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Poco X3 NFC Full REVIEW: Is This Phone Really Worth All The Noise Around It?
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Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC was released about one month ago. Probably, you have already seen many articles about it, and maybe even bought this mobile device. If you already have Poco X3, please, write in the comments below what you like and dislike about this phone.
I received Poco X3 only yesterday, so today we will have the unboxing and first look. I will be using the new Xiaomi phone in the coming days, and share my impressions about it. Later, we will publish a performance test, battery test, camera test, as well as advantages and disadvantages of Poco X3.
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By the way, this is the first Poco phone that I have ever tested. I am very interested to test Poco X3.
So, the new phone comes in a black and yellow box. Yellow is Poco's brand color.
On the front of the box, there is only the Poco logo, X3 model name, and NFC.
On the side face, you can find the color of the phone, and memory version. As you can see, I have a shadow grey color and version with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal memory. The smartphone is also available with 128GB of storage.
Inside the box, there is an envelope with a SIM needle, silicone protective case, user manual, and warranty card. Then, we can see the smartphone.
Finally, there is a USB Type-C charging cable and a 33W power adapter in the box. That's all! Poco X3 is a budget smartphone, so it doesn't have earphones or other accessories in the package. Anyway, I am glad that it has a silicone protective case.
By the way, the new phone also has a protective film on the screen out of the box.
Poco X3 NFC looks very premium and stylish. However, this is a budget phone under $200, so the body is made of plastic. As you can see, I have a gray version. The phone is also available in blue color.
On the back, there is a quad camera and flashlight. The camera setup protrudes heavily from the body. However, you will most likely use a protective case, and then the camera will not protrude.
Also, the smartphone has a Poco logo on the back. It is not very noticeable in my gray version, unlike the blue one.
On the front, there is a large hole-punch display. Xiaomi calls it a DotDisplay. We will talk about the screen a little later.
The volume rocker is on the right side. There is also a power button and fingerprint reader next to the volume rocker. You know, I like that fingerprint reader is on the side face, not the rear panel.
On the bottom, we can see a 3.5mm audio jack, USB Type-C charging port, microphone hole, and speaker. On the top, there is another microphone and IR blaster.
On the left side, there is only a hybrid slot for dual SIM or one SIM card and a microSD memory card.
By the way, for some of you, it will be interesting to know that Poco X3 has an indicator of new notifications above the screen. That's very good.
You know, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC has everything you need from a modern smartphone, such as the stylish design with DotDisplay, fingerprint reader, 3.5mm audio jack, USB Type-C port, IR sensor, and even dual speaker.
One of the main features of the new Poco X3 phone is the display. First, it has a diagonal of 6.67-inches. The resolution is 2400 by 1080 pixels. However, the main feature is a 120Hz refresh rate and a 240Hz touch sampling rate.
The screen is really good. For example, you can see that scrolling Instagram is very smooth. In the next video, we will play games, such as Shadowgun Legends, and we will see the 120Hz display in practice.
The brightness is also good. You can use the phone in direct sunlight.
In short, the display is great for a budget smartphone.
You know, Poco X3 is a budget smartphone of about $200, but it has a very good processor – Snapdragon 732G. I am sure that the new Xiaomi phone will not have any problems with heavy games. However, I am interested in whether it will be heated or not. I also want to play games on a 120Hz display.
OK, let's start the performance test with benchmarks.
As I already said, Xiaomi Poco X3 NFC is powered by the new chipset Snapdragon 732G. I have a version with 6GB of RAM and 64GB of internal memory.
So, the first benchmark is AnTuTu. As you can see, the new Poco X3 smartphone scores about СКОЛЬКО thousand points. That's a very good result.
The next benchmark is called GeekBench 5. Poco X3 has 564 points in the single-core test and 1726 points in the multi-core test.
You know, the new Poco phone has very good benchmark results for a budget phone.
The last benchmark for today is 3D Mark. The overall score is 2687 points.
I have also tested Wi-Fi speed, memory speed, and GPS. The new smartphone looks great.
It's time to play games.
I have already installed four games on Poco X3, such as PUBG Mobile, Asphalt 9, Shadowgun Legends, and Call of Duty Mobile.
You know, I haven't played games on smartphones with a 120Hz display yet. This will be my first experience. I am very excited.
Let's start with PUBG Mobile. In the settings, we can see that maximum graphics is HD, and FPS is High.
The game runs very well. It is really smooth, thanks to good performance and 120Hz display.
You know, the phone is really warm after 10 minutes of gaming. The temperature is about 46 degrees Celsius.
The next game is Call of Duty Mobile. As I said at the beginning of this video, I am sure that Poco X3 will not have any problems with games. Call of Duty is no exception. It is a pleasure to play this game on the new Xiaomi phone.
The smartphone is still warm, but it is not hot. The temperature is about 49 degrees Celsius.
I have also played Asphalt 9 and Shadowgun Legends. Once again, you can see that these heavy games run very well on Poco X3.
The temperature of the smartphone after the last game is about the same as after the first one – 49 degrees Celsius.
Poco X3 is not a gaming smartphone, but it runs heavy games very well. Yes, the smartphone is warm during games, but not hot. I think it is OK.
I also like that Poco X3 has a 120Hz display. The games are very smooth.
The new Xiaomi smartphone runs on the latest Android 10 operating system with MIUI 12 user interface. To be precise, my phone has an MIUI 12.0.2 version.
You know, there are many new functions in MIUI 12, and it deserves a separate video.
However, one of my favorite updates in MIUI 12 is a new control center. You can turn it on in the settings. The new control center looks fresh and interesting, although it is similar to iOS.
As you can see, Poco X3 NFC has a quad camera on the rear panel. The main sensor is 64MP with an f/1.9 aperture. The second camera is a 13MP ultra-wide angle. The third and fourth sensors are macro and depth with 2MP resolution.
On the front, there is a 20MP camera with an f/2.2 aperture.
Camera App
Poco X3 smartphone has many functions and settings in the camera app. On the main screen, there is Pro mode, Video, Photo, Portrait, and More, such as Night, 64MP, Short Video, Panorama, and others.
As I already said, Poco X3 has an ultra-wide-angle lens. If you want to use this mode, then select a photo or video, and then click on the left point next to 1X.
On the top of the screen, you can turn on/off the flashlight, HDR, AI, choose a filter, and open Google Lens.
Click on the icon in the right top corner to open the settings menu. Here you can choose aspect ratio, timer, movie, frame, show gridlines, macro, etc.
There is a menu with other settings, such as watermark, live tips, scan QR codes, correct distortion in ultra-wide shots, and others.
In video mode, you can choose video resolution, from 720p at 30FPS to 4K at 30 fps.
There is also the macro mode and track moving objects mode. In the settings, you will find the following functions: allow tagging videos, image stabilization, video encoder, volume buttons function, and many others.
As you can see, Poco X3 NFC has many shooting modes and settings. That's very good.
I took photos in different modes: standard, 64MP, and ultra-wide angle. You can see them on your screen.
The pictures are very good in daylight conditions.
20MP front camera also does a good job. The selfies are of high quality.
By the way, Poco X3 has a very interesting mode. It is called a clone. You can take a photo or even make a video with your clones. This is very funny.
Portrait and macro photos also look great for a budget phone.
You know, even night photos are amazing for a $200 smartphone. Poco X3 has a night mode, and I recommend you to use it when you take photos in low light conditions.
As I already said, Xiaomi Poco X3 records video in 4K resolution at 30 fps. There is image stabilization in 4K. The video is really smooth.
By the way, you can also shoot video in 1080P at 60 fps.
The video is high detailed, while the colors are vivid. I really like the video quality of Poco X3, both day and night.
Poco X3 didn't disappoint me and even surprised a little. This smartphone has a stunning camera for its price. There are many useful shooting modes, for example, macro, portrait, night, clone, and others.
I also like a video stabilization in 4K resolution. The footage is very smooth. Also, it is highly detailed and has well-saturated colors.
So, I think you will be glad about the camera of this $200 smartphone.
Also, Poco X3 has a good battery capacity of 5150mAh. I cannot say anything about battery life right now, because I only use this smartphone for a couple of hours. We will post a video with a battery test later.
I am really surprised that Poco X3 supports 33W fast charging.
Poco X3 is a global smartphone, so you can use it worldwide. The phone was released only one month ago, but it doesn't support the 5G network, because this is a budget phone.
Xiaomi's new device has dual SIM support. There is also NFC support for contactless payments.
Poco X3 NFC continues to amaze me. This time, I am surprised by the dual speaker.
When you listen to music or watch videos, the audio comes from the bottom and top of the smartphone. The sound is very loud, and quite good quality.
By the way, 3.5 mm audio jack can be useful for someone. However, I have been using wireless earbuds for a long time.
You know, I really like the new Poco X3 smartphone, and most likely, it will be my daily driver.
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No. 22 WSU women's volleyball team heads on the road for two tough matches to start Pac-12 play.
First, the Cougars (9-1) will face No. 13 University of Washington (8-2). After that match, they will head down to Oregon to face No. 12 University of Oregon (7-3).
Coming off a 2-1 record and second place finish in the Western Kentucky University tournament, Head Coach Jen Greeny said she was happy with her team's overall performance in non-conference play. She said it was a good tournament with tough competition.
It took all five sets against East Tennessee State University to beat WSU, but Greeny said she was happy they went the distance.
"You want to be in a tight match like that to see what you're made of," Greeny said.
She said the Cougars had a good win against Western Kentucky University to snap their opponent's 28-game home winning streak but could never find the rhythm against ETSU.
Going five sets was good for the Cougars, and Greeny said she just wanted to see them fix some of the mistakes they made as they prepare for this first weekend of Pac-12 play.
Having two matches spread out over the weekend will be new for WSU as the team is used to playing the tournament-style three games in 24 hours.
"It will be nice to have more time to prepare for just one opponent," Greeny said.
Rather than preparing overnight and going a lot more on the fly and making in-match adjustments, the Cougars now have more time to recover and have a well-planned out scouting report.
Greeny said now that WSU is in Pac-12 play, it will be facing a high-ranked opponent every weekend. This weekend just happens to be two of them. Greeny is confident that a difficult preseason prepared the team well for Pac-12 and said she wants to continue to get better.
"Two very good teams on the road, we just need to fix some of those mistakes we made last weekend," Greeny said.
The Cougars will face the Huskies at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Alaska Airlines Arena, and the Ducks at noon Sunday in the Matthew Knight Arena. Both matches can be watched live on Pac-12 Networks.


I think the Daimler Ferret scout car was quite probably the inspiration for the Daleks of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. A Dalek is a robotic looking creature that moves around shouting "exterminate" in a chilling radiophonic voice. The Daimler Ferret looks as if it could be a mobile robotic vehicle from science fiction except it was really a British Army military vehicle of the Cold War that looks rather like a Dalek. Curiously though, although the British were building these fearsome military machines they did not give them fearsome names. The Daimler Ferret was the direct descendant of the World War II Daimler Dingo. A Dingo is an Australian native dog that cannot bark and runs away at the first sign of danger, and that was the job role of the Daimler Dingo scout car – to get in behind enemy lines and scout out their positions and strengths – and to avoid detection. If faced with a fight the best strategy for a scout car is to run away to get the precious information back to headquarters. A ferret similarly is good at getting into burrows and places where rats are hiding and flushing them out. So whilst the Nazis took themselves terribly seriously and called their military vehicles by imposing terrifying names such as "Panzer", the British sense of humor did the exact opposite, and so we get military vehicles with such non terrifying names as the Leyland Hippo, Humber Pig and the Wolesley Mudlark to go with the Daimler Dingo and the Daimler Ferret. Perhaps the British were hoping that the Nazis would be so busy laughing hysterically at these silly names that they'd forget to fight.
Rear view of the Daimler Ferret showing spare tire. The tires for this vehicle are run-flats.
The ancestry of the Daimler Ferret really begins in 1938 when the British Army realized that there was a real possibility of having to go to war against Hitler's Third Reich and so they approached luxury car maker Daimler with a view to their creating a small and easily concealed scout car. The scout car would be lightly armored, just carrying a Bren light machine gun plus the crew's small arms. The scout car also needed to be fast, and if it needed to escape in a hurry it needed to be able to back out of trouble just as quickly as it had gotten into trouble. Within a year Daimler had created a near perfect design, so well thought out in fact that it could go just as fast in reverse as it could going forwards, and it could do 60mph on road and off road – forwards or backwards.
Instead of the Bren of the wartime Daimler Dingo the Cold War Daimler Ferret was fitted with a NATO standard Browning M1919 .30 caliber machine gun. This Ferret however is fitted with a paint-ball gun.
The development of the Daimler Ferret began in 1949 in a Britain that was still on rationing for the general population but which understood that just as one menace to the world had been removed so new menaces were emerging and the military were going to need to be well equipped to deal with those emergencies. Britain still had her overseas colonies at that time and her armed forces were to be kept busy in many parts of the world, thus the need for a fast lightly armored vehicle had not disappeared with the advent of the nuclear bomb.
The steering wheel of the Daimler Ferret tilts at an odd angle to ensure easy escape for the driver if needs be.
Like the Daimler Dingo before it the Ferret uses an "H form" drive with the engine and gearbox driving to a centrally mounted differential and then by propeller shafts to each of the wheels providing fully independent suspension and vastly improved ground clearance due to the elimination of conventional axles.
As can be seen in this picture the H form transmission eliminates the beam axle and allows a high ground clearance with fully independent suspension.
The engine of the Ferret is a petrol/gasoline Rolls-Royce B60 IOE (inlet over exhaust) in-line six cylinder producing 129bhp; enough power to give the little Ferret a 58mph top speed with which to get into trouble and get back out of trouble. I guess that the top speed might become a bit faster as the ammunition runs out.
The Rolls Royce IOE six cylinder engine that sends the Ferret hurtling across the landscape.
There can be few more impressive cars to park on one's front lawn than an armored car. You can imagine the conversation; "You have a Ford Mustang? I've got a Ferret with a built in paintball gun". Ferret beats muscle car every time.
The Daimler Ferret in our pictures is coming up for sale by Bonhams at their Amelia Island auction to be held at the Fernandina Beach Golf Club, 3990 Amelia Island Parkway, Fernandina Beach, Florida on March 9th 2017.
You will find the sale page for this ultimate paint-ball car if you click here.
Sadly we don't think the nice people at the Fernandina Beach Golf Club will allow you to test drive and shoot this cute little Ferret on their fairways.
Expected sale price is in the range of USD$40,000-$60,000 but this Ferret is being offered without reserve so you might just get lucky and get a real bargain.
All you need is a buddy to drive and a loudspeaker system through which to bellow "exterminate" as you do paint-ball battle with all comers.


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The Internet is awash in "look at me!" photos, but a picture of a woman sitting poolside, shown recently on a popular art blog, was weirdly attention-getting. It wasn't really the long silver gloves and black tights that complemented her silver one-piece, or the robot helmet covering her head, which tilted inquisitively. Maybe it was more because, as part of an advertisement for a master's degree program in studio art, this image affirmed, in amusing, shorthand fashion, the long-standing notion that an artist's work should stand out. It should look and be strange somehow–if not bizarre, then at least out of the ordinary.
These "outsiders" were distinguished by their use of everyday objects and situations as subject matter, as opposed to the flashy commercialism and brand names of Pop Art, or the Photorealists' slick scenes of Americana. They focused on humdrum routine and ordinary moments: Robert Bechtle's family eating dinner at a chain restaurant (Fosters Freeze); Alex Hay's errand at the hardware store (Cash Register Slip); Chuck Close's snapshot of himself in a moment of boredom (Big Self-Portrait). She found affinities between these artists and another generation that emerged in the late 1980s, including Robert Gober, Charles Ray, and the Swiss duo Fischli and Weiss, whose early sculptures conjured a sense of the uncanny–a feeling of something being not quite right, followed by the realization that what we are seeing is not what we expected, but rather a work of art.
Realism in art is often regarded by critics and art historians as a kind of periodic resurgence, a conservative response to a crisis, such as the Vietnam era or the more recent post-9/11 state of affairs. And yet Engberg curated Lifelike to include works that fully span the intervening decades, from Hay's giant paper bag of 1968 to Oshiro's life-size, hand-painted dumpster made last year. Certainly one could argue the past 40-odd years have seen ongoing crises of various kinds, or at least a general sense of instability, but perhaps the persistence of realism in art–rather than its periodic resurgence–is more a reaction to reality itself, which seems to grow ever more mutable.
The nature of reality and its cousins, truth and authenticity, have all increasingly come into question in recent years as technology has proliferated–and with it, the volume of information, products, and images that we process on a daily basis. The resulting confusion and subjectivity over what or whom to believe is daunting. Statistics get massaged; words and images are taken out of context (or so goes the claim); scientific studies make healthy foods harmful and vice versa; politicians wage increasingly expensive, lengthy, and carnivalesque battles over truth and reality, while striving to up their authenticity quotient. Even reality TV is at the endgame stage where it has migrated off the screen and back into real life, as the news-making antics of the Kardashians and their ilk become nearly inescapable.
The now-common practice of parsing what's believable (as distinct from what we believe) is reflected in the ways we encounter the artworks in Lifelike. We're invited to identify artifice, question authenticity, ponder the mysteries of how an artwork was made–and maybe even find a peculiar poetry in things that only seem ordinary. The experience ranges along a spectrum from disturbing to bewildering to curious to amusing to delightful. For instance, the presence of several fake humans residing in the galleries–Ron Mueck's crouching boy, Evan Penny's elderly man, and Duane Hanson's Janitor–can be felt almost before the sculptures are seen. By way of explaining that unsettling feeling, Engberg refers to the work of Masahiro Mori, the roboticist whose influential 1970 essay, "The Uncanny Valley," explored the extent to which robots may resemble humans. He found that at a certain point humans somewhat paradoxically regard them as not "human" enough: suddenly they become creepy and repulsive.
The tension between the desire to believe and the desire to discover artifice runs through the exhibition: "Many artists have strived to harness this sense of doubt, inviting us to suspend our disbelief until our disbelief becomes quite real," writes Engberg, an observation that brings to mind the odd charge of pieces such as Jud Nelson's hyperreal, life-size garbage bag made from marble or Tauba Auerbach's large painting of crumpled cloth, which goes beyond the hyperreal to become an abstraction. Some of the works that have a totally out-of-scale realism conjure a different type of disquiet. Consider Robert Therrien's gargantuan steel folding table and its matching folding chairs leaning against the wall, and the nerve-wracking clatter of one of those normal-size chairs falling to the floor.
Because they are straightforward representations of the familiar, the artists' process in making these works affects how we regard them, especially as they involve feats of craftsmanship and human labor that are rare in a post-industrial, developed economy. Kui Hua Zi (Sunflower Seeds), a jar of 1,000 "sunflower seeds" by artist Ai Weiwei, relates to his massive installation of 100 million ceramic seeds at the Tate Modern in London. Then there's the singular delicacy of Yoshihiro Sudo's tiny weeds growing out of the crack between the wall and the floor, or the life-size bee fabricated by Tom Friedman from clay, wire, fuzz, hair, plastic, and paint, which are awe-inspiring on a whole different level.
Along with those works, many other pieces in Lifelike affirm the enduring influence of Marcel Duchamp on a huge swath of contemporary art. Engberg calls these "post-Duchampian remade readymades." Like Duchamp's urinal, bottle rack, and bicycle wheel, they cause a double-take as everyday objects imported to a gallery setting, but they are also handcrafted replicas of such. Some works are almost purely playful, such as Maurizio Cattelan's tiny set of elevators or Leandro Erlich's piece that transports the viewer into a Buenos Aires subway. Lifelike's strains of realism and their effects on us are intriguing in their multifariousness. For instance, while Charles Ray is striving for a dizzying level of exactitude in photographing himself rendered as a mannequin, Robert Gober incorporates strategic and very subtle signs of the handmade into works such as a bundle of newspapers; yet both artists endow the commonplace with strange powers when reproducing it as art.
In this sense, the realism of Lifelike is aligned more with conceptual art than with Pop or Surrealism. The artists in this exhibition have chosen all-too-familiar forms as a place to embed ideas about process, perception, and things more intangible. In doing so, they've staked out fresh territory for contemplation that is in plain sight–if we take the time to look.


I've been preparing a slide show to present to the "Best Practice" group at work. I was looking for a simple way to do the presentation, when I came across Eric Meyer's Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System (S5 for short). I'm really impressed with how simple and easy it was to create a new slide show, and adapt the look and feel for the company style. Kudos to Eric!
My Introduction to CruiseControl presentation is now available on-line. If anyone has any feedback, or feels that they can use the presentation themselves, please let me know.


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Digest: MiDIA Research Teases Yearly Report, TIDAL Loses 3rd CEO, Spotify Settles
Posted by Glen Sears | May 30, 2017 9:38 am | No Comments
Tags: MIDiA Research, Spotify, Tidal
MiDIA Research: Who's Leading The Streaming Pack?
YouTube and Spotify emerge as the leading services with 25.1% and 16.3% WAU (weekly active user) penetration respectively. However, at the other end of the spectrum, Deezer swaps its top half of the table subscriber count ranking for the bottom ranking for WAUs with just 2.3%.
Other Music News Highlights
Spotify Settles Class Action Lawsuits With $43.4 Million Fund. Under the agreement, which will need to be approved by the court, the streaming company will set up a fund worth $43.4 million to compensate songwriters and publishers whose compositions the service used without paying mechanical royalties.
Judge Agrees Broadcasters Have First Amendment Right to Refuse Advertisements. According to a California federal judge ruling in a case involving SiriusXM, not running an ad is an exercise in free speech.
TIDAL Loses Its Third CEO In Two Years As Jeff Toig Exits. "As part of Tidal's continued expansion this year we will be announcing a new CEO in the coming weeks," TIDAL said in a statement.
SoundCloud Announces Departure of Content Chief Stephen Bryan. During his three years in the role, Bryan helped secure the label and publishing deals needed to launch the SoundCloud Go line of on-demand subscription tiers.
IMS Biz Report: Global Electronic Market Up 3% to $7.4 Billion. The report, which looked at industry data from 2016, reported the dance music market was up 3% to $7.4 billion dollars, up from $7.1 billion the year before.
Digest: Big Players Back dotBlockchain, ESPN Reaches Licensing Settlement, Sprint Reveals TIDAL Details
Posted by Glen Sears | February 6, 2017 9:38 am | No Comments
Tags: ESPN, SOCAN, Sprint, Tidal
Top Story Last Week
SOCAN, CD Baby, SongTrust And FUGA Back DotBlockchain
The dotBlockchain Music Project (dotBC), which aims to solve data, rights, ownership and payment issues in the music industry, has won backing from SOCAN and subsidiary MediaNet, plus Songtrust, CDBaby and FUGA. The partners will contribute technical and financial resources to the project, which will allow dotBC to accelerate its product development efforts.
Read the full story on Music Business Worldwide
ESPN Reaches Settlement in Music Licensing Dispute. The deal resolves a rate-setting proceeding that ESPN initiated a year ago when it sued BMI for allegedly not being reasonable in licensing negotiations.
Netflix Taps BMG for Music Publishing Rights Outside U.S. The exclusive agreement covers elements such as scores, featured songs, transition cues and themes for all Netflix-owned original programming, including TV series, docs and feature films.
Canada's SOCAN Announces 8 Percent Growth in Revenue, Huge Jump in Streaming. "SOCAN's work to lead the global transformation of music rights continues, benefitting music creators and publishers even more in terms of royalties identified, collected, and distributed in Canada and worldwide," said CEO Eric Baptiste, in a statement.
Why Did Sprint Pay $200m For TIDAL? Now we know: because Sprint Corporation CEO Raul Marcelo Claure is using TIDAL as a "test case" to see if exclusive content can help close the gap on rivals like AT&T.
SoundExchange Pays Out Record $884 Million. The record comes amid uncertainty over how SoundExchange revenue will be affected by an increasing number of direct deals between digital broadcaster and rightsholders.
Report Claims Spotify IPO Could Slip Back To 2018. TechCrunch heard from multiple sources that the company is weighing a plan to delay an IPO until 2018 to build up a better balance sheet and work on shifting its business model to improve its margins.
Nielsen Completes Acquisition of Gracenote. With the deal, Nielsen significantly expands its footprint for data measurement via Gracenote's global database and technology solutions that spans across multichannel video programming distributors, smart televisions, streaming music services, connected devices, media players and in-car infotainment systems.
Digest: Sprint Buys 33% of TIDAL, MusicFirst Lobbies Congress, YouTube Red Expanding in 2017
Posted by Glen Sears | January 23, 2017 9:21 am | No Comments
Tags: Congress, Sprint, Tidal, YouTube
Top Story This Week
Sprint Buys 33% of Jay Z's Music Streaming Service Tidal
Sprint Corp. acquired a 33 percent stake in music-streaming service Tidal as the fourth-largest U.S. wireless carrier turns to media streaming to attract more customers with exclusive content.
Marcelo Claure, Sprint's chief executive officer, will join the Tidal board and musician Jay Z will continue to run the business, according to a statement Monday. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Sprint paid $200 million for the stake, according to a report in MusicBusinessWorldwide.
Read the entire story on Bloomberg
MusicFirst Coalition Pens Letter to Congress on Radio, Copyright Concerns. Dated Jan. 18, the letter outlines the group's main aims in its pursuit of "market-based principles [that] drive compensation for all artists and creators whenever and however their music is played."
CEO Susan Wojcicki Promises YouTube Red Expansion In 2017. "We'll continue to roll out YouTube Red in new markets throughout 2017, giving creators another meaningful way to earn revenue from their content and fans access to brand new original series and films."
Donald Trump Expected to Appoint Ajit Pai as New FCC Chairman. In his time at the FCC, Pai has been extremely vocal about his unhappiness with the agency's heavy hand, and has signaled an intent to roll back the FCC's "open internet" rules, also known as Net Neutrality.
Is Apple Getting Serious About Original Content? The iPhone maker is exploring producing original television shows and movies to turn its Apple Music subscription service into what Apple executive Jimmy Iovine described Jan. 14 as "an entire cultural, pop cultural experience."
Have $9.99 Streaming Subscriptions Reached A Saturation Point? MiDIA Research's Mark Mulligan wonders, based on the financially polarizing pricing structure currently being implemented by the streaming industry, if the number of customers willing to pay $9.99 has hit a saturation point.
Garth Brooks' Ghost Tunes Folding Into Amazon Music. A digital and physical distribution platform billed as an alternative to iTunes that launched a little over two years ago, Ghost Tunes is apparently folding into Amazon Music.
Sony/ATV Responds Publicly To Paul McCartney Lawsuit. McCartney filed the lawsuit last week in the Southern New York District Court, claiming that Sony/ATV had repeatedly failed to confirm it would transfer US copyrights to the songwriter when the company's legal rights expire.
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RECAP: David Lowery Motion Claims Songwriters Being "Misled", TIDAL Gets Beyonce Exclusive, UMG Wins Big
Posted by Glen Sears | April 25, 2016 10:38 am | No Comments
Tags: NMPA, Rhapsody, Spotify, Tidal
David Lowery Files Motion To Stop Spotify, NMPA From "Misleading" Songwriters
Songwriters are being "misled" by being encouraged to sign onto a settlement it made with the National Music Publishers Association, according to a motion filed by attorneys representing David Lowery, who is suing the music streamer for use of his songs without a license.
The NMPA and Spotify had reached a settlement for music publishers and songwriters to receive royalties for "unmatched" compositions used on Spotify in the U.S. from a $25 million fund. In addition to identifying the rightful recipients of the royalties, the agreement establishes a bonus compensation fund reported to add $5 million to the settlement.
According to the filings, Lowery's team alleges that Spotify is misleading songwriters to encourage them to sign the NMPA brokered agreement. They are demanding copies of all communications between Spotify, publishers and songwriters related to the deal, along with additional payments for damages.
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Top Music News Stories
$84M Class Action Suit Filed Against Kanye West, Jay Z Over Tidal Album Release. A fan of Kanye West fan is suing the star and and the streaming music service Tidal saying that the falsely lured users into subscriptions based on the promise that it would be the exclusive outlet for his latest album, "The Life Of Pablo."
Beyoncé Releases Surprise Album 'Lemonade,' Will Stream Exclusively On TIDAL Forever. Saturday night Beyoncé became the latest superstar TIDAL artist-owner to release their new album exclusively on the platform, following Kanye West and Rhianna–the much anticipated 12 track album sent fans into a frenzy on social media.
Universal Wins Big Ruling in Copyright Lawsuit Over In-Flight Music. Universal Music and Capitol Records have navigated the complexities of international air travel to score a summary judgment ruling that when it gets to a jury next month to decide damages, could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
"Compulsory Licenses Must Require Display Of Songwriter Credits." Chris Castle argues that the U.S. government should require that digital music services provide proper attribution to songwriters when compulsory licenses relating to said artist are obtained.
Facebook Launches Its Version Of Content ID. Following complaints from content creators that their YouTube videos have been appearing on Facebook after being posted without the creator's consent, the social network has released its own version of YouTube's fabled Content ID.
YouTube Defends Content ID Following Music Labels' Criticism. It represents the latest front in the war of words between YouTube and the music industry at a time when the service is preparing to negotiate new licensing deals – and also when reviews of safe-harbour legislation are underway on both sides of the Atlantic.
'Alibaba Planet' is China's Latest Music Platform. "Music fans can use their smartphones to follow their favourite stars, participate in fan activities, purchase related merchandise and watch live shows of cyber celebrities and popular singers, in addition to listening to streaming songs," says the internet giant.
Prince Fans Pay Tribute, Buying 1M Tracks, 240K Albums In U.S. On Day Of His Death. The unprecedented stats were compiled by BuzzAngle Music, a sales & streaming tracking service of music technology company Border City Media.
Rhapsody Names Its First-Ever CEO. Streaming service Rhapsody and its international version Napster have been operating without a full-time leader at the top, until now, as the Seattle-based parent company Rhapsody International has announced it has hired Mike Davis as the company's new — and first — CEO.
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Music News Recap: Rhapsody Revenue & Losses, No Tidal Buyout, YouTube Star Not "Fair Use"
Posted by Glen Sears | March 7, 2016 10:22 am | No Comments
Tags: Rhapsody, Spotify, Tidal
Rhapsody Next Streaming Service to Pair Big Revenue Growth With Big Losses
Like many other streaming services, according to its 2015 financials Rhapsody has conformed to the "bigger revenues/bigger losses" streaming music growth model. The numbers, published by RealNetworks as part of its financial report, show Rhapsody's revenues rose from $173.5M in 2014 to $202M in 2015 – growth of 16.4%. However, its net losses rose from $21.3M in 2014 to $35.5M in 2015, representing a 66.3% increase year-on-year.
This came as Rhapsody's subscriber base grew by 45% in 2015, revealed in February in RealNetworks' last earnings call – the company still holds a 43% stake in Rhapsody. Rhapsody reached 2M subscribers in July 2014 and 3M in July 2015. It's thus reasonable to suggest that it had around 2.5M at the end of 2014, with 45% growth in 2015 indicating around 3.6M by the end of that year.
With Rhapsody, Spotify, Soundcloud, and others all posting major losses, and their competitors can absorb streaming losses with their income from device sales, advertising and e-commerce…2016 might be the year to talk more about what it means to succeed in streaming long term.
Music News Recap: New Royalty Rates Imminent, Aurous Shut Down, Spotify Insights
Posted by Glen Sears | December 14, 2015 10:39 am | No Comments
Tags: Aurous, Royalties, Tidal
Top Music Industry News Stories
Washington D.C.'s Royalty Rate Ruling Is Imminent, Possibly Even Today – The announcement will be the culmination of Webcasting IV, the rate proceeding that will determine the statutory royalty rates to be paid by non-interactive Internet radio stations like Pandora for the next five years. Read More
Tidal Launches in Puerto Rico – Tidal is making a splashy move into Puerto Rico with the concert by one of one of its biggest stars. But the company is a late-comer to the island, traditionally a strong Latin music market. Apple Music, Spotify, Pandora are already established there. Read More
Unlaunched Music Streamer CÜR Media Completes $1.75 Million Financing Round – Even as music streamers from Pandora to Spotify struggle to find profits and Rdio files for bankruptcy, others are still hoping to get into the game. U.S.-based CUR Media is one, and they just added $1.75 million to make it happen. Read More
Pandora, SONGS Music Publishing Agree to Multi-Year Deal – The agreement follows Pandora's licensing deal with one of the major publishing companies, Sony/ATV Music, a month ago. Read More
Illegal Streamer Aurous Shuts Down After $3m Settlement With RIAA – The deal will see developer Andrew Sampson barred from operating the Aurous website or similar services, while the plaintiffs – Atlantic Records, Capitol Records, Sony Music, Universal Music, and Warner Bros Records – now own the Aurous intellectual property. Read More
Surprising Discoveries
Report Claims Spotify Will Allow Some Premium Windowing – The no-windowing policy was at the heart of the streaming service's dispute with Taylor Swift; and its resolve has been tested by artists including Beyoncé, Adele and Coldplay, as the idea of making big albums only available for subscribers gained currency. Read More
Less Than 10% Of Spotify Users Listen To 1 Full Album Per Month, According To Study – "Based on research that we did at Universal a year and a half ago, we looked at free users, we looked at their album listening habits within a one month period, and we found that fewer than 10% of them listened to an album in full within that period. That's something everybody's got to wake up to." Read More
Warner/Chappell Settles Happy Birthday Suit, Song Enters Public Domain – The settlement comes just days after Judge George H. King of the Central District of California had raised the possibility that other plaintiffs may be eligible to file claims on back royalties paid to Warner/Chappell and the previous rightsholders Birch Tree and the Summy Co. dating back to 1949. Read More
Soundcheck: Your 5-Minute Recap Of Last Week's Most Important Music News
Posted by Glen Sears | June 29, 2015 9:00 am | No Comments
Tags: Apple Music, Harvard, Sony, Tidal
Merlin, WIN, Beggars, IMPALA, and Other Indies Agree To Bring Over 20,000 Artists Into Revised Apple Music Ecosystem
http://bit.ly/1U0ZbCW
The weeks leading up to tomorrow's Apple Music launch have been nothing if not eventful. After announcing huge artists for the new Beats One radio station and securing Taylor Swift as a fan, Apple Music scored another coup last week. Huge indie labels and organizations are now flocking to the new streaming service, and bringing with them enormous libraries of music.
It wasn't without an uphill battle. Organizations such as independent music licensor Merlin boycotted Apple Music after it became public that Apple wouldn't pay royalties to songwriters during the service's 90-day free trial. Despite the fact that this is fairly standard practice across the industry, many (including Swift, an independent artist herself) looked to Apple to set the tone for the future of streaming music, saying "I find it to be shocking, disappointing, and completely unlike this historically progressive and generous company."
After Apple announced it would pay on its free trial of Apple Music, indie labels, publishers, and associations came around quickly. Beggars Group, one of indie music's largest label groups, summed up the greater feelings toward Apple: "Over the last few days we have had increasingly fruitful discussions with Apple. We are now delighted to say that we are happy to endorse the deal with Apple Music as it now stands, and look forward to being a big part of a very exciting future."
Other Important Headlines
TIDAL Parent Aspiro Removes CEO Andy Chen, Replaces Him With The CEO He Replaced – As the streaming company struggles to gain foothold, more shakeups on their Executive Team. Read More
Spotify Buys Beats' Analytics Provider Seed Scientific – Spotify doubles down on data-driven recommendations and services, now boosted by the purchase of a data firm who previously served its primary competitor. Read More
American Idol Winners Sue Sony Music: "Your Equity Stake In Spotify Cheats Artists" – "…Together, and individually, Sony and the other major record labels therefore have significant power to exert control over Spotify in order to not only dictate how revenue will be paid, but wrongfully and in bad faith divert money from royalties that must be shared to other forms of revenue that they can keep for themselves." Read More
SiriusXM Settles Lawsuit, Agrees To Pay $210 Million For Use Of Pre-1972 Recordings – They'll also be able to play pre-1972 music through 2017. After that, they'll have to come to new agreements. Read More
Linkin Park Looks For New Music Revenue, Ends Up At Harvard, Starts Venture Capital Firm – "To be clear, we are still in the music business, but creating and selling music now plays more of a supporting role in our overall business mix." Read More
Courtney Love Attacked in Paris, Uber Driver Held Hostage by 'Mob of Taxi Drivers' – Love tweeted her experience during Paris' protests-turned-violent against rideshare company Uber. Read More
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Soundcheck: Last Week's Music News Highlights (5/18)
Tags: Blue Note, Sony, Soundcloud, Spotify, Tidal, YouTube
Last wee's music news cycle focused heavily on streaming services and subsequent publishing rights, in large part due to The Verge's leak of a Sony/Spotify contract agreement. The agreement sent shockwaves through the music industry as many were surprised by the full spectrum of the deal. Here are last week's top stories:
Former Rhapsody Exec Jon Maples Joins 8Tracks
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/05/former-rhapsody-exec-jon-maples-joins-8tracks.html
International Music Managers Forum Publishes Open Letter to EU on Publishing Laws
http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/the-immfs-open-letter-on-record-label-and-music-publisher-deals-in-the-digital-market/
Long-Time ASCAP Executive Karen Sherry Is Retiring
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/6575603/longtime-ascap-exec-karen-sherry-is-retiring
Sony Prepares To Remove More Music From Soundcloud, While Ultra Questions Its Model
http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/sony-to-take-down-more-music-from-soundcloud-while-ultra-boss-says-its-years-away-from-making-money/
Jack White Defends Tidal & Jay-Z, Asks "Should Movies Be Free?"
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/digital-and-mobile/6569016/jack-white-defends-tidal-jay-z-should-movies-be-free
Spotify Moves Into YouTube Territory With New Video Offerings
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015/05/spotify-just-parked-its-tanks-on-youtubes-lawn.html
Beloved Executive & Blue Note Veteran Bruce Lundvall Dies at 79
https://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/6568892/bruce-lundvall-blue-note-records-veteran-beloved-executive-dead-at-79
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Day 5's featured earrings are called Holly and Berries.
Last week I bought a gorgeous strand of red faceted oval beads. I fell in love with the colour immediately because it was such a deep shade of red - perfect for Christmas. The silver and red slider bead adds an elegant touch to the earrings.
Thread the silver bead onto the headpin and turn a loop. Thread the red bead onto the eye pin, turn a loop but before closing it, attach the silver bead.
You only need 9 links of chain for each earring so separate it into two equal lengths. Attach the holly charm with a jump ring to the chain on the fourth link from the bottom.
Attach the jingle bell to the chain with a jump ring to the second link from the top. Then attach the bottom link of the chain to the red bead component.
Now we run into a problem: the square focal is a slider bead and it has two channels running along the outside of the slider. So I've come up with a piece of wirework to create a workaround for that. As well as providing a hanging loop it adds a bit of detail.
Cut a 6cm (2.5") length of wire for each slider.
Using flat nosed pliers, turn a 45° angle about 1cm from the end. You will need to trim it to about half the length of the slider.
Place the end into the channel of the slider.
Now, place your round nose pliers where you want to turn a loop, so that it will be centred above the middle of the slider.
Take the wire out of the channel so that it's easier to handle and then turn the loop.
Place the hanger back into the slider and using the flat nose pliers turn a 45° angle so that the wire on each side of the loop is even.
You may need to take the wire out of the slider again to do this.
Now work on the other end. Turn a 45° angle like you did in the first step.
Then turn another loop centred in the middle of the slider and then another 45° angle so that it lines up with the channel on the other side.
Trim the wire to half the length of the slider.
And then carefully push it into the channel without distorting the hanger.
Glue in a flat back crystal and you're ready to use the slider in your earrings. You will need to attach the chain to the one end of the slider either by sliding the chain on before completing the second loop, or by carefully opening the bottom link on the chain and hooking on the loop on the slider.
And now just finish it off by hooking it on to an interchangeable earring wire and gently squeezing it shut.
Make the second earring in the same way and then dazzle your way through Christmas with these elegant drop earrings.
I hope you're enjoying the Twelve Days and Counting Earrings Spectacular. I'll be back with more ideas next week.


Moe Segal was born in Quyone, Quebec and attended Ottawa Technical High School before the war. Segal enlisted in the Navy and played guard and tackle on the Navy team that won the Grey Cup in 1944 by defeatng the Hamilton Wildcats. Unfortunately for Moe, he was injured prior to the Grey Cup game and didn't play in the final (which is why he is missing from the team photo below). After the war, Segal played one season for the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1946 and one season with the Ottawa Trojans of the ORFU in 1947.
Sometime this week, 87-year-old Moe Segal will climb into his car and drive 280 miles from his home in Ottawa to visit his children in Toronto. On Sunday, if family tradition is any guide, they'll gather in front of a big screen TV and turn on the Grey Cup game.
Watching the Grey Cup is a national tradition, but for Segal there's a special, personal aspect to the event. In his younger days, Segal played on a Grey Cup winning team, although he didn't know it at the time.
What's more, his name is missing from the roster of the 1944 Montreal St. Hyacinthe Donnacona "Combines," engraved on the storied Cup; and you won't see his image on the team's championship photo.
Here's the story as Segal tells it: Back in the 1940s, he was a very good player, a championship-winner in high school and junior football.
But it was wartime, and Segal along with his buddies enlisted in the navy. While training in St. Hyacinthe as a signalman – he'd be posted on board a minesweeper – he noticed a flyer posted on a bulletin board asking young seamen to try out for the navy's football team.
That was something right up his alley and though all of five-foot-eight and 185 pounds, he made it as "inside wing," what today would be called guard. Since players lined up both ways, Segal played in the middle of the line on defence as well.
The navy team was stacked with former Toronto Argonaut players and they did pretty well playing in the Quebec Rugby Football Union. It was the era before the creation of the Canadian Football League and because of the war, the Grey Cup game departed from its traditional east/west format to feature a title game between the Quebec and Ontario champions.
The navy team, nicknamed "Middies" and "Donnies," played so well they earned a spot in the championship game versus the reigning Grey Cup champion Hamilton Wildcats; but a week before that game, Segal was injured in an exhibition contest.
As a result, he was given a week's medical leave and he went home to Ottawa, missing the big game. The Middies defeated the Wildcats 7-6; championship photos were taken but a few weeks later the team learned it was the Grey Cup they had won, not some generic championship game, Segal said.
The Navy team had their names engraved on the Cup, but Segal's was omitted because he didn't suit up for the game itself.
He says it doesn't bother him much, but in an interview from his home in Ottawa, he points out that the Cup features the names of owners who never got on the field either; and he's upset that the caption for team photograph, taken on Grey Cup game day, doesn't mention him as an absent member of the team.
"I would've stayed if I'd known they were going to take a picture," he said.
But there's another picture, connected to the Grey Cup that Segal points to with pride. It's in the Football Hall of Fame and it shows Segal pointing to a name engraved four times on the Grey Cup, that of his nephew Noah Cantor. Cantor won three championships with Toronto and one with the BC Lions.
Like his uncle, Cantor played in the interior of the defensive line, though he tipped the scales at six-foot-three and 265 pounds.
Segal said that he fared pretty well as a lineman during the war years and afterwards, when he accepted a contract to play with the hometown Ottawa Rough Riders.
They played a 10-game season back then and things were going along pretty well until Oct. 5, 1946. Game day happened to coincide with Yom Kippur. Segal declined to play, as did another Jewish player, Benny Stek of the Alouettes.
"It cost me $100; [the coach] benched me for two games," Segal recalled. The fine represented 20 per cent of his football income, which he supplemented by running a small confectionary store. The next season, Segal signed with the cross-town rivals, the Ottawa Trojans of the Ontario Rugby Football Union (ORFU).
Though only in his early 20s, it was near the end of his football career. Around that time, teams started bringing in American imports, including linemen who weighed around 250-pounds.
At 185 it was hard to compete, but what really cinched it for him was suffering two concussions.
He pretty much gave up sports – he'd been active in baseball and hockey in addition to football – married his wife of 46 years, Sandy, and he tried his hands at a number of occupations. Among them was running a clothing store, The Squire Shop, and closed out his working career at age 85 working in commercial real estate as an agent.
He follows football intermittently now, but he doesn't miss a reunion with his old Navy buddies.
He marvels at the size of players today and the equipment they wear. Back in his day, he had a solid leather helmet and canvas pants that were stuffed with padding for protection.
The equipment today is much advanced and as for the players, "the size today, they buy them by the pound," he quipped.
Not much room anymore for a 185-pound lineman.


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Scream, Dracula, Scream! is an album by American punk rock band Rocket from the Crypt, released in 1995 by Interscope Records. It was the band's first major-label release. Music videos were filmed for the singles "On a Rope," "Born in '69" and "Young Livers," and the band embarked on extensive tours of the US, UK and Europe. They experienced a surge of popularity in the UK, where "On a Rope" entered the music charts at #12 and was a hit on MTV Europe, earning them rave reviews in New Musical Express and allowing them to play Top of the Pops.

The album also made the band an alternative rock radio hit in the US, where their videos were featured on MTV and the album received many positive reviews in both mainstream and underground music presses. A large headlining tour in support of the album ensued in 1996, and there were supporting tours with Rancid and Soundgarden. During these tours the band gained a reputation for a series of interesting and, at times, seemingly ludicrous gimmicks and stage antics which included holding raffles during live performances, spinning a large game show wheel to determine set lists, onstage fire breathing, annual Halloween and New Year's shows, and the wearing of coordinated and progressively more ornate stage costumes. In Europe the band also hosted a German variety show, played children's shows and morning shows, and did interviews with fashion magazines. While unorthodox, these antics increased the band's reputation as an energetic live act and helped to increase album sales.

Scream, Dracula, Scream! was the last of three releases by Rocket from the Crypt in 1995. The EP The State of Art is on Fire and LP Hot Charity had preceded the album that year, and singer/guitarist John Reis would later refer to these three records as a "trilogy".

"Scream, Dracula, Scream!" also had different copies for Japan and Australia. Both of them had songs from the 'Hot Charity' recording. The Japan release just had the songs put on the CD, but the "Australian Bonus CD Tour Edition" had a bonus CD. The Australian copy had "Pushed", "My Arrow's Aim", "Lorna Doom", "Shucks", "Cloud Over Branson", and "Feathered Friends". The Japanese copy also had "Pushed", "My Arrow's Aim", and "Lorna Doom". But instead of "Shucks", "Cloud Over Branson", and "Feathered Friends", they had "Guilt Free", "Poison Eye", and "Pity Yr Paws". All together, the whole 'Hot Charity' recording was released on the two versions.

Recording
Scream, Dracula, Scream! was Rocket from the Crypt's most ambitious recording to date. Using the extensive recording budget granted them by Interscope, the band employed numerous guest musicians, a string section, additional engineers and mixing sessions, and experimented with several instruments they had not used before. According to the album's liner notes the album was rehearsed and recorded over a 2-month period, with the basic tracks recorded live on a 4-track machine and overdubs of the backing vocals and orchestra recorded later. The album's title was taken from the lyrics of a Wesley Willis song.

The album's liner notes also state that the band intended Scream, Dracula, Scream! to consist of one cohesive body of music, with traditional silence between track separations replaced with string, woodwind, and brass passages. However, Interscope demanded a more standardized album so the master tapes were cut and edited into traditional-length tracks.

Legacy
The album was included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Track listing
"Middle" - 1:00
"Born in '69" - 2:16
"On a Rope" - 2:53
"Young Livers" - 2:54
"Drop Out" - 3:00
"Used" - 2:39
"Ball Lightning" - 3:50
"Fat Lip" 2:42
"Suit City" - 2:34
"Heater Hands" - 3:36
"Misbeaten" - 4:02
"Come See, Come Saw" - 3:39
"Salt Future" - 3:51
"Burnt Alive" - 4:37
"Pushed" (Japanese Bonus Track) - 2:25
"My Arrows Aim" (Japanese Bonus Track) - 3:18
"Lorna Doom" (Japanese Bonus Track) - 2:16
"Guilt Free" (Japanese Bonus Track) - 3:41
"Poison Eye" (Japanese Bonus Track) - 2:43
"Pity Yr Paws" (Japanese Bonus Track) - 3:30

Bonus CD "Australian Bonus CD Tour Edition"
"Pushed" - 2:25
"My Arrows Aim" - 3:18
"Lorna Doom" - 2:16
"Shucks" - 2:14
"Cloud Over Branson" - 2:52
"Feathered Friends" - 4:21

Personnel
Speedo (John Reis) - guitar, lead vocals
ND (Andy Stamets) - guitar, backing vocals
Petey X (Pete Reichert) - bass, backing vocals
Apollo 9 (Paul O'Beirne) - saxophone, percussion, backing vocals
JC 2000 (Jason Crane) - trumpet, percussion, backing vocals
Atom (Adam Willard) - drums
John Reis, Sr. - accordion on "Used"
Geoff Harrington - Hammond B3 organ on "Come See, Come Saw"
Eric Christian - guitar solo on "Come See, Come Saw"
Raymond Kelley - cello
Don Palmer - violin
Jay Rosen - violin
James Ross - viola
Mick Collins, Frank Daly - additional vocals
Diane Gordon, Natalie Burks, and Latina Webb - backing vocals on "Born in '69" and "Come See, Come Saw"
Roger Freeland, Gene Miller, and Joseph Pizzulo - backing vocals on "Used" and "Misbeaten"

Technical
John Reis, Jr. - producer, conductor
Donnell Cameron - recording, engineer
Eddie Miller - recording, engineer
Andy Wallace - mixing (tracks: 2-5, 7, 8, 10, 12, 13)
Steve Cisco - mixing assistant
Mark Trombino - engineer, mixing (tracks: 1, 6, 9, 11, 14)
Kelle Musgrave - production coordination
Henry Kadinski - recording supervisor
Miki Vukovich - photography
Mike Nelson - layout, videograbs, type

References

1995 albums
Rocket from the Crypt albums
Interscope Records albums
Hardcore punk albums by American artists

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Ten years ago, chef Raghu Deora stood face-to-face with death.
He was in the kitchen of the Taj Mahal Palace hotel's private club, The Chambers, in Mumbai, India, when four gunmen walked in with assault rifles and sprayed the guests and hotel staff with bullets. He tried to hide, but his efforts were for naught.
"I was found out by the terrorists. They got me out. Me, along with two more guests, we were made to stand in line and we were shot point blank," he says.
On Nov. 26, 2008, India's financial capital was turned into a war zone by a group of Pakistani gunmen who launched coordinated attacks in the heart of the city. They targeted two luxury hotels, a Jewish center, a tourist restaurant and a crowded train station. Three days of carnage killed 166 people, including foreign tourists, and wounded hundreds more.
The epicenter of the assault was the iconic Taj Mahal Palace hotel with its imposing, red-tiled dome overlooking the Gateway of India monument. Thirty-one people died inside the hotel, including staff trying to guide the guests to safety. Visceral images of smoke leaping out of the city landmark have come to define the 60-hour siege.
Deora, 44, was shot in his abdomen and leg. The two guests with him were killed, but he was evacuated by hotel security and rushed to a hospital. It took him more than three months to recover.
Ten years on, there are few signs of the assault in the 115-year old hotel, which was left ablaze, its opulent interior destroyed.
But the events are not forgotten. A minimally designed memorial for the victims greets visitors in the hotel lobby. A waterfall cascades down behind glass, alongside an installation with names of victims and a tree of life.
"I don't think 10 years is long enough to forget if one was ever able to forget this dark moment in the history," says Puneet Chhatwal, CEO of The Indian Hotels Company, which owns the hotel. "Taj Mumbai is not just a hotel. It's a landmark, a monument in itself. It was an attack on Mumbai."
India blamed the attack on the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, throwing relations between the nuclear-armed neighbors into a tailspin. Indian officials accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of working with the militant group to mastermind the attack — an allegation Islamabad denied.
In November 2012, India hanged the lone surviving gunman from the attacks. India has repeatedly urged Pakistan to pursue the case more actively, demanding action against those it says are responsible.
Even as the country grappled with the diplomatic aftermath of the attack, Taj Mahal Palace staff and management channeled their grief into getting the hotel back on its feet as quickly as possible. The ownership group also offered help to hundreds of survivors and victims' families through the welfare fund set up in December 2008.
Parts of the hotel reopened within a month of the attacks. The heavily damaged palace wing was reopened in less than two years after a renovation that saw a bullet and grenade-scarred spiral staircase and the blood-splattered hallways repaired, and oriental carpets and precious artifacts put back in place.
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Update: The U.S. House of Representatives has passed CISPA (the Cyber Intelligence Sharing & Protection Act), so the fight is moving to the Senate. Congress is now going to attempt to pass legislation on the Senate side and then conference it with the House bill. We can't let that happen.
Tell Congress not to compromise the civil liberties of Internet users. Call your Senators today.
The Senate is moving quickly on cybersecurity legislation that could undermine our core privacy rights. Please call your Senators and tell them not to sacrifice the civil liberties of Internet users with this dangerously vague legislation.
These "cybersecurity" bills would give companies a free pass to monitor and collect communications, including huge amounts of personal data like your text messages and emails. Tell Congress that they can't use vaguely defined "cybersecurity threats" as a shortcut to shredding the Constitution.
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I'm calling about the cybersecurity legislation currently under consideration (S. 2151 and S. 2105). These bills would allow companies to spy on sensitive user communications and pass this data to the government without a warrant. Please tell my Senator to stand up for civil liberties. Support privacy-protective amendments and oppose S. 2151 and S. 2105.
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Good bacteria may prevent — and reverse — food allergies
Trust your gut.
Key digestive system bacteria are linked to infants developing and being cured of food allergies, according to new research from Boston Children's Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The study, published Monday in the journal Nature, found that infants missing vital microbes from their gut bacteria were more vulnerable.
"The loss of these bacteria acts as a switch that makes children susceptible to food allergy," says study author Talal Chatila, director of Boston Children's Food Allergy Program.
Researchers tested human gut bacteria and experimented on mice for the study. The team transplanted fecal bacteria from babies with food allergies and from those without allergies into the mice.
"The fecal bacteria from food-allergic subjects did not protect against food allergy, whereas the bacteria from control subjects did," Chatila says, explaining how non-allergic babies' "good" bacteria treated allergic reactions in the rodents.
Based on the scientists' findings, Chatila believes the loss of protective gut bacteria is critical to understanding allergies — and taking preventative measures.
"We now have a fundamental concept of how food allergy happens," Chatlia says, adding that he hopes the research will result in a medicine, if not a cure. "If the race continues with the same intensity, or accelerates, I think you'll see a product on the market within five years."
A new drug that is designed to lessen the life-threatening effects of severe peanut allergies could become available as soon as this year. The past decade has seen a dramatic rise in the number of Americans with food allergies, with nearly 8% of US children — about two in every classroom — experiencing food allergies, researchers say.
One 2019 study, however, found that many people are incorrectly self-diagnosing themselves as having food allergies.
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Krina started her training for this arangetram in her sophomore year of high school. After years of learning the classic art form of Bharatanatyam, her guru, Sridevi Thirumalai, decided that it was time for her to take this test. Waking up at early hours to go to dance classes and still managing to go to school, Krina is truly talented. She is involved in so mane extracurricular activities, but she still found time to practice. Even after the most strenuous practices, Krina would still be just as committed in all of her other activities and still managed to complete her homework and keep her grades high. As the date of the program neared, Krina also faced the challenge of taking her final exams for school, which became more difficult because she also had to end school a week early so that she could fully concentrate of her performance.
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Indian Financial Services – Onshore vs. Offshore Venues
When India started trying to build a mature market economy in 1991, at first, it felt like a sophisticated financial system would emerge, which would both, serve India and start competing for the global market. From 1993 to 2001, India achieved a remarkable revolution in the equity market. This increased optimism in the ability of India to understand problems, to achieve change and to maintain high ethical standards.
It now seems that those hopes were premature. The revolution in the stock market used to be one of the best success stories of economic reforms in India. It might have fallen apart in recent month and years. The more likely scenario could be one where India-linked finance will happen offshore, while our regulators and government squabble over a minor and inconsequential onshore financial system that is riddled with ethics problems. In the short term, onshore Indian finance is suffering from one setback after another.
Business as usual, in India, is taking us to a destination where RBI, SEBI & company will preside over a minor and inconsequential financial system. The bulk of India-linked finance is taking place overseas, and the overseas market will dominate price formation for India-related financial products.
Why might this happen?
Money always follows the path of least resistance; therefore orders that used to come to India are easily being switched to other venues. An array of other venues has now come up:
Nifty futures trade in Singapore on the SGX and in USA on the CME.
An array of sophisticated derivatives on Nifty trade on the OTC market offshore (also termed `the PN market').
Derivatives on the rupee trade overseas on the exchange traded market and OTC market (linear contracts are termed `the NDF market').
Trading in individual stocks is taking place on the ADR and the GDR market.
Mistakes of domestic policy are giving a substantial shift in India-related finance to overseas locations. The two most important pillars of the Indian financial system are trading in the rupee and in the Nifty, and with both these, India is rapidly losing ground. If present policy mistakes continue, the role of the onshore market will continue to decline, for both the rupee and Nifty.
The plight of the Nifty
Let's focus on Nifty – the most important financial product in India. The success and survival of the onshore securities markets is fundamentally about NSE. NSE faces an array of problems rooted in domestic policy whereas the overseas markets offering India-linked financial products are already developed financial centres and face no such problems. In the baseline scenario, Indian policy-making will meander on clueless and unconcerned and NSE will continue to lose ground.
Things are neither that much simple nor only stop here. First, NRIs pioneered sending order flow to overseas venues, and made them liquid. Next are Indian MNCs, who run global treasuries, who easily patronize the overseas venues. And then there are HNI residents, who can take $200,000 per year per person outside India. In addition, the richest 1% of India would systematically shift money out of the country through various means fair and foul.
With these kinds of possibilities, Singapore's appeal goes beyond just the type of markets it offers. For one, India demands new investors deal with a thicket of documentation. While opening a foreign institutional investment account in most countries takes a few days, in India it is up to six weeks. So the start itself is a hurdle.
And then, there is taxation. We, as India, should not tax the activities of non-residents. For a global investor, sending orders to the Nifty futures on SGX is tax-efficient as Singapore follows a residence-based taxation system. Sending orders to India is inefficient today (owing to the STT and the stamp duty) and is apprehensive about tomorrow (if GAAR is used to abrogate the Mauritius treaty).
The bigger hurdle is India's more severe taxation. Singapore does not tax capital gains and its tax on interest income allows for certain exemptions, such as foreign-sourced dividends. Whereas, India has a 15% short-term capital gains tax on listed securities. Most domestic debt instruments carry a 20% tax on income earned, which according to many market experts is the "biggest showstopper".
The obvious choice
Put these factors together, and suddenly Nifty futures on SGX are a credible option. And this is exactly how things have worked out. In 2008, before these troubles had come together, SGX open interest was 59.78% of NSE. By 2012, where all these problems have come together, SGX open interest has come to 101.77% of NSE's. It is astonishing to see that for the biggest Indian product – Nifty – an overseas exchange has got superior open interest.
Things changed when SEBI banned Participatory Notes (P-notes) in October 2007. SGX's share in the total open interest (outstanding positions) in the Nifty futures product rose to around 50% from as low as 6% before the ban. A year later, the market regulator lifted the P-note ban, which led to a fall in SGX's share to around 25%. But since then, SGX's share has been rising steadily again. SGX now enjoys a 68% share in the total open interest on Nifty futures contracts.
And the recent blunder that added to the misery is the GAAR fiasco that resulted in exodus of foreign investors' from the Indian regulatory boundaries. And while the government has softened its stand on GAAR considerably, foreign investors now seem increasingly concerned about the uncertainties of Indian policymaking.
The predicament of Rupee
The Indian rupee has grown rapidly to becoming the 16th most traded currency in the world. From less than 0.2% of the world forex turnover in 1998, it has grown rapidly to constitute about 0.9% of the world forex turnover in April 2010. It is one of the biggest emerging market currencies with the Korean Won, Russian Ruble, Chinese Renminbi and the Mexican Peso being its close competitors.
Trading in the rupee is composed of the following elements of the market:
The rupee-dollar is the most important price of the Indian economy. The overall market for the rupee is roughly $70 billion a day out of which roughly one-third is spot, and the rest is derivatives. The offshore market today is as big as the onshore market, as roughly half of rupee trading takes place in India.
In its 2010 triennial central bank survey on foreign exchange and derivatives market activity, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) also pointed out that about half of the dollar-rupee market was overseas.
Though the RBI has done away with many capital controls, access to the currency market onshore still has some restrictions giving rise to offshore currency trading. Having said that, it must also be noted that most emerging market currencies are traded heavily in prominent currency trading centres such as Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK and the US. This is an inherent feature of currency trading. Of course, countries which have capital controls tend to push a larger proportion of trading offshore.
The development in the Rupee market
InterContinental Exchange Inc. and CME Group Inc., among the world's largest futures exchanges, have launched rupee-dollar futures contracts in the month of Jan 2013. This clearly shows the growing importance of the rupee in the global currency market.
Needless to say, large electronic exchanges will do their best to both capture market share and increase the size of the market. And given their advantage over domestic competitors of access to foreign market participants, as well as freedom with product design, the share of offshore trading could continue to rise.
Rupee trading on other markets does not necessarily mean that trading in local markets is shrinking. Though it may be the case that the cake is enlarging, but our slice isn't.
As India internationalizes, domestic customers of financial services, and the foreign order flow, will increasingly shift their business to providers abroad considering the problems in the local financial system. NRIs do not like to send orders to India given that India as yet lacks a residence-based taxation framework; they would rather send their orders to US (on ICE & CME), Dubai (on DGCX) or London.
The obvious implication
When foreign investors send an order to India, there is an entire chain of activity where revenues are generated. This includes brokerage companies, accountants, lawyers, hotels, aviation services, etc. When the same foreign investor sends this order to Singapore instead, this entire chain fuels the Singapore economy instead. And as global interest in Indian derivatives surges, it is Singapore, not Mumbai that is reaping the benefits.
The swing shows how deeply a tax gaffe last year damaged foreign investor sentiment and the cost to an economy that has seen growth tumble to around 5.5% following the sharpest slowdown in a decade. India is now paying the price for poorly written rules last year aimed at ensnaring tax evaders, ironically including those routing investments through Singapore, which instead sparked outcry among foreign investors and an outflow of funds.
What worries India is that Singapore markets are now attracting flows in other derivatives, creating not only a missed opportunity for India, but also the risk of a parallel overseas market offering arbitrage opportunities that distort domestic prices.
Last but not the least, prospects of Bombay, emerging as an international financial centre will subside. If we can't even hang on to market share for Nifty or the rupee, where is the question of competing against overseas financial firms or markets on things that aren't India-linked?
Some steps in the right direction
Since all taxes are distortionary and a basic principle of public finance is that we should have a low rate that is spread across a large tax base; our first priority should be to achieve a low rate, a wide base, and the minimal distortions. Reduced rates will always yield welfare gains. The Budget 2013-14 makes progress on two fronts (reducing STT from 1.7 to 1 basis point, and reducing distortions between equities and non-agricultural commodities).
One more announcement from the budget was in best of the spirits: FIIs are allowed to trade in currency futures. This will also give more liquidity and depth to currency futures and there are two reasons for expecting this, taxation of commodity futures and the entry of FII orders flow.
Future finance ministers will need to navigate the difficult landscape of gradually scaling down taxation of transactions while retaining low taxation of capital gains (which has unfortunately come to be seen as a linked issue in the Indian discourse). There is much more waiting to be done: integrating currencies and fixed income, bringing sense to options, and getting away from the very high rates on the equity spot market.
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We always thought we were being terribly quick-and-dirty when we're in a hurry and put on makeup with our hands, but apparently that's a professionally approved way of going about things. But there's a wrong way and a right way to do everything, even putting on makeup with your fingers, and Girlactik Beauty creator Galit Strugano explains the how and why of it. Like, you're supposed to use your fourth finger (the one next to the pinky) to apply concealer, your middle finger for creating definition, and the pinky for small stuff and the inner corner. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle! [Style.com]


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Vazha Pshavela Reading Room Opens at National Library
On Friday, a new reading room dedicated to Vazha Pshavela, a 19th century Georgian poet, opened at the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia in Tbilisi. The reading room houses Pshavela's rarest manuscripts and books published during his lifetime. The space will also serve as a mini museum celebrating the great writer.
On April 7, 2017, the National Parliamentary Library signed a memorandum with M2 Real Estate Group to develop the reading room project. M2 funded the project.
At the grand opening of the reading room on Friday, Irakli Burdiladze, General Director of M2, spoke to guests alongside Giori Kekeidze, General Director of the National Library. Kekeidze called the new Vazha Pshavela Hall "a necessary place at National Library. We have had two or three people with such a mindset and his presentation at the country's number one library is really good news. It's even more important and symbolic to have his room-museum, as he was such a freedom-lover."
M2 also funded the refurbishment of a new registration area for the Library.
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