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How to name locations on Google, hint, use storefront name!
TL:DROur advice = Use your real life storefront name for locations on Google & Google my Business.
More details Lately we have noticed a few of our customers that give their locations and venues a custom name on Google that differs from the storefront sign. At first glance it could look like a good idea but we would advise against it. A commonly stated reason for using a custom name is a way to keep track of the individual locations. Another reason we hear from time to time is SEO purposes.
But beware, this is not something that flies well with the wary algorithms of Google. Their rules for naming your location and venues are clear. It should correspond with the name used on the storefront. So if your venues do not have individual names on their actual sign on the building it is advised not to use custom names in PinMeTo and subsequently on Google and Google my Business locations.
There is no automatic check that keeps track of this which means there may be no immediate repercussions, however if you use custom names you run the risk of being penalized on Google, something that might hurt you in search results and in return hurt actual business. Furthermore Google says it may decline Google my Business support if this policy is violated. Another way of thinking about it is that it is a way for your customer to find your venue and not a way for you to organize your locations.
Altogether we think it is a no brainer. If you as an administrator/owner of locations need to keep track of your venues you should do so with a method that does not require custom names. There are other ways, and if you need any help with it please do not hesitate to contact us email@example.com.
If you wish to read more Google has a Guideline page available here.
//Your friends at PinMeTo
Use Google Posts to display your message right in the search results!
In the end of July and beginning of August in Sweden lots of Swedes begin preparations for a traditional summer party called Kräftskiva. This is a celebration of summer that revolves around crayfish, silly hats, and schnapps. Imagine then the sort of value a company could gain by having items associated with Kräftskiva show up directly in their Google search results. What sort of impact would free shipping, discounts on decorations, or a sale on the crayfish themselves have on purchase intent? This thought process has nearly universal application. It could be applied to offers that are seasonal, regionally specific, weather dependent, or just about anything else. So how can you, as a business owner or marketing manager take advantage of this sort of purchase influencing visibility? The answer is Google's latest feature: Posts. Google, the go-to search engine for most consumers, continues to introduce new features and tools for businesses to make your search results attract customers. Setting up your company properly on Google and Google Maps means that more people will find you through direct and indirect searches and that the results will include all relevant contact information, branding, and images. Doing this correctly means that your company can dominate up to 42% of the total visible screen on desktop and laptop search results (see image below) and the entire screen on mobile (the search results will appear below your business, requiring the customer to scroll down). That's a pretty significant amount of space that can have a powerful impact on purchase decisions!
Google search results showing nearly half the screen occupied by Google My Business content for a single company
Google's latest offering is a post tool embedded directly in Google My Business. Google Posts allow you to leverage your verified Google My Business locations by adding custom content directly in the search results! At the moment you have to request access to Google Posts but the process is simple and can be found here. Once Google has approved your request, you will find the posting tool in your Google My Business account by clicking on "Manage Location" and navigating to the "Create Post" button shown below.
The post tools can be found in Google My Business under the "Manage Location" button.
The posting tool gives you a variety of options for your message including the ability to create an event or use a number of call to action options such as "buy now", "reserve", and "learn more" among others. It is even possible to add an offer for a product or service right in the search results. You can also upload an image and insert a URL to a product page, booking site, blog post, or web page. Once you have entered all of the relevant information you can click the preview button to see how the post will look once published.
Example post creation using a blog URL and the "Learn more" call to action option.
Three items to keep in mind when using Google posts:
- Keep your post titles short (80 characters or less) to avoid awkward truncating of the title
- Posts will be publicly displayed for only 7 days (This may change in the future)
- Multiple posts may be displayed at the same time so long as they are both less than a week old
Screenshot showing recent posts displayed in Google search results for PinMeTo
Once posts are created and published, Google gives valuable insights into people's reactions to your posts in terms of views and engagement. Engagement in this case being button clicks for items such as "Learn more" or "Buy" or "Reserve". These insights are displayed on the post summary page at the bottom of each post.
You can read all about Google posts here. If you have any questions about Google Posts, Google My Business, or just location marketing in general don't hesitate to contact us at firstname.lastname@example.com or just chat with us right from this page!


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Taize Music Meditation
On Wednesday, May 16, at 7 p.m. St. Alban's Episcopal Church is hosting a Taize service led by Brother John and Brother Emile from the Taize community in France, who will lead a Taize music meditation. After the service there will be a soup and bread supper. St. Alban's is located in the heart of the Sunny Brae neighborbood in Arcata at 1675 Chester Avenue. [Jan, is the next sentence correct?] Even children enjoy this service of simple chants and repetitive melodies and are welcome at the service. The songs from Taize, the Ecumenical monastic community in Burgundy, France, are known and sung all over the world. The simple chants and repetitive melodies are multilingual and universal, designed so anyone can join into the chanting songs to feel the bond of meditative common prayer. Brother Roger said, "From the depths of the human condition a secret aspiration rises up. Caught in the anonymous rhythms of schedules and timetables, men and women of today are implicitly thirsting for an essential reality, for an inner life. Nothing is more conducive to a communion with the living God than a meditative common prayer with , as its high point, singing that never ends and that continues in the silence of one's own heart when one is alone again." In 1949, in th isolated war-damaged village of Taize, the first seven brothers took vows of simplicity, community of property, prayer and celibacy. They intentionally did not affiliate with Protestant or Catholic doctrine or institutions, instead affirming ecumenism and the work of reconciliation of all churches. Saint Alban's welcomes LGTBQ people. Links to other activities and programs may be found at www.saintalbansarcata.org. For more information about the Taize service contact St. Alban's Episcopal Church at 822-4102 or email@example.com.
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Do you like your job? Do you like what you do every day? It's so common day to make a joke to anyone about the week almost being over or "can't wait to be off work." Why are we all at fault for saying this? Are we tried? Do we just say it to relate to someone else?
How has this happened to the majority of all of us, how have we come to a point where when you look at someone you know it's not necessarily what they want to be doing? This doesn't apply to all but like I said earlier… the majority.
Is it the system? Is it us? Is it the commercials and advertisements depicting HOW we feel but not really asking? Are we positioned this way?
I think the common goal is to get to that point in life where we're not saying anything negative about work, or our days IN work. Wouldn't it be great to not really know you're working but to get paid? To go through your life being passionate about what you're doing and when a paycheck comes you say "I can't believe I'm paid for this."
I've never been so certain that life and our surroundings are how we create it. Every single day tests our ingenuity, resilience, change, and creativity and how we implement it in our day to day. Each day is for trusting what you know but being open and ready to learn something new.
Trust what you know and don't let your surroundings dictate how you feel, if the surroundings make you unhappy – find something new to look at until you're happy staring at it.


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A stylish staple for any stationery collection, this gold washi tape is a super useful accessory for decorating and crafting.
Whether you're sealing card envelopes or wrapping up presents, there's no doubt that the gleam of metallic gold looks a little more special than your regular transparent tape.
As it's made from rice paper in Japan, you won't need scissors to tear this gold washi tape. This of course makes it perfect for speeding through gift wrap sessions.
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I bought silicone tunnels for my ears on ebay, 28 mm just like i have now. I recived my items and put them in my ears. I didin't feel anything until the evening, and then the pain got worse. Exactly the kind of pain I get from stretching my ears to fast. The pain was intolerable so I took them out, I thought I had done something wrong. But then I compared the silicone tunnels with the ones I had before:
So because of this seller that I want to punch in the balls, I had to downsize my ears to 26mm and they are swollen, warm and burns.
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S. Paul's, built under the '50 New Churches Act of 1711' along with St Nicholas' and the new terraces in Albury Street, is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the area. The church designed by Thomas Archer in 1713 and consecrated in 1730 is described by Pevsner as 'one of the most moving 18th century churches in London'.
On the 7 December 1716, the minutes from the Commissioners recorded that proposals were read 'for glazier's work at Deptford new church from Chas Scriven, Thos Commings, Jos. Goodchild, Wm Ransom'. On the 10 December 1716, it was confirmed that 'Commings to be employed for glazing Deptford new church with crown glass, with lead of 9 inches to the ounce'. (The Commission for Building Fifty New Church the Minute Books, 1711 – 27)
Repairs to the church have been undertaken in 1856 (John Whitcord), 1883 (Thomas Dinwiddy), 1930s (Eden & Marchant), 1975-85 (Marshall Sisson), 1990's (Marshall Sisson), 2003 (HLF & Thomas Ford and Partners).
The windows have wrought iron frames incorporating leaded glazing. The east window is in the form of a Venetian window but following the curve of the apse, 'a very Baroque trait', Pevsner observed.
The recent church quinquennial report highlighted that the windows at St. Paul's are in fairly good order, although some cracks have been reported and generally are in need of a good clean.
There have been many discussions over the past year with Tideway whether or not secondary window glazing would be of benefit in sound proofing the church.
The initial proposal by Tideway was to secondary window glaze the south side of the church, directly overlooking the construction site. However, there is strong opinion to suggest that the east side will be just as affected, as it has a direct line of sight over to the works site alongside Church Street. For secondary glazing to have a meaningful impact, both sides ideally would need to be treated.
The other consideration that needs to be accounted for are, aesthetic and conservation approaches. Ideally the quality of the architecture would benefit from all windows treated rather than a portion, since there will be differences which would be more apparent between treated and untreated windows. This has obvious cost implication which not surprisingly, would be quite significant.
Our church architect Nicholas Weedon has advised that, 'inconsistency' is not recommended, unless there is a very clear programme. Furthermore, the installation of internal secondary glazing would be a very sensitive matter and any repairs or alterations of this scale would require the church applying for faculty.
Finally the project coordination of any type of work like this would need careful planning and consideration in light of the current Tideway works and on-going church activities and services.
As part of Tideway's TAPs (trigger action plan), we met with the main contractor 'CVB' towards the end of last month, to take these discussions further along with their appointed heritage consultants and window Specialist Company. An assessment of the building and report with proposed actions will follow in due course, which the church and advisors will need to consider carefully.


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Brand: Kangertech
Released in 2016, the Kanger Protank 4 is a good looking, multi-purpose tank that handles all vaping styles. In line with new UK safety directives, the Protank 4 has a child-proof side-fill mechanism. This tank also comes with a dual coil, rebuildable atomizer (RBA) deck.
In its new stainless steel jacket, the Protank 4 is a major departure from the format of earlier versions of this popular Kanger tank. The shapely steel drip tip has been replaced by a standard, Delrin alternative with adjustable airflow. If you have young kids at home, the new Protank 4 side-fill mechanism will bring you peace of mind. The top section of the tank needs to be unscrewed and lifted to gain access to the side-fill twist ring and its hidden fill slot. The tank takes a big, 5ml fill with a replaceable coil fitted. Even if you're using the RBA, there's still room for 4ml of e liquid.
Kanger's Velocity style 'Pro' RBA deck comes with 2 pre-fitted Clapton coils. This is a well designed, 2 post unit, with screw connectors for 2 horizontal coils. Large airflow holes are well-positioned to spawn substantial clouds. The pre-installed Claptons give exceptional flavour, straight out of the box. You'll also find a 0.5 Ohm ceramic coil for sub-Ohming, and a 1.5 Ohm coil for regular, low wattage vaping. Both of these are from Kanger's SSOCC, organic cotton coil range.
To balance mod settings, cloud volume and e juice flavour to your liking, the Protank 4 has an airflow control ring on the base. The airflow ring has dual, 9mm cyclops ports.
Protank 4 comes in Stainless Steel finish.
1 x Kanger Protank 4 Clearomizer
1 x 0.5 Ohm SSOCC Ceramic Coil
1 x 1.5 Ohm SSOCC Coil
1 x 0.3 Ohm RBA Deck (fitted with 2 x 0.6 Ohm Parallel Clapton Coils)
2 x Spare Pre-wound RBA Coils
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Size: 22mm x 65.5mm
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Connection: Gold plated 510
Ceramic coil resistance: 0.5 Ohms
Mouth to lung coil resistance: 1.5 Ohms
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RBA resistance: 0.3 Ohms (with 2 x pre-fitted 0.6 Ohm Claptons)
100% Japanese organic cotton in all coils
Comes with spare screws, cotton and an RBA tool
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661 Chapel Street
661 Chapel received its Planning Approval after a rigorous and rewarding process with the Government Architect's Design Review Panel. The slender tower and kiln-shaped masonry base draw heavily on the history of brick making around Chapel St and the Yarra, where the landscape was once dotted with brick kilns and tall slender chimneys.
The interiors feature generous shared communal spaces - such as entry through a sculpture walk, a library with a dramatic onyx window wall, a shared kitchen table for coffee and newspapers, and a board room - that provide the featues and atmosphere of a spacious family home to every resident. Emphasis is shifted onto the quality of the everyday experience by purposefully locating many community enabling spaces on the journey to and from home.
Level 6 is a whole floor of mind and body fun including a lounge and deck, a wine room, two private dining rooms, gym, cantilevered 25m pool with sauna and steam room, as well as a Richard Serra inspired cinema.
2018 IDEA Awards (Interior Design Excellence Awards) Shortlisted, Public Space Category
Client: Gamuda Land
Planner: Meinhardt
Interiors: Bird de la Coeur Architects
Structural Engineer: Webber Design
Art Consultant: MARS Gallery
Photographer: Dianna Snape
Builder: Crema Constructions
Renders: Philip Horton + Binyan + Gabriel Saunders


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Your Pets and the Holidays: Pet Poison Helpline
So many times one hears the grief of someone who has lost their pet over the holidays. We "deck the halls" in holiday spirit, but in that enthusiasm,we sometimes forget about our pets' safety. I found this article on msnbc.com. And I'm hoping those who believe they are aware of any and all safety hazards, give this article a read ….. maybe just because we're only human and tend to think we know it all, when in reality we do not …..
I have left links associated with this article intact for further research.
By Wendy Harris
The Helpline wants to make sure everyone knows the dangers that could be lurking in a festive household.
And, if something dreadful should come to pass, the Hotline wants to make sure you have its number handy. Pet Poison Helpline is a service available 24 hours, seven days a week for pet owners , veterinarians and vet techs that require assistance treating a possibly poisoned pet.
Pet Poison Helpline does charge a fee of $35 which includes follow-up consultation for the duration of the poison case.
Pet Poison Helpline is available by calling 800-213-6680.
Now that you know the specifics, the Pet Poison Helpline would like to make sure you don't have to call. It's warning you against some common holiday pet dangers:
Holiday Ornaments: Decorations such as lights may contain poisonous chemicals. Methylene chloride, the chemical in bubble lights, can result in depression, pneumonia and irritation to the eyes, skin and gastrointestinal tract.
Tinsel: If you own a cat, forgo the tinsel. What looks like a shiny toy to your cat can prove deadly if ingested. Tinsel does not pose a poisoning risk but can cause severe damage to a cat's intestinal tract if swallowed.
Plants: Though they have a bad rap, poinsettia plants are only mildly toxic. Far more worrisome are holiday bouquets containing lilies, holly or mistletoe. "Lilies, including tiger, Asiatic, stargazer, Easter and day lilies, are the most dangerous plants for cats," said Dr. Ahna Brutlag, assistant direct of Pet Poison Helpline. "The ingestion of one to two leaves or flower petals is enough to cause sudden kidney failure in cats."


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Amsak, in association with STAHL Crane Systems offers Explosion Protected Hoists and Cranes with capacities up to 100MT. Their design is in compliance with ATEX and IECEX, assuring extreme safety. These hoists and cranes are suitable for hazardous atmosphere for both Gas (Zone 1, Zone 2) & Dust (Zone 21, Zone 22).
Certain process plants such as refineries, petrochemicals, chemicals, paints, etc. require very distinct type of handling systems that can maneuver safely in a extremely inflammable ecosystem. Using just a flame-retardant motor for the handling system is not sufficient. Utmost care must be taken to avoid igniting at all friction points. This demands distinctive technology and use of focused materials for construction and different types of enclosures for them. Oil and gas industry cranes are suitable for these type of hazardous ambiance.
We don't just sell you some cranes and forget you. We want to enter a long-term partnership with you to guarantee safe and reliable cranes. Amsak Cranes has the skills and international resources to ensure overhauls and substitutions are done as fast as possible. Preventive maintenance ensures your cranes rarely need repairs. Our unique remote data monitoring service always knows the condition of your crane. Armed with this knowledge, our service personnel can make sure your cranes are quickly operational again and downtime is minimized.
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India is legendary because the land of gorgeous magnificence and general history that can be seen in its tradition, tradition, and geography. For example, the company ought to have the ability to tell you about any restrictions which will apply to travel related with your passport, in addition to any native customs you need to be aware of. It will point out that the agents working for the agencies are conversant in your destination and don't have a working data that is solely slightly better than your own.
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Since the days of former President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the United States has closely tracked a new president's first 100 days in office. Here at Gray Plant Mooty, our employment and labor law teams have been monitoring and will continue to track activity by the Trump administration in the employment and benefits law area. This alert is the first in what we intend to be a series of updates to our employer clients on key developments during the first 100 days.
When President Trump was elected in November 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) was fighting multiple legal battles over rules it had promulgated during President Obama's term in office. With President Trump's election, the DOL's commitment to moving forward with those rules is uncertain. We expect to know more if and when Alexander Acosta, the nominee for Secretary of Labor, is confirmed, but here is where the DOL lawsuits and related rules stand:
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which oversees union-employer relations and non-management labor rights, has been the subject of minimal activity so far. The lone Republican member of the NLRB, Phil Miscamarra, was named acting Chairman of the NLRB by President Trump. Miscamarra currently serves on the NLRB with two Democrat members, both appointees of President Obama. The NLRB General Counsel is also currently a President Obama appointee. The NLRB currently has two vacant seats, which are both Republican-controlled. It is rumored that Trump is considering the following candidates as nominees: William Emanuel, Partner at Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Los Angeles); Doug Seaton, Senior Counsel at Seaton, Peters, and Revnew, P.A. (Minneapolis); Marvin Kaplan, Counsel at the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (Washington, D.C.); and Zachary Fasman, Partner at Proskauer Rose L.L.P. (New York).
In January, President Trump named Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) commission Victoria Lipnic to be the acting chair of the commission. While President Trump's plans for the EEOC are not yet clear, predictions have been made that his administration may scale back on the EEOC's strategic enforcement agenda to extend Title VII protections to LGBTQ applicants and employees. Despite these predictions, President Trump announced in late January that he intended to leave in place an executive order of President Obama that protects LGBTQ employees of federal government contractors from discrimination. The EEOC has asked, however, for an extension in one of its LGBTQ lawsuits to assess the direction of the case. In addition, on February 22, 2017, the Trump administration withdrew an Obama-era guidance issued by the U.S. Department of Education that provided for schools to allow transgender students to use bathrooms corresponding to gender identity. The EEOC has issued similar guidance on workplace bathroom access. GPM will be continuing to track EEOC related developments under the new administration and the impact on potential employer obligations.
The Trump administration has made it clear that it has big plans for employee benefit plans, issuing promises to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), to revisit the DOL's fiduciary rule, and to undertake tax reforms that could change the landscape for retirement plans. In its first month, the Trump administration issued some benefits-related executive orders, but, as to what employers need to do so far, it's essentially "Hurry up and Wait!"
If you have questions about your employment or benefits law needs, please contact a member of the firm's employment law or employee benefits teams.
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ROR (Ruby on Rails)
Affiliate Network believes in running with the time and adopting latest trend in terms of technology. One of the latest addition in the crown is ROR (ruby on rails). Ruby on Rails is an open source web application framework coded in Ruby that follows the Model View Controller (MVC) architecture. Ruby is an object oriented scripting language. Rails are a Model-View-Controller (MVC) framework based on Ruby and used for developing web applications.
The Rails framework supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, DB2 and Oracle databases. Ruby on Rails development comes with features such as Model View Controller architecture that separates data from logic i.e. presentation layer and helps in organizing application program. RoR database access library simplifies data handling.
Ruby on Rails also allows faster web development than PHP or some other technologies that are available. ROR includes advanced application development paradigms like DRY (Do not Repeat yourself) and Convention over configuration. Ruby is a highly developer friendly, reflective and object oriented language with features inspired from PERL, Python, Small talk, Lisp. The flexibility makes Ruby on Rails a perfect recipe for e-commerce development, Content management, Ecommerce, collaboration and online social communities.
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Selling Price £265,000
Glebelands Road, Sale
2 Bedroom Apartment
Selling Price £255,000
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A beautiful, Two Bedroomed, Period Mid-Terrace which enjoys a fabulous, large rear Garden and high specification Garden Room.
Ideal location within the heart of the Town Centre with all the Shops, facilities and Metrolink on the doorstep.
The Garden with this property is stunning, extending to around 70ft in length and has been professionally landscaped creating a wonderful addition to the property.
One of the more recent improvements is the fantastic, high specification Home Office/Music Room/ Garden Room created by Nottingham based 'Extra Rooms'.
An internal viewing will reveal:
11'11' x 11'11' Lounge having an opaque, multi-paned front door. Period, cast iron open fire to the chimney breast. Built-in meter cupboards. Window to the front elevation. Modern wood-effect flooring. Panelled door through to the Dining Kitchen.
15'2' reducing to 12'5' x 11'10' Dining Kitchen. A well-proportioned room with plenty of space for a dining table. The Kitchen itself is fitted with a range of base and eye-level units with worktops over and inset stainless steel sink unit. Ample space for a range of freestanding appliances which includes: washing machine, fridge and gas cooker. Spindled staircase rises to the First Floor. Continuation of the modern wood-effect flooring. Window to the rear elevation overlooking the Gardens. Glazed door provides access to the rear. Wall-mounted, gas central heating combination boiler.
First Floor Landing having panelled doors providing access to the Two Bedrooms and Bathroom. Large Loft access point with pull-down ladder.
The Loft has been boarded and provides excellent additional storage space.
11'11' x 11'10' Bedroom One. An excellent-sized Double Bedroom having a window to the front elevation. Stripped wooden floors. Picture rail surround.
12'1' x 8'10' reducing to 6'8' Bedroom Two. Another good-sized room having a window to the rear elevation overlooking the Gardens. Double doors open to a useful storage cupboard above the stairs.
8'10' x 4'10' Bathroom recently re-fitted with a contemporary white suite with chrome fittings and comprises of: panelled bath with thermostatic shower over and fitted shower screen, low-level WC, vanity sink unit. Part-tiled walls. Opaque window to the rear. Wall-mounted, heated chrome towel rail. Inset spot lights to the ceiling.
Outside to the front, the property has a walled frontage with wrought iron gates leading to the front door.
To the rear, the property enjoys a simply stunning Garden much larger than typically found with this kind of property. The professionally landscaped Garden creates a real mix of well-stocked borders, areas of lawn and shaped Pathways leading towards the back of the Garden where there is a raised decked area with bridge over a lovely pond and water feature.
13'2" x 11'2" Music Studio/ Garden Room. A fantastic space created by 'Extra Rooms' of Nottingham. The room has been done to a high specification with professional soundproofing up to 40 decibels. The room has windows to both sides and a set of French doors opening onto the decked Patio. There is also a mains plumbed WC with sink and water heater.
An incredible house!
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Development and validation of a multi-agent simulation of consumers, retailers and manufacturers
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Part 1 - Basic Human Rights - Freedom of Association and the Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively
Part 2 - Employment Services
Part 3 - Wages, Terms and Conditions of Employment
Part 4 - Labour Administration
Part 5 - Industrial Relations
Part 6 - Social Security
Part 7 - Employment of Women, Children and Young Persons
Part 8 - Welfare of Workers
Part 9 - Legislation
CONSEQUENT upon the mandate given by the people of Sri Lanka at the Parliamentary General Election and the Presidential Election 1994 and the commitment of the People's Alliance Government to formulate and implement a Workers Charter.
WHEREAS Sri Lanka is committed to the ideals enshrined in the Declaration of Philadelphia in 1944 and to the Conventions & Recommendations adopted by the ILO.
WHEREAS the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states and affirms that-
WHEREAS the Government of Sri Lanka is committed to ratify the Conventions of the International Labour Organization wherever feasible, and also to (protect workers' rights to organize and to assure equal rights for women, the protection of children and prevention of child labour and child abuse.
THEREFORE, the Government of Sri Lanka do hereby declare as follows:
Part 1
Basic Human Rights - Freedom of Association and the Right to Organize and Bargain Collectively
The State shall-
(a) Guarantee and protect the right of workmen to form and join Trade Unions, and to organize and bargain collectively
(b) ensure that employers recognize Trade Unions and deal with them on matters pertaining to their members. Anti Union discrimination by employers will be made ; an unfair labour practice.
(c) ensure that the Articles of the Convention on Forced Labour of the International Labour Organization are .fullyimplemented
(d) take appropriate measures for equality of opportunity and treatment of workers.
Part 2
Employment Services
The State shall-
Part 3
Wages, Terms and Conditions of Employment
The State shall-
(e) ensure that employers in prescribed employments shall issue letters of appointment to their employees specifying terms and conditions of employment. The recruitment of casual workers for regular employment . will be prohibited and permanent status .will be conferred on workers after a specific period of probation. The period of probation shall not exceed one year in the case of employees in supervisory or technical capacity and six months in the case of any other employee, which may be extended by a further period not exceeding 3 months and at the end of the probation period the employee shall be deemed to be confirmed in his post; The definition of a "casual employee" "temporary employee" will be introduced into the law to prevent exploitation of labour. A "casual employee" will be defined to mean any employee who is employed to perform work of a casual nature. A "temporary employee" will be defined to mean any employee who is employed to perform a work of a temporary nature. Such definitions in the statute will ensure that workers are not recruited as casual or temporary employees and kept on for a regular employment. Fixed term employment contracts for regular and continuing employment shall be prohibited than, in respect of employees in a managerial capacity.
(f) Show Cause and suspension procedures will be formulated by law.
(g) ensure that Collective agreements are extended, wherever feasible,under the provisions of the Industrial Disputes Act.
(i) take positive steps in regard to occupational safety and Health and introduce effective controls to prevent and avoid accidents.
(j) promote measures for protection of workers against specific risks, like toxic substances and harmful chemicals. Access to information regarding the risks of toxic substances and industrial hazards will be granted to workers and their organizations.
Part 4
Labour Administration
The State shall-
Part 5
Industrial Relations
The State shall-
Part 6
Social Security
The State,shall-
(a) ensure that the provisions of the Employees Provident Fund Act, the Employees Trust Fund Act and the Payment of Gratuity Act are effectively enforced and shall ensure that all defaulters will be identified, so that all monies are collected expeditiously. A review of the relevant legislation will be made to guarantee greater benefits to workers and their dependents.
(b) establish a social security scheme for workers after retirement. Employers will be encouraged to initiate Medical Insurance Schemes and to grant Special Insurance cover to workers exposed to risks at the work place.
(c) ensure that the Workmens Compensation Scheme will be fully implemented and the employment injury benefits shall be secured.
Part 7
Employment of Women, Children and Young Persons
The State shall-
(ii) equal rights in respect of employment in the public, private and informal sectors.
(h) ensure that nursing mothers will be granted nursing . intervals and this provision will be enforced. Employers will be encouraged to provide suitable creche facilities for the children of their workers.
Part 8
Welfare of Workers
The State shall-
(a) Recognizing the need for adequate housing facilities the State shall take steps to provide adequate accommodation close to their work places to solve the problem of .workers housing. Housing loans at concessionary rates will be arranged through the lending institutions to employers volunteering to establish Housing Schemes for their employees.
(b) provide adequate transport facilities to workers.
(c) provide or secure the provision of adequate medical facilities to workers at the work places.
Part 9
The State shall-
ensure that; the foregoing proposals will be implemented effectively either by enacting new legislation or by effecting necessary amendments to existing labour or other legislation in consultation with the workers' and employers' representatives in the National Labour Advisory Council.
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The New Year is already a week old and, sadly, many New Year resolutions have already been broken. Amidst the activity and, hopefully, relaxation of the holiday season, it is worthwhile to consider where the last two years have taken us and what is likely to lie ahead for investors in 2010.
The Global Financial Crisis and investors
As 2008 dawned and it became clear that the world faced a genuine financial crisis, many were thrown into panic. Underlying weaknesses in even advanced economies like the US and the UK were thrown into stark relief. Massive stimulus packages and record low interest rates could not stem the bleeding. Investment banks Bear Sterns and Lehman Brothers collapsed and AIG - once the world's largest insurer - went to the brink.
As the bad news continued, dramatic measures were taken to protect Australia. In February 2009 the Federal Government's $42 billion stimulus package was passed in the Senate. Perhaps even more significantly, between August 2008 and February 2009, the Reserve Bank of Australia slashed official cash interest rates by 4%. This did not stop the announcement in March 2009 of the first quarter of negative growth (of 0.5%) in Australia in eight years. Further, although growth in the following quarter was slightly positive (thereby avoiding a technical recession), economists were quick to point out that this was largely caused by a decrease in imports and an increasing population, rather than a more productive economy.
As could be expected, investors in more volatile asset classes were hit hard by all of these developments. The S&P/ASX 200 stock market index lost nearly half of its value between late 2007 and early 2009, effectively losing an entire decade's worth of growth. Stories abound of people being forced to abandon retirement plans and of retirees forced to return to work to cover the shortfall in their retirement savings.
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So we are part way through organic September and my cupboard is full of organic goodies from big retailers such as Sainsburys, to small independent health shops such as As Nature Intended. If you are not already aware, organic September is part of the Soil Association's "small changes, big differences" campaign. This has replaced by the more well known campaign "organic fortnight". This new campaign is designed to promote all things organic, from groceries to make-up. You could take part by just replacing 1 item from your household to an organic option. This may be a box of English breakfast tea, maybe a new shampoo, or even organic cotton t-shirts. Which ever you choose, you will be contributing to changes for the better in sustainable food, animal welfare and the environment.
Going organic on products such as meat, milk and eggs makes the biggest difference to the lives of farm animals. All organic animal based products are free-range and come from animals that are living in conditions that encourage natural behaviour. Not only this, these animals are not given hormones to encourage growth or milk production, and so your food will also not contain any of these hormones. Clean eating can help avoid health problems later in life due to the absence of excess hormones and anti-biotics.
If you are a nature lover and want to see our beautiful earth stay green and luscious, choosing organic fruit and vegetables is a way to do that. Nowadays soil is plagued with pesticides, preservatives and other chemicals to kill off bacteria, promote fast growth, alter colour and appearance and to increase shelf life. While on the surface this does not seem like such a big deal, but the food, flowers and weeds that are produced from this soil then becomes food for animals and insects. An example of the negative effects of this is how is affects bees. Bees are important in the pollination of many food crops, but are now at risk from the effects of the pesticides, which in turn will affect the crops that are reliant on pollination. This will then lead farmers to take more action to help grow their crops, in the form of more chemicals. Put simply, it's a vicious cycle.
At the moment retailers all over the country are offering great organic products at great prices, and there is always a great selection to choose from. My recommendation would be to choose organic tomatoes. Organic tomatoes are incredibly juicy and sweet and are so much better in taste than regular tomatoes, and I have never looked back! Perhaps you are already buying products from your favourite brands such as Heinz or Meridian, in this case, you could switch over to their organic options. If not, this could be a chance to discover brands that are new to you, and who knows, you could find a new favourite.
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Statewide nonprofit Maine Fiberarts supports Maine fiber art, craft, farm, school, and business—through education, display, celebrations and networking—both within Maine and beyond. The fiber arts include spinning, weaving, papermaking, felting, quilting, knitting, embroidery and much more. We support the entire sector—from raw farm material supplier through finished art and craft maker—through regional tours, gallery exhibitions, hands-on workshops, web presence, our statewide online Maine Fiberarts (Digital) Tour (www.mainefiberarts.org) guiding visitors to artist's studios and farms, educational venues, fiber processing mills, related organizations, galleries and museums, services and equipment, materials shop and more. Our work involves economic development, cultural tourism, preservation of art and craft, and community building. Our goals include fostering greater opportunities for artists and producers to exhibit work, to make sales, to work as apprentices and mentors, to teach craftmaking skills, and to become better connected with each other and with revenue sources! We represent art to the public at our Topsham gallery with exhibitions every three months, and to curators through our Photo Libraries; we host gatherings, talks and workshops; maintain a database of 3400 resources for networking and referrals; communicate with an opt-in email list of over 1400; promote fiber through our websites: www.mainefiberarts.org and www.mainefiberfolio.com; and update our online statewide Bulletin to alert and inform members and the public to opportunities, events, workshops and learning opportunities.
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Critics can say what they like about the films, but very often, there's a certain expectation of documentaries that they're supposed to be like PowerPoint presentations. I see documentaries as movies. So when I see some critics writing that we could have done without the recreations altogether - well, perhaps.
The whole macho thing has to be reexamined. Because in my view, the Bush administration was weak, not strong. To engage in a policy of torture is a weak policy. Because ultimately, it encourages the terrorists. It undermines our own values. It corrupts our system. And it doesn't get good intelligence.


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We were inspired by the visionary ideas of Viktor Schauberger and unique method discovered by Masaru Emoto. Cycloidal centripetal movement of water in combination with vibration of positive information is the main essence of process that we call harmonization of water.
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The traditional peak season is coming on Chinese auto market at the end of the year and the new energy vehicle sales are rising. With outstanding product performance and technical advantages, represented by iEV230 and XEV260, Hawtai New Energy vehicles have stand out and face tight supply in the hot new energy market even if they just debuted. To meet the a large number of orders in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and the rest of the country, Hawtai Ordos Production Base started up emergency plan in advance to ensure the production scheduling for the peak –season orders at the end of the year and meet the demand of users of Hawtai's new energy vehicles by overtime work.
In the morning of December 6, Hawtai's delivery ceremony of Taxi cars in Lanzhou took place at Ordos Base and several large-sized trucks carrying hundreds of Iev230 are waiting for departure at the Ordos factory just like a dragon to fly from mountains in Ordos to the other places of the great China in this big opportunity of new energy car development.
【At Ordos Base, first delivery ceremony of Lanzhou taxi】
【The large-sized trucks carrying many iEV230 are to run out Hawtai Ordos Base】
Since the offline and listing, Hawtai's iEV230 new energy cars have won extensive recognition of the market. With the increase of car demand at the end of the year, Hawtai New Energy has received many orders. Ordos is in cold winter, but the plants of Hawtai New Energy are busy and the trucks carrying new energy vehicles go to the rest of the country from the base.
In the past people believed Ordos is a city of textile and mineral industries, but with the development of new energy cars from this city, this city has become an important force to support the new energy car industry in China. As one of the biggest new energy car production base in the west of China, Hawtai New Energy Ordos Base and its iEV230 have become new cards for this famous city in the northwest of China.
【Hawtai New Energy Ordos Production Base 】
Hawtai Motor Ordos Base is located in Kangbaashi Area, Inner Mongolia, with an annual output of 150,000 vehicles, as the most advanced vehicle base with the highest automation rate and also the largest new energy vehicle research and development, trial production and production integration base in the west of China. The world-class vehicle manufacturing process and the domestic leading high automated production line ensure Hawtai New Energy has super-class vehicle quality. Hawtai Motor, as early as before 2008, had started to develop core technology and products of new energy vehicles. After years of efforts , in 2015 Hawtai Motor iEV230 new energy vehicles officially off the assembly line and enter into the market from Ordos. The product has obvious advantages in the ratio of performance and cost of the car, life mileage, charging efficiency and other aspects. The future development of Hawtai New Energy will greatly promote the structural optimization of the automobile industry, industrial upgrading and transformation in Inner Mongolia and lay a solid foundation for the revitalization of Inner Mongolia's automobile industry.
【Hawtai New Energy's Assembly at Ordos Production Base】
If the excellent product strength and strict quality control for the hot Hawtai New Energy provides a strong guarantee of strength, the tight supply of the just marketed Hawtai New Energy's two flagship models -iEV230 and XEV260 –would rest on the Hawtai Motor's technical advantage and R & D capacity for continuous innovation which drives the product competitiveness. Hawtai Motor stands out in the market with new speed, new strength and new height while making shape and bold try in exploiting the direction of new energy cars. Exploiting from multiple dimensions like intelligence, information and humanization, Hawtai has made breakthroughs in new energy low carbon, lightweight, intelligent and other cutting-edge areas. It is constantly developing a new generation of new energy automotive products, creating Hawtai Motor's market competitiveness beyond the same level of unique market and leading the new trend of the new energy automotive market.
【Hawtai New Energy's two flagship models: iEV230 and XEV260】
Hawtai Motor has been concentrated in the independent research and development of new energy technology for years. It has set up two major research and development centers in Munich, Germany and Beijing, China. Through the introduction and absorption of European advanced electric vehicle core technology, it has developed independent core Intellectual property rights in the electric vehicle electronic control, batteries and power batteries and other fields. Hawtai New Energy's 100 km power consumption and mileage data and some other key data are leading in China. At the same time, Hawtai Motor has established partnership with a number of domestic and foreign technology companies to drive each other and work on first-class new energy vehicles. With its proven technology system and superior product performance, Hawtai New Energy has stood out and become the first choice for many new energy vehicle brands in the market.
As a pioneer of new energy vehicles under independent brands, through independent technology research and development Hawtai Motor took the lead to overcome the technical difficulties of the industry. It has developed a superior performance of the "three electricity" technology to overcome the fast charging and long life and other core technical obstacles in extreme environment. At the same time, Hawtai Motor has insight into the current situation. It has been actively explore the industry development model with a view to facilitate the development of new energy vehicle industry.
At the beginning of November, Hawtai Motor started the production of an annual 5 GWh lithium battery project in Xining, Qinghai. Relying on Qinghai's resource advantages Hawtai Motor will strive to create a complete lithium battery new energy industrial chain from lithium battery cathode material, batteries, battery PACK, power batter to cars and be committed to creating more secure and stable high-performance battery products and further solve the technical problems of battery life, safe and fast charge, etc.
【Hawtai New Energy Production Line】
Excellent research and development capabilities, leading core technology, stable product quality and long-term development vision make Hawtai New Energy Yong a leading of the pure electric vehicle market. In the future,with the development thought "taking advantages of all parties and making independent innovation", Hawtai New Energy will continue to carry out R & D upgrades, deploy products in vertical direction, meet the consumer business, home and other diversified car demands comprehensively to create the most cost-effective new energy strength models and lead the new energy vehicles to a better future.


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Some pounding on the wall of my shower, sheetmetal at a historic mercury mine site, the a capella vocals from Starlifter, and a whole lot of drums.
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One prolific night, I sketched out about 25 minutes of music in three songs, all using the same set of sounds. Metalkit-A was the first song in that group, and the one that had lasting power for me. The song doesn't really have a story, other than Enrique sent me some recordings he made in his car of Alan Watts talking that he thought I should use in a song. Well, here ya go Hank!
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A while back I was running by the railroad tracks near my house and had the idea to use a sample from the Honeydrippers' version of Sea of Love, specifically the "I" in "I want to tell you...". The way Robert Plant sang that has so much character, I thought it could be the basis of something else. I took more samples than that from the song and made something very different from it.
Bahar sent me a recording she made of the parrots that live in our neighborhood, and that became the intro.
The main melody sound is a note sampled from the Stylophone that Derek gave me many years ago. Other sounds are egg shakers I keep at my music desk, the squeaky shelf that seems to get play in all my songs, and other synth sounds I made.
Sea of Love on Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify
Most of the drums, percussion, synths, etc were made from recordings I made. The vocals come from this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYGIbyBfspY Made over the course of almost a month, bits and pieces at a time. The name comes from a C-141 Starlifter cargo plane. The song is 141 BPM.
Starlifter on Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify
The song title is an anagram for Paul Alan Levi, the creator of the PBS logo theme sound from the 70s. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCuqlLq1k7o That sound really intrigued me (or freaked me out) as a kid, so here it is wrapped into a song. There are samples from the movie The Iron Giant in there.
Alluvial Nape on Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify
This song title is the name of the street where Bahar and I stayed during our trip to Barcelona.
Carrer de Napols on Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify
Continuing with the fun looping percussion recording workflow, Supermercado started out as a few distinct 8-bar phrases that I figured out how to weave into a song.
One of the main sounds is 5 tracks of Wytse speaking (he has a great YouTube channel where he reviews software and shows mixing/mastering techniques), all layered on one another and panned across the stereo field. I took that layered sound and made an instrument in Kontakt with it, where each note-on triggers the sample from a random starting point. A couple knobs on my BCR-2000 control the note length and sample speed. This song has the most tracks of anything I've done -- 55 tracks in all.
I like how this song moves through some different moods, so it was good enough to finish and put out there.
Supermercado on Bandcamp | iTunes | Spotify
I made Gotham a week after Quiet Now. Things were flowing. I continued with the looping recording percussion workflow with this one. For example, there are 5 clap tracks, each recorded individually but panned differently. This makes for a natural feeling "people clapping" feeling I think, even though it was just me clapping.
I'm really digging the piano (especially with some FX applied). The main sound in this track is Logic's Clavinet simulation put through some modeled amp/pedals. I also learned to use a compressor to beef up sounds by really overdriving it, but output in parallel so the clean signal is like 75% and the effected signal is at 25%. Thanks to producing legend Andrew Schepps informative videos on the subject to open my eyes to a simple but effective technique.
This song alternates between a light bopping-down-the-sidewalk feel and something more serious. It sounds great on a big system.
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This song opens with a recording of frogs from Lake Ranch Lake combined with Bahar's windchimes. At the lake there was a frog right next to us, but then it got quiet. This song was a shift in workflow for me, using many layers of recorded percussion. I would sequence a simple drum and bass pattern then record in cycle mode, with Logic configured to create a new take for each cycle. Press record, and go to down on lots of different instruments. Then choose "Unpack Folder to New Tracks" and everything is layered.
I think this is a more "musical" track for me, with strong melody, chord presence and kind of a traditional structure. I used Logic's Rhodes simulation, ESX 24 grand piano, and Mellotron instruments. There is also a lot of recorded kalimba (normal and reversed) in there.
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As an experiment, I cloned the project from Featherboa to start a new song. The initial version came together really quickly -- maybe 6 hours. I decided it needed a vocal element, so I headed over to the Sound Traveler YouTube Channel. This channel specializes in binaural recordings of different places. I saw a video on the Meiji Shrine in Shibuya, Japan and decided this would be the one. The music I had laid down had a Japanese feel to it, so it was a good match. Now there was a theme to the song, so with several iterations over a week or so (e.g. it started out about 7 minutes, but I trimmed it to 4.5) it was done. It's more chill than the other stuff I've done lately.There are some Naomi samples in there (again), along with an instrument I made by recording the hum of the fluorescent light in my kitchen turning on and stabilizing.
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Most of my songs have a theme or story, but this one is just a song. The floppy spatula makes another appearance in this song, in a very prominent role. There are a few samples of Naomi singing, but pitched up or otherwise tweaked.
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The US government has broadcast the current time from Fort Collins, CO using the station callsign WWV at shortwave frequencies 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20 MHz, continuously since 1920. When I was a kid, we had an antique radio that could pick up these frequencies, and I would spend quiet nights with a makeshift antenna attached to this radio listening to the hypnotic pattern of clicks, tones, and announcements. I can't remember what jogged my memory, but I spent some time looking for a high quality recording of the station to reminisce. I found this great blog post of a guy who went right to the source to learn more about this public service and make some recordings sans interference.
Naturally this evolved for me into a piece of music. I had started a project a few weeks back where I experimented with a song transitioning from 4/4 time to 6/8 time, and in turn the perceived tempo increases 50% with that change. That project was a dud, but I kept the idea alive into this project. Starting with a basis of 120 BPM to match the 1 Hz WWV recording, it transitions into a wormhole of time and rhythm as you go inside the signal at 180 BPM.
There were some fun sounds involved in making this song. The static sound at the beginning of the track is actually my sock feet rustling on the non-skid surface of my desk's footrest. The hat sound is something hitting an oven rack, but pitched up. The main "snare" sound is a big floppy stainless spatula struck against a piece of plastic played at normal and half speed simultaneously. The bamboo stick is used on a couple tracks, as is Naomi's lovely and haunting singing voice.
This song took several weeks to come together, mostly due to my lack of focused time to work on it. I think it worked out well here though, since I had a lot of time to digest the progress of the song and make small tweaks without the pressure of 4am looming. There are about 30 tracks in this song.
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I recorded Marina playing her Ukulele and singing the song "Riptide" and was moved the weepy daddy pride, so I knew I needed to do something more with the audio. The following week, The Drique visited and we spent an hour or two noodling with a guitar I'm borrowing here and recorded the whole thing. More raw materials!
The song took a few weeks of slow/false starts to get going, though I knew the bass part behind Marina's singing was going to be a main part of the song. It really came together when I started playing with Logic's vocoder instrument. The texture that a simple vocoder instrument can bring is super cool, and so the song got "interesting" for me once I started layering in those sounds.
A lot of the percussion in the song is various hits of drumsticks and bamboo sticks I have here at home. The metallic melody line that comes and goes was just a single sampled hit of drumstick against my 8 quart kitchen pot, tuned and spread across the piano keys. There are 41 instrument and audio tracks in this song.
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I did a youtube search for Afrobeat music, and stumbled across "God is Love" from Complex Soundz (Spotify Link) and thought it was a super cool song. I pulled the audio into Logic and did a lot of slicing and dicing to chop the first 1/3 of the song into 1 measure pieces. All those pieces went into a Kontakt instrument where I spent a lot of time setting loop lengths and tempos so everything could work together.
The beginning and end of the song is audio from Tomáš Slavik's intense winning run at Red Bull Valparaíso Cerro Abajo 201. I was watching this video and closed my eyes and was taken aback by the crowd sounds whizzing by and decided to incorporate them into this composition.
Most of the drum sounds and the subbass are mine, as well as the little organ ditty at the end. While this song shares a ton with the original (could it be a remix?), structurally it's very different. The name "Good Evils" is an anagram of "God is Love".
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Jan Jelinek's "Rock in the Video Age" came up randomly in my car and I really took to the song. I liked the texture and the minimal but interesting style. Of course, I thought I should try something like that. This also coincided with an equipment dream come true -- a 43" 4K monitor. If a 28" 1440p was an eye opener for working with music, surely more than double the pixels (8.3MP vs 3.7MP) would be an eye blaster! It took a bit of getting used to to look at so much screen, but it's awesome to have so much space for music and virtual instruments and effects.
Anyhow, this song came together pretty quickly over the past week. I spent at least as much time tweaking it as I did laying it down to start. It was really really fun to make and I hope to come up with an "album" of similar songs to start the year.
There are a few notable sounds in there. There's a brief sample of Stevie Wonder when he was on Sesame Street in 1973, a vocoder instrument with a 1/64 arp on it receiving textures from a speech synthesizer from Mindport in Bellingham, WA saying "NAOMI", the good old rotating cabinet in my kitchen making a beautiful deep bowed instrument sound, the sound of me tapping the body of Marina's ukulele, and the venerable "claps galore" sample set that I made by clapping from different parts of the house with the mic in a fixed place.
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The opening sample on this song is my niece Ginger playing the ukulele. She was strumming along while I recorded with my laptop. I chopped up each strum and laid them out across a sampler instrument. The drums are from a YouTube video of Bernard Purdie (again!). The violin/cello sound is a rotating cabinet in my kitchen that I noticed made a lovely low squeak, recorded with my portable stereo mic, then loaded into Kontakt 5 (just got this software after Transpo -- good sound but a primitive UI, hopefully they fix it in 6). The chiff/flute sound is a recording of me blowing across a bottle of Reed's ginger beer, recorded with an SM57 and loaded into Kontakt. The "waah" sound at the end is a kazoo mangled like crazy in Kontakt and using a lot of FX.
This was one of the simplest and quickest songs I've made. It's just 12 tracks (Transpo, for example, is more than 30), and took about 10 hours start to finish, where most songs have taken me 20-30 hours.
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There were two main sources of inspiration for this song.
I grabbed a bunch of samples from the Mellotron film and made a sampler instrument from them (so easy in Logic Pro -- Ctrl-E). I was thinking to mix the retro string vibe with a modern artificial environment. The samples dictated the tempo of 113 BPM, which ends up being a slow-but-danceable tempo. The samples were also in 3/4 time, so I set up the project that way.
The funny thing is that I built the song around those samples, then ended up removing them about halfway through because it sounded better without them. Thanks for the launchpad though!
This was a fun song to put together because the grid was in 3/4 but I really was making a 4/4 song. This added some mental complexity with dealing with the grid, and how the phrases weren't necessarily on the measure lines, but I think it had the interesting effect of bringing in elements at more interesting/surprising times, since it wasn't easy just to jump on 4-measure divisions.
The train-like kicks at the end are a kickdrum alternating with a reversed version of that kick, passed through a tape delay simulation. There are some 909 hats with some cutoff automation and auto-filter, and some claps from one of the stock drum kits that comes with Logic. The other sounds are either synths I made in Alchemy or based on samples and stretched out and put thru lots of effects. One neat thing I worked on was automating the "pan-spread" parameter for the arp-y sound to really open the door on the song when it takes off a couple minutes in.
The vocal sample at the end is from some old Howard Cosell footage (again from YouTube) turned into an Alchemy instrument that lets me scrub the sample playback position with a knob. Maybe I'll do a post on that instrument one day, since it's a really interesting effect.
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I set out to make a reggae song. I had a bunch of samples I took from an old instructional film starring drumming legend Bernard Purdie that I really wanted to use in a project. I also learned the bassline from The Orb's song "Valley" and wanted to see what I could do with it. The result is a dubby, dancy tune with a pretty big bottom end. "Nothing is ever precise..."
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This song starts with some samples from a hike I took with a friend on a graveley trail -- our different cadences were making a cool rhythmic pattern. There were also crickets chattering, which I took to turned into a cricket rave party in the track. I set out to make a dancy number with this one that felt light. There's a running joke in dance music where typical dance beats mimic the phrase "boots and cats" repeatedly. If you listen carefully, you can hear me whispering that through the song in certain parts. The cutting-acid sound is a kazoo put through pitch correction and the Ringshifter effects. Bahar helped me to construct the extended mellow ending, which I think really makes the song, along with Naomi's crazy vocal samples that sound like a dog squeeze toy. I'm proud of how this song ends. "And then I don't know what happened next..."
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This project started with an audio recording Marina and her friend did of a song they made up. I put a some samples of a line her friend sang through some pitch and modulation effects, chopped it up, and laid it out on the keys across a couple octaves. The title refers to astronaut Ed White, who was America's first spacewalker in the Gemini 4 mission. He was supposed to be outside the capsule for 4 minutes but ended up staying outside for 12. There are samples from NASA's audio recordings of radio communications of that mission throughout the song. Marina's friend singing "I know, I know" ties back with Ed White's playful exchanges with Mission Control and how he knew he was supposed to "get back in!" but he knew he could stay outside longer and really soak in what he was doing and seeing.
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This song started out with the idea that a looping water recording could be put through a tremolo and used as a rhythmic device. Even cooler if it could transition seamlessly from "babbling brook" to off-beat percussion. The girls and I like to explore the Sanborn Creek next to Sanborn Road. It's an ever-changing adventure, rock-hopping and climbing over downed trees. It's also a place where I like to bring my mountain and road bikes. I wanted this song to be about that stuff.
I recorded a little stream on a hike near Lexington Reservoir ... that would be close enough to Sanborn to count, right?
The next inspirational element came from a recording experiment I did with the sliding glass door in my kitchen. Read about that here: The Window Drum Dilemma. The huge bass sound had to find a home! And so it did.
The other sounds in the song come from a 4-oscillator Alchemy synth I made that can be controlled in 8 ways by the knobs on my controller, a percussion set I made from slapping and banging on my kitchen floor, a click sound from something banging into the Rode i-XY mic when recording the stream turned into a kickdrum, the default ESX-24 sine wave processed through a simulated guitar amp, samples of Bahar playing the Daff, and a percussion set I recorded from my bike.
This song changes more than other songs I've done, and I like that. I think I'll keep doing more of it.
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I was noodling in sound-making mode with a set of sounds and instruments I had come up with over the last few weeks when I heard of a dear friend's father's sudden passing. There were a lot of similarities between her story and the experience we had when Santosh (Arti's dad) passed away in 2007, and so it stirred up a lot of memories of that time. We were with him when he died, and that moment lives with me very clearly to this day. I wanted to make something to express these feelings, and to illustrate what happens to the people in the situation when this happens.
The song is made of a cast of characters. One of them dies. They all act on their own, and they all change in different ways after the moment of death. There are new patterns, rememberances, resurgences. They find a new order and life goes on.
Sound-wise, this song features a 4-oscillator Alchemy arpeggiator patch I made that is very automatable, a dove call that I whistled, some long vocal notes wrung through tons of processing, an egg shaker, and 8 claps. The claps were one idea that I had to have the mic in one part of the house, and clap from different rooms and distances from the mic. The product is an impulse map of my house, and that impression may be given in headphones.
This song was unique for me in that I performed each track end-to-end. Normally I will come up with some good phrases and loop them. By a Thread was actually performed.
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This song is a story of two people. One is moody and unsure. The other is a calming and beautiful presence. Fruhling is the German word for Springtime.
The lead sound is me singing through a plastic kazoo, then a ton of pitch correction and processing was applied in the computer. The other singing is me too, made possible by even more pitch correction and effects. This is the first time I have actually tried to sing in a song. Thanks to technology, no ears are bleeding. I also played the kalimba with drumsticks, recorded a ratchet, and tapped a stainless steel bowl with plastic sticks.
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I had a bunch of samples that just kind of fell together in this song. There's kind of a dadaist element to it, since the main sample is my mom saying "just something, any old thing", responding to me putting a mic in front of her and asking her to say something. This song is proof that you can take anything and make it into music.
Kalimba plays a lead role in the song, as does my box of noisemakers that I recorded indiviaul hits on and then sequenced as sampler instruments. Jingle bells, egg shakers, toy tambourine, and recorder flute.