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Harnessing the Power of Social Media at the Social Business Summit in Austin
March 7, 2013 by lalorek 3 Comments
BY SUSAN LAHEY
Reporter with Silicon Hills News
Photo courtesy of the Dachis Group.
When the lights went out at the Super Bowl, Oreo scored a social media touchdown by Tweeting out: "You can even dunk in the dark."
It was spoken of at the 2013 Social Business Summit the way "Think Different" and "Just Do It" were spoken of in advertising circles. It was a stroke of brilliance, a visit from the social media muse. It generated the kind of attention every business wants from its social media but no one knows how to create. The Oreo Tweet, however, came in second after the Old Spice social media campaign which garnered more than 40 million views. In that campaign, the Old Spice Guy made 186 video responses to fans and blasted them out over social media channels.
The campaign doubled sales of the body wash, bringing it to number one. And nearly every speaker at the day-long Social Business Summit referenced it….with slides.
Photos courtesy of Dachis Group.[/caption]These are the social media Camelot stories that drew 200 people to the W Hotel Thursday. The Dachis Group of Austin put on the summit. Later this year, they'll hold Social Business Summits in Shanghai, Mumbai, London, Sao Paulo, Tokyo and New York.
At the Austin event, the question before speakers was how one takes a constantly changing medium with more than 400 outlets, each having millions of disparate constituents, and weaves that into an ongoing business plan. They used the term "Perfect Storm" a lot.
Photo courtesy of the Dachis Group
Many speakers focused on the numbers–how much social media could increase sales and customer satisfaction; how wide is the window to jump in on a trending story; the precise equation for the half-life of a social media buzz. But it was the second-to-last speaker who addressed the manic and often ill-advised effort to constantly be in customers' faces with social media, having no clear objective in mind.
Olivier Blanchard, author of Social Media R.O.I. asked the poignant question—and made the audience repeat it with him twice—"What the fuck are we doing?"
The reason to have a social media campaign, he said, the reason to track customer behavior and engage customers in conversation, is to become a better company.
"We should be focusing on building better products, creating better customer experiences, eliminating hurdles and pain points for customers, converting our audience to customers, driving loyalty," he said. Social media should be part of sales and PR, community involvement and business intelligence. And a huge part of customer service. Better to have a team dedicated to responding to negative Tweets about the company in real time than to have a call center, he said.
Blanchard was only one of several speakers to insist that social media could no longer be the baby of the marketing department but had to be integrated throughout the organization. Employees must get involved with the company's social media presence—a suggestion that unfortunately brought up several unanswered and tricky legal questions regarding employee policies and freedom of speech.
Blanchard and others also suggested that any company serious about social media needs a mission control center where staffers are watching Twitter for mentions of the company, engaging in conversations in real time over every social media channel they're involved with, and watching news for relevant topics to comment on to connect with constituents.
All of this needs to be incorporated into a content process with a content strategy and a staff to write copy, edit it and post it, according to Michael Brito of Edelman Digital. Companies need to become media businesses, which means they need quality content, based on stories of customers and vendors, trends and news, and–only marginally–marketing information. Companies need an institutional process for generating and distributing that content.
Timing of social media was discussed at length. Dr. Scott Henderson, Principal Data Scientist of Gnip, said that for certain purposes, such as product development and brand management, engagement should go deep and be on a slower clock than, say responding to a trending event. Public relations and supply chain issues should be responded to quickly and concisely. Customer service should include deep engagement but should happen almost instantly. The window for responding to a trending story was often only a few hours.
Brian Solis, Principal of Altimeter Group, said studies show that responding to customers in five minutes rather than 24 hours results in seven times more sales. Customers, he said, don't want to surf websites on their phones. They want "snackable" information in real time, such as reviews.
The real advantage social media has over static content such as websites, he said, is the opportunity to respond in the moment a customer is having an experience, resulting in shared experiences. Shared experiences are the future of branding because they are the only way to be flexible to the changing nature of humans, what he called the "human algorithm."
John Hagel, Co-Chairman of Deloitte LLP Center for the Edge spoke of quite a different kind of human algorithm. His group is charged for looking beyond what companies are doing now to technologies and practices they might adopt in the future. Many of those technologies track human behavior and performance. One study, for example, looked at performance behaviors of people playing World of Warcraft and tracking their own weaknesses and opportunities for improved performance. Similar techniques, he said, might be employed in the workplace.
Another tracking study involved an app being piloted in San Francisco that tracks a user's behavior over time and identifies patterns. From that pattern, it can identify a tribe of people with similar patterns. Once a tribe is identified, the app can recommend restaurants or other businesses frequented by members of the tribe.
"Ultimately it can become a trusted advisor," Hagel said.
One of the metrics the Center for the Edge studied through concentrated data collection was the optimal performance one could achieve in a team related to the team dynamics. There was a delicate balance, he said, citing two different studies, between a team being so interconnected that it wasn't outward reaching enough to perform well and a team being sufficiently connected that they shared personal as well as professional parts of their lives. In that balance, he said, was tacit company knowledge exchanged.
New technologies, Hagel said "are creating mounting performance pressure on all of us. This isn't just a cyclical problem and there will not be a downturn in a few years. The pressure has been mounting for decades and there's absolutely no sign of it leveling off. Performance matters and you have to be able to tie it back to metrics—financial metrics, operating metrics, front line metrics."
While Hagel's presentation seemed to reduce human behavior to a stream of data, the speaker who followed him, Zappos founder and CEO Tony Hsieh had an almost diametrically opposed perspective on human interaction. In fact, it was pointed out that he never spoke once about social media or in his entire presentation.
"Social media is a bad word for us," he confessed. (Though the Zappos Facebook site has 476,000 users.)
Hsieh explained that he was happy to sell his first company, LinkExchange, to Microsoft, partly because the culture was so unhappy. After he and co-founders had hired all their friends, they had no means by which to choose good employees outside their social circles.
When he founded Zappos, the company's culture was paramount. Since the company has moved outside Las Vegas, Nevada, many of the company's employees live in the same apartment complex and socialize regularly. They are reinvigorating a little-known, community-oriented part of downtown Las Vegas (read, no gambling or glitz). And Hsieh has purchased the former Las Vegas city hall to get all employees under one roof. He thinks now in terms not of density but of "collisionable hours" or hours of the day during which time people have to run into one another in the walkable community he's trying to establish for Zappos.
When asked what he thought about Yahoo's Marissa Mayer insisting on employees all occupying a space and whether that was a good idea, Hsieh said it depended on whether they all liked each other. Building a culture where people like each other is key to the whole Zappos concept.
If there was one takeaway from the conference as a whole it would have to be that, while data tracking and engagement building are a function of a social media strategy, what differentiates a business with a social media strategy versus a social media business is having a business whose goals are aligned with the customers, partners and associates they're engaging with.
For most businesses, that remains the elusive Holy Grail.
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About Torbjorn
Torbjorn Zetterlund.
How to mitigate risk the Dutch way
In My WorkTags Product Management, Project Management July 1, 2012
Torbjorn Zetterlund
I experienced a nice risk mitigation strategy at the Maastricht train station on Saturday, June 30th, 2012, I was on my way to take in the prologue of Tour de France 2012 in Liege, Belgium.
I had arrived on platform 3 on a train from Amsterdam, to get to the train going to Liege I need to change platform, in Maastricht to change to another platform you need to climb some stairs to reach the pedestrian bridge that accesses all the platforms. I walked over to platform 5 where the train to Liege was a departure from, reaching down on to the platform I saw a large group of people on the platform next to the train to Liege.
Getting closer to the train I saw that the train was packed with people and the people on the platform could not get in, there were more people on the platform than on the train. I start worrying that we would not get to Liege in time, the train left and the next train was in an hour, after 20 minutes a person working at the station approached us on the platform and gave us information that they have arranged buses to take us to Belgium, great we all thought, what we did not realize was that this was the risk mitigation strategy by the Maastricht station. Move the problem somewhere else, in this case to Belgium.
A large group of us headed to the buses that had been arranged, I got on a bus and when it was full it took off, we headed out of Maastricht and in no time we crossed the border to Belgium, all of us on the bus felt great we would be in Liege shortly.
We exit the highway at Vise, and took us to the Gare de Vise, were they let us off and we all headed down to the train platform at the Gare de Vise. To put the town of Vide in perspective to Maastricht, Vise is the first town you reach leaving the Netherlands.
The train from Mastricht stop in Vise on it's way to Liege, all the people from the bus waited on the platform in Vise tills the next train from Maastricht came, the train was packed there was no space available, so hear is the mitigation from the dutch side, they ship a large group of people by bus to Belgium and let this group of people become Belgium's problem, while they cleared their platform with the remaining people in Maastricht.
To give the credit to the Belgium, a empty train came to the station in Vise an hour later, and all people got on board and we headed to Liege, so in the end, we got to the start of the prologue two hours later than we expected, I got to see the event and in the end, it was all a great day, even with all the delays.
Canadians at the Tour de France 2012
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Rolling Stone names the top 200 singers – but Celine Dion fans are all saying the same thing
Celine Dion was left off Rolling Stone's list of top singers, and fans are *not* happy about it
(Image credit: Andrew Lipovsky/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images)
By Jack Slater
2023 is in its infancy and we already have our first major scandal of the year – Celine Dion's snub from Rolling Stone magazine.
The iconic singer, known for epic power ballads like It's All Coming Back To Me Now, Think Twice and Because You Loved Me, is regarded as one of the best voices in the world and her recent health update explaining why she rescheduled so many concert dates had fans the world over heartbroken.
Celine, who is Canada's best-selling recording artist of all time and the best-selling French-language artist of all time, not only failed to make it in the top 10 alongside artists usually considered her contemporaries (such as Mariah Carey), but she also didn't place in the top 200... at all.
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The famous music magazine published its list of the "Top 200 Greatest Singers of All Time" and the scale of the blowback they've received for snubbing Celine could be described as Titanic…
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown was one of the first to speak out on the shocking snub, tweeting "They got THE @MichaelJackson way down at EIGHTY-SIX?! and no @CelineDion at ALL?!
Shoot, the way MJ sang #WithAChildsHeart when he was a CHILD makes him top three at the least and if Celine Dion isn't in the Top Ten at the LEAST what are we really doing?!
Damn @RollingStone."
Another twitter user wrote, "Celine Dion is a top 3 vocalist of all time. Rolling Stone needs to immediately exit the business of music journalism."
A popular account shared a clip of Celine Dion in the recording studio – clearly to give weight to his comments – writing, "Celine Dion was not included on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest singers of all time. Taylor Swift was." (Taylor Swift ranked as the 102nd greatest singer of all time.)
Celine Dion was not included on Rolling Stone's list of the greatest singers of all time. Taylor Swift was. pic.twitter.com/pLX5cRmRYBJanuary 1, 2023
As well as neglecting to include Celine, some decisions from Rolling Stone have equally caused fans online to question the logic.
Barbra Streisand, for example, ranks in position 147, with many arguing she deserves a much higher spot.
So, who did make the list?
Some notable placements include Adele at number 22, Dolly Parton at 27, Kelly Clarkson at 194 and the legendary Ella Fitzgerald at 45.
The newer generation of artists to make the list include Billie Eilish (198) and Lana del Rey (175).
At the very top of the list was the late, great Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin. Coming in a close second is Whitney Houston and third place is the legendary Sam Cooke, who blended gospel, R&B and pop like never before.
(Image credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Kevin Winter/Jess Rand/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
Fourth place belongs to jazz and blues icon Billie Holiday and fifth place – the highest ranking singer who is still alive – is Mariah Carey.
The top 10 in full
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The Cross gets a face lift
Home » News and Events » News Room » The Cross gets a face lift
Notice anything different about our Cross?
Following an issue about the state of the village centre raised by a resident at one of the Parish Council monthly surgeries, work has taken place to clean up the Cross.
The original plan had been to undertake a quick removal of the weeds growing on the stonework and then proceed to do the same on the High Street. However the size of the task has proved greater than expected.
Nevertheless, thanks must go to four members of the Parish Council for their efforts yesterday in removing the bulk of the weeds and moss that had accumulated on and around the Cross.
Chairperson Katie Norris and councillors John Bickley, Sarah Thomas, and Chris Whitehurst spent 2 hours cleaning the iconic monument, eventually filling a green wheelie bin with weeds and debris.
The reason for the accumulation of weeds appears to be a deterioration of the mortar between the sandstone blocks, and this will mean that further work on "pointing" will need to take place.
However a quick glance shows how the appearance of the monument has been improved.
Malpas Online extends a big thank you to the Parish Councillors for their effort.
We would also ask if residents living on High Street and Church if they would consider clearing the weeds and debris from the front of their properties.


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Derrubadas egy község (município) Brazíliában, Rio Grande do Sul állam északi határán. Területén vannak a Yucumã-vízesések. Népességét 2021-ben  főre becsülték.

Története
A környéken 1893-ban kezdtek megtelepedni a föderalista forradalom elől menekülő portugálok és indiánok. 1931-ben José Antônio Flores da Cunha tábornok, akit a kormány nevezett ki az állam élére (interventor federal) Pedro Garciának koncessziót adott a Pari-hegység keményfájának kitermelésére. Garcia épületeket emelt az Uruguai folyó bal partján (ez a hely ma a Porto Garcia nevet viseli) és 500 emberrel, 15 ökrös vontatóval és egy traktorral végezte a fakitermelést. A fát tutajokon szállították a folyón. 1937-ben Getúlio Vargas diktátor vette át a hatalmat (Estado Novo), Flores da Cunhát elmozdították, Garcia vállalkozása embargó alá került és tönkrement, a munkások pedig elhagyták a helyet. Több, mint 6000 ledöntött fa és kiterjedt irtások maradtak utánuk, a később itt megtelepülő emberek ezért nevezték el a helyet Derrubadasnak (letarolt).

A környék kezdetben Palmeira das Missões, majd 1944-ben az abból kiváló Três Passos része (de nem kerülete) volt. 1955-ben az akkor megalakult Tenente Portela község kerületének nyilvánították Derrubadas néven. 1992-ben függetlenedett, majd 1993-ban önálló községgé alakult.

Leírása
A község székhelye Derrubadas, további kerületei nincsenek. Az állam északi részén, Argentína határán, az úgynevezett Alto Uruguai zóna Celeiro régiójában fekszik, 500 kilométerre Porto Alegretől, az állam fővárosától. Az éves átlaghőmérséklet 19,1 ºC, a csapadékmennyiség 1800 mm. Területe dombos, elhelyezkedése és magassága miatt éghajlata mérsékelt, télen fagy és hó is előfordulhat egyes részein.

Gazdasága a gyarmatosításkor a fakitermelésre összpontosult, később a megélhetési mezőgazdaságra, majd állat- és növénytermesztésre. Főbb termékek a kukorica, citrusfélék, szarvasmarha, sertés, hal.

Területén található a Turvo természetvédelmi park (Parque Estadual do Turvo), mely Rio Grande do Sul egyik legnagyobb lombhullató erdőtömbjét foglalja magába. Számos veszélyeztetett fajnak ad otthont, mint például a jaguár, a puma, az örvös pekari, a tapír, a pápaszemes guán és a foltosszárnyú fogasfürj. Akár 30 méter magas fák is találhatók, különösen a cédrus, a grápia, a canjerana és a babér. Különleges látványosságok a 12 méter magas Yucumã-vízesések, melyek 1800 méteres hosszúságon húzódnak az Uruguai folyó mentén. Ezek egy geológiai törés következtében alakultak ki, és a világ egyik legnagyobb hosszanti vízesés-rendszerét képezik (vagyis nem merőlegesek a folyóra, hanem annak hosszában helyezkednek el).

Jegyzetek

Rio Grande do Sul állam községei

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Obverse: Design with portrait orientation. On the top, "REPÚBLICA BOLIVARIANA DE VENEZUELA" «Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela». Below, the denomination value "10", the date, the denomination in words "DIEZ BOLIVARES" «Ten Bolívares», the payment clause "PAGADEROS AL PORTADOR EN LAS OFICINAS DEL BANCO" «Payments to the Bearier in the Offices of the Bank» and the signers. At right, watermarks zone. On the bottom, portrait of Guaicaipuro by Pedro Centeno Vallenilla, with the denomination value "10" below. The serial numbers are located at upper right and bottom left rotated 90 degrees clock-wise.
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NASA Armstrong's aerial photographer took some beautiful pictures of the wildflower super bloom in California.
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Q: How to delete JSON keys from an array with PHP? I have the following array, and I want to be able to delete all the "phonenumber" keys and of course its value from the JSON objects. Only the keys "phonenumber" an not the whole object. How can I do that?
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        "name": "A",
        "lastname": "A",
        "password": "1",
        "image": "img_webshop\/userimage-59dfb91515810.png"
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        "role": "user",
        "id": "59df4f1b070e6",
        "phonenumber": "12345678",
        "name": "B",
        "lastname": "B",
        "password": "2",
        "image": "img_webshop\/userimage-59e37de69475b.png"
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        "role": "user",
        "id": "59dfc0cb07985",
        "email": "c@c.dk",
        "name": "C",
        "lastname": "C",
        "password": "3",
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A: // make array
$array = json_decode($your_json_string, true);

// loop through array
foreach($array as $key => $item){
       // unset them
       unset($array[$key]["phonenumber"]);
}

// make json again
$json_string_modified = json_encode($array);

OR using reference
// make array
$array = json_decode($your_json_string, true);

// loop through array using reference
foreach($array as &$item){

      // unset specific key
      unset($item["phonenumber"]);

}

// unset reference
unset($item);

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the arenas into Dutch Valley, Dance Valley and Latin Village.
help him by hosting the Afro Beats stage. Actually it was…..nice.
weird deep sounds….pretty strange to vj to but kind of fun. See you all next year!


At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE) we get many calls from site and district leaders asking how to create a school system organized for effective Project Based Learning (PBL). We partner with those who are willing and able to engage with us for a multi-year PBL implementation effort. BIE's systemic partnership coaches support leaders as they progress on their PBL journey. After years of this work across the United States and around the world, we have discovered some key truths about highly effective PBL leadership.
The most effective leaders begin with why.
I was recently at a school with exceptional performance on high stakes tests. While exploring whether to commit to PBL, they struggled to reconcile changing their teaching practices with their current success by traditional measures. What happens if teachers try something new and scores decrease? What will parents say? What will district administrators say? To move school staff and parents past this dilemma, leaders started with questions that refocused them on their mission and vision for the future, What do our students need to be successful in the future? Is traditional academic knowledge enough? What kind of teaching will make our hopes and dreams for our students come true? For other schools, the questions might be about increasing student engagement, building a better school culture, or finding new strategies for raising test scores. When we ground everyone in the why, the how (PBL) becomes crystal clear.
To reach the goal, everyone has to know the plan.
So you've started with the why, and your team agrees that high quality PBL is worth pursuing. Now what? How do we get there? Every great coach has a plan for winning a game, so BIE's PBL implementation planning sessions help leaders craft a shared vision, then create long-term, mid-term, and short-term outcomes. We co-create the specific supports and activities the staff and community need to meet their outcomes. But even though the PBL planning team is made up of representative stakeholders like parents, teachers, central office staff, and students when appropriate, best-laid plans can fail if they are not communicated well to everyone. Make your work public – repeatedly – in various formats, settings, languages, or whatever it takes to make sure all the players know the game plan.
Effective leaders are model learners.
PBL leaders see their work with their staff as a project and model the best practices of PBL teaching. It's important to learn side by side with your teachers. Don't be "that guy" (or gal) who reads email or leaves constantly during professional development sessions. Model the learning behaviors that you want your teachers to use. Ask questions, dig in, make it clear that you value lifelong learning and your staff will too.
Many PBL leaders actually bring the essential project design elements into their leadership practice. Open meetings with a driving question – for example, How should we schedule the student day to maximize learning time? What structures can we implement to ensure that staff have time to collaborate? Collect "need to know" questions at the start of a big initiative and revisit them over the course of time. Create a culture that encourages collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.
Make time for reflection and celebration.
Successful sports teams reflect on their performance. They watch previous game tapes, recall what they did well or want to improve on, and together plan how to get better. Educators can take a lesson from athletes. How often do we come together to analyze a lesson or unit, then practice the complicated parts before trying it again? PBL leaders need to help teachers deprivatize their practice. Teachers should be in each other's classrooms to learn how their colleagues teach and reflect on how it might apply to their own classroom. They should engage in ongoing professional learning cycles to examine their work using protocols like those in BIE's "professional learning loop." Leaders should be in each other's schools observing high quality leadership practices unfold and engage in consultancy protocols to solve problems of practice. Have a leadership thought partner who helps you uncover your personal growth areas. Tell your staff. They will respect the reflective model you set.
Successful athletes are also known for hoisting that hard-earned trophy over their head.
PBL leaders should do the same at their schools. Continuous improvement through reflection and use of protocols is important, but don't get so dogged about improving that you forget to celebrate accomplishments. Some schools do shout-outs at the start of each staff meeting. Others use newsletters or email blasts to point out the good work the staff is doing to move PBL forward. For more ideas and resources to grow your PBL leadership, visit bie.org.
Jennifer Cruz is Director of Implementation at the Buck Institute for Education. Follow Jennifer on Twitter with @jencBIE.


No disrespect to Prince, but 1999 was really nothing to party about. At least not when you consider the possibility of celebrating 100 years with no end in sight.
But before we get too deep in the past, let's return to the present … and the future.
Before then, of course, we'll need to sort through all of the nominations that will come in from all over the country. Engine builders can nominate their own engine building businesses, or others can nominate them. The entry process is simple: the person making the nomination needs to write a short (300-word maximum) essay explaining why that person/operation should be considered and provide basic information about the engine builder being nominated. The entry deadline is September 7, 2018.
From there, a panel of judges – including representatives from Fel-Pro, Speed-Pro, Sealed Power and the Engine Builder staff – will select two finalists in each category. After further deliberation, the judges will name one of the finalists the Grand Prize Winner and the other the Runner-up. The winner in each category will be announced in December.
We started this program in 2012 to recognize the unsung heroes of the race team – the people who ensure that the person who celebrates in Victory Lane has the power to actually GET to victory lane. Over those years, we have celebrated engine builders with widely diversified engine expertise ranging from dirt track bullrings to sports car endurance courses and the wilds of Baja, to custom diesel builders who manufacture every component from a block of aluminum and then go out and set records with it, to vintage engine experts who know the difference between a Dayton, a Kissel, a Tatra, a Delahaye and a Lagonda.
See, for more than 50 years at Engine Builder, we've been interested in the STORIES about what makes you a winner, not just the hardware on a trophy shelf. And since 1918, our sponsor Fel-Pro has been interested in your stories, too. As they prepare to celebrate their 100th anniversary this summer in Skokie, IL, the Fel-Pro team has been collecting the best engine building stories from the field and will soon share them.


Self-Taping is a quick and easy way of auditioning your character skill. If done right, it will attract the attention of casting directors and producers, increasing the chance of you landing your dream role. So whether you're stuck for time or need to quickly showcase your talent, here are some essential and very helpful tips on how to produce a unique and professional self-tape.
You don't need to break the bank to create a great self-tape. Nowadays most smartphones are fitted with cameras with great resolution. Just make sure that both the image and sound are clear, and then you're good to go! The camera quality is key. A video with low resolution can mean the casting director can't see you properly. It can also poorly reflect your professionalism. But don't panic!
You don't need to break the bank to create a great self-tape. Nowadays most smartphones are fitted with cameras with great resolution. Just make sure that both the image and sound are clear, and then you're good to go!
Space is key. Pick a location away from all that day-to day noise. Background noise on a video can be very distracting for a viewer and it can take all the attention from those important words you speak! So find somewhere nice and quiet.
Another important part is lighting. Choose a spot where you will be clearly visible whilst filming. You might want to consider filming using the natural daylight as it is less harsh and much more flattering. Casting directors want to see your face! If you want to go down the more professional route, you could use photographic soft boxes, or (if you're on a budget) a lamp and a white reflective screen to disperse the light evenly.
Another key element to consider is the background.
No one wants to see your DVD collection or what stationary you own; they want to see you and only you. Keep the focus on yourself with the camera at eye-height, against a solid-coloured wall/sheet. Preferable colours are neutrals, such as white or off-white.
Remember to frame your shot properly. You don't want half your face or the top of your head missing. You want it to capture your image from the top of your head to the mid of your chest with space around your head. You also want to make sure that you don't look straight into the camera, unless specified otherwise, to maintain the fourth-wall between you and the audience. This makes your performance more realistic and it is also the way that all professional reels are produced.
Once you are done filming you want to edit your video and cut out any unnecessary shots. You don't want to waste a casting directors time with any long silences or needless dialogue. You want your reel to flow smoothly with good timing.
Bear in mind though, that the best reels are those filmed in one sitting, so run through beforehand to avoid too many cuts to stay clear of over-editing.
It's the same with the aesthetics of your video. Remember- do not over-edit. This can be just as bad as not editing at all.
Last but not least- your video should also have an introductory slide at the beginning which includes your name, the role, name of the production, and your agent's details.
Happy self-taping from Team IPM!


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'America is thirsty to reward grace and virtue,' the Woodson Center's retiring president says. 'There's going to be a revival coming soon.'
By Jason Willick
At first glance, Robert Woodson and I seem to have nothing in common. He grew up in a segregated black Philadelphia neighborhood; I was reared in affluent Palo Alto, Calif. I finished college in 2015; at 84, Mr. Woodson is preparing to retire as president of an organization he founded in 1981, before I was born.
The Woodson Center's objective, he says, is to rejuvenate "indigenous" civil society in impoverished neighborhoods. The group's signature approach is to look for people in a community whom others "turn to in times of crisis" and "try to resource them so that they can scale up," thereby strengthening "informal networks" responding to problems of crime, addiction and family breakdown. His approach is usually described as conservative—a label he accepts, although he plays down politics and ideology in favor of a practical approach.
When we sat down to discuss the lessons of his long career, I was conscious that when it comes to race and poverty, I came from what progressives call a "place of privilege." Yet I was struck by the way Mr. Woodson's approach to social problems is universal enough that I could recognize his insights in my own milieu.
When Mr. Woodson was 9, his father, a veteran of World War I's segregated Harlem Hellfighters, died. When a boy loses his father, "you cleave to the fathers of other boys," Mr. Woodson says. "Kids tend to look for fathering in other places—if you can't get it in a concentrated form, you take a little from those around you to compensate for it." That observation informs the Woodson Center's efforts to pair fatherless inner-city youngsters with male mentors. It also resonates with my own experience. My father died when I was in elementary school, though I was lucky enough to grow up in a community with enough social capital that no program was needed.
Mr. Woodson has also taken note of a spate of 10 teen suicides, many committed on train tracks, that shook my hometown of Palo Alto between 2009 and 2015. He likens that tragedy to the epidemic of murders in many U.S. cities. "If you devalue your life, you'll either take your own, or you'll take someone else's," Mr. Woodson says. "But they're different sides of the same coin." In both cases, young people "are dying in acts of self-hatred."
As these examples show, Mr. Woodson doesn't see the problems of black America through a racial prism. The institutions and traits that make healthy communities are the same for all human beings. "Tell me how ending institutional racism is going to prevent a kid in Silicon Valley from taking his life, or a kid in Appalachia taking drugs, or a kid from shooting somebody in the head," he says. Mr. Woodson wants to "deracialize race"—to make it an incidental category in social-improvement projects rather than the salient one.
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The gender pay gap has fallen in Scotland over the last year, new figures show.
The official statistics reveal a drop in the difference between men and women's median hourly earnings for full-time work from 7.7% in 2015 to 6.2% in 2016.
The UK-wide gender pay gap has also reduced, but the decline is smaller, falling from 9.6% in 2015 to 9.4% in 2016.
The Office for National Statistics Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings also shows Scotland has the third highest median gross weekly full-time earnings for females at #482.60, after London (£609.50) and the South East (£497.80).
After inflation, gross median weekly earnings for full-time employees in Scotland increased by 1.2% over the year, from #528.60 in 2015 to #535 in 2016.
Employability Minister Jamie Hepburn welcomed the figures as he announced a new scheme to help retrain women who have taken career breaks and get them back into work.
The Scottish Government has given almost £50,000 to Equate Scotland for its Women Returners Project, which will provide 40 women with support to re-enter the labour market.
The training will focus on placements in life sciences, digital skills and engineering.
Mr Hepburn said: "These latest figures show we are making some progress to narrow the gender pay gap in Scotland, and in comparison to the UK we are leading the way in gender and pay equality in the workplace.
"We are also committed to taking action to remove the barriers that women can face when it comes to finding work, advancing their career and increasing their earning potential.
"This funding for the Women Returners Project will encourage women to re-enter employment and encourage them to regain the confidence and skills they may have lost during career breaks when they have had time away from the workplace.
Talat Yaqoob, director of Equate Scotland, said: "We are delighted that the Scottish Government is investing in our original pilot and we know this will make a difference to women and Scotland's economy.


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Literary Analysis: The Maze Runner
Literary Analysis Essay The idea of universal storytelling elements are things that are in everything we watch and read. We recognize them, and think about them without even realizing that they're there. In The Maze Runner, by James Dashner, universal themes in the dystopian society such as Heroic scenarios, Likable characters, startling factors and using odd elements to keep the reader interested are used to make the story easier to relate too, and to make it more interesting for the reader. Heroic Scenarios are things that make the person doing them look heroic or brave. In the Maze Runner, Thomas does many things that some may say are the stupidest things he could have done. Others however, may say that Thomas is curiously brave. One…show more content…
Of course, with Thomas being the main character,he has many characteristics that make him likable. Due to his bravery, curiosity and his will to die to help the rest of the group escape, he is a character that you couldn't hate even if you tried. "I'm not trying to scare you. You're already scared. All right? I'm scared. But I'd rather risk my life out there than spending the rest of it in here. We don't belong here. This place isn't our home. We were put here. We were trapped here. At least out there, we have a choice. We can make it out of here. I know that"(The Maze Runner) In this quote,Thomas shows his bravery and willingness to die to get the rest of the kids out of the glade and back to their families . Gally, on the other hand, is a character that is easy to hate. Gally was narrow minded, strict, and a coward. His desire for a incurious group of people, made the task of trying to escape even harder. He was a character that in the end of the movie where he died, we didn't cry as hard as we did for others; others such as Chuck. Chuck was a brave, hopeful, eccentric little boy who dreamed nothing more than for him to meet his parents. His death hit us all because we would have never thought that a character like him would die. A character's characteristics, and personality traits are what makes or breaks a…show more content…
They add exciting plot ideas that will make you not want to put your book down, adding monsters to the maze such as grievers adds thrill and danger to the story. The way the maze works may even be something that gets the reader attached. It is intriguing the way it changes shape like it does. Another example is when Teresa realized that Thomas and her are part of reason all those kids are down in on the glade, surrounded by the maze. "we did this to them." (The Maze Runner) This quote alone is a great example of keeping the reader interested. There is no way the reader would want to stop after that. " Why is it their fault" we ask ourselves. Writers know how to keep their audience interested and using storytelling elements like this is one way they do
The Maze Runner Essay
The Maze Runner by James Dashner is a young adult/ science fiction book which takes place in a maze known as the Glade. Some of the most important characters include Minho and Thomas. Minho is one of the most interesting characters in the book. He was the leader of the boys, called Gladers, and one of the wisest characters in my opinion. Thomas is the main character of the story. Despite his memory loss, he helps guide the Gladers out of the maze they have been placed in. His strong efforts to save the Gladers and do what's right has earned him the respect and trust to become a leader.
Thomas In The Maze Runner
An example of Thomas being brave is going into the maze at night. Also, If Thomas were to live he would be the first to live through it in the history of the maze. His braveness is shown when the book said "Thomas knew he had no choice. He moved forward and stepped into the maze" (Dashner, 112). When Thomas went to the maze and he had no clue what he was about to do or about to witness that show's true bravery.
Maze Runner External Conflict
In the novel The Maze Runner, there are many internal and external conflicts that occurs throughout it. The main external conflict, would be how Thomas and the rest of the Gladers are trying to find their way out of the maze. This conflict was a struggle all the way to the end of the novel because every night the maze changed its puzzle. Therefor they could not find their way through. Every night the gates would close, keeping the Glades in a safe place and the grievers inside the maze. Another external conflict would be the events occurring outside of the maze. No one on the outside seems to be able to figure out how to get the solar flares from the sun to stop hitting the earth. Wicked leave it up to the kids in the maze to figure out how
The Maze Runner Literary Analysis
"Runner, he thought as he went on break. Just let me be a Runner. Once again he thought about how absurd it was that he wanted it so badly. But even though he didn't understand it, or where it came from, the desire was undeniable" (Dashner 106). Thomas, the protagonist in The Maze Runner by James Dashner, wakes up to find himself in a glade surrounded by a labyrinth keeping Thomas and other boys stuck with no way to exit. Until Thomas shows up at the glade, boys called "Gladers" had given up on the idea that they could find a way out of the maze and had started creating a lifestyle there. Except Thomas, who believes in the idea of a way out and he feels determined to discover it. Thomas is believed to be unconscionable, ambiguous, and puzzled
Analysis Of The Maze Runner By James Dashner
Why do we need a purpose for writing a book? For example the book The Maze Runner by James Dashner? An Author Purpose is the reason an author decides to write about a specific topic. James Dashner who wrote the novel The Maze Runner was trying to inform us, Sense of hope and to entertain his readers by studying their brain patterns. They were trying to figure out how the brain patterns of a non-immune.
An Essay About The Maze Runner
I seen the Maze Runner i seen it with my grandpa and my brothers in the movie theater and the movie maze runner is about teens and they have to escape the maze and one day a boy name thomas and he was new and people didn't like him only some people did and then there were runners that find the way out the maze and one of the boys got stung by something in the maze and the leader had to go into the maze with one of the boys who didn't get stung. And so they went into the maze and the other people said they aren't coming back but they did but the doors were already closing and the leader got stung and the other runner had to trang him back but they were not going to make it. So thomas went in there and now they have to wait for the doors to open but they are not going to open until morning.
Maze Runner Sparknotes
In the action-packed sequel to The Maze Runner, James Dashner throws the clan of extraordinary teenagers out into the dystopian society that the world has become. Friendships, strength, and will to live are tested as they battle the scorching sun, rabid "cranks", and violent lightning storms. Protagonist Thomas is put to the test when he is separated from his friends and is depicted as the real leader of the Group A, but is labeled as "to be killed by Group B". The story follows the teens and their peculiar mission as they trek through an abandoned desert, scarce of resources and bountiful with life threatening experiences.
Maze Runner Book Report Essay
Thomas is the narrator and protagonist of the story. He arrives in the maze with no knowledge of who he is or was. He only remembers his name and nothing else about his life. Thomas proves to be brave and clever even though he only has a very limited memory of previous knowledge of the Maze. Since arriving in the maze, Thomas makes both friends and enemies and proves to be a leader among the other boys with him in the maze.
My Journal on the Book, The Maze Runner by James Dashner Essay
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The first chapter of "The Maze Runner" really gets me excited for the rest of the book. I enjoy how it leaves the reader plenty of room to wonder what will happen later in the book. It has an interesting vocabulary that includes some of the slang words that the people of the glade made up. It seems that the plot of the book will quicken very quickly as already there is a lot of foreshadowing hinting toward some unknown beast and a giant maze. I predict that Thomas's arrival will trigger some sort of issue that he will have to resolve. Just the first chapter has gotten me very excited for the rest of the book.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner Essays
In the beginning, the main character, Thomas, has his memory wiped so he doesn't know anything. Over time though, he begins to accept where he is (the Glade) and that the people in the Glade have nothing but each other. Thomas also adapts to the Glade's slang, and talks like a Glader. He also saves the lives of some Gladers who are his friends, such as Alby. At the end Thomas became a sort of leader, trying to make the best decisions when the rest of the Gladers didn't know what to do. Thomas talks to the other Gladers like someone would talk to their friends or family, and Thomas does his best to help protect the Gladers. Thomas is hard and cold to the people from WICKED, as at the end one of their workers kills Chuck, one of Thomas's
Essay Story Elements in Maze Runner
The Character vs. Character conflict in the story the Maze Runner is the conflict between Thomas and Gally. Thomas and Gally have a conflict with each other. Gally doesn't seem to like Thomas from day one and he has viewed bad memories about Thomas during the Changing. There is a lot of hatred between Gally and Thomas, and at the end Thomas killed Gally because he tried to kill him and killed Chuck because Chuck jumped in the way.
Analysis Of The Book ' The Maze Runner '
Being scared: As you are sent away while you 're young to a mysterious place with no memories of the past. Most things in life cost something, sadly, and in the Gladers case, sometimes the cost they are making is someone 's life. Throughout the story there are examples of people risking their life in order to benefit everyone and the best that can come. Sometimes there are selfish motivations, and sometimes there isn't, but it 's pretty bad when an innocent person has to die. In the book "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner, the definition of being scared applies to Thomas as he is being sent away from his family and life to a place called the Glade, through an underground elevator, without any memories of the past. In the book "The Maze
A Monster Calls Literary Analysis
A Monster Calls is written by Patrick Ness, but was inspired by an idea put forth by the late Siobhan Dowd. According Tim Masters, Dowd died because of cancer at the age of 47 before she could write this book, and Ness was asked in 2007 to write this book (Masters). According to Jennifer Nagel, this story takes place in England with Conor waking up every night with nightmares that he can't explain (Nagel). Conor's father left to be in America, and Conor is living with his mom who has been getting progressively worse with her illness. Throughout the book, Conor has been getting these nightmares ever since his mom started her treatments; however, the monster Conor sees in his backyard
Literary Analysis Fahrenheit 451
Lastly, in the final two verses of "Intellect", Emerson encourages the act of spreading thoughts and wisdom. Using symbolism, Emerson asserts that when one "scatters broad his seed" of thought, it can impact others' "souls" (3) (4). By comparing communication to agriculture and using the symbol of "souls", Emerson correctly alludes to its fruitfulness and appropriately declares its significance in society and human relations. Such idea is manifested in Fahrenheit 451 by Mildred's depression and the effect of books and Faber on Montag. For starters, Bradbury presents a potential result of lacking communication through Guys Montag's wife, Mildred, who is presented as a character suffering from depression from her initial introduction. Her condition can be accounted to many factors but the most prominent of all is certainly her addiction to the parlor walls. When asked by Montag to turn "the parlour off", she responds by stating that "That's my family" (Bradbury 23). Mildred is fixated on her relationships with fake
The famous book The Maze Runner by James Smith Dashner, is the famous story about a young man named Thomas who wakes up in the middle of a metallic box that serves as an elevator with no memory of his past, the box opens up to a place called "the Glade" with 60 other boys staring back at him as he tries to run away pass them. Every thirty days a new boy or supplies arrive from the box and for three years they have lived together trying to find clues through the maze that surrounds them; but as they start losing hope it all changes when something unprecedented happens and a girl along with a note arrive through the box. The book along with amazing imagery and relevance to today's world manages to attract more than just teenagers but anybody that is up for the challenge of the maze, and that is just the purpose of this paper to demonstrate multiple reason of why this book not only deserves to be read but it should hold a place in the literary canon.


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Hello, Aetix time again, first off some of you may have noticed Fileserve no longer hosting. not sure what scared them or whether they consider jumping on the cloud storage bandwagon or maybe they are just confused had a bad experience at a US airport..who knows well fortunately i hadn't much use for them and i've re-upped the files posted there, busy busy times here keeping this blog going.
For 4 years in the early aetix the voice of the John Cooper Clarke orated his insights into the human condition and his own experiences with streetlife. Sadly his path crossed the back alley's/stages where heroin was pushed and being a sensitive experience r he got hooked and disappeared of the stage for the remainder of the eighties. He found his way back in the nineties but saw the audience changed and into xtc and dancing. More recently, Clarke has turned some of his stage act away from an emphasis on performance poetry and towards more of a stand-up-oriented affair, but poetry is still very much a key part of his performance. and still tours with bands around the UK.
Punk poet John Cooper Clarke was born January 25, 1949 in Manchester, England; he first began performing his verse backed by a local folk group called the Ferrets, but in 1977 signed to the Rabid Records label to release the Martin Hannett-produced single "Psycle Sluts." With his rapid-fire verbal delivery and stinging social commentary, Clarke quickly emerged as the poet laureate of the punk movement, and he read his work as an opening act for groups including the Sex Pistols and the Buzzcock
Often referred to as "the bard of Salford", he usually refers to himself on stage as "Johnny Clarke, the name behind the hairstyle". In the summer of 1979, when London's Comedy Store became Britain's first alternative comedy club, John Cooper Clarke was already on the front cover of NME. Clarke has opened for such acts as the Sex Pistols, The Fall, Joy Division, Buzzcocks and Elvis Costello and his set was, and still is on occasion, characterized by lively, rapid-fire renditions of his poems, which were usually performed a cappella.
His recorded output has mainly centred around musical backing from The Invisible Girls, which featured Martin Hannett, Pete Shelley, Bill Nelson, Paul Burgess and Steve Hopkins. His first album, Disguise in Love, was released on Epic in 1978. After supporting Elvis Costello and the Attractions on their legendary Armed Forces tour, Clarke scored a Top 40 hit with the single "Gimmix; " a live disc, Walking Back to Happiness, appeared in 1979, and a year later he released a second studio effort, Snap, Crackle and Bop. While hugely popular as a stage performer, his records sold poorly, and 1982's Zip Style Method was his final release for Epic; while still maintaining a high visibility as a live act, Clarke appeared less and less frequently in the years to follow, spending the better part of the 1980s battling an addiction to heroin. (He also spent several years romantically involved with former Velvet Underground chanteuse Nico, no stranger to drug problems herself.) By the following decade Clarke cleaned up his act, returning to the stage and contributing regularly to poetry journals.
Clarke has often been unfairly pigeonholed as a punk poet, and although his poems do describe a similar inner-city landscape in a comparably spare and streetwise style, his importance as a writer and performer stretches far beyond the finite boundaries of seventies New Wave. Clarke's rat-a-tat rhymes are far funnier than the throwaway gags of almost any stand-up, and his dispassionate fast-forward delivery gives them a momentum that's as invigorating as the purest pop music. Yet on the printed page, his perfect couplets often seem far more wistful, as silent readers are suddenly struck by their true literary worth, which puts them right up there with Britain's finest popular verse. Ten Years In An Open Necked Shirt, first published in 1983, remains a masterful slim volume, featuring such high-rise classics as Kung Fu International and I Married A Monster From Outer Space.
John Cooper-Clarke's caustic brand of "talking in tune" soon won him recognition as the British punk scene's poet laureate. Following the Innocents EP and the 1978 album Où Est la Maison de Fromage? (both on Martin Hannett's Rabid Records), Disguise in Love was Clarke's major-label debut. This album finds the Mancunian bard at his adenoidal, alliterative best, delivering some of his more memorable satirical verses. Fixated on the daily, warts-and-all miseries of life in postwar Britain and beyond, Clarke casts a wide misanthropic net, taking on everything from track suits to extraterrestrials. The Invisible Girls (featuring Bill Nelson, Pete Shelley, and Martin Hannett) provide musical backing that complements each poem, from a minimal, heartbeat-style jogging groove ("Health Fanatic") to a cheesy disco pastiche ("Post War Glamour Girl"). Clarke's performance works well with these arrangements, especially on "(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space" -- a story of intergalactic love gone wrong set to sci-fi electronics -- and "Readers' Wives," on which lurid observations on D.I.Y. polaroid porn are adorned with an appropriately kitschy soundtrack. Clarke's ear for the rhythms of everyday language and his galloping, sometimes staccato delivery can be best appreciated on two unaccompanied pieces: "Salome Maloney," an apocalyptic tale of ballroom dancing and death, and "Psycle Sluts 1&2," an amphetamine-paced paean to biker women praised by Frank Zappa as an example of Clarke's "exquisite diction." While it's a testament to Clarke's comic sensibility that these tracks remain laugh-out-loud funny, it's also important to recognize him as an innovator.
John Cooper Clarke – Disguise In Love ( flac 266mb)
01 I Don't Want To Be Nice 3:51
02 Psycle Sluts1 & 2 3:12
03 (I've Got A Brand New) Tracksuit 1:50
04 Teenage Werewolf 3:58
05 Readers Wives 3:13
06 Post War Glamour Girl 3:37
07 (I Married A) Monster From Outer Space 3:30
08 Salome Maloney 2:05
09 Health Fanatic 5:47
10 Strange Bedfellows 4:08
11 Valley Of Lost Women 4:23
12 The Pest (Live) 2:27
13 Gimmix! Play Loud 3:39
14 Kung Fu International (Live) 1:48
On the one hand, this album demonstrates business as usual with latter-day beat poet John Cooper-Clarke; on the other, it is ripe with unease in terms of Cooper-Clarke's direction, thanks to a more than casual nod to the obligations of a musical approach -- Cooper-Clarke comes perilously close to singing in some spots, and dangerously close to copping a rap approach in others, while the Invisible Girls' backing keeps falling into a low-budget pop trap. Cooper-Clarke's poems remain quirky, and sometimes have his old cynical bite ("Beasley Street" sees him pouring words out against a gradually more urgent backing), but there are far too many times on this set when he seems at a loss as to where he's going. Still, he remains unique.
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle And Bop (flac 313mb)
01 Evidently Chickentown 2:19
02 Conditional Discharge 3:08
03 Sleepwalk 4:32
04 23rd 3:30
05 Beasley Street 6:40
06 Thirty Six Hours 3:34
07 Belladonna 4:38
08 The It Man 3:45
09 Limbo (Baby Limbo) 4:30
10 A Distant Relation 3:45
11 Beasley Street (live) 3:27
12 Gaberdine Angus (live) 1:01
13 Twat (live) 2:21
Zip Style Method comes from 1982 and, to date, remains Cooper Clarke's last set of original material, released before he descended into a personal heroin hell (thankfully he is now clean). It's evidence of a poet at the height of his powers, bristling with stinging, sardonic satire and taking a sideswipe at Thatcher's Britain on vignettes such as Midnight Shift and New Assassins. There is also room for his surreal visions, such as The Day My Pad Went Mad. The backing tracks are dated, however, now sounding like quirky 80s synthesizer beats that don't always enhance the poetry. The extra tracks on this reissue are superior, stripped-down, Peel session versions of some of JCC's material.
John Cooper Clarke - Zip Style Method (flac 387mb)
01 Midnight Shift 6:27
02 The New Assassin 3:03
03 The Face Behind The Scream 3:37
04 I Travel In Biscuits 3:17
05 The Day The World Stood Still 3:48
06 A Heart Disease Called Love 3:32
07 The Ghost Of Al Capone 4:42
08 Ninety Degrees In My Shades 3:41
09 The Day My Pad Went Mad 3:12
10 I Wanna Be Yours 2:05
11 Drive She Said 3:01
12 Night People 4:00
13 Midnight Shift (Radio 1 Live Version) 6:24
14 The Day My Pad Went Mad (Radio 1 Live Version) 3:09
15 Night People (Radio 1 Live Version) 4:00
16 The New Assassin (Radio 1 Live Version) 3:01
John Cooper Clarke - Me And My Big Mouth (81^ 95mb)
Posted by Rho at Wednesday, April 04, 2012
Don't know what we would do without your TARDIS to great music!
Can you please re-up "Disguise In Love" & "Zip Style Method"? Thanks.
Thanks for the quick re-up.
jackiewilsonsaid said...
Rho - enjoying some of the re-ups as I missed them first time around.
From Disguise In Love 'Psycle Sluts' - the world seems to end with a Wimp when I play it via Monkey's Audio and with a Wimpy on VLC player. Strange difference but either way not pleasant.
Thanks for all, particularly the Ramones and Trojan Dub recently.
Geoff said...
Hi can you re-up john cooper clarke please? Thanks.
Bodhi Amol said...
Hello, could you provide ''Disguise in Love'' again.The Others would be nice too for the bonustracks,but this record i couldn't find nowhere else (active that is)...


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3 amazing things about the Atchafalaya Basin
America's largest wetland is right in our backyard.
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Jessica Goff, jgoff@theadvertiser.com Published 12:00 a.m. CT April 5, 2016 | Updated 10:46 a.m. CT April 5, 2016
The troop paddles along Evangline Area Council's Swamp Base kayak trek which takes them on a sixty-mile path through the basin.(Photo: Paul Kieu, The Advertiser)Buy Photo
Each year, thousands of visitors from around the world flock to see the Atchafalaya Basin's iconic moss-draped cypress forests and swamps land teeming with wildlife, including nearly 300 species of birds and 65 species of reptiles.
Many of you living here in Acadiana have spent time over the levees and traveled through the Basin's intricate waterways. It's 1.4 million acres is peppered with camps mostly accessible by boat.
But it remains undiscovered by many locals living just a short drive away. I recently asked a coworker if he had ever been to the Atchafalaya.
"Yeah," he replied. "I've driven over it."
When it was built in 1973, the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge was the longest in the United States. Its 18-mile stretch offers a view of the wetlands from Interstate 10, which is about all of what many of us have seen.
"If they aren't from the immediate area, they have no idea what's out here," said Captain Tucker Friedman, owner of Atchafalaya Basin Landing & Marina. "Not everyone are boaters. So they don't have the experience of coming out here."
Captain Tucker Friedman talks about the Basin's ecosystem during a boat tour. (Photo: Jessica Goff)
Sounds touristy, right?
I'm from South Florida, so you can bet I know what tourists are like. That being said, have you ever been on a swamp tour?
If you don't have access to a personal watercraft, this might be your chance to step off the dock and travel deep into the Atchafalaya's wilderness that you can't see from I-10.
"If you one day out here and haven't been on one, take an airboat tour," said Mark Hamlin.
He was spending the afternoon visiting Henderson with his wife, Diane. Residents of north Michigan, the couple have been vacationing in southLouisiana for several years.
"You'll understand when you get back."
Swamp tour services can be found all along the Henderson Levee Road. For a list of companies and rates, visit the Atchafalaya National Heritage Area's website, www.atchafalaya.org.
Swamp tours do draw tourists from around the world seeking southern Louisiana's iconic landscape. But according to Friedman, many of those seeking guided tours are local.
"I'd say close to half our business is local," he said.
Jeaux Biff's Burgers and Beer at 625 Grand Point Ave. in Breaux Bridge is just one of many spots to grab a bite just off the Basin. (Photo: Jessica Goff)
Off the levee food
Offering live music and dance floors with a view, venues like Pat's Fisherman's Wharf and McGree's Landing are hot spots for Basin visitors to grab some levee-side grub.
Menu items offer a taste of regional cuisine to those stopping through the area. You can even get crinkle-cut fries shaped like tiny alligators at McGee's.
OK, that's a little touristy, but cute.
But don't pass up local stops down the road in nearby areas such as Breaux Bridge.
I stopped in Jeaux Biff's Burgers and Beer at 625 Grand Point Ave. The Ganaway family has operated the Breaux Bridge restaurant for four years.
With a full bar, front porch and menu items ranging from crabmeat-stuffed jalapenos to po'boys and fried chicken pork chops, and a mounted flat screen set to sports, the restaurant stays busy with local clientele, owner Mark Ganaway said.
"We'll be busy tonight, that's for sure," he said Good Friday afternoon, noting his Lenten special that day was the fried catfish po'boy.
The building itself is part of Breaux Bridge's history. During its 117-year existance, it served as a schoolhouse and then a bar.
"If these walls could talk, we'd learn a lot," Ganaway said.
Turtle's Bar sits right on the Atchafalaya River Basin. ©2013 A.Dannette Photography (Photo: A.Dannette Photography)
It keeps changing
Decades ago, the Basin was ravaged by the logging industry, which decimated its native cypress.
The remaining stumps of enormous cypress chopped for lumber can still be found throughout the Atchafalaya's wetlands.
Those images inspired the title of photographer and activist Greg Guirard's book, "The Land of Dead Giants." Guirard and many others, including nonprofit Atchafalaya Basin Keeper, work to protect the Basin's sustainability
Its ecosystem has been impacted by storms, the encroachment of the Mississippi River's water, pollution and logging. Yet is still produces rich new life as it moves from season to season, Friedman, who lives along the levee, said.
"What makes it nice is it's never the same. Every day it changes," he said.
"The water's either coming up or going down, and everything changes with it. It's a changing environment every day, so it's never the same. It doesn't get old."
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What does Fowler Financial Planning look like? Well… just like you!
At Fowler Financial Planning, we are lucky to have a team who have come together from all walks of life. Our success is built on establishing long lasting, highly personal relationships with our clients. Every client is unique – and so are we.
At Fowler Financial Planning (FFP) our vision is to create a vibrant place to work where difference is recognised as a strength and where talented people can flourish and achieve their highest potential. We know that talent is not dictated by race, ethnicity, gender or gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion, social class or background.
We believe that being the best workplace is reliant upon creating a truly diverse and inclusive environment where broad perspectives are embraced, and people can be themselves.
We understand that diverse teams and inclusive environments provide the foundations for creativity, innovation and business growth. That's why we aim to attract, retain and develop the best people from all walks of life and from all backgrounds. Our focus is on building a community with equal opportunities where everyone has clarity of purpose and feels valued.
We believe in the value of difference and we know that nurturing an inclusive culture helps us to benefit from those differences. Attracting, retaining and developing a diverse workforce is central to our approach. Quite simply, inclusion and diversity are vital ingredients to the future success of our business.
A diverse community of people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and with a range of experiences, skills and approaches, will help us better understand and meet the needs of clients, making our business stronger and driving creativity, innovation and continued growth. Creating an inclusive workplace and improving diversity is a strategic priority for us.
Our Inclusion and Diversity strategy is centred around three key goals:
Attract a wide range of talented people, with broad perspectives, diverse backgrounds and different characteristics.
Create an inclusive environment and engaged workforce which is led by a leadership team who demonstrate inclusive behaviours instinctively.
Strengthen our talent pipeline by identifying, developing and nurturing talent, irrespective of race, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, disability, sexual orientation, age, religion, social class or background.
We will achieve these goals by developing our policies and procedures, educating our team and our partners, and embedding our philosophy in our daily language, behaviours and imagery.
We are committed to:
1. Working only with recruiters who share our commitment to inclusion & diversity This means proactively working with recruiters who can evidence this through the steps they take to mitigate unconscious bias in the hiring process
2. Actively seeking to make Fowler Financial Planning a diverse and inclusive community that is representative of society and the clients we seek to serve We will do this by attracting candidates from diverse pools and building relationships with local BAME and LGBTQ groups to extend our reach
3. Being advocates for a more inclusive and diverse Financial Services industry
In our role as ambassadors we will champion change across the wider industry and encourage others to do the same
Policy implementation
This policy can be found on our website and within our Staff Handbook.
Inclusion & Diversity training is encompassed within our training programmes, which are provided by St. James's Place. The training is designed to increase awareness of unconscious bias and the barriers to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. It highlights the positive attitudes and behaviours needed to create an environment of equal opportunity where everyone can thrive.
It is the responsibility of management and all team members to uphold the policy and act within its standards and principles.
Update and review
Our Inclusion & Diversity Policy will be reviewed and updated as necessary to reflect legislative changes or to take account of changes to our wider policies and procedures. A review of this policy will take place at least annually.


Why Are Maths Lessons Useful For So Many Subjects?
Maths is a highly useful subject to have, even if your anticipated degree path isn't directly related to the area of study. Maths lends itself to a range of transferrable skills which could benefit you in your chosen subject, even if only to help you to apply a rational thought process or make logical, well-thought out decisions.
It is quite fascinating to think that Maths is the only language that is exactly the same for all humans, regardless of nationality, culture, religion or gender. Just like Pi is always going to be roughly 3.14 no matter who or where you are, the principal Maths tools and functions are exactly the same for everyone.
In fact, as a subject that is purely logical and objective, Maths is one of the few subjects whereby you can really measure yourself against the rest.
If you know a Maths answer, you know it – there are no two ways around the situation. The only place that students could fall short of getting the same top mark that a fellow pupil got is if they failed to show all of their working out.
On the other hand, it is quite difficult to guess answers in a Maths exam because you really need to be sure of your response and how you came to arrive at it.
Maths and the skills that emerge from understanding its tools and functions are directly linked to a number of other subjects.
For instance, Maths and Physics are interrelated while some of the methods applied to solving questions in Maths also apply to Chemistry, Information Technology and the Sciences.
Consequently, an A Level in Maths can make your learning journey much easier and smoother if you decide to take one of these scientific or technical courses at university.
Maths additionally makes a great joint subject, because it is so neutral and can offer a nice balance in your student life. It is easily combined with courses like History, English, Music as well as languages to provide you with a varied and all-round learning experience.
Add to that the fact that you will have the opportunity to meet very different crowds of pupils, and you can benefit from a very rich experience as you embark on your degree-level qualification.
Moreover, if you do decide to throw yourself into your Maths studies and take it as a joint or individual degree at university, you could be looking to receive a better financial reward further down the line than some of your peers.
The prospects for Maths graduates are pretty high, especially if you study at an establishment that is highly-rated for its Maths department.
For those struggling to revise, read our maths tips here.
While most universities across the UK offer very good tuition in a range of subjects, it is inevitable that some establishements offer a slightly better level of teaching, usually due to the expertise of their departments.
The UK University Times Subject Ranking for 2018 deems the University of Cambridge being the top choice for mathematicians, closely followed by The University of Oxford. This comes as no big surprise due to their outstanding and unrivalled reputation.
Other universities that take the top five spots include The University of St Andrews, the University of Warwick and Durham University. While these top-ranking establishments are dispersed around the country, you may still find that other educators might be better suited to you.
That doesn't mean, however, that you can't set your sights on gaining entry into one of these well-known unis, so take a look at their requirements and see if you've got what it takes to become their next model Maths pupil!
Maths is not only a subject that will teach you to count, basic Maths is also relevant to your everyday life as a student, including helping you with budgeting for things like rent and groceries.
Although it may sound very straightforward, having only ever had to think about pocket money, your wages and rent paid to parents (if applicable), the burden of having all of these new expenditures to worry about can be a bit overwhelming.
For example, as a tenant, you will need to remember to put aside cash for your TV licence, electricity and heating bills, food shopping, toiletries and other expenses.
While this seems simple enough to grasp, the concept of budgeting is quite something else. For instance, do you buy that special something that you've been waiting to purchase even though it could leave you short on money? It is at times like these when you may need to rack your brains to work out if you can make up for the funds in your next pay packet or if you can afford to put the item in question on your credit card to be repaid at a later date.
Admittedly, complicated equations don't come in to play (unless you are a student who has a lot of time on their hands!) however you will often find yourself using mental arithmetic to add, deduct, multiply and even divide during this stage of newfound freedom.
Learn what to expect from A-Level Maths at School.
By studying Maths, you can develop a range of skills that are sought after by employers and that will also help you throughout your day to day life. For example, Maths encourages logical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving.
Without these properties deep-rooted into your senses and responses, you would not be able to get by in our modern and complex Western society.
What's more, with the world very quickly turning towards technical solutions and automation, we are constantly interacting with machines and devices. These interactions and functions require us to have a basic understanding of logic, analytics as well as other technical skills if we are to move forward with our lives with ease, embracing newfound technologies.
Careers involving Maths are usually permanent, which is promising if you are keen on finding a stable career, not to mention the fact that Maths graduates earn on average a much higher starting salary than other industries.
Along with this fantastic introductory pay package, the potential to rise up the salary scale is a huge advantage for the professionals.
Maybe you didn't take A level Maths at school but now wish to as an adult. Find out how to resit your A Level Maths later in life here.
Furthermore, if you are self-employed and need to take charge of your accounts, then having a good grounding in Maths can be extremely useful and could potentially save you money. For even those who pay an accountant or accountancy firm to deal with their tax return need to do their own working out at times!
For example, as a professional, you will no doubt spend a lot of time working out costs to see if jobs are worth it in terms of what return they can bring.
A Landscape Gardener, for instance, might draw from their Maths skillset in order to calculate the value of their time quoting for garden transformations, how much they will need to spend on materials for a particular job, how many days of labour will be required to complete the actual work, all before they commit to offering a final price to their customer.
Whether the individual keeps track of this subconsciously or they regularly sit down to do their working out, you can now see that there a lot of things at play and which need to be given careful consideration.
A person who is not proficient enough to project their costs and expenditure accurately could soon find that their work dwindles because of their lack in consistency when pricing up or because they are simply working at a loss.
In addition, money can be saved by opting to provide your accountant with your own accounts for them to submit on your behalf, as opposed to paying them to calculate all of your earnings and payouts themselves. This involves a lot of dedication from the sole trader and also a relative amount of skill, including the ability to work with numbers and spreadsheets.
Finally, by submitting your own tax return without the help of an accountant, you can also save further administration fees, but you would need to be very confident in your maths ability and that your figures are correct, or else you could be facing a big tax bill – now that's a number that you won't like!
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Flanagan's Irish-American Pub and "Downstairs" dining room, has been a favorite in Shillington Pennsylvania since 1982.
Chris Flanagan took over the establishment from his father and mother, Bill and Marilyn in 1996. Since then, Chris has expanded the menu substantially and in turn added the downstairs dining room in the fall of 1998. This cozy dining area offers alternative, away from the pub environment.
Flanagan's menu offers a variety of dishes that are sure to please everyone. The menu includes a nice selection of steaks, seafood, pasta, soups & salads, sandwiches and the "best and biggest wings in town" or in Berks County for that matter.
In addition to our daily food & drink special (see our specials page), our chef offers a delicious selection of off-menu dinner features, appetizers and homemade soups.
So, if you enjoy great food and spirits in a casual friendly pub atmosphere, come on in and enjoy!
Chef Nick Adam's offers a fine selection of steaks, seafood, pasta, soups & salads, sandwiches, and best wings in town. Stop by for daily drink and food specials.
FREE POOL – TUESDAYS ALL DAY!
OPEN JUKEBOX – WEDNESDAYS 8PM TO 12AM!


Pursuant to Executive Order 14 (as amended July 16, 2018) and §§ 2.2-4007.1 and 2.2-4017 of the Code of Virginia, the Department of Health Professions is conducting a periodic review and small business impact review of VAC citation: 18VAC76-40-10 et seq., Regulations Governing Emergency Contact Information.
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