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15 Creative Tips to Rock Your Timeline Cover Photo for Facebook Pages
Last Updated on June 5, 2012 by Wong Ching Ya
UPDATED 20/03/2012: Visit Part 2: 18 More Creative Tips to Fire Up Your Facebook Page Cover Photo.
Facebook Pages are going through drastic changes to embrace the Timeline layout. One of the most critical tasks is to design your cover photo (851×315 pixels). Unfortunately, Facebook had laid down strict rules to prevent all promotional links, call to actions, contact information to appear on the cover:
This made the transition even more difficult and daunting. We've seen the big brands with their visual compelling cover photos. Just how shall we, the (smaller brand) page owners can make full use of that visible spot for brand awareness? I've compiled about 60+ cover photos from non-big-brand pages below, hopefully we can be inspired by their amazing effort.
Disclaimer: Below pages are mentioned due to their creative use of cover images. It has nothing to do with affiliation or promotion for the products/services they offered.
#1 To Announce an Event or Product Launch
Kim uses the cover image to announce her exclusive webinar while the image description (after clicked) includes the link to the event registration. Smart idea.
ShortStack informs everyone that their facebook applications are now Timeline ready – a message that is hard to miss on the cover. Their custom app images are nicely designed too.
#2 To Show Appreciation to Supporters/Fans
What a wonderful gesture to showcase your loyal fans by adding them to your cover photo, Mari has done it again!
#3 Creative Design of Company Name and Logo
These brands are incorporating colorful and impressive background designs to match their company name and logo. Some of them have customized their custom app images to match their brand identity.
#4 To Capture Attention with Catchy Slogan & Images
You gotta love the name and slogan – very catchy,
Fresh Art uses a cover photo that resonates with all of us – who doesn't have a silly moment?
Another smart use of tagline,
Yes, it's obvious how much you love art.
All the questions will be answered within the page, I hope?
#5 "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words"
Sometimes a clean photo represents a lot more than texts or phrases. In this case, relevancy is vital. Be smart in selecting the best image that says it all:
#6 To Add Positive Elements in Your Timeline Cover
Everyone loves to be inspired and greeted by a positive message. These Pages are using the positive elements to entice visitors wanting to learn more about their brand.
#7 'Behind the Scenes' Pictures (or 'People Behind the Brand')
Give your Facebook Page a personal touch by showcasing your team members. It's great to be welcomed by bright smiles and (real) people who make things happen. You can amplify your brand awareness by allowing 'Message' option and Admin subscription button.
#8 To Tell Your Story via Photo Collages
Sometimes you may need more than one picture to express your brand. Iexpress2explore is using texts and photos to showcase their activities.
The 'before and after' pictures are equally interesting,
And of course, who doesn't love kids' photos!
#9 To Use Own Portrait or …
These are some familiar faces we've seen across the social media networks. Some of them are using own portraits while some, well, you got to admire their creativity.
#10 To Include Service Information
Use short descriptions to explain the type of services your brand provided.
Take note of Brankica's 'Like me!' image on the photo app – great idea!
#11 To Showcase Your Art Work
Cover photo is a great bonus facebook app for photographers. Even writers/authors can benefit from showcasing their work too.
#12 To Showcase Your Product
Let your visitors aware of the products or merchandise you offered.
#13 To Add Testimonials (from Clients or Industry Leaders)
Win your first impression from visitors by displaying testimonials from industry leaders or clients. However, don't flood your cover photo with dozens of testimonials. Remember, less is more.
#14 To Show Positive User Experience
Use picture that shows positive user experience of your brand, but remember to not fake it. It will be ironic to have all the negative posts or comments underneath a 'I'm-a-happy-customer' type of cover. If you are able to find real-life customers who are willing to help out, that's even more convincing.
#15 To Define Your Website/Blog Type
For bloggers or site owners, you may use photo that best describes your site genre. For example, Michael Aulia owns a tech blog with gadgets reviews:
Or you can explain your site with a short paragraph,
Or bullet points,
Or anything you feel matches your web design or personality.
So there you have it! Hopefully these Timeline brand Pages gave you enough inspirations to design your own. Since default landing tab is no longer available, you need to use all possible assets to entice visitors to Like your brand before all the engagements could take place on your Page.
Want more examples? You may visit here.
Don't forget to read Part 2: 18 More Creative Tips to Fire Up Your Facebook Page Cover Photo.
Now Is Your Turn…
Have you published your Timeline Page yet? Do you think Cover photo has a great potential for brand visibility? Share your thoughts in the comment.
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I actually struggled for a few days trying to come up with a concept. But, after I looked at my vision board, I decided to use that as inspiration. My blog is about (in short) empowering women while appreciating high heels. So, I think that my "vision" cover captures the essence. Not sure if I should share the link. . I know many blogs hate that but it is: http://www.facebook.com/QueeninHeels
You're welcome to share your Timeline cover here, Sharon. 🙂 Very nicely done indeed. Just a minor concern regarding the blog link. It seems that Facebook doesn't allow any web address on the photo according to their rules: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=276329115767498 May need to look into that?
Thanks so much for commenting, hope to see you here again.
Thanks so much Brian for dropping by. I just noticed that Blogengage also has a new Timeline cover now, well done! 🙂 Love to hear more about your experience with the new Timeline, hope it helped the blogengage main site too.
Love this post and seeing all of these creative Timeline pages! Thanks for inspiring me to be more creative on mine!
You're most welcome, Celene. It's great to see even small brands get to impress just as much as the big ones. 🙂 When you're done with your page cover photo, be sure to let me know so I can drop by for a visit. Thanks again for commenting!
Thanks for including my FB page design for Impactiv8. I am honored to be amongst such great company. Excellent tips and great to have visual examples to back them up.
Hi Loren, really appreciate you dropping by. You're welcome and thanks for inspiring us with Impactiv8's amazing cover image.
There are some great ones there! I went with Wordle for mine, thought it would be a bit different and original. What do you think? http://www.facebook.com/willrussellmarketing
Thanks Will for sharing your cover, quite nice too. May be add in a slogan or tagline to describe a bit about your company service, despite the texts so it's clearer? 🙂 Just a thought.
Great compilation! I would love to nominate http://www.facebook.com/fanta for the awesome fun they're having on their timeline rescuing characters who have been stuck in the past! Great fun!
Hi Angie, very nice suggestion! Love the 'fun' element in their cover. 🙂
You are too kind! I meant to put my cover photo as a temporary place holder as I don't know what I should set my cover page as. Yet you feature it here 🙂
Love the other cover photos, I need to shoot something better!
lol, don't worry, Michael, it's really a good fit! I love how the picture describes your blog in a simple yet impactful way. Be sure to notify me in case I missed your new Cover, love to see it. 🙂
Hi Ching,
Many many thanks for including my cover image in this post. Besides the pleasure of seeing it there, I enjoyed the read immensely, and discovered some new pages to Like.
You put so much time and effort into your posts, it really pays off.
Have a great day,
Oretta, glad to hear you liked it. You're welcome, it is well deserved in its spot. Thanks for the inspiration. I appreciate your kind remarks and encouragement too. Have a great day as well!
Great post as always, Ching Ya! You are fast becoming the princess of Facebook! 🙂
lol, you're too kind, Niall. 🙂 Still got a long way to go. I'm just blessed for the inspirations others had given me. All of you guys are super-nice to share this article in the first place. Thanks so much!
Thank you so much for collecting all these inspiring examples – it's hard to find the good examples as a lot of people seem to break the rule of website information. At least, I've seen a dozen of places where the website address is displayed in the cover photo. Best regards Lise
Lise, thank you and I'm really glad these examples helped. I understand, it's quite difficult to really adhere to the rules but everyone is trying. 🙂 Hopefully these pages can inspire us to walk on the right direction without losing brand visibility.
Here's my cover photo. – http://Facebook.com/RumShopRyan
Any thoughts? Advice?
I love some of the examples in this post and plan on booking marking it for future reference and idea. I try to change my main photo ever 2 weeks to keep it fresh. I've found out that it gets more people to the page rather than just commenting on posts in the their feed. They want to see the new visual! Sometimes I even put photos they send in into the main photo. This get people excited to send in product photos hoping to see there's highlighted one day.
Ryan, that's a fantastic idea to keep the cover photo fresh by changing it every two weeks to attract returning visitors while rewarding your fans at the same time! Love your cover too. Just a minor reminder, facebook may not approve the web address on Timeline Page covers. May need to re-check it: http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=276329115767498
Other than that, it's nicely done.
lol, I know, I would have included the link myself if not because of the rules. 🙂 Thanks so much Warren for visiting. Be sure to let me know when your cover is up, love to have a look at it.
We just published ours! I think one thing many companies are missing is the ability to use the thumbnails for the custom apps for calls to action (which you cannot do in the cover image). See any example on our page: http://www.facebook.com/quintainmarketing.
Kathleen, very nice icon images! Smart idea despite of an attractive cover photo you got there too. 🙂 Thanks so much for dropping by and inspire me to do a follow up post, hopefully soon!
Great collection! I especially like Mari's as it's really leveraging the Facebook concept.
We've recently converted two sites to Timeline:
Thanks for sharing!
Rich, those pages are amazing! Great use of animated figures and a clean photo for both covers respectively. Thanks so much for sharing them, so much I've missed. 🙂
Thanks for including my timeline cover, Ching Ya! Credit goes to Louise Myers of Louise Myers Graphic Design, for the design. I sent her a list of keyword and a couple of photos I've taken around Los Angeles. I love what she came up with. Check out Louise's work here: https://www.facebook.com/freelancegraphicdesignerLA
Props to Louise for a wonderful job, Denise. Sometimes a cover needless to be complicated, as long it sends out the right vibe the brand represents. I wish Louise got more visibility because I just visited her site, a lot of impressive work! Thanks again for commenting, really appreciate it. 🙂
Thanks for including my Timeline cover in your list of examples, Ching Ya. Great post and I hope a lot of people read it because I'm really getting tired of all the misinformation I'm seeing posted. I've replied to several blog posts in the last 2 days where people said the new rules make using the Timeline covers for marketing impossible. Huh? How are they getting that out of the rules?
Hi Hugh, great to see you here. 🙂 I guess the changes freaked us all out. The first impression I got was also 'this can't be good', but gradually, I see the massive potential of using images to attract attention, great for visual branding (I just hope they stick to single-column and given more tab spaces though but that's just me:). We need more creativity these days. Love your tips on your Page about image-optimizations too, keep them coming!
I love some of these examples! Wish I had seen them for my blog post this morning–I would have included some of them. Many of them, however, I feel are sacrificing aesthetics for information. I would rather see a nicely designed cover and get the info below…but that's just me.
My designer came up with a great idea, but then we couldn't quite fill it… you kind of need to see it to understand… http://www.facebook.com/TwirpCommunications 🙂 I'm asking for fans to tell me what they characters should be saying. I've got a few great responses so far!
This is quite interesting, Anita, thanks so much for sharing. 🙂 I would very much like to see the end results when done. May do a sequel for this post and this could be a creative concept too! I'm still in the middle of designing mine, quite hard not to add texts though, will try different types of covers, maybe. May not get it right the first time, lol. Thanks so much for commenting!
Omgosh, this is the absolutely motherlode collection, Ching Ya. I just adore you and your blog posts, you always do such deep research and come up with killer resources. I had mucho fun browsing these. My favorite is Social Stars – genius visual drawing the eye to the Like button!!
Thanks a million for including mine! I've changed mine up on the same theme every day or two just for the heck of it. At FMC, Facebook seemed to emphasize that we could change our cover image often, so why not! It goes out into the news feed when we do! More visibility. 🙂
What a huge honor to see you here, Mari! I agree, Social Stars is smart (that should be alright, isn't it?), I didn't notice it earlier! I love how you did with yours to appreciate your community on Page. I may do something similar but still working on it. I'll be sure to credit you for the initial tip!
Thanks again for taking the time to comment, much appreciated.
Many thanks Ching Ya 🙂
Hey! I see my ugly mug on this blog post! Thanks for including Fan Page Engine! Some great finds and ideas on this blog.
Appreciate you visiting, Scott. 🙂 Both you and David look great in the cover. Thanks for liking my blog too.
A big Thank you to you Ching Ya for listing my page here which it came to me in a surprise after having to read Mari posted this link. Found my banner here. It is my very first time attempting Photoshop on the Banner design. Well if i can manage Photoshop, I am sure the rest can do it too. My other page http://www.facebook.com/soapycrafty
Hello Ching Ya!
Great Collection! I would love some feedback on my timeline design, i use all the customize fields available:
hopefully this design will find some place in your future lists 😉
Great job!
Best regards,
Nice collection, but after checking them, I realized I do like mine a lot. https://www.facebook.com/DeimarWrites. Here I liked the one of C kraft, Media collection, and Maria's baby… There are many templates on photoshop out there with the timeline dimensions to work with… However, Facebook changed the dimensions of the profile picture, on the fan pages. Furthermore, beware of the disadvantages to change to the timeline, for example, there is no "non-fan" gate.
Well thank you Ching Ya for featuring our Social Stars Timeline, we are honoured. 🙂
Great article! Yes, I have two of my pages up on Timeline now… I struggled for awhile but ideas came to me. That first cover you displayed talked about a webinar. You can promote an event like that?
Wanted to share my timeline cover as well…I fall into the #11 Category, showcasing my work 🙂 http://www.facebook.com/WhirlieGirlPhotography
Great article!
WOW …. here I am scrolling through these creative Cover Images and hey, we've been included! Thank you so much. Totally surprised and thrilled. We've been super busy assisting clients to make the shift with their Timeline Pages. We're loving Timeline and the clean, sophisticated look and bold branding opportunity it offers businesses.
Thank you for mentioning us in your blog post for creative tag line and cover we appreciate it.
Also found loved seeing the creativity covering facebook too as well as the opportunity to find and check out some whom we are drawn too.
Again thank you for the mention 🙂
Thanks for including my cover photo! http://facebook.com/chicagosocialmedia
I appreciate you putting this together and hopefully it will give people encouragement to use timeline!
Great post and awesome examples! Thank you for taking the time to create it. It allows my creative juices to flow in keeping it fresh.
I can be found http://www.facebook.com/pwjcoaching
Take care,
Thanks so much for including Wildfire, Chingya! What a great collection, you found so many good ones!
Thanks so much for including my timeline cover for dnd graphiks, it blew me away to be among some awesome facebook pages!
Very nice post, Ching Ya!
I love all the example images you have shared here.
I'll be sure to include this post in a round-up of recommended Facebook timeline changes posts on my blog.
Thanks for sharing this.
So much creative inspiration in these examples. Thanks for sharing! 🙂
I tried to use a visual that tells people why to follow my page…
These are awesome examples! Thanks for including mine in the mix! 🙂
I love what we have up right now on my client's FB page but it won't be the only one. We will also be using photos that highlight life on campus – teachers, students, classes, and events. What do you think? http://facebook.com/RobertsonCollegeWinnipeg
Great idea, Danielle. I always love real life photos that explain the brand more thoroughly. You got a nice one there, love to see what's coming up next. 🙂 Thanks so much for visiting.
I will let my kids do this – casualty effect! 😛
Hi CY! Thank you for including my FB pages cover pic! What a nice surprise to see it among all the others great ones you selected. Ironically, an article was published about my timeline picture (see your FB page, today I posted a the info about it on your wall asking for suggestions)… The company that used my info is in clear violation of the FB rules!! More importantly, your articles are always helpful and I look forward to receiving them in my inbox. ~ Luci 🙂
Great post Ching Ya! thanks for sharing.
I don't have the timeline in my facebook account yet. The examples you show are very inspiring and helpful for me to decide how to create my timeline page. I have a question. I have a personal facebook account and when I launched my blog, I added a page in the existing account. This timeline is going to take place to my personal account or to the business one?
Hi Elena, thanks for dropping by, I'm glad you found the resource useful. 🙂 To answer your question, above examples are for Timeline 'Pages'. After you created a Page from your personal account, you should have a preview button for your Page in Timeline layout. The Cover photo will only be 'live' if you published it from your Page.
Now you can have Timeline for your personal profile too, but that's another story. 🙂 Have you got it yet?
I did my own early by utilizing elements from my own brand header on my website, but I'm unhappy with how busy it looks. I'm working on a new option that incorporates the app buttons and profile image in a neat way. I'd love to know your thoughts … as I said I think it is a bit too busy … http://www.facebook.com/Kats.Curious.Cafe .
Aw, thanks Warren! As I've been working on a few for some clients I decided mine was too busy … but it could just be that I wanted to play with mine some more! LOL
I like it too, Katrina. 🙂 It's very catchy and nicely designed. If you think it's busy maybe can leave out the iPad ? But heck, I like that too. lol.. it's hard isn't it? It's always good to experiment during the early stages.
Ok, I was inspired by all of you (and the deadline was approaching) LOL so tried to give it a shot. I am slightly graphically challenged so it may help if you borrow someone's reading glasses before checking it out! 🙂
Would love to hear your opinions though.
Thanks everyone, and thank you for giving me the kick in the butt I needed to change mine!
Excellent post with inspiring selection of examples, Ching Ya!
I tried to implement the cover as much as possible to the fb interface. If you have any suggestions or comments, feel free to shout:)
Really Awesome appropriate Facebook pages timeline covers,very inspirational.Am also thinking to make an awesome Timeline Page cover for my Page Facebook Fever 🙂
Thanks for all these great examples. I think that there is a huge potential for businesses to engage their fans more! We just need to be aware of the restrictions. I would love your feedback on my cover photo. http://www.facebook.com/redscopemedia
Love all of these creative examples. Great post!!! It's giving me some ideas.
Here's our newest cover photo:
Our cover photo has been an interesting mix of posting pics of customer satisfaction (in this case dogs!), combined with a visual of the products. I'd love to integrate the profile pic into the cover photo in a more creative way though. Any suggestions are always appreciated. Thanks!


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Woods ready for Ryder Cup challenge
NEWPORT, Wales — The Ryder Cup is getting personal for Tiger Woods.
Interrupting an otherwise dull press conference Tuesday, Woods fired back at a comment Rory McIlroy made six weeks ago that "I would love to face" the world's No. 1 player in the Ryder Cup unless his game rapidly improved.
Asked for a reaction, Woods leaned into the microphone and said only, "Me, too."
The quote from McIlroy — the closest thing to bulletin board material at Celtic Manor — came the week after Woods' golf reached a low point in a dismal season. He had the highest score of his career and beat only one player in the 80-man field at Firestone.
McIlroy was not worried that he had given Woods or the U.S. team any more motivation.
"I'm fine. I'm all right," said the 21-year-old from Northern Ireland. "You've got to realize, I said those things the week after he had just shot 18 over at Akron, so he wasn't playing too well at the time."
Woods was aware of the comment before arriving in Wales.
He mentioned the quote two weeks ago at Cog Hill while talking about Stephen Ames, whom Woods had beaten 9 and 8 in the Match Play Championship after Ames was quoted making fun of Woods' accuracy.
"At least Rory said, 'Unless my game improves,'" Woods said in Chicago.
There also were stories circulating at Cog Hill that Woods had said to McIlroy upon passing him, "Careful what you wish for." McIlroy, however, denied that ever happened.
The singles matches on Sunday, which decide the Ryder Cup, are a long way off. And because it's a blind draw, there is no guarantee Woods and McIlroy would play each other.
Singles rarely has been a problem for Woods or the other top American players. Woods, Phil Mickelson and Jim Furyk — the core of the U.S. team since 1997 — collectively have won 125 times on the PGA Tour, including 19 majors.
That hasn't carried over into the Ryder Cup.
In singles, they are 10-6-2, with Woods and Furyk losing only once. In fourballs and foursome matches, with different partners in the 18 Ryder Cups they have played, that trio is 18-34-9.
Maybe that explains why they all have losing records, and have played on losing teams.
"It's disappointing," Furyk said. "But I guess we've got an opportunity to get closer back to square. Instead of looking at the past, I think right now you look ahead. You look ahead to Friday, Saturday, Sunday and not worry about what's happened. The bad news is the last 20 years, we haven't won very often. Right now ... try to figure out how we're going to take the cup back home with us."
Tuesday was the first day of practice on the Twenty Ten course at Celtic Manor, designed specifically for the Ryder Cup. What began under a light drizzle soon gave way to mild sunshine, only for rain to arrive toward the afternoon.
Based on the foursomes both captains sent out, there were no surprises.
Europe started on the back nine with Francesco and Edoardo Molinari playing with McIlroy and Graeme McDowell of Northern Ireland. Ian Poulter, Luke Donald, Padraig Harrington and Ross Fisher brought up the rear.
European captain Colin Montgomerie defended his selection of Harrington, a three-time major winner who has not won in two years, saying he played the best of anyone on his side during practice and made two eagles.
"There's reasons why Padraig Harrington was picked, and judge me about that selection on Oct. 4," Montgomerie said.
Montgomerie cited the record of Luke Donald — 5-1-1 — when he made the Englishman a captain's pick. Donald, Ian Poulter and Lee Westwood all have winning records in the Ryder Cup. They are considered to be good Ryder Cup players.
Does that mean Woods, Mickelson and Furyk are not good Ryder Cup players because of their records?
"You can say that about a number of players," Montgomerie said. "Tiger's record in the Ryder Cup is not quite as bad as people think it is. It's just because his individual record is incredible.
"Who says that won't happen this week?"
Woods played alongside Steve Stricker, with whom he was 4-0 at the Presidents Cup a year ago. They were joined by Hunter Mahan and Zach Johnson, while the anchor foursomes was Mickelson and Dustin Johnson with Bubba Watson and Rickie Fowler, the 21-year-old who became the first PGA Tour rookie to be picked for the Ryder Cup.
Woods got through his least favorite part of the week — his press conference — putting little thought into any of his answers, except when he listened to one British reporter refer to him as an ordinary golfer. Woods thought he recognized the reporter from the British Open who harshly asked whether he would respect the game.
"I hope you're having a good week," Woods replied.
His teammates painted a different picture, especially Stricker. Woods gave him a putting tip during the practice round, and Stricker noted that Woods was hitting the ball crisply and his spirits were high.
"He's talking very positively," Stricker said. "I think his motivation level is high, as it is always in this event. I think he's a little misunderstood when it comes to these team events."
Asked what he meant by talking positively, Stricker said it appeared to him that Woods was "in a good place."
The sex scandal that led to so many humiliating headlines also cost him his marriage — the divorce became official Aug. 23 — and kept Woods from qualifying for the Ryder Cup team for the first time. He is playing as a captain's pick, although Woods says he feels no extra pressure to perform.
Even so, he no longer looks as unbeatable — even in individual tournaments — and McIlroy picked up on that.
"He's still a fantastic guy, and I'm sure he'll get back to winning the way he used to," McIlroy said. "For the meantime, I suppose a little bit of that aura is probably gone."


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This scene in the headwaters of the West Fork of the Hood River was captured a few weeks ago, as early autumn colors began to sweep through the forest. This particular stream is McGee Creek, one of the larger tributaries that feeds the West Fork. Most hikers know McGee Creek from its alpine origins, where it tumbles from the wildflower meadows that sprawl below popular McNeil Point. But the creek soon enters lush forest on its way to joining the West Fork.
The surprise is that none of this existed just 75 years ago, when massive railroad logging operations had leveled the virgin forests of the West Fork. Look closely at the following image, captured in 1933 from high above the West Fork valley; the methodical clearing of the forests on the valley floor is nearly complete, and the steam plume from a log train headed back to the old mill town of Dee can also be seen:
The steam engine in this old photo is at roughly the same spot as the autumn scene in the upper photo, illustrating the remarkable resilience of our forests. In about the span of an average lifetime — just 75 years — the forest along this stretch of McGee Creek has recovered from complete destruction, largely on its own. This is good news for other areas of Mount Hood and the Gorge that still show the scars of logging and road building. Given time and some modest restoration efforts, even the most damaged ecosystems will recover.
The autumn scene on McGee Creek also holds some lessons for restoration that may not be immediately obvious. The large log lying along the right side of the creek, for example, was carefully placed there by biologists, just a few years ago. This was in recognition that a century of logging has deprived our streams of large woody debris that turns out to be an essential ingredient for healthy fisheries.
Perhaps most importantly, the white-trunked alders that line McGee Creek show that the forest here is recovering through natural succession. These pioneering trees provide quick cover and their dense root systems help prevent soil erosion.
Red alders are short-lived, adding their fallen debris to the rich duff layer they help build in recovering areas. Amazingly, they actually fix nitrogen in the soil through their roots, enriching it for the big conifers that will follow. Finally, the light canopy they provide allows for a complex understory of plants to develop in tandem with the alder groves, ensuring that forest diversity is re-established during the recovery cycle.
When McGee Creek was logged, the natural recovery that followed was mostly accidental — early timber operations viewed the forests as limitless, and logged areas were mostly ignored once the trees had been cut. The shift to cultivated tree farms didn't begin until the late 1940s and the era of road-based logging.
In these more recently logged areas, the pioneer, non-commercial hardwoods like red alder were usually killed with herbicides in order to promote the quick growth of commercial timber species, especially Douglas fir. This practice has led to the thickets of crowded fir trees that we see today. These unnatural stands are vulnerable to disease and fire, and have almost no understory to provide for bio-diversity and wildlife habitat.
Sadly, it will take decades to thin these misguided plantations and decommission the failing logging roads that threaten streams and slopes. But though the task of forest recovery and restoration is a tall one, the good news is that the lessons of natural succession from places like McGee Creek have worked their way into forest management. Our scientists are now learning to work with nature, not control it — by letting the red alders grow.
As we continue to turn the page on past practices and begin a new era of restoration for the forests of Mount Hood, we can take some degree of consolation in knowing that a complete recovery is well within our reach. By watching and learning from the forest ecosystem, we now realize that the natural processes that have renewed our forests for millennia must be allowed to follow their ancient course, once again.


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Knowing God's Voice:
We know we are following the Spirit of God when we are led by the fruits of the Spirit instead of the acts of the flesh (v19)
Gal. 5:16,22-25 – walk by the Spirit… the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Is. 55:12 – You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace
Rom. 8:14 – For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.
God is always talking:
Ps. 139:17-18 – How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.
Ps. 40:5 – Many, O Lord my God, are… Your thoughts toward us… If I would declare and speak of them, They would be too numerous to count.
Matt. 4:4 – Jesus answered, "It is written: 'Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"
Comes not came! The command to 'pray without ceasing' (1 thess.5:17) is a call to dialogue not monologue. Prayer is listening to God just as much as it is talking to Him.
God lets us hear what He has to say:
1 Cor. 2:10-16 – The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who knows a person's thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God
1 Cor. 12:7-11 – Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit a message of wisdom, to another a message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he distributes them to each one, just as he determines.
Ways God may be speaking to you:
- Dreams. Write down your dreams and ask God what they mean.
Job 33:14-17 – Indeed God speaks once, or twice, yet no one notices it. In a dream, a vision of the night, When sound sleep falls on men, While they slumber in their beds, Then He opens the ears of men, And seals their instruction, That He may turn man aside from his conduct.
Pharaoh had two dreams. God spoke in 2 ways, but God was saying the same thing (Gen. 41:25)
- Visions. Ask God to open your eyes. You may see visions while your eyes are open or closed.
2 Kings 6:16-17 – "Don't be afraid," the prophet answered. "Those who are with us are more than those who are with them."And Elisha prayed, "Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see." Then the Lord opened the servant's eyes, and he looked and saw the hills full of horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Vision was allowed in order to encourage and comfort this person.
- Scripture. God revealed Himself through His Word to Jesus, as He will to anyone who seeks Him out through the Word:
Luke 4:18-20 – Unrolling it, he (Jesus) found the place where it is written: "The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to… Then He began by saying to them, "Today this scripture is fulfilled in your hearing."
- Discernment. When we know the Word and understand who God is, we gain discernment about what is and is not God's voice.
1 John 4:1 – Dear friends, do not believe everyone who claims to speak by the Spirit. You must test them to see if the spirit they have comes from God.
- Small Voice.
1 Kings 19:11-13 – Then a great and powerful wind tore the mountains apart and shattered the rocks before the Lord, but the Lord was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake. After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper. When Elijah heard it, he pulled his cloak over his face and went out and stood at the mouth of the cave. Then a voice said to him, "What are you doing here, Elijah?"
- Audible Voice. Pray for Him to open your ears to His voice. He is a kind and polite God, if you do not want to hear, He will not force the matter. Jesus spoke and Father God responded for all, who were willing, to hear
John 12:28-30 – "Father, glorify your name!" Then a voice came from heaven, "I have glorified it, and will glorify it again." The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him. Jesus said, "This voice was for your benefit, not mine.
- Creation. God spoke to Moses and others through the world around them. Dead sticks grew flowers, seas parted, parables of farming were used, etc:
Ex. 3:2 – There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush. Moses saw that though the bush was on fire it did not burn up.
Ways God wants to speak through you:
- Word of Knowledge. We can't 'read minds' but God knows everything and He allows us to hear what is on His mind through His Spirit living in us. Sometimes He wants to speak to us about situations around us and give us an opportunity to lovingly teach others. This knowledge is something we can't know, but that God can reveal to us
Luke 7:39-40 – When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, "If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner." Jesus answered him, "Simon, I have something to tell you."
- Word of Wisdom. God speaks through people too. Moses was stressed, but Jethro had a word of wisdom from God to share:
Ex. 18:17-19 – Moses' father-in-law replied, "What you are doing is not good. You and these people who come to you will only wear yourselves out. The work is too heavy for you; you cannot handle it alone. Listen now to me and I will give you some advice, and may God be with you.
- Tongues. God knows all languages and His Spirit may allow us to speak a language we don't know on our own, in order to bring Him glory:
Acts 2:7-8,11 – Utterly amazed, they asked: "Aren't all these who are speaking Galileans? Then how is it that each of us hears them in our native language?… we hear them declaring the wonders of God in our own tongues!
- Interpretation of Tongues. He spoke through human language in the verse above, but not all languages are languages. Dance and music are languages we often practice interpreting, but are we practicing hearing God's voice or our own? Start asking God about His thoughts.
The Fruits of the Spirit. When we exhibit love, joy, peace, patience, etc… people receive the Truth of God, are healed from past wounds. God speaks through His Spirit whether it be through the Gifts of the Spirit or the Fruits of the Spirit! Gifts are given. Fruit is cultivated. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts.
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Tea with the Taliban
When I was wondering what to call my new book on the broader Middle East, I went to Homer's bookshop in Istanbul to check out the many shelves full of competition. I soon decided I didn't want my title to be heavy with dry theorification about Islam, democracy, politics, or terrorism. It also seemed a bit soft to join the romantic set, beckoning readers with images of Persian nights, caravans, deserts, marshes and mountains. But I didn't want to go to the other extreme with gory high drama. In just recent years, the sanguinary sub-class alone has included dozens of titles like Holy Blood; the Blood of Lambs; the Blood of the Moon; Blood, Sweat and Steel; Blood and Oil in the Orient; and my favorite, The Land of Blood and Honey.
Middle East book titles have to struggle for attention: about 300 come out every year in the U.S. alone. I wanted something that conjured up multiple dimensions, like Stephen Glain's Dreaming of Damascus (actually about the economics of the front-line Arab states), or Jonathan Randal's After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? (about the Kurds). When I gave up on my first title idea — Mr. Q., I Love You — and settled on Dining with al-Qaeda, I was pleased that I'd featured the Q-word, but in an unexpected way that might draw in a reader seeking the back story. What better way to symbolize the human side of things than breaking bread together? Little did I realize that there's nothing new under the sun, and that there were already volumes called Dining with Terrorists, The Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Tea with Hezbollah. They have now been joined by Tea with the Taliban: war reporting for beginners.
Actually it's Thee met de Taliban, since it's written in Dutch (De Geus, 2010) by Deedee Derksen. It's fresh and topical, the fruit of Derksen's past four years living and working in Afghanistan, mostly reporting for the Dutch left-leaning newspaper De Volkskrant. I was particularly interested to see that in some ways she shared my own confusion about the country, especially about the Taliban and women.
Derksen meets women who tell her that life was actually o.k. under the Taliban, and that things had gone downhill since they were driven from power. The bigger problem in women's lives was violence and chaos. Schools for girls were all very well, but rights were not much use without honest courts to enforce them. As Derksen says: "I would hear from rural women that there was no change in their lives before or after the Taliban" and that, compared to deeper problems like unemployment and power cuts, "Western concerns with cultural matters just poured oil on the flames."
Derksen's mission to Afghanistan took flight when her new posting was announced at a public event, at which her Volkskrant editor was challenged about the lack of coverage of the 'other side' by Joris Luyendijk, an ex-journalist Dutch commentator known for his iconoclasm about Dutch coverage of Middle East news in his book Het Zijn Net Mensen, recently published in English as Hello Everybody. But she soon finds herself wrapped up in the expatriate whirl of Kabul.
"The crazy thing is that as a war correspondent in Afghanistan it's not at all easy to get to the war," she says, despite the fact, as she details, the Pentagon spends an annual $4.7 billion on public relations and employs 27,000 people to supply upbeat pictures and stories for the press corps. One of the Pentagons front-line media handlers digs up Derksen's file in their computer, along with her picture and an evaluation of her reports. If a reporter is judged to be "negative", this handler says, the Pentagon will cut him or her off.
She's judged to be neutral and gets to see a terrifying part of the American side of the war in a distant mountain valley: "that's it, people: bombs, grenades, and fear so pure that you begin believing in God on the spot". But she's frustrated that she can't hear at first hand what Afghan villages think of what is being done in their name, and worries that maybe she's giving a one-dimensional, Hollywood rewrite of what people already think the war is. She gets hooked on the idea of getting to the bottom of it all, and of not being like the Westerners in their "luxury jail" in Kabul, who speak about what Afghans think without ever speaking to Afghans. "The more often I went [to Kabul], the more often I wanted to go. It was a sort of gold rush fever."
Panning for this gold was tough. Travel proved dangerous and the risk of kidnapping great. Afghan militants targeted Westerners, be they journalists, aid workers or diplomats. Reporting was a juggling act of managing fixers, telephone calls to Taliban commanders, swapping information with local journalists, opportunistic interviews in Kabul with provincial visitors, and occasional sorties into the countryside. Western soldiers appear as almost accidental actors. One Dutch lieutenant studied to be a hotelier and tells Derksen "and then I went and did this." An American "Major B", who only "lives in the world of Major B", gives her bibles to study admits that he is busy trying to proselytize the Afghan population – and then advises her to read Tolkien, "an author at home in the Christian tradition". She attends a painstakingly arranged town-hall meeting between the American troops and Afghans, at which the Americans rush away before listening to anybody. And, of course, editors all want it summed up in 700 words, with villain and victim clearly identified.
She admits that sometimes, the more she hears about the real Afghanistan war, the less she understands. Reporting one story, "every Mohammad says the other Mohammad is a murderer, which the said Mohammad admits, while pointing the finger straight back. At Mohammad." There are tales of head-hacking cruelty by the Taliban, for sure, but she attacks the myth of any ideological divide between Taliban and non-Taliban, says non-Pashtuns do not necessarily rule out cooperating with the group and that the Karzai government is in a semi-permanent negotiation with them about its own survival. Above all, she notes that no Afghan faction is necessarily more 'Islamic' than another, all having shared in an upsurge in religious extremism and violence during the past decades of war.
Among ordinary Afghans, she finds farmers have little incentive to cultivate more than poppies for opium, since there are no refrigerated stores or roads to transport vegetables or other normal crops. During an attempt to track down the financing of an aid project, she finds that everyone believes a different sum of money is involved. Afghans feel Koran schools are preferable to no schools at all; yet ignorance means that young, poor, illiterate Afghans are susceptible to anything, from acting as suicide bombers to believing that American soldiers' sunglasses mean they can see straight through you. She reaches one Afghan village to find its conservatism a façade, with everything for sale in secret, from whisky to opium to prostitutes, be they young or old, women or men. "All very hypocritical," the phlegmatic local Afghan governor tells her.
She shows again and again how the chief ingredient of the Afghanistan war is village feuds, sometimes magnified by Western arms and support into province-wide conflicts that are mistakenly interpreted as being struggles about the fate of the Kabul regime. She finds that storied gunfights between American troops and the "Taliban" can also be described more simply as clashes between the Americans and "armed men who hate the Americans", fueled in part by a high rate of civilian Afghan casualties rarely admitted to by the Pentagon press machine. Between Afghans, the role of victim and killer has switched so often that everyone is performing in both roles, all waiting for their chance of a sign of weakness to "hold the other's head under the water."
Derksen's strongest criticism is of the Western governments, who ignored Afghanistan for too long and still give it far less support for reconstruction than other post-conflict situations. (In East Timor, she says there was one international peacekeeper for every 65 people; the figure is one for every 5,380 in Afghanistan). The US is blamed for storming in like cowboys in 2001, shooting for al-Qaeda and hiring anyone who would help, however corrupt. "The US and other NATO countries pretend that there is a properly functioning government, but there isn't", she quotes a disillusioned American aid worker as saying. "It's a band of criminals who are raping the country. We pretend that we're not responsible, but we are."
Looking at the four-year Dutch misadventure trying and failing to bring peace and development to the province of Uruzgan, she asks whether The Hague had ever thought through what it meant to take their mission into a place where the US was arming and supporting a regional faction that was clearly oppressing many local people – and on whose support the Dutch also relied for their lifeline of convoy-borne supplies. Or was The Hague in fact fully aware of the situation, sending in its troops simply to be a good U.S. ally, and never mind about the fate of the Afghans? The whole disaster, she reckons, was a bad piece of theater that could only be called "War For the Wrong People Against the Wrong People."
I read much of Tea with the Taliban on a transatlantic flight, and on arrival in the U.S. I did some occasional testing of its findings. Indeed, judging by my straw poll of experiences and conversations over a week, America still seemed to be both aware of and disconnected from the Afghan reality. Shawn, my driver from the airport to a lecture at Amherst College in Massachusetts, knew a thing or two. His best friend was serving on the Afghan side of the Pakistan border, and had just been back home to tell of his experiences. The poor friend was apparently strung out as taut as the trip-wire of an IED, drinking heavily as he told of his 'seven confirmed kills', of being administered military drugs to stay awake on night duties, and, in a telling irony, of being unable to see as much from his base watchtower with state of the art night-sight equipment as his Afghan army companion could see with his bare eyes. On top of that, as Derksen often points out, he was utterly sealed off from the Afghan civilian population.
On the first morning of my visit, the hotel's complimentary copy of USA Today had just one page of foreign news. Half of it was a story called "Afghan villagers stronger against Taliban" (here). The US general in charge of a province, perhaps in charge of Shawn's friend, was claiming that a new strategy aimed at making Afghan villages defend themselves was working. This was an interesting claim, given that Derksen shows in her book that it is precisely in the villages that the Afghan war starts and Western influence ends. And, illustrating another of Derksen's complaints, there wasn't a single Afghan voice in the piece, let alone a quote from the Taliban, or any sign that the reporter had been able to go to an Afghan village to check out if indeed its inhabitants felt stronger. Instead the report was just assertions by the military, accompanied by a few vague 'to be sure' paragraphs, which, if taken seriously, would actually contradict the military claims, and, indeed, the whole point of writing the story. As International Crisis Group says in its new report on Afghanistan: "An alluring narrative of a successful counter-insurgency campaign has begun to take shape, but the storyline does not match facts on the ground." Or, as a recent call by some of the best writers on and aid workers in Afghanistan put it, "the military campaign is suppressing, locally and temporarily, the symptoms of the disease, but fails to offer a cure." The only verified new fact in that USA Today report appeared to be the obituary notice naming two more young American soldiers in their early 20s killed by an IED in Kandahar.
(The coverage is not all like this, of course. Much more to the point was another piece done around the same time for National Public Radio's intrepid Quil Lawrence (here). Jumping from helicopters perilously perched on cliff-edges, Quil laconically reveals the mindlessness of the war and how little communication there is even within the various U.S. groups trying to get a grip on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border – let alone between the Americans and the Afghans themselves.)
My other conversations in America did not encourage me to believe that much was about to change. Amherst, I was told by the generous professorial hosts of my visit for an evening lecture about Turkey's new strategic choices, is one of the top liberal arts colleges in the United States, with 8000 candidates for 400 places every year. Yet not a single student showed up for a brown-bag lunch organized to discuss journalism and the Middle East. In Washington DC, a highly placed former US official informed me that there was no chance of the US leaving Afghanistan in 2014, as is being publicly suggested. Yet the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did not even feature in the recent mid-term election campaign.
If anger about these expensive and damaging conflicts was being expressed anywhere, it was in worsening sentiment blaming all Muslims for the trouble. The Moroccan immigrant who drove me away from Amherst was sanguine about his personal safety, but said that the real enemy was ignorance, the problem that writers like Derksen and I are trying to combat with books about Middle Eastern realities on the ground. "I came to the U.S. to be a guide to the Moroccan pavilion at Disney world, and that's the kind of place where you really find out how little people know about what goes on outside America," he said. "One person looked at me and asked if in Morocco we lived in the trees."


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The advice that I would like to share with new gardeners, is to have patience.
A garden is quite forgiving and gives you multiple chances to find what works best for you and it. Immediate fulfillment can be found in a beautifully landscaped garden designed and planted by a professional. However, you will find that the truly unique gardens, are created of love and tell the story of a lifetime. The "love" garden cannot be created quickly, however it often speaks the loudest to our hearts.
When you walk in a "love" garden and hear of the memories… a plant shared by a friend, a tree planted when a baby was born, perennials grown from seeds and nurtured over time, or the Easter lilies given as a gift each year, these things bring life and love to a garden.
When you relax, give yourself grace, laugh at your mistakes and rejoice in your accomplishments, magic happens. My garden really took off after The Year of the Cicadas. I found healing for my soul, and answers for my heart while digging in the dirt that year. Reconnecting with nature is one of the ways that God reminds us of the circle of life.
My garden has taught me many things about myself and the world in which we live. Start slow if you are busy with work, family, sports and other events. Your garden should be a place that allows you to relax and reconnect with what matters most to you. Your understanding of plants, growing environments and propagation will grow along with your garden, allowing you to mature together. Allow your garden of love to evolve just as your life evolves, one event at a time.
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This article shows how to remove .yatron file ransomware from your computer and how you can try and get your files to work again.
If your computer is infected by the .yatron files virus, then you most likely cannot open your files. The .yatron ransomware is the type of threat that is aimed at devastating your files by encrypting them and then extorting you to pay ransom to get them back. The .yatron files virus may also perform other activities on the computers, infected by it, such as delete backups and drop ransom notes to notify you on how to pay the "fee". Paying is strongly inadvisable, since you cannot trust the crooks who are behind this virus to recover your files. Instead, we strongly suggest that you try to remove .yatron ransomware, preferably by using the instructions in this article.
|Threat Name
|.yatron Ransomware
|Main Activity
|Infects the computer after which encrypts important documents and holds them hostage until a ransom is paid.
|Signs of Presence
|Files are encrypted with the added .yatron file extension and users are extorted to pay ransom to get the data to work again..
|Via malicious e-mail spam and set of infection tools.
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Which Files May Get Affected by .yatron Ransomware Ransomware?.yatron Ransomware Ransomware serves as a typical file-encoding Trojan. As soon as it gets access to your machine, this cryptomalware will perform a quick scan to find the paths to all of your personal files. The targeted data includes all MS Office documents, your precious photos and videos, your databases, the program files, etc. Only a few files such as the ones related to the core Windows processes may be spared. Once the operation ends, you will notice a threatening lockdown message on your desktop and the default file extension will become '.dll'. The cyber criminals give the victims only several days pay the ransom of Bitcoins, or else they threaten to delete forever the decryption key. The purpose of this frightening message is to shock the person and make him act irrationally. The victims often feel as the only solution to the issue is to pay the money. In reality, all specialists unanimously recommend not to follow the instructions of the hackers for several different reasons.
How to Protect Yourself from .yatron Ransomware Ransomware?
This ransomware may cause huge and often irreversible damage to the affected machines. Fortunately, you can prevent the infection as long as you are vigilant during your online sessions. This Trojan isn't known to use some unique methods to infiltrate the defences of your computer. The most probable cause for .yatron Ransomware Ransomware to enter is via spam emails. You may receive a message with a shocking content, encouraging you to either click on a malicious link or download a compromised file. The hackers have a whole arsenal of tools to manipulate you into doing so. For example, they may claim to represent an international bank or some popular shipping company. If they address you without mentioning your name, the email is probably a scam and you should ignore it. Unfortunately, if you simply click or download the infected file, your action will most likely be enough to activate the harmful codes of .yatron Ransomware Ransomware. In this case, only a credible security solution may be able to prevent the forthcoming damage.
How to Delete .yatron Ransomware Ransomware and Decrypt Your Files for Free?
The main reasons not to pay the ransom are two. First, you may not receive the promised unlocking key even after doing exactly as the hackers demand. They often scam the victims because the Bitcoin platform doesn't allow refunds and the people have no way to get their money back. The second reason not to finance cyber criminals is that your money will only motivate them to create more aggressive ransomware like .yatron Ransomware. On the other hand, if their attacks are in vain, they may stop spamming the web with such malicious Trojans. These parasites require quite some efforts to be created professionally and spread efficiently.
Once you decide not to pay the ransom, there are several other ways that may help you decrypt your personal files. You should begin the attempts by removing all traces of the malware. If you fail to delete .yatron Ransomware Ransomware properly, it may decrypt your files once again in the future or spread to other connected devices. The manual removal is not the recommended solution since it requires expert-level knowledge in computers. The most reliable tactic is to use dedicated security software that has added F.yatron Ransomware Ransomware to its database. Once the scan finishes, you should try some of the programs for restoration of files or the integrated System Restore feature. If you are lucky enough to have a spare copy of your files on some external device, you can import them back to your computer safely.
Removal Instructions for .yatron Ransomware
If you want to remove .yatron Ransomware, we strongly recommend that you first backup your data, just in case something goes wrong. Then, you can follow the manual or automatic removal instructions below, depending on which type of steps suits you more. If you lack the experience and the confidence that you will remove .yatron Ransomware manually, then you should do what most experts would and save yourself some time by downloading and running a scan with an advanced anti-malware software. Such programs are created to quickly identify and remove threats and programs with intrusive behaviour, like .yatron Ransomware, plus they also aim to ensure that your system is protected against future intrusions as well.
Manual Removal of .yatron Ransomware
Booting in Safe Mode
For Windows:
1) Hold Windows Key and R
2) A run Window will appear, in it type "msconfig" and hit Enter
3) After the Window appears go to the Boot tab and select Safe Boot
Cut out .yatron Ransomware in Task Manager
1) Press CTRL+ESC+SHIFT at the same time.
2) Locate the "Processes" tab.
3) Locate the malicious process of .yatron Ransomware, and end it's task by right-clicking on it and clicking on "End Process"
Eliminate .yatron Ransomware's Malicious Registries
For most Windows variants:
1) Hold Windows Button and R.
2) In the "Run" box type "Regedit" and hit "Enter".
3) Hold CTRL+F keys and type .yatron Ransomware or the file name of the malicious executable of the virus which is usually located in %AppData%, %Temp%, %Local%, %Roaming% or %SystemDrive%.
4) After having located malicious registry objects, some of which are usually in the Run and RunOnce subkeys delete them ermanently and restart your computer. Here is how to find and delete keys for different versions.
For Windows 7: Open the Start Menu and in the search type and type regedit –> Open it. –> Hold CTRL + F buttons –> Type .yatron Ransomware Virus in the search field.
Win 8/10 users: Start Button –> Choose Run –> type regedit –> Hit Enter -> Press CTRL + F buttons. Type .yatron Ransomware in the search field.
Automatic Removal of .yatron Ransomware
If you are in Safe Mode, boot back into normal mode and follow the steps below
Step 1:Click on the button to download SpyHunter's installer.
It is advisable to run a scan before committing to purchase the full version. You should make sure that the malware is detected by SpyHunter first.
Step 2: Guide yourself by the download instructions provided for each browser.
Step 3: After you have installed SpyHunter, wait for the program to update.
Step4: If the program does not start to scan automatically, click on the "Scan Computer Now" button.
Step5: After SpyHunter has completed with your system`s scan, click on the "Next" button to clear it.
Step6: Once your computer is clean, it is advisable to restart it.
Recover files encrypted by the .yatron Ransomware Ransomware.
Method 1: Using Shadow Explorer. In case you have enabled File history on your Windows Machine one thing you can do is to use Shadow Explorer to get your files back. Unfortunately some ransomware viruses may delete those shadow volume copies with an administrative command to prevent you from doing just that.
Method 2: If you try to decrypt your files using third-party decryption tools. There are many antivirus providers who have decrypted multiple ransomware viruses the last couple of years and posted decryptors for them. Chances are if your ransomware virus uses the same encryption code used by a decryptable virus, you may get the files back. However, this is also not a guarantee, so you might want to try this method with copies of the original encrypted files, because if a third-party program tampers with their encrypted structure, they may be damaged permanently. Here are the vendors to look for:
- Kaspersky.
- Emsisoft.
- TrendMicro.
Method 3: Using Data Recovery tools. This method is suggested by multiple experts in the field. It can be used to scan your hard drive's sectors and hence scramble the encrypted files anew as if they were deleted. Most ransomware viruses usually delete a file and create an encrypted copy to prevent such programs for restoring the files, but not all are this sophisticated. So you may have a chance of restoring some of your files with this method. Here are several data recovery programs which you can try and restore at least some of your files:


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A strange blog post title – what's going on? Best answer these questions, PlaidCamper.
I thought I'd write this a few months early, as winter appears to have come and gone, and Calgary is gripped by an early spring. Temperatures hitting 12C (!) the next couple of days, and last time I checked the 14 day forecast, the seasonal daytime high of 0C won't be happening until late December. If this keeps up, expect a photograph of a daffodil next week…
Calgary has spring, and I've had man flu – very disappointing to have a winter affliction when it isn't even winter outside. Doesn't seem fair. Luckily, I'd never complain about the weather, and likewise, I'd never complain about feeling under the weather. Nope, I may be gripped by man flu, or worse, but you won't hear a peep. Perhaps a sniff, sneeze, cough, and a small whimper, but that's about all.
Having been confined to my sick bed (or sofa), I thought I'd recommend a couple of movies where winter does make an appearance. It's the only snow we've seen for a while.
Let's start with Wind River (dir. Taylor Sheridan, VVS 2017), one of the few decent movies for grown ups (they let me in) released since the summer, worth your time if you enjoy a slow burn story, arresting scenery, and great performances. Sheridan wrote this, and he wrote Sicario and Hell or High Water, also good movies. If you've seen the others, you'll know Sheridan enjoys a stand off. The characters he creates aren't always the most immediately accessible or likeable, but you'll care about them when the stand off occurs.
In Wind River, we start with death on a reservation, followed by death in the past, then more death on a reservation, and finishing up with a bit more death high above a Wyoming reservation. It isn't the most cheerful of movies, although there are glimmers of hope in the troubled lives of key characters. The story touches on family grief, notions of justice, wasted lives, greed over resource extraction, racial tension, friendship and duplicity. Fortunately, there is also a sprinkling of deadpan humour. And lots and lots of snow. All this in less than two hours, and it is a taut little mystery.
Elizabeth Olsen and Jeremy Renner are convincing in their roles, Renner as a hunter, Olsen as a rookie FBI agent. We can thank Sheridan as writer for avoiding what could have been a horribly cliched relationship between these two. The smaller roles are well cast and well acted, and the snowy mountain landscapes are beautiful. When the mystery of what happened to the original victim is revealed in a long flashback, it adds to the drama of what happens next. Great storytelling.
If all the gloomy death and despair of Wind River isn't for you, then let me recommend a different movie. Be warned, it also features death, but there is far more fun to be had in Murder on the Orient Express (dir. Kenneth Branagh, 20th Century Fox 2017), if you are ok with watching a retelling of a story told countless times before.
I wasn't too sure about seeing this one. I'd seen a trailer, and it was a touch off-putting. That moustache! The hammy-sounding Brit accents (I have one of those) and 'eavy Belgian prrro-nun-cee-ation. Hmm – cliche and scenery-chewing alert!
Well, it was a blast! It's hard to complain about a wonderfully familiar cast of good actors clearly enjoying themselves. Branagh is confident marshalling his players, giving each just enough space to shine.
The train is rolling through striking mountain scenery when a disaster strikes! It is stuck on a huge trestle bridge suspended over a deep, deep gorge after an avalanche blocks the track, derailing the steam engine. There is lots and lots of snow. There is a murder! Poirot has to solve the case before the avalanche is cleared, the engine restored, and the train is able to continue.
In what is essentially a one set movie after the murder occurs, the delights are in the encounters Branagh's Poirot has with character after character. The movie isn't derailed and the story doesn't run out of steam, even if you know what happens. Branagh himself gives a distinctive performance as Poirot, humanizing him behind the huge whiskers and sharp detective intellect.
This movie is good to look at! As well as the colourful period costumes, the train's interiors are glorious, all cut glass, wooden sheen, crisp tablecloths and gleaming silverware. This is a throwback movie, old-fashioned yet revelling in subverting an age that wasn't as golden or glamorous as it appears. A fun film, if a story about murder is allowed to be fun.
There you have it, a couple of deeply different movies to enjoy on a dark winter (fake spring?) evening if you are feeling sorry for yourself with a bit of a cold. Thank goodness I was able to get a winter fix, even if it took a murder or two and some CGI…
Thanks for reading, and have a wonderful weekend!


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Greetings, dear readers! In this entry, the RH/HR code will be broken down to the very last molecule. IN-JOY! 😉
Rh BLOOD types were discovered in 1940 (1+9+4=14 –**Save the 14 for later**) by KARL Landsteiner and Alexander Wiener. The BLOOD type was named afT[AU]eR Rh[J]ESUS MO[O]N-KEYS. Rih–ANNA, the recording artist, has the Rh code embedded in her name. ANNA = a scRAM-BULLed NANA, NANNA or SIN, who was the Mesopotamian MOON god of ancient Sumeria. When the MOON is in its crescent phase, it's in the shape of a bANANA. MO[O]NKEYS eat bANANAs!"The MO[O]N–ST☆R" (or MO[O]N-STA[U]R) is a song recently released by hip-hop recording artist EMiN–EM, (M–N–M)–> (M=13 & N=14 = Pi/3.14) feaT[A]URing vocals by Rihanna. The MOO-N = Pi. Rihanna sings the (Ju.Pi.TAUR) hook:
"I'm friends with the MO[O]-N–STA[U]R that's under my BeD…"—>(BD=24/Ju.Pi.TAUR) "And you think I'm CRAZY, yeah, you think I'm CRAZY." Eminem makes mention of being "NUTS" in this song (video below) as well. NUTS and CRAZY refer back to the LUNAcy or the MOON. LUNA = MOON.
Rih is the name of a Dutch BICYCLE manufacturer. Rih means "fast as the wind" in Arabic. KARL May->(Taurus) wrote fictional novels about a black HORSE named Rih which syncs us back to KARL Landsteiner who discovered the RH BLOOD type. Rihanna is named after Rhiannon who is the Celtic goddess strongly associated with HORSEs in Welsh mythology. 2014 is the year of the HORSE and where we are headed now.<–(as of 1.31.14)
Rih is a Ukrainian instrument made out of a (bi/Pi)CYlindriCAL REED/(DEER) with a COW's HORN to form the BELL<-(BULL). The BELL/BULL syncs us back to Rih–ANNA because ANNA is NANA/NANNA-the Mesopotamian MOOn god. BULLs have HORNs and BICYCLEs have both BELLs and HORNs. DEER also have HORNs.
Syncing in with the BICYCLE, TRiumpH Motorcycles Ltd. is the largest UK mo[o]TOR-CYCLE/(EL) manufacT[A]URrer. In their logo, the R so Pi.rfectly connects to the H.During RusH HouR, we'd like to go as "fast as the wind" but unfortunately we are BLOCKed. BLOCKing ties in with H & R BLOCK, another corporation that embeds the HR/RH code.
Here are some additional logos, corporations, celebrities and themes that embed the RH/HR code…ROBIN HOOD is another characTAUR with the RH code in his name. RihANNA's born name is ROBYN RihANNA Fenty. Both ROBIN HOOD and Little RED Riding HOOD contain the RH codes. The ROBIN ([bi]rd) is RED in color. HOODs are like HATs. DirecTOR Ron Howard always wears HATs. Like RihANNA, he also has RED HAIR. RED HAT is a software company.
H=8 and R=18–> 818 is a California area code. Rihanna was born in 1988–> 8+1=9 and 818 are the remaining numbers that can be pulled from those set of digits (1988). Her parents divorced when she was 14. (20)14 syncs us back to the year of the HORSE, and the Celtic goddess Rhiannon who was associated with HORSEs. HR is also an anagram for HOUR. HOURS=HORUS=HORSE. HORUS is the SUN of RA–>Rih/RA–Anna.Rh is the atomic symBULL for Rhodium. Rhodium is often mixed with PLATINUM. This syncs us back to Rihanna's albums, which have all gone PLATINUM. It is also often PLATEd with other metals to improve its appearance. PLATEd syncs back to the BLOOD or BLOOD PLATElets. RHODI(O)um sounds like RODEO and that is where we find HORSEs.
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It is not often someone speaks openly about his/her experience in doing a Tahara, the Jewish practice of getting the body ready for burial. As such, I found this story quite moving. It is a description of the author's first Tahara, which he was called to do because there was a need for another person that evening.
The Holy Society by Rabbi Hyim Shafner
"Hyim we will need your help tonight with a tahara," said my father.
"But I have never done one," I replied.
"There are only two of us available, and I hear the man was heavy, bloated, so we will need you."
A tahara (literally "purification") is the Jewish process of washing, dressing and preparing a dead body for burial. It is performed by a quiet dedicated group in every Jewish community called the, chevrah kadisha, literally, "the Holy Society." Since Jews do not delay burial, the process invariably occurs late at night, on short notice, in preparation for burial the next day.
The groups' name comes from the modest, profoundly giving work it does without any recompense. It is a Jewish holy act to bury the dead, a chesed shel emet, a "true kindness." An act with no expectation of repayment, for its recipient cannot. Even the deceased's family usually has no idea who washed and dressed their loved one, who like a baby can do nothing for themselves and is treated with care by the holy group.
At 11pm that night my father, my cousin, and myself, rendezvoused in the funeral home's deserted parking lot. We slipped into the building through its back door, entering the section of the building blocked off from the public. Like being behind stage, the area is unseen, I imagine, in an effort to shield the public from the reality of death and the hands-on concreteness of body they would rather not know.
Sinks, tables, sponges, buckets, mops, crazy glue and a prayer book and box of tachrichim, white linen shrouds with no pockets (since you can't take it with you), that we had brought along. Tucked in the box was a small sack of dirt from the ground of Israel to place under the dead man's head; a little piece of the ancestral holy land in which Jewish people since Abraham have made fervent efforts to be interred.
The man lay before us, covered from head to toe by a plain sheet on an operating room like table. Long after the doctors of the living have left, we have come to carefully cleanse and meticulously dress, to cut nails and glue cuts, to recite psalms, and ultimately to return the final product of our intense work to the dirt from whence it came.
It is eerily quiet since we do not converse in the presence of the dead. He cannot join in, and we are entirely focused on him, the one lying before us. There is much ritual and respect, but no place for emotion. In its stead we have work, lifting dead weight, washing him, drying him; his private parts covered with a towel, as the body is holy and deserves modesty and respect.
"Do not pass anything over him," cautions my cousin, "it is the law, out of respect for the dead." Indeed, the body is not an object to be moved like a sack of potatoes, and yet we must grapple with this weighty corpse. We treat him with more quiet deference than we might a living being. In the stark face of death, we are all equal, all there to serve each other. Something unsaid intimately links him and us: as we do the burdensome, precarious work, of clothing him by hand, in the back of our minds we know one day someone will do this to us, for us.
I was quietly grateful that there was no talking, my mind racing anxiously faced with the first dead body I had seen up close. I recited the traditional psalms, taking comfort in an act that only the living can do, reading, praying, reciting.
"Lift…carefully," says my father, "he is heavy. Hold his legs while I turn him to get the water under him. If you want gloves I think there are some."
For generations my family has been the chevrah kadisha in our home town, a small Jewish community on the east coast. In the late 19th century my great grandfather, the head of the Holy Society, did taharahs in houses and in the linoleum tiled front parlor of his home.
Though I never had the guts for the real work of the taharah when I was young, I remember, as a youth filling graves with my father after a funeral of adults whom I did not know. When everyone had left but the grave was not completely filled my father told me to stay with him and complete the duty with shovels by hand. "The burial of the dead should be complete," he would say.
The dead man oozes a bit of blood from a sore. "Use the crazy glue there," says my cousin.
We mop the blood with a paper towel and place it in the coffin, as the human body must be respected and entirely buried, not thrown away. "You are dirt and to dirt you shall return," fulfilling the words of God as stated in the Bible at the very beginning of Genesis.
When he is cleaned and dried we pour the water. Nine kabim, an ancient Talmudic measure of water, as specified in Jewish law. Three large buckets worth, uninterrupted, for the waters that purify must be poured without lapses in between. We recite Hebrew words of prayer as we tie his plain rope belt, put on his linen booties, lifting him, turning him, getting his shirt on straight; the loose, clean, white clothing of a newborn. When I was young and would ask my mother what death is like, she would tell me, "it is like before you were born."
The experience, my first of the kind, was shocking but also a bit exhilarating. I felt initiated into the clandestine Holy Society. In the middle of the night, fueled by humility, ritual and profound respect for others; an other I did not know, an other who could never repay us.
To look death in the face without belittling it, with out denying it, to see in it the deep respect and caring owed to one made in the image of God, this is the work of the chevrah kadisha.


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What do you do when you have a bunch of leftover turkey and a boatload of clementines? Make salad, of course! This beautiful salad uses an exotic spice blend to completely transform holiday leftovers into something quite exceptional. It's creamy and crunchy and satisfying with sweet little bursts of clementine that bring the sunshine back to any winter-weather day. If you don't have any turkey left, just use any leftover poultry. You might even want to quickly poach or grill some just so you can try this recipe!
I used a mandoline to slice my celery really thin, very quickly. I love having a mandoline, but then again, I love all of my kitchen gadgets. If you don't have one, you can easily slice the celery with a knife.
Turkey and Celery Salad with Cinnamon-Citrus Dressing
2 T. paleo mayonnaise
Juice from 1/2 a lemon, about 2 Tbsp.
1/2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
3/4 tsp. ground cumin
3/4 tsp. salt
3-4 grinds of pepper
6 clementines
6-8 oz. of cooked turkey or chicken breast, chopped
5-6 celery stalks, thinly sliced, about 2 cups
2 scallions, thinly sliced
2 Tbsp. toasted walnuts, chopped
A few toasted coconut flakes to garnish, optional
1) In a large salad bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, lemon juice, olive oil, spices, salt and pepper.
2) Peel the clementines, cut them through the middle at the "equator", and then break off each little half-section. Place in the bowl with the dressing.
3) Add the chopped turkey, sliced celery, scallions, and walnuts to the clementine pieces in the bowl.
4) Toss everything together very well to combine. Top with coconut flakes if you like and any additional salt and pepper.
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At a time when Brazil is expected to bump up its sugar cane output, researchers find that converting lands from tropical savannas to sugar cane plantations could alter the local climate.
Temperatures could fall about 1 degree Celsius during the peak of the growing season and rise an equivalent amount after harvest, said researchers from Arizona State University and the Carnegie Institution for Science's Department of Global Ecology. While the results suggest that more fields of sugar cane won't drastically alter the landscape, they could affect local seasonal temperatures.
"We're basically modifying the seasonal variability," said Matei Georgescu, lead author of the study and assistant professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University. Researchers from Stanford University also contributed to the study.
In August, the peak growing period for sugar cane in Brazil's winter, temperatures in the area around sugar cane-growing regions will be cooler. After the harvest, around December and January, the local climate warms. But on average, the experiment showed no net impacts on surface temperatures. The study was published in Geophysical Research Letters last week.
"When the crop is harvested, we are modifying the seasonal evolution. This has to be taken into consideration; you have to focus on seasons," Georgescu said.
Using regional multiyear climate models, as well as a measure of the leaf area of sugar cane, the researchers found that this local change in temperatures would not occur in the region's tropical savanna -- known as the cerrado -- where an annual harvest doesn't occur.
These temperature fluctuations are due to the albedo effect, the warming caused by the color and reflective quality of a landscape. Just as a black shirt will absorb energy in the form of heat and make the wearer feel warmer, areas of land that are dark will absorb heat and raise temperatures in the immediate climate. The bright leaves of sugar cane deflect incoming solar radiation.
The lack of leaves after the harvest also reduces the rate of evaporation, allowing the sunlight to heat the ground at a greater rate.
Cars raise demand; effects poorly understood
The scientists also found a seasonal variation in the rate of water evaporating from plants, known as evapotranspiration. With the changes in the landscape from greater sugar cane planting, there will be a 0.3 milliliter loss per day of water, on average.
The demand for sugar cane ethanol in Brazil is expected to rise this year. An increase in gasoline prices in the country will make biofuel a more attractive option. In addition, the United States continues to import the lower-carbon Brazilian ethanol to allow fuel blenders to comply with the federal renewable fuel standard. Unlike in previous years, weather conditions for sugar cane this year are looking good, so far (ClimateWire, Feb. 13).
The Brazilian sugar trade group UNICA was unable to confirm that sugar cane plantations will be expanding in neighboring savannas in the next several years.
To date, biofuel producers have yet to incorporate local effects like albedo into their sustainability metrics because of a lack of understanding on the topic, said Barbara Bramble, chairwoman of the Roundtable for Sustainable Biofuels.
"We've definitely been thinking about it," Bramble said when asked about incorporating localized climate effects like albedo into the standards.
In 2011, a paper was published in Nature Climate Change on Brazilian sugar cane plantations and the historical changes in temperature tied to the albedo effect (ClimateWire, April 18, 2011).
Reprinted from Climatewire with permission from Environment & Energy Publishing, LLC. www.eenews.net, 202-628-6500


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My new project for 2015 is to get my sketching mojo back and get drawing back on the Deano agenda. I don't pick a pen up anywhere near enough and I decided to sort it out.
So I bought a brand new Moleskine — heavier weight, off white drawing paper of course and crucially a size just over A5, large enough to capture a decent canvas but small enough to tuck into a bag. I bought some new pens to get me excited: Pentel fine line and heavy, fountain Pentel and Signpens, standard issue for designers. I thought I'd also try some brush Faber Castell pens too — all bets are off at this stage and using a new pen can often inspire as much as the subject. New tools always excite me and are essential at the outset of a project like this.
Subject matter was the next consideration. Sketching is like a muscle that needs exercising to grow it and then when fully pumped it needs plenty of reps to keep it up to scratch. So where am I constantly exposed to countless, interesting scenes? If you read this blog you know I frequent a lot of bars and restaurants and that seemed like the perfect subject. I'm there anyway, so why not sketch at the same time. In truth it's not too obtrusive and is often a starting point for conversations. I was also inspired by the wonderful London Sketchbook's section on bars and restaurants in London so off I went.
I've had a proper go over the past few weeks and if you follow me on Instagram, you'll have seen I'm getting into a groove of sorts. Sketching is habit-forming too and taps into my obsessive compulsive nature with a compulsion to collect views and in turn sketches. It's great also to sketch what I would have otherwise Instagrammed. My first few sketches were a bit clunky but I was determined to just draw and create without worrying about the outcome. I have to get into a groove with it and not get too anxious. What I have found though is that my eye is getting better and better and each sketch is a reasonably faithful representation of the atmosphere of the bar or restaurant: calm, chilled, hectic, noisy, quiet, relaxed, full on. Of course no-one sits still or poses, so it brings huge challenges for me as faces were never my strong point, but either way I just draw.
I've also decided to use these sketches as illustrations for reviews of the place we visit, which I think adds an interesting dimension to the narrative of the drawing. The sketch below is a beautiful little neighbourhood restaurant in Debeavoir Town in North London called Sweet Thursday, named after a little known Steinbeck book. This isn't a full-blown review but the hipster, retro, eclectic charm of the restaurant comes out in the drawing I think. It was late afternoon on a cold Saturday in February and we almost had the place to ourselves. The pizza was divine: just what we needed, packed with flavour, piping hot and a perfect foil to the great value and gullible on-tap organic wine. I built on my bare bones sketch later that evening and was quite pleased with the way it emerged. Enjoyable experimentation with fat black nibs to stress shadows and contrast.
It's a fine line between spontaneity and overworking but I think I got this one about right. But there are no right and wrongs and I'm keen to experiment with new styles and techniques. Keep coming back to the blog to see how the project develops. Hope you like them.