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Scotland Part 2: What to See and Do on the Isle of Skye
The largest of the Inner Hebrides, Skye's name comes from the Old Norse word meaning the "Misty Isle" because of its often unpredictable weather. It was a part of Scotland we were probably most excited to see – rain or shine – with its dramatically beautiful and rugged landscape, which we planned to take full advantage of during our 2 days on the Isle of Skye. The irony though was that the weather was near perfect while we were there without any interruption from the elements.
We said goodbye to Inverness and headed west on A82 passing a handful of interest spots along the way like the one and only Loch Ness, home to the fabled monster of the same name and the ruins of Urquhart Castle. Both Nessie as the monster is affectionately known as (we may or may not have had a sighting of the elusive creature) and the castle were worth a brief stop and photo opp from the side of the road. As we got closer to Skye the scenic drive transformed into more of what I imagined Scotland to be like – lush green hills as far as the eye could see with the more than occasional roadside flock of sheep and a few photogenic hairy "coos" for good measure. Right before crossing the Skye Bridge we also stopped at the Eilean Donan Castle, a picture-perfect stony castle and former Mackenzie stronghold that sits on an islet where 3 lochs meet and is sure to be featured on the Scotland calendar you have hanging on your wall.
Our first stop on Skye was the Talisker Distillery on the island's southwest coast. It's Skye's oldest working distillery dating back to 1830 and its whiskies have a distinctive smoky flavor from the peat that's used in the malting process. We pre-booked the classic distillery tour that walked us through the full whisky-making journey, from malting to milling, fermentation, distillation and maturation, which by Scottish law must be at least 3 years (and one day to account for leap years). The longer whisky is aged the more flavor it has, and Talisker typically produces 10, 18 and 25-year bottles, along with other specialty ones. Our tour ended with a tasting of Talisker Storm and a visit to the gift shop where we purchased a bottle of Talisker 10 to take home.
After leaving the distillery we drove about 15 minutes to reach a spot known as the Fairy Pools (look for the signs for Glenbrittle). As the name implies it's a somewhat magical place created by a constant string of crystal clear pools and waterfalls cascading down the side of the rocky base of the Cuillin Hills. There's a car park across the street for a small fee and the trail is a steady upward trek alongside the stream. Most people hike about 20-30 minutes to reach the main pools before turning back and there's longer loops for those who are more ambitious (more details here). We walked about 40 minutes or so and found a quiet spot to stop and put our feet in (bring your bathing suit if you're brave enough to get in the pools!). The cool water was perfect considering it was an unusually warm day without a cloud in the sky.
Later that night after dinner we walked around Skye's capital Portree, which is easily connected to the mainland and a good home base for exploring Skye. The town was much smaller than I expected so after strolling along its pastel-colored harbor (watch out for the seagulls) we walked up the hill to the area known as "The Lump" where the Skye Highland Games take place annually and climbed the nearby Apothecary Tower for a panoramic view of the surrounding bay.
The next day we hit the road early to explore the Trotternish Peninsula. The counterclockwise loop takes about 2 hours to complete without any stops but what makes this drive so great is all of the points of interest along the way, where you can spend as little or as much time as you want. If I could offer one piece of advice it would be to start your day as early as possible because the tiny car parks and trails for some of the more popular spots will get crowded fast. For us it was a full 9 to 5 day beginning with the Old Man of Storr about 15 minutes away from Portree right off A855. This was our first of 3 hikes of the day to the 160-foot tall pinnacle that anchors this landslide ridden area. It's a 2.75 mile loop that took us about 1.5-2 hours to complete with a few brief stops along the way. As we made our way up the stone footpath we saw a handful of people taking the right fork in the path, however we continued to the left per the detailed directions outlined here, only to find the path behind the Old Man of Storr (the Sanctuary area described in Stage 4 in the link) covered by boulders. Rather than retracing our steps we made our way down via an "alterative" route, which was a steep climb straight down the side of the rock formations. When surveying it from the bottom it probably wasn't the smartest option but we made it nonetheless and continued towards another famous rock known as the Cathedral or Needle Rock (look for the little "window" near the top) before heading back to our car.
We got back on the road and made two short stops at Lealt Gorge where a scenic waterfall and river tumble towards the sea and Kilt Rock, an appropriately named cliff with vertical lava columns that resemble the pleats on a kilt. From here we continued north on the A855 towards Staffin with a brief coffee and toilet break at the Skye Blue Gallery (look for the blue signs) before turning left off the main road to reach the Quiraing. The parking area was extremely busy as it was already fairly late in the day at this point but we eventually found a place to park and change into shorts before hitting the trail. The well-defined path weaves its way through the dramatic terrain, with the occasional wildflowers growing in the crevices of the rocky earth and the more than occasional echo of sheep baa-ing in the distance as they grazed. I was swept away by the panoramic views of the surrounding valley as we climbed higher, an expansive sea of green rising and falling that no photo could ever quite do justice to capture. The full 4-mile trail would take about 3-4 hours to complete (which you can read about in more depth here), but because of the hot mid-day sunshine and cloudless sky we hiked about 45 minutes to reach another landmark called the Needle before heading back to our car.
Back on the main road we drove towards the northern most tip of the peninsula, bypassing the Skye Museum of Island Life but stopping at the ruins of the Duntulm Castle, which was fenced off to human visitors but a handful of crafty sheep seemed to have found their way inside. Our last stop of the day would be the Fairy Glen just past the town of Uig off A87. There was no clear parking area but we found a handful of cars on the left side of the road (which Google labels as the car park) and more on the right side a little further up, which is where the Fairy Glen actually is (detailed directions here). As we emerged over the hill an otherworldly place came into view with its lush green conical hills and mysterious spiral shapes traced into the ground. We walked around for about an hour or so and climbed the rock formation known as "Castle Ewen" to survey the mysterious landscape that would have felt even more evocative had the weather been gray and misty. To our disappointment we didn't see any fairies, perhaps it was too warm for them that day. Exhausted and surprisingly sunburned ourselves, we returned to our B&B in Portree for a much-needed refresh before dinner.
We found that most restaurants in Portree did not take reservations and even though we had a few spots picked out in advance we ended up deviating from our plan once we were there. We were pretty hungry our first evening in Skye after a long day of driving and hiking so were on the hunt for a place with a decent menu and a table available immediately, which turned out to be the Tongadale Hotel (Wentworth Street). We sat in a casual and homely back room that serves as the hotel's breakfast room and ordered traditional pub fare of fish and chips and a steak and ale pie. The food was hearty and filling and paired nicely with a Skye Red beer and red wine.
The second night we faced a similar situation after hiking around the Trotternish peninsula and ate at the Caroy House (Somerled Square – permanently closed as of 2021) right on the main square. A large table was set up for a wedding party so there was a short wait, so we headed to the bar and ordered a glass of Misty Isle Gin from the Isle of Skye Distilleries to pass the time. The restaurant's contemporary décor largely influenced our decision to eat there and we went with standard offerings on the menu like the beef burger and fish and chips along with a Skye Gold beer. It was such a warm day that we stopped for ice cream after dinner at the Caledonian Cafe (Wentworth Street) before capping our night with a drink at the Merchant Bar (13 Bosville Terrace) attached to the Bosville Hotel. It was here that I had my first introduction to Edinburgh Gin (and thereafter went across the street to the Co-op grocery store to buy a bottle to bring home) while my husband had one more glass of local whisky (Talisker Port Ruighe) for the road.
I had a hard time finding a B&B in Portree with availability for our end of June dates, which made me expand my search radius a bit further. It couldn't have worked out better because the Orchard House was one of the loveliest places we stayed during our time in Scotland. This family-run B&B is tucked away on the outskirts of town, about a 10-15 minute walk from the tourist center. We were warmly greeted by Emma upon arrival who showed us to our spacious, light-filled and immaculately clean room with an equally as large bathroom with separate tub and walk-in shower. Breakfast in the mornings included both continental items and a full Scottish feast cooked-to-order by her husband Lance. The Orchard House is truly a hidden gem, which far exceeded our expectations.
The Isle of Skye was the second part of our whirlwind trip around to Scotland. Check out the map below for our full 7-day itinerary and read more about Inverness, Glencoe and Edinburgh!
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One of my friend asked me who's your favorite boss? I never come across such a question, I don't want to think to tell about my favorite boss, I had equal respect with my bosses. I had only thing in my mind, if you can understand people, you can resolve their issues. A leader needs to understand his employees skill set and ability, employee just need to follow the good attitude on his duties.
Once one of my friend told, there was a job in his company asked about my willingness to join. I just went to that company, Director called me and spoken with me friendly manner., he asked where did I worked earlier and asked about whereabouts. I just explained him, where did I worked and what I did & how I did. Later his colleague just knocked the door and came inside, he said, I am taking interview. That point I come to know about the interview and its questions.
When I worked for construction company, I learnt MS Excel and billing formulas. In other company I learnt, the dimension of pipes, welding casting, types of MS, CS, SS pipes, difference between structural and construction engineering, projects, tenders, presentations etc., whatever required for corporate environment I just did it in that old company. Later on I learnt Infrastructure technology, where I had lot of training on servers, switches, routers, application support, Information Security, storage, Virtual Infrastructure etc., these learning and experience helped me to perform at later days.
Boss who building the confidence with his employee, more chances that employee could be loyal to the team and company. The person who shares his secret, we likely to follow his traits. Its easy to work with him just like the person from the other door. There are the bosses who bullies and getting the job done, but there are the people who actually can do the same work, just monitoring his employee how he is doing. Bosses also life long learner not about the technology also the ways how can the job done.
Employee who shown his career growth upwards and advanced his boss, it is not only his greatness, it is also the strength of his boss of letting him grow whatever employee got passionated. Often he helps employees and subordinates to set him the path.
I thought of writing this long time ago, got some time to think and write about this.


Over ten years ago, I started testing my code with NUnit. At the time it did not have two of the features I will review today, parameterized testing and Visual Studio integration. Because of this I had switched to MSTest for most of my recent projects. I am now going to use NUnit in my new projects.
Jermey Clark recommended that I take another look at NUnit. He is my mentor and frequent guest at the Central California .NET User Group.
At the time of this writing, there are some unfortunate version issues you must be aware of. Visual Studio integration will only work with NUnit version 2.4.6. The latest version is currently 3.0.1. This is because of another package called, NUnitTestAdapter. That package gives Visual Studio the ability to populate the Test Explorer tab showing the test results.
With the NUnitTestAdapter installed the test methods will now show in the Test Explorer tab in Visual Studio.
Below is some sample code showing a regular Unit Test compared with a parameterized Unit Test. With this feature you can test multiple parameters in one test using attributes on the method parameters. If you had more then one parameter you would add an attribute for each one.
NUnit 3 is supported in Visual Studio, it just uses a different adapter, the NUnit 3 Test Adapter, https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/0da0f6bd-9bb6-4ae3-87a8-537788622f2d. You can install both adapters side-by-side if you are working on NUnit 2 and 3 projects. We did this because NUnit 3 is a ground up rewrite and needs a different runner.
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Indie Game: The Movie
By Travis Babcock On January 28, 2013 · Leave a Comment
As soon as the credits starting rolling I had only one thought in my mind, "Wow, this was meant to be a documentary." And I sincerely mean that. The story was amazing, covering what seemed like every step and event along the way. The editing was beyond superb, which obviously helped visually, but was also convenient in leading us smoothly through the multiple viewpoints expressed throughout the film. Indie Game: The Movie seized every inch of my interest by keeping me both hopeful and impressed.
Canadian directors James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot teamed up to create a documentary about independent video games. Through their film the audience is able to understand the culture behind gaming and witness the passion of gaming. Indie Game: The Movie follows the lives of four men, before, during, and after the creation of their video games.
The main focus is put on the developers of Super Meat Boy. This portion of the documentary shows designer Edmund McMillen, who is from my hometown of Santa Cruz, and programmer Tommy Refenes developing the game up until its launch. The stress and pressure put on these guys to finish their game by its launch date is enormous. By the end, the only thing the viewer wants to see come to these guys is success.
The other two developers are Jonathan Blow of Braid and Phil Fish of Fez. By the point in time of this documentary, Braid had already been launched and seen as one of the most successful independent video games ever. Blow's role in this film is to reflect on the success and struggle of the indie game world. Phil Fish is also a big part of this documentary, showing how long and how much work it takes to create these types of games. Fez was not launched by the end of this documentary, but just like the Super Meat Boy team, the viewer's hope is only triumph for Mr. Phil Fish.
The inter-splicing of gameplay and flowing camerawork makes Indie Game: The Movie a visual spectacle. As said before, this topic was meant to be shown in this fashion. Many of you in and out of the gaming world probably know of the Call of Duty franchise. It is one of the most successful video game franchises of all time and definitely one of the most popular. It takes roughly a team of 500 developers to create the next Call of Duty game. That might not seem like a lot considering the success behind the franchise, but compare that to one or two people creating an entire game from start to finish on their own. You can imagine it or instead watch Indie Game: The Movie.
Indie Game: The Movie (2012) directed by James Swirsky and Lisanne Pajot
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Абу Амр (Абу Мухаммад) Абдуллах ібн аль-Мукаффа, більш відомий як Ібн аль-Мукаффа (араб. ابن المقفع — «син людини з відсохлою рукою»), до звернення в іслам — Рузбіх син Дадавайха (Дадое) [3]; (Бл. 721, 723 або 724, Ардашир-Хваррах — 757, 759 або 760, Басра) — арабо-перський письменник.

Належав до знатного перського роду; при народженні отримав стародавнє іранське ім'я Рузбіх, яке при наверненні в іслам, вже в зрілому віці, змінив на Абдаллах. Його батько Дадое служив Омейядам як збирач податків; після перевірки, що супроводжувалася тортурами, втратив можливість володіти лівою рукою і отримав прізвисько аль-Мукаффа («людина з відсохлою або скоцюрбленою рукою»). Дадое готував свого сина до державної служби, для якої було обов'язковим володіння арабською мовою. У Басрі, куди переїхала сім'я, Ібн аль-Мукаффа під керівництвом відомих наставників освоїв мову і граматику.

Займаючи посаду секретаря у Іси ібн Алі, дядька халіфа аль-Мансура, Ібн аль-Мукаффа втрутився в аббасидські інтриги і був страчений.

Перекладав на арабську мову «Категорії» Аристотеля, «Худай-наме» (джерело для «Шах-наме» Фірдоусі) і «Каліла і Димна» (інакше — байки Бідпая); останній твір, з його версією, було переведено по кілька разів на всі мови, як східні, так і європейські, і зробило величезний вплив на народну словесність.

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Just wanted to wish everyone a great and wonderful weekend!
We are packing up our little family and jumping on a plane bound for Toronto.
We are hoping to see all sorts of differents animals and perhaps some cute little babies like these ones!!
We are going to visit family and friends, attend a first Communion, visit some new parks, the zoo, the ROM and fingers crossed for some shopping!!!


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"Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament" Inspiration
by Daniel Maarat on October 15, 2016
Varg Vikernes discussed the lyrical inspiration behind "Beholding the Daughters of the Firmanent" off Filosofem in a recent Youtube video. Was Burzum inspired by ancient biblical cosmology or something else? Let's find out!
Tags: burzum, Filosofem, j.r.r. tolkien, metal history, tolkien, varg vikernes, youtube
30 thoughts on ""Beholding the Daughters of the Firmament" Inspiration"
vic snaggletooth says:
Fascinating. Hail Varg.
Dr. David Szisz says:
This man is an ILLUMINATI PUPPET and a SATANIST to boot, DO NOT LISTEN TO HIM, EDUCATE YOURSELVES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaavGBF_oY
C.M. says:
Okay, who the fuck is this? Sounds like the Strange Brew brothers if they smoked weed and read DMU.
Flashback: The Quest for Identity says:
Thank you for this video.
There is a lot of truth in this video…
socialism = becoming jaded, life "too easy" = no direction = free time spent making "underground music" for money
natural fluoridation of water = vikings with mercury poisoning = grown men wearing makeup (Emperor with their gimp suits)
lack of sunlight = not too much to do in Norway = depression (judging by the "nature" of their music, Enslaved are NOT vikings in flesh or spirit)
Using Darkthrone as an example, self-awareness turned them into "just a metal band" with a great marketing slant. Burzum lapsed into boredom/mediocrity on Filosofem, where the music became depressive and sentimental, sharing instrumental and composition traits with later emo/screamo/synthpop/new-wave/post-rock music – creating an easily relatable sound that the common person can get into more easily. The lyrics/imagery have also taken an obvious "sad guy" slant at that point, similar to most so called "gothic" music. Easy marketing towards depressed people by offering them indulgence (ear candy), where the only difference between Dunkelheit and a Clan of Xymox song is just the delivery (distortion and vocals), but not the message.
Before that, the "sonic cathedral" and "meditative song construction" could be found in house music (pop music) at that time. Redressing populism/modernity with mixed results (tracks 1, 2 and 4 on HLTO are good) while claiming otherwise (allusions/delusions of it being neo-classical/classically informed). Not that any of this is bad in itself, but considering the psychology at play in regards to these bands and their releases, it's easy to see through the synthetic nature/effect in much of it (fake satanism and later fake paganism = "I love my culture in a semi-maybe unintentionally-ironic metal way dude" cosplay).
Anthony says:
Spoiler Alert: The answer is Tolkien.
wldklwkdl says:
I love this song, it's so simple yet complex (???)
"Varg's latest bowel movement" Inspiration
Varg Vikernes discussed the inspiration behind his latest fart in a recent Youtube video. Was Burzum inspired by ancient biblical cosmology or something else? Let's find out!
Spectral Nutritionist says:
Haha, for real, he keeps going with that gay-ass segue — "Let's find out!"
No, nigga, we're not about to 'find out'. You're going to tell us.
Marc Defranco says:
Haha Roger I'm sorry but you honestly just suck plain and simple.
Glad to be of service, shill.
Rainer Weikusat says:
That's someone you apparently don't like reciting a poem (written by Tolkien) he likes in a youtube video. Despite this is not a particularly good poem, I'll take that over your life report from a public toilet any time.
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http://www.datamation.com/news/tech-comics-find-the-apple-fanboy-1.html
What the actual fuck? Even your trolling makes no sense.
"You keep repeating someone else"
Are you sure he is trolling?
Varg has turned into a paranoid, conspirary theory-riddled, maladjusted autist. Of course i dont 'like' him. I love his early music though.
I'm just amused that dm.org has to blog about his every thought and deed.
Pepe says:
"a paranoid, conspirary theory-riddled, maladjusted autist."
We identify with him. Now gtfo normie scum.
Aren't you on a hate list now, Frog?
Anyway, it's funny that someone who identifies with what she perceives as a nordic warrior-artist wants a dandy little safe space.
You're so dumb you didn't even pick up on my self-deprication.
Saying that I failed to perceive something assumes that there was something there to be perceived in the first place.
You're not qualified to be giving anyone lessons in semantics. Go to bed child.
He has (as far as I can tell) always been "a paranoid conspiracy theorist", cf
I should stress that this [Burzum] was an experimental project that only took up some of my time, and I did other things in my life too (like prepare for partisan warfare in case of a US invasion of Norway… :-|).
http://www.burzum.org/eng/library/a_burzum_story01.shtml
if one wants the refer to his views on various things as "paranoid conspiracy theories" (I'm not expression an opinion on that. Read the texts and form your own).
Nowadays, we have something like the "well-adjusted metalhead" – I saw a version of that yesterday, short-haired, bearded, corpulent, wore a Death shirt and looked like 'some IT guy' in his late 20s or early 30s – but generally, "maladjusted metalhead" is a pleonasm.
As to the "autist", you've – by now – made it abundantly clear that you have absolutely no idea what this means and that you're just using that as medical name dropping in lieu of basketcase or fruitcake or any other term someone who considers himself 'normal' uses to refer to "people he believes to belong into a mental asylum".
As to the "autist", you've – by now – made it abundantly clear that you have absolutely no idea what this means and that you're just using that as medical name dropping in lieu of basketcase or fruitcake or any other term someone who considers himself 'normal' uses to refer to "people he believes to belong into a mental asylm".
This seems to be eating comments I post …
Hræsvelgr says:
Wow! The Internet has finally achieved intelligence!
I sincerely hope you're capable of more complex behaviour than WordPress despite the "just like me" compliment you just paid to it.
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Remember that $99-down-for-an-iPhone-5 plan T-Mobile advertised as part of its game-changing new approach to the U.S. mobile market? Well, that's over. As of Monday, if you walk into a T-Mobile store to buy a new iPhone 5, you'll be paying $149 up front instead.
TMoNews first reported the price increase, and notes that nowhere did T-Mobile make it clear at the time that the $99 down payment was only a temporary or introductory pricing.
T-Mobile will finance the iPhone 5 for a down payment of $99.99 and payments of $20 each month for 24 months. That works out to $580, which is actually cheaper than the unsubsidized, unlocked device price of $650 Apple charges today.
Part of that plan included "eliminating subsidies" that end up chaining U.S. wireless customers to carriers via expensive two-year plans. We don't know how much T-Mobile has to pay Apple for each device. It's possible the pricing change could have been planned all along, or it could be that T-Mobile realized after a month that it can't afford to keep subsidizing smartphones that much.
As a result, the cheapest T-Mobile iPhone 5 won't have a total cost of $579 anymore, but will jump up to $629, including the $20 monthly payments for 24 months. There's nothing illegal about that. But if T-Mobile did intend that this was temporary pricing when it first advertised these prices, the fine print must have been really small. And that's disappointing.
The carrier's posture since it first announced changes to its business model has been concentrated on being different and to standing out from its fellow U.S. carriers. But this pricing change comes off like nothing more than an advertising bait and switch. And there's nothing different about a U.S. wireless carrier that gives its customers reasons to complain.
This post was updated with a comment from T-Mobile at 2:05 p.m. PT.
Well, not everyone was able to take advantage of the intrductory pricing any way. Additionally, even with being on the new plan, some of us have to pay $329 down and $$$ per month. I think they should be clear about that as well.
According to the traditional definition, bait-and-switch means to advertise one product and substitute another more expensive product. I wouldn't call the down payment a product. I would call it an adjustment to the cost of the phone.