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When I got home from my 2 hours of work yesterday I didn't feel like making dinner. Probably because it was such a long day :). It always seems that on the days when I don't do much I don't want to do much more. Anyway, I decided I really should make dinner and boy am I glad I did! I decided I wanted to try more with my Wildtree Basil Pesto. Originally I thought we'd just do pasta (quick and easy) but then decided I would try making something a little more exciting instead. We love the pesto pizza at Terra Mia so I thought, why not? Seriously, this pizza rivaled Terra Mia's.
For the recipe I used my Grandma's awesome pizza dough recipe and made up the rest, though it wasn't anything crazy. Although I should warn you that salt in the pizza dough is a crucial ingredient so don't forget to put it in. Fortunately, it still tasted good, just needed a little salt added on top in the end. So, if you want to try your hand ad the best homemade pizza ever here is the recipe!
Pizza Dough
- 1 TBSP yeast
- 1 C warm water
- 2 C flour
- 1 tsp salt (remember to add this :)
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Sprinkle yeast in warm water to dissolve and let it sit for a few minutes. Add the flour and salt. If you don't use a pizza stone you'll need to grease the pan or add some corn meal. I highly recommend using a pizza stone!
The Rest of the Pizza
- 1/3 C Wildtree Basil Pesto
- 1/4 C warm water
- 1/2 C Wildtree Roasted Garlic Grapeseed Oil (or other grapeseed oil of your choice)
- 4 chicken tenders (about 1 lb)
- 1 tsp Wildtree Garlic and Herb Blend
- 1 TBSP Wildtree Natural Butter Flavored Grapeseed Oil
- 2 C Mozzarella cheese (fresh mozz would be awesome!)
- 1/2 C Parmesan cheese
Make the Wildtree Basil Pesto according to package directions (with water and garlic grapeseed oil). In a frying pan add chicken tenders, butter grapeseed oil and the garlic and herb blend. Fry chicken until browned and the juices run clear. Remove chicken from the frying pan and cut into small pieces (you could also shred it). Spread pesto evenly on the pizza dough. Sprinkle the chicken evenly on top of the pizza. Add the mozzarella cheese and then top with the parmesan. If you are using a pizza stone bake for 10 minutes until cheese is just starting to brown. If you are not using a pizza stone you'll need to cook the pizza for 15 minutes, again until the cheese is just starting to brown.
Remove from the oven, wait for it to cool (this will be the hardest part) and then slice and enjoy!
I was thinking of a few ways to make the pizza even better, which would be a little difficult to do… But it would be awesome with pine nuts and fresh tomatoes on top as well. Something to try the next time around! If you want to give this a try and would like to purchase the Wildtree products just let me know!


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GWU Trumpet Summit
The Third Annual Gardner-Webb University (GWU) Trumpet Summit was held January 14-16, 2017.
The event was organized and hosted by Tim Hudson. Guest artists included: Charles Schlueter, former principal trumpet of the Boston Symphony; James Ackley, University of South Carolina; Vince DiMartino, Centre College (Emeritus); Gabriel DiMartino, East Carolina University; Rich Harris, Charlotte Symphony; Tim Hudson, Gardner-Webb University; James Stephenson, Composer.
On Saturday, January 14, the Ol' 74 Jazz Band under the direction of Seth Carson presented a concert featuring soloists Vince and Gabriel DiMartino. On Sunday, January 15, Charles Schlueter, Vince DiMartino, James Ackley, Rich Harris, Gabriel DiMartino, and Tim Hudson all performed in the Distinguished Artist Recital. On Monday, January 16, Jim Stephenson led a discussion in the morning. In the afternoon, master classes focused on audition advice, orchestral playing, commercial playing, and freelancing.
Source: Tim Hudson, Gardner-Webb University
Trumpet Summit trumpet ensemble with James Ackley, Tim Hudson, Michael Brotherton, Adam White, Vince DiMartino, Anthony Lacivita, Gabriel DiMartino, Christina Smith, Rich Harris and Robbie Collins (not in photo)
Charles Schlueter, Vince DiMartino, Gabriel DiMartino, Tim Hudson, Joella Utley


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The U.S. National Numbering Agency, CUSIP Global Services, Partners with CICI Utility to Enhance and Expand Legal Entity Identification
Collaboration will Support New NAIC Reporting Requirements and Issuer Identification
Feb 28, 2013, 11:30 EST
NEW YORK, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of new regulatory reporting requirements, CUSIP Global Services (CGS) announced today that it will collaborate with The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) on the assignment of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Interim Compliant Identifiers (CICIs). This collaboration aims to assist market participants who must have legal entity identifiers (LEIs) to meet new regulatory requirements, increase market efficiencies regarding LEI registration, and aid widespread adoption of LEIs.
Under this new arrangement, CGS will develop an integrated interface with the CICI Utility, offering issuers a streamlined solution to simultaneously apply for both CUSIP numbers and CICIs by using a single interface. This assistance with registration will greatly aid issuers by making the adoption and maintenance of legal entity identifiers (LEIs) a seamless part of the new security issuance workflow. The new platform will also help insurance companies and their counterparty issuers meet newly issued National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) regulations requiring use of LEIs in transaction and position reporting.
The CICI Utility, developed by DTCC in conjunction with SWIFT, is part of a larger global effort to solve a long-standing problem: how to standardize the identification of legal entities that engage in financial transactions, and make entity reference data readily accessible. That global effort is now led by the new Regulatory Oversight Committee established in January 2013, which includes financial regulators from around the world. With respect to the global LEI system that is being launched, the CICI Utility, which provides the identifiers needed for compliance with the world's first regulatory mandate for use of LEIs under CFTC rules, functions as a pre-Local Operating Unit (pre-LOU), and plans to become one LOU within the global LEI system. CICIs will transition into LEIs once the global LEI system is operational.
Collaborative efforts such as this one are consistent with the financial services industry's original vision for leveraging the Association of National Numbering Agencies ("ANNA") as part of a federated LEI system. ANNA's Chairman, Dan Kuhnel, said: "The CGS-DTCC collaboration is an extremely important step forward along the continuum to a successfully managed and globally-accepted LEI. This illustration of cooperation serves as a potential model for how local National Numbering Agencies (NNAs) can contribute their local market expertise, issuer relationships, and federated (ANNA network) connections within the context of the Utility."
As the U.S. National Numbering Agency, CGS has been an advocate for widespread adoption of LEIs (including pre-LEIs such as CICIs). CGS's collaboration with the CICI Utility is in accord with the recommendations concerning a global LEI system made by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) in its report "A Global Legal Entity Identifier for Financial Markets," published on June 8, 2012 and approved by the G-20 Leaders. The FSB Report recognized that "LOUs [local operating units] could build on local business registry or numbering services to maximize the utilization of local infrastructure."
Furthering widespread adoption of the LEI is the goal of the CGS partnership with the CICI Utility. This goal is also recognized in the FSB Report, which states that "The maximum benefits [of the LEI] consequently accrue from eventual implementation across the whole global financial system. To support that ultimate aim, an important objective is consequently to ensure that widespread take up of the system is encouraged."
"Given our role in providing unique identification for instruments, their issuers and obligors, as well as our active role in legal entity standards development, partnering with the CICI Utility at this time makes perfect sense," said Scott Preiss, Vice President of CUSIP Global Services. "We are confident that global market participants will be the beneficiary of this important collaboration."
"We are pleased to join CGS in this endeavor and look forward to providing users with an integrated and efficient approach to assigning CICIs ," said Ron Jordan, DTCC Managing Director and Chief Data Officer.
The CICI Utility and CGS will operate in accordance with the principles set forth by the FSB Implementation Group for the LEI initiative, operating on a cost recovery basis and making the LEIs and associated data publicly available, free of charge and free of restrictions on redistribution. CGS is partnering with the CICI Utility to further its reach as a single pre-LOU (and later, LOU) helping it cover a wide segment of entities that will require LEIs within the community of issuers. Both the CFTC and NAIC have mandated the use of CICI/LEI for use in reporting transactions/positions by their respective markets.
About CUSIP Global Services
For 40 years CUSIP Global Services has provided a unique common language for identifying financial instruments across institutions, exchanges and nations, enabling financial services firms to benefit from improved operating efficiencies and substantially reduced administrative costs. CUSIP Global Services is operated by the CUSIP Service Bureau (CSB). CSB is managed on behalf of the American Bankers Association by S&P Capital IQ. For more information, visit www.cusip.com.
About CICI Utility
DTCC and SWIFT jointly operate the CICI Utility, designated by the CFTC as the source of CICIs. Almost 50,000 CICIs have been issued and, under CFTC rules, all swap counterparties subject to CFTC jurisdiction must have self-registered or self-certified CICIs by April 10, 2013. For more information, visit: www.CICIUtility.org or email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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It doesn't matter which side you agree with or who is really to blame for the News Corp.-Cablevision kerfuffle—FOX's parent company needs to give in and get their channel back on three million tri-state television as soon as possible.
They may look weak by backing down and it does no one any favors to make Cablevision head James Dolan look like a hero, but if the World Series isn't on TV at 7:50 ET tonight, there's going to be a lot of angry customers—and they're going to be angry at FOX.
Why? Because when they tune into their favorite shows, viewers get a steady stream of Cablevision propaganda, making a pretty convincing case for FOX being greedy, stubborn, mean, and evil. What they aren't seeing is FOX's ham-fisted internet response.
FOX has already lost the PR war. No one wants to hear about billionaires fighting over money. They want to watch baseball and News Corp. is clearly withholding it on purpose.
So why not put the World Series back on while you continue negotiations? The network immediately become the magnanimous hero, sports fans are happy, and everyone goes back to hating the cable company like they always do.
Otherwise fans learn to love baseball without FOX and Joe Buck's voice droning over it. That won't take long.


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If you click on any N1/L1.7 hyperlink you will find a list of ALL resources that cover that element. You will also notice that, at the top of the list, it says:
N1/L1.7 Work out simple ratio and direct proportion. (a) understand simple ratio as the number of parts i.e. three parts to one part (b) understand direct proportion as the same rate of increase or decrease, e.g. double, half c) understand the relationship between simple ratio and fractions.
Full details of all the adult curricula can be found on the Excellence Gateway
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It is important to recognise that the C&R statements are only an indication of the type of content candidates are expected to apply in functional contexts. Relevant content can also be drawn from equivalent (school) National Curriculum levels and the Adult Numeracy / Literacy curricula.
For this reason we do not categorise FS resources by individual C&R statements but by broad categories such as: Functional Maths – measures, Functional Maths – data handling, Functional English – writing, Functional ICT – Finding and selecting Information, etc.
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Having supported and promoted urban music for over 20 years, MOBO and its many associates are best placed to help, advise and support talent on your journey as an artist, producer or even manager.
As with any journey, it must start somewhere and MOBO Connect and UnSung are the perfect platforms to help you get you on your way. Once your musical journey has started, MOBO will continue to offer opportunities and support as your career develops. The Connect will further evolve into an online one-stop-shop with all the advice, support and opportunities that will help you along with your career, working with expert industry bodies and the best operators in the business today.
Hand selected by the MOBO Team, this playlist is all about putting emerging talent on the map and on the publics radar. This playlist is the chance to connect with the freshest tracks out and to become familiar with the newcomers who are set to take over the blogosphere in 2017. Send us your tracks via firstname.lastname@example.com or Twitter. Regardless of how you get it to us, we'll listen to it and if we love it, it'll end up on the playlist which we will be pushing. All artists featured on 'The Connect' are also automatically entered into the nominations for our annual MOBO UnSung competition, the next stop on your road to success.
MOBO UnSung is one of the country's strongest annual talent competitions for unsigned artists producing original work. A nationwide search culminates in 10 finalists, with the top 3 receiving grants towards their work, as well as a year-long artist development program of industry and production workshops facilitated by MOBO. Of acknowledged value to the major labels, we are beyond proud that so many UnSung artists have gone on to sign deals with labels and publishers (Jacob Banks, Mulally), tour with global stars including Justin Bieber (MicLowry), put out major releases (Juls – 2.9m plays, Geovarn, Tiana Major, Esco Williams who then went on to discover and manage 2014 winners MicLowry) and even gone on to win their own MOBO Awards (Nadia Rose). UnSung is supported by the PRS Foundation.MORE
MOBO has partnered with YouTube's BIGGEST football channel COPA 90 to provide artists with the opportunity for their music to be considered for placement in COPA 90 videos. On an ongoing basis, we are making selections from 'The Connect' entries and pass these onto the Copa 90 team. The first few tracks have already been played, giving some great exposure to fresh talent.
MOBO is teaming up with a carefully-selected music organisation that has the capabilities and the experience to offer emerging talent management support that can further assist with publishing, mentoring and studio time, amongst other opportunities. With no obligations either way, MOBO will introduce new talent from our 'Connect' playlist, as well as the top 20 MOBO UnSung finalists, to them. If of interest, MOBO will make the Connect-ion.
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Hi, Should the <blockcode> element's content model be changed from: <!ELEMENT blockcode (PCDATA | Inline | Heading | Block | List)*> to something more like: 1. <!ELEMENT blockcode (l)*> OR 2. <!ELEMENT blockcode (PCDATA | l)*> These could be written, respectively,as: 1. <blockcode> <l>public static void main(String[] args) {</l> <l> System.out.println("Hello World"); // Output Hello World!</l> <l>}</l> </blockcode> OR: 2. <blockcode> public static void main(String[] args) { <l> System.out.println("Hello World");</l> } </blockcode> For version 2, IMHO, it is not logical for some lines of code to have the <l> and other's to not. Version 1, IMO, represents more semantically what program code is -- many lines, making up a code block. Also, with the existing content model, it is possible to include virtually any element (all?) like <h>,
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 to something similar to the <blockcode> example (1) above instead. The current example is an example of an author defining their own semantics with the class attribute, rather than using existing elements. The <l> Element What if an author wrote the following? (I'm quite sure this example would be valid, correct me if I'm wrong)
This is a paragraph with a <l></l> line break in the middle.
 or used the compact version: <l/>? This (poor) use, obviously, has no more structure than the
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Hi Chris, two questions here. I really like the look of and research/testing that has gone into the FLO 30 wheels. Good job in your openness and sharing of data.
I'm curious to know though, did you compare the shape to other aero profiles in the 30-40mm range? It's nice to have a comparison to a benchmark (Mavic Open Pro in your case) but because that's a very square section, it doesn't tell me how these wheel compare to other similarly deep rims with different shapes (classic V's etc). As this is my current starting point, it makes no sense to compare to a different (worse) benchmark.
Obviously I don't expect you to go back to the wind tunnel and test everyone else's wheels, but you've clearly done some CFD work to arrive at the final shape; from your blog: "We tested a number of profiles in CFD to find the shape we were looking for."
How much variation did you find in the different design iterations?
Second Q is: what would be the shipping cost of a set of FLO 30 wheels to Australia (3125) ?
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On the Creative use of Score Following and its Impact on Research
Publication Type:Conference Paper
Source:SMC Conference 2011 (2011)
Score following research is one of the active disciplines of sound and music computing since almost 30 years that have haunted both algorithmic and computational development in realtime music information retrieval, as well as artistic applications in interactive computer music. This paper explores the creative use of such technologies and brings attention to new scientific paradigms that emerge out of their artistic use. We show how scientific and artistic goals of score following systems might differ and how the second, continuously helps re-think the first. We focus mostly on the musical goals of score following technologies which brings us to an underestimated field of research, despite its obviousness in creative applications, which is that of synchronous reactive programming and its realization in Antescofo.


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The hackers apparently gained access through an outdated Wordpress CMS. Ehackingnews posted an admin panel screenshot provided by the hackers that shows a Wordpress version of 3.2.1.
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Knowledge truly is power. And for thousands of women in Pennsylvania, knowledge can be life-saving. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at a late-stage because dense breast tissue was masking the tumor on my mammogram.
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The Ubuntu-Women group will be having a meetup in IRC in #Ubuntu-Women on irc.freenode.net on Thursday January 11, 2007 and into Friday the 12th.
Two specific times set aside to try to accommodate different timezones and be a starting point:
- 15:00 UTC (3 PM London) Group 1
- 03:00 UTC, Friday, 12 January 2007 (3 AM London)
Check out timeanddate.com to find your local time
Proposed topics:
- Introductions/Interests
- What is out there already/Where to find resources
- HCI Group
- Education Group
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Please see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWomenIRCMeetup for more information.
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I was running chkdsc manually on my internal drives today, and everything seems fine, except for one drive: My "D" drive, which is a partition of my main disc, along with "C". For C, I had to have it schedule the disc check as usual. All other drives dismount and check fine, then remount. For D, it dismounts, and starts to run dskchk, but then about half-way through, the chkdsk window disappears and the drive just remounts again. I've tried it several times and each time it's the same result. That's my only partitioned drive. All other drives and the main "C" partition all check out fine. Any idea why chkdsk is quitting on me like this?
I checked the event viewer and under the chkdsc log, it says:
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
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File verification completed.
16 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
An unspecified error occurred (696e647863686b2e e19).
That's where it quits and the window disappears. Is there any way for me to scedule a check at the next restart and see if it completes like that? It doesn't give me the option to schedule unless I'm checking my "C" partition because it's in use by Windows.
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Today Microsoft has announced the final release of their new Visual Studio 2015 developer software which has been available in a preview program since last November.
Over the course of the last 9 months the software has gone through several preview builds and according to the team it has benefited from the largest amount of feedback they have ever received.
Before we go any further about the Visual Studio 2015 update there is one cautionary note from Microsoft if you are actively developing Universal Windows Platform apps.
"The tools for Windows 10 (the SDK and the tools for Universal Windows app development) will be available on July 29th when Windows 10 is also available. To keep developing Universal Windows apps before the 29th, please keep using the Visual Studio 2015 RC release and don't install Visual Studio 2015 RTM – it will remove the RC tools."
There is an extensive (read 1,500 words) summary over at the Visual Studio Blog that provides all the improvements that have been made to VS 2015 since development began last fall.
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Facebook has begun rolling out its new user homepage that it says is "designed to make it even easier for users to create content and receive real-time updates from the people and connections they have on Facebook".
In addition, the social networking site claims the new design gives users more control over who and what they see in their stream by offering new filters.
The new "Publisher" feature lets people create a message, attach additional media and share it with all of their friends via their profile and through news feeds.
Facebook's news feed has been tweaked (said to be in a bid to compete with Twitter) and is now a stream of everything that is being shared by a user's friends, with the aim of making it easier for people to comment in real-time.
There's also a redesigned "Highlights" section that shows users the "most important activity" over a longer period of time.
The new user homepage is being rolled out to users from today with all Facebookers due to get the update within the "coming days".


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John Steinbeck Quotes About KindnessQuotes about: Kindness
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn't know you had.
I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one. . . . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil. . . . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?
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Viral Media Marketing: A Quick Introduction for the Entrepreneur
Almost all of us remember hearing Alec Baldwin yelling at his daughter through a recorded cell phone message, recall Janet Jackson's Super Bowl clothing malfunction, and recall the shocking images from Abu Ghraib. Some media is literally so compelling that it flies from person to person around the world in a matter of days.
Occasionally someone with a commercial venture manages to come up with content that is almost that compelling. Recently Irish Spring ran an outrageous set of commercials which got them hundreds of millions of impressions they could never have paid for on Youtube and millions of links on social media sites they couldn't have bought. Lady Gaga's Bad Romance video on Youtube, which contains more than a dozen product placements, has had more than 465 million viewings and that is on just a single iteration of a video that has been widely pirated worldwide carrying the brands in it along for the ride.
There's a misimpression that because things go viral by accident, going viral is always accidental. The truth is that you can learn how to create viral content quickly, reliably and cost effectively if you understand the mechanics behind the phenomena.
How far the content will travel, and what benefit you may derive from it, has everything to do with you, your product or service, and the nature of the people you most want to reach. But the principles of viral marketing with media are easy to master.
In this article we review what viral media is, how to create it, and how it can best serve your business marketing objectives.
What is Viral Media?
In order to create viral media, you must first understand how it differs from the kind of content we see every day.
We are all exposed to thousands of headlines, slogans, images, recorded sounds and videos every day. Often we ignore this input and we are particularly adept at ignoring messages we perceive to have a commercial payload. There's only so much time any of us want to spend being sold to. Several specific characteristics set viral media apart.
Viral media is content that has a very high rate of transfer. People see it, or hear it, and immediately want to share it with others. Sometimes the content is shocking, sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is heartwarming, but it always triggers a very strong emotional response. More often than not the response is a positive one. This is particularly true for viral media made for commercial purposes. From a product or service marketing standpoint, "going negative" with the viral media you create is not usually a great idea because it associates your product or your company with strong negative emotions. These emotions are not usually conducive to increased sales.
Viral media is free and easy to transfer. These days the content that goes viral most quickly are links to videos on Youtube or links to content people can download from you website. Emails can be viral, and in the past they've been a very effective channel for viral media marketing, but these days SPAM filters often sense when the same message has been sent millions of times and they begin to block it. This is because, in the past, such messages have been the product of computer viruses trying to self-propagate.
Viral media often incorporates "high value" elements that people frequently search for online. A movie star, a celebrity musician, a politician, a well known event or location, a current fad, a song that everyone knows, a story everyone remembers, are all elements can make media interesting and relevant to large number of consumers. These same elements make the content interesting to writers, editors, radio talk show hosts and TV news producers. Very high value viral media can use mass media as a channel to reach people who never go online.
Now that you know what viral media is, you can see that it should be possible to intentionally create content which meets all these requirements. To make the content promote your product or service effectively you must add the additional requirement that the elements in it target the market you want to reach and communicate your brand message efficiently.
Designing Viral Media for Marketing Purposes
It is not an accident that the first Shrek used songs from the 80's and 90's. That's the age group of parents who had children going to see animated features at the time. It is also not an accident that Walt Disney's first film was Sleeping Beauty. It was a very popular and well known fairy tale and it was a high value story Disney could tell without having to license rights from anyone first. Making a film about Iron Man means you'll get millions of fans coming to the theater as a guaranteed audience, and with a good film you'll find you can get millions more.
If you think like a movie producer, you'll find creating viral media easier. You may not have thousands to spend on hiring a writer, acquiring actors or licensing songs but you can still create viral media that effectively connects your company to your target market without making you pay for every single click you get.
To do this, open the Google External Keyword Search tool and enter in the keywords most relevant to your product. You'll see the words and phrases that millions of people search for every month. These can serve as high value elements in your media.
Why are they high value? Because people search for them. That means people are looking for content that specifically addresses these topics and that is something you can provide.
Incorporating those keywords into the title of a talking head video or a PDF ebook means that members of your target market who see the content will find it interesting enough to open. If the content inside is emotionally compelling because it is incredibly helpful, shocking, funny or heartwarming it will be forwarded from person to person.
If the content cleverly also carries your brand message and your company's URL, you'll get people who follow the link back to your site to learn more about you.
Think this doesn't work?
Blendtec blenders got hundreds of millions of hits by destroying an iPhone. It was a shockingly effective demonstration that their professional blenders really can grind up anything. Since then the Will It Blend? viral media series has destroyed hundreds of things.
Initial Deployment of Viral Media Marketing Content
Once you've created your viral media and carefully tested it to ensure that sending it to one person in your target market results in an immediate transfer to others, you are ready to deploy it on a larger scale.
Ideally your initial release can be via email to your current customers and those who have signed up for your newsletter. Posting it on your website, making it available on Facebook and promoting it with some frequency on Twitter are also good strategies.
If you do not have a significant database of people to start with, you may want to promote your media with ads on Google, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter just to get the ball rolling. These tools make it easy for you to target the people who are most likely to enjoy the media and those who are most likely to purchase your product if they visit your site.
Creating viral media content doesn't mean you never have to advertise. It just means that you pay far less for the promotion you get.
Viral Media Marketing is an Art, but it isn't Rocket Science
It takes a bit of trial and error to figure out how to make viral media work really well for your business. What is viral in one market won't be with another, and content that transfers easily may not gather the kind of customers you want. Still, learning how to create this media can dramatically reduce your marketing expenditures over time and it can create a new relationship between your business and those you serve.


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Dozens Of People Dead And Injured After Plane Crashes Near Tehran
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined.
Iranian state media broke the news that dozens of people had been killed after a small passenger jet crashed near Tehran.
The IRNA reported: "The plane, belonging to Taban Airlines, crashed when its engine was reportedly shut down shortly after taking off from International Mehrabad Airport at 9:45 hours local time (0515 GMT) on Sunday. The plane crashed near the Azadi residential area in northwest of Tehran."
Forty-eight people were initially believed to have died, but Iran's Deputy Minister of Transportation Ahmad Majidi said the number was slightly lower.
The Associated Press reported: "An Iranian transportation official says 39 people were killed and nine wounded when a regional passenger plane crashed Sunday while taking off from the capital, Tehran.
Deputy Minister of Transportation Ahmad Majidi provided the latest casualty figures in an appearance on state TV. The channel had earlier reported that all 48 people onboard had died."
These pictures purport to be from the scene of the crash.
There are reports that a number of children have lost their lives.
The cause of the crash has not yet been determined.
According to the New York Times, "Iranian state television reported that the plane was an Iran-141 flown by Taban Air flight. IRNA said it was flown by Sepahan Air. The conflicting information could not be immediately reconciled."
There have been a number of crashes involving Iranian flights in recent years.
The BBC reported: "Iran has suffered a series of plane crashes, blamed on its ageing aircraft and poor maintenance record. Iran is still flying planes bought before the Islamic Revolution in 1979. International trade sanctions were imposed after the hostage crisis which followed, during which 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran for 444 days."
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Editor's Note: This post was made in 2017. Please note that drone laws are rapidly changing and may be different today vs. when this post was written.
Next up in our "Ask Drone Girl" series is about finding where you can legally fly your drone — specifically in San Francisco. If you have a question for Drone Girl, contact her here.
I'm going to San Francisco for a wedding at the end of May. I wanted to bring my drone and capture some shots of such a beautiful city. However, it seems like just about everything is restricted. Can you recommend some good safe places to fly out there? I'd hate to bring it all the way out there just to find out I can't fly it anywhere.
Hey Dan,
Welcome in advance to San Francisco, and I'm thrilled to hear you want to take pictures of the beautiful city that I live in.
You are right — a LOT of places that our totally incredible also fall in restricted airspace. Most of the beach area on the western side of the city is part of a National Park, as well as the Presidio and Alcatraz. Then, you've got the airport down in the southern part of the city which prevents you from flying, as well as Oakland airport on the opposite side of the bay should you want to fly there.
First, keep in mind there are differences in the rules based on whether you are a hobby pilot (perhaps you are just racing with friends or taking pictures for fun) vs. a commercial pilot (maybe you are using your drone to film a movie or gather data).
Recreational pilots operate under guidelines in which they acknowledge they will stay below 400 feet, stay away from manned aircraft, and stay 25 feet away from people. Rules for commercial pilots are stricter, including agreements to fly only during daylight. Please check the Know Before You Fly website before flying anywhere.
Now onto San Francisco specific tips…
My first piece of advice is to check the Know Before You Fly website's airspace map, which can tell you whether or not the place you are flying in is restricted airspace. Simply plug in the coordinates of where you are flying, and check the box for either hobbyist or commercial flight as well as the other boxes such as National Parks, and it will let you know if you're in the clear or not.
So of the places that are legal to fly over, what are some of the best spots? I would highly recommend Golden Gate Park. There are some really cool spots there — the Japanese Tea Garden, the carousel, and the promenade between the Cal Academy and the DeYoung museum are all awesome. I also tested out my Mavic in front of the Conservatory of Flowers and got some epic aerials of the flowers in front!
Took this shot over the Tea Garden in Golden Gate Park using a @djiglobal Phantom 4! #dronegirl #dji #phantom4 #p4 #dronestagram #dronesaregood #dronesarefun #dronesarecool #quadcopter #goldengatepark #bayarea #bayareaphotographer #sanfrancisco #sanfranciscoart #sanfranciscophotographer #aerial #aerialphotography
I also love Treasure Island. It's extremely sparsely populated, making it a safe spot to fly, while getting a great view of the city's downtown area. And there are some awesome wineries there to visit — after you drone of course.
Besides that, there are great, iconic spots in the city — City Hall, Coit Tower and the Ferry Building. While you can fly there, be wary of GPS (buildings may affect your drone's ability to hold its position) and flying over people — you're in a city of course.
Just some test footage I shot on the @yuneecapv #TyphoonH at one of my favorite places in San Francisco, The Ferry Building! Video unedited and unretouched to show video directly from camera. See a review of the Typhoon on my blog TheDroneGirl.com . . . . . #sanfrancisco #ferrybuilding #bluesky #sf #explore #baybridge #drone #dronesaregood #dronesetc #dronestagram #dronegirl #ameliadronehart #howsfseessf
For your inspiration, here are some great examples of images from my friend and one of San Francisco's best drone photographers, Kara Murphy:
One day, I'll stop trying to make you feel discombobulated with my photography. Until then, another perspective of #coittower. Today, @drone_360 named my account, along with @eric.t.ringer, @simeonpratt, @ottocarlin, @karimiliya, @wrenees, @charlesmostoller, @issabellen, @unoalto, and @airloft in their 10 IG Accounts for Awesome Drone Photos. I threw the link up in my profile, check it out.
San Franciscans, where would you recommend Dan fly? Leave your ideas in the comments below!


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Ms Bailey, who was applauded for securing Guardian Media Group's regional newspaper business for just £7.4m in cash, collected a £671,000 bonus on top of her £736,000 basic pay. The maximum bonus she could have received was £825,000. All Trinity Mirror staff got the same percentage of their maximum bonus.
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In 2008, Ms Bailey collected £757,000, when no bonuses were paid.
The bumper pay packet comes after Trinity Mirror swung back into the black in 2009 with pre-tax profits of £42m, compared to a £73.5m loss in 2008. Ms Bailey has declared the end of job losses at the company, which cut 1,700 staff in 2009.
Earlier this year, Lorna Tilbian, analyst at Numis, called Trinity Mirror's purchase of GMG's regional newspapers, including the Manchester Evening News, the "deal of the decade".
Trinity Mirror shares, which almost tripled over 2009, closed up 3.3p to 162.7p.
Meanwhile, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of Newscorp, continued his attack on Google. Mr Murdoch said newspaper publishers should prevent search engines from displaying full articles for free. "It's produced a river of gold, but those words are being taken mostly from the newspapers," he said in Washington yesterday.


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Gov. Nathan Deal on Thursday signed legislation stipulating how the state will intervene in school districts with the lowest-performing schools.
House Bill 338, entitled The First Priority Act, allows a state officer to intervene in schools in the bottom 5 percent if they are in districts that have amended their flexibility contracts to allow it. Options include the takeover of these schools by nonprofit managers.
Deal also signed several other bills during the ceremony at the Capitol, including one penalizing so-called "sanctuary" campuses and another that is expected to drive more money to charter schools.


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Wow, it has been two months since the last post. Many things had happened around me.
- Alhamdulillah, I had successfully graduated!
- I am in Malaysia now. Bye USA. Till we meet again.
- President Morsi was removed from the office of president.
- Ramadhan is here. May this Ramadhan be better than last Ramadhan inshaaAllah.
Just to make it short, friends, lets increase our ibadah during this month of barakah, Ramadhan. Make Ramadhan as a starting point to be a better person.
Also, lets pray for our brothers and sisters in Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Hope things will get better. Hope the truth will be stand out. Hope Allah will help everyone of us, inshaaAllah.
LBNL, happy Ramadhan Kareem. Wassalam.


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The Easy, Super-'90s Way I Keep Grown-Out Bangs out of My Face
Bangs, fringe, breakage — whatever you call it, it'll fit in some butterfly clips.
I think I like Pinterest. I don't know. As with most social networks, I'm pretty sure I'm using it wrong. I've been on Tumblr for four years and I still don't think I'm using it right. Twitter is lost on me; I mainly use it to air my grievances about food. But Pinterest is fun, I guess. I only ever use it to look at makeup tips and recipes with pumpkin in them.
But every once in a while in the Hair & Beauty section, there are pins that simply seem too good to be true. For example: spraying brown sugar on your hair to straighten it.
There are a bunch of different versions of this pin floating around, but they all have a picture of some girl with pin-straight hair and the same recipe.
I personally like my natural texture, but sometimes I want it to be straight, without having to deal with the damage/effort required by using a flat iron. This pin would be super-handy if it worked.
I don't think this is going to work. The only reason I could think this might work is it might make the hair sticky and sort of moldable so it stays straight after drying. I'm concerned this stuff is going to feel gross in my hair.
I washed my hair, which was hard for me because I rarely wash it and it looked really good that day. I then combed out any tangles. Then I put two tablespoons of brown sugar with a cup of water and poured it into a spray bottle. The spray smelled like cookies, which was pleasant. I sprayed it in my hair until it was dripping and then combed through and let it air dry.
Yeah, it didn't work. I don't know why anyone thought it would. My hair was just as curly as it always is when I let it air dry. Bummer.
There are a few options that do work to get your hair straight. Obviously you could use a blowdryer or a flat iron. If you don't want to do that, you could get a straightening treatment at a salon. If neither of those float your boat, your options are pretty limited. There aren't any magical products out that that you can put in your hair when it's wet that will leave it perfectly straight when you wake up.
However, Bumble and bumble's Curl Conscious Calming Creme is the closest I've found to a product that matches that description. I use it in my hair after I shower and it takes a considerable amount of curl out of my hair, leaving me with looser waves. The more you use, the straighter your hair will be (within reason). It's a good substitute while we wait for that magic product (get on it scientists!).
Are there any other pins you'd like to see proven or disproven?


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Thursday Tip of the Week
I thought I would start a "tip of the week" post. Sometimes it will be about crafts, sometimes about business, sometimes about photography; whatever little hints and life hacks I've picked up to make things easier or just to make you say aha.
Today's tip is about G crochet hooks. It turns out there are THREE sizes when it comes to G hooks. I just realized that myself a couple of years ago.
There is 4.0 mm
There is 4.25 mm
And there is 4.5 mm
When your working a pattern that calls for a G hook, if you use the wrong one it can make a big difference in the size of your item as these three swatches show. The top one is made with the 4.0mm, the middle with the 4.25mm and the bottom with the 4.5. As you can see in the second picture there is a Big difference between the smallest and largest G hook.


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Rains add twist to National Racing ChampionshipNovember 25th, 2011 - 5:29 pm ICT by IANS
Chennai, Nov 25 (IANS) The northeast monsoon, after a dormant period, has become active again and the rains will add a twist to the sixth and concluding round of the 14th JK Tyre National Racing Championship to be held here over the weekend. Due to water-logging of the back sweep, the races will be run on the 2.1 km short loop.
With the titles up for grabs in all the three classes - the LGB Formula Swift, Super Saloon, and the Indian Junior Touring Cars - there is every promise of some exciting wheel-to-wheel racing with the expected wet going adding spice to the proceedings.
In the Formula LGB Swift class, just five points separated Mars Racing team-mates Deepak Ravikumar and Ameya Walawalkar who has won five of the 10 races so far, but a couple of exclusions due to technical infringements cost the Mumbai veteran precious points.
Coimbatore's Vijaykumar Rajvirdhan (Prime Racing) need only to finish among points in the two races to clinch the Super Saloon class title as he leads veteran Narayanaswamy Leelakrishnan (RAD Racing) by 48 points with a maximum of 50 available this weekend.
Leelakrishnan has authored a fairytale script after sitting out the first round and then posting a series of podium finishes before achieving a double win in the previous round to put himself in contention for the title. He has the experience to pull off another double, but his title chances depend on Rajvirdhan not scoring more than one point.
Meanwhile, in the IJTC class, it is a straight fight between Diljit Shaji (LCT Sigaram Sports) and B. Bala Vijay (Moto Rev India). Shaji enjoys a 41-point lead and needs to be in the points to ensure he wins the championship.
In the single-make Polo R Cup series that is run concurrently, Chennai lad Vishnu Prasad has a five-point lead over Mumbai's Rahil Noorani with Oshan Kothadiya (Pune) and Avdumber Hede (Goa) very much in the running for the title.
- Ameya, Vishnu annex titles in JK Tyre National Racing - Nov 27, 2011
- Close contests on cards in JK Tyre National Racing - Oct 14, 2011
- Leelakrishan completes a double in JK Tyre National Racing - Oct 16, 2011
- Veterans rule the roost at JK Races - Aug 21, 2011
- Full grid of Swift unlikely in National Championship - Jul 27, 2012
- Rajvirdhan, Diljith claim titles in National Racing - Nov 26, 2011
- Double for Rajvirudhan, Feroz Khan in JK Tyre National Racing - Sep 18, 2011
- Close battles likely in JK Races - Sep 16, 2011
- Tough fight for front-runners in JK Tyre National Racing - Aug 19, 2011
- Hat-trick of wins for Walavalkar - Aug 20, 2011
- Maiden win for Feroz Khan in JK Tyre National Racing - Sep 17, 2011
- Double for Ameya, Diljith in JK Tyre National Racing - Jul 17, 2011
- First win for Leelakrishnan in JK Tyre National Racing - Oct 15, 2011
- JK Tyre National Racing: Bala, Prakash, Ameya post wins - Jul 16, 2011
- Front-runners might have it tough in JK Tyre National Racing - Jul 15, 2011
Tags: ameya, bala, dormant period, five points, hede, jk tyre, noorani, northeast monsoon, oshan, prasad, precious points, pune, rahil, ravikumar, shaji, team mates, title chances, touring cars, vijaykumar, water logging


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Variable Neighborhood Search
Pierre Hansen, Nenad Mladenović, Jack Brimberg et José A. Moreno Pérez
Variable neighborhood search (VNS) is a metaheuristic for solving combinatorial and global optimization problems whose basic idea is a systematic change of neighborhood both within a descent phase to find a local optimum and in a perturbation phase to get out of the corresponding valley. In this chapter we present the basic schemes of VNS and some of its extensions. We then describe a recent development, i.e., formulation space search. We then present five families of applications in which VNS has proven to be very successful: (i) exact solution of large scale location problems by primal-dual VNS; (ii) generation of feasible solutions to large mixed integer linear programs, by hybridization of VNS and local branching; (iii) generation of good feasible solutions to continuous nonlinear programs; (iv) generation of feasible solutions and/or improved local optima for mixed integer nonlinear programs by hybridization of sequential quadratic programming and branch and bound within a VNS framework, and (v) exploration of graph theory to find conjectures, refutations and proofs or ideas of proofs.
Paru en septembre 2009 , 26 pages


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Published: 2006/07/20
by Chad Berndtson
The first time I reviewed an NBFB show for this site, I was quick to point out the 'unflappable, unruffled ease of it all.' From the audience perspective, that's still the case; the commanding 'space funk' quintet from Amherst, Massachusetts has only built upon that intangible sense of guile and excitement.
It's a balance, really, between staying out of coldly clinical, technique-driven jamming, and also keeping clear of unfocused, visceral flights that are amorphous and too heavy on slop. It's also being true to influences—Maceo Parker, Soulive, Led Zeppelin, and vintage hip-hop being most prevalent—while fashioning a comfortable sense of groove that's too professionally realized to qualify as genuflection. A supple groove is a product of chemistry, and to have found that long before they've finished tightening their identity was NBFB's first victory.
The group's had an interesting go of it. Since forming in 1998 and springing up in 2000 in the Amherst/U-Mass area, NBFB has weathered more than its share of lineup changes and creative starts and stops.
The initials stand for 'No Bud for Bisson,' an in-joke that means exactly what you think it means and refers to the band's original drummer, Dave Bisson. Bisson was one of two key members to depart in recent years—the other was keyboardist Darby Wolf—but the band's current lineup has solidified: guitarist Ron Peleg, drummer Noah Bond, bassist Dan Rehm, keyboardist Sam Gilman and saxophonist/vocalist Bob Moriarty, with a few other occasional members, associates, and guests.
In the early years, they snagged headlining gigs where they could find them. Later came the festival invitations, the coveted opening slots, the residencies, the local TV spots, and the opportunity to play in some of the Northeast's more hallowed halls. ''NiBFiB Confidential'' (Naked Ear), their third full-length release, pushed the envelope ever further in 2005.
We recently sat down with Peleg—an accomplished local promoter as well as a musician—for a rundown on the band, the scene, getting the word out, and why 2006 is primed to be a banner year for NBFB. There's lots more information available on the band's Web site and its MySpace page.
*NBFB is a band right at the tipping point, in that you've broken out beyond friends, family, and show regulars. You have a healthily growing fanbase, but are not yet a surefire draw for clubs that aren't local. A lot of bands approach this threshold and wonder what the next move is. How do you guys discuss that? What comes at this point in a band's life? *
We talk about the music. Since our schedule is not as intensive as it used to be, we maintain a 20-song rotation and try to keep it tight. Our jams get more creative and expansive in rehearsals. We feel each other out and that helps us onstage.
We hope within a year to make it a real day job, and to do that, we need to be playing on the best stages with a lot of people. As clichs it sounds, we truly believe that we make a unique combination of our influences, and put kind of a new spin on them. Either way, we're starting to get in front of the right crowds and get dirty.
What have you found are the most effective promotional methods?
Well, you have to get yourself into the position to play that right show: either open for that right band or get that right gig. You have to know ahead of time that you're putting out a product that's irresistible. It takes money, too, an investment, and you have to be able to afford to get the word out there.
You need an Internet presence and you need a lot of promotional materials, which aren't cheap, and people willing to do the work for you. The street team is key; most bands like us can't yet make the band their full time priority. Those people have to be folks that actually dig your music. Any time you think you've done enough promotion, you can always do more.
Then, it's getting the right booking agent. If you can find someone who's got some degree of power and a great interest in the band—i.e. a true belief in your music—they can use their resources much more effectively than you can. It's nice to think you can do it all by yourself, but a seasoned professional really makes the difference early on.
Then, the Internet forums. Anywhere where you can get people together to talk about the band—MySpace, the Terrapin boards, the Rhombus. Anywhere where there's a plethora of people you want to reach out to—it's important to be on those people's lips.
What about offering music? Obviously the taper culture has its uses. Where do you stand on giving away your music online?
Giving music away for free can have its limitations, but it can be infinitely positive. In this day and age of Internet and downloading music, I think kids understand that if they like the shit, they're going to buy it. You're enticing them enough to go to your show, and they're going to want everything you have. If it takes a couple of free discs to get them to the live delivery stage, then that's the most effective way. If you can't do it live, you can't really do it. *If there's another major question mark, it's how often and where to tour. Some musicians are 'flood the zone' types: play the local bars every night they can. Others prefer to play less locally and focus more on cultivating fanbases in a variety of places simultaneously, the rationale there being that if you play an area too often, you'll breed over familiarity and the idea that not every show is a must-see. *
In general, I feel like both sides are pretty true. It's a question of how long you're willing to not make money. As bad as that sounds, you could be from New York, and you're making $400 a gig once per week and you're not really paying your band's rent but you could be playing in front of Maceo Parker's band at Irving Plaza every time.
But if that doesn't allow you to take your act down to the Bowery Ballroom a few months later and do it yourself as a headliner, you're not really breaking in. If you don't have a good, constant replay strategy, it turns quickly into you just being 'well, whatever' and you'll take any gig that'll pay your cell phone bill.
A lot of bands go through that, and you have to make sure every person in the band is committed to taking the plunge. My idea? Get in the van with a bunch of PB&J and white bread and do it all the time. Cities are hard, but they're the right places. In the Northeast, of course, it's New York, Philadelphia, and Boston. Boston is definitely one of the toughest markets to please, so that's been a good experience for us. And NYC, there's so much and so many possibilities. You never know who'll be in the crowd.
At what point do you think the members of NBFB began to make the band a serious priority?
It was after our first show at the Iron Horse [Music Hall in Northampton] in 2001. I never felt anything like that—a feeling of great satisfaction of having a lot of people come and see us play our music. The place was packed, it was our first show ever in an actual venue, and we all agreed, yes, we wanted that again. So we starting pitching to agents and some did some work with us and we started getting gigs.
How do you think you core sound has evolved over the years?
We used to be really kind of hot-jazz funky for a long time, and then we went the darker route, with harder funk and rock. I like all of it, I like the versatility. If our repertoire continues to expand, we fit on a lot of different bills.
In rehearsals, it's still all of us coming together with our little ideas. We all listen to the same types of music, so we have that same kind of unspoken musical goal. Stuff started to differ among us, but we made it work—that can kill some bands—because we all still knew what we wanted to hear.
The newer stuff is composed the same way as it always has. Somehow we'll develop a riff and jam it out, push its directions. New songs, though, are much more rock, a more succinct ideology.
What do you think pushed you in those directions?
I think it happened through trial and error musically, and we've also evolved as human beings, especially in how we think. We outgrew noodling and self-righteous jamming—believe me, we used to just love vamping for 17 minutes, but you have to draw the line, and not all bands consciously make that effort.
If a band is talented enough, they do consciously make that effort to [pare it down], but they can still maintain sick jamming capabilities. With us, we just made the change because, well, people get bored. You're not going to sell yourselves on a 17-minute techno jam for people in Bar Harbor [Maine]. *How did you arrive at the current instrumentation? Why five, for example, and not, say, eight? No horns? No second guitar? Not that any of that is odd or necessary, I just wonder often how bands settle their numbers. *
Well, it's not eight because of logistics, and our music doesn't call for a horn section. The time it would take to meld two guitarists—it'd have to be two leads—would be a bit much. We originally didn't have keys, and the inception was two guitars, bass, drums, vocals and sax. We got rid of the second guitarist and then it was just the five of us pretty much by default. *You're entrenched in a scene known for its guitar superstars. Do you ever feel pressured to be The Guitarist? The absolute, knock-down shredder? How has your own role in the band changed, if at all? *
Well, I know that I'm not what they are. I may be the lead guitarist but my role is different—I've become less the soloist and more a texture member. It's not always a lead, for any of us, and we're all kind of pushing each other along in the songs. I guess there's a little bit of pressure, sure, but I feel like I have way more of a responsibility to make the sound full. I can't stand the way a band sounds sparse when a guitarist is all about his solo time and not contributing otherwise. *So many developing bands deal with lineup changes. This is such a critical time: you've graduating beyond playing just for fun and now you're making a legitimate business decision. NBFB's dealt with quite a few lineup changes, including two major ones. What do you do when that happens? *
The first thing you do is you get everybody together and say, 'Do we all want to continue being in the band?' If one person leaves, there might be doubts with other people, so you need to make sure right then and there that the rest of you are all still good to go.
Then you look at options. If it's, say, a drummer, you all convene and you talk about it. I don't think you really want it to be a stranger, although that has worked for some bands. When Noah came along, we had seen him play a few times and he was well educated, so we just wanted to make sure the groove was right and that he could hold tempos with seamless transitions.
If it's a keyboard player, you're looking for someone who listens and is cooperative. Sam is a great listener and really pays attention. In a more improvisational, melodic role, you want someone who's really going to add to the equation. *Being both a promoter and a fan as well as a musician, you have a hand on the pulse of the jam scene, however fractious it is these days. What so-called 'established' bands, to you, exemplify real growth? *
Umphrey's, the Duo and the New Deal might not be musically ever-changing, but they're getting bigger and they're always doing more. Those three in particular are the head turners—the way they jam sets them above the rest, but they all do a really good job of serving their own musical needs while keeping it in the audience's favor.
The Duo in particular expanded themselves—they took a spare thing, organ and drums only, and made it work. They keep people moving they keep them enthralled. Umphrey's is so progressive and tight and organized, and have these really cool jam sections and releases that let the listener relax and get into it. And they're all very humble people—they're normal and they don't wear makeup, none of that glam shit—they're good guys. I think they're happy playing music.
Looking back over the past few years, what shows really stand out to you?
Our CD release party at Harpers Ferry [in Allston, MA] last year. Our Northeast Music Organization (NEMO) festival show last fall with [The Breakfast's] Tim Palmieri sitting in. Dave Bisson's last show with us at the Iron Horse. Playing with Soulive in Maine this past spring. Nectars [in Vermont] on April 1 this year.
You're releasing that Nectars show as NBFB's first live album.
That show was really a game-changer for us. We take quotes from those jams and all that. Everything—the jamming, the energy, the sound, it all fell into place. We've always wanted to make a live album, but we're sort of cursed, you know, we'll play a great show and find that the computer has shorted out.
The other shows I mentioned were more for the crowd and the experiences we had—having some new people see us and get down. *Your associations have brought some pretty interesting sit-ins in the past few years. Sam Kininger is a regular with you guys, and NBFB has jammed with Marco Benevento, Tim Palmieri, and whole host of others. *
I like sit-ins because it's a public showing of community efforts, you know? I like the fact that bands network with other bands. To sit-in is to say that 'I'm down with you, musically, and I respect you, and now I'm going to share my musical knowledge with you in front of other bands and other fans.'
It can definitely be overkill, but it's great if done right. If he or she is playing one of the band's original songs, a good guest plays along to see how the song goes, adds a bit to the verse part and is able to trade off with other players. A good guest is part of the experience—we're all this particular jam together and you're not just standing around waiting for your moment.
You've got a high profile residency in New York kicking off this month. Tell me about the rest of 2006.
Yes, it's at the Knitting Factory Old Office, every Tuesday night from July 18 to August 15. We'll headline each night and every week there'll be another band or two on the bill. Some of them are already mentioned on the web site.
It's time to make an impression in the city and then build it with more dates outside New York and Boston. For the past couple of shows, it's been cool because there have been a lot of kids we don't know showing up, asking us to play our songs. W e have fans that are there to get down and funky for us. We want people to like our music and dance to it. We want people to know us, 'cause we know they'll like us.
_Chad Berndtson lives in Boston. His work appears in The Patriot Ledger, Glide, Relix, Jambands.com, the Providence Journal and other publications. _


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In 2008, both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton got on the ballot illegally in the presidential primary in Indiana. On Thursday, two Democratic political operatives were convicted on all counts relating to the scheme.
Former St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition. It was apparently a plan hatched by Morgan, who told Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures on petitions so Obama and Clinton would be eligible for the state ballot. Blythe forged scores of names on the petitions.
Former Board of Registration worker Lucas Burkett was originally part of the scheme but then quit; he waited three years before he came clean with the plan. Meanwhile, Obama and Clinton, who both could have been thrown off the ballot if the petitions had been challenged, marched merrily on.
In Indiana, presidential candidates need 500 signatures from each of the state's nine congressional districts to qualify for the ballot. With the help of the illegal plot, both candidates managed to garner enough signatures in St. Joseph County, which is the 2nd Congressional district; Obama netted 534 signatures, Clinton, 704.
An Indiana State Police investigator said the police perused the Obama petitions and, "selected names at random from each of the petition pages and contacted those people directly. We found at least one person (and often multiple people) from each page who confirmed that they had not signed petitions or given consent for their name and/or signature to appear." The audacity of the forgers was so great that they even forged the signature of Joe Kernan, a former governor of the state.


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text: Kathleen's book wins 2nd award eventsnew, News Room, Publicity September 14, 2016 0 comments Kathleen's book Women's Wisdom: Pass It On! was awarded BRONZE by the 2016 National Mature Media Awards "honoring the best marketing, communications, educational materials, and programs for older adults." This was in addition to the book being a FINALIST in the 2016 International Book Awards, self-help/motivational category. Read More


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Occupying various addresses on the same street, Arco consists of a comfortable and relaxed collection of apartments, ranging from fairly basic to quite luxurious. The main appeal is the location, along with the friendly restaurant, bar and internet café. Reservations are essential.
Area Prague
Transport Metro Náměstí Míru/tram 4, 16, 22
Telephone 271 740 734
Rates (incl breakfast) 1,100 K± double; 1,700 K± apartment.