Nearly four years ago, soon after the initial public release by the National Security Agency (NSA) of its long-secret Venona archive–decoded Soviet intelligence messages transmitted by telegraphic cable to and from Moscow during World War II–we predicted in these pages that "historians of the cold war will be examining these documents…for a long time." We should have added, "and arguing about their implications." Today that argument, which is essentially over the history of the McCarthy era, is well under way in various media.
Thus the New York Times reported last fall in a major Week in Review piece titled "Witching Hour: Rethinking McCarthyism, if Not McCarthy," that the release of the Venona archive "has unleashed a flood of scholarship" and engendered a growing controversy among cold war historians of the left and right. Several days afterward, a lead editorial in that newspaper, "Revisionist McCarthyism," cautioned, "Beware the rehabilitation of Joseph McCarthy. Armed with audacity and new archival information, a number of American scholars would like to rewrite the historical verdict on Senator McCarthy and McCarthyism." Time magazine, on the other hand, weighed in recently, asking, "Was McCarthy on the right track?" a piece in which it observed that Venona "demonstrates beyond argument that the Soviet penetration into American life, government, science and industry…was deep, thorough and hostile." And William F. Buckley has seized the moment for a novel, The Redhunter, based on the life of his longtime hero, McCarthy.
The authors also claim that by early 1947 the Venona decrypts were an important influence on the Truman Administration, leading the President that year to institute the loyalty program and create the Central Intelligence Agency. But they offer no shred of proof for this sweeping assertion, and newly available evidence, cited in Secrecy by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, strongly suggests that Truman was kept in the dark about the Venona project. Again without citing any source, they describe dramatically how US fliers during the Korean War were imperiled by superior Soviet MIG-15 jet fighters built with know-how provided to the KGB by William Perl, a US aeronautical engineer. However, the MIG-15 did not utilize espionage technology, according to US Air Force historian Dr. Richard Hallion, though it did benefit from an important foreign contribution: a Rolls-Royce Nene high-performance jet engine sold to the Soviets by the British.
Haynes and Klehr would disagree. Although they pay lip service to the idea that the Venona documents might have weaknesses as historical sources, they fail to enumerate any, and starting from the first chapter, they vouch for the archive's complete trustworthiness. They confidently describe the messages as "hard evidence" and "incontestable," and assert that because of their "inherent reliability" they "provide a touchstone for judging the credibility of other sources." Given this ringing endorsement, one is naturally curious why such "hard evidence" was never used in court or, until recently, made available to the press and public. The answer given by the authors is a tired old story: that the NSA did not want the Russians to know the extent of its success. Like all cover stories, of course, this one hides an uncomfortable truth, as revealed in a recently released 1956 FBI report. Its emergence was a fluke. Senator Moynihan recounts in Secrecy that after he complained to FBI Director Louis Freeh about the bureau's stonewalling on Congressional requests for Venona material, Freeh ordered his "personal staff to sweep the basement" and soon turned over a batch of FBI reports on Venona, including the 1956 one. Declassified without fanfare earlier this year (because of the FBI's mistaken belief that it had been "referenced" in Moynihan's book), the formerly top-secret report has gone unnoticed, this being, we believe, its first public airing.
Although Belmont offered a number of reasons for not using Venona messages as judicial evidence–including a wish to keep the Soviets from learning "the degree of success the U.S. had in breaking their codes"–the principal reasons were twofold: The decrypted material might not meet the standards for evidence set by US law, and, even if it did, it suffered from certain deficiencies that might limit its usefulness as proof.
The Venona documents were reworked over and over again between about 1946 and 1980, when the decoding project finally shut down. Although Belmont did not mention it, the "5/5/44" document underwent still another radical permutation. In its final version, the sender asks permission to recruit one Alfred Sarant "a lead of 'Antenna.'" The message now contains considerable added information: Sarant is Greek, a US citizen, was discharged from Ft. Monmouth for past union activity, has been working for two years at Western Electric and lives apart from his family.
Similarly, US Treasury official Frank Coe is depicted in the Haynes-Klehr book as an active and committed member of "the Silvermaster group," an information-gathering network of government workers in Washington coordinated by a fellow federal employee, Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. The authors' conclusion is consistent with the contents of a Venona message from late 1944, which reported that extensive information had been received from Coe on British-US Lend-Lease negotiations. But once again, excerpts from the Moscow files published in Weinstein's book put a different light on the situation. Weinstein writes that Coe believed the data he was supplying went to the US Communist Party, not the KGB. Coe complained frequently to his handlers that his undercover work was hindering his career, and by the fall of 1945 Silvermaster was grumbling to the Russians that Coe was "hiding from him." Several reviewers of The Haunted Wood have criticized Weinstein for not having disclosed as yet certain vital details about the Moscow archive [see Ellen Schrecker, "The Spies Who Loved Us?" May 24]. It is hoped that he will do so soon. But assuming for now that he has presented his material fairly and accurately, the book's sampling of documents from Moscow KGB files is obviously of unique importance.
Haynes and Klehr assert that Venona confirms evidence from numerous other sources, especially the testimony of KGB-affiliated defectors, like Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley, and the contents of FBI files. The authors conclude: "Venona fits, and fits very well, with this other evidence." Their claim is true only in part, for they tend to paint with a broad brush, ignoring fine points and lumping everything together with no thought given to ambiguity or nuance. Thus, when parts of Bentley's story are shown to be consistent with Venona, they are prepared to declare without any qualification that "Elizabeth Bentley had told the truth." They overlook the fact that the decoders of Venona used names and incidents from the FBI files to help make identifications and fill gaps–the very names and incidents that were often supplied in the first place by Chambers and Bentley. Are we dealing here with circular reasoning, a dog chasing its own tail? And if so, to what extent? Perhaps detailed, specific information about the history of the decoding of individual Venona documents–including the FBI's input–would provide answers. But the NSA, despite promises to release such data, has not done so.
Finally, the enormity of Soviet espionage is graphically underscored in several appendixes. The largest, Appendix A, titled "Source Venona: Americans and U.S. Residents Who Had Covert Relationships with Soviet Intelligence Agencies," is said to contain the true names or cover names of 349 people mentioned in Venona messages. Serving as judge and lord high executioner, Haynes and Klehr assemble a mixed bag for their Appendix A, ranging from those who made substantial contributions to Soviet espionage to many scores of men and women whose alleged connections with KGB spying were so vague, trivial or irrelevant as to indicate that the list is heavily padded. For example, Norman Chandler Bursler, a Justice Department employee, was named by Bentley as a member of the Silvermaster group. The only Venona message that mentions him says he provided Silvermaster with information about an Austrian financier in the United States, and it refers to Bursler by his true name, with no cover name. Nevertheless, Haynes and Klehr consign Bursler to their A list. The authors' avidity for names is also demonstrated by their inclusion of the screenwriter Walter Bernstein here. Bernstein is mentioned by his real name in a single Venona message from 1944, which states that he has "promised to write a report on his trip." The trip was a daring journalistic foray into German-occupied Yugoslavia to interview Tito for Yank magazine. Though Bernstein has declared that he never wrote any report for Soviet intelligence, he, too, is listed as someone who had a "covert relationship" with the KGB.
Appendix B, titled "Americans and U.S. Residents Who Had Covert Relationships with Soviet Intelligence Agencies but Were Not Identified in the Venona Cables," has 139 names. Among the cases decided by judges Haynes and Klehr are those of three government employees accused by Bentley: William Remington, Sol Leshinsky and William Henry Taylor. Remington denied any guilt but was convicted of perjury and murdered in prison. As for Leshinsky, Bentley said he never handed over any documents to her. Taylor, who never met Bentley, protested his complete innocence and fought desperately to clear his name; his last years were an ordeal of unending interrogations by FBI agents, Congressional committees, federal grand juries and loyalty boards. Haynes and Klehr sentence all three of the men to their B list.
Oh, yes, after a C list of foreigners, there is also a D list of "Americans and U.S. Residents Targeted as Potential Sources by Soviet Intelligence Agencies." We confess to a personal interest: A dear friend of ours, an author now deceased, is on the D list. While writing speeches for New Deal leaders he was eyed covetously by KGB recruiters, without his knowledge. He would have hated being on this list, with its reek of innuendo. But at least, named alongside Joseph Barnes, I.F. Stone and J. Robert Oppenheimer, he is in good company.
Cold war McCarthyism fed on names; its inquisitors were census-takers of subversion. In place of the presumption of innocence, its legal principles were guilt by association and group culpability. Its public discourse was coarsened by the blurring of subtle differences. Its explanations for vast and complex events were naive, fantastic and unsubstantiated. Haynes and Klehr would seem to be among those scholars who the New York Times said "would like to rewrite the historical verdict on…McCarthyism." In their book they aver, without spelling out what they mean, that our understanding of McCarthyism has been "seriously distorted" because we did not know about the Venona messages. Certainly the Venona archive does provide a narrow window for studying the activities of those American communists who worked for Soviet intelligence. But it is ironic and unseemly that Venona, a book that purports to cast new light on McCarthyism, should itself partake of some of the worst characteristics of that sorry period.


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Czech research: Programmatic advertising grows
The Czech ad tech company R2B2, which operates a digital ad network, has compiled an overview of the trends in pricing and performance for selected ad formats in the year 2018. The data comes from the RTB Index that R2B2 publishes on a monthly basis.
The RTB Index is a monthly report that monitors the pricing and performance of selected programmatic ad formats in the R2B2 Multiscreen network. The report includes online banner formats as well as video ads, native ads, and banners displayed on TV via the "red button".
Mobile formats and videos got the most clicks
The first half of 2018 went to Mobile Skins, as far as clickability is concerned. During this time, their CTR held strong above 2 per cent. In July, they were replaced by a new addition to the RTB Index, Interscroller. However, this particularly large mobile format was only in the lead for one month before being replaced by video ads. Video ads include formats such as Pre-Roll, Outstream, and the new format Bumper. In the last two months of 2018, Mobile Skins again got the most clicks.
Compared to 2017, Native Ads recorded the biggest leap in CTR, which in the first eight months improved by an average of 110 per cent and in May three times as much. Banners 300×600, on the other hand, recorded the biggest drop. Their average CTR fell by two-thirds of the average rate in 2017, and with an annual average of 0.11 per cent, it was the least-clicked-on format in the R2B2 Multiscreen network. The most stable format was the desktop format Takeover Skins, whose average CTR decreased by a mere 2 percent.
Video ads were the most expensive
Video ads had the highest cost per thousand impressions throughout the entire year, which averaged €5.73. Only in July did Takeover Skins get ahead. Otherwise, Takeover Skins was the second-most-expensive format for the entire year. This high-CPM duo was joined by the new format Interscroller with an average CPM of around €4.53. Banners 300×600 and Native Ads continued to be the least expensive formats with average prices below €2.00.
Other than Takeover Skins and videos, all the formats included in the RTB Index were less expensive than in 2017. The price of Takeover Skins went up primarily in the second half of the year, which recorded an 18 per cent growth in the CPM. The largest drop in price was recorded for Mobile Skins, whose annual average CPM was more than a quarter less than in 2017. This was primarily due to a reduction in the floor price halfway through 2017.
The average cost per click was around €0.40, but some banners surpassed €1.50
Banners 300×600 had the highest cost per click throughout the entire year. During the final three months, their CPC crossed the threshold of €1.50. In second place, according to highest cost, Takeover Skins, video ads, and Interscroller took turns throughout the year. Their CPCs fluctuated at around €0.60. Mobile Skins and Native Ads had the lowest CPCs at approximately €0.15 and €0.20.
So, Banners 300×600 had the biggest increase in CPC. In February, their price spiked to almost five times that of 2017. In the summer months, the year-on-year price of videos rose; in May it rose by 143 per cent. At the end of 2018, Mobile Skins were also more expensive. However, the opposite was true of Native Ads, which in the first eight months were 55 per cent cheaper. After this, the price fluctuated at the level of the previous year's values.
The red button got the most clicks during high season
Even banner ads that appear on TV via the red button fall under the R2B2 Multiscreen digital ad network. RTB Index statistics include all programmatic HbbTV campaigns, even those that don't offer the option to interact by clicking the red button. The average CTRs for ads on HbbTV are usually higher than those for Internet formats. However, in 2018 even TV banners declined significantly. To be more specific, the average CTR for January, June, and July slumped well below 1 per cent. But for the remainder of the year, the average CTR fluctuated at around 1.5 per cent, and in the last two months of the year, it even exceeded the 2 per cent threshold. Compared to 2017 (note: as of May, when the TV banner was added to the RTB Index), the average clickability of TV banners fell by 20 per cent.
The price of TV banners hardly changed at all
Even though TV banners reached a record cost of €24.31 per thousand impressions in May, the rest of the year the price barely changed. The average price for the entire year was just under €19.50. In October, the price even came close to €15.50. Compared to 2017, the average price for the period observed dropped by less than 1 per cent.
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Will Taxes Kill California's Golden Ganja Goose?
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The world's largest marijuana market is getting ready to legalize, and local cities and counties are looking to cash in.
Ellen Komp
Estimates put the California recreational marijuana market around $7 billion yearly, with $1 billion recoupable in state taxes. Now, with Prop. 64 to legalize adult use set for the November ballot, voters in two dozen cities and counties will also be looking at measures to tax medical and/or recreational marijuana at the local level.
Local taxes are a winner at the ballot box: several of them passed in 2010 and again in 2014. Two dozen jurisdictions across California already add extra retail taxes for medical marijuana businesses, notably Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz and Shasta Lake.
Coming in on the low end of newly proposed cultivation fees is Yolo County, which is looking at charging $.50 per square foot. for CBD-dominant strains and $1.75 per square foot. for high-THC strains. Calaveras County is proposing charging $2 per square foot for outdoor gardens, and $5 for indoor ones. Humboldt County is considering charging $1 per square foot for outdoor gardens, $2 for mixed-light, and $3 for indoor.
At the high end are Desert Hot Springs and Coalinga, which just approved a $4-million sale of its former prison to be used as a marijuana growing and manufacturing facility. Both are set to enact a $25 per square foot tax for the first 3,000 square feet of cultivation, and $10 per square foot thereafter. Monterey County just voted to put a measure on the ballot taxing farms at $15 per square foot, and automatically raising that rate to $20 in 2020 and $25 in 2021. In addition, the Monterey proposal would tax nurseries at $2-$5 per square foot, and gross receipts at 5-10 percent.
Other measures would tax at the retail level, notably Los Angeles County — which is proposing a 10 percent tax on gross receipts to pay for homeless services — and the city of Santa Barbara, which wants to enact a whopping 20 percent on both medical and recreational pot. Watsonville is looking at a 7 percent tax plus 2 percent on manufacturing, and Cloverdale a sliding scale up of to 15 percent tax on all kinds of businesses (sales, cultivation, distribution, delivery and testing). Long Beach, which already taxes both retail sales and cultivation of medical marijuana, just voted to add taxes on the "manufacture, testing, processing, distributing, packaging or labeling of marijuana or cannabis-related products, medical or non-medical, for wholesale to other retail marijuana businesses."
All these taxes would be charged on top of local sales taxes, and any state tax that is enacted. A pending measure in Sacramento, Rep. Jim Wood's AB 2243, would levy a statewide tax on medical marijuana production between $4.75 and $13.25 per ounce, depending on the size of the farm where it's cultivated. If the AUMA legalization measure passes on the November ballot, a tax of $9.25 per ounce state tax on all commercially cultivated cannabis will be enacted, plus a hefty 15 percent excise tax.
The architect of the Desert Hot Springs taxation model is David McPherson from HdL Companies, which provides "revenue enhancement" and consulting services to local governments in California. McPherson worked on implementing local medical marijuana policy as head of revenue in Oakland, before he was reportedly forced out of his job in 2015. HdL, which advertises its medical marijuana consulting program on its website, is currently partnering with Monterey, Santa Cruz, and Placer counties to develop local tax proposals. The company stands to rake in $75,000 from Marysville alone, to "develop the marijuana business tax program and to review the initial license applicants to determine suitability."
"Taxes are obviously two-edged: they normalize and institutionalize regulatory legal systems, but they hurt patients financially," Oakland-based attorney James Anthony said. "The latter issue will be solved either by economies of scale, or by the underground market, at which point we might also encounter downward tax competition between neighboring jurisdictions."
Anthony predicts this will happen in 3-5 years. In the meantime, look for many more jurisdictions making a grab for tax dollars before the Aug. 12 deadline for putting tax measures on the November ballot. It remains to be seen whether the newly legalized cannabis market will flourish or perish under such heavy taxation and regulation.
What do you think? Are the proposed marijuana taxes excessive?
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I've always had that 'unnatural' shyness, which is bothering me more, the older I get. A few years ago, I found out it is merely a container-word, for so much more than having a red face and being unable to talk or initiate things.
It's a container-word with many faces. Anxiety, not knowing how someone reacts, fear of rejection, shyness and often not being able to see or know what somebody thinks of my awkward behavior at that moment.
It creates a lot of friction, because I don't want to be a bother or a problem to anyone. But yet, it does seem to bother a lot of people, unconsciously..
When getting in contact with friends, I might expect a few rules of engagement, which are not from this time anymore; where social networks have taken over social interactions, albeit, making it more difficult to get better at the rules of engagement. Sensory overload only makes it worse to deal with.
Often, I don't know if I am contacting someone on the right time or at the right place; which defaults me into that no-bother mode and at that same time, I cut off contact unconsciously, by not finding the right time to get in contact. It's a vicious circle without end, which has hurt my heart many times, for not being able to maintain or keep friends.
When being with a friend or anyone I trust, I often don't know when I am disturbing or not, when that right time is to say or ask something.
The quality of conversations mostly depend on that, because stress tends to lock me inside myself, making me a very silent (and for many an as-social) person. When getting in that mode, I tend to either be quiet or talk a lot to find out my fear and/or internal stresses are real or not.
That usually causes a snowball effect, for those not understanding autism and social anxiety. At those moments, I need even more rest, resulting in social isolation.
So, in short, most probably I know why I am so difficult with social engagements, but, what can I do about this?
I got no solutions for this yet, do you?


The Canadian arm of Danish transport and logistics company, DSV recently marked the location of DSV Canada's new head office in Milton, Ontario with a ground-breaking ceremony on 22 November 2018.
In attendance to celebrate this auspicious occasion were DSV Managing Directors, Rob Chanona, Martin Roos and Kyle Birchard welcomed Milton Mayor, Gordon Krantz, Chief Administrative Officer for the Town of Milton Bill Mann, and Manager of Economic Development for Halton, Region Christine Carrington along with Leeswood Construction.
The new 1.1 million square foot facility will be the largest of its kind in the DSV network and will house a multi-client warehouse with state-of-the-art logistics technologies and capabilities, replete with an attached 3-floor, 35,000 square foot administrative office.
The impressive facility will allow DSV Canada to consolidate their Air & Sea, Road and Solutions divisions under one roof.


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Gunnel Jennie Ann Carlson, ogift Persson, född 25 november 1956 i Asarum, Blekinge län, är en svensk trädgårdsjournalist och författare.

Carlson är känd som programledare för TV-programmet Gröna rum. Hon är också initiativtagare till trädgårdsuppvisningsprojektet Tusen trädgårdar. Hon föreläser, medverkar i Go'kväll, står för sajten Trädgårdsriket samt skriver artiklar.

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Carlson, Gunnel (2016) Gunnels 100 gröna pärlor i Trädgårdseuropa Bokförlaget Arena.
Carlson, Gunnel (2020) Susanne Demåne – bland prinsessor och hondjävlar, med Jane Betts: Blekinge Museum.
Carlson, Gunnel, Elisabeth Svalin Gunnarsson: Snödroppar – en galantofil kärlekshistoria: Roos&Tegnér. . Utkommer 15/11 2020.

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  H. M. Konungens medalj i guld av 8:e storleken (Kon:sGM8 2021) för betydande insatser för främjande av svensk trädgårdskultur

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Gunnel Carlsson Presentation på Förlaget Norstedts

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With the focus on improving the quality of education in the country, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar on Thursday launched Samagra Shiksha scheme for school education from pre-school to senior secondary levels.
"In keeping with Prime Minister's commitment of providing 'Sabko Shiksha Achchi Shiksha', and 'Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas', the MHRD has taken a landmark step and completely overhauled the existing schemes in school education to treat schooling as a smooth transition from pre-school, primary, upper primary, secondary and senior secondary level," the minister said.
The scheme will focus on digital education and it will enhance the use of digital technology in education through smart classroom and digital boards.
Subsuming three already existing schemes — Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA), Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) and Teacher Education (TE), this scheme will enhance the learning outcomes of students along with bridging the social and gender gaps in school education.
"Earlier the budget on the three schemes SSA, RMSA and Teacher Education was INR 28,000 crore in 2017-18, but the budget outlay on the new scheme will be now INR 34,000 crore in 2018-19 and INR 41,000crore in 2019-20 — an increase of 20% which shows Central Government's commitment for education," the minister said.
He said that about one million schools will get library grant of INR 5,000 to INR 20,000 to strengthen the libraries to ensure that 'Padhega Bharat Badhega Bharat'.
"Every school will get sports equipment under the Samagra Shiksha at the cost of INR 5000 for Primary, INR 10,000 for Upper Primary and up to INR 25,000 for SSC and HSC schools to inculcate and emphasize the relevance of sports to realise the dream of 'Khelega India Khilega India'," he added.
The scheme will help to shift the focus of student learning from content to competencies. The scheme envisages active participation of all stakeholders especially the parents/guardians, School Management Committee (SMC) members, community and the state functionaries towards the efforts to ensure quality education to children.
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O Castelo de Rosyth () é um castelo atualmente em ruínas localizado em Rosyth, Fife, Escócia.

História
Em 1428 o Barony de Rosyth foi adquirido por Sir David Stewart, de que a família construiu o castelo alguns anos mais tarde. O Barony e castelo mantiveram-se na posse da família Stewart até à linhagem masculina ter terminado no final do século XVII, quando o castelo começou a degradar-se. As iniciais "M R" (Maria Regina) sobre a entrada norte, referem-se à Rainha Maria Stuart, que regressou de França para governar a Escócia em 1561. As iniciais "I S M N" inscritas na lateral de uma janela, crê-se referirem-se a James Stewart de Rosyth e sua mulher, Margaret Napier.

Encontra-se classificado na categoria "A" do "listed building" desde 12 de janeiro de 1971.

Ver também
Lista de castelos da Escócia

Rosyth
Ruínas da Escócia


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Until Sunday, the Ethiopian had managed no better than a third place in his marathon career, earning that spot in both Tokyo and London in last year's elite only races.
But today he was not to be denied as he set off from Blackheath, this time with the returning masses following the elite men through the starting gate.
Lemma's fellow Ethiopian Shura Kitata was fancied to be in contention to retain the crown he won last year, but a hamstring problem he flagged to the media in the pre-race press conference was clearly still an issue, and he was soon well down on the leading pack.
Lemma remained safely tucked into a group containing Tokyo champion Birhanu Legese and last year's second place London finisher Vincent Kipchumba as well as regular podium finisher Mosinet Geremew.
Lemma finally made his move between 35 and 40km, and as he stretched away from his rivals there was no response, his winning time of 2:04:01 some 27 seconds ahead of Kipchumba who came second for the second straight year with Geremew in third.


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KTU.com Prince interview podcast
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Stratus audio stream on Drfunkenberry.com
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Dale Bozzio album Make Love Not War
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Rich Friends KTU 103.5 radio stream
As previously-unreleased song, Rich Friends, was streamed in full (with three station IDs overdubbed onto the track) on KTU.com (the website of New York, NY, USA, radio station 103.5 KTU), beginning on 14 October, 2010. French radio station Europe 1 had previously debuted a clip of the song on 8 October, 2010. The DJ announced the track as coming from a "new" album, 20TEN Deluxe (which is thought to be a deluxe edition of 20TEN, although no other details are currently known).
Sheila E.: From E 2 U EP release
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    # Handle hiding the keyboard if the user
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1.1 Truth or Dare X
1.2 Never Have I Ever
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1.4 iPassion
1.5 Evil Minds
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Truth or Dare X
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Most Likely To
This one is an amazing and fun way to level up your parties and know your friends/partners better!
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Evil Minds
You might be familiar with the game of dumb charades, the classic word game. This game, Evil Minds, is the same, but with a touch of freakiness.
The game follows a basic game play layout of a player getting to enact a particular censored word, which the other players have to decode. The game comes up with different dirty words every time you play.
Any number of people from as low as 2, can play this game. A great party calls for great fun and jokes, and Evil Minds suffices that.
The next up in the list is an interactive story game, which lets you decide how your story plays along.
Choices lets you choose an avatar for yourself, then control the life of the character by taking major decisions for him/her. Every part of the story, including the climax, is in your hands. The game has stories from various genres like horror, comedy, romance, fantasy, etc. offering a great buffet of experiences to choose from.
If you are looking for games like Episodes then Choices is a must try.
It lets you choose your partner, your friends and your life.
Chapters is another great interactive story game. The app also involves personalization of character and control over their life. The game features numerous genres and stories to play in including romance, young adult, comedy and fantasy.
In this game, users have the entire control over the major life decisions of the character. Would you hook up with your hot teacher or would you choose to be loyal to your love? It is all up to you.
The app takes one step forward from the classic interactive story games. To be precise it even allows you to customize the person you want to date too apart from the normal customization options for self character.
The app is also rich in different genres of stories available for you to play in. It lets you exercise full control over the actions of your character to end up in a climax you would love.
If the idea of participating in a viral reality TV show is of any interest to you, Love Island is a treat! It lets you be a part of a reality TV show at the ease of your fingertips and a stable internet connection.
Choose the way the character carries themselves, their decisions and the climax of your very original story. Perform stunts, gain public attention and still be your truest self to win!
The game of Linda Brown- an interactive story, follows the story of Linda Brown a female protagonist who has recently broken up with her boyfriend and now moved into a new city to kick start her career from square 1.
The players control the life decisions of the character and also bear the consequences. It gets relatable to users after only a few minutes of game play. The players are free to choose and create their own climax to the story.
Be it group/party games or couple games or even single player ones, the app market has a lot many to offer. In the above list, there are the best of all categories for you to choose from.
The games are designed to be played in a certain way, and hence an introduction would be really helpful to enjoy it to the fullest. Why delay the fun then? Let's go!
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How to Build Valuable Tailored Audiences for Your Twitter Ads
by Alexandra Tachalova / June 5, 2018 / Leave a Comment
Do you want to reach more receptive audiences with Twitter ads?
Looking for tools to help turn Twitter lists into tailored audiences?
In this article, you'll discover two ways to find and target specialized groups of Twitter users with your ads.
How to Build Valuable Tailored Audiences for Your Twitter Ads by Alexandra Tachalova on Social Media Examiner.
#1: Reveal, Refine, and Target a List of Followers of a Specific Account With FollowerWonk
Targeting the followers of your competitors, relevant influencers, or industry experts is a good way to get your brand or message in front of an audience that's demonstrated an interest in what you offer.
Rather than manually collecting a list of those followers, you can use FollowerWonk to export the followers of a particular Twitter user. To execute the tactics below, you need to sign up for the Target level of FollowerWonk for $29 per month.
First, sign into FollowerWonk.
To start the collection, go to the Analyze tab, enter the name of the user whose followers you want to analyze (for example, @inboundorg), and select Analyze Their Followers from the drop-down list. Now click the Do It button.
This will reveal a report on that account's followers.
Click View All to reveal a downloadable and filterable list of followers. You can sort the followers by number of tweets, followers and followed accounts, account age, and social authority.
To download this data as a CSV file, click the Download icon in the upper-right corner of the report. The exported list contains followers of the user together with the data about individual accounts including sign-up date, last activity date, the number of followers, percentage of tweets with links, and so on.
The next step is to filter the data to exclude spammers, bots, broadcasters, and inactive users. This isn't ground-breaking news, but not all Twitter accounts belong to real people. According to CNBC, Twitter has as many as 48 million bots. Also, there are many inactive users, spammers, and broadcasters who won't bring value to your business.
Filter the data in your spreadsheet to exclude the users who:
Have recently created a Twitter account (there's a high chance new users are bots)
Have a high percentage of retweets and a small number of original tweets
Only tweet links (the chance that these users are bots is very high because real people usually communicate with other users, not just post links)
Have been inactive for a while
Have a small number of followers
By filtering this data, you can tailor the list to the needs of your promo campaign.
When you're happy with the list you've refined, you can upload it to Twitter to create a tailored audience using Audience Manager, and then target those users with a tweet or campaign.
#2: Export and Target Users on Twitter Lists With ScoutZen
The second option for finding an audience to target is to leverage the Twitter lists of well-known blogs and businesses with strong communities. The quality of these audiences is far above average, but compiling a long enough list of users will take some time and effort.
To find relevant Twitter lists, look for lists created by industry-leading Twitter communities and niche experts' accounts. For instance, the Content Marketing Institute has a few Twitter lists that include top experts and speakers from their events.
After you identify a relevant list, you can export the data into a spreadsheet using ScoutZen. The free version of this tool lets you have one active "scout" and export up to 1,000 results as a CSV file. Upgrading to a paid plan (starting at $21 per month) gives you access to additional active scouts, a higher export limit, and more.
To export a Twitter list with ScoutZen, first you need to copy the URL of the Twitter list.
Once you have that, open ScoutZen and click the Added to @somebody/list-slug option button and paste the Twitter list URL into the Criteria field. Then add your email address and click Connect Twitter and Start to create your first scout.
Once ScoutZen has processed the Twitter list for you, it will display a report based on the accounts on the list. You can export the data on up to 1,000 usernames(with your free account) and then use it to create a Twitter tailored audience. To export this data, click Actions at the top right and select Export from the drop-down menu.
When you open the downloaded file, you'll see information about the accounts on the Twitter list including locations, websites, follower counts, and more.
As mentioned, ScoutZen allows you to work with only one list at a time with the free account. So to start a new scout, you would need to archive the previous list. To do that, click the Actions drop-down menu and select Settings. Then click Archive Scout.
5 Tips to Make the Most of the Tweets You Promote via Twitter Ads
After you have an audience to target, you can start working on your ad copy. Ad copy for social media, particularly Twitter, is different from regular social media posts. Because you want to maximize the return on your investment, the general rules of copy creation don't fully apply here.
Here are a few tips that will help you get the most from your Twitter ads:
Promote tweets that have at least a few likes and shares. People are more eager to react to a sponsored tweet when it has at least a few likes and shares. To gather the first likes, you can ask your peers to support your tweet. This will make it much easier to gather more likes, retweets, and clicks.
Give Twitter at least 24 hours to process your audience. If you're using a tailored audience list to support a particular promo campaign, upload your list at least a few days before the campaign is set to begin. In a few cases, my tailored audience couldn't be processed instantly and I wasn't able to launch a campaign on time.
Don't use pictures and videos if you want to maximize the efficiency of the clicks. While images and videos boost engagement rates, around $20 of every $100 will go to image/video clicks. If you want to maximize results, stick with text and a link.
The ideal size of the audience is around 3,000, but not fewer than 2,000. There must be some logic behind the way Twitter processes tailored audiences, but sometimes it's hard to grasp.
I've had Twitter create a 5,000-user audience from a list of 10,000 I uploaded. In other cases, audiences weren't processed at all due to being too small (fewer than 2,000). The ideal number seems to be around 3,000 users per tailored audience that you want to upload.
Adjust your message to the interests of your audience. There are many ways to hook viewers with your ad. The most important are to tailor the message to their interests and catch them at the right moment. It's like saying "Congrats on the new job!" when the user has just made a change, which helps humanize your business.
The same logic works with Twitter ads. If you make your ad highly relevant to the audience in terms of the message and timing, you'll have higher engagement rates.
For a recent Twitter ad campaign targeted to active users of Inbound.org, the ad message invited them to join a conversation thread in the community. The engagement rate was quite high; more than 5% of viewers were interested in the ad.
The engagement rate was even higher (more than 7%) with an ad that invited experts to join the speaker lineup for a digital marketing conference. The ads were targeted to users who were already actively contributing to the digital marketing community (guest-posting to popular blogs, giving speeches at industry events, etc.).
The message and the timing were highly relevant to this audience, and the results of the campaign were encouraging.
Twitter tailored audiences offer extraordinary targeting options and allow you to go beyond the standard ad campaign settings. The more you customize your ad audience, the more qualified you make it, which allows you to spend less money on promotion.
What do you think? Do you use Twitter tailored audiences? Will you use either of the tactics above to build new audiences? Please share your thoughts in the comments below.
Tags: Twitter, Twitter Ads
About the authorAlexandra Tachalova
Alexandra, digital marketing consultant and frequent speaker, is founder of DigitalOlympus - an online digital marketing event. She helps digital businesses to open new markets and boost sales.
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Article care of Body Piercer Ryan Feagan.
Got to pull this mess out a little bit ago, she got these piercings two months ago at C-----s (ear piercing store). The jewelry was way to short to accommodate swelling, they were almost embedded, and a considerable amount of hair had been pulled through the piercings along with the jewelry. This was a mess and she was in a lot of pain. We pulled this garbage out and put in flat back studs from Neometal with proper room for swelling, she felt immediately better. Do yourselves a favor and get your piercing done right the first time! It'll save you a lot of money and pain! C-----s should be shut down. Piercing guns can not be sterilized, the jewelry is not adequate for wear in the body... at all, one size fits all, the list goes on and on.


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Q: Adding additional Variable to URL I'm trying to add additional variables to the url. Eg:
example.co.uk/searchtestingv2.php?categories=rockandpop
and add: &prices=PriceLow
example.co.uk/searchtestingv2.php?categories=rockandpop&value=PriceLow
I've tried this:
$query = parse_url($url, PHP_URL_QUERY);

// Returns a string if the URL has parameters or NULL if not
if( $query ) {
    $url .= '&categories';
}
else {
    $url .= '?categories';
}

Another thing is I've tried to add it manually ie:
http://www.example.co.uk/searchtestingv2.php?categories=rockandpop&value=PriceLow
and it doesn't work.
Here's my code:
if($_GET['categories'] == 'rockandpop') {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts WHERE category='Rock and Pop'";
    }

        if($_GET['categories'] == 'tributebands') {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts WHERE category='Tribute Bands'";
    }

and
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    if($_GET['value'] == 'PriceLow') {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts ORDER BY price ASC";
    }
    elseif($_GET['value'] == 'PriceHigh') {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts ORDER BY price DESC";
    }
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        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts ORDER BY name ASC";
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    elseif($_GET['value'] == 'NameZA') {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts ORDER BY name DESC";

    }

    else {

        $query = "SELECT * FROM searchacts";
    }

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  var regex = new RegExp("[&\\?]" + name + "=");
  if(regex.test(href))
  {
    regex = new RegExp("([&\\?])" + name + "=\\d+");
    window.location.href = href.replace(regex, "$1" + name + "=" + value);
  }
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White Women in American Pop Culture
March 25, 2014 • Jessie Daniels • popular culture
Today begins the third part of the Trouble with White Women series here at the RR blog.
To briefly review where we've been, we started with Part I. White Women in the Early U.S., where we explored white women's role in slavery, lynching, and the racial origins of early feminism. Then, we turned to Part II. The Professionalization of White Women, in which we explored some of the process of learning to be a white woman, the second wave of feminism, affirmative action, and just last week, the trouble with "leaning in" to corporate feminism. Part III takes up the issue of white women in American pop culture.
White women dominate popular culture and the collective imagination about crime in ways that undermine our ability to grasp the reality of race and racism. There are so many examples of the representation of white women in popular culture, it's difficult to narrow the discussion to just a few. Even though white women are seemingly everywhere in popular culture, their race, their whiteness, is rarely remarked upon.
Contemporary Hollywood Movies
While there's some discussion of the lack of leading roles for women in Hollywood movies, there's relatively little attention paid to the fact that the preponderance of the women's roles go to white women. And, it's not simply a question of casting, it's also a matter of what kinds of stories get told. In the scripts, as well as in the casting, white women are often at the center of movies in particularly racialized ways. Here are just a few examples:
In Eat, Pray, Love a recent film based on the best-selling memoir by the same name, and starring Julia Roberts, an upper middle-class white woman leaves her husband, and sets out to travel the world in a journey of self-discovery.
Sandip Roy points out the many similarities between the lead characters' quest and that of colonizers, where:
"They wanted the gold, the cotton, and laborers for their sugar plantations. And they wanted to bring Western civilization, afternoon tea and anti-sodomy laws to godforsaken places riddled with malaria and Beriberi. The new breed is more sensitive, less overt. They want to spend a year in a faraway place on a "journey." But the journey is all about what they can get. Not gold, cotton or spices anymore. They want to eat, shoot films (or write books), emote and leave. They want the food, the spirituality, the romance. … She tries not to be the foreign tourist but she does spend an awful lot of time with the expats whether it's the Swede in Italy, the Texan in India or the Brazilian in Bali. The natives mostly have clearly assigned roles. Language teacher. Hangover healer. Dispenser of fortune-cookie-style wisdom. Knowledge, it seems, is never so meaningful as when it comes in broken English, served up with puckish grins, and an idyllic backdrop. The expats have messy histories, but the natives' lives, other than that teenaged arranged marriage in India, are not very complicated. They are there as the means to her self discovery. After that is done, it's time to book the next flight."
Although Roy names quite clearly the first-world privilege of this movie character, I would extend that analysis to include her race and her gender. While it's possible to imagine a woman of color in the leading role, or even a (white) man in the leading role, it's unlikely that such a film would have been produced had the lead been say, Tyson Beckford (lovely as he is). More to the point, if we're engaged by this story of a white woman who struggles because she has "no passion, no spark, no faith" and needs to go away for one year, this raises the question (as Roy does) about where do people in Indonesia and India go away to when they lose their passion, spark and faith? It's precisely because this is a white woman that producers believe that we as an audience will be interested in this story.
The Sandra Bullock vehicle Blind Side is another example of the white woman as a central, racialized figure in a movie. As you may recall, the movie is based on the true story of a white woman who adopts an African American boy who comes from a poor family. I wrote about this moviewhen it came out last year and noted that it's a version of the "white savior film" that many sociologists have studied. The film was a huge hit at the box office (grossing approximately$255 million dollars) and earned Sandra Bullock an Academy Award for Best Actress. It also seems to have prompted something of a life-imitating-art moment for Bullock who, shortly after the film – and her marriage – ended, adopted an African American child.
The entire premise of the film Blind Side rests on the race and gender of the lead character; there's no story here without the central fact that this is a white woman adopting a black child. Imagine a Tyler Perry production where Janet Jackson is the playing the lead and she takes in a poor, African American child. It might get produced (by Perry and maybe Oprah) but it's not going to do $255 million at the box office and Ms. Jackson (lovely as she is) is not getting an Oscar nod. The whiteness of the lead female character is the sine qua non of theBlind Side.
The appeal of white women as lead characters holds true in films produced outside Hollywood as well. The wildly popular Milliennium trilogy of books by the late Swedish journalist Stieg Larsson has been made into a series of films. In the first of these, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, down-on-his-luck journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist) joins forces with bisexual-computer-hacker-in-a-black-leather-jacket Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to fight a ring of serial killer neo-Nazis (no seriously).
The Lisbeth Salander character – both in print and on film – is being widely heralded as afeminist icon for the current era (although there's some debate about whether the feminism in Larsson's trilogy is weighed down by the heavy dose of sexual violence). The Salander character's Otherness is marked through her bi-sexuality, yet she remains a "white savior." As sociologist Matthew Hughey has noted about the classic white savior from a film of another era, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Lisbeth Salander embodies a new white savior with a punk, quasi-feminist flair.
Missing White Woman Syndrome
One of the most telling, and damaging, ways that white women's central place in the collective imagination shapes how we think about race and racism has to do with crime. The overwhelmingly majority of crime in the U.S. is intra-racial crime, that is crime committed against people by members of their own race. And, sadly, a disproportionate amount of crime that occurs is black-on-black crime. Our jails and prisons house some 2 million incarcerated people, the vast majority of those black and brown people. Yet, what consistently captures the collective imagination (and the news cycle) are white women who've gone missing.
The undeniably tragic case of Natalee Holloway, who went missing while on vacation in Aruba, is just the most recent in a long line of missing white women who have captured the public's attention, including: Polly Klaas, Chandra Levy, Elizabeth Smart, Laci Peterson, and Brianna Denison. This phenomenon is becoming so widely recognized that the Missing White Woman Syndrome now has its own wikipedia entry. As communications scholar Carol Liebler points out in a forthcoming article in Communication, Culture & Critique, the Missing White Woman Syndrome is also about middle-class status and perceived attractiveness. Conversely, when black women are victims of crime, the convergence of gender, race, and class oppressions in the news coverage tends to minimize the seriousness of the violence, portrays most African American women as stereotypic Jezebels whose lewd behavior provoked assault, and absolves the perpetrators of responsibility. (For more on this, see Meyers, "African American Women and Violence: Gender, Race, and Class in the News," Critical Studies in Media Communication, Vol. 21, No. 2, June 2004, pp. 95–118).
This fetishizing of white womanhood has expanded to childhood. There is perhaps no more telling example of our culture's obsession with white femininity than the swirl of media attention around the death of JonBenét Ramsey.
When 6 year old JonBenét Ramsey was found dead in the basement of her parents' home in Boulder, Colorado in 1996, there was extensive media coverage of the investigation. All of the networks covered the murder both on their evening newscasts, and other shows such as ""Larry King Live," ""Dateline" and ""Hard Copy," all did dozens, if not hundreds, of shows around the case. Just the year before, in 1995, 763 children under age 9 were murdered in the U.S., according to the most recent FBI statistics available. This means that, on average, two children in this age bracket are murdered every day. Yet little, if anything, is known about these children or the circumstances of their deaths because these stories are rarely are these stories picked up by national media. Scholar Carol Leiber, noted at the time,
Her death should not be more newsworthy than that of another child because she was a white little girl with well-to-do parents. But it has been.
As with the adult version of the Missing White Woman Syndrome, the Ramsey case brought together elements of race, gender and class. And, because the child had been involved in pageants, the case stirred up a lot of debate about the appropriateness of pageants for young girls and, among some feminists, concern about the sexualization of young girls. The sexualization of Ramsey was also racialized. Her success in beauty pageants was premised on her whiteness, as well as her overt sexualization.
Why Does it Matter that White Women are Central to Popular Culture?
So, what difference does it make that white women are placed at the center in pop culture and our collective imagination about crime? In my view, this matters for several reasons, including:
The relentless focus on white women is a key part of the white racial frame. This frame undermines our ability to grasp the reality of race and racism.
The Missing White Woman is a distraction. When our collective attention around crime is on the latest Missing White Woman, as tragic is that is for the individual family of that woman, what we're not talking about is the mass incarceration and the establishment of a New Jim Crow that disproportionately affects black and brown people.
White feminism, without attention to racial justice, makes an easy partnership with white supremacy. As I noted previously, white feminism – if it's only focused on a kind of crude parity with (white) men – is not incompatible racism. In fact, many of the avowed white supremacist women I studied in Cyber Racism view themselves as feminists. And, there's nothing inconsistent between white supremacy and white feminism. That's why it's so important for a critically engaged feminism include a committment to racial justice.
White women hold a central place in the western, cultural imagination (for more on this point, see Vron Ware's classic book, Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History, Verso Press, 1992). Yet, their whiteness often goes unremarked upon (for more on this point, see Ruth Frankenberg's excellent book, from which this series of posts is borrowing a title,White Women, Race Matters, University of Minnesota Press, 1993).
Tags: popular culture, white feminism, white women, whiteness
Great points about needing more stories of women of color in our narratives. And how we care more about missing white women than women of color. I'm in total agreement.
My problem with this article is saying that because racist feminists call themselves feminists, that's proof that feminism is compatible with racism because feminism doesn't challenge racism.
That's circular reasoning. And not proof of anything.
For example, one could say " I believe in white supremacy and I believe in equal pay for women."
Under your analysis, that's proof that liberal feminism doesn't address race. But I could just as easily say that what that statement proves is that the white supremacist doesn't realize that the principle of equal pay for women, in theory, benefits women of all races. So, it's not proof that liberal feminism is compatible with racism. It's proof that white supremacist "feminist" are clueless and don't realize they are contradicting themselves.
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it seems like all "Be Human" ramblings are an exercise in white fragility. We all know that white women experience sexism and misogyny. But the fact of the matter is that other women experience these things differently due to intersecting axis of oppression. Also, due to your priviledge as a white cisgendered woman, your voice gets elevated above those of other women. This is what these articles are about and it seems like you missed the point.
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The aims of this systematic review were to collect a list of published articles on dental faculty development and to determine the types and location of programs evaluated and years of publication. A subset of selected articles were then assessed using Kirkpatrick assessment model four levels: learner reaction, participant learning, participant behavioral change, and changes in organizational practice. The search, conducted in 2016, comprised all potentially relevant articles in the following databases: PubMed, EMBASE via Ovid, and ERIC. The study screening was done by three reviewers in multiple stages: by title, abstract, and full text review. Following deduplication, 257 titles were obtained; of those, 102 articles were selected for abstract review. As a result of that review, 32 articles were excluded, leaving 70 for data extraction. The majority of the 70 articles were about programs in the U.S., and two-thirds were studies conducted at individual academic institutions. Most focused on faculty development initiatives (n=49), followed by retention (n=22), recruitment (n=16), and/or promotion/tenure (n=11). The year with the highest number of published articles was 1991 (n=10, 14%), followed by 2007 and 2011 (n=6, 8.6% each). Among the 12 articles evaluated with the Kirkpatrick model, most assessed Levels 1, 2, and 3, but very few addressed Level 4. Research in those 12 articles was conducted primarily at two dental schools: New York University College of Dentistry (n=5) and University of Florida College of Dentistry (n=4). This study generated a varied list of published articles on faculty development, but the results point to the need for research at more institutions and using additional methodologies.


Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways we communicate. Stories trigger emotional responses and hold the potential for your message to become embedded into memory.
For marketers, this is an incredibly useful skill to build brand affinity and customer loyalty.
Below we outline the four key elements of business storytelling and offer guidance on how you can use them to your advantage.
First and foremost, research your customers and how they interact with your brand. Fundamental questions that explore their pain points can help you to frame your message in a way that will resonate.
What do we mean by 'make it human'? Human truths, like our need to feel clean or our desire to be loved, can be exploited in brand storytelling. When we build our stories around these themes, they elicit emotional connection.
Consider Dove's wildly successful "real beauty" campaign. The human truth they explored was our desire for acceptance, validation, and love. Telling the story of the innate beauty of the female body, regardless of shape and size, resonated with millions.
The best stories are simple. Just like you were told at school, your story should have a clear beginning, event, and conclusion. But for our purposes, we're going to rejig this into 'emotion, fact and action'.
Start with emotion. This sets the tone for the story. It's how you want your audience to feel. In the Dove campaign, the desired response was pride and empowerment. But you may choose to focus on any number of emotions such as happiness, fear, desire, regret, etc.
Then comes fact. The middle section of your story supports the truth of your human truth and gives the message substance. Whatever your claim, make it seem genuine.
And finish with action. The best stories inspire action.
Every story needs a central character, especially brand stories. It humanises your message so that audiences can identify with your company's role in the story.
Choose a likeable figure and build the emotional story around them. And make it powerful but real. At the end of the day, the emotional connection people have with your message is the most important part.
Digital marketers can't overlook the emotional quality of their stories. After all, purchases are based on emotion, not reason.