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While updating my spyware/malware databases, I found they have brought out a new version of SpywareBlaster. It is now up to version 3.3 and has added a 'Restricted Sites' section to its features.
The download can be found here
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Tucker Carlson Grills Fortune Senior Writer Who Defended Buzzfeed (video)
Tucker Carlson Grills Fortune senior writer who defended Buzzfeed's release of unverified, malicious documents on Trump.
Journalism standards are at an all time low when publications, such as Buzzfeed, no longer feel the need to verify information in their possession. Such was the case in the malicious and unverified fake "gloden shower" dossier on Trump.
Tucker Carlson HAMMERED Fortune senior writer Mathew Ingram last night and never let up!
Tucker Carlson – "News organizations publish untrue information all the time, but to their credit, its usually by accident. On Tuesday Buzzfeed chose to release a 35 page dossier on Trump, whose content even Buzzfeeds editors admitted couldn't be verified."
Carlson asked Ingram, point blank, if he would publish this.
Carlson -"Not one person is standing up and saying this is true, including the man who wrote it. So would you publish this yourself if you were running a news organization?"
Ingram — "Yes"
Carlson – "Then you have low standards"
Watch video via Tucker Carlson Tonight:
Fake news is now the norm in mainstream media!
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I haven't played at Bugsy's Club for several years, so this move really doesn't surprise me all that much. Their software was pretty sub-par; mostly because it hadn't been updated for quite some time and was also very slow and a resource hog – mostly because it was java-based.
The good news is that Bugsy's Club has made a deal with PokerStars which allows players to transfer any money they have at Bugsy's Club over to their PokerStars account. Unfortunately, BPP's (Bugsy's Bonus Points) will not be converted to PokerStars FPP's.
If you have money at Bugsy's Club, you will be receiving an email from PokerStars with details on how to complete the transfer of funds.


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by Jules Bennett
Harlequin Desire
Victoria Dane and Stefan Alexander have been best friends for most of their lives. Stefan is next in line to become king of Galini Isle but he has to be married. He asks Victoria she agrees to help him with the promise that after six months she has the choice of walking away. Although they loved each other as friends they knew their hearts would be safe or would they?
BEHIND PALACE DOORS by Jules Bennett is quite simply awesome. It has some of my favorite elements friends into lovers and marriage of convenience (but really is it convenient?) Stefan is world known playboy who has had more women then most and Victoria has recently had her heart broken by her slime of an ex Alex. But Stefan and Victoria have always had each others backs and at times have wondered about exploring their friendship more intimately.
Make sure you have time to read BEHIND PALACE DOORS because it will be the only thing you will want to do for the rest of the day.
"I have a proposition for you."Their marriage has all the makings of a great romantic movie: a beautiful Mediterranean setting, a handsome prince and fantastic sex. Too bad it's not real. When Prince Stefan Alexander weds Victoria Dane, the agreement between friends is supposed to be in name only to secure his crown. But it doesn't take long for buried passion to erupt....
Victoria gave up a lot for this seemingly fairy-tale life with Stefan, but all too soon she discovers she's fallen in love with the "Playboy Prince." Now Victoria must fight for what really matters. Because the one thing she can't give up is him.


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|Rich and hearty butter chicken, the cure for the Twilight Vampire Pacific Northwest - Photo by Wasabi Prime
Butter Chicken. It just makes you happy saying it out loud, or letting the words linger in your mindgrape. It's a popular Indian dish, similar to tandoori chicken, but saucier -- oh, behave! It's seasoned chicken marinated and tenderized in yogurt, then cooked in a gravy of spices, tomato and of course, butter. I love this dish, the meat is flavorful and tender, the sauce is tart and acidic from the tomato base and a bit of citrus. It's like a spiced-up marinara sauce that went on holiday to an exotic land.
The base ingredients are simple enough, but getting the right spices for the marinade and sauce can be tricky. The seasoning typically includes cumin, fenugreek, turmeric, coriander, and chili, along with garam masala, which might be the one exotic item that's not at the corner grocery store. It's a spice blend that's generally made up of pepper, cumin, cloves, cinnamon and cardamom, which if you have the whole spices you could make some from scratch, but given its popularity in Indian cuisine, it's more convenient to buy it already ground and blended. It's available at specialty stores and the next time you pass by an Indian grocer, just run in and grab a bottle o' garam masala, so you always have some on hand. Garam masala is one of those fancy-sounding seasonings like Chinese Five Spice powder that you bought for one experimental dish, but rarely use and just stare at it, wondering how the heck you're going to use it. I can't say much for the Chinese Five Spice, but if you've got a lone bottle of garam masala feeling like it needs some purpose in its life, here's its special day!
|Using the whole chicken, from meat to bones - Photos by Wasabi Prime
This keeps this version of butter chicken a somewhat one-pot meal (if you minus the homemade chicken stock the day before), a convenience I can appreciate, especially when I'm using our heavy duty dutch oven. It holds heat marvelously, sears meat like a boss, but is also a monster to clean, as it's quite heavy. I feel like I've wrestled a bear after cleaning this thing, so it's nice to have the dish washing one-and-done complete after this beast.
Another one-pot wonder is beef stew, but I get bored of the same old English-style beef stew, where you often add beer for the cooking liquid. Not that I don't enjoy a basic beef stew, but sometimes you need to mix things up. And clear out some room in that spice rack because, damn, where did all that marjoram come from? Earlier this year, I came up with a spice mixture that put a Mediterranean twist on a typical beef stew, and it was a nice thing to revisit on a miserable rainy night. Making another version of this exotic beef stew, I threw in a few more dry spices like turmeric and some extra chili powder for heat, but that's the nice thing about making your own spice mixtures -- customize as you like! Be a rebel. A spice rebel.
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It's so neat how it springs open. That's due to the Pellon F72 double-sided fusible that must be used to get that action. And I'll add that what I was told is true... it's a stinker to hand sew the binding on each end. It's just awkward, but worth it for the end result.
I also sewed this adaptation of an Edith Bag using fabric I bought when I was in Switzerland in 2002. It seemed most appropriate to use this print because the bag will be used to hold EpiPens!
Our three year-old grandson, Luke, is highly allergic to peanuts, so his mom carries a EpiPen everywhere - actually, three pens: an unexpired one, an expired one, and a "trainer." The bag print is a good indicator of "emergency." I used Insul-Brite as batting, so the pens should stay cool (as they're supposed to) in the Texas heat.
Our DIL sent this photo after the bag arrived in the mail, showing me that it holds everything. Yay for being able to make something useful!
I also cut out my Simplicity pattern for an Outback Wife dress using Ella Blue Fabrics "Bindi" barkcloth.
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What happens to Fido when you die?
Nearly four years ago, hotel heiress Leona Helmsley gave an afterlife kiss-off to some of her relatives and household help by leaving them out of her will and including a $12 million bequest to her beloved Maltese, Trouble. A judge later considered the amount excessive and reduced it, leaving the trust fund pooch to scrape by on a mere $2 million.
Although the Helmsley dog drama is the most high profile instance of pet legacies gone wild, there are reports of others. When Gail Posner died last year, the daughter of takeover magnate Victor Posner left her Chihuahua $3 million. Gene Roddenberry's dogs collected some $4 million when the Star Trek creator's wife passed away in 2009.
Like famous socialites, most ordinary pet owners want to provide for their pets should they become incapacitated or die. But according to the website petguardian.com, an estimated 500,000 pets are euthanized every year at shelters and at veterinarians as a result of pet owners predeceasing their pets.
"Many people outlive their pets, and they assume that relatives or friends will step in if something happens to them," says Scottsdale, Arizona estate planning attorney and pet owner Joel Klinge. "Unfortunately, that's not always the case."
To provide for his golden retrievers Dobby and Stella if anything happens to him, the 49-year-old divorced attorney has arranged with a friend and his wife to take them in. The couple would also receive a set amount of money to help offset expenses associated with his dogs' future care.
Over the years, Klinge has made a variety of arrangements in wills and trusts for clients. Several would like to have their pet's ashes mingled with their own powdered remains and spread over a specified location. Another client, who had a 16-year-old dog in very poor health, left instructions for his pet's euthanasia.
Whatever final note you have in mind for Fido or Fluffy, a number of planning tools are available to help ensure they will be cared for if something happens to you.
Power of attorney. This legal instrument names someone to make decisions and act on your behalf should you become incapacitated. While most people associate them with financial transactions such as accessing banks accounts, they can also designate an individual who will take care of your pet if you are alive but unable do so.
A springing power of attorney goes into effect when someone becomes legally incapacitated, while a durable power of attorney becomes effective immediately. The latter form is better for pet planning, says Klinge, because the person acting on your behalf does not have to wait for a determination of legal incapacity before making arrangements for an animal in need of immediate care.
Attach a letter to the document stating your preferences, such as being placed in an assisted living facility that allows dogs or cats. If you can't keep your pet with you, making financial arrangements beforehand — such as pre-authorizing credit card charges with your veterinarian — will help ensure that the person you name to assume its care will not be deterred by the potential financial commitment.
Instructions in a will. Like any treasured possession, you can leave your pet to a trusted friend or relative in a will. Designate a backup person in case circumstances change, particularly if you have a parrot or other animal with a very long lifespan, and provide an adequate amount of money for its care. If you already have a valid will and want to make sure your pet is provided for, attach a codicil outlining your wishes.
Pet trusts. The choice of the rich and famous, pet trusts are also useful for those with more modest means. Trusts can offer more precise planning than a will because they provide instructions and conditions for disbursing the funds, and include the appointment of a trustee who makes sure your wishes are carried out. In the case of a pet trust, such conditions might include having the pet placed with a designated caregiver, keeping two or more pets together, or requiring a certain brand of dog food. Each trust covers one or more pets, and the trustee distributes any remaining money according to the trust's instructions when the last one dies.
According to Klinge, clients in the well-heeled community he works in typically fund a pet trust with between $5,000 and $20,000 and depending on its complexity, it costs anywhere from $1,500 to $2,500 to set one up.
Partnering with a no-kill shelter. If you aren't sure a friend or relative is up to the task of caring for your pet and don't have anyone else to turn to, some animal shelters have programs to help ensure your furry friend finds a home. With the PAWS to Remember program at the Arizona Animal Welfare League, for example, a minimum bequest of $10,000 guarantees a spot at the shelter for one or more animals until they are adopted out. Donors can leave a bequest to the organization by naming it as beneficiary in a will, trust, life insurance policy, or retirement account.
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The land on which the South Central Farm sits has been the site of a long and complicated series of land-use and property-rights struggles.
In 1985–86, the land was taken via eminent domain from private owners by the Los Angeles Department of Public Works for development of a trash-to-energy incinerator called the Los Angeles City Energy Recovery (Lancer) Project. The largest of the private owners was the Alameda-Barbara Investment Company, which owned approximately 80 percent of the land taken for the Lancer project.
The people living near the proposed incinerator site – most of them African American – mobilized against Lancer. At the center of the environmental-justice struggle was the newly formed community-based nonprofit organization Concerned Citizens of South Central L.A., which demanded public hearings and a health-risk assessment of the Lancer project, both of which were granted by the city. In 1987, the City Council and mayor agreed to terminate the incinerator project.
The city retained ownership of the Lancer site. In June 1994, after canceling a plan to sell it to a public-housing corporation for the creation of 316 affordable town homes, the city sold the land to the L.A. Harbor Department for $13.3 million.
In court filings, Ralph Horowitz, a partner in former property owner Alameda-Barbara, claims to have engaged in talks with the city to regain the land title at about this time. Central to his argument is a claim that the city had attempted to sell the land in violation of his right to repurchase the land should the city sell it for non-public or non-housing purposes within ten years of the condemnation. (This right was established in the 1991 final order of condemnation of the property.)
Meanwhile, the land was sitting unused, and in July 1994 the Harbor Department granted a revocable permit to the L.A. Regional Food Bank – a private, nonprofit food-distribution network housed across the street from the Lancer site – to occupy and use the site as a community garden.
While poor families were cultivating the land and building community there, the L.A. City Council and then-Mayor Richard Riordan began in the late 1990s to discuss conversion of the site into an industrial park as part of Riordan's Genesis L.A. economic-development program. Concerned Citizens of South Central, which had fought against the Lancer incinerator project, is listed in a 2001 report created for the mayor's office as endorsing the proposal for the Lancer Industrial Park.
In 2001, Horowitz sued the city for breach of contract and shortly received a letter from City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo's office, stating the city had denied his claim.
The farm continued to grow.
Then, in April 2002, operations began on the Alameda Corridor, a rail-cargo expressway linking the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to the inland transcontinental rail network that runs alongside the South Central Farm. This made the site valuable real estate for commercial or industrial development, pitting the environmental and social value of the community garden against the profit potential of developing the land for global-trade use.
In closed negotiations in 2003, the City of L.A. settled with Horowitz, selling him the land for just over $5 million – less than half the amount for which the land was sold to the Harbor Department in 1994 and less than the $6.6 million the City Council described as "less than fair-market value" in its cancelled 1991 sale to the Nehemiah Public Housing Corporation. As part of the 2003 settlement, Horowitz agreed to donate 2.6 acres of the site for a public soccer field. The City Council approved the closed-session agreement between Horowitz's attorneys and City Attorney Delgadillo's office. Councilmember Jan Perry, who represents the 9th Council District, in which the farm is located, began seeking alternate sites to relocate the gardens.
Patrick Dunlevy, an attorney representing the farmers, says that despite repeated requests, he has never seen documents detailing the negotiations that led up to the signed settlement agreement. "There are exchanges of letters between counsel, but nothing about the nitty-gritty of the negotiations and nothing indicating why the city decided to keel over and settle the lawsuit when they were from all appearances about to win by having the court dismiss the case."
Shortly after the settlement, on January 8, 2004, Horowitz gave written notice to the Food Bank that their revocable permit to occupy the land would "terminate as of February 29, 2004."
Upon learning of their imminent removal from the land, the farmers filed a lawsuit arguing that the city's closed-session settlement with Horowitz violated their rights, and they were granted an injunction allowing them to remain on the land until the case was resolved. When an appellate court ruled against them in June 2005, they appealed to the California Supreme Court, which in October 2005 refused to hear their case.
On March 1, 2006, Horowitz issued an eviction notice, which would be stayed pending resolution of a separate lawsuit filed by the farmers. The basis of this last legal challenge is that the city's behind-closed-doors settlement with Horowitz constitutes waste "for two reasons," attorney Dunlevy told TNS. "The city sold it to the developer for far less than what it was worth, and the city sold it to settle a meritless lawsuit." While that case moves through the courts, the farmers and their allies are seeking political solutions.
Currently, Horowitz is engaged in negotiations with the Trust for Public Land, which hopes to buy the land for public community-garden use. The farmers' spokespeople and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa have expressed support for this possible solution. The role of the City Council in these negotiations remains unclear.
Meanwhile, the farmer-organizers continue working to save the farm through legal and political channels.


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The Nova Scotia Highland Village is a living history museum and Gaelic cultural centre.
A community-based festival designed to promote the Gaelic language and culture of our area.
Celtic Colours is a unique Cape Breton Island-wide celebration of Celtic culture - the largest of its kind in North America.
The only institution of its kind in North America, students of all ages and ability study at the Gaelic College of Celtic Arts & Crafts.
The convenience of having your own private guide in your car, at your own pace, in your own language.
Located in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Cape Breton University is one of Atlantic Canada's best primarily undergraduate universities.
Rabbit Farm in the community of Grand Narrows, breeding and selling.
Ralph Dillon is a web designer living and working on Cape Breton Island.


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Raspberry Sorbet Earrings
Vibrant raspberry orchid petals accented with dangling chains, freshwater pearls, rose quartz drops and amethyst drops.
*All of our pieces are hand picked, glassed and designed in Lahaina, Maui. Due to its organic nature, colors and sizes may vary between flowers. Each one is custom made with love and aloha to order and may take 1 to 2 weeks to process.


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Award-winning playwright Mary Murfitt has written stories and songs about cowgirls, small-town folks and other fictional characters. But her new musical, "Looking for Home: A Story from the Orphan Trains," is based on a little-known aspect of American history — and a real woman.
With emotional, stirring songs and historic period staging, the play recreates small-town America in the 1920s. Youth Theatre Director Donna Inglima directs the play, which will make its premiere at the Laguna Playhouse on the weekends of Nov. 4-6 and Nov. 11-13. Murfitt wrote the book, lyrics and music for the show.
In 2002, Murfitt — herself adopted and raised in a small Kansas town — met 90-year-old Anna Fuchs, who had come to the same town in the 1920s on an "orphan train." Fuchs was part of a supervised mass migration of abandoned or orphaned children from New York City and other gritty East Coast towns to the Great Plains.


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Good morning my friends, this is different. I don't normally post on Sunday's but I was in a mood and I wanted to share it with you so here it is. Pink romantic is the mood I'm feeling at this very moment but not just any pink but soft subtle pink, smooth creams and laid back browns. You know that kind of sexy romantic feeling, so I put this mood board together to express my mood I'm feeling on this Sunday morning: Who does that!!! Get up on a Sunday morning thinking of sexy romantic moods hmmm, well any who I hope you like my little Sunday morning mood board check it out.
thanks for stopping by this Sunday morning I hope you didn't mind sharing this mood with me. When I look at this board I see romantic and subtle and most of all elegant. What feelings do you express this Sunday morning?
Do you ever wake up feeling a type of mood?
What do you normally do when you get in a certain kind of mood?
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|Han-Wen Nienhuys
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On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:08 AM, <address@hidden> wrote: > LGTM, but I can't do a regtest today :( > > > http://codereview.appspot.com/4129050/diff/1/lily/beam-quanting.cc > File lily/beam-quanting.cc (right): > > http://codereview.appspot.com/4129050/diff/1/lily/beam-quanting.cc#newcode215 > lily/beam-quanting.cc:215: } > Very cool stuff! > I won't have time to do a regtest today, but I see what you're doing and > it makes a lot of sense. > One suggestion: perhaps we should create an enum: > enum Stem_dir_scenarios { ALL_UP, ALL_DOWN, DOWN_TO_UP, UP_TO_DOWN, > WACKY } that provides a tag for the beam which is then used in this > function. My rationale is as follows: It's for dealing with UP/UP and DOWN/DOWN configs for the outer stems. Collisions that fall below (for UP/UP) the edges of quant_range will never really collide. UP/UP and DOWN/DOWN are the normal configurations, so they would account for 99% of the beam cases. -- Han-Wen Nienhuys - address@hidden - http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen
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Anna University Recruitment 2019 Research Associate, JRF : Anna University Recruitment 2019 : has issued job advertisement notification for vacancies for the project entitled. Deserving and suitable candidates may apply for the job in certain format before last date 7 April 2019. Other information regarding these posts like age limit, educational qualification, how to apply, selection procedure, application fee. etc for are as follows:
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I spent some time today cutting out some cute cotton print fabrics and chenille for some baby burp cloth sets that I am making. It is snowing chenille in my work area - so much so, that my dear husband bought me a small hand held vacuum when he was running errands today!
I must have looked at 20 or more tutorials online on making burp cloths before I started. I made a few Christmas baby bibs earlier and decided to make some burp cloths to match. I cut out 5 sets of 3 cloths - 1 Christmas, 2 girl prints, and 2 boy prints. I hope to finish them tomorrow and get them listed on Etsy.


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Google is sending out invites to journalists, inviting them to "join them and Sundar Pichai for breakfast" in San Francisco. The event is believed to be the unveiling of the next generation of Nexus 7 tablet.
The next 7-inch Nexus 7 tablet has been heavily rumoured for some time now, with one feature popping up time and time again; a full HD screen. Along with that, it might also be getting the Snapdragon S600 CPU and to top it all, Asus might be the company making the new tablet. If this indeed comes to pass, it would be the first time Google would allow one particular hardware company to manufacture two successive generations of their devices.
The other announcement that is quite likely is the reveal of Android 4.3, which will continue to carry the Jelly Bean moniker. Screenshots of the OS have already leaked for the Nexus 4, so we're pretty sure about this one announcement. While many have been dying for the Android 5.0, Key Lime Pie, we believe that Google might be holding onto it till the next Google I/O.
It is also possible that the next version of Android is being tweaked significantly to take into account that Google is working on improving the imaging prowess of their devices to a point where you may never need your point and shoot again. If Nikon is indeed partnered up with the company, then the bridging of the hardware and software would take time, just like in the case of the Lumia 1020.


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12 years old
Distilled 1980
Bottled 1992
Glendullan Distillery,
Dufftown, Keith, Banffshire
14 years old
65,3 %
Distilled Jan 78
Bottled May 92
Society Cask No. code 84
The Scotch Single Malt Whisky Society,
The Vaults Leith, Edinburgh
11 years old
43 %
Distilled 1983
Bottled 1994
The Vintage Malt Whisky Co, Ltd,
8 years old
40 %
Glendullan Distillery, Dufftown,
22 years old
Natural Cask Strenght
Distilled 1972
Limited Edition
Genummerde flessen
McDonald Greenlees & Co, Edinburgh
23 years old
63,1 %
Natural Cask Strenght
Distilled 1974
Bottled May 1998
Limited Edition
Genummerde flessen
McDonald Greenlees & Co, Edinburgh
Aged 36 years
Single Cask Single Malt Scotch Whisky
Distilled 1966
Bottled 2002
Bottled at Natural Cask Strenght
Limited Edition
Un - Chillfiltered
Numbered Bottles
559 Bottles
Offered with Pride
Douglas Laing & Co, Ltd, Glasgow
26 years old
Distilled 1978
Bottled April 2005
Limited Edition
6000 Numbered Bottles
Scottish Malt Distillers, Elgin
15 years old
46 %
Single Speyside Malt
Distilled: 12/04/91
Matured in a hogshead
Cask no. 4061
Bottled: 27/03/07
Numbered Bottles
Natural Colour
Non Chillfiltering
The Ultimate Whisky Company, NL
Highland Malt
GLENDULLAN Glendullan 1 (1898 - 1985)
Glendullan 2 (1972
Dufftown, Banffshire. Licentiehouder: Macdonald & Greenlees Ltd, Edinburgh. Glendullan maakte deel uit van Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. (S.M.D.). De malt divisie van United Distillers Ltd. Eigendom van Guinness.
Glendullan gebouwd in 1897, was de laatste van de oorspronkelijke zeven distilleerderijen van Dufftown in de 19e eeuw.Een gezegde in Dufftown: 'Rome was build on seven hills, Dufftown stands on seven stills'.
De bouwkosten bedroegen £ 20.000, de eerste gerst werd aangeleverd op 28 Januari 1898 en het distilleren begon op 25 April 1898.
Glendullan kon 681.913 liter spirit per jaar produceren. De naam komt van de rivier Dullan.
Het water voor het aandrijven van de machinerie kwam via een pijpleiding van de Fiddich en Glendullan deelde een zijlijn met Mortlach van de Great North of Scotland Railway.
De eerste eigenaars waren William Williams & Sons Ltd te Aberdeen. Glendullan vormde de basis voor hun blends Strathdon en Three Star.
In 1919 fuseerden William Williams & Sons Ltd met Greenlees Brothers Ltd, te Glasgow en Londen, die al samenwerkten met Alexander & Macdonald Ltd, te Leith.
The Greenlees Brothers waren in 1871 gestart als blenders en brachten de Old Parr blend uit die heel bekend werd.James en Samuel Greenlees verloren beiden hun zoon in de eerste wereldoorlog in de Franse loopgraven.
De broers zochten naar een opvolger en benaderden Sir James Calder, en die nam hun bedrijf over.
Alexander & Macdonald Ltd was toen al het eigendom van Sir James Calder. De groep werd hervormd tot Macdonald Greenlees & Williams (Distillers) Ltd onder de leiding van Sir James Calder.
Auchenblae (1897 - 1916) werd gekocht en in dezelfde tijd ook Stronachie (1897 - 1930) Sir James Calder was ook de eigenaar van Bo'ness graandistilleerderij en nam na de eerste wereldoorlog Dalwhinnie over.
Sir James Calder is één van de grote namen in de Schotse whisky geschiedenis. Maar ook hij ging tenonder in de heel slechte jaren na 1899.
In 1926 nam The Distillers Company Ltd de aandelen over, liquideerde de onderneming en stichtten een nieuwe onderneming met de naam Macdonald Greenlees Ltd.
Auchenblae en Stronachie werden gesloten in 1926 en 1928.
Tot de groep bedrijven behoorden ook R.H. Thomson & Company Ltd en James Munro & Son Ltd, ook die kwamen onder de parapluie van de D.C.L.
Glendullan was gesloten van 1940 - 1947. Glendullan werd gemoderniseerd in 1962 en had toen twee ketels. In 1971 - 1972 werd een nieuwe distilleerderij gebouwd naast Glendullan.
De afstand tussen de twee distilleerderijen wordt omschreven als 'short when the weather's good and long when it is' t'.
De nieuwe distilleerderij heeft zes ketels die zijn gemaakt in dezelfde stijl als die van Carigellachie, Ord, Clynelish, Teaninich en Caol Ila.
De twee distilleerderijen werken in tandem, met elk hun eigen mash tun en washbacks. De whiskies werden gemengd tot in 1985 toen de oude distilleerderij werd gesloten.
Guinness nam Arthur Bell & Sons Ltd over in 1986 en in 1987 The Distillers Company Ltd, beiden tegen hun zin.In 1988 werden beide groepen van bedrijven samengevoegd tot United Distillers Ltd.
Op 12 Mei 1997 staakt de Fransman Bernard Arnault van L M V H zijn verzet tegen de fusie van Guinness en Grand Metropolitan (GrandMet) voor een afkoopsom van ƒ 800.000.000.
De nieuwe naam van de gefuseerden zou eerst G M G Brands worden maar op 22 October 1997 werd bekend dat de nieuwe naam Diageo zou zijn, afgeleid van het Latijnse woord voor dag en het Griekse woord voor wereld.
Diageo wordt het grootste drankenconcern ter wereld, groter dan Seagram en Allied Domecq samen en met een omzet van 40 miljard gulden.
Op 28 Maart 1998 verkoopt Diageo het whiskymerk Dewar en het ginmerk Bomaby voor £ 1,15 miljard aan Bacardi Martini.
Het afstoten van de twee merken was een voorwaarde die door de Amerikaanse mededingings autoriteiten was gesteld aan de goedkeuring van de fusie tussen Guinness en GrandMet.
Dewar heeft een omzet van ruim één miljard gulden en een marktaandeel van 10 %, en is marktleider in de V.S.
Diageo is de overkoepelende naam voor United Distillers & Vintners, Pïlsbury, Guinness en Burger King.
Onderdeel van de verkoop houdt ook in de overname van de distilleerderijen Aberfeldy, Aultmore, Craigellachie en Royal Brackla door Bacardi Martini.
Balmenach wordt in December 1997 verkocht aan Inver House.
Het water komt van de rivier de Fiddich en van de Convall heuvels.
De Mash tun is 12 ton.
De acht Wash backs hebben elk een inhoud van 65000 liter.
De drie Wash stills zijn elk 33.700 liter groot, de drie Spirit stills elk 23.800 liter,
Ze worden met stoom verhit.
De produktiecapaciteit is 1,7 miljoen liter spirit per jaar.
Glendullan, built in 1897, was the last of the seven distilleries established in Dufftown in the 19th century and the occasion of the saying, current in Banffshire if not in Italy: "Rome was built on seven hills and Dufftown stands on seven stills". It was situated, in the words of a description published in Harper's Weekly, "in a beautiful valley hemmed ... in by high hills wooded to the summit, while the effect is greatly enhanced by the Fiddich, which flows gently past the front of the distillery".
The location was chosen, not for its beauty, but for its practical convenience. Water was piped from the Fiddich about half a mile upstream to an overshot water-wheel 14 feet (4.3 metres) in diameter by 4 1/2 feet (1.4 metres) wide, of 16 horse power, which drove all the machinery. "This water power will be a great saving", Harper's opined, "compared with some distilleries which have to use steam engines". Glendullan was able to share, withthe neighbouring Mortlach Distillery, the use of a private railway siding from the Great North of Scotland Railway. This siding, built in 1897, did away with the expense and inconvenience of transporting outgoing consignments of whisky, and incoming supplies of barley, empty casks and coal, to and from Dufftown Station by horse and cart. With the loss of the railway link in 1968, all traffic has reverted to the road.
The distillery was designed to produce 10 gallons (681,913 litres) per annum. Its total cost was estimated to be £0 and it is clear that no money was spared in its construction or equipment. Harper's reported that "a first-class suite of offices has been erected apart from the distillery, with most elaborate fittings and modern sanitary arrangements. The manager's and (excise) officer's houses are excellently equipped, and altogether the distillery is one of the most compact and convenient in the district". Most of the original vessels were still in use during the 1930's.
The first consignment of barley was received on 28 January 1898; the first steep was wet exactly one month later; distillation began on 25 April and the resulting whisky was bonded in the distillery's duty-free warehouse on 30 April.
The original owners of Glendullan were William Williams & Sons Ltd., of Aberdeen. The make formed the basic constituent of their blended whiskies, Strathdon and Three Star, which were then well-known. The company amalgamated in 1919 with Green-lees Brothers Ltd. of London and Glasgow, which had already merged its interests with Alexander & Macdonald Ltd., of Leith, although both firms continued to trade under their respective names. The group was re-formed as Macdonald Greenlees & Williams (Distillers) Ltd. under the control of Sir James Calder. The Distillers Company Limited acquired the company's assets in 1926, put it into liquidation and registered a new company under the name of Macdonald Greenlees Ltd. Glendullan Distillery was transferred to Scottish Malt Distillers Ltd. in 1930.
The distillery was closed from 1940 to 1947 as the result of wartime restrictions on the supply of barley for malt whisky production. When it reopened, water power was still used for mashing and for grinding malt, with an electric motor and a steam engine available for standby purposes. Since the distillery has been connected to the national electric grid, the water that drove the wheel has been used for cooling and fire prevention.
From 1960 onwards, the withdrawal of statutory building controls enabled SMD to embark on a long-term programme of modernising its distilleries. Glendullan's mash house, tunroom and stillhouse were equipped with new plant in 1962, when the two stills, previously heated from a coal-burning furnace, were converted to internal heating by steam. The height of the mash house had to be raised to accommodate the new plant.
In the next decade, DCL needed additional malt whisky capacity to meet the increasing export sales of companies in the Group. The size of the site at Glendullan (11 acres or 4.5 hectares), together with the ample supply of water from the Fiddich, provided the necessary conditions for expanding output. An additional distillery, with six stills internally heated by steam, and an annual capacity of a million proof gallons (4,546,090 litres) was built in 1971-72 on the field between "Old Glendullan" and the houses provided for employees. The distance between the twounits has been defined as "a short one when the weather's good and a long one when it isn't". The two units share the same water supply, use the same techniques and produce identical makes.
The licensed distillers are Macdonald Greenlees Ltd. of Edinburgh. They specialise in the exportation of blended Scotch whiskies. Their most notable brand is Old Parr de Luxe. They bottle and sell Glendullan malt whisky.
October 2005
Diageo has announced that its 2005 Annual Rare Malts Selection will be the last.
The collection will consist of four cask strenght single malts from closed distilleries; Glen Mhor 28 years old, Millburn 35 years old, Glendullan 26 years old and Linkwood 30 years old.
Dr. Nicholas Morgan, global malts marketing director commented: 'As the Special Releases are now well established, it makes less sence to continue selecting and promoting a parallel series of Rare Malts with his own separate indentity'.
In future, all premium and rare whiskies will be made available in the annual Special Re-leases series.
The Rare Malts Selection, now drawing to a close after ten years, has always been made from remarkable cask-strenght single malt Scotch whiskies; among the rarest, most precious stocks to survive in Scotland.
Looked after undisturbed by careful hands since birth, each has been nurtured to perfection, then selected on merit by a distinguished panel of experts.
Often twenty or more years of age, many Rare Malts have been so rare that they will never be seen again.
Connoisseurs have appreciated their full rich colour and enjoyed their true depth of flavour, thanks to unfiltered cask-strenght bottling.
Nosing them has been an act of reverence to enjoy in itself. When tasting, it has always been advised that the correct dilution for a cask-strenght Rare Malt should be two parts water to one of whisky.
Each individually numbered bottle has revealed a most intriguing character, its individuality emphasised by a quirk peculiar to natural cask strenght bottlings.
So small has been each bottling run that every Rare Malt, drawn from casks, which naturally differ, has had its own unique strenght.
The Rare Malts Selection: each unique to taste, give, collect and now, to remember with affection.
The Rare Malts have always been, by definition, rare. They have never been on widespread sale. Available only in selected outlets, each has been released as a strictly limited edition of individually numbered bottles.
As with fine vintage wine, the supply of Rare Malts has been restricted by availability.
Once each was exhausted, its place in the Selection was taken by an equally rare bottling of a similarly fine old single malt.
And now, the stocks from which the Rare Malts were drawn are almost exhausted, the very last selection has been made.
It is limited to no more than 6000 bottles of each make, and is additionally distinguished by coming in part from closed distilleries.
The last of the last. Truly, these are The Rare Malts.
Water Source:Spring water from Goat's Well
Malt Source:Burghead Maltings
Malt Type:Various
Malt Storage:350 Tonnes
Mill Type:Porteus 4 roller
Grist Storage:24 Tonnes
Mash Tun Construction:Cast Iron - Full Lauter
Mash Size:12 Tonnes
No. of Wash Backs:8
Wash Back Construction:Wooden Douglas Fir
Wash back Capacity:88000 Litres Maximum
No. of Wash Stills:3
Wash Still Charge:14.100 Litres
Heat Source:Steam Pans
Wash Still Shape:Plain / Onion
No. of Spirit Still:3
Spirit Still Charge:16000 Litres
Spirit Still Shape:Palin Onion
Output:3.7 million litres of alcohol
Cask Storage Capacity:3735
Glendullan Distillery is located in the town of Dufftown and situated on the banks of the
Rivers Fiddich and Dullan at the foot of the Conval Hills
Glendullan was built to produce 150.000 gallons of whisky a year, with the first consig-
ment of barley received on 28 january 1898.
Distillation began on 25 April, with the first whisky being bonded in the distillery's
warehouse on the 30 April
Although the whisky market collapsed the same year that distillation started at Glen-
dullan, the owners manged to remain un business
The first owners William Williams and Son, amalgamated in 1919 with Greenlees
brothers Ltd, which had already merged with Alexander Macdonald Ltd, and the
group later became Macdonald and Greenlees Ltd, now part of United Distillers from
Glendullan closed for seven years from 1940 - 1947 due to restructions on barley sup-
plies during the Second World War
When Glendullan reopened, water power was still being used for mashing and for grin-
ding malt, but soon afterwards, the distillery was connected to the national electricity
grid and the water of the River Fiddich no longer provided power
Glendullan's mash house, tunroom and still house were equipped with new plant in 1962
And an additional distillery with six stills and an annual capacity of one million gallons
was built in 1970 - 1972, on the field between the old distillery and the employees'
houses. The new still house was built in the fashion of the 1970s
The old and new distilleries worked in tandem unti 1985, sharing the same water supply,
using the same techniques and producing indentical spirit. The old unit was eventually
converted into an engineering workshop
A grand 14 feet waterwheel that supplied 16 horsepower to drive the machinery powered
he original distillery. Another advantage of the site was that Glendullan Distillery was
able to share, with neighbouring Mortlach Distillery, the use of a private railway siding
from the Great North of Scotland Railway
The pagoda roof of the original distillery sits above what is now the engineering work-
The red Porteus mill produces just over 24 tonnes of grist, which is stored in two grist
Bins, before being transferred into the cast iron mashtun, which produces 12 tonnes
Using Mauri yeast, the worts are left to ferment in the wooden washbacks, made from
Douglas Fir
Three large steam - heated wash stills stand aside three steam - heated spirit stills.
The original stillhouse at Glendullan had just one pair of stills;n the second unit has
three. The water for the distillery is drawn from the springs in the Conval Hills.
The spirit stills are unusually larger vthan the wash stills, due to the fact that two wash
stills are run into one sprit still, thus increasing the distilleries energy effiency
The wooden worm - tubs were used to convert the vapour to spirit in the original dis-
tillery . The new distillery now uses condensers.
The spirit has a green, grassy character
Glendullan was a whisky favoured by King Edward VII. It also received attention in
1992 when Betty Bootryd, first female speaker of the House of Commons, selected
Glendullan as the Speakers's whisky
The Glendullan is an essential contributor to the blends of Old Parr.
Independent bottlings of Glendullan Single Malt Whisky are extremely rare
April 2013
Diageo has named Teaninich near Alness as the location for its plans to build a new 50 million pound new malt whisky distillery and will be adjacent the existing Teaninich distillery
but will have its own name and indentity and will have the capacity to produce 13 million
litres of spirit p[er annum from its 16 stills.
Diageo also invest 12 million pound in expanding the Teaninich distillery to almost doubless capacity.
The site will also feature a bio - energy plant.
The work will begin in 2014.
Diageo also will invest in Mortlach distillery in building a new still house and an other invest-
ment will be at Glendullan distillery to process co products in an anaerobic digestion process, producing bio - gas which will be used to power the Glendullan distillery.
There are also expansion and upgrade developments for more then 40 million pound in
Linkwood, Mannochmore, Glendullan, Dailuaine, Benrinnes, Inchgower, Cragganmore,
Glen Elgin, Glen Ord and in a new bio - energie plants in Glenlossie and Dailuaine.
Also new warehouse are build at Cluny near Kirkcaldy.
And at Talisker a new visitor centre is build for a 1 million pound.
2007 Singleton of Glendullan is launched in the U.S.A.
2013 Singleton Liberty and Trinity are launched
A Singleton Special Releases 38 year old 59.8 % is released.


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The Galaxy and beyond with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager
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Date: 2014-03-04
Awarding Institution: University of Cambridge
Author Affiliation: Department of Physics
Astrophysics Group, Cavendish Laboratory
Trinity College
Qualification: PhD
Language: English
Type: Thesis
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Citation: Perrott, Y. C. (2014). The Galaxy and beyond with the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (doctoral thesis).
Abstract: The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI) is a dual-array radio interferometer sited at Lord's Bridge, near Cambridge. Although it was designed specifically for studying galaxy clusters via observations of the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (SZ) effect, it is also an ideal instrument for Galactic science. This thesis describes science programmes investigating both Galactic objects and galaxy clusters that I have carried out with AMI. A new data analysis pipeline is described which has been developed to allow the automated processing of data taken by AMI in drift-scan mode, pointing the telescope at a fixed azimuth and elevation and observing the sky that drifts past. This is a very efficient mode for large-scale surveys, but the different character of the data has required innovative algorithms for effective processing. The AMI Galactic Plane Survey uses drift-scanning to cover the northern Galactic plane between |b| < approximately 5 degrees. It is the first Galactic plane survey at cm-wave frequencies to achieve crucial mJy-sensitivity levels at arcminute-scale resolution over a wide area, and as such provides a unique opportunity to investigate hitherto unusual objects such as ultra- and hyper-compact HII regions. I describe my work on the survey strategy and its implementation and on some of the science I have extracted so far including the follow-up of candidate hyper-compact HII regions. The recently-released Planck satellite results include the largest catalogue of SZ-selected clusters of galaxies to date. I describe the AMI follow-up programme to observe the clusters within the AMI observation limits, and present the first results from the programme including an interesting discrepancy between the cluster parameters according to AMI and Planck. Since the two instruments are observing the same physical process, this indicates a fundamental problem with the 'universal' pressure profile currently favoured for modelling clusters. In an attempt to address the discrepancy, I use simulations to investigate the effect of allowing the shape of the pressure profile to vary. The derived parameter constraints are found to vary when clusters are not simulated and recovered with the same model; the effects are dependent on angular size, worsening for larger clusters. I also assess the potential for using AMI data to constrain the cluster shape parameters, and conclude that weak constraints on the shape parameters are possible with a careful choice of prior.
Sponsorship: This work was supported by a Cambridge Commonwealth Trust/Cavendish Laboratory Rutherford Scholarship, and the Royal Society of New Zealand.
This record's URL: http://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/245314
Autor: Perrott, Yvette ChanelAdvisorsGrainge, KeithSaunders, RichardGreen, David
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Marathon notes...
It is Sunday, 3rd if November. We have the pleasure of enjoying a homemade bowl of oatmeal prepared by my mom. It's topped with some fresh berries infused with honey. As it's already 7am I decide agains taking Subway and tell the guys (Peter Nielsen and Peter Taub) that we are going to take a cab to South Ferry terminal. Keep it simple. From 30th street and 1st Ave it's easy to go down FDR and reach the south tip of manhattan. In spite of the manic feeling that something could go wrong: Done.
We get there well in time to stock with some water and Gatorade. Big herds of people just cramming their self against each other as they huddle on the boat.
The ferry takes off at 7.50....It's a chilly Marathon morning as we are watching Manhattan disappear behind us. We approach Staten Island on the ferry. We are getting one step closer to a mountain of a work-out spread along the 5 boroughs of the great City of New York. The tension on the ferry is palpable but there is also a feeling of unity, we are literally all "in the same boat". Everybody seems to have a slightly different way of getting in the zone but for sure it's an excited rather the nervous tension. I'm sure some of us, including myself are asking ourselves "what exactly did you get yourself into?" I brush the thoughts aside and focus on positives and preparations like hydration for instance. Oh, and the toilet breaks. After all, gotta make sure there is no need for 'number two' on the run.
We disembark on Staten Island and are taken aback by the chilly winds it welcomes us with. My friend Peter Taub is clearly underdressed and hiding from the wind behind the crowds as we make our way to the next form of transportation. The busses. They will take us to the last security checks near Verrazano Bridge. They pack the busses so full we are left with the standing positions on the isle. There is a big pack of Argentinian runners that are sitting on both sides of the isles. They are prepared, wearing big white overalls and nutrition belts etc. luckily the bus ride is not long...we get off to get screened by NYPD.
We then whisk ourselves towards starting corrals and and once again line up for toilets to make sure... We then do the final fist pumps and head towards our individual starting waves.
I'm in the Green Wave number 2. Slated to start at 10.05 am
I made it just in time to the corrall. It was within a chicken wire fence that was prepared for our batch. I start doing some warm-ups and final stretches. We are about 15 min away... It's still a bit nippy and windy. In anticipation for the bridge I make sure I'm warmed up. I had prepared with a hoodie and windbreaker pants that are shortly to be thrown into the piles of other clothing to be recycled. I put on my arm sleeves and write my name on them with a marker I found on the ground. We hear the first bang. It's the official start. Our group is next. Everyone starts cheering at people up on the bridge and they cheer back.
Our turn, the starting area is cleared for our wave. Bang! The gun goes off againI hear the voice of Frank Sinatra, they are playing "New York, New York! " Everyone is singing along.... One of the things remains from the song as a message "If you can make it here you make make it anywhere"
I step over the starting line and enable timekeeping for my gps enabled heart-rate monitor/stopwatch. It's on!
The atmosphere on the bridge is crowded but steady. It's so strange to run on the Verrazano bridge and look at Manhattan in the distance... I snap a picture, one the few I took along the way.
I noticed the pace guy named David who is carrying the 4.00 hour sign. I catch up to the pack following this guy as if he had the answer to our absolution. He has created a steady following. For now, he is the alpha male.
We get off the bridge and approach the first cheering neighborhoods of Brooklyn. More music follows us en route and it's all very uplifting. My feet feel light and it's getting sunny the windy chills from Verrrazano bridge are a distant memory
The first water break is at 3 miles but I decide I'm still good.
We are now about 5+ miles into the race and I think to myself "just four more of these" ...does it work?
"-Forget it, I'll make it work", I tell myself.
I also literally feel about the best I've felt in a while. I guess my training and preparation wasn't that bad after all. I did a 18 mile run around Manhattan two weeks ago and tapered off since. Good, I think. I stay with "Dave" the 4hour pace guy. We hurry along more BK and I feel great. The pace is fast but manageable. Around 8 miles I start swinging by the water stations for replenishments. About 10 miles in it I am actually surprised how good I feel. The crowds on the streets and the adrenaline has done a favorable job for this sensation. I warn myself to just stick to the game plan. I vision the 4hour sign aka "Balloon" as my umbilical cord and there is no way I was letting the cord snap until I was due. I was the mother and a child as the RUNNER within myself. I was in charge. I was responsible.
We reach the half way mark around the area on a bridge where Brooklyn turns into Queens. Dave and the pack are on pace. Dave yells: is everyone ok? We nod and grunt and some say yes or just scream wooooo to acknowledge.
We hurry along LIC and get closer to another famous obstacle: The Queensboro Bridge. I get excited. I've crossed it numerous times by car or bike but not running. Yet. I'm good on hills anyway. All the stair training and hills... I don't let it intimidate me. I just look forward to the coasting as we would soon reach the tipping point to down towards Manhattan and it's millions of people cheering for us. I think we pass 16mile mark on bridge near exit to streets... Turn to 59th street then shortly make a left to 1st Ave. the long climb towards Bronx starts. At 18miles we are handed a special Gatorade Endurance Formula. It's pretty sweet I don't have the time to look what flavor it was. I trust the technology and research behind it and pray that it doesn't upset my tummy. I down it. Someone next to me says -"yuck!"
We take Willis Ave Bridge into Bronx. We approach the critical 20-mile mark which is famous for people hitting "The Wall" all the hard training and discipline culminates to this moment.
I'm with Dave, steadily. I speed up to the water-stop on the way and fill my little Poland Spring bottle. It enables me to take little sips of water at a time. At the Gatorade stops I just open my mouth wide and try to take as much as I can and then slowly swallow it.
The volunteers pass us small pieces of bananas which are also very welcome.
I am silently praying for us to get back into Manhattan soon.
I run along, my knees are a little tender but nothing too alarming. My Asics shoes have done a great job with shock absorption on the way. My energy is good, my body temperature is close to ideal considering. I've managed to keep my heart rate between 146 and 162 the while race depending on hill or flat. I'm fully aware now that I think I can reach my goal which is the sub-4hour and possible break my PR 3'59'13 from 15 years ago on Dublin Marathon. But I stay humble. And with Dave in sight.
We finally cross back into Manhattan I think around 21miles or 22. The music for the loudspeakers play James Brown "I feel good" and I am filled with positive emotions and feel the goosebumps on my skin. It comforts me...
We then hit 5th Ave for the final long straight and approach Central Park. The dream is within grasp. The child within me is about to be re-awaken. We reach the park. Coming from uptown it'll be more downhill now which is nice.
I check myself for energy and think: "It's time to say goodbye to Dave" I thank him for his services and pick up the pace...
The last three miles I must have passed a 1000 people. I was booking it. Still had juice but it was close enough I didn't feel threatened to just give it some extra push... The sensation of being close to finish line overwhelmed the pain.
I get out of the park at 59th street and run along it. I hear someone saying -"that guy is in the zone!" I grin internally and feel like the eyes to my soul are smiling. I'm flying.
26miles, Two hundred yards to go... I am raising my hands in the air. As I approach the finish line I'm Screaming "under 4 baby! Yeah!"
Within the finish line it hits me. I bend over and grab my knees from collapsing. I'm huddled over and I feel the stream of tears running down my face. More so up my face cos I'm bent over. My whole8 body shakes in joy and tears. I get up and put my hands in the air one more time.
I'm over the moon...
3'56 ... nuff said.
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After attending the trance journeying course at the Parapsychological Institute in Utrecht I was asked to join Joke van Koningshoven's 'Circle of Power'. This is a group of shamanic healers, experienced people but also students like myself. Last weekend I did my very first trance journey on my own for someone else, a woman who is being treated for cancer.
Figuring this would not be the easiest and energetically 'cleanest' tasks one can perform, I prepared myself by giving myself and my space in the attic a thorough smudging, and making a so-called 'white bath' with water and white flowers beforehand which I brought with me as a drain for the negative energy and threw it away afterwards.
Because I haven't got my own drum yet, I just played a 30 minutes drum meditation recording from YouTube (I'll post the link below) on my headphones from my laptop.
Blindfold on, here we go.
I said my prayers, asking for guidance and safety and stating the intention.
What follows after I put my headphones on and the drumming begins, things go so fast that I can't recall it for 100%, but let's call it a phase of consideration and consultation.
First there's a state of 'normal consciousness', with a normal flow of thoughts. My meditation doesn't go very smoothly at first, but then there's a sign, an approval of safety and I get sucked into trance and *poof* I'm gone.
Luckily I managed to remember every single bit of the visions I had, thanks to the drum meditations I did before with Yanu and Joke.
This is the report of the journey:
I try to travel to the Underworld, but I can't, it feels too dense and impenetrable.
Nevertheless there's a lot of space, horses circling around me.
So I go Up.
I see many warriors, again circling around me.
Because I need to join the Circle.
There's so many warriors, wildly stamping their feet.
There's so many I'm being overwhelmed by it.
I feel the power of their determined, grim combativeness.
And I feel my own emotion about so much support and I start to cry.
I'm there with you.
These warriors are fighting for you, Indio warriors, Batak warriors, wildly stamping around with their spears, digging the clay with their hands, tearing it apart, cleaning it up.
They are battling just for you.
They're throwing large tufts of cotton in the air.
It's such a beautiful sight, such a beautiful gesture, I'm in awe and I'm totally amazed about not getting out of my trance state. If I had been dreaming at night, I would have woken up by now but it just goes on and on.
The tufts of cotton in the air become snow,
the flakes become stars.
I feel my breath, I'm gasping for air.
Because I feel your panic and fear of death.
I'm crying my heart out by now, big tears are rolling from my eyes all over my face.
'You ok, Kiki?' my spirits ask.
It's alright, I tell them.
I need to transform the fear.
I'm there with you, but they're doing all the work, not me.
There is no fear
Only love
No fear
Nothing but love
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FC: Alternate Supervision Methods By: CCapozzoli | ePortfolios
1: Why Use Them?
2: How does the approach support the needs of adult learners?
3: - represents an individual's efforts, progress and achievements - over time includes self-reflection and individual efforts - based on learner goals and initiatives - is a tool for facilitating life-long learning and career development
4: How does the approach support differentiated professional development to meet the unique needs of staff in your school?
5: - based on individual needs and goals - performance-based and indicates evidence of the attainment of knowledge, skills and attitudes - based on individual and specific needs - self-paced and flexible in artifact selection - self evaluative – formative and summative are ongoing
6: What elements need to be in place so that the professional development is of high quality and effectively improves instruction?
7: - teaching philosophy goals and action steps - rationale for implementing ePortfolio as a supervision tool – why create one buy in from staff - core competencies and evidence through artifact collection and presentation - training – how to create an online web portfolio - rationale for artifact selection rubric for scoring
8: How does the approach support teacher evaluation?
9: - self reflective and outcomes based on state and local teaching standards - teachers complete tasks and learning goals through authentic project based representations - determines growth and level of understanding and skills
10: - supervisor can determine growth through teacher artifacts and self reflections - authentic assessment in evaluating the effectiveness of a teacher for licensure and/or employment decisions.
11: - vehicle for assessing the relationship between teacher choices or actions and their outcome ePortfolio Resources http://www.educationworld.com/a_tech/tech/tech111.shtml http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2009/11/01/ePortfolios.aspx http://www.utc.edu/Administration/WalkerTeachingResourceCenter/FacultyDevelopment/Portfolios/ http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Sheridan_Center/docs/teach_port.pdf


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Key challenges of digitalization in Switzerland were in the center of the Swiss IGF 2017 on 30 May in Berne again. The opening was provided by OFCOM Director Philipp Metzger. Debates in the three plenary sessions focused on security, data economy and access barriers, besides three Workshops conducted in a parallel track (the full program you can find under Event 2017). Abstracts and conclusions from the main sessions were compiled in the Messages from Berne, as in previous years, and can be downloaded and spread.
Our next step will be mobilization and participation at the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF) convened for December 2017 in Geneva.
Messages from Bern 2017
1 Plenum – Security by Empowerment or by Regulation?
The Internet evolves at a very high pace but there is a regulatory lag, where regulation, including regulation on security measures, always lags behind technology. In addition, attackers are getting smarter, more professional, and cyber criminals want to cash in. How do we close that gap? We need to discuss what we need. Discussions are under way but take time.
What is the appropriate mix of societal risk we are ready to take? What is the right balance between empowerment and regulation? This is dependent on the sector of activity and the population at stake.
Pooling the strengths of different stakeholders in a truly multi-stakeholder fashion to protect infrastructures and users in order to get a safer Internet for everyone is seen as a way forward. All stakeholders, whether Government, Private Sector, Technical Community and Civil Society, have their competencies and elements to bring a common solution together, but we need rules of engagement. We need to be adaptive and flexible to learn how to cope with these new extraordinary challenges.
Social norms and Technology need to complement each other. Technology, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, alone will not do the trick, thus different actors need to work together. The risks of misuse of any security technologies and measures, e.g. for censorship, should be considered and foreseen. Also: can responsibility be delegated from the State to the private sector? Who decides what gets filtered, or not? What safeguards are there? What are the boundaries of free speech? Voluntary cooperation formats (avoiding top-down structures) were seen as a format providing checks and balances.
In some cases, we need empowerment by regulation in the form of liability legislation, e.g. for Internet of Things (IoT) products: producers and distributors should be responsible and held accountable for ensuring some minimum safety requirements, e.g. security updates for a certain life cycle or open source the product after first life cycle.
Plenum 2: The Data Economy – Value Creation of Data
Data policies are increasingly emerging as a political issue: strategies, soft law and national policies are being developed, e.g. in March 2017 the Swiss Federal Council defined high-level goals for a coherent and future-oriented data policy and tasked the Federal Administration to draft the initial benchmarks. https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases/media-releases-federal-council.msg-id-66068.html
Data is regarded as a key resource for the digital economy. Apart from digital-borne companies based on data analytics, all economic sectors are transitioning to new business and service models, e.g. in the agro-business, thus opening new opportunities.
The added value of data benefits not only businesses, but also media (data journalism), users and the public sector.
Switzerland has strong foundations for benefiting from the data economy. It shines in its traditional neutrality, international trustworthiness and stability, although some people question whether recent legislation allowing state interference may compromise this. There was general 2 agreement that digital skills, including critical knowledge about how ICTs work, and coding skills, should be strengthened, especially on those aspects were humans have a competitive advantage versus AI.
There was discussion on how users may be empowered to be more aware, to control and benefit from data transactions using their personal data. Some doubts were expressed on the feasibility of an individual control approach. In any case, transparency was considered as a cornerstone for gaining acceptance and trust from users and all interested parties, including the need to develop and share new transparency methods concerning algorithms and AI mechanisms. The need to differentiate between different kinds of data also gained traction. This distinction is blurred in the wider ecosystem of big data.
The ownership of publicly funded data and the role of public authorities in providing e-ID access tools was also debated.
Plenum 3: Access and Regulatory Requirements – Copyright as Barrier or Cornerstone?
Different issues were discussed regarding how copyright has to continue finding the right balance between authors and users. However, in the digital environment the distinction between consumers and creators is blurred as almost everyone becomes a creator.
The need to combine state regulation with self-regulation was presented, including the need that self-regulation schemes are supported by appropriate liability shields that protect the providers adhering to such schemes.
It was a shared sentiment that we cannot let algorithms decide alone what is right or wrong? Regarding IP and domain blocking there was a shared feeling that this generally may not meet requirements of proportionality. However, political constellations may vary for different fields of activity as the example of online gambling legislation has shown. It was also mentioned that there is a contradiction if a state legally allows users to download content for personal use, but at the same time introduces new blocking measures directed to indirectly preventing that conduct.
There was also detailed discussion on how to best allow for academic publications being freely accessible. Secondary publication rights or a review of the current publishing contract could be possible ways forward.
Finally, the new draft legislation proposals for adapting copyright to the needs of public libraries were presented and discussed: orphan works, lending by libraries and use of protected works for indexing purposes.
The archiving of websites will become more important in the near future and has to be discussed. This was not yet a topic while revising copyright law. However, we need to start archiving now, and well before we discuss access rights etc.


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No Dodge Window
Ubuntu Linux 12.04 LTS has came. It is too late to make a review but it's okay. Better too late than nothing, right? So lets go to the point, what are new in this LTS relase.
As my experience, Ubuntu 12.04 comes with some great and minus things :
- PAE kernel. This is is a feature to allow (32-bit) x86 processors to access a physical address space (including random access memory and memory mapped devices) larger than 4 gigabytes. For me, this new kernel surprisingly makes Ubuntu more responsive than ever.
- No more dodge window. Unity launcher, apparently has became popular launcher in Linux desktop. But, sadly, the best thing in this app, Dodge Window, is removed in the 12.04. If you used Ubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.10 with Unity, you will aware this. Dodge window is a cool feature that will hide itself when an app window is being maximized and will appears automaticaly when app window then being unmaximized. I don't know the reason, but based on Shuttleworth blog, it is pure a technical reason. (Lets pray this feature will be presented again in the future)
- Indicator Applet included as default in GNOME Session Fallback (Classic Mode). Indicator applet is a very cool applet and a part of the Ubuntu Ayatana project.
- Ubuntu Software Center now become lighter and finally I could use it as a replacement for gdebi (though gdebi is still better and fast).
- Nouveau driver works better. I could run Compiz perfect though I couldn't run Unity 3D and Gnome Shell :)
- Network Manager came with a small problem with Broadband connection. You have to go to System Settings and switch Broadband Connection on in every system rebooting to use it.
- There is a little incomapibilty issue with Faenza Icon Theme in GNOME Session Fallback.
Overall, I felt satisfied by this Debian-Testing-Based release. My old CPU runs faster. My old Nvidia GPU runs better and the new wallpaper look pretty and profesional as before. This is the machine I used to test :
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Dreaming of Owning a second home!
This Country retreat, has three separate home's on 3.6 acres of lovely land. Ideal for an Artist retreat and studio. Live in one house rent the other house for weekenders. Home has great potential .
Additionally you can purchase for $180,000 – 95 acres.
This home was the original Ulster & Delaware Railroad Depot which stopped running in 1954. This property has 3 buildings.
The building has the original rooms from 1898, with the living room formerly the waiting room, and the telegraph section looking to the front, now good for a dining table. The ticket buying area is now a bathroom, complete with shower. In the back the baggage area has been made into two bedrooms, with doors out onto the decks in front and back of the Depot. An oil furnace is in the cellar along with pump from artesian well in the yard.
The second building is off the back. The deck continues to the newer building (1980-81) with steps coming up along a rhododendron bush. This building is heated by electric panels and a wood stove. Upstairs are kitchen, dining area, pull-out couch, built-in bookshelves, two closets. An office and bathroom (with tub and shower) complete the upstairs. Downstairs are two bedrooms, with three skylights and large windows out to the Creek.
A third building was completed in 2000, A garage with two doors and space for tools and gardening equipment. The upstairs Studio is a large open space with Kitchen, wood burning stove and bathroom. Studio has a large window overlooking the gardening beds below and over to the other two buildings. Heat is supplied by a propane gas stove with a large fan that distributes the heat effectively.
The home has two parking spaces off the tracks, which is now a road with gravel. The lane cuts through the trees from County Rte.10 and continues along Kortright Creek. Spirea bushes ending with a hydrangea tree are on the parking side of the Depot and grey pavers are under the overhanging roof. Town taxes $7,496 School taxes $2,052.19.
Home is on 395.98 Acres
about 3.30 hours from NYC.
The home is just down the road from the Hanford Mills Museum. Hanford Mills Museum is a historic grist mill and sawmill and national historic district in East Meredith. http://www.hanfordmills.org/
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Dear Mr. Mark,
Thanks to you, the Children's Paradise Residential Services is successfully providing residential facilities, clothes, stationary equipments, Laptops and other needful things to poor and orphan children. We are happy to see your volunteer participation in such social responsibility.
We work for the education and empowerment of poor and uneducated children through our association. These children are the victims of crisis in their lives or natural disasters. These children are often neglected for the basic needs and education. Hence, we try to provide them for what they deserve.
You contribution to this work will definitely encourage other people and our association too. We arranged residential facilities for about 250 orphan children last year, and arranged for teachers for their education. Our residential have enough facilities to educate and feed these orphans.
It was a great achievement for us when one of the children from our residence got selected as the National Scholar Student. You are invited by our association to visit our residential site and met our staff of 40 volunteers and children.
We will be pleased by your visit and it will be inspiring to us to see your satisfaction. Please let us know when you will be available for this tour. We'll provide you all the details of programs and campaigns organized by our association for children. Our quarterly newsletters and emails will be sent to you regularly.
Thanks to you again, for you kind support for our association.
Your Sincerely,
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Build and Command Objects-Using Design Patterns
Other uses can be more complex changes to an object's properties. Imagine you have a Value Object that is populated with database values and is passed back to the client level (JSP or any other technology) via an HTTP response. Based on some values, an appropriate action will be taken before the client sees the server response. For example, if some data is not correct, the client may see an error page and not the page with the values. Value Object is a holder of data and its concepts can be considered another design pattern, but this topic is not in the scope of this article.
Builder can be used to check data in the Value Object and modify it, before it reaches the client tier. It can set flags, add or format fields in the Value Object, and then pass it onward.
The build possibilities are endless for "Builder" pattern.
Command Pattern
Command is a behavioral pattern; that puts it in the category of Observer design pattern. Observer pattern is beyond the scope of this article, but anyone who used modern listeners should be familiar with its concept. Command deals with behavior and does not create new types of objects like the Builder does. For example, this pattern is often used in GUIs where a menu item object can be connected with different Commands in such a way that the menu item object does not need to know any details of how action is performed.
Its intent is to "encapsulate a request as an object, thereby letting [developers] parameterize clients with different requests, and supports undoable operations."
Here is an UML diagram of this pattern:
Look at some code to make this pattern clear:
The Receiver object is the one that performs action on the behalf of the command and it can be any action dictated by the business logic even a Builder action, via a public interface.
class Receiver { public void action() { System.out.println("Performing action or build operation"); } }
Instead of an interface, an abstract class can be used to define the command.
public abstract class Command { protected Receiver receiver; public Command( Receiver receiver ) { this.receiver = receiver; } public abstract void execute(); }
The concrete Command class, therefore, need not to have Receiver field defined.
public class ConcreteCommand extends Command { ConcreteCommand(Receiver receiver) { super(receiver); } public void execute() { receiver.action(); } }Please see the included source for a complete implementation.
In an enterprise application, "receivers" can be supplied on the fly to the "command" objects, and "commands" can be attached to visual components that don't need to know how the action is done. For example, in the Swing GUI, a different instance of the same concrete command object can be attached to different buttons or drop-down menu Items and perform different actions based on the command Receiver's implementations.
As I mentioned, Receiver can be combined with the Builder pattern. In other words, an action method could also be a build method. This way, when there is a request for a command to be done, the same request also can perform a build action.
By placing "Builder" object as a Receiver of the "Command," truly powerful results can be achieved. Programmers can build and command objects, at the same time enforcing code reuse, strict interface following and logic flow, in your design.
In this article, I have covered the basis of creational "Builder" and behavioral "Command" patterns, and have shown how to use them in an overall architecture design. I also have shown how to look for places to apply them. I firmly believe that architects need not only know these patterns, but also have a strong understanding on where these patterns fit on the overall design; that sometimes can be harder than just knowing them.
Download the Code
You can download the source code used in this article here.
Design Patterns by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (January 15, 1995)
Head First Design Patterns
by Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, and Kathy Sierra
Publisher: O'Reilly; 1st edition (October 26, 2004)
Wikipedia online: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
About the Author
Vlad Kofman is a Senior System Architect working on projects under government defense contracts. He has also been involved with enterprise-level projects for major Wall Street firms and the U.S. government. His main interests are object-oriented programming methodologies and design patterns.
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Tera and Bennett became friends at the University of Maine. After graduation Tera moved to Arizona and Bennett began a PhD program at UMaine. "Although our lives were going in different directions, deep down there was a connection that kept bringing us together," Tera says.
Their relationship grew, despite the distance, and the couple began visiting each other monthly and taking trips together. In 2011 the couple moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, starting a new chapter in their lives.
During a trip home to Tera's family's camp in northern Maine, Bennett decided to propose. Hurricane Arthur had put a damper on their week on Long Lake, keeping the group inside for most of their vacation. "On the final evening of our trip, we braved the storm to meet family and friends for dinner at Tera's all-time favorite local restaurant, the Long Lake Sporting Club," Bennett says.
The lounge was packed when Bennett decided to say a few words to the group. He started with the story about how they first met 13 years ago and ended with a proposal.
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