Insurer Ageas. Ageas is an international insurance group ranked among the top 20 insurance companies in Europe, with key markets in.
While most Americans — except those constantly traveling back and forth from.
The market will also look at lenders' bad loans following rapid growth in consumer.
Take car keys for example. They now enable us to open our car doors.
But that's just the start. The sensors within the car can transmit data to an.
But there are several other players in the electric truck market, including Mr.
The offer of a range of services, such as insurance, attracted 8.4 per cent of buyers, while loyalty discounts retain almost one in 20 drivers. while 27.3 per cent of.
The shock finding has implications for the development of driverless cars that are.
This statistic shows the leading life insurance companies on the market in Europe, ranked by market value (market capitalization) as of 31st of March 2015. In that.
The man, who is believed to have been the driver of the other vehicle in the collision, then left, saying he would return the next day to exchange insurance details. to.
You'll also find us on Instagram here. He was seen in the driver's seat of a.
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The FOI data, acquired by Confused.com, revealed that 41,041 drivers. car insurance and is one of the UK's biggest and most popular price comparison services, generating over one million quotes per.
While looking for new car insurance quotes, I looked on the Age UK website to see what prices it had on offer but to my surprise my application was declined.
A report published by the think tank argues that cars are now much safer and.
Walmart caters to U.S. online shoppers by having them drive up to their local store themselves. told Reuters they balked at having to use their own cars and.
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TLDR: Saddle seat deteriorating. Trying to fix.
Confidence is not doing well when things go right, or it is not just that. Confidence is knowing you've got it covered when things go wrong. I have this with Sam. I never managed to get there with Desi or Mr. Whizbang. Which is a long way of saying that I am back riding Sam [Sultan's Miracle Man].
How do I feel about the demotion? First off, it is a demotion. Sam is a beginner's horse. If I have any hope of saddle seat progress, I need to ride other ASBs better than I have been lately [Graduating From Sam]. Which leads to, secondly, the demotion is legitimate. I've been a hot mess for a while. The shows were simply the culmination [Report Pro-Am, Report Dixie Cup]. So, third, if you have a problem, go back to the point that you know it was working and go forward from there.
Since I was on Sam, I felt able to experiment. Legs were out as an anchor point. So, I put a hunter curve in my back for stability. This had the added advantage of bringing my shoulders back. I had let the reins, and therefore the horse, get long. Not long as in on the buckle, or even long for hunters/dressage. More of a working trot length. However, that is still too long for saddle seat. They want a short, short rein with a soft, light hand. AFAIK.
I shortened my reins, asked Sam to be more compact, and everything snapped together. Suddenly I remembered how to saddle seat. A few of our passes were the best I am capable of. Seriously. As good as anything I have done.
I'm going with the conflict of styles theory. The better Rodney goes, the worse my saddle seat has gotten. The more I ride hunter/jumper/dressage, the more that feels familiar. At the moment, I can't cope with changing from one to the other on a new-to-me horse.
In Lads Before the Wind, Karen Pryor calls the problem the New Tank Syndrome. When adding a new feature (Rodney), the solution is to relax the other variables (saddle seat) for a while.
I called this "going back to kindergarten," and it became an accepted practice in all our training. When a new and difficult criterion was introduced–working in a strange tank, for example–all the rules about perfection that had been established would have to be set aside temporarily (perhaps for a day or two, perhaps for no more than half a training session) while the animal learned to accommodate to the new circumstances.
The strict trainer who cannot tolerate "going back to kindergarten" simply wastes time and causes stress, trying to force perfection from the beginning in a new circumstance when it will come back anyway once the new circumstance has been accepted. I have seen this happen dozens of times in a human situation. Here's an example: singers and musicians who perform splendidly in a rehearsal room then get yelled at for making gross errors with the music in the first on-stage rehearsals; yet they may be, for the first time, scattered in new groupings, standing on ladders; wearing huge costumes, and staring into spotlights. People or porpoises, it's the same problem. It's the "new tank syndrome," and you can lick it by relaxing criteria temporarily, by "going back to kindergarten," In the long run it is not time wasted, but time saved.
Sam is my back-to-kindergarten. Of course, Pryor also says that it should be a short period. I am ignoring that part. Perhaps my summer will be comfort rides on Sam until I get used to swimming in the hunter/jumper/dressage tank again.
Eventually, I think I will be able to ride Rodney and stay with saddle seat. Eventually being the key word here. There is no logical reason why I can't ride both ways. I'm not asking to be Michael Jung and ride at the highest levels of three Olympic equestrian sports. I'm looking for some jumping, a little eventing, the occasional spin around an Academy class.
The two styles may even complement each other. During my lesson, I widened my hands – a Mr. E maneuver [Dressage Lesson] – for a moment to smooth out Sam's shoulder around a circle.
New outlook. This it is not a conflict. It is an opportunity to look at the same activity from two perspectives.


[SOUND] Welcome back to our lesson on sales and operations planning.
customer portfolio management and discuss the role of sales and operations planning.
business planning across the various elements of an organization.
In this lesson, we focus more attention on the linkages between sales and operations.
the capabilities and strategies of the supply chain function.
And must also support the organization's revenue and profit plans.
serves can be viewed as portfolios.
thousands of products, portfolio management can be extremely challenging.
An example of a company with a large portfolio would be Proctor and Gamble.
Which distributes hundreds of products through numerous channels.
distribution decisions associated with it.
have to many products or to many customer to effectively produce and or service.
Leading to sub optimal profit performance.
between customer needs, company profit goals, and supply chain capabilities.
managing portfolios is Pareto analysis.
revenue, inventory, investment, and profitability of products and customers.
are producing very little revenue and profit.
For example, this graph shows that 500 of the 1,600 products produce no profit.
While integrated business planning is typically focused on strategic planning.
critical resources to meet the needs of the customer at the least cost to do so.
Sales and Operations Planning is often called S&OP.
calling it Sales Operations and Inventory Planning.
productions activities, and on-hand inventories.
S&OP is very much a process that involves human interaction.
production implanting systems may provide inputs to the process.
between demand and supply are ultimately resolved by a forum of senior managers.
out three months or so, to establish a plan which considers inventory on hand..
how aggregate demand plans can be met.
it is focused on evaluating the requirements at a product family level.
This diagram helps to further depict the various levels of corporate.
And supply chain planning and where S&OP fits in over all scheme.
are held throughout the year to resolve any conflicts between functional plans.
products will be made available to meet customer demand in coming months.
have the materials prepared in a manner that is easily understood by all parties.
the ability of the supply chain to meet the projections.
to maximize the potential for the organization to meet its strategic goals.
While considering the needs of customers, and the capabilities of the organization.
S&OP is the process with which we bring together all the plans of the business.
financial into one integrated set of plans.


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To complete their survey of the Schubert Song Cycles, Boesch & Martineau arrive at Schwanengesang, the set of 13 songs composed in 1828. These are masterly settings of Rellstab and Heine, and finds Schubert at the very peak of his lieder-composing prowess. An additional song 'Die Taubenpost' D956a to words by Seidl was included by the publisher but this recording excludes the song. It does however include five Goethe settings dating from 1815 - 1821. Florian Boesch is in glorious voice, often almost introverted and intimate, but gloriously even throughout his range.
Boesch is a wonderful Schubert singer...the range of his full, rounded bass-baritone voice, always in tune, is remarkable.
[Boesch] has a very wide dynamic range at his disposal which he controls expertly while his palette of vocal colouring is wide ranging and applied with perception. Clearly he has established a formidable partnership with Malcolm Martineau...Here is an extremely accomplished and perceptive Schubertian.
The young Austrian baritone...is one of the current It boys of German Lieder...Boesch may not have the most alluring of contemporary baritone sounds, but his savour of the text and thoughtful, undemonstrative style bring their own rewards. Martineau's playing could hardly be bettered.
Boesch perfectly captures the resigned strength of the late masterpieces.


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Q: Printing Columns of two files if content of first column in both file matches in Unix I have two files as below
file1
name|address office
AK|Victoria Street
BK|Admond Street
DK|Business Street

file2
name|address home
AK|Nilofer Villa
ck|Bluewaters
bk|Homingo Apartment

the command or line of code should compare the first column of the two files and merge the columns as name|address office|address home, and replace the NA wherever is not matched,content of the files can be huge. full output should be as below
file3
name|address office|address home
AK|Victoria Street |Nilofer Villa
BK|Admond Street|Homingo Apartment
DK|Business Street|NA
CK|NA|Bluewaters

here is what I have tried so far:
awk -F '|' 'NR==FNR{c[$1]++;next};c[$1] > 0' file1 file2

but above lines of code are not merging, just producing the output as difference based on column name. that too case sensitive
name|address home
 AK|Nilofer Villa
Please Help, have checked few questions also, but not solving my purpose.

A: You can do this with the join command:
$ join -a 1 -a 2 -e NA -o '0,1.2,2.2' -t '|' -i <(sort f1) <(sort f2)
AK|Victoria Street|Nilofer Villa
BK|Admond Street|Homingo Apartment
ck|NA|Bluewaters
DK|Business Street|NA
name|address office|address home

Where:

*

*-a 1 and -a 2 include the unjoined lines from either file.

*-e and -o work together to show the "NA" field. The man page doesn't mention this, but to use -e you must specify -o. We simply show the fields in this order: join column, second column from first file, second column from second file.

*-t sets the delimiter

Of course we must also sort the files prior to using join (it's requisite), so we use process substitution. If your shell doesn't have that, you may use temporary files.

A: $ cat tst.awk
BEGIN { FS=OFS="|" }
{
    name = (FNR>1 ? toupper($1) : $1)
    if (!seen[name]++) {
        names[++numNames] = name
        vals[name,1] = vals[name,2] = "NA"
    }
    vals[name,ARGIND] = $2
}
END {
    for (nameNr=1; nameNr<=numNames; nameNr++) {
        name = names[nameNr]
        print name, vals[name,1], vals[name,2]
    }
}

$ awk -f tst.awk file1 file2
name|address office|address home
AK|Victoria Street|Nilofer Villa
BK|Admond Street|Homingo Apartment
DK|Business Street|NA
CK|NA|Bluewaters

The above uses GNU awk for ARGIND, with other awks just add FNR==1{ARGIND++} at the start of the script.

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Admissions News & Features
Women in business school
Stanford Apps Down 8.9%; Fewer Women
by: John A. Byrne on September 14, 2011 | 3 Comments Comments 6,350 Views
Applications to Stanford's Graduate School of Business fell for the second consecutive year, by 8.9% for the Class of 2013, according to the school's preliminary class profile. Stanford's fall is steeper than Harvard Business School (4%) or Wharton (5.7%) or the Johnson School at Cornell (8.0%).
The drop was expected and in line with a prediction by Admissions Director Derrick Bolton in an interview with Poets&Quants last year. At that time, Bolton said applications could fall by as much as 10%.
WOMEN ENROLLMENT FALLS AT STANFORD IN CONTRAST TO WHARTON AND HARVARD.
In contrast to Harvard Business School and Wharton, both of which achieved new record enrollments of women, Stanford saw the number of its enrolled women this year fall by four percentage points to 35%, from a high of 39% a year earlier. At Wharton, women enrollment hit a new record this year of 45%, while at Harvard it hit a new record of 39%. Because these three schools share a similar applicant pool, it appears as if the aggressive efforts by Wharton and Harvard to attract more women to its MBA programs has had an impact on the Stanford number.
Despite the decline in applications to 6,618, from 7,204 a year ago and 6,536 for the Class of 2013, the average GMAT score of the enrolled class rose three points to 731, allowing Stanford to maintain its distinction as the school with the highest GMATs in the world. Harvard's median GMAT score is 730, while Wharton's is 720. Stanford reported the range of GMAT scores for its admitted students as of June as between 530 and 790.
Also despite the application decline, Stanford enrolled more students than ever before—396 versus 389 last year and 385 two years ago.
STANFORD'S INTAKE OF CONSULTANTS HITS NEW LOW IN RECENT YEARS.
At 16% of the incoming class, the school's intake of consultants was the lowest it has been in at least the past six years. The number of consultants in the class fell by 20% this year. In both the two previous classes, consultants represented 20% of the incoming class. At Harvard this year, consultants make up 21% of the class, while at Wharton it's 22%.
Instead, Stanford enrolled what appears to be a new record of students with non-profit backgrounds. Some 13% of the new MBA candidates are from social enterprises, the government or the military compared to just 8% last year and 9% two years ago. Admits with financial backgrounds also were up to 28% versus 26% a year earlier, but still below the high mark of 30% for both the Classes of 2010 and 2011.
This year, Stanford's private equity and venture capital admits of 17% exceed those at both Harvard (13%) and Wharton (16%).
Stanford said this year's admits boast work experience that ranges from zero to a full 18 years (compared with last year's zero to 13 year range). The average amount of work experience is four years, compared to a median of four years last year.
NEW HIGH FOR U.S. MINORITIES IN STANFORD'S CLASS OF 2013–29%
Some 38% of the incoming MBA class is international, up a percentage point from 37% last year, from 56 different countries. Some 29% are U.S. minority, up six percentage points from 23% last year.
The largest single chunk of admits—45%–have undergraduate degrees in the humanities and social sciences. That's down five percentage points from 50% last year. MBA students with engineering, math and natural sciences undergraduate majors rose four percentage points to 35% of the class from 31% a year earlier, while those with business majors rose one percentage point to 20% of the class from 19% a year earlier.
The preliminary class profile is not yet online. Stanford is disclosing the data in a brochure to potential applicants obtained by Poets&Quants.
(See next page for a quick glimpse of the the Class of 2013 versus earlier Stanford classes)
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For many people, urges and cravings to use drugs or alcohol trigger automatic responses. Learning to say NO to these intense, ingrained desires is one of the biggest challenges in recovery. The good news is that you can understand these desires and learn to resist them.
It is important for patients to recognize that experiencing some craving is normal and quite common. Craving does not mean something is wrong or that the patient really wants to resume drug use. At the outset of recovery, they can be pretty intense, but each one will subside if you can wait it out and have a plan for relapse prevention. Cravings and urges will decrease in strength and frequency over time. You can make this happen by adopting some coping strategies that work best for you.
As part of recovery, Counselors at Tellurian may work with patients to develop a comprehensive list of their craving 'triggers'. It is usually helpful to concentrate on identifying the craving and cues that have been most problematic to each individual patient so Patients are aware of what may lead them to crave drugs or alcohol.
When patients have supportive, abstinent friends and family members, talking about craving when it occurs is a very effective strategy and can help reduce the feelings of anxiety and vulnerability that often accompany it. It can also help patients identify specific cues.
Close family members may become distressed when they hear patients talk about craving s because they expect it to lead to use. Our Counselors might spend some time identifying who Patients might feel comfortable talking with about craving, how that person would be likely to react, and whether it makes sense to ask that person in advance for support.


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Category Archives: Arab Revolutions
Arab Revolutions, Donald Trump, Levant, Middle East, Muslim Wars, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, Vietnam War
Donald Trump in Syria: Not Beau Geste, not Dien Bien Phu, not Khe Sanh, not Desert Storm……
April 5, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
Tweet to https://twitter.com/
President Trump has been flip-flopping on a Syrian withdrawal again. But he was quoted Monday that he might keep the (uninvited) troops in IF the Saudis pay him (as they pay mercenaries?). Now his staff say he might keep some forces in Syria for a 'short time'. Such alleged intentions have often led to prolonged wars of attrition (Vietnam, latest iteration of the Afghanistan War).
But nobody has asked Syria's government or people if they want American troops in their country (funded with Saudi money and hence beholden to the potentates' unrealistic goals in Syria).
The advice Trump will get, is getting, from his advisers and from self-serving Arab potentates seems to be to keep a 'substantial' small force in Syria. Under the guise of mopping up the remnants of ISIS. But many believe that this has nothing to do with ISIS anymore. And this force will be isolated in the 'desert'. Besieged by unreliables and hostiles/potential hostiles: disgruntled former Turkish allies, Arab Jihadists, Kurdish factions, Syrian regime forces, Hezbollah, Iraqi PMU, Brigadier Qassem Soleimani & his men, et al. Their access will depend on cooperation from some highly unreliable players in a highly unreliable region.
This is not like a repeat of the first Persian Gulf War to liberate Kuwait, when all sides were identifiable, lined up behind clear and visible battle lines. When the goal was clear.
Is somebody setting these American troops up as sitting ducks in the desert for their own agenda? A more isolated, unwinnable version of Khe Sanh? But the brave fighters at that Vietnamese outpost were not nearly as isolated as the strip of Syria that is relevant here. Besides, Khe Sanh, although not a Dien Bien Phu, was apparently just a diversionary battle that preceded the Tet Offensive.
Unless Mr. Bolton and all those pushing for this dubious project are willing to suit up, go to contested eastern Syria.
LevantSyriaSyrian WarTrumpVietnam
Arab Revolutions, Arabian Peninsula, Donald Trump, Middle East, Persian Gulf, Salafi, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Foreign Policy
Prince Bin Salman Coming to America: of Christian Evangelicals, Muslim Salafists, and the Anti-Christ…….
March 20, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
I came across a tweet from a frustrated and befuddled man. I wish I could remember his name. He wrote that for years Christian Evangelicals had warned him that the Anti-Christ was coming, that he should be ready for that dark day. He then added that: now that (he thought) the Anti-Christ has arrived (at least in the USA), he is shocked that they have joined him, that they voted for the same Anti-Christ they had warned him about and they continue to strongly support him.
(I wondered what he was talking about, clearly a Democrat).
Which reminds me of the Salafists (or Wahhabis), our Muslim equivalents of these Christian Evangelicals he was talking about. They also face a dilemma now. The Sunni Salafist clerics, and others, in the Persian-American Gulf region are mostly educated in Saudi theological colleges, where they have absorbed the teachings of Shaikh Mohammed Bin Abdul-Wahhab, the founder of Sunni Wahhabism, the official faith of Saudi Arabia. He, of course, based his doctrine on earlier extreme fundamentalists.
Over the years those Gulf Salafists became strong advocates and supporters of the Saudi theological school as well as strong advocates for the policies of the Saudi government, good and bad. That was a natural result of the Saudi establishment being an alliance between the ruling Al Saud dynasty and the strict Wahhabi clerics led by the Al Shaikh family who descend from Bin Abdul-Wahhab. The higher echelons of the Saudi establishment are full of Al Al Shaikh men, the current top religious Mufti is among them. A few times in my earlier posts I have often opined here that Gulf Salafists were essentially a Saudi fifth column in their native countries. Most of them anyway, although I know there are a few exceptions.
Saudi Salafist leaders in exile, almost all of them in the West, are furious about this new social and educational reform movement by MBS. They say it is a plot to end Wahhabism as they know it. It is, after all, threatening to deprive them of their only theological anchor: the Wahhabi clerical establishment in Saudi Arabia. The secular opposition, those not in prison in Riyadh or in Western exile are mostly silent for now, regrouping.
Now the Salafists of the Gulf states are facing a dilemma. The new Saudi strongman, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman is trying to move away from strict Wahhabism. He is trying to tap the dormant discontent and excruciating boredom among the huge population of young educated Saudis, male and female, as well as to impress Western policy-makers to his side. He is also doing it out of economic necessity, given this country's heavy dependence on foreign labor and foreign talent. Given the depleting nature of fossil fuel resources. This position is unusual for a Saudi prince who was not educated in the West, especially in the USA.
Gulf Salafists have for years been cheerleaders, money collectors, as well as volunteers for Al Qaeda and later ISIS (Islamic State), although they have toned it down in recent years because of political pressure by regional governments as well as American efforts. Some of them have even tried to follow the official line and pretend to abandon ISIS, by irrationally claiming that it was a creation of the Iranian mullahs (or was it the Emir of Qatar, as some of their minions seem to claim, although before last year, before-Trump and his Kushner baggage, many of them were claiming that Israel helped create ISIS).
In recent months, as I follow Salafists, and some Gulf Muslim Brotherhood members, on media and social media, I notice the effect of their dilemma. Some of their most outspoken commentators and rabble rousers are silent for now. Uncharacteristically silent. As if shocked by this turn of events in Riyadh, as if they are waiting to see where it leads to. Here they were pushing their own countries, like Kuwait and others, to impose restrictions on social life and on education, along the sectarian model of Saudi Arabia. Yet now Prince MbS seems to have pulled the rug from under their feet.
I wish him well in his attempts to open up Saudi Arabia and diversify it. I don't wish him well in his attempts to pull America into his plans for a sectarian war in the Persian Gulf region. He does not need my wishes for his genocidal war on Yemen: it is clearly a hopeless quagmire, a failed war, just as I wrote here about three years ago.
It is now in Donald Trump's hands: will he be foolish enough to rush into taking sides in a disastrous new sectarian war in our region? Will he take the tempting money, the bait being offered by this Saudi prince (and others in the Gulf) and start a war of choice with Iran? A war that will be a folly, just as this Saudi prince's war on Yemen has turned out to be…….
Other relevant posts to enjoy:
–Norah O'Donnell Interviews Prince MBS, Sans Pom Poms…..
–From Brexit to the Gulf: Saudi Arabia Set to Annex Great Britain ?………
–A GENUINE ARAB SPRING LED BY THE REVOLUTIONARY PRINCE OF SAINT VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE
–ARABIAN PR AS HISTORY: FRIEDMAN HAS EPIPHANY, JOINS THE REWRITING OF HISTORY OF JIHADISM…..
–MIDDLE EAST WARS: ASYMMETRIC MILITARY SPENDING, ASYMMETRIC MILITARY COMPETENCE……
–THE SECOND FRUSTRATION OF PRINCE BIN SALMAN: A FIASCO IN QATAR……
EvangelicalsMBSPersian-American GulfSalafismSaudi ArabiaWahhabism
Arab Revolutions, Migrant labor, Muslim Wars, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. State Department
Western Fun and Travel in Liberated Muslim and Arab Lands……..
January 26, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
"The 52 most incredible places to visit in 2018….. New year, new travel goals. Traveling is one of the most common New Year's resolutions and since 2017 was found to be the safest year on record for commercial air travel, now may be a good time to plan your next trip. It also helps that January tends to be the best time of year to find cheap flights. If you're looking for some travel inspiration, here are 52 of the best travel destinations for 2018, according to The New York Times. Keep scrolling for destination inspiration……"
Also sprach the periodical Business Insider.
I also have some destination inspiration for it readers. I have my suggestion for many of the traveling Western elites (the individualists, not the gawking sardine-can-cruise types).
Try some of the many Muslim places recently that some believe have been liberated in the Middle East or North Africa (MENA). Places the alleged current leader of the free world has talked about a lot, mostly in negative terms:
Try anywhere in Libya, which was liberated by NATO in 2011 at the behest of absolute elected Arab kings and potentates. The dictator Gaddafi was tortured (along with one f his sons) and killed extra-judicially (the way many others are killed in our region). In liberated post-Gaddafi Libya, you may be lucky enough to witness a few internecine skirmishes between rival armies, or even catch a rarity: a slave auction in (North) Africa. You can also get a front raw look at the migration disaster unleashed by the Western wars of regime change in our mis-ruled region of MENA.
You might also notice that those famous would be vocal liberators (only of Muslim lands): John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Joe Lieberman, Bernard-Henri Levy, James Woolsey, Joe Lieberman, et al, all stay away from Libya now. Not even a hint of a Trump Hotel or Tower in Benghazi or Tripoli.
Or try Mosul in Iraq, or Raqqa in Syria.
In Iraq in 2014, right after the fall of Mosul, Baghdad was saved from the clutches of ISIS Jihadi terrorists only through the efforts of local popular militias and with Iranian help and advice. They gave the Iraqi military and the supporting American military effort enough time to push back the menace that threatened Baghdad.
Syria was almost liberated for the joys of public beheadings and mayhem by Jihadi cutthroat fighters, Arab Salafi money & volunteers, and misplaced American weapons. In Syria you could witness the end-game of Western and allied Arab regime efforts: weapons and money inflow to the Jihadi cause. They came close to establishing their joyful Caliphate in Damascus.
Or, if you are more into more graphic ongoing action, try any hospital that still stands in Sanaa (capital of tormented Yemen) or in Aden. Get a first-hand view of Western attempts to put an incompetent Yemenite general back in power.
How about the wild territory of Northern Sinai, the expanding no-mans-land of ISIS and her terrorist sisters? Almost slipping out of the hands of Generalissimo Al Sisi.
Or you can try doing AirBnB in a rundown Bahrain Shi's village besieged by the regime's imported mercenary forces. You might get your first experience of teargas and broken down doors during dawn raids. Might remind you of your younger days if you are of the right age and were at the right place.
The list goes on, and it will go on as long as the Western powers seek foreign places to try their new weapons (or so most people in the Middle East believe; something their regimes and their controlled media never tell you)…..
LibyaMENA TourismMiddle East WarsNATOSyria
Arab Revolutions, Donald Trump, GOP, Jihadis, Steve Bannon
The Fast and Furious Iterations of Steve Bannon…..
January 9, 2018 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
"Steve Bannon is stepping down as executive chairman of Breitbart News. NYT's Jeremy Peters reports his exit was forced by financial patron Rebekah Mercer amid the backlash from President Trump following Bannon's comments in Michael Wolff's book Fire and Fury……."
A new iteration for Steve Bannon:
Out of the White House…
Back to Breitbart….
Out of Breitbart….
A new iteration coming soon, no doubt. I wouldn't be (too) surprised if Mr. Bannon lengthens his beard, flies into Istanbul, hires a car and heads for the Syrian border……
Or, he can join the other side by flying into Damascus or Beirut…..
How about Iran? I doubt that he would enjoy the (not very) Islamic ambience of Tehran…
It is tempting to say: "Steve, we hardly knew ye", but I suspect you're not fading away yet…..
BreitbartFire and FuryGOPJihadisSteve Bannon
America, Arab Revolutions, Human Right, MAGA, Missing, Poverty, Syria, War
Party of Personal Choice: From Syria's War Missing to America's Homeless…….
Senator John McCain tweeted today that this article in the Wall Street Journal is "important". It is about the estimated 100,000 people missing in Syria. It is of course important…
Then this hardly-noticed news item was published today about a study on homelessness in the USA:
"More than 500,000 people – a quarter of them children – were homeless in the United States this year amid scarce affordable housing across much of the nation, according to a study released on Thursday……Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Oregon and Hawaii have all recently declared emergencies over the rise of homelessness, and on Thursday Seattle's mayor toured a new encampment for his city's dispossessed……."
I have not seen any comment or tweet on this from McCain or other Republican politicians yet. Nor do I expect to see any comment from the "Party of Choice". They usually ascribe any misfortune or sickness (including children's sickness) or other tragedy to "a matter of personal choice". That was the case even before this new Wild West era of MAGA.
FYI: Democrats did only marginally better when they were in power….
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HomelessnessMAGASyriaUSAWar Missing
Arab Politics, Arab Revolutions, Human Right, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, U.S. Foreign Policy
Political Prisons: What the Bastille, Tzarist Siberia, Stalin's Gulag, Tehran's Evin, and Saudi Ritz-Carlton Have in Common…..
November 11, 2017 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
The French monarchy had the (now) notorious Bastille.
The Russian tzars had the vast Siberian land mass.
The Soviets had the infamous Lybyanka prison. (Stalin was familiar with cold exile from his days plotting against the tzars, thus he preferred to exile opponents and suspects to faraway cold places).
The Iranians (under both the Shah and the now-ruling mullahs) had/have the Evin prison in Tehran for their troublesome political dissidents.
Even Alexandre Dumas and Edmond Dantès had Château d'If, like Elba conveniently located close to France, from which one could only escape inside a coffin.
Now the Saudis have gone more 7-star in their prisons for the rich and famous corrupt rivals of crown prince MBS. Don't get me wrong, they still have dungeons (no dragons) and cellars for ordinary dissidents and opponents. But this new purge of the young and reckless Crown Prince includes too many of the elite, who are used to luxury living. Some of these princes, potentates, and oligarchs now under detention would not survive in an ordinary prison. They would not even survive in a 3-star or maybe even 4-star hotel. Hence, as widely reported, the Ritz-Carlton of Riyadh. That super-luxury hotel is now a sort of prison.
That very same hotel that Donald Trump and his family and entourage occupied during the wild hootennany in the desert last May, when he was almost anointed the Sixth Pillar of Islam. That was when Mr. Trump, the foreign interloper from far away, handed the keys of the Persian Gulf and the Arab World to the Saudi princes, or so he naively and foolishly thought.
The Ritz-Carlton was (and still is) also in some ways, a prison for Donald Trump. The luxury, the accolades, the over-the-top praises, and mainly the huge sums of money offered, locked him into the dangerous and futile agenda of the princes.
Which brings me to the mysterious fate of Lebanon's prime minister Saad Hariri. Can he also be incarcerated at the Ritz-Carlton now? Mr. Hariri, normally Saudi Arabia's proxy man in Lebanon, has his own residence in Riyadh. But even his supporters in Lebanon now concede that he is not free to travel from Saudi Arabia, that he is not allowed to com home to Beirut. Not yet. In effect: a prisoner of his former allies and bosses. That he can't speak for himself after his Saudi hosts forced him to resign and deliver a speech they wrote for him. Even the U.S. State Department has hinted that maybe he is being held involuntarily in the Kingdom Without Magic.
I know: Saddam Hussein is dead. But, just in case, long live the new Saddam Hussein, whoever he is or will be…….
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Arab Revolutions, Assad, ISIS, Jihadists, Middle East, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy
Confusing Rex Tillerson: Iraqi Militias Must Leave Iraq, Assad Must Leave Syria, No Pasaran in Arabic…….
Almost everybody has been after Bashar Al Assad to leave Syria since well before 2011. But the open calls for his departure came soon after the early uprising of the spring of 2011. That Syrian uprising was quickly bought and hijacked by the Salafists and Muslim Brotherhood of the Arab World, mainly the Wahhabi money bags of a couple of the Persian Gulf states. Jihadis poured into Syria from Arab states and Europe, seeking plunder, free women, and Shi'as/Christians/Others to abuse and kill. Eventually the Jihadist international brigades of ISIS and Al Qaeda inherited most of what was left of the active Syrian opposition. Here are some of the calls:
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (2009-2011): "Assad Must Go. His days are numbered".
Secretary of State John Kerry (2012…): "Assad Must Go".
Various Arab absolute Kings & their Ministers and their media: "Assad Must Go. Assad will go soon, Inshallah".
Saudi Foreign Minister Al Jubeir, who made a career out of it, even regularly specified in an odd weekly rant: "Assad will go soon, if not peacefully then by force" (For a while I was almost convinced he knew something I did't).
Barack Obama: "Look, fact is that: Assad Must Go".
Francois Hollande: "Assad Doit Partir. He Must Go (2011-2016). "
David Cameron: "Assad Must Go"
Turkey's strongman Erdogan (once a major enabler of Jihadists in Syria until about 2016): "Assad Yok! Assad Must Go (2011-2015)"
Many others, opinion-ators, pundits, journalists, American hawks, and European cafe men-about-town: "Assad has a few weeks left in Damascus. His top officers are defecting to the joys of Salafism and Wahhabism".
Donald Trump: "Maybe Assad can Stay. Or maybe not. We must defeat ISIS".
UN Ambassador Nikki Haley: "Assad Must Go".
Finally, this covering-all-bases doozy from U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson: "Assad Must Go. Also as a bonus: Iraqi Militias that saved Baghdad from DAESH in 2014 and fought ISIS must leave Iraq. (But he didn't specify go where? Definitely he doesn't want them in Yemen)"
"Assad must go" became the battle cry of the West and many Arab despots and leaders. Sort of like "No Pasaran" during the Spanish civil war. Except that it now looks like it was the Assad side that made sure the refrain of "No Pasaran" applied to the other side.
And the rest of the Middle East is all run by popular elected democratic men and clans and families and oligarchs and kleptocrats of the people.
And that is where it stands, but Assad is still with us, for now. Eventually he will go, but then so does everyone else, even Arab leaders, eventually……..
Inshallah….. God Willing…….
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The Logical Thinking of Kim Jong Un: Heeding the Lessons of Iraq, Libya, and Iran……..
July 6, 2017 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
In the beginning…..
Donald Trump ignored North Korea and its petulant young dictator. Mr. Trump has been focusing on his "other" foreign policy issues. In fact up to recently he has been taking a long victory lap celebrating his own alleged self-styled loot of billions of Saudi oil money during his coronation by desperate Arab and Muslim princes and potentates in Riyadh last May. All he had to do was tell them that he does not care about human rights and that Iran exports terrorism (but apparently not the nice Wahhabi type of terrorism of ISIS and Al Qaeda and AQAP and Nusra).
Trump has also been focusing on the Iran Nuclear Deal (JCPOA), since before the election. Trump of course does not know much about it, that it is a good deal for all sides according to international consensus (with the exception of the ruling princes of Saudi Arabia, the Empire of Bahrain, Israel, and the paid-for US Congress). Apparently the one draw-back of the Iran deal for Trump, the Republican Party, (and hawkish Democrats) is that it is a signature achievement of President Barack Obama. So Mr. Trump had promised to revisit the deal, perhaps to "withdraw" the USA from it. His first National Security Chief Mike Flynn, a Turkish agent and possibly a Russian agent as well, threatened more serious action against Iran. Before Trump was forced to fire him.
Among the Iranians themselves there are many who are also disappointed by how the nuclear deal has turned out. And by the ratcheted up threats from Washington and the nearly monthly new sanctions being voted by the US Knesset Congress and Senate. They also remember what happened in Iraq and Libya.
Back to Kim Jong Un: he could not be denied his share of American attention for long. He is that kind of dictator. Not long after Trump was inaugurated Kim started tossing around warhead-capable medium-range and long-range missiles. He or his henchmen also murdered a young American student-captive in Pyongyang.
And one more thing that can be unforgivable from my point of view: he gave Dennis Rodman another opportunity to be seen on network news.
Kim Jong Un also certainly well remembers what happened to Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi. Apparently Saddam had given up his WMD, but Iraq was invaded and he was overthrown anyway.
Libyan dictator Gaddafi gave up his WMD and paid billions in "compensation" to Western citizens and corporations. He was attacked and overthrown by NATO. He and one of his sons were allowed to be tortured and killed by some rebels. Now Libya is a failed and divided state.
Kim must have started thinking:
Gaddafi (of Libya) gave up WMD. He also gave up billions of dollars to Western countries and to victims of the Pan Am airliner bombing over Lockerbie in 1988. But what did he get? His new friends in NATO overthrew him then got him killed as soon as they got a chance. He and one of his sons were tortured and murdered by possibly the same people who later murdered four American diplomats in Benghazi. His country is now a failed state beset by Islamic Fundamentalists of the Wahhabi sect and by tribal infighting.
Iran heeded world power demands and reduced its nuclear program- and according to IAEA and world intelligence services it is abiding by the JCPOA Nuclear Deal. And Iran now is being seriously threatened by Donald Trump who is also hopelessly trying to form a futile alliance of hapless Arab and Muslim despots and potentates against it. These are mostly the countries whose citizens have actually committed terrorism in the Middle East and in the West. And both houses of the US Congress keep piling up sanctions against Iran, Kim knows….
If I were Kim, I would possibly perhaps per chance think that it is not just the WMD and nuclear stuff that the West, and the US government, has a beef with. Maybe it goes beyond that. If Iraq and Libya were attacked after they gave up their WMD, and if Iran is being threatened after it reduced its nuclear capability……
You get the drift: Kim will think that as soon as he gives up his nuclear and missile program, he might as well give up the ghost….
And it is hard to blame him for thinking along these lines, if you think about it (or you can start reading this post from the beginning)……..
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Arab Revolutions, Colonialism, Crusade, Iran, MENA, Regime Change, U.S. Foreign Policy
Western Hubris and Regime Change Obsession: From Iran to Latin America and back to the Middle East…….
Regime change has been an American obsession in the post-war era.
In 1953, the CIA (and British MI6) did not like the elected government of Mossadegh in Iran. There were issues of Iran taking their oil industry back, and worries about the strong Tudeh (communist) Party being legal. So they staged a play where the petulant young shah left for Europe, mobs of paid agents provocateurs were brought into the streets, and the generals staged a coup d'etat (to bring order). That was the beginning of the torturous love affair between the Iranian people and the United States government (as represented by the CIA). It set the stage for the Revolution of 1979, the US Embassy affair in Tehran, and the continued rancor. It could lead to another endless American war in yet another Muslim land, if the warmongers in the Republican Party (and some Democrats) have their way with Donald Trump.
Easy early success in Iran encouraged the CIA, which quickly shifted to another elected "leftist" regime, in Guatemala. President Árbenz was overthrown, and the rest of Latin America knew who was boss, until Fidel Castro and Che Guevara broke the mold.
But there were other "incidents" in Latin America: the Dominican election of 1965 was followed by the usual military coup and Lyndon Johnson's invasion; the Brazilian military coup; the bloody overthrow of the elected Allende regime in Chile and the mass murders that followed (Nixon, Kissinger).
Those were all successful coups and invasions with the goal of regime change. The attempts in Cuba failed.
But the Western attempt at regime change with the bloodiest long-term consequences for the West was in a Muslim country: Afghanistan. The mistake of intervention in Afghanistan would come to haunt the West, especially the USA, for decades later. It started the ball rolling on Islamic Jihad and terrorism:
After the Communists took over in Kabul in 1978, through a counter military coup, the USA and its Saudi allies started encouraging a tribal insurrection. In 1979 Moscow did its own version of regime change in Kabul, but eventually ended up paying a heavy price. Afghanistan became a battlefield for competing regime changes: the Soviet Russians supporting the ruling secular Communists, and the West and Wahhabi Arabs supporting the reactionary tribal Afghan Mujahideen (Islamist Fundamentalist) rebels. We all know how that story evolved: the Wahhabi Taliban Jihadists eventually took over in Kabul, Al Qaeda found a safe haven, 9/11 happened, then ISIS, and all that. And the longest endless futile war in American history that nobody has the courage to end, apparently not yet.
In the Arab World, Saddam Hussein opened the door to direct American military intervention and regime change. His failed attempted invasion of Iran bankrupted Iraq and led him to the invasion of Kuwait in 1990, perhaps to recoup his losses. That set the stage for George W Bush and the neocons to invade Iraq in 2003, after the September 11 attacks.
Then there was the NATO operation that culminated in regime change in Libya. The dictator Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown, tortured, and murdered along with one of his sons. Libya is now a divided failed state, exporting more terrorism than it did even before 2011.
The Syrian war is another example. One can just imagine what will happen when tens of thousands of Jihadis from Arab lands (mostly from Saudi Arabia and North Africa) and from European cities go back home to roost.
But wait, it is not over yet. Some old unrepentant Republican Necons and paid Democrats and lobbyists of generous despotic un-elected Arab princes are again taking up the old call of regime change in Tehran. Using a former terrorist group that acts as a Saudi surrogate. Some of these folks actually believe they will be received with flowers and cheers in Tehran and other places. Will they ever learn? Apparently not. I think they should leave any regime change to the Iranian people.
Most people in the Middle East consider these continuous Western (mainly American) interventions as a return of Western colonialism, probably correctly so. The more Islamist fundamentalist peoples in the Middle East, some among the Arab Salafis, consider these interventions a new Crusade.
Right now some American politicians might want to focus on regime change closer to home, if you get my meaning….
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Arab Revolutions, Donald Trump, Syria, White House, WMD
Who to Believe on Future Syrian WMD Allegations: the Trump White House or Bashar Al Assad?…….
June 27, 2017 Mohammed Haider Ghuloum
"Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing a chemical weapons attack that would result in the "mass murder" of civilians, the White House said Monday, warning the regime would pay a "heavy price" if it goes ahead…….. "The United States has identified potential preparations for another chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime that would likely result in the mass murder of civilians, including innocent children," spokesman Sean Spicer said in a statement. "The activities are similar to preparations the regime made before its April 4, 2017 chemical weapons attack." Assad, backed by his ally Russia, has strongly denied the allegation that his forces used chemical weapons against the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun, describing it as a "100 percent fabrication"…….."
It is not a theory anymore: it is a fact. Whenever the Syrian Jihadist rebels are losing some serious ground someone, either the United States government (or occasionally British or French sources), come up with "evidence" that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons (WMD). All based on"reliable" sources on the ground in Syria: meaning Syrian Jihadi rebel sources. Possibly all of it corroborated by by reliable "allied" intelligence sources in some Persian Gulf kingdom, and maybe some Western reporter in Istanbul or Riyadh or even Beirut.
Could be true, the reports are accompanied with photos and video clips, which regime supporters claim are staged or doctored. But anything can happen in the bloody killing fields of Syria. Apparently somebody has been repeatedly playing with chemical weapons in (or over) some of the besieged Jihadi-held parts of Syria. This has been the pattern for several years, a pattern that started in recent years, as soon as the rebels began to lose ground to the Assad regime and its allies. Is the limited, alleged small-scale use of chemicals really helping the Assad regime that much? I doubt that it is worth the trouble nowadays, so I have doubts about it. It has now become like a matter of determining which came first: the chicken of the egg?
Usually the accusations (and retaliation) come after the alleged fact. This time the Trump White House claims that Assad is "thinking" or "planning" to use chemical weapons. Normally the losing side in a war is tempted to use chemical weapons, as Saddam Hussein's Baathists used Western-supplied WMD against the Iranian forces and against Kurdish civilians during the 1980s. The winning side in a war rarely uses WMD, it has not happened since 1945.
Now Mr. Trump is getting involved deeper into a predictable Syrian quagmire, just as he is getting deeper into the certain Yemeni quagmire. Possibly both for a price to be paid by one or two oil potentates. And he is setting the stage to get the American media that he despises on his side.
His White House now claims they have foresight, that some bird must have told them Assad will use WMD soon. Perhaps along the eastern border with Iraq? Or maybe at one of the last strongholds of the Jihadis inside Syria. The New York Times reports that the new White House claim took US military leaders by surprise. National intelligence and even White House National Security officials refused to comment on the surprising and unprecedented statement by Sean Spicer. UN ambassador Nikki Haley was also reported yesterday to have threatened to hold Iran responsible if Assad uses chemical weapons, although it is not clear why she did not threaten Russia as well. (Hint: Russia, like North Korea, has nuclear weapons).
The question now is: how credible are any new allegations by the Trump White House these days? Especially about matters of war and peace, but not just those? A sign of the times, no? Sad….
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Hydrogen-Deficient Stars 2018 – Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
September 2018 will see over 50 astronomers from around the world gather at the Armagh Observatory and Planetarium to discuss the latest news about hydrogen-deficient stars. These stars have lost nearly all the hydrogen from which they were made, to leave only nuclear ash. Astronomers want to learn how these rare and short-lived remnants formed, and what drives their spectacular changes in brightness.
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Recent observations of the helium star HD144941 have been obtained from space. Armagh astronomers Professor Simon Jeffery and Dr Gavin Ramsay have discovered that they show a light curve best explained by darker and lighter patches on the star's surface coming into view as the star rotates with a period Read more…
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Discovery of the first new extreme helium star for 40 years
In a paper entitled 'GALEX J184559.8−413827: a new extreme helium star identified using SALT', Armagh astronomer Simon Jeffery reports the first new extreme helium star to be discovered in nearly 40 years. Extreme helium stars represent a small group of low-mass supergiant stars. They have spectral types equivalent to A Read more…


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Motley Crue's Vince Neil Says Netflix Biopic Is Better Than He Expected
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Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil told Blabbermouth that he was worried about the band's Netflix biopic The Dirt would be "this really low budget film but after the first ten minutes of watching the movie I forgot it was about us and I was just enjoying a really good film." Neil also seems pretty pleased with actor Daniel Webber's portrayal of him in The Dirt, saying "I - think that each guy that played each of the band members pulled it off... I mean exact. You get everybody's personalities right there on film. Motley Crue recorded four new songs for The Dirt soundtrack. The band called it quits in 2015 but bassist Nikki Sixx has recently admitted that he misses playing with his bandmates.


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Part of the PinkBananaMedia.com family and focusing on LGBTQ business news, this blog features select content, news and stories related to online marketing to the LGBTQ community, including social media, mobile technology and the latest in digital marketing techniques.
How Do I Get My Web 2.0 and Social Networking World All Working Together in Synchronized Harmony?
By Pink Banana Media - August 31, 2009
Finding the most efficient ways of using photos, blogs and videos to promote your company on the Internet, far and wide!
It's interesting, but as we enter into the latter half of 2009, we can look back less than a year and see how when it comes to social network marketing, we're living history as we speak. There was a day when only a small handful of early adopters even knew what Twitter was. Now, it's become part of our daily dialogue (can you say "Tweet"), the way "Google" has turned into "Googling" and become a verb.
From our July 2009 Gay Business Report, we went into great detail as to how and why to use Twitter, and over the past two months, even more has evolved on this topic that provides even greater relevancy to using Twitter in our business lives. But Twitter is still only part of the story, as it is both one of our primary TOOLS for managing our online content and one of our primary TOUCH POINTS for communicating our content's message to a wide and relevant audience worldwide.
Our company's main focus with clients is to break up the social networking world into two main components, the TOOLS used in social networking (photos, videos, blogs and micro-blogs) and the TOUCH POINTS used to broadcast the photo/video/blog message to as wide an audience as possible. There is a lot of gray area in this concept, as the tools used in placing photos, videos and blogs online are also some of the best touch points to use when broadcasting that message and communicating with as wide an audience as possible. When placing photos online, Flickr.com serves as both an excellent site to post, manage and maintain a user's photo albums, as well as serves as one of the best sites to share photos with other Flickr.com users using some of their social networking features they've built into their site. Lastly, Flickr.com is also one of the best sites to use when virally spreading those photos far and wide online, as their RSS and XML?features, as well as their integration with Twitter.com, blogs and other sites.
It is this concept, using sites such as Flickr.com for photos, YouTube.com for videos, Blogger or Wordpress for blogs and Twitter.com for micro-blogs (also known as status updates) that should form the cornerstone of every social network marketing plan in place today. This content is then integrated with your social networking sites including Facebook, FriendFeed, LinkedIn and Twitter (yes, Twitter... thus the gray area of Twitter being both a tool and a touch point), and the more automated this integration is for you, the easier your life is and the more efficient your social network marketing strategy becomes.
For example, let's say you have some photos you've taken of a business reception or mixer you attended, and you plan on using a few of those photos for your blog posting as well. Here's what to do.
1. Upload the photos to Flickr.com and specify that they are part of a SET all their own (in Flickr.com, a set is synonymous with a photo album). You can upload the photos directly online at Flickr.com or use their handy photo uploading software, which makes your photo uploading work even quicker and easier.
2. When using the Flickr uploading tool, you can both create a description for the Photo Set as well as for each individual photo. If you have all of the photos selected (using CTRL-A or your Control Key to select multipe individual photos at once), you can also specify a generic description for each photo as well. Make these descriptions work for you by being exact about what event the photos were taken, along with the website addresses of the organizations you wish to promote. If you're just an attendee, be sure to add "Photos Taken By: xxx" and enter both your company name and your website address. Do the same for the general photo set description, and now when someone clicks on any of your photos, they will be just one click away from where you want them to be... either your website, a specific page on your website, your client's website, etc. Your Flickr.com profile will also have your website information on it as well, but since the user has to actually find your profile link, click on it, etc., you've now maximized your photo's performance by placing all of that information and more directly in each individual photo's description.
3. Place a few of these photos into one or more relevant Flickr.com groups. If the photos are related to gay travel, then make sure you're a part of a few gay travel Flickr.com groups (some groups have thousands of members). This creates just another way for your photos to be seent.
4. Using the integration feature of Flickr.com to Twitter.com, you can select a few key photos and click on "Share". Scrolling down to their BLOG selection under Share will allow you one-click access to then sharing your photo using Twitter as well. Use some good key words to describe your photo as you send it out into the "Twittersphere" as you want as many people to find and click on the photo as possible. Your photo will have a new link using http://flic.kr and this link will display your photo, the descriptive text you entered along with hyperlinks, thumbnails of additional photos in this photo set, direct links to your other photos and to your profile, etc. All of these can then allow a user to discover more and more about you, your company and some of the various activities you and your company are doing. You are both informing and entertaining your viewers, with the hope of further engaging them andconverting some of them into potential clients.
The rest is easy... you would then write your blog, use some of your photos in the blog posting, and link to this Flickr.com photo set directly from your blog. You would also make sure to upload these photos into a new album you've created, but from your Facebook Fan/Business page. Placing these photos onto your business page and not your personal page means that every online Facebook viewer who checks out one of your photos is exposed to your business, not just you as an individual. Of course, since you'll probably be in a few of the photos, they will be linked from your personal profile since you'll be tagging yourself in these photos as well and they will be featured in your profile's news feed.
And yet, we're not stopping here... your blog is hopefully already integrated into Facebook Fan page using the NOTES feature of Facebook, whereby you can automatically have your blog postings appear in your Facebook Fan page with no extra work on your part. Thus, after posting your blog and waiting a few hours (these integrations aren't always instantaneous), you can check out your Facebook Fan page and find that your members have already commented and shared this posting with their friends as well.
A lot of time was not spent on these last concepts, as most people seem to be more and more comfortable with how Facebook and blogs work nowadays. We've written extensively on them in previous Gay Business Reports as well. Our main focus now is to do a more in-depth analysis of the way these components work together, especially using some of the newest tools at our fingertips such as Twitter.
On that note, let's continue the thought process from above. Your blog posting is now on Facebook, but it hasn't made its way automatically to Twitter. That is where TwitterFeed.com comes in. Using TwitterFeed.com (or other programs out there including HootSuite.com), you can automatically have your blog postings converted into a Twitter, along with a shortened URL, and posted to your account automatically. By also having a Bit.ly account (http://www.bit.ly), you can also make it so that you have more detailed analysis of how many click-throughs you receive, as well as how many click-throughs your blog posting has received from others ReTweeting it as well. You'd be fascinated to learn that some articles and blog postings are now receiving between 100 and 1,000 click-throughs on a normal run, and others related to hotter topics receiving upwards of 10,000 click-throughs and more. Thus, Twitter is a force to be reckoned with... do we really want to ignore such click-throughs driving RELEVANT?traffic (aka potential clients) to our website?
Further continuing along the thought process from above, let's go back to Facebook but keep thinking about Twitter. You're on your Facebook Fan page and you want to communicate with your members and other viewers of your fan page. Just a week ago, Facebook enabled your Facebook Fan page to integrate with your Twitter account so that when you post a business-oriented status update in your fan page, it can automatically appear as a Twitter as well. This is powerful, in that it allows you to post once on Facebook and have it appear on Twitter as well. We've argued in the past that to post your Twitters automatically into Facebook is not the right way to go, and we stand behind this still. Twitter conversations are developing a life of their own, with retweets, Twitter replies, shortened URLs and more, and these conversations are no longer in the form of status updates to be shared on Facebook as well. Especially in your personal profile. But to share a business posting FROM Facebook TO Twitter is relevant, in that you are starting a conversation from Facebook and allowing it to have a life in both places now. On Facebook, the conversation takes the form of comments which stay on Facebook and appear below your original status update. On Twitter, they take the form of replies using the @ symbol and ReTweets using the RT sign, with perhaps a few # signs thrown in by other users to improve their search relevance. All more indications that your Twitters now have a life of their separate from status updates in Facebook.
Of course, these same rules starting with Flickr.com above apply equally well to videos on YouTube.com as well. You'll typically have less views on a video than you would on a photo, but the views you do receive are considerably more engaged in you, your product and your service. Using sites such as 12Seconds.TV, your video can quickly and easily be integrated on Twitter as well.
Stay tuned for our next posting in the upcoming Gay Business Report where we apply everything we've just discussed here in this article and take this process further, setting you up as a potential "Thought Leader" in your specific field.
Direct Link to September 2009 Gay Business Report:
http://www.pinkbananamedia.com/pdf/pbmbizreport_sep2009.pdf
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LGBT Spending Power for 2015 Estimated at $917 Billion
By Pink Banana Media - July 20, 2016
The combined buying power of the U.S. lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) adult population for 2015 is estimated at $917 billion, according to a new analysis by Witeck Communications.
Releasing the finding, Bob Witeck said, "Buying power – also known as disposable personal income (DPI) -- is not the same as wealth. It is a practical tool for economists and marketers, in particular, to signal the increasingly visible contributions made to our economy by America's diverse gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgender individuals and households."
Disposable personal income (DPI), according to economists, is the amount of money that individuals have available to spend and save after paying taxes and pension contributions to the government (roughly 86% of income). Witeck added, "To understand this estimate, it's important to underscore that there is no evidence that same-sex households or LGBT people are more affluent or, on average, earn more than others. That is a stereotype, long …
Advertise on the Top Gay iPhone app - Grindr
By Pink Banana Media - February 16, 2010
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As a retired Lawyer I know that an Easement to Property is an nonpossessory interest one property owner has in land owned by another property owner. The usual case is permission to cross someone's private land to get to your land.
However, there are different kinds of easements and not all easements are equal!
What is an Easement to Property? An Easement to Property is the right to use land belonging to someone else. You do not own the land over which you have an Easement. How you may use the land is controlled by the Type of Easement you have.
An understanding of Easements is necessary before you purchase Country or Homestead Property.
In the article that follows I will discuss the most common form of Easements to Property and what rights they give you.
I'll also discuss easements that can result in litigation, monetary cost and heartache to Property Owners.
What Is A Legal Easement?
A Legal Easement is an easement that is Recorded in the same County Office where Deeds to Property are Recorded. This easement is also called a Deeded Easement or a Recorded Easement.
It is the only type of easement that guarantees that you have a right to cross over or use any privately owned land that is between your property and the nearest County or Public Road.
This is the only type of easement that gives you the legal right to use someone's private land to access your land when you do not have direct access to a Country Road or other Public Road.
No other type of easement gives you the legal right to cross someone's private land to access your land.
If your easement is not a Legal Easement, any landowner whose property you have to cross over to get to your land has the right to put up a locked gate and keep you from crossing his land to access your land!
How Do You Know It Is A Legal Easement?
There is Easement Language written into the Deeds in the Chain of Title to the Property you are considering purchasing.
The Deeds in the Chain of Title reference a document that is recorded in the County Deeds Office. The easement will be described in that document.
If you are trying to decide between two pieces of property that the access to those properties crosses someone's private property, have the Real Estate Agent get you a copy of the current Deed to each of the properties.
If there is a Legal Easement, the Deed will have Easement Language or reference a document that is recorded and contains the Easement Description.
An example of Easement Language is; "A non-exclusive easement 60 feet in width for ingress and egress over the existing road between the property and County Road 18 with the right to convey said easement to others."
A non-exclusive easement is an easement that other people can use besides the property owner who has been granted the easement in his Deed.
An easement 60 feet in width does not mean the road to your property is 60 feet in width! It means the easement goes outward 30 feet on each side of the existing road's center line. The road may only be 15 or 20 feet wide.
But the easement has room to move the road if it gets washed out or a portion of it sinks or becomes unusable.
Easements do not always come in 60 foot widths. In many areas of the U.S. an easement may only be 50 feet in width.
Depending on the age of the easement, you may find some easements that have been in existence for several decades that are only 30 feet in width.
An easement for ingress and egress defines how the easement can be used. In this case for ingress or coming on to the land served by the easement. Also for egress or going out from the land served by the easement.
In many cases the language may say; "for ingress, egress and utilities." This gives public utilities the right to come in over the easement.
Over the existing road between the property and County Road 18 is language that tells you the exact location of the easement.
Right to convey said easement to others allows you to pass the existing easement on to a future Buyer of the property if you decide to sell.
Most States allow an easement to be passed to future Buyers but it is nice to have that stated specifically in the Deed.
Another example of Easement Language might be; "Complete with an easement 50 feet in width running along the southern border of the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of the Northwest Quarter of Section 14, Township 16 North, Range 4 West, Boise Meridian."
This language also describes exactly where the easement is located.
This last language example sounds confusing to those who are not familiar with the Rectangular Survey System that has been used in many parts of the U.S. since 1784.
This system is used in 29 States including Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Mississippi, all States north of the Ohio River and west of the Mississippi River except Texas.
The rest of the U.S. uses either the Metes and Bounds System or the Map, Tract or Plat System.
In some instances the Deed may have language similar to this; "Complete with an easement for ingress, egress and utilities as described in Miscellaneous Book 14 Page 397 Recorded in the Flathead County, Montana Deeds office."
If there is language such as this in the Deed, you need a copy of that document to learn the type of easement and its location.
What If No Road Exists But There Is An Easement In The Deed?
Your first job as far as the easement goes is to determine if the easement is in a suitable location for a road. Have a local road builder or construction company that builds roads examine the easement area.
Have them tell you if it is a suitable area for a road and give you a written report and estimate of the costs to build a road.
The road builder or construction company will probably do this for free because they anticipate being hired to build the road.
Give the report and estimate to the Seller and tell him the easement for ingress and egress must include the complete route set out in the estimate because it is the most feasible route to the land.
Tell the Seller you want him to build the road as set out in the estimate of costs. Road construction contains many risks that are best borne by the Seller. The Seller will probably add the cost of the road construction to the price of the land.
If it turns out that the road can not be constructed on the easement or the easement does not cover the route needed for the road, do not buy the land!
Should I Buy Land Without A Legal Easement?
If it is necessary to cross over someone's private land to access the land you are considering buying, you need a Legal Easement to avoid a lot of problems, headaches and possibly an expensive and lengthy court battle.
I do not ever recommend anyone purchase land accessed by driving over someone's private property unless there is a Legal Easement.
Remember, a Legal Easement is an easement recorded in the County Deeds Office.
If there is any other type of easement, you are buying into a potential problem that is just waiting to happen.
Where Does The Easement Enter The Property?
You need an easement that does more than just reach to the property. You need an easement that goes to the portion of the property most suitable for a building site!
Carefully examine the easement to see if it accesses the property near the best building site.
An acceptable alternative is to be sure that a good road can be built from where the easement enters the property all the way to the best building site.
If the easement does not enter the property near the best building site or if a road can not be built from the easement to the best building site do not purchase the property.
If the Title Insurance Policy insures an "easement to the property" but the existing easement does not enter the property near the best building site or at a location suitable for building a road to the best building site you only have an Insured Easement to the land, not to the best building site.
What If The Easement Is Shared By Other Property Owners?
In many cases a non-exclusive easement for access to property is shared by many property owners.
When several people have an easement over the same road to access their properties there is usually no indication of who is to maintain the easement road.
In most situations the responsibility is shared by all those who use the easement to access their land.
It is common for those who live farther down the easement road to pay a larger portion of the upkeep because they use more of the road than others do.
There are some situations where each person accessing his land from the same easement road all pay the same amount for road upkeep. That is a decision made by those who use the same easement to access their property.
To learn what the situation is where you are considering buying land, ask some of your potential neighbors how upkeep of the road is shared?
This should be done prior to purchasing the land and it should be a factor in the decision whether or not to buy land there.
Be sure to ask about the average cost per year for road upkeep and how the cost is distributed among those who use the easement road.
In the process of questioning future neighbors, you may be able to foresee potential problems in road upkeep. Those potential problems may be sufficient to send you looking for land elsewhere!
If you are the only person who uses the easement then all of the upkeep will be your responsibility. Don't bargain for more upkeep than you can afford!
When evaluating a road on an easement be sure to look for improvements that can reduce the yearly upkeep costs. An example of those improvements are steel or concrete culverts placed under the road so as to drain water away from the road.
These culverts can help prevent a dirt road from becoming impassable from ruts and puddles during heavy rains and melting winter snow.
Can the Owner Of Land An Easement Crosses Interfere With Your Use Of The Easement?
A Legal Easement is a Nonpossessory Property Right held by the Easement Holder. The Easement Holder does not own the land covered by the easement.
The Nonpossessory Property Right gives the holder of an easement the right to use property that they do not own or possess.
The Easement Holder can make repairs or improvements to the easement as long as they do not interfere with the rights of the owners of the property the easement crosses over.
The property that benefits from the easement is called the Dominant Estate and the property the easement crosses over is called the Servient Estate.
The existence of a Legal Easement across a Servient Estate prohibits the owner of that Servient Estate from interfering with your use of the easement as long as your use is in accordance with the terms of the easement.
As an Easement Holder you can not occupy the land or exclude others from the easement unless they are interfering with your use of the easement.
It is helpful to think of the rights of the Easement Holder and the rights of the Owner of the Servient Estate as a balance of rights and responsibilities.
The Easement Holder has the right to do those things reasonable and necessary to fully get the benefit of the easement.
The Owner of the Servient Estate may make any reasonable use desired of the easement as long as his use does not prevent the Easement Holder from accessing his land.
The key to understanding the usage the Easement Holder and Owner of the Servient Estate may make of the easement is the term reasonable. What would a reasonable person do in the same or similar circumstance.
As long as both parties are reasonable in their usage of the land covered by the easement there is no problem.
What Happens When The Usage Is Not Reasonable?
If the Easement Holder or the Owner of the Servient Land uses the easement for an unreasonable purpose, the other party has a Remedy at Law.
If a Court finds the Easement Holder's use of the Easement to be unreasonable the Owner of the Servient Estate has a remedy such as a court order restricting the Easement Holder's use of the Easement to Reasonable Use.
If the Easement Holder damages the easement the court can award monetary damages from the Easement Holder to the Owner of the Servient Estate for injury to the Servient Property or cause the Easement Holder to lose the right to use the Easement.
An example of unreasonable use by an Easement Holder would be cutting down trees growing in the easement on the Servient Estate. Those trees do not belong to the Easement Holder since the easement is a nonpossessory right.
The trees belong to the Owner of the Servient Estate and are his to remove as long as they do not stand in the way of the usage of the easement.
In some States if an Easement Holder cuts down tress that do not belong to him the penalty for doing so is treble damages. The Easement Holder would have to pay the Owner of the Servient Estate three times the value of the trees!
Another unreasonable use by an Easement Holder could be improper widening of the easement road or faulty grading of the easement road causing damage to the easement road or damage to the Servient Estate.
Reasonableness need not be specifically spelled out in the easement. If the easement is to access the property on which you live, reasonable use is your accessing the property along with the normal visits by family and friends.
If you later decide to have a commercial venture on your land such as a Pay Lake where people can come and fish, the easement will not cover that commercial use. The Servient Estate Owner could get a Court Order preventing the usage of the easement for any commercial purpose..
If the Court finds the Servient Land Owner's use to be unreasonable the Easement Holder has a Remedy. If the Servient Land Owner puts up a locking gate preventing the Easement Holder from accessing his land the court can order the locking gate removed.
If interference with the easement reduces the value of the Dominant Estate, the Court can award monetary damages to the Easement Holder. The Servient Land Owner would have to pay the damages to the Easement Holder.
Another example of unreasonable use by the Servient Land Owner could be developing the easement area in such a way as to make upkeep of the Easement Road difficult or impossible.
One way this could be done is to plant trees and bushes in a manner as to make it difficult to snow plow the Easement Road by planting trees and bushes so the snow can not be pushed off the road and onto the side of the easement.
A Prescriptive Easement is where a land owner has crossed over someone's private property long enough that under the Law of that State they could go to court and obtain an Easement by Prescription.
To obtain an Easement by Prescription, the use of the access to the property has to be open, hostile, notorious, continuous for the specified period and under a claim of right.
An Easement by Prescription can not be obtained if permission was given by the Land Owner whose land is being crossed.
If there was no permission the usage may have been tolerated by the land owner over whose private land the neighbor had to cross to get to access his land.
Prescriptive Easements are fairly common in rural areas where friends lived next to each other for years. It is fairly common to allow a friend who lives next door to access his land by driving across his neighbor's land.
The problem arises when the one whose land was driven across sells his property to a new land owner.
There will be no easement across the property listed on or referenced in the new land owners deed. So the new land owner can put up a locking gate preventing anyone from crossing his property.
If that happens, there can be a lengthy, expensive law suit that may or may not be won by the land owner who can not access his land.
Are Prescriptive Easements A Problem?
The quick and simple answer to this question is; Yes, Prescriptive Easements can be a BIG problem!
The new land owner may not want someone driving across his land. If there is no language in his deed or reference to a document that is recorded preventing it, he can put up a locking fence to prevent anyone driving across his land.
How can this problem be solved? One way is to take the new neighbor to court. If you can prove that the road across his land has been used to access your land for the required number of years you can win the lawsuit.
In that case the neighbor will have to remove his locking gate and let you access your land.
By going to court and winning you now can get to your property but, it can be a losing proposition in the long run.This process takes time, money and you may not win.
If you do win you may have made an enemy out of your neighbor. It is not the wisest course of action to live next door to an enemy and have to drive past him each time you enter and leave your land.
Another way to try to get to access your land without making an enemy of your neighbor is to offer to purchase an easement across the road to your property.
This might work but you are at the mercy of what the neighbor feels the easement is worth.
You could offer the neighbor a land swap. Trade a portion of your land to him for the portion of his land the access road is on. I know of situations where this has worked out for both parties. But those times are definitely few in number!
Do you see why you should never purchase land accessed by driving across someone's private property unless there is a Legal Easement allowing you to do so?
Never take anyone's word that a Legal Easement will be easy to obtain after you buy the land! If it will be easy to obtain, then it will be just as easy for the Seller to obtain it as a condition of your purchasing the land.
Again, if there is not a Legal Easement when the land is only accessed by driving across someone else's private land, do not purchase the land!
This situation can be common in rural areas. Here is the usual way it arises. A landowner fails to realize that a portion of his land is being used by an adjoining neighbor.
A fence might be placed a few feet over on a neighbor's land. There might be a building built that ends up with a portion of it being on a neighbors land.
In the fence or building situation, if the mistake is not found and the fence or building lasts for the period of time in that State's Adverse Possession Laws, then the neighbor who has been occupying someone's land can go to court and obtain an Easement by Prescription.
Once a court recognizes an Easement by Prescription it will be recorded in the County Deeds Office making it a Legal Easement.
The use of someone's land for this period of time must be open, notorious, hostile, and continuous for the period of time in that State's Adverse Possession Laws.
What Is An Unrecorded Easement?
An Unrecorded Easement is an easement that does not show up in a Title Search because it is not recorded in the County Deeds Office.
A Title Report or Abstract of Title will tell you of any Legal, Recorded, Easements that benefit the land you are buying or that burden the land you are buying.
These reports do not tell you of Unrecorded Easements and Title Insurance does not insure against Unrecorded Easements.
The most common Unrecorded Easement on a piece of property is the presence of a road across the property.
There could also be a trail, cattle path or a plastic pipe running from a water source to a neighboring property.
When you purchase land you are deemed to know everything that a thorough walkover of the property would show.
If you fail to thoroughly inspect the land and an Unrecorded Easement is discovered after you have purchased the land, you will have to live with that easement if it has been used long enough that a court will grant continued usage of it.
If a user has openly used or crossed someone's land for the required number of years as stated in that States Law, that user may be able to obtain from court an Easement by Prescription also called a Prescriptive Easement.
The usage of someone's land must have been open, notorious, hostile, continuous, under a claim of right for the specified period of time and without the property owner's permission.
The period of time needed to establish an Easement by Prescription varies from 5 to 21 years depending on the State.
If you discover this type of usage on land you are considering purchasing make the removal of that usage by the Seller a condition of the Sale going forward.
No matter which State you may be located in, you can not gain an Easement by Prescription over Federal or State Land.
If a property owner subdivides his land and sells a portion of it and the portion sold is accessed by a road across the land not sold by the original property owner and the new property owner uses that road, a court can grant an Easement by Implication.
The new property owner must use the access road across the original owner's property openly and with the original owner's knowledge.
The grant of an Easement by Implication to the new property owner can be done even if there is another way for the new property owner to access a public road.
An Easement by Necessity is where one parcel of land is completely landlocked. There is no way for the owner of that land to access a public road.
This is an easement created in Law because the easement is necessary for the reasonable use of the landlocked property.
Obtaining an Easement by Necessity involves a law suit in court which takes time, money. During this time the landlocked parcel can not be accessed or used.
What About Easements Across The Land You Are Buying?
Most purchasers of Country or Homestead Property are looking for property where they can enjoy peace and quiet. If there is a Legal Easement across the land you are looking at what effect will it have on your peace and quiet?
A few years ago we looked at a piece of property in the mountains of North Idaho. There was a nice cottage with a fenced in yard, a gorgeous view to the east across a valley, a good well, room for a garden and it was off grid.
There was a separate building that would function as a shop while a better one was being built. The price of this property was well within reason.
In the less than 30 minutes we were looking over the property with a Realtor, two cars drove by within a 100 yards of the cottage.
After we had left the access road and entered the driveway to the cottage, the access road turned and crossed through the middle of the property we were looking at.
There was no need to inquire if the easement was a Legal Easement or an Easement by Prescription. Fact is the easement was close enough to the cottage to disturb our peace and quiet, our peaceful enjoyment of the property.
Needless to say, we left before completing a walkover of the property.
If there is a Legal Easement that gives someone else permission to cross that land or use that land in any way, your purchase of that land is subject to that easement. If you can't live with that easement, do not buy that property!
If an easement breaks up the unity of property you are looking at but it is not close enough to the house or building site to disturb your peace and quiet, use the fact that it breaks up the land as a bargaining chip to get the price down.
If possible see if you can camp on the property for a couple of days. This allows you to get a feel for the use pattern of an easement and you can see if the land has the peace and quiet you want.
Several years ago I looked at a piece of property that had a large pond on the back side of the land. About 200 yards away from the pond was a pasture with several cows grazing in it. There was a gate in the fence bordering the property.
Between the gate and the pond was clear evidence that there was a path where the cows were allowed to get to the pond.
An inquiry revealed that the adjoining property owner had been told that his cows could be let out of the pasture each day to drink from the pond.
I was not interested in sharing my pond with cows each day and I was not interested in having a neighbor who would be upset if I kept his cows from their source of drinking water. I scratched that property off my list of possibilities.
If you discover evidence in a thorough walk over of a property of usage by a neighbor, even if there is not a Legal Easement allowing that usage, do you want the hassle of dealing with potential problems from neighbors?
An Easement in Gross does not benefit a specific parcel of land. Instead it is an easement allowing the crossing of land for a specific purpose such as hauling logs, accessing a fishing spot or to get to a hunting area.
If you find evidence of this type of easement in the deed to property you are considering, Beware! You have little to no control over the traffic crossing that parcel of land. I'd look for another parcel of land!
It is common for public utility companies such as electrical and phone companies to be granted the right to use an easement to bring their utilities in to a parcel of land. There is usually the words"an easement for ingress, egress and utilities" or similar wording in the easement.
In rural areas you may discover an Easement for Pipelines. This occurs in two situations.
The first is where someone is taking water off the parcel of land you are considering. The second is where you would have the right to take water off an adjoining parcel of land.
Be sure that easement allows for "the laying and maintaining of a pipeline" all the way from the water source to the property line.
I do not recommend buying land with a shared water source when the water source is on another piece of property.
Be cautious of land advertised as "Fronting on a County Road" or "Having County Road Frontage." That does not mean there is a suitable way to access the property directly from the County Road.
There could be a cliff, ravine or other land feature that prevents direct access to the County Road. If that is the case, you will need an easement to access the property.
Beware of the Realtor who tells you, "you don't need an easement to get to the property. No one around here uses easements. Everyone is very friendly and besides there is an Easement by Prescription."
If that is the case, the Seller will have no trouble getting a Legal Easement to the property along the existing road. Make the obtaining of that Legal Easement a condition of the Sale of the Land.
Never buy land accessed across someone's private land without a Legal Easement in place before the sale is completed!
This article does not cover all there is to know about easements. You can learn much more about easements in our Country Homestead Buyer's Course.
Access to property across Federal and State Government Land is by Permit, not by Easement. The permit can be a year to year permit with a fee each year and specific requirements that must be met to obtain the permit.
To learn what is necessary to obtain the permit, contact the nearest Federal or State Government Land Office. Your Realtor should know where that office is located.
Can An Easement Be Terminated?
Under certain circumstances an easement can be abandoned. Abandonment takes more than the Easement Holder's intent to abandon the easement.
Abandonment is usually defined as "the Easement Holder's non-use of the Easement for an extended period of time." Different courts may define "extended period of time" differently.