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Who gets to vote for Grammy Award winners?
NARAS voting members
The Grammy Awards support 108 categories of recognition which are voted on by which?
6,500 NARAS voting members
The Grammy awards support 108 categories of recognition which are voted on which are voted on by which of the following?
6,500 NARAS voting members
How to become a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences?
To become a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS), a musician or music industry professional must be invited to join by current members. Members are typically established individuals with significant contributions to the music industry. NARAS also offers opportunities to participate in the Grammy Awards process through its Associate Member program.
Can you vote for GRAMMY Awards?
NARAS voting members
What is srikrishnadevaray's caste?
His was Billav(Kshatriya-origin) caste in Tulunaadu(karnataka) .His father originally from Haigund, near by jogafalls, which is in Honnavar taluka(north-canar), Karnataka. From there his father Naras Nayak migreted to Devikapuam, and then Chandragiri,near Tirupati.Krishnadevaray's forefather's were from Manjuguni, a piligrems centre in Karnataka, which is in Sirsi taluk(N.K)The village GOD is Venkataraman,and also family GOD of Srikrishnadevaray's royal family.still even today the Billava's were called as Nayak at that region.
Did Choji Akimichi die during his fight with Jirobo?
No he didn't really but if you want proof go to youtube.com and type in Choji and you get to see!Trevonte' Jordan of OHIONo sirThose Akimichi pills about killed him, but he survived, as Shikamaru's clan, the Naras, specialize in healing the wounded Akimichi clan members once they pop any or all of those pills. The Akimichi's are made for eating and can burn it off instantly with those pills, with the Nara clan coming to catch them when they fall. This is one of the reasons for the Ino-shika-cho combo, as the Nara clan breeds deer and makes medicine with the antlers, though it is unknown if any part of the antler is any more important than any other part.--------------------------------------That's very true :-)But on the Narutopidea website it says Nara Shikamaru took Akimichi Chouji to Senju Tsunade (she no longer uses Senju in her name) to be healed :-)
If you own a copy of a song in its vinyl format or another older less compatible format can you legally download the same song just for convenience purposes such as putting it on an mp3 player?
The short answer, surprisingly, is no. You MAY archive your own personal copy, but you can't legally download someone else's. __________ The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 expressly allows individuals to make non-commercial copies of songs they they purchased legally as safety copies or for "space-shifting" (for example, recording an album onto a cassette to play in the car). The tricky part here is that you would be downloading an unlicensed track. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Science (NARAS) would say that this is not fair use. I personally believe that, if you can produce the original album/cassette/CD, no judge in America would find you guilty of theft...but I'm not a attorney. The best choice would be to simply make your own copy of the songs from the original source, and there are lots of applications that convert analog files to mp3's. Hope this helps.
Who is LaRonda Sutton?
LaRonda Sutton is an entertainment executive and music publishing specialist. Originally born in Wichita, Kansas and raised in Northern California (Vallejo), she graduated from Hogan Senior High School and Wichita State University. She's held high profile executive positions at Chrysalis Music Publishing, EMI Music Publishing, Hitco Music Publishing, Edmonds Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Vh1!, and Foxx King Entertainment. As a music publisher she has represented the copyrights of Outkast, Prince, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Roy Ayers, Chris Brown, Montell Jordan, Ja Rule, Ashanti, and presently Jamie Foxx to name a few. LaRonda also music supervised the the HBO film Life Support starring Queen Latifah. At this stage in her career Sutton would be considered an acquisition specialist for creative content (music, film, television, and new media.) She's a member of Women in Film, NARAS, and a publisher at BMI and ASCAP.
What was Zelda Fitzgerald known for?
Ella Fitzgerald took many risks with her 'scat' style singing with 'All Night Long'; 'God Bless the Child' and 'Honeysuckle Rose. She hit high notes no one had heard before. Ella Fitzgerald could fit in with any singing artist and added more 'juice and pump' to the song. In Februrary of 1989 she had a sold out concert at Radio City Music Hall. Her nickname is 'The first lady of song' and after 55 years she is still going strong. She has performed at Levaggis, the Cotton Club, etc. She did over 230 recordings for Decca Records during the mid to late 30s. Other songs were 'How High the Moon' and 'Oh, Lady Be Good' in 1947. Her most famous albums for Verve have been the continuing series of 'Songbooks' dedicated to the works of America's great composers and lyricists, Cole Porter (1956), Rodgers and Hart (1956), Duke Ellington (1956), George and Ira Gershwin (1958-1959), Irving Berlin (1958), and Harold Arlen (1960). Fitzgerald has recorded almost 150 albums in total. Some were recorded live at jazz festivals in the U.S. or Europe, among them, the popular Montreux '77 (on Pablo) with the Tommy Flanagan Trio and 'In a Mellow Mood or Sweet and Hot.' Estimates of her total sales range upwards from 25,000,000. Fitzgerald's career progressed steadily with frequent tours of Europe and the Orient appearances at the Newport (now Kool and JVC in New York) Jazz Festivals and a constant schedule of recordings. the many great she has played with are Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Errol Garner, Earl Hines, and Oscar Peterson. She did not like to play hotel lounges, but did with Count Basie Orchestra and also Starlight Roof and Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Fitzgerald appeared in the 1958 film 'Pete Kelly's Blues' and sang 'Hard Hearted Hannah' as its title song. She was one of the first black jazz performers to be engaged for a TV appearance in the 1950s and has since appeared over 200 times on American and European TV. 'Stone Cold Dead in the Market,' (with bandleader Louis Jourdan) was mainstream jazz's first Calypso hit. She was among the first to integrate both Bossa Nova and the Beatles into her repertory in the early 1960s. Her reviews in a 1966 engagement with Earl (Fatha) Hines she sang 'Sweet Georgia Brown,' 'Lover Man,' and 'Don't Be That Way' and 'Boots are Made for Walking.' Her signature song is 'Sunshine of My Life.' Fitzgerald has won 12 Grammys to the Kennedy Center Award to an honorary doctorate in music from Yale University. During a four-year stretch from 1958 to 1962, she won Best Vocal Performance (female) for Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook (1958), 'But Not For Me' (1959), 'Mack the Knife' (1960), Mack the Knife .. Ella in Berlin (1960), and Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Riddle (1962); and she won Best Jazz Performance awards for Ella Sings the Duke Ellington Song Book (1958) and Ella Sings Lightly (1959). Fitzgerald was also given the NARAS Trustees Award (The Bing Crosby Award) for lifetime achievement in all possible categories in 1967. She holds many records in her 18 consecutive years as best female jazz singer in the down beat magazine poll.
How does marketing communications support the marketing and business strategies of an organization?
Communication plays a vital role in any part of the business. In the increasingly competitive environment of business in the UK, the need for effective communication is demanding for achieving competitive advantage in the target market. Marketing communication is the process of communicating the marketing strategies and their implications throughout the organization in order to increase the ability of the organization to become proactive to a situation in the target market as argued by Philip Kotler (1988) . Frances Brassington and Stephen Pettit (2003) further argue that marketing communication not only corresponds to the communication of the marketing strategies and the marketing plan by the top level management to the operational team but also to encourage the interaction between the employees and implement their ideas that will be effective in achieving higher level of sales in the target market. This is mainly because of the fact that marketing is no longer considered as a separate part of the business and the dawn of the twenty-first century with the growth of conglomerates across the globe, organizations have realised that the marketing process itself should be integrated with the entire business of the organization and should embrace the business strategies which is possible only through the effective marketing communication throughout the organization. In this essay a critical analysis on the benefits of marketing communication to the marketing and business strategies of an organization are discussed. The analysis focuses upon five major elements of the business of any organization that contribute to the effective deployment of the marketing and business strategies namely Resource allocation, Human Resource Management, Cost Reduction, Performance, and Supply Chain Management.2: Resource AllocationImplementation of a marketing plan always demands the allocation of the appropriate resource not only for the purpose of marketing but also for the manufacturing of the products or the development of the services that are being marketed to the customers in the target market. Frances Brassington and Stephen Pettit (2003) further argue that the resource allocation is one of the critical elements that contribute to the success of the nay marketing campaign. In retail sector scenario where the marketing is an essential part for the communication of the product details effectively to the customers, the effective allocation of the resources to manufacture the products that is being promoted so as to meet the customer demands is the key for increasing the sales of the product lines desired. Resource allocation is also an essential element for the successful implementation of the marketing plan because of the fact that the availability of the resources and their efficient procurement at a cost that could meet the promotion sales of a product is essential for the success of the marketing plan because of the fact that the promotion campaign of a product or the launch of a new product in the target market can prove profitable only through the effective allocation of the resources both the raw material for production as well as the machinery and human power to produce the product in order to achieve optimum level of production which will increase the sales of the products. This can be accomplished only through the streamlined and effective communication of the marketing plan and the necessary information to the production team of the organization in order to effectively allocate the resources to increase the sales as well as meet the demand of the customers as argued by Eric J Carson and Fisher J Robert (2005) . This is mainly because of the fact that the effective resource allocation not only streamlines the manufacturing process but actually enables the business operations right from the product design up to the labelling of the finished goods to respond to any change in the target thus increasing the productivity and the effective use of resources.Human Resource ManagementHuman Resource is an in expendable resource as argued by Dennis Adcock (2000) . This is mainly because of the fact that not only that the employees are treated as resources but their actual participation in the business at all levels of operation and management is results in the effective manufacturing of the goods and services and the increase in sales of the products so conceived by the top level management. Furthermore, the fact that the interaction of the employees in the operational level and the value to their ideas on streamlining the production process in case of products and implementing new methods of customer service and developing relationship with the customers in case of service marketing not only increases the involvement of the staff in the deployment of the business strategies of the organization but also increases the level of confidence among the customers about the products or services promoted by the organization thus increasing the sales as well as gaining customer relationship for long-term business development. This is synonymous to the argument of Philip Kotler (1988) that retaining an existing customer is worthier than searching for new customers.The fact that the staff in the organization also reflect upon the organization's overall mission and its view on serving the customers in the target market further increases the requirement of effective communication of the marketing plan and the strategies since the marketing mix to achieve a certain promotion or the launch of a new product/service in a target market (new or existing) can be accomplished not only through the effective deployment of the resources but also with the efforts of the staff involved at all levels of the organization.Cost ReductionIt is intriguing to note that the organizations not only strive to increase their revenue through the increase in sales but also through the effective management of the costs and reducing unwanted costs as argued by Gary Geissler and Steve Edison (2005) . This is mainly because of the increase in the awareness that the cost reduction is a major element in increasing the productivity of the organization. The increase in the deployment of the processes like the batch processing and mass production through the deployment of advanced methods of production justifies that the organizations are increasingly striving to reduce the costs associated with the production or procurement of the goods rather than only concentrating upon reducing the price. Gary Geissler and Steve Edison (2005) further argue that this is mainly because of the increasing level of saturation in the competition through reducing the price of the goods in the target market. Retail sector for example where the competition is intense based upon the price, the proper communication of the market situation is critical for increasing the sales as well as reducing the storage space. The increase in the use of the shop floor through reducing the storage space by implementing real-time sale and distribution system to accurately identify the demand is a given store at TESCO Plc has not only increased its sales but also drastically reduced the costs associated with the procurement and storage of the goods since the time up to which a specific item is in the storage area of a TESCO store is not more than 48 hours which justifies that the effective and prompt communication of the market situation is essential for the effective deployment of the strategies in order to gain competitive advantage through increasing sales and reducing costs. PerformancePerformance of an organization is the key factor that is used for assessing the company's performance by the external world. Apparently, the performance is measured against the financial results and the corporate governance of the organization as argued by Naras V Eechambadi (2005) . Furthermore he argues that the performance of an organization is attributed by the effective communication within the organization not only the company policies but mainly the market trends and related information throughout the organization. This is because of the fact that the information so communicated on the market not only increases the awareness of the staff involved both at operational level and strategic level but also increase the ability to interpret the market situation by the organization as a whole rather than the team in the marketing department who cannot always perceive the overall market situation as well as the position of the organization with respect to the production and management. This will not only increase the sales for the organization but also enhance the overall performance of the organization, which is imperative for the organization's position in the target market for achieving leadership in the market.Supply chain ManagementSupply chain management is the backbone of an organization's successful implementation of any marketing promotion as argued by David A. Griffith et al (2005) . The supply chain is apparently the process of managing the distribution of the goods from the supplier to the retailer, which can be effectively accomplished to meet the market requirement only though the effective communication of the market situation and reflect upon the market trends. As argued before the strive for the organizations to reduce the costs through increasing the shop floor for sales and reducing the storage space can be accomplished only through the deployment of online supply chain management (i.e.) a live supply chain management system to meet the requirements of the stores in a retail sector organization on a day-to-day basis. The strive of Marks and Spencer Plc to integrate its suppliers with the organization's overall supply chain has not only increased the sales but also reduced the costs associated with the sales which justifies the effectiveness of marketing communication.ConclusionThus from the above arguments it is clear that the marketing communication is essential for not only increasing the sales but also for increasing the overall financial performance of the organization through cost reduction and effective supply chain management. Hence to conclude this report it is clear that marketing communication is essential for accomplishing the marketing and business strategies of an organization.
