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Waiting for some rowers to reach me but this swan put in a better image instead with a close take off within yards of me.
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This Amish family must have been going to church. Sunday's are for worship and rest in the Amish community. No goods are sold and no work is done on Sundays. It's a crisp 22 degrees farenheit here this morning, so they're in for a brisk ride.
The two-day festival kicked off on October 1, with an opening ceremony under the slogan “Coexistence and co-prosperity for the 21st century,” followed by K-pop and cover dance contests alongside other cultural events.
Various outdoor concerts were organized the next day, providing a unique chance to appreciate and compare the two nations’ traditional performing arts. A number of culture ministry-sponsored performances of fusion traditional Korean music and interpretative traditional dances were also performed on the stage. That evening, a K-pop concert featuring Korean idol groups including Miss A marked the highlight of the festival, reconfirming the heightened attention on Korean pop music.
Throughout the event, visitors enjoyed Korea’s culinary culture, including tastings of savory Korean dishes and spices as well as a special cocktail performance involving makgeolli, a traditional Korean alcohol made with rice. The festival brought to the Japanese capital a variety of hands-on activities designed to offer an experience with Korean traditions and culture, such as trying on Hanbok, or Korean traditional clothing.
On a thrilling final day that went all the way down to the wire, Pakistan defied the odds at Bangalore and pulled off a magnificent series-levelling victory, taking all ten Indian wickets - the last one falling with just six overs left in the day - and winning by 168 runs. Shahid Afridi was the star performer with the ball for Pakistan, taking three middle-order wickets for 13, but every member of the team played his part in a famous victory.
It was Pakistan's second remarkable fifth-day effort of the series, after the staunch resistance offered by Kamran Akmal and Abdul Razzaq at Mohali, and the 1-1 result was just reward for the fighting qualities displayed by Pakistan all series. It is a result that is likely to have a far-reaching impact on Pakistani cricket.
A draw was still the most likely result when the day began, with Pakistan not appearing to have the ammunition to bowl the entire Indian line-up out in 90 overs. And when India went to lunch at 103 for 1, they were comfortably placed to save the game. But Pakistan struck just after lunch, claiming the wicket of Gautam Gambhir for 52 (108 for 2). And then Arshad Khan, recalled to the team for this series after more than four years out of Test cricket, claimed the most important wicket of his career, having Rahul Dravid snapped up at silly point (118 for 3).
All this while Afridi, who produced an incendiary half-century yesterday to set up the declaration for Pakistan, had been straining at the bit, firing in his mixture of legbreaks, offbreaks and topspinners and from time to time advertising his impatience with these subtleties with a faster ball that made Akmal wince with pain every time it beat the bat.
Now he struck two decisive blows to break open the Indian batting, trapping VVS Laxman in front with a quick skidding delivery (127 for 4), and then comprehensively bowling Sourav Ganguly with a breakback that beat Ganguly's optimistic drive (135 for 5). Ganguly, stunned, hung around the crease for quite a while, as if wishing to turn time back one ball and not play the same stroke this time around.
India's hopes now rested on Sachin Tendulkar, the last man left from the top six, and for a while Tendulkar batted magisterially. Neither Afridi's variations, nor the varied words he let the batsman hear after each ball, seemed to trouble him, and he struck majestic poses in defence, offering a dead bat to virtually everything. But almost on the stroke of tea Mohammad Sami surprised Tendulkar with a short ball that he fended off his face, and the heart of every man on the field was in his mouth as Asim Kamal at short leg reached for the ball, seemed to pouch it in one hand, and then juggled it and spilled the chance.
Pakistan must have gone into tea with a sinking feeling in their hearts, but on resumption their spirits seemed to have flagged not one jot, and Sami quickly struck again by uprooting Dinesh Karthik's offstump with a full inswinger (164 for 6).
But it was in the next over that Pakistan struck the killer blow, Afridi getting one to lift on Tendulkar and loop to short leg off the inside edge. This time Kamal made no mistake (164 for 7).
If India succeeded into taking the game as far into the evening as they did, it was because of some staunch resistance from Anil Kumble, who rounded off a wonderful series with the bat - he was dismissed just once in five innings - by making an unbeaten 37. Kumble managed to play out nine overs with Irfan Pathan and another five overs with Harbhajan Singh, and Pakistan were just beginning to worry again after he saw out another five overs with Lakshmipathy Balaji when Balaji padded up to Danish Kaneria and was adjudged lbw.
When all was over, it seemed remarkable that there was one stage in the morning when Virender Sehwag and Gambhir skipped along at four an over, and Sehwag seemed to be entertaining thoughts of actually going for the target. This remote possibility was shut out when he was run out in a misunderstanding with Gambhir, and after that, as has happened so often this season, the runs dried up completely and Pakistan were able to surround the batsmen with close fielders.
India could be justifiably criticised for going too much on the defensive after lunch and playing into Pakistan's hands, but it has to be granted that runs by this stage had ceased to matter - in fact, this was precisely for this reason that Inzamam-ul-Haq delayed his declaration yesterday and let his batsmen amass such a big lead.
The truth was that Pakistan wanted victory urgently, pushed for it on every day of this Test match, and finally - after five days of sapping, often nervewracking cricket, and with shadows falling on the final day - left the field with their heads held high.
Because I only had one full day in New York I took back to back Hop On Hop Off Buses. Some of the images are not very good as the bus would go over bumps etc,.I have kept them in as memorises of the day. I only got off the bus once so most of the photos were taken as we were travelling along. Sadly I just didn't have time to have a good walk around.
I woke to a lovely sunny day and not too cold with around 16c. As the day went on it clouded over a bit and cooled down. November 7, 2018 USA.
They really don't want you to go off the trail here.
Guaneumsa Trail.
Mount Hallasan.
Jeju Island.
South Korea.
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Not sure if I agree with this pass time as it does ruin so many bridleways making them impassable for any other user.
Jaber Al-Ahmad off road circuit
Camera: Canon EOS 40D
Exposure: 1/500 sec
Aperture: f/5
Focal Length: 210 mm
ISO Speed: 400
Exposure Program: Aperture priority
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: did not fire
Lens: Canon IS 100-400mm L
Burnsville High School Theatre Guild Presents 'Noises Off' in February 2010. For ticket information, visit www.MrazCenterTickets.com.
My friend sent me this photo that he took on an oil rig in Angola..this was a 20% burn off......he missed the 100% one, as he was asleep. Just as well I thought!!! Dramatic photo all the same.
Part of the Hall of Fame celebrations include a balloon lift-off. The weather last night had a different agenda. The balloons never made it off of terraferma.
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