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In order to avoid the marriage which his parents had intended for him, he secretly left home. He spent all his life wandering: he was in Constantinople, Rome, Corinth, and he lived as an ascetic on Olympus for a while. Saint Gregory preached the Word of God everywhere, denouncing the Iconoclast heresy, strengthening the faith and fortitude of the Orthodox, whom the heretics in those times oppressed, tortured and imprisoned.
Through his ascetic effort and prayer, Saint Gregory attained the gifts of prophecy and wonderworking. After overcoming the passions and reaching the height of virtue, he was permitted to hear angelic singing in praise of the Holy Trinity. Saint Gregory left the monastery of Saint Menas near Thessalonica, where he had labored for a long time, and he went again to Constantinople in order to combat the Iconoclast heresy. At the capital, a grievous illness undermined his strength, and he departed to the Lord in the year 816.
Saint Gregory was buried at a monastery in Constantinople, and many miracles took place at his tomb. As a result, the monks removed the holy relics of Saint Gregory and enshrined them in the church where people could venerate them.
When Constantinople fell to the Turks in 1453, the relics of Saint Gregory were carried to the region of the Danube by a Turkish official. In 1498 Barbu Craiovescu, the Ban of the Romanian Land (Wallachia) heard of the miracles performed by the holy relics and bought them for a considerable sum of money. Barbu Craiovescu placed the relics in the main church of Bistritsa Monastery which he founded in Rimnicu Vilcea, where they remain to the present day.
A small book describing the miracles and healings performed by Saint Gregory the Decapolite in Romania has been written by Abbess Olga Gologan, who reposed in 1972.
Troparion — Tone 4
The twofold lamps of divine gifts, / Proclus, shepherd of New Rome, and Gregory, scion of Decapolis, / guide us by the light of grace as divinely-inspired fathers. / Let us draw near and eagerly beseech them, / that we may receive forgiveness and salvation of our souls.
Kontakion — Tone 3
The Church knows you to be a brilliant sun / enlightening all with the rays of healing and the beauty of virtue. / Therefore, as we celebrate your honored memory, / we glorify your struggles, ever-blest and all-wise father Gregory.
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Most students blog about their successes but I'm going to share with you an experience about my failure as a leader. Prior to business school whenever I had the opportunity to lead I felt as though I had to have everything under my control, that the successes and failures of the group were solely my responsibility. How naïve. First of all, it was naïve to believe I could control for all factors. Second of all, I was naïve in thinking that a team's success was based on a single person. The word "team" should have been the first indicator.
Individual and Group dynamics. Not only is it a core class that first years will take in Spring quarter but it's also something GSMers must consider in their day to day lives as future leaders. Having led an Admit Day and coordinated a speaking event with the VP of global marketing for The North Face I've had my opportunities for leading groups this year.
Most students will come into the program with some level of leadership and will certainly lead groups while attending the GSM but it's insightful knowing how exactly your actions as a leader motivate a team.
When I was a lead for planning a speaker event this year I went into my default style of leadership and required everyone on the team to follow my strict orders. As I learned in group dynamics class, I was being a "directive" leader. I hounded the group, wanting to know the breakdown of exactly what they were planning and what they had already accomplished. Timelines were required for even the most minuscule of tasks. What I should have done was "empower" everyone on the project. I had completely neglected the fact that the task force was composed of the most capable people at the GSM. They were All-Stars at their respective companies and I was treating them like individuals who have never had a project assigned to them. In a way I was disrespecting their competencies; I was indicating that I didn't trust them to handle simple tasks. In that way, I failed as a leader.
I won't be making that mistake again.
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MDTTC Camps
I've coached at over 180 five-day or more training camps, usually six hours per day. That's over 900 days of camp, or two and a half years. (Add camps I went to as a player and it comes to over three years. Add group sessions I've run, and the numbers go up astronomically.) I can do lectures on every topic we cover on the drop of a ping-pong ball, and most of them probably come out word-for-word the same every time as they are so ingrained now. I have changed the lectures somewhat over the years as techniques have changed and as I've learned better ways of explaining them, but most fundamentals haven't changed a lot since we opened up the Maryland Table Tennis Center 22 years ago. (Probably the biggest change in my lectures is a greater emphasis on topspin on the backhand than before.)
This camp I'm not giving many lectures, as most of the players are locals and we decided to get them out to the tables more quickly rather than have them watch demos and listen to lectures from me that they've all heard before. It's actual a surreal experience not giving these lectures.
As always, the players can be divided into three types. There are the goof-offs - the ones who are here strictly for the fun, or because their parents made them, or are just too young to be serious yet, and aren't really interested in learning. They are the hardest to deal with. There are the in-betweens - the ones who do want to learn, sort of, and will do what you ask, but are really counting the minutes until we get to playing games. They're okay to work with, and you push them as hard as you think you can without losing them. And then there are the ones who are determined to get good, and really work at it. They are great to work with. I often surreptitiously give them longer sessions, and sometimes hit with them at the end of a session or even on break. These are the ones who want longer turns at multiball while the others can't wait to finish their turn. They are also the ones who get really good.
Here's an interesting question of biology and physics. Did you know that the average mass of a seven-year-old's foot is many thousands of times greater than an adults? It may not seem so until you see the gravitational pull between the bottoms of their feet and any ping-pong balls that lie on the floor, leading to many broken balls.
Due to this blog and other writing projects, I've been operating on little sleep this week at camp. I confess I've taken the easy way out. When I take the kids to 7-11 during lunch break I've been buying a Mountain Dew each time. I try to go easy on soft drinks, with a general rule of only drinking them at restaurants and at home when working late at night, but I made an exception here. Hopefully I won't be this exhausted all summer.
I've got the summer divided roughly into six segments:
Help Wanted - USATT CEO
Yesterday I linked to the job description and application info for CEO of USA Table Tennis. As I noted the, they have a LOT of requirements!!!
One thing that jumped out at me near the end is where it said near the very end under Qualifications, "A genuine passion for the sport of Table Tennis. Exposure to, or involvement in the sport is a plus." If exposure or involvement in the sport is only a "plus," then how could it be required that the person have a "genuine passion for the sport of Table Tennis"? There were a couple of other things that threw me that I won't get into. It said to apply or respond to this opportunity, please visit www.prodigysports.net/search. I visited it, but it was a bad address. However, under it was a link to apply.
No, I'm not applying. I don't qualify for much of what is required - I'm not what they are looking for. I blogged about this on March 27 and on May 21. As I wrote in those blogs, I believe we are once again playing the lottery in trying to sell the sport now rather than focusing on the process of developing our sport so we can sell it. (You don't need large sums of money to start this process, as I've pointed out repeatedly.) Maybe we'll get lucky this time, but we've tried this unsuccessful approach for many decades. Playing the lottery can be addictive - instant get rich schemes are always more attractive than doing the hard work in developing the sport.
At the end of the application info there's a "Characteristics of the Successful Candidate" section. I decided to grade myself on the ten items. Why not grade yourself as well?
Stop Pushing
Here's a new coaching article by Ben Larcombe at about.com. Yes, at about.com - the table tennis site there is back up, but I don't see the forum yet.
How to Make the Most of Similar Level Training Partners
Here's the new coaching article by Matt Hetherington.
Footwork Training with Jorgen Persson
Here's the video (33 sec) - it's a great and fun way to develop quick feet!
USA Nationals
It's official - it'll be held in Las Vegas, Dec. 16-20. It now shows up in the USATT Tournament listing.
100-Day Countdown to Change in the ITTF's Presidency
Former USATT President Sheri Pittman Cioroslan is doing an article every day during the last 100 days of Adham Sharara's ITTF presidency, counting downwards from 100. Previous ones are linked from the USATT News page, as well as in my past blogs. Twenty-seven down, 73 to go!
ITTF Schools Program
Just thought I'd give a shout-out to their Table Tennis in Schools Program, which is especially helpful for teaching groups of younger kids. Recently I was looking for more table tennis type games kids in the 6-8 age range could play, and copied a few of the ones they have in their manual in section four, "Activity Cards."
The Internet Wins Pingpong Battle with Obama
Here's the article, where they show how a picture of Obama playing table tennis with English Prime Minister David Cameron has become a hit with online memes.
Ping Pong - the Animation
I'm not sure if I linked to all four of these animated table tennis cartoons before, so there they are. Each episode is exactly 23:07. I haven't watched them yet - I may do so tonight. Can anyone tell us about them in the comments below?
Ping Pong with Oncoming Traffic
Here's the article and pictures - yes, the guy rallied off oncoming cars and trucks!
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Tip of the Week
If you work with top players, one of the things that quickly jumps out at you is that they are nearly all perfectionists. They developed their nearly perfect techniques because they weren't satisfied with anything less than perfection - and so they worked at it, year after year after year, until they got as close to it as it was humanly possible.
If you want to reach a decent level, you too should be a perfectionist when you practice. This doesn't mean everything has to be perfect; it means as close to perfect as can reasonably be done. The operative word here is "reasonably." If your goal is to be world champion, then your goal is true perfection in all your shots because if you aim for absolute perfection, you'll get a lot closer to it than if you aim lower. But for most people who are not striving to be world champion, "reasonably" is a flexible term. For example, most players do not have the foot speed to cover as much of the table with their forehands as many of the top world-class players. Trying to do so is an exercise in futility. So instead of trying to play a "perfect" game like Zhang Jike or Ma Long, you might settle for something more within your abilities - and yet you might still strive to have their stroking techniques.
Even the stroking techniques are subject to the "reasonably" guideline. For example, if you are primarily a blocker/hitter and have played that way for many years, you might find looping in a fast rally awkward to learn. So you might only want to loop against backspin - and if so, you might not want to copy the great counterlooping techniques of the top players, but instead develop a good old-fashioned loop against backspin only. (Which sometimes means a more concave up stroke, i.e. the path of the racket curves upward.) Or you could spend a lot of time developing that loop in a rally, if you so choose. It all depends on your physical abilities and how much time you can "reasonably" put toward this training.
It also sometimes comes down to whether you want to develop a technique for the sake of learning that technique, or whether you are focused strictly on winning. Many players want to play like the world-class players, style-wise, even if they might be better playing some other way. There's nothing wrong with that. Others are more focused on winning, and there's nothing wrong with that either - but here the key is the timetable, i.e. how long are you willing to focus on perfecting your game now so you can win later.
I started out as a shakehand inverted all-out forehand hitter my first few years. (I was a late starter, starting at age 16.) Looping was difficult for me at first, but I decided I wanted to play like the top players, and so I spent an inordinate amount of time practicing looping. Eventually I reached the point that I could play both looping or hitting, which became valuable tactically. It also made me a much better coach since I went through the same process as most up-and-coming players do as they learn to loop - only it's more in my memory as I went through this when I was around 19 or so. I've always thought that was an advantage I have in my coaching as I'm teaching things I learned around that age while other top coaches are teaching stuff they learned when they were perhaps eight years old, and so I have a better memory of the process.
100-Day Countdown to Change in the ITTF Presidency
Former USATT President Sheri Cioroslan (formerly Pittman) is doing a 100-day countdown daily article through the end of ITTF President Adham Sharara's tenure as president of the ITTF. As she explains it, "Over this 100-day period, I will share a series that features the past, present and future of the ITTF, with a particular emphasis on news and developments during the Sharara era." Here are the first three.
Winning Deuce Games
Here's the article by Samson Dubina.
Ariel Hsing Joins JinHua Bank Team for the 2014 China Super League
The Expert in a Year Challenge is Heading to Denmark
Here's the article, and info on the camp in Denmark.
Table Tennis Does Not Get Any Better Than This!
Here's the video (52 sec) of this great point in the fifth game between Germany's Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Japan's Jun Mizutani in the Team Semifinals at the recent World Championships in Tokyo. Mizutani would go on to win the match, 11-8 in the fifth, but Germany would win the Team match 3-1 to advance to the final against China.
Ping Pong the Animation
There are now seven episodes in this table tennis cartoon. Here's where you can see all seven.
X-Men Table Tennis
There's a scene about midway into the movie where we meet the super-fast Quicksilver. How did they introduce us to him and his speed? By having him play table tennis by himself! Here's an animated gif of him playing as Hank/Beast, a young Charles Xavier (in background) and Wolverine look on.
Non-Table Tennis - Baltimore Science Fiction Convention
I spent Saturday at Balticon, where I was a panelist in three different one-hour panels. Here's a picture of me with my fellow panelists in one of them, with my two science fiction/fantasy books on display. You can't tell from this angle but there's a sizeable audience there. This panel was on "Favorite Science Fiction Authors." My other two panels were "Five Books for the Last Town on Earth" and "Titles Looking for Stories." (This latter involved audience members choosing titles, and each panelist coming up with a story synopsis on the spot.) (Here's my science fiction page.)
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There's absolutely no doubt that digital marketing is the key to success in the music industry. If you're keen to make the most of each and every ounce of exposure you receive, if you are set on becoming the next big thing, if you are striving to live life as a full-time musician or band member, then you must embrace digital marketing and acknowledge all the concepts and trends currently relevant to your industry.
How do I get fans? Is it about quality or quantity?
The 1000 True Fans concept is the idea that as long as you have 1000 'true fans', you are never going to have a problem selling your music and your merchandize online. These true fans will help create a fanbase and market for your music and products that will help you drive further sales and success.
The point of digital marketing is to make the most of the exposure you receive when you perform and find those magical 1000 true fans who will give you a musical career for life. In some ways, true fans are similar to the marketing concept of brand advocacy. Encourage loyalty, reward loyalty, and give freely.
Make the most of Facebook pages
Digital marketing goes hand-in-hand with social media. If you're wondering how to get fans, you must build a platform that allows them to express themselves, to engage with you or your band, and to learn more about you.
Begin with a Facebook page. Facebook provides plenty of tools to assist you in keeping track of who is engaging with your posts, as well as allowing you to measure how successful your reach has been. Make your page super engaging with a ton of live video, music, photoshoots, and quirky outtakes from life 'on the road'.
Don't forget to sync up your Facebook page with offline activities like gigs and fan meetups.
Embrace Twitter & Instagram & share your story
No matter how good your music is, your fans will want to know you or your band personally. Facebook is good for finding out information about gigs and news. Twitter, on the other hand, is good for little bits of communication and for emphasizing your personality. You can also personally thank a fan for coming to see you, as well as share articles, images and updates that you find exciting. Many people use Twitter to tell others what they're up to. If you're writing a new song, you can share this in a couple of words with an appropriate hashtag.
Instagram is very similar to Twitter, but favors images rather than words. You can share pictures and videos of you or your band travelling to a gig, images of the audience from your gig, shots with collaborators, or pics of your latest merchandize.
Having an engaged social account is a great confidence booster, as well as a commercial asset. Nurture the community you're building — and think twice before purchasing fans.
Get your stuff out on YouTube
Many gig organizers will use YouTube to check out your music before hiring you. YouTube isn't always an easy platform for new bands and musicians, so don't worry if you don't get many views at the beginning. Instead, focus on releasing some of your tracks in high quality for gig organizers and potential fans. Be sure to add tags and keywords to your video to increase the likelihood of someone finding your video or even stumbling across it through YouTube's autoplay feature.
The good thing about YouTube is that your true fans will happily do the necessary advertising for you. They will share your latest releases through their social media networks and their friendship groups. They will also add their comments and likes to your videos. This interaction between fans encourages a fan base to emerge, which will develop its own personality as it grows.
Create a killer website
Still trying to figure out how to promote your music independently? A strong website can make your music enterprise look professional and serious. If you truly want to commit to a musical career, ensure that you invest in a website that has intuitive navigation, accessible contact information, and ecommerce facilities that allow you to sell your albums and merchandize yourself.
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In order for your digital marketing efforts to be successful, be prepared to fully engage with these tips. Going into marketing half-hearted is simply not good enough. Just like an instrument, grasping digital marketing can take time and practise.
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HA NOI (VNS) - The National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion (NIHBT) has asked for blood donations, saying the blood bank had only a week's supply of blood left.
This is the first time the largest blood bank in northern Viet Nam has issued such an appeal.
The NIHBT said there were only 230 units of blood group A left, which was seven times lower than the 'safe threshold'.
One unit of blood is roughly equivalent to one pint (450ml).
The average adult has 10 pints of blood in his or her body.
The volume of blood group O - which can substitute for all other blood groups - was decreasing, NIHBT warned.
This means that if the stock of blood group A runs out, there will be insufficient stock of blood group O to substitute blood group A.
In an interview with Tien Phong (Vanguard) newspaper, Vice-Director of the institute Pham Tuan Duong said he did not expect the supply of blood to improve till the start of a national blood donation campaign entitled Red Journey, scheduled for July 5.
He said his institute needed 150 units of blood group A, and between 230 and 250 units of blood group O every day. All in all, the institute needs 5,000 units of donated blood per week.
Duong said in the first two weeks of June already, the amount of donated blood had fallen by 40 per cent.
"Meanwhile, the demand for blood from patients remains unchanged as compared with the previous months' averages," Duong said.
He said the scarcity of donated blood was probably due to the fact that it was vacation time of students, who usually are a strong army of blood donors, and the hot weather that prevented people from visiting donation centres.
The NIHBT's blood bank is fed by blood donations from 12 provinces and 29 districts of Ha Noi.
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West Ashley, Charleston, South CarolinaWest Ashley is one of the oldest suburban residential districts in Charleston, SC. The suburb is surrounded by the beautiful Ashley River and Intracoastal Waterway. West Ashley is an ideal to place to live for anyone looking for newly built homes or housing near the water. West Ashley has a rich history and culture that makes it a notable place worth living in. It offers its residents with scenic beauty, beautifully crafted parks, restaurants and shopping destinations and peaceful and tranquil surroundings.
History:The oldest suburban residence is the home situated at Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site. In 1670, the first English colonists settled at Charles Towne Landing. The site, through models of the old town, offers its visitors a glimpse of how Charles Towne became one of the wealthiest colonies in America. This attraction also houses an animal forest where indigenous species of bison, elk, black bear, fox and deer can be found. The forest has been designed by famed naturalist Jim Fowler. Other attractions in West Ashley include three of the region's most visited plantations - Middleton Place, Drayton Hall and Magnolia Plantation and Gardens. Many of the neighborhoods of West Ashley, developed in the 1950s, also have their own historic significances.
Demography:West Ashley has a 72,017 population, according to figures released by the Census Bureau in December 2015. It is the 3rd most populated area in Charleston. The population of the suburb has more than doubled since 1960. The community has a 40% population of single residents, 73% of homeowners and 45% of college educated. Most people in West Ashley prefer to travel by car or bike to local attractions.
Neighborhood:West Ashley is in proximity to neighborhoods such as Wappoo Heights, Edgewater Park and South Windermere. West Ashley is also popular among property buyers for large homes with expansive wood work and waterfront.
Amenities:The suburb offers its residents a number of choices to bring fun and entertainment to their lives. Because of the location of the West Ashley, it has become quite popular among visitors for its water activities such as boating. Several deep-water home properties are available in the suburb for purchase.West Ashley also houses golf courses, tennis courts and swimming pools. Boating enthusiasts can also take advantage of a cruise along the Ashley River. It is in proximity to grocery stores, restaurants and shopping centers of West Ashley's neighborhoods. The suburb also houses many dining choices.
Real Estate:The West Ashley real estate options comprise of a number of wooded and waterfront properties located a few minutes from the center of the city. West Ashley is a community of moderately priced homes as well as numerous luxury apartments, executive homes fronting the Ashley River and picturesque golf communities.New developments are still cropping up in this area and are expected to provide the choices for residential living from condominiums and duplexes to large homes with dock and river access. West Ashley is one of the most popular neighborhoods in the Charleston housing market with average sales prices approaching $300,000. West Ashley has a lot to offer from traditional ranchers to brick cottages, as well as new construction condos to its prospective real estate customers.West Ashley residents love the affordability, proximity and community lifestyle of the area. They enjoy a great deal of affordable options of almost anything being offered in costly places such as the downtown Charleston.
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Following my previous thread, regarding replacing a damaged door from a pick n pull donor door. (And the 30 day trade in for the core is counting down =P )
The door on my car is damaged from the outside, some how rendering the door stuck shut.
I got the interior paneling off, rods all look fine. All actions and move fine. Nothing disconnected.
The thing that seems to be damaged or compromised is the latching and/or the locking unit. Which is interesting as the exterior damage is not near the latching (far as I can tell) and doesn't look like it would affect the latching. But from the inside of the door, I can't see anywhere near the latching, so I can't see what is affected.
When I unlock the door manually or using power, the lock will unlock but spring back to the lock position.
I tried holding the lock switch open and simultaneous with the door handle to open, but that doesn't work =/
One thing to note, when I do those to actions at once, you don't feel that 'open' click or clunk when the latch should release from the nader bolt. So the impact is probably holding the latch shut on the bolt is seems.
I feel like I'm gonna have to cut open the sheet metal and get to the latching mechanism... But even then, I don't know if there is much I can do to get the latch to release...


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No, I am not Bob.
My name is Todd Yard. I created the 27Bobs site back in 2000 when I had much more time on my hands. Today I am a software architect at Brightcove in Cambridge, MA, focusing primarily on front-end ActionScript development for our video platform. I have contributed to over a dozen Flash and ActionScript books through friends of ED, and have done a number of other things that perhaps are not of import on a site dedicated to Flash, ActionScript and Brightcove.
As for 27Bobs, there is a story behind it, but not a terribly interesting one. As soon as I make up a story I like I will post it.


text: Tom Fury, the friendly lightning-rod salesman, succumbs to his desire to gaze upon the Most Beautiful Woman in the World, and re-emerges in the novel as the carnival's squashed Dwarf. As such, he is one of the carnival's early victims. He is easily the target of reader sympathy since we see him first as a normal man and then later as a freak of the carnival. His character is a reminder that all the freaks of the carnival used to be normal people, which complicates the otherwise simple "good vs. evil" paradigm. It's also interesting to note that the salesman had an inkling of what was coming – his claim that a storm was brewing can be read a veiled reference to the carnival – but was defenseless against it anyway.


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Community: Is Gmail Linux Friendly?Nov 30, 2004, 01:00 (14 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Ehud Shabtai)
[ Thanks to Ehud Shabtai for this article. ]
I've been using Gmail for a couple of months and I am really happy with it. I especially enjoy seeing how everything works well with Firefox.
However, while Google has released a mail notifier for Windows, the company has no similar support for Linux. Fortunately, there are some Linux-based solutions such as a Firefox notifier and mail-notification for GNOME.
One would think that while Google does not officially support these notifiers, they would at least allow their usage until they willing to provide some Linux support of their own.
Well, they don't.
Today I discovered that my account has been locked down for 24 hours. The message I received stated that if I use any software that automatically logs into my account I must disable it, as is it is not supported by Google.
What does Google expect Linux users to do? Forgo email notification?
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I decided to buy a CO2 laser from metaquip.nl in the Nertherlands. I think it's the best deal, having quite big work surface (400x400), some space to expand this even further, relative cheap machine and the guarante that the laser is working, due to a final check with the Dutch supplier. This is also the first 60W in this table configuration. Here already a picture of the machine in the factory:
Some laser art:
Some laser art:
2016 nov
After getting some experience about the possibilities of the laser, it was time to update the laser:
Together with Raimond (owner MetaQuip) changed from NewlyDraw to LaserWorks (both software & controller + drivers).
Next modification: update the bed size to: 625x450 [mm].
Updated laser area: 600x425.
Updated the bed frame, having less screws for adjusting height.
Created work table, for both laser and pc, which could be rolled under the work bench.
Added a beam combiner lens + holder, which is very handy, especially for focusing the laser.
Now this CO2 laser is ready for mass production!
It's so much more fun, seeing this red laser line burning the wood!
Thinks to do:
Need to place door-cylinder again.
Want to improve air venting. (And make this also available for the lath. Maybe a cyclone with filters...)
It's so much more fun, seeing this red laser line burning the wood!
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There is an interesting phenomenon in the sports world surrounding fans and trades. It goes something like this...
Giants Fan 1, "Man, that Albert Pujols is really something else. I sure would like to have him on our team."
Giants Fan 2, "We should offer the Cardinals three of our mediocre players for him."
Giants Fan 1, "That'll never work, they won't give him up for three mediocre players."
Giants Fan 2, "Okay, we'll give them 5 of them... heck give them 7 mediocre players!"
Giants Fan 1, "Yeah... this is starting to sound real good."
The fallacy says that if you add up enough average players they are worth a superstar. Or as I've heard it explained before, make a tall enough stack of trash and it just might work. The problem is that there is no amount of mediocre talent that adds up to Albert Pujols' value. He is simply worth too much to be replaced by a commodity. The same is true of any exceptional talent.
So, what does this have to do with information security? This seems to be the same strategy many organizations use when it comes to implementing defense in depth. They focus on making the tallest pile of security measures. But when it comes down to it, a mile's worth of depth isn't worth one truly effective measure.
We have all heard that a defense in depth is required for an effective security program. But in many ways defense in depth has become a security blanket for companies, rather than a security strategy. The number of different technologies may give a nice sense of security, but provides negligible added value.
This means that organizations that are racing around trying to purchase and implement the latest and greatest should stop. Take a hard look at those systems you already have in place, and figure out what you're getting from them. Real risk mitigation is not about having all the greatest countermeasures, it's making sure that the countermeasures you have in place can do the job.
This is good news for just about everyone involved (though, not so much for the VARs and technology manufacturers who will be losing the sales). The company can save money by not buying every solution out there. By focusing on the highest impact defenses first, and thoroughly, they can spend less on new technologies while getting more results.
The technical employees win because they are able to invest more time getting to better understand and master the technologies they have in place. There is a ton of value in being the master of a few technologies, rather than familiar with many.
For those companies who see themselves stuck in this situation, think of this as a money saving opportunity. Look at your security stack, and do some real analysis on the technologies you have deployed. Are they really providing the security they promised? Are there significant features and functions you haven't even turned on yet because you haven't had the time or staff? Take the time to answer these questions truthfully and candidly. Your answers should lead you to optimize or drop those which aren't currently supplying significant value.
After you have maximized the impact of each of your technologies, it very well may make sense to add more depth. That new web application scanning tool, or DLP technology absolutely can make your organization safer. But by putting off their implementation until rest of your tools are properly configured you not only save money, you make your organization more secure.
Cross-posted from Enterprise InfoSec Blog from Robb Reck.


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If jamming bluegrass isn't your style--or you want an earlier start--drop by Phoenix Hill Tavern for Eddy Metal's 10th Anniversary Original Rock Showcase on Friday, January 8.
Picking up the torch left behind by the dearly departed Toy Tiger a decade ago, the Hill has become the area's premier spot for original local music and bigger national acts coming through on their their small-venue tours--and Eddy's still putting together Louisville's longest running original rock showcase.
It's an evening of thrash, trash, metal and progressive rock all over the Hill, with "modern party rockers" Grindstone, Kentucky Death Wish, Inner Blue, E Flat, Trust Divided, Sever this Illusion and Strumbeat raising the Roof Garden and down below in the Taproom. That's a lot of music--but then, it's been a lot of years.
Phoenix Hill is located at 644 Baxter Avenue and the 21-and-over show starts at 8:00 and runs all night--well, until 4:00 A.M. Tickets are $5; call 589-4957 for information.
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This quick twist on classic chicken noodle soup is loaded with fresh vegetables—carrots, celery, onion, and green bell pepper. You'll agree 100 percent that fresh is best.
How to Make It
Heat a Dutch oven over medium-high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Add chicken and next 3 ingredients; cook 6 minutes or until chicken begins to brown and vegetables are tender, stirring frequently. Add broth; bring to a boil. Add pasta, reduce heat to medium, and cook 8 minutes or until pasta is done.
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text: Out of Many, One is a documentary completed in Kingston, Jamaica alongside Juice Groove Films for the TV series Soccer Traveler. Soccer Traveler is a show that follows soccer fans in their adventures around the world, as they experience different cultures through the Beautiful Game. Out of Many, One documents the culture of Jamaica both inside and outside of the stadium as Jamaica competes for a spot in World Cup 2014.


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Jacks Hole? - Can somebody let me know where Jacks Hole is? The directions given are pretty vauge. I often surf at a place called bobs bowl but thats right outside of Hansen, not very far up North.
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Fuck Puka - anybody interested in okinawa surfing..... Suicide cliffs(itoman),Sunabe seawall(Sunabe),Big Time resort(ike island), Aja pier(Aja), Lighthouse(Onna)..one
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In conjunction with One Book | One Community 2013, which focused on contemporary Jewish life in Chicago, Spertus Institute was honored to present a pair of large-scale photographs by Jay Wolke. These images, from his landmark study of Chicago Jewry, offer vivid windows into age-old traditions reenacted in a uniquely American context.
Jay Wolke was born in 1954 and raised in Chicago, where he works as a Professor and Chair of the Art and Design Department at Columbia College. He holds a BFA from Washington University in St. Louis and an MS in Photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Wolke has had solo exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago, the St. Louis Art Museum, Harvard University, the California Museum of Photography, and Foundation Studio Marangoni/ Florence. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.
Three monographs of his work have been published:
All Around the House: Photographs of American-Jewish Communal Life (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), Along the Divide: Photographs of the Dan Ryan Expressway (Center for American Places, 2004) and Architecture of Resignation: Photographs from the Mezzogiorno (Center for American Places, 2011. His photographs have appeared in publications including the New York Times Magazine, Architectural Record, Newsweek, Fortune, and the Village Voice.
In addition to his work at Columbia College, since 1981 he has taught photography and art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Institute of Design at IIT, and Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy. He has received grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Illinois Arts Council, Focus Infinity Fund, and the Ruttenberg Arts Foundation.


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What Are The Benefits Of Social Media Marketing
To some business owners, social media marketing is a passing craze that must be taken advantage of while it lasts. Because of how quickly it appeared, most people do not take social media seriously. However, social media marketing can improve your business in the following ways:
More conversion opportunities
With every post that you make on social media, you are giving consumers an opportunity to convert into loyal customers. Once you build a following, you will have access to old, new, and recent customers who you can interact with frequently. Every image, video, blog post, and comment that you choose to share could convince your followers to visit your site and eventually lead to a conversion.
However, you should know that not every interaction that followers have with your brand leads to a conversion. Even if the number of click-through rates that you have are low, the infinite opportunities that social media offers is worth it.
Higher conversion rates
Social media marketing brings about higher rates of conversion in a few distinctive ways. The most important one being the humanization element, which refers to the fact that some businesses are humanized by having a social media presence. On social media, brands act like people do, which is important because consumers like doing business with people, not faceless companies.
Moreover, studies show that social media marketing has a higher lead-to-close rate than any form of outbound marketing. Additionally, high followings on social media lend credibility to your brand. Therefore, building a large social media presence can be enough to improve your conversion rates.
Increased brand recognition
You should take every opportunity to increase visibility and syndicate your content. Social media channels provide you with a platform for your brand's content. Using social media makes your brand easier to access and makes you recognizable to potential customers.
For instance, a person who is always on Twitter can hear about your brand after seeing it on a newsfeed. Moreover, an indifferent consumer could learn about your brand after seeing it on multiple social media pages.
Improved brand loyalty
According to studies, brands that have a heavy social media presence enjoy more customer loyalty. An open and tactical social media plan could prove important for morphing people into loyal customers.
Higher brand authority
According to Jeff Bickley, the founder of Brown Box Branding, interacting with your customers on a regular basis is a show of good faith. When people want to complain or brag about a certain product, the use social media as a platform. This means that if a customer mentions your brand, others will want to follow you for updates.
The more users talk about your brand on social media, the more authoritative and valuable it will seem. Moreover, if you get in touch with major influencers on Twitter, your reach and visibility will skyrocket.
More inbound traffic
Without social media marketing, you will be limiting your inbound traffic to those who already know about your brand. This means that adding a social media profile to your brand creates a new path that leads to your website. The more content you syndicate, the higher your inbound traffic will be, leading to more conversions.
Better search engine rankings
SEO is the best way to get relevant traffic from search engines. However, the criteria for success when using it are always changing. Updating your blog frequently and optimizing your title tags is no longer enough, you need to do more if you want to rank highly.
Search engines usually consider social media presence when calculating rankings, because the strongest brands have a huge presence on social media.


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For Thursday's Sell Block segment, Cramer introduced another pairs trade in the same vein as last week's "sell LIZ , buy URBN " call. Now it's time to sell Anheuser-Busch and buy Molson Coors, he said.
Why sell the reigning king of the beer market? Because it's finally getting some real competition. TAP and SABMiller are combining their U.S. operations in a joint venture called MillerCoors that's going to eat away at BUD's market share – MillerCoors will have about 29% of the pie, still a far cry from BUD's dominant 48% but leaving room for improvement (before the deal, Coors only had 11% of the market).
TAP wins on rest-of-world exposure, too. Around 55% of its revenues come from overseas, compared to BUD's paltry 7%. As far as Cramer is concerned, that fact alone justifies buying TAP over BUD.
BUD isn't a broken company by any stretch, but it is suffering from some internal woes that make Cramer worry. Its huge investment in Mexico's Grupo Modelo, parent of Corona, is hurting the company in its U.S. sales as people pare back on expensive beers and buy the cheap stuff instead (who said Natty Light was just for broke college kids?).
BUD also suffers from market saturation in the U.S. – simply, it can't get much bigger than it is already. At the same time, TAP's growth is being catalyzed by its venture with SABMiller as well as its dominant overseas sales. Which would you rather own: the long-time market leader that's now stuck in the mud or the up-and-coming competitor nipping at its heels?
If you want to sell like the pros, dump your BUD shares to make room for TAP, the new king of beers.
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Inky Email App – Webmail, But Local
The Inky email app is a new and innovative way of checking your emails. Think of it like a mixture between your webmail account like Gmail, or Hotmail and a local email app like Thunderbird, Geary, or Outlook.
The Inky email app isn't just another app that lets you check your emails though. It approaches email in a completely unique way. It's quite strange at first, but once you get used to it the whole process makes a lot of sense.
Works like webmail
Every time you start up Inky it asks you to sign in to your Inky account, you can of course set Inky to remember your details and sign you in automatically. Once signed in you will have access to any mailboxes that you have added to Inky. You will also notice that the whole interface does act and feel like that of webmail applications like Gmail or Hotmail.
Sort by relevance
The Inky email app scans your inbox for people who are frequently contacted and then can sort your mail by how important it thinks a message is. It does this by way of an ink blot on screen. Basically, the darker the inkblot, then the more important Ink thinks that message is. It works in a similar way to Google's priority inbox, for those Gmail users out there.
If you're a traditionalist (like me) and simply want your mail sorting by the date it comes in, then you can do that too. But Inky will still show you the "inkblot of importance".
Unified Inbox
If you have more than email address (as most people do nowadays) then you will undoubtedly want to have them both handled within Inky. In many email apps (both online and local) it can be a real pain flipping from one inbox to another in order to check your mail. The Inky email app has a unified inbox that displays all of your inboxes in one place. You can of course still click on your email addresses (blurred above) to see only emails sent to that mailbox.
I personally find this feature very useful as it allows me to quickly go through all my mail that has been sent to the multiple email accounts that I have.
It's coming to Linux
At the moment Inky is only available for Windows and Mac, but the inky developers had this to say in a recent tweet:
@Inkymail we definitely plan to support Linux.
In response to this tweet they were quickly asked when this would be. But the response was a simple "quite soon". I've heard this before (*ahem* Google Drive for Linux *ahem*) and it hasn't come to fruition. So let's hope that Inky's developers stick to their word!
All in all Inky is a really good email app that boasts some really unique features. However, I won't be using Inky as a replacement for Thunderbird just yet as I can't have multiple identities to one mailbox (which is a requirement for me). But still. I think Inky is a great tool, and one that I hope becomes a real success going forward.
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In the last 2 trading days, as US President Trump's patience wo thin on China, which led to the announcement of further tariffs by Sept 1, the market is behaving as if both sides are moving closer to a full-blown trade crisis where the favorite trade, for now, has been to bid the Yen and the Swissy to the boots. Flows hitting the USD and the EUR saw a rather neutral performance of the respective indices, with both currencies suffering from its own demerits as the knock-on effect of a protracted trade war means the ECB and the Fed look poised to stick to their easing paths (QE II + rate cut by the ECB, back-to-back rate cut by the Fed). But it's not only the Fed or the ECB, the pathetic performance by the AUD or NZD, other than the influence risk-off has had, also tells us the RBA and the RBNZ will be forced to flex their muscles by further adjusting policy into an easier mode as we head into Sept/Oct. The RBNZ meets this week, and with such a dicey environment, a dovish outcome looks highly likely. In terms of the CAD and GBP indices, the former looks still quite constructive as the BOC has not been as explicit in its dovish bias compared to the rest of Central Bank, while we all know that GBP and the BoE continue to be in a hostage situation due to the political process of Brexit. As a full-blown trade war is an event being currently discounted, it revitalizes the central thematic that it really is a race to the bottom in the currency market as Central Bank are forced to ease, which leads to flows headed into old school plays by backing the safe-haven status of the Yen and Swissy as global yields implode discounting gloomy times ahead.
The indices show the performance of a particular currency vs G8 FX. An educational article about how to build your own currency meter can be found in the Global Prime's Research section.
* The Information is gathered after scanning top publications including the FT, WSJ, Reuters, Bloomberg, ForexLive, Institutional Bank Research reports.
Markets on the defensive: Amid the sudden escalation in the US-China trade war after Trump's fresh 10% tariffs announcement last Thursday, the environment clearly remains to play defensive with derisking off leveraged positions still the name of the game as further negative-charged headlines on trade are likely to hit the market sentiment. Hu Xijin, Global Times editor and China's govement mouthpiece, notes that "Beijing was very disappointed with the latest flip-flops of the US", adding that "it's understood Chinese side always has a plan B, which includes a series of countermeasures" via a well-informed official on condition of anonymity.
Game of hardball 'ON': Signs that China is not going to budge by the latest threat by Trump keep emerging as the press is reporting that China is tuing to Brazil to double down on soybeans purchases. It means that the game of hardball keeps going and with the truce essentially dead in the water, this may have been the final straw for markets to really assume this trade war is here to stay for the long run, with no end in sight during the Trump's administration. Bad for risk and the global economy.
Trump throws fuel to the fire: Speaking at a rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, President Trump told those attending that "we will be taxing the hell out of China." Again, the threats by Trump run the risk of exhausting the patience of China, which bring us closer to a full-blown trade war. If that's the case, the central thematic of buying risk on the belief that Central Banks will come to the rescue with further rounds of QE may no longer cut it as the market prices in protracted recessionary pressures globally, even if still not reflected in the US data.
China set to retaliate: The type of action the market is expecting from China to retaliate against the US may include the announcement of an unreliable entity list, which would exclude some US companies from doing business in mainland China. To prohibit exporting "rare-earth" materials to US/US companies. Additionally, to increase tariffs on US goods. China may take a gradual approach applying these methods of taxation in a gradual manner vs all at once.
USD/CNH breaks 7.00: The PBOC got the ball rolling by setting today's fixing above 6.9 for the first time this year, while the market finally pushed it past 7.00. What's important now is whether or not the PBOC lets the rate stay above this psychological area. One thing is clear. You don't see these overstretched moves in the Yen, Yuan or Swissy unless the market is freaking out by discounting a major event, which top of the mind for everyone is a full-blown trade war. The market has come to grips that the truce isn't working, so the next logical move might be to cancel further talks and declare the full-blown stage until the next US presidential election. The markets are behaving as if this is the central case otherwise u don't see these moves. But again, the market may be getting ahead of itself.
US NFP a side-show eclipsed by trade: US July NFP headline number came bang on expectations at +164K vs +165K expected, with a slight uptick in the jobless rate at 3.7% vs 3.6% expected as participation rate went up by a 0.1% margin to 63.0% vs 62.9% prior. The average hourly eaings edged up to +0.3% vs +0.2% exp on a monthly basis, which puts the yearly reading at +3.2% y/y vs +3.1% exp. The positives and negatives in the US NFP canceled each other out for a rather neutral read overall. However, with the trade war clearly on the driving seat, this month's US NFP will be mostly sidelined as a factor to influence the pricing of assets.
New insights by Fed dissenters: Fed's Boston Rosengren and Fed's Kansas, who were the two dissenters not supporting a 25bp rate cut in last week's FOMC meeting, made public appearances to update markets on their stance on monetary policy. George said that a clear and compelling case to ease is not in place given the strong domestic economic data, reduced cost of credit/vol and stocks at all-time highs. George's neutral view is also anchored by the economic health seen in the US indicators, even if she made the admission that she is ready to back adjusting policy if data warrants it, also recognizing that the outlook including trade and global growth poses clear risks.
We have bank holidays both in Australia and Canada today, which will reduce liquidity in forex. In terms of data to watch out for, the only high-impact event to monitor during the course of Monday includes the US ISM Non-Manuf PMI, which is expected to come a tad better.
Source: Forexfactory
The overstretched nature of the movements seen in the JPY or CHF as a full-blown trade war between the US and China is priced in makes the current pricing of these currencies rather unsustainable unless backed by further negative headlines this Monday. It's always telling to see both the Yen and the Swissy fly in sync as it indicates the market is really freaking out that this time we could be on the edge before the US and China officially give up on further trade talks. As a result, the Oceanic currencies have gone through an absolute bloodbath and the closes by NY business hours on Friday are far from encouraging.
The Euro and the USD, as the two most highly liquid currencies, continue to experience a more moderate fluctuation, even if the mood in the market for the last 2 days has been to punish the USD (in the context of an uptrend) as the chances of further rate hikes by the Fed in Sept are almost fully priced in again. The Pound is another currency in a well-established downtrend due to a hard-Brexit scenario even if the currency is showing more resilience in the last 4 days of trading. Lastly, the CAD index, after the rejection off its baseline (13-d ema), looks to offer attractive levels to engage in longs.
The first market I want to revisit in today's note is the CHF/JPY as the confluent area of support I highlighted on Friday just ahead of 108.00 has found a sufficient demand imbalance to see a decent bounce. Remember, this is a reversal to the mean trade with a great deal of confluence to act as an area where market makers and sellers taking profits will apply enough pressure to increase the odds of a rebound significantly based on the concept of the 100% proj target.
Another market, akin to the CHFJPY, that reaches its 100% projected target only to see a tuaround as offers built up there is the USD/SEK. Again, it coincided with a round number 9.70, a horizontal resistance and a 100% proj target all meeting in the same area.
Talking about 100% proj targets. There will be times when the supply or demand imbalance is so one-sided that market makers and other participants/algos will pull their orders or won't be sizeable enough to absorb the directional pressure, in which case, these breached proj targets tend to then act as the immediate area of support or resistance on a retest. This is something we've recently seen in markets such as the GBPCHF or GBPUSD. Judge by yourself.
A second market that looks rather fragile for further sell-side follow-through is Oil, which I did point at it in my last note too, saying that any rebound towards 56.00 is likely to see sellers re-group for a potential extension lower into the 54.00 where a reassessment will be needed. The risk-averse conditions coupled with the pricing of greater risks of a global slowdown won't do any favor for the outlook of Crude Oil as market participants forebode weaker demand.
The S&P 500, which provided a huge waing that further selling the next day was a real possibility, has also found enough of an imbalance in supply to extend its downside. Not often we get clues via price action in the daily this clear, with a reversed pin bar with huge volume breaking through and closing past a key level of support. Whoever is a buyer, will have serious reservation engaging in business with any type of conviction until the level of support at 2,920 or thereabouts, which is precisely the area I mentioned as the next target in Friday's note, and the actual target that was reached by sellers before a rebound in price worth over 10p.


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Jesus' People of Faith - Part 4
As we come to the close of this "Hall of Faith" chapter from the book of Hebrews, our attention is drawn to some incredible examples among those listed, there are situations that involved great suffering, and in many cases what would have seemed in the eyes of the world to be more failure, than faith. God's people are often called to suffer for His sake and the sake of the gospel. It is only when we have an eternal perspective and are walking in faith that we could ever hope to endure. The examples we look at in this passage are sobering, but they remind us very powerfully that God is capable of getting us through anything, and even if we lose our lives, we gain eternity with Christ. Take some time to meditate on these accounts, and allow God to stir your heart and mind towards eternal things.


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We only got to two falls - Looking Glass Falls (left), which is right on the road, and Moore's Cove Falls (right), which is a short hike of 6/10 mile. Looking Glass Falls is a popular spot, because it is easy to get to, but also because it is a beautiful waterfall. The best spot to shoot these falls is standing in the middle of the stream. Since it was still in the low 60's and the water was even colder, I decided to climb out on some old logs for this shot.
Moore's Creek Falls is about 50' high, with not a lot of water flowing over the falls. The cool part about this one is you can walk behind the falls.
We decided to hike to the top of Looking Glass Rock, which took a few hours to complete. During the winter, water flowing down the sides of the rock freezes into ice, creating a glistening coating that makes the rock a "looking glass." The panoramic view from the top was fantastic. You get a sense of the beauty in the photo below. One interesting thing about this hike is the helicopter pad about a mile from the top. It's a natural smooth rock area that the crews use as a landing spot when they need to rescue injured rock climbers.
The best part of this day of hiking was the wild flowers that were in bloom the third weekend in April. There were Jack In The Pulpit, Foam Flower, Wild Violet, several varieties of Trillium, and some we couldn't identify. There were many others that had not bloomed out yet. We wish we could go back the next two weekends to see what else is blooming.
Several more photos from this day of hiking are available in the Pisgah National Forest Photo Gallery.


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Fishing Report - The Big Girls are here...
July 15th, 2014
It's taken a little while, but the big Stripers have moved in around the Island over the past couple of weeks offering great angling from the shore and boat. With the mountains of bait still here these fish should stay put for awhile. Nate Shaw caught his first ever striped bass - a 47lber - fishing with Capt. Chris Willi fishing the East side using a 6" rainbow trout sluggo on light tackle. 13yr old Cole Perschino, all the way from GA, topped that one with a 50.5lber fishing eels at 2:30 in the morning with Capt. Matt King- largest bass weighed in on B.I. thus far. His Uncle Rob released a fish bigger than Cole's on that same drift. The big girls are here for sure.
Surf fishermen are catching at virtually every hole around the Island. From North Light, to Old Harbor Pt, to Southwest Pt., bass up to 30lbs have been taken. Super Strike needlefish, Bombers, and eels are the preferred baits. You will need to put in your time at night however, this is when the bite happens and usually around the tide.
Black Seabass season is now open and they are one of the best tasting fish from these waters. Fishing for them is very easy and often requires no bait. A simple diamond jig and teaser work fine but squid on a hi-lo rig is the most popular methodology. Porgy, aka Scup, are also caught this way and are great to eat as well - the reef at North Light has held some big scup (aka 'hubcaps') in close to shore. The Coast Guard Channel also has had scup and a decent amount of fluke this season.
There has been some decent fly-fishing, mostly at dawn , dusk, or night at Charleston Beach, Coast Guard Channel, and Mansion to Scotch Beach. We've been really successful fly-fishing from the boat using 4"sandeel colored flatwings. But the 'bait n switch' method is the go to technique to get the tough fish to eat.
Offshore fishing is looking promising with Bluefin Tuna within 30miles of the Island. One local boat took the first B.I. Bluefin in mid June. The Canyons have yielded some smaller Yellowfin Tuna and sporadic reports of Bigeyes. There's plenty of life out there - each trip we've taken has seen porpoise, whales, and the occasional turtle or shark - and loads of bait.
Want more info, need bait, a charter boat, or the tackle that's working - then stop by the shop at 40 Ocean Ave between 8am and 6pm and we'll give you the most accurate reports on Island.
- Capt. Chris Willi
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