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One of my favorite people to listen to on the topic of nutrition is Dr. Mark Hyman.
Ever since I heard him speak at a Metagenics conference a few years back I have used him as a great resource for realistic, balanced, and well-researched nutritional advice.
One of his latest concepts is called being Pegan, which he talks about in thisshort blog.
Some of the main concepts are:
— Food is medicine, perhaps the most powerful drug on the planet with the power to cause or cure most disease.
— The cost of chronic disease caused mostly by what we eat will cost our global economy $47 trillion over the next 20 years and cause over 50 million preventable deaths a year.
— Vegan diet studies show they help with weight loss, reverse diabetes and lower cholesterol. Paleo diets seem to do the same thing.
— Most of the "evidence" that fat in general and saturated fat in particular is bad for us is being rigorously challenged by better and more specific research.
— We thought dietary cholesterol was bad and were told to avoid egg yolks at all costs. Turns out they are good for you and have no impact on cholesterol.
— Comparing a vegan diet of chips and Coke, bagels and pasta to a paleo diet of healthy veggies and grass fed meat won't be very helpful, nor would comparing a paleo diet of feedlot meat, bologna and no fresh veggies to a whole foods, low glycemic vegan diet.
Here's what the Pegan approach looks like:
Focus on the glycemic load of your diet. This can be done on a vegetarian or paleo diet, but harder on a vegan diet. Focus on more protein and fats. Nuts (not peanuts), seeds (flax, chia, hemp, sesame, pumpkin), coconut, avocados, sardines, olive oil.
Eat the right fats. Stay away from most vegetable oils such as canola, sunflower, corn, and especially soybean oil which now comprises about 10 percent of our calories. Focus instead on omega 3 fats, nuts, coconut, avocados and yes, even saturated fat from grass fed or sustainably raised animals.
Eat mostly plants. Lots of low glycemic vegetables and fruits. This should be 75 percent of your diet and your plate. I usually make 2 to 3 vegetable dishes per meal.
Focus on nuts and seeds. They are full of protein, minerals, and good fats and they lower the risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Avoid dairy. It is for growing calves into cows, not for humans. Try goat or sheep products and only as a treat. And always organic.
Avoid gluten. Most is from Franken Wheat — so look for heirloom wheat (Einkorn); if you are not gluten sensitive, then consider it an occasional treat.
Eat gluten-free whole grains sparingly. They still raise blood sugar and can trigger autoimmunity.
Eat beans sparingly. Lentils are best. Stay away from big starchy beans.
Eat meat or animal products as a condiment, not a main course. Read The Third Plate by Dan Barber to understand how shifts in our eating habits could save the environment and ourselves. Vegetables should take center stage and meat should be a side dish.
Think of sugar as an occasional treat. In all its various forms (i.e., use occasionally and sparingly).
At Jackson Strength, we have absolutely fell in love with this concept. Personally, I feel the biggest difference in my ability to keep body fat levels low and energy high.
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Jerablus Tahtani Project,
Director: Prof. Edgar Peltenburg,
University of Edinburgh
The Jerablus Tahtani Project, North Syria, is an interdisciplinary research programme designed to investigate four key themes:
Fieldwork from 1991 to 2000 focused on the excavation of a relatively small tell, Jerablus Tahtani, beside the ancient capital of Carchemish on the banks of the Euphrates River. The excavations were conducted as the British contribution to the Syrian governments International Tishreen Dam Rescue Programme. Expeditions from several countries were involved in this attempt to retrieve information from sites likely to be flooded in 1999-2000 by the creation of a 60km long reservoir.
Excavations have now terminated and work is in hand to publish end reports in two volumes sponsored by the Council for British Research in the Levant. The first will deal with funerary practices and will include details of one of the largest Early Bronze Age tombs from Syria. The second concerns an account of the fort erected about the middle of the 3rd millennium BC and other domestic remains from a five period sequence:
Preliminary reports and specialised studies are listed in Publications etc. With the assistance of the European Commission, an exhibition of discoveries is being prepared for the Aleppo National Museum.
As of December 2000, the tell of Jerablus Tahtani has not been affected by the dam waters. It stands near the northern limit of the reservoir and there are hopes that the site may be preserved for the future.
Created by: Adam Jackson, 4/12/2000
University of Edinburgh

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Gaff Parties
I count it a privilege to have been able to attend college only 10 minutes away from home. To some college bound students, getting far away is the goal, but not for me.
I loved being close to home. For those of you who don't know, I grew up in the middle of the country. Our closest neighbors were about a half mile away, and those neighbors were my grandparents. I grew up next door to my grandparents farm, and as a kid I would run out and visit grandpa on the tractor. I grew up living in a gorgeous suburban home in the middle of 3 corn fields and a forest. It was like a little slice of the suburbs hidden in the middle of farm country.
What this meant in college was that I had the perfect retreat for college kids looking to get away from campus. My parents lived on 10 acres in the middle of nowhere, and when it came to getting away from campus life, this place was it.
How It Started
During college, my goal was to gather a few friends, go bowling and then head out to the Gafford retreat for the rest of the evening. We'd watch movies, sit around a bonfire and mom would always make some kind of yummy treat to pass around.
In case you haven't met my mom, she has an incredible gift for hospitality. If there are people coming over, she's going to make something to help them feel welcome. That same gift is still in action today, and it's a wonderful thing to behold. I've inherited that gift from mom, but that's another post.
I would bring 8-10 friends home to my parents house, and mom would start searching through the fridge and freezer. We never knew what she'd whip up, but over the years she had become a master of appetizers and finger foods. We'd be an hour into watching Harrison Ford in the Fugitive, and suddenly a tray of pigs in a blanket and some queso dip and chips would magically appear.
Scaling Up
What started as 8-10 friends quickly became 15-20 friends. A few months later we were carpooling about 35 people to the local bowling alley and had to call to reserve about 10 lanes each time. We had to start telling mom and dad before we would come since we were trying to cram 30+ college students into their family room. It was not something that happened without preparation.
After that first few months of getting people together, we started planning them less often. While they weren't as frequent, they were certainly increasing in size. By the end of the first year, we were averaging about 100 college kids per party.
We quickly gained the nickname "Gaff Parties" and they began to gain campuswide recognition.
I came off of our summer tour that year and the first thing people wanted to know was when the next Gaff party was. I hadn't even made it back to campus yet, and people I ran into were asking what we had planned.
Year 2
We had outgrown the family room at my parents house, so we needed to improvise. What used to be a movie inside on the TV morphed into calling every non-profit we knew to see if we could borrow a video projector. We ran to Wal-Mart and bought a big white bedsheet, and it became a screen. Movies moved outside to the back yard.
The fireplace was warm and cozy, but now it was becoming a fire hazard. With nowhere to sit in the family room due to overcrowding, a fire only took out 5 valuable seats on the hearth. We decided to move the fire outside as well in a different area of the yard. We called some local farmers and asked if we could buy hay bales for people to sit on.
By the end of that second year, we had amassed about 200 college kids per party. My favorite game during those parties used to be walking up to kids I didn't know and asking who invited them. I would also ask them if they had yet ran into the kid who lived here, and the answer was almost always no. I just told them that if they met him to introduce me later. Quite a few of them got a good laugh out of that later in the evening.
When it came to inviting people, there were generally only 3 or 4 people that I ever needed to personally invite, and this is where it gets fun for me.
Here's the deal. I only ever invited about 10-20 kids to any party that I threw in college. I would always just tell the kids I invited to bring their friends, and people would show up in droves.
There were two guys that I credit with all the marketing that built Gaff Parties from the ground up. These guys were two of the most popular guys on campus, and for good reason. Brian Bradford and Nathan Kingsbury were two of the kings of campus, and they had and still have the ability to move groups of people. I would just casually tell these two guys that a party was on, and next thing you know half the campus would show up.
One of the memories that I have from this year was all of the shoes that littered the garage floor when people came into the house. There were shoes everywhere, and it was hard to get in the door without breaking an ankle. During one of our get togethers, a few pranksters decided it would be fun to take everyones shoes and tie them together into a long rope and hang them everywhere in the garage. It took people a good 20 minutes to find both of their shoes that evening, untie them and navigate their way out the door.
I also remember this year that we tried to get people together on a night when it was raining like crazy. While I thought it would be a fun idea to get everyone together and watch a movie indoors, we had outgrown that idea and I was about to prove it. What I didn't account for was how soggy the yard was and how heavy cars were when they needed to park on grass. We had a blast getting people together, but when it came time to leave, it was a mud bowl. I am positive that this particular party went down as my dad's least favorite. We had massive ruts in the yard, and even a car or two that didn't make it home that night. We had a couple of guys that weren't afraid of mud and just dove in to push people out, but it wasn't enough. We had to call in trucks with tow ropes. I'm pretty sure the aftermath to the yard from that party took months to repair, but I'll never forget seeing friends and people I didn't even know having a great time rolling in the mud in my front yard.
Year 3
During the third year of the Gaff party, we hit a number that I never thought I would see gathered at my parents home. To start off my first senior year, (That's right, I took a victory lap.) I credit Brian and Nathan for inviting most of the campus to our first party of the year. We had 350 kids join us that night, and I can honestly say that we completely cleaned out the fridge and freezer to try and keep kids fed.
That night we had kids in every possible nook and cranny of my parents house. I wouldn't be surprised to hear that some people got stuck in a closet and nobody could hear their cries for help. It was a madhouse. The movie screen had doubled in size, the fire was about 4 times bigger than ever, marshmallows and smores were a huge hit and food was everywhere. This was the year that my mom had thrown the white flag and started calling in reinforcements.
My grandmother Marilyn was the hospitality matriarch of our family. When it came time to call in the big guns, we called Grandma. As the parties scaled in size, Grandma would just need about 3 days notice to make magic happen. Grandma would bake brownies, sheet cakes, cookies, pies, and just about everything else you could imagine coming out of grandma's oven. She would come over a few hours before the party was set to start, and she'd back her van up to the garage. It would take about 8-10 trips to get everything into the house that Grandma had made. When I think back, I am pretty sure that Grandma had an industrial kitchen hidden somewhere in her home that she didn't tell us about. That gal knew how to cook like it was her full time job. Her contribution to the Gaff Party legacy has been relatively unknown, and she wouldn't have it any other way. Now that Grandma has gone to a better place, I can tell this story without worrying about her shaking her index finger at me and giving me a talking to.
There were a few kids who knew about what Grandma and Mom were doing to help put these events together, and one night they decided to give back. Two girls named Melissa (who I would one day marry) and Kristen grabbed baseball hats and went around collecting money to help cover the costs that grandma and mom put out each time. They worked their way through the crowd without letting mom see, and at the end of the evening presented my parents with a couple of hats full of cash and clapped for them like crazy. It was a really fun moment for me. I got to see a bunch of college kids express their appreciation for a couple of people who always worked in the shadows but were vital to every event we had.
That year, we knew we had created a monster when about a month into the school year I received a call from the admissions department. A guy named Tom asked me if they could make future parties an official admissions event. He said that kids were telling them that it was a reason that they decided to choose IWU. Apparently the invites were going out from students to high school kids that were having college visit days, and they were also in the mix. That's when we had a pretty good idea that things were completely out of control. What began as a trip to the bowling alley with friends had ended up a recruitment event for the university.
I think we ended up having 1 or 2 events after getting the call from admissions, but that was the party that I'll never forget. What made it really stand out is the topic of my next post, but don't worry. We'll get there in a day or two.
What I Learned: Doing something that makes a difference for a large group of people doesn't happen without the efforts of a dedicated few. There was a group of about 6 college students that helped me pull these off over the years, and without them it never would have worked. I learned that doing something amazing may come from a simple idea, but it won't ever grow to its potential without gathering the right team. Even if you have the best idea ever, don't go it alone. Find a group of like minded people and have them bring their talents to the table. If you're going to set out to do something amazing, I recommend not doing it alone.
What You Can Do: Share a comment below of your favorite story, memory, food, person, or anything else you can remember about Gaff Parties. I know there are literally hundreds of you out there who will read this over time, so share your memories with everyone and see who else remembers with you. I'm sure there are many stories even I don't remember from way back, so tell us your story.


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Human Rights First Calls on Congress to Fortify Efforts to Prevent Torture
the Courts holds a hearing to examine "what went wrong" in the Bush
Administration's Office of Legal Counsel as it authorized the CIA's
unprecedented use of torture, Human Rights First called on Congress to
fortify legal standards designed to prevent and punish torture in order
to better protect America's security and the safety of our troops, and
to restore the nation's reputation as a leader in human rights.
In a statement submitted for the record at the request of presiding
Subcommittee chairman Sheldon Whitehouse, Human Rights First's chief
executive Elisa Massimino noted that a recent study had found that the
use of torture and other cruelty obstructs efforts to combat terrorism
and that bolstering standards of humane treatment enhances national
security. She stated, "These revelations reinforce the conclusion that
the CIA's program was illegal under domestic and international law and
that Congress and the Obama administration must take additional steps
to ensure that such forms of official cruelty are never again
authorized or employed by the U.S. government."
Massimino's testimony detailed a series of steps Congress and the
Obama Administration should take to promote an accurate legal
interpretation of the humane treatment standards the Bush
administration legal opinions attempted to distort, obscure and evade.
Among the recommendations were the following:
- Uphold a single standard of humane treatment across the government
for all interrogations, and ensure transparency in the interpretation
and enforcement of that standard;
- Publicly release key documents that summarize or attempt to justify cruel treatment;
- Ensure proper reform and increased oversight of the Office of Legal Counsel;
- Provide proper accounting of and accountability for abuses against prisoners.
"Lack of accountability for torture and cruel treatment creates a
culture of impunity, setting the stage for future abuses," Massimino
noted. "A full understanding of how policies of torture and abuse came
to be authorized at the highest levels of government is vital to
forging responsible forward-looking policies. To this end, a
nonpartisan inquiry should be established to examine the facts and
circumstances related to U.S. government detention and interrogation
operations since September 11, 2001; to assess the strategic impact of
these operations; to identify lessons learned; to make recommendations
to avoid future abuses; and to make its findings public."
In June 2007, Human Rights First issued a joint report with Physicians for Human Rights entitled Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality.
The report was the first comprehensive evaluation of the nature and
extent of harm likely to result from "enhanced" interrogation
techniques that were authorized for use in the CIA program, as well as
the legal risks faced by interrogators who used them. Since then, Human
Rights First has continued to call for a full accounting of this failed
program and has urged lawmakers to take steps to prevent repetition of
past mistakes.
"For the safety of U.S. personnel, the United States must make clear
to the rest of the world that it has abandoned abusive practices and
the flawed legal reasoning of the past," Massimino concluded.
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May 3, 2018 -- Cinematic rendering has been drawing attention for its amazingly lifelike images of complex anatomy. But what will it take to move past the "wow" factor and integrate cinematic rendering into routine clinical use? Experts on the topic shared their insight in a British Institute of Radiology (BIR) podcast.
Following the publication of their pictorial review in the British Journal of Radiology, radiologists Dr. Steven Rowe, PhD, and Dr. Elliot Fishman from Johns Hopkins University discussed the current state of affairs regarding cinematic rendering, its potential contributions in the clinical setting, and the measures required for it to be incorporated into routine practice.
Rowe is convinced that cinematic rendering will become one of the 3D techniques that are used almost universally in various applications of radiology practice. Fishman also thinks the technology has great potential.
"Depending on where you sit, you can come up with an infinite number of applications for cinematic rendering," Fishman said. "We're doing a lot of work now, but I have to admit we're basically scratching the surface of where things can go over the near term."
Added depth, intuition
Cinematic rendering is a form of 3D visualization of MRI or CT scans that, unlike volume rendering, involves a different reconstruction algorithm that simulates the propagation of light from a far greater number of directions, according to the researchers. Using this lighting model results in very realistic shadowing effects that show the relative anatomical positions of structures and gives a depth and intuition to how structures are related.
"The ability to create more lifelike images -- that's really the big advantage [of cinematic rendering]," Fishman said. "That bearing-lighting model is particularly critical the more complicated the structures are and the smaller the structures are, and it provides a much closer view to reality.... The more vascular-complicated the anatomy is, the better the technique works."
In recent years, Fishman and colleagues have used commercially available image-processing software (syngo.via VB20, Siemens Healthineers) to create cinematic-rendered images out of CT scans of various regions of the body, especially areas with considerable amounts of vasculature (BIR Publications, 9 February 2018).
"If a blood vessel is coursing out toward you [in a cinematic-rendered image], whether it's overlapping other blood vessels, you really do get a sense of that three dimensionally, almost as if you're holding a 3D-printed model in your hands," Rowe said. "I think this is a unique thing to cinematic rendering that really does help us in areas like chest cardiovasculature."
Beyond the cardiovascular system, the physicians have examined cinematic-rendered images of the musculoskeletal, renal (staging), small bowel, and oncologic (primary and metastatic tumors) systems. They have also evaluated craniofacial regions with deformities or trauma to the skull.
"If you named the body part, you could imagine where cinematic rendering is going to help you in terms of better diagnosis, better management, and in the end, most importantly, better patient outcomes," Fishman said.
Benefits clinician, patient
But how will the technology advance patient care? And who will benefit most from this technique?
In response to these questions, the radiologists on the podcast discussed the following various clinical applications of cinematic rendering:
"Surgeons are going to want to see these [cinematic-rendered] images, almost demand to see these images, before embarking on complex procedures," Rowe said. "Surgeons are going to prefer these because of the depth of these images and the intuitive nature of how the images display the anatomy."
Whereas CT consists of thousands of slices, many of which clinicians need to file through, cinematic rendering is capable of representing these slices in just a few images. The Johns Hopkins group plans to continue investigating the potential benefits of using cinematic rendering and has yet to come across any cases for which the method produces images that are "not good."
Need to simplify, quantify
Currently, the technology needed to create cinematic-rendered images is only available at a few centers, due in large part to its high computing demands. Fishman and Rowe have already witnessed computers increase their processing speed such that images that formerly had to be downsized before being moved can now maintain their resolution. They foresee even faster speeds in the next couple of years -- improving image quality and allowing viewing to be more interactive.
"The technology is almost advancing so fast that we're having trouble keeping up with figuring out what we can do with it," Rowe said. "The technique itself is so new that we probably haven't even come across or envisioned a lot of what will be the highest impact application of this method."
These advances, in turn, may make cinematic rendering easier to manage -- more "intuitive" -- for clinicians not necessarily accustomed to using it.
"Even something that's very good, if it's complicated, people will not use it. So it needs to be available, it needs to be intuitive, and it needs to be transparent to be able to use," Fishman said.
Furthermore, the investigators are exploring ways to quantify just how helpful integrating the technology into clinical practice is, how often it is helpful, and when it should be used. They suggested that quantifying the benefits of cinematic rendering would help move it toward reimbursement.
"If there's no reimbursement, the reality tends to be that physicians tend not to order the studies and the radiologists tend not to do the studies," Fishman said. "One of the things that will make this process real is to have some good data and really good science behind it."
For now, the team remains hopeful and excited about the future of cinematic rendering in medicine.
"What we've seen already is remarkable and what we've been able to do is remarkable," Rowe said. "We have only just begun to realize the potential."
To listen to the BIR podcast, click here.


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The Art of Applying and Auditioning / Creating Career Paths in Circus & Related Performing Arts with Marci Diamond
August 24th, 10am-noon
Event Location:
Fri 8/24, 10- noon at Payomet Tent
$30 per person
There are a wide range of career paths for the aspiring professional circus/performing artist, and in this workshop, we will explore some possible steps toward those dreams, as well as practical, effective approaches to applications and auditions. Applying and Auditioning for professional training programs (from short-term intensive workshops to 3 year professional training programs and university B.F.A. degrees) in circus and related performing arts, as well as for professional performance opportunities, can be a successful adventure of personal & professional growth, learning, and network-building. And it can be done with less stress than you may think! Come discuss tips for maximizing your opportunities while taking care of yourself/your student/child. Practice your "asks and intros" with the director of the small youth circus troupe, a professional circus performer and union actor herself, who has mentored her own daughter along with many other students - and their parents - through their early applications & auditions for circus & related professional performance & training programs, with many success stories (Ecole Cirque du Quebec, Circus Smirkus Tour, Pippin National Tour, founding/performing with CirqueUs, etc). Open to Youth through age 22 with interest in professional performing training programs and/or performing professionally AND/OR parent(s)/guardian(s).
About the instructor...
Marci Diamond, the co-founder (along with her daughter Marisa) of Diamond Family Circus www.diamondcircus.com, was a competitive gymnast and studied theater, dance, education and injury prevention, while pursuing a BA from Brandeis and MPA from Suffolk University. Her training includes circus skills, performance, and teacher training at the New England Center for Circus Arts, the San Francisco Circus Center, and Circus Arts Institute (Circus Arts Therapy Training), with alumni of Cirque du Soleil, Eloize, Ringling, and Big Apple, as well as additional training in physical theater and acting for film. A proud member of both the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity, Marci has performed in national commercials, films, theaters, tented circuses, fairs, galas, clubs, and was half of the duo trapeze act voted finalist in the USA Today/NCL Epic Star contest. She has taught flexibility/contortion, acrobatics, aerials and performance snd audition skills for all ages and abilities, and has provided training and consultation with many performing arts, youth, and violence prevention organizations, from Alaska to New Zealand, including: the American Youth Circus Organization/American Circus Educators (currently serving on their Social Circus and Health & Wellness Committees) , National Sexual Violence Resource Center, Circus Smirkus (VT), Dance Innovations (NH), Mariana's Dance Studio (MA), Payomet Center for the Arts, The Dust Palace (NZ), Gravity Alternative Movement (MA), Aircraft Aerial Arts (MA), MassHousing, MA Rural Sexual & Domestic Violence Project, and both the School of Public Health and Dance Program at Boston University, among others. Her students have been admitted to prestigious professional training programs (circus schools and BFA programs), and been cast in national tours of theater & circus companies. She loves sharing community, creativity, and connection generated through performing, teaching, and coaching.


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This past Saturday, May 12, the Missfits Moxie reached the NorCal Cup Finals after defeating Central Marin Magic Blue 2-0 in Davis. The finals will be held on June 2nd at Cosumnes River College at 10:10 am and they will be facing Tottenham Hotspur East Bay. Go Moxie!!
Also Saturday, the Missfits Mavericks reached the NorCal Semi's where they fell, 2-1, to South San Jose Alphas. It was a hard fought game seeing Mavericks give up the decider 30 seconds into stoppage time of the 2nd OT period - while missing 3 starters! Great job girls!


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Billiar, Kristen
Faculty Advisor
Carrera, Fabio
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Venice, Italy
The public art of Venice is a defining characteristic of the city and is threatened by many factors. To establish public art's significance to Venetian heritage, we systematically searched previously undocumented Venetian lagoon islands for public art and recorded our findings in an electronic database, laid the groundwork for a nonprofit organization to manage the condition and restoration of all 4376 objects in the collection, and adapted our research into a book chapter for the Venice Project Center's 20th anniversary.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Accepted
December 2007
Project Type
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The Teton Conservation District will be holding a special Board Meeting on Monday, May 14, 2018 at 1pm to discuss the draft Fiscal Year 2019 Budget. The meeting will be held at the TCD office at 420 W. Pearl Ave. The public is welcome to join us. Please RSVP to Caroline at 733-2110 if you are interested in attending the meeting or for more information
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Olympic silver medalist Luke Patience and new crew Joe Glanfield failed in their unlikely medal bid at sailing's 470 World Championships in La Rochelle.
The duo were facing a tough task in the medal race and despite finishing second, settled for fifth place overall - the same position occupied by team-mates Sophie Weguelin and Eilidh McIntyre in the women's fleet.
"We finished on a high – our medal race was great," said Patience, who won his silver at London 2012 with Stuart Bithell.
"We were on fire and the boat was flying, everything felt gorgeous and we raced well. That's something to take away and we can use those sorts of skills in the next regatta.
"Right now it's a bit of an anti-climax but as ever with these things, give it a few days and it will be a bit more philosophical for us.
"We've had a great season and we have sailed really well this week, it was just a couple of errors yesterday that made the difference. It is frustrating but that is sport."
Glanfield, himself a double Olympic silver medallist in 2004 and 2008, insists the partnership could not have enjoyed a better first season.
"Every event we've done we've gone into the medal race in contention for a medal, and at the majority events we've come away from a medal and that's in a multitude of conditions," he said.
"That's more than I think either of us expected this year – certainly more than I expected to have that consistency at every event."
Weguelin, 24, and 19-year-old McIntyre placed fourth in the medal race to consolidate their overall fifth place, but with four podium finishes this season they also have no complaints.
"We've had a tough week of racing and we're very happy to finish fifth given that we've only been sailing together for eight months now. It's been really positive," said Weguelin.
However, British team officials are happy with their recent results.
From five of the ten Olympic classes World Championships held this season, British sailors have picked up three medals, with Nick Dempsey taking the windsurfing world title, his female counterpart Bryony Shaw taking silver and Nacra 17 multihull pairing Ben Saxton and Hannah Diamond winning world silver last month in Holland.
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Category Archives: – Irish Whiskey
Knappogue Castle NAS, Early fifties, 92 proof
This is a bit of a weird one, and it was a rather expensive one. A few years ago Stefan van der Boog, known from Passie voor Whisky bought a bottle of very old Knappogue Castle from a collection. Based on … Continue reading
Irish Single Malt Whiskey, 1990-2017, 27yo, 51.3% – The Whisky Agency for The Whisky Exchange
I guess that's the longest title I've ever used on my blog… Anyway, with the current popularity of Irish whiskeys from the late eighties to mid-nineties, it's no surprise to see these popping up here and there. I also realize … Continue reading
Just short of greatness
You know that feeling when you are tasting a very, very good whisky, but somehow it just doesn't cross the magical 90-point threshold? You realize that you're tasting whisky that's way above average, but you can't shake the feeling you … Continue reading
Uisge Beatha Taigh, 13 year old Irish Whiskey, 2001-2014, 60% – Jurgen's Whiskyhuis
Uisge Beatha Taigh is a brand created by Jurgen van de Wiele of Jurgen's Whiskyhuis in Belgium. I've met the guy a couple of times, both as a guest on the Whiskyfair in Germany, or manning a stall at various … Continue reading
Jameson 12yo, 43%
If you're very familiar with Jameson in it's current form you'll have noticed this is at 43% instead of the regular 40% at which they are bottled nowadays. I didn't notice it since I don't have a clue about these … Continue reading
John Power & Son Irish Pot Still Whiskey, 40%
Edit: As it turns out, I had my match between sample-label and bottle shot wrong. Also, it's not blended but a pot still whiskey. The post is updated. By blogging a bit more for the last few weeks I've been … Continue reading
Connemara 1992-2006, K92/33 4109, 46%
A few years ago when I was having dinner at Scottish Restaurant Hielander we got an Irish single cask Connemara whiskey with our main course. If I remember correctly it was a grilled duckbreast, but I don't know anything about … Continue reading


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Politics & Government
A judge said he is ready to send Andrew and Cheri Young to jail for up to 75 days for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge Abraham Penn Jones said the couple had failed to be truthful about the number of copies made of a sex tape of former Sen. John Edwards and his mistress and how many people have seen it.
This is the fourth hearing Jones has held on the tape, and with each one the Youngs produced more material and more affadavits.
Andrew Young previously said that he showed the sex tape to a producer for ABC and two book agents. After that, attorneys for Rielle Hunter, Edwards' mistress who Young says also appeared in the video, produced an affadavit from a ghost writer who previously worked for Edwards, Robert Draper of New York.
Draper swore in the document that on March 31, 2009, he and Young met at the Youngs' house. After Cheri Young had gone to bed, Andrew Young offered to show Draper the sex tape and played it on a big screen television in his office from his laptop, which suggested there was a digital copy stored on the laptop.
Young has turned over the original tape and a VHS copy. Federal agents have a DVD copy, but Young has sworn that other copies do not exist. He also did not disclose that he had shown it to Draper.
When the affadavit was brought up in court, Jones asked one of Hunter's lawyers, Alan Duncan: "Are you saying he lied to me."
"Yes, your honor."
"That's a painful thing," Jones said.
"There were things told to the court," Jones said from the bench, "under oath, in affadavits, in testimony that turned out to be inaccurate. Right now part of me says they didn't tell me the truth before in this court."
In past hearings, Jones told the Youngs that if he found they were not adhering to his orders, he would send them to jail for up to 75 days.
Young's lawyers tried to downplay the discrepancy as a memory lapse, one of many Young has suffered throughout the course of the hearings.


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Can you say NULL and VOID?
Was watching the whole game, including Finland's OT game winner and then the goal reversal, and the DVR recording abruptly ended. I completely agree with ARM that it would have been better for the sport had they just declared Finland the winner, especially since that's what they apparently SHOULD have done per the rules as posted by Eeyore above. Not sorry I missed the skills contest which sadly was used to declare the "official winner" to go down in the history books.
All that aside, it was a terrific women's hockey game played in front of a great crowd.
Minnesota Golden Gopher Hockey
Can you say NULL and VOID?
I have to hand it to the US team, they really controlled their celebration and showed a lot of respect for the Finnish team their fans.
Where is all this love for Finland coming from? It was clear goalie interference. She ran her down and allowed the net to be empty for the goal. All this "she was out of the crease" talk is wrong. Her trail leg was still in the crease when contact was made.
Now I am not a rules expert so I cannot speak as to if goalie interference is reviewable. It maybe it may not be. Though if it is not in the books it should be.
So please stop all the Finland got screwed crying they did not score a legit goal to win the game.
The Titanic only had one Captain..........
"You're holding your mouth wrong." Jim Cole
"Don't take any wooden nickels." Ray Rouse
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Today was Finland's 1972 moment.
So without getting into any opinions about whether I think it was right, wrong, should have happened faster, or otherwise, I'll take a stab at what might have happened:
Rush happens, shot on goal, Rigsby goes to cover
Ref: Goalie was out of crease, dove into legs of Finn, that's a penal....oh crap puck in the net, GOAL!
Corkum: We'd like to review the goal based on goaltender interference
Ref/Review: In actuality, Rigsby was still in contact with the crease, so it was goaltender interference and the goal is disallowed. However, I was initially calling a penalty on Rigsby and that part of the play is not reviewable. Even though it was technically an incorrect call based on the video review, I still have to honor that I was going to call it if the puck had not gone in the net, thus, 2 min penalty on Rigsby
No idea, but seems like it could be a plausible explanation for how we arrived where we did.
It's possible that the video-goal judge called down himself.i. The video-goal judge may consult with the referee only at the request
of the referee or by request of the video-goal judge himself. He is
consulted primarily to determine the legitimacy of a goal.
Yeah, I'm far from an IIHF rules expert, but you're right the video judge may have called down, or perhaps when Corkum requested the review, the officials discussed quickly and decided it would be best to go to video because they didn't have a definitive, uniform view of the play.
I just can't think of another way to have gotten to that outcome and for it to have taken as long as it did. This example carries a lot of moving parts and given the gravity of the situation I can see where it would have taken a long time.
Again, making no statements for or against what transpired, just trying to understand what could have happened.
I will say whether or not this is how it played out, I feel like there should have been a very public explanation from the IIHF of how the process played out and a decision was reached.
Yeah because they know they lost the game......ridiculous............Fins got hosed
At a minimum, the rules need to define what "in the crease" means. If it means that the crease extends six feet in every direction so long as you keep a toe inside the blue paint even though your momentum is going to carry you entirely outside it in less than a quarter second, that's just brutal. That's especially true in a case like this, where the collision didn't really affect the outcome of the play. Rigsby had lost contact with the puck before she ran into Hiirikoski, and there's no way she was going to be able to change direction to prevent the goal. Hiirikoski was trying to get to the rebound along the only path Bellamy left her. The correct answer can't be that she has no right to go for the puck.
Ok all you who claim she ran into the attacker are mistaken. The attacker ran her over, it was the other way around.
And it did effect the outcome of the play because the contact did not allow Rigsby the opportunity, even if you don't think she cold have, to react to the shot that went in the goal.
Goaltender interference plain and simple.
Oh and I agree the IIHF owe all of us a break down of the mechanics of the call.
The Titanic only had one Captain..........
"You're holding your mouth wrong." Jim Cole
"Don't take any wooden nickels." Ray Rouse
9 Time World Champion Boston Red Sox ('03,'12,'15,'16,'18,2004, '07, '13, '18)
Fromm Noora Raty Twitter
Replying to @JackieE28153482 @IIHFHockey and 3 others
iii. An attacking skater who makes incidental contact with a goaltender out of his goal crease while both try to gain possession of the puck will not be penalized. If a goal is scored at this time, goal will count #WomensWorlds
Noora agrees with me, Fins got hosed, plain and simple.
Congrats Noora on a great game and tournament
But what a shame
The IIHF has released following statement explaining the reasoning behind the disallowed goal in overtime during the #WomensWorlds gold medal game following a video review: https://t.co/YDsHnhYkyA— IIHF (@IIHFHockey) April 15, 2019
That statement reminds me of NCAA statement issued a day later explaining why Gopher softball was not seeded for the 2017 NCAA tournament.
It is such a big bummer to work so hard to make such a clever call to take away as huge of a victory as this.
Fins got hosed.
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she made no effort to avoid contact, in the crease or not.provided the attacking skater makes a reasonable effort to minimize or avoid such contact. If a goal is scored at this time, it will not count. An attacking skater who makes contact other than incidental with a goaltender who is out of his goal crease during game action will be assessed a minor penalty for interference.
The Titanic only had one Captain..........
"You're holding your mouth wrong." Jim Cole
"Don't take any wooden nickels." Ray Rouse
9 Time World Champion Boston Red Sox ('03,'12,'15,'16,'18,2004, '07, '13, '18)
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Donating a wheelchair makes a difference
When Theresa George arrived in Thailand from Charlotte, she ran into something she recognized.
Among the hundreds of refurbished wheelchairs she and her mission team distributed throughout two and a half weeks, she recognized a sticker on one. It read: "This wheelchair is given in love from Jordan."
Jordan is a young man with cerebral palsy. George met him in 2010 at Joni and Friends Family Camp, a weekly summer gathering in Flat Rock for special-needs children and their families. George volunteers there.
Jordan's family donated the wheelchair in his honor to Wheels for the World, a Joni and Friends ministry that gives wheelchairs to people worldwide.
George emailed Jordan's family a picture of the wheelchair's new owner, an elderly Thai woman, as she sat grinning in her new chair.
"It was incredible for me and for (Jordan)," George said. "That was a great reminder of how important it is for people to donate their wheelchairs."
George, a recent Cabarrus College grad, returned earlier this month from Thailand, which gave away 300 wheelchairs to children and adults in three cities. Joni and Friends collects used wheelchairs from all over the U.S., sends them to a prison in California to be refurbished and then ships them overseas.
George learned about the trip to Thailand on the Joni and Friends website and joined a group based primarily in northern California. She said her understanding of people with special needs began nine years ago, when she became a caregiver for a young woman in Charlotte with special needs.
"Before working with her, I was like a lot of people and almost scared of people with disabilities, because I didn't know what to say and do," George said. "She opened up my eyes to people with disabilities."
Before long, George began volunteering with Joni and Friends, a ministry founded by Joni Eareckson Tada, who became a quadriplegic after a diving accident in 1967. Tada later wrote the bestselling autobiography "Joni," which was made into a movie. Joni is now an international advocate for people with disabilities.
George, 30, works as an occupational therapist with Carolinas Medical Center.
In Thailand, George worked with a team of therapists and technicians, adjusting wheelchairs for owners and talking with families through an interpreter.
Most people, she learned, were housebound without a wheelchair.
A few were mobile, such as one woman paralyzed from the waist down whose knuckles were hardened from scooting across the ground on them.
One 70-year-old man carried his wife up and down the stairs every day.
"I just saw incredible love these families had for each other," George said. She also saw tears in mothers' eyes as their children were fitted for wheelchairs.
George told each family that God loved them. George said she will continue volunteering with Joni and Friends.
"I've already gained more than I've given," she said. "It gives you a greater appreciation for the abilities of people who have supposed disabilities. There's so much they have to teach."


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We have a limited number of design drawings from Dorrie with the following illustrations show the design of rings, brooches, pins, brooch, earring and other pieces. Other drawings can be found in the page looking at the book prize and how Dorrie used this to support her design work and the drawing for the rather unique earpiece.
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Went for lunch. Japanese, Korean, Chinese dishes leaning more towards Japanese. Very we'll done. Excellent in fact. I had 3 item Bento, spicy pork, tuna tataki salad and shrimp tempura roll. Quite a large selection. We will be back for dinner. I selfishly hope not too many people discover this.
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Technology is constantly evolving at an amazing pace. Things that people may have only imagined in science fiction novels are slowly becoming a regular part of our societies. Advancements in medicine, infrastructure, and even networking has enable individuals to enjoy life in a variety of new ways. One of the most incredible places where technological advancements lend their influence is the field of entertainment.
Video games are becoming one of the most enjoyable aspects of entertainment, ranging from mobile games to dedicated consoles. There is something for everybody in this field, and there are constant advancements being made every month, in just about all genres, including easy to play slots games. Future developments in online gaming news promise to be bright ones. Here are just some of the things that you can expect to look forward to.
New titles of various games are on the way to market and also they are getting huge market on consoles than pc because of some reasons.
Developments in Immersive Gaming
With virtual reality slowly making a comeback, many gamers are looking forward to some of the innovative immersion that promises to follow the trend. Virtual reality systems focus on providing individuals with a more realistic gaming experience by putting them directly into the action.
Through the use of such equipment, individuals can expect to observe things in first person, see through their avatar's eyes in a large environment. This type of gaming can apply to a wide variety of exciting and interactive genres, each of which promise to incorporate numerous different gameplay elements to create a unique gaming experience. For multiplayer games online Platinum Play mobile casino offers a variety of exciting social functions as well, designed to make gameplay elements even more enjoyable. These advancements will always be coupled with new processors and graphics options, with the future promising even more immersive and realistic gameplay elements.
I think you should try the new Google Cardboard VR as it will give you some idea about Virtual Reality concept and how it works. There are many apps, games already available to use with it.
Secondary Screen Functions
With rising trends in hand held games, it comes as no surprise that so many different consoles are now applying their appeal to their own brands. The booming market for these devices has sparked tremendous interest in seeing how they can be utilized in a variety of other fields. This promises to result things such as stronger micromanagement features, and the option to play several games within larger ones. Such a development can offer interested gamers an entirely new way to play their favorite video games with other people, with a variety of other factors introduced into these games.
Open Source Development
This can be another tremendous development that will shape the future of all planned video games. Open source developments allow gamers to look directly into the code of the video game, providing them the opportunity to change certain parts and functions as they see fit. This will result in a wide variety of homemade video game alterations, which can have many different effects in the game itself, ranging from simple cosmetic changes to entirely new premises and gameplay elements. These future projects and resulting new games can bring a lot of people together over the internet as they work together and brainstorm possible ways to make excellent games even better.
Recently open source based OS got some awesome graphics rich games working on them and we can say that this is the great startup for next level gaming!


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Right now you can pick up a free pair of premium earbuds if you purchase Samsung's Galaxy S8 or Galaxy Note 8, the two flagships from 2017. Samsung just started running a promotion in which anyone who purchases either phone directly through its online store gets the Gear IconX (2018) at no extra cost.
The only downside to this deal is that you're not choosing what color the Gear IconX comes in. While Samsung's wireless earbuds are sold in pink and gray, the freebie is limited to black.
It's a great offer since Samsung normally charges $199 and the product itself is of high quality. We reviewed the Gear IconX back in November, and it easily became one of our top picks for wireless earbuds.
Both carrier and unlocked variants of the phones are eligible for the deal. So you don't necessarily have to get an unlocked variant even though it'll provide you with more flexibility. If you're particularly keen on getting exactly what your carrier sells, you can pick up their variant and still get the Gear IconX for free.
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Red Hat, a leading seller of Linux software packages, today said it will use Novell's NDS eDirectory and DirXML software for its Red Hat Network. Red Hat Network is a secure Internet service for managing networks of Red Hat Linux systems. The companies made the announcement during the NetWorld and Interop show taking place in Atlanta this week.
Directory software essentially serves as a central "phone book" for network-based computing assets and information about computers and users, software and network devices. Red Hat said it will use Novell eDirectory, which became available today, to provide customers with individualized services over the Net that improve the security and reliability of their Red Hat Linux systems.
Earlier this year, Novell announced plans to make versions of its networking software available for Linux users and launched a version of its directory services for the growing operating system.
Novell is one of several corporate software makers that have decided to embrace Linux as a core operating system. Others, such as Oracle and IBM, see similar opportunities in nabbing a piece of the rapidly growing installed base of Linux-based systems within businesses.
Novell is working with a number of consulting companies and system integrators for the implementation of eDirectory, including Computer Sciences, Deloittte & Touche, MarchFirst and Perot Systems.
Novell eDirectory will run on NetWare, Microsoft's Windows NT and Windows 2000, and Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Unix.
Red Hat will also use DirXML, which Novell today made generally available. Novell's DirXML product, which was first unveiled in July of last year, is based on the Extensible Markup Language (XML) standard and will allow applications built with ties into directory technology to have so-called multiple views of data stored in various systems.
DirXML allows core company information to be automatically shared between other businesses or partners, the Provo, Utah-based company said.
The announcements come amid hard times for the struggling software maker. Novell recently said it will slash about 900 jobs, cutting its work force by about 16 percent. The company, which has suffered from three quarters of lackluster sales, also said it will take a fourth-quarter restructuring charge of up to $50 million.
In an effort to regain momentum, Novell this week launched its first-ever nationwide television ad campaign, which touts the company's ability to give customers "The Power to Change."
Novell also announced the general availability of Novell Account Management version 2.1, which was formerly known as NDS Corporate Edition. Account Management centrally manages and integrates user account information across different systems.
Pricing for Novell eDirectory is $2 per user. Account Management is priced at $26 per user. Pricing for DirXML includes the cost of eDirectory and is based on individual customer requirements. For example, the license fee for DirXML for a large company that wants to connect to multiple systems consisting of PeopleSoft, Oracle, NDS and Notes, supporting more than 10,000 users, would typically begin at $350,000.


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Aspects of the connection: 1- learning from each other. 2- Growing together. 3-healing old wounds of connections with others and childhood. 4. Love yourself more by seeing yourself through their eyes. 5-achieve more of your potential as a soul. 6 – "awakening" to your spirituality.
Etheric / Metaphysical / Supernatural Experiences
Interacting with this person in a "non-physical" way, examples: seeing him during meditations, having an idea / image of him / her emerging in your head, a sudden feeling that they´re close even if they´re not, feeling what they feel or think about something you're experiencing.
Feeling some of the following: 1 – Tingling sensations when you touch or hug, especially in energy centers, chakras, 2 – suddenly "know" what they are thinking or feeling – even eating.3 – see 11:11 often, especially near each encounter, 4- remote sexual / romantic experiences where you feel like you are with them as a presence even when you are not physically together. 5- Dreaming that they´re trying to give you a message or communicate with you.
When you look into their eyes or see them in photos, you feel like time has stopped, as you see deep inside your own soul, as he or she can see yours, as if you could see yourself in a mirror.
Both are so attuned emotionally and energetically that you take the mood and mental changes of the other without saying a word.
If you have had physical intimacy and even remotely through meditations: you feel their pleasure as if it were yours, you see, you feel, you know the next thing they want from you, orgasms that seem to happen outside your physical body, energy release in your astral / light body before it happens in the physical, feel like something was happening beyond purely physical pleasure, like your vibrating energy centers, or as you become more than human, as something higher than the physical has happened between you.
Increase your gifts, wake up
After knowing your twin you get closer to your spirituality, you experience an intesification of dreams / intuitions / sensitiveness to emotions and energies, an inner knowing of him / her and their feelings and thoughts. Or the awakening of the spiritual gifts that you never had or intensify or dramatically open them.
You feel like literally this person is your version of opposite polarity, that if you are woman you imagine yourself being a man exactly like him.
When you are together you feel at home, completely filled, you can even completely forget the rest of the world and what happens outside.
You feel that you have lived in paralell all your life, as you have always lived common facts without even knowing it.
Sexual attraction is very passionate, even when out of physical presence one of both runs, when you are together the passion is irresistible even for the most negating twin (that is why many runners try to avoid physical encounters)
When you meet you feel like you know him/her, or that you have seen them before, but you don´t know how / where
You feel from the first interactions that you can be yourself with this person, that you can share your most personal things to them even as if they were one of your most intimate people and maybe they appeared in your life just days ago.
You experience telepathy, you hear their voice in your mind, you feel that he/she touches you remotely, you have visions of him / her, or you feel their emotions.
Your connection feels different from what was previously known, even greater than your greatest love, the differences are in the emotional and if you have felt metaphysical experiences with other soul connections, this exceeds it enormously!!
You change: after some time of meeting this person you discover yourself transformed and also this person is transformed, as you both polish to form your totally brilliant diamond Being, you look transformed and you see them transformed, even if some of you keep running away in a certain form, you see how your most beautiful being appears in the light, this is a very important characteristic. You do not recognize yourself and you do not recognize him/her almost as you used to be before you met.
Your previous partners have shown you "traits" of of your twin flame in some way to show you the Journey before entering it.
You share a "higher calling" in life, share values of what is important on the planet, society and humanity.
Your connection feels like tickling electricity when you touch, with a deep magnetism, it is not look alike anything you ever knew
Perhaps you have had vivid dreams with this person before or after meeting them, including astral projections.
The connection is passionate, it encompasses everything, magnetism, full of synchronicities and supernatural elements, and is highly transformative (even pressing the buttons of one another) challenges, provocations.
Taken from Twin Flames 11:11 "Twin flame test" and adding some personal experiences
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PhotoHunt: Ruin(ed) (also Wordless 81)
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PhotoHunt: Colourful
I got 2 tattoos. First one I did couple of days after I turned 18. Then it took me 11 years to choose and decide on the next one. I drew it myself and got it made in October last year. Already I have plans on getting a third tattoo, this time on my forearm. But it will probably take me a few years to figure out what. So until then I sometimes just doodle or paint things on my arm myself. And on the contrary from the tattoos I got which both are just in black ink, these acrylic creations are always extremely colourful. As this is the way I usually work when I paint.
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PhotoHunt: Dark (Wordless 59)
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PhotoHunt: Cloud(s)
PhotoHunt: Hanging at Dongyue Temple
Photos are taken at the Dong Yue Temple in Beijing. It was founded in 1319. It once housed more than 3,000 statues, today about 1,000 still stands in their very bizarre departments. Some of these are the Death and Life Department, the Department for Determining Individual Destiny, the Execution Department, the Department of Wandering Ghosts and the Department for Implementing Fifteen Kinds of Violent Death. Yes, death does seem to be the theme of the temple.
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Photo Hunt: Support
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Beautiful tree support in Dongyue Temple, Beijing.
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Beautiful tree support in Dongyue Temple, Beijing.
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Photo Hunter: Me, myself & I
Kobe has been the red line in all my photos posted today. Both in Wordless Wednesday and Shutter Day. Here's another one for Photo Hunter's theme, SELF:
Me on Mt Maya - Kobe - Japan!
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Photo Hunt: Shoes
(If anyone ended up here from Shutterday - sorry I posted the pic on the wrong site. Too early in the morning and no coffee.. sorry guys!)
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Photo Hunt: Free week
First time I participate in PhotoHunt. Theme this week - any pic goes...
©M.P - Jizo statues in Kamakura, Japan.
©M.P - Jizo statues in Kamakura, Japan.
Jizo is the bodhisattva who plunges fearlessly into any place or situation to help those in need. (Bodhisattva is one who devotes his or her life to freeing others from suffering. Bodhisattvas are not worshipped, but are an inspiration to awaken to the qualities of an enlightened being that are inherent in everyone.) Jizo specializes in helping women, children, and those who travel, on both physical and spiritual paths. Jizo embodies the qualities of benevolence, determination, and unflagging optimism. In modern Japan, Jizo is popularly known as the guardian of unborn, aborted, miscarried, and stillborn babies (Mizuko Jizo). These roles were not assigned to Jizo in earlier Buddhist traditions from mainland Asia; they are instead modern adaptations unique to Japan. Jizo serves his customary and traditional roles as patron saint of expectant mothers, children, firemen, travelers and pilgrims. Many Jizo statues are often wearing tiny garments. Since Jizo is the guardian of dead children, sorrowing mothers bring the little garments of their lost ones and dress the Jizo statue in hopes the kindly god will specially protect their child. A little hat or bib is often seen as well, the gift of a rejoicing parent whose child has been cured of dangerous sickness thanks to Jizo's intervention.
At Hase Dera Temple in Kamakura Jizo plays the role of guardian for stillborn, miscarried, or aborted children. Hundreds of little Jizo statues can be found at this temple. According to legend children who died prematurely were sent to the underworld as punishment for causing great sorrow to their parents. They were sent to Sai no Kawara, the river of souls in purgatory, where they prayed for Buddha's compassion by building small stone towers, piling stone upon stone. But underworld demons soon arrived and scattered their stones and beat them with iron clubs. But Jizo came to the rescue. In one version of the story, Jizo hid the children in the sleeves of his robe.
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The temperature is to plummet tonight so I made a point of spending some time outside this morning.
This Titmouse was busy at the feeder (see extra) almost to the point of scaring off a lot of the Chipping Sparrows.
Been doing this and that this afternoon while binge watching "The Fall" on Netflix.


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Roasted Chestnut, Almond and Arugula Pesto/
Roasted Chestnut, Almond and Arugula Pesto
In honour of 'National Nut Day' I am celebrating my favourite way to eat nuts...no, not chocolate covered, but in a tasty (and garlicky) pesto.
I absolutely love this recipe and have used it in my recent roasted spaghetti squash recipe and will be featuring it in a new iteration in an upcoming snacky post. In the meantime, enjoy this pesto in a pasta, on a crostini, as a spread on a sandwich or simply as a dip.
½ cup of chestnuts (ready to eat)
¼ cup of blanched almonds
4 large cloves of garlic
4 cups of baby arugula
½ cup of fresh basil
2 tablespoons of fresh sage
2 tablespoons of fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon of salt
½ cup of olive oil
½ cup of grated Parmesan
Preheat oven to 400F
Place chestnuts (the ready to eat, cooked and shelled kind) and almonds on a parchment lined baking sheet and roast for 10 minutes
Remove from oven and let cool
Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until a thick paste forms
Remove and store in a glass container in the refrigerator for up to a week


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Choosing a marketing automation system
- 03 Jun
Marketing automation has dramatically increased the effectiveness and efficiency of finding, nurturing and converting customers. Nurturing leads one at a time isn't realistic for most businesses and takes a huge amount of time for the ones that do. Marketing automation's strength is that by mapping and programming much of your pre-sales process, you can achieve metronomic 'always-on' marketing that is pulsing away in the background to engage an increasing number of prospects over time.
Marketing automation is extremely effective at accomplishing marketing goals. From capturing leads to generating more sales revenue, the overwhelming majority of businesses using marketing automation are seeing positive results.
So how do you go about choosing a marketing automation platform that's right for you? I was recently invited to present at a conference on this exact topic and here is how I broke down the selection process.
Perhaps the obvious one to start with - does it do what you want it to do? In fairness, most of the platforms on the market do many of the same things, so it is a case of dividing it down into 'must haves' and 'nice to haves'. 'Must haves' in my book are:
- Lead capture - forms that can be easily built into your website or landing pages that feed data directly into the system
- Nurturing ('drip') campaigns and automation of other workflows associated with the sales cycle. Map out some of what you want to do first and check that the system can support it before you buy
- Lead scoring - to highlight the relative warmth of all of your leads
- Pipeline management - so you can see which qualified lead is where in the sales funnel
- 3rd party integrations with other systems e.g CRM
- Analytics - everything you need for ROI calculation, sales funnel analysis and channel attribution in one clear place
Ease of use
The best marketing automation platforms are intuitive and easy to lean. A complicated interface or something that is cluttered with features you will never use will never achieve widespread adoption in your business. Also, you want a system that will work with any other systems you are already using. To move away from a current CRM or CMS can be difficult, so look for a platform that integrates easily with everything.
No matter how intuitive and easy to lean the system is, you can guarantee that you will want plenty of training and support, both technically and in the development and implementation of your marketing automation strategy, so check what is there and how accessible it is.
Value for money
Budget can be intimidating when considering adopting marketing automation, but it doesn't have to be. High quality marketing automation is becoming available at prices even very small businesses can afford. Make sure you fully understand the pricing model though as there can be hidden costs which jack up the price from the headline figure advertised.
- Is there an upfront on-boarding fee?
- Is the quoted price based on a limited number of users?
- What will you pay for additional email credits?
Business viability of the vendor
As the technology that sits behind automation systems becomes increasingly well understood, it is reasonable to expect that a number of new vendors will appear in the market and competition will increase. While this is a good thing in many ways, you also don't want to choose a vendor that will disappear as quickly as it arrived. You will invest a lot of time in building your contacts and workflows into the system and you won't want to login one morning to find it is all gone.
Our conclusion
After reviewing and trialing most of the main providers on the market, we selected SharpSpring as our preferred system and it is the one that we run our own marketing on. SharpSpring ticked more of the boxes for us than any of the others and consequently got our business.
Choosing your provider and running your programme
We always advocate getting advice from an independent source. While The Marketing Eye is now typically recommending SharpSpring to clients that don't express a preference, we also run programmes using HubSpot and Pardot and these can be better suited in some circumstances. As suggested earlier in this post, the starting point is often to map out some of the tasks you want it to perform and then assess the providers from there.
Outsourcing the running of your marketing automation to an agency can be a big asset if your company doesn't have the time or personnel to implement it in-house. Your agency should have experience in setting up the email campaigns and workflows and will be able to do this quickly, particularly if they know your sector well.
Case study: Read how a tech company leveraged marketing automation for generating new leads.
Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss the potential role of marketing automation in your business. We'll be pleased to help.
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To find out more about how we can help you grow faster, please get in touch. We'd like to hear from you. Or try our instant marketing healthcheck, it's free!


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I have already ran scans with
* ComboFix can't find
* MBAR couldn't find anything
* TDSSKiller also found nothing
* Rootrepeal failed (crashed after starting)
* Rootkitbuster failed after starting too
* McAfee's rootkit remover failed too
* RogueKiller couldn't find it
* Spybot S&D couldn't find it
* BitDefender crashed
* SpyDll failed
* RootkitUnHooker crashes
* VundoFix finds nothing
* SmithFraudix finds nothign
* Show-hidden can't find it
I ran a few other checks such as
* runscanner
* unhide
* dds
The image above show the virus (-) manipulating COMBOFIX tool catchme as it was doing a search for the virus. It does it to every scanner i run. The virus itself runs under SYSTEM (PID 4)
Yesterday i ran MBAM Pro (Malwarebytes Anti-Malware) and it didn't detect it as well due to the virus being able to manipulate the "services" of the scanners, just like it does to EVERY scanner i ran....but one thing i found weird was that it GREYED out one of the section which had the option for mbam to "protect system files" preventing me from selecting that option. The virus also keeps changing permissions for my folders and other files such as changing permission for chrome which prevents me from using my browser etc...
Reading the comments, it looks like i have nothing because all the BEST scanners in the world can't find it...but you are not in my position so you wouldn't know what i go through..I have a bad infection adn no one has been able to help me uptil now..
What i think it may be
* A hidden virus with administrator rights which manipulates registry's and system files
* A system file replaced by the virus
* A rootkit that injects DLL to every program i run either it be a scanner or just a notepad
This virus is too strong so unless someone can tell me a way to remove its power of controlling all programs, i may not be able to remove it..
NOTE: I cannot provide you the logs for OTL as it freezes within 5 seconds everytime i run it.
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17.3.18 – Saturday – Provisioning completed, water filled, I passed the day reading and resting. I finished a book, a memoir, by professor Saul Fridlander "Where Memory Leads"; fifty years ago I had the pleasure of attending a seminar he gave in the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and I remember how impressed we all were by this brilliant historian and lecturer. His life story is very interesting; I learned a lot of facts I didn't know about him.
18.3.18 – Sunday – A quick visit ashore for downloading the latest forecast and out we went from Taiohae bay. Thinking about fishing, I raised the main with first reef but once out of the bay, the wind blew 17-20 knots from the beam and we were doing about 7 knots. That was too fast plus I bought some fish the day before so I decided to give up fishing. My target was Vaiehu bay on the west side of Ua Pou island, 29 miles away. The bay hides behind cape Punahu which I reached in four hours; a pod of dolphins led me in, boobies flew around us and in front I could see a catamaran sailing with just the jib. That was fun!
I entered the bay and anchored; during that operation I found out that the down foot switch of the windlass was not working; the switch near the helm did the job. So, what first? repair switch or have lunch? I decided on the first, dismantled the switch, found one of the wires disconnected and soldered it. While I was working a French monohull entered the bay.
After a short rest I took a swim, didn't go ashore, which is full of stones and I had no shoes or booties on. As I got back to the boat, another French yacht came in. Later it rained and there was even thunder and lightning.
19.3.18 – Monday – After getting the latest forecast from my friend Itzik in Israel, I sat down to analyze it. It was clear that with the wind coming straight from the east (090) and my desired track of 115 to Tahuata I'll have to add a lot of distance for tacking. It seemed that my best option was to leave for Tahuata at 1400 and sail through the night to arrive at first light. I decided to wait in Ua Pou bay which I wanted to see anyway. I motored there and dropped anchor in 11.5 meters; the anchor made the typical noise of dragging on rock but then held. A young man on a pirogue came by to say hello and after some small talk he went ashore.
Oa Pou bay
I went into the starboard engine room to check add a little oil and check the belts tension. As I was putting my tools back in the cockpit locker, a strong gust of wind was felt and with it the anchor grumble, we were drifting; the depth meter already showed 16.5 meters. I jumped into action, turning the key for the starboard engine to activate the alternator in order to operate the windlass. Surprise! Starter did not turn, engine not started. By then the wind abated; I was running scenarios in my head while opening the engine room cover again. "There must be some fuse" I thought and immediately saw it and remembered a similar case almost ten years ago.
Having the right spares on board can save the day. I replaced the fuse and the starter came back to life.
So what now? Shall I re-anchor to wait for 1400? The idea was not very appealing. It was 1030 or so and I decided to GO. I'll deal with the arrival time later. Once out of the island's influence on the wind, gusting up to 30 knots went down to the forecasted easterly and stabilized at about 20 knots. With main at first reef and full jib we could make good a course of 135 degrees, 20 off the desired one, which was not bad at all. The sea, though, was not so pleasant; short waves made for hobby-horsing and slamming of the bridge-deck. Being a little tired I took a few 20 minutes naps, first in the starboard aft cabin and then, when the sea became calmer – in my cabin.
As my target waypoint I put Hanamoenoa, a popular enchanted bay on the northwest corner of Tahuata; the distance to go was 65 miles as the crow flies but probably 20 to 25 miles more for the future necessary tack. Evening came, the few clouds above dispersed and a sickle of new moon said "sorry I won't be there for your arrival". It was turning into a very dark night… I was thinking of approaching the bay carefully and if I could see any lights of yachts at anchor I would be able to find space for Two Oceans. If that would not be possible – I'll enter a "holding pattern" at a safe distance from shore and wait for first light.
Around 2100 the wind started fluctuating and decreased to 10-12 knots; with the waves and a bit of contrary current our progress became ridiculous. Time for the iron sail – the engine. I took all sails down and continued motoring to my waypoint. It became clear that the ETA would be around 0100.
20.3.18 – Tuesday – Even before midnight I could see lights on shore to the south of my target. Those were the lights of Vaitahu, the largest village on the island (the whole population in the island's two villages is less than a thousand). Vaitahu bay is 0.4 miles wide, twice the size of Hanamoenoa's. I occurred to me that this fact plus the lights of the village would make it a safer choice. I had the Vaitahu anchorage in the plotter and added a point 1.5 miles from it which would be the point of final approach. When teaching flight students take-offs and landings we used to say:"A good final approach will give you a good landing" It was the same here. These last 1.5 miles I motored slowly, jumping from one side of the boat to the other, trying to figure out that whether what I was seeing was sea and not the rocky shore. As I got closer I was shining my torch around and identified two yachts; I passed between them and dropped my anchor in a way that would keep us* clear of both. The time was 0145, I was on an Adrenalin rush and fully awake.
* I use the word "us" even when I'm single-handing, meaning "Two Oceans" and I…
As is my custom after any challenging trip – I had a wee bit of Scotch, called Gili to report that I had arrived and went to bed.
I woke up four hours later, did my morning rituals and went out to look around. The village as seen from the bay is very small; perhaps many houses are hidden in the forest that covers the mountainside. The prominent building is the church. For me there was no reason to stay here, especially since the place is known to have katabatic wind "bullets" of up to 40 knots coming down the mountains. After a quick breakfast I started engines and motored two miles to the north to Hanamoenoa. There were already four boats at anchor when I arrived. Hanamoenoa is a very pretty bay with a sandy beach and lots of coconut trees. There is supposed to be a man living there growing fruit and veg – I'll check that tomorrow. I snorkeled to check the anchor, the waters were crystal clear and I could see two big stingrays burying themselves in the sand just below my boat.
In the spirit of boats growing bigger and bigger, my neighbor on starboard was a Lagoon 52 foot catamaran.
As the day wore on, more boats came in until the number reached thirteen, six of the yachts were participants in the "World ARC", proudly showing the flag of that endeavor. In spite of the great number of boats for such a small bay – it stayed absolutely calm. I decided to stay here another day, paddle my SUP and go ashore with the dinghy – maybe climb one of the mountains…
21.3.18 – Wednesday – As planned; paddled the SUP for 50 minutes, did some work on the boat, read my book and relaxed. Some time before midday I saw a yacht passing across the bay; the familiar shape of the Wharram cat told me it was "Pakia Tea" whom we met in Easter Island and also the Gambier. We spoke on V.H.F and will probably see each other again in the Marquesas. I swam ashore in the afternoon – a sign said: "Private – stay in (sic) the beach" I could see no one near the few huts there and no trail going up the hill, so no walkabout from this bay.
22.3.18 – Thursday – I motored to Atuona on Hiva Oa, no point in battling the elements against 17-20 knots from straight ahead. I reached the anchorage at 0900 and guess who was there? Pakia Tea with Tom and Keano waving hello.
A yacht just vacated a place I could anchor at without a stern anchor, which is the norm in the interior of the port here and is difficult when single-handing; I quickly took it. I'll stay here a day or two and then go to Hanaiapa, a bay on the north of the island and maybe some other bays close by, until my crew, Michael Ben-Eli, comes on the 30th.


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For best soulful songs it has rightly said by Billy Joel :
" I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we are from".
Music fulfill all our needs it helps you to decrease stress levels and make you sleep better. You love to listen to music when you want to enjoy yourself. We have two genera of music today one which makes you feel happy while other genera make you to feel emotions. Here is a complete list of soulful music recommend for you :
1. Soulful Song Tera Zikra
Tera Zikr – Darshan Raval | Official Video
This is very beautiful song sang by Darshan Raval. You should never miss this song to listen. You can easily download this song and it is easily available on the internet. Darshan Raval is new emerging singer and he performed this song very beautifully.
2. Ek Dil Ek Jaan
Full Video: Ek Dil Ek Jaan | Padmaavat | Deepika
This song is from a very famous movie Padmavat and is a very nice song. Ek Dil Ek Jaan is singing by Shivam Pathak, Kunal Pandit, and Farhan Sabri. They are not very famous but they all together made a magical voice.
3. Pyaar De
Pyaar De | Official Full Video Song | Beiimaan
The song Pyaar De is not a very famous song but it is a very beautiful song. There are many songs in Bollywood which are not very famous or you may probably don't know about them but they sound good. Pyaar De is such a song from movie Beiimaan Love. This song is sung by Ankit Tiwari.
4. Pehli Baar
Pehli Baar – Jigrra
This is an album song which was released in the year 2016. The song Pehli Baar is singing by singer Jigrra. He sang this song just like Arijit Singh and is also a new emerging singer.
5. Lo Maan Liya
LO MAAN LIYA Video Song | Raaz Reboot | Arijit Singh
This is a very good song and is from movie RAAJ REBOOT. The movie was released in 2016 and was a Blockbuster hit. The song is sung by Arijit Singh who is a very famous singer in Bollywood.


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Turfway Park in Kentucky offers it biggest race of the year, the $500,000 Spiral Stakes, this Saturday and it features 12 horses (14 including also-eligibles) vying for important Kentucky Derby points (50 to the winner, 20 to second, 10 to third and 5 to fourth).
#10 AIROFORCE will be among the favorites (3-1 morning-line), but will not be on my tickets. He has never raced over synthetic dirt, albeit he is 2-for-3 on turf including a Grade III stakes win. My biggest qualm with AIROFORCE is that he exits an extremely poor effort in the Risen Star Stakes at the Fair Grounds. It's also not encouraging that regular rider Julien Leparoux opted to stay at Gulfstream and not make the trip to ride this horse.
#8 KASSEOPIA (6-1) seems like the best alternative to beat the favorite with. He had a great deal of trouble in the El Camino Real Derby at Golden Gate on synthetic last time out, but ran admirably to be third beaten just three lengths. In that race, KASSEOPIA broke slow and suffered a wide trip around both turns. He'll be reunited with Alan Garcia, who rode him to a runner-up finish in his first stateside try in the Grey Stakes at Woodbine last autumn, and his last two works leading up to this are strong. KASSEOPIA also has the upper hand on many of these in regards to proven stamina, as his last race came at this distance (1 & 1/8th miles) while most of his rivals have yet to go this far. It's worth noting trainer H. Graham Motion took a similar road to the Kentucky Derby with Animal Kingdom in 2011.
#4 DON'T BE SO SALTY (8-1) could be dangerous if left unchecked up front; on paper he should be able to make a fairly easy lead, and his best-ever performance came over the synth at Woodbine in the Display Stakes last fall. Cornelio Velasquez, one of trainer Gary Contessa's go-to riders in New York, makes the trip down to pilot this contender.
#5 OSCAR NOMINATED (10-1) rounds out the list of logical contenders; he has yet to race over synthetic dirt but progeny of Kitten's Joy usually appreciate the surface. OSCAR NOMINATED comes in off a stakes race victory at the Fair Grounds at 7.5 furlongs, and has already won a route race (his maiden at 1 & 1/16th miles).
KASSEOPIA and DON'T BE SO SALTY are the two horses I am most confident in, but I will forego placing win bets in favor of trying to make a more sizeable score in the exacta pool.
The play: $6 exacta box 4/8, $4 exacta 4,8/5 ($20)
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