Democracy, unfastened concept and expression, spiritual tolerance, person liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream within the many years considering the fact that they have been enshrined within the 1948 U.N. announcement of Human Rights. but when those beliefs not appear radical this present day, their foundation was once very radical indeed--far extra so than so much historians were keen to acknowledge. In A Revolution of the Mind, Jonathan Israel, one of many world's best historians of the Enlightenment, lines the philosophical roots of those principles to what have been the least good strata of Enlightenment thought--what he calls the unconventional Enlightenment.
Originating as a clandestine circulate of principles that was once virtually solely hidden from public view in the course of its earliest section, the unconventional Enlightenment matured against the average mainstream Enlightenment dominant in Europe and the USA within the eighteenth century. throughout the innovative many years of the 1770s, 1780s, and 1790s, the unconventional Enlightenment burst into the open, simply to impress a protracted and sour backlash. A Revolution of the Mind exhibits that this lively competition used to be normally because of the robust impulses in society to shield the rules of monarchy, aristocracy, empire, and racial hierarchy--principles associated with the upholding of censorship, church authority, social inequality, racial segregation, spiritual discrimination, and far-reaching privilege for ruling groups.
In telling this attention-grabbing heritage, A Revolution of the Mind unearths the stunning foundation of our so much adored values--and is helping clarify why in definite circles they're often disapproved of and attacked even this present day.
Martin Luther King as soon as insisted that 'a rebel is the language of the unheard. ' due to the fact 2011 swathes of protest, uprising, and rioting have lined the globe. a brand new, disenfranchised iteration is combating for its voice as once more ratings of police line the streets and pa icons call for a political revolution.
The new dramatic transformation of vital and jap Europe and the Soviet Union have intensified the perrenial debates concerning the which means and way forward for democracy. This entire assessment of democracy examines its nature and clients via theoretical analyses and a world-wide set of case stories.
Der englischsprachige Band führt ein in die Lokal- und Regionalpolitik der mittel-osteuropäischen Reformländer. Der Band beleuchtet aktuelle Probleme der Kommunal- und Regionalpolitik in den Ländern Mittel-Osteuropas, einschließlich Russlands. Zentral sind Fragen der Beziehungen zwischen zentraler, regionaler und lokaler Politik- und Verwaltungsebene, der lokalen Demokratie und Partizipation sowie Fragen der Verwaltungsmodernisierung.
During this well timed and demanding paintings, eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy isn't synonymous with reliable govt. the writer explores the labyrinthine truth in the back of the fundamental idea of democracy, demonstrating how the political process that folks within the West as a rule view as trouble-free and seen is, in truth, deeply uncertain and, in lots of instances, dysfunctional.
Despite the outcry against it, Mirabeau complained that there was insufficient awareness in the newly born United States of the danger inherent in plans to recreate the trappings of nobility. 14 Performance in reason and virtue, he claimed, is the only veritable "nobility" that exists on earth and the only "nobility" admissible by the truly enlightened. Mirabeau held that the basic source of the threat to equality in the United States were the traditions and much cherished "prejudices" Americans had inherited from the English.
Throughout the Enlightenment's history it is this irresolvable duality—rooted in the metaphysical dichotomy of one-substance doctrine (Spinozistic monism) and two-substance dualism, the latter as upheld by John Locke (1632–1704) and Voltaire, as well as other providential Deists and (most) Christians and Jews—that was always the principal and overriding factor shaping its course. Thus, while in the last two or three decades scholars have mostly fastened their attention on national or confessional differences between shades of Enlightenment in different parts of Europe, embracing the "family-ofenlightenments" idea developed by John Pocock (a notion still widely in vogue today), such an approach is largely inapplicable to the Enlightenment's most basic and farreaching questions and controversies.
The modern reader might be surprised by this outcome, as the existing historiography strongly suggests that the political cards were always stacked heavily against the radical wing. Admittedly, all the nobilities and monarchical courts of Europe opposed radical thought and, after 1789, became much more strident and aggressive in doing so, whether in Russia, Prussia, Austria, or Britain. 46 But this was because, behind the scenes, democratic and egalitarian ideas were gaining ground and a fierce defensiveness, even signs of desperation, were taking hold of the ancien re´gime's defenders.


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Home News Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra under law probe: Rajasthan HC orders
Rahul Gandhi's brother-in-law Robert Vadra under law probe: Rajasthan HC orders
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The Rajasthan High Court asked Robert Vadra and his partners in Skylight Hospitality Private Limited, including his mother Maureen Vadra to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on February 12 to respond to allegations of money laundering by the firm.
Jodhpur bench of the high court gave the direction after vacating its earlier order that prevented the agency from taking any coercive action against Vadra and others.
A bench of Justice PS Bhati, while asking Robert Vadra and others to appear before the agency, however, refused to vacate the stay on their arrest and denied liberty to the ED to take them in custody. Justice Bhati clarified that if the need arises, the ED will have to move the court separately to seek permission for arresting them.
The matter
Appearing for the ED, Additional Solicitor General Rajdeep Rastogi told the bench that the agency has initiated an inquiry against the owners and partners of Skylight Hospitality Limited on a complaint of money laundering against the company.
The company moved the court against this inquiry and obtained an order that no coercive action would be taken against them during the investigation.
The ED then moved the court seeking vacation of this order on the ground that there was neither any FIR lodged in the matter nor there was any accused named.
Admitting the additional solicitor general's arguments, the court removed the No Coercive Action clause from its earlier order.
The ED had earlier received a complaint alleging involvement of Vadra in the purchase of the 275 bighas of land in Bikaner's Kolayat.
The complaint alleged that the land had been purchased in the name of the driver of the mediator Mahesh Nagre using a cheque given by Robert Vadra.
The primary evidence in the case prima facie indicated that the Skylight Hospitality Limited was involved in money laundering.
ED had subsequently issued summonses to Robert Vadra and firm's partner Maureen third time in November last year but none of them appeared before the ED and instead moved the high court seeking No Coercive Action order and stay on the arrest.
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It's time to gear up for the second coming of the Mockit Championship Series, and this time around, we have made a few exciting changes!
After watching how well the Oceania region played in RLCS, it seemed only right to add the uber talented Aussies into the mix. In order to stop a potentially hellish pinged final, the OCE division will be its own tournament, presented entirely by our partner's at Pale Horse eSports.
The teams down under will be competing for a $2,000 USD minimum prize pool.
The North American and European divisions will remain bitter rivals as the EU teams will be looking to rebound after NA took out EU in season one. These juggernauts will be competing for a minimum prize pool of $6,000 USD.
Combined, we are proud to announce that season two of MCS will have a total prize pool in excess of $8,000 USD; this will be a tournament to remember!
Teams will be capped at 5 players, and it is encouraged to field a full roster. We have endeavored for MCS Season Two to not be conflicting with any of the major tournaments/LAN's across all 3 regions!
League play will only play out one night a week. This is to ensure MCS does not conflict with any summer plans you may have in store! NA will play Mondays, EU on Wednesdays, and OCE on Thursdays.
We are very excited to see how many of you Rocket League enthusiasts wish to test your skills and become the very best, like no one ever was. We had over 1,000 players battle it out in Season One, so only time will tell what this iteration will look like. We're sure everyone, including us, will be excited to see how Season Two will play out!
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Flamingos in Maputo? Yes, it's not a fiction. They can really be seen on the local salt pans, feeding on the crustacean – which gives the birds their pink colour. They are wonderful, either elegantly wading or magnificent in flight.
When Sra Sorgentini designed her hotel, she had been many years planning it – she didn't stint on anything! She brought in an excellent Italian architect. You can live her dream in these charming rooms.
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Wish Good Luck (WGL)- the website this case study is focusing on. Click image to enlarge.
Many case studies compare two or more things to see what the differences are, why one is or may be better than the other, which is easier to implement, which makes the most money, and you name it, almost anything you want to compare. I made some big niche site mistakes that I hope any readers will hopefully avoid after reading of my mistakes.
This case study is taking the opposite track of many case studies. It is an examination of why a website I put up failed to make very much money. It did make some, but is now down in the doldrums along with many other sites that got hit by one or more of Google's algorithm updates in the past eighteen months or so.
This might not be such a problem if the site was a small niche site, but it is not. Making extensive changes to accommodate the things Google doesn't like is generally impractical due to the amount of content the site has. I have made some changes, but it took quite a long time and effort. I ended up taking a bunch of shortcuts because the task was just too onerous since my time is very limited and I am the only one maintaining the site.
I'm not going to write a biography here about me, you can go to my personal blog for that.
Let me just mention a few points and get it out the way.
There is a lot more I could say, but this article is about the mistakes I made on one particular site of mine, although some of the same mistakes were made on a few other sites over the years. These are mistakes I feel others have made or will make, so I am doing a "tell all" or expose in the hopes it will benefit anyone hoping to have a niche site, blog, or some other kind of site and make money from it.
The amount of money one might expect can be a little or a lot, but my feeling is that for most people the site should at least make enough to cover hosting costs, domain name and renewals and cost of any software or plugins and content you might have to pay for. In other words carry itself without you having to dig into your pocket to support it. All this is after you get the site up and get some traffic to it.
Many, if not most of us, would like to turn a profit from our websites so that we have something to show for it at the least, and a decent profit, whatever that might be for you, is really what I think most people want.
So profit will be one of the main things we will strive for along with providing the website visitor quality content and a worthwhile site you can be proud of. I hope avoiding these mistakes I made will help guide you to more profits and less work with your website(s).
Way back, at least six or seven years ago I got the "brilliant" idea to see if I could find out what "Luck" was. Aside from the dictionary definition and what Wikipedia or other encyclopedias said, I was hoping I could get to the bottom of exactly what luck was.
I spent days and a lot of hours searching on the internet to see what I could find out about luck. To my surprise my searching turned out to be essentially a big fat zero. Virtually nothing substantial was found. I spent more time searching, but it was really a waste of time. So after spending a good two or three week's actual time researching, spread out over months, I gave up, sensing it was futile to keep searching.
I went on to create several other sites on different topics over the next couple of years and forgot all about luck. One day my son came by and told me about Fiverr. It had recently started and it sounded interesting so I checked it out. Then it hit me that maybe I could find someone to do research and write articles on good luck. I didn't have time available to write more articles myself. If I could find someone that could do that for a small amount of money then maybe I could put up a site about good luck.
This leads us to a big mistake so I'll call it the first mistake.
I had been on the internet long enough to know some keyword research was necessary in order to pick a niche that was feasible to create a website about. Personally I never put too much faith in keywords even though I knew they must be important. Regardless, I did some keyword research, but the results were less than stellar. My Market Samurai keyword tool had stopped working when I rebuilt my computer a few months before, so I used a combination of several free keyword tools including Google AdWords Keyword tool, which I felt was the best of the free tools.
Anyway had I paid attention to the keyword results I would have known such a "niche" was too broad, unfocused, not enough products available to sell, and some other negative characteristics that anyone could probably figure out.
By this time my decision to create a site on good luck overruled common sense. I had already forgotten the aspect of making money with such a site and "assumed" that if I had enough content on the site that would make up for the poor market or niche. This is another mistake some of you might make.
Good content alone will not drive visitors to a site. How many of you have made this mistake?
I was just so anxious to put up a site about Good Luck that I simply ignored all the valid points about finding a niche I could compete in. I ignored the fact there was very little information, and that being the case, the site would probably end up being just a few pages and not the niche site I hoped to build. I wanted a site with quite a few pages so I could have articles with lots of longtail keywords so my site could be easily found by a lot of people.
I decided that if I could find a writer on Fiverr that could write some articles on good luck I would put up a site anyway. I set up a gig on Fiverr asking for an article writer that could write two articles on good luck. I didn't get any positive response the first week. After about a week several people finally responded that they could write one article, but I could tell from their response and/or seeing samples of their writing, they just wouldn't fit the bill for what I wanted. I knew five dollars was really too little for a quality article, but I thought I would feel out the market on Fiverr anyway.
I was about to again forget the prospect of putting up a site about good luck when I got a response that said "I can do it." It was from a young writer from India. First I was elated that someone was interested, but then thinking about India I was very leery about even responding. That was because of some previous bad experiences with article writing from India. I was trying not to let that cloud my mind and knew I really couldn't judge everyone just because I had some previous bad experiences.
So I decided to follow up on the response and had her write two articles for me about luck. I believe I just told her to write two 500 word articles on anything she could find on luck. She did and in almost no time she sent me two such articles. I read them and was very pleasantly surprised. Her English was very good and better than some people here in the U.S.
Now, when I got the two articles back I started thinking that maybe she copied the articles from somewhere since her English was so good. That was definitely not like the previous experiences I had with other writers from India. I had paid a lot more money for several months' worth of articles for 20 sites of mine, but had to eventually scrap virtually all of them due to poor English.
In spite of my previous experiences I had a good feeling about her ability to write quality articles. So I decided to have her write 30 articles on good luck for me. Mind you, I still had very little information about luck, either good or bad. I really wanted to see if she could do research and how well she could write. If the articles didn't turn out well I wouldn't use them.
As it turned out, the articles did turn out to be fine and I decided to put up a site on good luck. I had written about thirty articles myself just in case hers didn't work out. Since then I have found another excellent writer from India who writes all my articles that I outsource. I hate to admit it but her writing is often better than mine, and I'm a native of the U.S. and live here in California. One good experience can make all the difference in the world. My original writer has moved on to much bigger things and has her own highly rated blog.
If you are wondering where I got the info on luck that I couldn't find before – well since it now appeared that I was "out of luck" finding much information on luck, that I would concentrate on good luck superstitions since it seemed that superstition and luck go hand in hand.
Because of the lack of information on the internet on luck I decided to take another track. I bought all the books on Amazon they had about luck at that time in early 2010. That was about seventeen books. I also had maybe four books on luck in my book collection. I read all the books I bought but was disgusted to find there was only one book that had any real research on luck, and it was very minimal at that.
What I did then was commission my writer from India to write 400 articles on good luck. I knew there was essentially no info on the Internet so I sent her about fourteen of the books I had purchased and told her to write articles about what she found in those books. That was, for all practical purposes, superstitions.
In the meantime I registered a domain name and put up Wish Good Luck (WGL). That was Jul 23, 2010 and it's still up and getting traffic, but not nearly as much as in early 2012.
I was interested in luck, specifically good luck but if you think about it how many people pay much attention to luck? I'd say not too many. Aside from that, how many people are interested in any details about luck, even enough to buy an inexpensive book on it? Not many. If luck is a niche, it is a very vague one where it is unlikely there is little, if any, commonality among those in such a niche.
For me it turned out that all my hopes about having a site delving into and explaining luck was a pipe dream. It turned out I was either forced to forget having a site about luck or either incorporate superstitions into the site. That's what I did – add a lot, in fact almost all the content is about superstitions, of which so many are supposed to bring one good luck or bad luck.
Although most people have a few superstitions they might believe in, not many are looking for data on superstitions or spending much money on such things. Yes you do find a few eCommerce stores on the internet selling all sorts of superstitious items, but my guess is that the people buying them are very superstitions and such buying may quite likely be impulse buying.
OK, so I shelled out a lot of money to have a few hundred articles written, almost exclusively about superstitions involving good and bad luck. That's not counting probably some 60 – 100 articles I wrote myself which required a lot of unpaid effort. I realized that to get my money back, let alone make a profit, I would need a lot of traffic to the site. This was a real challenge since the site was not a blog so I could not add my personal observations about superstitions except to say I didn't believe in probably 99% of them and the other 1% I had serious doubts about. That would never go over well and any traffic I did have would disappear if I dared say that.
I decided not to try to sell trinkets, pendants, talismans, good luck charms and an assortment of similar items. I figured it would be too much work and bring in too little returns. That left me to try to make money off of ads on the site. I had already added Google AdSense to the site, but it didn't bring in enough to even buy a fast food hamburger, fries, and a drink. And that was over a whole month's period of time.
I needed a lot more traffic. That wasn't going to be easy, but I had to try.
Since I was well informed in internet marketing and had subscribed to many newsletters, had previously been in all sorts of memberships and had a good idea how to get traffic, I decided to try one of the paid traffic sources since I thought it would be faster than going after free traffic. Actually I was really going after free traffic, but it cost me some real money so I am considering it paid traffic.
I had a lot of sites at the time so I picked four of the sites that I thought had the most promise plus my good luck site and paid for a service that promised goo gobs of traffic for five sites after a few months. It was a blog network that put links on their sites pages back to my sites. I could monitor the progress and tell if it was working or not.
I did monitor it, and a very few of the keywords did move up in Google search positions. It worked better on the other four sites but not very well on WGL. I figured it need more time so I used the service for three months. Nothing worthwhile came out of that and I effectively wasted some $450 that I really couldn't afford to waste. Now, the amount that was spent on WGL was $90 or $30/month. Same for the other sites and since I had five sites the total cost was $450. Money wasted. Don't do this!
Now let me say that all link or traffic services are not necessarily bad. In my particular case the one I tried didn't perform up to my expectations. It is not always a bad thing to consider paid traffic. In some cases it can be very worthwhile. For example getting traffic to a site selling something or a membership site. In such cases you cannot afford the wait and guessing about whether or not free traffic will come fast enough. Paid traffic might just be a necessary option. So this mistake may not necessarily apply to every particular situation.
Since all my sites that counted were WordPress sites this applies to them. I definitely recommend WordPress sites for almost any type of site, especially for the beginner. I am a programmer and I had thousands of dollars of software to create sites and work with images and I scrapped it all for the ease and simplicity of WordPress. Even though I can, I refuse to dig down into the code of websites to make changes. There are very minor exceptions to this but they are few and far between.
In all fairness, I already had some paid plugins I had purchased previously and used a couple of them on the site. But I did shell out over $100 for WP Robot which I justified by thinking I could use it on some of my other sites. In fact, I did set it up on one or two other sites, but never really used it except to try it out and examine the results.
The story was different for WGL. I did use WP Robot for a few months. It did its job well, pulling articles off an article directory and creating pages from the article. I had to go in and add keywords, description, and most of all verify the article was of an acceptable quality. Most were. I still had to add AdSense code to the pages and I added a banner to most such pages and a few links to other pages on the site.
After about 100 – 200 or more articles from WP Robot I decided I had enough content from article directories and quit using the plugin. It's still on the site, but deactivated. Besides, there weren't many articles on superstitions and virtually none on luck, so I knew my days of using it on WGL were limited.
I figured I needed something different and searched around for a plugin that automatically added some other type of content to the site. I did find one, and bought Digi Traffic Multiplier. It too is a great plugin for WordPress and does exactly as advertised. Rather than explain it, just check out this page and others and note the questions and answers. That is the output of the plugin. The admin image, Suzi Q, I added in for an extra touch.
That is a great plugin and served me well, maybe too well. For when one of Google's updates rolled around in April 2102 I lost a little traffic. Then over the next two months I had lost about 90% of the traffic the site originally had. I cannot fault Digi Traffic Multiplier, however. It gave me hundreds of pages of questions and answers. You can see these all over the site.
I fault myself because what I had done was pay attention to some of the so-called gurus of SEO. I had optimized the alt tags for well over 200 pages of the plugin's output. Since many of the pages that had the Q&A had twelve or more questions and dozens of images I feel sure I went astray adding keywords in most of those alt tags for the images.
What that led to was a whole lot of work removing most and often all the alt tag keywords. It was a real job. In fact, it was so onerous I decided to just go ahead and remove most of the pages with the questions and answers, especially if the pages didn't have many pageviews.
To make a long story short I ultimately removed over 600 pages from the site rather than spend the time and effort changing alt tags. Almost all those pages I removed were generated by the above two plugins. Some of the pages I decided were really ok so I went through all the on-page SEO on articles I wanted to keep, created a new site, Superstition Lane, where I moved about a tenth of the superstitions.
The reason I bought those plugins was because I felt that the more pages I had on the site with ads on them, the more potential ad clicks I could get. In addition, there would be more longtail keywords so more people would eventually find my site. Since I needed a lot of visitors all those pages with relevant keywords getting indexed would add up to a lot more traffic to the site. I had AdSense on virtually all the pages of the site along with some banners, mostly to my own sites or products on my other sites.
I cannot truthfully say the plugins were a waste of money for me, but they really would not have been necessary had I picked a valid niche where a small site could compete and perform well, or even an authority site in a narrow niche could also. But I did all the wrong things and I was paying the price for doing things my way.
In most cases you will not need to use plugins to grab data and create pages or add data to the pages automatically. You won't necessarily need many hundreds of pages to get a lot of traffic if you promote your site in effective ways. Save your money for things you really need for your site.
Very few of you will run into this problem. But nonetheless, if you pick the wrong niche like I did and still try to pursue it, you may well feel the bite of this same problem. I've skipped most of the ways I tried to get traffic since they seemed to work OK, except for the big amount I wasted in that paid linking strategy.
What I did do, however, was to analyze the many ways to get traffic. I had decided not to use any article directories like I had previously done for some of my other sites. However, I cautiously did submit three or four articles that I wrote to slide sharing sites. I did use a gig on Fiverr to add my links for WGL to 200 link directories. That turned out to be almost 700 links, way more than I expected or wanted.
I decided to write a few longer articles, and for a while, maybe six months, I added a new unique article to the site every day. All articles were SEO'd as much as possible, and there were few outgoing links on most of those articles, except to other articles on the site.
All that paid off. It was work, but well worth it for the traffic I started getting. Unfortunately I was in the wrong niche, the clicks on Google AdSense were way too low to make decent money, however the traffic was building up nicely. Then one day I got an email from my hosting company that my site was hogging their computers. They suggested some changes, to use WP Super Cache, eliminate the related post plugin, and one or two other things I needed to change.
I should mention that my hosting plan was reseller hosting. It had a lot of space and bandwidth compared to most cheaper hosting plans. However, I had quite a few of my other sites hosted on that same hosting plan so that made some difference. But traffic on WGL was far greater than any of my other sites.
I made those recommended changes to my site. After removing the related post plugin I had very little interlinking between pages so I added interlinking to most pages within the site (there are plugins to do this, but I did it manually since I had to deleted that plugin). Over the next couple of months I got a little more traffic, but again I got a similar email from my hosting company like before. I had also noticed it was getting harder to edit my site because it was taking too much time saving the changes.
To make a long story short, I finally had to go to larger, more expensive VPS hosting. But the sad part was shortly after that, the traffic ended up going down a lot, probably due to Google algorithm changes. I never did find out exactly why my site lost so much traffic, but think it all had to do with Google either de-indexing a lot of my pages or moving them so far down in the search results that no one would find them.
So now, to this day, the site does not make nearly enough to pay for the hosting. It is still a large site even after eliminating hundreds of pages. Looking at the database now, it is 185 MB and the site uses slightly over 2.5 GB of space. At its peak I was getting about 1300 – 1500 visitors a day on average. Many days I would get 3000, 4000, 5000 visitors a day. That's not a lot compared to the big boys, but in another niche, like internet marketing, that would easily translate to thousands of dollars of income a month, or more.
This mistake is rather hard to prove, but it is known that Google, and by extension Bing, Ask, and other search engines want new, fresh content for people using their search engines to do searches. That won't happen if you don't update or add new content to your website on a fairly regular basis. What's a regular basis? I don't know. I have read various numbers of days from different people. But you can easily understand updating a site whenever you feel like it just won't cut it, unless you're updating rather frequently.
The most reasonable estimate of this, in my opinion, is somewhere between 8 and 12 times a month. Now, if you blog, then it probably should be more frequent than that. I personally think once a day is too much for most people, but some people supposedly in the know, recommend once a day to several times a day for bloggers. I think that gets old fast and will burn out most people. That's too much like a job, a stressful job at that.
As mentioned above, when I was submitting a new fresh article a day for at least a half a year I seemed to get a lot more traffic that way. That is costly if your site is not making at least enough to cover the cost of articles if you are paying someone else to write them. Also your niche may not support so many articles so that tactic may not work for a lot of small sites.
There are other tactics, such as curation, which many say works. I've done a little of that and whether it works or not I have yet to determine, but it hasn't hurt and from all I've seen it really does work. Here are a few pages where I use curation on WGL. I will probably do some of this on any future or current sites I may work on.
This final mistake is not specifically related, but should apply anyway, especially in my situation.
Mistake #8: DO NOT try to work on multiple websites at the same time unless you are successful on your previous site.
This mistake won't apply to many people, but I am adding it in case some of you are like me. I have so many ideas and try so many things that it is very hard for me to do only one website at a time. This is not a good policy and I definitely don't recommend it. Stick with one website until it becomes successful. If after a period of time you see it probably will not meet your expectations and then decide to scrap the idea, fine. You need to concentrate all your efforts getting one site to perform well and get enough traffic to it to be profitable.
Aside from the challenge of creating different kinds of websites, the main reason I have so many websites is because of all the domain names I had. Rather than letting them sit at my registrar while I held them, I decided to build websites on about half of the domains I decided to keep. Very few readers of those reading this will be in that particular situation. This is not a recommended course of action. If one is going to invest in domains do that and don't build dozens of websites – concentrate on selling your domain names.
That ends this case study. I hope telling of my mistakes will help others avoid the same mistakes I made. These mistakes can make the difference between success and failure on niche sites, and some of my errors would also affect other types of sites. I didn't list everything I did "wrong" or that I feel would be ill advised to do, but you get the point. One needs to do some research before building a site. If that research shows it is not feasible to build a website in the niches you researched, then don't do it. In such cases, find a viable niche you could actually compete in.
They worked out well (even though I may have over used these tools).
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These are my major mistakes on this particular site. Yes, I certainly have made other less disastrous mistakes as we all have. What mistakes have you made in researching and putting up a site? What about promoting it? Let me hear of your mistakes and successes in selecting a niche, putting up and promoting a site. We can probably all benefit from that.
I am in limbo on what to do with Wish Good Luck. I could add more articles to it, but that would do little good. I could try again to get more traffic to it, but that won't help much either. I could add a store on it, but without a lot of traffic that will do little good. I've thought about adding a mailing list to the site, but I cannot find anybody interested in writing a long autoresponder sequence of messages appropriate for such a site. Also what to promote is a problem, except a few pieces of jewelry that might pay worthwhile affiliate commissions.
I am at a loss as to how to improve the situation with that site, so it is just "out there" for the present time.
This mistake is one I learned a couple of months ago even though the site mentioned above has been up over three years. It won't apply to most people, but I am mentioning it nevertheless since it is possible to happen to anyone. When I got my AdSense account with Google many years ago – way before I put up Wish Good Luck site, I was using a different email address than the one I use now and have been using for the past few years. Apparently Google sent an email to that email address this past April or May. I still had that old email, but rarely looked at it. When I did look at it one day a few months, ago I saw a notice from Google indicating I was violating their terms of service with Wish Good Luck site.
Typical of Google, they didn't say what specifically I was violating. So I went through the hundreds of pages of the site trying to find out what I was doing that Google didn't like. I didn't see anything. I hadn't updated the site in quite a while so I had no clue what they didn't like. Then it dawned on me that maybe it was the articles on gambling that might be what they didn't like. So I removed most of the gambling articles from the site. In the process I noticed all my Google AdSense ads were missing. They had disabled all my ads and the site was now earning $0.
Needless to say I wasn't happy about that. So if you visit the site today chances are it is a much smaller site and there are still no Google ads on it. Let this be a lesson. If you have Google AdSense or AdWords account and Google sends you a notice about something they don't like, you stand to lose a lot if you don't correct it immediately. In my case, it was months later when I finally did see their email, but that was way past the 72 hours they gave me to correct the problem, one they never directly specified.
Although I am not sure about what the problem they were concerned about was, I finally settled on the idea that I had a single link in an article about bingo. That link went to a site in the UK where one could play bingo online. I still don't know for sure if that was the problem, but that is my best guess. The takeaway from this is to keep your Google email addresses for AdWords and AdSense accounts up to date.
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While playing chess all night long in our chess club more on a friendly basis, the idea came up to keep track of the played games and results to have a more detailed overlook of the actual progress of each player and compare the skills and strength against each other. Since I'm a programmer by nature, the option to create a mobile web app was the only real choice in compare to keep track of the games on a piece of paper.


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We live in an increasingly Electronic and Digital age where convenience and versatility have an overwhelming influence.
However, added to that, there are ever increasing practical considerations to bear in mind. In these days of political correctness we are bombarded with questions about our 'Carbon Footprint', the possibilities of litigation under the 'Health & Safety Acts' and our responsibilities for 'Risk Assessment'.
The challenge of 'Risk Assessment' is not having the benefit of hindsight yet needing to be able to assess the potential hazards and the probability and severity of any occurence.
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Brand (Swedish: Fire) is a Swedish anarchist and left-wing magazine founded in 1898. Originally, it was run by the Young Socialists, the youth section of the Swedish Social Democratic Party. Since the 1950s, it is not affiliated with any political organization.

History
Brand have been in trouble with the police on some occasions. The first case was in 1906 and was due to the laws enacted by Karl Staaff that made it illegal to promote pacifism. The laws were known as Staaflagarna (the Staff laws) or Lex Hinke (after Hinke Bergegren) who served ten months for breaking the law.  In 1908 Einar Håkansson was accused of blasphemy for an article he published in Brand, but he died before it was possible to charge him.  In 1910 Hinke Bergegren was sent to jail for two months due to an article series on birth control and the brochure Kärlek utan barn (Love without children) on the same subject. He was acquitted three times in Stockholm until he was sentenced in Gothenburg. In 1916 the then editor of Brand Ivan Oljelund was arrested for promoting pacifism, i.e. for violation of the Staaf laws. Oljelund was sentenced to 18 months of hard labor, but the sentence was later reduced to 15 months and then to 8 months when it was appealed. During his time at Långholmen Prison the magazine was edited by C J Björklund.

On 19 June 1999 Hans Regner charged the magazine with sedition due to an article on female self-defense. The charge was later dismissed. On 31 August 2000 Brand was charged again. Also this time for sedition following a humoristic article on how to make your riot a success.

Contributors
Several notable people have written for Brand, examples are Gustav Hedenvind-Eriksson, Hinke Bergegren (editor 1904-1911), Ivan Oljelund, Moa Martinson (as Helga Johansson), Harry Martinson, C.J. Björklund, Carl-Emil Englund, Erik Asklund, Eyvind Johnson, Jan Fridegård, Ivar Lo Johansson, Artur Lundkvist, Vilhelm Moberg, Albert Jensen, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Nils Ferlin, Helmer Grundström and Eva X Moberg.

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[#] Wed Mar 31 2021 10:38:21 EDT from LoanShark
Could just be that AZ doesn't include the sleeves, which were New York's decision (and frankly a bit of silliness)
Thanks for the firsthand info IG.. I just wanted to clarify the differences between the EDL.
[#] Wed Mar 31 2021 14:19:06 EDT from ParanoidDelusions
It could be. I can't find any definitive answer if all Real IDs contain RFID chips or not. But, this is an interesting link:
https://constitutionalalliance.org/real-id-exposed-it-is-worse-than-you-think/
Wed Mar 31 2021 10:38:21 EDT from LoanShark
[#] Sat Apr 03 2021 11:40:12 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
I'd be interested in knowing whether it's possible for civilians to scan the ID chip. Obviously we don't have access to the massive databases that the government has, but it seems like it would be useful just to receive a block of binary sludge that is guaranteed to be unique and consistent, essentially a fingerprint of the ID, that civilian systems could use simply to be able to say "yes, I've seen that ID before and here it is again."
A scan of that type, combined with a biometric ID collected *locally* by whoever is using it, would be able to replace a lot of redundant cards in the typical wallet. Perhaps not anything tied to financial resources, but things like door keys.
I don't know much about how an RFID chip works. Does it output a static blob of data every time, or does it answer a public key challenge, or something else?
What I read makes it sound like this is possible, in exactly the context you describe.
Sat Apr 03 2021 11:40:12 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
I dont see why reading it would be anything other than trivial as readers are a dime a dozen. That said, the data might be encrypted so what you get may be pointless. ( it should be encrypted, but you know how things goes these days. Lots of dropped security balls )
Did you get your pets chipped?
I don't know how much security there is, but I am sure that the codes are similar to a UPC. Leading digits represent the application or a manufacture, the rest is a unique ID.
I did. I dont those are encrypted. It only gives you an ID number, does not tell you owner details. You have to go to the people who mange the chip for that.
Sat Apr 03 2021 13:30:48 EDT from zooer
My cats are chipped. That data is, by design, nothing more than a simple string of data that is a key into a public database ... and that's the *perfect* example of what I am asking about, with regard to the ability to use a REAL-ID as an opaque but unique blob of data. I don't know if the pet owner database (screw you, PETA; they're pets and I own them) is accessible to the general public; you may have to register as a veteranarian or an animal shelter or something. So I can't easily read the tag and have it pop up "this cat's name is Sprite and he belongs to IGnatius T Foobar at 3xxx Gxxxx Street in Xxxxx Xxxxx".
But I *do* have an RFID-controlled pet door (which I reviewed at https://youtu.be/453tFCCLzQA if you care to see it) that only unlocks for the animals who live here. They are enrolled by scanning their chips, and it opens only for those chips. In this application, the software doesn't need to access the database; it only needs to confirm that the chip belongs to one of the two animals that are enrolled in the system; it only needs to confirm that the RFID matches one that has been scanned in before. It doesn't need to know the data's *meaning*.
If the REAL-ID chip works the same way, then I can see plenty of (legitimate) applications that don't require decryption or access to the database; they only need a guarantee that every read of the same chip is consistent and that the data it reads is globally unique.
(Anyone who wants to comment about mass surveillance, don't bother unless you also don't carry a cell phone.)
When I first adopted my cat, the cat ran off, he was returned because of his chip The cat was picked up by animal control, dropped off at the shelter, the shelter called the chip company and the chip company called us.
The people reading the chip do not have access to the database.
Here the state police are partnering with private businesses to have access to their security cams. And there are countless city owned cameras on nearly every stop light. Im sure the state has access to that, and vice-versa
Even if you dont carry a phone and go dark, if you are anywhere near civilization, they know where you are. In real time. Our State IDs here are setup for facial recognition. No glasses, cant smile. etc.
Anyone remember the Boston bomber? Where they tracked down his movements for the last week or so prior using various security cams, even ATM cameras.. and that was what, 15+ years ago? They were looking for possible co-conspirators that got away ( at least i think it was him, if not it was a similar event )
Sat Apr 03 2021 06:41:35 PM EDT from Nurb432
Eight years ago, 2013.
Enemy of the State a 1998 film about government surveillance of the people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy_of_the_State_(film)
Gene Hackman who was in the movie was in a surveillance movie in 1974 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conversation
Government surveillance has always been a thing.
8, 15.. same difference :)
Kidding aside, still long enough ago that you know whatever they could do then is 1000x more now. And yes. its always been there, but now with tech and cooperation from small mom-and-pop shops.. even worse than we could imagine.
[#] Sun Apr 04 2021 14:35:21 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
And they ridiculed Scott McNealy all those years ago when he said "You have no privacy. Get over it."
[#] Sun Apr 04 2021 18:53:03 EDT from zooer
There was a murder in a town not too far away. Two of the tools they used was the EZpass records, and the murder suspect put the person's address into their vehicle's GPS system. They searched the history of his truck.
[#] Mon Apr 05 2021 11:00:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
Speaking of online services that need to be shut down, preferably using explosives:
[ https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-data-on-533-million-users-posted-online/ ]
Anyone still stupid enough to use Facebook now has all of their personal data including phone numbers, facebook IDs, full names, birth dates, and other information cheerfully made available to all of the cybercriminals of the world.
[#] Mon Apr 05 2021 13:49:30 EDT from Nurb432
I use it due to family.
My birthday is not accurate. Its my short name, not 'legal name'. They dont have my phone number. My job is 'shield field agent', not my real job. Any image i post is a screenshot of the image, so no geo-codes. Sure they have other bits and pieces but far more damaging stuff is out there from other breaches. They are the least of my concern to be honest.
Mon Apr 05 2021 11:00:23 EDT from IGnatius T Foobar
[#] Mon Apr 05 2021 15:37:48 EDT from zooer
A screenshot from your phone will send your phone's exif data information.
If you're a Linux guy, use "jhead" to remove the information on jpg images.
https://www.sentex.ca/~mwandel/jhead/
I dont use my phone with their service.
Mon Apr 05 2021 15:37:48 EDT from zooer
[#] Mon Apr 05 2021 19:06:36 EDT from darknetuser
2021-04-05 11:00 from IGnatius T Foobar
Speaking of online services that need to be shut down, preferably using
explosives:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-data-on-533-million-users-posted
-online/ ]
Anyone still stupid enough to use Facebook now has all of their
personal data including phone numbers, facebook IDs, full names, birth
dates, and other information cheerfully made available to all of the
cybercriminals of the world.
I mentioned it to some facebook user and the answer I got is that he didn't care.
I feel the need to hunt for the data dump and screw this guy. People as stupid as this one has it comming. Do you know where can I get the datadump? :P
People no longer care, that is a problem.
As far as vaccine passports, Fauci says US will not require COVID-19 'vaccine passports', so that most likely means it is in the works.


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Fact: there is no more salacious word combination in the world than "sex" and "party." (Seriously. I dare you to think of one.) Within the scene, however, sex parties are known as "play parties," mostly because so much more goes down at these events than just sex.
Although they may have a salacious reputation, when done right, play parties can be some of the classiest and safest events out there. Organizers often implement a strict application process, dress code, and rules of consent to make sure that the atmosphere is both safe and sexy.
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What's the application process like?
The idea of applying to get into a play party may invoke childhood fears of being picked last for dodgeball: What if you don't get in? But in order to ensure the safest and most positive environment at play parties, the most well-regulated events require some sort of application process. "The one thing that we look for as a red flag is if you're only applying to have as much sex as possible, with as many people as possible," Saynt says. The point of these parties is to explore your sexuality with other curious people — not to be a creep.
Thinking about applying? Saynt discourages prospective play party attendees from using fake photos in their application (dude, people are going to realize they're fake when you show up). If you get rejected, don't freak out: it just might not be the best party for you, and there are plenty of other fish in the sea.
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It depends on the event. While NSFW encourages members to show up in all black, other play parties may have a theme, such as Moulin Rouge or Prohibition-era costumes. (And yes, you have to follow the dress code.) Saynt encourages attendees to embrace the art of layering. Because things usually don't heat up until later in the night (events usually start, as most do, with a round of cocktails), you should wear multiple layers that you can shed gradually throughout the evening. "Have some sort of robe you can throw on after the play experience is over, so you don't have to jump into your clothes right away; you can lounge around," Saynt says.
Can I watch people have sex without having sex myself?
One of the biggest misconceptions about play parties is that they're a giant orgy where everyone will have sex with everyone by the end of the night. While this does occasionally happen, you don't even need to have sex to attend a sex party. While different events have different rules about this, many come to revel in the erotic atmosphere — especially voyeurs, who specifically get off on watching others get it on. "There's a lot of people who go to play parties to not play. They're there to observe and enjoy the scene," Saynt says. That's a good thing, too, because play parties often attract exhibitionists (people who enjoy being watched). That's why play parties often serve as a safe space for those who get off on being watched and those who get off on watching alike — it's a great way for both to consensually practice their kinks.
That said, consent is the operative word here. Saynt says that if you're watching a couple get it on, be mindful of their facial expressions and body language; if they look freaked out, walk away. The best way to know if people are OK with you watching is to ask. Don't be the creepy guy masturbating in the corner.
Cool, but can I have sex?
Absolutely. The easiest way to get laid at a play party is to come with a date you're already sleeping with. (At many play parties, if you're a guy, coming with a plus one is required to maintain the ratio.) Especially if you're new to the scene, it can be super hot to come with your partner and only have sex with one another, so you guys can get off on the new erotic atmosphere.
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What do I need to know about consent?
First and foremost, do not touch anyone without asking. If you strike up a conversation with someone that's going well, and you feel confident there's chemistry, ask them, "Hey, I'd love to play with you, want to check out the bedrooms upstairs with me?" If they say no, buzz off. If a couple (or group) is down with letting you watch, do not assume that means they want you to join in. Consent is key, both at play parties and anywhere else.
The play parties worth attending will make sure you're well-versed in how to ask for sex before showing up by holding consent workshops or distributing consent guidelines to all members. You are often required to sign a consent form upon entering. Saynt says that if any organization throws play parties but does not have clear consent guidelines, it's usually a red flag.
Do I need to bring protection?
Yes! Always bring protection when sex is on the table, whether it's a Tinder date or a play party. While most play parties will have condoms, lube, and sometimes even sex toys distributed strategically around the space, they may run out, or they might not have your favorite brand available. So always show up with condoms in tow.
Can I show up drunk?
Nope, not unless you want to get yourself banned. While some play parties do serve alcohol, events such as NSFW have guardians that look out for both consent violations and over-intoxication. "We're here to make sure you're safe," Saynt says. While you should feel free to enjoy a glass or two while mingling, do not attend a play party with the goal of getting totally fucked up. That's what frat parties are for.
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MCCURTAIN COUNTY, Okla. — A juvenile has been arrested after allegedly fighting an Oklahoma woman who was holding a six-month-old baby.
On Oct. 18th, a woman who was holding a six-month-old baby was assaulted by two girls in Broken Bow, Oklahoma, KSLA reports.
In a video post, Jeremy McCoy says his daughter was assaulted by the girls. His post has been viewed more than seven million times. Video of the incident was also posted to YouTube.
The victim, Janie McCoy, told KLSA over the phone that she'd been invited to a friend's home and was swinging with her son at the time. She said three girls then ran toward her and started yelling.
"They said that I said something about somebody wanting to fight somebody that I had no idea what they was talking about," she said.
She can be seen in the video being struck in the face and knocked to the ground while holding her baby. They then allegedly followed her back to her friend's apartment, hitting her in the back.
Janie said she took her baby to the doctor to make sure he was OK. The baby wasn't injured.
One teenage girl was arrested Tuesday and appeared in front of a judge. No other arrests have yet been made.
An online petition was started Monday on Change.org calling for arrests in the case. It's gotten over 6,500 signatures so far.


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Home/Fashion/Nordstrom has honored Virgil Abloh with a new multi-piece capsule from white tears, denim, and more
Nordstrom has honored Virgil Abloh with a new multi-piece capsule from white tears, denim, and more
As many have commented since his death in November, late designer Virgil Abloh has not stopped working and collaborating on a number of things, anything, everything, all time. Today, department store Nordstrom announced a new capsule that unites some of the designer's top projects under one banner. Created in partnership with Abloh's real estate, this capsule features clothing and other products spanning Abloh's vast multi-industry operation, which is part of his Off-White fashion label, the studio. Alaska Alaska creation, Canary Yellow art store and Church & State merchandise from "Pictures of words" recall currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum. (Nordstrom is also the main sponsor of the exhibition, and images of the campaign were shot on Beaux-Arts Court inside the museum.)
The capsule, called Concept 018: Virgil Abloh Securities, is the latest in a series of the store's ongoing "New Con Concept @ Nordstrom" collection and pop-up store, which has previously featured brands such as Dior, Thom Browne, 1017 ALYX 9SM and Fear of God.
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The first launch, now available on Nordstrom's website, includes a new group of Off-White and Nordstrom co-branded products including men's and women's clothing, footwear and accessories, in addition to some goods of Church & State. Highlights include a pair of Dickies print work pants, a sky blue handbag with Abloh's signature Hole "Meteor" pattern, and a felt shirt and kilometer kit that resembles Abloh's original "Pyrex 23" prototype. According to Jian DeLeon, Nordstrom's menswear and editorial director, reviving and playing with branded people is an important part of this process.
"The Off-White capsule is a personal favorite because of the way it gets the meta," says DeLeon, noting that the partnership has already begun, as many Abloh projects have done, with a chat with the designer's team on WhatsApp. "Virgil's team dug into Nordstrom's own graphics archive to recreate a logo We haven't used it since the 1970s but it looks fresh and relevant today. They also found a way to turn his hand-drawn graffiti into a typeface, decorating items like a varsity jacket — an item Virgil especially loves. in his collection. "
The second drop, due out mid-September, will feature two additional collaborations with Tremaine Emoryby Denim Tears brand and American skater Sal Barbier: the former will feature "Pyrex Tears" hoodies, another interesting take on Abloh's early designs; second, the ice skating rink, clothing and sneakers under the Off-White brand. There will also be four gender-neutral fragrances from Off-White's first beauty collection "Paperwork", which Abloh has formulated to "encourage human potential".
The first launch will be available to shop online, as well as at select Nordstrom locations, through the end of October.
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