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<\/center><\/p>\nIt is one of those look-forward-to-it-all-day places. We always visit here when we’re on the Gold Coast. It wasn’t even especially good tonight and it was better than most things you could enjoy. <\/p>\n
Tonight we attended the year-ending party of Special Church, which is a program my mother-in-law runs for special needs community members. The Waffle Man was there, with ice cream. The music therapist played songs on a ukelele. One of the attendees did a great solo, others danced and shook noisemakers. We had party favors and tropi-coladas: coconut and pineapple juice and huge sugar rushes. We got hugs. It was a fine party; it always is when we are there. <\/p>\n
Things to read<\/strong> … because when have you not been to a party that had a lot of great reading?<\/p>\n Exactly.<\/p>\n Huge leap in mobile video usage and ad interaction<\/a><\/p>\n Mobile is fast becoming a central hub of entertainment decisions, with not only content usage climbing but also a commensurate leap in ad engagement, says research from Vdopia.<\/p>\n Among the key findings revealed by the latest edition of the mobile video advertising provider’s Vdopia Mobile Insights (VMI) report was the fact that the number of people who consumed entertainment content on their smartphones ever in a month jumped 28% in the past year to 109 million. Americans now average 33 minutes each day watching videos on their smartphones.<\/p>\n Moreover, mobile entertainment audiences not only are twice as likely to click on mobile ads but 45% recall seeing ads compared to only 24% for non-mobile entertainment audiences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which one of you is watching that much video on your phone? Pretty sure it isn’t me. <\/p>\n There’s an Alabama hook here, and four amazing stories: Four POWs we should all remember<\/a>.<\/p>\n Veteran, 89, Recreates D-Day Parachute Jump<\/a>: “They made me feel very relaxed but I wanted to get out that door!”<\/p>\n I’m just going to read every D-Day story, aren’t I?<\/p>\n This one features a different fellow. D-Day paratrooper, 93, to jump again for anniversary<\/a>: “They are worried about me getting hurt. I said, ‘Don’t worry about it. If I get hurt or I get killed, what is the difference? I’ve lived 93 years. I’ve had a good life.'”<\/p>\n And, finally: <\/p>\n