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From 2 March - 26 May 2013, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery will be hosting an exhibition of the works of Edith Tudor-Hart. As one of the most important female photographers to have ever worked in the UK, Edith Tudor-Hart lived through and documented some of the most significant political events of the 20th century, covering inter-war Vienna, Britain during the Great Slump of the 1930s and post-WW2 child welfare in the UK. The exhibition, "In the Shadow of Tyranny," contains more than 80 images, many of which have never been shown before, and includes film footage, Tudor-Hart's scrapbook and a selection of her published stories in books and magazines. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery's Robert Mapplethorpe Photography Gallery is located at 1 Queen Street, Edinburgh EH2 1JD.
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Announced in October 2012, Cokin's new Pure Harmonie range of filters are now available for purchase in the United Kingdom. Billed as the lightest and thinnest photo filters in the world, Cokin Pure Harmonie filters are multi-coated with EVERCLEAR 5 Coating Technology boasting Water Repellent, Anti-Oil, Anti-Dust, Anti-Soil and Scratch Resistant characteristics. With a thickness of 3.3mm for the Multi-Coated Anti-UV (UV MC), 4.5mm for the Circular Polarizer (C PL) and 9.5mm for the Variable Density Neutral Grey (ND X), Cokin Pure Harmonie filters are super-lightweight and cause no vignetting. Pricing starts at £39.99 for the UV filters, £79.99 for the circular polarisers and £154.99 for the variable-density neutral grey filters.
Adobe has launched a new version of its Photoshop Touch app, optimised for smartphones. Inspired by the existing Photoshop Touch for tablets, the phone app brings core features of Photoshop desktop software to mobile devices and offers similar intuitive, touch-based gestures and features. "Adobe Photoshop Touch for phone offers great depth and value with layering and blending features," said Richard Gray, mobile photographer, educator and blogger, iphoggy.com. "I'll be using Photoshop Touch for phone in class with my students this year as we look at the more artistic end of the creative process with dreamscapes and surreal images." Adobe Photoshop Touch for phone is immediately available in the Apple App Store and Google Play for £2.99.
Canon Europe is participating in a number of initiatives as part of its official sponsorship of London Fashion Week and London Fashion Weekend. Highlights of the Canon initiatives are captured in behind-the-scene insights revealed in a series of Canon video interviews by seasoned fashion blogger Andy Torres from StyleScrapbook.com. Leading professional photographer Clive Booth also explains what it means to be a fashion photographer and the creation story behind British designer Henry Holland's look book. Canon will also provide a range of photography opportunities and experiences to student photographers and the 2012 winners of the Canon Professional Services' 'Best Shot' competition. London Fashion Week (15-19 February) is the biggest event on the British fashion calendar, with over 5,000 visitors at this year's event. It is followed by London Fashion Weekend (21-24 February) London's largest and most exclusive designer shopping event open to the public biannually.
Adobe has posted version 7.4 of Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) and version 4.4 of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom as Release Candidates. These updates add support for the Canon EOS 1D C
Casio Exilim EX-ZR700, Fujifilm X100s, Fujifilm X20 (pictured), Hasselblad Lunar, Leica M, Nikon 1 V3, Nikon 1 S1 and Pentax MX-1 cameras; and includes a correction to the demosaic algorithms for Fujifilm cameras with the X-Trans sensor. This specifically impacts the Fujifilm X-Pro1, Fujifilm X-E1, Fujifilm X100S and Fujifilm X20 models.
The winners of BergHind Joseph's International Photographic Competition have just been announced. The overall winner is Erkan Kalenderli of Turkey. His winning entry called 'The former type of leader' (above) pictures a shepherd with his flock. Anna Marriage from the UK came in second with her photo, 'Leading by example, the ballerina,'' and in third place was Doron Talmi with the image 'Female Leadership'. The winning images were selected by a prestigious judging panel including Margaret Clarke, picture editor of The Times, Professor Paddy Professor Paddy Miller, one of the world's leading authorities on leadership, BergHind Joseph's Director of Design Excellence, Smith Joseph and Director of Creative Delivery, Michael Hirschl. As well as a cash prize of £500, Erkan will be offered a year of portfolio mentoring sessions with BergHind Joseph's creative team. Last year's winner, Zoltán Balogh from Hungary, took up the mentoring sessions last year and as a result is building his reputation, portfolio, and establishing himself as a professional photographer.
Intro 2020 has launched a new Tamron UK Facebook page. Offering plenty of news and editorial content as well as regular competitions, reviews of Tamron products, galleries of inspirational images and exclusive offers for fans; the page went live on Monday, 25th February 2013. To celebrate the launch month there will be a different themed photo-competition each week for the next four weeks – with a total of four Tamron 18-270mm PZD lenses up for grabs.
Akvis has released version 3.0 of Akvis Refocus, a program that improves the sharpness of out-of-focus images. This update offers brand new image processing modes and allows users to actually add lens blur and bokeh effects to their photos. The program now runs in three modes, refocus, miniature and iris blur. The refocus mode is the same as before, making blurred photos sharp and clear (within limits, of course). The miniature mode - which Akvis calls "Tilt-Shift" even though it cannot emulate everything you can achieve with a real tilt-shift lens - leaves a sharp strip in the image while adding gradual blur at the edges, giving objects in the photo a miniature/toy look. Finally, the Iris Blur mode creates a shallow depth-of-field effect, blurring the background while keeping the subject in focus. Registered users of Refocus can upgrade to version 3.0 free of charge.
Everyday Objects / Cultural Treasures by Vadim Gushchin is a new title from Schilt Publishing. 'An ode to the Russian Suprematist tradition, Gushchin's photography reveals the fundamental duality of culture: the abstract nature of objects in it and the specificity of colour,' the publisher says. "Gushchin offers us an image of the object that moves away from the banal mythology of the commodity. His photographs show us that fine line beyond which the ideal object mutates into a household item." The 96-page volume is available for £45/$60/€50.
The next Magnum Professional Practice seminar will be held from 13th – 14th April in Newport, Wales. In this two day event, hosted in partnership with the University of Wales, leading figures of the photographic industry will deliver presentations and advice on the best means in engaging with and the realities of working in their sectors. Confirmed speakers include Sophie Batterbury, Emily Graham, Harry Hardie, Joni Karanka, Peter Marlow, Stewart Mungeam, Fiona Rogers and Hannah Watson. The tuition fee is £150 (+VAT) including lunch and refreshments but excluding transport and accommodation. 10 bursary places are available for photographers aged 16-25 years for the subsided rate of £50 (+VAT).
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If you think being a saver in the U.S. is tough, you should try being one in the island nation of Cyprus.
Up to now, having a certificate of deposit in a bank in Cyprus has been a pretty good deal. Savers there enjoyed the relatively low inflation rate of the euro combined with CD rates that were much higher than in the U.S. According to the latest numbers from the European Central Bank, Cypriot banks were paying an average of 4.66 percent annually on their equivalent of CDs maturing in one to two years. That's many times the 0.26 percent average annual yield that U.S. banks are paying on one-year CDs these days.
But now, there's a big downside. Cyprus' largest banks are currently insolvent and are negotiating a bailout package with the European Union, of which Cyprus is a member, and the International Monetary Fund. As a condition of providing that bailout, European policymakers are demanding that Cyprus confiscate a substantial chunk of the savings sitting in Cypriot banks -- up to 9.9 percent in some cases.
Should it come to pass, the special saver tax is going to hurt not only a lot of Cypriots, but also a lot of the foreign investors, particularly Russians, who had flocked to Cyprus to take advantage of the high rates and the country's relaxed money-laundering controls.
In the U.S., depositors are mostly insulated from those types of issues. Not a single depositor under the insurance limit of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. lost a dime from those accounts in the 2008 financial crisis. The FDIC guarantee on deposits backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government is a big reason why many Americans have turned to deposits as a safe haven since the system was put into place in 1933.
Savers who decide to seek out higher rates abroad should know that they won't necessarily get a guarantee on their deposits, and if even if they do, it may not mean as much. After all, Cyprus, like all E.U. countries, carries deposit insurance on amounts up to 100,000 euros.
What do you think? Would you put your money in a foreign CD to boost your yield?

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batlet (plural batlets)
- A short bat for beating clothes when washing them.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- 1600 — William Shakespeare, As You Like it act ii, scene iv
- Touchstone: I remember, when I was in love I broke my sword upon a stone and bid him take that for coming a-night to Jane Smile; and I remember the kissing of her batlet and the cow's dugs that her pretty chopt hands had milked;
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for batlet in Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)


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Michael Kimelman, a former hedge-fund trader who was convicted of conspiracy and two counts of securities fraud in June, is seeking a new trial. Kimelman claims prosecutors had no evidence that he participated in illegal insider-trading in 3Com Corp.
According to prosecutors, Kimelman received inside information from Zvi Goffer, who supposedly received tips from two former Ropes & Gray lawyers. Goffer, Goffer's brother and Kimelman were all convicted earlier this summer for their roles in the alleged scheme.
Kimelman's lawyer says prosecutors had no evidence that Kimelman was aware that Goffer had inside information about 3Com.
Kimelman and his alleged cronies were convicted around the same time as Raj Rajartnam of Galleon Group as part of the government's increased focus on busting insider-trading in corporate America.