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Newhart, WWE and The Passion of the Fan
Posted by Sean Flynn | Jun 25, 2015 | Columns, Featured
If you're a regular Voices of Wrestling reader you may be confused why I'm appearing with a column that isn't talking about WWE Monday Night RAW. I promise this is still somewhat connected. Just let me explain myself for a moment.
In order to get through that weekly trudge I've done a lot of things to keep myself, and occasionally the reader, entertained. Sometimes it's Tori Amos videos for every segment. Sometimes detailed rankings of the best cuts of meat at a churrascaria. One week it was talking about how I had decided to watch the entire run of the TV show Newhart. After a few weeks of that I started seeing parallels between Newhart and the show I was actually supposed to be reviewing. As the seasons of Newhart spun on I kept finding myself tying things back to WWE. And while RAW may never end, Newhart eventually did. So with that, I say goodbye to one of my favorite recurring features of the WWE Monday Night RAW review:
The Last Newhart Update
The run is over. Eight seasons, 184 episodes, and a whole lot of silence from Darryl AND Darryl later, the quest to re-watch a show remembered mostly just for its finale and two mute supporting characters has ended. And along the way it turned out that there were a lot of things about this show that were germane to the other thing being talked about in this review.
One guiding premise of this whole plan was to watch with the perspective of someone watching for the very first time. Obviously I was aware of the legendary final minutes of the show, revealing the entire thing to have been a dream in the mind of Bob Newhart's previous character Dr. Bob Hartley, waking up in his familiar bed from The Bob Newhart Show next to Suzanne Pleshette as his on-screen mate Emily Hartley. But I did my best to never let that impact the way I viewed each episode. But it does bring up a question for me that requires unpacking.
First, thoughts on the first 183.9 episodes. As the season drew to a close the characters were seemingly outright hostile towards each other most of the time. The stories that did occur were maddeningly broad and cartoonish. A baby owns a TV station and its parents make hiring/firing decision based on how the baby coos. A local TV show gets nationally famous guests to appear but the producer would rather have a local magician instead since "that's what grabs ratings." By the time the last episode started I hated watching this show. Yes, there were always moments that could make me laugh. Everyone still had their innate sense of comic timing and sometimes individual jokes were able to hit, even if they made no sense in the overall view of the show. I just wanted a conclusion, no matter how disjointed it was. Some closure, a bit of epilogue perhaps, and I could move on from Vermont. The show was stumbling to a finish, and I hoped it wouldn't fall down and need to be shot before it reached the wire.
The final episode was so ridiculous a premise that it seemed like the writers had decided to just create the strangest ending to a middle of the road TV show that they could possibly dream up. A young Japanese man who had spent a week in town revealed that he was in fact super wealthy businessman who had decided to buy every house in town for the purpose of leveling them and creating an enormous ski resort. Overlooking both the casual xenophobia inherent in the early 90's fear of rich capricious Japanese magnates who could buy and sell small town America on a whim and the staggering amount of money that would be needed to buy the whole town (even assuming just 100 homes it would still be $100,000,000 to buy the land) it was entertaining to see all these proud townies agree en masse to pack up and ship on out.
Except, of course, for Dick and Joanna Louden. After years of bemoaning having to live with all of the wackjobs and judgmental jerks in town, suddenly he has a fit of pride that compels him to try to rally the town to stay. When he is left hanging (rightfully so) he chooses obstinacy and pique, staying in his home while the bulldozers move in all around him.
Then, a flash forward. Five years have passed. Dick and Joanna still run the Stratford, however everything including their clothing is Japanese. Joanna dresses like a geisha. Dick is referred to as Dick-San. Their staff are all Japanese, and everyone around is reminiscent of their former counterparts. After some more grating to watch Japanese stereotyping, all of the townfolk reappear. They are all well-off and more insane than ever. Everything is fluff and forgettable with the exception of Darryl and Darryl speaking their only word in the series (yelling "Quiet" at their new wives, including a young Lisa Kudrow). At the last, with only minutes left in the final episode of the series, surrounded by thumping golf balls and unruly former neighbors Dick finally cracks. He is screaming at everyone in the inn about how they're all nuts and going to the door to leave. As Dick opens his front door one of those golf balls that had been banging off the inn hits him square in the noggin and he becomes woozy, slowly crumpling to the ground with his eyes closing and the world growing dark.
And then Daniel Bryan beats HHH, Batista, and Randy Orton on the same night at WrestleMania to become the WWE World Heavyweight champion.
Complaining about the storytelling in your favorite show or medium is one of the main things the internet was invented for. As WWE watchers, it is second nature to most of us to assume that the monkeys chained up in the writing room are just never able to get past the blurst of times when they're plotting things out. Throw in a 70 year old man who is obstinately out of touch with the world around him having the final say on everything, and it's a wonder that there is ever anything on the show that isn't bad enough to make viewers set their TV on fire just to be sure they do not get infected by the show. But yet sometimes things work out perfectly for this group of seemingly bumbling idiots. But are they as bumbling as they seem?
In retrospect, the final season of Newhart had a sort of dream logic, as things grew more ridiculous with each episode. But the complaints I was voicing about the show's progression were going on for years. Am I to believe it was a master plan that the show's writers/producers were planning from the beginning?
I have no doubt in my heart or mind that Daniel Bryan was going to be facing Sheamus at WrestleMania 30 as of January 1, 2014. I have no doubt that was caught totally off-guard by the impact of the CM Punk pipe bomb. And I have no doubt that the Roman Reigns backlash confused the hell out of everyone involved in creating these programs. In each of these cases WWE was presented with an unexpected circumstance and their reactions ran the gamut from awful to amazing.
It seems like forever since CM Punk sat down criss-cross applesauce on the ramp and had a lot to say about the state of things in WWE. And then a few weeks later he won the title from John Cena in front of possibly the most rabid crowd in company history.
For a moment WWE had a chance to seemingly hit the launch button on a new era for the company, and create their next megastar. Instead within two months Kevin Nash was exhumed to be a part of the story, HHH was beating Punk, and Alberto Del Rio was champion because WWE was worried about Mexican tour gate receipts. The lack of flexibility or willingness to deviate from previously formed plans was the beginning of the end for CM Punk in WWE, and in many ways the end for Alberto Del Rio, as he never truly recovered from being the third wheel in the Punk/Cena angle.
In 2014, Batista returning was going to be the main focus of the Road to WrestleMania. He was coming back to get his hands on his former Evolution teammates and take the title from Randy Orton. Daniel Bryan had been given his time at the top of the card and was a nice story to get through summer and into fall, but it was time for the big people to take over leading up to the biggest night of the year for WWE. Then Royal Rumble 2014 happened. Daniel Bryan lost to Bray Wyatt. He did not enter the Royal Rumble. Batista entered late and seemed gassed from walking to the ring. Roman Reigns had his first taste of being a crowd favorite, and Rey Mysterio suffered for WWE's sins as the 30th entrant. WWE did not seem dissuaded by Batista's negative response, and a WM card of Batista/Orton, Cena/Wyatt, Taker/Lesnar, Punk/HHH, and Bryan/Sheamus had been the rumored plan for months. Nothing on TV was in any way moving in a different direction. And then CM Punk had a bad day. A really bad day apparently, as he said to hell with this wrestling garbage, and disappeared from the face of the earth, never to be seen again. Episodes of RAW were kind of but not really hijacked due to this.
The biggest impact, however, was on HHH. His WrestleMania match had been unceremoniously canceled because Punk decided getting punched in the face on a daily basis was better than working a program with Hunter. Unlike the last time WWE had to deal with a bump in the road, this impacted the heir to the WWE throne. Hunter was going to have his WrestleMania classic match damn it. And with Punk gone, they needed another indie darling to step in and fill his shoes. So Daniel Bryan was plugged in, and the card again seemed ready to be written in pen, only with Bryan/HHH replacing Punk/HHH and Sheamus getting bumped down the card. Giving Bryan a showcase match of that caliber should quiet the nerds down and let WWE get back to focusing on Batista's big comeback.
Maybe it was CM Punk leaving. His absence turning the crowds angry and rebellious against the company. But the fans weren't buying any of this shit. They hated Batista, they hated Orton, they hated HHH, they hated Stephanie McMahon, they hated anyone who was not CM Punk or Daniel Bryan. And since CM Punk was not there, the only person they loved was Bryan. That love was shown in segment after segment, regardless of whether Bryan was onscreen or not. The irritation was beginning to show on Batista's face when he would emerge to a chorus of boos. And at last it all seemed to become too much. Bryan was not only given a match with HHH, but a shot at the title should he win. And Yestlemania happened and there was joy throughout the land. Sure it likely was fueled by HHH wanting to look like a bigger man and show Punk how petty he thought Punk was being, but it did happen. However, do we think it was a master plan? Was this long-range thinking at its best, all designed to culminate in one of the great WrestleMania Moments?
Being surprised by the crowd two years in a row leading up to WrestleMania seemed like the sort of thing you wouldn't expect such seasoned industry vets to have to deal with. But along came Roman Reigns. This is recent enough history that I think we all remember it. The Rock got booed for raising Roman's hand. Brock Lesnar was the de facto face at WrestleMania. And until about 9:45 Central time on WrestleMania night it appeared like WWE had gone the 2011 route and stuck to its guns until the bitter end. Roman Reigns kicked out of a ridiculous four F-5s by Lesnar. He was the first inhabitant of Suplex City. The crowd had reluctantly gotten into the match, even if they still wanted Lesnar to come out on top. Brock Lesnar. The man who beat Undertaker at WrestleMania the year before. He was the favorite. Then Seth Rollins appeared to a gigantic pop. The coronation of Roman Reigns was put on hold. Seth Rollins was the new champ, and we were back in the comfortable spot of having a champion backed up by an endlessly scheming company boss. But why? Why that night? It ended up pleasing the crowd and the worldwide audience, but since when has that been a daily concern of Vince McMahon and company?
Depending on who one chooses to believe, the idea of having the entire run of Newhart revealed as a dream came to Ginnie Newhart midway through season six, or to the show's creators near the end of the run. As possibly one of the two most recent viewers in the whole world of the entire show's run I can safely tell you that signs of character degradation and lazy writing were seeping in long before anyone decide to pull a (not Bo) Dallas on the entire show. But at some point looking back is there a time when a constant viewer would notice a switch being thrown, where a trend of bad writing became a plan to write lunacy of the sort only dreams could produce? In retrospect, the answer is "kind of sort of yes no maybe so?"
Things on the show did reach a point where credulity was being stretched to the breakingest of points. The final season especially was full of illogical situations and people behaving like caricatures of themselves. It is plausible now in retrospect. But at the time, watching episode by episode, it just seemed like awful writing from a group of people who just wanted to get their jobs done and move on to the next things in their lives.
WWE does not have the luxury of moving on to the next thing. There is only this thing, eternally in progress. While calling the writers lazy is a staple of complaining about wrestling while on the internet, they don't really ever have the luxury of just coasting to the end. Next Monday or next PPV is ever looming on the horizon. So it seems we must assume that the company is always purposive in its decision making, for good or ill. There are no times where it is just a case of no one paying attention and no one being concerned since everyone will be gone soon. As long as Vince McMahon lives there is someone paying attention. In his own way of course.
So how to account for when and why course corrections occur for WWE? What does that mean going forward the next time a white-hot angle presents itself when WWE wasn't expecting it?
It seems that CM Punk's final legacy in the company, even more than opening the door for indie talent to come in mostly as they were previously, may be that someone seems to have realized that sometimes things have to change course, even if it means acknowledging failure. That never happened when Punk was around. The Summer of Punk died so that Del Rio and Nash and Cena and HHH could live. The epic title reign came to an anticlimactic ending to set up Cena vs. Rock at WrestleMania. Being without the belt meant that they couldn't run the 500 day champ vs. Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania. The career of CM Punk is one of missed opportunities because WWE made plans that could not be broken.
Daniel Bryan and Seth Rollins, two other former ROH champions, were the beneficiaries of the lessons learned. It took extraordinary events in the case of Bryan, and in the case of Reigns it almost seemed like the company was purposefully trying to sabotage his march to the top. At times WWE seemed to be reveling in the frustration of the fans, and to be honest I have no doubt they were. The legitimate anger at the crowd for not taking to Batista on his return struck me as obvious during the early part of the WrestleMania build. To be spurned privately by one of your biggest stars deciding to walk away and publicly by a fanbase that was violently rejecting your plans for the biggest show of the year gave an edge to everything being said by HHH and Steph at that time. It became worked into the story of course, because everything gets transformed from reality to pseudo-reality in pro wrestling. That's just the way of things.
But they did make the change, just like Michael Jackson hoped we all would. Maybe that's a sign of progress. Perhaps proof that the reins of power are being gently eased out of Vince McMahon's hands. Might just be that Vince is preoccupied with making sure he's getting the right supplements daily so he can live to be 200. But as fans we have to keep sight of the fact that we are part of the show. That doesn't mean be jackasses trying to get yourself over at the expense of everyone else. What it does mean though is that as the reactive audience it is our obligation to let the producers know what we desire. I read opinions that say the crowd's job is to go with the flow of the show and perform the role of Greek Chorus, serving to amplify the desired effect of the story. No. A hundred times no. Pro wrestling is a unique thing. Not only can we cause change with our wallets, but we can do so with our voices. If you're going to watch WWE, watch it actively. If you go to a show, yell for the things you love.
I had no idea where this was going to end up, either when I started randomly watching Newhart or when I started rambling about it in these reviews. It turns out it ended where I am. In Chicago. Where CM Punk is still alive and kicking. Where a statue of Bob Newhart sits proudly near the lakefront by Navy Pier, Chicago's most visited tourist attraction. Their influence is still being felt. Craig Ferguson is recreating the Newhart ending for his finale over two decades later. Not only are Kevin Steen and El Generico and Tyler Black and PAC and Bryan Danielson and Prince Devitt and Rebecca Knox and Sara Del Rey are all employed by WWE, but some of them have ridden groundswells of crowd support to the top of the company, despite perhaps never being previously thought of as deserving of such prestige and responsibility. Wrestling is awesome. Bob Newhart is awesome. Fans being fans is awesome. Let's keep being awesome. There are good days ahead for us.
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You may be perfectly content to study and practice the dharma on your own, without a Buddhist teacher or community. But the time may come when you feel that isn't enough, and you decide you want to seek one out. If that happens, how do you go about finding a teacher (and by extension, a community) that's right for you?
It's important to know that the wisdom you're seeking is already within you. It guides your spiritual search, and is the reason you are already on the path. So to some extent you can rely on your own instincts and intuition to help you.
With that in mind, I recommend approaching your search as a five-step process: watch, ask, feel, try it on, and commit.
Watch what the teacher does and says, and how he or she treats people. Kindness, friendliness, humility, a sense of humor, as well as a forthright and honest manner are qualities of spiritual maturity recognized by every Buddhist tradition. They are the precepts in action. Some say you should watch a teacher for three years before accepting him or her. I'm not sure that is realistic or necessary, but whether it is three weeks or three years, take your time.
Ask questions, and don't be shy. See how the teacher responds. Don't be rude, but don't hold back either. Questions that feel dumb are often the best questions. When I was with my root teacher, I wanted to look good to him and so I tended not to ask questions that exposed my ignorance. I regret that. A good teacher will not be offended or defensive about such questions.
Also, when asking questions, ask everyone. The teacher's close students know him or her best. Find out what they know or are willing to share. In assessing their responses, use your "wisdom stomach." If there are any secrets about the teacher or the community that you need to know, these students are your best sources.
How do you feel? After watching and asking, take stock of your own gut feeling. Is your feeling about the teacher pleasant, unpleasant, or neutral? That feeling is a clue. There is a principle in Buddhism—in Zen we call it innen—which can be translated as "affinity" or "coincidence." It refers to the causes and conditions of human relationship that have brought you and the teacher together. For a teacher–student relationship to work, there needs to be this sense of affinity. You should feel a positive regard for the teacher. If not, this teacher may not right for you.
Try it on. After watching, asking, and feeling, it may be a time to "try it on." A good teacher or community will offer some level of provisional commitment—a chance to accept the teacher more deeply without throwing yourself off a cliff. Depending on the tradition, this might involve a ceremony, a private interview, or acceptance into a retreat or more intensive level of practice.
Be cautious about a teacher or community that requires a life-changing, irrevocable commitment up front. Quitting your job, being ordained as a monk or nun, giving away money or property, becoming a full-time resident—these might conceivably be in your future, or not. But wherever your spiritual path leads you, these decisions are yours, not someone else's.
Time to commit. The Buddhist path eventually requires commitment as well as trust. In your developing relationship with a teacher, there may come a time when both of you are ready for a commitment. If this time has come, don't hold back. Perhaps it will be good; perhaps it will turn out to be a mistake. In the end, you need to put one foot in front of the other, and see where the path leads you. All seekers of the Way have done this.
In dharma, as in life, there are no guarantees. Things that count involve risk. As they say in sports, "No guts, no glory." Good luck!


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art, beauty, japan, life, literatureMarch 7, 2007
The selfish, selfless Yukio Mishima
I've been going through something of a Yukio Mishima phase again recently. I did once before, many years ago, until a cursory read of his biography saw me dismiss him as deeply flawed, and in his fascination with violence, perhaps more ugly than beautiful. But I am having second thoughts. I don't think I will ever condone his suicide—it bespeaks to me ultimately of selfishness, and short-sightedness, and for one so enamoured of the virtues of duty, strength, sacrifice and courage—the forgotten"bushido" code of the Samurai—even of weakness. He was a man who cared passionately for his country, and his pronouncement that she would gain little satisfaction through her headlong rush for material prosperity has been more than vindicated, yet it seems common sense to say that he would have been better placed to make his point living rather than dead. His word alone was newsworthy, and as one once connected to the wife of the Emperor and personal friend of the Prime Minister, he moved in circles that suggested a career in politics was there for the taking should he have wished. So his death can only be seen as a waste; his desire to live his life as a poem and die by the code of bushido ultimately a vain, selfish act that more served himself than the greater good. Still though, I find much to admire in his written and lived ideals, and it should be emphasised in Mishima's case that they were always lived—his death the ultimate example of that. He prided himself on turning ideas into action, a form of self-abnegation in which he sought to erase, in his view, the effeminate, ineffective intellectual of his youth, by becoming a man of strength and action. And I can't help but secretly admire, half in horror half in awe, his final, mis-guided act, and the un-imaginable courage—or insanity —it must have taken to do such a thing. Almost completely un-heard of now, seppukku was near common-place in pre-modern Japan; Mishima's however was the first recorded of the post-war era. In the short excerpt that follows, some will see simply an idealisation of self-destruction, and in the tale of a pre-war army officer, a glorifying of the militarism that so led Japan astray. But that would only be a shallow reading of the story, very much incomplete. Yes, Patriotism is a celebration of death, but not in a negative, destructive sense. Rather it celebrates the death of an army officer and his wife as the ultimate form of sacrifice—his death for belief and country; her death for him—the wife takes her husband's beliefs as her own. Patriotism asks the question "what if?"—what if the sacrifice of 1936 Niniroku Jiken uprising, of which this real life army officer was a part, hadn't been in vain, if this last stand against the faction in favour of western style militarism and imperialism—forces incidentally which the "rightist" Mishima saw as negative, "un-Japanese" imports—had been successful. With the restoration of the spirit of bushido to the army, and its spirit of sacrifice and honour, of true service to the greater good, the destructive war with America might have been averted—a war which very near totally destroyed Japan outwardly, and, in Mishima's view, in the occupation that followed, with its enforced constitution, robbed her inwardly of half her essence—the sword no longer beside the chrysanthemum. Mishima saw Japan as having lost her spiritual values, and in her excessive materialism, dying slowly from a "tediousness" and "insipidness" of the soul. Sadly, although largely proved correct, he left the earthly stage prematurely, and with surely much still to contribute. It is perhaps worth saying that his criticism of Japan is hardly unique to Japan; the whole world would do well to heed this warning near forty years old against materialism unchecked.
japan, life, writingMarch 6, 2007
Memoirs of a Gaijin
I've been enjoying reading several blogs from Japan recently, written by foreigners living there, or"gaijin" as they are known to the Japanese. I'm sure there are countless Japanese bloggers out there who write in English, and one day I'll hunt them down as well, but as one who was actually in Japan only six months ago I am for the moment enjoying the like-minded, non-Japanese perspective of these fellow gaijin. Like myself, each of these bloggers each went to Japan for their love of the country, and write about the lives they are leading there with a mixture of fascination and endearment, rather than empty curiosity or worse. I have also just added a few of my own stories about Japan here now that we are on the topic. Considering that I only spent a single week in Japan my stories may in truth be somewhat light in actual content, yet the very fact that I wrote thousands of words speaks something of the experience...
Airport anxiety: a somewhat surreal, caffiene fueled adventure in Narita Airport
My Japanese brother: an interview with a Zen Buddhist monk at Kenchoji Temple, Kamakura
German lessons: filming a podcast in Kamakura
Recommended blogs on Japan School Yanki Given the choice between a BMW convertible or a $15,000 shopping spree anywhere in the world, this graduating American high school student chose neither; instead requesting her parents allow her to spend her last semester in Japan:
"I think that took them off-guard. Mom really regrets dropping that mint julep glass. The set is worthless now that one of the glasses is broken."
Pandora has only just started her blog, and is writing almost in real-time about her adventures in a Japanese school. This blog will only get better, especially now that the rumour is out that she is"Yanki" (a notorious type of anti-social punk). Firefly in Japan Firefly (not his real name) came to Japan from Australia five years ago with no Japanese, little money and no friends or contacts, to study martial arts for a month. After one week of living in Tokyo he decided to stay:
"I felt like Japan was testing me. Seeing if I had what it takes. One guy at martial arts often talked about the"martial arts god", who looks after people who come to Japan with the serious intent to learn martial arts."If you just commit yourself to martial arts, things will happen," he told me, as we sat on a train speeding through the Japanese countryside."
Firefly's blog has proved to be enormously popular in a short space of time. An only cursory sampling of his writing might leave you with the impression that he is a typically"ignorant" gaijin, but you would be mistaken—enthusiastically and sincerely written, his posts are filled with valuable insights into Japanese life and culture, and his roadside encounter with a yakuza is one of many classics. ChadTheEvilXpat At the time of writing the evil Chad's blog has vanished, perhaps under the strain of the traffic that comes making the front-page of Reddit, but hopefully he will soon return, as his "Helpful advice of how to mess with Japanese people" was a blogging classic:
"When you're about to cross a 1-lane road with no other cars for 500 meters in either direction and there is still a mob of people waiting for the crossing light, proceed across without breaking stride. Bonus points if there are mothers holding their children back for whom you can provide a bad example, and further bonus points if anyone follows you who was previously standing there."
Chad probably is a typical gaijin, yet his candour and irreverence are refreshing. Terry Dobson's story Not a blog, but a great story about a 70 year old using Aikido to"disarm" an aggressive drunk on a Tokyo train. Hint: Aikido translates as"the way of harmonious spirit."
"C'mere," the old man said in an easy vernacular, beckoning to the drunk. "C'mere and talk with me." He waved his hand lightly. The big man followed, as if on a string. He planted his feet belligerently in front of the old gentleman, and roared above the clacking wheels, "Why the hell should I talk to you?" The drunk now had his back to me. If his elbow moved so much as a millimeter, I'd drop him in his socks.
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How the Cast of "Home Alone" Looks After 30 Years
Kevin was left home alone for the first time in December 1993, which was 29 years ago, but 30 just sounds better, don't you agree? After all these decades the actors must have changed quite a lot, so let's see how the cast of Home Alone looks today.
1. Joe Pesci
Joe Pesci, who played Harry, is 79 years old today. He rarely appears in movies, but in 2019 Joe played one of the main roles in Martin Scorsese's crime drama The Irishman, portraying the mobster Russell Buffalino.
2. Daniel Stern
Comedian Daniel Stern, who played Marv, celebrated his 65th birthday this year. After the film's success, Stern started splitting his time between acting and being a politician. And in 2016, he became a California state senator.
3. Catherine O'Hara
The fans will forever remember Catherine O'Hara as Kate McCallister, Kevin's mother. Today, the 68-year-old actress continues to act, with her latest project being the Netflix series "A Series of Unfortunate Events."
4. Angela Goethals
Angela Goethals, who played Kevin's sister Linnie, is 45 years old today. After Home Alone, the actress appeared mostly in episodic roles.
5. Devin Ratray
Devin Rattray played Kevin's older brother Buzz in the film. In recent years, the 43-year-old actor has appeared in such films and series as "The Tick," "Law and Order," "RIPD," and "Marvel's Agent Carter."
6. Gerry Bamman
81-year-old Gerry Bamman is known to the fans for the role of Uncle Frank McCallister. After the release of Home Alone, he also mostly played episodic roles.
7. Hillary Wolf
1993, she won the World Junior Judo Championship two years later and represented the USA in the 1996 and 2000 Olympics.
8. Michael Maroney
Michael Maroney, 45, played Jeff McCallister, but after Home Alone, he decided he needed a break from all that fame and fortune, so he starred in commercials and had some cameo roles in the 90s and early 2000s. Soon after, Maroney started working as… an electrician.
9. John Heard
Actor John Heard, who played Kevin McCallister's father, died in 2017 of a heart attack. He has done a lot of television work and can be seen in "The Sopranos," "CSI: Miami," "Jack and Bobby," "Battlestar Galactica," "Sharknado," "Big," and many other shows and movies.
10. Roberts Blossom
Roberts Blossom, who played a lonely and misunderstood yet still creepy neighbor, is no longer alive. The actor passed away in 2011 at the age of 87. If you want to see Blossom in his prime, check out his 70s and 80s movies.
11. Kieran Culkin
40-year-old Kieran Culkin is Macaulay's younger brother. Home Alone was actually his film debut. In case you forgot, he played Fuller McCallister – the kid who wets the bed. Kieran's acting career has turned out great. Among his most famous projects are the series "Long Live the Royals" and "Fargo," and movies like "Quitters," "Scott Pilgrim vs. Everyone," and "Movie 43". In addition, he is a two-time nominee for the Golden Globe Award.
12. Macaulay Culkin
At the time of filming Home Alone, Macaulay Culkin was nine years old and was considered one of the most iconic child actors in Hollywood. Today he is 42, and after going through some really rough years, he's still full of life.
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Morand says a 7.2-kWh eTechnology pack has been tested to charge to 80 percent in just over a minute
An electric car that can charge in as little time as it takes to pump a gas vehicle has long been the dream of existing and would-be EV drivers. But what if it could charge even more quickly? The average gas fill-up takes two minutes, according to the American Petroleum Institute, with other estimates coming in higher. A new electric energy storage technology being developed by Swiss tech startup Morand could offer electric city car charging times in slightly more than half that two-minute time. A cross between traditional batteries and ultracapacitors, the company's eTechnology units offer potential game-changing charging rates, coupled with the possibility of much longer lifespans than lithium-ion batteries.
Morand is the namesake of former F1 driver and team manager Benoît Morand, who was integral in developing the Hope Racing Oreco 01 Hybrid, the first hybrid prototype to start at the 24 Hours of Le Mans over a decade ago. Along with a small team of other former F1 engineers and managers, Morand has set out to apply hybrid and electric technologies derived from the upper echelons of motorsport to more practical everyday solutions.
Morand has been hard at work developing what it calls eTechnology, describing it as an energy storage solution that combines characteristics of an ultracapacitor with those of a chemical battery. In part of its test and evaluation program, the company says a 7.2-kWh eTechnology prototype was able to recharge to 80 percent in just 72 seconds, 98 percent in 120 seconds, and 100 percent in 2.5 minutes at up to 900 A/360 kW. It says independent testing was performed by Geo Technology.
Of course, 7.2 kWh is a far cry from the 100-kWh+ battery packs that feature in some of the market's longest-range electric vehicles. Morand has focused on smaller-capacity applications, such as drones and ebikes, explaining that eTechnology is best-suited to applications requiring fast, semi-frequent charges of five minutes or less. The example automobile with 7.2-kWh battery would be a small city car like the Citroën Ami and its 5.5-kWh battery pack.
As far as ebikes go, Morand estimates that a bike with a 6-Ah battery could charge in six minutes at a lower rate of 3.2 kW. That would be a game changer for ebikes, which typically take hours to recharge. With a ~six-minute charging time, a rider could plug in and get back all or most of the bike's range on a short break, without the need to buy and carry a spare battery. That could make ebikes a more viable option for replacing cars on longer-distance daily commutes and errands.
Among the other advantages Morand cites for eTechnology are efficient operation in extreme temperatures and the potential for a far greater number of charge/discharge cycles. It claims that it has safely tested the units to more than 50,000 cycles, tens of times more than traditional battery packs.
Morand says it is working with a manufacturing partner on low-volume production and planning to ramp up production to make eTechnology more cost competitive with lithium-ion batteries. It's also looking for investors to supply it with capital for scaling production.
Source: Morand
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EVUK November 21, 2022 05:37 PM
Has everyone forgotten the promised Maxwell-Tesla hybrid ultracapacitor game-changer? For whatever real reasons all supercap-related EV promises and plans always disappear into the EV abyss. Anyone remember the Zenn/Eestor story that began circa 15 years ago? Here's part of it from 2013:
https://longtailpipe.com/2013/12/24/zenn-buys-large-chunk-of-eestor-as-old/
Chase November 21, 2022 10:45 PM
Every hope that tech like this could one day make it into an EV hinges on a necessity for every charging station that can charge them at-pace needing to have a local battery pack several times larger than the largest battery pack they will charge. Trying to charge these batteries directly off the grid is a sure fire recipe for causing electrical transformers to have a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.
Shaikh Foysal November 22, 2022 02:27 AM
Someday these 72 seconds will be long for humans. Thank
jerryd November 22, 2022 09:40 AM
SC and chemical batteries are not doable and anytime you hear that, it is a scam.
They don't say anything about the size, weight as SC weigh 30x more than li-ion. I'd bet they are high C rate lithium of some type with several that will do that assuming you have the cooling.
And where are you going to find a 3.5MW SC to charge a 77kwh pack?
Present cells can easily do 10 minute 75% charge to 90% is all we need and 12 minute charging will be common in 2 yrs .
Username November 22, 2022 09:53 AM
A car with a 1000 mile range would not need the ability to fast charge. The obsession with comparing EV usage to ICE usage is holding back progress.
Karmudjun November 22, 2022 10:23 AM
How can one imagine the electrical infrastructure necessary to provide a 7.2 kWh in 5 minutes? Much less in 2 minutes?
I am all for Carbon neutral - even carbon negative - but our economy is not going to manage these technologies at scale without massive amounts of infrastructure innovation and investment. Conservatives see that as wasting their tax dollars, our grandchildren will see the lack of investment in innovative technologies as squandering THEIR opportunities. Meanwhile the USA still supports big oil with subsidies. So - when will the infrastructure innovations appear? When will military vehicles move from fossil fueled to renewable systems with military reliable infrastructure? That is when it will all start happening for the World!
TpPa November 25, 2022 02:15 AM
No stating of mileage - range. Charge in one minute, but you have to stop every five minutes to re-charge, or do they have as good or better range.
Cobrarog November 30, 2022 04:15 AM
Why are we still reading about dreams of dangerous, explosive, Lithium batteries when Solid State, fast charging, long-range batteries are on the cusp of the near future?


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Ballinlough: Matthew Brady, Emmet Smith, Shane Smith, Gary Reilly, Mark McCullen, Micheal Geraghty, Niall Farrelly (0-2f), Tommy McCullen, Jonathan O' Reilly, Kevin Mallon (0-2, 1f), Paul Monaghan (0-2), Sean Geraghty, David Lynch (0-1) Subs: James Baugh and Jack Tunney


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There would be "uproar" if Callum Hudson-Odoi left Chelsea, according to Gary Neville, who says the club need to play the youngster more regularly if they want to keep him.
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New Enterprise Associates has closed a deal to sell $1.3 billion of interests in about 20 portfolio companies to a new fund managed by a new venture capital firm headed by two former NEA executives, multiple sources with knowledge of the transaction have said.
The transaction has been funded by secondary investors at a price of about 90% of net asset value. NEA is expected to retain an investment in the new vehicle. Ravi Viswanathan, one of the new firm's leaders and a former NEA general partner, last week filed a regulatory document for a fund to raise $1.35 billion.
The new fund includes a mix of current NEA limited partners as well as other investors. The secondary deal will allow NEA to make a cash distribution to limited partners in its older funds, sources said.
"We believe the NEA… portfolio sale will become a blueprint for other GPs seeking to liquidate multiple older funds simultaneously and provide large cash distributions to LPs," Laurence G. Allen, managing member and CEO of NYPPEX said in an email. NYPPEX was not involved with the NEA deal.


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The Uniform Security Agent License (Series 63) is a 75-minute test that authorizes you to conduct securities transactions within U.S states. Each state has its own test. The test is shorter and examines less material than the Series 7 still requires determination to pass.
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Museum of Old and New Art
The fever dream of a wildly eccentric professional gambler
by James Fox-Smith
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"Snake" by Australian artist Sidney Nolan, is the centerpiece of the Museum of Old and New Art, in Hobart, Tasmania.
My brother lives in Tasmania, the island state south of the Australian mainland, which juts into the Southern Ocean and is the last dry land between there and Antarctica. Remote, rugged and sparsely populated, Tasmania is mostly visited for its gorgeous coastlines and forested ranges, with a barbaric history as the maximum security wing of Britain's Antipodean prison colony thrown in. But for most of the world, Tassie still counts largely as undiscovered territory. Indeed, Australians from other parts of the country still tend to conjure out-of-date stereotypes involving sheep farming, rapacious logging, inbreeding and stifling conservatism. This is a pity, because the island's breathtaking scenery, cool climate, and pristine waters mean that anyone whose idea of a good time involves trundling around beautiful countryside stuffing himself with oysters, artisan cheese, and sauvignon blanc is missing a very good time indeed. Exhibiting all the usual stereotypes, three generations of my family made a trip to Tasmania for a family reunion this past September. There we found all the oysters, cheese, and good wine we had been primed to expect. What we didn't expect, though, was a transformative visual art experience. I'm not sure I can describe it, but here goes nothing.
North of Hobart, perched on a peninsula rising out of the Derwent River, stands the most astonishing art museum in the world. The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) is a two hundred million dollar private art museum—the fever dream of a wildly eccentric professional gambler named David Walsh. Described by Walsh as a "subversive adult Disneyland" and in a 2013 New Yorker profile as "a museum dedicated to sex and death," MONA is a fortress-like edifice that towers over the river, which you approach on a bizarre, camouflaged ferry. Once you arrive, you can bounce on a massive adult-sized trampoline and smirk at your distorted reflection in the mirrored exterior of the entrance hall before descending via glass elevator four stories into a dimly lit labyrinth of caverns carved hundreds of feet into the sandstone below. This is where the real fun begins. Within its vast chambers, glowing in crepuscular semi-darkness, are arrayed almost two thousand challenging, disturbing, viscerally moving pieces of art that explore our collective fascination with—and fear of—sex and oblivion. Within collections with names like "Futility," "Annoys Our Female Curators," and "Stuff David Bought When He Was Drunk," pieces range from deconstructed Egyptian sarcophagi, to violent action movie scenes crocheted out of glittering videotape, to a statue depicting the remains of a suicide bomber crafted out of chocolate, to a car-sized sculpture of a human head inset with portholes through which you can peer to observe the whirling, strobe-lit internal workings of the human subconscious. There is also a really good bar.
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Pieces are alternately disorienting, shocking, funny, and sublimely beautiful. If it sounds appalling I'm not articulating how liberating it felt to freely, frankly, and with curiosity scrutinize topics that are generally considered taboo. Whatever I had expected from Tasmania, it did not include standing with my septuagenarian mother in front of 151 porcelain sculptures of female genitalia and having a really interesting discussion about society's treatment of female sexuality. In that surreal context, it's possible that for the first time in our lives, we were actually treating one other not as mother and son but as equals.
Once you arrive, you can bounce on a massive adult-sized trampoline and smirk at your distorted reflection in the mirrored exterior of the entrance hall before descending via glass elevator four stories into a dimly lit labyrinth of caverns carved hundreds of feet into the sandstone below.
This is what art is supposed to do. The work at MONA is not universally beautiful or in "good" taste. It's irreverent, macabre, profane, and frequently disturbing. But despite this, maybe because of this, it holds real power to challenge our assumptions and maybe make us talk to our parents and our kids differently. Oh, and in the five years since it opened, the MONA has become the most popular tourist attraction in Tasmania, singlehandedly transformed the Tasmanian tourist economy and placing the city on the international art map. Tasmanians once looked askance at their mad genius millionaire gambler, but it turns out they didn't know how lucky they were.
In 2017, plans are afoot to establish a bold new visual arts event in Baton Rouge, with the goal of presenting art installations in ways the city has never seen before. Could such an event move us to talk differently about hard subjects like sex, death, racism? The MONA experiment proves it's possible. For the sake of the community, the economy, and progress in general, let's hope it doesn't pull its punches. Stay tuned.
Travel Museums & Galleries Visual Arts reflections November 2016


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Odell Beckham Jr. always seems to find his way into the headlines, even when he's not doing anything at all. That happened earlier today.
In a Q&A with readers, The Athletic's NFL insider Jay Glazer made a "bold prediction" that the New York Giants would trade Beckham this offseason. There were rumors of a potential Beckham trade last offseason too, but the Giants elected to not only hold onto the electrifying wide receiver but give him a massive contract extension.
Glazer is plugged in throughout the league, though its unclear what he's basing this prediction on. Whatever it is, it makes for juicy discussion this time of the year.
Except for Beckham, who seemed to indicate he will be keeping his mouth shut on the matter in a tweet this afternoon.
The Giants have gone 8-24 the last two seasons, with Beckham missing time in both years due to injuries. Still, he remains one of the most dangerous and entertaining players in the sport when he is on the field and has the ball in his hands.
The Giants will presumably roll with 38-year-old Eli Manning another year as starting quarterback, before turning over the reins to his successor in 2020. It would make sense for them to want Beckham in the fold at that point.
Beckham remains a Giant, and he's not saying much about anything, for now.


Nassau County Police shut down the westbound lanes of Lido Blvd. after a Long Beach Middle School student was struck by an SUV.
Abdul Bird, the 14-year-old Long Beach Middle School student who was hit by an SUV while skateboarding on Lido Boulevard at Greenway Road on June 19, continues to show signs of improvement, according to his wrestling coach, Miguel Rodriguez.
After a visit from his wrestling coach last week, Bird was said to be moving his arms and legs, but was still unconscious.
"He opened his eyes for me and nodded his head when I asked him questions," Rodriguez said.
Police said the incident occurred at 7:55 a.m. on June 19, when a 2011 Mercedes Benz travelling west on Lido Boulevard struck the eighth-grader, who was skateboarding east. According to 4th Squad detectives, Bird was taken to Long Beach Medical Center and then airlifted to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow, where he was listed in critical condition.
He was not wearing a helmet at the time of the accident, and Nassau County Police Department spokesman James Imperiale said that Bird sustained a serious head injury. He was later transferred to North Shore-LIJ.
Schools Superintendent David Weiss said that Bird, a member of the Long Beach Gladiators wrestling team, was on his way to the middle school for a rehearsal for Wednesday's moving up ceremony when the incident occurred. Bird's family could not be reached for comment.
Bird's doctors have declined to provide an update on his condition.
Alex Michelman, whose son was on the wrestling team with Bird, said that stretch of Lido Blvd. is particularly hazardous for students who walk to school because sections of the sidewalks are in disrepair.
Rodriguez said donations for Bird and his family can be made out to LB-USA Wrestling Club and mailed to 265 W. Chester St. Donations will be collected up until Saturday, June 30.
"Let's show Abdul and his family that once you are a Long Beach wrestler, you'll never walk alone," Rodriguez said.


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The Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly, Frank Okiye, has advised the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami not to allow his office to be used by unscrupulous persons to turn Edo State into a theatre of war.
Okiye's advice followed the invasion of the assembly complex on Thursday by armed policemen.
The speaker, in a letter written to the AGF, and dated August 06, 2020, said he was certain that the AGF "did not have all the facts relevant to the matter before it issued the advisory and directive to the Police to intervene in the affairs of the Edo State House of Assembly."
He said: "My attention has just been drawn to a letter dated 5th of August, 2020, issued under your hand and addressed to the Inspector General of Police, wherein you issued an advisory and directed the Police to inter alia: provide adequate security for the purpose of the inauguration of the concerned members and the subsequent sittings of the Edo State House of Assembly."
Okiye, who shared details of pending and concluded litigation having a bearing on the Assembly, said, the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, with Suit no. FHC/PH/CS/159/19, gave a final judgment on September 19, 2019, and held that the Assembly was properly inaugurated on June 17, 2019, and that the House is sitting and carrying out its functions, adding: "The Court also restrained the Governor of Edo State or any other person from issuing the second proclamation to restart the House."
He continued: "Suit no. FHC/AB/CS/1582/2019: Rt. Hon. Victor Sabor Edoror and 13 others against Hon. Frank Okiye (The Speaker, Edo State House of Assembly, and Anor. This is a suit filed by the then 14 member-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly, who refused to take the oath of office and consequent upon which their seats were declared vacant by the Speaker of the Edo State House of Assembly. They filed this suit to challenge the declaration of their seats vacant by the Edo State House of Assembly. The case is still pending in Federal High Court No. 4, Abuja.
"Suit No. B/81/OS/2019: Rt. Hon. Victor Edoror and 2 Ors vs Hon. Frank Okiye and Ors. In this suit, the claimants which were members-elect of the Edo State House of Assembly, who refused to take the oath of office, challenged the proclamation made by the Governor of Edo State to hold the first sitting of the House on the 17th day of June 2019 and election of officers of the House. This suit is currently pending before Hon. Justice S. A. Omonua."
"From the foregoing, it is clear that all matters relating to the functioning or otherwise of the Edo State House of Assembly and/or its members are sub judice", the Speaker added.
Okiye said: "It would, therefore, be clear that the course of action which you have urged upon the Inspector General of Police would, in fact, amount to a grievous assault on the rule of law, separation of powers and respect for judicial authority.
"As expected, the attempt to give effect to your said directive the very next day, 6th August 2020, gave rise to a serious breakdown of law and order in Benin City and almost degenerated into violence within the city as those persons who had surreptitiously obtained your endorsement, attempted to use the powers of the Police to take over the premises of the Edo State House of Assembly in defiance of clear orders of competent courts to the contrary."
He noted: "I am certain that if your office had had all these facts, it would certainly not have issued the directive under reference. I am also apprehensive about the political interpretations which could be given to the contents of the directive and the speed with which those concerned sought to execute their agenda.
"In consequence of the foregoing, I would urge that your office take another look at the entirety of the matter in order to ensure that due process and respect for the legal institutions are not sacrificed at the altar of the selfish and ruthless egos and ambitions of those who wish to keep our state perpetually under their control.
"Given the fact that we are six (6) weeks away from a gubernatorial election scheduled for September 19th, 2020, we would plead with you not to allow the enormous prestige of your office to be used by unscrupulous persons to turn our state into a theatre of war."
"Whilst offering you the assurance of our regards, we hope that urgent steps will be taken to ensure that the situation does not degenerate further," he added.
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Do you know how content goes viral?
The answer is simple and I'm just looking for one word: Shares.
People share content they really like and their friends share it to their network and so on is the "Secret" behind Virality. We'll come back to this.
We all have friends whose posts get a lot of engagement. People are "Liking and Reacting" to their posts, they are engaging with this person in the comment section.
Now this person in simple terms is an Influencer in your list.
How influencer marketing is better than Facebook advertising?
How to start with Influencer marketing?
Social Media especially Facebook is like a huge party. You have to put cool content out there and hang out with the popular people. Influencers are these popular people, everybody, flock to. They have a massive following on social media, people listen to what they say and they hang on to their words religiously.
A perfect example of an Influencer is Lazar Angelov.
He's an athlete and a fitness expert who has close to 12 million followers on Facebook. He may not come in TV channels or in your newspaper, but he is Facebook famous.
Now people who follow him take his tips very seriously and want to look like him. Lazar suggests products to his fans that help them with their bodybuilding.
Check out the image above. He says "Cooking my meal while I'm drinking Shredz Supplements". Now "Shredz Supplements" is the product that Lazar users to keep his muscles intact. Now this post got 20,000 likes and over 110 shares.
For folks who are his fans and want to look like him, they also want to use products that he uses. Why?
He is an authority, he knows what he talks about and the results are clear to see.
The other reason is, we are humans and we have mirror neurons that copy other people's behavior, this includes wanting other people's products as well.
So they click on the link and purchase the product. Now Lazar has used his influence to make people purchase the product of that company. That for you is influencer marketing.
You choose mini-celebrities, get them to use your product or talk about your product in their normal social media posts, Youtube videos, blog posts etc.
Now, remember I said Facebook is like a huge party. Everybody is having fun, watching great content and sharing jokes, memes and videos.
Now in the middle of this party, you go and in and tell everybody "Hey look at my product that I am trying to sell you, pay for it now". It just doesn't seem to fit in.
The thing with Influencer marketing is, the pitch is inside the content that people already like and love. There isn't any intrusion.
However much you try to be creative with your advertising, it cannot compete with the Influencer's style. This is because people who have chosen to follow the influencer like the way they talk, the jokes they crack, the way they describe the product. You cannot have this kind of connection with your audience through an advertisement on Facebook that people barely see for a few seconds.
Truth be told, Facebook advertising has a lot of fake likes and spam. Facebook's algorithm isn't good enough to figure out fake users who a part of click farms. For your budget, Facebook targets these users who will 'like' your content, but the relationship stops there. Your marketing ROI takes a hit. Although Facebook suggests you have a lot of 'Engagement' on your posts, those aren't valuable to your startup.
Read a little more about click farms here.
With Influencer marketing, the Influencers have spent money and time to build their quality audiences. You know for a fact that the people who are seeing your products through the 'influencer' are real people, and are your right target audience.
I started off this article with this. And this is an important aspect of Influencer Marketing. Your advertising cannot go 'Viral'. Posts can. A lot of companies collaborate really well with Influencers to make Viral videos. People barely share advertisement posts, but they do share posts with great content.
Don't use Kim Kardashian to sell enterprise software.
One thing a lot of brands do wrong is, get a celebrity for the sake of it without considering the people they are trying to reach.
With Influencer marketing, you can choose the exactly right people you want. If you want to sell a product, which is a gadget, you could contact somebody like Marques Brownlee.
He/she is an authority in his space and people take his/her word before they make a purchase.
Influencers charge a price for certain kind of posts. It depends on the level of engagement.
The best way to start Influencer marketing is to reach out to your own community and get people to start talking about your brand. Reach out to your friends who do well on social media and ask them to do a post on your product. This will give you an idea of true organic reach in social media.
1. Create a template. That is a little bit of copy about the product and an Image along with. When friends share on their own timelines they tend to add their own text. For this reason, keep your copy to the minimum.
2. Incentivize your friends by giving them the product or a sample, or a free service that they can talk about. Ask them to post a picture along with a few lines.
3. Create FOF (Friends of Friends) discounts for people who come through your Influencer friend. This is one of the growth hacking Dropbox did to become so successful.
4. Try creating networks in multiple cities and multiple countries. Identify potential influencer friends and reach out to them.
For a more professional approach to Influencer marketing and to reach bigger brand names, there are services like Fango, Tapinfluence, Traackr, Famebit.
I hope this article has given you a start on Influencer marketing. Try this for your own startup and let me know what you think! If you have tried Influencer marketing in the past, do share your experience & learning with us.
Again Thank you for another wonderful article. I came to know about ShoutMeLoud not so long ago(3 Months ago) and from that day onwards, I've been a fan of ShoutDreams Network. You(Income Reports) inspire thousands of readers each month and I'm sure that many people might have benefitted from your blog. I would like to make a request to you to share success stories of your readers just like you share yours. The main reason why I keep scrolling your comment area is just to get inspired and to meet people who would have possibly benefitted from this blog.
Yes, and he is from my country, Bulgaria. As I was clicking on this post to read it didn't expect to see this guy in endorsement :D. I like how you explained it and it makes sense isn't it? I might try this once I finish with all of the ground work and preparation around my startup blog. This is my first post here, but been following and reading your blog for ehh.. over a month now!? It helped me a lot so thank you for all of the hard work this community does. I might join the crowd of publishers here later on in support of the SML community. Well done.
I Completely agree with having a list of your best Influencer is like a track of throwing any drug with the gun machine for targeting lost of lives.
Incentivizing friends by giving them the product or a sample, or a free service that they can talk about is very helpful.
Influence Marketing is really seems to work better than any ads.
It can work superior for any startup brand or for anyone who is looking for quality people.
This is so helpful I can't imagine. Connecting with popular personalities not only gives you a lot more exposure but it let's you build your own huge community. YouTube and Twitter are great platforms for that, mostly. As always, amazing blog post.
Hi harsh, on 12th april, 2016 in F8 conference facebook is going to make available its 'Instant articles' feature to every small content publisher on the web. There is no doubt that it will be userfriendly but according to you will it benefit publishers from revenue perspective?
Waiting for your valuble thoughts on it. Thanks in advance.
From the article headline I thought this article was going to be about the iinfluencer boxes some people get in the mail. Theses boxes are full of products. When you get the box you have to share the contents of the box in social media. My oldest daughter has been getting influencer boxes in the mail for years.
I really do not like social media, but I know in order for me to do the things that are a huge part of marketing I will need to learn to accept it.
I deleted my Facebook account years ago and my main Twitter account with over 5k active followers.
I do not plan on being an authority on a topic and just create websites, so I will just need to figure something out. Maybe just make great fan pages.
Good. I learn something about Influencer Marketing from your article. I really want work n it. Thanks.
I think lot of this article makes sense. Someone who is authority has much more power than anyone else. Just like if I talk about blogging in India, few people including you would have lot of followers that others want to take advice of for any product or method. Thanks for sharing this very unique and different perspective.
nice article! The key to success of any influencer campaign is the right influencer. Like you said – the campaign has to be cautious, not intrusive.
Yet another mind blowing article from your side. This was one kind which cannot we get any information from the web world. Thanks for sharing and publishing on rare cases.
Yeah, I have been of the the though that an influencer could create value for my website, though it was a news driven portal. I contacted some biggies over the web who agreed to help. Though, alliance in its infancy, I think it will give better results soon.
This is really great to know about the new concept of "Influencer Marketing". Lazar Angelov is not a familiar person by his bodybuilding on channels or media. By utilizing his fan base in facebook, he promoting the product of a company. This is really great. Facebook is creating a great impact while compare to other social medias. I got lot of ideas while reading this post. I appreciate you for this writing, keep coming up with the content like this. Thanks for share harsh.
This was really an awesome article. You have explained and differentiated both Facebook & influencer marketing clearly.
Agree to you that influencer works best now a days as people trust and buy stuffs.
Influencer Marketing is very much helpful nowadays, especially for business startups. To make our startup's successful, we should use these techniques to grow out our brands. Another awesome article.
Good day all, these are very good tips about "Influencer Marketing". Thanks you Harish for the article, I am a novice here in Influencer Marketing. this will benefited us. I am waiting for your next article.
Influencer marketing needs to have a creative edge to be successful. It surely works better than FB marketing.


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Dawlat Yar is a district in Ghor Province, Afghanistan. It was created in 2005 from the southeastern part of Chaghcharan District. The administrative center of the district is Delak, but the largest town is Dawlat Yar () at 2503 m altitude.

The population of the district was estimated at 31,800 in 2012, and the electorate 23,767 in 2009. The district is mountainous, with extremely severe weather conditions during the winter causing roads to be blocked with snow for weeks. The majority of this district are Hazaras.

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Results for 2014 5A Colorado state gymnastics individual championship
Pomona freshman Kelsey Boychuk competes on the balance beam at the 5A state gymnastics meet on Nov. 1, 2014 at Thornton High School. (Joe Nguyen, The Denver Post)
Here are the results for the 5A Colorado state gymnastics individual championship events, which took place Nov. 1 at Thornton High School.
Name School Score
1. Kelsey Boychuk Pomona 9.850
2. MacKenzie Doerr Cherry Creek 9.750
3. Sierra Kirylo Thornton 9.725
4. Annabel Spence Pomona 9.700
5. Veronica Vasina Arvada West 9.625
6. Caitlyn Paplow Mountain Range 9.600 (9.600)
7. Samantha Simon Cherry Creek 9.600 (9.588)
8. Kellyn Toole Overland 9.575 (9.588)
9. Avery Paxton Cherry Creek 9.575 (9.563)
10. Nicki Verheyen Broomfield 9.500
11. Abby Smith Rampart 9.425 (9.450)
12. Kailey Licata Broomfield 9.425 (9.425)
13. Shea Zeman Pomona 9.425 (9.413)
14. Ramya Sinha Green Mountain 9.375
15. Kathy Nguyen Green Mountain 9.050
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Football: Air Academy QB Adam Brown lands in state record books
Air Academy quarterback Adam Brown finished the 2014 season with some of the top passing marks in Colorado high school football history.
The 6-foot-3, 185-pound senior is among the top 10 all-time in passes attempted, completions, yards and touchdown thrown. Air Academy finished the year 2-8, but the Kadets had some epic games. This season, they combined for more than 100 points with their opponent three different times, including 142 points in an 88-54 loss at Palmer Ridge.
Brown also owns the state record for most passing yards in a game with 589, and is tied for second for most touchdown passes in a game with seven.
It's been a big year for several Colorado quarterbacks. Fairview's Johnny Feauto and Longmont Christian's Luke Puchino have found themselves making the top 10 all-time in various categories, and Holy Family's Chris Helbig is just on the outside looking in.
Take a look at Brown's season stats and how they stack up against the state's best:
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