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With the easy, breezy days of summer on the doorstep, it’s a great time to rethink home decor.

“Summer is the perfect time to explore the bright side of life by having fun with your home design and playing with new styles and vibrant colours,” says Kim Tran, public relations and social media co-ordinator for Structube, a furniture and design retailer with stores across the country.

Refreshing interior spaces for the season can be as simple as switching up the colour palette, adding a few new statement pieces or incorporating new materials and textures.

The focus, though, should revolve around weaving a look that speaks to our personal versions of summer lifestyle with an eye to how we live and flow through our homes in the warmer months. Are the kids and the dog constantly running in and out of the house, barefoot and dripping wet from the pool or playing with the hose? Is summer a time when you entertain often and on a whim?

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Tran notes that the goal is to create a warm and comfortable space where family and friends gravitate.

“Get your space ready for all of the dinner parties and gatherings during the warmer months,” she says. She suggests changing out the accessories in the dining room to include more raw materials. “Switch up the centre piece or placemats for natural materials and consider a new light fixture — it’s a key accent piece, which ties everything together. It can be a work of art within itself,” she says.

Throughout the home, incorporate bursts of colour with a lick of paint, a toss cushion or two, changing up bedding to lighter materials with an organic raw finish and summery hues. Hot colours for the season include soft pinks, golden yellows and ocean blue.

“The most exciting thing about home decor is that there are no rules. When it comes to refreshing your space for the season at hand, keep things simple and fun,” says Tran.

That said, one of the simplest and most effective ways to refresh and transform interior spaces for summer is to bring the outdoors in, with plenty of greenery and fresh cut flowers.

“There is just something really optimistic about having fresh flowers in a vase. It feels like a special gift,” says Becky Feasby, founder of Calgary’s Prairie Girl Flowers. She has a background in therapeutic horticulture and now designs garden inspired arrangements that use local flowers and greenery with designs that are sustainable and follow the seasons.

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Imagine a pottery jug brimming with the ambient enchantment and fragrance of fresh cut lilacs taking centre stage on the kitchen counter.

“It’s such a simple thing, but so impactful,” says Feasby. “I like the freedom of just being able to step outside and pick whatever is in season. Especially here in Calgary, we can grow killer lilacs and amazing peonies. Tulips grow really well here as well, as do roses.”

She suggest using what is blooming locally, either from your garden or a local flower market. Pick an over the top flower as a focal point — a peony, poppies, a rose — and then use filler flowers with tinier blooms and greenery to accent. And don’t forget about herbs — flowering dill or borage adds whimsy, greenery and texture to a fresh cut arrangement.

She notes that flowers go with every decor style. “If you choose what is seasonal, it will always look great inside because it is echoing what is going on outside.”

She advocates moving that bouquet of fresh flowers room to room.

“If you buy an arrangement for a dinner party and then don’t eat in the dining room for the rest of the week, you are missing out. Move the arrangement around — to your bedroom or kitchen — so that you can enjoy them,” says Feasby.

And don’t forget about the containers. Pick something that mirrors the esthetic you want to achieve. “Often people get stuck on clear, glass vases, but I love using unusual things like old metal cans, cereal bowls, pottery vessels,” says Feasby.

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A few tips to transform your home into a summer oasis:

  1. Bring the outdoors in with plenty of potted plants and in season, fresh cut flowers from your garden or a local sustainable florist. Place greenery and floral arrangements in key spots around the home, so that you can enjoy the colour, texture, beauty and fragrance.
  2. Switch out any dark accent throws and cushions for a lighter palette — delicate pastels and soft textures weave an ambiance of gentle harmony.
  3. Consider swapping out heavier bedding and coverings with light and airy raw finished material like cotton and linen.
  4. Simplify and organize spaces with a purposeful and structured declutter — think Marie Kondo.
  5. Add plenty of beautiful storage with accent pieces. Consider a chest of drawers in the kitchen, bathroom or office, or maybe repurpose an antique bureau. Keep it as is or lighten it up with texture and colour with chalk paint and new hardware. Or scour the stores for a new piece that enlivens your space, while adding plenty of functional space.
  6. Don’t be afraid to mix and match textures and finishes using plenty of natural elements. The result will be fresh and clean and oh so summery!

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  1. Enemies are only shown on the minimap when they are in a friendly's line of sight.
  2. The minimap is sweeped to reveal enemies, like the UAV of previous games.
  3. The sweep will have an increased frequency, similar to previous titles when multiple UAVs were active.
  4. The sweep will retain its increased frequency as well as show the direction enemies are facing, like the Advanced UAV or effect of having three UAVs active simultaneously in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.

In Free-For-All, the SAT COM functions similarly to the single UAV from previous games.

The SAT COM can be destroyed through shooting or knifing (players have to crouch over it because it is very small). Wiretap allows the player to access enemy SAT COMs as if they were their own.

One operation may ask you to call in assault SAT COMs. The only difference between an assault SAT COM and a support SAT COM is in which kill streak you obtain it. There are no other differences.

Uniquely on the map Whiteout, if one earns the Satellite Crash Field Order reward, the crashed satellite will act as a single SAT COM for the rest of the game. Its effects will stack with other SAT COMs present on the map throughout the game after it is called in.

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Green Cape Coral canals have become as predictable as the summer rains, and this year is no exception.

But while stagnant city waterways may be nothing new, the health department speaking up about it is. In the past week the Florida Department of Health in Lee County has sent out three email blasts warning of algae in three of the city’s 400 miles of canals: Makai, Highlander and Boris.

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Such communication is a long time coming, said Calusa Waterkeeper John Cassani. His nonprofit has been urging government bodies to adopt water quality standards and post advisories for cyanotoxins.

“Currently there appears to be no legal basis in Florida to enforce guidelines for warning the public of health risk from cyanobacteria,” he said. “(We) think there should be an enforceable basis to require FDOH to issue warnings to the public. Additionally, DEP has not adopted water quality standards enforceable by the Clean Water Act that would protect the designated use of ‘recreation’ for state waters.” The state’s new Blue-Green Algae Task Force also has called for adopting standards for water quality, but “It won’t be a victory until there is an enforceable basis to require FDOH to do what is needed to protect the public,” Cassani said.

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By 2014 Israel Trip participant, Nikki Keister, of the College of William and Mary

Quick, answer three questions for me. What country has the highest ratio of university degrees in its population? What country has the highest concentration of startups in the world? What country has more companies listed on NASDAQ than the entire European continent combined? If you answered, Israel, to any of these three questions… Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!!!! You were right, on all three counts.

In the new book, Start Up Nation, Dan Senor and Paul Singer explain how Israel, a tiny country the size of New Jersey with no natural resources, surrounded on all sides by hostile Anti-Semitic enemies, in a constant state of war is still able to produce more start-ups than any other country besides the U.S.

The emergence of Israel’s high-tech sector put the small country’s economy on track. Specializing in computer hardware, software, medical technologies and pharmaceuticals, Israel’s technology sector has become world renowned for it’s innovation: Flash drives, cardiac stents, camera-pills and instant messaging are only a few Israeli innovations that have emerged in the last few decades. So, how does this little powerhouse, admired and envied by so many around the world, do it against all odds?

Persistence and Resilience:

A very strong trait in Israeli culture behind the “startup nation’s” success is Israeli chutzpah. Chutzpah does not have an equivalent word in English, but it basically translates to “in your face, cheeky, boldness that borders on being rude”. Chutzpah is a Yiddish word from the Hebrew word “hutspa”. Israeli chutzpah is a necessity because Israel exists in a hotbed of Anti-Semitic Islamic and Arab theocracies that constantly threaten it’s people’s annihilation. That chutzpah helps Israelis keep their strong resilience, and assures them that they are good people, they are smart people, they are honest people and they do the right thing even when everyone around them are not. That chutzpah will not let Israel’s enemies get her down. That chutzpah accounts for much of the Israel’s success against all odds.

Compulsory Service in a Unique Military

Another contributing factor is that Israel has a compulsory military service for all citizens over the age of 18, three years for men and two years for women. Innovation comes from having a unique perspective. Perspective comes from knowledge. Knowledge comes from a wide variety of experiences in a lifetime. In Israel, young people get experience, knowledge, perspective, and maturity at a much younger age, because the Israeli society jams so many transformative experiences into it’s people when they’re barely out of high school. By the time they get to college, their heads are in a different place than their American counterparts.

Much of this life experience Israelis get comes from its compulsory military service, which not only provides early training in some very sophisticated technologies, it often entails very serious life-and-death situations that teach Israelis to think quickly on their feet and make tough decisions under extremely stressful conditions.

The IDF also has a very unique, anti-hierarchical structure, which results in very few levels of middle and upper management. The result of this is, very young soldiers barely out of their teens serve on the front lines of battle with minimal guidance from superiors. The IDF places a very strong emphasis on soldiers taking personal responsibility. This leads to soldiers having to solve problems on their own on the front lines of battle, under incredible pressure, in very intense real world, life-and-death situations. One Israeli soldier explains it like this:

A company commander is in charge of a specific territory. If a terrorist infiltrates that area, there’s a company commander whose name is on it. Tell me how many twenty-three-year-olds elsewhere in the world live with that kind of pressure… How many of their peers in their junior colleges have been tested in such a way? How do you train and mature a twenty-year-old to shoulder such responsibility?

IDF soldiers are also discouraged from being overly compliant and instead are taught to speak up and question authority if they have serious doubts about decisions made by senior officers. Yes, it’s that chutzpah, again that contributes to a very unconventional system to challenge senior officers who are not working up to the IDF’s high standards.

I was in Israeli army units where we threw out the officers,” Oren told us, “where people just got together and voted them out. I witnessed this twice personally. I actually liked the guy, but I was outvoted. They voted out a colonel.” When we asked Oren in disbelief how this worked, he explained, “You go and say, ‘We don’t want you. You’re not good.’ I mean, everyone’s on a first-name basis… You go to the person above him and say, ‘That guy’s got to go.’… It’s much more performance-oriented than it is about rank. “The phrase ‘It was not my fault’ does not exist in the military culture”.

There is also a cultural tolerance in Israel for what some call “constructive failure” or “intelligent failures.” Most Israelis believe that without tolerating a large number of failures, it is impossible to achieve true innovation. In the IDF, there is a tendency to treat all performance, both successful and unsuccessful, both in training simulations and in live battle, as value-neutral. So long as the risk was taken intelligently, and not recklessly, even if the performance failed, there is something to be learned.

Israel’s economic miracle is due as much to immigration as to anything. Foreign-born citizens of Israel currently account for over one-third of Israel’s population. That is three times the ratio of immigrants to natives in the U.S.A. Israel is now home to more than 70 diverse nationalities and cultures.

The success of the Venture Capital industry in Israel grew even stronger with the creation of a program they named Yozma (Hebrew for “initiative”). A group of young bureaucrats at Israel’s Ministry of Finance came up with the idea for a program where the Israeli government would invest money to create ten new venture capital funds Each fund had to be represented by three parties: Israeli venture capitalists in training, a foreign venture capital firm, and an Israeli investment company or bank. As a result of these efforts, Israel’s annual venture-capital outlays rose nearly 60-fold, from $58 million to $3.3 billion, between 1991 and 2000. Venture capital was the match that sparked the fire.

There’s a multitask mash-up mentality in Israel, a multitasking mentality that produces an environment in which job titles and the compartmentalization mentality that goes along with them do not apply as much in Israel. Israelis will think nothing of working in fields that combine mathematics, biology, computer science, chemistry and other specialties.   Everyone becomes a jack-of-all trades, thinking nothing of combining radically different technologies and disciplines. When an Israeli man wants to date a woman, he asks her out that night. He does not wait. When an Israeli entrepreneur has a business idea, he will start it that week. He does not wait. The notion that one should accumulate all of his credentials before launching a venture simply does not exist in Israeli culture. Too much time can only teach you what can go wrong, not what could be transformative.

Clusters with Strong Bonds

Clusters in businesses are based on “geographic concentrations” of interconnected institutions (businesses, government agencies, and universities) in a specific field. Clusters are just communities of people who live and work and even raise families closely together so everyone is connected to each other in some way or another.   This includes the same people who also serve together in the same military units fighting to defend their home turf against enemies who want to annihilate them for being Jewish, then go on to learn together at the same great universities, and go on to work at the same start-up companies, live in the same communities where they raise families where their children go to the same schools together, etc, etc… That same “social glue” that binds a cluster together also provides critical access to information, understanding and collaboration between very talented people in their fields. The cluster’s sense of shared commitment and destiny on both a personal and professional level, like that of Israel and Silicon Valley, is not easy to create, but when it is created, it results in robust economic growth.

It has been said that Israel is a country with no natural resource, that couldn’t be further from the truth, it does have a resources, one that accounts for much of it’s success, that is the ingenuity and resilience of the Israeli people.

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2019-2020 University of Florida CAMERA Fellow Taylor Roth

Some may ask how Israel, a Jewish state, properly represents its minority Arab population.

When speaking at the University of Florida this November, Yoseph Haddad explained exactly this.

As an Arab-Israeli Christian, Haddad demonstrated to students how Arabs, who account for 21% of Israel’s population, play a crucial role in the prosperity of the country.

Christians United for Israel at UF hosted the event in collaboration with the Committee for Accuracy on Middle East Reporting and Analysis on Campus.

Throughout his speech, Haddad shared with students why he has chosen to center his life’s work on advocating for Israel and further helping his fellow Arab men and women feel more included within broader Israeli society.

Before beginning his presentation, Haddad took a moment to demonstrate the reality Israeli citizens face within their country. Attendees of his speech watched as the image of a siren, accompanied by its blaring alert, flashed on the screen.

“Fifteen seconds, that’s all the time there is for children, parents and their families in Israel to find shelter from the time this siren goes off,” Haddad said.

Israeli citizens are all too familiar with this emergency alert system, known as red alert. When it sounds, Israeli men and women immediately realize that rockets are being fired into their country, many of which target schools and homes. In the days leading up to Haddad’s speech, over 360 rockets were fired by Islamic jihadists into Israel.

The purpose of starting his event this way was to demonstrate to students the constant fear Israelis live through. At any moment, there is the possibility that a day at school or a trip to the market could be interrupted by this piercing siren and the realization that, if unable to find shelter, one’s life could end in a quarter of a minute.

It was this frightening realization that caused Haddad to volunteer to serve in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Like his fellow citizens, he understood that the right to peacefully exist in the Jewish homeland was not something that was respectfully granted, but had to be constantly fought for.

Haddad shared that serving in the IDF exposed him to the reality that, although differences existed between members of his battalion, they were each fighting to protect, not only themselves, but their loved ones as well.

“We were all equal, we were all brothers serving side by side,” Haddad said. “I can testify that I served in the most humane and moral army in the world.”

“At any moment, there is the possibility that a day at school or a trip to the market could be interrupted by this piercing siren and the realization that, if unable to find shelter, one’s life could end in a quarter of a minute.”

Toward the end of Haddad’s military service in 2006, the Second Lebanon War broke out and lasted for 34 days in Northern Israel between the IDF and Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist militant group based in Lebanon that is notorious for its acts of terror.

Throughout the course of the fighting, Haddad lost seven of his close friends, three commanders and a soldier under his command. Haddad was later injured and suffered multiple wounds when a missile was shot at his forces four days before a ceasefire was established.

Haddad stated that his experience fighting for Israel inspired him to showcase the freedom and prosperity the country represents for him and so many other Arab Israelis. He realized that there were other ways to further defend Israel than fighting in the army.

During his time fighting for Israel, Haddad believed Arab Israeli society within the Jewish state was facing a problem of its own. He realized that this sector, one in which he is a part of and deeply cares about, was not integrating into mainstream Israeli society.

This inspired Haddad to start Vouch for Each Other, an Israeli nonprofit that aims to solve this issue through initiating change that helps Arabs within Israel feel a greater connection to mainstream Israeli society as a whole.

In addition to serving as the CEO of Vouch for Each Other, Haddad also frequently contributes to the Times of Israel and travels across the world to speak to different audiences, especially college students, about why they should support Israel and stand for the Jewish people.

Victor Santos, a 23-year-old UF senior, said that attending Haddad’s speech further exposed him to how critical it is for all students to support the Jewish state.

“His story truly shows how you do not have to be Jewish to support Israel,” Santos said. “You just have to understand that everyone has the right to live and pursue happiness.”

Originally published in The Gainesville Sun.

Contributed by 2019-2020 University of Florida CAMERA Fellow Taylor Roth.

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Partly based on a 1969 Friedrich Poppl design called Poppl Stretto, but considerably fused with ideas found in interwar magazine ad lettering and signage, Wonder Brush caters to the idea that most graphic designers would rather use design elements they can enjoy. When you spend your days being challenged and creatively tested and communicating the message, you can definitely use a little bit of playtime. And this font gives you just that, playtime on the job.

Wonder Brush appears to be a straightforward narrow upright brush script. But it really is made of malleable rubber. Take it into a program like Adobe Illustrator, set something, stretch or squeeze, shear or warp, slant or transform… just play with it like they used to do in the 70s and 80s. You will soon discover that this font really is a big old top hat, and it’s up to you and your mischief to pull rabbits or geese out of it. A single font that allows you to emphasize content or manage space mechanically without affecting the integrity of the type setting. And if your playtime includes fiddling with OpenType features, you’re in for a bonus treat: Wonder Brush comes with over 800 glyphs, including a lot of alternates and extended Latin language support.

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This a critical financial planning question for anyone with a pension, and yet it’s often framed in an unhelpful way.

A popular school of thought says you should think of a pension as a bond, presumably because both bonds and pensions pay predictable amounts of guaranteed income. The problem is, there is no way to put that idea into practice when managing a portfolio.

In this case, our reader has a pension that will pay him $50,000 a year. What would an equivalent bond holding be? Let’s assume he also has $300,000 in personal savings, and that it’s all equities. What would his overall asset allocation be? Even if he did establish a present value for the pension, how would that be helpful when it was time to rebalance the portfolio to its targets? Clearly this is the wrong way to approach the problem.

When we work with clients, establishing an appropriate asset allocation is one of the most important parts of the job. We don’t find it useful to think of pensions as a type of bond: rather, they are simply one of several factors in assessing each client’s ability, willingness and need to take risk.

The pension paradox

Your ability to take risk is largely a function of how long you expect to earn income, as well as the reliability of that income. If your job is tenuous and you except to earn nothing after you quit work, then you have limited ability to take equity risk in your portfolio. But our reader, who can look forward to a guaranteed pension of more than $4,000 a month in retirement—as well as Canada Pension Plan and Old Age Security benefits—likely has an unlimited capacity for risk with his personal savings. These guaranteed income sources should meet all of his income goals, and a market crash would have no meaningful impact on his financial situation.

The need to take risk depends primarily on the rate of return required to achieve your financial goals. Many investors need to earn 4% or 5% to meet their long-term objectives, based on their current savings rates and expected retirement date. A guaranteed pension has an enormous effect on this factor: my guess is our reader could achieve his retirement income goals even if his personal savings had a return of 0%. (With a client we’d test this assumption with Monte Carlo simulations.)  In other words, although he has the ability to take a lot of equity risk, he likely has no need to do so.

As much as you can bear

All of this means the decision comes down to weighing the third factor in the asset allocation decision: the willingness to take risk. Unlike the other two factors, this one is purely psychological.

If our reader’s pension income is sufficient to meet all his income needs, then he can take as much or as little equity risk as he wants with his personal savings. If he is entirely unconcerned with stock market turmoil (though few people fit that description), he could indeed invest 100% of his portfolio in equities. That would be the right choice if his objective was to leave a large inheritance, for example. If instead he’d prefer to merely keep pace with inflation and sleep soundly every night, he might just as well build a GIC ladder.

After going through this exercise, our clients almost always end up somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. We review the expected returns of various portfolios, as well as their historical volatility and maximum losses. Then the investors decide on the asset allocation that allows them to achieve reasonable growth at a risk level they can stomach.


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Inbound Marketing: 7 Ways to Diversify Your Traffic Sources

Search engine features, guidelines and rankings change on a regular basis. It has become almost impossible for the average person to comply with all of their demands and compete with not only other merchants, but also the search engine itself. They still serve up most of our organic traffic, but it seems wise to plan for a future when that won’t be the case.

Advertising to the masses in the hopes of reaching a few is the offline way of doing things. In today’s digital world, you can hit your target market bullseye and spend less doing it. The first step is identifying your Unique Selling Proposition (USP) and getting to know your ideal customer avatar. Then do some research to reveal where your potential online customers are and how you can engage them.

7 Ways to Diversify Your Traffic Sources

1. Information products sold on third-party platforms, such as ebooks on Indigo or courses on Udemy. There are many popular online marketplaces that will host information products. You can benefit from their massive marketing budgets that bring in shoppers. The products themselves will promote your relevant website and bring in traffic. Choose popular marketplaces that attract your ideal online customer and diversify further by listing on the top few. Research their terms and conditions thoroughly and check their fees before deciding.

2. Email marketing has been an effective way to bring in visitors and sales since the beginning of email itself. Newsletters and sales funnels are sent to people who are already interested in what you have to offer. They sign up, confirm their subscription and you’ll be brought to their attention whenever you send something to them. Remember to follow email marketing laws for any country you send emails to. In Canada, that’s covered by Canadian Anti-Spam Law (CASL). Don’t go overboard with the number of emails sent and make it valuable to the recipient.

3. Online communities come in several forms, such as social media groups, discussion forums or blogs. You can start your own on a third-party platform, and/or join groups that are popular with your target market. Demonstrate your level of expertise by offering thoughtful, helpful responses. Read the rules of each group before promoting your website or you’ll probably be kicked out.

4. Social media can bring in tons of traffic if you do it properly. However, organic reach on some social networks, like Facebook and Instagram, has fallen to practically nothing. Paying for advertising on these networks is still effective (although their automated ad rejections and account bans have had many glitches lately).

Other networks provide mixed organic results, depending on how well you know your ideal customer. Some visual networks, like Pinterest, can still bring in a lot of traffic, especially if your products need to be seen to be appreciated. Others will be better for video, such as YouTube. Research each one and choose the networks that will best engage your ideal customer. Learn more about how Canadians use social media in our annual reports.

5. Start an affiliate program! Affiliate programs are based on performance, allowing you to advertise on countless websites around the world, yet only pay for it when a sale is made. You can quickly build an online sales force that is virtually guaranteed to boost your bottom line through an unbeatable Return on Investment (ROI). Most leading American retailers have affiliate programs in their customer acquisition toolbox, but Canadian retailers have been slower to adopt the strategy. Learn How to Start an Affiliate Program for a Canadian Business.

6. Content marketing on other websites may offer a variety of options. If you choose websites or influencers that appeal to a similar audience as the one you hope to reach, you can generate some high-converting traffic. That could be as simple as submitting a guest post, press release or paying for an involved influencer campaign. The ROI of influencer and content marketing is off the charts.

7. Offline marketing can be used to increase website traffic too.

  • Make sure your website address is included in offline advertising and product packaging.
  • Include a __% off your next order coupon with any orders you ship out.
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  • Bring multiple channels together, such as encouraging customers in your store to go online for more information, options, coupons, or what have you.

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“The concept is straightforward: Position your site to be found in more places by those looking for what you offer, in order to convert more clients from an additional flow of visitors,” suggests Christian Carere. “Driving multiple streams of targeted traffic improves the profitability of your website by increasing the number of leads your site generates.”

The volatility of all online traffic sources is one of the hazards of digital marketing. Any one of them could disappear tomorrow. When your traffic and leads come in from multiple sources, you’ll have a built-in backup plan to help compensate if one ceases to work for you.

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Inbound marketing is definitely something that can help you drive traffic and increase your income.


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MJ Biz reports

A pair of cannabis businesses focused on the technology sector raised a combined $21.5 million in investment capital.

Florida-based Springbig said Tuesday it raised $11.5 million in a Series B round. The company’s marketing platform is used by 1,400 marijuana retailers across the country, according to a news release.

For CLR the following is the more interesting of the two reports.

Chicago-based Fyllo on Wednesday announced the completion a Series A2 round that brought in $10 million, bringing its investment total to $26 million. Fyllo in January acquired cannabis-regulation tracking firm CannaRegs for $10 million.

Both companies said the influx of capital would be used to further expand their marijuana industry footprints, while Fyllo also intends to expand into “other highly regulated industries.”

It would interesting to learn how many states Fyllo are now tracking and what they currently charge out for the tracking service.

The generally staid world of legal publishing is paying more attention to cannabis these days, see Law360’s docket service with another legal publisher in the US on the way with a cannabis docket service and Law.com are sniffing around the edges mainly with a news reporting service at the moment

Are Fyllo setting themselves up for an acquisition and hoping RELX or TR Westlaw might come to the party?

They’d better have their wits about them and be investing heavily in AI as current players like V-Lex are very smart, have been in the legislation and tracking market for quite some time and now operate with a global presence .

CannaRegs initially spent quite some time just collecting info from California and a couple of other states which can’t have been a cheap process.

If Fyllo spent $US10 million (probably less that a million in cash we’d reckon, most of the rest being stock options for Ostrowitz and team) and now are investing heavily in building the service they might find that others with more advanced AI and mobile communications teams already with years of relationship building behind them could pull the rug out from under their feet.

The other question to pose is who’s subscribing?

Lawyers are notoriously tight after years of being burnt by Westlaw and Lexis Nexis. Most of the top end of cannabis companies operate on debt and as Reuters have reported in the last 24 hours are about to enter a new phase of M&A, research costs are always dumped when companies are being “rationalized’ for sale

They have some big cheeses on their board!

The middle and bottom end of the market just don’t have the money to spend on research services or if they do money will be spent sparingly. Maybe their dispensary compliance products will do the business for them, maybe the money is in the real estate clients ?

Are they estimating revenues of 30-50 million in the next 36+ months?

Here at CLR it all looks a bit of a gamble

We shall see, as they say..

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Two marijuana tech firms raise $20 million-plus in venture capital


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Do you enjoy the outdoors? Do you enjoy canoeing across a placid lake in the Boundary Waters as a loon calls to its mate? Do you enjoy running Section IV of the Chatooga River with Burt Reynolds? Do you enjoy sea kayaking around Assateaque Island watching the wild horses?

Join the Canoe Cruisers Association to develop your canoe and kayak paddling skills. We will introduce you to the skills you need to paddle flatwater bird watching or to run whitewater rapids with style, control, and a big smile.

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Things NOT to say in a Riyadh university

I was just given my Culture Sensitivity List for this semester’s class…

Basically, if you’re considering teaching in Riyadh, prepare to get creative!

Here are the topics you must either avoid, or proceed with caution:

1) Adopted children and children conceived out of wedlock

2) Alcoholic drinks and intoxicating drinks

3) Birthdays

4) Blended family concepts (e.g. a step-brother/ step-sister living together)

5) Boyfriends or girlfriends

6) Celebrities: actors, actresses, musicians, dancers, etc.

7) Christmas

8) Concerts

9) Dating

10) Dramas

11) Drinking alcohol

12) Drugs and drug abuse

13) Devil and demons

14) Euthanasia

15) Eating pork

16) Fashion

17) Film-making

–turning page–

18) HIV or AIDS

19) Holidays outside the two Islamic holidays

20) Homosexuality

21) Love stories, being in love, falling in love, love at first sight, soulmates

22) Magic, magicians

23) Mental situations, mental diseases, etc.

24) Mixed gender situations (men and women working together, socializing, etc.)

25) Movies: only when talking about a particular movie or when the word movies is used to refer to the cinema

26) Moving out (not living with the family in the same house) at the age of 18

27) Music, musical instruments

28) Neuroticism

29) Partner relationships (unmarried couples)

30) People not dressed properly, e.g. wearing shorts (men or women)

31) Plastic surgeries, physical appearance changes

32) Political topics, elections, etc

33) Professional dancing and dancers

34) Psychologists or psychiatrists

35) Religion

36) Sculpture (human/animal faces)

37) Singing

38) Sexually transmitted diseases

39) Spirits and witchcraft

40) Social networking

41) Superpowers or superheroes

42) Superstitions: beliefs not based on facts/scientific knowledge (crossing fingers for good luck, the number 13, walking under ladders)

43) Theatre

44) TV shows or programs that discuss inappropriate themes like music, dancing, (American Idol, So you think you can dance, etc)

45) Tobacco and smoking

46) Women driving

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Storm Angkor Wat Temple – Siem Reap, Cambodia

Jun 30, 2010 | HDR Panoramas, Travel & Culture

I went back to Siem Reap, Cambodia for another taste of the temples in Angkor Wat. This time the weather was nice and cool rather than scorching hot. The cool temperature was from an incoming storm which made photographing a little more pleasant. The storm also gave me a great opportunity to get this amazing photo. I shot this HDR panorama from behind the Angkor Wat temple. Pano was shot vertically for a total of nine exposures and 3 HDR photos. Exposure for HDR was merged using Photomatix Pro software and panoramic stitching was done in Adobe Photoshop CS4.

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Still pursuing it: Adani & Tata continue to chase coal-fired power despite its failing financials
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Tata and Adani Power likely to buyout two major stressed assets

Two major coal-fired stressed assets – Pragyaraj Power’s 1,980MW super-critical plant in Uttar Pradesh and GMR Infrastructure’s 1,370MW plant in Chhattisgarh – are very close to be bought out by Resurgent Power (a Tata Power-ICICI Ventures tie-up) and Adani Power, respectively. Resurgent has already received an LOI from Pragyaraj for 75.01% equity in the project.

The plants reportedly have viable fuel supply linkages and power tariffs, and the acquisitions may be one of the few to result from the restructuring of the nearly $10.5bn mess of stranded power assets.

Hike in tariffs proposed for Essar, Adani and Tata stressed assets in Gujarat

A hike in tariffs seems imminent for power from Tata, Essar and Adani Power’s coal-fired stressed assets in Gujarat – as they may be allowed to pass-through the increased cost of imported coal to their customers. The resolution plan however directly contradicts the Supreme Court’s 2017 ban on any tariff hikes for the plants and must be approved by the state’s chief minister and the cabinet.

24 stressed assets likely to face liquidation, banks request for more time to resolve NPAs

24 coal and gas-fired stressed assets are very likely to face liquidation after failing to attract any bids for buyouts. The debt-ridden projects have no reliable fuel supply linkages or power off-takers at viable tariffs.

Meanwhile State Bank of India (SBI) and Punjab National Bank (PNB) have sought additional time (beyond August 27) to resolve debt issues for 9,500MW of stressed assets that may be operationally viable. The Allahabad High Court and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) though remain defiant on granting extensions – believing that government policies were also responsible for the heavy losses now likely to ensue for the projects’ lenders.

Major setback for climate campaigners as Norway’s pension fund may remain invested in oil & gas

The Norwegian government may have handed climate campaigners a major setback after concluding that the risks from fluctuating oil prices were too low for the nation’s $1trillion pension fund to divest its fossil fuel holdings.

The recommendation has already boosted several oil & gas stocks but has been strongly criticized for its apparent ignorance of fossil fuels’ climate impacts. The fund was advised by the country’s central bank to divest from fossil fuel holdings to shield against an anticipated global fall in consumption.

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Developing a trusted rapport with her Cardan clients is one of the things co-founding partner Marti Awad most enjoys about her work. Checking in regularly and personally with them is how she intuits and anticipates need.

So, when she recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal for an adviser profile, Marti was especially pointed about her efforts to make direct client contact — especially with women who she knows are in tims of major life transition.

From the WSJ’s Adviser Profile:

Martha “Marti” J. Awad, J.D., CFA, CFP®, LL.M-Taxation

Martha “Marti” J. Awad, J.D., CFA, CFP®, LL.M-Taxation

“Promoting patience: To female clients in the wake of a major transition, Ms. Awad’s advice is often simple: Wait. She tells clients to give themselves a year before making any big financial decisions like selling a house. This advice is important for anyone following a separation, but especially for women who have lost a spouse who took care of the family finances, she says. ‘Clients should take the time to sit with what’s happened and sort things out,’ she says. ‘Often there’s so much pressure on them already; they shouldn’t put extra pressure on themselves.’”

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Are you looking to join a fantastic team of technologists, innovators and industry pros? My client is disrupting their industry and growing like crazy!

They are seeking to add a few talented SDR's who are excited to do both inbound and outbound lead generation supporting the AE team. If you are currently in a BDR / SDR role, you might want to take a look. This company offers huge growth opportunities, and only works with Enterprise clients!
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A few nights ago, I found myself awake….again. I launched my NPR app and set the sleep timer preparing to be lulled into some sound sleep. After the headline recap, a story called “Future Self” began. The story was about a group of high school students that consistently year after year had low achievement test scores and low rates of college admissions. The principal decided to try an innovative, but controversial approach of hypnosis that would motivate and inspire these individuals to accomplish their dreams, their future selves. The principal began to refer to himself as “doctor” and his hypnosis sessions were focused on techniques that reduced anxiety, inspired confidence and increased self-esteem, essentially creating life skills of motivation, drive and resilience, really important work. As I drifted off to sleep, I thought about the importance of this work, but sleep ensued and I was unable to finish the podcast.

The next morning, I immediately returned to the podcast. What I thought would be this wonderful, innovative tale of turning failures into successes became something else.  The “story” ends with the suicide of one student and the sudden death of another. The connection between them was that both students had been hypnotized by the principal and both students were at a crossroads of realizing that their future selves would not come to fruition.  As the podcast finished and a sadness entered my heart, this original thought, this inspiration,  became something different. As I reflected, I thought about the different tragedies of this story. A principal doing his best to serve and help his students gain skills to be successful and a student that couldn’t find love and acceptance in her current self.

When I think back of what I had envisioned as my future self, it is very different from the present picture. I realize I am not alone in this reflection and the funny thing is, I feel incredibly grateful for the person that I am today. I recognize the strength, resilience and gratitude that I have developed by enduring unexpected traumas and life events. I recognize those individuals that were placed in my path that helped me get through those challenges and obstacles.  The mother of the student that committed suicide shared in the podcast that she knew her daughter would have never gotten into the college she was hoping to attend and she wonders why she encouraged her. Meaning, if she had taught her daughter about acceptance, coping with failure, etc.,  she feels her daughter would still be alive. This concept of a future self, the struggle of wanting more, can at times be mired in suffering. Happiness is about presence, enjoying the moment of NOW. So in pursuing goals and finding joy, there needs to be balance. A balance between potential and presence.

I started this blog with the hope to inspire, to serve. While I believe that this intention is still present, I find myself with the hopes of wanting to write more and turning this into something that will impact more lives on a larger scale. Is it realistic of me to dream of a sustainable writing career or am I like all the other silly dreamers out there that are just recovering from burnout and have found a creative outlet that will only amount to a blog with a few followers? Where is my future self taking me with this process? Additionally, do I continue to write regardless if this is not serving anyone? Would this be a failure if it helped not a single person but myself? Ultimately, it doesn’t matter because I chose to follow an instinct and pursue a passion, a dream so to speak.

I think the magic of this life lies in having hope and developing resilience. Knowing that it’s perfectly acceptable to have the vision of a future self and accepting the responsibility as decent humans to encourage each other in the pursuit of purpose. It is also knowing that dreams never realized provide opportunities for greater roles within our day-to-day lives. This space for potential, our resilience that is cultivated during these times are what we never imagine, never crave, but really, it is what creates our future selves. So continue to dream, continue to hope, continue to pursue, but have more compassion on yourself in the day to day, knowing that your future self will thank you.

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Ella Andall’s Earth Music | Caribbean Beat

Originally written for and published in Caribbean Beat magazine in 2007

It’s Spiritual Baptist Liberation Day in Trinidad, but instead of taking a day off, Ella Andall is doing what she always does—singing. It’s a 90-minute drive from her home in Arima to the southern town of Rio Claro, where Andall is slated to sing. She’s not sure what the set-up will be, whether there will even be a microphone. So this time, she is keeping it simple—a couple of back-ups, some of her longtime drummers, herself, and her music.

It’s not always like that. Over the more than 35 years she has been in the music business, she has sung in Europe, Africa, and throughout the Americas—in intimate spiritual ceremonies, theatres, concert halls, sports stadiums and everything in between. She’s performed for the Dalai Lama, Winnie Mandela, inspirational writer Iyanla Vanzant, spiritual leader the Ooni of Ife, Nelson Mandela, and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, and shared the stage with Miriam Makeba.

But her music has always been for and about families, community and identity, and today the music takes her to Rio Claro. When she arrives, her manager, Erica Ashton, calls the organisers from her cell phone. As the musicians and singers get out of the bus to stretch for a moment and use the restroom, there is an announcement and a long, glowing introduction from the community centre across the road: Ella is here!

Andall hasn’t even had a chance to wipe the perspiration from the bridge of her nose before she’s ushered across the street to shrieks of elation from the crowd. People are clapping and waving at Andall, who smiles and laughs as she greets them and heads for the stage.

She has come prepared to sing a fairly standard set of crowd favourites and some chants to the Orisha deities. But Andall is not a mere performer. Each time she sings, and particularly at community events like this, she takes the pulse of the place, and listens to what she is called to sing. Today she begins with chants to Ogun, the Orisha of iron, war and industry. Within minutes, Andall has discarded her shoes—however carefully chosen beforehand—so that she can dance and move freely. The audience are on their feet, clapping, dancing, and singing. The rhythm of the drums pounds in your chest, the clarity and purity of Andall’s voice resonate beneath your skin, and the energy of the moment is irresistible and overpowering. It is as if the entire universe vibrates with her.

She winds down her set amid rapturous applause, descends the stairs and gets a drink of water. But the applause does not stop, and they will not let her leave. They call for Shango. She laughs, knowing that she is seldom allowed to leave a performance without singing her chants to Shango—Orisha of thunder, lighting and fire, the sky father. And as she begins to sing, the manifestations—where an Orisha manifests through, or briefly possesses, or “mounts”, a person’s body—begin. Eyes are closed, or remain open but glazed over. Members of the audience hold fast to those who are manifesting, making sure they do not injure themselves. Some begin to speak in Yoruba. Others begin to move and dance, manifesting the physical characteristics associated with a particular Orisha. Andall herself sits down, cross-legged on the stage, grounding herself by touching the ground and then her forehead with her hands. She smiles.

Ella Andall never intended to be a professional singer or songwriter. She had every intention of pursuing a career in medicine. But she grew up in a family of artists—poets, singers, and musicians. She was raised on the sound of her mother’s and grandmother’s voices, the strums of her father’s cuatro, the Yoruba of Orisha prayers. And she always sang. “I have always listened to my own voice,” she says. “Because there is something that I wanted to feel, that I wanted to hear, I wanted to give…and I like the sound of my own voice!”

So do many others. Andall’s voice is among the most distinctive and arresting in Caribbean music, with a tremendous range of pitch, colour, and tone. It is at times the mournful wail of a grieving mother, as in “Missing Generation”, “People of Conscience” or “Shame”. At others, it has the piercing and blood-pounding immediacy, authority and ferocity of a warrior cry, as in “Woza (Rise Up)” and “Say My Name”. But always there is an infectious spirit of optimism, resilience, and sheer love of life.

Andall was born in Grenada—one dare not ask the date—and moved to Trinidad when she was eight or nine. She found Trinidad extremely different from Grenada. For the first time, she encountered a discomfort with “blackness”, and distrust of anything “too African”. But she had been raised in a home and a family that had inherited the West African traditions of her ancestors, and she studiously resisted any attempts to remove her from those traditions, even refusing to sing in school choirs where she would be made to sing differently.

Andall is an olorisha, or Orisha devotee. It is a way of life that celebrates the ancestors and the divine in nature, with various aspects and forces of the natural world represented in the Orisha, who are each a manifestation of God, or Olodumare. Two of Andall’s CDs—Oriki Ogun and Sango Baba Wa—comprise oriki, or praise songs, sung in Yoruba, to specific Orishas. Two more collections of oriki, in honour of Oshun and Eshu, are due out later this year. Many of the oriki have been passed down through the generations, while some are original compositions. When the Orisha are invoked through chanting and prayer, you can witness—or experience—the kind of manifestations which Andall’s performances are known to produce. You don’t even need to be an olorisha to experience a manifestation—the Orisha do not discriminate by creed, colour, or any other classification.

Neither does Andall, who has always functioned in an extended musical family. Her earliest recordings, including classics like “Different People”, were written by Garfield Blackman (Lord Shorty and then Ras Shorty I), the progenitor of soca music. She toured extensively with Shorty and his Vibrations International band throughout the Caribbean and North America. In the 1980s and 1990s, she worked closely with two other leading Trinidadian musicians, David Rudder and Andre Tanker. Her vocals can be heard in the background of some of their tracks, as well as those of Black Stalin, Maestro, Lancelot Layne, Merchant, Shadow, Arrow, and Brother Resistance. Tanker wrote “Wishing on a Grace Note”, and Rudder composed two of her classic pieces, “Woman of the Sun” and “My Spirit is Music”.

“That’s how I see her,” he says. “A woman of the sun. A rousing, regal piece of the African energy.”

All this time, Andall had been gaining international success while defying any kind of musical definition. Despite the popularity of her singles, she faced a great deal of resistance within the Trinidad music industry and calypso fraternity. Some refused to book her because of how she dressed or tied her head, or were wary of the Yoruba chanting in her music. People would say to her that as she had such a nice voice, she should sing “nicer” songs.

And while the calypso tent was the testing ground and launchpad for many a career, she found both the tents and calypso promoters shunning her: “because I’m bringing something that people want to forget,” she says. “People in Trinidad still have not accepted and cherished their blackness and their colour—they still get upset if people call them black.”

She didn’t need to prove anything to anyone, but in the mid-90s, Andall decided to enter the calypso and soca competition arena. She was a finalist at the Soca Monarch competition in 1994, and in 1996 she entered the calypso tents and the Calypso Monarch competition. In addition to irrepressibly invoking manifestations during her nightly performances in the Kaiso House tent, she advanced straight through to what is, for calypsonians, the Holy Grail: the Dimanche Gras stage where the monarchy is contested. Unsurprisingly, there was nothing else like her in the competition, and perhaps never had been. With dignity and power, in flowing African dress and long dreadlocks wrapped above her head, reaching for the heavens, she seemed to conjure a different world.

With two contrasting compositions, both of which have become signature pieces for her—“Missing Generation” and “Rhythm of a People”—she showed the versatility of her voice, and the lyricism of both her words and melody:

People gather round, I want you listen well
To set your spirits free, I have this tale to tell
Hear the rumbling of the drums, feel its mystic sound
As it elevates you now to a higher ground
Are you ready? Are you ready for this?
Rhythm to shake the living
Rhythm to raise the dead
Rhythm to purge the pain from your heart
Rhythm to make you laugh
Rhythm to make the soul of a people dance

(“Rhythm of a People”)

Amid debate about whether what she was singing could even be considered calypso, she placed ninth. “There was a whole lot of to-do about that,” she recalls. “I can’t say I started singing calypso, because I’m still singing what I used to sing, and entered the tent many years after I started to sing…with this kind of earth music, as I like to call it. Organic music. Natural music.” She made one more seamless trip to the finals the following year, 1997, before once again withdrawing from the tents and the competition environment. It was necessary for her, she says, to ensure that she never tried to change herself, her style or her music to try and win over judges.

Even after all of that, she still finds people who think that her music and chanting have some sort of sinister dimension, or who are distinctly uncomfortable with her. Some of this has to do with Andall’s presence, which can be intimidating. Her eyes are as intense and penetrating as her voice, and there is a sense that she can size you up in an instant. It is as if she is always connected to some sort of force that many of us only hope to encounter, and knows exactly how to wield that incredible power.

“I think the force I bring is really truth,” Andall says, “and I don’t have any corner in which I wish to hide. If you come to my house, I have every corner empty and it’s filled with love. In our tradition, you keep the corners [empty] because we deal with six directions: the east, the west, the north and the south, the heavens above and the earth below. So I live that kind of life. I think what I do is I mirror people. I show you your faults—and I also show you what you can be.”

That is something she has always done with the music, and the late 1990s saw her bringing it to an ever broader audience through recordings and performances. In 1999, she performed in the World Beat concert in Trinidad, alongside international stars like Baaba Maal, Tito Puente, Ravi Shankar and her old friend and colleague Andre Tanker. The same year, she performed in the premiere of Trinidadian Geraldine Connor’s epic musical, Carnival Messiah, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. She has performed in subsequent restagings both in the UK and in Trinidad, as well as in Connor’s production of Yaa AsantewaaWarrior Queen, which toured the UK and Ghana in 2001.

In 2000, she released her first CD, Miss Ella: Bring Down the Power, a collection of some of her best recordings. She followed it up in 2004 with a second collection called Healing Fire. Both are capsules of everything that Andall is. Invariably, there is also a call for self-awareness, respect, “bread, peace and justice” for all, and each song is an eloquent reaffirmation of her purpose and mission in life.

With her suites of oriki to Ogun and Shango, her recordings have filled a void. Oriki Ogun has become the soundtrack for every context calling for an authentic African vibration. Trinidadian filmmaker Yao Ramesar used her music in his film Sista God, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006. “I have always loved her music,” he says. “For me she ranks right up there with Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Mahalia Jackson, Miriam Makeba, Ella Fitzgerald.”

But what drives Andall is not fame, or financial reward. “I am driven by people,” she says. “People make me happy! I do the music so that I can create a change. I understood from quite young how powerful the music is.”

In the home that she and her husband share in Arima, there is a constant turnover of people and the phone is almost always ringing. “My home is like an open house for children of all ages. My oldest one, as she calls herself, is 64, but she comes and we exchange ideas and help one another.”

Does she have down time, private Ella time? “I am working all the time—but I do sleep! I find time to teach children, because my thanksgiving is giving back to the younger ones. I find time to counsel husbands and wives, young and old. I find time to pray, and to teach prayers. I find time to cook!” she adds, with a knowing smile. Anyone who has visited her—and has not been allowed to leave without eating something, if only a banana—knows her culinary skills are unmatched.

The many people who come to Andall run the gamut of age, ethnicity, gender, class, and creed. To all of them she is “Mama Ella”, or just “Ma”. And while her own moorings are in African and Orisha traditions, her humanity has never discriminated. Her first husband, and father of her only son, Jegbe, was of East Indian ancestry. “I don’t think that God in his or her wisdom doesn’t know why he—or she—created the rose or the buttercup and all the different flowers. I am who I am, and if I am a yam and you are a dasheen, we are still coming from the ground!” she says with a playful laugh.

“There’s a phrase we speak in Yoruba: iwapele—divine, noble and upright character. I want to be as great as I can be, the example, so people can follow, so children can follow, and so the world can be a nicer place—or the spot of the world in which I live.

Ella Andall Discography

Waiting for You (7″)

  • Waiting for You (comp. Shorty)
  • Please Don’t Leave Me (comp. Shorty)

This Girl is a Good Girl  (LP)

  • Touch Me In The Morning
  • Same Time, Same Place (Duet With Johnny Braff).

Bim Film Soundtrack (LP)

  • Background vocals (comp. Andre Tanker)

Different People (7″)

  • Second Fiddle (comp. Shorty)
  • Different People (comp. Shorty, arr. Shorty & Leston Paul)

Love in the Caribbean (LP)

  • Love in the Caribbean (comp. Shorty, arr. Shorty, Lancelot Layne, Junior Brown, Nearlin Taitt)
  • Different People (comp. Shorty, arr. Shorty & Leston Paul)

Hello Africa (7″)

  • Hello Africa (comp. Eddie Grant)

Soca (LP)
Africa (Hello Africa) (B-3)
Stay Giving Praises (LP)

  • Stay Giving Praises (duet with Black Stalin) (comp. Black Stalin)

Black Woman (EP)

  • Black Woman (comp. Ella Andall and Fortunia Ruiz)
  • Love Yuh Own (comp. Ella Andall and Fortunia Ruiz)

New Day Dawning (CD)

  • Backup vocalist for David Rudder

  • Bring Down The Power (comp. Ella Andall and Brother Resistance)
  • Come Play We Music (comp. Ella Andall)
  • Pan Warning (comp. Irving Peters and Ella Andall)

My Spirit is Music (LP)

  • My Spirit is Music (comp. David Rudder, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Wishing On a Grace Note (comp. Andre Tanker, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Song For The People (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Women of the Sun (comp. David Rudder, arr. Pelham Goddard)

Pan is Meh Jumbie (LP)

  • Pan is Meh Jumbie (comp. Robert Greenidge, GB and Joe Brown)
  • Lavue Lavue (comp. Robert Greenidge and GB)
  • Soca In De Maxi (comp. Robert Greenidge and GB)
  • Man Konk Out (comp. Robert Greenidge and GB)

Zombie Soca (CD)

  • Backup vocalist for Arrow

Put Me In the Mix/Today (12″)

  • Put Me in the Mix (comp. Ella Andall and Preacher, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Today (comp. Ella Andall and Allan ‘Blackstone’ Thomas)

The Gilded Collection (CD)

  • Backup vocalist for David Rudder

Missing Generation/Rhythm of a People

  • Missing Generation (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Rhythm of a People (comp. Ella Andall, arr. E. Hector)

Say My Name/Soca Yard

  • Soca Yard (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Say My Name (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)

The Soca Switch 3:

  • (5) Festival Song (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Wayne Bruno)

Rituals of Trinidad Carnival:

  • (3) Woman Of The Sun (comp. David Rudder, arr. Pelham Goddard)

Song of Hope/Festival Song

  • Festival Song (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Wayne Bruno)
  • Song of Hope (comp. Ella Andall)

Oriki Ogun: a Suite of Chants to Ogun (CD)
Children of the Big Bang (CD)

  • Backup Vocalist for Andre Tanker

Where Are the People/Move the Barriers

  • Move the Barriers (comp. Ella Andall, arr. George & Friends)
  • Where are the People (comp. Ella Andall)

Bring Down the Power (CD)

  • Bring Down the Power (comp. Ella Andall and Brother Resistance, arr. E. Hector)
  • My Spirit is Music (comp. David Rudder, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Different People (comp. Shorty, arr. Shorty & Leston Paul)
  • Missing Generation (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Black Woman (comp. Ella Andall and Fortunia Ruiz)
  • Song for the People (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Rhythm of a People (comp. Ella Andall, arr. E. Hector)
  • Festival Song (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Wayne Bruno)
  • Dance Ni ti wa (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Kenny Phillip)
  • Shame (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Martin ‘Mice’ Raymond)

Trinidad Hot Times

  • (7) Woman Of The Sun (comp. David Rudder, arr. Pelham Goddard)

Everything is Everything (CD)

  • Backup Vocalist for Kindred

Spirit Dancer (CD)

  • Spirit Dancer
  • Dance Ni ti wa (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Kenny Phillip)
  • Awake (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Graham Wilson)

Sango Baba Wa: a Suite of Chants to Sango (CD)
Healing Fire (CD)

  • Awake (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Graham Wilson)
  • Woza (Rise Up) (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Kenny Phillips)
  • Soca Yard (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Say My Name (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Missing Generation (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Leston Paul)
  • People Of Conscience (comp. Ella Andall, arr. George & Friends)
  • Woman Of The Sun (comp. David Rudder, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Move the Barriers (comp. Ella Andall, arr. George & Friends)
  • Spirit Dancer (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Kenny Phillips)
  • In The Mix (comp. Ella Andall and Preacher, arr. Leston Paul)
  • Come Play We Music (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Eman Hector)
  • Ajulaye (comp. Ella Andall, arr. Wayne Bruno)
  • Wishing On A Grace Note (comp. Andre Tanker, arr. Pelham Goddard)
  • Love Yuh Own (comp. Fortunia Ruiz and Ella Andall)

Ella Andall’s Awards

  • Trinidad and Tobago’s Best Female Artist

  • Caribbean Entertainer of the Year
  • NACC (National Action Cultural Committee) Top 20 Stars of Gold Award for “Say My Name”

  • COTT (Copyright Organisation of Trinidad & Tobago) Female Composer of the Year Award.

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Review Fire and blood by George R.R Martin / Harper Voyager

Fire & Blood

By George R.R. Martin,

Doug Wheatley

Synopsis: With all the fire and fury fans have come to expect from internationally bestselling author George R. R. Martin, this is the first volume of the definitive two-part history of the Targaryens in Westeros.

Centuries before the events of A Game of Thrones, House Targaryen—the only family of dragonlords to survive the Doom of Valyria—took up residence on Dragonstone. Fire and Blood begins their tale with the legendary Aegon the Conqueror, creator of the Iron Throne, and goes on to recount the generations of Targaryens who fought to hold that iconic seat, all the way up to the civil war that nearly tore their dynasty apart.

What really happened during the Dance of the Dragons? Why did it become so deadly to visit Valyria after the Doom? What is the origin of Daenerys’s three dragon eggs? These are but a few of the questions answered in this essential chronicle, as related by a learned maester of the Citadel and featuring more than eighty all-new black-and-white illustrations by artist Doug Wheatley. Readers have glimpsed small parts of this narrative in such volumes as The World of Ice & Fire, but now, for the first time, the full tapestry of Targaryen history is revealed.

With all the scope and grandeur of Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Fire and Blood is the ultimate game of thrones, giving readers a whole new appreciation for the dynamic, often bloody, and always fascinating history of Westeros.

Fire & Blood quenches the thirst of any ASOIAF fan seeking to know more about the history of the glorious Targaryens, along with their dragons and wars. Covering all the kings from Aegon I to the end of the regency of Aegon III, this book adds much more detail about the lives of the Targaryen kings than TWOIAF did, providing more insight into their characters and actions. The Dance of Dragons is especially well covered, which is in my opinion the most intriguing conflict in Westerosi history. Although it is only a „dry history book“ I did not find it dry at all and greatly enjoyed reading it.

I’ve always wanted to know about the other continents of this world- Essos, Sothoryos, and Ulthos. FAB has given me more information than watching the TV series or reading the first 3 books of ASOIAF or the tale of Dunk and Egg did. FAB, however, is far from sating my hunger of knowledge, instead it made me want more and yes, I am contemplating in getting myself The World of Ice and Fire, for what better way to learn this world’s history from East to West than the book that tells about the First Men and The Andals of Andalos from Pentos?

This isn’t some book that only contains informations you already know, we learn so much. This is like reading an amazing, highly informative and greatly written History book, except in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire. It is written like related by a learned master of the Citadel, Archmaester Gyldayn like the title says, and delivers all you could possibly want to know about the Targaryen House, from Aegon the Conqueror to Aegon III as the title says. So much characters and important events, like Maegor the Cruel and Aegon’s conquest like Bookdragon Sean mentions in his great review, but also more informations about his reign, about Jaeherys and Alysanne, about the Dance of the Dragons…

How much you enjoy Fire and Blood will depend on several factors. The first is your pre-existing investment in the ASoIaF/Game of Thrones setting. If you really enjoy reading about fictional backstory, about the socio-economic underpinnings on why certain things happened, and if you like treating fantasy like real history, with the more lore and detail the better, then absolutely Fire and Blood is worth picking up. Although the broad strokes of the story are familiar from the main series, there’s an absolute plethora of new information here, and dramatisations of key moments from the history of the Seven Kingdoms (when the high and somewhat remote style of much of the book gives way to almost novelistic out-takes of key scenes). There’s also lots of completely new material, minor episodes, even small wars and skirmishes which have gone unmentioned so far in the main series.

Reading this book is a labor of love. There are parts that are tedious. I found my attention flagging and doing a lot of re-reading. Martin likes to be detail oriented and I appreciate that but I don’t think this book needed THAT much detail with random names and stories. Thus, finishing this book left me with the same feeling finishing other Martin books does: received that it’s done, exhilarated from what I read, missing it and wishing I was reading the next in the series.

A big big THANK YOU to Harper Voyager for sending me this beauty. I loved it!

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