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When Barr blamed U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., for blocking several hundred House bills that would "create hundreds of thousands of jobs," Jensen said most of those measures were give-aways for the well-connected.
"My opponent believes the only way to create jobs is through tax breaks for the wealthy and to roll back regulations," she said.
Barr and Jensen repeated their disagreement over the role of government. Jensen favors more government intervention in the economy, including a higher minimum wage, mandatory paycheck equity for women and greater federal spending on infrastructure. Barr said government should get out of the private sector's way and let it create jobs.
To the long list of federal agencies that Barr already has said he considers to be plagued by failure, on Monday he added the Secret Service, the Postal Service and the Centers for Disease Control, because of its response to the Ebola virus. Barack Obama is a failed president who has divided the country despite all of the Republicans in Congress who wanted to help him succeed, Barr said.
Jensen hit Barr repeatedly for his alliance with payday lenders, who have given tens of thousands of dollars to his campaign while he fought federal restrictions on them.
"I think my opponent's support of payday lenders is appalling," Jensen said. "For payday lenders who charge 400 to 650 percent interest and keep our hard-working families in poverty — and many servicemen — even the military is cracking down on payday lenders because they take advantage of our servicemen. It's absolutely appalling."
Jensen called for a strict federal limit on the interest rates that payday lenders may charge. She also supported a proposal by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., to offer some personal-financial services through post offices, as some other countries do.
Barr declined to say whether he would support a nationwide cap on interest rates for payday lenders. But he said federal restrictions "could take away Americans' choices in financial products" and "put legitimate, law-abiding businesses out of business." That could drive borrowers into the arms of totally unregulated loan sharks, he said.
Barr mocked the idea of the Postal Service "bureaucracy" getting into the loan business. The post offices already face $50 billion in debt, he said.
"That's how we got into the last financial crisis, by giving the government a role in lending," Barr said.
Jensen responded that the post office's large debt was due to Congress requiring it to declare on its books its full pension obligations "long into the future, much more so than any other business is required to today."
On one rare subject the candidates agreed: They said the Blue Grass Army Depot near Richmond must remain as a local employer even after the chemical weapons on site are dismantled in the 2020s. Industries should be recruited to the depot so that more than 1,000 highly skilled workers continue to have employment there, Barr said.
Democratic challenger Elisabeth Jensen spoke during Monday's debate in Richmond with incumbent Republican Andy Barr in the race for the 6th Congressional District seat. Herald-Leader
Andy Barr, right, and Elisabeth Jensen shook hands after the televised debate at the EKU Center for the Arts. Herald-Leader
Republican U.S. Rep. Andy Barr spoke during Monday's debate in Richmond with Democratic challenger Elisabeth Jensen. Herald-Leader
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The DiploMad 2.0: Charity Begins at Home, or, Why Libya and Not Cuba and Venezuela?
Charity Begins at Home, or, Why Libya and Not Cuba and Venezuela?
OK, the President's had a valid point when he noted that an argument for not intervening everywhere, should not become one for not intervening anywhere. Got it. It's the old idea that just because the cops can't catch every criminal, that doesn't mean they shouldn't catch any. I, however, don't believe that Obama, Biden, Kerry, Pelosi, etc., made that argument when the time came to go after Saddam.
But, let's be kind. Let's accept the President argument in favor of rational, practical idealism, to wit, we will do what we can to further freedom and protect the innocent where we can. Under Democratic administrations we have marched off "to do what we can, where we can" in places of little or no interest to the United States, i.e., Vietnam, the former Yugoslavia, and now Libya. In addition, the Democrats turned a relatively simple and limited humanitarian mission undertaken by Bush (the Elder) in Somalia--done with overwhelmingly firepower which kept the warlords in awe and in line--into the disastrous "Blackhawk Down" mission of nation-building undertaken with reduced firepower and lots of UN meddling and confusion. The Democrats seem to love responding to the call of distant trumpets, while ignoring those much closer to home, heralding real threats to real US interests.
For some 52 years we have tolerated a murderous, vile dictatorship in Cuba, one which openly has worked for the destruction of core US interests, and, even, lest we forget, wanted to have the USSR install city-killing mid-range nuclear missiles on the island. The Castro boys almost provoked a Third World War. Every argument made about Libya can be made about today's Cuba. A history of mass murder and repression of its people; overt racism; promotion of espionage, terror, and war against the United States, including the murder and imprisonment of American citizens; past pursuit of weapons of mass destruction (1962); fomenting of unrest throughout Latin America including support for guerilla groups and drug trafficking; and open collaboration with the sworn enemies of the United States. The one thing that cannot be said about Cuba, which can be said about Libya is that it is a "distant land." It is ninety miles from Florida. For Castro we do not set up "no Fly Zones," nor do we target his air defenses. We send him Jimmy Carter, who while a moron and a bore, is unlikely to put an end to the rule of the Castro boys.
In Venezuela, we have a situation underway that is going very badly. We have major interests in Venezuela. Chavez is repressing his people and turning the country into a vast economic wasteland with perhaps the world's highest homicide rate. He is imprisoning decent democratic men such as Alejandro Peña Esclusa on trumped up terrorism charges, shutting down the media, destroying the independence of the judiciary, and making irrelevant the Congress . He has launched a "slow motion" destruction of a flawed but functioning democratic system, which is now virtually complete. He has supported drug trafficking and terrorism against a major US ally, Colombia, and bought himself, with the money we provide, the governments of Nicaragua, Bolivia, Ecuador, much of the Caribbean, and is in the process of buying Argentina and Paraguay. He had bought Honduras, but the Hondurans tossed out their sell-out President Zelaya, and re-established a flawed but functioning democracy under President Lobo.
As with all other leftist dictators, Chavez is encouraging anti-semitism, putting Venezuela's Jewish community under tremendous pressure, and playing dangerous games with the Mad Mullahs in Iran.
So, instead of dealing with the threat at our door, we run off to deal with the "threat" in Libya. Got it. The Dems are in power.


Anxiety is a disabling condition that changes your mindset and how you view the world. It is a fear based emotion. Symptoms can be anything from a feeling of mild discomfort, to a full blown panic attack. Anxiety involves fear and sometimes even the fear of being afraid. Please keep in mind that anxiety by itself cannot hurt you and it is only a feeling.
Anxiety itself is not harmful to you, but a symptom of another underlying cause in your body. The most common reasons for anxiety and panic attacks are hormone changes, such as pre-menopausal symptoms, menopause, ova hysterectomies. auto-immune disorders and being unable to cope with stress due to traumatic events. There are different causes for anxiety as well as different types. This manual is geared toward women in their 30′s who acquire sudden anxiety symptoms due to hormonal changes and or autoimmune disorders, but may also apply to a broad range of anxiety sufferers. Because we live in a society that contains people, it is inevitable that we will experience stress. It is not the stress that gives us anxiety, but the inability to cope with stress. Some anxiety is normal. Our bodies are adept at helping us prepare for what we are about to face. Normal anxiety can arise when speaking in public, heading up a meeting, singing in front of people. This type of anxiety produces a normal stress response. Another example is when someone pulls out in front of us while driving and we have an adrenaline rush or when we get into a fight. Adrenaline is a normal stress response to help give us that extra push Anxiety by itself cannot hurt you. It's only a feeling when we need it. Adrenaline and the stress response was created to help us.
In this article, we will focus on a few different areas we can work on to alleviate anxiety symptoms. We will strive to get to the source of our anxiety and work from there. The three main areas we will look at are; nutrition, environment and spiritual healing. We will also look at what triggers your anxiety and how to turn triggers into non-triggers. The first tab in this manual is your go-to source when you are experiencing an anxiety or panic attack. It will gently guide you through breathing exercises, grounding exercises as well as a way to change your perspective of the trigger that started the attack. On the following page are some common fears associated with anxiety and panic attacks.
A common trigger is worrying about health. A new symptom pops up, a weird pain in your body or even a headache can trigger some into thinking something is seriously wrong with them. Sickness in a loved one: Whenever those close to us are suffering, there is a fear of losing them. This can trigger many emotions, especially if it involves your children or spouse.
Whenever taking a new medication, there is always a little risk in our mind. This for some, is too much to bear, and if there is any change in feeling due to the medication, this can be a trigger. Most common are the effects of Benedryl, sleep medication, cold and flu medication, or others that may cause drowsiness. Also psychoactive drugs such as Marijuana can also be a trigger. Personally, I found if I take these at night before bed, there is a greater chance for them to trigger an attack. Being reminded of a traumatic event: If anxiety sufferers have had a past traumatic event in their life, anything that remotely reminds them of that event will bring back those emotions, therefore becoming a trigger. Some examples may include an auto accident, divorce, dog bite, a death in the family, abuse, being yelled at by someone, a confrontation, combat, etc. Stop thinking about the event in your mind. Here is a helpful visualization exercise you can do.
Make sure you are in a safe place. Close your eyes and visualize your traumatic memory as movie playing in a theater. Now, take the movie playing on the screen stop to a still image. Change it to black and white. Put the picture in a frame and hang it on the side wall of the theater. Get out of your seat and walk out of the theater. That is where the picture will stay. You never have to go back into the theater again. If the memory comes back, don't worry, just put it back in the frame and re-hang it on the wall. After a while, the memory is rendered harmless in your mind and you will be able to move on.
Meeting new people or appointments: The fear of the unknown is enough to throw us into a panic attack. Doctor appointments, dentist appointments and even expecting an appointment at your own home such as a repair man can be a trigger.
If you are experiencing a panic attack right now, you are not alone. Follow the tips on the next few pages and you will start to feel better. Do these exercises over and over until you feel the anxiety lift. Find the activity that helps you the most and do it several times. Most anxiety attacks rarely last over 20 minutes.
One of the best things you can do to prevent future anxiety attacks is a healthy diet and exercise. It seems simple, but most people have the hardest time keeping a good diet and a healthy body. If a person wants to change they will. If you truly want to get over your anxiety issues, you can. It all depends on how bad you want to change. To get over your anxiety symptoms, you need to be committed to a lifestyle change. There is not one magical cure that will work. It's a combination of many things. Things that work for some may not work for others. You have to find the winning combination for you.
First thing you need to do, and this is going to be hard, is eliminate refined sugars and coffee. Are you still with me? Don't worry, it is for the greater good. Trust me, you will feel so much better in a week's time. Instead of coffee, try replacing it with a chai tea in the mornings. Matcha Green tea is also a great alternative. Try replacing your sugars with Agave or Honey if you feel you can't live without some sweetness.
Second thing you must do is wean yourself off of all processed foods. That means fast food, packaged foods, or foods with ingredients you can't pronounce. Instead cook simple meals at home like salmon and veggies, chicken and potatoes, or pork and beans. It is good to include some kind of vegetables in each serving. Food is the most abused anxiety drug and exercise is the most under utilized anti depressant. leafy greens are the best. Go organic if you can afford it. If you need snacks throughout the day, have fruit, like a banana, apple slices or a bowl of yogurt. Keep your diet simple and pure.
The suggestions in the article are methods and treatments that have helped reduce and eliminate my panic attacks. Hope they help you too!


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[THROWBACK!] Adam Sandler: A Serious Defense of an (Allegedly) Unserious Man « The MacGuffin Men
[THROWBACK!] Adam Sandler: A Serious Defense of an (Allegedly) Unserious Man
James does the previously unthinkable, as he defends the career of Adam Sandler with intelligent thought. Originally posted on June 12, 2012.
A little while ago, Alex and I were writing some hilaaaaaarious jokes for the intro to our Judd Apatow-approved video podcast. As Alex (and large sections of the moviegoing public) is wont to do, he suggested one along the lines of "This episode is brought to you by Adam Sandler jokes. Remember? Those movies you liked when you were 7?" This seems to be the general consensus on Adam Sandler, that he makes immature movies for either kids or immature adults. Actually, the more recent general consensus is that Sandler makes bad immature movies for either kids or immature adults, but also made some at least decent movies many years ago. Film fans have a special attachment to the movies they watch a number of times when they're young, and will continue to like them more than their current tastes would normally dictate as a result. At a point, nostalgia, memories and familiarity bleed through our judgment and become more important than our current tastes when judging a movie. As much as I want to say that Happy Gilmore is a 'good' movie, all I can say with confidence is that I've always enjoyed it, which sounds like the same thing, but is entirely different. I think a lot of people my age feel that way about that movie, that its quality does not come from its merits but from its place in their personal and emotional memories. For a number of reasons, this is the way I feel about Adam Sandler as a whole.
Now, I understand what I'm getting into here; defending Adam Sandler is an uphill battle. I get this. I saw Jack and Jill. (Okay, no I didn't. That movie looked like total shit.) And to be accurate, I'm not really defending him in the sense that I'm going to try explain to you that you're wrong if you think Jack & Jill is a bad movie. It probably is. That's not my point, however. I'm not really defending him as a good actor, or an actor that makes good choices, or somebody who consistently writes funny movies. I'm also not just going to say that we should forgive his poor films because he seems to be a pretty decent human being in real life. But there has to be something more to Sandler's films, something we simply haven't been looking at closely enough to see.
I can't recall the first time I saw Billy Madison, but I know I was pretty young; definitely well below whatever the ratings guide thought was appropriate. It was a movie I found very funny then, even though I knew I didn't understand all of the jokes. I wasn't sure why Billy thought it was so funny when the teacher asked the class to go to page 69, but I knew a lot of the other jokes made me laugh. Happy Gilmore followed, occupied a similar role in both film comedy and my heart. Those were probably two of the first movies that I quoted the way that I continue to quote movies that make me laugh. Sure, all genres have famous quotes, but it's the comedies that give us the lines that are most fun to say over and over to our friends. It's a shorthand that conveys a whole situation in just a few words, and is almost guaranteed to make your friend laugh. "Mrs Lippy's car… is green," is certainly not funny on its own, but to those who have seen Billy Madison, you'll probably get a laugh. It was a way to tell your friends that outside of this immediate situation, there is something we both find funny. Comedy is one of the most subjective things in the world, and to find someone with the same sense of humour is a powerful thing, particularly at a young age.
Another piece of media that tended to turn me into a walking Sandler quote machine was not a movie, but his 1993 comedy album They're All Going to Laugh at You. And considering that it went double platinum and was nominated for a Grammy, I guess I wasn't the only one. There was something even more free and whimsical about a comedy CD than there was in a ninety-minute movie. Things changed quickly. No characters were around for more than 5 minutes. Children have particularly wild imaginations, and this constant change of scenery, story and people throughout Sandler's comedy album continued to allow me to use mine to further enjoy the jokes about Fatty McGee.
I'm certain I couldn't appreciate it at the time, but themes of youth and growing up were major parts of both Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore, as well as the lesser-known Airheads, a movie that came out earlier but I didn't see until later. As the third lead in Airheads, Sandler is part of a band that takes a radio station hostage until the station agrees to play the band/domestic terrorist faction's music. The band may be young and misunderstood by older men wearing suits, but they know their way of doing things is how they want to live forever, which is not an unfamiliar sentiment for young people. In Billy Madison, Sandler's titular character is a partyer without ambition who must go through school again to prove to his father that he can run the family business when his father dies, an oedipal exercise with comedic results. Happy Gilmore continues this trend to an extent, as it is about (a notably fatherless) Sandler as an aspiring hockey player who proves to be an incredible, slapshot-wielding professional golfer. As golf is traditionally a middle-aged or older man's sports, Gilmore must quell his youthful energy and temper to fit in and conquer the most conservative old man sport ever invented. It's easy to see how all these movies make nice little metaphors for the changes we're expected to make when growing up which are pretty universal, but the situation in Happy Gilmore may have some broad connections to Sandler's life personally.
Sandler has discussed in interviews that his father had a pretty serious temper. If the amount of yelling we see his characters do is any indication, the younger Sandler may have had some of this passed down to him as well. Besides an explosive temper being central to Happy Gilmore, I don't think I need to explain the plot of his later movie Anger Management to show how it applies in that case. The Waterboy is a movie about channeling excessive amounts of anger (curiously fuelled by an overbearing parent) into something positive. Little Nicky, in a broad way, is similar to Billy Madison in that it's about taking over his father's business, but instead of running hotels, Sandler is about to run Hell because his father is Satan. Mr. Deeds is similarly about taking Sandler's character taking over a family company, this time from a deceased male relative. Most of his movies up until this point are about taking over for/becoming your father in a general way, and sprinkled in are some more Sandler-specific issues of anger and temper control.
The later part of Sandler's career, however, has a decidedly different set of struggles. Even if you think that the jokes in his films are not maturing, it must be noted that the subject matter that he's dealing with certainly is. He may continue to approach the themes in a juvenile way, and there are still too many dick, fart and poo jokes for you, but there has at least been a transition as Sandler has aged. His soon-to-be-released That's My Boy features Sandler what appears to basically be his character from Billy Madison, if Madison hadn't turned things around at the end of the movie (and didn't come from a rich family). Sandler's character still loves to party, but is now middle-aged and broke, and tracks down his son in order to borrow money to pay back the IRS. I haven't seen this movie yet, but I'm going to guess that it's a father-son version of She's All That: at first Sandler fakes the relationship and growth for selfish reasons, but ends up feeling the way he sets out to pretend he's feeling leaving everybody better off in the end. The final message will be positive, but the source is likely a little darker: Sandler's fear of being a bad father. Of course this is exaggerated and no way a reflection of who he is, but functions of a fear of who he could be. Sandler's character will likely work towards a redemption the real Sandler hopes he never needs for his daughters.
We see something similar in Grown Ups, Sandler's most financially successful movie to date and the only one of his films to spawn a sequel. The movie is about a middle-aged group of men whose high school basketball coach dies, leading them all to reunite in order to attend the funeral. But deeper down, the movie actually seems to be about Sandler's apprehensions about the job he's doing as a father. In the film, Sandler plays a successful Hollywood agent who has spoiled his kids, kids whose brattiness is painfully apparent when they deal with Sandler, his friends, and hometown citizens. This is something that is the other side of the parental fears of That's My Boy. Instead of doing nothing and providing nothing in that film, in Grown Ups, Sandler's character has given his kids everything and made them appreciate nothing, a fear I imagine to be potent among nice rich people with kids. Similarly, the entire plot of Click is set off by Sandler's role as an overworked parent who has no time to see his family, a blanket concern that is perhaps closest to Sandler's real life.
There is one theme that is present throughout much of Sandler's career, both within the narrative of his films and how they are made and marketed: playing the role of an outcast of sorts. I have already discussed how Airheads, Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore show Sandler's respective characters struggling to gain acceptance into a certain world, often being pressured to change something about himself to do so. Happy Gilmore and The Waterboy both depict him as a constantly picked-on and desperately lonely person, with the exception of an elderly person and, eventually, the romantic attention of a female. Little Nicky, Punch Drunk Love, Eight Crazy Nights, Reign Over Me and Funny People all show his characters as entirely or almost entirely friendless, at least at the start of the film. Outside the narrative of his films, we can find a few possible causes for these feelings if they are rooted in reality. First is his Jewishness he clearly has no problem reminding us with, with hits like The Hanukah Song and frequent references to his heritage in interviews. Jewishness has been a particularly powerful source of isolation in American comedy for a long time. It has also been pointed out by many that contrary (for some reason) to most people's assumptions, Sandler appears to be politically conservative, having donated funds to Republican candidates which in Boston (where he grew up), New York or Los Angeles (where we've known him to work) again puts you in the minority.
Sandler has found a great and frequently used solution to this problem of being on the outside: use your pull to surround yourself with friends. We constantly see Sandler on-screen with the same people. David Spade, Kevin Nealon, Rob Schneider, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, Chris Rock, John Turturro, Jon Lovitz, Clint Howard, Norm Macdonald, Nick Swardson can all be seen in multiple Adam Sandler movies. It is not rare to see people who have achieved a certain level of status in Hollywood use this to work with actors they like to work with with but what is a bit exceptional is his working relationship with Allen Covert, Peter Dante, and Jonathan Loughran. These three were college friends of Sandler whose combined filmographies contain almost no credits in movies that Adam Sandler neither acts in or produces. These are just his group of friends that he gets work for. I'm not saying Adam Sandler is some kind of loser who needs to hire his friends to work with him because no one else likes him, but everything I've read or heard makes it seem like he is a well-liked man who is easy to get along with. He appears to be genuine, grounded, sweet and funny. What's interesting to me is the lengths he goes to not to be left out, while making movies that explore just that.
Vulnerability is the root of all comedy and when we feel vulnerable, we feel like kids again. Sandler is someone I remember when I was a kid and I see his career as a showcase of how I felt when I was that age. And now I can see him dealing with problems of different ages but it all shows up to me through that lens, just as I said about movies you watch when you're young. He could make bad movies for the rest of his life, or great ones, but my sense of him will be the same. It's not about him or his work being good or bad. Too many things are wrapped up in it for those words to really apply.

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Creativity in autopilot: where´s the catch?
Relatively complex to perform: multiple subtasks have to be carried out to achieve success.
They are activities that vary in time, that is to say, they are never the same (unless we freak out and start to carry out them in an obsessive-compulsive way).
And we are able to perform them on autopilot, that is, without giving them too much thought.
What does this mean? It means we are capable of solving problems in our personal and professional lives, many times (not always), without thinking, without being conscious of what we are actually doing. More specifically, in the realm of creativity, it proves that the human brain can actually learn the fairly complex process of being creative.
What is the advantage of autopilot anyway? Shouldn´t we be more free and loose in order to be more creative? Well, should you be free and loose while driving? Yes, but to a certain extent. After all there are rules that are applicable and which actually work. If you want to accelerate the car, you definitely don't want to step on the clutch and do need the doors to be closed (again, unless some psychological malfunction is on to us).
Creativity works pretty much the same way. There are creativity principles which enable us to come up with new solutions to challenges. But we need to master them well enough in order for us to use them almost automatically. What is the irony behind this affirmation? Ladies and gentlemen, I´ll tell you a secret. We already do use them automatically. Let me prove it to you.
Remember the day you wanted to give a relative or close friend a present. But you didn´t have enough money to do so. What did you do? (most probably) You thought about buying something for that person which was not expensive, but special. For instance with a touching letter with a more affordable present. When you did that you eventually applied the principle of "counterweight". You compensated for the lack of money.
That´s creativity folks, that´s all it is.
By Ernesto Lluch Moreno. Picture by Elliot P.
I would like to offer a perspective on the topic of creativity on autopilot. I believe that creativity does not happen on 'autopilot' in the sense that we can drive a car on autopilot. Autopilot by it's very nature means being able to perform a task – even a complex one such as driving – without heavy cognitive load or concentration once we are sufficiently expert at the task. The key is in the level of expertise of the person performing the task. Driving a car requires an intense level of concentration to a learner but not to someone who is an expert. Even incredibly complex tasks such as driving or surgery or chess strategy become routine to someone who has performed them many times. See Anderson's research on automatisation. But creativity is about the search for novelty and originality. So if a task is being performed on autopilot then in my opinion the performer is not being truly creative for their level of expertise. Please note that I do differentiate this state from being in a state of flow where the creators experience allows them to perform in a way that feels effortless but is an intense state of concentration where expertise is being tapped into almost intuitively. Great question.


If you're not using your paid media in more creative ways than simply targeting customers at the buying stage, you've got a world of opportunity awaiting you. In today's Whiteboard Friday, we're delighted to have guest presenter Samantha Noble divulge 10 strategies for using your paid media to get your customers talking about you more and recommending you often.
Hi, my name's Samantha Noble, and I'm the Director of Strategy over at Koozai in the UK. We're a digital marketing agency specializing in paid media, SEO, and content marketing, and I'm really, really excited to be here today to share with you some tips on how we can use paid media to basically drive loyal customers and get those loyal customers recommending us to others.
I think what I've seen over the years, when it comes to paid media, is people tend to focus on the buying stage. They think that they're going to put money into a paid media channel and they're going to get return out of it, which is essentially true. But, when it comes to using paid media for loyalty and advocacy, it's something that I don't tend to see very often, and there's lots of stuff that we can do.
So over the next sort of 8 minutes or so, we're going to look at 10 different strategies. So it's five for loyalty and five for advocacy. And I'm hoping to be able to share with you some ideas and some inspiration that you can take away and use with the new paid media campaigns. So let's get started.
So let's say we've got a customer that has been with you time and time again or even they might have just bought from you once. If they then go back to Google and search for a competitor, you can then start displaying ads to that particular customer, at that moment in time, to try and encourage them to remain a loyal customer of yours by including a unique discount in the advert. So this really works well if the competitor names that you're using aren't trademarked. Otherwise, you will come up with a few sticky situations there that may not work. So it's worth looking to see whether you can try it or not. But it's a great way of trying to capture people at the stage when they may potentially be looking to go off and buy from a competitor.
So in the same way that we were talking about remarketing lists for search before, you can do this by either uploading a list of email addresses, so your CRM database of customers, or as a remarketing list for search ads, so your remarketing list of your existing customers. Now, when they go and search, again, for any of your other products or services that you could do, you can start to show them unique offers within the ads to say, "Hey, as a loyal customer, you get an extra 10% off if you buy a second purchase from us." So again, this can work really, really well to drive loyalty.
If you've got a customer that comes into a store that you know they come to you every single week and they buy from you time and time again, you're not going to greet them necessarily in the same way as what you would a first-time customer that you're not aware of. And this should be the same when it comes to search advertising. So, if you've got a unique customer that's bought from you time and time again, why not show them a landing page, when they land on the site, that is targeted to them, that's talking in a language that shows that you're talking to them as a loyal customer rather than as a first-time buyer? So again, you can do this with customer match lists or with remarketing lists for search.
So countdown ads are the ads where you see time is ticking down if there's a unique offer that's going to expire in, say, a weeks' time. If you've got a customer that's bought from you once and you want to try and encourage a repeat purchase, why not show them a limited-time offer, so that it's saying, "Look, if you buy from us a second time within the next week, month, two months..." whatever it is that you want to put in there, and show the offer is ticking down, this can create a real sense of urgency and drive people to buy from you and make a second purchase.
This works really well if you've got a product or a service that people can buy from you again, or it might be that you've got a product — so let's say a mobile phone provider as an example. Somebody might have bought a mobile phone. The next logical purchase for that particular customer could be that they're looking to get a cover or a case for that phone. If you know that somebody's bought a particular model or make of a phone, why not start following them around with remarketing ads, highlighting the fact that you also sell covers and cases? This can be a really good way of driving extra loyalty from people that have just bought from you.
The reason that I think it's important to consider loyalty, when it comes to paid, is there was a study done via Access Development, that basically shows that 80% of customers would actually consider switching brands or stores if they were offered the right compelling discount. So I think that's just really, really important to remember that even though you've worked hard to gain a customer, they can still leave you and go to a competitor.
So, moving on from here, let's look at some ways that we can use advocacy, and what I mean by advocacy is you've got a loyal customer base. You've spent all this money and time and resource growing that audience. What we want to do now is help them to market you, help them to do that word-of-mouth marketing and actually recommend you to others. And there are five ways that we're going to look through in terms of how we can drive advocacy using paid media.
Gmail ads are really good if you are using them and targeting them at the right people. And I've seen this work really well if you're trying to promote like forward to a friend discounts. So if you've got a list of all your customers, whether it's again a remarketing list or a customer matched list of email addresses, upload those. When those particular customers are looking at their emails on Gmail and they're not using a business Gmail account, and they're in the Promotions tab, they can see various ads at the top. So you're typically seeing two ads at the moment at the top of Gmail.
And in here, what we can do is we can show an advert that's saying, "Hey, as a loyal customer of ours, why not recommend us to others?" You can show them and you can give them a unique discount code to pass on to their friends or family. So you can do this and try and encourage people, when they're opening up that ad, you can make it look like a nice HTML advert, a nice HTML page, and try and drive them to say, "Hey, forward this discount on to a friend, and your friends or family can benefit from this unique offer," that we're offering to them.
So similar to what we were talking about before, in terms of using remarketing to generate upsells and cross-sells, you can also do remarketing to try and encourage your existing audience base to go and leave a review of your product or service. And whether that's on your own website or whether you're using a third-party review site, if you are using a third-party review site, I'd recommend that you make sure that it's a site that Google can aggregate that data from, because that's going to come on to the seller ratings that we're going to look at next. But you can follow people around saying, "Hey, how did you find your experience with us? What was your product like? What was the service like?" And try and encourage them to go and leave you a review so that other people can then experience what your existing customer base had kind of experienced from their product or service they've purchased from you.
So seller ratings are the ads where you see the stars in the listings, and these can be really, really good especially if your competitors aren't doing this. There is a stipulation. I think it's 120 reviews you need in the past 12 months, so you need to make sure that you're getting reviews frequently enough. But Google will then aggregate that data and pool that within your search ads. And as I say, if your competitors aren't doing it and you are, and you're seeing that you've got a four or a five-star rating, that really entices people to click through and it gives that sense of, "Yeah, they're a good company to buy from, so I'm going to go and investigate them more."
If you've got a recommend-a-friend scheme or refer-a-friend scheme that you're wanting to try and promote, people that are signed up to recommend-a-friend-type schemes are kind of looking to get something in exchange for what they're doing. So the idea here is what you can do is you can upload a load of cashback site domains. So it could be all of the different cashback sites in a particular niche or just the cashback sites that you want to go after. Upload all of those as keywords, and if somebody is receiving an email from a cashback site, your ad can say at the top, "Hey, we've got this great refer-a-friend scheme. You can earn money for doing X, Y, and Z with us." So it's a way of tapping in to not necessarily your existing customer base, but trying to tap in to a new audience and get them referring you to others as well, and this can work really, really well.
Final idea that we've got here is making sure that the same, what we were talking about before, about using dedicated landing pages for our loyal customers, what we also want to do on the landing pages for new customers that are coming into a site, is make sure that we're talking about testimonials from our existing customer base, making sure that we put the reviews on there. People buy from people. I'm hearing the term "human-to-human" bandied around a lot recently. So rather than B2C, B2B, it's H2H. And this is really, really important because people do buy from people, and people like to feel that the product or service that they're buying has helped somebody else or somebody else has enjoyed that particular product. So making sure that you're using reviews and testimonials on landing pages can really help boost your conversion rate.
Now the reason that advocacy is really important, again, another study that was done via Bright Local, this basically shows that 92% of people that they surveyed said that they regularly read online reviews. So it's really important, in this day and age, that we focus on driving reviews and getting our existing customers to recommend us to others.
So, as I said, there's lots of other ways that we can use paid media to target loyalty and advocacy, and I'd love to hear what you guys are doing, what other ideas have worked for you, what strategies have worked well for you. If you can leave those in the comments below, that will be fantastic. If you've got any questions or you want to run anything past me, then you can get me on my Twitter handle, which is @samjanenoble, and thank you very, very much for having me on Whiteboard Friday.
Samantha is a Digital Marketing Expert and International Speaker with a focus on Paid Media helping clients increase their revenues through Digital. She was rated 6th in PPC Heros 'Most Influential PPC Experts' list in 2016. Her core role is as the Director of Strategy at Koozai, a UK based digital marketing agency.
In addition, she works as the Co-Chief Editor for State of Digital, one of the leading industry websites when it comes to digital marketing.
She also founded the Digital Females group which now has in excess of 750 members and has held 16 events to date. The group was designed to bring together likeminded females in the digital marketing industry to encourage a higher ratio of male vs. female at some of the leading conferences across the UK.
From an SEOs perspective, I think it's really important that we understand these sorts of PPC strategies and ideas so that we can think deeper about how we can help our clients with their overall digital marketing strategy. Much as SEO is my bag, when there could be value for clients in paid media, it's good to have the tools in our kit to spot and discuss them with clients.
Really refreshing to see some discussion around biddable media on Whiteboard Friday this week, I thought you did a great job.
There's a couple of challenges when working in the premium space (although with a larger impact in luxury retail) around loyalty discounting, so I think you hit the nail on the head with the last three points in this section regarding personalisation, time-sensitivity and cross-selling.
For anyone working in a similar luxury space, I'd also suggest utilising fear of missing out under the loyalty header - for example offering an exclusive early access period to existing customers. In turn, data we've collected has shown this type of remarketing has dramatically increased brand search volume & subsequent conversion amongst existing customers.
Thanks for taking the time out to produce this.
Thanks for the comment Chelios. Really pleased that you liked the Whiteboard video and great to see that you have been trying some similar ideas. Exclusive early access deals for existing customers is also a great idea. So much we can do to drive more loyal customers with paid and so many are not doing it so it opens up a world of opportunities!
Definitely going to have to try out pushing additional products to visitors rather than just tempting them back with the same stuff. Good shout!
Ah thank you so much Gareth. What a lovely comment. Don't worry, so many people aren't using paid media to drive loyalty and advocacy, there is so much that you can do! I actually spoke about this topic at PubCon last month and there are more ideas in this slidedeck if you are interested.
Would be great to hear the results you get once you get started with this.
Thanks for the link! It'll make some great lunch time reading! And I shall definitely let you how things go! Just gotta get approval from the client first.
Thanks for the link, Samantha (and for the great article).
You're welcome! Thanks for taking the time to watch and read.
Love the idea of using dedicated landing page tailored specifically to frequent customers.
Awww thanks Dean. Be great to hear what results you get if you give the dedicated landing pages a try. It has worked well for us in the past.
Nice video Samantha, thank you for your insights.
Absolutely Cornel. A lot of the techniques I discussed can be used to drive returning visitors to a site regardless of the end goal. If you are looking to drive people back to a blog, Facebook advertising (Lead Gen ads if you are promoting a guide) would also be worth exploring if you haven't already.
Of course we need to think about our clients who already engaged with us, their behavior might be different from the new ones and therefore we shouldn't be treating them the same way as we do with the rest. So yeah, completely agree with you.
Thanks for the video and for sharing your insights.
Conceptually, these tips make a lot of sense. I'm interested in seeing how the data for something like RSLA on competitor terms or Gmail ads, stack up against other tactics, particularly more traditional methods like keyword-targeted paid search or contextually targeted display. My gut feeling is the volume doesn't exist in most industries and you end up spending a lot of time fighting for a fraction of the conversions you could be getting from another channel. However, I could be wrong.
Volume is absolutely going to be a lot less than the mass marketing traditional keyword search tactics but the reason I like this method is that it is another way of trying to maintain your customer base. You need to consider this alongside every other paid marketing tactic at each stage of the funnel and use them all for maximum results and ROI.
Very good and valuable presentation Samantha!! I'm will follow your advice.
I couldn't agree more about some tips, especially the point where you mention reviews, customers follow what other customers say.
You are very welcome and thank you for taking the time to watch it and leave a comment.
Did you stand on tip toes to write the text at the top of the whiteboard!?
Great vid! PPC is a marketing advantage that is often underutilized.
Thank you. Really glad you liked it.
Thank you so much for your feedback. I am a huge fan of Facebook advertising too and have loved watching them adapt and include more to their offering over the past 12 months. Looking forward to seeing what they bring in 2017!
Using your existing customer base to help further exposure and drive additional value is one of the most underutilised forms of marketing, in my view.
In theory, everyone knows about it, but in practice, many business owners can be a hit and miss when it comes to tapping into it.
Use the right strategies, and anyone can have an ever-growing army of people promoting the product or service for them.
Could not agree more Scott. Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.
I have found that Gmail Ads are really sporadic depending on the industry and business you are marketing. B2C tends to work better than B2B in my experience and I think it works better for brands that are really showcasing a compelling offer to attract people to click on the ads. Additionally, really refining your targeting can help rather than being too broad or costs can just amount too quickly. What have you tried in the past?
My experience with Adwords is that there are far, far too many fake clicks and Google doesn't do as much about fake clicks as they'd like you to think. Even when we demonstrated to them that on several occasions there were dozens of clicks to a page and Google Analytics showed that the visitors spent on average 0.00 seconds on the site, Google still wouldn't accept that these were bot clicks.
I know Adwords works great for many businesses, but Google could certainly improve on their prevention of fraud.
Totally agree that there will be fake clicks but Google have got a lot better at understanding click fraud and reimbursing advertisers at the end of the month. In my experience I haven't had a huge amount of issues with this recently. Has this been a recent thing?
How did you have your targeting set? Were you targeting competitor names or something different?
Thanks for your advice Samantha. Does it cost me that even satisfied customers leave positive feedback for Google maps of my business? Any trick or advice?
Hi Enrique, thanks for your comment and question. It won't cost you anything if customers are leaving you positive feedback on Google Maps. This is a free platform that customers can use for reviews.
The buying stage is specific - so my view is you look for exact match keywords - especially with a mature business model - then go hard on the winners. Build out from there. What is your view on Loyalty and Advocacy ? How hard is it to find the terms? Any tips on that front? What approach do you use in settleing targets?
I think when it comes to Loyalty and Advocacy keyword searches may not be the best way of thinking as I am not sure that the bulk of existing customers would search in this way. This is why I like to take the approach of using other platforms and channels for this.
Additionally, it would be more about what strategies you could do using RLSAs as you can segment and market to your existing customer base differently to what you would with a brand new audience. If you want to retain and grow a customer, I would bid more aggressively if their search queries went back to the Research/Awareness stage as you would want them to remain a loyal customer of your brand.
Hey, this is an amazing idea Samantha! Seller ratings in ads and testimonials on landing pages are a must. As an online marketer (and frequent shopper), even I would want to go through reviews first and I advise my clients to do the same. But I do have some reservations from countdown ads, especially if I'm checking out a new brand for the first time, as it comes across as spam/phishing scheme. Other than that, I think all other tips are pretty useful. Thanks a lot for sharing!
What has been your success with Gmail ads? I've tried them as well as a few industry friends and found that they don't perform better then display and can cost more then the end.
Very nice congratulations. I really like to read such informative articles, thank you very much.
Thank you for your descriptive and informative lecture on this subject. I'll be waiting for your kind of writing. Achievements.
Thanks for your comment and for watching the video Erhan. Really appreciate it.
Thanks for the comment. The last sentence didn't complete so I am not sure what the question is. Would you mind adding a new comment?
Thank you! Was great fun filming it.


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There are times when reality becomes way more ridiculous than satire. This is one of those times.
Vitor Belfort, the UFC's favorite devout Christian/TRT user, stars in a commercial for a church as a "values enforcer." What does that mean? We'€™re glad you asked.
Basically, Belfort steps into a cage and beats up bad churchgoers until they promise not to text or fall asleep during services. It's like a cross between "€œBully Beatdown" and those grating Sunday morning televangelists. Only it's not as funny as either of the above.
Don'€™t get us wrong. This commercial is hilarious — but strictly in a laughing-at-you-not-with-you type of way. The best part is how the sinning church attendees get to Belfort — they're kidnapped, blindfolded and put into a van.
Yes, that is exactly what Jesus would do.


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«Revelation» es una canción del cantante y compositor australiano Troye Sivan y el músico islandés Jónsi. En julio de 2018, la canción fue vista previa durante el avance de la película Boy Erased, y se lanzó el 18 de octubre de 2018.

La canción fue nominada para el Golden Globe Award a la Mejor Canción Original en los 76th Golden Globe Awards, la Mejor canción original - Premio de Largometraje en los 9th Hollywood Music in Media Awards y un Premio Satellite a la Mejor Canción Original en los Satellite Awards 2018.

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Sivan le explicó a Billboard que después de leer el guion, estaba decidido a poner su música en la película: "Estaba listo para vender mi alma. Le dije: 'Puedes tener cualquier canción que haya escrito, escribiré nuevas, haré cualquier cosa".  Sivan escribió varias canciones originales no solicitadas que no llegaron a la película, pero el director Joel Edgerton le solicitó a que abordara una escena específica, donde Jared (interpretado por Lucas Hedges) tiene una interacción pura con otro chico por primera vez.

Sivan dijo: "Jónsi de Sigur Rós estaba trabajando en algo de música para una escena donde había comenzado esta pequeña melodía de piano, pero realmente no sabía a dónde ir lírica o melódicamente, así fue cuando Joel, Jónsi y yo fuimos a desayunar una mañana y me hablaron sobre esa escena específica, y terminé escribiendo la canción más tarde ese día".  Sivan le explicó a Billboard que "La idea de que esa persona sea una revelación en tu vida, donde puedes hacer algo que se siente tan natural y correcto y estar bien del otro lado, eso es algo realmente potente en tu vida".

Recepción crítica
Joshua Bote de Billboard describió la canción como "una balada divina e inquietante", y dijo: "Lleno de teclas pesadas con reverberación, cuerdas chirriantes y adornos cinematográficos, post-rock, Sivan suena absolutamente impresionante en 'Revelation' mientras canta sobre jóvenes, y el amor como forma de libertad y revolución".

Randall Colburn de Consequence of Sound dijo: "Impulsado por un piano apacible y el tipo de atmósfera hinchada central en el trabajo de Jónsi, la canción reflexiva y relajante logra una especie de catarsis melancólica que es tan esperanzadora como desgarradora". Mike Neid de Idolator lo llamó un "himno conmovedor con un mensaje poderoso".

Presentaciones en vivo
En octubre de 2018, Sivan interpretó la canción en vivo en The Ellen DeGeneres Show, respaldada por un cuarteto de cuerda. En noviembre de 2018, interpretó la canción en vivo en The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

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First ladies who won the hearts of millions
Because of the general attention, the first ladies should always have a beautiful view. They need to set an example in everything – from social activities to family and outfits. Some people do it better than others, in these women the mind, style, charm and strong character are harmoniously combined. 10 spouses of heads of state who are not satisfied with the role of an annex to the husband-politician, but managed to win the hearts of millions, are presented to your attention.
Jacqueline Kennedy, USA. "My task is to show the world that the States are not a country of bad taste," said Jacqueline Kennedy, the wife of US President John F. Kennedy. She was an icon of style and a real pop star. For many fashion designers, Jacqueline is still a muse.
"The dress should be tight enough to show that you are a woman, and free enough to show that you are a lady," is also a statement by Jacqueline. In addition to excellent taste and style, she conquered the softness of her character, sense of humor, as well as a sharp mind and boundless devotion to her spouse.
Michelle Obama, USA. Thanks to the radiated energy and naturalness, Michelle Obama causes not only sympathy, but also respect. When her husband was elected head of the United States, Michelle took up issues that bothered her. Everyone knows that in America there is the problem of obesity, to deal with it, Michelle launched the program "Let's move." She created a vegetable garden in the White House, by example showing the benefits of healthy eating.
Special attention should be paid to the style of Michelle – she knows how to look feminine and fashionable. And in the oratory of Michelle eclipsed even her husband. She has repeatedly said that she does not plan a political career, but many predict her success in this field.
Grace Kelly, Monaco. The unsurpassed beauty and one of the most successful Hollywood actresses who sacrificed her film career for marriage, her husband was Prince Rainier of Monaco III. Princess Grace won the hearts of all the inhabitants of a small country. At her first princess Christmas ball, Grace invited children from all over the principality at the age of 3 to 12 years.
Everyone loved her very much, but was she happy? The husband-prince turned out to be a terrible jealous man who did not like the high life. The princess died in 1982, the cause of her death was a car accident.
Carla Bruni, France. It is difficult to notice with what adoration Nicolas looks at her spouse. Successful top model, poetess and singer – the world learned about her before the famous politician Nicolas Sarkozy.
At one time, her mind and beauty killed Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton and Kevin Costner. Despite her difficult past, Karla very quickly became a favorite of French women, thanks to her freedom-loving nature. Leaving the post of first lady, Carla returned to the tour and became the chief editor of French Vogue.
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In 1999, the model met with Donald Trump. The billionaire did not immediately succeed in conquering the beauty's heart, but he began to care so eagerly that he soon managed to achieve reciprocity.
Chantal Biya, Cameroon. Cameroon's First Lady is simply impossible to miss. It is just a little too much: hair, bright colors, massive accessories. But it is known not only because of its eccentricity.
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Queen Rania, Jordan. This graceful girl is the wife of the King of Jordan and the mother of four children. Many call Rania a modern Cinderella. An ordinary girl who worked in the Citibank Amman office, where she met her future husband.
The queen has repeatedly said that she considers herself a real Arab woman, and devotes most of her time to her spouse and four children. She is the head of the foundation that fights for women's rights, the queen also opposes child abuse. Rania supports vaccination and donation programs and wants to equip all schools in Jordan with computers.
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The people Peng called "The Fairy of Peonies." Peony, as the most revered flower in China, is associated with the symbolism of emperors, personifies beauty and sensuality – qualities that, according to residents, are inherent in Peng Liyuan.
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Aligatocoinico team is working on a fresh-generation auction-sale platform, based on AliCoin crypting and blockchain technology. Alicoin is being upon the already existing Aligato.pl platform that is famous and enjoys the best opinion among its users. Thanks to the AliCoin virtual currency emission and the set of funds via ICO, we will be capable to significantly speed up the Aligatocoin development and project, and definitely globalization of firm services.
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Aligatocointhe carrier of worth, virtual currency is accessible just and only in its non-material type, and it does not have its center issuer who could control its rates against the traditional financial units (such as the Euro, or Dollar). The digital currency supply, which charges at its constant and pre-determined price.
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To issuetokens, the blockchain technology is put into use and those who help the particular project and trust in the particular enterprise turning out successful at the time also count on a large profit linked with the rise in the worth of the digital currency obtained in exchange for the contribution of the capital. The capital collected via ICO will also serve for the future stages of the growth of Aligato project.


text: Q: How to arrange the nodes according to class in ggraph? everyone. I used ggraph to draw a circular layout plot. And I want to arrange node according to their class, I mean all the nodes in the same class are placed one by one in the circular layout? Any ideas is appreciated! Thanks!


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Critical Making and Design: Rita Hayworth Isn't In This Game
adventures in gaming, critical making, Process Writing
This week, for my directed reading course, I attempted to make a game using alienation theatre techniques, as described by Brecht in his Organum on Theatre. The only person that has playtested it so far is my husband, so I only have his and my own opinions to go on so far to judge how well the project turned out. For what it's worth, I had fun with it! I will also be reading Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed and Frasca's Videogames of the Oppressed, but have deliberately avoided reading and engaging with them until after I finished making this game and writing about it.
As a reminder, you can watch a bit of the film as a reminder of some of the scenes that I've taken inspiration from…
This is a game for people who have seen The Shawshank Redemption. It probably won't do anything for you if you haven't. That being said, you should both read "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" and watch "The Shawshank Redemption" if you haven't already.
You can play the game here: http://jekagames.itch.io/rita-hayworth
Specifically, the Brechtian concepts I'm engaging with are the ones elucidated in sections 39, 41, 43, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 54, 67, 72, 75, of Brecht's Organum. You can read paraphrase notes on the Organum here: http://peterbuwert.com/research/?p=69 – I found them helpful, because while Brecht writes very well and has interesting things to say, it can be hard to tease out a simple summary to describe his meaning. I'll pull out some of Buwert's paraphrases to explain some of my choices for this game.
Sections 47, 48, 49, 50 and 51 are perhaps the ones that influenced me the most for the game.
"47. The actor must abandon all attempts to get the audience to identify with the character. His speech must not flow in the way we expect an actors speech to flow 'parsonical sing-song'."
(Buwert)
Morgan Freeman's voice is itself a character in cinema – his warm, friendly narration is unmistakable. So I got rid of it. Much of the audio in the game consists of truncated text-to-speech versions of Freeman's voiceover. I have to say, it almost hurts. But, for me, hearing his lines interpreted by CodeWelt's CW Speak both calls to mind the film, Freeman himself, and a strange reality (the one I have created) where it isn't Morgan Freeman speaking the lines – thus separating the actor from the character, as is suggested in section 48 and 50.
Similarly, in the opening introduction/contextualization of the game, I identify the "agents" of the game (the "yous" that I address with "You are," if you will): Andy Dufresne, the actor that portrayed Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) and the player, further trying to separate the actor from the character and, as in section 49, trying to demonstrate the thoughts of opinions of all those agents. I tried to keep this separation clear by addressing the Player in the various mini-games, also writing in opinions for actor Tim Robbins (who would like to win an Oscar), and instructing the Player to "help Andy," further highlighting the separation between the two of them.
Sections 51 and 72 say, in paraphrase:
"51. In order that the viewer identifies the character as being the portrayal of a particular individual at a certain moment in a certain situation, all illusions that the actor is the character and the set is the location must be broken."
"72. The composer is liberated in no longer having to create an atmosphere to aid spectator immersion. Likewise the set-designer no longer has to create the illusion of an actual place. The set should give hints of greater interest than a mimetic representation would."
Many of my aesthetic choices for the set pieces and character animation stem from these two sections. I was also limited by time, having made this game in under a week, but I also deliberately chose to not model the sets after those seen in the movie (with the exception of the pipe scene, which I really wanted to feel like the movie even if it didn't quite look like it). Similarly, there is no music in the game because Brecht suggests in section 71 that songs should not be used for emotional expression or discharge — which is exactly the use of all the music in the film. Trying to use songs to demonstrate something extra, on top of all the other outputs of the game (text, audio, visual, etc) seemed like it would be excessive.
Section 41 says, in paraphrase by Buwert:
"41. It is a process of sketching, where 'the way it is' is accompanied by a multitude of possibilities of ways 'it could be'."
To represent this, I have animated a ghostly character, identical to Andy/Tim who follows Andy/Tim around and performs other possible outcomes – mostly involving walking in the other direction or tripping.
"44. Things which never seem to change seem to us unchangeable. The viewer must be amazed by the familiar and through this come to question and interrogate normality."
Section 44 affected my choice of material. The Shawshank Redemption is a much-loved movie and, according to IMDb, it, along with The Godfather, are the top-rated movies of all-time. It also features, as previously mentioned, Morgan Freeman's voice, and other things that seem constant and comforting. As such, I felt it was appropriate material for this game.
Finally, as Brecht reminds us in section 75, my goal was entertainment, to some degree, and so I tried to keep a good sense of fun and humour throughout the game.
Okay, time for what went well and what didn't go so well:
– This game took way longer than I anticipated, and I only started to make it on Saturday after carefully considering what I would do, because all of my work seemed to take longer than it should have this week.
– The bugs! One problem with working with a semi-WYSIWYG program like Construct 2 is that it isn't always clear why something goes wrong. Specifically, I had a great deal of trouble with audio for this project, and without the audio, the project sort of falls apart, without the absence of Morgan Freeman's voice and other contextualizing quotes from the film.
– As always, I am learning to use different design approaches to make games and other objects, and I don't know how well I am reconciling making a "good" game and getting the ideas that I intend to across. For what it's worth, my one playtester seemed to get the sensations and provocations that I was going for.
– I'm still not programming in JavaScript or learning a programming language…I think I've got the logic down, though, and someone recently suggested this cool-looking game to me for further practice: The Human Resource Machine (http://tomorrowcorporation.com/humanresourcemachine). I plan to start in Phaser soon with JavaScript, if I ever find the time…
– Those SHOES – I'm quite happy with my shoe-shining animations.
– Global Variables: I used something like five or six global variables as switches in this game, and I'm quite happy with the results. I feel like this game was excellent practice for me.
We'll see what players have to say!
October 19, 2015 Jess Rowan Marcotte
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How to Get Your 2022 Spotify Wrapped
Taylor Alexis Heady Published: November 28, 2022
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Wondering how to get your Spotify Wrapped for 2022? We've got you covered.
In the words of Mariah Carey, queen of the holiday season: "It's time!" This year's Spotify Wrapped season has officially begun. After months of teasing the popular feature, Spotify dropped the official hashtag (#SpotifyWrapped) on Twitter, signaling that Wrapped is finally on its way.
This year, Spotify has switched things up by alluding to a new tracking strategy that may differ from years past.
Previously, Spotify Wrapped tracked streaming data from Jan. 1 to Oct. 31. When fans began reminding each other on social media that Spotify stops tracking Wrapped data on Halloween, two months before the actual end of the year, Spotify claimed in a tweet that things may be different this year.
"The only thing that we end on Halloween is eating candy corn. Stream (and snack) all through the year and we will see you in Wrapped season," the company teased.
In the past, Spotify Wrapped has usually been released during the first week of December. Spotify Wrapped 2021 dropped on Dec. 1, 2021.
In 2021, the most streamed artist worldwide was Bad Bunny — for the second year running — followed by Taylor Swift, BTS, Drake and Justin Bieber, according to Spotify.
Olivia Rodrigo's "driver's license" topped the global songs list last year, as did her album Sour.
Whether you're a new or returning free or Premium Spotify user, the steps to unwrap your Spotify Wrapped are simple.
How to Get Your 2022 Spotify Wrapped:
Your Spotify Wrapped will be available both on the app and desktop version. Make sure you have the latest version of the app on your phone.
Click here to get your Spotify Wrapped via the desktop version once the feature becomes available.
Last year's mobile Spotify Wrapped featured an easy-to-spot banner on the app's home screen. It was also available to access by simply searching "Wrapped" or clicking the "Made for You" tab.
When Does Spotify Wrapped 2022 Drop?
On Nov. 27, Spotify's official Twitter account posted a tweet saying that if fans like the tweet, it will remind them when Wrapped finally drops.
No official release date has been announced as of publishing. It's believed Spotify Wrapped 2022 could release as soon as this week.
Spotify Wrapped includes listening activity data from songs, albums, artists, genres, podcasts and more.
Your top songs will be featured in a unique playlist that you can revisit called "Your Top Songs of 2022," just like in past years.
Meanwhile, you can create your own festival lineup using your Spotify data while you wait!
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Alberta Floods 2013: Zero Connection to "Climate Change"
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Various manipulators with socialistic agendas have emerged in the aftermath of the epic Alberta floods to make unscientific declarations about how these floods were caused by "climate change."
What kind of climate change? Probably global warming, but they don't actually say so. Global warming ended about 17 years ago.
Global warming propaganda suffered a devastating blow in November 2009 when hackers released emails from the UK's Climate Research Unit. These emails revealed the depths of deception on the global warming issue. These emails turned the subsequent Copenhagen meeting on global warming into a big joke and the movement has never recovered. Now propagandists rely on the phrase "climate change" to try and deflect attention from the fact that there is basically no evidence for global warming.
Back in 1975, scientists blamed heavy rain and flooding on global cooling. So who knows?
In any case, it is unlikely that the epic Alberta floods have any connection whatsoever to "climate change". Downtown Calgary is built right between two rivers — we're lucky this kind of thing doesn't happen more often.
Evidence suggests that it used to happen more often. Here are some historical cases of extreme Calgary flooding:
CALGARY (June 1897) Bow River rises about five metres turning downtown into a lake, washing out bridges, short-circuiting electricity and cutting Canadian Pacific's line to Vancouver.
CALGARY (June 1915) The Bow washes away Centre Street Bridge, nearly drowning two city officials. Sheep Creek floods Okotoks and cuts gas mains, leaving Calgarians without cooking fuel.
CALGARY (June 1923) The Elbow River breaks the 1915 record by 20 centimetres when it rises to 2.9 metres. The Bow River, though it rises 1.5 metres above normal, is still about .6 metres under the 1915 record height.
CALGARY (June 1929) Bow, Elbow and Highwood rivers overflow to submerge High River as well as southwest and northwest city districts under a metre of muddy water. It takes a heavy toll on zoo animals.
CALGARY (June 1932) On June 1, 1932, Calgary receives 79.2 mm over a 24-hour period, just .6 mm less than the average rainfall for the whole month. The empty reservoir of the recently completed Glenmore Dam prevents major damage.
It might seem obvious, but High River's name didn't come from nowhere:
HIGH RIVER (May 1942) The town lies under two metres of water after rains swell the Highwood River, forcing evacuation of homes.
And here is a picture of the 1932 Calgary flood. Looks a bit familiar, doesn't it (note the water level relative to the Centre Street bridge)?
UPDATE: A crushing blow to the climate change propagandists: We are informed by the Weather Network that before the 2013 flood, the eight worst recorded floods in Alberta history occurred before 1933. In 1879 and 1897, the floods were about 35% worse.
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Flame of Sevenwaters
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Troubles with the Otherworld have not ended for the clan known as Sevenwaters. Creatures from the shadows have attacked the Sevenwaters before but their efforts failed at the hands of the heroes that the clan possessed. The current king of the shadowy world just cannot keep his desire buried in his heart so he has launched a big mission against the clan. The king wants his son to get married to the daughter of the Lord of Sevenwaters. For this purpose, the king has abducted a whole group of travelers from Sevenwaters and is killing them one by one until the lord says yes to the marriage proposal. Lord Sean on the other hand has two daughters and one of them is a devastating war machine.
Maeve the second daughter of the lord was burned severely in her childhood after which she lost interest in proving herself beautiful. She has trained herself as a warrior but those past moments still haunt her on most occasions. It was during Maeve's return that she saw the dead body of the traveler who was abducted by the king. She thinks that she can trace the enemy down thus she launches the mission.
Her mission is not only to save the people but she also wants to end the chapter of the enemy. Juliet Marillier again takes the audience to the action world that it witnessed in Daughter of the Forest, during Seer of Sevenwaters the story was a different little bit but it's back on track. Also, the presence of Rosalyn Landor as the narrator brings more fans to the book. Rosalyn's voice appears to be custom made for action-packed stories such as this.
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