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Everyone knows that commercials use voiceover artists to speak the sales message, and musicians to create the tunes that play in the background, but one man in Los Angeles is doing both jobs.

Meet Scott G, who is recording artist THE G-MAN, whose albums are on iTunes and distributed by independent label Delvian Records.

“It is a thrill to be able to do the voice and music for these giant companies,” G says, referring to Verizon Wireless, Goodrich, and The Auto Club. His voice work and musical compositions are on 4 radio commercials for Verizon Wireless, 8 for aerospace firm Goodrich, and one for Triple-A, The Auto Club.

As the owner of G-Man Music &amp Radical Radio, and creator of award-winning radio commercials and music for both radio and TV spots, Scott G is very aware of the needs of ad agencies and advertising clients. “The main point of a commercial is dissemination of information,” he points out. “You want your target audience to respond by picking up the phone, clipping a coupon, ordering a product, going online, or simply remembering your product or service. The commercial has to insinuate its way into the consumer’s brain in a very short period of time.”

In addition to his ad and marketing experience, he is very involved with utilizing the web for alternative distribution of his music. Earlier this year, hundreds of websites and newspapers ran a story (”Peer-to-Peer to Launch a Career”) of how The G-Man made history by giving his music away on the Internet, encouraging P2P filesharing of his work, and even sending individual tracks to DJs and remixers so they could create new versions of his songs. This resulted in club play, airplay, an indie record deal, a publishing deal, and worldwide press attention.

Songs by The G-Man have been called “Moby meets Bowie” (by producer Pete Anderson), “Moby meets Devo” (by TV producer Paul Rich), and “The rhythm of machines with melodies of the heart” (by music writer Janis Amy). Released by Delvian Records, The G-Man’s albums are: GRIN GROOVE (2002), ELECTRO BOP (2003) and PLATINUM AGE OF THE REMIX (2004), and each has been hailed as a sonic masterpiece by reviewers. A fourth album, SONIC TONIC, is completed and currently being mastered for release in 2005.

The REMIX album features G-Man songs in dance/trance mixes by Matt Forger, who has worked with Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney, and features tracks that reached #1 in Russia and #5 in Europe. PLATINUM AGE is now in its third month in the top forty on the Masspool DJ Association Dance/Crossover Chart.

Scott is a member of The Recording Academy (NARAS), a creative director of the National Association of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP), and writes about music for many organizations, including MusicDish.com and the Immedia Wire Service. The G-Man’s songs are on iTunes and Amazon.com as well as at the following sites:

delvianrecords.com/html/the_g-man.html

digipie.com/digipie/default.asp?ArtistID=239

96decibels.com/music.asp?artist=1339

96decibels.com/music.asp?artist=1340

myspace.com/thegman

G-Man’s music and commercial production work for clients such as PayLess Shoes, Warner Bros. Records and more may be played at:

gmanmusic.com

“I love working with clients like Goodrich and Verizon Wireless,” G stated. “They want material that catches your ear without distracting from the spoken message, yet they desire the music to be inherently valuable in its own right.”

The G-Man’s music is on lots of commercials but “you often wouldn′t know it because I work in many different styles,” G states. “The tracks on my albums are electronic-pop but my commercial music is in pop, rock, jazz, electronic, hip-hop, alternative, or ambient. Whatever the project needs is what I compose, and that’s the challenge.”

G-Man Music created a polka last month, something that is about as far removed from The G-Man’s electro-pop or dance/rave songs as you can get. “As I said, when it comes to music for commercials, I compose whatever it takes!”

Contact:
Brian Forest
Immedia Wire Service
immedia@pacbell.net
818-223-8486
Scott G
G-Man Music & Radical Radio
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818-223-8486

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Brian Forest writes about advertising and music for the Immedia Wire Service and is a consultant at G-MAN MUSIC & RADICAL RADIO, the firm run by Scott G (The G-Man).

Mass Gaining program is incomplete without the timely measurements to monitor Your Progress. The only way to know if your mass or fat loss program is successful is by monitoring your measurements, weight and body fat levels.

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‘One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.’
- Admiral Grace Hopper, U.S. Navy

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Depending on the program, I recommend that everyone take their body fat levels every 1-2 weeks.

There’s a lot that these readings reveal to a trained eye! For example, I was recently on a fat loss diet, and I did not lose any weight for three weeks. At first I thought that I needed to drop my calories further because the current levels were not working for me. I did not want to do this because as a hard-gainer, dropping my calories too low can result in too much muscle loss. So, before I committed to a more drastic diet, I checked my body fat records.

Was I in for a shock! According to my body fat calculations I was actually getting leaner. Even though my weight did not change during that three-week period, my body fat levels went down 3%! Since I did not lose any weight during that time, the fat must have been replaced by muscle (an added benefit, but this does not happen most of the time). I would have never known this by simply looking in the mirror.

Another example is last year when I was on a mass cycle. I was eating a tremendous amount of calories and gaining weight like crazy. I stopped the diet once I began to notice that my fat gains were larger than my muscle gains. I would never have noticed this if I had not closely monitored my body fat levels.

I expect to gain some fat on a mass diet, but I always want to gain more muscle than fat. If I had not kept track of my body fat levels, I would have gained too much fat.

TRACKING RESULTS

There are many methods of measuring your body fat and some are quite expensive. While many consider underwater weighing to be the most accurate, no method is 100% precise — they all have some margin of error. It’s not important to know the exact number — what’s important is to use the same method each time you take your measurements so you can have a consistent record of your progress. I just use an inexpensive skinfold caliper. They cost anywhere from $29-$80 and are simple to use.

A good caliper is essential. Without it, you won’t know how exactly your body is responding to your diet and training routine. You may also want to consider using a tracking software like The Composition Tracker at comptracker.com … It will help you analyze your data and tell you if you are actually building more muscle and losing more fat!

Just looking in the mirror and guessing is not acceptable!

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The scientific framework of Donne’s view of love is seen here:

But as all severall soules containe
Mixture of things, they know not what,
Love, these mixt soules, doth mixe againe,
And makes both one, each this and that.

Just as the four elements, earth, air, fire, and water were supposed to combine to form new substances, so two souls mix to form a new unity. The strength and durability of this new unit is dependent upon how well the elements of the two souls are balanced, as we see from these lines from The Good-Morrow:

What ever dyes, was not mixt equally;
It our two loves be one, or, thou and I
Love so alike, that none doe slacken, none can die.

A good example of this state, where two lovers’ souls cannot be separated, even when they are physically far apart, is seen in A Valediction: forbidding mourning:

If they be two, they are two so
As stiffe twin encompasses are two,
Thy soule the fixt foot, makes no show
To move, but doth, if th’other doe.

The idea of two coming together to form one is very important in Donne’s view of love. When a couple find perfect love together they become all-sufficient to one another, forming a world of their own, which has no need of the outside world. This idea is expressed in these lines from The Sunne Rising:

She’is all States, and all Princes, I,
Nothing else is.

Shine here to us, and thou art everywhere;
This bed thy centre is, these walls, thy spheare.

And again it in The Good-Morrow:

For love, all love of other sights controules,
And makes one little roome, an everywhere.

For Donne love transcends all worldly values. As we see in The Canonization, values such as wealth and glory have no place in the world of love.

With wealth your state, your minde with Arts improve,
Take you a course, get you a place,
Observe his honour, or his grace,
Or the Kings reall, or his stamped face
Contemplate; what you will, approve,
So you will let me love.

Like love itself, the women to whom Donne’s verses are addressed are usually praised in hyperbolic terms. In The Sunne Rising her eyes shine brighter than the sun. And in The Dreame she is praised as a being above the level of angels.

Yet I thought thee
(For thou lov’st truth) an Angell, at first sight,
But when I saw thou saw’st my heart,
And knew’st my thoughts, beyond an Angels art,
When thou knew’st what I dreamt, when thou knew’st when
Excess of joy would wake me, and cam’st then,
I do confesse, it could not chuse but bee
Profane, to thinke thee any thing but thee.

This reverence for woman sometimes leads Donne close to adopting the traditional attitude of the courtly lover, who suffers through being in love with a woman, usually already married, who scorns him. An example of this kind of love is suggested by the references to the symptoms of love in The Canonization:

Alas, alas, who’s injur’d by my love?
What merchant ships have my sighs drown’d?
Who saies my teares have overflow’d his ground?
When did my colds a forward spring remove?
When did the heats which my veines fill
Adde one man to the plaguie Bill?

The courtly love ideal, however, is in conflict with Donne’s ideal of two well-matched and well-balanced lovers whose souls unite to form one. In the poem Loves Deitie he expresses his contempt for the courtly ideal, which he sees as a corruption of the true nature of love.

I cannot thinke that hee, who then lov′d most,
Sunke so low, as to love one which did scorne,
. . . It cannot bee
Love, till I love her, that loves mee.

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Ian Mackean runs the sites literature-study-online.com/ literature-study-online.com, which features a substantial collection of Resources and Essays, (and where his site on Short Story Writing can also be found,) and booksmadeintomovies.com/ Booksmadeintomovies.com. He is the editor of The Essentials of Literature in English post-1914, ISBN 0340882689, which was published by Hodder Arnold in 2005. When not writing about literature or short story writing he is a keen amateur photographer, and has made a site of his photography at photo-zen.com/ photo-zen.com

Although it was produced in 1604, William Shakespeare’s play Othello still relates to the everyday situations of certain people. In the play, Shakespeare gives the reader situations of misguided trust, wrongful mistrust, and overpowering love. All of which are still around in modern lives, especially that of my own.

Today it often occurs that people tend to keep their enemies closer than their friends. This is done in hopes that the person can undermine his enemy with friendly persuasion to participate in a wrong doing rather than using brute force. In the story, Iago befriends Othello in hopes of one day gaining Cassio’s position of Lieutenant. Because he feels overlooked for the position, Iago convinces Othello that his wife Desdemona has cheated on him with Cassio to ruin the trust Othello and Cassio have for each other. This has also happened in my life when I was dating my last girlfriend, a guy at school, or my so called Iago, tried his hardest to become my friend and convince me that my girlfriend was cheating on me with my best friend. The situation even got to the point where he had tried to plant evidence to prove his accusations.

As a result of the false friendships, there was also an added mistrust towards the women of both Othello’s and my own lives. When Iago hid the handkerchief in Cassio’s possession, Othello asked Desdemona if she had her handkerchief and of course she could not find it; Othello then begins to accept Iago’s accusations of Desdemona’s unfaithfulness, and like Othello, I also began to wonder if my girlfriend might actually be unfaithful to me.

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It was Thanksgiving Day evening when I saw Borat. After all the commotion surrounding this movie, I really wanted to see it, but for the same reason, I really didn’t want to see it. But I decided to go, and I’m glad that I did. Since then, lots of my congregants have asked me: So nu, Rabbi, what do you think? So nu, here’s what I think…

Borat Sagdiyev is a fictional Kazakhstani journalist invented and portrayed by the British comedian provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen for Da Ali G Show, an unstaged and unscripted show in which Borat interviews people who believe that he is a real Kazakhstani television journalist. As an aside, Borat speaks Hebrew for most of the movie when he converses with his sidekick. That’s because Sacha Baron Cohen grew up Orthodox and speaks fluent Hebrew! I have to say, Borat is absolutely outrageous! His humor is “over-the-top.” That does not mean that he is always funny, because sometimes he is, and sometimes he is not. When he is not funny, he is hateful. He travels around America and in his so-called interviews; he inserts bathroom language and racist descriptions, inviting his subjects to prove that they themselves are as bigoted as he portrays himself to be.

For example (just one of many), he regales his newfound American friends with the story of the Running of the Jew–an annual traditional festival in which the 300 bravest men of Kazakhstan chase large papier-mache caricatures of Jews on the streets, and chase them into wells, while spectators break the eggs they lay, and throw stones and potatoes at the Jewish caricatures. “It is for the childrens,” says Borat. As he tells the story, people are drawn in by his folksy way of speaking, and so there are no objections or complaints from anyone. No one stops him no one calls him on the anti-Semitism this story illustrates. They just accept him, and are complicit with him in his rants. He asks a gun-dealer, what is the best gun to shoot Jews with, and the gun-dealer shows him the preferred model. No rebuttal, no shock, no anger, no nothing. He just hands him the best gun in his shop to kill Jews!

In fact, it’s all a joke, Borat is making it all up. But it’s pretty scary, too, how so-called educated and enlightened Americans could go along with Borat’s extremism and bigotry. And that leads me to “the” question: How should we respond to racial and sexual defamation when we hear it? What should we say, how should we react, when we hear comments from others that we know in the deepest part of our hearts, are repulsive? Did Borat’s subjects know he was kidding them? I think not. Some of them were genuinely welcoming to him, showing real kindness and hospitality to a stranger to these shores, even to the point of putting up with his ribald insensibilities. Others, however, were clearly bigots—anti-Semitic, anti-black, anti-woman, anti-anybody who was different.

Did they realize Borat was playing with them? No, and that’s the scary part. Yes, there are bigots in America, and we need to be on the lookout for them. But even we who are not bigots, we too just love to hear a joke that pokes fun at someone else—another person or ethnic group or someone who is somehow “different” from us. We call that gossip, and it is wrong. But often it’s funny, and so we laugh, even as we may cringe at the same time. Gossip is a favorite topic in the Talmud (500 CE), because the Rabbis understood human nature. They said: “The person who listens to gossip is even worse than the person who tells it because no harm could be done by gossip if no one listened to it. It has been said that lashon ha-ra (disparaging speech) kills three: the person who speaks it, the person who hears it, and the person about whom it is told.”

Borat the movie is indeed “no laughing matter.” There are critical issues of diversity and language and acceptance of others which he invites us to face in our own lives. We all should know by now from our world history that bigotry often begins with humor that goes astray and becomes racism in thought and deed. There is nothing funny about that, even though Borat wants us to think so. Life is serious, and God expects us to treat all His children as we ourselves would expect to be treated. We are, each and every one of us, no matter our sex, religion, sexual preference or political affiliation, created in the Divine Image, and when we all realize it, and act as if we get it, the world will be a much better place.

And that’s nothing to laugh at!

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Some cling to the Shakespearian line by Caesar who said; “First thing we do is kill all lawyers,” as a possible solution to the abundance of frivolous lawsuits which are filed each year with fictitious claims full of pure and utter hokum. Even the wisest of men who seek such advice to remove this cancer from our society hold short when asked; “Should all lawyers actually be killed?” In fact many of the most intellectual members of our society believe that we should not kill all the lawyers. Instead they believe it would be a smart concept to leave a few, as in maybe three, perhaps four, although that is somewhat pushing it a bit.

Whereas some would say this is a completely ridiculous argument for killing 500,000 innocent attorneys, one might say, we are not talking about killing 500,000 lawyers, but rather 499,996 or 499,997 lawyers not a half a million of them. And we have not even said how this should be done. One man suggested that we put all the bad lawyers in a concentration camp and all the good ones on a ship. We then blow up the camp so no one will feel anything, it will be instantaneous. You see? This is very humane. Then when we are sure they are all gone. We take three life preservers and sink the ship in the middle of the ocean. If any of the good lawyers make it back, they can tour the country in a cage so we can teach children growing up what to never become. It actually makes perfect sense. Think about it.

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One day my girlfriend wanted to get a tattoo. Naturally, I wanted to give her my input on the design.

Fellow tattoo enthusiasts, we all know the gold standard for boyfriend/girlfriend tattoos is a cursive, italicized name in heavy print. Something like “Jesse” around the breast or buttocks area. But I knew instantly this would not do. I felt my girlfriend and I needed something a bit stronger. We immediately set out to conjure up that image in an intense brainstorming session.

My first instinct was to get a portrait of myself giving Conan the Barbarian a very bad charley horse. This image sent out the proper vibe, in my mind, about where she and I were coming from. But ultimately it was too risky. Given a bit of time, the tattoo could come out looking like me giving a female body builder a thigh massage. Which would not be the proper vibe at all.

My second impulse was a sweet sleeve of circuits, culminating in a picture on her shoulder of me making a robot cry. “It’s about the technology,” I told her. She said she didn’t think her arm was the proper place for that kind of statement. “I couldn’t agree less,” I told her. But it didn’t matter, that one was a no go.

After all was said and done, we settled on her nickname, “Coconut Throat” on her left ankle. I said, “Why not just get a coconut on your throat?” But she felt that a coconut on her neck would look too much like an injury from far away.
We aren’t together anymore.

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Most myths have some element of truth in them. The ‘melting pot’ that media of all sorts (which includes our propaganda in law and education) tell us became America, is another of the half-truths or superficial observations which deserves a little study if we are to accept the deeper potential meaning in it. John Hope Franklin of Duke University is a respected Black scholar who says some powerful words after pointing out the kind of thing that media managers or manipulators galore have said about the open-minded American with no reason to bring prejudices to this new and exciting land of opportunity. I would point out that it was not so new and historians like himself have participated in a cover-up but let us see what this man has to say about the ‘melting pot’.

People do not generally like to find out that they have ‘bastards’ in their family tree and the woodpiles of America created a lot of ‘bastards’. My father used to tell us about the Virginia legislature and legislation proposed that would make anyone with any black blood not able to sit and participate in it. This was the early 1950s not the 1850s. One legislator did the research that most Americans will not even do about their own family. He did not get more than half way through exposing every member of the legislature for their mulatto blood when the others were all in an uproar and clamoring that he must b silenced.

“This was one of the earliest expressions of the notion that the process of Americanization involved the creation of an entirely new mode of life that would replace the ethnic backgrounds of those who were a part of the process. It contained some imprecisions and inaccuracies that would, in time, became {become?} a part of the lore or myth of the vaunted melting pot and would grossly misrepresent the crucial factor of ethnicity in American life. It ignored the tenacity with which the Pennsylvania Dutch held onto their language, religion, and way of life. It over-looked the way in which the Swedes of New Jersey remained Swedes and the manner in which the French Huguenots of New York and Charleston held onto their own past as though it was the source of all light and life. It described a process that in a distant day would gag at the notion that Irish Catholics could be assimilated on the broad lap of Alma Mater or that Asians could be seated on the basis of equality at the table of the Great American Feast.” (8)

Needless to say he also addresses the matter of black emancipation and those who were ‘already in the country’ though I do not think he was referring to the blacks who were here long before Columbus. In fact there was no race that had not been coming to America since before the time of Christ. Genetics is indeed a powerful tool used in court to free innocent victims of our justice system but so far our history is still allowing lies to victimize our cultural perspectives or myths. It is important that we act as if there is no race except the human race.

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest writer for World-Mysteries.com World-Mysteries.com

Make sure that the Slot Machine that you are planning to use is not taken because sometimes slot machine players play in more than one slot machine at a time. While you are playing if you decide to go to the restroom you can ask an attendant and usually they stay until you come back if not they’ll place a Reserved sign on the machine. Have in mind that if the attendant stay while you go to the restroom to tip him/her or say thanks when you come back. If you can’t find anyone to reserve your slot machine while you go to the restroom, is not safe to leave any personal belongs to reserve the machine.

While you are playing try not to drink too much because alcohol can affect your personal judgment. There’s nothing wrong with having some alcoholic beverages while you are playing but its better to wait after playing time to celebrate.

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More tips for you:

Don’t play a machine that is not giving you money, if after 8 spins the machine hasn’t paid out then look for another machine.

Don’t leave a machine that is giving you money, don’t leave a machine while is giving you money. Wait until the slot machine is not giving you money after couple tries to find another slot machine.

Don’t forget to use your slot club card, if you don’t use the card while you are playing you wont get the free stuff that they have to offer you.

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Here in the United States, though, we have many traditional fruits. Of course, perhaps the most popular and most traditional fruit that we grow is the apple. In fact, apples are such traditional fruits that they have become ingrained in our culture.

Take a look at some of the ways in which apples have moved off the tree and into our language, games, and stories:

It is a very common in our culture for someone to say, “That is like comparing apples and oranges,” Meaning that you are trying to compare two things that are incomparable.

Apples have even made it into our folklore: most kids know the story of Johnny Appleseed, the boy who traveled across the United States with an upside down pot on his head, dispersing apple seeds.

And everyone knows that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Although this proverb has some merit, most still just pass it off as an old wive’s tale. An apple a day will not keep the doctor away if you do not also eat right, exercise, and refrain from excesses such as smoking and drinking a lot!

A phrase that really shows how apples have become a major part of our society is, “that is as American as apple pie!” Apples are completely ingrained in our culture, and apple pies are an American icon, reminiscent the “happy” years in the United States.

A rotten or bad apple is not just a piece of bad fruit. This idiom describes the one “bad” or “rotten” person in a group.

Other popular phrases that we often use in our culture are: “the apple of my eye” and “how do you like them apples!”

As you can see, there are many ways in which apples are fully ingrained into our culture. In fact, it is likely that no other fruit is nearly as important to our American culture as the apple is.

The apple is truly a traditional fruit in the United States, and it is a fruit that seems to have many traditions associated with it.

For instance, “bobbing for apples.” This is a game that is especially popular around the autumn months and Halloween. In this game, a large bucket or cauldron is filled with water, and apples are place in it to float. Participants must bob for the apples, trying to catch one in their teeth, without using their hands.

If, though, you take a look at another culture, a culture in another region of the world, they will likely have far different traditional fruits. And along with their different traditional fruits, they will likely have different idioms, stories, and games based on those fruits, wound into their culture.

Anne Clarke writes numerous articles for websites on gardening, parenting, fashion, and home decor. Her background includes teaching and gardening. For more of her articles on fruit and/or culture, please visit freshfruitbaskets.net Fresh Fruit Baskets.