Christian P. Pewitt Blogs: February 2017

Tuesday, February 28, 2017

3 Tips for Buying Bathroom Faucets

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Having a hard time looking for faucets that best match your bathroom style? Luckily, we have some tips for buying bathroom faucets, such as: knowing the different styles, choosing the quality and matching with the number of mounting holes.

Below are 3 tips for buying bathroom faucets:

Knowing the Different Styles
Widespread: Most commonly found on pedestal sinks, widespread faucets are made for sinks with three pre-drilled holes that are 8″ apart. When purchasing a widespread faucet you’ll receive three individual components: two handles and one spout.
Vessel/Single-hole: On single hole faucets, the handle is attached to the spout and is for use on a sink with 1 pre-drilled hole. If you are in the market for a vessel style faucet but have a sink with 3 pre-drilled holes, it’s sometimes an option to purchase an additional deck plate to cover the existing holes on the sink. Contact the faucets manufacturer to see if that is an option before buying.
Wall-mounted: Ready for it? Wall-mounted faucets are mounted to …the wall! Normally, your water supply lines come up from the sink, but in this case they’ll need to be installed into the wall. One thing to be aware of when purchasing these types of faucets is that the spout is actually long enough to reach from the wall over the sink basin.
4″ Centerset: These faucets are found on sinks with 3 holes set at 4″ apart. The components sit on a deck plate that connect the handles with the spout body, and can also be found with single handle components.
4″ Minispread: Similar to centerset, these faucets fit 4″ configurations on sinks with 3 pre-drilled holes. But instead of purchasing a faucet with a 4″ deck plate, a minispread faucet looks more like a widespread faucet with three individual components: two handles and one spout. Source: ApartmentTherapy

Choosing the Quality
You’ll have to pay for it up front, but buying quality now means you won’t be paying during the life (or lack thereof) of your faucet. Look for an all-brass body, as opposed to brass- or chrome-plated. And keep in mind that the tub faucet has a larger flow rate than other household faucets, which means you can’t use a kitchen faucet or your tub. Bathtub faucets should have a 3/4-inch supply line, as opposed to 1/2-inch for the rest of the house. Some tubs hold up to 60 gallons of water, so you’ll want a faucet that can get the job done in a timely manner. Source: HGTV

Matching with the Number of Mounting Holes
Most sinks come with mounting holes pre-drilled for faucets and accessories such as side sprays or soap dispensers. If you’re keeping your original sink, you’ll need to match what you have or get a base plate to cover any extra holes. The base plate sold with your new faucet can be used to cover holes in your countertop, but don’t buy a faucet that requires more sink holes than your sink has; it’s not a good idea to try to drill additional holes in an existing sink or countertop. Get additional information on how to best match sinks and faucets. Source: ConsumerReports

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Facebook Looks To Hire Legal Director Of Music Licensing As It Beefs Up Music Team

A new job posting adds provides further proof that Facebook is finally getting serious about music. Facebook is now advertising for a Legal Director of Music Licensing to join Tamara Hrivnak who was recently hired to head the social network's music strategy.

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Facebook has just posted a job opening for its first ever Legal Director of Music Licensing. The candidate will be responsible for "solving cutting-edge licensing issues on a global scale, with an opportunity to help shape the future of music use on Facebook."

Responsibilities include:

Support Facebook’s biz dev team in developing our music licensing strategy and helping lead negotiations across labels, publishers, and collecting societies globally
Lead and grow Facebook’s nascent music licensing legal team, and direct outside licensing counsel around the world

Last month, Facebook hired YouTube and Google Play's Director Of Music Partnerships' Tamara Hrivnak to lead its global music strategy. Prior to Google, Hrivnak, who is also an attorney, did a stint at Warner Music Group with a focus on publishing.

Despite being a pivotal place for music discovery, sharing and marketing, Facebook has been without a real music strategy. But they have been ramping up staff to serve the industry in recent months. So far, however, their focus has been on creating a better Content ID system.

As the new music team takes shape, labels, publishers and musicians are watching to see how the social behemoth intends to compensate them for the immense amount of unlicensed music shared and played in videos on the site.

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Spotify Is Deleting It's Inbox And Messaging Feature

Ever wish that you could communicate with fans and playlisters on Spotify? Forget it. At a time when most apps are encouraging communications, Spotify is deleting its own messaging system.

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Spotify has announced on it's Community blog that it is "deprecating" the Inbox/Messages feature in the Spotify app.

"Extensive data analysis has shown that this feature has very low engagement. The huge disparity between the use of the feature and the manpower required to maintain it doesn’t merit keeping it running, so we've taken the difficult decision to remove it."

Instead, Spotify hopes that you'll use third party messaging apps to share music, and promised more outside integrations and new in app features. "We’re always trying out innovative ways to use the app, so stay tuned for new sharing features in the future."

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Dart Music Files For Bankruptcy

[UPDATED] Dart Music promised to fix music's metadata problem; first with classical music and then all genres. But after raising $1.5 million, the promising startup has filed for bankruptcy.

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Dart Music has filed for bankruptcy in its home state of Tennessee. In a press release, the company said it will continue to operate during Chapter 11. But the bankruptcy filing listed debts totalling $2.57 million versus assets of between $50,0000 and $100,000.

Included in the debts listed is $33,233 due artists and $600,000 each to Rob Harig and Stacy Stinson, principles in Lebanon, TN based business consultancy St. John & Company.

Founded by former Apple and Naxos technologist Chris McMurtry, Dart Music was one of the first startups to graduate from the Nashville Entrepreneur Center's Project Music incubator, where it received seed funding in 2015. Later that year, the company raised $1.5 million in venture capital.

Joe Galante, often called the godfather of the Nashville music industry, mentored McMurtry at Project Music; and would later serve on Dart's board, as well as help raise capital.

Fixing music's metadata problem was Dart's primary mission. It began as a digital distributor for classical music, a genre known for multiple versions of the same work, and thus often a metadata nightmare. Late last year, the company pivoted, promising to solve the metadata issue for all genres. In October, it launched DartCleanup in beta and secured contracts with Naxos, CD Baby, Ingram Content Group and others.

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