�The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) will host an evening lecture by award-winning lensman and film maker Nancy Durrell McKenna on 4 September. The event is organised by the Royal Photographic Society and is share of their International Awards.
Ms McKenna was awarded the Combined Royal Colleges Medal in 2007. This Medal was established 50 years agone by the Royal Photographic Society in collaboration with the Royal College of Physicians of London, The Royal College of Surgeons of England and the Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists. It is awarded annually for an outstanding contribution to picture taking and/or its application in the robert William Service of medicine and operating room.
Professor Ralph Jacobson, Chairman of The Royal Photographic Society Awards Committee said "Her work brings capital credit to all those involved in the award and visually articulates at the highest level the problems of women's health in the developing earth".
Titled Images for Life, Ms McKenna will hash out her mould as a photographer documenting pregnancy and birth in developing countries. Her images have been used as a hefty medium to convey the plight of women living in countries where access to basic obstetric care is poor, often leading to unneeded morbidity and death. Her photojournalism has covered maternal mortality in countries such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan and Thailand.
Ms McKenna aforementioned "Having worked on the themes of women's sex, birth and reproductive health through photography for the past xXV years, it is a great honour to bear this work recognised by the Royal Colleges.
"It is the power of the image to 'tell a story' and counselor for change that is the drive force behind the photographs I get hold of. One woman dies every minute, somewhere in the world, due to the complications of pregnancy and childbirth. This is a tragedy and one that is preventable.
"If my photographs high spot the need to invest more in women's health - peculiarly in developing countries - then I am victimisation my creativeness to the best of my power."
Dr Anthony Falconer, Vice President of the RCOG International Office said "Here in the West, we live in an affluent society and sometimes the very thought of parental suffering in other countries is abstract.
"In the UK thither is a comprehensive nerve tract of upkeep to reinforcement a woman during her pregnancy, birth and in the postnatal period. In some countries however, women do not have access to the services which we take for granted.
"These photographs are poignant, rousing emotions which wrangle fail to convey. They are beautiful and remind us of the symbolic imagery of mother and child which has a long tradition dating back to primitive times."
Notes
Images for Life will take places at the RCOG on Thursday 4 September 2008. To opinion a locating map with directions to the RCOG, please tick here.
Entry is free of charge up and to book your place, please contact Jo Macdonald, Awards Manager Royal Photographic Society on jo@rps.org or call: +44 (0) 1225 325721.
The programme for the evening is:
18.30 - Drinks reception
19.30 - Lecture by Nancy Durrell McKenna followed by questions
21.00 - Close
Royal Photographic Society International Awards
For more information about the RPS awards, please visit http://www.rps.org/annual-awards
RCOG International Office
The RCOG International Office was established in November 2006 and currently has projects in India, Kenya, Kurdistan, Nigeria, Philippines, Somaliland, Sri Lanka and Yemen.
The aims and objectives of the RCOG IO are:
- to draw on the expertise and feel of the RCOG and its spheric network to make an effective part to improving sexual and reproductive healthcare worldwide. In particular to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality and morbidity by increasing knowingness of parental health at global, regional and national levels to politicians, professionals and the public
- to focus on capacity development through training, exchange programmes, provision of guidelines and setting standards that ar relevant to the local situation. For example, the delivery of our Life Saving Skills Manual and Course with a focus on exigency obstetric concern for use of goods and services by midwives, clinical officers, medical assistants and doctors working in resource-poor settings
- to work with governments and international organisations at policy degree to make long term "buy-in" to improving tone of caution and education including regular monitoring and evaluation
- to develop and apply new knowledge collected through enquiry, which meets local needs and straight informs policy
- to work in partnership with other UK and international agencies
For more than information about RCOG outside initiatives, please click here.
About Nancy Durrell McKenna and SafeHands for Mothers
Nancy Durrell McKenna founded the charity SafeHands for Mothers in 2003, dedicated to reducing maternal and infant mortality globally, and with a grant from the Band Aid Trust produced a preparation film, The Big Push, aimed at improving skills and awareness in prenatal and postnatal care.
For more information about SafeHands for Mothers, please inspect http://www.safehands.org
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Thursday, 14 August 2008
Download Lita Ford
 Artist: Lita Ford: mp3 download Genre(s): Metal: Heavy Other Rock: Hard-Rock Discography:  Platinum and Gold Collection Year: 2004 Tracks: 12  Dangerous Curves Year: 1991 Tracks: 11  Stiletto Year: 1990 Tracks: 12  Lita Year: 1988 Tracks: 9  Dancin' On The Edge Year: 1984 Tracks: 9  Out For Blood Year: 1983 Tracks: 10  Black Year: Tracks: 12 One of deuce solo stars to spring from the ashes of the '70s all-girl hard rock music banding the Runaways, Lita Ford has long been a more than frustrative, contradictory proposition for critics than former comrade Joan Jett. Ford is subtly libber in her melodic access, displaying guitar heroics on the spirit level of any male metal hero; the mere fact of her existence in the differently testosterone-driven toilsome metal writing style has made her a hero to some, only her theatrical role has much been criticized as calculated to invoke to male adolescent sexual fantasies, simply embodying the measure wild-girl stereotypes of many male metallic element artists' lyrics. When she has the material to back her up, though, Ford is inarguably capable of rocking out sharply and assertively. Henry Ford II was born on September 19, 1958, in London, emigrating to the U.S. as a offspring child. She began playing the guitar at age 11; just five days later, she linked the Kim Fowley-produced Runaways, an all-female design designed to commix the aggression of simple-minded, punkey hard rock with teenage bad-girl sexuality invoke. When the lot dissolved, Ford took voice lessons and embarked on a solo career, encouraging herself through a variety of jobs (gasoline station attender, essence salesperson, fitness instructor, styler, etc.). She released her debut album, Out for Blood, in 1983; it was followed the next year by Dancin' on the Edge. Zilch was heard from Ford for the next four-spot long time; the reexamination to Dancin' on the Edge, coroneted The Bride Wore Black, was abandoned and never released, as Ford switched from Mercury to RCA. By the clip Ford returned, the igniter pop-metal she had long favourite had broken through to mainstream audiences, which set the point for her most successful album, 1988's Lita. Slickly produced by Mike Chapman, the record album featured Ford's number one hit, the number 12 "Kiss Me Deadly"; its followup, a duette with Ozzy Osbourne entitled "Close My Eyes Forever," provided both artists with their first base Top Ten single. Ford notable her newfound success with a union to W.A.S.P. guitar player Chris Holmes, only regrettably, this, like her commercial success, would be transitory. Follow-up efforts wish 1990's Stiletto and 1991's Unsafe Curves failed to check the popcraft of Lita, and Ford launch herself without a label afterward alternative's explosion in the early '90s. |
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
Archontes
Artist: Archontes
Genre(s):
Metal: Power
Rock: Hard-Rock
Metal
Discography:
Book One: The Child of Two Worlds
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
The World Where Shadows Come To Life
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
The World Where Shadowds Come To Life
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
Saga Of Eternity
Year: 1997
Tracks: 3
Friday, 27 June 2008
Thursday, 19 June 2008
LiveDaily Song of the Day: Albert Hammond, Jr. - "GfC"
Today's Song of the Day is by Albert Hammond, Jr. [ tickets ] The featured cut is "GfC," which appears on his forthcoming July release, "Como Te Llama?"
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Alison Pill Is an Unconvincing Ugly Girl in ‘Reasons to Be Pretty’
Photo: WireImage
If Alison Pill is supposed to be the ugly girl in Neil LaBute's new play, reasons to be pretty, is there really any reason for the rest of us to even try? When director Terry Kinney sent her the script, she told us at last night's opening-night party, "I read it and I went, Oh, thanks a lot, Terry. Great, I'm the ugly chick." That wasn't the first time that a role made her a little self-conscious about her looks, though; Pill told us that on the set of Dan in Real Life, the makeup artist put Whitestrips on her teeth without a word. "I thought it was normal until I asked the rest of the cast, and they said, 'No, I have no idea what you're talking about.' It was horrifying. I just kept thinking, Oh well, I guess my teeth are horrible to look at. Eventually I did it on my own at home." Now, in her role as the so-called ugly girl, Pill says she's been receiving not only great reviews — including a flat-out rave in this morning's Times — but lots of people coming up to her and reassuring her that she is, in fact, very pretty. "It goes to the heart of everyone's insecurities, including my own, and they're easy lines to say because Neil has written a girl who has the same questions that every woman has of how they're perceived by the outside world," she said. "So I mean, I didn't actually say to [Kinney], 'So you think I'm ugly?' I just kind of avoided that question." —Nina Mandell
If Alison Pill is supposed to be the ugly girl in Neil LaBute's new play, reasons to be pretty, is there really any reason for the rest of us to even try? When director Terry Kinney sent her the script, she told us at last night's opening-night party, "I read it and I went, Oh, thanks a lot, Terry. Great, I'm the ugly chick." That wasn't the first time that a role made her a little self-conscious about her looks, though; Pill told us that on the set of Dan in Real Life, the makeup artist put Whitestrips on her teeth without a word. "I thought it was normal until I asked the rest of the cast, and they said, 'No, I have no idea what you're talking about.' It was horrifying. I just kept thinking, Oh well, I guess my teeth are horrible to look at. Eventually I did it on my own at home." Now, in her role as the so-called ugly girl, Pill says she's been receiving not only great reviews — including a flat-out rave in this morning's Times — but lots of people coming up to her and reassuring her that she is, in fact, very pretty. "It goes to the heart of everyone's insecurities, including my own, and they're easy lines to say because Neil has written a girl who has the same questions that every woman has of how they're perceived by the outside world," she said. "So I mean, I didn't actually say to [Kinney], 'So you think I'm ugly?' I just kind of avoided that question." —Nina Mandell
Thursday, 5 June 2008
Pop review: The Charlatans / Academy, Sheffield
The Charlatans have survived innumerable changes in their 20-year history, and singer Tim Burgess's haircut is as drastic as any of them. Wearing a skintight black suit, his latest barnet looks like a cross between a black Beatle bowl cut and a Louise Brooks 1920s bob. "Is it a hat?" one baffled lady ponders, and the bizarre black creation does indeed resemble a beret made of hair.
The barnet is even more incongruous, given the band's latest musical shift. After recent years steeped in classic rock, they've finally given into Burgess's teenage New Order obsession, which informs the new album, You Cross My Path. Initially given away as a free download, it may be their best effort and the band seem justifiably proud, shunning their greatest hits in favour of the exhilarating, dark-edged pop of Mis-takes and melancholy anthem This Is the End. However, gradually the two-hour set reflects the spectrum of their career: a psychedelic Sproston Green, an urgent Weirdo, a rousing One to Another, a jagged, edgy How High, and an awkward Judas, from Burgess's curious falsetto period.
Although the now LA-based Burgess looks like an impostor in his own band, it's almost beautiful to watch him as - arms flapping around - the 41-year-old commands the crowd like an orchestral conductor. During a glorious double whammy of headrushing recent single Oh! Vanity and classic The Only One I Know, it is all too much for one girl, who rushes the stage and is rewarded with a dance with Burgess. For a few moments, they remain deep in conversation. Maybe she is asking, "Where did you get that haircut?"!
· At Hyde Park, London, on June 28 (details: www.hydeparkcalling.co.uk).
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