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Hornstra's latest book is on the restaurant singers of Russia's favorite Black Sea resort town of Sochi. Any self-respecting restaurant on the coast has a live house singer to belt out sappy Russian chansons—take a vodka-soaked ballad and drop in a techno beat, all at full volume—from behind an electric keyboard or a laptop. Sochi is the center of the world, as far as this type of live entertainment is concerned, and Hornstra saw it as the perfect metaphor to depict the city and the region, traveling to more than 60 restaurants over 100 miles of coastline in 2011 to make the 37 photos for the book. The pictures mercifully strip away the noise of the music and cancel out the dark rooms and sharp flashing lights with Hornstra's trademark, even lighting, allowing the viewer to patiently examine every telling detail of the interiors, including the faux Greek, French, Roman, Slavic and American décor.
Sochi Singers is in fact only the latest installment of The Sochi Project, Hornstra's five-year commitment to exploring the region in the years leading up to the 2014 Winter Olympics Games, which Sochi will host exactly two years from this month. Partnering with writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen, who wrote the essay in Sochi Singers, his goal is to paint a more complete picture of the area than the public is likely to see during those few short weeks in 2014. They have already traveled to a Soviet-era sanatorium outside of Sochi and the troubled region of Abkhazia and the Republic of Georgia, located only 13 miles along the coast to the southeast. Next month they plan to travel to the Caucasus mountains to the east, and the infamous breakaway republics of Dagestan, North Ossetia and Chechnya.
As Russia cycles into the news again next month when former president Vladimir Putin will likely be voted back into office, it is Hornstra's commitment to "slow journalism" that allows audiences to put the headlines in context, as well as to see past the propaganda and pomp and circumstance that will inevitably surround the Winter Games. By examining the stark contrasts contained within the small region of the world, and recording both what changes—and what remains the same—Hornstra's work reflects something deeper and more historic: Russia's continuing search for a post-Soviet identity.
Rob Hornstra is a Dutch photographer. Learn more about the Sochi project here. The Sochi Singers series recently won first place for the Arts and Entertainment—Stories category at the World Press Photo awards.
SUPERIOR, Wis.- The heart of the winter brings with it the annual Lake Superior Ice Festival.
In conjunction with the festival, the city of Superior has made all of its cross-country ski trails free through the end of the festival on the 27th.
Over 27 kilometers (about 17 miles) of groomed trails are wide open for use.
They’re broken up into two beginners trails, two intermediate trails, and one advanced trail.
Skiiers all have unique ways of conquering the trails, some even having their four-legged friends pull them along.
Some skiiers tell us, it’s a great way to empty your mind.
The Lake Superior Ice Festival is this Friday through Sunday with Pond Hockey, Bonfires, a Snow Slide, Kid Zone, and more.
You can find out more about the Festival at https://www.lakesuperioricefestival.com/.
We like to make up jokey themes for these monthly streaming write-ups, since it’s a fun way to make them seem more interesting than they are, but we can finally put that to rest because next month is October—the month with an actual theme we can base some streaming write-ups around. That theme, obviously, is spookiness, and Hulu is embracing spookiness with a monthlong event called “Huluween” that will involve the streaming service getting (as a press release puts it) “hand-picked collections of your favorite scary films.” The list isn’t as comprehensive as Shudder’s Halloween offerings, but it does include American Psycho, The Blair Witch Project, Child’s Play, and The Nightmare Before Christmas—which, we’re sorry to say, is definitely not a Halloween movie.
Hulu is also getting the first season of its original spooky drama Light As A Feather, which is about a group of teens dying off in a mysterious fashion, and the first installment of Blumhouse’s anthology series Into The Dark. A new entry will come out each month, with October’s being a story called The Body about a hitman working on Halloween. Hulu subscribers can also watch RBG, the documentary about Ruth Bader Ginsburg, which isn’t very spooky.
The full list of what’s coming to Hulu and going from Hulu, including a bunch of the fall network premieres (which shouldn’t count, but whatever) is below.
COSTA MESA — Sophomore first baseman Jordan Beck went four for five with seven runs batted in and one run scored for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference game Tuesday.
Sophomore right fielder Matt Moynihan went three for four with three RBIs and two runs scored for OCC (19-4, 5-3 in conference). Sophomore center fielder Kevin Cho went three for four with four runs and one RBI, while freshman Chris Carlson was one for four with three runs and two RBIs to add to the Pirates' 15-hit attack.
OCC, which scored 14 runs in the first three innings, plays at Fullerton (8-13, 1-7) Thursday at 2 p.m.
IRVINE — UC Irvine placed second Tuesday at Oak Creek Golf Club.
Cal Poly won the title of the 10-team tournament with a 54-hole total of 867. UCI finished three shots back at 870 while host Cal State Fullerton was third at 875.
Geoff Gonzalez of Cal Poly was medalist at one-under-par 212 after shooting a one-under 70 in the final round.
UCI freshman Allan Jun, with a two-under 69 Tuesday, finished second at 215. Senior Max Greil tied for low round of the day with a three-under 68 and placed sixth at 216.
Senior Bryan Harris shot a 75 and finished 17th at 221. Sophomore Jerry He (77) was 20th at 223 and sophomore Mickey Chan (72) placed 37th at 232.
This was UCI's third straight top-five finish and fifth of the season in eight tournaments.
The Anteaters compete in the Barona Collegiate Cup Thursday and Friday at Barona Creek Golf Club in Lakeside.
IRVINE — UC Irvine placed second at the Oak Creek Golf Club Tuesday.
Long Beach State won the eight-team tournament with a score of 606 (306-300), four shots better than the Anteaters, who matched the 49ers for the best round of the tournament at 300 on the final round. UCI finished with a 36-hole total of 610 (310-300) and was followed by Portland State in third (611). Portland State's Lauren Taylor earned medalist honors after carding a 144 (70-74).
Senior Patty Chawalitmetha led UCI with a score of 148 (72-76), ending in a tie for second place. It is the best finish for Chawalitmetha this season and matches Ronnie Valerio's second-place performance at the Turtle Bay Invitational for the top finish by an Anteater this season.
Junior Lalita Patipaksiri had her third top-10 finish of the year, placing seventh with a two-day total of 152 (77-75). Sophomore Michelle Park was tied for eighth with a 153 (78-75), while freshman Ronnie Valerio was tied for 15th at 158 (83-75) and freshman Taryn Yee was tied for 21st with a total of 160 (85-75).
UCI will host the Anteater Invitational Monday and Tuesday at the Dove Canyon Country Club.
COSTA MESA — Amanda Young had four hits in the two games for Vanguard, but Biola swept the Golden State Athletic Conference doubleheader opener, 4-1, 3-2, Tuesday.
Anglea St. Croix went two for four with a run batted in for the Lions (18-12, 0-2 in conference) in the first game.
COSTA MESA — Jesse Chen (No. 3), Rex Miller (No. 4), Gregory Villacana (No. 5) and Trevor Dalbey (No. 6) won in singles for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference match Tuesday.
Felix Demiro and Pat Wright won at No. 1 doubles, and Chen and Villacana won at No. 3 doubles for OCC (8-5, 5-2 in conference).
COSTA MESA — The Lions swept in singles with No. 1 singles player Lucas Pereira leading the way in the Golden State Athletic Conference match Tuesday at Costa Mesa Tennis Center.
Vanguard is 5-9, 3-5 in conference.
RIVERSIDE — Anna Walinowicz (No. 1), Lianne Wheelock (No. 2) and Casey Kawabe (No. 3) each won in singles for the Pirates in the Orange Empire Conference match Tuesday.
Wheelock and Hannah Mancino won at No. 2 doubles for OCC (3-8, 1-6 in conference).
COSTA MESA — No. 1 singles player Kateryna Malakhova was one of four Lions to drop only one game in singles for the Lions in the Golden State Athletic Conference match Tuesday at Costa Mesa Tennis Center.
Vanguard is 7-5, 5-4 in conference.
A new scheme to help find vulnerable missing people with dementia and related conditions is being adopted across Sussex.
During Dementia Action Week, which starts today (Monday May 21), Sussex Police and partner agencies are formally adopting the ‘Herbert Protocol’, giving carers, relatives or friends the ability to prepare, in advance, information that police will need quickly if ever their loved one goes missing.
With more than 850,000 people affected by dementia in the UK and numbers set to rise, Sussex Police have worked in partnership with the Alzheimers Society and Sussex Search and Rescue (SusSAR) to plan this scheme.
The Protocol, already adopted by several forces across the UK, is named after George Herbert from Norfolk, a veteran of the Normandy landings, who lived with dementia and repeatedly went missing from his care home.
It consists of a form that can be completed by relatives, friends or carers of those affected by dementia, recording vital information about the person including their regular medication, previous addresses and daily routines. Should the person they care for go missing, the form can be handed straight to the attending police officers, with a photograph.
This will help provide officers with the most up to date information about the vulnerable missing person, helping to accurately guide their search, and also avoid further unnecessary questions for families at what can be an extremely distressing time.
Chief Superintendent Lisa Bell said: “When a vulnerable person is reported missing it can be deeply distressing for their family and friends.
“Finding them quickly before they come to harm is critical.
“We know that people may find it difficult to recall information when they are worried and distressed, and having vital information to hand about regular routines and previous addresses, will help officers to act fast to locate the missing person, returning them home safely.
The form once completed should be regularly updated and kept in a safe place, with a photo, where it can be easily located and handed to the attending officers should the person you care for go missing. To get the form and find out more, just visit here.
Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner Katy Bourne added: “With an ageing population increasing across our county, the need for the ‘Herbert Protocol’ has never been greater.
“As people live longer, they may also become increasingly vulnerable and this is no doubt made worse when they suffer from a debilitating disease like dementia.
If you are concerned for the whereabouts of a friend or relative, please dial 101. If you feel the person may be in immediate danger, please call 999 as soon as possible.
HUDSON, Ohio – Two bodies discovered in Ohio may be those of two New Hampshire children whose father confessed to killing them and burying them somewhere along a 700-mile stretch of the Midwest 2 1/2 years ago, authorities said Friday.
The mother of Sarah and Philip Gehring said she became convinced they had been found after learning the bodies bore duct-tape crosses, just like her ex-husband, Manuel Gehring, had said he had made.
According to police and the FBI, a dog that bolted from its owner during a walk Thursday found a shallow grave containing two bodies wrapped in plastic near Interstate 80.
Scott Wilson, a spokesman with the FBI's Cleveland office, said he could not comment on the gender or age of the bodies, but added: "We're looking into the possibility the bodies might be linked to those missing kids."
New Hampshire Assistant Attorney General Jeffery Strelzin planned to fly to Ohio on Friday to compare teeth from the bodies with the Gehring children's dental records.
If tests confirm the remains are those of the Concord, N.H., children, the discovery will end a long and frustrating search across five states.
Sarah, 14, and Philip, 11, were shot to death by their father as he fled across the country with amid a custody dispute with his wife in July 2003. Manuel Gehring confessed to the slayings but strangled himself in prison before he could be tried.
Gehring had told police he buried the children somewhere along a stretch of interstate between Pennsylvania and Iowa, but he could not pinpoint the spot.
The bodies found Thursday were along a muddy service road near an above-ground gas pipeline about two miles from an interstate interchange near Hudson, about 20 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Hudson Police Chief David Robbins said the area has several items mentioned by the father, including a makeshift cross, bell-shaped concrete sewer connectors, a fence and a wood pile.
Gehring had said he wrapped his children in plastic and buried them with duct-tape crosses on their chests. He was arrested in California a week after the children disappeared.
Teri Knight, Gehring's ex-wife and the children's mother, has dealt with numerous false reports about her children, but on Friday, she said, a woman called her from the New Hampshire attorney general's office and described the duct-tape crosses.
"When she told me that, that's what did it," Knight said.
She and her husband said they had searched within five miles of Hudson earlier this fall.
Previous extensive searches had turned up no evidence of the graves, and some officials weren't convinced they would ever finding the bodies.
"I'm numb," Knight said from her home in Hillsboro, N.H., where she was watching news reports. "We've learned to take things sometimes week-to-week and month-to-month, and today it's minute-to-minute."
Gehring, an unemployed accountant, had been locked in a custody dispute with his ex-wife, who had remarried.
The children were last seen arguing with their father at a July Fourth fireworks display. Gehring said he pulled off the highway later that night and shot them, then drove for hours with their bodies in his van.
In 2004, the U.S. Geological Survey did a pollen analysis on soil found under Gehring's minivan and near the shovel used to bury the children. It concluded that the soil most likely came from northeastern Ohio.
News of the discovery filtered through Concord High School, where Sarah had been a freshman cheerleader described by a teacher as "a can of Coke all shook up and opened at full blast."
"She was so funny. She could brighten up your day," said her friend Ally Smith, now a senior.
Word that Sarah and Philip may have been found "brings back a lot for me," Smith said. "Not really the good memories I have but the bad ones of when it happened."
Edinburgh and Glasgow will be without the services of five of their top international players for the rest of the season following a Scotland team management decision that they should be rested now in order to be at peak fitness for the Rugby World Cup later this year.
Ross Ford and Allan Jacobsen of Edinburgh and Glasgow’s Richie Gray have been told they have played too much rugby already and must sit out their resepective sides’ four remaining Magners League games.
In addition, Scotland captain Al Kellock and flanker John Barclay, both of Glasgow, have been ruled out of any more matches to allow them to get over niggling injuries ahead of the national side’s summer training programme.
The decision was announced by Scotland head coach Andy Robinson at a briefing at Murrayfield.
Acknowledging that his counterparts at Edinburgh and Glasgow had been disappointed by the move, Robinson stressed that the clubs would feel the benefits in due course, as the players would be fitter and sharper when they return from the World Cup later this year.
The move is unlikely to find much favour with fans of the two clubs either. Both sides have struggled in the Magners League this season – Glasgow are currently 11th in the table, with Edinburgh in ninth place – and supporters had hoped that the return of their top names from Six Nations duties would help the teams to improve their positions.
Robinson was backed up by Graham Lowe, the Scottish Rugby Union’s director of performance. New Zealander Lowe was a conditioning coach for the All Blacks ahead of the 2007 World Cup, when he was involved in the controversial decision to withdraw a number of top players from a large part of that year’s Super 14 programme.
The plan backfired when New Zealand were eliminated from the World Cup by France at the quarter-final stage.
However, Lowe said that there was no comparison with what happened then as the Scottish programme is targeted at a handful of individuals, rather than the squad as a whole.
It was also confirmed that Glasgow’s Graeme Morrison is likely to make his comeback in this weekend’s Magners game against Aironi in Italy. Max Evans and Chris Paterson, who have been out of action over the past fortnight, are also set to return to rugby before the season’s end.
Meanwhile two Scotland pool matches have been rescheduled at the World Cup. They will now play Georgia on Sept 14 in Invercargill rather than Dunedin and Argentina on Sept 25 in Wellington instead of Christchurch.
“Our desire was always to transfer as many of the Christchurch pool matches as was reasonably possible to other existing South Island venues,” said Martin Snedden, chief executive of tournament organiser Rugby New Zealand 2011.
This place is H'Evans Scent, located in Bamboo, St. Ann. One of the rides there is called the Screamer. It takes you on a 180-degree swing up to 60 feet in the air.
Sade Gardner rides the Leap of Faith, which takes you 500 feet across a valley filled with lush trees.
H'Evans Scent staff member, Blip, gives safety tip before Sade and her crew take off.
H'Evans Scent coordinator Sophia Sutherland (right) and Sade Gardener.
You may feel afraid, but rest assured that safety always comes first at H'Evans Scent.
I did not know that it was possible to scream myself into silence until I went on The Screamer, one of five zip lines offered at H'Evans Scent Adventure Park in Free Hill, St Ann. The three-seater zip line took me on a 180-degree swing into fear, disbelief and what felt like heart stoppage for more than five minutes.
"Stooooooppppp," I yelled at the park's coordinator, Sophia Sutherland, but she just sat and smiled, all the while telling me I'd be okay - she was right. I came off the zip line shaking and wobbling like a toddler just learning how to walk. It was by far the craziest, yet most exhilarating experience I have had in a long time. It gave me a new lease on life - literally.
H'Evans Scent Adventure Park is on 26 acres of zip lines, two paintball pitches, and a myriad of fruit trees, such as coconut, passion, avocado, apple, mango and guinep trees. The employees are easily identifiable as they sport their nicknames on their shirts. 'Blip', 'Nani', 'Gingy', and 'Punkus' are some of the personalities you will see who will make your experience a safe and fun one. You will be asked to sign a participant agreement form. You will then be given a briefing, which I found useful as I had never gone zip-lining before.
The first half of the property hosts three zip lines: Leap of Faith, Runner and The Screamer. I journeyed up 40 feet to Leap of Faith, which takes you across a valley at 500 feet. I was really hesitant, but the staff was encouraging, and before you knew it, I was gliding through the air among the trees. I was caught on the other side by Gingy and Nani, and then it was on to Runner, which was about a minute away.
As the name suggests, participants run to the edge of the hill and jump off to return over the valley. It was easier said than done to plunge myself over a cliff, but the instructors were patient until I mustered up the courage to do it.
The second property hosts two zip lines: Awesome, which requires you to ascend 50 feet in the air to zip line 1,200 feet across another valley, and Speedy, which takes you back from a 10-foot platform. Needless to say, I was not about that life.
The property also includes two paintball pitches, Capture the Flag and Last Man Standing, which can host up to 30 people.
The park is equipped with food and beverage and is ideal for a group of friends, family, church members or students.