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Rajinikanth at his best again. The Tamil superstar's Kaala teaser has been unveiled on Friday, March 2 and it has met with stupendous response. His mannerisms packed with punch dialogues has impressed the viewers.
The clip begins with Nana Patekar mouthing the dialogue – Kaala, kaise naam hey re? (Kaala, what sort of name is it?) And the answer is - Kaala means black. Kaala means the God of Death. One who fights to protect.
It is a 1.17-second video that is centered around Rajinikanth's character. The superstar thrills the viewers with his style, dialogues and electrifying screen presence. [Watch Video]
Here is how the netizens responded to the teaser:
Naveen kumar: #KaalaTeaser hope the editor hasn't put all the best shots and make our expectation go high and disappoint in the movie like kabaliteaser #kaala looks promising with typical rajinism and mass story,nanapatekar looks great as a villain to the #superstar kya re setting uhh ?
ThalapathyRAJAN: Perfect Teaser ! Not Over Hyped ! Theatre la paaakum pothu Above Avg ah irunthalae pothum ! Collections Therikum Anyone Knows Who is leading to grab TK Area rights ?? #kaala @akshay14793 @Banned_tweeter
Dashran Yohan: #Kaala teaser looks pretty damn kickass, but I'm not a fan of Santhosh Narayanan's soundtrack/score. His music is too 'young' and heavy. It doesn't scream "aged gangster." And it's so loud... loud for the sake of being loud.
Anandhi Ajay: Waking up to witness #Thalaivar 's #MaranaMass #Kaala
That Charm!!!!, will remain forever wit our style samrat✌✌#KaalaTeaser
Kaushik LM: #KaalaTeaser - adrenaline pumping stuff with the evergreen mass hero #Superstar #Rajinikanth who rocks with his fiery energy, punchlines and the terrific karuppu / kaala jibba. #Kaala .. BO opening records are sure to be rewritten .. Happy stuff! @beemji
Rocking @Music_Santhosh with @iamyogib to add all the pump and josh. The Kabali-like whistles are hard to miss. So much fun, this teaser is.. #KaalaTeaser #Kaala
At 67, #Rajini sir is just incredible with his action, trademark punchlines & screen presence
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"Kaala, Keisa Naam Hai Rey?"
"Kyaa Rey, Setting ah?"
The Nellai Tamizh: "Vengaimavan Othaila Nikken, Dhillirundha Mothama Vangaley!"
Surendhar MK: #Kaala teaser is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm_vSSlVsV4&feature=youtu.be ... #KaalaTeaser
A #Rajinikanth film teaser which also gives importance to other characters like #NanaPatekar.
That swag. That charm of #Superstar. Always a blockbuster combo!
ADITYA PAVAN KUMAR: This is the best teaser@Rajinikanth attitude and acting are everest.
@dhanushkraja #SantoshNarayanan music and BGM are good too.
Watch this treat for this holi
#KaalaTeaser #Kaala
Karthik Swaminathan: #Kaala teaser seems to be an old wine in a new pack!! Liked Rajinikanth's charisma but the BGM drops!!
Sreedhar Pillai:#Kaala teaser vintage @superstarrajini in his elements pitched against the bad guy # NanaPatekar - sparks are bound to fly


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Priyadarshi hogged all the limelight with his flawless one liners as Kaushik and his performance will be remembered for a long time. A natural talent known for making stylish films, Vamshi made a class film that will be remembered for a long time and is a milestone for him, Nagarjuna and Karthi. The way he adapted the original and incorporated entertainment through Karthi was brilliant and the paint thread he wrote was hilarious.
The sentimental action drama, about a billionaire who becomes a beggar for 48 days in hopes that mother will recover from an ailment, was released with a mere 70 lakhs. Amazing story from a business standpoint.
His albums this year consisted of Sarrainodu, Thikka, and Srirasthu Subhamastu and all the albums were very good and consisted of extremely catchy music as usual. Sarrainodu deserves a special mention as it had a rocking album and Blockbuster was extremely catchy. Terrible execution by Srikanth Addala was the main culprit and I hope that he seriously takes a break before the industry decides to shun him.
The film made on a budget of 75 crores, merely made 35 crores share in return and was easily the biggest disaster of the year. Hope that Mahesh23 is better than this torture of a film. Mahesh Babu and Pawan Kalyan are easily the two biggest stars in Telugu. It was terrible year for our favorite stars as both their films were disasters. Name me two other actors in TFI that could have done that.
The answer is nobody. Hoping in both Mahesh and Pawan deliver all time blockbusters with Mahesh23 and Katamarayudu respectively. Nani- The Natural Star has not tasted a flop since Jenda Pai Kapiraju in and has delivered a 5 successful films since. Releasing 3 films this year, Gentleman was reality the best of the lot. Nani loves to work at a rapid pace and hope that his first all out mass character in Nenu Local works out and the film become a big hit. Specifically Nivetha Thomas, the 20 year old Malayali beauty.
They were also quite misogynistic - the ghost was almost always a vengeful female and the hero was her vanquisher. Violence towards women was often presented graphically and as a plot point to justify the ghost's desire for revenge. Vaishnavi plays the ghost who resides in the evil doll the infamous Chucky in "Child's Play".
She is the ill-treated wife of an "innocent" man who doesn't suspect what his family is up to. When she is murdered and he remarries, the doll starts killing the evil members of the family one by one.
Feature Film, User Rating of 7.7, India (Sorted by Release Date Descending)
It's the second wife Ramya Krishnan who must put an end to her in order to save her thaali and the husband with it. Quite a facepalm plot if we're to look at it today but the film was quite terrifying for its time - the murders had to be done by a tiny doll and they had to look believable without the kind of technology filmmakers have currently! Its melodramatic narrative wouldn't sell today but "Vaa Arugil Vaa" put us all off toys for quite some time when we first watched it.
Mohan's "Uruvam" is one of the few horror films in which the ghost inhabits a male body. Possibly as punishment for being an atheist who pooh-poohs the supernatural. It doesn't have much of a plot to speak of but Mohan's transformation into the evil being is pretty effective - the Kollywood version of what happens to Jack Nicholson in "The Shining".
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Certain scenes like the one in which two children play with a ball and it disappears only to become a bloodied circle on the wall are still fresh in my memory because they were unexpected in those times. There are quite a few jumpy moments in the film and though it didn't do well at the box-office, it acquired a kind of cult status over the years.
Ilayaraja's haunting music was a big plus too. The film was a sequel to "Nalaya Manidhan", which was loosely based on "Frankenstein". Once again, the Athisaya Manidhan who roamed the screen in those times would appear like a hilariously dressed Halloween party goer now but he was crazy creepy in the 90s. The babysitter in the Tamil version was way scarier than the one in the Hollywood film for sure! There was a lull in the Tamil horror scene with college romances taking over but the tide has turned again and we see more and more filmmakers exploring the genre.
With bigger budgets, better technology, and clever storytelling, these new age horror films are oceans apart from what we watched in those days.
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But if my heart skips a beat even now if I have to stay in a hotel room with No. You owned them, and when they were used up, you moved on or if a pet was still needed, you got a replacement of your property. CJ was the love of my life.
So in September, Priya started a support group called "Goodbye Tails" to offer a safe space for people to mourn their pets without being judged. The episode made her realise two very critical things. Secondly, she found it impossible to communicate her heartache and the huge sense of loss clawing inside her. People who I cared for a lot didn't understand.
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In last century quality the nutritional value of food nutritional value of foods has decreased dramatically as direct consequence to climate changes and population growth [1].
In this context, there are considerable efforts worldwide toward the design and development of innovative strategies competitive scientifically and economically to increase the quality of life through health status preservation [1]. In this context, is more even it becomes even more stringent to identify new sources of cheap, natural food with high nutritional value. And nature has always been a resource for mankind, virtually inexhaustible.
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Synthetic drugs have proven many times numerous side-effects and even less clinical effective than botanical products. Currently, many people from different parts of the world use often healing herbs for treatment of various diseases. In Romania, nature is presented as a special living being interconnected with humans throughout their entire existence.
Romanian spontaneous flora is extremely diverse. And many of these are well-known as healing herbs but also as ingredients, flavor or as food.
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Moreover, besides the amazing therapeutic effects on human body, by their stunning scent, vivid and highly diverse colorful, these plants offer almost miraculous cures for health, for the soul and for human wellbeing. This paper aims to become aware for the modern man over the special properties of plats on human health and wellness. The nature always represented the cradle of human life. Therefore it is essential for us to learn again to cherish nature, to explore the power of plants to cure or relax us.
We must understand that only through a sustainable development we will be able to avoid the irrecoverable destruction of natural wildlife, basically, the only real legacy for the next generations.
A special part is devoted to a very special plants from Romanian flora with less unknown applications: Black locust The forests of black locust Robinia pseudo black locust, family Leguminosae called "Bagrin" in Romanian folk language, are spread on large areas of the Romania country, especially in lowland. Black locust honey is very appreciated for its delicious taste but also for therapeutic properties: Unfortunately, it is less known that black locust flowers represent an effective cure for several ailments.
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Studies on chemical composition of flower black locust have revealed the presence of: In Romanian phytotherapy, black locust flowers are recommended for disorders which occur as result of an inadequate lifestyle, unbalanced diets, stress and, not least, the unhealthy diets: According different studies, the preparations with black locust flowers can be used to combat anxiety, irritability, physical and mental exhaustion and even sexual dysfunction [].
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Black locust flowers are used in Romania for different culinary preparations: The flowers are also used as flavoring and for perfumes. Elder plant Elder plant or Sambucus nigra, one of the harbingers of spring, belongs to the family Adoxaceae and is one of the oldest known medicinal plants.
Across the globe there are more species of elder and among the best known are: The healing properties of elder plant are known for a very long time. The flowers were used in cosmetic treatments by the Egyptians, the Greeks used the root to prepare laxative teas and Indian tribes used the fruits and elderflower to prepare various medicinal potions.
For this purpose they use the elder fruits, flowers, leaves or the bark of stem [,14]. Unlike jelly, jam does not need added pectin, illustrating a major difference between jam and jelly. What it really comes down to is cooking method and consistency. Jelly Unlike jam, jelly uses the juice form of fruits. Jams and jellies have about half the calories of butter or margarine and unlike butter and margarine, contain zero fat.
Pectin is an indigestible carbohydrate, and thus is a good source of fiber in your diet. It can be made from sweet, savory or hot ingredients. Due to this fluid consistency, jelly can be made from various ingredients including vegetable juices, teas, liquors, and even edible flowers.
Once the fruit is softened, the jam can be canned and sealed, with some cooks processing their jam to make the texture more uniform. Food and Drug Administration, jam and preserves are to be considered the same thing. Jam Jam refers to a fruit made food that contains both the juice and flesh of a fruit or vegetable, although some cookbooks define it as a cooked and jelled puree. Every time you cross paths with another Happn user, their profile will come up on your timeline allowing you to like or ignore them, and if they like you too, you can start nattering.
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They pride themselves in getting rid of clutter, creeps and games. You have 24 hours to talk to your matches otherwise they will disappear into the internet abyss once and for all. Hitch Fancy yourself a bit of a matchmaker? This app allows you to set up two of your friends via Facebook, like a Tinder for pimps matchmakers.
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At first the chat begins anonymously, but you have the option of revealing your identity thereafter. You can fill in your ideal date and browse through dates that appeal to you before connecting with the suggester of said date.
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They also have a swipe-based feature for finding matches called 'Pool. Jaumo This basic, easy-to-use'flirt messaging' app was created by two guys from Germany who believe that flirting should be easy and a lot of fun.
Message sending is free but you have to pay for any other perks like sending gifts or not seeing ads. Lovoo Lovoo is kind of like an Instagram but for dating. You also get to see who is posting what near you with their live radar.
As with any dating app though, beware of fake profiles. Lulu Lulu is your pretty average dating app with nothing major to write home about apart form one thing… women get to rate the men on there by filling in questionnaires about their matches based on looks, personality and commitments levels, allowing them to choose from hashtags such as HandyMan or KnickerDropper.
Even though they own other successful dating apps such as Tinder, OKCupid and How About We, this app has their original concept of matching people by compatibility using their tried and tested matching algorithm. Mamba This started as a dating site in before entering the world of apps. It originated and is still big in Russia but has gained popularity worldwide. It is majorly image-orientated allowing users to upload as many pics as they like for free as well as being able to instant message, photo-rate and have an interactive diary.
They also own Wamba. Meet4U Your bog standard swipe and match dating app based on location which allows you to send text, voice, video messages and even doodles to matches. Meet24 Meet24 is a free dating app with no ads or banners. You can see the distance between you and other users and can exchange messages, photos and voice messages. MeetMe This is more of a chat-based service. You can see people based on location who are available and ready to chat and then get to know them.
Mico Another free 'social' app which allows you find new people nearby or even around the world. You can chat by text, stickers, voice messages or video messages. You also have your own space like a Facebook wall where you can share anything you like. Moonit Coming to something a tad more original, this dating app lines your astrological stars up with other astrological matches to try and get the best match for you.
If you are in a relationship hello, why are you here? They claim to use algorithms, formulas, heuristics and a lot of crazy math stuff to help people connect faster. You and your daily match will see each other at the same time and have 24 hours to make a move before the offer expires.
Parlor The people at Parlour believe that when it comes to communicating, there is nothing better than phone calls. Plenty of Fish POF is owned by the match.Green Jelly - Three Little Pigs
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The other day was the start of the campaign period. So the political circus is here again. Every politician will be touting his supposed achievements. But they will all be saying the same things. They will be promising to cause the improvement of the lives of people through this and that, and what not. We had been hearing those things year in and year out but no result ever came out of these.
For the people never voted based on platfroms of government. It is what they receive from politicians that clinches their decision when they go to the polls. Never mind if the politicians they will vote for are the worst kind.
And majority of the people and most of the politicians don't even know what a good platfrom is. That is, what is good for the people and the nation, in the long run. What everybody knows is what is good for one's pocket. That is it, nothing more. Even if it will be bad for the rest of the tribe or the populace.
For those who are discerning in casting their votes, they are also in a quandary as there are no differences among the political parties. There is no ideological line or lines that separate them from each other. Even the leftists who are supposed to be ideological are not anymore. They used to idolize China and Mao Tse Tong, which gave rise to the popularity of Mao's baseball cap as a symbol of the proletariat. Now, they are attacking China especially on the Philippine contracts with that economic behemoth.
Well and good as far as the contracts are concerned. But who are they. Years ago, they were willing to die for China or Russia. Now they don't know where they stand.
What we need are political parties that have humanitarian ideologies which they implement and pursue every day of the year. Their political candidates should live by those ideologies.
What we have are political parties that get formed a few days before the deadline of filing of candidacies. And the main consideration in accepting an applicant to the line up is his vote-getting capacity. Never his ideals or values.
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"Eveline" by James Joyce (from Dubliners): A Commentary / An Analysis of "Eveline" by James Joyce / DUBLINERS, "Eveline" by James Joyce
A commentary on "Eveline" (James Joyce)
by Dr. Joseph Suglia
The opening of "Eveline" (1904-1907; published in 1914), from Dubliners, by James Joyce:
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
Notice that Eveline is not named at the beginning of the story. Her name is given in the title, it is true, but not in the first sentence of the text. She is a nameless, passive percipient, rather than an agent (an actor). She does not act; she observes. It is the evening that is performing an action; it is the evening that is acting. The evening is invading—Eveline is already paralyzed, immobile, static at the very opening of the story, as she will be at the story's close.
Her head was leaned against the window curtains and in her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne. She was tired.
Joyce does not write, "She leaned her head against the window curtains…" He writes that her head was leaned. The head is described as an object, as the object of an action. The head was leaned—this means that Eveline was not leaning her own head; someone or something was leaning her head against the window curtains. The use of the passive voice illuminates Eveline's own passivity and immobility.
In her nostrils was the odour of dusty cretonne: The odour of the heavy fabric enveloping the furniture was invading Eveline's nostrils. Again, an image of invasion, of infiltration, of violation. She was tired: This was Kurt Vonnegut's favorite of all sentences, presumably because the simplicity of the language is a red herring, distracting the reader from the complexities of the text-web.
Few people passed. The man out of the last house passed on his way home; she heard his footsteps clacking along the concrete pavement and afterwards crunching on the cinder path before the new red houses.
The last house where? Where is the cinder path? Where are the new red houses? It is difficult to locate any of these things. Joyce is generally very good with space and with describing the placement of objects within spaces, but here, he leaves it to the reader to imagine where the last house is, where the cinder path is, and where the new red houses are.
One time there used to be a field there in which they used to play every evening with other people's children. Then a man from Belfast bought the field and built houses in it—not like their little brown houses but bright brick houses with shining roofs. The children of the avenue used to play together in that field—the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, little Keogh the cripple, she and her brothers and sisters.
Notice that Eveline places herself after the Devines, the Waters, the Dunns, and little Keogh the cripple. Eveline puts herself at the end of the line. Already we have a sense that this girl has abysmal self-esteem.
Ernest, however, never played: he was too grown up. Her father used often to hunt them in out of the field with his blackthorn stick; but usually little Keogh used to keep nix and call out when he saw her father coming.
"In" and "out" are a strange coupling of prepositions. What does it mean to hunt children in out of the field? Shouldn't the independent clause read: Her father used often to hunt them out of the field? Incidentally: "To keep nix" means "to be on the lookout."
Still they seemed to have been rather happy then. Her father was not so bad then; and besides, her mother was alive. That was a long time ago; she and her brothers and sisters were all grown up her mother was dead. Tizzie Dunn was dead, too, and the Waters had gone back to England. Everything changes. Now she was going to go away like the others, to leave her home.
If Eveline's father was not so bad then, just imagine how bad he is when the story takes place.
Home! She looked round the room, reviewing all its familiar objects which she had dusted once a week for so many years, wondering where on earth all the dust came from.
Eveline identifies herself as a duster-of-inanimate-objects.
Perhaps she would never see again those familiar objects from which she had never dreamed of being divided.
She does not distinguish herself from the static objects that surround her. At the end of the story, when she has the opportunity to realize her human freedom and spontaneity, she imitates the inertia of inactive objects.
And yet during all those years she had never found out the name of the priest whose yellowing photograph hung on the wall above the broken harmonium beside the coloured print of the promises made to Blessed Margaret Mary Alacoque.
Beloved of Irish Catholics, St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was a French Catholic nun who was the embodiment to pious devotion to tradition—much in the same way that Eveline is piously devoted to her family and her homeland.
He had been a school friend of her father. Whenever he showed the photograph to a visitor her father used to pass it with a casual word:
"He is in Melbourne now."
She had consented to go away, to leave her home.
The fact that she describes her decision to escape Dublin as one of consent implies that she does not see that decision as her own, but rather as one that has been made for her and one to which she has assented.
Was that wise? She tried to weigh each side of the question.
Apparently, she assented reluctantly. Her mind has not yet been made up. The reader also is invited to weigh each side of the question: Should she leave? Should she have left? No answer is given. A literary work of art, "Eveline" provokes questions that it never answers; it never gives readers the means of answering these questions.
In her home anyway she had shelter and food; she had those whom she had known all her life about her. Of course she had to work hard, both in the house and at business. What would they say of her in the Stores when they found out that she had run away with a fellow? Say she was a fool, perhaps; and her place would be filled up by advertisement. Miss Gavan would be glad. She had always had an edge on her, especially whenever there were people listening.
"Miss Hill, don't you see these ladies are waiting?"
"Look lively, Miss Hill, please."
She would not cry many tears at leaving the Stores.
But in her new home, in a distant unknown country, it would not be like that. Then she would be married—she, Eveline. People would treat her with respect then. She would not be treated as her mother had been. Even now, though she was over nineteen, she sometimes felt herself in danger of her father's violence. She knew it was that that had given her the palpitations.
At this point, one has to wonder why any person of sense would want to stay in the Hill household. Her father is abusive; this much is clear. She is treated derogatorily by her employer, Miss Gavan. Her brother Ernest and her mother are dead. She is suffering from violent paroxysms, tremors brought on by her father's abuse. What is there to keep her in Dublin? And trying her luck in the open air of Buenos Ayres would afford her a new possibility. Though not everything that is possible is positive, at least she would have the possibility of something positive being brought into her life.
[Frank] told [Eveline] the names of the ships he had been on and the names of the different services. He had sailed through the Straits of Magellan and he told her stories of the terrible Patagonians.
Now, the bit about the Patagonians makes me wonder if Frank is a liar. A chronicler of Magellan's expeditions wrote that the Patagonians were a race of giants. Is Frank repeating the same myth of the "terrible Patagonians"? If Frank is telling Eveline such nonsense, this should lead us to question the integrity of his intentions.
He had fallen on his feet in Buenos Ayres, he said, and had come over to the old country just for a holiday. Of course, her father had found out the affair and had forbidden her to have anything to say to him.
"I know these sailor chaps," he said.
Is the father necessarily incorrect? As dour as Eveline's life is in Dublin, is it not preferable to being seduced and abandoned in South America? There is no way to know with authority whether or not Frank is a reptilian seducer. He very well might be a boa constrictor in human form. Not even Frank might know if he is a seducer, if we consider the unconscious sources of human cognition and activity. Frank is inscrutable to us, and perhaps Frank is even inscrutable to himself. The inscrutability of Frank summons forth the indeterminacy of life itself.
Sometimes [Eveline's father] could be very nice. Not long before, when [Eveline] had been laid up for a day, he had read her out a ghost story and made toast for her at the fire. Another day, when their mother was alive, they had all gone for a picnic to the Hill of Howth. She remembered her father putting on her mother's bonnet to make the children laugh.
The atypical tenderness of the father only serves to underline his general abusiveness.
Her time was running out but she continued to sit by the window, leaning her head against the window curtain, inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
The grammar changes here: Now, Eveline is playing a more active role: She was leaning her head, she was inhaling the odour of dusty cretonne.
Down far in the avenue she could hear a street organ playing. She knew the air. Strange that it should come that very night to remind her of the promise to her mother, her promise to keep the home together as long as she could. She remembered the last night of her mother's illness; she was again in the close dark room at the other side of the hall and outside she heard a melancholy air of Italy.
The song of the Italian organ player conjures the most dominant figure in Eveline's life. Neither her father, her surviving brother Harry, nor Frank, her lover, but rather her dead-yet-deathless mother. The mother is resurrected, invoked by the organ-player's song, and reminds Eveline of the latter's death-bed oath to glue together the unglueable pieces of their shattered family. As if to hook and draw Eveline into the tomb. To save her from life.
The organ-player had been ordered to go away and given sixpence. She remembered her father strutting back into the sickroom saying:
"Damned Italians! coming over here!"
The father's hatred of itinerant foreigners stands in contrast to the Wanderlust of Frank, an émigré from Ireland who travels to the "good air" of Buenos Ayres.
As she mused the pitiful vision of her mother's life laid its spell on the very quick of her being—that life of commonplace sacrifices closing in final craziness.
Notice the use of the verb to close. Three sentences before, Joyce used close as an adjective. Here, he is using close as a verb. This is paronomasia (punning). An adjective in one sentence is used as a verb in another. The fact that Joyce is using close twice in proximity means something: Close evokes the sepulchral narrowness of the life that Eveline will choose.
She trembled as she heard again her mother's voice saying constantly with foolish insistence:
"Derevaun Seraun! Derevaun Seraun!"
This is, apparently, corrupt Gaelic for: "The end of pleasure is pain! The end of pleasure is pain!" It is as if the mother were admonishing her daughter from beyond the grave to avoid pleasure—to live in a narrow life of nunnish self-renunciation, to stay mired in the misery in Dublin, to languish in Dublin, to duplicate the self-negations of her mother and the insanities of her mother's dying. These are irenic words, sibylline utterances. They are necrotic commandments, words spoken from the tomb, words spoken from deathness.
She stood up in a sudden impulse of terror. Escape! She must escape! Frank would save her. He would give her life, perhaps love, too. But she wanted to live. Why should she be unhappy? She had a right to happiness. Frank would take her in his arms, fold her in his arms. He would save her.
And she would not, then, save herself? This passage highlights, more than any other, why Eveline is immobilized. Rather than will to escape, she wills not to have a will. She wills to let someone else make the decisions for her. Her absence of self-determination is the reason that she is likely condemned to the self-negating boredom and insanity that marked her mother's life.
Through the wide doors of the sheds [Eveline] caught a glimpse of the black mass of the boat, lying in beside the quay wall, with illumined portholes.
Joyce, again, is very good at describing place—particularly, at describing blockages. A less talented writer would have merely pointed to the existence of the boat. A less talented writer would have merely described the boat. Joyce describes the visual impediments, the obstructions that impede the view of the ocean liner. The black mass of the boat is seen through the wide doors of the sheds—an image of blockage, of separation. The sheds are emblematic of the self-imposed barriers that divide Eveline from freedom.
Amid the seas she sent a cry of anguish.
It is difficult to believe, but Joyce—one of the greatest literary artists who ever lived—makes a usage error in this passage. Amid, which means "in the midst of," should only be placed before singular nouns. Seas is a plural noun and should take among.
[Eveline] set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless animal. Her eyes gave him no sign of love or farewell or recognition.
Nothing has changed within Eveline since the opening of the story. She is immobile from the beginning of the story unto its end. The blankness of her eyes—their illegibility, their incomprehensible nothingness—can be interpreted to signify anything. Readers may introject their own meanings into those null eyes.
Dr. Joseph Suglia
A review of CONSIDER THE LOBSTER (David Foster Wallace) by Dr. Joseph Suglia / David Foster Wallace Is a Bad Writer
A review of BOTH FLESH AND NOT (David Foster Wallace)
By Dr. Joseph Suglia
Published four years after David Foster Wallace's career-advancing suicide (a despicable suicide that was an assaultive act against his widow Karen Green), Both Flesh and Not (2012) reprints essays and squibs that were originally written for various newspapers, magazines, and journals; one of the texts appeared as the introduction to an anthology of essays, another was appended to a thesaurus. Both online and print sources are represented. Through the collection threads a list of words and definitions that Wallace kept on his desktop computer.
The vocabulary list troubles me more than anything else assembled in this volume. Someone who professed to care very much about Standard Written American Usage, Wallace abuses many words himself.
Wallace thinks that "art nouveau" refers to a "decorative style of early 20th c. using leaves and flowers in flowing sinuous lines, like on vases, columns, etc." [34]. This is innocence and nonsense. Jugendstil was much different than that. Beardsley didn't always use "leaves" and "flowers"!
Wallace thinks that "birl" means to "cause to spin rapidly with feet (as with logrolling)" [35]. But "birl" also means, intransitively, to "whirl"; for instance, you may say that hot dogs or sausages birl on spits.
Yes, Wallace is right to think that "distemper" might denote "a kind of paint-job using watered paint" [165], but it can also mean "to throw out of order" or "bad mood" and could denote a viral disease that affects dogs and cats.
Wallace thinks that an "ecdysiast" is a "striptease artist" [165], but this has only been the case since Gypsy. An "ecdysiast," etymologically speaking, refers to something that molts or sheds its skin, such as certain birds, insects, and crustaceans.
Wallace doesn't know that Grand Guignol was horror theatre before ever it was "cinema" [190].
Throughout, there are many such compositional errors.
Wallace had abysmal taste in literature. It is good to see Steps on a list of "five direly underappreciated U.S. novels" since 1960, but it ought to be stated that this novel, which is attributed to Jerzy Kosinski, was collaboratively written. Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian: Or, The Evening Redness in the West has interesting content—the sort of content that one might expect to discover in an early- or middle-period film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky—but its prose style is a mere pastiche of Faulkner. I don't know what to say about a person who thinks that Denis Johnson is a serious writer.
Both Flesh and Not is a disastrous humiliation. Republishing these essays and squibs was not a good idea and besmirches the reputation of Wallace even more than D.T. Max's horripilative biography does. Though he had many virtues, the ability to form strong sentences was not one of them. David Foster Wallace could not write a decent sentence to save his life.
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WHY YOU SHOULD READ KAFKA BEFORE YOU WASTE YOUR LIFE by James Hawes
An Analysis of EXCAVATING KAFKA, also known as WHY YOU SHOULD READ KAFKA BEFORE YOU WASTE YOUR LIFE, (James Hawes) by Joseph Suglia
My goodness! Kafka was an onanist! Alert the presses! James Hawes's "revelations" in Why You Should Read Kafka Before You Waste Your Life aren't particularly "revelatory"–any self-respecting "Kafkologist" knows that Kafka subscribed to Der Amethyst, a literary and aesthetic journal that Hawes finds "pornographic." And I don't need James Hawes, failed novelist, to demystify Kafka's allegedly "saintly" image for me. Milan Kundera did that himself many years ago–not that I am an admirer of Milan Kundera.
Has it never dawned on Hawes that perhaps Kafka was a subscriber to Der Amethyst because it contained contemporary avant-garde literature or because Franz Blei published that journal–Franz Blei, who ALSO published Kafka's own Betrachtungen? (Parenthetical question: Does Hawes TRULY know German? There are very few references here, and they are largely to English-language texts.) And has it never dawned upon the author that Kafka perhaps did NOT see masturbatory possibilities therein? I am reminded of one of my best friends, who happens to be gay and who collects heterosexual pornography, which he finds intriguing from an aesthetic, political, and cultural perspective. Did Hawes find STAINS?
And so the philistinic and moralistically hypocritical James Hawes equates Der Amethyst with Penthouse, Blei with an "Edwardian Larry Flynt," Octave Mirbeau and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch with back-room, dime-store pornography, Gustav Klimt with Girls Gone Wild, and a familiar passage in Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers with Kafka's Die Verwandlung–as if he were the first person to see the resemblance. Oooooo… Werther imagines himself turning into a May beetle (Maikäfer)… Gregor Samsa imagines himself turning into a vermin (Ungeziefer)… Ooooooooooo… What a revelation! Ooooooooo…
Instead of engaging with the form and meaning of Kafka's writing, Hawes, failed novelist, grubs about in Kafka's life, which is the pitfall of most Kafka scholarship. Only a few philologists have insightfully commented on Kafka–Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Corngold. Hawes, predictably, focuses upon the tabloid aspects of Kafka's life. And so Hawes, while pretending to present Kafka as a man of the world, merely reinforces the dreary, pseudo-moralistic cliches about Kafka, who is often mistyped as a "dark and lonely masturbator."
James Hawes, now older than Kafka was when he died, releasing all of his envious venom on a great writer, is the true pornographer.
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ANALOGY BLINDNESS by Joseph Suglia
Over the years, I have invented a number of words and phrases. Genocide pornography is one that I am especially proud of (cf. my essays on Quentin Tarantino); anthropophagophobia is another word that I coined, which means "the fear of cannibalism" (cf. my interpretation of Shakespeare's As You Like It). I would like to introduce to the world (also known as Google) a new linguistic term:
analogy blindness (noun phrase): the inability to perceive what an analogy represents. To be lost in the figure of an analogy itself, while losing sight of the concept that the analogy describes.
The Analogist: Polygamy is like going to a buffet instead of a single-serve restaurant. Both are inadvisable.
The Person Who Is Blind to the Analogy: People love buffets!
The Analogist: Being taught how to write by Chuck Palahniuk is like being taught how to play football by a one-legged man.
The Person Who Is Blind to the Analogy: A one-legged man who knows how to coach football? That's great!
The Analogist: You should not have reprimanded her in such a rude manner for taking time off from work. You treated her as if she were guilty of some terrible offense, such as plagiarism.
The Person Who Is Blind to the Analogy: But plagiarism is bad!
Derived from Hui-neng: When the wise person points at the Moon, the imbecile sees the finger.
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When mature, the females are rather similar to the males. The perching behaviour and the divergent genital appendices make these males. The amber basal veins of the wings are specific.
The species is easily recognisable by its four "spots", two on each forewing. One is the normal pterostigma near the tip of the wing and the other is a similar mark at the "node", on the front edge of the wing
These were at the stream on Decoy Heath Nature Reserve on 25 July.
Olympus EM-1 (aperture priority), Panasonic 100 - 400mm Leica DG Vario-Elmar at 400mm and at ff8 (first two) or f13, hand held.
The stereo is crosseye.
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Mavs' Rookie Luka Doncic Ejected For Kicking The Ball
Janiel Abby Toralba
It was a terrible night for Dallas Mavericks rookie Luka Doncic, as he got ejected for kicking the ball into the crowd on the third quarter of the game against the Indiana Pacers last Sunday (Manila time).
Doncic got one technical foul at the end of the first half and another technical at the third quarter. Contributing only 8 points for his team, Dallas lost to Pacers 111-99.
The Slovenian rookie defended that he was only trying to flick the ball up to himself.
"I was just trying to play soccer," he explained.
"I didn't try to kick the ball out of the stands."
He confessed that he should have been aware of this ruling.
"For sure, I didn't know the rule if you go [and kick the ball] to the stands you are ejected. It's a different rule in Europe. I didn't know that was a rule. I wouldn't have been ejected for that, for sure, in Europe."
"I was trying to juggle the ball. I've got to work on my soccer skills!" Doncic joked.
The former EuroLeague player knew that his low performance had affected his team and promised to be careful next time.
"I wasn't playing good, for sure. It's one of the [worst] games I've played, so yeah, I was frustrated before [the ejection]. I know it was my fault. I learned a new thing today."
"Everybody does bad things in their life, so it's not going to stop me the next game. That's the good thing about the NBA. The next game is in two days, so just forget about it and move on."
This is the first time for the Dallas rookie to be ejected in the NBA.
The Mavericks are set to face the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday (Manila time) with a 20-25 standing.


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Most of the Facebook ad accounts that I
audit and look into are doing a ton of things wrong that's losing them clicks
and conversions and sales which is why in this episode I want to break down
exactly what's working right now, so you can avoid these mistakes and be one of
the few to truly get outstanding results from your Facebook Ads. Also, make sure to
stick around right till the end because I'm going to be sharing with you an
advanced tip that pretty much nobody is using right now but could dramatically
improve the effectiveness of all of your campaigns. Alright, let's get to it! Hey there my name is Adam Erhart,
marketing strategist and welcome to the marketing show. Over the past seven years
I've run countless thousands of campaigns for my clients and help them
generate millions and millions and millions of dollars. Also, over that time
I've seen pretty much everything, the good, the bad, the ugly, the fugly, the
super fugly, the SuperDuper fugly, you get the picture, and I've seen a lot of
things change with the platform and with how consumers and customers essentially,
engage and interact with the platform which is one of the biggest changes of
all. See, back in the day, which makes me sound super old but really, back in the
day, we used to be able to just throw up any old ad, we could have ugly images and
terrible copy and bad creatives and it would still work because the platform
just wasn't that competitive and wasn't yet saturated. Things have changed. You
see, over the years people have really realized that Facebook is an amazing
opportunity to reach exactly who they're trying to get to and because it is an
auction platform, meaning, that people are bidding for different spots and
different spaces on the platform, well, as people realize that it's actually a
really effective advertising platform, more people came onto it and it drove
the costs up, making things really, really hard to compete, especially when we
compare to how they used to be. But, really, really hard to compete isn't
impossible to compete and in fact, it's still really doable to run an incredibly
profitable campaign on Facebook, it's just different and that's what this
episode is all about and I'm going to be sharing with you some of my top tips on
exactly what's working now to help you get way better results and it all starts
with tip #1: Longer copy. Now, the reason that I want to start with longer
copy is that I've really changed my tune on this quite a bit over the last little… essentially months, maybe even the last year, where we've
started to experiment with longer and longer copy because we're getting just
so much better results, in most cases by having kind of a a more detailed and
more thorough and more story based ad, rather than just a short and punchy and
really catchy thing and then sort of leaving them from there. You see, I used
to preach that your ad should really only do one thing, have one main priority
and maybe one sub priority, essentially, what that's got to do is it's got to
stop somebody from scrolling by lightning speed, all you have to do is
think about how you engage with Facebook and on your phone or on your computer,
just kind of whipping through things at lightning speed. So, your ads first job is
to stop them from scrolling and the second job of the ad is to just get the
click. That's it. At least that's what I used to say. Essentially, all you want
your ad to do is get somebody to make the click and you can do all of the
heavy lifting on the landing page or the opt-in page or wherever you're sending
them to. Now, that's all true. We still want your ad to stop the scroll and get
the click and all of that still relevant but we also want your ad to do a little
bit more work today and that's okey because we are paying a premium for this
ad so it only makes sense that we wanted to do a little more heavy lifting.
Essentially now, what I'm seeing and what we're seeing inside the agency and with
all the clients that I'm consulting with is that we're using a longer form ad to
essentially tell more of the story, build a little more rapport, cover some of the
features and some of the benefits and essentially, do a little bit of the
selling right there inside the ad itself. What this is resulting in is slightly
more clicks on the ad to get people to obviously read all of the content but
also we may be paying a little bit of a higher premium to get somebody to click
the link and head over to the landing page but these tend to be a much more
qualified prospect, because they've taken the time to make sure to read the copy,
they've identified that "yes they're interested" and they resonate with it,
rather than just clicking to kind of see what's behind the door. This is why it's
really important when you're looking at a Facebook ad campaign to kind of take a
look at all of the metrics. We're not just interested in cost per click or
cost per link click or even cost per opt-in necessarily, but rather the end
metric of return on investment or return on adspend and then kind of working our
way all the way back to the beginning. For example, if we've
a short copy ad that's getting us super cheap clicks but making no sales,
well, obviously we'd rather have say a longer ad that's really expensive clicks
but is actually delivering us sales on the back end and this is why it's really
important to make sure all of your metrics are set up and tracking, yadda,
yadda… but really what we're focusing on here is really making that transition to
more of a longer form ad copy. A little bit more work on the front end but we're
finding a lot of really good results with it. Alright, the next thing that I
want to cover with what's working right now phenomenally, well, within Facebook
Ads is: Using the split test feature. Now, if you've been watching my stuff for any
length of time then you know I'm a massive advocate of split testing, pretty
much always and pretty much everything. Whether we're talking about the copy
that you're using in the body, whether it's the headlines, whether it's the
image or the video, whether it's the placements of the targeting, whatever. I
believe you should always be testing and trying to find that better or more
perfect combination of ideal ad characteristics to get the best results.
Well, Facebook has made this a little bit easier right now using their split
testing feature and it's actually turning out to be a pretty valuable
feature. Essentially, what it allows you to do is to select split testing as one
of your sort of top-level campaign objectives and then from there you can
start to decide what elements you want to split test first, whether it's say
audience or whether it's say ad creative and even which part of the ad
great if you want to test. The beauty here is that by kind of sort of setting
things up right within Facebook is they're doing a lot of the heavy lifting
for you and they're going to run the ad until you get a statistically
significant sort of winner or loser, allowing you to make the best decision
for which ads to scale and which ones to cut loose. The other beauty of this is
that rather than just taking all of your ads and dumping them inside Facebook and
saying: "Have at it, try to find me a winner" well, when we do it that way,
essentially sometimes Facebook will miss prioritize or miss over prioritized one
ad over another and if you've run ads for any length of time you know exactly
what I'm talking about. You'll see, one ad that's getting great lead costs but it's
decided to stop showing it and you'll see another ad that has terrible lead
costs and they'll decide that for some reason this is the winner and they're
gonna put all of your budget towards that one. You don't want that to happen
and that's what the split test helps to avoid. Essentially, it takes your budget
carves it up between however many different ads or ad
sets you want to use and then it allows you to essentially, run it as a proper
split test campaign, run it from start to finish and give you a winner. Now, a
couple real quick points that I need to make sure you're aware of when using the
split test feature: number one is that you want to make sure that you're only
split testing one variable at a time. Whether that's a headline, whether it's
body copy, whether it's an image or whether it's even the audience's that
you're running the ad to. You've got to make sure that you're only split testing
that one single variable. Otherwise, you'll have no idea what's responsible
for an ad performing better or worse. The second thing is that once your split
test is done, well, your work isn't necessarily over but what you want to do
is you want to take that winning ad, put it into a new campaign and then continue
split testing a different variable, so there's always room to improve and find
a better combination of those ad assets. Alright, the next feature and the next
tip that I want to talk about here with what's working right now inside Facebook
is: Leveraging CBO or Campaign Budget Optimization. Now, I´ve made another video
on CBO, so I'll make sure to link it up in the cards and the descriptions below
if you're not familiar but essentially, all that's really happened here is
Facebook has taken the budget sort of section of the ads and they've moved it
from the ad set level to the campaign level which is kind of pretty much how
all the other ads and all the other ad networks run their ads, so it's kind of a
nice changes to see. Regardless, this simple change has thrown a lot of people
for a loop and they've gotten really confused and are still not exactly sure
how to structure a proper CBO campaign or what the implications are or how to
set them up to get the best results, so let me clarify some of that for you
right now. First of all, it's important to understand that CBO is really pretty
much exactly what I just said, they've just taken the budgeting from the ad set
level and they moved it to the campaign, so campaign budget optimization. Now, what
this means is that you're going to set your new budget at that campaign level
and you're gonna structure things from there with different ad sets under the
campaign and different ads under the ad sets. What this also means is that by
moving things right to the campaign level, you've made kind of your ad sets
in your adds a little more resilient to change. Here's what I mean, in the past
we've seen a lot of massive algorithm fluctuations, if anything
was done at the outset level or if the ad level or whatever, kind of mini
changes were made, especially when it came to increasing budget. This is the
reason that when we're talking about scaling up winning campaigns, I'm a
strong advocate firm believer that we should always do micro increases in that
budget over the sort of the campaign per day at around like say 10 to 15%, maybe
20% at most and always be watching to see where things come to start to go off
the rails. Well, in the past if you had the budget at the ad set level and you
decided to sort of start ramping up your budget, well, obviously this is going to
be concentrated on just one ad set so things started to get a little wonky. The
beauty here is that by moving that budget to the campaign level you've got
a little bit more kind of cushion, so essentially, when you increase the budget
of the campaign level it spreads it out over the different ad sets and your
results tend to be a little more stable. It's always a good thing.
But all that aside, probably the biggest and most important thing you need to
know about CBO is the fact that it's really improved the way that facebook is
going to select the winners and the losers and start to allocate more of
your budget in the right direction. So, enough about the budget. How you actually
set up a campaign to get great results today? Here's what we're seeing,
essentially what you want to do is first set up your campaign and obviously set
your budget at the campaign level, from there you want to pick 2 to 3 to 4 of
your absolute best ad sets which you would have determined by doing a proper
split test whether you decide to test different audiences or ad copy, doesn't
really matter, just make sure that you've got four of your absolute best, maybe
five maybe three and then from there move down to the ad level and choose
maybe two to three different ads per ad set, then you just want to leave it alone
and let Facebook run it to get some data back. Once you get data back, well, then
you're going to be able to determine even better which ad sets are gonna be
your top performers and which ads under there, then simply take the winners
duplicate them into a new CBO campaign, start another split test campaign and it
really pretty much never ends. Alright, that's enough talk about CBO, let's move
on to the next one which is: Dynamic creative. Now, this is a relatively new
feature but it's one that I'm really finding some great results with and
essentially, it's a bit of a variation or modification of the split testing
feature but rather than setting things up as a proper split test, really testing
only one variable at a time, here what you're doing is you're taking all
of your best copy and your best creative and your best images and you're just
dumping it all on Facebook and letting them have at it. What happens here is
Facebook then takes all sorts of different combinations, of say: a headline
from over there and a body copy from over there and an image from down there
and it starts to mix and match all sorts of different ad combinations and show it
to your audience. Then what you're able to do, is you're able to go into your ads
manager and take a look at exactly what combination got you the best results
which then you can take and move into either a split test campaign or a CBO
campaign and you know that you're gonna have a really strong performing ad. Now, I
do have mixed feelings on dynamic creative, whether you're a beginner or
whether you're advanced because there's gonna be pros and cons to running it at
pretty much both stages and everywhere in between. For example, if you're a brand
new beginner that almost rather you focus on just creating one really good
ad, really spending some time and really think through exactly what you want to
say and how you want to say it and if you're advanced, well, the same thing kind
of applies rather you kind of know exactly what you're trying to do and
really crafting out what do you believe is the greatest ad copy you could ever
possibly write. On the other hand, if you're a beginner and have absolutely no
idea what to do or where to start, well, this is a great idea to just kind of
chuck a whole bunch of stuff in and see what sticks and the same thing applies
if you're advanced and you've got a ton of winners that you want to draw from
and really figure out the best combination. So, there really is no
one-size-fits-all when it comes to dynamic creative. My point here is just
to be aware that it exists and see how you can factor it into your campaigns.
Alright, the next thing that we're seeing working phenomenally well right
now when it comes to Facebook Ads is: Choosing slightly larger and slightly
broader audiences. See, back in the day, I know I've said that before but back
years and years ago, we had to be pretty dialed in with exactly who we're trying
to reach, really dialing in all of the exact targeting and then putting layers
on top of that to make the audience smaller and smaller to make sure that
Facebook knew exactly who we're trying to reach and who we are not trying to
reach, so they didn't show our ads to people that had no chance of converting.
Well, over the years Facebook's gotten a lot smarter and by Facebook I mean the
algorithm behind the ads. What this means is that by giving Facebook a little bit
of a wider net and really making sure that you've got
an accurate but not too narrow target, well, you're going to give Facebook more
opportunities to find your ideal people and then once it starts to find a few of
them it's going to start to build into the algorithm kind of the points and the
data points and all of the similarities between them so it can go out and find
you even more of those people. The result is more leads and often for way less
cost. You see, anytime that you make your
audience way too narrow you're going to be paying a premium because essentially,
you're dialing in on exactly who you're trying to reach which means that your
CPM or Cost Per Mille which means Cost Per Thousand impressions, essentially,
kind of the benchmark that all advertisers use to decide how much it's
gonna cost to reach certain people, anyway, that number is gonna rise
significantly. Rather, if you can choose a broader and wider more diverse audience
and then make sure that you're really dialing in and really targeting exactly
who want to reach through the ad copy and through the creative and how your ad
looks and sounds and feels, well, your costs are gonna be significantly less
and you're gonna likely get way better results. This is why my advice here is to
make your audience pretty much what it needs to be, whether that's fifty
thousand people or fifty million people. If you know that you've got dialed in
targeting, that's pretty much as far as you need to go and then make sure that
your ad, possibly with longer copy, is doing a lot of the heavy lifting for you.
Alright, my next tip on what's working right now is: Using square images or
square video. Now, this should probably come as no surprise but one of the
greatest things you can do when it comes to advertising, is to take advantage of
all the tools and all the resources and all the real estate that you get when
you pay them money. For example, if you're paying for an ad, it doesn't really make
any sense to take up the smallest, tiniest amount of space possible where
you can stretch out and take up maximum screen real estate and that's what you
should be after. That's why we're seeing square videos working phenomenally, well,
more square images or if you have the option kind of that massive full screen
size. Again, different ad formats and different ad types are gonna have
different screen sizes but the takeaway point is really pretty simple: just make
sure to chew up as much screen real estate as you possibly can.
Yep, that's pretty much all I have to say with that tip. So, just make sure to chew
up that screen real estate and we'll put that one to rest for now. Alright, moving
on to the next tip which is more of an advance tip but it's one that way too few
people are using or even aware of and that is: Day parting. Day parting is just
fancy marketer talk for essentially saying: choosing the right time or the
right days to run your ads and choosing the wrong time or the wrong days to not
run your ads. Sounds pretty simple, yet not many people are aware this feature
exists or how to use it properly, so let me explain. In a lot of businesses,
possibly even yours, they tend to fall into one of two camps, they could be
either weekday businesses or weekend businesses and I'm not just talking
about the times where customers are active in your business or when your
business is even open but rather the mindset or the psychology or the
behavior of your customers and when they're most likely to engage and
interact and really sort of take in your content. Could be weekdays or it could be
weekends and if you know this for a fact or you can figure it out through the use
of strategic testing, well, then it only makes sense to run your ads during the
times that they're most likely to engage with the content and make those purchase
decisions. Fortunately, Facebook gives you this opportunity using a day parting
feature. Now, the way to get access to this is actually pretty simple but it
involves a few minor tweaks inside the ads manager. The first of which is you
need to use a lifetime budget. Not really a big deal here just take whatever
you're using for day and then multiply it out over however many days you want
to go and that's your new lifetime budget. After that, you just have to go
into your scheduling options and then choose what days and what times you want
your ads to be working. For example, with one of my clients we found that by
looking at the ad breakdown and seeing when people were engaging with the ad
content, we were getting our best results by far between the hours of about 6 a.m.
and 1:00 a.m. Basically, all the way through the day
but from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. there was nobody clicking on those ads at all. Also,
nobody was clicking on them on the weekend, so what we ended up doing is
just taking those best times and those best days running the ads only in that
period and our results got dramatically better and saved us a ton of cash. Now,
here's the kicker, day parting is a bit of an advanced strategy and if you're
not really sure whether you have a weekday business or a weekend business,
you're not really sure how to set it up or you have no desire to really even do
it, that's ok. You see, essentially figuring this out is going to take some
kind of a testing budget and if your not at that phase right now, that's
alright, let's just put this one to rest we can always look at it later.
Alright, the next thing you're gonna want to do is check out the video I have
linked up right here on Facebook ads tips and tricks which is going to give
you even more strategies that I didn't have a chance to talk about today. So
make sure to check that out now. Thanks for watching and I'll catch you next
time on The Marketing Show. You want to make sure that it captures attention but
it also tells a story because irrelevant images may get clicks but they won't get
conversions later down the road…