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Suspended Animation Classic #813 First published July 25, 2004 (#29) (Dates are approximate)
Shooting Star
By Mark Allen
Find yourself a reviewer that you clearly agree with or disagree with on the majority of their reviews. I hope you'll choose Suspended Animation.
I also hope you'll agree that this comics anthology is bang up fun.
Shooting Star features nine stories by twenty creators. Each story runs from one to fifteen pages in length with an overall focus on adventure.
The style of most of the artwork is reality-based with visually solid story telling throughout. Some of the artwork is mellow, as dictated by the needs of the story, and some feature lots of jumping around. It is fair to say that most of the gamut of comic book art styles is covered in this collection with my favorites including "Idol Hands" (J. D. Dupras - lots of jumping), "Video Game Girls" (Jeffrey Moy - Japanese influenced), and "No Great Shakes" (Phil Meadows—mellow, dude!).
Your favorites may differ.
Stylistically, the writing is all over the place. Most of the pieces are well told with some exaggerated dialog, and most are traditional in their presentation. There are no Flaming Carrot, Herbie or underground avant-garde stories within.
It is a crying shame you probably won't buy Shooting Star. All of the first comic book titles were anthologies, but the form has long fallen into disfavor, and almost no anthology title survives for long.
It is a shame because some wonderful work has appeared between the pages of comics anthologies, and in short story collections as well.
If you don't buy, it is your loss.
Shooting Star #4 is recommended for anyone who is still young at heart.
(Best of luck to the creators within these pages. I am convinced we'll see your work again in the wonderfully creative and frustrating world of comic books.)
Shooting Star [Comics Anthology] #4/64 pgs. & $4.95 from Shooting Star Comics/sold at comics shops.
I entered a photo in a competition in a magazine that promotes the arts in Canberra and I was one of 8 finalists who were published. Very exciting. I won a lunch for 2 at the Hyatt....lol.
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TAKING THE PLUNGE
A -4C day didn't stop 21 participants from diving into a hole in the ice near Domain, Man., March 22. The Pitura Seed Farms polar plunge raised well over $73,000 for STARS Air Ambulance.
Participants brave the freezing water in support of STARS.
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 17th of July 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.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by H. David of Béthune.
German gunners used to target churches and cathedrals in France and Belgium, partly out of boredom, partly to practise their skills, but mainly because the height of such ecclesiastical buildings made them ideal observation posts for the Allies.
These buildings, along with châteaux and other large secular edifices, were literally sitting targets - they couldn't be moved or made smaller or camouflaged, hence the appalling damage that many of these beautiful buildings sustained from enemy artillery - they just had to sit there and take it.
Shells aimed at churches which just missed their target tended to fall in the churchyards, throwing up gravestones, coffins and corpses.
Vermelles
Vermelles is a village that was just behind the British lines on the Western Front. The château was used as an Advanced Dressing Station during the Battle of Loos which took place from the 25th. September to the 8th. October 1915.
The Use of Chlorine Gas
The battle represented the largest British attack of 1915, and was the first time that the British used poison gas. Prior to the attack, about 140 tons (140,000 kg) of chlorine was released with mixed success - in places the gas was blown back into British trenches (Friendly Gas - a ghastly variation of the term Friendly Fire).
Due to the inefficiency of the available gas masks, many British soldiers removed them as they could not see through the fogged-up eyepieces or could barely breathe with them on. This led to many casualties when the gas blew back.
'Reconciliation'
Siegfried Sassoon wrote a poem called 'Reconciliation'. Here it is:
'When you are standing at your hero’s grave,
Or near some homeless village where he died,
Remember, through your heart’s rekindling pride,
The German soldiers who were loyal and brave.
Men fought like brutes; and hideous things were done;
And you have nourished hatred, harsh and blind.
But in that Golgotha perhaps you’ll find
The mothers of the men who killed your son'.
The Use of Artillery in the Great War
Artillery was very heavily used by both sides during the Great War. The British fired over 170 million artillery rounds of all types, weighing more than 5 million tons - that's an average of around 70 pounds (32 kilos) per shell.
If the 170m rounds were on average two feet long, and if they were laid end to end, they would stretch for 64,394 miles (103,632 kilometres); the line would go round the equator over two and a half times. If the artillery of the Central Powers of Germany and its allies is factored in, the figure can be doubled to 5 encirclements of the planet.
During the first two weeks of the Third Battle of Ypres, over 4 million rounds were fired at a cost of over £22,000,000 - a huge sum of money, especially over a century ago.
Artillery was the killer and maimer of the war of attrition.
According to Dennis Winter's book 'Death's Men' three quarters of battle casualties were caused by artillery rounds. According to John Keegan ('The Face of Battle') casualties were:
- Bayonets - less than 1%
- Bullets - 30%
- Artillery and Bombs - 70%
Keegan suggests however that the ratio changed during advances, when massed men walking line-abreast with little protection across no-man's land were no match for for rifles and fortified machine gun emplacements.
Many artillery shells fired during the Great War failed to explode. Drake Goodman provides the following information on Flickr:
"During World War I, an estimated one tonne of explosives was fired for every square metre of territory on the Western front. As many as one in every three shells fired did not detonate. In the Ypres Salient alone, an estimated 300 million projectiles that the British and the German forces fired at each other were "duds", and most of them have not been recovered."
To this day, large quantities of Great War matériel are discovered on a regular basis. Many shells from the Great War were left buried in the mud, and often come to the surface during ploughing and land development.
For example, on the Somme battlefields in 2009 there were 1,025 interventions, unearthing over 6,000 pieces of ammunition weighing 44 tons.
Artillery shells may or may not still be live with explosive or gas, so the bomb disposal squad, of the Civilian Security of the Somme, dispose of them.
A huge mine under the German lines did not explode during the battle of Messines in 1917. The mine, containing several tons of ammonal and gun cotton, was triggered by lightning in 1955, creating an enormous crater.
The precise location of a second mine which also did not explode is unknown. Searches for it are not planned, as they would be too expensive and dangerous. For more on this, please search for "Cotehele Chapel"
The Somme Times
From 'The Somme Times', Monday, 31 July, 1916:
'There was a young girl of the Somme,
Who sat on a number five bomb,
She thought 'twas a dud 'un,
But it went off sudden -
Her exit she made with aplomb!'
My story and photographs about GYC (Generation of Youth for Christ) were published in the Southwestern Record February 2012 edition.
Published in Puffin Books 1965
Reprinted 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971 (twice)
Illustrated by Pauline Baynes
This photograph was published online in an article in HOMES & GARDENS on 27th December 2024 by Tenielle Jordison entitled:
'' How to stop foxes digging up bulbs – 5 methods to protect your blooms for spring - Keep your plants safe from the curious creatures that could ruin your display ''.
It had previously also been published in THE GUARDIAN in an online article by Rachel Dixon on June 26th 2024
It was selected for sale in the GETTY IMAGES COLLECTION on June 20th 2021
CREATIVE RF gty.im/1324337152 MOMENT ROYALTY FREE COLLECTION and became my 5,092nd frame to be represented by Getty, my sole worldwide agents. I now have 7,000+ images represented by them.
I'm standing in my kitchen on a cold, wet summer afternoon making a Tassimo Costa L'or double shot Latte whilst taking a quick break from watching Sweden versus Slovakia (I've seen more action in a chess match!), on TV in the Euros football tournament when a rain soaked fox enters my garden!
My camera is upstairs still with the Lee SW150 filter holder and circular polarizer attached, and round here, foxes normally do not surface much in daylight nor spend long before scampering away, so I rush up and grab it, hastily tampering with the settings, forgetting to set the vibration control to the on position....
I'm skulking in the corner of the kitchen, shooting through closed, rain splattered windows and the fox can sense my presence and every movement. Far from ideal, but such a joy to have a few brief moments in the presence of such a magnificent animal.
And they say any shot is better than NO shot, don't they......
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Fifty one metres at 15:36pm on a cold morning on Friday 18th June 2021, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent.
Here we see a young Red fox (Vulpes vulpes), the largest of the true foxes (a genus of the sub-family Caninae which form a proper clade or monophyletic or natural group). Red foxes are the largest of the worldwide foxes, and also the most commonly widespread across the Northern hemisphere, Europe and North Africa.
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Nikon D850 Focal length 420mm Shutter speed: 1/400s Aperture f/6.3 iso1000 Hand held with no VC Image area FX (36 x 24) NEF RAW L (14 bit uncompressed) Size L (8256 x 5504) Focus mode: AF-C AF-Area mode: 3D-tracking Priority Selection: Release. Nikon Back button focusing enabled. 3D Tracking watch area: Normal 55 Tracking points Exposure mode: Manual mode Metering mode: Matrix metering White balance on: Auto1 (5190k) Colour space: Adobe RGB Picture control: Neutral (Sharpening +2)
Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD G2. Nikon GP-1 GPS module. Lee SW150 MKII filter holder. Lee SW150 95mm screw in adapter ring. Lee SW150 circular polariser glass filter.Lee SW150 Filters field pouch. Hoodman HEYENRG round eyepiece oversized eyecup.My Memory 128GB Class 10 SDXC 80MB/s card. Lowepro Flipside 400 AW camera bag.
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This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 26th of July 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.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
outtakes for the inside-out - be the change project in athens, greece. a subset was selected for the action, which will take place friday, june 21, 2013.
more information:
I really have no idea of the name of the book this came from, but it was published in 1888. Feel free to translate for me. I'm guessing that this is from a very old drawing of a Russian Priest.
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"Amore Puro Tour" ritorna al Mediolanum Forum dopo la prima data di dicembre.
Prendi l'eroina dei talent show Made in italy, Alessandra Amoroso, aggiungi quanto di più amoroso possa esserci tra le parole di Tiziano Ferro e il risultato è ad alto tasso zuccherino: Amore Puro, ultima fatica discografica cantata da Alessandra Amoroso, appunto, e scritta e prodotta proprio da Tiziano Ferro. Elegante, femminile e ricco di energia, queste le premesse del Tour della ragazza prodigio - e dalla lacrima facile - che approda al Forum. Undici dischi di platino, innumerevoli sold out, tante collaborazioni.
Alessandra Amoroso nasce a Galatina il 12 agosto 1986 e fin da piccola va a vivere a Lecce con i genitori. La passione per il canto, che è da sempre dentro di lei, la porta dapprima a partecipare a numerose competizioni di carattere locale e poi al provino di "Amici". Viene scelta per l'edizione 2008/2009 dove si mette in luce per la sua voce potente. Il lavoro svolto all'interno della scuola di "Amici" fa emergere un talento fuori dal comune che si impone nella fase finale con l'esecuzione dell'inedito "Immobile". Il successo di pubblico è immediato e alla fine è lei a sollevare la coppa della vittoria. Segue la pubblicazione dell'ep "Stupida" con risultati clamorosi.
Published in Sticks & Stones | Photography: Shaira Luna, styling: Quayn Pedroso, grooming: Eddie Mar Cabiltes, with Cedric at Elite
I was very excited to have one of my afghans published in the "Little Box of Throws". For this collection, search for Jean Leinhauser and Rita Weiss at amazon.com
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 20th of July 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.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.
Published in 2004/April EDN ASIA magazine. It told us that don't be stupid to pay the money which is worth a deer to buy a dog.
Published in Penguin Books 1968
Cover design by Richard Hollis using a photograph by Carl Struwe from Formen des Mikrokosmos
This photograph was published in the Illustrated Chronicle on the 11th of July 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.
We hope you enjoy looking through our collection, you are welcome to download and share our images for your own personal use, as they are to our knowledge, in the public domain. If you would like to use the images for commercial purposes, please contact us and we can provide a High Quality Digital Image for a fee. If you are able to use the Low Resolution Image from the website please do, but we would appreciate a credit: Image from the Newcastle City Library Photographic Collection, Thank you.