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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) June 2, 2009

The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center and the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York City put out the call, and videographers from across the nation responded by submitting short videos promoting the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. Now it’s time for the public to weigh in and help select the best entrants in Project Pushback.

From June 2-15, visitors to www.equalityvideo.org will be able to view the more than 50 video entries and vote for the ones they think are most likely to change hearts and minds in support of same-sex marriage. They’ll also have the opportunity to enter a free drawing for a ,000 digital video camera.

The stakes are high for Project Pushback entrants–the winner of the popular vote will receive a ,000 prize, and a panel of industry experts will select the Grand Prize winner, who will receive ,500.

But the stakes are even higher for same-sex couples across the nation, most of whom cannot legally marry in their home states. The tide is turning, but there’s a lot of work to be done before everyone in this country enjoys the freedom to marry the one they love.

To view and vote on Project Pushback videos, visit www.equalityvideo.org.

About the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center

Since 1971 the L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center has been building the health, advocating for the rights and enriching the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Our wide array of services and programs includes: free HIV/AIDS care and medications for those most in need; housing, food, clothing and support for homeless LGBT youth; low-cost counseling and addiction-recovery services; essential services for LGBT-parented families and seniors; legal services; health education and HIV prevention programs; transgender services; cultural arts and much more. Visit us on the Web at: www.lagaycenter.org.

About the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center of New York City

Established in 1983, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, located at 208 West 13th Street in New York City is the largest LGBT community center on the East Coast. More than 6,000 people visit the Center weekly and 300 groups meet here. More information is available at www.gaycenter.org.

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Smarter Goal Setting In Sport – Promoting Teamwork With Football Quotes

Smarter Goal Setting In Sport

Teamwork is essential if one wants to be successful in completing projects, successful at work, in games, in an academic setting, or in life. To that end, football quotes often reflect the vital importance of teamwork and such quotes can be used in various situations to encourage team building and working together to complete a task successfully.

Whether you are looking to motivate a team on the field or you are seeking to motivate a group in an alternative setting, you will discover that quotations offered up by football players, and coaches or quotes involving football can prove powerful as team motivators. Maybe you want to make your team more enthusiastic about working together, about setting aside personal egos, and about making the end goal the most important factor in a game or project.

Football quotes can be used to encourage team members to consider the importance of team unity, to focus on working jointly toward a single endeavor, and to stress the need for unification and solidarity on or off the field. For example, you might want to use a quote by Robert Yates like: “It is amazing what can be accomplished when nobody cares about who gets the credit.” Smarter Goal Setting In Sport

Or you might select a quote directly related to teamwork like: “If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team,” by Bud Wilkinson.

Using quotes like the latter as well as similar football quotes can help you build a team with a one track mind with a goal-oriented focus absent of egos and issues. Football quotes can also be successfully used to encourage a team to be smarter about how they work together. If a team doesn’t work smoothly together then the teamwork may actually come to naught. Quotations about football or expressions by people in the football industry will stir up a desire to work in unity, to consider the bigger picture, and to work together like a machine that is well oiled.

Try a quote like, “Teamwork is a make or break situation; either you help make it or the lack of it will break you,” by Kris A. Hiatt.

Other quotes with similar concepts and ideas can further encourage positive team working strategies. Use the prudent commentary, quotes, expressions, or sayings of others to incite the desire to work as a team in others; you will find that words are persuasive, powerful, and particularly moving. Smarter Goal Setting In Sport

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Kids Count: Promoting 60 minutes of regular exercise starts at home
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Generation compromise
Today’s 20-somethings were brought up to believe they could have it all. But as young adults in a recession, they have found that the reality is very different.
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Our basic human vulnerability, which has the potential for insuring our compassion, can also trigger our weapons of prejudice, bigotry, violence, and greed. If we are to turn the tide of our times, we must find a way to discover and promote high self-esteem and high system-esteem…Community between and among must begin with community within.
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i believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do.
i believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem.
i believe i’m loved when i’m completely by myself,
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i believe in karma,
what you give is what you get returned.
i believe you can’t appreciate real love ’til you’ve been burned.
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i believe you don’t know what you’ve got until you say goodbye.

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2010 Reith Lecture Series: Scientific Horizons
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Promoting Good Vocal Model Awareness in Karaoke Singers

Promoting Good Vocal Model Awareness in Karaoke Singers

Cathryn Robson BA (Hons) Music, CT ABRSM

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During a recent conference I attended singing teachers discussed the concept of curriculum and arrived at a rather succinct description, that of it simply being a ‘From-To’. It was further qualified that this ‘From-To’ would inevitably vary with each student, depending on their particular aims.

Working in a tourist area where karaoke bars, venues and competitions proliferate, singers for whom karaoke is the sole vocal activity form a good 30 per cent of my studentship. The challenges karaoke singers present to a voice teacher are consistent; infrequent exposure to good vocal models, lack of imperative to memorise lyrics and weak internalisation of pulse and rhythm. While all of these musical criteria are important to address, this essay will reflect on some current curriculum tools for developing good vocal model awareness in karaoke students. The question ‘what is a good vocal model?’ is begged. Cultural context defines such an ambiguity and within Western popular music this could be anything between an effective to virtuosic voice. This essay should go some way to answering my own question.

Recent research shows that karaoke, second only to singing along with the radio, is the most popular vocal activity for adults who had a negative experience of singing during school years. Many of these belated singers are ‘…more likely to believe someone else’s judgement about their voice than their own’1. Whether or not this is due to lack of self-confidence, lack of musical experience or both the poor vocal models on the karaoke circuit cannot do much to improve discrimination. Curiously, the original singers who are good vocal role models can be forgotten, with karaoke singers self-referencing and comparing their own performances to other local karaoke singers. My own students reflect a pattern that is typical; several are naturally gifted while the remainder are challenged by pitching difficulties, poor support/breathing habits and/or a harsh tone.

Developing a student’s confidence in their own ability to discriminate is vital. In making curriculum decisions Keith Swanwick remarks that ‘…the only good reasons for choosing anything is that it has musical potential.’ 2 While the material karaoke singers bring to lessons invariably has musical potential I consider working with backing tracks anathema to the development of it. They are excellent practice tools but they go some way to annihilating what innate musicianship a singer may possess. In respect to vocal models they prevent a singer from truly experiencing their voice as an instrument but merely as another layer in the backing track. A recent student concert yielded some interesting responses; karaoke singers were critical of the live professional accompaniment and the lack of sound system believing that these elements had hindered their own performances. On the other hand, one student told me that, having had the opportunity to perform with an accompanist she now finds backing tracks intolerable. Both responses oblige me to consider how I can further encourage these singers to value their voices as independent instruments.

Aiming for this, in lessons I steer the student away from backing track dependency, using chord sheets to accompany them. While this may seem commonplace, with karaoke singers it isn’t, playbacks being preferred. Chord accompaniment exposes bad vocal habits. Ironically, my own deficient keyboard skills go some way to aiding the students. My keyboard accompaniment is sparse and as the singer does not have the support of the vocal line in the music it means that they have to rely heavily on their ‘thinking voice’. It is remarkable how dramatically breath control and pitching improves because of this. Getting a student to sing songs in both the ‘thinking’ and ‘singing’ voices proves to be a very useful exercise. Scales and arpeggios can be practised in the same way, helping to build accurate internal pitch. As there is no imperative for these students to learn to read music they are relying totally on aural skills to acquire repertoire. The popular tradition is aural and the learning style follows suite.

Paul Harris, in his book ‘Improve Your Teaching!’ remarks that ‘…one of the great things about the art of musical performance is that anyone …… can give a masterful performance.’3 This remark certainly held true for the student concert, with me having to privately acknowledge that one of the most moving performances came from a singer with poor pitch. However, this is unusual and publicly I am required to advocate good pitch awareness! Improvisation warm-ups are also proving an effective means of developing this in karaoke students. The student

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Our basic human vulnerability, which has the potential for insuring our compassion, can also trigger our weapons of prejudice, bigotry, violence, and greed. If we are to turn the tide of our times, we must find a way to discover and promote high self-esteem and high system-esteem…Community between and among must begin with community within.
–Pat Callair

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Music promoter candid about downfall
MUSIC promoter Glenn Wheatley says he became the “poster boy” for an Australian Tax Office’s offshore investigation that led to his fast fall from grace.
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