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By Sevak Sarkisian: Yesterday I was curious to know who will be fighting on the upcoming Manny Pacquiao and Tim Bradley undercard, and to my surprise there was one match-up that actually seems to have the potential to be a competitive fight. To be honest, Im a little surprised the promoters decided to put it on the undercard. Truthfully, they could have used the opportunity to once again showcase a young prospect against a faded veteran.
But instead, we will be seeing a title fight between top contender Mike Jones taking on the experienced Randall Bailey for the vacant IBF welterweight title.
Both fighters present a legitimate threat to one another in very different ways. Randall Bailey is a huge puncher and possesses knockout power especially in his right hand. The right uppercut and the right cross are his best punches and hes KOd plenty of people with them. 36 of his 42 wins have come by knockout. However, he sometimes makes it to obvious that hes looking for that one big punch and abandons his game plan looking for that one shot.
However, his opponent Mike Jones possess good hand speed and above average skills. Jones also possesses unique physical gifts for the weight class standing at 60 feet tall with a 72 inch reach. But just like any other fighter to ever live, Mike Jones has his shortcomings and limitations as well. He has shown in the past that he is capable of getting caught up in the moment and letting emotion get the best of him. He has to stay poised and relaxed, and think long term against a dangerous puncher like Bailey. Mike Jones has to avoid getting hit with that big right hand and make sure he puts his big speed advantage to good use. He also has to make sure he doesnt get caught up in a brawl and take advantage of his boxing skills.
If Jones fights a smart fight he should be able to handle business on June 9th in Las Vegas against the older puncher. However, history tells us thats not a guarantee and if the seasoned veteran can take advantage of those moments and land his money punch it can be lights out for Mike Jones. I must admit I expect Mike to take advantage of his natural attributes and not make the fight harder than it should be and win the fight in a competitive well-earned championship win.
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Our dinghy sailing events take place on Wednesday evenings from 6.00pm and on Sundays as advertised on Facebook.
On Wednesday evenings we usually hold informal training sessions to suit various abilities. Occasionally we hold Club Sailing events on a Saturday; details of these are posted on the website.
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During the summer, from April, training sessions take place on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 6.30pm at the club in Long Close.
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I dont know if anyone has asked this or if its stated anywhere else, but I dont visit the lounge much. I am wondering if anyone knows what is wrong with the profiles. The last few days, I get the "page cannot be found" page. And before that, it would sometimes work and sometimes not, often I would login in and I would get an error that says I am not a member of CA or I would get some other random error, but was often corrected if I hit refresh.
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Trčs Chic: Air France Debuts Their New Airline Safety Video
We've seen our share of airline safety videos, and from the silly to the sexy most are usually worth a watch even on the ground.
Now Air France has revealed a new look to their pre-flight entertainment, and it is definitely a good distraction worth your time on a Monday.
There's plenty of blue, white, and red, as we learn from some fashionable French folks that the seatbelt will do more than just protect us from bumps and turbulence—it will also elegantly highlight our waistline.
The jokes are subtle and stylish along with the whole video, and we're thinking that Air France has a hit on their hands with this one. They even remind us what is chic (not smoking) and what is trendy (turning your electronic devices to airplane mode).
In-Flight Meals / Economy Class Travel / TAM / Qantas / British Airways / ANA / Air France / KLM / Czech Airlines / Air Berlin / Food Travel / Airline Meals / → All Tags
Economy Passengers are Tired of Measly Meal Trays
Last week some great news for Economy passengers arrived from Down Under, as Qantas' introduced new meals for those flying in the back of the plane.
The Red Roo's overhauled menu includes more choices for in-flight grub via their Select on Q pre-order system, now with 50% larger meals and even special treats like ice cream snacks and a welcome drink. Meals not only do away with trays and feature more destination-based items (like BBQ beef sliders to North America and and full English breakfast to the UK), but they'll even surprise with items like a bread roll already infused with butter to eliminate buttery finger fumbling.
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Throwback Thursday: An In-Flight Snack Attack on Air France in 1958
Sure, we love all the speed and comfort of modern travel, but it didn't get that way overnight. Every Thursday, we're going to take a look back at travel the way it used to be, whether that's decades or centuries ago. This is Throwback Thursday, travel edition.
For all we talk about in-flight meals, you might think that praising (or criticizing) what's served onboard where is a new concept. A 1958 Air France postcard we acquired proves that obsession with in-flight food is hardly anything new.
Written by an American onboard a flight from Rome to Paris during a European "Grand Tour," the traveler is surprised, in a good way, by the food offered on the flight. On a similar Air France route today, you might be lucky to receive a complimentary beverage and perhaps a croissant.
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Air France Testing New Electronic Boarding Pass Options
We've seen electronic boarding passes and other unique ways to hop aboard your flight, and now Air France is adding their version of some newfangled technology to the boarding process.
The carrier's new boarding business is all about near field communication—or NFC—as they're partnering up with a local mobile provider to get the technology up and running. Basically passengers using Orange mobile smartphones will be able to touch here, tap there, and wave their device in order to make their way through the airport.
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The Multiple Personalities of Air France's New Business Class Seat
Air France realizes that passenger load fluctuates, and since their product is perishable (once a plane takes off, those unsold seats are lost revenue) , they're hit the chalkboard to brainstorm creative solutions for maximizing passenger comfort while still flying full planes.
The result are new business class cabins across their long-haul fleet, with the unique ability to change up the cabin class when premium travel slows. These seats can be switched into economy class seats, ideal for periods like the summer when tourist and budget traveler numbers to Europe are high and the expense accounts are more likely to stay home.
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Throwback Thursday: Air France's Tummy-Filling Transatlantic Meals on the 707
Sure, we love all the speed and comfort of modern travel, but it didn't that way overnight. Every Thursday, we're going to take a look back at travel the way it used to be, whether that's decades or centuries ago. This is Throwback Thursday, travel edition.
We can only imagine what it would have been like in the mid-1960s, planning a trip to France on one of the new Boeing 707s. Dreaming of nibbling croissants on the street, sampling fine French cuisine, and sipping French vintages would be part of the agenda and Air France knew it. That's why it's no surprise their advertisements highlighted the elaborate meals onboard their jet service from New York, Chicago and LA.
This poster above exhibits the nine essential parts of the service, about which Air France was so proud. Not only would De Luxe Class (business class) passengers be treated to the reduced flying time and comfort of jet service across the Atlantic, but also onboard meals worthy of the Paris route. Taking consistency into consideration, all of these beautiful meals will be served depending on mileage from origin city.
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Air France's New Ad Campaign is Bold, Beautiful
It's been quite a while since we hailed any airline advertising as brilliant, but Air France's fresh run of bright images warrants a mention.
The ads, by BETC Paris, utilize bright colors and bold shapes, with more than a touch of high-fashion photography. The impact isn't unlike that of vintage travel posters, still considered stylish today.
In fact, that above A380 image is especially genius; it's a stealth homage to the french new wave film L'Année derničre ŕ Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad), whose director, Alain Resnais, recently passed away.
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Cheers! These 13 Airlines Aren't Afraid to Pour the Good Champagne
Just because the confetti is cleaned up, Auld Lang Syne is retired in your iTunes playlist, and your outfit from New Year's Eve is at the dry-cleaners doesn't mean we still can't talk about one of the best parts of ringing in a new year: a champagne toast! Since 'popping bottles' is for such special occasions, we can't think of a better way to sip some bubbles than when on a plane heading for a new destination.
While some airlines have a knack for feeding passengers fine food like lobster and caviar, there are thankfully more still taking sparkling wines just as serious. If your 2014 travel plans include flights in First or Business Class on the following carriers, be sure to reach for that PDB (pre-departure beverage) and ask for a flute of these fine pours:
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Throwback Thursday: When 'Discerning' Men Flew Air France
Sure, we love all the speed and comfort of modern travel, but it didn't that way overnight. Every Thursday, we're going to take a look back at travel the way it used to be, whether that's decades or centuries ago. This is Throwback Thursday, travel edition.
Check out this old ad for Air France's transatlantic service. Love the route names: "Super Starliner" and "Eastern Epicurian." Hate that the ad implies only men enjoy the nicer things while in flight.
Granted, this ad was taken from an old British men's magazine named "Lilliput," but the thought of outright targeting one sex over the other for the sales of airline tickets is ridiculous. You see, it's done in a far subtler way now; note the naked Russian flight attendant calendar distributed to male frequent flyers of Aeroflot, or the sexy ads of Virgin America, touting the handsomeness of their male flight attendants and pilots just as much as the beauty of the females.
Okay, maybe not so subtle. At least there is one truly timeless aspect to the ad, and it's that final promise of "good food, good wine, good service and good company."
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USB Ports and More Legroom Coming to Air France in 2014
Your next overseas flight is about to get a little bit better—even in the back—as Air France just announced that they're spending plenty of cash to upgrade their up in the air experience. This time the upgrades and improvements aren't just for those paying extra to sit up front, as the most recent sent of renovations are scheduled for the economy and premium economy cabins.
It looks like the carrier is prepared to fill out an oversized check in the amount of like 500 million euros, as they move forward with all kinds of enhancements. Old seating surfaces will dragged off to the curb for trash pickup, as the economy and premium economy seats will be brand new. Air France promises lighter seats—saving on that airplane fuel—as well as ones that provide head support and retractable armrests.
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JetBlue, Virgin America and Air France Lead This Week's New Route News
Sometimes it's hard to stay on top of all the new route announcements that come our way, so we've complied a little bit of a rundown below. As long as you can afford the fares, this should definitely help add to your passport stamp collection.
· JetBlue:
The government seals and stamps are still pending, but if all goes according to plan JetBlue will be adding some new options sooner than later. They're looking to head from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport down to Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru. Daily flights are scheduled to start on November 21, and if you act quickly you might be able to score a one-way seat for as low as $139. Adding Lima to their map will be destination number 81 for JetBlue, and it's their fourth destination down in South America.
In case you haven't heard the good news it's finally time for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner to head back into the skies. The battery problems have been reviewed and approved, and it's finally time for the planes to do what they do best—fly. Plenty of airlines are working to shift their schedules to bring back the new planes, and one of them is LOT Polish Airlines. It sounds like June 5 is when they'll bring back the 787 service between Chicago and Warsaw, and shortly after that they'll start to link Poland with Toronto as well.
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Throwback Thursday: One Tropical Concorde
Sure, we love all the speed and comfort of modern travel, but it didn't get that way overnight. Every Thursday, we're going to take a look back at travel the way it used to be, whether that's decades or centuries ago. This is Throwback Thursday, travel edition.
"So this one time, I was tanning on the beach when a Concorde flew, like, right over me."
In 1989, an Air France Concorde made a very special flight to the Caribbean island of St. Maarten/St. Martin. It would be the only time Concorde landed at Princess Juliana International Airport on St. Maarten, but the airport itself hasn't forgotten. This photo is still on display, just after security, in the terminal at SXM.


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Beauty immortalized in photography
My creativity in post titles has gone to the dogs these days. Sigh. What's good people? First off, due to many many many instances of theft, I'm trying out a new watermark on my images. Do tell me what you think about it on the comments section.
Now, I had the absolute honor of shooting with Feven yesterday afternoon. Needless to say, I was in shock and awe the whole time because she was so easy to work with and the images were so great one after the other. Below is a montage of my favorite 2 images of them all.
But enough talk now. Enjoy gallery :-D
First, before y'all kill me, I just had the absolute pleasure of taking shots of miss Asha of Turande. And they were so good that I got convinced to blog again. It's not very often that a photographer gets a chance to photograph a photographer :-D
This is undoubtedly my favorite image from the whole shoot.
Si you know I likes my monochromatic images? :-D
She looks FIERCE in this one. And finally,
So pretty! Asha showed up with her cousin Wambui who was a great help with holding my equip and what not.
Before I leave y'all to stare open mouthed at the gallery below, my most sincere apologies for not blogging since the end of last year. I am to blame. But imma try now. Promise.
Reumac out.
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Hello! SO, before you kill me, I've got some of the work I've been doing with Ma3 that's up on their page. You can see those here and here. Have a look see and leave them a comment or 2 appreciating the awesome photos :-D
Now you can feel free to stone me or whatever :-)
Salutations friends :-)
So this October, Reumac Shot This supported a couple of breast cancer awareness initiatives. I usually don't pick favorites, but my favorite hands down was The Pink Move that was organized by a couple of friends of mine. Our first shoot was spectacular. My best 2 images from that were:
and because I'm allowed to cheat (since the blog is mine anyway)
Then we did another shoot so we could get diversity in our images. Which yielded these gems:
To crown off the month and promote a yearlong awareness activity calendar they have, The Pink Move hosted a Pink Party at Skyluxx last Saturday. I dropped by for a while to show my support. And got this amazing photo while I was there. It's probably gonna get me killed, but heck. I have a secret bunker somewhere :-D
So before I make my quick getaway, do follow The Pink Move on Twitter and keep abreast (see what I did there? :-) with all their activities. They are definitely gonna make a difference. Oh, and enjoy the gallery of images below :-D
Salutations my good people :-D First off, my most sincere apologies for being MIA for a bit. I had to travel out of the city without warning and the quality of the internet connection in the areas I travelled to was a tad appalling. However, I'm back now and I trust that my Instagram feed kept you entertained as I traversed the country.
So I had the absolute pleasure of shooting with Tatty and Angie just before I left the city. The location was an old abandoned house in Kilimani. I had a different title in mind for this post then as I was looking through the images I realized that most, if not all, of them has some frame of some sort surrounding the subject. Don't know what was going through my mind that day. So here are my fav images.
Something about the light in this shot. Don't ask me what it is.
It's all about the framing in this one.
I'm beyond words for this one. Beyond words.
This photo just makes me happy :-D
For other images from this shoot, do have a look through the image gallery below. Enjoy!!
Salutations my good people :-D I trust y'all had a most awesome week. I had the privilege of being AnnSophie Achera's personal photographer at the Swahili Fashion week this past weekend. When I was not furiously snapping away as her collection was showcasing on the runway, I was taking other images as I saw them. Here are a few notable ones.
First off, I noticed this pretty girl seated across from me and every time she turned to look at the screens, the light caught her face in a most lovely way. Took me a while but I finally got this shot of her.
Then, I caught up with the beautiful Sarah Hassan before the show started. That's someone I need to work with REAL soon. This is a shot I luckily got after the show was done and she was recording a PTC for her show on Africa Magic.
And finally, this is my shot of the night. Don't ask me why, because I don't have an answer for that question. It's just one of those things.
More images in the gallery below. Please show some love to my friend by liking her page. That's where the images of her collection on the runway will probably premiere :-D And check out my page on Facebook for more images from the event :-)
What do y'all think of the latest design of the blog? Good? Bad? Ugly? Don't really care as long as the posts keep coming? Please leave me a comment and lemme know. Dhangk :-)
And she was pretty! Her name is Wofa and she was introduced to me by Le Photo Ninja. SO, allow me to prove that she's quite the beauty.
Since our favorite thing to do as we shoot is to take photos of each other, I've thrown in some photos of Le Photo Ninja herself and her cohorts :-D
If you think these are anything, you should see what she got on her camera. It's for blowing minds and things :-)
I really need to write better headlines :-D Here's hoping all of you had a most fantastic time since I last came by here to share with you my work. Some time last week I had the pleasure of spending some time on the roof of KICC with my friend Ciru. Here's what transpired:
And finally, my favorite one of them all (I'm sure some of you have already seen this)
Pretty one isn't she? :-) The light play in that last shot is just THE ONE! You should have seen her protesting that I was taking pics of her with the specs on :-D
More images come your way later this week. Till then, ciao!
Allow me to introduce you to Twaila .
She works in the Insurance industry.
She was the 200th like(r) on my Facebook page and for that she won a shoot with me :-D
As usual. I asked her what 3 things the world doesn't know about her. The answers were:
Her aspirations for the next 10 years are to be married with little ones running around the house. And having fun with life.
And as a treat, allow me to introduce you to Sara a.k.a Murugi Kagotho.
She is a student by proffession..and a future scientist/teacher
Her 3 things are:
1. (In her words) I am very very animals-ey. I love creepy
crawlies and mean looking dogs/snakes..but arachnophobia is REAL..if
you have 8 legs,we can never be friends
2. She can't scream
3. She is secretly an alien informant sent to Earth to spy for a sentient race of extra-terrestrials poised to arrive and take over shortly (she was kidding with that one :-)
In the next decade she wants to be at the Trinidad & Tobago carnival!!!! If not,on a
farm she owns, uprooting her supper…or potty training (not her,but the
So I was curious to find out how these two met. These are the verbatim reports
Twaila: Met Sara in high school, almost 10 years ago. Gosh, makes me feel so old. She's my constant favorite now.
Sara: Twaila was a really jumpy girl I met on the first day of high school. I found her quite annoying that first day but she ended up growing on me..almost a decade later,she's my wingman:-)
So before I bid y'all adieu, I must say a couple of things. First, it's my birthday this week :-D Second, I had in my company during this shoot the wonderful Barbara who was such a fantastic assistant/shoot director/deejay. Since she's like one of my favorite people to shoot I just had to do a couple shots of her as we waited for Twaila and Sara to change
And that dear friend is all I had for you today. Look out for many more photos later in the week. This isn't the only shoot I did that day. Some really cool shots will be coming up, so watch this space carefully :-)
So this post is everything the title promises it is :-D Featured is my friend Maxine who is a *Rock Legend* (it says so on her Tshirt :-) Shot as we cracked jokes on my rooftop terrace at sunset the other day.
I have a plan. That will blow your minds. Just wait :-D
Hello my good people!!!
I trust everyone is fabulous, yes? So my content strategy has suffered a few setbacks of recent so today I'm going to point you in the direction of where you should look for more photos by Reumac. I saw a post by my good friend Mutua a couple of days before the beginning of the month about this exciting Instagram project entitled #Kenya365 that he was going to undertake in conjunction with a couple of other photographers. Read more about it here. I decided to take the challenge as well and you can see my photos so far on my Instagram or my Tumblr. If you want a treat, check out that hashtag on Instagram. The images there are quite something :-D
Keep it fresh people :-) Lemme look for photos to put up later in the week….
So the other day I decided to take a swing at this food styling thing. Thought up a salad I would wanna eat then went to the supermarket and got myself a few things to make it. This is what I came home with.
After a bit of slicing and dicing and test shooting, I took the salad into the late evening sun that was streaming through my balcony door and had some fun with it. First, the birds eye view shot.
I decided at that point that I didn't like the results enough to continue shooting so I stuck a fork in it, threw a couple of slices of avocado on top and took 2 last shots before I dived in.
And that dear friends is the story of my first (failed) attempt at food styling. Gonna be doing a lot more of such in the future so you can only look forward to more failures and lots more successes :-)
In other news, I'm taking part in the #Kenya365 project on Instagram so you should definitely check out that hashtag as well as my Instagram account (reumac) to keep abreast with my progress. I'll try to do a weekly round up at the end of every week for all of you (blackberry users especially *flashes loser sign at them*) who can't get on Instagram :-)
I don't know how I ended up not putting these photos up. You must forgive me. I beg and plead for your mercy. A couple of weeks back I woke up early in the morning to go and shoot at the 1st Annual Kenya Kite fest. I was doing it for my good friends Urban Live, who were part of the team organizing the event. Without beating many stories, here's my favorite image from the hundreds I shot that day.
By the way, I took this AFTER I got a chance to fly that kite. Best. Feeling. EVER! More images of the fun times in the gallery below :-D
I'm back to regular blogging. You can look forward to at least 2 posts a week from now on :-) And that's a promise.
Before I say anything further, imagine my surprise when I found out these big guys were being sold at 79 bob per kilo in Kiambu. I have been in OD mode since this shoot. So sad their season is almost over.
All matters tangerine aside, the one thing I like to do as a small business owner is supporting fellow small business owners. I had the chance to do that the other day when my friend Steve asked me to photograph his wraps. So I decided to document the whole process of making the wrap as a bonus to test myself and my skills. So ladies and gentlemen, for your viewing leisure and pleasure I present to you, Steve's chicken/bacon wrap:
First step is to make the wrap itself. A bit of rolling is required.
When that is nice and flat, he pops it under a grill for a couple of minutes so it can rise and cook.
As all this is happening, the chicken and bacon are frying on the cooker. That kitchen smelled GOOD that morning.
When the wrap is ready and is cooling, the vegetables are chopped up nicely in preperation for the wrap building process.
The chicken and bacon once ready are put aside to cool and the man gets ready to make his wraps.
They look delish eh? Next step is the beginning of the wrap building process. The wrap is put on a piece of aluminium foil and a number of condiments put on it to form the base. This was the mayo.
Next comes a layer of veges. The cabbage and lettuce are ALWAYS fresh. Since he was building this particular wrap for me, I insisted on more mayo. He doesn't use that much mayo usually :-)
Next bit is my favorite. The chicken and bacon bits are generously sprinkled onto the wrap. Must I say quite a number of those bits never made it onto the wrap? ;-)
And since Reumac has a death wish, MORE MAYO!!!
That's the point Steve hid the mayo bottle away from me. Next up was more veges to enhance the flavor of the wrap. I loved how they added colour to the dish. (As Steve looked away momentarily, I stole the mayo bottle and gave it a generous squeeze on top of the wrap :-)
Time now to wrap it up…literally! The wrap is carefully rolled and ends folded in to keep it fresh and make it a little easier to eat. And then it's delivered to you in a lil brown paper bag. Time to eat :-D Here's my wrap after the second bite (or third…fourth…I can't remember exactly. It was THAT good)
So if you want a taste of Steve's chicken bacon wrap, drop him a line on his twitter and he can have one delivered to you. They're filling, tasty like nothing else and quite affordable. As well as being quite healthy. He uses only the freshest vegetables and meat. And not that much mayo :-) I would rather buy two of these than go to some hot, cramped restaurant in town for lunch. And that's that.
I'm in the market for other small business people in the food industry who would wanna partner with me for the Tasty Treats section of this blog. So if you know a person, holla at a brother in the comments section. Dhengks :-D
So some time last year I had the absolute priviledge of being invited to a set by DMYK Films to do the behind the scenes photos for an international musician's music video shoot. I had SO much fun as I worked and observed how the pros shoot. And I got some pretty kick ass photos while I was at it, which you can see here.
The video itself has just recently been uploaded and you can enjoy it here. It's such a happy video and the song definitely has a message. Africa is the future.
I should confess now that I am a HUGE fan of Dan 'Chizi' Aceda. I play his music on loop most times. So you can imagine how happy I was to see him in concert the other day. My camera was happier :-) The highlights are below:
The drums
and Chizi dancing his way into the crowd's heart :-D
More images in the gallery below. I know this post is a couple of days late but si at least I have put the photos up, right? :-D
I think it's high time I outed a friend of mine. Her art goes by the title Just Nailantei photography but to some of us she's known as Le Photo Ninja. I've been shooting with her a lot over the past couple of weeks and along the way, I collected quite a few images of her that I now feel I must share.
Lemme pick out my few favorites then I'll let you go through the rest and leave your thoughts about them in the comment section below :-D
This one will probably get me killed. But that's what we're usually doing when someone points a camera at us.
If photos could have a soul, this one would definitely have one. Taken as we were waiting for a client to make a quick wardrobe change while on set the other day.
And finally,
We call her Talanda :-) She's known as Cathy by the rest of the world. She's pretty great with grips and lighting.
More images, below. And in other news, I'm back to shooting in black and white more often than not *crowd goes wild*
Hey everybody *waves* I know I've been MIA for a while and I'M SORRY. *dodges missiles* I shall soon be making my come back. And it'll be in a BIG way. So don't give up reading just yet :-D
To whet your collective appetites, here are images from a shoot I directed over the weekend for my good friends Nailantei and designer Maria. Enjoy!!
I couldn't and still can't get over how photogenic this young lady was. She joined us as we were on location for the shoot with Jackie's Jewels. Couldn't resist the temptation to catch a few frames of her during the breaks…
Shot on location for Jackie's Jewels.
Today, we shall look at a firm favorite for meat eaters all over . Allow me to present to you Grilled Pepper Steak as presented to me at The Mvuli House.
The meat has been lovingly marinated and grilled for that extra special tenderness and lots of flavour in every bite. It's one of those meals you can't go wrong with :-) The Mvuli House is the place to be if you wanna have a taste of this for yourself. They're located opposite Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi's South C area.
More Tasty Treats shall come your way next week. For now, please like my Facebook page :-)
This week, we're going all healthy and things on the tasty treats segement :-D I present to you vegetable salad as presented to me at The Mvuli House.
Fresher than tomorrow's lettuce and so good for you :-) You have to try out The Mvuli House soon. I couldn't believe such a gem has remained so close to the CBD and the airport. And it's affordable too :-D
More Tasty Treats for you next week. For now, did you know that I have exclusive offers running on my Facebook page? Check it out and like to keep updated. While you're at it, check out my Tumblelog and follow :-D
It's so underrated. Believe me. This was an image I captured of the back of one of the wedding programs at my friend Amanda's wedding. The colour fringing on the shadow is because the sun was filtering through the stained glass windows of the church :-D
Keep an eye on my Facebook page. Got lots of crazy offers lined up for ye who love having your photos taken and I'll only post them there. Now you know the secret :-D
So I shot at a friend's wedding the other day. It wasn't anything too serious. I was just feeling creative. Here are some of the shots I got.
Just to highlight my favorite shot
2 things make this my favorite shot. First, the attention to detail at that wedding was insane. Second, the light play with the candles :-D
Slowly getting back into the blogging. Forgive me my peoples. I've been terribly busy. But if you keep an eye on my Tumblelog you'll get real time updates :-D
Give the title a minute then it'll feel right :-) The other day I took a walk through my garden right before the rain hit. I came across a fair maiden staring up at the clouds wondering what time the deluge would begin.
I stood at a distance, transfixed as she wandered about the garden
Unbeknownst to either of us, on the other side of the yard a rather alluring zombie had been hung out to dry and she wasn't too happy that the rain was at hand yet she hadn't been released from her bondage.
The fair maiden continued traipsing around the garden and I followed, camera in hand. Then word came to us that there was a foxy zombie lurking about. She had just been let loose and she was last seen headed to the abandoned sheds at the far end of the property. Gathering up the courage of a few good men, she ventured towards the sheds to try and catch a glimpse of this ravishing being. She crept up to the first shed and peeked in…
*Announcer's voice* Does the rain fall? What does the fair maiden find inside the abandoned shed? Find out more next week on THE ATTACK OF THE LIVING DEAD!
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Exhaustion, thy name is Reumac. The after effects of an active weekend aren't the prettiest, that's for sure. My sole aim still remains to keep y'all entertaines so, I present to you spaghetti bolognese as presented to me at The Mvuli House.
Looks. So. Tasty. The Mvuli House is really the place to be if you, like me, want to have some of this.
More Tasty Treats shall come your way next week. This week feels like it's gonna be interesting, so better keep an eye out for what I have in store for you. Or you could just hit subscribe :-D
So I took a walk in the slum behind my hood today with my friend Caroline. The idea was for me to see her shooting style and give her tips and tricks to get good photos. We were both a bit apprehensive about walking into the slum with our expensive equip but it ended up being such a pleasant experience. Here are a few of the better images I got;
His eyes. Haunting.
I haven't the slightest clue as to what this money is for, but it was there literally in the middle of the road. So I entitled this shot, The Money Changer's Box.
There were cows grazing in the field next to the slum. Effluent from sewerage does make grass grown strong and green.
A river runs through the slum and it seems that the people use it as their waste disposal.
The river water is so full of chemicals, it froths on it's own. The wetland that would absorb this pollution is currently under development despite protest to NEMA by the Kenya Alliance of Residents' Associations and the neighborhood residents' associations.
But in the middle of all this, some hope. Young men do soccer training on the field right next to the slum. The local soccer clubs are gaining prominence in the lower leagues and the youth of the slum are making something of themselves through sports.
I learnt a lot today. I hope to do something positive, however small, for that slum really soon. Can't keep waiting for someone else to do it. For the final image, this is what seemed to be the best food joint in the whole area :-)
What's cracking fam? So, this past weekend I attended the 1st anniversary gig for UP Nairobi which was dubbed UP Live. I won't say much about it here though because I think my friend Shaz did a pretty awesome job with that. You can read her blog post here. Lemme instead show you, through my lens, what transpired. First up, a couple of images of note.
A friend of mine called Audrey took this while I was off doing the boogie. I think she'll be a totally awesome photographer really soon.
Heineken chicks > Burn chicks. Just saying. And if anyone knows one of these two, please tell them I have more their photos.
The rest of the images are available in the gallery below. Also, you can visit the story I did for Urban Live about the same event here.
Allow me to introduce you to Fauziya.
She is in her second year studying Psychology in the Kenyatta University.
On one of my regular trawling sessions through the 'find friends' section on my Facebook profile, I happened across her profile and I figured it wouldn't hurt to have a shoot with her :-D
As usual. I asked her what 3 things the world doesn't know about her. The answers were:
Her aspirations for the next 10 years are to be happy and successful. Because that combination is rare.
The photo above felt so fashion forward. I don't know why :-)
This shoot was full of it's moments. Moments of discovery especially. Everyone learned something new that day. Some more than others ;-) I must say Fauziya did so well in this shoot. That's why there are so many more photos below :-D
Fauziya's friend Wariara was kind enough to act as shoot assistant during the shoot and at the end I just HAD to take a couple of shots of her. First, she showed Fauziya how to sit and look like a lady
Then she smiled for the camera
And finally I took a shot of the both of them
That marks the end of today's post. Next week, we do it all over again :-)
Time again for me to torture you with photographs of some tasty meals. I present to you a grilled flank steak as presented to me at The Mvuli House.
Guaranteed to get your tastebuds going, I tell you. The Mvuli House is most definitely a must-visit for anyone looking to experience Nairobi from all facets. Try them out today.
More Tasty Treats shall come your way next week. We have one more Person of the Day post coming up this week, so do check back for that.
Allow me to introduce you to Karima.
She is in her second year studying Medicine in the University of Nairobi.
I met her at #WLL4 in the company of my friend Nick and I knew there and then I had to have a shoot with her.
As usual. I asked her what 3 things the world doesn't know about her. The answers were:
Her aspirations for the next 10 years are to be driving a BMW 120d, to be somewhere in the world doing medicine and finally to be thinking of starting/have started a family.
I can't say much about this shoot. Aside from saying that it didn't rain till AFTER we were done with the shoot (can't be thankful enough for that)
Look out for more interesting pics coming up later in the week. There'll be a second Person of the Day post a bit later in the week as well as some Tasty Treats coming to you. So check back every day.
In other news, are you on Instagram? Look me up. The name is Reumac :-D
I do this one too many times these days. But look on the bright side. Means there's some really good stuff coming up really soon :-D
I have 2 person of the day posts lined up. First is Karima
And I will stop apologizing and start doing…
THE FOOD IS BACK!!! I know a couple of you had really been campaigning for this segment to make a come back. Well, your wishes have been granted. I present to you grilled lamb chops as presented to me at The Mvuli House.
Need I say more? Well, lemme just say that The Mvuli House is a very serene place that's not only affordable but also your comfort is guaranteed. Try them out today :-)
More Tasty Treats shall come your way next week. For now, have you liked my Facebook page? Have you also followed my Tumblelog? You better do so NOW if you haven't.
So this past Sato, I joined a couple of my friends and made some new friends at this month's World Loudest Library held by the PMBC Library (Who you can find out about here)
Kenya Power sabotaged us like halfway through the gig but that didn't stop the fun. The candles were unleashed and the people quieted down (except for me and @mkaigwa on the drums for….dramatic effect) to listen to excerpts from last month's challenge "Made in China" As that was going on, I got these two images of the event organizers @tender_thang and @Raph_out_loud.
That last image was at the insistence of @mkaigwa. Awesome chap that one. The rest of the images are below. A couple of them WILL get me shot at (I'm looking at you Kato). But I don't care.
This week will be an interesting one so make sure you've subscribed to the blog and kept a bookmark on your browser. Big tings a gwan ;-)
So I was in Nyali for Blankets and Wine this past Sunday. The lighting was pretty crap but my lovely camera took it in a stride and pushed out some pretty awesome images.
This was my favourite image. I think the kid was looking for her parents. The stare down she gave @annemitaru and @raaheli was EPIC.
For more images, hit up the slideshow below or check them out on my Facebook page. Like the page if you enjoy the pictures :-D
Look out for images from my travails in Malindi some time next week.
So I'm sitting at a Dormans in Nyali having a smoothie and I thought I should tease y'all for a min :-)
More to come when I get to Nairobi…
So I was going through my hard drive today and I stumbled upon this photo. I was staring down an elephant at the Ark in the Aberdares Nat. Park back in 2010.
Such fun times :-)
So it rained today. Then it stopped. Then it hailed. Then it stopped for real :-) The sun came out and I thought it would be cool to see what the hailstones had brought down from the trees. I was lucky to find this in the garden.
I saw it as a sign that now the rain is here, there is hope that we will go back to lush green gardens and pretty flowers all over the place. Can't wait :-D
In other non-related news, the Tasty Treats segment will be making a come back on the blog in a couple of days, so do look out for that. Here's a 'taste' of what's to come :-D
So this is me lazily chilling on the couch and timeline watching when the urge to listen to Ma3's Boda washes over me. So I do what I do best and visit KevDaNative's site to indulge my urges. There, I notice his post on #NdaniYaMa3 and I realize that I haven't done mine. So, here are my photos from that gig. Please forgive if they're a lil wonky. Still trying to learn the ropes of the new camera :-D
That's all. Have a fun weekend, friends :-D
I do this too often. But it's not my fault. Blame it on getting home late after a gig. There's more where this one came from :-D
How's it hanging my good people? SO, I got a new camera and a couple of other things yesterday and I got the opportunity to play around with them all today in my backyard. I called a couple of friends (and sent out word far and wide) for test subjects and these are the results of those tests.
First up was my friend Jacky. She popped in for a quick shoot and I did it sans reflector.
Next up was Ndila and her friend Claire. This shoot took a while as I was basically trying everything out. But the images I got are currently blowing my mind away :-). Lemme start with Ndila.
Assisting me with the lighting was Claire. She also had a go in front of the camera (albeit after a lot of coaxing).
This one's a bonus image I'm adding at Ndila's behest.
That last image was one of the best if not the best photo I took today. I'm really impressed with the tonal gradations this camera gives. As well as excited that I have autofocus again. No more unintenionally soft focused images :-) It's a lot more difficult to use than the trusty Sony A200 that I've been using. Lots more buttons to fiddle with and settings to remember to set properly. But I guess with time and practise I'll be at ease with it.
Next week, I'll try out the video and I'll definitely post the results here. Till then, keep it loose and have fun :-D
Do you guys think I should keep image size down like I have done for this post or stick to my full size images as before? Your thoughts would be HIGHLY appreciated :-)
I got a new camera :-D Trying it out later today (this was written at 2.24AM after a long night unboxing and reading manuals and what not) so I'll post sample images when I'm done with the shoot. ION, what a week eh? It rained here tonight. Haven't been happier in a long long while. Hope the grass gets rejuvenated enough for my test shoots in the afternoon to look a bit green.
Now I'm rambling. Off to do dishes :-)
So last Sunday I was helping out at a shoot for a couple of friends (they go by the name Fashion Nouveau). The location was Arboretum and I had my camera out to capture those special side moments. This photo was one of those. It looked good in my mind.
AAAND that's all folks :-D
What's happening my good people??!!! Who's missed me? I'm sure there must be at least one of you who has missed me. Somebody? Anybody? Body?
Anyhu, as this post's title suggests, I do a lot more than JUST take photos. For example, for the past 3 editions of the Kinanda Arts Festival, I've been doing the official 'aftermovie' as we like to call it. The video I did for Kinanda 9 is below
The ones I did for Kinanda 10 are below
Now for the piece de resistance. Or at least that's how it's spelt in my brain. I had the priviledge of working with the Ma3 band and a brilliant videographer from BBC called Owain on a live and unplugged version of their song 'Haki Yetu'. You can watch this below
I must say shooting and editing that video was the most fun I have had in a long long while :-D Please feel free to watch and share these videos. I would not mind if you dropped a comment on them professing your absolute love for my work :-)
If all goes well, this week will be full of content. Let's see what happens. Happy Monday y'all!!
So, I was up entirely too early yesterday morning. As I struggled to de-mist my foggy, sleep filled mind, I took a short walk around the house and slowly realized that the sun's light was looking pretty as it filtered through the leaves. It looked something like this
I don't think the photo does full justice to what I was seeing, but I think you get the basic idea. It looked so cool :-D
So today, I was that guy rolling in my 504 with my accomplice Tony (a.k.a. @weka_tyre) braving looks of death from fellow Kenyans as we were taking pics for an essay I'm doing for some guys. We traversed the whole of the city in search of the perfect image and hopefully, we did get a couple of perfect images. After the work was done, we retreated to Tony's place to escape the heat and dust and unwind after the craziness we'd been through. An idea struck me to do photos of sunset and since I'd left the camera in the car (and I wasn't going down 5 flights of stairs to get it) I pulled out my trusty Galaxy Mini and shot the sun as it set. This is what I got.
Does it look good?
Also, what do y'all think about the new design of the blog?
So, I woke up to this video on my Facebook timeline on Saturday evening and it reminded me that I hadn't yet put up any of the behind the scenes shots I'd taken at the same shoot. This video is going to be KILLER so you best watch out for it.
That was the director Andrew getting interviewed by Enzi Media for the BTS video.
A scene being shot
The same scene. That's how it looked. Awesome, eh?
The fun bit was scooting around on the tracks for the jib and activating the smoke machine :-)
I directed this scene. That was a very fun job, why lie.
The hours were long, but the dedication was strong. This was the last scene being set up.
And finally, we got a chance to play around a bit with the blacklights. Awesome stuff I tell you.
With that said, I promise I'll try to shoot some wherever I'll be this week. So do look out for some interesting posts :-D


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Probe into fate of Japanese abducted by North Korea stirs speculation of early Japan poll
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TOKYO (Reuters) - As Japan presses North Korea for information on the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago, speculation is simmering that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe could use a possible breakthrough on the emotive issue to call a snap election.
History shows that securing the release of Japanese nationals kidnapped by North Korea decades ago can deliver a hefty, if shortlived, boost to a premier's popularity.
North Korea agreed in May to reopen an investigation into the fate of missing Japanese, including those snatched by its agents to train spies in the 1970s and 1980s, in return for Japan easing some economic sanctions on the reclusive state.
An initial report is due in late summer or early autumn, though cynics believe North Korea already knows the whereabouts of the missing Japanese. "Towards a snap election in September" blared a speculative headline this week in the weekly tabloid Shukan Gendai. "Certain victory would follow a surprise North Korea visit," wrote the tabloid, suggesting that Mr Abe is hoping his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) could secure the two-thirds majority in the 480-seat Lower House that is needed to achieve his dream of revising the pacifist constitution. The LDP now has 294 seats.
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The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management and the Federal Emergency Management Agency completed the preliminary review over the weekend, said Division spokesman Tony Luiken.
Fifteen homes were destroyed in the floods, he said. Another 90 sustained major damage and would be unsafe for evacuated families to live in.
Galena city and tribal leaders agreed Monday to send 50 evacuees back to the village Tuesday to begin working on cleanup efforts. The returning workers are village residents who have completed hazardous materials training, said Shirley Cleaver, a Galena business owner involved in the emergency response.
An ice jam downriver from Galena swamped the village May 27. As many as 300 people fled the town and most have not returned.
The state has also completed a preliminary assessment of home damage in Circle, a smaller upriver community hammered by flooding earlier in May. Floodwaters destroyed seven homes in the village with another eight sustaining major damage, Luiken said.
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The New Orleans Saints will travel north this weekend for a Sunday evening matchup with the defending Super Bowl-champion New York Giants.
The two slumping teams will have each something to prove as New Orleans has dropped two straight heartbreakers, while New York has lost three of their last four games and are beginning to lose their footing atop the always-tough NFC East Division.
The Saints will look to continue improving on the defensive side of the ball against competent but struggling Giants quarterback Eli Manning, while Drew Brees, who has thrown seven interceptions in his last two games, will look to get his rhythm back as well.
New Orleans has won its last three meetings with the Giants, outscoring them by more than three touchdowns per game since 2006.
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This is the best pasta salad recipe I have ever made or eaten. It is even better the next day. It never gets that "leftover" taste. I used olive tapinade and slivered kalmata olives. Increase the garlic and parmesan cheese. Make this salad, you won't be disappointed.
I really enjoyed this recipe altho like a previous reviewer I left out the raddichio. Unfortunately I was the only one in the family who liked it so I was eating leftovers for a couple of days! I would make it again, maybe cut the recipe in half.
This recipe was great! Instead of the radicchio, I added endives b/c radicchio was not available at the store. Also, adding some chopped raw red onions gives the dish a lot more texture and flavor.
I've made this recipe about 12 times since I found it on the site, and there is neverr any lefovers for the next day. This is a perfect dish to make ahead of time and pack away on a canoe trip. (The recipe makes enough for 6 voracious paddlers.)try it with different types of olives for variety.
This is great summer salad. We left out the radicco and it was still fabulous. We served it with simple grilled eggplant for a wonderful vegetarian meal.
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If every shanda were worthy of our digital pages, we would have room for little else; and besides, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund and (until this weekend) the leading candidate for next year's French presidential elections, is being seen worldwide as an embarrassment to France, not to the Jews, for his alleged sexual attack on a maid at his midtown Manhattan hotel over the weekend. (The accuser has picked him out of a line-up, although Strauss-Kahn's lawyer claims his client has an alibi, and there is also a chance DSK, as he is known, is protected by diplomatic immunity, although it seems quite faint. There are also whisperings this could have been some sort of honeypot trap set by DSK's political enemies.) DSK is, of course, odious: He has a history of extramarital dalliances (though not necessarily of rape, which, as Adam Gopnik notes, is still utterly unacceptable even in France's relatively libertine sexual culture) and seems to have been living an awfully nice lifestyle for a government bureaucrat. Oh, and he, a man in a position of great power, allegedly attempted to force himself on a lower-middle class African immigrant worker, so he can kinda, y'know, go do it to himself. But the IMF duly replaced him with a guy named Lipsky, so, beyond the fact that now the next French president is likely not to be a Jew, why should the Jews care especially?
Here's why. DSK was the leading candidate of the leading party, the Socialists. The frontrunner is now François Hollande, but he is not quite the candidate DSK was, and besides, this scandal could tarnish the Socialists generally. And if they hemorrhage voters, some may go to the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing party, but some more may find themselves drifting to the far-right National Front, which also aligns itself as the party of the working class (complete with a May Day parade and everything). The FN is led by Marine Le Pen, daughter of the notorious anti-Semite Jean-Marie Le Pen, and she has refashioned her party to make it more acceptable to the mainstream.
She is the weekend's big winner: The weakening of the Socialists makes it more likely that her party will advance to the second round of France's presidential elections next year, in which she would be pitted against only one other party. And while she has formally repudiated her father's and her party's past of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial, she is not someone whom Jewish folks should be all too excited about. It will be bitterly ironic if she ends up gaining greater legitimacy and power due to the personal misconduct of someone who happens to be Jewish.
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Dr. James L. KriegerDecember 31,2012
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CHESTER James L. Krieger, M.D., 87, of Smokeshire Valley in Chester, Vt., died December 29, 2012, at his home, surrounded by his family. Jim was born in New York City to Irwin and Celia who predeceased him, as did his brother, Arthur.
He graduated from St. Lawrence University with the Naval V-12 program and from the Long Island College of Medicine. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and the Korean conflict. He was a board-certified radiologist. In 1963, with three other radiologists, he founded the Jefferson X-Ray Group in Hartford, Conn., now the largest radiological group in the state. He maintained lifelong interests in golf and photography and had been an avid skier.
Jim is survived by Eleanor, his wife of 61 years; and seven children, John (Kathy) Krieger of Danbury, Conn., Robert Krieger of Newington, Conn., Marion (Mark) Diunizio of Fort Walton Beach, Fla., Paul (Sue) Krieger of Oak Hill, Va., Nancy (Gordon) Black of Lebanon, N.H., Barbara (George) Ronan of Gloucester, Va., Elizabeth (Joe) Regele of Garrison, N.Y.; as well as 11 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
A time of visitation will be at Adams Funeral Home on Saturday, January 5, from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Jim will be interred in Smokeshire Cemetery at the convenience of the family.
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I'm sure awesome crepes if I weren't eating the gluten free. They were not good at all. So sad to have such high hopes and pay extra for it too. Boo
Looked yummy--lots of sweet and savory options, gf batter available for additional $1.25, but made on same skillets as regular crepes so definitely a no for this celiac!
Really tasty well made gluten free crepes. So good we went twice in three days! Some of the ingredients questionable, i.e. pre-shredded cheese, and because of that, I'd watch for cross contamination if very sensitive. There's not room really to sit unless its not at all busy, so be prepared to be outside or have somewhere to go. Perfect food for eating on a bench in good weather.


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Personally, I lost all respect for Hobie when they switched from catamarans to ...
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Buy a used 16, 17, or 18. Much better sailors. Or for that matter a Prindle 16 will be lighter and easier to haul (320 pounds).
Beach wheels work if it is pretty level and flat. Otherwise, with 2 people they can manage a lot.
Whether they are hard to right depends on many variables; weather (actually easier when it's blowing), size of the person, the boat, and whether the mast gets water in it. All are simple with 2 people. I like the Hobie 17 or the Prindle 16 for ease by a single sailor (160 pound minimum).
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Gary Payton has decided against pushing for a buyout or trade in the wake of the Shaquille O'Neal deal and intends to return to the Los Angeles Lakers next season, the guard told ESPN Radio on Wednesday.
"I had a big pow-wow with my agents and my attorneys and everybody today," Payton said in Wednesday's interview. "You guys know I came out here to play with Shaq ... and now he's [been] traded. It was a big question in my mind, should I stay here? But, you know, I think I made a commitment. I made them a commitment to come back to the Lakers and I'm going to go and play."
Shortly after the Lakers were ousted by Detroit in the NBA Finals, Payton bypassed free agency and exercised a $5.4 million option for next season. Yet league sources told ESPN.com on Sunday that Payton, so disturbed by the idea of O'Neal being dealt to the Heat without an established power player coming in return, was planning to push for a buyout of his contract this week.
In Tuesday's editions of the Riverside (Ca.) Press-Enterprise, Payton expounded on his displeasure by saying that only the return of Karl Malone could make him want to play for the Lakers next season.
"If they don't sign Karl [Malone] back, then I'll probably get up out of here," Payton told the paper. "They're going to buy me out or trade me, or something. If Karl don't come back, I ain't coming back."
On Wednesday, Payton credited new Lakers coach Rudy Tomjanovich for his change of heart.
"Rudy T. has made a big difference in that, too," said Payton, who played for Tomjanovich at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney.
"Becoming the coach, he says he's going to give me the freedom to play the way I played in Seattle. So I'll be OK with that, so as long as we get a team together.
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Payton's initial reaction to the acquisition of Lamar Odom, Brian Grant, Caron Butler and a future first-round pick was less than enthusiastic. In the Press-Enterprise, in reference to the Lakers' sudden lack of size up front, Payton was quoted as saying: "I mean, what team are they going to put on the floor?"
Payton, who turns 36 on July 23, started in every game for the Lakers: 104 including his 22 playoff starts. He averaged 14.6 points and 5.5 assists during the regular season, but struggled mightily in the playoffs in Phil Jackson's triangle offense, a system he never embraced.
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Fryderyk Chopin was born in 1810 at Zelazowa Wola, near Warsaw. His father
Nicolas Chopin was French by birth but had moved to Poland to work as an
accounting clerk, later serving as tutor to the Laczynski family and thereafter
to the family of Count Skarbek, one of whose poorer relatives he married. His
subsequent career led him to the Warsaw Lyceum as a respected teacher of French,
and it was there that his only son, Fryderyk, godson of Count Skarbek, whose
Christian name he took, passed his childhood.
Chopin showed an early talent for music. He learned the piano from his mother
and later with the eccentric Adillbert Zywny, a violinist of Bohemian origin,
and as fiercely Polish as Chopin's father. His later training in music was with
Jozef Elsner, director of the Warsaw Conservatory, at first as a private pupil
and then as a student of that institution.
In the 1820s Chopin had already begun to win for himself a considerable local
reputation, but Warsaw offered relatively limited opportunities. In 1830 he set
out for Vienna, a city where he had aroused interest on a visit in the previous
year and where he now hoped to make a more lasting impression. The time,
however, was ill-suited to his purpose. Vienna was not short of pianists, and
Thalberg, in particular, had out-played the rest of the field. During the months
he spent there Chopin attracted little attention, and resolved to move to Paris.
The greater part of Chopin's professional career was to be spent in France,
and particularly in Paris, where he established himself as a fashionable teacher
and as a performer in the houses of the rich. His playing in the concert hall
was of a style less likely to please than that of the more flamboyant Liszt or
than the technical virtuosity of Kalkbrenner. It was in the more refined
ambience of the fashionable salon that his genius as a composer and as a
performer, with its intimacy, elegance and delicacy of nuance, found its place.
Chopin could not but admire the ability of Liszt, while not sharing his taste
in music. His own background had been severely classical, based on the music of
Bach, Mozart and Haydn, and by these standards Beethoven, the object of
adulation for Liszt and his circle, seemed on occasion uncouth, by comparison
with the classical restraint of Mozart's pupil Hummel. At the same time he held
reservations about the Bohemian way of life that Liszt followed, although he
himself was to become involved in a liaison with the novelist George Sand (Aurore
Dudevant), which lasted for some ten years, coming to an end two years before
his death, while Liszt's more dramatic association with another married woman, a
less successful blue-stocking, the Comtesse d' Agoult, forced his withdrawal
from Paris society. Both women were to take literary revenge on their paramours.
Paris was to provide Chopin with a substantial enough income as a teacher,
and there was a ready market for his compositions, however reluctant he might be
to commit them to paper. The country retreat of George Sand at Nohant provided a
change of air that was certainly healthier for him than that of Mallorca, where,
in 1838, the couple spent a disastrous winter that intensified the weakness of
Chopin's lungs, already affected by the tuberculosis from which he was to die.
In 1848 political disturbances in Paris made teaching impossible, and Chopin
left the city for a tour of England and Scotland. By this time his health had
deteriorated considerably. At the end of the year he returned to Paris, now too
weak to play or to teach and dependent on the generosity of others for
subsistence. He died there on 17th October, 1849.
The greater part of Chopin's music was written for his own instrument, the
piano. At first it seemed that works for piano and orchestra would be a
necessary part of his stock-in-trade, but the position he found for himself in
Paris enabled him to write principally for the piano alone, in a characteristic
idiom that derives some inspiration from contemporary Italian opera, much from
the music of Poland, and still more from his own adventurous approach to harmony
and his own sheer technical ability as a player.
The Impromptu, in title at least, was typical of its period in its
suggestion of romantic abandon and freedom. In common with much else in European
music, it had its origins in Prague with the publication in 1822 of Impromptus
by Jan Vaclav Vorišek, followed five years later by the Bohemian-born
composer Marschner. Schubert's publisher in the 1820s, Tobias Haslinger, found
the title commercially attractive, and thereafter the name endured, descriptive
of an independent piano piece, lacking the formality of a sonata movement. The
fourth of Chopin's essays in the form, the Fantaisie-Impromptu, published
posthumously in 1855, predates the other three and was completed in 1835. Its
intense and excited outer sections frame a central Largo in D flat major,
in which, as so often, an arpeggio left-hand accompaniment points an upper
singing melody.
Chopin made the nocturne his own, developing the form from the earlier work
of the Irish pianist John Field. He wrote the three Nocturnes published
as Opus 9 before he left Warsaw. They were published in Paris in 1833, with a
dedication to Marie Moke, once engaged to Berlioz but from 1831 until their
separation four years later wife of the piano-manufacturer Camille Pleyel. The
second is probably the most immediately familiar of the set. The two Nocturnes
that make up Opus 27, published in 1836, were dedicated to Countess Apponyi,
wife of the Austrian ambassador to France. The second of the set, in D flat
major, marked Lento sostenuto, includes considerable chromatic
The waltz, a German country-dance in origin, had by the end of the eighteenth
century won considerable popularity in the ball-room, in spite of the warnings
of doctors and moralists, who feared physical and spiritual degeneration as a
result. Chopin had first turned to the form in piano pieces written in Warsaw.
The seventh of his nineteen waltzes, the Waltz in C sharp minor, Op. 64,
No.2, is here coupled with the famous "Minute" Waltz, the
rapid Waltz in D flat major, Op. 64, No.1, written towards the end of
Chopin's life, one of a series of works that starts with the Grande valse
brillante in E flat major, Op. 18.
The famous funeral march of Chopin forms the slow movement of the second of
his three sonatas, the Sonata in B flat minor, Op. 35. In its original
context it forms a contrast with the movements that precede and follow it.
Among forms that Chopin made his own was the Mazurka, a Polish dance
that takes its name from the Mazurs, inhabitants of the province of Mazovia,
near Warsaw. Chopin wrote some fifty compositions under this title, making use
of the characteristic rhythmic patterns of the dance. The Mazurka in B flat
major, Op. 7, No.1, was published in Paris in 1834.
The Polish dance, the Polonaise, also found its way from village to
ball-room and thence abroad. In Paris in 1830 Poland was in the news, with the
attempted rising against Russia and its suppression, and things Polish enjoyed
considerable popularity, a fact from which Chopin benefited on his arrival in
the city. As with other relatively trivial dance forms, he was able to raise the
Polonaise to a new level, imparting a degree of complexity and a degree
of feeling that had not always been present in the work of his elders in Warsaw.
His first attempts at the form were at the age of seven and his last in 1846,
three years before death. The two Polonaises that make up Opus 40 were
published in 1840 by Troupenas, who for the moment replaced Chopin's usual
publisher Schlesinger, suspected now of duplicity. The first of the pair, in the
key of A major, is among the best known of all. The set was dedicated to Julian
Fontana, Chopin's friend and contemporary at the Warsaw Conservatory, who had
taken refuge first in Hamburg, after the abortive Polish rising, and then, in
1832, in Paris, afterwards to seek his fortune for some years in the New World,
in New York and in Havana. Fontana helped Chopin in negotiations with publishers
and also as a copyist, serving his friend's memory with a posthumous edition of
a number of later works, in spite of a measure of ill-feeling between the two as
Chopin prospered and Pontana failed to make any significant name for himself.
Chopin w rote his A flat major Polonaise, Opus 53, in 1842, dedicating it
to the banker August Léo, a man who had earlier been the object of the
composer's anti-semitic complaints during the traumatic winter spent with George
Sand on the island of Mallorca in 1838-9.
It was in Mallorca that Chopin, suffering from bronchitis and then
tuberculosis, continued work on the set of twenty-four Preludes, a series
of generally short pieces of contrasting mood, of which the so-called "Raindrop"
Prelude in D flat major is the longest. The twenty-four Études, published
as Opus 10 and Opus 25, represent a rather different form of music in which
technical problems for the pianist are tackled in an overwhelmingly musical
form. The Opus 10 Études were written between 1829 and 1832 and
published the following year with a dedication to Franz Liszt. The so-called Revolutionary
Étude has been popularly and apocryphally associated with the composer's
feelings on hearing the news of the Polish rising against Russian domination and
its suppression in 1831. The G flat major Étude confines the player's
right hand to the black keys of the piano, while the E major Étude, No. 3
breathes gentle serenity.
The four Ballades of Chopin are said to have been inspired by the
verses of the poet Adam Mickiewicz, an exile in Paris and a friend of the
composer. The source of the first Ballade, it has been suggested, was the
poem Konrad Wallenrod, a medieval story of patriotic vengeance wrought
through treason, and a thinly disguised attack on the Russian domination of
Poland. Here the characteristic lilt of the music is preceded by a dramatic
introductory passage, a call to the listener's attention. After this the tale
unfolds, a story of increasing intensity, with moments of serenity, moments of
passion, and what seems to be the recurrent voice of the narrator, captured in
the first, principal theme. The first Ballade was completed in 1835 and
published in 1835 with a dedication to the Hanoverian ambassador in Paris.
Idil Biret
Born in Ankara, Idil Biret started to learn the piano at the age of three and
later studied at the Paris Conservatoire under the guidance of Nadia Boulanger,
graduating at the age of fifteen with three first prizes. A pupil of Alfred
Cortot and of Wilhelm Kempff, she embarked on her career as a soloist at the age
of sixteen, appearing with major orchestras in the principal musical centres of
the world, in collaboration with conductors of the greatest distinction. To many
festival appearances may be added membership of juries for international piano
competitions, including the Van Cliburn, Queen Elisabeth of the Belgians and
Busoni Competitions. She has received the Lili Boulanger Memorial Award in
Boston, the Harriet Cohen / Dinu Lipatti Gold Medal in London, the Polish
Artistic Merit Award and the French Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite.
Her more than sixty records include the first recording of Liszt's transcription
of the symphonies of Beethoven, and for Naxos the complete piano works of
Chopin, Brahms and Rachmaninov, with a Marco Polo disc of the piano compositions
and transcriptions of her mentor Wilhelm Kempff.
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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts — An experiment that proved people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive and another that showed lost dung beetles can use the Milky Way to find their way home were among the winners at this year's Ig Nobel awards ceremony held Thursday.
This is the 23rd year for the award, sponsored by the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research and given out to honor weird and humorous scientific discoveries. The winners come from all over the world.
Actual Nobel laureates announced the winners during a ceremony at Harvard University.
Editor Marc Abrahams, who organized the ceremony, said the point is to make people laugh and then think.
"The combination of science that is funny on its own — not because someone is making a joke, but it is funny — that's an unusual notion in the United States," he said. "It is becoming more acceptable again."
For the first time, the winners received cash prizes — $10 trillion, but in Zimbabwe dollars. So they'll each get about four U.S. dollars.
The awards ceremonies are usually silly, and this year's was no different. It included a mini-opera and a contest to win a date with a Nobel laureate.
The winners will give short speeches Saturday at MIT.
The psychology prize went to the experiment that found people who think they are drunk also think they are attractive, done by Laurent Bègue, Oulmann Zerhouni, Baptiste Subra and Medhi Ourabah of France and Brad Bushman, a professor at Ohio State University who also teaches in the Netherlands.
The dung beetle navigation experiment won the joint prize in biology and astronomy, given to Marie Dacke, Emily Baird, Marcus Byrne, Clarke Scholtz and Eric Warrant, who work in Sweden, Australia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and Germany.
Other winners included Brian Crandall of the U.S. and Peter Stahl of Canada and the U.S., who parboiled a dead shrew, then swallowed it without chewing so they could examine their excrement to see which bones would dissolve in the human digestive system and which would not.
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Centres lack information about scheme
Complaints galore about inappropriate arrangements
There was shortage of Form 001 at many centres
Bangalore: The scheme announced to distribute elector photo identity cards (EPIC) hit a roadblock on Monday as many designated centres identified for the purpose had no proper information in this regard.
Even many of the BangaloreOne centres, which were listed as designated centres for issuance and acceptance of Form 001, had no information on the scheme as people had to return without proper response from the personnel managing the centres.
T.B. Niranjan of Banashankari complained that officials of the BBMP posted at Vikas Education Society, 1st Main, 5th Block, Banashankari 3rd Stage, one of the centres for offline and online issuance of EPIC, had no information on receiving or attesting the Form 001. The BangaloreOne centres at BDA Complex at Banashakari 2nd Stage and Ittimadu too had no facility for accepting of the forms, he complained.
The staff of the District Election Office (DEO) had handed over the voters' list to workers of a political party at Government Higher Primary School, Nynappa Shetty Palya in BTM layout and the centre did not open till 11 a.m. because the authorities could not trace the keys, complained S. Ganesan, a scientist with ISRO and a resident of BTM Layout. In a written complaint to the election authorities, Mr. Ganesan said that some persons were distributing Form 001 on the roadside but there were no officials either to give details on filling applications not was there any one to accept them.
He pointed out in the complaint that the DEO staff were found drinking tea in a nearby hotel.
The complaints about inappropriate arrangements made to receive Form 001 was received from major centres as the people, who went to these centres thinking that they need not wait in queue, had to wait for many hours to get the forms.
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Billy Joel Honored With George Gershwin Prize
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With Nice Work and Porgy and Bess up for 20 Tonys, the Gershwins and Stephen Sondheim talk to Tablet
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Zero Mostel, Emma Goldman, and George Gershwin all worked on the stretch of Manhattan's West 28th Street once known as Tin Pan Alley. Now it's Tablet Magazine's home, too, so let's explore the neighborhood.
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What are the 100 greatest Jewish songs ever? Tablet Magazine's musicologists rank them all, from sacred to pop to hip-hop, from Rabbi Akiva to Amy Winehouse.
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A new history argues that it was a single play—Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!—that ushered in the beginning of Broadway's Golden Age
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[169.04] colour problem with kaffeine
when I installed the 169.04 driver kaffeine would mess up colours on first start (kinda blueish). When I change the output driver to anything else (for example from xv to auto or back) the colours are normal again. When I leave kaffeine open and load a new video, everything is ok, if I close kaffeine and restart with a new video, the colours are messed up again.
The problem does not occur in xine (or any other player I tried), but when googling the problem, I found similar problems with totem, which also uses xine-engine.
I have downgraded the driver back to 100.14.19 and everything is normal again. I have a 8800gts, kaffeine 0.8.5, debian lenny/sid with 2.6.22 kernel. I cannot provide a nvidia-bug-report atm.
Re: [169.04] colour problem with kaffeine
I hadn't noticed, since I use MPlayer, but the beta driver causes the same problem in Kaffeine for me. Weird.
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