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bookmark_borderBadges That Won The West Deadwood Marshal’s Badge
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By JoAnn Graham
Deadwood was located in a canyon called Deadwood Gulch for the many dead trees along the canyon walls that towered above it. The saga of lawless Deadwood began, appropriately enough, with an illegal settlement inside territory that had been promised by treaty to Native Americans. But once word got out that gold had been discovered in the Black Hills in 1874, the army was unable to stem the tide of would-be miners pouring into the Territory, and the population of Deadwood exploded practically overnight. By 1876, a million dollars in gold had been mined from the surrounding Black Hills.
During that same year, Deadwood would gain two of its most famous citizens–James Butler “Wild Bill” Hickcock, and “Calamity Jane. They, along with many other colorful characters walked the (often) lawless streets of Deadwood in its early days.
Hickock, a flamboyant character who carried two ivory-handled Navy Colt revolvers conspicuously mounted in butt-forward holsters, was already legendary for his skill with said Colt pistols. General George Custer, among others, said that Hickock was the fastest draw and best shot he’d ever seen. It was often said that he could draw and fire–unerringly hitting what he aimed at–faster than most men could even think about doing so. Part of his reputation was likely exaggeration, given the technical limitations of the revolvers of that day, but there has been ample testimony from numerous witnesses that he was both quick and deadly with a gun.
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Having been fired from his job as marshal of Abilene, Kansas for his excessively violent style of law enforcement., Hickock took a job–along with Calamity Jane–as an outrider on a wagon train bearing a fresh shipment of prostitutes bound for Deadwood. Upon arriving, he settled in to pursue his hobby of drinking and playing poker. Rumors were circulating that he was being considered for the job of town marshal, though this is doubtful, since by the time of his arrival in Deadwood his eyesight was failing. Just a month after his arrival in Deadwood on August 2, 1876, Wild Bill, finding other chairs already taken, unwisely took a seat in a poker game with his back to the door. It was a fatal mistake. He was shot in the back of the head by Jack “Broken Nose” McCall, who would eventually hang for the murder.
Martha Jane Cannary–“Calamity Jane”–also came to be well known in Deadwood for her keen marksmanship, and her propensity for dressing in men’s clothes, her appetite for hard liquor, ability to tell outrageous lies and her extremely colorful “muleskinner’s” vocabulary. She had been, by turns, a teamster, nurse, cook, prostitute, prolific drinker and an Army scout. She was also greatly enamoured of Wild Bill. When she died in 1903 of pneumonia brought on by heavy drinking, she was buried at her request beside him, on a hill overlooking Deadwood in Mount Moriah Cemetery.
As for the lesser known citizens of the town, most of the miners were peaceable enough, but like most frontier mining camps, Deadwood attracted its share of shady characters, soiled doves and saloons–a volatile combination that was sure to trigger violence. The fledgling town averaged at least a murder a day in its first year. But the richest gold strike in the Black Hills had been found in Deadwood Gulch, so the town continued to grow at a furious pace, despite its unsavory reputation.
By 1877, Deadwood was quickly changing from a lawless mining camp to an organized community. Tents and shanties gave way to wooden buildings. The town elected a government, including a sheriff–Seth Bullock, the hardware merchant–to enforce the law and keep order. After a fire came close to destroying the downtown business district in 1879, an ordinance was passed decreeing that buildings had to be built of brick and stone. By 1889, the population of Dakota Territory–swelled by incoming settlers–was large enough for statehood, and the territory was admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
By the early 1900s, Seth Bullock had been named Superintendant of the Black Hills Forest Preserve and was a personal friend of Teddy Roosevelt, having ridden with his Rough Riders in the Spanish American War. In 1905 Bullock was appointed U.S. Marshal for the state of South Dakota.
About the Author: JoAnn Graham is an internet marketer and author with 28 years experience in advertising and marketing. She invites you to take a ride on a time machine. Now boarding for the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries. Get your ticket here: gunsofold.com.
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bookmark_borderIraqi insurgents intercepted drone feeds using widely available software
Saturday, December 19, 2009
United States defense officials acknowledged that Iraqi insurgents successfully intercepted live video feeds from U.S. MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles with widely available software. The story broke on Thursday in the Wall Street Journal with a defense official, anonymously, informing them it is an old problem, which has already been fixed.
The Journal says U.S. military personnel in Iraq discovered the problem late last year when they seized a Shi’ite militant’s laptop containing drone video feeds.
Senior defense and intelligence officials say insurgents were able to take advantage of an unprotected communications link in the systems of the remotely-piloted aircraft. The insurgents used software that is available online and costs about $26.
While U.S. defense officials say the issue has been fixed, the Journal quoted senior intelligence officials as saying it was not yet clear if the problem had been completely resolved.
| It was developed to intercept music, photos, video, programs and other content that other users download from the Internet — no military data or other commercial data, only free legal content. | ||
U.S. officials say there is no evidence that militants had been able to take control of the drones. But the intercepted video feeds could show where the planes are operating.
The Journal also reported that U.S. drone feeds have also been intercepted in Afghanistan.
Officials say the U.S. government has known about a flaw in the drone communication system since the NATO intervention in Bosnia in the 1990s. At the time, the military assumed local adversaries would not know how to exploit it.
The report says fighters in Iraq used software programs such as one called “SkyGrabber” from the Russian company SkySoftware, which is designed to intercept data transmitted by satellite Internet.
The Journal quoted one of the program’s developers, Andrew Solonikov, as saying it was designed to download legal content — such as music and video — and that it was never intended to intercept military data. Solonikov said in a email to the paper, “It was developed to intercept music, photos, video, programs and other content that other users download from the Internet — no military data or other commercial data, only free legal content.”
bookmark_borderSpace Shuttle Atlantis launch delayed until 2008
Sunday, December 9, 2007
NASA have today announced that the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-122, which is a module delivery mission to the International Space Station (ISS), will be delayed until January 2nd, 2008 at the earliest, after scrubbing today’s launch attempt, and an earlier attempt on December 6th.
The decision to scrub the launch attempt was made at 7:24 a.m. EST by shuttle program managers. The reason behind the scrubbing is to allow shuttle engineers to spend time diagnosing and fixing the erroneous readings presented to the crew and Mission Control by the intermittent malfunctioning of a critical engine cutoff sensor (ECO). While only one of the four sensors was malfunctioning, the current launch criteria for the mission state that all four ECOs must be functioning correctly in order to launch.
At a meeting held at 9 a.m., NASA’s Mission Management Team for STS-122 decided on a postponement until January 2nd at the very earliest. Atlantis is due to deliver the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Columbus laboratory module to the ISS. Alan Thirkettle, ESA’s Space Station Program Manager, said, regarding the delay in launch: “In the big picture, it’s not a setback. [But] it is disappointing because we have 750 people over here.”
bookmark_borderOptimum Seo Keyword Density A Real Life Case Study
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By Glenn Murray
So youve built your website, you know what keywords you want to target (i.e. what words your customers are searching for), and youre ready to write your copy. Youve been told that you should use your keywords frequently so that you appear in search results for those words. But what does frequently mean?
How many times should you use your primary keyword? This case study helps answer that question.
Some background on Keyword Density
In order to understand optimum keyword usage, we first need to have some way of measuring keyword frequency. In the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) world, frequency is actually referred to as density. Keyword density is a measure of the number of times your keyword appears on a page expressed as a percentage of the total wordcount of that page. For example, if your page has 100 words, and your keyword phrase appears 5 times, its density is 5%. So when you hear someone say keyword density, thats normally what theyre talking about. (TIP: You can automatically check the keyword density of your page at http://www.live-keyword-analysis.com.)
However, there is another, more complex measure of keyword density which takes into account the text components in the HTML of the page (i.e. the meta tags: Title, Keywords, Alt Text, Description, and Comments). When using this measure, you dont just count the words your visitor sees; you also count the words in your meta tags. For example, if you have 100 words on your home page, 10 words in your Title tag, 20 words in your Description tag, 70 words in your Alt tags, and 10 words in your Comments tag, your total wordcount for the page is 100 + 10 + 20 + 70 + 10 = 210. Similarly, when counting keywords, you dont just add up the number of times a visitor will see your keyword, you also count the number of times that keyword appears in your meta tags. For example, if your keyword appears 5 times in the home page copy, 3 times in the Title tag, 5 times in the Description tag, 30 times in your Alt tags, and twice in your Comments tag, your total keyword count is 5 + 3 + 5 + 30 + 2 = 45. So with a total wordcount of 210 and a keyword count of 45, your keyword density is 45/210 x 100 = 21%. It is argued that this measure of keyword density is more relevant as the search engines measure density in this fashion. (TIP: You can automatically check the keyword density of your page using this more complex measure at http://www.gorank.com/analyze.php.)
As you can see, you need to be very aware of which measure youre talking about when youre talking keyword density. But let me reiterate; mostly when people talk about keyword density, theyre talking the simple measure.
What is the optimum keyword density
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And now down to business What keyword density (of either kind) should you be targeting on your website?
Theres a lot of debate surrounding this issue because the search engine companies dont disclose the details of their algorithms (as that would allow people to abuse the system). Instead, people working in the SEO world are left to figure it out based on their experience.
A recent article by respected SEO and Blog expert, Wayne Hurlbert, (see http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050501KeywordDensitySEOconsiderations.html) suggests that Google sees pages with a keyword density of greater than 2% as spam. It was this article which prompted me to analyze the keyword density of my copywriting website.
CASE STUDY
The Website: This case study analyzes the website for my advertising copywriting and SEO copywriting business, Divine Write http://www.divinewrite.com. For my primary keyword, my site is now on page 1 of Google.com (out of approximately 900,000 search results).
Number of pages on site: At the time of writing, my website contained a total of 53 pages.
Primary keyword phrase: copywriter
Average keyword density: Using the simple measure of keyword density discussed above, the average keyword density of my copywriting website is 1.9%. Using the complex measure its 4.9%.
Keyword density range: Using the simple measure, my density ranged from 0.4% to 7.6%. Using the complex measure it ranged from 1.6% to 17.5%
Some comments on the figures
The figures and corresponding ranking detailed in this case study may not be directly relevant to every site. Theres a lot I dont know about the algorithms and there are bound to be other factors at play which I dont know about.
With regard to Wayne Hurlberts article, it would seem that he is referring to keyword density as calculated using the simple method discussed above.
The range figures are noteworthy because they suggest that you dont need to be paranoid about having some pages with a very high density and some with a very low density.
Conclusion
A simple keyword density of 1.9% can be enough for a first page ranking in Google.com (assuming you have enough quality backlinks see http://www.divinewrite.com/SEOCEO.htm and http://www.divinewrite.com/seoarticles.htm for more information).
Happy SEO writing!
About the Author: * Glenn Murray is an SEO copywriter and article submission and article PR specialist. He is a director of article PR company, Article PR, and also of copywriting studio Divine Write. He can be contacted on Sydney +612 4334 6222 or at glenn@divinewrite.com. Visit
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bookmark_borderThousands rally in Columbus, Ohio, for undocumented immigrants’ rights
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
On March 26, thousands rallied outside the Columbus, Ohio statehouse, advocating rights for undocumented immigrants. This was one of a series of rallies following one in Los Angeles, which was reported to have drawn over 500,000 attendees.
The sponsoring coalition included the Immigrant Worker Project, the Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), UFCW Local 880, MIGUATE (of [Dover, Ohio]), and the Red [network] de Inmigrantes de Ohio. Organizers wanted to raise awareness of bill pending in the US Senate, HR 4437, which would make it a felony to be an illegal alien, or to assist aliens in entering or staying the country illegally. Organizers also called for “true” immigration reform plan that would provide a path to citizenship for all immigrant workers.
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bookmark_borderWikinews interviews specialists on Russian intervention in Ukraine
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
In the past few days, tension has been increasing due to conflict between Ukraine and the Russian Federation which has led to the United States, the United Kingdom, and France increasing pressure on Russia to remove their troops from Crimea.
Wikinews interviewed specialists in Russian foreign policy and specialists in international law about the legality of Russia’s actions and the consequences of any sanctions imposed by G7 nation economies.
bookmark_borderZeus botnet trojan horse is back
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Trusteer, a web security company, reports that a trojan horse virus called Zeus can steal online banking details from infected computers. The virus has infected one out of every 3,000 computers of the 5,500,000 million which the company monitors in the United States and the United Kingdom.
The trojan can infect users of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer on Microsoft Windows, and steals login information by recording keystrokes when the machine connects to certain websites, usually banks or other financial institutions. The stolen data is transmitted to a remote server and sold to cyber-criminals. “We expect this new version of Zeus to significantly increase fraud losses, since nearly 30% of Internet users bank online with Firefox and the infection is growing faster than we have ever seen before,” said Amit Klein, chief technology officer at Trusteer, to BBC.
The trojan has also affected Wikinews users, including Brian McNeil, who is the founder of Wikinewsie, a restricted-access wiki used to collaborate on sensitive news reports. McNeil reported on his userspace: “On Saturday [April] 17, a Windows-based PC in the house issued a cry for help, the Avira package running on the system had just detected a piece of malware; full scans indicated several known pieces of malware and numerous hidden files. Additional scans revealed that all but one of the USB memory sticks and portable hard drives in the house were infected with something. The Zeus botnet, as it turned out.” E-mail accounts for accredited reporters have also been affected.
bookmark_borderStuttering And Speech Therapy Ideas
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Stuttering (or stammering) is a voice disfluency, a speech disorder. When a person stutters, the normal flow of speech is disrupted by repetitions and/or prolongations of voice sounds. Frequently, an individual is also unable to start a word.
Child stuttering, toddler stuttering and adult stuttering are themes being studied by many scientists and speech specialists all around the world. The Stuttering Foundation of America, the National Stuttering Association, the National Center for Stuttering and individual speech therapists in general are all investigating why people stutter and finding effective and fast speech therapies.
Nevertheless, even though scientists have several theories and suspect a variety of causes for stuttering, the precise mechanisms causing this disability (also called stammering) are not understood. Some believe that many forms have genetic origins.
A common form of stuttering is neurogenic. Neurogenic stuttering arise from signal problems between the brain and nerves or muscles. In neurogenic stuttering, the brain is unable to adequately coordinate the different components of speech mechanism.
The disruptions of speech may be accompanied by tremors of the lips and/or jaw, rapid eye blinks and other movements. This disorder commonly becomes more severe when speaking in front of a group of people or on the phone. On the other hand, speaking alone and singing might generally improve it or disappear completely.
Over three million Americans stutter. Stuttering affects all ages, but most frequently, children between the ages of 2 and 6 are the most affected. Preschool and toddler stuttering are especially affected while they are developing their language. When they grow up, most of them improve or cure. One percent or less of adults stutters.
Many famous people stutter. Marilyn Monroe, Bruce Willis, Winston Churchill and Mel Tillis are only a few whose success was not impeded by stuttering. Their speech language issue did not stop them to excel and express themselves magnificently.
With these encoraging news about famous people succeeding in spite of their common issue, I end part 1 of these series of articles. Much more information can be found at a site dedicated to stuttering problems and resources, as well as a library of speech language pathology.
This is the end of Part 1 of Stuttering and speech therapy ideas. On next chapters I will be writing about different and effective therapies developed lately by researchers on the field of stammering or speech language pathology.