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Hosted by Nan Kelley, the evening included Vince Gill's spare rendition of a black spiritual, "Give Me Jesus"; Charlie Daniels' animated version of "I'll Fly Away"; and Trace Adkins' bluesy take on "Wayfaring Stranger." Carrie Underwood turned in a big-voiced rendition of "How Great Thou Art" in a parade of stars that also featured Dierks Bentley, Sara Evans and Loretta Lynn, who earned three standing ovations.
The special dovetails with an RCA album, likewise titled How Great Thou Art: Gospel Favorites From The Grand Ole Opry, that also features performances by Alan Jackson, Brad Paisley, Patty Loveless, Ricky Skaggs, the Whites and Mac Powell, of the Christian band Third Day.
The album reaches stores Feb. 5. The special debuts on GAC at 8 p.m. Eastern Time, Feb. 9.
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Bangladesh have included veteran spinner Abdur Razzak in place of injured Shakib Al Hasan for the first Test against Sri Lanka, a team official said Monday.
Shakib was ruled out of the Test starting Wednesday in Chittagong after injuring a little finger during the tri-series final against the islanders last weekend.
The 35-year-old Razzak, who bowls left-arm spin, was recalled to the side four years after he played his last Test against the West Indies in 2014.
"It is not easy to find a replacement for Shakib. We need someone experienced to replace him. Sunzamul has yet to play any Test, so we recalled Razzak," said chief selector Minhajul Abedin.
"Now we will see his fitness in training before we finally include him in the playing team," he said.
Razzak, one of three Bangladeshis to take more than 200 wickets in one-day internationals, played only 12 Tests after making his debut in 2006. He picked up 23 wickets.
He showed his form with the red ball in the ongoing domestic first-class competition, Bangladesh Cricket League, where he took 20 wickets in three matches.
During the tournament he grabbed the spotlight by becoming the first Bangladeshi player to take 500 wickets in first-class cricket.
The second Test is in Dhaka, starting on February 8.
Bangladesh will also play two Twenty20 internationals against Sri Lanka.


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Daniel Gidney admits Lancashire will have no excuses if they can't make a commercial success of the revamped NatWest Twenty20 Blast – with or without Andrew Flintoff.
Lancashire start their campaign at Nottinghamshire Outlaws at Trent Bridge on Friday night before hosting the Worcestershire Rapids 24 hours later at Emirates Old Trafford.
That is one of only two of their seven home group games not on a Friday night after the England and Wales Cricket Board drastically altered the domestic schedule after requests from both the clubs and the fans.
It means instead of the T20 competition being played in a three-week block in the middle of summer, the group games will mainly be on Friday nights throughout the first half of the season.
Talk of a shock comeback for Flintoff will only help sell tickets, but Lancashire chief executive Gidney knows that to make Twenty20 a success again they need to attract interest from other than the traditional cricket fan.
So the club have planned a host of additional entertainment – including live bands and a fan village – to accompany what they hope will be exciting action on the pitch in a bid to stop the recent decline in T20 attendances.
"For years people have been complaining about a lack of commercial schedule in terms of domestic cricket," said Gidney.
"However, for the first time in many, many years we are getting close to 'no excuses' time. We have been given a really commercial schedule.
"The ECB have really listened to the counties on this in that Friday nights are the most commercial.
"Last year we had one game on a Friday night. It was very difficult for us. This year we have five on Friday nights, we have one on a Thursday which will be great for our corporate market and we have Saturday which we are doing as our Trafford Day where some tickets are just £2.
"We believe we have a really great combination. It is down to us to make the argument to the local public that we now have something different to offer.
"Twenty20 when it started was all crash, bang, wallop and it was all about entertainment – the cricket wasn't that serious.
"Now it has become more serious on the cricket side and drifted away on the entertainment side.
"You just have to look at the Big Bash in Australia and the Indian Premier League. The Big Bash specifically went out to a new market – mums and kids. The two Melbourne franchises weren't allowed to market to the Victoria database – the traditional cricket supporters in the area. They created a whole new market and ended up with 47,000 people on a Sunday night at the MCG. That's an astonishing figure.
"I know they have had losses over the first few years, but it is about customer acquisition for now.
"We have a large capacity at Emirates Old Trafford and if we are going to fill that we have to get new people to watch cricket, and to do that we have to do a sell on the entertainment side as well as cricket.
"We have to get that balance right between getting a fantastic cricket product for the purists and making the experience good too.
"We are investing a lot in making that Friday night experience great.
"We want to convince the people of Manchester that if they were going out to come down because this is something slightly different.
"We want 15,000 people in here on a Friday night watching T20 cricket.


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Q: Not able to send mail when running through webserver but able to send from command line with same php script I'm facing a weird problem: I have a file called mail.php in the project. When I run the command from shell:
php mail.php

it sends mail in seconds, but when running the same file as:
https://www.domain.com/mail.php

No mail is going out, using this code:
<?php
      echo "Sending mail now....";
      mail("mr.atanu.dey.83@gmail.com", "PHP Test mail", "Hope this works! ");
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Can somebody help me?

A: It may be the case that SELinux is enabled and according to SELinux default configuration the mail sending by apache/web server is not allowed.
To check whether SELinux is enabled and its configured to stop sending email run the below command:
getsebool -a | grep mail

sample output
allow_postfix_local_write_mail_spool --> on
httpd_can_sendmail --> off
logging_syslogd_can_sendmail --> off

Now, in order to configured SELinux to allow apache to send email run the below command:
setsebool -P httpd_can_sendmail on

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Not able to send mail when running through webserver but able to send from command line with same php script

A: Possible solution:
In php.ini replace
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i
with
sendmail_path = /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix -t -i
Then restart Apache.

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Becoming sober involves many aspects and processes; including both addiction treatment and sober homes. But what is the difference between these two? Should you do both?
When it comes to confronting your addiction, you want the best chance for success possible, right? Far too often, we read stories of an addict – or know one personally – who will complete a rehab stay only to eventually end up high (or drunk) in a matter of months.
This is not how your recovery should go.
If you are truly ready to get sober – and stay sober – then you need to give yourself everything possible to do just that. A combination of treatment and sober living is just what you need.
What Is an Addiction Treatment Facility?
Making the decision to get sober is not easy. Choosing to go through the steps of walking away from addiction requires great strength and determination.
That is why doing it alone is not a good option for anyone.
Think about it – the pains from withdrawal alone are enough to send you using again in an instant.
That is why joining an addiction treatment facility is often the best first step in getting sober.
While there are many variations on approach, recovery involves a treatment facility that can be there for you as you withdraw and walk you through methods of treatment.
Some of these may be spiritual in nature others may be medicinal and clinical.
There are many tools and coping mechanisms that need to be discovered. And this is where you will learn them.
Because its goal is to help you step into recovery, there are many benefits to rehab.
For example, you will be surrounded by professionals who can help you get to the root of your addiction.
Whether it is a behavioral pattern, an underlying mental illness, or something else.
Without addressing the underlying situation, the chances of a successful recovery are not very favorable. But this is not the only benefit.
Treatment centers almost always offer peer-led support, which can allow you to feel that others truly know what you are experiencing. It opens the door to learn from each other.
You will learn coping skills necessary to tackle things such as temptation and sticky situations.
With the help of medical staff, you will ease your way through withdrawal, which will better help you focus on your mental state, rather than just your physical symptoms.
Sobriety requires stability. You will find stability at treatment facilities.
What Is a Sober Home?
Typically, sober homes are what come after you finish your treatment at a rehab center. You can also live in a sober living house during your treatment at a facility.
Once you have undergone treatment for drug or alcohol addiction in a secured and stable environment, facing life in the real world can cause many struggles and obstacles – even a relapse.
This is where you will find a sober home helpful.
Sober homes are residential homes that provide a safe – and sober – place for those who are in recovery.
While a treatment facility is there to help you attain sobriety and teach you the tools you need, discover underlying causes, and provide you with therapy, a sober home is there to help you integrate back into society.
Life as you knew it before the rehab program is still the same. You, however, are not.
This is what makes getting back to life so difficult. Sober homes offer a stable, secure, and structured environment to learn all the basics of how to live again as a sober individual.
The benefits of choosing to live in a sober living home after treatment are many.
For instance, you will have a home facilitator who is there is help guide you with anything you may face so you aren't facing life alone.
You will be surrounded by others who are in your same situation. This offers you a great chance to meet others and create lasting bonds. Conquering addiction requires support – and you can gain that here.
Sober homes provide you with a structured environment where you can learn to live within boundaries as you face the outside world.
Gain skills such as money management, cooking, and other necessary daily living skills that you will need to succeed in a responsible, sober world.
Chores, curfews, mandatory house meetings, drug testing, and the like are all things you will encounter in a sober living home.
Together, the setting will teach you responsibility, accountability, problem-solving skills, stress management, time management, and even how to live sober in a not-so-sober world.
The Perfect Pair: Why Do You Need Both?
Attending an addiction treatment facility and then entering sober homes can provide you with the greatest chance for a successful recovery.
Facilities get you sober and tackle the medical and psychiatric aspects of addiction, but once you complete them, you are thrown back into life as it was before your sobriety.
However, choosing to move into a sober home can provide you with the opportunity to learn how to successfully live life sober.
It is a way of easing the transition and ensuring a better chance for success.
While they can work independently for some people, it is not necessarily the best approach to recovery.
As you likely already know, addiction doesn't just access one aspect of your life.
It takes over your whole life.
So, only treating bits and pieces for addiction is not going to help.
Combining rehab and a sober home means you will get sober with the help of medical professionals and psychiatrists.
It also means that once you have become stable, you will have assistance in gaining employment and learning how to live and face daily challenges as a sober individual.
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High-Resolution Audio: A History and Perspective
Author:Melchior, Vicki R.
Affiliation:Consultant, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
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Exploration of audio at digital resolutions higher than CD began in the late 1980s, arising from a wealth of interdependent sources including listening experiences, rapid technical advances, an appreciation of psychoacoustics, acoustic measurement, and the ethos that music recording should capture the full range of audible sound. High-resolution formats were developed and incorporated into successive generations of distribution media from DVD, SACD, and Blu-ray, to internet downloads and now to streaming. A continuing debate throughout has been whether, and especially why, higher resolutions should be audibly superior. This review covers the history of the period, focusing on the main drivers of experimentation and development up to the present, and then seeks to explain the current view that, beyond dynamic range, the most likely technical sources differentiating the sound of digital formats are the filtering chains that are ubiquitous in traditional digital sampling and reconstruction of analog music sources.
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A Hierarchical Approach for Audio Capture, Archive, and Distribution
Authors:Stuart, J. Robert; Craven, Peter G.
Affiliation:MQA Ltd., Huntingdon, UK; Algol Applications Ltd., UK
Recent interest in high-resolution digital audio has been accompanied by a trend toward higher sampling rates and expanded bit depths, yet the sound quality improvements show diminishing returns, which can be explained by a failure to reconcile human auditory capability with the information capacity of the audio channel. The authors propose an audio capture, archiving, and distribution framework based on sampling kernels having finite length, unlike the "ideal" sinc kernel that has an infinite duration. With these new kernels, the original transient events need not become significantly extended in time when reproduced. This new approach runs contrary to some conventional audio wisdom, such as the complete elimination of aliasing. This paper reviews advances in neuroscience and recent evidence on the statistics of real signals, from which it can be concluded that the conventional criteria may not be helpful. This proposed approach can result in improved time/frequency balance in a high-performance chain whose errors, from the perspective of the human listener, are equivalent to those introduced when sound travels a short distance through air.
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There is still disagreement over the ways in which sound quality might benefit from higher sampling rates or wider bit depths in a digital path. The authors show that if a digital pathway includes any unintended or undithered quantizations, then several types of errors will be created whose nature will change with increased sampling rate and word size. Although dither methods for ameliorating quantization error have been well understood in the literature for some time, these insights are not always applied in practice. It is rare for an audio performance to be captured, produced, and played back with a flawless chain. The paper includes a tutorial overview of digital sampling and quantization with additive, subtractive, and noise-shaped dither. The discussions also include more advanced topics, such as cascaded quantizers, fixed and floating-point arithmetic, and time-domain aspects of quantization errors. Guidelines and recommendations are presented, including for the design of listening tests.
Modern Sampling: A Tutorial
Author:Angus, Jamie A.S.
Affiliation:University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
High-resolution audio has started to use modern sampling principles to further enhance the quality of digital audio reproduction. This tutorial seeks to explain how these new methods are an improvement over traditional Shannon sampling. Although perfect in theory, a Shannon-sampled signal will always have some aliasing errors when reconstructed because the infinite-duration filters required cannot be realized in practice. The tutorial first reviews the relevant parts of traditional sampling, and then goes on to introduce the modern method based on splines, which are one of many possible approaches. As an alternative, splines offers the possibility of a lower level of error for a given filter length as well as reconstruction filters that are very compact in time. The challenge for the future will be to develop circuits that allow these benefits to be achieved in practice.
Is High-Frequency Intermodulation Distortion a Significant Factor in High-Resolution Audio?
Authors:Stuart, J. Robert; Hollinshead, Richard; Capp, Michael
Affiliation:MQA Ltd., Huntingdon, UK; MQA Ltd., Huntingdon, UK; MQA Ltd., Huntingdon, UK
Intermodulation distortion (IMD) arises when a nonlinearity causes two or more signals to interact. This paper investigated this distortion mechanism by measurement and listening tests using three models of high-quality loudspeaker. The authors investigated IMD arising in combinations of amplifiers and loudspeakers, concentrating particularly on circumstances where very high frequency signals might induce audible distortions. Using selected ultrasonic signals (i.e., above 20 kHz) higher than 80 dB-SPL, IMD could be measured in all three loudspeaker systems tested, and it was just audible in the absence of any signals below 20 kHz. The aim was to discover whether IMD of ultrasonic signal elements could lead to their detectability and thereby confound listening tests or otherwise modify the listening experience. The results show that while such distortion can be found and must be accounted for in some psychoacoustic threshold experiments, it is not pertinent to playback of current high-resolution recordings, since the level of ultrasonic signals tends to be significantly lower.
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Friday I woke up at about 1am. Please no! Thankfully I managed to fall asleep and woke up just before 6. That's better. Brewed up some 100% Kona Coffee and got myself ready for a swim down at the pier.
I headed down to the pier. Parked in a public car park about 3 minutes walk away. At the pier there's a sort of storage rack for swim kit. It's not secure or anything but it was full of bags/towels/shoes etc. at 7:15am. People were arriving all the time. It'll be amazing to see the whole place transform nearer race week.
I put my gear on a shelf and headed into the water. There was a little sand on the beach showing as the tide was dropping and I strolled into the ocean for my first swim. I couldn't believe it – I'm here. This is the beach where the race starts. Yes, that race. The biggest Ironman race in the world – Kona. I was like a child on Christmas Day. Oh, and the water was a lovely temperature. So much nicer than the apparently heated outdoor pool back home in Richmond that I've swum in recently!
Goggles on, swim cap on – my Ironman UK swim cap of course – as that's what got me here in the first place (the pirate swim cap will come out another day!) and then I started swimming. It was like a big fish tank. The water was pretty clear – not crystal clear but plenty clear enough. There were fish all around and it was pretty salty and with a bit of a swell. Nothing unpleasant though. Conditions seemed fine.
Heading out I found myself swimming at a similar speed to a chap and after about 750m we both stopped as we'd seen something special – a pod of dolphins! I first saw them swimming near me and then stopped to see what was going on. There were maybe 10-20 of them. About 20-50 feet from me. I couldn't believe it. It was an amazing sight.
Sharon and I swam with dolphins last year in New Zealand and we were covered in a super thick neoprene wetsuits and hats. Today it was just my swim shorts in the lovely warm ocean. A world of difference. It was like swimming in a giant fish tank!
After about a minute or so they swum past in the direction of the shore. I chatted a bit to the guy who was swimming near me and we agreed to swim together and head out to the 1.2 mile turnaround mark. He'd lead the way as he was a regular swimmer here.
We steadily swam out (mostly parallel to the shore) and stopped a few times to try and spot the orange turnaround buoy. It was really hard to spot – partly as its pretty small, and secondly because there was a bit of a swell this morning. When we got to the buoy we stopped for a few seconds to see which way we were drifting with the tide – thankfully in the direction we came from – meaning that the swim back should be a little quicker.
On the way back I saw a manta-ray swim beneath me! I couldn't believe it. This was amazing.
Oh, and when we got near the 750m mark the dolphins were back. When I stopped to look there were a group of women who said the dolphins had been following me! At one point there were two of them no more than 10 feet from me. Wow.
I headed back to the beach, said thanks to my 'guide' and returned back to the condo for breakfast. A nice 2.4 mile swim in the ocean was a lovely way to start the day.
Shortly before lunch I decided to head out on the bike again. I thought I'd go a little further than Thursdays 20 mile ride and see how my foot holds up. I headed out to the Queen K highway and pedalled… And pedalled some more.
After a few miles I saw a signpost that said Kawaihae (27 miles). Well… I don't think there's anything between where I was and there. I had enough drink to get me there so thought why not! My foot felt fine after yesterdays ride so lets give it a bigger test.
It was like riding with a warm hairdryer blowing on you! Really warm. I made sure I had plenty to drink (I had three large drinks bottles with me on the bike). As I headed north up the coast the strange thing was the winds. I've heard all about the cross-winds in the Ironman race and today was what I'd call a great introduction. At one point the headwinds were crazy. Then they were cross winds. You really really had to concentrate to stay pointing in the right direction!
A couple of hours after leaving 'home' I found myself in Kawaihae. I stopped at a garage and bought some food, a bottle of coke and enough sports drink to refill my three bottles. I relaxed for a bit and then looked forwards to a bit of a tailwind for the ride back.
Oh, how wrong was I! The ride back was bloody hard work. My energy levels were just shot to bits – I've lost a lot of bike fitness over the past few weeks – to be expected. I think on top of this the heat and the wind (which decided to become headwinds!!) was tiring me out. I stopped for a breather a couple of times and then there was a point about 20 miles from home where there was a 'scenic' lookout. Well, it was more like a little car park beside the highway. I stopped here for about 5 or 10 minutes and in return for taking a photo of some tourists, they took a photo of me.
Back on the bike, into more headwinds and mostly gentle undulations in the highway and I found myself back in familiar surroundings – pretty much from the airport back to town. I eventually got back home after just over 4 hours of pedalling (the entire ride was 4:52 long) and just over 73 miles ridden – my longest ride in a month. Awesome. My foot felt fine (well, no worse than normal) and I treated myself to a lovely big home-made smoothie and a splash in the swimming pool. Bliss.
The sun was slowly starting to set so I got the camera, walked the 30 seconds to the oceanfront and got a few photos.
What a day. Went to bed about 10pm. Jet-lag. Where are you? No doubt waiting for me when we get back to the UK.
I'm loving reading these – this report gave me goosebumps!!
It's good you've experienced the winds before race day, last year I had two weeks of calm and then on race day winds just like you've described! I spent 2 weeks before the race wondering what the fuss was all about, no windier than the uk I thought……. How wrong I was.
One tip from me is to practice the course at the approximate time you'll be riding or running on race day, the winds and heat have daily trends (like the wind changing direction mid morning) which are often repeated.
Keep the updates coming there's nothing better than the build up to Kona!
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Hisham Matar
A Month in Siena
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AND MAN BOOKER-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR
'Sparkles with brilliant observations on art and architecture, friendship and loss' Guardian
'Everybody should get to spend a month with Mr. Matar, looking at paintings' Zadie Smith, Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year
Matar was nineteen years old when his father was kidnapped. In the year following he found himself turning to art, particularly the great paintings of the Sienese School. They became a refuge and a way to think about the world outside the urgencies of the present.
A quarter of a century later, having found no trace of his father, Matar finally visits the birthplace of those paintings. A Month in Siena is the encounter between the writer and the city. It is an immersion in painting, a consideration of love, grief and a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life.
'A dazzling exploration of art's impact on his life and writing, and a moving contemplation of grief' Financial Times
'I can think of no better expression of the humane than this economical, modest, yet altogether breathtaking book' New Statesman, Books of the Year
'Bewitching, intensely moving' The Economist, Books of the Year
Anatomy of a Disappearance
In the Country of Men
The Fire, The Fire
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Hisham Matar's memoir The Return has won the Rathbones Folio prize
Hisham Matar was born in New York City to Libyan parents and spent his childhood first in Tripoli and then in Cairo. He is the author of two novels, In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance, and a work of non-fiction, The Return. In the Country of Men was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the National Critics Book Circle Award in the US and won six international literary awards. The Return won a Pulitzer Prize, the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award, the Folio Prize and was shortlisted for many other awards including the Baillie Gifford Prize. Hisham Matar lives in London.


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Thorndike, Maine: Thorndike Press, 1999.
This is the large print paperback edition of The First Eagle published in 1999 by Thorndike Press in Thorndike, Maine. It features Peter Thorpe's cover art from the original edition. The front cover displays the author name and novel title in large purple print above Thorpe's illustration of a kachina masked figure, somewhat resembling Ahote kachina, standing in front of a half moon shaped frame containing a Pueblo cliff village and an eagle swooping through a southwestern sunset.
The back cover displays a synopsis of the novel printed in black on a white background, above the bar code and cover credit. The spine is dark green and features the Thorndike large print designation, author name and book title, detail of the front cover drawing, and publisher's imprint.
Binding: Full-color paper covers. The spine is dark green and features the Thorndike large print designation, author name and book title, detail of the front cover drawing, and publisher's imprint.


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Kitchen Piece by Floris van Schooten, stolen from the Westfries Museum in 2005 (Photo: Westfries Museum) - Credit: Kitchen Piece by Floris van Schooten, stolen from the Westfries Museum in 2005 (Photo: Westfries Museum)
Alex Omhoff
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Report: Ukraine "doing nothing" to recover stolen Dutch art
The Ukraine is not taking the investigation into Dutch art seriously stolen from the Westfries museum in 2015 seriously. The art, which was discovered to be in the Ukraine last year, is still being offered for sale, according to EenVandaag. Stolen art hunters Arthur Brand and Alex Omhoff are on the track of an Ukrainian in the Netherlands who they believe payed a key part in this case. They tipped off the police about his whereabouts, according to the Telegraaf. The 24 stolen 17th century paintings surfaced in the Ukraine last year when former militia leader Borys Hoemenjoek tried to sell them back to the Westfries museum for 50 million euros. He broke off contact when Brand, who was hired by the museum to act as intermediary, told him that the paintings are only worth 50 thousand euros. EenVandaag broadcast an interview with lawyer Yuri Volushin, a friend of Hoemenjoek. In the interview the lawyer admits to a journalist that he is trying to sell one of the paintings - Boerenbruiloft (Country Wedding in English) by Hendrik Bogaert. The painting Keukenstuk (Kitchen Piece) by Floris van Schooten is also still for sale in the illegal circuit. Brand states that he passed the names of those involved in this art theft on to the Ukrainian authorities, but nothing is being done about it.


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"13" is a Good Number...
This writing is overdue by a couple of days now, but hopefully still as significant. Seems like each year we hit the anniversary of WION coming to life as "I-1430" with our team, I am compelled to write. Some say it gets too "sappy"...but that's a minor risk I'll take...
It's 13 years this weekend since WION was put back on the air by a team of talented people who love radio. September 1st of 2004 was the actual day, and who knows how many listeners we had...the Sentinel-Standard had done an article on us, and we had a few visitors on the air that morning, but I'm sure, given the time it's taken to grow the station, that the date of Sept. 1st 2004 was bigger for us, than for most listeners to radio.
Personally, I never saw Ionia when I came here as my destination. It was a stop along the way, providing my first radio station to own (with Jim Aaron), and a step closer to wanting something different, which, at the time included a license I had filed for out west.
I'm happy to report things have changed. The station, which came back from the dead had no website. There was no following, no official current logo, no accounts receivable, no client-advertisers, and most importantly...no listeners. But, slowly and surely those problems were solved, one pair of ears at a time, one issue at a time. You've developed trust in us, our on-air personalities, and our presence in your communities (not just Ionia.) You've helped us fund-raise for many great causes. You've helped us grow.
I can remember many a trip back from my former hometown in Lenawee County to Ionia, thinking, "I'm heading back to...the station"... and, I can remember one night on that 100 mile drive finally saying to myself, "I'm going HOME." What a difference that makes when you settle in to a place in your life, planned, or unplanned, and finally call it, "home."
Tonight, I was traveling home from that area once again, after visiting family. I passed through Jackson, the town where my first fulltime radio gig came to me on AM 970, and I got thinking, how blessed I am...to have had the fortune to work for some GREAT radio stations, each of which, through my employment, taught me things which help me each day at WION. WKHM was a full-service AM at the time, 24 hours a day live, no FM, and doing GREAT. An incredible team it was! Later came time in Escanaba as a program director, and Hillsdale, MI as both the night man who signed the station off at midnight, and later, as morning host before coming to revive and own WION. There was WITL in Lansing on weekends as both Jim Carlyle, and "Jim McIntyre" when management wanted a different name in the big city vs. my name at nights on WKHM. WITL taught me music radio, and I learned from the best, (the late Jay J. McCrae and Jordan Lee.) to whom I'll always be in debt. It was there that "Steve, the Voice Guy" as you know him, and I first met as part-timers for WITL. I spent nearly a decade, (the longest running morning host, I think...) on WLKI in Angola, IN and met Garry Osborn and Randy Edwards who now are part of our station here! I learned localism, live phones, and how to be in "touch" with listeners in a way that promoted community and station together. And, I even unofficially taught some students "radio" at Tri-State University, taking their on-again/off-again station to being noticed in the community! While I was never a real "teacher" by pay or by diploma, I taught RADIO, and one of my students is successfully working and has-been in radio for many years now as a program director. He got bit by the bug, just like I did years ago.
So, landing in Ionia, while not the goal, became my place. My "Now." And, as I look at how this close-knit community works together and plays together, I honestly can't picture anywhere else I'd rather be doing radio right now! Having spent 13 years as your morning host, and showing you how "hokey" I can be at times has been wonderful, enjoyable, sometimes challenging, but...always rewarding.
It's amazing sometimes how a plan we have for ourselves changes....for the good. Nearly 20 years ago I thought I'd be working and owning a station in Colorado, and here, WION continues to grow, WGLM was brought on board, Jim Aaron, my friend of many years manages and hosts there, and we have had the pleasure of sharing a dream. As I recall it was worded something like this: "To do radio fulltime, in a small town, and make a respectable living doing it!" Well, with our team of announcers, engineers, volunteers like Popeye John, Penny Beeman and others, BOTH Jim and I have been able to do that. He now handles everything at WGLM AM and FM, and I have remained here, at WION....to bring you AM Stereo, bad jokes, and hopefully some support when the community or charities need us.
I'm sure Jim Aaron echoes my sentiments of thanks, and from MY seat, I've never had more challenges, and yet more FUN in radio. It's been great building back the historic call letters, (WION) and. then adding the county-wide FM, the larger AM signal, AM Stereo, and streaming!
It's not easy being in business these days. Not for ANY kind of business, but...in our case, at WION, it's because of trust...between listeners and WION, Client-advertisers and WION, and of course, between team members, too. Most of our advertisers are small businesses, the "Mom and Pop" style of store or service, but they're not alone! We try hard to market them well, treat them well, and grow with them. 13 years says, it's working.
So, this weekend, a huge thank you to ALL of you....listeners, advertisers, engineers, volunteers, listening businesses, and EVERYONE, who for 13 years have helped us grow. You may not know it, but you're enjoying AM in an era where some people say radio is slowing. We're Not. Some say radio won't make it in the digital world. We ARE. And, some say AM just can't be done in a small town and be done locally without "all talk radio." We do it every day.
I'm a grateful owner and announcer, blessed very much to have found Ionia, and to have all the great relationships in business and personally that make life here my HOME. I can't imagine not knowing the people I've met here, or going through life without them, now that they're part of this station and it's circle of friends.
Who knows what's next after WION. I'm in NO rush. It's my place to be for now...and that's MORE than good enough...that's GREAT.
Thanks for 13 years!
Jim Carlyle
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"It has to do with putting a lot of miles on the body. It can be very frustrating for athletes who are used to being exceptional at what they do and using their strength, mind, body and spirit to excel at their sport," says Dr. Jason Genin, a physician at the Cleveland Clinic specializing in orthopedics and sports medicine who works with the Cleveland Indians and Cleveland Cavaliers, in an article on U.S. News and World Report.
Osteoarthritis is a degenerative condition and there is currently no way to slow its progression. The one thing sports medicine professionals can do is study athletes who have undergone ACLR and determine if they are are prone to develop osteoarthritis after the ALCR occurs.
An article on the Sports Medicine Research website states that "Diagnostic ultrasound is a clinically accessible method for sports medicine professionals to achieve this goal by observing changes in structures like articular cartilage."
This article reports on a study analyzing diagnostic ultrasound to compare anterior femoral cartilage thickness between knees of people with a history of ACLR and between knees with an ACLR or healthy controls. The researchers studied 20 people with unilateral ACLR that were greater than 6 months post-surgery vs. 28 healthy individuals with similar demographics and population. They specifically addressed cartilage thickness at the medial, lateral, and intercondylar areas.
"ACLR participants had thicker medial condyle cartilage and greater cartilage cross-sectional area in their ACLR knee compared to their uninjured knee and compared to healthy individuals," the article states. "The researchers used a limb symmetry index (involved/uninvolved x 100) to provide a quantitative comparison of cartilage measurements between limbs within the ACLR participants. Using this measure, the researchers found that patients with more cartilage surface area in the involved knee seemed to be further away from their ACLR surgery date."
The articles states that, "Interestingly, cartilage thickening is thought to be a very early stage of OA despite the cause being unknown. Thickening may be related to cartilage swelling, which weakens the tissue."
The article concludes, "This study is a nice demonstration that ultrasound may serve as a potential tool for clinicians to identify and monitor cartilage changes in patients during their rehabilitation and return to physical activity so that they can most safely return with limited long-term complications."
Symptoms of osteoarthritis can become more prouned if not addressed. "We're not sure if it causes more degeneration, but if you continue to put heavy loads on the joints, it has the potential to make osteoarthritis pain worse," Genin said in the article.
If you evaluate an arthlete for osteoarthritis based on symptoms, you may find a related muscle or tendon injury.
Without having more clarity, the athlete or their parents may stress about whether there's potential for osteoarthritis.
In terms of treatment for osteoarthritis, Genin says in the article that there are a number of approaches, but that the method of treatment needs to be customized to the individual. "Some athletes need anti-inflammatories and physical therapy. Others need an exercise plan and injections," he says. "It depends on the person and the stage of arthritis."


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Spalding murders: Teen accused 'was driver' in killings – BBC News
Posted by John P. Bradford // October 18, 2016
Image caption Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and her daughter Katie, 13, were found dead at Dawson Avenue in Spalding in April
A 15-year-old girl accused of working with her boyfriend to murder a mother and daughter was the driving force in the killings, a court has heard.
The girl, who cannot be named, is accused of murdering Elizabeth Edwards, 49, and Katie Edwards, 13.
The pair were stabbed in the neck at their home in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in April.
The girl has admitted manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility but denies murder.
A 15-year old boy has admitted murdering both women. The accused were both 14 at the time of the killings.
'Worst nightmares'
The girl did not physically take part in their killings but the prosecution alleges she "is as guilty of murder" as the boy.
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In his closing speech to jurors at Nottingham Crown Court, prosecutor Peter Joyce QC said: "This case, I would suggest, is outside any of your experiences and worst nightmares, but, as the old saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction.
"Which of you could imagine that a 14-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy could plan over and over and over again to kill [these two women]?
"You do not need to imagine it, it's true and it's completely unchallenged by this girl."
He told jurors: "…You know what they planned, you know how they planned it and you know in awful detail how they carried it out.
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"But you also know who in fact was the driver between these two."
"If she had said no then it would never ever have happened," he said.
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Image caption Floral tributes were laid outside the property where the bodies of the mother and daughter were found
Closing for the defence, barrister Andrew Stubbs QC reminded the jury of the evidence of Dr Chakrabati who diagnosed the girl as having an adjustment disorder at the time of the killings.
He also urged the jury to consider the girl's mental state before the killings, pointing to an entry in her diary which read "Help me. Death is the only way. Madness is in me."
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He told the jury to undertake "a calm analysis of the evidence", adding that "on the balance of probabilities you can conclude that justice in this case means that however responsible she is for the killings she is in fact not guilty of murder".
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Meet the lady who is accidentally responsible for popularising Indian food in the West
If Madhur Jaffrey hadn't pined for the flavours of home while studying drama in London, the world might never have known the tastes of India
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Madhur Jaffrey became the principal influencer in developing a taste for Indian cuisine in the West(Tasting India Symposium)
You'd expect most people to be tired, even irritable, if they had to rush to an event within hours of arriving on a New York-New Delhi flight made more tedious by a 24-hour delay. But there was Madhur Jaffrey, actress and diva of Indian cooking, now 84, showing no trace of jet lag or fatigue. When I met her on a winter evening at the DLF Golf and Country Club in Gurugram, she was elegant and sprightly, wearing a stylishly-oversized jacket, leather pants and ethnic earrings, a look she laughingly describes as part Jackie O, part Beyoncé.
"I was hijacked into the world of food and food writing. and I had no Idea what I had signed up for"
Jaffrey was in the capital to participate in the Tasting India Symposium, a platform whose key theme this year was making India a culinary global superpower. There has been no better ambassador for Indian cuisine than Jaffrey, who is also on the board of directors of Tasting India. But while it has become fashionable to speak of 'modern Indian' and 'plating Indian food for the world', Jaffrey believes the focus should be on authentic Indian food and its immense diversity.
"Modern Indian, as it is understood, is an experiment, it's not real food," she says. Jaffrey believes food evolves organically, and if it is to change it has to be in the natural course of things, not because we wish to woo the Western diner with it.
She is also of the view that Indian food is yet to find widespread acceptance and appreciation abroad, especially in the US. "Yes, tamarind will be trendy one year and chefs will be turning to cumin during another. But that can hardly be construed as Indian food acquiring a global reach," she says. Still, it is a fact that Madhur Jaffrey has made the world, especially the UK, realise that balti cuisine is not Indian food. She's done this through television shows celebrating authentic Indian dishes, with her writing on Indian food, and her recipe books that give cooking enthusiasts insights into the richness and diversity of regional Indian fare.
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Madhur Jaffrey has made the world, especially the UK, realise that balti cuisine is not Indian food ( Tasting India Symposium )
Her own love of Indian food emerges from her childhood, growing up in a joint Kayasth family in Old Delhi, and she remembers the meal experiences in great detail. "There was this hauntingly delicious mushroom dish that was made when they were in season. The men of the household always ate first and often only the shorva remained for us, and even that was delicious," she says. Her fondness for vegetarian fare also comes from family tradition; the women rarely ate meat, preferring seasonal vegetables they cooked in simple, yet wonderful ways.
When Jaffrey went to London to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she found herself pining for a taste of home. "Indian food was off the charts and what was in the Indian restaurants was awful," she recalls. She wrote to her mother asking for recipes so she could cook herself. Her mother sent her via airmail letters – this was the early 1950s – three-line recipes for hing jeere ka aloo, gobhi aloo and khade masale ka gosht. Jaffrey began to cook and she took her cooking to New York where she moved to further her career as an actress.
"I'm a one-woman band and when someone reads and cooks from my recipe, it's between me and them alone"
As she lived the artist life, cooking Indian food for friends, she was introduced to New York Times writer Craig Claiborne by Ismail Merchant. He wrote a piece about the actress who liked to cook. Then, Jaffrey was approached by a freelance editor, asking her if she wished to write an Indian cookery book. Eventually, the project landed in the hands of Judith Jones of Knopf who, incidentally, was also Julia Child's editor. It was Jones who titled the book An Invitation to Indian Cooking and it is still a cherished tome among all Indian cookbooks.
"I was hijacked into the world of food and food writing," Jaffrey says, "And I had no idea what I had signed up for." She agrees that she has the advantage of a 'palate', the same way her musician husband Sanford Allen has an 'ear'. "The palate helps me remember a flavour profile to the smallest detail and recreate it exactly," she says.
She's had no formal training as a chef and sometimes wishes she had some professional knife skills. "I cut and chop like a housewife," she laughs. While she cooks with instinctive flair, when it comes to writing her recipes, it's all about precision and diligence. "I measure the sizes to which the vegetables must be cut, weigh out ingredients and time the cooking, doing it all myself. I'm a one-woman band and when someone reads and cooks from my recipe, it's between me and them alone," she says. Jaffrey has never thought of keeping back an essential tip or ingredient, something accomplished cooks and chefs tend to do. "I'm completely against that. Be generous and pass on the knowledge," she says.
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When Jaffrey went to London to study acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, she found herself pining for a taste of home ( Tasting India Symposium )
Having written over a dozen cookbooks, beginning with Indian cuisine and branching out to Far Eastern cookery and world vegetarian, Jaffrey is currently researching for a cookbook that will bring out health-giving recipes from the Indian kitchen.
Besides her books, her much-loved TV shows have won her a global following. She remembers that when BBC presented Indian food with Jaffrey in 1982 there were various guidelines. "I was told no hing, please," she says. "I followed the instruction for the first time and then realised, I have to start teaching people about our food and its wonderful ingredients. I want people to know about poha, for instance, how each region in India treats and eats this nourishing food."
She has surely done more than anyone to make Indian cuisine accessible to the rest of the world and indeed to Indians, and is known, therefore, as the Queen of Indian Cooking. She herself says no one can truly say they have mastered Indian cuisine. "When I travel in India, I'm discovering new ingredients and dishes all the time. Recently, I was introduced to plump mushrooms that grow in Coorg. They are grilled and served with salt and lime and pair a treat with whiskey," says Jaffrey.
Her travels across the UK, too, throw up interesting – or abominable – renditions of Indian food. While shooting for Curry Nation, she went to Scotland where she found haggis pakora – ghastly, in her words – and went looking for the popular combination of chips with curry sauce. Back in the kitchen she found the 'Indian' curry sauce came out of a giant can made in China. All of which makes Jaffrey even more determined to promote and preserve Indian food in its authentic form. "Why deconstruct a masala dosa?" she asks. "It's already perfect."
While it may seem that Jaffrey spends all her time in the realm of food, she is still very much an actress, even now auditioning for roles. Her love for the arts comes through when she speaks about the early years of her acting career, particularly her association with Ismail Merchant with whom she made Shakespeare Wallah, the film that won her a Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1965. Shashi Kapoor was her co-star and it was also Merchant who asked her whom she wanted to act with in Autobiography of a Princess and a then young and, possibly, insouciant Jaffrey said 'Olivier'. Eventually, the role went to James Mason and she recalls how he would rehearse his props and sit and watch while she, a newbie compared to him, delivered her lines.
At the end of a long, chilly evening, Jaffrey was still in great form, posing for photos, complimenting the Golf Club's chefs on the very nice dahi ki pakodi they had served. How did she do that? "I've never been high on physical strength," she says. "It's all in the mind, it's mental energy."
Author bio: The author is a Bengaluru-based senior writer who specialises in food, travel and lifestyle writing. She has edited several major mainstream publications in the past.
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Continuing drama over union-backed bill
A handful of legislators staged an unusual vigil at the statehouse all weekend that continues at this hour.
A union-backed bill got just 50 "yes" votes on Friday afternoon in the Iowa House. That's one vote short of what's necessary to pass a bill. Rather than declare the bill defeated, House Speaker Pat Murphy — a Democrat from Dubuque — decided to keep the voting machine open until one o'clock Monday.
Representative Polly Bukta, a Democrat from Clinton, says House Democrats have suffered a "serious blow" to their "egos."
"You know when you're counting on the votes and then you're one short when the voting is tallied, that's a very disappointing thing to have happen," Bukta said Saturday. "And we did have 51 votes when this thing started."
Five Democrats voted against the bill; 50 Democrats voted for it.
Bukta was among the handful of Democrats who stayed in the House and took turns sitting in the speaker's chair so Murphy could take a break. Bukta did the first overnight shift, from 7 p.m. Friday to 4 a.m. Saturday. "You never know what you're going to get into when you sign up to be a legislator," Bukta said Saturday, laughing. "Lots of things can happen."
Representative Linda Upmeyer, a Republican from Garner, was among the few Republicans who stayed all weekend to keep an eye on the voting board. "The House is in session, so somebody needs to be here," Upmeyer said Saturday afternoon. "The board's open. The board cleared, a little while ago — timed out."
The voting board is run by computer and it crashed Saturday morning and again on Sunday morning, wiping out all the votes. Upmeyer joked that the machine was staging a protest. "It was tired. It had to time out," Upmeyer said, laughing. "Enough! Done!" On Friday night the chief clerk wrote all the "yes" and "no" votes down by hand and the votes to be punched back into the computer when the voting machine crashed.
Republicans aren't questioning Murphy's decision to keep the voting machine open for over 60 hours. "He has that authority and that right and I'm sure he has reasons that he has no obligation to discuss with me or any of us," Upmeyer said, "so it's fine. It is what it is."
Murphy issued a written statement on Friday night and declined Radio Iowa's request for an interview this weekend.
Among the five Democrats who voted against the bill, Representative McKinley Bailey — a Democrat from Webster City — was considered a potential supporter if an amendment he sought was included in the bill. But Bailey's amendment was not attached to the bill, and he voted no. Bukta says she and other Democrats are disappointed in Bailey. "Not so much disappointed in his vote, but disappointed that we were led to believe that he would vote for it and then (he) didn't," Bukta said. "That's the disappointment."
Bailey has not responded to Radio Iowa's request for an interview. Bailey told a Des Moines television station on Sunday afternoon that he stopped checking his voice mail and email messages over the weekend, and does not intend to change his vote from no to yes.
[ Photo: Rep. Ray Zirkelbach (D-Monticello) takes turn in speaker's chair, chats with Rep. Rick Olson (D-Des Moines) and House GOP Leader Kraig Paulsen of Hiawatha .]
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So, the results of my first ever roll of Fuji Neopan 400 on 35mm. As it happens I actually have another 19 rolls of this stuff in the fridge. I bought myself ten rolls from a seller on eBay who subsequently shipped to me twice in error….them's the breaks!! Its well-documented discontinuation has made that stroke of good fortune, just a little bit sweeter!!
I've mentioned previously that I've been travelling to Wellington quite a bit and that's helped me rekindle my enthusiasm for photography once again. As an aside to that, I've given considerable thought to what I enjoy and what I ultimately want to post on here. The bottom line is I need to do what feels right to me (film) and not necessarily what would be most popular in terms of views (over processed digital black and whites).
The technical stuff, please skip if you aren't interested in silver halides, emulsions and the magic of film…..
Also, as I use a JOBO CPP2 to process my film the settings were 20' and most critically programme F which is I believe the slowest motorised rotation available.
Working out which way to go with a roll of film you've never shot before is always nerve wracking. As ever I referred to the Massive Dev App and Google for enlightenment!!
I then adapted my overall process slightly to incorporate a couple of elements I've used recently when developing Ilford HP5 Plus and Rollei RPX 400.
I'm happy with both the neg's and the scanning. I can see that it's Fuji Neopan 400 so, as a starting point I've got to be pleased with roll number 1 of 20.
Note to self: Whilst it makes economic sense to store exposed film for development in larger batches, having to scan the resulting 25 rolls of film is a daunting task. I've done the entire lot over 2-3 sessions and on the Imacon 848, I can tell you that is pretty arduous indeed. More on this and my solution in future posts.
Further Note: All the images here are compressed PNG files, most are around 150kb or less in size.
I'll be honest, I'd never heard of Lake Ferry. In fact, if you'd have asked me about it I may have confidently proclaimed it to be a Lord of the Rings location. It sounds like it right?
Seeing the activity out on the Spit I decided to take a closer look at what was going on. That's how I came to stumble upon The Whitebaiters of Lake Ferry. If you're not sure what Whitebait is and believe me I wasn't when we first arrived in NZ, it's actually small, almost translucent baby fish!! In actual fact the activity of catching Whitebait is almost iconically Kiwi. People go mad for these things, catching them can become an obsession. Personally, I don't mind a Whitebait fritter or two, with a bit of salt and pepper, they're not bad. On the other hand, some people, love the stuff.
The Spit is a naturally occurring geological feature. It separates Lake Onoke from the Sea and as Lake Onoke is fed by Lake Wairarapa further up river there are times when the Spit needs to be breached to release water from the lakes and prevent flooding of farmland. From what I can establish the opening is not necessarily naturally occurring and what you see in the image below was actually man made just the day before I shot this image.
In the last few months the Leica MP has become my "go-to" camera, something it should always have been!! In turn, I've paired this with another Leica, either my M7 or M6 and it's been working well for me. I've had a B&W film in one and colour in the other. Once again, this is something I should have done ages ago.
Now, I'm not buying any more cameras!!! Although, I did buy one a couple of months ago….that's another story and (another future post). So, I'll reiterate, I'm not buying any more cameras, unless…I sell something first. If I still feel the same enthusiasm for my twin Leica pairing I may sell some cameras to fund a second Leica MP. Two identical bodies, familiarity with one's tools, one loaded with B&W, One with colour. Could indeed be the ideal solution for me moving forward. Interestingly, while I've been shooting this way my ratio of B&W to Colour is about 3:1 in favour of B&W. So, get ready for loads more B&W film posts!!!
The view across the break in the Spit. It's hard to imagine this was only the width of a car wide the day before.
When I upgraded this site and made the switch to Squarespace I also made a deliberate change from Blog to Journal. Essentially they are the same but Journal now seems more appropriate because I've actually begun a process of recording information from my trips in a Journal. The advantages of this are I need to rely less on my memory for recall of events and technical notes which I'm now making more of an effort to record.
I feel like I'm already reaping the rewards of this more disciplined and organised approach. I've certainly been able to increase my learnings in relation to the individual film stocks I've shot recently. Another self imposed discipline is to take more time around exposure. When analysing previous film images and looking at their shortcomings the most prolific failing was exposure. On everything I've shot recently I've retained my highlights and achieved good shadow details. I'm not saying things are perfect but I'm definitely on the right track.
On reflection, I wish I'd had the foresight to make this a more complete post. At the time I was taking these photographs I was thinking I'd just use one or two of these shots in a wider post about the area. I'm definitely missing a couple of portraits which I would have gotten easily if I'd hung around until they were finished. I'm also missing a few detail shots that would have made for a more rounded post in my opinion. Still, I keep reminding myself I'm rusty as hell and should just be grateful to have any images to look back on.
I'm not certain I truly captured just how perilous this endeavour truly is. I really wanted to speak to this guy but I stopped myself for fear of distracting him. This was prudent as one of the other Whitebaiters would later advise me of a fatality. As he said, one slip and you're a couple of hundred meters out in a matter of seconds….
Below is a crop from a 35mm frame. I'd say it's my favourite of this small set. There was truly a poetic element to the scene and this image comes closest to capturing that. I've included a larger version of this image, click to see more detail of the film scan.
I still find this the most rewarding process, to capture an image, develop the film and then digitally process it is thoroughly rewarding. Also, as you'll see in future posts I've actually begun the process of digitally printing images again. Something many of us simply forget or neglect to do these days.
I discovered this short piece of footage from 1949 and it seems like the opening up of the Lake Ferry Spit/Bar has been going on for some considerable time.
and…….just to emphasise, there's plenty of scope for the S**t to hit the fan on this stretch of coast!!!
Coming up next - I'm going to be taking a look at the New Wotancraft Ryker (Small) and the Python, their Leica Holster.


Is Major League Soccer Down Right Now?
I cannot believe a 5th draw! We've only played 6 games. Is this an @mls record, @NYCFC?
Watching @MNUFC take on NYC. Question, how can an MLS player live in NYC on an MLS contract? No way.
Our youth must look towards starting in Europe. The MLS acting unserious.
@MLS @Fanatics @impactmontreal Something is horribly wrong? Can you find out what it is?
No one: MLS: Wanna play for the Union?


Year 8s behaved impeccably during our trip to Hampton Court on Thursday.
They demonstrated their knowledge of Elizabeth I and the Tudors during a debate deciding upon an heir to Elizabeth had she died during her smallpox illness.
This was followed by a tour of Henry VIII's apartments and royal kitchens.


Dickinson is a city in Stark County, North Dakota, United States. Explore hidden gems such as Assumption Abbey and Billings County Court House Museum. Take a break from the city and head to Bully Pulpit Golf Course and Enchanted Highway. Explore the numerous day-trip ideas around Dickinson: Medora (Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota Cowboy Hall of Fame, & more). There's more to do: see the interesting displays at Dickinson Museum Center and tour the pleasant surroundings at Patterson Lake Recreational Area.
To find photos, reviews, traveler tips, and other tourist information, go to the Dickinson trip itinerary planner.
New Delhi, India to Dickinson is an approximately 31-hour flight. You'll gain 12 hours traveling from New Delhi to Dickinson due to the time zone difference. In February, Dickinson is colder than New Delhi - with highs of -1°C and lows of -15°C. Wrap up your sightseeing on the 8th (Mon) to allow time to travel back home.


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How politics spreads epidemics, ruins academics - By Olaokun Soyinka
WHAT sort of book is Epidemics, Academics and Politics by Prof. Idris Mohammed? The author provides answer in his introduction emphasising that this is not an autobiography. Indeed, though it contains some historical accounts of his career even dating back to childhood - it is not designed as a comprehensive record of his life and times. Nevertheless, one could say it is, at least, part autobiography, and part contemporary history and the two are blended well in this book with the larger events in recent Nigerian history either providing a backdrop, or with the author finding himself right in the middle of unfolding events.
His account of his early years, for example ends with his witnessing the official ceremony marking Nigeria's independence from Britain. His medical internship ends with him being commandeered to the Biafran war front as a casualty receiving officer.
In service in Nigeria he was in the thick of the biggest outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis in Africa and was thus on the spot when Pfizer turned up in Nigeria to conduct the controversial Trovan Trial.
He was Chair of the NPI board at a time when its previously commendable performance had plummeted and he uncovered all manner of graft. At UMTH he was one of the pioneer researchers into HIV.
Significant national events aside, Prof. Mohammed is also a rewarding read when it comes to his illuminating and thought provoking insights into some of the key issues that should concern policy makers in this country. He is persuasive on the importance of academic medicine and research and informative when it comes to global politics and public health. He not only puts Nigeria, and sub-Saharan Africa's plight into perspective but has clearly thought further - the hallmark of a true academic - and proffers solutions; advice that our decision makers would do well to heed: after all, he has been right on important issues too often to be ignored.
In addition to autobiography, anecdote, commentary and analysis, the book also contains some biographical sketches. During this eventful and distinguished career, Prof. Mohammed has had the opportunity to interact with many eminent and well known personalities, and he gives the reader the benefit of some fascinating anecdotes and insights.
One comment, or more accurately, a rhetorical question asked by the author in the book that will leave a lasting impression on reader is: How can physicians and healthcare workers practice just medicine in such an unjust world?
This is typical of his consistently compassionate tone, which is reassuring to those who believe there are not enough people who think about the dispossessed in our country. This is a man, after all, eminent as he was nationally and internationally never abandoned Nigeria, and never succumbed to the financial attraction of private medicine.
His use of humour to lighten the intellectual fare and underscore important points is effective: He recounts the following: "A Nigerian returning from the US where he had gone for training under a programme of assistance landed in Lagos. Upon presentation of his passport to immigration officials, one of them saw the word 'AID' stamped on it and shouted to his colleagues: 'AIDS', whereupon they all took to their heels at speed, abandoning the immigration post and the passengers in the queue. They were scared of contracting HIV from the passport!"
While one is still chuckling, he then makes the point that: "Such ignorance fuelled resistance to education and research on HIV/AIDS across the country, making it difficult to engage in informed discussion that would promote awareness of the disease, the manner of its acquisition, and how it might be prevented."
These are some of the consequences of stigmatization which is still too much with us today. It is typical of this book that addresses many weighty and technical issues that the humour is always not too far from the surface and is used effectively to ensure the reader remains engaged.
In the chapter on his involvement in controlling the Cerebrospinal Meningitis epidemic, readers will encounter the combative side of the author; learn about his dogged battle to change the stance of public health authorities, particularly WHO, to accept that mass vaccination was feasible and desirable in Nigeria. He was eventually vindicated.
Another big battle lies at what one believes is the heart of this book - the chapter that deals with immunization. Nigeria is currently facing national and international embarrassment as we hold the world back from eradicating polio. This is traceable directly to the decline in our immunization performance.
In the author's words: "Something must be done urgently to restore faith, competence and performance to routine immunisation. In order to do this, the factors that brought percentage coverage down to 13 per cent must be identified and critically examined."
And a critical examination is what the Prof. Muhammed provides. He was well placed as Chairman of the NPI management board to investigate but, of course, the system frustrated him.
It is interesting to note that the chapter is a compelling read as the author delves deeper into the problems, discovers mind-boggling financial impropriety.
In this case, the result of the fraud and incompetence at the NPI can be said to be directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of dead or disabled Nigerians. If anything calls for a probe - this does.
If that is not enough controversy for you then you have more captivating material in the chapter on the Trovan Trial. The notorious and controversial Pfizer experiment. Once again, the author was at the epicenter. Dependably, he took the right stand - it was he who tried to stop the trial at the beginning. Once again, mysteriously, when he thought he was calling the shots someone somewhere turned the tables. I must not get carried away but leave you to explore this excellent volume. Of course there are some aspects of which I am critical. I do feel that on certain occasion, the author feels so strongly about an issue that he overstates his case.
Another criticism is this. In one of his passages outlining what has gone wrong with Africa, and with Nigeria, he concurs firmly with the generally agreed opinion that years of misrule have left us in this mess.
Prof. Mohammed's career brought him into close contact with leaders who exemplify what he complains about. In such a situation friendship and loyalty can and does develop, and I do not decry this, but, for a man who is clearly and demonstrably so resolutely principled, I find the lack of assessment of our leaders' performance incongruous. That apart, I find little else to be critical about with this book.
Another interesting part is the author's encounters with the SSS, while reader will greatly savour his word-pictures of the eminent, the rich, the notorious and other characters who have passed through his life; to ponder on the harrowing account of his experiences during the Biafran war and to learn important lessons about some of the public health issues that are of profound importance to you and your loved ones.
In the book, the author underscores: "My life experiences have taught me that this world is complex, and the inhabitants unpredictable. I value that exposure to reality so early in my life, because I had otherwise naively assumed that every one was supposed to be good."
One is bound to go away with this impression, although, the author appeared to have learnt this lesson early, he was never to escape his fundamental optimism about human nature. He was taken unawares sometimes, and other times, though alert to the problem he was simply outnumbered and overwhelmed by the powers that be.
Prof Mohammed is not an activist however - it is for those of us who feel strongly enough to act on some of the revelations - he has done his bit. These stories of negligence and corruption in high places from a man as meticulous as Prof. Mohammed are rare. We are used to so much unsupported rumour and innuendo - but we should recognize a serious indictment when it comes along.
This book is an indictment of many of the men and women who have been entrusted to run our public services in Nigeria.
So, as I commend this book to the EFCC for the startling revelations therein could assist our campaign against economic and financial crimes.
It is also a resource material for anyone who wishes to enjoy some illuminating insights into our national condition; anyone that interested in healthcare - whether as a professional or an actual or potential patient, and for those who are interested in moving this country forward.
It is also a companion for readers who want to be entertained by a lucid, articulate and compassionate book; an account of a life well lived.


In conjunction with the work the Collaborative Action Teams are doing at the local level, Bright Beginnings is supporting a Policy and Advocacy Network to affect systems change through local and statewide advocacy. This includes building a county-wide commitment to support high-quality early-learning environments that benefit every family along with identifying and recommending actions to influence policy and systems change at both the local and larger levels of government.
Identify and sustain effective systems and support systems change across the entire policy spectrum: local, state and federal.
Promote meaningful public awareness and education about the importance of the Bright Beginnings indicators and early childhood development generally within and across communities.
Empower individuals and communities to take action by supporting civic engagement and capacity building that is representative of all communities, in particular for parents and caregivers who are most affected by the policies and systems.
You can access the Phase I report by clicking here.


Remembering 9-11, 10 years later. Below is an image to a flyer I created shortly after September 11, 2011---and I passed out a couple thousand of the flyers around the downtown area Sacramento. Click on it to open a PDF file that has this flyer on it.
Shortly after I was publicly passing out this flyer, I was nearly abducted on the American River bike trail (where I run regularly), by a guy claiming to have a fish hook stuck in his arm.
This man was asking me to assist him in getting the fish hook pulled out from his arm that he had sticking inside his car window. Had I gone down off the river levee to help this man, I would not be here today.
It was my opinion back then, and it still is today, that Jack Loveall/Jaques Loveall had hired a hit man to get me because of the flyer above that I was publicly distributing. Jack Loveall/UFCW 588 had on a number of occasions sent their people down to the American River to keep an eye on me when I ran there daily.
I also have this story on my UFCW 588 page located on the Raley's page at the top of the menu.
Are you a respector of persons?
The world is just full of people full of themselves. We live in a world that if somebody plays an instrument, is a Hollywood actor, an elected official, a TV news reporter, etc...they think that they are something special.
And yet, in reality, they are no more special than anybody else!!! Some people even wait in long lines to get the authograph of somebody else---hard to believe.
Below is a comment I left on a website that featured the Jefferson Airplane rock band from the '60s and '70s.
Just wanted to say I remember how Jack Casady picked me up while I was hitch-hiking in San Francisco back in the early '70s.
What is strange about all of this is the fact that when Casady picked me up, he told me he had to drive his fancy car around an entire block and come back to pick me up because traffic was so bad at the intersection.
Then he asked me where I was going and I told him Santa Rosa. He told me he was headed to Mill Valley. Shortly, he asked me if I had any dope to smoke and I told him I didn't carry dope when I was hitch-hiking. He then pulled out his own stash of marijuana and we smoked a joint together while in his car.
Shortly afterwards, I asked him what he did for a living and he immediately stuck out his hand to shake mine and announced "I am Jack Casady, with the Jefferson Airplane." He didn't inquire as to who I was. I didn't know much about this rock group but did remember a gig this group had played in Rido Nido, CA (about 45 miles north of San Francisco), back in 1969 when I was living at the Rio Nido resort and asked him about that.
He didn't comment---I think he didn't comment because this event in Rio Nido brought back a bad memory for him and his band because not very many people paid to get inside.
The place the "Airplane" performed at was called "The Barn" and nobody wanted to pay to get inside The Barn to listen to them because they could hear all the music they wanted outside the building for free.
I asked him what instrument he played and I think this was the insult he didn't expect to hear from the long-haired guy he picked up in San Francisco on this day.
When he left me off in Mill Valley, so I could continue my trip to Santa Rosa, I was so stoned that it took me 15 minutes to realize that Casady had left me off at a freeway entrance heading back to San Francisco...I must have laughed for twenty minutes afterwards realizing what had happened.
I am sure I am one hitch-hiker Casady has never shared with others. It appeared to me that his sole motive for picking me up in San Francisco, on this day, was to impress me of who he was.
It turned out that he didn't get the response he was looking for from the long-haired young man he picked up at a busy intersection in San Francisco.
It is also possible that I was the only long-haired young man in San Fransisco on this day who didn't know who he was. Note: I never intended to make him feel unimportant, I just didn't know the Jefferson Airplane rock group that well and he just happened to pick up somebody who wouldn't know who he was.
Japan's earthquake and tsunami tragedy.
It is truly sad that once again a tragedy has struck in the world where thousands, if not millions, of people have been affected. Sometimes it is easy to forget to count our blessings when the suffering of so many stares the world in the face.
May healing be quick for the people who have been devastated by the earthquake and subsequent tsunami. May food, water and medical treatment be rushed to the people in areas crippled by this event.


I think it's the dream of every 29-year-old to retire -- and this is coming from someone who's currently 28.
Shad Moss, the artist known as Bow Wow and, before that, Lil Bow Wow, has announced he's retiring from the world of rap at the age of -- you guessed it -- 29.
So, Bow Wow is taking his final bow? Wow.
Rubbing your eyes in disbelief right about now? Well, you might want to check out this Instagram post.
Let it be known that Snoop is NOT Shad's real uncle, despite helping him out in the early days of his career.
I know people occasionally receive a gold watch when they retire, but instead I'll gift Bow Wow with this excruciatingly awkward Grammys moment that is definitely worth a watch.


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Marsha Boulton (born ) is a Canadian journalist and humorist, who won the Stephen Leacock Award in 1996 for her book Letters from the Country. Some early media reports incorrectly credited her as the first woman ever to win the award, although in fact four women — Sondra Gotlieb, Joan Walker, Jan Hilliard and Angeline Hango — had won the award before her.

Her other books have included More Letters from the Country (1997), Just a Minute: Glimpses of Our Great Canadian Heritage (1998), Just Another Minute (1998), Letters from Across the Country (1999) and Just a Minute More (1999), as well as republished "omnibus" editions of both the Letters from the Country and Just a Minute series.

Originally from Toronto, Ontario, where she was a journalist and editor for Maclean's, she moved in 1980 to a farm in Wellington County with her husband Stephen Williams, a journalist best known for his works on Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. After her move, she wrote a syndicated column about country life which appeared in 40 newspapers across Canada, was a contributor to CBC Radio, and contributed to publications including Canadian Business, Chatelaine, the Toronto Star and Toronto Life.

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GUESS HOW MUCH I LOVE YOU – THE ADVENTURE OF LITTLE NUTBROWN HARE HOPS INTO LIFE AS AN INTERACTIVE iPAD GAME EXPERIENCE!
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SLR PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES PRODUCTION OF NEW ORIGINAL ANIMATED CHILDREN'S TV SERIES, "SPACE NOVA".


The average pay for a Physician Gynecologist is €207,626 a year and €100 an hour in Finland. The average salary range for a Physician Gynecologist is between €137,891 and €275,149. On average, a Doctorate Degree is the highest level of education for a Physician Gynecologist. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Finland.


Things I did today: I joined the gym.
Things I saw today: I saw a guy walking down the street bearing a white card that declared his willingness to tell five jokes in return for a dollar.
Another thing happened today too, but I'd rather not talk about it.


'View of Bombay Harbour, taken from the Island of Colaba'. Uncoloured lithograph by W. Watson from C. Head's Eastern and Egyptian Scenery London, 1833. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
bl.uk > Online Gallery Home	> Online exhibitions	> Asia, Pacific and Africa Collections	> 'View of Bombay Harbour, taken from the Island of Colaba'. Uncoloured lithograph by W. Watson from C. Head's Eastern and Egyptian Scenery London, 1833. Printed by C. Hullmandel.
Lithograph of Bombay harbour by W. Watson after Charles Franklin Head from his 'Eastern and Egyptian Scenery' printed by C.Hullmandel and published in London in 1833. The area of Bombay was originally composed of seven islands separated by a marshy swamp. In 1661, the British Crown acquired the islands of Bombay from the Portuguese as part of Catherine of Braganza's marriage dowry to Charles II. From 1668, the East India Company developed the area as a trading port. The fort was situated on the island of Bombay. The island of Colaba, to the south, became a popular place for recreation in the 18th century and was connected to the island of Bombay by a causeway the 1830s.