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VIDEO NBR | Vinyl is Dead, Long Live Vinyl | PBS ARTICLES 12/07/2009 - The New York Times - Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales 12/04/2009 - Digital Music News, Daily Snapshot - The Curious Case of Vinyl: Still Setting 'Records,' Still Niche... 08/19/2008 - CBS Evening News - How Vinyl Got Its Groove Back 06/10/2008 - Associated Press - Vinyl LPs See A Rebirth In Modern Market 02/10/2008 - CBS News - Vinyl Is Back In The Groove The New York Times December 7, 2009 Vinyl Records and Turntables Are Gaining Sales <><> At a glance, the far corner of the main floor of J&R Music looks familiar to anybody old enough to have scratched a record by accident. There are cardboard boxes filled with albums by the likes of Miles Davis and the Beach Boys that could be stacked in any musty attic in America. But this is no music morgue; it is more like a life-support unit for an entertainment medium that has managed to avoid extinction, despite numerous predictions to the contrary. The bins above the boxes hold new records — freshly pressed albums of classic rock as well as vinyl versions of the latest releases from hip-hop icons like 50 Cent and Diddy and new pop stars like Norah Jones and Lady Gaga. And with the curious resurgence of vinyl, a parallel revival has emerged: The turntable, once thought to have taken up obsolescence with reel-to-reel and eight-track tape players, has been reborn. J&R Music, at 23 Park Row southeast of City Hall Park, now carries 21 different turntables at prices ranging from $85 to $875. Some are traditional analog record players; others are designed to connect to computers for converting music to digital files. Rachelle Friedman, the co-owner of J&R, said the store is selling more vinyl and turntables than it has in at least a decade, fueled largely by growing demand from members of the iPod generation. “It’s all these kids that are really ramping up their vinyl collections,” Ms. Friedman said. “New customers are discovering the quality of the sound. They’re discovering liner notes and graphics.” In many instances, the vinyl album of today is thicker and sounds better than those during vinyl’s heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. Sales of vinyl albums have been climbing steadily for several years, tromping on the notion that the rebound was just a fad. Through late November, more than 2.1 million vinyl records had been sold in 2009, an increase of more than 35 percent in a year, according to Nielsen Soundscan. That total, though it represents less than 1 percent of all album sales, including CDs and digital downloads, is the highest for vinyl records in any year since Nielsen began tracking them in 1991. Sales of CDs, meanwhile, have been falling fast, displaced by the downloading of digital files of songs from services like iTunes. Sales of albums on CD, which generally cost half as much as their vinyl counterparts, have dropped almost 20 percent this year, according to Nielsen. With overall sales down, numerous big music-store chains like Tower Records, Virgin Megastore and HMV have pulled out of Manhattan, leaving music sales largely to online merchants and the few small, die-hard record shops scattered about Greenwich Village and Brooklyn. One exception has been Best Buy, a national electronics chain that recently opened its sixth store in Manhattan. A year ago, the chain started stocking vinyl albums in about 50 of its stores, including one on the Upper East Side. Their presence, with their alluring cover art, still has the power to stun. “Some individuals come into our store and they stop in their tracks,” said Andre Sam, a sales representative at Best Buy’s store on East 86th Street. “They don’t expect to see this. You can see them reminiscing as they start looking at the album covers.” Last week, that store and a new Best Buy on Union Square installed departments, dubbed Club Beats, where customers can test out turntables and other equipment that DJs use to mix music. “They can spin, they can mix, they can scratch, whatever they want to do,” Mr. Sam said. He suggested that video games deserved some credit for the resurgence of interest in vinyl albums and turntables. Popular games like Guitar Hero and Rockband have introduced young customers to classic rock and pop artists like the Beatles and Metallica, while DJ Hero has inspired some to try their hands at mixing music for real. Not all of the turntables in these stores are designed to do anything so old-school as spinning actual records. A few models are still made for that purpose, many of them with cables that connect to computers so that the music can be transferred to portable devices. But others simply allow their users to simulate the manipulation of records while the songs they are mixing are being fed from iPods. Interest from younger listeners is what convinced music industry executives that vinyl had staying power this time around. As more record labels added vinyl versions of new releases, the industry had to scramble to find places to press discs, said Mike Jbara, president and chief executive of the sales and distribution division of Warner Music Group. “It is absolutely easy to say vinyl doesn’t make sense when you look at convenience, portability, all those things,” Mr. Jbara said. “But all the really great stuff in our lives comes from a root of passion or love.” Interested labels may contact Jeffrey Collins directly on 954-543-4099 / 954-817-2878 or by e-mail at jeffreycollins@myacc.net or visit www.alphamusicmfg.com Thanks to  Quicktrackz Entertainment | 496 NW 118th Avenue | Coral Springs, FL 33071  http://quicktrackz.com/ Quicktrackz@gmail.com To speak with our staff and Artist support team please call: CEO – Alex De La Espriella – (954) 254-6677 VP – Mike Good – (954) 646-1819 Thank You Resilient Ent http://www.twitter.com/reslient_ent @resilent_ent http://www.facebook.com/resilient.entertertainment http://www.youtube.com/user/resilientent http://www.linkedin.com/pub/resilient-entertainment/34/b76/b12

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Churches looking for grants and donations face a difficult challenge. Getting money for your church from the government has become an endeavor, that with few exceptions, is a worthless endeavor, especially from the Federal and State sources. There are millions of dollars of money for ministry and faith based programs, unfortunately, most churches do not have the experience or training to compete for this money. Did you notice the word compete? You have to compete for the money.

There are hundreds of thousands of applications every year by churches and religious organizations for grant money from foundations and private contributors. Many of those non-profit organizations applying for funding are anything but Christian, but they do have more experience, and they are getting dollars that could be going to your faith based organization.

Many of the grants available for new church construction are limited to denominational, and in some cases, geographic resources. There are going to be few government resources for construction. However, most mainline denominations have grant programs for church development that can provide some funds for new church construction. There are also foundations that offer church grants for planting churches in rural or urban areas. In urban areas undergoing redevelopment, the local government might provide a church grants to assist in renovating existing property in the redevelopment area. http://www.churchbizonline.com/church_grant.htm

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Over the last few years we have scooped 10 major industry awards for our creative, stand-out campaigns.
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Recently the agency took Batman to No.1 in the games charts, created sell-out success for Guinness World Records (a first in the book’s 50 year history), turned Channel Four’s Book Club into a publishing phenomenon and managed promotion of the teen sensation High School Musical. We once floated an iceberg down the Thames for Eden.
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We offer expertise in key areas of communication including; Media Relations, Consultancy, Online PR, Guerilla Marketing and Stunts, Broadcast Consultancy, Crisis Management, Celebrity Endorsement, Events and Personal PR.
An independent panel of judges listed the agency at No.7 in the prestigious Media Guardian 10o in the marketing sector while Marketing Magazine have placed us at No.6 in their Top 10 of Marketing Services Agencies.
Since launch, our award-winning consultancy has risen 45 places in the PR Week Top 150 Agencies league tables. We were singled out as one of the UK’s Top 10 fastest growing companies in all sectors - with the agency’s performance commended by the judges as ‘a major achievement’. We are also listed at No.21 in the Top 50 Consumer PR Agencies and been a winner of a Barclays Media Momentum Award for fastest growing PR Agency two years running.
Our team, which has won praise for unparalleled service, creativity and dedication, has developed a reputation for unmatched ingenuity in creating high-impact campaigns as well as developing comprehensive long-term PR programs for clients.
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Clients hire us to win. To get them into the news or get them out of it.

We get our clients in the news when they are approaching a monetizing event, entering a new market, establishing a brand, or preparing for a merger.

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As an outsourced marketing department for hire, TribalVision's mission is to help small-to-midsize organizations market smarter in today's crowded arenas. By combining intelligent strategy with tactical execution - in a flexible, cost-effective and results-driven manner - we deliver bottom-line results.
Your marketing dollars are spent as if they're our own - efficiently and intelligently. If you're expecting an elaborate dog-and-pony show, paper pushing and unnecessary "work" (for which you are charged), we may not be a good fit. But if you want a team of marketing experts on your side with a relentless passion for growing your business, we're ready to chat.
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