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With the advent of Twitter "micro-blogging", the multiple URL-shortening services solved the main problem the 140-character-limit blogging platform posed: they allowed you to easily share long URL's with your followers. People have quickly got used to seeing shortened URLs, however the two main disadvantages of the services still apply:
- You can't be sure where you will land (there's no way to tell where a shortened link goes just by looking at it).
- You can fall prey to online spam and scams. Website owners have started using the services to hide affiliate URLs, to create "phishing" URLs, to cheat you (or your kids) into clicking adult and gambling links, etc.
This post will help you get smarter with what you click. Here are various browser extensions to preview and expand shortened URLs.
1. Long URL Please Mod
Long URL Please Mod (an expanded mod of this addon MakeUseOf featured in much detail earlier) does a great job expanding short URLs shrunk by the huge range of URLs shorteners (currently "182 short URL services" are supported).
When having it installed you are unlikely to ever notice it working: it integrates very naturally. You can also slightly customize its behavior using the settings:
- To replace the short URL while maintaining the same number of characters (the rest of the full URL will be replaced by dots but you'll be able to see the linked domain);
- Replace both the URL and linked text (to see the URL path without the need to hover over);
- Replace the URL path only or keep the URL path while changing the link text.
2. Xpndit
Xpndit (which also exists as a userscript) is another regularly updated option for Firefox users that is supposed to display the full URL path as well as the page title. It wasn't able to retrieve the additional information with me. Besides, it has multiple performance reports (found on the addon Firefox page).
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3. ViewThrough
ViewThrough is the Google Chrome extension that displays the full URL path and the linked page title on hover-over. Short URLs from bit.ly, cli.gs, ff.im, goo.gl, is.gd, nyti.ms, ow.ly, post.ly, su.pr and tinyurl.com are supported.
Many users report it doesn't work on the latest version of Google Chrome. However I didn't seem to notice any performance issues.
4. LongURL
LongURL is the extension that uses LongURL API to quickly turn shortened URLs into the linked page title: hover over to see the full URL path as well as some additional information (like HTTP redirect, linked page meta description, etc):
LongURL supports most shortening services you are aware of. It also has a Firefox addon of its own but the addon has not been updated to work with the latest version of the browser.
(Tested on Firefox only but it may work on Google Chrome and Opera as well)
5. Long URL Mobile Expander
This userscript acts exactly the same way as the ViewThrough Google Chrome extension above (so if you like it, you can have it on Firefox as well).
This script hasn't been updated for quite some time but it uses LongURL API, so let's hope it will work for both established URL shortening services and newer ones.
Are you aware of any other handy options that would allow people to browse the web without short URLs? Do you see yourself using any of them?
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i found a chrome extension that does just this and seems to work quite well
hmm i haven't used discus comments for a while
I wish there was a url decryper for youtube pages.
So that the un descriptive youtube url was replaced by the title of the video or something
i found a chrome extension that does just this and seems to work quite well
Interesting one! Thanks!
These tools really do very little but to expose the link.. but a person STILL doesn't know where or what it leads to so what's the good of it? Few people really take the time to investigate the reputation of any root domain so many will still get burned if they click a bad one. Perhaps the real onus should be on the link shorteners to develop more secure services that prevent nasty links or better preview features that provide safe viewing?
Just saying..
No, you don't research each root domain before clicking but you won't probably care to click a link that says "g@ambling 24" or "hot girls", will you?
Hey Thank you, was so so useful
I believe that having a short URL instead of the actual long one is not quite a god thing.
Bad people are using this short version of URL so they can bring viruses to you.
But if you see a proper link, you can search a little bit of it online and see if it is a good/bad link before clicking on it.
Absolutely! Hence the purpose of this overview
Does these url extenders work with Gmail service. I have checked long url and 1 more chrome extension, which was not able to extend the short url in the Gmail web email. Else where it was working fine. Any one has any experience with that
It looks like none of them works in Gmail, including LinkPeelr suggested below. I wonder, does Gmail block extensions?
The userscript works in in Gmail FireFox 4, but not in Google Chrome
Looks like my comment wasn't posted but anyways... My favorite url expander for Chrome is LinkPeelr https://chrome.google.com/webs...
I have tried many and this one works great. For Firefox 4 it seems to me that it expands urls natively for most that I have come accross anyways.
Looks like my comment wasn't posted but anyways... My favorite url expander for Chrome is LinkPeelr https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ahhcmjnfhbpgagklnjhlcabnbcdgipje
I have tried many and this one works great. For Firefox 4 it seems to me that it expands urls natively for most that I have come accross anyways.
Thanks! I have it installed and it looks like a good extension. I'll be playing with it for some time before I know for sure!
i'm with james here.. it's a shame the ff addons don't work for ff4..
I have always been irritated by not knowing what the full url is before clicking and I have tried many url expanders, my personal choice for Chrome is LinkPeelr https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ahhcmjnfhbpgagklnjhlcabnbcdgipje
It seems to me that Firefox 4 does a decent job of expanding many short urls by itself.
Another great url shortener extension is Shareaholic. Not only does it shorten URL's, it also can send the link you want to share to your email client or Facebook and a myriad of other services. I use it in Chrome constantly and the extension is available for Firefox and Opera, too.
thanks for wanting to share, though we were talking about 'expanding' shortened urls and not making them.
I have always been irritated by not knowing what the full url is before clicking and I have tried many url expanders, my personal choice for Chrome is LinkPeelr https://chrome.google.com/webs...
It seems to me that Firefox 4 does a decent job of expanding many short urls by itself.
Neither Xpndit nor Long URL Please Mod are available for Firefox 4 right now. Considering that's the most recent release of the browser, I think that's worth noting.
Oh no! I hope they will be quick to upgrade the addons.
Luckily, the LongURL Mobile Expander script does work on FF4


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The Ancient Coin Collectors Guild has become a driving force in the ongoing effort to protect coin collectors and museums in which coins are stored from being forced to give up these items to foreign governments under the premise the coins are the cultural patrimony of the claimant nation. — Richard Giedroyc, World Coin News April 26, 2010
Peter K. Tompa, a Washington attorney specializing in cultural property issues, reviews the recently released chronicle by Matthew Bogdanos about Baghdad Museum looting during the invasion of Iraq. This review was originally published in the March 2006 issue of The Celator.
In an engaging but ultimately unsatisfying book, Matthew Bogdanos chronicles his investigation of the looting of the Iraq Museum. Getting to the point, however, takes time. Bogdanos is the proud son of working class parents, born and bred in New York City. His father was of Greek descent, and Bogdanos obviously relishes in recounting his well deserved sense of pride in his heritage as well as his own smarts in working his way up from the family restaurant onto law school, a masters degree in Classics from Columbia University, a position as prosecutor in the Manhattan DA's office, and a commission in the US Marine Corps Reserves. Nevertheless, all the relentless self-promotion severely detracts from the important story Bogdanos has to tell. Under the circumstances, one only wishes Bogdanos took more seriously his own statement in the Author's note that "The Marine Corps doesn't like people who go to war and write books about themselves. Neither do I."
Luckily, Bogdanos ultimately returns to his promised topic. After 9/11, Bogdanos parlayed a counterterrorism assignment while on active duty into an investigation into the well publicized looting of the Iraq Museum. He explains much of the vandalism and theft as symptomatic of popular outrage against Ba'athist State oppression. The Iraq Museum simply was not a place to which the general public went to view the glories of Iraq's past. Indeed, strangely for a public institution, it was only open once in the entire decade between the First and Second Gulf Wars - on Saddam's birthday, April 28, 2000. (p. 213.) The sad reality of Saddam's Iraq - where museum professionals were required to be slavish servants of the regime "or else" - is best seen in one of the few mistakes Bagdonos admits to in his entire book. In one memorable passage, Bogdanos recounts how a photo op went very wrong. Bagdanos had set up the photo op to capture local people returning a trove of manuscripts they had guarded. However, it turns out that the crowd (but not the clueless Americans) identified the Iraqi museum professional to whom the manuscripts were to be returned as one of their Ba'athist oppressors. (pp. 160-163.) Ultimately, the situation was defused, but not before some scary moments, that might have left U.S. forces with yet another public relations disaster on their hands.
Not surprisingly, Bogdanos is at his best defending the actions of the U.S. military and debunking the outrageous exaggerations about losses at the Museum that even now continue to be propagated in the international press. Based on Bogdanos' work, it should now be evident that the Museum was turned into a fighting position for the Special Revolutionary Guard detachments, that the U.S. military's initial armored thrusts ("Thunder Runs") through Baghdad could not have "saved" the Museum without destroying it, and that the Museum was probably secured as soon as militarily practicable given the small size of the attacking forces. Bogdanos also does equally well detailing what was lost, how he believes the losses occurred (a small mob of undiscriminating looters combined with an undetermined number of much more sophisticated culprits), what was recovered and what remains to be found. He concludes at page 270, "Of the forty objects stolen from the public galleries and restoration rooms, fifteen have been recovered, including five of the finest pieces the museum possessed…3,138 pieces from the aboveground storage rooms [a figure that may rise as items are inventoried] [were lost] with 3,037 … recovered… 10,686 objects stolen from underground [storage] - 5,144 of which are highly prized seals - only 2,307 have been recovered. Part of the problem… is that the entire haul from the basement could fit in one large backpack. Looking at the recoveries of the items stolen from the basement in another way, 911 of the objects were recovered inside Iraq, and 1,396 internationally. Altogether, then, approximately 5,400 objects have been recovered. Moreover, another 62,000 pieces were "found" in other locations [having been moved from the Museum before the war.]" [Luckily, the Iraq Museum's collection of approximately 100,000 coins remained intact because the thieves lost the keys to their storage cabinets in the darkness and confusion.]
Much of Bogdanos' success in retrieving many significant artifacts probably stems from his "no questions asked" policy if an item was returned. On the other hand, as a result of this amnesty, Bogdanos failed to conduct any serious interrogations of museum employees - even when missing items mysteriously turned up again in the museum. (p. 164.) Thus, we are left speculating about who had the keys to the underground storage vaults and why some of the Museum's most important items happened to be gathered in a place where they could be quickly removed from the premises. This, while some of the biggest "Thieves of Baghdad" may very well still be employed at the Iraq Museum! Of course, determining what was and what was not missing was made all the more difficult by the Iraq Museum's poor inventory system, which was made even worse by the destruction of some records during the looting.
Almost as troubling, Bogdanos stereotypes collectors and dealers in manner that suggests he received a tutorial from some of the most "hard line" elements within the archaeological community. (p. 238.) Specifically, Bogdanos buys into the claim that some big ticket items were stolen based some long standing orders from moneyed collectors (p. 215) and then hypes a supposed link between collectors and terrorists. (p. 249.) It should give some pause to the reader that the source for the former allegation is none other than Ahmed Chalabi, the discredited purveyor of hyped information about weapons of mass destruction, while the latter claim appears to be based solely on one seizure of some 30 artifacts from some suspected insurgents. Again, Bogdanos would do well to heed his own warnings about the impact of exaggeration on the credibility of certain members of the archaeological community. (p. 274.)
In the end, Bogdanos sums up his view as follows: "One of the unpleasant truths to emerge from Baghdad is that, in assessing blame for the looting there, and for the confusion that followed, nobody gets off scot-free - not the military, not the press, not the law enforcement, not the archaeologists, not the former regime, and not the staff. And in the sale of stolen items, we find the same widespread distribution of guilt among scholars, museum directors, dealers and private collectors. 'When everyone's culpable, is anyone guilty?'" (p. 279.) While one might agree with this assessment up to a point, I for one wish Bogdanos would be far more careful before making sweeping accusations against collectors, dealers and museum directors. Indeed, because the much anticipated influx of stolen Iraqi artifacts into the western art market has yet to materialize;1 such claims seem to be nothing short of irresponsible. But then, again, Bogdanos has a book to sell, a new mission to set up a "stolen antiquities" unit in the Manhattan DA's office, and even a movie in the works. Under the circumstances, a less provocative claim simply might not do.
1 See e.g., Guy Gugliotta, "Looted Iraqi Artifacts Slow to Surface," The Washington Post, Nov. 8, 2005, at A 1.
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Glenn Maxwell is hoping his brilliant unbeaten 145 in the first Twenty20 against Sri Lanka on Tuesday will put him back on track to represent Australia in the longer formats of the game.
The 65-ball knock, featuring 14 fours and nine sixes, was the second highest in international T20s and drove Australia to a world record tally as well as a comfortable 85-run victory.
The tourists' 263-3 bettered the 260-6 that Sri Lanka racked up against Kenya at the 2007 World Twenty20 and matched the format record of 263-5 that Royal Challengers Bangalore managed against the Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League in 2013.
Maxwell's highest international score was all the sweeter as it came after he was dropped for the longer format matches in Sri Lanka and left out of the squad for an upcoming ODI series in South Africa.
"I've been out of the one-day team for a while now, so to get my first crack back in the main team and to do as well as I did today was brilliant," he told reporters. "I had doubted a fair bit about my ability at this level and to come out and strike the ball like I did today was really pleasing."
Burdened with the unwanted nickname 'The Big Show' since 2013, Maxwell has had to battle perceptions about his enigmatic talent ever since. No-one doubts his ability as a fast-scoring batsman who can bowl useful off-spin, but the reverse sweeps, pulls and paddle shots have laid him open to accusations of being, in his own words, an "egocentric show off".
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Regular opener Aaron Finch was ruled out by a broken finger, but was on hand to remind Maxwell that he owns the record for the highest international T20 innings, the 156 he blasted against England in 2013.
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Networking with the right black organizations in Chicago was key to building attendance, says Holman. Months before the event, she met with the representatives of a range of groups, from the National Association of Black Accountants to the Broadcast Ministers Alliance, to scope out their interest-and to emphasize Merrill Lynch's commitment. "These are 'show me' people," she says. "They're approached for many opportunities. Showing up in their offices really made a difference." Indeed, nearly every person Holman met gave her the names of two or three other contacts. One of them was C. Adam Callery, president of the local chapter of the National Black MBA Association. Callery says he's noticed a heightened interest in the last two years by financial services companies wanting to "get in front" of his group, but Merrill Lynch stood out for one reason: Company representatives asked what his members wanted. "We told them we needed something broader than 'Here's How to Invest,'" he says. "Our members want information, like the advantages of international mutual funds over domestic ones."
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So Merrill Lynch tailored the three-night series to suit the wide range of investment knowledge and attitudes of its participants. "We didn't want people to feel talked at," says Collins. "People would have seen through a product pitch in a second." Boston signed on as moderator, accompanied by a panel of African American consultants from Merrill Lynch's Chicago office. Two seminars-one targeted to small-business owners, the other for individual investors-were held at the DuSable; the third, designed for clergy and nonprofit organizations, took place at the Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. Nearly 2,000 potential attendees received invitations in the mail last September and close to 600 came, often for more than one session. Evaluations turned in each evening indicated that people were pleased-and hungry for more. "When will we see you again?" was asked repeatedly, Collins says.
Merrill Lynch may expand the program in Chicago or to other locations. And while it's too early to measure direct sales originating from the event, appointments with black investors at the Chicago branch are on the rise, Collins says.
African American investment advisors will be waiting to greet them at the door. Merrill Lynch, as well as other financial firms, recognizes the importance of a minority presence among its employees, says Smikle. "Black consumers need to know that companies understand them," he says. "It helps if the hand reaching out to them is of the same color." It also helps Merrill Lynch measure its success in reaching the black community. Since there's no line on race on investment applications, companies can track the success of their black sales forces to estimate their market share in local black communities; 8 percent of Merrill Lynch's 14,000 U.S. consultants are minorities.
Currently, American Express Financial Advisors' multicultural efforts are considered the industry benchmark, says Boston. Besides launching a targeted marketing program five years ago, AEFA built an internal system to mentor black employees (American Express CEO Ken Chenault is also African American). And there are those American Express commercials featuring golfer Tiger Woods and his dad.
Despite the advances by Merrill Lynch and other financial firms, everyone agrees that more attention needs to be paid to black investors. "If you want to be a major player five or ten years from now, you have to recognize that black America is in the middle of an economic rights movement," Boston says. "That bodes well for banks, credit card companies, insurance, real estate -anything that builds net worth." Callery of the National Black MBA Association shares the sentiment: "All we need are the nuts and bolts," he says. Whoever provides the toolbox will be the real winner.


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Samsung Galaxy S4 has released today with a cool new look and features that your smartphone does not have�.
Samsung Galaxy S4 comes loaded with a bigger screen, better camera and faster processor as compared to the previous Galaxy S phones. The phone also comes loaded with a bunch of new features that is making this phone sell like hot cakes in the market.
Here are the top 12 features that make Samsung Galaxy S4 a showstopper.
1. Air Gestures
This Samsung Galaxy S4 feature refers to the hand movements that are made above the phone�s display, without your coming into direct contact with the display and yet it controls the phone. Some common gestures include waving left to right to switch between open web pages in a browser. However, to make these gestures work you need specific Samsung apps.
2. Air View
With the Air View feature, you can simply hover over the display with your finger and view select piece of content. For example, you can hover over an email and see a longer preview without actually opening the message or hovering, your finger over a date on a calendar will give a quick view of what to expect on that day.
3. Drama Shot
This is a great feature, if you love to take photos. Camera feature lets you shoot 12 photos at once and shows you a time lapse of all the action in the photos that combines into one picture.
4. Dual Camera
With this Samsung Galaxy S4 feature, you can activate both the rear and the front camera so that the photographer can super-impose himself into the photo. With this new feature, you can actually say good-bye to blurred images forever.
5. Dual Video Call
This is a great feature for video chatting. You can show the person both your face and the view from your rear camera while you are chatting.
6. Group Play
If you and your friends are getting Group Play together, then Samsung Galaxy S4 lets you connect with your pals that are in close proximity in a private network. Friends can even play games on the same network.
7. S Health
This is your new and one of the best fitness tracker and food diary. The Samsung Galaxy S4 comes with an in-built pedometer that counts your steps and you will be able to take photos of your meals every day and keep a count of your calories and also your eating habits.
8. S Translator
With this Samsung Galaxy S4 app, now you can travel anywhere you want, without the language barrier holding you back. With this app, you can input up to 10 languages and receive a translation, either spoken or in text. You can also use this app to translate text on your email and text messages.
9. Samsung Adapt Display
With this Samsung Galaxy S4 feature, your phone will learn what you are viewing and adjust the display brightness accordingly. So, if you are reading an article, it will increase brightness automatically, giving you better visibility.
10. Samsung Optical Reader
This is a camera feature in Samsung Galaxy S4 that can snap a photo of a business card and then import that information into a new contact in your phonebook.
11. Samsung WatchON
This is a built in IR sensor in Samsung Galaxy S4 that lets you control your television, that is set with your Smartphone. You of course need a standard remote and a program guide as per your cable provider. Samsung Galaxy S4 can also control particular cable boxes and DVD players.
12. Story Album
With this Samsung Galaxy S4 feature, you get templates that will allow you to create a digital photo journal or scrapbook from a particular event. You also have the option of printing out the story album for a fee.
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The Postal Service has asked the Postal Regulatory Commission for its approval to raise rates for a variety of catalog-type mailings, including rates for standard flats (up 0.8%), carrier route flats (1.4%) and high-density flats (0.4%).
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For instance, why not start the day off with a visit to the gruesome Old Operating Theatre and Herb Garrett? Located at the top of an old spiral staircase, the museum is hidden in the roof of an old Baroque church. It is the UK's only surviving 19th century operating theatre and depicts what medical procedures used to be like, before anaesthesia was invented!
However, if excitement is what you're after, then it's worth booking yourself on a Duck Tour. Venturing out on land and water, an amphibious vehicle will take you on a unique tour of the city, whilst guides will provide you with an alternative history of London. Not only that, but you'll also get to learn about the Duck vehicles, which were historically used in the Second World War.
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BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers approved a controversial $400 million settlement Saturday for Americans who claim they were abused by Saddam Hussein.
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers approved a controversial $400 million settlement Saturday for Americans who claim they were abused by Saddam Hussein.
The multimillion dollar settlement is part of a deal reached between Baghdad and Washington last year to end years of legal battles by U.S. citizens who claim they were tortured or traumatized during Saddam's 1990 invasion of neighboring Kuwait.
Many Iraqis consider themselves victims of both Saddam's regime and the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and wonder why they should pay money for wrongs committed by the ousted dictator.
Abbas al-Bayati from the State of Law political bloc said lawmakers approved the settlement by a majority after listening to the foreign and finance ministers as well as the head of the central bank describe why it was necessary.
Another lawmaker, Mahmoud Othman, said by approving the settlement, Iraq would be protecting itself from more lawsuits in the future that could have been well above the $400 million that was agreed to.
"They explained very well what was the settlement and how it will be negative if we don't approve it," he said. "That's why people were persuaded."
But lawmakers affiliated with anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr rejected the settlement, said one of the bloc's legislators, Hakim al-Zamili. Al-Zamili said he was surprised that so many lawmakers who had been arguing against the legislation before Saturday's session reversed course at the last minute.
"It's better to compensate the Iraqi martyrs and detainees than the Americans," he said.
Saddam's regime held hundreds of Americans hostage during the run-up to the Gulf War, using them as human shields in hopes of staving off an attack by the U.S. and its allies.
Many of the Americans pursued lawsuits for years against Saddam's government and kept up their legal fight after Saddam was overthrown in 2003 and a new government came to power.
Iraq was also under a time crunch to approve the settlement before June 30, when Iraq will assume responsibility for overseeing its oil revenue account. Since 2003, the country's oil revenue has been held in a New York-based account that shelters it from international creditors' claims. The U.N.-backed protection expires when the oil revenue is transferred to Iraqi control, and Iraq could face international creditors like any other country.


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Independent artistes and label owners are transforming the discerning Indian's musical appetite by taking the DIY route.
Prayag Mehta and Rishab Joshi were two relatively unknown bedroom producers from Mumbai in 2009. That is, until one of their tracks, False Promises, was played by renowned DJ Armin Van Buuren—on one of the most popular radioshows on the planet, A State Of Trance—catapulting them into the limelight. Today, the electronic music duo is headlining stages under the moniker Lost Stories at events like Sunburn Festival, across the nation and abroad. This is not an isolated incident. There's a new wave of young, independent musicians who are empowered by the Internet and fuelled by their passion for self-expression, to cut records that are hard to define, but easy to connect with. These independent (read indie) artistes—who embody the do-it-yourself ethos—hone their skills for years before cutting full-length albums. They promote their sounds on social media and sites like Soundcloud, in the hopes that it will catch the eye of club managers or festival directors. The talented ones get bookings (think bands like Parvaaz). "Besides choosing from regular artiste enquiries, my team looks for non-mainstream musicians, whose sounds strike us as unique but can entice audiences across metros," shares Nitish Chachra, head of music programming at Bengaluru's BlueFrog, one of the most popular venues for indie artistes to perform at. Artistes generally reinvest revenue from shows with online aggregators sites like CDBaby, which legally spread their music across various portals like iTunes and Spotify. We find out why these artistes and record label owners who pride themselves on nonconformity, take the time to understand their fans, embrace social media tools and keep shuffling formats, till it clicks.
Blazing a trail
Sometimes musicians and bands born out of an indie environment become massively popular. Mumbai-based songwriter-actor, Monica Dogra—who shot to popularity as one half of the alternative electronica act, Shaa'ir and Func—tells me she's sick of the word indie. "I'm on TV, I'm on the radio, my work is legitimately popular," states Dogra, adding that DIY musicians (like herself who've invested their own time and money into honing every aspect of their craft) have been on the rise for a while and now it's time for them to dominate. When asked why she chose to release her solo debut album, Spit, on a major label like Universal, despite her large independent fanbase, the American-Indian vocalist explains, "I had built a relationship with Devraj Sanyal and, through him, Universal Music, because of the show we are co-judges on together, The Stage. It was a very personal decision and one every artiste needs to make for themselves, weighing pros and cons with a realistic mind."
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Getting started
Imagine you've completed the hard part: recognising your signature sound, garnering a network of devoted online followers and self-producing an album. Now you want to officially launch it. With the advent of netlabels (online record labels), digitally releasing an album is just a few clicks away. "All you need is a PayPal account and a free account on Bandcamp, which will take a cut of 10 per cent from your record sales. You can also choose online aggregators like OKListen, as they provide royalties for each time your tunes get played on portals like YouTube," explains 34-year-old Rahul Giri, who owns Consolidate, a Facebook community-turned-record label that promotes a niche mix of experimental electronic and hip-hop. This homegrown label, like most indie labels, helps the musicians signed on it with technical production aid (be it mixing or mastering) and also provides guidance in marketing and sales facets as well. Details: consolidate.bandcamp.com
Matter of vision
Label owner Praveen Achary tells me he was beaming when he heard Hernan Cattaneo, one of the most respected DJs on the planet, drop a tune signed to his label, at the Woodstock Bloemendaal festival. "Content is King," states the Bengaluru-based 28-year-old, whose successful electronic music record label, Juicebox Music, has signed over 30 world-class artistes since 2012. He tells me that nowadays, some people start their own music label because they can't get signed anywhere. That's ill-advised. Do it because you've developed good content and deserve control over it, rather than letting a suit make decisions for you. "At Juicebox, I make time to discover others who create great content that fits my original vision, provide pointers to perfect their sound and sign them. We also try to chart a long-term marketing plan with them. Growing together not just as a brand, but as musicians," shares Achary. In terms of distributing the music from his label to the world, he opts for Soundsystem by Proton, a hassle-free service which ensures that published music reaches almost all popular digital platforms, including Beatport, Juno and Traxsource, and even sends quarterly accounting statements of track sales and royalties (based on streams). Details: juiceboxmusic.in
Rising star
Meet Prateek Kuhad. This new-age songsmith has had quite the journey from NYU to DIY. In fact, this Delhi-based singer-songwriter (who has a degree in maths and economics from New York University), quit a high paying job in economic consultancy in the US, to pursue a full-time career in music. Though his English/Hindi song book is best described as indie folk/pop, his heart-warming sounds are fluid and difficult to pigeonhole. "I think the most important thing for any musician are the songs. You just have to put all your blood and sweat into that and make sure they are perfect or keep trying till they are," shares Kuhad. This 26-year-old achieved just that, via the success of his minimal, feel-good debut album In Tokens & Charms. Not only did it go on to become iTunes' 'Indian Indie Album of the Year', but it also resulted in a performance at the 2016 edition of one of the world's most popular independent music festivals, South by Southwest (SXSW), in Austin. This was closely followed by a gig at the Canadian Music Week. "If you're functioning in the alternative music space in India, it is better to be independent at this point. Big brands and companies will restrict your creative freedom and the payoff is not really that much, especially in the long run," opines Kuhad, who has multiple performances lined up in Mumbai and Pune for July and August, followed by a performance at Australia's Big Sound Festival in September. Details: prateekkuhad.com
Eastern nightingales
The Indie vibe isn't flourishing just across metropolitan cities. From a small town in Nagaland, called Thuvopisu, hails an internationally-renowned indie-folk quartet, the Tetseo Sisters. Comprising sisters Alune, Azi, Kuvelu and Mercy Tetseo, the act has not only performed at events like NH7 Weekender, but also at various festivals in Bangkok and Myanmar. "Our traditional sounds are light-hearted due to its harmonies. We sing Li (folk songs) —about happy things or sad love stories—in Chokri (a dialect spoken by the Chakhesangs of Nagaland). But the songs remain contemporary as anyone can relate to their spirit and emotions," shares Mercy. Upon questioning, the sisters reveal that the success of marketing their self-produced debut album, Li Chapter One: The Beginning, was their strong social media presence (over 14.5 k followers on Instagram and 1.7 lakh fans on Facebook), which eventually led to shows in China and the UK. "Now we've made the natural transition to YouTube to promote our love for indie pop and our new single, Cepho Celho Lizo," explains Mercy, adding that besides performing in South Korea in August, the band will tour various venues in Delhi, Kohima, Bengaluru and Chennai (July-October). Details: facebook.com/Tetseosisters
The counterpoint
Devraj Sanyal is at the tip of the ever-evolving entertainment industry's spearhead. The 41-year-old—who heads Universal Music India—agrees that there's been a recent explosion in the number of indie record labels starting up (primarily by artistes who are cutting their own albums), but very few succeed. He believes that an artiste should stick to creating great music and leave the rest to the specialists. "Be it an independent or a major record label, the skill sets required (to run one successfully) go beyond just signing artistes. How does one market, promote and sell in the current environment? How good are your relationships with the partners? How well can you adapt to the industry's ever-changing dynamics? And, of course, financial feasibility," Sanyal concludes. Details: umusicindia.com
Quantifying success
There are no credible charts (like Billboard) for Indian indie music. So artistic prowess aside, how can a musician's viability be highlighted on paper? "Via record sales or streams (think platforms including iTunes, Gaana, Saavn and Soundcloud)," explains Dhruv Singh, founder of Pagal Haina Records, explaining, "Primarily because both those circle back to how many people your music is reaching and how adept you are at spreading the word. Not everybody has to like it, but the fact that you're knocking on as many doors as possible counts a great deal."
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The move parallels a similar investment by Yahoo in another Melbourne dot-com success story, employment engine Seek Communications, earlier this year.
Carsales' other equity partners include the owners of Reynolds and Reynolds, which incubated the business, and 200 of the dealers in the Carsales network who took up an earlier equity offer.
The deal will see Carsales become the principal supplier of car listings for Yahoo Australia & NZ. One of the early boons for Carsales will be a major marketing campaign across Yahoo Australia & NZ and the Yahoo global network.
Yahoo reaches about 56 per cent of Australian web users every month, according to Media Metrix figures.
The marketing support is significant for Carsales, which competes with services run by major media companies such as Fairfax's drive.com.au.
In the past, emerging dot-coms have complained about the reluctance of Fairfax and other media outlets to carry their advertising in relevant areas of their publications, for instance, automotive classifieds in Carsales' case.
This was not an issue Carsales managing director Sak Ryopponen wanted to talk about. Instead, he focused on the advantages his company provided over other services.
"Apart from the fact that we have the most comprehensive listings of cars in Australia we also provide much more information for consumers than the classified approach of other players."
For dealers, Ryopponen said the company was also careful to separate dealer used and new car listings from private seller listings, something other services didn't offer.
Finally, he claimed Carsales was able to offer the most up-to-date listings of any service because the majority of the 900 dealers around the country pumping listings into the service updated their information in real time.
"For other dealers not directly integrated, the worst-case scenario is a 24 hour update," Ryopponen said.
Carsales makes its money by charging subscription fees to dealers for used car listings, generates further revenue from providing sales leads for new cars, and also charges a flat fee to people wanting to offer a private listing.
Yahoo Australia managing director Tony Faure said the deal closely mirrors the company's investment in market-leading job board Seek Communications.
"What we are looking for in a partner is their ability to deliver, and their market leadership, and Carsales rates on both these points."
Faure said the Carsales model, which he described as internet-assisted commerce, was emerging as a major phenomenon in markets such as the US.


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The Word: 'Bachelor' star Gia Allemand dies of apparent suicide
Former "Bachelor" contestant Gia Allemand died yesterday after hanging herself. She was 29 years old.
Former "Bachelor" contestant Gia Allemand died yesterday after hanging herself. She was 29 years old.
Allemand's boyfriend, New Orleans Pelicans player Ryan Anderson, found her in their home and called 911. She was taken to University Hospital in New Orleans, where she remained until Wednesday, when she was taken off life support.
In a statement, Anderson said, "Gia was the most beautiful person I knew inside and out and she always smiled and made everyone else around her smile. She had such an amazing impact on my life and anyone that knew her was blessed."
Sources told E! News that Allemand and Anderson were having problems in their relationship, but that they were still together at the time of her death.
Gia Allemand was a contestant on Season 14 of "The Bachelor," and made it to the final three contestants. Some of her "Bachelor" colleagues took to Twitter to express shock and sorrow yesterday.
"I had to pull over, I can't stop crying. We have lost an angel," tweeted Jake Pavelka, who was Gia's bachelor.
"Gia you are my angel! You changed so many lives with your beautiful soul and will be missed and loved forever," tweeted Vienna Girardi.


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BROOKPORT, IL (KFVS) - Illinois State Police say catastrophes can bring out people who prey on victims. Troopers are warning tornado victims to be aware of the possibility of looters and scam artists.
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The Illinois Department of Transportation and Massac County Highway Department will begin large debris removal the morning of Monday, Nov. 25. Debris should be placed curbside and should not block roadway.
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If 2004 was the year that many Americans realized the potent political potential of the documentary, activist groups have been using the medium since it was invented. I recently got an email from Witness, a human rights program aimed at exposing injustice through the moving image, about their latest video "Against the Tide of History: Landmines in the Casamance." The film documents the socio-economic, medical and psychological effect of landmines on the survivors of these so-called 'blind' weapons in Senegal.
Our lovely U.S. government doesn't use conventional landmines anymore, but continues to use "smart" landmines, which Human Rights Watch recently called "a dumb solution" "that cannot differentiate between soldiers and civilians," continuing to kill indiscriminately. In February 2004, the U.S. announced that it would not sign the Ottawa Treaty (Mine Ban Treaty) and would push back the date to eliminate some mines to 2010, and would retain the right to use other "smart" mines indefinitely.
Witness continues to be active around the world, and if you're a would-be documentary filmmaker looking to get involved and help the world, the program is always seeking volunteers to help collect work for their raw footage archive. Other recent Witness productions include "System Failure: Violence, Abuse, and Neglect in the California Youth Authority" and 2002's "Rise: Revolutionary Women Reenvisioning Afghanistan."
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Fort Worth (Texas) North Crowley kicker Adi Kunalic certainly has options on the table when it comes to picking a college.
His first two offers came from Connecticut and Washington State. Another offer has joined the race for Kunalic but a couple of teams have been eliminated.
"Well, Connecticut and Baylor aren't options any more since they got some kickers committed," Kunalic said. "Utah just offered me and I'm really looking hard now at Washington State though."
Florida State, LSU, and Miami are just a few schools that Kunalic has sent out his tape to and is hoping to hear back from. As for now, the 6-foot, 175-pound special teams prospect has a leader.
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NOW Comics Vol. 1 #19
The story begins with Egon Spengler in a place he calls the Ecto-Zone. He then promises to tell the reader four stories about himself and the other Ghostbusters, especially about how their free time can be just as unusual as their ghostbusting jobs. The first story has Ray Stantz go back to Toad Island, remembering that he once met a mermaid while he was lost. In the present time, he sees some punks throwing empty cans at his old friend and taunting her. Kenneth Grahame tries to stop the jerks, but they try to clobber him. Ray then saves the day by telling the bullies that they are being ugly and should go away. The next story has Peter Venkman dating Irena Cortez, who has changed into her werewolf form at an inopportune time. In the third story, Egon, Janine, and Shannon Phillips go to the circus, where they meet a troll. The troll explains that he was once a minion of Samhain, but was kicked out of trolldom after betraying the Spirit of Halloween. Egon then helps the troll escape. The final story has Winston go on a date, unaware that four gargoyles are trying to ruin everything. Fortunately, Slimer was always able to stop the four creeps before Winston went home. At that moment, the gargoyles tried to attack Slimer, only to be captured by Winston.
- The story is similar to the Twilight Zone television series, with Egon Spengler in the role of Rod Serling. It is interesting to note that the Twilight Zone is referenced in two episodes of Extreme Ghostbusters.
- This is the only time in Ghostbusters medium where a character(Egon) breaks the fourth wall.
- This comic borrows the front cover by Marvel on #29.
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- Ectocontainment has all pages scanned to make a pdf The Real Ghostbusters issue 19 (link).
- GBFans has all pages scanned to Real Ghostbusters Vol. 1 Issue 19.
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The Health and Behavior Assessment and Intervention CPT Codes
by Government Relations Staff
June 7, 2005 — Effective January 1, 2002, new billing codes designed to capture behavioral services provided to patients to address physical health problems became effective. There are six health and behavior codes, two for assessment procedures and four that reflect intervention services. There is one code for the initial assessment of the patient and another for a reassessment. The intervention codes are for services with an individual, a group, a family including the patient and a family without the patient present.
Since the inception of the codes, APA has been tracking their progress with both Medicare and private insurance. The increase in Medicare claims from 2002 to 2003 was spectacular as the number of health and behavior services billed by psychologists more than tripled in one year. As a result of this tremendous growth psychologists received $4.5 million more in Medicare payments for health and behavior services in 2003. We expect the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to release new information on the utilization of the health and behavior codes by psychologists in 2004 before the end of the summer.
We have also seen a steady increase in the number of private insurance carriers reimbursing for services under the codes. At this time last year we knew of 10 private carriers who were paying for health and behavior services; now the list has grown to 18 and includes the following companies:
- Aetna
- Anthem BC/BS
- BC/BS of Alabama, Missouri, North Carolina, North Dakota and Rhode Island
- CareFirst BC/BS
- Cigna
- Fortis
- Humana
- Mid-Atlantic Medical Services
- Mutual of Omaha
- Nationwide Mutual
- QualChoice
- RISKCO (Virginia)
- River Quest PPO (St. Louis, MO)
- WPPA (Wichita, KS)
We are aware that some psychologists are still encountering difficulty in billing for health and behavior services, especially with private insurance carriers. Any psychologist who needs assistance in resolving billing problems under the codes should contact the APA Practice Directorate's Government Relations office at (202) 336-5889.