How Many People Can You Name in This Photo of Obama’s Cabinet?

Class photo.

Examine the photo of President Obama's cabinet above, which was recently posted on the White House's official Flickr page. Count the number of people you can identify. Then scroll down to see what your score means.

0 people: You are blind, not your fault.

1 person: Really, just Obama? Very funny.

2–3 people: You might be 6 years old.

4–7 people: You have reached a socially acceptable level of familiarity with Obama's cabinet.

8–12 people: You read the news every day.

13–17 people: You read the news all day.

18–20 people: Okay, now you're just showing off.

21–23 people: You work in the White House.

A perfect 24 out of 24: You are personal friends with Small Business Administrator Karen G. Mills.

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Obama Really Didn’t Mean to Imply People Faint Because of His Greatness

At an event in Ohio today, someone fainted while President Obama was speaking, and he handled it with poise. "I'm sure they're okay. Sometimes folks faint because they've been standing too long," he said, and he would know, having spoken for millions of people, thousands of times, all around the world. "So we just need a paramedic right here in the front. They'll be okay, just give them room. That's all."

But then he added, "This happens to me all the time," to a laugh from the crowd, and you can literally see the panic wash over his face as he realizes he's said something that can be misinterpreted or taken out of context. After a brief pause, the president — thinking on his feet — threw in some self-deprecation: "It means I've been talking too long," he added. Good save! Now he's definitely safe.

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Some People Really Hate Being Told to ‘Calm Down’

A group of eight female subway riders responded to a fellow passenger's request for them to "calm down" by doing the opposite and stabbing the 63-year-old man in the shoulder. 

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Mitt Romney’s Campaign Is Doing Its Best to Distract People from His British Gaffe Jaunt

Romney in London.

In the wake of Mitt Romney's troubled visit to London — where he managed to dis the Olympics and draw the public ire of Prime Minister David Cameron, Mayor Boris Johnson, and most of the British citizenry while blabbing about secret meetings and weirdly undermining his wife and her fancy horse — campaign aide (and work wife) Beth Myers tweeted what looks like the candidate's VP shortlist. When asked about the post (which included @BobbyJindal, @marcorubio, and @robportman), she gave a response both social-media-savvy and regular-media-baiting: "It's a Friday follow." Intriguing, right?

The campaign also announced its readiness for a "Saturday Obama Surprise." What does that mean, you ask? Well, it's a surprise — duh! — but Romney's people would like for everyone to know that they're prepared:

It's well into the afternoon and we haven't noticed any surprises, but we'll go ahead and keep watching because that's our job. The sneaky Obama campaign, for its part, insists that they haven't got anything up their sleeve for today — a spokesman called the suggestion "dog-wagging that would make David Mamet blush."

Meanwhile, observers are still discussing Romney's flubbing of what should have been an easy opportunity to make nice to the outside world. Though he was quick to say that the London gaffe was ultimately "not a big deal," none other than Karl Rove could not help but express his amazement at the candidate's ability to offend our closest ally. "You have to shake your head," he told Fox News Friday. He went to say that while Romney could have stuck to "talking about what a wonderful experience" he had heading the Salt Lake City Olympics, he "instead he got stuck making a, somehow or another that the comments the Brits took as insult, and walked it back pretty quickly and walked it back adroitly but nonetheless the damage was done."

And now it's on to Jerusalem, where Romney's pro-Israel stance and longtime friendship with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should make for a warm reception. Of course, we now know that nothing is foolproof.

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Online Video and YouTube Marketing - How to Overcome the Biggest Challenges Most People Face

You know that online video is a big deal. And you also know that YouTube - which only recently celebrated its fifth anniversary - is the biggest thing in the online video space. You could say that YouTube is to the world of online video what Facebook is to the world of social networking and what Google is to the world of Web search (Google, incidentally, owns YouTube).

In case you haven't seen some of recent numbers (as of May 2010) that attest to the popularity of the king of Internet video, here they are:

YouTube is the third most visited website in the world - behind Facebook (#2) and Google #1)

There are more than 2 billion video views on YouTube every day - which is nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. broadcast networks combined

There are more than 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute

The average person spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube

More video is uploaded to YouTube every 60 days than all three major U.S. networks created in 60 years

Numbers like those - coupled with the fact that a good online video can easily go viral - make video and YouTube a marketers dream.

YouTube and Online Marketing Aren't Just For Big Corporations

The benefits of online video and YouTube aren't reserved only for big corporate marketers. In fact, some of the most successful YouTube videos have been produced by ordinary, everyday people - many of whom have become overnight sensations after their videos went viral.

The world of Internet marketing has also reaped huge rewards from video and YouTube. Everyone from the most experienced and successful Internet marketing gurus to total beginners have used video and YouTube to generate traffic, build lists, make sales, and accomplish a number of other mission-critical Internet marketing goals.

Big Challenges With YouTube and Online Marketing

But there are some problems with Internet video and YouTube marketing. The majority of people are a little lost when it comes to the breadth of the online video marketing universe and all of its possibilities. There's so much to know and do - from content creation and video production to getting videos online and marketing them so they have audience.

And even though there are plenty of products and resources on the market that purport to help people with their online video and YouTube marketing efforts, there isn't one product that pulls everything together - until now. Well-known Internet marketers

Alex Goad and Mark Dulisse have pooled their talents and resources to create the first truly holistic, end-to-end online video and YouTube marketing product that offers users everything they need to not only get started with Internet video marketing but also to really capitalize on the Internet video and YouTube marketing opportunity.

On top of all of the Internet video and YouTube marketing training, Goad and Dulisse have also developed an application for YouTube that enables you to build massive and highly targeted lists of channel subscribers on autopilot.

All you have to do is enter the name of the channel whose subscribers you to target and the application does all of the "heavy lifting" for you. It will harvest the names of any channel's subscribers and either send then a video to view or invite them to subscribe to your channel.

And, for a very limited time, you can download "Tube Fool" - as the application is called - for free. All you have to do is click on this link and then visit the Dominating Video website and grab your free download.

Whether you've bought other video and YouTube marketing products in the past or not, Dominating Video is a great investment. It is the product that - once and for all - will make you an online video and YouTube marketing expert.

Make sure you click on the link to grab your free download of "Tube Fool" today.

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Online Video and YouTube Marketing - How to Overcome the Biggest Challenges Most People Face

You know that online video is a big deal. And you also know that YouTube - which only recently celebrated its fifth anniversary - is the biggest thing in the online video space. You could say that YouTube is to the world of online video what Facebook is to the world of social networking and what Google is to the world of Web search (Google, incidentally, owns YouTube).

In case you haven't seen some of recent numbers (as of May 2010) that attest to the popularity of the king of Internet video, here they are:

YouTube is the third most visited website in the world - behind Facebook (#2) and Google #1)

There are more than 2 billion video views on YouTube every day - which is nearly double the prime-time audience of all three major U.S. broadcast networks combined

There are more than 24 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute

The average person spends 15 minutes per day on YouTube

More video is uploaded to YouTube every 60 days than all three major U.S. networks created in 60 years

Numbers like those - coupled with the fact that a good online video can easily go viral - make video and YouTube a marketers dream.

YouTube and Online Marketing Aren't Just For Big Corporations

The benefits of online video and YouTube aren't reserved only for big corporate marketers. In fact, some of the most successful YouTube videos have been produced by ordinary, everyday people - many of whom have become overnight sensations after their videos went viral.

The world of Internet marketing has also reaped huge rewards from video and YouTube. Everyone from the most experienced and successful Internet marketing gurus to total beginners have used video and YouTube to generate traffic, build lists, make sales, and accomplish a number of other mission-critical Internet marketing goals.

Big Challenges With YouTube and Online Marketing

But there are some problems with Internet video and YouTube marketing. The majority of people are a little lost when it comes to the breadth of the online video marketing universe and all of its possibilities. There's so much to know and do - from content creation and video production to getting videos online and marketing them so they have audience.

And even though there are plenty of products and resources on the market that purport to help people with their online video and YouTube marketing efforts, there isn't one product that pulls everything together - until now. Well-known Internet marketers

Alex Goad and Mark Dulisse have pooled their talents and resources to create the first truly holistic, end-to-end online video and YouTube marketing product that offers users everything they need to not only get started with Internet video marketing but also to really capitalize on the Internet video and YouTube marketing opportunity.

On top of all of the Internet video and YouTube marketing training, Goad and Dulisse have also developed an application for YouTube that enables you to build massive and highly targeted lists of channel subscribers on autopilot.

All you have to do is enter the name of the channel whose subscribers you to target and the application does all of the "heavy lifting" for you. It will harvest the names of any channel's subscribers and either send then a video to view or invite them to subscribe to your channel.

And, for a very limited time, you can download "Tube Fool" - as the application is called - for free. All you have to do is click on this link and then visit the Dominating Video website and grab your free download.

Whether you've bought other video and YouTube marketing products in the past or not, Dominating Video is a great investment. It is the product that - once and for all - will make you an online video and YouTube marketing expert.

Make sure you click on the link to grab your free download of "Tube Fool" today.

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