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This crazy monkey game trains your brain and reflexes and tests your patience on 9 different levels.
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Centrally located in Campo Grande, Hotel Metropolitan is minutes from Shopping Pantanal and Morada dos Bais. This hotel is within close proximity of Campo Grande Craftsman House and Ary Coelho Square.
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"We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.
Our lives on this planet are too short and the work to be done too great to let this spirit flourish any longer in our land. Of course we cannot vanquish it with a program, nor with a resolution.
But we can perhaps remember, if only for a time, that those who live with us are our brothers, that they share with us the same short moment of life; that they seek, as do we, nothing but the chance to live out their lives in purpose and in happiness, winning what satisfaction and fulfillment they can. "
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Replica, Recessed, and Extreme Recessed lens boards are now available at S.K. Grimes. Standard Recessed boards provide the photographer with 10.5mm of recession, while the Extreme Recessed boards generate 21mm of recession. Slight modifications and short throw cable releases are required for the shutters mounted in the Extreme versions.
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The families of America's fallen military service members would no longer have survivor benefits taxed at Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) rates designed for the ultra wealthy, under a relief bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives last week by Congressman John Carter (R-TX31), Co-Chairman of the House Army Caucus.
"Allowing the IRS to take up to 26 percent of the death benefit away from the families of those who gave their lives for this country is just not right," Carter said. "These benefits should be taxed only as earned income, not subject to any punitive taxation. In this time of war on two fronts, we need to scour every detail of how we treat our soldiers and families to ensure they receive the respect and support they deserve, especially for the families of those who have made the ultimate sacrifice."
Current tax law treats annuities from the Uniformed Services Survivor Benefit Plan as unearned income, making the payments subject to higher tax rates under AMT. Carter's legislation, the Children of Fallen Warriors AMT Relief Act (HR 5529), a companion bill to S. 3334 by Senator Richard Burr (R-NC), would re-designate the benefits as earned income under normal tax regulations, eliminating the punitive AMT rates.
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Peter Jackson 'eviscerated' 'The Hobbit,' 'LOTR,' says Tolkien son
Christopher Tolkien, son of J.R.R. Tolkien and executor of his father's literary estate, expressed disappointment in the films made of the books by Peter Jackson.
During his first interview in 40 years in June, with the French publication Le Monde, Tolkien, 87, said that Jackson "eviscerated the book by making it" into "an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25," he said of the "Lord of the Rings" films. "And it seems that 'The Hobbit' will be the same kind of film."
Since his father's death in 1973, according to the story, the son's "life has been one of incessant, driven, almost Herculean work on the unpublished part of his father's oeuvre." He and his sister Priscilla are the last survivors of Tolkien's four children.
According to the story, in 1969, Tolkien sold the movie and merchandising rights, to "The Hobbit" and "Lord of the Rings" to United Artists for £100,000 sterling.
While the films increased sales of the books, the estate had to sue for a share of the almost $3 billion the films have made worldwide. In 2009, the producers paid 7.5% of their profits to the Tolkien estate.
Hollywood has turned Tolkien, his son said, "into a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away."
I strike a similar note in my review. "The Hobbit" opens in theaters Friday.
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On November 1, 1952, the United States detonated the world's first hydrogen bomb.1 Shot MIKE of Operation Ivy was the culmination of nearly a decade of work on developing thermonuclear weapons, and it released an explosive force equivalent to 10.4 million tons of TNT — some 800 times the explosive force of Hiroshima, capable of setting fire to an area of over a thousand square miles.
The world had entered the megaton age, but the United States didn't want anybody to know about it.
Which is an odd thing, if you think about it. It's true, the first atomic bomb test — "Trinity" — had been kept a secret at the time. But only because the U.S. planned to use it on Japan quickly and wanted it to be a surprise. There was no "operational" reason for keeping the MIKE test a secret, except for the fact that, well, it wasn't actually really ready for prime-time, as far as weapons went. MIKE was a big, clunky cryogenic test apparatus that weighed over 50 tons. It had been designed (by Dick Garwin) to prove a point, not to fit on an airplane. They did manage to scale it down a bit as five "Emergency Capability" weapons (the "Jughead" bombs), but these required specialized plane modifications to field (and only one plane was so modified), and even then, one wonders how reliable they were considered. (And even these weren't produced until 1954, shortly before the U.S. developed more easily weaponized solid-fuel hydrogen bombs.)
Still, one might ask again why the U.S. tried to keep it secret, and from whom. The thing is, keeping it secret from the USSR just wasn't an option: when you set off 10 megatons in the Pacific Ocean, people are going to notice. Now, it's true that the Soviets later claimed that they botched their fallout monitoring program at that stage of things (and thus apparently were unable to analyze the MIKE fallout to the degree that would have revealed fundamental design information, thus saving Soviet dignity when they came up with the same idea independently!),2 but it's clear that they were aware that something big had happened in the Pacific Ocean. And the only thing that big would have been an H-bomb.
The secrecy of the H-bomb has long been an interest of mine, because it was instituted so early (Truman put the AEC under a "gag" on discussing H-bomb topics in 1950, which they struggled to get reversed), and persisted for a relatively long time (the US didn't officially admit to having H-bombs until 1954, after the Castle BRAVO accident) despite the weighty subject matter. Information on the Ivy Mike shot wasn't released until nearly two years after it was detonated, which is a long time to try and keep something that big secret!
Who were they trying to keep it from? Well, everybody. The timing and circumstances of MIKE were not politically ideal. It was detonated just days before the 1952 Presidential election, and there was considerable question to whether it should be delayed until after the election took place. In the end it was decided that delaying it would be a politically tricky thing, so they just went ahead with it when they were ready. Truman didn't make it a political issue, though he easily could have. When President-elect Eisenhower was briefed on it, he was relieved that the AEC hadn't told anybody, because he didn't want to tip off the Russians to anything whatsoever.3 All that was immediately let out was a terse statement that admitted that the test series "the test program included experiments contributing to thermonuclear weapons research" — the same thing they had said after Operation Greenhouse. From that point until the Operation Castle debacle it just never seemed like the right time to say anything.
Of course, as I said, you can't really keep something that large truly secret. And indeed — Ivy MIKE leaked almost immediately. Thus we turn to this week's document, a series of AEC correspondence by Morris Salisbury, their public relations officer, Gordon Dean, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and J. Edgar Hoover, infamous head of the FBI.4
Only a few hours after the first H-bomb detonation, the AEC public relations man got a call from someone at the Department of Defense who had got off the phone with Clay Blair, Jr., at Life magazine wanting to confirm that the US had indeed just detonated a hydrogen bomb. Just prior to that, they had gotten another phone call from Time magazine:
Hobbing [Time]: Is this the big day?
Thompson [AEC]: Why don't you tell me? What are you talking about?
Hobbing: We understand that the H-bomb has just been set off.
Thompson: We have a standard policy of no comment about weapons tests. We haven't anything to say in that field.
Hobbing: Aren't you getting out a release, don't you usually issue releases after you have made a shot?
Thompson: We have at times issued releases or statements after a shot in Nevada. We have never followed such procedure on tests at Eniwetok.
Hobbing: Don't you have any releases coming out there this afternoon?
Thompson: I don't know offhand. I'll have to check.
Hobbing: I mean about H-bombs.
Thompson: No.
A not entirely compelling performance on behalf of the AEC representative, there. Dean opted to have the FBI try and track down the source of the leak — the exact place and time of the shot was considered extremely sensitive information (because it would help the Soviets reconstruct information from the fallout), and the fact that it involved an H-bomb at all meant that it was "restricted data" (the unauthorized dissemination of which could even carry the death penalty).
Over the course of the week the story made its way into the press — and the AEC's secrecy on the issue itself became a main part of the story.
"The United States may be keeping secret an explosion of the world's first full-scale hydrogen bomb." (L.A. Times, November 7, 1952)
" 'No Comment' was the only reply from the commission to inquiries based on an H-bomb story story in a Los Angeles newspaper today." (L.A. Times, November 9, 1952)
Finally the AEC release the terse statement I mentioned earlier, which, when paired with the rumors, and several "first-hand accounts" made the H-bomb test a fairly "open secret."
It's still worth wondering, why try to keep it so secret? I mean, as we've seen from the film (released later), Operation Ivy was no small affair. (Interestingly, and this was news to me, an Air Force pilot actually died while taking fallout samples. Not from the radiation, mind you, but because he ran out of fuel and crashed the plane.5 This is the only acute, immediate death I've ever heard of during a U.S. nuclear test. Are there more?) Over 2,500 people were present at the test site, and the bomb itself was pretty conspicuous. As far as I know, nobody was ever charged with "leaking" the news about the MIKE shot.
A short version is to say that by this point, the AEC was taking all of its guidance on public releases relating to the H-bomb from the National Security Council, who saw no benefit to transparency. There's more to this story, but we'll leave it at that for now.
A few parting observations:
- In all of the news coverage, notice that it is the AEC who gets the blame for the secrecy. This isn't exactly true — the "no comment on the H-bomb" policy had been decided before the shot by the National Security Council, and the post-shot silence was dictated by both Truman and Eisenhower. But the very secrecy of the matter obscures the source of the secrecy.
- In a sense, one could see the U.S. as participating in a form of "strategic opacity" regarding its possession or non-possession of a hydrogen bomb between 1952 and 1954. Like Israel today, the U.S. then derived some advantage from its vagueness — if everyone "knew" that the U.S. had an H-bomb, but the U.S. didn't announce it, it could help avoid troublesome international issues (like criticism from allied countries who decried the H-bomb effort) while also avoiding several acute strategic weaknesses (like the fact that their "H-bomb" was not yet really a deliverable military weapon).
- On the other hand, the H-bomb issue as a whole was one of the real turning points with respects to the AEC and the press. It was in the 1950s that the AEC's relationship with the press soured in a bad way, and when it got its most fearsome reputation as an agent of censorship and an enemy of disclosure. Some of this was deserved, but some of this was not. As pointed out, a lot of that secrecy didn't derive from the AEC at all, but other sources of power it was beholden to.
Ultimately, like so much regarding the hydrogen bomb (more on this in a future post), one has to wonder what it all added up to. The AEC was already in a pretty prime strategic relationship with regards to the arms race, and it didn't have any great reason to assume otherwise. I don't think it got them very much to be secretive, but I do think it hurt them. Then again, it wasn't entirely up to them what was secret and what wasn't — a case of "gambling with other people's money," or, more correctly, "gambling with other agency's reputations," on behalf of the NSC.
- Note that it was November 1 local, Eniwetok time — in the U.S. itself it was Halloween, which I find appropriate. [↩]
- See Hugh Gusterson, "Death of the authors of death: Prestige and creativity among nuclear weapons scientists," in Mario Biagioli and Peter Galison, eds., Scientific authorship: Credit and intellectual property in science (New York: Routledge, 2003), 281-307, riffing off of the account in David Holloway's Stalin and the Bomb. [↩]
- Richard G. Hewlett and Jack M. Holl, Atoms for Peace and War, 1953-1961 (Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley, 1989), 3-4. [↩]
- Roy B. Snapp, "Note by the Secretary – Letter to J. Edgar Hoover, Operation Ivy, AEC 483/33," (18 November 1952), copy in Nuclear Testing Archive, Las Vegas, NV, as document NV0409009. [↩]
- Mark Wolverton, "Into the Mushroom Cloud," Air & Space (August 2009). [↩]


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Kate Shin and her company WEmi:t, LLC has just completed a New York City renovation by turning a 19th century townhouse into a luxury lifestyle mansion at 170 East 80th Street. Kate has priced the renovated, rather transformed property at $35 million. She and her exclusive broker Paula Del Nunzio of Brown Harris Stevens are confident of getting a buyer at the high asking price as it is one of a kind town house in New York. Del Nunzio calls it the Modern Townhouse as all the elements have been incorporated in the design with a modern interpretation.
The broker highlights the point that there is no other house in New York that is similar to the Modern Townhouse. Shin has consciously integrated elements from East and West and has collaborated with Toshiko Mori Architect for the purpose. The design process took more than a year and was guided by the principles of Feng Shui. Natural elements like light, air, and water were brought into the home to create serene and open space for contemporary living. A 22-foot high and 20-foot wide waterfall was incorporated in the design. The waterfall cascades into a reflecting pool that is surrounded by a sculpture garden.
Shin is very focused on the West-Meets-East philosophy. The way she has named her company also represents the same philosophy. She explains that the waterfall concept comes from Eastern influences and the water-pressure technology to manage the waterfall is more of a Western influence. To incorporate the green in the house a grassy terrace has been created outside the master bedroom. The house also boasts of a rooftop garden with a LiveRite auto-irrigation system. The house has 40 custom-made windows and skylights to ensure natural illumination. The mansion has an art gallery, a2,300-square-foot spa-lounge with a Jacuzzi, sauna, massage room, and gym, as well as a 1,000-bottle wine cellar with custom lighting.
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Musicians Wish Their Moms a Happy Mother's Day with Adorable PhotosArtists that proudly celebrated the holiday, included Chance the Rapper, Elton John, John Legend, DJ Khaled and Dolly Parton.
Pearl Jam, Yes, Journey, Joan Baez, Tupac Tribute Highlight Rock Hall InductionPolitical statements, funny stories and one-off collaborations dominated the night. Catch HBO's edited broadcast on 4/29.
Lenny Kravitz to Perform Prince Tribute, Pharrell Williams to Induct Nile Rodgers at Rock Hall CelebrationAlso, Alicia Keys, Mary Chapin Carpenter and Indigo Girls will perform, Dhani Harrison will induct ELO and Pat Monahan will induct Journey.
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Watch Alicia Keys Impersonate Adele, Gwen Stefani & Janis JoplinShe gets an "A" for effort and commitment.
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The Hundert team is going to be our moderator and host a panel discussion – "Connecting the Dots" – with entrepreneurs eager to share their business experiences. Among the speakers:
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Join us for this extraordinary event and meet the cream of the Berlin entrepreneur scene and expat society. Many of the Club GLOBALS Solutioners will be present, so you will have the chance to talk face to face with local service providers. Last but not least, do not miss this: the breathtaking view over the city from the 8th floor of Loeser & Wolf Haus!
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One of the most talked-about documentaries this year is Room 237, a stylish examination of the cult that surrounds Stanley Kubrick's The Shining.
The film, which is now available on demand, has renewed interest in the 1980 psychological horror classic. As it unfolds, viewers are introduced to obsessed Shining fans who truly believe the movie contains hidden themes and messages, whether they pertain to the plight of Native Americans, the moon landing or the Holocaust.
Although I don't buy many of the intricate theories presented, some fans do make convincing cases, and director Rodney Ascher succeeds in making the doc so visually appealing it's hard to turn away.
If you haven't watched the flick yet, I suggest you check it out in theaters or on demand via your cable company, iTunes, Amazon, PS3 or what have you.
If you have seen the movie, you may be inspired to delve a little deeper into the maze that is Stanley Kubrick's mind and/or The Shining. I suggest a few resources below, and feel free to add any others in the comments.
1. Watch Vivian Kubrick's The Making of The Shining. Stanley Kubrick's daughter made an excellent, all-access doc about the movie when she was in her teens. You can find the 30-minute piece on any Shining DVD or, if you can't wait, watch a shoddier version on YouTube. The filmmaker captures many candid moments with Jack Nicholson and the rest of the cast (including Shelley Duvall and young Danny Lloyd). What stuck with me was the rehearsal footage and scenes with Kubrick making obsessive, last-minute rewrites.
2. Watch The Shining Code 2.0. Room 237 isn't the first movie devoted to Shining theories. This one isn't as glossy but has a lot to say about the "codes" hidden within the maze, the hotel, the typewriter, Room 237 and other aspects of the movie.
3. Read/watch Jon Ronson's work. Several years ago Guardian writer Jon Ronson wrote a great piece about his trip to Stanley Kubrick's estate and some of the odd things he discovered in the late director's archives. It's partly because I'd read this article that I have to believe some of the Shining theories; after all, here was a man who had an entire room in his house devoted to books about Napoleon.
The access even inspired Ronson to make a documentary about Kubrick's stuff called Stanley Kubrick's Boxes. It's pretty fascinating, and here's a trailer:
4. Hear this How Was Your Week podcast. A recent episode of Julie Klausner's always-entertaining program is devoted to Room 237 and features interviews with Ascher and producer Tim Kirk.
5. Read New York magazine's coverage. The publication has been on a Shining tear lately with pieces about the theories, Ascher, Nicholson's scariest Shining faces and more.
Room 237 expands to several theaters across the country on Friday. For more details, head to www.room237movie.com.


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George Gordon, sixth baron Byron, was born on 22nd January 1788 at 16 Holles Street, London. He was the son of the profligate "mad Jack" Captain Byron, formerly of the Guards, by his second wife, Catherine Gordon of Gight, Aberdeen, Scotland. Within two years, Mrs. Byron, her fortune having been dissipated by her husband, returned to Aberdeen with her son, and in 1791 her husband died in France (aged thirty-six). In 1794 George Gordon, on the death of the fifth Lord Byron's grandson, became heir to the barony to which he succeeded in May 1798 and was brought back to England. He entered Harrow School in 1801, Trinity College, Cambridge in 1805, and took his seat in the House of Lords in 1809.
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THERE is something eminently likeable about Tim Visser.
It is not the Edinburgh winger's tries, as much as they have excited supporters and inspired team-mates, nor is it the fact that he has an engaging personality and sense of humour.
It is instead the unashamed confidence which bubbles to the surface of the tall Dutchman that pulls you in.
He is a natural joker in the Edinburgh squad and, having beaten his try tally each season since joining the club from Newcastle in 2009, and provided ever-more important scores, he has every reason to be buoyant ahead of Saturday's Heineken Cup quarter-final at Murrayfield. But that façade hides a steely ambition, one of the most underrated traits in a successful sportsman or woman.
Visser has developed from a skinny stripling who danced around Borders rugby grounds in Newcastle colours as a sevens player in his teens into a 6ft 4in, 17-stone mass of muscle, crucially without losing his pace, for which he is quick to pay tribute to the Edinburgh strength and conditioning team, particularly Andy Boyd.
He has improved his handling skills and, now with the lure of international rugby for Scotland potentially just ten weeks away, has begun to work intensely on his defence, the one weakness that is too easily exploited on the Test stage.
But he has a powerful desire and ambition that cannot be coached. It popped out this week in a media session when the 24-year-old was asked how happy he was with 15 tries this season.
"I'm 16 now." He smiled, but the eyes said 'offence taken'. "I'm past last year's record in total, and this [four] is the most I've scored in the Heineken Cup and, if we get back into the Rabo, I'll look to get past last year's [league] record. "But," returning to the pre-Toulouse script, "that's in the back of the mind right now – we're just looking forward to playing against Toulouse this weekend."
Yeah, right. Visser is a popular team man, but he has that single-mindedness one associates with a striker who not only knows his responsibility is to provide the team with a finish, but lives for it. Another relatively innocuous question – 'Are you relieved that your team-mates are chipping in with more tries now, and you don't have to shoulder the burden yourself?' – brought it back to the surface.
"I don't know if it's a relief," he said mischievously, the eyes again saying something different to the jokey smile. "But, no, it is good to see other people score, mainly because we're getting wins through that."
The sentence was finished with a sly wink at the questioner which said it all – yes, he enjoys seeing team-mates contributing, but make no mistake he wants to remain top of the tree. Numbers matter, but Visser also takes pleasure from knowing that the four tries he has notched in Eur-ope this season were significant.
He grabbed a brace in the stunning 48-47 victory over Racing Metro and scored the only try in the 19-12 win over Cardiff. He also set the ball rolling in the final pool match win over London Irish, having also 'scored' a perfectly good try down in Reading which the referee failed to spot.
"The times where I've been the only one scoring hasn't necessarily been times where we've won the game, so you do need more people scoring. I've said lots of times that I'd rather win games than score tries; so as long as we're winning I don't mind who scores.
"Dave Denton has shown that he can score tries, so has Matt Scott and Nick de Luca comes away with one every now and again. We like to score tries in the back three, myself, [Lee] Jonesy and Tom Brown, who is a huge talent.
"But, more importantly, this weekend we have to stop them [Toulouse] scoring tries. We have seen that they are one of the best counter-attacking teams in the world, so that's our biggest focus – stopping them and hopefully picking up some points on the way."
That is a salient point. Only Leinster and Ulster have scored more tries than Edinburgh in the RaboDirect PRO12 this season, but no team has conceded more than Michael Bradley's team. In Europe, even with the Racing try-fest, they were still only fifth-best in the try-scoring stakes, but ten teams conceded more.
This season, Edinburgh have scored on average two tries per game but shipped 2.4 and there is a strong awareness through the squad that Toulouse, the top scorers in France, are potentially the most clinical in exploiting the mere sniff of defensive frailty. Visser said: "Defence is the core of any game. Although we haven't been hugely competitive on the defensive front, when we have our real first-team out there with all the internationalists back there is a huge difference.
"Last week wasn't as good as it could have been but it was still a huge step-up from when those guys were away, and we showed away to London Irish and Racing Metro that we can stop good teams scoring.
"There is a fine balance between playing a defensive game and concentrating on our strengths which is attacking, and we have to get that right. Toulouse are similar to Racing and we don't want that [conceding 47 points] to happen again … but if it does we have shown that we can win games like that as well!"
And there was that joie de vivre again, leaping out of the Dutchman in a manner thousands of Scottish rugby supporters are paying to witness on Saturday. "This is obviously the biggest game that I've played in for Edinburgh so far," he added. "To get into the latter stages of the Heineken Cup is incredible. It's a big day for the club and the whole city of Edinburgh.
"Toulouse have shown that they are hugely competitive in this cup, and that they can win it, and are easily one of the biggest teams in the world. They are topping the table in France and they have some of the best players in the world, though I wouldn't necessarily say they were the best team in the world at this moment because, although they have a lot of good individuals, they don't necessarily play that well together."
Did I forget to mention that he also goes where others fear to tread? Picking holes in the French cup winners? Visser shrugs. "They don't, and that's something that we're focusing on and keeping in the back of our mind. If we're accurate and play better as a team I think we've got a very good chance.
"The crowd will help us. We have played in front of some big crowds at Munster and Leinster, and I played at Twickenham for the BaaBaas which was a big crowd, but it will be great to have that many Edinburgh supporters behind you. And with so few Toulouse supporters the difference will be great."
With training and media duties over, the winger then left Murrayfield in his black sports car, with personalised number plate, bought, fittingly, from Keith Robertson. It takes one to know one. Visser is certainly making a decent job of emulating the former Melrose and Scotland finisher, on and off the pitch.
Edinburgh have got to this point through impressive teamwork, but, wholly refreshing and not a little exciting for Scottish rugby supporters, Visser's tries and confidence are helping to instil new belief.


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Beijing opens door to SAR media
In a move to forge closer relations between Hong Kong, Macau and the mainland, the central Government has opened the doors to media from the two Special Administrative Regions by allowing them to set up news-gathering bureaus on the mainland.
Shao Huaze, chairman of the All-China Journalists' Association, said last night the long-awaited move would give local media the same access on the mainland as overseas news organisations.
The move would facilitate the two regions' understanding of social, political and economic developments on the mainland, Mr Shao said.
He said news organisations registered in Hong Kong and Macau should apply to set up bureaus through the central Government Liaison Office.
Once the applications were approved by the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, the organisations should register with the All-China Journalists' Association, Mr Shao said.
He said the authorities had already made the necessary preparations and would begin to accept applications from Hong Kong and Macau news organisations after the National Day holidays.
Hong Kong media executives welcomed the announcement.
Lo Wing-hung, chief executive officer and publisher of the Sing Tao newspaper group, said: 'The move is timely as China looks set to join the World Trade Organisation towards the end of this year and is poised to embark upon further economic liberalisation.
'It is good news and this will give Hong Kong journalists more space and freedom to report and write about the mainland.'
Paul Cheung, chief editor of Ming Pao Newspapers Limited, said his newspaper had been expecting the development for some time and had been preparing for it.
Both Mr Lo and Mr Cheung said they would study the regulations and review the costs carefully before deciding whether to apply for approval to set up mainland bureaus.
Until now, Hong Kong and Macau-based media have not been allowed to station full-time correspondents on the mainland, except for a handful of newspapers, including the South China Morning Post. Only selected media groups from other countries are allowed to representation on the mainland.
Mainland officials said Hong Kong and Macau media groups could initially set up bureaus in Beijing only, and the correspondents should be Hong Kong or Macau residents.
The correspondents will be able to travel to other parts of the country from Beijing to report and gather news after getting approval from the authorities. Hong Kong's media started lobbying for the right to open news bureaus on the mainland after the 1997 handover.
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Military ships and cargo planes loaded with food raced Monday to supply Amazon River communities stranded by drought, while sporadic rains raised hopes that the worst dry spell in decades could be ending.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Military ships and cargo planes loaded with food raced Monday to supply Amazon River communities stranded by drought, while sporadic rains raised hopes that the worst dry spell in decades could be ending.
The Air Force said it would deliver 15 tons of food and medicine Monday to communities near Tabatinga, on the upper Amazon near the border with Colombia. The navy planned to take supplies to other river towns isolated by the drought.
The Health Ministry said it was sending nine tons of water purifier to the Amazon capital of Manaus, 1,760 miles (2,840 kilometers) northwest of Rio de Janeiro, to treat well water and avoid disease.
The low water has reduced fishing, and seven native tribes with some 8,000 Indians reportedly didn't have enough to eat. The Amazon is home to most of Brazil's 700,000 Indians.
Gov. Carlos Eduardo de Souza Braga of Amazonas, the Amazon's biggest state, declared all 61 Amazonas cities and towns disaster areas over the weekend.
He said the government would distribute emergency food baskets with 25 kilograms (55 pounds) of rice, beans, milk, flour and other staples.
But the low river made travel difficult even for small and flat-bottomed craft, police Sgt. Antonio Martins da Lima said in Anori, about 125 miles (200 kilometers) upriver from Manaus. A barge from Manaus loaded with food, drinking water, medicine and fuel took 30 hours to arrive in Anori, three times longer than normal.
"Speed is important, but it's still going too slowly," he said. "Relief is only 30 percent of what it should be."
State Civil Defense authorities said 32,000 families were stranded by the falling rivers, which serve as roads in the rain forest, said Jose Melo, head of the state's SOS Interior Emergency Plan.
Gov. Braga said he would ask the Federal Electoral Tribunal to release Amazonas residents from a national referendum on Sunday, when all Brazilians must vote whether the sale of guns and ammunition should be banned. Failure to vote can be punished with fines.
"There's no way for them to vote," Braga said. Many towns have no roads and rely on rivers for transportation.
Many Amazon rivers have reached the lowest levels ever recorded, Brazil's National Space Sciences Institute said. And the environmental group Greenpeace said illegal deforestation and global warming were making the drought worse.
The drought has reduced the availability of fish -- a staple of Amazon families -- and is killing the manatees and pink river dolphins typical of the region, the Agencia Folha news service said Monday.
Five dolphins were found killed and gutted for food since Saturday, the Amazon Research Institute.
More than 100 manatees were found dead in the shrunken rivers and lakes, veterinarian Branca Tressoldi told Folha.
But the Brazilian Hydrological Service said water levels in the upper Amazon were rising 10 centimeters (4 inches) a day, as a result of rains in tributaries in Peru. Still, it's too soon to say if the river will return to former levels, and the higher water could take weeks to reach the mouth of the 6,400 kilometer-long (4,000-mile) river.
"It's the period of transition between the dry season and the rainy season," said weather analyst Ricardo Dellarosa.
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Morgan Stanley, owner of the world's largest stock-brokerage firm, said it swung back to a profit in the first quarter of the year, but shares dropped 4% as profits fell well short of analyst estimates.
Morgan said revenue rose 18% to $8.2 billion, and its profit worked out to 50 cents a share, or $977 million. The results fell short of analysts' forecasts that it would earn $1.41 billion, or 57 cents a share on revenue of $8.35 billion. Last year's first-quarter revenue was $6.35 billion.
Morgan Stanley CEO James Gorman defended the results on a conference call with analysts, saying the bank has made progress toward its goal of doubling its profitability by cutting costs.
"The consistency of our returns is as important'' as the amount the firm makes, Gorman said. "Many of the regulatory headwinds facing the business are already reflected on our results. ''
Morgan was hit by weaker-than-expected results in its commodities and interest-rate trading businesses, Ctigroup analyst Keith Horowitz said. That weakness more than offset better-than-expected performance in the firm's wealth management business, he said.
The improving world economy should help Morgan Stanley, Gorman said, pointing to the recent loosening of monetary policy in Japan, which has pushed the Nikkei stock index higher. The firm's cost cutting is on track to boost profits even if it cannot make its revenue grow, he said.
"Morgan Stanley demonstrated solid momentum across the firm this quarter,'' Gorman said in a statement before the call. "`While the global environment continues to have moments of fragility, we believe the broad economic outlook for the next several years is stronger than in the recent past."
Morgan Stanley stocks dropped 77 cents to $20.70 a share on the New York Stock Exchange.


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Bishop Williamson denied permission to visit Australia
June 11, 2014
Bishop Richard Williamson, the controversial traditionalist prelate who was ousted last year from the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), has been denied permission to visit Australia.
Bishop Williamson has planned to visit Australia later this month. But when a Jewish group questioned immigration officials, pointing out that the prelate had been fined by a German court for public statements denying the Holocaust, his visa was revoked.
One of four SSPX bishops consecrated by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in defiance of the Vatican, Bishop Williamson became the focus of international attention in 2008, when an interview including his views on the Holocaust was broadcast just as Pope Benedict XVI lifted the excommunication of those four breakaway bishops. In subsequent months his extreme views created tension between Bishop Williamson and his SSPX colleagues, eventually leading to his dismissal from the traditionalist group. Like the other SSPX bishops he remains suspended from episcopal ministry.
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- German appeals court affirms conviction of breakaway bishop for Holocaust denial (CWN, 4/11)
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History is what happened before we were born. At least that's what I thought in elementary school. One of the weird things about getting older is watching the events that have occurred during my lifetime morph into subsequent generations' history. Nothing brings that home quite like Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Apartheid and the Club of the West, which revisits the U.S. anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and '80s. Didn't that just happen? Isn't it way too soon, and those events too fresh, to be the subject of a historical film? Or might we discern, by some stretch of the imagination, a kernel of relevance to the present?
It is this last question that seems to be fueling veteran East Bay filmmaker Connie Field's fire. Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Apartheid and the Club of the West is the fourth episode (and the first to be finished and publicly screened) in her stupendously bold six-part series recounting the international campaign to demolish and abolish South Africa's racist apartheid system. Field clearly views the anti-apartheid movement as a milestone in citizen democracy, relations among nations and human morality — and one whose lessons have already been forgotten or whitewashed.
Let's take a moment first to look at the little picture. Field's major challenge in Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Apartheid and the Club of the West
, given the number of people who were involved in the issue, their range of activities and the countless campuses and other points of conflict across the U.S., is developing momentum without sacrificing depth and context. Alas, it takes the film several minutes to draw us in, and the familiar strategy of blending archival television news footage and current interviews with the key participants is neither fresh nor exciting. We feel as if we're watching history, not living it, and that makes all the difference.
Although our sympathies for the good guys are never in question, the doc fails to thrust us into the middle of the fight, which burst into the national consciousness when the Congressional Black Caucus and other groups took to the streets outside the South African embassy with the successful goal of being regularly arrested. (Part of the problem is that Field feels compelled to cut periodically to police riots and protest marches in Fredonia, so we don't lose sight of the cause and who's enduring the real suffering.) The torch was picked up by dozens of student groups, demanding that colleges divest their portfolios of investments in companies who did business with the apartheid regime. It is only when the battle comes to a head in Congress that Apartheid and the Club of the West achieves high drama, with Ronald Reagan vetoing a bipartisan bill approving economic sanctions.
In her previous, invaluable documentaries, The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter (1980) and Freedom On My Mind (1994), Field did the great service of spotlighting progressive high points of America's recent past that have been left out of textbooks (the essential work that women did in American factories during World War II) or systemically denied and revised by conservative pundits and politicians (the impact of students and other activists in the Civil Rights Movement of the '60s). This is not a role we often speak of, the documentary maker as excavator and defender of historical truth. But it has become an essential one, as the selective memory of the Reagan Era (long before the Gipper was diagnosed with Alzheimer's) has evolved into the bald lies and cynical denials of the Bush Administration.
Knowledge is one thing; action is another. It's impossible to watch Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Apartheid and the Club of the West and not think about the dearth of anti-Iraq War protests on college campuses, or the general lack of political opposition across the country. One gathers that Field's main goal is to rouse an apathetic populace — to remind us that history happens on our watch, no matter when or where we live.
Have You Heard From Johannesburg: Apartheid and the Club of the West opens Friday, Nov. 2, 2007 at the Roxie New College Film Center. Filmmaker Connie Field will be present after the 7 p.m. shows Friday and Saturday.


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In addition to screening the live broadcast, the Balboa is also hosting a Red Carpet event beginning at 3:30pm, inviting guests to dress "up or down as your favorite nominated movie (literal translation and bad puns allowed), or as a movie star".
There will be prizes for the most creative costumes including movie passes, DVDs, posters, t-shirts, and much more. And whoever guess the most correct Oscar winners goes home with a VIP Season pass to the Balboa Theater.
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Wildlife filmmakers play a vital role in creating awareness about the environment and issues affecting the ecosystem. A lot of the wildlife in conservation was brought to light by each wildlife filmmaker who studies issues that lead to a destabilized habitat and in turn affect wildlife's capacity to adapt. The conservation of a natural habitat takes effort but when brought to light, people can learn what not to do.
Pollution is one of the major threats to the ecosystem because it has devastating effects, which are difficult to contain. Nature filmmakers have particularly studied the grizzly in its natural habitat while trying to advocate conservation of its homeland, and this has gotten a lot of attention from naturalists.
Each animal plays an important role in maintaining a natural order in the ecosystem. The grizzly bear is one of the most aggressive bears known to man and one that people avoid at all costs. While there is good reason to respect a grizzly's temper, these huge creatures play a crucial role in nature's conservation and their existence affects plant growth, diversity and prey population. By existing, grizzly bears regulate their own environment.
Grizzlies are found in Europe, Asia and North America; for a single species, they have a huge territory. The North American grizzly is native to Colorado, California, Wyoming, Canada and Alaska, among other states. They had a wider distribution but because of deforestation and other encroachments, which interfere with their natural conservation, they are much fewer now.
Massive development in recent years has affected grizzly population particularly in the US, where few grizzlies exist. Higher populations can be found in Canada and Alaska where their natural territory has not been disturbed.
Grizzly bears are loners but females will generally take care of their young for up to two years after they are born. It takes grizzlies at least five years to reach sexual maturity, after which they mate during the summer. The female then delays the implantation of a fertilized embryo until winter. Female grizzlies have to store enough fat to make it through winter; a failure to do so can result in a miscarriage.
Hibernation can last up to 8 months during which the female and her cubs will be burrowed in a den. If the pregnancy is successful, they usually give birth to two or three cubs, which weigh a pound each. When they come out of hibernation in the spring, the cubs can weigh up to twenty pounds. Most fatal human encounters with grizzlies occur in spring, when the female is trying to protect her cubs.
When food is in good supply, grizzlies will tolerate each other and occasionally group around river banks to catch salmon, as is shown by nature filmmakers, but a hierarchy is usually in place, where larger bears dominate food supplies. When the food runs low, they go solo and feed off nuts, berries and other vegetation.
Consumption of berries nuts and other types of vegetation is important to the ecosystem because when these bears defecate, the seeds spread to other areas of the forest. When it digs out roots in search of food, it helps to aerate the soil and lifts nitrogen from lower layers of earth. When they catch salmon and bring it to land, grizzlies bring nitrogen to their ecosystem therefore sustaining a cycle.
The food chain needs to remain balanced so each animal population is controlled. By feeding off rodents and other small species, the grizzly helps maintain a reasonable population which if left unchecked could turn into a menace for local communities.
Nature filmmakers play a very involved role in creating awareness about nature conservation by reminding people that simple actions have consequences. When people can see the bigger picture, they tend to take conservation more seriously.


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We've got the best of grassroots new design right here. Our 2011 Design Showcase is off and running with a whole slew of new submissions coming in over the weekend. The best submissions are posted daily and voting is open for four days, which means that voting is opening and closing daily right now. Got a great design? Get it in by Wednesday, 9.21. Want to vote? Check out new entries daily right up until next Monday, 9.26.
>> Design Showcase 2011 Leaderboard & All Entries >> Most Recent Entry: Seena Lamp by Randall Kramer
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This time two years ago we launched our first ever Design Showcase, with the intention of giving a bunch of independent designers a really good soapbox from which to pitch their work. For the lucky finalists, we also wanted to give them even more exposure and see if we could help to boost their careers to a whole new level. Guess what? It worked. In the past 24 months, our winners have had tremendous runs, getting picked up by major newspapers and magazines and watching their businesses skyrocket.
It's time to do it again.
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We'll post the best submissions, allow the readers to vote and then give six finalists an unprecedented chance to feature their design and themselves by building their own original post on our site during prime time at the end of September.
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2010 Reader's Choice Winner - Bottles of Hope by Peter Sid
From Peter:
Hi Maxwell,
Going into this competition I was a complete unknown. Although I am a professional artist in Hollywood, I had never shown my furniture to anyone beyond friends and family. In the year since the Design Showcase, I have officially started my own design and furniture business, www.petersid.com. I have developed a really cool line of furniture which is currently in the final stages of design before manufacturing. I've been featured on blogs from around the world, and increased my visibility and credibility as a designer greatly.
I am most proud however of having "bottles of hope" shown in a museum alongside some of the hottest emerging designers today. I went so see Arik Levy's Chandeliers at the Santa Monica museum of art only a few months before entering the Design Showcase. I would have never thought my work would have been shown in a museum only a few months later. It even got me a little blurb on Elle Decor!
If I can pass on a word to anyone thinking of entering this year... DO IT... NOW! I came very close to not entering simply out of the fear of being judged. Looking back, I can't imagine if I hadn't. It was a truly great experience, and I am very proud to have been a part of it!
-Peter Sid
2010 Judges Choice Winner - Cat Hammock by Tamar Gilad
From Tamar:
Hi Maxwell,
The competition increased traffic to my website and resulted in additional orders. Even a year later, people sometimes find me through the apartment therapy website. I truly appreciate having had the opportunity to participate in the designer showcase competition.
This year we're going to run just like we did last year and open submissions today. So, if you've got a great design or a friend who does AND you want to get it out there, now's your chance.
Note: Voting for each submission is open for 4 days (96 hours) this year.
• 2010 Winners Post
• 2010 Contest All Entries Post
• 2010 Judges Post
• 2009 Winners Post
• 2009 Contest All Entries Post
• 2009 Judges Post
This year's judges have not yet been announced. Last year's judges were Amy Butler, David Netto and Aaron Lown & John Roscoe Swartz of BUILT.
Who Can Enter?
• Independent & student designers from all over the world
• Design couples and teams are welcome
We're looking for folks who need exposure and a big push to get them to the next level. Already designing for a big company? That's okay, but send us stuff you're doing on the side. We want to help you, not the big company.
What Designs Are Eligible?
• One original design that has reached prototype stage or beyond.
• No designs are eligible that have been purchased by or licensed to another company.
• Designs can be for home furnishings, accessories, lighting, appliances or textiles.
• Only one design per designer, please, so choose your best design. If you submit more than one, we'll choose the one we think is best.
If it goes into the home, we're open to it. It can be decor, furnishing or materials related, just don't send us a car design.
What To Submit?
• Your name and contact info
• Materials description
• Your pitch! (@ 200 words)
• A link to your site if you have one (hey, it's 2011, every designer should!)
• Image of design drawing
• Three photographs of prototype or finished product (This is important. You must have taken it at least to prototype stage.)
• One photograph of yourself (Feel free to dress up and look as important as you feel).
Give us your best pitch, and your clearest product shots. Remember that first impressions are the most important.
Dates & Deadlines?
• Submissions accepted until September 21
• Submissions posted from September 6-26
• Finalists notified on September 30
• Finalists posted the week of October 3
The early birds will get the worm. We won't be able to post everyone, and are currently reserving 30 slots in September. We'll notify you if we post you or if we don't, and reserve the right to decide editorially whether or not a submission is strong enough to share with the crowd.
Note on VotingThough you are allowed to ask your friends and family to vote, only one vote is allowed per person. If we find that any voting has been hacked and that one person has voted numerous times, we reserve the right to either throw out the votes we can identify or discount the submission entirely.
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Dyson LJ, who was called to the bar at Keating Chambers in 1969, took silk in 1982 and joined 39 Essex Street as head of chambers in 1986, was today unveiled as the Supreme Court's 12th justice, after the appointment was approved by the Queen.
Dyson LJ emerged as an early contender for the final seat on the Supreme Court bench, but it was understood that he had been rejected by the selection panel. Other names that had been in the frame were Lord Justice Rix, Lord Justice Lloyd and Jonathan Sumption QC (14 December 20009).
Supreme Court president Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers said he admired Dyson LJ's abilities as a judge, having worked with him at the Appeal Court.
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Livorno, Chievo and Sassuolo earned friendly victories, but Genoa suffered a surprise defeat to Kaysespor.
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They hammered local side Genova International 6-1 with two goals for Gomes, one each for Leonardo Pavoletti, Jasmin Kurtic, Diego Falcinelli and Simone Zaza.
However, Genoa fell to a 1-0 defeat to Turkish club Kaysespor, who are preparing for the Europa League preliminary round.
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3 Days/2 NightsStart time
3 Days/2 NightsMeeting Point
Your hotel in Jaipur. (Please advise your hotel at the time of booking. If you do not have this information now, please contact the local activity operator 24 hours prior to the start of the tour with these details.)Ending Point
Your hotel in Jaipur
Bharatpur was once a semi-arid region which would only fill with water in the monsoon months and remain dry for the rest of the year. The Maharaja of Bharatpur, to create a good shooting range, diverted water from a nearby irrigation canal to the park and created what is today India's most famous bird sanctuary. It used to be a favourite hunting ground for the British viceroys before it became the Keoladeo Ghana National Park.
Don't miss the opportunity to see the Siberian Crane. Pre-book your tour to this beautiful bird sanctuary to avoid disappointment.
Day 1:
You will be picked up from your hotel in Jaipur and travel to Bharatpur, about 255 kilometres away, in an air-conditioned vehicle to visit the Keoladeo Ghana National Park.
Upon arrival in Bhartapur, check into The Udaivilas Hotel (standard room). The hotel is very close to the park and has air-conditioned rooms, a swimming pool, gymnasium, a bar and a multi-cuisine restaurant where you can enjoy local Rajasthani cuisine apart from Mughlai, Continental and Chinese food. Your package includes breakfast daily, throughout your stay.
Day 2:
After breakfast, accompanied by a local English-speaking nature guide, proceed to the National Park which is home to more than 300 species of exotic birds. As a conservation measure, you are permitted to tour the park only in a cycle rickshaw (which seats two people comfortably), which adds to the uniqueness and charm of the entire experience. You will return to the hotel for lunch at a suitable time (payable direct).
After lunch, you will go on another excursion into the park. Enjoy the beauty of the park from the comfort of your rickshaw. A large portion of the park lies under water, the extent and volume depending on the intensity of the rains. The remaining areas are covered with dry deciduous forests (with Acacia, Ber, Kadam and Khajur trees) and extensive grasslands. Often, when the rains have been inadequate and the volume of water is rather low, the number of birds in the park too is rather low.
Many consider the park one of Asia's finest birding areas with species including the demoiselle and the rare Siberian Cranes. It is also an excellent place to watch mammals like Golden Jackal, Striped Hyena, Fishing Cat, Jungle Cat, Nilgai, Sambar, Blackbuck and wild Boar. Learn more about the eating habits and the migratory patterns of the birds from your nature guide.
After a tour of the park, return to the hotel for dinner (payable direct) and spend the night there.
Day 3:
Today you will leave Bharatpur for Jaipur. You will be dropped to your hotel in Jaipur where the tour concludes.
Please call the local activity operator at least 24 hours prior to the start of the tour to reconfirm the departure details.
Please specify your preferred time of activity in the special request section in the online booking form as you proceed towards checkout. While we cannot guarantee departure at the selected time, we do strive to find the most suitable match
Kindly note that names of hotels mentioned above only indicate that our rates have been based on usage of these hotels and it is not to be construed that accommodation is confirmed at these hotels until and unless we convey such confirmation to you. In the event of any of the above mentioned hotels not becoming available we shall book alternate accommodation at a similar or next best available hotel and shall pass on the difference of rates (supplement/reduction whatever applicable) to you
Check-in/out time is 12 noon at all the hotels
The confirmation voucher includes the local activity operator's contact details and local telephone numbers at the destination. They will happily answer any logistical questions you may have
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Dockside, Oban
Old engine, Bressingham
Man and dog, South Bank, London
Former Cold War nuclear warhead stores, RAF Barnham, Norfolk
Each hut held one nuclear bomb fissile core. Note radiation sign on door
Window, Crossness pumping station
Detail, Crossness Pump[ing Station
Abandoned coal jetty, Greenwich power station, London
Oxford Prison, now a hotel
Old light switches, Orford Ness
WW2 firing range, Rainham Marshes RSPB reserve
Old cruiser, River Cam, near Cambridge
Toilet, Peckover House, Wisbech
Bata shoe factory, East Tilbury, Essex
Wellington bomber tail, Brooklands Air Museum, Surrey
Concrete stalactites, Orford Ness
Abandoned control room, Orford Ness
Fenland decay
Concrete sound mirror, Denge Marsh, near Dungeness, Kent
Failed 1930s pre-radar aircraft detection experiment.
Crane, Canary Wharf, London
Boilerhouse, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Cold war test building, Orford Ness
Disintegrating bicycle, Orford Ness
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Welcome to Rockylou Productions. We are cultivating creativity and raising visions in the digital world. Get inspired by taking a minute or two to enjoy a few of the projects we've co-created with clients just like you over the years.
Featured Projects
A fluid, luminous setting of one of Kabir's most intimate prayers, by choral composer Elizabeth Alexander, honoring the unity of all things sacred and secular. With photography by Lorelee Wederstrom and the lyrical voices of the Unity Singers led by conductor Ruth Palmer.
"Obruni In Ghana" Multi-media e-book created from a series of podcasts documenting Amber Lockridge's time as an AFS exchange student in Takoradi, Ghana from 2000-2001.
Announcing the birth of Daniel James "DJ" Perron
Live video of weigh-in at only 15 min old. "Summertime", sung by Amber & Nana welcoming Daniel into the world his first few minutes of life.
Make? Unmake? A time-lapse trip worth taking as a microwave chocolate cherry cake is unmade before your very eyes.
What can happen when a highly creative group of individuals from around the globe decide they are going to make a radio show production to amuse themselves and others.
Photographer Vincent King takes us on a photo journey of the Light Rail construction on University Ave. in St. Paul, MN the summer of 2012. Soundtrack: "Sankirtan (Vrndavan)" by Kuuleminen Asiat.
Roxy Louridge was ahead of her time. As a pioneer in the field of photography she was the original creator of the idea behind the GIFaChrome (which later evolved into the Drone-a-Chrome). You can learn more about her work at the GIFaChrome website. And listen to a Smithsonian Institute recording of Roxy documenting her discovery after a fire destroyed her lab notes.
Team Troy At Carnivale: A Night To Remember.
Ballroom dance instructor, Troy Lerum, presents "Team Troy" at the Dancers Studio Spring 2016 Showcase, March 18, 2016. It was a night to remember!
Paying tribute to the struggles and triumphs of the working woman. Music performed by RnA with photos courtesy of the National Library of Congress and other Community Commons sources.


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