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War of the Rebellion: Serial 057 Page 0500 KY., SW., VA., TENN., MISS., ALA., AND N. GA. Chapter XLIV.
Numbers 2. Report of Captain George R. Hall, One hundred and twenty-third New York Infantry.
ESTILL SPRINGS, TENN.,
March 17, 1864.
GENERAL: I have the honor to report that yesterday (16th) at 1 p. m. I received intelligence of a citizen by the name of Martin Hays, sent by citizen named John P. Hefner, who tends a grist-mill about 2 miles from this post, that a band of rebel cavalry from 70 to 100 and Chattanooga Railroad, and said they were gong to throw off the first train of cars from Tullahoma and then blow up the bridge across Elk River.
On receiving this intelligence, I immediately reported it to Major Tanner, commanding One hundred and twenty-third Regiment New York Volunteers, and re-enforced my pickets accordingly, and awaited orders from the major; but receiving no definite orders and awaiting sufficient time for my patrols to return, not having sufficient force here to leave the stockade safe and meet the enemy, I took the engine of the construction train, which was here, and went to the regiment and reported the facts to the major, who immediately sent Company C to take the place of my company (E) and sent my company in pursuit of the enemy.
At 4.45 p. m. I left camp, marching with the main part of my company on the railroad, having a line of skirmishers on each side of the road a reasonable distance in advance. After proceeding nearly 1 1/2 miles I saw a train coming from Tullahoma, and watched in until it ran off the track, and heard the firing on the train. It was about one-half mile in advance of my skirmishers. I then field to the right into the woods and took the double-quick step in order to flank them, but they had got notice of my approach and commenced a retreat. I came up on their flank, opening upon them, which was returned by them, but made no stand of any account; formed line of battle twice, but as soon as we fired upon them they turned and ran. I pursued them about 1 1/2 miles, when my men became so much exhausted that farther pursuit would have been useless and I returned to the wreck, where I found the cars on fire, but succeeded in extinguishing the fire so that but three cars were burned. The engine was but little injured.
During the fighting, men captured from the cars were recaptured, and in about one hour the remainder of the prisoners came in-7 of the Twenty-seventh Indiana and 2 men of Company E, One hundred and twenty-third New York Volunteers; also Captain Beardsley, of the Twentieth Connecticut, and Lieutenant Williams. All wee robbed of everything valuable, not excepting their clothing. Two men of the First Michigan Engineers were wounded; also a citizen by the name of Stockwell-the latter seriously, the ball having passed through the left lung. One negro was killed and 1 wounded. The prisoners report that the rebels were commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Hughs, formerly of the Twenty-fifth Tennessee. The names of the other officers I could not learn. One of my company that is reliable told me that he counted 97 men, while a prisoner, and at the time 15 or 20 were out after the other patrols. The man spoken of above of my company was one of the patrols who were captured. They were
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The People's Bloc
Redistricting for the People
Redistricting 101
What is Redistricting?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4qAJDUOcc
Redistricting is the process of redrawing the lines of legislative districts to ensure equal and equitable political representation of residents. This process usually occurs once every decade in the year following the decennial census and affects political districts at the federal (congressional districts), state (assembly and senate districts), and local levels (county supervisorial, city council, school board, and special districts).
Why does redistricting matter for the equity movement?
For generations, redistricting has been used as a tool to disenfranchise and dilute the political power of communities, particularly communities of color. Redistricting has been weaponized and used to strengthen white political power and disadvantage communities of color by denying those communities the ability to have fair political representation. Such representation is only possible if voters have a fair opportunity to elect candidates of their choice, which is largely dependent on how legislative districts are drawn. As legal scholar Justin Levitt notes, "[t]he way that district lines are drawn puts voters together in a group . . . Depending on which voters are bundled together in a district, the district lines can make it much easier or much harder to elect any given representative, or to elect a representative responsive to any given community. And together, the district lines have the potential to change the composition of the legislative delegation as a whole." Historically, voters of color and other marginalized communities have been intentionally "bundled" into districts in ways that dilute their potential voting power.
Gerrymandering: Taking your power
The primary method used to dilute a community's voting power through redistricting is called gerrymandering, which generally refers to the practice of drawing legislative districts in ways that give an unfair advantage to a particular group (e.g., a political party or racial/ethnic group). There are various gerrymandering tactics, with two of the most common being referred to as "cracking" and "packing."
Even Distribution
With an even distribution, each district is divided such that the overall population is evenly distributed over all districts.
Cracking is the practice of splitting like-minded or potentially like-minded voters across many districts, thus weakening their impact by ensuring that no particular district has a sufficient number of those voters.
Packing is the practice of concentrating like-minded or potentially like-minded voters into one district or a few districts. While packing does give those voters power in their respective district(s), it weakens their overall impact on a legislative delegation as a whole. For example, in a jurisdiction with five city council districts, a group of voters that could otherwise be sufficiently large enough to be fairly bundled with other voters across three districts may be packed in unfairly large numbers into just two districts, thus limiting that group's overall impact on the city council.
The People's Input
While attempts to dilute the voting power of people of color and other marginalized groups through gerrymandering have become less egregious over time, there are still attempts to do so at all levels of government. Additionally, it is possible for gerrymandering to occur inadvertently. Whether intentional or not, there are ways for redistricting to be used to disempower traditionally and currently marginalized communities. For this reason, those communities must be vigilant and involved in the redistricting process.
Redistricting FAQs
Get answers to the most common questions about redistricting in California at all levels.
What are independent redistricting commissions?
Independent redistricting commissions (IRCs) comprise citizens who are neither legislators nor public officials and are mandated to create maps for their jurisdiction that comply with federal, state, and local laws. IRCs redraw districts through a transparent deliberation process that requires public engagement and encourages public input.
How are lines decided?
Using data from the 2020 Census, the California and Los Angeles CRCs must draw lines for
single-member districts that comply with the following redistricting criteria:
District of equal population, which means that each district will have a reasonable equality of total population within its boundaries;
Adherence to the federal Voting Rights Act, which prohibits the dilution of the voting
power of racial, ethnic, and language minorities;
Geographic contiguity, which refers to the requirement that a jurisdiction is not interrupted by another land or a body of water (unless connected by a bridge, tunnel, or ferry);
Geographic integrity, which refers to the requirement that counties, cities, neighborhoods, and communities of interest must be kept whole so long as doing so does not violate any of the three criteria just mentioned;
Geographical compactness, which refers to the requirement that the commission must not bypass nearby communities for more distant ones; and
Nested districts: the California CRC must also comply with the nested districts requirement, which mandates that "each Senate district shall be comprised of two whole, complete, and adjacent Assembly districts, and each Board of Equalization district shall be comprised of 10 whole, complete, and adjacent Senate districts" (CA Const., art. XXI, § 2, subd. (d6)).
How are incarcerated included in the redistricting process?
At the local level, incarcerated people must be counted in their home communities, rather than at the stated correctional facilities where they are detained. At the state level, in January 2021, the CRC approved a similar requirement.
What are the protections provided by the Voting Rights Act?
The federal Voting Rights Act of 1965 prohibits discriminatory systems and practices that would prevent a voter from casting a ballot for their candidate of choice. This includes drawing of maps that would dilute the voting power of minority groups. This has historically been through "packing" (concentrating as many people as possible from one minority group into one district) and "cracking" (splitting a minority groups across different districts) all with the end goal of minority vote dilution.
What is a community of interest and what should that matter to me?
State law defines a community of interest (COI) as a "contiguous population that shares common social and economic interests that should be included within a single district for purposes of its effective and fair representation." This does not include "relationships with political parties, incumbents, or political candidates." The commission is mandated to keep communities of interest whole because those communities likely constitute a voting bloc with similar representation needs and preferences. Breaking up COIs would result in weakening their voting power and ability to elect their candidate of choice. Commissions do not necessarily know which particular COIs exist within their jurisdiction(s) and, therefore, rely heavily on the public to provide this information. Without your voice, the commissions will be unaware of your policy preferences and characteristics. This means your community might be drawn within the same district as a neighborhood that does not face the same challenges as yours.
Who should I think about when describing my community of interest?
Folks who are in the same struggle, impacted by the same conditions as me: pollution hazards, lack of access to healthcare, food deserts, police violence, poverty, lack of parks/open space, under-resourced neighborhoods, etc.
Folks who share similar backgrounds and identities with me: farm workers, working class, parents, people of color, low income communities, immigrant communities, LGBTQ+, indigenous communities, etc.
Folks who share similar values and care for the same issues as I do: healthcare as a human right, rent control, more schools not prison, police accountability, Black Lives Matter, immigrant rights, etc.
The main goal of participation should be for community residents to inform the commission about their COIs and ensure that the commission draws lines that respect how people understand the boundaries of their COIs. To achieve this, CBOs should help residents identify their COIs, draft COI maps for submission to the commissions, send letters, and provide public comment during community hearings. When we draw the map, we choose what hospitals, schools and resources are funded in our neighborhood. By joining together to speak out for fair districting, we can make our communities whole and deliver what our schools and families need for a decade to come.
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Chicago & Bloomington Stone Company
The Chicago & Bloomington Stone Company quarry opened in October of 1892. The company owned 36 acres of stone land in the Hunter Valley, and five houses nearby occupied by stone workers.
The quarry produced both buff and blue stone of good quality. There were three steam channeling machines, three steam derricks and two steam drills. The Monon Railroad had a track to the quarry.
The company opened the Johnson Quarry in 1903 and built a mill in 1904. By 1927, after consolidation in the quarrying industry, the mill was known as the Johnson Mill of the Bloomington Limestone Company. Located near the junction of Fairfax Road and Dillman Road, the mill had disappeared by the 1940's.
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Shocking: Dozens of Children Dead From 'Tainted' Measles Vaccine
Thu 9:22 pm +00:00, 20 Oct 2016
posted by Gordon
The World Health Organisation has confirmed that 36 Syrian children have died as a result of receiving tainted measles vaccines under a United Nations-sponsored program.
Children were given the vaccine in question specifically in the rebel-held north of Syria, and so far it does not appear to have effected children elsewhere.
Shortly after rumors began circling that the the vaccine was tainted as a deliberate sabotage, and the UN immediately stopped the vaccination program to limit the number of children affected.
In the towns of Jirjanaz and Maaret al-Nouman, in the province of Idlib, doctors said that there was no almost no time delay whatsoever between the children receiving the vaccine and them falling ill.
The death toll so far is 36, but there are said to be many more children who have fallen ill from this vaccine, these children however, are being treated and are said to be in a stable condition.
"It's very bad. The figures of dead we are getting go into the 30s. Children are dying very quickly," Daher Zidan, the coordinator of the relief organization and medical charity, Uossm, just over the border in Turkey says "We think it will get worse."
The Syrian opposition coalition that controls the area of Idlib province said that "the Syrian interim government's health ministry has instructed a halt to the second round of the measles vaccination campaign, which began Monday …following several fatalities and injuries among children in vaccination centers in the Idlib countryside,"
A tainted batch has been said to be the most likely reason for the tragedy according to the UN, although the real reason is not known yet.
"At least five children have died and 50 others are suffering from poisoning or allergic reactions after measles vaccinations in Jirjanaz, in Idlib province," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Right
The charity Save the Children has said that it was "appalled and deeply saddened" by the children's' deaths.
"Save the Children is appalled and deeply saddened by the news of the deaths of a number of children and the hospitalization of many more after receiving vaccinations for measles in northern Syria earlier today.
"The local authorities have launched an investigation. It is clear something has gone badly wrong and Save the Children will help the authorities in any way we can to help find out what has happened."
Source: http://linkis.com/org/hOMNv


Posted on March 8, 2017 at 8:08 pm.
On Tuesday, March 7th, Alameda, a bay-area city nearby Richmond, California, approved our model resolution calling on Congress to launch an impeachment investigation of President Trump.
Alameda City leaders showed support for this campaign, and they are rallying behind U.S. Rep Barbara Lee and others to investigate President Trump over his business connections and potential violations of the U.S. Constitution.
Our model resolution, calling for the impeachment investigation, was introduced by Councilman Jim Oddie and Vice Mayor Malia Vella.
The meeting in Alameda drew 14 public speakers, all but two urging support for an investigation into the administration's actions.
"What we have at stake is our democracy," said John Ota, a 25-year Alameda resident.
Fellow Alameda resident Steve Slauson said the council was presuming to speak for everyone in the city by calling for an investigation into possible impeachment.
The City Council initially considered a broader resolution Tuesday that simply called for a congressional investigation into the allegations against the administration.


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ML Tourism end of year report
By News Staff on September 9, 2012 in Gov
The good news? Mammoth Lakes Tourism has reported that July through November of 2011 brought in the highest transient occupancy tax revenues in the past seven years. The less than good news? December through June of 2012, TOT was down 15% compared to 2011. But, better news is that taken alone, June of this year was up 18.5% compared to last June's TOT. Mammoth Lakes Tourism Director John Urdi also reported to the Town Council that July is "on pace to set another record fast approaching $1 million."
Residents of Mammoth Lakes hardly know how to respond to all of this since the dreadful news of the huge MLLA debt still hangs fire. Urdi remained upbeat as he told the Council that his organization has worked to collect TOT along with the Town. Urdi said that Mammoth Town government has issued more than 140 new transient occupancy tax certificates, collected more than $220,000 in new TOT revenue and opened nearly 200 cases for follow up regarding illegal rentals.
Urdi once more declared success for summer of 2011 air service. He pointed to Mammoth Lakes Tourism's contribution of $417,000 toward 2011 air-related matters. Urdi offered research data when he reported that for every dollar Mammoth Lakes Tourism spends on direct marketing, $136.13 is returned to the community in visitor spending and $4.02 returned in tax revenue to the Town.
In his end of the year report, Urdi said that the organization expanded a$1.1 million marketing budget value to $6 million through cooperative advertising, partnerships and value-added contracts. Joint promotions took place with KCBS Radio, Yosemite National Park, Alaska Airlines, Extreme Pizza, the Price is Right and others. Plus, segments on Mammoth Lakes aired on NBC's Today Show with articles in other media.
The big question currently unanswered – how will a settlement with MLLA impact funding to efforts like Mammoth Lakes Tourism? More information on that may come out within the next two weeks. The Town Council scheduled another special meeting and closed session on bankruptcy proceedings for this evening at 5:30pm.
Mammoth Lakes Tourism, Mammoth Lakes Tourism Director John Urdi, Mammoth Town government, MLLA, Transient Occupancy Tax
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4 Responses to ML Tourism end of year report
Jeff September 10, 2012 at 5:41 pm #
Your FB page has been at the same fan number for a year… more BS from the over paid green horn from MLT. I know your reading this Pal!
Dogs Bone September 10, 2012 at 1:26 pm #
Its all hypothetical numbers, like all Tourism organization, they point to indirect correlations and site data that they take credit for but have no proof was due to their efforts. By siting a report that says "Visa Credit Company" saw xxx spend in the area does not mean that it was because they saw a blue smurf logo somewhere and decided to come here to Mammoth. But they will take credit for that revenue nevertheless, and cite plenty more like it.
You did have me laughing with the modern day Jesus comment. Oh, and the TOT generated is more due to economic factors, but i love how he takes credit for TOT being up. Does he also take credit for when its down (like this past winter?) Don't think so… only site the good and never mention the bad. Like a politician, i wouldn't trust anything out of his mouth! If you do, you might end up with some land out by the airport…
Fool me once! September 9, 2012 at 5:15 pm #
The answer to MLLA settlement is right in front of us. Give Mr. Urdi 10 million and he'll return 40 million in tax revenue to the town. A modern day Jesus this tourism director, just think what he could do with four fish.
My only question is where did the"Mammoth Lakes Tourism's contribution of $417,000 toward 2011 air-related matters" originate?.
Big AL September 10, 2012 at 6:50 pm #
Hmmm good question?


On April 12th, 2018 NSU held its annual Research Day where students and faculty present on research they have conducted. The Psychology department had an amazing turn out with several of our graduate and undergraduate students presenting their research. Also Dr. Patrice Moulton served as the keynote speaker presenting on her experience/research in Nepal.


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I am honestly doubtful about Site Build It now. I've been with them for a year now and no, I didn't fail, I succeeded beautifully. Only after one year I have great traffic and good revenue. But, honestly, Tomaz, webmail doesn't work properly until the point that it is simply unreliable. Search engine headquarters give wrong data, wrong rankings and even reports some 'happy indexed' pages as dropped. So I know some people don't use them, I don't. The templates are plain ugly and very limited. If you use Block-builder you can't access to place some important codes you would like to use, like Facebook Open Graph Metatags. Following Analyze It 100% may lead to keyword stuffing and unnatural internal linking. Value exchange is not a good idea anyhow (after all you can always exchange links without paying this amount, though I don't know why the one would do it). After last Google update a lot of advice in TNT is outdated (I mean link-building) and it will take some time to update it. Even forums don't impress me anymore, a lot of times it is simply speculation of people who have no clue (like in other forums) – if I have something I just go to Google Webmaster Forums and get an answer from a Top Contributor or even Google Employee. The only thing that matters is providing great content – original and valuable – stay away from outsourcing – but still Google says the same. So what is left?
Thanks for this challenging comment. First, saying that you beautifully succeeded with SBI and being doubtful about it does not go together. One part of this equation does not match the other.
You've now learned so much with SBI Action Guide, the forums, Help and TNT advice that you can actually spot some imperfections. What you're not realizing is how much you gained. Your success proves that.
– Webmail – Yes, it's not very reliable. SBI 2.0 allows you to move everything to Gmail and keep your domain extension. MX It! is in the Site Central and it allows you to do that. If you're still using Webmail it's your mistake.
– Search Engine Headquarters is a computer algorithm and it gives exact data it gets from search engines. The only problem is that there are multiple Google servers and you won't see the same results in USA as you see in Slovenia for example. You won't see the same results if Google tracks you and if you're logged into Google account.
The exact rankings of your site do not matter at all (being ranked #4 or #9) because rankings fluctuate. The SEHQ DOES give you a quick glance of how you stand in the search engines.
If you were able to see actual accurate rankings for ALL of your pages, you'd go mad as rankings would change daily. What matters is your income growing and not where you rank.
– Block Builder – it's for someone who has never done any website building. That way a total beginner can and does start. They see this doable. If you shove them into full HTML, most will not even start and therefore never succeed.
If after one year you still use BB, it's your mistake. If you're an advanced internet marketer, use advanced methods.
SBI! 2.0 allows you to upload custom HTML and do whatever you want with it. It is totally customizable and there is totally no need to use SBI templates. A tennis beginner needs to start with mini tennis and an internet marketing beginner needs to start with a basic template and a block-by-block builder.
I did that too and later moved to HTML. SBI allows you to do advanced stuff and you cannot blame SBI for you staying with basic stuff – if that's the case.
– Analyze It! – I disagree that it leads to keyword stuffing. It suggests very low keyword density percentage – around 1% – while most other SEO tools suggest over 2%. That's a 100% difference!
Secondly – Analyze It! gives you an option to IGNORE the keyword density as it says that the importance of keyword density is 5 out of 10. Again, it's common sense that you can use and SBI suggests that.
– Link Building in TNT is outdated – most of it is not. As things move forward, more relevant articles are posted. Read what's currently posted – the Link Building Checklist was just recently updated and I recommend it 100%.
– The Forums – after one year you know who knows stuff and who doesn't. What would you actually like to see? Only super smart advice from super smart people? A forum like that does not exist and what you'd like to see is not realistic.
From your comment In sense that you've put on the super critical glasses on and tried to find anything that's not perfect with SBI.
Well, use the same glasses and analyze the Iphone, Ipad, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Nike, Coca Cola and whatever else you want to and tell me which one of super successful companies and products is perfect. 😉 Not a single one of course.
Life is messy and people are imperfect and so is every company and product.
What matters is the RATIO of positives and negatives. Consider that when evaluating SBI and compare it to other similar products.
What is left of SBI?
The 90% of the stuff you did not mention. The SBI Brainstormer is the most reliable keyword research tool I have used (and I have tried almost all of them).
The ability to pick a keyword that will bring lots of traffic and has a good chance of ranking high is actually invaluable.
What you get is a system and tools that allow you get to started online without any technical knowledge. Hundreds of retired mums and work-at-home mums have succeeded with SBI because it enabled them to start the journey.
There are lots of us who use more advanced capabilities of SBI like Includes, Infin It (third part hosting and apps), newsletters and autoresponders and make the best of them.
Sharing valuable content is a big waste of time and effort if you're not targeting the right keywords and knowing what needs to be done to rank higher.
This blog is a perfect example. I believe that it has lost of valuable content (over 200 posts) and yet it gets less than a quarter of traffic of my typical SBI site which is keyword focused. I share my knowledge because I like to help but the financial reward (related to traffic) is minimal.
Thousands and thousands of bloggers are out there churning valuable content (often a really good one) that is read by their 13 subscribers and is then lost of in the digital garbage dump where no one can find it.
Because they don't KNOW what needs to be done to get tons of traffic. The Action Guide and other SBI resources teach you that.
Take off your critical lenses now and put on the positive ones and do an honest follow-up comment so that the readers of this post can get the realistic perspective. Thanks!
@Elena – a do not quite agree. I think SBI still is a great place to start for anyone coming to IM for the very first time. I think one will still need to develop at least two sites using SBI before fully mastering the concepts. The AG gives a solid foundation that will enable you to build sites off-SBI.
I have developed a couple of successful mini-sites hosted on other platforms using the AG concepts and SBI templates. By the way i only came to IM through SBI in 2009 as a total newbie.
Thanks Tomaz and Aurther, I appreciate. I want to stress that I am not someone who just takes pleasure to criticize somebody or something else. Really not. I probably didn't have to write what I wrote, at least not here. Tomaz, you can surely delete my previous post and this reply too.
1. It brings a lot of irrelevant junk results and you have to spend hours to filter it before you can even analyze numbers for words you could actually use.
2. You have no idea how many daily searches you could get for this keyword if you win it.
3. You are quite unsure about your competition too.
So why waste time? Wordtracker will give me idea about the number of searches. With my own analytical nature and again your help, I noticed I get about a half of the number in Wordtracker if I rank in top 5 in Google.com You can make a decent number of keyword requests for free simply by registering on their site. I get competition numbers from Google using your technique. If I want to know about Adsense numbers I use Adwords free tool. All this is not harder than filtering junk out of Brainstormer.
I know what you are saying about Analyze It, but still there always was a lot of stress about passing it, which means to have "good" in all parts. Newbies? I believe this is how they understand it. Otherwise you can't say you passed it. There was one SBIer who was hit by last update. He raised the issue in Google Forums and keyword stuffing was one of the problems they pointed out (Top Contributor's reply).
Now it is true that you can do advanced stuff with SBI if you know how. But it is also true that they could make a little more effort design wise. I mean, weebly offers better looking templates! All newbies have is what they offer in BB and they can't afford wasting time to learn HTML and CSS first. After one year I still don't. I am just getting close.
Newsletter optin looks so unprofessional that I needed to edit it myself to have an acceptable look before putting it on my site – good I have time to figure out how to do it (I am no advanced webmaster either). I just hope it works well, because after webmail issues I am not so sure anymore.
I personally didn't like C2. People mostly use it for short comments or not so good submissions. I rather use Facebook comments and get benefits of viral effect through Social Media.
Look, Tomaz, for me it is all about effort they make to offer us best quality and I don't think it is the case. Just like they teach us to wow visitors with our content. It is only in December 2010 we could have a third column in blockbuilder. Don't tell me asking for a third column is a lot. Don't tell me to upload my own HTML either, because then we somehow lose the "newbies" point. It is all about effort. Nothing more than that.
I don't mind your posts here complaining about SBI because I am happy to debunk all the myths and misconceptions you bring up.
That allows a new person to this topic to see both sides of the story and decide whether your points are valid and objective or not.
Well, I use brainstormer exclusively all the time and trust its numbers and have reached over 2000 daily visitors with 5 SBI sites. I don't remember not recommending BI at any point.
I think you need to take a coaching hour with me and learn how to use it. It takes me one vertical brainstorm and setting up two filters to get rid of low value keywords. That's 2 minutes.
True, but let's say you do know. How does that change your daily income? Your income does not change based on your knowing. This knowledge is irrelevant.
You need to know which keywords have good demand that will result in good traffic – and the AG and many of my forum posts (and from others) tell you that.
I think you're wasting time trying to figure out things which in no way affect your income and which you cannot control.
I strongly disagree after using the BI! Real Supply numbers for the last 6 years. I am VERY SURE of what the Real Supply numbers from the BI! mean in the real competition sense. If you're not, check my posts in the SBI forums and what numbers I recommend.
Perhaps you also need more experience and more data to see how reliable the Real Supply numbers are.
Ken reported that after the Google Panda update, the overall traffic across all 40,000 SBI websites went up by 3%. Unless you want to call him a liar, the one SBI-er's problem is very very very likely NOT because he followed Analyze It.
You can make a nice looking site with basic SBI template and a header customization. My tennismindgame.com website is done that way and in the last 5 years I've never gotten an email saying that it's ugly.
There are a tons of super high traffic SBI sites you can find on the Results page which still use the basic template and look ok. They bring tons of money too.
And of you want to use HTML, simply outsource creating of the template to an expert. You can have a great looking template for $150 and once you have it, there's almost no need to HTML knowledge. Just post the content into the template in almost the same way you post content into a block bulder.
Good, at least you're adding "personally" in the comment. It has nothing to with SBI! but with your creativity on how to make the best of C2. There are hundreds of C2 success stories.
One my sites receives 25% of traffic only through C2 pages which were all created by the visitors. Isn't it nice to get an increase of 25% traffic by not doing anything and simply finding a way to entice the visitors to share their opinions?
When I read your comments I fail to see any responsibility on your part for not doing well with SBI. The funny thing is that you're doing well with SBI and yet you place all responsibility for your troubles on SBI!
How then someone trust your opinions if they are so biased?
Building a business is a complex thing and thinking that every step someone teaches you is perfect and has no faults is simply a consequence of being a perfectionist. Life is not perfect.
Imagine someone teaching to start an offline business like a restaurant. Can you imagine the complexity of that task and how unlikely it is that you will succeed the first time?
The probability of success with SBI! is many times higher but even in this process it's most likely YOU who will misinterpret things and who will overcomplicate things and not the actual product that is to blame.
Here's a simple logic – if the product is faulty, everyone is having problems and those who follow the Action Guide in most cases don't make it.
And if the product is good, then most of those who do follow the Action Guide will do well.
And if you check the above mentioned results page and read constantly new stories of success in the SBI forums, then you know that this is the case.
I very reluctantly left SBI after 2-1/2 years for two reasons. My first reason was the templates. I was told many times on the forums that the templates and the idea of a "pretty" site was not important, but it was important to me. I wanted a site that I could point people to and not be ashamed that it was mine. Maybe a silly and somewhat vain thought, but I felt strongly about it. I never really did use BB. I pretty much started with one of AJ's templates which always gave me trouble. It seemed it would get wonky by just looking at it. Still, I stumbled along with it until the new three column templates came out. I was super excited about that but could never get the hang of them. I know a lot of folks use them and use them well but not me. I was also using Xsite Pro at the time and asked about using one of their templates for my sites but was told that they had too much extra code that would not work on SBI. Very frustrating for me!
The second reason I left was financial. nearly 30.00 a month is steep for one site (and I do realize that SBI offers more than hosting for that amount,) but as I added more sites and each one cost that amount, it became too much. They need to offer a multiple site price.
As I said, I very reluctantly left SBI. I really loved it and feel the things I learned there are so valuable. It amazes me when I visit some forums and people that are apparently long-term site owners, know so little about SEO and writing valuable content. Thank you SBI for my education.
Thanks for sharing. So where did you move your sites and what company offered better looking templates that were easier to use?
As for "steep" price, the "SBI Way" is to create a LARGE content website with hundreds of pages that gets tons of traffic and earns a lot of money.
If of course you're earning $100 per month (or less) and you're starting new sites, then this is not really the SBI Way.
It's a different strategy of earning money online and you definitely don't need SBI's powerful Brainstormer and other tools to reach $3 per day.
@Linda – for most successful SBI-ers cost is not even an issue. If a single content site is giving you say even $300 per month (and that income is stagnant which is hardly the case with many SBI sites) after a year or so that's $3600 per year minus $300 yearly SBI renewal that leaves you $3300.00 profit each year.
Am failing to figure out how the cost of SBI can make one leave SBI unless their site failed. A very tiny percentage of people who follow SBI AG to the letter actually fail if any.
Do I consider my sites as failures? I'm pleased with where my sites are. Could I have done better with my sites? Absolutely! Do I think it is the fault of SBI that I did not? No. As I stated, I loved SBI and very reluctantly left. I put off leaving for some time. It is hard to justify paying 300.00 per year per site when hosting can be obtained for 10.00 per month for multiple sites. And I know we are not comparing apples to apples here. I do have the knowledge now and have no doubt that with some effort on my part, my sites will continue to grow, largely because of that knowledge.
Not sure what you mean about "some other underlying problem". I never had any problem with SBI (please reread above, I loved SBI) and credit them with so much. I learned things from SBI that many people will never begin to learn.
Anyway, never meant to turn this into a negative post. Just wanted to say how much I loved SBI and the two reasons I left. And, I must say, of those reasons, the bigger one for me was the templates and my inability to utilize them. I know I could have hired someone to do it but there is money involved there that I didn't have and I wanted to be able to do it myself so I could tweak and change things whenever I wanted.
I was strongly considering starting an sbi site until I read, "as it's quite unlikely that you can achieve financial freedom with a single website" above. If sbi works so well why do you say this?
The main "ceiling" – is you wish – is the overall demand of a niche you pick. We usually have to pick a niche as we cannot compete with huge companies like tripadvisor.com (for travel), allrecipes.com (for recipes), engadget.com (for technical stuff) which rank for high demand keywords.
High demand keywords bring lots of traffic when you rank well – which can result in lots of income. In fact, in enough income to be financially free.
I'd say that is at least $200 per day – and earning $200 per day ($6000 per month before taxes) is not easy with a single website.
And since we pick a niche (travel in anguilla, quick pasta recipes, ipad cases), the demand is much lower and so is traffic and so is income.
So the ceiling is the demand of our niche and the competition for high demand keywords where we (one man band) usually cannot compete with companies who have 20 or 200 employed to produce content and work on marketing of one single website.
Of course, what I am talking about has nothing to do with SBI. The publishing system is irrelevant. The "problem" lies in how much content and other work involved with a website can a single person produce compared to companies that have lots of experts employed.
Of course, I know quite a few people that are financially free with a single website but it took them at least 3 years to get there and they are experts (or they became) on the topic and they work very very hard.
But on average, most financially free people who live off websites have multiple websites – 2 to 5 is my best guess.


Turkish government has decided again to resume the stalled talks between Somalia and Somaliland.
Turkey said that it has embarked on a diplomatic mission to shuttle between the authority of Somalia with Somaliland counterpart to breach the gap between the two administrations on the stance of the resumption of the dialogue which the Turkish government brokered and hosted several rounds.
The collapse of the last round of talks in Turkey was blamed for Somalia administration which included its representatives at the talks individuals hailing from Somaliland by nationality.
Diplomats from both sides met in the Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA) sidelines to find a resolution to the standoff which led to the total collapse of the talks.
This was revealed in a statement posted on TIKA's twitter account. Delegations from Somaliland and Somalia will travel to Istanbul which is believed to be part and parcel of Turkish government's efforts to bring the two sides closer to reach a mutual understanding of the issues that created the misunderstanding.
A delegation from Turkey which visited Somaliland recently met with Silanyo and told that their mission is to see the resumption of the dialogue between Somaliland and Somalia.
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O National Invitation Tournament ou NIT (em português:Torneio Nacional por Convite) é um torneio de basquete universitário masculino estadunidense e é organizado pela National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). É disputado em dois torneios anuais. O primeiro é jogado em novembro e é conhecido como Dick's Sporting Goods NIT Season Tip-Off (antigamente Preseason NIT) e foi criado em 1985. O segundo, o NIT original, é um torneio de pós-temporada jogado em março e abril que é agora chamado de MasterCard NIT, disputado desde 1938. As finais (em ambos os torneios) são jogadas no Madison Square Garden em Nova Iorque.

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Nattapon Woratayanan (, * 23. Mai 1985 in Chachoengsao) ist ein thailändischer Fußballspieler.

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Nattapon Woratayanan erlernte das Fußballspielen in der Jugendmannschaft vom Chachoengsao Hi-Tek FC in Chachoengsao sowie in der Jugendmannschaft des FC Everton in England. Seinen ersten Vertrag unterschrieb er bei seinem Jugendverein Chachoengsao Hi-Tek. 2008 wechselte er nach Buriram. Hier unterschrieb er einen Vertrag beim Buriram PEA. Für den Club spielte er bis 2009 21 Mal in der ersten Liga. 2010 unterschrieb er einen Einjahresvertrag beim Ligakonkurrenten Bangkok United in der Hauptstadt Bangkok. Über Buriram FC (2011) kam er 2012 zum Zweitligisten Ratchaburi Mitr Phol. Mit dem Verein aus Ratchaburi wurde er Meister der Thai Premier League Division 1 und stieg somit in die Thai Premier League auf. Nach dem Aufstieg wechselte er 2013 für zwei Jahre zum PTT Rayong FC nach Rayong. 2015 schloss er sich für zwei Jahre dem Erstligisten Chiangrai United aus Chiangrai an. Bei seinen ehemaligen Vereinen PTT Rayong und Chachoengsao spielte er von 2017 bis 2018. Mit Chachoengsao spielte er in der dritten Liga, der Thai League 3. 2019 nahm ihn der Erstligaabsteiger Police Tero FC aus Bangkok unter Vertrag. Mit Police wurde er Vizemeister und stieg in die erste Liga auf. Nach dem Aufstieg verließ er Police und unterzeichnete einen Vertrag beim Zweitligisten MOF Customs United FC. Für den Bangkoker Verein stand er achtmal in der zweiten Liga auf dem Spielfeld. Ende 2020 wurde sein Vertrag nicht verlängert.

Seit dem 1. Januar ist Woratayanan vertrags- und vereinslos.

Erfolge
Buriram PEA
 Thai Premier League
 Meister: 2008
Ratchaburi Mitr Phol
 Thai Premier League Division 1
 Meister: 2012
Police Tero FC
 Thai League 2
 Vizemeister: 2019

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 Nattapon Woratayanan in der Datenbank von thaileague.co.th

Fußballspieler (Chachoengsao Hi-Tek FC)
Fußballspieler (Buriram United)
Fußballspieler (Songkhla United)
Fußballspieler (Bangkok United)
Fußballspieler (Ratchaburi Mitr Phol)
Fußballspieler (Customs Ladkrabang United FC)
Fußballspieler (PTT Rayong FC)
Fußballspieler (Police Tero FC)
Fußballspieler (Chiangrai United)
Thailändischer Meister (Fußball)
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Fiction Friday: One year later.
One year after the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, while much of the disaster has been diminished, the world's oceans are still at risk. John Seven and Jana Christy, the amazing couple who wrote (John) and illustrated (Jana) our gorgeous THE OCEAN STORY picture book, have teamed up to create another awesome project: this time, a website focusing on the ocean. Head over to theoceanstory.com for blog posts, tips about taking care of the ocean, information, and projects. Then check out more books on oceans from Capstone: here, here and here. For books on some of the amazing creatures who live in the ocean, check these out.


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720th Security Forces Squadron renamed 943rd Security Forces Squadron in ceremony
Lt. Col. Joseph Romeo, 943rd Security Forces commander, assumes command during a change of name ceremony at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, June 10, 2022. The 943rd SFS mission is to provide the most highly effective, cohesive, and disciplined security force defender professionals in the world.(U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Koreen)
Lt. Col. Joseph Romeo, 943rd Security Forces commander, assumes command during a change of name ceremony at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, June 10, 2022. The 943rd SFS mission is to provide the most highly effective, cohesive, and disciplined security force defender professionals in the world. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Koreen)
By Senior Airman Nicole Koreen, 943rd Rescue Group Public Affairs
920th Rescue Wing
DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. --
The 720th Security Forces Squadron was renamed to the 943rd Security Forces Squadron in a ceremony here on June 10, 2022.
The 943rd SFS was initially activated at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in February 2010. Since then they have been assigned under different numbered air forces and squadrons and tasked with supporting many different missions.
A unique feature of the 943rd Security Forces Squadron is that their traditional reserve members train for and support current operations at deployed locations, while also maintaining an active reserve entity that supports sister units on Davis-Monthan AFB. They work with the 355th Security Forces Squadron, known as "Desert Defenders", who conduct worldwide force protection and security operations. They also support the 610th Command and Control Squadron, whose primary mission is to provide communications support to combatant commanders worldwide.
As the 943rd SFS, the unit will continue their mission to provide the most highly effective, cohesive, and disciplined security force defender professionals in the world, able to deploy at a moment's notice to defend and protect U.S. military personnel and our allies.
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Public Release: 26-Feb-2019
Climate rewind: Scientists turn carbon dioxide back into coal
New technique can efficiently convert CO2 from gas into solid particles of carbon
VIDEO: Scientists have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, a breakthrough that could transform our approach to carbon capture and storage. view more
Credit: RMIT University
Researchers have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, in a world-first breakthrough that could transform our approach to carbon capture and storage.
The research team led by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new technique that can efficiently convert CO2 from a gas into solid particles of carbon.
Published in the journal Nature Communications, the research offers an alternative pathway for safely and permanently removing the greenhouse gas from our atmosphere.
Current technologies for carbon capture and storage focus on compressing CO2 into a liquid form, transporting it to a suitable site and injecting it underground.
But implementation has been hampered by engineering challenges, issues around economic viability and environmental concerns about possible leaks from the storage sites.
RMIT researcher Dr Torben Daeneke said converting CO2 into a solid could be a more sustainable approach.
"While we can't literally turn back time, turning carbon dioxide back into coal and burying it back in the ground is a bit like rewinding the emissions clock," Daeneke, an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow, said.
"To date, CO2 has only been converted into a solid at extremely high temperatures, making it industrially unviable.
"By using liquid metals as a catalyst, we've shown it's possible to turn the gas back into carbon at room temperature, in a process that's efficient and scalable.
"While more research needs to be done, it's a crucial first step to delivering solid storage of carbon."
How the carbon conversion works
Lead author, Dr Dorna Esrafilzadeh, a Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellow in RMIT's School of Engineering, developed the electrochemical technique to capture and convert atmospheric CO2 to storable solid carbon.
To convert CO2, the researchers designed a liquid metal catalyst with specific surface properties that made it extremely efficient at conducting electricity while chemically activating the surface.
The carbon dioxide is dissolved in a beaker filled with an electrolyte liquid and a small amount of the liquid metal, which is then charged with an electrical current.
The CO2 slowly converts into solid flakes of carbon, which are naturally detached from the liquid metal surface, allowing the continuous production of carbonaceous solid.
Esrafilzadeh said the carbon produced could also be used as an electrode.
"A side benefit of the process is that the carbon can hold electrical charge, becoming a supercapacitor, so it could potentially be used as a component in future vehicles."
"The process also produces synthetic fuel as a by-product, which could also have industrial applications."
The research was conducted at RMIT's MicroNano Research Facility and the RMIT Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility, with lead investigator, Honorary RMIT and ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh (now UNSW).
The research is supported by the Australian Research Council Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies (FLEET) and the ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science (ACES).
The collaboration involved researchers from Germany (University of Munster), China (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), the US (North Carolina State University) and Australia (UNSW, University of Wollongong, Monash University, QUT).
The paper is published in Nature Communications ("Room temperature CO2 reduction to solid carbon species on liquid metals featuring atomically thin ceria interfaces", DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08824-8).
Gosia Kaszubska
gosia.kaszubska@rmit.edu.au
@RMIT
http://www.rmit.edu.au
Australian Research Council Centre for Future Low-Energy Electronics Technologies, ARC Centre of Excellence for Electromaterials Science
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Turning Carbon Dioxide Back into Coal (VIDEO)
Torben Daeneke and Dorna Esrafilzadeh, RMIT University (IMAGE)
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Apple's UK Tax Bill in 2015 Equivalent to Two Hours of Sales
by István Fekete – Mon, June 27, 2016
While Apple's tax affairs are under the European Commission's loop, the Daily Mail reports that the company has just £12.9 million (~CAD$22.26 million) in UK corporation tax last year. Just for comparison, Apple has made enough money in the past year to cover the tax bill it has paid in little over two hours, the report adds.
During the fourth calendar quarter of 2015, Apple's revenue was USD$75.9 billion, with sales generating a net profit of USD$18.4 billion. This means Apple made £5.8 million (~USD$8.3 million) an hour.
Filings obtained by the Daily Mail show that Apple made £37.5 billion (~CAD$64.7 billion) in profits in the 2015 fiscal year, and accountants estimate that the UK accounted for about £2 billion (~CAD$3.45 billion), which would have resulted in a UK corporate tax of roughly £400 million (~CAD$690 million).
Apple's corporate tax, however, rose 9% compared to £11.8 million a year earlier. As noted by the Daily Mail, the Apple UK arm showed a 4.6% increase in revenue, but a slight fall in profit to £78 million (~CAD$134.57 million), leading to a drop in corporate tax payments to £6.4 million (~CAD$11.04 million).
Jonathan Isaby, of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said: 'This is yet another reminder of how public confidence in our insanely complicated tax code has evaporated.'
An Apple spokeswoman repeated the company's well-known position on corporate taxes: "We pay all that we owe according to the law. We have a long history in the UK and are proud of the significant contributions we've made over the past 36 years."
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A spat over the introduction of plasters for darker skin tones in Swedish pharmacies took an unusual turn when the Danish Foreign Minister offered his Swedish counterpart a box of band aids.
Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen made the tongue-in-cheek peace offering to his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallström during a climate conference in Alaska, Denmark's Politiken reported.
"I brought a small box of heart-coloured plasters to Margot," Jensen was quoted as saying by the paper.
Pharmacy giant Apoteket's decision to introduce the plasters followed criticism by Swedish blogger Paula Dahlberg who told public broadcaster Sveriges Radio in August that the company was contributing to racism by only offering shades of beige plasters on its shelves.
"The fact she said that demonstrates that there are heated discussions about immigrants and refugees right now," Communications Director Eva Fernvall told The Local at the time, adding that the national chemist chain was committed to reducing discrimination.
But the decision caused a massive stir in Denmark, with the Danish minister for children's affairs and education, Ellen Trane Nørby, also weighing in on the issue, comparing it to Sweden's recent censoring of 'racist' elements of Pippi Longstocking stories.
Her and Jensen's comments caused a media storm and the news quickly made it into the Swedish press with several high profile critics calling on Jensen to apologize.
Sweden's own foreign minister Margot Wallström attempted to put a bandaid over the latest row by suggesting that Jensen had crossed a line, but noting that the 44-year-old had simply made his plaster-related blunder as a result of inexperience.
"I'm thinking that he is new to the job as foreign minister. You have to forgive those kinds of transgressions. I am sure he will learn," Wallström told the TT newswire at the time.
Wallström was not available for comment when contacted by The Local.


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Q: Debug CGAL example using Boost on Mac OS I have CGAL compiled manually and installed in ~/Library/CGAL/CGAL-4.0.2/. Boost (boost @1.50.0_0+debug+no_single+no_static) as well as cmake (2.8.8_1) are installed using macports. For compilation purposes of the provided examples things work nicely. My problem is when I try to debug an example. In particular, for instance, I ran cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug . in the directory containing the Arrangements_on_surfaces_2 and then make. The generated binary functions as expected, but when running gdb foo in order to debug foo, I get the following warnings:
warning: Could not find object file "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/boost/work/boost_1_50_0/bin.v2/libs/thread/build/darwin-4.2.1/debug/address-model-64/architecture-x86/threading-multi/pthread/thread.o" - no debug information available for "libs/thread/src/pthread/thread.cpp".

warning: Could not find object file "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/boost/work/boost_1_50_0/bin.v2/libs/thread/build/darwin-4.2.1/debug/address-model-64/architecture-x86/threading-multi/pthread/once.o" - no debug information available for "libs/thread/src/pthread/once.cpp".

warning: Could not find object file "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/boost/work/boost_1_50_0/bin.v2/libs/thread/build/darwin-4.2.1/debug/address-model-64/architecture-x86/threading-multi/future.o" - no debug information available for "libs/thread/src/future.cpp".

warning: Could not find object file "/opt/local/var/macports/build/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_devel_boost/boost/work/boost_1_50_0/bin.v2/libs/system/build/darwin-4.2.1/debug/address-model-64/architecture-x86/threading-multi/error_code.o" - no debug information available for "libs/system/src/error_code.cpp".

I don't really know what to do. I tried downloading, compiling and installing boost manually and then recompile CGAL. However, once I tried to compile an example I got run time complain about missing boost libraries.
On the other hand, when trying to debug an XCode project (after creating it using the -G Xcode option for cmake) I could debug an example.
Any assistance will be helpful!

A: I also had problems with Boost when I tried installing CGAL with macports.  Then I tried the same with homebrew, and it worked like a charm.

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We are looking for replacements for Kendrick Lamar, such as Love feat. Zacari. Please send tracks which are fully mastered (no demos or samples please) and owned fully by the writers.
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I have been a songwriter, producer, mixing engineer and master for more than 20 years. I have been through all the techniques from the past 20 years giving me a great knowledge in sound production and mixing...
If you submit to my opportunity I will give you a honest feedback on both the production, mixing and the songwriting itself, or only one of them if that's what you want :) It will be a constructive feedback on what works and what doesn't and how to make things better, unless your song is perfect of course :) My main expertise is in the pop genre with all subgenres included like dance/edm/country-pop/singer-songwriter and so on.
I am looking forward helping out. I, myself, was in the old days the one that needed help to get better, but now I have the knowledge and are ready to give back :)
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Professional Song Feedback from Middle Tennessee Music
I will listen to your song and provide genuine feedback. I will share my favorite parts and not so favorite parts including suggestions for improvement where I see them.
I have been listening to and writing about all genres and sub-genres of music since 2011 so I accept all styles and types of music. I enjoy discovering new sounds, new combinations of sounds, and styles that don't fit into any current box the 2017 music industry stuffs music into. But I still dig the more traditional as well. Hit me with your best song!
- Joshua Smotherman / Co-Founder - Middle Tennessee Music
Do You Have A Great Song?
Will Williams Producer/Musician/Vocalist/Writer - Side 1 Productions I've been in the music business/industry for over 35 years as a musician, artists, and writer/producer, I work with various artist that feel and want to move forward with there musical career, by helping them get to the next level with ideas that could help move and inspire. Do you have a complete song? How is that Mix? Can you tell when the Mastering really done. Where ar you trying to go, and who are you trying to meet through your music. We have good advice to those questions and more.......
Are You Submitting Your Song For The Right Opportunity?
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Indian sitar music required
We are on the look out for Indian sitar music for a show we are working on. Think in the style of Ravi Shankar.
All submissions must be 100% owned by the writer/writers. Thanks the Pop-Up Music Team! No uncleared samples please.
Seeking Surf Rock for TV/Film/Ads
We are seeking surf rock tracks up-tempo like Dick Dale & The Del Tones "Misirlou" - also a more mellow vibe like Santo & Johnny - "Sleep walk". Ideally original vintage tracks however modern recordings influence by the classics will be considered.
All submissions must be owned by the person submitting - no samples.
Seeking Fun Pop for TV/Film/Ads
We are seeking fun Pop songs with a Tropical/African vibe - think Jain - Makeba. If you have a song like the reference please send over.
URGENT - songs recorded between 1988 - 1990
We are on the lookout for songs recorded between 1988 and 1990 for inclusion in our catalogue for various projects we are working on.
All genres welcome. No samples please.
Looking for Outstanding Finished Songs for Blanket Fort for Release
Platinum selling producer / songwriter Sterling Fox is looking for new acts and singles for his label Blanket Fort. We are looking for finished product songs that can be released through our label. We help new artists with their releases by helping to take them over the finish line, providing help with mastering, visuals, artwork, promo, etc. No crazy contracts - we are extremely artist friendly. Send away...if your music is good and it speaks to us, we may be interested in a release. All genres considered, but your music needs to be modern and tasteful.
- Sterling Fox / Blanket Fort
Deal Type: Labe Signing
Similar Sounding Artists: anything quality
Seeking Upbeat, Easygoing Hip-Hop
We are seeking upbeat, easygoing hip-hop tracks - ideally tracks that use real instrumental. Think along the lines of Crown and the M.O.B.
All submissions must be 100% owned by the writer/writers. Samples must be cleared please. Thanks the Pop-Up Music Team!
URGENT - Downbeat, vocoder rap, chilled (Young Chop etc)
We are looking for replacements for Young Chop and similar. Please send tracks which are fully mastered (no demos or samples please) and owned fully by the writers.
Spanish / Latin Hip Hop required
We are on the search for Hip Hop with Spanish/Latin rap/lyrics for inclusion in our catalogue for various projects we are working on.
All genres of Hip Hop/ Rap/ Trap welcome. No samples please.
Enya style songs needed
We are seeking songs in the style of Enya. Ideally songs recorded at around the same period but will also consider modern day recordings in this style.
Please send tracks which are fully mastered (no demos or samples please) and owned fully by the writers.
Music Critique and Feedback
I will be listening to your song and give you feedback on what companies are looking for placements opportunities. If I hear a diamond in the rough then I can help with making the song into a full fledge rare diamond. Artists/producers/composers should have the best chance of getting a placement and making a living in this industry and that is my goal for you.
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I will be giving feedback and critiques on all songs submitted. If I hear a diamond then I will work closely with you to get it placed and get you to a place where you can make a nice living with your art. Send me your best and I can do the rest.
Hope to hear from you soon! :)
Luxor Media Group (LMG) is a groundbreaking music publishing company that is changing the way a leading music publishing company is run in the music industry. Our goal at LMG is to further the careers of the next generation of superstar producers, songwriters, and musicians. We find and create opportunities for placing songs and tracks with great artists and collaborators. LMG does its best to secure its writers work in TV, film, commercials, video games, and promotions. We also strive to market our artist to the industry and their works to the world.
- Jorge Ibarra - A&R Director - Luxor Media Group
TMG Indy Radio
Submit your music for the new and improved TMG Indy Radio. All genres welcome.
Seeking Authentic 90s Recordings for TV/Film/Ads
We are seeking authentic 90s recordings - all submission must have been recorded in the 90s - please specify the recording date. All genres welcome
- Pop, Brit pop, Grunge, Indie, Hip Hop, R&B, Acid House, House, Rock, Dance and so on...
Recording Critique
I will listen to any song submitted and critique it from a producer's point of view. this is an overall critique and everything is fair game. I may or may not discuss song structure, lyrics, performance, arrangement, recording, mix, etc.
20+ years as a session engineer and producer in LA. Bernard has worked with some of the best musicians in the world on Albums, films, TV and commercials. Bernard now produces music for clients world wide from his Oregon studio.
- Bernard Matthews Audio Production
Foley Entertainment Music Feedback and Phone Consultation
Through this opportunity on Music Xray, you can submit two of your songs to me for a written evaluation AND a 15 minute phone consultation. Believe me, I can pack a great deal of valuable advice into 15 minutes. For an additional fee, the phone consultation can be extended to 30 or 60 minutes if you so choose.
This is an opportunity for you to get helpful feedback on your songs AND speak with an experienced, caring, licensed music industry professional. My advice and career guidance will point you in the right direction. I'm the person who literally wrote the book about Artist Development and now you can speak with me directly. Please visit my Web site for a full Bio, Client Testimonials and links to TV Talk Show interviews that are filled with free advice & insight.
www.FoleyEntertainment.com
Topics for Phone Consultations Include: Building a Team, Song Selection, Song Arranging, Intellectual Property, Artist Development, Press Kits, Photography, Image, Management, Booking Agents, TV/Film Placement, Marketing, Radio Promotion, Publicity, Advertising, Touring, Record Companies, Music Publishing, Videos, Merchandise, Distribution, Along with answering your questions
The genres I would be interested in receiving are:
Pop, Rock, Singer/Songwriter, Folk, Americana, Country, Blues, Jazz, World, Metal, Children's Music
100K fan base: Feedback & Possible Site Feature on Keep Walking Music
Keep Walking Music Critique & Possible Site Feature
Keep Walking Music is a Madrid based online music platform that launched in 2015, and has since showcased local and worldwide talent. We are dedicated to discovering and featuring exceptional artists that we feel deserve a platform in the public eye.
The feedback you will receive will be an honest feeling from listening to your music, and should never be taken as a personal criticism. A quick browse through the blog will give you a sense of the editorial.
- Salah EddineBenali / Keep Walking Music
Seeking music for Airplay on the Country Barnyard 305
The Country Barnyard 305 internet radio station is your #1 source for the best country music! We encourage all country music artists to send us their music for Airplay. You WILL get your music heard. We don't let any country song be forgotten. Send us your music today and we'll play it on the air as soon as the same day you submit it! You won't be disappointed!
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Last Day Deaf
Last Day Deaf music blog seeking music to feature. Please submit your best track(s) for consideration.
Music webzine covering a wide range of artist from indie to jazz and from electronic to metal...Few words...Let the music speak....
- CHRISTOS DOUKAKIS - Owner/Pubisher - www.lastdaydeaf.com
Similar Sounding Artists: Nirvana, NIN, Indie pop
Russian songs needed
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Baroque Pop Songs
Seeking - contemporary Baroque Pop songs - with big lush full production - a good example would be 'Follow the Leader' by Foxygen. all submissions must be 100% owned by the writer/writers. No samples please.
Similar Sounding Artists: Foxygen, The Sleepy Jackson, Lana Del Rey, Arcade Fire
Original 70s and 80s songs all styles - Urgent
We are seeking - original 70s and 80s songs all styles. All submissions must be original recordings from back in the day - please add the recording date on your submission. All styles welcome from Punk rock and Heavy Metal to Country and Pop.
All submissions must be 100% owned by the writer/writers.
Seeking Spooky Vampire Songs
We are on the hunt for Spooky songs along these themes; vampires, vampire bats, count dracular, witchcraft, gothic horror, werewolves, 'the other world', full moon fever, under a curse/spell anything spooky!
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Share The Memories With Hasbro's Classic Games Collection
Lynne Huysamen
For so many of us Hasbro's classic games collection are the building blocks of our childhood. They've taught us simple fundamental life lessons like sharing and teamwork while enjoying quality family time together, creating memories to last a lifetime. When the time comes to pass some of these memories down to the next generation, we realise there's so much more to games night.
Hasbro's board games provide a great opportunity to get together as a family and share the fun – memories included! Especially now in an environment when we may not be able to spend time with all our loved ones.
This Winter, what better way to remind us to reconnect and encourage positivity than by spreading the joy that time spent together with a classic Hasbro Game and a mug of hot chocolate brings.
Hasbro, one of the world's largest toy, game and entertainment experience companies, has you covered with a wide range of fun to play and fun to share board game options including:
It's the Twister game, the classic game that ties players up in knots! This action-packed group game is fun for parties or a game night with the family. See where the spinner lands and make a move. Left hand red, piece of cake! Right hand yellow, no problemo! Hilarity ensues as players twist, turn, tangle — and struggle to keep their hands and feet glued to the mat. Right foot blue … uh oh, this is getting tough! Who can do it? Once a player topples over, or their knee or elbow hits the mat, they're out. The last player standing wins!
Bounce 'em in for the win! The Connect 4 Shots game is fast-paced, rapid-fire fun in a race to get 4 shots in a row! Countdown to start 1-2-3…bounce! Two players bounce the lightweight, colourful balls into the grid at the same time. Remember, the balls must hit the table before going in. Keep bouncing balls, trying to fill the holes in the grid vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. Once a player gets 4 in a row of their colour, they win the game! Then when the game is over, fold the grid into a handy storage case.
Select a favourite Monopoly Classic token, place it on Go and roll the dice to own it all! This edition features classic Monopoly gameplay: it's all about buying, selling, and trading properties to win. Chance or Community cards can be a game changer. Will they make a player richer — or send someone to Jail? The Monopoly game is a Family Game Night favourite, and it's a fun indoor activity for kids.
It's the block-balancing, tower-tumbling classic Jenga game! How will you stack up against the laws of gravity? To begin, stack the genuine hardwood blocks into a sturdy tower, using the handy stacking sleeve. Then slide out the blocks one by one and place them on top of the stack. Is your hand steady enough to slide out the last block before the tower collapses? Quick and easy to set up, playing the Jenga game is a fun thing to do while staying at home. It's also a favourite game for parties and game night. Play it solo, with friends, or in teams! How do you Jenga?
Battleship is the classic game of naval combat that brings together competition, strategy, and excitement! In head-to-head battle, players search for the enemy's fleet of ships and destroy them one by one. With convenient portable battle cases and realistic looking naval crafts, Battleship game puts players right in the middle of the action. Players command a powerful fleet that includes an aircraft carrier, a destroyer, a submarine, a patrol boat, and a battleship. Each player announces the coordinates of each strike and sees if it hits. Position ships strategically to survive opponent's relentless strikes, and track hits and misses with red and white pegs on the ocean grid. No ship is safe in this game of stealth and suspense.
CLUE, the classic murder mystery game. Six suspects. One murderer. One weapon. One location. And, of course, one winner. Play the game CLUE and use your super-sleuthing skills to detect whodunit, where, and with which weapon. Was it Mustard in the Library with the Rope? Play CLUE the board game and figure it out.
*Hasbro Gaming and all related trademarks and logos are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc.
Tags: games, hasbro, kids activities


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While you may have heard some buzz about the Celebrating Cultural Diversity festival you will want to read some of the facts that make it one of the most loved events in the greatest city in the nation! Read below for the top 8 reasons you don't want to miss out on the fun and excitement at this great event! Celebrating Cultural Diversity Festival is an annual event that celebrates the different cultures that make up the University of Iowa and its surrounding communities.
This year CCDF is celebrating its 23rd year of educating the community while honoring the many cultures in the area. Members of the community are invited to enjoy the fun atmosphere and learn about their peers through food, games, dance, music, literature, and much more.
As an official Homecoming 2013 kick-off event, the CCDF will be held on Sunday, September 29 from 12-5pm at Hubbard Park near the Iowa Memorial Union. If it rains the CCDF will be moved to the Field House.
Don't miss the special guest performer from Hancher, Martha Redbone's Roots Project. This performance will enrich your cultural experience through Marthas award-winning blend of Native American elements with folk and Piedmont blues.
Check out the Iowa State Fair also!


It's a Baltimore tradition to say that the primary election is the only election that matters, even though the general election is in November. The political establishment loves it when people say this because then they don't have to worry about voters having real choices to challenge them. We believe that in a true democracy, the people should take advantage of every chance they have to pick their leaders from as many options as they like. Why have the right to vote and not use it?
I will be on the ballot this November, along with Glenn Ross, representing the Green Party, a grassroots political party whose goal it is to bring real, community-driven change to our democracy. Coming out to vote in the general election is the first step in making all of our elections matter and shaking up the broken political system which has relied on non-participation for far too long. We hope that between now and then we will earn your vote.
June 26th was the Primary Election, when members of the Democratic and Republican parties picked their candidates for the General Election.
The final day to register before the general election is October 21st.
November 6th is the General Election, when the people of Maryland finally choose their elected leaders.
As members of the Green Party, Glenn Ross and Andy Ellis only appear on the General Election ballot in November .
The General Election is open to all registered voters, who can vote for anybody they want, no matter what their party affiliation. So exercise your right to vote and choose Glenn Ross and Andy Ellis.


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Arsht Center: The Nutcracker (reviews)
The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts brought in the House Theatre of Chicago to stage their imaginative production of The Nutcracker. It opened in the Carnival Studio Theater on November 29, 2012.
Set in the present day, The House's fantastical expansion of this holiday classic is not a ballet, but rather a play—unstintingly affirmative and emotional—about one loving family's recovery from a terrible and surprising loss. Based on the original E.T.A. Hoffmann story, the play centers on young Clara's journey to save Christmas and bring her broken family back together—making this production a splendidly empowering Christmas story and a wholly different take on the classic tale! This contemporary holiday theater piece weaves together riveting dialogue, astonishing puppetry, original songs and spellbinding spectacle to tell a heartwarming, darkly moving story of magic and hope.
Tommy Rapley directed a cast that included John Wilson, Joe Steakly, Renata Eastlick, Mary Sansone, Josh Oder, Joey Stone, Sarah Bockel, Zeke Sulkes,
Bill Hirschman reviewed for Florida Theater On Stage:
...leave it to the House Theatre of Chicago to come up with a quirky twist on The Nutcracker co-produced with the Adrienne Arsht Center. Yes, there is a cheery celebration with freshly-baked cookies offered to the audience and a lovable teddy bear come to life. But it also turns on a son killed in a Middle Eastern battlefront, a terrifying vision of giant flesh-eating rats and a Dr. Phil moral about facing your innermost fears. You know: a family show for a dysfunctional 21st Century family.
The problem is this Nutcracker seems like two separate shows badly grafted onto each other. Intermittently, half the evening is a very-well executed children's show with wild chases, simplistic songs and funny costumes. The other is aimed at adults with such sober aspects as parents unable to deal with their son's death, and sly humor like one rodent telling another, "I'd like to kiss you on your boca raton." In scores of similar events, this results in a something-for-everyone smorgasbord that satisfies everyone. But here, the children's material is too simplistic to charm the adults unless they have a child in tow, and the adult material baffles children. Some audience members will be thoroughly enchanted, but others will struggle to reconcile the two halves of the evening.
Director Tommy Rapley, being a choreographer as well, moves the cast inside an intimate theater-in-the-round in a dizzying swirl of almost perpetual motion... acknowledge that Rapley isn't afraid to stage moments without dialogue, showing relationships just by the way people look at each other or stand in relation to each other.
The cast, a hybrid of local actors and House regulars, is unfailing enthusiastic as they dive deep into two and three roles. You have to love how they regularly steal a few moments to play with a child in the stands or shoot off an impromptu comment out of character to the adults. Eastlick (so sensuous in GableStage's Ruined) and the House's Josh Odor seamlessly switch gears between playing jovial rats wearing red-tinted Elton John glasses and sporting a British accent in one scene, then seconds later with a costume change, becoming the emotionally stunted, grieving parents.
But the spotlight belongs to Sansone, the standout in this season's A Shayna Maidel at Broward Stage Door... She creates a young girl who is painfully aware of the cold reality of her parents' isolation and yet open to the possibility of dolls that can come to life and talk.
Caveat parents: Children of seven or older will find the production enthralling as they would most children's theater. But younger patrons are likely to be badly spooked, even terrified if they've never been to theater before and unable to realize it's all in fun. Heck, those huge rats with glowing red eyes unnerved me.
George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, which Miami City Ballet will perform at the Broward Center Dec. 14-16 and on the Arsht's Ziff Ballet Opera House stage Dec. 20-24 is a period piece, a sumptuous visual feast danced to that oh-so-familiar Tchaikovsky score. The House Nutcracker, presented in the cozy Carnival Studio Theater, is an edgier contemporary play-with-music. Staged by Tommy Rapley, it mixes fantasy, double-entendre humor and, heads up for parents, a few truly scary moments that can make it upsetting for some little ones.
With a script by Jake Minton and Phillip Klapperich, music by Kevin O'Donnell and lyrics by Minton, the theatrical Nutcracker focuses on a family whose joyous Christmas celebration is shattered by tragedy.
Accompanied by six musicians (including composer O'Donnell), the cast of Chicago and Miami actors delivers the show's eclectic songs well, the loveliest being a soothing one sung by Fritz to his little sis.
Collette Pollard's nostalgic in-the-round scenic design places the audience inside the family's home, with no one far from the action – great in terms of emotional intimacy, not so hot when giant rat-head puppets with glowing red eyes and dagger-like teeth finally appear. Costume designer Debbie Baer contributes colorful, fanciful getups for the toys and stylishly quirky outfits for the humans and rats (love the two-toned shoes on the rat trio). Lee Keenan's lighting design amplifies the play's scariest moments, as do the rat squeaks supplied by sound designer Michael Griggs.
Director Rapley seamlessly blends his cast of Chicago and Miami actors. The waif-like Sansone, a Barry University grad, is throughly credible as a plucky young girl. New World School of the Arts alumna Eastlick brings an anchoring presence to Martha and a vivacious playfulness to her rat character, while both Odor and Wilson shine brighter as her rodent cohorts than they do as David and Drosselmeyer. Stone is a sharp, amusing, comforting Fritz. Bockel is cute as afraid-of-the-dark Phoebe, Steakley funny as the lightbulb-topped Hugo and Sulkes a goofy French-accented Monkey, who tells Eastlick's rat that he wants to smooch her on her " boca ratón."
Roger Martin reviewed for miamiartzine:
When House performed The Sparrow at the Arsht last year it was certainly a magical theatrical experience and this could be said even more so for their Death and Harry Houdini, presented earlier this year. Sure, The Nutcracker talks about magic a lot and Clara's toys do come to life and giant red-eyed rats rampage madly around the stage, and it all ends relatively happily, but missing is the magical imagination of The House Theatre of Chicago seen here previously.
It's not all strife and tears, however. There's singing and dancing and comedy and sugar plum cookies. The actors interact well with the young children in the audience, bringing laughter and reassurance that all is not as scary as seems.
Perhaps my cynical old eyes don't see what a child sees (and those children in the audience were undoubtedly enraptured), but I couldn't get past the feeling that this was a second tier road show. Oh, well, two out of three ain't bad.
The Arsht Center presents the House Theatre production of The Nutcracker through December 30, 2012.
Labels: Arsht Center, House Theatre, Review
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