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4 Marketing Tactics Proven by Psychology
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Meeting your prospects where they are at the right time with the right message isn't accomplished through guesswork — it takes research, planning and an understanding of psychology.
An effective marketing campaign resonates with its target audience and compels them to take a set of desired actions. Marketers who can align their strategy with their consumers' behavior have a higher chance of success.
Here are four marketing tactics that utilize psychology:
UX design uses behavioral observations and experimentation to determine the best design strategy for a site's intended audience. It's informed by site visitors' prior expectations and past behavior in addition to how they interact with various website iterations and elements.
"The words that people typically associate with user experience are 'intuitive,' 'easy-to-use' and 'attractive,'" Guido Bartolacci, New Breed's Head of Demand Generation says. "There are methods that have been proven to work well, but people are always pushing the boundaries and trying new things to see if people respond in a different or better way."
UX design wasn't developed by merely imitating other websites. UX designers experimented with multiple designs, tracking how visitors behaved to determine the best option.
For example, when presented with blocks of text, readers have a tendency to scan in an "F" shaped pattern (for left-to-right languages. The default scanning pattern of right-to-left languages like Arabic is an inverted "F.").
To accommodate for this behavior, designers started placing the most important information within the areas most likely to be scanned and using emphasis elements like bolding and section headings to change where visitors' eyes were drawn.
But merely implementing UX best practices won't necessarily benefit your site visitors.
"You have to create unique experiences based on your personas," Guido says.
The behavior of your actual site visitors and prospects should be the foundation of the UX you create. For example, if your website is intended for Arabic readers, optimizing for an F-shape scanning pattern is going to cause the most important information to be overlooked. Instead, you need to understand how they scan a webpage and match your content placement to their reading patterns.
Buyer Personas
Buyer Personas are more than representations of your company's ideal buyers. They're also psychological profiles that are fundamental to effective marketing.
Buyer personas use a combination of demographics and psychographics to describe who a buyer is and why they act the way they do. This helps marketers humanize their target audience in order to tell stories that resonate.
"You should be putting yourself in their shoes," Guido says. "What do they care about? What does their day-to-day look like? What are their pain points and challenges and how do they solve for them? If you can do a good job understanding those things, you'll do incredibly well as a marketer because you'll be able to connect with those types of people at a much higher rate than if you just took a shot in the dark."
Buyer personas can also help you recognize changing market and industry trends.
"If you create a persona, you do really well with that persona and all of a sudden things start to drop off, that's an indicator — a lagging indicator, but an indicator nonetheless — that something has changed about that persona's buying behavior, and we're no longer matching them or meeting them where they are in the buying process," Guido says.
You can collect information to craft your buyer personas through questionnaires, interviews, focus groups and market research — the same methods behavioral psychologists use to develop their profiles.
Case Studies, Reviews and WOM Marketing
When marketers leverage case studies, reviews and word-of-mouth marketing, they're making use of social proof.
The social proof theory says that when people are uncertain how to behave, they'll look to other people to determine what's correct. So, if someone is on the fence about your company, seeing customer logos across your site along with testimonials can convince them that becoming your customer is the right thing to do.
"Social proof can help you build trust in your brand," Guido says. "Your brand is essentially what people say when you're not in the room. Social proof makes that a reality. It allows others to verify what you said in the marketing and sales process."
Because they know your company has a vested interest in making a sale, prospects will trust other people more than they trust your company. Your customers don't have that same bias, so when a prospect is trying to confirm their opinion of your company, they will look at reviews and case studies.
Word-of-mouth marketing takes this one step further because prospects are receiving information from people already in their network. 83% of Americans say they're more likely to purchase a product or service after receiving a word-of-mouth recommendation from a friend or family member, according to Chatter Matters: the 2018 Word of Mouth Report.
A core tenet of inbound marketing is adding value before extracting value. Doing something positive in hopes of receiving something positive in return exemplifies the social psychology principle of reciprocity.
According to the reciprocity principle, humans tend to respond to an action in a manner that matches the action they received. So, if you help someone out, they're more likely to return the favor.
Providing value without expecting an immediate return is the foundation of how inbound marketing fosters customer relationships and loyalty.
"We're creating content. We're providing educational materials for people to learn from and get better, and ideally, they return the favor by becoming customers," Guido says.
Marketing aims to inspire people to take an action or feel something. Understanding who they are, how they think and what motivates them helps marketers do that effectively. Psychology can provide that insight.
If your marketing efforts are data-informed and persona-driven, you're probably already utilizing psychological principles.
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Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza!
by Darryl — Friday, 3/15/19 , 11:50 pm
Samantha Bee: #MeToon.
Jimmy Fallon does Jim Jefferies.
Jimmy Kimmel's climate change warning to red states.
John Oliver: Robocalls!
The Dotard Трамп and His Band of Felons, Past and Future:
Stephen: Policy proposals from Mar-A-Lago members
Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп lies about "Tim Apple"
The Late Show: Evidence that walls don't work
Roll Call: Why presidential budget requests are usually dead on arrival, explained
Stephen: A Republican rebuke of the "President"
Conan: Melania went on FAUX News to ask for a divorce
Seth Meyers: Cheating rich people
The Late Show: Now that's what I call an alibi
Lauren Mayer: Bibles & hush money:
Stephen: Stephen does the math on Manafort's jail time
Trevor: You're fired—In memoriam vol. 2
Jimmy Kimmel: The Dotard Трамп blasts late night shows
Stephen: New Трамп nicknames for 2020 Democrats
James Corden: Трамп has veto and beto on his mind
Seth Meyers: The Dotard Трамп lies about Paul Manafort and "Tim Apple"
The Late Show: What happens when The Dotard signs a bible?
Jimmy Fallon: Трамп vetoes via Twitter to get his border wall
Conan: Трамп is relaunching his airline business
Stephen: Трамп told Gen. Kelly to "get rid of my kids"
Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп continues attacks on late night hosts
Joy Reid: The Dotard Трамп basks in praise before signing veto
Late Show: Mike Pence Loses Some Office Space
Stephen: Rudy Giuliani's secret backchannels
Rachel Maddow: The Dotard Трамп makes gross mix of NZ condolences with border stunt
WaPo: Can The Dotard take a joke?
Trevor: Fake Melania, Tim Apple & Трамп's six degrees of corruption
New York Times: Who is Paul Manafort?
Jimmy Fallon: Jim Jefferies on compares Трамп's U.S. naturalization ceremony speech to Obama's
Stephen isn't above doing massage parlor jokes
Jimmy Kimmel: Трамп wants Jared & Ivanka out of the White House
Stephen: Трамп denounces "very boring late night shows"
Conan: De-Трамп your Bible with MiracuClean wipes
The Late Show: President Трамп simplifies Air Force One
Rachel Maddow: Трамп admin tracked individual migrant girls' pregnancies
Jimmy Kimmel: Continues attacks on late night hosts
Seth Meyers: Late Night White House Press conference with Трамп
Stephen: Speaker Pelosi puts impeachment on hold
Jimmy Kimmel: The week in unnecessary censorship.
Stephen: Tucker Boy Carlson's terrible apology for "naughty" comments.
Robert Reich: The yuge Republican lie about the deficit:
Today I Found Out: What happens if you are sleep walking and you kill someone?
Vox: Why you still don't understand the Green New Deal.
Samantha Bee: Is Tucker Carlson a White Supremacist?
The Atlantic: Who has time for doomsday? Not Alaska.
Today I Found Out: When aluminium cost more than gold…
Venti Venti Venting:
Stephen: Doin' it donkey style—Born to Beto
Trevor: Beto O'Rourke's Texas-sized tease & Joe Biden's lead in presidential polls
Seth Meyers: John Hickenlooper wants to heal the United States' deep divide
Trevor: Beto O'Rourke becomes 2020's 15th Democratic presidential candidate
Stephen: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on America's role in the world
Jimmy Fallon: Beto O'Rourke's hands announce his 2020 presidential campaign
Seth Meyers: Beto announces 2020 bid and The Dotard attacks him
New York Times: Who is Beto?
Trevor Noah and Jake Tapper at SXSW: Preparing for the 2020 election & keeping up with Трамп
Seth Meyers: John Hickenlooper jumped out of a plane for a campaign ad
Jimmy Fallon with some political news
New York Time: Fool House Rock—How measles is making a comeback:
Vox: Why you're recycling wrong.
Jim Jefferies: Cole Kleen (Seth Rogen) is Jim's new pro-climate change weatherman.
WaPo: Is "bipartisan" a bad word on Capitol Hill?
Samantha Bee: The great Ilhan Omar debate
Trevor: The truth about the Tomi Lahren interview.
Last week's Friday Night Multimedia Extravaganza can be found here.
EvergreenRailfan spews:
Saturday, 3/16/19 at 1:26 am
Interesting that the FAA seems compromised now. I might be able to go with an airline exec as head of the FAA, but not a pilot whol lets a registration lapse.
WTF!? spews:
In honor of Puffy.
#MeLoon
Lidsey Graham is scum bag of the earth.
@1 disgrace – it's worse than a swamp, it's a pigsty.
@YLB – from previous thread.
Hog Slop works for me. Funny, I read the previous thread and your comment after posting @4 above.
@godwinha spews:
Six unremarkable years in the House. At least Obama was a senator, as well as smart enough not to drive when he was chemically intoxicated, and with friends wise enough to disappear those early college years from the public eye.
Verified account
@jimgeraghty
If Beto had an R after his name instead of a D, you'd hear he was boarding-school-attending judge's son who dodged serious charges for the DUI & burglary, used eminent domain to gentrify poor Latino neighborhoods & married into a billionaire's family.
http://bit.ly/2UDd5AC
7:36 AM – 14 Mar 2019
Think about that before dropping to your knees in front of the guy's zipper, YLB.
Beto needs a butt-shine.
gman, that must be code for something in your world.
YLB, how did Olivia Jade's fall from grace affect you on a personal level?
In 500 words or less. I know your emotions run deep, girlfriend.
Uh oh, YLB. If Beto wins then white men speaking dismissively about women will be back in vogue.
Beto O'Rourke apologizes for jokes about wife, says he has benefited from 'white privilege'
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/15/politics/beto-orourke-wife-white-privilege/index.html
It's been a long time since Bill Clinton was in the White House. Now go fix me a sammie, bitch.
Roger Rabbit spews:
Australia has awful rightwing politicians, too.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/03/16/teenager-egged-australian-senator-who-blamed-terrorist-attack-immigration-then-got-punched-face/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fffad90b6f13
Hey, I'm not suggesting a jihadi take this guy out. All I'm saying is a white nationalist terrorist just took out 49 Muslims. Nobody expects jihadis to avenge them. Any white nationalist will tell you this is supposed to escalate in only one direction, even though Islam has the Bomb now, too.
@2 Yeah trolls, even the lunatic ones, are hard to replace. This blog chews up trolls. Most don't last more than a few weeks. Even Doctor Dumbfuck looks like he's been through a cheese shredder. Only reason he's still here is because he's a dumbfuck.
@6 "married into a billionaire's family"
So now marrying money is a bad thing? That pretty much takes in every Republican of substance.
Doc is an exception, though. The rich wife just happened to come with the horse.
Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit's children-in-law will never be able to claim they married into money.
The dowry of Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit's better-looking daughter was a basket of turnips. That of the ugly one? Two baskets.
@13 At least my daughters don't look like unicorns.
Love the video of Chelsea Clinton being blamed for the mosque massacres. Nothing wrong with being on the receiving end of your own inane shit once in awhile, motherfuckers.
I'm just glad someone had a cell-phone camera running when it happened to Ms. Marrywell.
The video @ 15 is here:
https://twitter.com/SebGorka/status/1106738545836900355
It's a four-year education at Evergreen State College condensed into a 34-second clip.
@ 14
They look like gargoyles. Not sure you helped yourself there.
Mike Taylor spews:
Do you "blog celebrities" think the current Democrats who have declared, or are likely to declare, for the 2020 election are not far enough left, about the correct amount of left or too far left?
If Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit truly was wishing to defend his daughters he could have said, "At least they don't have my intelligence.".
@15 Chelsea Clinton? Are you kidding? Have you no imagination? At least Sen. Anning has the vision to blame the dead Muslims. You should look to him for inspiration. He's awe-inspiringly awful; you're merely dull and listless.
Compared with the HA libbie crowd every candidate so far declared is way too far to the right.
Wherein Milo gets his Aussie visa yanked for being Milo.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/milo-yiannopoulos-australia-facebook-christchurch_n_5c8c8e51e4b0db7da9f3a056
No worries. Russia will still host him. Yemen, too.
@18 No, I don't think shadings matter. I think you guys are in danger of Trump getting a far-left U.S. government elected in 2020. You probably have no idea how many people are pissed off at your party, or how pissed off they are.
@19 Your idea of an insult is accusing my daughters of having your intelligence? That's plenty devastating, alright.
Avoiding people with MAGA hats isn't discrimination. It's like wearing a dust mask where there's asbestos.
Actually, I think I will vote for a third party candidate in 2020.
I'm gonna write in #CrookedHillary. For VP probably Epstein.
@26, 27 You don't need to lie. You'll vote by secret ballots.
RedReformed spews:
Gudwad, stop projecting your personal issues on YLB and get professional help.
Elijah Dominic McDotcom spews:
Shy-Trumper Alert! Whooop! Whooop!
C'mon dude, just own it properly like Teh Dumbfuck.
He's not turning back, no matter how bad things get. In ten years when he's coughing out the last chunks of bloody alveoli sheltering in a Whirlpool box behind the Thriftway in Burns he'll still be wearing that red trucker.
Saturday, 3/16/19 at 10:11 am
On the other hand, if you're really going to pussy out why not do it right like this guy!
I mean, either way you end up looking pathetic. But at least Rick Wilson is spectacularly pathetic. He also earn a lot more money than you do for doing nothing more than shit-tweeting dupes like you.
Steve spews:
@31 Like Doctor Dumbfuck's comments, that tweet didn't age well, did it? At least Rick Wilson knows an orange moron when he sees one. Some are just too dumbfuck to see it.
Speaking of dumbfucks, it looks like Doctor Dumbfuck doesn't want to talk about how one of his kindred spirits lost it the other day. Of course, with 49 dead, including women and children, I can understand why the doctor doesn't want to go there. So it's back to hashtags for Putin for our Doctor Dumbfuck.
#hashtagsforputin #dumbfucksforputin
"Like Doctor Dumbfuck's comments, that tweet didn't age well…"
Probably the most interesting thing about Wilson's tweet (and about Wilson in general) is how his prediction got it all precisely, 180 degrees backward.
2018 Trumpublicans led by the Date Rape nominee, ran quite predictably on a foul distillation of angry, aging, semi-rural, white male identity politics including a strong emphasis on restricted access to reproductive healthcare services, unlimited firearms rights, and restroom genitals. While the women who swept the Paul Ryan majority out of the House did so running on health care and raising the value of work.
Wilson lives in a fantasy realm where the Republican Party resembles nothing like its true self, and where at any moment the ghost of Cpt. John McCain will come swooping out of the sun in an A-4 to sweep the USS GOP decks clean of all the nasty lowlifes who drink domestic beer and use the "N" word. For 3 straight years he's been predicting that the Republican Party would somehow "rise above Trump" and go forward to destroy the hippies forever.
The Republican Party IS Trump, now and forever. And it is solely up to the dirty hippies to "rise above" President Draft Dodger and his corrupt mob of hooting racist xenophobes and child molesters.
YLB laughing at boob, the official fellator of "the one" and very scary, gender-confused misogynist. spews:
Saturday, 3/16/19 at 1:02 pm
Olivia who? Oh some spoiled rich kid. We never cottoned to USC in our family.. Bruins and Cal State grads here at the homestead. And Huskies.
The pro-rape lobbyist of HA fantasizes… yet again… Heh. Too rotten legacy of the ivy league..
Nice day outside.
At least he didn't shoot and kill people, although he no doubt made Doctor Dumbfuck proud.
"A vigil organized by Christians, Jews and Muslims at Cleveland City Hall to remember the 49 killed in Christchurch, New Zealand was interrupted Friday by a President Donald Trump supporter driving a "BUILD THE WALL" float."
"Mourners looked on in disbelief as the float rolled past the memorial blaring music. The driver, Robert Cortis of Michigan, then made a second pass and played "God Bless America.""
https://www.wistv.com/2019/03/16/trump-supporter-drives-build-wall-float-past-new-zealand-mourners-cleveland-city-hall/
YLB laughing at boob, the official fellator of "the one" and very scary, gender-confused misogynist. spews:
a foul distillation of angry, aging, semi-rural, white male identity politics including a strong emphasis on restricted access to reproductive healthcare services, unlimited firearms rights, and restroom genitals.
It's just too damn funny that this was the chosen politics of the late, unlamented babbling butthole troll – poodebutt..
the jewish, african-american, 7th day kultist. I chuckle when I see those "go to church on saturday" commercials on tv – the pathway to salvation! Praise da loord!
That, rather than a split between Democrats and Republicans, is the real polarization that has broken America since the 1960s. It's the protected vs. the unprotected, the common good vs. maximizing and protecting the elite winners' winnings.
http://time.com/5280446/baby-b.....eve-brill/
A not quite baby boomer friend and I commiserated more than once that the boomers were going to change the world, and this was the best they could do?
A generation so good at making it for themselves and then pulling up the ladder behind them, lest the next generations ask them to share, or worse, take any of it from them.
That's the real invaders
@33 "including a strong emphasis on restricted access to reproductive healthcare services"
Last I heard, they were going after more than just reproductive health services, they want to take out everything PP provides to millions of low income women.
Of course, this is consistent with their entire philosophy. 19 Muslim terrorists killed roughly 3,000 Americans, so now they want to kill all 1.8 billion Muslims wherever they find them. That's roughly 100 million dead Muslims for every 9/11 terrorist. A kill ratio like that exceeded bin Laden's wildest dreams. But conservatives always dream big dreams. They're fans in total annihilation.
Remember those sci-fi flicks where earth is invaded by alien life forms bent on total annihilation? Those scripts are based on true stories, but the producers realized they wouldn't sell as many tickets if they called them "Republicans" and didn't disguise them in alien costumes.
@38 Our generation had the same complaint about your grandparents' generation. We waited a lifetime for our turn to be the pigs. Be patient, you'll get your turn. Right now, it's our turn.
@35 You expect a Trumpy to not be a jerk? That's what they are. They all have jerk blood in their veins.
His name is out on the internet. I expect he'll be fired from his job, his girlfriend will leave him, and he'll get the usual flood of death threats and hate mail. I don't condone it, but I can't say he doesn't deserve it.
Toddlers. Shot to death. Enough to make a white supremacist dumbfuck proud. Right, Doctor Dumbfuck?
"The slain include refugees and immigrants from a number of countries, high school students, toddlers, academics and leaders of local Muslim organizations."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-we-know-about-the-people-killed-in-the-new-zealand-shooting/ar-BBUPCmS?li=BBnb7Kz
You and your pro-Putin hashtags can go to fucking hell.
I'llHaveAPilsner spews:
"I know more about Real Estate than anyone!"
"I know steak, believe me, I know more about steak than anyone, folks."
"There is no President who has ever known as much about the military than me."
"Nobody knows more about Iran than me."
"The generals are wrong, I know what's going on in Syria more than anyone."
"I understand the tax system better than anyone."
"I know more about renewables than anyone on earth."
"I understand Money better than anybody."
"White supremacists murdering people? well I don't know anything about that so I'll look into if there were fine people on both sides."
Orange shitstain strikes again.
"Trump attacks deceased GOP senator for having 'stains' on his record in his latest Twitter meltdown"
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/trump-attacks-deceased-gop-senator-stains-record-latest-twitter-meltdown/
Stop it. You know how much Trumpublicans delight in shitting on veterans. You're giving Teh Dumbfuck wood with that stuff. And it wont be his turn with OfDumbfuck for another two weeks, and only if her bull says so.
@41. I can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not.
Every generation is impatient about the previous generation being in the way, but boomers ability to hold on and lock out is a new level.
WTF?! spews:
One of Bob's relatives. I happen to have spent today with a teacher from Hamden who is disgusted by this. She is white.
People must have failed so miserably in their own lives that they fell the need to take it out on others – amirite Bob!
Hamden Public Schools Employee Accused of Using Racial Slurs at East Haven Supermarket Resigns https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Hamden-Public-School-Employee-Accused-of-Using-Racial-Slurs-at-East-Haven-Supermarket-Resigns-507248211.html?akmobile=o
And to think that this woman is a parent, along with a husband that's probably the same. This is why America is a shithole, because of ignorant spoiled fucks like her.
That video on the measles has a rainbow in it – the video is subliminally promoting the gay agenda.
Saturday, 3/16/19 at 10:50 pm
@47 I'm not being sarcastic this time. I started poor, and by working extremely hard, beat a system designed to keep the non-advantaged like me down. I never pulled up anybody's ladder, I only built my own ladder. A lifetime of extreme exertion has earned me a few comfortable years in my old age before I die. What part of that do you want me to share?
The generation before mine grew up in the Depression, won World War 2, and didn't have most of the things we take for granted today. They were deprived by today's material standards. I knew them, and they were a hard-bitten lot. Be happy you didn't have to work for them and have them as bosses, like my generation had to.
And there's more. This so-called "greatest generation" sent my generation to Vietnam, then turned their backs on us when we came home. I never hated them for that, but I despise them for it. They're mostly dead now, but I still refuse to call them "great," and I'm unwilling to forgive them.
My generation, the Baby Boomers, has been called selfish, overindulged, and self-absorbed. That's a fair characterization of some of them, but not all of us, and certainly not me. That element mostly came from the middle-upper class that existed in those days. I couldn't afford to be those things.
There really are two Baby Boom generations: The one that went to Vietnam, and the one that didn't. The former is separated from the latter by how the latter treated the former. There was a lot of anger over the war, and for some strange reason the angry ones were those who didn't have to go, and they took it out on those who did. Fifty years later, it's better now, they finally seem to understand it was wrong and we now get the respect we should have received all along, but it took a long time for them to come around and the "Greatest Generation" never did come around. The point is, lumping my half of the Baby Boom generation in with the other half of the Baby Boom generation revives those old wounds, so don't do it. Let us enjoy in our old age the peace we didn't have in our youth. Vietnam veterans didn't have the luxury of being selfish or self-absorbed and certainly weren't overindulged.
I don't really have opinions on Generations X, Y, or Z. Every generation is different, has its own characteristics, and lives in a changed world, but there are some commonalities. Every generation feels fucked by the generation that preceded it and disrespected by the generation that follows it. This hasn't changed for thousands of years.
The "Greatest Generation" killed Hitler, which certainly was worth doing, contained communism, and didn't blow up the world. They ended segregation and passed civil rights, built the interstate highway system and passenger jets, went into space and landed on the moon. They allowed women into the workplace and gave us Roe v. Wade. These were huge accomplishments. But they fucked us with Vietnam.
The Baby Boom generation didn't blow up the world either, broke down social barriers and created a less rigid, more informal society, expanded the civil rights movement into a broader social justice movement, started the environmental movement, and invented rock'n'roll, personal computers, and the internet. Sure, we took the Medicare Trust Fund and most of the Social Security Trust Fund and gave it to ourselves, sent you to multiple wars (at least one of which was completely unnecessary), and inflicted Reagan, the Bushes, and Trump on you. But is it my fault Trump was born? I had nothing to do with any of those guys being elected; I went to considerable exertions to prevent it. I understand you feel fucked over, but you didn't have a Vietnam inflicted on you, and that's a bigger deal than you'll ever be able to comprehend.
So what do you want from me now? I kick Republican ass on HA. Isn't that enough?
You're fired! YOU'RE FUCKING FIRED!!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/media/jeanine-pirro-fox-news/index.html
At least, I sure hope she is. It's past time to get the batshit-crazy hatemongers off the air. This shit wouldn't happen in the first place if Fox had a code of conduct for its on-air personalities.
"Nebraska struggles with state's worst flooding in 50 years"
https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/16/us/nebraska-flooding-saturday-wxc/index.html
Global warming? What global warming? Nebraska voted for Trump, so there's no global warming there.
Sunday, 3/17/19 at 8:38 am
@52. It's not climate change, it's just a 500 year flood…. every 5 years. – Republican voters.
Kentucky "banned" abortion this week.
So that's a thing.
Of particular note was one new law these men came up with that prohibits seeking termination of a pregnancy after any "fetal diagnosis". So if a young, poor, trailerbetty is forcibly impregnated by her father-boyfriend, and sneaks out to the public health clinic early in the first tri-mester to discover that she is due to deliver a child with Lesch-Nyhan Syndrome, she is forced to carry to delivery. And then watch as her newborn son proceeds to compulsively chew his own fingers and lips off while shrieking and writhing in unfathomable agony only to die in about a year or two.
Did I mention that in two weeks if Gov. Matt Bevin is unsuccessful in court, his EO will terminate Medicaid expansion in KY? So I guess young trailerbetty will be sent home with little "Chewey" to enjoy that eldritch horror in the privacy of her darkened trailer while "Pops" sits out on the porch shooting cans.
Sunday, 3/17/19 at 10:17 am
@54 Apt description of Kentucky GOP trailerbilly voters. Used to work in coal mines. The coal jobs didn't come back. But they've heard there'll soon be construction jobs on the border. In the meantime, they pass the time — as you said — by shooting cans and fucking their daughters.
Trump's core demographic. It's who they are. It's who he is.
Wherein Trump's ambassador to New Zealand insists the mass shooter who says he was inspired by Trump's rhetoric wasn't, in fact, inspired by Trump's rhetoric. To wit:
"Brown, who said he has spoken to White House staff since the attack but not with Trump personally, also rejected the idea that the shooter had been inspired by Trump's rhetoric. The US president was mentioned in the gunman's 'manifesto.'
"'I don't give any credibility whatsoever to the ramblings of somebody who is rotten to the core and clearly is an extremist of the worst kind,' Brown said."
https://www.cnn.com/asia/live-news/live-updates-new-zealand-shooting-christchurch-terror-attack-intl/h_b16f1319df8dbd60aa946862227e9f4c
Roger Rabbit Commentary: As the mass shooter had no criminal record until now, it seems reasonable to infer he was only an extremist of a bad kind until Trump's rhetoric inspired him to become an extremist of the worst kind. At least, that's what makes sense to me, Brown's denials notwithstanding.
I think the next U.S. president's first act in office should be to apologize to the world for all of Trump's acts in office.
I'll take care of Doctor Dumbfuck's stupidity, cupidity, inanity, and vanity. That can be handled at this level here.
"'I don't give any credibility whatsoever to the ramblings of somebody who is rotten to the core and clearly is an extremist of the worst kind,' Brown said. 'Unless he says he's a Mooslum".
Someone forgot to warn this dumbfuck the U.K. isn't the U.S. and the First Amendment doesn't apply there:
"A 24-year-old man has been arrested over a social media post that supported the terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch …. '[If] people cross the line, we will take robust action, which may include arrest and prosecution,' the [police] spokesman" said.
Roger Rabbit Commentary: If Trump goes to U.K., he could face arrest there, too. He probably should stay home, where hate speech is legal. No, wait, I have a better idea. He should visit Mecca, stand on a soapbox, and spew his opinions about Muslims there. Just kidding. It's a joke! I'm certainly not encouraging anyone to commit suicide. We've already had a terrible tragedy this week.
Wherein Trump demands Fox reinstate his favorite Islamophobe.
He feels naked without her. In a rhetorical manner, of course.
"'The president is not a white supremacist. I'm not sure how many times we have to say that,' Mulvaney chuckled on'"Fox News Sunday' when asked by host Chris Wallace why Trump doesn't give a speech explicitly condemning anti-Muslim bigotry following the shootings, in which an alleged white supremacist killed at least 49 people."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-white-supremacist-mulvaney_n_5c8e4dd1e4b03e83bdc2056f
Maybe because nobody believes you? As when "Mulvaney repeatedly decline[s] to answer why Trump apparently doesn't intend to … denounce white supremacy" …? You guys aren't dumb enough to publicly applaud when Muslims get gunned down, but I'll bet if the walls had ears …
This one is philosophically difficult for me. Having an egg cracked on your skull doesn't hurt or cause injury, it only makes a mess, but technically it's assault and we don't want to encourage that by turning the perpetrator into an internet hero.
Technically, when a grown man punches a kid in the mouth, that's assault, too. And unlike egging, it does hurt and cause injury.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/egg-boy-fraser-anning-australia-christ-church_n_5c8d7a01e4b03e83bdc1ac97
So here's what they should do. The situation calls for a proportional response. The kid should get community service and a fine. The senator should be expelled from office and go to jail.
As for the sticky mess covering the senator's wig and shirt … (snicker) … sorry, can't help myself … (snort) … tee hee … hee, hoo, haa, har …
HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR
The Kentucky GOP's abortion ban lasted less than 24 hours.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/fetal-heartbeat-law-blocked-kentucky_n_5c8e4621e4b0d7f6b0f48c66
That's all we can ask.
Being younger than you, my view was slightly different. My very first impression as a 12 year old was, when Kennedy was still alive, Buddhist monks were setting themselves on fire in a public square in Saigon in of protest of the South Vietnamese government.
http://www.vietnampix.com/fire1.htm
Next thing I know, JFK was assassinated, Johnson is ramping up, droning on and on, "My fellow Americans…", and now we're sending troops over there to fight. For someone my age, this was a "WTF?" situation.
I was saying to myself, "Why are Americans fighting to preserve this government? If this is about Russia, then why aren't they in Vietnam fighting and dying, too?"
I had read 1984 as a 12 year old, and a year later in 1964 I was looking at LBJ's big head on the screen and telling myself, "It's like 1984 has come 20 years early. This is all a bunch of fucking lies! This war is geopolitical bullshit."
I recall you writing about how you were spat on upon your return from Vietnam. I wasn't clear if you meant that literally or figuratively, but no matter. I knew of no of my age who would have done that to you. The reason why is simple. Those were our brothers and friends who were dying over there. People like Larry Dahl, classmate and friend to many of us who jumped on and covered a grenade to save his comrades and who was posthumously awarded the MOH for what he'd done. Close friend Don Heider was itchin' to go fight for his country and he was dead before he'd been there a month, his body ripped apart by 50 caliber machine gun bullets fired from a Huey helicopter. That was the first time I heard the term "friendly fire".
I had a low lottery number and was attending college with my student deferment. After Heider died, I allowed my student deferment to expire, choosing to at least expose myself to the draft, but I was never called.
Thank you for your service, Roger.
Sunday, 3/17/19 at 12:22 pm
@64 Even 12-year-olds know WTF when they see it.
I wasn't spit on at SeaTac after arriving there from Fort Lewis in an Army bus in uniform. We were verbally harassed by a group of protesters and there were no cops or security guards in sight. I immediately went to the men's room and changed into civilian clothes, then blended into the airport crowd, so I wouldn't be attacked. I hadn't slept in days, was tired, had just returned from a war, was on my way home to my family, and didn't want to fight or end up in jail that day. Also, I was afraid of myself, fearful I might seriously hurt someone.
I wasn't against protesting. I was far more in sympathy with the protesters than they could know, but they didn't bother to ask when they spotted our group and moved in. I, too, thought the war was a bad deal, a clusterfuck, and like them I wanted it to end. I had seen for myself, at first hand, that it was fruitless, a lost cause, unwinnable, and I didn't want any more of my buddies to die for nothing. I understood their frustration, but not why they wanted to take it out on me. I could turn the other cheek to verbal taunting, and even spitting if it came to that, but if they got physical, and it appeared they might, well, I had just come from an extremely dangerous environment where people, you know, react instinctively to physical threats, and … know what I mean? I was abruptly put back into a civilian world where you don't have a license to kill anymore, but you can't reprogram overnight, especially when you haven't slept in four or five days and you're so damned tired your brain isn't functioning even at three percent anymore. In that state, you just react like you would to a hot stove.
The Confederates lost the battle for Atlanta again.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/how-atlanta-cyclorama-lost-its-confederate-overtone/584938/
IT'S CORRUPTION, NOT SOCIALISM, THAT BROUGHT DOWN VENEZUELA
https://psmag.com/ideas/corruption-not-socialism-brought-down-venezuela
"Adopting a few more social-welfare policies to combat inequality will not doom America to the fate of Venezuela—but more corruption could bring us closer to that calamity. Properly implemented, these policies would make America look more like the previously mentioned Nordic nations. If Americans have anything to fear, it's not Karl Marx hiding under their bed waiting to surprise them with free health care; it's the influence of money in politics."
>> If the trumpers acknowledged the corruption was the issue, they would have to admit we have a problem here too.
@67 Trump promised to "drain the swamp" and clean up corruption. He lied.
Some people get mad when they're lied to. Others just keep on truckin' and dumbfucking.
Sunday, 3/17/19 at 1:05 pm
I'm younger than both of you. I was born a couple of months before JFK was shot. I lived a backwater part of Oregon where news filtered in slowly and the John Birch Society was strong. I was 12 when the war ended in 1975. I didn't know what the big deal was with Nixon or the war. It was just something on the TV as unreal as Saturday Morning Cartoons, it had no relevance to anything in Southern Oregon. When I learned about Vietnam and Nixon, it was all past tense, something the Olds seemed bothered about. I am technically a boomer, by one year. So I appreciate having one of the last Good Jobs, and deep sense of anxiety about it going away.
How to interpret the impeachment clause, and why Pelosi got it wrong.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-s-impeachment-doesn-t-have-wait-founding-fathers-never-ncna984051
Spoiler alert: Having enough Senate votes to convict is not a prerequisite.
Thomas Jefferson spews:
The first step in draining the swamp is eliminating the Deep State.
@69 I recently read somewhere that the last boomer birth year was 1981. If true, there's probably some boomers who feel more screwed than you. Not that that's anything to feel good about. In fact, that's Doctor Dumbfuck seeks, an America where 99% of us feel screwed. That, and an America in which white supremacist militias freely roam the streets of our cities and towns shooting blacks on sight.
@71 "Deep state" theology belongs in the same trash bin as the Confederate "lost cause" and German "stab in the back."
And you're not Thomas Jefferson. You're a gnat pretending to have human brains. But it's hard to fake being a circus acrobat when you can't even do a simple handspring. We know what you are.
@72 Baby boomers are considered to be those born between 1946 and 1964.
People born in 1981 are now 37 or 38 years old. I married at 31, was a renter until 34, paid off my student loans at 39, and didn't own a personal computer until I was 52. What's their beef?
If you read this,
https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/poor-millennials/
there's no complaint there which we didn't have ourselves. Minimum wage jobs didn't pay well when we were young, either. We got laid off when the economy soured, too. My first career field didn't last long enough to retire from it, and the pensions in that industry disappeared even before the jobs did. Marriage, children, and home ownership came late for many of us, too. Plus, we had the draft hanging over our heads, and the certainty that tens thousands of us wouldn't get older than our next birthdays, and we might be one of those.
Life has always been tough. Few of us ever had it made. Some things never change: Bitching about the disadvantages of youth when you're young, and wishing you were young again (having forgotten what it was like) when you're old. In our society, under our system, it's normal to wait 60 to 70 years to feel financially secure. A couple generations farther back, nobody ever did, because they didn't live that long.
I'm not sure I understand the discussion regarding Baby Boomers.
What is their beef? Born in 1964 I guess some would say I am one. But there are many other groups today that really could say they have more of a beef than Baby Boomers.
And I am tired of Millennials needing all this attention.
I dunno, Chuck. Maybe because he was a black Muslim from Kenya who didn't have a birth certificate and whose wife is really a man whose name is Michael? Fucktard.
"Chuck Todd blames Obama for America's division: Why couldn't he 'bring this country together'?"
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/chuck-todd-blames-obama-americas-division-couldnt-bring-country-together/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNStfcyNrOI
"Bitching about the disadvantages of youth when you're young, and wishing you were young again (having forgotten what it was like) when you're old."
You are only as old as you feel.
"But there are many other groups today that really could say they have more of a beef than Baby Boomers."
Whenever I imagined baby boomers, the picture in my head was always of white people. Looks like the whiners and complainers among us white boomers eventually became today's whining and complaining white Republicans.
Chuck Todd is a fucking Jackass….he thinks he's all moderate. Fucking guy should go work for Fox.
They could trade Chuck for Shepard Smith.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56WBK4ZK_cw
– try to fell young again.
My advice – forget your age. Go to the gym – a get back your energy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJOTlE1K90k
never saw that music video….man, would be nice to be Ellen there.
get a tatto or somehting
Lot of beautiful woman in that video……and one SEXY guy!
" Looks like the whiners and complainers among us white boomers eventually became today's whining and complaining white Republicans."
Sounds like a mid-life crisis.
They need to get it together or be sew the word Snowflake on their forehead"
@77 "You are only as old as you feel."
No, you're as old as your feet, ankles, knees, hip joints, wrists, elbows, rotator cuffs, neck, lower back, and all the other body parts that begin disintegrating somewhere between ages 40 and 60 and continue disintegrating until you're dead.
@78 " Looks like the whiners and complainers among us white boomers eventually became today's whining and complaining white Republicans."
I've heard that most of the hippies are Republicans now.
I was never a hippie. And I wasn't a Republican much past age 15.
Yesterday I spent the afternoon with a friend of mine for his son's 2nd year old birthday party. He and his wife had their families over. He was born in Ohio and at sometime during his life he moved to Connecticut. His parents are divorced. His mom, who still lives in Ohio, remarried. And his father who still lives in Connecticut also remarried.
My friend will tell you he is an Independent but he spends more energy bashing Democrats and gives Republicans a free pass, but he dislikes The Hump more than I ever express my dislike. From the very beginning of The Humps victory I would tell him that The Hump isn't necessarily the problem and that the Republicans are the problem. That The Hump really couldn't do much harm if other Republicans kept him in check, which we know isn't the case. His fear is that The Hump will try to maintain Presidency beyond his two terms. I would tell my friend that I think the American public would chase the guy out of this Country if that ever were to be the case…but not to sure he isn't wrong.
Anyways some of the family are Trump supporters. Guess which ones….you guessed it the ones from Ohio; his mom, his Stepfather, his Sister and the Sister's boyfriend.
Politics never came up as a discussion, unless my friend and his dad were exchanging small talk and they could throw in a dig about The Hump….I would catch them at times, laughing and dissing the Hump. They would do it discreetly and quietly, but at the same time I think most people herd them. hahaha! It was his house.
Anyways, the ones from Ohio you can tell were a little wealthy, and had rich taste. I think they were the ones that you would say fall under the "whiners and complainers among us white boomers" category.
It was funny when small discuss came up about one of them (the girls) being a Bengals fan….her family questioned whether she really was a fan, in surprise and in sympathy. But then the boyfriend says to her…"yeah, your only a Bengals fan when your sitting in a luxury suite watching them"…..to me this explained white privilege.
@84…but tell that to one of the Rolling Stones.
Sometimes age catches up with you but you can't let it. You might have to go easy, but it's never to late to try to reverse aging as much as possible. Doing nothing will only get you older quicker. And some of those pains could go away with a little more exercise.
I never went to a gym up until 4 years ago. I had a gym membership many years prior and went a couple of time but never was comfortable to stay too long. I had a 1 year contract, paying monthly, but only went twice.
At 50, I was overweight and had joint issues; knees mostly. Then I lost 80 lbs and continue to improve. I no longer have joint pains, unless I overdo it in my workout. I no longer have many health issues that came along with being overweight. I often workout with a couple of personal trainers, one in his mid-20's and the other in his late 30's – they tell me I can do more then many younger guys in the gym.
I know many people have limitations. But my advice is – get to the gym and eat healthier – it can only improve yourself for most people.
Feels Great Mother Fucker, yeah – I can listen to that song all day. Listening to younger type music helps too. I don't know – I just never grew up. But I also can appreciate classical music and Opera.
@87 "tell that to one of the Rolling Stones"
They probably keep a chiropractor hidden backstage.
I was at least an observer of Hippies and the aftermath. Not all were rich, but it was the rich ones who disgusted me most.
I was never the Hippie type either, even though I was playing in a band and played at some Hippie parties during the Summer of Love. Those were happening in some of Seattle's finest mansions. Not exactly a thrill being around those fucks.
I protested once on 4th Ave for about a block and said to myself, "that's enough", and left.
I was never a Republican. I never voted for a Republican. If I call myself anything, I still call myself a Bobby Kennedy Democrat. Alas, even I don't know WTF that means anymore. But if for no other reason, I still stand with Democrats because they don't fuck goats and horses or rape 15 year old prep-school girls. Further, Democrats don't put toddlers in cages to be raped and they don't go around massacring Muslims for viral video jollies.
YLB spews:
Hmmm.. Tennessee goes Bernie Sanders – for poor folks anyways..
https://thinkprogress.org/university-of-tennessee-free-tuition-low-income-students-4b72464474ad/
Wait for it! rapey-boy will babble TN is "not that red"…
Monday, 3/18/19 at 1:28 am
FOX might just do it.
US citizens only, YLB. You're cheering the dissing of the DACA crowd, girlfriend.
Oh, and minimum GPA. Even if you lived in Tennessee and your kids were younger, they wouldn't qualify.
Dumbfuck has been acting like calling a man his girlfriend is the only way he can get his dick hard.
God damn Socialusts in that Tennessee!
I missed spelled that but I think the word applies, especially in this case, so I'll not correct it!
@93 Bob has gaylust.
@95 Evidently so.
Dumbfuck is lurking, waiting for Carl to post a new thread so he take his morning shit on it before heading out to the horse trailer.
I'm willing to bet Dumbfuck named his horse "YLB" but calls it "girlfriend". What are the odds?
Monday, 3/18/19 at 12:44 pm
US citizens only, YLB. You're cheering the dissing of the DACA crowd,
Oh now we see the rep for the pro-rape kookus apologizing for "free stuff"… Awwwww..
White establishment approved only need apply. TN is truly "red" after all.
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and manage SQL Server Logins

.. code-block:: yaml

    frank:
      mssql_login.present
        - domain: mydomain
"""

import collections

def __virtual__():
    """
    Only load if the mssql module is present
    """
    if "mssql.version" in __salt__:
        return True
    return (False, "mssql module could not be loaded")

def _normalize_options(options):
    if type(options) in [dict, collections.OrderedDict]:
        return ["{}={}".format(k, v) for k, v in options.items()]
    if type(options) is list and (not options or type(options[0]) is str):
        return options
    # Invalid options
    if type(options) is not list or type(options[0]) not in [
        dict,
        collections.OrderedDict,
    ]:
        return []
    return [o for d in options for o in _normalize_options(d)]

def present(
    name, password=None, domain=None, server_roles=None, options=None, **kwargs
):
    """
    Checks existence of the named login.
    If not present, creates the login with the specified roles and options.

    name
        The name of the login to manage
    password
        Creates a SQL Server authentication login
        Since hashed passwords are varbinary values, if the
        new_login_password is 'long', it will be considered
        to be HASHED.
    domain
        Creates a Windows authentication login.
        Needs to be NetBIOS domain or hostname
    server_roles
        Add this login to all the server roles in the list
    options
        Can be a list of strings, a dictionary, or a list of dictionaries
    """
    ret = {"name": name, "changes": {}, "result": True, "comment": ""}

    if bool(password) == bool(domain):
        ret["result"] = False
        ret["comment"] = "One and only one of password and domain should be specifies"
        return ret
    if __salt__["mssql.login_exists"](name, domain=domain, **kwargs):
        ret[
            "comment"
        ] = "Login {} is already present (Not going to try to set its password)".format(
            name
        )
        return ret
    if __opts__["test"]:
        ret["result"] = None
        ret["comment"] = "Login {} is set to be added".format(name)
        return ret

    login_created = __salt__["mssql.login_create"](
        name,
        new_login_password=password,
        new_login_domain=domain,
        new_login_roles=server_roles,
        new_login_options=_normalize_options(options),
        **kwargs
    )
    # Non-empty strings are also evaluated to True, so we cannot use if not login_created:
    if login_created is not True:
        ret["result"] = False
        ret["comment"] = "Login {} failed to be added: {}".format(name, login_created)
        return ret
    ret["comment"] = "Login {} has been added. ".format(name)
    ret["changes"][name] = "Present"
    return ret

def absent(name, **kwargs):
    """
    Ensure that the named login is absent

    name
        The name of the login to remove
    """
    ret = {"name": name, "changes": {}, "result": True, "comment": ""}

    if not __salt__["mssql.login_exists"](name):
        ret["comment"] = "Login {} is not present".format(name)
        return ret
    if __opts__["test"]:
        ret["result"] = None
        ret["comment"] = "Login {} is set to be removed".format(name)
        return ret
    if __salt__["mssql.login_remove"](name, **kwargs):
        ret["comment"] = "Login {} has been removed".format(name)
        ret["changes"][name] = "Absent"
        return ret
    # else:
    ret["result"] = False
    ret["comment"] = "Login {} failed to be removed".format(name)
    return ret

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text:
Conclusiones clave
A case study on environment
Mahaguthi reinvest 100% of their profit into supporting their producers and communities, building capacity and new product development.
Demand for eco-friendly coffins is growing, and Ecoffins is leading the way.
As a mission-led enterprise, they have focused on innovations that minimise their ecological footprint while retaining a steadfast commitment to workers and craftsmen. Innovation in material use (e.g. bamboo, Pandanus, recycled paper) and in production methods have led to all products being 100 per cent natural and biodegradable. The shipping footprint has also been minimised, as all coffins are now designed so that the different sizes fit inside one another 'Russian Doll' style. This means that a 20 foot shipping container can hold 198 adult sizes, using just one tenth of a gallon of fuel to ship one coffin from the East Asia to the UK (this is less fuel than an average car travelling eight kilometers). Ecoffins has invested heavily in solar panels and electric vehicles, including at their site in China. They have planted 1,000 trees around their warehouse in the UK and have processes in place to track material use so that waste is reused in production.
Ecoffins is a private business mostly owned by the founder, but has demonstrated to WFTO that it has built its model around mission-primacy. It has made very long-term commitments to suppliers, invests in them and is supporting its main supplier (in China) to become worker-owned. All profits are used to reinvest in the business and suppliers, typically for innovations that pursue the people and planet mission of the business. Without the pressure to pay dividends to investors, managers are liberated to pursue innovations such as new product designs to reduce the carbon footprint of shipping, even where the financial return on this does not seem clear.
They invested in creating a fair and eco-friendly coffin business a long time before demand and a path to future growth was clear, driven by a mission rather than a route to quick returns.
Ecoffins exclusively partners with suppliers that are also mission-led and fully practice Fair Trade, working with other WFTO members in Indonesia and supporting their Chinese operations to become a worker and craftsman-owned enterprise.
The business model deployed by Ecoffins has consistently achieved between 5-10 per cent growth each year, with sales now reaching over €700,000 per year.


text:
La iglesia de San Martín de Abendaño, popularmente conocida como ermita de San Martín de Abendaño es la parroquia del barrio vitoriano de San Martín. Se construyó antes del siglo XIII en estilo románico, habiendo sido reformada entre los años 1978 y 1980. Posee una nave rectangular, de muros románicos y un altar posiblemente prerrománico.

Pinturas murales
Durante la reforma de la ermita entre los años 1978 y 1980, se descubrieron varias pinturas murales, tanto en el interior como en el exterior de la ermita. En estas pinturas, situadas en la antigua cabecera, aparecen representadas la crucifixión y la anunciación. Sobre uno de los arcos que sostiene la bóveda aparece una inscripción de un santo y parte del báculo de un obispo. También existen restos de pinturas de un martirio.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

Arquitectura románica en el País Vasco
Ermitas de Álava
Iglesias de Vitoria
Abendanzzo

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The transcript has been edited by Kappa, his additional comments have been added in square brackets.
As you are probably aware, most of you anyway, Kappa is completely deaf, so I have written down these questions for him to read, and I`m speaking them out loud for the benefit of you, the viewer.
So let`s start by having your comments on your early life in Australia, and your education through to graduation at the university of Sydney.
I was born in 1917 in Sydney, in Australia. My father was an Englishman and he became a teacher of classics and English. My mother was a hospital nurse. I began to go deaf at about the age of 10. It`s a progressive disease and you don`t know when it will stop. It`s irreversible though, and in my case it went very far indeed. I had to find something in which the loss of hearing would not be too severe a handicap, and because of Len Basser I chose chemistry.
I started doing experiments, mostly in organic chemistry because it was so much more interesting, in my mother`s laundry at home. And so when I came to Sydney University I was already quite a good experimentalist. But there I discovered the original literature, and that was a great liberation.
The most liberating thing was the realisation that the literature wasn`t entirely correct. It gave me quite a shock at first, and then a thrill. Because I can set this right! And always, and ever since, I`ve relied upon the primary literature exclusively. I don`t believe a word I ever read in any textbook.
Where did you meet Rita? And did you get married in Australia?
When I was doing experiments in my mother`s laundry, I taught myself to blow glass. I didn`t have a proper blowpipe but I improvised one out of a Bunsen burner. And that way, I taught myself how to blow glass. Well once, I think I was in my second year, Rita broke the side tube of a Claisen flask. They were very difficult to get hold of in those days, and so she was told about me. And so she came to me, I had a proper blowpipe by that time, and so I mended this flask, and that was how we met.
Kappa and Rita both won scholarships to Oxford.
What do you consider were your most satisfying personal contributions to the penicillin programme?
Undoubtedly that would be the penicillamine story. At the time they were getting sufficiently pure penicillin preparation to be able to break up the molecule in various ways.
The analysis indicated it only had five carbon atoms. And so Robert immediately wrote a comprehensive table of structures that it could be. But he was misled by one piece of analytical evidence that was what used to be called the C-methyl determination. The Kuhn-Roth oxidation - you boil the substance you are analysing up with chromic and sulphuric acid, and then you distil over any acetic acid that has been formed from that oxidation.
The amount of acetic acid was supposed to represent the number of methyl groups attached to a carbon atom. So because penicillamine gave hardly any acetic acid in that assay, they didn`t like any formulae that had a methyl group. But that made it very difficult, to think of a formula at all.
Robinson saw what he thought was the least improbable, and he asked Rita and me to synthesise it.
Well, I had to visit Manchester at about this time, and on the way up, it suddenly occurred to me that this negative Kuhn-Roth might be because penacillamine had too many methyl groups, not too few, but there were two of them interfering with each other in a gem-dimethyl as it is called. And so as soon as I got to Manchester I went to the university there. I had had a month there at some time previously, and I asked Todd if I could look in the library there. He said, of course I could. So I looked there, and there it was. Some terpenoids with gem-dimethyl groups, so they were shown to give abnormally low proportions of acetic acid in the Kuhn-Roth assay. Of course, they couldn`t show two methyls, because you can`t get two molecules of acetic acid out of that, but these didn`t even have one, it was about 0.2 or something.
And so then, as soon as I got back to Oxford I wrote Robinson a note saying penicillamine is probably this. And he said, synthesise them both. And so we did. Or at least, we gave most attention to the one we thought more probable, and quietly lost the other one.
In 1975 Kappa won a Nobel Prize for clarification of the stereochemical control of enzymic reactions. Some substrates for enzymes contain carbon atoms that become chiral when one of the attached hydrogen atoms is replaced by deuterium. The enzyme processes this "labelled" compound as a normal substrate and examination of the label in the product can throw important light on the reaction mechanism. A big problem was to measure the tiny optical activity generated by replacing one hydrogen with deuterium in otherwise symmetrical molecules. Later it became possible to make methyl groups chiral by using all three hydrogen isotopes (H,D,T) and to measure the chirality without using optical rotation.
I had the problem that it was necessary to measure somehow the optical activity, and so, looking at all the methods that were available, I could see that it was going to be nearly impossible. And so I wrote to a friend in Australia, I knew he was an expert on optics, and I asked him whether there was anything in the pipeline for measuring very small optical activity. He said, go to the national physical laboratory, they`re evolving a prototype there. It was a marvellous instrument but in our time it was very much a matter of string and seccotine. It was a lash-up of all kinds of components. Well, we did our biochemistry and our chemistry, and we got two specimens of mono-deuterio succinic acid. You have there the single centre of asymmetry, with the deuterium and the hydrogen attached to the same carbon, generating this asymmetry. And I`ve given here the two possible mirror image forms of this compound, you can see the molecules are mirror images of each other. So we had a few milligrams of each of these, and we also had a third specimen which we had much more of, which was made from a product in which we were sure of the stereochemistry.
And we took all these three specimens along to the NPL at Teddington, and there, with this Heath-Robinson apparatus, they did the optical rotations. They came out most beautifully. The two dispersion curves of these two compounds were mirror images of each other, one going up like this, the other going down like that, a perfect dispersion.
Ah, that must have been something!
I think that`s the day I remember with the most pleasure in my experimental life.
"Throughout my entire life my wife has been my most constant collaborator. Her experimental skill made major contributions to the work."
However I understand that a particularly memorable occasion occurred one afternoon shortly after moving to the University of Sussex in 1975, when you received a phonecall from Rita to say that she`d just heard on the BBC news broadcast that you`d been awarded a Nobel prize.
Well, I was quite surprised. I had estimated my chances at about one in three. I knew that Robinson had put me up for the prize. As for the ceremony, as usual I couldn`t hear a word of what was said. And so, also as usual, I amused myself by looking around at the audience. And it was in this sports stadium, an enormous place, it was because the town hall was being refurbished, but I could see, in the darkness of the auditorium, these flashes of bright light, they kept on like this and I couldn`t make out what they were. And finally I realised, all the women were wearing their jewels, and that was what was causing the flashes of light. And that was the thing I remember most of all from the ceremony.
I very much loved reading this article, and many of my questions are based on it. But I want you to feel free to talk about anything. Can you remember any specific papers which were very important in your development?
I was particularly impressed by Emil Fischer`s papers. He is still my hero.
Just to take one of them at random, he found out how to make aminoacetaldehyde, by the reduction of glycine ester with sodium amalgam. Well nobody but Fischer or a fool would have tried that in the first place. But he got it to work quite well. And the experiment is so beautiful that you would never have any difficulty in repeating it. I did, as a matter of fact; I repeated it. And how he was sensitive to all the clues; you could almost see him interacting with his experiments. He is not somebody who had decided beforehand `I will take this material and I will do this, and this, and this to it`. It was more like `Let`s start with this and see how we get along. And look at what we`re doing in between`.
You have a fondness for poetry.
I use poetry as a substitute for music. I have no particular vocabulary of music in my head, but I know thousands of lines of poetry that I can recall as I like. The curious thing is that some pieces I have known for 65 years or more. And when I recall them, I find that I have sometimes improved them!
Can you say more about Blake, and anti-scientific views? That science destroys the beauty and mystery of nature.
First, Keats said that Newton`s explanation of the rainbow killed the beauty of it for him. And perhaps there were people before him. But for me, what I know about nature simply enhances the beauty of it. And I am rather sorry for the people who look at a flower and don`t understand anything at all about what is going on.
I can remember quite clearly, when I first became interested in actually looking at living things, some friends and I were walking in the Blue Mountains and we stopped by the side of a river. For some reason or other I turned over onto my face and looked at the grass. I found that without moving my eyes very much I could count more than 20 different species there, all different and all beautiful in their way. Well that for me was a kind of conversion because I had never looked at things in that way before.
After that experience I started, according to orthodox chemistry, to look at what constituents of plants I could extract from them. It was the usual thing in those days - anything that you could distil or crystallise! That you would go for. It meant of course that you were throwing away 99.5% of the rest of the material which is just as interesting, but there was no way of getting into it.
Do you have memories of sound?
You told me that you sometimes sing to your grandchildren.
Ah well, sometimes my grandchildren have asked me to sing, and although I`ve explained to them that I can`t sing they made me try. And apparently I can produce a melody quite accurately from something that I heard when I could hear. How that happens I don`t know. But if there is a separate store for auditory memory, mine is not very full.
The Internet, email and databases. "Drowning in Information".
We are wading in information at the moment. I should say, drowning. You are asked to give an abstract of your work. And in that abstract you concentrate on what you consider important about what you have done. When abstracts are compiled from that work, or when key words are chosen from that work, it is influenced by what you consider important about what you have done. Now, you are almost always wrong! And what you consider important in your paper may be, and probably is, quite unimportant to most scientists.
But that little observation that you thought you might as well shove in, and that wasn`t abstracted or key worded, that is the one that somebody else would not only think important, but sometimes, use to build progress in another direction. I read an awful lot of literature and I can put my hand on my heart and say that I have hardly ever thought important those parts of any paper I have read that the author considered important.
The absence of scientific certainty and the importance of doubt.
I would not like other scientists to accept what I say without checking because in my view it is the business of scientists not to believe but to check. I am against belief in anything. All we can do is to state the evidence as exactly as we can, and to confute what is manifestly untrue whenever there is an opportunity.
"The futility of believing too much in anything" and "The dilemma of `truth`".
We see in Iran, and in some areas in the USA, fundamentalist ideologies becoming dangerously more powerful and making it difficult to do science on the basis of doubt.
It is all about power over other people. And that has been the temptation of the priest throughout the ages! It is extremely difficult to have a continuing religion without priests of some kind.
You say, you pass this obelisk on the hillside: `I pass it nearly every day, it bears an inscription`. Can you remember the inscription? `In loving memory of the under named 17 protestant martyrs who for their faithful testimony to God`s truth, were during the reign of Queen Mary burned to death in front of the Star Inn, now the Town Hall`.
These burnings were carried out in about the middle of the 16th century. The obelisk on the other hand was erected about 1900. The inscription was composed to keep alive the division between Protestants and Catholics. Even now, people of the same two sects are killing each other in Northern Ireland, ceasefire or no ceasefire. That constituted what I quote here as the `dilemma of truth`. I would regard that as one of the ultimate examples of the futility of believing too much in anything!
In our science, we have a pretty clean record there. People may have lost professorships for holding unpopular views, but at least we don`t burn them outside a pub!
If you educate children not to accept what they are told but to look at the evidence and, when somebody comes out with a statement, who says so? How did he know? What`s missing? What are the assumptions? What is the scale? Do the figures make sense? And hasn`t somebody changed the subject?!
Our only strength as scientists is to convince people that our ways work, and other ways do not.
Note this is the transcript for the edited interview, however more extensive archives are available from the Trust.


optimal placements in the linearized Ginzburg–Landau and Orr–Sommerfeld/Squire models of fluid flow. We then analyze the feedback control of these models by relating physical observations with mathematical tools. Although these tools do not fully predict optimal placements, they do reveal patterns that most or all effective placements share. Most notably, effective actuator–sensor placements provide good authority over unstable modes and transient growth, and avoid large time lags between inputs and outputs.


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Swedish memory devices face possible price hike
TT/Vivian Tse
@thelocalsweden
Hard drives and USB sticks sold in Sweden may face a significant price hike later this year, but an industry organisation claims the fees are against the law.
Attempts by rights organisation Copyswede to negotiate an agreement on the charges with the digital storage device industry have been unsuccessful.
In the end, Copyswede unilaterally announced last month that the charges would apply starting on April 1st despite the industry's protests.
"We have been discussing these for about a year with the industry. They have been reluctant to negotiate with us. They are obliged to pay the fees. We claim remuneration from the companies directly on recordable CDs, DVDs and MP3 players," Copyswede CEO Mattias Åkerlind told The Local on Monday.
"We haven't had any counterpart to carry out negotiations with. This is our way of approaching the companies. Our hope is the companies will sit down and negotiate in the next couple of weeks," he added.
According to Åkerlind, consumers are moving away from copying material onto CDs and DVDs and now use digital storage devices such as hard drives and USB sticks. Copyswede collects all fees on behalf of the rights owners belonging to 14 organisations.
The new fees would make an external hard drive of 250 gigabytes of 160 kronor ($23) more expensive.
"Under Swedish law, the fee is only payable on products that are especially devoted to copying. In addition, the products cannot be widely used for anything else. We believe that it is illegal to impose such a fee," said Anders Appelqvist, CEO of Elektronikbranschen.
The organisation brings together retailers such as large electronics chains and manufacturers of electronic products.
Industry players will meet later this month to discuss Copyswede's demands.
However, Appelqvist believes that since external hard drives and USB sticks are largely used for private files such as personal photos, there are no grounds for the additional surcharges.
Åkerlind would not say whether the organization was prepared to take electronic companies that do not pay the fees to court, nor if the organisation is prepared to alter the fees or implementation date.
"Our tradition is to negotiate with the industry and copying on these products is covered by the law. However, the industry says they do not want to negotiate and it takes two to tango," said Åkerlind.
"If we end up in real negotiations, the conditions may be different from what we agree upon. We have indications that the industry is ready to negotiate," he added.
According to a statement last month, Copyswede is asking for 1 kronor per gigabyte for digital storage devices of less than 80 gigabytes, 120 kr for storage devices of 81 to 250 gigabytes.
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Joel, My understanding is that "bespoke" is a British English word for "custom-made" or perhaps "made to order". Prior to first reading the word bespoke, I was always frustrated by having to write or say "custom-made" to describe the product of a craftsman. "Bespoke" is such a lovely, simple, and short word; it rolls off the tongue easily and gets straight to the point! Anyway, I think your first definition is closest to the intended meaning of the word.
I heard a pair of Great Horneds just last night around 10:00. Lovely birds, and very relaxing to go to sleep to, if they aren't too close! It's actually the first time I've heard them here; we used to hear one or two at our old place and I really missed getting woken up by them, even if it was usually 2 AM.
Very impressive! I wouldn't mind having a few of them on them the mantle! Why on earth would one need 65 herb choppers? Maybe she means to give them away as gifts? I almost wonder if she isn't planning on reselling them at a higher price (similar unfortunate situations have happened to smiths I know). Or maybe she's just hosting a large wedding.... I know, I can't believe summer is almost over! I've got a really busy college schedule lined up this semester, so I feel your pain. At least there's fall break to look forward to.
Thanks, Michael, I really look forward to seeing the end product!
Ooooooo, please post pictures when you're finished! I think it looks wonderful already; I can only imagine how masterful the finished piece will be. Would you mind if I showed the pictures of it to my mother and older sister? They're very much into dragons and while we've seen dragon head finials, I can't recall ever seeing the whole dragon being forged.
I'm sure they would, given your average climate. Magnifying glasses must be thought of as tools of terror down there. Thankfully, my area usually has a rainstorm or two right before the fourth.
I have no clue, Biggun. I don't do much mechanical tinkering with sewing machines, especially not antique ones. Have you tried asking someone local in the repair business. Most repair guys I've met are helpful folk, and not too interested in making a buck off you.
Don't worry about it, Slag, everybody gets confused about the names of parts sometimes. Shoot, I've had debates with the guys at the sewing machine repair shop about the names of certain parts. I just happen to be somewhat familiar with the nasty buggers; sewing machines are always jamming and going wrong at the most inopportune times. Now, if we had been talking about power hammers or automobiles, you would be schooling me on the names of parts!
Actually, Slag, they refer to two completely separate parts of the machine- "feed dogs" refer to the reciprocating teeth underneath the needle the pulls the fabric through the machine, while "presser foot" refers to the clamp-like mechanism that surrounds the needle and presses the fabric against the feed dogs. Without the presser foot, the feed dogs would be useless. A common myth about using sewing machines is that you have to push the fabric through the machine, when in reality doing that only causes broken needles (as one of my pupils found out!).
I would also refer to the tradesman in question as a fabricator, since the OP doesn't refer to the him as forging any of the specified products; although, I would probably call him an "ornamental iron fabricator" or "architectural fabricator" to differentiate from fabricators who specialize in other work.
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Last weekend I bought this welder- the price was so low, it was too good to pass up! I don't know much about it except that the guy I bought it from bought it new in the early '80s from MW. It seems to be in good condition except for a few minor things. I peeked through the vents and it's really dusty and cobwebby inside- is there anything I should know before I take off the cover and blow out the dirt? The plug also needs to get changed; the previous owner removed the original plug and replaced it with a 125v plug, twisted one of the prongs, and plugged the machine into his (presumably) 220v a/c outlet . I'm not sure if the cord is original or not. All the switches, etc seem to work fine. It seems it has two places to plug in the electrode holder, a "low" and a "high" (for 6013, it says). Can someone please explain the purpose of the special "high" outlet? I know I've read about machines with this feature before, but I can't really remember why they were made that way.
I've been wanting to make something similar to this for a while, and I have a few questions if you wouldn't mind. 1) How thick were the tie plates? I've never sen any thicker than 1/2" here. 2) Is the hole in the top plate smaller than the chamber beneath formed by the vertical plates? 3) That is a gap at the bottom between the two plates laying flat for cleaning out punched slugs, etc? Thanks!