Who can I contact within lay down to achieve a government grant for a musical activity I made up?
I have made up this cool spectator sport in my music classes that adjectives my kids love. I have never see it in any magazine. Really I haven't see anything close, but I am afraid someone is going to see it and take my concept. Do you know how I can get it published or who I can contact?Feb 13, 2006 at 8:11 am
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You are right. If your perception has ever be published in any previous public document you cannot official document it. Your idea have to be 'useful', not be obvious, and some other requirements. Everyone close to games though!
First off, do your own hunt at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/search-adv.htm
The USPTO charges around $500 to examine your patent application. Make sure you do a thorough flush using any keywords you can think of. Read any patent that come up in the hunt to see if their claims are similar to your own.
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Well, very interesting! I assume that you know something around that product or service so you could write what you know about it . In the extreme shield that you also dont know about the product or service I guess you could use your imagination too create something e.g. a pill to assist you swallow pills
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if it is unknown how are you going to gather itel on it?
No, good luck though. There are simply too various items that many do not even know around. Unknown? It is very unyielding.
Everything around us that we know.
I think you should be a god if you necessitate to know about unknown by humand.
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try another service whereby you take-home pay for the person you want to work for.... why not?
How is the pasture of event mangement?
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Basically organizing events, it can be personal events close to wedding or birthday party or corporate events like when some company is going to launch contemporary products, having clients reunion, etc. But it also can be an individual events that are produced by the event management company itself similar to making a music concert or other commercial events.
can we use proxies on a.d.s.e.n.s.e to click on our ad?
what if i1)delete cookies
2)delete temp net files
3)have a dynamic IP
4) use anonymous proxies.
to click on my ad. Will G00GLE still catch me?
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Yes, they will take in for questioning you. See my blog posting http://www.memwg.com/blog/a.d.s.e.n.s.e/Auto-Termination-for-a.d.s.e.n.s.e-Publishers-The-Click-Fraud-Report.html for information about G00GLE's auto-termination for a.d.s.e.n.s.e publishers. There's a intertwine there to a PDF report that describes how G00GLE handle click fraud.
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Who cares: It's STEALING and it's wrong.
Knowing G00GLE, they will probably take in for questioning you.
Here's an idea: transport all of the time and industrial effort you would enjoy spent on that lame idea, and instead use it to advance your sites, so that more legitimate ethnic group want to visit your site and click thru your ad. Yes they will catch you. But more importantly, its stealing which would brand you a thief. My guess is, you already are.
Which trade shows are best to exhibit at for companies on controlled budgets?
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The best trade shows are the ones that are most relevant to your sector, where your target audience go, and your objectives for participating in a trade show. There may be cheaper trade shows or expos, but if it is not a place where on earth your buyers go, later it is but a waste of resources even if it be cheaper.
Here are some tips on how you can maximize your trade show participation from the article "Five Tips for Trade Show Success on a Small Budget" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol135/tradeshow.htm
1. Have a sale representative exhibit your line at a trade show if you can't afford a booth and travel expenses
2. Rent a provisional space at a wholesale gift mart or showroom
3. Share a trade show booth and expenses next to a related but non-competing business in your niche.
4. Make over your current displays instead of buying alien ones.
5. Purchase used trade show displays rather than springing for hot ones.
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I'm no expert... but my guess in shows that cost the most minuscule?
can we use messenger services to promote our G00GLE a.d.sense site?
does G00GLE allow it or will it lead to disallow?Answers:
You want to pay a messanger service to promote you site? sure why not.
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i hope it lead to a ban...not a soul likes ad
Advertising here is not allowed....Its one of the things you can bring reported for.
No, according to G00GLE it has to be placed on a webpage next to content at all times.
What are some things I can do for trade show nouns on a small budget?
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Here are some tips on how you can maximize your trade show participation from the article "Five Tips for Trade Show Success on a Small Budget" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol135/tradeshow.htm
1. Have a sale representative exhibit your line at a trade show if you can't afford a booth and travel expenses
2. Rent a pro tem space at a wholesale gift mart or showroom
3. Share a trade show booth and expenses near a related but non-competing business in your niche.
4. Make over your current displays instead of buying unmarked ones.
5. Purchase used trade show displays rather than springing for unusual ones.
You may also want to read the other articles on how to make the most of trade show marketing on this page: http://www.powerhomebiz.com/marketing/trade.htm
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Three things
1. Prepare a well turned-out & nice printout of "Comparative Matrix" in between your product/services and involving your competitors. No more the Five attributes.
2. Make your stall clutter free.
3. Audio Visual display : if you are selling services after three centrefold type.
if product display: 1. Cross section of a realtime product.
2. Put a working model for patrons to appreciate.
Help term a investigational product.?
My company, a small lab in the midwest, have a new product coming to the flea market soon, and we need support with a label. Taken orally, this product works contained by your digestive system and gives your flatulance a wonderful lemon fragranced smell. No longer will you be embarrased nor suffer the pain of holding subsidise you gas. In a crowd, people will in fact welcome your bombastic tendency. All suggestions would be appreciated.Answers:
Lemon Blast
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lemair
Stink no more! Boy could my husband use that!! LOL fart-fresh?
see to sniff
gas to please
mellow yellow (realxing!)
lemon fresh?
Does it prevent the loud "pppfffffffttttttttttttt!!... sound too? BARBEQUE LEMONIZER
Lemon Critker
why not :P ?
I don't believe you for a second, but it's a funny concept and query, so:
-- Gee, Your *** Smells Terrific
-- Who Cut the Lemon?
-- Squeeze My Finger
-- FreshFart (written with one big "F" surrounded by front of the two words, stacked one on top of the other, so it could also be read as "fresh art")
These are lame, but I'll try to be fund. Lemon-scented farts, indeed. You could single-handedly put citrus growers out of business. And later ...
-- Strawberry Farts Forever
Oh, the possibilities...
Where can i capture free media hype for my photography business?
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Consider signing up for an affiliate program. These programs enable you to lay it on thick on other's sites (your affiliates) and once a sale is made to you, your affiliates & the program are remunerated a commission. We use ShareASale & pay out $25 to our affiliates once a public sale is made & ShareASale takes another $5. $30 a public sale is a pretty small price to pay for us. And I'm sure most programs approaching that allow you to set the commission rate (no point in your commission person half the price of a public sale for you!)
I listed a couple of handy sites relating to marketing, promotion & hype. I hope they’re helpful for you.
Lastly, enjoy you checked to make sure the signature you're using is truly available? Prior to investing your time, money & effort into a dub, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the identify you're interested in is truly available.
This entail searching the near-term & registered Federal and State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files. Then, if clear, you can prefer if you would like to database for a Federal or a State trademark.
Research is needed to make sure your trade dub is legally available, back opening, beforehand expansion, before incorporation or beforehand designing your logo. Similarities in nouns, appearance and meaning affect you too!
There are 16+ million trade name in use contained by the United States. Similar names event, if close in nouns, appearance or meaning. Similar name in related classes, distribution channel and customer matter too. You are artificial by Common Law use (14 million), State Trademarks (500,000) and Federal Trademarks (2 million).
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Here is free $50 in explore advertising cerdit that you may use
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what is headship trainee?
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A management trainee is someone who is hired by a company/corporation from a Business School resembling Harvard, Stanford, IIM, etc.
The person obviously holds an MBA degree/diploma and is under a training surrounded by the company for generally a spell of one year, though that varies from company to company.
After the training is over he is put into a position of responsibility next to defined role and work.
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a person who is doing some kinda training surrounded by management....ie-he/she is doing a direction course (like mba-masters of busssiness administration) and is doing a training in duplicate field as a segment of the course
Management Trainee is a nice way of putting of someone as a corporate go-fer. The income is awful and they literally culture everyone to back stab respectively and every employee to assert looking good to "upper command."
Not a bad route to start though - welcome to the legitimate world.
is sexual characteristics qualitative or quantitative?
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Gender is qualitative, its a quality we hold. You cannot measure sexual characteristics in any type of component. Just as you cannot accurately say that this pillow is 8 soft and that pillow is 2 soft, you cant accurately vote that this person is 8 mannish or 2 male, or 8 womanly or 2 female.
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Qualitative
qualitative
I hold 13 units of femaledness.
Fascinating interview! I can imagine arguments for any answer, but I'm going to cheat: I think it's more similar to a toggle switch; it's one or the other, with dying out exceptions.
Of course, that would be just the physical side of it. The mental side is more difficult to pin down. I resembling being what I am, a woman, but I know plenty of ethnic group are not happy next to the roll of the dice in their valise. Those may be the people to answer your interview more directly.
Gender which are male and feminine are definitely qualitative. why? becuase we cannot do statistical calculation on it.
Some citizens say they can make the calculation... logically they can, but the result is meaningless.
eg, data: 3 man, 2 women
caculation: 3 - 2 = 1 ( 1 represents what? it is meaningless)
So, masculinity is qualitative data.
What is the most you've ever rewarded for a Ty beanie babe?
People thought they were going to buy and supply Beanie Babies to pay their kids college expenses. Did it truly work?Answers:
I have immense baskets of Beanie Babies throughout my house that I thought my grandchildren would like. They couldn't consideration less just about them. I have spent a fortune, but never salaried more than $6.99 for any particular one, so you know I own a lot.
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$10
how do i copywright a photograph?
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Photograph copyright advice and tips
Few photographers have a complete understanding of copyright legislation and its implications, but once you start operating as a freelance it becomes vitally important - otherwise you could find yourself financially out of pocket, or at the wrong end of a legal battle.
Words & pictures Lee Frost
Copyright legislation exists so that work generated by photographers, writers and artists is protected by law, thus preventing unauthorised reproduction of that work without the prior permission of the author, and ensuring some kind of economic deal is struck which pleases all parties involved. It also states that you have the right to be identified as the author of that work, and that it cannot be subjected to 'derogatory treatment'.
In other words, if you take a photograph that's published, you have a right to be paid by the publisher a suitable fee for its reproduction, and the right to be identified as the creator of that picture in the form of a credit or byline.
Similarly, it also protects the client in so far as if you assign copyright for a particular image to them, then you are in breach of copyright and liable to a penalty if copyright for the same image is assigned or licensed to another client, especially in a competing market.
Traditionally, photographers have been seen as inferior to artists and writers in terms of copyright. Fortunately, due to changes in copyright legislation, if you take a photograph you are now considered the author of it, whether it was commissioned or not, no matter who supplied the film, and therefore have first ownership on that copyright.
The only exception to this is if you are an employed photographer - in which case the photographs you take as part of your regular job are the property of your employer. As freelance photographers by nature don't fall into this category, you needn't worry about it.
Assignment of copyright
At some point in your career you may complete a commissioned job for a client and be asked to assign copyright to them by signing a contract. Unless you have a good reason for doing so, such as being offered what you feel is a fair financial settlement, avoid this as you could lose out in the future.
The size of this settlement will depend on the client's reason for requesting that copyright be assigned to them. If they intend using the picture repeatedly in future brochures, say, then you should agree a fee for each repeat use. The same applies if they intend syndicating them to other companies, or using the pictures for publicity purposes. If future use can't be specified, then insist on retaining copyright and negotiating fresh deals for every subsequent use of the pictures - and get everything in writing so there can be no confusion about what has been agreed.
If you do decide to re-assign copyright to another party, remember they become the owner of those images in their entirety for all time, so you no longer have any claim on revenue generated from further sales. However, by retaining copyright, simply by refusing to sign it away, even if the client holds those images on their own property they must still seek your permission to sell them, and agree a financial payment to you from any sales revenue. Legally, they must also provide you with access to those pictures so you can offer them for sale yourself, although maintaining this can be difficult, so whenever possible, insists on holding the pictures on your own files.
As an example of how this can work, it is not uncommon for magazines to run their picture files like a stock agency and generate extra profit by selling images to advertisers, book publishers and so on.
If some of those pictures were taken by you during commissioned jobs for that magazine, then by law you are entitled to a share in the profits. However, if you assign copyright for those pictures to the magazine's publisher, you are not entitled to anything. Over a period of time, this could mean you miss out on healthy reproduction fees.
In the UK, some of the bigger publishing houses are recognising the fact that existing picture files can provide a lucrative sideline. As a result, some now insist that photographers who undertake commissions for them which sign a contrast which automatically assigns full copyright of any pictures taken to the publishing company.
If you are faced with this problem and are put in a situation where you sign or lose the work, consider your next move very carefully, explain the subject of copyright to the client, and at least negotiate a higher rate for your services to account for the potential loss of future earnings - ask for £300 per day if you are currently being paid £200, for example.
This is a difficult one because any work is better than no work, but at the same time professional photographers must unite in the common cause of protecting their rights before they are taken away.
Once-off rights
When a picture is purchased from a photographer or picture library for publication in a magazine, newspaper, book, poster, calendar, postcard or any other form of publication, the fee paid is usually for 'once-off reproduction rights'. In effect this means the client has paid to use that picture once, but the copyright still remains with the photographer and that very same picture can be offered for use in other non-competing markets.
For example, if a one of your pictures is published in a magazine, you can still offer it for sale again to other magazines that aren't rival publications to the current user, or to non-competing markets with immediate effect, such as calendars, postcards and so on. This allows you to gain maximum sales potential from your pictures.
If the same picture is used repeatedly in the same publication - perhaps in an article, as an inset picture on the cover, and on the contents page, you should also negotiate a higher payment rate. Most publishers try to avoid this because they hate spending more money than they have to, but morally they should be prepared to pay extra for repeat usage.
Obviously, you have a moral obligation here to avoid embarrassment or problems by selling the same picture to different markets simultaneously, but if you use your common sense, problems can be avoided. You should also weigh-up the pros and cons of protesting to a client if you feel they are paying you too little. A regular client may consider a slight reduction in repro fees fair due to the fact that they publish a lot of your work, so to complain about this may upset the apple cart and cause an upset which results in you being 'black listed'. By no means should you let this cloud your judgement, but at the same time, be sensible.
In certain markets, stipulations about the assignment of copyright should also be carefully considered. In the calendar market, for example, publishers normally stipulate the length of time they wish to retain full calendar rights on an image - usually it is one year, sometimes more - and check for clearance on a picture before going ahead and using it.
Whatever the period is, you must not offer the same picture for sale to another calendar publisher until it has expired, otherwise you will upset both parties, and chances are they will never use your work again for fear of encountering the same problem. The publisher first assigned copyright can also demand that the second publisher withdraws their product from the market, and if this happens, you could find yourself facing a law suit for negligence and breach of copyright.
Of course, if a publisher uses a picture without first clearing it with you, and the same shot appears in a rival publication at the same time, then the onus is on them, not you, and they can be forced to withdraw their product from the market.
Further care should be taken if you supply stock images to a picture library, but also market your own work as well. When you sign contracts with a picture library, you are effectively giving them carte blanche to market your work, within the boundaries of the copyright act, without your consent - which is why most libraries demand some level of exclusivity. If you sell calendar, poster, postcard or any other publication rights yourself, you must therefore inform the picture library of this to prevent them selling the same rights on the same picture to another publishing company.
Copyright for the social photographer
If you intend operating as a wedding and portrait photographer, the conditions of copyright are slightly different. As the 'author' of the photographs you still retain full copyright on them, but you are also limited by the rights of privacy of the client.
What this basically means is you cannot offer those pictures for sale, publication, exhibition or anything else for that matter without the consent of the people depicted in them. This even extends to the display of some of your best pictures in a shop window to try and attract more work - before doing this, you must first obtain the permission - ideally in writing - from your client.
Equally, if a couple commission a series of wedding pictures, they cannot display them in public, make reprints, offer them for publication or sale, without your permission as owner of the copyright. So, if a wedding couple ask for the negatives of their pictures, as well as the album and reprints, they are quite within their rights to do so, but if they then send those negatives to a processing lab for enlargement without your consent, they are in breach of copyright and you can take legal action.
One problem that is becoming more common with social photographers is the illegal copying of prints in copy shops. The improved quality of laser copiers and predominance of 'Create-a-Print' machines in high street processing labs now makes it possible to have a colour copy made from a print, negative or colour transparency for a fraction of what it would cost if you ordered reprints from the photographer. However, to do so is a blatant breach of copyright, and if you find evidence of this happening with your work you should take immediate legal action, and seek media coverage to deter other people from doing the same thing.
If you practice glamour, fashion and portrait photography, you are also advised to ask your clients, whether they are paying customers or not, to sign a proper model release form. This then gives you carte blanche to publish those pictures and receive payment for doing so, without having to seek permission from the subject or share the proceeds with them. The only exception is if that person suddenly becomes newsworthy, in which case you cannot sell the pictures for financial gain. If you do not have a model release form but you publish the pictures, you subject could take legal action regardless of their 'celebrity' status.
Regarding pictures of total strangers - candid shots taken in the street, say - no one in the UK has copyright on their face, and providing you take pictures from a public place, there are no laws covering the right of privacy of the public. Therefore, if you photograph a 'streaker' running down the high street, there is nothing they can do about it legally. The only time problems occur is if that picture is published and the accompanying text is defamatory - suggesting the person was drunk or on drugs, for example - in which case the subject can sue you for libel damages because in fact they were just having a good time.
To prevent this happening you must ensure any pictures taken of people are not used in a defamatory way, especially if you do not have a signed model release form from the subject.
What you can't do
As a photographer there are few limitation on what you can do ideally. However, you need to be are of those seemingly insignificant areas where problems may arise. Here are the most common.
Trespass - you cannot enter someone else's property to take pictures without their permission. You can photograph most private property from a public place, but once you cross the border into private property you are breaking the law.
Take pictures in certain places. These include theatres, rock concerts, circuses, auditoria, some museums and stately homes, National Trust property (UK only), Law Courts (everywhere in UK except Scotland if you have permission from the court), Houses of Parliament (UK) without permission, many other government buildings and military installations (always check), schools and hospitals without permission.
If you do photograph any of these subjects, the copyright of the pictures remains with you, but if you offer those pictures for sale you will be in breach of copyright and legal action may be taken.
Protecting yourself
When sending out photographs to clients, either speculatively or on request, you can cover yourself for possible infringement of copyright or loss of pictures, by following the two simple steps outlined below.
Always make sure your name, address, telephone number, reference number and a copyright symbol ((c)) appears on every slide mount and on the back of every print so there can be no disputing who the pictures belong to, no excuses for not contacting you to check the clearance of a picture before publication, and no reason for avoiding payment if a picture is published.
Always send out a delivery note with stock pictures. This should contain a detailed list of every picture, including a reference number for each, a clause which asserts your right to be recognised as the author of those pictures so a credit accompanies any that are published, and a compensation fee for any pictures that are lost of damaged - the minimum is usually £250 for a duplicate picture and £500-750 for an original.
Delivery notes can be purchased from most professional photographic bodies such as BAPLA and contain detailed conditions of use, as well as the information you add.
Copyright infringement - taking action
If you suspect an infringement of your copyright is about to take place, you can obtain a court order against the offender to prevent this happening. More commonly, however, an infringement isn't noticed until after the event has taken place. You may come across some of your pictures in a magazine, book or poster, for example that have been published without your consent and without a suitable reproduction fee being offered.
If this is the case, you should immediately take action. Often, a telephone call to the publisher or person responsible demanding immediate payment will be enough to settle the problem. But don't let them get away with this lightly. They have broken the law and deserve to be punished, so demand a fee that is higher than you would expect if they had gone through the correct channels of seeking clearance before using the picture.
If suitable payment is denied, seek the advice of a solicitor and take legal action against the offending party, no matter who they are. This will usually involve suing them for breach of copyright ownership. In the case of publishers, you can also take out a court order to have all copies of the products containing your work seized, be it books, posters, postcards, magazines and so on. Any individual or company with a grain of common sense will settle out of court to prevent embarrassment, loss of credibility, and the seizure of their goods.
If your work is published you have the right to demand a credit so you are recognised as the 'author' of that work. Many photographers levy a surcharge against clients who don't credit them though you can only enforce this if it is made clear in your terms and conditions of supply that a credit is required.
Copyright law isn't there just to protect photographers, but other people as well. That includes property owners, and more and more of them are becoming resentful of photographers taking pictures of their property in order to make a profit. Avoid problems by seeking permission and asking the owner to sign a property release.
Once you have sold certain rights to the use of an image, make sure you don't sell the same rights to another client in the same market otherwise you will be in breach of copyright. A significant use, such as a book cover, could cause major headaches if the same shot was used on the cover of another book at the same time. It's the same with calendars, advertising rights and so on.
Although you own copyright on the pictures you take, that doesn't mean you can do what you like with them. This candid shot taken at a wedding reception could be sold for various uses, but without the written permission of the suject, in the form of a signed model release, you would be breaking the law.
If you see one of your pictures being used without your permission, make sure the person responsible knows about it, and threaten legal action if they do not pay up immediately.
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I should do that to my photos before I upload them.
Don't vote for this answer. Second answer added to bring question to a vote.
What is the difference between below the stripe and above the dash campaign within the exposure industry?
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ATL (Above The Line) - Advertising/Marketing term for expensive medium like T.V., Radio etc.
BTL ( Below The Line ) - Is commonly referred to print medium such as direct mailers, flyers, brochures etc.
Another way to scene it is 'concept' delivery versus 'tactile' confinement.
A concept media is one where on earth you transmit ideas but nought concrete ever passes to your audience - radio, tv, billboards and even most tabloid ads.
Tactile abdication is giving the audience something they can actually touch - so coupons, direct messages, product samples.
ATL tend to be visual/auditory where as BTL usually excludes auditory but includes verbs, smell, touch, and even taste.
If you are up for a commission interview or dealing with an public notice agency for the first time, knowing the difference is important and even if nearby seems to be a push towards influence 'atl' stuff, ask the question if they relationship their atl stuff to a btl giveaway etc. That will show you understand not with the sole purpose the difference but also recognise the importance of both streams to the marketing hard work.
check out this website http://www.marketingprofs.com/ea/index.asp seems pretty apposite
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Above is TV, Media ect
Below is like Coupons and Vouchers In short Above the Line (ATL) hype is advertising that uses mass medium to create barnd awareness. This includes TV, Newspapers, Magazines etc. Below the line (BTL) uses direct advertsing methods resembling mail shots, PR etc
simplest & cheapest passageway to land american caper studio address?
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Yellow pages have on-line web source:
http://national.citysearch.com/
and so does AOL and yahoo.
Why are you looking? To provide something to them or find a good studio? I track to find a good studio is to check to see if the don has a B.A., B.F.A. surrounded by dance, an R.A.D. award, or long-gone pro experience. And I would watch the class and ask how various dancers have gone pro beside the studio.
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Check yahoo.