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Alternet reports on at a formal meeting at SXSW, which featured Scott Stulen in charge of the Internet Cat Video Festival, a live showing of kitty vids that sold 3,000 more tickets at the Minnesota State Fair than fashinable bands.
The meeting also featured Will Braden, owner of the YouTube channel Henri le Chat Noir, who makes money off of ad income and tie-in goods.
"In no way did I ever think this was going to be a career, or any money was going to come out of it," said Braden, who posted the first Henri video six years ago. "I just thought how exciting it was that I was getting millions of views for this video."
Specific salary figures are hard to come by, although Braden cautions that his cat's high CPMs(cost per thousand每千户收益) don't necessarily translate to wealth. In addition, the more successful cat empires, e.g.Grumpy Cat, require a combination of adorable cats and owners with industry know-how or access to someone, an agent or similar, who knows how to play the game.
Still, in an age when the internet is frequently accused of destroying jobs, it's at least a little encouraging to hear of a few new industries arising from it
Anyway, it's a fun daydream — and a familiar one.
"It's common to compare the Internet's star-making power to that of Hollywood," writes KellyFaircloth at Jezebel. "But perhaps a better comparison is Old Hollywood, a place where wildfortunes were produced magically out of thin air, where studio execs managed to convince an entire nation that, at any moment, a hometown girl could be pulled out from a drugstore and made into a star. That era is long, long gone — but hey, your cat can still make it big! Don't go west,young man. Get yourself on Reddit!"
Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, Asia's biggest building, and new fancy hotels. But for tourists like me, pandas are its top (attract).
So it was a great honor to be invited backstage at the not for profit Panda Base, where ticket money helps pay for research. I (allow) to get close to these cute animals at the 600acre center. From tomorrow, I will be their UK ambassador. The title will be (official) given to me at a ceremony in London. But my connection with pandas goes back my days on a TV show in the mid1980s, I was the first Western TV reporter (permit) to film a special unit caring for pandas rescued from starvation in the wild. My ambassadorial duties will include (introduce) British visitors to the 120plus pandas at Chengdu and others at a research in the misty mountains of Bifengxia.
On my recent visit, I held a lively threemonthold twin that had been rejected by (it) mother. The nursery team switches him every few (day) with his sister so that while one is being bottle fed, other is with mom—she never suspects.
We have most friends at the age of 26 after having spent the first quarter of our lives building up our friendship circle, a new research has claimed.
The research into friendship shows that our social circle peaks at 26 years and 7 months, at which we typically have five close friends. Women are most popular at 25 years and 10 months, with men hitting the highest friendship point a little later at 27 years and 3 months.
The research, by Forever Friends, shows that about a third of adults meet their closest friends when at school, with about a fifth saying they meet them at work.
Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter now also play a major role in building new friendship. The research points out that 25 to 34-year-olds make 22 friends via Facebook, compared to 18 to 24-year-olds who make 12, and 35 to 44-year-olds who make just 4.
Forever Friends' relationship coach Sam Owen says, “It is no coincidence that over a third of us meet our best friends at school. It is a key time in our lives when friendship is growing through sharing notes, giving gifts, seeing each other regularly and laughing a lot. As adults we can often forget how powerful these small things are and how the little things can make a difference. ”
Later in life we find ourselves losing friends. Over half of us lose friendship through moving, while 36% say that over time they grow apart from close pals. Having children also causes 19% to drift away from childhood friends.
With growing pressures being put on friendship these days, it's important to make time for our friendship.
—It's OK. You didn't break your promise _____, right?
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There was a time when Zhang Yi and I was good friends, but now we are like stranger. On his first day in our class two years ago, he had no one to talk. I was the first one to say hello to her, so we became friends. Zhang Yi did well in math or he was always ready to helping me with it. One day last month, I told him about that I would be away from school for two days to see a friend. But he told my father about it and that made me angrily. Now, I know I was wrong. I decide to say sorry for him, because I don't want to lose so a good friend.