Blake Mycoskie's TOMS is an amazing business feat, no?
It's a business set up with enough profit margin that a pair of shoes can be given away for each pair purchased. Even more notably, it's a business that sells itself because customers have an immediate role in the mission through a simple purchase.
It's amazing how much time and money people donate to organizations they want to support. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, about 62.2 million people volunteered through or for an organization from Sept 2012 to Sept 2013. Additionally, Americans gave away $335.17 billion in 2013, according to the National Philanthropic Trust.
Why would people give away this much time and money?
It may be as simple as this – for a chance to make a difference.
Maybe people do it to feel better about themselves, maybe to become who they want to be, maybe they want to spend time with others who are volunteering, or maybe it's guilt-motivated. But all of that pales in comparison with the motivation of feeling like you're making a difference. We all have lofty thoughts and ideas of how we'd like to change the world, but we have limited resources and time. Consequently, we are happy to give to organizations that are changing the world in a way that we'd like to do.
We want to have a role in a mission that is greater than ourselves, that has an impact bigger than ourselves and that benefits more people than just ourselves.
When you have a mission statement that your business can accomplish on its own and that benefits only your business, you create no space for customers to play a role in a greater mission. You limit their role to only profiting your business, rather than to being able to change the world with their dollars.
Selling great products with quality service is admirable. But if that is your mission, then it limits your business, your impact and your customers' buy-in. An internal-profiting, able-to-accomplish-on-your-own-effort-mission is not really a mission, it's a business goal.
However, if your grand mission is to change the ethical standards of developing world suppliers by the way you do business — how much more motivated are customers to support you?
A mission that is seemingly unattainable and requires support and action from multiple parties creates a clear role for customers to play. When it is clear that you need customers to accomplish your mission (like TOMS' one for one – no shoes could be given unless they were purchased), customers can see their role and assume it. Where there is no obvious need for customers to get involved, they won't.
I'm not telling you to create a manipulative business model with a mission that cons customers into buying in. It should be genuine. People can, and are often looking to, sniff out fake promises.
Yet, at the end of the day, do you really want your business to have been all about your own profit? Or do you want it to have made some bigger impact in the world? If it's the latter, simply say that. Make it your mission. You can't do it alone. When you create room for others to help, those who want the same world impact will buy in. They'll support the business and market it with more credibility than you can. You'll be in it together. Only then will you make a difference in the world beyond your own profit.
The upcoming new year is reminder that the future is a chance to make a change. If your business's main mission is self-profit, 2015 holds the hope to make it about a bigger purpose.
Author's Bio: Lindsey Tolino is a young creative who helps make businesses better. She serves business owners with her words at ToBusinessOwners.com. Follow her on Twitter @LindseyTolino or connect with her on Google+.
What's the WHY of Your Business?
Whether we're working with a new businesses, a project, or a team that needs rebuilding, it's typical to start with purpose, mission, and vision.
You have to choose your future before you can make it happen.
before considering processes and systems.
This list represents the "who" "how" and "what" of a business.
Making any key decisions without agreeing on mission, vision, and purpose is dangerous. It's an invitation to hidden assumptions, shallow thinking, and miscommunication. Without clarity, everyone who might help you, your team, or your business — employees, vendors, partners, customers, friends — will construct their own definition of your mission, vision, and purpose.
Who are we? / What do we value?
Where are we going / what are we building?
How will we get there / how will we build it?
Why is this quest important? / Why are we uniquely suited to meet this call better than any other?
These foundational questions require priority attention because they build they WHY of your business.
They underpin your best true, compelling story — the calling and commitment — that fuels your business and the people who want to help it grow. Yet, the last of these, the "WHY" fuels is of what moves us and the people we serve to action.
The WHY of your business is the bedrock of influence and attraction.
The WHY attracts people who share your values and believe in what you're building.
The WHY calls the ideal employees, customers, vendors and partners to pitch in to help you build it.
The WHY is irresistible reason to join you in making something you can't build alone.
What's the YOU in What You Do?
I spend most of my days thinking about, reading about, writing about and talking about strategy for individuals, small businesses, and huge corporate brands. When you look closely at what I do, it will soon become apparent that like snowflakes that every strategy is uniquely different and in that way they're all the same.
True strategy draws from who you are, where you've been, what you know, what you've experienced, and decisions you've made. So even though an individual, a small business, and a huge corporation might all have the same vision, mission, and goals. The opportunities that come to them are as different as who they are and what they know.
A solid brand is like your character. Build on who you are, not on a strategic plan.
It's a serious risk to invent a brand that isn't you or the values that your business is built upon. What happens when you do is that the brand becomes a bad facsimile of what you really are. And sooner or later the true you leaks out in some way — you don't live up to what you invented.
You can't write my blog post. You can't give my talk. You can try to copy me, but you'll always be a copy.
The value in what you do you is your own version of the way you do things.
I can't be Copyblogger Chris Brogan, Oprah, or even my own mother, but I'm one heck of a Liz Strauss.
The closer we get to understanding who we are and what we value, the more people trust us to show up in ways that we say. They see, feel, and respect that we are living what we're saying and they know they can trust that. It resonates with others when we ARE who we ARE, not just how we act.
And within us, our businesses and our corporation, the integrity and confidence of know who we are offer rich context that telegraphs itself to anyone who hears any one of us talk or anyone talk about us..
Don't reinvent yourself. Don't re-engineer new ways of reaching out.
Reconnect to your values and be what the best version of you is about.
That's how you'll attract the people who share those value with you.
It's the YOU in what you do that makes the brand, the business, and the team work the way it does. No one can compete with that. People can join in, adding to the story and enhancing the mission.
The you in what you do is the ultimate barrier to entry. It attracts opportunity, but defies replication.
Read that sentence again. Information, products and services are all over the world and all over the Internet, but there's only one YOU. No one can do, see, think or add the difference you make in exactly the same way you do. Anything that isn't you … isn't your brand – it's discounting your true value and values.
That unique YOU is the part that people love, protect, stay loyal to, and bring their friends to experience.
You are the value. You are the difference.
Have you figured out what's the YOU in what you do?
Ack, What Do I Do Now?!
My life already had become all about working with corporations and individuals on simplifying their strategic goals. Daily I asked people questions. Sometimes the situation was about an immediate problem. Sometimes it was about far-ranging visions and goals. The questions were the same, the answers were sometimes easier to find than other times..
Mission – Know where you are going. What is your specific and ultimate goal? Can you see it. What is your commitment to it?
Conditions – Know how change offers you unique opportunities. What has changed that offers an opening, an opportunity, that uniquely suits you?
Command Decisions – Know how to focus and sort which decisions move you toward your ultimate goal. Which opportunity moves you toward your ultimate goal? How does your response work toward making more opportunities? Which decisions will build a foundation for stronger opportunities tomorrow?
Networks and Systems – Know who will help you execute and how you will keep your process going. Who can help? How can you align your goals with another to make the movement faster, easier, and more meaningful for both of you? Where is the process so strong it's invisible or so weak that it stand out?
Strategy is a framework for claiming the opportunities that uniquely our own to move forward toward a specific goal in realistic ways over time. Keeping an eye toward our end game — our mission — is only the beginning. If we recognize the unique opportunities inside every change — when we move, when circumstances move, when the people around us move — we can see a clearer way to that ultimate, specific goal.
Have you analyzed your unique opportunities lately?
With the start of the Perfect Virtual Manager, I've been talking a lot to bloggers. Even more interesting is that I've been not talking to a lot of them. I've noticed something about people who work outside of a traditional setting. We fall into two categories: freelancers and entrepreneurs. Some think they are one, and they're really the other. Which one are you? Do you know that for sure?
Guy Kawasaki wrote a wonderful post in January called, Mantras Versus Missions. Thank you, Roger von Oech, for reminding me of it. You see, I think some folks do as Guy suggests — make a mantra — and unfortunately, they stop there. That's not what Guy said to do. He was talking about replacing a mission statement with something more focused. His mantra was meant as a guiding force, not as a replacement for a business plan.
A person with fabulous skills and only a mantra is a freelancer not a solo entrepreneur.
The two think and work differently.
Do you know how to tell a freelancer from a solo entrepreneur?
Turn the page and I'll show how.


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Q: Twilio Twiml for voicemail forwarding I'm attempting to use Twiml to setup up the following workflow. Can anyone provide clarification on the parts I'm missing?
This is what I want to achieve:

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*Someone calls my Twilio number

*Dial up to 10 numbers simultaneously

*If no one picks up send the user to voicemail

*Send voicemail email to multiple email addresses

If the call is connected

*Whisper message for receiver

*Record the phone call

*Track city & state of caller

*Send SMS to me when someone calls

This is what I have so far:

<Response>
  <Play> URL of mp3 greeting optional </Play>
  <Dial record="true">
    <Number>
      +18589876543
    </Number>
    <Number>
      +4151234567
    </Number>
    <Number>
      +6197654321
    </Number>
    <Number>
      +18589876543
    </Number>
    <Number>
      +18589876543
    </Number>
  </Dial>
  <Sms to="+6197654321">
    Congrats! You have just received a phone call on your Texas phone line
  </Sms>
</Response>

Any help at all is appreciated.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 2 (Bernama) - The government is proposing a 100 per cent stamp duty exemption on the instrument of transfer and the loan agreement for the purchase of a first residential home priced up to RM300,000.
The effective date is for sales and purchase agreement executed from Jan 1, 2019 to Dec 31, 2020.
In the appendix to the 2019 Budget released today by the Ministry of Finance, the proposal is to further encourage Malaysians to purchase the first home and to increase the purchase of unsold residential units from developers and to boost the residential property market.
The government also proposed a 100 per cent stamp duty exemption limited to the instrument of transfer for the purchase of a first residential home priced between RM300,001 and RM1 million from any housing developer for a period of six months.
The effective date is for sales and purchase agreement executed from Jan 1, 2019 to June 30, 2019.
The government proposed a stamp duty exemption on the instrument of transfer and the loan agreement for purchase of a first residential home priced between RM300,001 and RM500,000.
The stamp duty is 100 per cent exempted but limited to the first RM300,000 of the price of the home.
The remaining balance of the price of the home is subjected to the prevailing rate of stamp duty.
The effective date is for sales and purchase agreement executed from July 1, 2019 to Dec 31, 2020.
At present, no stamp duty exemption is granted for the purchase of a residential home priced above RM500,000.


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The referee hospitalised following a vicious assault at the end of a soccer game in the Midlands at the weekend is a native of Donegal and a former Donegal League player.
Daniel Sweeney is from the Chapel Road, Dungloe and is a former Aaranmore United player having played for a number of seasons for the Island club in the Donegal League.
He lives in Tullamore, Co Offaly and is an experienced referee and one of the league's leading referees. He was hospitalised following an incident at the end of an adult soccer match in the Combined Counties League between Horseleap and Mullingar Town.
The game was played in Horseleap, on the Westmeath/Offaly border, and he suffered the injuries when he was allegedly attacked by a number of Mullingar players and a spectator.
He was removed to the Midlands Regional Hospital in Tullamore where he was diagnosed with having a broken jaw and nose and damage to his eye socket.
The chairman also said no stone would be left unturned in how the incident will be dealt with. The incident has been highlighted in the national media throughout the day.


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The Lonely And Eccentric Boy
Posted on Wednesday, 13 September, 2017 by Zheluo Cai
The Lonely And Eccentric Boy.
Edward said to his mother, Jane, one morning that he did not want to go to school. All dressed up, he sat down at the breakfast table and wept. It was the first time she had heard him expressed his dislike for school, and he was unwilling to talk about it. Jane decided to take leave for the day, and accompanied Edward to school later that morning to see his principal. An immediate meeting was scheduled with the school counsellor, but no one was able to get a word out of Edward. The principal decided to summon Edward's class monitor, and together with the counsellor, the three of them went into a private session. Jane was eventually included in this session. The outcome was for Edward to be referred for further counselling.
When I first met Edward, he was withdrawn and tight-lipped. While he waited outside the counselling room, his mother updated me. Edward, 14 years old, had been mercilessly teased and bullied by his classmates and others, usually after school hours and out of sight of the teachers. He kept to himself all the time and did not seem to have any close friends. His self defense was always to claim that he knew everything about his schoolmates, their weak points and their sins, and he also knew when God would punish them for their unkindness towards him, together with the details of those punishments. At times, he would speak in an unknown language in pronouncing apparent curses against his schoolmates. His pronouncements often aggravated the bullying and led to physical scuffles. Furthermore, Edward seemed to be misreading most of the interpersonal cues in his interaction with his schoolmates, and at times, nobody was able to understand what he was attempting to communicate as he could not explain himself plainly. These perceptual distortions further isolated him, and made mutual suspicions more intolerable. Edward's class monitor was the one who had divulged this background information.
Jane knew that her son was a sensitive boy, at times anxious, and one who basically kept to himself, but was not aware of the extent of bullying at school. She confessed that Edward had a keen interest in everything superstitious, including paranormal phenomena, and showed an avid interest in YouTube videos on these topics. But she was unsuspecting how these had perceptibly influenced him, nor his predisposition to prophesy punishment on his schoolmates.
It took three sessions before Edward began to open up. The key was when inadvertently we discovered his special interest in assembling model figurines of superheroes from the Marvel comic series; the likes of Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, Thor, Iron Man, etc. He was encouraged to bring a model at each appointment, so that we could talk about them. Having him show me a few of these expensive and beautifully painted plastic models at the sessions opened up the door to his thoughts and self-perception to some of his bizarre experiences. In fact, he would occasionally imagine himself playing a superhero role against his 'enemies,' and being totally lost in his own magical world. After a series of psychological tests, we were able to confirm that Edward was suffering from schizotypal personality disorder.
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Peter Jackson brings extensive experience and knowledge of the financial industry to the role. He was CEO of the Travelex Group, where he led a major process to transform the company, focused on digital innovation and business re-engineering, and through mergers and acquisitions. Previously, he held senior positions at Lloyds and Halifax Bank of Scotland, and was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Peter graduated in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
Jackson substitutes José María Fuster who, after more than 30 years with the Santander Group, will continue connected to the bank as an external advisor. Fuster has made a substantial contribution to the modernization of the Group´s technological platforms and has helped position Santander as one of the most efficient entities in the world.
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Nominations Announced for "The 49th Annual Grammy(R) Awards" with Winners to Be Named on a Special to Be Broadcast Live from Staples Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, FeB. 11 on the CBS Television Network
Mary J. Blige leads the nominations with eight, followed by The Red Hot Chili Peppers with six and James Blunt, The Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Danger Mouse, Prince, Rick Rubin, Will.I.Am and John Williams with five.
NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR "THE 49TH ANNUAL GRAMMY� AWARDS" WITH WINNERS TO BE NAMED ON A SPECIAL TO BE BROADCAST LIVE FROM STAPLES CENTER IN LOS ANGELES, SUNDAY, FEB. 11 ON THE CBS TELEVISION NETWORK
Mary J. Blige Leads The Nominations With Eight, The Red Hot Chili Peppers Receive Six, James Blunt, The Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Danger Mouse, Prince, Rick Rubin, Will.I.Am and John Williams Receive Five Nominations Each And Beyonc�, Bryan-Michael Cox, Gnarls Barkley, Israel Houghton, T.I. and Justin Timberlake Receive Four Each
The Dixie Chicks, Gnarls Barkley, John Mayer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Justin Timberlake Are Nominated For Album of the Year
Nominations were announced today for THE 49TH ANNUAL GRAMMY� AWARDS with winners of the awards, generally recognized as the most prestigious in the recording field, to be announced during a special to be broadcast live from STAPLES Center in Los Angeles, Sunday, Feb. 11 (8:00-11:30 PM, live ET/delayed PT) on the CBS Television Network. The nominations reflect a year in which multiple genres were represented in the top categories, new up-and-comers are nominated alongside established artists and a diverse array of producers and other creative professionals received multiple nominations.
Mary J. Blige leads the nominations with eight, the Red Hot Chili Peppers received six, James Blunt, The Dixie Chicks, John Mayer, Danger Mouse, Prince, Rick Rubin, will.i.am and John Williams received five nominations each and Beyonc�, Bryan-Michael Cox, Gnarls Barkley, Israel Houghton, T.I. and Justin Timberlake received four each.
The Dixie Chicks, Gnarls Barkley, John Mayer, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Justin Timberlake are nominated for Album of the Year. Mary J. Blige, James Blunt, Dixie Chicks, Gnarls Barkley and Corinne Bailey Rae are nominated for Record of the Year. Rock troubadour James Blunt, R&B singer Chris Brown, British singer/songwriter Imogen Heap, neo-soul singer Corinne Bailey Rae and country singer Carrie Underwood are nominated for Best New Artist.
Mary J. Blige is nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals (with U2), Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group (with Jamie Foxx), Best Traditional R&B Vocal Performance (featuring Raphael Saadiq), Best R&B Song and Best R&B Album. Red Hot Chili Peppers are nominated for Album of the Year, Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal, Best Rock Song, Best Rock Album, Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package and Best Short Form Music Video.
James Blunt is nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best New Artist, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance and Best Pop Vocal Album. The Dixie Chicks are nominated for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Country Album. John Mayer is nominated for Album of the Year, Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance and Best Rock Album. Danger Mouse is nominated for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical, Best Alternative Music Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance. Prince is nominated for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance, Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals (with T�mar), Best Urban/Alternative Performance, Best R&B Song and Best R&B Album. Rick Rubin is nominated for Record of the Year, Producer of the Year, Non-Classical and he received three Album of the Year nominations. Will.i.am is nominated for Best Urban/Alternative Performance and Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (as will.i.am), Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal and Best Urban/Alternative Performance (as The Black Eyed Peas) and Album of the Year (as Jawbreakers). John Williams received two nominations for Best Score Soundtrack Album for Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media, two for Best Instrumental Composition and one for Best Instrumental Soloist(s) Performance (with Orchestra).
Beyonc� is nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Best Contemporary R&B Album, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (featuring Jay-Z) and Best R&B Song. Brian-Michael Cox is nominated for Record of the Year, Song of the Year and he received two nominations for Best R&B Song. Gnarls Barkley is nominated for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Best Alternative Music Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance. Israel Houghton is nominated for Best Gospel Performance (& New Breed), Best Gospel Song, Best Traditional Gospel Album and Best Contemporary R&B Gospel Album. T.I. is nominated for Best Rap Solo Performance, Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (with Justin Timberlake), Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song. Justin Timberlake is nominated for Album of the Year, Best Pop Vocal Album, Best Dance Recording and Best Rap/Sung Collaboration (featuring T.I.).
Highlights of this year's nominations include:
BE WITHOUT YOU -- Mary J. Blige -- Bryan-Michael Cox, producer
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL -- James Blunt -- Tom Rothrock, producer
NOT READY TO MAKE NICE -- Dixie Chicks -- Rick Rubin, producer
CRAZY -- Gnarls Barkley -- Danger Mouse, producer
PUT YOUR RECORDS ON -- Corinne Bailey Rae -- Steve Chrisanthou, producer
TAKING THE LONG WAY -- Dixie Chicks -- Rick Rubin, producer
ST. ELSEWHERE -- Gnarls Barkley -- Danger Mouse, producer
CONTINUUM -- John Mayer -- Steve Jordan & John Mayer, producers
STADIUM ARCADIUM -- Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Rick Rubin, producer
FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS -- Justin Timberlake -- Nate (Danga) Hills, Jawbreakers, Rick Rubin, Timbaland & Justin Timberlake, producers
BE WITHOUT YOU -- Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox & Jason Perry, songwriters (Mary J. Blige)
JESUS, TAKE THE WHEEL -- Brett James, Hillary Lindsey & Gordie Sampson, songwriters (Carrie Underwood)
NOT READY TO MAKE NICE -- Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison & Dan Wilson, songwriters (Dixie Chicks)
PUT YOUR RECORDS ON -- John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou & Corinne Bailey Rae, songwriters (Corinne Bailey Rae)
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL -- James Blunt, Amanda Ghost & Sacha Skarbek, songwriters (James Blunt)
BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
AIN'T NO OTHER MAN -- Christina Aguilera
UNWRITTEN -- Natasha Bedingfield
YOU CAN CLOSE YOUR EYES -- Sheryl Crow
STUPID GIRLS -- Pink
BLACK HORSE AND THE CHERRY TREE -- KT Tunstall
BEST MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE
YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL -- James Blunt
SAVE ROOM -- John Legend
WAITING ON THE WORLD TO CHANGE -- John Mayer
JENNY WREN -- Paul McCartney
BAD DAY -- Daniel Powter
BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL
MY HUMPS -- The Black Eyed Peas
I WILL FOLLOW YOU INTO THE DARK -- Death Cab For Cutie
OVER MY HEAD (CABLE CAR) -- The Fray
IS IT ANY WONDER? -- Keane
STICKWITU -- The Pussycat Dolls
BEST POP COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS
FOR ONCE IN MY LIFE -- Tony Bennett & Stevie Wonder
ONE -- Mary J. Blige & U2
ALWAYS ON YOUR SIDE -- Sheryl Crow & Sting
PROMISCUOUS -- Nelly Furtado & Timbaland
HIPS DON'T LIE -- Shakira & Wyclef Jean
BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
BACK TO BASICS -- Christina Aguilera
BACK TO BEDLAM -- James Blunt
THE RIVER IN REVERSE -- Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint
CONTINUUM -- John Mayer
FUTURESEX/LOVESOUNDS -- Justin Timberlake
BEST DANCE RECORDING
SUFFER WELL -- Depeche Mode
OOH LA LA -- Goldfrapp
GET TOGETHER -- Madonna
I'M WITH STUPID -- Pet Shop Boys
SEXY BACK -- Justin Timberlake & Timbaland
BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM
DUETS: AN AMERICAN CLASSIC -- Tony Bennett
CAUGHT IN THE ACT -- Michael Bubl�
WINTERSONG -- Sarah McLachlan
BETTE MIDLER SINGS THE PEGGY LEE SONGBOOK -- Bette Midler
TIMELESS LOVE -- Smokey Robinson
BEST SOLO ROCK VOCAL PERFORMANCE
NAUSEA -- Beck
SOMEDAY BABY -- Bob Dylan
ROUTE 66 -- John Mayer
SAVING GRACE -- Tom Petty
LOOKIN' FOR A LEADER -- Neil Young
TALK -- Coldplay
HOW TO SAVE A LIFE -- The Fray
STEADY, AS SHE GOES -- The Raconteurs
DANI CALIFORNIA -- Red Hot Chili Peppers
THE SAINTS ARE COMING -- U2 & Green Day
BEST ROCK SONG
CHASING CARS -- Nathan Connolly, Gary Lightbody, Jonny Quinn, Tom Simpson & Paul Wilson, songwriters (Snow Patrol)
DANI CALIFORNIA -- Flea, John Frusciante, Anthony Kiedis & Chad Smith, songwriters (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
LOOKIN' FOR A LEADER -- Neil Young, songwriter (Neil Young)
SOMEDAY BABY -- Bob Dylan, songwriter (Bob Dylan)
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG -- Brandon Flowers, Dave Keuning, Mark Stoermer & Ronnie Vannucci, songwriters (The Killers)
BEST ROCK ALBUM
TRY! -- John Mayer Trio
HIGHWAY COMPANION -- Tom Petty
BROKEN BOY SOLDIERS -- The Raconteurs
STADIUM ARCADIUM -- Red Hot Chili Peppers
LIVING WITH WAR -- Neil Young
BEST HARD ROCK PERFORMANCE
CRAZY BITCH -- Buckcherry
EVERY DAY IS EXACTLY THE SAME -- Nine Inch Nails
LONELY DAY -- System Of A Down
VICARIOUS -- Tool
WOMAN -- Wolfmother
BEST ALTERNATIVE MUSIC ALBUM
WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY I AM, THAT'S WHAT I'M NOT -- Arctic Monkeys
AT WAR WITH THE MYSTICS -- The Flaming Lips
ST. ELSEWHERE -- Gnarls Barkley
SHOW YOUR BONES -- Yeah Yeah Yeahs
THE ERASER -- Thom Yorke
BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
RING THE ALARM -- Beyonc�
BE WITHOUT YOU -- Mary J. Blige
DON'T FORGET ABOUT US -- Mariah Carey
DAY DREAMING -- Natalie Cole
I AM NOT MY HAIR -- India.Arie
BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
HEAVEN -- John Legend
SO SICK -- Ne-Yo
BLACK SWEAT -- Prince
I CALL IT LOVE -- Lionel Richie
GOT YOU HOME -- Luther Vandross
BEST R&B PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL
BREEZIN' -- George Benson & Al Jarreau
LOVE CHANGES -- Jamie Foxx Featuring Mary J. Blige
EVERYDAY (FAMILY REUNION) -- Chaka Khan, Gerald Levert, Yolanda Adams & Carl Thomas
FAMILY AFFAIR -- (Sly & The Family Stone), John Legend, Joss Stone With Van Hunt
BEAUTIFUL, LOVED AND BLESSED -- Prince & T�mar
BEST R&B SONG
BLACK SWEAT -- Prince, songwriter (Prince)
D�J� VU -- Shawn Carter, Rodney "Darkchild" Jerkins, Beyonc� Knowles, Makeba, Keli Nicole Price & Delisha Thomas, songwriters (Beyonc� Featuring Jay-Z)
DON'T FORGET ABOUT US -- Johnta Austin, Mariah Carey, Bryan-Michael Cox & Jermaine Dupri, songwriters (Mariah Carey)
I AM NOT MY HAIR -- Drew Ramsey, Shannon Sanders & India Arie Simpson, songwriters (India.Arie)
BEST R&B ALBUM
THE BREAKTHROUGH -- Mary J. Blige
UNPREDICTABLE -- Jamie Foxx
TESTIMONY: VOL. 1, LIFE & RELATIONSHIP -- India.Arie
3121 -- Prince
COMING HOME -- Lionel Richie
BEST CONTEMPORARY R&B ALBUM
B'DAY -- Beyonc�
CHRIS BROWN -- Chris Brown
20 Y.O. -- Janet Jackson
KELIS WAS HERE -- Kelis
IN MY OWN WORDS -- Ne-Yo
BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
SMACK THAT -- Akon Featuring Eminem
D�J� VU -- Beyonc� Featuring Jay-Z
SHAKE THAT -- Eminem Featuring Nate Dogg
UNPREDICTABLE -- Jamie Foxx Featuring Ludacris
MY LOVE -- Justin Timberlake Featuring T.I.
BEST RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE
TOUCH IT -- Busta Rhymes
WE RUN THIS -- Missy Elliott
KICK, PUSH -- Lupe Fiasco
UNDENIABLE -- Mos Def
WHAT YOU KNOW -- T.I.
BEST RAP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP
RIDIN -- Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone
GEORGIA -- Ludacris & Field Mob (Featuring Jamie Foxx)
GRILLZ -- Nelly Featuring Paul Wall, Ali & Gipp
MIGHTY "O" -- Outkast
DON'T FEEL RIGHT -- The Roots
BEST RAP SONG
IT'S GOIN' DOWN -- Chadron Moore & Jasiel Robinson, songwriters (Yung Joc)
KICK, PUSH -- Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, songwriter (Lupe Fiasco)
MONEY MAKER -- Christopher Bridges & Pharrell Williams, songwriters (Ludacris Featuring Pharrell)
RIDIN -- Anthony Henderson, J. Slainas, O. Salinas & Hakeem Seriki, songwriters (Chamillionaire Featuring Krayzie Bone)
WHAT YOU KNOW -- A. Davis & Clifford Harris, songwriters; (Donny Hathaway, Leroy Hutson & Curtis Mayfield, songwriters) (T.I.)
BEST RAP ALBUM
LUPE FIASCO'S FOOD & LIQUOR -- Lupe Fiasco R
ELEASE THERAPY -- Ludacris
IN MY MIND -- Pharrell
GAME THEORY -- The Roots
KING -- T.I.
BEST COUNTRY SONG
EVERY MILE A MEMORY -- Brett Beavers, Dierks Bentley & Steve Bogard, songwriters (Dierks Bentley)
I DON'T FEEL LIKE LOVING YOU TODAY -- Matraca Berg & Jim Collins, songwriters (Gretchen Wilson)
LIKE RED ON A ROSE -- Melanie Castleman & Robert Lee Castleman, songwriters (Alan Jackson)
WHAT HURTS THE MOST -- Steve Robson & Jeffrey Steele, songwriters (Rascal Flatts)
BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
TAKING THE LONG WAY -- Dixie Chicks
LIKE RED ON A ROSE -- Alan Jackson
THE ROAD TO HERE -- Little Big Town
YOU DON'T KNOW ME: THE SONGS OF CINDY WALKER -- Willie Nelson
YOUR MAN -- Josh Turner
BEST LATIN POP ALBUM
ADENTRO -- Arjona
LO QUE TRAJO EL BARCO -- Obie Berm�dez
INDIVIDUAL -- Fulano
TROZOS DE MI ALMA 2 -- Marco Antonio Solis
LIM�N Y SAL -- Julieta Venegas
BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN -- Various Artists
CARS -- Various Artists
GREY'S ANATOMY - VOLUME 2 -- Various Artists
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE -- Various Artists
WALK THE LINE -- Joaquin Phoenix & Various Artists
BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR A MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA - THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE -- Harry Gregson-Williams, composer
THE DA VINCI CODE -- Hans Zimmer, composer
MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA -- John Williams, composer
MUNICH -- John Williams, composer
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - DEAD MAN'S CHEST -- Hans Zimmer, composer
PRODUCER OF THE YEAR -- NON CLASSICAL
HOWARD BENSON
BEST SHORT FORM MUSIC VIDEO
8TH OF NOVEMBER -- Big & Rich -- Robert Deaton, George Flanigen & Marc Oswald, video directors
WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG -- The Killers -- Anthony Mandler, video director
HERE IT GOES AGAIN -- OK Go -- Dan Konopka, Damian Kulash, Jr, Timothy Nordwind, Andy Ross & Trish Sie, video directors
DANI CALIFORNIA -- Red Hot Chili Peppers -- Tony Kaye, video director
WRITING ON THE WALLS -- Underoath
Additional nominations were announced in a number of categories in the fields of rock, country, jazz, pop, dance, alternative, R&B, classical, gospel, soundtracks, Latin, blues, reggae, folk, rap, new age, music videos and children's recordings. Composer awards will be presented in several fields, as will awards for various crafts.
THE 49TH ANNUAL GRAMMY AWARDS are produced by John Cossette Productions in association with Ken Ehrlich Productions for The Recording Academy. Ken Ehrlich and John Cossette are the executive producers; Walter C. Miller is the producer/director; Tisha Fein is the coordinating producer. David Wild is the writer and Tzvi Small is the supervising producer.


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Power of pop: Professor examines how Asian music shapes identity
When she was pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, Jennifer Matsue had a deep interest in Japanese popular music, particularly the Underground Tokyo Hardcore Rock Scene and raves.
Matsue recalled attending a rave outside of Tokyo in the late 1990s, where groups of young men and women, dressed in colorful, tight, revealing clothing, banged into each other on the dance floor.
Whether they were students, worked in a bank or a department store, on this particular night, through a type of music that "at once defies geographical place while uniting them as a unique community with others globally, they escape those pressures." In turn, the music shapes "who they are as young, cosmopolitan Japanese at the turn of the 21st century."
Matsue's scholarly observations and expertise are highlighted in a recent article published in the Journal of Asian Studies, "Stars to the State and Beyond: Globalization, Identity, and Asian Popular Music." The article is free here for a limited time.
In the article, Matsue, associate professor of music and director of the Asian Studies program, explores the power of popular music and its ability to foster a greater understanding of a vast array of social phenomena within Asia.
'I wanted to show how popular music can actively shape conceptions of self and inform the ways in which we interact with others at the individual, communal, and national and transnational levels," said Matsue.
"The article not only expands the concept of identity in Asia, but also reveals how the study of popular music in general can illuminate other social issues important to Asianists."
Taking an approach that looks at the state of the field rather than an overview of the history of popular music throughout Asia, Matsue compared recent scholarship covering diverse types of music to show how identity formation is informed by an increasingly nuanced understanding of globalization.
From hip-hop to heavy metal, Matsue touches on the works examining popular performers like Sezen Aksu of Turkey, Inul of Indonesia and the Pakistani band Junoon to show how their identities were influenced by the historical moment in which they lived.
She also cites the influence of smuggled CDs into places like China, the mass producing of videocassettes and the popularity of karaoke as ways of introducing popular music to the masses.
"The works here, though united in their focus on Asia broadly defined, touch on significant social phenomena, from the search for creative autonomy to the racial politics produced through pop performance," Matsue concludes in the article.
Matsue joined Union in 2003. She is chair of the Popular Music Section of the Society of Ethnomusicology, the largest national organization devoted to the study of popular music, and chair of the society's Japanese Performing Arts Special Interest Group.
She is working on a book for Routledge Publishing, Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan. The work moves from a general overview of contemporary Japanese culture, through discussion of key genres and music principles that characterize Japanese music broadly defined. She will also include her own research on percussion in Kyoto.