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BC Recuperates at the Home Base - Vatican City!
The adventures of the Vatican Assassin shift in a new direction this week, as BC recuperates in Rome at the Vatican after his assignment on Fortune Station. He's still taking some heat from his superiors over his security lapse back on Lunar Prime during the UIN attack, when double-agent and Lunar Security Corps officer Nita Bendix almost killed him. As BC returns to Lunar Prime, strange blackouts and extended sleep periods make him realize some of the cult's mind altering drugs may have lingering effects on his mind...
Listen to chapters twenty-one and twenty two of Vatican Assassin on this episode of Glow-in-the-Dark Radio. BC - Bernard Campion - is an assassin for the pope of the New catholic Church in 2109. Now you know all you need to dive in and enjoy the adventure! In the news - my new book "Introducing... Red Hot!" comes out on Wednesday (2/1) with great art by Rhys ap Gwyn. And The Adventures of Alibi Jones: Six Short Stories is availbale now free in the iTunes store and atPodiobooks.com!
BONUS STUFF! There's a BIG batch of bonus material in this episode - over 20 minutes of it! Not only do you get a reading of deep background material out of the "History of The Future" from the Vatican Assassin Appendix, you also get to hear my reggae "classic", "Newt" - all in honor or Newt Gingrich's recent campaign BS that sounds like HE'S reading from my appendix...
More info as always at http://glowinthedarkradio.com and http://vaticanassassin.com
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BC's Mission to Fortune Station Nears Its End!
Sex, lies, politics, murder, religion... the chapters of my science fiction adventure Vatican Assassin on this episode of Glow-in-the-Dark Radio have it all! BC's mission to Fortune Station has been a spectacular failure. Insteading of assassinating cult leader The Light, the cult took BC prisoner. They've been trying to brainwash him, poisoning his food and dosing him with psychedelic drugs. Last episode BC talked to God... maybe. Now he's talking to cult members about something kind of radical...
Listen to chapters 19 & 20 from my free Vatican Assassin audiobook - and get a little bit of news, too. My new comic book Introducing... Red Hot! #1 comes out February 1st from Earthbound Comics. I was a guest on this week'sGeek Radio Daily (http://geekradiodaily.com). And the new free audiobook The Adventures of Alibi Jones: Six Short Stories is available now from Podiobooks.com.
More about my stuff at http://glowinthedarkradio.com.
BC Talks To God...
That's up to you to decide... BC is still a prisoner on Fortune Station, where he's being held by the religious cult lead by The Light. They're lacing his food with drugs and poisons as they hold him in a tiny room that's more a closet - or a cell.
The science fiction adventure of Vatican Assassin continues on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio! Get a quick dose of news and a run down of the story so far, and then listen in and enjoy Chapter 18!
The science fiction is written and read by me - Mike Luoma. Our podcast theme music is by Juan Carlos Quattordio. I put The Vatican Assassin theme together myself. Want to learn more about the world of Vatican Assassin and Alibi Jones? Head to http://alibijones.com and http://glowinthedarkradio.com.
Will The Vatican Assassin See The Light?
January 7, 2012 12:59:06
When we last left BC - the Vatican Assassin - he was getting clubbed over the head by a religious cultist on a distant space station! It's 2109 and BC kills people - or tries to kill people - for the pope of the New catholic Church. BC's mission to assassinate the cult's leader "The Light" isn't going so well... Find out what happens next on this episode - will BC see The Light?
Now you know enough to jump in and enjoy Chapters 16 and 17 of the science fiction adventure Vatican Assassin on Glow-in-the-Dark Radio! As always, the fiction is written and read by me - Mike Luoma. Our podcast theme music is by Juan Carlos Quattordio. The Vatican Assassin theme is my own.
In the news - many thanks to Geek Radio Daily for mentioning my new audiobook The Adventures of Alibi Jones: Six Short Stories on their latest 'cast! Find them at http://geekradiodaily.com. Been talking to them about appearing on their show, too - I'll let you know if and when that happens.
Want to learn more about the world of Vatican Assassin and Alibi Jones? Head to http://alibijones.com - and http://glowinthedarkradio.com.


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Few tradeshow games can draw a crowd like a Cash Cube Money Machine! A contestant steps inside the Money Machine and the crowd goes wild, as hundreds of dollar bills or promotional vouchers swirl around in a frenzy. Players then have 25 seconds to try their luck at catching the cash and stuffing it into their Blizzard of Dollars Apron.
Using a Cash Money Machine is both a highly effective (and exciting!) attraction as well as a great way to increase your sales – which is why many companies choose custom printed promotional vouchers or stock money that can only be spent on their products or services. You reap the benefits of in-show publicity while ensuring after-show business. You can even build more excitement by letting attendees win a chance to step inside the Money Machine by spinning a customized Prize Wheel.
With the Cash Cube Money Machine, your return on investment can easily exceed your expectations. Want to see for yourself? Rent one for your next show. A perfect trade show attraction to rent, Money Machines are portable, effortless to set up, and easy to use, yet may be the best part of the show.
We also offer a large selection of money machines for purchase, such as hard case money machines, Blizzard of Dollars Cash Cube Money Machines, inflatable money machines, and budget money machines – all in a variety of styles. We can even customize an inflatable money machine for your company and event. Want to know more about Promotional Money Machines and what they can do for you? Speak to a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Tradeshow entertainment attracts visitors to your booth, but offering an array of customized promotional products that visitors will actually want and use is the best way to assure long-term impact. The best tradeshow marketing products won't bust your budget, yet will strengthen your brand in the eyes of trade show attendees and also stir up interest in your brand among new potential buyers.
We offer over 750,000 affordable promotional items that that people will use long beyond the show. You can easily browse our vast selection via the search box on our website to find something that is affordable, practical, related to your company and event, and most importantly, customizable.
Branding products with your logo or marketing message gives them long-lasting impact. High quality, yet affordable products, like a travel mug, a quality keychain, or a practical flash drive will continue to be useful to attendees long after the event! Want to know more about personalize products that make good tradeshow giveaways? Connect with one of our Trade Show Promotions Specialists at 800-573-3111.
Even busy trade show visitors will stop in their tracks for chance at winning $10,000 when you use the Prize Vault. This popular convention game challenges visitors to guess the 4-6 digit combination of a see-through safe filled with cash or a grand prize. Your tradeshow staff has plenty of time to engage the line of attendees that forms as they await their chance to walk away rich! In lieu of the big cash prize, you can fill the safe with gift certificates or luxury branded promotional items to carry your name beyond the trade show.
Prize Vaults are available for rent, and can be used for virtually any promotion. By buying the optional insurance for the $10,000 jackpot, you won't even have to advance your company's money for the prize. For only a small percentage of the jackpot total, you can rent the safe and insure the winnings! If a guest wins, we pay the amount of the prize while you get all the publicity!
If you buy a safe, we can even customize it with your company logo and upgrade your purchase with a customized pedestal for displaying the Prize Safe at the show or your place of business. Want to know more about the Promotional Prize Vault? Our Trade Show Promotions Specialists are waiting to hear from you at 800-573-3111.
To build interest in visiting your convention games – even prior to the event – using Scratch Off Cards is a smart way to maximize your publicity. By mailing Scratch Off Cards to show attendees a few weeks prior to the event and also handing them out at the door, you make your booth a destination.
Scratch Cards are completely customizable to fit your strategy for promoting the show. You should offer some enticing prizes to winners, but assure that every visitor walks away with a branded giveaway. Anticipate using the cards at multiple events? Just print numbers on them rather than specific prizes so that curious visitors have one more reason to check out your booth.
When people visit your booth to claim their prizes, your sales staff has the perfect opportunity to engage them prior to handing over the prize. For information about Customizable Scratch Off Cards, call a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Regardless of what industry you are in, a Prize Wheel is a great promotional tool to stop traffic, add excitement, and draw a crowd to your booth! Show attendees flock to the bright colors and remain mesmerized as they hear the wheel clicking then slowing to a stop on a prize. You not only draw lots of people to your exhibit, but also make them aware of your product and your company. When you use promotional items as your prizes, you incorporate a high degree of brand awareness into the fun.
Prize Wheels feature changeable panels so you can plan for future marketing events, and you can even select a customized wheel that incorporates your company logo and advertising. They are portable and require no maintenance, which makes them a fast, effective, user-friendly marketing tool!
Whether you want our 20.5 inch mini wheel that has 12 slots that you can interchange and customize, or our colossal 72 inch wheel, using Promotional Prize Wheels promotes convention excitement. Find out more by chatting with a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
A fun way to drive traffic to your booth, Plinko boards engage show visitors who try to maneuver a puck into a prize slot as it bounces down the board. The process often draws a crowd as people wait their turn to try the game, which offers your representatives time to interact with attendees and distribute samples or giveaways.
Our lightweight Plinko boards come in a wide array of sizes and colors, fabricated from steel and ABS plastic, they are durable, portable, and light, while requiring no assembly. Since they are built for years of service, you can keep them constantly fresh by changing the face with templates from our website; for double exposure, you can add Plinko pucks with your brand on both sides that will be visible to attendees as the puck moves down the board.
Marketing with the classic Plinko Boards creates results for tradeshow marketers. Ask about incorporating Plinko Boards into your marketing by speaking with a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Everyone loves to be a winner, which makes the Prize Dice Game a good one for tradeshows. Contestants toss a pair of dice down a clear plastic chute and according to the sum of the dice, they win a corresponding prize. With every sum from 2 to 12 winning a prize, this gives you a chance to distribute a range of customized promotional prizes with different values.
Using templates you can download from our website, you can easily change the 12 prize slots for the game. There is plenty of room at the top and bottom borders to add your company logo and message to this portable, lightweight, and user-friendly game.
Available for purchase, Prize Dice Games are irresistible to trade show attendees while offering great opportunities to take your brand far from tradeshow floor. For information about our Prize Dice Games, speak to a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
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While few people like to get tickets, our Traffic Ticket promotion is sure to win them over! You simply mail out tickets to prospective tradeshow attendees ahead of the show. At the show, visitors insert their tickets into an electronic decoder to discover the prize they have won. This type of Interactive Promotional Technology has proven to be one of the most effective forms of direct mail tradeshow marketing available.
When you buy a Prize Decoder, you will have an always-on-hand ticket to cutting edge trade show attractions. In return for your small investment, you can expect that large numbers of ticketholders will flock to your booth at shows. While visitors wait their turn to insert their ticket into the decoder, you will have plenty of time to qualify your prospects. You can even enhance your mailing lists by collecting contact information from the customized ticket.
The Prize Decoder is also available for rent with customized panels and tickets designed exclusively for your event. For information about the Prize Decoder Scan to Win Promotion, speak to a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Want to generate a buzz for your products and services? With the Buzzwire Game, contestants navigate a wand around a circular wire to make it to the other side of the machine. If the wand touches the wire, lights flash and the game buzzes loudly to alert the whole room. As people are waiting to play, you'll have opportunities to keep prospects at your booth longer while your sales staff engages them.
Weighing only 32 pounds, the Buzzwire game is easy to transport and easy to set up, as it runs off a rechargeable power pack that require no cords or outlets. Its large interchangeable front plate can be custom-branded for any event, even if you decide to rent.
The Buzzwire Game currently ranks among the most effective event games on the market, and it is also available for purchase so that you can generate a buzz year round for all your events and promotions. Want to know more about the Promotional Buzzwire Game? Call a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
There's something undeniably intriguing about pirate treasure, so the sight of an authentic Treasure Chest in your booth will grab the attention of visitors and draw them in. Whether you fill your chest with cash, coupons, prizes, or personalized giveaways, visitors will line up for a chance to open the chest. You simply offer them a key and let them test their luck at opening the trunk. If you send keys out in advance to hot prospects and customers, you will be sure that they will make your booth a destination.
Treasure Chests are the perfect promotion because they create buzz about your presence at the show while allowing you to control how much you give away. You can still reward those whose keys do not open the chest with promotional items customized with your name; while they are there, you can strike up a conversation and capture lead information for future contact where you can show the customer that your product is the real treasure.
We offer many styles of treasure chests, accessories, and complete kits, along with customized display stands to show off and ensure the safety of your treasure chest. Thinking about using Treasure Chest Promotions? Our Trade Show Promotions Specialists are waiting for you at 800-573-3111.
Similar to Corn Hole, everyone's favorite backyard game, Toss N' Win is a fun game that convention goers will love taking a break from the action to play. You can challenge those who walk by your booth with the chance to test their skills as they try to toss the beanbag into the hole. Toss N' Win is a surefire way to entice people to stop at your booth to participate and watch, which gives you the opportunity to connect with prospective customers.
Your Toss N' Win game will come with eight bean bags and a pair of completely customized 33″ x 21″ boards printed in eye-catching colors so that you can attractively present your logo and advertising message. As no assembly is required, Toss N' Win is a fast, easy game to set up at any event or promotion.
While the Toss N' Win corn hole game will create great memories for event attendees, you can increase the excitement by offering imprinted promotional products to the winners. To learn more about Toss N' Win Trade Show Games, chat with a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Raffles have repeatedly proven themselves to be an effective direct mail marketing tool and a surefire way to bring people to your booth. You can mail out preprinted raffle tickets to your hot prospects and entice them to be on hand when you hold the big drawing, or encourage on-site participation by attendees who fill out a contact card. If the show lasts several days, you can encourage multiple visits by holding drawings each day for prizes and products.
Customizable raffle drums are an exciting way to maximize the impact of your raffle! We offer many acrylic raffle drum styles available for sale that we can customize with your logo etched into it, as well as classic brass models.
Regardless of what prizes you offer, our affordable Raffle Drums will make your trade show exhibit stand out and help you collect leads. For more information about Raffle Promotions, call a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
At trade shows, popcorn machines branded for your company allow you to strike up a conversation with hungry tradeshow attendees lured into your booth by the sounds and inviting smell of fresh popcorn. As you are scooping up the hot popcorn into a personalized bag, you can engage in a brief conversation about how the visitor's interest in your product and even offer them some product literature along with their snack.
For maximum impact, we can customize our stock popcorn machines with a transfer or plaque that you can change for different shows. For best results in making your exhibit stand out, we can emblazon your machine with screen printing, plastic etching, and your choice of color to coordinate with your company's brand and color scheme.
We can also make custom printed popcorn bags that feature your logo or product and may even contain a coupon or discount on a product. As attendees walk through the show with your popcorn bag, they will send booth traffic back for popcorn and conversation. Wonder how a Customized Popcorn Machines can work for you? Just call a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Nothing stops traffic at a tradeshow like a giant robot! Whether you use a larger-than-life robot to direct people toward your booth, pass out literature, or recite a custom script, convention attendees take notice of your exhibit. Available in all sizes and shapes, putting your targeted message in the hands and mouth of an automated Tin Man or a giant mascot robot generates both curiosity and interest in your products.
We rent a variety of robots and each offers a unique experience. Imagine the impact of our 6'6″ animatronic Giant Gorilla waving his hand, moving his torso, and drawing attention to his 21″ by 36″ customizable sign! He will get prospects into your booth faster than you could imagine. While they're there, you can interact with them to make a personal connection.
Our animated robots also make ideal custom mascots. When you purchase a logo branded one that features your company name, we can customize the robot's shapes, features, and colors to make him your automated team member! If you are interested in exploring how promotional robots can entertain visitors and make them remember your company, chat with a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Having a Portable Photo Booth in your exhibit makes you stand out at today's competitive trade shows as you combine the fun of an old-time Photo Booth with an interesting way to interact with visitors.
Many companies choose to rent these portable Photo Booths, which can be customized with your logo and message on the panels. Renting a Photo Booth gives you a real bang for your buck as your booth serves double duty, attracting visitors while allowing prospects to walk away with a customizable photo strip. Whenever they see their pictures, they will see your logo and think of your company!
If you do multiple events during the year, you might want to purchase a Photo Booth. Our booths are portable, easy to set up, break down, and store. Snap up a Photo Booth today for sale or rent by chatting with a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Your primary objective at trade shows is to draw in traffic, start conversations, and build a rapport with prospects. Video Game Attractions allow you to accomplish these three important goals while bringing more interest to your trade show booth. When visitors are busy having fun, they let their guard down and you are able to make great connections while laughing and cheering each other on.
Whether you want a nostalgic Pac Man video game that takes visitors back to the 80s where hungry yellow heads captured our hearts and our quarters, or a more contemporary game, we can provide you with video games that will be intriguing while requiring no coins!
When you rent a tabletop game, you'll find it is just the right size for your tradeshow exhibit. You only have to plug it into a three-pronged outlet and with minimal set up, your game will be ready for crowds to enjoy.
We also have a variety of games available for purchase. Whether you want to go with a classic game or a new and exciting one, you can't go wrong with Video Game Attractions. Buy or reserve one now with a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Cha-Ching! The popular sound of a slot machine has the same excitement at a tradeshow as it does in Vegas. When show attendees pull the lever and wait as the reels slowly stop and maybe even land on the grand prize, they have fun and draw a crowd to your booth as well.
Our show-stopping tradeshow Slot Machine is handcrafted and modified for promotional use. The beauty is that visitors receive promotional vouchers from the machine instead of real cash, so you can use it anywhere without the need for special licenses or permits. It still generates the same excitement, and looks and sounds like a "real" slot machine.
When you purchase a fully-customized Cha-Ching! Slot Machine, you can select the images that appear on the wheel, choose the prizes offered, and determine odds of winning, to turn this machine into the ultimate tradeshow promotion! Find out how to make your booth visitors feel like they are at a show in Vegas by speaking to a Trade Show Promotions Specialist at 800-573-3111.
Ever visited an ATM and wished for a pile of free money? Since most people share this dream, you can create a tradeshow game that visitors won't pass up! With our promotional ATM, you can dispense real money as well as prize vouchers, coupons for your products, and gift certificates. When your visitors swipe their promotional card in the machine, they can win a prize of your choosing! How the machine is programmed is up to you; you can make everyone a winner of a small prize or custom coupon or limit the winners.
When you rent a promotional ATM money machine, we can program it how you want it set up. We offer professional installation or staff training on installing and using the machine.
Do you participate in several trade shows each year? If so, purchasing the ATM machine might make sense. The graphics will include your main marketing message and up to eight more pictures or additional custom messages that will scroll across the 10″ color monitor. To make your money machine truly a knockout, you can even add vinyl wraps, custom imprints and custom company colors to the exterior. Wondering if a promotional ATM machine would work for you? Find out by speaking with one of our Trade Show Promotions Specialists at 800-573-3111.
There's nothing like a giant customized inflatable to make your booth a must-see destination that attendees won't want to miss! Year after year, promotional Inflatables help you get noticed, pull in traffic, and build your leads and spark sales.
Our wide variety of popular tradeshow inflatables can be customized with your logo or marketing message when you are launching something new or creating a buzz around your current lineup. We can even produce an inflatable version of your product, a replica of your company mascot, or any other shape or object you want to represent your business.
Using customized promotional Inflatables make sense even for small businesses as they provide an inexpensive but big way to get your message to the public. For information about larger-than-life Inflatables that will hover in the air above your booth and make your sales on earth soar, contact a Trade Show Promotions Specialist today at 800-573-3111.
You can see who we've worked with near you that you might know for a reference by browsing our hierarchical portfolio directory below. For trade show games, cities we serve include Apollo Beach, Balm, Bloomingdale, Boyette, Brandon, Carrollwood, Carrollwood Village, Cheval, Citrus Park, Dover, East Lake, East Lake-Orient Park, Egypt Lake-Leto, Elfers, Feather Sound, Fish Hawk, Gandy, Gibsonton, Greater Northdale, Gulfport, Holiday, Kenneth City, Keystone, Lake Magdalene, Land O' Lakes, Lealman, Lutz, Mango, Odessa, Oldsmar, Palm River-Clair Mel, Pebble Creek, Pinellas Park, Progress Village, Riverview, Ruskin, Safety Harbor, Saint George, Saint Pete Beach, Saint Petersburg, Seffner, South Highpoint, South Pasadena, Sun City Center, Tampa, Temple Terrace, Thonotosassa, Tierra Verde, Town 'n' Country, Trinity, University, Valrico, West and East Lealman, Westchase, Wimauma, Zephyrhills, Zephyrhills South, and Zephyrhills West.


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The cyclical nature of mass murder in America has become commonplace. Somehow we are starting to get numb from the constant mass destruction of innocent life. How we got here has become an endless debate that goes nowhere. The same ole arguments circle around the culture drain and flush through our collective consciousness.
We struggle to understand why or what factors are pushing this to the forefront of our modern society. We hear the gun control advocates spout out their misplaced ideologies. We listen to reasoning pointing to mental health, post-traumatic disorder and our lack of infrastructure or support for that community. I've heard reports that point toward video games and the desensitization of a culture of death. Heck, I heard and believe that a big part of this is driven by the . However, none of this fits with America's biggest mass murder in Las Vegas. This murderer came from the .
The strange part of this latest mass murder is that this does not fit any profile that anyone is aware of. The man had nothing in his background that would point to the fact that he was capable of such an evil act. There seemingly is no political, religious or workplace anger that would trigger anything like this. It was not a crime of passion, it was very calculated. So why did he do this?
Is it possible that this man did this of sound mind? Of course, one would say or think that nobody is of sound mind that would commit mass murder, but maybe that axiom is wrong? Possibly, in this case, we have a man who knew exactly what he was doing, had no malice against any particular group and just wanted to do this act.
I am reminded of the character in the book by Dostoyevsky named . In the book, Raskolnikov contemplates that all the men in history that landed up to be great and remembered, killed people. He ponders whether or not he himself could be great without murder. Then he goes off and kills an old woman with an ax. Maybe this nut in Las Vegas just wanted to feel what it felt like to commit mass murder? I think maybe we will have to think outside the box to get to the bottom of the motive of the deadliest mass murder in American history. One thing is for sure, he will be forever remembered now. His name is Stephen Paddock.


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Music Australia is a not for profit proprietary limited company with a national board of directors, and 50 expert Councillors who include nominees of national music organisations and individual experts. Music Australia has Deductible Gift Recipient status and receives multiyear funding from the Australian Government's Department of Education and Training.
Music Australia has a Sydney office with three staff, as well as a large network of partners, contributors and contractors committed to the promotion and development of its programs.
Music Australia Board of Directors
Michael Smellie (2022), Chair
Michael's career in the music business spans more than 25 years and across five continents as former Global Chief Operations Officer of Sony BMG, Asia Pacific Head for BMG, and Managing Director of Polygram and rooArt in Australia.
As COO for BMG worldwide, he directed the company through some turbulent years and was an integral part of negotiating and implementing the merger with Sony Music. He was appointed COO of Sony BMG in 2004 before leaving in 2005 to return to Australia. Until the end of 2008, he was President of Media Development, Asia Pacific for German media giant Bertelsmann.
He is an investor, adviser and board member to a number of start-up creative businesses in Australia and the United States.
Ryan Miller, NSW (2020) Treasurer
Ryan is a qualified accountant holding a Bachelor of Commerce degree and membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has over 15 years' experience in business services and public practice accounting working with many not for profit and for profit organisations. The services I have been fortunate enough to provide the not for profit sector include the provision of audit services, accounting and taxation, internal control and policy and procedures reviews, management reporting and liaising with Boards as well as budgeting, cash flows and forecasting. Ryan has a passion for all types of music and looks forward to bringing his enthusiasm and skills to the organisation to assist with all things financial. Ryan is Chair of Music Australia's Finance Committee.
Dr Brydie Leigh-Bartleet (2022)
Dr Brydie-Leigh Bartleet is Deputy Director of the Queensland Conservatorium Research Centre and Convenor of the Music and Communities Strand. She has worked on a range of national and international projects in community music, arts-based service learning with Australian First Peoples, intercultural community arts, and arts-based health and wellbeing for refugee and asylum seekers.
She is the new Chair of the International Society for Music Education's Community Music Activities Commission, and serves on a range of international and national boards including the International Journal of Music Education – Practice, the International Journal of Community Music, the Asia Pacific Community Music Network, and the Commonwealth Creativities in Intercultural Arts Network, to mention a few. As a community music facilitator she has worked with bands, orchestras, choirs, and jazz ensembles from Australia, Thailand, Singapore and Taiwan.
Catherine Gerrard, NSW (2020)
Catherine's corporate experience features the role of Executive Director and business owner of a music publishing enterprise, multiple music industry Board Directorships and work as the creator of an Australia-wide contemporary popular music education program. Catherine has also led a team of 45 people as APRA's Director of Publisher Relations and Repertoire.
Ed St John (2020)
Ed St John started in music in 1977 as a critic and writer for Rolling Stone Magazine, spending a decade documenting the halcyon days of Australian rock in the company of artists such as INXS, Midnight Oil and Cold Chisel. From the mid-80s Ed added TV writing and production, working on Rock Around the World (SBS), Edge of the Wedge (ABC), Saturday Morning Live (Seven) and Tonight Live with Steve Vizard (Seven).
In 1993 Ed shifted to music marketing as Director of Marketing at Columbia Records Australia for four years, then Director of Marketing at BMG Australia. After two years, he was appointed Managing Director, and in 2005 became President and CEO of Warner Music Australia until 2010. Ed has served on the boards of the PPCA and ARIA, been ARIA chair for one year and Chairman of the ARIA Awards for a decade.
More recently Ed has worked in consulting roles including casting judges for The Voice and X Factor. He is currently Executive General Manager of The Ethics Centre and Chairman of Valleyarm Digital.
Paul Noonan, VIC (2020)
Paul Noonan is a Consulting Principal at national law firm Keypoint Law. Paul has a BA with Honours in music and studied piano and viola from an early age. He was bass player in several successful rock bands in the early 1980s and worked as bass player, keyboardist and Assistant Conductor on the premiere Australian seasons of the hit musicals Cats and Les Miserables. In 1996, Paul completed an Honours degree in Law at Monash University. He appears regularly in concerts with his wife, Bernadette Robinson.
Nicholas Pickard, NSW (2022)
Nicholas Pickard is the Executive Director of Public Affairs at APRA AMCOS. Nicholas has managed the profile and reputation of organisations and public figures across government, transport and infrastructure, creative industries and the media for over a decade. A former journalist, theatre critic and policy adviser to federal and state government arts ministers, his experience includes orchestrating the narrative and communications plans of everything from Heathrow Airport's expansion campaign, the Creative Australia national cultural policy, Local Government urban rejuvenation projects to ministerial delegations, change management strategies and arts festivals. Nicholas is Chair of the Australian Society of Authors and a Board Member of Regional Arts NSW.
Music Australia Staff
Paul Saintilan, CEO
Paul has extensive experience in the music industry, in both commercial and non-profit organisations, locally and internationally. He has held senior positions with EMI Music, Universal Music, Musica Viva Australia, and music education organisations. Paul started as a composer, a student of Peter Sculthorpe's, and his formal qualifications include a Bachelor of Music (Hons) degree, an MBA degree (AGSM) and a PhD from Deakin University.
Scarlett DI Maio, Program Manager
Scarlett is a events manager, specialist radio producer and curator with over a decade experience working in the non-for-profit Australian music sector. For 5 of those years she was the Communications Manager for MusicNSW. She was also the co-founder and executive producer of the multi-award winning radio show 'Ears Have Ears' on FBi Radio between 2011 – 2019.
Ruth Mulvey, Program Manager (Music: Count Us In)
Ruth is a musician with over ten years' experience in management roles in leading arts companies, from youth arts organisations to professional orchestras, festivals and most recently for inspirational music in criminal justice charity the Irene Taylor Trust.
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We present science and technology as something to be seen and experienced and illustrate its cultural significance by exhibiting unique masterpieces. We inspire people to play an active role in shaping the future.
The Deutsches Museum with its branch museums is an outstanding place for communicating scientific and technical knowledge and for a constructive dialogue between science and society. Established in 1903, it is among the world's oldest museums of science and technology and, with total exhibition space of 66,000 square m², one of the largest. Its unique collection of original exhibits makes Deutsches Museum a leading international venue for celebrating science and technology as a cultural endeavour. As a major German research museum of national significance, it is supported by the state of Bavaria, the federal government and the German states and is a member of the Leibniz Association.
The Deutsches Museum fulfils a national mission for collecting and preserving historically significant objects from the world of science and technology and conducts research in the history of those fields and the related social transformations. With its exhibitions and accompanying events and activities, it bridges the gap between research and education and thus helps to foster innovation in our society. The entertaining communication of basic ideas of science and technology is geared to the target groups and provides an overview of historical developments while offering insights into the latest research. It allows people of all ages to gain an understanding of the research process while presenting scientific and technological topics and their impact on our lives in an accessible way. The Deutsches Museum addresses controversial issues and acts as a venue where people can exchange ideas, form their own opinions, and participate in the world of science and technology. In this way it offers orientation in an increasingly complex world in which science and technology place a decisive role and enables museum visitors to reach informed decisions and act as informed citizens in political decision-making processes.
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Dege & Skinner är ett anrikt brittiskt herrskrädderi. Verksamheten bedrivs längs den exklusiva skräddaregatan Savile Row (№10), Mayfair, i centrala London.

Företaget grundades 1865 som J. Dege & Sons. 1916 började William Skinner Jr arbeta där och så småningom blev familjen Skinner delägare och namnet ändrades till Dege & Skinner. Företaget levererar till flera kungligheter, bland andra drottning Elizabeth av Storbritannien, sultanen av Oman och kungen av Bahrain.

Dege & Skinner tillverkar även militära uniformer.

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Q: how to include id of json data in listview I'm trying to figure out how I can include an id for a listview item.
Currently I am querying a rest api that returns a list of something similar to this.
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It the listview I display all the names and once someone click on one item it forwards it to another activity where I want to use the id and get more data for that particular user.
So my questions are how can I get the ID and also pass the ID to the new activity. (The list is not sorted so the ids are not in order.)
I've read about hidden textview values and also hash maps but not sure how to use them, could someone give an example please?

A: Do one thing, you have to set the id in setTag
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I did grow a beard.
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I do ride my partners HD.She has a very nice bike but no Vetter,just a windshield.


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Laurie Anderson cancels Moogfest appearance
Performance artist Laurie Anderson has canceled her appearance at this April's Moogfest, according to the festival's ...
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Experimental composer and musician Laurie Anderson has canceled her Moogfest appearance. (Photo: Tim Knox , special to the Citizen-Times )
Performance artist Laurie Anderson has canceled her appearance at this April's Moogfest, according to the festival's Twitter feed.
"With deep regret, the Laurie Anderson performance at Moogfest is canceled due to unforeseen circumstances," the official Twitter account for Moogfest read Thursday afternoon.
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All They Had to Do Was Dream is an album by The Everly Brothers, released in 1985. It contains alternate takes of some of their recordings.

Track listing
 "Leave My Woman Alone" (Ray Charles)– 2:37
 "Hey, Doll Baby" – 2:18
 "I Wonder If I Care As Much" – 2:24
 "Wake Up Little Susie" (Felice Bryant, Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:45
 "Maybe Tomorrow" – 2:08
 "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (Boudleaux Bryant) – 2:38
 "Like Strangers" – 2:08
 "Poor Jenny" – 2:58
 "Oh True Love" – 2:47
 "(Till) I Kissed You" – 2:52
 "Love Of My Life" – 2:50
 "Love Of My Life (2nd Version)" – 2:24
 "When Will I Be Loved" – 2:36
 "Should We Tell Him" – 1:44
 "Kentucky" – 2:56
 "Problems" – 2:35
 "Let It Be Me" – 2:38

Personnel
Don Everly  – Guitar, Vocals
Phil Everly  – Guitar, Vocals

Production
Don Brown  – Art Direction
Sid Griffin  – Liner Notes
Bill Inglot  – Liner Notes, Compilation, Remixing
Monster X  – Design

References

The Everly Brothers compilation albums
Rhino Records compilation albums
1985 compilation albums


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The Early 1980's
As the organization moved into the 1980's, some new membership initiatives were started like the foal photo contest that we have today. Although membership began to decline, membership numbers remained above 200 until mid-1982. But still controversy with ApHC and among Appaloosa owners themselves continued. Early in 1982, a member expressed the concern that the ApHC was no longer a club but an industry. Later that year, the newsletter contained information regarding the debate over a new rule that solid horses be raced and shown alongside colored Appaloosas. In response to the new rule, John L. Baker, who was elected president of Sundance 500 International in 1980, wrote to the members: "In a matter of hours the carefully planned color policies of the ApHC over 44 years were wiped away, and all in the name of "financial revitalization of the industry. To put it in other words, this means - Members, look for new fees and new fee increases, because the cost to implement the above changes will be high." Mr. Baker also informed the Sundance 500 International membership who among the ApHC Board voted for and against the new rule. Throughout 1982, the furor against the new ApHC rules and fees continues to rage and the Sundance 500 International Newsletter continued as a forum on these issues.
Birth - SD 500 Intl
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The Early 1980s
Struggle to Survive
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The Rebirth
The January 1983 newsletter reported that Frank Scripter had been elected as president of Sundance 500 International. The Cannons also reported the death of Sunspot Revel in this newsletter. This sad news was somewhat overshadowed by the continuing ApHC controversy. The newsletter reported that Kay Payne, president of the ApHC, had resigned from the Sundance 500 Board, and her position was filled by Sue Godfrey of West Virginia for the remainder of Kay's term. A Sundance 500 International member wrote to Kay Payne saying: "I am a member of SD 500 org. I don't belong to that org simply because of a deep dedication to the SD 500 line. It is a good line of App, but not exactly one of my favorites either. But besides promoting a certain bloodline, the SD 500 is also an open forum for members to voice their opinions and concerns on subjects that affect the entire App World." The letter went on to say that if the ApHC did something similar it would help communications.
March 1983 brought some internal conflicts. It was brought to Frank Scripter's attention that Sundance 500 International was not operating within the strict guidelines of its by-laws, which required all officers to be members of the Board. Mary Manley, who had served as secretary of the organization since its inception, had never been elected as a director. The Board created the Director at Large position, which incorporates the secretarial position, and is known as the Floating Director today. Mary was then appointed to fill that position.
During 1983 and 1984, Sundance 500 International continued to be active in the ApHC debates and, through its newsletters, provided a forum for the debate and reported on various criminal allegations and election fraud within ApHC. The Sundance 500 Newsletter was the only means of gathering some information on the ApHC activities as the ApHC was not telling members much of anything.
Jane Kilberg, who was to play a significant role in the coming years of the organization, joined Sundance 500 International in 1984. Sundance had issued close to 400 Sundance Bloodline Certificates by this time.
Mary Manley died on March 9, 1985. You have not seen her name mentioned as often as you might have expected in the preceding article, but her quiet strength and influence were strongly felt throughout the decade and until her death. Starting with her initial efforts to energize the new organization and attract members, moving through the building years where many of the traditions enjoyed by our members today were begun, and ending with her firm conviction that Sundance 500 should be an organization for Appaloosa lovers and provide an open, unedited forum for debate, Mary was in large part Sundance 500 International during this period. Mary pleaded with members constantly for contributions to the Newsletter for the sake of the Sundance 500 organization, and from her continuous efforts, a standard of publishing, a blueprint for the Newsletter was created.
Sundance has flourished when people in the leadership had a clear vision for the organization and inspired others to support and participate in that vision. It was very much the case during this time period. The people who served as Sundance presidents-Ralph Cannon, Chardy Shealy, John L. Baker and Frank Scripter, all had a vision and a passion for Sundance, as well as leadership ability. With Mary Manley serving as the secretary, treasurer and newsletter editor, Sundance did indeed flourish and grow beyond their expectations.
Could it have grown larger? Quite possibly, but regardless of its size, Sundance had become a force in the Appaloosa world due to the efforts of these individuals and the enthused membership they represented and inspired. We owe Mary Manley much as Sundance 500 bloodline owners and Appaloosa lovers of today.


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Craft beer's rise a reason for West End's fall
by Gifford Lee October 15, 2020 December 20, 2021
Following yesterday's shock announcement that Lion would look to close Adelaide's West End Brewery in June next year, their Managing Director has cited competition from craft beer as one of the reasons that has led to the decision.
Lion – a subsidiary of Japan's Kirin – said yesterday 94 local jobs will be lost at the 160 year old business, however approximately 40 other positions, mostly in sales and sponsorship, would be retained in South Australia. West End, Hahn SuperDry and Southwark beer, which are brewed at the Adelaide brewery, will now be brewed at other Lion breweries – the Toohey's and XXXX plants in Sydney and Brisbane respectively. Several prominent West End sporting sponsorships and current grain contracts with SA producers will be honoured.
Speaking at yesterday's announcement, where it was revealed West End had been operating at about 50 per cent of its capacity, Lion's managing director James Brindley said COVID-19's impact on draught beer sales had contributed to the decision. But he said it was more the long-term trends in the industry, where the market share of mainstream beer like West End had been in decline due to preferences shifting to craft beer or other drinks categories, that had really led to the move.
"Over the last few decades consumer preferences have changed, the beer market en masse continues to decline and is now at its lowest per capita consumption ever recorded in Australia, while 700 new craft breweries have sprung up so competition is intense. And the cost base continues to increase," he said.
"No doubt COVID had a short-term impact. COVID certainly hasn't helped it, but COVID's not the driver of this decision."
Lion said beer consumption over the last 10 years had declined as different drink options took its place and per capita, people were drinking 20 per cent less beer.
Just this week, Lion started spruiking the hugely popular American alcoholic seltzer brand White Claw in Australia after securing the local distribution rights to it back in May. Low calorie hard seltzers are currently a multi-billion dollar business in the US and the category's popularity in Australia appears to be growing as some people's lifestyle choices dictate their alcohol consumption.
Meanwhile, The United Workers Union that represents the West End brewery's workers slammed Lion's decision as a "massive betrayal" of their employees and the wider community.
"This move is a massive betrayal to their workforce and the South Australian community after the company received tens of millions of taxpayer money for an upgrade to the site," said Mark Whenan, South Australian Coordinator of Food and Beverages, United Workers Union.
"We are still working through what this means to our members at the brewery and how they want to proceed.
"However, the facts of the matter are that workers at West End have continued to turn up every single day throughout the pandemic, delivering for their employer, Lion.
"In response, the company is savagely cutting their livelihoods.
"Lion has an obligation to their hardworking employees and to the South Australian community to provide good secure jobs throughout this crisis and beyond. They have benefited from the iconic SA brand for years and shouldn't be compounding the state's unemployment problem."
In a statement, Lion said: "Those impacted by this proposal would have access to extensive outplacement support, and a West End Re-Skilling Fund of up to $1 million, on top of any potential redundancy payments. We will work with the SA Government to optimise this support package".
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A Harvard law professor will speak Friday at 10 a.m. on "Keeping Hope Alive: Criminal Justice Reform During Cycles of Political Retrenchment."
The lecture, by Carol S. Steiker, is free and open to the public. It will be at the University of Florida Levin College of Law in the Martin H. Levin Advocacy Center at 309 Village Drive, according to a news release.
Steiker is co-director of the Criminal Justice Policy Program at Harvard Law School.
The lecture is part of the Florida Law Review's 38th annual Dunwody Distinguished Lecture in Law, which is a forum for legal scholars to present novel and challenging ideas.
Steiker's recent works address topics such as the relationship of criminal justice scholarship to law reform, the role of mercy in the institutions of criminal justice and the likelihood of nationwide abolition of capital punishment.
Steiker, a Harvard law graduate, was president of the Harvard Law Review. She has worked on pro bono litigation projects on behalf of indigent criminal defendants, including U.S. Supreme Court death penalty cases.


2015 hasn't exactly been a blockbuster film release year but SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) 2015 Symposium attendees are eternally optimistic that tomorrow's releases will be richer, better and there will be more.
While VR (virtual reality) has become a steady fare for the video game industry, manufacturers and academics opened the curtains on their visions of the future for content creation, distribution and enjoyment as they explored the use of VR and augmented reality, as well as mixed reality in media and entertainment.
Job Security – SMPTE keynoter Layla Mah, lead architect for VR and advanced rendering at AMD and the creator of the company's LiquidVR technology, set the tone for the VR/AR/MR in film session by emphasizing that the technology had a lot of potential, and except for special applications, was years away from delivering money-making visual experiences for the M&E industry.
Layla Mah, lead architect for VR and advanced rendering at AMD and the creator of the company's LiquidVR technology, started the opening Symposium session by emphasizing that the technology is still in the very early stages for M&E and that there are a lot of hurdles yet to be overcome before it will be in worldwide release.
Obviously, studios will want to move the adoption more quickly to help their bottom lines.
While the demonstrations at the conference all centered on the various versions of the goggles gamers are accustomed to, her vision of tomorrow was immersive technology that could be an untethered experience using something between a contact lens and a pair of regular glasses.
There are a lot of advances that are needed in the next 20-30 years for that type of entertainment; especially since, done right, it will require at least a petaflop (a quadrillion floating point operations per second) of computing power and an unbelievable volume of entertainment storage.
Drawing researchers from across their organization, Samsung demonstrated/discussed an array of hardware and software approaches they are taking to submerge us in the virtual world-- completely disconnected from our actual environment.
To show how much agreement people have in the technology, each of the Samsung speakers had his own pet acronym – VR, AR, MR.
Relating their research to the film industry, Sajid Sadi, Tech Lead and Senior Director of Research, Think Tank Team, said their technology is more than just a research curiosity but is still about at the 8mm film stage of entertainment. They are exploring how people shoot and use cameras, the length of their takes and editing as well as focusing the viewer's attention and physical/mental responses.
All of the speakers warned that moving ahead too quickly would only put immersive technology/application on the same path as 3D, which has been invented at least four times in my lifetime.
Early Stages – The Samsung technology session discussed the various tools and applications that are being developed for the M&E industry. The researchers showed and demonstrated one of their initial camera units which are "good enough" for some projects but certainly not something that every filmmaker will have to or want to buy and use tomorrow.
We're personally more interested in the continual use of the technology and if it can be in the form of a contact lens or an "ordinary" pair of glasses; rather than, as one speaker envisioned, an individual wearing one of the headsets while you're walking around and seeing monsters, creating virtual graffiti or encountering friends.
Somehow, that idea failed for Google Glass, but maybe it will be so compelling people will want to live in a combined virtual/real world rather than in the here and now …. Gawd, hope not!
In fact, perhaps the most interesting panel session of the day covered the subject with idea leaders from business, the industry and education.
Art Form – Filmmakers and academics each had their own definition of the new technology, where it fit in the industry and when it would really arrive. Andrew Setos (L), of Blackstar, moderated the session with panel discussions by (l-r) Paul Bettner, Playful; Colin Foran, HBO; Vicki Lau, visual effects artist; Cliff Plumer, Jaunt Studios; Steven Poster, International Cinematographers Guild; and Ted Schilowitz, 20th Century Fox.
Speakers spent a lot of time warning the M&E industry not to rush the technology to people's screens, saying they didn't want "their" technology to suffer the same fate as 3D (resurrected every 5-10 years) or having herds of glasstonauts roaming the streets.
Several of the speakers noted that VR/AR/MR interact with individuals in totally different ways and they admitted they believe that more study has to be done on how it interacts with and impacts the mind, ears, eyes and body.
Pete Moss, whose self-chosen title VR Dude and Lead Engineer at Creative Content Studio of Unity Technologies, noted that ultimately, the technology will anchor people in the real world and provide simulation of alternative worlds/experiences and added, "Sorry Hollywood, but 360 video is not VR."
The speakers said visual storytellers had to think differently without giving them many guidelines during the session other than they had to take into consideration the total person.
While the VR/AR/MR experts are still learning how they can apply their technology to visual storytelling, that certainly hasn't stopped filmmakers from using it to tell their stories.
Samsung and 20th Century Fox demonstrated one of their latest goggle-attached "films" and most of the people who gave it a try thought it was different and interesting but felt that a lot of trial and error work will be done before it goes primetime.
Is Seeing Believing? – Jen Soule, president of OWC, donned the goggles to experience (not certain you can say watch) 20th Century Fox's VR demonstration film. Most of the SMPTE attendees took their turn to don the goggles to see the story unfold.
One thing is for certain; cinematographers, animators and VFX artists will have to learn a whole new set of skills to help ordinary folks live in and around the two environments--especially without the dumb goggles.
They're great for gaming, taking a quick trip to some exotic location by yourself, real estate tours, medical "practice" and things like that. But no one could tell me what would happen if I was attacked by zombies, thrust into the middle of a battle, in a car accident or fell a couple of hundred feet in the VR/AR/MR world.
Right here, right now; I'll stick with the here and now!


Many customers are new to SMS Marketing and we're often asked, "what's the best way to send out my SMS campaign". As with all direct marketing campaigns, there is no universal best way. What works for one company won't necessarily work for another. Sigh!
Think about what you actually want to achieve from your Bulk SMS campaign. Is it a text back response, a phone call, an email, a visit to your website, etc. This will help you in writing your message and selecting your target audience. For example if you were texting older people you might want to have a phone number to call rather than a text back response as in all probability the majority of that target market will prefer using the telephone to talk to someone.
There's a rule of thumb in direct mail that has proven itself bullet proof over the decades. The list (target market) you use is seven times more important to the success of a campaign than any other element of the campaign. This is of course true when it comes to SMS Marketing.
If we sent an offer of a buy 1 lipstick get 1 free to our entire list, you'd reasonably expect a close to 0% response rate from the men on the list! A glaringly obvious example of course but it serves to demonstrate the point!
Think about the people on your list. Are there any obvious 'segments' you can talk to more specifically? Gender is obvious, but, other things to consider are, age, geography, time since last purchase, product categories (what have they bought in the past), spend levels (how much have they spent with you), transactions (how many times have they transacted with you or indeed have they) and so on.
'Segments' will of course be specific to each company but normally in a list of any size there will be some segmentation that can be done so you can target your message and your offer more appropriately to give the best chance of success.
Now that you've decided on what to achieve and what segments you have, writing the message should be easy enough. Just keep it short, to the point and make sure you get you call to action across clearly, i.e. what you want them to do.
Don't forget you might want to write several versions of the message which appeal to your various segments.
The biggest joy about SMS Marketing is you have the ability to test everything. Don't be afraid to, it's how the companies at the top find out what works best. For example, does a web promotion work best or is it best to invite people to call you or even respond by text? What time of day or night is best to send out your message? Or even a weekend? What offer works best, BOGOF or discounting.
Include redemption codes in your different messages (e.g. "use code XYZ when you call to claim your discount") and track responses to work out which combination works best for you.
Many companies like to try one SMS broadcast and if it's successful, they'll subsequently do another.
In common with other direct marketing channels numerous studies have shown that frequently prospects will not respond until they have seen a text a number of times. This is often simply because they do not know the advertiser, and continued exposure brings reassurance. It may also happen that your prospect is not in the market the first time your text arrives but some weeks later they are ready.
John Caples, one of the world's great copywriters put the optimum figure at 7 times; David Ogilvy, the founder of Ogilvy and Mather, said 5 times. In any event the principle is clear.
Repeated exposure will bring a better response.
Using SMS in your company's marketing mix is essential. I don't know of anyone who does not use text messaging, including my 73 year old father. Using these 5 top starter tips you should be able to achieve excellent response rates to your SMS Campaigns and because SMS Marketing is so cost effective, it won't even cost much to give it a go!
Get a Free Bulk SMS account with us and get testing today – once you've tried it, you won't look back!


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Il musical Mary Poppins nasce dall'unione tra la serie di romanzi su Mary Poppins di Pamela Lyndon Travers e l'omonimo film firmato Disney.

Le musiche e testi sono di Richard M. Sherman e Robert B. Sherman (dal film omonimo), con nuove musiche e testi di George Stiles e Anthony Drewe, e libretto di Julian Fellowes.

Dopo quarant'anni dalla riduzione cinematografica del libro, Mary Poppins debutta al Prince Edward Theatre di Londra. Lo spettacolo è prodotto dalla Disney e da Cameron Mackintosh. Ha esordito il 15 dicembre 2004, e ha vinto due Laurence Olivier Awards, quello come migliore attrice protagonista di musical (Laura Michelle Kelly) e quello per migliore coreografia. La medesima produzione debutta a Broadway il 16 novembre 2006, viene nominata per 7 Tony Awards, vincendo quello per la migliore scenografia.

La storia, rispetto all'edizione cinematografica in cui Mary Poppins è interpretata da Julie Andrews, ha subito alcune modifiche.

Dal 13 febbraio 2018 il musical arriva anche in Italia, al Teatro Nazionale di Milano, con il titolo di Mary Poppins il Musical, programmato da febbraio a maggio 2018 e da ottobre a dicembre 2018, poi ripreso al Teatro Sistina di Roma da ottobre 2019 a gennaio 2020: la parte di Mary Poppins è affidata all'attrice e cantante forlivese Giulia Fabbri, la regia è di Federico Bellone.

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La famiglia Banks è composta da quattro persone: un padre severo che pensa soltanto alla banca, una madre che non si sente realizzata e due figli disobbedienti che desiderano solo le attenzioni di entrambi i genitori. Jane e Michael (i figli), dopo aver fatto scappare l'ennesima tata, scrivono una letterina e la espongono ai genitori. Questa poi verrà strappata e lanciata nel camino, volando via. Intanto a Londra cambia il vento che comincia a soffiare da Est.

Arriva Mary Poppins, con la letterina dei due piccoli Banks in mano, ricomposta, e questo comporta lo stupore del padre. La tata inizia immediatamente il suo lavoro ed espone ai bambini il progetto che ha approntato per loro: farli diventare perfetti sotto ogni aspetto, proprio come lei. I bambini però sono indisciplinati e nonostante Mary Poppins compia dei prodigi strepitosi portandoli in luoghi fantastici in cui le statue cantano e danzano, o faccia incontrare loro la donna più vecchia del mondo (che rivela di aver conosciuto il loro padre quando era piccolo e sensibile), o insegni ad essere caritatevoli col prossimo donando due penny ad una vecchietta, i due ragazzi non sembrano aver recepito alcun insegnamento. Mary Poppins capisce che è meglio andare via per il momento e chiede a Bert di seguirli mentre lei è assente.

Ma sfortunatamente a casa Banks giunge la signora Andrews, la vecchia e crudele tata del signor Banks. I bambini sono terrorizzati per i modi crudeli della nuova tata che li punisce continuamente poiché crede che solo con il terrore i due possano crescere temprati. E se per Mary Poppins i problemi vanno via con un poco di zucchero, per Mrs. Andrews un cucchiaio di zolfo e melassa sono la soluzione a tutti i mali. Un giorno Michael, essendo fuggito, incontra Bert che gli offre un aquilone. Il vento improvvisamente cambia e l'aquilone sembra essersi impigliato in qualcosa. Quel qualcosa è Mary Poppins.

La tata trova un'atmosfera diversa in casa e i due bambini le chiedono di salvarli. Mary Poppins capisce che Jane e Michael sono cambiati e che adesso l'ascolteranno. Poi con la magia riesce ad allontanare la crudele signora Andrews. Il signor Banks è in crisi perché è stato allontanato dalla banca. Attribuisce la colpa a Mary Poppins, poi però capisce durante la discussione con lo spazzacamino Bert che in realtà la sua vita era uno sfacelo a causa sua. Bert suggerisce che l'unico bene che gli rimane sono i piccoli da amare.

Mary Poppins riesce a risolvere tutti i problemi: farà riassumere il padre e darà sicurezza alla signora Banks. "L'unico modo per risolvere tutto è la speranza" dice Mary Poppins. Ma il vento cambia e soffia dritto da Nord Ovest. Quando il lavoro è terminato, Mary Poppins sente di essersi affezionata ai bambini, ma è tempo di ripartire. Solleva verso l'alto l'ombrello e il vento la porta via dalla famiglia Banks.

I quattro componenti della famiglia adesso guardano alla finestra, tutti insieme, una nuova stella.

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Altri progetti

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Musical di Broadway
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Musical basati su opere letterarie
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Opere basate su Mary Poppins
Opere teatrali ambientate a Londra


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Born in Wexford, and convent-schooled locally, Mary Frances Crowley undertook her professional training in Britain. Earning her Registered Nurse Certificate in 1935, in Chester, and her Midwifery Certificate a year later in Birkenhead, she quickly moved on to training others in a variety of hospitals in the North-West and London. Crowley came home to Ireland in 1941, taking up a senior position in Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital; soon after, she founded the Medical Missionaries Midwifery Training School in Drogheda.
RCSI Faculty of Nursing & midwifery
In 1944 she was appointed Assistant Matron of the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, an association which lasted until her death. Immediately after the war, Crowley travelled to northern France as Matron of the Irish Red Cross Hospital at Saint-Lô (the hospital's storekeeper, interpreter and driver was Samuel Beckett, the future Nobel Laureate). For their work at Saint-Lô, Crowley and her staff were later awarded the Médaille de la Reconnaisance Française by the French government. Returning to the Eye and Ear, Crowley founded the Nursing Training School there and became Director of Nursing Studies. In 1974 her ambition of many years was realised with the establishment of a Faculty of Nursing at the RCSI, the first of its kind in Ireland or Britain and a rarity worldwide. 'This Faculty,' Crowley, as first Dean, declared in an inaugural address, 'will produce professional leaders of quality, and dedication, whose responsibility will be to enhance the profession… May this new chapter in the history of the Royal College of Surgeons add to its lustre, cherish its traditions and spread its vocational spirit.' By 1979 there were more than 1,000 registered students in the Faculty. In 1990, the year of Crowley's death, the Faculty's title was amended to include midwifery.
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Haters try and use their lips; their words; to try and convince those they are around that they have their best interest at heart while they pretentiously exaggerate their opponent or enemy's position on things. When I see that "seven abominations in his heart" I think of Proverbs 6:16-19. I do not know if that is what the wise one is referring to, but it ought to be considered.
Let us be clear about hatred and hate. It is not of God, neither is it from God; it is in truth from the pit of Hell. It is from the father of lies and liars. It comes from the same place as the heart of a gossiper, or talebearer who seeks to divide friends, families, and neighbors.
Let us who are followers of Jesus Christ allow no hatred in our hearts. Let us live so as not to deceive, but live to love one another as we have been given commandment to do so (John 13:34, 35; 15:12, 17).
There is so much, too much hatred in the world. Let Christ and His Church show for the love of Christ. In His love He laid down His life on a cruel old cross and died for us. Yes! We must stand for His truth, His word, His cross, take up our own cross, and follow Him with love for those who are the pitiful, passing parade of the perishing.
O God, our Lord and Savior deliver us into Your love.


2016 was a personally challenging year: it tried to kill me (by way of a nicked artery during surgery), it broke my heart a few times (mostly the high-maintenance men in my life, the women are very chill), it took me so far out of my comfort zone that I wasn't sure I'd find my way, it gave me odd coping mechanisms and a dark sense of humour.
Yet it taught me that while the world moves in mysterious ways and is crueler than I'd ever thought, there's a counter mysterious force and that people are more loving, generous and compassionate than I'd ever imagine. I'm thankful for everyone who has been in my life this year, the ones who amplified my spirit, the ones who made me laugh till I cried.
I'm still here and I'm looking forward to 2017. I'm going with the ebb and flow, and I know how to swim through rip tides.
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"Once salt rises in park's Southern waters, animals migrate north". Something in the water in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is spurring the world's most spectacular migration, according to a new study.
One of the spectacular and unique event of the year is the Serengeti wildebeest migration, which takes place between the months of November and July following year. This has been described by many as one of the greatest natural events in the wildlife world. Each year a legion of nearly two million wildebeest, zebras and gazelles circulate through the park, settling in the verdant grasslands to give birth while the rivers flow and new wet season grasses grow in endless abundance. Then, as if. spooked, the herds suddenly begin to trek north in late May or early June, leaving behind an apparent paradise.
"When animals leave the south, there's still plenty of green forage," Ayron Strauch of Tufts University said. "And plenty of water."
Strauch and Frances Chew, also of Tufts, now think they know what sparks the exodus: An invisible, rising tide of salts in the rivers from which the herds drink.
Late in the wet season, the plains in the southern part of the park appear healthy and full of nutritious food, but the rain has already begun to slacken. When Strauch and Chew sampled water from the Mbalageti and Seronera Rivers in the region, they found that concentrations of calcium, sodium and potassium salts soared to levels that could be dangerous to the animals' health.
"These nutrients are vital to life on the plains, to be sure," Strauch said. "But as base flow in the rivers decreases, concentrations of these nutrients sky-rocket to hundreds of times what animals might encounter in the plants they eat."
Strauch will present the research next month at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.
Studies of farm animals have shown that elevated salts in the water supply can cause cardiovascular disease and kidney failure in adults and cripple females' ability to lactate. New-born animals that drink tainted water can suffer from impaired bone and nerve development, and have trouble gaining weight.
"Basically as soon as the water starts turning brackish, you start to see adverse effects," Strauch said.
The same may hold true for Serengeti's wild herds. Strauch and Chew reason that the spike in salt content in the southern waters acts as a signal that it's time to move north, before the harsh dry season sets in and food sources begin dwindling.
However, John Fryxall of the University of Guelph in Canada said declining nutrients in grasses may drive migration, rather than water quality
"These animals need the green flush of nutrients in early growth-stage grasses," he said. Grasses growing late in the wet season are too long and full of woody material that animals can't digest.
In addition, animals also have to compete with humans living nearby for water. Villages surrounding the park are swelling, thanks in part to tourism generated by the famous wildlife. Local inhabitants are increasingly diverting river water for irrigation and drinking.
"There is increasing demand for a finite water resource," Fryxall said. "Future changes in water quality will be important to pay attention to; worsening quality could impose additional mortality on the animals."
What's it like to witness "the Great Migration"?
Observing the animals on the Serengeti plains may bring to mind the decadence of a midnight buffet, the kind you find in Las Vegas or on cruise ships. A bonanza of feasting goes on: The greatest concentration of grazing animals on the planet, including wildebeests, zebras, gazelles and antelope, are there, munching on grass. As they feed, lions, hyenas and other predators feed on them, while vultures swoop in to clear the table, so to speak.
But the thought of all-you-can-eat buffets is likely your last thought of human civilization when you witness the Great Migration Every year, the grazing animals cross hundreds of miles, from the Serengeti in Tanzania to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya and back again, to eat fresh grass, watered by the rains. Once these animals start moving, you have the sense of something primal.
In short: You're seeing something that's been seen by very few humans before.
The animals' movement starts quickly and without any discernible warning. How do they know it's time to move, you may wonder. While everything looks normal and serene on these grasslands to you, wildebeests can sense a thunderstorm from 30 miles away. They follow the scent to get the best grass.
For people who like to count sheep before going to bed, the migrating animals represent an insomniacs dream it would take almost 35 sleepless days and nights to count one migrating animal per second. The line of animals would stretch back for miles, giving you plenty of time to add up those 3 million animals, the majority of which are wildebeests. Nothing, not massive lines for Black Friday sales or queues for a subway after a down-town sporting event, could prepare you for that many animals moving together at once. The line of animals may stretch back as far as 25 miles.
But your ability to count the running wildebeests and leaping gazelles may be hampered by the beating hooves hitting the ground in the race for fresh grass or the cacophony of grunts and snorts that fill the hot air.
While the grazing animals leave many of their natural predators behind in the Serengeti, the trip, which may cover as many as 1,000 miles, isn't without its dangers. When the wildebeests go leaping and splashing through rivers, you may spot a hungry crocodile emerge from below to snatch them. But the wildebeests will gain in numbers again in the early spring, during foaling season. Many in the group will give birth all at once, and their labour is quick. Look away for just a second and you may miss the foal making its entrance into the world. The tiny wildebeest will get its footing, and then the race for grass is on again.
After all the adventure, the grazing beasts wind up where they started, in the Serengeti, and nature's food chain buffet begins again.For more information about the Migration please see our main site Tanzania Odyssey or our Serengeti Wildebeest migration page, or click here for more information about Tanzania Safaris.


Here are several examples selected to write formally correct and a cover letter to a company or a society, community or club. All examples are in image format, in the same place properly see where our name or identification, plus all the relevant data to the sender of the message, a space for logos and titles of the entities in question. One should also take into account the location of the appropriate date and mention the name of the consignee beyond the place of the message.