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As I sat down tonight to blog (oddly, not about what you're about to read, so you're welcome for the topic switch!), I forgot my password, as I do every single time I sit down to my computer for one reason or another. I am completely the reason I cannot have nice things, and it is part of my charm. Sitting at the keyboard, I racked my brain trying to remember what email address I even use for this thing, when I heard footsteps coming down the hall in my direction. Since I am the only one home right now who was not in her assigned bed, I knew it was one of my kiddos. And, to be honest, I wasn't surprised.
"Hey, you. Go to bed," I sighed – not looking over my shoulder because everyone knows if you make eye contact with the bed-wanderer, you have to have a conversation with that person that usually ends up with no fewer than 4 sips of water and a 2 snuggle minimum – wondering if I would ever figure out how to get back into this thing.
"Uhm, okay, nevermind…" Aaah, yes. My oldest. I knew it. Forgetting all about passwords and email addresses, I stood and moved to the couch and invited her to sit down with me. Tears threatened to spring forth from her eyes.
"What's wrong, Lovey?"
Sniffling, the tears came. "I'm so sad summer has to end. We had so much fun…"
Tomorrow is the first day of school for our district, and trust me when I say that my children are very much ready for school to be in session and the routine and craziness that ensues from that. It's obvious in their behavior and their actions that they need routine like fish need water, and the school year provides routine that summer does not, especially with me also not working a traditional full time schedule. So, they're all ready. Go to school, kids. It's time.
What shocked me was the fact that she said she had so much fun this summer. This summer was, thankfully in many ways, one of the most low-key, chill summers we've had. For the first time since 2015, I didn't require any surgeries this year (yet!! lord knows there is time). So, I suppose that's been a big bonus around here. But, fun? We didn't do much! We put vacation on hold because we're surprising them with a big trip in the spring, but we told them that we put it on hold while waiting for their dad's work schedule to change. This, of course, is not a lie, but it was all they knew as to why vacation had to wait. We didn't get to Kalahari like we had planned (but we will!) because I worked a ton this summer in my day job, and I ended up doing a lot of writing projects as well. As I rolled through the things we wanted to do and didn't do in my head when she said, "fun," I lost sight of what the summer did consist of…
We went to the drive in a couple times to see kids' movies that they loved. We stayed up too late and caught fireflies. We wanted to get "real TV" and subscribed to DirectTV, so the girls were able to rekindle their love of mindlessly watching television without typing anything into Netflix. We watched a lot of Cartoon Network and got reacquainted with our friends in Teen Titans Go!, along with other shows we'd lost touch with (and I have rekindled my love affair with HGTV). We did a few small road trips but not even all the ones we wanted to! We had a pool up for a while, and then one of the littles replaced the plug with a water bottle cap – which is not effective at plugging a pool – so that wasn't long lived. But, we also got a splash blob, which is my favorite thing ever. We grew a garden, and they learned about how plants go from seed to table, and they even got to help us harvest things (and still do, since it's still going!). We celebrated two birthdays! We created outdoor living spaces on our patio and brought the backyard to life. They played in that backyard every single day, some days ALL day, and we had lots of baths that turned the water brown with dirt and smells that only can be recreated in Ohio summers. We did lots of library days and read books and made Lego things and painted and all of that fun creative jazz. We had a lot of ice cream for dinner, and for other things as well, and ate out more meals in three months than we usually do in a year. We spent more money on little toys and gadgets they wanted than I ever care to admit. We said "yes" a lot more than we said "no," and I suppose, at the end of the day, that's what makes the memories that count when you're small.
It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows and unbridled happiness, however. We had lots of frustrating moments with raised voices and pounding countertops and slammed doors. Lots of tears over sisterly injustices and parents who "just don't understand." Lots of "PLEASE GOD GO TO SCHOOL SO YOU STOP KILLING EACH OTHER" and more than one occasion of one of us girls begging their dad to take us to work with him (usually me). We talked a lot about being grateful for what you have and taking care of those of us in this world who may not have as much as you do. We talked about a lot of big picture world and society issues. And, yes, lots of bedroom cleaning and chores and the things that no one ever wants to do. I tried very hard to get them to learn the importance of pulling their own weight, and how not everything is going to be fair because life is one big unfair bullshit ride a lot of the time, and what is more important is grace and being a team player and gratitude and all of that shit that you say and then you're like "Yes, I am nailing this parenting thing cuz look at their faces looking at me, nodding and getting this…"
Those moments – the ones that involved lessons learned and some yelling and maybe some tears – are what stand out to me as a parent. The discontent is what sticks out to me, and maybe that's because I am naturally predisposed to remember negative things and experiences and sort of file away the good for moments when the negative gets to be too much. But, as my blue-eyed, blond-haired, lookin' more like her momma every day child sat hugging her knees, laughing as I talked to her about how good things need to come to an end and that she wouldn't want the summer to last forever because it would lose its special magic, it hit me. Kids need time and energy and space to run and roam and to fight with each other and figure things out even when they drive their parents nuts with it all. What I saw as a summer of discontent with all of the things we "didn't do" was a summer of fun and freedom for the kids, and it was such a fun time that the thought of it ending brought my kiddo to tears…
What the fuck happens to us as adults that just kills our joy?
Now, that ^^ is just sad…
(but, I have spent enough time around both children and adults that I don't doubt it!)


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You may know Pratt from his other roles in well-known movies such as 'Zero Dark Thirty' and 'Moneyball' and from his reoccurring role on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation. The 35-year old Pratt said he is looking forward to the opportunity.
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Gold Star Pawn & Loan – A Pawn Shop in Scottsdale, AZ
If you are in a financial jam, our Scottsdale pawn shop might be able to help. The most common reason people visit pawn shops is the need for fast money. This could be because of an unexpected event or maybe you just need some extra cash for the weekend shindig. This is where we come in. We are able to offer short term cash loans or "pawn" loans in exchange for collateral. Simply put, you would use your item of value in exchange for cash with the option to buy back your item within a 90-day period. If you are unable to buy back your item in 90 days, but still wish to retain ownership of the item, you can pay the finance charge only and extend the loan an additional 90 days. If you do not make any payment, you then forfeit your item and we could then sell it. Your collateral will remain safe with us for the entire loan term. Nobody uses, plays with, wears, or otherwise tampers with your possessions while it's in storage. There is no limit as to how many loans you can have at one time and no cash limits on the amount of the loan. You also have the to option to sell your items outright. When selling, it allows us to pay a little bit more (typically 10% more) than we would if you took out a loan because we don't have to hold it for 90-days.
The forms of collateral you can use to take out a pawn loan varies, but we mostly deal in jewelry, high end watches, gold, diamonds, designer handbags and accessories, Apple products, smartphones, and cars for title loans (more on that below).
So why choose us? After all, there is a lot of options when deciding which pawn shop in Scottsdale to give your business to.
- Competitive pay outs – We want your business and we try to buy and loan for the highest amount possible. Give us a shot.
- Lower Interest – Many people overlook this. Most pawn shops loan money at the maximum interest rate they can legally charge (37% for 90 days). Not us. Our interest rate ranges anywhere from 15-30% for 90 days (depending on the amount and length of the loan).
- REAL customer service – We tell you like it is. We're honest. We're competent in our trade. You will be dealing with the owners who truly care about your business.
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If you own your car outright, an auto title loan might be a better option than a pawn loan. Usually your car allows you to get a large sum of money quickly and in most cases, you can get a cash loan and drive away in your car in 30 minutes or less. With our easy approval process, flexible terms, and lower interest rates, it couldn't be easier to get a title loan from us.We can also do title loans on motorcycles, boats, RVs, personal watercraft, and dirt bikes. If you are interested in getting a title loan, this is what you would need to bring in:
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Ronald Hubatschek, railway engineer and Senior Consultant Cleaning Technologies at Arva, on angular and round gravel, incredibly complex track remediation and the secret wishes of former railway board members.
Mr. Hubatschek, you have been virtually at home on the tracks for decades. What brought you to Arva?
Well, I did my degree as a civil engineer and went directly after my studies to the German railway. Twenty-five years later, as the manager of various maintenance departments, I was responsible for the route network in the Stuttgart metropolitan area. After that, I transferred to a mid-sized, family owned company, where I was responsible for the construction of track infrastructure. One of the most exciting projects was my time as route engineer in charge of the restoration of the historic Vinschger train in South Tyrol which, after its discontinuation at the beginning of the 90s, was completely modernized and put back on track in 2005.
Since 2013 I have been working as a self-employed railway operations manager and railway engineer consultant. A geologist friend who is very involved in soil and track remediation drew my attention to Arva AG. My experience in diversely contaminated infrastructures enables me to advise and support Arva's clients effectively and reliably in ways they need.
What are the challenges in the maintenance of railway routes?
Tracks live. They are exposed to very dynamic stresses and strains. From the railway system itself but also from environmental influences such as sediment and weather. As soon as the first train rolls over it, the track is virtually in a state of permanent maintenance. The railway ballast forms the stable fundament of the track grid—that is, the rails and railroad ties. It is of course very important that the track ballast carries the tracks securely.
Due to permanent stress, the gravel slowly becomes rounded. Dust or fine particles accumulate between the stones. It is then possible that the ballast layer no longer allows rainwater to drain well. The track superstructure—or rails, their joints, anticreeper, supports and ballast layer—are no longer stable enough to carry the trains. But do not fear: before that happens, the railway operators remediate the ballast layer, refill the ballast or completely replace it, if it is too worn out or fouled. Enormous maintenance vehicles are used for this, sometimes over one hundred meters long, which at the front thoroughly remove the track superstructure, and out the back comes an entirely new track superstructure with rails, railroad ties and ballast layer.
That sounds very costly and complex.
Exactly. The Deutsche Bahn alone replaces almost four million tons of ballast every year. What I just described mostly concerns the operational safety of the railway system. Just as important is the fouling of the track bed, as part and parcel of normal operation, which includes massive contamination due to friction as well as axle grease and diesel oil from the trains themselves, especially from the diesel locomotives still predominantly used in commercial transport. In addition, there is the automatic lubrication of the switches and above all herbicides and pesticides to prevent weeds and other plants in the track area. Here we are no longer dealing with round or angular ballast but with environmental protection and clean drinking water.
In other words, the ballast has to be removed from the track bed one way or another?
No, not necessarily. If we could in some way remediate it on site. The track ballast is controlled regularly and samples removed before civil works. This means that the gravel samples are sent to the laboratory, and one analyzes the condition and fouling of it. Depending on how worn out, fouled and thus environmentally dangerous the gravel is, appropriate variations of reconstruction are executed.
Often the track bed is still completely stable in its condition but highly fouled. That means removal and replacement: out with the old track ballast, in with the new, which requires tremendous logistics, is of course incredibly expensive and interferes with the remaining railway system. Tracks are temporarily closed, fresh gravel brought in, the fouled taken away. By the way, only a sixth of the four million tons mentioned is recycled gravel. The largest portion of what is removed lands on waste rock piles for confinement or, in a very complex and costly process, is quasi decontaminated in enormous ovens, broken down and re-used for such things as road construction.
How could one avoid this?
This is where we—Arva and the Arvox procedure—come into play. We can apply Arvox directly to the track. For example, we can use a spraying wagon to apply the chemical components to the gravel. And this in a concentration corresponding exactly to the analyzed fouling. In this way, we affect almost all of the hydrocarbons, that is, the precisely ascertained fouling. Our trials and analyses have shown that we can dissolve these contaminates almost entirely. Directly on the track, without environmentally harmful residues. I recently spoke with a former railway board member and introduced Arvox to him. He said, "If it really does works like that, then it is the miracle cure we have been waiting decades for."
And: Wouldn't you like to immediately grant this long-fostered wish?
That is exactly my greatest wish at this time [laughs]. We are currently working around the clock on the necessary permits and licenses for our procedure and are in close contact with the appropriate agencies, environmental authorities and of course the national and regional railway companies as well as industry partners who have, until now, remediated and landfilled in a conventional way. As soon as we have decontaminated the first trial route and proven that it is not a miracle cure but a patented, green procedure, there is nothing standing in the way of granting wishes. We are optimistic that we can take on the first contracts for test remediation before the year ends.


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Grooming – Michael Thomas // On Set Mgmt
Styling – Geovany Martinez // On Set Mgmt
Art Direction – Robert Milam
Lifeguard/Sherpa – Jordan Inge
Photographer- Trevor Paulhus// The Photo Division
Model – Adeshi // Wallflower Mgmt
Grooming – Michael Thomas // On Set Mgmt
Styling – Geovany Martinez // On Set Mgmt
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Prop Stylist: Carlos Alonso-Parada
Soft Styling: Martha Shultz
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Portraits Mindy Byrd
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Partnership With the Friendly Visitor Program
November 28, 2018
Senior Services of Alexandria's mission is fostering independence and self-sufficiency, enabling seniors with the city of Alexandria to age with dignity. As part of fulfilling their mission, the Friendly Visitor Program was created. This program is designed to enhance the quality of life of seniors by providing social interaction, mental stimulation, and emotional support. Hermitage Northern Virginia is proud to partner with Senior Services of Alexandria to offer the Friendly Visitor Program to residents. Trained volunteers are individually matched with seniors who has similar interests and life experiences. Over 300 matches have been made since the program began in 2012.
Leah Spellman (right) is one of 60 volunteers currently visiting older adults in Alexandria once a week through the program. She has been visiting resident Rose Hall (left) since last spring and they have already become good friends. Rose says "everyone has fallen in love with Leah". So when she comes each week, three or four other residents join in to form a fun social group.
Rose worked as the editor of The Daughters of the American Revolution magazine for 40 years and enjoys the many activities offered at Hermitage Northern Virginia such as poetry group and exercise/yoga classes. Leah works in communications and public relations for Visit Alexandria, which promotes tourism by highlighting Alexandria's rich history and culture.
Hermitage Northern Virginia is grateful for the partnership with the Friendly Visitors Program and for volunteers like Leah.
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From beloved cult auteur Henry Jaglom (Going Shopping, Festival in Cannes, Last Summer in the Hamptons), recognized by the Los Angeles Times as "the definitive independent, one of America's most important filmmakers," comes a sophisticated modern comedy about women, love, neuroses and the food that binds them all…Henry Jaglom's EATING!
At a fashionable house party in Southern California, a parade of women mingle in joint celebration of their friends' milestone birthdays: Kate has just turned 30, Helene is 40, and Sadie will soon be 50. When Helene's houseguest Martine–a sexy French filmmaker–turns her camera on the partygoers to capture live human behavior, discussions turn from light and airy to heartfelt and personal. Playfully musing on their body image hang-ups, eating disorders, relationships, and a conformist society obsessed with beauty, even the group's untouched slices of cake provide insight into the love-hate relationship between femmes and food. As one guest confesses: "I'm still looking for a man who can excite me as much as a baked potato."
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Jimmy Archer was the regular catcher for the Chicago Cubs from 1911 through 1916, earning a spot on Baseball Magazine's "All-America Team" each year from 1912 to 1914. Renowned for popularizing the snap throw from a squatting position, Archer enjoyed a reputation for having the best throwing arm of any catcher in the Deadball Era. "The best throwing catcher of them all was Jimmy Archer of the Cubs," said Chief Meyers of the New York Giants, the only receiver aside from Archer to catch over 100 games each season from 1911 to 1913. "He didn't have an arm. He had a rifle. And perfect accuracy." Al Bridwell, the ex-Giant shortstop who played with Archer on the 1913 Cubs, agreed. "Best arm of any catcher I ever saw," said the man who received many of Archer's snap throws. "He'd zip it down there to second like a flash. Perfect accuracy, and under a six-foot bar all the way down."
James Peter Archer was born in Dublin, Ireland, on May 13, 1883. His family moved to Montreal when he was an infant, and by the time he was three the Archers had settled in Toronto. Jimmy played baseball at St. Michael's College and in the Toronto City League. During the winter of 1902, the 19-year-old Archer was working as a barrel maker at a cooperage in Toronto when he fell into a vat of boiling oak sap, scalding his right arm and leg so badly that he was hospitalized for three months. Jimmy was in so much pain during his hospitalization that he begged for his arm to be amputated. As a result of the accident, the tendon in his right arm shrunk and made his right arm shorter than his left. Jimmy was left with a unique strength; he always claimed that the accident was what gave him his unique ability to throw quickly and accurately from a squatting position.
Archer's career in professional baseball began when a friend, Tom Reynolds, invited him to join the team from Fargo, North Dakota, that he was managing in 1903. Under no contract and making little money, Jimmy batted .225 in 20 games before jumping to an independent team in Manitoba that offered more money. The following year he played in the Iowa State League with Boone, where he met his future wife, Lillian Stark. His season was briefly interrupted when he broke his collarbone by crashing into a hitching post while chasing a pop fly, but he returned in time to hit .299 in 72 games. Near the end of 1904 Archer received a September trial with the Pittsburgh Pirates. Making his major-league debut on Labor Day, he appeared in seven games, all of them second games of doubleheaders, and managed three singles in 20 at-bats.
The Pirates optioned Archer to Atlanta of the Southern Association in 1905, where he cracked his kneecap when Bugs Raymond crossed him up with a curve after he had signaled for a fastball (they sewed it back together with two silver threads). He spent two seasons with the Crackers, hitting .254 and .224, and in 1907 he received a second chance at the majors with Detroit. Serving as third-string catcher behind Boss Schmidt and Freddie Payne, Archer batted a paltry .119 and caught only 17 games during the regular season, but he got the start in Game Five of that year's World Series because the Cub base runners were having a field day at the expense of the other two Tiger catchers. The Cubs stole three bases off of Jimmy, but two came on a "walking" double steal in which no throw was made. Though hitless in his three at-bats against Mordecai Brown, who pitched a shutout, Archer did manage to cut down Jimmy Slagle, Chicago's leader in stolen bases with six during the Series, at second base in the seventh inning.
In 1908 Detroit manager Hughie Jennings tried to teach Archer to take a step towards the base when he throws, the way most catchers do, but Jimmy preferred his natural "flat-footed" method. Concluding that the young catcher was uncoachable-and also not much of a hitter-Jennings decided to release him, though he later admitted that it was the only player-release decision he ever regretted. Clark Griffith, then managing the New York Highlanders, said that he never would have permitted Archer to leave the American League if he hadn't been at his ranch in Montana when Detroit requested waivers. "If I had that fellow I'd work him every day just to watch him peg," said Griffith. "There is not another man in his class when it comes to shooting the ball. He is faster than chained lightning, and he never has to take a step to get the ball to any of the bases. Kling isn't in it when it comes to keeping the runners glued to the bags."
Alas, Griffith was in Montana and Archer did clear waivers, so Jennings sent him to Buffalo where he batted just .208 in 82 games in 1908. One of those games occurred on an off-day for the Chicago Cubs as they were traveling east, and manager Frank Chance stopped off in Buffalo to scout George McConnell, a spitball pitcher who was tearing up the Eastern League. Around the fourth inning a friend who was with the Peerless Leader asked, "Well, what do you think of the pitcher?" "Pitcher!" exclaimed Chance. "It's the catcher I've been watching." Months later the Cubs manager learned that Archer had risen from a sickbed that day because the other Buffalo backstops had refused to catch McConnell's spitter. When star catcher Johnny Kling elected to hold out, Chance remembered the gritty Buffalo backstop and purchased him to share the catching duties with Pat Moran.
Archer caught 80 games in 1909 and improved his batting average to .231, but Kling returned in 1910 and reclaimed the starting position. Archer caught 49 games that season and spelled Frank Chance at first base in another 40, raising his batting average to .259 and showing some power (30% of his hits were for extra bases). In the 1910 World Series, Kling started at catcher for the first three games, with Archer seeing action at first base in Game Three after Chance was ejected. Archer started at catcher for the final two games, as Kling was criticized for calling too many fastballs with men on base. Jimmy played well in Game Four, the only Cubs victory, scoring the winning run after doubling in the 10th inning, but in the decisive Game Five he allowed four stolen bases and the A's won easily.
Archer supplanted Kling as the first-string catcher in 1911, prompting the Cubs to trade the popular Kling to Boston in June. Jimmy remained the primary Cubs backstop through 1916, putting together his best season in 1912 when he batted a career-high .283 and led the National League in assists. He remained the NL's premier catcher through 1914, when he broke his arm crashing into a concrete wall in Brooklyn and was arrested in October for assaulting a fan he thought was annoying his wife (charges were dropped a week later). He shared the catching duties with player-manager Roger Bresnahan in 1915 and three other catchers in 1916. In 1917 the Cubs released the 34-year-old Archer when he refused to take a pay cut. He was the last remaining player from the Frank Chance era.
Jimmy agreed to help out the Pirates during spring training in 1918, but he quickly earned first-string status and started on Opening Day. Pittsburgh released him after he hit only .155 in 24 games. Brooklyn picked up Archer for nine games and then sold him to Cincinnati, where he closed out his career by appearing in nine more games. After suffering 14 broken fingers, Jimmy felt that his hands could no longer take the punishment.
After his baseball career, Archer returned to the Chicago area and worked for Armour and Company, buying hogs. In 1931 he received a medal for reviving two workers who had fallen unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning. An outstanding bowler, Jimmy served as the promotional director for the Congress of Professional Bowling Alleys. He also was the commissioner of the Chicago softball league and remained active in the Old-Timer's Baseball Association. Archer died from a coronary occlusion on March 29, 1958, in a Milwaukee hospital where he was being treated for tuberculosis of the spine. He is interred in his wife's hometown of Boone, Iowa, where he played in 1904. In 1990 Jimmy Archer was elected to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
NOTE: An earlier version of this biography appeared in Tom Simon, ed., Deadball Stars of the National League (Washington, D. C.: Brassey's Inc., 2004).
Ethan Allen. Major League Technique and Tactics. MacMillan, 1938.
Lawrence Ritter. Glory of Their Times. MacMillan, 1966.
New York World, 10/15/1914, 10/23/1914, 1/10/1917, 2/22/1917, 5/31/1917, 7/11/1917.
New York Evening Telegram, 5/29/1909, 7/15/1913.
New York Herald, 9/17/1912.
Baseball Magazine, Dec. 1912, Feb.1913, Dec.1913, Oct. 1917
Baseball Digest, Feb.1944
Letter to J.C. Simoni from Mrs. Walter Stark
1930 U.S. Census
Wisconsin State Board of Health Death Certificate
New York Times, 3/31/1958
Jimmy Archer file at the Baseball Hall of Fame library
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Video directors are often highly praised on their work for what they shoot, cut and edit. Think back to the Oscars. I bet most of you can remember at least one director nominated (Steven Spielberg – Now you can). What about the script writers? Aren't they the unsung heroes of a movie? (They are according to the credits in Deadpool). Think about it. None of your favorite films would exist without their talented script writers.
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First things First. You should start off by writing a brief. This doesn't necessarily have to be anything fancy. In fact, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication for most writers. When writing your brief make sure to focus on a couple of decisive questions that should help guide your video marketing campaigns script.
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Keeping your viewers in mind is vital for getting it right. Every awesome marketing video out there has been created with the audience in mind. It's an absolute must. They make the viewers feel as if they are directly spoken to rather than as a collective group. To have a successful marketing video, you need to understand your audience and write your script accordingly. Would you use the same language and gestures for people across different cultures? Should your audience influence the formality of your script? Here's how to customize your video to your audience's characteristics and drive engagement.
What better way to address your audience as individuals than to talk to them in a clear, conversational manner? When it comes to writing your marketing script, ensure that the viewer has enough to believe that you are authentic and genuine, which may not always be evident through a video.
3) Make your script detailed and write every word
One of the most common mistakes amongst video marketers is creating a script that only contains dialogue. It should be thorough enough to pass it on to someone else to shoot. Write down all the characters, scenes, stage actions, directions and all the paramount information to make your script accurate and comprehensive.
We are fully for making your writing process easier, but you may want to stay away from bullet points. Now we know bullet points are easy to use and make it simpler to read what you have written, but they can do more harm than good. Bullet points and other summarized shortcuts rely on you to act on the spot and improvise when it comes to recording your video animations, which in theory will result in re-dos.
Our advice, write down every single word.
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Did you know that 20% of your viewers will close your video after 10 seconds or less? The shorter your video is, the better. The first few moments of your video have to be compelling. It has to hook your audience to the point they finish your video. To make sure your video script is brief, start by writing out your full script and gradually shortening it until you are left with a brief and powerful script.
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Your marketing video should ALWAYS end with a clear and concise call to action. What particular action do you want your viewers to take after watching your online video? Do you want them to visit your website, purchase a promoted product, or socially share your online video? Let your viewers know what action they should take and invite them to do so.
6) Do a table read (read your script out loud)
Once you are happy with your script, right before you start recording your video, perform a table read. By reading it out loud, you can sharpen it and make sure it flows. How you write and how you speak can sometimes be two completely different things. After all, your online video should in some way, shape or form connect with your audience, practicing your approach will only benefit your marketing campaign.
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Well, the error description explains it quite well. You need to change the upload_max_filesize in your php.ini . This depends on the hosting you are on.
localhost/ MAMP – find the variable in MAMP directory/conf/{phpversion}/php.ini, then give it a value to something like 20M, then restart the apache server
Media Temple – http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/137/How+can+I+edit+the+php.ini+file%3F
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When I use the WordPress uploader, and click Insert Into Post, the image path does not get outputted, but instead a link containing attachement_id
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Notes On What I'm Doing
Hi, readers. How are you? I hope you've been enjoying life.
I just want to update you on what I've been enjoying and some of my plans.
First, Health Is Social has turned out to be a pleasure – it's created a new niche to discuss the intersection of technology and health.
I'm having a great time with the project – and it was through it that I got my first chapter published in a book. That book was my friend Bob Fine's The Best of Social.
If you subscribe to HealthIsSocial Newsletter, you"ll get a nice flow of good stuffs and find out what more about what's going on over there.
Second, I'll continue to serve on the Advisory Board for Mayo Clinic Center for Social Media. It's an exciting opportunity which I hope will tug healthcare farther into the 21st Century.
Third, I'm looking to build small groups of passionate people who want to really get into the vibe of things in the 21st Century. More on that as developments proceed.
Fourth, I have a confession. Well, not so much a confession, but an opening-up.
I never felt like I belonged in the 20th Century. I was never good at following rules; there was never much sense that the little guy and lady could truly voice themselves; and I felt like my career was doomed to be a series of paid enslavements – in spite of the successes I enjoyed as a younger man.
Things feel differently now. There's definitely something in the air.
I'm not sure it's all good – but I do think we have been gifted with a dangerous opportunity.
Technology is now deeply embedded in us. There nothing we can do about that now.
Social Media isn't social. People are (hopefully). Let's not think otherwise.
But these media can be glorious opportunities to enrich the way we live.
Anyhoo, that's what I'm up to these days.
Thank you for being a part of my life.
Your readership has changed my life forever.
Love and well wishes,
Health Is Social And Other Adventures
Just a few updates on what I've been up to for regular readers.
After spending a few years discussing how healthcare and other related industries aught to approach emerging media – and having met some wonderful people on the way – I decided to carve out some web real estate to focus on the social aspects of healthcare and the health aspects of social.
I wanted to design a place where I could bring together the talents and interests of others who are playing some part in making healthcare better. I also wanted a place where I could continue to offer my views not only on healthcare's adoption of social media but also how the industry can go way beyond the tools and design more social business processes to deliver better care, foster better collaboration and forge new ways of researching.
I totally know what I'm about to say sounds (and is) cocky but I'll say it anyway: Now that the healthcare industry is catching up to what me and a few others we talking about years ago, I now get to talk about things ahead of time once again. A lot of the active discussions about healthcare and emerging media right now are where they were for a lot of other industries back in 2008 (and that's OK). There I said it. I'm Phil from the Future – what else can I say? 😉
Anyway, the tagline for this blog a long time ago was "Health Is Social". So I decided to take that line and create HealthIsSocial.com. Simple as that.
The site has garnered positive early response. In fact, on August 26, 2010 (1:00pm-3:00pm EDT), I'll host a Webinar Healthcare Social Media: Perspectives in Practice. Go check it out – if you like what you see, spread the news. My friend Bob Fine – who ran a series of conferences on Twitter and Government 2.0 – will be helping me out with these Webinars.
I'll continue to post here as well. The content may expand to other interests but I'll always have my eyes and ears on what's going on in healthcare.
I've always been a lover of ideas – no matter how big or small. Ideas power the world.
But ideas also need execution. Accordingly, I've been investing efforts to build out those ideas and the networks needed to get them rolling.
In the meantime, I'll continue to share my ideas here – small, medium and ginormous.
You can follow HealthIsSocial on Twitter right here.
Cheers, my friends – and thank you for listening!
Strategic Questions for Proficient Business Blogging
There's all sorts of advice on why and how to blog. Everything about blogging has already been blogged about. And yet, many businesses haven't even scratched the surface to understand what blogging is actually about and what roles it may play in their overall strategy and presence – on and offline.
But all businesses have different going concerns and goals and strategies. Every media, communications and marketing strategy is different from the other.
While helping out a friend, I offered a bunch of questions for her to answer, figuring that the exercise of questioning may be more insightful and valuable than straight tips. I'm publishing an upgraded version of those questions here because there's a ton of "expert" advice out there which you can find simply by Googling keywords related to blogging and business. The fact is, however, your business needs to do a deep self-assessment of its goals, culture, resources, tactics and strategies before just following a pre-fabricated set of instructions.
NOTE: when I use the word "blogging" I don't just mean the publishing of content on a website. No, for me blogging is about proficiency in communications, ecosystem awareness, audience building and dialogue: from traditional to emerging media. Blogging involves a new set of skills which business should acquire and hone, to be overlayed on top of their bread-and-butter marketing and communication expertise. Blogging is a constant learning process. It's also a way to reveal strengths and weaknesses inherent in organizations, their cultures and their processes – and thus the importance of questioning within the larger context of strategy.
With that in mind, here are the questions.
- What's the purpose? Biz development? Customer availability? A place to house your industrial expertise and knowledge? A place to create a community where ideas and questions can be explored openly? What value do you expect to provide or extract?
- Who is your audience(s)? Are you thinking that your only audience would be end-consumers? Or might they be industry influencers or vendors or the public? Will you be able to track the social footprint of your audience – who they are, where else on the Web they interact?
- What kinds of content are you delivering? Is it informational? Editorial? Inspirational? Industrially insightful? Action-calling? How might the kind(s) of content and information you publish influence your audience? Are you willing to let your audience help determine your content?
- What kinds of media will you provide on the blog? Text? Video? Audio? Slidedecks? Different media have different properties. Have you thought about the properties of traditional media and how they differ from emerging media? How much of your traditional marketing expertise evolved around the properties of print, radio and TV? Given that new media possess different properties, how might your marketing strategies need to adapt?
- Do you know what kinds of assets a blog can build? Leads? A small but relevant community of influencers? Street cred? Search engine ranking? Which do you need?
- How will you distribute your content? Have you developed other web real estate – outposts on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Slideshare? Which ones make the most sense to invest in? Can you build a visual map of your entire Web presence and how different Web and traditional presences relate to the bigger picture?
- If you successfully build your community, do you know how to leverage it? Will you be satisfied to just have visitors? Or will you engage with your community – not only on your blog but elsewhere? Will you continually monitor your efforts and make the best of the connections you make? Will you develop a system to reach your community beyond your blog – either via email or other media?
- Do you think blogging is just putting content on a website – or do you believe it is a spectrum of media skills? What's your conception of blogging? Might there be more to blogging than what you think you know? What skills may you need to develop or build upon?
- Do you have a plan on how to distribute your blog content to traditional media (where else is your audience)? What are your overall communications and marketing strategies? How might emerging media not only play a part, but how might their proliferation impact your established strategies?
- How committed will you be? Is this going to be a chore "to be done" or will you intelligently integrate it into your business routine? Do you understand the skills and resources needed to become proficient? When thinking about resources, are you considering time and talent and networks?
- Do you have the stamina to sustain your efforts in the long-term? Investing in new media is about sustaining long-term capital. Given your resources, will you create the kind of working environment for your employees to enjoy the art of creating content, conversing across different networks and advancing the company's objectives?
- Do you know how to make it easy (and enticing) for your audience to comment? Will you thank and comment back? Is sharing via email & other sources easy?
- Are you willing to fail? More importantly: how do you define failure? This is important to know because if you define failure appropriately, then you're more likely to know what to do when you encounter it: in fact, you may see it as a huge opportunity.
There they are. Take your time answering these questions because they aren't just about blogging: they're about your understanding of how media and your business intertwine.
I listed 13 – which some believe is an unlucky number. So if you're superstitious, you'll have to come up with at least one more.
What questions do you think you need to ask yourself?
17 Best Posts in 2009- A Year of Social Media and Health Care
2009 was an important year for getting healthcare more up-to-date with web technologies. We have a long way to go: healthcare marketers have begun the process of sorting out the meanings of internet media. 2009 was also a year of extreme noise and echo-chambering. But that's OK: that happens all the time with novel technologies, especially when there's little understanding of them nor clarity about their purposes and uses and limits.
On this blog, I've always aimed to express my perspective on these technologies (which I believe is rather unique – and it's this uniqueness which I hope provide you with something of value). Prior to 2009, it was a bit of a lonely place to discuss how health care could best adopt 21st Century technologies. But 2009 brought a first flood of attention. I believe Twitter may deserve credit: many hospital and other health care organizations never understood the Web much, and blogging must have seemed like a purely terrifying experience. But Twitter offered the uninitiated with a simple interface and connection.
As the year moved on, I decided to launch a Twitter chat for registered nurses – and the public in general. The hashtag is #RNchat and you can follow @RNchat on Twitter and subscribe to the blog which posts transcripts of the chats. Since most of the Twitter chats on Twitter are about how to talk about how to talk about talking about Twitter and other social media, I figured at least one of them should be about something that's actually real. I'm kidding of course. No, I'm not.
At any rate, I've collected some of my best posts for the year. All of these posts are related to health care – although #3 only very indirectly (I had to include it because it serves as a release from all the social media hype I've been hearing for years). Scan the list and pick a few to read and share. Here are the 17 posts:
- 140 Health Care Uses for Twitter – I wrote this post because I wanted to start an open conversation about the opportunities we have with technologies and the cultural and regulatory limits stemming them. Years earlier, I had tired of paper medical records and bizarre bureaucratic rituals which slowed the pace and effectiveness of patient care. The idea of using micro-sharing communications as a way to "cut to the chase" in patient care had been working in my mind for some time. This post is the result.
- Pharma, Presence Marketing and You – Not having a marketing background – and yet fully understanding the importance of marketing in health care – I'm fascinated at the stumbling blocks beset before pharmaceutical and medical device companies: both from regulatory agencies and the companies' own prejudices about what marketing means.
- Twitter & LSD – 25 Similarities – OK – is this a health care related post? Well, I consider humor a part of health care. And I do touch on the addictive qualities of Twitter in this post. I plan a series of posts in 2010 on Internet Addiction. So, go ahead – read this. And definitely tweet it out!
- The Social Capital Algorithm – A simple visual way to break down the utility of social media into simple concepts.
- Social Capital: An Accounting View of New Media – I started my career in accounting. As such, I don't have much tolerance for vague references. And yet we use them all the time. This is just another way to look at the differences between financial capital and social capital.
- 1,001 Remarkable Pharma People to Follow on Twitter – A tease of a title. But I explain why you don't need 1,001 people to follow to get value out of Twitter. Since this post was written, the FDA had a Public Hearing and you can follow the Twitter hashtag #FDAsm for the latest.
- 66 Ominous Predictions About Twitter in Healthcare – This was my attempt at bringing some sanity (albeit humorously) into the social media echo-chamber. Those of us who are truly passionate about these technologies must challenge them. (Some of the Pharma predictions are interesting in light of the Public Hearing later on in the year.)
- Healthcare on Google Wave – Google Wave was one of those hyped Google products. I think it's a powerful set of technologies, even though I don't use it much myself (the API needs to be developed upon before it becomes truly usable). This is an embed of a Healthcare wave, demonstrating real-time embedding of content from Wave to blog.
- A Clinical Infusion of Google Wave -A hypothetical use case for Google Wave in the clinical setting.
- Healthcare's Google-Facebook-Twitter Platform – Questioning the possibility of a gigantic healthcare social platform.
- Zen and the Art of the Tweet – Again, the theme of the health care effects of social technologies on our lives.
- An Interview with #hcsm Founder @danamlewis
- An Interview with @EndreJofoldi of HealthMash
- How to Make Health Care Remarkable – The @ePatientDave Interview
- Pharma & Social Media: Best Strategic Learning Investment for 2010 – Discussion of an eBook compiled by Ellen Hoenig about what things Pharma should focus on learning in 2010.
- Privacy Matters: Dirty Little Secrets Are Essential to Your Health – My attempt at resurrecting privacy from the social media rumors of its death.
- Can We Ever End Social Media Nonsense? – My concerns and hopes for the future of the so-called Social Web.
I'm anticipating 2010 to be a fast-paced year with many developments technologically, politically, economically and culturally. I'm hoping that the healthcare community not only continues to learn these technologies but also starts to think reasonably and productively about how to become better organizations.
Social Media won't make a bad organization good, nor a good organization great. No, people do that. People with brains and creativity and chutzpah. People who have the courage to do what's never been done before. Are you one of them? Or are you a cog in a machine that's doomed to shut-down long before you retire? Either way, it's never too late to change your part of the world.
I love you, my dear readers. Enjoy 2010!
How I Blog
I've been re-thinking blogging lately and have realized how central blogs are to the online economy. I've been playing around with novel ways to integrate real-time social technologies (actually, they're near-time, not real-time) because I think that's the direction they're headed. It's my sense that there's confusion out there about the direction of online presence and blogging is increasingly being ignored.
Anyway, here's a video on what I do with blogging – the tools and methods I use. Your approach is different from mine and everyone else's. I'm always learning, so share your approaches with me and my followers.
Twitter or Blogging? Are You a Sprinter or Marathoner?
The blog is dead. SEO is dead. Social Media has changed everything. No, blogging and SEO aren't dead: they just have new life. Social Media hasn't killed blogging: it's opened up a whole array of possibilities. Twitter may be easy and there are many recent entrants onto Twitter who argue that Twitter is a great entrance into social media, especially for "noobies". There are of course other arguments against that. There's no right or wrong answer but let's take a quick look at sprinting versus marathoning.
No doubt: Twitter has taken off. It's a great networking, discovery and sharing medium. I can go on about the shine of Twitter, but since so much has been written about those, I'll refer you to Google.
I've been a fanboy of Twitter since the early days. But I've noticed lately that – for some – Twitter has become a seduction: unlike blogging which takes time, effort, patience and endurance, Twitter offers a rapid way to connect with others and share your message in a conversational manner. It's very easy to embed Twitter into your life and your business – and in some cases I believe it can create the illusion that having an online presence is as simple as having a pushbutton.
Here's the thing. Twitter is like sprinting: you can swiftly connect with others, with hundreds or thousands. But sooner or later, you'll run out of breath sprinting all day.
Another way to think of Twitter is to think of it as a stream coursing through a large landscape. Do you spend most of your time in the stream without exploring and tending to the rest of the landscape? What happens if the river runs dry? (Twitter's architecture is one of the worst in Silicon Valley – what would you do if Twitter lost your data, went "poof"? – It may be unlikely, but it's something to think about: do you have a backup for your social graph, especially when online networks are in the Cloud?)
Twitter's an important tool. But knowing how to use a hammer doesn't make you a carpenter. And a home is what you need to build, a place you can invite guests.
Twitter's seduction is this: you can connect to thousands of people and have a valuable level of ambient intimacy with them. But how deep are the relationships? Will you be able to sustain the endurance needed for meaningful relationships by relying on Twitter?
In the recent months & years since Twitter landed, many bloggers have expressed a concern about Twitter's effect on their blogging habits. Some have even given up on their blogs entirely. Others,on the other hand, say that Twitter has enhanced their blogging. The reason those bloggers successfully integrated their tweeting with blogging is because they're passionate about blogging: in other words, they're marathoners. They understand that relationship building involves considerable effort.
Many companies – especially in Healthcare and Pharma have shied away from blogging: for years they have avoided blogging. Now Twitter came along and many organizations are finally "getting" Twitter and building their tribes (although most still just blast out self-adulating links without even a single acknowledgment of their followers – bad form indeed). So now we may have many companies who have never blogged investing their social media efforts in Twitter and other networking services – Facebook being the largest. Good on them for trying.
(Sidenote: If you're in health care, I recommend following @LeeAase who's doing a great job teaching about Twitter; if you're in Pharma, I recommend following @Shwen for breadth of knowledge and @Pharmaguy for content, fire-starting and humor (and he's a solid blogger).)
But if you're leading your social media presence activities and haven't blogged (or aren't blogging) you may be forgoing important characteristics of long-term engagement with your stakeholders: discipline and perseverance.
Blogging takes time. It requires passion about your message and the community who listens – and a place you can invite your tibe to speak their mind so that you can earnestly listen to them. It forces you to steadfastly focus on the most important things. And because Content is still King, blogging produces the content that houses your primary message (I use message instead of brand: because every business has a story to tell – and you can tell your story on your blog).
If you're new to social media and have started tweeting, congratulations. Welcome to the 21st Century. But take a step back and look at the larger scene of your story. Have you developed that discipline necessary to be remarkable across your entire social spectrum? Do you know how to handle trolls and insults and ambushes? Do you know how to connect with other bloggers who may be telling their version of your story?
You will have to decide where to begin. It's easy to start Twitter and you'll gain value from it if you follow the right people and plunge into the experience. Just don't drown.
Just because you start with Twitter, don't think it will be easy to blog thereafter. Maybe you'll take to it like a duck to water. But if statistics are any worth, you may find yourself hopelessly addicted to Twitter at the expense of keeping up with your house chores.
If you want to re-consider blogging and get your start here are two recommended leaders in the field: Darren Rowse's Problogger and Brian Clark's Copyblogger.
Blogging has more challenging costs up-front than Twitter – not financially, but spiritually. Learning to speak in 140 characters is an important skill in our ever-changing world. But telling a story and having a place you can call home: priceless.
PS: If you think Twitter's the new shiny toy, just see what happens to Facebook once the FriendFeed team brings their real-time engineering along. There's a war going on among Google, Facebook, Twitter (and even Microsoft) and you're in the middle of it. Nobody knows what Silicon Valley will look like in five years. Invest in your social spaces mindfully.