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OSLO, Norway, April 30 (UPI) -- An investigation into a September incident at the offshore Ula field could have led to a major disaster for BP, the Norwegian oil safety authority said.
An investigation into the September incident by the Petroleum Safety Authority found BP was in serious breach of Norwegian regulations.
"The PSA has concluded that the incident had the potential to become a major accident, with the risk that a number of lives might have been lost and substantial material damage caused," the agency stated.
The incident led to a minor release of oil and gas but no injuries were reported. Production was shut down for more than two months as a result of the accident.
The PSA said the release came after bolts failed on a valve at the offshore installation.
The Norwegian regulator said it issued BP with a corrective order calling on the company to review its management system for offshore Norway by September.
"The PSA's investigation of the Ula incident shows that deficiencies still exist in the maintenance system," the regulator said.


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Sunday Sweets: James' Sweet Safari
You Wrecks history buffs know that my friend Abby was the one who first e-mailed me the "cake that started it all", thereby indirectly inspiring this entire blog. Abby is also the mother of Sweet Baby James, who spent 482 days spreading joy on this globe before leaving us last August. Since today would have been James' 2nd birthday, Abby asked me if she might share his first and only birthday cake here on Sunday Sweets. Knowing how awesome you guys are, I figured you'd be willing to indulge us. So, without further ado, here's Abby.
Here's the spread:As you can see we chose an African safari theme, to match James' nursery. Our friend started working on the design over a month in advance, sending us photos of her progress along the way. The animals were painstakingly crafted out of chocolate and were very fragile, but completely yummy. Each one had a perfect smile!
The cakes were covered with buttercream frosting - no fondant - and each was a different flavor and filling. The baker's husband custom built and painted the matching cake stand, and they even found a matching "first birthday" photo frame to sit inside it. What a dream for our son's big day!
Then there were chocolate cupcakes with more animal designs to cover us if we had more people than we estimated. These were a big hit with the children when we took the leftover cake to the Ronald McDonald House the next day!
Everyone agreed that James couldn't have had a more perfect birthday cake. As it turns out, he would never need another one, so we are very thankful for this labor of love. And in case any of you were thinking of contacting my friend to order your own professional masterpiece, I have to disappoint you. A month after James' party, she moved on from cake decorating and launched a humor blog for a somewhat larger audience—but it couldn't be a more grateful one than us.
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Someone is dying on this week's Vampire Diaries and when we last saw Damon he was in quite the precarious situation. But just how worried should we be?
On Thursday's episode, Elena, Stefan and Rebekah will try to hunt down the cure before Shane gets to it with the help of Bonnie and Jeremy. Damon, meanwhile, is nowhere to be found since he's been kidnapped and tied up by new vampire hunter Vaughn.
"Vaughn poses a pretty substantial threat," Ian Somerhalder told TVGuide.com. "He's a formidable adversary."
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And, as Somerhalder pointed out to us, "Damon would be an extremely difficult man to get tied up to a tree, unless you're Elena or some hot sorority girl who is compelled to do so. So the fact that he's there means Vaughn knows what he's doing."
Meanwhile, back in Mystic Falls, Caroline and Tyler are still holed up with their biggest enemy, Klaus. Caroline clearly doesn't want anything to do with him, but she and Tyler learn that Klaus is the key to finding the cure.
"Klaus has got some knowledge which will come in handy in attempts to translate the code on the Hunter's sword, Joseph Morgan added. "So there will be a whole new [dynamic] where they need something from him, which he enjoys ... especially with Caroline, to make her feel like she needs him. That's part of the game for him."
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Arsenal forward Joel Campbell has joined Portuguese side Sporting Lisbon on a season-long loan, subject to international clearance.
The 24-year-old has been with the Gunners since 2011 but struggled for first-team football.
He scored four goals in 30 appearances for Arsenal last season, with three of those coming in 19 league outings.
Costa Rica international Campbell has previously been on loan at Lorient, Real Betis, Olympiakos and Villarreal.
"Everyone at Arsenal wishes Joel a successful season in Portugal," said a statement on Arsenal's website.
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The myth of the president's support for PWSA is now commonplace in the media and even the generally meticulous John Allen at NCR misreported the president's support of the bill. Commenting on L'Osservatore Romano's "first 100 days" editorial, Allen wrote that the author
also argued that Obama's support for the "Pregnant Women Support Act" represents a "rebalancing" of his abortion policies "in support of maternity."
L'Osservatore did not say the president supported PWSA and I pointed that out to Allen. He went back to the Italian and confirmed I was correct. No correction was ever made to the article however. (I'm not including Allen among those lying for the president. He's simply an example of how widespread the myth has become.)
Nat Hentoff today confirms the president's non-support of PWSA and challenged him to support the bill (h-t The American Catholic):
To be fair to the president, he did say at Notre Dame, as he has often before: "So let us work together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions. Let's reduce unintended pregnancies. Let's make adoption more available. Let's provide care and support for women who do carry their children to term."
There is just such a bill that has been introduced by two Democrats, Mr. President, in Congress: Lincoln Davis of Tennessee in the House and Robert P. Casey Jr. in the Senate. As reported in the valuable Catholic Weekly "Our Sunday Visitor" (May 24, 2009):
"The Pregnant Women Support Act includes a number of provisions to help women faced with ... Establish a federally funded, toll-free hot line to direct women to services that can provide them with assistance during and after their pregnancy. Provide support, including education grants and child care, to parents who are teenagers or college students. ...
"Require institutions that offer abortions to provide accurate information to pregnant women about their options, including adoption, and the potential short-term and long-term complications associated with abortion."
My column next week will provide more information about this measure, which should have been a law long ago. As of this writing, the offices of both Casey and Davis tell me there has been no word from the White House about supporting The Pregnant Women Support Act.
Mr. President, did you mean what you said at Notre Dame about "working together to reduce the number of women seeking abortions"?
Hentoff is not a Catholic. It's too bad the president's Catholic supporters have not yet issued the same challenge.
Last October, Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver issued both a rebuke and challenge to certain members of the president's Catholic support team:
I think his [Doug Kmiec] activism for Senator Obama, and the work of Democratic-friendly groups like Catholics United and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, have done a disservice to the Church, confused the natural priorities of Catholic social teaching, undermined the progress pro-lifers have made, and provided an excuse for some Catholics to abandon the abortion issue instead of fighting within their parties and at the ballot box to protect the unborn.
I've reported here before that Catholics in Alliance/Catholics United is the president's campaign.
They would deny that, but it is certain they now have much influence with the president and in the Democratic party. Their original founding board member Melanne Verveer is now Ambassador for Global Women's Issues. Their Board Chair Elizabeth Frawley Bagley has been given broad duties in Secretary Clinton's State Department. One of their speakers/theological advisers, Miguel Diaz, is now nominated as Ambassador to the Vatican. And their co-founder Thomas Perriello is now a freshman congressman from Virginia.
Were they Catholics first and not merely an extension of the president's campaign (or jonesing for jobs), they would be "fighting within their parties . . . to protect the unborn." And yet, while they issue any number of statements defending the president's actions and challenging others - they have never publicly challenged the president.
Issuing a public call for the president to support the Pregnant Women Support Act would seem like a good place to start. And while they're at it, they could challenge Rep. Thomas Perriello to support the bill. The abortion rights supporter has yet to be added as a co-sponsor.


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SAN LEANDRO — More than 16,000 homes in San Leandro may now have up to four chickens in their backyard without a city permit under new rules approved by the City Council last week. The council also tightened restrictions on residential beekeepers.
The rules approved Tuesday come after nearly four years of debate over how to regulate the urban farming practices of city residents, some of whom have lived in the city since its earlier, more rural days.
Residents citywide living on property 4,500 square feet in size or larger now have the right to keep up to four chickens without a permit or inspection. Those who want to keep up to 10 chickens, or those who live on smaller lots, must apply for a $15 city permit and get a city inspection.
The city previously only allowed chickens in a special "residential outer" district on the west side of town, but Police Department officials said they received an average of one chicken complaint a week from areas throughout the city.
Chickens must now be kept in a fenced-in yard at the rear of the house. The coop must meet certain size and height requirements, be at least 20 feet away from an adjacent dwelling and at least 5 feet away from a residential property line.
Residential beekeeping was allowed in the past as long as the hives were kept at least 600 feet away from any dwelling. Now, only lots 6,000 square feet or larger may keep beehives, up to a three hive maximum, and an inspection and permit is required. About 5,700 single family homes in the city are eligible, city data shows.
Beehives must be kept at the rear of the house at least 5 feet away from a neighboring property line, and 50 feet away from any dwelling. The hive must be closely surrounded by a 6-foot-high solid fence and a reliable source of water must also be provided.
Police Chief Sandra Spagnoli told the council a permit process for both chickens and bees would allow animal enforcement to mediate and address concerns raised by neighbors.
Before approving the rules, the council reduced the minimum lot size eligible for a four-chicken permit waiver from 6,000 square feet staff recommended to 4,500 square feet. The reduction allowed 10,000 more single family homes to bypass the permit and city inspection, limiting police ability to address neighbor concerns common from smaller lots, Spagnoli said.
But it was other portions of the new rules that proved to be the most controversial at the City Council meeting.
The rules proposed by Spagnoli and city staff would have allowed animal control officials to inspect the premises where an animal with a permit is kept "at any reasonable hour."
That raised the ire of several meeting attendees, including chicken-owner Cynthia Chandler, a law professor at Golden Gate University School of Law in San Francisco.
"This policy, as written, specifically allows warrantless searches of people's enclosed backyards to which they have a legitimate expectation of privacy without cause," Chandler told the council. "It is wholly unconstitutional."
Before night's end, the council added language that required animal control officers to have "reasonable suspicion" of a code violation before they can inspect a property with a permit.
The city's requirement for owners to get immediate medical treatment for "unsightly" chickens also troubled Chandler.
"I don't know if any of you have ever seen a chicken that is molting, which is a natural annual process, but they are fairly unsightly," she said.
Other chicken owners praised the city for expanding their urban farming rights.
"We have had chickens for as long as I have lived in San Leandro," said Wafaa Aborashed, president of the Davis West Neighborhood Group. "We are part of an old farmland in this area and it is important San Leandro do the right thing in this area and you are doing it."
Chicken and beekeeping permits have to be renewed every two years. Roosters are banned, but existing roosters in the residential outer district in the Mullford Gardens area are grandfathered in.
Ashly McGlone covers San Leandro, San Lorenzo, San Ramon and the Washington Township Health Care District. Contact her at 510-293-2463. Follow her at Twitter.com/ashlyreports.


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When locals David and Sue Sullivan bought the restaurant from Frank and Dot Evans in 2006, they kept Evans' classics, such as hamburgers, hot dogs and barbecue, but added the all-you-can eat buffet and opened seven days a week.
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IUCN's Business and Biodiversity Programme organized a four day event "Private Sector @ IUCN" from 19 – 22 October in its Head Quarters in Gland, Switzerland. The event brought together IUCN staff working with the private sector and representatives from businesses interacting with IUCN.
The week opened with two days of intensive work with IUCN staff to build capacity and share experiences in working with the private sector, strengthen implementation of the IUCN Operational Guidelines for Private Sector Engagement, and to provide an opportunity for IUCN business and biodiversity focal points to network with each other. The remainder of the week brought in participants from businesses which IUCN is engaging with, or may be entering into discussions with to provide an opportunity to exchange views, to feed into key IUCN processes, and to create better understanding of relationships and synergies on business and biodiversity issues and processes.
Over 30 IUCN staff members participated, 10 from the regional offices, and the remainder from the global thematic programmes. There were 26 participants from the private sector, representing the following organizations: CEMEX, Danone, Ecosecurities, EDF, ENI, European Investment Bank, Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP), GDF-Suez, Global Refund Group, Green & Black's representing Cadbury, Holcim, IPIECA, Kinnarps, LAFARGE, Nespresso, Rio Tinto, Royal Caribbean International, Royal Philips Electronics, SGS, Shell, Syngenta, WBCSD, and the World Economic Forum.
The sessions covered issues such as linkages between business activities and the IUCN core and thematic programme areas (conserving biodiversity, climate change, energy, livelihoods and markets), perspectives from the private sector on options for a post 2010 target for biodiversity conservation, and inputs on strategic thinking for IUCN's work with the sectors of agriculture, mining, tourism and small and medium sized enterprises.
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A new trend can begin that is based on fake news or false data to create the illusion all is well. Remember that the truth or lies are just a matter of perception. One person will swear that he is telling the truth, while another will swear that he is lying. From an observer's perspective, both are correct. They are convinced of their position, so all you will do is waste your time and energy trying to sway them. Instead, you are better of letting them battle it out, while you sit down and take a look at the real events that are unfolding, most of which the masses are oblivious too.
From an observer's perspective, Personal views are on par with toilet paper regarding their relevance in determining trends. Oh, by the way, we also include ourselves into the equation. This is why we do not voice our personal opinions as nothing will change, and if we let our personal opinions cloud our judgement, then the ability to look at the situation objectively is lost. Over time it gets easier and easier to do this, and then one day you wake up, and it is almost like breathing. Practice makes perfect, and there is no better time to start than today for tomorrow never comes. Today is the tomorrow you dreamed of starting something new yesterday but never did and most likely never will.
This is why we have repeatedly stated a trend in motion is unstoppable: whether you and I agree with it or whether it is morally right or wrong is irrelevant. Nothing can stop a trend in motion. This bull market is a perfect example of fake news driving a new trend; all the data imaginable has been manipulated to create the illusion that the economy is doing well. If we had allowed our personal opinions to take over, we would be shorting the markets like so many of the clowns out there and would have lost our shirts, pants, and knickers in the process.
Fake News and trends under the guise of fighting terrorism, fake news and also sorts of other maladies, laws will be passed that will impinge on an individual's right to express themselves. In that sense, so-called strict states like China, Russia, etc. will swing towards freedom, while the West turns towards total control. Again, we mentioned this topic many time over the course of the years, and so far it is all coming to pass.
We have covered the subject of fake new, market manipulation and many other issues over the years. We will list some of the video articles we created recently that cover these topics succinctly.


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A member of the 1981-82 ECAC championship team, Joe Curran '87 was a two-time captain with the Beacons. To-date Curran stands as the all-time program leader in career assists with 104. He also ranks third all-time in career points with 161 and eighth in total goals with 57. Named the Codfish Bowl MVP in 1983, Curran's hard-nosed play earned him the respect of his teammates, coaches, and opponents.
From 1980-84, Curran ranked among the leading scorers and point earners in the entire ECAC Division III hockey league. In the 1981-82 season, Curran played a major part in leading the Beacons to the program's first conference title. Following his playing career, Curran returned to his alma mater to serve as an assistant coach for two seasons (1986-88).


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Attending a wedding? What you can expect to spend
USA TODAY contributor Regina Lewis explains how much it actually cost guests to attend a friend or relative's wedding. Kaveh Rezaei, USA TODAY
'Tis the season for weddings, and if you're one of the 69 million Americans attending at least one this year, expect to spend a lot.
According to the latest American Express Spending & Savings tracker, those of us with someone's "big day" marked on the calendar can plan to fork over, on average, $539 per wedding!
Here's how it breaks down:
• Travel: $167
• New apparel and accessories: $161
• Wedding gift: $108
So, what's a celebratory, but sensible game plan?
For starters, remember that it's the big days, plural, not day — engagement parties, showers, rehearsal dinners, bachelor and bachelorette parties, the wedding. Be sure to look at the overall event schedule and related costs. If you're in the bridal party, you can expect to pay more, because there are other related costs.
Although there's no exact formula, generosity shouldn't mean running up a credit card tab you'll still be paying down when the couple celebrates their first anniversary. How well you know the couple is a factor, and if they've given YOU a gift, you may want to reciprocate at a comparable level.
According to the Knot.com, spending on gifts can be divvied up as:
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• Shower gift: 20%
• Wedding gift: 60%
So, if you're spending $250 total, you'd spend $50 on the engagement and shower gifts, and $150 on the wedding present.
Lastly, keep in mind, one of the most gracious gifts you can give is being a good guest. Full participation is probably what the bride and groom want most. Mingle with the guests who look a little lost, dance when they're looking to fill the floor and interact with as many people as you can. Here's a startling statistic: If there are 150 guests, a brief one-minute exchange with each would take 2 and ½ hours. A priceless investment of time.
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B. 17 APR 1848 Rock Hill, York, South Carolina
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Married John Thomas Taylor at Harmony Baptist Churst, Chester, SC.
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b. July 14, 1842 - Rock Hill (?) South Carolina
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Married Julia Nichols after the Civil War in South Carolina. She was the daughter of Thomas Nichols and Martha Ferguson. Both were members of the Harmony Baptist Church in Chester County, South Carolina before coming to Cleveland County, Arkansas via Muscadine, Cleburne County, Alabama.
I have been told that Julia was the sister of a Civil War friend of John Thomas named John Nichols. They came to Arkansas together. This I verified with some older relatives from the Nichols family.
John Thomas also had a sister, Sarah (b approx 1830), who shows as living with John Thomas and Julia in South Carolina and Alabama, but not Arkansas.
Their first child, Martha, was born in South Carolina and while she shows up in the Alabama census, she does not show in Arkansas. Their last child, George, shows up in Alabama but not in Arkansas. Our older family members here were not aware of Mary and George until I started my search.
The children of John Thomas (known as Thomas here in Arkansas) and Julia are:
Martha - b. 1870 SC
Mary J - b. 1873 AL - d. 1/24/1897 AR
William Thomas Alexander (my husband's great grandfather - also known as Ellic or E.T.) b. 1875 AL d. 1965 AR
John N. - b. 1876 - AL d. 8/12/1959 AR
Robert E. - b. 1877 AL d. 1/18/1941 AR
George - b. approx 1880 AL
Vesti Ann - b 1882 - d date unknown in AR
Lona b 1886 AR - d 1/10/1961 AR
Emma - b. 1886 (?) AR d. 10/28/1974 AR
Della - b 1888 AR - d 8/31.1918 AR
Etta - b 1889 AR
When John Thomas died, Julia and the younger children lived with William Thomas Alexander and his new wife, Lucy Curry Taylor. She never remarried, and according to older relatives, wore black from the day her husband died until her death in 1925.
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President Barack Obama has won reelection, defeating Republican Mitt Romney by a wide margin in the Electoral College after a savagely negative and historically expensive race fought against a backdrop of near-8 percent unemployment.
Obama is on track to secure a second term by a narrower margin than he won his first national election in 2008. But his numbers held firm across most of the electoral map: Of the states Obama won four years ago, only North Carolina and Indiana switched to Romney.
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So far, The Associated Press has called New Hampshire, Ohio, Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Virginia for the president, pushing him well above the 270-electoral vote threshold for victory. The only state still uncalled is Florida, where Obama led by about 46,000 votes with 100 percent of the precincts reporting.
In the national popular vote, Obama's margin of victory looks narrower. At 5:45 a.m., he led Romney by a little more than 2 million votes out of more than 106 million cast. In 2008, Obama beat John McCain by about 10 million votes.
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Across the country in Boston, Romney and his advisers abandoned their once-confident predictions of victory — earlier this week, some talked of winning more than 300 electoral votes — and conceded defeat just before 1 a.m.


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In addition to an agriculture hub, the Pagoda Village project also aims to bring a hotel, 220 luxury apartments and a public plaza.
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The costs related to a specific actions and final acquisition has always been, and always will be, the ultimate metric and goal for any marketer. However, how we get to that final acquisition metric and how we optimize our search engine optimization (SEO) and social media efforts has changed significantly.
As we adapt to the convergence of SEO, social, content, and digital media channels there has never been a better time to think about new ways to measure paths to acquisition and utilize the vast amounts of technology, analytical tools and platforms that help us measure the value of media that is "earned from consumers."
What follows are some insights and straightforward tips from my recent visit to SES New York and some food for thought as to new ways to look at measuring, not just SEO, but converged, earned, and business related metrics.
1. Match Value to Traditional SEO Metrics
While ensuring that you measure traffic from the search engines – how many pages receive visits from these search engines, and how many keywords are sending traffic to site – also try to match value to these metrics.
For example, what is the size of the actual SEO opportunity and how much traffic and conversion comes from specific landing pages? How many keywords are under management and what is the specific value, cost and return, of specific keywords?
2. Distinguish Between Reactive vs. Proactive Metrics
Sometimes it's too easy to get caught in a battle or debate with client about metrics. We all know this happens far too much, right? The reality as to why this happens it due to that fact that people often report binary metrics based on reaction to:
- A loss of rankings.
- Reduction in traffic levels.
- Reductions in actions.
- Loss of business, lower conversions, and so forth.
Now these are all essential metrics to the success of any online campaign. However, simply reporting these metrics can put you in a constant cycle of debate.
Looking and reporting proactive metrics actual helps you in this case by providing the clients with something new and also putting any reactive metrics into perspective. Such metrics to focus on are:
- Rankings in relation to competition.
- Rankings in relation to content and news and external/industry statistics.
- Influencer based metrics and future value.
- Social value and engagement.
- Attribution based metrics (more on this later).
- Action based metrics that over time influence rankings.
You can do this by utilizing a combination of:
- Advanced analytics (Google and Bing Webmaster Tools and analytics).
- SEO tools (Majestic, Moz, Screaming Frog).
- Enterprise SEO and social media technologies (later in this post).
3. Place a Value & Forecast SEO Metrics – Think Beyond Just Ranking Position
SEO is finally becoming more measurable, and by tracking the whole picture and integrating with site analytics measuring ROI has become a whole lot easier. Quantifying the value of an SEO (just like you would with PPC) project prior to its start allows clients to invest more based on these forecasts.
Always remember the following:
- Rankings mean nothing unless you put a value to them.
- To place a value on SEO use organic traffic data and PPC keyword data to project spend – just like you would PPC.
- Make sure you use this data to benchmark where you or your client are is in relation to the competition.
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Being able to see where you're winning and losing becomes a whole new SEO metric in itself
4. Embrace Social Media Metrics & Objectives
Eighty-four percent of companies surveyed in a recent Facebook survey believe that social signals will be more important to SEO in 2012. The convergence of SEO and social media tactics has meant that social media metrics are becoming just as important as traditional SEO metrics.
It is now vital to measure "beyond the Like" and understand the true value of social media interactions.
As BrightEdge CEO, Jim Yu, mentioned in his panel presentation, the increased importance of social signals (e.g., Google Search Plus Your World) means it is now essential to look at how, when, and why social signals (tweets, Likes, +1's, and Pins) influence rankings and position. Creating a Google+ page, adding social plugins (maximize engagement), interlinking deep pages with social media properties, and SEO'ing your social pages are all vital steps in optimizing for the social web and graph.
Lee Odden, Author & CEO of TopRank, makes a great point on matching KPI's to business values.
"One important distinction to make with measuring the integrated SEO and social media efforts is the difference between KPIs and business outcomes," Odden said. "I talk about this in Optimize where KPIs are defined as the behaviors that often lead to revenue oriented outcomes. KPIS like links, rankings and search traffic as well as likes, fans, friends, followers, network size, rate of growth and such are all useful measures of progress that can lead to business outcomes."
Odden also makes an interesting point on the differences between sales and social impact.
"Obviously sales and new customers are the most often sought after outcomes but so are the social impact on increased orders, order volume and frequency," Odden said.
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"Whatever brands can do facilitate productive connections between prospects or consumers and useful brand content, the more meaningful the engagement," Odden said. "And in my experience, an engaged community is more likely to be a profitable community."
5. Utilize the Right Tools & Technologies That Get You The Right Metrics
From measuring site stats, links, value, and social media influence the development many tools and technology platforms are allowing us to segment different types of metrics and build insights and value from a numerous of different sources.
Utilizing these types of seo and social media technologies – see this article on 45 SEO and Social Media Tools for examples – helps you collaborate much more closely with clients and agencies and…
6. Report The Right Metrics to The Right Person
Metrics are pretty useless you are reporting the right metrics to the relevant people, in the relevant format and at the relevant time. There is no set formula as to how you report metrics to an agency or a client as every company has a different organization structure, political structure, and level of knowledge.
Beyond marketing and sales objectives, search and social media marketing programs can affect increases in media coverage, attracting new employees and serving as a facilitator for better online customer service. That means more than links and likes.
For Odden, this means "performance based measurements in alignment with objectives like monitoring social conversations for customer service opportunities and overlaying those trends on social / search referrals to company knowledgebase and FAQ content. Is social engagement and optimized customer service content attracting more visits to FAQ and knowledge-base pages for example? What impact does such optimized content have on brand sentiment within social channels over time?"
Depending upon your objective you can start to build and utilize dashboards and widgets to begin to segment how and to whom you report certain metrics through an organizational structure. Once you have done this you can gain 'buy-in' from individuals in specific roles whilst then collaborating and sharing metrics easily across various business functions.
The end result is a client that fully understands the metrics relevant to them and their role.
Ciaran Norris, director of Emerging Media, Mindshare Global, makes a great point to help keep us in check.
"What's changed in the market is that clients and agencies were use to the simple, precise nature of search (CPC etc) but have now had to adapt to the sometimes less definitive world of social," Norris said. "There should be different metrics used to measure the effects of different platforms. The ultimate metric should be sales".
7. Attribute Credit and Admit That You're a Marketer
Someone once said "It's not SEO, it's Marketing". The scope of SEO has changed dramatically over recent months due to its convergence with social and content-based media.
It's only natural (pardon the pun) that now we have more effective ways of measuring success that we should think like a holistic marketer. SEO has long had an issue with its PPC peer about attribution and credit. Advancements in analytics, tools, and technology highlighted above now pave way for SEO to monetize its value while also showing how its assists in the conversion process.
Kevin Gibbons wrote a great post showing how you can treat SEO forecasting like PPC and help to attribute accordingly.
Yes, there are always going to be challenges to this such as local search (Panda) and softer metrics that muddy the waters and are hard to measure (brand metrics) but the development and rise of API's can help you work your way to building metrics to get you nearer your goals and show how you add value in the conversion chain.
As we move to a converged media world we are now presented with a number of ways to attract new connections between brand and consumer. This is turn creates a number of different ways to measure interactions and value by looking at metrics in a new light.
Utilizing the right technology and reporting the relevant metric from the relevant channel to the relevant person at the relevant time is the best way to show value and get the increase in spend that you deserve.
"The only metrics that really matter are sales (or the equivalent) and the cost of driving those," Norris said. "Anything else is just dressing."
Well, what we have today is a whole new way of dressing, measuring and tracking how SEO and it's converged media partners can become more accountable in that sales process.
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Three University of Tennessee at Chattanooga students from Roane County received their degrees during spring commencement.
Kaila Gunter received a bachelor's degree in early childhood education. Karly Martin's bachelor's degree is in nursing, and Brandon Temple received a bachelor's degree in anthropology.
More than 1,100 students were in the graduating class.
A number of Tennessee Technological University students from Roane County were named to the school's dean's list for spring semester.
They are:
Harriman — Ashley Michelle Jones, Bo Christopher Murphy, Cameron Chase Bruse, Chase Allan Ray, Daniel J. Sexton, Emilee Grace Gettys, Grace Danielle Plemens, Grace Ryan Claudy, Hailey D. Bryant, Jacob Neil Jones, Jennifer Lynn Best, Jessica Lehrice Hunter, Joshua Thomas Riggs, Kevin Frederick Ramsey, Mark Alan Burdette, Rachael Leigh Knox and Sarah Beth Davis.
Three East Tennessee State University students from Harriman were awarded degrees during the Johnson City-based university's commencement ceremonies for spring semester.
Receiving bachelor's degrees were Christopher K. Adams and Patrick L. Dreyer.
Christina J. Briggs was awarded a master's degree.
The university awarded 1,704 degrees during the two ceremonies.
Nicholas H. Armes of Harriman was named to the spring semester dean's list at Appalachian School of Law.
To qualify, students must be full time students and rank in the top 25 percent of their class for courses taken during the semester.
Appalachian School of Law is in Grundy, Va.
RoaneAchieves — part of the tnAchieves scholarship program — is looking for more mentors to guide Roane County high-school seniors into their first year of college next year.
The program gives students the opportunity to obtain a $3,000 scholarship. Mentors encourage and guide the students to enter Roane State Community College or eight other qualifying community colleges in the state.
Kevin Human, diesel-powered equipment technology instructor at Tennessee Technology Center at Harriman, has been honored as the 2012 SkillsUSA adviser of the year.
He received the honor during the recent SkillsUSA Tennessee competition.
This award is presented to postsecondary educators involved in technical, skilled and service occupations and who have achieved prominence at local, state and national levels with SkillsUSA.
Miranda Clower, a Maryville College junior from Kingston, was presented the Outstanding Spanish Minor Award during the college's annual Academic Awards Ceremony on the campus of the liberal arts college.
The Outstanding Spanish Minor Award is presented annually to the student who is minoring in Spanish and shows the best academic performance judged by classroom performance, overall scholarship, study abroad experience and grade-point average.
Clower, who is majoring in religion at the college, is a 2009 Roane County High School graduate.
International students attending Roane State Community College visit the Museum of Appalachia with Adolph King, Roane State international education director, and members of the Rotary Clubs of Harriman, Kingston and Rockwood.
The three Rotary Clubs sponsored this trip as a service project as part of their continuing efforts to build international goodwill and understanding.
The students toured the exhibits, heard a presentation and had lunch.
Sarah Caroline Oliver of Kingston has been named to the spring semester dean's list at Radford University.
Oliver is a junior dance major.
To be named to the dean's list, a student must have taken 15 or more credit hours and have a grade point average of 3.4 or above with no grade below a C.
Radford University is in Radford, Va.
Ryan C. Orick, April E. Parkison, Holly M. Parkison, Erika B. Smith and Hunter D. Smith, all of Kingston, are among the East Tennessee State University students earning placement on the dean's list for spring semester.
To earn placement on the dean's list, students must successfully complete a minimum of 12 hours of undergraduate course work with a grade-point average of at least 3.7 on a 4.0 scale.
ETSU is in Johnson City.
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SYSTRAN's ground breaking hybrid machine translation engine outperforms Google and others in English to French translation
PARIS, FRANCE and SAN DIEGO, CA – May 28, 2009
SYSTRAN, the leading provider of language translation technologies, today announced that it ranked first in an English to French translation task at the fourth annual Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation in Athens, Greece. This workshop, which was part of the EACL 2009 Conference, was organized by Philipp Koehn, PhD, a recognized scientist in statistical machine translation. The goal of the competition was to compare the quality of multiple machine translation systems for 10 European language pairs, and to set up objective evaluation criteria for machine translation quality.
SYSTRAN's latest innovation, a hybrid approach to machine translation, outperformed Google Translation, academic statistical machine translation (MT) systems and several rule-based systems in the category of English to French News Translation. Making smart use of a reasonable size training corpus SYSTRAN delivered more accurate translation than very large systems like Google, which rely on a gigantic language model that is based on a Web index. SYSTRAN's hybrid MT engine will be officially released in Enterprise Server 7 on June 3rd.
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In April of 1862, Emily Dickinson wrote to a stranger, initiating a fervent twenty-four-year correspondence, in the course of which they managed to meet only twice. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, thirty-eight, was a man of letters, a clergyman, a fitness enthusiast, a celebrated abolitionist, and a champion of women's rights, whose essays on slavery and suffrage, but also on snow, flowers, and calisthenics, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly. "Letter to a Young Contributor," the article that inspired Dickinson to approach him, was a column addressed to literary débutantes and—despite his deep engagement with the Civil War—a paean to the bookish life: "There may be years of crowded passion in a word, and half a life in a sentence," he wrote, evoking Dickinson's poetry without yet having seen it. "Mr. Higginson," she began, with no endearment. "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?"
Dickinson was a spinster of thirty-one, birdlike in habit and appearance, with fine chestnut hair and abnormally wide-set eyes, whose color she compared to sherry. She lived in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her parents and her sister, Lavinia, next door to her brother, Austin, and his difficult wife, Susan, whom she adored. Her father, Edward, a prominent lawyer and the treasurer of Amherst College, had a heart that was "pure and terrible," she told Higginson years later. (He found the old man more remote than forbidding.) Her mother, née Emily Norcross, was recovering from a nervous breakdown that had lasted several years, during which time the poet herself had become reclusive. The room where she worked, and spent much of her life, was furnished with a sleigh bed, a cast-iron stove, a bureau, and a writing table.
Dickinson came to Higginson in the guise of an unpublished novice, though by this point—middle age (she died at fifty-five)—she had composed hundreds of poems. Among them are some of the greatest ever written in English, but an English unique to her—an unworn language. It revives sensation at the extremities of feeling that, in most lives, habit and cliché have numbed. Few voices are more solitary than her first person, yet few are more intimate: she writes I to I. Richard B. Sewall, whose critical biography, "The Life of Emily Dickinson" (1974), is still unsurpassed, classed her with George Herbert, Wordsworth, the author of the Psalms and of Job, and, in her eerie genius for metaphor (a comparison that isn't impertinent), Shakespeare.
It is hard to believe that Dickinson didn't know who and what she was, even if no one else did. She kept her poems in a bureau drawer, sewn into bundles. But she had shared a few with her closest friends, among them her sister-in-law and Samuel Bowles—a driven man, famously attractive, like her new pen pal, and the editor of an influential newspaper, the Springfield Republican. Bowles had already printed three lyrics anonymously. She enclosed one of them in her note to Higginson (who then lived in Worcester) with three others:
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers—
Untouched by Morning—
And untouched by Noon—
Sleep the meek members of the
Rafter of Satin—and Roof of Stone—
Grand go the Years,
In the Crescent above them—
Worlds scoop their Arcs—
And Firmaments—row—
And Doges—surrender—
Soundless as Dots,
On a Disc of Snow.
Higginson, the radical, was a pious man. Dickinson, the dormouse, was a heretic who dared to call the dead suckers, conned of their heaven. Her sweetness of tone makes it easy to miss her bleak audacity. She didn't, it seems, take much of Higginson's advice (which we can only infer from her replies—his half of the correspondence disappeared), except for his suggestion that she delay publishing. But, lost at an anguished crossroads, she needed a Virgil. He had once risked his life to rescue a fugitive slave, and she was, in her way, also a fugitive.
Dickinson's letter concluded with a request not to "betray" her. Higginson never did, but many scholars, including Sewall, consider that, through an excess of caution and a deficit of imagination, he betrayed her art. His first and perhaps instinctive reaction to her verse was a tough critique, though she thanked him for the "surgery." In her next letter, she confided her inner turmoil: "I had a terror—since September—I could tell to none." After that, he was more reassuring. On June 7th, she told him, "Your letter gave no Drunkennesss, because I tasted Rum before." Baffled by the poems, beguiled by the woman, but, as a pastor, alarmed for the estranged soul, Higginson suggested that she find a friend. She actually had many, but she asked him to be her "Preceptor" (although he wasn't the only man she flattered with that honorific). An invalid wife and the war, among other imperatives, preëmpted his attention, but, fitfully, he and Dickinson stayed in touch. "Sometimes I take out your letters & verses, dear friend," he wrote in 1869 (one of only three messages to her that survived), "and when I feel their strange power, it is not strange that I find it hard to write. . . . If I could once take you by the hand I might be something to you; but till then you only enshroud yourself in this fiery mist & I cannot reach you, but only rejoice in the rare sparkles of light."
In the course of their friendship, Higginson tried to lead this "wayward" sport of nature, whose rhymes were off, whose rhythm he called "spasmodic," whose lines were strung tensely between dashes, and who claimed the modern privilege of refusing to signify what others expected her to mean in "the direction of rules and traditions." (Her credo was "Tell all the Truth but tell it slant.") After Dickinson's death, in 1886, Lavinia asked Mabel Loomis Todd, Austin's beautiful and ambitious mistress, to edit the poems, and Higginson to help her, lending the project his prestige. (Only ten brief lyrics had appeared in her lifetime, grudgingly surrendered, and without a signature. One was attributed to Emerson.) Todd sometimes went further than Higginson would have liked in taking liberties with Dickinson's syntax, punctuation, and even her choice of words. He approved and took part in the cleanup, however. Their anthology was published in 1890, and reviews were mixed (some ecstatic, more disdainful), but almost immediately Dickinson acquired a cult following, mostly among women. They showed up in Amherst, asking directions to the Homestead, the Dickinsons' Federal manor on Main Street, which has since become a museum. The collection quickly went through eleven editions and was followed by seven others, a memoir by Mabel Todd's daughter, four volumes of letters, endless speculation about the poet's secrets, and the rise of a myth. By the nineteen-fifties, Dickinson was part of the canon (almost no one graduates from high school without having read her). Her complete works—nearly eighteen hundred poems, edited by Thomas H. Johnson, and letters, edited by Johnson and Theodora Ward, three volumes of each—were enshrined in annotated editions that restored their formal integrity, revealing the magnitude of her power but also the depths of her strangeness.
Until Higginson held the first anthology in his hands, he had doubts about the wisdom of exposing to the world the runes of a protégée whom he had described as "my partially cracked poetess." Yet the telling ironies in a relationship often aren't the apparent ones, and in a trenchant new book, "White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson" (Knopf; $27.95), Brenda Wineapple sets out to discover what these two people saw in each other, and what they couldn't see. In her view, Higginson's epithet wasn't dismissive, not to a romantic idealist who, into old age (he died at eighty-seven), kept searching for the portal to transcendence.
Wineapple is an astute literary biographer with a feisty prose style and a relish for unsettling received ideas. Social history—the taproot of character—is her forte, although one might also say that she has specialized in repatriating fugitive Americans: Janet Flanner, Gertrude and Leo Stein, and, most recently, Nathaniel Hawthorne. (He fits the mold if one agrees with Dickinson in defining the intellect as a patriot's "Native Land.")
Dickinson's experience, or what we know of it, has been so thoroughly archived, interpreted, and reimagined in every genre (Sewall is exhaustive, and, before him, Jay Leyda, the modernist filmmaker and film historian, produced a monumental chronology, "The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson") that a contemporary scholar needs a good excuse to exhume the picked-over bones. In rehabilitating Higginson—dispatching the caricature of a tin-eared pedant—Wineapple finds one, and, through him, brings Dickinson into focus for a new generation. The poet's impulse to seek sanctuary in isolation, and the militant's to seek justice through intervention, should, she suggests, feel familiar to us in 2008. It's an enduring schism in American history.
Wentworth Higginson, as he was known to his familiars, was the youngest of ten children, descended from a Puritan divine who had arrived in Massachusetts in 1629. A Dickinson landed in New England the following year. There was wealth, eminence, and political influence on both sides; a symmetry in the families' associations with leading colleges (Wentworth's father was a benefactor of the Harvard Divinity School); and a shared culture of civility and introspection. As Emerson's friend Samuel Ward observed in a letter to Higginson after reading Dickinson's poems:
She is the quintessence of that element we all have who are of the Puritan descent pur sang. We came to this country to think our own thoughts with nobody to hinder. . . . We conversed with our own souls till we lost the art of communicating with other people. The typical family grew up strangers to each other. . . . It was awfully high, but awfully lonesome.
Wentworth and Emily came of age, however, during a period of humanist ferment in politics, theology, and the arts—an American Enlightenment described by those who lived through it as "the Newness." The young Higginson had dreamed of becoming a great poet, but Emerson, whom he revered, rejected his submissions to The Dial. He married a patrician cousin, Mary Channing, whose crippling ailment seems to have been rheumatoid arthritis. Wineapple describes this interesting character as "tart" and "cantankerous." (Apropos of Dickinson, she once blurted out, "Oh why do the insane so cling to you!") They were both devoted to the radical feminism of Margaret Fuller. A woman "must be a slave or an equal," Higginson declared. "There is no middle ground." To secure a livelihood, he became a minister, but, after two years, he resigned his pulpit, under pressure (he was too much of a reformer for his congregation), to militate for abolition. Dickinson would surely have followed his exploits in the Springfield Republican: his failed run for Congress; his arming of anti-slavery homesteaders in Kansas; his collusion with John Brown; his storming of the Boston federal courthouse to liberate Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave who faced rendition (a brave but inept fiasco). In November of 1862, Higginson took command of and began training one of the initial regiments of black soldiers to do battle for the Union—the 1st South Carolina Volunteers. Henry James, who sat out the carnage in Newport, Rhode Island, but whose brother Wilky was wounded in the massacre at Fort Wagner, in Charleston Bay, fighting with the 54th Massachusetts—the most famous black regiment—had the gall, years later, to mock Higginson's "agitations on behalf of everything, almost, but especially of the negroes and the ladies."
There was nothing obviously cracked about the young Emily, a brilliant student and a saucy gadabout with a streak of vanity that she never outgrew. She wrote for the humor column of her school magazine, and her letters, also full of gaiety and wit, often cartooned her family. (The Dickinsons, Emily included, were never quite as proper as they seemed; beneath their clannish façade of stiff-necked gentility roiled a soap opera of mad scenes, quarrels, and illicit passions. All of them, Wineapple writes, "loved with greedy ardor.") She "rode out" with suitors, and, at, fifteen, after a trip to Boston, declared to a classmate, "The world holds a predominant place in my affections."
Emily disparaged her education to Higginson, and, compared with his (at Harvard), it was rudimentary. But she spent the last year of her schooling as a boarder at the female seminary in South Hadley, Massachusetts, that became Mount Holyoke College. The classical curriculum (Greek, Latin, sciences, and literature) included strong doses of evangelical Christianity. A religious revival was sweeping New England, and the girls were urged by their headmistress to profess "hope." Dickinson resisted defiantly, calling herself a "pagan." Belief in God, and in salvation, always tempted her, as flesh tempts a saint, but the real perdition, as she saw it, was renouncing her freedom not to conform.
Dickinson's life has a before and an after, separated by an invisible catastrophe, or perhaps by a critical mass of cumulative blows—spiritual concussions that contributed to her fragility, but also to the release of her creative powers, which came in a tremendous gush in her late twenties. She corresponded with a wide and diverse circle of friends—some ninety people we know of—but as she aged her world contracted like the footage of a blast rewound. By the time she was forty, she refused to leave the Homestead, except to see a doctor, even hiding on the second floor from acquaintances she had received for years; writing and reading after the household was asleep; tending the garden; and, until she gave up music, too, playing the piano. On several occasions, Higginson invited her to literary events in Boston, once to hear a talk by Emerson. But, much as she longed to see him, she was firm in "shunning" society. People, she explained, "talk of hallowed things, aloud—and embarrass my Dog—He and I dont object to them, if they'll exist their side." Bowles called her the "Queen Recluse," but in reality she saw whom she chose: him, her brother, Higginson, some children, and a few others. Austin told Mabel Todd, with amusement, that his sister had "posed" in many letters. Her studied unworldliness—the virginal or bridal habit of a white dress; the lily proffered breathlessly to an exceptional visitor; the elfin figure fleeing at the sound of a doorbell; the pretense of "insignificance"—was also a form of camouflage:
The Soul selects her own Society—
Then—shuts the Door—
Dickinson's father, respecting her seclusion, didn't oblige her to attend church with the family, although he asked a local clergyman to examine her theological "soundness." She apparently passed the test of faith the way her poems did, by seeming chaste and Biblical, if you weren't paying attention. Steeped in devotional literature, she drew upon its language and cadences to record (and to dissemble) her solitary effort to accept that death is absolute. But death is also a metaphor for something even more fearful to Dickinson, the loss of self that often occurs in the delirium of infatuation and in the aftermath of a rejection. Higginson justly called her mist "fiery": her work scintillates with erotic tension, and even in the letters she wrote him her lowered eyes seem more geishalike than maidenly. When Dickinson loved, she was capable of shameless, imperious, wanton rapture and abjection. Anyone down to earth was apt to recoil at the totality of her demand. Most of us, however, know what she means by "a pain—so utter—
It swallows substance up—
Then covers the Abyss with Trance—
So Memory can step
Around—across—upon it—
As one within a Swoon—
Goes safely—where an open eye—
Would drop Him—Bone by Bone.
Dickinson cultivated passionate friendships—complicities—with both sexes. One of her beloveds was Susan Gilbert, the lovely, combative orphan who married Austin and was Emily's most trusted reader for some thirty years. The theory that Dickinson was a lesbian shares a Dewey-decimal classification with a raft of other case studies—Emily the sufferer, performer, healer, seducer, victim, hysteric, dog lover, mystic, feminist paradigm, vestal daughter, consumptive, agoraphobic. But, in the absence of God, Dickinson never ceased hoping for a savior in a mortal guise—indeed, in a virile guise, paternally enfolding. That, in part, may be why she sought out Higginson, and why he kept his distance, despite her importunity, confessing to his wife after the first of his two visits to Amherst, in 1870, "I never was with any one who drained my nerve power so much. Without touching her, she drew from me. I am glad not to live near her."
The Homestead struck Higginson as a house "where each member runs his or her own selves." Emily told him, "I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled." The daughters of depressive women often feel a propitiatory impulse to make some sacrifice of their own aggression and desire, perhaps because they are afraid to overwhelm an unstable figure whom they depend on; because they feel guilty about their own vitality; or to disguise rage—as much from themselves as from their parent. In Dickinson's case, Wineapple observes, mother and daughter both "exercised power in refusal."
Her mother's mental illness coincided or overlapped with three major markers in Dickinson's biography: the "terror" she confessed to Higginson; the period of her greatest creativity; and a debacle that inspired her to draft at least three letters of heart-wrenching eloquence and infantile neediness to a lover, or a phantasm, whom she addressed as "Master," imploring him to "open your life wide, and take me in." Master's identity is one of the most tantalizing enigmas of Dickinson's story. There are two leading candidates. One is the dashing Bowles; the other, Charles Wadsworth, was a preacher famous for his oratory, who lived in Philadelphia but is known to have visited Dickinson at least twice. After his death, in 1882 (Bowles had died four years earlier), Emily described him as "my closest earthly friend." Higginson, in many ways, fits their mold: an object of fantasy to many women; prominent in the world; and married. Dickinson told him several times that he had "saved her life" in 1862, though he never knew how. Perhaps it was enough that he picked her up, albeit gingerly, when she felt discarded. But she, in turn, gave him the immortality that his own good deeds and modest gifts as a writer wouldn't otherwise have earned.
"White Heat" is written with a dry heat that does justice to its impassioned protagonists, but, as Wineapple's pendulum shifts back and forth between them, it loses its momentum. Both lives wind down, their drive sputters out, and their paths diverge—the Newness was over. Higginson remarried after Mary's death—a proper sort of wife this time, dainty and much younger. He finally fathered a much longed-for child (and, one gathers, enjoyed a long-deferred sex life).
During Dickinson's final two decades, her poetic torrent was reduced to a trickle. She developed Bright's disease, the kidney ailment that may have killed her. Her doctor also gave her a diagnosis of "nervous prostration," and she told an old friend_,_ "I do not know the Names of Sickness. The Crisis of the sorrow of so many years is all that tires me." She, too, however, enjoyed a requited passion. Her elderly beau, Judge Otis Lord, of Salem, was a member of her father's inner circle, and she had known him all her life. While it's not clear whether their romance began before or after Lord was widowed, in 1877 (a late poem suggests that it had), it sparked an astonishingly candid, erotic correspondence that shows Emily expertly, if belatedly, playing hard to get. (" 'No,' is the wildest word we consign to Language," she teased him.)
At the end of a poem about solitude, possibly composed during the "terror," Dickinson, describing the wind, plants one of her most self-defining lines, and one that is, typically, desolate and triumphant in the same breath:
He visited—still flitting—
Then like a timid Man
Again, He tapped—'twas flurriedly—
And I became alone—
Becoming alone is the description of a task that none of us escape, and it is the drama that gives Dickinson's poetry its suspense. She expresses that suspense in all the seemingly random and eccentric dashes in her work that Higginson corrected. (He always wanted to make things right.) But they were her cracks, cracks through which the wind slipped in, and those other disembodied visitors, her metaphors and intuitions, and through which she evaded the necessity of putting a period to their mystery—or to her own. ♦