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Scientists and researchers are just scratching the surface when it comes to identifying potential CBD benefits. Solid evidence exists linking CBD oil to the relief of epilepsy symptoms. Varying degrees of claims, studies, and experiences also point to effective applications in treating numerous anxiety disorders, insomnia, and chronic conditions like arthritis. While direct scientific proof does not definitively prove all of CBD's reported benefits, many users have found relief of pain, anxiousness, inflammation, and muscle soreness. Whole-plant hemp CBD is also used to impart a sense of calm and contribute to a feeling of overall health and well-being.
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In BW9, the right click menu on a Hebrew word gives the option to "Narrate WTT Chapter." I assumed that this was a way to play a sound file that would say the Hebrew text. But when I select it, my media player opens and tells me it cannot find the file. I have all the "sound files" on the install disk already installed.
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Fruit-Studded Polenta Shortcake Recipe
This recipe is adapted from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan.
Notes: Hazan's orginal recipe calls for 2 tablespoons fennel seeds, but I found that 1 tablespoon was more than enough. Add more to your liking, if desired.
Pine nuts go rancid rather quickly; store them in the freezer for longer shelf life.
Toast fennel seeds in a dry skillet over medium-low heat for about 3 minutes until golden and fragrant.
- Yield:8 to 10
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:3 hours, 30 minutes
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 3 pieces
- 1/4 cup unseasoned, toasted bread crumbs
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup coarse polenta or cornmeal
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup raw pine nuts (see notes)
- 1/3 cup golden raisins
- 1 cup dried figs, cut into quarters lengthwise
- 1 large egg, at room temperature, beaten
- 1 tablespoon fennel seeds, toasted (see notes)
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 375°F. Grease a 9-inch round cake pan with 1 tablespoon butter and sprinkle with bread crumbs, tapping and shaking pan to distribute crumbs evenly.
Bring water to boil in large heavy-bottomed saucepan over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to medium and add polenta in a slow, steady stream, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon. Stir in salt and olive oil and continue stirring until polenta thickens and the water has been fully absorbed, about 30 to 60 seconds. Remove from heat.
Add sugar, pine nuts, raisins, figs, remaining 2 tablespoons butter, beaten egg, and fennel seeds and stir until thoroughly combined. Add the flour and stir until thoroughly combined.
Scrape batter into prepared pan, smoothing top out with rubber spatula. Bake until cake tester comes out clean, 45 to 60 minutes. Transfer to cooling rack and cool in pan 10 minutes. Invert cake onto plate, then invert onto cooling rack so domed side is facing up. Cool completely on rack, 1 to 2 hours, before serving.
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Why did the college make the change to eBills ?
The Student Accounts Office at the College of Saint Benedict uses eBilling as the official billing process for the college. Some of the advantages to eBilling are:
Billing statements are received immediately after processing, eliminating mailing time and allowing more time for the students and Authorized Users to plan.
Electronic payments are posted to the account immediately.
Electronic payments are able to be made 24/7 and will no longer rely on office hours.
Increased privacy and security.
Available world wide via the Internet.You may request that multiple "Authorized Users" have access to your bill. View the billing and payment history on an account.
Environmentally friendly and supports the efforts of the college to be Sustainable. Contributes to budget savings which indirectly affect the cost of tuition.
Important information to be aware of:
- If a paper copy of the bill is needed, students and Authorized Users have an option to print the bill statement after viewing it.
- Only the student can set up an Authorized User. Make sure that this important step has been completed. Authorized Users can view and/or make payments on the eBilling statements.
- Payments can be made electronically using electronic checks from a savings or checking account or credit card.
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Bill Gross' annus horribilis just got worse.
The PIMCO Total Return Fund lost an estimated $3.1 billion of client assets in April, Morningstar said Thursday. Total assets in the fund at the end of April were about $230 billion, according to the research group's latest estimates.
(These figures do not include assets held in non-U.S. versions of the fund or ETF.)
PIMCO's Total Return ETF outflows for April 2014 were some $75 million. Total assets in the fund at the end of April were $3.4 billion.
In contrast, the DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund had inflows of about $134 million in April, according to Morningstar estimates; its total assets as of April 30 were an estimated $32 billion, the research group says.
DoubleLine, though, says that it actually had inflows of $320 million into its total return bond product and overall inflows of $442.5 million.
(Morningstar estimates fund flows by computing the change in assets that is not explained by the performance of the fund and acknowledges that the fund's actual flows may differ from its estimates for "a host of reasons.")
In March, Morningstar reported that $7.4 billion moved out of the PIMCO fund family, and $15.5 billion was withdrawn in the first quarter. PIMCO's flagship Total Return Fund experienced $3.1 billion in outflows in the third month of the year, when other intermediate-term bond funds had $7.4 billion of inflows.
Performance Picture
Institutional shares of the PIMCO Total Return Fund (PTTRX) were up about 0.74% in April and 2.05% for the year through April 30. That put the fund in the 68th percentile for the month and the 83rd percentile year to date for the intermediate-term bond group.
PIMCO's Total Return ETF (BOND), though, rose 0.73% in April and is up 2.89% year to date. That put it in the 70th percentile for the month, but also in the top percentile so far in 2014.
The DoubleLine Total Return Bond I Fund (DBLTX) underperformed its PIMCO counterpart for April, with returns of 0.69%, putting it in the 79th performance percentile. However, it outperformed its rival year to date — with returns of 3.1%; that result put it in the 29th percentile in terms of performance in its investment category.


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It's a beautiful sunny morning here in Portsmouth and quite warm already. We're in the English Heritage Archaeological Conservation laboratory. Just to cool down a bit we opened up our freeze drier to weigh some wood. It's -30°C in the chamber! In there we've got barrel staves from the Stirling Castle shipwreck, a Medieval set of stocks from Barking Abbey and Roman bowl fragments from Birdoswald fort.
All the wood was found wet and has been treated with Polyethylene Glycol before it was frozen and placed inside the vacuum freeze drier. The freeze drier removes the water in the wood via sublimation (where the frozen water is transformed to the gas state without going through the liquid state). This water is collected in the small chamber as ice . We take the wood out every 2nd day and weigh it. The wood is dry when it stops losing weight. Once it's dry it can be handled, studied or displayed.
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Standard Features Include:
- 1478mm (4ft 10") Wide Greenhouse
- Silver Aluminium Frame
- 3mm Toughened Safety Glass - Full Length
- Glazing Bar Capping - No Clips
- 2x Large Roof Vents
- Zero Threshold™ Door System
- Locking Sliding Doors
- 80mm Width Gutters with 40mm Downpipes
- Super Strength Ridge Bar
- Aluminium L - Brackets to screw greenhouse to hard surface
- 12 Year Manufacturers Warranty
- Made in Great Britain
The brand new Eden Birdlip 4x6 Greenhouse with toughened glazing will give you a practical growing area that will fit into a small space in your garden as well as great safety and wind resistance with full pane glass.
NEW - Zero Threshold™ Door System is a first in modern greenhouse design. There's simply nothing there to step over when entering the greenhouse. No tripping over traditional raised base plinths, and easy access with your wheelbarrow or wheelchair. This system complements the integral base plinth that makes installation fast and easy as well as adding stiffness to the structure.
NEW - Wide Gutters with Downpipes make a big difference to the amount of fresh rainwater you can collect as well as help keep them blockage free from fallen leaves. These superb 80mm wide gutters also come complete with 40mm downpipes as standard. Along with the super strength ridge bar these wide gutters also add to the overall stiffness of the greenhouse, adding stability in adverse weather.
3mm Full Length Toughened Safety Glass is the very best choice for us UK gardeners. It's full length, cutting down on drafts and at the same time being stiffer, cutting down on flexing within the frame. Eden use British Standard BS6206A safety glass. This glass withstands impacts far better than standard greenhouse glass and if it does break, it breaks into small harmless pebbles that won't cause serious injury. This toughened glass model comes with glazing bar capping to keep your glass nice and snug in the frame, cutting out vibration, flexing and looking neat and tidy.
Each Birdlip greenhouse comes supplied with an easy to follow, illustrated instruction manual with numbered parts to make home erection simple and straightforward.


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IntroductionLocated in the Mahra province (in the extreme east), this coastal town has a population that still speaks ancient (non-Arabic) dialects. Though quite a bit out of the way, Al Ghaydah will attract those who are deeply interested in Mideastern culture. This region has been closed by the government from time to time, so check with officials in Aden before heading out there. 375 mi/600 km northeast of Aden.
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Tank Carder's only NFL start as a rookie came against Pittsburgh. His second NFL start figures to come against the Steelers on Sunday, and this time, it counts.
A man named Carder is on deck, with a chance to keep the Browns' season from going in the tank.
With starting inside linebacker Craig Robertson facing multiple games out with a sprained knee, Rob Chudzinski found himself answering his first Tank Carder questions of the season.
"He was a Rose Bowl MVP," Chudzinski said as he began to describe Robertson's replacement. Carder is expected to start against the Steelers on Sunday.
On Jan. 1, 2011, Carder was named defensive player of the game after Texas Christian's 21-19 Rose Bowl win over Wisconsin.
Wisconsin had knocked Ohio State out of the national championship hunt, beating the Buckeyes when they were ranked No. 1. Texas Christian, whose quarterback was Andy Dalton, finished 13-0.
Carder thus was on a much bigger college stage than Robertson, who played at North Texas. In fact, Carder was a fifth-round draft pick in 2012 (Buffalo), whereas Robertson was undrafted in 2011.
As the top dog on TCU's No. 1-ranked defense, Carder made assorted All-America teams.
After he was named Mountain West Conference defensive player of the year in 2010 and 2011, Pro Football Weekly wrote this draft report:
"Strengths: "Drops into coverage and shows alert zone reactions. Has a special teams mentality and traits. Vocal leader. Solid football character.
"Weaknesses: Exposed by speed and quickness in space. Plays short-armed and can be eliminated by larger blockers. Leaky tackler."
The Bills saw flaws that prompted them to cut him at the end of the 2012 preseason. Tom Heckert quickly claimed him off waivers.
Carder made the Browns' roster but faded into the shadows of special teams. He stayed there this year, drawing scant notice.
Last Sunday, though, after Robertson went down at Cincinnati, Carder played 38 snaps, as many as No. 6 overall draft pick Barkevious Mingo.
"I didn't feel like the Bengals changed their scheme when I was in," Carder said.
Coaches thought he held up as well as could be expected, coming off a practice week of limited reps. His most important play came midway through the third quarter after the Browns had scored to cut a deficit to 31-20. On third-and-five, he tackled Giovani Bernard well short of a first down to force a punt.
Unfortunately, Armonty Bryant was offside on the snap for the punt, keeping the ball with the Bengals and killing momentum.
On the first play after the Bengals offense ran back on the field, Carder gave up a 15-yard catch to tight end Tyler Eifert before making a tackle.
This week, preparing as a starter, Carder has exuded confidence.
"I know I can play football," he said. "Whatever role I'm given, starter, backup, all special teams ... I'm going to rise to the challenge."
Defensive coordinator Ray Horton isn't saying much about Carder, yet, other than:
"I'm as comfortable with Tank as I was with Craig."
Carder has not lived a life of comfort.
Most people have to look up his real name, Ricky. He has been "Tank" ever since going to school in Sweeny, Texas, as the biggest kid in his class.
Competition drove him from an early age. He grew up on a bicycle. At age 9, he was a BMX world champion.
He was practically welded to his bike from the time he was 2 until serious racing left him with burnout at 10.
As a seventh-grader, he emerged from a car crash that broke his back in two places, punctured his lungs and nearly killed him. Doctors called him a "miracle kid" after he survived and set out to make it in football.
He made it big-time at TCU. For now, he has settled for making the team in the NFL. As a Browns rookie, he spent 2012 on special teams, not seeing the field on defense until the final game. Then, he started in place of injured James-Michael Johnson — against Pittsburgh.
Now, the 6-foot-2, 240-pounder is headed for the first start of his second season — against Pittsburgh.
Last year, the Pittsburgh game came at garbage time. Now, the Browns are in a playoff hunt.
It sounds as if he knows the drill.
"Steelers? That's all we talk about," he said, "especially the week the game comes. It's huge."


text: The High Line is a public park built on an historic freight rail line elevated above the streets on Manhattan's West Side built on a 1.45-mile section of the former elevated New York Central Railroad spur called the West Side Line. It is owned by the City of New York, and maintained and operated by Friends of the High Line, founded in 1999 by community residents. High Line has been redesigned and planted as an aerial greenway and is maintained as an extraordinary public space for all to enjoy. Manhattan, New York, USA. 4th June 2013. Photo Tim ClaytonAdd to Lightbox Download


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Reading Buddies On Monday, July 8, 15, 22, 29, Aug. 5, 12 from 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. Easttown Library teen volunteers will be available to children ages 5 and above who can read independently. The teen Book Buddies will be available in the library to listen to stories read to them by younger readers. Visit as often as you like on Mondays throughout the summer.
For more information visit www.easttownlibrary.org.
Teen writing workshop Tredyffrin Public Library will hold a summer writing workshop for teens led by local author Susan Shaw on Thursdays, July 11 and 18 from 7-8:30 p.m. at the library, 582 Upper Gulph Road, Strafford. Space is Limited. To sign up contact Laurie Doan at the library at 610-688-7092 ext. 200 firstname.lastname@example.com.
Explore the museum The Brandywine River Museum holds Explorer Mornings, for ages 3-10 accompanied by an adult. Programs are held Thursdays beginning July 11 at 10-11:30 and 11-12:30. July 11 - Cool Colors: Identify cool and warm colors in paintings, then combine a rainbow of paper pieces to create a colorful collage.
During Explorer Mornings, children will enjoy an interactive guided tour of one or more museum galleries followed by a creative art activity. Come to one workshop or all four.
Free for members and included in museum admission. For reservations, contact the education office at 610-388-8382 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
Host families needed The Chester County Lions Club Youth Cultural Exchange is looking for two host family for visiting Japanese students July 22-Aug. 15. For information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 484-571-2327.
Robotics Club The Chester County 4-H Program announces the start of a new 4-H Robotics Club at the West Grove United Methodist Church located at 300 N. Guernsey Road, West Grove
The club will meet the second Tuesday of the month (except August) from 7 – 8:30 p.m. and is geared toward middle school-age children.
Club projects including Junk Drawer Robotics and LEGO Mindstorm kits that will keep kids actively engaged while learning the basics and more of robotics. Lead by 4-H Science Assistant, Peggy McKee, the Robotics Club is also looking for a few parents or volunteers to assist. Volunteer training will be provided.
For more information or to volunteer please contact Peggy McKee at email@example.com or call the Extension office at 610-696-3500.
DiscoverE programs for kids DiscoverE is a series of programs for young people, provided by the Pennsylvania Bureau of State Parks. Led by trained State Parks staff, the secrets of
Pennsylvania's natural and historic resources are unlocked through hands-on exploration and fun outdoor recreational activities.
This summer, French Creek State Park is offering DiscoverE programs for children ages 4-5 (Hide –N Seekers), 6-8 (Outdoor Explorers) and 9-12 (Penn's Adventurers) on Thursdays from 10 a.m.- noon. A donation of $5 per program for each child is requested. All programs take place outdoors, and are weather-dependent. See below for the program schedule:
Penn's Adventurers 7/18 -- Herps
7/25 -- Geocaching Outdoor Explorers
8/1 -- Spider Safari Hide –N Seekers
8/29 -- In a Grasshopper's World
Advance registration is requested. Please contact Lisa Miller: 610-582-9680 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
DiscoverE programs are also being held at Marsh Creek State Park. The programs are held on the west side of the park on Wednesdays, July 24, July 31 and Aug. 7, 10 a.m. to noon.
For information, visit www.VisitPAParks.com and click on events calendar.
Mural painters wanted Friends of the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library are sponsoring a youth contest to find a mural design for the story-time room in the children's department at the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library. As part of the Henrietta Hankin's Branch Library 10th anniversary celebration, area high-school students (and high-school-aged homeschoolers) within twenty miles of the Hankin Library are invited to submit designs for a mural with a literary theme appropriate for children ages eleven and under. Under the supervision of Downingtown School District's K-12 Visual Arts curriculum leader and Shamona Creek Art teacher, Julie Dimino, the winning artist and local children will paint the chosen design in August. The finished mural will be revealed and the winning artist honored at the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library 10th anniversary celebration on Sept. 21.
'We are excited to be utilizing the talents of local students to create a mural for our Story Corner,' comments Jane Leven, Henrietta Hankin Branch Manager. 'This is a wonderful gift to be given to the Hankin Library in honor of its 10th anniversary, and it will be enjoyed by countless families in the years to come.'
For entry forms and additional information, high-school aged youth should contact his or her art teacher, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com, or visit the Henrietta Hankin Branch Library at 215 Windgate Drive, West Vincent. Entries must be received by July 22.
Children of all ages can help to paint the winning design. Sign ups for painting shifts will be available at the Hankin's Children's library.
Norco Fair The annual Norco Fire Company Fair will be held through Saturday, July 6 at the fire company fair grounds, Route 724 east of the Coventry Mall.
Tuesday and Wednesday are family nights, ride specials on Thursday and Saturday. Swoop, the Eagles mascot, visits on Friday, arriving on a fire truck at 7 p.m. There will be a blood drive on Saturday, 6-9 p.m. The event will conclude with a fireworks display on Saturday at 10:30 p.m.
There are more than 20 rides and an extensive menu.
For information, visit www.norcofireco.org.
MCHC needs diapers Everyday Maternal and Child Health Consortium (MCHC) works to ensure every child living in Chester County starts healthy, stays healthy and succeeds in school. One in three mothers in the United States are unable to provide their babies with one of their most essential needs, diapers. To address this need in the Chester County community, MCHC created a 'Make a Change' diaper drive effort and the organization is seeking your help to collect new packages of large size diapers (size 2 to 6) for underprivileged moms.
For additional information about how you can get involved, contact email@example.com or call 610-235-4230.
Volunteers for 4-H STEM ed The Chester County 4-H program is looking for several volunteers to help us engage youth in STEM education. Volunteers would work directly with youth on short term projects or in on-going 4-H clubs. Volunteer training is provided. Chester County 4-H plans to establish new clubs across the County to provide fun, hands-on learning opportunities for youth 8 -18. To find out more about the opportunities available please contact Toni Stuetz, Extension 4-H Coordinator at email@example.com or 610-696-3500.
Library book clubs Two new Book Clubs will be starting at the Downingtown Library in February. On the first Wednesday of each month, boys and girls in 4th and 5th grade who enjoy reading and discussing books are invited to join this new club. On the second Wednesday of each month, a similar club will be open to boys and girls in 6th and 7th grade. Book lists will be determined at the first meeting. Both meetings will be held from 5 to 6 p.m. For more information or to register, stop by the library or call 610-269-2741.
The Downingtown Library is located at 330 E. Lancaster Ave.
Send your family notes to Phyllis Rowan at firstname.lastname@example.com. Information must be received at least two weeks prior to the event.


text: 1836, Connecticut-born gun manufacturer Samuel Colt (1814-62) received a U.S. patent for a revolver mechanism that enabled a gun to be fired multiple times without reloading. Colt founded a company to manufacture his revolving-cylinder pistol; however, sales were slow and the business floundered. Then in 1846, with the Mexican War (1846-48) under way, the U.S. government ordered 1,000 Colt revolvers. In 1855, Colt opened what was the world's largest private armament factory, in which he employed advanced manufacturing techniques such as interchangeable parts and an organized production line. By 1856, the company could produce 150 weapons per day. Colt was also an effective promoter, and by the start of the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) he had made the Colt revolver perhaps the world's best-known firearm. He died a wealthy man in 1862; the company he founded remains in business today.


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Last.fm is a music website, founded in the United Kingdom in 2002. Using a music recommender system called "Audioscrobbler", Last.fm builds a detailed profile of each user's musical taste by recording details of the tracks the user listens to, either from Internet radio stations, or the user's computer or many portable music devices. This information is transferred ("scrobbled") to Last.fm's database either via the music player itself (Rdio, Spotify, Clementine, Amarok, MusicBee) or via a plugin installed into the user's music player. The data are then displayed on the user's profile page and compiled to create reference pages for individual artists.
On 30 May 2007, it was acquired by CBS Interactive for UK£140 million (US$280 million).[2] It claimed 30 million active users in March 2009,[3] By April 2011, Last.fm had reported more than 50 billion scrobbles.[4]
The site offers numerous social networking features and can recommend and play artists similar to the user's favourites; it also features a wiki system analogous to Wikipedia, wherein registered users can collaborate on hyperlinked information about tracks, releases (albums, etc.), artists, bands, tags, and record labels.[citation needed]
The site formerly offered a radio streaming service, which was discontinued on 28 April 2014.[5]
- 1 History
- 2 Funding and staff
- 3 Features
- 4 Artist pages
- 5 Music catalogue
- 6 Tags
- 7 Charts
- 8 Radio stations
- 9 Audioscrobbler plugin
- 10 Other third party applications
- 11 Similar services
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 External links
Audioscrobbler and Last.fm (2002–2006)
The current Last.fm website was developed from two separate sources: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler, which were merged in 2005. Audioscrobbler began as a computer science project of Richard Jones when he attended the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science in the United Kingdom.[6] Jones developed the first plugins, and then opened an API to the community, after which many music players on different operating system platforms were supported. Audioscrobbler was limited to recording music its users played on a registered computer, which allowed for charting and collaborative filtering.
Last.fm was founded in 2002 by Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel, Michael Breidenbruecker and Thomas Willomitzer, all of them from Germany or Austria, as an internet radio station and music community site, using similar music profiles to generate dynamic playlists. The site name takes advantage of a domain hack using .fm, the top level domain of Micronesia, popular with FM radio related sites. The "love" and "ban" buttons allowed users to gradually customise their profiles. Last.fm won the Europrix 2002 and was nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica in 2003.[7]
The Audioscrobbler (the term scrobbling is defined as: to find, process and distribute information involving people, music and other data) and Last.fm teams began to work closely together, both teams moving into the same offices in Whitechapel, London, and by 2003 Last.fm was fully integrated with Audioscrobbler profiles. Input could come through an Audioscrobbler plugin or a Last.fm station. The sites also shared many community forums, although a few were unique to each site. The old Audioscrobbler site at the audioscrobbler.com domain name was wholly merged into the new Last.fm site on 9 August 2005. Audioscrobbler.net was launched as a separate development-oriented site on 5 September 2005. However, at the very bottom of each of the Last.fm pages there was an Audioscrobbler "slogan", which changes each time the page is refreshed. Based on well-known sayings or advertisements, these originally appeared at the top of the Audioscrobbler website pages and were all created and contributed by the original site members.[citation needed]
An update to the site was made on 14 July 2006, which included a new software application for playing Last.fm radio streams and for logging of tracks played with other media players. Other changes included the improvement of the friends system and updating it to require a two-way friendship, the addition of the Last.fm "Dashboard" where users can see on one page relevant information for their profile, expanded options for purchasing music from online retailers and a new visual design for the web site (including an optional black colour scheme).[citation needed] The site began expanding its language base on 15 July 2006,[citation needed] with a Japanese version. Currently, the site is available in German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Russian, Turkish and Simplified Chinese. In late 2006, the site won Best Community Music Site at the BT Digital Music Awards in October.[8] Last.fm also teamed with EMI on Tuneglue-Audiomap.[9] In January 2007 it was nominated for Best Website at the NME Awards.
CBS Acquisition and redesign (2007–2009)
At the end of April 2007, rumours of negotiations between CBS and Last.fm emerged, suggesting that CBS intended to purchase Last.fm for about £225 million. ($449 million USD) [10] In May 2007 it was announced that Channel 4 Radio was to broadcast a weekly show called Worldwide Chart reflecting what Last.fm users around the world were listening to. On 30 May 2007, it was announced that Last.fm had been bought by CBS for £140 million with Last.fm's current management team staying in place.[11] In July 2008, the "new generation" Last.fm was launched featuring a completely new layout, color scheme, and several new features, as well as some old ones removed.[12] This was, however, met with dissatisfaction amongst some users, who complained about the "ugly and non-user-friendly layout", bugs, and slowness.[13][14][15] Still, a month after the redesign a CBS press release credited the redesign with generating a 20% growth in the site's traffic.[16]
On 22 February 2009, Techcrunch claimed that "[the] RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user's listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, allegedly handed the data over to the RIAA."[17] This led to several public postings from both Last.fm and Techcrunch, with Last.fm denying passing any personal data to RIAA.[18] The request was purportedly prompted by the leak of U2's then-unreleased album No Line On The Horizon, and its subsequent widespread distribution via peer-to-peer file sharing services and BitTorrent.
Three months later, on 22 May 2009, Techcrunch claimed that it was CBS, the parent company of Last.fm, that handed over the data.[19] Last.fm again denied that this was the case, saying that CBS couldn't have handed over the data without Last.fm's knowledge.[20]
Changes to streaming and access on other platforms (2009–2011)
On 24 March 2009, Last.fm announced a change in free stream listening policy. According to the blog post[21] "[...] In the United States, United Kingdom and Germany, nothing will change. In all other countries, listening to Last.fm Radio will soon require a subscription of €3.00 per month." The change went into effect on 22 April 2009. The announcement has led to a wave of disappointment among the users, resulting in users stopping the submission of their data, refusing to change signatures/avatars and even deleting their accounts.[22]
On 11 September 2009, CBS Radio announced that Last.fm programming will be available in four major market FM stations for the first time on their HD Radio multicasts. This includes KCBS-HD2 in Los Angeles; KITS-HD3 in San Francisco; WWFS-HD2 in New York City; and WXRT-HD3 in Chicago. The programming, which consists mostly of music aggregated by Last.fm's user-generated weekly music charts as well as live performances and interviews from the Last.fm studios in New York City debuted on 5 October.[23]
On 12 April 2010, Last.fm announced that they would be removing the option to preview entire tracks, instead redirecting to sites such as the free 'Hype Machine' and pay-to-listen 'Mog' for this purpose. This provoked a large negative reaction from some of the Last.fm user community who perceive the removal as hindering the ability of lesser-known and unsigned artists to gain exposure for their music and general enjoyment of the site.[24] A new 'Play direct from artist' feature was introduced soon after, which allowed artists to select individual tracks for users to be able to stream in full.[25]
The ability to listen to custom radio stations ('personal tag radio', 'loved tracks radio') was withdrawn on 17 November 2010[26] (tag radio still exists but the criteria for calling up tracks has been widened). This change provoked an angry response among some users.[27] Last FM claim that the move is due to "licensing".[28] The change of 17 November 2010 means that a tag radio stream will include ALL music tagged as such, not just that tagged by each individual user: effectively widening the number of tracks that might be streamed under any one tag set.[29]
Website and desktop application redesigns (2012–2013)
On 14 February 2012, Last.fm announced a new beta desktop client had been launched for public testing.[30][31][32] The new scrobbler was released for all users on 15 January 2013.
On 12 July 2012, Last.fm announced a new website redesign was also open to public beta, and would rely on feedback from testing users.[33] The site redesign went live for all users on 2 August 2012.[34][35] While well received by technology websites,[36][37][38][39] some of the site's users reacted negatively to the changes on the website's forum.[34]
On 19 June 2012, Last.fm launched Last.fm Originals, a new website featuring exclusive performances and interviews from various musical artists.[40]
On 13 December 2012, it was announced that Last.fm will discontinue radio service after January 2013 to subscribers in all countries except the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and Brazil.[41][42] Additionally, radio in the desktop client will require a subscription in the US, UK and Germany, although the website radio will remain free in those countries.[41]
End of radio streaming and future (2014–present)
In January 2014, the website announced on-demand integration with Spotify and a new YouTube-powered radio player.[43] Upon the introduction of the YouTube player, the standard radio service became a subscriber-only feature.
On 26 March 2014,[44] Last.fm announced they would be discontinuing their streaming radio service on 28 April 2014. In a statement, the site said the decision was made in order to "focus on improving scrobbling and recommendations".[5]
On 15 April 2015, Last.fm released a subscriber-exclusive beta of a new website redesign.[45]
Funding and staff
Last.fm Ltd is funded from the sale of online advertising space, monthly user subscriptions, and donations. On Tuesday, 24 March 2009 it was announced on the official Last.fm blog that Last.fm will charge users (except for those in the United States, United Kingdom, or Germany) a subscription fee of €3.00 per month for use of Last.fm radio.[46]
Funding prior to acquisition
In 2004, the company received the first round of angel money, from Peter Gardner, an investment banker who was introduced to the founders as early as 2002. A second round was led by Stefan Glaenzer (joined by Joi Ito and Reid Hoffman), who bought into Michael Breidenbruecker's shares as well. In 2006 the company received the first round of venture capital funding from European investors Index Ventures, whose General Partners Neil Rimer and Danny Rimer also joined Last.fm's board of directors, consisting of Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel and Stefan Glaenzer (Chair).[47]
Original founders Felix Miller, Martin Stiksel and Richard Jones left the company in summer 2009.[48]
User accounts
The free user account includes access to all the main features listed below. Registered Users are also able to post in the Last.fm forums, send and receive private messages and use the Last.fm client music player. For users living outside the UK, US and Germany, the radio service will require a subscription for €3.00 per month after a 50 track free trial.[46]
A Last.fm user can build a musical profile using any or all of several methods: by listening to their personal music collection on a music player application on a computer or an iPod with an Audioscrobbler plugin, or by listening to the Last.fm internet radio service, either with the Last.fm client, or with the embedded player. All songs played are added to a log from which personal top artist/track bar charts and musical recommendations are calculated. This automatic track logging is called scrobbling.
Last.fm automatically generates a profile page for every user which includes basic information such as their user name, avatar, date of registration and total number of tracks played. This can be customized with additional information or photographs if desired but the fundamental layout cannot be changed. There is also a Shoutbox for public messages. Profile pages are visible to all, together with a list of top artists and tracks, and the 10 most recently played tracks (can be expanded). Each user's profile has a 'Taste-o-Meter' which gives a rating of how compatible your music taste is.
Profile pages can also include lists of friends, weekly musical "neighbours", favourite tags, groups and events. Specifically, musical neighbours show users other people on the site who have the most similar musical tastes to them. The neighbours section notes favorited genres, artists, the last track the neighbour listened to, and allow individuals the ability to examine that user's profile. Finally, a neighbourhood radio is available for users to listen to, and is customized according to the interests of the neighbourhood.
Additionally, an optional customizable playlist may be added, with tracks that the user wishes to share or promote. Other features include the ability to remove songs listened to within a 2-week time-frame, navigation to linked profiles (such as friends and musical neighbours) and a list of individual users' favourite albums.
A customizable display of Recently Played tracks, is now available via web services, allowing users to add them to blogs, MySpace or as forum signatures.
The most recent expanded service on Last.fm is a personal recommendations page known as "The Dashboard". This is only visible to the user concerned and lists suggested new music, events, journal entries and other people with similar tastes, all tailored to the user's own preferences.
Recommendations are calculated using a collaborative filtering algorithm so users can browse and hear previews of a list of artists not listed on their own profile but which appear on those of others with similar musical tastes. The page also lists music that has been directly recommended to the user and groups the user belongs to, journals written by users about artists the user listens to, and other users who have listened to similar music recently. There is also a 'recommendation radio' station which will play music specifically filtered based on the user's last week of listening. Last.fm also permits users to manually recommend specific artists, songs or albums to other users on their friends list or groups they belong to, providing the recommendation in question is included in the Last.fm database.
Last.fm allows the formation of user groups between users with something in common (for example, fans of an artist, a genre of music, or membership of another internet forum). Groups may be linked to artists and countries. Any user may start a group and add members. Most groups are open to all, but membership may be subject to approval by the Group Leader. Last.fm will generate a group profile similar to the users' profiles, showing an amalgamated set of data and charting the group's overall tastes. Individual groups have their own discussion forums and journal space, and a group radio station based on members' music profiles is automatically generated once a sufficient number of members have joined. Group members are also able to submit recommendations of artists or tracks to all the other members of their group.
With the October 2006 update, events functionality was added, which lets users specify a location and a radius from the location, then suggests gigs or festivals that that user may want to see in the area. Users can set themselves as attending an event. Any registered user may add a new venue or event which will then be listed on the band or artist's main page, together with other details if available. There is also a facility to submit reviews and photographs of past events.
Subscriber accounts
Last.fm offers paid accounts, costing GB£3, €3 or US$3 per month.[49] Some of the extra features that paid users receive are:[49]
- No advertising
- The ability to view recent visitors to one's own profile page
- Priority on Last.fm server
- The ability to play Last.fm radio outside of the US, UK, or Germany
- Access to radio on mobile apps and hardware devices
Artist pages
Once an artist has had a track or tracks "scrobbled" by at least one user, Last.fm automatically generates a main artist page, even if there is no music available for streaming on the radio. This page shows details of the total number of plays, the total number of listeners, the most popular weekly and overall tracks, the top weekly listeners, linked groups and journals, a list of similar artists, most popular tags and a shoutbox for messages. There are also links to events, additional album and individual track pages and similar artists radio. Official music videos and other videos imported from YouTube may also be viewed on the relevant artist and track pages.
Users may add relevant biographical details and other information to any artist's main page in the form of a wiki. Edits are regularly moderated to prevent vandalism. A photograph of the artist may also be added. If more than one is submitted, the most popular is chosen by public vote. User submitted content is licensed for use under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License and GNU Free Documentation License.
Last.fm currently cannot disambiguate artists with the same name; a single artist profile is shared between valid artists with the same name.[50] Also Last.fm and its users currently do not differentiate between the Composer and the Artist of music which makes for disorganization in classical music genres.
Music catalogue
Last.fm's music library contains well over 12 million individual audio tracks[citation needed] from artists on all the major commercial and independent labels.[3] Users are provided a tool to add music to which they own the rights to Last.fm's library. Commercially available albums are regularly added by Last.fm staff. The music catalogue includes a wide variety of genres including popular music, classical, opera and musicals, as well as many little known and specialist recordings which are no longer generally available. For licensing and other reasons, there are significant gaps in Last.fm's music catalogue, and tracks that used to be available can disappear. For example, as of 2012, most songs by The Beatles, the Pet Shop Boys and Madonna, among others, were unavailable for streaming. Most recent releases are also not always added immediately.
In February 2007 Warner Music, the world's third-largest music company, announced that it had signed a deal to allow its entire catalogue to be played on Last.fm.[51] Warner's music would be made available over Last.fm's service in Europe and North America. The site's co-founder, Martin Stiksel, said they were also in talks with the other three major labels and content holders. However, in June 2008 Warner cancelled its deal with Last.fm and removed all Warner artists from the site's on demand streaming catalogue,[52] Warner have indicated that they are in disagreement over the financial compensation offered by Last.fm.
On 9 July 2007, it was announced that Last.fm had also signed a deal with the Sony BMG record label. The partnership will give the service's users access to the entire Sony BMG catalogue of music.
Independent artists and record labels
Independent record labels and unsigned artists are encouraged to promote their music on Last.fm, because the filtering and recommendation features mean that the music will be played for users who already like similar artists. Labels and artists can upload their own music for streaming and Last.fm provides access to weekly airplay statistics, with facilities for promoting individual artists or tracks. Labels and artists may choose whether their music is to be made available for streaming only, or for purchase or free download.
Full length promotional tracks and free downloads
30-second previews of any of the 12 million streamable tracks are available on demand, from anywhere in the site, by clicking on the grey arrow next to the name of the track or artist. Some tracks were also available to preview in full if the label or artist has specifically authorized it.
In October 2006, Last.fm brought back its free download service which allowed users to download select tracks as specified by the artist or the label. The service only includes tracks on "indie" labels or by bands who upload their own material, although some artists who have since moved onto a major label (such as Coheed and Cambria and My Chemical Romance) have kept their free songs available for download. More than 500,000 indie artists and labels have used the Last.fm Music Manager to upload more than 3 million tracks to be played on Last.fm's radio, 2 Million can be played "directly from artist" and more than 1M of these songs are currently downloadable,[53] and there is a separate free download chart, updated weekly, showing the 200 most popular tracks. This database of music currently powers the relaunched Mp3.com site that went live in June 2011.
Play-on-demand features and their removal
On 23 January 2008, Last.fm changed its business model with the Free the Music initiative. Most tracks and albums could be streamed from the website free of charge up to three times; the artists were paid each time the track was played.[54] This service was still in beta mode and free on demand listening was only available to users in the US, UK, and Germany.
Last.fm switched this off on 12 April 2010,[29] which greatly upset some Last.fm users,[55] who partnered instead with third party music services such as Hype Machine, MOG, or Spotify, or subscribed to remote servers, to provide listenable content.[56] All tracks were played in full when users listened to Last.fm's radio.
Last.fm supports end-user tagging or labeling of artists, albums, and tracks to create a site-wide folksonomy of music. Users can browse via tags, but the most important benefit is tag radio, permitting users to play music that has been tagged a certain way. This tagging can be by genre, mood, artist characteristic, or any other form of user-defined classification. However, since tagging is not moderated, it is prone to manipulation by the site's users, most often resulting in genre disagreements among users or pushing certain artists higher up on certain tag charts.
Until November 2010, subscribers were also able to create personal tag radio stations containing only tracks and artists that they have tagged themselves. All tag radio stations (including subscriber's personal tag stations) could be played by anybody, including non-subscribers in certain countries including US and some others. In other countries playing requires subscribing.
One particular feature of Last.fm is the semi-automatic weekly generation and archiving of detailed personal music charts and statistics which are created as part of its profile building. Users have several different charts available, including Top Artists, Top Tracks, and Top Albums, as well as Weekly Top Artists and Weekly Top Tracks. Each of these charts is based on the actual number of people listening to the track, album or artist recorded either through an Audioscrobbler plugin or the Last.fm radio stream.
Additionally, charts are available for the top tracks by each artist in the Last.fm system as well as the top tracks for individual albums (when the tagging information of the audio file is available). Artist profiles also keep track of a short list of Top Fans, which is calculated by a formula meant to portray the importance of an artist in a fan's own profile, balancing out users who play hundreds of tracks overall versus those who play only a few.
As the information generated is largely compiled from the ID3 data from audio files "scrobbled" from user's own computers, and which may be incorrect or misspelled, there are many errors in the listings. Tracks with ambiguous punctuation are especially prone to separate listings, which can dilute the apparent popularity of a track. Artists or bands with the same name are not always differentiated. The system attempts to translate some different artist tags to a single artist profile, and has recently attempted to harmonise track names.[citation needed]
Charts are also available for user groups, thus providing a view into a demographic slice, and can reveal interesting new music based on the preferences of similar users.
Global charts
Last.fm generates weekly "global" charts of the top 400 artists and tracks listened to by all Last.fm users.[57] To prevent the artificial boosting of an artist or song by deliberately repeated tracks from a single listener, these charts are based on the total number of individual listeners (the reach) and not the number of actual plays.
The result is notably different from traditional commercial music charts provided by the UK Top 40, Billboard magazine, Soundscan and others, which are based on radio plays or sales. Last.fm charts are less volatile and a new album's release may be reflected in play data for many months or years after it drops out of commercial charts. For example, The Beatles have consistently been a top 5 band at Last.fm, reflecting the continued popularity of the band's music irrespective of current album sales. Significant events, such as the release of a highly anticipated album or the death of an artist can have a large impact on the charts.[58]
The Global Tag Chart shows the 100 most popular tags that have been used to describe artists, albums, and tracks. This is based on the total number of times the tag has been applied by Last.fm users since the tagging system was first introduced and does not necessarily reflect the number of users currently listening to any of the related "global tag radio" stations.
Global tracks chart achievements
These lists highlight significant achievements based on the weekly Last.fm Scrobbling Top Tracks Chart, spanning from the inception week ending 20 February 2005 through the week ending 3 May 2015.
Tracks with the most weeks at number-one
- 40 weeks: "Viva la Vida" – Coldplay
- 38 weeks: "Rolling in the Deep" – Adele
- 29 weeks: "Somebody That I Used to Know" (feat. Kimbra) – Gotye
- 27 weeks: "Bad Romance" – Lady Gaga
- 27 weeks: "Such Great Heights" – The Postal Service
- 23 weeks: "Royals" – Lorde
- 21 weeks: "Take Me to Church" – Hozier
- 16 weeks: "Get Lucky" (feat. Pharrell Williams) – Daft Punk
- 15 weeks: "Speed of Sound" – Coldplay
- 14 weeks: "What I've Done" – Linkin Park
- 13 weeks: "Poker Face" – Lady Gaga
- 13 weeks: "15 Step" – Radiohead
Artists with the most weeks at number-one
- 66 weeks: Coldplay
- 55 weeks: Lady Gaga
- 38 weeks: Adele
- 31 weeks: Radiohead
- 29 weeks: Gotye
- 27 weeks: The Postal Service
- 24 weeks: Pharrell Williams
- 23 weeks: Lorde
- 22 weeks: Rihanna
- 21 weeks: Hozier
- 18 weeks: The Killers
- 17 weeks: Daft Punk
Artists with the most number-one tracks
- 7 No. 1s: Coldplay
- 6 No. 1s: Lady Gaga
- 5 No. 1s: Radiohead
- 4 No. 1s: Arcade Fire
- 3 No. 1s: Nine Inch Nails
- 3 No. 1s: The Killers
- 3 No. 1s: Rihanna
- 3 No. 1s: Kanye West
- 3 No. 1s: Lana Del Rey
- 2 No. 1s: System of a Down
- 2 No. 1s: Kings of Leon
- 2 No. 1s: Katy Perry
- 2 No. 1s: Amy Winehouse
- 2 No. 1s: Daft Punk
- 2 No. 1s: Arctic Monkeys
- 2 No. 1s: Pharrell Williams
- 2 No. 1s: Taylor Swift
Further information
- List of Last.fm number-one songs of the 2000s (International)
- List of Last.fm number-one songs of the 2010s (International)
Radio stations
Last.fm offers customised virtual "radio stations" consisting of uninterrupted audio streams of individual tracks selected from the music files in the music library.
Stations can be based on the user's personal profile, the user's "musical neighbours", or the user's "friends". Groups based around common interests or geography also have radio stations if there are enough members, and tags also have radio stations if enough music has the same tag. Radio stations can also be created on the fly, and each artist page allows selection of a "similar artists" or "artist fan" radio station. As of May 2009, Last.fm introduced Visual Radio, an improved version of last.fm radio. This brought features such as an artist slideshow and combo stations, which allows for listening to stations consisting of common similar artists of up to either 3 artists or 3 tags.[59]
Under the terms of the station's "radio" license, listeners may not select specific tracks (except as previews), or choose the order in which they are played, although any of the tracks played may be skipped or banned completely. The appropriate royalties are paid to the copyright holders of all streamed audio tracks according to the law in the UK. The radio stream uses an MP3 stream encoded at 128 kbit/s 44.1 kHz, which may be played using the in-page flash player or the downloaded Last.fm client, but other community-supported players are available as well as a proxy which allows using a media player of choice.
On 24 March 2009, Last.fm announced that Last.fm Radio will require a subscription of €3.00 per month for users living outside the US, the UK, and Germany.[46] This change was to take effect on 30 March,[60] but was postponed[61] until 22 April. The decision resulted in over 1,000 comments, most of them negative, on the Last.fm blog.[62]
Screenshot of the Windows client from 220.127.116.11893 Version (Early 2008).
|Stable release
|2.1.36 / 13 September 2013[63]
|Preview release
|2.1.35 / 6 March 2013[64]
|Operating system
|Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix
|Media player
|GNU General Public License
An "in-page" player is provided automatically for all listeners with HTML5-enabled browser or Adobe Flash installed on their computers. However, it is necessary to download and install the Last.fm client if a user also wishes information about played tracks from their own digital music collection to be included in their personal music profile.
Prior to August 2005, Last.fm generated an open stream that could be played in the user's music player of choice, with a browser-based player control panel. This proved difficult to support and has been officially discontinued. The Last.fm client is currently the only officially supported music player for playing customized Last.fm radio streams on desktop computers. The current version combines the functions of the music player with the plugin that transmits all track data to the Last.fm server, and effectively replaces the separate Last.fm Player and the standalone track submission plugins. It is also free software licensed under the GNU General Public License and available for GNU/Linux, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems.
The player allows the user to enter the name of any artist or tag which then gives a choice of a number of similar artist stations, or similar global tag stations. Alternatively, Recommendation radio or any of the user's personal radio stations may be played without the necessity to visit the website.
The player displays the name of the station and track currently playing, the song artist, title and track length as well as album details, the artist's photo and biographical details, album cover art when available, lists of similar artists and the most popular tags and top fans. There are several buttons, allowing the user to love, skip, or ban a song. The love button adds the song to the user's loved tracks list; the ban button ensures that the song will not be played again. Both features affect the user's profile. The skip button does not. Other buttons allow the user to tag or recommend the currently playing track. Other features offered by the application are: minor editing of the user's profile including removing recently played artists and songs from the loved, banned, or previously played track lists; lists of friends and neighbours, lists of tags and a list of previously played radio stations. Users can also open their full Last.fm profile page directly from the player.
The client also enables the user to install player plugins, these integrate with various standalone media players to allow the submission of tracks played in those programs.[65]
In the latest version of the Last.fm Player application, the user can select to use an external player. When this is done, the Last.fm Player provides the user with a local URL, through which the Last.fm music stream is proxied. Users can then open the URL in their preferred media player.
A new version of the desktop client, which had been in beta since early 2012, was released on 15 January 2013. This version disabled the radio function for free users. To access that feature, a paid subscription is necessary.
Last.fm has also developed client software for mobile phones running the iPhone OS, BlackBerry OS and the Android OS. Last.fm has only released these apps in the United States, United Kingdom and Germany claiming for four years that they are negotiating licenses for making the streaming available in other countries..
Last.fm remained out of service for more than 22 hours on 10 June 2014. It was amongst the worst outages company has faced. The company however, remained in contact with visitors using a status page.[66]
Audioscrobbler plugin
Last.fm can optionally build a profile directly from a user's music played on their personal computer. Users must download and install a plugin for their music player, which will automatically submit the artist and title of the song after either half the song or the first four minutes have played, whichever comes first. When the track is shorter than 30 seconds (31 seconds in iTunes) or the track lacks metadata (ID3, CDDB, etc.), the track is not submitted. To accommodate dial-up users, caching of the data and submitting it in bulk is also possible.
List of supported media players and streaming sites
|Audio Player
|Playcount import
|aTV Flash (software)
|EMMS (Emacs Multimedia System)
|Free Music Archive[73]
|Helium Music Manager
|Impulse Media Player [77]
|iScrob [78]
|iScrobble Pick 'n' Mix [79]
|mScrob [81]
|MusicIP Mixer
|My Cloud Player[83]
|Pocket Tunes
|Rockbox-enabled players
|The Hype Machine[86]
|The Sixtyone[87]
|Vibe Streamer[90]
|VLC media player
|We Are Hunted[91]
|Plugin (unofficial)
|Beep Media Player
|Beat Hazard
|DivX Connected[92]
|Plugin (unofficial)
|iPod touch and iPhone
|J. River Media Center
|using Winamp plugin, or official beta plugin
|Plugin (unofficial)
|Plugin (unofficial)
|Plugin (unofficial beta)
|Napster Web Radio
|Pocket Player
|Plugin (installed by default)
|Quintessential Player/QCD
|Quod Libet
|RealPlayer (unofficial plugin)[94]
|Windows Media Player
|Xbox Music
|Plugin (browser add-on for Chrome and Opera)
|Yahoo Music Engine
|Plugin (browser add-on for Chrome and Opera)
The following services support sending service-specific recently played track feeds:
- Rhobbler for Rhapsody (beta)
Supported audio players (hardware)
There is some support for portable audio players. Since most of these are offline (which breaks the Last.fm concept), track info has to be batch scrobbled. Players for which batch upload software is available:
- iPod: The most recent version of the Last.fm software for Windows and Mac (introduced in May 2008) features iPod scrobbling. Although this was introduced in a previous version of Last.fm many users had complained that such features had ceased to function in recent updates.[95]
- iPod Touch and iPhone: With iPod Touch and iPhone's firmware version 2.0, Last.fm has created an official client for streaming its music.[96] Alternatively, through the process of Jailbreaking your iPod Touch/iPhone, MobileScrobbler can both stream radio and scrobble tracks via Wi-Fi or an EDGE/3G mobile connection. Track plays are counted using iTunes's system of registering a play if the last 5 seconds of a track are listened to, as opposed to Last.fm's conventional method which scrobbles a play once 50% of a track has elapsed. When the iPod syncs with iTunes, play count data is transferred, which is then extracted by the Last.fm software. iScrobble is a realtime Scrobbler that doesn't require a jailbreak and supports non-realtime and realtime background Scrobbling direct from iDevices. iScrob is a realtime backgrounding Scrobbler that doesn't require a jailbreak.
- Rhythmbox's plugin supports iPod scrobbling
- Smartphones running Google's Android operating system using the Last.fm app which is free from the Android Market.
- Microsoft Zune via Zuse
- Smartphones using Windows Phone OS.
- Nokia N900 (mafw-lastfm plugin for Maemo 5 devices like the Nokia N900)
- Mobbler for Symbian smartphones. With Mobbler, songs played through the phone's music player can either be scrobbled live through an internet connection, or cached and scrobbled later. It also has last.fm radio functionality, along with various other features.
- Aspy Player for Symbian smartphones, e.g. Samsung i8510 where Mobbler doesn't work.
- PlayStation Portable with third party software LightMP3
- Rockbox replacement firmware
- Various other players: supported with the Rockbox firmware - logs made by these players can be uploaded to Last.fm using third party software. Such software includes the web based dap-scrob, and the GUI based Qt4 program QTScrobbler
- Zenses is an open source utility program for MTP compatible devices such as iriver clix, Toshiba's Gigabeat line, SanDisk's Sansa series, Samsung's YP series, Microsoft Zune, & Creative's Zen players. It lets you submit play counts from the player to Last.fm, view charts on what you've played and create recently added playlists. Zenses was designed and developed for use with Creative's Zen Vision:M media player; however it should also work with most other MTP compatible devices. A new version of the application is currently in development by Adam Livesley.[97]
- TrekStor Vibez with scrobbler It'sGotTheVibez
- Frontier Silicon-based connected audio devices.
- INQ1 mobile phone supports scrobbling from its native media player
- Sonos Wireless HiFi Multi-Room Music System supports scrobbling and streaming Last.fm radio
- Squeezebox (network music player) supports scrobbling and streaming Last.fm radio
- Onkyo A/V receivers (selected models in selected countries) supports scrobbling and streaming Last.fm radio[98]
Other third party applications
Supported applications
Build Last.fm As of March 2008, the website has added a section titled "Build" where third party applications can be submitted for review, and then posted to the page.[99] SXSW Band-Aid Last.fm partnered up with the SXSW festival by creating an application embedded in the corresponding group page that filters the various artists at the festival by a user's listening statistics, and then uses Last.fm's recommendation service to also suggest other performing artists that said user hasn't listened to.[100]
Other applications
- QuietScrob is a background scrobbler for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
- iScrob is a full realtime backgrounding Scrobbler for iPhone and iPod touch
- iScrobble is a Last.fm Live Scrobbler with Full Realtime Background Scrobbling and non-realtime scrobbling for when the app isn't running and is available for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad and will be coming to the Mac soon
- Pocket Scrobbler for Windows Mobile enables scrobbling from supported media players as well as streaming radio from Last.fm
- LastFmLib.net (LGPL) for using the Last.fm web services in VB.Net/C#
- Last.fm Java bindings (BSD) for using the Last.fm web services in Java
- Last.fm recent tracks widget for Mac OS X displays a user's most recently played tracks.
- Last.fm widget for Opera also displays a user's most recently played tracks, but works on all platforms Opera runs on.
- Last.fm dashboard widget for Mac OS X displays a user's last messages in his/her shoutbox.
- last.tweet widget for Mac OS X displays the cover art of the recently played track, with Twitter integration.
- FoxyTunes Firefox extension places Last.fm player controls and current song information on the browser status bar.
- 4u2Stream can play Last.fm content on UPnP equipped players.
- ExitAhead finds music on eBay matching a Last.fm profile.
- Last-Stats shows a user's stats and creates dynamic profile/chart images based on a user's Last.fm profile.
- The Hype Machine can scrobble songs the user is listening to on the Hype Machine web-site.
- SongStory is an App for the iPhone, which shows useful information about the currently playing track.[101]
- Tastebuds.fm is a free music-oriented dating site that imports a user's profile from Last.fm.
Similar services
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- The Musical Myware, Audio presentation by CEO Felix Miller, IT Conversations, 7 March 2006
- Guardian Unlimited Interview, Guardian Unlimited Interview with Last.fm co-founder, Martin Stiksel, 4 November 2006
- The Celestial Jukebox, New Statesman on the story of Last.fm, June 2009
- Last.fm music charts widget
- Last.fm for PC alternative download
- Last.fm Down-Time Monitoring Tool
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The history of this Elm Avenue home, winner of the 2009 Preservation Award for a residential property, takes us back to an era when farmland began to make way for tree lined streets with homes to accommodate workers who flocked to the growing town of Hershey. On August 31, 1931 the Hershey Trust Company, as the owner, conveyed 239 Elm Avenue to the historic Hershey Estates. On July 31, 1933, Hershey Estates conveyed the lot to Harry D. Dresher and his wife Mary for the grand sum of $990. The home was built by Hershey Estates in 1934.
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The Best Calzones I've Ever Had at Jeannette's Bakery in Providence, RI
I love reading chef interviews about where they go to eat in their free time, because more often than not, they bring attention to small, local spots with a great dish or two that go otherwise unnoticed by most people and the press.
Take this Meet & Eat with Farmstead/La Laiterie chef/owner Matt Jennings. My two pickups from this interview were Allie's Doughnuts in North Kingstown and Jeanette's Bakery Shoppe, an old-school Italian joint peddling pizza strips and, according to Jennings, the best calzones.
If it weren't for the sign hanging over the door, you'd surely drive by Jeannette's. It appears out of nowhere on a largely residential stretch of Branch Avenue, and it occupies the first floor of a house. (Word has it, though, that there's typically a line out the door—helpful as a landmark, at least. And a good reason to call ahead.) The inside looks woefully understocked, with virtually nothing on display, but it quickly becomes clear that the fresh-baked stuff's in the back. Just tell the nice, patient lady behind the counter what you want and she'll retrieve it for you.
For me, that was the Spinach-Cheese-Black Olive and the Eggplant Parm (both $5, cash only). It was a decision I came to after much deliberation—and some strong but good-natured advice from the long-time patrons in line ahead of me. (They also strongly recommended the Pepperoni and the Bacon Cheeseburger.) And they were by far the best calzones I'd ever had.
The dough, which neatly houses an amount of gooey filling that would surely bulge out of most calzones, manages to be both durable and (dare I say) light-to-eat. That extraordinary combination prompted this rather silly thought in my mind: it's as if the dough was engineered for exactly this purpose, not just a wad of pizza dough stretched into a different shape.
As for the fillings, I couldn't be asked to pick between them. The spinach is chock-full of the green stuff, plus plenty of gooey cheese and salty canned black olives (the spinach deluxe, which adds pepperoni, and the spinach pie get raves, too). The eggplant parm filling looks like mincemeat, has a fluffy-rich texture, and tastes like a version of the casserole you'd find in a good red-sauce joint.
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I knew "chuffed to bits" (British) and "shawty" (American). Shawty, or shorty, is fairly known in US hip hop culture. Never heard any of the other ones.
Some US pop culture trivia for those who are interested-the song Ellen was quoting from during the "shawty" discussion is called Low, by hip hop artist Flo Rida.
YT Link | YouTube - Flo Rida ft. T-Pain - Low
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4.0108 Recall procedure.
(a) Governors of American Samoa may be removed from office by a referendum election in which at least 2/3 of the number of persons voting for Governor in the last preceding general election at which a Governor was elected, vote in favor of recall and in which those so voting constitute a majority of all those participating in the referendum election.
(b) The referendum election shall be initiated by the Legislature following:
(1) a 2/3, or more, vote of the members of each house of the Legislature in favor of a referendum; or
(2) a petition for the referendum to the Legislature by qualified electors equal in number to at least 50 percent of the whole number of votes cast for Governor at the last general election at which a Governor was elected preceding the filing of the petition.History: 1977, PL 15-23 § 1.