IEPs. The thing they never really prepare you for in college, but takes up a third of your time. Whether it's writing goal updates, summarizing present levels, determining minutes, or sitting through heated discussions, IEPs are a fact of life in the SPED world.
In school you were taught how to write goals using SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, time-bound) or ABCD (audience, behavior, condition, duration). You probably even wrote several evaluation reports and SOAP notes. You learned the basic of an IEP and possibly how your role looks in the ideal team. It seemed easy enough.
Well, I quickly learned I was nowhere near as confident or prepared in my early IEPs as I thought I would be. It's nerve-racking walking into a new school as a CF, and being the expert for the first time on a student you may barely even know. Parents turn to you to answer why progress is or is not being made. Teachers want to know how to help "Johnny" in the classroom. Your principal may be in the room, and you want to appear as if you know what you are doing.
Speechy Musing bell curve handout. I place mine in a clear sleeve to use again and again!
Here's the big thing… you do know what you are doing. Be confident that you learned something during your 6 years of education. It's ok not to know the answer, but it is not ok to make up the answer. You can always offer handouts to parents and teachers if they want more information. Slowly you will gain that confidence to speak up for each student. May the paperwork seem like a lot? Yes, but over time you will find a system that works for YOU! You're going to have that meeting where you second guess your decisions, and other meetings where you are so excited for the student and their progress.
Below are some helpful hints and resources that really set me on the right path. Be confident, you can do this!
Read the student's most recent IEP and/or Eval report.
Set deadlines for yourself ahead of what your district expects.
Ask your mentor to read over your first few IEP reports.
Invite your mentor to a few meetings the first semester. It never hurts to have a sidekick! They aren't there to judge you.
Bring notes in the meeting. You may blank because of nerves, and this is the main time to express concerns.
Sign up for Speechy Musings' blog to get her bell curve chart. This has helped me on many occasions!
Start a goal bank of most used goals so you don't have to keep reinventing the wheel.
Now do I still have IEPs where I don't know the answer or I'm nervous for? Of course! You will have those difficult meetings, and that's ok. Will you get forgotten about sometimes since you may be a related area and not primary? Yes, but keep communication between teachers open. Each meeting and report will get easier. Share your newbie IEP tips in the comments!
Most of my middle school speech and language sessions are homework or classwork related. I find myself helping students with topics from longitude and latitude to math proofs to water cycles. As SLPs and teachers we have to remember that these students are still KIDS! Kids love games, and taking sometime to build relationship with them will end up helping our students in the long run. Bonus if the games also target their IEP goals!
Below are my top 5 games I use in therapy or on game days. Do you have a favorite game that didn't make the list? Comment below. All links are affiliate links.
Bubble Talk is very similar to Apple to Apples, but you use pictures as the prompt. Students take turns being the judge of the captions students decide upon for each picture prompt. It's perfect for turn taking, conversation level articulation, inferencing, and describing. You can even use these pictures for other therapy sessions as there are 150 colored pictures included. There are a few pictures that people may not be a huge fan of, but I choose the picture for every round. You can use this game for 10 minutes at the end of a session, or make it last the entire time!
Grab Pickles to Penguins here!
I originally heard about this game from another SLP in my district who works with 5th and 6th graders. Honestly I think you can use it with any grade, as it is really open ended. The main game is all about how you can connect two cards together. You always have a main card in the center, and you try to get rid of your cards by connecting them to the card in the center. I end up making up my own rules to target my students' goals for the day. PERFECT for EET goals or expanding MLU as students have to explain how the two cards are similar. There are other ways to play the game that are included in the rules. Most of the pictures are real pictures, and even the ones that are animate do not look "childish". I find that my older students will not participate in games if they feel it is young for them. You get hundreds of picture cards which can be used for therapy too. For it's price you could just use the cards as articulation cards!
Do you need a new vocabulary or inferencing game? Then you need to grab Blurt! It has two different levels of cards which are perfect for a variety of ages and abilities. Students read hints for the vocabulary word the other student identifies the vocabulary word. I think what makes this game different than other games like this, are the two levels of cards. Blurt! game does not take up a lot of space either, and can easily store in your therapy bag for the day! It simple and easy to play. Perfect for fun Friday.
This game is great for your larger groups, as the more people you have playing, the more fun it gets! I use this with my push in social skill groups to show perspective. Each round lasts about 10 minutes. Every person is given something to draw on their notepad in dry erase marker. Once you draw the word you pass it onto the next person and they guess what it is. From there you pass it onto the next person who draws what the guess is. This continues on until the notepad returns to the first person. Telestrations is like a drawn version of telephone. When you are done you can go back through and see how the picture was passed on correctly or incorrectly and exactly how the breakdown occurred. I enjoy this because sometimes my students with social language deficits need to see how things occur, and not just be told. **Also a fun game to play with family and friends!
This game is a classic, but my students LOVE to play it. I can target goals from articulation to categories, to social skills all with this one game. I put a twist on mine, and have students only focus on one category at a time with one letter. This allows the game to slow down a bit, and for a deeper conversation to be had about each category. In a given session we may only get through three categories, but we go very in depth. I always tell my students to "stretch their brain" to push past the first few things they know. Giving them time to focus on one category at a time allows them to build up the confidence that they do know, or know more than they think, when just given a bit of extra time.
Thank you so much for following along as I talk about how I landed my middle school SLP job, the struggles, and the triumphs! If you missed part one check it out here!.
First day of school/work picture!
Worrying about a new job in a new place was quickly replaced by excitement and the apartment search. I took time over the summer to follow as many middle and high school SLP instagrams as possible. As soon as I received my new work email address, my new credentials, MA, CF-SLP, went after my name. I learned that I had my own closet room at the middle school, but there was not a place for me at the high school that I would be covering one day a week. At time time I didn't care, I had my very own desk to store my profesional things! I was finally achieving the goal I had spent five years working to achieve.
Picture from my room. I tried to start off the year by writing on my board what each area was going to do for the week.
Then it came to the first day of school, well for new teachers anyway. We went through the introductions and all the niceties that come along with starting a new job. I quickly realized that I was the only new staff member that shared my time between the middle and high school. Also, I realized how no one knew what a Speech-Language Pathologist really does. This is not something that they prepare you for coming out of graduate school. That was not the last time I would come to that realization. I sat through days of professional development that felt like it had nothing to do with me, but as a new profesional I thought that I was just behind and had a lot to learn. Over time of countless PD days I have now realized that most presentations and topics are teacher focused. The lonely island of being an SLP was slowly starting to come into focus.
I used the Monae's Speech House Big Mouth Posters for my first bulletin board. Find it here!
I spent my weekend and any free time before school started trying to make the perfect schedule. I had a caseload of ~55 students and needed to schedule my time between two buildings. This was difficult as we have A/B schedules and the high school and middle school are on completing different schedules/times. I color coded, made notes for the students when they come, and even had lists for teachers what hours I needed their students. Honestly I thought why does everyone complain about making schedules? That was so easy to do! (I admit now I was wrong).
I met my other SLPs in the district. Each are placed at the various elementary buildings, and each with their own personalities. My mentor, another SLP in the district, was very helpful getting my room at the middle school set up. The other SLPs donated some materials to help get me started as I was a new position hire for the growing secondary speech/language population. Luckily my handy stash of materials I thought would be used for elementary students had several board games I could use! I thought maybe I was prepared for this after all!
In our district the SLPs do not start seeing kids until after all the K-5th grade students are screened/recreened. Although I was not an elementary SLP we all joined forces to screen students. This allowed me to ease into my role in the district, gain confidence with the age group I'm familiar with, and have more time with the other SLPs.
All this was great, but I was ready to start seeing MY KIDS.
Push-in therapy goes by several different names (in-class service, classroom-based services, integrated services). I use the term push-in for this post. I also understand that push-in therapy may not be the right fit for every student or therapist.
Push-in therapy isn't something that is taught as often in our schooling career. For many of us during undergrad/graduate clinicals we saw one to four clients/students at a time for 30 minutes. We would grab our students, take them to the therapy room, and send them on their way. Great?! Yes, for some students. At the same time we are taught pull-out services, we are also taught to work towards generalization of skills and carryover of their progress to other settings. How can this happen if we are only servicing our students in the same room, with the same group of their peers, on the same day, for the same amount of time?
Centers can include a range of activities! Story cubes, synonyms, antonyms, and idioms pictured here.
I don't want you to think that my journey of providing push-in therapy was something that I just magically knew how to do coming out of school. It actually happened a little by accident, and a lot by my relationships with teachers. When forming my crazy schedule for the middle school I noticed that many of my language impaired students had the same resource english language arts class. At first I brushed it off, and went along scheduling my pull-out sessions. Each group I scheduled was 2-4 students, normally having at least two different goal areas.
Well the school year starts, and I started pulling out my students (or at least trying to). Many of them would forget to come, teachers weren't sending their students even with a reminder, or my students would get "lost" on their way to my room. When I did have students, many of them had little motivation to work as they have been in speech/language services since early elementary school. Honestly, I couldn't blame them for their lack of motivation to work. When I had my larger groups, we did not have enough room in my room for use to all comfortably fit (middle schoolers aren't little).
So after about three weeks of the struggle, I went back to scheduling. What could I do to help not only myself, but also my students? This wasn't working. When going back to try and move students around I noticed again that many of my students were in a language resource class. I reached out to the teacher, as we were friends outside of work (Miss. R), and we decided on a day for me to start seeing my students. I would teach a language lesson and assist with any other tasks. Miss. R and myself became co-teachers on the days I pushed-in. Once a month we would do centers in order to collect data easier and monitor progress. Guess what?! The students LOVED it. My students started to show progress.
Now, not all of the students were my language students, but they still learned from some of my language lessons. These students would also help those with language deficits, and could communicate with their peers in ways I never could. Often class would start with a 5-minute language warm up. We did worksheets from Speechy Musings, research projects, and one sheet grammar lessons. At times I felt like a paraprofessional, but if that's what my students needed for the day, then that's what I needed to adapt to.
I didn't always know if I was doing it "right". I started researching all the push-in materials I could and slowly gained confidence. If you want to see ASHA's stance on school-based service delivery check out their website here! They have some GREAT research, and list the various types of push-in services.
This past week I started a research project over a famous person with one of my push-in groups. Often times I am providing the graphic organizers and leading the activity. I wanted to flip this activity. This will be a four part activity, but I will explain it all here! Targets: articulation, summarizing, important vs. interesting information, main idea, details, and social skills!
Students create their own graphic organizer questions.
Give the students a sticky note for each question. Ask these three questions. Who can we research (e.g cooks, football players, famous women)? What can I research about them? Where to find information? See the picture to the right. After each question talk about what the students decided. Students then decide, after talking through the questions, who they will research. This will take about 30 minutes with all the discussion time after each question.
Next, create a graphic organizer using the questions the students came up with. Students can then students will research their people. This will be done on the computer and in the library. Students can practice looking for interesting versus important information.
Student will then summarize their information/findings into a presentation. This can be a poster, google slides, or something else.
Finally, students will present over their people in front of the class.
Be on the lookout for more push-in ideas, as this is something that I am very passionate about. This semester I push into two resource classes, a co-taught ELA class, three social skills advisory classes, and high school life skills. As I stated above, I understand this service delivery model might not be perfect for everyone. I will be talking more about this in future blog posts. Do you have any questions? Feel free to reach out.
When I was attending graduate school I thought I would end up working with elementary students. My school externship was with Pre-K through 5th grade and I loved it! I started collecting as many picture books as I could find. My parents were quickly starting a storage pile for my materials as my studio apartment at the time had zero room to spare.
Then it came time to apply for jobs after school. All I knew was I wanted to stay somewhere in the midwest, preferably a larger city area. I grew up in rural Illinois and I wanted something different. I applied outside of Chicago, STL, and Kansas City. Honestly I was applying to any and all SLP jobs that I could find. I was not really focusing on what grade placement it would be. To my surprise I heard back from a school district only two days after applying. They asked for an skype interview later on that same day. I quickly rushed back to my apartment, took a shower (dry shampoo was not going to cut it), and found the nicest shirt I could find.
For my interview I had all my cheat sheets out in front of me since they couldn't see it. I printed off my resume, any questions I had, and the school salary schedule. I also printed off the school's mission statement. I would recommend this to anyone applying for a job. You can use the same language and terms that they have in their mission statement. It makes it seem like you are already apart of the team and a perfect match for the school. Anyway… back to the interview. They asked me a few questions about testing and how I would set up my groups. My favorite question was if I could have my dream speech room what would be included and why. During the meeting they also asked if I had looked over the salary schedule and were surprised when I held it up for them on my end (so happy I had my notes)!
My youngest brother and me at grad school graduation.
After my interview with the special education director and another SLP in the district they mentioned that they had two positions open, one for elementary and one for secondary. I stated that I have more experience in elementary, but that my youngest brother was a middle schooler so I could "vibe" with the kids. They said they would be in contact in the next couple days as their board meeting was the next day. I couldn't stop shaking after the interview was over. It finally hit me that this was happening. I wasn't going to go back to work at Dairy Queen, my high school/college job, I was going to become this SLP that I had been working so hard to become.
Was I ok with working with this age group? This was not something that I had been preparing for. What would I do with all the materials I had been accumulating. Was I even ready to work with the higher language levels that come with this age group? I kept doubting myself.
After visiting the district, since it was five hours from home, and many hours of soul searching I accepted the job. I was excited to move to my new city, start making new friends, and get myself established. But was I ready for middle schoolers?


I specifically mention these endpoints because these constitute legal functions of foods. The FDA position was that studying the impact of a food on such endpoints in human subjects turned that food into a drug (or more specifically, an investigational new drug).
Stakeholders complained (see previous post) that there should be a path to conduct human research on these endpoints – as foods, not drugs.
The FDA reconsidered. Rather than scrap the entire guidance or issue a revised one, the FDA chose to highlight sections of the guidance that would be 'stayed'. Presumably, this means that the FDA has determined to stop or suspend these sections. By its nature, a stay can be lifted. This terminology is usually used for court or legal proceedings, so its use here on a guidance document – which are never legally binding* – looks a bit out of place. But by doing so, the FDA seems to realize that IRBs and NIH often treat guidance as law.
The stayed sections include an exception for studies intended to reduce the risk of disease in medically vulnerable populations (individuals less than 12 months of age, those with altered immune systems, and those with serious or life-threatening medical conditions).
From the point of view of research designed to investigate physiological functions of foods and supplements, this seems to be a positive action by the Agency. Perhaps the biggest concern from the perspective of the probiotic field is that the section of the guidance on 'Live Organisms' was not stayed. This guidance states that an IND is required for studies of a live organism administered to study host response to an organism. (The reference for this section is Part 312 of the FDC Act, which deals with drugs.) Here the guidance acknowledges an exemption for dietary supplements or foods. But then a parenthetical reference is added after the exemption, stating that food or drink is "primarily for taste, aroma, or nutritive value, rather than for some other effect on the structure or function of the body". So does this mean that a structure/function endpoint for human research with a live microbe (probiotic) in a food would require an IND? If so, would this result in the guidance being stricter on a probiotic food than other food?
The FDA has for years required that probiotic studies in human populations be conducted under INDs. I remain baffled by the entire premise of this uniquely American problem. It seems that safety of study subjects should be FDA's primary concern. To best manage that in the drug arena, the IND process has been developed. The IND assures that a very strict process is followed so that all the necessary details are in place for a drug to be marketed if efficacy and safety are adequately substantiated. But this is not the goal for food research. It seems that the focus should be on safety of any given study, not whether the study addresses structure, function, host response, or cure/treatment/prevention of disease. If a study is safe on a product not intended to be a drug, why impose the IND rubric at all? At the 2015 ISAPP meeting, one attorney commented that research endpoints do not dictate a product's regulatory category; vendor intent does. It seems this challenges the whole basis for IND requirements for foods and supplements.


What Is Your "Citizen Score"?
In China, they are establishing a nightmarish citizen score system. Much like the credit score system, every citizen is "measured" with a score between 350 and 950, linked to their national identification number. If you buy certain things, play video games, drive badly, have the wrong friends, further dissenting political opinions, etc, your "citizen score" goes down. If you do what "good citizens" do, your score goes up. Anyone can check anyone else's score, and people are already bragging about their high scores and disassociating themselves from friends who are lowering their scores.


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Music Review: Casablanca - "Apocalyptic Youth"
What happened to all those kick ass, straight on rock n roll bands that I loved so much back in the 80's? Bands like Hanoi Rocks, Kix and Rose Tattoo? Well, outside of Kix, they all seemed to only exist in Europe. Well, thanks to the internet I've found a new band that brings back all that excitement and stellar music that made me feel like I could take on the world as a young man. The band is called Casablanca and their new album "Apocalyptic Youth" is so full of power and passion, it brings me back to 1985 again.
The album Opens with "The Juggler", a track very reminiscent of late 70's style rock. Not super heavy, per se, but heavy on emotion. It's a clean song in the way that it's not all distorted guitars and over the top lyrical content. But, it's got a good groove and some wicked guitar licks. Personally, I would have put this track somewhere in the middle because on first listen you're gonna think this is the template for the album...and it's NOT! Not even close.
Things really pick up with "Secret Agents Of Lust". THIS is a rocking tune that's got the killer back up vocals and big power chord riffs that make this style of music so enjoyable. I can't say enough good about this tune. It's retro, but at the same time very much a modern day rocker. Not many bands can pull that off, but Casablanca can! And they do it well.
"Downtown" is a modern day anthem about lighting up the night, hitting up a rock show and maybe finding love along the way. Big on harmonies and super catchy in it approach, it just grabs you right from the start and never lets you go until the final guitar strings are hit. This could be a big hit here in the states, if we still played REAL rock n roll on the radio here. Sorry but Daughtry and 3 Doors Down are NOT real rock bands! Just some 3rd rate posers who think they rock.
The band hails from Stockholm Sweden and consists of singer Ander Ljung, guitar duo Ryan Roxie (of Roxie 77) and Erik Stenemo, bassist Mats Rubarth and drummer Josephine Forsman. These 5 write some amazingly wicked songs full of hooks and big choruses that will have you singing along and cranking this album at full volume at all hours of the day and night. It's just so infectious and bombastic you can't help but wanna rock out to it. I love good, thick solid riffs and this album has that and more.
"Apocalyptic Youth" may not be groundbreaking like "Nevermind" or Sabbath's first album. But it's still a solid album by a great up and coming band. I truly enjoy what Casablanca are doing to save this dying breed of REAL rockers. So, to sum up "Apocalyptic Youth", it's just a great rock n roll record, plain and simple. And that's good enough for me. Mick Jagger said it best..."I know it's only rock n roll....but I like it!"
4 ½ / 5 stars
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Music Reviews: Masked Intruder - "Masked Intruder"
Y'know, I'm still very much in shock over the amount of amazing music that has come out in the last 11 months that it's almost mind numbing. And as I get closer to the 2nd annual Critical Mass Best Of date, I'm having a hell of a time deciding which single full length will take the "Album Of The Year" honors for 2012. But I gotta tell ya, leading the pack for the race for first is the self titled debut full length from Madison Wisconsin's own Masked Intruder. A band that consists of 4 guys in colored ski masks who sing about break ins, knife wielding robbery and having your heart broken. Not a bad combination for song ideas.
"25 To Life" sets the pace for the record. This is one of those tunes that upon first listen you just simply fall in love with the song. It's catchy sing along chorus and lyrics like "in a world of nightmares you're a sweet sweet dream. Just about the prettiest thing that I've ever seen.", it's just pure pop genius in the form of a punk rock tune! I love it!
"How Do I Get To You" keeps it going with slashing riffs and another big sing along chorus. Harmonies galore, this is a damn fine song. The band, Intruder Blue (vocals/guitar), Intruder Green (guitar), Intruder Orange (bass) and Intruder Red (drums), are rooted in pop punk with a splash of 50's doo wop in certain areas. Everything they touch turns to gold on this album. There's not a bad, or even sub par, track on this release. It's just a great record front to back.
"Heart Shaped Guitar" is the feel good hit from this album. This should be a lead off single complete with video counterpart. The songs about a guy who falls head over heels for a girl. And to show his dedication to her, he stands out on her lawn singing her love songs on a heart shaped guitar. Very sweet and romantic, right? WRONG! The girl in question has no idea who this guy is and calls the cops on him. STALKER ALERT!!! It's sweet, sappy, cool and funny all at the same time. And if the song's story line wasn't great enough, the band got Maura Weaver from the band Mixtapes to duet with Blue on this track. And she rocks it!
"Stick Em Up" is the hardest track on the album. But it's still a great sing along song about armed robbery. Trust me, you'll be singing "stick em up, stick em up, stick em up. I got a knife motherfucker stick em up" by the end of the track. It sounds like a song that could lead to corrupting the minds of the young, but don't be fooled. These guys are having way too much fun to try and corrupt your little brother...even if he is playing with only half a deck.
Closing out this album are 2 of my favorites. "Wish You Were Mine", with it's 50's doo wop sing along I mentioned earlier, is just a fun track with lyrics like "I want ya to show me romance. Won't you give a lonely masked man a chance". How can you go wrong? It shows the full potential this band has going for them. And "Crazy" is equally as good. Riffs galore and a great beat make it hard to not like this song. Go ahead, just TRY not singing along with the chorus...if you can honestly do it, I'll pay you $50! But I'll keep that fifty snug in my wallet because you won't be able to NOT sing along.
Masked Intruder are a band that will achieve greatness in the years to come. It's not just schtick with the masks...this is a band with talent, drive and a commitment to it's craft. It's no surprise that they were signed by Fat Wreck Chords yesterday. It's an obvious choice for a label who's roster also includes Teenage Bottlerocket, The Lawrence Arms and NOFX. Show some love for these knife carrying, B&E loving goofballs and pick this album up. It's a must have for all you pop punk fanatics.
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Music Reviews: The Creeping Ivies - "Stay Wild"
When it comes to music, blowing my socks off once is a chore in itself. Do it a second time, hell musta froze over. Continuing to do so, you must be doing something right. And that's what I get with each new release from The Creeping Ivies. The band is set to release their debut full length next month entitled "Stay Wild", and it's another barn burner!
The Creeping Ivies are a 2 piece outfit from Dundee, Scotland consisting of Becca Bomb on guitar and vocals and Duncan Destruction on drums. They may only have 2 members, but they bring the energy of a 5 piece with their primitive garage rock style and sound. "Stay Wild"'s 10 tracks are pure ear candy that would make Iggy Pop and The Cramps proud.
"Black Cat" kicks off with a surf style riff reminiscent of the 60's Batman television theme song. But it's more than just a tribute to good old surf rock n roll. It's also a fun song about that bad little kitty who's mysterious ways and 9 lives send shivers up the spines of the superstitious people of the world. Other key tracks are "Spinning" with it's ultra catchy riffs and super bluesy vocal approach by Becca and "Bop Like That" which sounds very 50's early rock n roll style, just makes me wanna twist and shout. I love the way the Ivies play simple, yet effective, rock music that's very much rooted in 50's and 60's style. But as any music lover will tell you, old time rock n roll NEVER goes out of style.
What makes a great record great? It's a combination of feel, believing in what you're doing and great songwriting and playing. Al these aspects come through on "Stay Wild". Becca and Duncan believe in what they're doing, and they sound they wanna send out to the masses. And that passion and tenacity comes out in everything they've done up to this point. I truly enjoy this band will continue to show my support as long as they continue blowing my socks off.
Music Review: The Hairlips - "The Hairlips"
When it comes to music, I'm pretty open minded. If it can grab me on the first listen and not let go, it's good! Sometimes it takes a few listens to really GET IT! But often times it's on that first spin that I hear the magic that lights up my soul. And upon hearing the Hairlips self titled album, my soul lit up like Christmas! This is definitely a band who've cut their teeth on generous amounts of Screeching Weasel, Queers, Ramones, 50's doo wop groups and maybe even a few 60's girl groups! They mix all those up and what you get is an amazing 14 track full length that's more fun than cotton candy and roller coasters on a summer night!
"Fuck You Darlin' " Is such a great track that reminds me of Grease on acid! It's got the great harmonies and sing along chorus. But it's also twisted with singer/bassist Johnny Wabich repeating the line "I'm gonna fuck all of your friends". If you can't find the humor in that, than you're way too uptight. This is just fun music played by 4 really talented guys. And if "Denise" isn't a hit, I don't know what is! With the Beach Boy style high harmonies and the whole "shooby doo" sing along, you can't help but wanna dance and twist the night away. I LOVE this song!
Wabich, along with duel guitarists Eric Stutson and Nicky Rivets and drummer Ron Capiz are bringing back a dying style of music. Pure pop punk 60's surf style. Imagine what The Queers would be putting out if they still made records like "Don't Back Down", and you'll get an idea of how amazingly pure and awesome this album is. Listen to "Heather" and you'll see exactly exactly what I'm talking about. I can't find a bad track on this album, or even a sub par track! It's all so well written and played that I can't help but fall in love with this bands sound and style. This is pure unadulterated ear candy so sticky sweet it makes sugar taste like salt.
"Buttercup" could have been a hit back in '59! But it could still just as easily be a hit today! What's old is new again, and the Hairlips show that. Whoever said doo wop isn't cool hasn't heard this bands modern day spin on it. The riffs are just as infectious as the harmonies and the sings along choruses. These 4 guys got this style down to a science. I can only hope the live shows are equally as fun and inspiring as these songs are. All in all Hairlips have a sound and style all too familiar, but very much their own as well. Pure listening satisfaction is on the docket for today! Grab a copy of this album now! Your ears will thank you later!
Music Review: Sonny Vincent And The Bad Reactions - Self Titled 7"
Sonny Vincent is a punk rock ICON. He's been making music for well over 30 years going back to the mid/late 70's with his old band The Testors. He's played C.B.G.B.'s and Max's Kansas City, shared the stage with The Cramps among others and has played in bands with Bob Stinson, Cheetah Chrome, Scott Asheton, and Captain Sensible. And now he's back with a new band, The Bad Reactions, and a new self titled 7" that is faster, heavier and more dangerous than pretty much anything out there today!
Kicking this off is "Replica". It kicks in with that all to familiar Sonny guitar tone, fuzzed out and hard. It's sounds like a freight train headed straight for a brick wall. It's a played with such intensity that you feel like the bands gonna implode at any given second. Sonny still sounds vibrant vocally, and his guitar playing is still flawless. The man never seems to age. He's playing at his best here, soloing like his life depends on it. And who knows...maybe it does! Maybe THAT'S why after close to 40 years the man has never stopped recording music and touring the world. It's in his DNA, this thing called punk rock. And he's not afraid to let loose on that old Gibson Les Paul and melt faces along the way.
"Stare Down" is the fasted song I think I have ever heard Sonny play. The power and speed of those downstokes would make Johnny Ramone squirm in his seat. And the band, Sonny (vocals/guitar), Josh Martin (guitar/vocals), Jon (bass) and Luis Herrera (drums), is tighter than a frogs wet asshole. You got great seasoned players who know how to bring out the best in these songs, and compliment each others playing as well. If Sonny keeps this band and records a full length, I can almost guarantee it will be as legendary as anything The Testors did before. He's got a super talented band here.
Closing out this 7" is, probably my favorite track on the album, "Jokers And Clowns". This is a slower jam, but still has the energy and passion to make it a solid rocking track. It's very reminiscent, musically, of The Testors classic "Time Is Mine". But this is a classic in it's own right. With Sonny singing about "all the fakes and the garbage piled up high", you can't help to feel this guy has stayed true to what he believes in and has never tried to sell out to clear a fat paycheck from some major label. This is a band who play music the way they want, no matter what the ramifications may be. And I think that's what has always been so appealing about Sonny Vincent to me...he's the REAL DEAL! A true rock n roll troubadour in the highest regard! If you like your punk rock raw and real, pick this 7" up now! They just don't make em like this anymore!
Music Reviews: The Jetbirds - "Suicide Love Songs"
Sometimes you hear an album that's not necessarily NEW, but it still stands out for being imaginative and musically superb. This is the case for The Jetbirds EP "Suicide Love Songs" which came out this past February, but kicks so much ass I feel I NEED to review it now!
The Jetbirds play straight ahead rock n roll with a dash of punk rock thrown into the mix. Big on riffs and harmonious sing along choruses, "Suicide Love Songs" is a stellar release from this Chicago quartet in the vein of The Dictators or even early Hanoi Rocks. It just stands out and catches your ear and makes you wanna dance...ok, well maybe not DANCE....but you get what I'm saying. It's THAT kinda music! The kind that gets the energy charging in your system and the blood pumping in your veins.
"New Setta' Wheels" kicks things off with a nice palm muted riff before the punching beat kicks in and the big licks riff on. It's a great tune about trying too hard only to find out trying gets you nowhere, so you gotta go out and take what you want. The riffs run hard and deep and the back beat compliments the tune greatly. Just a great way to kick off an album.
L-R Max Kijek (Vocals/Guitar), Tyler Capone (Drums), Jerry Murad (Lead Guitar) and Aric Sparticus (Bass)
Each song has a way of getting you more and more excited as the seconds tick on. It's such a powerful debut, one of the best I've heard in recent history. No word of a lie. "Without You" keeps the excitement going with great harmonies and more stacked riffs. This band is definitely a powerhouse riff machine. They just keep pulling em out of their hat like there's no tomorrow.
You get the sense that The Jetbirds put everything they had into these 5 songs. I just hope they saved some of that magic for their next release. I don't just like this band, I flat out LOVE what they're doing! I try to find something enjoyable about everything I review. And if I can't find that something, I pass on it. But this is just a solid effort, front to back, from this band. But don't take my word for it. Go to the bands Bandcamp page and download this EP and listen to it for yourself. If you can't find something enjoyable about The Jetbirds, than you may wanna question your own sanity.
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Music News: The Kurt Baker Band play Serious Business
The latest Kurt Baker album, "Brand New Beat", was released last week and the band are already out on the road in support of this fine collection of 80's post punk inspired gems. The band recently stopped by the set of Serious Business to talk about the album and perform some tracks live. SB host Travis Harrison, who also runs Serious Business Records, had a blast talk with the KB band about power pop, touring and girls. Being new to SB myself, after watching this episode I can consider myself a fan. Well worth checking out, as is "Brand New Beat". So check out the episode and pick up the album. You can see the episode HERE!
Music Reviews: The Homewreckers/City Mouse 7" split - "Manic Recession"
2012 has been a pretty impressive year for music, overall. I'm not talking about that crap they play on Top 40 radio. Y'know, the flavor of the week, auto tuned, pre-packaged, shitty boy bands, American Idol winners (?), "people write my songs for me because I don't have any talent and can't write my own songs" garbage. I'm talking about REAL music played by REAL bands with REAL instruments! So as 2012 is coming to a close it's nice to see the great music still coming out in high volumes! And the latest 7" split by The Homewreckers and City Mouse called "Manic Recession" is another solid release, surely a contender for 7"/EP of the year on the year end Critical Mass "Best Of" list.
The Homewreckers
The Homewreckers are a 4 piece band out of New York, NY who play DIY inspired punk rock. Dirty and rough around the edges, but also high octane and rowdy, this self described "Queer-Core" band give it to you straight (no pun), hard, fast and to the point on their 2 songs.
"Nervous Wrecks" is a killer track complete with sing along chorus and amazing harmony "Ohh oh ohh's" that'll have you bopping to the beat upon the first listen. And complete with lyrics like "I've fallen off the edge over 16 times this year. Scraped all my agony on every broken bottle of beer." just make this song that much more enjoyable.
Singer/guitarist Cristy Road has a hearty growl in her voice full of passion and intensity. She's the real deal with her songwriting and playing. You can tell she loves what she does. And it shows on these 2 songs (also see "Uncontrolable Decay") . I'm looking forward to hearing more from this band in the future.
On the flipside is City Mouse who hail from Riverside, CA. I'm not gonna lie...the first time I heard singer/guitarist Miski Dee sing, I almost fell off my chair! I LOVE this girls voice! Powerful and raspy in her approach, it makes "Gemini" pop out at you, grab you by the shoulders and shake you to the core with it's awesomeness! It's poppy and catchy, but heavy and beefy at the same time. It's the perfect combination of sweet and salty. And "Jughead Jones" is equally as awesome!
"Manic Recession", out now on Mooster Records, is one hell of a ride, driven by 2 up and coming bands that are dead set on playing by their own rules. Punks never been just a mans game, but there were very few female punk bands that had the fire inside that The Homewreckers and City Mouse have. It's so refreshing to see that in 2012 the ladies are kicking just as much ass, maybe even MORE, as the men! You gotta pick this 7" up. It's a BEAST!
Interview with Heath Benson from The Zits
Critical Mass: Thanks for taking the time to talk with Critical Mass, Heath! I appreciate your time. For anyone new to The Zits, can you give us a little history on the band and how you got started?
Heath Benson: Yeah well I started The Zits in 2008 and wanted to write songs that paid tribute to bands like The Ramones, Screeching Weasel, and The Queers. I started out acoustically and put out two EP's, "Giggle" and "Poprocks". In 2010 I recorded everything electric and played all the instruments for "Electrified!" EP. After that release, that's when the band kinda took off. Got some great reviews, even played my first show ever in 2009. The Zits are completely DIY. I do everything myself, I'm the only member!
CM: I had the chance to review The Zits latest EP "Breakout", and it's great . How many releases do you have out?
HB: Actually "Breakout" was my 7th release. But it was the first EP of the new sound I was going for. Personally, it's my favorite release yet!
CM: I can hear obvious influences like Screeching Weasel and The Queers in your music. And they are influences on you, as you've said. are there any other bands that have inspired you as a musician?
HB: Well yeah I'm definitely influenced by Screeching Weasel and The Queers. Other bands that influence me I would say are The Ramones, and Bomb The Music Industry.
CM: This band is pretty much your baby, as you've stated. So, when it comes to songwriting and recording, have you ever written with anyone else or had other players on the albums?
HB: Yep, 100% all by myself! It's all me! In a way it's a good thing because I have complete control. If I feel like completely changing my sound, I can do it. It's my music, I do what I want! But I do kinda wish I had a second brain to pick song ideas from. It's very difficult to write and record and master everything by yourself. I probably could be writing music faster if I had more people to help out.
CM: I know the band hails from Denton, MD. Do you guys play outside of the Maryland area at all? And are there any plans on taking the show on the road in the near future?
HB: I play shows occasionally when I can find fill-ins. The last show I played was at The Ottobar in Baltimore, MD. It was a blast! But since then, the guys that helped me out have bailed and went their separate ways. It's been very frustrating getting reliable people to help out! Had to cancel two shows because my bassist kept bailing! Want to do some kinda a show though sometime next year.
CM: With 2012 coming to a fast close, what can we expect from The Zits in 2013? Are there any plans for any new material in the new year?
CM: I've been working on the next EP titled, "Broke and Lovin' It" for a year now. Planning on releasing it in January. That will probably be the only release next year since I want to concentrate on other projects and other important things.
CM: The band has been pretty much a DIY band from jump. Are there any labels out there who have shown interest in the band? Or will this be an exclusive indie band?
HB: Yes, well just this month I signed to Basement Handjob Records. They are releasing my whole back catalogue on CD and vinyl. Pretty exciting!
CM: Is there a website you wanna plug where we can get up to date news on new releases, show dates and merch?
HB: Yeah sure, I've got everything up for download at http://thezits.bandcamp.com and "Breakout" EP is available on iTunes and Amazon MP3. Also like The Zits on Facebook
CM: Thanks again for talking with Critical Mass Heath. I greatly appreciate it. I hope we can get you guys out on the road in the near future. We would love to see you in Chicago at some point. Thanks again man.
HB: I'll definitely try to make it to Chicago! Thanks!
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Oracle clocks $475m in cloud services for 2014-15 first quarter
Oracle's Q1 2014-15 revenues were up 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn and non-GAAP was up 2% at $2.8bn
Oracle, whose charismatic chief Larry Ellison relinquished his CEO role to become the company's chief technology officer, has announced that its first-quarter 2014-15 revenues were up by 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn, while the non-GAAP figure was up by 2% at $2.8bn.
The company's stock price slipped by 2% as it missed analyst revenue expectations.
In the strategically competitive cloud sector, software-as-a-service (SaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud revenue was up by 32% to $337m. Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud revenue was up by 26% to $138m. Total cloud services revenue was 5.5% of first-quarter takings, compared with 3% of sales for the fourth quarter 2013-14.
Rival SAP announced on the same day that it has acquired cloud-based expenses management company Concur for $8.3bn. SAP's cloud revenue for its last quarter stood at 5.8% of overall revenue.
New joint Oracle CEO Safra Catz said the company was increasing its cloud services growth rate while simultaneously delivering record levels of cash flow.
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"In the first quarter, our overall cloud services business grew by more than 30% to $475m in revenue," she said
"At the same time, we delivered an all-time record operating cash flow, up 7% to $6.7bn. We are laser-focused on two goals: growing our cloud business and growing our cash flow. We're off to a good start in the 2015 financial year."
Fellow CEO Mark Hurd (pictured) said: "Our internally developed Fusion cloud applications business grew at a rate of nearly 200% in the quarter. Our cloud business is already three times the size of [HR cloud firm] Workday."
CTO Ellison said: "Next week, at Oracle Open World, we will be rolling out our database cloud service. Database is our largest software business, and database will be our largest cloud service. With our new multi-tenant database-as-a-service offering, our customers and ISVs can move any of their existing Oracle databases and applications to the Oracle Cloud."
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Paul Chesser
Paul Chesser, BA 94, GrDip 97, is a Concordia University graduate who has served as Vice-President of Advancement since December 2018.
Chesser leads the Advancement sector, which oversees major giving, planned giving, annual giving, alumni relations, stewardship and the Office of Community Engagement.
In partnership with our president, provost, deans and volunteers, Chesser directs the Campaign for Concordia: Next-Gen. Now, the $250-million fundraising effort in support of our 9 Strategic Directions.
With more than 20 years of fundraising experience in higher education, Chesser most recently served as assistant vice-principal of development in McGill's Department of Advancement.
He was previously Carleton University's chief development officer, where he launched the university's largest comprehensive campaign with a $300-million goal. He also served as director of annual giving at Queen's University.
Chesser has volunteered on numerous association boards and has presented at conferences for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education (CCAE) and the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP).
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Can PowerPoint Make You Stupid?
This is an excerpt from the third edition of Rick Altman's provocatively-titled book on presentation best practices. Available now in paperback, PDF, ePub, and Kindle. You can learn more about it at the BetterPresenting website.
ONE OF THE MOST INFLAMMATORY ideas circulating among PowerPoint skeptics has received quite a bit of credible press in the past decade. In a widely-circulated 2004 article, New York Times columnist Clive Thompson all but blamed the space shuttle Columbia accident on the use of PowerPoint. (www.whypptsucks.com/shuttle).
And the ever-bombastic Edward Tufte has essentially made a living out of attributing many of society's communication problems to Microsoft's venerable slide-making tool.
It's hard to imagine that a software program could be credited with something as profound as affecting one's intellect, but read on—there is a real dynamic at work here.
Several years ago, my friend Lon came to me for assistance with a keynote address he was giving to a group of professional tennis teachers. These teachers were working with some of the most talented junior players in Northern California; their jobs were to turn these kids into seasoned athletes, help them land college scholarships, and maybe prepare them for professional tennis.
Lon had some innovative ideas about how to turn kids with raw talent into strong competitors and winners. As an avid tennis player myself, I loved talking with him. When his ideas were flowing, he was a joy to listen to—fluent with such heady concepts as the ideal performance state, living in the present moment, and his most novel theory, having to do with calming the mind to maximize the body's energy.
Lon needed to distill all of his wonderful ideas into a 45-minute after-dinner talk, and he made the mistake of creating PowerPoint slides as part of the process. Here was his weak attempt to fit his thoughts onto a bullet slide.
It sounded like mumbo-jumbo, something his ideas never did when he spoke about them informally. Worse, when he practiced his speech with his slides, he found himself trying to explain the meaning of the words on the slides, instead of just sharing the thoughts in his head. I call this "going on defense" and it is a sure sign that you are at risk for committing Death by PowerPoint.
Ultimately, I convinced Lon to go with the following slide instead. His ideas were more than enough to carry the hour; all he needed were a good image to evoke an emotional response and a few talking points. And when he realized that his original slides were doing him no good, he decided to forego slides altogether. Good call, Lon.
This slide did not inhibit Lon's ability to articulate his thoughts.
This was a classic example of good ideas getting torpedoed by PowerPoint. Lon's ideas were far too nuanced to be contained within one title and three bullet points. Most good ideas can't survive such a boiling down, yet that is the default medium for sharing ideas in public. When smart people try to represent their good ideas with such a limiting medium, they come off sounding less smart.
PowerPoint does indeed dumb them down.
One chapter from now, you will read about my prescribed "three-word challenge"—a call to distill long bullets down to short ones. This might sound like a contradiction to the point I am making here, and it certainly won't be the last time you feel that way. I will explain the difference more fully then; for now, I will specify that the danger here is trying to use bullets to explain an idea, instead of just represent it.
Unless presenters practice with their material and with the medium, even simple and succinct bullets can derail them. I witnessed a good example of this while watching a volleyball match on ESPN (lots of sports analogies, I know—I'm pathetic that way).
Calling the action were Chris Marlowe, an experienced play-by-play professional, and Vince, a former Olympic player. Each of them was required, at various times during the broadcast, to comment on a statistic or a notable fact being displayed in a graphic.
One of Vince's assignments was to discuss the factors that he thought were significant during a particular match. The graphic displayed three items: return of serve, ability to set a double-block, and free-ball passing. With only a few months of experience as a television commentator and no formal training or background, Vince did nothing more than read, word for word, the three items in the graphic. He would have done far better if he were instructed to describe, in his own words, the three key elements of the match. The audience didn't need to see the graphic, but when ESPN showed it, it paralyzed Vince, reducing him to a cue-card reader.
Now that's the way to speak to bullet points! Marlowe didn't insult his audience's literacy by reading the graphic. Instead, he made the moment greater than the sum of its parts by telling us something more than just the raw facts.
While inexperienced with talking points, Vince proved to be an acute analyst of the game. When allowed to simply react to what he was watching, he was articulate, relaxed, and confident.
I suspect there are many executives and corporate speechmakers who are like Lon or Vince: astute, well-spoken, but ultimately hampered by the implicit (or explicit) requirement that all high-tech speeches be accompanied by a PowerPoint slide show. I had lunch recently with a Silicon Valley-based executive and he summed up the situation perfectly. First, he acknowledged that most of his colleagues are too busy to spend more than a half-hour working on their slides.
"Is it so important that they have slides?" I asked.
You can't give a talk today without showing slides. Those are some of the most distressing words I have ever heard. Too busy to spend more than 30 minutes on their slides. Executives with good speaking skills don't necessarily need slides as they speak, and if they do, their slides should elaborate on their ideas, not repeat them. And executives who lack speaking skills make the situation worse with bad slides that compel them to read their speech instead of deliver it.
Where do people go wrong? Often, their fatal errors are made in the first 10 seconds of a project: they put hand to mouse, after which it becomes exceedingly difficult to think creatively.
Even though it doesn't involve PowerPoint, a recent experience I had crystallized this issue for me. On a flight home a few years ago, I sat inbetween two businessmen, both using their notebook computers. I couldn't resist spying on them.
One of them was using CorelDraw, a graphic drawing program that I have been using since its inception in the late 1980s. The other was composing in Microsoft Word. The man using Draw was producing some sort of flier or publicity sheet, and he was struggling. He kept creating objects and text strings, fiddling with them, and then deleting them. He appeared to have no direction or objective.
Well, the irony of this situation was delicious. The man who least needed to use pencil and paper before embarking on a computer-based project couldn't work without them, and the man who desperately needed to do a bit of sketching or scribbling was trying to create a drawing using an eraser head to move the cursor.
Why do we computer users do this to ourselves? Let's first point out the obvious: when you embark on a task—any task—first you decide what it is you want to do, then you determine how you are going to do it, and then you do it. That's how people do things in real life. All too often, however, users of creative software, like CorelDraw or PowerPoint, go about everything backwards. They sit in front of the computer, place their hand on the mouse, and start creating objects, hoping that a finished piece will spontaneously occur. In no other aspect of their lives do they expect to achieve success in this manner, but they hold exempt from natural laws their relationship with their software applications.
This was certainly the case with the man in seat 16C. He knew that he had to produce a flier on a particular topic, but I doubt that he started with much more direction than that. He kept drawing shapes, creating text, moving them around, stopping, thinking, stretching, rotating, filling, deleting, redrawing…and all the while growing visibly frustrated. He expected CorelDraw to act as his sketch pad, or better yet, to magically produce the flier for him.
We see this same dynamic among PowerPoint users, usually to the same detriment. The cold hard fact is that programs like CorelDraw, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and PowerPoint are the wrong tools for the beginning phases of a project, totally wrong. This is not a criticism of PowerPoint and the others—let's please just acknowledge that these programs are finishing tools, not starting tools.
PowerPoint lets you do a lot of things quickly and easily, but sketching or roughing out a creative concept is not one of them. There's way too much temptation to make everything perfect, and that's exactly what you don't want to do at the initial stages of a project. When starting work on a presentation, experienced content creators look to get ideas out as quickly as they think of them. This is the time to open the creative canal as wide as possible—to scribble, cross out, throw away, start over, blab to colleagues, and do all of that all over again. It is not the time to be thinking of transitions, animation choices, backgrounds, or color schemes. In fact, it's not the time to be handling the mouse at all.
The man in seat 16A had the right idea. While only creating a word-processed document, he realized that he's better off mapping out his route on paper first. Even a simple program like Word offers too many temptations to make a first draft perfect, what with spell and grammar checkers, document controls, wizards, and paragraph formatting tools. He just wanted a brain dump, and the best dumping ground is the legal pad. He didn't have very good handwriting; I doubt that he got an A in third grade penmanship. But that is of no consequence during the idea stage.
Here is a sketch of a presentation prepared by Julie Terberg, one of the most prominent and talented presentation designers in the world. She is a regular at the Presentation Summit, where she shares her vast knowledge of design theory and how it is best applied to the presentation medium.
Even the pros begin with pencil and paper, not with slides.
It is not the product of your sketching that is so important to the process, it is the act of sketching. Sketching…doodling…free-associating…these are the secret ingredients to brilliance! Kind of funny when you think of it. One of the secrets to using PowerPoint effectively is knowing when not to use it.
Your comments about people having only 30 mins to make slides certainly made me think. Perhaps a good way to go in those circumstances would be to make Lessig-like slides, with only 1 word or a key number (e.g. June's sales total) on each one.
For variety, another option would be a *very* simple diagram — I'm thinking a Venn diagram of 2 overlapping circles or similar. SmartArt might help to get a polished result very quickly.
Thanks for the thought-provoking content Rick!


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Symphonic/Alt metal band And Ever from San Diego, has released two dates for upcoming shows in California, US. First date is on 20th of August, A Special Night Of Worship at San Diego/Oceanside, North County. They are also confirmed for The Metal Onslaught fest 2022 17th of September, which will take place in San Bernardino, California.
And Ever was first formed as an acoustic duo by Lindsay Almos and her husband Steven Almos. They have had a partnership creating music for a while. She writes the lyrics and together they decided to release songs that they felt could impact the world in a positive way.
Releases so far are:
Album: Pathways 2013
EP: Reconstruct an 5 track EP, 2018.
In 2020 they released a two piece release concisting of 2 EP´s
with four songs on each:
Current Tiers Chapter 1, featuring the single "Open My Eyes", 2020
CurrentTiers Chapter 2, 2020
Fans of Within Temptation, Epica and Nightwish should find themselves in a familiar landscape. For me being a huge fan of symphonic metal and bands like Within Temptation and Tarja Turunen (formerly of Nightwish) this is the closest Christian alternative to them I've heard so far.
On Bandcamp the band describes themselves as:
"Emerging from the ashes of brokenness, the emptiness of clinging onto
worldly traditions. Breaking down the barriers of sub-genres and the hype of
trends. With a vision in mind to share personal trials and testimony through
music and share the love of Jesus Christ with others".
So if you're anywhere nearby California at these dates, don´t miss out on the rear opportunity to see this Christian symphonic act perform live.
AndEver
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Davido, the Afro-pop singer and songwriter, says he is taking a one-month break from his phone and social media to hasten the completion of his forthcoming album.
The 26-year-old singer said this through a video shared on Instagram. The award-winning singer established contact routes for those who intend reaching out within the said period.
Many Nigerian celebrities have countlessly deemed social media a distraction for their career struggles and have leveraged on social absence to hasten ongoing projects.
In January 2019, Sarz, Nigerian record producer, revealed how he curbed his "social media addiction" to maximize productivity and finally completed his long-awaited EP 'SINYM'.
"Before this project, I noticed I was addicted to social media. It was really bad! You couldn't separate me from my phone and most of my days were unproductive. I decided to do something about it and I went off social media for months," he had said.
Similarly, Simisola Ogunleye, Nigerian songstress also said the practice of jumping on trending topics in a bid to be seen as relevant can become addictive.
"Social media is a drug. You always want a fix. Whatever is trending, you jump on – whether or not it makes sense to, you jump on it, because everyone else is jumping on it," she revealed in a tweet.


The governor of the Central Bank, Ajith Nivard Cabraal said that Sri Lanka has maintained high growth and low inflation in the past four years. As he pointed out, this is a great improvement in Sri Lankan economy ever reported after Independence. This growth is expected to be maintained also in future paving way for people to reap its maximum benefits.


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The bats return to trigger Novel Coronavirus outbreak: Lancet
Beijing/New York, Jan 30 (IANS) As millions around the world speculate about the real culprit behind the outbreak of deadly Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), researchers in a significant Lancet study have once again pointed fingers towards the infamous bats, and not snakes as was reported earlier.
In the study, Professor Guizhen Wu of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said that the data they had so far was consistent with the virus being initially hosted by bats.
"A new genetic analysis of 10 genome sequences of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) from nine patients in Wuhan, China finds that the virus is most closely related to two bat-derived SARS-like coronaviruses," the authors wrote.
The 2019-nCoV is sufficiently divergent from SARS-CoV to be considered a new human-infecting carrier.
"Although our analysis suggests that bats might be the original host of this virus, an animal sold at the seafood market in Wuhan might represent an intermediate host facilitating the emergence of the virus in humans," said the authors from National Key Research and Development Program of China, National Major Project for Control and Prevention of Infectious Disease in China, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong First Medical University.
Importantly, structural analysis suggests that 2019-nCoV might be able to bind to the enzyme 2 receptor in humans and spread of this virus warrant urgent investigation, they reported.
The death toll in China from the new coronavirus rose to 170 on Thursday, with 7,711 confirmed cases, as repatriation flights for foreign nationals continued. India also reported its first confirmed case – a student in Kerala who returned from Wuhan.
According to the Lancet study, 2019-nCoV is sufficiently divergent from SARS-CoV to be considered a new human-infecting betacoronavirus.
"Eight of the nine patients in our study had a history of exposure to the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, suggesting that they might have been in close contact with the infection source at the market," the authors wrote.
However, one patient had never visited the market, although he had stayed in a hotel near the market before the onset of their illness.
This finding suggests either possible droplet transmission or that the patient was infected by a currently unknown source. Evidence of clusters of infected family members and medical workers has now confirmed the presence of human-to-human transmission.
"The finding also suggests that 2019-nCoV originated from one source within a very short period and was detected relatively rapidly. However, as the virus transmits to more individuals, constant surveillance of mutations arising is needed," said the researchers.
More generally, the disease outbreak linked to 2019-nCoV again highlights the hidden virus reservoir in wild animals and their potential to occasionally spill over into human populations.
The researchers have also reported a new, seventh human coronavirus that can cause severe pneumonia and have shed light on its origin.
China is facing accusations from the world community of suppressing and playing down the coronavirus outbreak and the scale of infections.
According to a recent study by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases that conducts and supports research at the US National Institute of Health (NIH), six coronaviruses are known to cause disease in people, but so far only two of them – SARS-CoV and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) coronavirus – have caused large outbreaks of fatal illness in people – before the Novel Coronavirus appeared on the scene.
To monitor how viruses like this one spread and evolve in animal populations, researchers have been using next-generation sequencing (NGS).
In a separate study in mSphere, a journal of the American Society for Microbiology, an international group of researchers has described how to use monitor coronaviruses, especially those that originate in bats.
In test sets of clinical samples, the probes successfully identified coronaviruses, and the researchers reported that their approach both increased sensitivity and reduced sequencing costs.
"We don't want to declare that enrichment is the panacea for all NGS challenges, but in this case, I do think it's a step in the right direction," said Lin-Fa Wang from Duke-NUS Medical School in Singapore.
Coronaviruses in bats, said Wang, are particularly important to monitor.
The coronavirus that caused 2003's deadly outbreak of SARS, or severe acute respiratory syndrome, is closely related to those found in bats and likely originated with the animals.
"Coronaviruses, especially those that are bat-borne, remain an important source of emerging infectious diseases," Wang said.
During times that are free of outbreaks, or what Wang calls "peace time," researchers can build up-to-date banks of probes associated with known forms of coronaviruses.
During outbreaks, or "war time," they can use that information to track the evolution of viruses and spread of infections, in animal and even human populations. U
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Hon. Analisa Torres, United States District Judge
Analisa Torres serves as a judge on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She joined the court in 2013 after being nominated by President Barack Obama. At the time of nomination, Torres was a Justice of the New York State Supreme Court, having been elected in 2011, for a 14-year term. Prior to that, she served on the Criminal Court and the Civil Court.
Anna Beninger, Catalyst, Director, Research
Anna Beninger is a co-author of Catalyst's global longitudinal study of high-potential employees and speaks extensively on research in both virtual and in-person events. She is taking a lead role in developing new research on the challenges and opportunities for women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) industries. She is also an advocate for the millennial generation of women and men, separating myth from fact for these future leaders in the workforce.
Elaine Chukan Brown, Hawk Wakawaka Wine Reviews and JancisRobinson.com
Based in Sonoma, California, Elaine Chukan Brown serves as the American Specialist for JancisRobinson.com, is a contributing writer to Wine & Spirits and a columnist for Wine Business Monthly. Her work has also been featured in The World of Fine Wine, MensHealth.com, San Francisco Magazine, and appears on her own website, WakawakaWineReviews.com. Chukan Brown is known for her wine illustration work, which has been described by @KermitLynchWine as "a new standard in wine reviews."
Molly Shepard, The Leader's Edge, President and CEO
Molly Shepard is President and Chief Executive Officer of The Leader's Edge/Leaders By Design, a company dedicated to the advancement of executive and high-potential leaders. She has more than 30 years of experience in career counseling, leadership development, executive coaching and executive search.
Carrie Strong, Aureole, Wine Director
Strong has put together wine lists at many top NYC restaurants, including Jean-Georges Vongerichten's Vong, Jimmy Bradley's The Harrison and Michael White's Ai Fiori. In 2013, Strong became the Wine Director at Chef Charlie Palmer's flagship restaurant, Aureole, where she manages a vast collection of award-winning wines with more than 2,000 selections. She has upheld the restaurant's Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence each year and continues to enhance and evolve the Michelin-starred wine and beverage programs.
Gretchen Thomas, Barteca Restaurant Group, Wine and Spirits Director
Gretchen Thomas serves as Wine and Spirits Director for Barteca Restaurant Group, overseeing all wine, spirits and beer selections for both Barcelona Wine Bar & Restaurant and Bartaco concepts, as well as seasonal cocktail creations, wine and mixology training and development, and beverage-themed events including wine dinners, wine classes and cocktail classes. At Barcelona, Thomas supervises one of the largest Spanish wine programs in the United States, managing 350 labels from 11 countries, with more than half of the menu devoted to wines from Spain and the rest from South America.
Verónica Cousiño, Cousiño-Macul, Export and Marketing Director
Verónica Cousiño earned a degree in Business Administration from the Universidad Católica of Chile. In 2008, she joined the family business as a sales assistant. Her dedication and aptitude led her to become head of the winery's marketing department in 2012. She is now the Export and Marketing Director of Cousiño-Macul, a position she's held since January 2016.
Nancy Irelan, Red Tail Ridge Winery, Co-owner and Winemaker
Nancy Irelan is the co-owner and winemaker for Red Tail Ridge Winery (RTR). RTR is an 8,500- case boutique winery in the Finger Lakes of New York, specializing in production of cool-climate red, white and sparkling wines. Irelan was previously employed by E&J Gallo Winery as their VP of Viticulture & Enology Research and Development. She received her PhD in grape genetics while working in the Viticulture and Enology Department at UC Davis.
Janice MacDonald, Burch Family Wines, Winemaker
Since completing the Bachelor of Wine Science from Charles Sturt University in 1986, Janice McDonald has spent considerable time making wine and brewing beer. She is the Chief Winemaker at Burch Family Wines, the largest family-owned winery in Western Australia with vineyard holdings and wineries in the Great Southern and Margaret River, crushing 4,000 tons of premium to super-premium grapes for the brands of Howard Park, Marchand & Burch, and Mad Fish.
Meri Tessari, Suavia, Owner
Meri Tessari grew up in the small town of Fittà, in the hills of the Soave Classico area and surrounded by the best vineyards in the designation. In 1982, Suavia was created from an idea her parents had for some time. Tessari was only seven years old at the time, but she immediately felt part of this family adventure and started to form a stronger link with the winery and the area—a link she shared with her sisters. They lived through the first joys, disappointments and surprises together and soon Suavia became their "fifth sister."
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Shopee focuses on growing number of transactions
ONLINE mall Shopee Philippines expects shopping activity to rise towards the end of the year, with the first half of the year comparatively more quiet on the e-commerce front.
Shopee Associate Director Martin Yu told reporters Thursday that Shopee is focusing on growing the number of transactions and gross merchandise value (GMV).
"A lot of Filipinos love shopping during Christmas and it's just the start of that ber-months so it's basically the time of the year, the most wonderful time of the year," Mr. Yu said.
In Asia, GMV for the first quarter of 2019 amounts to USD3.5 billion, with Indonesia and Taiwan comprising the biggest chunk of the market.
"…between 1 to 2% of retail is now shopping online, on e-commerce, but in countries like Taiwan that number is 10 to 15% …it's at a mire developed stage there," he said, noting that the platform is not new in such markets. "So we can still see a huge potential to where it can get to eventually," Mr. Yu added.
Asked to provide details on the number of transactions, he said: "We have seen sustained growth in the past months, and we're still growing with ever-greater efficiency."
Categories like health and beauty, women's fashion as well as baby products were among its best-sellers.
"So now it's between health and beauty and women's fashion that are top categories, also mobiles and gadgets. So it's a mix of young women's products and electronics that are growing."
Mr. Yu said that the motoring and the groceries categories are among the laggards because they started selling the products much later.
The company aims to raise awareness about its platform by working with more brands to reassure consumers that they are dealing with a credible seller.
"I think that's something we want to build…how can we make it (that) you trust the online buying process, you're confident that you do it every day," he said.
Shopee had around 30 million downloads in the Philippines and around half a million active sellers on the platform.
Katrina T. Mina


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SUBARU DRIVER DAVID HIGGINS HONORS COLIN MCRAE WITH TOP RUN AT RALLY GB
Cherry Hill, N.J. - Nov 19, 2015 - Seven-time Rally America Champion David Higgins with co-driver Craig Drew capped a very special tribute race with a dominating performance at Wales Rally GB by winning their class by over five minutes, and finishing in the top twenty in a field of the world's best rally teams. With support from Subaru, Higgins and Drew entered Wales Rally GB in a WRX STI that wore a livery inspired by the late Colin McRae's 1995 win of the WRC Manufacturer's title for Subaru.
"Our goal for this event was to pay tribute to Colin and our great history in rallying; while also thanking David and Craig for their flawless 2015 season in Rally America," stated Motorsports Marketing Manager Rob Weir. "The icing on the cake was the great result they achieved, especially considering the conditions at Rally GB this year."
Our Subaru ran great and the team did an amazing job pulling this project together for us," stated David Higgins. "The weather conditions were very challenging, but the response from the crowd on stage kept us pushing hard."
Subaru Rally Team USA technical partner Vermont SportsCar planned to enter Higgins' Rally America championship winning 2015 WRX STI, but found it's specifications were too far out of regulation for Rally GB and there wasn't enough time to modify the car after the final Rally America Championship round. Subaru was able to source an NR4 spec 2015 WRX STI from JRM for the task. "We're thankful that JRM was able to produce this car for us in short order," stated Weir. "The NR4 spec car is very close to a stock WRX STI, and really showed to the production car's rally capability out of the box. I can't think of many other production cars that could perform so well in rally in this form."
Full coverage of Subaru Rally Team USA is available on the Subaru Motorsports App. To download from the iTunes App store, click here, for Android App on Google Play store, click here. Follow the team on Instagram @srtusa and Twitter @srtusa.
About Subaru Rally Team USA
Subaru Rally Team USA is managed by Vermont SportsCar and proudly supported by Subaru of America, Inc., Subaru Tecnica International (STI), Method Race Wheels, Royal Purple, DMACK Tires, RECARO, PIAA and Race Proven. Follow the team online at www.subaru.com/rally.
About Subaru of America, Inc.
Subaru of America, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. of Japan. Headquartered at a zero-landfill office in Cherry Hill, N.J., the company markets and distributes Subaru vehicles, parts and accessories through a network of more than 600 retailers across the United States. All Subaru products are manufactured in zero-landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation. For additional information visit media.subaru.com.


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