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Three internationally known recording artists will be in North Platte next week for the Story and Song Tour. Jesse Manibusan, Sarah Hart and Steve Angrisano will perform at 7 p.m. on Monday at the Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 2801 W. E St.

According to a press release, Manibusan calls himself a Catholic lay evangelist who uses music, comedy and stories to connect with people. In demand around the country as a motivational speaker, his uplifting message touches all generations.

Hart is a musician and a mother. She has written songs recorded by numerous artists, including Amy Grant, Robbie Seay, Matt Maher, 33Miles, This Beautiful Republic, Sarah Reeves and Jaime Jamgochian.

Hart's music has appeared on the television shows "Joan of Arcadia" and "Strong Medicine" as well as the movie "Coyote Country Loser."

Hart has also penned work for two musicals and serves as a songwriter and voiceover artist for the Tom Tichenor Children's Theater in Nashville, Tenn. She is the recipient of eight Unity awards for her work, and her songs can be found in Catholic churches throughout the U.S.

Angrisano is a veteran musician, composer and youth minister who has been featured at 6 World Youth Days, several national Catholic youth conferences and many diocesan youth conventions. According to his biography, Angrisano's easy, honest style of ministry is born from his identity as a committed witness to the life and love of Jesus Christ.

"We're really excited," Michael Davis, concert committee member, said. "Not only is it the first time for the community event, but it's also the first time the singers have traveled together as a group. They will be in Hastings the night before, will come to North Platte and then go on to Iowa."

He said all denominations and ages are welcome to attend the concert. An autograph session and refreshments will follow. There will not be an admission fee.

"It's going to be fantastic show," Davis said. "It's already created a lot of energy within the community. We're also putting together some local talent to do a pre-show. If someone would like to be part of that, they can contact me or Jacque Harms." Davis can be reached at 530-9050. Harms' number is 530-1035.

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NEW YORK (AP) -- At age 53, author Donald Antrim may just be getting started.

Over the past two decades, he has published three highly praised novels, a memoir and numerous short stories in The New Yorker. He has earned the respect, even reverence of such peers as Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides, but so far has had what he calls "literary-level" sales, the kind that leave many writers without a publisher or even a book in print.

But those who do read him are determined to tell others. He is under contract from a top literary house, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, for a novel, a second memoir and a book of stories. His previous novels "Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World," ''The One Hundred Brothers" and "The Verificationist" have been reissued by Picador, a paperback imprint of Farrar. Introductions are provided by Franzen, Eugenides and George Saunders, who regards Antrim as an overlooked genius.

"There's a discrepancy between what a great writer he is and how many people know this," Saunders told The Associated Press. "He is one of the funniest, sharpest, edgiest writers in America."

Antrim is almost a genre in his own right, Franzen writes in the introduction to "One Hundred Brothers," utterly "unlike any other living writer." His books are narrated by young, unstable men who wish to love and do good, but are compelled to make chaos. The plots are free and fantastic, yet constructed with mathematical logic: the romantic and philosophical thoughts of a psychiatrist suspended in mid-air at a pancake house; a home school teacher gone mad; a dining room bursting with 100 quarrelsome brothers.

The novels are short and unbroken, without chapters or even breaks between paragraphs. They take years to write in part because Antrim has no idea how they will turn out when he starts them. He will get an idea a gathering of psychiatrists or a family meal. He will write, pause, write, step away, come back. Each new sentence works off the sentence just completed, for some 150-200 pages.

"It's a very frustrating, but in some ways a really pleasurable way of working," Antrim, a tall, stocky man with a thoughtful speaking style, said during a recent interview at his Brooklyn apartment.

His literature is no stranger, or more complicated, than his childhood. A native of Sarasota, Fla., Antrim was mostly raised by an alcoholic mother who aged into "an increasingly damaged Lady Macbeth," he wrote in the memoir "The Afterlife." His parents married, divorced, then married and divorced again. He had an uncle who was apparently enough of a threat that federal and state agents once handcuffed him and took him away.

Antrim didn't know he wanted to do for college beyond get out of Florida. He chose a top school in the North, Brown University, where his fellow students included such future authors as Eugenides and Rick Moody. Antrim was interested in theater at the time and Moody remembers working with him on a production of Franz Kafka's "The Trial."

"I was a little intimidated by him at first because he was a couple years ahead of me," Moody told the AP in an email. "But I remember vividly the day, in rehearsal, when, in operating the whip that was one of his character's props, he threw his shoulder out of the socket, and then set about, in character, trying to get the thing to pop back in.

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DGAP-News: Lotto24 AG / Key word(s): Regulatory Approval Lotto24 AG receives permit for online lottery brokerage

24.09.2012 / 21:15

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Lotto24 AG receives permit for online lottery brokerage

(Hamburg, 24 September 2012) Lotto24 AG is one of the first private companies in Germany to receive a permit allowing it to broker state-run lotteries via the Internet.

Petra von Strombeck, CEO of Lotto24 AG, states: The permit is a prerequisite for nationwide operations and thus a very important milestone in our short company history.

After an almost four-year ban of online brokerage under the old State Treaty on Games of Chance, private companies are now permitted to broker state-run lotteries in Germany once again.

The permit is valid for the whole of Germany for a period of five years, excluding the states of North-Rhine Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein. The new First State Treaty to Revise the State Treaty on Games of Chance (GlndStV) has not been ratified in North-Rhine Westphalia yet. Gaming legislation in Schleswig-Holstein differs from the rest of Germany, in that lotteries can be brokered online without permission.

The newly granted permit includes provisions which will hamper the development of business, especially the restrictive requirements regarding the protection of minors and an obligation to submit tickets in the federal state of the respective player. The company expects these restrictions to apply equally to other market participants.

Further official permits are required for advertising Lotto24s product range. It is expected that nationwide Internet and TV advertising will not be possible until the GlndStV comes into effect in North-Rhine Westphalia. The company assumes that this will be the case in the course of November 2012.

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CHICAGO, IL--(Marketwire - Sep 24, 2012) - The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) announced the keynote and general session speakers for the WOMMA Summit 2012 conference in Las Vegas, Nov. 12-14. Hear incredible success stories from celebrity keynote Pawn Stars, Turner Broadcasting System, Inc., Coke, Facebook, IBM, and American Express.

Rick Harrison, the star of the hit History Channel series Pawn Stars, will keynote our opening session at WOMMA Summit 2012 where he will discuss his word of mouth journey from Pawn store owner to Pawn Superstar.

WOMMA Summit 2012 features over 40 innovative and trend setting case studies on the best word of mouth and social media campaigns -- and fans of the hit History Channel television series "Pawn Stars" are in for a big surprise.WOMMA Summit attendees can look forward to hearing from their favorite hard-bargainer Rick Harrison live and in-person on opening day at the Wynn Las Vegas.

WOMMA Summit 2012 is all about the best practices and emerging trends in word of mouth and social media marketing. The fall conference will provide the resources and skills brands and agencies alike need to stay relevant in the ever-evolving social media and word of mouth marketing realms.

"Whether it's called word of mouth marketing, brand advocacy, or just advocacy, it's increasingly important for brands in today's marketing mix, in which consumers are more important than ever before," said David Witt, WOMMA Chairman and Director, Global Digital Marketing and Brand PR, the Hershey Company. "That's what the WOMMA Summit is about and why it's a must-attend event."

This year's agenda will feature an out-of-the-box approach to word of mouth marketing with Nestl's Pete Blackshaw, Facebook's Sean Bruich, Social@Ogilvy's John Bell, word of mouth marketing research expert Brad Fay, Turner Broadcasting, Inc. Chief Research Officer Jack Wakshlag, and many more.

At WOMMA Summit, marketers will learn how to:

Below are other key topics and notable brands presentation that will take the stage at the Wynn Hotel Nov. 12-14.

"Social TV, social advertising, and advocacy all play prominent roles in driving word of mouth," says WOMMA President Suzanne Fanning. "WOMMA Summit will deliver exciting case studies, emerging trends, and thought provoking ideas that will equip marketers with everything they need to make their brands or products the most talked about in their categories."

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