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Last night's Hodir kill: 3 minutes, 5 seconds. Literally seconds away from success, realizing failure too late to catch the wipe before the kill occurred. It was borderline devastating, and it was some of the best performances I've seen from some of my guildmates. They really dug in and gave it all they had to give. But we still fell short.
As we moved on to Vezax, I couldn't help but ponder the question: Are hard modes "fun"?
Before I get started with my thoughts, I just want to state the following: yes, I know that hard modes are supposed to be "hard". Yes, I know that they are supposed to be the cherry on top challenges for guilds that have cleared Ulduar and are looking for additional challenges.
But, at what point does "challenging" have to cross the line to "not fun"? And why does that need to be the case at all?
Tomorrow is the three month mark of the release of Ulduar. Let's take a look at how the world (53,250 ranked guilds) is faring with hard modes to date (numbers courtesy of WoW Progress):
- Flame Leviathan (Obituary) – 2663 guilds, 5.00%
- XT – 2515 guilds, 4.72%
- Iron Council – 773 guilds, 1.45%
- Hodir: 1872 guilds, 3.52%
- Thorim: 1184 guilds, 2.22%
- Freya: 155 guilds, .29%
- Mimiron: 157 guilds, .29%
- Vezax: 333 guilds, .63%
- Yogg 3 Keepers: 681 guilds, 1.28%
Now, Blizzard has nerfed both XT and Flame Leviathan's hard mode versions of the encounters, and both of these encounters are at the highest percentages of guilds seeing success with them. However, once you are past the two nerfed bosses in the siege, you will see that the success rate starts to drop fairly quickly. And once you are past the first two "easy" keepers, the success rate drops even more drastically.
I wonder how many guilds find these encounters "fun". I wonder if we asked that guild that has been wiping for 6 weeks on Freya and Mimiron if the fights are "fun", what their responses would be. I have a friend in an extremely top end, world ranked, raiding guild and when I asked him about some of these encounters his response was that the fights were "retarded". Not "challenging, yet fun", but just horrible encounters with poor mechanics. This is from a guy who is in a guild that welcomes difficult content like kids chasing after the ice cream man on a hot summer day. So…if they aren't "fun" for the creme de la creme…the guilds that these encounters were "designed for", exactly who are they fun for?
Now, we have spent most of our hard mode efforts on Hodir. Three raid resets, about 60 wipes, roughly 10-12 hours. Balls out burst damage is not one of our fortes, and we may have selected the wrong hardmode to start with, as Hodir seems to favor our weaknesses more than our strengths as a guild. But dammit, we should be able to do this! And we have been so close for two weeks in a row now, I just want to get it over with and move on to something else.
We spent one night on XT last raid reset, after the nerf, and saw him at 11% before we were out of time and had to just knock him down normally to make sure we had time for Hodir later in the week. Holiday raiding this week prevented us from giving it some effort this reset. We do intend to go in this coming week and focus on him to get a kill done. We have spent zero time on Obituary, but intend to focus that the reset after XT is done. We were in the top 4ish% of guilds to kill Yogg, so I suppose that progress wise we are still ahead of the game as far as Hodir goes, and slightly behind on XT and Flame Leviathan, in large part just because we haven't put the effort in on them. Hopefully we will remedy some of that on Wednesday.
However…as we work these hard modes, I really am not certain that we are having "fun". I find myself far more frustrated at the encounters than I ever was during TBC, save Sunwell. I certainly think that we are capable of them (well, I'm not so sure about Freya/Mimiron, however, most guilds aren't finding successes there), but how much do you ask from your raid before you start to collapse people? We already have people getting snappy and bitter over Hodir, and I don't like that at all.
Here are my biggest griefs with some of the "hard mode" encounters and their designs:
- Hard Mode = Bring Less Healing. I really hate that Blizzard's idea of making an encounter more challenging is to raise the DPS bar so high that you are required to significantly reduce the number of healers you are using. For Hodir, we are down to THREE healers. We bring 5, and have two of them off-spec for the fight. But seriously? THREE healers? Even the guilds that can put out better damage than we can are bringing only four. There have GOT to be better ways to have DPS checks and healing checks than to cut more than half your healers for an encounter. Hodir isn't the only encounter we see this, XT also is a lower healer fight, we have been using five. I have also heard, but not experienced that Iron Council also requires you to reduce the amount of healers that you have for success. Is asking half of your healing team to sit every week for a good portion of the raid fun? In my opinion, no.
- Hard Mode = Bring More DPS – This kind of goes hand in hand with the mechanic above. It's not "bring stronger DPS" it's flat out bring MORE DPS. Fights with 1 tank 3 healers and 21 DPS are frustrating…sure, maybe our DPS could, and should, be stronger. But at the point you have stacked your raid to the gills with DPS, what more can you ask of people? We have some of our lower DPS for Hodir OFFER to sit out for someone that can do more. As an example, Hodir favors casters. They can do more damage with the buffs given than the melee, just by the nature and mechanics of the buffs. So now, not only does Blizzard want you to stack DPS, it gets easier the more magic based DPS you bring. Hey Blizzard! What happened to bring the player not the class? Oh…I guess you only meant that for non-hard modes, huh? So guilds that run 10 physical DPS and 10 caster DPS are going to have a more difficult time of this? Great. Do I find this fun? No, not really.
- Hard Mode = Relying on Good RNG– Regardless of people who say fights like Hodir aren't "RNG" based, to an extent these encounters really are. Hell, we had a pull last night where our first storm power buff came 45 seconds into the encounter. So, you are supposed to do the fight where you are missing a significant buff needed for success and where you have zero control on how it hits for 1/3 of the encounter? Yea…no. While I certainly will take some of the blame for low DPS, not all of our failure is our fault. If you have poor RNG on Hodir, you might as well wipe and start it over. I really, really don't want to blame RNG for some of our failures, but sometimes that really is the truth, the RNG failed us. Each pull, we do a little rain dance around the fire and sacrifice a virgin to the RNG gods in the hope that the stars will all align right and a miracle will occur! Do I find relying on something completely random for success fun? No.
- Hard Mode = Bring More Healing!– So…less healing for Hodir, IC and XT, more healing for Freya and Mimiron?! Hell, even more healing for Thorim, where you are looking at 7 healers if you want to attempt the fight without frost resist gear. Now, we haven't attempted Hard Mode Mimiron in either our 10 or our 25, but from what I understand of the encounter the more Holy Priests you have the easier the fight gets. Perhaps this has changed with the recent nerfs that hit him…but you will see lots of screen shots of a dead Mimiron where you will count 4+ priests in the raid. Do I find relying on certain classes for the success of an encounter fun? No, I don't. Do I like having to ask half of my healers to sit for one encounter and then have to ask DPS in the raid to sit for healers for another? No, this kind of raid juggling is not fun. "But what about Dual Specs"?! Sure, we have some of our healers Dual Spec'd…but they don't have the same gear or experience as our full time DPS, and that will limit their damage as well.
- Hard Mode = Crazy Raid Damage– This one goes hand in hand with the topic above. Most of the hard modes have huge amounts of raid damage that is going around, in addition to any of the other mechanics of the encounter. This mechanic is fine…as long as the damage is reasonable, and the fight allows you the leeway to bring a requisite number of healers to deal with the damage. We have done OK with Hodir so far with just a paladin, priest and druid…but if anyone takes incidental damage during a frozen blows or right before, it's very risky (Bad Warlock life tapping before frozen blows! No Biscuit!). However…I have read that people are having their raids stack Stamina for 3 elder Freya, just to survive. At that point, I think the damage is probably a bit much (and apparently Blizzard agreed, as they are nerfing her in 3.2). Do I find extensive raid damage fun? Meh…if it's manageable sure, it's a challenge. If it's out of control, no. I do not think making a fight "harder" by just tossing in a shit ton of extra damage to heal "fun".
- Hard Mode = Soulstoning the Tank!– Again, this is based on my research more than my experience in 25 man raiding, although we have experienced some of this in our 10 man. There are two encounters that I am aware of where guilds are Soulstoning Tanks because they are expecting tanks to be insta-gibbed and need them up again when the next tank dies. Thorim and Iron Council. I do know from my experience with 10 man Thorim that the tanks can just get rocked. I do not think that we have had a hard mode kill yet where both of our tanks were standing. I do not anticipate this to grow any easier in the 25 man version of this encounter. It is my understanding with Steelbreaker that he has a "vaelestraz" type mechanic where he just kills the tank every 30 seconds or so. I suppose having the boss put out ridiculous amounts of damage the longer the fight goes on, or having a finite limit with the tanks for the fight is another way to enter a DPS check into the encounter. I don't know if this will be "fun" or not, not having much experience with it, I don't want to give an opinion on it just yet.
I really do like Ulduar as a zone. I found most of the normal modes fights fun and well designed, the graphics beautiful and the zone fairly well tuned on normal. However though, I guess overall I'm not really having "fun" with hard modes. Mostly, they just cause me a lot of stress. I think that the "challenges" that they present could have been done better and had more thought, effort and tuning put into them. There are certainly ways to make an encounter more difficult, while still requiring more strategy and thought from the raid than just bringing fewer healers, tossing out more raid/tank damage and bringing more DPS.
I don't think that this dislike for the hard modes is because we are struggling with Hodir as much as I think that most of the encounters have aspects that are just poorly done. Blizzard, if you want to give us a challenge, give us something to sink our brains into. Something more creative than DPS faster, heal harder and pray for good RNG.
What do you all think? Are hardmodes fun? Are they a good substitute for more challenging content overall? What changes do you hope to see Blizzard make with hard modes in future content?

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FT218: "The withholding tax is the greatest sin government ever perpetrated against the people." —Old Pithy
Fundamental Truth
The tariff was the funding source for most of government for about a century.
Once upon a time there was no federal income tax. No estate tax. No gift tax. No payroll tax. No capital gains tax. And no corporate tax. Taxes we take for granted today didn't exist a century or so ago. The country was a lot leaner back then. People kept most of their money. And took care of their families.
The federal government used to fund everything thing they did with tariffs. A tax on imports. Paid in ports. As ships unloaded their goods. Far away from most people. And few people complained. Our first excise tax was a different story. A 7 cent per gallon of whiskey incited the Whiskey Rebellion. After fighting the Revolutionary War to escape the oppressive taxation policies of Great Britain the people were in no mood for a new tax. The whiskey tax lasted for about a decade. Then they repealed it.
This left tariffs as the funding source for most of government for about a century. But even that grew controversial. And began the divisions between North and South. The North protected its industry with protective tariffs on iron products, textiles (wool and cotton) and agricultural goods. Shipped from the more industrialized Britain. Which Britain responded to with tariffs of their own. On cotton and other agricultural products grown in the South. So the more the North protected their industries the more difficult it made for the South to export their raw goods.
In 1913 the progressives reintroduced the income tax and taxed the rich at 1%.
This wasn't the only difference of opinion the North and South had. And their differences resulted in war. The North was able to win the American Civil War with its expansive industry. But the war devastated the country. Especially the South. Which lost about 8.6% of her population. To get an idea of what an 8.6% population decline is consider this. That percentage of the current U.S. population is approximately 27 million. So the losses the South suffered were similar to what the Soviets lost on the Eastern Front during World War II.
The South may have lost more of its population. But the North suffered nearly the same number of war dead. She just had a larger population to begin with. To run all of that industry that won the war. America's first modern war was a costly one. And one that President Lincoln had to turn to a new source of revenue. The federal income tax. Which taxed the rich. At 3%. Then it taxed the super rich at 5%. But after they paid down the war debt they repealed America's first income tax.
Then came the progressives. And their taxes. In 1913 they reintroduced an income tax. Taxing the rich at 1%. And the super rich at 6%. To fund an expanding federal government. Then came World War I. To fund the war they increased the tax rate on the rich to 15%. And the super rich at 77%. The top marginal rate fell during the Twenties. But FDR raised it back up during the Great Depression. Until it reached 94%. Where for every dollar they earned in and above the top income bracket they got to keep only 6 cents.
Few would be able to write a check on tax day to pay their full tax bill.
Then came all the other taxes. And they just kept coming. Our tax bill grew to staggering amounts. Which posed a problem for the taxing authorities. As people just didn't keep that kind of money around. They worked. They raised their families. And what little they had left they put into the bank for their retirement. Making it very difficult for them to pay their tax bill when it came. Especially when it was 30% or more of their entire income. So what to do?
The Founding Fathers created a nation out of a tax rebellion. And then when that nation levied its first excise tax they got a little rebellion of their own. Being opposed to taxes is part of the American DNA. So the taxing authorities had to somehow hide the large amount of taxes we were paying. That is, they had to reduce the transparency of these taxes. For if you don't know what you're paying in taxes you really can't get mad at paying high taxes.
Enter the withholding tax. The greatest sin government ever perpetrated against the people. For it takes our money before we ever get it. Conditioning us to accept 'net' pay as the norm. And making 'gross' pay some meaningless payroll jargon. Because you can't spend 'gross' pay. You can only spend 'net' pay. Which is the only pay people care about. Making it not only easier to hide the soaring amount of taxes people were paying. But because it's so easy to hide what we're paying they could raise those taxes to confiscatory heights. Because we never have that money in our hands. We never see it. It goes from our employer to the taxing authorities. Which is the only way they could collect these soaring amounts. For few would be able to write a check on tax day to pay their full tax bill. As people just don't keep that kind of money around.
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Cirque of the Towers, Wyoming
OVERHANGING Tower Route: NE Ridge (4th to 5.2)
Summit Elev: 12,164 ft Rock Type: Granite
Date: July 21, 1994 Partners: Marty Abegg, Sue Abegg, Matt Teevan
|Brief trip report:
Until we moved to British Columbia in 1995, my family was living in the Midwest. Every summer we came out west to enjoy the mountains my parents had backpacked and climbed in during their early married life. In 1994, my parents, my sister and I (9 and 11 years old), and two friends piled into our van and drove out to Wyoming, where we backpacked in the Wind Rivers for two weeks. This trip brought us through the amazing Cirque of the Towers area. My parents—fondly remembering the climbing days of their past—decided it would be fun to climb one of the moderate routes in the Cirque, and invited me to come along. They chose Overhanging Tower, a low class 5 peak in the heart of the Cirque peaks. This was my first alpine climb (my dad even let me lead a 15-ft pitch), and I loved it. I didn't get the chance to climb again for several years, but this early climb set the stage for a future of mountain adventuring!
North Cascades, Washington (HWY 20)
SPIRE Point Route: East Face from Spire Col (4th to low 5th)
Summit Elev: 8,264 ft Rock Type: Gneiss
Date: August 2, 2003 Partners: Marty Abegg, Jenny Abegg
|Brief trip report:
My family (dad, mom, sister, and I) backpacked the Ptarmigan Traverse from July 29 to Aug 3, 2003 (this is one of my favorite backpacks I have done, click link for a few photos). On Day 5 of the traverse, we traversed Dana Glacier to Spire Col. My dad, sister, and I decided to scramble up Spire Point rising up to the west of the col. This was a fun Class 4/low Class 5 climb. It was the first climb that my dad, sister, and I had done together, and my third technical rock climb ever (my first was Overhanging Tower in the Wind Rivers of Wyoming in the Summer of 1994, when I was 11 years old, and my second was in the Sawtooths in Idaho in 1998, although I can't seem to find any photos from that climb). The climb up Spire Point was blocky and took a couple of hours to get to the summit.
North Cascades, Washington (SR 542)
Mount BAKER Route: Coleman-Deming Glacier
Summit Elev: 10,781 ft Rock Type: Andesite
Date: June 14-15, 2004 Partners: Marty Abegg, Sue Abegg, Jenny Abegg
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This was a fun family adventure, climbed by my dad, mom, sister, and myself. In the late-spring conditions, the route was straightforward, especially under the sunny skies we were fortunate to have. It was mainly a long snow-slog. The 360° view from the top of the snow-capped North Cascades was well worth the climb.
North Cascades, Washington (HWY 20)
WHATCOM Peak Route: South side (3rd)
Summit Elev: 7,574 ft Rock Type: Granodiorite
Date: July 24, 2005 Partners: (solo)
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My mom and I did a backpack trip up Easy Ridge, with tentative plans to climb Mt. Challenger. I had been high on the Challenger Glacier with my dad in July 2002, but we had not had time to climb the final rock pitch to the top. From any direction, the approach into Challenger is quite difficult. The Easy Ridge approach was no exception. The ridge itself was easy, but navigating our way over to Perfect Pass (the saddle between Whatcom Peak and Mt. Challenger from where you can get onto the Challenger Glacier) was not fun. There is a deep gully (called the "Perfect Impass") that is apparently possible to cross with some fixed protection and confident climbing skills, but my mom did not feel comfortable doing this, so we made a 1000+ ft descent to bypass the gully, and then did some horrendous bushwhacking to get up to Perfect Pass. By the time we got to the pass, it was too late to climb Challenger, so we relaxed in the meadows enjoying the view onto the vast Challenger Glacier. While my mom was napping, I decided to run up Whatcom Peak to the north of the pass. It was mainly a snow climb with a bit of rock scrambling at the top. It took 45 minutes to reach the summit from the pass. In July 2007, I successfully climbed Mt. Challenger.
Enchantments, North Cascades, Washington (HWY 2)
PRUSIK Peak Route: West Ridge (5.7, 6-7 pitches)
Summit Elev: 8,000 ft Rock Type: Granodiorite
Date: August 4, 2005 Partners: Marty Abegg, Sue Abegg, Jenny Abegg
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This was another family adventure. My dad, mom, sister, and I did a 6 day backpack trip through the Enchantments, with one of our goals to climb Prusik Peak. We had only one rack of climbing gear, so I led the route, with my sister following behind me and unclipping from the gear, and my dad leading behind her, clipping his rope back into the gear. I think this is the only technical climb my whole family has done together, and we had quite the adventure: my mom climbed it in her running shoes, my dad got his wedding ring stuck in a crack and broke his finger getting it out, my sister sobbed in (but made it up!) the chimney variation I accidentally chose at the top, and I had the opportunity to prusik on Prusik when we got our rope stuck on the descent. But all in all, the route was fun and moderate, with solid rock and great views. We descended by rappelling down the north face with a single rope.


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Hello Hannah!
I know what you mean about juggling treatments, school, social life. I have both of my children in a home school \distance learning program. My son will be a senior next year. My daughter is the one with CF, and she will be a freshman next year. Look into it because it will expand your options if you change your mind later about educational avenues. My daughter has been able to go into the hospital, do a month of PICC lines, etc without falling way behind. She can do her work on a computer and do many breathing treatments at the same time so she has more free time. The program we use is connected with the district here so she will get the same diploma, walk the stage upon graduation, has a prom--it's been a lifesaver. My son is like you--hates school--but I wouldn't let him get a GED. If your parents are like I am...try the online high school options. I wish it was all easier for the CF community, but computers make it much better than it was when I was a teen to get a degree from home.
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Boldness is a complicated issue: Nandana SenMay 22, 2012 IANS
Mumbai, May 22 (IANS) Beautiful Nandana Sen shot bold scenes for "Rang Rasiya" unabashedly, but she feels boldness is treated with double standards in the industry.
The daughter of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Nandana, who has never feared skin show, says it is important for filmmakers to portray intimacy and women in an artistic way.
"I do think boldness is a complicated issue, and needs careful consideration and treatment. Female bodies are often ruthlessly and ingloriously treated as objects in showbiz, and I'd never agree to that. It would take away my humanity by turning me into a commodity," Nandana told IANS in an email interview.
She says it is high time women are treated with respect.
"Let's look at the inconsistency in our business. I applaud that our culture has no problem with all kinds of bold and suggestive (some might say vulgar) movements, barely covered by minimal strands of clothing on bodies that are thrusting in all directions (and we allow our children to see this).
"What I don't understand is why the same culture refuses to acknowledge the innate dignity and beauty of the human form. My body is as much a part of my humanity as my brain, my morals, and my heart, and I will never be ashamed of expressing it, as long as it is with dignity and self-respect," she added.
Shooting intimate scenes with Randeep Hooda for Ketan Mehta's "Rang Rasiya" didn't come as an easy decision for Nandana.
"I could take that decision only after discussing it at length with my family, who were very supportive," she said.
Nandana says she is delighted "Rang Rasiya" will finally release this year. A controversial film based on the life of painter Raja Ravi Varma, it has been ready since the past three years and has been travelling to various international film festivals.
"'Rang Rasiya' keeps garnering greater acclaim and more awards in festivals all over the world. In fact, I just got the news that it will be the opening film in the New Film Series at the Bangkok International Film Festival in June and in Washington DC in May," she said.
Nandana made her debut as Rani Mukerji's younger sister in Sanjay Leela Bhansali's "Black". Some of the other movies she has worked in include "Tango Charlie", "My Wife's Murder" and "Strangers".
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Δευτέρα 20 Απρίλιος 2015, 20:34:21 μμ »
Μπράβο και στον Κώστα και στον Φώτη. Άξιοι εκπρόσωποι την ελληνικής φιλοξενίας!
Κι αν πτωχική την βρεις, η Ιθάκη δεν σε γέλασε.
Έτσι σοφός που έγινες, με τόση πείρα,
ήδη θα το κατάλαβες η Ιθάκες τι σημαίνουν.
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Τρίτη 21 Απρίλιος 2015, 07:58:46 πμ »
Για αυτό ανήκω σε αυτό το κλαμπ.Μπράβο σε όλα!!!
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Παρασκευή 24 Απρίλιος 2015, 17:30:37 μμ »
Πολύ μπροστά οι εκδρομές των Ρουμάνων.
Πάρτε μια γεύση απο το Μαρόκο
και εμείς εδώ...
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Κοιταμε που υστερει το σαλπ σε σχεση με τον ανταγωνισμο ........
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Μπραβο στο Κωστα και τον Φωτη για την αψογη φιλοξενια,δεν πιστευω να εχουν ξαναζησει τετοια πουθενα αλλου!!!!!!
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Σάββατο 25 Απρίλιος 2015, 12:50:16 μμ »
Παράθεση από: KostasC στις Παρασκευή 24 Απρίλιος 2015, 17:30:37 μμ
Πολύ μπροστά οι εκδρομές των Ρουμάνων.
Πάρτε μια γεύση απο το Μαρόκο
και εμείς εδώ...
Α δεν έχεις δίκιο. Περιπέτεια δεν είναι να πας στο Μαρόκο ή στο Λύκαιο. Περιπέτεια πραγματική είναι να πας στον Καρατζά, να ξεκωλι@στείς στο φαί, να συζητάς πόσο χωματερό είναι το ΤΑ και το σασπένς να παίζεται στο ποιος θα πάθει ανακοπή στο γυρισμό, χωνεύοντας πάνω στη μοτό.
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Δευτέρα 27 Απρίλιος 2015, 21:46:54 μμ »
Hello everyone!
I want to start by thanking Kostas and Fotis for their hospitality. They took us "under their wing" once we arrived in Peloponnese, although they didn't know much about us, and we are very grateful to them.
We had been planning a visit to Peloponnese in December but soon realized that no matter how South Europe you go, winter is still winter and it would have been a pity to not be able to go up in your beautiful mountains because of snow.
Taking advantage of the Easter holyday and the free time we could take from work, and encouraged by the comments on the forum about the beauty of the Peloponnese by spring time, we gathered our friends and we were ready to go.
So the story of our motorbike adventure starts on the 10th of April, actually it is the car adventure that starts on the 10th. We all left work a bit early, got the bikes on the trailers and excited we set a meeting point in the heart of Romania, as we are all scattered throughout the country. The plan is to drive all night and day and arrive at Kostas in Kyparissia just before the midnight of 11 and maybe join Kostas and his family for church.
Of course the plans we made home didn't hold for long once we were on the road. Some people were late because they couldn't leave work, then we were sleepy and then we were hungry. 26 hours later, and 1:00 am we arrived at Kyparissia, just in time for Kostas to arrive from church and to welcome us in his family olive garden and home.
We had a delicious traditional Easter dinner organized for us by Kostas's family which we were very grateful for accompanied by wine and accommodation. I have to admit that we felt a bit shy, worried that we could be an inconvenience, and hope we did not disturbed too much everyone in the house, because 11 people can be much at the one time. For us it was a very nice experience. Thank you so much!
In the morning we tried to wake up as soon as possible and leave before we could bother Kostas and his family too much again, but it took us again one hour to get everything and everyone back to the bikes. Kostas's wife prepared for us a table with some delicious traditional cakes and cookies this time and I don't know about others but I enjoyed a few. mmmm! So delicious!
In a record time we got everything on bikes, moto equipment on us, made photos with Koastas's family and the sacrificed goat, took the maps Fotis and Kostas bought for us and we were on our way!
First stop Neda River and the waterfalls on Neda River. Awesome tracks and beautiful sceneries. Everywhere we look everything is green and there are so many flowers. I am really impressed by the colors of spring here. Even on tarmac is great and there is not much traffic. It's like the roads are opened just for us.
We stopped on Neda for a walk to the waterfalls. All but Alex, which had a little problem with oil dripping from our KTM. It seems we had a crack in the rear cylinder cover, a present from the previous owner. So while we were admiring the beautiful waterfalls and the canyon on the Neda River he was getting the bike fixed.
Just as Alex fixed the KTM, Luci started hearing a noise and feeling the frame of his SuperTenere "elastic" and "twisting" a lot. After checking each part of the bike bit by bit he found a crack in the frame, from one side to the other, opened!
Well what can we do? We kept on riding, hoping we can find in a village or town somewhere, someone with a welding machine to help us. Unfortunately we didn't.
Today we got to see Apollo's temple and also had a great view over the mountains and valleys from up there.
We rode until late evening for our first day and slept near an olive garden, 30km from Megalopoli. We also called Fotis to give him the big news and hoped he can help us, cause we don't live anyone behind.
On the 12th of April we woke up feeling refreshed and ready for some welding in Kalamata.
Here we met Fotis, who was so so nice in helping us with a welding machine. And, in the second day of Easter, Alex and Luci were welding a 10mm and a 22mm wrench on the SuperTenere frame in front of Fotis's apartment building while the rest of us were enjoying coffee, spanakopita and icecream on Kalamata's see side.
Later, around 13:00, the guys arrived! We were so happy. Everything was ok. But I had a dilemma. 2 of KTM 950, looking exactly the same, which one was my prince charming?
Oki, not exactly the same. We have orange frame and Fotis has black frame.
Back to the mountains we went with Fotis as our leader this time. Once we left Kalamata, the road was very beautiful and took us up. So close to the sea and up in the mountains. The view was breathtaking.
We really loved how close the mountains to the sea are in Peloponnese. How steep are the slops and clear and blue is the sea.
I think the photos can talk for themselves, better than me.
We also tried to reach Rindomo Gorge from Pigadia. We did an almost 2h walk up and down the river bed and climb up and down some rocks without reaching the narrow part of the canyon. A bit disappointing. By the end of our week in Peloponnese we will come to find out we were 100m from it when we abandoned hope.
Just before reaching our camping spot for this evening, our friend Maca had a flat tire and we had to stop and fix it, but it was on a beautiful gorge on the road to Sparti. And just as we were waiting a truck full of oranges passes by. We started cheering the oranges! Last year in April we were eating 10kilos of oranges each day in Morocco with the same gang. So the driver stops the truck and ends up giving us one crate of oranges free or charge, he doesn't want to accept any payment. We were happy like children, running to grab some oranges.
On our way to the camping spot we get to see a glimpse of Mystras and Sparti at sunset, sadly we don't have time to visit everything.
Fotis had for us a perfect place for camping or sleeping inside for those who didn't wish to camp. It was this small church near a valley in the Taygetos.
We had a flat spot for the tents and water, tables and also chairs. In the evening we made a little fire and Fotis with Sergiu went to town to get bear and wine. The biggest surprise was Fotis bringing back, for all of us greek food, pita, souvlaki and tzatziki, his treat. It was so sooo good. I am not a meat eater, but I ate it and loved it Thank you so very much Fotis! Hopefully we can do the same for you someday.
We sat around the fire, talked and laughed until late in the night.
The 14th of April and we are going in the Taygetos. Lots and lots of beautiful roads today, going up and down the mountain.
We were having a lot of fun, especially the drivers, when the road suddenly stops. An avalanche has broken the road and a lot of old snow was now covering it, so we had to return and take another. We were excited to see it. We all climbed on it and wonder how it would be to try and go over it. Impossible probably, but fun to try
Because Fotis was with us we didn't want to look like savages, so we left the avalanche and went back.
Now is Fotis's time to have a flat tire, a front one. Because we are always in a hurry to see and do a lot of things and we don't have time for everything, each time someone has a flat tire three people help and the rest of us are eating and making sandwiches. We are like a too big family
The descent from Taygetos to Kardamyli is pretty spectacular with steep slops again and lots of curves, with the sea opening at our right. I wish we had some time for trekking around here.
In Kardamyli we stop for a greek coffee, orange pie and to say goodbye to Fotis, who in the short time he spent with us got to be a part of the gang. We had a lot of fun together and we are very happy to have met him.
Fotis, you are expected in the Romanian forests and mountains! Bring along Kostas
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Δευτέρα 27 Απρίλιος 2015, 22:09:17 μμ »
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Δευτέρα 27 Απρίλιος 2015, 22:19:22 μμ »
From Kardamyli we planned on reaching Cape Tenaro the same day. Impossible task as it was pretty late in the afternoon and we also had to stop for gas and some grocery shopping.
Going for Cape Tenaro on the west coast, we stopped for the night on a remote beach near Mezapos. Beautiful, with white gravel and green/blue water. Too bad it was a bit cold outside for a bath.
The next morning we were determined to reach Cape Tenaro and we almost did. Even if we didn't actually went by foot to the Lighthouse, again not enough time, the southern part of the "leg" was great seen from above and the water so inviting, was hard to keep everyone away from it, as we had a long way to go.
Next point of interest was the Diros Cave and we were in a big hurry to get to it. On our return we took the road on the coastline and we also passed through Vathia. I forgot to say how much we loved the architecture of the Peloponnese.
Again, we were very excited to take a ride, on a boat this time, through the Diros Cave and it was beautiful and interesting.
But soon we were on our way back to Taygetos.
It seems like the guys fell in love with the tracks here and can't get enough of them. This time we tried the road from Sparti to Anavryti, going up. It was great fun and awesome view once we got up.
Then we continued our route to the Parnonas Mountains. The weather changed and a bit of rain started falling. It was a bit late, and cold and now rainy. It was almost night time when we reached the katafigio Parnonos and we were on a hury to put our tents up and get warmer clothes on.
The night was not that warm, but I had learned my lesson in Morocco's mountains, so I had 3 pairs of socks on and almost all the clothes I had with me, I was fiiiine.
We were all happy to go back to the sea, no matter the beauty of the mountain tracks, at least in the first moments of the morning.
Fotis had recommended us the road to Kiparissi as being very beautiful and we took this detour and we did not feel sorry about it. Breathtaking again. We enjoyed the coast and had a coffee on Kiparissi before going back on the beautiful road, this time going up.
Now we had to reach Monemvasia. So the road took us up on the mountain and down on the coastline, and so on all day long. It was great.
1h to see the beautiful city on the rocks and then we're back on track.
At home we found this place, in the south, near Valtaki where there should be some fossil trees, million years old. We really want to see them.
In the evening we pass Valtaki. On our left we have the sea, on our right we have these beautiful cliffs and a field of rocks detached from the mountain. And then we arrive. The fossil trees. Really amazing formations. I don't know if they were trees or something else, but they do like like trees.
Here, me and Alex slept outside in our sleeping bags. It was a bit windy, but beautiful. In front of us we had the sea with ships sailing in the night, above we had the clear sky and the stars, at the back we had a tall mountain with a big black cloud on top. It was just the perfect place to be.
When the morning came we were a bit disappointed that we had to go. I really didn't want to ever leave, but all good things come to an end. If we can look at the bright part it was one last, but full day.
Back to the north! But not before going to see the old underwater town of Pavlo Petri, on the Pounta beach. We knew that it is probably very difficult to see something as it is really underwater, but you can't really see anything from the shore. We looked around for an hour, talked to some local people and they explained you have to go underwater, oh well
At least we had some fun. Looking for the town we got on this lake bed at Pounta beach, were the guys underestimated the slippery mud, so the result was 4 bikes packed together, each on a side.
From here we ride back to Taygetos, again to try and reach the Rindomo gorge, the narrow canyon we couldn't find in our first day with Fotis. But riding to Gythio we just saw a shipwreck on our left. Immediately we turned around and went for it. It was exciting. We did not knew how famous it was. It was the first shipwreck I ever saw. Very interesting.
We continued our adventure with a flat tire on a long road full of orange orchards. It was heaven and it smelled divine.
Later, back on the road we took the same path we did at the start of the week with Fotis. Through Taygetos and to Kardamyli and it was just as beautiful as the first time.
Just above Kardamyli our group split in two. 4 of us stayed behind to fix Maca's many flat tires (after the one in the orange orchard he had 3 more, that day) and the others went to find Rindomo gorge. Me and Alex were in the second group.
We even had some offroad on the rocks bonus track for the participants.
And then, finally, the road that took us to the canyon. It was great.
We found Rindomo gorge late in afternoon and went on foot until we reached his bottom and through it for a while. A deep narrow passage with steep rocky walls and big boulders washed by temporary flows of water. So beautiful and imposing.
But once we reached its bottom, it was only me, Alex, Sebi and Sergiu. We had lost another 3 members if the gang. We left the bikes a bit earlier then Gabi, and he never showed up down on the gorge. It seems that just and we left he noticed Sebi had a flat tire. So Gabi and his wife Dana changed it for him. Ralu also got lost taking pictures and went to the bikes at one point.
As we returned from the gorge the girls were all covered in oil and Gabi had almost finished changing the tire. We were happy. So no more delays. It was already evening.
On the way back we stopped for some olive oil at a small country shop and then we continued to Kalamata.
Because it was already nighttime when we arrived at Kalamata we decided not to continue to Kiparissia until the morning, Sergiu had no front light anyway and it wouldn't have been too safe for him.
Pretty difficult to find a spot to camp near a city, we thought, and in the dark of the night. We took the road to the sea and just drove along the beach for a while. Soon we saw a trailer park which looked abandoned, but it wasn't. Some nice older people were camping there and in a perfect English, although they had Greek plate numbers on their homecars, assured us it was safe to sleep in the park and that we should camp really close to them. They were very nice and friendly.
This is where we spent our final night, sleeping in a park, on a beach in Kalamata. Me and Alex slept outside again with some cool dogs)
Last coffee on the gas stove in the parc, another flat tire on the road to Kiparissia and by 11am we were all back at Kostas preparing our cars, this time, for the long journey back to Romania.
Kostas seemed happy to see us
We gave him some "tuica" as goodbye, alcohol made from plums by my father, and he gave us as gift, olive oil made by him and his family from the orchard and lemons. All delicious, I can assure you.
I wish we didn't have to leave so soon, we all did. It was a great week. Peloponnese is so beautiful! Everyone we met was nice and friendly, and our hosts were just amazing nice to us and made us feel so welcomed. Thank you very very much to Kostas and Fotis and their families, from all of us.
We are hopeful in a return to Peloponnese someday. Until then, we are waiting for you guys in Romania. If anyone ever finds its way to Cluj-Napoca, Romania we are more than happy to share some rides and share our home with you.
Big hug from everyone!!!
Thank you!
Some more photos here. In process of getting a selection from everyone going. Still missing a lot
Thank you Patri and Luci for photos!
Missing a photo of Kostas on the bike
With us!
Τελευταία τροποποίηση: Δευτέρα 27 Απρίλιος 2015, 22:31:41 μμ από Ramona
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Δευτέρα 27 Απρίλιος 2015, 23:26:42 μμ »
just a quick response to Ramona's story...
AWESOME PHOTOS ...make us feeling proud for our home, and so happy you enjoyed your trip that much.
Thank you for sharing with us.
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Δευτέρα 27 Απρίλιος 2015, 23:52:15 μμ »
Beautiful pictures but also excellent, involved and to the point narration of the descent and conquering of Peloponnese by Ramona, very well done Romanian colleagues!
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Τρίτη 28 Απρίλιος 2015, 09:17:02 πμ »
Words are not enough for your photos, the feelings you pass through your words, and my friends Fotis and Kostas!
I am very proud for our community!
Dad to the bone!
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Τρίτη 28 Απρίλιος 2015, 16:39:55 μμ »
Ramona your travel story is magical! You are a natural talent! The photos are also magnificent!
It is very touching for us to see our beautiful country through your eyes, your experiences, your senses and feelings. That's why us Greeks are known for our hospitality: we love our land, nature and culture and it is an unshelfish love, we want to share it! And it makes us very happy when foreign friends cherish this wonderful corner of the World.
I really hope we will meet again someday, for a new adventure. You are a wonderful fellowship, joyfull, adventurous, efficient in dealing with any difficulty, you really know how to seize the day...How to seize Life!
Take care and give greetings to everybody
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Τρίτη 28 Απρίλιος 2015, 16:51:58 μμ »
Καταπληκτικές φωτό!
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Τρίτη 26 Απρίλιος 2016, 11:54:16 πμ »
Few photos from our friends in Romania
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Τρίτη 26 Απρίλιος 2016, 12:26:34 μμ »
hard core stuff!
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Τρίτη 26 Απρίλιος 2016, 16:44:07 μμ »
Good job guys! Cheers!
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Τετάρτη 27 Απρίλιος 2016, 07:48:48 πμ »
Τους βγάζω το καπέλο!!!
Καλό Πάσχα!!!
Αγάλια-αγάλια, ντραϊλίζουμι....
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Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2016, 17:12:03 μμ »
Παράθεση από: KostasC στις Τρίτη 26 Απρίλιος 2016, 11:54:16 πμ
Few photos from our friends in Romania
Kostas, Fotis hello! And hello to everybody else!
Long time no see. I hope you guys are alright
Tell me you plan on coming to Romania also. We have some awesome tracks for you.
Thank you again for your appreciation and for being so kind to us, we talk pretty often of you guys and our time in Peloponnese with our friends.
This year we spent the Easter in Montenegro and Albania with the same gang of friends and it was awesome, but we missed the orange flowers!
I want to ask if I could get some help sending a message to someone from the forum, because I keep sending it and it stills looks like I have no message sent.
Jon t please write me an email at
if you haven't receive my response. Or is it alright if I post the info you requested here?
In the meantime here I have some pictures from Kirghistan (where Alex went without me, because 3 weeks from our trip I fractured my kneecap riding a bicycle
). This summer hopefully we will go together.
Please let me know if you plan on visiting us. We will be very happy!
Much love to everybody and thank you again for everything!
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Παρασκευή 13 Μάιος 2016, 17:41:39 μμ »
Hi Ramona.
Glad to see you here !
Concerning the message to Jon t, i've already forward it to him.
Maybe Jon t would like to share the message content, it's up to him (or you
unfortunately we are (me and Fotis) not coming to Romania. It would be great to see you there and ride some kms at
Romanian Forests... hope in the near future we can make it.
Your photos-trips are AWESOME ! keep it like this !
image sharing for those bored to click above !!!
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Τρίτη 19 Δεκέμβριος 2017, 11:55:55 πμ »
Greetings from Sunny Siberia!
Found the link to your forum on our website Russian TransAlpers. My name is Alexander, my girlfriend and I are planning to visit you this summer. Yet we plan our trip. What months is it too hot? What better date to choose for a comfortable ride on the bike. What city or place should put in priority? My girlfriend works in tourism and has been several times for work in your country, she loved. While we have the priority of Thessaloniki. But I would like to see more wild places where there are too many buses with tourists
. Take a ride on a really beautiful roads and see the country from the inside.
I apologize in advance for my English
PS Very unusual when you register on the forum to see the Greek captcha
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Τρίτη 19 Δεκέμβριος 2017, 16:22:18 μμ »
Παράθεση από: Lan2 στις Τρίτη 19 Δεκέμβριος 2017, 11:55:55 πμ
Greetings from Sunny Siberia!
Greetings to you too from cloudy Greece!
What months is it too hot?
Between 15 June and 30 August is the usual period that it can get very hot for some days, especially in central and Southern Greece. It also depends on where you want to ride. If you want to ride in Nothern Greek mountains then it' s never too hot!
What better date to choose for a comfortable ride on the bike.
For Southern Greece I would say April and May. For Nothern Greece it's May-June and even July.
What city or place should put in priority? My girlfriend works in tourism and has been several times for work in your country, she loved. While we have the priority of Thessaloniki. But I would like to see more wild places where there are too many buses with tourists
. Take a ride on a really beautiful roads and see the country from the inside.
How much time can you spend riding in Greece? 5-15-25 days? Will you have knobby tires or street tires? Will you be using a tent?
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Τρίτη 19 Δεκέμβριος 2017, 17:44:30 μμ »
- How much time can you spend riding in Greece? 5-15-25 days? Will you have knobby tires or street tires? Will you be using a tent?
Not able to quote text, sorry. I think we will have from 5 to 10 days to Greece. If we get very quickly, even 15, but it's unlikely. We travel with a tent, but sometimes stay in hotels or hostels.
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Τρίτη 19 Δεκέμβριος 2017, 17:48:52 μμ »
Road tires are Pireli Scorpion, but maybe take and MITAS off-road if needed
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The Philippine Journal of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery was accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) on October 9, 2019. The DOAJ is "a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals"2 and is often cited as a source of quality open access journals in research and scholarly publishing circles that has been considered a sort of "whitelist" as opposed to the now-defunct Beall's (black) Lists.3
As of this writing, the DOAJ includes 13,912 journals with 10,983 searchable at article level, from 130 countries with a total of 4,410,788 articles.2 Our article metadata is automatically supplied to, and all our articles are searchable on DOAJ. Because it is OpenURL compliant, once an article is on DOAJ, it is automatically harvestable. This is important for increasing the visibility of our journal, as there are more than 900,000 page views and 300,000 unique visitors a month to DOAJ from all over the world.2 Moreover, many aggregators, databases, libraries, publishers and search portals (e.g. Scopus, Serial Solutions and EBSCO) collect DOAJ free metadata and include it in their products. The DOAJ is also Open Archives Initiative (OAI) compliant, and once an article is in DOAJ, it is automatically linkable.4
Being indexed in DOAJ affirms that we are a legitimate open access journal, and enhances our compliance with Plan S.5 The Plan S initiative for Open Access publishing launched in September 2018 requires that from 2021, "all scholarly publications on the results from research funded by public or private grants provided by national, regional, and international research councils and funding bodies, must be published in Open Access Journals, on Open Access Platforms, or made immediately available through Open Access Repositories without embargo."5 Such open access journals must be listed in DOAJ and identified as Plan S compliant.
There are mixed reactions to Plan S. A recent editorial observes that subscription and hybrid journals (including such major highly-reputable journals as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Science and Nature) will be excluded,6 quoting the COAlition S argument that "there is no valid reason to maintain any kind of subscription-based business model for scientific publishing in the digital world."5 As Gee and Talley put it, "will the rise of open access journals spell the end of the subscription model?"6
If full open access will be unsustainable for such a leading hybrid medical journal as the Medical Journal of Australia,6 what will happen to the many smaller, low- and middle-income country (southern) journals that cannot sustain a fully open-access model? For instance, challenges facing Philippine journals have been previously described.7
According to Tecson-Mendoza, "these challenges relate to (1) the proliferation of journals and related problems, such as competition for papers and sub-par journals; (2) journal funding and operation; (3) getting listed or accredited in major citation databases; (4) competition for papers; (5) reaching a wider and bigger readership and paper contribution from outside the country; and (6) meeting international standards for academic journal publications."7 Her 2015 study listed 777 Philippine scholarly journals, of which eight were listed in both the (then) Thomson Reuters (TR) and Scopus master lists, while an additional eight were listed in TR alone and a further twelve were listed in Scopus alone.7 To date, there are 11,207 confirmed Philippine periodicals listed on the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) Portal,8 but these include non-scientific and non-scholarly publications like magazines, newsletters, song hits, and annual reports. What does the future have in store for small scientific publications from the global south?
I previously shared my insights from the Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors (APAME) 2019 Convention (http://apame2019.whocc.org.cn) on the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) Newsletter, a private Listserve for WAME members only.9 These reflections on transformation pressures journals are experiencing were the subject of long and meaningful conversations with the editor of the Philippine Journal of Pathology, Dr. Amado Tandoc III during the APAME 2019 Convention in Xi'an China from September 3-5, 2019. Here are three main points:
In our field for example, faculty members of departments of otorhinolaryngology who submitted papers to their departmental journals were unaware that simultaneously submitting these manuscripts to their hospital and/or university journals was a form of misconduct. Moreover, they were not happy when our specialty journal refused to publish their papers as this would constitute duplicate publication. The problem stemmed from their being required to submit papers for publication in department, hospital and/or university journals instead of crediting their submissions to our pre-existing specialty journal. This escalated the tension on all sides, to the detriment of the new journals (some department journals ceased publication after one or two issues) and authors (whose articles in these defunct journals are effectively lost).
The older specialty journals are also suffering from the increased number of players with many failing to publish their usual number of issues or to publish them on time. But how many (if any at all) of these journals (especially specialty journals) would agree to yield to a merger with others (necessitating the end of their individual journal)? Would a common platform (rather than a common journal) provide a solution?
Where to then, scientific journals? Without endorsing either, will Sci-Hub (https://sci-hub.se) be to scholarly publishing what Spotify (https://www.spotify.com) is to the music industry? A sobering thought that behooves action.
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As this country slides into the economic morass, keep in mind that leadership always begins at the top. Morals and ethics are certainly no exception. When we look back and see what went wrong, we need to take a real hard look at our society and the way we think.
Perhaps these politicians were all raised in Dr. Spock homes, their parents never taught them the difference between right on wrong. Their teachers and principals were not allowed to perform "corporal punishment." Their role models were Bill Clinton, a liar who would weasel his way around, and George Bush Junior who lied to the world and justified the killing of thousands. And we expect that our financial system would govern itself, would keep itself in check?
We are truly a lost society, that footage proves it. Wave C down, Kondratieff's winter, the Fourth Turning, the end of an era, a "cycle…" Whatever one calls it, change is coming, and while I'm thinking that it can get much worse, in the end it's going to bring a much needed cleansing.
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July 27, 2020United Nations
African UN member states should act as unifiers and conveners rather than dividers. More coordination could help them overcome the structural challenges they face at the United Nations.
December 18, 2019Conflict Prevention
In CFR's annual Preventive Priorities Survey, U.S. foreign policy experts assess the likelihood and impact of thirty potential conflicts that could emerge or escalate in the coming year.
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U.S. foreign policy experts assess the likelihood and impact of thirty potential crises or conflicts around the world in the coming year in CFR's annual survey.
October 16, 2018Cybersecurity
Deep fakes—highly realistic and difficult-to-detect depictions of real people doing or saying things they never said or did—are a profoundly serious problem for democratic governments and the world order. A combination of technology, education, and public policy can reduce their effectiveness.
April 3, 2018Space
Satellite cybersecurity has received little attention from spacefaring states, despite significant risks.
December 11, 2017Conflict Prevention
U.S. foreign policy experts assess the likelihood and impact of thirty potential crises or conflicts around the world in the coming year in CFR's annual survey.
April 10, 2017Sub-Saharan Africa
A policy of combating kleptocracy across sub-Saharan Africa would strengthen the national security of the United States, and the Donald J. Trump administration should start with Nigeria and South Africa.
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A serious military confrontation between Russia and a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member state or a severe crisis in North Korea are among top international concerns for 2017 cited by a…
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Volume two of The Cycling Anthology has just been released, and this edition of collected essays from some of the world's foremost cycling writers focuses on the Tour de France.
William Fotheringham, Jeremy Whittle, Ed Pickering, Daniel Friebe, Ruper Guinness, James Startt and Samuel Abt return to contribute to the latest volume. The book's editors, Lionel Birnie and Ellis Bacon, also submit chapters.
Their work appears alongside essays from new contributors Ned Boulting, Brendan Gallagher, Richard Williams, Daniel Lloyd and Colombian writer Klaus Bellon Gaitán.
The Cycling Anthology: Volume Two is on sale now, from the Cycling Weekly shop, www.prendas.co.uk, and good bookshops priced £7.99.
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'Look How Big It's Become' by Samuel Abt
Félix Lévitan ran the Tour with an autocrat's discipline. But although he was authoritarian he was also visionary. He dreamed of a truly international Tour, with a Grand Départ in New York or Moscow. He left the organisation suddenly and in controversial circumstance and was effectively exiled for more than a decade before Jean-Marie Leblanc invited him to the start of the 1998 Tour in Dublin.
Samuel Abt was cycling correspondent for the International Herald Tribune
'A Life of Brian' by Ned Boulting
Ned meets Brian Venner, the man responsible for putting the Tour de France on British television in the 1980s.
Ned Boulting presents ITV Sport's coverage of the Tour de France and is the author of How I Won the Yellow Jumper and On the Road Bike: The Search for a Nation's Cycling Soul
'The Angel of the Mountains' by Richard Williams
Charly Gaul, the graceful climber from Luxembourg, won the Tour de France once, in 1958. It wasn't Gaul's results but his daring exploits in the mountains that captured the imagination and earned him the most romantic nickname of them all. Richard explains why Gaul personified panache in a way the metronomic efficiency of Jacques Anquetil never could.
Richard Williams is a former chief sports writer of The Guardian
'Nervous but Prepared' by Klaus Bellon Gaitán
One of Lévitan's dreams was to invite teams from all over the world to participate in the Tour. In 1983, the Colombians arrived and began to make waves in the mountains. Klaus charts the rise of cycling's popularity in Colombia, remembering a time when a nation had its collective ear glued to a radio listening to the Tour.
'It's All About the Car' by Brendan Gallagher
Covering the Tour is a marathon, not a sprint. During the month of July, the journalist's car becomes his castle, mobile office and transport café. Brendan describes what it's like trying to keep up with the greatest sporting spectacle when it keeps pedalling away from him.
Brendan Gallagher has been a sports journalist for 30 years, writing for the Daily Telegraph for 20 of those years
'The Reluctant Prince' by Daniel Friebe
It's incredible to think that just six summers ago, Linus Gerdemann took the yellow jersey at Le Grand Bornand and was being hailed as the saviour of German cycling. But he did not fulfill his potential and now is without a place on a professional team. Daniel looks at what went wrong…
Daniel Friebe is the author of The Cannibal, a biography of Eddy Merckx, and Mountain High
'Ça M'est Égal' by Jeremy Whittle
This summer's Tour will be Jeremy's 20th as a journalist. In those years, the Tour has been affected by scandal as often as it has been touched by greatness. But, he concludes, despite everything, the Tour has an intoxicating charm no other event can match.
Jeremy Whittle is the author of Bad Blood and cycling correspondent for The Times
'Napoleon' by William Fotheringham
Cyrille Guimard can justifiably claim to be the greatest directeur sportif in the history of the Tour. He led Lucien Van Impe, Bernard Hinault and Laurent Fignon to victory and set Greg LeMond on the path to glory too. He was a combination of motivator and dictator, which earned him the nickname Napoleon. William explores his legacy.
William Fotheringham wrote Eddy Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. His collection of work for The Guardian, Racing Hard, is on sale soon
'The Greatest Show on Earth' by Ellis Bacon
The 1989 Tour de France was the greatest of all time. The final-day time trial, in which Greg LeMond turned a 50-second deficit to Laurent Fignon into an eight-second overall victory, was arguably the most dramatic day in the Tour's history but it was also the culmination of a race that see-sawed one way then the other. Ellis enjoys a nostalgic trip back to 1989 by re-watching the montage produced by Channel 4 that told the story of the race.
Ellis Bacon is the author of Mapping Le Tour, published by Collins
'The Tour Winners' Club' by Edward Pickering
Edward Pickering studies two Tour winners, Jan Janssen (1968 champion) and Bernard Thévenet (1975 and 1977) and asks what it takes to achieve victory. We like to think that Tour winners are extraordinary people but wouldn't it be more accurate to say they are ordinary men doing the extraordinary?
Edward Pickering is the author of The Race Against Time, the story of Graeme Obree and Chris Boardman's battle for the hour record
'Roche and the Rookie Reporter' by Rupert Guinness
In 1987, Rupert Guinness headed to West Berlin to cover the Tour for the first time. As an Australian reporter, he hoped for a good performance by Phil Anderson. Instead, he witnessed the battle between Ireland's Stephen Roche and Spaniard Pedro Delgado. Here, he tells the story of that race.
Rupert Guinness writes for the Sydney Morning Herald
'A Guide for the Cynics and Sceptics' by Lionel Birnie
The Festina Affair in 1998 did not end cycling's relationship with performance-enhancing drugs but it almost brought the Tour to its knees. Since the fall of Lance Armstrong, it's tempting to believe that this was the dirtiest era in the sport's history but it was also the most transparent.
Lionel Birnie writes for The Sunday Times
'The Director' by James Startt
Meet Jean-François Pescheux, the man who runs the Tour every day. The former professional rider plans the route and is the judge and jury during the race itself. The 2013 Tour will be his final one before retirement and James Startt explains why he will leave a big hole for Thierry Gouvenou to fill.
James Startt writes for Bicycling magazine
'A Domestique's Tale' by Daniel Lloyd
What's it like to ride the Tour? It's the question every fan wants the answer to. And for a professional cyclist there's another question that is always asked. 'Have you ridden the Tour?' In 2010, Daniel Lloyd was called up as a late replacement to replace an injured team-mate, and rode the race as a domestique, supporting Carlos Sastre and Thor Hushovd. He tells the story of the Tour from the inside.
Daniel Lloyd rode the Tour for Cervélo in 2010. He is now a presenter for YouTube cycling channel Global Cycling Network


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iControl, an interactive platform used for security/home automation by traditional security companies like ADT and the new cable entrants like Comcast, got a nice mention on the front page of the New York Times travel section yesterday.
The story, about how Silicon Valley entrepreneurs' make travel paperless and stress-free, talks about Tim Ferris (author of The Four-Hour Work Week and other books in an updated self-help genre) has many gadgets that help him when he's traveling, including iControl software—which keeps him in touch with his home.
From the story: "One of the world's largest guarding companies When he's on the road Mr. Ferriss uses iControl software, which allows him to receive e-mails with video clips from infrared cameras in his house and to receive text alerts on his phone about who's going in and out of his home."
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Ham and Squints on Twins Live
We've seen the pictures posted all over social media – finally, Ham and Squints SPEAK!
Patrick Renna and Chauncey Leopardi, stars of "The Sandlot," celebrating its 20th anniversary, dropped by Twins Live during their visit to Minneapolis this weekend to talk baseball.
"The Sandlot" was far and away my favorite movie growing up – my friends and I would use our front yards, back yards…the street – pretty much any space available, to play some pickup baseball. That's probably the biggest reason the movie resonates with me so much.
Hearing the Twins players talk about the impact the movie had on them is especially cool – albeit a little depressing to think about how far removed we are from those days.
The best part about "The Sandlot" celebration this weekend came during the rain delay of Sunday's Red Sox/Twins game when Target Field aired the movie a few hours earlier than expected.
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Healthy aging entails multiple aspects, among them eating right, exercising regularly, and preventing mental decline. Achieving some of these may be easier than others. No matter how well we do our part, nature has a say in all of them, too.
While the outward signs of aging are usually quite apparent, the inner transformations our bodies go through as we grow older – e.g. slowing metabolism, diminishing muscle mass, thinning organ tissue, decreasing bone density – are less evident. Yet, these changes are very real and deserve close attention. Thankfully, their impact on our overall health and wellbeing can be mitigated with appropriate adjustments in diet and lifestyle.
Meeting altering health needs is not always easy for older adults, though. For example, due to reduced metabolic rates and sedentary behavior, most seniors use up significantly fewer calories than they did in their midlife. At the same time, the risk of malnutrition grows because of a lessening ability to absorb important nutrients, dehydration, lack of appetite, loss of taste, difficulty with chewing, and so forth. So, while reduced food intake is quite normal, it is crucial not to confuse the need for fewer calories with the need for fewer nutrients.
Energy requirements decrease with every decade, explains Dr. Connie Bales, a professor of medicine at Duke University Medical Center and associate director of the Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center at Durham VA Medical Center to WebMD. But, while eating less overall, the challenge is to eat more nutrient-rich foods, which, calorie for calorie, pack more of a nutritional punch, she says.
Although maintaining healthy eating habits is recommended at any stage in life, it becomes even more instrumental in later years to prevent diet and lifestyle-related illnesses whose effects only worsen with age, including obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, and type-2 diabetes as well as mental decline, for as much and as long as possible.
The fact is that, as we grow older, our body requires the same amount of protein, vitamins, and minerals as it always has, if not more, says Dr. Bales. For instance, after the age of 50, the ability to absorb essential nutrients like vitamin B12 or vitamin D gradually diminishes due to reduced acidity in the stomach, which is needed to break them down from food. The solution is to add to one's diet food sources that are especially rich in these components.
And it's not just the digestive system that weakens. Aging skin is less able to convert vitamin D from sunlight, which also affects the absorption of calcium, a necessary nutrient to prevent bone loss. For these reasons and others, older adults are well advised to take daily multi-vitamin and mineral supplements, she says.
The danger of dehydration is another problem that gets worse with age. Older people tend to drink less not because they don't need as many fluids but because they don't sense thirst as well as they used to. Regulatory processes are just not as sharp as they used to be in younger years, says Dr. Bales. So, an older person may not feel thirsty, although he or she may already be borderline dehydrated. The solution is to make it a habit of drinking about six 8-ounce glasses of water every day, regardless of thirst sensation.
One of the greatest risks of malnutrition among the elderly stems from lack of access to healthy food sources. It may be too hard to get to a grocery store, especially when driving is no longer possible. It may be that cooking facilities are missing or too cumbersome to operate. It may be loss of appetite, forgetfulness, or lack of motivation due to loneliness or depression. But skipping meals for whatever reason has negative health implications and may backfire in terms of serious nutritional damages, Dr. Bale warns.
The best solution would be not to eat alone but to enjoy the company of family and friends while preparing and eating meals. That way, loved ones can also keep an eye on an older person's eating regimen. Services like Meals on Wheels and the likes can be useful to fill in some of the gaps. Regrettably, for too many people, aging goes hand in hand with progressive social separation and isolation, which can have far-reaching negative consequences on multiple levels. It doesn't have to be this way.
If you liked this article, you may also enjoy reading "Seven Important Numbers You Need to Know to Protect Your Health" and "Eating Healthy Becomes Even More Important with Age."
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Real Football has been involved in a real ding-dong battle with the likes of FIFA for footy supremacy in recent years on both iPhone and mobile. Gameloft's footy franchise always plays a fast, fluid game, encouraging swift tippy-tappy passing triangles and surging runs into the box.
Unfortunately, the franchise's Android debut doesn't make the statement of intent Gameloft might have hoped for.
The issue – as with many of Gameloft's recent iPhone to Android conversions – is one of control. The trouble is, nothing shows up sloppy controls better (or worse) than football sims, which demand instant and pinpoint changes in direction.
Real Football on Android (or at least the Nexus One) really suffers in this regard, your players continuing to run in a direction a whole second after you've pushed the virtual stick in another. What's more, the 'A' and 'B' buttons (which control your kicks) simply don't work at times. It's maddening.
The game suffers on the visual front, too, with a noticeable drop in texture detail on the players and pitch.


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The 10 Worst Movies of 2017 You Might Wanna Avoid
Posted 2018/02/02 4205 0
According to Hollywood Reporter critics.
10. Home Again
Recently separated from her husband, Alice Kinney decides to start over by moving back to Los Angeles with her two daughters. While celebrating her 40th birthday, Alice meets Harry, George and Teddy, three young filmmakers who need a place to live. Complications soon arise when she agrees to let the men stay in her guesthouse temporarily. As Alice develops a budding romance with Harry, her newfound happiness comes crashing down when her ex shows up with a suitcase in his hand.
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
8. Baywatch
When a dangerous crime wave hits the beach, the legendary Mitch Buchannon leads his elite squad of lifeguards on a mission to prove that you don't have to wear a badge to save the bay. Joined by a trio of hotshot recruits, including former Olympian Matt Brody, they ditch the surf and go deep under cover to take down a ruthless businesswoman whose devious plans threaten the future of the bay.
Fueled by his restored faith in humanity and inspired by Superman's selfless act, Bruce Wayne enlists newfound ally Diana Prince to face an even greater threat. Together, Batman and Wonder Woman work quickly to recruit a team to stand against this newly awakened enemy. Despite the formation of an unprecedented league of heroes, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg and the Flash, it may be too late to save the planet from an assault of catastrophic proportions.
6. The Snowman
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose scarf is found wrapped around an ominous-looking snowman.
5. The Mummy
Nick Morton is a soldier of fortune who plunders ancient sites for timeless artifacts and sells them to the highest bidder. When Nick and his partner come under attack in the Middle East, the ensuing battle accidentally unearths Ahmanet, a betrayed Egyptian princess who was entombed under the desert for thousands of years. With her powers constantly evolving, Morton must now stop the resurrected monster as she embarks on a furious rampage through the streets of London.
4. Geostorm
After an unprecedented series of natural disasters threatened the planet, the world's leaders came together to create an intricate network of satellites to control the global climate and keep everyone safe. But now, something has gone wrong: the system built to protect Earth is attacking it, and it becomes a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out everything and everyone along with it.
Single mother Susan Carpenter works as a waitress alongside her feisty family friend Sheila. Taking care of everyone and everything in his own way is Susan's older son Henry. Protective of his brother and a tireless supporter of his often self-doubting mother, Henry blazes through the days like a comet. When Susan discovers that the family next door harbors a dark secret, she's surprised to learn that Henry has devised a plan to help the young daughter.
2. Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
In the 28th century, special operatives Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline work together to maintain order throughout the human territories. Under assignment from the minister of defense, the duo embarks on a mission to Alpha, an ever-expanding metropolis where diverse species gather to share knowledge and culture. When a dark force threatens the peaceful city, Valerian and Laureline must race against time to identify the menace that also jeopardizes the future of the universe.
1. 9/11
On the morning of 9/11, a messenger sings "Happy Birthday" to his daughter, a billionaire argues with his wife in a divorce hearing, a maintenance man begins his day, and a young Russian decides she's breaking up with her sugar daddy. When the first plane hits the World Trade Center, these five elevator passengers find themselves trapped. Forced to band together, they fight against all odds to escape before the imminent and inevitable collapse occurs.


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You will appreciate this. Natalie's teacher was teaching the concept of "INSIDE." Last session Anne (our amazing home school teacher) has Natalie put bug stickers "inside" the boarder of a picture of a leaf. With stickers ranging from 1-6 then she had Natalie point to a sticker with a number on it and reached "inside" a container full of tongue depressors. Natalie counts them out then put them back "inside" the container. I have really enjoyed seeing Natalie's mind reaching for these concepts. She's really getting all the creative ideas Anne brings each week.
She is already recognizing all her letters now. Anne thinks she's going to be a good reader, which is so important, especially nowa days! Natalie loves learning and we love watching her. We have no hesitation that she going to be ready for school (away from home) when that phase of our plan rolls around. Since Natalie's birthday is January, she'll not start kindergarten this September, but out plan is to begin attending away from home school in the Fall. Then transition to using the school bus! (pray for that!). .
The big news is Natalie has officially begun walking (more than scooting). It's been a few weeks now and all the success can be attributed to our amazing Physical Therapist Diane Attsat. When insurance failed to pay, she stepped up and is offering her services virtually for free. Dominick and Dana are trading her for odd jobs to cover the PT service service but, the quality of work she's accomplished, (we all agree) Natalie is getting the best end of the bargain.
Dom (Sr.) had an old tricycle put away, that use to be Dominick's when he was a little boy. He refurbished it and we're planning on introduce Natalie at her next Physical Therapy session. Last therepy session we went to the park to help her to climb. Natalie is going to be a great climber becase she has such great upper body strength (when she wants to use it). We just have to show her the advantages of being mobile, and she's getting it!!!! Tha's all for now!