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MORGANTOWN - As the injuries continue to mount, not just for West Virginia, but all football teams this time of year, strange things start to surface.
Like Saturday's defensive line for West Virginia, which at one point was two-thirds made up of defensive ends - Julian Miller to the left, first-time starter Larry Ford at nose tackle, and redshirt freshman Jorge Wright, a natural tackle and first-year player, to the right.
''We had a lot of players we had to do without,'' West Virginia coach Bill Stewart said. ''That's the way the lineup is, the ball doesn't always bounce your way.''
Josh Taylor, the backup at nose guard and starter at tackle, didn't play at all because of an injury, starting nose guard Chris Neild was there in the beginning, but departed after making one tackle, and end Scooter Berry, back from both injury and suspension, couldn't finish, though he did have three tackles, including one for a loss.
''We had to use what we had,'' Miller said.
That left Miller as the only defensive lineman on the field playing his natural position.
''I was real pleased with Julian Miller, he was just a force out there with three sacks,'' Stewart said. ''He showed great presence. He stepped up because Chris Neild was over there with me.''
So did the rest of the guys. West Virginia's defense did not surrender a touchdown in a game for the first time all season.
''I was really proud of the way our defense just set the tone the entire day,'' Stewart said. ''I can't say enough good about (defensive coordinator) Jeff Casteel, the defensive staff, and most importantly, the defensive players in the arena who played their hearts out. They kept great field position for the offense most of the day, and found a great way to bounce back from a subpar showing in our last outing.''
Feeling Grand
West Virginia running back Noel Devine surpassed the 1,000-yard mark for the second consecutive season. He had 13 carries for 56 yards before departing with an injury.
Meanwhile, quarterback Jarrett Brown went beyond the 1,000-yard rushing mark for his career with eight carries for 43 yards. He became the fourth Mountaineers quarterback in school history to do so.
Still, West Virginia was held to a season-low 273 yards of offense.
''I think we did a good job in not letting them get started,'' Louisville coach Steve Kragthorpe said of the Mountaineers offense. ''They have such explosive playmaking ability, both (Jock) Sanders and Devine. Every time they touch it, they have a chance to go the distance.
''The biggest thing was trying to keep them out of rhythm. They are like any offense, where you get in rhythm and tempo and make plays, and they always have that ability.''
Kozlowski's bounce back
Fifth-year senior punter Scott Kozlowski averaged 46.7 yards on seven punts, as he continually helped change field position.
''I was really pleased with the way Scott Kozlowski bounced back,'' Stewart said. ''He was on the verge of being sat down. I'm not near as nice as some of you think. And he bowed up, jutted his jaw, and proved to his football coach, his team, and most importantly, his fellow players he can respond to a little toughness. I wasn't real pleased with his performance last week, and he knew it.''
Kozlowski, who averaged 43 yards on five punts vs. USF, came into the game ranked 8th nationally in punting average at 45.0 yards per boot.
Philpott's big day
Louisville kicker Chris Philpott kicked a pair of field goals of 37 and 44 yards in the first half. After each, it was announced that the distances were a career high. Those notifications were a bit misleading, in that Philpott had made only one other field goal in his career - a 19-yarder against Tennessee Tech last season. He was 1 of 3 for his career coming into the game. He wound up making three field goals, the most by a Louisville kicker since Art Carmondy hit three in a game against North Carolina State in 2007.
Rare INT for Cards
Jarrett Browns interception in the first quarter was WVU's first against Louisville since Major Harris threw one against the Cardinals in 1989. The Mountaineers had gone 226 pass attempts without throwing a pick against Louisville. Those two remain the only by West Virginia quarterbacks in the series.
Game Captains
Brown, linebacker Reed Williams, fullback and Morgantown native Maxwell Anderson, and cornerback Kent Richardson were WVU's captains.


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Fabian Delph has paid tribute to his midfield partner Karim El Ahmadi, saying his will to win is "frightening."
Delph says it's a pleasure to play alongside the former Feyenoord star, who's renowned for his silky-smooth skills in the middle of the park.
But Delph insists it's El Ahmadi's hunger that's impressed him most of all.
He said: "Karim is very experienced and he has been there and done it so it is very comfortable playing alongside him.
"He speaks a lot and he likes to shift the ball quickly and it is great to play with him.
"Also his enthusiasm to win is frightening. Everybody says they don't like losing but Karim actually hates losing and his mentality rubs off on the rest of us.
"His ability is there for all to see too. He's just got a great football brain. I think that is one of his main strengths.
"Coming from the league he has played in, it is a lot more technical over there and you can see that straight away.
"He is very comfortable on the ball and so far he has been unbelievable in possession and out of it too. I'm sure he will keep cracking on and improve each week."
Arsene Wenger once said it takes foreign players eighteen months to get fully-used to the Barclays Premier League.
Delph doesn't disagree but thinks El Ahmadi's been an exception to the rule.
He added: "Karim has adapted straight away. They say it takes months to adapt for the foreign players when they come over but that is not the case with him.
"He has just come in straight away and he is firing."
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England will doubtless avoid dwelling on their nine-wicket defeat in Ahmedabad, but know too they must learn its lessons if they are to fight back in their four-Test series against India.
Where they went wrong at the Sardar Patel Stadium is self-evident.
A four-man middle-order engine room of Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell and Samit Patel mustered just 68 runs in their eight innings.
A three-man pace attack took one wicket for 245 runs - and after conceding a first-innings deficit of 330, even captain Alastair Cook's marathon feat of defiance in a near nine-and-a-half-hour 176 could not salvage a stalemate.
The facts beg obvious questions about the right balance and personnel for the next Test, starting in Mumbai on Friday.
Time is short and precious to come to the right conclusions - and although Cook had yet to start the process when he conducted yesterday's post-match press conference, he hinted even then at changes.
One will be enforced - Bell is already back in England to attend the birth of his first child, and will return only for the third Test in Kolkata - but at least one other seems highly likely too.
Asked specifically whether England may consider picking Monty Panesar as a second specialist spinner alongside Graeme Swann, Cook said: "Clearly we're going to have to look at our selection.
"There are some good people making decisions in this England team, and we thought we were doing the right thing for the side.
"The result showed that we might have got it wrong.
"We'll have to look at our squad - we've got some good players - for the next game."
Should slow left-armer Panesar return for the first time since the defeat against Sri Lanka at Galle in March, England - who are averse to picking five bowlers - will have to decide which seamer must make way.
"Clearly, when you get beaten by nine wickets, you have a look at a lot of areas - what we could have done better," added Cook.
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"If we're going to win series out here, everyone in the game has to contribute.
"There's absolutely no doubt about that. We need everyone to stick their hands up at certain times.
"The lads who haven't performed as well as they would have liked in this game will be very disappointed.
"But that's cricket, and we'll have to bounce back strong as a team on Friday."
Cook's opinion, or that of coach Andy Flower for that matter, will not be swayed by input from the opposition.
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01/30/2009, Kapingamarangi
The three yachts in our fleet had a routing meeting last night aboard Angelique. Whistler and Angelique decided to leave Friday (today) and we decided to leave the Saturday (tomorrow). Dia made us all some excellent coffee and we looked over the route and weather. We have some clouds on the gribs in the area on the 30th but less so going forward. Winds are predicted to be from about 070 degrees at 10-15, which often means 10-20 and up to 30 in squalls. Should be a fast sail to Chuuk.
We had all wanted to go to Pohnpei but it just wasn't in the cards. You can get breaks from the northeast wind, wind from the east or even east south east, this time of year, but not long enough to make it to Pohnpei direct. Island hopping yes, direct, not this time around. So Chuuk it was, and even at that we'd be passing up Lukunor, a perfectly good atoll, along the way.
The mono hulls are looking at a three nighter, hoping to make 5.5 knots average. We are shooting for a two nighter, hoping for a 7 knot average. In the evening of the 2nd the wind picks up to 20 knots on the grib so we expect up to 25. This makes for fast sailing but the seas get big enough that it is more fun to be in port. All three boats hope to be inside the Truk lagoon by sunset on the 2nd.
We are planning to go in a pass in the south part of the reef. The main pass is in the northeast and requires quite a bit of unnecessary exposed sailing, only then to make an entrance at a pass facing the weather and seas. It must be fine, as it is the main pass, but seems less than optimal for a north bound yacht. The charts for Chuuk look pretty good with lots of detail and many soundings. To be expected given the history of the place.
Whistler left at around 9AM and found the Greenwich pass running a bit over two knots. His report back was that it was, "a little scary". Angelique decided upon a prudent low tide slack water departure at around 11AM. Angelique reported a pleasant departure. Both yachts were making good way in fair conditions when we last caught up on the VHF.
Hideko and I spent the day cleaning up aboard Swingin' on a Star and getting her ready to sail. It's hard to believe but we will have been here 9 days when we finally depart. For not going ashore nor being welcome (by the Pohnpei government), it was perhaps the most friendly and pleasant place we have ever visited. Not a day went by where we did not receive taro, lobsters, coconuts, feast baskets or some other island delicacy from the local people.
We took a comprehensive tour of the islands today in the dinghy. It was a fantastic time and I'm really sorry our friends on the other boats missed it. We located an awesome enclosed anchorage that would be suitable for a west wind and great in anything with north in it. We took soundings along the way and stopped at several of the idyllic islands (though we didn't go ashore). We took a lot of great pictures including several of the village islands and the bridge that connects them. Hideko also located the Japanese ship wreck and the American plane wreck. The Japanese ship wreck was particularly impressive. Unlike most wrecks in the world, it is still completely intact. Finding a ship wreck that still has its prop is a very rare thing to say the least, given their value.
It was sad to watch the sun set on Kapingamarangi (or rather her western reef). We will miss the atoll and more so the few people (those mostly in official capacities) whom we have met. Though it is virtually impossible, it would be nice to come back an be able to spend time with more of the people. We could have easily spent a month here.
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01/29/2009, South Pacific
We had a day out on the water today. Everyone came over to Swingin' on a Star and we loaded up our dinghy and Angelique's with scuba and snorkel stuff.
Our first stop was the position of the Japanese ship wreck from WWII. We pulled up on a lovely beach and hit the water. It was nice snorkeling but we never found the wreck. Eric finished his Navigation dive and only has one more to go for his Advanced Open Water cert. We went out on local advise targeting low tide, but the visibility in the lagoon wasn't fantastic at this time.
After an hour at the beach we packed up and headed out to the anchor site outside the pass. When it comes to local knowledge, I feel like I am really getting there as far as this pass goes. We anchored the dinghies at the waypoint for the spot where the anchor was cut loose. We did another snorkel recon but turned up nothing. Our next step was to scuba across the wall with one diver at 100 feet, one at 85, and one at 70. Nothing.
After a fair amount of effort in the area of the waypoint we can only suppose that the anchor and some 10 meters or more of chain are in deeper water. At is telling us to give it up. I know he would really like to get that anchor back though. The problem is that at about 100 feet the wall goes sheer and just drops away into blackness. If you were a scuba diver and only knew this place you would think it was a pinnacle rising from the void and that no other place in the world was above water.
As sad as we were that the anchor didn't make itself known it was an amazing dive. We saw a turtle, an eagle ray, various sharks, lots of really big parrot fish, just to name a few. The coral growth is very impressive, rich with life and diversity.
We may get one more shot at recon but I'm beginning to think that the anchor is the price for getting Angelique off the reef. Back at the big boat we started to unload and rinse the gear down when we noticed At and Dia weren't at hand. Then we heard them hail us on the radio. They had run out of gas but were getting a tow from Solomon. You have to watch your gas out here because you can't refill and the distances are large and gas goes faster than you'd like.
Solomon came by after our dive to say hello. He brought us three different kinds of bananas, bread fruit, bread, coconuts, and some other stuff. It was an amazing amount of food. We thanked him heartily and told him that we would catch up with him tomorrow before we left. I think he wishes the officials in Pohnpei were a little more reasonable. That said he is doing his best to do right by them and us. It has been a little odd but we have still had a great time in Kapingamarangi.
We are likely to head for Chuuk in the next couple of days.
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01/28/2009, South Pacific
We spent the morning filling scuba tanks and working around the boat. Eric came by and completed some more of his Advanced Open Water certification. He is certainly going to have an awesome and hard to reproduce dive site list in his log (Solomons, PNG, Kapingamarangi, Chuuk, ...).
Later in the day Solomon came by. He brought us some more coconuts and some other tasty items, including a kind of donut that is made out of taro. He took us out to the locations of the WWI era sunken Japanese ship and US fighter plane as well. We spent a lot of time talking and learning more about the Kapinga people. In the end we decided to put it all together into a little cruising guide for Kapingamarangi. Unfortunately they get only one or two yachts visits every few years so it will be of limited use until the FSM allows yachts to check in at Kapingamarangi on their way up to Chuuk or Pohnpei.
We have been having an intermittent problem with one of the legs of AC from the Genset lately. Not long ago I found a burned wire in the 3 way switch and several loose connections. I cleaned that up but I think the switch may have been damaged due to the heat. Have to dig into it deeper to see. (it was the switch, swapped the genset to the shore power side and all is well, need to replace the switch)
Eric cooked dinner aboard Whistler for everyone tonight. He made a great spicy pasta and tomato sauce dish. Pretty impressive for a bachelor. We listened to Canadian, French and French/Canadian music all night (April Wine!) while playing "oh hell", which is kind of like quick and dirty bridge. It was a fun night.
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01/27/2009, South Pacific
Solomon hailed us on the VHF and told us that we were not allowed to go ashore or deliver the aid package, per the officials in Pohnpei. In fact we are not allowed to stop in Nukuoro, rumored to be hardest hit by the king tides, to drop off our aid package for them either. I wonder what the people on these islands think of this ruling? Is it in their best interest? No one is in danger of starving of course, the Pohnpei supply ship brought aid in the second week of January to both islands, far more than our modest contribution. Yet beyond formality, I can see no reason for the red tape. None of these islands grow any of the products we bring, so any contamination is fairly far fetched. Having been through quarantine in 30 countries I doubt post Pohnpei delivery of the aid package would look any different than pre Pohnpei delivery.
As it is, with the winds strong from the northeast, we will likely fail to fetch Pohnpei and end up blown off to Chuuk. We will spend three to four days at sea rather than three one night trips with stops in the safe harbors of Nukuoro, Ngatik or Lukunor (depending on the wind) and then Pohnpei or Chuuk (depending on the wind).
I fear that it is us, the developed world that these countries use as a template for their formalities. These far flung islands are only a country because we made them so. Heavy handed customs, immigration and quarantine are status quo in the USA, and perhaps with some reason, though even her own citizens dislike the bureaucracy. Perhaps small countries look at us and say, "ok, that's how you do it". Yet, should a country that can barely get a supply ship once a quarter to its outlying islands have such overhead? Does it really serve a purpose? These people survived for hundreds of years without such oversight. The capital would have no communications with them at all if the EU and others hadn't donated radios and solar systems. Is any criminal hampered by the bits of paper filed 400 miles away? Illegal fishing certainly goes on unchecked. Are there other ways the FSM could invest her funds, rather than toiling to ensure that cruising yachts can seek no refuge on the 1,000 mile trip north from the Solomon Islands, nor deliver aid to islands who's resources have been damaged by climate change?
I think that, in many ways, trying to be like us is the biggest problem with many island nations. They are not like us. Kapingamarangi has no port, airport, internet, phone or other connections to anywhere. To communicate with someone here you have to use the post and on this end it is delivered about once every three months. There is nothing to infiltrate and protection measures seem to be a bit overzealous. Perhaps as the world gets smaller the artificially imposed national boundaries represent the only way a small group of islands can participate in the global playing field. Who knows.
I hope that the FSM considers enabling the people of Kapingamarangi to receive yachts from the south in the future. It would create a valuable cultural exchange, bring benefit in trade to Kapingamarangi and provide a safe harbor for yachts on an otherwise unnecessarily long passage. If Palmerston, Cook Islands, can manage yacht check ins these folks certainly can.
After the bad news we set out to retrieve Angelique's kedge anchor. It got Angelique off the reef and At doesn't want to leave it behind. I don't blame him. Eric and I went out in advance with Hideko and At following on their dinghy. We had a lift bag and lots of other gear to do a proper search and recovery. As we waited Eric and I dropped down with the dinghy on a 50 foot tether to drift out the ebbing pass. The vis wasn't great on the ebbing tide but the pass is amazing. We saw white tip reef sharks, lots of fish, a big school of barracuda and amazing coral structures. The current was a light 1 or 2 knots.
Once At and Hideko arrived we headed out to the position of the grounding. We made an initial snorkel search and then a scuba search but after a couple of hours we threw in the towel. It should have been easier to find. Our fist fix was wrong and our second was radioed in from Dia back in the anchorage. We are going to do some more recon, looking over track lines and such and try again tomorrow or the next day. Conditions should be good for us to depart in a couple of days so we are on a deadline.
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01/26/2009, South Pacific
We stayed aboard all day today hailing Solomon on the VHF to no avail. It is a holiday on Kapingamarangi and a big noon time cook out was going on. We were sad to be stuck on the boats.
In the afternoon Solomon hailed me. I joined him on an SSB channel with the folks in Pohnpei. They wanted us to come to Pohnpei prior to stopping in Kapingamarangi. I told then that we had already filled out the cruising permits and would be happy to forward anything they wanted through the chief here. I also told them that we came with an aid package of 100kg of rice, much flour, sugar, cooking oil, as well as books, tarps, and plastic drums for water and what not. I went on to mention that we had a similar package for Nukuoro. I also told him that we could not travel 1,000 miles out of the way to clear in and come back to drop off the aid packages. We all need to be in Singapore before summer comes and the weather changes. It seemed sort of silly to sail right by the islands we were trying to help.
He was understanding but not willing to go against protocol. He is going to check with his superiors to see if an exception can be made.
We kept busy during the day by scuba diving under the boat to check the anchor and to look over Angelique's keel and rudder. That boat is a tank. The rudder was nicked up a bit at the trailing edge, needing about an hours worth of glass repair next haul out. Otherwise, nothing. I couldn't believe it.
In the mean time I think Solomon felt bad that we were being held up so. He sent a lovely pandana leaf basket of fresh food from the feast to all of the boats. We got lots of yummy barbecued fish, taro, rice and fresh bread (kind of like what we call Hawaiian bread in the US). It was very tasty. Hopefully tomorrow we will get things sorted out.
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Everyone aboard the yachts in our little group was still a bit tired today. Things started getting back to normal though. Solomon gave us a hello call in the morning on 16 to let us know that his office was closed for Sunday and that mass was at 9:30. The one hour time difference was still catching us off guard so no one made it to mass. We are all now on Pohnpei time (UTC+11).
It was an overcast and rainy day with wind quite out of whack with the GFS GRIB predictions. We are anchored behind the east line of islands, so we have good protection from the predicted winds running generally east to ENE, and even for NE or SE. Today the wind is basically north. It is a long way to the north end of the atoll from here. This has created a fair amount of chop in the anchorage. It is not really bad but unless you like being secluded I would probably advise anchoring up near or past the village in the NE corner of the lagoon this time of year.
Winter winds seem to run NE to E with anomalies from N to SE. Other times of year you can get west wind in occasional gales, so we hear, which would require migrating to the north side of the atoll to anchor behind the reef.
The forecast suggests a next window with winds from the east over 10 knots and clear skies of January 30th. This is probably when we will head up to Nukuoro, a one night trip from here.
Hideko made a lovely breakfast aboard and we took care of routine tasks while the generator/charger brought the batteries up. When we run the genset it doesn't make much difference whether we use 1 amp or 60, fuel wise. So we try to use as close to 60 as possible and get everything done all at once. While the genertor was up this morning we ran the water maker, the washer/dryer, the espresso machine (high priority), the hot water heater, the cold box (usually off unless the sun is really making a lot of solar power for us), as well as charging cameras and computers. I also got some navigation work and blogging in.
In the late morning Solomon called again and asked us to stay aboard our yachts. He had just talked to immigration in Pohnpei and apparently there are issues. It rained all day so this was no real hardship but we are curious to find out what the story is.
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01/24/2009, South Pacific
It was after six PM on Friday night when Eric and I made our way to Angelique as she sat stranded on the reef in a falling tide. It was so dark that we had to be very careful not to run aground. There were no stars, no moon and no other outside lights. It was completely disorienting. The islands of Kapingamarangi were sometimes visible, and this occasional shadow was hardly enough to give you an idea of where the snaky reef was.
At asked us to find deep water for him. This was not so easy given the conditions but we used the flood light we had brought to find water at least deep enough to float in. At worked Angleique's engine hard to back her out but the swell (which fortunately was wrapping around from the northeast and not striking her directly) kept her pinned down.
Over the next hour we lost more and more water as we tried every thing we could think of to move Angelique out into deeper water. We tried to tow a line from the bow with the dinghy. We tried pushing with the dinghy. We tried to take a halyard and heel her with the dinghy. All the time At was working Angelique's overheating engine. It was no use. She was fast aground, grinding her keel, and possibly rudder, on the hard coral below.
At this point we decided to run out a kedge and to try and winch her off with the windlass. In retrospect this should have been our first tactic. We knew the tide was falling though and had hoped for a quick fix while the water was near the level she had come on with.
Our dinghy was not the greatest tool in all of this. The control line for the shifter is not setup right and the engine is half in forward when the shifter is set to neutral (the only place it will start) and the reverse wont engage at all. I tried to fix this while we were underway but the cable is not long enough. Running around the choppy water with the rocking Angelique looming overhead with only forward and a slow forward neutral, that generally causes the engine to stall after a minute, was not optimal.
Eric grabbed the heavy dreadnaught anchor that At lowered down to us and we went out in search of the nearest deep water. Angelique was facing West, beam onto the reef and seas, at this point and due to a bulge in the reef here, more west would be worse. East was not good and North was the breakers. So we set the kedge anchor out to the south. We sounded out the area with a lead line and it was deep enough to float Angelique's 2.3 meter draft. Eric jumped onboard Angelique to work the engine while At and Dia operated the winch. The winch up button had failed, of course, and so now Dia was having to short out the solenoid to run the winch while At tailed the rode coming up.
The kedge held and we managed to get Angelique pointing out to deep water. The tide kept falling though. As the scope went vertical on the anchor, Eric jumped back into the dinghy and we went out to pull up the anchor and reset it farther out. The anchor was attached to the bottom. No force we could apply from our battered dink could budge it. We told At he would have to bring it up with the winch.
At this point the massive amounts of power the windlass was drawing was tripping the breaker in seconds. Eric reset the breaker as At hauled up inches at a time. Finally, ping! The anchor came free. We wanted to reset it immediately before we lost any headway we had gained. The swell continued to batter Angelique and rock her from side to side on the reef.
When the anchor finally cleared the water it was a bent mess. After some discussion we decided to use it again anyway. We are anchoring on reef and if it bites it will hold. If it holds it will not let go without fairly serious trauma. Better not to wreck two anchors while this one could still work, it was starting to look like a reef claw anyway.
We took the kedge anchor back out off of the bow again and this time dropped it in fairly deep water a little off the port bow. Even with the tide dropping, if she could make it to here she would be free. It was not to be though. We all worked to move Angelique forward but the swell had calmed and the water had dropped. The lack of swell was nice in that the boat no longer slammed up and down and across the rock, but neither did we have the liberating lift from the waves. The windlass couldn't take much more and everyone was exhausted. Low tide was at 10PM, almost two hours away, but we decided to wait.
I had let Hideko know the situation over the VHF, she was mortified but helpless to do anything but provide moral support from the quiet anchorage. We all climbed aboard the rocking Angelique to wait. Dia made us some hot noodles and we talked and planned as we watched the clock.
Angelique is an Amel, for those in the know, that says it all. Amels are designed to cruise the world with a couple aboard in comfort and safety. They are built completely for function, with no concern for form. Some people don't like their looks because of this but no one can contest the absolute focus on safety, reliability and ease of use that comes in the package. Down below the prop is in a protected aperture, the rudder is completely protected by the keel and the keel is a massive metal affair. Angelique was built in 1979, back when they used huge amounts of fiberglass (before they knew they could get away with far less). She is a 29 ton tank. If I had to sit on a reef to wait for a rising tide, I can't think of a better boat to do it on.
It was a very long two hours for all of us, but especially At and Dia. Their home was being ground left and right and occasionally picked up and dropped on solid stone. The rig was racked from side to side, interior systems were being pounded. Rain squalls came and went. It was a terrible beating.
While we waited we got a better idea of our surroundings in the total darkness that prevailed. It seemed that the tide was lifting outside the lagoon a little in advance of the tide table model. If we could just get her a few meters up the anchor rode she would be free. Everyone took their places and we made one last effort to bring Angelique back to deep water. The windlass mawed, Eric reved up the engine (which we had been constantly adding water to) and all at once the boat began to slide at first and then drive outright into the sea.
The problem was the anchor was still fast. Angelique drove up on the rode and then reeled to the side. Eric could not steer, so I jumped into the dinghy to try to nudge the boat into line before she went back on the reef. I took the painter with me as I hopped in. Then, as I drifted toward the breakers, the motor wouldn't start. Not wanting to complicate the situation with another rescue scenario, I paddled like the devil to get back up current to Angelique. The dinghy's engine started then of course, and after a quick drive around I told Eric that Angelique was safe until the anchor came free.
Getting the anchor free was not happening though. This anchor had given its all and wanted to rest in peace in its new coral home. We obliged and cut it free, with a quick GPS waypoint to mark it in case we decided to recover it in the future. Angelique drove off into the ocean and I followed on the dink. There was no way Eric and I could get back into the lagoon in the black squally night that ensued. So instead we tied up the dinghy on a bridle, and stood 3 miles off shore until sunrise.
Everyone slept in shifts. When the sun came up Dia and I were at the helm. We came back in on the atoll as the sun ineffectively tried to shine through the layers of clouds. It was difficult to find the pass in the pale light. It is far from easy to spot along the faceless reef. The concrete beacon that marks it blended easily with the islands in the background. Eric and I jumped into the dinghy to do recon.
The pass was workable but the currents were still fairly strong and confused. It was not high tide slack but rather the lull between a low high tide and a high low tide. With proper light though, Angelique had only minor difficulty following us through into the lagoon.
At anchor next to Whistler and Swingin' on a Star, Angelique II finally had peace. An amazing boat with owners who deserve her. Not only did At and Dia manage to stay calm and objective through the entire ordeal, they also cooked us all a wonderful thank you brunch. It was only shortly thereafter that everyone shut down for naps and a day of nothing but rest, in an ideal anchorage, just meters away from a very nasty reef.
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No. Which make the whole magnified view thing a bit of a waste of time. It should just take the image without any delay. The focus is fixed when you half press the shutter and is not adjusted when you take the shot.
On the G5 and GH3 they have introduced a setting that controls the length of the delay but unfortunately they do not include a setting of 0 seconds.
I like Pinpoint AF but the delay really is annoying.
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The hundred-plus people who showed up at Tuesday's "coverage is here" event — meant to kick off the effort to sign up uninsured Washington residents for health insurance through a new federal law — were one enthusiastic bunch.
At a meeting room in downtown Seattle, they stood to cheer as Gov. Jay Inslee, a key Affordable Care Act advocate, took the podium, and they listened raptly as speakers from various health agencies and nonprofits detailed their best ideas for signing up the uninsured.
They'll advertise at sports events and on buses and have information available at libraries and hospital emergency rooms. They're training legions of people to help assist those who need insurance — in their own languages and with cultural sensitivity.
An online "healthplanfinder" will let people compare apples and apples, letting them choose among three different levels of coverage from different plans. Linked to federal systems, it will instantly let people know if they qualify for coverage and for subsidies.
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For the first time people with some health conditions, previously shut out of insurance, will be able to buy it, and may get help paying for it.
Washington is ahead of most states in its effort to get ready, but for the people in this room — those on the ground, in counties large and small — Oct. 1 suddenly has become very near and the challenges very real. That's the date everything must be ready to go, including the online marketplace to buy coverage beginning in 2014, as well as all the people now being trained to assist the first wave of approximately 1 million uninsured in Washington.
One of the biggest challenges — although certainly not the only one — will be signing up the young, healthy people known as the "young invincibles." That tag is shorthand for their belief that they don't really need health insurance because nothing will ever happen to them.
That's not true, but in fact, they typically don't have lots of health expenses, so their premiums will help ensure that insurers stay financially healthy.
"Young people will be critical to our success," said Ani Fete, director of state assistance for Enroll America, a nonprofit advocacy organization helping states and organizations target particular audiences.
Currently, however, the young invincibles' mindset about buying insurance is negative, Fete said.
Michael Marchand, communications director with the state's Health Benefit Exchange, which is creating the online "healthplanfinder" tool, said the issue isn't about technology. "This is a social behavioral issue," he said. "How do we get people to value health insurance?"
Focus groups and surveys show while most people feel health insurance is necessary or very important, cost is a big barrier for many — particularly young people, said Fete. But they can be won over if they understand what a good deal they may be getting, how coverage will protect their financial health, all the areas that each policy must cover — and see that these newly created policies use simple language and lack confusing "fine print," she said.
If all else fails, advocates said, they will rely on those that these young people trust. Most often, that's their mothers, Marchand said, so they'll target moms with pro-enrollment messages so they'll have the right information to seal the deal.
Those attending the event included representatives of hospitals, physician groups, Medicaid, government agencies, health insurers, community clinics, public-health departments and elected officials, as well as advocacy organizations for ethnic groups, children, homeless people and those with particular illnesses.
The federal government has provided $150 million in grants to help Washington get rolling, Inslee said, and the expansion of Medicaid, which will provide federal subsidies to those eligible, helped balance the state budget so more money could go to education.
The law will also create an estimated 10,000 new jobs in the state, Inslee said, and will encourage homegrown entrepreneurship.
"From now on, you won't be stuck in a job you don't like just for the health-care premiums," he said. "This is a freedom issue, not just a health issue."
The law, said Susan Johnson, regional director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "is a promise to millions of people across the country," and making it happen will require work.
But "we're going forward," she told the crowd. "We know how to do this."
Carol M. Ostrom: email@example.com or 206-464-2249. On Twitter @costrom. This story was produced through a partnership with Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent part of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a health-policy research and communication organization that is not affiliated with Kaiser Permanente.


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In January 1981, the 8 bit Commodore 64K computer, also known as C64, was released by Commodore International for a hefty price of $595. The C64 computers quickly became a household name, selling over 30 million systems. For decades the C64 computers were highly popular for mainly playing games. Eventually the C64 computer was in every retail store across the country. Since the system was on the rise, companies started to develop a new device called the modem.
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The Old Man and the Online Stop-Motion VideoBy Jason Y. Wood | July 20th, 2012
This video posted on PBS's American Masters Tumblr sent me scurrying to my bookshelf (I know I have a first edition here somewhere…). But if you only have a few minutes, it's an easy way (and pretty remarkable to watch) to get reacquainted with one of the great stories of our time: Ernest Hemingway's "The Old Man and the Sea." One caveat/disclaimer: I didn't pick the music.
Getting It Ironed OutBy Jason Y. Wood | July 5th, 2012
Talk about strange bedfellows, offshore oil rigs now have a vigorous champion in a conservation group, the Coastal Conservation Association. At issue is not the pollution caused by such catastrophes as the Deepwater Horizon explosion. Instead the sticking point is the steel legs of the now-idle drilling platforms, encrusted with coral and teeming with life.
Man's New Best FriendBy Brad Dunn | June 26th, 2012
Dogs may have been rounding up sheep and cattle for centuries, but it appears they just got one-upped. Bottlenose dolphins are helping fishermen in Brazil not only by circling schools of fish but also signaling when and where to throw the nets. The dolphins round up mullet, steer them toward the fishing boats, then slap their heads or tails against the surface of the water when it's time for the catch.
Sunny Side UpBy Brad Dunn | June 22nd, 2012
It may not have shattered any speed records, but the Tûranor PlanetSolar catamaran has become the first boat to circumnavigate the globe using only solar power: no sails, no fuel, no exhaust. Designed and built by an international team of naval architects and engineers, the lightweight-carbon-fiber vessel is covered with 38,000 solar cells that drive a 30-hp electric motor.
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I just finished testing the Sealine F48 off the Isle of Wight in southern England, and now I'm back in my hotel room in London. Flying back to NYC in the morning. Y'know, just popped across the pond for 24 hours to do some yachting. I feel so cosmopolitan right now it's not even funny.
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A distress call that went out yesterday off Sandy Hook, New Jersey regarding an exploding yacht is now believed to be a hoax.
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If every boat has a story, there's a good chance many of the Bertram 46 convertibles out there will tell one that prospective owners may not want to hear. That's the danger of looking for a sportfisherman and a good sea boat—those captains bought them because they could handle the rough stuff, and keep fishing.
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Any boat guy will find plenty to see and do at OpSail 2012 Virginia, to be held at multiple locations along the Virginia coastline from June 1 through 12. Commemorating the Bicentennial of the War of 1812, this multi-venue event will feature majestic tall ships, warships both foreign and domestic, and plenty of waterfront activities, including concerts, pirate festivals, sporting contests, and more. Best of all, boaters get prime vantage points for the best attractions: the tall ship parades of sail and air shows featuring the U.S. Navy's Blue Angels.
For good or for bad, sometimes the world works in mysterious ways.By Capt. Bill Pike | June 4th, 2012
Who'da Thunk?
Okay, I'll admit it. I've become a tad cynical over the years. So when the Deepwater Horizon exploded catastrophically on April 20, 2010, killing 11 crewmen, I cynically watched developments on TV, day after day, feeling steadily more dismal over the resultant oil spill and what it was gonna do to the Gulf Coast and, more particularly (and selfishly perhaps), Panama City, Florida, the place where my wife and I were keeping our Grand Banks trawler Betty Jane. Having spent several of my youthful years working on oil-field boats in the Gulf, a job that put me cheek-by-jowl with big oil companies like BP, I figured I knew the score. Everybody was gonna lose … except BP!
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On August 29 1998, a Cubana TU-154M (CU-T1264) overshot, and eventually crashed at the end of runway 17 in Quito's Mariscal Sucre Airport. Only the right wing with the landing gear still attached as well as the Tail and engines were left. The remains of the plane were left for a couple of months beside the runway (A very conforting sight when you take-off). Then the remains dissapeared and the metal was sold in auction to make pots and pans. In first world countries, what happens to the remains of planes? The same thing happened with a Brasiilian FLY plane which also overshot the runway. Are they also recycled to make new pieces or are the used for other purposes?
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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 is experiencing a second service outage this week.
WinRumors readers are reporting that they are unable to access Xbox LIVE services on multiple Windows Phone 7 devices. WinRumors has confirmed this on our own Samsung Focus and HTC 7 Mozart devices with separate Windows Live accounts. The symptoms appears to be related to Microsoft's back-end Windows Live services. The software giant previously experienced an outage with its Marketplace on Thursday due to extended scheduled maintenance.
Microsoft is aware of the issue, "It's a new issue that users are unable to access Xbox LIVE features at this time," said a company spokesperson on Twitter. WinRumors has reached out to Microsoft for further information.
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The election watchdog has gained access to the electronic logs that track who drew down information from the party's database of voters in the riding of Guelph during the 2011 campaign.
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Delays and setbacks have cast confusion over the price tag of the fighter jets, so Ottawa is now acknowledging it will have to wait and see how much they will cost - even if it doesn't have a clear idea of a Plan B.
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- Federal politicians worked late into the night to debate a back-to-work bill to send a pair of Air Canada labour disputes to binding arbitration in order to keep the airline flying.
Bill C-33, which passed 155-124 at about 0130 ET Wednesday, covers about 8,600 mechanics, baggage handlers and other ground crew at Air Canada and about 3,000 pilots.
- Tens of thousands of homeowners are at risk of break-ins and assaults if their personal information is made available online when they sell their homes, the country's largest real estate board charges in a blistering attack against the country's competition commissioner.
The Toronto Real Estate Board will launch a major public relations campaign on Tuesday against a Competition Bureau demand to include more detailed information in online listings, arguing that making information such as a seller's name and phone number available to casual browsers endangers lives.
- Mired in a $16-billion deficit and facing an uncertain financial future, Ontario is turning to consumers to help it dig out of trouble.
The province announced on Tuesday it will raise a range of driver fees, including licence validation, renewals, replacement, driver exam fees, trailer permits, as well as a range of other fees for commercial vehicles.
Reports in the Business Section
- Two directors at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday the company's board could consider a management shake-up ahead of the railway's annual general meeting in May if the proposed plan by activist shareholder Bill Ackman gains enough traction with shareholders.
- An Ontario Superior Court judge has approved a plan by securities regulators to distribute among holders nearly $60 million collected from a group of financial institutions as part of a settlement related to the failure of the third party asset-backed commercial paper.
European Economic News:
- Switzerland PES Unemployment 4.7% - lower than expected. Consensus 4.8%. Previous 4.8%.
- UK Claimant Count Rate for February 5.0% - in line with expectations. Consensus 5.0%. Previous 5.0%.
- UK Average Weekly Earnings for January (3m/y/y) 1.4% - lower than expected. Consensus 1.9%. Previous 2.0%.
- UK ILO Unemployment Rate for January 8.4% - in line with expectations. Consensus 8.4%. Previous 8.4%
- Europe CPI for February 0.5% m/m 2.7% y/y – in line with expectations. Consensus 0.5% m/m 2.7% y/y. Previous -0.8% m/m 2.7% y/y.
- Europe IP for January 0.2% m/m -1.2% y/y – lower than expected. Consensus 0.5% m/m -0.8% y/y. Previous -1.1% m/m -2.0% y/y.
- Switzerland ZEW Survey for March 0.0. Previous -21.2.
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The transition also raises further questions about what relationship the federal government has with Google. As RT reported yesterday, an advocacy group will be taking the US National Security Agency to court later this month in hopes of finding details on what ties, if any, the NSA has with Google. The NSA has refused to disclose any details in the past that discuss a relationship, despite a series of Freedom of Information Act requests.
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From a Wired.com 'Danger Room' article on this subject:
The shift was only one of the reasons why Dugan was a highly polarizing figure within her agency, and in the larger defense research community. The Pentagon's Office of Inspector General (OIG) is also actively investigating hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of contracts that Darpa gave out to RedX Defense — a bomb-detection firm that Dugan co-founded, and still partially owns. A separate audit is examining a sample of the 2,000 other research contracts Darpa has signed during Dugan's tenure, to "determine the adequacy of Darpa's selection, award, and administration of contracts and grants," according to a military memorandum.
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Woe, something is happening in Japan. Now there is a bunch of earhquakes popping up like they did last year all the sudden. http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php
so actually it's the fed that give the signal to allow banks to issue dividends and buy back shares?
High speed rail in Hubei collapses
Gold has been hit up for another 2% overnight. Clearly, worthless fiat paper backed by nothing got all better in the past 2 weeks.
Yes what an effective bailout of Greece it was, it nipped a growing debt conflagration in the bud and has set the eurozone on a path of fiscal health and financial prosperity. Gold? Who needs gold, puh-leeze. Ya can't eat it, and the Oligarch of Omaha, Whorin' Muppet, says I don't need any anyway...
Oh that's right, EQ's in Japan are fiat friendly and gold un-friendly. Now I remember.
My experience with Fiat was owning a 1970 Spider 850. Nothing but trouble. I'm sticking with gold, silver & tar sands stocks.
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Six months ago today, 26 children and adults were slaughtered at the hands of Adam Lanza and a semi-automatic Bushmaster XM12 E2S rifle inside Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., one of the deadliest school shooting massacres in U.S. history. As parents, friends, family and gun control advocates around the country mourn and commemorate the loss of life, Ohio gun rights advocates are worried about something else.
Their concern: how to make it easier for Ohio citizens to obtain high-round magazines for their semi-automatic weapons.
A new Ohio House Bill introduced by State Rep. John Becker (R-Union Township) could, if passed, allow people to purchase high-round magazines for semi-automatic weapons, removing language from the Ohio Revised Code (ORC) that currently restricts use of magazines exceeding 31 rounds for semi-automatic weapons.
Specifically, the proposed bill would remove the definition of "automatic firearm" from section 2923.11 from the ORC that currently qualifies a weapon traditionally defined as a semi-automatic firearm (which operated by firing only once for each pull of the trigger) as an automatic firearm under Ohio law when used with a magazine holding greater than 31 rounds of ammunition.
Gun rights advocates are in favor of deleting the line because qualifying a semi-automatic as an automatic weapon under Ohio law (dependent on magazine size) subjects gun owners to greater background checks and stricter purchasing restrictions, which they consider an unlawful hassle and burden.
Jim Irvine, Chairman of the Buckeye Firearms Association, says that the sentence Becker has proposed to remove is one that inherently conflicts the actual definition of an automatic weapon; he says it doesn't make sense to qualify a semi-automatic weapon under the same umbrella as an automatic weapon when the two are entirely different types of firearms.
He says that the issue is one of convenience for most semi-automatic gun owners, including himself. "Loading up magazines can take time," he says. "When I go to the shooting range I want to use my time up shooting, not reloading."
That extra time, though, is exactly the point of the wording in the ORC, explains Toby Hoover, executive director for the Ohio Coalition Against Gun Violence. Limited magazines were what eventually stopped the Arizona gunman who shot former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords because a bystander was able to attack the shooter when he dropped a magazine while trying to reload.
Hoover asserts that gun rights advocates like Irvine are being subversive in their reasons for wanting to change the changed law.
She says the legal issue is not that the ORC is trying to directly equate semi-automatic weapons to automatic weapons — they clearly operate differently — but that grouping them together using that magazine restriction is a common-sense way to define them both as dangerous, unnecessary forms of firearms that simply shouldn't be readily accessible to the average gun owner. Semi-automatic weapons are extremely easy to purchase in Ohio, she says, while purchasing automatic weapons involves many more complicated restrictions and regulations.
"I'm just really upset with the way they [Ohio Republicans and gun lobbyists] are ignoring the fact that people in Ohio want gun restrictions. They're just going the opposite direction," she says. "If they're really concerned about the wording of the law, just have them maybe separate the definitions but keep the restrictions the same."
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Danny Wong's 'One Family' documents a family of scavengers who live and work from sunrise to sunset on a dumpsite near Siem Reap, Cambodia. Sadly, this rubbish dump is also home to an entire community.
The Malaysia Chapter of the Royal Photographic Society announces its arrival with its first major exhibition.
THAT'S my picture!" exclaimed Nick Ng as we strode into the room that housed the People, Places & Life Through The Lenses showcase at YTL Land and Development Bhd's Sentul East Design Centre (SEED) in the city centre that is now the refurbished Sentul in the capital.
The said image – seen at Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Malaysia Chapter's first major exhibition – was photographed in the north of India in that part of a restaurant that most patrons will never set foot – the definite business end of the kitchen. The cooks and their assistants, it seems, welcomed Ng's intrusion and he, in turn, had maximised their hospitality.
The shot was pulled back on a wide angle to take in their whole habitat and effectively placed the gritty in an imposing facade. As Ng explained, the exhibition shied away from any thematic pretensions though anyone visiting it from now till July 28 will be persuaded to accept a common thread that intertwines the works of 15 of RPS's members: realism.
On July 18, two days before the opening night of the RPS Malaysia Chapter's first major exhibition, the passion of Ng and his collaborators at the RPS sliced through the sizzling evening. The impression, it would not be incorrect to say, was akin to the imminent staging of a long awaited coming-out celebration.
"We are very lucky to be able to use the place for no fees while J&A Imaging (www.jaissb.com) is sponsoring the prints. To have an event of this scale once a year is manageable, but we can't have it too often because of sponsorship … we may overstretch ourselves," said Ng as he mentioned the struggles to raise funds for RPS's plans.
The RPS was officially listed with the Registrar of Societies (ROS) in February this year. It has quietly worked the ground in the Peninsular and Sarawak by introducing the organisation to various photographic societies and conducting workshops. Ng recalled the materialisation of a Chapter of the RPS here, and he did not attempt to rein in his sense of disbelief and elation.
"All this happened at the end of October in 2011, before I went to India, when the President of the RPS of Britain e-mailed to ask if I would like to start a chapter in Malaysia. I was doing a salon for a photography society and I e-mailed her for a message for the salon.
"When I got back from India, I received an email and it said 'You've been officially appointed by the Council as the Malaysia Chapter Organiser.' We never actually discussed the proposal … I think they needed somebody to start it here. I then appointed Steven Leong as the West Malaysia Chair while Chan Hua Chiang (Fellow of RPS) is the East Malaysia Chair," he said.
Chan ran RPS's activities in Sibu last year, and Miri in May, and is in touch with the local photographic societies in Sabah and Sarawak to co-organise events. RPS draws its membership from the photographic societies in Malaysia and their efforts are part of People, Places & Life Through The Lenses exhibition in Kuala Lumpur.
Ng was keen to stress that RPS is not a society, and has no ambition to ursurp these clubs into a single body.
"We can't group them into one … some of the societies have been established for more than 50 or 60 years. We are trying to build relationships and a community feel amongst them because it is easier to do things in future. If we manage to build that in every state (in Malaysia), we can bring this exhibition to Penang and Malacca, and promote the name of RPS.
"We are a platform for sharing. If you want to know about photography, you can come over and we will share what we know with you. If we don't have that particular information, there are other people (within RPS) who do know since we have a variety of photographers in every category. That's how we grow together."
The exhibition is a step in this direction. Ben Toh, Ng's co-curator, proposed to the RPS that they hold a showcase at SEED when the former organised the Women Behind The Lens exhibition in conjunction with International Woman's Day in March. The SEED management wanted to breathe life into the property – home to mainly landscape designers, interior designers and architects – and convert it into a throbbing hub for the arts, design and photography fields.
According to Toh, the first photography exhibition was in February and helmed by MK Salma or Sally, as she is also known, and the soft launch of the RPS at the same d7 venue was the follow-up in April. In line with the aims of SEED, the People, Places & Life Through The Lenses exhibition traverses the subject matter.
"This event is in itself is not only about photography, but also about bringing the values of the arts to the people … the exhibition is not confined to our members. We are opening it to the public. Besides the exhibition, we have talks and workshops," said Ng.
"This Sunday (July 21), we have a Photo Hunt Competition around Sentul. The theme is Sentul Yesterday & Sentul Today. On July 27, we managed to get three commercial photographers, Kid Chan, Adam Seow, Jen Siow and (Long) Thien-Shih, who is the resident artist at University Malaya (plus) activist and musician AiLin (Yong) for a talk."
Another well-known photographer Patrick Low will moderate this informal "meet & chat" session on July 27, which will discuss Contemporary Views On Art & Photography. Members of the public are invited to participate, especially the click-and-upload generation. Ng is expecting interest to come from these youngsters.
He noted that photography in the digital era – made more convenient with each application and model upgrade – has allowed many to explore this discipline, with the new generation picking it up as a hobby while the rest venture into it professionally as freelancers. While Ng welcomed the development, he broached the issue of art in photography.
Opining that this is a subjective topic, he held the view that the proliferation of software and applications has afforded freedom for photographers or virtual artists to create compositions out of computer-generated images. This, he said, is acceptable in the same way an artist respects another's ability to create.
Ng elaborated that the question always is if one image is better than the other in the manner in which it invokes a feel for it. But there are exceptions.
"In travel documentary and photojournalism … what you capture is what you should show. Apart from this category, I believe that every image taken digitally should be enhanced – using software – because it brings out the beauty of the image.
"If I was to shoot raw and I don't do anything – level or contrast it – the image that is produced is unattractive.
"This brings us to the chat sessions on July 27 when we deal with the subject of whether technology has diminished the inner creativity of the authors or has it helped the authors to be more creative," he concluded.
Join the activities and discussions during the People, Places & Life Through The Lenses exhibition that daily runs till July 28 at
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(11am to 4pm). Call: 012-205 0716. For details, go to www.facebook.com/rps.msia. For info on The Royal Photographic Society (Malaysia Chapter), e-mail: email@example.com. Call: 012-377 2331.
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Today's post comes from Once Upon A Sewing Machine and is a very gorgeous homemade Elf. I could have done with this when looking for a cheaper version of the elf on the shelf. This cute little Elf will be on my to make list for next year.
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Anarchists Against the Wall Awarded German Human Rights Prize
Award named after Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky, who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
A group that demonstrates every week against the fence separating Israel from the West Bank was handed a German human rights prize Sunday in Berlin.
The Bil'in Village Committee, made up of Palestinians, and Anarchists Against the Wall, an Israeli organization, were jointly awarded the Carl von Ossietzy Medal.
Representatives of the two groups gather from Palestine and Israel every Friday to protest against the wall and demand that Palestinians and Israelis be allowed to live side-by-side in peace.
The award is given annually by the Berlin-based International League of Human Rights and named after German Nobel Peace Prize winner Carl von Ossietzky (1889-1938), who died in a Nazi concentration camp.
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