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This Song: Beth Ditto (Rerun)

In this rerun from 2018, Beth Ditto, former lead singer of the band Gossip, talks about how Nina Simone's "Mississippi Goddam" helped her grapple with complex feelings about her home state, Arkansas. She also talks about returning home after heartbreak and explores making her first record "Fake Sugar."




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Leon Robinson (Ep. 35, 2019)

This week, In Black America producer and host John L. Hanson presents a conversation with actor, singer-songwriter and film producer Leon Robinson, known for his portrayals of David Ruffin and Little Richard, and as leader of reggae-soul band Leon and The Peoples.




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Claudette A. Robinson (Ep. 41, 2019)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Claudette A. Robinson, a founding member of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, and a recent participant in The Summit On Race In America, at the LBJ Presidential Library at the University of Texas at Austin.




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Duke Fakir and Mary Wilson (Ep. 42, 2019)

On this week’s edition of In Black America, John L. Hanson, Jr. speaks with Motown legends Abdul “Duke” Fakir, a founding member of The Four Tops, and Mary Wilson, a founding member of the Supremes. Both were participants in The Summit on Race in America this Spring, at the University of Texas at Austin.




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Regina Mason and Sean Durant (Ep. 15, 2020)

On this edition of In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. begins a conversation with Regina A. Mason, author of The Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave, and Sean Durant, producer and director of Gina’s Journey: The Search for William Grimes.




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Sean Durant and Regina A. Mason (Ep. 16, 2020)

This week on In Black America, producer and host John L. Hanson, Jr. concludes his conversation with Sean Durant, producer and director of Gina’s Journey: The Search for William Grimes, and Regina A. Mason, author of The Life of William Grimes, The Runaway Slave. This is a custom sized player This is the normal size test




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Nightly Applause Is Nice, but Some Doctors Think Votes Would Be Nicer

“My day job is talking people into getting colonoscopies,” one doctor said. So how much harder could the campaign trail be?



  • Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)
  • Politics and Government
  • United States Politics and Government
  • Medicine and Health
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Truth and Choice or Poison Devils

Murdering a weed ?... Killing in war, slaying your brother or God's demands for death penalties - in this edition of Bible Answers Live, tune in as Pastor Doug discusses the differences among these scenarios. You'll also learn about Satan's omniscience, or lack thereof, and about some sensitive topics like women's role in society and gay marriage. Open your Bible and join us !



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Imprisoned and Addicted

Temptations are different for each of us ; we each fight our own battles, but, not on our own. Whether you're struggling with homosexuality or you're struggling to forgive, whether you're facing temptation in adornment and jewelry or you're angry at God for the injustices you witness, learn what the Scriptures say about God and His will and desire for your happiness. True happiness only comes from one Source. Open your Bible with us and tune into this episode of Bible Answers Live.



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Invitation, Not Isolation

Every day is a new opportunity. As we continue in this crisis where our daily routines and work are halted, let us then use the time now to study and know God. He is in control, so here and now, take His open hand. Our Father is yearning for us to focus and seek intimacy and knowledge with Him while He is near. Open your Bible with us during this episode of Bible Answers Live as we learn about quarantine in Bible prophecy, the purpose of Christ's sacrifice and the real mark of the beast.



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For Some, Thumb Pain Is BlackBerry's Stain

Orthopedists say they are seeing an increasing number of patients with similar symptoms, a condition known as "overuse syndrome" or "BlackBerry thumb." In some patients, the disability has become severe.-The Washington Post




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IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office 11.0 Microsoft Windows 64bit Multilingual

IBM Cognos for Microsoft Office 11.0 Microsoft Windows 64bit Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.5 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.5 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 32-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 32-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics for Jupyter Notebook 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Transformer 11.0.0.68 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Transformer 11.0.0.68 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.9 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.9 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 64-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Planning Analytics for Microsoft Excel 2.0.48 64-bit Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.191205 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.191205 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Server 11.1.6 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.2003191 Microsoft Windows Multilingual

IBM Cognos Analytics Installer 2.0.2003191 Microsoft Windows Multilingual




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Born Today - Anthony Wilson



Anthony Wilson
Born: 1968

Anthony Wilson is a guitarist and composer known for a nuanced body of work that moves fluidly across genres. Wilson has long been curious about blurring borders and finding the place where where style and possibility intersect. Wilson’s first recording— Anthony Wilson (1997) — featured a nine-piece “little big band” and garnered a Grammy nomination for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Recording. It was followed by Goat Hill Junket (1998), and Adult Themes (2000). His fourth recording with... Continue




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Tamales in South Bay, L.A., C.A.

Hi. I am looking for the best Mexican tamales in the South Bay/Torrance/Gardena/Lomita area of LA.

I am looking for, preferably, a bakery that sells tamales by the dozen all year round...pork in red chili and/or chicken mole are my favorite flavors.
Ramona's were only so-so, but they are now only seasonal;
The local Farmers Markets aren't selling prepared food right now [or if they are, let me know!!]
"The Tamale Man" doesn't look that tasty --but again, tell me if I am wrong!

Can you help a hermana out?




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how to explain a long-distance social distancing "bubble"

Me and my partner have decided to form a shared social distancing "bubble" with another of our couple friends. I believe we are following safe protocols for this but wanted to get an honest outside opinion as to whether we could be managing this better/safer/etc.

Here is the situation: I am a musician, and my main music collaborator used to live about a half hour from me. Back in January, he and his girlfriend relocated about 90 minutes away, in a major city that has had a large amount of COVID-19 cases. Where I live hasn't been as bad, but we are all still being cautious.

Musician friend and I are collaborating on a music recording project to combat boredom because we are both unemployed and obviously live gigs are right out. We have been doing most of our planning remotely, via Zoom and phone calls, but every now and again we do have to meet in person as his recording studio is in his apartment and sometimes he and the girlfriend come up here to ease the stir-craziness. We believe we are being safe in our methodology but wanted to confirm.

When we embarked upon this project, we made a pact with each other and our partners that the only people we would allow into our homes is each other. The way this works is, when I have to drive to his place to record, I wash my hands, mask up, and drive down to see him. He lives in a neighborhood with ample street parking near his building. When I arrive, I mask up again, buzz into his apartment, take off my outerwear and shoes immediately and keep it on a hook outside their front door, take mask off and put in my purse leave purse in one spot on a table, hand wash and hand sanitize. He and girlfriend also hand wash and hand sanitize, and have been cleaning all doorknobs and buzzer buttons and handrails of the stairs with disinfectant wipes before I arrive. When we record, we disinfect all microphones, headphones, gear we touch including instruments with wipes before and after use. When I leave, I wipe down the table where my purse was, wash hands again, mask up, drive home. All clothing I wear is promptly laundered.

When he comes up to work with me his protocol is similar: wash hands, mask up, drive to my house, where I have been disinfecting doorknobs and other surfaces. When he arrives, he parks in our drive, his outerwear and shoes stays out on our patio, he washes hands again and hand sanitizes, we rehearse for a couple hours, then he washes hands again, masks up, drives home, masks up, goes into building, washes hands. All clothes he wore go immediately into the laundry. Any surface he touches in my house gets pre-and-post wiped down with disinfecting wipes. We don't record in my home there is no gear to disinfect other than his guitar.

His girlfriend works from home and keeps herself separate from us when we record in their home. My boyfriend lost his job due to COVID but busies himself with projects in his home office while we rehearse in our home. The four of us have mutually agreed that we are the only other folks we will allow in our homes and we follow this safety protocol to the T every time we travel to see each other.

So, question 1) are we being safe enough, or are we being dumb? None of us so far has gotten sick and we are comfortable with our routine. How could we improve our safety protocol? Neither of us stop at gas stations to and from each other; we gas up on our own time and hand sanitize after doing so.

Question 2) Musician friend and I are getting ready to record a video of us performing a duet in his apartment. Our mutual friends know we no longer live near each other, and my fear is that when they see evidence that we haven't been keeping six feet apart at all times in his apartment we will get scorned by our colleagues, or near the brunt of actual anger because they are not aware of our safety routine. How can we explain that we have been talking proactive steps to keep ourselves safe and have chosen to be a somewhat long distance social isolation bubble with each other when we release this video to avoid angry responses? Is it necessary? Musician buddy is ambivalent, but I am a worrier and don't want to inadvertently bring us bad publicity.

Please be gentle with me. We are doing our best and we so far have not gotten sick with this protocol. Our partners are also proactive in hand sanitizing and/or hand washing once one of us leaves the other place. Are we being stupid? Is there a way to explain this succinctly when we release our video to pre-empt any judgement?

Seriously please be gentle. My anxiety is on high alert just from reading the news each day and I really hope this community will refrain from a pile on because we are doing everything we can to keep ourselves and our partners safe.

Any advice would be much appreciated. Thank you.




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Soothing books with short chapters for pandemic brain and despair

I recently finished Margaret Renkl's Late Migrations. It was the perfect book for right now, accommodating my fractured attention span, frequent insomnia, and deep grief and despair at the state of the world. Almost every chapter was less than 3 pages, and most involve nature intertwined with family memories. What other books are like this?

I try to keep a bedside book I can read before I fall asleep or when I'm dealing with insomnia. Not only do I really like the format of chapters that are less than a few pages long, it helps if the chapters don't have a lot of continuity so that if I read one at 3 AM and forget it the next day, I can pick up at the next chapter without having to go back and reread.

I love the voice of women nature writers like Terry Tempest Williams, Rachel Carson, Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Rebecca Solnit (her earlier works) but most of their books seem to have chapters longer than what my brain can handle right now.

Recommendations don't have to be light - explorations into grief and pain are okay. I prefer something with more modern language (for example, while I love Moby Dick and am rereading it right now as my non-bedside book, the language is a little too antiquated and "extra" for what I need in a bedside book).

Other books I've found which scratch this itch are things like a compilation of thirty years of a naturalists column from a local newspaper.




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Antonia Tully on compulsory sex education for four year olds - BBC Radio Wales

Antonia Tully of SPUC's Safe at School was interviewed on BBC Radio Wales in response to the news that the Government is introducing compulsory sex and relationships education for children as young as four....

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McKinney, TX - Tell Me Something Good 5.1.20

Mayor George Fuller and Maylee Thomas-Fuller share some of the good stories that have been submitted from the community! Share your stories with us at https://www.McKinneyTexas.org/TMSG Also, be sure to visit https://www.OneHeartMcKinney.com if you need help, or want to help others....

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Mayor Stimpson Daily Update May 5, 2020

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Social Distance II with Corrector Records Live Stream

Saturday, March 28, 2020 I had the privilege of performing a solo, electronic, live-streaming set for Social Distance II with Corrector Records. I played first followed by live coder Mike Hodnick AKA Kindohm, and Carl Fisk AKA Mount Curve. The … Continue reading




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Christy Doran's Sound Fountain: Lift The Bar


With four records in as many years Christy Doran's Sound Fountain seems in 2020 to have eclipsed New Bag as the guitarist's going concern. However, just because New Bag hasn't recorded since Elsewhere (Double Moon, 2015) doesn't mean that the band, founded in 1997, won't still make a comeback... [ read more ]




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional

Ive been making music for couple of years now but still cant figure out why my mix doesnt sound professional. Im I doing something wrong? This is the link to my tracks http://www.ourmedia.org/node/300488 Someone please help me out.




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

The 100% guaranteed way to get your bedroom mixes to sound more professional (and by far the most expensive) is to spend time in a recording studio. Take the raw tracks to something you want to mix, import it into their ProTools setup (or whatever they use) and have a pro engineer (must be a talkative, friendly one, not a grumpy, cynical one) to mix it. ASK A BILLION questions, be a dork and write stuff down if you have to. The worst case scenario is that after 2/3 hours at least you'll know what questions to ask of Google or at the local tech book store. The best case is that your music impresses the engineer and he/she becomes a pseudo mentor for you. Engineering is by far my weakest area (along with playing in tune and in time) so everything that follows is said that caveat: I have found that going cheap on mastering tools (compression, limiters, eq) hurts bedroom mixes a lot. Money I've spent on the top utilities there (I use Waves) dwarfs all my other plugins put together by an order of magnitude. (Reason's mastering suite is pretty good so you may be covered there; although I've applied Waves L2 to mixes done after the 'final' Reason mixdown and there's no question there was a marked improvement in pro-sheen.) I have found tweakheadz site very useful, especially their mixing 101 page. Finally I have been told (and have experienced it myself) that posting often to ccM and asking for real, brutal reviews and feedback has helped a lot of people. I, for one, am very, very embarrassed by several of my uploads from 2 years ago here, while only very embarrassed by more recent ones; all strictly due to people hearing stuff I didn't.




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

that sounds good. ill look for a studio near my place. at the end you said that the comments from ccmixer is very useful but what shall i do if i want a brutal review of my own original mix? because on ccmixer i can only upload remixes or samples or separate tracks.




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

being a remix site and short on resources we can't handle original material. so, er, get remixing... ;)




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

my buddy des has a great blog he runs that can surely help almost anyone here with improving their production. http://www.hometracked.com/ also, his music is worth checking out, just so you can see that he knows what he's talking about. des is a great guy and a really excellent artist. http://www.deshead.com/




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

U need to have a good pair of monitors, headphones will not do at all! I agree with Fourstones, Waves is a very good suite. I use it within SoundForge and it really does help in cleaning up the frequencies. My mixes really improved when I had monitor speakers included in the set up. Experiment and let me know, I'll give u some quality feedback, no holds, sometimes the truth hurts! LOL! EZ m8 Morr




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

The best thing I can say is: learn about sound. Learn about frequencies, which ones sound like what and do what to the overall mix. Whether or not to use a low or high pass filter on something. Fiddle with EQs for hours. And more importantly, get criticism. It's the easiest way to learn what sound to look out for, and such. And most importantly of all: Practice. Mix till your ears bleed. (from the time spent listening to the same song, not due to the terrible mix :P) Mixing is one of my strong suits, but most of it is just being able to hear the song, and make the adjustments that I want, to be able to make the necessary changes and just know what needs to be done.




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

bravo!




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

That's a very good point- I started with a Mac LC, EZVision and an M1, with the only audio manipulation being Hypercard. I got good at customizing patches and finding seamless loop points manually just to get what I could out of what I had, with mastering being 1/4"-to-RCA from the headphone jack on the M1 to AUX IN on the cassette player, or the same thing with 1/8" adapter for the 'puter sound files. Then I'd record and bounce these cassette tracks to my 4-track, with final routing from 4-track's headphone-out back to the cassette. Ugly stuff, but that's what I had to work with...




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

This is a very good point. I think that it's easy to keep adding new gear, and thus miss the richness of existing gear and software. I like to work with more limited software sometimes, so that I can feel as if I am exploiting it to its fullness.




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

Ive been making music for couple of years now but still cant figure out why my mix doesnt sound professional. Im I doing something wrong? This is the link to my tracks http://www.ourmedia.org/node/300488 Someone please help me out. The first thing I noticed was the lack of higher frequencies in your mix... My mixes always end up being bass heavy (because I suck horribly) so I can see we both have the same problem... There's is (however) an over-abundance of frequency-fighting in your track... A lot of distorted things competing for my attention (at least in my ears). Dunno if any of this has been helpful, but we could all learn things...so hopefully you'll have advice for me in the future ;-) Good luck, and we me luck too! -Joel




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

This is a useful thread. Im just in the middle of mixing a new ccmixter-based song and its just not coming together for me. The tweakheadz and hometracked sites are great. A couple other useful sites: tips and techniques at gearslutz - http://www.gearslutz.com/board/tips-techniques/168409-tips-techniques.html ; Live tips - http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27120 ; general EQ reference - http://www.idmforums.com/showthread.php?t=11466 Im definitely going to get the mix Im working on up here, I need some blunt advice.




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DIY :: How to make my mix sound professional (Reply)

OK, I uploaded Hollywood Picture Book (feat Calendar Girl and Kaer Trouz) and entered a pluggy plug for comments over this weekend.




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Borth Audio Releases Free Typewriter Sounds For NI Kontakt

Borth Audio has released Typewriter, a free sound library add-on for the Native Instruments Kontakt sampler. As the name suggests, Typewriter features a set of audio samples of an actual typewriter. This includes the sounds of typing, individual keys being pressed (Spacebar, Shift, and Caps Lock), levers, and various paper noises(feed, eject, crumple, tear). Six-octave [...]

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MPC2000 Snacks From Mars – FREE Samples & Song Contest

Samples From Mars has released MPC2000 Snacks From Mars, a freely downloadable sample pack containing vinyl and drum machine sounds recorded and processed through the MPC2000XL hardware sampler. The sample pack contains six pre-mapped drum kits of 16 hits each (96 samples in total), along with 29 grooves in MIDI format. The clipped, filtered and [...]

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The Sounds Of An Old Van – Bedford Rascal Free Sample Pack

Sourc Sync has released Bedford Rascal, a free sample pack featuring the sounds of an old Bedford van. The sample pack contains a collection of percussive sounds, squeaky noises, and processed loops. These were all made by banging, hitting, and otherwise “mistreating” an old van. All samples are provided in WAV format and the library [...]

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Free Crystal Glass Sound Library By Andreas T. (Kontakt + WAV)

Andreas T. Music has released Crystal Glass, a free melodic percussion sound library for Native Instruments Kontakt (also includes WAV samples). You can now play melodies using a virtual set of crystal glass. Add the sparkly chimes of crystal glasses to your music and use them as the lead instrument or for layering on top [...]

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“No son actuaciones inscritas y vamos a tomar medidas": Ejército




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Proponen reforma laboral, pagar trabajos por horas, apoyar empresas y trabajadores con decenas de billones de pesos

Hay medidas buenas y no tan buenas, pero el punto de fondo es que todos pongan para superar el Covid19