facebook provides strong compensation and benefits packages, with software engineering interns earning almost $8,000 per month. Full-time data scientists and product engineers take home more than $130,000 in annual pay, Glassdoor data show.
Such numbers may lure workers through the door, but big pay packages or lush benefits aren't what keep employees satisfied, Glassdoor research has found. More important is having a shared sense of mission, such as connecting business goals to a larger social purpose. Workers also need to know their careers can advance in a company, and no one likes working for a jerk, Chamberlain said.
Facebook receives a 4.6 rating for compensation and benefits, but employees give it a 4.4 for culture and values.
Bain & Co, this year's top workplace, matched Facebook for its pay and benefits rating, but its culture and values rating, at 4.8, edged it ahead of the social media network.
"What we see across all the companies on this list is that they really have to keep their employees satisfied," said Glassdoor economic research analyst Amanda Stansell. "We see themes of strong mission-oriented cultures where people want to go to work."
Top employers for 2019
Bain & Co., founded in 1973 by former partners from the Boston Consulting Group, is known for its long hours and stressful work. But employees pushed it into the No. 1 spot, praising its career opportunities and corporate culture.
"In the reviews for Bain, we see three main themes jump out," Stansell said. "If you work hard, you will succeed. Employees say they work directly with clients on difficult business problems. And it gives them the ability to make great career advancements."
The runner-up in this year's ranking of top employers is Zoom Video Communications, which earned a 4.5 rating. While not a household name, Zoom has grown quickly due to demand for its remote video-conferencing services. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, a Chinese immigrant, was named the top CEO in the U.S. in a Glassdoor ranking of bosses earlier this year.
With unemployment near a half-century low, corporations are providing stronger benefits and surveying employees to check on morale and satisfaction, Glassdoor noted.
"It's definitely a job seeker's market," Stansell said. "It's a great time to be looking for a new job, and we hope this list helps job seekers identify great companies to work for."
Top 10 companies to work for in 2019, based on Glassdoor's analysis of employee reviews:
1. Bain & Co. (4.6 rating)
2. Zoom Video Communications (4.5)
3. In-N-Out Burger (4.5)
4. Procore Technologies (4.5)
5. Boston Consulting Group (4.5)
6. LinkedIn (4.5)
7. Facebook (4.5)
8. Google (4.4)
9. lululemon (4.4)
10. Southwest Airlines (4.4)
–With reporting by Alain Sherter and Irina Ivanova.


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When you're crafting melodies and patterns, nothing beats the immediacy of dedicated controls. Metropolis patterns are built in stages not just steps. Each stage has four dedicated controls to dial in instant melodies, repeats, skips, and slides. Dive in deeper to adjust direction, quantization scales, clock dividers, shuffle, and more. Inspired by the Ryk M-185 System 100m, the Metropolis has built its own reputation.
The Metropolis is a unique and powerful musical sequencer inspired by the Ryk M-185 (a Roland System 100m format sequencer), but with many additional enhancements and functions.
The Metropolis comprises eight "STAGES," each with its own assignable gate mode, pulse count and pitch value. Each stage can also have a special slide or skip function activated too. The slide functionality is a constant time portamento very similar to the Roland TB303 (unlike most synths/sequencers that use constant rate portamento) which produces a very musical and interesting result.
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- Liz: We first met Sam Nazarko early in 2012 when he was still at school, in the sixth form. He'd been working on a packaged version of XBMC, the open-source media player, specifically built for the Raspberry Pi. He called it Raspbmc: he'd created a way to boot your Raspberry Pi straight into a really slick … Continue reading →
- Back in August 2014 we got very excited about one of the first Kickstarter projects to use the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. We're pleased to announce that after much hard work, many late nights and far too much sugar and caffeine, the FiveNinjas team have started shipping actual real Slices to backers. Here's a picture … Continue reading →
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- One of the areas we're putting a lot of work into is XBMC performance – we've been a bit shocked on working through some data* to find that the Pi now appears to have more XBMC users than any other platform in the world, bar the PC (we've overtaken cracked Apple TV 2s), and we … Continue reading →
- RaspyFi was brought to our attention a few days ago: it's a distro designed especially for those with big media libraries who are using their Pis to listen to music. If you're one of those people (I am, and I'm chuffed to bits to find RaspyFi), or an honest-to-god audiophile, you may have noticed that … Continue reading →
- It's been a bit of a month for media player news – we just featured the arrival of Plex for the Pi last week, and we were really pleased to see a new book by Sam Nazarko on setting up Raspbmc on your Pi has just been put out by Pakt Publishing. Today, there's more … Continue reading →
- If you're a media centre user of the Raspberry Pi, you might want to check out this new port of Plex to the Pi. RasPlex is a open, platform-independent home entertainment system (so you can play media from any of the machines you have cluttering up the house using the RasPlex media server. Great news … Continue reading →
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- The guys at OpenELEC, an embedded OS built specifically to run XBMC, have announced their first ARM port and with it, support for Raspberry Pi. (Please note that although their website says that they can only support the Model B, the post was written just before we announced the upgrade doubling the Model A's RAM.) … Continue reading →


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In Healing with Words the author not only takes you along with her on her journey as she battles cancer, but also helps you to see the value of journaling your own road to recovery. You'll find Diana's story from beginning to end in this book of Healing with Words. She shares her own personal journal entries plus poems that she's written along the way. She starts at the very beginning with Mammograms and more to surgery, follow-up and emotional reflections. In her Epilogue she gives you a tale of Two cancers and tells you where she's at today. In her appendix you'll find:
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The author feels strongly about using words to help in your healing process and journaling your way back to health. This book is not only a reading book, but as you read through it the author provides pages for you to journal your own experiences right in the book. It's like a reading/journal combination. Though not many the author does use some choice words that I must warn about. It is more than my three strikes rule so I must put it in here (Read more about my word choices here) She tells you flat out how she felt going through the cancer treatment process in no uncertain terms. Would I recommend this book to others? Yes, but I will have to caution them about some words used. Matter in fact, I'm going to pass this book on to my mom who has gone through a mastectomy and treatments a few years back.
Healing With Words: A Writer's Cancer Journey is a compassionate and wry self-help memoir written by an award-winning prolific author, nurse and poet, who at the age of forty-seven found her life shattered first by a DCIS (early breast cancer) diagnosis and five years later by another, seemingly unrelated and incurable multiple myeloma. This book includes the author's experiences, reflections, poetry and journal entries, in addition to writing prompts for readers to express their own personal story.
Raab's journals have provided a safe haven and platform to validate and express her feelings. Raab views journaling to be like a daily vitamin – in that it heals, detoxifies and is essential for optimal health.
Readers will learn to;
Understand the importance of early cancer detection and how to take control of their health
Discover the power of writing to release bottled-up emotions
Learn how the process of journaling can facilitate healing
See how a cancer diagnosis can be a riveting event which can renew and change a person in a unique way.
For more information, please visit her website: http://www.dianaraab.com
and blog: http://www.dianaraab.com/blog
Diana M. Raab is an essayist, memoirist, poet and author blogger who teaches in the UCLA Extension Writers' Program and at various conferences around the country.
She's editor of the anthology, Writers and Their Notebooks (University of South Carolina Press, January 2010).
Her memoir, Regina's Closet: Finding My Grandmother's Secret Journal (Beaufort Books, 2007) won the 2008 National Indie Excellence Award for Memoir and the 2009 Mom's Choice Award for Adult Nonfiction.
She has three poetry collections, My Muse Undresses Me (2007), Dear Anaïs: My Life in Poems for You (2008), winner of The Reader Views Award and Allbooks Review Editor's Choice, and The Guilt Gene (2009).
She's the recipient of the Benjamin Franklin Book Award for best health and wellness book for Getting Pregnant and Staying Pregnant: Overcoming Infertility and High Risk Pregnancy which has been translated into French and Spanish. In 2009 the book was released in its 20th anniversary edition, under the title, Your High Risk Pregnancy: A Practical and Supportive Guide updated in collaboration with Dr. Errol Norwitz of Yale School of Medicine.
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Your face begins to lose its natural elasticity with time, as a result of old age. You start to develop wrinkles and sagging skin, which can be especially noticeable on your chin and jawline.
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Botox has been around for a number of years, and even if you have never thought about getting it yourself, you will have heard of it at some point in your life. It is a non-surgical treatment, and it is primarily used to reduce wrinkles and fine lines on your face.
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ANDRITZ HYDRO Hammerfest delivers tidal turbine arrays and services to harness the great energy potential from tidal streams. The modular solutions are designed to allow optimal integration in the daily operation plans of the customers, supporting the worldwide energy mix.
The video shows 3D animation of HS1000 tidal turbine successfully deployed at EMEC's tidal test site in December 2011.
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Burnet is centrally located in the Texas Hill Country and close to a number of attractions. Within less than a half hour, you go to:
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There are fishing guides, boat, skidoo and other watercraft rentals, swimming etc. at most of these.
The fishing is pretty good. in all the local lakes and rivers – with catches of Catfish, Stripers, Hybrid Stripers, White Bass, Guadalupe Bass, Sand Bass, Crappie, Perch and more.
A number of city parks are available for you to enjoy.
Golf courses are nearby.
Antiquing is very popular in the area as well.
We have music venues, theaters, movies, big box stores and many good restaurants in the area. The BBQ is hard to beat also!
Be sure to check out the Vanishing Texas River Cruise and maybe see some bald eagles – and visit the Canyon of the Eagles resort and eco park on Lake Buchanan. Both are not to be missed!
Don't miss visiting the Hill Country Vintage Motorcycle Museum in Burnet!
There are also a large number of vineyards and wineries nearby and we are close to other towns like Fredericksburg, Llano, Johnson City, Lampasas and more – each has a rich history of its own to enjoy and explore.


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Nicomachus (Greek: Νικόμαχος) (c. 60 – c. 120) was an important mathematician in the ancient world and is best known for his works Introduction to Arithmetic (Arithmetike eisagoge) and Manual of Harmonics in Greek. He was born in Gerasa, Roman Syria (now Jerash, Jordan), and was strongly influenced by Aristotle. He was a Pythagorean.
Nothing is known about the life of Nicomachus except that he was a Pythagorean and that he came from Gerasa. The age in which he lived (c. 100 AD) is only known because he mentions Thrasyllus in his Manual of Harmonics, and because his Introduction to Arithmetic was apparently translated into Latin in the mid 2nd century by Apuleius. As a Neo-Pythagorean, Nicomachus was often more interested in the mystical properties of numbers rather than their mathematical properties.
Introduction to Arithmetic (Greek: Ἀριθμητικὴ εἰσαγωγή), the lesser work on arithmetic. Nicomachus writes extensively on numbers, especially on the significance of prime numbers and perfect numbers and argues that arithmetic is ontologically prior to the other mathematical sciences (music, geometry, and astronomy), and is their cause. Boethius' De institutione arithmetica is in large part a Latin translation of this work.
Manual of Harmonics (Greek: Ἐνχειρίδιον ἁρμονικῆς). This is the first important music theory treatise since the time of Aristoxenus and Euclid. It provides the earliest surviving record of the story of Pythagoras's epiphany outside a smithy that pitch is determined by numeric ratios. Nicomachus also gives the first in depth account of the relationship between music and the ordering of the universe via the "music of the spheres." Nicomachus's discussion of the governance of the ear and voice in understanding music unites Aristoxenian and Pythagorean concerns, normally regarded as antitheses.[1] In the midst of theoretical discussions, Nicomachus also describes the instruments of his time, also providing a valuable resource. In addition to the Manual, ten extracts survive from what appear to have originally been a more substantial work on music.
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Part Five: Getting On Stage
Last updated on: Sunday 2 September 2018
Getting on stage and playing live is key for honing your sound and building a fanbase. But how do you get your first gigs? We explain…
Playing live is a really important part of most artists' careers, both creatively and commercially. And it's especially important at the outset when it is arguably the most effective way to build an initial fanbase.
Though, while established artists make lots of money from playing live, at the start of your career it's unlikely gigging will make you rich. Indeed, once you start travelling to venues beyond your home town or city, you might start losing money. Live only really starts to become profitable once you are playing mid-sized theatres.
Which means early on in your career you should treat gigs as a marketing platform. Which doesn't mean the whole show needs to be one big sales pitch, but pick gigs that will let you play in front of the right kinds of people, and make sure your audience know where they can follow you online.
A good trick is to tell your audience that they can see photos from the show, or access some of the tracks you've performed, or get discounts on your next gig, by connected through social media or email.
But how do you get those gigs? Well, truth be told, until you can prove to a promoter or venue that you can pull in at least a small crowd of people to see you perform, they are going to be very nervous about booking you.
The easiest way to get your live career going is to stage your own shows, initially for friends and family, and slowly pulling in a wider crowd. Depending on the kind of music you make, these DIY shows might be gigs, or a club night, or simply a party, whatever works best to showcase you and your music.
If you need to hire a venue for your DIY gig, pick somewhere that's the right size and which has the right vibe for your music.
You'll usually find that a small venue early in the week isn't very expensive to hire at all, and at certain times of the year they might cut you an extra special deal if you can get enough people through the door. Remember, small venues usually make more on the bar than they do from rentals or ticket sales, so if you can pull in an audience who will buy drinks, then they may well be up for negotiating on rates.
When booking a venue make sure you are clear on what you are getting for your money – what kit does the venue have, do they provide a sound person and security, do they have a mailing list or social media you can use to promote the show? Assuming it is a ticketed rather than a free show, who is selling the tickets, you or the venue? With sites like Music Glue and Eventbrite it's now very easy to sell tickets online in advance. But what about on the door on the night?
Once your live career has started to gain some momentum, hopefully you will start being booked by other venues and promoters. That makes things a little easier, though there is still the matter of doing the deal with the show's organiser.
At the outset you might be asked to play for free and you need to decide whether that is something you are willing to do – either because playing a show is good practice or it will enable you to play in front of a new audience made up of the right kind of people. But be very wary of pay-to-play gigs, which is usually where a promoter will force you to commit to sell a minimum number of tickets to play.
At some point you will probably want to hire a booking agent who will help you find gigs and, most importantly, will take over the 'deal making' and will often be able to get you more money – good agents drive a hard bargain!
Some artists start working with a booking agent before they get a manager though, as with management, the best way to get a good agent is to get things going yourself – ie put on your shows, get a few gigs – and then let relevant booking agencies (ie who specialise in your genre and work with new acts) know about what you are up to.
Two other quick things to mention about live – one creative, one commercial.
First, do put some time into thinking about what your live show is going to consist of, maybe playing at some parties with friends to work out what you are most comfortable with and what gets the best reaction.
Going live is easier for some genres than others. If your music is very studio/production based you will have to think of ways to make that work as a live performance. Either that, or promote your brand by DJing, dropping in a few of your own productions or remixes, and encouraging your audience to check you out online.
Second, whenever you perform your own songs in public, that is exploiting the 'public performance' control of your song copyright. And whenever your song copyright is exploited, you are due a royalty.
When you join collecting society PRS For Music you actually give it the exclusive right to license your so called 'performing rights'. What that means is that if someone books you to perform your own songs, they also have to buy a licence from PRS covering the copyright in those songs, and PRS will then pass that money back to you minus its commission.
Which means that, in addition to any fee the promoter may pay you, you should receive some PRS money for every show you perform as well.
Providing, that is, you are a PRS member, that you logged all your songs with PRS, and you told PRS about the show and the songs you played. Of course this only applies if you perform your own songs. If you perform someone else's work, they will get the PRS money.
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Well at least in the village! Today it is bright and very cold and windy! Which stands to reason because I wanted to dress my girls in some new clothes and take photo's outside.
Well I was not giving up, so all was made ready and then it was a trip into the garden for a photo shot.
And of course as soon as I stood the first girl up for her photo the wind rose and swirled around!
I hope you enjoy the results and a warning there are a lot of photo's!! so may be best to get a drink before starting to view…..
We begin at the Chat n Snap last October when I spotted this lovely pink linen button smock outfit by Sarah of Vintage Sasha which I snapped up and put away until now. It's being worn by Raven by No Navel along with socks by Gill and shoes by Rosie Bloomfield.
Now I had seen a gorgeous teal green one on Sarah's blog site but was to late to purchase it much to my regret because I adored the colour, so I was over the moon to find that Kendal had commission one for my clan for Christmas.
Here being worn by Martha my red haired No navel, the most gorgeous no navel in my opinion, she is also wearing Gill's socks and Rosie Bloomfield shoes.
Now having these two outfits set me on an idea to have all my No Navel girls wearing Linen button smocks in a plain colour by Sarah, so having seen a Natural and also a lemon colour in her previous sales I asked if she could make me one in each .
So here we have Ashley wearing the lemon one that Sarah kindly made along with Rosie shoes and socks by Petrana.
Now being very cheeky I went back to Sarah and asked what linen she had as I needed some more plain coloured button smocks for an idea I had for the blog. She said that she would search through her stash of fabrics make some up and I could chose what I wanted.
So the lovely Sarah did this and then sent me the photo's and I said Thank you I will take them all! She was a little stunned thinking that I had only wanted a couple but I believe in striking while the iron's hot as when would I ever get another chance to have such a select of colours. So they arrived in the post even the Orange one! yes Orange, Sarah tries to say it's Coral but it is Orange! More about that one later…
Now we have Ashley in blue with socks by Gill and Shoes by Jean Jensen.
A closer view of the blue and pink outfits.
Now Ginny's joined wearing Lilac with Sarah socks and Jean Jensen shoes.
A closer view of the Lilac with the blue.
and now Winter my No Navel Brunette as joined wearing the mint green set with Sarah socks and Jean Jensen double strap shoes.
A closer look at the lemon and mint sets.
There they are all six of my No navel girls wearing plain coloured linen button smocks by Sarah of Vintage Sasha , it is just what I was hoping for a lovely range of beautiful colour.
and I cannot quite believe that I had almost the right colour shoes and socks to go with each set! This comes from having been collecting for a few years now and making the decision to buy good shoes in a range of colours along with good socks also.
Gill if you are reading this I need a pair of lilac and a pair of mint green socks 🙂 but hold fast there could be more!!
Now all the girls in the plain colour button smocks.
Here is a close up of Sophie the only later girl in the line up. She was the last one I dressed because I am not a lover of Orange! So every time I put this smock up against a Sasha I decided it did not suit! and put it to one side then tried another colour until it was the last one… Sarah laughingly tried to tell me it was Coral! But if you are reading this Sarah the socks she's wearing are CORAL the smock is Orange!!! I must say I nearly decided not to use it but when I found the apricot Jean Jensen shoes and the coral Gill socks it seemed to come together and looks quite nice on Sophie, so for now it stays.
I know you are wondering why did I buy that one if I'm not a fan of the colour but in the overall look of them all together it adds to that side of the colour range.
On the other end we have in purple Belinda with White Gill socks and Jean Jensen shoes. Jocelyn in Berry with Gill socks with a pink edge and Jj shoes and Paige in Natural with cream socks with a claret stripe by Gill and JJ shoes. Belinda is a 68 single fringe girl and Jocelyn a 68 full fringe girl and Paige a 69 Dungarees girl. I think these three colours go well together.
So here they all are again in their range of beautiful coloured Vintage Sasha Button smocks.I just need a pair of berry coloured shoes and toning socks along with a pair of purple socks, which I may have somewhere!
So here they all are again in their range of beautiful coloured Vintage Sasha Button smocks.I just need a pair of berry coloured shoes and toning socks along with a pair of purple socks, which I may have somewhere!
the next three, I did not realise until putting on this photo how the No navels are going up in height !
The suns come out again.
and Sophie on the end.
tried to take a photo of the girls lined up through the trellis !
Not all in and the suns taking part!
Side view but only three in photo!
ALMOST! I should have moved Sophie at the end forward so we would see her and not just her lovely foot!
The last one with the sun but still a very cold wind but at least on the bench they are sheltered from being blown over.
With thanks to the wonderful Sarah for agreeing to make me the plain button smocks in all the colours she had available. Also thanks to Gill for making such a good colour range of socks but we need more !! lol I believe she is aiming for 300 assorted pairs for this years Chat n Snap! To the late Jean Jensen for her wonderful range of shoes colours and also Rosie Bloomfield , we miss you ! xx
Now I do have three more Button smocks of Sarah's but in a pattern fabric, maybe I'll put them on my slate eyed girls tomorrow, although two of them belong to the twins ! I'd best ask first!!


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Wojciechowski mows 'em down for Tides
O's right-hander fans career-high 12 in seven shutout innings
By Michael Avallone / MiLB.com | July 7, 2018 12:46 AM
The continuing propensity for strikeouts in the Majors appears to have trickled down to the Minor Leagues. At least it did during Asher Wojciechowski's start on Friday night.
The Orioles right-hander fanned a career-high 12 batters and allowed three hits over seven innings as Triple-A Norfolk blanked Durham, 1-0, at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. It was the second double-digit strikeout performance in 163 Minor League appearances for Wojciechowski, who eclipsed his previous best of 10, set July 3, 2015 with Fresno.
Video: Norfolk's Wojciechowski whiffs 12th batter
The 29-year-old has notched a career-high six strikeouts four times in the Majors, most recently last Aug. 23 with the Reds.
Wojciechowski (5-4) took the mound in the bottom of the first inning with a lead, thanks to Orioles No. 5 prospect Cedric Mullins' leadoff homer. He struck out two in the opening frame and surrendered one of Durham's three hits, a single to Brandon Lowe, the Rays' 14th-ranked prospect. Wojciechowski fanned two more in the second and struck out the side in the third, giving him four straight punchouts.
The 2010 first-round pick worked around a leadoff double by Rob Refsnyder in the fourth -- the only inning he failed to record a strikeout -- before working a clean fifth. Kean Wong reached on an infield single in the sixth for the last Bulls hit against Wojciechowski, who fanned Brandon Snyder leading off the seventh to establish a new career high with his 11th whiff.
Video: Norfolk's Mullins leads off the game with shot
The product of The Citadel lifted after throwing 70 of his season-high 102 pitches for strikes, completing seven frames for the first time this season. The 12 strikeouts were two fewer than he totaled in his previous four starts, a span of 20 1/3 innings.
Wojciechowski made his Major League debut with the Astros in 2015. He spent the next year in the Minors but returned to the big leagues in 2017, appearing in 25 games, including eight starts, for Cincinnati. Overall, Wojciechowski is 4-4 with a 6.64 ERA in 30 Major League outings, including 11 starts.
Donnie Hart struck out three in the eighth and Jhan Marinez fanned a pair in the ninth to pick up his 11th save.
Mullins delivered the only offense on either side with his fourth Triple-A homer, which came on the fourth pitch of the game from Durham starter Forrest Snow (5-5). The right-hander yielded three hits and a walk with eight strikeouts in seven innings.
Michael Avallone is a contributor to MiLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @MavalloneMiLB. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Each month, we are focusing on a record label founded by an active digger. This month, Miles Cleret from Soundway Records, one of our favorite labels around! From their amazing compilation series to beautiful reissues and great new tropical acts (think the mighty Meridian Brothers!), Miles Cleret's choices and opinions are clearly worth checking!
When did you start digging records?
Properly when I was a teenager I guess – my dad was a digger (Jazz & Soul and 50s RnB and Rock & Roll mostly) so there were plenty in his house when I was growing up. It was hard though as money wasn't an easy thing to get at the age of 14 but back then (the 80s) you could get good stuff in little record fairs and market stalls and there were just tons of record shops everywhere – even outside of London. The age of expensive rare records hadn't really begun apart from the mega-fans who collected the big names in Rock and Pop (of which the UK had a lot). I wasn't looking for rare stuff then though – just music that seemed exciting and new.
What Lps did you buy at first? Do you still listen to them?
Well not the very first records I bought – they were mostly really terrible pop records from when I was about 10. There was a store in the UK called Woolworths and you could buy discounted ex-chart 45s for about 20 pence so I'd spend all my pocket money on them for a few years until I was about 13. I remember buying most of the Beatles albums really cheaply on Spanish editions on a holiday in Barcelona when I was about 13 at a record store that was closing down. That changed my musical life a lot (my dad hated the Beatles so never had those records in the house) and then David Bowie, The Clash, the Cure and and then when I was about 14 or 15 I got into bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Hawkwind, Gong, The Grateful Dead, Caravan, Traffic etc – and yes I still listen to those LPs but I didn't for a long time until recently – they have a way of transporting me back to my youth. Then I got into funk, jazz, hip hop and reggae and electronic music a few years later and dropped the guitar sound for quite a few years.
Do you have a particular style or favourite period?
No, not really now. I have pretty wide ranging tastes from the 1950s right up until yesterday. I know I don't like much really heavy Thrash Metal, Goa Trance & also commercial pop etc to name a few styles. For quite a few years just before Soundway started in the late 90s I was pretty entrenched in records (mostly jazz, funk, soul, afro & latin) made between 65-76, but at some point or other over the last 20 years I've been into Detroit style techno, underground House, Psych-Rock, Prog-Rock, Synth-pop, Electronica, Boogie, Disco, Soca, Reggae, Dub and more. I just love hearing new kinds of music and I would get really bored if I stuck to one area exclusively. That kind of happened with West African music for about 8 years – I still love it and collect it but had to get out of solely listening to that stuff after soaking myself in it for all the comps we did back then.
Are you still digging, buying vinyl, visiting record shops?
Yes but nothing like as much as I used to – I have kids now so I'd be neglecting them if I was digging as much as I used to (I am in Indonesia as I type though about to go digging in Java for three days starting tomorrow). I try to be less obsessive than I used to be and let stuff go occasionally if I don't DJ with it (Can't afford not to really) – Personally I believe it can be un-healthy to obsess too much on the collection – you can never have them all so best just to enjoy the music and get your fix from the musicians and people involved in the music scene (easier said than done with some records though!). I also move around a lot and we have been out of the UK a bit recently so I don't currently have a record "cave" – most of my records are in storage.
What was your first release?
"Ghana Soundz": Afro-Beat, Funk & Fusion in 70s Ghana…
Gyedu Blay Ambolley
Why did you choose this name, Soundway? what does that represent?
It's the title of a track by a band called Wrinkar Experience from Nigeria and was quite a big hit in West Africa in the 70s on EMI. The name just stuck as I was listening to it a lot in Ghana when I was starting the label and it kind of sounded right.
Among your first releases were the Ghana Soundz series which gained cult status. How did you work on it? how did you prepare that? Was it a longtime project?
It took about 2 years to do the first Volume. I went travelling in Ghana with my wife in 2001 and at the end of the trip had a couple of days digging records in Kumasi & Accra. The stuff I found was mind-blowing to me at the time. I'd spent a few years previously getting into afro stuff after all the American jazz, soul & funk etc and would try and find records in the UK at record fairs etc but it was hard to find and this was before the days when you could really get much real African stuff on ebay or the internet (with some notable exceptions). There's an English collector named Duncan Brooker who works with Strut and he had been in Nairobi working when we were about 18 – he came back with some incredible 45s and some Kenyan presses of Nigerian recordings that he traded and sold at the time, but Ghana stuff was invisible – especially the 'afro' stuff. So I went back to Ghana on-and-off for a year just really going deep into looking for records, artists, producers and decided to do a compilation of non-highlife music. It was a great time and I was lucky enough not to have any competition from other labels for the styles i wanted to license at the time so I could take my time and really concentrate on it without there being any other people there from outside Ghana doing what I was doing or looking for records. Records would sit on the street with second-hand dealers and in stores for months without being bought and were cheap so there was no pressure to buy quickly – nobody really wanted them apart from a few Ghanaian collectors who helped school me. Hard to imagine now. There were also still some 'recording studios'- relics of the 80s, where a shop would have a big collection of vinyl but would use it to record custom-made cassettes for customers – the internet killed most of them off a few years back. It was all just trial and error and great times getting to know people like Ebo Taylor, K. Frimpong, K. Gyasi's son, Dick Essiebons and Kwadwo Donkor and hanging out with them at their homes and prising the stories and the pieces of the jigsaw from them over time.
After those you released a whole bunch of other records in the same mould such as the Kenya Special record. Has this become your trademark? Which one was the most fulfilling?
Ghana Soundz and the Nigeria Special series were the most fulfilling because the music was all so new to me at the time. I had no kids then so time wasn't an issue and when you start a label and you're young you have to keep pinching yourself that this is what you're actually doing as a job. Its just so exhilarating and fresh and records you had no idea existed were popping up on an almost daily basis. That is still the case on certain projects but as the label gets bigger and bigger you can get bogged down in the administration side of things which is not something you need to worry about so much when you only have a handful of releases in your catalogue. and you're starting out.
One of the lesser known parts of your activity is record-digging. When did you go to Africa first for that purpose?
In 2001. I was in Ghana, Benin, Togo, Ethiopia & Nigeria a lot between the years 2001-2005.
Fubura Sekibo
Psychedelic Bab
How was Nigeria when you first got there? What's your best record digging story in Lagos?
Nigeria is huge and so full of incredible music it still astounds and surprises me now. I first went there in 2002 – Strut had just put out their Nigeria 70 comp and I'd been in touch with Quinton Scott so had a few contacts from him. There were amazing records there then but much harder to find than in Accra – Lagos is a big big place with terrible traffic so getting around the city is a problem. Its just a vast metropolis but those places always have great records if you look hard. I travelled out of Lagos a few times as well but again you really need to live there to get consistent record hauls – it's not the sort of place you find stuff immediately in so all the Nigerian dealers and collectors are the ones who usually get the best stuff. For this reason (and because they are very good) Nigerian records have gone bananas price-wise recently though so you need to mortgage your house or be very rich these days to be able to buy from the dealers. I was lucky to get a lot of great records before it all went sky-high. I once found a box of mint Afrodisia 45s (50 different titles) whilst visiting the house of a retired producer who had subsequently become pretty wealthy in the pharmaceutical business. Its very hard to find 45s in that kind of condition over there and some of those titles I've never seen anywhere since. When I asked him how much he wanted for them he said I could just have them all and that he no longer wanted them. Finds don't come much better than that.
You are responsible for remarkable selections, reissues, as music from Siam, or Nigerian disco… How do you decide on the choice of reissues/issues?
Just what we have time and money to do and feels right really – music that I like – it's no more exact a science than that. But I do like to try not to rush things.
You released a great selection of highlife, but there wasn't a big echo in the press (in France anyway). How could you explain this?
I guess you mean the "Highlife On the Move" compilation? It got some good attention but I think 1950s highlife is not particularly hip for journalists right now – maybe will never be. I think that was a very important compilation to make though. Its the genesis of the afrobeat story so it will be a solid catalogue title for a few years to come – not one that blows up at the beginning but chugs along nicely. I think it looks and sounds beautiful as well.
Family Atlantica, musicians from both sides of the Atlantic
Have you received many negative answers on some of the LPs you were trying to reissue?
One or two – mostly by people who believe they can out-perform the market and sell hundreds of thousands of copies more than all the other releases in the same genre! There are some big egos out there and the music industry has more than it's fair share- always has and always will. Most people (95%) are cool though – but occasionally some do take a bit of convincing. Some are also worried that they don't technically have the rights sign a master contract as they signed the rights away when they were young. Others have no such worries at all!
There are more and more reissues of old LPs, and more and more record labels (major or indie) now release their new artists on LP, or EP. Do you think that the LP reissue market could ever reach saturation point?
I think it's possible yes. There are certainly a lot of people who buy vinyl because either they think it's cool (often these people are just rich and don't actually ever listen to music properly) and or because they see it as a good investment, which it often is these days. I think it's inevitable that many of those people will offload it all in spades in a few years and the market could see a glut of cut-price titles. The whole vinyl speculator thing is a pain in the arse to be honest. Its just people with money buying up stock and then letting it back out at way over the odds – and these are people who can afford to sit on it. It's not necessarily a bad things for labels as they sell out quickly on limited runs but it just means the vinyl market is controlled by investors and real music fans with not enough money to keep up can't get the releases they want for the right price. Simple economics I guess but I never really thought it would hit the new vinyl world in quite the way it has.
You are not only focused on « old » Lp, compilations. What is the best deal/business: to make reissues or to produce/coproduce new records?
New records are a better thing to do for me personally right now but not necessarily always the best business in the short term – it's a commitment and emotional investment in the music scene right now. Re-issues and compilations may sell quicker in the short run but over time for a label I think new releases and building catalogue in that area is the best way to go. Also we run a publishing company that publishes much of our new output – This is potentially a far better way to pay the bills in the long term but it takes time and is far from always predictable. People's attitude to old music is that it's somehow validated by time – they have a solid idea about the 60s or the 70s or the 80s (or now the 90s) in their heads that's been confirmed by hundreds of books, documentaries, social commentaries and articles in a way that whats happening now isn't. Some people play safe and wait or tell themselves they only like music of a certain era – it's very much like vintage fashion. The idea of music existing in a far-off pre-internet time (and somewhere more exotic) makes many people trust it more somehow especially if it's a bit wonky, loveable or low-fi. Of course music can be very evocative of a certain time and eras go in and out of fashion with different generations. Occasionally records turn up that are meant to look old and people aren't sure. There was a Caribbean calypso-funk 45 a few years ago that was made in 1999 but sold as a 70s record – I remember a few people going nuts over it but then were upset when they found out it wasn't old – the music remained exactly the same but the provenance had changed so it became less 'real' somehow in their eyes.
Batida feat Sacerdote
Are they two different jobs?
New bands are obviously more demanding and the process of promoting new records is much more involved – compilations and re-issues often sell themselves – so yes a little bit.
Dexter Story looks like a vintage record, just like Ghana Soundz. What is this project about, and how does it fit into your catalogue ?
Dex is a very experienced musician who has played on a lot of amazing musicians' records from Kamasi Washington to Gaslamp Killer and way beyond. He is from Los Angeles but like many people over the past ten years became obsessed with classic Ethiopian and East African music. The Wondem project has it's feet rooted in the 1960s, 70s & 80s music of that region but is also extremely modern in many ways and not just a straight retro duplicate – that was what attracted me to it.
Could you tell us more about Fumaça Preta and Batida. Is there a « luso » connection ? How did you discover them ?
Fumaça Preta are a band that again struck me because of the way they took wigged out Brazilian psychedelic rock from the 70s but melded it with bits of acid house, punk and metal in a way I hadn't really heard anyone else do. They reference a 'smorgasbord' of musical styles from Funaná to Funk but wrap it up in their own unique, lysergic way. Alex the drummer is a big time record collector who co-runs a store in Amsterdam called Vintage Voodou – he sent me the demos and I was hooked immediately.
Batida is an electronic dance act from Lisbon run by DJ Pedro Coquenão. He grew up in Angola and so was immersed in the sounds of classic 70s Angolan music all around him which he sampled and incorporated into his sets. These morphed into the Batida live show that features dancers, live musicians and slide shows – he entertains and educates people in equal measure at his gigs. I heard Batida on a compilation that came out a few years ago on Crammed by the Radioclit/Secousse crew and got in touch with Pedro tyo see if we could work on an album.
Meridian Brothers, Bomba Estereo, Los Miticos Del Ritmo, Family Atlantica, again another branch of Soundway, more South American. What could be the meeting point of all these releases?
I guess they are all in some way referencing the music we re-issued on compilations and re-issues and so it was an obvious progression – I think we'll get further and further away from that in time though and already this year we are signing some acts that have nothing at all to do with South America or Africa.
Meridian Brothers
Doctor Trompeta
Can we mention a certain eclecticism in terms of catalogue? Is it more difficult to be well received, well identified, by the media and record shops or is it in fact a force?
Again I think it's harder in the short term – Many journalists and distributors/stores just want to put you in a one genre box and keep you there but I couldn't think of doing that – As I said before I have very wide tastes musically so want to keep moving and surprising rather than getting stuck in one place. Its tough sometimes but as the catalogue grows people start to get it. Major labels can do it so why not independents?
What could be the label's leitmotif?
Music from Planet Earth : Past, Present, Future.
What are your next releases?
New Albums by Fumaca Preta (Darker and more introspective than the first maybe) & Family Atlantica (featuring Marshall Allen and Orlando Julius). Psychedelic pop from Flamingods with "Majesty" – I saw these guys in a tent I was DJing in at Glastonbury last year and was blown away – a whole band of multi-instrumentalists who met in London and the Middle East. This is their third album and has shades of early Pink Floyd, Os Mutantes, the Beatles & Sun City Girls, crashing into Les Baxter and Martin Denny. Then we have a new 45 by Chico Mann, Kenya Special Volume 2 , re-issues of People Rock Outfit and Jay-U experience from Nigeria and some edit 12s. Later on in the year I hope the new Ondatropica album will drop alongside some more new signings and re-issues etc and a comp of Nigerian Disco and Boogie.
What is the LP you dream of reissuing?
If I tell you that 100's of other people will try and do it first!


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