CHANGE: AGE REQUIREMENT HAS BEEN ADJUSTED TO "16 and Under". Ben and Jack Becker, in cooperation with semo.net and the Java Stop Cafe, are planning a Kids’ Music Night at the Java Stop Café. Youth sixteen and under are encouraged to apply for one of the six performance slots by submitting a video link which displays their performance talent. Guidelines: • this is not a cappella or karaoke, all performances must be with live music
Below is a press release describing semo.net's attempts to secure USDA broadband stimulus funding to make high-speed access available in our area; an area which the USDA has decided is not remote enough to qualify. USDA TILTING AT WINDMILLS: LITTLE GUY EXPOSES USDA STIMULUS BLUNDER Brian Becker owns a small Internet Service in Southeast Missouri started in 1995. Becker has documents to show that the USDA, responsible for doling out billions for Rural Broadband, has contradicted both itself and Congress. Most are skeptical at first, but a few minutes with him and you realize that $7.2B stimulus dollars hinge on one word.
DUE TO THE WINTER-WARNING FORECAST: The event date has moved to February 5th. Locally-based advertising agency All Media Services will be hosting a Media Round Table on Friday, February 5th. Get answers to your marketing questions, and solutions to your advertising issues from the market's leading professionals. The event will be held from 8:30 to Noon at the Holiday Inn in Poplar Bluff. For more information, visit All Media Services or email allmediaservices@tcmax.net.
Movies are typically a wonderful way to "get away" from the hassles of life. However, sometimes a movie comes along with a mission to "grip you" with life and challenge you with what you are doing with yours. This is a teen-aged movie that challenges youth to care about those around them, especially the "hard to love." The movie is trying to push past the stereotypes that separate people and step out of our comfort zone to touch the lives of those around us. The movie deals with topics that are fully in the face of youth these days including sex, parties, suicide, school shootings, abortion, responsibility and the questions of life and "Who am I?". This movie has themes
Over the summer of 1995, I was working on a project with Jerusalem Perspective (JP) magazine to develop an interactive CD that would showcase their magazine. I first heard about the "World Wide Web" that summer, but living in technology-locked southeast Missouri, I couldn't grasp the WWW concept and certainly didn't know how to access this "Internet." I had an account on CompuServe (and several other bulletin boards) but we all paid by the minute for the long distance phone access over a 9600 baud modem (9.6k).
