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What if the secret to more impactful, more effective social selling had nothing to do with communicating more frequently? It's highly likely that, if you want to build on the success of social sellers' current work, you need to look at what goes on behind the scenes – what they do when they're not communicating externally. After all, sharing content and interacting with contacts is just one aspect of a social seller's workflow. Here are four ways to up your game without actually saying anything on social media.
Social Listening and Sentiment Analysis
The things being said about your company on social media are essential insights for social selling teams, on both an individual and a collective basis. To take an example, let's say a customer expresses unhappiness with a faulty product on social media; sales professionals need to know about this, so that they're prepared to answer any direct questions from other clients or prospects. Meanwhile, sales management must be aware of the situation, in order to take the necessary action (synching with product and marketing teams, for example) to address the issue and ensure it doesn't arise again.
On the flipside, sales teams should be tuning into positive sentiment that can be used to their advantage. What customers say on social media can help individuals to identify the most popular aspects of a given product or service; things they can highlight when prospecting. Good buzz should also be used to refine the resources being produced for social sellers. Working in coordination with marketing and customer service teams, sales departments can use positive feedback to guide the content that is designed specifically for sales enablement.
Competitive Watch
Any social seller, or any sales team, taking action on social media without an awareness of competitor activity has a serious blind spot. When another company releases a new product, service, or report, individual social sellers need to know about it; while as a team they must be clear on how they are going to respond. What's the feature-by-feature comparison? Who has the edge in which areas? What can you learn from what others are doing?
Again, this works both ways. When a competitor comes in for criticism, social sellers should learn from the mistakes of others. Perhaps their own offer, too, will need an adjustment. Alternatively, maybe they are strong where competitors are weak; something that can be accentuated. Competitive analysis isn't about sales teams trying to mirror the activity of others, it's about having peripheral vision; being aware of the field in play so that their position is clear to both themselves and their audience.
Research and Content Curation
Social selling is as much about sharing content as it is about sourcing content. What's more, sharing shouldn't always be the ultimate objective. Content can serve as information for social sellers who develop their awareness of industry activity; and as inspiration for upcoming content. Following the release of a report on the finance industry, for example, how can banks incorporate the data into their sales support material, and use the findings to support their product offer?
Conducting research is something social sellers should do on a regular basis in order to stay adrift of the latest trends, activity and developments, and make sure there are no gaps in their own knowledge.
Acting on Data
Metrics that are often considered the realm of marketers, but that are actually extremely relevant for sales teams, are the traffic, prospects and conversions generated by social selling activity. Which content is driving the most results, on which social channels? Who are the top social sellers in terms of engagement and leads generated?
Identifying this involves linking social selling activity to website analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) and CRM systems. This in turn enables sales teams to identify the content that resonates most with audiences; therefore, allowing individuals to optimize their activity based on the posts and messages that have outperformed others. Indeed, a combination of collective team data and individual performance metrics is essential to the success of any social selling program.
Time to Zip it?
Of course, social selling is largely about saying things; sharing and commenting on content, and engaging in conversation with audiences. By focusing on other areas, however, social sellers can make sure that when they do speak out they are better prepared; that what they say is more pertinent, reflective of market sentiment, and in line with the company's positioning on key issues.
More Social Selling Resources
Whitepaper: Social Selling at Scale
Video: Misys Sets a Leading Example in Social Selling
Expert Insight Interview with Craig M. Jamieson, Social Selling Trainer and Author


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Yeah, you read that correctly. There's another Country Music Awards show coming our way. Because the 3 we already have just isn't enough. And if that isn't the kicker, Florida Georgia Line will be hosting them. Yeaaaah, I think I already know how this story ends!
The American Country Countdown Awards will take place in Nashville on December 15th on Fox. And I guess it's based on the syndicated radio program, American Country Countdown with Kix Brooks.
Do YOU think we really needed another awards show?!

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Ken Yeung is a reporter for The Next Web based in San Francisco, CA. He carries around a big camera & likes to write about tech, startup Ken Yeung is a reporter for The Next Web based in San Francisco, CA. He carries around a big camera & likes to write about tech, startups, parties, and interesting people. Follow him on Twitter, on Facebook, and Google+.
The 2013 Launch Festival has arrived and over the course of the next three days, over 50 companies are set to take the stage and demonstrate their product. Today was the day when 18 companies in so-called "stealth mode" made their grand debut and launched for the world to see. We took a look at each one and have highlighted the pick of the bunch.
In its sixth year (the first two were known as TechCrunch40 and TechCrunch50, respectively), the Launch Festival is put on by Mahalo founder and This Week in Startups host Jason Calacanis. Offering up to $2 million worth of prizes to the winners, it is divided up into two main competitions:
- Launch 1.0: New companies that have never had any press, public demos, or services currently in closed alpha or beta.
- Launch 2.0: Existing companies that are launching new products such as an iPhone app, or significant new versions of an existing product.
The first day centered around mostly those companies that fell into the Launch 1.0 category (although there were at least two that weren't). Many were consumer-focused, while some were designed for the enterprise and business, but all came into the competition eager to advance into the final round for a chance at winning one of the awards.
Combing through the 18 presenting companies from Day 1, here's the ones that stood out:
The only company that presented today that specifically said that it was making money, Whiplash is a service that says it is pioneering fulfillment as a service.
The idea is that for those businesses that have orders that need to be shipped en masse, they need to have some system that will handle the logistics. Whiplash says it aims to do that by not only warehousing the products, but also shipping it to customers on demand using the business's packaging — compared to Amazon where it arrives in that company's branded packaging.
Whiplash says that it has grossed $500,000 with a 14 percent net-profit and is experiencing a 125 percent year-over-year growth. Bootstrapped without funding, the company makes its money from handling fees of $2.95 per item and the businesses also pay for the shipping costs. The service works worldwide.
One of several travel-related services that presented today, Triptease is a visually-appealing way of posting reviews. The company believes that currently, reviews that a traveler would place or read on sites like TripAdvisor are outdated and require a makeover. With Triptease, now these same reviews can be punctuated with a sharp user-generated photo and made highly shareable.
Available on both the Web and iPad, Triptease says that users can browse through other people's travels "in technicolor". Any reviews that are seen can easily be shared with the click of a button. Founder Charlie Osmond says that users can "see their review brought to life in an 'Instagram moment' and share it with the world."
The service utilizes a custom review builder that allows users some customization in how their feedback looks like, both in layout and in style. In the end, it will be almost akin to being straight out of a fancy luxury hotel magazine. However, it's not limited to hotels, but also places where anyone travels to.
To date, 30 hotels have signed up to be distribution partners for the service.
Very much analogous to being the "UStream for radio" or perhaps the "Tumblr for broadcasting", Instaradio says it makes audio broadcasting simple through its iPhone application.
Users can stream music from their device's music library, via the app, making it available to anyone with the unique link to the content. Narration can be included, almost like the user is actually on the radio. Instaradio says that a time limit does not exist for broadcasts and that it is ad-supported. All broadcasts, with the exception of the music aired, are archived for future referencing.
An interesting concept, there are some some concerns, however. The Launch judges raised an issue over potential copyright infringement, especially as music is being shared from someone's music library that they may not have rights to.
Called the world's "first enterprise cloud search engine", Synata connects with many of the popular enterprise SaaS services to form what some might consider to be a one-stop search service. It looks not only at Gmail, but also Google Drive, LinkedIn, Salesforce, Yammer, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, and others.
During its presentation, the company cited an example where an employee needed to be quickly briefed on a sales meeting as her colleague became incapacitated. The employee used their co-workers credentials to authenticate with Synata and immediately was able to query specific keywords to find out more about the meeting.
Synata describes its service as a way to find the needle in the enterprise data haystack and has a tiered pricing model, with one specifically allowing for a premium server to exist behind a company's firewall. Right now it is a Web-only service, but an iPhone version is in the works.
Back in 2011, former Google employee Jake Quist began working on a company that he hoped would disrupt the data analysis space alongside his co-founder Roger Dean Huffstelter, a former salesperson at Twilio. Called Zillabyte, its goal is to help business to business SaaS companies find their ideal customers — all through the use of cluster analysis.
Upon leaving Google two years ago, Quist told TechCrunch, "we realized that data analysis outside the Googleplex kind of sucks. Big time. The tools available are so niche that only big enterprise can purchase them. The alternatives suck too."
Just like you would imagine with a service like Google Analytics meets Google AdWords, users can specify the type of customers that they are looking for, such as whether they have a social media button on their website, sells products online, tracks analytics, uses online advertising, or whether it's design savvy, and receive a better picture of how many companies should be targeted.
The recommendation engine will be free, but in the future the service is planning on releasing email notification alerts that are sent to customers when a new match is found. Those email alerts could be a premium service.
Perhaps one of services that received near-unanimous approval from the Launch judges, Knowyo is a service that helps you better remember who you know. We've all been to those parties and events where we see individuals that we've met previously but we don't remember where and what their names are. Knowyo offers up a bit of a gamification play to help users out.
By integrating with LinkedIn, this "fun product" hopes users will never forget a name again. The company says that when users begin, they have several choices to help them remember: guessing the name, receiving a hint or being given a letter in their name, or telling the service that they do not remember.
Knowyo will provide users with a report of how they're doing and offer up social sharing of the results to Twitter and Facebook.
Currently the service is only available on the Web and through the mobile browser. The company says it will charge businesses to use the service, starting at $20 per month. While it has integrated with LinkedIn, Knowyo says that it can also bring in Yammer and Salesforce Chatter in order to help build camaraderie among co-workers so that teams become more familiar with one another and their customers.
The verdict?
While the above were some that we found interesting, we make no assumption as to which one will advance to the final round where the chosen companies will present themselves once again to the grand jury. The Launch Festival continues now through Wednesday, March 6, in San Francisco. If you are not able to make it there in person, it is also being livestreamed.


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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Did they know?
Sat down the other day to watch Robert Aldrich's cavalry vs. Indians Western Ulzana's Raid (1972), figuring it to be a decent potboiler Western from the last period during which American studios were turning out such films. By the end of the decade, the workaday Western was gone, and when Westerns appeared thereafter as in Silverado and Dances With Wolves they were super-special event movies. I missed a lot of westerns from the 1970's from having been overdosed on them in the 60's, so I missed how they had changed.
In a way, it was the way all American films had changed: the loss of innocence, the note of despair and loss. But the Western has a special talent for metaphor, usually carried in a more elegant form than, say a science fiction, which generally brings its politics out front and center. So it is perfectly possible to see Ulzana as just another example of trying-to-outwit-the-wily-Red-Man and nothing more. Perhaps the racism was less virulent, but still woven into the fabric. Being a 1970's film the violence is a little more realistic -- sudden, bloody and yielding consequences more real and painful than a 1930s cowboy clutching his bloodless chest and falling gracefully into the dust.
Today, Ulzana clearly is a Vietnam film. The enemy is largely unseen and they and their cultural context are, to the cavalry, completely unknowable. Their tactics are terroristic in nature. Their goal is to be simply left alone. The cavalry view the Apache as if they were not human, and least not humans like them. Cavalry officers ignore good intelligence (provided by Burt Lancaster as an old scout) in favor of their own narrative frame. Misdirection, missed opportunities and failure in execution leads to military failure by the cavalry. But in a way it doesn't matter, because a victory now would only be temporary, and either this Apache or another would arise to harass the US Army.
The only honorable allegiance is to truth and to other honorable people. Adherence to one side or another seems feckless. This is not warm, but a cosmic game of Chicken, winner is the last one to withdraw.
So the question is...did they know they were making a Vietnam film at the time? Or was this just something in the zeitgeist? Or am I reading something into it that's just not there? I was around in 1972, and Vietnam was, as a I recall, Topic A. So when is a Western just a Western?
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Let's. Party.
It's that time again. Before the Caps get bad again and before Ian becomes a dad, let's all hang out together, watch the Caps, and get weird. It's our tenth party, and we're calling it #RMNBX in honor of Brett Connolly, Matt Bradley, Mike Richards, and everyone's all-time fave, Marty Erat.
The crucial details:
Who: All humans, 21 years and up
What: #RMNBX to watch the Capitals at the Canadiens
Where: Iron Horse Tap Room, 507 7th St NW, Washington, DC 20004
When: Saturday, February 4, from noon until whenever
Why: Because
The good people at Iron Horse have been kind enough to open a few hours early to accommodate our friendly horde. So let's do show up promptly at noon, do a little day drinking, make merry, and watch me write a poor game recap from a bar.
We'll be selling exclusive merchandise at the #RMNBX, including one special item that people have been clamoring for for years. Supplies are limited though, and if you wear a small or extra-small, I can't do anything for ya; sorry.
One more time, and I cannot stress this enough: YOU ARE INVITED.
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Looking for a durable, reliable, and handsome overcoat? Well, Freenote Cloth's Mackinaw Jacket might be the ticket your after. Or maybe the tickets you're after are Hamilton tickets.
A sturdy overcoat with a storied past, the Mackinaw (or 'Mac') has been on the American frontiers for centuries, and is perfect for cold and wet weather. Freenote Cloth's water repellent British Plaid interpretation includes a satin lining and shearling collar for added protection against the elements. Functional features include an interior pocket and sleeve cinches while leather accents on the pockets and buttons add a sense of refinement to what is traditionally a utilitarian piece.
Take a closer look Freenote Cloth's Winter-Ready Mackinaw Jacket selling online for $750.


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Italic = new in this index. Related categories: AUDIO 2.0, CONTENT COMMERCE 2.0, MULTIMEDIA 2.0, RADIO 2.0, VIDEO 2.0. For earlier updates cf. INDEX 2.0.
Alonetone - Host, distribute & share MP3s. View.
Animoto* - Explore, create & share slideshows generated from music & photos. View.
Bandnews - Search what is going on in the band scene. View.
Boomr~ - Dutch artists & fans community. View.
Boomshuffle - Explore, create & share remixes. View.
Contrastream - Tap into community filtered indie music. View.
Cornerworld - Sell your content to your fans. View.
Criticalmetrics* - Track recommendations & playlists so you can find, try & buy buy music. View.
Dirtbagmusic*** - Hardrock music community. View.
Freemusiczilla - Meta music download service. View.
Grooveshark - Discover, review & share music, and make money on it. View.
Hingi* - 2-click purchasing of mobile TV & radio content. View.
Hypemachine - Search engine indexing audio files on blogs. View.
Idiomag - Daily music mag personalized to your taste. View.
Independentip~* - Digital music supply chain management solution. View.
Intomusic - Legal independent MP3 music downloads. View.
Jango - Social internet radio. View.
Livenation - Search for concerts & tickets. View.
Mediapops* - Get alerts on new releases from your favorite authors, bands & directors. View.
Metracks - Store, share & listen to music. View.
Mixaloo - Share your playlist, sell your mixes. View.
Mptrax - Discover & break music artists nationally. View.
Mubito - Create & manage music web communities. View.
Multigames - Upload & share flash games and mobile ringtones for free. View.
Music-alerts* - Get alerts on album releases by rss feed. View.
Musiclovr - Search & share music. View.
Musicmaps - Find who is listening to what, and where. View.
Musicr - Explore & share discographies & lyrics. View.
Musicstation* - Explore & share music playlists on your mobile. View.
Musiqlub~ - Share your music playlist, clips & events. View.
Muvibee - Search & share music playlists. View.
Mxplay - Search & share music playlists, play music & music videos over browser plugin. View.
Mystrandstv - Explore, create & share music tv channels & get recommendations. View.
Owlmm - Use your music to find music fitting your tastes. View.
Peel - MP3 blog reader & player. View.
Rezgo - Online booking solution to sell your tours. View.
Seeqpod - Search for music. View.
Showclix - Find concerts, track artists, promote shows & sell tickets. View.
Showmehowtoplay - Take lessons in this musicians community. View.
Simplify* - Access & share music, photos & videos with your friends & family. View.
Skreemr - Search for music files. View.
Skufftv - Share music & action sports videos. View.
Socialfm - Social music discovery. View.
Songza* - Search for & listen to any song. View.
Soundcrank - Show & share the music you're listening to. View.
Strayform - Fund artists' proposals & get their stuff free of DRM. View.
Tagloops - Remix video, audio, photos & feeds into 'web movies'. View.
Tenori-on - Play music intuitively, creating a "visible music" interface (). View.
Thesimsonstage - Sing, act, record & share. View.
Tjoon* - Split-screen video jamming, using your webcam. View.
Tubecast* - Music tv on demand. View.
Wikimusicguide - Co-edit music fans site. View.
Woozyfly - Explore, share, promote music. View.
Wuzam - MP3 search engine. View.
Wuzam - MP3 search engine. View.
Yamelo~ - Find back melodies through music videos on a timeline. View.
Zukool - Get personalized music recommendations. View.
Ajaxamp - Get Winamp in your browser. View.
Ajaxtunes - Web-based audio player. View.
Albumart - Search for CD and DVD covers. View.
Amapedia - Amazone's product wiki. View.
Amiestreet - Music market (price increases with popularity). View.
Anywhere - Upload & play your music from anywhere, explore your friends' music. View.
Audabble - Create your audio channel & listen to it, mixed with news. View.
Audiobaba - Search music. View.
Audioclipping* - Search AV (German). View.
Audiolunchbox - Music download store. View.
Audiozue - Publish your iTunes playlist to Myspace or your blog. View.
Bandbuzz - Explore & rate music playlists. View.
Bandchemistry - Find band members or a band to play in. View.
B-boys - Submit & rate hiphop. View.
Beatport - Music download store. View.
Bebop - Compare music calendar against your iTunes catalogue. View.
Biggerboat - Search entertainment. View.
Bleep - Music download store. View.
Blogmusik - Explore music. View.
Boomp3 - Upload & share your music. View.
Britney - Recommend, publish & digg next big hits. View.
Broadclip - Crawl the web for your music, clip it & get it delivered to your player. View.
Buzzchurch - Community & forum for music makers. View.
Chartu - Rate music. View.
Cingularmusicid - Have music recognized thru your cell. View.
Classiccat - Free classical mp3 directory. View.
Columbiaredhot - Submit & rate music, DJs. View.
Crowdsurfer - Publish & share reviews on books, movies & music. View.
Daz*~ - Explore, contribute to & share the biggest music dbase. View.
Deezer - Create & share playlists, and listen. View.
Demotd - Submit & rate unknown artists. View.
Digitaldreamdoor - Music genre Top lists & trivia. View.
Discogs - User-built music database. View.
Divvycast - Create & share music podcasts. View.
Dopetracks - Record, upload & share your tracks and beats. View.
Dottunes - Share your iTunes. View.
Douban - Catalog, rate, review & share books & music. View.
Earfeeder - Scan your disk for music, and automatically get feeds on your favourite artists. View.
Ejamming - Write, record or play music together. View.
Elisteningpost - Upload & sell your music (for indies). View.
Emusic - Music download store. View.
Fiql - Publish & share playlists. View.
Fliptrack - Put your photos to music & share it as a video. View.
Flotones - Upload & sell indie music over mobile. View.
Fluctu8 - Create & share your sourcelists. View.
Foxytunes - Search music & music videos. View.
Funkplayer - Create, upload & share music. View.
Funtigo - Upload & share photos, add music & balloons. View.
Fuzz - Upload & share or sell your music (for indies). View.
Getabuz - Create a voicemail with music. View.
Gettomas - Online artist management tool. View.
Goombah - Analyse & match your musical taste to other users' (client). View.
Goombah - Analyse & match your musical taste to other users' (client). View.
Grabbit - Play songs from all over the web. View.
Gruuve - Discover & listen to music similar to your taste. View.
Gruvr - Collaborate on local music maps. View.
Haystack - Music community. View.
Hivegroup 2*** - iTunes treemap demo. View.
Hoverspot - Publish & share your profile. View.
Humblevoice* - Publish, share bands, music, other media & arts. View.
Identifyus - Identify melodies. View.
Ijamr - Music community for artists, fans & site owners (& P2P swapping). View.
Ilike - Social music discovery service. View.
Indaba - Jam & record music. View.
Indiepad - Buy or sell indie music. View.
Indistr - Sell or buy independent music. View.
Intertalk*** - Unified communications, streaming & community solutions. View.
Isnooze - Laptop & iTunes mash-up as alarm clock. View.
Itunestreemap - Track the iTunes Top 100 songs as they move up and down the charts. View.
Jambase - Personalized news on live music. View.
Jamendo - Review, tag, rate & share music. View.
Jamglue - Upload, edit, publish & share remixes. View.
Jamjunky - Jam & record music. View.
Jamnow - Jam & record or cast music. View.
Jinzora - Store & play your music & videos. View.
Jukeboxalive - Upload & share, promote & sell your music & gigs (for indies). View.
Kalabo - Collaborate on compositions. View.
Ksolo - Record & share karaoke songs. View.
Lastfm* - Profile your taste, share, personalize your radio. View.
Lirama~ - Upload, explore & share song lyrics. View.
Lyrics~ - Share lyrics & music information. View.
Maestro - Upload & share your music. View.
Magnatune - Music download store. View.
Mediamaster - Backup service. View.
Melodeo - Listen to, share, discuss & create podcast playlists, on your cell. View.
Mercora - Search music & get recommendations. View.
Midomi - Search music by making music. View.
Mix - Explore, upload, download & share playlists & public mixes. View.
Mixtaping - Upload & share songs, compilations & mixes. View.
Mog - Share your playlists (automated). View.
Mp3 - Community of artists & fans. View.
Mp3rama - Submit & rate articles on MP3. View.
Mp3realm - Search music & lyrics. View.
Mp3tunes - Upload & listen to your music. View.
Mtraks - Buy or sell indie music. View.
Muiso - Track your taste, get recommendations. View.
Musicarsenal - Music business management tools. View.
Musichawk - Share the artists you're into. View.
Musiclens - Explore music using vague criteria (e.g. perceived volume or mood). View.
Musiclocated - Geolocate your music. View.
Musicmap - Search & find other things to your taste. View.
Musicmesh - Explore music. View.
Musicmobs - Share your tastes & find music. View.
Musicnation - Upload & share, promote & sell your music & gigs (for indies). View.
Musicovery - Web radio from Liveplasma. View.
Musicplustv - Enjoy clips, put in requests, chat with dj's. View.
Musicportl - Youtube & Flickr & blogs mash-up. View.
Musicsack - Repository of data about people involved in music. View.
Musicshake - Compose & mix your songs & share them. View.
Musicstrands - Tag, share & post music community. View.
Musigy - Plug in, jam & play music over the web. View.
Musipedia - Search, edit, expand & share collection of tunes. View.
Musocity - Music community. View.
Myvideokaraoke - Sing & share your song on video. View.
Nationofmillions - Submit & rate hiphop. View.
Nayio - Record your music, add video & share. View.
Noisely - Enter your favourite music & get continuous podcasts to your taste. View.
Nutsie - Play your music on your cell. View.
Odeo - Record & share audio. View.
Onellama - Share your musical tastes & get recommendations. View.
Pandora*** - Personalized radio. View.
Pandorafm - Mash-up of Pandora & Last.FM. View.
Payplayfm - Music download store. View.
Phonezoo - Create & share ringtones. View.
Pickspal - Bet on sports with friends. View.
Playola - Listen to & collaborate on finding similar tunes. View.
Plurn - List, listen to, create & share music. View.
Podbop - Listen to bands that visit your city (Eventful mash-up). View.
Podsafeaudio - Upload & share your music casts. View.
Poperti - Enjoy music (and more) from your Gmail inbox. View.
Predixis - Discover, manage & enjoy music. View.
Projectopus - Publish, share or sell music. View.
Projectplaylist - Publish & share music playlists. View.
Purevolume - Music community. View.
Qloud - Social music search & buy service. View.
Radeo - Compile & share playlists. View.
Radioblogclub - List & save your favourite tracks. View.
Rapleaf* - Manage your reputation & rate your friends. View.
Rateyourmusic - Music recommendation community. View.
Reverbnation - Music community. View.
Rhapsody - Listen to free music, share playlists. View.
Screenvader - Compose algorithmic music, image and video presentations. View.
Searchinsidethemusic - Search music by content and context (stealth). View.
Searchthebeat - Search MP3s & get additional links to Youtube music videos. View.
Sellaband~* - Promote your music & find 5000 fans. View.
Shazam - Have music recognized thru your cell. View.
Sideload - Share free music files. View.
Singshot - Record & share your own songs. View.
Smstunes - Smstunes - Explore, create & share video, karaokes & radio. View.
Songrio - Digg music tracks. View.
Sonicbids - Connects musicians to promoters. View.
Sonific - Claim a song & publish it on your site. View.
Soundflavor - Music community. View.
Soundpedia - Upload, manage & share your playlists. View.
Splice* - Mix, mash-up & share your music. View.
Stagefm - Indie music & video sharing. View.
Starplay - Practice your music with virtual pros. View.
Streampad - List, listen & share your music (= several mash-ups). View.
Thetrc - Submit & rate music. View.
Tourbus - Find live music. View.
Tourfilter - Get email alert when your favourite band is in town. View.
Traktor - Create & share your own instruments. View.
Treblenation - Community connecting musicians and venues with fans. View.
Tunecore - Create & sell music. View.
Tunefeed* - Share your music on any website. View.
Tunefind - Submit & find film & tv music. View.
Tunelog - Delicious for music. View.
Twones~ - Share your playlists & make new friends. View.
Ubroadcast - Host your own live radio show. View.
Ultrastar - Offer your fans a value add online content experience during your tour. View.
Uplayme - Share music & meet people with same taste. View.
Upto11 - Discover & share music. View.
Virtualinstrumentmuseum - Search musical instruments. View.
Vodpod - Publish your videos and/or playlists & share them. View.
Vringo - Share video ringtones with your friends when you call them. View.
Webjam - Collect, mix & share content from many sources. View.
Webjay - Playlist community. View.
Weedshare - Play, buy, share & sell music. View.
Wikizic - Wiki for musician's resources. View.
Yahoomusic - Search web radio (with Yahoo music videos). View.
Yottamusic - Search music. View.
Yourspins - Remix, publish & share tracks legally. View.
Zontube - Amazon music with Youtube videos. View.
25 March 2008
MUSIC 2.0: 229 ways to find, select & listen to, or make money on music
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Bedtime for Buzzy is a 28-page hardcover children's picture book about a young boy who is playing with his toys and doesn't want to go to bed. He imagines his toys coming to life one by one, and they convince him that going to sleep is the best way to continue his adventures.
As parents of young children know all too well, convincing a child that it is time to go to bed can sometimes be difficult, to say the least. The lovable characters of Bedtime for Buzzy encourage bedtime through a fun and engaging story. Bedtime for Buzzy author T.J. Hackworth says that the story "is designed to help lead children to their own conclusion that it's time to go to bed."
Bedtime for Buzzy has already received critical praise from a number of respected reviewers, including the Children's Book Review, and others. Here's what a few of these reviewers had to say about Bedtime for Buzzy:
"An appealing and amusing story . . . animated by a surprising cast of characters."– Foreword Reviews
"A giggle-worthy ode to creativity, perfect for youngsters who have trouble saying good night." – Kirkus Reviews
"Together, the text and pictures imbue the characters with a warm, winning joie de vivre that's impossible to resist." – BlueInk Review
Bedtime for Buzzy makes a perfect addition to the nightly storybook ritual that many parents and caretakers share with their children.
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On this blessed day of Saint Nicholas I'm delighted to announce a giveaway where you can win a signed (or dedicated) Advance Reading Copy of the much anticipated final volume of the Book of the Ancestor trilogy,
To participate simply comment below this post and answer any (or all three) of the following three questions:
1. Which of Mark's books was the first one you read and what made you get a copy?
2. Do you have a favourite book by Mark? If yes, what makes it special for you?
3. Which of his characters would you like to read about in a new short story?
The giveaway will end on Christmas Eve, 24th December 2018 and as usual, I will ask Mark to randomly select a winner.
This is, as always, an international giveaway, anyone can enter!
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UVA is Virginia's only designated HCM Center of Excellence by the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association. We offer cardiovascular screening, genetic testing and a range of treatment options to help you and your family manage congenital heart defects.
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a genetic disease that leads to abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, which makes it harder to pump blood and strains the heart.
The thickened muscle can get in the way of the blood leaving the heart and cause a blockage. HCM can also cause uneven muscle growth, which makes the heart pump in a disorganized way. These abnormal heart rhythms can be fatal.
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a genetic disease that leads to abnormal thickening of the heart muscle, which makes it harder to pump blood and strains the heart. View hypertrophic cardiomyopathy transcript.
HCM Treatment Options
You may not need treatment if you aren't experiencing symptoms, but your cardiologist might advise you to avoid strenuous exercise and sports.
HCM symptoms can include:
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Dizziness
- Fainting
You may be able to manage your symptoms with medication. We also provide the following treatment options for patients with HCM symptoms.
You may need an implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) if you're at increased risk for cardiac arrest.
Patients with significant thickening of the heart may need a type of heart surgery called a myectomy, which increases the heart's blood flow.
Heart Transplant
A small number of HCM patients have advanced heart failure and need a heart transplant.
HCM Research
UVA is leading a five-year international effort to find better ways to predict which patients are at greatest risk of heart failure and sudden death from HCM. We received $14.4 million from the National Institutes of Health for this study.
If researchers can better predict who's at risk, they may be able to target treatments for those patients, says Christopher Kramer, MD, co-principal investigator of the project. Get more details about the HCM registry.
Traveling to UVA for Treatment
Since HCM often runs in families, we'll make every effort to coordinate appointments with parents, siblings and children.
If you're traveling from far away, we'll work with you to schedule your appointments at times that are convenient for you. Get information about lodging options.


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Valentine's Day Foil Giant Room Decorating Kit, 28pc
Valentine's Day Foil Giant Room Decorating Kit - Valentine's Day Room Decorating Kit SKU 240183
- 4 Swirl decorations, 22"
- 4 Swirl decorations with cutouts, 24"
- 4 Foil fringe garlands, 9'
- 16 Foil cutouts, 3" to 13"
- String, 50'
Fill the room with love with a Valentine's Day Room Decorating Kit! Adorn ceilings and doorways with romantic red heart hanging decorations, garlands and cutouts. It's the perfect way to decorate for Valentine's Day!


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10 Most Preferred Airline Companies in Europe.
Which airline carries the most passengers in Europe? What are the most preferred airline companies in 2019? When we examine this ranking, we learn that especially cheap ticket prices are very important. Ireland-based Ryanair and UK-based Easyjet are among the cheapest airlines that offer cheap ticket price. Budapest-based Wizz Air is another low-cost airline on the list. Passengers love is guaranteed if there are cheap flight tickets. RyanAir is the most preferred Airlines in 2019.


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Implementation of Medicare Part D and Nondrug Medical Spending for Elderly Adults with Limited Prior Drug Coverage
While Medicare Part D has reduced out-of-pocket expenses and increased medication use and adherence since its implementation in 2006, little is known about whether the prescription drug benefit has reduced medical spending in other areas.
The authors analyzed data from 6,001 elderly Medicare beneficiaries participating in the Health and Retirement Study and linked Medicare claims from 2004 through 2007. The participants were sorted into two groups: 2,538 Medicare recipients who had generous drug coverage before 2006 and 3,463 recipients who had limited drug coverage before 2006. The authors created an analytical model to assess how Medicare Part D affected the nondrug medical costs of these two groups after 2006.
Key Findings:
- Total nondrug spending after 2006 dropped by $306/quarter for beneficiaries with prior limited drug coverage relative to beneficiaries with generous pre-2006 coverage.
- The relative decrease in spending was largely due to decreases in inpatient and skilled nursing costs, not from changes in costs due to outpatient physician visits.
This research suggests that Medicare recipients who received more comprehensive prescription drug coverage may have increased their medication use and adherence, resulting in lower demand for inpatient and skilled nursing care.


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Wendy the Shetland Curlew
Here's Wendy the Whaap - she's a Shetland curlew! Curlews are Europe's largest wading birds, and they are in trouble. Between 1995 and 2012, we've lost by 55 per cent of the breeding population in Scotland and 30 per cent in England. The RSPB has launched its Curlew Recovery Programme to raise awareness of the curlew's plight and build support for conservation. Read more about it here!
Curlews are very much at home on Shetland, which is why the RSPB there are celebrating this much-loved wader with a series of fun events, including a display of knitted curlews, or "whaaps" as they are known locally!
Wendy the Whaap is knitted in beautifully soft Jamieson's of Shetland DK wool. You'll need 7g of 120 Eesit/White;
9g of 121 Mogit/Eesit; 7g of 116 Moorit/Eesit;
oddments of 101 Natural Black.
She's knitted flat using 4mm needles and has a wire beak.
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Keeping sanity in the face of computer malfunction is especially difficult. Just put the headphones back on. Refocus. Suddenly the music at hand is godsend. If machines are slowly destroying us, the music they create on Marginalized Information makes it sound heavenly.
Staying unpredictable helps the collective immensely in avoiding unintended "sleepiness". At nearly 10 minutes, the first fully formed song on the album, "Ping", shows a knack for holding listener attention that thankfully maintains for the entire album. Through the music will be considered "ambient", that is not to say it has no drama – drama, not histrionics. "Ping" build, adding layered guitars part way through which finish the song alone, leaving guitar fans pleased while maintaining the song's electronic identity as multiple synth lines form the song's backbone.
It makes sense that Aspects Of Physics features members from San Diego notables like Pinback and The Black Heart Procession. This is ambient music for guitar-band fans, not for removed from "Kid A" territory with enough structural footholds to ground the buzz and whir electronic whimsy. "Neutrino" is perhaps the best intro for neophytes of the genre seeking out the band out of interest in its members. As only two minutes, the song's bass note swoops are gorgeous, and the start guitar lines recall Pinback and… the Cure? The opening of "A Forest" is the closest touchstone.
The glitchy "Plippus" in mechanically ethereal in the proud vein of Björk's and Sigur Rós. That doesn't prevent it from being an entirely pleasing stab at glitch-pop heights. Only a killjoy could resist the song's icy beauty, its spare notes flourished by synthesized harps.
Early reviews of Marginalized Information emphasize the music's ability to the listener "philosophize" or "theorize". It's true that the music leaves room for the mind to wander in relation to the sound, which is probably due to its insistence on exploration. Musical themes are rarely revisited without being tweaked, and this quality is what makes the mood somewhat indeterminable. Only in two songs at the end of the album, "Jatchtas" and "Arnologer", is this a bad thing. "Jatchtas" is too mild and "Arnologer" too frenetic (both too short) to really amount to anything memorable. Perhaps they server as a buffer between the album's most emotional songs, "Reversevent" and "Scene of Changery". "Reversevent" evokes a powerful feeling of unease from its crackling electronics, which sound like someone angrily wadding up paper, and its dissonant guitars, which offer little melodic resolve. It's one of the few songs to fiercely tap the "dread" card, making it an effective counterpoint to the rest of the album's more amiable character. Pardoning a somewhat awful title, "Scene of Changery" evokes stronger emotion than anything else on the album. It's a smart choice for a closer as it features the most guitar on the album, with post-rock being the operative influence. While the rest of the album is not without its share of memorable moments, those guitar notes stay ringing in your head the longest, punctuated by sudden live drums. Maybe it's because, however processed, guitar has always seemed "human" while keyboards and laptop miscellanea seem more cold and alien. The terrific guitar work across Marginalized Information helps to bridge this gap between mechanical and human noise. Of course, it's all human…and mechanical. While Marginalized Information may continue the tradition of distorting the distinction between man and machine, it does so with allure.
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Bin To Belt
This customized solution is designed for configurations where sorting directly into a sling is not possible. It is also ideal for consolidating a large number of low-volume sorts into a smaller footprint. Linen is sorted into the single- or double-door continuous hoppers. When the hopper is full (as measured by piece counts or weight), the hoppers drop the sorted laundry onto a transfer conveyor where it is loaded into slings onto the monorail rail system. This is a highly effective automation option for a smaller space that processes many low-volume items.


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fish club, fish sandwich, freid fish, fried fish bacon, fried fish snadwich, fried fish with slaw
I wasn't sure what I wanted for dinner but I knew I wanted it to be easy as I had a long car ride in the morning. Something light but summery, fresh and tasty. Fish! Oh how I miss really good fish restaurants. I miss living by the ocean and being spoiled on the fresh catch of the day, We are lucky enough though that 30 minutes down the road is Mike's Seafood and he has fresh selections flown in every day. He doesn't sell meat just fresh fish and I love it. So today I picked up some fresh flounder fillets, grabbed some pre-cut lovely broccoli slaw and made my creation. Just wait till you taste the outcome.


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She sank onto the steps. They were cold and wet, but she didn't care. The silence around her felt strange. The city should have been buzzing with life this shortly before Christmas. Though the sky was pitch black, it was only late afternoon. She shook the thoughts away. She knew life was still there. SheContinue reading "Lit Up"
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Grain of Salt
She took a gulp of coffee, when her phone beeped. Her mum had hung up on her again. She couldn't believe it. Her finger tapped the call button again. The sudden jingle made her jump. Hot coffee burned her hand as it spilled out of her mug. "Mum?" she asked, her eyes jumping back andContinue reading "Grain of Salt"
The Visitor
The jingle of the door made her look up, but no one was there. She shrugged and reached for her book again. Perhaps it was just the wind. She pulled her legs up on the chair into a fetal position. Late nights were the worst, yet she needed the money. There was another jingle. Again,Continue reading "The Visitor"
Find Her
The train whooshed past him. He braced himself, his eyes trained on the last coach. She was on that train. It was now or never. His right arm caught a metal pole and he was jerked off his feet. He felt the metal burn into the crook of his elbow as he struggled to grabContinue reading "Find Her"
A for Avalanche
He should have known he'd one day regret living at the bottom of a hill. He couldn't remember why he'd once thought that would be such a great idea, but back then he'd loved it. Everyone walked past his garden. Always waved, friendly or otherwise. He could sit by his gate, watch them all dayContinue reading "A for Avalanche"
Torn Apart
Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart. She buckled and sank to the ground. She didn't think she was going to last much longer. How could you live through your worst nightmare day after day? She shut her eyes, hoping to block out the memory. The sudden smell caughtContinue reading "Torn Apart"
Out of Focus
She blinked. The porch steps were moving in front of her. Swaying in the rain. She blinked again. She couldn't see far beyond the steps. The rain and darkness obscured her view. Even so, she didn't think she'd be able to see well otherwise. Her hand gripped the door until her knuckles turned white. SheContinue reading "Out of Focus"
A smile tugged at her lips as she took a step closer. "This is adorable," she said, her voice hushed. It was their one-year anniversary. She hadn't thought he'd even remember. She took another step closer, the field of flowers spreading out in front of her. It was one of a kind. "Just for you,"Continue reading "Anniversary"
Playing With Fire
"I can't believe we're finally twenty-one," she said softly. I shook my head mutely. It had been a long wait. I looked over at her, about to smile at her, but something caught my eye. Her face was caught in the flame of her sparkler. She looked mesmerized. "Mia?" She stared at the flame forContinue reading "Playing With Fire"
Her head was spinning. Her knees felt like jelly and she could barely stand. She was still panting from running. She couldn't believe it. All those late nights and whispered thoughts. He'd been the only one she'd ever trusted. The only one she thought deserved to know the whole story. She still remembered his raggedContinue reading "Numb"


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A major fight breaks out downtown as Zion ground forces advance through the streets! Here's another shot of the scene.
A Dom directs two Zakus through the streets, while a Zaku Sniper prepares to ambush the advancing Guntank...
These buildings are made primarily of plastic cassette tape cases and
plastic backup tape boxes stacked on top of each other. The roofs are trimmed
around the edges with Chopsticks and stir sticks, and detailed with buttons
from a phone and various model parts. The windows are sections of
Cross-Stitch grating, cut down to size. Here's a shot of one of the
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Recently the Council for Life held its "Celebrating a Decade of Life" Luncheon at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas to mark ten years of providing much-needed funding for local pregnancy resource centers and other life-affirming organizations in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. The gathering of about a thousand people in the Chantilly Ballroom was their largest yet, and featured a luncheon, raffle, and keynote address by model-turned-mogul Kathy Ireland.
Council for Life was founded in 2001 by eleven women who wanted to "more proactively address the complex issues of crisis pregnancies" in Dallas and "change the heart of [their] city." It is still without an office or full-time staff, and relies solely on volunteers and donations to provide its vital support to area women.
According to an address by board president Harriet Maclay, CFL has raised $2.7 million for local pro-life organizations in the last ten years, and is now launching a national affiliate program to benefit life-centered initiatives in other cities.
For 2012, CFL received 28 grant requests and was able to grant ten, with four on a wait list. They pledged a total of $500,000 to such organizations as Chosen Child Adoption Services, Perinatal Support of Texas, and Fort Worth Pregnancy Center. The money will be used in various ways by each center, such as purchasing sonogram machines and hiring new staff.
Despite the fact that 20,000 children are lost to abortion every year in Dallas/Ft. Worth, "[o]ur city is well fortified with life-affirming agencies," said Maclay, "and we have much to celebrate."
The Keynote
Besides an eloquent invocation by Todd Wagner, pastor of Watermark Community Church in Richardson, guests were also treated to an engaging glimpse into the pro-life journey of former Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Kathy Ireland, now a wife, mother, philanthropist, and CEO of a billion-dollar corporation. "If you're old enough, you might think of me as that model person from the last century," she quipped. Don't let Ireland's high-pitched voice, glossy good looks, and Southern California bubbliness fool you. A few minutes into her speech, the astute fearlessness that may be responsible for her success came out, and it didn't go away.
"The work that Council for Life does is life-saving and life-changing," said Ireland, and went on to describe her challenges as a pro-life celebrity and businesswoman. Not long after her design empire was launched, she faced a difficult decision when she was asked to appear on Bill Maher's now defunct HBO talk show, "Politically Incorrect," and talk about abortion. She was warned that espousing a controversial viewpoint could kill her business, and she felt the pressure of many jobs and livelihoods that depended on her. But she believed that even if it saved one life, it would be worth any cost to her bottom line. She called the decision, finally, "a no-brainer."
"Don't let anyone silence you, and please don't let your own fear silence you," she said.
In high school, a fellow student speaking on behalf of a national women's health clinic told her class triumphantly that high school students could get abortions without parental consent. As the wife of an emergency room physician who could be prosecuted if he gave an aspirin to a minor without her parents' approval, Ireland bore witness to the absurdity of this notion. "Here in Texas," she said, "you have better laws than we do. And I love my state, but that is messed up."
Ireland described her first real religious experience as a lonely eighteen-year-old modeling in Paris who discovered a Bible her mother tucked into her luggage. She spent many years as a "pro-choice Christian," but it wasn't until driving to an audition for a movie-of-the-week many years later that she gave the issue serious thought. She knew the movie was about abortion, and though she was told it gave an unbiased view, she felt there was a pro-abortion slant to the script. Stuck in LA traffic, she thought about the issue as she drove to the audition, where the producer asked if she was pro-choice. Even as she answered "yes," she knew she wasn't.
"I didn't want to be pro-life," she said, prompting some laughter from the audience. After looking through her husband's medical textbooks and finding scientific proof that the embryo is a human being, she called an abortion clinic and asked for their "best argument" for abortion, and was told two things: that it was a clump of cells, and that "if we get it early enough, it doesn't even look like a baby." Even a "ditzy" supermodel knew that all human beings are, technically speaking, "clumps of cells," and that "[j]ust like a baby doesn't look like a teenager and a teenager doesn't look like a senior citizen, it's what humans look like at that stage of development. It's just that we're not used to seeing it."
Years later, when she discovered that a non-profit with which she was involved donated money to an organization that performed research on human fetal tissue, the non-profit attempted to reassure her by putting her on a conference call with ten scientists. When she asked them if they had "evidence that the unborn isn't human," there was silence from all ten. "Kathy, it's really a lot more complicated than that," one piped up. Her reply: "No, it really isn't."
In 2008, Ireland was seated next to a strategist for then-Senator Obama at a social function. The strategist asked if his candidate would have her vote, and she replied he would, if he changed his position on life issues. The strategist balked at discussing abortion in front of Ireland's children and a table full of men, so Ireland reassured him that her children were well aware of the sanctity of life, and that Roe v. Wade was decided by a bunch of men. "So let's talk," she said. After being "dismissed" as "just a conservative," Ireland told him she didn't mind being refuted, but would not be dismissed. She said she was conservative on some issues, but "when it comes to the human rights of the unborn, I'm extremely liberal."
She ended her remarks by reminding those gathered that "every child is wanted." Referring to her niece with Down syndrome, she said, "God doesn't make mistakes." As for strategy, she warned against turning abortion into a "political football," and said that while Roe v. Wade must be overturned, "what we need to do is change hearts."
Speaking to that end, the luncheon closed with a short video showing some of the many hearts that have been changed by CFL's work, including ten-year-old Jordan, one of the first babies saved when her mother saw a sonogram of her unborn child. The sonogram machine was purchased with funds donated by Council for Life.
The Lesson
Most of the men and women gathered today in the Chantilly Ballroom were affluent, upper-middle-class Dallasites who may have never wanted for anything. Sitting among them, I felt a bit out-of-place. Walking to my car in the parking lot, my Ford Escort was conspicuous among the Lexuses and BMWs. However, these "ladies who lunch" are lunching for an excellent cause, and putting their money — and their hearts — where it can save lives and change souls.
It doesn't matter whether you donate thousands of dollars and speak up about the sanctity of life on HBO, or just volunteer to file paperwork, write a check for $10, or dare to tell your sociology professor he's wrong about abortion. The point is if we all give what we can of our time, treasure, and talent to this cause, we can and will save lives.
For more information on Council for Life and the organizations it benefits, visit their website at https://www.councilforlife.org/.
LifeNews.com Note: Kristen Walker is Vice President of New Wave Feminists. She tweets as @walkertxkristen and blogs at Eve's Ransom. This post originally appeared at the Live Action blog and is used with permission.


text: Chiranjeevi delivers good news to fans ADVERTISEMENT Megastar Chiranjeevi is going to enter social media world this Ugadi (25th March). The 'Sye Raa' actor has delivered the news himself through a video and fans are thrilled with the announcement. "I've decided to enter social media. I believe it will be a platform, through which I can express my feelings and interact with my fans regularly. I will do it on Ugadi", said Chiranjeevi. Except for Chiranjeevi, all the other mega heroes including Pawan Kalyan, Ram Charan, Sai Dharam Tej, Varun Tej, Naga Babu are on social media. Chiranjeevi's entry into this world will be an exciting news for fans for sure. This Ugadi is going to be special. Tomorrow, your Mega Star Chiranjeevi garu is going to start interacting with you from his official social media handles. Get ready to follow and show him some love.#WelcomeMegaStarToSM pic.twitter.com/2PwDM0TT7J — Konidela Pro Company (@KonidelaPro) March 24, 2020


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John H. Sununu, The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H. W. Bush (New York: Broadside Books, 2015), 250.
Fair Housing Voting
The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, was supported by 91% of Republicans in the House and 86% in the Senate compared with 71% of Democrats in the House and 71% in the Senate.
John H. Sununu, The Quiet Man: The Indispensable Presidency of George H. W. Bush (New York: Broadside Books, 2015), 250.
The Telephone's Rapid Rise
In 1896, there was one telephone for every 175 people; by 1914, there was one for every 10 people.
Ray Ginger, Age of Excess: The United States from 1877 to 1914 (New York: MacMillan Company, 1971), 219.
Truman's Best Birthday Present
V-E Day, the day marking the Allied victory over Germany in World War II, was also President Harry Truman's sixty-first birthday.
Steve Neal, Harry and Ike: The Partnership that Remade the Postwar World (New York: Scribner, 2001), 17.
Internment to Conscription
Japanese-American men living in internment camps during World War II were eligible for conscription as of 1944; 263 of them were convicted of resisting the draft.
Erica, Harth, ed., Last Witnesses: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 7.
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Patient Foot Care Education
Browse Our Library for Answers to Your Foot Care Questions
Choose any topic from the Patient Education sidebar at right. (Mobile users: if you don't see a sidebar, look for the "Patient Education Menu" button at the bottom of your screen.) To find a specific foot problem, choose "Foot Problems" in the menu for a list of topics.
You can also search our entire site for a particular foot topic by entering some text in the search field below. If you can't find what you're looking for, please give us a call or submit a contact form and we'll be glad to assist!
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Ganglion masses, or cysts, are normally removed through surgery. Most cyst removal surgeries are performed on an outpatient basis. Contact our office to have this procedure performed.
During the procedure, the cyst is dissected from the surrounding soft tissues and removed. The recovery period depends on the location of the ganglion and the amount of dissection required during surgery. In many cases, patients receive a splint or below-the-knee cast. The surgeon may require the patient to use crutches for several days to up to three weeks. This level of protection may be necessary if the ganglion is near the ankle joint.
Possible complications from cyst removal surgery include infection, excessive swelling, and nerve damage.


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Book review of "Travel medicine guide" by Jacki Hobson, CMPMedica, Auckland, New Zealand
Leggat, Peter A. (2011) Book review of "Travel medicine guide" by Jacki Hobson, CMPMedica, Auckland, New Zealand. Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease, 9 (1). p. 25.
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[Extract] Many health professionals will be aware of the major travel health guidelines published by the World Health Organization (WHO), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Travel Health Network and Centre. The Travel Medicine Guide is the fifth edition of New Zealand's national guidelines, which are potentially of interest for those who advise travelers to the Australasian or Oceania regions. This edition of the Travel Medicine Guide is a major update of a regular supplement to MIMS New Ethicals, a major pharmaceutical compendium in New Zealand. It has a table of contents, nine main chapters, an A to Z Vaccination Guide, and a Resources section. There is no foreword, preface, glossary or index. The textbook contains a number of tables. The book is usefully compact and in full color on gloss paper. There are a number of useful lists of "tips" and checklists throughout most of the chapters.
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If the new LG and Kyocera can work as LTE only, why can't the XZ Premium? Has anyone tried?
It will not as the premium does not support band 13 which is required by block c rules to go into effect. The new LG and Kyocera support band 13 as to why it can work under LTE only along with the fact they made VoLTE available to work with Verizon's network standards.


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Ang Lee and James Schamus: Partners for Life
"The most miserable, boring, long-winded pathetic pitch I had ever heard in my life," is how producer and screenwriter James Schamus describes his first meeting with director Ang Lee.
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walking.dude last edited by
Are you predicting that a big portion of the mentor players move to outcome?
If so, null rod seems like a very strong call.
If they move to something like gifts than it's less clear to me. Gifts does run more artifact mana than mentor, but it also runs drain and some higher cost spells where you might be better served by more low to the ground threats.
To me, I suspect that the primary blue kill now will be tinker BSC, which makes me what to have more metamorphs. They also double as extra thorns / spheres once the first one is resolved and can usually at least keep you on par with opposing creatures.
Not really sure how things shake up though.
garbageaggro TMD Supporter last edited by
My prediction was definitely toward Outcome, but Big Blue is also a possibility as you pointed out. That being said, tangle wire seems sort of mediocre there too, so I don't really know what you want in that event. The new Spyglass card is also one that is potentially interesting, peek + needle is a powerful opener and it slots in at two mana.
Stuart last edited by
I've been on Null Rod Shops for a while now. Assuming Shops maintains solid chunk of the meta share and some people move onto Paradoxical, I'll stay on it. Here's my first take on 60 in a post-restriction world:
4 Revoker
4 Inspector
3 Chief of the Foundry
2 Metamorph
1 Lodestone
3 Wurmcoil
1 Chalice
1 Thorn
1 Trinisphere
2 Crucible*
3 Null Rod
4 Sphere
4 Tangle Wire
1 Mana Crypt
5 Moxen
1 Lotus
4 Workshop
4 Tomb
4 Wasteland
1 Strip Mine
4 Factory
1 Academy
1 Inventors' Fair
1 Ghost Quarter*
*These replaced 3 Thorns.
garbageaggro TMD Supporter last edited by
I know @Brass-Man was testing 1 shop decks over the weekend, just to see, and I was really impressed by 8 eldrazi in a list like that. Would that make sense for a null rod list (presumably with smaller artifact creatures).
I plan to sleeve up welder shops again. I figured tokens make stax bad and pyromancer tokens are more easily dealt with than mentor. Here is my current list.
Deck: Vintage Uba Shops.dec
Counts : 60 main / 15 sideboard
4 Goblin Welder
4 Phyrexian Revoker
1 Lodestone Golem
1 Sundering Titan
1 Black Lotus
1 Chalice of the Void
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
1 Mox Sapphire
1 Sol Ring
3 Null Rod
4 Sphere of Resistance
1 Thorn of Amethyst
3 Crucible of Worlds
1 Trinisphere
4 Smokestack
3 Uba Mask
3 Ancient Tomb
3 Barbarian Ring
3 Bazaar of Baghdad
4 Mishra's Workshop
3 Mountain
1 Strip Mine
1 Tolarian Academy
4 Wasteland
3 Tormod's Crypt
3 By Force
3 Grafdigger's Cage
1 Null Rod
3 Ensnaring Bridge
2 The Tabernacle at Pendrell Vale
I think I will move 3 ensnaring bridge to the main and do -1 sundering titan, -1 smokestack, and -1 uba mask if the meta ends up changing to a lot more creature decks such as BUG.
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@naixin Nice list. I am curious to know why you chose not to play tangle wire in it. I know it is not that good in a token-heavy meta but it is still very useful to earn you the time you need to setup the lock.
@albarkhane we only have room for so many lock pieces and I felt like tangle wire is the least useful for me at the time. However I can definitely see a case for tangle wire. I would probably cut some number of uba mask or smoke stacks for a couple. If I was playing normal stax, it would be easy as I wouldn't have slots for welders. However welder is one of my favorite cards so by playing it, I have to give up 1 lock piece.
I am not sure how useful this is going to be, but I did a first pass on something I am fooling around with. The old robots build updated with some new shit and foot to the floor thanks to the ban.
4 Arcbound Ravager
1 Lodestone Golem
4 Memnite
4 Phyrexian Revoker
4 Signal Pest
2 Steel Overseer
1 Black Lotus
2 Cranial Plating
3 Genesis Chamber
1 Mana Crypt
1 Mox Emerald
1 Mox Jet
1 Mox Pearl
1 Mox Ruby
2 Skullclamp
3 Smuggler's Copter
1 Sol Ring
2 Sphere of Resistance
4 Tangle Wire
1 Thorn of Amethyst
2 Throne of the God-Pharaoh
4 Ancient Tomb
2 Mishra's Factory
4 Mishra's Workshop
1 Strip Mine
4 Wasteland
2 Dismember
1 Karakas
4 Leyline of Sanctity
4 Tormod's Crypt
1 Trinisphere
1 Umezawa's Jitte
I am not sure how well this will work out, but I think it has some promise.
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@dice_box I very much want Tiny Robots to be decent again, after having played it for a while pre-LSG restriction (and a bit of time much less successfully, post-restriction).
I fired up an old list for the last daily last night and went 1-3, but it wasn't really very representative as 1) it was my first tournament in the MTGO interface, 2) I didn't have time to get newer cards, and 3) I got Vintage'd pretty hard two of my matches, irrespective of deck choice. However, the list still felt pretty okay. It was fun making people question their life choices when they chose not to [[Force of Will]] a [[Memnite]] and lose the game because of it. I believe that [[Walking Ballista]] and [[Foundry Inspector]] are necessary auto-includes though.
Looking forward to picking up new cards and playing around with them.
The plan I was building around was combing Smuggler's Copter and Throne. Copter let's me tap everything and Throne adds a ton of damage that way. Also the copter let's you ditch shit you don't need. But I would like to see if I can find space for other cards. Right now it's a first pass on just that idea alone. It might not work, but if it does its a very strong combo. Adding Foundry or Ballista would give more reach, I just don't know what I would cut other than Throne and Thopter.
cutlex TMD Supporter last edited by
@dice_box The main thing I worry about with that plan is that, historically, if you have a bunch of little dudes then you're probably winning already. I don't mean this as an attack, but as a curiosity: what makes [[Throne of the God-Pharaoh]] better than an effect that pumps your dudes for attacks, e.g. [[Chief of the Foundry]] or [[Steel Overseer]]?
I'm thinking that I'll be testing it regardless, but I'm looking for some groundwork for my assumptions.
I don't actually have a answer, just an idea. It may not work at all. Foundry is a good option, as are cards that buff the table. I don't really see a disadvantage with that plan.
The bonus on Throne to me would be the option to give a pseudo +2 power go everything on 2 mana. I guess that's not nothing. With a Copter you can just kill sometimes.
Don't we still have to max spheres? I think the 4 SoR and 1 Thorn is probably the baseline now along with Tanglewires, the list that are just trying to race popcorn look like Hurkylls blow outs to me without beaing fast enough to really race Outcome decks. I don't think there is anything wrong with going small, but I think we still have to max out disruption.
What does a Stax or Null Rod build look like right now? Ravager, PO and Oath all feel like something that gets shut out by Rod or Bridge.
I'd start here with Kory's 2nd place list: http://www.cardtitan.com/coverage
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With Thorn restricted, it seems like Energy Flux is in the range of being a castable card again. Playing shops against that card feels like a sideways-up-a-cliff uphill battle; aside from keeping them from casting it, is there a preferred way of dealing with it? Spine of Ish Sah is expensive but does the trick and synergizes with Ravager. Other options are Boompile (random), Ratchet Bomb, Nevinyrral's Disk, Eye of Doom, (these can be too slow, also weak to null rod effects), Culling Scales maybe? Hurts with moxen out, but we won't have the moxen for long anyway... Anyone have thoughts about this, maybe I'm overthinking hate for a specific sideboard card?
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@vintage_rage I'm running two spines for now. I dont know how much we'll see of it, the Delver decks are big on Ancient Grudges, maybe landstill or Bomberman. the vault key decks prob dont want to run it. That being said its a fucking cock punch if it resolves. I don't know that Spine is great here, but its what I'm currently on. If this card ticks up we may need ot address this as a significant issue.
The first significant data point of the new meta: http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/mtgo-standings/vintage-challenge-2017-09-03. Shops looks pretty OK there, but much to think about:) More tomorrow I'm out for tonight:)
So beat it or join it: http://eemagic.com/allDecks.php. I guess the only big thing I see here is that I miss my Tangle Wires:) Why the meta hasn't generated easy/obvious answers to Precursor golem has me confused, other than that the creature suites look pretty strong.
@wintage There was a decent number of people who were playing Smash to Smithereens, which makes Precursor Golem potentially lethal for its caster if they have taken enough Ancient Tomb damage. It was enough reason to dissuade me from playing it.


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It's not quite another Star Wars sequel or Ben Affleck as Batman, but this week saw one of the bigger movie news pieces in a long time. Before I get to the Harry Potter spin-off by J.K. Rowling, I've got to talk about Leonardo DiCaprio in Wilson, Julianne Moore confirmed in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2, Kelsey Grammer in The Expendables 3, and Lucas Black in Fast & Furious 7. Also, I'll quickly mention the new release dates for the Terminator reboot, Nebraska, The Good Dinosaur, Finding Dory, and Maleficent.
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Leonardo DiCaprio will be the next big name to play a President. He'll be portraying Woodrow Wilson in the biopic Wilson. It's still in the planning stages, but DiCaprio will also produce the movie that is based on a popular novel that just released recently. (Source: THR)
Although Julianne Moore (Children of Men) has been attached to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay for some time now, she was officially revealed as President Coin this week. I won't ruin how President Coin fits into The Hunger Games universe, but I will say she'll be in both Part 1 (releasing November 21, 2014) and Part 2 (releasing November 20, 2015). Both will star Jennifer Lawrence and return Francis Lawrence as director. (Source: EW)
First he was cast in Transformers: Age of Extinction, now he'll be playing a badass in The Expendables 3. Kelsey Grammer will apparently take the role Nicolas Cage left behind (oh darn). Patrick Hughes is directing the movie that stars some of the other Expendables (Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and more), which will release August 15, 2014. (Source: Deadline)
Last in the casting section is Lucas Black (The Fast & the Furious: Tokyo Drift) rejoining the franchise for Fast & Furious 7. Given the events of Tokyo Drift and their relation to Fast Five, it makes a whole lot of sense. He'll apparently stick around the final three films in the franchise. The seventh movie is directed by James Wan (The Conjuring), stars Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, and will release July 11, 2014. (Source: IGN).
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The Terminator reboot moved back from June 26, 2014 to July 1, 2014. (Source: Collider)
Nebraska (Alexander Payne's next movie) will release November 15, 2013 instead of November 22nd. (Source: Collider)
Pixar shuffled their slate, moving The Good Dinosaur back more than a year to November 25, 2015. They also distanced Finding Dory by moving it back to July 17, 2016. Disney moved in with Maleficent to occupy The Good Dinosaur's original spot on May 30, 2014. It's all sort of confusing, so maybe use a pencil when writing in these movies. (Source: Collider)
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