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Set below the stage of the Paris Opera - a horribly deformed ex -performer 'haunts' the backstage and public areas - insisting that he has a box for his own private use. He falls in love with a beautiful young chorus singer and trains his pupil (who never sees him) to take over the star role. She excels and everyone wonders where she came from and how she developed such a beautiful voice. The Phantom, who has now revealed himself to her, decides to take her with him to spend her life in his subterranean lair but she is rescued by her lover.
The Phantom of the Opera is now available in a schools version. The Phantom of the Opera website.
Performers Peter Karrie (Phantom), Deborah Dutcher (Christine).
Music Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics Charles Hart. Book by Gaston Leroux. Producer Cameron Mackintosh. Producer The Really Useful Theatre Company Ltd. Design Maria Bjornson. Lighting Andrew Bridge. Sound Martin Levan. Music David White (musical supervision). Music David Cullen (orchestration). Music Andrew Lloyd Webber (orchestration). Choreographer Gillian Lynne. Director Harold Prince.
The Phantom of the Opera (Musical) production archive for QTIX code T01153029305. Details of all The Phantom of the Opera archived productions can be found under the QTIX code: S1646
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From Wembley to extinction? The rise, fall and battle for the future of North Ferriby United
North Ferriby United were on top of the world. Or the top step at Wembley at least.
Parading the FA Trophy on the Wembley gantry in front of thousands of travelling supporters, the village side were living a reality many wouldn't ever have dreamed possible.
With aspirations of winning promotion to the National League – which would be a new peak – the Villagers were a club on the up; an underdog that was upsetting traditionally bigger and more well-supported teams on a regular basis.
But looking back at that snapshot of joy and untold promise in 2015, the Wembley delirium already looks like a moment from a long, lost scrapbook of happier times. The season after, the East Yorkshiremen did reach the fifth tier with a play-off victory against AFC Fylde, but that would be their zenith.
In the three years since, the club has gone in the opposite direction.
Instead of building on the FA Trophy success and their fifth-tier status, they've slipped into chronic decline. Now they're bracing themselves for a third successive relegation, which would see North Ferriby complete the journey from Wembley winners back to relative anonymity. However, a battle to protect the club's identity might just trump any trauma of the team's catapult down the leagues, with their owners locked in a battle with the football authorities to allow them to move the club 13 miles out of Ferriby and change its name.
To fully understand North Ferriby's dramatic rise and fall, looking back at the club's recent past provides an insight into how a tiny village team went from being a non-league also ran to mixing it with much bigger players, and then a startlingly quick descent.
A provincial club that plays in the shadow of the Humber Bridge, North Ferriby was a non-league outpost that not many visitors would have envisaged being the scene of a surge up the leagues. An affluent, yet sleepy, village with fewer than 4,000 inhabitants, the large houses, small cluster of shops and white telephone boxes, which are a nod to nearby Hull City Council's independent governance of the phone lines until 2007, don't give the impression of a football hotbed.
But after getting into the Northern Premier League for the first time in its history in 2005, they established themselves at that level and reached the National League North in 2013.
Nothing too remarkable there.
But when Eman Forster and her husband Steve – daughter and son-in-law of controversial Hull City owner Assem Allam – took over in the November following promotion, the gradual success that epitomised North Ferriby's progress suddenly grew legs. Investment would mean that consolidation wasn't the sole aim and the club started planning with more ambition.
The FA Trophy was won, but within two months the club was reportedly facing voluntary relegation back into the lower tiers, with several players claiming that the Forsters were pulling their funding and that they'd all been told they were free to find new clubs. The owners denied that, despite having put the club up for sale and promised to keep covering costs until a buyer was found.
So for the club to prosper on the pitch and earn promotion to the backdrop of a will-they-won't-they saga was even more of a miracle. However, a statement in March – less than two months before the play-off guaranteeing a place in the National League – declared that the Forsters were seeking somebody to take over due to Steve Forster's ill health.
To make matters worse, manager Billy Heath and the heart of the squad departed for Halifax in the close season. And with budgets remaining stationary despite making the jump up to a league packed with former Football League clubs with average attendances nearly the size of North Ferriby's population, it was no surprise the Villagers finished bottom – 12 points from safety.
Relegation from a league where North Ferriby were rubbing shoulders with the likes of Lincoln City and Tranmere Rovers needn't have carried any shame. However, the slender attendances and income – and the failure to find a new owner for 18 months – caught up with Ferriby as they slipped back into National League North.
A wretched start to the new season followed by several rounds of budget cuts created the perfect ingredients for another relegation, with the Villagers only picking up four wins and conceding 101 goals on the way to a second consecutive demotion.
Even the arrival of a new owner in November spelled more doom and gloom, with Jamie Waltham branding the club unsustainable at its current level and announcing his intention to transfer their status to another club in the area. And while he only remained in the position for six months, his replacement, Carl Chadwick, had similar misgivings about the financial situation.
With a paltry budget now funded only by an average gate of 150, a hat-trick of relegations is inevitable, with North Ferriby only notching one win so far this season to sit adrift at the foot of the table once more. But while they've had to get used to losing battles on the field, the Villagers' existence now relies on winning one off it.
At the end of 2018, a proposal was submitted to the FA requesting that North Ferriby would become East Hull and move 20 minutes away to the neighbouring village of Dunswell. The motion was rejected by the FA a month later, but Chadwick – who is working with previous owner Waltham to get the deal done – has appealed the decision.
As the web of uncertainty and speculation builds, those happy days at Wembley seem much more distant that four years ago.
Right now, North Ferriby United appear to be heading for rock bottom.
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1 Simon: Bonnie! You have to save those five physicists by sacrificing me! Push the trolley into me!
2 Bonnie: I understand, Simon.
3 Bonnie: You've analysed the ethics of the situation and concluded this is the only ethically defensible outcome.
4 Simon: I was going to say I get to die a hero, but okay, sure.
Ethics is a tricky topic.
I've mentioned a couple of times in 2017 that I was teaching a Year 4 Ethics class at a local primary school. In 2018 I switched to teaching Year 6, children about 11 years old. The curriculum I teach is set by Primary Ethics, and approved by the New South Wales Board of Education, and I don't get to vary it or make my own class material. I recently completed a topic on drugs in sport, in which I introduced the topic through the planned exercises and discussion questions provided in the curriculum. Initially the children were pretty much all blanket against the idea of using performance-enhancing drugs in sport, but by the end of the topic, several of them were reconsidering their opinions.
It's not as bad as it sounds - the topic raised the point that caffeine is known to be a performance-enhancing drug, yet it is (currently) allowed in athletic and sports competition. (High levels of it were banned from the mid-1980s to 2004, but the ban has been removed.) The students were generally of the opinion that this is okay, since caffeine is in normal foods and drinks that lots of people eat, so banning it is impractical.
But yeah... shades of grey.


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MICHELLE SEGRE
13 September – 30 October, 2016
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56 HENRY is delighted to present Satellite, an exhibition of recent sculpture by Michelle Segre. Comprised of a single work suspended from the gallery ceiling, the exhibition will be on view from September 13 through October 30, 2016.
Satellite consists of two vertical planes that intersect at a right angle. One is woven from bright, multicolored yarn, and hung like a curtain from a tree branch. The other is formed with a large metal hoop, crosshatched and netted with lines of blue yarn. A series of twelve windows reinforced with twigs punctuate the oval, and each window holds a vibrantly colored form. The windows correspond roughly to the months of the year, arranged in a circle around the woven plane. The two shapes bisect each other at their midpoints to create four wedges of activated space, held on two sides by high walls of yarn.
Segre's work plays in the fertile ground between order and disorder. Her sculptures often incorporate industrial elements balanced by organic materials, but Satellite goes beyond this materialist distinction. Its title suggests an ambiguity between the natural and the artificial, for the term itself makes no distinction: Sputnik and the Moon are both satellites. But like an artificial satellite, Segre has encoded her sculpture with information and sent it into orbit – the very disordered space to which the calendar and the zodiac give order.
Michelle Segre lives and works in New York City. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo presentations in New York and abroad, most recently at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia. Her work is held in the collections of many public institutions, including The Museum of Modern Art, and The New Museum, New York, the Katonah Museum of Art, and the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs. In 2016, Segre was granted fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Umbria, Italy, where she began work on Satellite. Segre is represented by Derek Eller Gallery, New York.
Exhibitions at 56 HENRY are visible 24 hours a day. Gallery doors are open to the public Thursday through Sunday, 12:00 – 6:00 pm. For more information or images related to the exhibition, please contact Ellie Rines at (646) 858-0800 or info@56henry.nyc.


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Edinburgh Airport's journey numbers for 2018 was a new Scottish record for a single year
More than 14 million flights took off and landed at the airport last year
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More than 14 million journeys were made to and from Edinburgh Airport last year.
The total of 14,310,403 flights was most ever recorded at a Scottish airport. This represented an increase of 6.5 per cent on 2017.
Of those journeys 5,378,146 were domestic flights and 8,932,257 were international.
Edinburgh Airport released the figures shortly after announcing that one million passengers made their way through the airport in December for the first time ever.
Chief executive Gordon Dewar said: "We're delighted to deliver yet another record year for a Scottish airport which highlights the incredible appetite there is for travel to and from Scotland.
"From the Middle East to the Far East and Europe to America, we offer more than 150 destinations from Edinburgh and it's that variety of choice which is driving our growth. Be it a city break in Copenhagen, a business conference in London or a family holiday to Dubai, we are catering across the spectrum.
"Our success is also down to our airline and business partners, and of course our staff who keep airport operations running smoothly. It is our staff who are the unsung heroes who make every day a big day for someone at our airport and I thank them for the work that they do."
He added that new routes and destinations will be announced for 2019 and they'll "continue to add more growth where they can".
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Jim McKillop has an international reputation for the excellent instruments he produces in his workshop. His instruments are highly sought after and are sold world wide.
Amongst the many admirers of his work, was the late/great Jazz violinist Stephanne Grapelli.
Having studied violin making in England and in Italy, Jim has an extensive knowledge of the classic violin makers and their instruments. At right, the tomb of Antonio Stradivari in Cremona Italy in 1986 on the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary.


Currently the AxCrypt Mac application does not have the right click context menu. But we will develop the same in the future upcoming versions.
The problem for us is it requires another level of integration that we are not quite ready to take right now. If we implement that we will be more dependent on the whims of Apple and their operating system which increases the maintenance effort.
When we get a larger user base on the Mac such integration will indeed be high on the list of things to do.
We are still resource constrained unfortunately, so that's really the only thing stopping us. We are growing though, so I have good hopes for the future!


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Cross-country runner Sy Hanson takes advantage of second chance at Camp Verde
Camp Verde senior Sy Hanson went from team manager to team's top runner after being ineligible last year.
Cross-country runner Sy Hanson takes advantage of second chance at Camp Verde Camp Verde senior Sy Hanson went from team manager to team's top runner after being ineligible last year. Check out this story on azcentral.com: https://www.azcentral.com/story/sports/high-school/2019/09/19/cross-country-runnertakes-advantage-second-chance-camp-verde/2366580001/
Richard Obert, Arizona Republic Published 10:00 a.m. MT Sept. 19, 2019
Cross-country runner Sy Hanson of Campe Verde. (Photo: Courtesy of David Castillo)
Now, when Sy Hanson runs around Camp Verde's campus, the senior has a clear view of his future paved by the mistakes he made in his past.
"I learned it's not a one-person team," he said. "It's everyone else. It's like football and basketball. It's team."
After having to leave the school because of "getting in trouble" during his sophomore year, Hanson returned last year, knowing he would have to settle for a different role on the cross-country team.
He passed out water, yelled out encouragement to the runners, and tried to be the best team manager he could be.
Because he made a second transfer move, Hanson was ineligible to compete in the sport he grew up loving for a full season, because of Arizona Interscholastic Association rules.
"When I came back, I was really devastated for the first couple of weeks," Hanson said. "It was hard to get back into everything. I talked to the cross-country coach.
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"I really did learn from getting in trouble. I learned a lot. I felt like it really helped. I'm not saying you should get in trouble. But it helped me mature earlier. It opened my eyes to how precious sports is and doing one thing could screw it all up."
Hanson didn't want to address what happened, but, after spending the spring semester of his sophomore year at South Verde (part of the Camp Verde Unified School District), he's taking advantage of his new lease on life.
"He made a bad choice," said Keya Hanson, Sy's mom. "He learned a lot from it. He grew up a lot in these past few years. He put his heart and soul into the sport. He had to learn a lot by not competing."
Hanson, whose father died when he was 3, put everything into his training with the Camp Verde runners in practices last year and working extra hard in the summer.
He competed in non-school races to keep the competitive juices flowing.
Camp Verde coach David Castillo said Hanson is running one or two on his team this season. His return gives the team a great chance at getting to state.
He feels Hanson serving as the team manager helped push him even harder this year to be the best runner.
"He wasn't above getting water for the kids and making sure everyone had what they needed," Castillo said. "He could have just quit the team and said, 'I'm done.'
"He definitely would have been our number two runner last year. He's running one and two now. Last year, as student manager, he was a leader on the team. He'd come and practice and run with us."
The 6-foot Hanson said he's been running cross-country since the sixth grade. He said the sport always helped him relax.
His goal last year was simply to get the best out of the Camp Verde runners, work hard, and remain patient.
Good things will come.
They're coming now.
In a meet early this season in Flagstaff, he ran 3.1 miles in 22 minutes, 45 seconds. He said it was hard, but it will help him as the season winds on.
"I just felt like if I can't compete, I can help the team be state qualifying for next year," he said. "For the team, I want to really show the lower class, sophomores and freshmen, what I takes to be part of this team."
That unselfishness is what his mom admires most about her son.
"I would say what he's learned most is to always give it your all, learn from your mistakes, and to keep pushing for your dreams," Keya said. "No matter what, it's about team."
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Pale and Fancy Nulle by Luckyboysunday are rabbits. I am only telling you this because everybody asks. 'What is this creature exactly?' They say. Personally I think the ears are a dead give away but then again this is a rabbit wearing a bunny hat, spectacles and a diamond check tank top, so what do I know? Well, funny you should ask. I know that Pale and Fancy Nulle are just about the cutest animals to never draw breath, that they are handmade in Bolivia from the softest alpaca by talented women working under the fair trade principles and that Luckyboysunday have somehow found a way to knit love and longing into a soft toy and that sometimes it isn't weird to have a best friend who is made of wool. Phew.
Appearance: Sweet and slightly rabbity.
Material: Soft alpaca. Polyester filling.
Size: 75cm when standing including ears.
Cleaning: 30 degree wool cycle or hand wash.


This project has become so popular that I decided to give it its own home: SQLWATCH.IO. Thank you #SQLFamily!
I often help improve the performance of a SQL Server or an application. Performance metrics in SQL Server are exposed via Dynamic Management Views (DMVs). However, DMVs only provide a view of the current state and no history. This is important as it makes it particularly difficult to draw a bigger picture of how the system is behaving over time and what problems are occurring during overnight batch processing or during peak operational times, for example when users log in to the system at 8 am or when they leave for lunch at 1 pm.
The built-in Windows Performance Monitor can be used to record performance data over time and it's great at it but not really designed for long runs and also can be quite difficult to read and analyse data.
To address this deficiency I have built a simple yet comprehensive SQL Server Performance Dashboard in PowerBI. PowerBI Desktop is a free data visualisation and analytics tool from Microsoft. You can download a free copy from their website: https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/.
As mentioned above, SQL Server does not provide historical performance data so we have to collect and store it somewhere.
and store output in physical tables in a user database. I suggest a dedicated "DBA" database.
In order to provide consistent correlation point and time dimension, I am using a header table.
dbo.sql_perf_mon_server server name so we can show it in the text box. I tried not to reference system objects i.e. @@SERVERNAME from PowerBI so we can grant read-only permissions to a wider audience.
dbo.sql_perf_mon_config_report_time_interval available time intervals. By default, there are two: 5 and 15 minutes. This is NOT how often data is collected – read below what this means.
dbo.sql_perf_mon_config_wait_stats list of popular waits with their category as categorised by Microsoft.
The collection is invoked by running stored procedure via SQL Agent Job every 1 minute with 12 seconds offset to avoid clashing with other jobs starting at the full minute.
The performance overhead of data logging is very low although overall performance will depend on the retention period. By default, the retention job is set to delete anything older than 7 days.
cumulative – constantly increasing value since the server restart. For example wait stats.
point-in-time – current value at a time of querying DMV. For example Current Connections.
The point in time metrics are easy and we do not have to do much with them. However for the cumulative values in order to present over a period of time we have to calculate the difference (delta) between two cumulative snapshots.
Notice there is only 15 rows vs original 20 (5 data files captured 4 times = 20 total rows). This is because there is nothing to subtract the last snapshot from.
Ok, great but this calculates the delta between all snapshots which will create a lot of data points for reports covering longer time periods. So how are going to calculate deltas over 5 or 15 minutes periods? We will have to create a dimension-like view with the time periods we need. To make this even more interesting we want this view to be flexible and show different time-spans.
Let's focus on the subquery used in join which utilises cross apply.
Power BI is relatively easy to use yet powerful which can have it's consequences when it comes to performance. IT offers two ways of getting data: Import and Direct Query. In short, import "downloads" all the data into the report and Direct Query does not. The benefit of the import is that we can download once and slice and dice it without querying the database. Another benefit is that because data is within the report itself, we can email it to someone who does not have access to the database (this is a bad idea if one is not supposed to have access to the data one way or another).
ReportIntervalMinutes – as described above, the snapshot interval. Either 5 or 15 minutes.
ReportAgeHours – How far back does it go from EndTime.
EndTime – Either custom date i.e. '2018-08-01' or GETDATE() — notice the quotes around date and no quotes around GETDATE().
In the example below the report will pull data from 16 hours ago to now. If we wanted to see data for yesterday we would have to change EndTime to relevant date/time.
You will notice that continuous measures, such as CPU and Activity are shown as area charts and those that can have gaps, for example, wait statistics are shown as bar charts. This is because line charts aren't very good at plotting data series with gaps whereas bar charts do not require such continuity.
Please refer to this great Performance counter poster from Quest Software: https://github.com/marcingminski/sql-performance-monitor/blob/master/SQLServer-Performance-Poster.pdf to learn more about which counters are worth attention.
Simply execute the setup script which will create all necessary objects and jobs. To uninstall execute uninstall script which will remove it all including history tables so you will lose it all.
When SQL Server is restarted performance data is reset and my report will show negative values as the delta will be negative. There is a way around it to check if the second snapshot's value is greater than first's and if not show 0. I will implement this in the next release. If you would like to be notified about future releases and updates to SQL Server Performance Dashboard please subscribe to my blog.


Tales Of A Nomad: Belum Caves- Deep Down Under...!!
Belum Caves- Deep Down Under...!!
I was in search of a Lord Buddha statue after traversing almost 300 Kms across the barren plains of Rayalseema in Andhra Pradesh. The search was not to see the statue of Buddha but to make sure I was on the right path. The statue was the landmark and the destination was Belum Caves in Kurnool district. The charming lord invited me to the longest underground caving system in the Indian sub continent. 3.5 Kms of the caves have been excavated and 1.5 Kms of it is open to the public. First discovered in late 1800's by a Britisher, the caves are presently under the Archaeological Survey of India and Andhra Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation. When these millions of years old caves were explored again in early 1980's, speleologists found Buddhist relics and remnants of Lord Buddha's times. There are claims that the caves were occupied by Buddhist monks, sages and Jains.
I went down 40 feet from the ground level with my guide. The steps led me to the entrance hall which had a low slanting ceiling and huge opening to the sky. My guide then explained to me how and when the caves were explored, what the excavators found and about the different kind of formations of stalactites and stalagmites. He also warned that the humidity level would be 80% in most places. Except for a few bats, he claimed the caves were devoid of animal presence. Supposedly millions of years ago, water flowed through these caves and the formation of the passages and the smoothness of the cave-walls are all a result of the flows.
The caves have been lit up along the passages for visibility and this yellow light made the caves even more attractive. As we trod ahead, the smell of earth was so apparent and I also realised that I was sweating profusely. The further I went, higher became the humidity levels, deeper became the caves from 40 feet to 100 feet below ground level and heavier became my perspiration. All these difficulties did neither distract me nor make me tired. I was lost gawking at the natural formations of stalactites,stalagmites, pit holes on roofs, animal paws, snake hoods, god look-alike and many many more formations. It took me some time to regain my senses as I was spellbound gazing at this heavenly wonder. Even as my guide kept explaining in detail about the caves, I was lost and transported to aeons back.
As we kept walking along the fairly wide passages, my guide stopped and said we will take a short cut. To save 200 meters of walk along the passage, he literally made me crawl for 15 meters in pitch darkness. The ceiling was hardly two and a half feet high and that was indeed a mind blowing experience. For the first time in my life I felt I was a true cave explorer.
The major sightings inside the caves are meditation room, mantapam, maya mandir, pathal ganga, banyan tree hall and musical chamber. The tourism department has done significant initiatives to promote these caves by placing bridges, cutting steps, lighting, air supplies at frequent points and excellent guides to help the visitors understand the history behind these extraordinary caves.
Can you see a Ganapathi here?
After walking, crawling, gaping, clicking, posing and listening to my guide's geography classes for 1.5 Kms we reached Pathal Ganga. This is the point where there is a small spring and a stone in the shape of Shivalinga. The water was not cold as I expected it to be. Pathal Ganga is almost 120 feet below the ground level and is the last point up to which the cave is open to public. Even though explorers have gone much further ahead, it is not advisable for the visitors to follow their foot steps. My guide also mentioned that there are chances of animal presence further ahead of Pathal Ganga.
It was a long walk of another 1.5 Kms before I could breathe fresh oxygen, see the sun's rays and and get my senses back from the fantasy world.
Belum caves is definitely one of the best caving options available in the whole of India. It is slowly but significantly gaining importance on the tourist map and is sure to attract many more visitors in the coming times. Please make sure to carry lots of drinking water when you enter the caves.
Signing Note- Go down the caves and transport yourself into a magical world...!!
wow... this is amazgin stuff.. havent heard of this place, and it sure looks like it belongs in another country..
The place is amazing and you would definitely feel you have landed in another planet.
Wonderful shots of interiors of the cave.
Niranjan you are a wandering genius. like your depth of study and love for travel.
Thanks a lot Jatin. Nice to see you here. Keep visiting.
This is amazing, thank you for sharing this wonderful experience. Felt like I was doing the expedition, admire your passion.
Thanks a lot Sir. You must visit the place. Thanks for dropping by.
Wow, I am amazed that we too have such stuff here in India but hardly anyone knows about. Great going through you blog. Thanks for the beautiful journey. God bless.
Thanks a lot. There are numerous such unexplored treasures in India. Thanks for dropping by.
Thanks a lot. Those words are an inspiration to explore more.
We travel abroad in search of such places not knowing such wonders exist right here....Wonderful job of posting it..Lovely photographs too!!!
Thank you Mridu. You are very right. Many places in India still remains unexplored and people go in search of treasures abroad.
My pleasure, Nesi. Thank you.
I was there some time back.
So many pictures? they will get stolen... seriously!
Lovely images, I love the textures.
Wonderful pics Niranjan... and excellent narration. Felt as if I was going through the paths as well. Wonder how the underground caves/pathways are so neat and tidy. Are they maintained by the Government?
Thanks a lot Divya. The place is well maintained by the tourism department.
beautiful pictures...thank you for sharing your experience..!!
Thanks a lot. Keep dropping by.
My grandparents belong to kurnool, no wonder I have known this place.
But you clicked the right places to be amazed of these caves.
DO visit the rock formations on either sides of the road which takes you to Orvakallu or Nandhyal from Kurnool.
Thanks a lot Apoorva. I have visited Gandikota reservoir. I suppose that is Orvakallu. Correct me if am wrong. You are so fortunate to come from such a wonderful land.
Please feel free to share this link on your fb page.
Thanks Apoorva for sharing it. Have added you on facebook.
Wow! That is quite a place. Pathal Ganga must be a stream there!
Its an awesome place Kusum. You must visit it. Yes, Pathal Ganga is a small stream.
It is a beautiful place and adventure lovers are sure to love it. It is 290 Kms from Bangalore. The route is mentioned on my post.
Though I've read and seen so much of belum caves, its the first time Im getting so much information about the caves themselves.
Awesome pics and great narration.
Really interesting and informative Niranjan! The pictures are great! Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks a lot Shubhra. Nice to see you here. Keep dropping by.
wonderful!!!! I read about these caves on another blog just a few months back.. till then i was completely unaware of them!!! from your post, the place appears to be well maintained too... now i hope i can go there soon!!
Thanks Anu. The place is a must visit. Its well maintained by the tourism department. Head there soon.
Good to see another report about this cave. The images show the cave formations. Wish they hadn't concertised the place.
Yeah, but that has helped vistors to go further deep into the caves. The place is quite well maintained by the tourism department.
Jaw-dropping images, Niranjan! We're sure fortunate to see these pictures. That must have been such an amazing experience.
Thanks a lot. It was indeed an amazing experience.
Hi Niran good. How you are managing it. Always special places.
Hi Niran. Wonderful place. Good snaps.
Thanks a lot Ramdas mama. It is my passion for travel that is taking me to all these places.
Great snaps and useful information!!
Absolutely stunning and as usual I had not heard of this before!
Thanks Mridula. It is a stunning place. Do visit it when you get time.
Beautiful snaps. Loved the lighting.
Thanks Gowtham. Keep dropping by.
i was completely about such an amazing place in India. I feeling flying there to have the experience. Awesome photos and ofcourse awesome your description.
Thanks a lot. Its a magnificent place. Head there soon.
Wow. This is an amazing account of your adventure. The pics are awesome. Thanks for sharing.
a very fascinating place which is nicely captured in the photos!appears to be well-lit too.are people hesitant about entering the caves,because i didn't find anyone in the pics except in one!
Thank you Srinivasan. There were a few visitors when I was there. It is just that I avoided them in my frames. You can visit them during anytime of the year. Since Rayalseema is mostly hot and dry, you may avoid the summers.
Thanks for sharing this. It looks amazing.
The place is a heaven for photographers like you, Joshi!!
Beautiful pictures. I have heard a lot about this place. Now, your excellent account and pictures make me wanna go here soon.
Thanks Sankara. Head there soon.
WOW !! Great pics ,..i never heard about this place .. Thanks for sharing this one ..!!
Niranjan, nice write up. Felt like am there while you explained it. Pics made them as much livelier!
We are planning for a road trip on our bikes next week from Hyderabad to Belum Caves & Gandikota. Could you pls share some info?
How is the accommodation over there, if you stayed there?
Any timings for the Bellum Caves? We'll be reaching there by 11 am so will that be sufficient?
How much did the guide charge?
Thanks a lot. I did not stay in Belum or Gandikota. There is a vegetarian restaurant in the premises of belum caves. The best stay options are in Anantpur. Nothing much near Belum and Gandikota. Reaching by 11 am would be apt. It would take about 2 hours to come out of the caves. Guides do not charge anything, but you may tip them. They are ssigned by the tourismdepartment. Hoever there is minimal entry charges. Thanks for dropping by. Keep visiting. Enjoy your ride to Belum.
So this place is now on the map as they say. Cool photos. How many hours did you spend inside. More than 2 am sure.
I remember lots of friends visiting this place over the last 2-3 years.
I wonder if you took any photos of the grand canyon like vistas of the river and red sandstone rocks which is also a part of the circuit.
Thanks a lot. It takes about 2-3 hours to finish the tour. The posts on gandikota is also there on my blog. Keep visiting.


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Hillary scolds Trump for not correcting town hall question; she must have forgotten THIS flashback!
When Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump did not correct a man who said during a New Hampshire town hall meeting Thursday that President Barack Obama was a Muslim, his counterpart on the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, went ballistic.
But she forgot a smear campaign from her 2008 primary battle with the president.
"The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat front-runner dressed as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya," the Drudge Report said, according to a CBS News post at the time.
Clinton's people didn't deny circulating the photo.
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How Fantasy LCS is Changing 'League of Legends'
Jorge Albor
Will Fantasy LCS have the power to bring new fans into the eSports scene, including those who do not watch or even play video games?
I used to hate American football. From a viewer's perspective, especially one who grew up watching soccer, it doesn't make any sense. Not only is there a glut of obscure rules and strange plays (The onside kick? What's that all about?), the sport is also extremely slow paced. Half the team sits down while the other half takes its turn defending or moving the ball up the field in short individual bursts. In fact, a Wall Street Journal study estimated that the average time the ball is in play during a given football match is a mere eleven minutes. What a bore.
Then, several years ago, I started playing fantasy football. For those unfamiliar with the game, it's that thing all of your coworkers talk about during the football season, even the ones who never go to a game. Each participant in your average fantasy football league drafts individual players from the entire NFL and fits them into specific slots on their team. These teams then face off each week, earning points based on the performance of real life players. If, say, Tony Romo throws four touchdowns, your team might come out big. If, on the other hand, Romo gets sacked and fumbles the ball, he could actually earn negative points for your team that week.
Overall fantasy football success depends on a smart draft, attention to individual player trends, and keen repositioning depending on any given week's opposition. Play enough fantasy football, and you'll find yourself with a newfound respect for the excellence and strategy on display each week, just as I have found an appreciation for football, even if my allegiance is to my own fictional team. And I'm not alone. Some 33 million Americans play fantasy sports every year.
Now, in another bid to move League of Legends closer to the realm of sports, Riot is fully embracing the fantasy metagame with their Fantasy LCS. Four weeks into the eleven game season and the weekly pro-player faceoffs are already showcasing the strengths and weaknesses of the fantasy sport genre, if we can call it that. It seems natural for a company trying so hard to push eSports into mainstream entertainment consumption to borrow so heavily from football.
Much like fantasy anything, Fantasy LCS follows much of the same drafting and scoring rules with some adjustments for the digital space. Each participant drafts a team of professional players for seven different roles and three bench positions. The squad consists of the same meta-roles familiar to most MOBA players. Top, Jungler, Mid, AD Carry, and Support are joined by the Flex position, which any player can fill regardless of their role, and Team, which tracks points based on objectives and wins scored by an entire team.
Just like some criticisms of fantasy football, Fantasy LCS suffers, perhaps, from a hyper focus on individual success over team success. My team, for example, includes Mimer from Supa Hot Crew, LemonNation from Cloud 9, and Rekkles from Fnatic, among others. While I also own the entire Fnatic team, during team fights I find myself rooting for Rekkles and cursing xPeke, his teammate, for stealing kills. The logic of a team based game crumbles in a way in the face of individualizing success.
This attention to single players is a double-edged sword. It can undermine our appreciation for team dynamics or team pride, losing some of the elements that make the World Cup so damn exciting, but it can also spotlight amazing individual prowess missed by viewers with less game fluency than others. Those not entirely familiar with League of Legends may not find themselves rooting for Fnatic, but if they have Rekkles on their team, they may newly recognize his excellent positioning during team fights. Focusing on the minute can create opportunities to learn and respect details.
The same can be said for even the Team position on a Fantasy LCS roster. Those unfamiliar with the game may not always understand the importance of fights for Dragon or Baron. By issuing points based on team objectives (something only mirrored vaguely by Defensive Teams selections in fantasy football), Riot emphasizes the importance of League's objective-based gameplay and honors those teams who play to the game's more unique elements.
Of course the unique elements of League of Legends offer their own double-edged sword in the fantasy context. By defining players by position (Top, Mid, Jungler, etc.), Riot locks in the dominant MOBA meta of dedicated laners, each player in a strict position. A fantasy team's roster may not reflect the varied and unpredictable way the most insane League matches will play out. As the creators, Riot naturally shapes the meta as they see fit, and it behooves their mass-consumption efforts to standardize play for casual viewers, but for those interested in mixing things up, the strict positioning template in Fantasy LCS could be disconcerting.
In an eSports landscape already rife with labor concerns, perhaps fantasy's most potent hazard is its commodification of players. Just like issues raised by fantasy football, Fantasy LCS turns players into numbers. Fantasy football players are already familiar with the boiling animosity towards a running back guilty of fumbling a clutch point for the team. Adding another layer of guilt or failure to an already underpaid and overworked group of players may not be the most fruitful social trajectory for League of Legends and eSports.
I've got three wins under my belt this season, so maybe I am a little biased, but I still think the pros overwhelm the costs. Many of these concerns can and should be addressed, especially those relating to labor relations for professional players. In the long run, perhaps the best question to ask is if Fantasy LCS will have the power to bring new fans into the eSports scene, including those who do not watch or even play video games? I think the answer is yes. I used to hate football, now I want nothing more than to display my league trophy on my desk with pride. There's plenty of room for an eSports trophy right alongside it.
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Eichel scores 2 in Sabres 5-2 win over Maple Leafs
Mar. 25, 2017 10:00 a.m.
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Sabres forward Jack Eichel would like to thank the thousands of Maple Leafs fans who showed up in Buffalo to provide an electric environment to what's been a difficult season.
And Eichel was more than pleased to send the "Go, Leafs, Go!" chanting contingent back across the border unhappy following a 5-2 win Saturday night.
"This is our building and obviously want to play well here," Eichel said. "I think there was a little bit of extra emotion in our game tonight, extra intensity. And it's good to see. … It's nice to beat them."
Eichel scored twice and set up another in dousing the celebratory atmosphere and slowing the youth-laden Maple Leafs' late-season surge to clinch just their second playoff berth in 12 seasons.
Ryan O'Reilly and Dmitry Kulikov each had a goal and assist, and Evander Kane also scored in a game the Sabres took control of by scoring three straight times in the second period. Robin Lehner stopped 32 shots, and the Sabres continued their home dominance over their cross-border rivals by improving to 18-2-1 against Toronto in their last 21 games at Buffalo.
The Maple Leafs' hold on third place in the Atlantic Division dwindled in having a three-game winning streak end and losing in regulation for just the second time in their past 10 (7-2-1).
With 85 points, Toronto has a one-point edge over Boston after the Bruins beat the New York Islanders.
"We know the importance of every game here and to come out and put yourself in a position where you're playing catch-up basically all night is tough," Toronto defenceman Morgan Rielly said. "We want to be better. We expect ourselves to be better than that."
Auston Matthews scored his 34th to tie Toronto's single-season rookie record set by Wendel Clark in 1985-86. Matthews matched the mark in the same arena the Maple Leafs selected the player from Scottsdale, Arizona, with the No. 1 pick in the draft last June.
Connor Brown also scored for Toronto.
Maple Leafs goalie Frederik Andersen allowed two goals on 16 shots in the opening period and did not return for the second after sustaining an upper-body injury. He appeared to be hurt during a collision with Buffalo forward William Carrier.
Coach Mike Babcock had no immediate update on Andersen's injury, saying the player would have to first undergo tests.
What Babcock was sure of was Andersen's injury having no effect on the outcome.
"This is all on us," he said. "They were better. They skated better. They were quicker. They responded after we scored. They looked prepared. We didn't. Period."
Curtis McElhinney took over and promptly gave up two power-play goals on the first eight shots he faced.
After Matthews scored 2:22 into the period to tie it at 2, Eichel scored 26 seconds later. He was set up in the left circle by Kulikov and snapped a shot in over McElhinney's right shoulder.
Kulikov then put Buffalo up 4-2 four minutes later by firing a 30-footer through a crowd and beating McElhinney inside the left post.
Eichel capped the second-period run by scoring on a snapshot from the right circle with 6:48 left.
McElhinney allowed three goals on 22 in the loss.
Thanks to the Maple Leafs fans making the trip across the Niagara River, the Sabres enjoyed a playoff-like atmosphere at a time they're in jeopardy of missing the post-season for a sixth consecutive year.
During the pregame skate, several fans unfurled a large banner reading "MITCH!!!" in honour of Maple Leafs rookie Mitchell Marner behind the Sabres bench. At one point, the Sabres turned up the volume on the music played between whistles to drown out the pro-Toronto chants.
The Sabres then did their part to mute their opposing fans further.
O'Reilly opened the scoring. And then after Brown tied the game 9:30 in, Kane responded by scoring 15 seconds later.
With five minutes left, many of the Toronto fans had exited the building.
"That's the fun part," said Sabres forward Tyler Ennis. "The goal is to keep it quiet."
NOTES: Sabres RW Kyle Okposo had two assists in returning after missing 10 games with a rib injury. Kulikov played his 500th game in returning after missing nine with an upper-body injury. … Maple Leafs C William Nylander assisted on Matthews' goal to extend his rookie franchise-record streak to 11 games in which he has four goals and nine assists. … Buffalo recalled D Brady Austin from AHL Rochester, and demoted RW Hudson Fasching.
Maple Leafs: Host Florida Panthers on Tuesday.
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Cerbi és un poble, esmentat el 839, del terme municipal de La Guingueta d'Àneu, a la comarca del Pallars Sobirà, dins del territori de l'antic terme d'Unarre. Està situat a la vall d'Unarre, enlairat a la dreta del riu d'Unarre, a la part més alta i septentrional del terme. A les Bordes d'Aurós, un quilòmetre al nord-est del veïnat, es troba el límit del Parc Natural de l'Alt Pirineu. Cerbi és el poble més alt de les Valls d'Àneu, situat a 1430 metres sobre el nivell del mar.

Etimologia

Joan Coromines estableix l'etimologia de Serbi a partir de les arrels basques açeari ("guineu") i bide ("camí"). "Camí de guineus" seria, doncs, la interpretació del nom del poble de Cerbi o Serbi segons l'insigne filòleg.

Geografia
Cerbi s'ubica en un esperó rocós sobre el Clot des Planes, plana d'inundació a la confluència del riu d'Unarre i el torrent dels Corriols. Aquest, que ve del nord-nord-oest, queda encaixat entre la serra Obaga a ponent i el serrat Estanyero a llevant; a la seva capçalera es troba el coll de Cerbi (~2000 m) que comunica amb la vall de la Noguera Pallaresa a l'altura d'Isil. Des del nord-nord-est, delimitat per la serra Mitjana, a l'oest, i la serra Mascarida, a l'est, baixa el riu d'Unarre; a la seva capçalera hi ha el cercle dels estanys de Cerbi, format pels de la Gola i el de Calberante i, al capdamunt, l'estany Curiós i el coll homònim; pel damunt d'aquests estanys es troba el circ de la Gallina, amb un conjunt d'estanys i el refugi de muntanya Enric Pujol. Dominant la contrada, prop de sis quilòmetres al nord del poble, s'alça el Mont-roig, de 2847 metres d'altitud.

El poble
Fins al 1847, el poble de Cerbi gaudí d'ajuntament propi, però en no assolir el mínim de 30 veïns (caps de casa) que marcava la llei fou agregat a Unarre.

Sant Serni de Cerbi és la seva església parroquial; a més, dins del poble hi ha també la capella de la Immaculada de Cerbi, actualment en ruïnes. Dins el seu antic terme, dos quilòmetres al nord i ja dins el parc natural, hi ha l'ermita de Sant Beado en la qual cada any s'hi celebren dos aplecs (trobades). Aquesta ermita està a 45 minuts caminant de la presa de Cerbi.

Les cases del poble són:

 Casa Andreuat
 Casa Badia
 Casa Batlle
 Casa Capella

 Casa Capità
 Casa Cortina
 Casa Legulló
 Casa Lluís de Ton

 Casa Magina
 Casa Miqueu
 Casa Mosset
 Casa Mossèn Anton

 Casa Pepeta
 La Rectoria
 Casa Rutxe
 Casa Senyoret

 Casa Sibilló
 Casa Ton
 Casa Txapela
 Casa Tereseta

Història
El poble apareix esmentat en document de 839.

Edat moderna
En el fogatge del 1553, Servi declara 10 focs laics i 3 d'eclesiàstics (uns 65 habitants).

Edat contemporània
Pascual Madoz dedica un article del seu Diccionario geográfico... a Serví. Hi diu que és un agregat del districte municipal d'Unarre, situat en una petita vall, dins de la Vall d'Àneu. La combaten els vents del nord i del sud. El clima és fred, propens a pulmonies i reumes. Tenia en aquell moment 21 cases i l'església parroquial de Sant Sadurní, servida per un rector ordinari. Hi havia diverses fonts per a provisió del veïnat. Les terres són fluixes, pedregoses i molt muntanyoses, encara que despoblades. S'hi collia blat, sègol, patates i fenc. S'hi criava tota mena de bestiar, especialment vacum, i hi havia caça de llebres, perdius, molts isards i alguns ossos; hi havia poca pesca de truites. Comptava amb 40 veïns (caps de casa) i 66 ànimes (habitants).

Aprofitaments hidroelèctrics
Entre 1956 i 1958 l'empresa Hidroelèctrica de Catalunya  construí la presa de Cerbi i el corresponent canal de derivació per portar l'aigua cap a la Central d'Esterri d'Àneu. La presa es troba al costat de les Bordes d'Aurós, desviant part del cabal del riu d'Unarre cap el Salt d'Unarre. Quan el canal ja ha passat el poble de Cerbi rep aigua d'una resclosa situada en el torrent d'Escorriols. La longitud total del canal és de 3.780 metres.

Referències

Bibliografia

  Edició facsímil:

Enllaços externs

 Cerbi en el seu entorn, a l'Institut Cartogràfic de Catalunya
 La Guingueta a Valls d'Àneu.org

Antics municipis del Pallars Sobirà
Entitats de població de l'antic municipi d'Unarre

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Curried Cauliflower Soup – fresh cauliflower sautéed with onion and spices, finished in chicken stock, then puréed with a bit of milk – and topped with a colorful, crunchy mixture of bacon, cashews, cilantro and lemon zest. Scrumptious – and beautiful, too!
As you can tell from many of the recipes in my cookbooks and on this site, I love the flavor of curry. It adds warmth (including a bit of spice if you add enough) and depth to most any dish. It pairs super well with cauliflower – a favorite combination in many Indian recipes. So, one night when I was craving cauliflower and looking to create something new for Robert, I decided to sauté some chopped cauliflower with onion, fresh ginger (another favorite of mine!), curry powder and turmeric. I then added chicken broth, potato to thicken the soup and 1/2 a Granny Smith apple to provide some sweetness. (Plus, I love apple and curry together – you'll find the combo in several of my recipes.) Lastly, I added some milk and puréed everything to a smooth consistency. Yum!
The soup on its own is delicious, but frankly sort of plain looking. So, I thought about what other flavors I like with curry and hit on cashews. In my first book, A Well-Seasoned Kitchen®, there is a recipe for a cashew gremolata. With a minor change (switching out the oil for some bacon bits), I thought it would be the perfect garnish for this soup. Not only does it add color, it provides some crunch and flavors that complement the soup perfectly!
I think this Curried Cauliflower Soup is delicious as a first course before pork or alongside your favorite sandwich for a casual dinner.
In a medium stockpot, heat the oil over medium-low heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring frequently, until soft, about 3 minutes. Lower the heat and stir in the ginger, curry powder and turmeric. Add the chopped cauliflower and cook, stirring, for 3 minutes. Stir in the potato, apple and chicken broth. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to simmer and cook until the cauliflower and potatoes are tender, about 20 minutes.
Remove from the heat and stir in the milk. Set aside to cool a bit.
While the soup is cooling, make the gremolata: Cook bacon until crisp. Crumble and place in a small bowl. Stir in cashews, cilantro and lemon zest. Set aside.
Purée the cooled soup in an electric mixer or with an immersion blender until smooth. Return to the stockpot and heat over low heat just until warm. Season to taste with salt (takes a fair amount – close to 1 teaspoon). Ladle into bowls and top with a spoonful of the gremolata.
Make ahead: Soup can be prepared up to 24 hours in advance, covered and refrigerated. Re-warm over low heat. Gremolata can be prepared up to 3 hours before serving.
Gluten free: Make sure to use gluten free chicken broth or stock.
Cauliflower soup is one of my favourites, but I've not tried curried cauliflower soup before so I need to give this a go!


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Have you ever seen a labyrinth? It's essentially a large maze that's incredibly difficult to navigate. There's only one path out, but several barriers to keep you from following it.
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You may wonder, "What is a white-collar crime?" These crimes encompass a broad range of actions committed in corporate spheres. Most often, people commit these crimes to protect their money or gain it illicitly.
Some examples of these crimes include things like embezzlement, money laundering, and corporate fraud. These crimes can carry lofty prison sentiments.
So, when officers accuse you of white-collar crime, your natural response is to comply. The trouble is, these officers are building evidence against you. Complying with their every demand almost inevitably harms you.
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Spectrum's RSE team use their skills to ensure that the students enjoy the lessons and can ask questions freely. This led to one girl taking things further…
After one of these lessons taught at a school in Wakefield, a member of the RSE team was approached by a member of the class, 'Chloe', who said she had had unprotected sex only 3 days prior.
Chloe was persistently absent from school, and attended the RSE lesson after encouragement from other teachers. She had not realised the high risk of pregnancy with unprotected sex until the subject was covered by the RSE team.
The RSE team discussed high rates of teenage pregnancy and explained to students that Spectrum's sexual health clinics, as well as our C-Card scheme, are designed to offer advice and support about prevention of pregnancy and STIs, as well as providing contraception and screenings. The class also covered the EHC (Emergency Hormonal Contraceptive) – the 'morning after' pill.
For Chloe, being able to relate to these lessons and making her aware of the help available to her in her locality, enabled her to take action that would impact upon her future.
Chloe was engaged throughout the lesson and contributed to discussions and tasks. The friendly and engaging teaching methods of the RSE team allowed her the courage to talk privately to our team about her situation, after the lesson – she now realised she needed help.
The RSE team member was able to get the student an EHC and book her in for an appointment at the local Spectrum sexual health clinic as soon as possible.
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"By focusing on the characters within the performance and the situations they were in, a distance is created between the students and the topics raised. This helps a younger audience to feel comfortable enough to join in the discussions without it feeling personal."


And so we've come to the last show of our Summer tour. It's been quite an experience - 32 shows in 9 countries, over 48 days. Great shows in great cities, with some spectacular venues. I'm lucky to be able to photograph it all.
A bit sad to see it end, but also glad to be headed home, as I think we all are.
And it was a great to finish with shows in Venice at this lovely theater.
Aha, I caught her changing into her true identity!
I'm trying to talk the band into a new look for stage… but no luck so far.
As everyone know who comes to our shows, no photos during the show, even for me.
and, something unique to this show; peeking out a window at the back of the venue, this isn't some old Venetian painting, it's one of the boats waiting to shuttle our equipment to a larger boat, then to the trucks waiting far across the canal system.
A ton of work for our crew tonight.
On the morning after this show, when I left our hotel, some of our crew were just returning from the all night job of getting the gear out safely. It seems a good time to thank them all and convey the band's appreciation for all the work they put in throughout the tour.
For me, always special thanks to Michele Russotto, my good friend and bass tech since… gee, 1992. On this tour he also has other jobs than just setting up my bass gear, but you'll also see him sometimes running up on stage behind me, to point out to me that I've forgotten to plug the instrument in, or some other bass player maneuver!
Meanwhile, back to tonight, the band is having our traditional end of tour toast. I think we've worked hard too.
For now, the band will head off in various directions, for various projects or just some down time.
But Crimson will be back touring in October, in England, France, and Japan… and you can count on more road diary pages then.