February 2008 Archives
First and so far the only person in the world to have reached the five extreme Poles of the planet:- North Geographical Pole (3 times)
- South Geographical Pole
- Pole of considerable inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean
- Mt. Everest (Alpinists pole)
- Cape Horn (Yachtsmen pole)
His name was entered into the encyclopedia “Chronicle of Mankind”. Fedor is a member of the Russian Geographic Society.
Also he is a writer, painter, has been the Head of the Laboratory for Remote Training under Extreme Conditions in the Modern Humanitarian Academy, Moscow.
He is married. His wife’s name is Irina. Son Oscar, daughter Tatiana, Son Nikolay. His grandson is Phillip, granddaughter – Polina, grandson – Ethan, grandson – Arkadiy.
Find more info on his personal site, and further reading here.
With a bit provocative name "Stuff White People Like"; blog about ordinary life, frustrations, fears and joys.
Kevin Carter (September 13, 1960 – July 27, 1994) was an award-winning South African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang Club.
Carter has started to work as weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984 he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.
In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl:
"The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene."
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown.
On April 2, 1994 Nancy Buirski, a foreign New York Times picture editor, phoned Carter to inform him he had won the most coveted prize for photography. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on May 23, 1994 at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library.
On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."
Carter has started to work as weekend sports photographer in 1983. In 1984 he moved on to work for the Johannesburg Star bent on exposing the brutality of apartheid.
In March 1993 Carter made a trip to southern Sudan. The sound of soft, high-pitched whimpering near the village of Ayod attracted Carter to a young emaciated Sudanese toddler. The girl had stopped to rest while struggling to a feeding center, wherein a vulture had landed nearby. He said that he waited about 20 minutes, hoping that the vulture would spread its wings. It didn't. Carter snapped the haunting photograph and chased the vulture away. However, he also came under heavy criticism for just photographing — and not helping — the little girl:
"The man adjusting his lens to take just the right frame of her suffering might just as well be a predator, another vulture on the scene."
The photograph was sold to The New York Times where it appeared for the first time on March 26, 1993. Practically overnight hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask whether the child had survived, leading the newspaper to run a special editor's note saying the girl had enough strength to walk away from the vulture, but that her ultimate fate was unknown.
On April 2, 1994 Nancy Buirski, a foreign New York Times picture editor, phoned Carter to inform him he had won the most coveted prize for photography. Carter was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography on May 23, 1994 at Columbia University's Low Memorial Library.
On 27 July 1994 Carter drove to the Braamfonteinspruit river, near the Field and Study Centre, an area he used to play at as a child, and took his own life by taping one end of a hose to his pickup truck’s exhaust pipe and running the other end to the passenger-side window. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning at the age of 33. Portions of Carter's suicide note read:
"I am depressed ... without phone ... money for rent ... money for child support ... money for debts ... money!!! ... I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners...I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky."
Derercuny is garnering attention at the Milan fashion shows for its
intricate, "hyper-special" garments. Unbeknownst to many followers of
high fashion, the Italian label is part of South Korea's sprawling
Samsung Group, best known for Samsung Electronics.
"Blogging make us more oriented toward an intellectual bottom line, more interested in the directly empirical, more tolerant of human differences, more analytical in the course of daily life, more interested in people who we are interesting, and less patient with Continental philosophy." Tyler Cowen
Further readings about libertarian ideals, modern economy and cirticizm you can find at his blog.
Further readings about libertarian ideals, modern economy and cirticizm you can find at his blog.
Requirements:
1) Charge $250,000 or more a year to AMEX
2) Be invited by AMEX
3) Pay the $5,000 initiation fee
4) Pay the $2,500 (US) annual Fee
Many people refer to credit cards in some manner as plastic, as most cards are, but not the American Express Black Card. It is rumored that the card is made of Titanium and that it will set off metal detectors in the airport. There were some reports that early versions of the Black Card might have been plastic, but currently it is made of some type of heavier, metal material.
1) Charge $250,000 or more a year to AMEX
2) Be invited by AMEX
3) Pay the $5,000 initiation fee
4) Pay the $2,500 (US) annual Fee
Many people refer to credit cards in some manner as plastic, as most cards are, but not the American Express Black Card. It is rumored that the card is made of Titanium and that it will set off metal detectors in the airport. There were some reports that early versions of the Black Card might have been plastic, but currently it is made of some type of heavier, metal material.
