DETROIT (AP) — Latoya Smiley was driving a bus in Detroit when a passenger told her Rosa Parks had died.
Upon hearing the news, she invited her riders to sit at the front of the bus.
Smiley, 27, was one of many Detroiters remembering Parks after the civil rights pioneer died Monday.
I could cry. I hate it when amazing, dedicated and inspirational people die.
Detroit-area residents remember Rosa Parks’ legacy
Guardian: Rosa Parks Dies Aged 92
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News comes that the UK has had its first encounter with Bird Flu from a parrot that died of the H5** strain while in quarantine with birds from Taiwan. Far more interesting to me than the article instelf that i was reading, on a technology news site (don’t ask…) was the reaction of readers. It’s worth checking out.
Was the parrot a Norwegian Blue? Just asking, maybe he is just resting.
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I was asked a question today by a Gent called Luke, and it’s something that I’ve been thinking about recently as it’s something that ought to be rectified.
This question might sound a
little dumb but, what is the website that you link to? I find it confusing, is it a blog or a series of news items?
In answer, I actively haven’t had an ‘about’ page on here for the simple reason that I like to not be too obvious. I think telling the ‘Whole World’ what you do and who you are all in one easy page makes life too simple. I like the fact that to know anything about me from my site you have to read it quite a bit, you have to have read it for a while to build up a picture and I think the best websites are like that. If you really like what someone has to say, you’ll stick around. I don’t have the ego for thoughts like this, from one of my favorite sites,
Thousands of individuals visit this site every day. No, I’m serious. And, presumably, it’s not just for the photos of me, shirtless, sometimes covered in beer.
If you were to describe me in less than 300 words, in a positive and very flattering light (that’s the ego taking hold), how would you do it? I’ll select the photo if you help with the words.
Oh, and Luke, it’s a blog with news. A blog just about me 24/7: far too tedious!
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On Monday the American Association of Magazine Editors unveiled their top 40 magazine covers of the last 40 years, with John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s cover shot by Annie Leibovitz for Rolling Stone topping the list. The image was taken on the day before Lennon was shot dead outside his apartment. Leibovitz features heavily in the list with the number two shot as well (of Demi Moore) as do the themes of September 11th 2001 in Time, Fortune and New Yorker covers, and celebrity portraits of people like Princess Diana, Andy Warhol, The Dixie Chicks and Bill Clinton.
ASME created the “Magazine 40/40” competition earlier this year. A judging panel of 52 magazine editors, design directors, art directors and photography editors was charged with picking the 40 top covers from a pool of 444 images representing 136 magazines. The contest was open to all consumer magazines published in the United States. Magazines were invited to submit up to four entries from their respective publications. Entrants were also encouraged to nominate covers of magazines that were not published by their company or were no longer being published.
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