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Link Rot – An Old Marketing Challenge That Deserves Your Attention
This article originally appeared on PerformanceIN. Trackonomics co-founder Hanan Maayan looks at the challenge of link rot in affiliate marketing.
At a recent affiliate conference, I attended several panels and presentations that raised the issue of lost revenue from broken links. While some of these panels were quite interesting, what I found shocking was the way the topic was being discussed – i.e. as though it were some kind of revelation that struck the affiliate industry out of the blue in 2019, rather than an ongoing issue that affiliates have been struggling with for years.
Link rot is one of affiliate marketing's biggest challenges, costing the industry an estimated £3.3 million in commission every month. How can something that costs the industry so much revenue receive so little attention and more importantly, why aren't businesses finding solutions and building strategies to help combat it?
What is link rot?
Link rot is when a deep-link decays to the point that it's no longer earning money for a publisher. Products can go out of stock, the advertiser could remove the product, the link itself could break if URL redirects or affiliate tracking is changed. All of these circumstances create link rot.
Trackonomics estimated that £575k in affiliate revenue was lost on Black Friday 2018 in the UK alone. The problem has been around for years but companies responsible for tracking have seemed blind to its impact.
Who does it affect?
Content publishers are more susceptible to link rot than any other type. These publishers produce content that contains embedded affiliate links to monetise that content. Their articles often continue to receive traffic from organic search and referring links, long after writers have moved on to new projects.
This situation is a breeding ground for link-rot; content that is no longer updated but remains prominent in the SERPs. It's easy in these circumstances for affiliate links to quickly become out of date.
Link rot isn't new but the mindset has changed
Affiliate links have long been thought of as static, which means the idea that they decay over time has never worried an industry hyper-focused on short-term marketing tactics such as discounting.
But this doesn't recognise how content strategies are evolving. Publishers, particularly lifestyle content publishers, are now producing evergreen content that retains long-term SEO value. Successfully monetising this type of long-lasting content with affiliate links means being able to keep those links relevant and up to date. Failure to do this will inevitably result in a significant loss of potential revenue for publishers.
While affiliate marketers have long been used to measuring performance in a campaign-oriented mindset, content publishers assess the value of their commerce content over long time periods. This is a totally new way of thinking in an industry accustomed to negotiating short-term, short-burst marketing strategies with publishers.
A risk to publisher-advertiser relations
While link rot can take many forms the most common issue is pages that are not found. In our study, these accounted for 27% of all link rot issues, significantly more than other problems like broken links and out of stock products. This is the result of affiliate links not being able to keep pace with the changing structure and content on advertiser sites.
The static nature of affiliate links has been a constant threat to the industry's viability as a monetisation model for large content publishers. Where content is expected to generate high traffic and search results long after its publication date, the automated nature of other channels like programmatic display has tended to trump affiliate's highly contextual but onerously manual link maintenance model.
So what does this mean for affiliate marketers? If affiliate marketing is going to keep up and continue to attract content publishers, it needs to find a solution that prevents its links from decaying to the point that user journeys are broken and advertising opportunities lost. Major publishers today are looking for monetisation strategies with ROI longevity. Affiliate marketers must find a way of delivering it.
A £3.3 million problem
Networks have traditionally left the management and updating of links to publishers. This is okay for incentive, cashback or comparison publishers with a limited number of links, and who usually use links that direct to the advertiser's homepage. But it doesn't scale to the world's largest content generators.
We recently carried out a study of over 7,000 web pages across 25 major publishing sites using Trackonomic's AMBA system, which helps publishers automatically scan affiliate links and identify and avoid the lost revenue associated with link rot, The results were alarming:
Link rot affects almost half of all pages that carry affiliate links
Between 3% and 10% of live affiliate links are affected by link rot
Each affiliate webpage has around 10 individual link rot issues
Trackonomics find a link rot issue on 4% of all affiliate links that they scan. In terms of affiliate URLs over 40% of those scanned contain a link rot issue of some kind, with content publishers by some distance the worst affected. Trackonomics now estimate that link rot issues are costing the industry at least £3.3 million every month.
Developing an actionable strategy for dealing with link rot
It's clear that link rot is a problem that affiliate marketers can no longer afford to ignore. All parties have a stake in making sure link rot prevention doesn't fall through the cracks.
Advertisers with out of date content are risking lost revenue, tracking providers are failing their clients if links don't resolve, and publishers are creating a poor user experience for their visitors. To date, Trackonomics has focussed on helping publishers and I believe that all publishers should have a link rot strategy that enables them to:
Report on the key link rot issues that are affecting their businesses
Identify these by article/content generated
Put a value against each issue to prioritise the revenue risk
Fix the link rot issues to ensure the best possible user experience and maximum revenue opportunity
Seizing the revenue opportunity
In the US, affiliate marketing's biggest content publishers are generating an excess of 25 million unique clicks on affiliate advertising in any given month. That's a potential 2.5 million unique clicks every single month across the industry that resolve to dead links, incorrect pages or out of stock products. The opportunity this presents for affiliate marketers is huge.
It might have taken us a while to get here, but I'm glad we're finally recognising link rot as an important issue in the affiliate marketing industry. Now is the time to take link rot seriously and ensure that our industry is a viable and attractive option for publishers in search of new revenue streams. If every cloud has a silver lining then link rot is no exception. Savvy marketers today would be wise to take note and stay a step ahead of the game – there are huge gains to be made for those who are ready and willing to make link rot prevention a key part of their affiliate marketing strategy.
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"In today's digital economy, it is mandatory to be visible to potential customers 24/7… we are very pleased to say that we have built this capability," Karam Chand said.
The launch of the website, he added, marks an important milestone for RB as well as Brunei's Tourism Development Department.
He noted that this could potentially aid the development of tourism in Brunei, towards meeting the 2020 target of bringing up international airport arrivals to over 400,000 visitors.
As of end of 2016, MPRT data recorded international airport arrivals at 218,809.
Through RBH's aggressive marketing, it is hoped to increase destination awareness within the sultanate and help break into new markets as well.
"We are very happy that this could complement our national agenda to promote tourism in Brunei. With this system, I believe that it will make all the bookings and travelling within Brunei easier," Hj Wardi reiterated.
One of RBH's goals, Karam Chand said, is to make local tourism products and services known widely and quickly. Hence, it is important to advertise and market the online platform strategically.
When it was launched in Kuala Lumpur recently, RB said that it managed to secure a booking within four hours.
"We have identified Malaysia as our point of origin and it is doing well," McDougall said. Despite being launched less than two weeks ago, he said they have been getting bookings and are satisfied with the results so far.
Currently, RB is also trying to reach out to the 150,000 transit passengers who enter into Brunei annually, mostly on the airline's "kangaroo" route (Melbourne – Brunei – Dubai – London). To take advantage of this, RBH offers attractive stopover packages for those on short transit.
Committed to boost tourist arrivals, RB has plans to service more destinations, with Beijing and South Korea lined up for the fourth quarter of 2017.
As it is, the national carrier already has scheduled flights to two Chinese destinations — Shanghai and Hong Kong — and it is hoped that by introducing Beijing later this year, it will open up more opportunities for local businesses.
"(Tourists from China) are the second most arrivals into Brunei," the MPRT acting permanent secretary said.
Hj Wardi disclosed that the Brunei Tourism Board is looking to improve standards of services and introduce new activities in efforts to bring in more tourists from China and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, the airline CEO said RB has plans to increase its fleet by eight aircraft — seven Airbus A320 and one Boeing 787. This would enable it to increase flight frequency and explore possibilities of new networks.


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Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
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Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History
In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a capable yet insecure man, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (court-martialed twice in six years) and the new corporate economy, a wartime emancipator who rejected racial equality. Stiles argues that, although Custer was justly noted for his exploits on the western frontier, he also played a central role as both a wide-ranging participant and polarizing public figure in his extraordinary, transformational time—a time of civil war, emancipation, brutality toward Native Americans, and, finally, the Industrial Revolution—even as he became one of its casualties. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation. It casts surprising new light on one of the best-known figures of American history, a subject of seemingly endless fascination.
T. J. STILES is the author of The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the National Book Award for Nonfiction, and Jesse James: Last Rebel of the Civil War, which received the Ambassador Book Award and the Peter Seaborg Award for Civil War Scholarship, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Custer's Trials was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for History in 2016. An elected member of the Society of American Historians and a member of the board of the Authors Guild, he was a 2011 fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a 2004 Gilder Lehrman Fellow in American History at the New York Public Library's Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, and a member of the 2014 faculty of the World Economic Forum. He lives in San Francisco, California, with his wife and two children.
A voice called out to Custer, telling him to come see the observation balloon. He stepped out of the large tent that he shared with three other officers and his dogs and looked up. It was aloft, floating over the Union encampment. He found his field glass in his hand, so he put its twin lenses to his eyes. He was stunned to see two young women from Monroe seated in the basket—women in whom he had a certain interest. He dropped his field glass and ran to the balloon's base a short distance away. "Let me go up too," he begged the men in charge of it. They agreed. In a moment he somehow reached the basket high above, "but my friends had gone, much to my disappointment."
He awoke. Unusually, he remembered the dream. "I always deal with realities," he wrote to his sister. "I am not a believer in dreams"—unlike his mother—"but on the contrary think it absurd to pay any attention to them." The more he disavowed any significance, the more he implied that the dream haunted him. Two attractive young women appear in his most isolated post, a basket in the air; he suddenly, inexplicably, rises to that great height; they vanish the instant he reaches them. He corners what he desires, yet it escapes him, leaving him bewildered and alone.
When he stepped outside of his tent in the morning—awake, this time—he found himself at Harrison's Landing, the James River bivouac where the Army of the Potomac had retreated after the victory at Malvern Hill. McClellan established his headquarters at Berkeley Plantation, virtually the birthplace of the slaveholding aristocracy in the South. Out of respect, McClellan did not occupy the brick manor house, but ordered tents erected on the grounds. There he brooded on his enemies in the administration.
Just after the Battle of Gaines's Mill, McClellan had sent a remarkable telegram to Secretary Stanton. "If I save this Army now I tell you plainly that I owe no thanks to you or any other persons in Washington—you have done your best to sacrifice this Army." He knew his accusation was shocking, but, he wrote to his wife, Lincoln was "entirely too smart to give my correspondence to the public—it would have ruined him & Stanton forever." His delusion was not tested. In Washington the telegraph supervisor excised that last sentence, and so McClellan's anger grew unchecked.
On July 8, in stifling heat and humidity, Lincoln came to Harrison's Landing. McClellan and staff, including Custer, met his steamer at the pier and conducted him on a review of the army. Afterward the general and the president sat together under an awning on the deck of Lincoln's vessel. McClellan handed the president a letter. Lincoln opened it and read as the general waited.
"I earnestly desire . . . to lay before your excellency, for your private consideration, my general views concerning the existing state of the rebellion," McClellan wrote.
It should not be a war looking to the subjugation of the people of any State in any event. It should not be at all a war upon population, but against armed forces and political organizations. Neither confiscation of property, political executions of persons, territorial organization of States, or forcible abolition of slavery should be contemplated for a moment. . . . Military power should not be allowed to interfere with the relations of servitude, either by supporting or impairing the authority of the master.
He argued that the owners of contrabands should be compensated. And he backed his political lecture with an implicit threat: "A declaration of radical views, especially upon slavery, will rapidly disintegrate our present armies."
Lincoln said nothing, a silence that McClellan took as vindication. The general even saw his defeat as a fine thing, reversing his earlier analysis. "God has helped me, or rather has helped my army & country," he told his wife on July 10. "If I had succeeded in taking Richmond now the fanatics of the North might have been too powerful & reunion impossible." He wrote to Samuel L. M. Barlow, the Democratic Party insider, "I have lost all regard & respect for the majority of the administration, & doubt the propriety of my brave men's blood being spilled to further the designs of such a set of heartless villains."
The self-absorbed general did not see the rising anger at his performance, in the North and even in his own army. Senator Zachariah Chandler of Michigan, an influential Radical on the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, wrote to his wife on July 6, "I can hold my temper no longer & will not try. . . . McLelland is an awful humbug & deserves to be shot." McClellan airily wrote to Barlow, "I do not think it best to reply to the lies of such a fellow as Chandler—he is beneath my notice."
McClellan also misread Lincoln. The recent setbacks had convinced the president that victory required farther-reaching policies. On July 13, he told two cabinet members, "We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued. The slaves were undeniably an element of strength to those who had their service, and we must decide whether that element should be with us or against us." But McClellan was blind to these shifts in politics—and blind to himself as well.
Custer was more complicated. In the weeks that followed Lincoln's visit, he did two things that illustrated his inner contradictions—actions that were true to himself, yet pointed to two very different possible futures.
One of his deeds was to take part in a Confederate wedding. His old friend John "Gimlet" Lea had been paroled after the Battle of Williamsburg—allowed to go free as long as he did not return to military service before being formally exchanged. Prisoners on both sides obeyed the terms of paroles with remarkable faithfulness. Custer had heard that a family in Williamsburg was caring for his badly wounded friend, and McClellan gave permission to go to look for him.
Custer found Lea restored to health. Lea said that he was engaged to the daughter of his host—"very beautiful to say the least," Custer wrote—and asked Custer to serve as best man. He agreed. During the wedding ceremony they stood together in uniform, one in blue and one in gray, opposite the bride and her attractive cousin Maggie. As Custer escorted Maggie out of the room, he told her she couldn't be a very strong secessionist to agree to take the arm of a Union officer. "You ought to be in our army," she said. "I asked her what she would give me if I would resign in the Northern army and join the Southern," he wrote. She replied, "You are not in earnest, are you?"
He remained with Lea for two weeks, flirting with Maggie. The four spent each evening in the parlor, playing cards or listening to Maggie on the piano, playing "Dixie," "For Southern Rights Hurrah," and other rebel tunes. Custer did not mind; he was more interested in her beauty than her politics. In a sense, though, his very presence was political, in a way McClellan fully endorsed.
The other thing he did set a different tone, an implacable tone. "He vowed that he would not cut his hair until he entered Richmond," Tully McCrea wrote to a friend. "You may think from this that he is a vain man, but he is not; it is nothing more than his penchant for oddity. . . . He is a gallant soldier." He would let his curly blond hair grow and grow until the Union achieved total victory—a sign that he wanted total victory, a sign that became more visible with each day.
"Captain! Captain!" Custer heard the cry from the far side of some nearby bushes. It was the bugler, still just a boy. "Two secesh are after me!" Custer reined his horse around and found the lad firing his carbine at two Confederates approaching on horseback. Custer drew his revolver and spurred toward them.
It was August 5, 1862, on the Peninsula. Two days earlier he had crossed the James River on a raid with Col. William W. Averell, who commended him for his "impetuous dash." Now he rode with Averell again in a probe of the rebels near White Oak Swamp. He and about 400 Union cavalrymen had charged a few dozen troopers of the 10th Virginia Cavalry, dispersing them. Custer had galloped off to the left after some escaping Confederates, away from the main body, when he heard the bugler.
Seeing Custer, the two rebels turned and fled. Custer rode one of them down; at his call to surrender, the Confederate hesitated, then reined in his horse and handed over his carbine. Custer took him back to the rest of his detachment and put him under guard, then rode out again, accompanied by a lieutenant and ten men. "We had not gone far until we saw an officer and fifteen or twenty men riding toward us with the intention of cutting their way through and joining their main body," he wrote. "When they saw us coming toward them however, they wheeled suddenly to the left and attempted to gallop around us."
Custer picked out the officer and spurred his fine black horse into a gallop. The rebel's mount was at least as fast, so Custer angled to cut him off at a rail fence ahead. The Confederate jumped his horse cleanly over it. Custer followed, his own horse clearing the top rail. He had never felt such a surge of adrenaline—"exciting in the extreme," he wrote. The enemy landed on soft ground, wet after a recent rain, which slowed his progress. Custer guided his horse to more solid footing and rapidly drew closer, hooves thudding the earth, freshly loaded revolver in hand.
Surrender, he yelled. Surrender or I will shoot. "He paid no attention," Custer wrote. He fired and missed. "I again called on him to surrender, but received no reply." He cocked his revolver—the six chambers in its cylinder hand--packed with lead balls, powder charges, and percussion caps—and leveled the barrel as he rode. "I took deliberate aim at his body and fired." The hammer snapped down on the percussion cap, sparking the gunpowder, which exploded in a jet of flame and smoke, propelling the ball on a spiraling path through the rifled barrel until it burst out of the muzzle. The other rider suddenly relaxed, sat upright in his saddle for an instant, and toppled heavily to the ground.
Now Custer's strange sense of isolation, his temporary tunnel universe of only him and his prey, evaporated. His party appeared all around him, firing wildly at the rest of the escaping Confederates. The bugle call of "rally"—the command to return to the main force—warbled through the trees. Custer spotted a cluster of five riderless horses. He recognized a bright bay, a "blooded" thoroughbred. An exceptional straight steel sword swung from a black morocco saddle ornamented with silver nails and a red morocco breast strap. It was the horse of his victim, "a perfect beauty." Custer took its rein and led it behind him. "A splendid trophy," he wrote.
He did not see the man he had shot. The lieutenant who fought with Custer "told me that he saw him after he fell, and that he rose to his feet, turned around, threw up his hands and fell to the ground with a stream of blood gushing from his mouth."
Again Averell commended Custer, for his "gallant and spirited conduct." But this skirmish was unique. It was the first time he had killed a man—rather, that he knew he had killed a man. He had ridden in charges and ordered at least one himself; he had shot at the enemy and commanded that volleys be fired; but never had he selected an individual and destroyed his life. He had passed through a doorway with no return.
"It was his own fault," he explained to his sister and brother-in-law. "I told him twice to surrender, but was compelled to shoot him." He was answering a silent question—a question no one had asked but himself. Often he had expressed his willingness to die for his country; though not a devout man, his statements reflected the faith in which he had been raised, a religion that worshipped Him who had given His life that others may live. But Custer had never written about killing. It was a soldier's defining function, of course, what set him apart from the civilian, even the constable, detective, or armed guard. Now he faced its reality.
The enemy soldier had been riding away, trying to escape. Custer tracked him, calculated his approach, and took careful aim. He shot him in the back. He had picked a man and erased his memories, canceled his hopes. He had wiped from existence his victim's taste for his favorite food, his habit of how he wore his hat, his superstitions, his most secret fear, the way he laughed. He took the man from his parents and children and friends forever. I tried not to kill him, Custer told himself. I tried twice. And then I had no choice. Whether the answer satisfied him or not, he never asked the question again.
List of Illustrations xi
List of Maps xiii
Part 1 Rise 1839-1865
1 The Accused 3
2 The Observer 29
3 The Protégé 51
4 The Prodigy 79
5 The Women 107
6 The General 134
7 The Hero 157
8 The Victor 182
Part 2 Fall 1865-1876
9 The Executioner 211
10 The Politician 236
11 The Fallen 255
12 The Indian Killer 295
13 The Financier 329
14 The Writer 354
15 The Enemy 376
16 The Accuser 407
Primary Source Bibliography 545
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"If anyone could make a reader forget Custer's last stand, at least for a few hundred pages at a time, it would be T.J. Stiles. . . . Stiles is a serious and accomplished biographer, but he is more than that. He is a skilled writer, with the rare ability to take years of far-ranging research and boil it down until he has a story that is illuminating and, at its best, captivating." —The New York Times Book Review
"Epic, ambitious. . . . [Stiles] scrupulously avoids caricature. . . . Stiles's accomplishment is to show that, within the context of Custer's life, the Battle of Little Bighorn really was an epilogue." —The Wall Street Journal
"If you want to understand how Custer's character became his fate, then Stiles's book is the one to read before any other." —Thomas Powers, The New York Review of Books
"[This] sympathetic biography attempts to demythologize and reassess a complicated figure. . . . Stiles captures his subject with verve." —The New Yorker
"In this deft portrait, Stiles restores Custer as a three-dimensional figure. . . . [Stiles's] prodigious knowledge of 19th-century institutions is on display throughout Custer's Trials. He is able to situate Custer in the shifting culture of the Civil War and its aftermath in a way no other biography has achieved. . . . Stiles's Custer is life-size." —The Washington Post
"This energetic biography puts emphasis on the years in between Custer's Civil War heroics and his infamous Last Stand. Stiles is neither sympathetic nor unsympathetic in his treatment of Custer's profound need for attention." —The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Riveting. . . . [Stiles] has given us a different way to look at the flesh-and-blood man and his times." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
"Custer's Trials is exemplary in every way, replete with instances of detailed scholarship and compelling analysis, dense with psychological insight, and written in a tight, adroit style." —The Wichita Eagle
"Custer was the product of an America which changed more dramatically during his brief life than at any time in its history, except for the present sorry epoch, and Stiles, who can write, and also research, recounts how those times shaped him and, in the process, demolishes some of the Custer despisers' (there are many, and I am one) most cherished myths. . . . Terrific." —Field & Stream
"Stiles portrays a complex and deeply flawed man. . . . Stiles' biography is a long, detailed, well-researched but highly readable account." —The Denver Post
"Engaging… A teeming portrait of the birth of modern America—and a gripping account of Custer's role in it." —San Jose Mercury News
"A nuanced, complex and convincing portrait of the man." —San Francisco Chronicle
"Rousing. . . . An immersive, emphatic, bloody and very assured book." —Newsday
"A good and meaty biography." —Christian Science Monitor
"T.J. Stiles portrays Custer in the context of his time, and the man who emerges is much more than merely a martyr or a fool. . . . [Stiles] goes furthest in exploring [Custer's] contribution to Union victory during the Civil War and the difficulties he faced adjusting to the world that he helped to create." —The Daily Beast
"[Stiles's] biography is thorough, engrossing and fair. Custer is seen as a man wearing many faces, some good, some not. The author has done a commendable job drawing out from other sources to write a balanced account of a misunderstood historical figure. A+ read." —San Francisco Book Review
"Spectacular . . . a satisfying portrait of a complex, controversial military man… Confidently presenting Custer in all his contradictions, Stiles examines the times to make sense of the man—and uses the man to shed light on the times." —Publishers Weekly *starred review*
"Stiles presents a much fuller picture of the tragic figure many of us know. . . . Custer's Trials masterfully adds dimension to his life, helping us better understand the man behind the legend." —BookPage
"Stiles doesn't disappoint with this powerful, provocative biography. . . . A highly recommended modern biography that successfully illuminates the lives of Custer and his family as part of the changing patterns of American society." —Library Journal
"A warts-and-all portrait. . . . Stiles digs deep to deliver genuine insight into a man who never adapted to modernity." —Kirkus Reviews
"T. J. Stiles has written a marvel of a book—the best life of Custer right up to the moment he marched the 7th Cavalry out of Fort Abraham Lincoln while the band played 'The Girl I Left Behind,' on their way to whip the Indians." —Thomas Powers, author of The Killing of Crazy Horse
"This magnificent biography lifts the shroud of myth that has long hovered over Custer. Well-written, exhaustively researched, and full of fresh insights, it does a superb job of re-creating not only his life but even more the world in which he lived. Building on the work of previous writers, Stiles surpasses them all with his breadth of detail and depth of analysis." —Maury Klein, author, Days of Defiance: Sumter, Secession, and the Coming of the Civil War
"T.J. Stiles has done it again. With this searching, memorable portrait of George Armstrong Custer, Stiles recaptures the complexities of a man whom posterity has been content to caricature. Until now, in this wonderful book." —Jon Meacham, author of Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George H. W. Bush
"T. J. Stiles has written another splendid book. He portrays a real Custer, full of flaws but possessed of outstanding combat skills and leadership. This biography easily overshadows its many predecessors, offering new facts and interpretations as well as a wonderful read." —Robert Utley, author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier
"Despite the numerous works on Custer, this thoroughly researched and riveting book is new. It is the first to interpret him as a representative of his times." —Shirley Leckie Reed, author of Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
"George A. Custer has proven an enduring metaphor for the American West, an 'exaggerated American' seen as flamboyant military hero, icon of national expansion, or doomed oppressor of Native Americans. More even than his compelling portrait of this central figure of American history, T. J. Stiles brilliantly examines Custer within transforming national events—civil war, slavery's end, and economic and social modernization that privileged the powerful under guise of democratic triumph—proving yet again why he is this generation's finest biographer." —Christopher Phillips, author of The Rivers Ran Backward: The Civil War and the Remaking of the American Middle Border
"In this definitive reconsideration of an icon, Stiles reminds us why Custer remains such a fascinating fixture in our national consciousness: To understand Custer is to understand a significant sequence in the American DNA." —Hampton Sides, author of Blood and Thunder and In the Kingdom of Ice
Is it possible to read a biography of George Armstrong Custer without thinking about his death from the first page?…While we cannot forget how Custer died…few of us remember how he lived. Who he was, what he hoped to leave behind, even what brought him to that fateful day in 1876, these questions we cannot answer, and rarely ask. If anyone could make a reader forget Custer's last stand, at least for a few hundred pages at a time, it would be T. J. Stiles. Winner of both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for his 2009 biography of Cornelius Vanderbilt…Stiles is a serious and accomplished biographer, but he is more than that. He is a skilled writer, with the rare ability to take years of far-ranging research and boil it down until he has a story that is illuminating and, at its best, captivating.
The New York Times Book Review - Candice Millard
★ 08/31/2015
Stiles, winner of a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize for 2009's The First Tycoon, grounds this spectacular narrative of George Armstrong Custer in skillful research to deliver a satisfying portrait of a complex, controversial military man. The biography centers on the importance of period context in understanding character, incisively showing that Custer lived uncomfortably on a "chronological frontier" of great modern change in the U.S. Though Custer is best known for his fatal "last stand" at the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn, Stiles recounts how the officer first attracted national attention for his cavalry exploits during the Civil War. Stiles also delves into the role of celebrity in Custer's life, tracing the ebb and flow of his popularity over more than a decade after the war, as Custer struggled to find a prominent place in the "peacetime" army that the U.S. deployed in the West against Native Americans. Custer's personal life was tumultuous: he was a womanizer before and during his marriage to Libbie Bacon, and their home life was complicated by the presence of a freed bondswoman as well as persistent rumors that he had taken a captive Cheyenne woman as his "mistress." Confidently presenting Custer in all his contradictions, Stiles examines the times to make sense of the man—and uses the man to shed light on the times. Illus. (Nov.)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stiles (The First Tycoon) doesn't disappoint with this powerful, provocative biography of George Armstrong Custer (1839–76). Determined to explore why Custer became a national celebrity, Stiles covers the entire life of "The Boy General," emphasizing the dynamism of Custer's life and times, rather than portraying him as on a slow march toward defeat and death at the Battle of the Little Bighorn (Custer's Last Stand), where Lakota and Northern Cheyenne warriors proved victorious in June 1876. Custer was an outstanding cavalry officer in Civil War battles, and his ascent to power is chronicled in the first half of the book while the latter narrative portrays its subject as a romantic war hero addressing the realities of a brutal westward Indian campaign. The historical context of 19th-century America becomes as much a part of the story as is Custer, his wife, Libbie, and Eliza Brown, a young escaped slave who became their household manager. VERDICT A highly recommended modern biography that successfully illuminates the lives of Custer and his family as part of the changing patterns of American society. [See Prepub Alert, 4/20/15.]—Nathan Bender, Albany Cty. P.L., Laramie, WY
Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner Stiles (The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 2009, etc.) gives a warts-and-all portrait of Gen. George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876), giving full rein to both his admirers and critics. Custer graduated at the bottom of his West Point class in 1861 with the most demerits of any of the students. Only the demerits foreshadowed the brilliant tactician's future. In the first half of the book, the author provides an excellent chronicle of Civil War battles and the politics of war. Custer's undisputed prowess as a cavalry officer in the war fed his ambitions. He gained a place on George McClellan's staff that would prove especially deleterious. His flamboyance, velvet uniform, and slouching hat might have made him a laughingstock, but his ability was real and his courage, sincere. His knowledge of tactics and ability to read his environment gained him promotions and celebrity. He led from the front, but he was incapable of management. His postwar assignments in Texas and Kansas brought out the cruel, tyrannical man who abused and humiliated his men. His published writings chronicle his fascination with natural history, but they provided little income. He dabbled in the railroads and a silver mine venture, and he gambled on stock speculation. Stiles ably points out his many defining flaws: his heroic style didn't work in an era of tact and skill, and there is no doubt that he was self-serving, generally assuming that rules weren't made for him and never showing remorse. In addition to examining Custer's life, the author also introduces his cook, the fascinating Eliza Brown, an escaped slave who deserves a biography of her own. Stiles digs deep to deliver genuine insight into a man who never adapted to modernity. The author confirms, but perhaps excuses, the worldview of the "boy general with the golden locks."
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America 4.3 out of 5 based on 0 ratings. 4 reviews.
T.J. Stiles is the historian of our generation and his work on Custer will only serve to enhance that status. Stiles has forever reshaped the way that we view Custer, leaving behind the legacy that Custer was a one trick pony whose only significance in life was in his death. Instead, as with his exploration of Jesse James and Cornelius Vanderbilt, biographies that landed him the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Stiles delves deeply into the life of Custer and how his life intersected with the forces of 19th Century America. Stiles histories read more like novels and it comes as something of a surprise to me that he has yet to be discovered by other media.
ubiquitousghosts More than 1 year ago
In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Custer's Trials, T.J. Stiles has pulled off something close to miraculous: he has taken a man who is commonly despised and regarded as arrogant or foohardy or both, placed him into the context of his own time, and introduces a fully-defined, fully-integrated human being who responded to his country's turmoil in ways that were sometimes brilliant and sometimes appalling, frequently at the same time. Although Custer is best known for his demise, most people may not realize how significant a hero of the Civil War he was, and how large a role he played in both the reunification and expansion of the United States in the nineteenth century. Custer may have been brash and egotistical, arrogant and quick-tempered, but he was also capable of generosity and kindness, and was gifted with both tactical skill and cool-headed appraisal on the battlefield. Custer offended and even betrayed many over the course of his short lifetime—he was only thirty-six when he died at Little Big Horn—but he also attracted soldiers, officers, friends, and colleagues who were fiercely loyal to him. He was a man of amazing contradictions, and Mr. Stiles does an amazing job of presenting Custer as he truly was, without judgement and without excuse, putting the man squarely into historical context. And context is what makes this biography so different from any other Custer biography that I have ever read. After the Civil War, America redefined itself as the country's interests and industries turned to the west and the modern era began. As Mr. Stiles shows, Custer helped bring about modern America but never learned how to live in it. Mr. Stiles's research, his attention to detail, and his eloquent and enjoyable prose, reward the reader with particulars and facts that explain a great deal about Custer's life and death, giving the reader much to think about regarding a time in our country's history that still affects how we live and think today.
Astonishing read! Someone who reads this and says they need more information isn't telling the truth! Can't imagine what there is out there that could be added here. Whatever you think you know about this historical figure, read this before you make up your mind.
DavidS-ABQ More than 1 year ago
I anxiously awaited the release of this book and when it finally arrived, I tore into it. What a disappointment! Stiles lectures his readers throughout and somehow pretends to know what was in the mind of Armstrong & Libby as well as Eliza - who by the way, is featured throughout the book as being much smarter that either Custer and in fact has the Custers under her thumb. I realize author have a so called privilege but Stiles is way over the top on this one. If Allan Eckert's books of the seventies were considered Historical Fiction because of his inserted dialogue then Stiles book should certainly be classified as such as he claims to be able to read people's minds who have been in the grave for almost a century and a half. Another irritating habit of Stiles is he continually uses 21st Century attitudes & customs in denigrating 19th Century behavior. The best books on Custer remain Utley's "Cavalier in Buckskin" & Connell's "Son of the Morning Star" with honorable mention to Philbrick's "Last Stand".
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Q: can't initialize projection information in GRASS from R I want to perform a small calculation in GRASS using the r.watershed-function. I convert my raster DEM to a SpatialGridDataFrame to import it into GRASS. However when initializing GRASS the projection information of the DEM-SpatialGridDataFrame is not kept/imported (i.e. projection(streams_g_buf) # [1] NA). Can somebody help me to spot the problem?
require(raster)
require(rgrass7)

## get Malawi DEM
mwi_dem <- getData("alt", country="MWI", mask=TRUE)

# reproject raster to UTM 36 S
mwidem_trans <- projectRaster(mwi_dem, crs=CRS("+init=epsg:32736"))
# as SpatialGridDataFrame for GRASS
mwidem_trans2 <- as(mwidem_trans, "SpatialGridDataFrame")

projection(mwidem_trans2) # [1] "+init=epsg:32736 +proj=utm +zone=36 +south +datum=WGS84 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0"

## Initialize GRASS
initGRASS("/usr/lib/grass72",
          home=tempdir(), override=TRUE, SG=mwidem_trans2)

## Write SpatialGridDataFrame
writeRAST(mwidem_trans2, "DEM", zcol = 1, flags="overwrite")

# GRASS analyses
execGRASS("r.watershed", flags="overwrite",
          parameters=list(elevation="DEM", stream="streams_g", threshold=30))
execGRASS("r.buffer", flags="overwrite",
          parameters=list(input="streams_g", output="streams_g_buf",  distances=200))

## Read back into R
streams_g_buf <- raster(readRAST("streams_g_buf"))

projection(streams_g_buf) # [1] NA

A: I followed your steps up to initGRASS and then ran:
execGRASS('g.proj', flags="p")

and got:
 XY location (unprojected)

So the temp location and mapset are created without CRS information. Then when you export back R, you get NA as the CRS.
The answers here will probably help you. In short you need to create a LOCATION with proper PERMANENT mapset and CRS data, then using that LOCATION, add a mapset, pull in the R raster, then do the GRASS processing and export back to R.

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Mammoet (, Dutch for Mammoth) is a privately held Dutch company specializing in engineered heavy lifting and transport of large objects.

History

Mammoet's history started on 13 May 1807 in the Netherlands, when Dutch entrepreneur Jan Goedkoop founded a maritime company with the purchase of a 140-ton cargo vessel. The company, called 'Gebroeders Goedkoop' ('Goedkoop Brothers'), offered both cargo and passenger transport on water. In 1862 the company acquired its first tugboat, and from 1920 onwards, the company focused on tug and salvage services.

In 1971 Goedkoop merged with Van Wezel from Hengelo, a company that specialized in heavy transport and cranes. The new company was called Mammoet Transport. In 1972 another company was acquired, Stoof Breda, which at that time was one of the Dutch market leaders in engineered heavy lifting and transport.

In 1973 Mammoet Transport became a subsidiary of Koninklijke Nederlandse Stoomboot-Maatschappij (KNSM) in Amsterdam. At the same time, the company name was changed to Mammoet. In 1973 Mammoet Shipping was founded.

In 1981 KNSM and Mammoet became part of Nedlloyd Group. In 2000 Mammoet was acquired by and merged with Van Seumeren Kraanbedrijf, a company that had been founded in 1966. In 2001 Mammoet sold its maritime branch Mammoet Shipping to shipping company , and was rebranded to .

In 2020, Mammoet merged with UK-based engineered heavy lifting company ALE, forming the largest engineered heavy lifting and transport company in the world.

The company is active in the petrochemical industry, mining and metals, civil construction and the energy sector such as nuclear power, conventional, offshore wind and onshore wind. Globally, approximately 7,000 people work for the company, in about 90 offices and branches. The head office of the holding company is located in Utrecht. The European headquarters is located in Schiedam. Mammoet has offices in North America, South America, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

Executive Board of Management

The following persons have been active on Mammoet's Executive Board of Management:

 Paul van Gelder (1969), Chief Executive Officer
 Jan Kleijn (1968), Chief Operational Officer
 Tim Tieleman (1980), Chief Financial Officer
 Sylvia Houwers (1972), Chief Human Resources Officer

Use of 'Mammoet' and logo by other companies
Two (former) units of Mammoet use a similar logo:

 Mammoet Road Cargo, heavy and special road transport. Now only 10% owned by Mammoet.
 Mammoet Ferry Transport, transport company between the UK and continental Europe. Now an independent company.

Equipment

 Cranes
 Jacking System
 Lifting System
 Skidding System
 Ballast Tractors
 Hydraulic modular trailer
 Self-propelled modular trailers
 Weighing System

See also
 Kursk submarine disaster
 Ring cranes
 SPMT
 Heavy hauler
 Ballast Tractor
 Hydraulic modular trailer

References

Marine salvors
Multinational companies headquartered in the Netherlands
Transport companies of the Netherlands
Companies based in South Holland
Schiedam
Heavy haulage

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Volunteer photographers, Save the Scenic Santa Ritas, the Sonoran Institute, and other key partners in Southern Arizona have joined forces to shed light on what is at stake with the proposed Rosemont Mine through a series of photographic exhibitions and outreach efforts. Rosemont Mine would be located in the northeastern part of the Santa Rita Mountains, and if approved, would severely compromise the natural and cultural heritage of Southern Arizona.The impacted area is one of the most biodiverse regions in the US – home to 9 threatened and endangered species, including the jaguar.The photographs collected from professional photographers, biologists, community members, and many others have and continue to be used in traveling exhibitions, publications, presentations, websites, and any other way we can think of to educate and inspire the public, nonprofit organizations, businesses, and policymakers to take action to protect the Santa Rita Mountains and the surrounding region from the proposed mine.We hope you enjoy exploring the various categories within the Lens on the Land exhibit – for your viewing pleasure, on this site we have included several slideshows of photographs from the following categories: Biodiversity, Culture, the Economy, the Land, the Night Sky and Astronomy, and Water Resources.
Who knew that jaguars, a rare orchid, and yellow-billed cuckoos inhabit a landscape just 15 miles southeast of Tucson? This unique region is also home to a growing wine industry, a world-class astronomy observatory, generations of ranching families, and thousands of years of Native American history and tradition. It's all there, but these resources are under threat by the proposed Rosemont Mine, a massive Canadian-owned copper mine that, if realized, would result in a mine pit 3,000 feet deep and over 1 mile wide. The pit, mine tailings, waste, and other impacts would permanently disturb roughly 3,700 acres of public land within the Coronado National Forest.
The Lens on the Land photography exhibit brings both the region's resources and threats to light by celebrating the rich biodiversity, riparian areas, cultural heritage, recreational opportunities, rural character, and economies that would be impacted by the Rosemont Mine. Never before has the cultural and ecological richness of the Santa Rita Mountains and surrounding watersheds been represented in an exhibit of this scope and scale.
Destruction of habitat and individuals representing nine endangered and threatened species, including the only known jaguar living in the U.S.
Decreased revenues from Southern Arizona's 2.4 billion dollar tourism and recreation industryThese are just a few of the many impacts the mine will have on the environment, people, culture, and economy of our region.Through this exhibit, Tucson photographers Josh Schachter and Brian Forbes Powell, in collabora- tion with the Sonoran Institute and Save the Scenic Santa Ritas, seek to bring new perspectives to the resources at stake and the impacts of the proposed mine. Almost two years in the making, Lens on the Land includes photographs by a wide range of contributors, including professional photographers, biologists and concerned citizens throughout Southern Arizona and the West.
The Sonoran Institute inspires and enables community decisions and public policies that respect the land and people of western North America. The nonprofit Sonoran Institute, founded in 1990, works across the rapidly changing West to conserve and restore natural and cultural assets and to promote better management of growth and change. The Institute's community-based approach emphasizes collaboration, civil dialogue, sound information, local knowledge, practical solutions and big-picture thinking.
Josh Schachter is a photographer, visual storyteller, community arts facilitator, social ecologist, and cultural organizer who has worked with organizations throughout the U.S. to document issues from urban revitalization to food security. His images have been published internationally in books, magazines, newspapers, films and web sites, in venues ranging from the New York Times to the Navajo Times. Josh earned a master's degree in environmental management at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where he explored how youth could use photography to share their own lives and unique perspectives. Over the past 14 years he has collaborated on community-based storytelling and media projects with youth, teachers, neighborhood groups, and nonprofit organizations in places ranging from New Delhi to Nigeria to the US-Mexico border. In 2010 Josh received PhotoPhilanthropy's International "Grand Prize Community-Based Activist Award" and in 2009 was the recipient of the "Arizona Teaching Artist Award for Innovation" from the Arizona Commission on the Arts.
Brian Forbes Powell is a Tucson-based photographer and ecologist. He grew up in Augusta Resources' hometown of Vancouver, Canada. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in natural resource conservation. Brian has recieved a number of national and international photography awards, including a First Place in the Travel Photographer of the Year (2010) competition and Grand Prize in the National Geographic/Nikon Full Story Contest (2013). His favorite photographic subject and pursuit is to document the wild landscapes of southern Arizona.


Last night I was invited to a delightful dinner party hosted at the Hawks' Club in Cambridge. My 'frock' received her due compliments, but I was also teased for not providing the night with la poesia. I soaked in the ambience surreptitiously, and on my return home, wrote this for Juliet, the birthday girl, whom we discovered was pregnant ... suddenly voluptuous figures abounded and sheepish hands were cupped around their own unnamed, special birthday gifts.
they shall fill their places.
quote on postcard from Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
Oh, I forgot to say I love The Little Prince!
Lovely piece, Shaista. And I love your charming new Little Price look over here!
I can feel the happy mood.
Oh, I love your writing style!
And the Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote is one of my all time faves.
This post is a delight.


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The Dangers of a Permanent Pandemic
by Dr. Ron and Linda Martinelli
More and more Americans are coming to believe that the Biden administration's response to the COVID pandemic is more than simple incompetency. They believe that Biden & Company wish to make the pandemic permanent so that they can usher in new voting laws that will...
This Week In COVID: Can You Be Vaccinated & Still Counted As Unvaccinated?
by Dr. Henry Ealy
In This Edition On Jan 5, 2022, the CDC created a new category for the vaccinated in order to further defraud the American people, it's called being 'Up-To-Date'. 'Fully Vaccinated' Americans can now be considered unvaccinated, an obvious move to suppress the...
The 2 Biggest Lies from Washington DC
by Karen Schoen
You are entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts. In the words of John Adams, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." No matter how...
Purging Patriots From the Military: The Proof
by DrLee4America
The Biden administration and top military brass are using illegal COVID mandates to severely compromise national defense readiness by illegally forcing the experimental COVID vaccines, purging military members who request medical or religious accommodations, engaging...
Washington State Racist Law Will Endanger Black Community
by Lt. Randy Sutton
Washington State Lawmakers are proposing to reduce the penalty for murder in the name of racial equity. National Police Association spokesman Sergeant Betsy Smith and show host Randy Sutton reveal how racial politics is endangering the lives of the black community in...
America's Road to Communism with Gordana Schifanelli
by Malcolm Out Loud
The pandemic has caused millions of Americans to re-evaluate their political & economic worldview. That's likely because of two factors - a renewed focus on deep societal inequalities & the tangible upsides of unprecedented levels of government intervention....
At-Home Management of COVID-19 Everyone Can Do
by Dr. Peter McCullough
It should come as no surprise that in large numbers, it seems almost everyone is contracting COVID-19, the Omicron variant. The US CDC anticipates this new strain to account for 93% or more of the current cases. Fortunately, infection with this strain produces a...
COVID Q & A with Dr. Henry Ealy #5
by Malcolm Out Loud | Jan 4, 2022 | Feature 3, Healthcare, Politics,
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U.S. health officials cleared the use of a Covid-19 booster from Pfizer Inc. in adolescents 12 to 15 years old, expanding access to an extra dose that could bolster the fight against the Omicron variant. The agency also cleared boosters for certain children with compromised immune systems ages 5 to 11. Health authorities have been urging people to get a booster, citing early research indicating it is needed to maintain strong protection against Omicron. But what are we really protecting against? The Omicron variant is not what the CDC, FDA, bureaucrats, and media talking heads are promoting.
Here at America Out Loud, we are receiving a tremendous number of questions and comments on a daily basis, and are doing our best to get the answers back into your hands. Dr. Henry Ealy joins Malcolm Out Loud on the Voice of a Nation to bring a series of these highly important Q & A's to the airwaves. Dr. Henry Ealy is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Founder of the Energetic Health Institute and author of over 200 published works. He is the lead author on a series of peer-reviewed research papers providing significant evidence that safe and effective treatments for COVID exist and are being withheld from the American public. Energetic Health Radio, with Dr. Henry Ealy, airs on Sat and Sun at 3 PM ET on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
Here are examples of the kind of questions that we will address on the program today, and much more:
– I am concerned with taking a PCR test every week. There is little information I am finding on the safety of the antigen, antibody, nasal, and saliva-based PCR tests. Is there any information you may have that is compelling enough to stop taking PCR tests for my health, safety, and wellbeing?
– I contracted COVID 2 months ago and am still having dulled smell and taste – how long could this possibly last? Are there treatments to help recover smell/taste quicker?
– Does the vaccine keep you from getting Covid-19 now or has it ever or does it just keep the severity low? We have a family dispute.
– My wife recently recovered from COVID and about a week after recovery she is getting dizzy. Is this a side effect of COVID, and what can we do to eliminate this?
– If required to get the vaccine for employment, which one do you feel has the least chance of side effects?
– Do the unvaccinated need to be concerned about getting spike proteins or any other negative side effects from sharing drinks or kissing someone who has been vaccinated for Covid 19?
– I wanted to let you know that I really enjoy your Q&A shows. I never miss an episode! I am hoping you will consider the question below for your next session with Dr. Ealy. Hi Dr. H: I so appreciate you and everything you are doing for all of us. Your messages always give me hope and freedom from fear.
I am intrigued by your thoughts on fasting. I can see how this could be a very healing process, but I am curious if you have ideas on how to manage hunger pangs. I have a very hard time sleeping when I'm hungry, and then, if I don't sleep well, I am prone to get sick. So in general, I'd love your thoughts on fasting and hunger pangs.
The Voice of a Nation can be heard weekdays at 6 PM ET, with an encore at 10 PM ET. Listen on iHeart Radio, our world-class media player, or our free apps on Apple, Android, or Alexa. You can email your questions to Talk@AmericaOutLoud.com.
Malcolm Out Loud
Malcolm is the publisher of America Out Loud, host of 'The Voice of a Nation' and 'Viewpoint This Sunday.' He is the founder of America Out Loud Talk Radio and America Out Loud Podcast Network. Malcolm is a Speaker, Author & Founder of Brink Thinking. His previous career as the 'big idea catalyst' in marketing and creative director of television and radio advertising spanned over two decades.
Malcolm launched America Out Loud in April 2016 after an extensive career in broadcasting and business marketing. He has been a daily voice on the America Out Loud Talk Radio airwaves bringing some of the world's leading newsmakers and informed discussions on the issues confronting our world and nation. For over five years, Malcolm has been a driving force behind America Out Loud's growth, including bringing some of the most insightful programming and online journalism available today. America Out Loud provides an outlet for a vast and growing audience looking for news and analysis without the usual liberal media spin.
The Scientific Method Clashes With PostModernism
by Dr. Jay Lehr and Tom Harris | Dec 13, 2021 | Education, Politics,
The Scientific Method is now at risk of being completely derailed by postmodern thinkers who reject the fundamentals of the Enlightenment. Instead of comparing their theories of how the world works with real observational evidence, and then changing their theories to match the data, they change the data to match their theories…
Justice is Vital to a Healthy Society
by Lt. Joseph Pangaro | Dec 13, 2021 | Law and Order, Politics
Justice must be defined especially when it comes to criminal justice. In this episode, Lt. Joe talks about the meaning of justice and the pursuit of justice in the sense of police work. Justice is vital to a healthy society. Come on this journey with Lt Joe, and don't...
Where Was Jesus Born?
by Pastor Rick Stevens | Dec 12, 2021 | Faith,
Genesis helps us, an ancient translation of the scriptures, and the angels' message to the shepherds all help us realize that Jesus was likely born at Migdal Eder, the watchtower of the flock. Imagine the brilliance of God sending his Son, the Lamb of God to be born in the very place lambs destined for temple sacrifice were born…
America's Inflationary Spending Spree on the Highway to Hell
by Malcolm Out Loud | Dec 12, 2021 | Economy, Politics,
The 'US consumer inflation was up 6.8%, the most since 1982. Let's talk about printing more money and why it matters with Economist Harry Dent. What is the economic forecast for Americans? Americans are now seeing the fruits of the Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden Unity Task Force, New Green Deal Economics of Socialism! Dr. Steve LaTulippe and Wallace Garneau weigh in on inflation, abortion, and the Smollett verdict…
The Madness Of The Left
by Rob and Andrew | Dec 12, 2021 | Law and Order, Politics
Chaos in our daily lives. Chaos in our schools, courts, churches, jobs, and streets. It's all around us, but we are told not to believe our eyes, for there is nothing to see. Oh, but there is something to see, and it is chaotic! The racial hoax of Jussie Smollett and how Don Lemon, a CNN TV host, seemingly worked with him to either cover up or embellish…
How is Medical Tyranny Costing Lives in America and the World?
by DrLee4America | Dec 12, 2021 | Healthcare, Politics,
Millions are being indoctrinated and lied to on a daily basis by the media elites and government bureaucrats. In this age of confusion and fear, where do you turn for answers you can trust? How can you find help to guide your decisions when you're sick or want to stay healthy? What are the Universal Truths on which America as a nation was founded?
The Rule of Judges
by Paul Engel | Dec 11, 2021 | Constitution, Law and Order, Politics,
Does anyone else find it interesting that the branch of government Alexander Hamilton said was the least able to injury your rights is today the most destructive of them? What can the American people do to combat this tyranny? Find out more here.
America, Donald Trump & the Next Election
by Malcolm Out Loud | Dec 11, 2021 | Elections, Politics,
The midterms will most definitely affect the buildup for the 2024 general election. Speculation is that Donald Trump will run again in 2024. If victorious, he would become the second president in history to win back the White House with non-consecutive terms. The only other president to accomplish this feat was Grover Cleveland. President Cleveland…
Who Is Kim Potter?
Potter mistook her gun for a taser while trying to apprehend Daunte Wright. She has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and is on trial for his death. Video of the accident shows that Potter didn't purposefully fire her gun at Wright, but the liberal media and mob social justice police are demanding she is found guilty…
Mandates, Operation Warp Speed & Donald Trump
by Malcolm Out Loud | Dec 10, 2021 | Healthcare, Politics,
Fast forward to current day and with all the vaccine deaths and injuries, who is taking credit for the vaccine rollout and program in today's world? Does Trump need to come out and opine on the program with the latest up-to-date information? Looking back in time, and to put the conversation in context, read these two reports…
Reimagining Criminal Justice is Devastating to America
by Dr. Ron and Linda Martinelli | Dec 10, 2021 | Law and Order, Politics,
Murders are up over 34% nationally. We have the highest number of officers dying and killed in the line of duty in our nation's recorded history. Murders of LEO's are up an astounding 36%. DrRon & Linda discuss the root causes of the crime surge in America and why the worst of us are killing and harming the best of us…
Looking at the COVID Hype and Hysteria
by Paul Engel | Dec 10, 2021 | Healthcare, Politics,
Has anyone taken the time to consider the costs of this ongoing scare campaign? Yes, people have died, yet the overall death rate in America is still only 1.6%. There have been almost 20,000 deaths coincident with the COVID jab. And there is evidence that the government-approved treatment had a 50% death rate when tested against Ebola…
The Most Untrusted Name in News is CNN
by Rob and Andrew | Dec 9, 2021 | Media, Politics
CNN once took pride in billing itself as the most trusted name in news. Unfortunately, because of many missteps, the cable news network, founded by Ted Turner and Reese, in the '80s is no longer the news giant it used to be. The venerable news station has fallen on...
SCOTUS and the Future of Roe v. Wade
by Ladies of Liberty | Dec 9, 2021 | Constitution, Politics
There seems to be a misunderstanding and a misrepresentation in the media as to what this case is all about. Jeanne Llewellyn, Irit Tratt, and Linda Martinelli discuss the case and the possible outcomes, and what should happen next…
Fixing the Wrong Problems
by Paul Engel | Dec 9, 2021 | Constitution, Politics,
"We've got to do something!" That is the common reaction when someone sees a problem. But what happens when the something that you do fix⏤doesn't fix the problem or makes the problem worse? Today, I want to focus on two solutions people have been proposing lately to...


Disused and ancient petrol pump in McCarthy's Garage, Schull. This is the third, and final image from this particular garage. If I could have gotten inside I'd have a lot more to show.
There's an old garage a few miles from here in the middle of nowhere. They used to handle Japanese imports and sell petrol but now the pumps are silent and a guard dog barks from what I remember as a yard filled with old cars. Must dig up the shots I took that day.
PS. Check out Today is my gift to you by fellow Cork man, Fr James McSweeney. He married us 2 years ago and I've tried a few times to get him to use WordPress since! Nice job with the site, pity there's no rss feed. Is there any way he could bolt one on easily? Looks like a Windows server.
The price of fuel keeps going up and up but the price increases arrived too late for McCarthy's Garage in Schull where I made this photo of an ancient petrol pump. The detail on the full size image is wonderful, but I'm happy enough with this web version too.
Links: The Flickr Blog recently featured stories from Ireland with some nice 70's shots.
An old abandoned garage in Schull, Co. Cork caught my eye a few months ago. It's in stark contrast to the prosperity of the town. Plenty of opportunities for photos and I'll be posting a few more shots in the coming days!
Two seagulls wander into the water on the slip that serves the Bere Ferry in Schull Harbour.
Jacinta was the first to notice that actually, the Bere Ferry does not go from Schull. It lands at Castletownbere! Oops!
We had lunch in T.J. Newman's in the town of Schull last month. Lovely thick bread in the sandwiches I got. Kept us going for ages and tasty too! Adam loved looking at all the paintings upstairs!
A hungry, scrawny cat came up to us while walking around Schull in Co. Cork last weekend. The poor thing was crying for food and affection. This was the first time Adam saw a real cat and he was delighted but we had to leave the poor thing to fend for itself.
I discovered that the Irish name of the town called Schull is "Scoil Mhuire", a much nicer name IMO. In English that would be "Mary's School", or more likely, "St. Mary's School". West Cork is so beautiful but the basterdisation of Irish names is shocking. I even saw a sign for a town called "Snámh" which had been translated as "Snave". "Snámh" is the verb, "to swim" in English. Perhaps the town was created by an English landlord and named "Snave" first and then named "Snámh" by the Irish?
PS. Congrats to fellow Mallow Camera Club member, David Lavery, who left his comfortable 9-5 day job to become a wedding photographer in Mallow, Co. Cork a year ago today! Not many would take the jump, so I hope he'll get that blog rolling and write about his experiences. I know I'd like to hear about them!


"1) First, intellectual property rights are not human rights. This equation is false and misleading. In some ways, copyright policy falls short of adequately protecting authorship, in other ways it often goes too far, unnecessarily limiting cultural freedom and participation.
2) Second, authors must be distinguished from copyright-holders. The right to protection of authorship remains with the human author(s) whose creative vision gave expression to the work, even when the copyright interest has been sold to a corporate publisher or distributer. We should always keep in mind that copyright regimes may under-protect authors because producers/publishers/distributors and other "subsequent right-holders" typically exercise more influence over law-making than individual creators, and may have divergent and possibly opposing interests to those of the creators.
This is the second of a group of Reports by Rapporteur Farida Shaheed on that subject. The first focused on cultural rights, the third one will examine the connection between the right to science and culture and patent policy.


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History and ESL Teacher. Native English, Fluent Spanish. Cartagena, Colombia.
The Moors Got the Last Word
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A romantic rendition of the dramatic events of the late 15th century that culminated in the fall of the last Muslim King of Iberia claims that a young Emir Muhammad XII, upon leaving his beloved Granada, released such a resounding and meloancholic sigh that his mother, who was accompanying him, began to weep. It may have been "the moor's last sigh", however, it wasn't the last word on the subject. Indeed, Muhammad XII, better known as Boabdil to Westerners, was the last ruler of a Muslim kingdom in Spain. Although anyone who has visited Andalusia in southern Spain can attest to the influence of the Arabs and Berbers had on Spanish culture, many people underestimate the extent to which nearly 800 years of Muslim rule had on the Spanish language.
Numbers vary, but most etymologists agree that Spanish is suffused with about a thousand Arabic roots and 4000 words or more of Arabic origin. Perhaps "ojala" is the most obvious but such common words as "hasta" and "usted" derive from Arabic. Moreover, virtually every word that begins with the letters "al" originated with an Arabic version. Of course, Latin has had the most significant impact on Spanish, though Arabic is second. A closer inspection of the Arabic-Spanish lexicon highlights an impressive "Islamic or Moorish" civilization that flourished for centuries on the Iberian peninsula.
Algebra, alchemy, ajedrez (there are amazing paintings from the 12th century showing Muslims, Jews, and Christians playing chess), alfombra, guitarra, cifra and so on are words that reflect a level of sophistication well beyond any place in Europe during the Middle Ages. Much has been written about the splendor of Cordoba at around the year 1000. In fact, it was the largest city in the world at that time! Scholars, merchants, and holy men of various faiths mingled and enjoyed the over 70 libraries at their disposal. Although inter-faith harmony suffered at certain times during the Muslim's 800 year run, Al-Andalus was a beacon of tolerance and cultural diffusion. Learning and the arts in Islamic Spain foreshadowed and directly influenced the Italian Renaissance. However, by the High Middle Ages, the zeal of the Reconquista had reached a pinnacle, and the alliance of Castille and Aragon proved too much for Muslim Granada. What a consequential year 1492 was!
Etymology is not boring, despite popular opinion to the contrary. When history and language teachers utilize the connections between history and word origins, words take on additional meaning. Arabic and Muslim influence on Spanish culture provide a wealth of opportunities for teachers to engage students in meaningful and interesting lessons. So the next time you are searching for ideas for a lesson, just grab a guitar, indulge your students with some aceitunas and albaricoques, and settle down on an alfombra and set up an ajedrez tournament all the while knowing you might as well be in Al-Andalus.


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Voetbalclub uit Congo-Kinshasa
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