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Filipe Toledo (BRA), 19, earned a perfect 10-point ride while advancing to the Quarterfinals of the Billabong Rio Pro today.
Filipe Toledo (BRA), 18, 2013 ASP Dream Tour rookie, put together an immaculate alley-oop to air-reverse combination, securing a perfect 10-point ride for the effort. While fellow competitor Jordy Smith (ZAF), 25, went on to earn a perfect 10 of his own in the amazing Round 4 affair, Toledo's back-up score of 8.43 was enough to secure a spot directly in to the Quarterfinals over Smith and two-time ASP World Champion Mick Fanning (AUS), 31.
"That was my first perfect 10 on the tour and I'm at a loss for words right now," Toledo said. "I can't even describe how I'm feeling. I'm just so stoked to compete against Jordy (Smith) and Mick (Fanning). I competed with them in the same round at Bells and to win this heat in Brazil is amazing. When I saw the sets coming, Jordy had priority and he was paddling for the one behind me. I knew it was going to be good. I went for the first big air and I was so happy that I made it, I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going to do another one.' I had that other section and I made the second air. I'm so excited right now, I don't know what to say."
Adriano de Souza (BRA), 26, put in a strong performance in his Round 4 match-up against Taj Burrow (AUS), 34, and Nat Young (USA), 21, earning a spot directly in to the Quarterfinals following a priority interference by Burrow. While Burrow posted two near-perfect scores, de Souza earned two excellent rides of his own, posting a 15.90 out of 20 heat total to secure the Quarterfinals berth.
"Before the heat started I was really focused," De Souza said. "I knew Taj (Burrow) was going to be dangerous and I have a lot of respect of Nat young, but Nat was in the middle of us and I knew it'd be hard for him. Taj was on fire during the whole heat and I just focused on my waves. 5 minutes before the heat ended I heard Taj got an amazing wave, but then later I heard Taj got the interference. I was happy to make it, but it's too bad for Taj. He's an idol of mine and an amazing surfer."
Adrian Buchan (AUS), 30, took a massive Round 4 victory to secure his best result of the season, relegating local talent Gabriel Medina (BRA), 19, and 11-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA), 41, to Round 5. Buchan placed his bets on a bank down the beach and the choice paid off, as the Avoca Beach native was the lone surfer in the heat to find a rhythm while securing his position in the Quarterfinals.
"I feel good," Buchan said. "I saw waves down the beach and was watching free surfers half and hour before I surfed and saw a few. You've got to take a gamble sometimes and I think it'll pay off. I didn't really think it was that big of a gamble and was able to find a really good one. I'm stoked because that's a good round to get out of. I always try and win that heat when I get in it. I see it more as a one-winner round rather than a no-losers round. I knew it'd be a big heat against Gabriel (Medina) and Kelly (Slater) and knew most of the crowd's focus would be on them, so I could do my own thing. I knew it'd be hard for Kelly to repeat his performance from earlier today and I'm happy to get past those guys in that heat."
Sebastian Zietz (HAW), 24, ASP WCT Rookie, has put together a breakthrough result at the Billabong Rio Pro to match the best result of his budding career. The Kauai native navigated the challenging Barra Da Tijuca lineup with ease, donating incredible performances in both Rounds 3 and 4 to advance to the Quarterfinals compliments of some of the day's most exciting barrels.
"Conditions changed quickly out there," Zietz said. "I was frothing watching the heat before and thinking I was going to get pitted. I got one barrel, but ended up looking for some ramps. I was just trying to make the Quarters here in Brazil, that was my goal, so I'm happy. Hopefully I can break through to the Semis or even a final."
Kelly Slater, 11-time ASP World Champion, dominated the Barra Da Tijuca lineup in Round 3, effortlessly driving through draining barrels to secure some of the highest scores of Billabong Rio Pro competition. Slater drove through a deep tube in the opening moments of his Round 3 bout against Patrick Gudauskas (USA), 27, for a near-perfect 9.97 and backed up the ride with a similar score for a 19.67 (out of 20) heat total.
"I hadn't surfed in a week," Slater said. "I thought it was going to be an air game and Pat is deadly with his airs. It was killing me to have such a good heat against Pat (Gudauskas) because I want to see him make heats. It's a weird thing when you surf against your friends. I had a feeling once that squall passed that it would calm down and get glassy and that's exactly what it did. I was looking for those ones like I had in the first heat, those ones the knuckle off of the outside reef. You want to get that first one that's peaky and doesn't have too much white water in the way."
While Slater was unable to reproduce the same magic in Round 4, the veteran quickly rebounded to surpass Taj Burrow in a hard-fought Round 5 clash to earn his position in the Quarterfinals.
"Taj (Burrow) definitely brings the best out in me," Slater said. "I didn't want to surf, the waves were terrible and the waves ended up getting good out there. Taj just had a couple of heats where he wanted to surf this year and the call didn't go his way. He was decisive and I didn't want to surf. They took a poll and the guys wanted to surf, so we went ahead with it.Taj started off with that barrel and I knew I had to do something. Luckily I was able to get that air reverse."
Event organizers will reconvene tomorrow morning at 7am local time and will crown a champion by day's end.
The Billabong Rio Pro will is webcast LIVE via http://wctbrasil.com/rio13
For additional ASP information log on to www.aspworldtour.com
Heat 1: Taj Burrow (AUS) 12.10 def. Kolohe Andino (USA) 6.50
Heat 2: Nat Young (USA) 13.13 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 10.17
Heat 3: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 12.00 def. Miguel Pupo (BRA) 7.14
Heat 4: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 16.40 def. Travis Logie (ZAF) 11.77
Heat 5: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 12.94 def. C.J. Hobgood (USA) 6.83
Heat 6: Kelly Slater (USA) 19.97 def. Patrick Gudauskas (USA) 10.01
Heat 7: Glenn Hall (IRL) 12.33 def. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 10.83
Heat 8: Michel Bourez (PYF) 12.43 def. Bede Durbidge (AUS) 11.17
Heat 9: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 17.47 def. Julian Wilson (AUS) 16.34
Heat 10: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 18.43 def. Josh Kerr (AUS) 10.67
Heat 11: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 12.17 def. Kai Otton (AUS) 9.00
Heat 12: Mick Fanning (AUS) 16.53 def. Brett Simpson (USA) 13.33
Heat 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.90, Taj Burrow (AUS) 9.30, Nat Young (USA) 5.57
Heat 2: Adrian Buchan (AUS) 12.77, Gabriel Medina (BRA) 11.41, Kelly Slater (USA) 7.33
Heat 3: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) 14.10, Michel Bourez (PYF) 11.84, Glenn Hall (IRL) 6.05
Heat 4: Filipe Toledo (BRA) 18.43, Jordy Smith (ZAF) 16.83, Mick Fanning (AUS) 13.20
Heat 1: Kelly Slater (USA) 15.10 def. Taj Burrow (AUS) 14.03
Heat 2: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 14.20 def. Nat Young (USA) 11.20
Heat 3: Mick Fanning (AUS) 14.83 def. Michel Bourez (PYF) 2.86
Heat 4: Jordy Smith (ZAF) 17.43 def. Glenn Hall (IRL) 13.63
QF 1: Adriano de Souza (BRA) vs. Kelly Slater (USA)
QF 2: Adrian Buchan (AUS) vs. Gabriel Medina (BRA)
QF 3: Sebastian Zietz (HAW) vs. Mick Fanning (AUS)
QF 4: Filipe Toledo (BRA) vs. Jordy Smith (ZAF)


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Google may soon offer Chromebook and Chromebox owners 100GB of free Google Drive online storage, according to code within the Chromium open source operating system.
Google+ user François Beaufort spotted the promo within the Chromium Code review site. Looking at the code, you'll notice several mentions of an "alternative GDrive promo" and, within one JavaScript file there is welcome text that says "Get 100 GB free with Google Drive."
100GB on Google's online storage service would normally cost $4.99 per month, so it's a savings of about $60 a year for Chromebook and Chromebox owners.
It's not clear if existing Chromebook or Chromebox owners would get this supposed promotion. Digging in the Chromium code a bit, I found a checkSpaceAndShowBanner function that checks if the user already has 100GB or more of Google Drive. If so, the new welcome banner (supposedly with the 100GB offer) wouldn't be shown.
Chromebooks such as the recently refreshed Samsung Series 5 have measly 16GB solid-state drives because the idea is to store and run everything in the cloud. Google has tightly integrated Google Drive into its Chrome OS.
With 100GB of free online storage, these ultraportable netbook-like laptops may be more attractive and usable.
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DYTIATKO International Children's Media Festival
1.1. DYTIATKO International Children's Media Festival (hereinafter the Festival) was founded according to the resolution of Kharkiv Regional Council dated June 25 2009 No. 1262-V "On introduction of DYTIATKO Children's Television Festival".
1.2. The Festival founder is Kharkiv Regional Council.
1.3. The Festival co-organizer is NGO "Kharkiv Association of Children's Screen Arts "DYTIATKO"".
1.4. The organizing committee ensures conduction of the Festival.
2. Mission and objectives
2.1. The Festival mission is to find and support children's/youth studios and clubs, which are engaged in cinema and television creativity, talented children; the revival of the children's/youth cinema and television in Ukraine.
2.2. The Festival objectives are:
- the establishment and development of contacts between children's/youth studios, experience exchange and further professional development of the participants;
- communication to the general public of interesting, outstanding works and projects from different countries, presentation of the best global practices in the development of children's/youth cinema and television industry;
- the setup of creative and communication platforms to exchange experience and present new projects during the Festival and between the Festival times;
- creative personal development, education of moral values and social activism;
- drawing attention of governmental, non-governmental organizations and commercial entities to the issues of the development of screen children's/youth creativity, to the processes of personality forming via receiving information broadcast by electronic mass media, to the needs of children's/youth creative clubs, the development of talented children and their future.
3. Participants and Terms of holding the Festival
3.1. The Festival is held among children's/youth television, animation, cinema- and radio studios, clubs, groups and individual authors, television and radio broadcasters and creative production entities, directors and producers' centres, which produce programmes and films for children and youth.
3.2. The Festival is held annually and includes two stages. The first stage is qualifying. At this stage the organizing committee of the Festival screens the works received and selects those which will take part in the second stage. The second stage is final, and it includes Festival programme events: screenings, presentations, workshops, trainings, meet-the-artist events, conferences, round tables etc.
3.3. The Festival stages are carried out in the following periods: the first stage – November-August; the second stage – September the same year.
3.4. The works eligible for the Festival must be created within the Festival year, and during the year, preceding the Festival one, but only those that due to certain reasons have not been sent in previous year to participate in the Festival.
3.5. The deadline for applications to participation in the Festival is May 31 of the current year.
3.6. The Festival competition programme includes nominations below:
І. International competition programme:
– The Best Fiction Film by a Children's Studio;
– The Best Documentary by a Children's Studio
– The Best Television Programme by a Children's Studio;
– The Best Animation Film by a Children's Studio;
– The Best Social Advertisement by a Children's Studio;
– The Best Radio Programme by a Children's Studio;
– The Best Television Programme for Children;
– The Best Series for Children;
– The Best Feature Film for Children;
– The Best Short Film for Children;
– The Best Animation Film for Children;
– CIFEJ Prize (the prize of the International Centre of Films for Children and Youth);
– The Prize for creative approach and originality of creative task performance (competition works are created during the Festival, the task is given out at the Festival).
ІІ. National competition programme:
– «We are Local Self-Government!» (special nomination, under support of the Council of Europe);
– «Ecology of Wildlife: conservation and preservation»;
– «Our peaceful sky» (jointly with Kharkiv aerospace club named after Hryzodubova of Defence Strengthening Society of Ukraine);
– contest of video bloggers «DYTIATKO.Like».
3.7. After reviewing the works, selected under the competition programme of the Festival, the jury also awards prizes in the following nominations:
- Special Jury Prize;
- Best Director;
- Best Cameraman;
- Best TV host(ess);
- Best TV journalist;
- Best Actor(ess).
3.8. The President of the Festival is entitled during the awarding ceremony to give an encouraging award – President's Cup.
3.9. The Festival participants may participate in one or more nominations of the Festival. The Festival participant may be presented in the nomination with up to three works.
3.10. In nomination "We are Local Self-Government!" the preference is given to the works, which reflect on the role and specifics of the local self-government in teens' understanding, and also tell about the youth's participation in solving local scale issues and the development of communities, about achievements and challenges, about the things young people and authorities can do together to develop their native land.
3.11. Nomination "Our peaceful sky" was introduced to improve the awareness of the growing generation of the aviation industry in Ukraine and globally, to promote aviation professions and sports, and also to promote peace and agreement in society. For the works, submitted in nomination "Our peaceful sky", it is not a must to use aircraft while shooting.
3.12. The compulsory precondition for a work in nominations "We are Local Self-Government!", "Ecology of Wildlife: conservation and preservation" and "Our peaceful sky" is the production of the competition work by a children's studio (club, school-age author) or jointly with a children's studio.
3.13. The Festival participants provide authors' works of various genres and creative solutions.
The duration of works in nominations: "The Best Fiction Film by a Children's Studio"; "The Best Documentary by a Children's Studio"; "The Best Television Programme by a Children's Studio"; "The Best Animation Film by a Children's Studio"; "The Best Radio Programme by a Children's Studio"; "The Best Television Programme for Children" and "The Best Short Film for Children" is up to 30 minutes.
The duration of works in the contest of video bloggers «DYTIATKO.Like» is up to 60 minutes.
The duration of works in nominations "We are Local Self-Government!", "Ecology of Wildlife: conservation and preservation" and "Our peaceful sky" is up to 15 minutes.
The duration of works in nominations "The Best Social Advertisement by a Children's Studio" is up to 2 minutes.
The duration of works in nominations "The Best Feature Film for children" and "The Best Animation Film for children" is up to 120 minutes.
The duration of works in nominations "The Best Series for children" is not limited.
The duration of works in nomination "The Creative Task" is up to 3 minutes.
3.14. Multimedia materials and applications are submitted to the organizing committee as follows:
3.15. The works, submitted to participate in the Festival International competition programme nominations, must provide subtitles kin English (except for the works in English and the works, which have voice-over or dubbing in English).
3.16. To participate in the Festival it is necessary to provide:
3.17. The works selected to be in the second round of the Festival may be presented by up to four persons from the group of authors or their representatives (one adult and three children).
3.18. The organizing committee selects, forms and shows in the Festival special programmes feature, documentary, animation and other films, television programmes, series, retrospective shows, created in any country of the world.
3.19. The participation in the Festival competition programmes is free. However, all the costs of sending materials and also transport costs to the venue of the Festival and back are to be covered by Festival participants.
3.20. The organizers are not liable for errors and inaccuracies, contained in the application submitted. Compiled fragments or episodes from several programmes are not allowed.
3.21. Provided violation of any of the above provisions, the application for the participation in the Festival will not be considered.
3.22. The works submitted to the Festival are not reviewed. After the Festival events the materials are not returned to the authors, but they become a part of the Festival database.
3.23. The organizing committee is entitled to show competition and out-of-competition works of the Festival at the events, held by the organizing committee of the Festival (at the Festival sites; At the Festival days, held in other towns and cities of Ukraine; in special programmes and at other Festivals), and also to show them in television programmes about the Festival and during information and educational events, show on television channels to highlight and promote the Festival.
3.24. Festival participants presenting the work are liable for its copyright compliance.
3.25. The organizing committee is not liable for the violations of third persons' copyright by the Participants.
3.26. The Festival programme and events as well as other issues of organizing and holding the Festival are in the competence of the organizing committee.
3.27. Participation in the Festival provides for consent to the requirements, contained herein.
4. Jury
4.1. To assess the works selected to participate in the competition programmes of the Festival second stage, the organizing committee sets up a professional jury that includes domestic and foreign cinema and television experts, television, cinema and radio celebrities.
4.2. Children's jury is established to assess the works in nomination "The Best television programme for children".
5. Pitching
5.1. Pitching is the presentation and defence of the projects of Ukrainian children's studios (school-age authors) or co-production with them.
5.2. Applications are accepted free of charge from February 01 till May 31 included.
5.3. The works in the categories below are eligible:
I. Film – scripts of feature, animation and documentary films.
II. Television programme – scripts of original television programmes, oriented on youth audience.
5.4. To submit the application it is necessary to fill in the online form, placed on the official website of the Festival, according to the application submission rules.
5.5. Each contestant may send in one project to Pitching.
5.6. Pitching participants must have a fully written script at hand or be able to write it by July 10.
5.7. By June 20 the extended Pitching list is made. It includes up to 15 applications in each nomination. The list with surnames is published on the official website of the Festival. The authors must submit their scripts for viewing.
5.8. The authors, whose projects are selected to the long Pitching list, by July 10 must send the scripts to firstname.lastname@example.com. The participants that do not submit their script in time will not be accepted to the competition.
5.9. By August 1, the short list of the script applications is prepared for each nomination in Pitching. This short list includes up to 7 projects per nomination. Information on the final project list of the Pitching participants is published on the official website of the Festival.
5.10. The project presentation is given during the Festival. The organizing committee, provided funding, covers the costs of accommodation at the Festival for two authors per project maximum. Transport expenses are covered by Pitching participants.
5.11. The projects selected for pitching are assessed by the jury, consisting cinema and television experts.
5.12. The jury selects one winner per nomination in Pitching. The Pitching jury may additionally award the Special Jury Prize for any reason to any project.
5.13. The sequence of presentations during Pitching is identified by the moderator. The project presentation duration limit is 7 minutes. Questions and discussions of the project after its presentation may take up to 7 minutes too.
5.14. The brief profiles of the projects, selected for Pitching, are published in the Festival catalogues and on the official website of the DYTIATKO International Children's Media Festival.
6. Festival Winners Awarding
6.1. Professional jury determines one winner per Festival nomination within their competence. In nomination "The Prize for creative approach and originality of creative task performance" the professional jury identifies two best works.
All the participants of the second stage of the Festival receive Festival diplomas.
6.2. The Children's Jury identifies one winner in nomination "The Best Television Programme for Children". The Children's Jury may introduce an additional special prize.
6.3. The Jury, partners and sponsors of the Festival may introduce special prizes in any Festival nomination.
We are open for submissions via FilmFreeway until the 31th of May. Send us your project now
Address of the Organization Committee: 64, Sumska str., off. 96, Kharkiv 61200, Ukraine
Information by telephones: +38(057)700-53-05; +38050-401-36-02
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Official web-site of the Festival: http://fest.dytiatko.org.ua
Maikki Kantola (Finland), a renowned trainer in the field of animated and documentary films creatoin, shared with the journalists her impressions of working in Kharkiv.
"All the children and youth I met here are very creative and full of energy, however they are patient when creating cartoons as animation is a time-consuming and painstaking process", - said Maikki Kantola.
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The Happy Momma,
She finds her sense of worth in God, not in motherhood.
She first identifies as the daughter of the King of kings.
She doesn't compare herself with others, she knows she was fearfully and wonderfully made like her sisters.
She doesn't compare her children with others, she knows they are unique gifts from the uncreated one.
She speaks life over her children, even when they break her heart.
She trusts the omnipresent God to care for her children.
She knows God loves her children more than she ever will, so she rests in His unfailing love.
She doesn't only care for her children, she mothers the motherless.
She doesn't only feed her children, she feeds hungry children in lands she may never tread.
She takes care of herself, so she can be happy with herself.
She loves her neighbor like she loves herself.
She smiles because she is ever grateful.
Her friends also have Jesus as their Lord.
She may or may not have a husband, yet she is content. For her husband is always the Lord, Jesus Christ. The one she can always trust with her heart.
A happy momma is the momma whose identity is found in Christ, Jesus. He is always enough for her. He satisfies her soul.


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Benton County born-and-bred "Arkansas Slim' had a long and varied career in entertainment
From the Encyclopedia of Arkansas:
Lloyd "Arkansas Slim" Andrews was best known for film roles as a sidekick to western stars in the 1940s through the early 1950s and, after that, as a host of children's television programs.
Before his move to Hollywood, he had been a comedian and musician in tent shows traveling throughout the mid-South. In his later years, he was a featured guest at film festivals.
He was a member of the Screen Actors Guild and a lifetime member of Musicians Local 47 of Hollywood.
Lloyd Andrews, also known as "Arkansas Slim" and "Slim Andrews," was born on December 8, 1906, the seventh son of Norma Blau and George Willis Andrews, who had a farm on Spavinaw Creek in rural Benton County seven miles from Gravette.
The elder Andrews' passion for music was passed on to their children, and the youngest son learned to play fiddle from his father and picked up the rudiments of guitar from his mother.
He had a few lessons on the pump organ but never learned to read music. He taught himself to play piano. The father and sons performed as a family band for local events such as pie suppers, literaries, and similar occasions.
He had a few lessons on the pump organ but never learned to read music. He taught himself to play piano. The father and sons performed as a family band for local events such as pie suppers, literaries, and similar occasions.
Andrews received his formal education at a country school near Gravette, where he completed the eighth grade. He married Lucille Kinsey of Pineville (Izard County) in 1929.
The couple had one son, John, who was also an actor. Lucille worked as the leading lady with her husband when they were on the tent show circuit.
In 1924, at age seventeen, Andrews, who at a slender 6'8″ was now called "Slim," had caught the attention of Watso the Musical Wizard, a traveling showman. With money earned from raising strawberries, Andrews had purchased a 1923 Model T Ford and customized the car by lengthening the body and adding ten horns and eleven lights.
The horns were rigged to play "Pretty, Little Blue-Eyed Sally," a popular song of the time. Watso needed transportation as well as an assistant and envisioned Andrews's unique car as a way to promote his shows.
Watso developed Andrews's comedic talents into a Toby country boy act, also teaching him to play handsaw and banjo and how to be a one-man band.
Leaving Watso after two years, Andrews had a successful solo touring act, which he gave up to accept an offer to be the Toby comedian with one of the larger itinerant tent shows.
These shows were a form of rural vaudeville in the early decades of the twentieth century and were centered around the figure of Toby, a slapstick comedian costumed with a red wig, freckles, blacked-out teeth, bare feet, and baggy clothes.
The shows featured a melodrama with Toby ad-libbing lines as the leading heroic character, followed by a musical concert with the actors also playing in the band. In addition to the tent shows,
Andrews and his wife also worked for a short time in a medicine show hawking Satanic, a potion of colored water and Epsom salts.
Andrews was proficient on a number of conventional music instruments, but what distinguished him from fellow musicians was the ability to make music on funnels, tire pumps, rubber gloves, fishing poles, and many other such objects.
He was reputed to have played more than 100 different instruments.
Andrews appeared as a one-man band, simultaneously playing four instruments, in Rhythm of the Rio Grande, his first Hollywood film, with Tex Ritter in 1940. Ritter had discovered Andrews during a 1939 tour when the two were playing competing shows in Monticello.
Upon learning that the Toby show had drawn the larger audience, Ritter investigated and found Andrews to be the main attraction. This encounter resulted in an invitation to Hollywood.
Andrews was in ten Ritter westerns in 1940 and 1941, playing the sidekick in eight of the films. He basically played his Toby role in western garb, astraddle a mule, ad-libbing his lines, and repeating signature phrases such as "Hi Ho Josephine" and "Great gobs of goose grease."
When Ritter left Monogram, the film partnership with Andrews ended, but the two remained friends and continued to tour together for nearly ten years. Andrews played sidekick to Tom Keene in his next four films before moving to Republic Pictures, where, in 1942, he appeared in two films with Don "Red" Berry and in Cowboy Serenade with Gene Autry.
Over a fifteen-year period, he had parts in approximately thirty-four films, including musical shorts, and played a major supporting role in Clayton Moore's 1952 film Buffalo Bill in Tomahawk Territory, in which Andrews received second billing for his role of Cactus.
In 1950, as the popularity of B-westerns was on the decline, Andrews found a niche in children's television, working for three years in Los Angeles before moving to KMJ-TV in Fresno, California, where as "The Forty Niner" he hosted weekday afternoon shows. After ten years in Fresno, Andrews landed at KOAM in Pittsburg, Kansas, and hosted The Fun Club, which aired on Saturday mornings from 1963 to 1984.
Among other highlights in Andrews's career were a ten-month tour as a comedian and musician with Bob Wills in 1947; playing harmonica, accordion, and other instruments with a Wills satellite band led by Harley Huggins in 1948; nearly 10,000 television appearances; and a speaking role as the ferryman in the television miniseries The Blue and the Gray (1982).
He received composer credits in the 1940 Ritter film Arizona Frontier for the song "Wastin' Time."
Andrews and his wife returned to Gravette in 1970 while he was still working at KOAM in Pittsburg.
He died in Gravette on April 3, 1992, and is buried nexxt to his beloved Lucille, who died the same year as Andrews, in the Bethel Cemetery in Benton County.


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SNOW HILL – High fuel and energy costs are affecting Worcester County schools, the Board of Education reported to the Worcester County Commissioners Tuesday, possibly pushing some school operations over their allocated budgets.
School bus transportation, energy and utility costs have all risen in response to the high cost of fuel. The school also reported that plan maintenance and special education costs might go over budget this year.
"This is a routine letter," Worcester County Administrator Gerry Mason told the commissioners Tuesday morning.
State law requires school systems to report any possible overrun in each of 13 budget categories to the county government.
"We've done this in the past, usually sometime in November," said Worcester County Superintendent of Schools Dr. Jon Andes explained later.
The school board is not asking the county for funds, Mason assured the commissioners. The school system will transfer available funds from other budget categories to cover the overage in the spring. The schools have managed to save funds in some categories in recent years and should be able to find those savings again.
"Because of the costs of diesel fuel, we're providing a supplement to our bus contractors," Andes said.
If the cost of a gallon of diesel fuel exceeds $2.90, under the bus drivers' contract, the school board pays them an additional fee.
"It's been going up every month," said Commission President Jim Purnell, a long time bus driver.
The cost of diesel fuel is hovering around $3.50 per gallon.
"In the case of the operation of plant category, it's utility costs," Andes said.
Home heating oil has gone up 30 percent, he said. Some school buildings use oil heat.
The higher cost of fuel has also increased electricity and propane costs.
All these increases have an impact on the school system, Andes said, despite bidding out energy contracts.
"What's driving our costs is the cost of energy," Andes said. "We know it's going to increase."
Special Education costs have gone up with the increased number of students, some with specialized medical needs.
Building maintenance costs have increased as heating, ventilating and cooling systems age and break down.
"Every year we ask for increases in the allocation for maintenance," Andes said.
Worcester County is 23rd out of 24 Maryland school districts in maintenance allocations.


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Complaint filed over deaths of Everett lab's monkeys
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KILLING dozens of monkeys:
Complaint filed over deaths of Everett lab's monkeys
By Amy Nile, HeraldNet.com, Tuesday, August 26, 2014
EVERETT — Animal-rights activists have filed a complaint against a
research lab here after more than two dozen monkey deaths last year.
Ohio-based Stop Animal Exploitation Now said in its complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture that SNBL USA's "fatal incompetence" deserves severe punishment. In October 2013, 25 monkeys died during or shortly after a trip to the Everett biomedical research facility.
SNBL, the West Coast's largest monkey lab, reported the deaths in an Oct. 21, 2013, letter to the National Institutes of Health.
The company had shipped 840 cynomolgus monkeys from a breeding farm in Cambodia to Houston. The letter said company staff members had noted the animals were "very thirsty and thin" upon arriving in Texas. They loaded 480 of the monkeys into trucks bound for Everett, a three-day trip. The remaining animals went to another SNBL facility in Alice, Texas.
During the trip to Everett, a staff member noted that the monkeys were weak. Five died on the way. Another 20 died or were euthanized within a week of arriving at SNBL's site behind tall trees and security fencing along Seaway Boulevard.
The company tests pharmaceutical drugs on monkeys and also breeds the primates for sale to other researchers. The Everett facility employs about 260 people and is home to about 1,200 monkeys.
"If SNBL can't ensure the animals arrive alive, why should we believe these facilities are capable of science?" Michael Budkie of Stop Animal Exploitation Now said in an interview.
"These (deaths) demonstrate a clear pattern of negligence on the part
of SNBL."
After the first monkey died, Budkie said, SNBL should have taken measures to ensure the rest of the animals could safely continue the journey.
The company's chief compliance officer, Thomas Beck, said he didn't anticipate the deaths because the monkeys were transported according to industry standards. Since the incident, the company has changed procedures for monkey transport, Beck said.
"For us, if even one animal dies in transit, that's a tragedy," he said. "We wanted to make sure that never happened again."
SNBL hasn't determined why the monkeys died, but Beck suspects they were in poor condition before they left Cambodia. The company now sends a veterinarian before the monkeys leave to ensure they are fit to make the trip.
The company has added chilled gel packs and water to the shipping crates to avoid dehydration among the primates en route. A SNBL staffer travels with the animals.
"We want these animals to be comfortable and well cared for," Beck said.
The monkeys now fly to Seattle instead of Houston to reduce the ground transportation time. Beck said the last leg of the trip seemed to cause the most problems. The company's new policy requires that animals be shipped no more than 50 miles by truck.
Budkie wonders why it took 25 monkey deaths for those procedures to be put in place. He hopes the government fines SNBL.
Budkie said the deaths demonstrate the way the laboratory-testing industry views animals.
"They're inventory," he said. "Their goal is to make money."
SNBL's monkeys are bred for research. They live and die in captivity. Each monkey is worth about $3,500, the company has said.
"The people who work here have love and compassion for these animals," Beck said.
SNBL tests pharmaceutical drugs on monkeys to improve human medicine, Beck said. He said he has seen the benefits of the company's research first hand.When his brother-in-law was diagnosed with leukemia, he was given a drug SNBL had tested.
"He had a positive result from that treatment and he is doing fine," Beck said. "It gives you some consolation that what we're doing is making a difference."
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It's a tale of two worlds colliding: social media and a war-torn country ruled by a dictator. Syrian political cartoonist Akram Raslan was arrested and detained in Hama and thrown into a Syrian security prison in October 2012. Since then, no one on the outside has heard from him - not family, friends or colleagues.
Several days ago, Cartoonists' Rights Network International (CRNI) posted a notice that they had received information that Raslan was dead. The CRNI report described a show trial this past July, followed by an execution. Raslan's death was also reported by the Damascus-based news service Souriatna.
"He is reported to be in a mass grave somewhere near Damascus," the CRNI report read. "Our reliable, but for obvious reasons anonymous, sources further allege that the murder of Akram [Raslan] and other condemned prisoners was carried out by Mohammad Nassif Kheir Bek, currently the Deputy Vice President for Security Affairs in Syria."
Cartoonists' Rights Network International, which authored the report, has been involved in the case of Akram Raslan since he was detained in 2012. Akram Raslan was the recipient of the organization's Award for Courage in Editorial Cartooning for 2013.
The human rights group has good sources in and outside Syria. But there's one problem. On Facebook and Twitter, people are saying that Akram Raslan is still alive. And Raslan's own family doesn't believe the reports that Akram is dead. Following the initial report by Cartoon Rights Network International, Michael Cavna of the blog Comic Riffs spoke to CRNI's director Robert Russell and afterward added some clarification. "CRNI's report of Raslan's death, Russell tells us Sunday, is based on 'a reliable source close to [his] family.' Russell notes, however: 'The family is still saying that they don't know [what happened], and that nobody has told them anything.'." Robert Russell has appealed for more information about Akran Raslan on the Facebook page of The Syrian Journalists Association.
Massoud Akko is involved in the Syrian Journalists Association. He's a Kurdish journalist from Syria who went into exile in Norway in 2010. Akko says his sources in Syria have alerted him that Akram Raslan is dead, though no cause of death is given. "Raslan is in a prison run by Syria's security services, not a regular prison, so we can't confirm anything," Akko says.
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text: The suspected CIA spying tools exposed by WikiLeaks have been linked to hacking attempts on at least 40 targets in 16 countries, according to security firm Symantec.The tools share \u201cclose similarities\u201d with the tactics from an espionage team called Longhorn, Symantec said in a Monday post. Longhorn has been active since at least 2011, using Trojan programs and previously unknown software vulnerabilities to hack targets.Those targets include governments and organizations in the financial, telecom, IT and aerospace sectors, among others, Symantec said, without disclosing specific names.Victim computers were located in the Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa -- and at one point, even the U.S., where the CIA is barred from conducting electronic surveillance."On one occasion a computer in the United States was compromised but, following infection, an uninstaller was launched within hours, which may indicate this victim was infected unintentionally," Symantec said.\u00a0The CIA has declined to say whether the documents dumped by WikiLeaks are authentic. But security researchers suspect that the dumped files deal a damaging blow to the U.S. spy agency by exposing its secret hacking operations.On Monday, Symantec said there was \u201clittle doubt\u201d a link existed between Longhorn and the hacking techniques described in the dumped documents.The security firm has found Longhorn using four different malware tools, two of which match details disclosed in the dumped files. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0For instance, the suspected CIA files describe a piece of malware known as Fluxwire, and provide a changelog of dates for when new features were added. Those dates align with changes Symantec noticed in a Trojan program used by Longhorn that had been discovered in 2015.Another CIA file described a malware payload specification that matched another Longhorn-deployed Trojan, which can open a backdoor in a Windows PC.In 2014, this Trojan was used with a little-known vulnerability that can exploit a Microsoft Word document to hack a target, Symantec said.Some evidence shows that Longhorn may date back as far as 2007, according to Symantec. But prior to the WikiLeaks dump, the security firm had only concluded that the group was well-resourced, devoted to intelligence gathering, and probably English-speaking.WikiLeaks hasn't released much of the source code to the suspected CIA hacking tools. However, the files -- which are largely made up of user manuals and other documents -- will nevertheless help both security firms and foreign governments to detect the spy agency's techniques, experts say.\u00a0What do you think? Leave a comment on our Facebook page.


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A Beginners Guide To Blogging: How To Start A Blog
It is logical for a beginner's guide to blogging, to begin with, information on how to start a blog. However, first a brief introduction to what a blog actually is. A blog is nothing more than your online diary or journal, in which you can express your feelings, thoughts, and opinions or even advertise your products. There are few rules apart from keeping it clean. For that reason, they come in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and designs, and your blog page is literally yours to anything you want with.
You can include pictures, hyperlinks to your websites, MP3s and videos. Much depends on the type of blog you have and who is the provider, but Wordpress allows more than Blogger or Blogspot, especially if you have downloaded it to your own website. However, it is also more complicated and you might prefer to start off easy and then work your way up as you become more familiar with what you are doing. Many cPanel web hosts offer Wordpress facilities.
The basic components of a blog are:
Title: You can use the title to label your posting.
Category: You can add a category to keep blogs on similar topics together.
Body: This is the main content of the blog.
Trackback: This allows other sites to link back to your blog.
Permalink: This is the URL that goes with every blog that you write.
Comments: This allows readers to make comments on your blog – some good, and some bad.
Using just one or two templates you can easily create new pages. It's a bit like having a website and copying your home page as a template for all the rest of the pages, only the blog template is blank with spaces for the title, category and all the other aspects of your blog. The blogging websites that you sign up with offer several templates and you can choose one and literally start blogging immediately.
Blogging can be more than just your own personal thing, and you can join groups that blog about specific topics, such as football, movies, music, blogging, etc, etc. You can all share your expertise and knowledge and some are literally operating as forums. You can also use your blog to advertise a product and to drive traffic to your website, while others have no website and use their blog as their sole communications window on the internet.
I could go on all day about what you can do and, sometimes, cannot do with a blog, but the best way is to get started and then find what you are capable of. The best way is to log onto the blog provider of your choice and sign up for a blog. Most newcomers to blogging find it easiest to start blogging from a provider's website and then graduating to installing blogging software on their own website
This is a bit trickier, but it allows you to use all the plugins that allow total personalization of your blog so that it is completely unlike that of anybody else. You cannot use plugins when you run your blog from the provider's site, whether it is Wordpress or any other blog. You cannot beat having your own blog software and being able to design any page that you want.
However, although this sounds great to be able to do, on the whole, you are likely best to start blogging from the blog hosting site, and then graduate to your own website once you are comfortable with blogging. You will have enough to take in and learn when you upload to your own webspace without having to worry about how blogging works.
Blogging is fantastic fun, and it can also be very profitable. However, there are specific techniques involved in making money using blogs, and it is very easy to get your fingers burnt if you are unaware of the pitfalls and the right way to do it. Nevertheless, blogging can be very rewarding, both personally and financially, so best of luck, and get blogging now. Don't leave it a minute longer because you might have a lot to learn yet.
Once you have learned how to start a blog, then you can think of running your own from your own website.


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North Central College students benefit from gift of Shigeru Kawai piano
Jun 25, 2014
North Central College student vocalists and musicians are benefitting from the gift of a Shigeru Kawai piano, one of the world's most exquisite instruments.
The College acquired the SK-EX model concert grand piano in fall 2013 through the generosity of alumna Jane Koten '55. Thirteen students performed at a dedication recital in Koten Chapel on June 7, including pianists who played the instrument and vocalists and other musicians who were accompanied by a faculty member performing on the piano.
"That's why we do things like this (acquire world-class instruments), for our current and future students," said Barbara Shiffler '71 Vanderwall, the College's coordinator of piano studies.
The piano became available for sale last year through PianoForte Chicago, one of the city's premier piano stores and an official dealer of Kawai pianos. The College learned of the availability through David Graham, a renowned piano technician who has served as North Central's piano tech since 2008 and who works at PianoForte.
"This is a legacy instrument whose history is still being written," Graham said.
Koichi Kawai founded the piano company in Japan in 1927. When he died in 1955, his son Shigeru became company president. Each instrument in Kawai's EX concert grand series is handcrafted by a team of master piano artisans and bears the full name of Shigeru Kawai—an honor in Japan that is rarely seen except by makers of samurai swords.
"Within a year of purchase an artisan from the factory in Japan will visit each location—in this case Koten Chapel—to tune the piano and adjust the action," Graham said. "Only then is their responsibility complete."
Also, the name of every Shigeru piano owner since inception is respectfully enshrined in the Shigeru Kawai "Wall of Honor" in Hamamatsu, Japan.
Jane Koten has served as president of the Alumni Association at North Central College and was a generous contributor to the renovation of Kiekhofer Hall and Koten Chapel, named for her parents, Roy Y. '20 and Margaret Neerman '26 Koten.
She attended the June 7 dedication recital with the family of her late brother John A. "Jack" Koten '51. Jack's wife Catherine, daughter Sarah and son Mark were present, as was Tina St. Angelo, daughter of the late Rev. George St. Angelo '43, the College's first chaplain.
As one of his final acts just weeks before retiring after 20 years as College chaplain, the Rev. Lynn Pries '67 delivered a prayer of dedication at the recital.
"We have a very strong music program, and this chapel is a special place," Pries told the nearly 100 students, alumni, family members and others in attendance. "There are a great many important things that happen in this sanctuary."


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This past week was filled with several major developments regarding the case of the U.S. v. Raniere – and set the stage for the ultimate demise of Keith Raniere and his remaining co-defendants in that case.
As we look forward to Monday's Status Conference – and another update on Keith's status at the Metropolitan Detention Center, which we hope to have in the next few days – let's take a moment to look back at what happened this week and what it portends for the future.
RE: Barbara Bouchey
The week started out with news that Barbara Bouchey would be writing a series of stories about NXIVM/ESP – and sharing her inside knowledge about what went on during the 9-years that she was part of the cult and what's happened during the 10 years since she left and became one of Keith Raniere's favorite human punching bags.
In the first of her stories, Barbara explained why she stayed with Raniere after she found out he was sleeping with other women. According to Barbara, that occurred about a year after she first met Raniere – and was already in an intimate relationship with him.
Given that she was one of the highest ranking members of NXIVM/ESP at the time that she quit – and given her intimate relationship with Raniere – many Frank Report readers were expecting her to provide detailed information about the cult's nefarious activities. But according to Barbara, Raniere and the other members of this inner circle kept her totally "walled off" from any information about those type of activities.
In addition to posting her own stories, Barbara has also been diligently responding to questions from various Frank Report readers. Thus far, readers have mostly responded positively to her willingness to answer their questions – and seem to be looking forward to having her continue to do so.
RE: Nancy Salzman
On Wednesday, Nancy Salzman appeared before U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis – and pleaded guilty to one count of Racketeering Conspiracy – and two related criminal acts: i.e., conspiracy to commit identity theft and conspiracy to alter records used in an official proceeding.
The announcement – which her attorneys did not share in advance with the attorneys representing Raniere, Clare Bronfman, Allison Mack, Kathy Russell, and Nancy's daughter, Lauren – sent shock waves through the NXIVM/ESP community.
Not only did Nancy plead guilty to all the criminal acts with which she had been charged, she also did so without any sort of "plea deal" in place.
As a result, Nancy's fate is entirely in the hands of Judge Garaufis – who reminded her on several occasions before he accepted her guilty plea that he would have absolute discretion in setting her sentence.
So, although the Federal Sentencing Guidelines call for a prison term of 33-41 months for Nancy, the reality is she could end up serving anywhere from 0 months to 240 months (Neither of those extreme is expected to be her sentence).
Most courtroom observers have assumed that Nancy will become a key witness for the prosecution. But one attorney who is intimately familiar with all the details of the case has opined that the prosecution will probably not even call her as a witness.
It's also possible that Nancy – as well as her former co-defendants and many other people who were associated with NXIVM/ESP – could be facing a bevy of state-level charges. Although no New York State official – including the Governor, Andrew Cuomo – has ever shown any inclination to bring any charges against anyone associated with the cult, it should be noted that the new Attorney General, Letitia James, could make quite a name for herself by bringing criminal charges against high-ranking members of the cult and the slew of public officials that allowed the cult to operate with impunity for almost 20-years.
While none of her co-defendants were in the courtroom when Nancy pleaded guilty, it seems reasonable to assume that they have now all heard about the event.
And they probably have also heard about this exchange between Judge Garaufis and Nancy's lead attorney, David Stern:
THE COURT: Are you aware of any viable legal defense to the charge (of Racketeering Conspiracy against your client)?
MR. STERN: I think we've thought this case through and discussed it amongst ourselves and I think on balance we've decided there is not a viable legal defense.
Just stop and think about that…
Nancy's attorneys could not figure out any way to defend her against the charge of Racketeering Conspiracy – and the underlying predicate acts.
Now, think how you would feel if you were Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Clare Bronfman, Kathy Russell or Lauren Salzman – all of whom are facing that same charge as well as many other charges.
"…we've decided there is not a viable legal defense".
RE: Second Superseding Indictment
The very next day, the other shoe dropped for all of Nancy's former co-defendants when the lead prosecutor, Moira Kim Penza, unveiled the second superseding indictment in the case.
As Nancy headed off to spend a couple of days with her elderly parents to explain to them why she is now a felon and likely headed to prison, Raniere and several of the others found out that they are now facing new charges.
For Raniere, the second superseding indictment brought a wave of very bad news. That's because he's now facing four new charges in addition to all the old ones:
– One count of Racketeering – and several new predicate acts;
– Two counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child; and
– One count of Possession of Child Pornography.
For Mack, the second superseding indictment added one new count of Racketeering – but dropped her name from several predicate acts.
For Bronfman, the second superseding indictment added one new count of Racketeering – bur dropped one predicate act.
For Lauren, the second superseding indictment added one new count of Racketeering – and added one new predicate act.
For Russell, the second superseding indictment left her with just one count of Racketeering Conspiracy – and dropped her from any mention in all of the predicate acts.
So, all in all, not a very good week for Keith Raniere AKA Federal Prisoner 57005-177.
We did, however, find out that in addition to being revered as "The Vanguard", Raniere also likes to be called "Grandmaster" and "Master".
I'm sure the other prisoners at the Metropolitan Detention Center will be impressed as hell by that news.


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Socialist Revolutionary party, in Russian history, an agrarian party founded by various Populist groups in 1901. Its program, adopted in 1906, called for the overthrow of the autocracy, the establishment of a classless society, self-determination for national minorities, and socialization of the land, which was to be distributed among the peasants on the basis of need. Viktor Chernov was a party leader. A secret "combat organization" within the party arranged political assassinations, notably that of V. K. Plehve (1904) and Grand Duke Sergei (1905). Originally made up of students and intellectuals, the party later gained support from the peasantry. In 1917 some Socialist Revolutionaries participated in the Petrograd soviet and in the provisional government. The party won a majority in the short-lived constituent assembly (Jan., 1918), which was disbanded by the Bolsheviks. By 1922 the party was suppressed.


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Whether you're General Motors or the corner convenience store, you probably could use a little more business. The question is how to get the word out about your products or services to the people who need them. One hot technique these days is to use short videos.
(Read about how a Toronto-based Interchange Solutions Inc.'s sales soured with the help of online video presentations)
If you're not convinced that video can help your business, consider the viral marketing success of the incredibly nerdy "Will It Blend?" videos created by Tom Dickson, founder of Blendtec. The videos became an overnight sensation on YouTube, and according to some sources, sales increased by 500 per cent. Not too shabby for spending a few minutes in front of a video camera and a little editing effort.
Why Video?
Video on the Internet is still novel enough to be compelling in its own right. People now routinely use the Web to search for information about products or services that they want to purchase. And if you can dig up a typical Web site's traffic patterns, you'll find that an enormous percentage of site visitors click away from the site in less than a few seconds. They scan the text and pictures and make a snap judgment about whether or not the site has anything to offer them. It is extremely difficult to get them to read all the way through the home page, let alone click through to get more information on subsequent pages.
In contrast, once they start, people are more likely to watch video clips through to the end than they are to read a whole Web page. This gives you a better chance to engage them and get your message across.
What's Your Message?
The most important step is to determine what you want to tell your audience. Maybe you have a novel product or service that customers may not understand. In this case, an "education sell" might be most appropriate, in which you explain the category as a whole and the benefits it offers. If the product or service is familiar to your prospects – such as buying a house – then you want a "comparative sell" that showcases the advantages that your particular product or service has to offer. Or maybe you want to use a "promotional sell" message that makes a special offer such as a discount or bonus item for people who see the video.
Designing Your Video Clip
Keep it short. Four or five minutes long is a good limit for a promotional video. If it runs longer than that, your audience is likely to lose interest and click away. Also, the large size of longer videos makes them more difficult to manage.
If possible, create a widescreen format video in MP4 format. This is the new lingua franca of Internet video, and has efficient compression to keep your files smaller. The widescreen format matches the newer HDTV aspect ratio, and thus immediately gives your video a more current appearance.
Create your video in 720p resolution (1280 by 720 pixels). This is easier to do now that many under-$400 digital still cameras will also record 720p video. Many sites–including YouTube–now support high-definition clips, so the extra resolution will make your video look better.
One note on tone: Be cautious about using humor in your videos. What might be funny to one person can be seriously offensive to another. Unless you're appealing to a narrow and well-defined audience that you know well, you might want to avoid making a comedy clip and stick to a straightforward approach.
Seven terrific tips and tools to get the most from Web video
Distribute Your Video
Just as a Web site is not likely to increase business on its own, you need to do more than just post a video. First, you need to put it in lots of places so that more people are likely to find it. Consider using an uploading service for distribution. TubeMogul http://www.tubemogul.com/ is a free service that will post your clip to seven or more video sites including MetaCafe and Yahoo Video, as well as YouTube. It will automatically adjust your video if necessary to meet the sites' requirements (though all will accept widescreen MP4 files). So you just have to upload your file once to TubeMogul, and it will take care of the rest.
You also need to keep search optimization in mind when you post. Choose your tag words carefully so that viewers will be more likely to find your clips.
Note that posting your video to these video sharing sites makes it easy to embed the clip on a Web page. YouTube creates HTML code that you can cut and paste to put both a player and your video clip on your Web page. You can even choose the format for the video player that appears on your page. Promote your clip by finding other sites that will link to the video's location on your site, or that will embed the video right on theirs.
If appropriate, consider sending out a press release announcing your video. Send it to local news outlets if you sell to your local markets. Try low-cost services that will deliver electronic press releases to a broad range of media outlets, such as SBWire or PRFree.
Also, take advantage of the social networking sites available on the Web to promote your video. Put it on your Facebook page. Get people to submit it to sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, and Reddit. Just as with a Web site, you need to drive people to your video in order to get them to see it.
Finally, don't abandon your clip. Nothing dies by itself on the Web, so if your products or services change, or your promotional offer expires, or for some other reason the content of your video clip is no longer current or accurate, remember to take it down from the sites where you posted it. Just like a Web page that is never updated, an out-of-date video can hurt your business rather than help.
But a well-crafted video that gets promoted to your target audience will deliver your message in an efficient and effective way that engages your prospects and boosts your business.
Just remember to stay away from these top 10 dumbest viral marketing campaign strategies
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The strongest girl in the world may very well be a 10-year-old from Fair Lawn, NJ named Naomi Kutin, who can lift more than twice her 99-pound body weight. According to a profiled in The Jewish Daily Forward, Kutin can squat just about 215 pounds and, during the first weekend in July, set two new regional records with a 199.5 squat and a 209.4 dealift. She's received a lot of encouragement from her Orthodox Jewish parents, and training from her powerlifting-father, Ed Kutin, who took up weightlifting when — nbd or anything — he was studying at M.I.T. Basically what I'm trying to say is that the Kutins sound suspiciously like the Incredibles, but we'll just keep that our secret, wink wink.
Ed Kutin decided to introduce his daughter to powerlifting after watching her wale on the boys in her karate class. He and his wife Neshama, sensitive to the health effects of weightlifting on a developing child's body, were cautious about training Naomi, but they found that their daughter already possessed a preternatural strength (Ed Kutin dismisses cautionary tales about stunted growth as "old wives tales"). The Kutins are Modern Orthodox Jews, which means they've had to tiptoe around some finer doctrinal points, namely, that the Torah prohibits carrying heavy objects on the Sabbath from a private home to a public area. Most competitions are held on the weekends, but, since Naomi doesn't have to schlep her own weight set across town on competition day, the Kutins easily surmount this obstacle. They've also set up a pretty comprehensive gym in their basement to ensure that Naomi has all the resources to maintain her iron grip on the world's strongest girl title, something that her teachers and classmates demonstrate the appropriate amount of awe and respect for, i.e. a lot.
World's Strongest Girls Lifts Twice Weight [The Jewish Daily]
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Thursday, March 1, 2018
I find it very funny how humans personify things. A sewing machine becomes "Frank", We named the train that screeched outside our apartment 'Sally'. Men name their penises (ew!). I recently found out that anorexics even name their disease 'Anna'. I guess we can relate to inanimate objects better if they have a name. We create a stronger bond. And we are all always looking for connection. Maybe inanimate objects are a safe way to be close to something.
Saturday, March 3, 2018
My father, Vukan Kuic, died last week at age 95. His six children, many grandchildren, friends and colleagues gathered together to celebrate his life. His only son takes after him in many ways. Simeon's eloquent speech at the service illustrates the magnificent power of a calm and quiet demeanor.
Sunday, March 4, 2018
A weekend with my siblings was a bittersweet affair. We laughed, cried, drank, and rummaged through old memories in the form of pictures and letters. It was spectacularly beautiful. I am so very grateful for my family.
Monday, March 5, 2017
Does that say Fairy? I don't know. I don't really 'get' graffiti. It's cool a lot of the time. And sometimes it's really cool, but I can hardly ever decipher the words. I guess it's a type of design. But what does it mean? What the Why? Why would someone write Fairy on a cement barricade?
Tuesday. March 6, 2018
It's hard to get a sharp shot of this little guy. I might have to wait until he's old and fat to dress him up and have a photoshoot.
Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Food Trucks. If I were to be a chef or had a niche food I wanted to peddle, I would get a food truck. Some ideas: Smoothie Bowls, Boba, Bone Broth, GOOD Coffee, Chopped Salad, Avocado Toast. Good healthy food on the go. Mexican is good too.
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Sunday, March 11, 2018
Food. A vital component to existence. Without it we die. Images of food bombard the media, along with diets that promise the unattainable figures of photoshopped models. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. Probably because it is celebrated and encouraged and, in fact, demanded in our society.
Monday, March 12, 2018
Rainy days: Romantic. Melancholy. Slow. The stuff good songs are made of.
Tuesday, March 13, 2018
I'm experimenting more with my Invisible Project. There is something about the nondescript images that I like. They evoke a feeling that I am unable to capture with a conventional photo. I feel freer to embellish. I feel freer to move around in the abstract than in the "real world".
Wednesday, March 14, 2018
Growing up in the South gives me the permission - and possibly the genes - to like beer. Living in Asheville gives me the right to be a snob about it. With a brewery on every corner I have a long journey of taste testing ahead of me. And, because I can never remember which one I liked, the adventure is never-ending. I'm not complaining. Pictured is Sierra Nevada's Hazy Little Thing.
Friday, March 16, 2018
I suppose there are little quiet havens in every town. Places you stumble upon that offer solitude and peace. A place for reflection. While certainly not a secret in Asheville, Dobra is one of those places if you go at the right time. Dark, decorated with carpets on the walls and cushions on the floors I imagine being in an opium den. Conversations overheard are about 'unplugging' and vegan tattoos. And yet you are free to bring your phone and laptop as long as your appearance fits the vibe! I'm not a big tea drinker but they have boba and a delicious cardamom cookie.
Sunday, March 18. 2018
Everyone loves kitties.
Sunday, March 19, 2018
Monday, March 19, 2018
Shape. Color. Perspective. I haven't quite figured out what I'm doing with this style but I can feel there is something there. Something that's going to click into place. Something that might make sense.
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Wednesday, March 21, 2018
Harry's on the Hill.
Thursday, March 22, 2018
Downtown Asheville. Full of colorful people.
Friday, March 23, 2018
Saturday, March 24, 2018
All over the world people were speaking out against gun violence. This cold day in Asheville was no exception.
Sunday, March 25, 2018
I adore finding personification in objects. The elements of humor and interpretation offered are endless!
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Lately Ron Lieber (@ronlieber), the Your Money editor and columnist for the New York Times, has been posting pieces that expose a dysfunction in the car rental marketplace — one that is punishing innovators that take the sides of customers. The story is still unfolding, which gives us the opportunity to visit and think through some VRM approaches to the problem.
Ron's first piece is a column titled "A Rate Sleuth Making Rental Car Companies Squirm," on February 17, and his second is a follow-up column, "Swatting Down Start-Ups That Help Consumers," on April 6. Both stories are about AutoSlash, a start-up that constantly researches and re-books car rentals for you, until you get the lowest possible price from one of them. That company wins the business, at a maximized discount. The others all lose. This is good for the customer, if all the customer cares about is price. It's bad for the agencies, since the winner is the one that makes the least amount of money on the rental.
In the second piece, Ron explains,
The customer paid nothing for the service, and AutoSlash got a commission from Travelocity, whose booking engine it rented. This was so delightful that it felt as if it might not last, and I raised the possibility that participating companies like Hertz and Dollar Thrifty would bail out, as Enterprise and the company that owns Avis and Budget already had. I encouraged readers to patronize the participants in the meantime to reward them for playing along. Well, they've stopped playing. In the last couple of weeks, Hertz and the company that owns both Dollar and Thrifty have turned their backs on AutoSlash — and for good reason, according to Hertz: AutoSlash seems to have been using discount codes that its customers were not technically eligible for.
On its site, AutoSlash put things this way (at that last link):
We're disappointed that these companies have now chosen to reverse course and adopt this anti-consumer position, after having participated in this site since its launch in mid-2010. Apparently, with more customers booking reservations through our service, they felt they could no longer support our consumer-friendly model of automatically finding the best discount codes and re-booking when rates drop. AutoSlash will not waver in our objective to help people get a great deal on their rentals. We have exciting product plans on the horizon to make our site even more useful to you..
On the same day as his second column, Ron ran a blog post titled "AutoSlash, AwardWallet, MileWise and the Travel Bullies," in which he points to airlines as another business with the same problems — and the same negative responses to rate-sleuths:
American Airlines and Southwest Airlines have made it clear that they do not want any third party Web site taking customers' AAdvantage or Rapid Rewards frequent flier balances and putting them on a different site where people can view them alongside those from other loyalty programs. This comes at a loss of convenience to customers, and the airlines make all sorts of specious arguments about why this is necessary. Meanwhile, sites like AwardWallet, MileWise and MilePort are less useful than they would be otherwise without a full lineup of airline account information available. But there's a the bigger question here: Why can't the big travel players simply fix their archaic business models and add these nifty features to their Web sites and stop spending energy ganging up on start-ups who unmask their flaws?
The answer comes from Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame. By Scott's definition, the big travel players are a "confusopoly." They see what Ron calls a "flaw" — burying the customer in a snowstorm of discounts intended both to entice and to confuse — as a feature, rather than a bug. Here's Scott:
A confusopoly is any group of companies in a particular industry that intentionally confuses customers about their pricing plans and products. Confusopolies do this so customers don't know which one of them is offering the best value. That way every company gets a fair share of the confused customers and the industry doesn't need to compete on price. The classic examples of confusopolies are phone companies, insurance companies, and banks.
Car rental agencies are clearly confusopolies. So are airlines. Dave Barry explains how it is that no two passengers on one airplane pay the same price for a seat:
Q. So the airlines use these cost factors to calculate a rational price for my ticket?
A. No. That is determined by Rudy the Fare Chicken, who decides the price of each ticket individually by pecking on a computer keyboard sprinkled with corn. If an airline agent tells you that they're having "computer problems, " this means that Rudy is sick, and technicians are trying to activate the backup system, Conrad the Fare Hamster.
There are a few exceptions. One is Southwest, which competes through relatively simple seat pricing and unconfusing policies (e.g. no seat assignments and "bags fly free"). But even Southwest plays confusing games. For example, I just went to Southwest to make sure the URL was right (it used to be iflyswa.com, as I recall), and got intercepted by a promo offer, for a gift card. So, for research purposes, I filled it out. That got me to this page here:
Note that there is no place to take the last step. The "Your Info Below" space is blank. Everywhere I click, nothing happens. Fun. (Is it possible this isn't from Southwest at all? Maybe somebody from Southwest can weigh in on that.)
So, a confusopoly.
What can we do? Governments fix monopolies by breaking them up. But confusopolies come pre-broken. That's how they work. There is no collusion between Hertz and Budget, or between United and American. They are confusing on purpose, and independently so. No doubt they have their confusing systems fully rationalized, but that doesn't make the confusion less real for the customer, or less purposeful for the company.
Let's look a bit more closely at three problems endemic to the car rental business, and contribute to the confusopoly.
- Cars, like airlines and their seats, have become highly generic, and therefore commoditized. Even if there is a difference between a Chevy Cruze and a Ford Focus, the agencies mask it by saying what you'll get is some model of some maker's car, "or similar." (I've always thought one of the car makers ought to just go ahead and make a car just for rentals, and brand it the "Similar.")
- The non-price differentiators just aren't different enough. For example, I noticed that Enterprise lately forces its workers to go out of their way to be extra-personal. They come out from behind the counter, shake your hand, call you by name, ask about your day, and so on. Which is all nice, but not nicer for most of us than a lower price than the next agency.
- The agencies' CRM (Customer Relationship Management) systems don't have enough to work with. While Enterprise is singled out here and here for having exceptional CRM, all these systems today operate entirely on the vendors' side. Not on yours or mine. Each of is silo'd. How each of us relates to any one agency doesn't work with the others. This is an inconvenience for us, but not for the agencies, at least as far as they know. And, outside their own silo'd systems, they can't know much, except maybe through intelligence they buy from "big data" mills. But that data is also second-hand. No matter how "personalized" that data is, it's about us, not directly by us or from us, by our own volition, and from systems we control.
A few years ago I began to see these problems as opportunities. I thought, Why not build new tools and systems for individual customers, so they can control their own relationships, in common and standard ways, with multiple vendors? And, What will we call the result, once we have that control? My first answer to those questions came in a post for Linux Journal in March, 2006, titled The Intention Economy. Here are the money grafs from that one:
The Intention Economy grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of money, and that they come ready-made. You don't need advertising to make them. The Intention Economy is about markets, not marketing. You don't need marketing to make Intention Markets. The Intention Economy is built around truly open markets, not a collection of silos. In The Intention Economy, customers don't have to fly from silo to silo, like a bees from flower to flower, collecting deal info (and unavoidable hype) like so much pollen. In The Intention Economy, the buyer notifies the market of the intent to buy, and sellers compete for the buyer's purchase. Simple as that. The Intention Economy is built around more than transactions. Conversations matter. So do relationships. So do reputation, authority and respect. Those virtues, however, are earned by sellers (as well as buyers) and not just "branded" by sellers on the minds of buyers like the symbols of ranchers burned on the hides of cattle.The Intention Economy is about buyers finding sellers, not sellers finding (or "capturing") buyers. In The Intention Economy, a car rental customer should be able to say to the car rental market, "I'll be skiing in Park City from March 20-25. I want to rent a 4-wheel drive SUV. I belong to Avis Wizard, Budget FastBreak and Hertz 1 Club. I don't want to pay up front for gas or get any insurance. What can any of you companies do for me?" — and have the sellers compete for the buyer's business.
Thanks to work by the VRM (Vendor Relationship Management) development community, The Intention Economy is now a book, with the subtitle When Customers Take Charge, due out from Harvard Business Review Press on May 1. (You can pre-order it from Amazon, and might get it sooner that way.)
Having sellers compete for a buyer's business (to serve his or her signaled intent) is what we now call a Personal RFP. (Scott Adams calls it "broadcast shopping.") What it requires are two things that are now on their way. One is tools. The other is infrastructure. As a result of both, we will see emerge a new class of market participant: the fourth party. It's a role AutoSlash can play, if it's willing to play a new game rather than just gaming the old one.
The new game is serving as a real agent of customers, rather than just as a lead-generating system for third parties such as Travelocity, or a pest for second parties such as Hertz, Dollar and Thrifty. Fourth parties are businesses that side with customers rather than with vendors or third parties. Think of them as third parties that work for you and me. In this post, Phil Windley of Kynetx (a VRM developer), represents the four parties graphically: Fourth parties can also serve as agents for improving actual relationships (rather than coercive ones). The two magnets are "r-buttons" (explained most recently here), which represent the buyer and the seller, and (as magnets) depict both attraction and openness to relationship. They are simple symbols one can also type, like this: ⊂ ⊃. (The ⊂ represents you, or the buy side, while the ⊃ represents vendors and their allied third parties, or the sell side.) Here is another way of laying these out, with some names that have already come up: As of today AutoSlash presents itself as an agent of the customer, but business-wise it's an accessory to a third party, Travelocity. While Travelocity could be a fourth party as well, it is still too tied into the selling systems of the car rental agencies to make the move. (If I'm wrong, tell me how.) Now, what if AutoSlash were to join a growing young ecosystem of VRM companies and projects working on the customer's side? Here is roughly how that looks today: AutoSlash is over there on the right, on the sell side. On the buy side, in the fourth party quadrant, are Personal, ProjectDanube, TrustFabric, MyDex, Singly and The Customer's Voice. All provide ways for individuals to manage their own data, and (actually in some cases, potentially in others) relationships with second and third parties, on behalf of the customer. If you look at just the right two quadrants, on the ⊃ side, the car rental agencies fired AutoSlash for breaking their system. That's one more reason for AutoSlash to come over to the ⊂ side and start operating unambiguously as a pure fourth party.
I believe that's what RentalCarMagic already does. While their service is superficially similar to AutoSlash's (they book you the lowest prices), they clearly work for you (⊂) as a fourth party and not for the agencies (⊃) as a third party. What makes them unambiguously a fourth party is the fact that you pay them. Here are their rates.
For controlling multiple relationships, however, you still need tools other than straightforward one-category services (such as AutoSlash and RentalCarMagic). One circle around those tools is what KuppingerCole calls Life Management Platforms. Another, from Peter Vander Auwera of SWIFT is The Programmable Me. These (among much more) will be the subject of sessions at the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC) this week in Munich. (I'll be flying there shortly from Boston.) I'll be participating in those. So will Phil Windley of Kynetx, who has detailed a concept called the "Personal Event Network," aka the "Personal Cloud." Links, in chronological order:
- Ways, Not Places
- Protocols and Metaprotocols: What is a Personal Event Network?
- KRL, Data and Personal Clouds
- Personal Clouds as General Purpose Computers
- Personal Clouds Need a Cloud Operating System
- The Foundational Role of Identity in Personal Clouds
- Data Abstractions for Richer Cloud Experiences
- A Programming Model for Personal Clouds
- Federating Personal Clouds
This is thinking-in-progress about work-in-progress, by a Ph.D. computer scientist and college professor as well as an entrepreneur and a very creative inventor. (By the way, KRL and its rules engine are open source. That's cool too.)
If I have time later I'll unpack some of this, and start knitting the connections between what Phil's talking about and what others (especially Martin Kuppinger of KuppingerCole, who will be writing and posting more about Life Management Platforms) are also bringing to the table here.
In particular I will bring up the challenge of fixing the car rental agency market. What can we do, not only for the customer and for his or her fourth parties (the ⊂ side) but for everybody on the third and second party (⊃) side?
And what changes will have to take place on the ⊃ side once they find they need to truly differentiate, in distinctive and non-gimmicky ways? What effect will that have on the car makers as well?
When I started down this path, back in 2006, I had a long conversation with a top executive at one of the car rental companies. What sticks with me is that these guys don't have it easy. Among other things, he told me that the car companies mostly don't like the car rental business because it turns drivers off to many of the cars they rent, and the car companies don't make much money on the cars either. Can that be fixed too? I don't know, but I'd like customers and their fourth parties to help.
How about through true personalization, in response to actual demand by individual customers, such as I suggested in 2006?
How about through new infrastructural approaches, such as the Digital Asset Grid?
Hertz, Budget's and Enterprise's own CRM and loyalty systems are not going to go away. Nor will the ways they all have of identifying us, and authenticating us. How can we embrace those, even as we work to obsolete them?
There are two worlds overlapping here: the one we have, and the one we're building that will transcend and subsume the one we have.
The one we have is a "free market" with a "your choice of captor" model. It is for violating this model that AutoSlash was fired as a third party by the car rental agencies.
The one we're building is a truly free market, in which free customers prove more valuable than captive ones. We need to make the pudding that proves that principle.
And we're doing that. But it's not a simple, an easy, or even a coordinated process. The good thing is, it's already underway, and has been for some time.
Looking forward to seeing you at EIC in Munich, and/or at the other events that follow, in London and Mountain View:
- European Identity and Cloud Conference, Munich, April 17-20.
- Intention Economy Mashup Event London, Innovation Warehouse, 1 East Poultry Avenue, London. EC1A 9PT 4:30-9:30pm, Monday, 23 April.
- VRM and CRM Inter-op London 2012 London , EC1A 9PT Tuesday, April 24, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM (GMT)
- Pre-IIW VRM workshop at Ericsson, 200 Holger Way (Zanker & 237), San Jose, CA 95134, 9am-5pm April 30..
- IIW14 Internet Identity Workshop #14, Mountain View, CA, May 1-3.
Meanwhile, a last word, in respect to what Bart Stevens says below. Clearly the car rental business needs to move out of the confusopoly model, and to differentiate on more than price. To some degree they already do, but price is the primary driver for most customers. (And I'd welcome correction on that, if it's wrong.) We have a lot to learn from each other.


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The Reason for Sinead O'Connor's Quickie Divorce: Crack
Sure our collective crazy Irish aunt Sinead O'Connor admitted that her "mad search" for some pot on her wedding night helped lead to her breakup with her latest husband after only 16 days, but there is more to the story. Well, just change "pot" with "crack" and you have the whole story.
O'Connor tells The Sun that when she took new husband Barry Herridge, an addiction counselor, on a quest for drugs she ended up with some crack rock instead of pot. Remember, Sinead you sing "Nothing Compares 2 U" not "And I Will Always Love You."
"We ended up in a cab in some place that was quite dangerous.
I wasn't scared - but he's a drugs counselor. What was I thinking?
Then I was handed a load of crack. Barry was very frightened - that kind of messed everything up a bit really."
You think? You think showing a drug counselor crack on his wedding night would make things weird? Really? Oh, crazy aunt Sinead. Maybe she should do a cover of "Solid as a Rock."


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