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How Much Do Social Media Influencers Make?
Let's make one thing very clear—the most successful social media influencers are doing very well indeed, thank you very much. From charging thousands of dollars per post through to freebie travel to locations with eye-watering price tags, for the uber-successful, this is a truly lucrative path to follow.
Social media influencing can still realistically be described as a fledgling industry. Only a few years ago it was possible for a business to take advantage of a person's large online following by simply offering free products. Fast forward a few years to today, and it's necessary for companies to put their money where their mouth is if they want to launch a successful campaign.
Of course, there's a huge difference between the income of those at the top of their trade and those who're just starting out. But when it comes to the choice of a business whether or not to utilize such a service, social media marketing in this manner is fast becoming a must-do. Influencer management platform, Traackr, states that over 72 percent of major brands dedicate a large proportion of their budget to this form of advertising.
However, in exactly the same way as the income of the influencer can vary drastically, so can the cost for a business. With no real regulations in place as of yet, such a digital marketing choice can seem a little daunting. So let's start by demystifying some of the hyperbole that surrounds the subject, and start to put some clarity around influencer collaboration, how much money they really make, and the cost for a business in such an approach.
Macro vs Micro Social Media Influencers
In simple terms, macro influencers have a higher number of followers than their micro cousins. In keeping with the vague guidelines that surround the industry, some refer to macro influencers as those who have more than 50,000 followers. Others say it's necessary to hit more than 100,000 before you justify such a description. Either way, you need a lot of love to warrant this title.
Micro influencers are those who rock 10,000 plus. And now there's a surge of those being termed as "nano influencers," who might have as few as 1,000 followers on the most popular platforms such as Instagram or YouTube.
Another term that has also evolved over the years is a mega influencer and their following usually spans over 1 million. One of the best known mega influencers of all, Kylie Jenner, boasts over 21 million followers on Instagram. According to analytics firm, D'Marie Analytics, a sponsored post on Jenner's feed is worth more than a million dollars in the ad equivalent value. And if you needed any more proof that this method of engaging with an audience works, then consider this; when Jenner posted last year that she'd stopped using Snapchat, CNN reported that the company's stock price plummeted over a million dollars in a single day!
But while it's true that macro influencers have an extensive reach, they don't necessarily provide the best bang for your buck. Especially for companies that have a somewhat more niche audience.
For small and medium-sized businesses, a micro-social media influencer could be far more advantageous. Not only could it mean engagement with more people who are genuinely interested in your product, but the power of the micros is also being recognized by the very platforms they inhabit. For instance, Instagram now offers the valuable "swipe up" feature to those with as little as 10,000 followers. This allows users to easily link out to other Instagram stories, giving those with a smaller fan base the power that, until recently, was only available to the big guns.
And let's not dismiss the power of the nano influencer. Described as those with 1,000 to 5,000 admirers, according to the New York Times, their popularity is rising amongst savvy companies keen to cash in on their high engagement level. With the high-flying macros charging more and more, plus a saturation of those who now fall into this category, such smaller influencers not only cost less (many will push a company's product for free samples) but can truly target a specific audience.
So what kind of income do successful influencers earn?
Those at the top of their game with over a million followers could be drawing in $100,000 – $250,000 per post. Those with slightly fewer devotees might be getting $10,000 – $100,000 per post, depending on the engagement. Micros are looking at $1,000-$10,000 per post, and even some nanos are drawing in $75 – $500 per post. Such earning potential is definitely not small change, whatever angle you look at it.
Businesses That Effectively Utilize Influencers
With social media marketing, and influencer marketing, in particular, expected to become an $8 billion dollar industry by 2020, it's more a case of who doesn't use this powerful channel to advertise their wares.
Some great examples of successful influencer campaigns include the recent collaboration between Los Angeles based, Fiji Water, with Danielle Bernstein (of @weworewhatfame). The campaign offered workout videos with Bernstein and personal trainer, Eric Johnson, to create Bodyworewhat, a campaign for that perfect summer body. And of course, hydration is an important part of getting fit and looking great, so a super-successful angle for them.
Naked Juice is taking advantage of influencer Kate La Vie's charms, with strategically placed bottles of their wares in sponsored posts to reach out to her 250,000+ audience of all thing's lifestyle and beauty. A great slant for the juice producer to instill their product into the everyday habits of her followers.
Millennial-focused beauty brand, Glossier, is a great example of a company that's used smaller influencers to great effect. They target those with great engagement to promote their products. By offering a referral program of promotional codes and discounts against future purchases, they provide the opportunity for anyone at any level to become an influencer. And, of course, increase their brand loyalty and customer base along the way.
Is influencer Marketing Right For Your Business?
Influencer marketing can be a potent strategy for a company's advertising campaigns. Done right it really shouldn't cost a fortune and can provide an extremely worthwhile return on investment. However, the key phrase here is, "done right." Great social media influencer marketing isn't solely about the numbers. It's about engagement and exposure to those who genuinely want to purchase the product or service.
As a digital marketing agency, Smashed Media offers a complete service on what this could mean for your business. From the key choice of collaborating with the influencer who best represents your brand, through to the creation and/or distribution of posts, as well as social media marketing and other digital marketing services, we provide businesses of all sizes with unparalleled service and results.


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jmtd → log → Retiring from the Debian games team
After over five years, I've decided to retire from the Debian Games Team.
The games team has been a fun group to work within Debian: packaging doom-related programs was my route into Debian and I've really enjoyed it.
Spare time is very tight at the moment, and I'm not dedicating much at all to Debian work. Within that, I'd quite like to try and focus on some other areas.
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When I published two of my novels through traditional publishing houses, there were not as many options as there are now. Back then getting your manuscript accepted by a traditional publishing house was what validated you as an author. Those self-published were considered wannabe authors undeserving of the title of "author".
Fast forward ten years and we see more and more authors self publishing. In 2011 Barry Eisler, A New York Times best-selling author turned down a five hundred thousand dollar deal from his publisher, St. Martin's Press to self-publish. Romance author, Ruth Cardello reportedly turned down a seven-figure book deal from a traditional publisher and the list is growing. I examine the reasons.
It Takes Too Long To Get A Book Deal
It was accepted in the past that only the best writers deserve a contract with traditional publishers because they know what sells.
The reality is traditional publishers don't know. The celebrated mystery writer Agatha Christie had been continually rejected for five years until she finally landed a book contract. Stephen King's debut novel Carrie was rejected 30 times. Rudyard Kipling who wrote the Jungle Book was told he did not know how to use the English language. Margaret Mitchell's epic romance Gone with the Wind which was made into a hit movie in the 1930s was rejected 38 times. These are just a few of the many examples of how traditional publishers have been wrong.
If your manuscript is ready, properly edited, formatted and has a great book cover, why wait years to be published if you can do so now? When you upload over Amazon your book can be on sale within 24 hours.
A Book Contract Does Not Guarantee A Better Distribution Channel
The elated feeling of being accepted by a traditional publisher soon disappears after you find out your books don't automatically get into every physical store. Traditional publishers don't want to run the risk of a large print run for a little-known author as their money will be tied up if that book is slow to sell.
Only well-known authors get the privilege of showcasing their books in the stores. Others will need to speak to each store individually to ask if they will sell their books. The unfortunate author will also most likely have to purchase the books herself to place at the stores that agree.
Self-publishing Companies Are An Attractive Alternative
Self-publishing companies offer all the services a traditional publisher does and throw in marketing and promotion too for an additional fee. Unlike traditional publishers, they don't retain rights to a book. The author has complete ownership and gets to keep all royalties.
They are very expensive, though, and not all maintain a high standard. Many of these companies also claim that the books on their list are "available" at large chain bookstores, but this does not mean that an author's book will be on the shelves of these bookstores. It only means that the book is listed in databases from which the stores may order. Since there are thousands of books on their databases, there is no guarantee that book will be picked unless someone actually orders that book.
It is still an option for those who don't want to deal with the technical aspects of preparing a book for print but either can't get accepted by a traditional publisher or don't want to be tied down to one.
Technical Assistance For Publishing Not Uniformly Administered
Traditional Publishing houses have the expertise to tidy up your book through in-house editors and savvy book designers, but they don't put in the same effort for you as they would for their best-selling authors.
Many Free-lancers Online Offer Services At Reasonable Rates
Services for editing, formatting, designing your book cover and all other help you need to get your book print-ready is available online from thousands of freelancers all over the world at reasonable rates.
Freelancers try and make their services even cheaper by offering several options to you. For example, book cover designers offer pre-made designs you can choose from instead of custom-made. This same principle works for book formatting. There are experts who even offer templates online to help you format your books ready to be published as an e-book or print.
Or, like me, you can save money and do it on your own. There are many tools and software available online to help you do this. Editing is the only service necessary to outsource.
Traditional Publishers Leave Marketing and Promotion To The Author
It does not make sense for authors to put in effort and expense to promote their books but give up 90% of their earnings in royalties to the publisher.
Traditional publishers offer marketing services to best-selling authors, not the rest. Yet best-selling author H.M. Ward posted on Kindleboards that he had turned down 1.5 million dollars in advances offered by traditional publishers due to their no-clue marketing plan. He also claims he has a larger following on his email list than they do.
Now authors wonder if they even want a marketing plan drawn up by these traditional publishers.
Short Shelf Life Of A Book In A Physical Bookstore
Whether you choose a traditional publisher or self-publishing company your book only remains in a physical bookstore for about one month. There is no shelf life for your books when you upload them to Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Draft2Digital, Smashwords and any other online store.
Award-winning author J.A Konrath says it well, " A virtual shelf, like Amazon or Smashwords, carries all my titles, all the time. And I don't have to compete with a NYT bestseller who has 400 copies of their latest hit on the shelf, while I only have one copy of mine. We each take up one virtual space per title. … Virtual shelf life is forever. In a bookstore, you have anywhere from a few weeks to a few months to sell your title, and then it gets returned…But e-books are forever. Once they're live, they will sell for decades."
All Your Books Are Linked When You Publish Online
One click on your name on Amazon will list all your other books and reviews. Fans of your books can even read about you and your events and promotions on Amazon's Author Central, thereby generating interest in all your books just by mentioning one of your books.
Not possible with a physical store and also difficult to do when you sign up with different traditional publishers who operate differently and don't co-operate.
You may have to promote each book individually working one by one with different publishers rather than have one promotion cover all your books which can be very costly.
Just by promoting one book online on Amazon, other books in your portfolio are immediately showcased and this happens time and time again. So earlier books you have written will be thrust into the limelight again and again every time you publish a new book.
Loss of creative control
Traditional publishers can interfere with an author's creative control such as choice of book cover, changing parts of the story and so on. The bulk of the authors who have standard contracts have no choice but to concede to the publisher's wishes.
Amy Lynn Andrews self-published a 30-page e-book called, Tell Your Time: How To Manage Your Schedule So You Can Live Free in 2010. Later she was offered a five-figure advance book deal. She turned it down and one of the reasons cited is that the publisher wanted her to lengthen her e-book from 5,500 words to 40,000. She was told that in order to be profitable, books in her genre had to be sold at a certain price and to justify that, the book needed to be beefed up. Brevity was what set her book apart from other time management books and she even adopted the tagline, "What if you could change your life in less than 30 pages?". So she was not willing to sacrifice creative control in this area.
Print on Demand Has Taken The Pain Out Of Printing
Taking your manuscript to a printing press can be very costly. If the print run is small you fork out more money for less books. Amazon's print on demand has changed all this, giving you the opportunity to create a paperback alongside your e-book and it cost you nothing.
Plus you don't have all your money tied up with a huge amount of print books in storage waiting to be sold. Amazon will print and send out whenever there is a purchase of a print copy.
I mention Amazon because I am published with them. There are others who offer similar services, but in my opinion Amazon has by far the most professional and cost effective service for self-publishing at zero cost, not to mention widest exposure through their online retail store.
The prestige of getting a book deal from a traditional publisher still dominates the mindset of society. Many authors still suffer from self-doubt and find they need this validation. It is better to build a sound readership first through publishing online, especially through e-books and when you have formidable sales you will naturally draw the attention of traditional publishers. Then it will be your choice whether to sign that book deal.


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CaptureRx is committed to enabling the missions of Covered Entities. Part of that commitment, requires us to be trusted industry experts and advisors. To accomplish that, we are dedicated to the learning and development of our employees.
Part of that learning and development comes through the Apexus Advanced 340B Operations Certificate, or ACE certification.
At CaptureRx, we are committed to achieving our goal of having one employee from each department become ACE certified. Helping us to help you enable your mission.
One of those employees is Laura Lopez. We interviewed Laura to discuss why she chose to become ACE certified and what he hopes to accomplish.
Here is that transcript:
1. How long have you been working at CaptureRx?
"6 years and 7 months".
2. What do you do at CaptureRx?
"Lead Sales Operations Specialist / pre implementation".
3. What are your Hobbies?
"Bike Riding, writing poetry and playing video games with my kids".
4. Why did you choose to get ACE Certified?
"I wanted to expand my knowledge for myself and my co workers in order to continue to be a SME for the company!"
5. What do you like most about working at Capture?
"The people and the every day interaction with our Pharmacy and Entity customers!"
Here at CaptureRx, we are honored to continuously support the missions of Covered Entities. This is just one example of how we do that.


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The products I've been sent to try include the Retextuluxe Shampoo and Conditioner, the ReGlosse Smoothing Serum and the ReProtectant Thermal Crème, all of which include grape seed extract to repair, strengthen, protect and nourish hair. Not only is the grape extract fantastic for all the above-mentioned qualities, but it also leaves my hair smelling diviiineee.
The shampoo and conditioner are a dream to use, the light fruity scent lingers on the hair and although the range is created to be super nourishing the conditioner doesn't weigh my hair down or make it overly greasy at the roots like others can.
Next I add a generous dose of the thermal creme as well as a small blob of the serum (followed by a few of my other pre-blow drying products - I know, I use so many!) then brush through my hair with my beloved wet brush. After an arm-aching blow dry sesh my hair is super smooth with minimal frizz and hardly an flyaways, making it the perfect starting point before I give it a little bit of shape with the tongs. I finish off with a little more of the serum to smooth out the final look and then I'm good to go!
When I prep and style my hair with these products, the end result I achieve means that I can last only washing my hair about twice a week without it getting overly frizzy, greasy or knotted up in between! Perfect for a lazy gal like me.
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I'm new to Tranströmer – The Half-Finished Heaven was a Christmas present from my daughter, and I am still working through the poems. Maybe this post would have been better in a few months' time, but I thought it would be interesting, at least once, to write about a poet on first reading of their work.
As a starting point, here's the title poem of this selected poems collection, published by Penguin Classics in 2018;
The Half-Finished Heaven
Cowardice breaks off its path.
Anguish breaks off its path.
The vulture breaks off in its flight.
The eager light runs into the open,
even the ghosts take a drink.
And our paintings see the air,
red beasts of the ice-age studios.
Everything starts to look around.
We go out in the sun by hundreds.
Every person is a half-open door
leading to a room for everyone.
The endless field under us.
Water glitters between the trees.
The lake is a window into the earth.
I think it's an extraordinary poem, full of seemingly random connections of disconnected images that speak of something much greater. Transtromer is a writer for whom the spaces between are as important as the words themselves. We are asked to fill in the gaps ourselves.
All the poems in The Half-Finished Heaven were translated from the Swedish by Robert Bly, so my view of them is heavily influenced by Bly's translations. It's an interesting discussion point when reading poems in translation – how much do we as readers get from the original poet, and how much from the translator? There's a good post on this by Martin Crucifix in his poetry blog here;
Tomas Tranströmer was born in Stockholm in 1931, and died in the same city in 2015. He published fifteen collections in his lifetime. His work has been published in sixty different languages, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011, to mixed reviews. See this article in the Guardian for further details;
Though there doesn't seem much to take from Philip Hensher's criticism in the Telegraph, as reported in the above article – Hensher apparently wrote that …Time has shown every single Swedish winner of the prize to be 'a little phenomenon of no interest' outside their own country.
Teju Cole in the New Yorker was more fulsome with praise – Tomas Tranströmer, who was awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Literature, has for years now been one of my ports of refuge…to read Tranströmer—the best times are at night, in silence, and alone—is to surrender to the far-fetched. It is to climb out of bed and listen to what the house is saying, and to how the wind outside responds.
I can see what he means. There are lines in all of the poems in this book that really stand out with their mixture of surreal strangeness rooted in everyday life.
In The Gallery he writes;
That woman keeps buying more and more things
in order to throw them into the jaw of nothing
that wiggles around behind her.
Or there's this, the opening stanza from After a Long Dry Spell;
The summer is grey now strange evening.
Rain creeps down from the sky
and lands on the field silently
as if it intended to overpower a sleeper.
Another good example is his long poem, (well, long for Tranströmer), Schubertiana. In the Bly translation, the first stanza (there are five in all), starts as follows;
Outside New York, a high place where with one glance you take in the houses where eight million humans live.
The giant city over there is a long flummery drift, a spiral galaxy seen from the side.
The stanza ends with the following long line
I know also-statistics to the side-that at this moment in some room down there Schubert is being played, and for that person, the notes are more real than all the rest.
There's a film interpretation of some of the lines from this poem by British Director Martin Earle, (it's a different translation to that by Bly), which I think captures some of the surreality and disparate connectivity of much of Tranströmer's writing. You can view it via the following link.
I'm certainly enjoying surrendering to the far-fetched language of Tomas Tranströmer and look forward to more late night readings.
What do you think?
Obligatory end-of-blogpost-link – The Half-Finished Heaven is available on my Bookshop here. Any commission I make goes towards the running of this site (so far I am at £1.00 in total, so it's not exactly a financially profitable enterprise – but isn't that the way with poetry for most of us!?);


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Song list for the Veronica Mars TV Soundtrack
Track 1: "We Used to Be Friends" by The Dandy Warhols
The show's theme song, it played over the opening credits in every episode except 1.06 Return of the Kane and 1.22 Leave It to Beaver, when the opening credits weren't used and the cast names overlaid the action. The song was around before the show but the lyrics are so very perfect that you could be forgiven for thinking that it was written especially for it. "We Used to Be Friends" is off the band's fifth album, Welcome to the Monkey House, released in 2003. For those of you who remember the '80s, Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran co-produced.
This is one of three songs the band has had on the show. "Insincere Because I," off the same album, was used in the pilot as Veronica reminisced about her time as Duncan's girlfriend. "Little Drummer Boy," which played in 1.10 An Echolls Family Christmas when Veronica was cleaning up at the poker table, was the band's very first single, released in 1995. Look for it on the 1995 compilation It's Finally Christmas or It's a Cool Cool Christmas, a 2000 compilation.
The Dandy Warhols formed in 1992 in Portland, Oregon. Their music is varied, going from psychedelic to rock and roll to alt-pop to who knows what next.
Now, the big question is this – is their latest album, Odditorium and the Warlords of Mars, released on September 13th, a tribute to our favorite heroine or the vestiges of a misspent youth in comics and sci-fi? Keep your eyes on this site and maybe you'll find out. You can find out more about the band and the new album on their website.
Track 2: "I Hear the Bells" by Mike Doughty
As this song did not appear in the first season, we were left to speculate as to what bells Mike Doughty is hearing. The Neptune High bells, releasing Veronica from school to catch an elusive...wait for it...catnapper? Wedding bells, signaling the stepsiblinghood of our favorite BFFs? Loud alarum bells, warning Neptune of imminent destruction? What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! Probably not that last one, since the bells seem to be ringing "joyful and triumphant" in this relaxing tune layered with guitar and piano. Okay, fine, now that it's appeared in 2.20 Look Who's Stalking, we can safely say, uh... hmm. May actually be all of the above, come to think of it.
Mike Doughty was the frontman of unclassifiable '90s band Soul Coughing, best known for such incomprehensible songs as "Super Bon Bon" and "Circles." Following the breakup of the band in 2000, he released a few solo albums as a singer/songwriter (Skittish, his debut, was actually recorded in 1996 but not released until 2000). "I Hear the Bells" is off his new album Haughty Melodic, his first recording with a full band since his Soul Coughing days.
Find out more about Mike Doughty's musical evolution on his official website, and paint your own picture of him. No, seriously. I made his face some interesting shades of blue and orange and yellow.
Track 3: "I Know I Know I Know" by Tegan and Sara
This song, which is on Tegan and Sara's latest album, So Jealous, was used in 2.16 The Rapes Of Graff. Another song on that album, "Walking with a Ghost," was almost used for the season finale, 1.22 Leave it to Beaver.
Tegan and Sara Quin are identical twin sisters/singers/songwriters. They're also Canadian, but we won't hold that against them. They first started in the music biz by winning a local music competition in Calgary and their popularity has increased substantially since. They have extensively toured with many other artists, including Neil Young, Rufus Wainwright, The Killers, and Weezer.
During concerts, they also perform comedic bickerings that have become part of their act. Also: they're very hot. Visit their official website.
Track 4: "I Turn My Camera On" by Spoon
This is from Spoon's latest album, Gimme Fiction, and was used in 2.03 Cheatty Cheatty Bang Bang. The band's "Don't Let It Get You Down," from their 2002 release Kill the Moonlight, is used in 1.08 Like a Virgin towards the end of the episode in the scene with Veronica and Meg in the parking lot.
The indie band, formed in Austin, Texas, in 1994, has been likened to other artists whose music has appeared on the show, such as the French Kicks, who were heard in 1.07 The Girl Next Door, Interpol (1.10 An Echolls Family Christmas) and Radio 4 (1.04 The Wrath of Con).
You can find out more about the band and their latest album on their website.
Track 5: "No Sleep Tonight" by The Faders
This is another track from season 2. (Guys, the music in season one was effing great! Maybe the next release could have some more of it?) The Faders appeared as the band at the homecoming dance in episode 2.05 Blast From The Past, playing both "No Sleep Tonight" and "Whatever It Takes." This track is reminiscent of the Donnas track, "Fall Behind Me," used at Rest Stop 15 in 1.16 Betty and Veronica. A truncated version of the video, featuring members of the Veronica Mars cast interacting with the band on the Neptune High set, was shown at the very end of 2.02 Driver Ed.
Formed in 2004, this band of three Brit chicks has so far only released two singles, the other being "Jump." Singer Molly Lorenne is the daughter of Midge Ure (of Ultravox for the under forties/non-'80s-lovin' amongst you), which information we can state confidently despite our lack of personal knowledge of Midge's sleeping partners. It's hard to categorize the music based on two singles, but these words apply: loud, pop, rock.
You can find out a little more about the band from their website.
Track 6: "Dakota" by Stereophonics
This track is from Stereophonics' latest album, Language. Sex. Violence. Other? and was used in 2.08 Ahoy Mateys, killing our deep suspicions that we'd see a guest star appearance from Dakota Fanning sometime this season. Stereophonics' well-known song "Have a Nice Day," from their 2001 release Just Enough Education To Perform, is used in 1.09 Drinking the Kool-Aid when Veronica is making food in the Moon Calf Collective and "Jealousy" from 2003's You Gotta Go There To Come Back made an appearance in 2.04 Green-Eyed Monster.
This Welsh band, formerly known as Tragic Love Company, was one of the first signed to Richard Branson's V2 label on August 1996 and in their early days supported both Manic Street Preachers and Ocean Color Scene. In 1998 the band received a Brit Award for Best New Group, and during that year they had a successful tour in Europe, Australia, and the USA. They also collaborated with Tom Jones for a track on his album Reload, but we're big enough people to forgive them for that.
You can hear this song and others on their official website.
Track 7: "Sway" by The Perishers
"Sway" was heard in 2.17 Plan B, adding a generous dose of melancholy and tension, hopefully nabbing the Perishers lots of new listeners in the process. The members of this joyously named band – singer-guitarist Ola Klüft, keyboardist-background vocalist Martin Gustavson, bassist Per Åström and drummer Thomas Hedlund – grew up in the undoubtedly charming Swedish small town Umeå, whose harsh, gloomy winters inspired their songs as much as Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, and Neil Young did.
"Sway" is taken from their North American debut album Let There Be Morning, which was released in May 2005.
More about the Perishers, including a really colorful biography, can be found at their main website.
Track 8: "Long Time Coming" by Delays
This song was used in episode 2.01 Normal Is The Watchword. The band's own description of this song makes it sound like classic Veronica Mars material: "...about watching people you love losing their innocence and the naivety that you shared when you were younger, falling into the kind of adulthood you swore you never would, and wishing you could've done something about it. It's a loss of innocence and also of spontaneity and people becoming really guarded and jaded. Friends stuck in jobs you know they don't wanna do, living in houses they don't wanna live in." Anyone else getting goosebumps about what is going to happen to our beloved characters come September?
Reincarnated from the ashes of Corky in 2001, the band has been lumped into the Keane/Starsailor stable of indie Britpop. That's not a bad thing, but really they are more Stone-Roses-meet-the-Cocteau-Twins-on-a-California-beach. "Long Time Coming" was a UK top twenty hit in 2004 and can be found on their sole album to date, Faded Seaside Glamour. They've just finished recording their next, which is at the mixing stage.
On their rather cool website, there are full versions of this and some of their other songs. The length of this blurb has nothing to do with the fact the writer is really liking their music playing in background and doesn't want to move on. Except it totally does.
Track 9: "On Your Porch" by The Format
This is the first song by the Format used on the show. It was used in 2.02 Driver Ed.
The Format is a two-member rock band from Arizona. They chose their name to make fun of the music industry's inclination towards a cookie-cutter "format" for a hit. And yet they didn't seem to have a problem with having a "hit" called "The First Single" or signing with Elektra Records in 2002. Hmm.
The song "On Your Porch" is from the band's first full-length album Interventions and Lullabies, which was released in 2003.
For more information on the band you can visit their official website.
Track 10: "Ocean City Girl" by Ivy
Appearing at the very end of 2.08 Ahoy Mateys, this song from 2005's In The Clear is Ivy's third contribution to Veronica Mars after "Edge of the Ocean," which was used in 1.03 Meet John Smith to underscore a distraught Veronica driving the injured Duncan to the hospital, and "Feel So Free," which perfectly accentuated the chilling depiction of Lynn Echolls's abandoned car on the bridge in 1.12 Clash of the Tritons. So Ivy has closed out two episodes and accompanied Duncan twice. Noted.
Ivy is a New York-based band consisting of singer Dominique Durand, Adam Schlesinger, and Andy Chase. Over the course of a decade, they released four full-length albums: the cover collection Guestroom from 2002, Long Distance from 2001, Apartment Life from 1997, and Realistic from 1995.
Ivy's songs have been used on several TV show and movie soundtracks, among them Roswell, Felicity, and Me, Myself and Irene.
More information on the band can be found on their website.
Track 11: "Momentary Thing" by Something Happens
This song appears on their 1997 album Alan, Elvis & God. And if you have to ask what episode this song appeared in, well then...HOW CAN YOU FORGET ABOUT THE KISS?! For those of you who did forget about the kiss, this song appears in 1.18 Weapons of Class Destruction as Veronica and Logan share an innocent little peck.
This Dublin quartet released several pop/rock albums during the mid '80s and early '90s but never achieved mainstream success. The title of the song perfectly describes Veronica and Logan's relationship and the band's career. On the bright side, their best known song, "Parachute," from their album Stuck Together with God's Glue was once voted the top Irish single of all time in a 2FM/hotpress poll. A brief history of the band can be found here and here.
So how did this little-known Irish band end up on Veronica Mars? Because of their connection with former rocker and current TV god Rob Thomas.
Rob: "My band opened for the Irish band Something Happens when they played Austin many, many years ago. Great band. Great guys. When I lived in Ireland while writing Satellite Down, the guys in Something Happens showed me a very good time in Dublin. I LOVE the song Momentary Thing."
Track 12: "The Way You Are" by 46bliss
This haunting song closes 1.11 Silence of the Lamb, underscoring Mac's conflict between her two families before asking Clarence Wiedman to "put [himself], put [himself] in [Veronica's] place." Though lyrically simple, it creates the perfect ambience for both scenes with its dreamy electronica. In April, it was the #1 download out of 341,000 songs on mp3Tunes.com.
What's in a name? Apparently, it has something to do with "an obscure New York City subway stop." What's in a band? The keyboard stylings and vocal talents of David Cooper, the Celtic and Acadian vocal influences of Clare Veniot, and the electronic music and diverse drumming experience of Jack Freudenheim. Add one "epiphany at an Indian restaurant," and you've got a force to be reckoned with in the world of ambient electronic pop. Despite the members' living in different towns, 46bliss manages to create ethereal (yet catchy) soundscapes that have garnered rave reviews. Their contribution to Old Navy's Jazzy Jolly, a remix of Mahalia Jackson's rendition of "Silent Night," was mentioned on the front page of the Washington Post. "The Way You Are" is on their second album, 2004's 46bliss, which Splendid dubbed a "perfect chillout album."
Despite the prominence of Veronica Mars on the band's website, she is not, sadly, part of the band.
Track 13: "Lost & Found" by Adrienne Pierce
This song doesn't appear on Adrienne's first album, Small Fires, or during the first season of Veronica Mars. So where in the hell does this song come from? I dunno. Maybe she sang it at some karaoke hazing ritual and someone with some really jagged editing skills taped it or something. It was the last song from the soundtrack to be used on the show, appearing in 2.21 Happy Go Lucky.
Adrienne Pierce is a pop singer/songwriter from Vancouver. (Looky here, another Canuck.) Her 2002 debut album Small Fires garnered rave reviews and was re-released in 2004. (That is not a typo. Her pop album did in fact garner some really good reviews.) She recently finished recording her yet-to-be-titled second album. (Which by some amazing coincidence is on the same record label as this soundtrack.)
You can learn more about her and hear clips of her other songs on her website.
Track 14: "Lily Dreams On" by Cotton Mather
This track is from Cotton Mather's second album, Kontiki, released in 1997, and is in 1.22 Leave It to Beaver. You all know this scene, Veronica's dream, in which she says goodbye to Lilly, and you gotta admit, this is THE song for it. Granted, the band spells the name "Lily," but we all know it was written just so it could accompany this moment.
Cotton Mather is an Austin-based band, named after the Puritan historical figure Cotton Mather (duh). They really got their kick start when Liam Gallagher from Oasis said about their second album, "I fucking wish it was [ours]. I play it all day at home." He and his brother Noel even invited the band to come open for them in Europe. Since then they have released another album called The Big Picture.
You can learn more about them at their record label's site.
While the idea that Rob loved the song, named Lilly after it (changing the spelling, possibly for the same reason he changed "Cain" to "Kane") and had this scene in mind, with the song, before the pilot script was even finished is an interesting thought, that is not the case.
Rob: "As most of you have already noted, I do have an affinity for the hometown bands.
My band played with Cotton Mather a number of times. I love their albums. A high school friend of mine married Cotton Mather's lead singer/songwriter. I didn't give Lilly her name based on the song, but I've been thinking about the perfect place to use that song for the last half of the season."
The soundtrack will be available in stores Tuesday, September 27th. If you are one of those obsessive types, we have a countdown clock on our site to remind you of these important dates.


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BT adds a further 178 fibre exchanges
December 12, 2011
BT Openreach has added a further 178 exchanges to its fibre deployment programme in the UK. These exchanges – the majority of which will be enabled in 2012 – cover more than 1.8 million homes and businesses.
Once these and previously announced exchanges have been upgraded, Openreach will have completed around 80 per cent of its commercial fibre footprint. This footprint will cover two thirds of UK premises by the end of 2014. More than six million homes and businesses already have access.
Olivia Garfield, CEO of Openreach, said: "We continue to make tremendous strides with our fibre programme. Super-fast broadband is already within reach of more than six million premises today and we are on track to pass ten million premises next year."
The current average downstream speed in the UK is 6.8Mbps but Openreach's mainstream fibre broadband product delivers speeds of up to 40Mbps and these will roughly double in 2012.


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Painting a new bike lane in Oaxaca City
Imagine Critical Mass — but you've raised money to pay the police to escort the ride — and hundreds of people show up, including whole families — and everyone is singing and chanting and having a grand time — and it happens twice a week.
That's how it is in Oaxaca, Mexico. The rides are called Paseo de Todos — the ride for everyone — and they happen on most Wednesday and Friday nights. The one I went on happened to be the last Friday in September. Over a thousand people of all ages swooped and swarmed around bus-sized potholes, miscellaneous piles of debris, double-parked cars, and each other. Someone passed out little plastic whistles and their shrill sound was the backdrop for constant chants. "This one means 'Less cars, more dancing!'" explained the woman next to me at the start. "Arriba la bici!" needed no translation.
The ride was part of the Fifth National Urban Cycling conference, and bicycle advocates, activists, artists, mechanics, business owners, and journalists were there from all over Mexico, along with a handful from the United States.
Oaxaca is a luminous city, a haven for artists in the mountains of southern Mexico. It is not particularly bike friendly. The narrow streets of downtown are paved with cobblestones and they are all one-way. They are loosely arranged into three lanes: One for parking (sometimes part of this is blocked off and reserved for a private business to use), one for double parking, and one for barreling through at top speed. In Mexico, I'm told, you do not always need to take a test to get a driver's license. Outside downtown, fast arterials are filled with buses and taxis.
The streets aren't particularly friendly no matter how you're traveling, but absolutely no accommodations are made for cycling. A new American friend brought me to her favorite market, and introduced me to the proprietors of the coffee cart as a visiting bicycle advocate. They immediately started listing off people they were close to who have died while bicycling.
But Oaxaca has one terrific advantage when it comes to bikes — a parade culture. Almost any night of the week, year round, you're guaranteed to happen upon a walking or dancing procession, complete with giant puppets and a brass band, delighting everyone but surprising only the tourists. And twice a week, hundreds of families turn out to ride together, creating a safe space on the otherwise car-infested streets.
At the conference itself, a simultaneous interpreter was on hand to make English-speaking presenters like myself comprehensible to the delegates who had arrived from all over Mexico. Before I began she warned me, "In Mexico, when people ask questions, they have a lot to say before they ask the question." I laughed and told her that it was the same in the US.
It wasn't the same at all. As soon as I finished talking, a dozen hands shot up. There was no pretense at all that anyone had a question; instead, a series of impassioned, well crafted speeches commenced, participants debating and supporting each others' points, taking a stand, drawing out nuances. I was enthralled.
Later, my rapture was met with eye rolling. Everyone here wants to make speeches all day, sighed one Oaxaca resident. It's easy to get people to go on a fun bike rides — but it's a lot harder to find anyone willing to step up and do the work to make real changes. There are a few exceptions, she said. But in general, it's just easier to relax and enjoy life in this city, despite the potholes and speeding cars.
A Mundo Ceiba bike corral in Oaxaca City
The night I arrived I had dinner with the conference organizers and a few other delegates, three guys from Tijuana. They were all smiles and good nature, but at some point the conversation turned serious, and the smiles went away. They were quizzing Ruben Garcia, the head of Mundo Ceiba and main organizer of the conference. One of them translated their questions for me: "How do you talk to politicians here? What is your strategy?" Ruben leaned forward and asked questions in turn. That's when I knew this would be a good conference.
In Tijuana, they have a big, freewheeling ride four times a week. It's organized by Otay Paradise Bicycle Club, so named, my table mate explained, because TJ is on the Otay Mesa; the idea is that when it's filled with bicycles it's paradise on earth. The rides are leaderless, but these guys are some of the ones who have taken the opportunity for responsibility. Now, they want to take things to the next level and go after permanent infrastructure that's friendly to cycling.
On the final day of the conference, we created some infrastructure ourselves — we painted a bike lane along four blocks of a downtown street. The conference organizers had acquired a permit for this — Oaxaca is a city of artists, and the permit was not for transportation infrastructure, but for a piece of temporary public art. As the paint dried on each block and we moved onto the next, laying down stencils and daubing at the street with paint brushes, car traffic continued to flow, some drivers staying outside the new, wide lane, others continuing as though it wasn't even there. A few hours later the nightly thunderstorm washed it away.
"People in Mexico do not like to change," a young person who works for the government told me. What does it take, then, I asked, thinking about the country's history of revolution. "If the politicians do something new, then the people will decide to do it too," she said. Perhaps she was thinking of Mexico City where recent mayors have been tackling the city's gridlock and smog by instituting a bike share program, bus rapid transit, and other driving reduction strategies, with some successes, and where there are several strong advocacy organizations that interface between the government and the people in the way we take for granted in the US.
Bike lifts at the end of the Friday night ride
But it's hard not to believe that change is possible when you're riding through city streets at night surrounded by hundreds of smiling families, and spend the next day in a courtyard packed with several hundred of the most determined and spirited advocates you've ever met.
The energy at the conference was palpable — everyone there had the determination of a pioneer, and felt they had a mandate. And it was democratic — the founders of Bicired, a new national advocacy organization, and delegates from ITDP, an influential international policy center that is based in Mexico City, mixed freely with student activists, artists, and ride organizers. The experience reminded me of the Los Angeles Bicycle Summit in 2009, where you got the sense that a movement that had been building slowly for a long time was suddenly coming together into a shared vision. From the packed improvised bike corral in front of the conference building, the future of bicycling in Mexico looked wide open.
So perhaps it's an advantage, at this point in time, that the distance between today's Mexican cities and bicycle paradise is being bridged, with a few notable exceptions, without the help of politicians. By the time the electeds catch on, there will already be a popular movement far more powerful and lasting than anything a half-hearted bureaucratic campaign could create.


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T&E response to consultation on Combined Transport Directive
In 2017 the European Commission will publish its draft review of the Combined Transport Directive. This legislation is linked to the Commission's own target to get more freight on both rail and inland waterways by 2030. In our response to the consultation on amending the directive, T&E argues that freight multimodality needs to become more attractive for shippers if we are to increase the use of cleaner modes for the majority of a freight shipment. This review provides an opportunity to take steps towards achieving that. Download T&E's response to the consultation below.
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Giants looking like threats for another even-year run
Overshadowed again in a loaded National League, the San Francisco Giants have taken control of their division with a run that feels awfully familiar.
San Francisco beat Tampa Bay 5-1 on Sunday for its eighth consecutive victory, and the Giants lead the NL West by 6 1/2 games. They've won the World Series in each of the past three even-numbered years, and if they keep playing like this, they'll have every opportunity to do it again.
''It's all about pitching, defense and timely hitting,'' manager Bruce Bochy said. ''It's a pretty simple game really, and that's what's important for us.''
The Giants haven't quite kept up with the torrid pace set by the Chicago Cubs, and they don't really have star power to match the Bryce Harper-led Washington Nationals, but San Francisco is a major league-best 27-8 since May 11, the day the Giants began an earlier eight-game winning streak.
San Francisco doesn't have anybody in the NL's top ten in batting, runs, RBIs or home runs, but the Giants weren't necessarily the favorites when they won their last three World Series titles either. What San Francisco does have is two outstanding starting pitchers at the top of the rotation - Madison Bumgarner is 8-2 with a 1.91 ERA, and Johnny Cueto is 10-1 with a 2.10 ERA.
''When you get on a run like this, usually the pitching is keeping you in the game,'' Bochy said.
As for the offense, Brandon Belt, Hunter Pence and Buster Posey have provided enough production to lift the Giants to the second-best record in the NL, behind only Chicago.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, in second place in the NL West, have enough talent to mount a serious challenge during the second half of the season, but the Giants have opened up some breathing room.
And if San Francisco makes it to the postseason, well, just remember what year it is.
Here are a few other developments from around baseball:
Kansas City has had its share of injury problems this year, and now the Royals are without suspended pitcher Yordano Ventura. But nothing seems to faze the defending World Series champions, who have won eight of their last nine after taking three of four from Detroit.
In Saturday's 16-5 win over the Tigers, Kansas City went 14 of 25 with runners in scoring position. That was with a lineup that included Whit Merrifield, Brett Eibner and Cheslor Cuthbert - not exactly the same group that rolled through the postseason last year.
The Royals trail first-place Cleveland by a half-game in the AL Central.
When the Chicago White Sox designated Jimmy Rollins for assignment earlier this month, they also brought up top prospect Tim Anderson from the minors. The early returns on Anderson are mixed: He's hitting .282 with four doubles in 39 at-bats, but he's struck out 11 times with no walks. He'll be someone to keep an eye on among the middle-infield options in the American League.
Michael Saunders hit three home runs for Toronto in a 13-3 win over Baltimore on Friday night. Saunders drove in eight runs, and his performance was symbolic of his team's power-hitting depth, since it came hours after the Blue Jays put outfielder Jose Bautista on the disabled list.
Saunders now has 15 home runs on the season, one of four Toronto players with at least a dozen.
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Let 'em! Go build a unified neo-con/LGBT/IMF/EU Army. But don't drag America, and America's military into your tangled webs of intrigue and conflict.
There are NO American interests at stake in Crimea. None. Not one.
This is not 1959, nor is it 1979. The Soviet Union is gone. The Russians have regional interests. They are bumping up against the EU's interests. Let those two hash it out.
The PC-Progs, led by the despicable Samantha Power, Victoria Nuland, and the rest of the estrogen-drunk cabal at the State Department love them some war.
It's time to put a stop to their abuse of American prestige and power.
No to PC-Prog/Neo-Con meddling!
Here's the PC-Prog "humanitarian" warrior princess, (wow, so tough, just listen to that redhead fan the war flames! My little heart's all atwitter!), Sammy Power, in the UN Security Council:
"Russia is known for its literary greatness – and what you just heard from the Russian Ambassador showed more imagination than Tolstoy or Chekhov. Russia has decided, it seems, to rewrite its borders, but it cannot rewrite the facts.
"Now, the referendum has taken place, but the national and international legal status of Crimea has not changed. A thief can steal property, but that does not confer the right of ownership on the thief."
"...let me just emphasize again what Russia has done is wrong as a matter of law, wrong as a matter of history, wrong as a matter of policy, and dangerous. What happened in Crimea cannot be recognized as valid. We must stand together denying recognition and imposing consequences for this illegal act. In doing so, we must also be very clear that what happened in Crimea cannot be repeated in other parts of Ukraine."
Those are insults designed to prod a normal man into reaction.
Passive aggressive PC-Prog humanitarian war lovers.
Many wars have been launched for much less hysterical ravings.
Note that Power and her clique are ginning up a good "humanitarian" justification now--the Tatars in Crimea.
The PC-Prog regime are NOT "wimps," at least not in the sense that you're characterizing them--unwilling to kill, destroy, or mutilate. Obama's handlers have him sign death warrants daily. He gladly sends American troops to their death, without a second's hesitation. Obama peruses the "death lists" every night, annotating and condemning those whom he believes worthy of death.
He and his cronies launched a war against Libya, resulting in thousands, maybe tens of thousands of deaths. His handlers boldly provide funding, arms and training to Al-Qaeda-linked jihadists--in Egypt, Libya, and Syria.
Obama and his handlers sent a team of American SEALS to seize a ship full of Libyan Islamic Jihad oil that belonged to EU oil companies, and had been stolen by another Libyan Islamic group for sale to other EU entities. No US interests at all. Just boldly sending American soldiers to potentially die for EU/Libyan Islamic oil.
That's pretty doggone ballsy stuff there.
But it is all COVERT. The PC-Progs are manipulating the neo-cons, and their own ignorant followers. By relying on COVERT warfare, they never have to admit publicly what they are doing. The neo-cons see it, and love it--that's why McCain and Graham just love Obama and his clique. The PC-Prog true believers have no clue--whatever Obama reads off the teleprompter is from a savior.
And the main point of all these foreign adventuring is that the real issues--Obama's misadventures here at home, are all forgotten.
Look at how effective that is. Conservatives regularly demonstrate on the streets of their towns, urging a movement for Impeaching Obama. And yet, many of them are now tied up in knots, defending Obama's meddling in foreign issues with no American interests at stake.
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of our opponents. They are experts at influence, covert manipulation, lying, misdirection, and deceit--and they now own the entire apparatus of the American intelligence community--purged of virtually all dissidents. Combined with their massive domestic campaign/PR machine, and control of the media, they are cooking conservatives gooses, and many conservatives urge them to cook harder.
Who cares (in America) what Putin snatches? What effect does Crimea now being Russian have on us? Now if Mexico was snatching Arizona, that would be an American interest. There is NO American interest in Crimea. Not like the good old days.


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I'm thinking about doing the route from Cairo to Luxor, and I can't decide whether to take the western desert route or follow the Nile. Anyone knows about these routes and can recommend? How easy it is to get water/food in the desert road? Any experiences?
Also, any general recommendations about cycling in Egypt would be appreciated!
CAIRO-LUXOR through Western Desert Route vs. Nile
the answer comes easy, no way to follow the Nil road, it is forbidden.
Well exactly you can do it, between 2 police or military cars, already very boring, and worst you would have to pay for all their costs, and bagshiches, a fortune indeed.
the answer is easy too, as the weel road is super beautiful. well i didnt do, but i read about it.
would you get a web site, i would like to follow you
think so it`s not forbidden but definitely the hard way to ride Nile. You`ll escorted the whole way by police cars. On checkpoints you`ll have to wait for the next one.
Desert road is pretty easy. Every 70 - 100 km you`ll get a first-aid-station, sometimes with police. They`ll scared for you. Think so there`s no reason.
i have a flight to cairo 7.12 to visit my daughter..than want to buy a bicycle and go south towards luxor.....slowly on 40 km per day.if the police goes on bicycle aswell,ok, if not,i wanted to FOLLOW the nile on small,nearby roads.......
will THEY catch me???????
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I just stayed 4 mounth last winter in a village between Cairo and Luxor, near Malawi exactly. The road in the desert is quiet desert, and it is like a motorway, people driving very fast, and ablsolutely nothing to see...
The road on the Nile is not less dangerous, perhaps even more, but you ll cross loads of village, be able to have tea and orange juice every 30km if you would like, admire the farmers and their Donkeys, and meet so much more people!
If you want a contact near there, I could also give you a adresse!!Tell me if you are still in these area!
Enjoy your trip!
hi i am actually in egypt
bought a china alu bike for 150 euro and went south.on cairo -asuan agriculorroad.more i go south,less trafic
wether is best for ciclyng,till 1700 when sun goes down..than really cold...5 degrees
food,drinks and everything everywehre availeble..and tremendous cheap...no need for cookinstaff'
couchsurfing every 100 km ,i organized 1 month in advance....as i am 52 jears old,i do only 60km per day and sleep out in the villages .asking the farmers...very funny expierienc .because noboddy speaks english
the only problem....police want to follow me and bring me from hotel to hotel,but i escape them and hide behind trucks and tuktuks at checkpoints,witch you find every 20 km.
tryed also eastern desert road..nice for 1-2 days,but no kontakt with poeple...realr desert.
go egypt...its warm,people are very friendly and wellcome me,food is cheap even if i am invited very often,its flat....and its green for 1000 km
i enjoy a trip of a dream
ciao....by arne
Hi Arne
I am in Cairo with my bike, after cycling Israel, the WB and Jordan. I am also looking to cycle to Luxor and maybe Aswan.
When you said you tried the Eastern Desert, did you mean the Western Desert, or did you mean the Red Sea route (Cairo-Suez-Ain Sokhna-Zafarana-Ras Guareb-Hurghada-Safaga-Qena (on the Nile)-Luxor)? James Davis said one had to go first to Suez, as it was illegal to cycle Cairo-Ain Sokhna. See http://london2capetown.org/cycling-across-egypt-cairo-to-aswan/. Is there water and food along the Red Sea coast?
Did you do a blog of your trip? If so, I would be very interested.
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A Brain Computer Interface with Online Feedback based on Magnetoencephalography. In: ICML '05: 22nd international conference on Machine learning, pp. 465 - 472 (Eds. Dzeroski, S.; de Raedt, L.; Wrobel, S.). 22nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2005), Bonn, Germany, August 07, 2008 - August 11, 2008. ACM Press, New York, NY, USA (2005)
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Machine-Learning Approaches to BCI in Tübingen. In Third International Meeting on Brain–Computer Interface Technology (BCI 2005): Making a Difference. Third International Meeting on Brain–Computer Interface Technology (BCI 2005): Making a Difference, Rensselaerville, New York. (2005)
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Comparative evaluation of Independent Components Analysis algorithms for isolating target-relevant information in brain-signal classification. Third International Meeting on Brain–Computer Interface Technology (BCI 2005): Making a Difference, Rensselaerville, NY, USA (2005)
Selective Attention to Auditory Stimuli: A Brain-Computer Interface Paradigm. 7th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2004), Tübingen, Germany (2004)
EEG Channel Selection for Brain Computer Interface Systems Based on Support Vector Methods. 7th Tübingen Perception Conference (TWK 2004), Tübingen, Germany (2004)
Die zeitliche Illusion des kürzeren Rückwegs. 1. Tübinger Wahrnehmungskonferenz (TWK 1998), Tübingen, Germany (1998)
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