| Evening Telegraph launches city centre photography studio | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 1:09:40 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Derby Evening Telegraph has launched a new city centre photography studio to cater for readers and their families. The paper's commercial photographic department decided to trial the opening of a new base following the closure of national photo firm Olan Mills, and is particularly aiming the new venture at children. It will be based on the first floor of the Guildhall Market in Derby. The portrait service is in addition to the paper's existing studio at its Meadow Road office at the edge of the city, and commercial photographic manager Carol Seal said it would allow readers to pop in and see what was available. A studio picture All the pictures will be taken by exisitng members of the commercial team, including photographer Lucy Shaw. She said: "The studio is a welcoming, relaxing and informal place for sittings.... | |
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| | | First Edition Cycling News for January 23, 2007 | | Posted Tuesday, January 23, 2007 3:10:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | The divide between the most powerful race organisers in the world and the world's governing body of cycling has never been so deep. For over three years, the Grand Tour organisers, spearheaded by Tour de France management ASO, and the UCI have been in constant conflict over the sport's most recent reform, the ProTour. Now, unable to come to an agreement, the two sides will take their fight to the European Commission. Cyclingnews' Hedwig Kröner spoke to Patrice Clerc, the ASO president, about the conflict and the organisation's future plans. The organisers of the three Grand Tours, the ASO, the RCS (Giro d'Italia), and Unipublic (Vuelta España) have long objected to the ProTour model. They call the forced inclusion of the 20 ProTour teams 'a closed system' and have came up with their own set of team selection criteria late last year.... | |
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| | | FEATURE-Endangered gorillas prosper in heart of Africa | | Posted Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:20:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | PARC NATIONAL DES VOLCANS, Rwanda, Dec 13 (Reuters) - One hour's trek into the Rwandan rainforest, a crunching sound breaks the silence that hangs over the misty thick bush. Slow and loud, it lasts for a few minutes, then stops abruptly. Suddenly a gorilla's face peers through the giant nettles to look at the tourists who have sweated along jungle trails to catch a glimpse of him and his family. The 200-kg (440-lb) male, the silver-grey saddle on his back signalling maturity, studies his visitors. Then, his curiosity satisfied, the mountain gorilla emerges from the bush, crawls to the top of a clearing on the lush mountainside and continues loudly chomping on his bamboo shoot. A female follows and stretches out next to the silverback, keeping a careful eye on the intruders as her babies playfully fight, thumping their chests and rolling down the hill.... | |
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| | | Lowerhouses tot scoops our Baby of Year award | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 7:08:47 AM by Blog57 Team | | THIS little cutie is Huddersfield's bonniest baby! Eleven-month-old Annabell Crossley has been named this year's winner in our Examiner Baby of the Year competition. Annabell won readers over with her gorgeous smile, polling 887 votes in the final which totalled 4,462 votes. She celebrated with mum Rachel at their home in Fanny More Lane, Lowerhouses. Proud dad David Carter also lives in Huddersfield. .... | |
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| | | Craft shows | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 11:43:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | Holiday craft and country store is from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 18 at Grace Lutheran Church, 8303 Sheffield Ave. The country stores and bake sale offers candy, cookies, cake, pies, bread, jam, jelly, canned items and other specialty items. A hearty country breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. for $6 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger. Breakfast casserole, French toast, biscuits and gravy, fruit salad, breakfast sausage, coffee, tea, milk and juice will be served. Crafts range from Christmas tree skirts to baby blankets, hand-painted items, jewelry, gloves and scarves, aprons, flower arrangements, wreaths and goose clothing. FYI: Call (219) 865-1137.BAND BOOSTERS | St. JohnCrafters and vendors wanted for Lake Central Band Boosters' annual holiday craft fair set for 9 a.m.... | |
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| | | County calendar - 11/11/06 | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 3:31:19 PM by Blog57 Team | | Rancocas Valley Alumnae Chapter, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, will host Salute to the Season, its annual fashion show and scholarship luncheon, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Crowne Plaza hotel, Route 70, Cherry Hill. Guests include Wilma McNabb and Blondell Reynolds Brown. Tickets: $50. Contact rva_pr@yahoo.com. Medford Township and VFW Post 7677 Veterans Day Ceremony, 11 a.m. Freedom Park, 86 Union St. Call (609) 654-2512. Spaghetti dinner, 3-7 p.m., sponsored by AM-VETS Post 79, Rancocas Community Center, 203 Main St. Adults, $7; children 12 and younger, $5. Call (609) 267-4840 or (609) 234-5335. Fall fashion show and luncheon, sponsored by the Haddon Fortnightly, 11:30 a.m., Tavistock Country Club, Tavistock Lane, Had-donfield. Tickets: $35. Call (856) 596-3748 for reservations.... | |
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| | | The Photographic Portrait Prize 2006 | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 1:24:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Mobile phones make portrait photographers of us all, but this outstanding show is a masterclass. First-prize winner, Richard Boll's Joe, may superficially resemble a snap, but shirtless and tattooed under Brighton sun, Joe is actually meticulously lit. And there's no mistaking the classical side-lighting in Anna Bauer's Jungs, Living Room (second), Kiran Master's debt to Jeff Wall in his mysteriously bland Untitled (third) or Kyoko Hamada's Emily and her Grandmother (fourth). See more pictures from the exhibition here Less impressive is the Deloitte Prize (for under-25s) winner, Erin Kornfeld's Prudence and Julie (at Sunday Breakfast) - lusciously colourful but disappointingly transparent. The competition's traditional internationalism now extends, topically, to Pyongyang and Beijing, but overshadowing all is the quiet humiliation in Jacob Silverberg's Iraqi Man Waits for the US Marines to Leave His House.... | |
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| | | PLYMOUTH PIPELINE | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:38:18 PM by Blog57 Team | | Sign language is being promoted to parents of infants as one of the first steps toward learning and communication. The Plymouth District Library will again present the Baby Signs program 11 a.m. and noon Saturday, Nov. 11. Babies and parents are invited to this free program to begin to learn simple gestures for such words as "cat," "eat" or "all gone." Registration is required; call (734) 453-0750, Ext. 4 for the Library's Reader's Advisory Desk. .... | |
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| | | No headline | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 7:09:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Business After Hours, 5-7 p.m. Casino Night. Drees Pavilion, 790 Park Lane. Network and experience authentic casino gaming. $10. Presented by Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce. 859-578-8801. Covington. BUSINESS SEMINARS HR Group 100, 8-10 a.m. "Maximizing the Effectiveness of Your Application." Local employers discuss their hiring process. Northern Kentucky Chamber of Commerce Center, 300 Buttermilk Pike. Suite 330, $10, free for registered members. 859-578-6399. Fort Mitchell. CRAFT CLASSES Jewelry Making with Beads, 6-8 p.m. Frank Duveneck Arts & Cultural Center, 1232 Greenup St. With Jody Robinson. Concludes Nov. 10. $10. 859-491-3842. Covington. .... | |
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| | | Secrets Shared | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 11:27:20 AM by Blog57 Team | | Donna DeCesare's photos raise a curtain on the darkest side of childhood. From her current featured work documenting exploited Central American and Colombian children in "Sharing Secrets: Children's Portraits Exposing Stigma," to her years of telling the stories of youths affected by gang fighting and civil wars across the Americas, her photos viscerally confirm that the messes made by adults wreak havoc on the lives of children. "Sharing Secrets" is part of the Open Society Institute's "Moving Walls 12" exhibit, which opened at the institute's Manhattan headquarters on Sept. 14. Among other current projects, DeCesare is building a bilingual educational Web site called "Destiny's Children," which she describes as "a collection of photo narratives exploring how war, trauma, and gangs impact the personal choices and social stigmas faced by young people across the Americas." The specific images in "Destiny's Children" are a compilation of her work over a more than 10-year period, with young people involved in gangs in Los Angeles, Guatemala, and El Salvador.... | |
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