luni, 9 septembrie 2013

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Street Pole Dancing in Poland

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 07:27 PM PDT

Girls from Avocadoo Club pole dancing in the streets.























41 Female Teachers Caught Sleeping With Students

Posted: 09 Sep 2013 06:53 PM PDT

Here are 41 female teachers who slept with students.

Arrested on the final day of school, Hope Jacoby was taken in for having a sexual relationship with a boy between 14 and 17 years old. This was confirmed once a picture of her was found on the male student's cell phone. The 23 year old physical trainer at Tustin High School went free on bail, but was tried for oral copulation with a minor and unlawful sex with a minor.





Amy Northcutt and her husband, Justin Northcutt, were arrested for sending lewd text messages to a 16-year old female student and then arranging to have group sex with her.



 

In Stockton, California, Christina Oliver 24 was arrested for having sex with a 16 year old male student. The parents of the teen contacted the police with concerns about her sexual relationship with their child. She was arrested near their home. 125,000 bail.




Cameo Patch was arrested for having oral sex with her 17 year old male student. The 29 year old high school substitute teacher was arrested in January 2006 after the police heard that Patch had gone on a date with a 17 year old student and performed oral sex on the boy after ONE DATE.




Amy Beck, 33, a Social Studies and English teacher, and mother of three, faces up to seven years in prison for having sexual intercourse and "teaching oral sex" to her 14 year old male student.




Elizabeth Stow, 26 and cute in a pony tail, was a high school English teacher who was arrested in April of 2005 after school officials investigated the rumors of sexual relationships between Stow and a few male students. That's right, a FEW. Prosecutors alleged that Stow had sex with three 17 year old students and was charged with unlawful sexual intercourse and oral copulation with a minor, illustrating exactly what she'd been "stow"ing all along




25 year old Spanish teacher and former Miss Texas contestant Amy McElhenney was accused of having sex with an 18 year old male student. The age of consent in Texas is 18, but there's a law forbidding teachers from having sexual relationships with students regardless of their age. The grand jury refused to find her guilty of an improper relationship with a student since the text messages colored their relationship as endearing and flirtatious, but she did lose her teacher credentials.




Amber Jennings, 30, a Massachusetts teacher, emailed nude photos of herself and one video to a 16 year old male student. She served 2 years probation.




Christine Scarlett, 40, plead guilty to five felony charges for her seduction of 17 year old Steven Bradigan, who happened to be captain of the Strongsville High School football team when the relationship began in 2002. She also gave birth to his son in 2003.




Autumn Leathers, who is extremely into SM according to most people's fantasies and NEVER holds still for a picture seriously, no better, non-blurry pictures of her exist, was 24 year old high school English teacher who was arrested in August of 2008 for having sexual relations with a 16 year old student.




In June of 2008, 29-year-old Cara Dickey, who kind of has a confused-Anna-Kournikova thing going and is arguably the craziest person on this list, was let go from her teaching position after school officials somehow discovered "romantic" texts between Dickey and a 14-year-old male student. They disappeared together later on in the day, after the texts, but were found the next morning. Dickey was found sleeping in her car and the boy was found in a local mall, probably celebrating, right? Wrong.




Christine Marie Johanson was charged for having sex with a 15-year-old male, she was 35 at the time. She was given one year in jail




Beth Geisel taught at the Christian Brothers Academy in New York a private Catholic school. She was fired, and later arrested, for having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old male. Then again for having sexual contact with three different 16 year old male students on a Florida school trip where she became so intoxicated she couldn't stand. She was arrested for endangering minors, driving while intoxicated.




Carrie McCandless taught cheerleading at Brighton Charter High School in Colorado. She was accused of having sexual relations with a 17 year old male student during an sleepover school camping trip. She provided the kids with alcohol and "did everything except having sex" with a male student while another male student slept nearby. She was sentenced to 45 days in jail.




Christine McCallum started tutoring her victim and his 11-year-old brother in 2005. After a 20-month period, the two boys started living with McCallum and her husband part-time. McCallum had sex with the 13 year old for the first time in February 2006, and used alcohol and marijuana to persuade him.




Science teacher Deanna Higgins, 27, was arrested for having sex with a 16 year old student after detectives found her underwear in the teenager's truck, which he kept there as a sentimental reminder of her. The relationship was outed once Higgins' husband found texts from the boy on her phone.




28 year old Heather Daughdrill had sex with a young, 13 year old boy after meeting him at a summer Bible camp. "The investigation revealed Daughdrill would engage in inappropriate sexual contact with the boy after picking him up from school without the parents' knowledge," the press release explains. Lewd text messages were found between her and the boy. She faces criminal charges such as sexual battery, carnal knowledge of a juvenile, kidnapping, indecent behavior with a juvenile and contributing to delinquency.




Florida teacher Debra Lafave had sexual intercourse and oral sex with a 14 year old student. Charged with two felonies, she served no jail time because the boy's mother didn't want to put her son through the emotional turmoil of seeing the trial. She now has twins and is happily married.




Ridiculously cute 22 year old Heather Shelton was charged with sexual activity with a 19 year old student, which isn't illegal in any site, but still violates the age-old trust rule of "teachers probably shouldn't bang their students". Authorities said Shelton had sex with a guy that wasn't even her student, but they had sex in April, and in North Carolina it is a felony for any teacher of a school to have sex with a student from that school. So, she was brought in.




Danielle Walls was 26 years old when she began an affair with a 16 year old student. She admitted to giving the boy cocaine and alcohol and having sex with him at multiple locations -- including his car -- over the course of an 8-month period.




Jaymee Wallace is a 28-year old teacher who is accused of having an 18-month lesbian relationship with a teenage girl. Authorities say the student, who was 15 when she met Wallace, voluntarily had sex with the coach more than 50 times, in a parking lot at Busch Gardens and often at Wallaces own apartment while a fellow classmate was in an adjacent room.



 
Katherine Harder a 31-year-old high school language arts teacher, who decided to teach one of her 17-year-old students the language of love... in a car in the parking lot of the school. Police caught them in the act of conjugating vowels and arrested Harder, just as she was teaching the young boy how to pronounce her last name.




Jill Lewis, 26, a Journalism, Speech and Computer teacher was arrested in February of 2008 for having sex with a 17 year old student on a deserted road. An anonymous probably jealous source reported the relationship to the police.




Kristy Sanches-Trujillo was 33-years-old and a 7th grade social studies teacher at Jimmy Carter Middle School when she fell for her 13-year-old student. According to Albuquerque police, Sanchez-Trujillo repeatedly had sex with a 13 year old boy that she described as being "more experienced than any man she's had sex with. She also said he was a "25-year-old in a 13-year-old's body."





Janelle Batkins was a French teacher at Roseville High School in Roseville, Michigan. She won the "Teacher of the Year" award in 2002 and in 2007 she was charged with two counts of third degree criminal sexual conduct for her relationship with a 17-year-old student, who happened to be her teacher's assistant in French class.




Joy Blackstock, 23,was charged with improper relationship between an educator and a student. She is alleged to have had a sexual relationship with an 18-year-old male student while employed as a teacher at the school, she faces between 2 and 20 years in prison.




26 year old hottiemusic teacher Helen Goddard would often go out for coffee and an after school trumpet lesson with her female student at the London School for Girls a very expensive school. She served 15 months in jail.




The oldest offender on this list, 40 year old substitute teacher Lisa Robyn Marinelli was caught having sex with a student when the student walked out of her car, zipping his pants up. She gave the boy a pair of her underwear as a gift. She first started being interested in the boy when her 15 year old daughter started dating him. She was sentenced to a year of house arrest.




Lisa Glide was sentenced to 5 years probation and faced up to a year in prison. She had sexual intercourse with a 17 and a half year old boy twice. The boy said the following: "I feel the entire case was blown far out of proportion and reason," the victim wrote once he was a college sophomore. "I was the initiator of the contact, not Lisa Glide. I was clearly not a young child and Lisa Glide was not a sexual predator.''




Kansas native Michelle Preston who isn't naked here, but wearing a tube top in this picture was a married teacher who coached the Freshman cheerleading squad. She was fired once it was discovered that there were various naked pictures of her in various poses that prove how flexible she is circulating around the high school. She reached out to her 3 victims through Facebook, which then led to her having sex with these young boys a recorded 15 times. Police uncovered her victims' DNA on her couch cushions.




Lisa Lynette Clark met her underage fella through her son...Clark contends that the boy lied to her about his age when they first met -- saying he was 17 when he was actually 14 -- and that he was the one who pursued the relationship, not her.




29-year-old high school English teacher Nicole Long, who has a sexy Tina Fey thing rockin' for her and apparently had headshots taken??? was arrested on charges of sexual battery of a 17-year-old male student in January of 2006




Sussex County elementary school teacher Lindsay Massaro, 26, taught 8th grade students. She was accused of having sex with a 15 year old boy in her car and then in her bedroom after the victim's father reported it to the authorities. The relationship was consensual. She faces parole supervision for life.




Sheral Lee Smith was arrested and charged with statutory rape and drug charges involving a 14 year old student. She allegedly gave "the boy a pill" and had sex with him. According to Smith none of this is true: "My husband coached the student in soccer. He has been in our home many times," said Smith, adding that the allegations began as a rumor started by a 16-year-old student from the same school."




Pamela Rogers Turner was 27 and an elementary school teachercoach when she was arrested in February 2005 for having an ongoing relationship with a 13-year-old student. In August of 2005, she pleaded no contest to charges of sexual battery by an authority figure and was sentenced to 9 months in prison, as part of an 8 year suspended sentence for statutory rape. In April 2006, she was arrested for turning around and doing it again! This time for sending sexual pictures and videos of herself to the same student and trying to contact him through the magic of the internet.




Rebecca Bogard, 27 year old teacher, was arrested after a 15-year-old students mother found sexually explicit text messages from a woman named "Dawn" on his cell hone. One text read, "I love you, yeah it was the best, which night was the best 4 you, Im sensitive but not sore, you were good..."




Most people on this list got a slap on the wrist, but Stephanie Ragusa a Florida teacher, of course was convicted of having sex with two of her students. She was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Ragusa was a math teacher in Tampa and pleaded guilty too three counts of lewd and lascivious "battery" of a 14 year old boy and two counts of unlawful sex with a 16 year old male student. At her hearing, Ragusa was sporting corn rows.




Pamela Smart impressed a group of high school freshman with her love of metal music, she then began an affair with one of them. Smart began having an affair with freshman Billy Floyd. After her husband was found shot to death, she and Billy Floyd, along with three of Floyd's friends, were arrested on suspicion of the shooting. During the trial, the prosecution claimed that Smart had coldly plotted to seduce Floyd and convince him to murder her husband. Smart maintained that Floyd shot her husband of his own accord, after she threatened to end their affair.




Rebekah Todd, 25, served a six month jail sentence. Todd attended an off-campus high school graduation party where alcohol was involved and showed the kids videos of her doing a striptease. She also had sex with a 17 year old male student, while often driving by his workplace and even texting him about how "great" he looked without a shirt on.




Rachel Burkhart resigned after allegations of a sexual relationship between her and an 18-year-old male student surfaced. Burkhart avoided legal charges as the student was of legal age at the time. However, Tennessee State Superintendent Wayne Miller did revoke her teaching license, and referred the case to child protective services.




Teresa Engelbach was arrested in November of 2007 after charges that she had sexual intercourse in multiple locations over a two month period wih a 14-year-old student, who was also a friend of her brother. According to authorities, she also bought the boy various gifts, including a cell phone, items of clothing, and a paintball gun worth 750.

Seth's Blog : Q&A: All Marketers... and the challenge of telling the right story

 

Q&A: All Marketers... and the challenge of telling the right story

Our series continues with All Marketers are Liars, a prime example of what happens when you tell a story wrong. I've done some pretty poor book titling over seventeen books, but this one was too clever by half.

Most people, of course, have never read any of my books, and even most of my blog readers haven't read any given Seth Godin book. So a book is judged by its cover, just as you and your brand and your product are judged by your (conceptual) cover.

People saw this cover (with the original ridiculous photo) and immediately assumed that they knew what it was about (how to lie) and that the title offended them ("hey, I'm a marketer and I'm not a liar").

But, of course, the book isn't about how to lie, it's about the imperative to tell the truth, a truth that resonates, a truth you can live with. The title messes with our perceptions, but in a way that instead of welcoming in my very busy, very picky potential reader, pushes her away. One newspaper reviewer slammed the book without even reading it, deciding that the title alone was sufficient cause for dismissing it.

So, to answer David Meerman Scott's (and others') questions: I changed the title for future editions to All Marketers Tell Stories because, even though it's less artistic, it takes my own advice (at least a little). An even better title would have been: TRUE STORIES (and the Smart Marketers That Tell Them).

The advice: find the worldview and the bias and the cultural preconceptions that your audience carries with them and then place your story (you do have a story, whether you want to or not) as a hook that leverages those biases.

In the internet era, your story is going to be inspected, held up to scrutiny and scoured for half-truths. But if your story is true, if it not only resonates with the worldview we insist on but actually delivers, then you've created something of lasting value.

       

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Don't Take Your Brand Too Seriously

Don't Take Your Brand Too Seriously


Don't Take Your Brand Too Seriously

Posted: 08 Sep 2013 04:18 PM PDT

Posted by Rob Toledo

Everyone likes humor; we all know this.

But humor can seem risky when it comes to brandingâ€"it has certainly backfired on numerous occasions when a company takes things perhaps a bit too far (or sometimes when it is just misunderstood).

On the other hand, playing it too safe is also a great way to remain somewhere in the middle. Almost everyone likes the middle. Nobody loses their job in the middle. Customers come and go at a steady rate in the middle. Nobody boycotts the middle.

To quote the greatest show of all time, "Ain't nobody got nothing to say about a 40-degree day."

From HBO: source

A lot of brands talk about wanting to take risks. They might even discuss some radical ideas in the safety of their own conference rooms. But most of the time we end up with "safe" when it's time to execute on a strategy.

Does any of this sound familiar?

"Let's tweet more!"

"How about we make a hilarious infographic!"

"Let's put one of those meme things on our blog!"

"Our competitor just did that one awesome thing, let's do the exact same thing!"

Don't DO something, BE something

One of my favorite books of all time, Hey Whipple, Squeeze This, discusses the topic of "being something" as opposed to just "doing something."

"When a client says 'we want to seem cooler' the answer isn't an ad that says 'we're cool'â€"the answer is to BE cool."

It's important to make any attempt at a strategyâ€"especially when it involves humorâ€"a full effort where you're not simply doing something for the occasional chuckle. You are going to have to fight a much more difficult (but fully worthwhile) battle of changing the overall perception of your brand.

I asked Joel Klettke, resident internet funnyman and owner of Business Casual Copywriting, for his thoughts on the topic:

Do you think every brand should partake in a strategy involving humor?

I think every brand is capable, but not every brand should try. I think the downfall of humor in advertising or online is when a business starts becoming a sideshow and the brand is lost in the mix. A lot of brands get too focused on laughs: Entertaining an audience is great, but you're still trying to sell things.
I also think that there are some products or services where humor needs to be considered extremely carefully - things like child welfare, etc.

Can you list some examples of brands that overstepped the boundaries on using humor?

Yup, the Hyundai suicide commercials were terrible attempts at humor. Summer's Eve had a series of commercials [NSFW-ish] that were a terrible choice.

What are some of your favorite examples of brands using humor as a strategy well?

OK great, humor is good; but where do we draw the line?

Well, that's a tricky one as the line gets a bit fuzzy depending on a lot of variables. Every brand is going to have varying persona research, and you should know your customers better than anyone, so you'll likely have to find that line on your own. Good customer research will be the key here.

For an extreme example, I think this KMart "Ship My Pants" campaign is the stuff of legends. It's hilarious and teeters right on the line of offensive, all while remaining relevant to the brand (free shipping at KMart). They wanted to grow their online presence and drive traffic to their site with this campaign, which this ad certainly did as it got massive amounts of attention. It's been hailed widely as a success, earning 19.5 million YouTube views, but they did earn themselves a small boycott from some folks who were offended, which has mostly fizzled.

This raises an important point: Take as much risk as you want, but try not to offend people in some key areas. I can ignore something I find slightly annoying pretty easily, but if it strikes a chord that offends one of my core principles, that's when I'm going to get on my social media soapbox and start ranting.

Some things that are guaranteed to offend:

  • Racism
  • Sexism
  • Stereotyping
  • Religious focus
  • Political focus
  • Being a bully (don't pick on the little guy, even in retaliation)
  • Making the wrong assumptions (research, research, research!)

So, how do you get started?

Make sure your humor is somehow relevant to your brand

"Oh, I see. All I have to do is show something interesting and funny for the first 25 seconds of the ad and then cut to the product?" â€" Luke Sullivan

While running a campaign where you just tell jokes and make funny videos might get a lot of attention, at the end of the day, making "cool stuff" is not a content strategy.

Find the ridiculous parts of your brand and "go there"

Vintage VW ad: source

"You know those really funny ideas you get that make you laugh and say, ‘Wouldn't it be great if we could really do that?' Those are often the very best ideas, and it is only your superego/parent/internalized client saying you can't do it. You've stumbled on a mischievous idea. Something you shouldn't do. That's a good sign you're onto something you SHOULD do. Revisit it." â€" Luke Sullivan

Here are some of my most recent favorite examples of brands poking fun at themselves:

Bigstock Photo

Making fun of your core product can be risky. VW used this strategy during its early advertising efforts and it paid massive dividends. Bigstock recently took that approach and fully embraced the concept of "awkward" in their photo collection.

It's no secret that there are plenty of these awkward stock photos out there. But were you aware of the assortment of awkward "steak" photos available? Puns might be considered the lowest form of humor on the joke food chain, but be honest: You like them, no matter how deeply buried that linguistic love might be.

Air New Zealand

Taking the bland and boring parts of your business and attempting to make them exciting takes quite a bit of creativity, but it's a powerful angle.

Nobody has paid attention to an airline safety presentation since 1974. Air New Zealand aimed to change that (and bring themselves plenty of brand recognition in the process) by making a mockery of the otherwise mind-numbing instructional sessions. Featuring Bear Grylls, The Lord of the Rings, and naked employees, these videos quickly grabbed the attention of all those aboard the aircraft as well as everyone online.

The Seattle Police Department

Criminal justice is hardly ever intentionally humorous, but the Seattle Police Department made it a part of their rebranding strategy. The department has been in hot water for the past several years from both local citizens as well as the federal government, so they brought in local journalist Jonah Spangenthal-Lee to attempt a rebrand. To say he has been knocking it out of the ballpark would be a major understatement.

Some recent highlights include their distributing Doritos to Hempfest attendees, releasing the funniest blog post about marijuana legalization of all time (seriously, read that one), pictures of their mounted patrol horses at the dentist and just generally being ridiculously responsive on social media, even to trolls.

Source: Seattle Police Department Twitter page

What happened here? The city population started to view the department differently. Public perception quickly shifted positively, and before our very eyes, our police department had personality. There were real people that worked behind the badges. It was a huge risk to take on a humorous strategyâ€"especially as a government agency--but it has quickly earned positive national attention with very little push-back.

Funny isn't everything; it has to be based on something smart

"Should you do something humorous, don't mistake a good joke for a good idea. Funny is fine. But set out to be interesting first. You must have an idea [of where to go next]." â€" Luke Sullivan

I'm repeating myself a bit here, but it's always important to make sure that this humor is based on a solid overall strategy--that it is well researched and planned. Always think: Who is your ideal customer, and what do they find funny?

Lastly, keep in mind the Internet has a short memory

I know a lot of people worry about taking risks in fear of potential backlash, but ask yourself: Can you truly name more than a handful of brands that got a bunch of bad press in 2012 for a risky campaign? I understand that it can seem as if the world is ending when your brand takes a few days of heat for having taken a risk. But truthfully, in this day and age, unless you say something completely tasteless, I can assure you that a slight misstep here and there will come and go faster than you can brainstorm your next ideas. Just apologize and move on. Most importantly, quit being so afraid of taking chances in your next strategy.

What about you? Got any favorite creative campaigns that you felt have really worked? How about anything your own brand is doing?

Let me know in the comments below, or feel free to reach out on Twitter!
@stentontoledo


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