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Hello everybody, This is friendly C.E.O Mikal Laster. For those of you who don't know, I am the Owner and C.E.O of Dubkidz Clothing. I had started this company a couple months ago, and It seems the more exposure and fame the brand gets, the more curious people and questions follow with it. This has gotten so routine that, answering questions like, "What is Dubkidz" or "what does it stand for "has been a small part of my life. That being said, What really is Dubkidz, and what does it do ?

If you haven't caught on already, you should know by now that music is a huge part of Dubkidz. The clothing line aspect of this company is created through inspiration from wide varieties of music. Contrary to what a lot of people assume, There is no complex process that goes into effect to create T shirts and other Designs. Whenever I need to make a new t shirt, I just blast the cleanest electronic music and enter the realm of creation. A lot of things inspire me in this world, as do a lot of things out of it.

Right now, We are an upcoming Clothing line, and our plan is to take the world by a storm to become an international brand, but what sets us apart from all the other so called "clothing lines" is that we are a legitimate company, and we are very business oriented. We are all about marketing and promotion. We mainly involve ourselves in music promotion. Our focus is talented upcoming artists that have the potential to go big, but are not getting the credit, and or publicity they deserve. We mainly promote Dubstep, Drum and Bass, and Electro house music, but we are also open towards other genre artists as long as they got the skills. Our goal is to promote Dubkidz through the power of music, and promote artists through the power of Dubkidz

MUSIC! MUSIC! MUSIC!

Promotion.

Inspiration

Art

Fashion

We hope this gives you an idea about who we are and lets and what our intentions are, but rest assured that this is not all. There is so much more coming up, so watch out for us in the future

In the mean time Check out the official website here





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由 Blogger 於 5/20/2012 04:29:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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There will be chances in London that suits your requirements whatever kind of event you are running from party, live music, or seminar or get together. London has been famous for its hundreds of venues that support live music events. There are arenas such as Earls Court, Hyde Park, Wembley Arena, Brixton Academy, Hammersmith Apollo, to the hundreds of small clubs and pubs that host live music show London has some venues to suit any band.

Live Music in London has been greatest atmosphere in the world since some of the most popular and influential musicians and bands the world has ever seen. During 1970s-1980s, musicians like Cat Stevens, Ian Dury, David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, the Police, Sade, iron Maiden, Madness, the Small Faces and Squeeze, bang the world by their music, vibrating their soundrenaline through London.

More recent artists to emerge from this British Capital music scene include the Spice Girls, Jamiroquai, Libertines, Coldplay and a lot of other famous bands from all over the world. London is also a center of urban music including UK garage, dubstep, drum and bass evolved in the city from the outsiders of reggae, metal, hip hop. In the early 80's London was the city when the heavy metal wave flooding the music atmosphere. London hosts many music festivals including Hyde Park, O2 Wireless festival, and The Camden Crawl. Their combines' state-of-the-art performance of rock, pop, dance and other genres are the most amusing events you could see in your holiday.





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由 Blogger 於 5/19/2012 04:36:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Where do I find a free Dubstep remixthat will wobble my speakers and shake my brain?

So you are interested inDub Step musicright? Good! because I am going to provide you with somegreat techniques on locating somequality mixes and products as well as forum sites were you can findlike minded people to relate withand network with that are into Dubstep, UK Garage & Grime music. Bass music is steadily growing more popular all the time, That's why so many music fanshave interest in it and there is a high demand for the Dub Step music by fans, DJ's and Artists looking for related sites online.

Dub Stepmusic is becoming popular, but are greatmusic and related items hard to find for somebody new to the Dubstepscene?

Some people have been involved in electronic music for a long time, others are just getting into the underground dub step music scene. Either way, Dub inspired electronic music has become known worldwide and has many listene rs that support the movement. Most people that look to download Dub stepmixes are happy to find a few sites that have good music.

Two good places to begin with are dubstep.fm and Rinse.fm, If you D Jayyou might look for mixes at barefiles.com, if your a Dubstep produceryou will find a bunch of samples at topsamplesites.com but might need to weed through some sites to find good material. A lot of the times local stores just don't carry hard to find clothing or original items related to the genre. Online sites may offer more options than can be found in your local music stores, Especially when it comes to gear that relates to fans of hard to find Dub stepand vinyl.

Are there any items like T-shirts, Hoodies or Hats that I can find to represent as a fan of Dubstepmusic?

Most fans of bass musicare pleased to see a friend or even a stranger for that matter wearing a cool Dubstept-shirt or hoodie that relates to the bass culture or rave scene. Some artwork isbased on humorwhile others may be more serious, even considered extreme. These logos or designsare meant to let people know that you are a extremely dedicatedmusic fan and that you are very serious your musicand have pride in the underground rave scene. These uniquedesigns can be hard to find, some can be found at Zazzle.com.

On the other side, with funny designs there are many ways including parody to show someone that you are into the music. This maybe subtle or over the top but either way allows you to relate with other fans of dub step music. I know that every time I spot somebody in a club or on the street wearing a cool t-shirt that supports the electronic Dub music scene I give them a nod and a compliment. It feels goodto see people that relate to your scene, especially wh en they have a funny, smart or interesting design.

What are some of the common items that D.J.s and people wear or use in the Dub stepmusic scene?

Along with t-shirts, Items such as Hoodies, Stickers and hats are big sellers in the Dubstep music scene. Ask any true fan, D.J. or Producer of Dubstep and it is likely that they have a couple articles of clothing, Posters or other items such as mouse pads with designs or logos related to the Dubscene. Some of the common elements that repeat themselvesin Dubstep related design are Woofers, Sound systems, Headphones, Dub plates and words or phrases such as "BIG UP", "BRAPPP" and "WOBBLE" as well as parody taken from corporate logos, Reggae and Dub music. A very popular design has been the RUN DMC Dubstep logo. This design and many more can be purchased on lots of products at Zazzle.com .

Where can I find the latest Dub step music and news related to the Dub stepculture?

Whether you are new to the scene, a seasoned vet, or even just curious about it, my advice as a long time Dubstep listener and artist is to first do an internetsearch for forums and blogs about UK Garage music, 2 Step, Drum and Bass & Grime as well as Dubstep. A very good site is dubstepforum.com, remember you can always ask any friends that may be into Dubstepto recommend sites, Books or other forms of media that will give you good info.

Ning.com is a really good site that you can join for free, then do a search for forums that are based on Dubstep music. Sometimes you will get multiple results and these are great spots to find out about Music, trends and media related to Bass culture. Social network sites are also a great place to find info and other people that are into your topic of interest. Sites such as Myspace.com, Facebook.com and Twitter.com have many people that provide great links to sites on Dub step & other bass heavy music related events and news. These sites are also great to network and find out about insider information about unreleased and unannounced events in the underground scene.

So if your thinking "How do I find some good sites related to Dubstep?" Then I highly recommendthat you click on the link in the resource box below to view a store that has Dubstep music, t-shirts, stickers, hats, mouse pads, links and gear that will allow you to show your support and let your friends and others fans involved in the Dubstep scene know that you are a true fan.





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由 Blogger 於 5/18/2012 04:35:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Not only that, it's downright difficult to find a reliable Edinburgh clubbing guide which regards every night of the week as an opportunity to hit the dancefloor.

For precisely this reason, I put my research goggles on, started pestering lots of people for tips and hints and even cracked out some of my own pathetic Saturday Night Fever-esque dance moves to offer you a comprehensive, Monday to Sunday Edinburgh clubbing guide covering a multitude of musical genres and night scenes!

We have an insatiable appetite for fun in this country. You might not find every dancefloor packed on a Monday or Tuesday night but rest assured that there is an establishment out there playing your style of music to a dance floor of revellers burning off their haggis and black pudding suppers.

I want to make this simple and to-the-point so you have more time to get out there and have some fun. Simply follow the links or scroll down to the genre that interests you most, work out what day it is and read about where the party's at.

We'll start off with Edinburgh's classiest establishments then move onto the best club nights in Edinburgh for students before looking in detail at clubs which offer an eclectic mix of music. There are quite a few options for fans of Indie Rock and alternative music. I'll tell exactly where to go and when for the complementary genres of Pop, Dance and R'n'B before we descend into the vaults of Edinburgh for some Underground beats.


The Up-Market Scene


Magnificent Mondays

If you've got itchy feet on a Monday evening, head over to Lulu at 125b George Street. Their club night 'Decadence' does exactly what it says on the tin. Expect to see Swarovskis embedded in the walls and a beat-responsive dance floor. Doors open at 9pm and it won't cost you a dime to get in before 10pm.

Terrific Tuesdays

The place to be on both Tuesdays and Wednesda ys (in fact, any day of the week if you love the place) is the Opal Lounge at 51a George Street. Frequented by celebrities (including the Sugababes, Kate Moss and Prince William, of all people) the Opal Lounge is generally regarded as the place to be seen in Edinburgh. Expect to pay 5 at the door on a Tuesday in return for a range of reasonably-priced drinks promotions.

Wonderful Wednesdays

Expect lots and lots of 'Chambles', an extremely potent mix of Champagne, Red Bull and Vodka, on Wednesday nights at the Opal Lounge. Be warned! 2 or 3 of those and you'll struggle to climb the four steps back up onto George Street! The resident DJs are highly adept at fusing hip-hop, r 'n' b and party hits to keep you dancing till the wee small hours.

Top-notch Thursdays

Indigo Yard at 7 Charlotte Lane near the West End of Princes Street is a lovely little bar and restaurant. Enjoy some cracking cocktails and have a good blether with your frien ds. With the weekend looming large you might not be able to resist the lure of the numerous classy clubs around the corner on George Street. Oh, and you can do it all al-fresco during the summer months. Perfetto.

Unforgettable Fridays

Below Stairs at 16 Picardy Place is one of the newest and most stylish clubs in Edinburgh. Let's put this into perspective. They serve cocktails in hip-flasks and faberge-style eggs. The club also has a canopy covered outdoor section with cane furniture and shisha pipes. The doors open at 10pm and you must be over 21 to enter.

Super Saturdays

Scott Granger, one of Scotland's leading Djs, regularly works the decks at Shanghai, at 16a George Street. He has remixed tracks for many top R'n'B and Dance artists and is therefore worth the 10 entrance fee alone. Shanghai will transport you to the Far East for the night and certainly will not disappoint.

Quite spiffing Sundays

A quite spi ffing way to round off a hard week's partying (you did go out every night, right?) is to sample a couple of Dragonfly's cocktails at 52 Westport. This award-winning retro hideaway near the Grassmarket boasts a whopping cocktail list and highly-trained barstaff who will come to your table with their ideas and recommendation. It's certainly not a nightclub, but hey, it's God's day, take a break and enjoy this sumptous cocktail bar. And with that, you have your up-market Edinburgh clubbing guide!


For all you insatiable students...


Magnificent Mondays

It might not be everyone's cup of tea but one cannot deny that Monday's student night Why Not at 14 George Street is mighty popular. 5 for a student might seem a little steep but this is George Street and you can expect decent drinks promotions once you get in. The great thing about George Street is that if somewhere doesn't quite take your fancy, you are literally a stone's throw from t he next place. Le Monde is next door and the Opal Lounge is on the other side of the street, for example.

Terrific Tuesdays

One of the most unique aspects of the Shanghai nightclub at 16a George Street is the fact it hosts one of the best student nights in town despite its lofty position at the classy end of the Edinburgh night scene. Enigma is understandably a huge hit amongst students who can soak up the buzzing atmosphere of Edinburgh's sole example of Chinese nightlife in exchange for a few pieces of silver. No <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link/4184261']);" href="http://www.edinburgh-insider.com/en/nightlife-in-edinburgh/edinburgh-clubbing-guide.html">Edinburgh clubbing guide</a> would be complete without it.

Wonderful Wednesdays

In a similar vein to Shanghai, the 'Mansion' night at Below Stairs at 16 Picardy Place enables students to party, drink and dan ce at cut-price rates at one of the city's most up-market clubs. Mansion has gathered quite a following and is considered to be one of the rising stars of the Edinburgh night scene. Doors open at 10pm and keep in mind that the dress code is 'dressy'. That means no trainers, hoodies or South Park t-shirts.

Top-notch Thursdays

The HMV Picture House on Lothian Road is one of the oldest and most impressive venues in the city. Locals will remember this venue as Century 2000 and then Revolution. Nowadays, the Picture House is host to top-class musical acts and club nights. On Thursdays, the 'Octopussy' night offers drinks for as little as 1 and they also have a bouncy castle. Yes, a bouncy castle. Recipe for a beautiful disaster!

Unforgettable Fridays and Super Saturdays

When it comes to the weekend, out-and-out student nights are few and far between for obvious reasons. However, mainstream clubs such as City at 1a Market Street and Ster eo at 28 King's Stables Road offer excellent drinks promotions at the weekend at certain times. In fact, if you are on a tight budget you will be able to find at least one or two drinks which are on offer at most bars and clubs over the weekend. One thing which is difficult to avoid however are the high entrance fees. As always, try to get there before midnight for lower entrance prices and drinks promos!

Quite spiffing Sundays
To wrap up the Edinburgh clubbing guide for students let me say that Lava/Ignite's student night on a Sunday remains the most popular student night of the weekend by quite some distance. The club is situated just off Lothian Road at 3 West Tollcross and is the largest club in Edinburgh. Lava/Ignite consists of many separate areas, bars, dancefloors and balconies which is relatively impressive on the eye. On a Sunday when the students are in town, you can expect to find a queue stretching back around the corner into the next street. A packed Sunday night at Lava/Ignite can be quite an experience and won't set you back much at all.


An eclectic mix - for those who want it all...


Magnificent Mondays

To start off the Edinburgh clubbing guide for those who like to mix it up, let's look at Why Not at 14 George Street. Although Mondays at Why Not are intended for students looking to start a grinding week amongst the books with a bang , you won't be turned away at the door if you're not a student, as long as you arrive early enough. You're guaranteed an eclectic mix of music as the DJs seek to please students with varying musical tastes. It costs 5 to get in and the doors open at 10pm.

Terrific Tuesdays

While being a predominantly student-oriented night, Tuesday nights at Shanghai at 16a George Street are also very popular among non-students keen to take advantage of the cut-price entrance fee and numerous drinks promotions. Edinburgh's ode to Chinese nightlife is regarded as one of the classiest spots in town at weekend charging a whopping 10 for entry. Tuesday night is therefore a great opportunity to experience what is an impressive nightclub and soak up a mix of easy-going house music and mainstream classics.

Wonderful Wednesdays

The Hive at 15 Niddry Street just off the Royal Mile gets its name from its somewhat beehive-like appearance. The low arched stone ceilings create an intimate, sweaty atmosphere especially when the club is full and the numerous separate sections and alleyways give the club an interesting layout and the scope to have a different vibe in each room. On Wednesdays the clubs runs a night called Bangers and Mash playing anything from Pop to Dance to Rock to Trance to Sesame Street. Entry is free before 11pm and 3 thereafter. Their drinks promotions are also very generous.

Top-notch Thursdays

The first day of the week at Ponana at 43b Frederick Street is Thursday. Set slightly below ground in cavernous vaults in the New Town, Ponana has become one of Edinburgh's most popular clubs in recent years. The dance floor at the rear of the club is one of the most intimate and electrifying I've experienced. On a Thursday the doors open at 10.30pm and it will cost you 5 to get in. A crazy cocktail of House, Electro and mainstream chart hits is the order of the day. Consult the bar staff for drinks promos including the deadly Jaegerbombs...

Unforgettable Fridays

The Hive at 15 Niddry Street (see above) also runs an extremely popular and reasonably priced night on a Friday called 'Misfits'. If you get there before 11pm you'll get in for free and most likely avoid the lengthy queue which builds the later it gets. After 11pm it will cost you 4 to get in which is reasonable for a Friday night considering there are many great drinks offers available inside. As with every night at the Hive, expect a very diverse range of music. The Hive is the most eclectic club in Edinburgh.

Super Saturdays

So where do I start with Electric Circus? This place has become very well-known in the Edinburgh area for its uncompromising approach to the karaoke-bar concept. On the left side of the building you will find a number of karaoke 'booths' (small padded cells) where you and your friends can perform your rendition of a dying cat. After someone cr acks out that song from Titantic, head next door into the bar/club area for some live music, a drink and a dance. Electric Circus is the type of place that tries to offer it all and somehow pulls it off. Be warned that the karaoke booths should be reserved in advance and are not cheap...although that probably won't deter the groups of wannabe divas.

Quite spiffing Sundays

While intensely popular amongst the student population, the ultra cheap night at Lava/Ignite on a Sunday attracts a significant number of non-students due to its multi-area layout and impressive mix of musical genres. On a Sunday, you can expect Pop and cheese upstairs on the beat responsive dance floor, Dance and Trance on the main dance floor downstairs and R 'n' B in the back room. Oh, and expect a monster of a queue out the front when the students are in town. My tip - get there early on! The doors open at 10pm.


Indie Rock and Alternative Music


Mag nificent Mondays

I believe it's fitting to start the Edinburgh clubbing guide for rockers with the old stalwart that is Opium, at 71 The Cowgate. Opium has always been and most probably always will be one of the most popular Rock and alternative music joints in this city. So why Monday you say?? Well, Opium is open every night of the week and it's always free to get in, so why not on a Monday!! If you like your spirit mixers and Jgerbombs, you'll be happy to know they are regularly on offer. Oh, and they have a jukebox. Spiffing.

Terrific Tuesdays

There's a reason why I've suggested three different nights at The Hive in this Edinburgh clubbing guide. The setting, inside vaults in the Old Town is very Edinburgh, it's always dirt cheap and their eclectic music policy keeps people coming back for more. On a Tuesday they specialise in every aspect of the Rock genre, whether it's Classic Rock, Modern Rock, Metal or Punk. I can imagine a couple of warm-up drinks at Opium in the Cowgate and a two minute walk up the hill to the Hive would be a rocker's dream.

Wonderful Wednesdays

Interestingly, Espionage at 4 India Buildings, Victoria Street, tends to divide the masses. It seems you either love it or you hate it. The bar/club is laid out over 5 floors in an old building not far from the High Street. Espionage tends to be very popular with tourists and foreigners which lends a real multicultural feel to the place. Each floor has a slightly different vibe which enables various events to take place on each floor. In the top bar there's a karaoke night on a Wednesday at 9pm enabling you to show the world (or at least the Old Town of Edinburgh) what you can do.

Top-notch Thursdays

The recently renovated Liquid Room at 9 Victoria Street has been a local favourite for around 10 years. It will be interesting to see how the locals react to the club and live music venue's new look. Thur sday's 'Scream' night will please fans of Electro, Dubstep and House and also those operating on a showstring. If you do in fact have a great time at the Liquid Room, keep an eye out for upcoming gigs featuring some of the world's greatest acts. The Liquid Room will always be a special place for me having seen the wonderful Suede there many years ago. Unfortunately Bernard Butler had left the band by that time...

Unforgettable Fridays

There aren't many places where you can hear Showaddywaddy, Michael Jackson and Bachman Turner Overdrive on the same night. You will not be disappointed by The Citrus Club at 40 Grindlay Street does not disappoint when it comes to musical diversity. If you can get there before 11pm, you'll get in for absolutely nothing while latecomers pay 6. If you grew up in either the 70s, 80s and 90s you'll hear some tunes that will take you right back to your golden years.

Super Saturdays

El Barrio at 119 Rose St reet is the place to go if you're the proud owner of Latin hips. This cracking little latin club is unique in the fact that they blend Latin music with Pop and chart hits while also offering free salsa beginners classes at 9pm on Fridays and Saturdays! Throw in some mojitos or any of their cocktails for that matter and you've got a fairly high-octane Saturday night! What's more - it's free to get in.

Quite spiffing Sundays

Got a guitar? A washboard? Any kind of instrument? Espionage (see above) runs an open mike night in their top bar starting at 9pm. If you've had enough of listening to the professional rock stars and fancy cracking out a few of your own tunes, this is the night for you. Once your performance is done, you can spend time with your adoring fans and groupies exploring the 5 floors Espionage has to offer.


Pop, Dance and R'n'B


Magnificent Mondays

Espionage at 4 India Buildings, Victoria Street, r uns an R 'n' B, Hip-Hop and Dancehall night every Monday. If this is your musical preference, why not get the week off to a swinging start? It's free to get in and drinks offers start at 1.50. Espionage aims to promote the freshest tracks from the R 'n' B genre and hand the decks over to Edinburgh's best up-and-coming DJs.

Terrific Tuesdays

The infamous 'Flirty' night at Stereo, 28 King's Stables Road, is based on the unique concept of text-flirting. Upon entering the club you are provided with a 'flirt' number with which you can flirt and be flirted with. The messages are then displayed on the screens around the club. If this is not your thing/is too much hassle/you don't have a phone...strut your stuff on the dance floor to a slick mix of R 'n' B, Hip-Hop and chart hits and don't forget to check out the ber-white 'white room' on the second floor. If you are a student, entry is free before midnight and 2 thereafter. For everyone else it costs 4, howeve r, most drinks are 1 all night. Not bad at all...

Wonderful Wednesdays

To be completely honest, seeing as Vodka Revolution at 30 Chambers Street is open every night of the week and has a varied music policy centering around the R 'n' B and Pop genres, you could turn up there any night and have a great time. In this Edinburgh clubbing guide, I've suggested Vodka Rev for a Wednesday, however, because it's 'Steak Night' and who doesn't like affordable steaks? Vodka Rev has a bar and restaurant on the ground floor and a pulsating bar with a dance floor downstairs. Oh, and it is always free to get in!

Top-notch Thursdays

Ponana at 43b Frederick Street runs a cracking Thursday night to start off your 4-day weekend (if you're that lucky...). Party hard on the tight, intimate dance floor at the rear of the club to your favourite mainstream chart hits but expect the DJs to weave in a solid dose of House and Electro as well. The arched stone ceilings really give you the impression you are in a grotto full of treasure. For many, that treasure will be the Jgerbombs that are on offer at the barthroughout the night. Doors open at 10.30pm and the entrance fee is 5.

Unforgettable Fridays

City at 1a Market Street is extremely popular on a Friday night amongst those looking for all things Pop, Dance and R 'n' B. You can get in for 2 before 11pm which is pretty darn good for a Friday night and you'll be greeted by a decent selection of drinks promotions inside. City is one of Edinburgh's biggest and most modern clubs and boasts an impressive layout with numerous levels podiums, balconies, nooks and crannies.

Super Saturdays

Relax in the upper lounge, chill out in the vodka lounge or grab yourselves a booth next to the dance floor. Vodka Revolution (see above) has all that and more. You could treat yourselves to one of the meal offers upstairs in the restaurant before heading downstairs to the main bar and dancing area. If you are a vodka connoisseur, don't forget to check out the vodka lounge in the back area. Keep in mind that this bar/club hybrid closes at 1am. Don't let this deter you however. If you want to keep going, the night clubs City, Stereo and GRV are within walking distance as is the Cowgate and the Grassmarket!

Quite spiffing Sundays

As this section of the Edinburgh clubbing guide is all about Pop, Dance and R 'n' B, I would absolutely no qualms about putting forward Lava/Ignite as your clubbing choice for Sunday night. Yes, it is very busy. Yes, the vast majority of the revellers are students. Yet it is bafflingly cheap and has a separate area devoted to each of our musical genres. If you're in need of some cheese, head upstairs. Fancy an epileptic light show on the Dance and Trance dance floor? Head downstairs to the main arena. Want to relax with a drink and some chilled-out Hip-Hop beats? The back room is for you. Just make sure you get there early to make sure you get in. When the students are in town, it's extremely popular.


Underground/House - welcome to the vaults...


To wrap up the Edinburgh clubbing guide, those looking for a taste of the grimy underground scene have to...well...get underground! The Old Town of Edinburgh is full of vaults where people once lived, worked and died; many of which are now used for ghost tours, bars and clubs. Changed days! The Underground music scene in Edinburgh is dominated by Cabaret Voltaire at 36 Blair Street, which is open 7 nights a week and The GRV at 37 Guthrie Street.

As is the case with most underground, alternative and live music bars and clubs, the program at The GRV and Cabaret Voltaire is often subject to change and one-off events are common. Therefore I recommend consulting the websites of both clubs to find out exactly what is going on.

On Fridays at The GRV you can exp ect Techno, Electronica and Dubstep starting at 11pm. Entry usually costs 3 before midnight and 4 thereafter. The GRV is also able to host gigs, DJs and various club nights at the click of a finger. The excellent sound system, stage, creative bar area and air conditioning are all almost brand new.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays at Cabaret Voltaire it's free to get in all night long. The Tuesday DJs specialise in Drum and Bass whereas Thursday's 'Sick Note' club tends to be slightly more expansive, covering Electro, Indie, Bassline and House. At the weekend the Cabaret Voltaire runs a number of different club nights which tend to take place monthly or fortnightly. It will cost you significantly more to get in at the weekends, typically between 5-10. However, in return you will be entertained by some of Scotland's most talented Underground and House DJs.





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由 Blogger 於 5/17/2012 04:20:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Are you a music buff (which most of us are)? Is music your passion and life without music seems like a nightmare? Do you feel the need to convert songs in your PC into different formats such as CD, MP3, WMA and so on? Of course, you would have thought about making your own CDs by using music software. The software allows you to cut CDs, edit music and add ripple and other effects as per your liking. Listening to your favorite songs having your personal touch is simply a great feeling.

There are numerous CD burning software available on the internet. Most of them allow you to freely download music software on a trial basis, which you can use to your advantage. You need to have a PC and internet connection preferably with broadband connectivity for easy and fast download. Even if you have a laptop with a good configuration, it should suffice for the job at hand.

Let us have a look at a few of the most popular CD burner programs available over the internet. Ultra MP3 to CD Burner, Advanced MP3 CD Burner, Eastsea MP3 CD Burner, Super DVD CD Burner, Acoustica MP3 CD Burner, Ace CD Burner, Ease MP3 CD Burner, Adensoft Audio/Data CD Burner and Okoker Mp3 to CD Burner are few of the music software which you can download for burning a CD. A trial version of most of these programs is also available, which allows you to try and test the software before buying the full version. A great way to start and no burden on the pocket as well.

The high quality CD burner allows you to burn the audio files into a CD directly without any distortion in the sound output. Most of the software is equipped with technology for burning songs recorded in various formats such as MP3, WAV or WMA files as CD audio. The CD so burnt can be played on your computer, car audio system, walkman, personal stereo and other players. You can also label your CD. Give names to your songs so as to display the same while playing. The CD burning software allows you to save music stored in one format into a portable CD which can be gifted too, showing your personal touch. This has much more meaning attached to it than simply buying one from a music store.

If you have a CD writer software such as Nero you can directly make audio CDs from MP3 songs stored in your PC. It is a simple mouse click procedure. No need to be an expert in the technology or systems. Just click on the Nero startsmart icon, click the audio icon picture, choose Make MP3 CD and select a single or multiple MP3 files which you want to copy. Bingo - you are done. Isnt it a great way to play and fiddle with your songs? In fact you can also play like a disc jockey copying your favorite song. You will love it, your friends will love it and life will be great We all want that. Dont we?





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Basically, when you buy music from iTunes, it comes with a copyright protection called DRM. These DRM-protected songs are locked so that they only work with Apple MP3 players. That means that if you bought a Microsoft Zune, you cannot use iTunes music.



So, what is the solution? You have to burn a CD. When you do this, the DRM is removed (because the music is converted to a non-DRM-compatible media). After you burn the CD, you can rip it to your PC as an MP3 file which no longer has DRM.



Alternatively, you can use TuneClone (http://www.tuneclone.com/index.php).





TuneClone makes a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.



Here is a link to a tutorial using TuneClone and iTunes 8:
http://itunesm4ptomp3.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/convert-itunes8-music-to-mp3/



TuneClone adopts the virtual CD burning tech to remove DRM protection from iTunes music. It can convert iTunes protected AAC M4P to MP3 for non-Apple MP3 players.



TuneClone rocks! It makes a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.



TuneClone adopts the virtual CD burning tech to remove DRM protection from iTunes music. It can convert iTunes protected AAC M4P to MP3 for non-Apple MP3 players.



TuneClone rocks! It makes a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.



TuneClone adopts the virtual CD burning tech to remove DRM protection from iTunes music. It can convert iTunes protected AAC M4P to MP3 for non-Apple MP3 players.



TuneClone rocks! It makes a virtual CD-ROM drive, tricking your PC into believing that you are burning a CD. Therefore, the DRM is removed without wasting a CD.





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由 Blogger 於 5/15/2012 04:16:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Introduction: overseas media wrote, though iPad can compatible with many iPhone application, because of the difference of size and function configuration, it makes iPad's application market difficult to be predicted.

Joy coexists with grief

Major iPhone application developers have exploited over 140,000 applications for this kind of cell phone. This group goes from strength to strength. But apple's new product iPad, to these developers, may be a good news or a disaster.

Many developers, including game company and media company, indicated that the opportunity iPad brings is exciting, it is not difficult for small screen application to fit iPad, while some developers found that iPad will be a challenge. For example, same with iPhone, iPad also is not allowed application to be ran in backstage, so users can not run multi-procedure at the same time like PC.

To Internet Broadcast Company ---Pandora, It is not a big problem in iPhone. Because users usually listen their music when do their exercise. But to iPad users, they may probably listen their music when they read e-book.

Video is restricted

Though iPad isn't equipped with webcam, it is in some developers' expectation. Because iPad is not that small and exquisite like iPhone, the function of webcam is not that outstanding. Making some photography and video application of iPhone can not transfer to iPad in the existing form. So iPad users had to use iPad video converter to convert video to iPad.

Internet Telephony Service like Skype had to use video to communicate and sent immediate message because with no webcam, at least it is so far. So is iPhone. But compare to laptop, the convenience of iPad is inadequate. Spokesperson of Skype said, "They are researching the device of iPad and hope to find an experience method for excellent users."

When asked the opinion of the prospect of iPad application market, spokesperson of apple quoted apple Senior Vice President---Scott Forstall's words "It will be developers' gold mine".

Advantages remain

But there are still some developers who are full of enthusiasm of the change that iPad brings, especially the big screen. Game developers are not longer restricted by the 3.5 inch screen of iPhone. Cell phone Social Game manufacturer SGN said, their company can transfer the Fight Game "Skies of Glory" in iPhone to high-quality 3G multiplayer like Xbox 360. Their company also plans to shift iPhone to hand shank, the same with WiFi hand shank controlling iPad.

Software Company SonicMule once pushed out iPhone game application "Ocarina". Ge Wang, The company's alliance originator, said iPad can not only make some large virtual instrument possible, like guitar and harp, but also can give a mark according to users' performances, so as to provide a whole new experience for users.

Though apple didn't publish iPad's whole development plan, publishers were inspired. They said most iPhone application can be ran in iPad directly without modification. Publishing company Conde Nast is now optimizing some magazine's electronic edition.

Disadvantage is numerous

Same with iPhone, iPad also doesn't support Flash. Users can watch YouTube through preloaded YouTube application. But users can not watch video in website like Hulu because of lacking the support of Flash. Adobe wrote in his blog, "Apple still restricts device, it will have a deep effect to publishers and consumers".

Some iPhone applications that play an important role when users are proceeding can not transfer well enough. For example, Loopt Company develops a Social Network basing on geographical position. The company plans to add more guide functions, such as restaurant and vocal concert. But they will not depend on real-time information. Because they realize that users are unlikely to bring their iPad anywhere and anytime.

Sam Altman, the CEO of Loopt, said, "To Loopt, the situation may change. We will push out Loopt application facing iPad, but it is hard to gain the same success."





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由 Blogger 於 5/14/2012 04:15:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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If there's one word to sum up Lady Gaga, it might be "unpredictable." The songstress and fashion icon has pushed the boundaries when it comes to music videos, live shows and apparel, and just when everyone thought she was becoming predictable with her bizarre clothing choices and flamboyant personality the latest news comes as somewhat of a shock. According to CNN.com, Gaga recently admitted in an interview that she is celibate.

At a recent event for M.A.C.'s Viva Glam, the singer said, "I can't believe I'm saying this - don't have sex. It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent. It's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine." If you can believe it, Gaga is joining the likes of the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus when it comes to being pro-abstinence. However Gaga is still getting plenty of attention thanks to her risqu music videos and revealing costume choices. Keep up to date with all of the latest Gaga news by going to http://www.stubhub.com and purchasing a pair of <a rel="nofollow" onclick="javascript:_gaq.push(['_trackPageview', '/outgoing/article_exit_link/2569369']);" href="http://www.stubhub.com/lady-gaga-tickets/">Lady Gaga tickets</a> as soon as possible!

The latest Gaga project to cause a stir in the music industry was the music video she collaborated on with Beyonce. "Telephone" features the two pop stars in Thelma and Louise character roles, only there is a lot more skin showing in this short film. The costumes are as outrageous as they come - one scene shows Gaga with her hair piled high, molded into the shape of a telephone. The video was clearly all Gaga, although Beyonce added a slight bit of normalcy to an otherwise bizarre shoot. Needless to say the short music film caught the eyes of both critics and fans alike, most of whom were not the least bit surprised with the end result.

Lady Gaga's rise to fame seemed to happen within the blink of an eye. One moment she was performing burlesque shows at small nightclubs throughout New York City and the next she was attending the Grammy Awards with Kermit the Frog. Gaga achieved her first big hit song with "Just Dance," released in 2008, the precursor to the follow-up album The Fame. The tracks were routinely played in clubs around the world and ultimately "Just Dance" scored the top spot on the Billboard charts. Other songs off of the record also become popular singles, most notably "Poker Face" and "Paparazzi."

Gaga's follow-up album The Fame Monster arrived in November 2009, led by the single "Bad Romance." Once again, the ballad reached the top of the Billboard charts in a short amount of time and became her fifth consecutive Top 10 single.

It's hard to argue with Gaga's popularity; she has taken the music world by storm with her unique style in what she calls "performance art." Lady Gaga always has plenty of surprises in store for her devoted fans. Keep up to date with all of the latest Gaga news and information and see her live on stage.






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由 Blogger 於 5/13/2012 03:49:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Nowadays, it's very convenient to get somewhere by car, and driving out for a trip becomes a pretty popular way of leisure and entertainment. To enjoy high-quality iPod music in the vehicle can be such an experience of pleasure, whether you are a music lover or not. The emergence of car iPod has realized the possibility bringing great enjoyment for car owners.

Over the years, iPod music player has grown in popularity due to its compact size, large capacity and high sound quality. An iPod is pretty small so that you can carry it anywhere. Besides, the little gadget is able to store loads of music and offers excellent audio experience. Thus, many people like to take the small device no matter where they are. When they return home after one-day work, when they have a breath of fresh air in the park, and when they wait for a cup of fragrant coffee in the caf, they will enjoy kinds of music through earplugs of the iPod player. However, if you drive a car, it will be rather inconvenient and dangerous to enjoy your favorite music in this way. Finally, with the development of car entertainment, people are able to listen to wonderful iPod music with the gadget called car iPod.

With the car iPod player, you are able to build a digital library of high-quality music in your vehicle. The large capacity enables you to listen to your favorite music as much as you like, such as Jazz, Blues, Folk, Pop, Country music, R&B, Hip-hop, etc. so that you don't have to listen to the same songs again and again. This feature saves you from the trouble of collecting tons of CDs. Furthermore, the music flowing out of the iPod player is certainly of much better audio effect compared with that of ordinary DVD players. In addition, if you use discs in a car, they are more vulnerable to scratches and cracks in use, and they can't be read correctly after damaged, but a car iPod doesn't have such problem. In general, the iPod player also plays music files much more quickly while a CD has to take much time to read.

In order to enjoy the iPod music in the vehicle, many people have tried to connect the car and the iPod player. An old method of connection is the iPod to tape dock connection. One end of the device can be mounted into the iPod while the other end is a plastic looking cassette tape. You can play iPod music by putting the cassette in the cassette docks if your vehicle is an older model of car. For a newer car, a USB connector is a better option. You can plug a USB cable into a USB dock that allows you to plug any USB device into the adpater in your car, so you can play iPod music in your vehicle and update the iPod on the computer as well. In some new cars, USB drives have been built in the entertainment system so that you can plug the iPod in by using a cable that a MP3 player comes with. Today, there are products like iPod control cables on the market especially designed for car iPod connection.

In the modern life, many people feel like listening to beautiful music while they are driving, particularly when it is a long journey. Due to the special features, a car iPod can provide the driver and passengers with wonderful audio enjoyment, which makes it the most attractive music player in the vehicle.

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由 Blogger 於 5/12/2012 04:45:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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IPod is a line of convenient media players formed and advertised by Apple and premeditated by Jonathan Ive announced and released in the year 2001. The product line-up presently consists of the solid drive based iPod Classic, the compact iPod Nano, the touchscreen iPod Touch, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle. IPod Classic models stock up media on an interior hard drive, while all other reproduction employ flash memory to facilitate their slighter size. With several other digital music companies, iPods is also capable of serving external data storage devices.

IPod is a high definition transferable media player by the Apple. It can be used as a storage device carrying all your favourite songs. They are basically divided in to three categories Classic, Shuffle and Touch and the data saved can further be transferred to any of the system using some explicit software. Furthermore you can enjoy fun packed games too with this amazing tool. The ipods that are being used most widely counts Apple iPod shuffle second generation 1GB, Apple iPod mini Amband, 2 GB shuffle MP3 player and a lot more.

The recently launched new Apple iPod nano is a multi-touch display music player. The Multi touch display allows you to tap the song for selecting and even arranging songs with a single touch, just swipe the Home screen for browsing your music. In addition to that it has also got an Amazing Genius button, just press that and it will generate a genius playlist holding songs identical the one you're presently listening.

Some of latest ipods have also got the facility of in built FM radio feature live-pause. You have the liberty to listen non-stop music with the in-built rechargeable lithium-ion battery that offers you the facility of 24 hours non-stop music. Different ipods have different storage capacity 4GB, 8GB, 16GB etc. The next striking thing you will get to notice is that changing track by shaking the device, the moment you shake up your phone it shuffles to a different song within the music library. Apple iPod coming up with some really advanced technologies Nano Price in India are the best ipod manufacturers and the best part is they have their prices quite low. You will always find Apple iPod prices in India appealing and attractive. Ipods price in India are really surprising and unexpected, there have been number of reviews going in the favor of this convention.

Moreover you can enjoy fun filled games too with this device. The most widely used ones are Apple iPod shuffle second generation 1GB, 2 GB shuffle MP3 player, Apple iPod mini Amband and many more.





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由 Blogger 於 5/11/2012 05:45:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Can Music be a cure?

Music for Healing and Inspiration, It might not sound so alien a concept when you already know that certain musical compositions are firm favourites of yours. Some pieces of music make you feel good in any of a number of ways. Some musical compositions you may find very relaxing and yet others invigorating.

The 1812 Overture by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is a very empowering piece that fills the listener with pride and vigour, similarly Wagners Ride Of The Valkyries evokes feelings of resoluteness and determination in the listener. Its fair to say that both pieces, in todays parlance are pretty much in your face.

At the other end of the scale are some incredibly relaxing and dreamy pieces like the Aquarium by Camille Saint-Saens or the incredibly haunting Any other Name by Thomas Newman.

These are just a very few examples and doubtless many more will spring to the readers mind.

Alpharabius discussed how music was therapeutic to the soul in his work Meanings of the Intellect back in the 10th Century while Robert Burton affirmed that Music played a critical role in the treatment of psychological disorders in the 17th Century.

Increasingly the use of musical tones is being turned to as a form of therapy. Here then are just a few methods in which music and tones are used in healing and inspiration.

Binaural tones:

Binaural tones also called Binaural beats was first discovered by Heinrich Willhelm in 1839 and involves the playing of two different tones in stereo headphones, One tone is played into the left ear while the other is played into the right ear. The effects of this are thought to produce a specific healing effect depending upon the tones being used.

Binaural beats are often included in meditative music to assist the listener in relaxing.

Solfeggio Frequencies:

Solfeggio frequencies are a set of Six ancient tones that feature in monastic chants. These frequencies or tones when sung in harmony are thought to create a great spiritual blessing for the listener. They are thought to reach deep into the subconscious and create healing from the inside out.

Isochronic tones:

Isochronic tones are musical compositions that contain a regular beat of a single frequency. These beats are quiet powerful in their ability to alter states of consciousness as they can often be found in regular drum beats. Drum Beats have been used by Native American Indians, Aborigines, British Neolithic Peoples, Shamans and Druids to enter hypnotic states.

Royal Rife Frequencies:

Doctor Royal Raymond Rife (born May 16, 1888 died August 5, 1971) claimed that specific frequencys were effective at destroying or at the very least disrupting the life cycle of pathogens. He produced an entire list of conditions and the frequencies that should be used to remedy them.

Here is Dr Rifes original list of conditions and their corresponding healing frequencies:

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In conclusion, music does make you feel good, we all knew that. What we may not have known is that music can make us feel good in more ways than that are first apparent.





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由 Blogger 於 5/10/2012 11:04:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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Finding very good sites for ipod MP3 downloads is not always easy. Many sites just don't have the selection of music that would fulfill your needs. People have been downloading music to their Ipods for years and the number of sites for ipod MP3 downloads keeps on growing.

If you have been searching for ipod MP3 downloads and ways to get them there are many choices. With Ipod music downloads, there are more ways you can enjoy your ipod. You can listen to songs, watch movies, download pictures, play pod casts, and much more. Downloading music can bring hours of enjoyment and fun while traveling, relaxing or even while waiting for an appointment at the doctors office.

Some sites charge up to two dollars or more per ipod MP3 download. This can get quite expensive. I recommend you find a site that offers a one-time membership fee. These sites usually have unlimited downloads for life with a premium membership. This is almost like getting free ipod music. There are many sites out there to choose from. I have placed a banner and a link at the top of my site for the top rated site for ipod MP3 downloads. Or, Click here

Most ipods come with a 2.5-inch screen for you to view. This works great using a small head set for sound. It is not bulky and you can watch your movie or music video from just about anywhere. Most sites will even offer your favorite TV programs from the major networks.

One of the coolest things that the ipod videos downloads can bring you is the option to download music videos. Now you can listen to your favorite music and watch the music video at the same time. The site at the top of my site offers over 100 million ipod movies, music videos, as well as MP3 downloads. This gives you a lot to choose from.

The ipod site most recommended, is one were you can do all of your downloading for music, music videos, and ipod movie downloads. Their database has over 100 million movies songs and music videos to download and choose from. You can store the downloads on your pc and save them. Then I would recommend you upload different selections to your ipod as needed. Give yourself a change of pace from time to time.

Once your ipod music, movies, and music videos are downloaded to your pc, you can make DVD's and CD's or watch them from your computer or TV. You'll need software and hardware to do this. In order to create your DVD, you'll need to have a DVD burner on your pc. To watch either videos or play music you can choose from many different players on your pc. I recommend either windows media player or real player. They both work quite well.

This will give you the advantage to preview the ipod music and movies before you download them to your ipod. With over 100 million videos and songs to choose from you can have them with you now on your laptop and ipod. The ipod is an easy way to quickly watch and listen without all of the bulk of a laptop. If you haven't found a quality site, I highly recommend the unlimited ipod movie downloads site link at the top of my website.

When you find a good site like the one I have reviewed you can have all the ipod MP3 downloads at your finger tips for years to come with out spending money over and over again.

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由 Blogger 於 5/09/2012 04:42:00 上午 張貼在 Usher Music About Space

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In Brooklyn, the 2011 Summer Series will feature more than 200 new films, all screened outdoors, in front of big audiences in the parks, on boats, and on rooftops. The festival screens comedies, dramas, experimental shorts, animation, videos, short and feature documentaries, political films, and home movies and found footage, as well as many of the new independent narrative feature films. Live bands at free music events are scheduled during the series which runs until September 30.

The Festival of Animated Film in Stuttgart hosts directors, production companies, distributors and international sales companies to present their animated films in this competitive festival, now in its 18th year. Artistic animation films and the support of budding talents represent the core of the festival. Prize money of more than 50,000 Euros in total will be awarded in the various competitive programs. The combination of the Festival of Animated Film, the Animation Production Day and FMX, the conference on Animation. Effects, Games and Interactive Media, has established the event as an opportunity for financing and developing animation projects. For Festival goers, entry to any events in the Festival Garden is free through May 8.

Black International Cinema Berlin, May 4-8, originated from the Black Cultural Festival, which was produced and directed by Fountainhead(R) Tanz Theatre in 1986 for the first time in Europe. The present-day event in Berlin, presents the contributions of Black people to world culture through film, theater, dance, music, workshops and seminars, and pays homage to legendary tap dancer, Carnell Lyons. The festival focuses on presenting works of an artistic, cultural or political nature coinciding with the general educational, social, artistic and economic interest of people from Africa, and/or the African Diaspora.

This year's Los Angeles Showbiz Expo -- an annual industry event happening on both coasts -- that brings together everyone who works in Film, Video, TV, Theatre, Fashion and Live Events, will be happening this year from May 6-7. To attend the auditions at ShowBiz Expo, please register to attend ShowBiz Expo. If you do not pre-register by the cut-off date and would still like to attend the auditions, you may do so by proceeding to the audition area without a ShowBiz Expo badge although pre-registrations will receive priority.

NARM advances the promotion, marketing, distribution, and sale of music and entertainment by providing its members with a forum for meeting and networking opportunities, information, advocacy and education to support their businesses. At this year's NARM Convention in Los Angeles, May 9-12, a NARM/A2IM Music Business Crash Course will be given on May 9 and May 10. The course features educational presentations and panel discussions focused on the independent sector, and directed to independent music labels, artists, technology companies and students, to remain current in the transforming music economy. The National Association of Recording Merchandisers (NARM) is a not-for-profit trade association, and since 1958 has served the music and entertainment content delivery community.

Streaming Media, New York, is the annual gathering of online video professionals that offers the opportunity to get hands-on time with new products, check out new streaming devices, and network with industry experts, colleagues, and associates. New for 2011 is a fourth track devoted to HTML5. The HTML5 video "conference-within-a-conference" track will run the full two days from May 10-11 of the conference. Topics will include encoding to HTML5, encoding for Apple iOS devices, advertising and HTML5, how-to build an HTML5 player, and HTML5 standards. There will also be the unveiling of a new broadband device called Pavilion.

At Cannes Film Festival, short films are prominently represented at the Competition, such as when the short films Jury awards a Palme d'or, and at the Short Film Corner, a professional area for meeting people, exchanging ideas and promoting films. A number of initiatives aimed at supporting the talent of the future have already been introduced: the Camera d'Or is awarded to the best film presented either in the Official Selection, during Directors' Fortnight or during the Semaine de la Critique. The Cinefondation, which serves to showcase new trends in the film industry, screens films from film schools as part of the Official Selection, as well as organising the Residence and the Atelier. This year, the opening film will be released in cinemas in France on the same day as its screening at Cannes and the opening ceremony will be broadcast in cinemas enabling audiences to experience the Festival launch night live. The Cinema de la Plage, an outdoor cinema, screens a differen t film each night, and since 2010 even the occasional world preview from its theme-based programme.

The International Film festival and Environment Ciudad de Zaragoza has a focused directive to show, support and promote films made in the world on the environment. EcoZine aims to promote, show and award prizes to audiovisual fiction, animation and/or documentaries with environmental themes produced anywhere in the world, and also to promote actions and audiovisual events related to the Environment. The Festival based in Zaragoza runs from May 13-21.

BMI will honor David Foster as a BMI Icon on May 17 at its 59th Annual Pop Awards in Beverly Hills. The invitation-only event will also honor the songwriters and publishers of the past year's most-performed pop songs in the United States. Foster was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2010. The evening will include an all-star musical tribute to Foster, as well as the presentation of the Pop Songwriter, Song, and Publisher of the Year crystals.

The Jazz Foundation presents its annual "A Great Night in Harlem" gala concert, May 19 in New York, benefiting the Jazz Musicians Emergency Fund. This evening will raise money to assist the elder jazz and blues musicians in crisis across the country, artists who have spent their lives being passionately devoted to their music while creating enjoyment for listening audiences. Presently on the agenda, performances by Macy Gray, Roberta Flack, Dr. John, Lou Reed, Christian McBride, Hot 8 Brass Band are slated, with more to be announced. Post-concert supper, club gala, and the VIP After-Party jam session with musicians are featured activities. The 2011 Gala Honoree is Michael Novogratz.

Artists collective, The Urban Individualists, and their artist affiliates, open a New York show with music themed, and music inspired artworks paying tribute and homage to musician and composer Gerry Eastman and The Williamsburg Music Center he founded in 1981. WMC exists to foster the creation, performance and appreciation of American Classic Music. It is a black-owned and operated non-profit jazz institution offering classes and workshops in jazz performance and history. This exhibit will formally open on May 20 with a reception and will be accompanied with live music provided by Gerry Eastman's band. This is an Urban Individualists Event curated by Helene Ruiz, co-curated by Jakulo Cooper, in collaboration with WMC.

"Gaming: A Dominant Force In Entertainment, What's Next?" is the theme to be addressed at a panel on May 20 that will ponder the entertainment software industry's growth of roughly 1300% since the year 2000, and how Gaming is now beginning to push boundaries in other fields outside of entertainment such as social networking, health, education, and even science. The group of experienced gaming professionals assembling in Boulder will tackle the future role of video games in the entertainment industry. Panelists will discuss their personal history in the industry as well as rising trends and new applications for gaming.

The 2011 Billboard Music Awards will air on ABC live from Las Vegas on May 22, in partnership with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. The awards will reflect Billboard's chart rankings based on key fan interactions with music, including album, single and digital sales, touring, streaming and social interactions on MySpace, Facebook and other popular online destinations for music. The awards will be based on the reporting period of February 28, 2010 through March 1, 2011. Top artists will be recognized in a variety of genres, including R&B, Rap, Pop, Country, Rock, Latin and Alternative.

The 56th Annual Drama Desk Awards will be held at a gala sit-down dinner in New York, on May 23. The Drama Desk Awards which were established in 1955 and are given annually in a number of categories, recognize excellence in the commercial and not-for-profit sectors of New York theatre. It is the only theatre award for which production on Broadway, off-Broadway, and off-off Broadway compete within the same categories. This year's Awards show adds new features including a live orchestra, performances from nominated musicals, and a one hour primetime special which will air one week later on the Ovation Network. Festivities opens with a Black-Tie VIP Cocktail Reception, VIP After Party Ticket with Premium open bar and dessert stations. Harvey Fierstein is host of this year's awards.

The Amsterdam Film Festival contains a mix of art and expression seeking to reflect the character of the host city. Honoring films from over 90 countries around the world, the 2011 Amsterdam Film Festival will award and recognize feature films, short films, documentaries, student films, animation, music videos and screenplays. The festival accepts submissions of all types and encourages individuality and experimentation. The Festival, running May 31 to June 1, recognizes excellence in filmmaking in the categories with the organization's Van Gogh Awards.

The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the "Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events" page which now has a language translation button to convert page contents into most widely used languages. A look ahead into June event dates will help you prepare for: Cine Gear Expo 2011, in Hollywood, Produced By Conference, in Orlando; The Aruba International Film FestivalSanta Cruz, Aruba, in Santa Cruz, Banff World Television FestivalBanff, Alberta, in Alberta, AFI/Discovery Channel SILVERDOCS Documentary Festiva, in Silver Spring, to provide only a small sample of upcoming events in advance. Also to alert viewers, a site revamp and redesign of The Actor's Checklist is close at hand, with new interactive features, tools and resources to aid members, so please stay tuned.





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NEWS-SEEKING PATTERNS OF ACADEMICIANS AND ADMINISTRATORS OF ALLAMA IQBAL OPEN UNIVERSITY

BY MALIK TARIQ MALIK

INTRODUCTION

Media play a major role in the lives of people all over the world in this global age. Print media is more worthy and trustful source of information in Pakistan. In the Pakistan the readership of daily newspapers is higher.

The researcher of this study is interested in investigating news-seeking patterns of both the communities i.e. academicians as well as administrators in the areas of national and international affairs, politics, education, economic, health, sports etc. Nobody reads the whole newspaper but he or she tries to look for the news they are interested in. They get and update their knowledge and information about their particular field of interest. Some of the readers read only political news; others may go to economy page as well because they want to invest their money and are interested in k nowing a countrys political and economic situation. Proper economic and politics condition is a motivating factor for investors to make investment. Some other readers are getting only information on education and health.

NEWS CONCEPT

Man can subsist without newspaper but no newspaper can subsist without news. News is a regular part of life. Definition of News is not an easy task. News is a simple word easily understood by those who deal with it. In a way it is one of the most complex words in our vocabulary, for it is endless in variety. Although most of the definitions are familiar by now yet News is certainly more than the Webster definition that is a report of recent events, fresh information concerning something that has recently taken place.

News is recent events and happening, especially those that are unusual or notable. According to Microsoft Encarta Dictionary a report of any recent event or situation and as the report of events pub lished in a newspaper or information about current events printed in newspapers or broadcast by the media is called news. Therefore, according to this definition, news is what happens and what people feel, think, say and do. So, that news consists chiefly of unpublished reports of those activities of people which interest, inform, educate or entertain the public.

News is infact a communication between human beings. From the earliest period of human civilization, when people started exchanging ideas, the information or ideas started flowing from one person to another. With the organisation and development of the society, the transfer of ideas and information also increased and the process became more accurate and scientific.

IMPORTANCE OF NEWS

News to define its meaning is information provided to the public about the world around them. This information is important to them because equipped with the latest information about an issue; the publ ic is able to decide their course of action. News is the accurate, timely and to the point report of an event. It is not the event itself, but the description of the event by a reporter. The importance of news has increased rapidly. It is the newspaper where we can find the news in more detail, and can be preserved and retained for any period of time. Today the press has become a social instrument, whether it wishes to be or not. As a social instrument, the newspaper finds place permanently in thousand of homes, and thus influences every member of the family indirectly.

PRINT MEDIA

Newspaper, publication usually issued on a daily or weekly basis, the main function of which to report news. Many newspapers furnish special information to readers, such as weather reports, television schedules, and listings of stock prices. They provide commentary on politics, economics, and arts and culture, and sometimes include entertainment features, such as comics and c rossword puzzles. In nearly all cases and in varying degrees, newspapers depend on commercial advertising for their income.

Like division of media in Pakistan, people also enjoy both the urban and rural culture. It is very much obvious in Pakistan that national newspapers have their own monopoly. Print media is more worthy and trustful source of information in Pakistan as compared to Television which is in tight control of government. The reason may be to buy a newspaper is cheaper than to have a television set in home, and secondly people can see more news as compared to television bulletin. A newspaper is universally expected to perform four functions, in a democratic society.

? It must collect and disseminate objectively the days news.
? It must interpret and explain news in order to assist the readers in forming intelligent opinions.
? It must guide public opinion after presenting impartially both sides of every issue and point out the wa y to the greatest good for the greatest number. Thus essentially a newspaper is an institution of society aiming at public welfare.
? It should perform the duty of entertaining to the public.

However, there is another side to the picture, too vital to be ignored. A newspaper is a commercial enterprise that naturally seeks profit. For that it has to mould itself in such a way that it could be an acceptable commodity for a large number of people sufficient for its sustenance. Thus a newspaper in order to survive has to strike a balance between its position as an institution of society and as a commercial enterprise.

HISTORY OF NEWSPAPER

Like all other human fields of improvement, newspapers also had a systematic, slow but steady growth. Mehdi Hassan and Dr. Abdus Salam wrote in their book Journalism for All (1988, p. 6780). According to Mehdi and Salam news was started in early 60 B.C. the history of the modern press is closely linked up with the invention of printing and the printing press. According to S. Natarjan; the art of printing from negative reliefs was known in China around 594 A.D., and from there spread along the caraven routes to the west where taking impressions from wooden blocks became quite common. In 1768, William Bolts was deported from Calcutta to Madras enroot to Europe, because he dared to set up a printing press in Calcutta. James Augustus Hickys, at any rate, was the proprietor of the Bengal Gazette, or Calcutta General Advertiser, the first newspaper to be published in India. The first issue appeared on Saturday, January 29, 1780, announcing itself as a weekly political and commercial paper open to all parties but influenced by none, Much of its pages were devoted to advertisements. It was a two sheet paper, about 12 inches by 8 inches, with three columns printed on both sides. Warren Hastings, in which the pioneer journalist of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent scored some success, it was finally crushed.

However, in recent years the standard of newspaper, which could survive in existing circumstances, has considerably improved both content wise and in appearance. Especially the Urdu newspapers have changed altogether and can now be compared with any advanced newspaper.

This was a bulletin Printing, name used for several processes by which words, pictures, or designs are reproduced on paper, fabrics, metal, or other suitable materials. These processes, sometimes called the graphic arts, consist essentially of making numerous identical reproductions of an original by mechanical means, and the printed book has thus been called the first mass product.

Before the invention of printing machines, people spread news by word of mouth, written letters, or public notices. As more people learned to read and write, news reports gained added reliability. Newspaper publishers estimate that nearly six out of ten adults in the United States and Canada read a newspaper every day, and seven out of ten read a paper each weekend. By the time they see a newspaper; most people have already learned about breaking news stories on television or radio. Readers rely on newspapers to provide detailed background information and analysis, which television and radio newscasts rarely offer. Newspapers not only inform readers that an event happened but also help readers understand what led up to the event and how it will affect the world around them.

Newspapers trace their roots to handwritten news sheets posted daily in the public marketplaces of ancient Rome. The first printed newspapers appeared in China during the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907). These newspapers were printed from carved wood blocks. Precursors to modern papers first appeared in Venice, Italy, in the middle of the 14th century. Newspapers as known today, complete with advertising and a mixture of political, economic, and social news and commentary, e merged in Britain in the mid-18th century.

In modern times, newspapers that share a similar structure and function are published all over the world. This global press traces its origin to British papers of the 18th century. Though threatened by censorship in the years proceeding, during, and following the world wars, the global press maintained the tradition of freedom of the press first established in London.

Newspapers clearly state the journalistic salience of an item through its page placement, headline and length. In short we say that mass communication and newspapers is a process through which the social reality is transmitted. Newspaper, publication usually issued on a daily or weekly basis, the main function of which is to report news. Many newspapers also furnish special information to readers, such as weather reports, television schedules, and listings of stock prices. They provide commentary on politics, economics, and arts and culture, and sometimes include entertainment features, such as comics and crossword puzzles. In nearly all cases and in varying degrees, newspapers depend on commercial advertising for their income.

HISTORY OF SUB-CONTINENT NEWSPAPERS

Like all other human fields of improvement, newspapers also had a systematic, slow but steady growth. A short history of the press as it began in early times can help us in understanding the dimensions of its growth. The history of the modern press is closely linked up with the invention of printing and the printing press.

The institute of newsletters came much later. Dr. Abdus Salam Khurshid pioneering work on Newsletters in the Orient throw light on the origin of newsletters in the sub-continent. It was the Ghaznavide Muslim rulers who are said to have introduced the system in India towards the end of the 10th century. The newsletters played the major role in satisfying this quest for news and moulding public opinion before the printed newspapers became a reality.

Bengal, a part of which is now Bengla Desh, was the forerunner in modern journalism in the whole of the sub-continent. It was in Bengal that the first newspapers in India made there appearance and then the seeds of awakening were spread over the length and breadth of the rest of the country, beginning of course, with some pockets of British colonies such as Madras and Bombay. Since, modern newspapers in India had their origin in the needs of the small but growing European colonies sprinkled over the capitals of the presidency towns.

Journalism in those days was hardly considered a profession for decent men. The government of Bengal, under the Company rule, once contemplated the publication of a newspaper of their own so that, among other things, they may put out of existence and needy indolence a few European adventures who were found unfit to be emerged in any creditable method of subsistence. It is stated abou t C. H. Clay, the editor of the Madras Courier, that he had the entry of good society, because he was clerk of the Chief Justice. In 1768, William Bolts was deported from Calcutta to Madras enrooted to Europe, because he dared to set up a printing press in Calcutta. In 1780, James Augustus Hickys weekly political and commercial paper open to all parties but influenced by none, the Bengal Gazette, or the Hicky Gazette as it was popular and known, was refused transmission through the post office, and, after a historical struggle with Warren Hastings, in which the pioneer journalist of Indo-Pakistan subcontinent scored some success, it was finally cursed. William Duan of the Bengal Journal, was expelled from India, went to America and established himself as a newspaperman. Almost from its birth, the all absorbing interest of the Indian press had been politics. James Augustus Hickey started the Bengal Gazette in 1780; some eighty years after the first daily newspaper in England had commenced publication.

Even before Indian editors used their pens to fight for the freedom of their homeland, there was a strong political flavour to the press and very soon censorship of one kind or another was enforced, even though the people on whom it was imposed belonged to the ruling race. Editors in madras and Bombay soon followed their Calcutta forerunner into trouble with authority, which then of course was the company, very jealous of its position and highly intolerant of criticism by what were regarded as outsiders.

James Augustus Hickey, at any rate, was the proprietor of the Bangal Gazette or Calcutta General Advertiser, the first newspaper to be published in India. The first issue appeared on Saturday, January 29, 1780, announcing itself as a weekly and commercial paper, open to all parties, but succeed by none, many of its pages were devoted It was a two sheet paper, about 12 inches by 8 inches, with three columns printed on both sid es. The second newspaper to be started in the Indo-Pakistan sub-continent was The Indian Gazette or Calcutta Public Advertiser published in 18th century. This was launched by Mr. P. Reed and Mr. B. Messink in November 1780.

The contents of the press in the 18th century reveal the influence of James Augustus Hickey. Foreign news, parliamentary debates of England, extracts from English newspapers, social news, letters to the editors and poets corners furnished most of the reading material. The second stage of Indian journalism started when the Baptist missionaries at Serampur, a Dutch settlement, started bringing out a monthly magazine in Bengali, the first of its kind to be published in a native language. The Friend of India a monthly periodical was also launched by the Serampur missionaries in April, 1818.

The first Indian-owned newspapers did not come out till the beginning of the 19th century. These newspapers were brought out to counteract the Engl ish and missionary influence on the local population. It is significant to note, therefore, the first such newspaper that was to come out was neither in the language of the area where it originated, that is, Bengal, nor in the language that was still deeply entrenched in the soil and in the courts and other official dealings, Persian. It was in English. Within the space of a few years, many other local owned newspapers were on the scene. The first Urdu newspaper in the subcontinent was Jam-i-Jahan Numa appeared in 1822. Bengal also claims the rare distinction of being the home of the first Hindi newspaper as well, Qodunt Martund launched in Calcutta in 1826. Calcutta, which was first to fall under British colonial rule of the three English colonies other two being Madras and Bombay remained the most important and largest press centre during 19th century.
1.7 GROWTH OF MUSLIM PRESS IN SUBCONTINENT

The tempo of political agitation was quickened by the Muslim Press in particular in 1919 which set up new traditions of sacrifice. The Zamindar reappeared in December 1919; its circulation was 6145 in 1920. Another was Paigham by Abdul Kalam Azad from Calcutta in 1921 and Sabah by Qazi Abdul Ghaffar from Delhi. Al these newspapers made their contribution to the success of the non-cooperation movement. In 1922, the Press Act was withdrawn after the movement stopped under directive from Mahatma Gandhi.

The pro-league Muslim Press during 1924 1937 was spear-headed by the Muslim Outlook and Inqilab whose lead was accepted by Muslim papers all over the sub-continent. During 1938 1947 the Muslim press grew rather rapidly. A number of English language newspapers sprang up while Urdu Press too had new additions. Together with the old newspapers, they voiced Muslim political aspirations with still greater force and played the major role in mobilising public opinion in support of the Pakistan movement.

After the Lahore Resolution was passed, the Quaid-i-Azam sponsored a create Muslim Press campaign and collected funds for that purpose. He founded the Dawn in October 1942 as a daily from Delhi and placed it under a trust of which he was the Managing Trustee. Quaid-i-Azam also started Manshoor and Urdu daily from Delhi which was the official organ of the Al India Muslim League. This bright and fancy daily was edited by Syed Hassan Riaz.

HISTORY OF PAKISTANS NEWSPAPERS

When journalism crossed the borders of Pakistan, it had made considerable progress both intellectually and technically. Lahore had the distinction of having not only the oldest Paper in Punjab but that in the whole of Pakistan. It is ironical to note that there was no devoted and influential Press in Indo-Pakistan sub-continent to voice Muslim opinion during the days of struggle for independence. The majority of first class English dailies such as The Statesman, The Times of India, The Pioneer, The Hindu , The Bombay Chronicle and The Hindustan Times used to appear in Province which now apart of India. In Pakistan, Karachi at best could boast of three English newspapers. The Daily Gazette, The Sindh Observer and the Karachi Gazette all of them Hindu-owned. Peshawar had only one English newspaper, Khyber Mail, while Rawalpindi, Multan, Quetta, Sialkot and other big cities had none. In the Punjab, during the pre-Partition days, The Civil and Military Gazette and The Tribune were the most prominent English dailies.

As had been stated earlier, the territories now forming Pakistan were never the centre of prominent English dailies. The reason may be due to the political and educational backwardness of the majority of the Muslim population of these regions. The Muslim League could hardly have expected any positive contribution to its stand from these Papers. The founder of Pakistan Quaid-i-Azam says, The role of newspapers in voicing and moulding public opinion cannot be over emphasised. The press has played an important role not only in the creation of Pakistan by mounding and expressing Muslim Public Opinion in support of the idea of Pakistan but, also in the development of this new state.

OBJECTIVES

This study has been aimed to investigate the following:

? To study the news-seeking patterns of the Academicians and administrators of AIOU readers with respect to the selected aspect namely gender, age, and qualification.
? To investigate the news-seeking patterns of the Academicians and administrators of AIOU readers with respect to the selected aspect namely selected medium of newspapers as well as their time of reading newspaper.
? To find out differences in news-seeking patterns among Academician and administrators of AIOU readers with respect to the selected aspects, namely purpose of reading newspapers i.e. reading newspaper for just gathering updated information, job hunting, entertainment , time killing etc.
? To find out differences in news-seeking patterns among academicians and administrator of AIOU readers with respect to the selectedg aspects, namely National and international affairs, educational, political, economics news, articles and editorials etc.

HYPOTHESIS

In this study the hypothesis is that:

? The Academicians are more interested in the news related to international and national affairs, articles, editorials, political and educational developmental news.
? The administrators are more interested in the area of national affairs, city news, political, job hunting, sports time-killing, etc.

RESEARCH QUESTION

What are the different patterns of news-seeking of academicians and administrators of Allama Iqbal Open University?

SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY

The researcher should examine and analyze the news-seeking patterns of two groups i.e. academicians and administrators co mmunities. The researcher also discuss potential effects highlighting from print media i.e. newspaper. The specification of such effects should be contained within the hypothesis that link elements or concepts in each of the phases.

News is a form of communication. The present age is rightfully called age of information, observation, and reasoning revolution. (Pavlik, J. V., 1996). These revolutions began with the wish to remember important events or happening by writing them down. With a few scratches, our inventive ancestors set in motion the never ending story of recording information, the communication and the storage of knowledge outside the brain. Information, observation and reasoning are the main sources of human knowledge. Over ninety percent of our knowledge comes through this first source, i.e. newspapers.
LITERATURE REVIEW

It is understood that information needs arise when an individual finds himself in a problem situation, when he or she no longer can manage with the knowledge that he or she possess, (Talja 1992, P. 72). There are a lot of studies on mass media or mass communication throughout the world done but a few research studies conducted on news-seeking patterns throughout the world, and especially in Pakistan. The present study is significant not only for the newspapers industries and readers, but it is also important for educational point of view. This study will help to newspaper readers, media practitioners, academicians as well as administrators of different disciplines and planners of print media.

We, as individuals and groups, repeatedly find ourselves in situations where information is needed, gathered, sought, organized, retrieved, processed, evaluated, and used (Solomon 1996, P. 292). Reading of newspaper is part of daily routine for many consumers. The paper version provides tactile pleasure of turning pages and the portability of tucking the newspaper in a briefcase or book-bag for later or recycling it by leaving it on the break or breakfast table for someone else to enjoy. Newspaper, publication usually issued on a daily or weekly basis, the main function of which is to report news. Many newspapers also furnish special information to readers, such as weather reports, television schedules, and listings of stock prices. They provide commentary on politics, economics, and arts and culture, and sometimes include entertainment features, such as comics and crossword puzzles. In nearly all cases and in varying degrees, newspapers depend on commercial advertising for their income.

INFORMATION SEEKING

The close to topic of this research related researches made by the renowned researchers are given below:

Suriya, Sangeetha and Nambi (2004) carried out a research work on "Infor mation seeking behaviour of Faculty Members from Government Arts Colleges in Cuddlier District." The purpose of their study was to investigate, how faculty members seek information from the library. It mentions that most of the respondents 61 (38.12 percent) visited the library several times a week to meet their information needs. Regarding the type of search made by the respondents the majority of the respondents 91 (56.87 percent) made their search by subject.

Shokeen and Kushik (2002) studied about information seeking behaviour of social scientists working in the universities located in Haryana. They reported most of the social scientists visit the library daily. The first preferred method of searching the required information by the social scientists followed by searching through indexing and abstracting periodicals, and citations in articles respectively. The social scientists use current journals followed by books.

Challener (1999) investigated artists and art historians teaching in five liberal arts colleges and three universities. Results found that they need information for teaching. The participants almost all subscribe to art journals, and many read newspapers. They visit libraries frequently, usually more than one library, and unlike previous reports, the majority is willing to ask the librarian for help. A large percentage of both art historians and artists are using computers for teaching. All 27 participants use slides extensively in the classroom, supplemented in most cases by textbooks.

Reneker (1992) investigated the information seeking activities of 31 members of the Stanford University Academic community were examined over a two-week period during the 1990-91 academic year. She adopted the naturalistic approach and employed qualitative techniques for data collection using mainly personal interviews. Informants perception of their information environment expressed in positive terms and ther e a close relationship between knowledge, information, environment and the sources used. Information seeking embedded in the day-to-day activities and relationships of participants and triggered both by articulation of need and availability of information. A large number of needs are satisfied by the sources informants created or organized themselves and by interpersonal information sources. The findings of the study indicated that the action of information seeking originated from a wide variety of needs like personal, professional, entertainment, etc.

Althaus and Tewksbury (2000) wrote in his article Online News-seeking Patterns of first and second year college students: Academic research continues to show that online news users are not representative of the average rational voter. Althaus and Tewksbury's study of Online News-seeking Patterns of first and second year college students reminds us that those who seek news and information online are qualitatively di fferent from the general population. Not only do they have greater access to, and familiarity with, computer technology than non-Internet users, they also have different demographic and attitudinal profiles than the general adult population. "News habits developed within this community result not from an uneven social distribution of computer skills and access but, rather, from the unique needs that are better satisfied by on-line or traditional news media."

Daniela Lesley Evans (1978, p. 96) write in his article entitled A Critical Examination of Claims Concerning: The Impact of Print he wrote So much that we think of as characteristic of the modern world economic, social, religious, political is built on the foundation provided by newspaper as a medium of communication. From the sixteenth century it became impossible for the illiterate to obtain either wealth or influence, and this has largely occurred due to the invention of print as a medium of communication i n the fifteenth century. This had widespread consequences, allowing large numbers of copies of a work to be made rapidly. The further availability of information provided enabled greater scientific advancement as it meant that other peoples ideas were more readily available. Similarly the development of the printing press encouraged religious reform, as it was a major factor in allowing the writings of Erasmus, Luther and later Calvin to achieve high levels of circulation.

Febvre and Martin (1976, p. 278) It is safe to assume that printing makes knowledge accessible to all, although it needs to be accompanied with the necessary cultural and political conditions making literacy compulsory for all. However, this does not necessarily lead to a society that is much more knowledgeable than one that uses oral communication as its foundation. In a non-literary society, where information is conveyed orally, to avoid the information it is necessary to avoid the whole of s ociety. The only possible way by living a completely solitary life, by contrast, reading and writing are predominantly silent and solitary activities. Consequently, in a literary society, information is easy to avoid, simply by choosing not to read what is available.

USES AND GRATIFICATIONS MODEL OF THE MEDIA

The mass media is a huge phenomenon. Through the various different platforms, print or broadcast, the media is able to reach millions of people like no other force. Without media, powerful speeches by politicians would no affect, local events would remain local, and performances by great actors would be seen only by the people in the immediate audience. The media overcomes distances, and builds a direct relationship with audience.

The model looks at motives of the people who use the media, asking why we bother to read newspapers, why we find ourselves so compelled to keep up to date with our favourite soap.

Surveillance

The surveillance need based around the idea that people feel better having the feeling that they know what is going on in the world around them. One of the genres this often applied to news. By watching or reading news, we learn about what is happening in the world, and as the news is usually bad news, this knowledge leaves us feeling more secure about the safety of our own lives. This idea might seem a bit strange, that we know about tragedies and we feel safer, but sociologists argue that ignorance seen as a source of danger, and so the more knowledge we have the safer we feel.

When looking at the news it's easy to spot news items that give us this reaction. For example if it wasn't for watching the news we might be unknowingly left with five rupees notes that are worthless, or become vulnerable to the latest computer virus, or end up in a hospital with an awful track record also we have not knowledge about new world record in cricket which set by South A frican cricket team against worlds best team i.e. Australia. So, the surveillance models then all about awareness. We use the mass media to be more aware of the world, gratifying a desire for knowledge and security.

Using the Media within Relationships

Another aspect to the personal relationships model is how we can sometimes use the media as a springboard to form and build upon relationships with real people. The EastEnders strapline 'Everyone's talking about it', despite being a clever marketing tactic, does hold up when looking at social uses of the media. Having a favourite TV program in common can often be the start of a conversation, and can even make talking to strangers that much easier.

The Advantages and Limitations of Media

Texts need audiences in order to realise their potential for meaning. So a text does not have a single meaning but rather a range of possibilities which are defined by both the text and by its audienc es. The meaning is not in the text, but in the reading. (Hart 1991, 60)

Andrew Hart, many other theorists and researchers who identify and give value to the existence of audience in relation to the media. At the most basic level, audiences are vital in communication. It is for the audience that media constructing and conveying information, and, if it were not for the audiences, the media would not exist. The exact relationship between the media and their audiences has been the subject of debate since media were first seriously studied and emphasises the importance of audience and of their relationship with the media.

The Effects model is considered to be an inadequate representation of the communication between media and public, as it does not take into account the audience as individuals with their own beliefs, opinions, ideals and attitudes:

Audiences are not blank sheets of paper on which media messages can be written; members of an audie nce will have prior attitudes and beliefs which will determine how effective media messages are. (Abercrombie 1996, 140)

A new approach to the dynamics of audience/text relationship was suggested in the Uses and Gratification model. In this model, theorists were not asking how the media effects audiences, but how were audiences using media. They suggested that audiences had specific needs and actively turned to the media to consume various texts to satisfaction of these needs. The audience in Uses and Gratifications were seen as active, as opposed to passive audience in the Effects model. Uses and Gratifications acknowledged that audience had a choice of texts from which to choose form and satisfy their needs, Bulmer and Katz (1974).

The model still implies that messages are packages of information that all audience will read same. It does not consider how he messages are interpreted or any other factors affecting audiences interpretation.

An other criticism is that of the tendency to concentrate solely on why audiences consume media rather than extending investigation to discover what meanings and interpretations are produced and in what circumstances, i.e. how media are received. (OSullivan, Dutton & Rayner 1994, 131)

In other words, media receivers want to use information in some way or to obtain satisfactions that they anticipate (Lowery & DeFleur, 1995).

A number of studies on audiences uses and gratification of various media (Berelson, 1949; Kimball, 1959, etc), early 1970s scholars in this area turned to audience motivations, developing typologies of uses people made of media to gratify social and psychological needs (Katz et al. 1973). Such typologies included such needs as strengthening understanding of self, friends, others, or society; strengthening status of self or society; and strengthening contact with family, friends, society, or culture (Lowery & DeFleur, 1995).< br />
It's likely has been found in the uses-and-gratification research from the West, that an individual uses media for different purposes at different times under different circumstances; and different people may seek different gratifications from media. A question for researchers is how to meaningfully and effectively categorize (typologies) those different needs and objectives.

According to Chang, Chen and Zhang study in (1993): Early studies of Chinese media focused on propagandistic and persuasive aspects of mass communication. Since mid-1880s, various social factions have used newspapers mainly as tools in their political struggles. The Chinese communists have always recognized value of mass media (Robinson, 1981). For example, the government has emphasized use of mass media for China's social, political, and economic development (Yu & Sears, 1996). As a powerful tool of opinion and perceptions, news media are supposed to unite the people, to eleva te their consciousness and spirit.

ROLE OF PRINT MEDIA

To keep abreast of what's happening in the world around us we need information. Without information we won't know a threat exists until it is too late. But just being offered information is not enough. We also need to be willing to take that information on board while there is still time to avoid threat.

Public information will be just one of many issues officials will have to address, and media are often perceived as being a nuisance or hindrance to response activities. However, it is essential that communicating with media is made a priority in any response planning because the media will be among first responders at the scene and will be a vital information mechanism for government bodies. The media will therefore share a significant amount of responsibility for relaying vital information to public. Although newspapers makes knowledge more accessible to all, and has had dramatic effec ts on our culture and society, it does not necessarily follow that a literate society is greatly more knowledgeable than a non-literate one.

NEWSPAPERS READERSHIP IN PAKISTAN

Newspaper publishers estimate that nearly six out of ten adults every day, and seven out of ten read a newspaper each weekend. By the time they seen; mostly people have already learned about breaking news stories on television or radio. Readers rely on newspapers to provide detailed background information and analysis, which television and radio newscasts rarely offer. Newspapers not only inform readers that an event happened but also help readers to understand what led up to the event and how it will affect on the world around them. Media scholar Philip J. Hanes (1996) wrote his article entitled The Advantages and Limitations Focus on Audience in Media Studies:

Audiences are not blank sheets of paper on which media messages can be written; members of an audience will h ave prior attitudes and beliefs which will determine how effective media messages are. (P.140)

Veblen, (1994) wrote in his article entitled Newspaper Readership and Informational/Cultural Processing: Newspaper readership is an instance of cultural participation in regard to which information-processing. Reading newspaper is more straightforward form of information processing than various other cultural activities and at the same time choice of newspaper could scarcely count as very effective kind of status-oriented `conspicuous consumption' on account both of relatively low price even expensive newspapers and of the fact that reading likely to take place in privacy of home as in public. Consequently, evidence of a connection between newspaper readership and status, independent of information-processing capacity, would, for our present purposes of particular significance.

Most people read only one (daily) newspaper, at least on a regular basis. This mean s that we can here avoid complications that arise with forms of cultural participation, such as, say, listening to music, where there a wide variety of genres and an individual may have a range of preferences. As we noted above, such instances have of late given rise to debates over whether distinction of greatest relevance in regard to status is that between those participating in `high' as opposed to `low' (or popular) culture or that between cultural `omnivores' and `univores'.

According to Pakistan Readership Report (2002-03) issued by Gallup survey of Pakistan, newspaper readership ratio among adults (18 years+) is only 33% and among youth (10-17years) is 21%. Province wise this ratio is: for Punjab 31%, For Sindh 49%, for N.W.F.P. 25%, and for Baluchistan 28%. Among youth (10-17years), this ration is: for Punjab 16%, for Sindh 34%, For N.W.F.P 16% and for Baluchistan 19%. Apparently the situation is, to some extent satisfactory for Sindh province but this is due to high rate of readership in Karachi, which is among adults 69% and among youth 44% .By excluding Karachi, the ratio remains very poor for interior Sindh. The table and graph elaborate the province-wise ratio of newspaper readership in Pakistan.
Ratio of Newspaper Readership
Province Among Adults
(+18 Years) Among Youth
(10 17 Years)
Punjab 31% 16%
Sindh 49% (Karachi 69% &
Interior Sindh 29%) 34% (Karachi 44% & Interior Sindh 24)
N.W.F.P. 25% 16%
Baluchistan 28% 19%
Average 33 21


Newspaper readership and buyer-ship are two different concepts. Every reader is not a buyer of newspapers. One newspaper read by a lot person at homes, offices, shops and libraries. According to Pakistan Readership Report 2002-03 of the Gallup Survey, in Punjab 10.17 readers read one copy, while in Sindh this ratio is 5.57, in N.W.F.P this ratio is 8.47 and in Baluchistan this ratio is 13.98.9 Considering the economi c peculiarities and rural character of the region, it is understandable that the number of readers per copy in Baluchistan is substantially higher than the national average of 7.7 It is necessary to mention that after including the ratio of readership per copy in FATA/FANA and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, the national average of readers per copy is 7.7.

NEWS SEEKING PATTERNS

In general, the amount of news reading tends to increase with age, education, and administrative status. News reading increases very rapidly through the academicians and administrators. Summarizing reading patterns by education appears that readers on lower end of educational curve tend to use newspaper for entertainment, sensational news, and political. Newspaper readership often measured by quantifying a particular indicator of newspaper-reading activity, readership tends to be viewed far too simplistically.

Qamar (2002, p.18) said in his thesis of M.Sc. Mass Communication entitled The comparison of Different Newspaper Reading habits of Male & Female. His comparative study of different newspaper reading habits of men and women in Pakistan meant to find out that; to what extent newspaper reading habits differ from each other. The researcher wrote in his research study that women are interested in reading newspaper. It was found that 56 percent female readers read newspaper daily. The survey indicated that high percentage of women read newspaper although not more than men.

It is found that men spend more time for reading newspaper per day than women, as 40 percent men read newspaper more than an hour, while there are no women spend more than an hour for reading newspapers. Men read newspaper more than women in terms of reading large volume of newspapers material. Men like to read hard news while women like to read soft news.

According to Herald Media Survey (1997) in Scotland revealed in an article What they Read? The s urvey showed that newspapers are still popular with young teenager in Scotland. More than three quarters of boys said they spent on average ten minutes a day for reading newspaper with sports page being the most popular only 13 percent of boys read the whole newspaper. Although girls spend slightly less time for reading newspaper, they are reading more widely.

Media researchers Mehta and Paralikar (1999) investigated through conducting a study that news-seeking pattern of the selected media were studied in relation to spent time, news language, news area, kind of news and news aspects. The overall findings of their study revealed that majority of respondents described to two English newspapers, because those newspapers give complete news and have good coverage of events. Overall and sex wise newspaper used as medium for seeking news most frequently. The kinds of news sought through newspaper were political, social, health educational, etc. Highly significant diffe rences existed in the news-seeking patterns of female respondents with respect to spent time for seeking news, kinds of news and news aspects.

The kinds of news sought through this media with highest intensity indices were political, social, national and international current affairs, educational, sports, science, economics and business news. The other indices were headlines, detailed news, news briefs, articles, and editorials. The researcher conducted research on assessing the importance of news, to explore where news fits in daily life.

James (2004, p.34) Thus, we risk misunderstanding its true nature. As we become comfortable employing automatic processing with its focus on efficiency, we let our skills of meaning construction atrophy. With weaker skills, we come to depend more and more on the media to tell us what is important and who we should be. For centuries, getting access to information was a major problem for virtually all human. With rise of the mass media throughout the 20th century, the barriers to access were substantially reduced, especially with spread of Radio, Television and then Computer. Today, not only information easily available to almost anyone; information keeps getting produced at an ever increasing rate. The information problem is no longer about how to get access. The much more pressing problem is how to keep up with all the news-seeking patterns.

PRACTICAL USAGE OF NEWSPAPERS INFORMATION

Andersen says in his article entitled Communicating Information across Cultures: Understanding How Others Work published on September 2002. There are specific communications differences between scientists and humanists that are created by their information-seeking patterns. An excellent example of academics cultural differences in the field of information seeking and uses, information-seeking research looks at how individuals go about finding materials that they need in order to satis fy informational needs both professional and recreational. In the ethnographic experience of an unfamiliar worship service, an individual might gather clues about standing-sitting-kneeling through watching others, through listening for directions from an authority, or through written materials available somewhere in the place of worship.

The academicians of AIOU usually follow the patterns established by their peers, relying upon mentors in their fields to guide them in graduate school and early professional development. Differences of style come from both individualhis or her own personal traits, predispositions, and biases, and from training that he or she has received in a particular discipline. Thus, culture including ways of individuals seeks information passed on through apprenticeship and practice.

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EDUCATION AND NEWSPAPER

The relationship between education and newspaper readership is far from simple. First, newspap er readership correlates positively with information seeking, including information about civic responsibilities, and need for cognition, the pursuit of higher level reasoning. A body of research correlates interest in information about political, public policy and social issues to news seeking. For example, a panel study by Hugh Culbertson and others found that focused attention, interest and involvement in political issues correlated positively with news seeking. The study found that attention either to newspapers or to television news content predicted provide knowledge. However, the study of newspaper readers were more cognitively involved than television viewers.

Maxwell McCombs and Paula Poindexter found a positive correlation between the frequency of newspaper readership and perceived civic duty to keep informed. (Civic duty encompasses perceived obligation to vote and to support fundamental liberties, including free expression.) Similarly, in a comparison study of nonreaders, single newspaper readers and multiple newspaper readers conducted by Wayne Wanta and others, nonreaders demonstrated particularly weak motivation to use newspapers to understand events or to known informed about civic affairs.

One study found that highly educated are more tolerant of others' freedom of expression than less well-educated, regardless of whether the issue in question supported by left or right-wing groups. The same study found that increased cognitive sophistication was even more predictive of support for free expression than level of education alone. Other studies using cognitive variables such as need for cognition have produced similar findings.

Rather than examine the possible multi-faceted link between education on free-expression issues and news seeking, research has tended to focus on differences among newspapers that may explain differences in civic knowledge among and between readers and nonreaders. For examp le, one study suggests that "not all newspapers are created equal." The study measured differences in civic knowledge among readers of different types of newspapers and found that all newspapers may not benefit equally from increased interest in civic affairs among potential readers. Because readers tend to gather information about local affairs from local newspapers and information about national issues from metropolitan papers, the selection of news source was predictive type of civic affairs knowledge possessed by the reader. Therefore, desire for increased knowledge of national events would not be correlated with increased reading of local newspapers. However, research by Dan Drew and David Weaver found, to the contrary, that readers of local newspapers sought and were knowledgeable about both local and national civic affairs.

FACULTY MEMBER AND NEWSPAPER READERSHIP

Tak Wing Chan & John H. Goldthorpe (2004) writes their research article entitle d Social Status of Faculty Member and Newspaper Readership. They write an instance of cultural participation in regard to which the information-processing might be thought especially favoured news for newspaper readership. More straightforward form of information processing of newspaper reading than various other cultural activities and at the same time choice of newspaper could scarcely count as very effective kind of status-oriented `conspicuous consumption', on account both of relatively low price of even the most expensive newspapers and facts that reading at home to take place in privacy as compare in public.

Consequently, evidence of a connection between faculty member and newspaper readership, independent of information-processing capacity, would be our present purposes of the study. Most people read only one (daily) newspaper, at least on regular basis. This means that we can here avoid complications that arise with forms of cultural participation, such a s, say, listening to music, where there is wide variety of genres and an individual may have a range of preferences.

However, we see how far the association between faculty member and readerships status may be accounted by individuals' educational attainment serving as proxy for their information-processing capacity. Although all newspapers are available and read throughout UK, Scotland has it own broadsheets (Herald, Scotsman) and tabloids. Their readers are grouped with those who read other regional newspapers under Regional category, local and others.

It may be noted that control variables do have some significant association with newspaper readership. The significant coefficients for sex, being generally positive, indication that women more liking than men to fall into other readership categories than broadsheet reader, while those for age, being generally negative, indicate that older persons are more liking than younger ones to read broadsheets t han to fall into other categories.

The coefficients for income cannot be so straightforwardly interpreted but, as anticipation, they are in-fact less often significant, and especially when education brought into analysis. Scots appear less likely than others to read broadsheets, but this is probably an artefact due to omission of Scottish broadsheets in the response categories.

However, the effects of status and education are interesting variables of research study. Having demonstrated that there are strong and systematic association between faculty members status and newspaper readership, while status and class are clearly correlated in contemporary British society as status gradient runs, as it were, across the class structured status stratification within classes may still be quite extensive.

Today, the cultural level of lifestyle is chief way in which status expressed and recognised, then, since newspapers generally regarded as being cult urally stratified, the status of individuals should show a close relation to the type of newspaper that they read.

The probability of individuals reading high-brow broadsheets rises with status, and at an increasing rate; the probability of their reading low-brow redtop tabloids falls with status in more or less linear fashion; and the probability of their reading middlebrow tabloids first increases with status and then decreases.

We have, moreover, considered the possibility that more basic relationship exists between individuals' educational level, information-processing capacity, and their consequent preference for more or less demanding kinds of reading newspapers. We find that although education does indeed influence of newspaper readership and on lines that would be predicted under information-processing and education does not remove the effect.

The association between faculty member and newspaper readership persists within different levels of education. The information-processing can be reckoned as at least more immediately involved in reading newspapers that in many other forms of cultural participation, while choice of newspaper is not the most obvious vehicle of conspicuous consumption. The cultural level of newspapers readership does grooming their status within their community.

ACADEMICIAN AND ADMINISTRATIVE USAGE OF NEWSPAPERS

Everyone knows information is a form of power. Daily millions of peoples gain their knowledge of national and international affairs from the pages of newspapers all over the world. The Third World countries know this more than ever. That why they are calling for the establishment of new international information order and they feel this is just as urgent as the establishment of new international economic order.

All medium of communication play a main role in the field of information, but the print media plays a key role in focusing public att ention, and news patterns influence, public perception of important issues of the day. The academicians and administrators are main source of ideas about needy changes in the University structure and managements. Discretionary behaviour by academicians and administrators who deliver services characteristics of most studies by the implementation research.

The modern newspaper plays several roles for its readers. From the analysis of intensive interviews, the researcher has attempted to construct a typology of such roles, or functions, of newspaper. Obviously the types enumerated here, while discrete, are not necessarily mutually exclusive for any one newspaper reader. Undoubtedly, different people read different parts of the newspaper for different reasons at different times. A group of readers seem to use newspaper because it enables them to appear informed in social gatherings, thus the newspaper has conversational value. Readers not only can learn what has happ ened and then report it to their associates but they can find opinions and interpretations for usage and discussions on current affairs with colleagues.

The newspaper readers predispositions are involved in effects of reading in two ways. They condition the readers selection of publications and the condition of his interpretation of what he reads. Almost any phase of readers personality may be involved in reading experience. Their personal traits, subject interests, and reading ability may determine which accessible publications they would choose to read. The difference can be explained only by differences in predispositions which may be fundamental or merely a temporary mood. The same predispositions are often involved in both selection and interpretation of reading, but they need not to be. The reader may select their reading from one set of conditions and respond to it from a totally different set.

Their methods of reading, which may range from a h asty skimming to close analysis, naturally affect both their response to publication and its effects on them. The more highly educated readers are attracted to more mature newspapers because their wider intellectual experiences enable them to share publishers more mature attitudes in the life. As the central fact in most peoples lives, occupation has an important role in selection and interpretation of reading, its importance, of course, varies with their occupation. Occupational differences such as clearly revealed in many subject classifications of publications. Reader motivated by need for greater social security may seek to improve their status within their family or social class or may try to exchange their social class for another social class.

News-seeking Patterns of Academicians

According to previous researches of news reading habits academicians or University teachers are interested to read the news according to their professional status. The y want to read news of national and international affairs, educational, economics, editorial and article. They want to update their knowledge because they deliver a lot of lectures in the different institutions and topics.

Newspapers are most prominent media which are providing the current information to educationist according to their requirement. To produce well-informed citizens who can make their own judgements on the basis of available evidence. In so far as educationist deals with value judgements, it does so in the ways which encourage their students to explore the range of value judgements and to examine the sources of such judgements (including their own) and their effects. They seek to impose ideas on what constitutes good or bad through newspapers.

News-seeking Patterns of Administrators

The administrators use a wide variety of sources, both informal and formal, to obtain the needed information as do their colleagues in other coun tries. However, in addition to giving preference to human sources, as was found by Campbell (1997), they place more emphasis on the press releases. They seem to be more satisfied with the information that they receive from the sources that they prefer than those that they do not. It is interesting to note that these respondents are least satisfied with the print media.

The information gathered by these respondents appears to be mainly used for getting job opportunities, personal knowledge, and less so for preparing personality profiles, editorials, and columns. This was expected because a limited amount of items mentioned in the later group are actually needed and are written by a limited number of individuals.

There are some interesting usage patterns of administrators because administrative personalitys almost choose same news for reading like as academicians but some differences exist i.e. they give priority to; job hunting, sports politics, featur es and burning issues of the country. As compared to academicians administrators are spend a lot time regularly to read newspapers, might be have spare time for in-depth reading of newspapers.


DATA ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION

In this chapter the researcher analyzed the data in response of respondents awareness/knowledge, personal identification, and confirmation of their news-seeking patterns. The data on the News-seeking Patterns of academicians and administrators of AIOU were collected through a questionnaire which was designed for this study with the help of supervisor. Primarily, cross-tabulation and correlation coefficient statistical procedure was applied to investigate exposure of newspapers readership, their demography and news-seeking patterns dimension; viz Reading English/Urdu language newspapers, purpose of reading newspapers, national and international current affairs, editorials and articles, economics, health and sport news, educat ional development news, information seeking on political news, and reading newspapers supplements.

Theoretical frame work for all the variables of this study was based on Uses and Gratification model. The data was analyzed with the help of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) version 12.0. Details of the data analysis are given below:

Table 4.1: Cross-tabulation of Professions Gender and
Age of the respondents

Professions Gender and Age Age of the respondents Total
30 to 40 41 to 45 46 to 50 51 & above
Academicians Gender of the respondents Male Count 22 15 1 10 48
% Age 64.7% 68.2% 50.0% 83.3% 68.6%
Female Count 12 7 1 2 22
% Age 35.3% 31.8% 50.0% 16.7% 31.4%
Total Count 34 22 2 12 70
% Age 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%
Administrators Gender of the respondents Male Count 14 14 10 20 58
% Age 73.7% 77.8% 83.3% 95.2% 82.9%
Female Count 5 4 2 1 12
% Age 26.3% 22.2% 16.7% 4.8% 17.1%
Total Count 19 18 12 21 70
% Age 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0% 100.0%

Table 4.1 shows the samples age of Academicians and administrators of the AIOU. The sample comprises the 50% Academicians and 50% administrators communities. As evident from the table, greater numbers of male Academicians 83.3% as well as male administrators 95.2% are falling in the age category of 51 and above. Whereas, the numbers of female Academicians 31.8% and female administrators 22% are falling in the age category between 41 to 45. Similarly, there is quite a good number of both Academicians and administrators falling in the young age category; i.e. 30 to 40 years.

To sum up, comparatively young male Academicians are working in the AIOU. However, the age group between 30 to 40 of female Academicians is younger than the age group of female administrators. Similarly, overall, there are young people ranging from the age between 30 to 50 employed in the U niversity.


Table 4.2: Cross-tabulation of Professions Gender and
Qualification


Graph 4.2 documents that there are greater numbers of both male and female Academicians having M. Phil and PhD qualification 68.5%. Whereas, the administrating positions are mostly having masters degree qualification 91.7%. Thus the Academicians community is highly qualified as compared to the administrators in the AIOU.


Table 4.3: Cross-tabulation of Professions Gender and
Reading Newspaper


Graph 4.3 refers to the reading habits of faculty members and administrators. As evident from the table both male academicians and administrators read newspaper very greatly. However, the female academicians are less inclined toward reading newspaper as compare to female administrators i.e. 63% and 83% respectively. The overall result shows that reading newspaper by the administrators is higher than the academician community.
< br />Table 4.4: Cross-tabulation of Professions Qualification and Reading Newspaper
Professions Qualification and Reading Newspaper Reading Newspaper Total
Yes No
Academicians Qualification of the respondents Master Count 21 8 29
% of Total 30.0% 11.4% 41.4%
M Phil Count 15 4 19
% of Total 21.4% 5.7% 27.1%
PhD Count 21 1 22
% of Total 30.0% 1.4% 31.4%
Total Count 57 13 70
% of Total 81.4% 18.6% 100.0%
Administrators Qualification of the respondents Master Count 39 6 45
% of Total 55.7% 8.6% 64.3%
M Phil Count 4 1 5
% of Total 5.7% 1.4% 7.1%





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The Apple iPhone 4 is renowned for its multimedia capabilities. Apple has put together the perfect ecosystem for its users' multimedia content, incorporating iPod, iTunes and AppStore functionality. In this article I will take a look at the multimedia capabilities of this most popular of smartphones.

iTunes

Apple has very cleverly incorporated its iTunes software to make it an integral part of iPhone use. Users have to have the software installed on their computer to activate their phone in the first place. Once this is done, users will then invariable use this as their default music player. It allows user to create and customise playlists and arrange their music on their phone. iTunes also allows users to purchase music on both their computer as well as the handset itself, thanks to an iTunes application installed on the phone as standard.

iPod

The famous iPod music player has a built in application on the iPhone 4. This works hand in hand with the iTunes App, actually providing the music playback capabilities on the iPhone 4. The same as the software found on the popular iPod touch, it makes for a very interactive experience. With "coverflow" showing all your album art, you can seamlessly browse through these simply by swiping your finger across the screen and this will move through your music collection accordingly. Of course, just as with a standalone iPod, you are supplied with a pair of the iconic white earphones which of course allow you to listen to your music on the go. In my experience, the battery life is affected very little by music playback. This is often an issue with smartphone use, but with a full charge, the iPhone 4 can play music for many hours.

AppStore

Whether its multimedia or productivity applications you want, you are sure to find them within the realms of the AppStore. As the TV advertisement says, "there's an App for that", and when you browse the AppStore or search for a specific App, this seems quite accurate. With numerous categories, users can download games, utilities, productivity apps etc straight to the handset. Many applications are free, whilst some require payment before downloading can begin. This is done via your iTunes account which requires a pre-registered credit or debit card.

The multimedia capabilities of the Apple iPhone 4 are no doubt responsible for a large proportion of its success and popularity. We have seen it evolve and progress with each instalment of the iPhone franchise, so it is sure to be even more impressive when the new version, the iPhone 5 is released shortly.





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One of the major features of the iPhone is its ability to store and play your music library, just like an iPod would. For those of you who don't like spending the $.99 (or more) for each song you buy on iTunes, there are a plethora of music applications that should satiate your starving earbuds. Just by browsing the the iPhone Apps store, you can find these applications to play music without having to buy it.

Here are some iPhone App Reviews that will hopefully be helpful in your quest for the perfect music application.

Pandora

With Pandora, you choose what kind of music you like, and the application makes a radio station that matches your favorite genres and artists. Unfortunately, there is a skip limit (you can't skip more than a certain amount of songs that you don't like), but it displays album art and allows you to "like" or "dislike" a song with a thumbs up or thumbs down, respectively.

Last.fm

Also a radio-like application that suggests songs, artists, and albums that you might like, the application lets you choose songs to play at a later time and add them to your queue. The Last.fm is one of the most dynamic and in-depth music applications the iPhone app store offers.

Slacker

Slacker acts similarly to Pandora, with the "Heart" and "Ban" buttons for you to tailor your music selection more specifically. This interface is sleek, simple, and extremely easy-to-use displaying album thumbnails, with a few buttons at the bottom. Fast, great-quality music what more could you want?

Imeem

The most outstanding feature of imeem is that it taps into your existing music library and uses that information to recommend similar artists and songs that you might like. Other than that, the program is very similar to Pandora and the Last.fm.

Iheart radio

Iheart radio streams music from actual radio stations in the metropolitan area with less commercials and better sound quality than more FM radios. If you want to hear the most popular songs playing on the radio some usually lost from listening solely to your own iPod selections go back to the time before iPods and tune into the Top 40 of today.

Shazam

Ever ask yourself "What song is this?" when you miss the intro on the radio? Well Shazam should help you fix this problem. By holding your phone up to the source of the music and "tagging" the song, Shazam accurately tells you who sings the song, the title, the album artwork, and gives you links to share or even buy the song.

More iPhone Game Reviews like these will expand your knowledge base and give you some great options for how to improve your music listening techniques.





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Are mp3 audio books costly? Well, it's a tough question. What type of audiobooks - downloaded audio books, audiobooks on CD, or books on tape, which titles? And compared to what - the old fashioned book or to other audio titles? Let us examine the prices and then take a take a look at the factors that affect the price of mp3 audio books. Then, we will attempt to answer the question: Are mp3 audio books high-priced?

The costs of mp3 audiobooks vary from totally free of charge to up to 100$. In most instances, comparing the exact same mp3 audio books titles we got the following outcomes: books on tape (or mp3 audio books on cassettes) were the most pricey ones, Mp3 Audio Books on cd had a comparable price to the original old fashioned book and MP3 mp3 audio books or the cheapest ones.
You will find three major elements that affect the prices of the mp3 audiobooks:

1. Production costs - the production costs includes the labor and material prices. The labor in mp3 audio books consists of the recording of the reader's voice reading the book whereas inside the old fashioned books it consists of the printing of the book. The materials employed are a variety of - For an audio book on CD a CD is needed, for a book on tape a cassette is needed, for the old fashioned book a paper is required and surprisingly for an MP3 audio book you will find no materials needed.

2. Publishing costs - The publishing' costs are the same in all of the kinds of audio books - audio book on cd and books on tape. They all require space like the space needed to store the old fashioned book. Yet, once once more the MP3 audio book require no space at all.

3. Copy rights - The copy rights are the commission the author get for each book published. The s um of funds is the exact same of course for all kinds of books and mp3 audio books.

To sum up, in the event you have a MP3 player and if the book you might be seeking exist on an audio book, we advise you to get the MP3 version. It is possible to even get totally free MP3 players and download totally free audio books.





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Your iPhone is an amazing gadget that can be modified to do things that it is not actually built for. Even after the release of the unofficial hacks and tricks, there are dozens coming out weekly, making iPhone a complete smart phone for its users. Here is a compilation of some of the best hacks for your iPhone.

1. Build a Solar-powered iPhone Charger IPhone hacks have not even spared the charging of the iPhone. With the help of some equipment, you can create a solar powered charger for your iPhone. This can save energy in one case and it can also help you charge when you don't have any electricity access. There is a lot you can do with your iPhone.

2. Wireless Music Remote Music has now become one of the most essential part of fun. What could be better than the fact that you can turn your iPhone into a wireless music remote? With just a router, iPhone and a little step-by-step guide you can make your iPhone work as a Wireless Music Remote.

3. Using iPhone as a Wireless Router for your Laptop Internet access wireless can be made available on your iPhone. Your iPhone is a box of magical tricks and turning it into a wireless router can make your life easy and obviously wireless. You can easily connect the iPhone with your internet to make the wireless internet around your home available at your laptop.

4. Home Automation Using the iPhone and X10 Have you imagined automating your home with a device in your palms? IPhone has given this thought a chance to become reality. With the help of the step-by-step guidance, you can convert your iPhone, using X10, into a Home automation device.

5. RC Car Controlled Via the Web Remote controllable items were thought to be controlled only via remote in the limited area but iPhone has changed this thinking as well by allowing you to control your RC Car connecting via internet through your iPhone. The RC Car can be controlled even from a distance of 1640 feet.

6. Controlling a Car using your iPhone IPhone has not even spared things that are not even controllable with the help of a remote, but using the iPhone app and a little gadget attached to your car, you can control your car, even when you are not in it.

7. Make a Laser Matrix Projector for the iPhone Laser matrix projector is one more device you can convert your iPhone into. Using the iPhone app in combination with a little help from some devices, your iPhone can work as a Laser matrix projector.

8. View your Webcam on your iTouch or iPhone With the help of iPhone/iTouch apps, you can even view your webcams on your gadget.





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Anyone who bought DRM protected music and movies from iTunes and Windows media center wants to enjoy them without copyrights hurdling, but it is not easy to find an all-in-one DRM removing solution. Here I recommend a powerful DRM Media Converter - Aimersoft Media Converter, which can return your full user rights by removing DRM from iTunes music & movie, as well as the copyright from protected WMA music and WMV video downloaded from Zune MarketPlace, Napster, Rhapsody, Nokia Music Store, Spiralfrog, Bearshare, eMusic, Puretracks, MusicGiants, Blockbuster, CinemaNow, Movielink, Amazon Unbox etc.

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