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Supergroup Sweet & Lynch set to release Only To Rise in January, Pre-order Now!
Posted: December 2, 2014 in '80s Rock, Band, Entertainment, music, New Music, New Release, Pledge Music, rock
Tags: Brian Tichy, George Lynch, James Lomenzo, Michael Sweet, music, New Release, Rock, Rock n Roll, Sweet & Lynch
What do you get when you combine the signature power and alluring vocals of Michael Sweet and the amazing guitar shredding of George Lynch, the extraordinary bass action of James Lomenzo and the ever spectacular precision drumming of Brian Tichy? You get an album, a MUST HAVE ALBUM. The new project is called Sweet & Lynch and they are set to release their new album, Only To Rise on January 27th.
You can be one of the the first to get your hands on this highly anticipated masterpiece by heading over to their Pledge Music page http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/sweetlynch and get your order in. You not only can order their album, but there are lots of other pledges where you can obtain Sweet & Lynch merch, autographed lithograph, signed vinyls and even the Ultimate Fan Pack. There is something for everyone's budget on there, so check it out and spread the word about Sweet & Lynch.
Check out their song, The Wish and get completely hooked!
I love this track as it brings a fresh new life to the 80's rock that we all fell in love with without feeling dated. It has a killer guitar solo and vocals that just grab your attention and have you fully engaged with full throttle to rock! This is one sweet rock band that definitely proves Rock n Roll is not dead, far from it with these iconic musicians at the helm.
Make sure to visit their social media sites and stay up to date on their latest news. We will see if we can bring you an interview soon too to find out more about Only To Rise and hopefully with the release right around NAMM time, who knows, maybe a show in the works? Fingers crossed!!!
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SweetLynch
Twitter: https://twitter.com/michaelhsweet
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lynchrocks
PledgeMusic: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/sweetlynch
Blue October SWAY concert review by guest contributor by Mark Iman
Posted: November 19, 2014 in Band, Concerts, Entertainment, music, Pledge Music, rock, Tour
Tags: Band, Blue October, Concert, Mark Iman, music, PledgeMusic, Review, Sway, Tour
by Guest Contributor Mark Iman, MarkImanConcertReview.blogspot.com
November 12, 2014 kicked off the final installment of touring for Blue October's most recent album, SWAY, at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, Maryland. Starting the evening off was Harvard Of The South, a side project created by Blue Octobers Justin Furstenfeld, Matt Noveskey, Jeremy Furstenfeld and longtime collaborator and friend Steve Schiltz of Hurricane Bells and Longwave. The band recently released a 5 song EP titled Miracle and is currently available at the shows. I made sure to grab my copy and have a hard time switching to anything else. It has a great old school grunge feel only with less teenage angst. As I heard someone in the crowd state "Imagine if Pearl Jam, Nirvana, and Smashing Pumpkins had an illegitimate love child, this would be it." Being that all the bands listed are a staple in music history I see no better way to compliment them and look forward to hearing more music in the future.
The show started with a brief video telling everyone about the upcoming LIVE album and documentary that has been in the works for the past several years. The band is working on a pledgemusic campaign to make it possible for the fans to help participate in its creation. Currently they are 82% funded with little over a week left. For more information and to pledge please click the link at the bottom of the page.
Once the band took the stage it was a no holds barred roller coaster of emotion, but with a new dynamic that I had never seen from them before. Rocking through the set with a confidence that was reassuring to the crowd, lead singer Justin Furstenfeld made it clear that the band would be covering a lot of material spanning the length of Blue October's discography while focusing on the albums Foiled-Sway. At which point the crowd went ballistic. I cannot describe the Jekyl and Hyde way in which Justin can turn on and off his aggression during songs like Say It and Light You Up to bring it back to his softer side with Congratulations. To watch him reign himself in and mentally as well as physically work through the emotions before proceeding, shows the maturity and calmness that he has embraced in life now.
It is no longer the Justin show. This has been my 9th time seeing Blue October but it may as well have been my first. Although the music was the same and the band members have not changed, it felt like I was watching someone new. From the playful interactions between each other to Justin egging on the crowd by asking us to sing along or telling one of his anecdotes to get us laughing, from start to finish it was obvious that everyone is in a better place.
Many Thanks go out to everyone in the band for making the first night special for all of us in attendance. Justin, Ryan, Matt, Ceb and Jeremy your music has touch the lives of so many and we appreciate what you do. We cannot wait to hear what is in store for the future and since Justin said "I'll be doing this Blue October thing 'til I am like 90!" we will hold you to it.
http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/blueoctoberfilm
Website: www.blueoctober.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/blueoctober
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blueoctober
The Grammy Museum and American Express announce An Evening With Dave Mason
Posted: August 20, 2014 in Bands, Concerts, Entertainment, Guitarist, Los Angeles, music, New Music, New Release, Pledge Music, Singer, Songwriter, Tour
Tags: American Express, Dave Mason, Grammy Museum, guitarist, music, PledgeMusic, singer, songwriter, Traffic
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee and TRAFFIC co-founding member–will make a special appearance at The GRAMMY Museum® in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday, September 16. Presented by American Express®, "An Evening With Dave Mason" will feature MASON discussing his musical journey which spans over 37 years encompassing producing, performing, songwriting and being considered one of rock's great guitar players, along with a brief acoustic performance. Tickets are on sale now at www.AXS.com, charge by phone at 888-9AXS-TIX or 888-929-7849.
GRAMMY Museum's Clive Davis Theater will play host to 200 lucky fans as they join MASON and host Scott Goldman, Vice President of The GRAMMY Foundation and MusiCares, to discussMASON's songwriting process, beginnings in the band TRAFFIC, acclaimed solo career, current touring project "Dave Mason's Traffic Jam," his latest release, FUTURE'S PAST (released May 13, 2014) and much more.
Dave is touring the U.S. with his new project billed as "DAVE MASON'S TRAFFIC JAM." Dates are currently listed as:
DATE CITY VENUE
Sat 8/23 Modesto, CA X-Fest (Downtown)
Fri 8/29 Charles Town, WV Hollywood Casino – The Event Center
Wed 9/17 Malibu, CA Smothers Theatre
Thu 9/18 Santa Clarita, CA Santa Clarita PAC – College of the Canyons
Sat 9/20 Long Beach, CA Richard & Karen Carpenter PAC
Sun 9/21 El Cajon, CA Sycuan Casino
Wed 9/24 Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA Sunset Center Theater
Fri 9/26 Vacaville, CA Theatre Deville
Sat 9/27 Napa, CA Uptown Theatre
Tue 9/30 Livermore, CA Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center
Wed 10/1 Saratoga, CA Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center
Thu 10/2 Saratoga, CA Carriage House Theatre, Montalvo Arts Center
Fri 10/3 Grass Valley, CA The Center for the Arts
Sat 10/4 Stateline, NV Harrah's Tahoe South Shore Room
Sat 10/11 Laughlin, NV Harrah's Laughlin – Fiesta Room
Tue 10/14 Green Valley, AZ West Social Center
Thu 10/16 Flagstaff, AZ Orpheum Theater
Sat 10/18 Taos, NM KTaos Solar Center
Wed 10/22 Austin, TX One World Theatre
Thu 10/23 Dallas, TX Granada Theater
Fri 10/24 San Antonio, TX Tobin Center for the Performing Arts
Wed 10/29 The Woodlands, TX Dosey Doe
Thu 10/30 The Woodlands, TX Dosey Doe
Sat 11/1 Bartlett, TN Bartlett Performing Arts & Conf. Center
Mon 11/3 Madisonville, TN Hiwassee College Auditorium
Wed 11/5 Chattanooga, TN UTC Fine Arts Center
Thu 11/6 Jackson, TN Ned R. McWherter West Tennessee Cultural Arts Center
Fri 11/7 Frankfort, KY Grand Theatre-Frankfort
Sat 11/8 Asheville, NC The Orange Peel
Sun 11/9 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
Thu 11/13 Durham, NC Carolina Theatre
Fri 11/14 Charlotte, NC Bluementhal Performing Arts Center
Sat 11/15 High Point, NC High Point Theatre
Tue 11/18 Gainesville, FL Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
Wed 11/19 West Palm Beach, FL Raymond F. Kravis Center/Dreyfoos Hall
Thu 11/20 Fort Pierce, FL Sunrise Theatre
Fri 11/21 Fort Lauderdale, FL Amaturo Theater
Fri 11/28 Harrisburg, PA Whitaker Center – Sunoco Performance Theater
Sat 11/29 Collingswood, NJ Scottish Rite Auditorium
Sun 11/30 Annapolis, MD Ram's Head
Make sure to visit his social media sites so you can stay up to date on the latest news.
Website: www.davemasonmusic.com/home
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DaveMasonMusic
Twitter: https://twitter.com/davemasonband
Take a listen to the first single Say F*ck it off Buckcherry's new album
Posted: August 6, 2014 in Bands, Concerts, Entertainment, Hard Rock, music, New Music, New Release, Pledge Music, rock, Tour
Buckcherry have just a little less than two weeks away from the release of their new EP which is titled…. FUCK. FUCK is set for an August 19th release! You may be wondering about the title but there is much more to the four letter word title. "This is a tribute to the word 'fuck'… Over the years, we've been told so many times to get away from the honesty that makes this band special. It's a part of who I am. It's not about the profanity itself; it's about using it cleverly." – Josh Todd posted on their Facebook page.
One thing is for sure, I am really looking forward to this EP. Buckcherry have always made the music that they wanted to and have maintained to keep the honesty in their music. So I applaud them again for continuing to keep themselves grounded and making great music! Pre-orders for the new EP are available now by visiting here: iTunes Pre-Order.
Are you ready for the first single? Well here it is, take a listen to Say Fuck It:
We are excited to see that Buckcherry are returning to this year's Monster Energy Aftershock in Sacramento on September 14th. They will also be performing on this year's lineup for Rockstar Uproar Festival. More details on Uproar Festival here. We just caught Buckcherry earlier this year when they came to the Heritage Theater in Campbell, CA. You can check out our full coverage of their Campbell, California show here.
If you are like me I bet you can't wait to hear some new Buckcherry! What about checking out some cover songs by Buckcherry and joining their SINGLES CLUB!!!! Buckcherry have recently launched their "Singles Club" via PledgeMusic, where fans have the opportunity to sign up for a 6-month subscription to receive new, unreleased cover songs the band has recently recorded. Learn more here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/buckcherry. You can also get your pre-order for FUCK as a pledge on there too. The first cover song was a great cover of one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs, Beast of Burden.
So get ready for Buckcherry and their new EP and to catch them out on tour soon. In case you missed it, check out our quick chat with Stevie D. at last year's Aftershock Festival:
Also check out the tribute videos that Rockin Ryan put together with footage and photos from their sets at the Heritage Theater and Aftershock:
Buckcherry's new EP F*ck is set for an August 19th release!
Posted: July 16, 2014 in Bands, Concerts, Entertainment, Hard Rock, music, New Music, New Release, Pledge Music, rock, Tour
Tags: Band, Buckcherry, Concert, entertainment, music, new EP, Pledge Music, Rock, Rock n Roll, Tour
Buckcherry have just announced that their new EP which is titled…. FUCK is set for an August 19th release! You may be wondering about the title but there is much more to the four letter word title. "This is a tribute to the word 'fuck'… Over the years, we've been told so many times to get away from the honesty that makes this band special. It's a part of who I am. It's not about the profanity itself; it's about using it cleverly." – Josh Todd posted on their Facebook page.
One thing is for sure, I am really looking forward to this EP. Buckcherry have always made the music that they wanted to and have maintained to keep the honesty in their music. So I applaud them again for continuing to keep themselves grounded and making great music! Pre-orders for the new EP are available now by visiting here: http://buckcherry.com/fuck-ep-out-aug-19-pre-order-now.
If you are like me I bet you can't wait to hear some new Buckcherry! What about checking out some cover songs by Buckcherry and joining their SINGLES CLUB!!!! Buckcherry have recently launched their "Singles Club" via PledgeMusic, where fans have the opportunity to sign up for a 6-month subscription to receive new, unreleased cover songs the band has recently recorded. Learn more here: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/buckcherry. You can also get your pre-order for FUCK as a pledge on there too. Hurry though because the first cover song is out and is a great cover of one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs, Beast of Burden.
Traedonya begins pre-order on her new EP and delights you with her Funk Hipopera!
Posted: May 24, 2014 in Hip Hop, New Music, New Release, Pledge Music
Tags: entertainment, Funk, Hip Hop, hip hop funk, Jazz, jazzy vibe, music, new music, New York, Traedonya
Let me introduce you to Traedonya. Traedonya was raised in New York City and she surrounded herself with all kinds of music from Hip Hop, Funk and Rock. She truly is a lover of a variety of music and with those influences has created her own unique sound. Traedonya has been dubbed the 'The Bride of New Funk Hipopera" and she surely lives up to that title with her fusion of hip hop, jazz, and her vocal range.
Traedonya has launched her pre-orders for her new EP, "High Fructose Corn Syrup" through a PledgeMusic campaign. Traedonya says, "I don't believe in genres, I believe in the song married with the music. As I am in life, I wish not to be placed in a box with my music. I am excited to be working with Pledge Music on my solo debut project. After having the meeting with them, I felt this was a perfect marriage. This is the 2014 music industry!
As part of the campaign there will be various merchandise and perks for fans to get involved. Pledge Music gives her fans and those who are interested in the artist to go thru the whole journey with TRAEDONYA! This will allow all pledgers to become patrons of the arts in modern society. In ancient Rome, this was how artists were allowed to bring their passion and vision to life.
As part of the campaign TRAEDONYA! will launch her personal brand with her own line of Hip Opera Gloves featuring her new logo. We were seeking a product that would be a fit for TRAEDONYA! and felt that gloves were a perfect because over the years she always wore them. It was a natural extension who she truly is. The gloves are tasteful yet current in fashion Prohibition's Ambassador At Large A.K Smith-Ford. Prohibition has partnered with http://thefuturehasnomemory.com to assist in the roll out of the Gloves.
The Campaign just isn't about TRAEDONYA!. An integral part of this campaign will be the St. Judes Childrens Hospital. The mission of St Judes research is to advance cures and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family's ability to pay for care. This has made me very happy to be able to assist this great institution says TRAEDONYA!.
Head over to http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/highfructosecornsyrup and get your Pledge in today! To support this announcement TRAEDONYA! is officially releasing Family Affair. Download the song from the link here: HTTP://hulkshare.com/TRAEDONYA
Check out the video for the song Family Affair here:
We will keep you updated as to the release date of the EP and will also try and get an interview with Traedonya so we can all get to know more about this sensational new artist!
Website: www.traedonya.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/traedonya
Twitter: www.twitter.comom/traedonya
Youtube: www.youtube.com/traedonyatourstation
Instagram: www.instagram.com/traedonya
PledgeMusic: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/highfructosecornsyrup
Dave Mason premieres new version of Dear Mr. Fantasy from forthcoming new album
Posted: April 17, 2014 in Bands, Concerts, Entertainment, Guitarist, New Music, New Release, Pledge Music, Singer, Songwriter, Tour
Tags: Dave Mason, guitarist, music, New Release, PledgeMusic, singer, songwriter, Traffic
The iconic singer/songwriter/guitarist Dave Mason, the co-founding member of Traffic has premiered a new version of Traffic's song Dear Mr. Fantasy. The song is off the rock and roll hall of fame inductee's forthcoming new album, Future's Past which features new versions of some of his classic songs plus new material is set for a May 13th Release on Something Music/MRI.
You can listen to the re-interpreted version of Dear Mr. Fantasy here:
"It ["Dear Mr. Fantasy"] came about redoing the chords," MASON tells USATODAY.com of the bluesy rewrite. "I was doing some shows and I was trying to think of something to make it a little more interesting, so I just started playing around with it. I put it in a minor key instead of a major key, and I sort of developed it from there. Of the new album release, MASON says, "There is a version of 'World in Changes' that is absolutely nothing like the original and there is a great live version that is absolutely beautiful of 'Sad and Deep as You.' There are two or three songs that were on a CD called 26 Letters 12 Notes that I did seven years ago, a Robert Johnson song, 'Come On in My Kitchen' and a brand new song called 'That's Freedom.'"
Fans of Dave Mason can join in helping market and promote by joining Dave's Pledge Music Campaign. In addition to receiving the expanded new album package, they could receive a variety of exclusives like signed posters, vinyl, tour shirts, tour vest and much more. Make sure to take a look and get your pledge in.
Dave is touring the U.S. with his new project billed as "DAVE MASON'S TRAFFIC JAM." The tour kicked off in January and will continue through the rest of the year, with new dates being added. Dates are currently listed as:
at 4/19 Scottsdale, AZ Talking Stick Resort Showroom
Tue 4/22 Denver, CO The Soiled Dove Underground
Fri 4/25 Edwardsville, IL Wildey Theatre
^Sat 4/26 Naperville, IL Wentz Concert Hall
Sun 4/27 St. Charles, IL Arcada Theatre
Thu 5/1 Newark, OH The Midland Theater
Fri 5/2 Springfield, OH Clark State Com College / Performing Arts Center
Sat 5/3 Kent, OH The Kent Stage
Sun 5/4 Geneva, NY Smith Opera House
Thu 5/8 Knoxville, TN Bijou Theatre
Fri 5/9 Lewisburg, WV Carnegie Hall Inc. / Hamilton Auditorium
Sat 5/10 Rocky Mount, VA Harvester Performance Center
Fri 5/16 Woonsocket, RI Stadium Theatre Performing Arts Center
Sat 5/17 Glenside, PA Keswick Theatre
Sun 5/18 Newtown, NJ The Newton Theatre
Wed 5/21 Boston, MA The Wilbur Theatre
^Thu 5/22 Beacon, NY Towne Crier Café
^ indicates Dave Mason Band dates
Make sure to visit his social media sites so you can stay up to date on the latest tour dates and album news.
Jettblack working on new album, get your pre-order in NOW!
Posted: March 27, 2014 in '80s Rock, Bands, Hard Rock, Interview, New Music, Pledge Music, rock, Sunset Strip, Uncategorized
Tags: 80's rock, entertainment, Jettblack, music, new music, PledgeMusic, rock and roll, Rock Band, rock lovers
We have told you many times about Jettblack and I hope you have been listening. These rockers from High Wycomble, England are ready to dominate once again with a new album on the horizon. They have a PledgeMusic campaign to finish their new album and there are a whole bunch of fun items to get. The best thing is that you will have your pre-order in for the new album and won't miss it. We ran an interview with them a while back that you can check out here.
If you are not familiar with them, Jettblack is an awesome high powered, energy driven rock band that you are going to fall in love with. I promise on this one! These guys deliver the goods and by the way, it is so nicely packaged… Well these guys have been touring Europe and we are waiting for our turn to Rock out to this fantastic band. Their music has everything from hot guitar licks, smoking riffs, melodic chorus, heavy basslines and rockin drums. Then you add all the incredible vocals and in time you are rocking heavy and asking yourself why didn't you hear these guys sooner. Well better, sooner than never. Jettblack is Will Stapleton on Vocals, Guitar, Tom Wright on Bass, Matt Oliver on Drums, and Jon Dow on Vocals, Guitar. What a chemistry they bring together. Truly a union of amazing talent.
So head on over to their PledgeMusic campaign page and see what you perk or reward you are going to get for your pledge. Check out just a few of the fun items up for pledge:
Signed copy of the new album
Handwritten lyric sheet
Acoustic Skype concert
Attend a Jettblack Rehearsal
Play on the new album
Be in the next video
Also make sure when you are there to watch their Pledge Video, it is one of the best ones I have seen! These guys have such a great personality on and off the stage. You can also hear some snippets of the new songs there as well. So get pledging and let's see this album soon! I will leave you with a couple of their videos.
Website: www.JettblackUK.om
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jettblackUK
Facebook: www.facebook.com/JETTBLACKUK
Merchandise: http://jettblack.bigcartel.com/
Pledge Music: http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/jettblack
Itunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/raining-rock/id543728959


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Home/Environment/Florida's python problem continues after amateur hunters, attention fade away
Florida's python problem continues after amateur hunters, attention fade away
By Stefanie Cainto, Ashira Morris, Alex Catalano, Samantha Shavell and Wade Millward
May 2, 2013	Environment
Florida has been invaded.
The python invasion sparked worldwide interest after Florida officials invited hunters from across the United States to try their luck catching pythons for cash prizes in the 2013 Python Challenge, which ran from Jan. 12 to Feb. 10.
And though the hunters carried guns and machetes, it wasn't actually about killing snakes.
It's likely you've driven past them on Alligator Alley or Tamiami Trail, but it's unlikely you've seen one of them — one of those Burmese pythons.
They can grow to 18 feet. They can hold their breath longer than an alligator. They can even eat an alligator.
Once a part of Florida's pet trade, they now threaten South Florida's natural ecology, and they're slowly slithering up the state.
Related: Beyond pythons, Florida termed "cesspool" of world's invasive species problem
When the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission, or the FWC, and outside consultants sat down to think of a way to address South Florida's python problem, they knew hunters alone couldn't solve things.
The hunters removed a total of 68 snakes, almost as many eggs as a snake lays in a single spring.
Still, the organizers decided that inviting hunters to enter into the Python Challenge was the best course of action. They needed hunters to help collect and use research data to tell the world about the python problem and their possible solutions to it.
What they got was high-profile media coverage as far away as England and a better understanding of these conservation areas: Francis A. Taylor, Big Cypress, Holey and Rotenberger.
Now that the challenge is over, researchers are analyzing the snakes and their habits.
https://www.wuft.org/news/files/2013/04/Research-Audio-Segment_01.mp3
Searching for data, solutions
Frank Mazzotti watched five hunters walk past one of his radio-tagged snakes. Each hunter intently searched the ground while the snake watched safely from its nook above in a tree.
Mazzotti, a researcher at UF's Research and Education Center, headed the team that provided science support for the python challenge.
The wildlife ecology professor wanted to test how difficult it was for hunters to find their prey.
Burmese pythons aren't poisonous and have launched only a few unprovoked attacks, said Jenny Eckles, a non-native species biologist for the FWC. But their sharp teeth can cause tissue damage to someone trying to catch them.
Brian Smith is a contractor for the U.S. Geological Services, a government agency that surveys the country's landscape, natural hazards and natural resources. He said pythons can outlast alligators in holding their breath under water.
Tom Hobbs (center) and his son, Judah, drove from Selmer, Tenn., to participate in the challenge.
Alligators can stay submerged for an hour-and-a-half, pythons can go longer. Pythons are exothermic creatures that don't need to burn a lot of oxygen to maintain body temperature.
Hunting pythons into extinction is seen as ineffective by researchers. But in-lab methods have proved fruitless as well. Smith said USGS researchers once thought introducing pythons' to salt water as hatchlings — a python's most vulnerable state — might hold the key to extermination.
To their surprise, the hatchlings survived.
Smith said the USGS research shows as the number of pythons in the Everglades rises, the native species' populations decrease.
Marsh rabbits, for example, used to be one of the park's most common species, Smith said. Park records show that as many as 40 rabbits could be seen in a single night, but there hasn't been a rabbit sighting in nearly eight years.
Researchers need more data before the pythons' effect on the environment is certain, Eckles said, because earlier studies didn't take into account the Everglades' water levels, which could have caused the animals to scatter across the marsh.
Lucky Cole, who has lived off Loop Road in Big Cypress National Preserve since 1965, said he's seen the population of native species drop.
He and his wife Maureen have four cats, two chickens and two turkeys. All of the animals freely roam their property, but lately, they haven't seen the deer, raccoons, possums, rabbits, squirrels, birds, hogs and bobcats that also used to frequent his backyard.
There's no way of knowing how many pythons live in Florida and hunt those animal populations, Mazzotti said. Researchers may give a number in the tens of thousands when estimating the population, just as they do for alligators.
But they really mean is it's impossible to know.
He said pythons are too hard to track for an accurate count, but if not contained, they will spread north.
Eckles said pythons have been in the Everglades since the 1960s. The first ones emerged as illegally released pets.
Although there are laws against releasing non-native animals in Florida, no one has ever been prosecuted, said Kenny Krysko, a UF biologist specializing in snakes.
"It's a law that has no teeth," he said.
"Warriors of the rainbow"
When Warren Geffre heard about the challenge, he signed up for the event with his 16-year-old son, Alex.
Geffre, a National Park Service administrative officer from Naples, has known about the shrinking numbers of native Everglades animals, and said he noticed the lack of birds.
"Something seems strange," he said, "since this is the time that birds migrate."
Geffre heeded the call of his Blackfoot ancestry, which he said emphasizes working to protect the Earth.
Florida Wildlife Commissionar Ron Bergeron speaks at the 2013 Python Challenge award ceremony about preserving and restoring the Everglades back to its natural state.
"In our culture, there's a saying," said Geffre, one of nearly 1,600 who signed up to hunt in the challenge. "When the Earth is sick, the animals will disappear, and when that happens, the warriors of the rainbow will come to save them."
People of all backgrounds will come together, the saying goes, and do their part when nature is threatened.
For the challenge, each participant paid a $25 registration fee. The money paid for challenge prizes, certificates and an award ceremony held at the challenge's end. It also went to the Wildlife Foundation of Florida, a nonprofit that works with the FWC to fund projects, Eckles said.
Kyle Wheeler, 29, and Matt Person, 20, of Melbourne, Fl., search for snakes along Levy 67 in the Everglades.
Bob Davis, a federal veterans' claims appeals judge who splits his time between St. Petersburg and Washington, D.C., hunted in the event's last five days. Because of the challenge, he registered for a regular hunting license and will return if there is a challenge next year.
Richard Buzzella, who carried Nesquik in his left back pocket and a saber on his right hip, registered for the challenge with his son, Nick. He said he plans to apply for a hunting license this year.
Born and raised in Miami, Buzzella said he used to spend time in the Everglades and credits the challenge with getting him back out there.
"It's nice out here," he said. "I'd forgotten what it's like."
Neither Davis nor the Buzzellas caught a python.
"A Greater Understanding"
Every day between Jan. 12 and Feb. 10, researchers sat at check-in stations where they collected and measured the pythons before storing them in foam coolers.
The harvested snakes went to the University of Florida, where researchers took python samples for analysis, Mazzotti said. These included the reproductive tracts, guts, liver, fat and muscle tissue.
As of April 24, he said he was unable to make statements about what was found, but said he is close to doing so. He said he's very happy with the information they received.
Researchers even flew in from places like the San Diego Zoo to take sperm samples for future preservation projects.
Bill Booth with a python his team caught.
Snake carcasses and skins were returned to hunters with no requirement to disclose what the parts would be used for, Mazzotti said.
Bill Booth, who caught five snakes with his team and won the category for nonprofessional hunters, preserved his snakeskins and kept them as trophies of his participation in the challenge.
During the challenge, he worked with the National Geographic Channel on producing a show about hunting the Burmese python. It's tentatively set to air in June, he said.
In the meantime, hunters with python permits can hunt pythons during the FWC's regular hunting seasons, which Eckles said stretch from August to April for those with a hunting license and wildlife management area permit. The FWC might revamp the permitting process from the lessons learned during the challenge.
The commission may also make the tracking a permanent fixture, she said. An annual hunt could be in the works, but nothing's set in stone.
Still, Carli Segelson, FWC spokeswoman in West Palm Beach, saw early success from the challenge.
"We want people to know that releasing animals into the wild has a negative impact on the population," she said. "There's becoming a greater understanding of that."
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This hands-on workshop will guide participants through key steps and questions used in evaluation of data management and Earth Science projects. A central goal is to make evaluation more accessible and useful. Participants will learn the distinctive features of evaluating Earth Science data and applied research projects such as the need to demonstrate contribution, not attribution, and value of assessing program progress as a stepping stone to longer-term impact. They will learn how to identify users of evaluation and the ways the evaluation can be used.
With the help of a unique five-question matrix, participants will be able better define how their programs are meant to work and plan an appropriate evaluation. They will also learn how to select evaluation design, measurements, and methods. Several data collection tools applicable to the data management and applied research projects will be presented, including contribution analysis, research panels, and crowd sourcing. The session will incorporate case studies and plenty of discussion and interaction in small groups.
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Authored by saugustine on Mar 7 2019, 2:06 PM.
This should address the issues from the previous version.
Update tests for new --unwindlib semantics.
I think it's confusing to call LLVM's libunwind library compiler-rt since they're two separate and distinct LLVM subprojects. Is there a plan to move LLVM's libunwind into compiler-rt?
Also, note that -lunwind may actually be 'non-GNU libunwind'. Both libraries normally use the same name.
There have been suggestions to rename LLVM's libunwind to avoid this confusion in the past, maybe it's time to do it?
The issues with the name "libunwind" come up pretty much constantly, and various people have proposed renaming llvm's libunwind (as someone did when commenting on v1 of this patch), but it never really goes anywhere. Others have suggested rolling it into compiler-rt, which makes quite a bit of sense to me, but is not really something I can do.
libgcc_s.so.1 doesn't call itself libunwind, but it provides the unwind symbols. As does libgcc_eh.
If you bootstrap clang with -DLLVM_ENABLE_PROJECTS="...,libunwind", then clang tries to use llvm's libunwind in its testing if -lunwind appears on the link line. It isn't built in enough variants to even run the test suite. For example, it would be missing a normal x86 abi build. Compare that to compiler-rt, which builds a copy for every variant.
So solving libunwind's name problem is out of scope for this patch.
Perhaps the best thing to do here is to make the option an actual driver argument string, rather than name an. --unwindlib="-lunwind" or "-lgcc_s".
There are various plans, see, for example, https://reviews.llvm.org/D57128.
But the current plan is to wait until after things solidify on github, and I would prefer not to wait on this patch.
And I can't handle this as a string, because the libgcc unwind library changes depending on whether the link is static and so on.
So I think this patch as written is the best option, unless just adding "libunwind" instead of compiler-rt is people's choice. But which libunwind gets found is highly system dependent.
rsmith: Do you have any comments on the naming here?
"--unwindlib=compiler-rt" has the disadvantage that the llvm-unwind lib isn't inside compiler-rt (although there are hints of moving it there).
Using --unwindlib="some-string-passed-exactly-as-is-to-the-linker" cannot work because we should use "-lgcc_s" for some links and "-lgcc_eh" for others.
-lunwind has the disadvantage of picking up whatever libunwind happens to be first in the search path. Fixing that would require moving llvm-libunwind into compiler-rt and naming it differently.
Is this really a problem? Don't forget the dynamic loader is going to use the first library in the search path as well.
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Change option argument --unwindlib= from "compiler-rt" to "libunwind".
If there are no objections to this going in, I'm going to submit tomorrow morning.
I'm hoping for your review because the last version of this change broke your builds. Any comments?
Current users of --rtlib=compiler-rt use a wide variety of platform specific methods of getting their libunwind symbols, and anything else breaks their build.
So the default when --rtlib=compiler-rt is no unwind library at all.
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Is it possible to either fix the test or revert this change? Our builders have been failing for second day. I would have sent a patch but I'm out-of-office until next week.


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Having to compete with larger companies doesn't phase owner, J. Herbert Webb. "This industry is driven by the 'Big Boys,' who provide service nationally as well as records management," he explains. "I enjoy the challenge to prove that we can provide superior service for a competitive price … and providing my employees with an enjoyable place to work."
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Lifetime Gloucester County resident, Patrick Dunn founded the company in 2001 with 15 years in the landscape industry under his belt and a goal to provide homeowners with quality, per-sonalized and reliable landscape services.
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Whether you are ready to sell or purchase a business, or are just thinking long-term, now is the time to start planning. The Rivera Group at Tannenbaum is a full-service professional business intermediary that creatively assists lower mid-market firms to sell or grow via acquisition or merger.
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Sena's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut also wondered how holding the Lok Sabha and assembly polls simultaneously will benefit the country.
Shiv Sena's Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Raut.
MUMBAI: Taking potshots at the BJP on the 'one nation, one poll' proposal, the Shiv Sena today said it "may even propose to hold the elections simultaneously with those in the US and Russia."
"They (the BJP) may conduct the Lok Sabha and Assembly polls together. Or, they will hold the elections together with those in the US and Russia. You never know what will emerge out of the heads of top BJP leaders. What is the interest of the country in that (holding simultaneous polls)," he said.
BJP president Amit Shah has supported the idea of holding Lok Sabha and Assembly polls simultaneously, saying this will curb expenditure and also ensure that the nation is not in the "election mode" throughout the year.
Shah had also dubbed the opposition to the proposal as "politically motivated".
In a letter to the Law Commission, Shah had said his party explicitly believes that in a progressive democracy like India elections should be held at a fixed time and for a fixed tenure. This, he added, will help people's representatives carry out their duties effectively.
Though Sena is part of the BJP-led NDA, the two parties have had strained ties since they contested the last Assembly elections in Maharashtra separately in 2014.


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Limo therapy. Nothing but Borjomi and vegetables.
One-day limo therapy is recommended for those, who have overweight, various inflammatory processes, the removal of physical weakness and general inertia and as a remedy for depression. The absence of food restores the nervous system. Such starvation promotes healing after surgery, after gastro-intestinal and respiratory infections, especially with high fever.
The most convenient way is to take the last meal at 18-00 and the breakfast in a day. During treatment it is necessary to be in motion. During the daily fasting body passes on its internal endogenous nutrition. At first it uses the most easily absorbed things like fat and sugar and then a deep cleaning of organs and tissues begins. That is why after fasting adipose layers decrease, skin improves and the ulcers heal. Digestion and assimilation of nutrients improve.
You should not take vitamins and mineral complexes during the fasting. Because they should be taken only with food. One-day fasting doesn't require special preparatory steps, except sufficient water consumption — up to 3 liters. It would be better to take alkaline mineral water Borjomi. If you take common water, you can add 1 / 3 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. After the fasting you should eat light food, for example, salad with fresh vegetables (carrots and cabbage). You can use lemon or orange juice as seasoning. Such dish works on the intestines as a broom, cleaning the interior walls.
Immediately after the fasting do not eat meat, cheese, fish, nuts or seeds. Within two days after fasting do not eat any acidic food.
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Q: Many to many relation can get associated object I have a user and a school entity. This both entities have a many to many relation.
   class User
   {
    /**
     * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
     * @ORM\Id
     * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
     */
    private $id;

    /**
         * @ORM\ManyToMany(targetEntity="AppBundle\Entity\School")
         * @ORM\JoinTable(name="user_school",
         *      joinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="user_id", referencedColumnName="id")},
         *      inverseJoinColumns={@ORM\JoinColumn(name="school_id", referencedColumnName="id")}
         *      )
         */
        private $school;

        public function __construct()
        {
            $this->school = new ArrayCollection();
        }
    }

   class School
   {
       /**
         * @ORM\Column(type="integer")
         * @ORM\Id
         * @ORM\GeneratedValue(strategy="AUTO")
         */
         private $id;

        public function getId()
        {
            return $this->id;
        }
    }

If i call the method for retriving the school id in my controller like:
    public function indexAction(Request $request)
    {
        $user = $this->getUser();
        $school = $user->getSchool();
        echo $school->getId();
    }

I get the error message
Attempted to call an undefined method named "getId" of class "Doctrine\ORM\PersistentCollection"

Can someone give me hint , what i'm doing wrong?

A: Even though $user->getSchool(); is singular in method name, it returns a PersistentCollection - a collection of schools (since the relationship is ManyToMany). If you want to get a specific school's id, you would have to iterate through the schools, like so:
$scools = $user->getSchool()->toArray();
foreach ($scools as $scool) {
    // do something with $school
}

A: In the mapping you defined, User::$school is a ManyToMany, which means the result of getSchool will be a Collection of Schools, not a single School entity.
Two scenarios:

*

*A User can have multiple Schools. Then you probably should rename $school to $schools and getSchool to getSchools. And you can't call $user->getSchools()->getId() since $user->getSchools() is a Collection and does not have a getId method. Check @NoyGabay's answer for a way to access Schools ids.

*A User can only have one School. Then you did not define your mapping correctly; you wanted a ManyToOne instead of ManyToMany. Check Doctrine's documentation for association mapping.

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The Schumann Quartet will continue the music program of the Dubrovnik Summer Festival on Sunday, July 22nd, at 9.30 pm at the atrium of the Rector's Palace. Violinists Erik and Ken Schumann, violinist Liisa Randalu and cellist Mark Schumann make this acclaimed and award-winning quartet, who will perform the works of Haydn, Takemitsu and Schubert in front of the Festival audience.
"Personal and profound" (BBC Music Magazine): "With no ifs or buts, the 'Schumanns' are among the best quartets in the world" (SZ) and certainly "one of the most exciting string quartets of the present day" (Fono Forum) – this is how this ensemble is decribed. With a lot of charm, they avoid any attempt to categorize their sound, access to music or style, letting their music speak for itself, and the Festival audience will be able to experience that in the ambience of the Rector's Palace with a varied concert program.
The Schumann Quartet is currently in a three-year resident engagement at the Chamber Music Society in New York's Lincoln Center, which began in December 2016. They are expected to perform at the American tour and at festivals in South America, Italy and Switzerland and at the Salzburg Mozart Week Festival. They will also hold concerts in music centres such as London, Hamburg, Berlin, Amsterdam, Florence and Paris. On their latest album called "Landscapes", the quartet returns to their own roots by performing works by Haydn, Bartók, Takemitsu and Pärta. Received with enthusiasm both at home and abroad, the album has won numerous awards, such as German Recognition Award and five Diapason Awards, and BBC Music Magazine has included it in Editor's Choice. For their previous CD "Mozart / Ives / Verdi", Schumann Quartet won the "Newcomer Award" in 2016 at the BBC Music Magazine's award ceremony in London.
The tickets for the concert are available online and at the Box Office in the Festival Palace (Od Sigurate 1), every day from 9 am to 9.30 pm and at the entrance, in front of the Rector's Palace, two hours before the concert.


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01/29/2016 01/23/2016 Laurence Jones 1970s, Basking in Berkeley, Mercury
(Found In) Poet's Corner (Berkeley, California): 1973 Mercury Monterey Custom 2 Door Hardtop Coupe
The epitome of leviathan bulk during the excessive "Me" decade of the 1970's can be exemplified by the bulk of full-sized offerings from all Detroit Brands. You can't point a finger at any American Manufacturer without blaming the other for producing some of the most blatantly wasteful automobiles of all time, decidedly at the wrong time when it comes to market conditions.
No example shows a lack of ideas better than a 1973 Mercury Monterey 2 door hardtop coupe, however. Basically a super tanker on wheels, it spoke of everything possibly gone wrong with the traditional American Car. In the huge shadow that this porcine parkway pounder cast, many a sea change in the American Automotive landscape started to take root.
This is not to say that these beasts weren't successful in their time. It's a good reminder to oneself that the Monterey Custom was the middle child in the fat cat Full Sized Mercury line up for 1973. There was of course the hidden headlamp, Lincoln Continental aping Marquis & Marquis Brougham that commanded a heftier premium.
Nevermind the fact that these beheamoths sat upon a line up of including the mushy Montego, corpulent Cougar, a Comet and a Bobcat just for good measure. Mercury Motor Division had a fine selection of fancier Fords to offer you to keep your Bell Bottoms safe in. The variety belied an ugly truth. Underneath it all, there wasn't an American designed Ford Motor Company product that wasn't related to each other in some way.
The magic of body, chassis and engine sharing with minimal trim differences between the 3 major brands meant. In reality, there was little incentive to choose a Monterey over a comparably equipped Galaxie other than a smidge more chrome for your extra dollars.
By 1973, it did bring the 351 Windsor V8 as standard equipment over the 302 cube version in the carbon copy Ford. However, these were the first few years of labyrith level emissions equipment performing S&M bondage on a number of formerly stout V8s.
Between the restrictions of rubber and saddled with nearly 2 1/2 tons of steel, the base V8's could barely accomplish the missions they once were so readily capable of. More people stepped up to the Marquis with it's standard 429 Cube unit to go with the more sound insulation and more foreboding styling.
Although the price prince Monterey wouldn't accrue the bulk of big Mercury sales and would disappear from the store shelves in 1974, the behemoth big Ford & Mercury of the 1970's were one of the most successful automotive chassis designs ever produced. In their 10 years on the market, nearly 8 million examples went to more than satisfied customers. That makes the basic chassis design the 2nd most popular in the United States of all time, right behind Ford's own Model T.
There's no denying, despite their numerous deficiencies they had some charms. Among them, they are resolutely stout cars, with rather understressed drivetrains and an isolationist experience worthy of the New England wilderness. They're the biggest, but not necessarily brightest blowout of the traditional American Full sized car, as by the dawning of the new Morning In America, Full sizers returned to a bit more rational size and scope. The world faced dwindling resources after two Energy Scares during the life of these cars, rendering such needless bulk obsolete.
There'll never be another general purpose, common car so large. Whether that's something to grieve is a matter of taste. Yet, you can't help but be charmed, on some level, by the last of the not so fancy Fat Fords from the early 1970's.
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(Found On) Solano Avenue (Albany, California) : 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne 4 Door Sedan


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Ordering page for radio and other stuff is here http://www.amantesdoradio.com.br/loja_on-line.htm#rgp3 but I don't see any RGP3 listed???
On the other hand, you could build antenna similar to the RGP3. Have a look at this post. There is an English translation of how to build the RGP3.
i was hoping to try and build one.
the only one i have seen is £250 for ferrite rods alone!
not sure how critical rods are.
i can manage to build stick with wife's help but i only have one arm had stroke i am a bit wary of going inside the box a new tekson pl380!
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SlideRocket was an online presentation platform that lets users create, manage, share and measure presentations. SlideRocket is provided via a SaaS model. The company was acquired by VMware in April 2011, who sold it to ClearSlide, a similar SaaS application, in March 2013. They are no longer offering independent signups, as the platform is being integrated into ClearSlide.

History
SlideRocket was founded in Jan 2006,  and launched as a private beta in March 2008 at the Under The Radar Spring event. A public beta was announced in September 2008 followed shortly by public release on October 28, 2008. SlideRocket is most commonly credited with inventing the PResuMÉ or Presentation Résumé in early 2009.

On April 26, 2011, SlideRocket was acquired by VMware. On March 5, 2013, VMware sold SlideRocket to ClearSlide.
SlideRocket is based in San Francisco.

Awards
 Underneath the Radar Spring 2008, Category Winner, Audience Choice, Judges Choice.
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See also
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Communication Design
Rich Internet application
SaaS

References

External links
 Official site
 Official blog
 An Interview with Chuck Dietrich, CEO, SlideRocket

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About An Italian style 1970s round smoky gray glass dining table which could possibly be the work of Fontana Arte. The base is made of two pieces of curved glass that have chic brass fittings on the base and top. The bases measure 28.25" high x 12" wide each. The round glass top 1/2" thick and is 54" round. Details OF THE PERIOD Mid-Century Modern DATE OF MANUFACTURE 1970s PERIOD 1970-1979 MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Glass CONDITION Good. There are some scratches on the top. . WEAR Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS H 28.75 in. x Dm 54 in.


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DENVER, Colo.—An employee for the Governor's Office of Information Technology who supports the Colorado Department of Public Safety (CDPS) is auctioning off one of his professional photographs to raise money for fallen Colorado State Patrol Trooper Cody Donahue.
OIT employee Russ Shugart is an accomplished nature photographer and has used his talented work several times in the past to help families of fallen state patrol troopers. On one occasion, a photograph was auctioned off for tens of thousands of dollars thanks to an anonymous bidder. That money went directly to the family of a fallen trooper.
Shugart hopes the Donahue family will benefit from this effort as well. He says, "These men and women have had our backs for a long time. If we're lucky, we occasionally get to return the favor." Shugart has posted the auction effort on his Facebook page, Colorado Fine Art Photography. Bidding has already reached $800. The auction closes Dec. 20 at midnight.
Trooper Donahue was struck and killed while investigating an accident on I-25 near Castle Rock on Nov. 25. He is survived by his wife and two elementary school aged daughters.
If you are interested in interviews or more information, please contact Brandi Simmons at 303.818.5982, or via email at brandi.simmons@state.co.us. Below is an image of the photograph that is up for auction.


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A ground-up rewrite of my AmiTunes-Jukebox music library software which was mainly for use in an A1200-based MP3 jukebox. It was designed for classics with a MAS player, and supports use by remote control / buttons without using a monitor or TV.


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Buyer Legends Book Interview: Best-selling Authors Jeffrey & Bryan Eisenberg with Anthony Garcia
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Because Google is such a data-driven company we were able to combine their data with personas and storytelling to implement an agile process.
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Once upon a time, data and story never shared the same boardroom…
For nearly two decades, brothers Jeffrey and Bryan Eisenberg have been recognized by their peers as authorities in marketing optimization, analytics, and customer-experience design.
Buyer Legends: The Executive Storyteller's Guide is their latest title, together with Anthony Garcia. Published in October, the book is a masterful crash course that walks marketers through the process of translating data into customer stories that get results. As marketers, connecting story to data is near and dear to our hearts.
For less than a cup of coffee ($2.99 on Kindle), look forward to a riveting read that takes less than an hour and produces some amazing insights and results. We put together a few questions for the authors, who continued to share their legendary marketing wisdom:
What prompted you to research and write the book?
"We spent two years working with Google, and that engagement presented a set of interesting challenges. The hiring team had tremendously aggressive goals and painfully tight deadlines. This was coupled with the fact that to get anything meaningful executed would require buy-in and cooperation from two or more different departments who were already saddled with their own deadlines and goals. We knew we couldn't take them through our typical process, which could have taken months, so we had to figure out a way to boil the process down to its purest form. Because Google is such a data-driven company we were able to combine their data with personas and storytelling to implement an agile process that helped them improve buy-in, reduce execution cycles, and get them stellar results. As the results started to come in, we knew we had hit on something powerful and that we had to write about the process."
What is the most common stumbling block companies run into when adopting Buyer Legends?
"Getting companies to invest a little more time in planning before execution. Writing a Buyer Legend takes about 90 minutes (less, once you understand the process). We are all busy and so that seems to many marketers an incredible investment of time. But we have seen over and over again that when you take the time to write a Buyer Legend, depending on your corporate metabolism, you can shave days, even weeks off the execution timeline. This is because story is such an effective and efficient way to communicate complexity and nuance that teams will begin with a fundamental understanding of the deliverables' goal and their role within it. Without Buyer Legends, learning usually happens through the back and forth of execution cycles, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all. Buyer Legends bridge that understanding gap between the boardroom and the front lines."
How do you inspire a narrative-friendly culture in an organization dominated by bullet points and presentation slides?
"We encourage everyone in a company to be aware that the data in bullet points and decks represents action that real people are taking in the real world. Those people have thoughts, opinions, desires, preferences, and motivations that companies should work to understand. If they don't, I would say those companies really don't understand their own data and are hobbling their efforts to optimize marketing and selling efforts."
How do you get right-brained creative types to mesh with number-crunching analysts in a meaningful, productive way?
"Storytelling and narrative are right-brain friendly; data and number-crunching are left-brain. Stories without data are fairy tales, and data without story is lifeless. Creative types must understand that data is critical and that without anchoring their Buyer Legends in data they risk putting their opinion before the needs of their customers. Analysts need to know that until they can tell the story behind the data, they can't completely analyze or understand it. It's one thing to say that "Landing Page A" performs 23% better than "Landing Page C" and that "Landing Page A" has a slightly different call to action than C, but quite another thing to understand why people are buying from A more than C. Again, story is the great bridge builder and integrates the right and left brain disciplines."
What was the most surprising lesson you learned as a result of writing the book?
"That you can convey a big idea, a how-to, and have people read it, react to it, take action on it, and it can have a real impact on their businesses. We believed we could do it all in a short book that would take the average person under an hour to read. It is important to us that people experience first-hand the power of the Buyer Legends process. So, even though we planned it that way, it has been gratifying that people are reading the book, immediately taking action — and getting results."
Could you share examples of the impact Buyer Legends has had on your readers or customers since the book came out?
"We had a small, health-related online retailer who does a few million a year gain a 46% increase from a Buyer Legends implementation. We have heard from everyone from a brick and mortar mattress store to an IBM executive who executed on the book quickly, without waiting for months. Right now, we are working with a client who has used this process to re-invent their content marketing strategy. While it is still early, their initial numbers are all moving in the right direction. Their team is energized, focused, and empowered and that, to us, is just exciting to see. A lot of people are telling their stories in our Amazon reviews, and we have started to document successes on our blog at BuyerLegends.com. Not bad for a book that has been out for just under a month."
Not bad at all. No doubt, data and story are surely to live happily ever after.
Bryan Eisenberg is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today and New York Times bestselling books "Call to Action", "Waiting For Your Cat to Bark?" and "Always Be Testing".
Jeffrey Eisenberg is the CEO of BuyerLegends.com, a company that teaches business people how to create customer-centered, data-driven customer experience design that is supported by narrative.
For the better part of two decades Bryan and Jeffrey Eisenberg, together with Anthony Garcia, have helped companies like HP, Google, GE Healthcare, Overstock, NBC Universal, Orvis, and Edmunds implement accountable marketing strategies emphasizing optimization of revenue and conversion rates for engagements, leads, subscriptions, and sales.
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23 Jun 2018 – 24 Jul 2018
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Opening, poetically the day after the Summer Solstice, Anima-Mundi presents a selection of unique, multimedia, solo projects from artists who's work weaves the prosaic with the romantic, elemental, wild and visionary, under the overarching title of 'Animism'.
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"We hear it everywhere these days. Time for a new story. Some enthusiastic sweep of
narrative that becomes, overnight, the myth of our times. A container for all this ecological trouble, this peak-oil business, this malaise of numbness that seems to shroud even the most privileged. A new story. Just the one. That simple. Painless. Everything solved. Lovely and neat... As things stand, I don't believe we will get a story worth hearing until we witness a culture broken open by its own consequence...I think it's time we went looking for the small gods again." 'Small Gods', Dr Martin Shaw
Opening, appropriately and poetically, the day after the longest day (Summer Solstice), Anima-Mundi presents a selection of unique, multimedia, solo projects, from artists who's work weaves the prosaic with the romantic, elemental, wild and visionary, under the overarching title of 'Animism'.
'Animism' includes the following projects: 'That Luminous Body That Care of The Soul' by Harriet Bell, a series of ambiguous, exquisite, works on paper seemingly tracing thejourney of souls. Also included is 'Out of the Earth' by Tessa Farmer, where a number of miniature sculptural dioramas depict an allegorical battle ground between fairies and the animal kingdom. Also featured is 'The Hail Glow' from Jamie Mills and Jim Carter, an exhibition consisting of sound, sculpture, photography and story creating a multidimensional experience bringing together human and animal, grief and transcendence, the real and the mystical. Finally 'Small Gods' a spoken word sound piece sees celebrated mythologist, author and storyteller Dr Martin Shaw discus the potent relevance of myth as the perennial language of the earth.
'Animism' provides an exciting access point for esoteric and sacred stories, suggesting that the archaic, visionary or mythic may yet have an important role to play in these most turbulent and often disconnected times. In far reaching West Cornwall, where ancient stories of man, land and sea emanate, 'Animism' creates a valued space for reverie and deep reflective thought.
More About Each Exhibited Project.
Tessa Farmer 'Out of the Earth'
Tessa Farmer (b. 1978) has created 'Out of the Earth', which features among a number of sculptural dioramas 'The Singing Barrow'. This is an imagined glimpse inside a burial mound, one of the Bincombe Bumps, that are believed to be inhabited by fairies. Local folklore has it that you can hear them playing music if you put your ear to the ground at noon. The piece on display intertwines the archaeology and resident wildlife of the burial sites with the underground lair of the fairies. Upon closer inspection strange music can be heard. 'Out of the Earth' takes it's title from a short story by Arthur Machen, the influential nineteenth century author of horror and the supernatural and Tessa Farmer's Great Grandfather. The story concerns 'hideous little people of the earth', 'horrible little stunted creatures with old men's faces, with bloated faces, with little sunken eyes, with leering eyes. It was worse than uncovering a brood of snakes or a nest of worms.' They rise from a ditch and wreak murderous havoc in sleepy rural Wales. Tessa Farmer's fairies, though of slighter stature, are no less fierce. Their underground lair occasionally erupts to reveal glimpses of their nefarious activity. Emerging from their earthy hideout they feast on larvae, worms and other delicacies atop toadstools. They capture butterflies, wasps and hornets, raid nests, race snails and dance to the beat of buzzing bees and snail shell drums. They are plotting, building their army, developing weapons and awaiting curious humans to lure into their realm.
Harriet Bell 'That Luminous Body That Care of The Soul' 'That Luminous Body That Care of The Soul' from Harriet Bell (b.1950) is a collection of intricate, almost forensic, works on large sheets of paper incorporating delicate drawing with collage. These ultra sensitive works record a seemingly dream-like, interconnected journey. Rather like a botanist using specimens for scientific analysis, Bell selectively displays her findings, taking us beyond the realms of prosaic understanding of life and, indeed, what lies beyond. The ever-changing cycle of life. Absence, presence, death and decay, growth and metamorphosis all 'feel' pertinent when looking at her visions. Bell's works are made in private and very rarely seen. There is no specific narrative to the work but Bell often 'borrows' words and images from an extensive library of books and often rearranges this stimuli which are then cast like seeds. Her objective is to make work that is completely integrated; each piece is to contain it's intrinsic, albeit non-explicit meaning within, but emanating that meaning as a presence around it. Harriet Bell is an artist reluctant to furnish her work with artist statements. Feeling that there is a sense that attempting to translate the meaning of the work distracts from the truth that the work itself contains. The only words presented as a statement in her last exhibition catalogue simply stated "We all have to leave" Leave for where? we ponder... What we feel, feels less final.
Jim Carter / Jamie Mills 'The Hail Glow'
The Hail Glow' is a multimedia exhibition by Jamie Mills and im Carter concerning relationships between societies perceived outsiders and the wild inhabitants and habitats of the Penwith moorland area of Cornwall. Central to the show's premise is the publication of a short story by Jim Carter and an audio recording featuring a suite of compositions by Jamie Mills, rendered through acoustic instrumentation, field recordings and processing. The story carries with it a quality akin to that of a traditional fairy tale, complete with the beauty and savagery of the animal kingdom, whilst the music interprets these themes whilst referencing journeys and cycles, loss and redemption. The exhibition includes sculptures from Carter, formed using organic material and animal remnants found in the landscape, alongside a series of monochrome photographs by Mills, which allude to, and reflect, contemporary ritualistic practice within the Neolithic landscape, exploring broader themes and elements within the narrative. 'The Hail Glow' is a multidimensional experience bringing together interconnected grief and transcendence, the real and the visionary.
Dr Martin Shaw 'Small Gods' & 'An Earth That Thinks in Myth'
To coincide with the exhibition of his 'spoken word' essay 'Small Gods', the celebrated mythologist, author and storyteller Dr Martin Shaw will join us for 'An Earth That Thinks in Myth' an evening of stories, poetics, philosophies and ideas to coincide with the opening of the 'Animism' exhibition. In this specially organised event, held in the atmospheric Cellar 1 underneath Porthmeor Studios in St. Ives, Dr Martin Shaw will be telling stories and exploring wild ideas about how myth used to be a kind of story that spoke- across-species. That myth itself can be a place where we witness not just narratives about the earth, but moments where the earth itself speaks through the stories. With inspirations ranging as far as Gaston Bachelard to Islamic Cosmology to the work of Joseph Beuys, expect electrifying storytelling and thought-stimulating ideas. Dr. Martin Shaw's first book, 'A Branch From The Lightning Tree' was awarded the Nautilus prize for non-fiction, and was followed by 'Snowy Tower' and 'Scatterlings' to complete a trilogy of works on mythology, landscape and the nature of soul. An international teacher, he has designed and lead both the 'Oral Tradition' and 'Mythic Life' courses at Stanford University, and, as a fellow of Schumacher College in Devon, co-created their MA in Myth and Ecology (with Dr. Carla Stang). His school of independent scholars in mythopoetic's and wilderness studies is just entering its fourteenth year. Recent collaborations have included Mark Rylance, Coleman Barks and David Abram. He is a painting scholar from The British School in Rome, and his translations of Gaelic and Welsh folklore (with Tony Hoagland) have been published in The Mississippi Review, Poetry International, Kenyon Review, Orion, and Poetry
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Q: how to convert json to vars in ruby on rails Hello i'm  trying to use the youtube api in rails, i'm newbie in ruby. I parse a Jason and i save it into a hash. But i don't now how to access to the keys and print in the views.
@response = JSON.parse(HTTParty.get('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/playlists/PLUoqTnNH-2Xz_BUrjcahKWDhPcUj-FTOt?v=2&alt=json').body)

I have tried first to print in a view  <%= @response[:title][:$t] %> i get nil
I want to do the same as the javascript above, that shows a list of vids of a youtube playlist.
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Can anybody give me a clue or a tutorial to follow to do this in rails ? Thank you in advance!

A: I didn't get your question, you want to print out the title? if you want to do so try:
@response["feed"]["title"]["$t"]

If you want to get the feed list you can do something like:
@response["feed"]["entry"].each do |entry|
  puts entry.inspect
end

I highly recommend you to build a wrapper class to handle the methods instead of getting the results directly.


A Catlins pensioner is driving a move for a new community bus to help reduce rural isolation.
Tahakopa resident Don Sinclair was inspired to launch the project after viewing the gradual disappearance of older friends and acquaintances from the district, as health issues and driving restrictions affected them.
The 74-year-old treasurer of the Catlins Senior Citizens Club said as people got older, renewing driving licences became harder.
"We've seen a pattern developing where otherwise able people who would like to continue to live in their rural homes lose their driver's licence, and quickly find it's impossible to keep body and soul together due to the isolation and distances out here.
Once a means of transport was established, other options such as hospital visits for medical appointments could be considered, he said.
Clinton Senior Citizens Club president Reg Smith, who is also one of the club's volunteer bus drivers, offered encouragement.
Members of the public had clubbed together to purchase the Clinton bus for about $15,000 in 2009, and lottery funding helped offset annual running costs, he said.
"The joy and practical help it's brought to the community are immeasurable. Each week we take people shopping, alternately to Gore and Balclutha, and run other trips besides.
Although the Clutha District Council had not contributed to the Clinton bus, Sinclair believed CDC could, perhaps, help "kick start" the Catlins project, and had raised it at a recent community consultation.
Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan praised the concept, while stopping short of any financial commitment.
Cadogan said the council would be willing to open discussions with Government in support of funding for any project.
Last week saw the release of a report compiled by the social innovation project 'Generations', which aims to find solutions to an issue that looms large for an ever-expanding demographic – the social isolation and feeling of invisibility experienced by so many older New Zealanders.