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1. What is the Ibotta Influencer Program?
The Ibotta Influencer Program gives website and blog publishers the opportunity to earn money by promoting Ibotta rebates to their readers and followers. Preferred Partners can feature Ibotta offers and promotions to earn money for qualified referrals.
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Each Influencer is given a custom referral code when they sign up for Ibotta. We'll show you how to use that referral code to promote Ibotta offers and earning opportunities to your readers. For every reader or follower that signs up with your referral code and redeems an offer, you get cash directly deposited into your account!
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Your account will be credited as soon as the person you referred signs up for Ibotta and redeems their first offer (excludes "Any Brand" and "Any Item" offers), through either the app or Ibotta.com!
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We offer competitive referral rates for our Influencers. The more you promote Ibotta offers, the more money you can earn!
5. How do I sign up?
We are currently revamping our Affiliate Program to better serve our partners. If interested in joining, please email email@example.com for more information.
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That's up to you! You can choose to promote Ibotta through banner images, write posts about Ibotta offers in your favorite category, or let readers know of new sweepstakes and teamwork this month. We'll provide you with timely creative and offer news on an ongoing basis.
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From the web: Sign into your Ibotta account and visit your Settings page.
From the app: Open your Ibotta app and open the "Profile" tab at the bottom of the screen.
8. How can I find my referral code?
From the web: To access your referral code from the web, sign in to your Ibotta account and visit your Settings page.
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Preferred Partners can "cash out" their earnings at any time through the Ibotta app using Paypal or Venmo. In addition, custom payments may be arranged by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com if qualified. For more information about payments using the Ibotta app, visit our page here.
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Welcome UK Saunas!
With a traditional sauna heat is transferred by circulating hot air, therefore very high air temperatures are required to heat the body, the far infrared heat rays warm your body directly. This allows a penetrating heat at a more pleasant temperature of 110 - 150°F (43 - 66°C), thus providing more health benefits and a far more enjoyable and comfortable environment.
Traditional saunas need high air temperatures to pull impurities from the body, but infrared heated saunas can directly penetrate up to 45 mm inside the body. Impurities will be released using lower and more comfortable temperatures.
A typical conventional sauna requires a power supply of up to 7kW therefore an electrician will be needed to install the heater, our largest infrared sauna needs a power supply capable of delivering 2.4kW therefore can be run directly from a domestic 3 pin socket, another advantage is because there is no steam, no venting is required and the infrared sauna cannot cause condensation or damp.
The infrared lamp sauna was first used about 100 years ago. The electric light bulb had just been invented by Thomas Edison. Early units made use of 40 small regular bulbs. It was found to remove toxins faster than the traditional saunas available. However, it is not well known or understood well at all.
The following is a brief overview into a large subject, for more in depth information, more complete plans, protocols, cautions, case histories and much more, we highly recommend the book Sauna Therapy.
Infrared Saunas are a safe, low cost method of removing toxins from the skin, there are many benefits, some of which include:
Over time, dirt and sweat, exposure to synthetic clothing, chlorinated water and various chemicals can lead to a build up of toxins in the skin. The heat from the sauna allows for the removal of these toxins from the skin through increased heat and perspiration, leaving a healthier looking complexion.
Medical studies show that most toxins in the body can be removed through the skin which helps reduce the load on the liver and kidneys. Heat from infrared saunas will encourage perspiration and this process gradually aids the removal of heavy metals and toxic chemicals. Sweating through exercise alone is not as effective for the detoxification process, therefore saunas are fantastic for detoxifying the body
Using saunas regularly can have many exercise benefits including improved circulation and oxidation of the tissues without expending as much energy. Repeated use can help to lower high blood pressure and increase the elasticity of the arteries.
When the body is heated, blood rushes towards the skin to help control the heat, this helps to decongest internal organs, improving circulation.
Infrared saunas are shown to aid:
Those with low body temperatures can struggle to overcome some chronic infections, raising body temperature has been shown to aid the body to kill bacteria, fungi, parasites and viruses
We have a wide range of infrared home sauna models from one person models through to four person models. All models are easy to install, quick to heat up, consume a low amount of energy and are easy to clean.
See also:
outdoor Saunas
Traditional Saunas

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A Blueprint for Action: Policy Options to Reduce New Jersey's Contribution to Global Warming
Publication Date: September 2006
Publisher(s): Environment New Jersey Research and Policy Center
Author(s): Tony Dutzik; Suzanne Liou; Dena Mottola
Funder(s): Energy Foundation
Funder(s): Energy Foundation
Topic: Environment (Weather and climate)
Keywords: renewable energy; energy efficiency; Clean Cars Program
Type: Report
Coverage: New Jersey
Global warming poses a serious threat to New Jersey's future. The state has already begun to respond to the problem, but additional action is needed if New Jersey is going to do its share to prevent the worst impacts of global warming, like inundation of parts of the Jersey Shore from rising seas. A Blueprint for Action describes 11 policy steps that, if taken, would reduce the state's global warming emissions to 6 percent below 2005 levels by 2020.


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Christina Forrester is starting over. After a financial scandal sent her ex-husband to prison, she's left raising her young son without any of the comforts of their old life. Budgets, coupons, lawn care—you name it, she's learning to do it all on her own. Well, almost on her own—she'd be lost without Gail Broughton, the kind widow across the street. But when Gail's son comes home, Christina's vow to never trust a man again is put to the test.
Will Broughton left town because he was tired of being "that poor man" who lost his wife and unborn child in a tragic accident. But years have passed and, with his dad gone and his mom alone, it's time to go home. Only his mother's not alone. She's taken Christina under her wing, and the beautiful and determined single mother awakens something in Will he thought was buried forever.
As Will and Christina are forced to spend more time together, feelings that are more than neighborly grow between them. And with Christmas coming and a child filling both houses with holiday cheer, it becomes nearly impossible not to embrace the joy—and the love—in their lives.
This is a very sweet Christmas read. I had a difficult time connecting with the characters at first, but I think that is mostly due to it being a novella. While it was not my favorite story by Shannon Stacey, it was still very enjoyable and sentimental.
If you love a good heartwarming holiday story, this book is for you. Fans of Stacey's that do not typically enjoy this genre will still enjoy the story.
MATURITY RATING - 18+ a little steamy
You can contact Shannon through her website, http://shannonstacey.com, where she has maintains an almost daily blog, or visit her on Twitter at http://twitter.com/shannonstacey, her Facebook page, http://facebook.com/shannonstacey.authorpage, or email her at email@example.com.


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sometimes, the world gets so heavy.
it's like i don't notice the trees melting, and they drip sticky sap onto my bare shoulders.
the sea is so thick, it pulses against rocks and they crash in my head and my teeth grind with the pressure and i can taste the blood but i can't stop.
i'm underwater and i'm drowning, i'm slipping over stones. someplace far away over the miles that stretch before me i can hear the drones.
i am weak. a weak pathetic human. what surrounds me is stronger, it will not relent, give in or give up.
i know i will fall, crumple into the ground. my last retching breath and aching bones will smear into that deafening sound.
sometimes the world is too heavy.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Hello there! I'm Millie, the country girl living in a city built on sugar. When I'm not in the kitchen baking I can be found having a picnic and drinking strawberry tea... This blog is where I share my vegan recipes, so please grab a blanket and have a read, then grab your wooden spoon and get baking!
3 comments:
- francisdodson said...
I love this. Such pretty words x
- 28 February 2012 at 14:40
- cecilie andrea torp said...
is it youre words? WOW! :) So deep ponderings!
- 29 February 2012 at 06:08
- Party Poison said...
This post caught my attention in the title alone. One of my nicknames is Blue ;D. I think I just gave away too much...
But yeah, like I said before, I'm no poet, but I really liked this one. It reminded me of this Florence + The Machine song:
- 29 February 2012 at 07:38
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London: Thierry Henry`s second match for Arsenal after returning to the club turned sour after he was involved in an altercation in the Londoners 2-3 defeat against Swansea at the Liberty Stadium.
After the match ended Sunday, Henry was seen angrily gesticulating and aggressively shouting towards a group of Arsenal fans.
Henry, who made a dream return to the club, scoring a winner against Leeds United in the FA Cup, came on as a substitute in the 63rd minute in the shock away defeat. Henry gave the ball away cheaply in Swansea`s build-up to the third goal, enraging the Gunners` fans.
The Sun reported that an angry fan was heard shouting after Arsenal`s sixth away defeat of the season: "Where is the heart and the character and the fight?"
Henry shouted back: "Get behind the team and support the players and don`t be negative."
The 34-year-old returned to Arsenal on a two-month loan deal from MLS side New York Red Bulls.


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Monday, 26 May 2014
What is Daughter#2 Wearing Today?
Well it's only fair to show what my second daughter wears too, sometimes. This was actually from yesterday. She's in the Army Cadets and this is her parade outfit/uniform/whatever it's called (she'll be cross I don't know the correct terminology, oops) with epaulets, tassels and all. Now and again the cadets go on parades and marches, this was for a fund raiser for a local rugby club. Daughter#2 plays bugle and marches while playing and others play drums, it's all very impressive. They're very good, marching in time, instruments played very well. One day I'll post up a video of a march, perhaps one involving a lot of other paraders such as the ones for Army Forces Day which consisted of WW2 Veterans, Scottish military with bagpipes, Hell's Angels (Yes you read that right, they did their bit in WW2), and lots of old army vehicles now owned by the general public.
Doesn't she look smart?
3 comments:
- Hilary Melton-Butcher said...
Hi DayDreamer .. your daughter #2 looks amazing .. no wonder you're so proud of her ..
Talented too .. playing the bugle and marching - that must take some skill ..
Yes - definitely a video is due at some stage ..cheers Hilary
- 29 May 2014 at 10:35
- DayDreamer said...
Thanks Hilary, she's just come home from Cadets where they all had to clean the barracks where they hold their sessions. If only she was as dedicated to cleaning her room :)
- 5 June 2014 at 22:54
- Click said...
I love the contrast between your two daughters' outfits. :-)
- 8 June 2014 at 11:39
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text: EAST LANSING -- Notre Dame's hockey team lost to Michigan State, 2-1, Saturday night in East Lansing. The Irish trailed in the early part of the first period as the Spartans' David Booth netted a goal off a shot deflection at 7:19. The Irish found an equalizer at 19:17 in the second period when Erik Condra found his fifth goal of the season when he connected on a off angle goal near the net. Condra was assisted on the goal by Wes O'Neil and Mark Van Guirder. Spartans slid in what proved to be the winning goal on Michigan State's eighth power play of the night at 14:31 when Booth was able put back a deflected shot past Irish goalie David Brown. Brown denied 38 shots in the contest. Michigan State outshot Notre Dame 40-27 on the night. The loss dropped the Irish to 9-16-3 overall and 7-12-3 in the CCHA. Michigan State improved to 16-10-7, 10-7-6 CCHA.


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Sale Steel Metal Dies for Paper Crafting and Card Making | Clear Photopolymer Stamps for Sale Best for Paper Crafting and Card Making
Hello, my name is Kim Hughes and I am the face behind Paper Smooches.
Think of "Paper Smooches" as using ink to kiss your paper with our photopolymer clear stamps!
You may recognize my name from the stamp collection that I Illustrated for Cornish Heritage Farms in the past. Cornish Heritage Farms closed their doors and I was able to purchase the rights to all of my images. I have re-introduced some of my stamp images and sets here at Paper Smooches. You will find them in our Kismet Collection.
I love Illustrating and although I could have worked with over a dozen stamp companies that approached me, I felt that it was important for me to share my talent with you personally.
I begin by sketching images and concepts in pencil. I then draw every sentiment and image with a black pen on white paper a zillion times until I get them just the way I like it. Ok, maybe a zillion is an exaggeration, but sometimes it takes me more than 30 tries to get it exactly right. (practice makes perfect). My clear, Photopolymer stamp sets and steel metal dies are truly a labor of love and I am thrilled to share my designs with all of you. My images reflect my silly personality and I hope they will bring a smile to your face.
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Brazil World Fact - Hostel in Iguazu
BrazilBrazil One of the biggest countries in the world, with a coast line by the Atlantic Ocean and boarders to almost all the other countries in South America, Brazil is problably most known for its passion of Carnavals, where they put a lot of work into making spetacular shows in the cities where people have put fabulous costumes and they dance. Brazil contains also part of the Amazon, a jungle that will show you an amazing nature, and rivers to sail on, as the easiest way to get around. But not only here you find an amazing nature. OTher places in the country it will also be possible to find forrests, and the most beautiful waterfalls.
Area: 8.514.215 Km²
Population: 173.886.000 (2002 est.)
Density: 20 pop/Km²
System of government: Federative Republic
Capital: Brasilia (2.043.000 pop.)
Major cities: São Paulo 10.405.000 pop. (17.880.000 urban aggl.), Rio de Janeiro 5.850.000 pop. (10.895.000 urban aggl.), Salvador 2.441.000 pop. (3.020.000 urban aggl.), Belo Horizonte 2.230.000 pop. (4.820.000 urban aggl.), Fortaleza 2.138.000 pop. (2.985.000 urban aggl.), Curitiba 1.587.000 pop. (2.725.000 urban aggl.), Recife 1.422.000 pop. (3.340.000 urban aggl.), Manaus 1.404.000 pop., Porto Alegre 1.360.000 pop. (3.660.000 urban aggl.), Belém 1.280.000 pop. (1.795.000 urban aggl.), Goiânia 1.091.000 pop. (1.640.000 urban aggl.), Guarulhos 1.071.000 pop.
Ethnic majority: White 55%, Mulatto and mestizo 38%, Black 6%, Asian, Amerindian and others 1%
Border countries: French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela NORTH, Colombia NORTH-WEST, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and Argentina WEST, Uruguay SOUTH
Principal mountains: Pico da Neblina 3014 m
Principal rivers: Amazon 3500 Km (brazilian tract, total 6280 Km), Purus 3000 Km (brazilian tract, total 3210 Km), Rio São Francisco 2900 Km, Rio Tocantins 2700 Km, Araguaia 2600 Km, Rio Paraná 2400 Km (brazilian tract, total 4700 Km)
Principal lakes: Lagoa Mirim 3000 Km² (total, with uruguayan part)
Principal islands: Ilha de Marajo 47.573 Km², Ilha Grande do Gurupa 4864 Km²
Climate: Equatorial - tropical
Language: Portuguese (official), English, German, Italian, Amerindian dialects
Religion: Catholic 80%, Protestant 11%, other 9%
Currency: Real (BRL)
Fixed public holidays: 1/1, 21/4, 1/5, 9/7, 7/9, 12/10, 1/11, 2/11, 15/11, 8/12, 24/12, 25/12, 31/12
Dialling code: 0055
World Heritage List:
- Historic Town of Ouro Preto (1980)
- Historic Centre of the Town of Olinda (1982)
- Jesuit Missions of the Guaranis: San Ignacio Mini, Santa Ana, Nuestra Señora de Loreto and Santa Maria Mayor (Argentina), Ruins of Sao Miguel das Missoes (Brazil) (1983, 1984) *
- Historic Centre of Salvador de Bahia (1985)
- Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Congonhas (1985)
- Iguaçu National Park (1986)
- Brasilia (1987)
- Serra da Capivara National Park (1991)
- Historic Centre of São Luis (1997)
- Atlantic Forest Southeast Reserves (1999)
- Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves (1999)
- Historic Centre of the Town of Diamantina (1999)
- Central Amazon Conservation Complex (2000, 2003) 3
- Pantanal Conservation Area (2000)
- Brazilian Atlantic Islands: Fernando de Noronha and Atol das Rocas Reserves (2001)
- Cerrado Protected Areas: Chapada dos Veadeiros and Emas National Parks (2001)
- Historic Centre of the Town of Goiás (2001)


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A bunch of point solutions, like interviewing, is not an effective process unless fully integrated and designed to achieve a strategic goal—hiring top candidates who aren't looking for a new job!
- If you're not hiring as many good people as you'd like to, your company probably has the wrong talent strategy in place. Too many companies design their hiring processes on the false assumption that there's a surplus of top talent available, when in fact there's a scarcity. In a scarcity situation, you have to attract people in. In a surplus situation, it's ok to weed them out. Even if it's demeaning to those hired and not hired. So if your company still posts jobs that emphasize must-have skills, experiences and personality traits, you're assuming there's a surplus of talent.
If your company doesn't measure a hiring manager's ability to attract, hire and retain top people, you're also assuming there's a surplus of talent. And if the measure of hiring success is how fast and how cheaply it can be done, you're assuming there is a surplus of talent. In a talent scarcity situation, you need to target the entire talent market. This requires a Raising the Talent Bar Strategy. Raising the quality of the people you are now hiring. Not the Follow the Leader Strategy, which is hiring people like you've always hired. This is done by far too many companies.
This shift starts by eliminating skills and experience-laden job descriptions that are at best, ill-defined lateral transfers. These turn-off the best people. Instead, the job needs to be described as a series of performance objectives that the best people see as a possible career move. For example, it's much better to say: "Lead the development of our new cybersecurity interface" rather than "Must have five years of UX design experience, a BS in computer science with some high-tech major".
Moving to a consultative recruiting process is a big part of the strategy shift. For the best people, getting a new job is not a transaction. It takes them more time to fully evaluate the possibility of a better career. A big benefit of this is that when a job is seen as a career move, compensation becomes less important. In my mind, a career move needs to offer a 30% non-monetary increase. This is a combination of job stretch, job growth and an increase in job satisfaction.
Doing work that is more intrinsically satisfying. This is how you raise the talent bar at your company. It's success has a huge ROI impact. By improving the quality of every single person your company hires, cost per hire and being more efficient hiring the same type of people you've always hired is too tactical a goal. This is the essence of performance based hiring. It's an end-to-end business process for hiring stronger people in a talent scarcity situation. It's not a point solution, like behavioural interviewing or boring job postings that don't fully address the needs of top people.
These narrow solutions are barriers to entry that either exclude or turn-off the best people. Over the past 40 years, studying thousands of individual hiring decisions, it's clear that in order to hire the best people possible, these four conditions must be present: number one; the job must be a clear career move, not a lateral transfer. Number two; to attract the best people you need to reach out to the entire talent market, not wait for people to apply. Number three; a performance based interviewing process based on evidence is essential to assess a person's ability and motivation to do the actual work that needs to be done.
Both are essential. And four; a consultative recruiting process needs to be woven into every step, to ensure the person sees the job as a long-term career move, not a short-term compensation increase. Bottom line; to hire the right people, you need to have the right strategy. And when the demand for talent exceeds the supply, you need to be proactive; reaching out to the best people with career opportunities, not waiting for some great person to magically apply.
- Implementing a performance-based hiring strategy
- Creating the candidate experience
- Preparing job descriptions that define outstanding performance
- Structuring the interview to obtain the best information
- Determining job and culture fit
- Ranking and comparing candidates


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SOURCE: Crossroads Systems
November 05, 2012 09:00 ET
Streamlined Media and Entertainment Archiving as a Seamless Step in Workflow
Streamlined Media and Entertainment Archiving as a Seamless Step in Workflow
AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - Nov 5, 2012) - Crossroads Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDS) a global provider of data archive solutions, and Empress Media Asset Management, LLC, a leader in media asset management software, today announced a partnership that offers the media and entertainment industry a powerful joint solution for the management and archival of digital content.
Through the Crossroads-Empress partnership, StrongBox, Crossroads' LTFS NAS archive solution that serves as shared storage for data archive and preservation, now works with eMAM™, Empress' signature software package that provides powerful and flexible Web-based platforms for managing digital assets. Crossroads partnered with Empress due to its proven technology and its extensive market presence within the media and entertainment industry.
StrongBox, the first enterprise-level storage solution to leverage Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology, allows tape storage to walk and talk like expensive disk-based storage. It's the industry's leading non-proprietary, file-based and fully portable storage solution that offers cost-efficient file archiving across a wide range of industries. By combining StrongBox technology with eMAM, organizations gain maximum content management capabilities, while gaining significant cost savings by utilizing tape-based archives instead of disk. The joint solution provides quick search and proxy preview of content and makes archiving and restoration seamless steps in the production process performed directly from the eMAM Director user interface.
"With the interest we're seeing from media and entertainment organizations surrounding the reliability and cost-savings available through StrongBox, it seemed ideal to partner with an asset management innovator such as Empress," said David Cerf, executive vice president of business and corporate development at Crossroads Systems. "Our joint customers benefit from unmatched storage capabilities and superior management platforms that make content archival a smooth, efficient process in the media and entertainment work flow. Crossroads looks forward to working with Empress to further solve M&E content archive and management challenges with the eMAM-StrongBox solution."
"We are excited about our strategic partnership with Crossroads," said Shaun McTernan, vice president of sales and business development at Empress. "The seamless integration with their Strongbox and eMAM will provide our customers with a complete, scalable enterprise media archive and management solution."
About StrongBox
StrongBox is a shared storage solution purpose-built for data archival and preservation. Using Linear Tape File System (LTFS) technology and intelligent storage architecture with standard file systems (CIFS/NFS), StrongBox empowers online, all the time file availability with uncompromised data protection, full data mobility, non-proprietary file storage and significant cost-savings. StrongBox unifies your archive -- past and present -- while providing seamless scalability and reliability for the future. Visit: www.crossroads.com/products/strongbox.
About Crossroads Systems
Crossroads Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRDS) is a global provider of data archive solutions. Through the innovative use of new technologies, Crossroads delivers customer-driven solutions that enable proactive data security, advanced data archiving, optimized performance and significant cost-savings. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Austin, TX, Crossroads holds more than 100 patents and has been honored with numerous industry awards for data archiving, storage and protection. Visit www.crossroads.com.
About eMAM
eMAM is a powerful, flexible and scalable asset management system designed to meet the needs of a wide range of clients. It is available in four product lines. eMAM Online is a hosted software as a service (SaaS) system. eMAM Vault is a full-featured archive management system. eMAM Workgroup is a full asset management system designed to meet the needs of a wide range of customers. eMAM Enterprise is a scaled system designed to meet the redundancy, fail-over and throughput demands of the largest organizations. Visit www.empressmam.com.
About Empress Media Asset Management
Empress Media Asset Management is a technology-leading provider of digital asset management and workflow management systems for broadcast, media, and corporate clients. It is part of the Empress family of companies, which includes Empress Cybernetics System PVT LTD, specializing in customized software and database development and Empress Media Inc, one of the largest distributors of blank recording media and supplies. Visit www.empressmam.com.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release includes forward-looking statements that relate to the business and future events or future performance of Crossroads Systems, Inc. and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause its actual results, levels of activity, performance or achievements to differ materially from any future results, levels of activity, performance or achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Words such as, but not limited to, "believe," "expect," "anticipate," "estimate," "intend," "plan," "targets," "likely," "will," "would," "could," and similar expressions or phrases identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about Crossroads Systems' ability to implement its business strategy, including the transition from a hardware storage company to a software solutions and services provider, its ability to expand its distribution channels, its ability to maintain or broaden relationships with existing distribution channels and strategic alliances and develop new industry relationships, the performance of third parties in its distribution channels and of its strategic alliances, uncertainties relating to product development and commercialization, the ability to obtain, maintain or protect patent and other proprietary intellectual property rights, technological change in its industry, market acceptance of its products and services, future capital requirements, regulatory actions or delays, competition in general and other factors that may cause actual results to be materially different from those described herein. Forward-looking statements in this press release are based on management's beliefs and opinions at the time the statements are made. Crossroads Systems does not intend, and undertakes no duty, to update this information to reflect future events or circumstances.
©2012 Crossroads Systems, Inc. Crossroads and Crossroads Systems are registered trademarks of Crossroads Systems, Inc. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All specifications are subject to change without notice.
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Well, I guess I had this coming after the jazz talk yesterday about music genres being cyclical and there not being anything wrong with that. Because on my wires today, there's an article about classical music. Namely, the Nielsen numbers for the top-selling classical albums. The writer, Norman Lebrecht, doesn't consider the top three items on the list to be truly 'classical' music, and they sold a dismal 1,789, 253, and 173 copies respectively. Lebrecht doesn't even bother to list the numbers below that, dismissing them as "peanuts".
His headline: "Last Week, No Classical Music Was Sold In The USA".
You could probably guess that, as classical music has found itself in some embarrassingly low-profile situations in recent years. Not too long ago, I linked to Forgotify, a site that plays tracks that have never been downloaded on Spotify a single time. I don't think I've heard so much classical music in my life. And then there's this ad, which I think you're probably familiar with, even though it's opera, which is really in the same boat so let's toss it in:
This is what opera companies and symphony orchestras will do these days just to get mass-market work. That and video games. A fair amount of the music you hear in video games over the past decade or so is created by orchestras, several of which get entire shows specifically out of playing it. As far back as 2002, EA Sports made a huge show of showing off how they wrangled the services of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra for that year's official World Cup title, which now might only be unusual in the sense that they didn't go get licensed music instead. It's right there in the game's intro:
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And really, if we're going to declare any genre as actually 'dead', classical would be it, as these are some of the few places where you can reliably hear new classical music, along with TV and movies (the London Philharmonic has a very good working relationship with Doctor Who). You're sure not hearing it on a radio, and although you'd think you'd hear new music played by the local symphonies, that's not the case. An article by Greg Sandow from 2003- and the situation hasn't changed since- explains that the people who buy the bulk of the tickets to orchestras greatly prefer familiar music. New works- and 'new' in this sense basically means any point after World War 2- are derided as 'too challenging'. Thus, orchestras don't play them, because they would like to not go broke because their regulars won't show up anymore. They stick to Mozart and Beethoven and Vivaldi. If you're actually out there making new classical music, good luck finding anyone willing to play it for you no matter how good it is, unless of course you want to put it in a video game or a movie or a TV show. It's like speaking Latin.
Honestly, though, and I may not make many fans by saying this, but I've felt classical music to be a little overrated. It, opera, particular artists and works, just in general the things that are widely accepted as 'high art'. Not that there's anything particularly wrong with them per se, but the mindset that these are the things you have to start liking in order to be truly cultured has always grated at me a bit. I think it has something to do with where and when it was modern and popular: typically, Western Europe, during the age of exploration, conquest and colonialism. The time when the most influential and powerful region of the world was at the peak of its global influence. It would only be natural to be nostalgic about the time when your little corner of the world was at its best, or at least its most powerful. I think that's where it comes from, at least in part. But it kind of gets done at the expense of the rest of the world.
When I was at the Milwaukee Art Museum, for instance- and it's a good museum, mind you; we're not talking some backwater thing here- I went around and wrote down all the nationalities of the pieces on display that day. There were two rooms devoted to Haitian art, so good on them for that, but in the bulk of the museum, it was overwhelmingly European and American. In the tourist map supplied by the museum, you'll find rooms labeled 'Renaissance Treasury', 'Northern Renaissance', 'Southern Renaissance', 'Northern Baroque', 'Southern Baroque', '18th-Century English and Italian', '18th-Century French', '19th-Century German' and '19th-Century European'. All on the first floor, not far from the entrance to the collection (which starts you off with the real antiques, the things from ancient Greece and Rome and Egypt).
Meanwhile, in the entire museum, there was one piece from Canada. One from India. There was one piece from Central America; it was from Mexico. There was one piece from South America; it was from Chile. Tucked off in a corner of the top floor, there was one room devoted to the whole of China; one room next to it devoted to the rest of eastern Asia (including more China), and one small room dedicated to the entire continent of Africa. And the Asian and African works weren't even modern. The Asian works were chiefly ancient, centuries or even millennia old, and the African works were... is anthropological the right word? I don't want to go that far, really, but it was all tribal; things representative of an entire people. Never the name of an individual artist; never a purpose-built piece of explicit art. It all had a functional or cultural purpose to it. A scarf here. A mask there.
You'll notice I haven't mentioned Oceania or western Asia. That's for a reason. Save for the presence of Israel, the Middle East was totally absent. No Australia or New Zealand or any of the Pacific islands.
I don't think the Milwaukee Art Museum means that kind of geographical or chronological bias; I don't think they really even know they're doing it to that extent. And it's not like they're exactly the only one; I'd be willing to bet if you looked around the art museum near you and did the same once-over, you'd see something not all that far off what I got in Milwaukee. Domestic art plus a whole lot of 15th-19th-century Western Europe.
My point is that the world's got a lot of culture to it. Culture is simply anything people do together. That's all it is. Art is any form of expression. They're very broad, very simple concepts at their core. For us to declare that any one particular culture at a certain place and time is 'best' and that you have to consume it in order to be 'cultured' is wrongheaded.
There's a guy ESPN hired as part of their World Cup coverage, a local artist named Jambeiro. Jambeiro's been commissioned to create a mural telling the story of the Cup. He's been given 180 feet of wall stretching from ESPN's studio out to Copacabana Beach, and every day of the Cup, he's supposed to cover six feet with the biggest image of the day. (No word on how he's supposed to handle days like today, which have no scheduled games.) This is a tough, tough assignment the guy's been given, but the thing is, this is art that's done all the time where he lives. This is part of their artistic expression. This is part of their culture, and it's going to stick around a while and stay part of their culture after the Cup is over and the rest of us go home. And to ignore that, to ignore or even actively suppress any culture, because some other culture is 'better' or their art 'higher' only works to help destroy that culture. (There is the assorted case where it probably should be destroyed, but that's a whole other talk.)
One should not also automatically assume that our own era's culture is just silly little 'pop culture'. After all, all that high art, opera, classical music, ballet, half the stuff in Florence, it was shiny new pop culture once too.
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
High Art Is Overrated
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valley an elongated depression usually traversed by a stream.
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'Tidy Thames 1' - prosecution over Thames safety breaches
The captain and owning company of a Thames motor barge have been found guilty of serious breaches of safety rules, following a trial at Hammersmith Magistrates Court.
The captain of 'Tidy Thames 1', Mr Nicholas Beasley, had been advised by the Port of London Authority (PLA) in November 2015 that an 'out of water' hull inspection was overdue and urgently needed. This is a requirement to ensure such a vessel can be issued with a licence to operate on the Thames.
The Court also heard that Mr Beasley (38) from Upminster, had also been told that a number of urgent repairs were overdue and he was consequently advised that the vessel no longer had a valid licence.
The PLA issued a 'special direction' - formally instructing that the 'Tidy Thames 1' must not be navigated on the Thames until the out of water inspection was completed. On 3 December 2015 the barge was observed navigating and working on the Thames in contravention of this 'special direction'. It was also observed that the barge's Automatic Identification System (AIS) had been turned off.
It is a legal requirement that all such commercial vessels on the Thames operate this automatic tracking system. This assists safe navigation by enabling captains to view marine traffic in their area and also to be seen by that traffic and by river safety authorities.
Mr Beasley, who denied the charges, and Thames Gateway Marine, which owns the barge, were found guilty on three counts:
- navigating an unlicensed vessel on the Thames
- navigating in contravention of a Port of London Authority Special Direction
- navigating without AIS (Automatic Identification System).
Mr Beasley and his company were issued fines totalling £3,750 and ordered to pay court costs of £16,500.
Commenting, Mark Towens, the PLA harbourmaster for the London area said after the hearing:
"It is vital that all vessels on the river are correctly licensed and that regular inspections take place. This is how we work to keep the Thames safe for all the people who use it.
"The PLA will take robust enforcement action against anyone who attempts to operate an unlicensed vessel or ignores specific directions from the PLA. We will also enforce the AIS rules - which are a key part of keeping the Thames safe for all river users."


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