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Some of them and some of me
Great portraits are as much about the artist as they are about their subjects. This is true whether the artist is a sculptor, a painter or a photographer. Successful portraits are invariably not only likenesses of the subject, but also portraits of the artist. In every successful portrait there is always 'some of them and some of me'.
It is the proportion of this mix that becomes all-important — the balance between the 'them and me'.
Intentionally or not, photographers are commentators. Most are visually opinionated. If there is too much of 'me' in the photograph, then the portrait becomes a story about me. Too much of 'them' and the resulting picture will have no opinion. Many photographers want to impose their opinions on the subjects — sometimes doing the subject a great injustice in the process.
In a manner of speaking, our opinions also become our photographic 'style'. How we think, how we see the world, our attitudes, our beliefs, our personalities, our backgrounds, how we live — all this may be reflected in a portrait. I believe when our opinions overpower the personality of our subjects, the picture becomes a story about the photographer — the subject just becomes an object in front of our lens. For me the best portraits are a blending of both the subject and the photographer — a bit like a conversation where no one dominates and no one shouts.
Perhaps this is the charm of photography — a conversation where no one quite agrees. No two picture-makers think alike. Put two photographers in the same room and we seldom agree on anything — so it is perhaps fortunate that Yousuf Karsh and Athol Shmith never met. If they had, I'm sure their ensuing conversation would have had some interesting dynamics!
Their two personalities were poles apart. Karsh had little formal education. When I met him in 1992 he reminded me of a street fighter — diminutive, pugnacious, domineering and opinionated. Quick movements belying his age 'I'm 83 in December!' Throughout my time with him, he never listened, continually interrupted and tried to control my portrait session. Shmith, on the other hand, who was roughly of the same vintage, was educated, urbane, elegant and a great listener. I recall him saying,'Someone once wrote that the art of listening is as difficult as the art of the orator. Well, in fact it's harder. So many people just don't listen.'
It's most likely that Shmith was unknown to Karsh, even though they photographed many of the same people. It's probably also fortuitous, because Athol didn't have much respect for Karsh's work.
SHMITH: There are one or two photographers I have little time for. One is Ansel Adams — possibly the most commercial photographer who ever lived. He's not the ultimate 'art photographer' proposed endlessly by the Americans, he's just a commercial photographer who created dozens of duplicated images in his darkroom.
And the other is Karsh.
What's wrong with Karsh? What a dream of an opportunity he had! To be selected to photograph all those famous people! Fortunately more significant photographers also photographed them because, apart from a couple of portraits, most of his pictures are only skin deep — I mean, the man had to get a couple of shots right with all those great subjects!
In a sense, Karsh's portraits are like empty buildings. He photographs the persons' face, not the persons' soul. His pictures remind me of those Detroit car photos — probably a ridiculous analogy but everything's just a little too perfect and the end result is rather slick. You are forced to decide what is important about Karsh's work: his collection of subjects or his collection of pictures.
Someone once said that we are the sum total of everything we have experienced. Perhaps it's also true to claim that most of our memory banks are filled before we are five years old. Could this be a reason why Yousuf Karsh devoted his life to recording 'the good the great and the gifted' — because of his disastrous childhood? Karsh and Shmith couldn't have come from more different backgrounds. Karsh spent his childhood in Armenia — a tiny country on the border of Turkey, about one tenth the size of the State of Victoria.
KARSH: My father could neither read nor write, but he had exquisite taste and travelled to distant lands where he bought and traded in rare and beautiful things — furniture, rugs, paintings and spices. We lost everything when we were forced to leave Armenia.
Between 1915 and 1922, when I was 14, the Turkish government systematically assassinated one and a half million of my countrymen — roughly one third of the population of Armenia — including most of the intelligentsia and leaders. Even today, 78 years later, the Turks still deny this took place.
Cruelty and torture were everywhere. One of my earliest memories was carrying food parcels to my two beloved uncles who had been torn from their homes and cast into prison by the Turks — for no reason other than they were Armenian. One uncle was a talented artist, a calligrapher who used to illuminate the Bible and the Koran. Eventually they were both thrown down a well and left to perish. There were many similar stories. I remember seeing pictures of beheaded intellectuals and Armenian leaders — these were the people the 'Young Turks' went after first.
In 1922 our family was allowed to flee. We had to leave everything behind. We were allowed to take nothing — we escaped only with our lives. We fled on foot — we weren't allowed to travel by train, which would have taken only two days , instead we journeyed with a Bedouin caravan. The journey to Syria took a month. My parents lost every valuable they managed to save to pay off people along the way. My father's last silver coin was used to rescue me after I was caught foolishly making a sketch of a pile of human sculls — the last bitter landmark of my country.
I found it hard to relate the words of the dapper little man sitting in front of me — a man who had rubbed shoulders with and photographed the rich and famous, the politicians and personalities from the worlds of acting and the arts for the past 60 years — to his disastrous past. While Karsh was travelling by camel to Syria, Shmith was growing up in Victoria, 12,000 miles away. The son of a Cockney chemist and his Jewish wife, Athol had a happy childhood — surrounded by loving parents and part of a family of three kids.
SHMITH: My father was a chemist — he invented the formula for ASPRO — which later became a multi-million concern after Nicholas bought him out. He could have made a fortune, but never did. I think he made 400 quid out of it! My father was a fine piano player and he instilled in me a great love of music. He also taught me how to play the piano although I always preferred the vibraphone — I bought the first Vibes in Australia.
I wasn't a particularly good student at school, but I loved music. I played in the school orchestra and with some friends we formed a small jazz group — we were bloody awful but any chance to make some noise — well, we didn't have to be asked twice! I really wanted to become a conductor. I remember I had a conductor's baton, which came with a set of records called 'Music for Frustrated Conductors'! I would wait until no one was about, turn up Mozart and Mahler or Beethoven and conduct away to my heart's content — I did this for years!
Karsh had only a few years of formal education.
KARSH: My early education was primarily in the hands of my mother who was an educated woman and extremely well read — which was unusual in Armenia at that time. I attended a school in Aleppo in Syria for a couple of years after we escaped from Armenia.
Somehow my father managed to scrape together enough money to send me to America, to my Uncle Nakash — a photographer. I continued my education in the States for the next three years — which was difficult because I didn't speak English — but it was over before it had really begun. Perhaps because of what I had seen, I always wanted to become a doctor but this was not to be.
SHMITH: I really had no intention of becoming a photographer — although I used a camera at school — I really wanted to become a conductor. My first job was in a factory making laxatives — something my father found for me. No experience in life is wasted and I guess I gained some valuable knowledge that was useful later on when dealing with advertising agencies! Meanwhile, I maintained my interest in photography and one day my father got me an assignment through a friend of his who made ball bearings.
Sixty years down the track and much had changed in the fortunes of these two men.
I remembered the Château Laurier where Karsh lived and worked. Built in 1884 and named after the first French-speaking premier of Canada, it reminded me of a pretentious chateau on the Rhine. It had heavily ornate, sumptuous rooms connected by wide corridors, hideous carpet punctuated here and there by alternating busts in white marble on mahogany plinths, and tired-looking pots of aspidistra and palms.
One expected to encounter the obligatory suit of armour around the next corner — it seemed an incongruous backdrop for the pugnacious Karsh, who had started off in such desperate surroundings. I felt this was a heritage earned, rather than one inherited.
The home of Athol Shmith was in complete contrast.
If one recalls the fashion pictures and portraits of Athol Shmith from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, it's not hard to imagine the dapper young photographer, driving around Melbourne in his black MG — the first one in Australia. In comparison with Karsh, Athol Shmith lived a privileged life, in a fantasy world filled with beautiful socialite women, celebrities and elegance and light.
I first met Athol in 1986. The front door of his tiny duplex apartment in South Yarra opened bringing me face-to-face with a neatly groomed man wearing a well-cut jacket and slacks. I was instantly reminded of a 1950s picture of a gently stooping Athol by Helmut Newton, with whom he once shared a studio.
I entered his home. Gone at once was my fantasy. The imagined light and elegance was replaced by dark timber, concrete brick walls painted a sombre mustard colour, dingy lighting and dark furniture — lighting so low I couldn't get a reading on my light meter. Why were the 1970s such an ugly period in Australian architectural design?
Shmith's major influences in photography were music and his father — who didn't discourage him from following a musical career, but definitely did encourage him to tackle photography assignments for his friends.
Shmith's love of music and photography were equal. His arms would move about like a conductor as he would speak of conducting a photography assignment, or the need for composition and symphony in a photograph. He would argue for movement and scale and pitch in a print. He would try to explain to colleagues the relevance of counterpoint and contrasts, of scales and tonal ranges. He invariably played classical music while he was working and watching him work has been described by some to be like watching a ballet.
Athol would be moved into making a photograph.
SHMITH: There's an interesting parallel to be made between photography and music. In the history of music, it is the composer who will be remembered. I wonder how many performers have played Beethoven's Fifth since he wrote it? I wonder how many performers will be remembered a hundred years from now?
With photography the opposite is true.
It will be the image that is remembered — long after the photographer's name has been forgotten. When we talk about Eddie Adams' picture of the Vietnamese General shooting the Viet Cong in the head, we talk about the picture not about Eddie. In the case of photography we always talk about the score — seldom about the composer.
There were three major influences in the life of Karsh. The first was his mother who instilled in him the value of tolerance and determination. PerhapsKarsh's instinctive desire to show human greatness in terms of social contribution — rather than destruction — was a way of restoring a balance to the world of his early childhood. His mother's philosophy of 'always turn the other cheek' would certainly have found fertile ground in the mind of the young Karsh. The second influence was his mentor and fellow Armenian John H. Garo, a portrait photographer in Boston, to whom Karsh was apprenticed.
KARSH: Garo was a wise counsellor. He encouraged me to attend evening classes in art and to study the work of the great masters, especially Rembrandt and Velázquez. I never learned how to draw or paint but I did absorb a fair amount about lighting, composition and design.
The third major influence on Karsh's life, and the one that probably determined his distinctive repetitive photographic style, was his love of the theatre. In his early days in Ottawa, Karsh had few friends and welcomed an invitation to join the Ottawa Little Theatre, an enthusiastic group of amateur players.
KARSH: The experience of photographing actors with artificial light overwhelmed me. Working with daylight in Garo's studio one had to wait — sometimes for hours — for the light to be right. With artificial lighting, moods could be created, modified, intensified. A whole new world was opened to me.
It was perhaps this influence of 'stage lighting' that so profoundly determined Karsh's photographic style. Many of his best-loved images — for example the portraits of Hemmingway and Khrushchev appear to have been made in his studio, but in fact were made on location.
KARSH: My portable lights gave me the freedom to work away from Ottawa. Any room in the world where I could set up my lights and camera — from BuckinghamPalace to a Zulu kraal — became my studio.
One is forced to ask why anyone would travel all the way to Key West or Moscow and return with an image that appears to have been made in a studio in Boston!
Photographing Karsh was a nightmare! Perhaps when a person has lived through a disastrous childhood like his, it becomes impossible to let go — to hand control over to someone else.
Photographing Athol was a breeze. I photographed Athol in his cluttered office on the mezzanine floor. How he managed to cram a large desk and all his other junk into a space 1.8 metres square is hard to imagine — until one realises there is very little of Athol's photography still in existence.
In a manner of speaking, this tiny space was the personification of all that remained of his 50 years as a photographer. While his peers — Dupain, Cato and others — meticulously filed and numbered every job they photographed, Athol believed his old commercial negatives were of no particular value and he trashed them all.
Fortunately, an enlightened Gael Newton discovered a pile of them in 1970 in a garden shed belonging to one of Athol's old students — the filmmaker Paul Cox. 'I shovelled them into a suitcase,' (her words, not mine), 'and took them to the National Library and the Art Gallery of New South Wales'.
The pictures reproduced in his two books were rescued from these suitcases, boxes in people's garages, private collections, and a few — a very few — from the photographer himself.
Athol pointed to a framed picture of Judy Garland hanging on a wall.
SHMITH: That's my all time favourite picture! Such a sad picture. I couldn't bring myself to make a final print. I destroyed the negative right after I made the work print — that's the work print up there. I couldn't tear it up, but I did score it [the negative] and threw it away once I saw the work print. Technically it's lousy. It's over contrasty. It's not even sharp. Everything's wrong. Now why is it that everything can be wrong with a picture and yet everything can be right?
It was a depressing moment — Garland was drunk and had kept the audience waiting for over an hour. It makes me depressed looking at it. She was abusing me at that moment for taking the picture. Yet, when she started singing, it was magic!
Garland never saw the picture — it seemed an invasion into her life.
I was very fortunate. Starting in the 1930's I had a contract with the ABC to photograph visiting celebrities. I had no idea at the time just how fortunate I was! They would phone up and ask me to photograph Thomas Beecham, or Malcolm Sargeant, or H. G. Wells, or whoever — mind you, I had a similar contract with J. C. Williamson who brought out people like Yehudi Menuhin. I was bloody lucky, I had no competition! I did 'aunty's' publicity work for nearly 30 years.
I wish those negatives existed today — just imagine the record that no longer exists!
Karsh hated being photographed. He immediately started organising me: how and where he wished to be photographed, what he should wear, which hat — he was already wearing a beautifully tailored suit and tie. 'The light is beautiful at the moment! We should talk as we walk because if you leave it too late, it won't be as good. We will do the shot in ten minutes outside Parliament House. This tie OK? Do you like this hat?' He held up battered felt Trilby, "'Or this one?"' This time a natty black one. He tried on both, all the while checking the results in a mirror. He made the decision. Natty was better.
'It's three degrees outside.' The final touch was a hideous long coat made from dead animals. 'I'll give you a 15-minute start and follow you — I don't want to stand around while you decide what you want me to do.' To Jerry Fielder, his assistant: 'Take him to the archway — there's a view of Parliament House through the archway. We'll do the shot there.'
The last thing I needed was another picture of a photographer standing in an archway. But I said nothing. Leaving Karsh in his studio, we set off up the hill.
The entrance driveway to Parliament House in Ottawa is designed like an inverted 'U', with buildings on three sides and a large open lawn in the middle. It was February and the lawn was covered in snow — not a footprint in sight.
I hate pre-conceiving images, but I thought it would be terrific if the old man's footsteps appeared in the top left-hand corner of my picture and led towards my camera — about 100 yards away. The old man arrived. He agreed. 'But I have the wrong shoes!' This to his long-suffering assistant, 'I need my boots — my black leather boots. Go back to the studio and fetch them. Meanwhile he can photograph me here under this archway.'
The bloody archway again! Controlling, always controlling.
Stiff and awkward in front of the camera, I moved him about as much as I dared, but there was no subtlety of movement and he was as stubborn as an ancient mule. I wondered if this was simply the behaviour of an 'Old Chooker' or something to do with his sudden loss of being 'in control'.
I was determined not to photograph Karsh as he wanted. At that moment, two spunky women walked past and he started being cheeky to them. He turned away from me to talk to them. Now in profile to me, he momentarily forgot all about me as he watched them pass out of sight.
He suddenly seemed small and insignificant and lost in thought.
It's extraordinary what one notices in moments such as these. I remember thinking how huge his nose was and how it seemed to have the same texture as his coat — all lumpy and shapeless. I tilted the camera up to reinforce the sensation of insignificance and make the concrete around him more overpowering. I have no idea what he was musing about. He never said. The moment lasted only a moment, but long enough to make a few exposures before he turned back to me and started to tell me what to do again.
While there is only a limited collection of Athol Shmith's work still in existence, Karsh left the world with an astounding record of the rich and famous over the past 60 years. His was a way of making pictures that flattered the subject, so they felt comfortable posing for him. Being photographed by Karsh became an entry fee to an exclusive club where your credentials were endorsed by the other great and famous people who had already been before his lens. A Karsh portrait became, if you like, the final accolade of recognition from the world stage.
After the success of his 1941 portrait of Churchill, Karsh never had a shortage of subjects; indeed, being photographed by him became — as one critic has described it — 'a badge of honour'.
We are now a different generation of photographers. We live in an unflattering world filled with fear and exaggerated rhetoric. We have come to the uncomfortable realisation that Australia can no longer have an island mentality — protected and isolated. We have begun to realise that if we wish to become a part of the World Stage, we can also expect the occasional pratfall. We have discovered it is our inalienable right to question the platitudes of the politicians and religious leaders we once held in reverence.
When viewed in today's sceptical light, Karsh's work poses a few questions. These can only be answered on an individual basis — from our personal viewpoint and backgrounds as students of photography.
For example, is Karsh's legacy to the world a collection of truly great photographs?
One definition of a portrait might be that it should give some insight into the person's personality, life and character. In all honesty, what can we really tell about the people Karsh photographed that we didn't already know from media, films and the like?
Would it be fair to say that while Shmith's portraits may be 'softer', they also give us greater insight into the character of his subjects? Does the rawness of his Judy Garland picture, for example, make us understand her pain better — or would we still prefer to remember her through the glossy spectacles of a Hollywood illusion?
An illusion is, after all, in reality, a lie.
As another example, both Karsh and Shmith made portraits of Sir Laurence Olivier Image 1 Image 2. Both pictures were made in the classical style of the period. Both photographers used tungsten light. Both had Olivier holding something. Both photographed him over his left shoulder, looking from right to left. Why then does the Karsh picture look so soppy, uncomfortable and 'mincing', while the Shmith portrait seems to record an intelligent, strong and engaging actor?
Perhaps it's more accurate to say that the Karsh collection is a great record of the world's celebrities — but is it really a collection of great photographs?
If every successful portrait is 'some of them, and some of me', would it be true to say that most of Karsh's portraits are portraits of him — in that most of the lighting and posing are the same? How could this extraordinary collection of people all be the same?
We may feel we already know the celebrities Karsh photographed from what we have been exposed to in the media. Perhaps we love them. Perhaps we hate them — but why is it that we feel comfortable when we see them? Perhaps it's a bit like discovering there's someone else in the world that feels the same way about them as we do? When we look at his portraits, what are we judging? The personalities? His photography? Ourselves?
In 1992 Karsh told me, 'It should be the aim of every photographer to make a single exposure that shows everything about the subject.' After a pause, he added, 'I have been told that my portrait of Churchill is an example of this.'
I confess, I find it impossible to accept that any single image can come close to representing everything about a person — even Karsh's best-known image of Winston Churchill. I prefer instead the words of another great American portrait photographer, Arnold Newman, who in the same year said: 'I am convinced that any photographic attempt to show the complete man is nonsense. We can only show, as best we can, what the outer man reveals. The inner man is seldom revealed to anyone, sometimes not even the man himself.'
However, on one point I do agree with Karsh: 'When you photograph an Einstein, or a Helen Keller or a Hemmingway, or a Churchill, you are already a part of history. If your photograph is the summation of these persons' many accomplishments, then the historical point of view is already fulfilled.'
Athol Shmith used to advise his students not to live by photography alone, but to explore all the arts. That's also my philosophy. Photography is still the youngest of all the arts, and sometimes the most raw.
SHMITH: With good portrait work you must satisfy yourself. If you set out to satisfy your subject or your client, you'll find yourself getting rid of all the bloody wrinkle lines. I always talk to my subjects before I make a shot. There's an old trick called 'doing the mahogany' — where you pretend to pull out the slide and then people would stiffen up. You'd pretend to make an exposure and then you'd pull the slide when they aren't expecting it and then make your exposure.
I can't make portraits before an audience. I can do advertising shots before an audience. The more the merrier! The whole damn Victorian advertising club can be there for all I care! But not with a portrait. For a portrait I need to be by myself.
I have no regrets about the work I did — except that I didn't keep negatives. It's no big thing — what's the use? If I started worrying abut it I'd become melancholy! They've gone — but it was one hell of an experience while I was doing it.
Of the millions of images that will be made today and tomorrow, few will stand the test of time. If photography is all about capturing tiny moments of time then perhaps time itself will be photography's only true critic. Shmith and Karsh may have given us a romanticised view of ourselves — perhaps a view that was not totally honest, in that at the time they were made, we may not have been ready for the cold hard facts of reality — but certainly a view that will be remembered.
Peter Adams poses a number of questions and personal responses to the portraits in the exhibition the good, the great and the gifted. Attached are some points for discussion.
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All Blacks boss Steve Hansen has praised Springbok skipper Jean de Villiers for the way he handled the substitute mishap on Saturday.
All Blacks boss Steve Hansen has praised Springbok skipper Jean de Villiers for the way he handled the substitute mishap in Johannesburg on Saturday.
There was confusion when the All Blacks replaced first-choice hooker Andrew Hore with Dane Coles in the second half of the Test, which New Zealand won 38-27.
Coles had been playing for 20 minutes when referee Nigel Owens questioned why he was on the field as his name was not on the official team sheet handed in before kick-off.
Veteran rake Keven Mealamu was listed as the back-up number two, but New Zealand's team manager, Darren Shand, told Owens that he had made a typing error.
Owens then convened a quick on-field discussion with Shand, De Villiers, All Black captain Richie McCaw and Springbok team manager Ian Schwartz to shed more light on the matter.
After some deliberation, De Villiers insisted that the game continues with Coles remaining on the field.
Hansen hailed the Bok captain for his sportsmanship afterwards.
"The team list thing was a human error," Hansen told the Beeld newspaper.
"Keven would never have played. It was wonderful that common sense prevailed. It doesn't matter that someone made such a mistake. Jean was terrific when he entered the discussion.
"All credit to Jean for the sportsmanship he portrayed in that moment."
De Villiers did, however, have a bit of a laugh when he suggested that points will be deducted from the All Blacks after the match.
The All Blacks could be fined for the incident but SANZAR is not expected to dish out any further punishment, according to Beeld.


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The waiver was offered yesterday by U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan, in response to a national outcry over the rushed implementation of the new Common Core State Standards for all students in math and language arts.
"The Christie administration has publicly stated that it agrees with the Obama administration on education policy," said NJEA President Barbara Keshishian. "This is an opportunity to slow down a headlong rush to over-rely on student test scores to evaluate teachers in New Jersey. All respected research cautions against that, and NJEA has been urging caution on this matter for two years," she said.
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Memorabilia makers are gearing up for a surge of interest in all things British and royal.
At 4.24 p.m. on Monday, July 22, the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in London witnessed a major arrival – the birth of a whole new raft of royal-related collectibles.
Memorabilia manufacturers ramped up their output in the months leading up to the birth, most noticeably with the release of royal morning sickness sick bags, both blue and pink to reflect the then-unknown gender of the future monarch.
Now that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have safely delivered on the pitter-patter of blue-blooded feet, the collectible world is set to go into overdrive.
Monarchist Anita Atkinson has more than 6,000 pieces of royal memorabilia at her home near Crook, County Durham, in England. Minutes after Kate Middleton ushered Prince George Alexander Louis of Cambridge into the world, the collector was placing an order for a delivery of her own – mugs.
The collector, who proudly bought the aforementioned sick bags, said: "Mugs are the main thing at any royal event. I have mugs from when the Queen was born as well as her sister and all the royal babies since.
"There is a lady in Escomb (near Bishop Auckland) who has designed some beautiful commemorative mugs which I am looking forward to receiving," Atkinson said. "My daughters are in London at the moment and they will keep an eye out for things I might like. What I really want is a picture of the announcement."
The Internet has already been inundated with royal goodies, from knitted figurines to napkin rings, toys to a crown-encrusted potty.
And the official Royal Collection Trust merchandise ratified by the royal household and featuring tankards and fine-bone china emblazoned with the families' crests will be launched imminently.
The birth will really prove big business for the pottery and ceramics industries based in places like Stoke-on-Trent with commemorative plates, bowls and mugs already rolling off the production line.
"This birth is going to be excellent for these industries," Atkinson said. "The Americans especially go crazy for genuine British-made artifacts about the royals. A lot is made in China, but they prefer stuff made in England."
Laura Cohen, chief executive of the British Ceramic Confederation, said: ''This will be a welcome boost for U.K. tableware and giftware manufacturers, generating significant sales for many companies in the U.K. and overseas.
"Many customers value the Made in England backstamp on cherished family items such as these marking royal occasions," Cohen said. "For many companies, this could be a significant part of their sales -- it could be as much as five to 10 per cent."
Unusual items that have marked previous royal births include a ceramic thimble produced to commemorate the Prince of Wales, who was born on November 14, 1948.
It featured a tiny print of the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth, holding Charles, just a babe in arms, with his father the Duke of Edinburgh looking on.
William's birth on June 21, 1982, was marked by a plethora of mugs, cups, plates and even commemorative bottles of whiskey.
Howard Archer, chief U.K. economist at IHS Global Insight, said alcohol sales may also rise as people toast the new arrival, and that bookmakers have done well, first from taking bets on the baby's gender and then on his name.
The Centre for Retail Research has estimated that the baby's arrival could add more than 240 million pounds to the British economy as people buy food and drink for celebrations at home and in pubs, as well as purchases and exports of souvenirs, toys and related books and media.
Victoria Clarke, an economist at Investec, cautioned however that such surges in consumer sentiment tend to be short-lived, evaporating in the following month's data.
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You probably know that cigarette smoking causes breathing problems and lung cancer. But did you know it also makes you more likely to have a heart attack?
Every cigarette you smoke makes you more likely to get heart disease. Roughly 1 out of 5 deaths from heart disease is directly related to smoking.
People who smoke are two to four times more likely to get heart disease. The risk is even greater for women who smoke and also take birth control pills.
Cigarette smoke is also bad for the people around you. Secondhand smoke can cause heart disease and lung cancer in people who don't smoke.
How Does Smoking Cause Heart Disease?
The nicotine in smoke:
- Reduces how much oxygen your heart gets
- Raises your blood pressure
- Speeds up your heart rate
- Makes blood clots more likely, which can lead to heart attacks or strokes
- Harms the insides of your blood vessels, including those in your heart
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Soon after you stop, your odds of getting heart disease or high blood pressure will drop. After 1 to 2 years of not smoking, you'll be much less likely to get heart disease.
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Homecoming at Hurricane Baptist Church will be held on Oct. 3 with special services for the day as the night service will be changed to the afternoon. There will be a fellowship meal at noon.
The Wise Family Farms are getting prepared for their festivities beginning the first weekend in October located on Shady Grove Road.
Enjoying a trip to Memphis on Labor Day weekend were Polly Montgomery, Freida Browning, and Clarenda Parrish as they visited Floyce Long.
Labor Day weekend is always a busy weekend for the community as hunters locally as well as those from out of state hunt dove. Aden Hooker and I shopped in Oxford and then we joined the family at Lafayette Springs for a cookout.
Birthday wishes to Charlie Hicks who will be 80 on Sept. 16.
Guide Browning of ICC in Fulton was home for Labor Day weekend.
Birthday wishes to Marquetta Spears and to Lisa(Hale)Kidd.
Regina Smith of New Orleans enjoyed a visit with her mom, Dot Caples on Sept. 12, and they attended the morning services at Hurricane Baptist Church.
Nelda Morgan of Hernando was home for the weekend with her mom, Geraldine Burchfield and attended church with her also at Hurricane.
Get well wishes to Doyle Russell and to Dr. Richard Russell of New Albany. Dr. Stanley Russell of Jackson recently was in the community as he visited his brothers.
Warren Norwood, Susan and Graden Hooker ate at Fat Cat's on Hwy. 30 on Saturday night. We enjoyed talking to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Phillips of Oxford while there. Robert is the son of Rex(Norwood)Phillips and the grandson of the late Arthur and Maude(Johnson)Norwood of Macedonia.
Get well wishes to Roy Dillard. Dean Dillard of Nettlon visited Roy at his Duncan Creek home last week as well as Rosa and Steve Heatherly of Etta on Saturday, Sept. 11.
Edie Norwood Oliver of Eupora recently celebrated her 22nd birthday and is a graduate of Delta State University in May. She is now at Mississippi State University as she entered the veterinarian program this fall to continue her education. Her grandmother, Dotsy(Norwood)Williamson, also of Eupora and a former resident of Hurricane, is busy with the physical education department at MSU as she serves as their professor for student teaching assignments to various schools in the state.
A belated expression of expression is extended to the family of Bernice Gann(97) of Houlka. She was the great-grandmother of Brooke Hooker, and Braxton Hooker(2) represents the fifth generation of this family with Ellie Moore of Sarepta, her daughter, and James Moore of Sarepta, her grandson, completing the generations. I enjoyed a visit at her home two years ago, and her flowers were a source of pride on her lawn.
A belated expression of sympathy is extended to the family of Ludie Dorrough(82) of Fredonia who was the daughter of the late John Arthur Dorrough and Eunice(Graham)Dorrough.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Jack Ray Warren(84) of Olive Branch who was the son of the late Shirley Hill and Vera(Todd)Warren.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Connie(Warren)Heatherly of Turnpike who was the wife of the late Bernard Heatherly and the daughter of the late Ulton and Winnie(Blue)Warren. Interment was at Sand Springs Cemetery.
Sympathy is extended to the family of Bobby Sledge of Houston who was the uncle of Stephen(Caroline)Brents of Cane Creek.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Small business owners and entrepreneurs are notoriously time-crunched, and would probably spend more time dealing with one of their toughest challenges --- increasing sales and revenue --- if they could only save time on day-to-day administrative responsibilities.
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Outright.com, the web-hosted bookkeeping software specifically created for the 24 million Americans who work for themselves, delivers a streamlined, online solution to help entrepreneurs and sole proprietors track all of their income and expenses so they can operate more efficiently and get their taxes done accurately.
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Xin Nián Kuài Lè! Happy Chinese New Year!
Holidays on the Net is delighted to invite you to join our new celebration of one of the world's biggest New Year's parties: Chinese New Year. From Bangkok to San Francisco's Chinatown, the Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the pinnacle celebration for billions of Chinese around the world.
Come discover the history of Chinese New Year, including the special traditions and superstitions such as bidding farewell to the Kitchen Gods and giving Red Envelopes stuffed with money to children. Uncover the origins of each of the fifteen days of the Chinese New Year — like do you know why the seventh day of the festival is considered the Birthday of Man?
We also go in-depth into the ancient Chinese zodiac, the 12-year cycle that restarts each New Year. Learn about the Chinese horoscopes associated with each of the 12 years of the Zodiac, especially the qualities of anyone born this year — the Year of the Tiger! (Of course, we've got it all for you, from the Year of the Rat to the Year of the Boar.) Once you have read up on all the facts and figures of Chinese New Year, come flex your trivia muscle at our fun Did You Know feature. We've got factoids the whole family will enjoy!
Do you want plan to celebrate the Chinese New Year in your own home this year? Then you will definitely want to check out our article on traditional Chinese New Year foods. Food plays a central role in all Chinese holidays — and the Spring Festival is no exception. We explain the symbolism of various foods and offer suggestions on how to prepare these culinary omens.
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Nudie Jeans' limited edition 'Woad/Guado' collection hits Nudie Jeans House LA and Atrium NYC Friday. The exclusive 100% organic 6-piece line dyed from the ancient 'Woad' plant is available exclusively at Nudie Jeans House, Los Angeles and Atrium NYC. Only 700 pieces will be made available. The color is absolutely freaking gorgeous.
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"Woad, or more commonly known as "Dyer's Woad", is a flowering plant with a cabbage like appearance, and has been cultivated since ancient times to produce blue dye. The green leaves can be harvested six times in a year, but it is only the first year the leaves can be used for dying.
The dye extraction process is extremely labor intense, with 1000 kilos of leaves producing only 1 kilo of blue dyestuff. The development of dye involves extracting the pigment from the leaves which leaves a green liquid. Reducing the green liquid forms a blue sludge, which is then in turn dried resulting in rock hard lumps of intense blue dyestuff.
To turn the hard dyestuff to dye, it is dissolved in a mixture of soda and water. Each garment is then slowly lowered into the dye bath and left to work its magic, timing depends on the thickness of the fabric. Nudie Jeans acquiredall the dyestuff an Italian Guado farm could produce in a year to dye the entire 'Woad/Guado' collection."
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Nice taste and texture. But, since I discovered Annie CHun's, I don't buy this any more.
Worthy nori for sushi!
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Worthy nori for sushi! A little longer than our sheets, and these are fragrant! I recommend!
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Nice taste and texture. But, since I discovered Annie CHun's, I don't buy this any more.
we use this to make sushi all the time!
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Great tasty flavour and easy to roll. love the pricing and love the fact it's organic. Thanks iherb!
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I use these for rolling sushi and it works great!
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they're perforated so you can also make smaller rolls
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I recommend using this in stir-fry and egg dishes, as well as for sushi! It is a great sea veggie that tastes well with hot foods.
great taste
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definitely would repurchase
Like the taste as a healthy snack
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Good taste as a snack right out of the package. Quality and freshness is good. Individual square sheets the size of the package were not broken.
Yum, sushi.
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Worked great and I'm glad it's organic.
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Can't get enough of these seaweed sheets. Nice that they are organic too!
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it seems that i was wrong, Ive always told people that tobi isn't madara, he's kakashis old friend obito.
it seems that i was wrong, Ive always told people that tobi isn't madara, he's kakashis old friend obito.
Manga/Anime I read/have read/tried to read:
Fairy Tail
Full Metal Alchemist
D.Gray Man
HunterXHunter(Didn't like)
Dragon Ball(Didn't like)
One Piece(Didn't like)
Katakayo Hitman Reborn(Didn't like)
Vampire Knight
Samurai Champloo(Didn't like)
Water type
What chakra type are you?
Tobi IS Madara.
Madara IS Madara.
It's not that hard...
We know that those with the power of Uchiha and Senju combined, the power of the sage, are able to use Izanagi.
Izanagi can be used to seperate chakra/souls and create life ( the bijuu from the jyuubi).
Madara, greatly wounded from his battle with Hashirama used this power to create Tobi and probably implant some of his power (Uchiha/Senju) into Nagato.
The end result would be Tobi using Nagato to bring Madara back at his prime, and have a nice pair of rinnegan for him.
His plan was derailed...
I am an artist, and my medium is death. I'm about to create my masterpiece :s
Fan of the Rasengan Doujutsu theory, even though it's dead. Although, he does have the special Uzumaki clan blood.
Except that the Izanagi which Madara and the other Uchiha's are capable of can't do that, it can only change something that have happened to the user, like damage or death, into a dream. So it can't be with Izanagi he did it.
Manga/Anime I read/have read/tried to read:
Fairy Tail
Full Metal Alchemist
D.Gray Man
HunterXHunter(Didn't like)
Dragon Ball(Didn't like)
One Piece(Didn't like)
Katakayo Hitman Reborn(Didn't like)
Vampire Knight
Samurai Champloo(Didn't like)
Water type
What chakra type are you?
Itachi implanted Amaterasu into Sasuke, I doubt that a sharingan would appear if you implanted the sharingan power into an Uzumaki.
I am an artist, and my medium is death. I'm about to create my masterpiece :s
Fan of the Rasengan Doujutsu theory, even though it's dead. Although, he does have the special Uzumaki clan blood.
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I am not perfect and I defy you to prove otherwise
Growing Old Gracefully is an Oxymoron ... Mostly Moron !
- Tobi uses dimension transportation and manages to transport himself to other dimensions. Kakashi can do similar thing as in transporting others to different dimension. Maybe he never tried it on himself that he doesn't posses the exact equivalent of Tobi. Assuming that eyes from the same source has the same dou-ability, wouldn't it make sense that Tobi and Kakashi could've got it from the same person? Or rather, Tobi might be that source? In other words, Tobi might be Obito?
- For some odd reason, the only person alive who can identify Obito, Kakashi, is kept alive despite killing him off in one episode. Couldn't this be an indication that he has some major role later on and that's why he's kept alive? Maybe to identify Tobi as Obito?
- Tobi seems to have Hashirama's cells in him and assuming that's from Zetsu, doesn't it correlate with Obito's damaged left-half, which probably got regenerated using Zetsu's skills or somehow merging with his left half? Where's black zetsu's left-half anyway, assuming black Zetsu existed before the white Zetsus were created? He had to be complete at some point before the white Zetsus were created, right?
- If Zetsu is controlling Obito's one half, wouldn't it correlate with the split-personality behaviour of Tobi acting like a playful kid because his other-half of the brain is still Obito? Probably it is not purely Zetsu but it could be Madara'fied Zetsu. Just throwing that possibility up in the air.
Obitos right eye was definitely destroyed. If madara needed a new corpse, then why shouldnt he get this from uchiha massacre or Uchiha clan at that time? And i think Madara has no idea which MS contain the obitos eyes.
Tobi said once to sasuke something like "Space time Jutsu belongs to my power". So i think it's true.
My thinking:
fact is: There was a plan for madara's comeback.
Tobi is maybe the insurance to maintain it. And maybe the time to get madara back to life is the time when Akatsuki colected all tailschakramonster. But I think tobi chaged the plan and intentionaly want to do it without original Madara.
Now who is Tobi? I think tobi is another kind of clone made by Zetsu.
Who was the first hokage's wife? Did he have a sister or close female friend? I think there was more fighting over women between Madara and Hashirama than the legend's reveal. This is why we have Nagato and big thanks to whoever started the theory that Nagato was Madara's offspring (with senju or uzumaki [I know Nagato was uzumaki and not senju but...]). Heck, there could even have been fighting over Nagato between Madara and Hashirama, such fighting that could have influenced Hashirama's dispersal of bijuu between the nations and villages knowing the rennegan would later resurface in the ninja world. There is a whole new can of worms opened with Madara's knowledge of Nagato that has the potential to reshape what we know of Madara's time period and his own motivations (and Hashirama's) given that rennegan was definitely known and planned to reappear. Also, since it's obvious I like foreshadowing and symbols I will throw out there that the "Madara knew the brat Nagato had grown" is another loan to all the fans who want Naruto and Hinata to end up together (they will produce a Nagato of their own, from the proper foundations, unlike the foundations Madara would have provided).
But my on topic question is this, what is it about muu's technique that suggests that only 1 of the splits receives the soul? I was under the impression that each split was a true half in both body and soul. I could have easily overlooked something in my reading but I really dislike the extent by which zetsu gets play in some of these theories. I still think that whenever Madara split, it was half body and half soul to each and each one had to deal with their respective fates. One died and the other got zetsu'd later after "stealing" Hashirama's powers. Kabuto is obviously missing this split angle given how Tobi is still trying to play around edo.


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I dont have many time to enjoy this event and i feel little urge to login, untill i know more on this matter.
Yesterday i done FotM with PUG and we had to stop due to one guy Disconnected. Once again when i got invited, my game crashed onto Desktop. When i returned, all of those new PUG guys were already knee-deep in dungeon and was like "Oh, you crashed, we didnt even noticed". I gave up, frustrated, and went to bed
Anyway, more on the matter...
What worried me more is, that i already saw the messages in /y chat about requiring minimal difficulty. Now, lets say i log in for a week or two from now. Could it be that i am done with FotM forever, because im not keeping up with difficulty norm? Will there be any way for difficulties to reset global-wise (i.e. WvW weekly rotation)?
In-short question: will i be forced to do FotM all the time without pauses for at least 3 times a day in order to keep up with the rest?
I am thankfull in advance for proper answers...
Main MMO at the moment: Guild Wars 2
Waiting for: Pathfinder Online
Originally posted by Masa1
The difficulty resets once per week.
Interesting, I honestly did not know this. I'm on difficulty 6 and didn't realise there would be a reset.
Oh... good to know this... guess i will take a break untill monday or so then. I obviously missed the 'train' right now :P
EDIT: Ive been heard about this many times, but no official word. Just someone mentioned it here and there so i was unsure. Well they've been silent about everything in last couple of days
Main MMO at the moment: Guild Wars 2
Waiting for: Pathfinder Online
Keep inmind that once you get passed difficulty lvl 6, it gets hard enough for even coordinated groups with voice to finish reliably. It only takes 3 completions to go up in difficulty (+ a boss at the end every few jumps). Some of these mini dungeons can be completed in under 15 mins with the right group. Usually it doesn't take longer than an hour to get each difficulty lvl (and a good chunk of that time is spent getting the group together).
As time goes on, I doubt you'll see many PUGs lfg passed difficulty 6-7. That only takes a few hours to get if you're good / have a group of other skilled players w/ you. If your main concern is their difficulty. That you don't have enough time to get good at them. You aren't alone. There are a lot of players who find them hard, and have trouble just making it to difficulty lvl 3.
If you have friends / guildies ingame, they can always go down to your difficulty lvl and help. The fractals are also good practice, as they aren't as hard as some of the other dungeons, but they have mechanics that force you to pay attention, play as a group, & learn how to keep yourself alive.
It doesnt reset, thats complete bull, check the dev tracker in the forums.
You will have to get a good dungeon running guild if you want to progress, i think the fractal cap is 99.
Edit; Here the thread where it says there is NOT a weekly reset
Originally posted by austriacus
It doesnt reset, thats complete bull, check the dev tracker in the forums. You will have to get a good dungeon running guild if you want to progress, i think the fractal cap is 99.
I read that there really is no cap... Not that it matters few people will ever get to 99 anyways, surely not me.
But joining a good guild is probably the right way to go. The way the game is made you could start a specific guild for this dungeon if you like too, there will always be some new 80s and alts joining up anyways.
In my case my guild will help up later 80s when that is needed, just like we run storymode dungeons with everyone who gets to the right level. My guild are my IRL friends and their IRL friends so that might be different from many others, we just play to have fun and enjoy playing with eachother, if I run some easier stuff to help others that is fine for me.
A good guild is the key for at least me to enjoy a MMO. In some games I been recruited by total strangers and in others I played with regular friends but no matter what I try to find a nice guild as soon as I can.
Constantly PUGing gets annoying.
Originally posted by sodade21
btw anyone know then if its account vise...or i can do it with my other characters before it resets,,?
It doesnt reset and its per character.
I hope the OP checks back. It doesn't reset, ever. By this time next week I doubt you'll be able to find groups looking for anyone lower than level 10. And whoever said level 6+ is hard doens't know what they are talking about. All of them are fairly easy. What happens is that the bosses get more HP and more adds spawn. So instead of getting harder, since the boss mechanics dont' seem to change, it just starts taking more time.
Currently playing:Nothing
Will play: Darkfall: Unholy Wars
Past games:
Guild Wars 2 - Xpiher Duminous
Xpiher's GW2
GW 1 - Xpiher Duminous
Darkfall - Xpiher Duminous (NA) retired
AoC - Xpiher (Tyranny) retired
Warhammer - Xpiher