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Keyword-Driven Personas
The author's views are entirely their own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views of Moz.
As inbound marketing is gaining traction, marketers in all inbound disciplines are realizing the importance of taking on keywords with a more holistic approach. It's time to start building your keywords into the bones of your site, rather than adding them once your site is already completely mapped out.
In today's Whiteboard Friday, Ruth Burr discusses how you can use your keywords to drive personas, and ultimately affect your site mapping process for the better. Leave your thoughts and questions in the comments below!
For your viewing pleasure, here's a still image of the whiteboard used in this week's video!
Update: Ruth referred to some code that Mike King of iAquire put together that may help your site if integrated into your analtyics. Give it a look!
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"Howdy, SEOmoz fans. My name's Ruth Burr. Welcome to another Whiteboard Friday. I'm the Lead SEO here at SEOmoz, and today I want to talk about using keywords to drive personas and ultimately your site mapping process.
One thing that we're really thinking a lot about as we move more and more toward an inbound marketing model, where there are multiple different people with multiple different functions all working together to have the best inbound marketing possible, is what we're doing with keywords and sort of when we're adding keywords into the site. I know that we've all had the experience in years past where we would get a site or get a piece of copy that was completely written and then just kind of have to plug our keywords into that existing content wherever they would fit. You might have an entire site that's already completely mapped out, it's got a sitemap, it's got information architecture, and then you're supposed to go in and put in your keywords. I've found that that is not always the best user experience for the keyword, and also isn't as effective as taking a more holistic approach.
So what I'm really hoping you guys will get out of this is take it back to your UX and your IA teams and really think about how you can build keywords more into the bones of the site.
One thing that Google is thinking a lot about that is really important for us to be thinking about as marketers as well is searcher intent. Search engines are spending tons of money and tons of time and tons of effort trying to figure out what people are searching for when they use a keyword. It behooves us as marketers to do the same thing because that way we can give people what they want when they tell us they want it, and that's the beauty of search engine marketing.
My example here is chocolate cookies, because I like to think about cookies. You might have somebody that's searching for the keyword "chocolate cookies," and maybe you own ChocolateCookies.com, a great domain. If that's the case, you don't really know what they want when they want chocolate cookies. They could be looking to buy chocolate cookies. They could want to learn how to make chocolate cookies. They could want recipes. You might also have ingredients. Maybe in addition to cookies you sell ingredients for cookies. Maybe you have recipe content and sales content, and you want to know how to serve up each of those pieces of content in a way that's really going to serve the user. What you can start doing is really thinking about the search intent of each one of these keywords and building that in to a traditional persona-based marketing model.
This is my example model. All of these examples are made up. The data is not real. You cannot use this data and take it out and just go build ChocolateCookies.com. You could, but results are not guaranteed. To reiterate, this data, made up.
In my ChocolateCookies.com example, we've got three different personas. We've mapped out who they are and what they want. Now we can actually assign keywords to them. Say you're trying to target people who want to make cookies. What they're looking for, they're looking for recipes, they're looking for ingredients. They are not looking to buy cookies. If somebody googles "chocolate cookie recipes" and they click through to your site and it's a page about how you can buy cookies from you, that is a bad user experience. Those people are not going to buy cookies, and they're also going to bounce right back to the search results.
That is the kind of thing that search engines are tracking. How quickly did somebody return to the search results page from your site? Did they do it without taking an action? If so, that can be a signal that you're not serving up quality content. It's bad from a ranking factor's perspective, and it's also bad because that person did not give you money and that's what we're trying to do, trying to sell cookie recipes.
So you really want to make sure that this person when they're searching for these keywords, which you've mapped back to their persona, you're serving up chocolate cookie recipes. And if they're looking for ingredients, you're serving up ingredients. Then you're creating an entire experience. You're not just paying lip service saying, "Oh, here's a recipe and then buy a bunch of stuff." You really are serving them up that high quality content that users love, that brings them back to the site again and again. If the recipe content is good enough, this baker might even share your content and share it with their friends, and maybe even link to it from their blog that's all about making cookies. Wouldn't that be nice?
Then you might also have somebody who does not want to make cookies because they don't have that kind of time. They want to buy cookies. They just want to buy them and then eat them. It's a model that I practiced for years. So they're going to be looking to buy cookies online. They're not going to care about recipes at all. They're not going to care about ingredients at all. They're going to be much more purchase-driven and be looking at keywords around their favorite brands and looking for sales. These are the people that you can really incentivize with calls to action and trust signals, like free shipping, delivery, sales, coupons, join our mailing list, and things like that. You've now mapped these back, so again you're creating this entire experience and all of this content based around the fact that this person does not care about recipes at all, they just want to buy.
Then our third persona is somebody who's buying at the corporate level. Maybe they're an office manager, or at SEOmoz, Team Happy is constantly buying us goodies and snacks, and we love that. But this person is in charge of the cookie supply at their office. What, does your office not have cookies? I'm so sorry. Get some cookies.
So this guy, he doesn't care about recipes at all. He's not going to make cookies every day for 100 people. He wants to buy them, and he's not spending his own money. He's spending the company's money. So he's looking for things like a corporate discount, a bulk discount, Maybe he's catering a party. He needs same-day delivery. These are the things that are really going to be important to this person. Since you know that, you can create content that is solely targeted toward this one person, this one buyer. Especially if you have things like a corporate discount, this is the place to really show it off.
So you've got these three different personas, and they're taking three very different paths through the site and they're consuming the site in different ways, whether it's buying a bunch of stuff, buying one thing, consuming your content and buying ingredients, coming back. Each of these personas is experiencing your content in very different ways. Rather than just creating one site and popping in keywords all willy-nilly so that all of these people are having the same experience, you can start crafting unique user experiences for each of these people based on their paths through the site.
Great, except that that takes a lot of time and money. Both in the fact that at most businesses time in some ways is money, and you may actually have to spend some money on it. One of the things that I actually really recommend doing during this part of the process is running some PPC campaigns around the keywords where you're trying to define user intent. If somebody's just searching on chocolate cookies, you might not know if they want to buy them, or if they want to make them or what they want to do. So use PPC, run a little test, and see whether people respond better if you've got recipes, or free shipping, or what the different calls to action are for those more generic terms. Over time you can start to see what the majority of users' intent is and what they really respond to and craft experiences for those more generic terms based around that. That's a really great way to use PPC as a little guinea pig test.
Now here comes my favorite part because it involves metrics. What you can do is go into your Google Analytics or whatever, use your analytics tools and start looking at these behaviors based on keywords. Once you've got your persona and you've got your keywords assigned to your persona, first of all make sure that all of these keywords really are the same persona. Make sure that users who enter on those keywords are taking similar paths through the site and executing similar actions. That's a great secondary indicator that all of these keywords do belong to this same persona.
Start looking at what they do. Maybe you get the most traffic from the baker, but you get the most revenue per order from the corporate guy. Maybe the shopper doesn't return as much, but she does convert at 2.4%. The baker spends the longest time on site, but maybe she doesn't buy as much. These are the things that you can start to look at and say, "Okay, so we know that the baker spends a lot of time on site, that's great. What can we do to encourage her to turn that into a purchase? How can we brand message to her in ways that make her feel more comfortable buying ingredients, or what can we do to incentivize her sharing this content which clearly she's consuming or loving?"
The same thing with the corporate guy. If he's got the highest revenue per order, obviously we want more of this guy. We want to figure out what does he want, what is he doing, and what are the triggers that we can use that get him to buy more or get him to return to the site more. You can start really testing, and that's great because it allows you, even just before you've done any of that amazing tweaking and testing, to say, "Okay where is the biggest mover of the needle among these two personas? What are the activities that we could be doing that could encourage them to do more of the activities they want to do fastest?" Then that'll help you prioritize and it'll help you target your efforts and your budget.
Then if you want to go above and beyond and really get in there and be a little bit creepy, what you can do is actually link up your site to Facebook Open Graph so that people are opting in to a Facebook app when they're registering on your site. They're connecting with Facebook. So there is that opt-in. You don't just want to take people's information. Once you've done that, you can actually, in your Google Analytics code, link it up to your Facebook Open Graph data, and you can start getting real demographic data on the actual people who are using these keywords and coming to your site. Now in addition to knowing that the baker is 40% of searches, you know that she's 35 to 40, you know she's female, and you know she's a mom. The corporate guy you know that he works at a company of more than 100 people most of the time. So you can really start targeting these people based on their demographic information.
What you also learn then is who these people are that like you so much. They're coming to your site over and over. They're buying things from you, which is really what we're trying to do here. And you can start targeting more of those people in your own SEO efforts, in your own customer acquisition efforts. You're targeting them on social. You're reaching out to them for links. You're buying ads to put in front of them, and you have more confidence that you'll have a return on those ads because you already know these are the kind of people who like you.
So you have all of this information about keywords and about personas. Now you can take that back to your user experience team, to your information architects and say, "Hey, let's redo the sitemap and have it be based on these personas, based on these proven user behaviors that start with a keyword and end with a purchase, and let's build experiences for those keywords." Now instead of just saying, "Well, here's what I think. We've got like About Us, Contact Us, Products." You can really say, "These are three main personas, so in the header we should probably have cookie recipes, shop cookies, corporate discount," and know that even from page one on the site whenever one of your target people comes to the site, it's really easy for them to find the experience they're looking for, make their way through the site, and then buy something.
Mike King of iAquire, who blogs at ipullrank.com, put together some code using Stack Overflow, which may or may not work on your site. Take it to your devs and see if they can make it work with your analytics. Every site is different. Your mileage may vary, but there is a link to it here at the bottom of the screen. There should be. It's invisible to me, but you can see it.
Now that you have this data, go to your UX people and show them the power of keyword-driven site mapping. Show them how SEO has so much to do with what they do, and not only will this project work for you, but in the future they'll be more likely to come back to you and say, "Hey, we're going to change the whole site, and we thought you should know before we do it." That's what you want.
That's it for Whiteboard Friday this week. Thanks for coming by you guys. See you next time."


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It's a good time to be thinking about photos, as the light is changing, and becoming interesting again.
In the morning, it slants through the French doors,
and in the evening, at Molly's supper time, it comes in at the front of the house, filtered through the already thinning leaves of the trees across the road, and glows and shimmers on the floor,
then, a bit later, when she's sitting on the windowsill thinking it's time we went out for a walk, now that it's cooler, it lengthens, and moves across the room.
And when I open the downstairs bathroom window after showering off the Cuprinol, this character greets me from the wall of the next door house. It's an oddly outsized stone embedded there, but when the light is just at the right angle, it seems a little like an Easter Island head.


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So what we now have is a real brave new world. The purpose of this site is to simply show how they control on demand, as well as end the confusion around the subject of chemtrails and how they fit into the larger picture while showing how the media and movies are conditioning the mind of the general public. This web site is my account of the entire last decade. I'm sure I'm missing something here or there, but this is 95% accurate I think.
Let's just get right too it. Forget everything you know. Here it is, the epitome of reality. This video is the best example that summarizes what's happening or has happened in your body already. This is the most prevalent secret in the whole world because it has been forced onto everyone unknowingly.
What you see here is a nano-bot encapsulating a neuron or synapse (for example your purkinje neurons) or other nerve ending/bridge. It's only a simulation, but accurately summaries everything that has happened in the past decade. This allows complete control of the host (your body) remotely asdemonstrated repeatedly in the movies. A more sophisticated set of nano-bots would subsequently allow for a complete and full BioAPI to be installed without the host (you) even knowing it.
The basic idea consists of a set of nano-wires tethered to electronics in the main catheter such that they will spread out in a "bouquet" arrangement into a particular portion of the brain's vascular system. Such arrangement could support a very large number of probes (in the millions). Each n-wire would be used to record, very securely, electrical activity of a single or small group of neurons without invading the brain parenchyma. Obviously, the advantage of such system is that it would not interfere with either the blood flow exchange of gases or produce any type of disruption of brain activity, due to the tiny space occupied in the vascular bed.
Chemtrails are a huge logistical operation. Larger than the hoover damn, trans-alaska pipeline or moon landing. Its large. And expensive. The biggest mistake one can make is assuming there is only one reason for chemtrails. There are about five or six reasons and possibly more. The top six are listed below with a brief summary. This web site is concerned with the last.
Blocking the Sun: This is the standard reason given to idiots in the government. We need to secretly stop global warming, so keep it a secret that we're spraying. Global warming is the catch all con for everyone in the government. If you're smarter than this they'll give you a better reason.
Blocking the Sun (Again): A reduction in sun light across the planet works well to decrease crop yields slightly. This is part of the requirement to engineer a food crisis and bring in a famine. This is tied in with the disappearing bees too but this site does not get into that.
Update [2012-03-29] – I got bored one night and decided to explain the purpose of the disappearing bees.
Superheating the Atmosphere: In order to create earthquakes and steer hurricanes (for example hurricane Katrina in New Orleans) the atmosphere needs to be more conductive for electricity so installations such as HAARP can work their magic. So the chemtrails spray barium and aluminum among other things to create a more conductive upper atmosphere.
Health Erosion: As a side effect everyone's health and immune systems become more compromised. This is usually not an issue for most healthy people. Older people on average will now die sooner and any health complication is slightly more likely to be fatal. This is both a side effect of spraying and intentional. Anything to increase the kill rate without raising many alarm bells.
Climate Modification: To help or hurt crops, keep skys clear for a major event (like the Olympics), cause a typhoon, etc.
Nano-fiber Propagation: To universally install a BioAPI in everyone they need to spray nano-fibers. These fibers cannot be put into the food supply or given in some other way, the uptake across the population would take forever and not propagate very efficiently. It's much easily just to spray everyone like an insect; and because it's happening to everyone and universal the herd mentality of the unwashed masses then justifies it.
Nano-fibers specifically are a transport mechanism. Nothing more. They hold a payload for delivery. A payload that would otherwise be compromised by the sun or atmosphere or not make it to its destination (your body). Such as a virus, RNA, aluminum, nano-components, etc. The fibers are (surprisingly) quite harmless as everyone has them. Examples of these fibers can be found all over the internet or in the physical examples section of this site. The fibers must be independently sprayed, if they we're added to the jet fuel the extreme heat would destroy the payload.
So it's not the fiber that is critical, it's the payload.
There are essentially two phases involved with the installation of the BioAPI. I categorize it as phase 1 and phase 2. If you can imagine a new laptop computer, all it has is the operating system like Windows, so it's kind of useless. This would be the equivalent to phase 1. So a new computer can be remotely controlled (aka phase 1) by your IT tech support guy, but that is all. There's no programs installed (provided by phase 2) to do
anything else with it.
Phase 1: Everyone on the planet is effected and involved in this phase. Everyone to some extent has the nano-fibers within their body cavity, and therefore wired. Side effects include a clicking sound from within the skull and basic annoying body complications like aching joints. This phase actually provides complete remote control of your speech and thought patterns through suggestion (subconsciously). I guess about 90% of the populace has this phase complete.
Phase 2: This phase must be triggered and is extreme. It completely compromises your health and can do anything from kill you to simply monitor you. This phase cannot be forced onto you like phase 1 (technically it can but they don't do that yet). This involves multiple nano-sensors from ocular to heart and everything in between. I figure about 2% of the population has gone through this phase. If this phase is triggered in you they consider you evil as shown within the media examples page of this site. You must do something to trigger this phase, including eating cheap red meat, kissing specific people, using specific corporate health care/beauty products, etc. The objective they are reaching for here is to connect each event with a deadly sin of some sort. For example morgellons would be connected with vanity because your skin goes to hell. Ultimately this phase provides complete remote control of your body and mind, including the monitoring of your emotions, thoughts, body functions and everything in between.
Of course with something as extreme as nanotech being installed within people's body's you would assume there would be health implications and side effects. This is correct and covered on this site. The approach to handle these side effects has been one of "embrace and extend" it's called. There are several examples in the media section that show how the specific side effects listed below are recognized and then associated with something ridiculous or stupid which then discounts the authenticity in the mind of the viewer. In effect convincing the viewer to dismiss a real side effect as being something that's too crazy to be real. Each side effect is dealt with in a media example. Additional technical possibilities are also talked about in BioAPI section.
Phase 1 & 2 – Cranium Clicking/Screeching: A phase 1 side effect goes back as early as 2001. Exactly what is happening is not completely known but involves some sort of nano-chip being installed/operated in the cranium (your head) of the host. This is probably the equivalent of a CPU of some sort. The actual clicking/screeching sound observed is usually at night on average once a month and only lasts for a few seconds. Completely painless and easily ignored or passed off by the person.
Phase 1 & 2 – Aching Joints, Headaches, Fatigue, etc.: The saturation of nano-fibers has different effects on different people. The sheer numbers involved results is a random combination of health implications. Most people will not notice anything, or pass any slight symptom off asgetting older. Other people who have more of a reaction will go to the doctor and get diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is a catch all disease that was created about a decade ago to give doctors something to tell the patient when they complained. The doctors can't accurate diagnose or understand what or why a patient is feeling a certain way, so the corrupt medical establishment gives them this nonsense to spew. These side effects are primarily phase 1 but are a constant problem across the board.
Phase 2 – Continued Itching Skin: Often a specific part of the person's body (for example the left elbow) will become constantly itchy much more than the rest of the body permanently. This is intentional and is a sign to others that they have phase 2. This is reflected quite clearly in this media example.
Phase 2 – Burning Smell: Phase 2 encapsulates the person's ability to smell to they can read/write scents to the person. I have no idea why they want to know what you're smelling. When inhaling or specifically exhaling quickly its often a burning/smoke smell that is noticed. It's unknown why, this must be an unwanted side effect. Or more accurately to encapsulate any neuron in the body involved in sensing (for example, smell, taste, etc.) there obviously must be some minor side effect. Interestingly when I cry the smell is amplified and it smells like buttered popcorn of all things. An example of how the media discounts this is demonstrated in the movie Bandits (2001).
Phase 2 – The Left Eye: One of the high level concepts they push in the movies is the left eye is evil for some insane reason. In phase 2 an actual nano-camera will be installed in the left eye. People with this might comment on how they feel like there's a small bump in their eye under slightly drier conditions such as when going to sleep at night. This is documented in the physical example page. Note if you figure out you have a camera in the left eye they will probably install something in the right eye too.
Phase 2 – Permanent Metallic Taste: Some people will comment on a metallic taste in the mouth. Typically when going to sleep it becomes prevalent. This is mostly a direct response to be monitored. The more they monitor you or your BioAPI the more of a metallic taste you'll receive. It is not a side effect of medication, that's the typical response a doctor will give you. If you are not on medication and otherwise completely healthy and all of a sudden have a permanent metallic taste in your mouth, you are being monitored 24/7.
Phase 2 – Morgellons: Morgellon's can strike anyone. Its a problem with the nano-bots and fibers, whether intentional or accidental. The body's immune system can't see or recognize the fibers at all. So when the body can't accept the fibers anymore it beings to push them out through the skin. But the skin is a barrier because the fibers are too large. So the skin breaks up which is why people get lesions. Note that technically everyone has morgellons (nano-fibers), the actual mogellon's symptoms are when the person's body tries to get rid of them the only way possible. Some more conclusions can be seen here as well as a media reference.
|This is the most amazing picture you'll see in your life. This is a phase 2 subject with a nano-camera in the left eye. Only viewable with the properwavelength of blacklight. Everyone on the planet has nano-implants and can be tracked ad mind controlled on demand, people who contract what I call a phase 2 will have additional implants that allows them to be body controlled too as well as a whole host of other functions. Your body is turned into a robot against your knowledge and against your will. Check the media page for upcoming references concerning the ocular implant.
Some more thoughts and information on the ocular nano-implant are available.
Ultimately you need some proof. This is very difficult, as we all don't exactly have nano-tech labs in our basements. The only thing possible at this point in time is to put out the physical evidence that is known and back it up with media/movie supporting clips. A complete list of unbelievable things this technology can do is listed here, also make sure you see the real life body & mind control examples in Media References.
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Toxic Skies is a poor quality chemtrail propaganda movie. It's specifically about chemtrails but you have to look closer to see what the outcome of the patients are to figure out what is happening. It reflects that they are trying to kill people (or who they – not the doctors – decide are useless eaters). As in all movies such as this it starts off as a plague or biological threat. If you notice, of the four or five people that come in sick the one that dies is the one that simply watches TV and is presumed not to care about life. Therefore people who understand what is happening will see chemtrails = kill useless eaters. Everything else in the movie is irrelevant.
So in an overview the people running The Program are deciding who gets to live and who gets to die. This is happening every day right in front of you.
This movie is the only movie I can find that shows what I call Direct-to-Speechin action, or to a lesser extent Suggest-to-Subconscious. A handler (the women behind the glass) dictates to the other women (the one talking to the girl) what to say. Now everyone that watches this clip will say of course, the second women talking to the girl has an electronic earpiece in her ear – that's just it, she doesn't (note that in the context of the movie she might as well have an earpiece in, but that's not what we're looking at here, we're looking for the double meaning).
Now this is partially symbolic and very high level, but does demonstrate what can and is happening to phase 1 individuals (such as yourself). The amazing part is the second women is not aware she's being told what to say or do. This is the most amazing aspect of the BioAPI, everything else pales in comparison to this and is extremely difficult to accept or comprehend. So the second women is having thoughts on what to say or suggested what to doinserted into her mind in real time, in which she believes are her own thoughts and acts accordingly.
There's actually a lot happening in this scene. For example to show the two women are connected somehow (for example Paralleling which is an broader application of Direct-to-Speech) they show both women having red hair. Coincidence? Not if you know what to look for. Also note how they zoom in on her mouth at the end when she says just arrived from Prague, they are trying to reflect its not her voice/thought. It's difficult to explain this so I might have to rewrite this description.
Also see the Metropia clip.
Greenberg is a movie that specifically references phase 2. Some of the side effects demonstrated in the media show people who get phase 2 have sores on their skin or feel sick in some way. This is only partially true but is useful to demonstrate what is happening to people in the know.
In this clip Ben Stiller has the chance to run off to Australia with some hotties. But as he's leaving they clearly show the one blonde slut is sick. She's coughing and has a sore on her skin, so Ben Stiller immediately bolts. This is a direct demonstration of someone with phase 2 and therefore the entire BioAPI in the movies.
About 5 minutes before this scene Ben Stiller also makes a reference to hurting people, he says it twice for no reason. Why? It's easy to understand when you know what to look for. Stiller also makes a reference to commercial law (Wall St. the movie comment of who am I?) which might be a way to free yourself from phase 2 but has proven useless so far.
Like Toxic Skies this clip is a little high level.
This movie holds back nothing. Some clips show an overall high level meaning and you have to look for, The Crazies slaps you right in the face.
In this clip at the beginning of the movie a so called crazy person comes out of the bush with a shot gun. Not knowing what to do the cop has to shoot the guy, no one questions even for a second what happened, I mean it was clearly the guy was drunk right? Wrong.
This is what I call Direct-to-Motor-Control, or to a greater extend Paralleling. A handler is actually controlling the guy like a robot. The nose is bleeding because the guy is (at least symbolically in the movie) trying to fight it. He doesn't want to raise the shot gun so there's conflict within whatever cortex controls motor functions resulting in synapse damage. Ultimately the BioAPI wins and the guy has to do what the handler is forcing on him. This is only possible with phase 2 of the BioAPI.
Then to prove the point the scene jumps to a satellite/command center style clip which is a reference that everything is controlled from a single command center, then of course the final dot – chemtrails.


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AR Design Class: Sander Veenhof on "Invisible AR"
The Layar-sponsored augmented reality design class being taught this summer in California is still truckin' along, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to share another video from the class.
This time we have a presentation by Layar artist Sander Veenhof, who is known for using Layar in his augmented reality art projects like the Pentagon/White House Infiltr.AR and the Museum of Modern Art AR "Uninvited" Exhibit. In this presentation to the students at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Sander explains his history as a digital artist using augmented reality, as well as his idea of "invisible augmented reality".
He also talks about how he uses the term "Free-D" (instead of 3D) because technology has opened up a limitless world for expression. As for what exactly "invisible augmented reality" is, you'll just have to watch his presentation to find out. So check out the video below to see Sander's talk in front of the AR Design Class in Pasadena.


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A large coalition of civil rights and privacy groups and potentially thousands of websites will stage protests on the Fourth of July to protest surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency.
As part of the Restore the Fourth campaign, many website members of the 30,000-member Internet Defense League plan to display a protest of NSA surveillance and the text of the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Websites participating include Reddit, where Restore the Fourth originated, WordPress, 4chan, Mozilla, Fark, and Cheezburger.com.
Organizers of Restore the Fourth are also planning live protests in dozens of U.S. cities, including New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Boston, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Houston and Atlanta.
"How long do we expect rational people to accept using terrorism to justify and excuse endless executive and state power?" actor John Cusack said during a press conference announcing the protests. "Why are so many in our government, our press, our intellectual class afraid of an informed public?"
Representatives of the NSA and the U.S. Office of Director of National Intelligence didn't immediately respond to requests for comments on the planned protests.
The protests come after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden leaked information about widespread NSA surveillance of U.S. residents and other people to media outlets, with the first details published last month. Snowden, said to be holed up in a Russian airport, is seeking political asylum in several countries. He faces charges in the U.S. of theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person.
StopWatching.us, a website set up three weeks ago, has collected more than 531,000 signatures of people opposing the NSA surveillance programs.
Cusack, a board member of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, complained that many defenders of the NSA surveillance programs are focusing on supposed character flaws of Snowden and the journalists who broke the story instead of on the surveillance itself and questions about its legality.
The spotlight on Snowden is a "big distraction to avoid focusing on the invasions that have actually been occurring," added Harvey Anderson, senior vice president business and legal affairs at Mozilla. The lack of transparency about the surveillance programs "undermines the openness of the Internet," he added.
Efforts to downplay the surveillance and suggest that the U.S. public doesn't care won't work, added Craig Aaron, president and CEO of digital rights group Free Press. "As we learn every week about the unchecked surveillance and corporate collusion, the outcry is only going to grow louder and louder," he said.


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PITTSBURGH -- Isaac Redman is proceeding as if he will start the Pittsburgh Steelers' season opener Sunday, and there is a good reason the fourth-year running back is taking that approach.
"I run with the first-team [offense] through the first four reps," Redman said Monday afternoon after practice, when asked if he has been told he will start Sunday against the visiting Tennessee Titans. "That's normally what the starter does, and I'm just preparing as the starter until they tell me otherwise."
The Steelers don't have many other starting options at running back.
Rookie Le'Veon Bell is recovering from a mid-foot sprain and the Steelers cut Jonathan Dwyer, the team's leading rusher in 2012, last Saturday.
Redman opened last season as the starter but the 6-foot, 230-pounder never emerged as a No. 1 back, rushing for 421 yards and two scores and averaging 3.7 yards per carry.
Of the mindset he is taking this season, Redman said, "I want to try and make it hard for [the coaches] to take me out. If everything holds up and I stay healthy, I'm planning on going out there and performing."
Redman may have to make the most of his opportunity quickly.
Recently acquired Felix Jones looked good in two preseason games, and the former first-round draft pick should only get better as he learns the offense. Bell, meanwhile, is out of a walking boot, and the second-round pick is targeting an early season return.
"I'm going to try and get back by Week 2, but I'm not making any promises," Bell said. "I'm going to make sure I'm 100 percent before I do anything."
Bell said he has been doing some light jogging and other foot workouts he makes his way back from an injury he sustained in the Steelers' second preseason game. One benefit of the injury, Bell said, is it allowed the knee that hampered him during training camp to fully heal.
"I'm just going to be smart about it so once I do come back it's not still bothering me," Bell said. "I want to make sure I don't have to be thinking about it on the field."
Redman had been limited since the end of training camp with a pinched nerve in his shoulder, and the Steelers held him out of the final three preseason games. But Redman said he is "ready to go" after carrying the ball just twice in preseason play.
"I sat out long enough," he said. "I feel good."


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The Complete Works
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bookshelves: favorite-books
Oct 10, 2011
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What can I say? I loved Shakespeare even before I could read and what I love most about Shakespeare doesn't have to do with intellect. Those words enter even in sleep and percolate and brim then spill into all, shifting perhaps to that right side full of the tatile or that connection to other and all. Shakespeare expands with an embrace full of passions, humor, beauty, complexities,frailities, silliness, words that work with double, triple meaning. Shakespeare heard when I was tiny; read when I was young and still read or seen or heard always--part of the everyday.
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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Directed by: Benh Zeitlin
USA | 93 minutes | Rated PG-13
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A young girl, in a forgotten bayou that is cut off from the rest of the country by a sprawling levee, battles an impending natural disaster and her fathers failing health.
Celebrate the New Year at Culver's Third Annual New Year's Eve Party with Screening, Dinner, and Entertainment. Enjoy a pre-screening Dinner at Phood On Main which will put you in the mood with Cajun fare, followed by the screening of the small miracle, Beasts of the Southern Wild, topped off with dancing and entertainment with the fabulous band Milpa. Beasts of the Southern Wild, one of the most talked about and unexpected films of the year is a daring, lyrical, challenging piece of folk art which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Golden Camera, Prix Regards, and FIPRESCI Prizes at Cannes. A.O. Scott, The New York Times, commented, "Hushpuppy, the 6-year-old heroine of Beasts of the Southern Wild, has a smile to charm fish out of the water and a scowl so fierce it can stop monsters in their tracks. The movie, a passionate and unruly explosion of Americana, directed by Benh Zeitlin, winks at skepticism, laughs at sober analysis and stares down criticism. Made on a shoestring by a resourceful New Orleans-based collective, it is animated by the same spirit of freedom it sets out to celebrate." See website for details and ticket prices. Reserve early! Last Year's New Year's Eve Party sold out.
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Officials have found one body after a hot air balloon hit a power line, caught fire and then shot up into the sky before exploding and crashing in eastern Virginia.
Two were still missing and presumed dead, Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said during a news conference on Saturday morning.
"We are still looking for the other two and the wreckage," she said. "Of course our goal right now is to locate the other two occupants.
A regional investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board was looking into the cause of the accident, according to the agency. Virginia State Police, the Federal Aviation Administration, local law enforcement and Emergency Medical Services were conducting a ground search on Saturday, according to a statement posted on the Mid-Atlantic Balloon Festival site.
A pilot and two passengers were on board one of three hot air balloons that took off from the Meadow Event Park in Caroline County, Va., on the eve of the Festival just before 8 p.m. Friday, Geller said. The balloons attempted to land a short time later at a designated landing area, according to witnesses.
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Two of the three successfully touched down, but a third hit the power line as it neared the ground, igniting a fire. It is believed that the balloon crashed northeast of the park.
"As the third balloon made its descent, the balloon made contact with a live utility wire that in turn sparked a fire," Geller said. "The fire spread quickly."
The pilot tried to open the top of the balloon in an effort to get the fire under control, but the balloon rose quickly, Geller said. Witnesses then heard two explosions and, at one point, the gondola and balloon separated, she added.
Local resident Carrie Hager-Bradley told NBC12 she was on her way home after a trip to the grocery store when she saw the balloon in flames.
Hager-Bradley said she could hear cries from those on board.
"They were just screaming for anybody to help them. 'Help me, help me, sweet Jesus, help, I'm going to die, oh my God, I'm going to die,'" she told the station.
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Her daughter saw what appeared to be an occupant of the balloon fall to the ground, Hager-Bradley added.
Cole Holocker, 18, told NBC News he was headed to North Carolina with his family on Route 301 near Army base Fort A.P. Hill when he noticed smoke billowing in the distance.
"We saw black smoke coming from an object," he said. "Couldn't tell what it was. We thought it might be exhaust from a helicopter around the base and then, when we came close to it, we could see it was a balloon."
Holocker, a college student, said he and his family pulled the car over to get a better look, and as the smoke began to dissipate, they could see the structure of the balloon "actually collapsing."
"There was nothing below the balloon. It looked like the basket had burned away," he said. "(The balloon) was shrinking. As it started to lose air out of it, it collapsed to one side … and then it started falling at a faster rate, and then it fell behind the tree line."
Holocker estimated he was about 5 to 10 miles away from the crash site.
Hot air balloon teams from all over the United States had been expected to participate in the festival.
F. Brinley Bruton contributed to this report.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Jaguars fired general manager Gene Smith on Monday after four disappointing seasons, including the worst year in franchise history.
Coach Mike Mularkey could be next.
Owner Shad Khan is waiting to decide Mularkey's fate until he hires a new general manager, which could happen this week.
Mularkey failed to make the Jaguars (2-14) better in his first season, setting a team record for losses and dropping eight games by 16 or more points.
Smith was the architect of the roster. He had been with the team since its inception in 1994, working his way up from regional scout to general manager. He became GM since 2009, compiling a 22-42 record while failing to acquire a single player who made the Pro Bowl.
"Now it is time for the Jacksonville Jaguars to begin a new chapter," Khan said in a statement. "We're not looking back. I've made it clear from Day One that we pledge nothing less than to deliver the first Super Bowl championship to Jacksonville. Our fans have been remarkably loyal over the years, and they were truly outstanding this past season. We simply must do better for our fans."
Khan said the search for a new GM will begin immediately.
Arizona director of player personnel Jason Licht, San Francisco director of player personnel Tom Gamble and Atlanta director of player personnel David Caldwell have been mentioned as potential replacements.
"I'm determined to find the right man to lead our football operations, someone who shares my vision, understands the commitment we will demand and is qualified and ready to seize this opportunity," Khan said.
Smith's most glaring mistakes came in the draft, where he whiffed on offensive tackle Eben Britton (39th overall pick in 2009), defensive tackle Tyson Alualu (10th pick in 2010) and quarterback Blaine Gabbert (10th pick in 2011). Smith traded up to select Gabbert even though several teams with quarterback needs passed on the former Missouri starter.
He also drafted a punter in the third round in April, a move that was mocked locally and nationally.
Equally alarming for Khan had to be Smith's penchant for overpaying in free agency and signing relatively inexpensive guys who failed to produce.
He gave aging receiver Torry Holt a three-year deal that guaranteed him $4 million in 2009. Holt caught 51 passes, but didn't score and was released after one season.
Defensive end Aaron Kampman got a four-year, $25 million deal the following year. Kampman's balky knee was the main reason he was on the market. It also was a big part of why he played just 11 games in Jacksonville.
In 2011, following the NFL lockout, Smith spent big on positions that were not glamour spots — signing linebacker Paul Posluszny (6 years, $42 million), linebacker Clint Session (5 years, $30 million) and safety Dawan Landry (5 years, $27.5 million). Session is out of the league after three concussions in 2011.
Smith really opened the wallet this past offseason, signing receiver Laurent Robinson to a five-year, $32.5 million contract that included $14 million guaranteed and giving cornerback Aaron Ross a three-year, $15.3 million deal.
Both looked like reaches at the time and seem even less impressive nine months later.
Robinson was a one-year wonder in Dallas, scoring 11 touchdowns in 2011, after being cut by St. Louis and the Cowboys. The Jaguars could have signed him off the street either time, but instead waited until his big season to become interested. He lost his starting job to Cecil Shorts III and ended up on injured reserve following his fourth concussion. He finished with 24 receptions for 252 yards and no scores.
Ross, meanwhile, was a backup with the Giants who got thrown into the starting lineup because of injuries. He won a Super Bowl last season, but his coverage issues were disguised by the league's best pass rush. He struggled at times in Jacksonville and ended up playing behind rookie Mike Harris down the stretch.
Smith did hit on some players — including left tackle Eugene Monroe (eighth pick in 2009), cornerback Derek Cox (73rd pick in 2009) and receivers Cecil Shorts (114th pick in 2011) and Justin Blackmon (fifth pick in 2012) — but none of those starters have become stars. And Smith gave up a second-round pick to get Cox and a fourth-rounder to trade up and get Blackmon.
Other questionable moves include giving receiver Mike Thomas a contract extension after two-plus seasons and signing tight end Marcedes Lewis to a five-year, $35 million contract after a breakout season. And Smith's policy of bringing in only those with strong character never paid dividends.
Smith's most controversial act came in April, when he chose punter Bryan Anger in the third round (70th pick). Anger was terrific as a rookie, but adding him never seemed like the best call for a team that needed talent and depth at so many other positions.
Smith defended the pick by saying he would "rather take a starter over a backup." Terry McDonough, the team's personnel director, challenged reporters to compare Anger to other third-rounders in four years and see who has been more productive.
Eight months later, quarterback Russell Wilson (75th pick) has Seattle in the playoffs.
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This MS Email page is a new direction from the original METEORS.TXT documentation. The bursty mode of APRS works well with Meteor communications, but we dont see these long shots on 144.39 because the channel is busy most of the time and maskes these gems. Also, 6 meters works so much better that that is where the greatest success is and because it is normally a quiet frequency. But 2m works too if you go to a quiet freq. Remember MS works all the time year round 24/7/365 with openings of a few seconds every few hours. Of course this improves dramatically during meteor showers, but the routine is also there.
METEOR SHOWERS: Anytime, and especially during meteor showers tuen to these frequencies and if you have a beam point to distance population densities about 600 to 12000 miles away, set your beacon to a HIGH rate and capture any packets you receive. Overnight is the best time for meteors. Check your log and see what you got.
50.620 MHz 6 meter MS channel
147.585 MHz 2 meter MS channl
Six meters is about 10 times better than 2 meters, but both can work. Th original APRSdos had a METERO mode built in that would send continuous packets for 15 seconds out of every minute on schedule with the four quadrants of the country, and then listen for the other three quadrants for the other 45 seconds. But without that kind of systematic control, you can also just set your beacon rate to 10 seconds and see what happens. Check your log the next morning.
SPECIAL 6m PROJECT PROPOSAL: The operational scenario for this project is a minimal email capability out of an area for First Responders back to the internet. . Maximum wait times on the order of a minute or less should be possible. . This capability would be available immediately before phone lines, internet, satellite, and other wireless infrastructure are re-established. An example would be mobile units enroute and arriving in the Katrina disaster area. This Meteor Scatter basic communications link would give them this low data rate, but reliable channel.
The self plotting of APRS packets and global connectivity of the APRS-Internet System (APRS-IS) makes it ideal for an Emergency Meteor Scatter Email System. . Using 100 Watt 6 Meter radios and standard AX.25 packet, it should be possible to send outgoing APRS short text-message Emails and position/status reports reliably. . There are several key factors making this possible.
The map below only shows the receiver gain plots from 5 possible IGates, but it is easy to visualize how dozens of IGates with their own coverage areas could blanket the USA with Meteor Scatter Receive sites. . I only used five to keep the map from being too cluttered. Hopefully we would enlist dozens of 6m monitoring IGates. . It is this large distribution of receive sites that multiply the usually low probabilities of Meteor Scatter communication up into the useful range of a few packets per miunte. . This is an IDEAL APRS project beacuse the entire infrastructure exists already.
ANTENNAS: . Although the meteor scatter path is long term reliable, the signals are weak when they do occur, so high gain antennas are desireable. . Fortunately, a high gain antenna (in one fixed direction) can be errected as easily as stringing a long wire antenna. . Some EZNEC models are shown below. The first plots are for a 200' piece of wire over perfect ground. . It is missleading because the AZ plot is showing the Main beam but it is up at 18 degrees which is not very good for MS. The gain lobe is really a cone around the wire.
The next plots, the length is reduced to a more realistic 120 foot long wire and a real ground which absorbs energy. Also, in the next model, the backward wave is canceled with the terminating resistor. This resistor does not impact forward gain, but eliminates standing waves and the backward lobe making the tuning much easier. . This plot is also a lower elevation slice and so the two lobes of the cone are more visible.
The wire is fed 1/4 wave from one end with a series 1/4 wave section of two 70 Ohm line lines to match the 400 ohm impedance of the long wire. One quarter wave from the far end, a 400 ohm resistor suitable for half the TX power is located to absorb energy in the unused direction making this a unidirectional wire. For stations in the middle of the country, the resistor is not needed since a bidirectional antenna would be desirable. But without the resistor, there are standing waves, and tuning is more critical.
The map below shows why the use of a long wire antenna gain will work well for Meteor Scatter because we do not need gain exactly along the line between two stations, we just need their gain patterns to be illuminating the same part of the sky no matter where it is. . In this plot, the two major lobes show very clearly because this is taken at a 5 degree elevation slice.
Radios: . Mike Chisena, KB2ZEV of the AMRAD club has found a source of 110 Watt radios and is painstakingly converting each one to 6 meters for possible use in this projct. Here is a photo of a complete radio set (and the stack it came from):
Inside top view, Control Head, Inside bottom view, Inside PA view, and another inside top view
The map below shows the successful reported packets during the 1995 persieds meteor shower. . Although meteor showers show improved performance, the plot below is for 2 meters, and the results on 6 meters is usually an order of magnitude more sucessful. This balances out well with routine meteor activity which is active 24/7/365. . By transmitting the outgoing email repeatedly over 10 minutes or so, the successful reception by an IGate somewhere is virtually guaranteed.
If you want more proof that Meteor Scatter works for APRS and to see easy ways to monitor for packets, please see the original original APRS meteor Scatter documentation, and the original APRS METEOR.TXT file for details. There was also a write-up about the first LEONIDS.TXT.
DEVELOPMENT PLAN: . Here is a possible course of action to develop this meteor scatter communications network.
EMAIL PROTOCOL: . The protocol for sending email via APRS is well established and operational. . This was developed by the Sproul Brothers and runs on a computer at Rutgers University that monitors the global APRS internet channel and pulls out any messages addressed to EMAIL. It wraps them in a standard internet mail protocol and injects them into the normal Email system. The format is simply:
WB4APR>APRSxx::EMAIL____:email@example.com text goes here, any length (max one line)...
This is a standard APRS message format, except the destination field simply contains the word EMAIL padded to 9 spaces and the first word of the message body is an email address. . This format works well. A packet transmitted anywhere in the world in this format on any APRS channel including the satellite channel will result in an email to the intended email@example.com recepient. See the Satellite Emergency Email System.
IMPROVED MS PROTOTOL: . Since brevity is paramount in MS packets, the above format can be improved slightly for better efficiency. The following ideas are proposed to improve Email efficiency. Lets assume a 64 byte text message. The original format then takes 25 bytes of overhead and 18 bytes of Eaddress for an efficiency of 60%.
This format signals the Email engine to capture these unique APARRL, APJUNO, APASAT formatted APRS messages as EMAILS, and to also then preload any of the most commmonly used ham radio Email addresses or aliases. In this case, the first word of the text message now only contains the unique part of the email address and not the common part of it. . Here is an example:
WB4APR>APARRL::W3XY text:goes here, any length (max one line)...
Notice that the two colons (:) still bracket the first 9 bytes of the APRS message format to keep it compatible with the rest of the APRS message system and all existing client software and radio firmware. . But now this special MS Email engine converts the special APARRL to firstname.lastname@example.com and the rest of the format is the message text (ignoring the required colon in the 10th byte position). . With this improvement, all redundant bytes are eliminated and the only overhead is 4 bytes or so plus the sender and receivers calls.
Other specialized keyword APXXXX's could be designated as needed. . That's pretty efficient. . The total length of this packet at 1200 baud is just 0.63 seconds, which is quite practical for 6m Meteor scatter.
RETURN MESSAGING: . The above formats are standard APRS message formats supported by the existing APRS system, and IGate infrastructure. . It full fills the original objective to get an emeregency Email out of a disaster area as long as the transmitting station transmits the packet repeatedly for X minutes to get a high probabiliy of receipt by any one of the dozens of country wide APRS receiving IGates... But this part of the system has no mechanism for getting a response back into the affected area. . That response system will take specialized software.
To get a message back into the affected area, the IGates must have new firmware to be able to capture an APRS message from the APRS-Internet system and to then schedule it for transmission back via MS. . Here is my proposal for that process.
Further, if there is no MS traffic pending, these IGates will still periodically key up with a PILOT packet say once every hour for X minutes as a test packet. This IGate will monitor the APRS-IS for its own successes, and use this average value to determine the amount of time to transmit traffic to get the 97% average success rate or so... This data will also be a way of performance monitoring of the entire APRS Meteor Scatter system!
PERFORMANCE MONITORING: . Imagine the data we can learn using this self test feature of the APRS MS system. With this system running 24/7, we will learn very quickly the value of this system and have dynamic proof of its probabiliites. . This can be fun!
WB4APR, Bob


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As hinted at a month ago, Paradox Interactive, masters of the big PC strategy game, will be shrinking one down for play on something a little more portable.
Hearts of Iron, the company's big World War Two series, will be hitting the iPad on October 4.
Those wondering just how it's been shrunk down, there's not much gameplay to be found in a live-action clip starring make-believe Nazis, but a few shots at the end seem to suggest the interface has been streamlined a little for the touch-screen input.
UPDATE - Well, this is bizarre. Publishers Paradox have contacted us to let us know that the game on display here, by developers Herocraft, is not actually their Hearts of Iron. A Paradox rep tells Kotaku:
At the start, it was meant to be, however a decision early on in the process was made that the developers carry on developing the game as their own product and that it should not be related to Hearts of Iron.
So while this is called Hearts of Iron Mobile, and looks just like Paradox's game, it's not actually Paradox's game. It's Herocraft's. Weird, I know, but that's the story!
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Recently on our Hack A Day forums a member asked about getting some VGA testers made in our "Request and Commissions" forum for a charity called the World Computer Exchange, who take old office PC's and freshens them up to be used by children in developing countries for their education.
I sort of wanted to do a no brainier electronics build as I had been working on that Apple II weather display for quite a while at that point. I say no brainier because I decided to use one of the many already designed vga testers out there and all I really had to do was get it to fit in whatever box we ended up with.
I choose the deogen because it was already featured on Hack A Day, supports multiple raster patterns and resolutions (640×480 through 1280×1024), is already pretty darn small, and uses an ATTiny 2313 which is good because I am already set up for AVR micro controllers. For a case I choose to use some plastic "Ice Breakers" mint boxes, which due to their oval shape makes it quite a bit smaller than an altoids tin. The challenge is on to shove a PCB, switch, 9V battery, 2 buttons and a vga connector in the cramped space.
Join us after the break for a pile of pictures and some build notes.


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Association of International Malaysian Schools
AIMS is the Association of International Malaysian Schools. We support a range of AIMS events as its main sponsor: AIMS primary orchestra festival (since 2017), AIMS secondary orchestra and choir, festival (since 2019) and the AIMS music competition (since 2015). AIMS is an association of over 30 international schools across Malaysia, and growing. We have also organised CPD days for international school teachers, which involved sessions of nominated teachers sharing best practice as well as sessions delivered directly by ABRSM.


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Lyrics: Robert Hunter
Music: Phil Lesh
A new song unveiled by The Dead on their 2003 Summer Getaway tour. Thanks to Bret at Philzone for the lyrics - which were subsequently posted online on the Dead's Summer Getaway site (not now available).
I will never get out in one pieceNotes
Those aren't the terms of my release
Since that's the case, I've thought it through
And decided to leave a piece for you
A piece of my vision, a piece of my brain
To fight your battles once I am slain
A piece of my heart I never touched
A piece of my soul, though I can't spare much
A piece of blue from me to you
See the sky when night is through
See the moon hanging full and low
Off the Coast of China, or wherever you go
I'll be with you, in spirit at least
Every time glory rises in the east
When sunlight splatters down Rampart Street
And the last cool breeze tastes oh so sweet
Down Memory Lane, today is still tomorrow
Yesterday another source of sorrow
Come what may, today is only borrowed
It may not be returned from whence it came
Here's a piece for you, another for your friend
Here's a piece for everyone, line forms at the end
Here's a little piece for you
A little piece for you
A little piece for you
Salt and sand and river tide
Ties that bind but to divide
A drunk passed out on the lower East Side
Trailer park in flames
Identifying marks of blame
Dissolved in sudden rain
Warmed in the cradle by the hammer of the sun (note 1)
I never looked up to see what I had won
It wasn't much in silver, smaller yet in gold
It could soothe the heat, but never touch the cold
Never touch the cold
Here's a piece for you (note 2)
Just a piece from me to you
Here's a piece of blue (note 2)
When the night is through


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Fall at Cataract Falls
Cataract Falls
McWay Falls,Julia Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
Waterfall Near Santa Fe
Wave at McClures Beach
Fall Leaf at Devils Gulch
Wave at Point Reyes National Seashore
Falls in the Sunol Wilderness
Black Rock Falls, Uvas Canyon County Park
Swanson Creek, Uvas Canyon
Cascade Creek, Marin
Spring at Cataract Falls
In the Canyon at Cataract Falls
Hand Held at 1/2 Sec. OIS really works.
Just to give you an idea what the entire falls is like. It's not possible to get to a vantage point where you can see the falls from below any longer.


text: Tino's afternoon has fallen apart in a hurry. His wife Tori is cheating on him and a camera crew is along for the ride taping the whole thing for ratings. If that wasn't bad enough, Tori has emasculated him for the masses by forcing him to clean her lover's cock after it's been deep inside of her ass!


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Marguerite "Midge" Fowle
BERLIN – On Wednesday Oct. 24, Marguerite "Midge" Fowle died peacefully at her home in Bethany Beach, Del.
She was born in Washington, DC and was a graduate of Georgetown University. She was a world traveler who spoke several languages. She was very generous to everyone she met and spent her years on Earth celebrating life. Her love of life was infectious.
She is survived by her brother, Morgan Fowle of Potomac, and several nieces and nephews.
Services were held.
In lieu of flowers, it is suggested that contributions be made to Delaware Hospice, 20167 Office Circle, Georgetown, Del. 19947.


text: Providing 100% windproof protection with snow and rain-resistance like a hard shell, North Face Men's Gore Tex XCR Jacket Black serves as an excellent layering piece for swift technical ascents when the temperature drops, or as a standalone layer in milder weather. Superior abrasion-resistant material is crucial for use in rugged terrain, and constructed arms-up articulation lets you reach for your next grip without impacting mobility, or creating exposure with jacket riding up. This ultra-warm parka is built with Gore Windstopper Insulation Shell and a lightweight design.*Waterproof, breathable, fully seam sealed*Handwarmer zip pockets *Core vents *Wrist accessory pocket with goggle cloth *Polyurethane (PU) chest pocket *Internal goggle pocket *Powder skirt *Adjustable hem system *Adjustable cuff tabs *Zip hand pockets* Gender: Men* Size Available: S,M,L,XL,XXL* Manufacturer Warranty: Lifetime* Recommend Use: Cold Weather


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i'm not sure these are really made of paper, but they seem to be
first _ work by magie hollingworth, via haus maus
second _ this is an artwork by clare goddard found via kickcan and conkers
design, typography, art, style, color, homes, quotes and photography from my stuff i like files
i would love to be able to make something like that :)ReplyDelete
How did you make those?ReplyDelete
Jessica, I didn't make them... :)
But the first ones are simply decoupaged i think, and the latter ones are made of papier maché (maybe over some wirework) by artist clare goddard.
Thank you Agnes... I ll try to materialize the idea!!ReplyDelete
oh, wow, sounds cool!
have fun with it!
Magie Hollingworth http://www.magiehollingworth.co.uk/gallery.htmlReplyDelete
hWhere do u get the cool paper u decoupaged with?ReplyDelete


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Brookfield Renewable Energy Partners has reached an agreement to purchase 19 hydroelectric dams in Maine, including the two largest in the state.
The company, which is managed and majority-owned by Toronto-based Brookfield Asset Management, is acquiring the portfolio of 19 hydroelectric dams, as well as eight upstream storage reservoir dams, from NextEra Energy Resources LLC for approximately $760 million, according to a media release from the company.
NextEra Energy Resources is a subsidiary of Juno Beach, Fla.-based NextEra Energy Inc., although the dams are licensed to another subsidiary of NextEra's, FPL Energy Maine Hydro LLC.
The 19 dams are primarily on the Kennebec, Androscoggin and Saco rivers and have a total capacity of 351 megawatts and annual generation capacity of 1.6 million megawatt-hours, according to the release. All of the facilities have licenses from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, most of which are valid through 2025. All output from the facilities is sold into the New England wholesale power market.
These dams belonged to the original 31 hydroelectric dams FPL Energy of Maine acquired from Central Maine Power Co. in 1999 after Maine restructured its energy industry, forcing electric utilities like CMP to sell off its generating assets.
Jeffrey Thaler, currently a visiting professor of energy policy, law and ethics at the University of Maine, was one of the lawyers who represented FPL Group (now known as NextEra Energy Inc.) when they acquired the hydroelectric dams from CMP. In an email to the Bangor Daily News, Thaler said the acquisition "is a big deal in terms of dollars and cents, and it is big in the sense that the dams are a large chunk of Maine's hydropower."
Thaler called hydropower "the steady backbone of Maine's renewable energy sector."
"So for me, the good news is that the dams will continue to operate, generating clean, carbon-free electricity for Maine consumers," he said. "Brookfield has experience with Maine dams, so I hope that they continue to operate all of them, and stay invested in Maine."
Richard Davies, Maine's public advocate, said his office is not directly involved in the transaction because the Maine Public Utilities Commission doesn't regulate the generating assets, but said in general a transaction of this type shouldn't result in any noticeable changes to consumers.
Brookfield Renewable already operates 10 dams in Maine on the same river systems, according to its website.
"These proven generation assets are an ideal investment for us as they complement our existing hydro fleet in Maine where we have a long operating history," Richard Legault, Brookfield Renewable's CEO, said in a statement. "This transaction also provides a unique opportunity to leverage our operating platform while positioning us to participate in rising electricity prices over time."
Julie Smith-Galvin, a spokeswoman for Brookfield, declined to offer further details on the transaction, but sent the BDN the following statement:
"Brookfield is looking forward to expanding our presence in Maine. This portfolio offers many synergies with our existing operations, especially those on the Androscoggin River. As an experienced operator of hydropower in New England, we bring regional knowledge, hydro operating expertise and a long-term perspective to this high quality portfolio. While we cannot discuss certain specifics of the transaction at this time, we look forward over the coming months to closing the transaction and further strengthening our ties to the Maine community."
Smith-Galvin said Brookfield Renewable operates renewable power assets in Canada, the United States and Brazil. All the company's U.S assets are managed from its office in Marlborough, Mass., she said.
According to the release, Brookfield Renewable expects to have institutional partners co-invest alongside it for up to 50 percent of the portfolio through a private fund sponsored by Brookfield Asset Management.
NextEra Energy Resources is selling its assets "to further optimize our power generation portfolio and concentrate our resources on areas with greater growth potential for our business," Armando Pimentel, the company's CEO, said in a statement.
While NextEra Energy Resources is shedding all its hydropower facilities in Maine, it is still the owner of approximately 800 megawatts of generating capacity at six oil-fired generation units at two locations in Maine, Steve Stengel, a company spokesman, told the BDN.
Stengel said the decision to sell the dams was solely a business decision, as expressed by Pimentel.
"These are good assets that are going to be operated by an experienced hydro operator," Stengel said, "so that's a good thing for Maine."
The transaction is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the first quarter of 2013.


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1990 Mustang GT RealSpeed - Research And Destroy
Dan Carlson Uses His 240,000-Mile '90 Mustang GT For Research And Development, And Destroys The Competition With His Daily Driver.
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When you own and operate a performance shop, testing products and combinations to achieve real-world results gives you a higher level of credibility with your customers and an edge over your competition. Dan Carlson, of Bohemia, New York, knows the importance of this firsthand. Dan is the proud owner of Realspeed Automotive, and has been using his '90 Mustang GT as a research and development tool for almost 20 years. And amazingly, even with over 240,000 miles on the odometer, he still uses this GT every day.
Dan bought the GT new in 1990 with a very specific goal in mind. He wanted to prove that it was possible to consistently run 11-second quarter-mile times, yet still have the drivability to take cross-country road trips. Today, with the vast offerings of the Mustang aftermarket, an 11-second daily driver is an almost common occurrence, yet in the early '90s, it was nearly unheard of. When Dan started out, his combination was simple but effective, and countless trips from Florida to New Hampshire while Dan was in college, proved it was absolutely possible to reliably go fast.
Throughout most of the '90s, Dan worked as an engineer for Steeda Autosports in Florida, and he used his Mustang as a research and development mule. But after nearly a decade at Steeda, Dan moved north and opened his own shop. In 2004 he started Realspeed Automotive, which is on Long Island. It is no surprise his '90 GT still handles the R&D duties as well as the labors of daily driving.
Over time, the Mustang has racked up nearly a quarter-million miles, many while using the original Vortech blower case. Dan's combination may have changed, but his overall go-fast goal is the same-and as the aftermarket has evolved, so has his GT. In the search to build a faster, more reliable daily driver, Dan has put together another simple, yet effective, combination.
The mega-mile Mustang has seen a few combos over time but this time around he started with a FRPP Sportsman 302 block and bumped the displacement to 327ci. A billet crankshaft spins a set of Eagle rods and Diamond pistons with a compression ratio of 9.3:1. A Vortech V1 SC Si-Trim supercharger force-feeds 16 pounds of boost into an Edelbrock Performer RPM intake. A custom-ground hydraulic-roller cam opens and closes the valves inside a set of Edelbrock Performer 5.0 aluminum cylinder heads where the air/fuel mixture is compressed. Exhaust gases escape through a set of JBA shorty headers into a MagnaFlow cross-pipe and out through Dynomax mufflers.
Power is transferred through a Spec stage-3 clutch to a Tremec 3550 five-speed transmission that flawlessly handles the gear changes despite over 100,000 miles of daily use. The gearbox spins an FRPP aluminum driveshaft, which uses a set of 3.55 gears to turn the 31-spline Moser axles hidden inside the stock 8.8-inch rearend housing. Up front, Steeda Ultralite drag springs and Tokico drag struts handle the weight transfer on hard launches, and a Steeda 5-link rear suspension does a stellar job of keeping the Mickey Thompson ET Street Radials securely planted to the pavement. Steeda Pentar wheels sit in all four corners and Nitto NT01 rubber wraps the fronts.
Once the combination was in place, it was time to put a tune in the car. This would be the key to its performance as a daily driver. Dan strapped his Stang to the Mustang Dyno at Realspeed and set his baseline. To keep the fuel under control, a 255-gph high-pressure, in-tank, fuel pump, along with a T-rex in-line pump feeds fuel through the stock lines to a set of 60 pound injectors. A Crane Hi-6R ignition box supplies spark to the NGK plugs via a stock distributor and Moroso wires. The final result of Dan's street tune is 525 hp at the rear hides. With racing on the brain, he headed to the dragstrip to see just how well his new combination would perform. After a few warm up passes, Dan launched his R&D rocket to a best elapsed time of 10.46-seconds at 132 mph. This is pretty impressive considering the car was driven to and from the track and gets 17 mpg. "I could easily make it a 9-second car," Dan tells us. "It's a street car, I drive it everywhere. I don't see the point in cutting it up or making it a trailer queen. I have too much fun driving it."
After 10 years in the Florida sun, the paint on Dan's Stang needed a little attention, though. So in the spring of 2008, the car was sent to Concise Automotive where it was treated to fresh top coat. The '93 Cobra body kit form Cervini's was reused along with the Steeda Aero Spoiler. When all was straight, a slathering of Ultra-Blue metallic was applied renewing the stock hue, and after the buffing was finished, the looks matched the performance.
"This car changed my life," adds Dan. "I swore I would never buy another front-wheel drive four-cylinder, so I bought the Mustang instead. If I didn't, I definitely wouldn't be where I am today."