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2. Amateur hour
Ill just go ahead and write it: Jim Caldwell should be the ex-coach of the Colts when the season is over.
I take no pleasure in writing that. Caldwell is one of the most decent people you will ever meet. And it isnt his fault the organization was ill-prepared for 2011 and Peyton Mannings health. But Caldwell is a bad head coach.
What are his skills? Why should he stay on in Indy? If you disagree with my take, enlighten me on his strengths. His in-game management has always been suspect, starting with his disastrous and goofy clock management at the end of the playoff loss to the Jets last year that had Manning shaking his head from the sidelines.
He is supposed to be an offensive coach and a quarterback guru. Have we seen that? His winless team has appeared flat and uninterested. Sure, the team was built around one iconic star player. But this commentary dates back to all three years now on Caldwell. He took Tony Dungys team to the Super Bowl. Caldwell removed his starters in Week 16 of that year to get his team ready for the playoffs and eschew perfection.
Bill Belichick won double-digit games when he lost Tom Brady for the year in Week 1. Caldwells 2011 Colts are a legit candidate to lose every single game. Thats coaching.
Caldwell made sense, despite his awful showing as a college head coach, because when you employ Manning, continuity is key. Dungy wanted Caldwell to replace him. The great Bill Polian wanted someone to nod. It all seemed logical, three years ago. It was the right appointment.
The Colts now need to look into the crystal ball. Is Caldwell the right man to usher in a new quarterback, maybe even Andrew Luck? Is he the right person to tell Manning that his time is up? Is he the right person to inspire and pick a system for the post-Peyton Colts?
The 2012 Colts need a fresh voice. Change is inevitable by 2013. Be proactive, improve the head coach and do it at the end of the year. It will be the best thing to happen to the franchise.

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Going to the Birds
More than 70 million Americans now count themselves as bird-watchers, and in the process fuel a $20 billion industry. Some birding zealots even travel halfway around the world just to add a new species to their all-important life list.
At high tide the beach is just a narrow strip; the ocean threatens to erase it completely. It's early, just after 9 in the morning, but Wallis Sands State Beach in Rye, New Hampshire, is filling up already. People are hoping to beat the crowds, the traffic, the sun -- they're very keen to avoid that window between noon and 3. The ocean is as still as a farm pond.
A man comes walking down the beach. He pauses now and then to raise a pair of binoculars. He's probably just looking at the girls in their bathing suits. No, he's glassing the wrack line -- the seaweed and the leaping flies. And he's not a man; he's a kid. He could be a lineman for a high school in a mid-size district -- not a big kid, but solid enough. He keeps raising the binoculars as if he's the only soul on the beach. What's this? The kid's jumping up and down. No, he's shouting. What's he looking at? Oh, someone, get a load of this kid. You'd think he'd never seen a bird before.
But this kid has seen birds before. In this calendar year, he has seen more than 240 different species of birds in New Hampshire alone. He can tell you their genus, their preferred habitat, and where to find them. He can describe their plumage in a manner that might bore you. If only you had asked him what all the excitement was about, he gladly would have shown you. And this would have made you just the second person in New Hampshire to see an unassuming Old World sandpiper called the little stint. The kid's name is Mike Harvey.
After two minutes, there comes a crucial juncture: The bird flies off. Little stints winter in southern Africa. The bird might take off over the Atlantic and not touch down again until it reaches Europe. If the bird isn't seen again, when New Hampshire birders convene to authenticate new sightings, they might find Harvey's record inconclusive.
His claim to the bird is in jeopardy. He hops in his car and drives up the coast, looking for the bird. His bird. He finds it about a mile away, just south of Odiorne Point State Park. He takes notes about the bird's appearance, its behavior. Attaching a digital camera to a spotting scope, he "digiscopes" the bird. He is building a case for the existence of the bird.
And then he does the toughest thing: He leaves the bird. Other birders need to see it. He finds a pay phone and calls a friend who then sets things in motion. Across the state, phones start ringing. Word goes out over listservs and websites. Dinner plans are canceled. People sneak out of the office. For the next five days, Harvey's little stint is the most important bird in New Hampshire.
BUT IMPORTANT FOR WHOM? NOT YOU? NOT YET. Interest in bird-watching is booming in this country. In the past 20 years, the number of birders more than tripled. According to the most recent National Survey on Recreation and the Environment, a third of Americans over the age of 16, more than 70 million citizens, count themselves as bird-watchers. In the next 50 years, according to Texas A & M University sociologist Steven H. Murdock, birding will be the only major outdoor pastime to experience growth at a faster rate than the population at large.
It may have reached critical mass. It's beginning to attract people who aren't necessarily interested in the birds. Birds are money. Wild Bird Center franchises are reshaping our strip malls. Last year, according to an industry source, bird-watchers spent more than $20 billion to travel to, learn more about, observe, record, attract, feed, house, and demonstrate their allegiance to birds. Annually, the area around Cape May, New Jersey, receives a $30 million shot in the arm from visiting birders, which is why states are starting to hire consultants like Ted Eubanks of Fermata Inc. of Texas and New York to help them promote "avi travel." Suddenly, birds are important, and bird-watching has become mainstream.
FOR SIMPLICITY'S SAKE, THIS UNWIELDY GROUP THAT WE collectively call "bird-watchers" can be broken down into two subgroups. On the one hand, you have those people who see most of their birds through the double-glazed lens of their kitchen window. We'll call them backyard bird-watchers (some groups call them "casuals," adopting the term used to describe a bird that is only seen in an area erratically). They might have a couple of nest boxes hung in their yard. They belong to conservation groups like the Audubon Society, the American Bird Conservancy, and the Sierra Club. They drive the market for heated birdbaths, blown-glass hummingbird feeders, organic seed mixes. These are the people responsible for making The Sibley Guide to Birds a bestseller. Though they find birds compelling and beautiful, they have avoided becoming fanatics. They are content to see the little stint as a bird, not as a grail.
Backyard birders are moderate in their passion, but being moderate about something doesn't preclude accessorizing. Birding is essentially a free pleasure, and thus it only makes sense to spring for a carbon-fiber tripod and a zippered scope case. Protective sheaths for field guides. Telescoping walking sticks. Spending a thousand dollars on binoculars doesn't make a person a fanatic. Ambitious backyard bird-watchers will test themselves with the Birding by Ear series of CDs. They sound fantastic in a car stereo. Listen to that cuckoo go. If a person has a discerning ear, she can learn to distinguish the mourning warbler from the Connecticut warbler just by their song.
While some backyard birders wouldn't cross the road to see a new bird, there's nothing preventing a person from taking a trip every once in a while. Maybe spend two weeks ticking off species in the desert Southwest or raid the Atlantic Seaboard on a long weekend. At the very least, a visit to Cambridge's Mt. Auburn Cemetery is requisite -- if the warblers aren't out in numbers, a person can still visit the resting place of Ludlow Griscom, the father of modern field ornithology, who demonstrated that in the field, identification binoculars offered a nonlethal alternative to the shotgun.
Then there are the Wayne Petersens of the bird-watching world. Wayne Petersen, until recently the Massachusetts Audubon Society's head field ornithologist, says, "Consider a bell curve." Petersen has an open face and a tendency, when speaking, to look upward, a legacy perhaps of all the time he's spent looking toward the sky for confirmation. "On one side, you have people who basically throw bread out on the snow or feed pigeons in the park. And on the other side, you have people like me."
People like Petersen are people who travel to see birds. To put a finer point on things, they are people who travel just for the chance to see a bird like the little stint. They're not passive bird-watchers. They are bird-chasers. In Great Britain, chasers get called "twitchers" because of their typical reaction to seeing a bird for the first time. The length to which chasers go in order to see a particular bird is a source of both pride and embarrassment, of inevitable conversations in airport lounges, rental-car queues, motel lobbies. You came all the way out here to see a what? A bird.
Birders are well past making excuses for their behavior. In the spring of 1975, a small gull showed up off a sea wall in Newburyport. What made this gull stand apart from thousands of others was a pinkish tinge to its breast feathers. This first North American record (confirmed sighting) for the Ross's gull -- a bird indigenous to Siberia -- triggered an unprecedented frenzy, as birders from across the country flocked to Newburyport to acquaint themselves with this wanderer. In the month and a half that the bird stuck around, as many as 10,000 people came to see it. Why they did so is a bit harder to understand.
The most avid birders will keep a record of the species they have seen, a list. The most essential list is the one containing every species seen by an individual through the course of his or her life -- this is the life list. When a birder encounters her first northern harrier, the harrier becomes a "life bird" or "lifer" and gets tallied. One of the reasons birders came out to see the Ross's gull was that, unless they planned a trip to northern Asia, they couldn't expect another chance to add the bird to their life list.
The life list is not necessarily the only list a birder keeps. The yardstick for American birders is the North American list -- a list not bounded by time but by geographical region. And there are still more lists. Many listers compile state lists (which is why the little stint became so important in New Hampshire); some subdivide states into counties and towns; and, finally, some birders compile backyard lists, even feeder lists.
A life can be an unwieldy unit of time, so listers developed the year list: all the birds seen in a calendar year. And since a year can be subdivided further, listers created the "big day," a no-holds-barred birding sprint that starts at midnight and ends at midnight the next day. The Massachusetts big day record stands at 162 species. The New Jersey Audubon Society raised competitive listing to a new high with the advent of the World Series of Birding. Every spring, teams race all over New Jersey in an attempt to rack up the highest total species list, all the while earning pledge money for conservation causes. This may be the ultimate charity event for birders with Type A personalities. This year's winning team recorded 232 species.
If a big day sounds exhausting, consider a big sit; developed by the New Haven Bird Club, it requires that participants remain inside a prescribed area for 24 hours, listing all the birds they are able to see or hear in that time. The key to a big sit: location, location.
"Listing," explains Betty Anderson of Marlborough -- 675 species on her North America list, 1,241 including Mexico, 2,315 worldwide --"is just a competitive game. Some people take it too seriously." Anderson sits on the board of the American Birding Association. Though the association caters to every spectrum of the birding public, its taproot is sunk in listing's lunatic fringe. The organization came about as a forum for listers to share information on finding and identifying rare birds.
What's all this fuss about birds for? I asked Petersen directly. Why birds? He's answered the questions before. It comes with the territory.
"First of all, birds fly, and for some people that's a 'wow' moment. Then you have the way they look. And if there's any aspect of birds that, to me, is as appealing as what they look like and that they can fly, it's that they have this amazing repertoire of sounds, from song to vocalizations. Distress calls, call notes. From an identification point of view, this is background noise to so many birders, and yet, to someone who is really tuned in and sensitized, it's everything."
I'd read about a trick birders use called "pishing" or "spishing" -- replicating the distress calls of birds in order to attract them. I asked Petersen if he'd mind giving a demonstration.
We stepped outside his office in Lincoln. It was nearly noon on one of those unbearably humid midsummer days. Petersen wandered over to a stagnant pool, surrounded by briar, and started kissing his hand, making sharp squeaking sounds: Eep eep. Pst pst pst. Nothing happened. I was ready to make excuses for Petersen -- the daylight, the weather, putting him on the spot.
He headed off in another direction and stopped beneath a large pine. He resumed with these loud, embarrassing sounds. He imitated a screech owl, a scolding Ship. Ship ship ship. And all at once, there were birds in the tree. There were five birds in the tree, then a dozen. The birds answered him with their own racket. Petersen would hear a voice in the woods and point a finger: "Catbird." Over there: "Nuthatch." Black-capped chickadees crowded him. I had everything I needed. "Thank you," I said. But Petersen continued kissing his hand, making his sounds. He was playing, and birds were filling the forest.
Petersen is a world-renowned authority. He has traveled the globe in search of hard-to-find birds. He was in Newburyport when the Ross's gull showed up, and he is one of the last people ever to have seen a Bachman's warbler (a now extinct bird that has the distinction of being the only warbler that the eminent birder Roger Tory Peterson never saw).
But these days it's becoming easier for anybody to find the hard birds. The birding opportunities in places like Costa Rica and Bhutan are discussed on Internet bulletin boards and at club meetings in Spokane and Cleveland. Look in the national magazines, Bird Watcher's Digest or WildBird or Birding. Advertisements promise new places, new experiences, new birds. KingBird Tours specializes in Asian excursions; Wings offers tours in 50 countries, on seven continents; Adventure Caravans offers 60-day RV safaris in Mexico.
These companies promote that hallmark of the American vacation, the all-inclusive package deal. They're packaging birds. New Zealand: See giant rails and nocturnal kiwis. Bird and culture packages. Bird and golf packages. There are nearly 9,000 species of birds in the world, and wherever they are, people are driven to track them down, to be in their presence. Alaska Airlines advertises that it is the "Official Airline of the Extreme Birder."
Actually, the truly extreme birders are catching rides on unregistered airplanes, without flotation devices under the seats, without seats. The avant-garde always defines the future for the masses. The obsessed are heading farther afield, and in the process they are determining where the rest of the birders will be going next year.
Blair Nikula is probably in his early 50s. But when I met him, in the parking lot of the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge on Cape Cod, there was something in his posture, an easy slouch in his shoulders, that gave him an almost collegiate air. For more than 30 years, he has maintained records of migrant bird populations in the refuge. "Because somebody should," he says.
Nikula is not the type to use a sentence when a word will do. His interest in birds extends far enough back that he can't recall a time before it. At one point, he had considered becoming an ornithologist, but after meeting a few ornithologists who had lost their love of birds, he decided against pursuing it further. It hasn't hurt his reputation among his peers. When I mentioned Nikula's name in passing to another birder, the quality of the conversation changed. The birder, an expert in his own right, said, "Blair's the man, you know."
Nikula had agreed to take me around Chatham's South Beach in mid-August, while shorebird populations were near peak levels. A number of bird clubs had scheduled trips to take advantage of this. Among the groups was a crew from New Hampshire. Representing the western half of Massachusetts were members of the Hampshire Birding Club. From Greater Boston came the distinguished members of the Brookline Bird Watching Club for their annual Hawaiian Shirt Shorebird Safari (in birder speak: "The loud floral shirts and cheap plastic leis prove diagnostic"). A number of lone wolves caught rides with the clubs; once they reached the beach, they broke away from the groups to see what they could discover for themselves. A well-respected wildlife painter was out with his wife and another couple. For Nikula, the trip would be a busman's holiday; instead of racing around trying to count all the birds, he would be strolling.
We took his boat across the channel to the beach. Once we had both feet on the sand, we worked our way along, stopping every so often to investigate flocks of shorebirds with binoculars and spotting scopes -- the wide-open spaces put a premium on magnification. The place was loaded with birds, many thousands. The trick was to find the unusual birds among the common ones.
This morning's birders had every reason to hope there would be "good birds" in the mix. Earlier in the week, while recording a population survey, Nikula had discovered a red-necked stint (like Harvey's little stint in New Hampshire, this is an Old World sandpiper; unlike Harvey's bird, it has been spotted a number of times in Massachusetts) and a curlew sandpiper, both rarities, not merely good birds, but really good birds. Chances are, every birder on the beach had read the exhaustive report Nikula posted to a popular website -- it's an open secret that some birders spend more time looking at a monitor than they do in the bush.
In order for bird-chasers to increase their life lists, there need to be a few individuals content to fix their attention beyond the horizon, at the unseen: bird-finders. Nikula is one of these. Back in June, when a small northeaster rubbed against Cape Cod, Nikula drove to Eastham's First Encounter Beach on the off chance that the winds might conspire to push a bird, a single bird, off its course and close to land. There was just one other car in the parking lot -- another birder's, of course.
Nikula panned right and left, he says. Some birds revealed themselves by the profile they cut as they bobbed in the water. With others, it was the cadence of their wing beats or the way their flight stalled. Every bird was counted. And then the quality of recognition changed, Nikula says. A feeling grew inside him, wild and hardly contained. This was not a bird to move past. This was not just another bird. What he saw before him: a winged messenger from the southern oceans, a yellow-nosed albatross. Just one other soul was in the parking lot. Nikula honked his horn to get the other birder's attention. He aimed his finger across the water, toward the bird. He shared the bird.
Information is the currency of birding. When a rare bird is found, there's no way to know if it will stay the hour, let alone the rest of the day. And while two hunters can hardly mount the same head in different living rooms, 50 birders can crowd together and see the same bird. By sharing information, birders ensure that they all get to see more birds.
Hot lines like the North American Rare Bird Alert act as a clearinghouse for bird sightings. This hot line even offers a subscription service: For $30 it will notify you if there is a first North American record.
The directions provided are quite precise: "PLAIN-CAPPED STARTHROAT: From Sierra Vista, take SH 92 south about 12 miles. Continue 0.7 miles beyond MM 332 to Turkey Track Road (about three miles beyond Miller Canyon Road). Turn right on Turkey Track and continue past the statues to the end of the road where a gate blocks further progress. Look for the straw bale wall on the right. Go left around the house to the back, where chairs and most of the feeders are. The bird is making brief visits to feeder 'D' in the front (south) yard."
Fruitless hours in the field may become a thing of the past. If you want to see the Eskimo curlew, that feathered phantom, just wait until the hot line contacts you. Buy a cheap ticket, rent a car, follow the directions, see the bird.
The wildlife painter flagged Nikula down. His greeting: "Don't tell me you've seen it."
"The stint or the sandpiper?"
"The stint." The wildlife painter looked to be in his 70s. He wore a sweater and rolled trousers. The eyecups on his binoculars were polished with use.
We hadn't seen it. But Nikula located a golden plover, a good bird, though not one of the good birds. The painter's wife, after examining the plover through the scope, seemed perplexed. "Did somebody dye it?" she asked. It was understandable. The tips of the feathers appeared burnished. Nature doesn't always appear natural. Viewed through a high-magnification scope, wood ducks, painted buntings, and goldfinches are absolutely garish.
Half a mile away, we spotted a gaudy flock: It seemed that the three birding groups had coalesced into a single prickly mass of expensive optics and unbleached cotton hats.
Birders have always been depicted as tweedy; think of Mrs. MacGruder in Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds. Perhaps to compensate for this, some of today's bird-watchers have gone to the opposite end of the spectrum. Case in point: One rainy July morning, I encountered an attractive couple from Copenhagen whose matching outfits included Vibram-soled boots, gaiters, side-zip pants, skintight long-underwear tops, and compact backpacks. In addition, the man wore terry-cloth wristbands and amber-lens shooting glasses.
This might have made sense if we were in the Aleutian Islands, but we were on a well-groomed path in a sanctuary where leaving the trails is verboten. Yet these two looked more like SWAT than bird-watchers. While I watched, they captured a feeding green heron on a digital camera and, simultaneously, on digital video. When I complimented them on the view they'd gotten of the feeding bird, the man explained their philosophy: "That's what happens when you accept nature on its own terms." The woman nodded as though this was a burden she reluctantly accepted.
An acquaintance of Nikula's came over to talk shop. An inveterate lister, he wasn't concerned about the stint or the sandpiper, both of which were already on his Massachusetts list. The bird he'd come to see was a black skimmer -- Nikula had reported seeing two immatures earlier in the week. Like an exceedingly polite bill collector, the lister kept circling the conversation back to the skimmer. (Later I would learn that this person once flew from Boston to California in order to add a single rarity to his California list.)
On this day, the skimmer was nowhere to be seen, but after a moment the lister found the curlew sandpiper. How he found it I can't really say. The bird, which was asleep, had its back to us. Its head was tucked between its wings, concealing its decurved bill. The view was partially obstructed by another bird and some beach grass. By way of explanation, the lister said, "The back pattern is quite distinctive."
Then the lister turned toward the throng of birders gathered down the beach. He waved his hands in the air, like a man on a runway. In the distance, we saw the birders lift their tripods onto their shoulders and start to jog.
Scenes like this one are repeating themselves all over the country, all over the world. As more birders come to the sport, there will be more congestion, as knots of bird-watchers focus on the good birds. Knowledgeable birders talk about the Patagonia Roadside Rest Stop Phenomenon: If a place holds good birds, it will attract good birders, who will, in turn, find good birds, thus attracting more good birders. In practice, it means that at a place like Point Pelee, Ontario, where concentrations of warblers attract concentrations of birders, the nature lovers are in danger of loving nature to death. It is why, for instance, at said roadside rest stop in Patagonia, Arizona, someone finally had to put up a fence to keep the birders out.
The first person to reach us was one of the trip leaders. "What d'you got?" he asked.
In the excitement, we didn't have anything. The sleeping curlew sandpiper had moved.
"We had the sandpiper," explained the lister, "but I can't seem to find it at the moment."
The shock troops were fast approaching.
The trip leader pulled out a two-way radio. "We got the sandpiper. Over."
The birders arrived. They stabbed their tripods into the ground, raised their binoculars. "Where is it?" they squawked. "Is it up? Is it up? Is it up?"
All the sun hats, the vests, the after-market lens covers and straps with sliding pulleys, guidebooks with color-coded quick-reference tabs zipped inside abrasion-resistant Cordura covers, all the European optics (Zeiss, Leica, Steiner, Swarovski), everything was waterproof, shockproof, multicoated, phase-corrected.
The leaders barked orders. "Let's get some more scopes here, people."
"Is it walking?" the birders asked. "Where is it? Is it up?"
The lister would get his skimmer; if not this day, soon. He would get the skimmer because he needed to. It was as simple as that.
"Can we go?" asked Nikula. "Do you have enough fodder?"
"Is it up?" cried the birders, like nestlings demanding to be fed. "Is it up?"
For a non-birder, I'd spent a lot of time chasing birds. I'd gone to New Hampshire in search of Mike Harvey's little stint. I found the salt pan where the bird had last been seen. It was the sort of place a person could spend his life driving past without really seeing, not a bad place for a house, separated from the ocean by two lanes of blacktop. An earthen sea wall capped with quarried rock protected it from the ocean. If wetland regulations weren't so strict, the place would have been filled in ages ago. But I didn't see the stint. I'd arrived two days late.
Actually, I have no idea if the stint was there or not. I don't have the expertise to tell a stint from any other sandpiper. Besides, I hadn't expected to see the bird. The day before, in Newburyport, a chance encounter with a birder in a sandwich shop had occasioned this exchange:
"Did you see the stint?" I asked.
"We were going to go see it," said the birder, "but I heard it was gone."
"Yeah. Vanished!"
Vanished. She said this brightly, shaking her head a little, in thrall to the bird, to the idea it could simply up and leave, astonished by its freedom and whim. Vanished into thin air! The word suggests magic, mystery. But really, it just flew away, the bird. That's all it did. "Vanished," she said, when actually it did the most ordinary thing. It flapped its wings. It did what a bird does. It left.
I finally met Harvey at Monomoy's North Island. I'd almost made a full circuit of the island when I noticed two figures far out on one of the flats. When I reached them, they were debating the identity of a bird. Binoculars dangled from their necks.
"It's a least," said the friend, meaning a least sandpiper.
"OK," said Harvey. "There's something wrong about it, but it's a least."
They did not seem particularly intimidating, a couple of barefoot kids out chasing birds. They manned two spotting scopes. One -- clearly a hand-me-down -- had probably been outdated when these kids were born. The other scope looked as if it had been created in a laboratory that morning. Harvey manned the new scope. Sticking halfway out of the pocket of his cargo shorts was a guidebook. I was carrying Roger Tory Peterson's seminal A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America. The title of Harvey's book: Birds of Europe.
"You see anything?" Harvey asked me.
I'd been sure that I'd seen a Wilson's phalarope earlier. I'd watched it for about five minutes. The two boys were excited for a moment, until they determined that I had not seen a Wilson's. I said, "I thought I saw a godwit earlier. I just couldn't tell if it was a marbled or Hudsonian."
Harvey nodded.
His friend said, "I had a marbled and a Hudsonian on the way over, on the boat."
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Papi takes BP, but still not running bases
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- The fact that David Ortiz hit on the field with the regulars during batting practice on Wednesday was a good sign that he is starting to feel better.
The slugger hit several missiles that soared over the wall in the session. He is also ramping up his agility work, though he hasn't run the bases since being shut down with inflammation in his right heel more than two weeks ago.
Shortstop Stephen Drew continues to do baseball drills on a daily basis, but there's no way to project his return date as long as he is still experiencing symptoms from the concussion he sustained on March 7.
"It's just weird. The brain is a weird thing. You can't play around with it," Drew said. "The symptoms are still there. Until that goes away … I just hope in my case, sooner rather than later. There's not a timeframe on it. I do all my therapy, baseball [activities] to stay in shape, and that way when it is healed up, I'm ready to go. That's all you can do."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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InfraRed Photo Shows which Part of Your HD 4870 is Hot While Running FurMark
German Radeon user Tiesie have posted some Infra-red photo of his/her HD 4870 with Arctic Cooling Accelero S1. The sticker part is hot and keeping the reference red cooler base is no help for cooling. All these shots have been taken after 10~20min of FurMark.
I wonder if Tiesie has used FurMark in Xtreme Burning mode (currently command line but soon in the startup dialog box) or in standard mode…


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Cities, police chiefs support regulating medical marijuana
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) For the first time, the League of California Cities and the California Police Chiefs Association are supporting proposed legislation that would sanction medical marijuana shops and cultivators of the drug.
The organizations are co-sponsoring SB 1262, legislation that would regulate medical marijuana dispensaries and cultivators.
"We've decided it's really much better for the people we serve at the city level and for the people of our state to help design a very limited state regulatory role," said Chris McKenzie, executive director of the League of California Cities.
Just what that regulation would look like is yet to be determined. But, the position taken by both organizations is significant, as both entities have long opposed regulatory legislation that might legitimize the marijuana industry.
The proposed bill would places restrictions on doctors who recommend medical marijuana to patients.
But, McKenzie made it clear that the legislation would not infringe on communities opposed to having medical marijuana dispensaries within their jurisdictions.
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Hamada Hilal denies working with Israeli concert agents
Egyptian singer Hamada Hilal stressed that his recent
approval to hold a performance in the Palestinian city of Jericho is not a
result of an agreement between him and an Israeli agent. He stated that he
entered the Palestinian territories through Jordan and by obtaining an Israeli
Hilal said in an interview with the program "one of the people" on the 'Dream' satellite channel that no one loves Israel and he only gave his approval to sing in Jericho after he was one hundred percent certain that the event is organized by a Palestinian concert agent and the proceeds of the concert would go to helping poor Palestinians.
Hilal added that he entered Palestine through the
Jordanian borders and not via an Israeli visa as many had accused him of doing.
He added that it grieved his heart to go through the same mistreatment Palestinians
encounter on a daily basis, but was always happy when he saw a Palestinian flag
but sadden to see an Israeli one right after it.
According to the internet website MBC.net, Hilal revealed that he made it a point to visit Jerusalem during his trip and prayed in the Al Aqsa Mosque. He stressed that throughout his visit he firmly refused to be transported in an Israeli cab and he and his band used the Palestinian buses instead. He added that on his trip he visited the grave of former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.


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Krinik During The Week (The Weekday Krinik): Shmuel Geler
Dark gray smoke, in the early morning, rising from the houses into the still half-dark sky, announces that in Krinik a new workday has begun.
Jewish mothers put out three legged stools and plates then prepared breakfast for their husbands and children who are about to leave for work.
The night had still not managed to depart with the coming of day and Krinik streets were already lively. Alone and in groups the leather workers walk with heavy steps up Garbarska Street, Gmina Street and other streets to the leather works, mills and other work places.
They quickly put on their work aprons and roll up their sleeves. They quietly get down to work. The steam is already puffing, the transmitter buzzes, the drums are turning, the utensils are shiny. Diligently the tradesmen's hands work to create the famous Krinik leather.
Seven o'clock in the morning and already the Krinik street and alleys are even more lively. Loud shouts, the sound of youngsters' laughing rings from everywhere. Krinik's Mosheles and Shlomoles, Chanales and Racheles are on their way to school. With knapsacks on their shoulders, binders in their hands, some with patched pants, others with newer pants, all of them with sparkling eyes and mischievous looks they hurry into the public school and heder. There are a lot of schoolrooms: in the Tarbut [Zionist Hebrew school] School, Jewish secular school and Public Heder. A new school day begins. With curiosity and thirst the children soak up general and Jewish knowledge. The sound of their voices singing Jewish and Hebrew children's songs rises up from the small schoolrooms and spreads throughout the nearby area. In secular and religious schools, in Yiddish and Hebrew, Krinik children study the Torah and wisdom.
Now that the husbands and children have been dispatched from the house, the wives attend to their daily work. They clean house, do the laundry, mend shirts and clothes. They go to the food store, the baker and butcher. The fortunate ones use money, the others buy on credit. Loaded with baskets and bags, the wives return home to cook lunch. The fire is started in the oven. In cast iron pots they cook meat or dairy lunches. Some of the wives are ashamed of their daily fare. They cook with nothing no meat and no dairy, only with water.
The Krinik streets become livelier still. The factory workers are eating lunch, children return home from school filling the streets with mischievous shouts, trying to outdo each other with their childish pranks. It is raining and everyone is wearing rubber galoshes. During the winter people slide on runners, a local product (a cut piece of wood with a wire underneath), allowing people to slide on the ice and use sniezhkes
Men, women and children went about their work, children doing their lessons, waiting impatiently for the time when they could run off into the streets to play and have fun. Wives, like busy bees, were working at home. How were our mothers able to get all that work done?
On a market day
Its only morning and the Krinik market is already lively. Food and flour stores, dry goods and iron stores all waiting for customers. A whole week to realize a sale. Rich merchants are financially secure with their business. The small, poor ones run around fainting trying to find a loan, a loan without interest: the need to pay a promissory note, in order to settle the revenue duties.. If not, the bailiff will seize what little he has.
In the middle of the market place, opposite the gate sits, during summer and winter, the market women surrounded by loaded baskets and wooden boxes of vegetables and fruit. In the heat, cold and rain, they never leave their work places. During the summer people bake in the sun; during the winter, they warm up at the chafing pan. Loud quarrels between merchants break out over perspective clients, but they speak softly to their customers. It is a hard struggle to make a living.
At the end of the day there are constantly groups of unemployed, ordinary idlers - and such - wandering around the market place discussing world politics and town news. Some are waiting for the distributor, perhaps a letter with a couple of dollars will arrive for them from America; others search for a little work, looking to earn a living. They all wait impatiently at the market place on Thursday. And here it is, and already before daylight there are dozens of booths, market stalls and tables, large and small put up on the market place with a variety of hats with shiny peaks in a variety of colors. Leather merchants laid out their goods: tongues, uppers, soles. Harness makers hung out horse collars, reins, and breeching, which had a strong odor of lime and tar. Turners put out foot wheels, on the ground, to make flax threads. Bakers prepared loaves of soft white bread and rye bread, stacks of bagels, round breads, cakes, stritzlelkh and all kinds of baked goods.
Small tables with all kinds of candy, caramels and sweet things, with various articles for the house - were put out everywhere. The beer halls and restaurants were loaded with sausage, all kinds of herring, liquor, lemonade and small bottles of beer. Everything was ready and geared up for the market.
On loaded peasant wagons and on foot, in groups and alone, streamed the peasants to the market, from Poretch, Lapitch, Nietupe, Makaritze, Spodvil and a lot of other villages near and far. Clever housewives wait for the peasants beyond the shtetl in order to purchase something at a bargain. They felt the fowl and blew under the feathers to see if a hen was fat. The women worked hard at haggling. They talked to the peasants using half Yiddish and a kind of gentile language until they managed to buy a fowl for the Sabbath, a few dozen eggs, a piece of fresh butter wrapped in a piece of white peasant linen or in a green sheet of paper. Loaded down with good things, the Jewish housewives returned home.
Meanwhile at the market place there is already a tumult, a commotion, Jews walk around among the densely placed wagons. They rummage in the sacks, look at the peasants' packs and they haggle. They slap the gentiles' hands, a sign that they have come to an agreement. The peasants' wallets and pockets will be full, the wagons empty. Jewish butchers buy a cow, calves and sheep. Horse dealers try out the horses. They look at the horses' teeth. Their neighing and the mooing of the cows mix with the shouts of the buyers and sellers.
Surrounded on all sides by a mass of villagers, a young gentile stands up on a wagon and calls out at the top of his voice about his merchandise and bargains. For only one zloty he offers a spoon, fork, small comb and a mirror. But this is still not enough, so he also adds for the same zloty a needle with a spool of thread. And he yells more he also throws in a pair of buttons and a ribbon. The peasant women move toward the gentile and grab the bargains.
All the stores, booths and stalls are besieged. The peasants buy various utensils and articles that are needed for the home and housekeeping. Peasant women buy calico clothes and the girls colored pieces of cloth and strings of beads. The piles of breads, rolls and various baked goods become smaller and smaller. Wealthy villagers are able to eat, even during the week, white bread and wheat rolls.
In the restaurant owned by the Pole Snarski, at Chaikl's, at Lieder's and in many other eating houses, treats and beer are consumed with joy.
Peasants sit with companions, treating themselves to vodka. They snack on herring and sausage. They talk loudly. With each glass emptied, their voices rise. Their faces are already red, their eyes half closed from drunkenness. Some embrace and kiss. One of them starts humming a melody, and half-drunk voices join in. From Chaikl's restaurant a loud noise is heard from the automatic street organ. A peasant puts ten groschen in and out comes a march in all its detail.
Suddenly a cry for help, a tumult, a peasant treated his drinking buddy to a bottle over the head, having remembered an old loss.
Little by little people are leaving the market place. Long lines of wagons stretch from the shtetl to the roads to the dozens of surrounding villages.
Jewish storekeepers add up the cash: thank God, there will be enough to repay the loans, money for tuition and enough to make the Sabbath.
The market place looks like the aftermath of a battle, the entire, large area, that not two minutes ago shone with various colorful articles, lively and noisy is wrapped in silence, the market place quickly caught its breath and rests.
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The dear Sabbath comes
Friday all morning, the Sabbath can already be felt in Krinki. From Jewish houses the smells of fresh baked challah [bread made with eggs and braided, served on the Sabbath], cooked fish and other Sabbath foods drift in the air. Jewish housewives, like busy bees, cleaned the house, polished the floors, cleaned and ironed the Sabbath garments. Artisans, storekeepers, workers and manufacturers everyone prepared for the Holy Sabbath.
The greatest joy belonged to the children. They would wait impatiently for school to end. With a great rush and happiness, like free birds, the children would leave the schools. Each in his own way prepared for the Sabbath.
One of the great commandments for young and old was to bathe in honor of the Sabbath. Children fulfilled the commandment in the river off Garbarska Street at the nashielnitza, at Vigon. The water there reaches a little higher than the heel of a foot. They would crawl on all fours and get sprayed. There is great joy here.
Off of Mill Street, in the pond at the mill, the water is somewhat deeper. There they can swim a little in water as well as mud. It was difficult to stand here because of the mud. Some of the youngsters would go to bathe outside the shtetl at the new mill, in Slusker-mill. There was real water, where one could come out of the water clean!
The real bathing was in the Lishker River. The wagon drivers loaded their wagons and drove there. Only some could afford to pay an entire zloty to drive there and back. Friday afternoon, alone and in groups, the Krinki youth went the six kilometers to the winding, calm flowing river, among fields and grass.
The deep river is full of people. There one must know how to swim. The swimmers do all kinds of tricks: they dive, some can only swim a single stroke, others swim like frogs. The water there is clear and cool and everyone feels in seventh heaven. After bathing everyone rolled naked in the cool, fragrant grass (when I was young, nobody in Krinki knew about bathing suits!).
The women go elsewhere, further than the men. Some youngsters, good swimmers, would quietly steal away and go near the women, to catch a glimpse of a half-naked daughter of Eve.
Fresh and rested, everyone would go sprightly back to the shtetl. On the way they would become covered with dust, tired out - yet they came home happy. The feel of swimming, the cool, clean water stayed in their bones.
The night before the Sabbath the shtetl bathhouse was also full. Aronchik, the attendant, ruled there. He treated them to a good bucket and a small broom to hit themselves with. In the first room they would wash with soap and rinse off. But the true pleasure of the Sabbath was felt in the steam bath. Workmen, artisans and manufacturers sat or lay on long wooden steps. There everybody was equal. Once in a while a shout was heard steam, steam! and several pails of cold water would be thrown onto the stones in the oven and steam billowed up, filling the steam bath, refreshing them with the heat, even though they could hardly catch their breath. And they shout again: steam, steam!. Sitting on the stairs, they rub themselves and beat themselves with the little brooms. One treats the other with an invigorating rub down.
That is the only place where a common person can beat a bossor a rich man and still earn merit. With beaming, red faces, everyone returns home.
The mothers have already sent the cholent [a slow cooking stew made for Sabbath lunch, kept warm overnight at the bakery] to the baker's oven. Now they are washing the children's hair in the wash tub. The child wriggles out from the mother's hands. They scream and cry, their eyes burning from the lather. Thick combs are used on the children's hair always one can find there
Calmly and leisurely Jewish daughters wash their hair. (A remedy for the hair is rainwater.) The mothers braid their daughters' hair with love. In the houses it is sparkling clean. Old and young everyone is ready to welcome the Sabbath.
One after another the Sabbath candles are lit in the houses, in some there are silver candlesticks, in others brass and some are only a pair of potatoes!
Mothers with scarves and shawls on their heads bless the Sabbath candles and whisper a quiet prayer. With a tremor in the heart, with a tear in the eye, they accompany the men and children to the botei medroshim [houses of study].
Friday night
Barely waiting for the end of the Sabbath dinner, the Krinki youth stream in from all corners of the shtetl to the market place. In couples and in groups they walk around - make a half turn at the watchman's house and from Chaikl's brick house return to the watchman's house. There is loud talking, yelling and laughter. The market place bubbled with happiness. At the edge of the sidewalk stand speakers. They direct discussions. All of them defend their positions with fervor
Little by little the people at the market place scatter. Couples and groups go off to Mill Street in Viryian's courtyard, some go off on the side streets and on balconies. Most of them walk down Shishlevitzer Street, through Chestnut Tree Alley at the hospital, past the povshekhneh. They are already at Yente's woods that is as large as a yawn, but dear and is embedded in the hearts of every Krinker.
Songs resound from everywhere in the woods. Who is able to sing as beautifully as the Krinker youth? Krinkers sang with zest and feeling. Somebody started a melody a second joined in and took the second part. And here comes a third, a fourth to sing and the harmony echoes around:
Sings Krinker revolutionary youth about their belief in a new, free world
The red tomorrow in front of us, the young guard of the proletariat sings a group from Tzukunft the youth from the Bund From Warsaw to Paris From London to Canton Moscow has sent out a red flag
From a corner of the woods is heard a beautiful, tender girl's voice singing a Hebrew song that was interrupted by a stormy hora [Zionist folk dance, danced in a circle], danced by the young Krinki pioneer youth.
Bundists, Communists, Zionists were singing. Different songs and lyrics, but they were all united as a wonderful tribe of Krinki youth who fought for and believed in a better tomorrow in a more beautiful world
Protected by the dark night, couples cuddle together weaving dreams. The trees in Yente's woods imbibed a lot of sweet secrets.
Late at night, tired and with happy faces, they return home. They steal quietly in the house, not to wake up their sleeping parents.
A Sabbath quietness spreads over the shtetl.
Baruch Vladek Visits The Eternal Light: Daniel Charney
(The prominent journalist and noted leader of the Jewish Workers Movement, first in Russia (in the Zionist Socialists, then in the Bund) and later in America B. Vladek (Baruch Nachman Charney) once sat in prison together with the Krinker Eternal Light (Abraham Shmuel Zutz). They became very good comrades there. Visiting Poland in August 1936, Vladek traveled to Krynki, with his brother the poet Daniel Charney, especially to visit his one time prison mate.)
In the morning the entire Krynki Bund gathered at the library with the Eternal Light and waited and waited until they decided to go to the highway to meet us. In front were two young women from the public school with two large bouquets of flowers from the Krinki Bund and from the library. Between the young women was blind Abraham Shmuel. Behind them marched the entire Bund from the shtetl, large and small.
That Sunday was a fair day in Krynki with all the Jewish population outside. When the people saw the curious procession, lead by the blind Eternal Light with two young women carrying bouquets, all the idlers in the shtetl began joining the procession and the highway was soon black with people
When the peasants at the market place saw that among the Zhids a large movement was taking place, they immediately began to harness their horses to the wagons and quickly left the shtetl. The market place emptied in a matter of minutes. Then the storekeepers and traders also closed their businesses and went to meet the famous American (Vladek).
When our machine was a couple of kilometers from Krynki, the highway was already besieged with people. We were surrounded on all sides by the Krynki welcoming committee, but not one of them knew Vladek personally besides the totally blind Abraham Shmuel Zutz.
But Vladek recognized him and after the representative of the Krynki Bund had managed to start his welcoming speech, Vladek threw himself on Abraham Shmuel and both embraced and kissed for a long time until they began to cry.
This meeting in the middle of the highway touched us deeply and nobody's eyes were dry.
I was deeply moved by the moment when Abraham Shmuel used his finger to see by moving it all around Vladek's face, as if he wanted to see how much Vladek had aged during the several dozen years they had not seen each other.
Later, after the official welcome in the only hotel in Krynki, we went to take a look at the library where Abraham Shmuel blindly filled the position of librarian.
That Sunday the library was full of young people who came to borrow books. In truth they only wanted to have a look at the guest from America
It was really marvelous how blind Abraham Shmuel quickly got hold of the right book that he had been asked for, by using his finger. He ran it over the spine of the books, like a proficient musician over a piano keyboard.
Here is Peretz's Popular History, here Sholem Ash's Shtetl, here Sholom Aleichem's Tevye the Dairyman, here is Maxim Gorki's Mother and here is Dostoeyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
During the time we spent in the children's library, Abraham Shmuel did not make any mistakes getting a book. He read the depressed letters and numbers with his finger from the spines of the books, like a sighted person.
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Barry Russell examining a specimen of Threadfin Bream, 8 September 2003.
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Dr Barry Russell, Assistant Director Natural Sciences, at the Northern Territory Museum, Darwin visited the Fish Section between 8th and 15th September 2003.
Barry is an expert in the taxonomy of the Threadfin Breams, family Nemipteridae.
During his visit, Barry examined Threadfin Breams, lizardfishes and several genera of lutjanoids held in the Australian Museum Fish Collection.
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Schlosser making strong case for bullpen spot
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- When Spring Training began, Gus Schlosser was not considered one of the favorites in the competition for a spot in the bullpen. But with his first two Grapefruit League appearances, the 6-foot-4 right-hander has established himself as a legitimate candidate.
"We'll see how the spring develops, but so far he's been the talk of the coaching staff," manager Fredi Gonzalez said after Schlosser tossed two scoreless innings in Monday's loss to the Mets.
If Freddy Garcia does not begin the season in the rotation, Schlosser, 25, could gain one of what appears to be two available spots in the bullpen. He has surrendered one hit and one walk while not allowing a run in the three innings he has completed thus far.
"Whether you end up [in the Majors] or not really doesn't matter," Schlosser said. "Just being able to show them what you're capable of is pretty big. It's nice to know that if they need me, whenever that is, they're confident in what I can do."
With Ryan Buchter not making an impact this spring, the Braves are expected to search the trade market for a left-handed specialist. But at the same time, they will continue to evaluate all of their relief candidates, including Schlosser and Luis Vasquez, who could be cleared to begin pitching in games next week after spending the early portion of camp recovering from a strained lat.
Gene Garber's presence in camp this week has given Schlosser a chance to talk with a former reliever who used a sidearm delivery much like the one he has refined throughout his professional career.
While producing a 2.39 ERA in 25 starts with Double-A Mississippi last season, Schlosser limited right-handed hitters to a .199 batting average and .256 on-base percentage. Left-handed hitters proved more successful against him, batting .281 with a .361 on-base percentage.
Mark Bowman is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Overview of the Baileys Crossroads Planning Study
Baileys Crossroads Planning Study will focus on evaluating and refining the concepts and strategies developed by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Advisory Services Panel for a portion of the area they studied. The ULI study grouped the Baileys Crossroads areas around the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike into quadrants. The Baileys Crossroads Planning Study will focus on evaluating and refining the urban concept for the south ("Village Center??) and east ("Urban Square??) quadrants.
Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning, along with a consultant, will coordinate the planning study. The study will result in recommendations for changes to the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan and strategies for implementing those changes. The study is anticipated to be completed in early 2009.
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Former England captain David Beckham has revealed that he regularly plays football in Battersea Park.
The revelation came in an article penned by the celebrity superstar in yesterday's Sunday Times where he also confessed to building Lego to combat stress.
But the news the former Real Madrid midfielder stills dusts off his old boots for a spot of five-a-side in the famous park is sure to keep regulars' eyes peeled in future.
Beckham, 38, moved back to the UK with wife Victoria and their four children last year and now reside in west London.
"I love living back in London," he said.
"I enjoy its big parks, especially ones like Battersea and I love walking through them after I've been playing five-a-side with some friends.
"One thing I really love about being back here is the pubs - I even have a couple of locals that I actually go to.
"The people there know me, so it's easy enough to go in and have a pint."
But the Beckham's Battersea connection does not end there because last year it was reported that Victoria bought a Spar supermarket in Battersea Park Road, a short walk from her office, which she is planning to convert into a fashion house.
The astro turf five-a-side pitches in the park have become home to some titanic amateur footballing battles, particularly in the colder months.
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This Monday, the Water Resources Association of Yolo County is hosting informational presentations by Tim Quinn, the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies and Stuart Leavenworth, editorial page editor for the Sacramento Bee.
The pair will be discussing critical water issues facing the Sacramento region as well as the entire state and their perspectives on potential solutions, according to a news release.
All city and county elected officials in Yolo County are invited. The public is also invited.
Quinn became the executive director of Association of California Water Agencies in 2007 and has more than 25 years of experience in California water issues. ACWA is a statewide association whose 450 local public water agency members are responsible for about 90 percent of the water delivered in California. Prior to joining ACWA, he served as deputy general manager of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.
Leavenworth was hired by the Sacramento Bee in 1999 and joined the editorial board in 2005. He has been a newspaper journalist for more than 25 years. He won a National Press Foundation award and other accolades for his coverage of water and flood control.
Woodland City Councilman Bill Marble, who serves as chairman of the WRA, said, "Both Mr. Quinn and Mr. Leavenworth have valuable perspectives on water issues important to all Californians. We are pleased they are able to be with us and look forward to this discussion. We encourage all members of the community to join with us for his timely presentations."
The presentations will be given from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Woodland Community and Senior Center, 2001 East St., as part of the regularly scheduled Water Resources Association board meeting.
WRA members include the cities of Woodland, Davis, West Sacramento, and Winters, County of Yolo, UC Davis, Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, Dunnigan Water District, Reclamation District 2035 and Reclamation District 108.


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Event : 2010 North American Kagyu Monlam
Start Time: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 at 8:30am
End Time: Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 6:00pm
Location: Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD)
Street: 335 Meads Mountain Road
City/Town: Woodstock, NY
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This summer, hundreds of monks and lay people will gather at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra (KTD) on Overlook Mountain above the artist village of Woodstock, N.Y., to participate in the North American Kagyu Monlam, a five day festival of prayers for world peace. This historic event, an extension of the annual Kagyu Monlam Chenmo in Bodhgaya, India, will be the first of an annual tradition to be held at sacred places across the U.S. and Canada.
"Kagyu Monlam is an avenue whereby we can spread, at times of great need, the genuine spirit of love and compassion to all the people of the world, like a great ripple, first in Bodhgaya, then in Bihar, and so on. As we continuously offer these prayers for world peace, it is our intention and our wish that peace and happiness extend to all." — His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa
Your prayers and aspirations will help spread the spirit of compassion and love, supporting the mission of His Holiness and other great masters. Highlights of the event include daily teachings by the Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche and an Akshobhya Empowerment. The complete daily schedule of events, personally composed by His Holiness the Karmapa, can be viewed at https://www.kagyu.org/monlam/schedule.php
The many recreational opportunities of the Catskill Mountains make this an ideal location to bring the family. Whether you come for one day or for the entire program, your participation will support His Holiness's efforts to promote world peace and harmony.
With the Monlam little over a month away, we encourage you to register as soon as possible, preferably by June 21, so that we can get your admission badge to you in time, and to enable us to plan properly for the event. If you have already registered and paid in full, you will receive your badge and parking instructions by early July. If you have not yet registered, please register through the Monlam website: www.kagyu.org/monlam/registration.php.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email [email protected] or contact the KTD front office at 845-679-5906 x3. For more information, please visit www.kagyu.org/monlam
We look forward to seeing you at the first North American Kagyu Monlam.
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"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
"Only you can make your mind beautiful."
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"Even if you practice only for an hour a day with faith and inspiration, good qualities will steadily increase. Regular practice makes it easy to transform your mind. From seeing only relative truth, you will eventually reach a profound certainty in the meaning of absolute truth."
Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.
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Cal will be aiming for its fourth title since 2009 when the four-day NCAA Women's Swimming and Diving Championships begin Thursday in Minneapolis.
The Bears, led by senior Cindy Tran, sophomore Elizabeth Pelton and freshman Missy Franklin, enter the meet as the Pac-12 champion. They finished second last year.
Stanford will look to improve its run of 32 straight finishes within the NCAA's top eight, a streak that has spanned each year of the meet's existence.
The Cardinal is led by seniors Maya DiRado and Felicia Lee.
Horse racing
El Camino Real Derby champion Tamarando is the 3-to-1 morning line favorite for Saturday's $550,000 Spiral Stakes at Turfway Park (Ky.). Russell Baze will ride Tamarando for trainer Jerry Hollendorfer in the 11/8-mile Kentucky Derby prep for 3-year-olds.
Motor sports
Five NASCAR Sprint Cup teams will take part in a Goodyear tire test at Sonoma Raceway on March 25-26 in advance of this summer's Toyota/Save Mart 350. Drivers will include Matt Kenseth, Tony Stewart and Jeff Gordon.
Carondelet High senior Sandra Ortellado and Anita Alvarez of New York will make their synchronized swimming duet debut Thursday at the French Open in Paris.
Staff writer Elliott Almond contributed to this report.


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The Warriors have the younger coach, the thinner roster, the road disadvantage and generally seem similar but lesser than the Nuggets in almost every significant way.
But they also have Stephen Curry, who is different from and better than anybody else in this playoff series.
Which obviously puts enormous responsibility on Curry but also just as much focus on Warriors coach Mark Jackson, who cannot let the series' most important weapon get taken away or marginalized by Denver's defensive schemes or intensity.
"For Steph, the great ones still find a way, even though you try to take something away, to figure it out and punish you," Jackson said this week.
The Warriors have to do a lot of things to upset Denver in this series: Slow down the Nuggets' torrid fast break, keep Denver off the offensive glass, avoid piling up fouls and get as many players as possible to supplement Curry's production.
And even though the Nuggets were an absurd 38-3 at home this season, the Warriors also have to pilfer one of the first two games in Denver, starting Saturday; teams that go up 2-0 have historically won the series 94 percent of the time.
I think the Warriors can do some of those things — it's not like Denver is an overwhelming physical mismatch for the finesse Warriors.
Both teams are going to do a lot of things they like to do; it's just that the Nuggets do most of them better than the Warriors.
Which is why I asked Curry: Do you want the responsibility of winning or losing on your shoulders?
"Why not, man?" he said with a shrug this week. "I mean, I don't think many people expected us to be in this situation coming into this season.
"I have an opportunity to help my team do something a lot of people didn't think we could do. And win a series against a tough Denver team."
The point isn't that Curry has to score 40 points a game or make every 3-pointer he takes in the fourth quarter, though it would be nice for the Warriors if he could approximate either thing.
It's that Curry has to affect the game in every facet — play solid defense against Ty Lawson and Andre Miller, avoid turnovers and also force Denver's defense into full-time scramble mode.
And Jackson has to adjust to whatever Denver coach George Karl does defensively to limit Curry.
If the Nuggets play him the way they did during Denver's 3-1 season-series victory, they will use their fleet of rangy mid-sized players to switch every screen and keep Curry away from easy midrange shots.
In that scenario, it's up to Curry to beat the bigger defenders when they switch and hit the shots they give him — and for Jackson to run an offense that gets him to the best spots.
And if Denver blitzes Curry with traps, then he either has to find the open teammate or put his head down and attempt to crash through the double-team on his own.
The Warriors offense has to run through him, and get set up by him.
Jackson's point: Sure, Curry could go one-on-two if he wants to, but the smart play is for Curry to keep finding open teammates and trusting them to make the shot.
If great players never passed, Jackson said, "then we wouldn't know Steve Kerr like we know him today. Then we wouldn't know Robert Horry like we know him today."
But the great players are also the ones who make more pressure shots than anybody else — and want them. Especially in the playoffs.
Does Curry want those shots now, even if Denver overplays him?
"I'm ready for it," Curry said.
He has to be. And Jackson has to put him in the best spots. It's on both of them; they're underdogs, but they're also the entire crux of this series.
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City Island Carousel Pavilion - limited to 600 registered runners
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$100 cash prize money first male/female finishers; $50 gift certificates to first Masters male/female finishers; 5-year age group awards. Early Packet Pick-up: Saturday, April 6, 2:00-4:00 pm - Open Stage of Harrisburg Lobby, 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg (Street level of Walnut St. Parking Garage) between 2nd & 3rd Sts., or enter off Court St. Race Day Packet Pickup & Registration: 7:00 - 8:45 am - Carousel Pavilion. Pre-Race Warmup/Stretch - 8:30 am Carousel Pavilion Kids Activity - Metro Bank Kids Tent with games & fun for kids and families Showers available for registered runners (show your race bib) at Fitness U in Strawberry Square 3rd & Walnut Downtown Harrisburg) 11 am to 1 pm. Local Accommodations: Hilton Harrisburg (717) 233-6000 $89 - Code "OSC" Crowne Plaza (717) 234-5021 $89 - Code "CAP" Comfort Inn Riverfront (717) 233-1611 $79.99 - request Capital 10-Miler rate Hilton Harrisburg (717) 233-6000 Awards: Will be given in 5-year age groups through age 65 & up. (No duplicate awards will be given.) We reserve the right to limit maximum registration number for the course. No pets or wheeled devices, please. The Capital 10-Miler benefits participating 501(c)(3) arts organizations. To make a tax-deductible donation or to run or walk on behalf of an organization, proceed a donation link below and select either "Become a Fundraiser" or "Donate".
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With the A 20 you will rediscover your dynamic headphones.
This new headphone amplifier from beyerdynamic is perfect for all headphone applications and provides dual outputs for shared listening with a partner.
The circuit of the A20 is designed based on our legendary A 1 reference headphone amplifier. The discrete output stage provides plenty of power even for high-impedance headphones while the dynamic, open and precise sound sets the A 20 apart from what can be found in the normal output stages of regular amplifiers or receivers. This is confirmed by its first-class circuitry and excellent technical specifications that provide a balanced sound for long periods of comfortable listening.
Made of brushed aluminum, the housing of the A 20 is especially solid and resonance-free. Due to the innovative chassis design, no screws are visible on the external surfaces. Equipped with an original ALPS potentiometer for variable volume control, a knob turned from solid aluminum completes the attractive yet robust look of this amplifier.
With a high-gain RCA input, the A 20 works easily with most sources. The input signal can be looped through and is entirely free from signal-loss thanks to the hard-wired RCA output. Due to the built-in power supply, which is connected via a detachable power cord (supplied), no external power supply is needed avoiding disturbing background noise. Thanks to the dual headphone jacks on the front, two people can listen to the A 20 together without an adapter cable.
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www.vergleich.org 10/2016Title: The seven best headphone amplifiers in comparison
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-very good workmanship-elegant design-integrated power supply unit
iPad Welt 02/2014Title: Top sound for the iPadAuthor: Stefan v. Gagern
The effect with the A 20 is really amazing: When the headphone is connected to an iPad or other music sources for the first time, you will experience your headphones in a completely new way. Suddenly each instrument sounds more powerful, natural and the sound is more spatial.
[...]The unsophisticated, noble design of brushed aluminium is also impressive. Rating 1.1
Fidelity 01/2014Title: Without fancy gadgetryAuthor: Jochen Reinecke
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[...]How does it sound? Admittedly, I wanted to sound this out and tested it with a headphone which easily costs twice as much as the A 20 (...).[...]Indeed, this mismatch suited each other right from the start. Stéphane Huchards' "Panamerican" album was played, thrilling fusion music with a focus on drums (...). The sound of the A 20 is sparkling clean and fresh. Intense drum passages are passed on to the headphone without delay which is impressive due to its very clear, transparent and detailed sound.[...]Short and green: The beyerdynamic A 20 operates according to the slogan "We are doing what we can"—not more, not less, no fancy gadgetry, but with verve and enthusiasm. Great.
www.macrewind.de 09/2013Title: Test: beyerdynamic A 20 Headphone amplifierAuthor: Frank Borowski
Translated from the original German article[...]The result, especially with the T 90 is, well how to describe it best? … simply perfect! The explosive dynamic of the T 90 is clearly heard as well as the superb warmth and transparency. The bass is absolutely deep and can be heard to the last vibrations. Another strength of the Tesla headphones, to which the T 90 also belongs, is that they can reproduce reverberations of drumheads and string instruments absolutely authentic giving them a special natural character. The A 20 supports this property with a persistent monitoring of the connected headphones. [...]Therefore, the beyerdynamic A 20 is the new reference of its class.
Audio 08/2013Title: A comfy placeAuthor: Christine TantschinezTested: five headphone amplifiers Mikromegamyzic, beyerdynamic A 20, Musicalfidelity HPAP, Teac HD-501, Sennheiser HDVD 800
[...]The similarity to the A 1 was not only visible, but could also remarkably be heard. The small beyerdynamic amplifier played broad and clean sounds, especially when using headphones with 300 ohms or more. From the drums and synth mix of "Me and My Drummer" to the concert of Trondheim Solistene, it always remained smooth in all voice ranges, great in the reproduction and reliably stable to the deepest frequencies.Sound Quality: 100 pointsPrice/Performance: Excellent


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Was getting a controluser error. re installed xampp on win7 using the latest installer.now i can't start apache. I can't find where to change the port. and have only one old file in the older folder i renamed from xampp to "asdf">"mysqul" "bin" mysqld.exe that I can't remove. says it is open & in use but I closed everything restrted the pc and checked control manager.Could I get some advice on how to solve this please?thankyouD
Do you have skype installed?
The reason I ask, it uses port 443 (if I recall correctly) and that may be blocking your apache from starting. You can change it somewhere in the settings of skype to use a different port, but I don't quite remember where that setting is.
cp it looks like i have it. but it is not installed.
k great. tried a system restore & now went from the blue screen of near death to start up repair....this blows!
I had a few problems getting XAMPP running on Windows 7. If my memory serves, I had to right-click on the menu item or on the control panel file and choose to "run as administrator". Then I think I had to go into my anti-virus/firewall software and allow it to communicate. After that it worked fine.
k it was kinda hairy but my laptop is up & about again (even got to see the breaking bad finale.great!) now getting back to check out xampp. i got a slightly diff ui. not sure if it is because it is the newer version or issues?Does anyone else have this set up, w/all those question marks? Just created a database & so far no error msgs.D
ok awesome. looks like xampp installed ok both apache & mysql are ok.Also installed wp again for local testing. but as you can see in the image i get the red exclamation marks & the message "Your configuration file contains settings (root with no password) that correspond to the default MySQL privileged account. Your MySQL server is running with this default, is open to intrusion, and you really should fix this security hole by setting a password for user 'root'."where is that configuration file???thxD
Are all you tables of all your databases intact?
Has each web app's database user been recreated (each limited to just that own app's database)?
Have you created a new "super-user" for doing general work on the server (across all databases), which should be used instead of root?
Hello Space:As for one & two, actually din't worry about all the old databases. they were just test db and i was ok removing all of them. I was more worried that something was wrong & i would not be able to use or create new dbs
Using root as a super user for now. didn't think it would be necessary to add a new one. Did on the previous install.
But as for my previous messages. are the exclamation marks just part of the new UI & not a concern.For the password warning. Not sure if they are referring to a file or the setting for user's privileges.
thx allD
If you open the control panel for xampp/wamp, you should see a button that takes you to the config for phpmyadmin under the Config button for Apache.There are fields in there for username and passwords.
To update the root username, I had to do the following:1) Update the phpMyAdmin to use an auth_type of 'cookie' instead of config.
Login to phpMyAdmin using root and no passwordClick on the Change PasswordEnter your new password for rootSave it
It should log you out if you try to go anywhere else. Login using your new password. The config message should have disappeared now.


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RICHMOND — A man was life-flighted to a hospital after he was shot multiple times while sitting in his car Saturday night, a fire department official said.
Around 8:20 p.m., police and paramedics responded to Giant and Atlas roads for reports of shots fired.
It is unclear what led to the shooting, and Richmond police were not immediately available for comment.
Richmond Fire Department Battalion Chief Merlin Turner said the man was shot three times, but could not comment on the severity of the man's injuries.
There was no word on whether any suspects had been identified.
This is the second shooting in the past 48 hours for Richmond. On Thursday night, Mercedes Williams, 19, and her brother Airian Holly, 16, were standing outside their home in the Parchester Village neighborhood when they were shot and killed by two still-unidentified suspects.
Check back for updates.
Contact Katie Nelson at 925-945-4782 or follow her at Twitter.com/katienelson210.


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A mum has told a jury how she woke in the early hours of the morning to find a man standing over her bed threatening to rape and kill her.
The woman, who can't be named for legal reasons, told Swindon Crown Court Michael Unwin had got in through a window at her ground floor flat.
After making the chilling threats she said he dragged her through to the living area of the property where he raped her while her toddler slept in a nearby room.
She said he then took her mobile phone and used it to send a text message to his handset suggesting she had asked him to come round for sex.
Unwin, 49, of Oak Road, Chippenham, has pleaded not guilty to rape and threats to kill.
The jury of seven men and five women were played a police interview of the woman, who is in her early 40s, which was video recorded.
In it she sobs as she recalls how she says she woke in her Chippenham flat at 4.45am on Thursday December 6, 2012, to find Unwin, who she knew, standing over her.
She said he was wearing dark clothing and two sets of gloves, latex ones under a pair which were thicker and made of brown leather.
"He was standing there and he said he was going to rape me and kill me: 'I am here to rape and kill you,' he said," she told officers.
"He put his hand over my mouth and one over my throat. He took me into the front room against the side of the settee and he raped he. He pulled my pyjamas down and then he did it."
Asked how long the rape took she said: "It felt like for ever but it probably wasn't very long, I don't know."
During the incident she said she told him she would do whatever he wanted as she feared he would kill her.
"I thought once he had done this he would kill me," she told the police.
Later she said she found a text message sent to him from her mobile at 5.20am which said words along the lines of asking him to come round and have sex with her.
She said she had not sent the message and he must have done it when he picked up her phone after raping her.
Having been in her flat for about an hour she said he left, but as the window in her spare room was still open she feared he may return.
She said she waited for about half an hour before calling for help as she feared he may still be outside, hear her on the phone, and would kill her before anyone arrived.
Unwin denies all the charges and the trial continues.


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Conger aims to secure role as backup catcher
TEMPE, Ariz. -- Hank Conger probably thought it would happen sooner.
But now, as he enters yet another Spring Training, he's suddenly 25, heading into his last option year, coming off three straight seasons of being deemed primarily a Triple-A catcher and hoping to finally stick full-time in the Majors as a backup to Chris Iannetta.
"Everyone I've talked to, the biggest hurdle is Triple-A to the big leagues," Conger said. "That's definitely one thing I always remember. For me, [the last three years were] a big learning curve. But right now, I feel like I'm ready to try to overcome that next step."
That next step would be to finally show manager Mike Scioscia and the Angels' coaching staff that he's Major League-ready defensively, regarding his throwing, his blocking and, perhaps most important around here, his rapport with the pitching staff.
Conger rose through the system fairly quickly, given how difficult it normally is for catchers to develop. By 2009, at 21 and just three years removed from being the No. 25 overall pick in the First-Year Player Draft out of Huntington Beach High School, he was thriving in Double-A. And the following year, he made yet another jump to Triple-A Salt Lake.
It's that last hurdle that continues to elude Conger, though. In 2011, with Mike Napoli gone and the Angels looking for more pop behind the plate, Conger made the team out of Spring Training but was sent down in mid-July after hitting just .214 in 50 games. Last year, he began the season in the Minors, injured his right elbow in April and wound up playing in only seven Major League games.
Now, he's competing with the likes of John Hester and Luke Carlin for the backup spot.
"I feel like I've done a pretty good job of trying to get on the same page with our pitchers and I feel like my throwing has gotten better," said Conger, who stayed away from playing offseason baseball for the first time in a while. "Really, now it's about going out there and proving it. I mean, I can say all I want. I can say, 'It's getting better, it's getting better.' But now it's time to go show it on the field."
But Conger, a switch-hitter who has posted a .297/.359/.467 slash line in his Minor League career, won't be a big league starter any time soon.
That much was assured on Oct. 5, when Iannetta signed a three-year, $15.55 million extension.
"He earned it," Conger said. "For me, whether they sign him or anybody else or they didn't, I still have to go in trying to get better and try to prove better, because in this game, nothing's handed to you."


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I can't get in either.
I think its because I made the playoffs in the keeper league.
HAL couldn't take it anymore.
Yep. Same problem.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - Winston Churchill
If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible warning. - Catherine Aird
I got in early this AM, but I can't now.
nope doesn't work for me either...
It's probably JayRedd's fault - dude is mad afeared of a major first-round upset. The Mass Probates will conquer the Scholars.
It's saying User Not Found.
I was on this morning, but haven't tried this afternoon.
it's back, but now it's saying i'm eliminated from the playoffs and it doesn't list 900's players
I wish I could refute this. FUCKING BIEDRINS!!!This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I was able to get in tonight & sent an e-mail about the playoff box score problem.
The opening game isn't final yet so I'm hoping this gets fixed quickly.
Is anybody else having trouble logging on now. They don't even recognize my user name right now.
PACER FAN ON STRIKE!!!-The moment the Pacers fire Larry Bird I will cheer for them again.
yea i haven't been able to log in the whole day today
I hate it when I can't see how my team is doing. Hopefully it goes away soon.
PACER FAN ON STRIKE!!!-The moment the Pacers fire Larry Bird I will cheer for them again.
I was on briefly and picked up Kobe, Garnett, and Shawn Marion off waivers.
I haven't been back though.
I can't log in either
Me no luck eather, user not found....
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The Danforth Educational Leadership Program at the University of Washington prepares experienced educators to take on prominent leadership roles in K-12 school systems. Our innovative competency-based program, combining proven classroom instruction and cutting-edge research with intensive field-based learning experiences, will not only prepare you to be an effective educational leader but also help you develop your ability to cultivate leadership in others.
Being an educational leader in the 21st century is an extremely challenging vocation, and the Danforth program prepares you for that challenge with its rigorous structure and requirements. For more than two decades, we have been producing outstanding leaders who are committed to the twin values of equity and excellence in our schools. We stand behind our alumni with a unique performance guarantee that is rooted in core educational competencies.
Upon successful completion of the program, Danforth students are qualified to apply for the state of Washington's Residency Principal Certificate, Professional Administrator Certificate or both. Danforth students who also wish to earn a UW Master of Education can do so simultaneously with additional classes.
The Danforth program features an integrated curriculum and structure, which allows students to take what they've learned in class one day and apply it to their field-based internship the very next morning. This required internship enables each Danforth student to work closely with a mentor principal or district administrator and receive valuable on-the-job experience. UW representatives (known as advocates) work alongside the on-site mentors and faculty members to oversee and facilitate the internship, making sure the student gets the most out of the experience.
The Danforth program and the University of Washington are highly respected and represent the utmost quality when it comes to educational leadership preparation. U.S. News & World Report recognized this when it ranked the
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Vegetable Garden
The 100% organic garden is certified by the Soil Association. It supplies 90 types of fresh salads and vegetables to the restaurant during the late spring, summer and autumn. These include vegetable indigenous to South-East Asia to achieve Raymond's distinct, exotic flavours.
Two acres are overseen by a bronze scarecrow, modelled on Raymond Blanc himself.
Herb Garden
The hotel's vast patchwork of herbs is particularly strong on micro-herbs. These are harvested still young and tender to obtain optimum flavour. Both the familiar and the exotic can be seen in the outside beds and greenhouses.
Mushroom Valley
Find delicious edible fungi, including shiitake, maitake and parasol, in an earthy ravine. The valley is also lined with silver birch and oak. Mushrooms are cultivated in a laboratory. It requires much time and patience to produce enough to satisfy the restaurant's menu.
Cloche Tunnels
At Belmond Le Manoir, hundreds of courgettes are grown in cloche tunnels for their flowers. The variety grown is Milano di Nero, which produces abundant, large blooms. Just as well, as the kitchen can use up to 200 flowers a day throughout the summer.
Here you'll also find aubergines, peppers and watercress.
Fugetsu-An Tea House
Cross the oak bridge and find sanctuary at the Japanese Tea Garden. It perfectly blends Taoist, Buddhist and Shinto traditions. Stepping stone paths lead to a water basin where guests can clean their hands in ritual ablution.
For the last 20 years, Raymond has aimed to create orchards full of unusual British species of fruit. This project is now in full swing, with some 800 apple and pear trees being planted in 2011.
There is also a fruit hedge containing varieties of sloes and plums. The garden uses traditional British methods to maintain sustainability.
English Water Garden
Fed by natural springs, the gardens were originally dug by the monks who occupied the site in the 16th century. Now visitors can enjoy strolling round verdant ponds and water features, home to a variety of plants and fauna.
Let us guide you through our verdant English gardens and discover what's in season.
Starts at 10am with coffee/tea and biscuits in the lounge
Monday - Friday, excluding bank holidays
£30 per person
Tour limited to 16 guests