From the papers

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Saturday is my reading day - of two newspapers - The Age and the local Geelong Advertiser. This weekend the Melbourne Writers' Festival starts but I haven't got there yet. I liked the full page pic in The Age promoting the Festival and wondered how the artist got the effect of white on black etc. When I looked up the name of the graphic designer, I was delighted that the artist was my cousin's daughter, Judy Green! She does interesting graphics in her job at the paper. Hey Jude, how do get those great white lines - hand-drawn or using photoshop? The image here is part of the page as my scanner is only A4 in size. Click on picture to enlarge to see the details.

Peace article with pic by Judy Green

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An article in Saturday's Age newspaper was illustrated by my cousin's daughter, Judy Green, so here is her picture.

The writer of the article, Steven Pinker from Harvard University, says that there has been a decline in violence over the centuries. It certainly does not seem so because in the present time we are inundated with images and stories in the daily news about atrocities and man's inhumanity to man. However he said we are moving forward.

Perhaps today there are many people out there who do recognize violence as obscene and that something ought to be done about it.

Are we getting kinder and gentler?