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Mon., June 11, 2018
Cedar Rapids utilities stronger following 2008's flood
Alliant Energy's Downtown Industrial Substation was built after the 2008 flood on ground that did not flood. Photographed in downtown Cedar Rapids on Monday, June 11, 2018. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
Spokesperson for Alliant Energy Mike Wagner speaks about the Downtown Industrial Substation constructed in Cedar Rapids after the 2008 the flood during a press conference on Monday, June 11, 2018. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
ITC public affairs director Tom Petersen discusses working with Alliant Energy on the Downtown Industrial Substation in Cedar Rapids during a press conference on Monday, June 11, 2018. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
ITC public affairs director Tom Petersen shows photos from the 2008 flood as he discusses working with Alliant Energy on the Downtown Industrial Substation in Cedar Rapids during a press conference on Monday, June 11, 2018. (Cliff Jette/The Gazette)
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CEDAR RAPIDS — As the 10-year anniversary of the record-breaking crest of the Cedar River — and the massive power outage that came with it — approaches, those who make sure area homes and businesses have power say things are much different now.
Officials with Alliant Energy and ITC Midwest on Monday held a media availability event at Alliant's Downtown Industrial Substation, near the corner of C Avenue NE and Fourth Street NE, to talk about how the devastating flood of 2008 helped shape the city's current infrastructure.
Should the Cedar River see a repeat of the more than 31-foot crest that occurred in 2008, the substation — along with Alliant's River Run Substation on 10th Street SE — would remain dry.
"Everything that is providing all the energy you need for your business and your life is on ground that was not affected by the flood of 2008," Alliant spokesman Mike Wagner said. "I think it gives you confidence knowing that it's one less thing that you're going to have to worry about if there is a disaster."
In 2008, flooding inundated the city's Sixth Street and Prairie Creek generation stations, causing power outages to as many as 30,000 people, Wagner said.
Tom Petersen, director of public affairs with ITC Midwest, said ITC — which manages the city's utility lines — had power restored to most substations within about three days of the initial outage. Customers farther down the line may have experienced longer outages.
That was done by bringing in more than 30 contractors and establishing a temporary substation near Mount Vernon Road, Petersen said.
"It was incredibly significant and unprecedented. We've never had situation where we lost both transmission substations, in addition to the damage the Alliant system suffered," Petersen recalled.
In addition, flooding up and down the Iowa River and Cedar River put several communities and customers in need of restored power.
"We were experiencing high water all over Eastern Iowa," Petersen said. "By far, Cedar Rapids was the biggest impact on our system."
Now, 10 years later, Petersen and Wagner noted the major differences to not just the generation stations and substations, but the power grid itself — which doesn't just protect residents from future power outages, but provides a sturdier backbone to the community as a whole.
"The resulting system is so much stronger, so much more reliable and has a larger capacity so as the city continues to grow, it's prepared for it," Petersen said.
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Since 2006 NALP has published a graphic illustration of the distribution of starting salaries for new law school graduates, a dramatic bimodal curve illustrating that salaries cluster at either side of the average, and that relatively few salaries are near the average. This year's curve (below) continues this pattern. However, because of the continued shift away from law firm jobs in general and from large firms in particular (see NALP's press releases on the Class of 2011 at http://www.nalp.org/2011selectedfindingsrelease), not only has the average salary for the Class of 2011 shifted to the left, but also the bulk under the 2 peaks has changed. Jobs paying $160,000 accounted for just 14% of reported salaries, while jobs paying $40,000-65,000 — the left-hand peak — accounted for 52% of reported salaries. Just two years ago, for the Class of 2009, the respective percentages were 25% and 34%.


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D.C. Circuit OKs Bar on Some T-Shirts
By TIM RYAN from courthousenews.com
Ê WASHINGTON (CN) – The D.C. Circuit upended a National Labor Relations Board ruling that AT&T can't bar employees who meet with the public from wearing T-shirts that say "Inmate" and "Prisoner of AT$T."
"Common sense sometimes matters in resolving legal disputes," D.C. Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh wrote for the three-judge panel. "This case is a good example."
An NLRB panel ruled 2-1 for the Communications Workers of America against Southern New England Telephone. The company had suspended for one day 183 employees who refused to change their shirts, so the union sued. It called the T-shirt prohibition an unfair labor practice.
But Kavanaugh wrote that though federal law allows workers to wear union apparel at work, "there is a 'special circumstances' exception to that general rule: A company may lawfully prohibit its employees from displaying messages on the job that the company reasonably believes may harm its relationship with its customers or its public image."
Kavanaugh added in his July 10 ruling: "No company, at least one that is interested in keeping its customers, presumably wants its employees walking into people's homes wearing shirts that say 'Inmate' and 'Prisoner.'"
AT&T had argued that its technicians who made house calls wearing the shirts might alarm customers who mistook them for actual convicts, particularly as three people had been killed in a home invasion in Connecticut around the time as the union unveiled the shirts.
Kavanaugh noted that AT&T had allowed workers to wear suggestive shirts on the job without punishment, such as: "'Support your local hookers' (with an image of a fishing lure); 'The liver is evil. It must be punished'; 'I'm not drunk. I'm just a race fan'; [and] 'If I want your opinion … I'll take the tape off your mouth!'"
But the company's seemingly inconsistent application of its dress rules should not stop it from punishing inappropriate clothing in the future, Kavanaugh said.
"No case holds that a company that on some occasions has allowed unprofessional clothing to be worn by employees is somehow estopped from prohibiting other unprofessional clothing," Kavanaugh wrote.
The NLRB doubted that customers might mistake the T-shirts for actual prison attire, but Kavanaugh said the board need only consider whether the shirts could reasonably harm the company's relationship with customers.
"To resolve this case, it is enough to ask the question, as [NLRB] Member [Brian] Hayes did in dissent: 'What would you think about a company that permitted its technicians to wear such shirts when making home service calls?'" Kavanaugh wrote.
He vacated the board's decision and order on the T-shirts, granted its petition for review, and denied the NLRB's cross-application for enforcement.
AT&T did not respond to a request for comment.
The Communications Workers of America declined to comment.
Southern New England Telephone had been an AT&T company on and off several times due to divestments and acquisitions. When the NLRB ruled, in 2011, the company was a part of AT&T Teleholdings


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Juliana and Ben are now officially engaged after surviving an afternoon battling the walking dead while sharing a glass of wine in Santa Clarita. Maybe that zombie was just out geocaching.
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All Elite Wrestling issued the following press release announcing that their debut show in Winnipeg Canada has been rescheduled.
AEW was originally scheduled for a Dynamite and Rampage taping on Tuesday, March 14th, but due to a revised network television schedule, it will now air in its normal slot on Wednesday, March 15th. The show will take place at the Canada Life Centre. The card for the event is currently unknown.
It is also noted that fans who purchased tickets for Tuesday will be able to use those for Wednesday. However, those who are unable to attend can receive a refund up until February 5th.
Check it out below.
Due to a revised network TV broadcast schedule, the double-header #AEWDynamite and #AEWRampage shows originally scheduled for March 14 at Canada Life Centre in Winnipeg, Man. have been rescheduled for Wednesday, March 15: pic.twitter.com/1275JeeOse
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No rest in sight for bakery owners in St. Andrew's
"These are the best cinnamon rolls on PEI." It wasn't Ben and Sarah Charlton, the owners of Bishop's Rest Bakery, B&B and Catering who said that to me. It was our real estate agent who brought them as a welcome gift when we moved to PEI. I'll leave it to you to make up your own mind on that high praise.
What I can tell you upon meeting the Charltons is that a lot of love and care certainly goes into making these classics. "We don't skimp on the ingredients. We load them with butter and sugar and really good cinnamon," Sarah said. And while the recipe remains a secret close to the Charlton's hearts, Ben tells me that it's more about the method than the ingredients. "It's me and a guy I met along the journey who are making them. It's a feeling. You know when the dough is right with your hands in it. It takes a while to get that down."
It's not just their well-known cinnamon rolls but every baked good that is hand mixed at Bishop's Rest Bakery in St Andrews, PEI. The quality and hard work that goes into the baking pays off for the Charltons. What started as a small side gig dropping off a couple of cinnamon rolls at the local gas station is now an established brand on the Island. The bakery delivers to more than a dozen stores from tip to tip, and made thousands of buns for PEI Burger Love™ this year.
The Charltons' business is a family affair. Photo credit: Jessica L. Fitz
The increasing success of their business led Ben to leave the security of his Health PEI job three years ago. "It was either pursue or scale back,'" Ben, a graduate of The Culinary Institute of Canada and certified Red Seal Chef, said. "It was scary to leave." But the business has been growing every year. The new bakery the Charltons put into their house is already at capacity. It runs 24/7 in the summer employing up to 14 full- and part-time staff. During the tourist season 1,500 to 2,000 cinnamon rolls are baked daily!
The Charlton family and business adventure began when Sarah and Ben were working at a PEI restaurant, Sarah as the manager, and Ben as the head chef. Sarah is from PEI while Ben moved from Nova Scotia to pursue his Culinary Arts Degree. Life took them to Canada's western provinces where they both worked in restaurants but the ocean called them back to Sarah's home province.
After they married, they looked to find a permanent spot in the country to start their family. It must have been fate, or luck, or both that one day as they drove by the property that holds their B&B and bakery today they "saw a guy hammer in the for sale sign. I [had] looked through the windows of the abandoned building and have driven by many times before," Ben said.
Built in 1890, they purchased the old parochial house from the church nine years ago and it was the perfect place to start their bed and breakfast. While the house was old, it's also solid and the couple could focus on updating the inside. "It was easy to visualize the end product," Ben recalled. Their B&B guests are not only greeted by the cozy interior of the home but also by a dine-in menu that focuses on seafood and fresh, locally-sourced ingredients to allow guests to stay in and indulge in Ben or Sarah's cooking. "We have a lot of bikers being close to the Confederation Trail," Ben said, "they don't want to get back onto their bikes to get dinner." With stunning views over the Hillsborough River and the welcoming atmosphere of the Charlton family's home, dining in certainly sounds like a treat at the Bishop's Rest.
Freshly made biscuits waiting to be wrapped. Submitted photo
Their business is truly a family affair. Sarah and Ben married and became business partners but they also became parents of four kids. Hayden (7), Liam (5), Eli (3) and Layla (almost 2) chip in around the bakery and B&B. They like helping in the bakery or with packaging. "And they are good little greeters," Ben said. Sarah, a high school English teacher, expresses that owning their own business and working from home allows them to take care of their kids in a different way. "We try to live a simple and fulfilled life. We work way more hours than 9-5 but it is more fulfilling. The kids are around all the time. It instills work ethic in them, they gain communication skills and a sense of family."
The days often seem to not have enough hours for all the endeavours the Charltons are up to. In the summer, Ben sometimes doesn't go to sleep at all. Normally, his day starts at 5:30am. No wonder that they don't actively advertise that they are also doing some catering on the side, with weddings or fundraising events like the Morell Sportsman's Dinner. "We rent a mobile kitchen or cook out of the venue," Ben said. Word-of-mouth secures them those jobs.
"We are part of a community. Local people support you, and that's important to us." People wanting to buy their baked goods would stop by after seeing the Bishop's Rest sign. Neighbours told them they wish they could just walk over and get some goodies. So in 2017, along with their wholesale baking, the Charltons started to operate an in-home shop using PEI's classic honour system. Pop in, grab your baked goods, and leave your money behind. It's open from 7-7, seven days a week during the summer season.
Achieving all this and more is simply because they are "pretty driven," Sarah said. "We balance off the work between ourselves. That's our comfort zone." Ben is already dreaming about a bigger bakery and maybe a cafe in a couple of years. Lucky for us.
About Jessica L. Fritz
Jessica is "from away" in the truest sense of its meaning: her roots are in Germany. She immigrated to Toronto, Canada in 2010 and moved to PEI two summers ago. As a passionate home cook Jessica likes to explore different types of cuisines including her native one. "Thinking globally, buying locally" is her foodie mantra, and being able to grow veggies in her own backyard was one of the big drivers for her move to PEI.
Putting words on paper has always been a way to express herself. Hence, writing for Salty combines her love for food and the written word while at the same time discovering PEI's thriving culinary landscape.
And recently, Jessica and her husband launched their own food business: Maritime Marzipan offers hand-made traditional European almond treats inspired by Island living. She is blogging about her adventure here on saltyisland.com or you can find them at maritimemarzipan.com.
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Autobiography & Memoir / LGBTQ+ Nonfiction
I Ran into Some Trouble
Peggy Caserta
Maggie Falcon
Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing (Aug 1, 2018)
Hardcover $29.95 (286pp)
Best known for the influence of her store, Mnasidika, and her association with Janis Joplin, Peggy Caserta has the devil's own luck. Relentless and relentlessly unafraid to use all the advantages at her disposal, her story is a wild ride. Caserta's I Ran Into Some Trouble, written with Maggie Falcon, bypasses the scandal sheets to explain Caserta's perspective on a life thoroughly lived.
Caserta focuses on her journey from being a small-town Louisiana girl to becoming a fashion, culture, and tabloid sensation to finding her place as a quiet retiree and parental caretaker. Careful to centralize her own life, she steers clear of overreliance on her celebrity connections. She digs into the elements of her life that happened outside of the public view, as she hustled to make something of herself and keep that sense of self intact through grief, loss, abuse, and addiction.
While Caserta recognizes her advantages, especially her parents and their ever-present emotional and financial support, it's also easy to see how her wealth and her whiteness often insulated her from the worst consequences of her behavior. Her meteoric rise as a fashion powerhouse and cultural influencer is shadowed by debauchery, troubled relationships, financial instability, health problems, and addiction. Yet, unlike some of her peers, Caserta survived, not unscathed, but relatively intact. Why is a question even she can't fully answer.
In many ways, I Ran Into Some Trouble is Caserta's reclamation of her own story, a second chance after the infamous Going Down with Janis. While there's some regret for the decisions she abdicated during the worst of her addiction, this memoir isn't about apologies. Rather, Caserta focuses on telling her story her way and owning it. The experience is less salacious and infinitely more astonishing in the scope of what she did, what was done to her, and what she got away with.
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Franz Schausberger, University Professor of Modern History at the University of Salzburg and former Governor of Salzburg, was awarded the title "Doctor Honoris Causa" (DDr., Hc) on the 22nd of May 2018 by the state university "Aleksandër Moisiu" in Durres (Albania). Schausberger Franz was awarded the title of honorary doctor "for his outstanding contribution to the European historical sciences and his scientific expertise for the integration of Albania and the other countries of the Western Balkans into the European Union".
The Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Ksenela Sotirofski emphasised: "This honorary doctor award is due to Schausberger's valuable contributions in the field of science and politics, especially in questions of European integration". Prof. Dr. Franz Schausberger has been passionately committed to the integration of the Western Balkans into the European Union for many years. He has organized numerous conferences, seminars, meetings and panels, as well as published papers that have highlighted the problems and suggested possible solutions to speed up the EU integration of the Western Balkan countries.
The application to the Academic Senate for the honorary doctorate for Prof. Schausberger was made by Prof. Enver Bytyci. The Dean of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, Prof. Dr. Andon Kume, who gave the eulogy, praised Prof. Schausberger's work as a historian, scholar, and politician and above all, highlighted the many years of close collaboration between his Institute of the Regions of Europe and various universities and other scientific institutions in the Western Balkans.
The award ceremony was attended by members of the Academic Senate, lecturers and students of the Aleksandër Moisiu University (UAMD), professors and scholars in the field of history and political science.
Prof. Schausberger was pleased with the honor of being part of the UAMD family and expressed his willingness to promote the values of the University in Austria and beyond. He also entered Salzburg's special relationship with the name of the university, the famous Austrian-Albanian actor Alexander Moissi, an Albanian descent, born in Trieste, spent part of his youth in Durres and played from the founding of the Salzburg Festival in 1920 for many years the "Jedermann". "My special thanks go to the students attending this ceremony, and I pledge you that I continue working hard to bring you into the big European family as soon as possible", Schausberger said.


There is an easy, cheap, and stylish alternative for the wooden bookshelf in your home. And that's vinyl gutters. You can built them all by yourself, without having five years of experience as a handyman. Just follow the steps.
One vinyl gutter. If you don't like the colour, or if it has rust on it, consider repainting it before you start.
Two gutter end caps. Make sure they will fit.
Nothing really out of the ordinary here. The project requires basic tools every man should have. You could also add a stud finder, but a simple knock`n`listen technique was enough for us not to drill through any pipes or electric wires.
Decide how long your gutter bookshelf will be. You can go wild here. Corner shelves, strange forms, etc. Just cut accordingly, be careful and remember – better to cut less than attended and correct afterwards.
Attach the gutter caps when you are done cutting.
After you've decided where exactly your future rain gutter bookshelf shall be, start marking the spot. Use the marker to label where the screws will be. Try to hold the vinyl gutter over it's future spot and use your level to place it as horizontally as possible.
After you're sure you've picked the right places, drill small holes for the screws.
The final stage of this project is actually installing the gutter to the wall. By now you should have shaped the vinyl gutter to the size you require. Drill two holes in the back of it and attach it to the law using the screws. You can put mounting brackets for extra stability.
Once mounted, make sure your new gutter bookshelf will withstand the extra weight from the books. Put some pressure over it by pushing it down with your hands. If it is stable and doesn't swing, you are okey. If it swings, tighten up the screws until it's stable.
There you have it, easy, cheap, and fancy new home for your books to be displayed. If you liked the tutorial you can find the full infographic here.
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Katie returns for series two on Sky Living HD in June.
The fly on the wall documentary following the life of Katie Price is to return for a second series on Sky Living HD. The ten-part series series chronicles the day to day existence of the multi-functional, multi-tasking media darling as the model, mother and business woman kick starts her biggest year yet.
Keen to put the past behind her, Katie is in reflective mode as she sets out to conquer her fears and answer some unresolved questions…celebrating 17 years in the business, Katie is reunited with some faces from her past as she tries to understand how she went from Katie to Jordan and back to Katie.


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Home News Lawyers capitalize on FX probe as Travers Smith pockets £2.2 million
Lawyers capitalize on FX probe as Travers Smith pockets £2.2 million
News February 16, 2015 —by Andrew Saks-McLeod 0
There is a well worn adage that suggests that in any business, when all is well, accountants and lawyers are needed, and when all is going not so well, accountants and lawyers are needed.
This most certainly rings true in the case of the recent investigations into FX benchmark manipulation which concluded in November with $4.3 billion in fines administered to a series of major banks whose FX desks are among the largest in the world. With the civil and regulatory penalties now in place, the criminal probes have begun into the activities of individual employees of the implicated banks.
The entire litigation industry which has surrounded the civil investigations has reaped rewards for being involved in the investigation.
British corporate, financial and commercial law firm Travers Smith, which worked alongside Lord Grabiner, QC on the investigation into the Bank of England's involvement in FX rate fixing last year, has been paid £2.2 million for its contribution to an independent inquiry into the Bank of England's alleged part in the high profile case.
According to law industry portal thelawyer.com, the inquiry cost the Bank of England £2.93 million, of which 68% was paid to Travers Smith.
Lord Grabiner was appointed in March 2014 to lead the investigation into the Bank of England's activities regarding the at the time alleged FX rate fixing.
Lord Grabiner was paid £401,000 for his efforts, whilst Adam Rushworth, an Essex Court junior who supported him was remunerated £106,000.
Travers Smith allocated a team of up to 12 lawyers for the inquiry, which between the lawyers in the group, 1.8 million documents and 87,000 telephone call recordings were investigated.
As far as other firms are concerned, North American legal and corporate consultancy firm Huron Legal, which is the litigation arm of Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN) was paid £107,115 for processing and hosting electronic documents which at the time of investigations were under consideration.
Big data firm Nexidia was paid £80,500 for the same role in relation to telephone calls, while legal case analysis and transcript firm Opus 2 was paid £14,000 for its transcribing interviews by Lord Grabiner.
The fees were disclosed in a letter from Andrew Habgood, chairman of the governing court of the Bank of England, to the House of Commons Treasury Committee following pressure from MPs.
Habgood noted: "Lord Grabiner and Travers Smith carried out their work at a discount to their normal commercial rates."
According to the report, Travers Smith is considered to have strong ties to the Bank of England, as a result of Corporate Recovery executive Jeremy Walsh and Corporate Finance Partner Anthony Foster having been seconded to the Bank of England in consultancy capacities during the financial crisis.
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Indian Developer wins Apple design award for Hindustani classical music app
This year, Apple announced six new award categories, among which were the Apple Design Awards.
Indian developer Sandeep Ranade was among the 12 app and game developers who shared the award this year, and he developed an app for Hindustani classical music called NaadSadhana.
An engineer-musician from Pune, Sandeep Ranade speaks with us about his music-learning app NaadSadhana, designed to assist Indian Classical musicians in tuning, synthesizing and creating their own music. Apple Design Awards held during WWDC21 awarded the app in the Innovation category.
Ranade was recognized as the winner of the innovation award because it provides clients with a state-of-the-art experience through the unique use of Apple technologies unique to their niche.
NaadSadhana is dubbed by Apple as an "all-in-one studio-quality music app for musicians that enables them to perform and publish their music without limitations."
What is NaadSadhana?
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NaadSadhana was originally designed as an app for practicing Indian classical singing, but now it supports seven different genres of music. These include Hindustani classical, Semi-Classical, Devotional, Carnatic, Light / Bollywood, Western, and Fusion.
Through artificial intelligence and Core ML, NaadSadhana enables singers to improvise vocal lines, and provides instant feedback on how accurate the notes are, and generates a backing track in real-time based on the singer's lines.
Initially developed as a tool for Hindustani classical music, NaadSadhana is now used by musicians of all genres for its intuitive interface and accompaniment capabilities.
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NaadSadhana also features harmonies, which let users choose from various music genres including Western, Bollywood, Semi-Classical, Devotional, and Fusion.
Pointing out the AI had to be top-notch for contextual analysis, Sandeep says that there was a requirement of automatic chord and backing tracks for piano, violin, and harmonium. But it was another problem area because in a raag as you are constrained by what can happen with notes in the melody.
However, when you sing a song that does not adhere to a raag, you can get into any melody or scale at any time. The app needs to make sure it isn't playing anything incorrect, but it must play as well as it can given the context it is analysing.
Additionally, Sandeep added features where users could simultaneously record 12 tracks on the app. Besides bouncing and publishing, the app also includes a mini mixing studio. According to Sandeep, creating more percussion instruments, raags and taals for the app is an endless challenge.
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The Apple Design Awards were also given to apps for inclusiveness, delight and fun, interaction, social impact, visuals and graphics. Voice Dream Reader comes in over two dozen languages and converts digital text to speech. It can read a PDF, webpage, or ebook aloud.
CARROT Weather: It's known for its funny forecasts and powerful graphics.
Be My Eyes: This program pairs blind people and low-vision people with volunteers from around the world who use cameras to identify objects.
Loóna: It offers relaxing sleepscapes that combine storytelling with soothing sounds.
As discussed above, winners in each of the categories came from two categories – apps and game developers. Riot Games' new mobile game, League of Legends: Wild Rift, won the Apple Design award for innovation under the Innovation category.
Riot Games offers many mobile-specific features such as polished touchscreen controls, an auto-targeting system to help new players get to grips with the game, and camera settings that have been customized for mobile devices.
Susan Prescott, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations, said, "This year's Apple Design Award winners have redefined what good app design should be." "There is no doubt that apps and games play an essential role in our lives, and these developers embody the best of our new award categories."
Tim Cook, the Apple CEO, unveiled two new features this year at WWDC21: Xcode Cloud (development and delivery platform for creating high-quality and high-volume apps by combining cloud-based tools) and TestFlight (a testing platform for iOS, macOS, tvOS, and watchOS mobile apps).
Sandeep is looking forward to using these for NaadSadhana to ensure the activity won't slow down his system.
Due to the high costs of instruments, people who wanted to get into the cultural arts and upskilled used NaadSadhana to tune and create music during the lockdowns. Two days prior to Apple's announcement of the Design Awards finalists, Sandeep released a new version of the app with these features.
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Some of the first associations when mentioning Cannes are certainly the famous events such as famous Cannes Film Festival and Cannes Lions, the Festival of Creativity where we have a chance to see our favorite movie stars and other influential people walking down the red carpet in the latest haute couture creations, year in year out. Everything is bursting with glamour during hot summer days when these events take place, but we can honestly say this is a typical situation in Cannes from April to September!
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Deutsche Windtechnik receives awards from innogy and ScottishPower for outstanding service quality
Bremen/Essen/Glasgow (renewablepress) - The independent maintenance provider Deutsche Windtechnik has been honoured by two of its largest clients for the quality of its services. At its supplier day event on 22 November 2017 in Essen, Germany, the energy supplier innogy presented Deutsche Windtechnik with the ´innogy supplier award´ in the Quality Global category for its international cooperation with innogy. In a ceremony at its Glasgow headquarters on 9 November, leading British wind farm developer ScottishPower honoured Deutsche Windtechnik Ltd. from among some 3,500 suppliers in the Delivery of Services category as the company´s best supplier during the last year.
In his laudation, Michael Veeser, Head of innogy Corporate Procurement Renewables, said, "The value created by our suppliers is of the utmost importance for innogy. We have a very close working relation-ship with Deutsche Windtechnik that is characterised by daily communication at various levels. The con-stant exchange enables both companies to pursue our ongoing internationalisation and to tap into portfolio synergies, new markets and technologies as far as possible. We are greatly looking forward to continuing our cooperation in the future." Matthias Brandt, Board Director of Deutsche Windtechnik, said during his acceptance speech: "Substance and a common spirit form the foundation of our jointly achieved service quality. People, systems and innovations go hand in hand!"
Reducing operating costs
Deutsche Windtechnik opened its first subsidiary in the UK in 2015. Both ScottishPower Renewables and Deutsche Windtechnik have benefited from their cooperation. Keith Anderson, ScottishPower´s Chief Corporate Officer, said: "To deliver some of our most ambitious projects ever, we are working with a wide range of specialist companies. Since Deutsche Windtechnik entered the UK market, with their strong focus on customer satisfaction and operational performance, they have brought significant benefits to ScottishPower Renewables and to the wider UK Market by helping to drive down operational costs. We are delighted to recognise Deutsche Windtechnik for all of their excellent work." ScottishPower gave out 16 special recognition awards in total to the companies and workers who have been helping to deliver the variety of upgrades and improvements across the UK.
Billy Stevenson, Managing Director at Deutsche Windtechnik Ltd. said: "We are very pleased to have our efforts recognised in this way with this prestigious award. Our success has come from great teamwork with safety and customer needs always uppermost in mind. We also appreciate the positive working relationship we found with the very professional people throughout the organisation at Scottish Power. Together, we can make a major contribution to make renewable energy in the UK successful and economical."
Bremen-based Deutsche Windtechnik AG offers a Europe-wide single-source full technical maintenance package for wind turbines. The company operates both onshore and offshore. It provides service for more than 3,000 wind turbines throughout Europe with permanent maintenance contracts (basic and full maintenance onshore). Its system engineering focuses on Vestas/NEG Micon, Siemens/AN Bonus, Nordex, Senvion, Fuhrländer and Gamesa turbines.
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Nearly half of breast cancer patients carrying the BRCA1 gene mutation experience a complete pathological response(pCR) – the disappearance of all evidence of disease from the breast tissue and lymph nodes – regardless of disease stage after standard neoadjuvant chemotherapy, according to new research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
The study, published online in The Journal of Clinical Oncology on September 6, is the largest study to date to find that the pCR rate is significantly higher in BRCA1 carriers (46 percent) than in women carrying the BRCA2 mutation (13 percent) and non-carriers (22 percent). Among all the women, researchers did not find a statistical difference in overall survival rates, but noted that BRCA1 carriers who achieved a pCR had better five-year, relapse-free survival and overall survival rates.
BRCA1 and BRCA2 belong to a class of human genes known as tumor suppressors. The mutation is inherited and increases a woman's chance of developing breast cancer with more aggressive features by 80 percent. Researchers aimed to determine whether women with and without the mutations would respond differently to the same treatment.
For the study, researchers used MD Anderson's Breast Cancer Management System Database to identify 317 women at varying disease stages who received neoadjuvant chemotherapy and clinical genetic testing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 between 1997 and 2009. Fifty- seven women were BRCA1 carriers, 23 were BRCA2 mutation carriers and 237 were non-carriers. After chemotherapy, 61 patients received breast-conserving surgery, while 256 opted for mastectomy.
Median follow up time for the patients was 3.2 years, at which point 22 percent of patients experienced disease recurrence or death. There were no significant differences noted in survival outcomes with respect to BRCA status and type of neoadjuvant chemotherapy received.
According to Arun, there is no consensus on the most effective chemotherapy regimen for treating women who carry the BRCA mutation, due to a lack of prospective studies.
"This new insight tempts us to speculate that the presence of the BRCA1 mutation determines how some women will respond to neoadjuvant chemotherapy. However, we need future prospective studies with larger cohorts and longer-term follow up to validate these findings and determine optimum treatment," Arun noted.
Additional researchers on the all-MD Anderson study from the Department of Breast Medical Oncology include: Angelica M. Gutierrez Barrera, M.S., Deann Atchley, Ph.D, Lajos Pusztai, M.D., Jennifer Litton, M.D., Vicente Valero, M.D., and Gabriel N. Hortobagyi, M.D. Also contributing were Soley Bayraktar, M.D., Department of Cancer Medicine; Diane Liu, M.S., Department of Biostatistics; Funda Meric-Bernstam, M.D., Department of Surgical Oncology; and Constance Albarracin, M.D., Department of Pathology.
The study was partially funded by the Lynn Cohen Breast and Ovarian Cancer Project and the Nellie B. Connally Breast Cancer Research Fund.


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What: A therapeutic group for mothers of children with neurological impairments, e.g. ADHD, Tourette syndrome, OCD, Bipolar Disorder, etc.
When: Tuesday mornings, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
Why: Raising children with neurological impairments has a unique set of challenges that require more specialized techniques than can be found in mainstream parenting resources. Gathering a wider variety of strategies will allow mothers to regain the control and expertise that they need to implement in the home. Having the support of other mothers going through similar experiences helps you to deal with the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies parenting children with these disorders.
Cost: The cost for Mother's Group is $70 per session, and we ask that mothers commit to attending sessions at least twice per month in order to provide meaningful and supportive feedback to the group.
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This buyer is looking for manufacturers and value added distributors of military, commercial and industrial connectors. The company has completed several acquisitions of industrial products and services companies and is looking to enhace it's existing portfolio investments by acquiring companies with similar product and service offerings. They prefer companies based in the United States that are profitable.
The company will also consider manufacturers and value added distributors of semiconductors.
Consulting companies specializing in implementation of business software.
This buyer is looking to purchase a company that specializes in implementing business software systems. Specific types of software might include accounting systems like Sage / Peachtree, QuickBooks Pro, CYMA or Net Suite or law office software solutions like Abacus Law or Intuit Quickbase.
Prefers Southern California, seeks profitable companies with existing accounts. Please contact JMR Capital, Inc. for additional details and refer to [Buyer 1107323].
This California based Insurance Agency specializes in acquiring commercial and personal insurance portfolios and stand alone insurance companies throughout the United States. The company has an established line of credit for the purpose of making agency acquisitions and will promptly consider and respond to all proposals.
The company has acquired agencies that handle Auto and Homeowner insurance, Condominium and Renters insurance, Umbrella liability insurance, Earthquake and Flood insurance and recreational vehicle Insurance.
Contact JMR Capital, Inc. to learn more about this Insurance Company that wants to grow by acquiring stand alone insurance agencies and refer to [Buyer 1107322].
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The industry focus of this qualified buyer is Education Products and Services. Companies that provide supplemental education products and services, post-secondary for profit, early childhood education and testing and assessment are of particular interest. The investor seeks profitable companies in North America with strong management teams. When you call our office Please refer to Buyer 1105313.


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Rotten Tomatoes Hosts Party at Comic-Con
Rotten Tomatoes (owned by Fandango) held a cocktail party July 18 at the Hard Rock Hotel as Comic-Con was set to kick off in San Diego.
Laika Animation Studio Exhibits During Comic-Con
Celebrating the film's 10th anniversary, Teri Hatcher, voice star of Coraline, stopped by July 18 at "Laika Live," the stop-animation studio's exhibit running July 13-22 in San Diego's Gaslamp Quarter and coinciding with Comic-Con. Laika also created ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings and the upcoming Missing Link, due April 19. The free … Continue reading "Laika Animation Studio Exhibits During Comic-Con"
The Entertainment Merchants Association Hosts Seventh Annual LAES
The seventh annual Los Angeles Entertainment Summit, presented by the Entertainment Merchants Association, took place July 17-18 at the Loews Hollywood Hotel. The event included panels, speakers, awards, an OTT Channels Conference and a cocktail party sponsored by FandangoNow, which included a silent auction to benefit the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Charity EAA Hosts Wine, Wisdom and Vision Event June 21 in Hollywood
The Entertainment Aid Alliance (formerly the Entertainment AIDS Alliance) June 21 kicked off its newly expanded charitable mission with the annual Wine, Wisdom and Vision event at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The organization announced the establishment of the Maria La Magra and Heather Hinkel Fund, to benefit cancer patients, to accompany the existing Marc Berman … Continue reading "Charity EAA Hosts Wine, Wisdom and Vision Event June 21 in Hollywood"
Video Industry Veterans Attend Second Reunion
Jodie LeVitus Francisco, former Western advertising director and national video manager for Billboard Magazine, organized the Video Industry Reunion 2 June 11 at Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas, Calif. All past and current members of the home entertainment industry were invited to attend. A raffle raised money for the Entertainment Aid Alliance.
'Jurassic Park' 25th Anniversary Screening at the Greek
Fandango teamed with Universal Pictures and The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles to host an exclusive screening of Universal and Amblin Entertainment's Jurassic Park on June 11, the 25th anniversary of the classic film's original release date. The event featured celebrity guests, giveaways and a sneak peek of new footage from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, arriving in … Continue reading "'Jurassic Park' 25th Anniversary Screening at the Greek"
'Isle of Dogs' Behind the Scenes
The stop-motion animated film Isle of Dogs from writer-director Wes Anderson will be available through Movies Anywhere and digital retailers June 26 and on Blu-ray and DVD July 17 from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. Here are a few looks at the making of the film:
'Jurassic World' Unboxed
Actors Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard from Universal Pictures' Jurassic World and its upcoming sequel unboxed a surprise at The Grove shopping center in Los Angeles June 2. The largest "delivery" in Amazon's history was made to The Grove May 30, escorted by a Jeep Wrangler motorcade. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom arrives in theaters … Continue reading "'Jurassic World' Unboxed"
'Grease' Celebrates 40th at Cannes
Paramount Pictures hosted a screening of Grease at this year's Cannes Film Festival in France to celebrate the film's 40th anniversary. Star John Travolta and director Randal Kleiser took part in the Cinéma de la Plage event May 16 where the restored film was shown to fans an outdoor screening on the beach. Grease: 40th Anniversary Edition is … Continue reading "'Grease' Celebrates 40th at Cannes"
Gardening With 'Peter Rabbit'
To celebrate Earth Day and the April 20 digital home entertainment release of Peter Rabbit, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment partnered with Slow Food USA and schools in New York City and Los Angeles to launch school and community gardens. In New York City April 20, DIY Network gardening expert and host Sara Bendrick led efforts … Continue reading "Gardening With 'Peter Rabbit'"


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Is the Second Demographic Transition a useful framework for understanding the spatial patterns of fertility change in Serbia at the beginning of the 21st century?
Nikitović, Vladimir
Arsenović, Daniela
Sekulić, Aleksandar
Gaps in comprehension of demographic change in the region of ex-Yugoslavia after 1990, caused by a lack of reliable data series, frequent change of borders, and distinctive historical and cultural tradition in comparison to other post-communist societies, motivated us to contribute to the understanding of the spatial diffusion of recent profound fertility changes in South-Eastern Europe. We analysed changes in the spatial pattern and distribution of typical fertility indicators of the second demographic transition at the sub-national level in Serbia in order to find out whether these demographic shifts could be interpreted to be similar to those in Central and Eastern Europe. We found that differences in economic, historical, and cultural development between sub-regions of the country strongly affect spatial patterns of fertility change. Also, this paper suggests that the sub-regions forerunners of the first demographic transition could be considered as the cores of diffusion for the s...econd demographic transition.
South-East Europe / second demographic transition / sub-national fertility patterns / spatial autocorrelation / Serbia
AUC Geographica, 2019, 54, 2, 152-167
Demographic transition in Serbia (RS-146017)
DOI: 10.14712/23361980.2019.14
WoS: 000504042100003


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Alanna Clarke is a Canadian singer/songwriter, guitarist, and piano player based in Cochrane, Alberta.

Early life
Clarke grew up near Cochrane, and attended Cochrane High School.

Career
Clarke won the Calgary Breakfast Television Spotlight. She was winner of the Toast 'n Jam Battle of the Bands 2007 held at Canada Olympic Park. Her first demo CD, titled Kissing Booth, was released in 2006. She won the Don Weldon Award for most promising performer at the Calgary Stampede Talent Search in 2008. In the Cochrane Youth Talent Festival she won two years in row.   Her third CD, Wild Rose, was released in 2010, and one of her songs was selected for use in the movie, Degrassi Takes Manhattan.

On August 11, 2011 Clarke performed in Toronto's annual all-female, multi-genre artist Honey Jam showcase presented by PhemPhat in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

On November 12, 2014 Alanna premiered a new single Heartstrings (Produced by Mike 'WUFF' Wofford, Vocal Produced by Jon E.K. and Mixed by Adrian Bradford) on the Los Angeles blog Free Bike Valet.

References

External links

Official site of Alanna Clarke (archive)
Alanna Clarke - Canada Live (CBC)

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian women singers
Canadian women guitarists
Musicians from Alberta
People from Cochrane, Alberta

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This year, two of the most brilliant and influential jazz musicians of all time would have celebrated their centennial birthdays: Dizzy Gillespie and Ella Fitzgerald. Both NEA Jazz Masters—Dizzy was honored in our inaugural class of Jazz Masters and Ella was the first woman to ever receive the award—the two were friends and collaborators, performing together around the world, and frequently at historic moments, including the introduction of bebop to Carnegie Hall, and the integration of musical venues. Given their frequently intertwined legacies, we thought we'd feature wisdom from these two legends in a single post. Enjoy!
Listen to our audio blog post about Ella Fitzgerald, or browse photos of Dizzy Gillespie snapped by another NEA Jazz Master, Milt Hinton.


WIESBADEN – In 2017, 551 enterprises reported a turnover of more than one billion euros each in their advance turnover tax returns. The number of enterprises increased by 35 compared with 2016. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) also reports that the total value of supplies and services of the billionaire companies amounted to 2.0 trillion euros. These accounted for 31.9% of the turnover of all enterprises liable to pay tax.
All in all, roughly 3.3 million enterprises submitted advance turnover tax returns with an expected turnover of nearly 6.4 trillion euros (excl. turnover tax).


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Home / Generics / Research / Adherence to generic versus brand-name statins and associated clinical and economic outcomes
Adherence to generic versus brand-name statins and associated clinical and economic outcomes Posted 24/05/2019
Despite evidence supporting the efficacy of statins for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease, a lack of adherence to statin treatment continues to be a major problem. Sicras-Mainar and colleagues investigated real-world treatment persistence and medical possession for generic versus brand-name statins used in routine clinical practice, and assessed associated clinical and economic outcomes [1].
A total of 13,244 electronic medical records were obtained from a database of two regions in Spain. Data from patients who started treatment with generic versus brand-name statins between 1 July 2010 and 30 June 2012 were compared over a follow-up period of 5 years. Adherence was calculated using the medication possession ratio (MPR, representing the number of days of medication supplied divided by the number of treatment days from the index date), and treatment persistence (defined as the time, measured in days, without stopping the initial treatment or switching to another medication at least 30 days after the initial prescription). In addition, clinical outcomes including patient's at-goal rates of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), incidence of major cardiovascular events (CVE) and all-cause mortality were assessed, as well as healthcare resource utilization and associated costs.
The analysis revealed that patients who started treatment with a generic statin had significantly lower treatment adherence than patients who started on a brand-name statin in terms of MPR (61.5% vs 65.1%) and persistence (adjusted HR: 0.86 [95% CI: 0.82–0.91]), both p < 0.001. This lower adherence translated into poorer clinical outcomes; 39.2% (95% CI: 38.3%–40.2%) of patients on generics reached their LDL-C goal compared with 42.0% (95% CI: 40.2%–43.7%) of patients on brand-name statins (adjusted odds ratio: 0.87 [95% CI: 0.80%–0.95%], p = 0.003). In addition, the probability of occurrence of a CVE was significantly higher in patients on generics than in patients on brand-name drugs (HR: 1.31 [95% CI: 1.15%–1.50%], p < 0.001), and all-cause mortality was significantly higher in patients on generics (HR: 1.36 [95% CI: 1.15%–1.62%], p < 0.001).
Poorer clinical outcomes in patients who started treatment with generic statins compared with those who started treatment with brand-name statins translated into higher resource use, in particular the mean numbers of primary care visits (56.4 vs 48.1, p < 0.001), specialized care visits (10.0 vs 8.3, p < 0.001) and hospital emergencies (8.3 vs 7.0, p < 0.001). As a consequence of this higher healthcare resource use, the adjusted mean total healthcare cost per patient was higher for generic statins than brand-name statins (adjusted difference: Euros 1137 [95% CI: Euros 997 – Euros 1,277], p < 0.001).
This sequential relationship between lack of adherence and lower persistence, lower clinical effectiveness and greater use of healthcare resources is consistent with existing literature.
Authors of the research paper [1] reported conflict of interest. Antoni Sicras-Mainar is an employee of ClinicResearch. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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1. Sicras-Mainar A, Sánchez-Álvarez L, Navarro-Artieda R, Darbà J. Treatment persistence and adherence and their consequences on patient outcomes of generic versus brand-name statins routinely used to treat high cholesterol levels in Spain: a retrospective cost-consequences analysis. Lipids Health Dis. 2018;17(1):277.
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This might seem a bit tongue in cheek, but it's absolutely serious. In another thread in another forum, people were discussing a semi-well known mastering engineer who sometimes promotes goofball audiophile theories like cable elevators and such. The identity of the engineer is not important, and neither are his theories. At one point in the thread someone pointed out that (long ago) the guy mastered some famous recordings that many consider to sound good.
This raises the question: Aside from peer recommendations and credits, how can customers assess the quality of a mastering engineer's work? If all we hear is the finished result, how do we really know the mastering engineer made the recording sound better? Isn't it possible the engineer made the recording sound worse? Do any of the mastering engineers here offer examples of Before and After on your business web sites? Is there another way to tell if a mastering engineer improved the sound and by how much?
You gotta figure that not to many ME's would stay in business if they didn't at least make the mastered recording sound as good or better than the mix.
Not to many clients would approve the master other wise. Changes between the mix and the master are not always huge or dramatic. Less needs to be done with really well recorded and mixed material.
A far as before/after... many sites have examples,... some do test masters (time permitting)... some,.. their reputation precedes them.
There's in fact a number of renowned mastering engineers whose work I greatly admire who have made public statements that demonstrate to me that they do not understand the basics of how PCM and digital audio work - as well as they also sometimes believe in certain things I consider audiophile myths.
However - just because of this does not by any means whatsoever mean that they are not excellent at the skills actually necessary to create a great master: mainly having an excellent monitoring environment and being able to make correct processing decisions for the audio they are working on. In fact many of these engineers espousing what I believe are misunderstandings of how audio works often have a huge amount of experience doing these things and are able to do way better mastering work than many who have a great amount of technical knowledge but little real world experience mastering!
This raises the question: Aside from peer recommendations and credits, how can customers assess the quality of a mastering engineer's work? If all we hear is the finished result, how do we really know the mastering engineer made the recording sound better? Isn't it possible the engineer made the recording sound worse?
I often have to post this here - but once again I need to remind folks that there's this thing given in every single case where something is getting mastered called a "reference" which the client - not the ME - must approve for a master to be sent in for replication or duplication. So what you are hearing as the final product is in fact what the client (whether it be artist, label representative, producer, or combination of these with final say in what gets made) wants you to hear and in fact is what they consider "better" - regardless of whether your own subjective opinion is if this is "better" or "worse" than what the original mixes were.
Ultimately - if there is a release which sounds sonically excellent to you - while in many (if not most) cases the origins of this excellence is in fact the mix - the mastering engineer is in fact the person vetting this - so even if the decision is to do no processing to it at all they are the one who have the final responsibility towards making this decision.
Do any of the mastering engineers here offer examples of Before and After on your business web sites?
I haven't to date because this requires getting permission from the client as this is there intellectual property - and just haven't made it a priority to arrange this with any of them. I instead offer free samples of my work for any potential new clients mixes so that they can hear the difference I can make as it directly applies to their own mixes - as this is way more relevant than what I did for someone else's tracks.
Is there another way to tell if a mastering engineer improved the sound and by how much?
Sure - book a mastering sample or session for one of your own mixes with them. Can't think of a better way to find out than this!
Just because you can't hear the increase in clarity with cable elevators, or the obvious degradation in digital copies, is no reason to impugn their integrity.
It's important for mastering engineers to always claim to hear a difference. Even where none does, or even can exist. Because they can hear better than you.
At the end of the day, it's all about creating great sounding masters.
If someone that does just that, (and has done for years) tells me something, I'm gonna pay more attention to them than I am someone who creates lesser masters than they do!
The truly great ME's haven't gone to these drastic lengths employing serious tech's, building and adapting their gear just for some kind of marketing ploy.
They really do believe it sounds better and they really do care!
There are plenty of teachers teaching advanced physics, mathematics and logic who believe in a God/Santa Clause/Alien Abductions/Ghosts/Reiki/Traditional Medicine/Snake Oil and what-not. This doesn't mean that they aren't excellent teachers, or even experts, in their chosen field. They might be the best in the world.
There are also people who act quite childishly, attacking fellow forum members for no apparent reason than to avoid clarifying inconsistencies in their own personal theories of what can and can not be heard. This doesn't mean that these people aren't qualified in their chosen field, like say.. acoustics?
If you're getting business, your getting paid, and if you're getting paid it's by the one person who knows what the mix sounds like. If you don't do it right, you don't get paid, or the customer doesn't come back. If you don't do it right a lot you won't get lucky on people paying up and cutting loose. Seems pretty common sense to me and is the same as any service industry.
This raises the question: Aside from peer recommendations and credits, how can customers assess the quality of a mastering engineer's work?
If the records sounds different one from another.
The problem with before and afters is that they need to be level matched. I find the before and after sound files from even very reputable manufacturers fail to do this in demonstrations, so even if the louder 'after' sounded worse it will always sound better. There is still a lot of 'smoke and mirrors' talk in mastering as you would expect with a qualification that anyone can call themselves.
Having audio examples shows the style of music that you are into, the level of clientele (credits), and most importantly the consistency of your work. I think that is all you should need to sell your abilities.
I know plenty of very good MEs that are not technical at all, and still can charge top dollar as their work speaks for it's self.
One such engineer I know even managed to spill brasso all over his body.
Consistency in delivering quality results that satisfy clients is the only proof of true talent.
Some people want to believe that equipment is all important so occasionally gear talk is required (and blunders happen) but this is just a smoke screen as while good tools make the job easier, the interaction of ears, brain & experience is what keeps regular work coming in.
About your question concerning how to tell if Mastering is good or only OK - without access to the mix, it's hard to tell who did what. If it's destroyed, was it destroyed deliberately or inadvertently in mixing (by someone who thought it would sound kewl), or in mastering (by someone working with too little sleep or pressure to krush for Loudness' sake (in vain))?
I think you should just go by the holistic sound of the CD. Is it good sounding (sonically)? If yes, then the mastering engineer didn't do harm, which is the best s/he can do for the music. If it's better sounding than the original, or worse, we may never know (as random consumers who don't know the artists/engineers and session details, perhaps). But as long as it sounds really good - who cares if it was salvaged by a genius, or lucky?, mastering engineer or if it was simply not bungled by a responsible, and reliable mastering engineer? Either way, the job would have been done well.
If the recording sounds no good, blame everyone involved! (: Why? Because the recording playback quality is, like, >90% musical performance quality, and engineering quality, only <10%. Think of how many fantastic records there are that are sonically challenged (early "stereo" releases, for example...). Then think of how few HD Tracks you've downloaded, simply because they were mastered well (as in, "not badly") and also released in high definition?
I would never trust before/after comparisons on websites.
How would you know that the 'original mix' wasn't altered either?
I'll turn it around and ask the same about acoustical designers as well?
We had a famous acoustical designer build two rooms up this way (same plans just flip flopped... and he sold them for the same amount, over 100K to each studio). One room sounded great... the other had very weird nodes and sounded very bad in the mix position... same plans same designers... only difference, the contractor.
Well mister famous acoustical consultant didn't believe me when I told him one of his rooms was pretty screwed up. I told the owner for 100K he should have factored in time to come up and check out the finished product... he did not. I had to get a very famous producer who was a friend of his to check out the room and then he came up and did tests. Found out the front wall had been built incorrectly and finally they fixed it... after about 1 year and lost clients.
As for my work, I don't cause problems... I fix them.
If you have clients that keep coming back and recommending you to others then you, as a mastering engineer, must be doing a good job mastering.
The majority of mastering engineers, who post here, do GREAT work and their clients respect them for it and they have earned their spot in the mastering hierarchy by doing a first class job on a number of projects throughout the years.
On the other side of the coin - many people who call themselves "mastering engineers" on the WWW really don't know the first thing about audio or mastering. They have no background in mastering or audio and have just decided that they are now a "mastering engineer" because it sounded "cool" or they had a bunch of equipment sitting around from their "recording studio" and thought this would be another way of making money.
Let's be honest - most people who post here are not the top of the heap mastering engineers so we really don't know what the guys and gals at the top think or how they rate themselves or others in their field.
We know they are famous because we see and hear a lot of their work and we know they must be doing a good job since they have lots of clients and are obviously making money since they are still in business and have their names on a lot of the CDs we all enjoy listening to.
I think to properly assess a mastering engineer you have to look at their total output over the years and see how many really top named entertainers they have done and how many CDs have they mastered that we all listen to.
Those are the people at the top of the mastering profession and can demand the kinds of fees the rest of us only dream about.
The rest of us do what we can to do the best possible mastering job for our clients and try hard to make sure what we do is both good for the music and the artist.
Keeping an artists coming back for more mastering is probably the best way to assess a good mastering engineer. Happy satisfied clients are ALWAYS a good way to measure your success.
Added..after reading the above post ^^^^^ As to acoustical engineers. There are GREAT ones and there are the not so GREAT ones. I had a GREAT acoustical engineer work on my two studios and I am VERY pleased with his work and would recommend him highly to others. There are others that I have seen and heard their work and it is not good. They still got paid for their "expertise" but what they produced was not what they promised the client they were going to do. The same could be said for mastering.
book a mastering sample or session for one of your own mixes with them. Can't think of a better way to find out than this!
+1 - Most likely the single best way to assess an ME's capabilities is to get couple/few songs mastered by them.
a mastering sample or session for one of your own mixes with them.
The only way you can truly hear what affect they will have on your music and measure their level of service.
Recently we were asked to do a FREEBIE mastering shoot out for a record company. We mastered the track they has us download and never heard back from them. It took some time and cost us some money for us to do the mastering. We contacted the label about a week later to find out whether they liked what we did or not and were told that they never comment on the shoot outs and would not tell us who was the winner.
I guess in the future we will not be "participating" in shootouts since it is somewhat of an expensive crap shoot.
For those of you who do "trial mastering" what is your percentage of wins versus how many you do (or since you are getting paid anyway does it matter)??? If you don't want to say on the forum I certainly understand. Thanks in advance!!!
Wow, what a lot of great replies.
For those of you who do "trial mastering" what is your percentage of wins versus how many you do??? If you don't want to say on the forum I certainly understand. Thanks in advance!!!
I've never really kept a track of the percentage but as a guess I would say somewhere around 85-95% of the demos that I do turn into real jobs. As far as time spent I look at this as "sweat advertising expense". Through the years I've developed relationships with new clients that I might not have both nationally and internationally since they might not be familiar with my work otherwise. One caveat however is that potential clients have to be patient as far as turnaround time for demos since it's done between projects. If turnaround is an issue, I suggest paying for a single with the cost of the single going toward the complete album. Obviously it wouldn't be fair to have a paying client wait for someone else's demo.
Aside from peer recommendations and credits, how can customers assess the quality of a mastering engineer's work?
Credits go a long way! When I hear an album I really like the sound of, I'll check out who mastered it. If it's a new name to me, I might check out the sound of other albums they've mastered. And compare them against other albums that by the same people that weren't mastered by that ME.
If an ME can't play me something in the specific genre I'm in that blows me away, I don't see any point using them.
The record company we did the shootout for was in a really big hurry to get it done and to add "insult to injury" did not want to pay for it and would not give us any feedback about how we did in the "contest".
Do you charge your normal rates for the demos or do you have a "special rate" for them???
Most times when we do demo mastering we get the job but lately more and more people seem to want to do a shootout instead of paying for the demo/trial. They tell us they cannot afford to do demo tracks since they are shopping for a mastering engineer and have four or five people they want to try out.
The percentage of jobs we get is always higher when we have been recommended by one of our clients but I guess that is to be expected.
Out of the "freebie/shootout/between real clients" jobs I do, I would say that 3/4 of them end up coming back and using me. I find it to be certainly worthwhile.
This is a pretty silly (trolling?) question for this forum.
There is a professional code of conduct between audio professionals that procludes the publishing of "look how **** this mix sounded before I got my hands on it" examples.
If you struggle with that simple premis then as a back up default to this one.


The Minister of Finance, Dr Moeketsi Majoro said this during the Post Budget Panel discussion.
Dr Majoro commented that to implement change for the betterment of Lesotho, all should do things differently, adding that through this, the country will be able to manage the current crisis.
He said in this year's budget, they tried to distribute across the board so that all could contribute through sweat towards building a better Lesotho.
He added that there is a need to work together, adding that government and business sector have to meet in order to seek solutions to the country's current challenges.
Dr Majoro urged all to work towards implementing this year's budget by creating jobs within the coming 12 months to develop the lives of Basotho.
Analysing the 2019/2020 Fiscal Budget, Economist and Econometrician, Mr. Samuel Rolland said wage freezing is the fastest measure for government to control its finances, however noting that it is very unfortunate as prices are increasing for every product.
He commented that if immediate change does not happen, strikes are inevitable and thus prevail, saying as a result the government will lose a proportion of economy.
He said the country should not spend more than it earns, therefore, revenue must rise while expenditure decreases, adding that Lesotho needs to produce more products and sell to generate income.
Mr. Rolland further revealed that the budget is good as it is inclusive, noting that it should be considered that it is done under difficult circumstances such as drought and poor economy.
Speaking at the event, Dr Timothy Thahane commended the government for setting up committee, saying this means the cabinet will have a collective responsibility.
He said private sector should play a role of creating jobs while the government is responsible for putting up infrastructure and producing people with skills needed.
The Minister of Finance presented the 2019/2020 Fiscal Budget in the National Assembly on Tuesday.


Jesuits are preparing to gather in Rome to elect a new superior general.
A committee has been working since January on a comprehensive report on the status of the Society of Jesus, Fr Mulemi said. The report should be presented to the general congregation on October 3.
The current superior, Father Adolfo Nicolas, announced in 2014 that he would tender his resignation this year after more than eight years in office. He turned 80 in April.
After members of the general congregation discuss the status report, they will be asked to accept Fr Nicolas's resignation, which they are expected to do even though the superior general of the Jesuits is elected for life.
The process of electing a new superior will begin sometime after the presentation and discussion of the status report.
As of January 1, the total number of Jesuits in the world was 16,376: 11,785 priests, 1,192 brothers, 2,681 scholastics and 718 novices — a net loss of 351 members from the previous year, Father Mulemi said.
The average age of the 215 Jesuits participating in the general congregation is 56 years, he said. The oldest member of the body will be Father Nicolas, and the youngest is Jesuit Brother James Edema from the Eastern Africa province, who is 39.
Jesuits and members of other religious orders, he said, have a great desire to respond with generosity to the challenges people face today.
The Society of Jesus is the largest religious order of men. They are followed by the Salesians, the Franciscans, the Capuchins and the Benedictines.


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Q: Real file objects slower than StringIO and cStringIO? StringIO has the following notes in its code:
Notes:
- Using a real file is often faster (but less convenient).
- There's also a much faster implementation in C, called cStringIO, but
  it's not subclassable.

The "real file is often faster" line seemed really odd to me: how could writing to disk beat writing to memory? I tried profiling these different cases and got results that contradict these docs, as well as the answer to this question. This other question does explain why cStringIO is slower under some circumstances, though I'm not doing any concatenating here. The test writes a given amount of data to a file, then seeks to the beginning and reads it back out. On the "new" tests, I created a new object each time, and on the "same" ones I truncate and reuse the same object for each repetition to rule out that source of overhead. That overhead mattered for using tempfiles with small data sizes but not large ones.
Code is here.
Using 1000 passes with size 1.0KiB
New StringIO:   0.0026 0.0025 0.0034
Same StringIO:  0.0026 0.0023 0.0030
New cStringIO:  0.0009 0.0010 0.0008
Same cStringIO: 0.0009 0.0009 0.0009
New tempfile:   0.0679 0.0554 0.0542
Same tempfile:  0.0069 0.0064 0.0070
==============================================================
Using 1000 passes with size 100.0KiB
New StringIO:   0.0093 0.0099 0.0108
Same StringIO:  0.0109 0.0090 0.0086
New cStringIO:  0.0130 0.0139 0.0120
Same cStringIO: 0.0118 0.0115 0.0124
New tempfile:   0.1006 0.0905 0.0899
Same tempfile:  0.0573 0.0526 0.0523
==============================================================
Using 1000 passes with size 1.0MiB
New StringIO:   0.0727 0.0700 0.0717
Same StringIO:  0.0740 0.0735 0.0712
New cStringIO:  0.1484 0.1399 0.1470
Same cStringIO: 0.1493 0.1393 0.1465
New tempfile:   0.6576 0.6750 0.6821
Same tempfile:  0.5951 0.5870 0.5678
==============================================================
Using 1000 passes with size 10.0MiB
New StringIO:   1.0965 1.1129 1.1079
Same StringIO:  1.1206 1.2979 1.1932
New cStringIO:  2.2532 2.2162 2.2482
Same cStringIO: 2.2624 2.2225 2.2377
New tempfile:   6.8350 6.7924 6.8481
Same tempfile:  6.8424 7.8114 7.8404
==============================================================

The two StringIO implementations were pretty comparable, though cStringIO slowed down significantly for large data sizes. But the tempfile.TemporaryFile always took 3 times as long as the slowest StringIO.

A: It all depends on what "often" means. StringIO is implemented by keeping your writes in a list and then joining the list to a string on read. Your test case - a series of writes followed by a read - is its best scenario. If I tweak the test case to do 50 random writes/reads in the file, then cStringIO tends to win with the file system in second place.
The comment seems to reflect a system programmer's bias to let the c libraries plus operating system do file system things because its hard to guess in a general sense what performs best under all conditions.
def write_and_read_test_data(flo):
    fsize = len(closure['test_data'])
    flo.write(closure['test_data'])
    for _ in range(50):
        flo.seek(random.randint(0, fsize-1))
        flo.write('x')
        flo.read(1)
    flo.seek(0)
    closure['output'] = flo.read()

The 10meg test case took longer than my attention span...
Using 1000 passes with size 1.0KiB
New StringIO:   0.9551 0.9467 0.9366
Same StringIO:  0.9252 0.9228 0.9207
New cStringIO:  0.3274 0.3280 0.3251
Same cStringIO: 0.3182 0.3231 0.3280
New tempfile:   1.1833 1.1853 1.1650
Same tempfile:  0.9563 0.9414 0.9504
==============================================================
Using 1000 passes with size 100.0KiB
New StringIO:   5.6253 5.6589 5.6025
Same StringIO:  5.5799 5.5608 5.5589
New cStringIO:  0.4157 0.4133 0.4140
Same cStringIO: 0.4078 0.4076 0.4088
New tempfile:   2.0420 2.0391 2.0408
Same tempfile:  1.5722 1.5749 1.5693
==============================================================
Using 1000 passes with size 1.0MiB
New StringIO:   105.2350 106.3904 107.5411
Same StringIO:  108.3744 109.4510 105.6012
New cStringIO:  2.4698 2.4781 2.4165
Same cStringIO: 2.4699 2.4600 2.4451
New tempfile:   6.6086 6.5783 6.5916
Same tempfile:  6.1420 6.1614 6.1366


Tonight at QVC (if you are reading this blog on its day of release) I am delighted to say I will be hosting an evening of jewellery! It is the finale of jewellery month at QVC so let's make sure we go out with a bang!
At 6pm I will be working with lovely June Posner from Frank Usher – it may well be the last airing of the Today's Special Value and also be sure to keep an out for the sparkle poncho that has been so popular as well as the rotation pendant.
At 10pm I will be with beautiful Coral from Links of London and if you adore the friendship sweetie bracelet you really MUST tune in, I cannot say too much but I can let you know it will be a price never seen before and never to be seen again! (Get the clue?) It's this beautiful piece so be there to see it and enjoy!
At 11pm it's then the finale of our jewellery month with a special offer for the hour (another clue!) on an Anne Klein watch as well as a stunning Murano watch all made in Italy on the island of Murano, near Venice and the Clogau ring of life at a feature price. I bought my mum (who is Welsh) her first piece of Clogau last year and she loves it – such a beautiful range.
So, there we have it – what a night ahead and a wonderful way to start a short week after the bank holiday!
What are your favourite jewellery ranges at QVC?
My fave range is links of London, I think it makes such a lovely gift! I also like the ring that looks like a X on the finger, I cannot remember the name of the range, but I love it and always get tonnes of compliments!
Looking forward to the next blog!
So sorry for the delay! Been a bit hectic recently! Yeah I agree, Links is such a lovely brand and it really does make fantastic gifts for people also.
The ring sounds lovely and great that people notice it too!
Thanks for always checking out my blogs! Have a great week!


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