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The Strawberry shot is from a couple of years ago, but 'Riding the Wave' is from this 366 project!
Thanks Digital Photo, I'm honoured!
The originals are here
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Last week, I received my copy of this brandnew book here … it’s a book on therapeutic play (”play therapy”) as a means in remedial teaching/ therapeutic pedagogy...aaaaand???
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Mark Knopfler, uno degli Artisti più acclamati di sempre da pubblico e critica, ha annunciato un tour mondiale con la sua band per il 2019. Il “Down The Road Wherever” tour fa tappa in Italia il 10 maggio 2019 al Mediolanum Forum di Assago a Milano.
Mark Knopfler ha sempre visto le tournée come parte integrante del percorso di un album che fa dal comporre le canzoni alla registrazione fino alla performance live di quei brani insieme ai vecchi successi.
Mark dice “Le mie canzoni sono fatte per essere eseguite live. Amo tutto il processo di scriverle da solo per poi registrarle insieme alla band ma alla fine la parte migliore sta nel suonarle dal vivo davanti a un pubblico. Mi piace tutto il circo, il viaggiare da città a città, e interagire con questo gruppo di musicisti è un piacere assoluto. Non vedo l’ora”.
Knopfler, che ha registrato “Down The Road Wherever” nello studio British Grove, a Londra, si esibirà in tour con una band allargata a dieci elementi, la maggior parte dei quali ha già lavorato con lui per più di venti anni: Guy Fletcher (tastiere), Richard Bennett (chitarra), Jim Cox (piano), Mike McGoldrick (flauto), John McCusker (violino e cittern), Glenn Worf (basso), Danny Cummings (percussioni) e Ian Thomas (batteria). I nuovi elementi sono Graeme Blebins (sax) e Tom Walsh (tromba).
Acclamato come uno dei più grandi chitarristi di tutti i tempi Mark Knopfler ha venduto pù di 120 milioni di album nell’arco della sua carriera solista e con i Dire Straits, e molte delle sue canzoni sono diventate dei veri e propri standard da ‘Money For Nothing’ a ‘Sultans of Swing’, da ‘Romeo & Juliet’ a ‘Walk Of Life’. Ha pubblicato otto album solisti oltre a registrare ‘Neck and Neck’ con il mito della chitarra Chet Atkins e a collaborare con Emmylou Harris in ‘All The Roadrunning’. Ha composto diverse colonne sonore tra cui ‘Local Hero’, ‘The Princess Bride’ e ‘Altamira’. In aggiunta alla produzione dei suo dischi Knopfler ha anche prodotto album per Bob Dylan e Randy Newman tra gli altri. Knopfler è stato nominato Membro dell’Impero Britannico nel 1999 e ha ottenuto il prestigioso Lifetime Achievement Award all’Ivor Novellos nel 2012.
" Calls to drop pilots in Gloucestershire and Somerset over the summer were rejected by 299 votes to 250. "
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22775532
Help to fight the cull :
Apparently the ' government ' have tried to censor the STOP THE CULL site because they've published names, addresses and phone numbers of those organising and taking part in the senseless slaughter. Might be best to print these off before Big Brother removes them :
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 14th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Besides here, I publish different stuff in Instagram so you may want to follow me there too (please do!):
Además de aquí, suelo subir fotos a Instagram, así que a lo mejor te apetece seguirme también por ahí, (¡hazlo por favor!):
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tefocoto/
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• No invitations to groups where one must comment and/or invite and/or give award and no group icon without any comment. These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked.
Nothing personal here, I simply don't see the usefulness of such actions. On the other hand I encourage you to critic my work as I believe that is the best way to improve my photography. Thank you!
POR FAVOR
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-No me envíes invitaciones a grupos donde exista la obligación de comentar o premiar fotos, ni a aquellos donde existe un comentario preformateado con el logo del grupo. Borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
No es nada personal, es solo que no le veo el sentido a ese tipo de comportamientos. A cambio te animo a que me critiques sin piedad, pero con respeto, mi trabajo, porque solo así puedo seguir avanzando como fotógrafo. Gracias!
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/24/05
A national civil rights group says it has not backed down from its vow to "shut Gwinnett County down."
On Friday, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which has been critical about the handling of a Taser-related death, is scheduled to formally announce plans for a protest march.
At a morning news conference, SCLC leaders will announce the date of the protest march and economic boycott they promised after a June meeting with District Attorney Danny Porter. After the heated two-hour meeting, SCLC President Charles Steele said he would organize a protest that would shut the county down.
The SCLC is one of two civil rights organizations that had urged Porter to pursue criminal charges against the Gwinnett sheriff's deputies involved in the May 2004 death of Frederick Williams. The Lawrenceville man died after he was repeatedly shocked with a Taser stun gun as deputies at the Gwinnett jail worked to restrain him.
"It is inconceivable how a district attorney can fail to bring charges in a case where it is clear that excessive force was used and that this excessive force led to the death of an individual," Steele said in an e-mailed statement. "A grand jury should decide whether there is probable cause to prosecute these officers, rather than relying upon the sole judgment of one man.
"In light of this, SCLC is calling for a nonviolent protest in the form of a national march to take place in Gwinnett County," Steele continued.
The SCLC and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People said they were concerned with how Porter presented the case to a grand jury in April and had urged the district attorney to reopen the investigation.
Porter presented the investigation to a grand jury but did not show jurors a videotape of a deputy stunning Williams — who was handcuffed and manacled — with the Taser. Porter has said he offered to show jurors the tape, but they declined.
The grand jury was not asked to consider criminal charges against any specific deputies. Instead, the jurors were asked to use the Williams' case to consider whether to investigate the county's policies on Taser use.
Porter has said he considers the case closed. He said he did not see any evidence that deputies "intended to kill or criminally assault" Williams.
"I am not going to respond to a press release written by an organization that did not even bother to look at the file," Porter said in an an interview Tuesday.
He was referring to the file of the extensive 11-month investigation into Williams' death that includes interviews of all the deputies involved and the videotape of the jail altercation.
The SCLC will also announce Friday that it plans to meet with executives at Taser International, the Arizona-based stun gun manufacturer, Steele said. The organization has a meeting with Taser International CEO Tom Smith scheduled for Aug. 30, Steele said.
"We are receiving reports from all across the country concerning people dying at the hands of officers [using] Taser guns," said Steele. "Immediate action must be taken to address the rising tide of deaths associated with Taser guns, and SCLC feels that we must start at the root of the problem — with the manufacturer, Taser International."
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 4th October 1916
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories and information to add please comment below.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 4th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Besides here, I publish different stuff in Instagram so you may want to follow me there too (please do!):
Además de aquí, suelo subir fotos a Instagram, así que a lo mejor te apetece seguirme también por ahí, (¡hazlo por favor!):
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tefocoto/
PLEASE
• Do not post animated gifs or pictures in your comments. Especially the "awards". These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked. Unless it's an interesting other picture, for comparison or reference.
• No invitations to groups where one must comment and/or invite and/or give award and no group icon without any comment. These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked.
Nothing personal here, I simply don't see the usefulness of such actions. On the other hand I encourage you to critic my work as I believe that is the best way to improve my photography. Thank you!
POR FAVOR
-No pongas gifs animados, logos o premios (awards) en tu comentario. A no ser que la imagen que incluyas esté para compararla con la mía o para ilustrar un punto de vista borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
-No me envíes invitaciones a grupos donde exista la obligación de comentar o premiar fotos, ni a aquellos donde existe un comentario preformateado con el logo del grupo. Borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
Nada personal, es solo que no le veo el sentido a ese tipo de comportamientos. A cambio te animo a que me critiques sin piedad, pero con respeto, mi trabajo, porque solo así puedo seguir avanzando como fotógrafo. Gracias!
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 13th of May 1915.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images or have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
Finally I managed to scan the beautiful 3 page article in "Ireland of the Welcomes" (March/April Edition, Vol 58 No 2) for all who missed it. I am very happy with their image choice and presentation.
Here you can enlarge and read the article
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 24th of March 1916.
During the Great War the Illustrated Chronicle published photographs of soldiers and sailors from Newcastle and the North East of England, which had been in the news. The photographs were sent in by relatives and give us a glimpse into the past.
The physical collection held by Newcastle Libraries comprises bound volumes of the newspaper from 1910 to 1925. We are keen to find out more about the people in the photographs. If you recognise anyone in the images and have any stories or information to add please comment below.
Copies of this photograph may be ordered from us, for more information see: www.newcastle.gov.uk/tlt Please make a note of the image reference number above to help speed up your order.
CD Front cover, photo by pixbyfrank.com, Photoshop editing by Hennadiy Kvasoc, HKRetouching www.hennadiyk.com and Model Mayhem # 1429755
Besides here, I publish different stuff in Instagram so you may want to follow me there too (please do!):
Además de aquí, suelo subir fotos a Instagram, así que a lo mejor te apetece seguirme también por ahí, (¡hazlo por favor!):
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tefocoto/
PLEASE
• Do not post animated gifs or pictures in your comments. Especially the "awards". These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked. Unless it's an interesting other picture, for comparison or reference.
• No invitations to groups where one must comment and/or invite and/or give award and no group icon without any comment. These will simply be deleted and the poster blocked.
Nothing personal here, I simply don't see the usefulness of such actions. On the other hand I encourage you to critic my work as I believe that is the best way to improve my photography. Thank you!
POR FAVOR
-No pongas gifs animados, logos o premios (awards) en tu comentario. A no ser que la imagen que incluyas esté para compararla con la mía o para ilustrar un punto de vista borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
-No me envíes invitaciones a grupos donde exista la obligación de comentar o premiar fotos, ni a aquellos donde existe un comentario preformateado con el logo del grupo. Borraré esos comentarios y bloquearé al que lo pone.
No es nada personal, es solo que no le veo el sentido a ese tipo de comportamientos. A cambio te animo a que me critiques sin piedad, pero con respeto, mi trabajo, porque solo así puedo seguir avanzando como fotógrafo. Gracias!
Eyre Peninsula Australia's Seafood Frontier tourism promotional banners at the Adelaide Caravan and Camping show
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale that was published by Madame Moreau of Versailles. The card has a divided back.
Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Born Élisabeth Louise Vigée in Paris on the 16th. April 1755, Élisabeth was a French portrait painter in the late 18th. century.
Her artistic style is generally considered part of the aftermath of Rococo with elements of an adopted Neoclassical style. Vigée Le Brun created a name for herself in Ancien Régime society by serving as the portrait painter to Marie Antoinette. She enjoyed the patronage of European aristocrats, actors, and writers, and was elected to art academies in ten cities.
Vigée Le Brun and Marie Antoinette
As her career blossomed, Vigée Le Brun was granted patronage by Marie Antoinette. She painted more than 30 portraits of the queen and her family, leading to the common perception that she was the official portraitist of Marie Antoinette.
At the Salon of 1783, Vigée Le Brun exhibited Marie Antoinette in a Muslin Dress (1783), sometimes called Marie Antoinette en Gaulle, in which the queen chose to be shown in a simple, informal white cotton garment.
The resulting scandal was prompted by both the informality of the attire, and the queen's decision to be shown in that way.
Vigée Le Brun's later Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787) was evidently an attempt to improve the queen's image by making her more relatable to the public, in the hopes of countering the bad press and negative judgments that the queen had recently received.
The portrait shows the queen at home in the Palace of Versailles, engaged in her official function as the mother of the king's children, but also suggests Marie Antoinette's uneasy identity as a foreign-born queen whose maternal role was her only true function under Salic law.
The child, Louis Joseph, on the right is pointing to an empty cradle, which signified her recent loss of a child, further emphasizing Marie Antoinette's role as a mother.
The Death and Legacy of Vigée Le Brun
Élisabeth died at the age of 86 in Paris on the 30th. March 1842.
Vigée Le Brun created 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. In addition to many works in private collections, her paintings are owned by major museums, such as the Louvre Paris, Uffizi Florence, Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, National Gallery in London, Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and many other collections in continental Europe and the United States.
Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette was born Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna on the 2nd. November 1755. She was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.
Marie was born an Archduchess of Austria, and was the penultimate child and youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Emperor Francis I.
Marie became Dauphine of France in May 1770 at the age of 14 upon her marriage to Louis-Auguste, heir apparent to the French throne. On the 10th. May 1774, her husband ascended the throne as Louis XVI, and she became queen.
Marie Antoinette's position at court improved when, after eight years of marriage, she started having children. She became increasingly unpopular among the people, however, with the French libelles accusing her of being profligate, promiscuous, harbouring sympathies for France's perceived enemies - particularly her native Austria - and her children of being illegitimate.
The false accusations of the Affair of the Diamond Necklace damaged her reputation further. During the Revolution, she became known as Madame Déficit because the country's financial crisis was blamed on her lavish spending and her opposition to the social and financial reforms of Turgot and Necker.
Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during the Revolution after the government had placed the royal family under house arrest in the Tuileries Palace in October 1789.
The June 1791 attempted flight to Varennes and her role in the War of the First Coalition had disastrous effects on French popular opinion. On the 10th. August 1792, the attack on the Tuileries forced the royal family to take refuge at the Assembly, and they were imprisoned in the Temple Prison on the 13th. August.
The Death of Louis XVI
On the 21st. September 1792, the French monarchy was abolished. Louis XVI was executed by guillotine on the 21st. January 1793.
The Death of Marie Antoinette
Marie Antoinette's trial began on the 14th. October 1793, and two days later she was convicted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of high treason and executed, also by guillotine, on the Place de la Révolution on the 16th. October 1793.
Neymar da Silva Santos Júnior. Nació el 5 de febrero de 1992 en Mogi das Cruzes, São Paulo. Neymar o Neymar Jr. se destaca por por su cambio de ritmo, por la velocidad con la que deja rivales en el camino, por habilidad en el dribling, técnica y definición.
Ref: www.ovaciondigital.com.uy/futbol/neymar-barcelona-messi-f...
Peñarol: Sebastián Sosa; Alejandro González, Carlos Valdez, Guillermo Rodríguez, Darío Rodríguez; Matías Corujo (m.67 Antonio Pacheco), Luis Aguiar, Nicolás Freitas, Matias Mier (m.55 Fabian Estoyanoff); Alejandro Martinuccio y Juan Manuel Olivera (m.82 Diego Alonso). Entrenador: Diego Aguirre.
Santos: Rafael; Pará, Bruno Rodrigo, Durval, Alex Sandro; Adriano, Danilo, Arouca, Elano (m.78 Alan Patrick); Neymar y Zé Eduardo (m.89 Bruno Aguiar). Entrenador: Muricy Ramalho.
Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: Zeiss Planar T* 1.4/50 ZE
Focal Length: 50 mm
Exposure: ¹⁄₂₀₀ sec at f/2.0
ISO: 250
Published: www.qdeporte.com/neymar-y-su-santos-logran-la-libertadore...
Our Photo of the Day for Thursday 6 June 2013 is Mallard Hatchlings by Cindy Bryant.
Also Published in Photography Week, Magazine Issue 37, as one of the "World's Most Inspiring Images".
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There's only one thing I like more than receiving short collections, and that's receiving short story collections that offer something a little different from the norm (whatever the definition of 'norm' may be). Here's two for today's Daily Bookshot; one published by Saqi and the other by Telegram.
The first is a collection from Pakistani writer Aamer Hussein entitled, Turquoise (Saqi Books). Despite being an avid short story fan I've never read any of Hussein's work, which is surprising because Hussein is revered by many as being one of the greatest short story writers alive today. To date he's published five collections including this one which was first published in 2002.
Cultural exploration is of huge importance to me in my reading, as is the need to read stories which are both memorable and moving. Thankfully the blurb for Turquoise holds promise that both of these prerequisites will be met:
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Direct and startlingly intimate, Hussein's stories are set in troubled times - in Karachi, Lahore and London - amid war, partition and military rule, the anticipation and anxiety of changing homes or cities, the mixed blessings of family life, the hopes and failures of love and work. Turquoise illuminates the passions and fears of a world more complex and more beautiful than the media images of Islam and Pakistan convey.
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The second collection, The Blue (Telegram Books) is by Maggie Gee, the industrious novelist. I've never had the pleasure of reading the short stories of this writer either. But to be fair The Blue is Gee's debut collection of short stories, so the opportunity to read her may not have arisen quite as readily, as with say Hussein.
A debut collection it may be but Gee's The Blue seems to offer just as much depth and diversity as Hussein's does:
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The people in The Blue try and often fail to understand the world, freeing themselves by small acts of courage, love or folly. A journalist decides to convert an evangelist in mid-air; a solicitor gives up his day job to help young artists; a Middle Eastern woman shocks her children as she walks through the heat towards the sea; a man, in a moment of madness, cuts down his neighbour's tree
These subtle fables of everyday life are set against an intricate global backdrop where life is harder for outsiders. Exquisitely written and aerated by comedy, they show human beings who struggle to live good lives.
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So that's a brief rundown on these two very different, but very intriguing story collections. It's too soon to give you anything more of a personal opinion on either of them until I've read them. But the prospect of the reading journey that lies ahead with regards to these two books, is nothing short of thrilling.
So what about you my fellow readers. Have you ever had the pleasure (or displeasure) of reading the short stories of either of these writers?
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Musica, cabaret e impegno sociale. A un anno dalla scomparsa Il Comune di Milano ricorda Enzo Jannacci con “Ciao Enzo”, una serie di eventi e iniziative a lui dedicati.
Tra queste la cerimonia ufficiale di intitolazione della Casa dell’Accoglienza di Viale Ortles 69 a Enzo Jannacci, accompagnata da “Se me lo dicevi prima”, un pomeriggio di festa all’interno della struttura aperto a tutti e gratuito, organizzato con la direzione artistica di Smemoranda dall’Assessorato alle Politiche sociali.
Il giardino della Casa dell'Accoglienza ospiterà un palco sul quale si alterneranno, tra le 14 e le 18, quaranta tra cantanti, attori, comici, disegnatori e registi per portare il proprio personale omaggio a Jannacci. Durante il pomeriggio, aperto anche ai più piccoli, ci saranno animazione, gelati, pop corn e zucchero filato, e si svolgerà un raccolta benefica di giocattoli da regalare ai bimbi ospiti delle case famiglia e delle comunità per i minori. Sarà in esposizione anche la mostra a fumetti "La mia gente" dedicata ai personaggi delle canzoni jannacciane interpretati dai più noti fumettisti italiani, nata in collaborazione con Scarp de’ tenis, il giornale di strada non profit che offre opportunità di lavoro e reinserimento ai senza dimora.
Gli organizzatori invitano i partecipanti a venire con i scarp de' tenis.
Presentazione evento di Nico, Gino e Michele con ringraziamento al Comune di Milano, agli artisti che non hanno potuto essere presenti e varie (invitano sul palco le emittenti: Radio Deejay con Andrea e Radio Popolare con Claudio Agostoni).
Conduzione affidata ai Boiler (Federico Basso, Gianni Cinelli e Davide Paniate) che nel corso del pomeriggio, in momenti diversi, inviteranno sul palco artisti e ospiti.
Prima parte
- Cochi Ponzoni con Paolo Belli e microband
- Vinicio Capossela
- Paolo Rossi
- Flavio Oreglio con Stefano Covri
- Enrico Bertolino
- Bebo Storti e Renato Sarti
- TekaP
- Ale&Franz
- Paolo Belli e microband
- Gianluca De Angelis con Silvio
- Davide Zilli
- Fabio Treves e Mauro Pagani con Alex Kid Gariazzo alla chitarra
Gli assessori Pierfrancesco Majorino e Filippo Del Corno con il Vicesindaco Ada Lucia De Cesaris e Paolo Jannacci per la cerimonia ufficiale.
Seconda parte
- Eugenio Finardi
- Folco Orselli
- Mario Lavezzi con Lorenzo Vizzini
- Marina Viola
- Ricky Gianco
- Diego Abatantuono
- Roberta Carrieri
- Bove e Limardi
- Oliviero Malaspina con Fabio Gallesi
Gran finale
tutti gli artisti accompagnati dai TekaP canteranno la versione tradizionale di El purtava i scarp del tenis
Durante tutto lo spettacolo saranno presenti suI palco i disegnatori Fabiano Ambu e Sergio Gerasi, due delle firme della mostra a fumetti “La mia gente”, che accompagneranno lo show disegnando dal vivo.
Back in the spring I talked to Alberta Views at a local festival, and mentioned about my Victoria Park photos, within a couple of months they had agreed to run a photo essay, the article (with text by Gillian Steward) was published in their October 2006 issue!
I'm rather happy...
My author copies were waiting for me when I got home - yea!
Order online:
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Naha collection Published in American Salon Magazine [ here is one page ]
Photography : BABAK www.babak.ca
HAir : Faatemah Ampey
MAke up :Sherri Curtis
Clothing : David Widjaja
Here is the Shoot Video of this set -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-FGcBcLB0&feature=plcp&...
BABAK
Published in the Schmap Guide. Link here. Link for iPod touch/phone here.
Queen's College, Cork was founded by the provisions of an act which enabled Queen Victoria to endow new colleges for the "Advancement of Learning in Ireland". Under the powers of this act, the three colleges of Belfast, Cork and Galway were incorporated on 30 December 1845. The college opened in 1849 with 23 professors and 181 students and a year later became part of the Queen's University of Ireland.
On this site (on a hill overlooking the valley of the Lee), the Tudor Gothic quadrangle and early campus buildings were built by Deane and Woodward.
Blogged at apinnick.wordpress.com/2010/04/04/matzah-trek/. Appeared in Appeared in "http://www.amny.com/eat-and-drink/jewish-delis-nyc-deli-man-taught-us-valuable-lessons-1.10026087"
The Postcard
A Photographic Plate Sunk Gem Series postcard that was published by Rotary Photo of London E.C.
The card was posted in Great Yarmouth on Friday the 6th. September 1907 to:
Miss Hindson,
104, Blenheim St.,
Princes Avenue,
Hull.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"Dear Mollie,
I am very sorry I cannot
buy you a present but
dear I wish you many
happy returns of the
day.
With my best love from
S. L."
Elizabeth Ferrars
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, the 6th. September 1907 marked the birth of Elizabeth Ferrars. Born Morna Doris MacTaggart, she was a British crime writer.
Elizabeth Ferrars - The Early Years
Elizabeth was born in Rangoon (currently Yangon), Burma into a Scottish timber and rice-trading family.
Her early years were in the hands of a German nanny, and the initial intention was that she should be sent to Berlin to complete her education. However the deteriorating political climate between Britain and Germany led to her moving to Great Britain instead at the age of six.
Elizabeth attended Bedales School from 1918 to 1924. She claimed in later years that she never would have been able to write crime novels if she had not learned German as a child from her nanny, because the rigorous sentence structure and complex rules of grammar were an indispensable preparation for the architecture of a crime thriller.
Unable to study English Literature, because she was never taught Latin or Greek, she took a diploma in journalism at London University (1925–1928), and wrote two novels under her own name in the early 1930's. It was at this time that she met and married her first husband.
Elizabeth Ferrars - The Later Years
Around 1940, she met a lecturer in Botany at Bedford College, Dr. (later Professor) Robert Brown, and the same year her first crime novel, Give a Corpse a Bad Name, was published.
She separated from her first husband and lived with Robert Brown in Belsize Park, London, from 1942. However, she did not obtain a divorce and marry Brown until October 1945.
Elizabeth remained on friendly terms with her first husband, who also remarried. In 1951 she and her new husband moved to Cornell University in the USA, where her husband had been offered a post. Notwithstanding the financial attraction of such a posting in the austerity of postwar Britain, they returned a year later owing to the atmosphere of McCarthyism.
Having seen the rise of fascism in Europe, they were disturbed by the "witch-hunts" against many writers and academics accused of communist sympathies. In 1953, she became one of the founding members of the Crime Writers' Association (she was its chair in 1977). She was inducted into the famed Detection Club in 1958.
From 1957, when her husband was appointed Regius Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh, until shortly after his retirement in 1977, they lived in Edinburgh. Citing the long, cold winters as a reason, they then moved south to the village of Blewbury in Oxfordshire, where they lived until her sudden death in 1995.
She professed no religious faith, and was probably instrumental in turning her husband from distinct evangelism in the 1930's towards agnosticism.
In the United States, her novels were published under the name E. X. Ferrars, her US publishers assuring her that "the 'X' would 'do it'". Ferrars was in fact her mother's maiden name.
Elizabeth Ferrars' Work
Though the majority of Elizabeth's works are standalone novels, she wrote several series. Her first five novels all feature Toby Dyke, a freelance journalist, and his companion, George, who uses several surnames and is implied to be a former criminal.
Late in her career, she began writing about a semi-estranged married couple, Virginia and Felix Freer, and a retired botanist, Andrew Basnett. Several of her short stories also feature an elderly detective called Jonas P. Jonas.
Elizabeth's extraordinary output owes a great deal to considerable self-discipline and diligent method. Her plots were worked out in detail in hand-written notebooks before being filled out in typed manuscript; she said that they were worked backwards from the denouement.
Like every writer, she based characters and situations on people she knew and things she had seen in real life. She travelled with her husband when his academic career required, for example to Adelaide where he was a visiting professor at the University of South Australia, and on holidays specially to Madeira, which they loved.
Her books are written so that readers are spared from violence or extreme unpleasantness. Due to their backgrounds, her characters do not expect crime or violence to impinge upon their lives. They are educated, and often work in academic or artistic fields. Female characters are independent and "politely feminist."
The Death of Elizabeth Ferrars
Elizabeth died at the age of 87 on the 30th. March 1995. She was laid to rest in Blewbury in a non-religious ceremony.
Her final novel, A Thief in the Night, was published posthumously in 1995. She was survived by a nephew, Peter MacTaggart.