The News Review:
- PM Photo Gallery year-wise
- PHT GALLERY: Firefighters rescue woman from debris flames of home
- Take the Venusian vortex tour
- Museum and Gallery Listings
- Poor shooting day against Wisconsin ends Michigan’s season
PM Photo Gallery year-wise
Press Information Bureau – Press Information Bureau (press release) – Mar 14, 2008
Manmohan Singh presenting the 23rd Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration to the Kasturba Gandhi National Memorial Trust Indore in New Delhi on ctober 31 2008. The Chairperson UPA Smt. Sonia Gandhi is also seen.
PHT GALLERY: Firefighters rescue woman from debris flames of home
Columbia Missourian – Mar 14, 2008
¦ Photo courtesy of Jackie Kreigh BY Missourian staff CLUMBIA ? Firefighters were able to rescue Merna Sneed 84 from amid the rubble and flames after her home exploded in the East Campus neighborhood on Friday. These photos were captured by a neighbor Jackie Kreigh and submitted to the Missourian. She captured these within moments of the blast. If you have information or photos of the explosion please call the Missourian news desk (573) 882-5720 or e-mail.
Take the Venusian vortex tour
MSNBC – Mar 14, 2008
The animated image you see here is a time-lapse compilation of imagery from just five hours showing how the vortex changes its shape in a matter of days or even less time. Scientists didn’t expect to see the shape-shifting happen so quickly and they’re still trying to work out the atmospheric dynamics behind the phenomenon. “ne explanation is that atmospheric gases heated by the sun at the equator rise and then move poleward” the University of xford’s Colin Wilson said in the advisory. “In the polar regions they converge and sink again. As the gases move toward the poles they are deflected sideways because of the planet’s rotation.
Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times – Mar 14, 2008
(Karen Rosenberg)★ THE MET: ‘GUSTAVE CURBET’ through May 18. Starting with an amazing if claustrophobic gallery of self-portraits that emphasize Courbet’s ambition attention to the old masters and inborn truculence this show offers a grand tour of one of 19th-century European painting’s most unruly geniuses. Realism at whose prow he is usually placed is in many ways the least of it. Several works could easily date from the 20th century by artists like Balthus Picabia or Max Ernst. What Courbet made most real was the sheer implicitly ironic uncanniness of painting itself which he conveyed in a commanding discombobulation. Some paintings barely hold together; others collapse inward into strange shapeless masses… com; closes on Saturday. (Smith) JAN KPP: ‘THE MISSING IMAGE’ For the New York solo debut of this artist based in Paris an imposing if nonchalant sculpture of a large satellite dish made of pink foam is followed by a snappy five-part video in which repeating sequences speed up and slow down in sync with music. In one a border collie periodically sends a flock of sheep spilling across the landscape like so much liquid set to the opening passages of Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring. ” It may be little more than smart music video but it’s mesmerizing. Martos Gallery 540 West 29th Street Chelsea (212) 560-0670; closes on Saturday. (Smith) ★ JEAN LWE: ‘ACHIEVE AND MAINTAIN A MRE PWERFUL DELUSIN’ Here’s a book that some people might find useful: “10 Steps to Becoming a Published Author in Your Next Life.
Poor shooting day against Wisconsin ends Michigan’s season
mlive.com – Mar 14, 2008
The Wolverines shot a season-low 20 percent from the field and hit only four second-half field goals in a 51-34 Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal loss to top-seeded Wisconsin Friday at Conseco Fieldhouse. The loss ended Michigan’s season at 10-22. Wisconsin (27-4) scored the game’s first 10 points and never trailed despite Michigan cutting the deficit to only three early in the second half.