Plymouth, MA, December 23, 2020 -- Looking like your better self on LinkedIn is possible. And necessary. Winners of the recent "Ugly LinkedIn Profile Photo" contest agree. Brian MacFee of Systems Support, Inc. based in Marshfield; Attorney Susan Pieri of Marshfield and Rich Archibald of AFLAC and located in Pembroke are now looking great. See for yourself on LinkedIn.

Brian MacFee commented, “I’m not vain, but I am concerned with my appearance and conveying that I am open, friendly and approachable. The new photo conveys that in a glance.”

Susan Pieri added, “I came to the photoshoot with three outfit variations, ready to have fun. Debi did not disappoint! She has an artist's eye and a friendly manner.  The time flew by. Now I have three wonderful shots to choose from to replace the one currently on LinkedIn.   Although, on one of them I'm told I look too happy for a lawyer.”

Rich Archibald noted, “The difference between my old photo and the new, improved one are night and day. I look more vibrant, professional and ready to go.”

According to the champion of the photo contest Debi Cramer, founder and principal photographer at https://www.38thavenuephotography.com/ in Plymouth, MA, “Let’s literally face it. Most people form an immediate impression of you by your headshot. A corporate portrait that is outdated, odd or just omitted is an unnecessary turnoff.”

Some executives favor their high school yearbook likeness. Others just choose to ignore the aging process. Either way, an outdated profile photo is not the best way to represent yourself on LinkedIn, the world’s largest professional network.

Debi Cramer advises, “A LinkedIn profile photo is also not the best place to show off a cherished boat, sports car or pet. It’s okay to wear ski goggles if you’re a ski resort owner, but not okay if you’re a ski enthusiast and your profession is selling life insurance. It should be noted that NOT having a profile photo doesn’t work in your favor either. Will fellow networkers and recruiters want to connect? Perhaps not. Those who do have a profile photo on LinkedIn may receive up to 21 times more profile views than those lacking profile photos (according to https://www.linkedin.com/).”

To learn more about Cramer and Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography, visit https://www.38thavenuephotography.com/

About Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography:
Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography’s new studio includes a client lounge for viewing photos as well as an additional dedicated office space for photo editing and client meetings. Cramer also travels for onsite photo assignments. The agency’s primary focus is commercial photography, event and corporate brand photography - from marketing materials, websites and product pages to headshots.

Debi Cramer, founder and principal photographer at Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography, has spent many years photographing people, places and things all over the world. With a background in fine arts, textile and graphic design, Cramer shoots with a designer's eye, which produces stunning images that are highly marketable. Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography serves a diverse array of clients in wide variety of industries, including real estate, restaurant, floral, retail and others.

From commercial to fine art and portrait photography, Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography enables clients to bring beauty and peace into their home or office, as well as promote their business. Along with the new studio address, Thirty-Eighth Avenue Photography has updated their website and offers site visitors the ability to view portfolio images online as well as purchase or license images. View the portfolio and gallery at http://www.38thavenuephotography.com/

Westport, CT, USA, December 22, 2020 -- A four-page manuscript consisting of nearly 2,300 words written entirely in the hand of English physicist Sir Isaac Newton, a World War II-dated letter written in English by Albert Einstein in which he reveals that Nazi leaders didn’t give much thought to his Theory of Relativity, and a 16-page letter signed by John Adams regarding British abuses eight years after his presidency ended, are just a sampling of what’s in University Archives’ next online auction planned for January 6th.

The full catalog, showing all 440 lots, is up for bidding and viewing now, on the revamped University Archives website (www.UniversityArchives.com), as well as on the popular platforms LiveAuctioneers.com, Invaluable.com and Auctionzip.com. Phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. The sale contains rare and highly collectible items from multiple specialty categories.

These include literary (Chekhov, Dickens, Hemingway, Solzhenitsyn and others); presidential (Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Kennedy and others); foreign (Napoleon, Khrushchev, Victoria I and others); science (Einstein, Darwin, Newton, Freud and others); and space (Apollo XI, Neil Armstrong, cosmonauts and the Wright Brothers). It will be University Archives’ biggest sale to date.

“We keep breaking our own records at University Archives,” said company founder and president John Reznikoff. “When we had our largest-ever 349-lot sale back in August, we didn’t expect to break that record, but just four months later, here we are, with a 440-lot extravaganza of amazing and unusual autographs, historical documents, rare books, manuscripts, collectibles, relics, coins and currency. We invite collectors everywhere to ring in the New Year with us.”

In the Sir Isaac Newton manuscript, written around 1710, the legendary physicist seeks inspiration from the Kabbalah, early Christian philosophers and biblical texts to connect metaphysics to physics, thus uniting the abstract world with the concrete world he had partly decoded by discovering gravity. The length and subject matter of this manuscript, along with its outstanding provenance, make this an exceptional find. It has an estimate of $130,000-$160,000.

There are nine lots relating to Einstein, including two typed letters and two autograph letters signed by him. In the World War II-dated letter, he wrote, “My first manuscript about relativity was not burned by the Nazis. I myself threw it into the waste-basket after it was printed judging it was good for nothing” (est. $75,000-$80,000). A letter written in German discussing his Unified Field Theory and the behavior of matter in space and in motion was penned the year of his death.

The 16-page letter signed by John Adams is quite possibly the longest letter by Adams in private hands. In it, he opines about the state of current political affairs eight years after his presidency ended. Adams also excoriates British policies undermining American sovereignty--like the impressment of American sailors-- and also lends support to his erstwhile political rival Thomas Jefferson, who was nearing the end of his own second presidential term (est. $70,000-$80,000).

A one-page letter written and signed by Thomas Jefferson to his cousin George, regarding the plantation business (“I am very sensible of your kindness in having gone beyond my draughts, which I by no means intended”) should bring $5,000-$6,000. Also, a two-page Revolutionary War-dated letter signed by George Washington, commenting on the courage of Patriot troops during the ongoing Battle of Yorktown, is expected to bring $24,000-$26,000.

Staying in the era, a four-page letter written and signed in 1759 by the Scottish economist and philosopher Adam Smith, discoursing on the inculcation of financial and moral responsibility, and other money matters, should realize $60,000-$70,000; while one page of a bifolium, dated Feb. 17, 1795 and signed twice in the third person by Alexander Hamilton, as he prepares to move back to New York after vacating his cabinet post, is expected to rise to $3,000-$3,500.

A Charles Darwin three-page autograph letter dated Dec. 26, 1876 and signed, referring to his beloved friend and mentor, Scottish geologist Sir Charles Lyell, is significant and enhanced by a desirable full signature (est. $6,000-$7,000). Also offered will be a generous lock (50+ strands) of hair belonging to the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, accompanied by a piece of paper inscribed, “1819 / Napoleon’s Hair / from “Mr. Captain and Capt. Nagle” (est. $5,000-$6,000).

A Civil War-dated military commission signed by Abraham Lincoln for a veteran officer of the battles of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg, who would succumb to war injuries in May 1867, has an estimate of $6,000-$7,000. British leader Winston Churchill, tasked with demobilizing military forces after World War I, sent a typed letter signed to the Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, regarding black soldiers in 1919. It should garner $3,000-$3,500.

A three-page letter signed by Lee Harvey Oswald as “Your Brother / Lee” sent from the Soviet Union in the spring of 1961, should also be of interest. In it, Lee promises to return to the United States “if I can get the government to drop charges against me” (est. $5,000-$6,000). Jackie Kennedy, as a 16-year-old high school boarding student at Miss Porter’s School in Farmington, Conn., has doodled a heart and dedicated a vintage black and white photograph to a chum named Betty (est. $1,500-$1,700).

A lightly shellacked D&M baseball from the 1920s, signed by many of the era’s brightest stars (including Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, Lefty Grove and Al Simmons), with an LOA from James Spence, LLC, is estimated to bring $6,000-$7,000. Also, a large, original signed drawing by Shel Silverstein, of a character called “Runny Babbit”, used for a 2005 book of poetry by the author-entertainer, plus a rare signed contract, should finish at $3,000-$4,000.

Lots 1-220 will begin promptly at 10:30 am Eastern time. Upon the completion of lot 220, there will be a 30-minute break. After the break, the auction will resume at lot 221 and end at lot 440.

For more information about University Archives and the Wednesday, January 6th online-only Rare Books, Manuscripts & Relics Auction, please log on to www.universityarchives.com.

About University Archives:
University Archives has become world-renowned as a go-to source for rare items of this kind. It is actively seeking quality material for future auctions, presenting a rare opportunity for sellers. Anyone who has a single item or a collection that may be a fit for a future University Archives auction may call John Reznikoff at 203-454-0111, or email him at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. University Archives was founded in 1979, as a division of University Stamp Company, by John Reznikoff, who started collecting stamps and coins in 1968, while in the third grade. Industry-wide, Reznikoff is considered the leading authenticity expert for manuscripts and documents. He consults with law enforcement, dealers, auction houses and both major authentication companies. For more information about University Archives, please log on to www.universityarchives.com.

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New York, NY, Dec 19, 2020 -- Award-winning composer, pianist, and professional American artist Karen Salicath Jamali recently came out with her new album, Sound of Angel, a compilation of 14 tracks that redefine contemporary classical verses in a beautiful course of cascading melodies.

The new album, Sound of Angel was made in collaboration with the label Orpheus Classical. The album is written, composed, and performed by the artist herself and brims with clarity and musical glory of contemporary classical music’s extensive coverage. The album is recorded on a Steinway grand that resonates a streaming flow of tranquility and gratification. Songs from the album like ‘Capriccio’, ‘In Water’, ‘Praise’, ‘Before’, and ‘Omni’ promote a sense of psychological and soulful relaxation through their acoustic riffs and arrangements. The audience is carried into the transcendence of hope and inspiration with the album acting as a medium of closure for all.

Karen Salicath Jamali’s piano compositions are meditative that lingers in one’s creative space till the end of time. She creates a certain dreamscape through her melodic themes that range between the absolutes of musical and creative versatility. The artist’s musical stream is a plunge into the spirituality of not just classical music but also opens the windows to new opportunities in the backdrop of contemporary dynamics. The vision and exemplary samples aim at defining metaphysical lines of understanding of the human soul that is emotional, practical, and mentally captivating. It is as if she creates a spiritual phenomenon that validates human existence and its evolution into the unknown space of inner meaning, understanding, and contemplation.

The album, Sound of Angel consists of piano samples that protrude as an extension of her personality and medium of comprehension. As an artist, she is expressive and uninhibited as she weaves a thematic saga through melodies, riffs, chords, and a production skill that speaks yore of and today. All the songs from the album create a blissful reminiscence for the audience that pushes them further towards a direction of mental and soulful clarity. Her compositions are a confluence of worldly and unworldly elements that surpasses the existence of materialistic being. The artist herself found her own identity and individuality through her music that is subtle yet extensive in its technical formatting.

The album Sound of Angels will be played on Radios worldwide on Dec.18, 2020. She also has her next solo piano concert in Carnegie Hall on Sunday, June 20, 2021, between 8 PM and 10:30 PM at the event, American Protégé Summer Gala Concert at Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium. She will be exclusively performing the composition ‘Angel Blue’ from the new album.

About the Artist:
A chance encounter with an accident leading to one of the most promising contemporary classical pianists of our times, Karen Salicath Jamali is paving the way for an astounding and colossal stream. Her music is personalized that leads men to reach the space of individual closure through her copious understanding and creative execution. Follow her work on Spotify for a never-ending experience of bliss and soul-rendering composure.

For more info Follow Karen Salicath Jamali here : http://www.kjamalimusic.com

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Brooklyn, NY, Dec 19, 2020 -- This fascinating book starts with the story of Rose's Royal Midget Troupe, the creation of one of show biz history's great impresarios. Ike Rose was in a league with Barnum and Ziegfeld as men who transported audiences to a magical world for the price of a ticket. It is enhanced with personal remembrances by the mother of Gladys Farkas, one of the original members of the Troupe.

Author Travis S.D. - whose wide-ranging credits include actor, comedian, playwright and producer, humorist, journalist, director, and critic - is immersed in the field of eclectic performance.

Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager, and numerous other publications. He has been in the vanguard of New York's vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, which has presented hundreds of top variety acts. He has directed his own plays, revues, and solo pieces in NYC since 1989 at Joe's Pub, La Mama, Dixon Place, Theatre for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, and the Brick. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I'll Say She Is", the first-ever revival of the Marx Brothers madcap hit. He is perhaps best known for his 2005 book No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous, cited by Bette Midler in People magazine as one of her favorite books.

The many exclusive visuals in this book include photographs of the shoes and gloves used by Gladys Farkas in her act and images of her with Ike Rose. Sideshow historian James Taylor (author of Shocked and Amazed, https://amzn.to/2EOGkNV) has written the illuminating Foreward.

But wait, there's more! This BIG STORY also brings to light many of the other 'little people' acts performed in circuses, sideshows, carnivals, and dime museums, from the early 1900s through the 1950s. The book reproduces a treasure store of photographic "cartes de visite" and vintage collectible postcards which were originally sold by the performers at their shows.

The last book devoted to the wonderful performances of 'little people' was published in 1980. This new book brings amazing new material to light and is a rich trove of stories and visuals. It is an important addition to the archive of performing arts.

Pub Date: December 1st, 2020
Available online: vaudevisualspress.shop, Amazon.com, B&N, BooksaMillion
Price: $12.95
To Purchase the book: https://bit.ly/3c1FtFK

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