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That's why it's imperative to approach this situation with forethought, and create a clear succession plan ahead of time that can be implemented when the time arises. It doesn't matter how successful a family business is in one generation if it isn't able to effectively transfer than momentum to the next generation. Without a good succession plan in place, each time the business passes into the hands of the next generation, it could face failure, no matter how well it was doing previously. It is because of this reason that we bring you a 5 step plan to working out the perfect succession plan for your company.
The best place to start is to take stock of what the current succession plan of the business is, and then move forward from there. Next, it's important to take the plans, opinions and objectives of each party involved into consideration. You need to assess the retirement plans of the outgoing generation, and then also evaluate the goals and interests of the new generation. It's very important to establish early on if the goals, both personal and professional, of the next generation align with those of the business. Along with assessing the people involved in the succession, this is the perfect opportunity to project future goals and objectives for the business itself. Once all these factors are taken into account, then the foundation for the succession plan are set. Now is also a good time to bring in professional advisors to oversee and assist with the rest of the process of establishing your succession plan.
The succession plan should be written down, making it concrete, straight forward and not open to interpretation at a later date. Ideally, it should also be inclusive enough to be adapted for future successions, and not just the immediate one. The succession plan should include:
An important part of the succession plan is how the transition will take place between the current ownership and the new generation. Establish within the succession plan how the business will be handed over – will the successor be expected to purchase the company, or will it be gift/bequest from the previous generation? If the company chooses to sell, what purchasing options will the older generation offer the successor? A potential buy/sell agreement should be drawn up to be used in the succession, reflecting a fair appraisal of the value of the business, as well ways to minimise the taxes involved in the transferring of the company ownership. Lastly, the succession plan should outline a timeline for how the succession will take place. Once the succession plan has been drawn up, then its contents must be communicated to the family, those active within the business, as well as non-active members. In order for the succession plan to be successful, and afford the company a seamless transition between generations, every family member must fully understand how the succession will work, and what their part is within it all.
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As far as FC2 goes in the link I provided, I guess my question would be why is the 5870 only 6FPS behind the stock 470 in averages but
in mins?
I only mentioned the 5970 because I noticed the stock 470 equals its mins and passes them when OCed. The stock 5970 beats the stock 470 by
in averages and by 15 when the 470 is OCed. I was also surprised that was with 8xAA which is supposed to the 5800s strong point.
Yes, I know it's FC2 and it's not like the 5870 and 5970 are putting up poor averages. They are not.
This is because bar graphs don't capture an accurate recording of mins. You have no idea how many frames they saw at the minimum framerate that's recorded, whereas an average is taken over all the frames.
A bar graph will show a min of 21 fps and possibly mislead someone to believing much of the game plays that way when it's possible it happened for a split second then jumped back up to a minimum of 35-40fps the rest of the time.
Essentially, bar graphs are useless when looking at mins. A line graph shows a more accurate picture as it allows you to observe trending.
^ That's the kind of graph that you guys should be examining mins with. Anything else is useless.
And there's no way that a 470 should EVER have a higher minimum framerate than a 5970 as long as Crossfire is scaling properly and you're not maxing out the VRAM. And that's pretty difficult to do unless you're running highest settings and 8x MSAA. You should be running edge-detect instead as it doesn't use up as much VRAM.
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Ham And Mushroom Strata
110 minutes
1 Tbsp stick butter
1 cup finely chopped onion
10 oz mushrooms, sliced
1 piece (8 oz) boneless smoked ham, cubed
1 bag (16 oz) broccoli florets, steamed
8 slices sandwich bread, cubed
6 oz fontina cheese, shredded (1 1/2 cups)
6 large eggs
3 cups whole milk
1/4 tsp pepper
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You';ll need a shallow 3-qt baking dish lightly coated with nonstick spray.
Melt butter in a large skillet. Add onion; saute until tender. Add mushrooms; saute until browned and dry. Stir in ham and broccoli.
Spread half the bread cubes in prepared baking dish. Top with ham mixture and half the cheese. Scatter remaining bread over top. Whisk eggs, milk and pepper in a large bowl until blended. Pour evenly over bread; sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake and serve, or cover and refrigerate up to 1 day.
To serve: Heat oven to 350F. Bake uncovered 1 hour or until top is puffed and lightly browned, and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out dry.
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Frank Agrama
Frank Agrama (born 1930 in Arish, Egypt),[1] also known and credited by his birth name Farouk Agrama, is an American director, producer and writer. He is the founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Harmony Gold USA, Inc. He is best known for producing the film Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles, other Robotech animated works and the miniseries "Heidi".
Agrama completed his MA in Theater Arts from UCLA in 1962.
According to the Los Angeles Times, prosecutors in Milan, Italy charged him, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and ten others in a trial over tax fraud, embezzlement and false accounting at the Mediaset media company on November 21, 2006.[2] According to Variety, some of the charges have been dropped due to expiring statute of limitations.[3]
Production credits[edit]
- The Circus (1949)
- Kahraman (1950)
- Eroe Di Sabia (1970) writer/director
- The Godfather's Friend (1972) writer/director
- Queen Kong (1976)
- Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
- Robotech The Movie (1986) Executive Producer
- The World of the Talisman (1987) (a.k.a. Planet Busters, Birth)
- Robotech II: The Sentinels (1987) Producer
- Lensman: Power of the Lens (1987) Executive producer
- Lensman: Secret of the Lens (1988) Executive producer
- Around the World in 80 Days (1989) Producer
- Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992) Producer
- The Lost World (1992) Producer
- Heidi (1993) Producer
- The Return to the Lost World (1994) Producer
- American Strays (1996) Executive Producer
- Road Ends (1997) Producer
- Robotech: Battlecry (2002) (Video Game) Executive producer
- Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006) Executive producer
- Dawn of the Mummy (1981) Writer
- Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles (2006) Screenplay
- ^ http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?r=947
- ^ Greg Krikorian and Richard Verrier (2006). "Federal agents search producer's home, office". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 2007-02-10. Retrieved 2007-01-17.
- ^ Nick Vivarelli (2007-01-15). "Judge throws out some Berlusconi charges". Variety. Retrieved 2007-01-15.
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- Frank Agrama at the Internet Movie Database
- Frank Agrama at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
- Frank Agrama at Amazon.com


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The Shrewsbury Alliance for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and the Shrewsbury Borough School faculty and administration recently held "Red Ribbon Week," a week-long effort that offered that focus on health, well being, and reinforcement skills to resist the use of alcohol, tobacco, and all illegal drugs. Throughout the week students were empowered to believe in themselves, resist peer pressure, and to stand up to bullying by "speaking up, reaching out, and being a friend." Some of the activities included a Public Service Announcement contest, special theme dress-up days, and visits from the Shrewsbury Police Department DARE officers who visited Pre-K – 3rd grade classrooms to read a story and talk about being safe and bully free.
Pictured with the PSA contest winners are Nikki Barreca, co-chair of the Shrewsbury Alliance for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Abuse and Marisa Shaheen, guidance counselor at Shrewsbury Borough School. Mayor Donald W. Burden recognized the contest winners at a Borough Council meeting on October 17.


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IRVINE, Calif. -- Tiger Woods plans to help with relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti by supporting groups that provide resources to children.
Greg McLaughlin, president of the Tiger Woods Foundation, said Friday he has not received any information from rap mogul Russell Simmons, who has said on Twitter that Woods is providing $3 million to help with the recovery.
McLaughlin said the foundation staff was evaluating "the most appropriate role" to help the Haitian people.
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Canada in Diplomatic Row with Iran, Vows to Screen Documentary Iranium
NEW YORK, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Canadian Minister of Heritage James Moore has vowed that a screening of the documentary film Iranium will soon take place at the National Archives following the cancelation of the film's showing earlier this week. The Iranian embassy was behind requests to cancel the event on Tuesday.
The National Archives buckled to pressure and canceled the event as threats of protest grew. The building was ultimately shutdown when two suspicious packages were found.
In response, the Canadian government led by Prime Minister Stephen Harper sent a diplomatic note to Iran following the incident reiterating that Canada is a free country and that freedom of expression is a core value that will not be compromised.
National news outlets in Canada have reported that the incident may further strain already tense relations between Canada and Iran.
Canadian ministers were furious over the cancelation, seen by many as bowing into diplomatic pressure from Iran and restricting Canadians' rights to freedom of speech. Mr. Moore made strong statements condemning the cancelation of the event, and insisted that a screening would in fact take place in the federal building.
"Canada does not accept attempts from the Iranian Embassy to dictate what films will, and will not be shown in Canada," said Mr. Moore.
"The agreement will be kept and this movie Iranium will be shown at Library and Archives Canada. We will not be moving it to a different facility, we're not bending to any pressure.
"People need to be kept safe, but we don't back down to people who try to censor people by threats of violence," Mr. Moore added.
Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney called the cancelation "outrageous."
"The response to the cancelation by senior members of Canada's government, in particular Minister James Moore, has been extremely refreshing," said Alex Traiman, Director of Iranium.
"It has been a principle of the Iranian government to stifle free speech inside Iran. I am glad that the regime will not get away with attempts to do the same in North America.
"Canada is standing up and defending its values against Iranian tyranny," Traiman added.
The film documents the statements and actions of Iranian leaders since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, including the buildup of Iran's nuclear program through the Presidential Elections of 2009.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- VNUS(R) Medical Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: VNUS) today announced that the company has received a Notice of Allowability by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office for a patent application that is a continuation of one of the three patents in the VNUS patent infringement lawsuit against suppliers of endovenous laser products.
The newly allowed VNUS patent application was filed as a continuation of VNUS's U.S. Patent No. 6,769,433 (the "'433 Patent"). The continuation patent uses the same patent specification as the '433 Patent and is published as patent publication number US 2004/0267258. VNUS has sued several endovenous laser manufacturers (Diomed, Inc., Angiodynamics, Inc., and Vascular Solutions, Inc.) for infringement of VNUS patents including the '433 Patent. That lawsuit is scheduled to begin trial against non-bankrupt defendants Angiodynamics and Vascular Solutions on June 23 of this year.
The newly allowed VNUS patent application contains claims that recite methods of applying energy from an elongate member leading to occlusion of a vein, where the elongate member may be a fiber optic and the energy may be light energy. Significantly, before deciding to allow the new VNUS patent, the Patent Office reviewed references that include those cited by the defendant endovenous laser companies during the patent litigation in their attempt to invalidate the '433 Patent.
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TIJUANA: A police officer died early yesterday after being shot during a weekend attack that killed a colleague and wounded two other officers, according to the Baja California Attorney General's Office.
Officer Dolores Roxana Castro Machado, 27, was shot in the chest and leg and had been hospitalized since the shooting, which took place about 4:20 p.m. Sunday, the Attorney General's Office said. She was pronounced dead about 2:45 a.m.
Gunmen fired automatic rifles at two patrol vehicles. Officer Leonardo Balcázar Gómez was pronounced dead shortly after the shooting.
The two other officers remain hospitalized. Details on their conditions were not available.
Castro was the fourth Tijuana police officer killed this month. –J.L.J.
Female pharmacy robber could be serial suspect
EL CAJON: A woman who used a demand note to hold up an El Cajon pharmacy yesterday afternoon could be a serial robber police are seeking.
The woman entered a Rite-Aid drugstore on Avocado Avenue, near Chase Avenue, and showed the cashier a demand note, El Cajon police Lt. Ron Smithson said.
She received an undisclosed amount of cash and was seen driving away in a gray minivan, Smithson said.
About 20 minutes later, the woman may have robbed another business in nearby Lemon Grove, said Smithson, who did not have any further details.
San Diego police believe the woman robbed a supermarket and two pharmacies in the city over the weekend.
In the San Diego cases, the woman was described as black, weighing 160 to 200 pounds, 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 10 inches tall and 25 to 30 years old. She was said to have long, shoulder-length hair either in cornrows or braids. –J.L.J.
Man killed in truck crash was Carlsbad resident
A driver killed in a single-vehicle crash in San Bernardino County last week has been identified as Darrell Dykes, 46, of Carlsbad, the county coroner's office said.
Dykes was driving a 2001 Chevrolet Silverado about 2:45 p.m. July 10 on state Route 18 through the mountains when the pickup went off the road at the 4,000-foot-altitude marker and landed on the highway below.
Dykes died at the scene. The California Highway Patrol is investigating the crash. –K.D.
Blaze nearly contained at Marine base training area
CAMP PENDLETON: A fire that began Saturday on Camp Pendleton is now 90 percent contained, 1st Lt. Riley Whaling said last night.
The fire has charred 1,500 acres of brush, but its forward progress has been stopped. Whaling said the base's fire department would monitor it throughout the night.
The fire is in the northeast section of the base, and no structures are threatened or have been damaged, Marine Lance Cpl. Michael Atchue said. –M.R. & K.K.
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Here's some stories of the different methods I've used over the last 10 years or so.... I made semi-ridged frames (2" Black Well Pipe $50) for my c28 for a couple years to drape a $100 dollar tarp that worked well. My expansion of the existing frames to cover my c320 failed badly when we got a foot of wet heavy snow...... That's when I coughed up $3000 for a Fairclough 'mast up' cover. I loved it and it worked perfectly with little fuss except the weight of the 2 sections at about 40 and 60 lbs. When I traded in the c320 for the NC I kept the frame & cover. I sold the cover but kept the frame to use on the NC as my guesstimate on the cost was about $5,000.... what TB was actually quoted. So now every year I re-build (yesterday actually) the frame that is partially from the Fairclough and partially custom bent by me 1" galvanized steel tubing ending up with the same type of frame as TB. The difference is I do my own shrink wrapping. Last year I did my first shrink wrap which I will not post pictures of as it was a patchwork quilt mess that barely held together for the winter. I wanted clear instead of white for more solar heating as I'm down there every weekend working on the boat but I have since learned that the clear with its lower melt temp and other properties that make it harder to work with wasn't the best choice for my first attempt. I bought a couple rolls of white this fall so I'll hopefully I'll get better at it over the years. The used wrap gets put in a separate dumpster in the spring - hopefully for re-cycling. I also store in the water now which is Much Warmer for the winter boat work. By the way a properly vented shrink wrap is no more of a problem than any other method.
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YADKINVILLE — Organizers for the future Sparrow's House domestic violence shelter in Yadkin County recently addressed members of Yadkinville United Methodist Church.
The United Methodist Women (UMW) of Yadkinville United Methodist Church said they were pleased to have Jennifer Bowman, executive director, and the Rev. Mark Brown, founder, provide a program on The Sparrow's House, Inc., at their quarterly gathering on July 22 in the church's Family Life Center.
The Sparrow's House will provide a safe haven for victims of domestic violence and/or sexual abuse. During 2011, the United Methodist Men and Women adopted domestic violence as a social issue upon which to raise awareness and to devote attention. Domestic violence is a pattern of control over one's partner/spouse. It can be expressed physically, sexually, emotionally, economically, and/or psychologically.
At the time, there was no shelter in Yadkin County for those subjected to domestic abuse. Victims had to seek shelter elsewhere. Now, with a house selected, a board comprised of concerned local professionals, and the backing of several individuals, this goal is on the verge of becoming a reality.
Brown of Redeemer Yadkin Valley Church shared that The Sparrow's House will be a private, nonprofit organization. A capital campaign will be launched to raise funds to support this facility. Jennifer Bowman, herself a survivor of domestic violence, knows the horror to which victims are subjected. She previously worked with the Surry County shelter.
Bowman informed the group that one in four women will be subjected to domestic and/or sexual violence in their lifetime. She advised that last year 1,058 calls for advice/help were received in Yadkin County alone. Those needing shelter previously had to be sent to facilities in other counties. The purpose of The Sparrow's House will be to "Empower Victims to become Independent Survivors." There will be a need and opportunity for volunteers at The Sparrow's House. Following the program, there was a productive question and answer period.
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Media, finance and automotive brands continue to lead online video advertising adoption, according to new data from MediaRadar. In October, 2014 the product categories were first, second and third respectively, just as they were in October, 2013. MediaRadar found an increase in the number of brands placing online video ads in all 10 of the product categories it measures.
Categories: Advertising
Topics: MediaRadar, Videology
Multiscreen video ad campaigns running on Videology's platform in the U.S. in Q3 '14 surged to 35% of total campaigns, up 59% from the 22% share multiscreen campaigns had in Q2 '14. Multiscreen includes campaigns running either on PC/mobile or PC/mobile/connected TV. Video ad campaigns running solely on PC dropped from 74% in Q2 '14 to 60% in Q3 '14.
Categories: Advertising, Mobile Video
Topics: Videology
Adobe's Q2 '14 U.S. Digital Video Benchmark report has found that global online video starts hit 38.2 billion, a 43% increase vs. Q2 '13 and a new record among Adobe customers. Q2 was fueled in part by the heavily streamed World Cup matches in June. Mobile continued to experience strong growth too, with 26% of starts occurring on mobile devices, up from 19% a year earlier. Smartphones notched 13.6% of starts vs. 13% for tablets, the first time smartphones have pulled ahead. However, just 16.6% of mobile videos reached 75% completion.
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Underscoring the dramatic shifts occurring in millennials' TV viewing behavior, a new survey from comScore has found that millennials (18-34 year-olds) now use digital platforms for 1/3 of the time they watch original TV programs. That's double the 16% of time 35-54 year-olds spend using digital platforms for TV program viewing, and triple the 10% of time for those over 55 years-old.
For all 3 age groups, computers were the preferred digital platform by a significant margin - 19% for millennials, 10% for 35-54 year-olds and 6% for 55+. Smartphones and tablets trailed in single digits for all 3 groups. Just 55% of millennials said they "typically" watch TV programs on traditional TV, vs. 70% for 35-54 year-olds and 83% for 55+.
Categories: Binge-viewing, Devices, Millennials
Topics: comScore
Sporting News Media, which operates a large sports online video syndication network, has launched a new research service called "Sporting Views," which will provide insights about how online viewers engage with sports-related video.
The data is based on Sporting News Media's SN ePlayer network which syndicates video highlights from major leagues and rights-holders to over 350 publishers' sites, generating over 20 million unique visitors/mo and 300 million streams/mo. The SN ePlayer network has been comScore's top-ranked online video sports property for 9 of the last 12 months.
In the inaugural report, Sporting Views found that viewing of sports content on local publishers sites is quite diffused, actually drawing big out-of-market audiences. In ten of the largest U.S. markets, 62.1% of viewers who watch sports video on local publishers' sites were from outside that market. Dallas (72.7%), LA (71.3%), New York (70.9%) and Miami (70.3%) led in terms of percentage of viewers from outside their markets.
Categories: Sports
Topics: Sporting News
BrightRoll has released a new study, conducted by Nielsen, which concludes that mobile video advertising provides cost-effective incremental reach to TV advertising. Nielsen found the following incremental reach with mobile video ads in 4 verticals it studied: CPG (12.7%), Auto (11.9%), Telecom (9.5%) and Financial Services (9.9%).
Underlying the incremental reach benefit of mobile video is Nielsen's estimate that once a brand hits 60% or more of its target audience with TV advertising, there's a point of diminishing returns, making incremental reach very expensive.
Categories: Advertising, Mobile Video
Topics: BrightRoll, Nielsen
Industry research firm The Diffusion Group has found that, contrary to conventional wisdom, authentication is not blocking broader consumer acceptance of TV Everywhere services. TDG found that just 7% of TVE users perceive the TVE authentication process as "difficult" to "very difficult" while over two-thirds (68.4%) said it was "easy" to "very easy." Nonetheless, 82% of TVE users said eliminating TVE log-in entirely would be an important enhancement.
Categories: TV Everywhere
Topics: TDG, TV Everywhere
In another sign of programmatic video advertising's rising popularity among brand advertisers, Adap.tv's newly released 2014 State of the Video Industry report has found that 60% of brands' video ad spending is now allocated to programmatic channels. That compares with 44% for ad networks and 38% for agencies and trading desks.
However, when it comes to premium video, brands said just 23% of ad spending was done programmatically, reflecting how important publisher direct sales remains for the most coveted ad inventory. In fact, 51% of publishers said they're making premium ad inventory available for sale programmatically, up just slightly from 49% in 2013. Still, private marketplaces continue to gain, with 32% of publishers running one in 2014, up from 20% in 2013.
Categories: Advertising, Programmatic
Interest in cord-cutting remains relatively muted according to new data from Frank N. Magid Associates. The firm, which has been surveying consumers' attitudes towards cord-cutting each of the past 4 years, found 2.9% of respondents agreeing they're "very likely" to cancel their pay-TV service in the year ahead, a slight uptick from 2.7% found in 2013, 2.2% in 2012 and 1.9% in 2011.
Magid noted that the "very likely" level jumped to 4.9% for 25-34 year-olds, but dropped to 1.4% for those identifying themselves as ESPN viewers (live sports are widely believed to be the most formidable bulwark against cord-cutting).
Categories: Cable TV Operators, Satellite, Telcos
Topics: Leichtman Research Group, Magid
According to a new eMarketer forecast, in 2014 YouTube will account for 18.9% of the U.S. online video ad market, down from 21.2% in 2013. Still, YouTube will see a healthy 39.2% year-over-year net video ad revenue increase, from $810 million in '13 to $1.13 billion in '14. eMarketer forecasts YouTube's U.S. video ad revenue to continue growing, by 34.2% in '15 to $1.51 billion and by a further 18.3% in '16 to $1.75 billion.
Categories: Advertising, Aggregators
A new study from Brightcove has found that 76% of consumers cite video as their preferred content source when consuming brand information, with 79% overall favoring digital content over traditional. In addition, 24% of respondents said video is their "most trusted" source for brand content, with 44% of them saying video was more appealing, authentic (29%), engaging (28%) and shareable (10%) than other communication formats.
Categories: Brand Marketing
Topics: Brightcove
Nielsen has released its Q2 '14 Cross-Platform Report, finding among other things, that online video viewing/day for Americans age 18-64 has doubled from an average of over 13 minutes in Q2 '12 to an average of over 27 minutes in Q2 '14. The 18-34 age group leads with 35 minutes/day in Q2 '14, followed by 35-49 year-olds (26 minutes/day) and 50-64 year-olds (19 minutes/day).
Despite the gains, TV viewing still dwarfs online viewing, and held up pretty well over the 2 year period. For 18-34 year-olds, TV viewing in Q2 '14 was 4 hours, 17 minutes (a 10 minute decline since Q2 '12), for 35-49 year-olds it was 4 hours, 57 minutes (an 8 minute decline) and for 50-64 year-olds TV viewing was 6 hours, 12 minutes (a 5 minute increase).
Categories: Mobile Video
Topics: Nielsen
After a 2 week hiatus while I was traveling in France, nScreenMedia's Colin Dixon and I are back with the 240th edition of our weekly podcast.
The NFL season is now officially underway and with the launch of the NFL Now app, the league is promising to deliver an unprecedented fan experience. Though it's still quite early, Colin and I discuss why NFL Now looks like a very smart move. We're especially impressed with how the NFL is threading the needle between preserving the value in its multi-billion dollar broadcast/cable TV deals while aggressively pursuing online/mobile opportunities. However, for watching live games online, we also note how convoluted the TV Everywhere experience will be this season.
Before we get to the NFL, Colin shares insights on a new report from Ericsson Consumer Lab, which found that OTT providers are surpassing pay-TV providers in customer satisfaction. Colin compares the data for four criteria - price, quality, mobility and content. I think the report is directionally correct, but question how valid it is to compare OTT services that cost around $8/month with pay-TV that can cost 10x this amount. It's worth noting another key takeaway from the report, which is that almost as many people now watch streaming video per week (75%), as watch scheduled broadcast TV (77%).
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Categories: Mobile Video, Podcasts, Sports
Topics: Ericsson, NFL Now, Podcast
Vindico has released its Q2 '14 Adtricity rankings, with 45% of online video ad impressions receiving a grade of "A" or "B" up from 34% in its last rating in late 2013. "A" and "B" ratings are considered TV quality and are respectively defined by Vindico as "placed in high impact areas and excellently executed" and "often placed front and center, and generally well executed with minor deductions."
Categories: Advertising, Viewability
Video ad platform Videology has released case studies for 3 quick service restaurant (QSR) clients demonstrating how targeted online video ad campaigns can complement TV advertising to drive increased offline sales.
The key results of the 3 case studies are as follows:
- A regional restaurant generated an 11% increase in customer transactions using a geo-targeted online video campaign involving a 5% higher spend.
- A large fast food chain drove an 8% increase in customer visits and 9% increase in spend per customer on higher-priced family meal menu items using demo and advanced targeting.
- A family restaurant saw an 8.5% overall lift in lunchtime traffic using online video ads and a 13.3% lift for consumers who saw the ads 3+ times.
Categories: Advertising
Topics: Videology
Broadband Internet access is a booming business in the U.S., especially for cable TV operators. According to data released last Friday by Leichtman Research Group, the top U.S broadband ISPs (accounting for 93% of the market) added nearly 384K subscribers in Q2 '14, the most since Q2 '09. Q2 '14 additions were 29% higher than those in Q2 '13 and 16% higher than those in Q2 '12.
Because the law of large numbers is working against broadband ISPs, adding even the same number of subscribers year-over-year is impressive, while adding more is even harder to do. For example, at the end of Q2 '12 there were 80.3 million broadband subscribers in the U.S., while at the end of Q2 '14 there were 85.9 million.
Categories: Broadband ISPs, Cable TV Operators
Topics: Leichtman Research Group
TV Everywhere proponents will find a lot to like in FreeWheel's newly released Q2 2014 Video Monetization Report. Ad views on authenticated on demand long-form plus live-streaming content grew 619% vs. Q2 '13. Fully 38% of these content formats' ad views now come via authentication, up from just 8% a year ago.
Live content was up 201% year-over-year, with 81% of live ad views attributable to sports. Q2 included marquee events like World Cup, NBA and NHL playoffs. The share of live content's ad views vs. total ad views increased from 8.1% in Q2 '13 to 18.3% in Q2 '14.
Categories: Advertising, Live Streaming, Sports, TV Everywhere
Topics: FreeWheel, TV Everywhere
Likely not to surprise anyone with a teen in the house, new research commissioned by Variety found that the 5 personalities with the most influence among American 13-18 year-olds are all YouTube stars. As well, half of the top 20 are also YouTube stars, with the other half well-known mainstream celebrities.
1,500 teens were asked about 20 personalities (10 had the most subscribers on YouTube and 10 had the highest Q score among teens). Questions focused on approachability, authenticity and other measures deemed important to their influence. Answers were then scored on a 100-point scale to determine the final rankings.
Categories: Indie Video
Topics: YouTube
Here's further evidence of video's rising importance for marketers seeking to build relationships with consumers: a survey of 1,000 American consumers and 500 marketers by Levels Beyond, a video content management provider, found that 59% of consumers are likely to watch a brand video when they visit a web site and 40% prefer watching a video vs. reading the same information. For millennials, 51% prefer watching a video to reading content.
As far as the types of video consumers like, 67% chose "how-to or instructional," followed by "comedy or spoofs" (42%), "product/informational" (34%), "micro-documentaries" (33%) and "animations/infographic videos" (30%).
Categories: Branded Entertainment
Topics: Levels Beyond
Late last week, Visible Measures released its quarterly Branded Video Report for Q2 '14, finding that branded videos were watched 2.8 billion times, an increase of over 50% vs. Q2 '13. The big driver of the record quarterly views was the World Cup, with videos related to it accounting for 19%, or almost 555 million of the views.
Nike was by far the biggest winner of World Cup related branded videos, with nearly 259 million True Reach views during the quarter, 84% of which were from its eight World Cup videos. Nike wasn't even an official World Cup sponsor, but its videos received 2.5x the 103.7 million views of adidas, which was the official sponsor and landed the brand in 3rd place for the quarter.
Categories: Branded Entertainment
Topics: Adidas, Dove, Google, Nike, Samsung, Visible Measures


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This airport has one terminal and 20 check-in counters to make the departure process as streamlined as possible. Due to the design of the airport, passengers are shuttled to their flights by bus.
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The best way to use public transportation to make your flight is to take the bus to Baden Airpark, with a travel time of approximately 30 to 45 minutes. If you want to take a train to Baden Airpark, you will need to transfer to a bus at Baden-Baden train station. Many travelers, especially those with a lot of luggage, choose to hire a car or take a taxi to Baden Airpark, which takes approximately 40 minutes.
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Two men were admitted to a city government hospital, with symptoms of dengue.
K. Ravikumar (21), from Vaniyambadi was admitted to the Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital on Wednesday morning and has had fever for one week. He had visited the Vaniyambadi General Hospital and the Vellore Medical College where he was diagnosed as positive for dengue. He has been given a unit of blood and two bottles of intravenous drips.
Earlier, Narendran (27) of Kannan Nagar, Madhavaram, was admitted around 8 p.m. on Tuesday. He complained of fever for four days and pain in his arms, legs and hips. "I went to a private clinic on Friday and they gave me injections. I was fine on Saturday and Sunday. But the fever returned on Monday so I came to GH," he said. According to him, mosquitoes are a major menace in his area.
According to the duty doctor, Narendran's blood samples have been sent to the laboratory for platelet count and the report, along with an abdominal scan, is expected on Thursday. "Dengue can only be treated with supportive care. The most common symptom is fall in the platelet count which we can help increase," she said.
Hospital Dean V. Kanagasabai said the two admissions were "random cases". However, there is panic in some parts of Madhavaram after the death of a woman patient in Stanley Hospital yesterday due to unknown reasons. The first case of death due to dengue was recorded by a private children's hospital on Aug. 24. At that time, the Corporation denied the presence of dengue in the city and said the child had contracted the virus during a trip to Vellore.
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Lithuanians launch iPhone unlocking service
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Lithuanian iPhone unlocks
A group of Lithuanian hackers is already promising to unlock iPhones for a fee, says Agence France-Presse. For the price of 990 litas (approx. $390), the group's website -- located in India -- offers multiple methods for making iPhones usable with carriers other than AT&T. The first is cloning the SIM card, which is said to be illegal; a hardware unlock is another option, but the preferred method of the hackers is a tweak of the original SIM card, altering commands exchanged with an iPhone. This method "seems to be legal," according to the website, since it neither clones the SIM card nor affects mobile networks.
The group claims to have successfully unlocked two iPhones so far, and has posted a YouTube video as proof of success (see below). Lithuanian law permits unlocking cellphones so long as their IMEI codes are not altered.
The launch of the website follows shortly after a flood of unlocking reports, most notably by UniquePhones and iPhoneSIMfree.com, both of which claim to have achieved the feat through software. The step is considered important, as it could possibly bring unlocking to the general public, or at least make it more financially practical for businesses. Legality remains a concern though, since AT&T is issuing legal threats in order to preserve the profits of its five-year US exclusivity deal. Lithuania and the rest of Europe have yet to hear official plans for the iPhone there.


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The bold red wall is a great start, you might want to look at the kinds of furniture you like. I think dark wood color desks would be great with this red, and perhaps some white accents such as file cabinet or storage bins to neutralize the office.
Wow! Great colour. A white or stainless steel/glass desk could really pop in this space. See Git Gustavsson's office in this video -- she paired a dramatic wall colour with a steel desk and a white barcelona chair. http://houseandhome.com/tv/segment/fresh-bright-house-tour
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo attends a news conference in his New York office, Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012.
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Father Robert Barron managed to find anti-Catholic prejudice in recent comments by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo ("Cuomo's Prejudice Should Bother All," Jan 24). Never mind that Cuomo himself is Catholic and never mentioned Catholicism.
Cuomo was talking about the extremist members of the Republican Party who oppose gun control. He characterized these politicians as "right-to-life, pro-assault weapon and anti-gay" said they were out of place in liberal New York. And they are.
Cuomo did not say these conservatives should be "be actively excluded from civil society," as Barron claimed, or be deprived of their right to free speech or religion.
Barron strayed from the main topic, gun control, and focused instead on contraception, abortion and gay marriage. He complained that "Catholics are finding themselves on the wrong side of the law." I think he meant the law is finding itself on the wrong side of Catholics.
Barron does not speak for all Catholics, many of whom agree with Cuomo on these hot-button issues. Barron speaks more for social conservatives in his dishonest attack on a liberal rising star.
We can expect similar attacks as we approach 2016.
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Arizona Cardinals tight end Rob Housler holding himself to 'highest standard'
With a competent quarterback (Carson Palmer) under center and a head coach (Bruce Arians) with a penchant for airing it out calling the shots, most believe Arizona Cardinals wideout Larry Fitzgerald stands to benefit the most from two of the organization's biggest offseason moves in 2013.
But he might not be the only offensive weapon who reaps the reward.
Both in Pittsburgh and Indianapolis, a prevalent theme in Arians' offense was the use of the tight end down field.
From 2007-2011, Steelers tight end Heath Miller caught 217 passes for 3,012 yards to go along with 20 touchdowns, and also made his first Pro Bowl appearance.
And last season, Colts' rookie tight ends Coby Fleener and Dwayne Allen caught 71 combined balls for 802 yards.
It's a trend that Arians is apparently trying to continue in the Valley.
"I won't complain when there are three tight ends on the field, because we can run a lot of plays out of that," Cardinals tight end Rob Housler said. "We didn't do that too much in the previous years, we kind of started sprinkling it in. But now it's definitely a staple of our offense and you can definitely see it on the field."
While Housler isn't the only talented receiver in a deep stable of tight ends -- Jeff King, Jim Dray, D.C. Jefferson, Mickey Shuler and Kory Sperry -- going into his third season, the former third-round pick knows that with increased opportunity comes increased responsibility.
And, it's something the former Florida Atlantic standout isn't taking lightly.
"It's a big year for me, completely internally," said Housler. "I'm not worried about what anyone else is saying about me because if I don't have the highest standard, I'm not doing right by myself. I have really high standards and really high expectations going into this year.
"It's great to some into this year with some fresh faces and kind of restart. There's been a lot of good, positive energy so far."
In 2012, Housler led all Cardinals tight ends in catches (45) and receiving yards (417) but was held out of the end zone.
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No longer content simply to bring joy to heads everywhere by spitting hot rhymes over banging production, perennial Booth fave K. Sparks has set his sights on something bigger with his latest project – as he puts it in the trailer, he wants to inspire listeners to follow their dreams and "Live their tomorrows, today." That's not to suggest the set will be short on hot rhymes or banging production – on the contrary, new single Drummer Boy is packed with both. Pajozo mans the boards, serving up a blend of synths, bells and – of course – high-impact percussion as the rapper unleashes his patented brand of allusive lyrical fire. He even manages to namedrop a fellow freestyle series alum: "Layin' the Factz like somebody snuffed a Bronx rapper…" The headliner's partner-in-rhyme on Ridin, True Dat and other reader-acclaimed cuts, J.D. takes over on the record's latter half, bobbing and weaving his way through an aggressive closing 16. The end result is sure to leave Sparks devotees energized and ready to achieve their grand ambitions. And if you don't happen to have any life goals, at least you'll be pumped to pick up a copy of Tomorrow Today on April 5.
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Google Reader is the go-to RSS aggregator for many users who prefer to get their regular RSS fix from the convenience of the browser. But despite being an excellent all-around tool for managing and reading RSS feeds, Google Reader is not what it used to be. The application hasn't received any major updates in a while, and it begins to feel dated. Fortunately, Google Reader is not the only fish in the sea, and if you are ready to try something new and different, you might want to take a closer look at NewsBlur. This open source RSS aggregator offers a fresh take on managing multiple RSS feeds and features some clever tools for sifting through hundreds and even thousands of RSS articles.
NewsBlur allows you to import your existing RSS subscriptions in the OPML format, so you can easily transfer all your favorite feeds from Google Reader, or any other RSS aggregator. The application supports several views, including Feed (the default mode which displays articles as a plain RSS feed), Original (shows the entire original site), and Story (shows each individual blog post from the original site, one story at a time). NewsBlur also features training filters which let you hide items you don't like and highlight articles that you find interesting. Training NewsBlur can help you to reduce the noise. Using the sharing functionality, you can post any RSS article on your own blurblog which NewsBlur automatically sets up for you when you create an account with the service. Other users can subscribe to your blurblog and you can follow other NewsBlur users, too. There is also a bookmarklet which can be used to subscribe to the RSS feed of the currently viewed website as well as push stories to your blurblog.
If you prefer to check RSS feeds from a mobile device, you'll be pleased to learn that the NewsBlur app is available for both the Android and iOS platforms. NewsBlur is free, but you can upgrade to the premium account for as little as 12USD per year, which is a great way to support this excellent open source project. If you feel adventurous, you can grab the source code from the project's GitHub repository and deploy NewsBlur on your own server. But be warned: installing NewsBlur is far from trivial.
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The recall of spices from Union International Food Company has widened to include pepper products sold under the "Lian How" and "Uncle Chen" labels as well as more than 50 sauces and oils produced at the Union City plant contaminated with salmonella.
In addition, the California Department of Public Health has warned consumers not to eat chicken and vegetable egg rolls from EDS Wrap and Roll Foods because they may have been prepared with pepper from the plant and have been voluntarily recalled. The egg rolls were sold primarily to restaurants and markets in California and Arizona under the EDS Wrap and Roll Foods and Tien Tien brands.
Pepper products from the Union International facility have been associated with an outbreak of salmonella that has sickened 57 people in four states, including 42 in California. No deaths have been reported. The illnesses among California residents have occurred in 17 counties in Central and Northern California and the latest onset of disease was April 6.
A complete list of recalled products is available by visiting the California Department of Public Health website at www.cdph.ca.gov.
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that more than 50 percent of the current asthma cases in the country can be attributed to allergies, with approximately 30 percent of those cases attributed to cat allergy.
It has long been debated whether people who develop asthma have a genetic propensity to develop allergies, or atopy, said Darryl C. Zeldin, M.D., a senior investigator at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). This new research shows that 56.3 percent of asthma cases are attributed to atopy. Atopy is a condition that results from gene-environment interactions and can be measured by a positive skin test to allergens (or allergy causing substances in the environment).
The study, available online today in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, was conducted by researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, both parts of the NIH. The data come from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III), a nationally representative sample of the population of the United States.
Sensitization to cat appears to be a strong risk factor for asthma in this study, said Zeldin. Zeldin and his co-authors, however, point out that some research shows that exposure to cats, particularly early in life, may be a protective factor. We are not advocating parents get rid of pets, but if you suspect that you or your child might have cat allergies or get asthmatic-like symptoms, you should consult with a physician about the best course of action for your family, added Zeldin.
The NIH researchers looked at skin test data for ten allergens. A positive skin test reaction to cat allergens accounted for 29.3 percent of the asthma cases, followed by the fungus Alternaria at 21.1 percent and white oak at 20.9 percent. Each of 10 allergen-specific skin tests was s
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Quick Garlicky Bruschetta with Tomatoes and Basil
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- 1 cup diced ripe tomatoes
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- 2 teaspoons olive oil
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In a small bowl, combine tomatoes, basil, olive oil, and garlic powder. Mix well to combine. Season, to taste, with salt and black pepper.
Spoon tomato mixture on toasted bread slices and serve.
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The battle system was kinda boring, since most of the moves took forever to work and it was way to flashy. There was way to many unneeded cuts during battle, it just gave me a headache, and also could confuse me if there was multiple enemies of the same type on the field, since they ran around the battle field at random. I would seriously set my moves, then turn the channel to watch the news and flip back to set the move again, that's how boring it was. The story wasn't that great either, it h...0 out of 0 found this review helpful.
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Routledge – 2008 – 376 pages
Routledge – 2008 – 376 pages
While the possibility of producing a de-colonized, postcolonial knowledge in development studies became a subject of considerable debate in the 1990s, there has been little dialogue between postcolonialism and development. However, the need for development studies that is postcolonial in theory and practice is now increasingly acknowledged. This means recognizing the significance of language and representation, the power of development discourse and its material effects on the lives of people subject to development policies. It also means acknowledging the already postcolonial world of development in which contemporary reworkings of theory and practice, such as grassroots and participatory development, indigenous knowledge and global resistance movements, inform postcolonial theory.
Postcolonialism and Development explains, reviews and critically evaluates recent debates about postcolonial approaches and their implications for development studies. By outlining contemporary theoretical debates and examining their implications for how the developing world is thought about, written about and engaged with in policy terms, this book unpacks the difficult, complex and important aspects of the relationship between postcolonial approaches and development studies, making them accessible, interesting and relevant to both students and researchers. Each chapter builds an understanding of postcolonial approaches, their historical divergences from development studies and more recent convergences around issues such as discourses of development, knowledge, and power and agency within development. Up-to-date illustrations and examples from across the regions of the world bring to life important theoretical and conceptual issues. This topical book outlines an agenda for theory and practice within postcolonial development studies and illustrates how, while postcolonialism and development pose significant mutual challenges, both are potentially enriched by each others insights and approaches.
1. Introduction 2. The Origins of Postcolonialism 3. Postcolonial Theory and Development 4. Discourses of Development and the Power of Representation 5. Development Knowledge and Power 6. Agency in Development 7. Towards a Postcolonial Development Agenda 8. Conclusions
Dr Cheryl McEwan is Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University. Her main research interests include the geographies of citizenship, democracy and transformation in South Africa, the lived experiences of postcoloniality in the global North and South and the role of postcolonial theory within social science research. She is a co-organiser of an ongoing ESRC seminar series on Postcolonial Economies, is currently Editor (Development Section) of Geography Compass, a new online journal, and a member of the Editorial Board of the RGS-IBG/Blackwell Book Series.
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Awards for male escorts? Isn't a credit-card swipe enough? Nope—these guys are entirely deserving of acclaim, especially if you've ever met some of the twisted trolls who hire them. (Kidding. It's all delightfully fun, I'm sure.)
And so, the night before the humptastic Black Party, rentboy.com staged its annual Hookie Awards at Roseland, making trophy boys out of contenders for Best Body, Best Ass, and Best Boyfriend Fantasy—and yes, those are three separate things. The place was filled with nominees, patrons, and gawkers, and though homophobic minister George Rekers's rent boy Jo-vanni Roman didn't show up as expected, everyone else did, all ready to lift your luggage with a smile and a twinkle.
Chickeny twinks and guys in pig masks mixed side by side with bearish Best Daddy nominees like Rusty McMann, who told me he segued into escorting at age 45. "I got tired of guys who couldn't take no for an answer," he explained, "so I put a price on it. Red hair is as much a fetish as piss!" To show me his worth, McMann flashed his privates, which were indeed framed by jungle-red pubes. You don't get these kinds of moments at the Pulitzers.
But it's not all fun and games for the escorts. When I announced the event on my blog last month, someone tweeted: "Just what we need. Another awards show highlighting gay4play molested hookers w/a 2 yr shelf life." That's typical of the grief sex workers have to deal with, but a much darker tale pervaded the evening: A 57-year-old man was recently found bound, gagged, and dead in his Chelsea apartment, cops initially believing he met the culprits on Rentboy. But that wasn't the case, as it turned out. "The Wall Street Journal later reported that the victim met the guys at the Blue Store," Rentboy's director Sean Van Sant told me. On with the celebration.
This was the sixth Hookies, which Van Sant said is "a way of recognizing escorts, who are underappreciated and stigmatized in the press, and bringing it out in the open." No kidding!
Their going rate is about $250–$300 an hour—I hear—numbers which amazingly enough haven't gone up in the past decade, either because of the economy or the glut of available escorts or both. A Hookie, Van Sant added, can actually up your price—and selectivity—sort of like an Oscar does for Jean Dujardin or Christopher Plummer. And there's just as much campaigning to get it.
But is this all legal? "We say the escorts are selling their time only," Van Sant informed. "What happens between you and the escort is up to you. That's the way it's considered legal." Whew! My friends will be so pleased.
Even if validated by the law, the Hookies were racy, fun, and tres bizarre. Van Sant knows that the escorts aren't always overly articulate. ("You can be great sexual therapists, but that's not necessarily going to translate onstage.") So to make up for the winners who can barely eke out a "thank you," he always books a funny host and makes sure "there's someone willing to show his dick onstage at all times to get gay people's attentions." (This time, it was Best Cock winner Jake Havoc, who unleashed his business and memorably told the crowd, "My baloney pony has a first name, and it's Uncut." He got their attention.)
The verbally uncut comic Alec Mapa was the host, cracking: "Every performer is a whore, even Meryl Streep. Look at Mamma Mia!" And my own bid for attention involved presenting Best Porn Star Escort to ex-naval officer Vito Gallo in between trading banter with the hookers throughout the night. I asked Best Live Performer nominee Gio what makes a bad client, and he replied, "Their attitude—sometimes they're too demanding or controlling." And not just when they're doing Nazi role-playing.
Best Fetish Escort winner Spencer Reed is the one who gives the 'tude, and people pay dearly for it. When I asked him what his limits are, Reed sensibly explained: "I'm a dom. It's not about my limits."
And Best Top nominee Rafael Alencar told me how he draws his own line. "I try to select on the cell phone," said the Brazilian hottie. "You have a feeling if it's gonna be a good or bad meeting. I say no five to 10 times for every yes. 'Hey, Rafael, can you do it raw?' 'Wrong number.' 'Hey, Rafael, wanna party?' 'Wrong number.' 'Hey, can you come right now?' 'Dude, I have a life.' 'Hey, I'm here with my girlfriend. . . .'" Wrong number? Well, maybe not. "I'm straight for play," Alencar added with a cute porn-star giggle.
And he has had way more than a two-year shelf life, though with disposable income still tighter than my butt these days, hard times for hustlers don't just refer to swollen membranes. "I used to have 50 calls a day," Alencar admitted. "Since the recession, I only have 20. But that's OK. I can only do a maximum of five anyway!"
Fortunately, he's still getting calls to do adult films, too. In fact, he just got bruised while shooting one, ending up with a stomach welt even redder than Rusty McMann's pubes. "I started doing more violent movies," explained Alencar, lifting his shirt. Yikes. "I'm very versatile" is becoming the credo of real-life strippers, not just the ones in Gypsy.
But it's still a living. What if all this glory (holing) ultimately ends for him? "I'm not afraid to get old," Alencar said. "I am a dentist, and I'll probably go back to that." More drilling. More oral. But not quite as satisfying for the baloney pony.
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