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Thai filmmaker's tale of toddler frozen by parents was 5 years in making (Interview)
By Veerabhatr Sriyananda and Chayanit Itthipongmaetee Oct 9, 2020 | 12:42pm Bangkok time
Photo: Pailin Wedel / Courtesy
Five years ago, a Thai toddler died of a rare brain tumor. Her devastated parents made the unorthodox decision to freeze the 2-year-old girl's brain in an American facility – making her the youngest person ever to be cryogenically preserved.
That set the stage for science and Buddhist beliefs to clash as faith ran up against reality.
"Our body is like hardware, and the soul is software," Sahatorn says in a scene from Hope Frozen: A Quest to Live Twice by Thai-American journalist Pailin Wedel. "It's like we had manufactured a defective computer, so we have to put it on hold. We believe that the computer could work again."
Telling that family's deeply personal story took Pailin five years of filmmaking to create the 79-minute feature documentary, which premiered at the 2019 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, where it was named best international feature. Since then, Hope Frozen moved on to dozens more film festivals and events before hitting Netflix worldwide last month.
Couple freezes toddler for future revival
"Hope Frozen is the biggest, longest and hardest project I've ever done. The very first time I met the family was more than five years ago. So it took me five years from production, to editing, to festivals, to Netflix. It was a journey that took away half of my 30s," Pailin, 38, said with a laugh.
Pailin, whose parents are Thai and American, began working at newspapers 16 years ago before embracing video. She spoke to us about the making of Hope Frozen and shared her views on journalism after working in the field for 16 years. Here how she came to tell the story and the response so far in our lightly edited conversation below.
How did Hope Frozen start?
My husband, who's American, saw this story going viral on Thai television, so he invited me to do a news story on the family. So what was supposed to be a few minutes of conversation turned into a much more in-depth, more than hour-long conversation about life, how technology redefined the meaning of death for them and how they honestly and deeply care for and love their daughter.
And that just really touched me on both the emotional level and intellectual level. And I had so many questions I wanted to ask, so they spent the next two and a half years trying to answer them.
What was it like to follow a grieving family?
The family was really gracious and open right from the beginning. They're academics too, so they truly believe that putting their story out there, giving out information, even if a lot of people don't agree with them, is always a good thing. Because isn't it a good thing to have debate in society? Where would society be if we can't discuss things?
Intellectually, they were always very open and honest and were really great with having a camera around … I didn't have to push them to talk to me, or to film during an inconvenient time for them … So they've always been very open and honest with me, and I'm extremely grateful.
What was the most difficult challenge for you as the director?
Pailin Wedel. Photo: Pailin Wedel / Courtesy
I think the most difficult thing that keeps me up at night is how this film is going to affect them. They've always been really open, but I can't control what the public will think of it … That's what is really difficult, you know, knowing that I really want to make the film, knowing that this is a story that a lot of people will connect with. It raises these questions about what is life and death, and science and faith. Those are intellectual questions about our very existence.
It also connects with the audience on an emotional level because of this great love the family has for their daughter … I think it's something that will push the audience to reflect on who they are, and what they believe.
So, I guess the most difficult thing is to make sure that I tell them [the audience] the story as honestly as I can, but also be aware of how things will affect the story. The last thing I want to do is to retraumatize them.
Did you expect your first documentary to win this much acclaim and be picked up by Netflix?
Everything has been completely unexpected. It was incredibly difficult to fund this film. I spent two years applying to 14 different funding bodies and pitched seven times to a live audience. I didn't get anything until two years, on one of my last pitches. When we edited the first cut and sent it to some festivals, we were rejected by all of them. But we did get a lot of feedback from them, so we incorporated that feedback into the second cut, and that's the cut that got a lot into these festivals.
Share with us the moment Hope Frozen was announced the best international feature documentary.
So we were able to premiere at Hot Docs, which is North America's largest documentary film festival. The festival only paid for three days of hotel, so the whole team was planning to leave before the awards ceremony. But then I got an email that said "Hey, I think you might wanna stay." So I thought "Ooh, we might've won something," like one of the smaller prizes, like Best New Director. So we sat at the award ceremony, and they called out award after award, and they called out Best New Director, and it wasn't us. So I thought that they sent the email to the wrong person.
Of course, the biggest award is the last one announced during the night. They called our name, and I was completely surprised. We were up against a documentary about Syria, a documentary about migration in Europe. So we were up against some really big topics of our time, and here we are, just a little film from Thailand about a single family. We never thought that it could ever happen … Everything has been unexpected and miraculous to me.
What were the most intense assignments you've done so far?
I was a still photographer when I first started. Back then, I covered a lot of the Redshirt and Yellowshirt protests, and the violence it brought upon. I remember being on the frontlines of the protest, with the Molotov cocktails being thrown and all. I remember being one of the women out there, and the men were, like, "What are you doing here?"
I was also producing an investigative film for Al Jazeera, and I went to a site which was a Muslim school that was burned down while the students were still in it. That was probably one of the most heart-wrenching experiences that I've had. Actually, people came up to me and said, "You know, these people burned their houses down." Obviously, that's not true, and it's one of those moments where I've had to grasp whether humanity has the capacity to empathize with all people.
Do you see videojournalism as the future of journalism?
No, nothing is the future of journalism. Good journalism is the future of journalism. Good journalism and funding, to be exact. I come from a family of writers and academics, and I think as long as the story is done really well, that's the future, no matter the medium.
"Hope Frozen" is currently available on Netflix.
This story originally appeared in BK.
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Q: Passing data to server Xamarin JSON I am sending data to my server. The total number of date is more than 2000. I am sending the data one at a time. How can I send the data all at once? It takes so long for the data to be sent. I am using JSON Objects to send my data. How can I get the all the data from my local database and send it to my server all at once?
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Igor Stimac: We showed that we can play against teams like Oman
The Blue Tigers are yet to register their first win in this qualifying campaign.
India succumbed to a narrow 0-1 defeat against Oman at the Sultan Qaboos Stadium on 20th November, after Muhsen Al-Ghassani scored the solitary goal in the 33rd minute. India head coach Igor Stimac spoke to the media following the match.
With this defeat, the Blue Tigers are still winless in their group, after five FIFA World Cup 2022 qualifiers. Igor Stimac was understandably not happy with the result. He said, "I am disappointed with the result, we lost the game, but we congratulate Oman and wish them good luck for the upcoming Gulf Cup."
"The game was interesting. Oman had more chances and they deserved to win. We were the better side in the second half. We were pushing really hard, but we couldn't score the goal and that has been our main problem in these five games."
"All our goals have come from set-pieces and it is obvious that we are missing players who can score goals. We are moving well and fighting hard, but we don't have accuracy in the box."
The Croatian also did not hesitate to point out the positives from the game. He said, "We showed that we can play against teams like Oman, they are a quality side. My players made me proud even today, but they could have done better in the first half. This is the learning process and we will try to get better results in future."
The Blue Tigers had numerous injuries
Injuries have been the Achilles Heel for the Indian national team and against Oman the story wasn't any different, with Stimac losing crucial players like Pronay Halder and Adil Khan in the first half itself.
He said, "When you need to make two changes in the first half due to injuries, that upsets the whole team and all the work. But, we were facing the same problem even before. Even Oman were suffering from such problems. They were also down and injured. They don't have many competitive games. They need more competitive games to play high-intensity games for 90 minutes.
"But, today, we faced a few different challenges. Our only player who can tackle well suffered a shoulder injury. We couldn't pick up on the second balls."
With the Blue Tigers facing Asian champions Qatar next, Stimac believes that he is going to stay true to his system and won't change it based on the opponents.
"We are not changing our system for anyone. We are developing our game and we are improving inside our system. If we start changing our system because of the teams we are facing, we are not going to improve. It's as simple as that. So, we stick with our system. We are improving in positions."
"We are trying to develop our players' strength and condition. I want my India to play without fear against anyone because that's the beauty of football. Never mind who is on the opposite side, you have a chance to win the game. But, if you are adapting your way of playing according to the opposite team, you must be weak, you show weakness. I don't want my team to show weakness," Igor Stimac added.
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Impressed by Ashique Kuruniyan
There were questions raised when Ashique Kuruniyan started the game as a left-back, replacing Mandar Rao Dessai. However, Stimac feels that the Bengaluru FC man put in a better shift from the back.
"I decided to go with Ashique Kuruniyan in that position because of how he played against Afghanistan in the second half, while in that position. He is very quick and he can run past three players. He is very dangerous when he comes from behind."
"He's not a goalscorer. So, it's the same for him, whether he plays as a left full-back or left winger. He served really well. I think he has the capacity to play in Europe. He is very young, very quick. He learns very quick and he is one of the players who will have a good future in Indian football," Igor Stimac concluded.
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The NDP's Gord Johns celebrated after being voted in as the new Courtenay-Alberni riding's first MP on Monday.
Local mayors excited to work with new MP Gord Johns.
Both mayors expected to see a Johns victory Monday night.
Gord Johns' big win on Monday that launched him into the federal government as the NDP MP of Courtenay-Alberni was both expected and exciting news for the West Coast's mayors.
"I'm not one bit surprised. I, all along, felt that Gord was the strongest candidate for the riding and that he would do very well," Tofino Mayor Josie Osborne told the Westerly on Monday night after Johns' victory was announced.
Osborne believes Johns, who spent time on Tofino's municipal council and also served as the executive director of the Tofino-Long Beach chamber of commerce, will bring a valuable understanding of West Coast culture to Ottawa.
"He understands the kinds of struggles that people face and he also understands why people make a decision to live in a place like Tofino and that's important. Ottawa is a big city, very far away, and it's important that our MP remembers our Vancouver Island values," she said.
She suggested that aside from his solid attributes as a candidate, Johns' campaign also benefited from local loyalty to his party.
"Obviously the policies of the NDP spoke to a lot of voters and I think it's fantastic," she said.
The West Coast now finds itself with an MP who is not a member of the governing party for the first time since 2006 as Justin Trudeau's Liberals earned a majority government.
"It seems there is always an advantage to have an MP who is in the governing party. I wish that wasn't the case," Osborne said.
Ucluelet Mayor Dianne St. Jacques was also not surprised to see Johns celebrating a victory on Monday night.
"Gord has worked really hard on this for quite some time now and I think his work has paid off for him," she told the Westerly.
She shared in Osborne's optimism about Johns' potential in his new position.
She added Johns is familiar with the West Coast.
"I've always had good conversations with Gord about what's going on here in Ucluelet and there's no question in my mind that he gets it and he gets us," she said. "He's so approachable and I have a lot of respect for him.
She suggested Johns is well equipped to work with the Liberal majority and cited Trudeau's victory speech where Canada's new prime minister promised to work with members of the other parties.
"Trudeau's quite an impressive young man himself and he's saying he's going to listen to everyone that was elected. That's the kind of message that he's portraying right now and I live in hope that he will," she said.
She noted one of Johns' key talking points during his campaign was bringing the Amphitrite Point Coast Guard Station back online in Ucluelet and she assured he will be reminded of this early and often.
"That will be one of the first conversations we have," she said.


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Crackle issues on our test model; less full-featured for OS X.
Solid and quite heavy, this angular metal box feels like it could survive a nuclear war.
The Studio 22 Pro's two XLR/jack combo inputs and two 1/4-inch jack outputs are supplemented by two pairs of phonos, with outs mirroring the outputs and ins mixed with the inputs. The box also features MIDI I/O with activity monitor indicators, 48V phantom power and buttons to switch between instrument and line level signals.
Main out and headphone volume levels are set independently, and direct monitoring is controlled by a Mix knob. Annoyingly, our test unit exhibited a bit of crackle at the anticlockwise end of the Mix knob's range.
Audio quality is impressive, albeit limited to 16-bit/44.1kHz under OS X. Windows users can download the ASIO driver from the Prodipe website for latency as low as 2ms, the ability to combine up to four Studio 22 Pros and higher bit-depth recording.


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4-Star DE Keyon Brown Commits to Georgia for 2014
Keyon Brown has committed to UGA for 2014.
UGA has picked up a verbal commitment from four-star defensive end Keyon Brown of Wauchula, Florida. He is the 17th commitment for Georgia's 2014 recruiting class.
Brown (6-3, 240, 4.77) currently plays for Hardee Senior High School in Wauchula. He committed to the Bulldogs over offers from several top schools, including Clemson, Florida State, Miami (FL), Ole Miss, NC State, Pittsburgh, South Florida, and UCF.
Rivals.com rates Brown as a 4-star recruit, No. 89 in the Rivals100 2014, and the No. 5 weakside defensive end in the country. Scout.com also rates him 4-stars and the No. 18 defensive end.
"Georgia has really came after me hard," Brown told UGASports.com. "I like the program, the facilities, and the environment there. It is a small town that reminds me of where I'm from."
Brown is the third defensive lineman to commit to Georgia for 2014. He joins Kendall Baker of Atlanta, GA, Lamont Gaillard of Fayetteville, NC, and Dontavius Russell of Carrollton, GA.
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Q: Git repo sync - connection lost I'm trying to download android source (Cyanogenmod). i have spent more than 12hrs to download 2.5GB files, Now my connection lost for a while, it shows
 error: RPC failed; result=56, HTTP code = 200
    fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
    fatal: early EOF
    fatal: index-pack failed
    fatal: unable to access 'https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/misc/': Could not resolve host: android.googlesource.com
    fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/CyanogenMod/android_packages_inputmethods_LatinIME/': Could not resolve host: github.com
    fatal: unable to access 'https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/misc/': Could not resolve host: android.googlesource.com
    error: Cannot fetch CyanogenMod/android_packages_inputmethods_LatinIME
    error: Cannot fetch platform/prebuilts/misc
    error: Exited sync due to fetch errors

Can i resume the download or i should download from the beginning, please help me to resume my download.
Thank you!

A: Once you have applied the fix that I describe below, you should simply re-run repo sync in order to resume and fully complete the resource synchronization process that was interrupted by these fatal errors.
The solution to the DNS-related error that you've encountered [fatal: Could not resolve host] is detailed on the Known Issues resolution page at Google's AOSP Developer Site. Apply this fix by adding the appropriate host entry for your remote repository android.googlesource.com inside your development machine's /etc/hosts config file. Begin by clicking here and here to execute the IP address lookup tool provided by the free web resource: http://network-tools.com/nslook/.
Google's full description of this issue with detailed resolution I've included here:

Difficulties syncing the source tree (DNS issues).
Symptom: When running repo sync, the process fails with various errors
    related to not recognizing the hostname. One such error is
    <urlopen error [Errno -2] Name or service not known>.
    EDIT: Another fatal error might be Could not resolve host.
Cause: Some DNS systems have a hard time coping with the high number
    of queries involved in syncing the source tree (there can be several
    hundred requests in a worst-case scenario).
Fix: Manually resolve the relevant hostnames, and hard-code those
    results locally.

You can resolve them with the nslookup command, which will give you
      one numerical IP address for each of those (typically in the "Address"
      part of the output).

    $ nslookup googlesource.com
    $ nslookup android.googlesource.com

You can then hard-code them locally by editing /etc/hosts, and adding two
    lines in that file, of the form:

    aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd   googlesource.com
    eee.fff.ggg.hhh   android.googlesource.com

Note that this will only work as long as the
    servers' addresses don't change, and if they do and you can't connect
    you'll have to resolve those hostnames again and edit etc/hosts
    accordingly.

A: You don't resume a clone, you can try a shallow clone instead.
As mentioned here:

Error code 56 indicates a curl receive error of CURLE_RECV_ERROR which means there was some issue that prevented the data from being received during the clone process.
  Typically this is caused by a network setting, firewall, VPN client, or anti-virus that is terminating the connection before all data has been transferred.

You can know more with:
set GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1
set GIT_TRACE=1
set GIT_CURL_VERBOSE=1

You can try changing http.postBuffer or switching to ssh url clone.

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Could not resolve host: android.googlesource.com

Which could be a DNS server problem. Try first restarting your modem in order to flush its DNS cache. If you're still seeing the problem, try changing your Primary DNS to either one these two publicized DNS servers that Google operates:

*

*8.8.8.8

*8.8.4.4

Note that, if your Primary DNS has already been configured as described and you've also long-rebooted the router without resolution (pun intended), then adjusting your Primary DNS configuration to point at other public DNS servers is not likely to fix your situation. However, a reputable list of no-cost public servers can be found here.

A: Spartan i checked the Cyanogenmod its working normally i prefer use internet download manager.i download 60mp and recall it.successfully fetched and resumed.


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In Rhythm. Advanced Studies, Erik Højsgaard, composer and professor of aural training at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, provides a detailed guide to reading and understanding advanced use of rhythm. The 451 exercises and their corresponding notes allow those professionally involved with music to further develop their technical and practical skills in this specific area. The book also includes exercises aimed at developing modern composition techniques.
Danish professor and composer Per Nørgård writes:
The many aspects of aural training in this book by Erik Højsgaard have been inspired by his deep insight into western music and its thousand-year-old traditions. Written with clarity that allows for rhythm and polyphony to be presented in an understandable form, Højsgaard's book is both musical and entertaining. There is no doubt that one gains new insights and musical joys after working through the book's exercises.
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Joel Bouhey is a black belt under Luis Heredia. Joel spends a lot of time training and techning his innovative style of Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. One of Joel's specialties is the reverse triangle. He has even released an entire series on the reverse triangle here at BJJ Fanatics. The reverse triangle is a sneaky and often under utilized submissions. You can often catch opponents off guard no matter what their level of skill is. Today Joel is here to demonstrate one of his favorite techniques, the knee on belly to reverse triangle. Joel Bouhey has used this many times successfully in high level competition before, so you know it is battle tested and proven works. If you have trained Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or other forms of grappling martial arts you will likely be familiar with the knee on belly. The knee on belly can be one of the most demoralizing positions to catch your opponent in. It is a great position for both submitting and transitioning with. Joel will show us how he uses the knee on belly to set up his most notorious and powerful submission, the reverse triangle.
Watch the video below of Joel Bouhey demonstrating the technique and then we will break it down. Check it out now!
Some times when you are attacking the arm bar from knee on stomach you can bait your opponent. Other times with a really strong training partner you will get knocked over. Joel Bouhey starts off the technique with his knee across his opponent's stomach. He dives forward so he can set an under hook. Pay special attention to how Joel Bouhey uses his head to trap his training partner's arm. From here he moves into the straight arm lock position. He steps his leg around his opponent's head to go for the arm bar. Normally your opponent will counter this by sitting up and pushing into you. This is the movement Joel Bouhey exploits to reach back and get his grip on his training partner's arm. Now that he has the proper grips he adjusts his body position, extends his leg to take away all remaining space, and then locks up the triangle.
What I like the most about this technique is how it plays right off of the failed arm lock. Let us be honest, a lot of guys are going to see the straight arm lock coming for days, and they are going to know how to defend it. But what they will not know how to defend is this reverse triangle. Using your opponent's instinctive defense mechanisms against them is a great way to keep moving into harder, lesser known submissions. The beautiful thing about Joel Bouhey's reverse triangle series is that it shows you how versatile the triangle truly is. It is not a common approach to hit a reverse triangle off of a failed arm lock, but this demonstration from Joel shows you how a bit of creativity can really go a long way.
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Could devolved tax powers be coming to your region?
The dust may still be settling on the Scotland independence referendum, but its legacy – the call for more devolved tax powers – is already making itself known.
One of the biggest selling points the 'Better Together' campaign blokes ran on was offering Scotland devolved tax powers if the vote came down to stay in the union. Now that the No votes have been tallied there's been demands for Westminster to live up to its promise – and that means that there could very soon be a completely separate tax rate for Scottish residents.
However, this newly promised devolution has ignited the imagination of the English. South of the border, a new research study conducted by the Institute of Directors found that more than two out of every three managing directors wouldn't mind seeing the same thing begin to happen in other areas of the UK – more specifically there's a large push for devolved tax rates on a city-by-city basis.
Now I'm not going to sit here and say that instituting such a new programme would be easy. Obviously it would e a rat's nest of problems to unravel, and it would easily mean that no one would be able to do their taxes without the help of some very well-educated contractor accountants that can navigate this new economic landscape. Not only that but if the entire UK ends up with devolved taxation on a per-city basis there could be some serious competition as far as where people want to live and work.
This could cause some serious problems. Imagine if local authorities end up in a competition 'price war' with one another, driving their income taxes down lower and lower to attract new residents. Sure that might be good for anyone who wants a low tax burden, but what happens when these tax rates fall so low that the revenue each city collects isn't enough to keep things running smoothly? Why, they'll have to raise taxes – and risk a mass exodus from the region to the next-closest one with lower taxes.
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Ted Grant was born in South Africa, just before the first world war in a place called Germiston, just outside Johannesburg. His father, Max Blank, had emigrated to South Africa from Western Russia, and was engaged in a mineral business, while his mother Adelle came from Le Marais in Paris. They married at the turn of the century, Adelle being 16 years of age and Max 32. They had two sons, Isador and Isaac (Ted), and three daughters, Rose, Rachael and Zena.
After a long marriage, their parents eventually divorced, and after a six-month stay with his father, Ted went to live permanently with his mother. While she ran a small grocery shop in Johannesburg, Ted was sent off to boarding school and his sisters to the convent to continue their education.
In his youth, he was inspired by events in Russia. But, as is so often the case, his first contact with the revolutionary movement had an accidental character. In order to supplement the family income, his mother took in lodgers, one of whom was Ralph (Raff) Lee, who had been a member of the South African Communist Party since 1922, but was expelled during the first Stalinist purges. A dedicated communist, Ralph had regular discussions with Ted, introducing him to the writings of Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Maxim Gorky, Jack London and others. Within a short time, the reading material graduated to the writings of Marx and Engels, as well as Lenin. By the age fifteen Ted was a convinced Marxist. Ralph also managed to win over Ted's younger sister Zena.
Lee, with others including the fifteen-year old Ted Grant, had made contact with the international Trotskyist movement in early 1929 via the American Militant, which had been dispatched to South Africa by the newly founded Communist League of America.
These South African Trotskyists set themselves the task of organising a group, and they managed to pull together half a dozen members. Despite their isolation and weak forces, they turned towards the workers and re-established the Johannesburg Laundry Workers Union in 1934. By the autumn of 1934, two members of the group left for "wider horizons" in England. They were Ted Grant and Max Basch. Ted was never to return. In a stop-over in France, they met Trotsky's son, Leon Sedov, who was a member of the International Secretariat and co-ordinator of the work of the International Communist League, who was later murdered by Stalin's agents.
On their arrival in Britain in December 1934, Max Basch changed his name to Sid Frost and Ted changed his from Isaac Blank to Ted Grant - apparently "borrowed" from two of the ship's crew. In the same way, Trotsky had taken his name from one of his old tsarist jailors. Ted did this for personal reasons - to protect his family: whatever happened to him, he did not want anything bad to happen to his family back home in South Africa.
In London, they both joined the Marxist Group inside the Independent Labour Party. However, the possibilities for revolutionary work were becoming less and less, and within a matter of months, Ted Grant left the ILP to join the Trotskyists working within the Labour Party's youth organisation - the Labour League of Youth. From then on, Ted helped to develop the Bolshevik-Leninist Group within the Labour Party, which later became known as the Militant Group, after the name of its paper. At this time, their main work consisted of fighting the growing Stalinist influence within the youth movement.
Shortly after his arrival in Britain, Ted also became actively involved in the struggle against fascism, engaging together with other comrades in running battles with the Moselyite Black Shirts in the East End of London. Here he participated in the famous battle of Cable Street, when the workers of the East End mobilised to stop the fascists in their tracks. There exists a photograph of Ted on a barricade in Long Lane, Bermondsey, South London, taken in 1937, which was reproduced in the 1948 edition of his pamphlet The Menace of Fascism, published by the Revolutionary Communist Party.
Ted Grant's early years in the South African group had given him a sound theoretical grounding in Marxism which placed him in good stead for the role he was to later play in the Trotskyist movement. After a few years, the failure of the leadership of the Militant Group to develop the tendency in any meaningful way, led to a growing dissatisfaction within its ranks. By the autumn of 1937, Ted's own branch in Paddington had become the most active section of the Group, selling the bulk of its newspapers, intervening in the wider labour movement, and engaging in extensive public activity.
Towards the end of the year, a row erupted over the election of the Group's leadership, where slanders were circulated about Ralph Lee. Lee, who had been a key figure in South Africa, had recently joined the Militant Group after emigrating with a group Trotskyists during the summer. This episode led to a walkout by Ralph, Ted and seven others that ended with the formation of a new group called the Workers International League (WIL), in December 1937.
The young comrades of the WIL turned their backs on the failed sectarian methods of the past and turned their faces firmly towards the broader layers of the organised working class. In reality, this marked the real beginning of British Trotskyism. Grant played a leading role in this work, not only within the newly-formed Workers International League but also within the Revolutionary Communist Party founded in March 1944.
The war proved a testing time. By the end of 1940, Ralph had returned to South Africa for personal and health reasons, and the work of building the organisation fell on the shoulders of the other leading comrades, especially Ted, Millie and Jock Haston.
The WIL enthusiastically embraced the new proletarian military policy when Trotsky first put it forward. This developed and deepened the Internationalists' position during the First World War, and, while maintaining a principled opposition to the imperialist war, allowed the Trotskyists to connect with the working class.
The WIL decisively challenged the attacks of the Stalinists, who after June 1941, took on a rabid chauvinist and strike-breaking role. The WIL, with a new orientation, changed the name of its paper from Youth for Socialism to Socialist Appeal, with Ted Grant as its editor.
It can be said without any exaggeration that the WIL/RCP is likely to have conducted the most successful work in wartime of any Trotskyist organisation in the world. Ted was central in this as the WIL's national secretary, then as the political secretary of the RCP.
The immediate post-war period opened up tremendous challenges before the international Trotskyist movement. The leadership of the RCP quickly came to an understanding of the new realities and changed their perspective accordingly. In contrast, the leadership of the International make one mistake after another.
Again, Ted Grant played an essential role in this reorientation of British Trotskyism. As the leading theoretician of the RCP, Ted was able to extend and develop Marxist theory in a whole series of new directions after 1945. These ranged from the Marxist theory of the state to the defence of Marxist economic theory, from the peculiar development of the colonial revolution to Marxist tactics towards the mass organisations and party building.
From 1943, James Cannon, the leading American Trotskyist, who had met with opposition from the WIL to his proposal to unify all the groups in 1938, conspired to remove the leadership of the British organisation and replace it with a more compliant set of individuals. Cannon was schooled in the methods of Zinoviev, intrigued with Gerry Healy, who led a factional struggle in the WIL and RCP, to destroy the Haston-Grant leadership.
Although Ted was a member of the International Executive Committee, in the early period due to a lack of a British passport, he wasn't able to participate in its work. This was left in the hand of Jock Haston.
Cannon and the so-called International leadership supported the splitting in the RCP, with Healy's minority entering the Labour Party in late 1947, and the eventual fusion of the two groups in mid-1949, on Healy's terms. Ted strenuously opposed both these actions.
Once the fusion took place between the RCP and Healy's group, Healy acted in the most dictatorial fashion, expelling people on the most trivial pretexts. As a result, Jock Haston was effectively driven out of the movement. Other leaders, such as Roy Tearse and Jimmy Deane, were expelled. Ted was bureaucratically expelled as well after 22 years membership of the Trotskyist movement. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Fourth International, and had his expulsion ratified at the Third World Congress on the motion of Ernest Mandel (Germaine).
By the end of 1950, the wrecking actions of Healy had destroyed the Party. Ted then attempted to regroup and salvage as much as possible from the wreckage of the RCP. Without any full timers or apparatus, the comrades struggled to hold things together. Ted, after being forced to give up full-time work by Healy, took a job as a door-to-door salesman selling brushes.
In May 1951, the first national conference took place in London. It was reported that there were 20 members in London and 11 in Liverpool, with a scattering of contacts around the country. The group had no alternative but to work in the Labour Party.
The conference decided to launch a theoretical magazine every two months. Figures like Jimmy Deane and his brothers Arthur Deane and Brian Deane, Alec Riach, Sam Levy and others helped to gather funds to launch the new publication. The first issue of the new magazine called International Socialist, with Ted as its editor, appeared in February 1952. However, the lack of resources and a paucity of funds meant that the magazine appeared only spasmodically between February 1952 and April 1954.
In 1953 a split took place in the International, with Healy and Cannon leaving to form their own grouping. This left the International without a section in Britain. After some discussions, Ted's group was recognised as the official British section. By the end of the year Ted again became full-timer worker, and a new magazine, Workers International Review, was launched.
This attempt to re-establish a group in Britain coincided with an unfolding political revolution in Hungary. The revolutionary events in Hungary created a storm of unrest within the Communist Parties internationally. In Britain, a big layer of the Communist Party was in ferment and open to the ideas of Trotskyism.
Ted raised the question of an open banner and the launch of an open organisation, as the only effective means of appealing to the dissidents within the CP. As a result, in early 1957, the Revolutionary Socialist League was launched.
Ted and other comrades made contact and discussed with a layer of CP dissidents, but few gains were made, and the experiment of the RSL was wound up after possibilities within the Communist Party dried up. The tendency issued a new publication called Socialist Fight, edited by Ted Grant, which appeared irregularly from January 1958 to June 1963. The paucity of resources resulted in the Socialist Fight coming out in a duplicated form during 1960, only reappearing in print in mid-February 1961.
In 1960, the Labour leadership re-established the youth section, called the Young Socialists. At the beginning, the YS attracted a large number of young people. With Healy's strong apparatus, and youth paper Keep Left, the Healyites were able to take control of the YS nationally by various dubious means. The next largest group in the YS at the time was the Cliff group, widely known as the "state caps", which produced Young Guard. This was followed by Ted Grant's group, made up of a few dozen comrades, and the smallest of the groups.
Slowly but surely, ones and twos were recruited and our base expanded especially in Liverpool, where we established a strong basis in Walton. The tendency also developed in London, Tyneside, Swansea and Brighton.
In 1964 there was an attempted fusion with the Mandelite International Marxist Group, but this soon broke down. The tendency had learnt a painful lesson on the impossibility of short cuts. This was probably the lowest point in the fortunes of the Ted Grant tendency. We were a tiny, isolated group, with no paper, no money, no full timers and no centre. However, we were not downcast in the slightest. We were confident in our ideas and perspectives. Ted played an absolutely key role at this time. He never lost his optimism, his unshakeable confidence or his famous sense of humour.
In the summer of 1964, a decision was taken to launch a new publication, and after much debate, the name of Militant was chosen. It was to mark a new chapter in the development of Ted Grant's Militant tendency.
In the meantime, differences had come to a head within the International. Our tendency had consistently opposed the political position of Pablo and the leadership of the United Secretariat, as they were called after the fusion of 1963. We had fundamental differences over China, the Sino-Soviet dispute, Cuba, guerrillarism, and the Colonial Revolution. In a manoeuvre at the World Congress of 1965, we were reduced to a sympathising section, and the IMG was promoted. We were effectively expelled and we decided to turn our back forever on these gentlemen and face firmly towards the mass organisations of the working class.
By 1967, after the departure of the Healy and Cliff groups from the Labour Party following the growing disenchantment at the Wilson Labour Government, the only tendency of any size, which remained in the Labour Party, was ourselves.
The 1970s were a political watershed nationally and internationally. The defeat of the Wilson government and the coming to power of Heath ushered in a period of heightened radicalisation in the working class. By 1970, the tendency won a majority on the national leadership of the Labour Party Young Socialists, and we started a campaign to build up the youth organisation. Our decision to remain had been vindicated.
From fewer than 100 comrades in 1966, the tendency grew to more than 500 by 1975. This was based on Ted's theoretical ideas and orientation towards the mass organisations. We had acquired our own printing press and the Militant newspaper had gone weekly in 1972. The tendency gradually built up its position in the Labour movement. This was only possible because we did not succumb to the pressure of ultra-leftism, but remained within the Labour Party while others left. This was one of the secrets of the later success of the Marxist tendency in Britain - a breakthrough with no parallel elsewhere.
On the international front, in 1974, with a tiny handful of comrades in other countries, we set up the Committee for a Workers International. Within a couple of years, starting with a tiny group of just six comrades the Spanish organisation grew to 350, and became the second biggest section within the CWI.
It is no accident that the tendency in Britain and Spain achieved a breakthrough precisely at this time.
The defeat of the Callaghan government in 1979 resulted in a massive radicalisation in the mass organisations. The shift to the left was a reflection of the disgust with Labour's pro-capitalist policies, and took the form of the rise of Bennism within the Labour Party. The SDP split away, which further reinforced the leftward shift within the party. It was under these conditions that the Militant tendency grew quite rapidly, with 1,000 active supporters registered by 1980. The rise of Trotskyism within the Labour Party alarmed the ruling class. The capitalist press soon launched a new witch-hunt against the tendency, demanding our expulsion from the party.
Eventually, in 1983, Ted Grant, who was the political editor, and the other members of the Editorial Board were expelled. But that did not stop us. In 1984 at the beginning of the miners' strike, our industrial broad left initiative, BLOC, had become the largest left force in the trade unions. For the first time in history, a Trotskyist, John MacCreadie, was elected to the General Council of the Trade Union Congress. During the year-long miners' strike, given our position in the mining areas, we managed to win over 500 miners to the tendency. In 1988, we filled the Alexandra Palace in London with 7,500 supporters, and were addressed by Ted and other comrades, including Trotsky's grandson Esteban Volkov. This was the high point of the Militant tendency.
On the political front, we had three comrades elected to parliament and controlled Liverpool City Council from 1983 onwards. The Militant tendency had become a household name and had grown rapidly in numbers and influence.
Under the political guidance of Ted, we had created the strongest Trotskyist tendency since the days of the Russian Left Opposition. From counting the pennies, we now had a turnover of over a million pounds a year, a large premises, a big web printing press, capable of printing a daily paper, and, incredibly, around 250 full time workers - which was more than the Labour Party itself. We had roots in many trade unions and Labour Parties, including about 50 councillors and three Marxist MPs.
After Thatcher introduced the retrogressive Poll Tax we lead a battle against the Tory government involving mass non-payment of millions of people. This was the biggest movement of civil disobedience in British history, led by the National Anti-Poll Tax Union, which we had established and led. 250,000 people demonstrated in London and a further 50,000 took to the streets of Glasgow. Without doubt, this mass movement, which terrified the strategists of capital, contributed to the repeal of the Poll Tax and the resignation of Thatcher in 1990.
Despite these enormous successes, there were serious problems in the tendency. The most serious was that the political level of the cadres was declining, and the leadership was doing nothing to counter this trend. In the end the reason for this became clear. Ted Grant continually stressed at editorial board meetings the need to thoroughly educate and train the new comrades who entered our ranks. Unfortunately, these calls went largely unheard.
Peter Taaffe, who had been appointed the editor of the paper, and the group around him favoured activism over theory, which they privately regarded with contempt. As long as Ted's political authority in the leadership was strong, this served to hold things together. However, behind the scenes Taaffe was getting big ideas about the real significance of the tendency and his role in it.
They were intoxicated with the successes of the tendency. Taaffe had delusions of grandeur and he resorted to behind-the-scenes manoeuvres to isolate Ted.
In April 1991, they convinced Taaffe to launch a "new turn" in Scotland and create an open organisation. Shortly afterwards, a violent row broke out within the international leadership with Ted and Alan Woods accusing Taaffe of organising a clique. This led to a sharp deterioration in relations within the leadership. Then in May, the tendency was demagogically stampeded into fighting a by-election in Walton, Liverpool.
The majority leadership proclaimed the disastrous result as a "success", which should be followed in other parts of the country! They were hell-bent on pushing the tendency into what Ted aptly described as "a short cut over a cliff." Within the leadership, Ted, Alan Woods and Rob Sewell firmly opposed this ultra-left "turn", which Ted characterised as "a threat to forty years work."
Taaffe and his supporters did not possess the necessary political armory to take on the Opposition in a fair fight. Instead they used the weight of the apparatus, the full timers, the weapon of slander, gossip and character assassination, to attempt to wear down and crush us.
In the heated faction fight, Ted and the Opposition were treated abysmally. We were presented not as comrades with arguments to be answered, but as enemies to be crushed. They resorted to the pettiest methods of harassment to undermine our morale. When we went to the centre, nobody spoke to us. Later, our bags were searched before we were allowed to leave the building, and so on.
This eventually led to our expulsion, which inevitably led to a split in Britain and internationally. In Britain the Opposition had the support of several hundred mainly experienced cadres and trade union activists. The situation was far more favourable in the international. In fact, if we exclude Britain, we almost certainly had the majority of the international tendency on our side.
At the time of the split, Taaffe took the big majority of the members in Britain, including the youth, almost all of whom he soon lost, the press, the money and the apparatus. He had apparently everything in his favour. By the end of the decade, the results of his stewardship were clear to all. He has almost single-handedly managed to wreck the organisation, and reduce it, after a series of splits, from 5,000 to a couple of hundred activists.
In 1992 we launched the Socialist Appeal magazine, which has gained a solid reputation for serious analysis, comment and militant policies in the labour movement in Britain and internationally. Our output of high quality Marxist theoretical material is second to none. In 1995 we began the publication of books, which have made quite a spectacular impact internationally, starting with Reason in Revolt, by Alan Woods and Ted Grant. This was the first attempt since Engels' Dialectics of Nature to apply the method of dialectical materialism to the results of modern science.
This was followed by Russia - From Revolution to Counter-revolution and Bolshevism - the Road to Revolution, and a new expanded edition of Lenin and Trotsky - What They Really Stood For. Our books are translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, Russian, Turkish and Urdu. Reason in Revolt is currently being translated into German and Dutch. Our articles and pamphlets have also been translated into French, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, Portuguese, Rumanian, Serbian, Macedonian, Polish, Indonesian, Hebrew and other languages.
Over the past decade, Ted has played a leading role in rebuilding our tendency from scratch. On an international scale we have had a numerous successes - especially in Spain, Italy, Mexico and Pakistan, where we have the potential to rapidly become a mass force.
We can say without fear of contradiction that the political authority of our tendency, both nationally and internationally, has never been greater than it is now. In 1997 we launched the extremely successful web site In Defence of Marxism, which has had far-reaching international appeal, and has been visited by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. In the last year alone we had over one million successful page visits, and the number of visits is constantly increasing.
The key to our success has been our firm defence of the ideas of Marxism. We base ourselves on the classics of Marxism, and the contribution that Ted in particular has made over the last 60 years.
The contribution of Ted Grant, in close collaboration with Alan Woods, has been of the utmost importance. Ted's political experience has been the bedrock of the tendency. In the past, his method and orientation, which are rooted in Trotsky's approach, served to make the tendency a major factor in British politics. This process was unfortunately cut across by a combination of unfavourable objective conditions and the political weaknesses of a leadership that lost its head and was blown off course by events that it did not understand.
That does not worry us. We have been in a small minority before, as were the great teachers of Marxism. We are convinced that in the stormy period that opens up before us on a world scale, great events will propel the working class into action in one country after another.
Ted Grant's great contribution was to preserve the unbroken thread of genuine Trotskyism. On this unshakeable foundation we will prepare the cadres, theoretically, politically and organisationally, for the great tasks that lie ahead.


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Home TĂNG TRAFFIC How I Gained 500 Facebook Fans Overnight
AppXanh September 24, 2021 Leave a Comment
Josh Dunlop Topics: Get Web Traffic More posts about: Facebook Marketing, Social Media Marketing
I was going to wait until the new year to write this post, but as I start to see a few more people attempt it, I can see that the effects may in fact wear off very quickly. What I'm talking about is a new idea in viral marketing on Facebook, in which a fan is encouraged to share something, to be in with a chance of winning a prize. I ran a little bit of an experiment myself, and I was very pleased with my results.
I should warn you first, that I've since found out that this is again Facebook rules and regulations for these promotions, and had I been a much bigger page, and been reported, there's a good chance that I would have been banned, or at least been the subject of a strongly worded email. The specific guideline is on line 3 of their promotions guidelines and is as follows: "You must not use Facebook features or functionality as a promotion's registration or entry mechanism. For example, the act of liking a Page or checking in to a Place cannot automatically register or enter a promotion participant." That is basically a lot like what I did; I didn't get caught, and I will be deleting the image now that the competition is up, but it's certainly a risk. I personally think it's a bit of a gray area because the reason I give for liking a page is so that they will see their name when they win, and this is a very new type of promotion, so there's every chance that you'll get away with it too, but it could be perceived as spammy so be very careful about your decision.
I got the idea from the clothing brand Fly53, which was a giveaway of £7,500 worth of clothing, where all they had to do was click share to be in with a chance of winning. This is a fantastic campaign, but I immediately saw some problems (and how they could improve them), which I'll get to further down the page. One thing that does stand out to me is that they manage to follow Facebook's guidelines, not follow the guidelines, and mislead all of the fans in just one small paragraph.
They follow the guidelines of Facebook by making the readers enter the competition via an app, but as you see, they tell the readers to share the post to be in with a chance of winning. The give the impression that all you have to do is click share, because it doesn't say anywhere in the text that you have to enter the competition through the app that's linked in the text. If a big name brand with over 40,000 fans can get away with this, then I should imagine that most people would. I still recommend exercising caution though because the risk may not be worth the reward, and I would hate for any of you to lose your accounts. I imagine there will be a crackdown on this sort of promotion pretty soon.
I wanted to test the water myself, just to see how well it would work, but without spending any of my own money. Without going into too much detail, there's a lens that I recommend as the first upgrade any budding photography should buy, it's a lens that I've written about in length before, and it's had a pretty good response. The lens also isn't that expensive, so getting a hold of one wouldn't be too hard either. I decided that this would be perfect for my readers to win, but it's not a decision I brushed over, and you shouldn't either.
If you think about what you want to achieve by holding this giveaway, it's ultimately so that you can find new fans for your page, whom you can share your website with in the future, so the prize has to be something that will appeal to them. Not only does the prize have to appeal to people in your niche, but it has to ONLY appeal to people in your niche. Sure, you could giveaway a $200 giftcard for Amazon, but everyone wants one of those, so you'll likely get it shared by a lot of people who aren't into whatever your niche is selling. By choosing a lens, I knew that everyone who liked and shared my post, would at least have a digital SLR camera, and would therefore be interested in my content. The unfortunate thing about this rule is that not every niche can do one of these giveaways so easily, in fact we're struggling to come up with one for Income Diary. We had considered the top 20 business books, but again, that has a much wider appeal than just our niche.
The second thing that I took note of was the worth of the giveaway, Fly53 were giving away £7,500 worth of clothes, but I wanted to only give away between $110-220, so it was a slight risk because I wasn't sure it was going to work as well. Of course, I knew it was never going to work quite as well, they have around 40,000 fans, and I had just 1700 at the time, and they were also giving away something a lot better than me, but I was still surprised with just how well it has worked.
Ok, so now you've chosen a prize to give away, how do you pay for it? Well, there's three options for that. Firstly, you could just pay for it out of you pocket, and consider it a worthwhile investment in your website. Secondly, you ask for a freebie from whoever makes what you're giving away, which I'm planning on doing soon with someone who's already sent me a free camera strap. And finally, you could use your Amazon Associates commissions. Every couple months I promote a new post, where I recommend different products that people should buy, and then use Amazon Associate links to earn commissions. I posted this on my website a couple weeks ago, which links to 70 different products, and since then I've earned $179.19 in commission, from that post, and various others. These posts provide me with content to keep my readers updated, and money that I can spend on giveaways.
When you know what it is you're giving away, then it's important to share it on Facebook as soon as possible. I actually left a little tease on the Facebook page earlier in the day, saying how I was thinking about arranging a giveaway, and I asked what everyone would like for Christmas. Then I started designing a little image that would contain all the important information, and grab the reader's attention at the same time. It's important to put all of the necessary information into the image because you'll get a better result. Below is the image that Fly53 used, and although their campaign went well, it really doesn't tell you anything about what they're doing from the image itself, nor can you differentiate it from the other competitions that they were running, using exactly the same image.
I went for a very different design, making mine on Photoshop in a couple of hours. I'm not very good at photoshop, and you don't have to make it on there, you could easily make a PDF in word and use that instead. When you're designing your own, it's important to only include necessary information, detailing very clearly what the reader has to do. For me it was very simple:
1. 'Like' Expert Photography on Facebook
2. Share the image on their Facebook wall
The fist requirement was a trick that most people seem to be missing, because if you can get people to like your fan page, then there's a good chance that you can get them to come to your website multiple times in the future. The reason I gave for making people like the page was so that I could tag their name in the post if they won, and it does have that use, but in reality, I just wanted to be able to market to them again in the future. How much would you pay for 500 new fans on your page? How much would it cost you in Facebook ads to reach it? When you consider those options, this starts to become a very cheap way of generating new fans.
I included a few images at the bottom of the post, before revealing a few finer details about the terms and conditions, such as where I'd ship to, which brand I would be giving away, and when the winner would be announced, but for more detailed information, I used the description of the image on Facebook to really sell it: "To be in with a chance of winning, all you have to do is share this photo on Facebook, and make sure that you 'like' the Facebook fan page (so that we can tag the winner). You have to be in the USA, Canada, or UK to be in with a chance of winning, and you have to own either a Canon, Sony, or Nikon DSLR. It's an essential lens for every camera bag, and even if you already own one, it makes for an excellent present, I'm sure you'll agree. Happy Holidays!"
With the image posted, it became a waiting game to see how people would react to it, and I didn't have to wait long at all. I started receiving likes pretty regularly, but I really wanted to promote it, so I decided to ask others to help out. I emailed Jim who has written on this website before and is in the same niche as me (you can see his post here), because he has 15,000 fans on Facebook, and seeing as it's something every photographer should have, I asked if he minded sharing it with his fans. I did this just 33 minutes after I published the photo, and just 42 minutes later, he had shared it on his Facebook to thousands of people. This is when things really started to pick up.
I don't have a huge following on Facebook yet, but it's growing steadily now as the site is also growing. I do however know a few people in my niche though, usually because I've included them in one of my top lists, or I've been mentioned in one of their lists too, so I can use these relationships to my advantage. You shouldn't be worried about sharing other people's content through your own website or Facebook; they are NOT your competition – the success of your website is up to you, not down to how good someone else's website is.
With this boost from Jim, I was able to reach a lot more people, and the sharing soon grew to hundreds of people. After just an hour and a half, I have 92 new shares and 87 new likes on Facebook, and just 35 minutes after that, the numbers had gone up even further to 185 and 182. I posted the image late in the evening, and when I woke up the next morning, I had 500 new fans on Facebook, which is now up to well over 700. It took a little over 24 hours to reach 500 shares, which meant that people were liking the page and not sharing the image, probably because they were confused by how Facebook works, but I had a feeling that was going to happen because I've seen it happen before.
There's no doubting that the viral nature of this sort of marketing has clearly worked, and when you consider that the average Facebook user has 130 friends (although I suspect it's more), and I've had 592 shares as of writing this (it's still going up), then my post has been shared to 76,960 people, for what may only be $110.
Not only are people sharing my image, liking my page, and visiting my website, but they're also talking about my website. The 'talking about this' statistic underneath the fan page likes, will dramatically increase from this, and that will cause Facebook to include more of my content in people's news feed, as I will be considered to be worthy.
When you've got your big new following, you'll find that there are more people interacting with the content that you put up. I put up my first article since the campaign started, and where I would usually get up to about 6 likes, and a couple comments, I received 15 likes, and 8 comments. This increases reader interaction, and helps my website to grow.
There are a few things that I would have done differently to how I've done it, for example, I've said that I'll announce the winner on Christmas day, which is when I planned on ending it, but it's started to lose steam, and I think that 24-48 hours would have sufficed. Next time I do one, I will probably be giving away a camera strap, and for that, I'll only doing it for 24 hours. That giveaway is going to be part of a promotion for both my website, the strap, and the commission that I can earn through Amazon, so not only will it not cost me any money, but I'll be able to actually earn money too. I also would have widened the area that I would have sent the lens too as well, because I have a fan base in Australia who couldn't enter the competition, so that's something I will consider next time.
If I were to run the competition again, I would definitely run it through the app, and follow the Facebook guidelines, because it's taken me a long time to get to the point that I'm at today, and I would hate to lose it all. It's been a very interesting experiment and I'm glad that I've done it, but those rules are in place for a reason, and I'm sure Facebook wouldn't feel bad at all about quickly deleting your page from their servers. Since the promotion started just 6 days ago, I've had over 750 new likes, 592 shares and around 200 comments, all for the cost of a cheap lens. I chose my winner and, although I'm yet to hear back (don't worry, I will definitely chase them up), everything has ended up a little bit better than expected.
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Hi there. Hopefully this hasn't been asked and answered, I've been searching all day.. For some reason none of the plug-in's that incorporate a "submit" button work on my new site and I don't know what to do. I've tried a number of options, including the contact widget and they all have the same results. They look perfect, but the buttons to submit do not do anything. I haven't installed anything that I'm aware of outside the WPMUDEV plugins, although I do currently have a contact form from a third party on there to test and got the same results.
Has anyone seen this before? I'm totally at a loss.
Thank you so much in advance for any assistance / advice you can provide. It's greatly appreciated.
A link to your site would help very much. Probably a JS issue.
haha, very good point. I've been searching so long for the solution, I forgot to post a link. Sorry.
I'll add a contact form widget now to the home page for ref.
I see a "send message" button on that page. Using Firefox 3.6.12 for reference.
What I also see if a link to reCaptcha but no reCaptcha form.
And filling out the form and clicking on the button doesn;t do anything.
Link broken so that it won;t get indexed.
Clicking on the php file in there pulls up a 404 Nothing found message from within wp. Which makes me think that either there's an issue with the plugin file itself or, as Aaron notes, a js issue.
Can you see what's in your webserver's error logs please?
Thank you for following up drmike.
Here is a copy of the error logs, does this help at all?
For reference, this is the original contact widget downloaded from wpmudev. I haven't done a thing to the script or files other than upload.
I thought the reCaptcha thing was weird as well since the feature was turned off.


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