It's a brisk 6 degrees celsius as I picked Chryssie Koussia from Chryssie's Greece up from King's Lynn station on the last Saturday before Christmas. But it's sunny and I'm back in the van I lived in for 4 months last year as I travelled around Europe and we're both looking forward to a day exploring the north Norfolk coastline from King's Lynn up to Wells-next-the-Sea.
Our first stop was Hunstanton or "Sunny Hunny" as the locals call it, only half tongue-in-cheek and as the wind lashed against our cheeks we caught the tail end of the wind-surfers, packing up after a morning's arial stunts, somersaulting and skimming over the arctic-chilled North Sea.
After a delicious catch of the day fish pie at the Lifeboat Inn in Thornham, we pointed the van towards the Burnhams. Folks out this way evidently unmoved by the convention to call each village by it's own name, all the little hamlets in this 10 mile stretch of coastline are just called Burnham something, You just add the suffix, "Market", "Deepdale", "Overy Staithe" etc to delineate the one you are talking about. Burnham Market is the most famous one because Johnny Depp bought a house there a few years ago and there's a really good hat shop, but all are pretty and pulling off the coastal road to explore the windswept marshes of the Scolt Head Island Nature Reserve that forms the sea border running parallel to these villages opens up otherworldly and tranquil landscapes and in the middle of it all, a solitary houseboat, cosy looking and remote it would have been a fantastic place to live.
The light was fading fast, as it does in England at this time of year so it was time to hit the coastal road again and aim for Wells-next-the-Sea, our final destination for the day. We were treated to a beautiful, moonlit working harbour with fishermen preparing their boats for much more dangerous trips than ours, out into the blackness beyond the harbour walls.
The light had come to an end and so had our road trip. It's just a small section of the road which you can follow all the way round to Cromer and then back down to Great Yarmouth if you want to take more time. If you do, it's worth spending a few days doing it so you can stop off plenty along the way. There are far to many places to explore. If you don't mind the elements, this time of year means no tourists and the only slow camper van winding it's way down the narrow country lanes was mine. I highly recommend this part of the world for landscape, travel and wildlife photographers alike. There is plenty to see, and if the clouds stay away you'll get great light too.
Everyone knows Greece is a beautiful country. We know the white stone walls of Santorini and the ancient majesty of the Parthenon. But there is so much to be discovered that lies just off the tourist trail. Messolonghi is a small town in the Etolia & Akarnania region of western Greece. Here are 3 great things to see and do when you visit.
Famous for it's fisherman's houses on stilts in the lagoon called pelades, these traditional dwellings over the water and are an integral part of this ancient landscape and the working life of the people who live here. They are a photographer's dream too, looking stunning in the beautiful varied light that constantly changes the look of the lagoons.
An amazing ecosystem of birds, plant life and animals, the lagoons are home to many fascinating creatures. The flamingoes, pelicans and kingfishers are all around for keen bird watchers and photographers alike, and the clean fresh air and easy pace of life are the perfect antidote to modern life.
The lagoons at Messolonghi are also famous for salt production. Harvested in massive collection pools in the lagoon itself and then dried out and piled into gigantic salt mountains, these make the area look like the arctic circle, not the middle of Greece! Fantastic for photography as well as of general interest to see how salt is produced, a visit is highly recommended.
Although not the best known for Oliver Oil, Messolonghi certainly produces the best quality. Come and see the whole production process from picking the olives to pressing them into oil. The smell of the burning olive branches filling the air is wonderful and atmospheric too, and you get to bring home some tasty olive oil as a souvenir of your trip!
Forget drone photography, nothing beats the real thing! Take a light aircraft up from the local airfield with a pilot who is a 3 star general and former mayor of the town and get a birds eye view of the lagoons, the flamingoes and the ancient monuments that are scattered among the hillsides.
We offer all this and more on our photography workshops. Click here to find out more.
Apokria (carnival) is a heady mix of wild costumes, loud music and giddy abandonment. The name roughly translates as "without meat". It's a religious period that marks the start of lent. And the time you enter into a period of fasting and contemplation. And while that is both healthy and edifying for the soul, there's nothing quite like a big old party to get yourself in the mood and that's essentially what this time of year offers.
By far then most spectacular part of carnival is "Moutzouromata the colour festival at Galaxidi. Everyone parades through the streets throwing brightly coloured flour at each other and letting off vibrant technicolour smoke bombs. Dressed in a mixture of fancy dress and overalls and with painted faces it's like doing street photography on acid, in a real life Mad Max movie set.
As a place to improve your photography it is fantastic. The bright colours that fill the air and the general chaos and sense of fun make capturing compelling images fun and with a little know how, easy to learn. Not a lot of post production is needed either, beyond a bit of clarity in Lightroom to bring out the dust, and a basic curves adjustment for contrast. You might as well give up on any white balance ideas as every shot will be different, depending on what coloured flour gets (literally) thrown at you!
Obviously the kids adore Moutzouromata. It's sanctioned mess-making and you get to chuck stuff at grown ups. It's a family friendly battle zone. A place to channel your inner war photographer, without the bullets. But remember to wrap you camera in plastic and wear old clothes. This stuff gets everywhere!
Klelia prepares traditional Greek pasta known as chilopitas in the kitchen behind the Epi Gis bakery in Chania, Crete.
As part of the photography workshop on Crete we ran this May, we visited Kleila and Manolis who run Epi Gis, a small business in Chania, dedicated to making traditional food in the time honoured manner. We had access all areas and were able to get 'backstage' and into the kitchen to watch the food being prepared and hone our photo story telling skills while tacking the challenging lighting provided by the strong industrial lights. It was a lot of fun, but it got me really excited for another reason too.
The state of the Greek economy is well known. The situation isn't good of course, but the couple behind Epi Gris are part of a kind of vanguard of bright, innovative young Greeks who are fusing traditional Greek values of hard work, integrity and family with entrepreneurship, and creating a plethora of new small businesses all over the country that are creating jobs and opportunities.
Manolis loads freshly baked spinach pies called Kaltsounia onto the shelves. Everything is made on site from fresh local ingredients. It is this way of doing things, that not only tastes the best, but also keeps tradition alive and is far better for the local economy than buying food from a huge corporation who's profits usually end up off shore.
Customer service is another key to the success of Epi Gis. This is a place where the locals stop in for a chat as well as picking up supplies and it's obvious that Manolis likes it that way. This is how communities are built and are maintained. When we stop knowing the names of our customers, or the people who serve us in the shops, then we loose a large part of what holds society together and makes it feel cohesive. It is also how Greece has always traditionally worked, and thanks to the failure of many of the big corporations after the crash, businesses like Epi Gis are able to carry this forward, hopefully for many years to come.
As the sun sets over Western Greece the golden light illuminates the olive wood fires that scatter the mountain sides as the harvested branches that have yielded the olives are cut and burned.
Last week I teamed up with www.chryssiesgreece.com (who I partner with to offer photography workshops in Greece) and www.discovermessolonghi.com to photograph the traditional olive oil production methods used here and discover a way of life that has remained unchanged for hundreds of years.
The first step is to collect the olives from the trees. There are 3 main tools for doing this. A short stick for hitting the branches and knocking the olives into a large plastic sheet below, a longer stick for hitting the higher branches. and a rake that you run through the branches like a comb.
This is nowhere near as easy as it sounds by the way. For a start you have to avoid harvesting the green olives which aren't ripe yet (they will come back for these in a week or so), you are constantly ducking under branches, climbing up into trees to get the hard to reach ones and after you have knocked all the ones you can get into the massive plastic sheet it then has to be dragged to the next tree.
The picking crews pile onto the back of pick ups and can be seen all over the area coming to and from shifts. In an area such as western Greece with high unemployment this is welcome paid work for many and pickers travel many miles to get here including from Albania to the north.
Long after the sun has set the work must continue. once the olives are picked they are bought to places like this, a family run business run by the Chalazais family of Messolonghi. The olives are sorted on this conveyor belt and prepared for the next stage; pressing.
The street outside the Antonopoulos Olive Press, another family run business is lined with pick ups, tractors and cars all filled to bursting point with the hand selected olives that will go into making the region's famous olive oil.
Inside heavy machinery first pulps the olives, then presses it before the final product comes out of the pipes at the end.
And yes, it does taste amazing straight from the pipe, but for best results patience is your friend. If you can wait a couple of months before using it, it will be at it's best.
What you see in this photo is the faces of people who haven't slept for a week. This is Orca Town, the impromptu beach camp built by a group of young fun loving Bulgarians who spend their summers here in the beach town of Sozopol on the Black Sea.
Every year, at the start of the season they rebuild this camp. And every year it gets better. There are toilet facilities, showers, a kitchen area, hammocks to sleep on and a wooden structure with tables and chairs underneath and a giant net roof that you can climb onto and chill out in with blankets, food and the ever present thump thump of the house music from the sound system.
It is built with such love, care and enthusiasm. Jerry rigged together just so these 20 somethings can hang out on their favourite beach together and have a place to party.
And Kris (far left) and his brother Ivan (far right) are our friends and two of the guys responsible for building this place. They are rightly proud of it. But I am getting old now. And the house music, drinking and partying that went on all night and all day, every night and every day started to wear us down after a while. On our last night there were 3 competing sound systems. The Orca Town perma-party and then two beach parties either side of us. We slept on the beach which was the furthest point from all three systems but we still felt the pounding in our chests from the gigantic stacks that rang out through the clear night air. At one point there was a dune buggy race around us and then some fireworks went off. I think this was day four or five without sleep. I lost track.
But Sozopol is changing quickly. When Orca Town was first built they were nearly the only people on this stretch of beach. Now the big hotels, and tourist industry, powered in no small part by mafia money has moved in and twice now the little beach community has been told to move further up the beach to make room for bars that will make money and attract tourists. And often these tourists wonder into the camp, thinking it's another bar. This means that there have been things stolen from people's stuff. which was never the case when it was just friends on a deserted beach. The Orca Town founders are considering moving to another beach now. Or closing all together. Either way, this is nearly the end of the road for the camp and however sleep deprived I was, it was an honour to have been shown it.
This is a view from Strefi Hill in Athens. Most tourists don't come up here. They're probably put off by the drug addicts and refugees who's tents in the woods below are a constant reminder that Athens is a complicated city, with complicated problems. But, like most of the city it's ridiculously safe to walk around up there, and those who visit will be rewarded with spectacular 360 degree views. While you can see the Acropolis and all the way to the Piraeus and the sea, it's also worth drinking in the sprawling cityscapes of tenement buildings and rooftop terraces. This is what you see here. Shot on the tiny Canon G7X point and shoot camera. Showing once again that travel photography isn't about the gear, it's about what you point it at.
This is the 2006 VW LT35 long wheelbase van that is my home and office as I travel around Europe. These are some of my experiences having spent the first 2 months on the road full time.
Like most people, I love to travel. The nourishing effect of seeing new places and having new experiences is one of the most rewarding things you can do. In fact I love it so much that I bought this van which had already been converted by the previous owner into a camper van, and set off across Europe in a bid to really get under the skin of this incredible continent, hopefully understand it a little better and maybe even come away with a few photographs to boot.
How am I finding the experience of living out of what is basically a builder's van? Spoiler alert, I love it. The van has been the best way to travel. I get to sleep in my own bed every night, wherever I am in the world. I get to cook food in my own kitchen, shower in my own bathroom. All the things we eventually miss when we're travelling for long periods of time. Wherever I park, I'm home. I get to spend each day exploring new places but if it's getting late and I'm feeling done for the day, I can stop by the side of the road and I'm home. No stress about finding hotels and no bags to carry.
Inside I have a kitchen and bathroom and the sofa folds down into a bed. It's a mini studio flat on wheels basically.
Part of the reason I went for a van like this instead of a more traditional looking camper van or motorhome is so that I can park on the street and not draw too much attention. It doesn't really look like anyone's sleeping in there, so often I can find a quiet street away from nosey neighbours even in crowded cities like Athens.
I do spend a fair amount of time at campsites too. The sweet, sweet nectar of unlimited wifi and onsite laundry services is nice to take advantage of sometimes.
for electricity I have a 250W solar panel on the roof that charges a 120ah leisure battery. That lasts me a full day of keeping the roof fan on, running lights, charging cameras, laptop, phone etc. The hot water and fridge are gas powered and I get my water from a variety of places. Mostly truck stops and motorway service stations, as well as campsites have somewhere you can refill.
Having power in there means I can edit all my photos in the evening without worrying about the laptop battery dying, and I have a Huawei internet dongle that gives me a wifi signal in the van. It works in most European countries, although I will look at changing it because the signal is very weak. Sometimes it won't pick up a signal at all, but my phone can.
There are a few basic thing that take marginally more effort than living in a house or flat - like laundry for example. You have to scout out laundrettes that are close by wherever you park up, or hand wash your clothes, and emptying out the chemical toilet takes some getting used too, although id you do it right won't smell at all. But you do have to carry a big plastic box full of, well you can guess what, and empty it into a public toilet. Word to the wise, they are heavy when full, so park as close to the toilets as you can.
Essentially though this is the small price to pay for a life of unbridled freedom. I get to wake up every morning exactly where I want to be. I can head to anywhere and do anything. That is rare these days. Of course not everyone is lucky enough to have a job that they can do from the road, but if you are in that position, getting a van is a wonderful way of seeing the world and living a life of adventure.
And even if you can't do this full time, I run travel photography tours so you can come and join me for a week and get some great photos and road stories too.
I am currently travelling around Europe in this van. I live and work in this small space and everything I need to make images on the road has to work in this small space.
These are the things I've learned so far.
I'd been on the road less than a week and I pulled the brand new Fujifilm X-T2 out of my camera bag to discover in horror the screen on the back was smashed. Luckily the camera still works and I can use the EVF to review photos and change settings but it could easily have been worse. To compound the problem, I would need to send the camera back to Fuji and by the time they were ready to send it back I was going to be in another country. I wasn't sure exactly which one either!
I ended up buying another body, but I did pack one of my old X-T1's just in case something like this happened. If you are making a photography specific trip then having a back up body is a very good idea. Get a second hand body that will take your lenses. It can be an entry level from a couple of years back so if it gets stolen from the hotel room it's not a disaster. Being 3 days into a photography tour without a camera - that's a disaster. Of course it should go without saying that you'll need plenty of spare batteries and memory cards too. These things will not only break, but they are easily lost and even easier to forget to charge, format etc.
This is something I've got better at over time. A couple of years ago I was teaching some students on Lemnos, a small island in the Aegean on a photography tour. At the time I was still shooting with my Nikon dslr kit full time, but I'd just got a Fuji X Pro 1 and a couple of lenses to play around with. I ended up taking both to Lemnos. I had two camera bags full of gear as well as a bunch of flash gear for doing the portrait workshops. Most days I took the X Pro 1 and the 35mm 1.4. Everything else stayed in the hotel. I don't think I touched the Nikons for the entire 8 day tour.
As I am living in the van, to a certain extent I have to have everything I might need with me. In the last month I have shot fashion on Lake Garda, Portraiture in Crete and documentary in Athens so my gear needs to be able to handle whatever I am going to throw at it. But most days I take the Fuji X-T2 and the 35 1.4 and that's it. By only taking one body and one lens it frees you up to experience the amazing places you are seeing, without thinking about what lens you should use next or whether to break out the flash gear.
From fashion on lake Garda to documentary in Athens my gear needs to be versatile. But most days I just take one body and one lens.
The first part of this trip was split into three legs. First I was heading down to the Algarve in Portugal for the closing party of a long term project I've been involved with, the second was a 2,400km drive north east to Brescia in Northern Italy to do shoot fashion shoot on Lake Garda and up in the Alps, then another massive drive through Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece to catch a ferry to Crete to lead a photography tour for a week on the island. All this happened within a couple of months and the upshot of all that driving was that I would often drive past amazing places at the wrong time of day, without the time to stop and wait for the best light.
Now I have deliberately created some time at each place I want to photograph so that I can explore it in more detail. When you get to know people in a place, spend some time walking around it and let it get under your skin, your images will be much better for it.
I spent two weeks in Chania, Crete photographing the famous lighthouse in different light. This sunrise shot was definitely the best and it was because I spent time in one location exploring the subject.
Shoot less! This is also something I've got better at over time. The more time you spend engaging your brain before you get your gear out, the better. Make a few thoughtful images. These will be far better than a thousand snap shots. You won't spend hours every evening editing and backing up a million photos, and you'll enjoy the trip much more if you're not permanently glued to the viewfinder of your camera. Take the time to let the subject sink in, walk around it a while and think about how best to tell your story. Make sure you have your settings locked in and take your shot. Be a sniper, not a machine gun operator.
Matt Widgery is a photographer, photography trainer and YouTuber. Originally from the UK, he now spends his time shooting and teaching around the world, living out of a van with a couple of bikes, way too many cameras, and a ukulele. His work is varied, encompassing portraiture, fashion and landscapes.
Currently working on a book and exhibition he is spending six months shooting in Europe. The book will be out in 2018.
Out and about in downtown Athens yesterday I climbed the white marble steps of Syntagma Square to the old palace in time to see the changing of the Evzones or Presidential Guard. Well, a minor changing of the guard anyway. The big ceremony takes place every Sunday at 11am. This was just a regular change of shift, but this meant less tourists and still see the incredible uniforms.
The Evzones is the elite Presidential Guard unit of the Hellenic army. Selected for their height, superb physical conditioning and excellence of psychological state as well as morality and character. As such the Evzones have become symbols of bravery and courage for the Greek people.
Each guard must stand perfectly still while on guard for 60 minutes at a time, 3 times within 48 hours. At the changing of the guard, the steps must be carried out slowly because of the lack of blood flow after an hour of perfect immobility.
The uniforms are steeped in historical meaning. There are exactly 400 folds in the white shirt for example. These represent 400 years of Ottoman occupation.
The town band at Penteli playing in the procession for Panigyri on Penteli mountain, Greece.
After two straight weeks of Athenian traffic fumes, it was a relief to get up into the clean mountain air of Penteli for a spot of Sunday lunch with friends. Despite the forecast predicting rain it didn't happen and we ate in the garden with the cats, the turtle and the sounds of the chickens over the road announcing the eggs they were laying. Although just a short drive from Syntagma Square and the Acropolis, Penteli is quiet. Really quiet and, chickens aside, all we could here from the garden perched high above the town near the old observatory was the tannoy system from the celebrations for Panigyri.
The head of the monastery at Penteli, Greece.
The festival of Panigyri speaks to the heart of Greek culture. It's a saints day celebration that happens once a year for each saint. The priests come from the monastery and say prayers, lots of incense is scattered and the icon from the church is paraded in a loop around the square to the sound of a brass band. The crowds in this small town were enormous. The Panigyri at Penteli is pretty famous in these parts and thousands make the trip from Athens to follow the procession around town, say a prayer and or buy things in the enormous market that has always run along side these festivals.
A member of the own band, Penteli mountain, Greece.
Watching the sun set over Athenian skies I'm starting to really feel at home in this city. The road will soon start calling me onwards, westwards, to the next chapter of the adventure. But for a few more days this city is where I live and I love it!
I'm still waiting for some very exciting post to arrive from the UK which contains some cool gear for me to review on the YouTube channel. And I'm having Sunday lunch with friends tomorrow, and shooting a celebration called Panigyri. I'm not entirely sure what this is, but I've been told it will be worth bringing a camera, so that sounds good to me! At any rate my Athenian adventure still has plenty of life left in it, although I am keen to get on the road and head for Messolonghi too. Stay tuned, the adventure continues..!
I took the night ferry from Pireaus, Athens to Souda, Crete at 9pm on Monday 8th April. I was planning to get the Sunday night ferry, but after the two day battle royale to get into *FYROM (Macedonia) from Serbia, I had too much ground to cover so I holed up in Thessaloniki and made a leisurely trip down to Athens after lunch on Monday. Much more civilised.
Still buzzing from the almost non stop blast from Brescia in Northern Italy, down to catch the ferry, I was glad I'd booked the 'luxury' accommodation on board the E. Veniselos ferry, operated by Atek. The inverted commas denote the looseness of the term when applied to the faded 1980's glory of the decor. It was a time when toothpaste green walls and bleached ash were in vogue and everything was period accurate to the time she first set sail.
It was a time when toothpaste green walls and bleached ash were in vogue and everything was period accurate to the time she first set sail.
Rolling off the Ferry at 7am in Souda, just 8km from Chania I found my way easily enough to town and to the only terrible breakfast I would have in two weeks on the Island. But found a great park up with an ocean view at Talos Square just to the west of the old Venetian Port, the jewel in the crown of the old town.
The Cretans are famous for loving their guns. It was unclear whether these shots were meant as a comment on the Lada itself (best thing for it if you ask me), some other disagreement with the owner, or just a boozy target practice session: The village taverna was just across the street. Either way you'll be as relieved as I was to discover there was no blood on the seats so whatever went down, no-one was inside at the time.
Like many in Western Europe I guess, the name Serbia for me conjured up images of Milošević and the war crimes committed by the ethnic Serbs under his control during the Yugoslav wars of the 90's.
I was a little apprehensive about what I'd find there and the bullet riddled van on the motorway outside Belgrade didn't exactly dispel any prejudices.
But without exception every single Serb I met was beyond lovely. They are some of the warmest and most welcoming humans I've ever met.
Spending the night in Vranje a small town 25km north of the Macedonian border I met Nikola, his father and some of his mates, and Boris the Frenchman who'd been living in Serbia for a year and vowed never to return to France. All these guys I now count as friends.
The aftermath of the war is still everywhere. From the absolute poverty to the abandoned crumbling buildings that there's no one left to rebuild.
There's no doubt Milošević got people to do horrendous things. Just like Hitler did. But that's not what I found in this country and I can't wait to return.
I seem to be getting a bit of a reputation for shooting in stupid and/or dangerous conditions. usually involving setting things on fire, or nearly drowning in various bodies of water, it was time to add a treacherous climb up Adamello in the foothills of the Italian Alps in the freshly fallen snow to the list of deathy environments to make some photos.
The climb up was hard on me, but Jen did it dressed like this. She's a warrior. It was early May it was unusual to have snow still falling at that time of year. Especially since it was so warm. We sun bathed in t shirts on the dry snow. An incredible experience. But the heat was melting the snow as fast as it had fallen in places, making the ascent deadly and the climb down worse. There are not too many safe places to miss your footing up there and not much to break your fall until you landed back where the car was parked about 1500m straight down.
Nevertheless, the opportunity to stand in a place like this, let alone to do a shoot here was a deathbed memory. Adamello is less than an hour from Brescia and not far from Lake Garda so next time you're in that neck of the woods it's worth a visit.
Northern France in early April was cold, wet and dark. And the coldest, wettest and darkest place just so happened to be Mont St Michel the day I pulled into town. If you want an idea of the ferocity of the rain at the moment I took this shot, just turn your shower on to full blast at home and get your camera out in it. That's not far off. As my first attempt to make an image of this iconic place was ruined by the rain spots on the lens, I decided to hang around and see what the light offered up the next day.
I got up for sunrise and the rain had stopped but the sky gave me nothing. A very pleasant day spent exploring the ancient citadel yielded a nice seagull shot, but this wasn't why I was here.
At sunset I had a third attempt at the shot I'd come for. Earlier in the day I'd scouted out a better vantage point and as the light in the sky faded, the buildings' illuminations came on, elevating the shot. Not the best sunset in history by any stretch, but I figured I needed to start moving south after this, so I called it a day and I'm happy with the result. What do you guys think?


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Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode on Monday inaugurated a Drug Rehabilitation and Skill Acquisition Centre in Ajah built by Senator representing Lagos Central District, Chief Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu, expressing optimism that the project would go a long way to benefit Lagosians and especially the immediate community.
Speaking while unveiling the Centre, named after Prince Tajudeen Oluyole Olusi (OON), Governor Ambode commended Senator Tinubu for devoting constituency funds to life changing projects, saying that the facility remains one of her legacy projects.
Describing her as a dogged, committed, consistent and determined woman, Governor Ambode said Senator Tinubu, despite the challenges that she encountered in the course of the project which she began in 2012, persevered to ensure that it became a reality.
"So much has been said by everyone on what she stands for, however, if I call her a dogged fighter, I would not be wrong. To the mere fact that she spent two terms in the Senate and she has been able to bring more constituency projects than any other senator, it's a confirmation of how she fights for her community.
"This is a project that commenced in 2012 and she is also relating the story of how the 22 Baales put her on her toes and because she fought back, that is why we are here this morning.
"If I say she is a very consistent person and determined woman, I am not off course. She has told you how she put us on our toes that we ensured that the resources she has committed to this project does not go down the drain and I thank her for putting us on our toes," he said.
Governor Ambode also commended her style of leadership, saying that she was the only Senator that remained consistent with holding quarterly town hall meetings with constituents and utilizing funds for the benefits of her people, adding that the Drug Rehabilitation and Skill Acquisition Centre remains one of her legacy projects that would outlive her.
"Of all the constituency projects that you have initiated and completed, this one is special in the sense that you have once again challenged government in the area of taking care of the needy.
"We all know what taking care of the needy entails, especially for a drug rehabilitation centre of this magnitude that has been put in place here for us to take care of those ones who are on the streets without help.
"In addition to this drug rehab centre, there is a skill acquisition centre to complement the need of whoever we are able to rehabilitate and empower them to become relevant in the community," he said.
Governor Ambode assured that the facility, which would be managed by the State Government going forward, would be given top most priority, just as he directed the Ministries of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation as well as Youth and Social Development to ensure that the two facilities become fully operational before May 29, 2019.
He also seized the occasion to charge residents to come out enmasse and vote for the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and other candidates of the party for the National Assembly elections coming up on Saturday, February 16.
He said it was important for APC candidates to emerge victorious in Saturday's polls, saying that it would enable them continue to deliver the dividends of democracy to their constituents.
"Come Saturday, I urge all our supporters and party faithful to go all out and reward this good gesture by voting APC from top to bottom. So we'll vote APC for Presidency, APC for Senate, APC for House of Representatives and also on March 2, we'll vote APC for Gubernatorial and House of Assembly candidates.
He particularly urged the people from Lagos Central Senatorial district to vote massively for Senator Oluremi Tinubu, saying that she had proven to be a worthy representative of the district by delivering impactful projects to the people.
Earlier in her welcome address, Senator Tinubu commended Governor Ambode for his maturity and peaceful disposition, saying that posterity would judge him right.
She said the project was facilitated through her 2012 Constituency Intervention Project to address the menace and devastating consequence that drug abuse portends on the youths, just as she expressed optimism that the Centre would help to reverse the statistics that shows that 40 percent of Nigerian youths indulge in the use of recreational drugs including marijuana, codeine, among others.
Also speaking, APC leader in Lagos Central Senatorial District, Prince Tajudeen Olusi, who was named after the project, thanked Senator Tinubu for the kind gesture, saying it was a special honour for him to be so recognised.
"I am very grateful for this project to be dedicated to me, it's a thing of joy. I thank Senator Oluremi Tinubu, she has shown that she has the requisite qualification and suitability to undertake this job because some are educated but are not suitable," he said.


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The new version of The Bill
The first episode of the revamped 9pm, once-per-week version of The Bill has aired in the UK. Here's the first two minutes or so of the first episode.
I watched the new opening titles on their own before I saw this video, and I wasn't keen on the new titles or theme music at all, but after seeing it in context, I think it works well, on the proviso that they keep the new formula of putting a scene before the titles.
As for the background music…not really sure. It seems to work in the background, but it's one of those elements that you have to keep once you put it there, otherwise it sounds like something is missing. I think the background music will work as long as it stays in the background as it has, and doesn't take over like it does in some episode of Rush.
Without a doubt though, I will miss the old (current here in Australia) theme.
According to calculations on MediaSpy, Australia should see the new episodes in late October or early November.
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Baby Overcomes Deadly Diagnosis
Pregnancy By The Doctors Staff on 8:00 AM PST, December 12, 2014
Playing "Miracle Baby" Beats Medical Odds
In October, 2013, first-time expectant parents Jonas and Christy were eagerly awaiting the arrival of their baby boy, David, when they received devastating news about his health.
During Christy's 28-week checkup, she and Jonas expressed minor concern about their son's lack of movement, so an ultrasound was performed to give them peace of mind; however, the couple says they sensed something was wrong, as the ultrasound tech they had seen multiple times before was unusually quiet while performing the procedure.
The sonogram revealed that David had fetal hydrops, a rare, life-threatening condition in which large amounts of fluid accumulate in two or more areas of the body. Fetal hydrops is not a disease, but rather a symptom of other underlying problems. It is typically triggered by chromosomal abnormalities, congenital infections, severe anemia and defects of the heart, lungs and liver. Roughly half of unborn babies diagnosed with fetal hydrops do not survive.
After seeing several specialists, it was determined that the fluid buildup inside David's developing body was a result of restrictive cardiomyopathy, an uncommon disorder that causes a weakening and enlargement of the heart. Christy and Jonas were informed that David most likely would die.
"They made sure we were aware of the condition of our son," Jonas says. "We had to walk through each step of labor: medication, autopsy after delivery — yes or no — and we had to be OK with letting him pass if he did go into cardiac arrest … that was the hardest hour of our lives."
Despite the grim prognosis, Christy and Jonas never gave up hope. The couple says they prayed daily in hopes that God would save their son.
David's condition progressively worsened over the following weeks, so much so that doctors were surprised he was still alive. Then, an ultrasound in late October revealed something totally unexpected.
"The doctor walked in and the first words out his mouth were 'divine intervention,' " Christy says. The fluid surrounding David's vital organs had dramatically dissipated. An echocardiogram was then performed, which showed that David's heart had somehow returned to normal size.
By December, the excess fluid surrounding his abdomen, lungs, heart and brain was completely gone. The reason behind David's seemingly miraculous recovery remains unclear. While similar cases have been documented, the incidence is extremely rare.
David was born on Christmas Eve, and he was able to leave the hospital less than 24 hours later. Now 11 months old, David is slightly smaller than average but otherwise completely healthy. Christy and Jonas say their son's recovery reaffirmed their faith in a higher power. The couple is currently expecting their second child.
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I have a site collection with some sites (Publishing theme).
I need to add some links to the top navigation bar and the quick launch by Powershell.
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I tried this code,it runs fine, but I can not see the new link.
If I try to add a new link from the UI, I can not see it in the $web.Navigation.TopNavigationBar object.
It is working with an other template (ex team site)

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These are the steps:
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which consist of a chassis and a set of printed circuit boards O Often the boards in the plant need to be returned to the vendor for a variety of reasons . which was costing Cisco a significant percentage of its operating expenses in write-offs and loss of productivity.The Process-Return to Vendor O Return-to-vendor (RTV) process. O Cisco manufactures routers and switches.
The Process-Pre Reengineering Production Department Inspect boards Reject Materials Department Verify request Forward Cost Accounting Calculate costs of Return File Paperwork .
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This Independence Day, celebrate America by defending voting rights
By Alex Padilla | |
PUBLISHED: July 4, 2018 at 9:00 a.m. | UPDATED: July 4, 2018 at 9:19 a.m.
Flags are mounted, grills are fired up and friends, family and neighbors are gathering to celebrate Independence Day across the country. We celebrate our history, our veterans and our most fundamental values of American democracy, including the right to vote. But this year, recent decisions by an ideologically split U.S. Supreme Court are putting Americans' right to vote at risk by enabling racial and partisan gerrymandering and upholding voter suppression tactics. We are reminded that we cannot celebrate America without also defending the right to vote.
Make no mistake — the Supreme Court's assault on voting rights impacts everyone — red states, blue states, the elderly and young of any race. But the brunt of such attacks will be felt most profoundly by communities that have been historically disenfranchised — people of color and low income communities.
Specifically, in Abbott v. Perez, the Supreme Court reversed a lower court's extensive findings that the Texas legislature engaged in intentional racial discrimination when drawing congressional and state legislative districts. The targets? Black and Latino voters. The message? The Supreme Court will find a way to justify a legislature's impermissible racial discrimination to pick their voters, rather than allowing voters to pick their representatives.
In Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute, the court upheld an Ohio law that permitted the state to start the process to remove voters from the rolls, simply because they sat out an election. The court effectively sanctioned a "use it or lose it" rule on American voters.
Justice Anthony Kennedy's decision to retire by the end of this month presents additional challenges to protect our voting rights. We know that important voting rights questions will continue to find their way to the Supreme Court as legislatures across the country are expected to double down on issues ranging from harsh voter ID laws, campaign finance laws, partisan gerrymandering, and voter registration practices. I won't be holding my breath that Trump's nominee is going to be friend of voting rights. We are approaching what will likely be the biggest showdown on voting rights in decades.
History has shown that these types of laws disproportionately disenfranchise lower income voters, communities of color, and younger voters for reasons ranging from access to transportation to the ability to take time off of work to go vote without loss of wages.
Many of these laws are advanced under the false premise of voter fraud, despite the abundant evidence that shows voter fraud is exceedingly rare.
According to the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law, since 2010, 23 states have enacted laws making it either harder to vote, or implemented stricter voter ID requirements.
But these attacks on voting rights won't go unchallenged. Americans who care about our democracy are ready to act.
We are acting by encouraging the people in our lives to register and vote. In schools, churches and local communities, Americans are participating in their democracy by getting others to as well.
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We are holding officials accountable when they try and enact regressive voting laws. Voters are marching, hosting phone banks or writing letters to express their outrage at any efforts making it harder for eligible Americans to vote.
And, we are supporting reforms that have taken hold in places like California to expand the franchise. Leaders across the country are being pressured to adopt automatic and online voter registration, same-day voter registration, more early voting options and eliminating discriminatory voter ID laws.
These next few years will be crucial for voting rights in America. In addition to picking at least one new Supreme Court nominee, there is also the issue of ensuring that the 2020 Census — which dictates billions in funding and congressional apportionment — is done fairly and accurately.
This Fourth of July, let us remember that the Declaration of Independence states that "governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." We all have a right for our voices to be heard, not stifled. After all, American independence doesn't come with an asterisk. It isn't life, liberty and pursuit of happiness for some — it is declared for all of us. So let's celebrate America by defending the right to vote — for every eligible citizen, everywhere in America.
That's the most American thing we can do this holiday.
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DACA phase-out puts onus on Congress, where it should be
Nashville, Tennessee, Latinos for Tennessee - Yesterday the Trump administration announced the phasing out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program over the next six months. Former President Barack Obama enacted DACA by Executive Order in 2012 in order to delay deportation for illegal immigrants brought to the United States when they were young. In President Trump's announcement, he emphasized that Congress has the responsibility to address immigration reform with a long-term legislative solution.
In response to this announcement, Raul Lopez, Executive Director of Latinos for Tennessee commented, "As I've said in the past, we are a country of immigrants, as well as a country of laws. We cannot live in a free and fair society without the rule of law. President Trump did the right thing by restoring constitutional powers to their proper place-giving legislative authority to the legislature, and phasing out DACA until Congress asserts its legislative authority and works out a permanent fix to this emotionally-charged issue."
Lopez went on to add, "Critics of today's decision should not lose sight that by acting unilaterally, former President Obama directly contributed to this dysfunction. The former president could have worked with Congress, including Republicans on Capitol Hill, to craft immigration policy that would honor our immigrant heritage and the rule of law."
"Rather than kicking the can down the road again, Congress must craft immigration reform that will strengthen our border and end illegal immigration, but also deal compassionately with the children who came here at no fault of their own. Today's decision will allow Congress to take up the issue."
Democrats and Republicans have both expressed hope that the six-month delay in implementation will give Congress time to find consensus for a long-term solution.
Latinos for Tennessee is a statewide organization committed to protecting and promoting faith, family, freedom and fiscal responsibility. For more information, visit http://latinosfortn.com
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Nowadays kids spend a lot of their time on smart phones and tablets. So why don't give them something that can help them learn something new or at least something to read. Because the habit of reading is something that is getting extinct in the modern day life. So today we will be sharing the best children's reading apps on Appstore that can help them adopt the habit of reading and also have fun and read their favorite stories and comics at the same time.
Who can ignore the legendary writings of Dr. Seuss when it comes to the reading material of kids? This app developer has done a good job by collecting some of his short stories and shaped them as a beautiful animated app. There are three reading modes; Auto-play, Read to me and Read it myself. There are custom backgrounds for each narration, word highlights and a read aloud option when reading by yourself. More details here.
03How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
Kids always love to hear the story of Grinch and how he stole the Christmas. Join the bitter and grouchy Grinch in this interactive book app classic from Dr. Seuss as he attempts to "keep Christmas from coming" to the warm-hearted land of Whoville. Explore pictures, learn new vocabulary, and follow along with three fun ways to read! Will the Grinch succeed at depriving the Whos from Christmas? Click here for more details about the app.
Comics and kids "The most amazing love story ever." Here is another reader app for Comics, images and novels. This is one of the top best apps reading apps on Amazon store for kids to adopt the habit of reading. You can set the images to slideshow, adjust brightness, page layout and it support of image, comics and ebook formats so you have got a perfect combination for reading. More details here.
When writing about kids reading stuff, I can't think of anyone else than Dr. Seuss. Here is another one of the top best reading apps for kids to read the legendry stories of Dr. Seuss. There are five different stories with fun interactive ways to read and stunning animations and graphics. More details here.


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Be 'That' Business: Telstra Business Women's Awards 2017
This week Steve, Tim and Brendan were joined by a woman who turned her baby's sleepless nights into a $30 million business.
Click PLAY below to hear the full episode
At the awards night in Melbourne earlier this week, Hana-Lia Krawchuk (pictured above) was crowned the 2017 Telstra Australian Business Women's Entrepreneur Award winner
She explained to the boys how her business, Love to Dream, was created.
"In 2008 my beautiful son was born and he did not sleep for more than 45 minutes at a time," Hana said.
"We were desperate for a solution to get him to sleep."
Hana created a type of baby's sleepwear where infants' arms are secured by their sides, rather than trapped in a traditional swaddle.
The business now has a turnover of $30 million and exports to 45 countries.
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March 22, 2017	HCG Diet plan
Optimal Level of a Glycoprotein
Back in the 1950's, a British doctor stationed in India made a revolutionary discovery. It was possible to target fat, preserve muscle, and rapidly lose weight, comfortably, without starving yourself.
Dr. Simeons found the key was the optimal level of a glycoprotein, naturally found in the body, that triggers fat loss when following a specific diet.
Dr. Simeons successfully treated thousands of people over the next couple of decades with his diet protocol at his practice in Rome, while he carefully analyzed how various foods affected results.
In the 1970's he published his findings in the groundbreaking book: "Pounds & Inches: A New Approach to Obesity" which you can download for free from this page.
Doctors from all over the world who read Dr. Simeons book came to Rome to see how he was so successful treating obesity.
Many of these doctors were from the United States and they returned to the US and opened Weight Loss clinics using their own variations of Dr. Simeons' diet protocol.
Ads in newspapers started appearing in the 70's for 'fast weight loss'. Unfortunately, the protocol that Dr. Simeons spent decades perfecting had been modified, causing mixed results.
These doctors failed to heed Dr. Simeons' warning about making variations in his diet protocol which he spent DECADES testing and refining in his own clinic.
Therefore, over time, Dr. Simeons' Protocol disappeared from the scene.
In the late 90's, an author named Kevin Trudeau re-introduced the world to Dr. Simeons' diet protocol with his best-selling book "The Weight Loss Cure They Don't Want You to Know About".
Suddenly the Simeons' Protocol Diet became hot again, but there were 2 problems:
First, Dr. Simeons' Protocol requires daily injections of a pharmaceutical which is only available by prescription, unless you obtain it illegally.
Secondly, the weight loss clinic may not be adhering to the original Simeons' protocol.
To solve these problems, TrimYou started in 2009 as the first and only Certifying Organization for weight loss clinics that were following Dr. Simeons' original Protocol.
Around the same time, a homeopathic version of the pharmaceutical hit the market and people started doing Dr. Simeons' Protocol without a prescription of hormone injections, and without the steep price of a weight loss clinic.
These homeopathic versions of the pharmaceutical were actually illegal and were labeled and marketed in a way that caught the attention of the FDA and FTC.
Like most people, we didn't believe switching out the prescription pharmaceutical for a homeopathic substitute would work.
We set out to prove it wouldn't work and we documented the results.
TrimYou found a FDA-regulated manufacturer that is also certified kosher and organic. Together we set out to produce a test batch of our TrimYou 'homeotherapeutic' oral spray.
Because of our unique 'magnetic remanence' process, TrimYou Spray is legal without a prescription and it's the most potent version available.
We ended up proving ourselves wrong: It really was possible to get great results with Dr. Simeons' Protocol using a homeotherapeutic version of the pharmaceutical.
We have been selling TrimYou Spray on our website since 2009 and we have a 99+% customer satisfaction rate and 99+% success rate with our product.
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HCG Diet claim of 40 lbs in forty days
The HCG Diet claim of 40 lbs in forty days or 25 pounds in 25 days doesn't sound like very much if you have never dieted. However, the percentage of people who have never dieted is very small. This percentage is composed of people who seemingly, can eat anything and everything, at anytime, and as often as they want. Those are the lucky few who have no need for a weight loss protocol. Their success in maintaining a high metabolism, is usually due to good eating habits. Eating several small meals of healthy food throughout the day, usually serves to keep the weight down, since the body is getting the nutrients it needs, and the metabolism is continually instructed to keep on working.
Many of us have been struggling with our weight for most of our lives.
Genetics, thyroid dysfunction, poor metabolism, just to name a few, are the excuses we commonly use, to justify obesity.
There is an old saying "Knowledge is Power", and when it comes to weight loss, nothing could be closer to the truth.
After my experience with the HCG Diet I learned and understood that what I put in my mouth did matter. The consequences of my choices were reflected back to me when I got on the scale the next morning. That reinforced, repetitive learning experience that I got morning after morning, drove home the fact that it really does matter what I eat. The digital scale does not lie, and I could not make any excuses because I saw the truth.
All my excuses that I came up with did not change the reading!
Like you, I have been on all kinds diets for the last 20 years, they were filled with a mixture of partial successes and failures. The HCG Diet is the first diet, where I felt like I could lose those pounds, and keep them off. That knowledge that I gained every morning drove me to try something different. I can't tell you how inspired I was to follow through with this diet, and lose the weight. Permanently.
I was determined…and now I have lost tmy extra weight and kept it off for months! I find myself even thinking about food differently. I somehow learned along the way, to eat smaller portions, because I gradually noticed that I could stop eating when I was full. New concept …LOL! I even consider the difference between how I feel after eating a piece of pizza and chocolate cake, as opposed to a piece of smoked Salmon and a salad…amazing! These were two, totally unexpected attitude adjustments, shared by many of my friends on the diet, after they had reached their desired weight.
June 15, 2016	health and diet
Pecans: Handful a day keeps aging at bay
Eating pecans daily may delay age-related muscle nerve degeneration, U.S. researchers suggest.
Lead researcher Thomas Shea of the Center for Cellular Neurobiology at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell carried out a number of laboratory studies on three groups of mice especially bred to demonstrate a decline in motor neuron function.
The researchers found mice fed a diet supplemented with ground pecans had a significant delay in decline in motor function compared to mice receiving no pecans. Mice eating the diet with the most pecans — 0.05 percent — fared best.
Results were based on how the mice on the control diet vs. those on the pecan-enriched diet performed in specific tests.
The study, published in Current Topics in Nutraceutical Research, suggests pecans contain a high amount of a natural antioxidants that help fight against cell damage.
"These findings suggest regular consumption of pecans may provide significant nutritive and antioxidant benefits for your body," Shea said in statement.
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June 7, 2016	health and diet
Running on empty: the pros and cons of fasting
Fasting restricts calories and may benefit your body. Is it a safe way to lose weight?
February 02, 2009|Shari Roan
Something about the way Americans eat isn't working — and hasn't been for a long time.
The number of obese Americans is now greater than the number who are merely overweight, according to government figures released last month. It's as if once we taste food, we can't stop until we've gorged ourselves.
Taking that inclination into account, some people are adopting an unusual solution to overeating. Rather than battling temptation in grocery stores, restaurants and their own kitchens, they simply don't eat. At least not at certain times of the day or specific days of the week.
Called intermittent fasting, this rather stark approach to weight control appears to be supported by science, not to mention various religious and cultural practices around the globe. The practice is a way to become more circumspect about food, its adherents say. But it also seems to yield the benefits of calorie restriction, which may ultimately reduce the risk of some diseases and even extend life. Some fasters, in fact, ultimately switch from regular, if comparatively rare, periods of hunger to permanent deprivation. They limit calories all the time.
"There is something kind of magical about starvation," says Dr. Marc Hellerstein, a professor of endocrinology, metabolism and nutrition at UC Berkeley, who studies fasting.
Adds Mark P. Mattson, chief of the laboratory of neurosciences at the National Institute on Aging: "In normal health subjects, moderate fasting — maybe one day a week or cutting back on calories a couple of days a week — will have health benefits for most anybody." Mattson is among the leading researchers on the effects of calorie restriction and the brain.
Not all nutrition professionals see the merits of fasting. Some think of it as a recipe for disaster, setting up a person for binge eating and metabolic confusion.
Ruth Frechman, a registered dietitian in Burbank and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Assn., says she frequently sees such extreme strategies backfire. "You're hungry, fatigued, irritable. Fasting is not very comfortable. People try to cut back one day and the next day they're starving and they overeat."
Researchers who study fasting and caloric restriction, however, say the body's hunger cycle ultimately adjusts.
And from a biological standpoint, they say, fasting can be helpful whether someone is overweight or normal weight.
Diabetes drugs given 'too soon'
One in three people with type 2 diabetes are given medication too soon, instead of being urged to eat better and do more exercise, a study suggests.
A study of 650 people in south west England found 36% were put on tablets within a month of being diagnosed, a Diabetes UK conference heard.
But guidelines recommend first trying lifestyle changes to control diabetes.
A Department of Health spokeswoman said medication helps people to "manage their condition".
The Royal College of GPs agreed diet and exercise should come first.
More than 400 people a day are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in the UK.
" When people are diagnosed, they're ready to make a lot of changes but if you give them a tablet, you're saying it is not their lifestyle that is the problem "
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It is often associated with obesity, and attempts in recent years to screen people for the disease has increased the number of people being diagnosed.
In the latest study, researchers found that in many patients lifestyle management was not given a chance, despite being widely recognised as being the initial first "treatment".
Metformin is the first drug of choice, but more drugs can be added if that is not doing enough to control blood sugar levels.
The researchers found that 13% of participants were actually on two types of tablets within the first few weeks of being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Study author Dr Rob Andrew, a senior lecturer at the University of Bristol, said they had not expected the figures to be quite so high.
"There is quite clear guidance that says when you're first diagnosed, you should have the opportunity to concentrate on lifestyle then if that doesn't work the next stage is metformin.
"When people are diagnosed, they're ready to make a lot of changes but if you give them a tablet, you're saying it is not their lifestyle that is the problem."
He added that incentive payments to encourage GPs to reduce blood glucose levels in patients with diabetes, a lack of NHS resources for lifestyle support and a cultural attitude that people will not make the necessary changes are probably all to blame.
Simon O'Neill, from Diabetes UK, said they were concerned that in some cases medication seemed to be the first port of call.
"A healthy, balanced diet and doing physical activity should always be the foundation of good diabetes management.
"Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition – the longer a person has diabetes, the more likely they are to need tablets, and eventually insulin.
" Good diabetes care is not just about medication "
"Even if people are on tablets, medication should not simply replace diet and physical activity."
Professor Steve Field, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said there was probably a case of jumping in too quickly with pills.
"It is a reminder for GPs and nurses managing newly diagnosed diabetes that lifestyle advice is the most important component."
He added that in some areas of the country there was a lack of resources for supporting behavioural changes.
The Department of Health has defended its treatment of people with the condition.
A spokeswoman said: "Prescribed medication is vital to enable many people with diabetes to manage their condition on a day-to-day basis and to reduce their risk of developing complications such as heart attack and stroke."
However, she stressed that "good diabetes care is not just about medication".
"As the NICE guidelines recommend, people with type 2 diabetes should be encouraged to make lifestyle changes, such as healthy eating and increased physical activity, before starting medication," she said.
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Tea 'healthier' drink than water
Tea 'healthier' drink than water
Drinking three or more cups of tea a day is as good for you as drinking plenty of water and may even have extra health benefits, say researchers. The work in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition dispels the common belief that tea dehydrates. Tea not only rehydrates as well as water does, but it can also protect against heart disease and some cancers, UK nutritionists found. Experts believe flavonoids are the key ingredient in tea that promote health.
Healthy cuppa These polyphenol antioxidants are found in many foods and plants, including tea leaves, and have been shown to help prevent cell damage.
" Tea replaces fluids and contains antioxidants so its got two things going for it " Lead author Dr Ruxton
Public health nutritionist Dr Carrie Ruxton, and colleagues at Kings College London, looked at published studies on the health effects of tea consumption. They found clear evidence that drinking three to four cups of tea a day can cut the chances of having a heart attack. Some studies suggested tea consumption protected against cancer, although this effect was less clear-cut. Other health benefits seen included protection against tooth plaque and potentially tooth decay, plus bone strengthening. Dr Ruxton said: "Drinking tea is actually better for you than drinking water. Water is essentially replacing fluid. Tea replaces fluids and contains antioxidants so it's got two things going for it." Rehydrating She said it was an urban myth that tea is dehydrating. "Studies on caffeine have found very high doses dehydrate and everyone assumes that caffeine-containing beverages dehydrate. But even if you had a really, really strong cup of tea or coffee, which is quite hard to make, you would still have a net gain of fluid. "Also, a cup of tea contains fluoride, which is good for the teeth," she added. There was no evidence that tea consumption was harmful to health. However, research suggests that tea can impair the body's ability to absorb iron from food, meaning people at risk of anaemia should avoid drinking tea around mealtimes.
" Tea is not dehydrating. It is a healthy drink " Claire Williamson of the British Nutrition Foundation
Dr Ruxton's team found average tea consumption was just under three cups per day. She said the increasing popularity of soft drinks meant many people were not drinking as much tea as before. "Tea drinking is most common in older people, the 40 plus age range. In older people, tea sometimes made up about 70% of fluid intake so it is a really important contributor," she said. Claire Williamson of the British Nutrition Foundation said: "Studies in the laboratory have shown potential health benefits. "The evidence in humans is not as strong and more studies need to be done. But there are definite potential health benefits from the polyphenols in terms of reducing the risk of diseases such as heart disease and cancers. "In terms of fluid intake, we recommend 1.5-2 litres per day and that can include tea. Tea is not dehydrating. It is a healthy drink." The Tea Council provided funding for the work. Dr Ruxton stressed that the work was independent.
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Home » Politics » How Tall is Dem Candidate Mike Bloomberg? Some Claims are a Stretch
by Ken Stone February 14, 2020 February 15, 2020
Sumner Lee, founder of San Diego's Fuse Integration, shows presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg his Linda Vista business in a January visit. Lee says he is just over 6 feet. Photo by Chris Stone
It's the height of triviality. But in the presidential contest, the issue has arisen: How tall is Mike Bloomberg?
Calling the former New York City mayor "Mini Mike," President Trump says his potential Democratic rival is 5-foot-4.
"In reality, Mr Bloomberg stands at 5'8", according to Google," says the Independent newspaper of Britain. "However, both he and Mr Trump have faced accusations of not being sincere about their heights."
Medical report by a doctor at Bloomberg's alma mater states Mike Bloomberg is 5-foot-7. (PDF)
The New York Times in 2014 said Bloomberg, "who exaggerated his height on his driver's license (at 5-10)," was 5-7, but "had a tendency to vanish in groups." The same paper on Thursday noted that during his 2002-13 mayoralty, he was variously reported 5-6, 5-7 and just shy of 5-8.
On Wednesday, Jay Mathews of The Washington Post wrote a whole column about presidential candidate heights, asserting that Bloomberg is 5-8 and noting that since 1952 and the advent of television, 12 of the 17 White House contests have been won by the taller person.
"Heightism is wrong," wrote the 5-4 Mathews. "The electoral bias against us short people should be exposed and eradicated. I don't have a solution yet."
Also wrong: The conventional wisdom on Bloomberg's physical stature.
Mini Mike is a 5'4" mass of dead energy who does not want to be on the debate stage with these professional politicians. No boxes please. He hates Crazy Bernie and will, with enough money, possibly stop him. Bernie's people will go nuts!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 13, 2020
When Bloomberg visited San Diego on January 5, he was only feet away from a Times of San Diego photographer, who is 5-2 1/2 in running shoes.
Only yards away, I estimated Bloomberg was no more than 2 inches taller than our photographer. (I also observed how short his lectern was at the Wendy Wheatcroft backyard visit.)
Photos taken of Bloomberg earlier that day show him nearly a head shorter than Fuse Integration founder and CEO Sumner Lee.
So we asked Lee his height.
Sumner Lee, founder of Fuse, speaks to presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg about his software equipment business. Photo by Chris Stone
"As for Sumner: he is at least seven feet tall. He can leap over buildings in a single bound," came his email reply. "OK, for real, I'm just a hair over 6 [feet] tall."
MaryAnne Pintar, the former chief of staff to Rep. Scott Peters of San Diego, has taken a leave of absence to work for Bloomberg (who turned 78 Friday).
Via Twitter mail, Pintar said: "I've stood next to him and I'd guess 5'7 or 5'8."
Sabrina Singh, national spokeswoman for Bloomberg's campaign, on Friday provided a letter from the candidate's doctor, Stephen D. Sisson, a professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore.
"Mr. Bloomberg is 5 feet 7 inches tall, weighs 165 pounds, and has a muscular body mass index of 25.8kg/m2," said a 300-word "medical report," calling the billionaire "a 77-year-old man in outstanding health."
(The New York Times notes that Bloomberg has given Johns Hopkins, his alma mater, $3.3 billion, which has the Bloomberg School of Public Health.)
"There are no medical concerns, present or looming, that would prevent him from serving as president of the United States," Sisson said in December.
But questions still loom on the accuracy of the height claims.
The Washington Beacon took a deep dive into the matter.
"Bloomberg's account of his height has changed over time," the paper said. "In 2006, he said, 'What chance does a five-foot-seven billionaire Jew who's divorced really have of becoming president?' A 2003 Daily News article placed him at five-foot-six, as did a 2013 Post piece."
Writing in Chronicles Magazine, former Bloomberg News staffer Edward Welsch says he's seen his old boss in person "and he's strikingly short. My colleagues and I estimated him at 5'5"." Welsch included a 2011 photo of Bloomberg standing next to same-height French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Sarkozy is thought to be 165 centimeters, or 5-5.
Times of San Diego wrote to Mathews, the author of the Washington Post piece, arguing that Bloomberg is what Trump says he is: 5-4.
"Many agree with you and your wife, Ken," Mathews responded. "We may have to wait until he is elected and the White House doctor has to report his vitals."
Updated at 12:10 p.m. Feb. 15, 2020
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At a recent meeting of the Diet's Constitutional Review Council, Americans who participated in the drafting of the Japanese Constitution 54 years ago during the Occupation gave testimony. Their statements provided valuable clues to an understanding of the circum-stances that led up to the establishment of the Constitution, as well as the psychology of young Americans of that time.
I hear that some members of the Diet are moving to invite Chinese and South Koreans as well to speak at council meetings. This is hearsay; I may be misinformed. Being deeply concerned about such a possibility, I would like to issue an early warning about the idea.
First, allow me to recount my personal experience as a way to explain my point.
In 1990, when Iraq's invasion of Kuwait put Japan's response in the spotlight, a bill to allow the nation to participate in international peacekeeping operations was considered. That proposal did not materialize.
Prior to the drafting of the bill, the Japanese government decided to send special envoys to China, South Korea and ASEAN states to sound out their opinions. As an envoy to China, a legislator with friendly ties to that country was mentioned.
The Foreign Ministry instructed the ambassadors to the countries concerned to ask the governments of those countries whether they would accept the envoys. Colleague ambassadors of mine, who faithfully performed their duties, immediately contacted the host governments and cabled the home office that they were ready to receive the emissary. I was the ambassador to Thailand at the time, but I took exception to the rule–I was the only one who did not act quickly.
I had doubts about the idea of sending special envoys abroad to hear foreign opinions on a bill that had yet to be finalized. I thought it should be the other way around: Envoys should be dispatched, if necessary, after the bill is enacted, to explain the bill to neighboring nations. In my view, seeking in this manner the opinions of China in particular, and also of South Koorea where anti-Japanese feeings were running high at the time, would be tantamount to killing the bill.
I sent a telegram to the home office stating my objection. Now I feel a bit ashamed of the bureaucratic, expedient way in which I stated my case.
Considering my status at the time, I thought I should not present an outright objection. Instead, I asked why politicians should be sent as special envoys when we have ambassadors extraordinary and plenipotentiary.
It was a cosmetic argument meant to tickle the turf mentality of government bureaucrats intended to buy time so that Tokyo would reconsider the emissary plan.
If I had been allowed to handle the matter at my discretion, I would have been able to get favorable responses from the Thai government–namely, consent to the PKO bill and Japan's expanded peacekeeping role as well as an assurance of noninterference in Japan's internal affairs.
My time-buying resistance tactics worked. The lesson is this: In a sensitive maneuver such as this, a fait accompli should be established before it comes under criticism from outside the government. Otherwise, such a delicate mission will not succeed.
Many Japanese who were brought up during and after World War II have a tendency to think, without much regard for long-term consequences, that it is "good" for Japan to listen to what other Asian nations have to say.
Such a tendency is also manifest in purported moves to invite Chinese and South Koreans to speak at the Diet on the Constitution.
Such thinking is flawed. It is inconceivable, particularly from the viewpoint of today's younger generations, that Japan should follow neighboring countries' opinions on its security policy. In fact, while I was trying to buy time, the government's idea of sending special envoys came under fire from the Liberal Democratic Party's Executive Council. As a result, the plan fell through.
Japan began giving foreign countries a say in its own education policies in 1982 when the textbook issue (involving descriptions of Japan's wartime aggression) stirred controversy here and abroad. The larger problem is that the issue set a precedent for this nation to accept foreign interference in its security policy as well.
It is all to the good if agreement on, say, disarmament or confidence-building measures is reached in a spirit of reciprocity. But a nation's security policy cannot be established by unilaterally accepting the views of its neighbors.
During my 40 years in the Foreign Ministry, I was not always an exemplary public servant, so I felt that I owed a lot to the country. Not so this time around. I cannot help but feel that (by indirectly playing a role in efforts to kill the emissary plan) I have repaid a bit of my "debt" to the government.
This is a question that a segment of the Japanese mass media has repeatedly asked foreigners since the mid-1980s. The implication is that they want to extend foreign interference to the issue of constitutional revision.
That would put foreign witnesses in an embarrassing position. If a Chinese is invited, Beijing will find it difficult to miss the opportunity.
And if a witness does appear at a council meeting, he will have to state Beijing's official line. As a result, judging from current trends in public opinion, the Japanese perception of China will almost certainly worsen; and so, too, will relations between the two countries.
South Korea will also find itself in an awkward position if a Chinese attends a council meeting. South Korea's government may decline the invitation, but private citizens may volunteer. If any of them appears, some of his statements will probably embarrass the government in Seoul. My point is that Japan should decide its policies without creating problems in other countries. This is especially true about the Constitution. If Japan is to be truly independent, it must solve its problems on its own.


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Courtesy of Unsplash | Features Editor Katia Faroun encourages us to live in the moment.
Katia Faroun | Features Editor
Though it's in the name, a photographer's goal should not be a photo-op.
Merriam-Webster defines "behold" as to gaze upon, usually something of impressive beauty. Multiple religions place an emphasis on beholding the glory of nature. The Judeo Christian worldview encourages believers to see God's presence in nature and to respect it as part of his creation. Aesthetic philosophers, such as Immanuel Kant, use nature as a basis to analyze judgments of beauty. In the metaphysical realm, nature is revered and respected as at least complex and at most holy.
But now, nature seems to play a different role.
I've been blessed with experiencing countless stunning landscapes — ones of majestic mountains, colorful skies at sunset or deep blue oceans splashing against a rocky coast. Almost as soon as my eyes land on the beauty, I whip out my camera and spend the next 10 minutes clicking open the shutter, shifting to get the perfect angle and lighting. At minute 11, I look out of the viewfinder and face an exhausted scene somehow not as striking as it is on my camera display — and walk away, already scheduling what time a post that evening would gather me the most Instagram likes.
Only later does the guilt set in — that I have the blessing of a camera on hand to forever document a fleeting piece of history, but instead of beholding the spectacle with my eyes, I see it through an expensive hunk of glass. I approached a piece of beauty, a combination of the forces of nature and science, and abused it by viewing it in angles, white balance and framing.
Yes, a photographer's responsibility is to photograph compelling images — and time can limit our ability to enjoy the scene we're photographing. But it's also our responsibility to honor Earth's greatness. Viewing a spectacle of nature as a canvas is just another way to exploit the natural world — a way to demean the grandeur of Earth by seeing it as something to consume, rather than to behold.
Today, beholding nature seems like a lost art. Technology has brought recent generations an abundance of convenience and joy — but as always with ease, there comes the temptation to take for granted exactly what this convenience is granting us access to.
It's not always photographers that commit this crime. Tourists walk down streets taking selfies with La Sagrada Familia and spend lunch editing pictures of the beach they're sitting on. Teenagers seek out scenic places and spend the entire time taking photos of each other, not stopping for one moment to admire the beauty they're trampling.
The truth is, it's easy for photographers to get caught up in our job. Our natural urge when seeing something beautiful or photo-worthy is to capture it — and to capture it well. But the techniques used to take a good photo are inherently distracting, and it's inevitable for any photographer to not be truly in the moment when on the job.
However, with all things, there's a balance. While it may not be possible for photographers to photograph nature unhindered by a lens, it is possible — and essential — for us to take a moment and simply be a human beholding a marvel of nature.
It's humbling to recognize the grandeur of nature and our finiteness as human beings. Voyager 1's 1990 image of Earth surrounded by the vastness of space reminded mankind just how small the pale blue dot we call home actually is. To be reminded of our seemingly insignificant mark on the history of the universe forces us to reckon with our pride.
For at our core, we are all human beings. Yes, we may wear a lab coat or a badge, and for a moment, resort to this temporary identity. But first and foremost, we are complex anatomical beings, consisting of various biological systems. We are the result of millions of years of evolution, and we most likely won't be the last versions of our species.
Still, though the existence of the human race may only be a small finger nail shaving off the wingspan of time, there are things that have lasted much longer. There are mountains and ravines, valleys and oceans, volcanoes and waterfalls that rise and fall at Earth's command. And as we enjoy our short time on this beautiful planet, we can humbly look on, reminded of our identities as its visitors.
As the book of Genesis reminds us, "For dust you are, and to dust you will return." Who are we to exploit this wonder-filled planet by shoving DSLRs and smartphones in its face? We at least owe it the respect of beholding its non-man made beauty, and making that the image we walk away with.
Put the camera down, and enjoy the view.
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