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barker's mother died in 1960 and in 1961 barker moved from 23 the waldrons to 6 avenue in croydon she restored a maisonette in storrington sussex england bequeathed by her friend edith major and named it st andrew's after taking up residence her health began to deteriorate she was in and out of nursing and convalescent homes and tended by relatives and friends
barker died at worthing hospital on 16 february 1973 aged 77 years two funeral services were held one in storrington church and one in barker's maisonette her ashes were scattered in storrington churchyard in 1989 frederick warne a division of penguin books since 1983 acquired the flower fairies properties
barker worked principally in watercolor with pen @@ and @@ ink but she was equally competent in black @@ and @@ white in oils and in pastels she carried a sketchbook with her for capturing interesting children she once indicated i have always tried to paint instinctively in a way that comes naturally to me without any real thought or attention to artistic theories
kate greenaway was a childhood favorite and an influence on her art barker's child subjects wear nostalgic clothing as greenaway's children do though barker's children are less melancholy and less flat in appearance due perhaps to advances in printing technology barker studied flowers with an analytical eye and was friend to children's illustrator margaret tarrant along with greenaway illustrator alice b woodward also influenced barker's work
the pre @@ raphaelites were a strong lifelong influence on barker she once indicated i am to some extent influenced by them not in any technical sense but in the choice of subject matter and the feeling and atmosphere they could achieve she admitted a fondness for the early paintings of john everett millais and the wonderful things of edward burne @@ jones
barker's sketches drawings and paintings of children were given to friends or to the parents of the subjects donated to charitable institutions and church sponsored events or exhibited through various art organizations she illustrated magazine covers dust jackets and produced series of postcards for raphael tuck and other publishers such as picturesque children of the allies ( 1915 ) seaside holidays ( 1918 ) and shakespeare's boy and girl characters ( 1917 1920 ) her own old rhymes for all times ( 1928 ) and the lord of the rushie river ( 1938 ) a tale about a girl who lives among swans on a riverbank were critically well received set about 1800 groundsel and necklaces ( 1943 ) tells of a girl named jenny who rescues her family from poverty through the agency of the fairies the story features an old scrooge @@ like man called mr and tonally suggests a dickensian social consciousness simon the swan intended as a sequel to rushie river was outlined in 1943 with groundsel but only developed in 1953 it was published posthumously in 1988 and is critically considered less successful than groundsel
barker was a devout christian and produced religious @@ themed works throughout her life she published eight postcards and five guardian angel birthday cards for the society for promoting christian knowledge in 1916 and in 1923 respectively christmas cards were designed for the girls' friendly society over a 20 @@ year period and the first three designs sold out a combined printing of 46 @@ 500 in 1923 an original design for the society called the darling of the world has come was purchased by queen mary for ₤ 5 @@ 5 @@ 0 in 1926 the croydon art society hung barker's booklet cover design for the society for the propagation of the gospel in its november 1919 exhibition
religious @@ themed books include the children's book of hymns ( 1929 ) and he leadeth me ( 1933 ) the latter written in collaboration with her sister major religious works include the triptychs in oil the feeding of the five thousand ( 1929 ) for the chapel in llandaff house a home for destitute women at penarth wales and the parable of the great supper ( 1934 ) for st george's chapel waddon the feeding has since disappeared and only a black @@ and @@ white photograph dated 1929 reproduces the work in 1941 she completed oil panels on the subject of the seven sacraments for the baptismal font at st andrew's south croydon she designed baptismal rolls for the wall behind the font in 1948 and 1962 in 1946 she completed the 4 x 7 ft oil painting out of great tribulation for the memorial chapel of norbury methodist church following the death of her sister in 1954 barker began designs for a stained glass memorial window depicting christ preparing to wash the feet of his disciples her last religious @@ themed work it was installed in st edmund's pitlake in 1962
picturesque children of the allies j salmon 1916
national mission society for the preservation of christian knowledge 1916
shakespeare's boy characters c w faulkner 1917
shakespeare's girl characters c w faulkner 1920
seaside holiday j salmon 1918 1921
elves and fairies s harvey 1918
guardian angel society for the preservation of christian knowledge 1923
christmas cards girls' friendly society 1920s 1930s
christmas cards ( us ) barton @@ colton 1920s 1930s
beautiful bible pictures blackie 1932
flower fairies of the spring blackie 1923
spring songs with music blackie 1923
flower fairies of the summer blackie 1925
child thoughts in picture and verse ( by m k westcott ) blackie 1925
flower fairies of the autumn blackie 1926
summer songs with music blackie 1926
the book of the flower fairies blackie 1927
autumn songs with music blackie 1927
old rhymes for all times blackie 1928
the children s book of hymns blackie 1929 rep 1933
our darling s first book ( written in collaboration with dorothy barker ) blackie 1929
the little picture hymn book blackie 1933
rhymes new and old blackie 1933
a flower fairy alphabet blackie 1934
a little book of old rhymes blackie 1936
he leadeth me ( written in collaboration with dorothy barker ) blackie 1936
a little book of rhymes new and old blackie 1937
the lord of the rushie river blackie 1938
flower fairies of the trees blackie 1940
when spring came in at the window blackie 1942
a child s garden of verses ( robert louis stevenson ) blackie 1944
flower fairies of the garden blackie 1944
groundsel and necklaces blackie 1946 reprinted as fairy necklaces
flower fairies of the wayside blackie 1948
flower fairies of the flowers and trees blackie 1950
lively stories macmillan 1954
the flower fairy picture book blackie 1955
lively numbers macmillan 1957
lively words macmillan 1961
the sand the sea and the sun gibson 1970
flower fairies of the winter blackie 1985
simon the swan blackie 1988
flower fairies of the seasons / blackie 1988
a little book of prayers and hymns frederick warne 1994
a flower fairies treasury frederick warne 1997
frederick warne 2005
wild cherry makes a wish ( collaboration with pippa le quesne ) frederick warne 2006
how to find flower fairies frederick warne 2007
return to frederick warne 2008
a new epiphany society for the preservation of christian knowledge 1919
43 annuals blackie 1920s 1930s
st cecily's garden 1920
cradle roll design st edmund's pitlake 1922
banner design st mary's 1923
the feeding of the five thousand reredos triptych chapel at penarth wales 1929
the parable of the great supper triptych st george's chapel waddon
the seven sacraments baptismal font panels st andrew's croydon
st john the baptist central banner panel church 1943
lettering sword and shield mount for a list of men and woman serving in the forces st andrews croydon 1943
rolls st andrews croydon 1948 1962
the font in st andrew's church south croydon
out of great tribulation memorial chapel norbury church 1948
i am among you as he that stained glass window design st edmund's pitlake 1962
the gambia women's national football team represents the gambia in international football competition the team however has not competed in a match recognised by fifa the sport's international governing body despite that organised women's football has been played in the country since 1998 the gambia has two youth teams an under @@ 17 side that has competed in fifa u @@ 17 women's world cup qualifiers and an under @@ 19 side that withdrew from regional qualifiers for an under @@ 19 world cup the development of a national team faces challenges similar to those across africa although the national football association has four staff members focusing on women's football
in 1985 few countries had women's national football teams while the sport gained popularity worldwide in later decades the gambia's national team only played its first game in 2007 that game was not fifa @@ recognised as of march 2012 the team was unranked by fifa and as of the following month the gambia had not played in a fifa @@ sanctioned match the team has not participated in major regional and international tournaments including the women's world cup the 2010 african women's championship or the 2011 all @@ africa games
the country did not have a fifa @@ recognised youth national team until 2012 when the gambia under @@ 17 women's team competed in confederation of african football qualifiers for the fifa u @@ 17 world cup to be held in azerbaijan in september 2012 the gambia had fielded an under @@ 17 team of 24 players narrowed from an initial pool of 49 young women two girls from the sos children s village were chosen as a members of the team the gambia first played sierra leone in a pair of qualifying matches for the tournament gambia won the first match 3 @@ 0 in banjul the gambia's capital the return match was delayed in for 24 hours and played in makeni the gambia beat sierra leone 4 @@ 3 to qualify for the final round the gambia then beat tunisia 1 @@ 0 at home and won 2 @@ 1 in tunisia adama tamba and awa demba scored the gambia's goals tunisia's only goal was a gambian own goal the win qualified gambia for the 2012 azerbaijan world cup
the gambia also has an under @@ 19 team that was to play in the african women's u @@ 19 championship in 2002 the gambia's first match was against morocco but the team withdrew from the competition
the development of women's football in africa faces several challenges including limited access to education poverty amongst women inequalities and human rights abuses targeting women funding is another issue impacting the game in africa where most financial assistance comes from fifa and not national football associations another challenge is the retention of football players many women footballers leave the continent to seek greater opportunity in europe or the united states
gambia's national football association was founded in 1952 and became affiliated with fifa in 1968 football is the most popular women's sport in the country and was first played in an organized system in 1998 a national competition was launched in 2007 the same year fifa started an education course on football for women competition was active on both the national and scholastic levels by 2009 there are four staffers dedicated to women's football in the gambia football association and representation of women on the board is required by the association's charter
the plain maskray or brown stingray ( neotrygon annotata ) is a species of stingray in the family dasyatidae it is found in shallow soft @@ bottomed habitats off northern australia reaching 24 cm ( 9 @@ 4 in ) in width this species has a diamond @@ shaped grayish green pectoral fin disc its short whip @@ like tail has alternating black and white bands and fin folds above and below there are short rows of thorns on the back and the base of the tail but otherwise the skin is smooth while this species possesses the dark mask @@ like pattern across its eyes common to its genus it is not ornately patterned like other maskrays
benthic in nature the plain maskray feeds mainly on caridean shrimp and polychaete worms and to a lesser extent on small bony fishes it is viviparous with females producing litters of one or two young that are nourished during gestation via histotroph ( uterine milk ) this species lacks economic value but is caught incidentally in bottom trawls which it is thought to be less able to withstand than other maskrays due to its gracile build as it also has a limited distribution and low fecundity the international union for conservation of nature ( iucn ) has listed it as near threatened
the first scientific description of the plain maskray was authored by commonwealth scientific and industrial research organisation ( csiro ) researcher peter last in a 1987 issue of memoirs of the national museum of victoria the specific name comes from the latin an ( not ) and ( marked ) and refers to the ray's coloration the holotype is a male 21 @@ 2 cm ( 8 @@ 3 in ) across caught off western australia several paratypes were also designated last tentatively placed the species in the genus dasyatis noting that it belonged to the maskray species group that also included the bluespotted stingray ( then dasyatis kuhlii ) in 2008 last and william white elevated the kuhlii group to the rank of full genus as neotrygon on the basis of morphological and molecular phylogenetic evidence
in a 2012 phylogenetic analysis based on mitochondrial and nuclear dna the plain maskray and the ningaloo maskray ( n ) were found to be the most basal members of neotrygon the divergence of the n annotata lineage was estimated to have occurred ~ 54 ma furthermore the individuals sequenced in the study sorted into two genetically distinct clades suggesting that n annotata is a cryptic species complex the two putative species were estimated to have diverged ~ 4 @@ 9 ma the precipitating event was likely the splitting of the ancestral population by coastline changes
the pectoral fin disc of the plain maskray is thin and diamond @@ shaped with narrowly rounded outer corners measuring 1 @@ 1 1 @@ 3 times longer than wide the leading margins of the disc are gently concave and converge at a broad angle to the pointed tip of the snout the small eyes are placed close together and behind them are the spiracles the nostrils are elongated and have a skirt @@ shaped flap of skin between them the small mouth bears prominent furrows at the corners and contains two slender papillae on the floor small papillae are also found around the outside of the mouth there are five pairs of gill slits the pelvic fins are fairly large and pointed
the tail is short barely exceeding the length of the disc when intact and has a broad and flattened base leading to usually two stinging spines after the stings the tail becomes slender and bears a long ventral fin fold and a much shorter lower dorsal fin fold most of the body lacks dermal denticles a midline row of 4 13 small closely spaced thorns is present behind the spiracles and another row of 0 4 thorns before the stings the dorsal coloration is grayish green becoming pinkish towards the disc margins there is a dark mask @@ like shape around the eyes and a pair of small dark blotches behind the spiracles the tail behind the stings has alternating black and white bands of variable width ending with black at the tip the underside is plain white and the ventral fin fold is light grayish in color this species grows to 24 cm ( 9 @@ 4 in ) across and 45 cm ( 18 in ) long
the plain maskray inhabits the continental shelf of northern australia from the wellesley islands in queensland to the bonaparte archipelago in western australia including the gulf of carpentaria and the timor and arafura seas there are unsubstantiated reports that its range extends to southern papua new guinea it is the least common of the several maskray species native to the region this species is a bottom @@ dweller that prefers habitats with fine sediment it has been recorded from between 12 and 62 m ( 39 and 203 ft ) deep and tends to be found farther away from shore than other maskrays in its range
the plain maskray generally hunts at the surface of the bottom substrate rather than digging for prey its diet consists predominantly of caridean shrimp and polychaete worms small bony fishes are also eaten along with the occasional penaeid prawn or amphipod larger rays consume a greater variety of prey and relatively more polychaete worms when compared to smaller rays this species is parasitized by the tapeworm acanthobothrium
like other stingrays the plain maskray is viviparous with the developing embryos sustained to term by histotroph ( uterine milk ) produced by the mother mature females have a single functional ovary and uterus on the left litter size is one or two the newborns measure 12 14 cm ( 4 @@ 7 5 @@ 5 in ) across males and females reach sexual maturity at disc widths of 20 21 cm ( 7 @@ 9 8 @@ 3 in ) and 18 19 cm ( 7 @@ 1 7 @@ 5 in ) respectively the maximum lifespan is estimated to be 9 years for males and 13 years for females
the main conservation threat to the plain maskray is incidental capture by commercial bottom trawl fisheries in the present day this is mostly caused by australia's northern prawn fishery which operates throughout its range although this species is discarded when caught it is more delicate @@ bodied than other maskrays and is thus unlikely to survive encounters with trawling gear historically this species may also have been negatively affected by japanese chinese and taiwanese trawlers that fished intensively off northern australia from 1959 to 1990 these factors coupled with the plain maskray's limited distribution and low reproductive rate have resulted in its being assessed as near threatened by the international union for conservation of nature ( iucn )
the 2011 12 columbus blue jackets season was the team's 12th season in the national hockey league ( nhl ) the blue jackets' record of 29 46 7 [ note 1 ] was the worst record in the nhl for 2011 12 and the first time in franchise history they finished in last place it also marked the third straight year that they missed the playoffs consequently they had the best chance to receive the first overall selection in the 2012 nhl entry draft lottery but lost out to the edmonton oilers and received the second pick instead
the blue jackets began the year with the worst start in franchise history and the worst by any team in an nhl season in 19 years after an 11 25 5 start head coach scott arniel was fired and replaced by assistant coach todd richards the poor season prompted several personnel changes including the trade of all @@ star forward jeff carter who was acquired with much fanfare during the off @@ season with the prospect of another rebuild looming the blue jackets' captain and best player rick nash requested to be traded though he would remain with the team for the entire season
the team was involved in a controversial loss to the los angeles kings when the staples center clock appeared to freeze at 1 @@ 8 seconds allowing the kings time to score the tying goal before winning in overtime during the season columbus managed only two winning streaks of three or more games one of which came towards the end of the year helping the blue jackets finish with 65 points the third worst point total in franchise history
in the off @@ season the blue jackets' approach to building their team changed moving from a team of young developing players into one with established players the first deal general manager scott howson made was the acquisition of all @@ star forward jeff carter on june 23 2011 the deal sent jakub columbus' first @@ round draft choice the eighth overall and their third @@ round pick in the 2011 draft to the philadelphia flyers in exchange for carter the trade received a positive response in columbus from fans and management who felt they finally had a number one center to play alongside of their best player rick nash next they traded for the negotiating rights of soon to be free agent james wisniewski wisniewski scored a career high 51 points during the 2010 11 season splitting time between the new york islanders and montreal canadiens the point total was fifth @@ highest in the league for defenseman scoring tying tobias the blue jackets came to terms with wisniewski just an hour prior to the start of free agency signing him to a six @@ year $ 33 million deal
columbus also traded former first round draft pick nikita filatov to the ottawa senators for a third @@ round pick in the 2011 draft filatov had failed to live up to expectations in columbus playing in only 44 games over three seasons scoring six goals prior to the start of the season the blue jackets were questioned for not signing a veteran back @@ up to starting goaltender steve mason as the former calder memorial trophy winner had struggled in consecutive seasons the blue jackets signed mark as the back @@ up who had only 50 minutes of nhl experience prior to the start of the season columbus did sign a veteran curtis sanford to be their third string goaltender and to start for their american hockey league ( ahl ) affiliate the springfield falcons sanford had not played in the nhl since 2009 during training camp suffered a high ankle sprain that was expected to keep him out of the line @@ up for a month additionally sanford suffered a groin injury leaving allen york as the back @@ up york had only played four professional games all in the ahl entering the season
after the first five games all losses jeff carter suffered a broken foot that kept him out of the line @@ up for 10 games while carter was injured the blue jackets continued to lose games in the eighth game of the year they had a chance to end the losing streak against the ottawa senators columbus held a 3 2 lead with under a minute to play jason spezza tied the game on a late power play and with just 4 @@ 7 seconds remaining milan michalek notched the winning goal for the senators the loss helped set a franchise record for futility with a 0 7 1 record to start a season [ note 1 ] the losing streak came to an end three days later with a win over the detroit red wings during the game several milestones were reached james wisniewski made his columbus debut ryan johansen and john moore scored their first career nhl goals and grant had a career @@ high three assists columbus was unable to create any momentum from the win however and continued to struggle culminating in a 2 12 1 record which was the worst start to an nhl season for any team in 19 years with the team struggling management attempted to shake things up by making some roster moves the first move was the acquisition of center mark from the pittsburgh penguins next they traded defenseman kris russell to the st louis blues for nikita nikitin as the clubs slow start continued there were rumors that head coach scott arniel would be fired and replaced with ken hitchcock hitchcock had previously coached the blue jackets to their only playoff appearance in club history and was still under contract with the franchise through to the end of the season before any of these rumors came to fruition the st louis blues asked columbus for permission to hire hitchcock which the blue jackets allowed hitchcock began his blues coaching career with a 6 1 2 record in his first nine games while columbus amassed a 6 13 3 record to start the season
during the same time frame as the hitchcock rumors goaltender curtis sanford returned from his groin injury on november 13 he made his first start of the season against the boston bruins losing 2 1 in a shootout sanford continued his strong play posting a 3 1 2 record 1 @@ 38 goals against average and save percentage over his next six games sanford started 12 consecutive games before steve mason made his next start the number of starts might not have been as numerous but prior to the november 23 game mason was hit in the head by a shot from rick nash during pre @@ game warm @@ ups and suffered a concussion mason returned from his concussion after two games making a start against the vancouver canucks mason allowed only one goal in the game despite suffering from cramping in the third period temporarily being replaced by sanford for just over three minutes columbus won the game 2 1 in a shootout breaking a nine @@ game losing streak to the canucks after the game arniel stated that sanford was still seen as the team's number one goaltender however mason started four of the next six games with the blue jackets going 0 5 1 during that stretch
with the losing continuing more rumors began to surface unlike before the rumors were about player moves rather than coaching changes the majority of rumors were that the blue jackets would trade rick nash while howson stated that he had never brought up trading nash in discussions other teams had inquired about his availability nash stated that if columbus felt it would make the franchise better than he would be willing to waive his no @@ trade clause howson publicly stated that he had no intention of trading nash more rumors came to light when reports attributed to réseau des sports stated that carter was unhappy in columbus and demanded a trade howson carter and his agent all denied that a trade request was ever made and they were unsure where the reports were coming from with the trade deadline approaching speculation picked up on the blue jackets trading carter reports were that columbus was trying to trade carter and that he was 100 percent available
at the halfway point of the season with the blue jackets barely into double digit wins with an 11 25 5 record worst in the league and sitting 20 points out of playoff position columbus fired arniel he was replaced by assistant coach todd richards on an interim basis richards had previously coached the minnesota wild he recorded his first coaching victory for the blue jackets in his second game a 4 3 win over the phoenix coyotes the change in coaching did not change the fortunes of the team as they reached the all @@ star break with a 13 30 6 record at the break blue jackets' owner john p mcconnell sent out a letter to fans stating his understanding of their frustration he added that action would be taken around the trade deadline the entry draft and free agency to take the team in a new direction when speaking of the season mcconnell stated disappointing is not a strong enough word and that he was committed to giving fans a team of which they can be proud of he also thanked them for their dedication and passion while reiterating that the team goal was to win consistently and compete for the stanley cup days later a 250 @@ person protest occurred outside of nationwide arena fans were upset with the blue jackets' management and were calling for changes at the top the same day the fans protested it was announced that the franchise would host the 2013 all @@ star game columbus was without a representative for the 2012 all @@ star game but ryan johansen represented the club as a rookie participant in the super skills competition in the competition johansen participated in the allstate insurance nhl breakaway challenge a shootout themed event judged by the fans he received just 1 of the vote and finished last
following the break the blue jackets were on the road playing the los angeles kings and with the score tied late in the game kings' defenseman drew doughty scored with just 0 @@ 4 seconds remaining to win the game upon review of the goal it was determined that the clock at staples center froze at 1 @@ 8 seconds for over a full second which would have resulted in time expiring prior to the goal being scored kings' general manager dean lombardi stated that the clock was correct and no extra time had been added due to the way the clock self @@ corrects at various times howson stated on the team's blog that it is an amazing coincidence that with the kings on a power play at staples center and with a mad scramble around our net in the dying seconds of the third period of a 2 2 hockey game that the clock stopped for at least one full second adding that either there was a deliberate stopping of the clock or the clock malfunctioned nhl senior vice president of hockey operations colin campbell stated that the blue jackets were wronged but that the outcome of the game could not be changed and that the delay was not noticed by the off @@ ice officials or the situation room in toronto to determine the true cause of the clock pause the nhl launched an investigation talking with the clock's manufacturer and interviewing staples center staff
two weeks prior to the nhl trade deadline columbus announced that unlike earlier in the season they would listen to trade proposals involving rick nash though they were not actively shopping him howson stated that the team was open to all options for improving the team including trading nash speculation was that in return for nash the blue jackets would ask for a combination of young proven players high @@ end prospects and draft picks leading up to the trade deadline the blue jackets dealt antoine to the phoenix coyotes for two draft picks and goaltender curtis mcelhinney despite being injured at the time the acquisition of mcelhinney was believed to give columbus the flexibility to trade curtis sanford the following day on february 23 columbus traded jeff carter to the kings in the deal columbus acquired defenseman jack johnson and a first @@ round draft pick the team was given the choice of taking the pick in either 2012 or 2013 at the deadline columbus was unable to come to terms on a deal involving nash but they did make one more move they sent center samuel pahlsson to the vancouver canucks in exchange for two fourth @@ round draft picks and minor league defenseman taylor ellington following the trade deadline howson announced that the team had attempted to trade nash at the player's request nash stated that he had requested the trade after being informed that the franchise was going into another rebuilding phase he further noted that he felt that he could be a huge part of that towards bringing assets in and in his view it was the best thing for the team the organization and personally for [ his ] career after the personnel changes the blue jackets closed out the month with a three @@ game losing streak
columbus started march with a 2 0 shutout against the colorado avalanche they proceeded to win their next game against the phoenix coyotes 5 2 which marked the first time that the blue jackets posted back @@ to @@ back regulation victories during the season columbus again defeated the coyotes three days later to earn their first three @@ game win streak of the season they extended the streak to four with a win over the los angeles kings before it came to an end with a 4 1 loss to the st louis blues it was the only four @@ game win streak of the season for the blue jackets they immediately matched their four @@ game win streak with a four @@ game losing streak and with ten games remaining the blue jackets were the first team eliminated from playoff contention shortly after being eliminated they were defeated by the edmonton oilers 6 3 the loss clinched last place in the nhl for columbus it was the first time in franchise history the blue jackets finished in 30th place
three days later on march 28 goaltender steve mason was injured in the morning skate when a shot from colton gillies hit him in the mask with sanford again injured york made an emergency start playing against the detroit red wings york made 29 saves including 17 in the third period helping columbus to a 4 2 victory and giving york his first career nhl win york remained the starter and led the blue jackets to a second three @@ game winning streak in his fourth start columbus was shutout by the coyotes despite a franchise @@ record 54 shots on goal losing 2 0 the 54 saves by phoenix goaltender mike smith set an nhl record for a regulation shutout mason returned to the starter's role for the final two games winning both the two victories gave columbus 65 points for the year their third @@ lowest total in franchise history