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Rebecca Black has a hit song. The 13-year-old singer's video for her song "Friday," which has quickly become the fascination of the Internet, is a smashing success despite the fact that it owes its meteoric rise to, well, mediocrity. Put more bluntly, the video has become the laughingstock of millions, who have latched on to its simplistic lyrics and low-price polish to push it into the public consciousness. Despite the movement's dubious beginnings, though, Black may be the one laughing now.
The "Friday" video — which was uploaded to YouTube on February 10th — didn't get much traction until early last week, when it suddenly caught a web tailwind. Black's name trended on twitter and the video spiraled to go viral. It now has over 30 million views.
So is it true that any press is good press? For the young singer, who has appeared gracious and composed in her few media appearances, that axiom seems to hold true. And her decision to keep the video online, despite being given the opportunity by the song's producers to take the video down when the comments started to turn nasty, may end up to be a boon to her college fund.
Black's tune comes courtesy of Ark Music Factory, a so called record label that churns out tween pop for a couple thousand bucks a tune. Co-founded by Patrice Wilson and Clarence Jey, the L.A. based company courts young teenage singers and "signs" them to short, vanity recording projects. Jey reportedly is the lyrical genius behind "Friday." According to The Daily Beast, Black's mother forked over $2,000 for two songs written by Ark Music Factory's team and one video, the now infamous "Friday."
It would seem that the investment paid off, many times over. Although the YouTube/Google party line on video ad revenue is vague ("There are no guarantees under the YouTube Partner agreement about how much you will be paid.") some digging turns up speculation on potential profits. TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld reported today on Google and YouTube's revenue figures. Looking at 2010's actual numbers, the site makes about $1 per thousand page views. For videos running ads as part of the revenue sharing program, that revenue is then split between YouTube and the content creator. Content creators, or partners, take 68% of the profit. At 30,000,000 views, that lands Black and Ark Music Factory $20,000 – a 1000% return on investment. That number matches the figure reported by Damian Kulash Jr., the lead singer of indie pop band OK Go, who have made a name for themselves via viral videos.
The revenue doesn't stop there, though. Where Google has had a notoriously tough time monetizing YouTube content, Apple's iTunes has had significantly fewer problems. Since hitting the online music store last Monday, "Friday" has amassed a staggering number of downloads, reportedly topping 2 million; the song currently sits at #45 on the iTunes Top Singles chart. According to 101 Distribution, an independent music distributor, iTunes pays out $.70 per single download in the United States. That's a much juicier check for Black and Ark Music Factory; even if the numbers are exaggerated, the intake from "Friday" could top $1 million. What's more, Black is planning to release an acoustic version of the song to disprove speculation that her voice is reliant on AutoTune. Cha-ching! Updated 3/23: The original estimate of 2 million, taken from Black's interview on Good Morning America, seems to have been referring to video views rather than digital downloads. Billboard is reporting the song's sales to be 37,000 in its first week.
According to The Daily Beast, Black plans to donate a portion of her profits to "Japan relief organizations and school arts programs."
Like it or not, there's probably more to come from Rebecca Black and Ark Music Factory. As I type, another Ark Music product, Alana Lee, is racking up views by the tens of thousands on her video "Butterflies," likely basking in the afterglow of Rebecca Black. Fun, fun, fun indeed.
"Reportedly topping 2 million" downloads? Not likely. "Right Round" by Flo Rida holds the record for most downloads in a single week with 636,000 units sold. For Rebecca Black to shatter this record by more than tripling it would be, safe to say, unlikely – especially since she never even hit the top 15 on the iTunes charts, which means that at least 15 other songs must have sold more than she did.
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A large part of whether or not she will get any money depends upon ownership of the song. Without knowing the details of her deal with Ark, it is unlikely a vanity label that charges (!) would hand over any ownership on the label or publishing side (especially since she didn't have a hand in writing the song).
Again, no inside knowledge of whatever her mother signed when they were given the song to sing but I would be incredibly surprised if she saw more than 20% over her initial investment.
Shame on you. The song and production and the whole deal is nothing short of pathetic and that it "makes money" or can monetize a google ad is absolutely no reason for praise on any level. It's masturbatory and weak.
It's not clear where Barth even got the "reportedly 2 million" figure from. (There's no link.) Just as startling to me, Barth refers to revenue sharing for "videos running ads," links to the video (which includes no ad), and assumes somehow that nevertheless Youtube is paying the video's creators. Also, none of us have seen the details of Black's contract, and it's possible that she has to split performer royalties with Jey. Plus, record labels (which Ark, uh, sorta is) normally keep 90% of revenue. It would be great for Forbes to write about the economics of the music industry, but I don't think Chris Barth is the guy to do it.
I've come to the conclusion that Ark Music Factory is run by geniuses. Evil geniuses, but geniuses nonetheless. Step one: Create templates for songs and videos that not-so-carefully rip off everything going on in tween pop at the moment. Step two: Sell their services to tween girls who have indulging parents who know nothing about the music biz, and are happening to fork over a few thou to make their child a "star." Step three: Profit!
As awful as "Friday" is, it's not far removed from what my kids see on the Disney Channel. Heck, at least so far, Ark Factory doesn't have to deal with young girl stars struck with "exhaustion."
About this "2 million downloads" claim. Well done for correcting your article. I feel it useful to point out where this claim came from: the Good Morning America interviewer on 18th March who said the song "went up two million downloads last night alone." It seems obvious she made an unwise choice of words and meant "views" not "downloads". Sadly now your "millionaire" calculations are being repeated in other places as fact.
When writing for a respected publication such as Forbes, even on the "blogs" section, accuracy and fact checking is crucial.
Okay, you're right that there is an ad (for Compete right now) that pops up along the bottom of the screen. However, it's not a lucrative pre-roll ad but rather an AdSense overlay. So while $1.02 CPM is the average for all ads, pre-roll goes for about $25 CPM but the overlays booked through Google Ad Network are only a few cents per thousand views.
Doing some very basic math here based on standard royalty rates for recording artists, she's probably made about $10K. I don't know if that is worth becoming the laughing stock of the universe, but who knows, could be parleyed into an album. Stranger things have happened.
Her actual download sales for the week were 37,000.
A day late, a dollar short, but I have to believe only a pedophile could write a sloppy article like this. You're getting corrected left and right. I'm laughing at this video not because she Rebecca Black but because it's dumb in a funny way. I doubt Rebecca Black or her record label is heading to the bank, more Like YouTube did.
regardless of how much money she is making this parody of Rebecca Black's ABC interview is right on the money and cracks me up every time that I see it. Check it out!


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After Davis hit his major league-leading 38th homer to give the Orioles a 4-3 win over the Houston Astros on Tuesday night, someone asked him how happy he was to end a 10-game, long ball drought.
"Oh, I'm so happy," he said, quite sarcastically. "I can go home and sleep tonight. Just eat food again. I don't have to wake up every three hours and cry."
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Wei-Yin Chen (6-3) allowed three runs, seven hits and a walk in 7 1-3 innings for his fourth straight win. The left-hander had a season-high nine strikeouts and threw a career-high 119 pitches.
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Red Sox 8, Mariners 2: Rookie Brandon Workman struck out nine while picking up his first major league win, allowing one run over six innings as Boston beat Seattle.
Jacoby Ellsbury and Dustin Pedroia homered in the second, giving Workman a cushy 5-1 lead that the young right-hander never squandered in just his third start in the big leagues.
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The Indians stayed within 2 1-2 games of first-place Detroit in the AL Central.
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Tigers 5, Nationals 1: Alex Avila hit a tiebreaking grand slam in the sixth inning off Stephen Strasburg to lead Detroit past Washington.
Anibal Sanchez (9-7) gave up one run, five hits and two walks over seven innings for Detroit. Jose Veras, a day after being acquired from Houston, was perfect in the eighth in his Tigers debut. Joaquin Benoit, who will keep his job as the team's closer, gave up one hit in the ninth inning.
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Burgers Made Me Dumb
The downside to working as a food writer
Long before Super Size Me, the 2004 documentary about a McDonald's binge, I knew that a steady diet of hamburgers would systematically destroy my heart, my liver, my cardiovascular system, and my sex appeal. But no movie or medical study could prepare me for what it would do to my brain.
For 65 days this summer, I ate basically nothing but burgers. A lot of them were excellent (see Under the Bun: The Best Burgers in Chicago); some were not (see my refrigerator, second shelf from the bottom). All of them were beef, however, and the onslaught of red meat did what drugs and alcohol and fatherhood could not: It made me stupid. Since my "research" began back in April at Flub A Dub Chubs, a hole in the wall on North Broadway, I've spaced my grandmother's 90th birthday, hit a parked car across the street from Jury's, and spent an entire workday with my fly open. Then there was the little incident in Indiana involving sunscreen and a toothbrush. But let's not get into that.
Armed with nothing more than a C in high-school biology, my laptop, and a history of cyberchondria, I sought medical answers online. Fifteen minutes later, while finishing my leftovers from Kuma's, I concluded that I was not permanently stupid—I had developed a mild case of cognitive dysfunction syndrome. CDS (a.k.a. brain fog) can be caused by anything from mercury poisoning to constipation and leads to confusion, difficulty concentrating, and forgetfulness. It also appears mainly in dogs. The warning signs described online sounded familiar: aimless wandering (did this at Epic Burger), inappropriate vocalization (Moody's), and sudden loss of appetite (Boston Blackie's).
One night, a frozen turkey fell from my fridge and bonked my noggin, and I barely felt it. I had literally become a numbskull. That's when I knew, without the aid of scientific proof: Saturated fats had eroded the connections between neurons in my brain.
To keep such connections flexible, the Alzheimer's Association website recommends mental challenges such as jigsaw puzzles, crosswords, or sudoku. The Alzheimer's Association is, in my opinion, more reputable than CDSinDogs.com, so I gave it a shot. After successfully conquering my toddler's 30-piece Thomas the Tank Engine jigsaw in just under four minutes, I moved on to sudoku. Confused, I ended up playing tic-tac-toe against myself in the boxes. (I cheated and still tied myself.) Forty-four minutes into the crossword puzzle, I got distracted while Googling a clue about Norman Fell and spent the rest of the afternoon watching Three's Company bloopers on YouTube.
Tail between my legs, I returned to CDSinDogs.com, where I read about a wonder drug called Anipryl, sometimes prescribed by veterinarians for CDS. I don't know any vets, so while drooling onto my plate at TopNotch Beefburgers, I called up my brother-in-law, a professor of emergency medicine at Penn. He asked for my symptoms.
Sluggishness, sweats, irritation, confusion.
"That sounds an awful lot like menopause," he said. "Has your vagina been particularly dry lately?" Then he hung up. Next I consulted a gastroenterologist I play basketball with. Would it be smart and/or ethical for him to prescribe me Anipryl? I asked. "Or," he said, "you could just stop eating burgers."
Three weeks and another 23 burgers later, I finally did. My recovery so far has been excruciatingly slow.
These days, I celebrate small victories, like the fact that I can once again carry my kid in from the car without getting winded. Trouble is, I keep taking him to the wrong apartment.
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Well, either its the burgers... Or you're getting stupid.
As much as that's a rather inflammatory thing to say, and doesn't seem to make any sense other than some random meat eater busting your chops. The fact is that you haven't even bothered to give us anything to compare your current mental stupor to.
If you were a regular Sudoku fan before you started your burger binge, or could sit down and finish the NYT's sunday crossword in a single sitting before you started chowing down on a lot of red meat, we might be able to make the correlation that the meat has indeed 'gone to your head'.
If in fact you could tell us that you've 'recovered' after dropping the saturated fats out of your diet, and with a little bit of mental exercise you're managing to keep better focused, complete tasks more effectively and efficiently, or are quicker of wit, then we could possibly correlate that to your diet change.
Instead, you don't tell us how you were 'before' the saturated fats, and you have nothing to offer us from after changing your diet to exclude them, leaving the entire article a bland, pointless piece of conjecture. I understand that "fat's aren't cool" is current status quot, but that doesn't mean sloppy journalism should slink by.
Can you say "post hoc ergo propter hoc"? I guess he can't... so by golly, maybe he _is_ getting stupider!
Once you can do 5 levels on this game to 100% then you can officially count yourself cured...
and have a burger once a week after that for purely recreational purposes.. :-)
You have already admitted you are "dumb."
I'm writing to say I agree wholeheartedly (no pun intended) with you.
If you believed at the outset that eating hamburgers for 65 days "would systematically destroy my heart, my liver, my cardiovascular system, and my sex appeal," then you are indeed dumb for taking on this project.
Chicago magazine is irresponsible and complicit for choosing your dangerous odyssey for its cover story. Putting a picture of a "fully-loaded bacon cheeseburger" on the cover and devoting ten pages to your mouth-watering descriptions of those 30 "deadly" burgers is nothing short of reckless endangerment of your readers.
Class action suit, anyone?
If that weren't bad enough, you give your readers addresses and phone numbers of the restaurants that purvey this dangerous food.
I'm surprised the advertising department didn't co-opt your story for yet another Special Advertising Section. Think how easy this would have been to peddle it to some hospital's cardiology division.
Do you want us all to die?
You write Hot Chocolate's burger is "pretty small by America's Lipitor-busing standards, maybe six or seven ounces, but every element of Mindy Segal's gourmet cheeseburger sings." For a food writer to mention a cholesterol-lowering drug in the same sentence as a hamburger implies you believe what you are doing is not good for you or the reader.
Fortunately, you are dead wrong about saturated fats.
In "Good Calories, Bad Calories" Gary Taubes writes, "Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease, or any other chronic disease of civilization." I found Taubes' book after watching Tom Naughton's film Fat Head. Like Morgan Spurlock, Naughton ate fast food for 30-days. He just didn't eat the fries or the sugar-laden sodas that Spurlock downed in "Super-Size Me" Naughton lost weight and improved his blood chemistry.
It is obvious from your praise of the grease in Five Guys paper bag that you like your fries. If you're feeling dumb, you might want to look at all of the carbohydrates you downed while eating all of those buns and fries.
It's the buns and fries that are the culprits. Taubes writes, "By stimulating insulin secretion, carbohydrates make us fat and ultimately cause obesity. The fewer carbohydrates we consume the leaner we will be."
If you don't have time to read 467 pages, view Taubes' lecture at Dartmouth here http://www.dhslides.org/mgr/mgr060509f/f.htm
Jeff, you spent 65 days eating burgers. Taubes spent five years researching obesity. He's an award winning "Science" magazine writer.
How dare you give me medical advice?
Stick to food writing. You're good at it. IN fact, I'm going to try at least five of the burgers you wrote about. I won't be ordering the fries and I will be putting part of the delicious buns aside and eating my burgers with a knife and fork.
I agree wholeheartedly you are dumb, but that has nothing to do with eating hand-patted, grass-fed, grain-finished ground beef. You are dumb because you spent 65 days doing something you thought was dumb and dangerous. You are dumb and irresponsible for suggesting we eat even one of these burgers despite the horrifying risks.
And you are dumb because you, then, write about how dumb you are.
Despite the horrible medical advice, the advice on the burgers is first rate. Thanks for writing "Under the Bun."
I agree wholeheartedly you are dumb, but that has nothing to do with eating hand-patted, grass-fed, grain-finished ground beef. You are dumb because you spent 65 days doing something you thought was dumb and dangerous. You are dumb and irresponsible for suggesting we eat even one of these burgers despite the horrifying risks.
And you are dumb because you, then, write about how dumb you are.
Despite the horrible medical advice, the advice on the burgers is first rate. Thanks for writing "Under the Bun."
Well I thought it was funny.
"That sounds an awful lot like menopause," he said. "Has your vagina been particularly dry lately?"
Chris, he performed an experiment with the hypothesis that the results may be negative and had the will to do it himself. It may not follow the exact method, but this is what we call science. You may think it's dumb but many others would find it intriguing and exciting. I bet you're not the life of the party. Class action suit? Medical advice? Really?
Nuance guys, get some.
"Saturated fats had eroded the connections between neurons in my brain."
Interestingly, there's all sorts of buzz right now about the effects of coconut oil (about 90% saturated fat) in the treatment of Alzheimer's resulting in marked improvement of cognitive skills.
Google it.
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He reminded residents a level one burn ban is in effect throughout the county.
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Charlestown's Aaron Daniel threw for a touchdown pass and ran for two more scores to help the Indiana South All-Stars beat the North 27-6 on Friday night in the Indiana Football Coaches Association Grange Insurance All-Star Classic at North Central High School. The South extended its series lead in the All-Star Classic, 26-21.
Daniel completed both of his pass attempts for 57 yards, including a 38-yard touchdown strike to Indianapolis Ritter's Alex Parrett in the first quarter. The 6-foot, 195-pound Daniel ran for 60 yards on six attempts. He had a 9-yard touchdown run at the 3:18 mark of the third quarter and a 15-year TD scamper with 6:39 left in regulation.
Those statistics helped Daniel earn the game's most valuable player award.
Alex Rodriguez, a running back from Lawrence Central, added 79 yards on the ground for the South.
The South blocked three kicks, one on an extra point, another on a field goal that would have cut the lead to eight points in the fourth quarter and the third on a punt.
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Three lawsuits filed last week that attempted to achieve "legal personhood" for four chimpanzees living in New York have been struck down. The suits, brought by the animal rights group the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP), targeted two chimps on private property and two in a research lab at Stony Brook University in New York. They were the first step in a nationwide campaign to grant legal rights to a variety of animals.
NhRP had spent five years honing its legal strategy. It picked what it thought would be the most favorable jurisdictions and petitioned the judges with a writ of habeas corpus, which allows a person being held captive to have a say in court. Suffolk County Supreme Court Justice Gerard Asher denied the writ for the Stony Brook chimpanzees, writing in a brief decision that the animals did not qualify for habeas corpus because they were not "persons." Both chimps are used in locomotion research at the university in work that is attempting to shed light on the origin of bipedalism in humans. Asher did not meet with NhRP lawyers; he issued his decision via a court clerk.
The other judges were more accommodating. Fulton County Supreme Court Justice Joseph Sise and Niagara County Supreme Court Justice Ralph Boniello both allowed NhRP lawyers to make oral arguments in the courtroom. "As an animal lover, I appreciate your work," said Sise, who handled the case of a chimpanzee named Tommy living in cage on his owner's property in Gloversville, according to an NhRP press release. The group made "a very strong argument," Sise said, according to the release, but he did not agree that habeas corpus applied to chimpanzees. Boniello, who oversaw the case of a chimp named Kiko living on his owner's property in Niagara Falls, said he did not want to be the first "to make that leap of faith" equating chimpanzees with human beings.
NhRP Executive Director Natalie Prosin said Tuesday that her group expected this outcome. "We were pleasantly surprised at how respectful the judges were, specifically the two that allowed us to have oral hearings," she says. "We were thrilled to be able to do that. Now we have something on record that we can take to appeals court." She says her group is now preparing those appeals, which she hopes will be heard in about a year.
Richard Cupp, a law professor at Pepperdine University in California, and a proponent of focusing on animal welfare rather than animal rights, was also not shocked by the outcome. "Animals are not persons, but that does not mean that abusing them is acceptable," he writes in an email. "Both humans and animals would be best served by placing a strong emphasis on human responsibility for humane treatment of animals rather than creating an artificial construct of animal personhood."
Before NhRP filed its lawsuits last week it had already planned to file similar suits in other states. It had also planned to target animals beyond chimpanzees, including whales, dolphins and elephants. Prosin says that is still the plan. "I don't see it changing our nationwide strategy," she says. "We're very motivated by what has happened. We're itching to get going with other lawsuits."
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Niagara Gazette — There's two different lines of thinking emerging on the current Lewiston-Porter school board.
Last week, the seven-member board voted to adopt its 2013-14 spending plan, which was decided would increase its tax levy by 5.5 percent. The number exceeds the district's tax levy threshold set by a state formula and will require a supermajority of 60 percent of district voters to be approved.
When school board President Jodee Riordan called for a roll call ballot, the first response was a bit shocking. Jerome Andres said no.
"I thought (Superintendent) Chris Roser's initial budget was, while tough, reasonable," Andres said after the vote. "Strategically, I don't think it was a good idea to go over the cap. We have to ask our voters to also approve a $26 million project and I don't think it was a good idea."
Roser's original plan he recommended included a series of staffing cuts which would leave the district with almost 10 less teaching positions, several support staff cut and one administrator below current levels. It also cut the district's popular afterschool program used by struggling high school students and modified sports for middle school students, which about half the school's population participated in this past year.
Roser also provided a list of reinstatements he thought the board could consider, but never endorsed exceeding the tax cap, which stood at 4 percent in the district.
In fact, Roser recommended not exceeding the cap, which is determined by a series of exemptions and calculations which modify the initial 2 percent to which the law holds municipalities.
Andres wasn't the only one who sided with Roser's opinion, as board newcomer Mollie Lucas joined in moments later. The budget was adopted by a 5-2 vote.
While Andres worried about trying to get all of its spending approved, board member Keith Fox was worried about the district's layoffs. Fox, a retired teacher in the Niagara Falls district, said he couldn't rightly agree with a budget plan which eliminated as many positions as Roser's plan.
"If you've ever been laid off, you can understand the hardships the staff will be going through," Fox said. "I really believe we have a fantastic school district here and I believe the people will do the right thing."
One area district officials have focused on recently is the situation New York put the district in financially. They believe failures on the state's part, like the continuation of the Gap Elimination Adjustment originally instituted by Gov. David Paterson following the housing market collapse in 2008, directly contributed to a potential tax increase above the levy limit.
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Lewiston-Porter is responsible for paying state aid back to Albany, as will every school district, in 2013. It's responsible for $1.8 million, a figure which if allowed to remain at Lew-Port would eliminate the need for any tax levy increase at all. It balances Roser's budget, though it still requires the cuts he originally proposed.
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Clay Township Rescue was dispatched to an area near Cedar Creek at 2:09 p.m. in regard to a four-wheeler accident with unknown injuries. No information regarding the injuries or the patient have been received.
Listening to radio traffic, the helicopter has been dispatched to a field off Ashland.
The accident was on the Mahaska County side. The Mahaska County Sheriff's Deputy who was on scene is off duty for the day. No one else at the office had information. We hope to learn more tomorrow.


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anyone heard of this concept, hollow pull ups?
guy seems intelligent but is this quackery or is he on to something?
are you doing gymnastics? he's talking specifically of gymnastics moves that require great amounts of strength, and yes you are in that hollow position for them, and i believe he is correct. he never said to not do normal pull ups either.
^^ Exactly. He's getting you ready for front levers (among other things).


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CONNEAUT — Joyce Ann Schreiber, age 74, of North Amboy Road, Conneaut, Ohio, passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her family on Wednesday, Sept. 25, 2013.
She was born Oct. 8, 1938, in Cherry Hill, Pa., the daughter of Thelma (Hewitt) Wood-Narducci and the late Devere Wood.
Joyce spent her career in the health care profession caring for others and received an honorary award for faithful and valuable service. She retired from Maples after working there for 25 years.
She loved animals (especially her dogs, "Hobo and Baby"), nature, reading books, and traveling with her family. Joyce and her husband, Bill, were active members of the NEO Model A Club and enjoyed trips in their 1930 Model A Ford.
After an 11 year battle with triple negative breast cancer, she said "If you ask me how I want to be remembered it is as a winner. A winner is somebody who has given her best effort, who has tried her hardest she possibly can, and who uses every ounce of energy and strength. That's a winner!"
She was married to Conrad Bennett and together they had three daughters, Pam (Jeff Stanonik) Nyman, Brenda (Ed) Jaworski and Shelly (Bob) Runyeon. They divorced and she then married William Schreiber and lovingly gained five more children, Jody (Pat) Davin, Kimberly (Nick) Scalise-Noirot, Keith (Ida) Schreiber, Scott (Lilya) Schreiber and Sue (Bob) Walla; Joyce has 17 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her mother, Thelma Narducci; and a brother, Gary Wood.
She was preceded in death by her father, Devere Wood; and step-father, Nicholas Narducci.
Funeral Services will be held 1 p.m., Friday, Sept. 27th, at the THOMPSON-SMITH-NESBITT FUNERAL HOME, 345 MAIN ST., CONNEAUT, with Pastor Mary Prior, of Amboy United Methodist Church, officiating. Friends may call at the Funeral Home on Friday from 11 a.m. until time of services at 1 p.m. Burial will follow services at Greenlawn Memory Gardens, North Kingsville.
Should friends desire, memorials in memory of Joyce may be given to the Hospice of the Western Reserve, envelopes will be available at the Funeral Home.
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David Allen Wolf, 59, beloved husband, father, brother and Papa passed away Friday, April 5, 2013, surrounded by his loving family after a courageous eight-year battle with cancer. Celebration of life: 10 a.m. Monday at Millsap Baptist Church. Visitation: 6 to 8 P.M. Sunday with Rosary starting at 6 p.m. at White's Funeral Home. Interment: Fairview Cemetery in Millsap.
David was born March 8, 1954, to Ralph and Nell Wolf. He was married 20 years to his loving wife, Lynnette. David was a graduate of Azle High School and attended Ranger Jr. College and the University of North Texas, where he earned his Master's Degree in Education. He was a principal for 30 years until he had to retire because of his illness.
David's love for his job created an atmosphere that was conducive to learning. He not only stressed the importance of education, but because of his personality he had a way with his students and teachers that put them at ease, and they all thought that each one of them was his favorite. The schools that he touched were Perrin, Hubbard, Lake Worth, Alvord and Millsap.
His love for his family was apparent, there was always a vacation being planned to the beach, ski slopes, or just a weekend away to the Hill Country.
David was an avid Ranger and Texas Longhorn fan and many weekends were spent with family watching them on television.
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We bought a 42" HDTV and a new dvd player that is an upconversion type so that our dvds will look good on the tv. BUT GUESS WHAT? The damned dvd player won't play any of my duel layer dvds!So.....I am having to buy another dvd player. This irks me to no end and makes me want to smash small innocent cartoon characters.....in front of children.
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Born on June 16, 1970 in Karachi, Pakistan, His Holiness Younus AlGohar grew up practicing Islamic Sufism. From a young age, he felt a strong inner need to find divine love and spirituality.
After many years of searching and being unable to find spirituality anywhere, His Holiness eventually became disillusioned. That was, of course, until he met His Sublime Eminence Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi at the age of fifteen.
When I first looked at the comely face of Gohar Shahi, I felt instantly that I knew Gohar Shahi all along; long before we had even come to this world. — His Holiness Younus AlGohar —
Having become a close disciple of His Sublime Eminence Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi, His Holiness Younus AlGohar began his rapid progression along the spiritual path. Under the guidance of His Sublime Eminence, His Holiness adopted extensive austerity and spiritual discipline, which included a three year period of abstaining from everything but the basic necessities of life. Due to His Holiness's dedicated spiritual struggle and guidance from His Sublime Eminence, he was able to achieve complete purification of the Nafs (Self) and enlightenment of the heart and soul.
Along with enlightening His Holiness Younus AlGohar, His Sublime Eminence Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi invested in him an extraordinary amount of spiritual authority and knowledge. Soon after, His Sublime Eminence appointed His Holiness as His sole representative and designated him to take His Sublime Eminence's mystical doctrine to all corners of the world.
"I will meet only Younus now, and Younus shall meet the world on behalf of me."
His Holiness Younus AlGohar began to preach spirituality to serve all religious and non-religious communities without any cultural or national boundaries, as per the teachings of His Sublime Eminence Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi.
Under instruction from His Sublime Eminence Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi, His Holiness Younus AlGohar formed the spiritualist organisations Mehdi Foundation International, Messiah Foundation International and Kalki Avatar Foundation to propagate His Sublime Eminence Ra Riaz Gohar Shahi's universally acceptable spiritual doctrine, to herald the Second Coming of Lord Jesus Christ, and to raise awareness of the coming of the Awaited Universal Saviour, also known as the Awaited Messiah/Imam Mehdi/Kalki Avatar.
The collective goal of these organisations is to implant the seed of love in the hearts of humanity and bring about a widespread spiritual revolution. With His Sublime Eminence's miraculous teachings, His Holiness Younus AlGohar aims to liberate the entire humanity from the various theosophical and cultural shackles that bounds them today. He strives to spiritualise their lives so that hatred can be eradicated as the divine attributes begin to manifest in their characters. The ultimate objective of Messiah Foundation International, Mehdi Foundation International and Kalki Avatar Foundation is to unite all humanity regardless of race, religion, or culture with divine love and foster permanent inner and outer peace.
Today, with this spiritual vision, authority, and power, His Holiness Younus AlGohar continues to promote the Goharian Philosophy of Divine Love and Global Peace across the globe.
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His Holiness has miraculously healed thousands physically and spiritually, free of charge, on His Holiness's promotional tours all over the world.
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When Dina Dublon was first launching her career, she was among 18 women hired in a group of 20 trainees for Chemical Bank, an obvious attempt to diversify what had been a boys' club.
They didn't fit in both because of their gender and their education; at the time, it was a rarity to see people with graduate degrees working a trading floor.
"The [company's] attitude was swim or sink. It's your problem," Dublon told Tepper School students in a lecture given as part of the W.L. Mellon Speaker Series. "Homogenous groups tend to create a closed culture. To open it required active intervention on the part of more than a few odd ducks."
Within three years, only two people from that group of 20 remained: Dublon and the lone white male.
"It was an expensive failure — hiring, training, and losing [the recruits] year after year," Dublon recalled. But it taught her an important lesson: That success within a large organization is a delicate balance between fitting in and standing out.
Eventually, Dublon (MSIA '79) was able to master that lesson well enough to become Chemical Bank's corporate treasurer and head of corporate planning. She was instrumental in the negotiation and merger of Chemical Bank with Manufacturers Hanover, Chase, JPMorgan, and Bank One, and retired in September 2004 as executive vice president and chief financial officer for JPMorgan Chase.
She urged students to take advantage of training and development opportunities, which are more plentiful now than when she was hired in 1981.
"Owning your development has a lot to do with being able to look back six months, 12 months, and ask: What is the shape of the learning curve? Is it still steep or not?" Dublon said.
Likewise, she urged students to become involved in issues larger than themselves. In addition to serving on the board of directors for several major corporations, Dublon also serves on the boards for the Global Fund for Women and the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children.
"The ultimate responsibility for driving change is ours, as individuals and as professionals," she said.
Dublon touched on the need for ethical behavior in explaining what she felt were some of the underlying reasons for the current financial crisis, saying, "It is not ethical to lend on the assumption that you will sell the loan and not bear the risk of default or the pain of foreclosure."
She said she believes the CEO of the future will not be measured solely by his or her ability to deliver return on capital, which she referred to as "yesterday's meter," but rather by the ability to regain the public trust.
"Leadership, from my perspective, is a matter of choice, not chance. You must believe that you can make a difference. You must act. You can't just be a passive observer on what's not working," Dublon said. "Change in industry practice, in how we all behave, is tough. It takes courageous leadership, and it will invite a lot of opposition."
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Many professional male athletes enthusiastically practice yoga these days – hoops stars like Charles Barkley, and Kevin Garnett, football's Eddie George, Shannon Sharpe and the New York Giants; baseballs Barry Zito, and PGA golfers Ty Tryon and David Duval. Yoga helps get their game on – increases strength, flexibility, focus, and agility. These classes are for boys only, 8 - 15yrs
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The Georgia Lottery Board of Directors voted Thursday to begin a plan to allow players to buy tickets for jackpot games online, according to media reports.
MegaMillions, PowerBall and Fantasy 5 will be the initial offerings, according to lottery president Margaret DeFrancisco.
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The online sales would begin later this year or in 2013.
"Our mission here is to maximize revenue for the HOPE Scholarship and Pre-K programs," DeFrancisco told WSB-TV.
The lottery reported record sales of $3.8 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, but rising enrollments and tuition costs have reduced funds available to HOPE scholars.
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