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Rhoan Morgan
The first half of 2020 created shockwaves across businesses, leaving marketers working overtime to find viable ways of supporting rapidly evolving customer journeys and revenue goals. This article was originally published on CMSWire.
A few months into the "new normal," some marketers are finally able to take time to pause, reflect and plan for the year ahead. While there is no way to know what 2021 will look like, it's a fair guess it won't look anything like our pre-pandemic world.
Reestablishing a healthy, productive marketing function during a time of unprecedented socio-cultural and economic uncertainty is no small feat, but every marketing leader can take steps to prepare for and meet the year ahead with confidence.
Be Attuned to Shifting Priorities
A marketing leader's role is to translate organizational goals — including sales targets, market positioning and market penetration — into effective, relevant strategies and tactics.
As your organization continues to absorb the aftershocks of the pandemic, you need to stay attuned to shifts in strategy that impact marketing priorities. Stay close to the CEO, the broader executive team and the board of directors so you can understand and support the shifting priorities and challenges. Which market geographies or verticals are faltering? Which products or business lines are performing poorly? What new opportunities may be emerging on the horizon? These considerations need to easily plug into your evolving marketing plans.
Seek Optimization, Not Transformation
The conversation among many B2B thought leaders and market analysts has shifted from digital transformation to optimization. In today's economic climate, when even Google has slashed its marketing operations by half, digital transformation initiatives have been paused or reimagined, and optimization, i.e. doing more with less, has become the focus.
Marketing optimization involves reviewing and, most likely reengineering, how marketing impacts bottom- and top-line revenue:
Every CFO is looking for ways to reduce waste, and marketing leaders need to get in front of this trend by proactively eliminating underutilized or underperforming resources. Let the data show how every platform, initiative and campaign is driving value and where they may be underdelivering. Many marketers have an impressive technology stack, but utilize a fraction of its capabilities. Is there untapped functionality that can help you improve efficiency, capture a new market segment, reach into new channels? Small tweaks can have a big impact: a martech stack audit that reaches into all the connection points between marketing and their business partners such as IT, product, and sales can drive savings as well as new opportunities for growth. Dive into data audits and deduplication processes to dramatically reduce the effort required to manage campaigns while simultaneously enhancing campaign effectiveness and reporting accuracy.
Marketers need to be able to demonstrate (and continually augment) the value they deliver. Take a clear-eyed look at your marketing mix. What's generating engagement and leads? Where is the pipeline breaking down? The promotional channels you use, the content you produce, the way you score leads, and the support you give to sales: all of these elements may require retooling due to market changes. For example, one of our clients, a global technology company, saw that without live events and in-person demos, lead volume diminishing and opportunities weren't closing. They took their live-event budget and invested in virtual demo and event tools. This allowed them to support a high-volume of lead-gen and demand-gen webinars as well as enabling the sales team to replicate the personalized, high-touch relationships they had formerly achieved in person.
Identifying the marketing drivers that are underperforming, essential, and high potential enables you to optimize the marketing function. You can download a copy here.
Establish a Benchmark
Data-driven decision making is a crucial skill for marketing leaders who need to continually optimize operations and identify new opportunities.
The first step is to establish a pre-COVID-19 benchmark. Look at the data points that measure and predict the sales pipeline. What did demand generation look like? How many leads were you generating each month? How many of those became marketing qualified leads (MQLs) and then moved into a sales cycle? What was the velocity of those conversions? What was the quality of the leads (how many were kicked back from sales because they weren't viable)? What was the opportunity close rate? Use all of these data points to establish a baseline against which the effectiveness of future initiatives can be measured.
The next step is to use that data to help predict what's likely to happen three, six, 12 months down the line. What targets are realistic given the extent of the downturn (and how it's impacting your particular industry)? Once you've set targets, you can evaluate your performance regularly and proactively address underperforming markets, channels and approaches.
Focus on Attribution
At a time when many businesses are struggling to remain profitable, marketers need to focus on building systems of revenue attribution. Marketing is mistakenly viewed as a cost center, in large part because the majority of marketers have no way of claiming ownership of the revenue they generate. A 2019 Demand Gen report found that while 90% of marketers said measurement and attribution were a growing priority, only 11% rated their ability to measure and analyze marketing performance and impact as excellent.
Given the predictions for a lengthier, U-shaped recovery, marketers need to fast-track their efforts to build systems of attribution capable of connecting early-stage clicks, likes and visits to later-stage engagement and conversion metrics, opportunities, and, ultimately, revenue. Not only does this make the case for marketing's organizational contributions, but it provides marketers with an analytic framework that shows them exactly which channels, campaigns, and market segments are most profitable.
Despite the glut of predictions, no one knows what 2021 will bring. But that doesn't mean marketers can play turtle. In fact, multiple studies show that organizations that continue to invest in marketing during economic downturns emerge stronger than their competitors. Marketers who use this time to realign, optimize and measure performance will be instrumental in leading their companies to long-term success.
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Rhoan is DemandLab's CEO and Co-Founder. She is an award-winning digital marketing professional with more than 15 years of expertise and a strong track record of generating results for B2B and B2C marketing and sales teams through advanced integrated marketing automation campaigns. She is also the host of the Revenue Rebels podcast on SLMA Radio and the author of Change Agents: The Radical Role of Tomorrow's CMO.
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– Bif, a mathematician from Oregon, competes in Ultimate Frisbee. Bif is a one-day champ with winnings of $28,001.
Alan was able to keep it close during round one, but Bif dominated DJ in very impressive style, rolling up a runaway score of $32,800 going into FJ vs. $9,000 for Alan and $3,200 for Amanda.
Only Amanda was correct on FJ and Bif clearly didn't care for the category, standing pat with his $32,800 for a two-day total of $60,801.
Triple Stumper of the day: In a category about words that rhyme with word, a video of a blue bird that gives Alex "happiness" didn't lead the players to bluebird.
That's before our time: No one could provide the first name of legendary Mexican actress Dolores del Rio.
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In the aftermath of a stunning upset loss to Texas Christian, Bob Stoops did his best to explain the whys and hows of then seventh-ranked Oklahoma's performance on Saturday. Positives were hard to come by, but the veteran coach had no problem listing the areas he and his staff were less than pleased with, including his own coaching effort.
Compliments to TCU and Coach (Gary) Patterson. His team played an excellent game and just outplayed us (and) outcoached us in most all areas. We didn't do a very good job of protecting the quarterback and we didn't throw the ball real well. Defensively there were times we allowed them to move the ball. Even if they get the ball in favorable field position, we have to force field goals, and toward the end we didn't. We allowed them to work the ball more than we'd like, though it was reasonable.
The turnovers were really critical. We're going in to score on the 5-yard line and we fumble. The other one we give them the ball inside (our) 20-yard line for a sack. Again, they outplayed us and out-coached us throughout the whole game and they deserved to win. They're a good team. I understand they had an average year a year ago but the previous two years, I knew all along it's a prideful program that's played well through the years. They just came in here and beat us and that's it.
Q: Is this as disappointed as you've been coaching a team at Oklahoma?
Stoops: Probably since back in '99, I guess. I'm disappointed across the board.
Q: In a sense, have you guys lost some mystique as a national power?
Stoops: That doesn't mean anything. That doesn't — I mean, you guys — that's all paper stuff. When we go play, no one sits there and rolls over for you. No one ever has. We've earned it. We've been winning these games all these other years because people just thought we were Oklahoma? No. We won because we made plays. We coached better, we made plays and that's how you win. That's how we've always won. I don't buy into that and I've said that other years, too. I just don't believe in that.
Q: What about the play of your offensive line?
Stoops: Whether it's discipline, toughness, attitude — all of that. We just weren't very good. Guys running through on us, getting penetration or not being able to hold up the pocket and give the quarterbacks time — it just wasn't near good enough.
Q: How concerned are you about the offensive line?
Stoops: I'm concerned. Not only the offensive line, but everybody. All of it together, the offensive line, the running game, the passing game, they complement one another and neither one was very good today. We've got a lot of work to do.
Q: Did Paul (Thompson) and Rhett (Bomar) just not transfer all that work today you've seen them put in?
Stoops: That surprised me too. I thought they both would have reacted and played better than they did. There were some opportunities there and we had some nice shots and they were overthrown. You've got to be able to put the ball where it needs to be.
Q: Could you comment on Adrian Peterson's performance? Was it a situation where TCU was on him because of some of your offensive line problems?
Stoops: I think it's some of that. He was running hard, like always. He didn't have a lot of space most of the time. The situation, you just look at it and you go back. Should we have run him more? Probably. Those are all things we'll go back and look at. He's not the only one out there.
Q: Do you like flip-flopping the quarterbacks like you did today?
Stoops: I don't know that anybody likes doing that. We're trying to find who's going to be the most consistent and give us the best opportunity to make the throws we need and to move the team. Neither guy really took much control or played very consistently to get a good feeling.
Q: Talk about how the momentum shifted with the (Thompson) interception and the (Bomar) quarterback fumble after you scored 10 points in the third quarter?
Stoops: Yeah, this game isn't real, real complicated. If you turn the ball over, you're going to get beat. And we did. Those guys each need to be more responsible with the ball. Those turnovers were a big part of the game and you can't do it.
Q: Is there a lot of stuff going on just because guys are so young?
Stoops: I don't think so. I thought when you look out there, most of the guys that played the biggest part of the game are guys who have been around here. I'm not going to sit here and throw out any excuses that there were a lot of young guys making mistakes. I don't think so.
Q: Did TCU do anything you didn't plan for or expect?
Stoops: It was just what we saw on tape from a year ago.
Q: Were the quarterbacks going to Travis Wilson because they trusted he'd be there or were they just making the proper check downs?
Stoops: Those were designed routes to Travis on those few occasions. We had a few other opportunities for him and we just weren't able to have the accuracy to get it done.
Q: Were you hoping to use the tight end more or did they take that away from you offensively?
Stoops: No, we were. At times we tried and they covered him or we didn't go to him. But it's our intention to use our tight ends more definitely.
Q: How did D.J. Wolfe play in his first game at cornerback?
Stoops: I felt like he did a nice job. Thinking through it you see when they've given up plays but I didn't feel like he did. I felt like he was pretty solid all day.
Q: At the beginning of the fourth quarter there may not have been the energy level on the sidelines. How do you bring that out of a club when they don't show it?
Stoops: It's hard to say. I think a lot of this, whether it goes back to the summer, or to some guys feeling it's just their right to win or their right to do well and you don't have the true investment that the other guys have had in the past. That's part of it. The energy, the actual fight that's in you during it and I don't know that some of these guys have had to do it before. They need to figure out how to. It's my job too. Again, I'm not sitting here trying to put it all on the kids. I've got to figure out a way to get it across to them and reach them. Hopefully we can.
Q: Is the loss of Birdine a factor there too?
Stoops: Well, it shouldn't be. No one guy governs the team or the team's energy — or he shouldn't anyway, not if you're good.
Q: This program is all about championships. Can you think about championships right now or do you just have to focus on Tulsa?
Stoops: We're just eyeballing Tulsa. That's all we can do right now. But coming into this game all our focus was talking about TCU.


A Student Comment on Social Justice, Rawls, and Chris H.
This is from a student in my Political Science 309r: Special Topics in Political Philosophy. The special topic was "Social Justice." No, this was not a response to Glenn Beck. His comments came out a couple months into the term and about 7 months after the topic had been chosen. The primary focus of the class had been, of course, John Rawls and contemporary writings about social justice. I was going to comment on the comment…but it is beautiful all by itself (I have only edited out my full last name).
For the rest of my life, I will be grateful to Professor H for teaching me about the most powerful tools a political philosopher can use—smugness and sarcasm. Professor H taught by example, as well as by word. Dismissive snickering is far more effective than actual argument, as was vividly proven by the performances and demonstrations he integrated into his lectures.
Yes, Professor H. enjoys an abundance of excellent qualities as a teacher—his rather astonishing ability to understand texts he has never read; his pious refusal to argue (so difficult in a political science class); his ability to unite the class as a single, sulky, homogonous body of dissatisfied aristocrats (by applying the snicker method to any student who tried, however feebly or briefly, to defend—or discuss—property rights. Eventually such students were alienated, shunted into a corner of the room where they were remembered only when ridiculing them could further the day's lecture. After a few months, they took to whimpering and shaking, groaning and rocking like Elantris' Hoed, ravaged beyond sanity by the disease of having disagreed with the professor).
Professor H. presented the class with a problem: namely, that the world is an unjust place. Then he presented us with a solution: namely, that justice can only be achieved when a giant global government rises up, deprives everyone of everything, and dispenses resources among mankind according to the dictates of its awful omniscience. Then the professor retreated into the corner with the Hoed to lament the fact that this giant world totalitarianism seems unlikely to arise.
Alternative conceptions of just government were completely unwelcome. Alternative conceptions of the good life (alternative, I mean, to the conception of a human race which crouches in the dirt waiting for the next piece of food to be stuffed into its throat by an all-powerful public administrator) were mentioned only to be laughed at. The idea that one has a soul which exists in some way independent of earthly forces acting on it was briefly derided and then abandoned. The treatment of this was so brief that the entire occurrence can be represented here. "Some people," Prof H. told us, "have this argument that says: 'You can choose to be happy, no matter what your circumstances.' Psshh. Well. Thanks. Great. That's a helpful theory." After this utterance, we returned to discussions of how we can use DNA tests to help us determine which students deserve to enter college and which deserve to be tossed into a dungeon full of starving wolves by way of punishment for not being genetically worthy specimens of our species.
The entire course revolved around H's interpretation of Rawls and some lesser Rawlsian philosophers. Moreover, the entire course was in direct conflict with the notion (held by Viktor Frankl, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, C. T. Warner, C. S. Lewis, Hugh Nibley and a large host of thinkers far greater than Rawls) that mankind exists as an agent, not as a machine which responds automatically to outside pressures and commands. When confronted with this concept, H. chuckled but didn't miss a beat in his lecture. He smoothly carried on with " . . . clearly, people derive some kind of benefit from contact with nature, so the government should force them to go camping regularly." Creating a list of activities which make us human beings and without which we are animals is ridiculous. Martha Nussbaum, of course, is the one who created the list; but it was Prof. H who would not allow any serious discussion of it. This entire course flew in the face of an earth history which includes Frankl's discovery, made in a death camp, that love is stronger than death. It flew in the face of a human past in which Solzhenitsyn realized, while he was in prison, that there is an eternal ideal of justice. It flew in the face of a religion which believes that the son of God realized, through death, the fullness of his love for mankind. It flew in the face of our doctrine that we are free to choose salvation, eternal life and joy no matter what our situation, no matter the harm that can be done to us by other people.
It flew in my face with its refusal to let me say anything unless I was willing to sulk about the injustice of a world in which some people own sketchers and other people wear hand-me-down shoes from D. I. It flew in my face with its constant admonishment that I stop thinking and accept the hard "truth" that people are soulless and cannot be human unless a just government is created which allows them to be so. This class was nonsense. As a senior I'm not unfamiliar with frustration and disappointment. Nevertheless, I'm enormously disappointed that this kind of worthless garbage exists at BYU. Pl Sc 309 from Prof. H is an affront to God, frighteningly akin to Rome, fat-free milk and poser old men with dirty pony-tails.
This student's comment may have been the highlight of my four plus years at BYU-Idaho and BYU. Thank you.
You missed one mention of your last name.
When my wife taught "RM Book of Mormon" one summer at BYU, she got a student evaluation very similar to this. Most of the other evaluations were very moderate, but one just went way overboard in condemning her for teaching false doctrine. Based on student interactions in class, she believes that the student had a problem learning the Gospel from women.
Thanks, I fixed the name (not that people cannot figure it out, but I am trying not to come up on Google searches as often).
I bet many teachers have had similar comments.
thanks for sharing, chris h.
what is to be made of the attempts at humor in this otherwise seriously accusatory comment?
give this kid 5 years, and s/he will see the light (or darkness, rather). the whole learning thing can be so painful.
based on the student's citations of you, assuming them to be somewhat accurate, i think i would have really enjoyed your class. " . . . clearly, people derive some kind of benefit from contact with nature, so the government should force them to go camping regularly." that is the kind of stuff that great lectures are made of.
So, do you often go around posing as the All Mighty and Powerful Oz? Or were you just experimenting with this one class to see if any of them were literate enough to provide you with such a response?
Rameumptom: Most students like my in-class style. I am sarcastic, but usually is a self-deprecating and humurous way. Many of my students, in particular conservative students, have liked this approach.
I am always changing my teaching…we will see. Of course, TT pointed out that I seem to blog in a similar manner. Maybe it is just who I am.
Sheesh. Stupid people don't like what I write, they don't hire me again or stop reading my blog. I don't like what stupid people write, I don't accept them as clients and ban them from my blog. What must it be like to have to face this? At least your colleagues must know you're doing your job.
This just flies in my face.
Wow. I think you should frame this.
On a serious note, and out of curiosity, what is the departments response when you get an evaluation like this? Did they confront you about it? Or laugh with you?
This is why the open response box is so small! Seriously though, I admire all of you who can continue to put up with this in order to serve the students who possess some modicum of charity. I lasted three semesters and that was enough. I found that vast improvements in my teaching made exactly no difference in my evaluations, so I packed it in in favor of doing work in which good performance brings me praise rather than censure.
Congratulations on your Student Rating! My worst teaching ratings ever came after I found a student cheating on the final. What did I learn? Cheaters tend to have vengeful friends. All of the comments were vitriolic. It was the only semester I had comments like that.
Chris H, So you teach the way you blog? I thought you said you were different in real life. Now I'm confused.
Oh wait, I see TT beat me to the punch with this reaction.
I never heard anything from any of my supervisors. I am on my way out, so it was not a big deal one way or another. I did show a few colleagues. Most chuckled.
Jacob: teaching is not real life.
Jacob, I am sure there are many interpretations.
lol, that was awesome! somebody had waaaay too much time on their hands. i think i wrote something along the lines of, "cool class" and maybe a few other nouns & adjectives.
i must've missed the classes that he/she quoted you as saying those things. the funny thing is, is that the person that wrote comment probably never even spoke up in class. i was probably in the top 3 of conservative speaker uppers (proper nomenclature 🙂 and never felt that way. oh well, it's unfortunate if they (byu) used this comment as a reason to not pick you up for the second year.
Could have been worse. You could be female faculty.
It could be worse: You could be caught explaining the virtues of markets in a contracts class at Cornell. I had one student whose evaluation warned me darkly that making jokes about pinko commies was "not a good idea in a city where Nader got more votes than Bush." I put the eval down and had this view of being confronted by a group of violent and scruffy vegans in a dark alley in Ithaca.
LOL…I lived 20 miles North of Ithaca for 2 year..I didn't realize that it was that cool.
I most definitely get that "perverse joy" of which Nate speaks of.
This strikes me as a flippant and dangerously naive comment from someone who subscribes to the 'Dead Poets Society' myth of the poet-professor.
It is foolish to think that a rational person would automatically disregard such a student evaluations as ridiculous – especially at BYU. This is an institution that featured Randy Botts on the front page of their website because he was the top-rated professor at ratemyprofessors.com.
BYU students take the time to write those comments because they know that the administration pays closest attention to the most dogmatic opinions. Students know these comments will hurt the prospects of new or visiting faculty. That comment on Chris H. is now a weapon in the hands of administrators to wield as they choose.
Faculty at BYU are not professors, they are retailers who must keep the student-customer satisfied with academic and religious orthodoxy.
More like a flippant prof with tenure at a more prestigious institution than BYU.
I only taught in Provo for one year. By the time I received this, I was half-way through my last class during the Spring term.
I am off to teach at a public community college. There my humor will be enjoyed and my disinterest in the eternal soul will not matter…to the administration at least.
Murdock, you might want to see this previous post.
That takes me back more than a decade to a class I taught at BYU, in which–after I assigned a brief argument for atheism–a student returned the next day with a five-page tirade he wanted to read to the class. Fortunately I was able to calm him down in fairly short order.
At least he didn't nail me on evals. Most of my bad evals have amounted to, Too hard, too mean, bizarrely willing to stick to consequences outlined in syllabus–in short, not my mommy. Just one reason I don't miss teaching. At all.
This post is shared in light of that earlier discussion.
I tend not to think that this was getting nailed in any serious way. Of course, there is a reason these arguments were not made in class…they are not good and likely would have been challenged.
BTW dkin (#16) above is political the most conservative student I had at BYU. Philosophically he is likely a conservative libertarian. The writer of this comment has been more heavily influenced by the Straussians at BYU. The funny thing is that our disagreements led dkin and I to become friends. He would regularly shake his head at me (in this class and in the two-part American Political Throught sequence). Upon seeing his faces, I would often invite him to comment and he often did. Of course, he is also a veteran and my guess is that fat liberal professors are not as scary when you have already been through military training.
I am an adjunct lecturer at a public college, and have just one rating on ratemyprofessor.com. The first word in it was "terrible" and it went downhill from there. I think it's hilarious.
It's a striking eval, and parts of it are very good. The middle portion in particular makes a detailed substantive argument in a relatively articulate way. One may disagree with the student's conclusions, but he does set out an internally coherent argument against portions of Chris H's teaching.
However, the eval's substance is completely undermined by the student's penchant for adding insults and belittling asides at every turn. For instance, the description "frighteningly akin to Rome, fat-free milk and poser old men with dirty pony-tails" has no content in it whatsoever. It is 100% belittling insult, and is not a useful evaluative comment in any way.
If a professor is bad, it's easy to say so in simple descriptive words — "did not follow syllabus" or "does not return e-mails" — and that feedback can be helpful. This student's extreme excess of sarcasm and insults suggests that he is not evaluating, but is engaged in some sort of personal vendetta and grandstanding.
Sounds like this kid is ready for the big league: BCC, T&S, WATCH OUT!
The extreme excess of sarcasm shows that I taught her all that I know and something stuck. I prefer that the Rawls sticks, but I will take what I can get (set with a wink, chill everyone).
If oudenos is correct, I must have succeeded. Heck, I am not even ready for BCC and T&S.
I'm not a liberal, and only Libertarians would mistake me for such. I was one of the most vocal members of the College Republicans (whether they wanted me to be or not), I interned for the most conservative member of Congress, and since graduation I've worked with or been offered jobs with numerous conservative candidates and elected officials in Arizona. Ideologically, I'm a conservative communitarian.
I've taken numerous classes with Prof. H, as a result of my being a PoliSci major, and while my experiences would lead me to suggest that the student in the OP is batshit insane, I believe such would be a slander to the batshit of the world (which, due to its usefulness in explosives, has a reputation that should be preserved).
Never in his classes did I ever see him alienate, humiliate, or castigate a student in anyway that could be viewed as unfriendly. As a frequent instigator of distracting conversation, whether advocating the establishment of minimum wage or encouraging gun ownership by all, I often found myself on the receiving end of his jokes about the other side of the aisle, but never was it anything but in good fun.
Of course his opinion entered the classroom, that's the point of college. If I want to get a text book definition of an oligarchy I'd read a dictionary, if I wanted to know Rawls' theories I'd read his books. Attending a University political class isn't about getting a sterile understanding of the political process anymore than listening to Rush is about getting unbiased objective reporting. To paraphrase Good Will Hunting, you can get that much easier and cheaper at a library.
University is a place of debate, discussion, reason, rhetoric, questioning, and seeking answers. It is a place where you seek out those who have gone before, listen to what they have to say as you personally study what they themselves did, then extract what wisdom you can while building your own opinion.
The student claims their ideas were never allowed discussion, that contrary views never given voice. This claim is so absurdly foreign from my experience in Henrichsen's classes, where the majority of classes were often spent discussing and debating the writings and issues raised by Chris, that it is difficult to not dismiss them outright.
Rather, it seems likely to me that the student never attempted to speak up about their own views, never gathered the courage and fortitude to stand up to an authority figure and raise an objection, or simply found their own views so challenged that they felt the need to attack the speaker rather than having the intellectual honesty to confront the claims of the message. This student seems upset that their echo chamber was broken, that perhaps they might have to actually think about something other than the opinions they previously held, and is trying desperately to insulate themselves from outside thought.
As a conservative, Republican Mormon I can't help but think that the student and I would agree on many political and religious points. But, like an embarrassed protester standing next to an unabashed racist, I can't help but feel a desire to distance myself from reasoning that makes me look bad by comparison.
To the student: grow up, learn to act like an adult and you'll learn that others were expecting you to be one all along. To Bro. Henrichsen: rock on, we might not agree on much, but you're the kind of professor that the BYU's desperately need.
See… i only alienate in a friendly manner.
Welcome to BYU. I was in this exact class. It this type of "if you don't mesh with what I think it is affront to God" mindset makes this type of class very important to Provo.
Chris is an excellent professor, teacher and person.
Proof? His class was at 8am and I never missed.
I mean that in a good way, friendly ribbing is what I consider to be a sign of respect towards the person, that though they two might not agree that there exists a friendly aknowledgment of mutual maturity and acceptence.
If there weren't jokes and ribbing then, to me, the class would have felt cold and you'd have seemed disinterested towards the students. That you took the time to mock without being mean meant that you cared enough about the student to learn what jokes to tell.
I'm can't decide whether it's awesome that he used Brandon Sanderson's writing as an analogy, or disgusting that he would shame his work in this way.
Totally missed the Brandon Sanderson reference…if he is not a political philosopher, I would miss it.
To Prof. H, post #31 redeems you in my opinion. Until that point all I got out of the OP and most of the resulting responses was that there seemed to be many smug twits congratulating each other on the intellectual torture of random students.
John: Blake redeems me in many ways. Of course, I like to think that I played a part in him becoming a conservative communitarian (since he was once a conservative libertarian).
Of course, I am a smug prick. Not a twit. Any intellectual torture here was self-imposed. Comments 16 and 33 come from students in the same class.
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"Six Painters and the Object" and "Six More"
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These concurrent shows attempt to focus on those recent directions in painting in which the common object, sign, or the imagery of mass communications become the prime subject matter, in other words Pop Art. The former exhibition is the touring version of the show organized earlier this year by Lawrence Alloway for the Guggenheim Museum and limited to painters working in and around New York, most of whom, unfortunately, are inadequately represented. Six More, also selected by Alloway, focuses on work by California artists. To avoid the provincialism inherent in the selection methods of both shows, it seems better from this point to consider them as one very selective survey, and to forget that three thousand miles and a great many painters separate the two sources.
Upon first viewing the exhibition one becomes quickly aware that the generalizations made about "Pop Art" have very little to do with the work exhibited. The criticism re non-transformed banality aimed usually at the pictures of Lichtenstein, Warhol, Thiebaud and Ramos, has little to do with them and absolutely nothing to do with the other painters. The idea that this work attempts to glorify and give stature to the banal imagery of comic books, advertising art, etc., proves as untrue as the reverse concept that these painters avoid any commitment, either for or against their subject matter.
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, usually credited with, or accused of, starting the whole thing, show work that involves common signs and mass media reproductions but seems concerned with far more formal and paradoxical ideas. Their mutual concern seems to have been with developing methods of incorporating recognizable subject matter without affecting the integrity of the picture plane. Johns goes further by developing significant and rather ambiguous statements regarding the metaphysics of painting-as-object, while Rauschenberg has carried his work toward the idea of a reduced esthetic and intellectual distance for abstract painting, in terms that become a logical progression out of the trap of de Kooning.
Andy Warhol, on the other hand, comes closer to the widely publicized concept of Pop Art. His repetitions of Campbell's Soup Cans, Troy Donahues or, by reference, ideal American noses effect a kind of Kafkaesque grandeur that require no more obvious statements on the part of the artist. He squeezes out, in effect, the bizarre drama inherent in the endless anonymity of mass production, rather than presenting it untransformed.
Bill Bengston's work seems uniquely out of place in this exhibition since his "object," although readily recognizable, is not particularly common. His sergeant stripes become abstract emblems from which his highly formal optical paintings project. In this respect he is more closely allied to Albers than to Warhol, and his chevron motif works simply as a focal point composed of straight lines and curves, and as an ambiguous element of concentration that allows his optical effects to work on the viewer's retina. Because this chevron is particularly recognizable, as is the heart motif in his earlier painting, "Big Hollywood," the work is not purely abstract. His titles, referring to the names of male movie stars and his technique, evolved out of the tradition of hot rod striping and lacquering do place him vaguely in the tradition of Pop, but this attitude seems so dominated by the formal aspects of his work that to label him in this area would be grossly unfair.
Joe Goode, to a lesser extent than Bengston, presents this same dilemma. He presents a paradoxical situation of milk-bottle-in-front-of-wall as opposed to color-shape-related-to-color-field as opposed to the complex physical and psychological tensions located between the picture space and the room in which it sits. In other words, in Goode's paintings the formal also dominates the object aspects.
Roy Lichtenstein, too, is involved with ideas of formal painting, but in his best work the weight allocated to subject is balanced evenly with that of his abstract problems. This delicate balance allows the apparent naivete of his images to assume a hallucinatory quality which, when analyzed, can be seen to be a function of cropping, color repetition, and tensions between formal, abstract shapes. His dominant comic book image becomes both a screen behind which hides a formal abstract painting and a commentary on the nature of art.
The large single-word messages of Ed Ruscha relate theoretically to Lichtenstein but move in an entirely different direction. The communicative process of his message units such as "HONK," "BOSS," and "ANNIE" is altered by its art context and by its lack of rational context. Beyond this, the pictures work in two different ways; some, first seen as single words in a solid color setting are later recognized as a group of separate related abstract paintings in the shapes of successive letters, while others are painted carefully with no visible brush strokes allowing first the word and then the group of individual letters to work with the ground in the manner of hard-edge abstraction. Attention to the spatial continuity of the entire picture space is called by various devices, including the stenciling of repetitions of the word around the edges of the canvas and by fool-the-eye objects such as the pencil in "Talk About Space." What arises out of these pictures is a disturbing word where simple, rational meanings are found to be constantly in need of redefinition.
Wayne Thiebaud and Melvin Ramos, apart from the other painters in the show, are involved in portraiture. Ramos paints comic book heroes and heroines while Thiebaud paints mass produced and displayed food. Both seem dominantly involved in the iconography of mass culture—Thiebaud almost from the standpoint of nineteen thirties' social painting, and Ramos from nostalgia. Their formal considerations seem to go only as far as the technical virtuosity needed to reproduce their subjects. Ramos' paintings seemed more effective primarily because they were more amusing.
On the level of amusement, Phillip Hefferton showed pictures that were, in effect, the opposite of Lichtenstein's. That is, his large cartoons involving the imagery of American currency looked as though they were painted for a humor magazine rather than having arisen out of the mass media or money factories. Unfortunately, his more serious earlier works involving painterly variations on currency were not included.
James Rosenquist, again on a different level, uses a contemporary urban kind of imagery blown up to billboard scale and then fragmented, rearranged and juxtaposed to create intense complex surreal images. From a distance these paintings seem fascinating not only for their psychological effectiveness, but for their structure that holds varying illusionistic and perspective devices at the picture plane. Unfortunately, these pictures which require a precise painting technique, are seen on closer inspection to be less than perfect. Small drips and fudged lines tend to detract from the efficacy of the images.
Finally, James Dine's paintings, possibly as a fault of inadequate representation, look for the most part like rather weak rehashes of Jasper Johns' important work of the mid to late fifties. His free, pointedly clumsy brush work in "Red Bandana" and "Tattoo" appears to say that art need be nothing more than a felt human gesture. The only problem with this thesis, as expressed in these paintings, is that it doesn't come off. The two earlier paintings, "The Plant Becomes a Fan" and "A 1935 Palette" seem better pictorially since both appear to be dealing in a combination of art and social criticism, although the grey palette and metamorphosis of natural to mechanical form seems needlessly satiric today.
To sum up, this exhibition presents a refreshing look at some new attitudes toward painting and the use of subject matter. It also serves a great purpose in presenting a strong visual denial of the criticisms flung at Pop Art in general and replaces it with a picture of younger artists exploring the subtleties of communicative process.
—Don Factor


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An actor provides special effects for the discussion on weed. Should we or shouldn't we? Photo: John Borren
To help clear the smoke on whether to tick yes or no on the Cannabis Legalisation and Control Bill in September, Western BOP social service organisation SociaLink hosted a webinar recently.
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Against: Aaron Ironside
Master of Arts in Psychology, spokesperson for Say No to Dope, drug free for 20 years.
"In countries where recreational cannabis is legalised like Canada, we've seen that the blackmarket refuses to go away. They have diversified and focussed their energy on high potency products for a low price. They've gone into competition with the legal market.
"As someone who used to use, I know that if I'm asked to give up buying cannabis from the people I always have, so I can pay twice as much for something half the strength, chances are that's not going to fly.
"We're not ready for all the commercialisation model brings.
"Our other concern is health. There are age restrictions, but all young people have to do is find an older friend to buy it for them. There are downstream effects of that – from psychotic episodes to suicide."
For: Chester Burrows
Previous National MP, NZ Police Force for 24 years, lawyer, and current Safe and Effective Justice Advisory Group appointee.
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"Cannabis use does have its health risks, but there's great social harm of prohibition, especially for Maori. That's why we definitely need our treaty partners at the discussion table."
The whole debate is also available on the SociaLink website.
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The Crown's Claire Foy Won't Be Your Queen Forever
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The Netflix star shares what it's like to play Elizabeth II—and the career-defining roles she's playing now that her time as a royal is over.
by ADAM RATHE
The British monarchy has been very good to Claire Foy. In the year since the actress first appeared onscreen as a young Queen Elizabeth II in the hit Netflix series The Crown, which in its first season followed the monarch's glittering, tumultuous life from 1947 to 1955, she has become one of the most watched women in the world. Her career (respectable but not exactly on fire before The Crown) has skyrocketed, she has taken home a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Television Drama (as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award), and she is, at press time, nominated for an Emmy.
There's only one small catch in regard to her relationship with Her Majesty. "I would hate the idea of her watching it," Foy says.
Although some of the world's finest performers have earned raves playing the queen, and the monarch's life has been scrutinized for nearly 70 years, Foy is loath to think that her own performance might rankle Elizabeth. "When you're playing a real person, you never want to be ghoulish," she says. "I don't want to pick apart a person. I want to invent someone. So I would hate for her to watch it and think I overdramatized anything."
And despite reports from the occasionally reliable British tabloids that the series has indeed been viewed in the royal household, Foy swats away the notion, if only for her own peace of mind. "I decided a long time ago that she'd never see it," she says. "If she ever rings me up and tells me that she's watched, then I will think differently." (For what it's worth, Helen Mirren, perhaps the only other actress so closely associated with the queen, sent Foy a lovely e-mail.)
For the rest of us, watching Foy in The Crown the coming months will be very easy. In December will come back for a second season, picking up at the Suez Crisis in 1956, and in October Foy will take to the big screen opposite Andrew Garfield in Breathe, an affecting, astonishing film based on the true story of Robin Cavendish, a man who contracted polio at age 28 and, against all odds, went on to live a long life as an inventor and advocate for the disabled.
After that she'll star in Unsane, a hush-hush project that director Steven Soderbergh reportedly filmed entirely on an iPhone, and First Man, director Damien Chazelle's follow-up to La La Land, which tells the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong and features Foy as his earth-bound wife.
"Claire is one of the most exciting actors out there," Chazelle says. "I was wowed by her performance in The Crown, and even more wowed by her interpretation of Janet Armstrong when she read for the role. Claire has a way of communicating unspoken depths in just a line or a gesture or a look that is truly extraordinary. I couldn't be more excited to work with her."
All of this has led to success that Foy did not imagine. "I've never been a particularly ambitious kind of actor," she says. "I was eager to do great things, but I never was like, 'What I have to do is become massive.' I just thought, Maybe I'll do a job here and there, and that'll be nice and I'll move on to a different stage of my life." However, it seems that Foy, like many of the characters she has played, was meant for something greater than she might have planned.
Foy was born outside Manchester, England, in 1984 and grew up in Buckinghamshire, the youngest of three. She was eight when her parents divorced, and while the split was amicable she credits it to some degree with launching her interest in acting. "I watched a lot of films as a child, but that's because I was being raised by single parents," she says. "A lot of the time I was put in front of the telly with hope for the best."
Another early inspiration was her mother's large extended family. "I grew up in a very Irish family, with character and personality and energy and life, so if you had nothing to say for yourself, what were you going to do?" she says. "There were a lot of us as well, so you had to shout to get heard."
Foy was a movie buff at an early age but never thought of acting as something she could do professionally. "It was something I loved but didn't think I could do for a living," she says. "It was what people in films had done, obviously, because they were special or someone came and found them, but that wasn't my story."
Until, of course, it was. While at university she studied drama with an eye toward a career in film production, but in her first year she took a role in a student play and caught the eye of one of her professors. "A drama teacher said to me, 'What are you going to do with your degree?' And I said, 'I don't know,' " she says. "He asked, 'Have you thought about going to drama school?' And I was like, 'Well, no, because that's not something that I could do.' He didn't say anything. I just remember him raising his eyebrow and walking off. I was like, 'Does that mean he thinks I should go?'"
Initially Foy was resistant. She was interested in politics or communications or, if she could overcome a distaste for science, medicine. "I thought that drama school was like Fame, that you had to wear leg warmers," she says with a laugh. "I figured everyone would be incredibly dramatic and I would be like a fish out of water and hate it, that it'd be a disaster and I'd be asked to do things I really didn't want to do—which, you know, is partially true."
Still, it proved effective. After completing the one-year course at the Oxford School of Drama, Foy landed her first part, in the British werewolf drama Being Human ("I had a terrible time, and I was really bad in it," she'd say later), and she appeared on the soap opera Doctors. The title role in a BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit was her first big break, and it led to increasingly weighty parts in productions including Upstairs Downstairs and Wolf Hall, in which she played Anne Boleyn.
Then came The Crown. Foy was six months pregnant when she auditioned—her daughter with her husband, the actor Stephen Campbell Moore, was born in 2015—and she didn't expect to land the part. "There are so many talented, amazing people for every job, it's a miracle that anyone ever gets one," she says. "I sort of got to a point in my career where I was like, 'You know, I've done some really amazing things, I really love it, and I've been incredibly lucky. But I'm pregnant, and if this is it, then this is it.' I really got philosophical." Obviously, she made a good impression.
According to Stephen Daldry, an executive producer and director of The Crown (he also directed Billy Elliot and The Hours), Foy was a natural fit. "She's always been on my radar, particularly because of her performance in Wolf Hall, but it wasn't really until I started auditioning her that I realized how perfect she would be to play the young Queen Elizabeth," he says.
"She's fiercely intelligent and she has a good heart, but, more important, she has the ability to be both accessible and inaccessible at the same time. On one hand, you think you get to know her, and then sometimes you never quite know what Claire's going to do next. It's so true of the queen—in a sense she's the most visible invisible woman in the world—and I think Claire has some of that."
Audiences agreed, and the series, which was created by Peter Morgan (who is something of a royal expert, having written the Oscar-winning 2006 film The Queen as well as the 2013 play The Audience), was a huge hit. While Netflix doesn't release viewership numbers, critics swooned ("Netflix can rest assured that its £100m gamble has paid off," cooed the Guardian), and the show and its cast (other standouts included Matt Smith as Prince Philip, Vanessa Kirby as Princess Margaret, and John Lithgow as Winston Churchill) became regulars on the awards circuit—even if it wasn't second nature.
"The Golden Globes were really weird—absolutely amazing, but strange," says Foy, who keeps her statue in a bathroom. "Because suddenly, without me knowing, while I've been busy working, people felt like I belonged in that room. And I'd be like, 'No, you don't understand. I haven't changed. It's still just me.' "
Any feelings of inadequacy were short-lived, however; for Foy there was more work to do. "There was definitely a moment after the awards when I needed to be alone in a dark room to try to understand what's happening," she says. "I never got that moment. I got a martini instead and cracked on."
Indeed she did. After nine months of filming The Crown, Foy took a break before her next project. "I decided that I wasn't going to work," she says. "I was going to have loads of time off and just be a mom." But that didn't quite work out. A chance run-in with her Little Dorrit co-star Andy Serkis led to her role in Breathe, his directorial debut, and had Foy doing again what has become her signature: playing a real woman whose life has been altered by fantastic circumstances—and making her completely relatable.
"I'm sure everybody in the whole world wanted this part. It's such an incredible story, and she's such an amazing woman," Foy says of Diana Cavendish. "I also felt like Diana and Elizabeth were relatively similar characters in a way, obviously incredibly different but both of a certain generation of women who kept calm and carried on.
That was the challenge for me, to make it different and bring a different life into it." That effort was successful. Breathe offers a stunning portrait of a couple who overcome terrible odds and gives Foy the chance to sink her teeth into a new character, showing an impressive range and dashing the hopes of anyone wanting to typecast her after Wolf Hall and The Crown.
"One of the great experiences of my creative life was getting to build this relationship and these characters with Claire," Andrew Garfield says. "I was incredibly grateful and reassured every day working with Claire, because she's so open and devoted to the truth."
One truth that's not so easy for Foy, however, is that the second season of The Crown will be her last. The show reportedly plans to change its cast every two seasons to depict the royal family at different points in time. "I'm in massive denial," she says. "I don't feel like it's over. I'm waiting for it to hit me at some point that this stage of my life is finished, but it hasn't happened yet."
And as far as what might come after The Crown—and her forthcoming slate of films—Foy is not certain just yet. "At this juncture I think it will find me," she says. "I think it will be a good time to sit down and take stock of what I want to do, which is possibly not acting, or where I want to go—all of those things you don't really have time to think about when you're working. I'll probably have to consider all of that at some point, but not quite yet."
Photographs by Matthew Brookes, Styled by Nicoletta Santoro, Hair by Shon at Julian Watson Agency, Makeup by Mary Greenwell using Chanel Ombre Premiere at Premier Hair and Makeup. Manicure by Charly Avenell. Tailoring by the Pink Room. Produced by 10-4 inc.
This story appears in the October 2017 issue of Town & Country.
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Domestic Divas Blog "Baked Vegetable Penne"
I realize it's been a little while since I posted here, but I've had so much going on lately!
My debut novel The 13th Continuum publishes on April 19, 2016. How cool is that? That and everything that goes along with it has been taking up a ton of my time. BUT...I've been getting back to the farmers market lately and cooking up some fun dishes, so I thought I'd share a recent one.
I'll warn you—this is comfort food.
Yup. No doubt about it.
It's a classic Baked Penne with vegetables and gluten-free pasta. I used a brown rice based penne, but almost any sort of pasta would work here. I filled in the layers with fresh ricotta and summer heirloom squash, purple bell peppers, and spinach, but almost any sort of veggie combo would work. It's topped with organic mozzarella cheese for lots of yum factor.
This dish can be made a day ahead and then baked when the time comes. It also keeps great leftover (it may even be better a day later). Enjoy!
2. Heat the olive oil over medium, then add garlic and saute for 30 seconds. Add the zucchini and bell peppers and saute until becoming tender (about 5 minutes). Add the spinach and stir, letting it cook down. Fold in the fresh basil if desired. Season the vegetable mixture with salt and pepper to taste.
3. Meanwhile, cook the pasta in a pot of salted water until al dente (about 7 minutes). Drain and return to the pot. Toss the pasta with the jar of tomato sauce.
4. To make the ricotta mixture, beat the egg in a mixing bowl. Add the ricotta and 1 cup of the mozzarella and stir together until smooth.
5. Spray a baking pan (8x12 in.) with nonstick cooking spray (or any oil will work). Spoon half of the pasta and sauce mixture into the bottom. Spread the vegetables on top of the pasta, and then spoon the ricotta mixture over the vegetables in an even layer. Top with the rest of the pasta and sauce, and then finish by sprinkling the remaining mozzarella cheese over the top.
6. Bake in the oven for about 40 minutes, or until the it's heated and the cheese is melted and starting to brown. Let rest for 10 minutes before serving. Enjoy!


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import com.koma.mediacategory.data.model.VideoFile;
import com.koma.mediacategory.util.Constants;
import com.koma.mediacategory.util.LogUtils;

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Рыжково — деревня в Собинском районе Владимирской области, входит в состав Толпуховского сельского поселения.

География
Деревня расположена в 2 км на северо-восток от центра поселения деревни Толпухово и в 22 км на север от райцентра города Собинка.

История
В конце XIX — начале XX века деревня входила в состав Ставровской волости Владимирского уезда. В 1859 году в деревне числилось 18 дворов, в 1905 году — 26 дворов, в 1926 году — 16 хозяйств и начальная школа.

С 1929 года деревня входила в состав Сулуковского сельсовета Ставровского района, с 1932 года — в составе Собинского района, с 1945 года — в составе Ставровского района, с 1954 года — в составе Добрынинского сельсовета, с 1965 года — в Собинском районе, с 1976 года в составе Толпуховского сельсовета, с 2005 года — в составе Толпуховского сельского поселения.

Население

Примечания

Населённые пункты Собинского района

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