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According to the 'Healthiest State Rankings of 2012' report released by UnitedHealth Group's nonprofit , the United Health Foundation, the healthiest state - for the second year in a row - is Vermont.
The unhealthiest? Mississippi and Louisiana.
The report also contains some important health data. The good news is that Americans are dying less from cancer. Heart-related deaths are also on the decline. The bad news is that we are, as a whole, bigger. 27.8% of all Americans are obese. 26.2% lead sedentary lifestyles.
So, where does Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey rank on this list?
Congratulations to a healthier New Jersey. the Garden State has moved up the ranks to #8. In 2011, they were ranked as #17.
Pennsylvania and Delaware are ranked 26th and 31st respectively.
The rankings are based on a telephone interview. data collected focused on: smoking, binge drinking, obesity, high school graduation rates, sedentary lifestyle, children in poverty, infectious disease cases, air pollution, violent crime, health insurance, immunizations, primary care doctors, hospitalizations, and rate of conditions and deaths, such as cancer, obesity, diabetes and heart disease.
Huffingtonpost.com has the full article and complete list.
Flames are tearing through a South Jersey forest right now, and this wildfire is only expected to grow.
Flames are tearing through a South Jersey forest right now, and this wildfire is only expected to grow.


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With NNA 2013 Conference now just weeks away, Notaries are checking the schedule and highlighting the workshops that are most personally beneficial. But an equally important Conference element is networking. That prospect has become even more valuable this year in addition to meeting colleagues from around the country, members have an unprecedented opportunity to network directly with the largest employers of Signing Agents in the country. Executive-level representatives from a dozen major banks and title companies will "meet, greet and recruit" signing professionals at a special networking event on Monday, June 3.
Veteran Conference attendees have long recognized that the opportunity to network with industry leaders and fellow Notaries is one of the more important benefits of the NNA's annual Conference.
Verna Jones, owner of V.M. Jones Enterprises from Columbus, Ohio, loves meeting with fellow attendees to find new ideas and learn how her peers are handling their assignments.
Daniel Lewis, owner of his own signing service, keeps an informal journal of how much business he's acquired since he started attending the NNA Conferences, and believes it has increased his business at least 10% each year. "I attribute much of that to the networking opportunities at Conference," he said. "Networking with authors of Notary publications helps adjust your perspective on the industry. And networking with various Secretaries of State gives a perspective on how state laws are developed, giving me a distinct advantage over other Notary signing companies."
Debbie Hartwick, who will attend her eighth event this year, said, "NNA Conferences lay down excellent educational groundwork, and every Conference I've attended has deepened my notarial knowledge. I haven't missed one since my very first. And I really value the fun social events where I can meet other Notaries."
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The Empire Strikes Back
|Release Date: May 21, 1980
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Find Matching Images
by eternal1
There are three image matching service modes:
1. TinEye
2. Google
3. Both (sends image to the above services simultaneously)
There are three modes in which this extension opens the service results page:
1. Foreground tab
2. Background tab
3. Foreground window
There are four modes in which this extension detects and sends clicked images to the service:
1. Using the UI button in toggled-on state.
2. Like above, but only images that are not functioning as hyperlinks.
2. SHIFT key modifier. (Also removes the UI button)
3. ALT key modifier. (Also removes the UI button)
Unfortunately Opera does not expose context menu API, therefore this (or any other) extension cannot provide context menus either.
1. This extension only works on img elements.
2. In order for the Google service to work (Google blocks Opera from reverse image search !?) you have to, either globally, or on individual sites, identify the Opera as Firefox (or anything else not blocked by googles service). Here's how to do that on individual sites, and in this case Google:
Navigate to http://images.google.com, right click the page and from the context menu pick "Edit Site Preferences...". In the window that pops up, click the "Network" tab. Click the drop-down menu/list that is prepended by the text "Browser identification" and choose "Identify as Firefox" and click "Ok". You should now be able to use the Google service.
Icons are from the Crystal Project: http://www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=license
- To rozszerzenie zmodyfikuje lub doda nowe funkcje do jednej lub większej ilości witryn WWW.
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nice and useful extension.
It would be great, if author made it for opera 15 and >
Nice Post 10x.
I am using similar
image search for my own photo library:
Duplicate Image Finder
This tool can find similar images sometimes even better than search engines, but it works for your own photo library. Give it a try
They provide also a Free duplicate file finder.
very nice
I don't understand these comments...It works exactly as it says it does. Perhaps you need to set the preferences. Actually I realized that you have to change the network or user agent you use because google doesn't want to play with opera. If you set it to identify as explorer it works fine!
This addon breaks the ability to click on image links
This addon breaks the ability to click on image links: http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1051662&t=1351075470&page=1
Although currently the issue is worse than what was posted in the forum linked above, as this addon causes Opera to do literally *nothing* when clicking on such links. I thought Opera was broken... until I removed this addon.
отлично работает! спасибо разработчикам!))
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Great extension!
One thing to notice: to make google images search work use browser identification "as FireFox" on www.google.com page
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Are you unsure about your health insurance coverage? If so, we may be able to help answer your questions.
- What do I need to know about my insurance policy?
- Know your co-pay and your deductible amounts. Be familiar with your own benefit levels as well as any policy exclusions.
- What must the patient have on hand upon each visit to WKU Health Services?
- Form of identification (Big Red ID or Driver's License), Current Insurance Card, Method of Payment.
- What will the patient be responsible for at time of service?
- Co-pay and/or medication(s); or at least 20% of charges if not filing insurance.
- What if I cannot pay 20% at the time of service?
- A payment plan will be established for you at check-out.
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- What if I do not have insurance?
- We will see any WKU student, faculty, or staff member without insurance. Full-time students may receive a discount when paying in full on date of service. Students who cannot pay in full may pay 20% of their balance and put the remaining balance on a payment plan. Please ask to speak to our financial counselor for more information.
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- I have Tricare Prime, what do I need to do first?
- Call Tricare at 877.874.2273. Give our tax ID# 616055628 to find out what you need to do. Patients must know their primary care manager's name and telephone number. A referral from your Primary Care Manager must be provided prior to the patient being seen at WKU Health Services.
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- Call your insurance company and give them our tax ID# 616055628. If your insurance is not in-network we will file your claim and you will be responsible for any remaining balance.
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- Call your insurance; give our tax ID# 616055628 to see if you have "out of state" benefits. If not, ask them about "guest privileges" while you are a student away from home.
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- You are not required to file insurance, however you will be responsible for payment.
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John and Jane meet at a wedding, and after trading witty and cynical remarks they quickly find themselves making out in a coat closet. But before the point of no return, John suddenly stops, claiming that he likes Jane too much to make this just another one-night stand. The two decide to return to their respective homes (New York City for John, Philadelphia for Jane) and write to each other. But these are to be no ordinary "how are you doing?" letters. They vow to leave no secret unrevealed as they confess the details and "unload the memories" of their love lives. Once they share their regrets, they'll meet again to determine if their initial attraction can survive knowing the honest truth about their pasts.
John goes first, telling Jane the story of his adoring high school girlfriend from an alcoholic family, and after Jane gets past an initial bout of shyness, she joins in with the tale of her own adolescent love, a bad boy with a Mohawk. Their sagas of heartbreak, betrayal, sexual experimentation and even death are brutally honest. Even though they promised confession, not seduction, neither John nor Jane can resist inserting a bit of flirtation into their correspondence. But by the time they're finally ready to meet again in person, they're unsure if their new knowledge of each other has made them more likely to live happily ever after, or less. Is there such a thing as too much truth?
I am predisposed to like most epistolary novels, as my husband and I conducted a courtship through the good old U.S. mail more than 20 years ago. But I wouldn't have devoured Which Brings Me to You in a single sitting if it weren't well-written and engaging. Having the couple write real letters, not just e-mails or instant messages with emoticons and LOLs, gives the book a touch of old-fashioned literary elegance that is in sharp contrast to its modern attitude. Steve Almond's John is smart-assed but vulnerable, and funny as hell (his frantic, doomed attempt to retrieve a letter he wrote while drunk is the comic highlight of the book), while Juliana Baggott's Jane is quirky, witty and not quite as tough as she thinks she is. Her sections are more poetic and sometimes harder to parse than Almond's but no less effective. Her description of the ill-fated relationship with a man whose main attraction is his complete normalcy is particularly poignant and believable.
There is nothing more romantic to me than two wounded but determined people connecting through their own words and finding a shelter from the storm of modern life's craziness. The insights John and Jane have gained about themselves and each other give the reader hope that they have the chance to build something special together, even if it won't be easy. It's even sweeter for the fact that the two urban cynics would roll their eyes at the thought of a sappy, happy ending.
One warning: while there are not many explicit sex scenes in the novel, there is a lot of frank talk about the act and plenty of colorful language, as well as an allusion to a homosexual relationship. I certainly wouldn't want my 15 year old daughter to read the book. But I highly recommend it to any adults who, somewhere deep down in their world-weary hearts, still believe in love.
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Steeped in heritage, Mount Juliet is Ireland's leading country estate and the most luxurious hotel in Kilkenny. They pride themselves in their family culture, while at the same time maintaining the high-end service and hospitality for which Mount Juliet is internationally renowned.
Mount Juliet is a wonderfully relaxed location for a luxury break away in the South East of Ireland. From luxury weddings, family holidays and spa breaks to Christmas packages, golf and equestrian breaks.
Mount Juliet Hotel offers 31 luxury hotel bedrooms in the Manor House, including two presidential suites. Each hotel room is individually designed in keeping with the concept of a private family home. Each room is also named, drawing inspiration from the history of the estate and the history of Kilkenny. Guests can choose from accommodation in the carefully refurbished 18th Century manor house, overlooking the meandering waters of the River Nore, or in the club rooms of the estate's old stable yards. For longer stays, the Rose Garden lodges offer privacy, flexibility and comfort.
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Mount Juliet Hotel is only 20 minutes from Kilkenny, one hour from Dublin and 30 minutes from Waterford. This easily-accessible location makes Mount Juliet the ideal destination for your next break away. Enjoy everything the estate has to offer including golf on the Jack Nicklaus-designed course, treatments in the luxury spa, river and lake fishing, woodland walks, bike rides through the estate, and much more.
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8:30 AM - 11:00 AM Clover Cares- Spring Meeting
The South Carolina Department of Education announced today that 8 Clover schools were among 592 schools and career centers statewide to be awarded a Palmetto Gold and/or Silver Award for the 2013-2014 school year for general performance, closing the achievement gap, or in both categories.
Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month is a national campaign to raise awareness about the impact of child maltreatment and inspire people to find solutions. Clover School District is supporting this campaign by the placement of blue ribbons on school and office doors, by banners placed at the district office and by employees wearing Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention t-shirts on Mondays during this month. As school staff we are mandated to report suspected child abuse and neglect.
On Wednesday, March 26, Clover High School students, administration and faculty, and school district leaders will gather for the live announcement for the 2014 Palmetto's Finest award given annually to the top school in South Carolina by the South Carolina Association of School Administrators.
Our final RAP session (Raising Awareness of Parents) is this Thursday, March 13, at the District Office at 6:30 p.m.This session is entitled, "Out of Reach," will focus on the teen prescription drug issues in York County.
On Saturday, March 22, voters will go to the polls to vote on the $67 million bond referendum that includes five projects to maintain the world class education offered to CSD's nearly 7,000 students.
Clover School District today announced the launch of its CSD Mobile App, an all-in-one information source for parents, students, staff and community. Created by ParentLink, the app was developed specifically to provide direct access to the district's most sought after information in the most convenient format -- your mobile device.
Clover School District pre-kindergarten and kindergarten registration is scheduled for the week of March 3. Parents should register their children at their current elementary school assignment based on the 2013-14 attendance lines.
On Thursday, January 9 we have our next parent RAP session focused just on the middle school students. Dr. Dave Vawter, professor from Winthrop University, will be talking with parents about the Adolescent brain and common issues with middle school students' academic, social, and emotional development.


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Cold intruder refuses to leave Missoula home
Authorities say a Missoula man struck an intruder with a baseball bat after the intruder refused to leave because it was cold outside.
The Missoulian reports Richard Mason has been charged with aggravated burglary. Justice of the Peace Karen Orzech released the 30-year-old Mason Monday on his own recognizance.
Deputy Missoula County Attorney Jessica Finley said in charging documents the unidentified resident found a stranger in his home Saturday night.
The resident yelled at the man to leave, but the man cursed and complained about the cold outside.
When the intruder started walking toward the resident, the resident "tapped" the intruder on the head with the bat, then struck him on the leg.
The suspect fled and a K-9 officer later found Mason with a cut to the head.
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Posted: April 6, 2010
It's time for the Gowanus Grind
Demo will celebrate and promote the building of Brooklyn's newest Skate Spot.
Posted: April 6, 2010
Demo will celebrate and promote the building of Brooklyn's newest Skate Spot.
Posted: March 3, 2010
How Owens Field got its skate park back.
Posted: March 2, 2010
Tony Hawk Foundation partners with CRUMBS Bake Shop to offer gourmet cupcake.
Posted: February 9, 2010
In a survey of law-enforcement officials from across the U.S., officers report that public skateparks have had a positive impact on youth in their communities.
Posted: February 9, 2010
Red Cross National Celebrity Cabinet Members Tony Hawk and Miley Cyrus have been helping generate donations for the organization to conduct its relief work in Haiti.
Posted: February 9, 2010
Construction of the new Owens Field Skatepark in Columbia, South Carolina is near completion and will officially open one month ahead of schedule at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 6th. The skatepark was planned, and designed by Wally Hollyday Design - a California-based general contractor specializing in the design and construction of custom concrete skateparks.
Posted: February 7, 2010
Randy Stang lived so close to the city park in Bay Village, he was used to finding stray Frisbees, golf balls, baseballs, even arrows and rockets in his yard. He let it all slide. Then he heard that a group planned to gather at City Hall four days ago for a public hearing about building a skateboard and biking park in Bradley Park. Randy knew that creating a place for skaters, scooters, skateboarders and BMX bikes would increase the noise, traffic and crowds of teenagers, so he gathered up three pages of notes and carried them to Bay Village City Hall.
Posted: January 29, 2010
Driven by frustration over the open-air drug dealing at abandoned Pop's Playground in Kensington, Laura Semmelroth walked into the EXIT Philadelphia Skateshop two years ago and asked owner Steve Miller, a total stranger, to build a skateboard park at Pop's.
Posted: January 22, 2010
The village of Lyons doesn't often get personal attention from famous celebrities. But the work of several local skaters and supportive community members drew both a cash grant and some advice from professional skater Tony Hawk.
The Public Skatepark Development Guide, the indispensable handbook for public-skatepark advocates, is now available in an updated and improved second edition. First published in 2007 by the Tony Hawk Foundation, Skaters For Public Skateparks, and the International Association of Skateboard Companies, the ultimate guide for community-skatepark advocates was available for free, and supplies quickly disappeared. The new 128-page second edition features updated information and expanded chapters, including skatepark vision, advocacy, fundraising, design, and management, plus several supplements and visual aids.
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The clean, simple lines of this two-tier console table make it a modern and versatile classic.
Pangea Home is proof that modern furnishings can be warm and welcoming as well as cool and chic. Simple, streamlined shapes are enriched with polished wood veneers and high-gloss lacquers; tempered glass and sleek steel add polish to spare, clean lines. These are pieces that beautifully enhance contemporary settings as well as bring a subtle energy to transitional decor.


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The Marshall Major 50 FX headphones may look a little gaudy, but the company's rock tradition is safe with a premium build and exciting sound.
In advance of this week's big developer confab, Microsoft also appoints Nokia chief Stephen Elop, who figured as a possible CEO candidate, as head of its device group.
Fredric Vinna, part of Beats Music's early team of creators, recently left the streaming music service and will soon begin work at its main rival, Spotify.
Wearable tech takes the spotlight at CES 2014. CNET's Scott Stein and Bridget Carey demo the Avegant Glyph video headset and Epson Moverio smart glasses.
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Oakridge Country Club
Garland, Texas
July 26 - 29, 2004
Yang gets first-round glory with a one-stroke lead at the I.R.I. Golf Group Oakridge Junior
GARLAND, Texas At the end of the first day of the I.R.I. Golf Group Oakridge Junior, Jeff Howard walked off No. 18 green a little more sentimental than when he started his round. A beautiful bogey-free round of 7-under-par 64 at Oakridge Country Club put him at the top of the leaderboard for the first round of his last AJGA tournament. In the Girls Division, Glory Yang shot a 2-over-par 73 and secured a one-stroke lead over the competition going into the second round.
The I.R.I. Golf Group Oakridge Junior is a 54-hole stroke play event conducted by the American Junior Golf Association. The event features 99 of the nations premier junior golfers, ages 12-18, from nine states. The field is composed of 70 Lone Star State residents.
Howard, 18, of Plano, Texas, said the secret to his success was staying in the fairway and out of trouble.
I hit my irons really well on the front nine, Howard said. I also chipped in three times, so that really helped.
Howard hit 14 greens and said that his longest putt was from about six feet. Seven total birdies and no bogies sealed him at 7-under with a four-stroke lead going into the second round.
Im feeling pretty good about tomorrow, he said. I want to hit a bunch of fairways and greens and just stay out of trouble. This could be my tournament.
He hopes to finish strong and end his AJGA career with his first win.
In a three-way tie for second are Nathan Sheen of Amarillo, Texas, Anthony Broussard of Beaumont, Texas, and Nick Williams of New Braunfels, Texas, with rounds of 3-under-par 68. In a three-way tie for fifth are Cole Howard of Burleson, Texas, Chance Pipitone of Houston, Texas, and Nuno Henriques of Bradenton, Fla., with rounds of 2-under-par 69.
Yang, 16, of Murrieta, Calif., had a glorious start to her day with a birdie on No. 1.
My drive was good. I hit a 6-iron to two feet, Yang said.
She said her putting and chipping were on target, as well as her tee shots.
The course isnt really that long, she said. The thing that tricked me up was how curvy it is. There are a lot of dog-legs and I had a hard time trying to choose a club to use.
In second is Caney Hines of San Antonio, Texas, with a round of 3-over-par 74. In third is Whitney Osborne of Amarillo, Texas, with a round of 5-over-par 76.
The American Junior Golf Association is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the overall growth and development of young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf. The largest association of its kind, the AJGA has a junior membership (boys and girls ages 12-18) of approximately 5,000 junior golfers from 50 states and 30 foreign countries.
Second-round tee times will run from 7:30 a.m. 12:18 p.m., Wednesday at Oakridge Country Club.
Titleist, the AJGAs National Sponsor, has been the catalyst and driving force behind the Associations success since 1989. Rolex Watch U.S.A., a supporter of the AJGA since 1983, became an AJGA Premier Partner in 2004.
AJGA alumni have risen to the top of amateur, collegiate and professional golf. More than 160 former AJGA juniors currently play on the PGA and LPGA Tours and have compiled more than 300 wins. AJGA alumni include Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Davis Love III, Mike Weir, Charles Howell III, Jim Furyk, Vicki Goetze-Ackerman, Grace Park, Cristie Kerr and Beth Bauer.
For more information on the I.R.I. Golf Group Oakridge Junior, contact tournament headquarters at (972) 530-8004.
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The Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Grant program provides financial assistance to junior golfers who wish to play in AJGA events. Its goal is to give top-flight golf opportunities to young golfers regardless of financial resources. This program helps to fulfill the AJGA's mission of developing young men and women who aspire to earn college golf scholarships through competitive junior golf.
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Leadership Links is a new program whereby the AJGA is able to further its mission to help develop young men and women by teaching charitable giving skills and service-oriented practices at an early age. This program gives juniors all the tools necessary to donate their time, talent and resources to local charities and the AJGA youth development programs. Please click here to learn more about the program and the different opportunities available.


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A New Mexico family claims they were denied a room at an Albuquerque hotel because of their service dog.
Jim Deverman and his son Tim Melton were planning on starting at the In Town Suites near Jefferson and Interstate 25. The rooms are a decent price and clean, which made it at tractive for the family who needed a temporary place to stay.
They said they were surprised when they were turned away because of Tim's service dog, Blitzen the Husky.
Blitzen and Tim Melton go together like Aspirin and a headache. Tim is 24, but his father says he has the mental maturity of a 12-year-old. The medicine to control Tim's mental disability comes on four white legs.
"Our service dogs are larger breeds because of his size are trained to help calm him down when he gets into one of his PTSD moods or fits," Jim said.
Jim said a home renovation project forced them into a hotel, and In Town Suites was the one of their choice, but a no-pet policy prevented them from staying there.
"They said the dogs were not allowed because it wasn't a seeing-eye dog," Jim said.
Tim even has a doctor's note explaining the dog's uses.
"I believe the use of these animals as service animals will help his mood and irritability problems," Jim said of his son Tim.
The hotel's manager said he doesn't deny service animals and that more information could be found at the corporate hotline.
After KOB Eyewitness News 4 On Your Side's inquiry into Jim and Tim's denial to stay at the hotel, the hotel's corporate office said the matter had been reviewed and that Jim, Tim and Blitzen would be welcomed after all.
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That is among the many issues raised by the activities of the website WikiLeaks and its leader, Julian Assange. The site has stirred up a lot of dust lately because of the 251,287 diplomatic cables it began publishing on Nov. 28. These communications contain some information that puts plans and individuals at risk, according to the U.S. government. A lot of overseas leaders are mad because unflattering comments are made about them.
Boo hoo.
This week, National Public Radio host Diane Rehm and some guests were discussing the WikiLeaks issues. One of their topics was whether or not Assange is a "journalist." Her experts were split on the question, but it got me thinking about how I would answer it.
My first step was to define journalist. Article 1 of the Society of Professional Journalist's bylaws state, "The Society is an organization of persons who are engaged in directing the editorial policy or editing and preparing news and editorial content of independent news media products, or students engaged in the study of these skills and journalism educators."
Under that vague standard, any idiot — i.e. Rupert Murdoch — with a media product could be a journalist. I guess I will have to define it myself.
When I decided to be a reporter, I chose a college where I could major in journalism. My assumption was I would be studying under professors who already knew how to be journalists. So, what did they teach me? I learned what makes a worthwhile story, how to gather the information for that story, how to research and write it and finally how to present it in print and online. In addition, I learned the rules under which journalists play in the United States — the First Amendment and all that jazz — so I wouldn't get myself into any unintended trouble (I still need help remembering the rules sometimes, as is the case with any journalist doing the job correctly).
How does that line up with the WikiLeaks brouhaha? First, given the normal amount of sifting a reporter does through governmental junk, the quarter-million cables in the WikiLeaks dump would by most editorial standards produce maybe 2,500 worthwhile articles. Citizens have a right to know everything government does, but only about 10 percent is worth worrying about.
It seems Assange and his posse have the "gathering information" part of the process down pat but they might need some work on what is worthwhile. For example, a document published on Wednesday on the WikiLeaks site (I'd give you the link if it wasn't constantly on the run from the cyber-police) is about Visa and MasterCard receiving a lobbying boost from the State Department amid a proposed Russian credit card processing law. These two U.S. companies would lose business if the new law passed. The Russians apparently worry Visa and MasterCard share information with the U.S. government, so they wanted their own banks to process purchases.
If it wasn't for the fact that every time I call my credit card I end up talking to someone in India, I'd say this leak actually applauds the U.S. government for trying to save American jobs.
My point is this is page 10 news at best. If this is indicative of WikiLeaks' "journalism" I'm more interested in the story on this week's episode of "The Jersey Shore." I am sure some of the material is more newsworthy, but that is what separates journalists from the average Joe who also has freedom of speech in America. Journalists are supposed to help busy people by digging for what they truly need to know about and what affects their lives. I'm not sure Assange has done that.
Speaking of freedom of speech, as a foreigner operating outside of the United States there is doubt as to whether Assange or whoever is held responsible for all this would be protected under our federal Constitution. Former Tribune reporter Sarah Cooper recently moved to England and found that reporters there have to be licensed by the state, proving that not everyone plays by the same rules as Americans do. If the U.S. government gets its hands on Assange, I imagine he will be prosecuted under espionage or other laws, whereas the freedom of speechers will only be able to try to shield him with principles that likely will prove ineffective.
Coming down to where the ink meets the newsprint, if one of my reporters brought me a bunch of city of Sparks documents and told me he or she wanted to print them verbatim with short articles analyzing them, I'd tell that reporter to go take a flying leap off the top of the press. We're here to weed through that stuff for the benefit of our readers, not to overwhelm them. Of course, those documents should be available for journalists (or people with too much time on their hands) to analyze, but simply putting them out there does little good.
And I know that if some idiot released a document that endangered someone I cared about with little or no benefit to society, I'd tell that person where to stick his freedom of speech.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some documents to read through so you don't have to.
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My family got bigger this week. Oh, no babies were born (that I know of) and I didn't hear of some distant cousin getting married. It got bigger to me.
It was always there, this huge family that I've come to be aware of, but I'd kept them soundly put away. Not intentionally or in some horribly rude way, but just because I didn't know them.
But my first cousin does, bless his heart, and apparently they've been coming into his life at incredible speed, one after the other after the other, nearly taking it over, I suspect. Then one day last week he sent a picture I had never seen before and I opened it and I stared at it and then stared at it some more and, suddenly, I saw something. Something comforting and eerie all at once.
I saw my daughter's eyes.
It was a picture of my great grandmother. Her name was Mary Ida.
And there it started.
It started with pictures, ones of my grandparents and great grandparents and aunts and uncles and even one of my father as a little boy that I had never seen. I e-mailed my cousin and told him how incredible, how wonderful, how intimately fascinating these photos all were and before I knew it he sent me another email, a different sort, this time. One filled with names and dates and stories and courthouse documents and records. Suddenly, there they were. Most of them, not all of them, right there for me to meet.
My family. My children's family. Our blood.
I have seen our family tree before, but now I realize what I had seen was only a shrub. A small, small piece of an enormous tree with roots that dig, so far, as deep as the year 640 and twist and turn through Georgia and North Carolina, Virginia and New Jersey, England and Ireland and France and Germany and Italy and places in between.
There are first names like Repsama and Israel and Sophronia and Jeremiah. Lazarus and Magdalen and Louisiana Virginia and Maud.
There is my seven times great-grandfather, who was born in 1680 in Virginia and was active in political matters. So active, being opposed to taxation methods imposed on the colonists by the British Crown, he took part with 260 other property owners in a tax revolt against King George II in 1735.
And records of 1676 show that my eight times great-grandfather took part in a rebellion against the crown and faced possible execution, but threw himself on the mercy of the king.
I wish I had known this sooner. It would have come in handy those times I argued with my parents. I couldn't help it -- I was born with feisty genes.
This week I have discovered, thanks to my cousin, that our ancestors were orphans and indentured servants and Revolutionary War soldiers. Ancestors who fought with General Lee and surrendered at Appomattox, ones who broke out of jail and others who fled Europe. They were politicians and Methodists and Quakers and Episcopalians and Presbyterians and Baptists and Lutherans. Some were heroes and others were not so admirable, but all tousled together they form this incredible story. Only it's not fiction; it's real.
And, for me, this incredible realization all started with a simple picture of my great grandmother that I had never seen. Her name was Mary Ida.
And my daughter has her eyes.
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Bangladesh's hopes for a free, fair, and peaceful election are dead.
The result is already known. But certainty over the ballot means only uncertainty for the future of the country.
A boycott of the controversial poll by almost all opposition parties has resulted in 154 seats in the 300-member parliament already decided in walkovers, the majority in favour of the government.
An unpopular administration will hold power, but it will be a victory without legitimacy.
It will mean only more of what Bangladesh has endured for months in the lead-up to these polls – more strikes and more economic paralysis, more violence and many, many more deaths.
Bangladesh's population of more than 150 million live on a landmass only two-thirds the size of Victoria. Nearly 50 million Bangladeshis live on less than $2 dollars a day.
The country's massive, poor population has been betrayed by its wealthy, self-interested political class.
The two most powerful women in the country - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed and opposition leader Khaleda Zia - have allowed their personal enmity to poison the country's hopes for progress.
The widow and daughter respectively of two of Bangladesh's earliest post-independence leaders, the two women have dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades, but served the country poorly.
Outside their apparatchik bases, they are deeply unpopular, but give no indication they are ready to abdicate. They both have sons, waiting overseas for their chance to return and to lead, so the country will suffer their influence for years yet.
Sheikh Hasina's governing Awami League and Mrs Zia's opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party have negotiated for weeks, with UN help, over how January five's elections should be conducted,
but talks have yielded nothing. The country's democracy is held hostage by politicians who mistake obstinacy for strength.
And other parties are similarly malign. The Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami, allied to the Bangladeshi Nationalist Party, was outlawed by a court ban. Some of its members have responded by behaving like outlaws.
Jamaat calls regular hartals – nationwide strikes – that are violently enforced by its members who man road barricades, harass citizens on the streets, and destroy businesses that have the temerity to open their doors.
As always, it is the most vulnerable who suffer most. The sick and dying can't get to hospital without being beaten, stoned, or having their cars set on fire.
Unable to go to school, millions of Bangladeshi schoolchildren will not sit exams this year.
The government is no more concerned with the public good than its opponents, only with holding on to power.
A war crimes tribunal to prosecute those who committed atrocities during the war of independence in 1971 is a desirable thing, particularly for a people for whom the violence of that conflict remains a deep psychological scar. But the ruling Awami League has used the tribunal to pursue its enemies. Defendants have not been afforded a proper defence, nor the right to appeal.
The hanging, last week, of Jamaat leader Abdul Quader Molla, in spite of an international outcry, was deliberately inflammatory.
On the streets of Bangladesh, more than 200 people have died this year in pre-election violence. Many more are expected to die after the election.
The poll will happen, but Sheikh Hasina's new administration is not expected to survive more than a few months. After a similarly meaningless poll in 1996, the government fell in 11 days.
The country is braced for worsening violence, and many talk – some wistfully - of a return to military rule.
Elections are judged not by who wins, but by how free and fair and inclusive they are. By any standards, Bangladesh's will be no election at all.


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Dig them hips, I do have some crits, but I'm on my phone so I'll have to type them up later. Still lookin' good Seef!
I like the WIP and wanna see it finished. So:
You might wanna take this with a grain of salt. I might have just caught a red herring here, and since I didn't draw the full thing out, I can't be sure of my claims up there. Also, our styles are on opposite ends of the realism spectrum and you're the one more qualified to be critiquing a semi-realistic style.
/excuses for not being a good critter.
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Dig them hips, I do have some crits, but I'm on my phone so I'll have to type them up later. Still lookin' good Seef!
○ Matt: Ooh, yeah, thanks for that. The solution seems obvious now, but it wasn't all too obvious when I was in the middle of it, haha. I'll definitely use those suggestions, but I'm not at HQ, so I don't have anything to draw with digitally.
○ Sparky: Thanks! And don't sweat it; I definitely understand the phone thing.
♥ a n o t h e r . W I P
Beginning Drawing assignment. 18x34," already started shading with charcoal. Punching self in face for attempting background with zero experience. (ZERO CHARISMA?) Like, "Oh yeah, you know how to shade clouds with charcoal, right?"
LOL WRONG. Updates and sufferings later, haha.
Side note: I also redid the shoulder width and made them narrower.
The lips look a bit lopsided for some reasons, but apart from that good I think
○ Leannah: Thanks for the comment . . . and for commenting on pretty much every other thread around! And I agree; the lips were lopsided. I fixed that in the final sketch, but my shading was flawed and they got lopsided again. OTL
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Some OC of mine, Florian. He is very educated and honored as such with large horns on his hat. Blahblahblah, I just wanted to draw the furry Kudu hat that's been on my mind and rework the character's face.
I still need to fix some things like cranial size and facial nuances, but yeah. C&C is still way cool. :>
In other news, I "finished" that wip I posted previously, but it still needs to be photographed, as it doesn't fit in my scanner--not even close. XD It still needs some shading and stuff done to it, but I figured you guys might want to see it, considering it is the most ambitious traditional project I've undertaken so far.
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○ Ged: Haha, I'd want them above my fireplace too . . . actually, I need a fireplace first! XD And yeah, I agree what it was a little thick and flat. I tried to fix that, but I wasn't the most successful at it. I'll definitely update as soon as I can with a photo of it, though! I lost my memory card, so I can't get m camera working right now, haha.
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Yeah, I'm calling quits on this one. I messed with his jaw a little, changed his mouth, put texture on the fur of the hat, and color balanced the image. I like how the color balancing turned out; it adds another dimension to greyscale images. (I used cyan/magenta shadows, magenta midtones, and yellow highlights.)
You can click it to make it bigger.
+ c o u r s e w o r k
Yeah so I'm in university now and I kinda am in art class and it kinda is torture, haha. Sorry for the bad photos; my camera is super grainy and likes to fisheye everything (all my hard perspective work down the drain!). XD
^ this is a wip, haha.
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Agh, craaaap, double post. Ignore this. >.>
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Dude that negative space thing is awesome. it almost looks like a vector drawing. If the lighting on the photo was even, I would think it was.
Oh, thanks a lot! I'm happy with how it came out, because I didn't bring a ruler to the studio that day. o___o But yeah, to get an even value in such a large space I put down several layers of industrial Sharpie chisel marker.


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Annual to tree
Leaves basal or cauline, alternate to whorled, simple to compound
Inflorescence: 1° inflorescence a head, each resembling a flower, 1many, generally arrayed in cymes, generally subtended by ± calyx-like involucre; flowers 1many per head
Flowers bisexual, unisexual, or sterile, ± small, of several types; calyx 0 or modified into pappus of bristles, scales, or awns, which is generally persistent in fruit; corolla radial or bilateral (rarely 0), lobes generally (0)45; stamens 45, anthers generally fused into cylinder around style, often appendaged at tips, bases, or both, filaments generally free, generally attached to corolla near throat; pistil 1, ovary inferior, 1-chambered, 1-seeded, style 1, branches 2, generally hair-tufted at tip, stigmas 2, generally on inside of style branches
Fruit: achene, cylindric to ovoid, generally deciduous with pappus attached
Genera in family: ± 1300 genera, 21,000 species (largest family of dicots): worldwide. Largest family in CA. Also see tribal key to CA genera: Strother 1997 Madroño 44(1):128. See glossary p. 25 for illustrations of general family characteristics.
Annual, perennial herb, subshrubs, shrubs
Leaves opposite or alternate, simple to deeply divided or compound, sessile or petioled
Inflorescence: heads radiate, discoid or disciform, solitary or in cymes; peduncles short or long; involucre cylindric, hemispheric, or bell-shaped; phyllaries in 23 ± equal series, linear to ovate; receptacle flat to conic, naked
Ray flowers: ligules yellow or white
Disk flowers many; corollas yellow or white, 4-lobed; anther tips triangular; style tips tapered
Fruit linear to oblanceolate, very flat, sometimes weakly 34-angled; surface dark brown or black, glabrous or puberulent; margins generally ± thick, puberulent to strongly ciliate; pappus 0 or a crown of fringed scales and 02 slender bristles
Species in genus: ± 75 species: sw North America
Etymology: (Greek: around the margin, from thick fruit margin)
Reference: [Powell 1974 Rhodora 76:229306]
Horticultural information: STBL.
Subshrub 1555 cm, short-rough-hairy
Stems many, much-branched
Leaves generally alternate; petiole 16 mm; blade 715 mm, 110 mm wide, linear to widely ovate, tip acute to obtuse, margin generally entire, rarely serrate or lobed
Inflorescence: heads discoid, 1few, loosely clustered; peduncles generally 15 cm, bracts leaf-like; involucre 3.57.5 mm diam, bell-shaped; phyllaries 1419, 56 mm, lanceolate or oblong
Ray flowers 0
Disk flowers: corollas 3.54.2 mm
Fruit 2.53 mm; 1 or both surfaces rounded or ± angled, puberulent; margin hairy; pappus 0 or a crown of vestigial scales, rarely with 1 bristle
Ecology: Rocky places
Elevation: 13002800 m.
Bioregional distribution: White and Inyo Mountains, Desert Mountains
Distribution outside California: Nevada
Plant generally 1535 cm
Leaves few, 717 mm, generally 14 mm wide, linear to lanceolate
Inflorescence: heads generally 3.57.5 mm diam
Fruit: pappus bristle 0 or rarely 1
Chromosomes: 2n=68
Ecology: Rocky slopes
Elevation: 13002600 m.
Bioregional distribution: White and Inyo Mountains, Desert Mountains
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World Press Photo announces 2012 contest winners
Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda has won the World Press Photo 2011 award. The prize comes for his image of a woman holding a relative wounded during protests against Yemen's President Saleh. The World Press Photo Contest 2012 also awarded prizes in 18 other categories ranging from Arts and Entertainment to Portraits. Some of these images may be familiar from news coverage throughout the year but they make a compelling and inspiring reminder of the breadth of photography, even within the confines of press usage.
World Press Photo 2011
|Samuel Aranda, Spain, for The New York Times
All the winning and runner-up images can be seen at the World Press Photo website and are well worth a look:
Click here to see a gallery of the World Press Photo Contest 2012 winners
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While it would be extremely special as I don't believe you'll find many photos of ninjas, especially in action, that's in pretty poor taste.
Ahah best response yet!
That's sick
If you need a caption to explain the photo, then it is not award worthy.
I have won photo competition BECAUSE of my caption accompanying my photo. The world is a big place, go look around sometimes.
I really wonder if those leaving the most immature and retarded comments would have posted if they had bothered to take a look at the series this photograph is part of. Fascinating to see such lack of humanitarian values and respect expressed by a large number of pixel peepers here on dpreview, a sad day for photography, for sure.
Do not go overboard, Mike
I agree with Mike. A lot of these comments have made me cringe. This is obviously not the place to talk about photography. I appreciate that DPR is starting to include news events that go beyond the technical but this level of response is just embarrassing.
Morons are everywhere ...
Death with velvet glove is taking him away
Yes, Michelangelo ... and Podgorski
(click on the six slide shows at the left)
A well deserved prize. Samuel Aranda's photo is wonderful, teeming with emotional content and expression. It has the potential to become one of the greatest photographs of all times.
Wow, what a set of depressing photos! Is there no joy in the World anymore? The winning shot is obviously set up.
Makes me say to myself not such a wonderful world
I think this is not real
Crap, why have not taken mine?
Because your a tonal conceptualist who's subject matter is politically controversial ;)
If you do not understand what is the difference between this and your photos, change hobbies
Erm... because it has no emotional content?
@sarkozy. I've checked your link. You are right. Wow!!! what a great shot, I am blown away. What gear did you use?
joking? if not,as d other response.....get another hobby.
Most comments in here tell me only one thing. Pixelpeepers and gearheads will never grasp the art of photography. I find it a brilliant capture symbolizing in more than one way the struggle large parts of the arabic society is still going through...
Just for non believers of facts and what happens there ,
- refer to any channel focus on Yemen and see by yourself , if we can go right the picture a little you will see another victims , it,s a shame you make fun of this woman ( think another time and don't be ignorant to any people who in suffer ) .
Brilliant. Look at the woman's skin tones there. Not an easy capture!
Totally staged. Garbage actually. These idiots who hand out these gongs need their heads banging together.
Just wondering - Why does the 4 square inches of her skin that are visible make a good capture?
The mood and the moment yes
The composition and the dramatic light yes, but not her skin.
for me it does not represents sorrow for a relative, it more looks like a model scene. If someone I love is hurt I want to feel him not wear cloves like I need to protect myself from some sort of disease.
Sorry it looks fabricated even if it is real.
Maybe she's a nurse. Could be if you see the rest of series. And no, I don't think that pixel- or scene- peeping has any sense here, The photo has a real strong emotional content and a story in it. That's all.
I totally disagree with iaredatsun. The picture reminds us of a "piëta" ( mother maria with Jesus after the crucifixion). Although I belief that the photographer did not have it in mind when he took the picture, this is a kind of Muslim piëta.
It expresses sorrow and care. In that sense this photo represents the feelings of the people.
I don't like this pic because I didn't believe is real. Oh yes, it was taken in Yemen.. I can believe... but, That's all.
Maybe it won because it was published in The New York Times??? 10-15-2011.
I will change a bit my opinion, watching here
and pick
New features :
"Yemen, Fighting for Change".
Why did he make it look like an advert for an arts-dance-theatre production? It makes me think that reality no longer provides strong enough 'images' when compared with the plasticity of art-directed photography. I think the theatricality wholly undermines his subject.
I think this picture was chosen (partly) for political reasons. Currently in Europe, there are lots of debates going on about veils and burka's and whether to allow them or not. In these debates, little notice is given to the humanity of the people who wear these clothes. All that we hear is arguments about security and oppression, freedom of religion, et cetera. This picture shows the caring woman inside the burka. It reminds everyone participating in this debate that we are talking about people here. In a similar way the movie Persepolis did for me, it can remind us of humanity, even if it is dressed differently.
Do we really know it is a woman under there?
Either that - or a man with shaved wrists, flowers on his gloves and a pretty bag to sport.
Would you consider the image less of a winner if it was in fact a cross-dressing arab male?
I like this photo for the way the black silhoutted female figure highlights the diagonals which lead up to the head of the male. Her dirtied white gloved hands are the the most emotive reference to the scene, suffering and pain seems to be directly conveyed through them. it reminds me of a lamentation of Christ style early renaissance (Pieta/Vesperbild)composition. Mr Aranda seems to have a sound classical grounding. The smooth textures and lack of grain make this image seem sterile and therefore 'manufactured', but I find it really is very well structured and engaging.
I doubt its staged because the lighting absolutely sucks. Its got decent story, decent composition but I would not consider this a world calibre peice of art. It lacks something compelling.
Ummm it's not meant to be "art" in that sense. This is a case of life imitating art for some, sure, but it's really about human suffering and how it transcends culture, race and any other division you'd care to ascribe to people. "It lacks something compelling"? Are we looking at the same image?????
...and from which movie it is?
When they filmed lager at the first time, they will be aware to insert context and not only people, to make that after 40 years nobody could not say...this is a nice movie.
Anyway is a great pic, real or not.
Photojurnalism have to show us horror, so we can uderstand from our nice life how much bad things are around us, this was from the start of this activity.
Anyone could have created this scene in their basement. Hmm, that gives me an idea for next year...
World Press Photo contests are like vampires. They live on blood and suffering. Just watch the most of winners in past years. The more blood, tears and distruction the better. Wouldn`t be supprised the novices yearning for the title of the best world photographer of the year, would hone their skills in the morgue. The photo above is NIHIl NOVE SUB SOLE. It`s too much exploited (composition like) theme of Michelangelos Buonarottis PIETA .
Agree about the Pietà, not with the rest. This is our world, a world of war, violence, unrest, racism, fanaticism and intolerance. Someone has to depict it. What would you propose? Photos of flowers with 'creamy bokeh'? Children playing in the park? I concede there's an excessive exploitation of some 'darker' subjects by WPF, but, as I implied, that's our reality. Unfortunately.
I don't think the judges are wrong. I think this is an amazing and great photo.
Photo contests are stupid.
Hm...I always found photo contests kind of nice. Exciting, spurs taking of photos.
But people constantly reuse old photos. And the voting opinion ranges so much when it's up to the public that whichever photo wins is really just the most generically powerful.
Suddenly I agree...photo contests are stupid (often, not always)
Photo contests are stupid if you never win. You'll change your thinking once you do.
I thought there were other photos that were taken much better. Certainly the moment in this photo is powerful...but photographically for me the only point of interest is the subject itself, not how the subject was photographed. I guess negative emotions are an easier thing to capture and pull on peoples' (voting) heart strings.
Forget this...The real overall winner, to me, was Damir Sagolj "North Korea" (First Prize, Daily Life).
Now THAT's a photo...
Agreed, that's without a doubt the one that caught me.
The most painful one to watch was the one from a bombing in Afghanistan...
The pictures from Utøya caused quite a lot of controversy in Norway, by the way.
The thing is (...and I apologize if this was not the case or sounds insensible to you guys...) that, in it's essence, the winning photo has been done sometimes before.
We may now even be running the risk that crise-scene reporters are aiming their cameras at similar situations subliminally influenced by the reception over previous ones.
To me, photo-journalism is the only area where photography can aspire to transcend itself into"Art" (...simply by meta-crystallizing into being what it really always has been...) instead of grossly and explicitly aiming to be so.
As such, I am very demanding on this beloved type of photography.
To me, it has to illustrate reality, while managing to find an UNIQUE perspective, one that, while evoking a turmoil of feelings and myriad of almost synaptic relations, actually demonstrably makes dispensable the proverbial thousand words.
...and Damir Sagolj's "North Korea" has monumentally achieved that.
Many seem to have been processed through something that looks like a National Geographic Filter.
tired of seeing images of despair win out over something more positive.
Rather see a frog!
You rather see a photo of a frog winning World Press Photo 2011 award?
That's photojournalism, and it is clearly not dead, too bad Dan.
Fantastic pictures.
PS: I enjoy the rugby photo a lot. Go Blues!!!
People are not interested into what you say: happiness, joy etc.
They want to see the worse because only the worse impress and amaz them.
They want to see war pictures, dead bodies, destroyed cities or poor areas like india, africa. About portraiture, if you subject is a weird homeless full of scars the best it is.
Nowadays photo journalism is not related to art like it use to be at it starting days. It only focusses on sensational because it is what people like to see. Most of People are just pervs.
I really like this picture of Samuel Aranda as he gives emotion of Hope and Peace, Warmth of the mother...or wife (It is same for a man).
"You will be allright my love"
It is also a message about bourkha, what the woman is wearing. I think it shows something different of our belief as westerns (or what medias want to force us to believe). Bourkha has more to do with protection than slavery in a place where there are sometimes no rules. It is aimed to protect their/our mothers.
About the Bourka being a protection. Since you made political point about it gives me a right to reply and begs these questions. From what? Who created the danger? Against whom? Before predictably using the "Western countries" excuse I think the natives should look at the society they created where women should be "protected". I am someone was born from muslim parents and live in a predominantly muslim country. Sorry but the Bourka is an indication of women being worthless objects who should be protected from "pervert, dangerous masses of men" as all other types of so called religious coverings of women claim to "protect" them. Before we accuse western countries for distorting our self perception one must take responsibility for ills in his/her society. Don't be even more orientalist than the western orientalist.
I was trying to look for themes of:
Instead... the same sad recipe year after year...
The winners are ultimately chosen by people who vote on them.
It sadly reflects their essence.
enscenated picture. Cheap thrill
Photojournalism is alive!
Nice field of entries as usual. Sadly after following the Awards for many years, the topics are the same, death, suffering and destruction. All in the usual places. Great photos, showing the sad reality facing too many people.
No way...
After looking at it again, it reminds me of Mary and Jesus by Michelangelo without the veil. It is a powerful photo but I prefer "Ironman" or "A Mouthful"
La Pieta
I have not looked at all the entries, but find it hard to see why this was picked to win, there are many more deserving images.
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Twice Told Tuesday - The Evolution Of Hygienic Dress
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my collection of old photography books, magazines, and newspapers.
The more things change so the saying goes and it appears to be true for humor. Shades commences this Twice Told with a joke from 1894. Then we take a look at hygienic dress and it evolution. More clothing styles to help date those old photographs.
SHE - "I hope it isn't my hundred thousand
that your after, George?"
MR. GRASPER - "Believe me, no darling.
I'd marry you if you had only ninety thousand.
Spice Box
Demorest's Magazine
December 1894
Some little while ago the rebellion against fashion broke out again, and the Bloomer became modified and was called "the divided skirt." But the poor wearers were subjected to ridicule, and rushed to the other extreme in Grecian dress.
Which was very graceful and pretty, but it didn't suit the practical, matter-of-fact nineteenth century.
Next came the aesthetic dress, which held full sway until it was intolerably exaggerated, and the majority sought for some other attire.
Now we are more common sense in our views, and the costume which appeared absurb are, when put to a proper use, of the utmost advantage. What could be better than a Bloomer costume on a bicycle?
What could be neater or nicer than a tailor-made gown for the street or wet weather?
And should you incline towards aesthetic dress, or yearn for a Grecian costume, you may have all you desire; and, "most important of all," you will be in fashion.
Unknown, "Joke." Demorest's Family Magazine, September 1896, 676.
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