This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry! It gives you: Contact details for hundreds of record labels Hundreds of music managers Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings Access to overseas markets It also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,300 record labels, and over 800 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2015, and comes packed with all the following features: Advanced search features Save searches and save time - set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place. Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable - helping you to organise your actions. Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action. Track which listings you've viewed and when, to help you organise your search - any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention! Daily email updates As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we'll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you're interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them - keeping you up to date without even having to log in. User feedback Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing - giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist's perspective on the listings. Save on copyright protection fees If you're sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (http: //www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com)."

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry. It gives you: • Hundreds of record labels • Hundreds of music managers • Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings • Access to overseas markets It also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,500 record labels, and over 1,000 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2017, and comes packed with all the following features: Advanced search features Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place. Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions. Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action. Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention. Daily email updates As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in. User feedback Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings. Save on copyright protection fees If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (https://www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com).

This indispensable directory is a must-have for anyone wanting to make it in the music industry. It gives you: • Hundreds of record labels • Hundreds of music managers • Indexes by genre, so you can quickly find all the right listings • Access to overseas markets It also provides free access to the entire current databases online, including over 1,200 record labels, and over 500 managers, with dozens of new and updated listings every month. Your free subscription can be taken out at any time until 2025, and comes packed with all the following features: Advanced search features Save searches and save time – set up to 15 search parameters specific to your work, save them, and then access the search results with a single click whenever you log in. You can even save multiple different searches if you have different types of work you are looking to place. Add personal notes to listings, visible only to you and fully searchable – helping you to organise your actions. Set reminders on listings to notify you when to submit your work, when to follow up, when to expect a reply, or any other custom action. Track which listings you’ve viewed and when, to help you organise your search – any listings which have changed since you last viewed them will be highlighted for your attention. Daily email updates As a subscriber you will be able to take advantage of our email alert service, meaning you can specify your particular interests and we’ll send you automatic email updates when we change or add a listing that matches them. So if you’re interested in labels dealing in hard rock in the United States you can have us send you emails with the latest updates about them – keeping you up to date without even having to log in. User feedback Our databases include a user feedback feature that allows our subscribers to leave feedback on each listing – giving you not only the chance to have your say about the markets you contact, but giving a unique artist’s perspective on the listings. Save on copyright protection fees If you’re sending your work away to record labels and managers you should first consider protecting your copyright. As a subscriber to MusicSocket you can do this through our site and save 10% on the copyright registration fees normally payable for protecting your work internationally through the Intellectual Property Rights Office (https://www.CopyrightRegistrationService.com).

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Gone are the days when cabinet expansion used to get total media attention. Now cricket is hogging the limelight and team selection is the most debatable issue inside television studios before every series. Gone are the days when political king makers, who played a major role in selecting the ministers, used to grab unprecedented attention; now it's the turn of national selectors. Gone are the days when, after every general election, media-persons used to spend sleepless nights talking about the likely allocation of the portfolios. 'Which batsman is going to play at what position' seems to be their major concern now. Gone are the days when psephologists used to be media's prize catch. Now former cricketers who can become good in-house guests are in demand. Gone are the days when people used to wait for general elections with bated breath. The World Cup is the most awaited event now. Prime Minister of the country is still a powerful man, but the captain of Indian cricket team can give him a run for his money as far as popularity and media attention is concerned. Nothing reflects this better than our television screen. From dawn to dusk, from womb to tomb cricket follows us. Some of my friends say that it's a metro trend, but I can say that it's catching up in far and remote areas of the country as well. Often people complain about why we have extreme reaction on Team India's performance. Swami Vivekananda, who taught his disciples to worship God like heroes, used to say: 'There must be no fear, no begging, but demanding-demanding the highest. The true devotees are as hard, as adamant and as fearless as lion'. In our generation, politicians failed us as they became synonymous with corruption. Bureaucrats failed us as they stood for delaying rather than getting the work done. Film stars gave us momentary feel of bravado, but then they were reel and not real-life heroes. In our search for heroes, we zeroed in on the cricketers. And this is the reason as to why we react extremely to team India's performance. Cricket is more than just a game, it's a matter of emotion for us. Cricketers are more than just players; they are heroes for us. We react extremely as we love them and are emotionally attached to them. If there is one place on earth where all dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest, when men began the dream of existence, it's India. In its infancy, cricket was very much an English sport but today it is the voice of India. The game has become so ingrained in our society that it's often said - 'If you want to know India, understand cricket'. To bring about social equality in our representative institutions and policy-making bodies, our political masters followed the policy of positive discrimination. On the contrary, the game of cricket has broken regional and other traditional barriers in the talent-based environment. From the game which was confined to Rajas and Maharajas, today it has percolated deep down to the grass-root level. Team India's dressing room is truly reflective of this transformation; it is equally, if not more, representative than the Indian parliament. Most of the members of the Indian dressing room come from non-cricketing backgrounds. The most charismatic batsman of present generation is the son of a teacher; his opening partner's father used to sell farm seeds (wheat and rice). The next all-rounder hope of the country is the son of a muezzim and the Adam Gilchrist prototype of team India is the son of a government employee who retired as a pump operator. Most of the members of the present- day Indian dressing room come from non-cricketing environs. If Munaf Patel is from a village called Ikhar in Gujarat, Kerala-born pacer Sreesanth is from Kochi. Most of the members of the present Indian dressing room had nothing in the name of sports facilities. And, yet, they managed to find a way

Whether you're a patent examiner, patent attorney, commercial patent searcher, patent liaison, IP librarian, law professor, or competitive intelligence analyst, you'll find Patent Searching: Tools and Techniques to be just the guide you have been waiting for, with a range of approaches to patent searching that will be useful to you regardless of your technical expertise or role in the intellectual property community.

Aimed at songwriters, recording artists, and music entrepreneurs, this text explains the basics of digital music law. Entertainment attorney Gordon offers practical tips for online endeavors such as selling song downloads or creating an Internet radio station. Other topics include (for example) web site building, promoting through peer-to-peer networks, etc.

Psychic Skills for Magic and Witchcraftis a step-by-step guide to the process of discovering and honing one's skills as a psychic, from foundations to advanced techniques. Psychic and Witch Cat Gina Cole shares explanations and hands-on practices for letting go, stepping aside, and facing fears as well as working with the "clairs" and applying psychic talents to mediumship, divination, and deities. Within these pages, you will find hands-on tips for the mantic arts and kinesis, pathworking, remote viewing, aspecting, channeling, astral travel, and dreamwork. You will learn the secrets of intuition, synchronicity, manifesting, the law of attraction, trancework, and glamor. This book is designed to help you explore, build, and apply your psychic skills a more magical and empowered life.

This collection of short stories explores connections between extremes of heat and cold. Sometimes this is spatial or geographical; sometimes it is metaphorical. Sometimes it involves juxtapositions of time; sometimes heat appears where only ice is expected. In the stories, a woman is caught between traditional Fijian ways and the brutality of the military dictatorship; a glaciology researcher falls into a crevasse and confronts the unexpected; two women lose children in freak shooting accidents; a young child in a Barbie Doll sweatshop dreams of a different life; secondary school girls struggle with secrets about an addicted janitor; and two women take a deathly trip through a glacier melt stream. These are some of the unpredictable stories in this collection that follow themes of ice and glaciers in the heat of the South Pacific and take us into unusual lives and explorations.

The 2021 edition of firstwriter.com’s bestselling directory for writers returns in a new, larger format, with more than twice as many listings of literary agents, literary agencies, book publishers, and magazines. It now contains over 3,000 listings, including revised and updated listings from the 2020 edition, and over 2,000 brand new entries. Finding the information you need is now quicker and easier than ever before, with new tables and an expanded index, and unique paragraph numbers to help you get to the listings you’re looking for. A variety of new tables help you navigate the listings in different ways, including a new Table of Authors, which lists over 3,000 authors and tells you who represents them, or who publishes them, or both. The number of genres in the index has exploded from under 100 in the last edition to over 500 in this one. So, for example, while there was only one option for “Romance” in the previous edition, you can now narrow this down to Historical Romance, Fantasy Romance, Supernatural / Paranormal Romance, Contemporary Romance, Diverse Romance, Erotic Romance, Feminist Romance, Christian Romance, or even Amish Romance. The new edition includes: • 128 pages of literary agent and literary agency listings – that’s more than the Writer’s Market (75 pages) and the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (39 pages) combined! • 82 pages of book publisher listings, compared to 91 pages in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook ­– but with a page size more than 70% larger this is like getting an extra 50 pages. • 64 pages of magazine listings compared to 63 pages in the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook. Thanks to the difference in page size, this is the equivalent of 40 extra pages. All in a book that is 30% cheaper than the Writer’s Market ($29.99 RRP), and 50% cheaper than the Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook (£25.00 RRP). International markets become more accessible than ever, with listings that cover both the main publishing centres of New York and London, as well as markets in other English speaking countries. With more and more agents, publishers, and magazines accepting submissions online, this international outlook is now more important than ever. There are no adverts, no advertorials, and no obscure listings padding out hundreds of pages. By including only what’s important to writers – contact details for literary agents, publishers, and magazines – this directory is able to provide more listings than its competitors, at a substantially lower price. The book also allows you to create a subscription to the firstwriter.com website for free until 2022. This means you can get free access to the firstwriter.com website, where you can find even more listings, and also benefit from other features such as advanced searches, daily email updates, feedback from users about the markets featured, saved searches, competitions listings, searchable personal notes, and more. “I know firsthand how lonely and dispiriting trying to find an agent and publisher can be. So it's great to find a resource like firstwriter.com that provides contacts, advice and encouragement to aspiring writers. I've been recommending it for years now!” ~ Robin Wade; literary agent at the Wade & Doherty Literary Agency Ltd, and long-term firstwriter.com subscriber