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Now, I'm Crying When I Talk About Writing Better Advertising...
HAVE I PAINTED MYSELF INTO A CORNER?
Something happened last week.
It gave your faithful screedmeister here a wakeup call.
I may be in trouble. You may get to witness the unraveling of everything that has happened here since January 16, when we unleashed the madness of "They All Laughed When I Tried To Write Better Advertising..."
The title is an allusion to the classic John Caples headline for a home-study music school: "They laughed when I sat down at the piano--but when I started to play!"
As you know, if you've been around for the last two installments of the weekly screed, we've been indulging in a protracted answer to a question from Mr. Chris Pollard, a radio creative director in Dryden, Ontario.
HE WANTS TO KNOW HOW TO GET AFFORDABLE TRAINING FOR HIS CREATIVE STAFF
Many of the affordable alternatives that used to be available have fallen off the edge of the earth.
So far, the dubious counsel we've given is that his people should become geeks for advertising, as well as geeks for life, the universe and everything.
This is nail-on-the-head advice for anyone in any situation who wants to create good advertising.
Last time, the promise was made that a more practical and concrete answer to Mr. Pollard's question would be forthcoming.
Then, last week, an email arrived.
It came from Brian Tepper, Mr. Pollard's compatriot at Acadia Broadcasting.
SEEMS THIS SERIES OF MISSIVES IS CAUSING A STIR
People at the company are paying attention.
Mr. Tepper also told me about many of the things that are being done to make their copywriters better.
And some resources I was going to suggest have already been put into play.
Eegad! What have we done?! The build up to this week's concrete answer is shot to hell!
Your faithful scribe has painted himself into a corner from which he cannot escape!
Unless...
Just maybe, there are more answers that none of us had anticipated.
And here's why I say that.
MR. TEPPER ALSO REVEALED SOME SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
It seems their company has some unwitting copywriters.
During a round of layoffs--which became epidemic in radio a few years ago and have persisted--some traffic people were let go from the traffic department.
But they were allowed to assume the mantle of copywriter.
This is truly impressive and unusual.
I compare it to someone who's been working in air traffic control. They've had a career telling the planes where to land when. It's a fairly rigid environment--there are limited options for creating success. It's all very detailed and well outlined.
ALL OF A SUDDEN, THAT AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER GETS LAID OFF
And that person is told, "But, now you're going start designing and building airplanes."
Neat trick!
Someone who has always worked within a specific range of parameters with limited options for creativity is suddenly thrust into a job that is completely the opposite.
There are no limits beyond the length of the commercial.
And now, without ever having designed a plane, this person has to figure out how to build wings and take flight!
Red Bull might give you wings, but a sugared-up caffeinated energy bomb is not going to solve this one.
But here's the good news: unlike with planes, at worst, if they fail, nobody gets hurt.
And at best, I still believe it is entirely possible to make this work in ways that nobody ever anticipated.
THESE PEOPLE DON'T BRING THE BAGGAGE OF HAVING ALREADY BEEN PROFESSIONAL WRITERS
One of the problems with writers, especially young ones, is often they feel they have all the answers.
I know. I was one of those writers.
The creative ego can run away with things.
When rejected, the ego-fueled writer says things like, "They just don't understand my genius."
Well, sometimes that writer doesn't understand what he's doing. Too often, he's just amusing himself at the expense of the client's advertising budget.
But when the writer starts to realize that his oh-so-amusing unbridled creativity isn't the only thing that the job requires, and that there are so many technical and psychological underpinnings that actually make a radio commercial generate results, things evolve.
And the writer becomes better and more effective.
THE TRAFFIC PEOPLE PROBABLY DON'T SUFFER FROM WRITER'S EGO
But what they do have, typically, is an ability to use a left-brain approach to things.
They understand order and details.
They haven't spent their careers trying to fill up a blank page with words that inspire people to action.
They've spent their careers keeping things organized and running smoothly.
So now, the trick is to give them new skills to help them fill up that blank page while trying to bring order to the daunting chaos it represents.
All kinds of wild and crazy things can happen on that page.
At some point, however, the things that happen there have to be tamed.
And a left-brain sensibility can be useful.
The trick?
DON'T LET THE LEFT BRAIN SQUELCH THE RIGHT BRAIN BEFORE THE GOOD STUFF HAPPENS
This isn't a unique challenge.
It happens to everyone who isn't a writer.
They sit and stare at a blank page, and experience fear and loathing.
And the sensible left brain says things like, "Oh, that'll never work. You can't do this. That's a crazy idea. Let's go get some poutine."
Then, the writer gets loaded up on carbs, needs a nap, and nothing gets done.
THE PAGE REMAINS BLANK
Fear of the blank page is common.
Getting over that requires the courage born of realizing that this fear is pointless.
The fear of jumping out of an airplane, crossing an ocean in a sailboat, stepping backwards off of a rock face with a rope in your hands, those things are all legitimate fears based on the action and its potential to end your life.
Where does the fear of a blank page come from?
"If I write the wrong words, I could explode!"
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy BLAMMO!
I BELIEVE IT'S THE FEAR OF FAILURE
The fear of not being good enough to do it.
The fear of being judged.
All kinds of imagined social disappointments are conjured up by the prospect of filling that clean white page.
It ain't gonna happen.
And the only way to understand that is by actually following the advice of noted journalist, novelist and suffragette Mary Heaton Vorse: "The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair."
That's how you start. "I can't do it" is no kind of excuse.
And when you learn how simple it is, and how there are rules for making it all better, it stops being daunting and starts being a delight.
BUT THIS DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION!
Where is the affordable training?!
I'm about to answer that question. But first, know that this discussion about how to write better advertising, is going to continue. There's just too much ground to cover. We might be brand-focused obsessives over here, but we are also writers and are obsessive about that, too. So we're going to talk more about writing and how to be on brand with effective copywriting.
In the meantime, as discouraged as I am by the fact that the gents in Canada are already using the resources I would've suggested, there are a couple more.
FIRST, EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW THAT THE BLANK PAGE WILL NOT HURT YOU
It is not a loaded gun.
Second, for a practical solution to training writers, the Radio Advertising Bureau has a program that they developed with Dan O'Day. It's called CPCC: Certified Professional Commercial Copywriter.
I find the CPCC a less than perfect solution for the non-writer, because it's specifically about creating radio advertising. Copywriters need a foundation beyond radio. But in an age when corporate needs to justify the expense from the perspective of ROI, this is a good solution: a certification program that gives the writer a credential, which can be shown to the client as a measure of authority (and can help close the deal), and in which a true expert in the genre imparts his wisdom in a practicable and easy-to-understand fashion.
I've known and worked with Dan O'Day for 20 years. We occasionally have healthy differences of opinion (like the veracity of Bud Light's "Real Men Of Genius" campaign), but we agree on most things. And when it comes to training Dan is a rock. This is important stuff. http://www.rab.com/public/academy/onlinecourses-sales.cfm
NEXT, BECOME A LISTENER
Listen to all kinds of radio, not just advertising.
But definitely, listen to award-winning radio.
Go to Radio Mercury Awards dot com and listen to the winners. Among other things, understand why the Richards Group continues to crush it in this competition, especially with the 30-year juggernaut of Tom Bodett for Motel 6. Not all of the advertising you hear there is necessarily good or effective, but it does give you an idea of what is possible with nothing more than a few words and some music. Occasionally, some sound effects. It helps you to think like a radio pro.
I have a lifetime of thinking like a radio guy. When I was a little kid, my parents would wax poetic about the impact of dramatic radio shows, so I would find them and listen. Then came Cheech & Chong records which, 1970s dope humor aside, had some excellent production value. Later, The Firesign Theater, which had some of the most absurd writing and mind-bending production around.
But it was the Radio Mercury Award winners that really upped my game. Not to mention entering the Mercury Awards and not winning upped my game. It's an important bar to have. When you have skin in the game and you lose, it give you a perspective unattainable in any other way. And that is how I finally became good enough to win my own Radio Mercury Awards. Twice.
BUT SOMETHING ELSE HAPPENED
I also lost interest in awards.
Because ultimately, it's about something more.
It's about performing for the client.
And when you start getting good enough to win, and you also start generating ROI, it changes everything.
The client entrusts us with their brand. They rely on us to do something they can't do.
It's up to us to work the game and develop the chops required to make their customers sit up, take notice, and respond.
And when you get to develop a juggernaut of a campaign based on a solid brand (that you may have also helped define), it's a little like famous ad man Jerry Della Femina once said: "Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on."
Blaine Parker
Your Lean, Mean Creative Director in
www.slowburnmarketing.com
They All Cried When I Talked About Writing Better Advertising...
DID I GET IT WRONG LAST TIME?
If you were paying attention to the last screed, we left halfway into answering a question from Chris Pollard, champion radio creative director in Ontario, to wit: "How do we move the needle?"
He's asking how to get affordable training for the people on his staff so they can create better radio advertising.
One of the first things I said was: Even if you don't care about radio, stick around. This is going to be worth it.
And I still stand by that. Thank you for being here.
However, last time, my first recommendation to anyone wanting to create better advertising was to become a geek for advertising.
It doesn't matter what kind of advertising you do, you need to understand techniques and history.
DID I JUMP THE GUN?
In preparing for this follow up, I realized: Uh-oh.
Did your relentless scribe put the cart before the horse?
Last week, I invoked the name of the father of Guerrilla Marketing, the late, great Jay Conrad Levinson. Back in the day, he had the good fortune to be hired and then fortuitously fired by Howard Gossage, the brilliant eccentric and marvelously creative ad man who ruled advertising from atop a converted firehouse in San Francisco during the '60s.
The delightful quirk that drove so much of Mr. Gossage's work no doubt rubbed off on Mr. Levinson, who offers a directive in his bible of guerilla marketing.
And that directive is blindingly important in this whole question of how to create better advertising.
He said, "Get people's attention."
WELL, DUH. OF COURSE YOU WANT TO GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
But wait there's more.
He went on to say something that so many people creating advertising never stop to consider.
"People do not pay attention to advertising."
Eegad!
Blasephemy!
People do not pay attention to advertising?! Why should they not be interested in the brilliant words that come streaming forth from my word processor!
Why not, indeed. As Mr. Levinson continues, "...they pay attention only to things that interest them. Sometimes, people find those things in advertising."
Getting their attention does not mean yelling, "Free beer!" And then saying, "Now that I have your attention, I'm selling this horse."
It means something else.
"TO BE INTERESTING, BE INTERESTED."
No, that is not Mr. Levinson speaking.
Nor is it David Ogilvy, as the internet meme machine would like you to believe. I can guarantee this, because the quote appears two thirds of the way down page 88 of that grand old chestnut of persuasion, How To Win Friends And Influence Peopleby Dale Carnegie.
If people pay attention to what interests them, and you wish them to pay attention to your advertising, it becomes necessary that your advertising is interesting.
And this takes us to a very basic element of writing great advertising.
It's not about advertising.
IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE
And this is where we should've begun the discussion.
Not at becoming a geek for advertising.
But at becoming a geek for life, the universe and everything.
Anyone can explain the basic mechanics of creating an advertisement.
But what can't be taught is a curiosity about the world outside the advertisement.
And that's something you find in all the great advertising writers who have come down the pike.
To a person, they are interesting--but more importantly, they are interested.
And I guarantee you that when Mr. Pollard in his office in his radio station in Dryden in Ontario in Canada at the top side of North America hears this, he's going to wonder what the heck has happened.
ALL THIS MAN WANTED WAS ADVICE ON RADIO TRAINING
He's received commentary on advertising geekdom, is now being told that an interest in life, the universe and everything is really what every writer needs, and what on earth is he supposed to do with that?
I feel your pain, Mr. Pollard. It's frustrating for me, too.
Don't worry, we will get back on topic.
But first, we need to beat this mule some more.
Too much thinking in business (and in life) is channeled and labeled and siloed and stratified and packaged and otherwise rigidly defined.
There is no room for anything that isn't categorized.
EVERYONE WANTS WELL-DEFINED ANSWERS AND SOLUTIONS
Understandably.
Here's the problem with talking about training people to create better advertising.
There's no on-off switch.
You can't just send someone to a training program and come out with a top-notch copywriter or a genius voiceover performer.
It's all a process.
And the process begins a long time before someone walks into a radio station or an advertising agency or even your business and says, posing with arms akimbo, "I am writer!"
Instead, they've spent their lives, walking around and bumping into things, wandering down the road less traveled, wondering "What the heck?", and asking questions.
AND THIS IS KEY
Good advertising writers are interested.
They have curiosity.
They want to know more.
They ask questions.
Then, when it comes time to write an ad, after they've asked all kinds of questions about what they're supposed to be selling, they have no problem sitting down writing endless awful advertisements for it.
ONE NEVER WRITES A GOOD AD BEFORE ASKING QUESTIONS AND WRITING CRAP
One big problem?
A lot of people stop at the crap.
They think it's good. They parade it around and people applaud.
Because maybe it's clever.
Maybe it seems like an advertisement.
But in reality, all it really is, is an ad-like object.
The world is filled with ad-like objects.
You see them and hear all the time.
And they make you feel nothing--unless they make you feel the wrong thing.
OFTEN THEY'RE FUNNY
And there's nothing wrong with funny advertising.
But funny is not the goal. Funny by itself makes the prospect feel the wrong thing.
The funny needs to be relevant.
The funny needs to connect with the sales message.
And this is one of the big challenges we face.
Especially in radio, there's a perception that advertising needs to be funny.
Advertising needs to be relevant.
That doesn't mean it needs to be a "buy now, but wait, there's more, there's never been a better time to buy this baloney!" pitch fest.
AN INTERESTED PERSON UNDERSTANDS PSYCHOLOGY
Not formal psychology. I took psych 101 in college. It was awful. And was obviously taught by somebody badly in need of a psychologist.
We're talking practical psychology, or whatever else you want to call it. Mindset. Thinking. Makeup. Sensibility. Consciousness. Attitude. Feeling.
Ah, there's that word. "Feeling." How does the advertisement make the prospect "feel."
The interested copywriter understands this.
The interested copywriter understands the feelings of the person to whom they are speaking, and how to hit the emotional trigger that makes that prospect feel, "Here's the solution to my problem."
THAT'S PART OF EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
And that kind of emotional intelligence about the craft comes from spending life, walking around and bumping into things, wandering down the road less traveled, wondering "What the heck?", and asking questions.
It does not come from saying, "Hey, we're gonna write a funny ad that wins an award!"
Before anything else happens, the right person with the right attitude has to be at the helm of the great ship HMS Word Processor.
Fortunately for the indubitably frustrated Mr. Pollard in his radio station in Dryden, Ontario, Canada, North America, 49 degrees 47 minutes North, 92 degrees 50 minutes West, we will be getting around to a practical and concrete answer to his question next time.
They All Laughed When I Tried To Write Better Advertising...
"HOW DO WE MOVE THE NEEDLE?"
That's the question. It comes from Canada via Chris Pollard, Creative Director at 92.7 CKDR in Dryden, Ontario.
And even if you don't care about radio, stick around. It's going to be worth your while.
When we threw out the solicitation for your burning questions about branding and marketing, Mr. Pollard was first out of the gate.
He asked, "How do we move the needle?"
Normally, the phrase "moving the needle" is a reference to generating sales for a client. Creating advertising that sells more product is moving the needle.
But in this case, Mr. Pollard is talking about training his team in making better, more creative and more effective advertising.
He says, in part, "A lot of marketers out there...want to improve their skills. But training opportunities are sorely lacking. Is there something out there we're missing? My corporate cohorts and I have discussed it several times over the years, and our searches always come up empty."
I can guarantee you, the answer is not one he's expecting, and it's going to be more applicable across the board than you expect.
RADIO IS A VAST WASTELAND
With apologies to erstwhile FCC Chairman Newton Minow, whose famous "vast wasteland" speech to the National Association of Broadcasters in 1961 sent TV programmers a searing message about the quality of their content, radio has become a creative desert.
A fact of the business is that wildly talented and dedicated people get sacked because they're "too expensive." More and more, everything is run by beancounters lacking insight, employing low-wage bean counters who lack skill or intellect, supervised and trained by people who aren't all that great, either. or, who have just given up and do what they can with what they're given. (I am not painting Mr. Pollard's employers with this brush. They seem to be an exception.)
Mr. Pollard goes on to talk about the few, expensive courses out there, and the many affordable ones--many which have fallen by the wayside because nobody can get their stations to pay for them.
So the real question is: Where is the affordable training?
To which I say: It's all around you. Just do it.
Become A Geek For Advertising
Not just radio, but all advertising.
I'm routinely shocked how many radio people do not have any comprehension of how advertising works, what constitutes good advertising, and how they know nothing about advertising history.
Radio has its uniqueness, for sure.
But it also shares commonality with all advertising in that it's a form of persuasion.
If you say "John Caples" to most advertising (and radio) people, they look back at you with all the comprehension of a Labrador retriever.
IF YOU MENTION CAPLES' MOST FAMOUS HEADLINE?
You might get a smattering of more comprehension.
The famous headline is, "They laughed when I sat down at the piano--but when I started to play!"
It's an ad for at-home music courses, and it is famous in advertising to the point of being a cliché.
The ad taps into the emotional desires we experience as humans. It features a cliffhanger headline that makes the reader say, "Tell me more!" It makes the pitch with a human and real sounding story from a happy customer.
It's a brilliant lesson in how to make an ad work--and it was written almost 100 years ago.
Caples also wrote a landmark book called, Scientific Advertising. Caples had no patience for funny advertising, and he's very dry. But the book has valuable lessons.
There's even an awards competition named in his honor that requires entrants to prove how well their advertising worked.
Besides Caples' book, there are also plenty of other books available to anyone who's interested in understanding the history and fundamentals.
Yes, times and fashion change.
FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY DOES NOT
That's why so many books on advertising, while being out of date as fashion goes, still provide a killer education in advertising.
Just for example...
Ogilvy On Advertising
One of those old chestnuts about the business, it too provides important information about how to craft advertising. And if you read it, you will learn why Ogilvy loved radio and called it, "The Cinderalla medium."
Bill Bernbach's Book
An incredibly expensive book because it's out of print. But it's a lesson from a man who changed the face of US advertising almost singlehandedly. It's filled with simple and pithy advertising that provides brilliant examples of conceptual thinking that make you stop and say, "Wow." The ojne ad you probably know: Vollkswagen "Think small."
When Advertising Tried Harder
Like the Bernbach book, this is also out of print and expensive. But it provides a litany of pithy, in your face ads that, again, helped change the face of advertising.
Hey Whipple, Squeeze This
Luke Sullivan's "Classic guide to creating great ads" is funny and potent and irreverent and will make you spit chocolate milk out of your nose. Well, maybe not the latter. But it's an excellent guide.
Wizard Of Ads
If you haven't read Roy Williams' first book, get it. Now.
AND ONE OF MY PERSONAL FAVORITES...
The Book Of Gossage
This is an enormous and heavy trade paperback about a cult figure in 1960s San Francisco advertising, Howard Luck Gossage. This is the man who coined the phrase, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."
Gossage had his ad agency in a converted firehouse. He was an intellectual eccentric who once fired a junior copywriter by the name of Jay Conrad Levinson.
Yes, the father of Guerrilla Marketing worked for Gossage, and one day after submitting a copy assignment, Levinson got it back with a note that said something to the effect of, "There's nothing more I can teach you. You're fired."
Levinson has a chapter in the book. Jeff Goodby wrote the introduction.
If you don't know who of either of those people are, you're way behind the curve.
YES, ALL OF THE BOOKS ARE ON ADVERTISING IN GENERAL
Not radio.
And they are useful informative, and important.
Each of them, in their own way, leave you thinking, "Wow, that's good."
At Slow Burn Marketing, we have always maintained that small business advertisers can take many cues from big advertising agencies.
And these books are just part of the legacy that Big Agency Advertising has to offer the small-business advertiser--even one who works in radio.
This rant is going to go on into next week. There's too much more to say and not enough time in which to say it.
But once again, if you want to create better advertising, stick around for next week. It'll be worth it.
A Great Advertising Thinker Leaves Us Behind
WHY ARE YOU EVEN DOING THIS?
As a faithful follower to this weekly screed, you have some kind of interest in advertising.
Whether you create advertising for yourself or for someone else, you have some vested interest in "Getting your name out there."
Which, frankly, is a really weak goal for advertising. "You gotta get your name out there, kid."
There are plenty of names out there. Do you care about them all? Any of them?
What names do you care about?
You care about the names that make you feel something.
Ah, feelings.
HOW DO YOU MAKE PEOPLE FEEL?
This screed makes you feel something.
Some people love it. I have the fan mail to prove it.
Some people hate it. Sometimes, when I write things that don't toe a particular party line, people feel insulted and they unsubscribe.
So it goes. Their loss.
But feelings are at the root of everything we do in creating advertising.
Creating an effective advertisement requires understanding how to make a single, defined individual feel the right thing about that which is being sold.
THERE MUST BE A RELEVANT ELEMENT OF ART, POETRY, SHOWMANSHIP, FINESSE, SOMETHING
An advertisement can't just be a Post-it Note that says, "Yeah, we sell that, too!"
And, unfortunately, that is what so much advertising is.
"Hey, we sell this for all your fill-in-the-blank needs!"
Which brings us to why I'm even on this tear.
Something happened over the holidays, and it represents a great loss to many people, including those of us with a fondness for smart radio advertising that means something.
ON CHRISTMAS EVE, WE LOST A LEGEND
The radio advertising genius Dick Orkin went to the great Radio Ranch in the sky.
Dick was 84.
And he was perhaps one of the single best minds ever in advertising.
His specialty was radio, but his brand of thinking informed advertising at large for anyone willing to pay attention.
His brand of thinking is especially useful now, in our age of not-too-deep thinking and information overload.
Dick was no dummy. He had a bachelor's degree in speech and theater from Franklin & Marshall, a master's in clinical psychology from the Phillips Graduate Institute, and studied for his MFA at Yale.
DICK KNEW THINGS
One of the things he knew, and which informed everything in his work, was how to matter to the listener.
His Famous Radio Ranch was known for developing funny radio campaigns.
The Radio Ranch had a wealth of advertising trophies backed by an abundance of impressive, results-producing campaign credits for businesses across the nation and even across the ocean.
Long before I knew who Dick Orkin was, I knew his work.
It leapt out of the radio, grabbed you by the ears, made you listen--and made you care.
When I was eventually working in Los Angeles radio, I had the good fortune to learn from Dick at industry seminars, and later in private sessions and classes at his home in Toluca Lake.
DICK WAS A THINKER AT A DEEPER LEVEL
One of the things that so many radio advertisers want to have is a "funny commercial."
There's a kind of conditioning that has come with Big Agency Advertising, and it's the (sometimes) misguided notion that advertising needs to be funny.
In past screeds, we've dismantled that notion and proven that funny doesn't sell. Relevance sells. It doesn't hurt if it's funny. But it must be relevant.
Dick was happy to explain how to be funny, and how to make it relevant at a deeper level than most slap-dash comedy radio commercials ever reach.
DICK ALSO SHARED THE UNDERPINNINGS OF HIS PARTICULAR BRAND OF GENIUS
In searching for examples of Dick's work, I came across a YouTube clip.
It was posted by Dick's good friend, radio guru Dan O'Day. For years, Dick and Dan worked together, training radio professionals in ways to make better radio.
One of the Dick Orkin presentations that Dan sells as an info product is called, The Architecture Of Comedy. In the YouTube clip, before we get there, Dick has been playing radio commercials for the audience, and discussing how the comedy works. He then says, in part:
[The] fact that sex and death are
the basis of so much humor, including
some of the materials that you've
heard in the commercials here, is
because these are things largely
out of our control.
If we could control them, of course,
life would go swell, because everything
is in our control. It's a perfect world.
But we know it's not a perfect world.
Everything human is pathetic. As long
as a person takes themselves seriously,
there will be humor in the world. Because
we're taking ourselves seriously in the
face of an imperfect situation and an
imperfect world. Only man has dignity.
Only man, therefore, can be funny.
THIS IS NOT STANDARD COMEDY INSTRUCTION THINK
Dick goes on to talk about pomposity, ego inflation, ego deflation, the comedy of Type A versus Type B personalities, the awareness and the capacity to understand living in a world where things go wrong and you can laugh at them, the sense of maturity and self-worth required for that, and how a sense of humor is the ability to avoid getting caught in mind ruts where you can't see the opposite.
This is somewhat different than the standard "comedy rules" type of instruction that often comes from comedy experts--things like "Use The Comedy Rule of Threes."
There are all kinds of technical rules that help make comedy work.
But rarely does any guru talk about the human condition and the underpinnings of life that need to be understood before trotting out those rules.
DICK PROVIDED SOMETHING THAT IS SORELY LACKING RIGHT NOW
He provided thoughtful insight into that which lies beneath the craft.
He had a depth of knowledge in performance and psychology that he was readily willing to share.
In the present info-overload culture, the kind of depth that Dick brought to his how-to insight are sorely lacking.
Tools and tricks and surface features are often all anyone gets.
They get only the tip of the iceberg.
The iceberg's foundation--the 90% of the substance that makes it possible--is hidden beneath the surface.
Dick was great at revealing the foundations and making them relevant and useful.
And without relevance and usefulness, where are we?
Dick Orkin has left the ranch.
Long live Dick.
What's On Your Mind For The New Year?
IT'S A NEW YEAR--WHAT ABOUT THE NEW YOU?
Presumably you had a fabulous last night of 2017, celebrating the fact that we all still have a planet and that nobody with their finger on the button did anything rash.
Happy New year, indeed.
So, now that the holidays are behind us, what's on your mind, branding- and/or marketing-wise?
What burning question is nagging at you for the new year?
As I do every year, I throw this question out to you, inviting you to pitch your query my way.
What is on your mind for 2018?
Is it about how to enliven a stagnating brand?
Is it about how to harness social media for fun and profit?
Is it about the fallacy of saying your business's name in the first seven seconds of any radio commercial?
Maybe you want to know how to establish a de facto brand for a radio advertising client on your air.
YOU HAVE A HIGH-PRICED SMALL-BUSINESS BRANDING CONSULTANT AT YOUR COMMAND!
This week only!
I will answer your question here in the screed.
Just send your email to submissions at slow burn marketing dot com.
Here's to plenty of water under your keel in 2018.
Blaine Parker helps people sell their stuff. An advertising Creative Director and Copywriter at Slow Burn Marketing, he specializes in big-brand thinking for small-business marketing. He has the voice of a much taller man.
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Q: Handling Multiple Users sending commands On my bot I have this command inside a cog that using pytube, downloads a video and a video's audio, and then uses moviepy to join the both and then send it off to the user.
The problem is that while it's processing that command, the bot stops listening for any other commands that may be sent.
I don't  have a clue on how to fix it nor if it also applies to regular commands.
import discord
import os
import moviepy.editor as mpe
from pytube import YouTube, exceptions

@commands.command(name='mp4', aliases=['ytmp4'])
    async def mp4(self, ctx, link=None, resolution='720p'):

        def combine_audio(vidname, audname, outname, vid_fps):
            vid_clip = mpe.VideoFileClip(vidname)
            aud_clip = mpe.AudioFileClip(audname)
            final_clip = vid_clip.set_audio(aud_clip)
            final_clip.write_videofile(outname, fps=vid_fps)

        def mp4tomp3(file):
            base, ext = os.path.splitext(file)
            file_mp3 = base + '.mp3'
            os.rename(file, file_mp3)

        if link is None:
            await ctx.send('You must include a link!')
        else:
            try:
                yt = YouTube(link)
            except Exception or exceptions.VideoUnavailable:
                await ctx.send('Video is unavailable or not valid.')
            else:
                if yt.streams.filter(res=resolution, only_video=True).first() is None:
                    await ctx.send('That video doesn\'t have that resolution!')
                else:
                    try:
                        await ctx.send(f'Converting Video: `{yt.title}` by `{yt.author}` at `{resolution}`')
                        invalids = [
                            '"', '*', '<', '>', ',', '?', '\\', '|', '/', ':', 'CON', 'PRN', 'AUX', 'NUL', 'COM1', 'COM2',
                            'COM3',
                            'COM4', 'COM5', 'COM6', 'COM7', 'COM8', 'COM9', 'LPT1', 'LPT2', 'LPT3', 'LPT4', 'LPT5', 'LPT6',
                            'LPT7', 'LPT8', 'LPT9'
                        ]
                        vid_title = yt.title
                        fps = yt.streams.filter(res=resolution, only_video=True).first().fps
                        for char in vid_title:
                            if char in invalids:
                                vid_title = vid_title.replace(char, '')

                        yt.streams.filter(res=resolution, only_video=True).first().download(
                            'C:\\Users\\santi\\PycharmProjects\\DiscordBot\\temp', 'vid')
                        mp4tomp3(yt.streams.filter(only_audio=True).first().download(
                            'C:\\Users\\santi\\PycharmProjects\\DiscordBot\\temp\\', 'aud'))

                        combine_audio(r'C:\Users\santi\PycharmProjects\DiscordBot\temp\vid.mp4',
                                      r'C:\Users\santi\PycharmProjects\DiscordBot\temp\aud.mp3',
                                      f'C:\\Users\\santi\\PycharmProjects\\DiscordBot\\temp\\{vid_title}.mp4', fps)

                    except exceptions.PytubeError or AttributeError:
                        await ctx.send('That video doesn\'t have that resolution!')
                    else:
                        if os.stat(
                                f'C:\\Users\\santi\\PycharmProjects\\DiscordBot\\temp\\{vid_title}.mp4').st_size > 8000000:
                            print(os.stat(f'C:\\Users\\santi\\PycharmProjects\\DiscordBot\\temp\\{vid_title}.mp4').st_size)
                            await ctx.send(
                                'Video file is too large (More than 8MB)! Please download at a lower resolution!')

                        else:
                            await ctx.send('Done!',
                                           file=discord.File(
                                               f'C:\\Users\\santi\\PycharmProjects\\DiscordBot\\temp\\{vid_title}.mp4'))
                        os.remove(f'./temp/{vid_title}.mp4')
                        os.remove(f'./temp/vid.mp4')
                        os.remove(f'./temp/aud.mp3')

A: The reason for that is that those modules aren't made to work asynchronous.
For that, I mostly use bot.loop.create_task(), as it puts it in the background instead of wait for it to finish.
An example would be:
bot.loop.create_task(runFunction(ctx)) # Inside the command.

# And outside of it
async def runFunction(ctx):
   # Do what u gotta do

In your case it requires some more params but that's an example.
Still what you are doing there is a huge process so it still might make some problems there.
For stuff like video or image editing, I would recommend switching to javascipt/node.

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How Does Shakespeare Present the Diminishing of King Lear in Acts 1 and 2?
The play's plot is driven by the power and consequence of losses, more specifically, the losses and diminishing of Lear. In the course the play, King Lear, because of his flaws, loses his authority as a king, his identity as a father, and his sanity as a man.
The play begins with King Lear's decision to divide his kingdom among his three daughters. This is the first sign of Lear's loss and diminishing of his power through the loss of his authority. Wanting to abandon his responsibilities before his time, Lear claims, "tis our fast intent / To shake all cares and business from our age, / Conferring them on younger strengths while we / Unburdened crawl toward death". It can be argued that this diminishment comes from his own decision to prematurely abdicate the throne. Lear carries immense insecurity and egotism as he announces that he will offer the largest share of kingdom to the daughter who professes the greatest love for him. Goneril and Regan both proclaim in fulsome terms that they love him more than anything in the world, while Cordelia speaks from her heart in honest terms that she loves him exactly as a daughter should love her father. Valuing self-importance above all else, Lear is blind to the loyalty and love of Cordelia and instead, perceptive to the flattery of his two vile daughters. This only furthers the notion that his diminishing is not only largely self initiated and inflicted but also that it is largely deserved as one is likely to sympathise with Cordelia and Kent.
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Charlamagne Tha God Thinks 'Drake's Era' Has Ended
Drake's new album, Certified Lover Boy, is on the way, and many of his fans are excited. Charlamagne Tha God, whose real name is Lenard Larry McKelvey, however, is not on that list of eager fans.
While on the Brilliant Idiots podcast, the radio host shared that he is not looking forward to Drake's forthcoming album. He feels that Drake has oversaturated the market and has nothing different left to offer.
He reasoned that Drake's songs all tend to sound the same and that Drake's delivery hasn't shifted much since he left the hashtag rap of his early rap days. Charlamagne thinks that Drake's sound is starting to wear on listeners.
He went on to compare Drake to Kendrick Lamar, who he thought to be a better artist. He feels that Lamar is better since he takes longer to put out a new project, and it's impossible for him to wear out his listeners.
"Drake has given us so much music that I don't know if he has another gear. We know Kendrick has another gear – he shows us that with every project. Drake has given us so much, I don't know if he has another gear, so therefore I'm not looking forward to anything. … Are we still in the Drake era? Is radio such a prehistoric form of media that it hasn't changed the temperature to what's actually going on out here in these streets? … I don't think we've been in a Drake era for the past two-three years."
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NBA player Kevin Durant disagreed with Charlamagne's comments, to which he replied with laughing emojis.
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It seems that the American radio presenter, television personality, and author will not be pressing play on Drake's new album. The Certified Lover Boy is expected to come out in January 2021. The album is Drake's first after being released from his Cash Money contract.
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Critical Analysis Of Growing Up Tethered By Sherry Turkle
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Growing Up Tethered A professor at the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT, Sherry Turkle talks about how kids today are attached and somewhat obsessed with technology in her article called "Growing Up Tethered." Turkle interviews with many different teenagers about the different types of technology they possess and how it impacts their everyday life. She talks a lot about how technology can do away with our privacy and also how people feel the need to be constantly connected. Turkle mainly focuses on the point of how there is a constant need for connection and people are obsessed with knowing who is on the other end of a phone call or waiting for a text back. In her article, she interviews teenagers who are willing to lie or put themselves in danger in order to stay connected. People have lost the meaning of a true relationship and it is very evident in Turkle's essay that people are too connected with technology to connect with the people around them. Sherry Turkle wrote an article called "Growing Up…show more content…
Turkle also discusses how people are willing to put their lives in danger such as texting and driving in order to stay connected. Although texting and driving is illegal people continue to do it any way but why? The answer is the need of being connected. While talking with many students who are able to drive Turkle discovers many interesting things. While talking to a male student he says that while he is driving if he gets that Facebook message or text message he will check it even if he is driving. Putting his life at risk does not really matter as long as he stays connected with other people. When Turkle surveys a group of boys they are reluctant but they do say they also text and drive as well. Putting your own life in danger does not really make sense but that is another reason why Turkle believes many people grow up
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This chapter of Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle essentially focused on the effect technology can have on the bond of a family. The writer depicts different families to prove how social media has creates a false sense of closeness in family relations, when in reality it drives us further apart. As explained in the section named "Left to their own devices", a teenager named Alli finds herself in a situation most families are currently in. Alli is not able to rely on her family for emotional support and instead seeks comfort from thousands of strangers online. This is a common situation in which teenagers feel more comfortable going out of their way on social media to obtain advice from strangers, instead of having a conversation with
Stop Googling Let's Talk Summary
Children nowadays have 1000 friends on Facebook but doesn't have enough friend to hang out in real life. In the article "Stop Googling. Let's Talk", Sherry Turkle talks about how the technology have affected people with results of different research and gives her own explanation to them. This article relates to the human psychology and the use of technology It is a worth reading article because most of us can related
Growing Up Tethered Analysis
She is constantly giving examples of people feel the need to constantly distract themselves to use social connections with others. "For young people in all of these circumstances, computer, and mobile devices when families are absent." –Sherry Turkle. "I can just act how I want to act, and it is much freer way." Turkle uses quotes like this to state her tone as electronic communications and phones are taking over us and controlling our lives.
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As of 2014, 86% of adults over the age of 18 in the UK have access to the internet anywhere (Document 11). Technology is a highly controversial issue in today's society. With an ever-widening gap in technological knowledge between generations, many like to argue that every flaw present in someone today is due to overuse of smartphones. However, these pocket-sized supercomputers we carry around with us allow us to broaden our horizons and experience the world in an entirely new way. While some say technology is taking away our ability to be human, it actually encourages connectivity, and allows for new forms of discovery and creativity.
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Growing Up Tethered
To what extent are children and teenagers on their phones and expected to answer the phone as soon as someone calls? Sherry Turkle states in "Growing Up Tethered" that "today's young people have grown up with robot pets and on the network in a fully tethered life" (430). This essay explains why teenagers in today's world are hidden behind their phones and don't have enough space from their parents. Compare teenagers now and teenagers from 30 years ago, they both are in the same situation. Teenagers now and teenagers from 30 years ago have the same responsibilities. Neither one has more to think about than what the other one had in the past/future.
Turkle's Argument Essay
By asking students challenging questions forces them to develop conversational skill, however that does not fix the feeling of loneliness the student feel that they are satiating with "connection." Instead of proposing a solution to technological dependence in society as a whole, Barnwell only analyses the symptoms on campus and produces solutions for teachers in dealing with students rather than solutions for society as a whole. Turkle identifies with a wide audience in her essay. Young associates, businessmen, families, sixteen-year-olds, and the elderly are all referenced in Turkle's essay. The wide variety of examples and anecdotes help relate to a wide audience.
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Rhetorical Analysis Of Stop Googling. Let's Talk
The author discusses the difference in friendships in the years before phones compared to now. The author concludes that the extensive phone usage in today's society is harmfull for crucial socialization skills. In Sherry Turkle's "Stop Googling. Let's Talk." the use of logos, pathos, ethos, is used presenting her argument to the readers of this article, by presenting research, exclusive experience, and personal emotion to woo the attention of her readers.
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Technology on Children's Social Development Technology The technology in the millennial generation is quite improving, increasing, developing and addicting. Technology pertains to something situated at home and academic environment (Rowan, n.d.). Therefore, it can be referred to as computers, televisions, cellphones and other electronic gadgets. Children now a day are more exposed to technology since they like to explore new things.
Distracted Maggie Jackson Analysis
Over time, gadgets and gizmos have taken attention from many Americans. Maggie Jackson gives prominence to this point in "Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age." According to Jackson, technology has become too advanced for attention's sake. In her essay, Jackson states that "we are nurturing a culture of social diffusion, intellectual fragmentation & sensory detachment. In this new world, something is amiss.
Always On Sherry Turgle Summary
Always On In this chapter Sherry Turkle discusses how new technologies have shaped the manner in which we interact with other individuals. Relationships have changed. In this new technological era, where one can remain online all time through various devices, Turkle wonders if being "on" effects the way we perceive others. Since our time is spent looking at screens, we are absent from what is happening in the real world. Instead of being aware of our surroundings, many are consumed by the many different possibilities that the Net provides.
Social Media And Technology Affects Mental Health
Around 72% of parents say that they feel as if they have a good handle on technology and they are a good role model for their child when it comes to using it (Stress in America, 2017). Six in ten of those parent admitted that they were also "glued" to their phones as well, or constantly checking emails (Stress in America, 2017). Most parents, ninety four percent state that they take at least one action to help their children from being addicted to technology (Stress in America, 2017). They say they feel as if they are failing to succeed (Stress in America,
Positive Effects Of Technology On Children Essay
The current study is the effects of exposure to technology on young children. As we become increasingly more reliant and absorbed in technology, it is no surprise that today's children have become avid users as well (Hatch, 2011). Children at the age of three or four already have tablets, smart phones, and others; they could easily attain technologies and would even demand for one. As it makes easier for us, technology has both positive and negative impacts especially on young children. It comes with great opportunities but these opportunities likewise come with great risk
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Q: File Not found Exception while posting Data to server in android I am quite new to json Handling with Java API
I want to Pass ID and Password to server and want to retrieve Data related to that ID.I m using Java API file to send data instead of PHP Files.
Here is my code:
To read .Json file from Assets
    public String loadJSONFromAsset() {
    String json = null;
    try {
        InputStream is = getActivity().getAssets().open("auth.json");
        int size = is.available();
        byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
        is.read(buffer);
        is.close();
        json = new String(buffer, "UTF-8");
    } catch (IOException ex) {
        ex.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
    return json;
}

Function to attach parameter values to json file
public void save() {
    try {
        JSONObject obj = new JSONObject(loadJSONFromAsset());
        //JSONArray arr = obj.getJSONArray("");
        username = etUsername.getText().toString().trim();
        password = etPassword.getText().toString().trim();
        obj.put("sso_id", username);
        obj.put("password", password);

        jsonArray.put(obj);
        Log.v("AUTHENTICATE", "Data is " + jsonArray.toString());
        JSONObject response;
        try {
            Log.v("AUTHENTICATE", jsonArray.toString());
            //response = helper.sendJsonData(jsonArray.toString(),GET_DATA ) ;
            new SendDataToServer().execute(String.valueOf(obj));
            //new GetData().execute();
            //Log.v("AUTHENTICATE", "Response is " + response.toString());
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Log.v("AUTHENTICATE", "Exception in response  is " + e.toString());
        }

    } catch (JSONException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

}

AsyncTask code to call Url
String JsonResponse = null;
        String JsonDATA = params[0];
        HttpURLConnection urlConnection = null;
        BufferedReader reader = null;
        try {
            URL url = new URL(GET_DATA);
            urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
            urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
            // is output buffer writter
            urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json");
            urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json");
            //urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Accept", "*/*");
            //set headers and method
            Writer writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(urlConnection.getOutputStream(), "UTF-8"));
            writer.write(JsonDATA);
            // json data
            writer.close();
            InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
            //input stream
            StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
            if (inputStream == null) {
                // Nothing to do.
                return null;
            }
            reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));

            String inputLine;
            while ((inputLine = reader.readLine()) != null)
                buffer.append(inputLine + "\n");
            if (buffer.length() == 0) {
                // Stream was empty. No point in parsing.
                return null;
            }
            JsonResponse = buffer.toString();
            //response data
            Log.i("AUTHENTICATE", JsonResponse);
            //send to post execute
            return JsonResponse;

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } finally {
            if (urlConnection != null) {
                urlConnection.disconnect();
            }
            if (reader != null) {
                try {
                    reader.close();
                } catch (final IOException e) {
                    Log.e("AUTHENTICATE", "Error closing stream", e);
                }
            }
        }
        return null;

}

.json File
{"sso_id":"",
 "password":""}

giving me Exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException: http://example.com/user/auth

on below Line in Async Task
InputStream inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();

What will be the issue??

A: Use java.net.URL#openStream() with a proper URL (including the protocol!). E.g.
InputStream input = new URL("http://www.somewebsite.com/a.txt").openStream();

How can you use the same request object POST for both writing and reading data? It cannot be used for reading the data! Change it to GET.
Also, you need to change to urlConnection.setDoOutput(false);


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Q: How can I redirect non www http to https www in web.config I want to redirect all of the following types of requests to https://www.example.com
http://example.com
http://www.example.com
https://example.com

A: This depends on how you want to redirect. You could...

*

*Redirect from the client side. This is easy to do, simply add a script tag in the <head> of the page HTML document that contains the following.
let excluded = ['http://www.example.com', 'https://example.com', 'http://example.com']

if (excluded.indexOf(location.origin) !== -1) {
  location.href = 'https://www.example.com'
}

There is only one problem with this code, being that the browser might complain about too many redirects. The second option is safer.

*If you know how, you could use .htaccess. You will find this file in the root directory of your web server. Add the following lines:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}

(Check out this question for more on this.)

*If the page is not strictly static, you could redirect from the backend. There are a number of ways to do this, the most likely being to just use an npm module such as forcedomain (my personal favorite) to redirect when the request is made, rather than when the page loads. This is more efficient and the browser will not get cranky on you.

*Use multiple CNAME records. If you aren't familiar with DNS, I would disregard this part of the answer. Basically, make a CNAME where the host is @, and the value is www. This will get all requests to the apex domain (example.com) and redirect them to the subdomain (www.example.com). When it comes to the protocol issue, there are a few ways of doing this, the best option being wildcard redirects (if your registrar provides this).
As a general rule of thumb, it's best to use DNS records, the .htaccess file, or some sort of backend plugin if possible for redirects if you know how. This all depends on your hosting, the nature of your website (static or dynamic), and your level of knowledge on these sorts of things.

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I Believe in Miracles
Jonny Owen
© 2015 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Britain, 1975: Brian Clough is sacked as manager of Leeds United after just 44 days in charge. Seemingly impossible to work with, Clough's only offer of work comes from a run-down second division club called Nottingham Forest, who are going nowhere fast. Set to a fantastic 70s soundtrack, using unseen footage of games and the great man himself, and including interviews with every player from Clough's European Cup-winning side, I Believe in Miracles is the untold story of how the team nobody believed in and the manager nobody wanted, went on to beat the world's best and become one of the greatest sides in British football history.
El warbo
Even if you're not a Nottingham Forest supporter, this film is brilliant. It's shot and edited with snappy 70s 80s music and is a great insight to the brilliant mind of Brian Clough and his side Peter Taylor.
PJM009
This film is outstanding. 5/5
Marvellous!
Kanoid74
Absolutely loved this film. Brian Clough was a genius and we'll never see the likes of his sort in football again. A very clever mix of footage from 'Ol bighead, the games and interviews with the lads that made it all happen on the pitch. A must see for any football fan who wants to see a bit of magic.
Ear 'Ole
I'm not a Forest fan, but I love the Brian Clough at Forest story. This documentary does a great job of packing the incredible saga into a film (although not all of it). Full of great interviews and match footage, telling it all at a good pace.
My only gripe is the lack of time spent on the SECOND European Cup. Due to time constraints I presume.
But still, a really brilliant documentary, the great man himself would have enjoyed.
(Makes up for the truly AWFUL 'The Damned United' film.)
Kevin Cunnington
It could never happen again.. less unless Claudio does it at Leicester ;-)
A life changer!!!
Fisherman's Arms
An amazing film and what a fantastic achievement. I was lucky enough to see both finals and experience the midweek European games from the luxury of the Trent End!! Changed me and my life...thank you Brian Clough, Peter Taylor and a team made up of nobody's, has beens and Mavericks.
What an underrated achievement!
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Two European cups on the bounce after winning the old Divison one!


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Cape Town Airport to Start Producing Wine in Its Arrivals Hall
Alastair Reed, Bloomberg
- Oct 14, 2014 2:00 pm
Airports are in a global competition to best incorporate local culture and goods into the transportation experience to improve visitors' perception of the destination and lure future visitors passing through.
— Samantha Shankman
Cape Town International Airport, which handle more than 8 million passengers a year, is to start producing wine in its international arrivals hall, Business Day reported.
A small winery, able to produce about 700 bottles of Merlot every two years, has been built at a cost of about 200,000 rand ($18,100), the Johannesburg-based newspaper said, citing airport authorities. The cellar, established with the help of the Du Preez wine estate, is scheduled to start bottling by the end of 2015, Business Day said.
South Africa, the world's 11th-largest exporter, started producing wine more than 300 years ago after Jan van Riebeeck founded a station for sailors to replenish supplies at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652.
Stellenbosch, the country's main wine-growing center, was established later in the century, before Huguenots fleeing religious persecution in France planted vineyards in the neighboring Franschhoek valley.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Alastair Reed at areed12@bloomberg.net.
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Leveraging machine learning to help predict ship exhaust gas emissions
January 4, 2023 sarah JonasResearch Results
Ships are a major means of commercial transport, contributing to 80% of global goods and energy trade. However, they emit exhaust gases—from the engines when they are sailing, and from the engines and boiler when they dock in ports. These emissions negatively affect not only human health, but also the environment. Therefore, the International Maritime Organization has imposed regulations on the type of fuel used in ships. While efforts are being made to reduce the level of emissions from ships, a completely eco-friendly fuel is yet to be developed. In the meantime, assessing and predicting the level of exhaust emissions from ships is of paramount importance.
Given this background, a group of researchers from the National Korea Maritime and Ocean University (NKMOU) led by Dr. Won-Ju Lee, an Associate Professor in the institute's Division of Marine System Engineering, have measured the emissions of a continuously operating oil-fired boiler in a training ship under different air-to-fuel ratios. "The exhaust data for CO2, NOx, and SO2 gases were collected for 18 cases and used for predicting emissions through data-driven modeling," explains Dr. Lee.
Their work was made available online on 18 September 2022 and published in Volume 375 of the Journal of Cleaner Production on 15 November 2022.
The researchers employed unsupervised learning to compress the original data for generating three new datasets. They combined them to create an ensemble dataset. The performance of these five datasets was evaluated – in terms of CO2, NOx, and SO2 predictions – using four base models. The Support Vector Machine-based models with the original and ensemble datasets produced the best results.
Then, the researchers merged the base models to develop four base ensemble models. These models, in turn, were used to build double ensemble models. As expected, the double ensemble models made the most accurate emission predictions for all three gases.
Lastly, the researchers applied the developed models to a new dataset, verifying the results and establishing the models' superiority and generalizability.
How can this work help the shipping industry reduce its carbon footprint, though? Dr. Lee discusses the future implications of their work. "The results of this study can be used to predict emissions of exhaust gases and will be applied to marine boilers soon. It shall enable the marine engineers to take action to reduce emissions, curbing air pollution in port areas. Since installing expensive equipment such as gas analyzers in boilers is not economically feasible for shipping companies, the proposed technology will prove indispensable. Furthermore, the ensemble data generation and double ensemble model techniques can enhance the performance of various other machine learning applications."
Here's to achieving carbon neutrality, enabled by technology and artificial intelligence models!
Authors: Min-Ho Park1,2, Jae-Jung Hur3, Won-Ju Lee2,3
Title of original paper: Prediction of oil-fired boiler emissions with ensemble methods considering variable combustion air conditions
Journal: Journal of Cleaner Production
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2022.134094
1Division of Marine Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Republic of Korea
2Interdisciplinary Major of Maritime and AI Convergence, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Republic of Korea
3Division of Marine System Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University, Republic of Korea
About National Korea Maritime & Ocean University
South Korea's most prestigious university for maritime studies, transportation science and engineering, the National Korea Maritime & Ocean University is located on an island in Busan. The university was established in 1945 and since then has merged with other universities to currently being the only post-secondary institution that specializes in maritime sciences and engineering. It has four colleges that offer both undergraduate and graduate courses.
Website: http://www.kmou.ac.kr/english/main.do
About Dr. Won-Ju Lee
Dr. Won-Ju Lee is an Associate Professor at the Division of Marine System Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University, South Korea. His research focuses on diesel engine, marine environment, combustion, recycling emission, and marine engine CBM. He received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Korea Maritime and Ocean University in 2017. Prior to completing the Ph.D., he worked as a chief engineer for an observation ship and as a gas engineer for LNG carriers.
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10 Reasons Why A.J. Foyt Is Still America's Toughest S.O.B.
An exclusive interview with "Super Tex."
byA.J. Baime| UPDATED Jun 11, 2019 5:53 AM
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On a recent morning, I pulled a Kia rental off Highway 290 into the town of Waller, Texas, onto A.J. Foyt Parkway. Waller is one of those rural Texas towns that look rusted all over, like a Cormac McCarthy novel took place here. Behind a barbed wire fence, across from a middle school, sits AJ Foyt Racing, the shop of the current IndyCar team, owned by A.J. himself.
There are no Foyt Racing signs anywhere. The old man doesn't like reporters. "The less attention I get, the better," Foyt says to me. Just by showing up, I'm trying my luck.
When I was a kid in the 1970s, A.J. Foyt was arguably America's most famous athlete. He won just about every kind of race you can—the Indy 500 four times, back when Indy was as big as the Super Bowl; seven Indy car championships (as a driver, more as a team owner); the Daytona 500; the 24 Hours of Le Mans; and innumerable races in small towns where the pavement ends at a quarter mile dirt oval. Along the way, he fought cops, was nearly burned alive, and was once pronounced dead in a racecar. Banned from Nascar, caught on live TV "bitch slapping" (his words) another driver—the list goes on.
Today, he's as dented up as an 80-year old man can be while still flashing a devil-may-care smile. As my luck would have it, he was in the mood for talking. I turned on the tape recorder, and he turned on the faucet, the stories pouring out for hours. Here's 10 reasons why A.J. Foyt is still America's toughest SOB.
1. He earned every penny, all on his own
There's a saying in racing: To make a small fortune, you have to start with a big one. But Foyt started with relatively little. He was born in Houston in the thick of the Depression. "My daddy was in the automobile business," he says. "He ran a shop of his own. I was young and always worked in there with him. Even then, my dream was the Indy 500. I listened to it on the radio every year." Foyt nearly finished high school. "I felt that if I was working on cars in the winter time, maybe I could be a better race driver. Then I got my own midget and went on the Midwest circuit."
In those days, drivers would wage war on dirt tracks, then afterwards, the pit crews would fight behind the grandstands. Town to town, sleeping in cars. When Foyt was 23, he impressed the right people and got a shot at his dream, Indy qualifying.
2. He is fearless
Unlike today, dozens of drivers (50, maybe 75) would show up to gun for a spot on the 33-car Indy grid. Nearly every year, someone would die in the pursuit. In 1958—A.J. Foyt's rookie year—Don Edmunds of Anaheim, California hit a wall at 138 mph in qualifying. The Los Angeles Times recap: "Edmunds was removed from the badly damaged car and rushed to a hospital. His condition was described as fair." Further down in the story: "A.J. Foyt Jr. of Houston, Tex., who passed his driver's test only yesterday, turned a lap at 142 mph."
Indy had an indescribable aura then. "Just getting there and making the race, that was my dream come true," Foyt says.
On the first lap, a spectacular pileup sent cars tomahawking down pavement. Fan favorite Pat O'Connor was killed. Foyt didn't finish the race, but he was back in 1959. Two drivers were killed at Indy that year. In 1960, two spectators were killed. The following year—1961—another driver was killed, and A.J. Foyt won the Indy 500 for the first time. He took the checkered in record speed, and collected a record paycheck too—$117,975. "That was a million bucks back then," he recalls. "I ate at the White Castle afterwards. Eight-cent hamburgers."
3. He is unkillable
Powering at about 150 mph in a stock car at Riverside in California on January 17, Foyt lost his brakes. He steered into the infield and all hell broke loose, the car tumbling end over end. "They got one picture of the car probably 35 feet in the air," Foyt says. "They pronounced me dead out there. Parnelli Jones [another Indy 500 legend], he seen me move in the car. My mouth was wide open and packed with mud. He stuck his finger in there [and Foyt started breathing]. I broke my back. It was right after my 30th birthday. That was a hell of a birthday present."
4. He is impervious to fire
In 1966, Foyt was on fire. Literally. On June 4, the driver—now a two-time Indy 500 winner—sat in what was left of a Lotus-Ford racecar after high-speed contact with a wall in Milwaukee, flames engulfing him. Fuel had spewed all over the machine, and at any second, Foyt believed, the wreck was going to explode. In order to yank himself out, he had to place his hands directly into the fire. Unlike other racers with their fire retardant gloves, he wore golf gloves when he competed, signature Ben Hogans. "I knew I had to get out or just fry," he said back in 1966. "I gritted my teeth and put my hands into the burning fuel to raise myself out."
He remembers getting home after the hospital stay, with second and third degree burns all over his hands, feet, and face. "My head and hands were all bandaged and my kids started screaming and running because they thought I was a mummy," he told me. "I'll tell ya. You can break bones and you can do a lot of stuff, but I don't think there's nothing no worse than burns. Peeling the skin off and scrubbing it with iodine and all that. Man, it hurt. But I come out pretty good."
Three weeks later, Foyt was in a Lotus-Ford again, at speed at the Atlanta 300. Those old open-wheel cars wrapped the driver in fuel tanks, without the fire resistant technology common today. "When you crash, you're on fire," says Foyt. "It was like being in a bomb."
5. He beat the Europeans—in Europe
On June 11, 1967, in front of 310,000 fans and millions more watching on TV, Foyt and teammate Dan Gurney won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France—the world's most grueling endurance auto race—during the absolute pinnacle of that event's fame. It was the first time an American manufacturer (Ford Motor Company) won Le Mans with exclusively American drivers. Foyt became the first rookie to win Le Mans, and the first man to win the Indy 500 and Le Mans in the same year (the two races were two weeks apart; Foyt's third Indy 500 win). Never, Super Tex would remember to this day, had he ever driven anything as fast on a racetrack as that Ford GT40 Mk IV at Le Mans.
"We was running close to 250 mph down the Mulsanne Straight," he says. "I mean, we were fast." He was criticized for taking the race lightly, after saying to a reporter: "Why, hell-fire, Lee Mans? Listen here. It ain't nothing but a little old country road. We got a lot just like it back in Texas."
6. He's a hell of a fighter
As anyone in racing will advise you: Never get in a fight with A.J. Foyt. Even if you win, you'll lose. Foyt's truculence first made headlines soon after his first Indy 500 win. Promoters were supposed to pay Indy winners a fee to appear at a race, but one promoter "was cheap," as Foyt recalls. "I cussed him and they fined my ass a thousand bucks. That was a lot of money back then [1962]." Years later, Foyt was banned from Nascar for six months and fined $7,500 following an enraged on-track incident in which he was black flagged three times and nearly ran down track officials. (The ban was lifted eight days later.)
But his most famous incident came on June 9, 1997. As a team owner now, at Texas Motor Speedway, Foyt won the True Value 500. Or at least he thought he did. He was in victory circle collecting his trophy when Arie Luyendyk, another Indy 500 winner, entered. "When he first came in, I thought he was going to congratulate us," Foyt says. Luyendyk was claiming, however, that there'd been a scoring error, and he had won the race. "He came in there and he's throwing a fit, like a damn nut. I just wanted to slap him upside his head. So I did. I throwed him down. And a trooper jumped on my back, so I throwed him down. I didn't know he was a policeman!"
Track stewards decided that Luyendyk did in fact win the race, but Foyt refused to give up the trophy. It's still sitting in his race shop; I saw it with my own eyes. As for Luyenkyk? Says Foyt: "I never liked the guy."
7. He's all busted up
During his career, Foyt suffered one severe injury after the next, and kept on returning to his car, long after colleagues said he shouldn't. Once he told Sports Illustrated, "Listen, I been in crashes, bad crashes. I've been busted up and burned and twisted all around, and somehow, I can take it. I can handle the pain."
At the 1981 Michigan 500, Foyt hit a wall; he required two hours of surgery to piece on arm back together. He was back in the car the next season. Another example: Foyt was gunning at Road America on September 23, 1990, in an Indy car. He was 55 years old by this time. On lap 24 of the Texaco-Havoline 200, he went off and shattered a leg.
"They were talking about cutting my leg off," Foyt recalls. "I worked real hard to get back. They all said, There's no way I'll race again. I was determined to prove the media wrong. I said, I'll be back. They all said that if I did, I'd be back in a wheel chair. I said, I'm gonna walk to my racecar. And I did."
Less than a year after the crash, Foyt walked to his car at the 1991 Indy 500, and qualified second. Today, he calls this moment "one of the highlights of my career." He retired from driving two years later.
8. Cops are scared of him
Even highway patrolmen bow down before Foyt. When you walk into his race shop, among the dizzying myriad of memorabilia (a Green Bay Packers helmet signed by Bart Starr, the last Indy car Foyt drove, etc.), there's a Ford GT (probably a 2005) with very few miles on it. Foyt told me he once got pulled over doing 165 mph in this car. The cop didn't give him a ticket. Another incident, he recalls, he was late for a race at Pocono in Pennsylvania. A trooper pulled him over. "He put his 10 gallon hat on," Foyt recalls. "He come up and said, Who do you think you are, A.J. Foyt? I said, Yep. He said, Don't get smart with me! He looked at that goddamn driver license and said, Hold it down!" Off Foyt drove, sans ticket.
9. He laughs at death
One of the most stomach-churning motor racing crashes of all time came on May 15, 1982, during qualifying runs at Indianapolis. Gordon Smiley, 33, died instantly when his car hit the wall near turn 3 straight on. "He couldn't hit the wall no harder," Foyt says. "Probably 200 mph, maybe 175. Car just exploded. There was nothing left of him. I was the next car out."
The next car out? I ask Foyt how he did and he shrugs, as if he was talking about a stroll in the park. "I always qualified pretty good."
10. He's old, still scary
Through it all, Foyt seems, as he nears his 81st birthday, a happy man—and fearless still, a force of nature. He's lost track of how many stents he has in his heart. Still, when we go to lunch, he orders chicken fried steak with fries and gravy. If I had to guess why a man like that could be so steady after all he's been through, I'd guess it's about his family. He's been married to the same woman for 60 years, and talks about his kids as if they were deities. Some of them raced professionally, but none do anymore. (Larry Foyt, 38, a former race driver, is currently president of A.J. Foyt Enterprises.) When asked why he doesn't push his kids to race, Foyt answers: "My wife once said, I can replace my husband. But I can't replace my kids!"
"Oh, hell," he says, smiling. "It's been a hell of a life."
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Baskin-Robbins is known for its "31 flavors" slogan (notice the number 31 on the wallpaper). The idea for having these original 31 flavors came from the Carson-Roberts advertising agency (which later became Ogilvy & Mather) in 1953, along with the slogan "Count the Flavors. Where flavor counts." 31 was also more than the 28 flavors then famously offered at competitor, Howard Johnson's restaurants. Baskin-Robbins also believed that people should be able to sample flavors until they found one they wanted to buy ― hence the iconic small pink spoon.
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Exciting filly Global Thinking (2f So You Think x Capital Raising, by General Nediym) made a winning debut in New Zealand on Saturday at Ruakaka. Shaune Ritchie's early hopes for Global Thinking have been fulfilled and he can now take his time plotting a course to New Zealand's biggest cash prize. The Cambridge trainer was keen to bank funds with the daughter of champion racehorse So You Think at Ruakaka on Saturday and she duly obliged by taking the thick end of the stake in the Henderson Reeves Supports Hundertwasser Art 2YO. "She's not big at all, but she's beautifully in proportion, not unlike her sire," Ritchie said. "We're in the Karaka Million and we can sit back and enjoy that thrill. "There's still a long way to go and she needs to be going well enough to warrant a place – if you're not in form in December there's not much point, but we're in a good position now and we can work our way backwards from the Million." Global Thinking hadn't trialled before making her race day debut with Ritchie rightly opting to head north for the better ground at Ruakaka. "We had the option of coming here for $20,000 racing against five others or going to the Cambridge trials on a heavy track where we would also have raced against five," Ritchie said. The filly settled off the pace and when rider Sam Weatherley angled her into the clear she finished resolutely to beat the Graeme and Debbie Rogerson-trained favourite Malambo. So You Think has now been represented by two New Zealand winners and Phoenix Park principal Janine Dunlop has played her part in both. She purchased Global Thinking out of Curraghmore's weanling draft before on-selling her earlier this year at Karaka to Ritchie's clients for $40,000 while last season's Group II Matamata Breeders' Stakes heroine Gold Rush was also sold by Dunlop, in 2015, for $60,000. Foaled and raised at Coolmore, Global Thinking is the first winner for Capital Raising, a grand-daughter of Group I winner Love Dance.


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Latest LG V40 ThinQ spec sheet reveals variant with 8GB of RAM
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Published: Sep 19, 2018, 4:27 PM
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In two weeks' time, when LG unveils the V40 ThinQ, multiple different device storage configurations are set to be announced. According to sources, the base model will ship with 6GB of RAM, and if a new leak is accurate, the range-topping one may boast 8GB of RAM instead.
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At the end of each academic year, Music Director Curtis Gaesser is honored to award several scholarships to graduating seniors in recognition of their achievements in music education, citizenship, leadership and/or work ethic. We are immensely grateful for the to the family members, loved ones and generous supporters of excellence in music education who fund the scholarships listed below. Each scholarship was created in the memory of former students and/or supporters of music and music education at Folsom High School. We are proud to recognize the student recipients of these scholarships and humbled to honor the lives and legacies of Nancy Charlesworth, Jimmie Lowder and Dave Schetter, in whose names the scholarships are awarded.
"Having based my entire life around music I don't intend to stop studying it for the rest of my life. This fall I will start a major in mathematics and a minor in music at Seattle University and will continue to play violin and piano in college ensembles and personal projects. I hope to someday find a job related to mathematics, and be a musician on the side recording my music and playing with others like me. Through the Folsom High School music program I learned how to work with other musicians whether we had the same idea or two contradicting ideas. I improved my skills as a violinist and vocalist in areas I could have never imagined I could work in, but most importantly the high performance rate and the competitions helped me battle my stage fright and eventually forget the people watching me and focus on enjoying the music and people I am playing it with."
In memory of Jimmie Lowder, 19 years old, of Chico and Folsom, California, who passed away in a tragic accident in Chico on November 15, 2013. Jimmie was born on December 29, 1993 and raised in Folsom, California. Jimmie was a Folsom Music alumni and graduated from Folsom High School in June 2012 and attended California State University, Chico. He was the fourth child to his loving parents, Mark and Judy Lowder and three sisters, Sarah, Janna, and Jocelyn. At the request of Jimmie's family, we established the Jimmie Lowder Scholarship Memorial Fund. The fund provides scholarships for excellence in music to select graduating Folsom High School music students.
Joel Bickel is a classical and jazz bassist who played in Folsom High's Downbeat Award winning Jazz Band, Jazz Choir, and Jazz Combo from 2015 to 2018. As a freshman he was the principal bassist of California All-State Symphony Orchestra and throughout his high school career has also performed with the Folsom Symphony, Sacramento Youth Symphony, Folsom Lake Youth Chamber Orchestra, and Rolling Hills Christian Church Worship Band.
Joel's biggest musical inspiration is Mr. Curtis Gaesser who has not only provided Joel, but all of his peers the unforgettable opportunities of playing at the Monterey Jazz Festival, meeting critically acclaimed musicians Victor Wooten, Sean Jones, John Daversa, and James Morrison, and enriching the only classroom environment where students are truly free to express themselves. Joel couldn't have come up with his life philosophy that "we all are instruments in a symphony of life" without the commitment, dedication, passion, and generosity of the FHS Music Boosters and the Gaesser family. This coming September, Joel will be attending UCLA's Herb Alpert School of Music in pursuit of a double major in both Music Education and Music Performance and hopes to become a music teacher in order to give back all that he has learned and experienced from those who have taught and inspired him the most.
Anders Swanson is attending the University of Miami Frost School of Music as an undergraduate jazz studies major & pre-med student. Anders shared the following regarding his goals and future aspirations: "As I'm not entirely sure of what I would like to do as a career at this point, but for now I am looking towards continuing onto medical school and becoming a doctor."


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