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TL;DR: The term "paid group" is used to describe a service provided by a trader within a private group context in exchange for financial recompense. The payment by the customer is typically made monthly or yearly. The concept of a healthy, functioning paid group is in exchange for payment, the trader is providing their time and financial experience to provide market calls for their customer. The idea is that the success rate of these calls, along with the correct risk management measures, will make the customer profitable, as well as providing the cryptocurrency trader with a steady income. This should be a win-win scenario, right? Well, unfortunately not!
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An Investigation into the World of Paid Cryptocurrency Strategy Groups
Paid groups in the world of cryptocurrency are perhaps one of the controversial aspects on crypto-related social media platforms. A correctly functioning paid group should have four advantages.
Trading Strategy
A trading strategy is a fixed plan that is designed to achieve a profitable return by going long or short in markets. Good strategies should be consistent, verifiable, quantifiable and objective.
The strategy should set out one's needs as defined by which assets to trade, entry / exit positions and money management rules. Bad money management will likely render the strategy unprofitable
Educational Information and Guidance
Paid group leaders should have relevant experience in the field that they are providing tuition over. An experienced trader should be able to offer educational information and guidance such as educational videos, portfolio reviews and private coaching sessions. During each process, an experienced paid group leader will be able to describe trading techniques, coin reviews or management on your portfolio holdings and spread. This should be focused on a risk / reward ratio, or in other words maximising your reward while actively minimising risk. A paid group leader will also be able to advise on managing your emotions while trading.
Provide Trading Signals
Leaders will show commitment to helping their team. This can include providing trading opportunities that they have gathered through their own diligent research. This type of information can slip past the gaze of the wider community and thus trade entries can be found. This should also be accompanied with the relevant risk management back up, such as trade, entry and exit positions, as well as stop loss areas in the event a trade doesn't work out.
Leaders with development experience are also able to create high-level trading bots, that are usually modelled around their tried and tested trading strategy. These will provide alerts to the user based upon the information deemed useful or reliable by the experienced leader.
Provide Largely Unknown Information on Coins
The experienced leader may have contacts in the industry or also be "savvy" on the technical and fundamental aspects of a coin. They may be to source coins with a high yield potential before they have become fully established. This could involve investing in an Initial Coin Offering (ICO), which is typically a very risky strategy. This can be done through creating a pool of the members' money to collectively invest, though this requires a lot of thought prior to entering.
Substandard or Disingenuous Paid Groups Often Come with At Least Four Negative Aspects
Unrealistic Terminology
How do we know what is and isn't a legitimate paid group? Well the terminology of a group/leader is a good place to start!
Unrealistic terminology can be used across cryptocurrency by "leaders" to increase their significant reach or influence over their followers. Although an example below is not from a paid group, please reference the claim below by "Suppoman" on discussing the average person becoming a millionaire. This is highly divisive language and should trigger alarm bells from the onset. Unrealistic claims are typically followed by unrealistic actions, generally lacklustre or non-existent trading strategies, or lack of risk management.
Source: YouTube
If you are investing in anything in life, whether it be real estate, business or the stock market, you are always beholden to having done your own due diligence and managed your risk as best as you can. Unrealistic claims should be met with caution, as below example:
Source: Twitter
False Advertisement and Broken Promises
It is not uncommon to see paid groups making bold, and sometimes outrageous claims, on the benefits that the customer is guaranteed from joining the group. Unsurprisingly, these promises are often not delivered causing negative sentiment towards the "paid leader". The customer is usually left in a financially inferior position, with the paid leader carrying on their group regardless and simply looking for further customers to replace those that leave.
Also, as part of false advertising, the paid group later will buy followers on social media as a means of deceiving customers into trusting their popularity and image, with a view of gaining their trust of getting in on their finances.
Examples of these will follow in the case study section of the article.
Poor Financial Advice
Paid group leaders who merely provide outlandish price predictions without any substance should be disregarded immediately. This also goes for coin price predictions that are against the market structure or trend. With exclusion of small coin pumps, no coin goes against the market for very long. If you are receiving advice of coins going to go to unrealistic levels whereas the market is going to go in the other direction, you should also know to ignore this information.
Poor financial advice could also constitute anything based on emotion instead of a trading strategy. If the leader is advising their entry to trades because of the way that he feels or thinks, this is a big warning sign to avoid engagement.
A coin will also not outrun the wider market (especially in this bear market) because of its fundamentals. If a leader advises going in heavy because of a partnership, this needs to be assessed on its merits but the likely result is you need to draw back from their guidance. We haven't achieved mass adoption just yet!
Pump and Dump Groups
In some signal trading groups, "pump and dump" schemes are organised around investing in small market cap coins or tokens. These are reported to the group as being "gems" with an unrealistic rate of return. The coin will be pumped by the group leaders who are often working alongside others who operate similar groups. The group will deem their advice as being just, and invest in the coin as the price is increasing. The disingenuous paid leaders will then unload all of their coins onto the group in a fraudulent manner, financially scamming their members twofold.
A similar scheme is the "pump and hold" scheme. Influencers can be paid by companies to promote buying and holding their coin regardless of the market conditions or the coin fundamentals. The recipient will often be left with negative value on their investment coins after being dumped on at a predetermined time.
Following these schemes, leaders continue to draw in new members and sometimes even change their identity, or rebrand the group and do it all over again. Rinse and repeat as they say!
Case Study on Eric Choe's Group
The awareness of this article was initially raised on "Crypto Twitter" and involved the wider community on how they would like to see the topic being reported. The widespread community got in touch and this involved actual paid group leaders offering a free trial in their group for the benefit of the article (thank you for this).
Others reported that they had felt ripped off and cheated by their paid group leader. This brought a dilemma on what route would be taken to review this article, from the paid group leader's invite or through the paid group users request. With this in mind I decided to put it out for a vote, with the results being below.
Source: Twitter
The clear preference from the results was that Eric Choe's group should be reviewed. A total of 538 people voted and 55% of these voted for Eric's group. Also, a large section of the comments suggested this preference.
Structure of Group
Eric Choe's paid group is conducted on the messaging App Slack. The current annual subscription fee is around $1,000 — a lot of money for the average person to invest. As such, this analysis of the group should be based on offering value for money and the follow-through on promises made by Eric.
Attraction to Group
Many people have are attracted to Eric's group due to his known status on "crypto Twitter". Eric joined Twitter at the peak of the bull run when many new people were also arriving to this space. Most people had little (if any) experience of the cryptocurrency market, and thought that these astronomical gains would go on forever. Eric made some outlandish calls on social media that suggested that he didn't know any better than the wider community, as below:
Source: Twitter
The wider audience in social media are far more likely to follow accounts with a large following, as they think this provides legitimacy. While in some cases this can be true, there are also many accounts with a large following that gained these on a deceitful basis; i.e. they have purchased fake followers.
These can be readily accessed and bought through a simple search engine search, with an example provided below.
Source: buytwitterfollowersreview.org
The cost of buying a following is not very high, and if you are buying a following with the purpose of luring people to a paid group, this initial expense will be far outweighed by the takings of your paid group.
An easy way to check people's followers is through websites such as Social Blade. These are able to search a variety of social media platforms and reveal statistics such as, the rate of which people are gaining followers. A legitimate account will most likely have a steady follower increase over their account's lifespan. See a check on Eric's follower rate below:
Source: Social Blade
You will notice from these results that Eric gained over 100k followers in little over a month. Even with consideration that a large number of people had been brought to the market from the bull run, this colossal number in such a short space of time is most likely to be the result of a large number of purchased followers. If you are realistic in thinking about this, these statistics simply do not stack up when comparing them to other large following social media accounts.
In this case, the actions behind Eric's following look questionable at best, and deceitful at worst.
Eric also marketed his group would run a thread turning $1000 into $1million, with all results of this put out on his paid group.
Source: Twitter
Source: Twitter
Source: Twitter
Eric started the thread, but it was dropped for whatever reason. This could be construed as a clever, but misleading marketing ploy by Eric to gain followers. It could be that he didn't have the trading skillset to achieve such a monumental task (many don't!). Either way, the lack of follow through for such a bold claim will provide serious scrutiny on your future claims. Bold claims should not be made if they cannot be backed up, otherwise they are misleading. Eric did not back up this bold claim.
This caused members of his paid group to feel cheated in entering into the group, as many joined for this reason, as a below DM received from an unhappy paid group customer:
Source: Twitter
Verdict = 1/10
Frequency in Group & Community Support
The amount of time spent in the group and the amount of calls made in the group by Eric, was acceptable. Eric is active in his group daily and is also active in the comments section, answering questions of customers or engaging in dialogue with them.
I was satisfied with this element of the paid group. This is an important element to assess as some paid group leaders have taken the customer's money and subsequently done an exit scam, with no way of customers retrieving their money.
Verdict = 7/10
Call Frequency & Success
The calls in the group were followed largely through the month of February 2019. The market conditions in this time was a continuation of a major downtrend, however there was at least a bullish bounce in many altcoins. No higher highs were made at the time of this article, in particular on the Bitcoin and total market cap charts, therefore this narrative on the market conditions is fair. The frequency of Eric's calls and activity within the group was acceptable, as previously mentioned.
The success of Eric's calls was average, which is the level what you would expect most traders to be achieving. Eric made some noticeably successful calls on longing $ETH / $USD and $EOS / $BTC.
During the limited time period assessed, Eric also made some risky calls in uncertain market conditions.
Eric was looking to short $LTC / $BTC on 12th February, after it had received some bullish movement over the previous weeks. $LTC continued to move steadily upwards and consolidate during February, though a retrace was plausible, he was too early on this call.
Source: Slack
Eric uses a trading strategy named Wizard in his paid group. My personal opinion is, if you are teaching others with less experience in trading, you should teach a "tried and tested" strategy. A plan that can be implemented with a set of guidelines, if these guidelines are invalidated, you do not enter or you leave a trade. This teaches others the skill of both managing risk and eliminating the influence of emotions which are common struggles for those with limited trading experience.
It was noticeable that Eric deviated from his trading strategy a couple of times during the period assessed.
Source: Slack
Eric ultimately paid the price from deviating from his own trading strategy. This is something that I would not expect an experienced trader displaying to his customers, as it is showing a lack of risk management. This is something that I would expect from someone with less trading experience than Eric to do.
Source: Slack
Eric entered a successful trade on $ETH / $USD in which he got a good, early position prior to a pump. Regardless, he left this trade too early as it pumped again afterward.
It may be viewed by the reader than I am being very critical here, as a profitable trade is often a successful one and no one is perfect. This additional scrutiny is brought about due to price of the membership fee to Eric's group.
Source: Slack
Eric was in a 160k short on Bitcoin, which did not work out. Bitcoin pumped shortly after this and this trade was invalidated. It needs to be considered that although stop losses would have been in place, this trade would have been at a costly loss.
Source: Slack
Source: Slack
Eric entered a further Bitcoin short on 18th February, this time for 100k. This had similar results to the previous short. Eric also appear confused (from his comments) as to the Bitcoin price action at that time. It is probably best to stay out of trades if the probability of uncertainty is against you.
Source: Slack
Verdict = 3/10
Case Study Verdict
Although Eric was active enough in his group, the marketing used to attract members was misleading. It is highly probable that he purchased many of his Twitter followers to appear legitimate. If you combine this with the promise of guiding his group to 1 million USD and the outrageous price predictions that he made on coins, few could argue this is a genuine presentation. This raises the question, why would you invest your $1,000 into a source that you cannot completely trust?
Eric was also frequent enough with calls that he made on the group. Although the analysis period for this article was just under a month, the quality of the calls was no better (at best), and mostly worse than free calls that are put out on Twitter. Eric provided exit and entry points as well as stop loss limits, however, some of the calls were based on emotion and I witnessed two large trades that were risky (in my opinion) and ultimately failed. He also went against his trading strategy in calls on occasion, acting upon emotion. I don't believe as a leader that this sets the right educational approach to the group.
Through the investigation and creation of this article, I personally would not invest in Eric Choe's paid group and I would advise others against it if I was asked this as an honest question. The level of quality, free information out there in my view is superior to the information in Eric's group.
Verdict = 3/10
The analysis of paid groups both from a topical and case study perspective depicts the up and downside potential. A working paid group should function like a good business, which produces quality (either by a service or product) for the paying customers.
If you are going to invest in cryptocurrency or participate in paid groups, you need to thoroughly research every decision with as much time and thought as you can. You should not be acting upon your emotions, as this will more than likely lead you to lose out financially.
The volatility and immaturity of the cryptocurrency scene means that there are a lot of "chancers" around, who have calculated the emotive reactions that people have when it comes to investing. The idea of a get rich quick scheme is appealing to inexperienced people, is build on deceptive presentations, and rarely if ever happens to play out as predicted.
It is very difficult to establish the truth such an anonymous and undeveloped space, however by using key elements from this article, it is hoped you have the realisation on what to look out for when making such an important financial decision.
"The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple," Oscar Wilde.
Closing Statement by The Author
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It's getting closer and closer to the holiday season, which means that food is definitely something that's on your mind. Side dishes are a huge part of these big celebrations. Michelle Fagone, author of "I LOVE MY INSTANT POT" GLUTEN-FREE RECIPE BOOK, shares her blue cheese asparagus recipe!
What better complement to a grilled filet mignon than this Blue Cheese Asparagus! Look for bright green stalks with firm buds—so simple yet elegant. Coupled with a sexy date, a glass of Cabernet, and some sultry music, this is a meal meant for love.
- 1 cup water
- 1 pound asparagus spears, woody ends trimmed and discarded
- 2 teaspoons olive oil 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 2 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese
- 2 tablespoons crushed walnuts
- Add water to the Instant Pot®. Place asparagus evenly in steamer basket and place basket in pot. Lock lid.
- Press the Manual or Pressure Cook button and adjust cook time to 1 minute. Quick release pressure until float valve drops and then unlock lid.
- Transfer asparagus to a serving dish and toss with oil and vinegar. Garnish with blue cheese and walnuts. Serve warm.
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Barbados' horrid run in the International Hockey Federation's World Hockey League in Trinidad and Tobago continued yesterday evening when they were beaten 3-2 in a shootout by Guyana at the National Hockey Centre in Tacarigua.
It was a heartbreaking situation for Barbados' women after they had scored a 20-minute opening goal and had maintained that advantage deep into the encounter.
But with regulation time about to expire Guyana found the back of the goal with basically the last flick of the match to draw level at 1-1. The match result was then determined by penalty shots and Guyana emerged the victors.
Earlier in the November 11-17 tournament Barbados had also been beaten by Uruguay (8-0); Venezuela (2-0); and Canada (11-0). Barbados take on Trinidad and Tobago tomorrow evening.
In men's action which started on Wednesday Barbados were beaten 5-3 by Chile in a thrilling game that was much closer than the score-line might suggest.
Chile rushed into an early advantage compliments of three goals in just four minutes from Martin Rodriguez, Jan Richter and Ignacio Gajardo before Rohan Thomas reduced the deficit with an open play strike just before half-time.
Chile's three goal advantage was re-established in the 41st minute when Rodriguez struck again with another field goal, but two goals in three minutes from Barbados players Che Warner and Cyprian Payne made the score 4-3 with 25 minutes of the match remaining.
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Barbados' men were scheduled to play Venezuela late this evening.
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'Everything in moderation' labelled 'useless' by leading nutrition scientist
Useless. That's the word that Dr David Ludwig, Harvard Medical School nutrition and obesity expert uses to describe the dietary axiom "everything is okay in moderation". Because according to nutrition science, what you eat, and not just how much, is exceedingly important.
What you eat matters, not just the amount…
There are several studies that back Ludwig's theory, which turns conventional dietary wisdom on its head. One can't help but understand the thinking behind "everything in moderation", though, given the obsession the world has with diet. After decades of diet fads, like the liver cleanse, the grapefruit diet, the Paleo diet, to name but a few, the consensus has been to pull back and practice diet moderation, or eating in moderation.
But this is not the advice we need.
According to Ludwig, there are some foods we need to eat a lot of, such as olive oil, avocado and nuts. Ludwig says we need to "pile on" these types of foods. However, there are other foods, particularly sugar, where we need to absolutely minimise our intake, particularly if we have any metabolic disorders or diseases like diabetes.
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported on the results of a randomised trial of diet patterns for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease. Seven thousand individuals were put into three control groups and were given a either a Mediterranean diet high in olive oil, a Mediterranean diet high in nuts, or simply advice to eat a low-fat diet.
The results were so profound that researchers had to stop the study early due to the rates of heart disease dropping so low in both the groups eating a Mediterranean diet of healthy fats, that they considered it "unethical to keep the control group eating the low-fat diet".
Other studies have had similar findings. A recent study found that type II diabetes risks were decreased when people ate a lot of vegetables, including a large variety of fruits and nuts.
A study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that consuming a "high variety of sweets, snacks, condiments, entrees, and carbohydrates" (but a small variety of vegetables) made individuals put on weight. This study was designed to test the effects of dietary variety alone and its effects on energy intake and body fat. It found that variety in the diet wasn't enough to produce healthy body weight – "body fatness depends critically on the types of foods being consumed".
In yet another important diet and health study, published by PLOS ONE in 2015, over 5000 American adults had both their diets and relative risk of obesity and diabetes analysed.
Their results were overwhelmingly in favour of "diet quality, independent of diversity", again reinforcing the argument against one of the nutrition industries most well-known mantras: "everything in moderation".
What can we learn from this?
- We need to stop saying we can eat "everything in moderation". This is not safe or healthy advice.
- Follow a Mediterranean style diet with lots of olive oil, nuts and veggies – and few processed foods – as the key to healthy eating and longevity
- Drastically cut down on added sugars to less than 10% of one's daily calorie intake
- Health scientists also recommend we do the following:
- Adhere to smaller portion sizes to prevent excessive calorie intake.
- Eat adequate amounts of protein and fibre to keep feeling full for longer.
- Avoid sweetened drinks as they are a massive source of sugar, leading to weight gain.
- Drink water 30 minutes before meals as this can lead to weight loss.
- Don't go shopping on an empty stomach – you will buy more junk food when hungry.
- Get enough sleep – your body will crave high-calorie food if you are tired.
- Eat breakfast as it helps to kick-start your metabolism, giving you more energy.
- Embrace the mantra "dinner and done!" and don't eat after dinner. Studies show that snacking after the evening meal leads to eating an average of 238 more calories.
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Uber Mexico City Review
I have made no secret on this blog that I am not a huge fan of taxis in general. In my post about Berlin's UberTaxi service, I was called out asking why I feel that way. While my opinion comes from numerous bad experiences around the world, I have adjusted my overall view. I don't like taxis in most situations, however I won't make blanket statements regarding them anymore.
Of course there are a ton of places around the globe where taxi drivers are known to be absolutely corrupt. Mexico City is definitely one of them. When you exit customs at the airport, there are a ton of "unofficial" taxi drivers who would love to
take your money drive you. You can of course pay for a licensed taxi which seems to be fairly legitimate, however you have to deal with cash. Uber really does seem like a great solution.
Since I have been generally loving both Uber & Lyft lately, I decided that I would take Uber from the airport to our hotel in Mexico City's historical center. After exiting customs, we headed to one of the exit doors and called a ride. That is sort of where things went wrong.
My Uber Mexico City Ride
My phone has international data, however for some reason it was taking awhile to acquire a signal so I connected to the Boingo WiFi and requested a ride. We then headed outside to meet the driver and the data cut out. The driver arrived shortly thereafter in a BMW 3 Series sedan. At this point I knew it had to be UberBlack instead of the UberX I thought I had requested.
I am fully willing to admit I may have made a mistake, however I have no idea how my phone would have been set to UberBlack. Either way, I was willing to accept it and off we went. At some point during the ride though I picked up internet on my phone and noticed we had deviated significantly from the route Uber had originally shown me.
Instead of heading straight into the city, the driver was taking us around to the north. It also isn't as if this route was any faster. In fact, he drove us right into a scheduled protest where we sat in traffic for an extra 20 minutes. In total, a ride that the Uber app quoted as taking 18 minutes, lasted for a total of 54 minutes. My final cost was of course much higher than expected as well. It came in at 337 MXN or about $20.
Challenging the Route
I have used Uber a number of times and have never had an issue with the route. As you can see from my receipt, we clearly were taken for a "ride". Anyway, this was the first time I ever decided to challenge a routing. In the Uber receipt email there is a link to contact them regarding your ride. I simply clicked that link and said I had an issue with the route. I also mentioned the UberX vs. UberBlack issue.
Uber's Response
To their credit, Uber responded within a few hours of my ride. Actually, they responded twice. First, I received an adjustment for the route. Uber lowered the price from 337 MXN to 183 MXN. ($20 down to $11). They lowered the price to what it should have been based on the route as originally shown to me. That made perfect sense and I was satisfied.
Then to my surprise, Uber responded again. Suddenly the 183 MXN had been lowered to just 85 MXN or around $5. They had also adjusted for the ride type. I sort of feel bad about this second adjustment and certainly didn't expect the rate to drop by 75%, but that is the result. I almost feel bad for the driver too, although then I remember that he was the one who decided to take us way off course.
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This situation is a reminder that GPS is a powerful tool. Being in a new city, I had no idea exactly what route we were taking, however the app didn't lie. Thankfully in my 30+ ridesharing experiences between Uber & Lyft, this is the first time I have ever come across something like this. In fact, just about every time the rate quoted by the app is very accurate. This is still one advantage Uber has over a taxi, even if they can have dishonest drivers as well.
I chose Uber for its simplicity in Mexico City and it ended up turning into a more complicated experience. Still, I am impressed with how they handled things and plan on using them more over the next few days as I get around the city. The truth is there are bad apples everywhere and a company should be judged by how they deal with issues. In this way Uber impressed me.
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Well-appointed hotels with excellent levels of service and comfort. These hotels excel in customer satisfaction, mouth-watering cuisine and a relaxed atmosphere for discerning guests.
The Russelior | Yasmine Hammamet |*****
Bed & Breakfast / Half Board
The Russelior is a haven of peace where lush vegetation hugs bodies of water integrated in to the landscape. The hotel's ultimate objective is absolute well-being for the customer and protection of the environment inside and out. Fine cuisine is to be found at 3 different restaurants including vegetarian, Asian and dietary-organic.
- Exceptional private beach with green zones and extra fine sand.
- Spa by Ligne St. Barth (3000 m² including ultra-modern fitness room).
- Spacious terraces and balconies overlook the garden and the swimming pool.
The Residence Tunis | Carthage Coast |*****
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The Residence Tunis stands out as one of the most chic resorts in the Mediterranean. Bask in the refined services of one of the Leading Hotels of the World. The sensual elegance of Arab-Andalusian architecture is combined with a stunning 18-hole golf course and a sumptuous thalasso-spa.
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- Choice of six restaurants - including Mediterranean, fresh seafood and authentic Chinese cuisine.
- Expansive outdoor swimming pool and indoor heated seawater pool.
Mövenpick Hotel Gammarth Tunis | Carthage Coast |*****
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Located in an exclusive residential area, this hotel with its elegantly furnished rooms and private terraces, overlooks the beautiful bays of the Mediterranean and the hills of Sidi Bou Said. Mövenpick Gammarth offers a variety of dining options: an international all-day restaurant, sumptuous Mediterranean cuisine and Moroccan dishes. Enjoy the warm and relaxed atmosphere of The Lounge with a wide selection of cocktails.
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- Multi-sports court for Basketball, Volleyball and Football.
Mövenpick Resort & Marine Spa | Sousse |*****
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Expertly combines beach and city life. A family-oriented resort set on a sparkling beachfront with delightful wining and dining experiences. The Marine Spa harnesses the power of natural marine ingredients, together with the latest innovations in product and treatment technology for complete spa and wellness packages.
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Radisson Blu Resort & Thalasso | Hammamet |*****
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NEW for Summer 2013. 5 star luxury enviably located with 300 metres of sandy beach, flavoursome cuisine and sun-soaked leisure activities. 520 m² outdoor pool has a separate children's pool and there is a 150 m² heated indoor seawater pool.
- Light bites and authentic Tunisian cuisine.
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- VIC Kid's club - qualified team available daily for children aged 4-12.
Hasdrubal Thalassa | Yasmine Hammamet |*****
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#1 on tripadvisor: this refined hotel is built along a vast sandy beach and all rooms are Junior Suites with a side sea or garden view. A variety of exquisite restaurants offer international, Tunisian and Italian cuisine plus a specialist restaurant serving dietetic and low-fat dishes. Hasdrubal should also be well-noted for the quality and choice of its spa, thalassotherapy treatments and facilities.
- Outdoor swimming pool uniquely features jacuzzis along the outer edges.
- 2 tennis courts.
The Sindbad | Hammamet |*****
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Reasonably priced hideaway near the International Cultural Centre with seaside views of the medina in Hammamet. The comfortable bungalow style accommodation is dotted around established gardens offering a peaceful and private atmosphere. Guests on half board benefit from an a la carte menu four times a week and Half board Plus customers can dine in of three other a la carte restaurants.
- Most bathrooms have a bathtub and a separate shower cubicle.
- Reduced green fees for guests playing rounds at the 36 hole Citrus Golf course.


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Seems the world is full of tattle tells – are those among us so willing to discuss that which is private simply misanthropes or dangerous types needing to be addressed through legislation and the courts?
Well now – personally I never allow those hell bent on my destruction to go unchallenged when they post lie filled slander … Lawsuits are my friend. There is even reason to pursue legally those that might even share a REAL fact if is done for nefarious reasons. The personal has surely now become the general as just this past week a National Security Agency employee shared with journalist top secret information that could very well breach the safety of our nation and allies around the world. This life lesson is a intentional tutorial because oh baby, destroying another person – no matter if it is intentional or not – will reap punishment. The grandiose idea that you must tell what you perceive as REAL truth in personal, business, government or community may not be your glory of moment after all.
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Plane romantic – airliner draws heart in the sky for Valentine's Day
The Airbus A330 took the unusual route during a test flight.
A Virgin Atlantic airliner was flown along a heart-shaped flight path to mark Valentine's Day.
The Airbus A330 took the unusual route during a test flight over the south-west coast of England.
The aircraft took off from London Gatwick at around 11am on Wednesday before returning to the same airport two hours later.
When you conduct a training flight in your recently delivered A330 on #ValentinesDay you draw a heart. That's the rule, right?— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) February 14, 2018
See playback of @VirginAtlantic's ❤at https://t.co/em1gPzhr22 pic.twitter.com/yJSZtrsRxv
Virgin Atlantic had to submit a special request to air traffic controllers before the flight.
The airline's director of aircraft operations, JJ Burrows, said: "We had a training flight planned for February 14, and when we realised it was Valentine's Day we decided to have a little fun.
"Our special heart-shaped flight took off from London Gatwick, travelling across the south of England and over the Cornish coast to form a heart shape at around 30,000ft."
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Dramatic increase in malware sent via email
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HONG KONG (BLOOMBERG) - Hong Kong home sales slumped to the lowest in at least a quarter-century last month (December), Centaline Property Agency estimated, adding to evidence that prices have further to fall.
Centaline estimated January sales of new and secondary homes would reach 3,000 units, the lowest monthly figure since it started tracking data in January 1991. The previous low was 3,786 units in November 2008, according to a Jan 31 release.
A similar picture emerges from another survey by Ricacorp Properties, which shows 2,908 deals were lodged with the Land Registry in the first 28 days of January, the South China Morning Post reported on Monday (Feb 1).
New home sales plunged 80 per cent, said Centaline. With developers slowing down new launches, only 394 new units were sold in the first 27 days of January, 80.3 per cent lower than the 2,127 deals lodged in December, it said. Meanwhile, home resales fell by a fifth to 1,276 deals in January.
The government will announce the official data in the coming days.
"The Hong Kong residential market is all about sentiment," Ms Joanne Lee, senior manager of the Hong Kong research and advisory team at Colliers International Group, said. "Falling stock-market prices, the economy weakening, China's economy weakening and increases in the interest rate will all have an impact."
Hong Kong's property market has been showing signs of weakening since reaching a peak in September, amid a rising supply of homes and slowing growth in China. Housing prices are down 9.5 per cent from September, according to the Centaline Property Centa-City Leading Index and may fall another 20 per cent in 2016, according to some estimates.
The tepid demand was pronounced in January as buyers traditionally delay making purchases in the lead-up to the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday which begins on Feb 8. In turn, many developers have delayed the launch of new projects until then. Sales in December were 5,294 units.
The drop was particularly sharp in the primary market, with an estimated 420 new units sold last month, down 80 per cent from December's 2,127 units, Centaline said.
In order to encourage buyers, developers have been offering discounts and stamp duty rebates as well as second mortgages allowing borrowers to finance up to 90 per cent of a home's value.
Henderson Land Development's Harbour Park mass-market development in the Sham Shui Po district of Kowloon sold 15 units during January with discounts and rebates of up to 11 per cent, out of a 60 units released so far, according to the company website. Prices before discounts ranged from HK$3.47 million (S$634,600) for a 202 sq ft flat to HK$4.86 million (S$888,000) for 276 sq ft.
"If developers want to sell, especially for projects in the New Territories, they have to provide incentives to potential buyers," said Mr Thomas Lam, senior director of valuation and consultancy at Knight Frank. "If they want to launch a new project they will have to offer more incentives than 12 months ago."


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Gillespie County is located in the South Texas Region of Texas. The County Seat is Fredericksburg and the largest city is Fredericksburg. The 2014 population estimate is 25,520 and the 2010 census population was 24,837. The land area is 1,058.21 square miles and there are 23.5 persons per square mile.
96.8% of the population is White, 0.6% is Black or African American, 21.3% is Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% is Asian, 1.2% is American Indian or Alaska Native, 0.1% is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, and 0.8% is two or more races. 86.5% have a high school degree or higher, and 29.2% have a Bachelor degree or higher.
The median home value is $216,600, there are 10,655 households, an average of 2.30 persons per household. The per capita income is $30,117, the median household income is $53,668, and 12% of the persons in Gillespie County are considered below poverty level.
The total number of firms, at last estimate, was 4,379. Retail sales (in $1000) were $311,100, and sales per capita were $13,247. The percentage of black-owned firms is 0%, and the percentage of women-owned firms is 28.7%.
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At the 2018 NSW Awards for Planning Excellence held on 8 November 2018 GeoLINK, together with Planners North and Bayshore Developments, were successful in jointly winning the "From Plan to Place" Award for our work on Habitat Byron Bay.
This was one of GeoLINK's biggest projects spaning from 2005 to today. It was very much a multi-discipline collaborative project with our involvement including planning, approvals, environmental assessment, ecology, architecture, landscape design, stormwater and civil engineering. We were instrumental in achieving development consent for the project which was one of the first of its kind in Northern NSW. Several years on and our involvement continues in the way of acid frog management and monitoring.


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On most date nights, Vincent and I return to the estate where I'm staying, and sit in front of the fire pit which overlooks an enormous, koi filled, pond.
Leggy and graceful, dusty Blue Egrets often haunt the pond in the cold winter months. They're all too aware of the inhabitants: koi, turtles, and, lily pads. For an Egret, the pond is a smorgasbord.
Heidi, the head gardener, doesn't shoo the Egrets away. She heralds their presence. She said one day, "It's part of Life's equation: Koi give Life to Egrets. As humans we shouldn't impose our morality on nature."
Vincent and I have spent many nights huddling in front of the fire and alongside the pond. In the fire we find heat; in the pond we find Life and beauty.
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Today I am styling my Adidas Superstars with a light over sized shirt for a cool and chic off duty look. As part of JD Sports Kickspiration campaign they are bringing a style feature coming soon to the JD Women app to help you get inspiration how to style your JD Kicks. Adidas Superstars have been seen everywhere lately and it seems they are…View Post


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Russia and OPEC have struck a deal to cut oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day that could make a dent in the oil supply glut, the WSJ reports. Iran scored an exemption from the cuts since it is subject to U.S. sanctions, per Bloomberg.
Why it matters: The agreement reached in Vienna should help prop up prices that have been largely tumbling for roughly two months, a collapse that threatened the finances of Saudi Arabia and other petro-states.


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March 3
The bike rack above is at Town Hall. I've never seen a bike attached to it, though. Maybe that's because no one rides bikes or more likely because no one thinks to lock them up around here.
These two posts are parallel to each other, but if you stand at just the right angle, they (kind of sort of) look like a bike.
Below is another bike rack in town. This one is at the Ernie George Fields, where they play Pop Warner football.


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Meet Our Staff
Pastor: Rev. Jen Zerby
Pastor Jen grew up in the suburbs of Chicago and came to faith after being invited to the youth group at Batavia Covenant Church, where she later began her career in ministry. She came to Hillcrest in 2010 as the Associate Pastor and has now been serving as our Pastor since Fall 2014.
She has a certificate in Biblical Studies from Covenant Bible College in Alberta, Canada, and has a B.A. in Communications/Writing from Trinity Western University in British Columbia. Pastor Jen completed her Master of Divinity degree from North Park Theological Seminary in Chicago, and was ordained in the Evangelical Covenant Church in 2011.
Pastor Jen despises clowns, but loves coffee and outdoor concerts. She is a lifelong fan of the 2016 World Champion Chicago Cubs and has a Canadian-like love of hockey (Go Hawks!). She is passionate about people of all ages coming to know and understand the depth of God's love for us.
Pastor Jen currently resides with the greatest dog that has ever lived: her goldendoodle, Duncan (named after the great Duncan Keith!).
Pastor Jen welcomes your thoughts, comments, and questions at:
Director of Student and Worship Ministries: Sophia Duffield
Sophia Duffield is the director of youth and worship ministries. She was born in Aurora IL, but moved to the small town of Ridgway PA, after her father, Pastor Craig Duffield, finished seminary at North Park. She is the daughter of Craig and Jean Duffield, and is one of eight kids in the Duffield family.
While Sophia was in high school, she spent her summers working as a counselor at camp Mission Meadows. She continued to work there for 7 summers. After high school, Sophia attended Lancaster Bible College, where she got a B.A. in Biblical studies and a B.A. in Worship and Performing Arts. During her time in Lancaster, Sophia had the opportunity to go on missions trips to Cochabamba Bolivia, Ireland, and Nigeria. It was during her time overseas that she felt her first big call from God, to listen and love His people! "I have always had a strong love for people. Every person is a child of God, and all God's children deserve to be heard, understood, and above all, loved!"
Sophia also enjoys eating yummy food and watching movies, and she is always ready for the next fun adventure! "Being a part of the Hillcrest family has been an awesome adventure so far, and I can't wait to see what God has in store as we continue to venture through the days, months, and years to come!"
Sophia would love to hear from you! Drop her a line at firstname.lastname@example.com


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- Makes a large loaf--nearly two pounds--of homemade heritage bread
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They're easy. Kid's love them.
It's regular French toast but in sticks. And they're filled. In these, if you look closely, you'll see a layer of apple filling or raspberry jam between the layers.
Here's how to make them:
Make a sandwich, cut it into sticks, dip them in egg wash like you do other French toast, and cook them on a griddle. Notice that they're cooked on all four sides.
Put the syrup in these pretty ramekins and dip them like French fries. Fun!
Directions for use in the oven
To bake this mix in your oven, follow the directions on the package.
1. Place the mix in your stand-type mixer along with the yeast (if any) and melted butter or oil (if any). Add water. Use 110-degree water instead of 80 degrees.
2. With the dough hook, mix slowly until the dough ball forms. Turn the speed to medium high and mix for five to ten minutes until the gluten forms and the dough becomes stretchy and elastic.
3. Place the dough in a large greased bowl, cover, and let rise until doubled, about one hour, depending on room temperature.
4. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Turn the dough onto a lightly greased or floured work area and form your loaf. Place your dough in a 9 x 5-inch pan or other pan and let rise until the size has doubled and bubbles are about to surface.
5. When the bread has raised, place the loaf on the center rack of the oven. Bake for 35 minutes or until the bread is done. The internal temperature should reach 190 degrees. Remove the loaf from the pan and let it cool slightly before slicing.
INGREDIENTS: Enriched wheat flour (wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin and folic acid), bread base (salt, fermented wheat flour, yeast (yeast, sorbitan monostearate), malted wheat flour, sunflower oil, ascorbic acid, enzymes, sourdough flavor (wheat flour, tumaric acid with partially hydrogenated soybean oil, sodium diacetate, lactic acid silicon dioxide). This product contains wheat, soy and diary products and may contain traces of eggs, peanuts or tree nuts.


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In addition to those core benefits of Web Experience Factory, there are three specific capabilities that are especially valuable for supporting the development of smartphone-optimized web applications. These three capabilities are as follows.
1. Highly configurable automated generation of web user interfaces
IBM Web Experience Factory provides a number of techniques for controlling the generation of web UI in a highly automated, centralized way:
The Data Layout Builder lets you transform a generated tabular layout typically seen in desktop based web applications, into various list based layouts more typically seen on mobile devices.
The Data Field Settings and Rich Data Definition builders provide centralized control over how all data fields are displayed, formatted, and validated. For example, if you want to automatically have every Integer field automatically display a smartphone numeric keypad for data input, you can do that by changing a single central entry in a Rich Data Definition base library.
Web Experience Factory's UI themes provide centralized control over the look and feel of an entire application. With a theme, you can control style sheets, Data Page HTML templates, imported base page layouts, and even the choice of builder to use for paging through large data sets. With the release of Web Experience Factory 7.0.1, multiple mobile theme options are included with the product.
2. Dynamic Profiling and multi-channel support
The Dynamic Profiling feature of Web Experience Factory allows you to automatically generate multiple variations of an application from a single source model. This feature is often used, for example, to generate different application variations according to membership in Portal groups. For smartphone and mobile development, you can use the Dynamic Profiling feature to support "multi-channel" applications, where a single source model can generate code that's optimized for both smartphone and desktop devices. In the Designer tool you can easily switch between profiles to see what will be generated for each device type.
The following diagram shows how multiple devices can be supported with a single source model through the use of Dynamic Profiling.
3. Builder automation of mobile-optimized UI patterns
At the heart of Web Experience Factory is a very flexible framework for creating builders that can automate the generation of code for any design pattern. Any new builder can easily leverage all the automation of any existing builders. For smartphone support, new builders can automate the generation of UI design patterns that are optimized for mobile devices, and these new builders can draw on all the functionality of existing builders. For example, new builders can generate a native-looking scrolling list with thumbnails, or native-looking tabs at the top or bottom of a screen.
Mobile and smartphone support is a major focus for IBM Web Experience Factory. We think that web application development tools going forward will need to support a wide range of devices, from traditional desktop and laptop computers, to smartphones and tablets, to other devices like TVs. We believe that the highly automated code generation and dynamic profiling features of Web Experience Factory make it an ideal framework for web application development in this multi-device environment.
Note about tested devices and smartphone support for specific Web Experience Factory builders
The screenshots shown here were developed and tested with smartphones that use the Webkit engine: iPhone, iPad, and Android. Other browsers may not render all the stylings such as rounded corners correctly. However, for the multi-channel applications (Mobile Sales Orders and Mobile Orders Simple), the non-mobile "desktop" profile will render correctly on any of the browsers supported by Web Experience Factory, since that profile uses the default HTML/CSS generated by Web Experience Factory builders.
Note that some Web Experience Factory builders may generate code that is not compatible with smartphone browsers, so it's important to test the features you want to use on the smartphones you want to support. For example, some of the Dojo input widgets such as the Dojo date/time picker and Dojo drop-down lists do not work well on smartphones. When developing mobile applications for Web Experience Factory, avoid the use of problematic builders; for example, the Rich Data Definition base library used for mobile applications should not use the Dojo date picker since it does not work well on smartphones. At this point there is not a comprehensive list of builders or features which are problematic on smartphone devices.
Technology Overview
The applications described here leverage several key pieces of Web Experience Factory technology which allow you to easily create applications for smartphone devices. At a high level these technologies used are Profiling, Page Automation, and Themes, which are the same technologies used when creating traditional web and portlet applications with Web Experience Factory. The good news is if you are already using Web Experience Factory there's nothing new to learn. The following provides an overview of how these technologies are used in smartphone device based mobile web applications.
Page Automation
Page Automation is used to generate the application UI based on the schema for the data that is being presented. There are several ways in which you can alter how the Page Automation UI is generated. This section describes how Themes, Data Field Settings and Data Layout are used to generate smartphone style UIs.
Mobile Themes
- Mobile Themes are used to specify HTML base pages and corresponding style sheets with a mobile look and feel, for high level builders such as DSUI and View and Form. Mobile specific Theme builder calls are profiled against the Mobile Device Type profile set, so that they are only applied if the requesting user agent matches a known mobile device type, as specified in the configuration file for the Mobile Device Type profile selection handler ( WebContent/WEB-INF/config/selection_handlers/mobiledevicetype.properties ).
Data Field Settings
- The Data Field Settings builder lets you control all the page automation fields in a model. It is used to control the field types, but may also be used to hide certain fields when displaying data on a restricted smartphone device. When the same model is used to support multiple channels profiling is used to switch between different Data Field Settings builders in the model based on the current device. You can read more about the profiling aspect in the Profiling section. The Data Field Settings builder also allows you to override the project wide default Rich Data Definition file for a specific model.
Rich Data Definition
- A Rich Data Definition(RDD) lets you associate rich user interface descriptions with fields that are defined in a schema. A RDD typically contains a set of base types (Date, String, Email,..) that can be associated with the fields in a model. the association can be done using the Data Field Settings builder described above. A mobile Rich Data Definition file can also used to disable the Dojo date picker, which causes issues when popping up on some smartphone devices.
Data Layout
- The Data Layout builder transforms the standard tabular look and feel generated by the default desktop based HTML templates, into a list based mobile layout. A number of list based layout templates and corresponding stylesheets are provided with the product, and more can be created by developers to extend and customize the look and feel for your environment and needs.
HTML Data Layout
- The HTML Data Layout builder allows you to modify the layout of items that are created by Page Automation, for example, pages, tables, groups, and fields. You typically use the Designer to first export the Page Automation generated UI to a HTML file, which then gets imported back into your model using the HTML Data Layout builder. You can use any HTML editor to alter the page to get the exact layout you desire.
A Theme is a collection of UI related information that can be used to drive builder inputs in your model which provide the application UI. This can include but is not limited to items such as HTML Templates, Style Sheets, Base Pages, Highlighting Style, and Paging Style. More information on profiling the theme for multi-channel support is described in the Profiling section. In some cases the theme builder is also used to override individual builders inputs, or even instances of of builder call inputs. This technique can be used to change the default list to an edge to edge style list.
Find these artifacts in your Web Experience Factory project, for more information:


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I had not tried version 2.12 since the first attempt. Worked like a charm after that. 2.10 CDC must just not like my system for some reason. I am now able to debug the MINI. Curiously though after a debug I would disconnect power and reapply thinking it should run like the Plus 2. Is there an additional step to get the chip to wake up and run when not debugging?Go to the full post


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Windows Activation and Change Product Keys do not work on Windows Server 2008
I recently had an issue with the Activate Windows now and Change product key links in the System UI on Windows Server 2008 did not work. After some searching, I found the following Microsoft KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;929826.
This article describes how to use slmgr -ipk from the cmd prompt to change the product ID. Once this is done, run slui from the cmd prompt to launch the user interface for Windows Activation.
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Moss Phlox
A short evergreen groundcover reaching 3-6 inches tall,
Moss Phlox will spread readily once established. A great plant
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Bloom Time: April-May
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Foaling is hard work.
Ask Terry Griffin about it and he will tell you that it is all about commitment, long days and even longer nights. Not to mention love.
Terry is paying tribute to his wife Mary Lou — the "horse person" in the family — and one half of this partnership whose primary responsibility are the horses.
Terry and Mary Lou Griffin own Griffin Place, a horse farm in Buckley, Wash., that is one of a handful left in Pierce County that still breed racehorses. My lovely bride and I were invited to visit their farm Sunday.
"Six months out of the year Mary Lou is monitoring the mares from here," Terry said, showing guests a cramped room at the front of the house on the 72-acre horse farm.
He said his wife keeps vigil on the progress of more than a dozen mares from inside that closet of a room — furnished with a single bed and a desk, pushed up against the front windows lined with monitors. Much like baby monitors, they are tuned to cameras inside several stalls at the farm's many stables.
This is where Mary Lou watches and waits. And waits. Often the drama in foaling doesn't happen until the wee hours of the morning. So, she waits.
When the time comes, Mary Lou quickly rushes to the stable to play midwife, if necessary. For the most part, she said, the mares do the heavy lifting — or pushing.
"We kinda back out," she said. "Some mares just jump up, others lay down for 10 minutes or so. A lot of times, the mares get cranky and we have to give them painkillers."
After a gestation period of 341 days, or 11 about months, she said it is understandable how the mares can be just a bit irritable.
This is important work for a farm that makes most of its income from the sale of yearlings to trainers at prices only the rich and famous can begin to afford. It is a tough, hard business made easier for the Griffins because of — like most things in horse racing — their farm's pedigree.
Griffin Place's most famous foal, according to Mary Lou, is Rings A Chime — a multiple Washington champion who won the 2000 Ashland Stakes and finished second in the Kentucky Oaks of the same year. She won or placed in 11 of 13 starts, earning $606, 315 for trainers Lloyd Mason and Lonnie Arterburn, according to bloodhorse.com. Adding legitimacy to her celebrity, Rings A Chime was inducted into the Washington Racing Hall of Fame last year.
Add Seattle Slew — winner of the Triple Crown in 1977 — to the Buckley farm's list of famous connections, and you begin to see the farm's pedigree.
Seattle Slew has sired more than 800 foals, but never one in Washington State. That void was filled in March 2000 when Ken Alhadeff brought Seattle Slew to the Pacific Northwest to breed with his 6-year-old mare Lady Of The Mile.
"It will be a feather in our cap," Griffin told the Seattle Times at the time. "It will be something we can all rally around . . . something we can all be proud and excited about."
Mary Lou now laughs at the distant memory.
"When the media converged on our little farm because Seattle Slew was here to breed one of our mares," she said with a chuckle dripping with irony, "there was no pressure."
You get the feeling that Mary Lou would rather do her work in relative obscurity, away from the leering lenses of news cameras. But ask her about any one of the many pictures of horses adorning the walls of her office, and the passion just flows.
"Oh, that's Tommy Teaser," she said when asked about a tight-cropped portrait of a stallion. "Do you know what a teaser is?"
She explains a teaser is a male horse whose primary job is to get the mares "in the mood."
"He does everything but do the deed," she adds.
The twinkle in her eyes as she talks about her horses is unmistakable. She loves them.
"I grew up with horses," she said. "Terry just got roped into it."
For more information about Griffin Place, go here: http://www.griffinplace.com/aboutUs.asp


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A 40% deposit is requested upon booking to secure your reservation.
In the event of a change or cancelation:
Any change or cancelation will incur a 50 € administration charge per booking which will be deducted from the deposit paid.
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Xtreme Gene Watersports Spain S.L
Club Equality Policy Statement
Xtreme Gene respects the rights, dignity and worth of every person and will treat everyone equally within the context of their sport, regardless of age, ability, gender, race, ethnicity, religious belief, sexuality or social/economic status.
Xtreme Gene is committed to ensuring that equity is incorporated across all aspects of its development. In doing so it acknowledges and adopts the following Sport England definition of sports equity:
Sports equity is about fairness in sport, equality of access, recognising inequalities
and taking steps to address them. It is about changing the culture and structure of
sport to ensure that it becomes equally accessible to all members of society,
whatever their age, ability, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality or socio-economic status.
Xtreme Gene is committed to everyone having the right to enjoy their sport in an environment free from threat of discrimination, intimidation, harassment and abuse.
All Club members have a responsibility to challenge discriminatory behaviour and promote equality of opportunity.
Xtreme Gene will deal with any incidence of discriminatory behaviour seriously, according to our disciplinary procedures.
Child & Vulnerable Adult Safeguarding Policy
The policy of Xtreme Gene is to:
- Accept the moral and legal responsibility to implement procedures to provide a duty of care for young people/vulnerable adults, safeguard their wellbeing and protect them from abuse
- Respect and promote the rights, wishes and feelings of young people/vulnerable adults
- Recruit, train and supervise their employees and volunteers so as to adopt best practice to safeguard and protect young people/vulnerable adults from abuse, and themselves against allegations
- Require staff and volunteers to adopt and abide by the BWSW 'Ski Safe' Safeguarding Policy which incorporate the British Water Ski & Wakeboard Code of Ethics and Behavior
- Respond to any complaints about poor practice or allegations of abuse
- For the purpose of this policy anyone under the age of 18 should be considered as a child, and any adult in a vulnerable position.
Staff, Contractors & Volunteers
All those with significant access to or responsibility for under 18's & Vulnerable Adults will be required to complete an enhanced level DBS. All DBS checks must be applied for through BWSW unless the individual has signed up to the Updating Service.
Good Practice
All members of Xtreme Gene should follow the good practice guidelines attached to this policy. Those working with young people & vulnerable adults need to be aware of the guidance on recognizing abuse.
Xtreme Gene will seek written consent (using the BWSW 'Use of Photographs and Recorded Images' template) from the young person/vulnerable adults along with their parents/carers before taking photographs or video at an event or training session or publishing such images.
Parents and spectators should be prepared to identify themselves if requested and state their purpose for photography/filming. If Xtreme Gene publishes images of young people, no identifying information will be included. Any concerns about inappropriate or intrusive photography or the inappropriate use of images should be reported to Deborah Kelly, Club Welfare Officer immediately.
Anyone who is concerned about a young member's welfare, either outside the sport or within the Club, should inform Deborah Kelly, Welfare Officer immediately in strict confidence. Elle FitzGerald, Welfare Officer will follow the BWSW 'Ski Safe' Safeguarding Policy reporting procedures.
Any person representing Xtreme Gene failing to comply with the Safeguarding Policy may be subjected to disciplinary action under Company Regulations.
Dealing with a Safeguarding Incident or Concern
If there is any issue/concern while dealing with a person under 18, or vulnerable person, you should;
- Report any concerns to Deborah Kelly, Welfare Officer.
- If medical attention is required immediately call an ambulance and inform them there is a child protection concern.
- Fill out BWSW Safe Guard Report form located in Accident & Incident Folder, you may be asked to seek advice from BWSW Lead Safeguarding Officer