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From the heights of the VICTORIAN ERA to the hopelessly undefinable MODERN ERA; a lot hinged on that VIENNESE VICTORIAN Sigmund FREUD. I have found this scatological disaster best portrayed in the VIENNESE PAINTER who has been called the painter 'OF' FREUD' S "science of the mind". He is OSKAR KOKOSCHKA and he created the 'END of the WORLD EXPERIMENT'. FREUD thought of the 18th century philosophe' DENIS DIDEROT'S innermost comments, very highly! For what was DIDEROT'S entrailed lack of self autonomy was FREUD'S greatest conceit; DIDEROT looked at the most exquisite flower of love as merely growing from the soil of erotic urges.
How the MODERN world has "evolved" to the romantic relationship between a man and a woman...too bad DIDEROT was still in the Dark Ages on this matter, pure intellectuals..
FREUD also relished the lines from DIDEROT'S "Le neveu de Rameau" ... " If the little savage were left to himself keeping all his childish simplicity and joining the bit of rationality of the infant in the cradle to the violent passions of the man of thirty, he would strangle his father and sleep with his mother". How primitive FREUD could be. We find in DIDEROT'S 'Rameau', the triangle from the Greek Dramas as portrayed in it's simpiliest of diagrams of the Oedipal Complex, here. Not only DIDEROT but HUME, HOLBACH, and MONTESQUEAU all put the validity of Christian attitudes about love on trial; calling them depressing, mendacious, and hypocritical.
They questioned the practices like incest but thought also absurd the lifelong monogamy of social convention to "harness" human desires. HUME thought Christian asceticism absurd, as well. The ENLIGHTENMENT Thinkers would more often turn to a one-sided passion for their physiology. The ROMANTICS to follow looked at these ENLIGHTENMENT men as shallow : BLAKE, the SCHLEGEL brothers, and the ROMANTIC Thinkers in general saw those before them as reducing the most exhalted of emotions into a mere play of glands. Yet for their part, the ROMANTICS often found TRAGEDY. The novelties of the ENLIGHTENMENT did project profound rationales:
Richardson's "CLARISSA"
Rousseau's "HELOISE"
...yet also here the division between love and sex fell into bloom and the two will ever since be running a muck our concentrations on our INDIVIDUALITY. The 19th century will become a grand century for the debates of the significance of LOVE. The ROMANTICS reinvented or rediscovered LOVE as an ETERNAL EMOTION. Then, what will emerge as the central tenet of all branches of ROMANTICISM will be the creative energy of the IMAGINATION...
NOVALIS (the first POET of the ROMANTICS) wrote, "LOVE is the final purpose of world history - the amen of the universe". Schlegel said of LOVE, "The universe is and remains my watchword...do you really LOVE if you do not find the world in your beloved?". Environment - Atmosphere - as well as self conception and IDENTITY are the immediate rivals of LOVE'S realization.
NOVALIS further speculated that sensual ecstacy belongs to LOVE as sleep does to life, it is not the noblest part, and the robust person will always rather be awake than asleep. This celebration of experience and then experimentation; to not become bound to the first pangs of love, for life...here SHELLEY joins with DIDEROT in looking beyond and trusting in one's own eventual resolution.
In the greatest writer of the nineteenth century novel, DICKENS, woman are nearly all aspects in serene waiting. Except Bella Wilfur in "OUR MUTUAL FRIEND". The VIENNESE painter OSKAR KOKOSCHKA began his career depicting what would be dubbed "the End of the World Experiment" with an inclusive series of drawings "Variations On A Theme" of sketches of Kamilla Swoboda in 1921. These Variations had contemporary counter parts in the series of "Haystacks", Cathedral Facades, and "Poplar Trees" by MONET; and in the compositions of Max Dvorak.

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|Faith Berghuis Named 2007 Dressage Canada Owner of the Year
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December 6, 2007 - Dressage Canada is pleased to announce that Faith Berghuis has been chosen as the 2007 Dressage Canada Owner of the Year.
Berghuis, the owner of Franklands Farm, has been an avid supporter of equestrian sport in Canada for many years. Owned by the Berghuis' family since the 1920s, Franklands Farm was named after her great-uncle, Frank Jones.
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Talking trash on Monday morning may be far too easy to do for some people. But, we're not here to make disparaging remarks about the the Gamecocks or Tigers, to belittle any political figure or even pass along the latest gossip about our favorite celebs. We're talking trash – literally items that are thrown away by a staggering 87% of the population.
In Columbia, it is easy to find donation centers for unwanted clothing. In many small towns and rural areas, this is not the case. Too often clothing that is perfectly good, and may even have the original tags attached, becomes trash – stuffed into a plastic garbage bag and hauled to the dump. Even in cities, people often find it easier to throw away clothing than drive it to a thrift shop where it can be resold.
This weekend, while thousands of people were dodging raindrops and tying up traffic on Bower Parkway and Two Notch Road to make the most of tax free weekend sales at department stores, Patty was at Goodwill buying other peoples' trash.
Patty arrived at Goodwill at 9 a.m. on Saturday and was, amazingly, the only person shopping at the time. Another customer arrived shortly after, but the store was virtually empty. She found three pieces to add to her corporate casual wardrobe that will be ideal for work. Her budget for trash shopping: $8.25.
First Patty chose a ¾ sleeve white blouse from Cato. Its v-neckline, shirred detailing and rhinestone centered bound buttons bring a classic to life. Gently fitted, it falls to hip length and is figure flattering and easy to wear. Meant to be worn tunic style, it's a perfect match for black dress pants and low-heel pumps.
Patty next found Cato cuffed khaki slacks. Pull-on style with a front placket and two tiny zip pockets, they feature belt loops and an elasticized side waist for adjustable fit. Simply adding a brown leather belt will make them office-worthy and easy to mix and match for multiple transitional late summer looks.
An Alfred Dunner rose and grey lightweight floral cardigan was Patty's final selection. Featuring classic button front styling, it has tiny black beads and glittering sequins on several of the flowers at the front, giving it just a touch of bling. Easy to dress up or down, it layers perfectly with a pink tank or rose lace trimmed cami.
We can all learn a valuable lesson about trash. What one person cannot use or doesn't want can create a fashion find for another. The next time you clean out your closet, take your trash bags to the nearest thrift shop rather than the dumpster. And the next time you are near a Goodwill thrift store, stop in and look around. You just might find the best trash in town!
There are many Goodwill thrift stores in greater Columbia. Just enter your zip code to in the box where it says, Find Your Local Goodwill.
As always, maximize your style and minimize your spending~


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There's no such thing as taming Mother Nature The coastal and southern anglers will find this rain gear a breath of fresh air literally. Rain gear in the south usually means it's a sweat tent. If it offers to keep you dry from the rain it really doesn't keep you dry from your own sweat, and up until now there hasn't been a company out there that could figure it out. F! Storm Gear is architected from the inside out, meaning it's lighter and non-suffocating while leading the heat away from the body out.
Ergonomic knees and elbows The innovative and strong hybrid pants don't put the bulk f the weight on your shoulders but the innovative technology allows the hips to divide the weight up. The height of the the bib comes up higher than your typical bibs allowing for more water proofing protection. You can drop the overall straps and wear them without. The rain fishing gear is waterproof, windproof and 100-percent seam sealed 3M Scotchlike Reflective.
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Hey guys…
Yes, I know I went AWOL for a few months, and left a few things hanging…
There's a few reasons for that – the main one being that the world of organic traffic has been turned on its head recently, and I'm neck-deep in running a huge number of SEO tests (and still spending often in the low 5 figures a month on linkbuilding/SEO promos), just so we can stay on top of what's actually still working.
As you probably know full well, the past couple months have been rife with tumultuous changes in the SEO world. A lot of people have gone under, and many have simply just walked away from the business altogether.
Between the latest Penguin refresh, Google's "EMD filter" and other noticeable changes in how rankings are currently obtained – one thing is certain: things are drastically different, now.
And I wouldn't be much use to anyone unless I actually had some current, real-life data to back up what I'm saying, teaching and occasionally selling – right?
Therefore, our goal these past few months has been as much to simply gather data – and figure out what works – as much as it has to actually rank sites and bring in the bucks.
It's been revealing, to say the least. In fact, what we've discovered has entirely changed my own approach towards SEO.
So let's dig right in and talk about the results we've been getting, exactly what's changed – and what you need to do to adapt and come through this without going under.
I've organized my findings into a "Top Ten List" of facts we've established from our testing over the last 3 months in particular, right up until today. As the title of the blog post says…
…prepare to be pissed off – and thrilled.
Fact #1: You Can Rank Much, Much Faster Than Ever Before
Like, as in – you can rank for stuff in 2-3 weeks. Sometimes even 1 week. I'm talking competitive keywords, sometimes in insane niches.
This is not the old days of SEO, where you didn't even login to your stats until at least 3 months after starting your linkbuilding. No, right now it's pretty well instantaneous (in contrast).
This means faster cash-flow, faster ROI's, faster "niche proving" and in general just faster everything.
Let me show you some recent examples of some of our test sites:
This site (above) doesn't take much traffic to pull in serious coin. The offer it's pushing pays out $90 a LEAD, and it converts very well. However, in this market, "heavy lies the crown". Nobody stays on page 1 for long. Negative SEO (you know, that thing that "doesn't exist") pretty well takes care of that. But if you can shoot up to page 1 for a few weeks, you'll make back 20 times what you spent getting there.
With this site, our rankings shot up to the top of page 2 less than a week after we blasted the site out on some semi-private blog networks.
This site is in a very high-traffic niche (this isn't the main keyword target), and it generally converts very well. This has actually been my best-performing affiliate niche from the "old days" until now. Not necessarily the biggest uptake, but definitely the most consistent. The sales just roll in steadily, day after day.
Anyway, as you can see, all it took was a couple link pyramids (3-tiers) and boosted blog posts (on a high quality network – basically like "insider" guestposting) to hit that spot. Oh, and to top it all off, the site is an EMD, exact-match-domain.
So much for the whole "EMD penalty"… Definitely not seeing it on our end. The site ranked up about 2 weeks after promotions began.
Now here's something totally nuts. The above site is currently fluctuating at the top of Page 3 / bottom of Pg 2 for a profitable, competitive keyword that gets 1.2 MILLION search queries (and that's conservative), and all we'd done is set up a couple linking pyramids and place about 50 or so quality comments (on established blog pages with PR, mostly dofollow).
I'm thinking a couple blasts on a private network or two will secure a Page 1 spot inside of a couple weeks from now, and based on my previous experience in this niche (and ranking on page 1 awhile ago with a site that got tanked when the big public blog networks got mass-deindexed), we're looking at 1,000 – 3,000 uniques a day, converting at something like 2.5%, just from that keyword.
As you can see, it took a matter of days for those rankings to start climbing up.
The real takeaway here folks is that ranking up in the organics is currently faster than I've ever seen it. Ever.
And it truly does not take much to get there, right now. Partly it's this new algorithm behavior, and I think it's also because a lot of affiliates/SEO's in general have tucktailed and thrown in the towel, so there's less competition (temporarily) right now.
There's some strings attached to this anamoly…
Fact #2: 90% of Those Rankings Will Not Last Longer Than 2-3 Months
Yep. It's true.
And no, before you get all self-righteous on me and start preaching from the SEOMoz Bible, I'm not JUST talking about sites with horrible backlink profiles, obvious link-buys, obvious blog network blasts, obvious sitewides, obvious comment spam, obvious spun wikis, etc.
I'm talking about ANY affiliate-driven site in a COMPETITIVE market, regardless of your backlink profile. Your backlink profile could solely consist of natural, in-context editorial mentions from Ghandi, the Dalai Lama and all their whiter-than-whitehat webmaster friends.
You're still gonna tank, most likely, after a short run. The writing is, in fact, on the wall, from the day you get yourself on the radar. If it's not some "quality rater" who is unofficially employed to downgrade all affiliate sites – particularly minisites – it will be your competitors, who will just send masses of horrible links at your site from spyware-infected, Romanian-hosted porn sites, and then file a DMCA takedown request and a spam report directly, just for good measure.
And yes, I know that Google now has a "disavow tool". However, I really have my doubts about its efficacy, and recovery times. Also, your links may not be the root cause (and I suspect, they often are not).
I honestly believe at this point – just from seeing this happen over and over again – that Google just simply has it in for small, tightly-focused affiliate sites (minisites) in "known" markets. The really profitable stuff, that is.
In fact, from our own tests, there appears to be NO APPRECIABLE BENEFIT to building "quality content" or "quality links" for any affiliate-driven website for keywords (or specific niches) that can net you $1K+ per day from organic traffic. And I think obviously this just comes down to the kinds of perpetual spam that Google sees, day in and day out (mass auto-comments, etc.)
It's not just limited to "buy viagra" or "payday loans", but you can see where I'm going with this.
Basically, if you even look the part in a competitive market where Google knows everyone is most likely guilty (due to the uptake of landing on page 1) – you're guilty by association, and the game is "up" before it's even started.
Ask me how I know. All I can say is that we've spent literally as much as high 5-figure amounts on promoting certain sites the "right way" (real press, real publicity, real exposure), and for other sites ("throwaways") we've spent literally like $300 on homepage links and crap blasts. On more than one occasion now, we've seen both types of sites TANK, not long after peaking out at their ranking target.
Let's just say the whole experience has significantly enlarged the already-substantial ice chips I'd had on my shoulders, regarding my views on how Google treats legitimate webmasters.
So the business model, in this case, is literally just to get yourself to the top as fast as you can, soak in the profits at the top, and then wait for the inevitable slap. And it is inevitable. Whether you got there with a link from CNN's homepage, or with 100,000 footer links on some horribly obvious spintax blog network – your days at the top are numbered, unless you're a direct-supplying, established brand.
(And before anyone tries to prove me wrong, ask yourself: "Does my wonderful site that follows Google's rules currently net $1,000 per day or more from my primary keyword target via affiliate marketing?" If the answer is "no", then please shut the hell up in advance. Any moron can have "consistent rankings for years" for non-competitive keywords. Good luck in the big-dollar markets with whitehat SEO…)
So what does this mean for affiliates like us?
The answer will either offend you to your whitehat core, or powerfully liberate you with a rush of grayhat goodness. The answer, my friends, is just to continually (link) spam your way to the top, with as little $$ as possible, over and over again.
Not only does this produce a 10X greater ROI, it also lets you create a realistic business plan – one that is repeatable, scalable and consistent. And one that does not end up in you "betting everything on White", only to lose it all to the assholes who only need to bet a few chips on "Black" with each turn of the Roulette wheel.
Speaking of link-spamming your way to the top…
Fact #3: Link Spam, Paid Links, High PR Comments, Blog Networks, etc… Still Working Like Clockwork
Now, there's a few things that have changed in the "new world" of SEO (post Penguin, Post Panda, blah blah blah), but basically, it's still the same old game.
PR is, sadly enough, still king.
Let me summarize everything you need to know about ranking (FAST), right now, and maximizing your capabilities as a "rank-modifying spammer" (what Google likes to call us – no, really).
The New Rules For Ranking Hard & Fast:
1) Dedicate Only 10 – 15% of your anchors to your primary keyword target. The other 90 – 85% should largely consist of brand and naked URL anchors, mixed in with a random smattering of generic anchors and related keywords.
2) For new domains, spend about 1-2 weeks doing "good" stuff like press releases, niche directories, and maybe some light blog commenting. Before you go hog-wild with the real linkjuice.
3) Use tiers (pyramids) to funnel and shield your masslinks. No, you can't just go and blast your site with 300,000 profiles and 100,000 comments anymore. Instead, have maybe 20 – 30 actual pages on quality sites (Squidoo, News sites, guest posts, etc. – this is your tier 1), and then build a few hundred links to each of those with spun content on decent Web 2.0 platforms (this is your tier 2). Then, blast the complete crap out of that 2nd tier with as many automated masslinks as you can. Hundreds of thousands, if possible.
What this does is it inflates PR forward to each respective tier, and focuses all the ultimate link-juice at your money site. It also gives Google spiders thousands and thousands of spidering paths, which ensures your backlinks will be quickly found and amply spidered for a long time to come.
4) Use semi-private blog & homepage networks, or otherwise networks run by somewhat intelligent people who have the common sense to use redundant precautions, zero footprints, readable content and daily checks for blog deindexing (and replacement thereof).
5) Direct link-buys are still king. Nothing beats a high PR link, yet. Can be challenging to find willing sellers. Start by browsing the more serious SEO forums.
6) Create "noise" around your true linkjuice with stuff like articles, press releases, bookmarks, and quality comments. This will hold off most issues and maintain your rankings, until the site gets manually reviewed or abused by competitors. Do this on the cheap.
7) Hold your wallet close. Remember that if you're an affiliate going after the big money… the writing's already on the wall. Don't spend a penny more than you need to, to rank on page 1.
And that pretty much sums it up.
Wanna see what you can do with just a couple Pyramids and a handful of paid links?
How about this site on Page 1, pos #4, in a notorious market with a $13 CPC:
Pretty neat, eh?
This is the reality of what is working, folks.
Now, let's take a quick moment to talk about what is NOT working, or worth your time…
Fact #4: Social Signals Basically Mean Nothing Right Now – Anomalies & Manual Reviews Aside
I'm not going to spend much time on this, simply because the title says it all.
Facebook likes, Twitter "tweets", and whatever other crap is out there that people are saying is "working" to rank sites… basically, it's all a bunch of bull. While I do admit that twitter does SOMEWHAT seem to – very temporarily – put your site on the map, and maybe give you some SERP-rise for a few days, it's a temporary effect at best.
So if you're going to do this for minisites or otherwise "not your main business" sites, do it on the cheap, and realize it's just basically a social-proof / conversion factor, and not a ranking factor.
However, that said, Google Plus does have an influence on your rankings, both in terms of what your "followers" see in the personalized SERPs (kind of like organic re-targeting, in a way), and more importantly in terms of the Authorship attribution, which appears to provide some advantage for bloggers/publishers integrated with G+.
And at the very least it will positively increase your CTR's, quite a bit, actually. If you can feasibly do this for your money sites – do it. It's the only worthy "social signal" so far, but one that should be used with care, for obvious reasons.
Fact #5: Google Doesn't Care About "Quality Content", Which is Both Good & Bad
It's good because, well – it means you can be lazy, and it really won't affect your results. Again, I'm talking about affiliate sites in high-comp niches.
It's bad because it means that, unfortunately, the user experience suffers. What I suggest is using great content (conversion-focused) on your main page, or key pages, and just filler for the rest of your pages. In generaly our mini-sites are only 5-6 pages in depth, only 1-2 of which are going to provide a solid UX.
This is different for conduit (review) sites, but that's not what we're discussing in this post.
Anyway, the bottom line is that Google may tell you that focusing on "greate content" is the key to long-term success in their SERPs. It's true from a business perspective (pretending that Google doesn't even exist). But from an SEO perspective, it's literally meaningless.
Keep it unique, readable and use natural keyword density – and that's all you need (to rank).
Fact #6: Most Conventional "SEO Wisdom" is BS. Focus Solely on ROI to Succeed
This is kind of a re-iteration of stuff I've already been saying, but let me paint you a metaphorical picture of just how damaging "conventional wisdom" really is, from another area of my business life…
A few of you might have remembered me mentioning that I dabble(d) in revenue properties. Basically as a way to be "smart" with my online earnings (what's left of them after I pay the tax agency obscene sums of hard-earned money).
It's a conventional strategy, and one that generally wins the "approval" of my peers, financial advisors, etc.
Well, let's just say that I've had more than one of these properties go south on me – and more than that, it just honestly S-U-C-K-S being a landlord. It's such a giant pain in the ass… especially when I compare it with what's possible with even bottom-tier affiliate marketing.
Anyway – here's a fun story:
A few years ago, we purchased a multi-family property in central BC. We put about $90K down as a down-payment, and maybe another $5-$7K or so on a few renovations.
For the first couple years, it was generally OK. Then, stuff started going wrong. Pipes bursting, irrigation lines clogging, etc. Not the end of the world, but annoying nonetheless. In total, we're probably into the place (including downpayment) about $98 – $100K.
And with the market the way it is now… basically, I have to "hold and hope" (for probably 10+ years) before we ever see any kind of appreciable gain, or positive ROI, on the property (after realtor fees, closing costs, etc.)
Right now, I'd have to sell it at a loss of about -$20,000, if I wanted out, and wanted to wait a few months for the right buyer.
Guess what I could've bought for the same investment back then – and either be ahead today, or at least at par?
A 1994 Lamborghini Diablo:
But of course… that wouldn't be "conventional", would it?
My financial advisor, and my peers, would not approve. It would be seen as "foolish", or an early mid-life crisis. In contrast, my BAD real estate investment is seen as a "learning experience", or "thinking for the long-term".
What a bunch of bullshit.
The FACT is, a Lamborghini Diablo is literally a better investment than my "investment property", which we purchased based on conventional wisdom, and because it was something that the majority of our peers "approved of".
It's an extreme example, but I'm making it because it's important to realize that JUST BECAUSE something is "commonly accepted" or preached by industry leaders – does NOT mean it's the best pathway for you.
Don't simply follow the herd. Look at what's REALLY happening around you, and adapt to it, so that you can ride the crest of the wave… rather than paddle desperately behind it.
Think about how this applies to what you're planning, right now, in your business. Are you doing things just because it's "conventional"? Or are you looking at the horizon with your own eyes… and making plans based on what you see?
Fact #7: Organic Traffic is Now Akin to Advertising – You Pay For Temporary Traffic, Then You Pay Again for More
To continue on from my "rant" about the Lamborghini (and conventional wisdom vs. reality), I really think that a KEY part of surviving now in the organic traffic industry…
…is to stop treating it like it's "organic". Rankings happen much faster now – but they also disappear, just as quickly. This is a new environment. Gone are the days of relatively "stable" rankings in most niches. Now it's volatile. It's easy come, easy go.
Some might be looking at this and freaking out. Because that long-term "free traffic" is no longer a reliable factor. Several months ago, I'll be honest in saying that I was beginning to think that way as well.
But in a sense, when I start looking at the new world of SEO in its current state, I actually think there's possibly about a 2 year window right now to REALLY cash in – but only if you change your mindset.
You have to stop obsessing over your rankings, or doing everything "right". You have to become completely ROI-focused, rank as fast as you can, and line up another 1-2 sites behind your currently visible site to replace it when it drops.
This allows you to figure out what you can spend, what you have to make, what a keyword target is really worth – and in general – it makes you think like a MARKETER. Not just a search engine trickster.
If you embrace this, then I think that Google is still a complete goldmine for you. If you're still chasing those "retirement rankings", though… I think you're in for some disappointing realizations.
Finally, organic traffic has become just another paid-traffic strategy. The ROI can still be incredible, but it's no longer the lazy, long-term traffic stream it once was. At least not in the big-dollar niches.
But like I say, a LOT of people have dropped out, and a lot of competition is drying up, even as we speak, specifically because of this new (required) mindset shift to succeed right now. So if you're willing to get mathematical about your SEO, and spend a month or two nailing down a cost-efficient ranking method and site rollout itinerary/schedule – then you're golden.
Fact #8: SEO-Driven Authority Sites Are Just Too Risky
I'm sorry to say that building SEO driven authority-sites (where list-building or repeat visitors aren't plausible strategies – which is the case in many niches) is now simply too risky.
You're better off spreading your risk among several smaller sites, as opposed to building one big site. Not only are you less susceptible to Panda, but your inner content on smaller sites will rank much more easily (in the 10-20 page range) than trying to rank deep content on a site with several hundred, or thousand pages.
Plus – you're dealing with multiple index/root pages, which will generally always rank more strongly than a deeper page.
So, unless you can build a business around a big site (lists, products, forums, etc.) – don't do it. Too risky, right now.
Fact #9: Traffic is Way More Valuable Than Ever Before…
I think it goes without saying at this point that my opinion on the value of each visitor has drastically changed the last few months. In the past, I wouldn't think much of getting a site to 1,000 uniques a day. It's basically just standard practice for sites with enough deep content – or sites in the right vertical. (Well, it was, anyway).
That's all changed now. Traffic comes in bursts. It shoots up for a while, and then it's gone.
You need to make the most of it.
I strongly suggest getting into markets where you can build opt-in lists, or where the demographic is a clearly-identifiable "buyer group". This allows you to use things like re-targeting technology (Adroll, ClickCertain, etc.) to build an "audience" that you can reach again and again as they browse other sites on the web.
It's sort of like a "soft list". Anyway – I strongly suggest considering these two approaches to "harvesting" your existing traffic. This is how you can use SEO's traffic-spikes to truly create a consistent, at-your-fingertips network of traffic that you can tap, any time you want.
Traffic, more than ever, is becoming a commodity of increasing value.
Fact #10: Google Has Finally Killed the Quality Niche Content Publishing Model.
Perhaps the most disturbing thing that we've seen happen these last few months is the death of a completely respectable business model: unbiased, niche content publishing.
The thing with unbiased, niche content sites is that they're always most useful to the reader when they match intent, at exactly the right moment. That is to say – when a reader is searching for something (maybe about how to make their dog stop eating socks), typically, the best user experience a search engine can provide is to serve up a quality page, on a quality niche site, whose entire business model is matching a searcher's intent with maximum content quality.
This traffic is then monetized with ads (such as AdSense), and "everyone wins".
Or so we thought. These days, the overall relevance of the SERPs has been, in my opinion, purposely downgraded to force PPC reliance (for consistent traffic), and also to encourage a closed-loop of user activity from Google back to Google-owned properties such as YouTube.
While this has forced many commercial sites into Adwords, the business model it's entirely damaged is the search-driven quality content publisher. Because they can't afford to pay for traffic – you can't spend $0.50 a click when your average visitor is only worth $0.05.
A good example of of this is AskTheBuilder.com
It's a sad moment for webmasters at large. Basically, now there is no incentive for anyone to publish excellent content without bias (an angle, a product on the backend). Now we ALL have to have an agenda, just to survive.
Thanks, Google.
Final Takeaway: SEO is No Longer a Retirement Strategy. But You Can Still Exploit it to Build Something Bigger…
I know that a lot of this post probably sounds like it belongs on "InfoWars" or something, but I strongly suggest that you weigh my own results, and my suggestions, against the reality of what you're REALLY seeing in the Serps right now.
Remember – conventional wisdom is often the farthest possible thing from "wise".
As we find out more – I will let you know. But that's pretty much how things break down at the moment. I strongly suggest that you start adapting to this as fast as possible – making the most out of every last visitor.
In other news…
Remember that guy I told you about (John Ozjaca, originally a customer of mine) a few months back, with 3 crappy blogs that have brought in close to $2MM in affiliate rev so far?
Well, here's what's going on with that – he's still rocking, and he's been able to adapt (using some of the strategies above) to maintain his (impressive) salesflow and traffic.
Also, I think we'd mentioned POV Profits – his "over-the-shoulder" project where he actually goes and pulls the curtain back on his sites, his niche, keywords, all the stuff he's done/does on a daily basis, etc.
It's all been updated in light of everything that's happened these last few months, hence the delay.
I'll be posting more about it in a few days, but for now – check out the official site at POVProfits.com
For obvious reasons, access is going to be very limited, so I'd suggest writing down the go-live date (on the site) and marking it on the calendar, if being able to see the inner-workings of an actual 7 figure affiliate business is something you'd find interesting…
Anyway guys, I'll have more on what's working – and more on John's POV project, shortly…
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I got a huge problem right now, I've worked with the DLGeditor all day. Ok what happens is this:
The first red line in my dialogue, I have "yes padawan"
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And yet no matter what I do , after re-doing this again and again all day today, everytime I re-open it in the editor, it's been changed from (already listed), to [End dialogue]. Help!
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President George W. Bush had a lot of screw-ups during his eight-year term, but he did do a couple things right. One of them was proclaiming June as Black Music Month on May 31, 2002. June is here,* and to celebrate Black Music Month, I'll be featuring one of my favorite artists each day, sharing my first or most personal memory of them, and explain what their accomplishments are and why I felt they should make the Black Music Month Top 30 list. There will be some oldies, some newbies and some artists you may not know of yet.
Black Music Month Heat Factor "Why's this artist hot?": Today's female hip-hop artists seem like a carbon copy of each other or make you wonder whether Mattel or Sierra Leone should have stock in their records as much as they rap about diamonds and Barbie dolls. Female rappers didn't sink to new lows of rhyming about having sex with "five or six best friends," and they were too busy rhyming to purchase an entire fake body and face. They were proud of how the faces and bodies that they were born with. In early hip-hop, female rappers were coming harder, able to just be themselves and actually rapped what they were doing without lies just flying out of their mouths. However, there was no one rhyming while wearing full African attire in one video and Daisy Duke shorts with a T-shirt in the next. Queen Latifah was big-upping womanhood but able to easily blend in with the hood, too.
She created her own brand and has managed to stay relevant when rap is constantly making folks as funky as their last hit. How many other rappers could match soul star Al Green on a magnetizing song like "So Beautiful" or even get the opportunity to work with one of the R&B greats? And if you've heard "The Dana Owens Album" or even heard her brief singing moments as Khadijah James on the hit sitcom "Living Single," you know she is multi-talented. If you've smelled Queen by Queen Latifah perfume, you know she can do fragrances, too, because that perfume is one of the best on the market. She took singing, rapping, acting, perfume and then modeling on. She has a Cover Girl deal to help black women celebrate their own shades of beauty.
First Memory, Most Personal Memory of the Artist: Generation Y knows her as an actress in movies like "Chicago," "Just Wright," "Brown Sugar" and "Set It Off," but Generation X was fortunate enough to see her in her earlier days when she was rhyming as hard as the fellas. I have so much respect for her being able to hold her own and for making songs like "U.N.I.T.Y.," showing young, black ladies that it's not cool to let a man put his hands all over you and disrespect you. She was pretty, and she was a guy's girl. She could rhyme on the same level with Public Enemy and Naughty by Nature but smooth it out with songs like "Just Another Day" to let you know she was all woman...ahem, queen...too. Between her, MC Lyte and Salt n' Pepa, they were demanding respect and letting hip-hop know women had a firm stamp on it. And she did it without disrespecting herself and making everybody look at her like a joke. I miss those days badly. I get them with artists like Missy Elliott and Eve, but talented female rappers are so few and far between.
Accomplishments from the Artist: Queen Latifah is one of the most successful female hip-hop pioneers, and she did it without trying to conform to what someone else's idea of success should be. She also hit the hip-hop charts with "U.N.I.T. Y.," (24 weeks), "Weekend Love" (13 weeks), "Just Another Day" (11 weeks), "Paper" (10 weeks) and "It's Alright' (4 weeks). Under her birth name, Dana Owens, "The Dana Owens Album" was on the Billboard Top 200 for 29 weeks and the top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for 39 weeks. She also won a 1994 Grammy award for Best Rap Solo, in addition to hosting the Grammy awards in 2005.
Queen Latifah is a Cover Girl and has her own makeup line.
Queen Latifah was Khadijah James on "Living Single."
Queen Latifah wrote the introduction to Pepa's "Let's Talk About Pep" biography.
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Many people believe that Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy are merely characters from Greek mythology but the Edgar Cayce readings refute that theory. The reincarnated Achilles, Hector, and Helen of Troy all resided in the United States in the 1920's and all had readings from America's legendary mystic. Here is their story, commencing with Achilles.
"12. In the one before this, we find in that of Achilles in the Grecian or Trojan forces, and the entity then in that entity that has been proclaimed through many ages as the gifted one of the Gods, as understood by the people of that day, and one who became invincible to the destructive forces in earth's plane. Not through any condition of earthly existence. Rather the mental abilities to control those about the entity, for the entity gave the freedom to the common peoples, as known then, and brought much destructive forces to many, yet to the masses the greater love of the higher elements in a physical plane." [DS: Reading 900-38] Mr. 900 was not satisfied with this smidgen of information and asked for further details of his historical incarnation.
"2. EC: In the entrance into the earth's plane in that of, or called, Achilles, we find in the period of earthly existences when conditions were accentuated along certain lines. The entity then as the male offspring and entered in [DS: was born] with the beauties of the rustic nature of the time and place, near Athenia or Athens, and raised to manhood, or young manhood, in and about the Mount, and given all advantages in the exercises and games and learning of the day, with the beauties of that in that day as could be obtained by one that was raised for the special purpose of entering into the political, social and other conditions of day and age. Soon learned that of the soldier with the spear, bow and axe, with an armor as prepared by the mother of the body, and given all the benefits of the aristocrats of the age, given exceptional abilities and applied same in the moral, physical, development of the body. One, then, beautiful of stature, physical, mind and of the expressing of same. Soon drawn in early manhood into the political situations surrounding the conditions of the country, coming then as a companion to many of the leaders in that day when there were personal combats in every phase of the physical prowess of the body. The entity showing the exceptional abilities of the environments under which the body had been developed in the day when this, the development of physical prowess, was studied and given the greater extent of attention. In personal combats often the body [was] successful and called the leader of the army and group, or the personal representative of the armies of the entity in the reign of those in charge of same at time.
"3. In the social and moral life, we find the entity one showing development in mental abilities. One showing development in moral conditions, as is shown in the relation to captives as were taken by the armies and distributed, the favorites to the favorite of the army. In the personal combats we find the exceptional abilities in mental forces also shown. The entity then departed the life in personal combat, wounded in the heel, from which gangrene set in in body and became blood poison to the system. In the day we find much written concerning this entity, and there are given many abilities that are only written in the form of the day and age, as is written of many who show their abilities in a manner that is developing in earth plane toward the spiritual forces to which all strive. 4. Departing then with only the forces as of not able to meet the needs of physical suffering under the conditions which came to same. Only erring then in that manner. Hence in the present plane the necessity of being able to meet those conditions that would seem to overwhelm the entity, the necessity of, as has been given, "Be still - and listen to the voice from within."" [900-63]
You have now met the real Achilles. Next, let us greet Achilles' real, not mythological, mother. "17. In the one before this we find in that period when there were the wars in that time when Achilles ruled in that land. [See Trojan War, Greek Mythology, Homer's ILIAD.] The entity then one who gave much to the strength and power to the entity, being then in the flesh the mother of Achilles, and ruling in power through the tenets given to the entity in that period - and losing in self through the aggrandizement of power, position, and the tenets of earth's surroundings." [302-1] Unfortunately for the curious, she was not identified by name.
It is time to introduce Helen. "11. In the one before this we find during the days when the Trojan forces were being attacked, the entity was in that capacity of one whom there was much made over, being in that of Helen of Troy. The entity then was in that development in the higher forces as found in physical body, development in mind, development in the law of love." [136-1] We get only a brief introduction to Hector. "1. (Q) Where and in what time of history were these four associated ... ? (A) EC: Yes, we have these here. ... in which the opposite conditions were expressed or shown, was in the Trojan War - [5717] as Hector." [5717-5]
You have met our three principal characters, and now it is time to investigate some of the events in the Trojan War. "17. In the one before this we find in that land when Achilles ruled in the port, and the entity then guided the barque that brought Achilles to the shores of the besieged city, and the entity gained favor, and lost through the mis-application of power given by that ruler. Then in the name of Sansan, and the entity brought good and bad to self and others through the mis-application of power and position, ... " [2694-1]
"12. In the one before this we find in that land known as the Trojan land. The entity then among those that counselled with Hector and with Achilles' forces, being a mediator BETWEEN those foes of old, and bringing much to bear ON the various forces that gradually drew the peoples together later in the experiences of that land. In the name Ashtubol. AGAIN the counsel of the entity may be found as records among those who wrote of the period, CALLED that only in the minds [DS: myths]; yet REAL in its actuality." [5-2]
"11. In the one, then, before this, we find in that period known as the Trojan. The entity then among those people in the land NOT of the WARRIOR nature, yet ruling many of those that acted in that capacity, and the mediator between those forces as eventually rose IN the rebellion; becoming, then, that one that acted in the capacity of the peacemaker between the forces under Achilles and of Hector. In the name Phien. ... Many of those things, lessons, elements, taught - as of the nature that were as mythological, to the entity become as REAL as the histories of the entity's own land, peoples, ... " [957-1]
The account of the siege of the gate to the city of Troy was an historical event, though overly embellished at times. "12. In the one before this we find in that period that has often been called mythological, when in Troy - and the siege of same. The entity then an aide and assistant - yet still in the sex as the woman, but an aide to that one over whom the dispute arose [DS: Helen]; aiding particularly when Paris and Hector and Achilles first drew the lines for the array before the city. The entity then, not as a soldier, not as a servant. Rather as the aide to that one that brought about such dissensions; aided Achilles in ENTERING the gate, by calling to the son (and is the son [102] still) [DS: They were mother and son in both incarnations.] to open when called. ... In the name Xenia, and the entity has often wondered when those letters were put together. The innate self may gain MUCH by the study of the name, even as written." [101-1]
"8. In the one before this we find in that period known as the Trojan. The entity then of those that aided in the defense of the city, and especially under the influence of Achilles during that period. Not so much the soldier, as one preparing the way for those who would wage war, and making of weapons during portion of the period, and among those who made for the mechanical arrangements of the horse and its workings, in the latter portion. In the name Parsia." [2856-1]
"11. Before that we find the entity was in that land now known as the Roman, or rather the Grecian and Roman, during the periods when there were what are now known as the Trojan Wars, during the activities between those over that entity Helen of Troy. 12. During those activities the entity then was the companion of the assistant keeper of the gate to the city, and during the experience the drawings of the entity enabled those that were of the besieged to encounter - in part, in the main; though little credit was given Garcia in the experience, yet such enabled the armies - or the individual activities of those in Achilles' activities - to succeed in bringing destruction to Hector's forces. And the entity saw those activities." [259-8]
"13. In the one then before this we find in that period known as mythological, when there were wars among the Trojans - and the entity then among those that were in accord with those that would defeat the peoples gathered at the gate, and to Achilles did the entity report, and to him many were the counsels given and taken. In the name Tischol. The entity gained and lost through this experience. Gained through the application of self as respecting the interests of others. Lost through aggrandizing the power to which the entity arose; for while suffering may bring understanding, CAUSING to suffer to satisfy one's own self brings reproach." [204-1]
The death of Hector was the turning point in the Trojan Wars. "16. In the one before this we find in that period when there were wars within and without, known as the Trojan period. The entity then among those who defended the city, and was among those that rose with him that destroyed the usurper, or the one without heart - Hector; and the entity gained through this experience, and lost in other portions of self's own aggrandizement of power gained. Gaining when in service and in acting the IDEAL that impelled many during that period. Losing in meting to others that that was disliked in self." [2886-1]
"15. In the one before this we find in that period when there were wars in the land called or known as the Trojan period. The entity then among those that assisted Achilles in the deliverance of the people, and the DRIVER when Hector was dragged about the city. In the name Ilhouead. The entity lost through the greater portion of this experience, gaining only in the end when peace and quiet was sought in old age, and the influences are those of the right for Right's sake, and the actions toward those that would oppress become as canker to the inmost man." [5540-5]
"15. Before that we find the entity was in that land through which much has been presented by the poets of old, in both the beauty and yet the savagery of those people in the Trojan activity, when Achilles and Hector in their activities brought to many of the common people only the revenge one upon another through the relations caused one with another. 16. The entity then was associated rather with the Achilles influences that finally overcame the Hector forces through the death of Hector. Achilles then was among those that made for the associations with the entity that brought the entity's activities into the experience of many of the leaders of the period. And art, as well as literature through the entity's activity, brought much to those peoples - as there was the restoring of peace among those of the isles and those of that land. 17. Then the entity was in the name Schulen, or Hulen - for it was both ways, as would be interpreted in the present." [692-1]
"10. In the one before this we find in that period known as the Trojan period. The entity then among those that aided in the defense under Achilles, and in that position defended the HOME and her [Helen of Troy [136]] whom Achilles gave much to and for. In the personal combats the entity, during that period, made for self a name among his peoples, and in the taking OF the city when the entity was sent by Achilles, when he withdrew, the entity gained possession, and cared for those whom the entity found favor in the physical favor of. In the name Ashtun." [1717-1]
Before we bring our story to a close, I would like to draw your attention to another intriguing example of souls incarnating together in different incarnations. First, I will introduce you to one-month-old 142. "11. Before this we find the entity was in that period when there were wars being made in that country now known as the Grecian. The entity then won in the defense of her taken as hostage [DS: Helen] for the followers of one who brought about the wars in that land. 12. Then in the name Ioniah, in the defense of principles, the entity gained through that experience; being and becoming beloved by her whom the entity defended, and giving self in the service to same. Hence the urge as will be seen in the present experience will be that particular love shown for the mother, which is the urge seen through that experience." [142-1]
Are you scratching your head and muttering "What's the big deal?" The mother of baby 142 was Mrs. 136, the reincarnation of Helen of Troy. The father of baby 142 was Mr. 900, the reincarnation of Achilles. "10. ... In that of Achilles, that of the glory of pomp, power - yet never oppression ever is seen, even in Achilles' forces." [900-275]
Now you know the real story of Achilles and Helen of Troy.
© Doug Simpson 2014.
Edgar Cayce Readings © 1971, 1993-2009 by the Edgar Cayce Foundation. Used by Permission, All Rights Reserved.


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So today I decided to draw the beauty and amazing . She was looking for an artist to draw her comic so I decided to take the chance! And it was when I have received a message from her! Such a nice person!
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Well, if you really want to know, I think she's a pussy for blocking comments on her page; but, just because I think she's being a self-infantilizing coward for exempting herself from something as rudimentary and necessary as external feedback--essentially barricading herself in a self-made echo chamber--she does seem to be a majoritively nice...ish person. I don't know. I saw her stipulations page for her photos and the rhetoric didn't sound like the hallmarks of a sweet person. At least, my residual impression didn't pick up the sugar-and-spice-and-everything-nice vibe. And don't get me wrong: I've told people very plainly that if they steal my designs, my work is dated, the judge will know whose work it is; and I will burry anybody in a court of law stupid enough to try me. You don't dry hump a hornets nest without a few stings to show for it. But I don't know, while I appreciate someone being frank in their disdain for theft, there was this sexually self-satisfied feeling when she talked. Like she was just so damn in demand. I found it a tad irksome.
George Orwell said "Good books are written by those who are not frightened." How good a writer can she be if she's too timid to even endure the oh-so-torturous reality that people on the internet are wrong? Why can't she just delete the comments from her inbox like everyone else? What makes her feel entitled to censor public opinion just because she can?
If you like her work I can respect that: she is quite gorgeous. I like work and will continue watching your profile.
Thanks James for the kind words
I want a costume JUST LIKE THAT: soooo seXXY!
AMAZING art! ThanXX sooo much! ♥
Thanks once again!


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Kalmiopsis - Fly Fisherman Mikey Wier Searches for Steelhead in the Oregon Wilderness
Even if you're not an angler, I highly recommend taking the time to read this story. It comes from Mikey Wier, a professional snowboarder and fly fishing guide who founded Burl Productions. Mikey's words are thick with the aura of appreciation that comes from having just returned from a Wilderness area. As you read this tale, there's a good chance you'll think back on your last trip into untamed nature and begin to relive the feeling while sitting in front of your computer -- a wonderful thing indeed. From Mikey:
It's 6 am and I'm going over a mental checklist of things I "need" to survive in the wilderness for a few days. I'm always afraid I might forget one of the things that will make me think "oh, crap" later. Headlamp, camera battery, bivy sack, enough food. We're on the road at 6:30 and by then it's too late to worry any more. The cold morning air fills my lungs and colors my breath into cloudy vapors. Speeding along in a car, the outside world passes fast. Even while looking out the window, it's easy to miss the small details, like a bug crawling on a branch, or a salamander swimming in a creek pool. I can't wait to reach the trail head. I've been indoors too much this month and my body longs for the sun and crisp air. It's the call of the wild.
[All photos by Justin Baillie]
Time in the car passes with catch up conversations between my brother, Eugene and I. Justin Baillie, who made the drive from Tahoe to Southern Oregon with me the day before, was just getting to know Eugene. We shared the research each one of us had done in preparation for the trip. Eugene produced some great photos he had printed off of Goggle Earth. We looked over the topography and bends in the river. It looked passable on paper. Conditions and circumstances had already thwarted us from reaching the headwaters on two different attempts.
On our first attempt at the pass, it rained all day as we hiked the four miles up hill for the first accent. Eugene and I spent the night under just a tarp in some of the hardest rain I had ever seen. I kind of slept for a while in a two-inch puddle of water. In the morning we could hear the river roaring all the way down at the bottom of the canyon. We knew we wouldn't be able to cross the river, let alone the first trib. There was no point in going down, so we turned around and hiked back down the pass in the rain. It's a tricky window of weather and water conditions you need to be able to penetrate that deep into the wilderness this time of year. It's hard when you have to just look at the calendar and pick a date. It's especially tough when that window is usually only a week or two, at most, in February, for the entire coastal range.
On our second attempt, Eugene and I decided we might be able to try hiking up the main stem of the river to reach the headwaters. The problem with this route is a large, major creek drainage that pushes hard on high water. In '05, we mapped out a route and gave it a try in the first week of March. Again, strong rains got the best of us. We found the trailhead, but spent the night in the car park under a tarp in the pouring rain. The next morning we made the couple-mile hike to the river, but it was too high and off color to find fish in a new spot with fly gear. We barely made the crossing on the first small drainage and figured there was no way we could make the confluence.
By this time around it had become a bit of a personal goal for both Eugene and I to reach this zone. So even after hearing a couple nightmare hiking stories of sleeping in puddles and hiking all day up hill in the rain, Justin still agreed to come along.
On paper, the river conditions looked good. Flows were right, but the forecast was calling for some precipitation during night two of our four-day mission. How much would be our main hurdle. As we turned off the 101, the estuary and lower river looked great. The sun was shining and all the plants were green, wet and happy.
As the road turned from pavement to dirt, we all turned our phones off at the same time as if part of some ceremony celebrating wilderness and it's disconnection with the outside world. Not far down the road it became apparent that something was very different from the last time Eugene and I had driven the road two years earlier. There were trees down everywhere. In some places as many as one in five trees were down. There were bay, alder, fir and live canyon oak trees covering parts of the road. On the lower areas of the river, where fishing is popular, the trees covering the road had been cut away with chain saws. We continued on, hoping for the best.
After a while the road leaves the river valley and starts heading up the hill towards the summit of the coastal range. The turn off we were looking for is about 2,500 feet above sea level. At around 2,000 feet we started seeing snow. As we crested the small pass that marks the turn off, our hopes were high that we would make it to the trailhead. They were quickly dashed as we came around the corner and found two trees lying in opposite directions across the front of the turn-off road. There was also a two-foot drift of snow blocking the road. A quick assessment of the area determined that there was no way we were going to be able to get down that road in a vehicle. We thought about turning around, but decided to stick to the mission anyway. It only added an extra three miles to the hike. Only problem being it's all downhill on the way there and you know what that means on the way out. We just chalked it up to being what it takes to get a wild winter steelhead on a fly, and packed up our gear.
Everything is green in the coastal range this time of year. The smells of the forest fill my nose. It's a familiar but unexplainable smell of trees, shrubs and even the dirt itself. The air was thick with moisture and as I looked out over the canyon, some wispy clouds filled the little spaces between the trees. The wind was blowing them in and out of branches like ghosts flying through the treetops. Birds were singing songs across the forest to each other. A squirrel peered out of the trees in curiosity then ran off in a darting jerky gait.
We packed our food and supplies into our bags. Due to the snow and wet conditions, we put on our waders and fishing boots and hit the trail. After post holing through the snow, climbing over trees and descending 2,000 feet with four days worth of supplies on our backs, we finally reached the trailhead and the edge of the wilderness boundary. It's only a mile from there to where we first hit the river. Once on the trail, the hiking conditions were even tougher. The downed trees were hefty obstacles with such heavy packs on our backs. The trail is cut into a hillside, so there is less room to move around the fallen timber than on the road section. Every time we came to a downed tree, we had to balance beam along the trunk, climb over branches, or duck under a high spot. There were no stretches longer than 100 yards at a time with no trees down. Sometimes there would just be one after another. It was a tough mile. Still we pressed on in the name of steelhead.
Now that we were off the road, out of the people zone and into the wilderness, it started to become apparent that even though the forest seemed devastated, it's actually working perfectly. The old-growth trees are still standing. Most of the downed trees were ten inches in diameter or less. The old growth showed signs of a fire that had happened in the canyon 10 years earlier. The new growth had been thriving for a decade in the newly created niche of sun patches left by the fire. In early January, a storm dropped large amounts of snow down to almost sea level. The high winds that followed knocked down all the trees that were loaded with the heavy snow. It's a great way to naturally thin the forest. The downed trees were providing new nutrients for the previously stripped ground as well as habitat for thousands of forest creatures. The old-growth trees were still standing tall and proud. They watch over the hills as nature provides for them. For us, it was as inhospitable as can be.
The hike soon turned into a strength and endurance test. With every step it became harder to press on. Thoughts of friends and failed relationships filled my mind as I kept placing one foot in front of the other. We didn't talk much at all during the hike. Somehow I find a way to reach a zone in my head where I try to think about as much stuff as possible to take my thoughts off what I'm actually doing. Great attention is needed for every obstacle we encounter but my thoughts keep me somewhere else. It's easy to drift off and not let yourself be fully encompassed in the moment. Only here it's not a TV, blinking lights or music that serves to distract one. It's the drudgery of my own thoughts.
Only when we stop and my breath slows down enough that the sound of it leaves my ears and the sounds of my boots and waders and pack rubbing on each other dissipate, that the sounds of the forest really begin to take my attention. It's there in that moment that I start to feel the true freedom of wilderness. I can hear the wind through the leaves. It whispers and talks with words I'm not conditioned to hear. I hear the sound of the water dancing with the rocks and trapping air into fleeting bubbles. It too is speaking and I try to listen. Animals talk back and forth. Birds, squirrels, and insects all chime in at different times. They are all having conversations that seem like random chirps and whistles to me. I try to really take the time to just be quiet and listen. It's like learning a new language. I long to know what they are all saying. It just takes time to know all the words. The farther I am from the distracting sounds of people and our equipment, the more I feel like I'm starting to hear what nature is trying to say. I feel the most at peace when I know I'm in a place that is unaffected by the hands of man, where the natural process still flows. I can feel its power and it makes me contemplate my place in nature.
My moment of profound bliss and introspective contemplation is quickly shattered by my brother reminding us of the reality that it's getting dark and it's going to be cold, so we should start setting up a camp and gathering some wood for a fire. We've only just reached the main stem of the river. After some scouting, we decide to camp on the far side of a feeder creek. The crossing takes some concentration and the aid of a sturdy branch. The water is waist deep and flowing pretty swift. It's hard to balance on the slippery rocks with such a heavy pack. We set up our camp on a flat bluff overlooking the confluence of the creek and the main stem. There's some flat ground surrounded by a few small fir trees and the remains of an old fire ring. A huge old live canyon oak tree hangs over the campsite from the hillside above. Everything is covered in moss. I ask if we can camp on the gravel in a clearing in hope of getting some morning sun. Eugene insists this site will be better if it starts raining hard because we can set up tarps between the trees.
The first thing I notice as I approach the river is a set of bear tracks in an otherwise untouched strip of sand. Some movement catches my eye and I focus on a rough skin newt. He's moving so slow it's almost tedious to watch. He blends almost perfect with the color of the rotting sticks he's crawling near. I might have stepped on him if I hadn't bent down to look at the bear's prints. I was glad our path crossed and I bid him good day.
My first good look at the river and I'm stoked. There is a lot of water in the river this time of year, but the water is pretty clear and I can see the bottom in places I determined to be at least eight feet deep. A gravel bar has built up where the creek pours into the main stem. It breaks the current well and looks to be a good lay for a passing steelhead. I gather sticks for the fire as quickly as possible, hoping to get a few casts in before dark.
Catching a wild, winter run, pacific coast steelhead on a fly is becoming a harder proposition every year. Some have compared it to a lightning strike, others to finding a gold nugget. You have a better chance to get one if you go to one of the rivers that have a hatchery program. But to me, it's just not the same experience. In the systems where there is no hatchery to supplement the runs, the fish have to rely on the health of the headwaters. Many factors can come into play with these systems and how they affect fish returns. Erosion is one of the biggest problems. Logging, road building and mining are some of the biggest contributors to erosion. In dam-controlled systems, the reservoir catches most of the sediment and it slowly fills the lake. The river below maintains a steady flow with clean gravel but the fish can only go as far as the dam, missing out sometimes on hundreds of miles of otherwise useful spawning habitat and potential fly water. In non-controlled systems the sediment affects the fish and their spawning habitat daily. It's a sensitive relationship between nature and man, and over time the fish are losing. The fish have many hurtles to deal with while on their journey in the ocean, and now it's becoming tougher to find the good conditions that wild steelhead and salmon need to spawn. Headwaters are an important factor in wild fish reproduction and a good way to determine the health of a system. The time it takes a river to clear up after a rainstorm is a good sign of a clean headwaters system. That's why we picked this particular river. Its headwaters flow completely out of roadless wilderness. The river clears up quicker than most other rivers on the coast and, in the upper stretches, is small enough to cover with a fly rod.
To me, the wild winter steelhead is like a precious gem. That silvery slab has more draw than a chunk of platinum. I'd hike up hills and camp in the rain just to see one. Catching one ethically, on fly gear, and getting to touch it, is one of the greatest feelings on earth. Catching one on a fly is a hard trick to play on a fish that is for the most part, not interested in eating. Winter fish aren't like summers that stay in the river for a while and need to feed to keep up their energy. Winter steelies come in, do their thing and are on their way back to the rich feeding grounds of the ocean in a matter of days. In a system like this you're lucky to even cross paths with one. Even if you do see a fish, it certainly doesn't mean your going to catch it. After peering at the river and making a few casts at the confluence, I went to bed that night optimistic that it might happen on this trip.
A sliver of morning light peered through the trees and touched my face. I awoke to the sounds of the forest in all its morning glory. It wasn't hard to get up when the possibility of a fish waited. There were a few small clouds in the sky, but it looked as if it was going to be a great day. We all decided to hike up river deeper into the wilderness towards the confluence of the two major creeks that formed the main river. The river sits in a canyon that is pretty steep on both sides. It's lined with big boulders and trees. There's no trail at all. Every rock is trying to twist your ankle. Every fallen tree is trying to make you trip or slip. Most of the rocks on the bank are covered in bright green mosses of different lengths and textures. There are small creeks and seeps pouring into the river off the hillsides. The ecosystem is peaceful, majestic and, most importantly, intact. Everything from that part of the river up is natural, wild and unaffected by the hands of man. In the small sand beaches between the boulders there were mountain lion, bear, otter, raccoon and deer tracks.
Much of the river here is rapids and not great holding water for fish. We had to hike a good 3/4 of a mile before we came to the first long stretch of slower water. There, in the shallow tail out of a long run, I spotted the first fish. As Justin and Eugene showed up, I pointed it out. The water was very clear. It was hard to tell exactly how big the fish was, but I could tell he was pretty small by winter steelhead standards. He looked to be about five pounds or so. I tried to position myself upstream and make a cast. The river was lined with overhanging branches and there was only one small place where I could even make a roll cast through an opening in the branches. I stripped out the right amount of line and made a good cast. As soon as the line started to drift down towards the fish, he split off like a rocket into deeper water and disappeared. Over the next mile or so, we spotted several more fish and took turns making shots at them, all with the same result. Then we came to a huge cliff face and had to hike way up into the forest, over all the fallen trees and then back down again to the river.
Finally we came to a beautiful pool with a nice long gravel tail out. There in the gravel was a female steeling sitting on a fresh dug red. As we sat quietly and watched, a very large male became visible sitting about 15 to 20 feet back off the red. After a few minutes two smaller males became visible as well. Soon they started making attempts to get into the red and rub up on the female. Each time the larger male would chase them away, sometimes biting them on the tail or flexing his mouth at them. We watched this dance continue for several minutes while I filmed the fish. After watching for a while we figured this might be our best shot. It was a good bet that in this situation, swinging a fly behind the red might get one of the challengers to bite and potentially do the mating pair a favor. I stripped out my line and again made a good cast well upstream. As soon as my line hit the water all four fish shot off like rockets. It was incredible how spooked they were. They don't see any people up there at all. It's uncanny how they sense danger from just the slight splash of a fly line. I tried a few more Hail Mary casts into the deepness of the pool, but to no avail. We only had a matter of minutes to spend trying to fish at each pool. The hike we had set ourselves up for was long and we didn't want to get stuck out after dark. We had to reach a trail still another mile up river and the light was waning.
Eventually we reached the pool where a trail that was several hundred yards up off the river, on the canyon wall, dipped back down near the river. This pool was distinguishable by a large creek that flowed in on the opposite side of the river. There in the shallow water, over a gravel bar, we spotted two more fish. They were sitting near motionless. Both were suspended a few inches off the bottom and slowly wagging their tails in the soft current. It was Justin's turn to have a shot. He stripped out his line and made a good cast well up stream. As his green line drifted down near the fish, they too shot off like rockets. At that same moment, it started to rain. It was a sinking ending to a hard day. We found the trial and started the long hike through the forest back towards our camp. It was almost as hard as hiking near the river. The downed trees made it a challenge. As the rain fell on my head, I tried to just keep placing one foot in front of the other, my thoughts turned back to the fish. It seemed like all the elements were working against us. With the heavy rain, I knew that was probably our last shot at fishing.
It rained hard all night and in the morning the river was rushing hard and off color. We decided to stay anyway and spent the following morning exploring down river. After noon, I hiked far up river to where I had seen the first couple fish the day before. The river was a whole different beast this day. It was dark and fast and scary. Our window for fishing had closed.
The next morning we packed up camp and started the trudge home. As we hiked back up the hill, again my thoughts turned back to the fish. At first I was upset that I didn't get to catch one. Then I realized how lucky I was to have had the chance to see those fish in their native habitat doing what they have been doing for thousands of years. Wilderness is more valuable than any possession I own. I felt so blessed to see them in this environment. Just being there was enough for me. As population grows and climate changes, there is going to be an increasing strain on what remains of the habitat needed for these fish to live and thrive. As fish populations dwindle, they will become an icon of wilderness. Steelhead will become a symbol of a healthy and functioning aquatic ecosystem. In my opinion, they should be more valuable than gold, platinum or oil. They should be placed in front of mines, roads, timber sales and this year's fiscal earnings. Water is one of the main elements that form our existence. Most of our body is made of it. If we don't drink clean water almost everyday, we will die. If we can't take care of the fresh water river systems that support wild steelhead then we are not working as good stewards of this planet. If we let wild steelhead fade out, we won't be far behind.
Story: Mikey Wier
Photos: Justin Baillie
Here's a trailer for SOULFISH, Mikey's latest movie. It's available for purchase from the Burl Productions Web site.
[With thanks to Bill and the Patagonia Fly Fishing team.]


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The twelve episode series is based on the 1996 science fiction thriller of the same name directed by Terry Gilliam, which starred Brad Pitt and Bruce Willis. Actor Aaron Stanford has been cast in the leading role of the time traveler to returns to the present to stop a deadly plague. Stanford's previous acting roles include playing Seymour Birkhoff on the CW drama "Nikita" and Pyro in the "X-Men" movies.
The series will be directed by Jeffrey Reiner and was written by Terry Matalas and Travis Fickett. The series also stars Amanda Schull as Cassandra Railly, and she is most well known for playing Meredith on the ABC Family drama "Pretty Little Liars" and Katrina Bennett on "Suits." Other actors attached to the project include Zeljko Ivanek, Noah Bean, Shannon Lucio, and Kirk Avecedo.
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$\rightarrow$ $X$ connected $\implies$ $\forall A\subset X$, $A$ is connected. Then, intuitively there should be no "space" between the sets because if there were, $X$ would not be connected. Not sure how to formalize it, though.
$\leftarrow$ If the boundary is nonempty $\forall A\subset X$, then suppose there exist $U, V$ open in $X$ such that $U,V$ disconnect $X$. Then, (1) $U\cap X\neq\emptyset$ and $V\cap X\neq\emptyset$, while (2) $(U\cap X)\cap (V\cap X)=\emptyset$ and (3) $(U\cap X)\cup (V\cap X)=X$. Then, let $U\cap X= A$. Clearly $A\subset X$ but by (2) $\partial A\cap A^c=\emptyset$. This is a contradiction. .


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