Yamato, The Drummers of Japan - Kizashi (Presage) - YouTube
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Earth Drum - Dancing for a Vision - David & Steve Gordon - YouTube
Earth Drum - Dancing for a Vision - David & Steve Gordon - YouTube
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From the DVD of Earth Drum by David & Steve Gordon - imagery of the Olympic Rainforest - Trance beats with Taos Log Drums, Native American Flutes, electric and acoustic guitars, world percussion, atmospheric syntesizers and sounds of nature. Video filmed, produced and edited by: HDenvironments.com.
For more information, visit: http://www.SequoiaRecords.com
Dancing for a Vision
"Great Spirit, show me the way. I hold the lifeline of the Shaman's rattle and drum. I let myself go into the sacred dance. In the dance there is no past or future, only the eternal now. Circling round the fire, I will dance until my mind is clear and my heart is pure. May I see the path with a heart, the path of healing."
Studio notes: Ancient peoples from around the world have some kind of ecstatic rite that involves dancing. In this song we combined Native and African drums with a modern dance groove to create a compelling dance rhythm and then added our northern plains G Minor Native-American flute, acoustic guitar and lush keyboards to help our listeners lose themselves in the dance of life.
Thank you for listening.
May all beings walk in peace.
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From the DVD of Earth Drum by David & Steve Gordon - imagery of the Olympic Rainforest - Trance beats with Taos Log Drums, Native American Flutes, electric and acoustic guitars, world percussion, atmospheric syntesizers and sounds of nature. Video filmed, produced and edited by: HDenvironments.com.
For more information, visit: http://www.SequoiaRecords.com
Dancing for a Vision
"Great Spirit, show me the way. I hold the lifeline of the Shaman's rattle and drum. I let myself go into the sacred dance. In the dance there is no past or future, only the eternal now. Circling round the fire, I will dance until my mind is clear and my heart is pure. May I see the path with a heart, the path of healing."
Studio notes: Ancient peoples from around the world have some kind of ecstatic rite that involves dancing. In this song we combined Native and African drums with a modern dance groove to create a compelling dance rhythm and then added our northern plains G Minor Native-American flute, acoustic guitar and lush keyboards to help our listeners lose themselves in the dance of life.
Thank you for listening.
May all beings walk in peace.
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THINK it's not illegal yet. Anonymous raising awareness - YouTube
THINK it's not illegal yet. Anonymous raising awareness - YouTube
oaded by vagtseas on Feb 25, 2012
oaded by vagtseas on Feb 25, 2012
http://www.knowledgeoftoday.org - Anonymous raising awareness. A picture speaks a thousand words..
Everyone has their beliefs as to how they fit into the world. However, only those who think for themselves, rather than blindly follow, will truly experience the real world.
For the love of the wolf - YouTube
For the love of the wolf - YouTube
"In the end we will conserve only what we love and respect.
We will love and respect only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught
or allowed to experience."
Baba Dioum - Senegalese Conservationist.
We will love and respect only what we understand.
We will understand only what we are taught
or allowed to experience."
Baba Dioum - Senegalese Conservationist.
(Taty7911 on Feb 6, 2012: this video in honor of our brothers and sisters wolves.... the Sacred Spirit..... to show they are not monsters ......every creature in this world need respect and love)
The video is taken From the movie Living with Wolves (Discovery) and the song is Sacred Spirit Yeha Noha
Not intention to infringe copyrights just a way for send a message of love and respect
The video is taken From the movie Living with Wolves (Discovery) and the song is Sacred Spirit Yeha Noha
Not intention to infringe copyrights just a way for send a message of love and respect
Friday, February 24, 2012
John Perkins - The Secret History of the American Empire - YouTube
John Perkins - The Secret History of the American Empire - YouTube
by MarlboroCollege on Dec 18, 2009
by MarlboroCollege on Dec 18, 2009
www.marlboro.edu - Author John Perkins spoke at Marlboro College on 4/23/08. Drawing on experiences described in his two New York Times bestsellers, Perkins describes the post-WWII era as one that created history's first truly global empire -- mostly through economics, rather than the military. Now we find ourselves catapulted toward a future that appears catastrophic to many people; however, in Perkins's view it offers great opportunities. Identifying corporations as "the most influential institutions on the planet," he challenges us to transform ourselves and the companies that so deeply impact our lives. He presents a plan for creating a world "that will make our children proud of us."
John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Then he made a decision: he would use these experiences to make the planet a better place for his daughters generation. Today he teaches about the importance of rising to higher levels of consciousness, to waking up -- in both spiritual and physical realms -- and is a champion for environmental and social causes.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Revealed: The Secret to Learning a Language in 10 Days - YouTube
Revealed: The Secret to Learning a Language in 10 Days - YouTube
PimsleurApproach on Nov 18, 2011
PimsleurApproach on Nov 18, 2011
https://www.pimsleurapproach.com/acq070.asp?sid=0011ytb Discover how you can rapidly learn any new language in just 10 days using this sneaky linguistic secret...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Sebastiao Salgado: The Photographer as Activist - YouTube
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A conversation with Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism adjunct professor Ken Light and Photo Critic and Curator Fred Ritchin. Series: UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism presents [1/2005] [Humanities] [Arts and Music] [Show ID: 9214]
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Sunday, February 19, 2012
KIller Whale Protection Battle
By Devon Page
Executive Director of Ecojustice
Our huge win in the Federal Court of Appeal has me wishing I could talk to whales. At Ecojustice, we’re steeped in the compelling and desperate plight of killer whales, whose daily life is a struggle – not enough food, constant boat traffic that interferes with their hunting and social communication, swimming in an ocean that is in places a toxic soup. The tale of the huge decline in their coastal family is one that would have anyone coming to their defence. With your help, we did.
Yesterday, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a hard-fought 2010 legal victory that guaranteed the protection of killer whale habitat by law. The Court of Appeal’s judgment decisively rebutted the federal government’s position that the status quo for killer whales was good enough. And it affirmed our position that the federal government has a legal responsibility to protect their habitat, in order to save these magnificent mammals.
The appeal court’s ruling was an uncommonly strong judgment for what had become an uncharacteristically pitched battle. Formerly as a species-at-risk lawyer and more recently as executive director, I watched this case emerge in 2006 when we worked to thwart bureaucratic interference in recovery planning for killer whales.
More recently, we watched the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans obstruct our every attempt to find a solution both inside and outside the courts. So excessive was the Minister’s behavior that the federal court that issued the original ruling took the exceptional step of awarding us solicitor-client costs because, in the words of the court, the Minister’s conduct was “worthy of rebuke.”
Now, the Court of Appeal has clearly and compellingly affirmed the lower court, spelling out in refreshingly clear language that the Species at Risk Act (SARA) means what it says: “SARA provides in no uncertain language that the purpose ... is to ensure that all the critical habitat is protected.”
So, I wish I could tell the whales what this means. I want to tell them that their habitat is now protected by law. That the government must manage salmon fisheries sustainably so that orcas have enough to eat. That the government must manage boat traffic so that these matrilineal families have the peace and quiet they need to eat, play, bear and raise children, and find their way in an increasingly crowded ocean. That the government must take meaningful steps to reduce poisonous flows into our coastal seas that have turned the flesh of orcas into living toxic waste.
Clear and decisive, our victory on behalf of nine stalwart members of the environmental community (David Suzuki Foundation, Dogwood Initiative, Environmental Defence, Greenpeace, Georgia Strait Alliance, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Raincoast Conservation, Sierra Club of BC and the Wilderness Committee) draws a legal line in the sand. Hopefully, it’s a line that the government won’t cross again, choosing instead to abide by the court’s ruling and the law to protect killer whales, their food and their ocean home. If the government does choose to cross the line, we’ve been granted a powerful legal tool and we’re prepared to use it.
So that even if we can’t tell killer whales what this decision means, they’ll know anyway.
Executive Director of Ecojustice
Our huge win in the Federal Court of Appeal has me wishing I could talk to whales. At Ecojustice, we’re steeped in the compelling and desperate plight of killer whales, whose daily life is a struggle – not enough food, constant boat traffic that interferes with their hunting and social communication, swimming in an ocean that is in places a toxic soup. The tale of the huge decline in their coastal family is one that would have anyone coming to their defence. With your help, we did.
Yesterday, the Federal Court of Appeal upheld a hard-fought 2010 legal victory that guaranteed the protection of killer whale habitat by law. The Court of Appeal’s judgment decisively rebutted the federal government’s position that the status quo for killer whales was good enough. And it affirmed our position that the federal government has a legal responsibility to protect their habitat, in order to save these magnificent mammals.
The appeal court’s ruling was an uncommonly strong judgment for what had become an uncharacteristically pitched battle. Formerly as a species-at-risk lawyer and more recently as executive director, I watched this case emerge in 2006 when we worked to thwart bureaucratic interference in recovery planning for killer whales.
More recently, we watched the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans obstruct our every attempt to find a solution both inside and outside the courts. So excessive was the Minister’s behavior that the federal court that issued the original ruling took the exceptional step of awarding us solicitor-client costs because, in the words of the court, the Minister’s conduct was “worthy of rebuke.”
Now, the Court of Appeal has clearly and compellingly affirmed the lower court, spelling out in refreshingly clear language that the Species at Risk Act (SARA) means what it says: “SARA provides in no uncertain language that the purpose ... is to ensure that all the critical habitat is protected.”
So, I wish I could tell the whales what this means. I want to tell them that their habitat is now protected by law. That the government must manage salmon fisheries sustainably so that orcas have enough to eat. That the government must manage boat traffic so that these matrilineal families have the peace and quiet they need to eat, play, bear and raise children, and find their way in an increasingly crowded ocean. That the government must take meaningful steps to reduce poisonous flows into our coastal seas that have turned the flesh of orcas into living toxic waste.
Clear and decisive, our victory on behalf of nine stalwart members of the environmental community (David Suzuki Foundation, Dogwood Initiative, Environmental Defence, Greenpeace, Georgia Strait Alliance, International Fund for Animal Welfare, Raincoast Conservation, Sierra Club of BC and the Wilderness Committee) draws a legal line in the sand. Hopefully, it’s a line that the government won’t cross again, choosing instead to abide by the court’s ruling and the law to protect killer whales, their food and their ocean home. If the government does choose to cross the line, we’ve been granted a powerful legal tool and we’re prepared to use it.
So that even if we can’t tell killer whales what this decision means, they’ll know anyway.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
How Intellectuals Betrayed the Poor - YouTube
How Intellectuals Betrayed the Poor - YouTube
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http://bit.ly/if0Jax - For 40 years academics were duped into idolizing the idea of unfettered markets, says Cornel West, and now our society is paying a terrible price.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
George Bernard Shaw
"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
- George Bernard Shaw, 1856 - 1950
Erse dramatist, author and Nobel Prize Laureate
"Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?""
-- George Bernard Shaw
"Assassination is the extreme form of censorship."
--- George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
-- George Bernard Shaw
Shaw was born in Dublin, where his father was an unsuccessful grain merchant and sometime civil servant and his mother was a professional singer.
Shaw was as an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60 plays.
Nearly all his writings address prevailing social problems, but have a vein of comedy which makes their stark themes more palatable. Shaw examined education, marriage, religion, government, health care, and class privilege.
He was most angered by what he perceived as the exploitation of the working class. An ardent socialist, Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for the Fabian Society, a middle class organization established in 1884 to promote the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means
-gaining equal rights for men and women,
-alleviating abuses of the working class,
-rescinding private ownership of productive land, and
-promoting healthy lifestyles.
An explanatory note appearing on the title page of the Fabian group's first pamphlet declared:
"For the right moment you must wait, as Fabius did most patiently*, when warring against Hannibal, though many censured his delays; but when the time comes you must strike hard, as Fabius did, or your waiting will be in vain, and fruitless."*
Today, the society functions primarily as a think tank and is one of 15 socialist societies affiliated with the Labour Party. Similar societies exist in Australia (the Australian Fabian Society), Canada (the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation and in the past the League for Social Reconstruction) and in New Zealand.
He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name), respectively.
Shaw wanted to refuse his Nobel Prize outright because he had no desire for public honours, but accepted it at his wife's behest: she considered it a tribute to Ireland. He did reject the monetary award, requesting it be used to finance translation of Swedish books into English.
Shaw died there, aged 94, from chronic problems exacerbated by injuries he incurred by falling from a ladder.
P.S. His wife was a wealthy Heiress which critics might say allowed him the luxury of indulging in his hobby of Socialist Speech Making.
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*The Fabian strategy is a military strategy where pitched battles and frontal assaults are avoided in favor of wearing down an opponent through a war of attrition and indirection. While avoiding decisive battles, the side employing this strategy harasses its enemy through skirmishes to cause attrition, disrupt supply and affect morale. Employment of this strategy implies that the weaker side believes time is on its side, but it may also be adopted when no feasible alternative strategy can be devised.
This strategy derives its name from Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, the dictator of the Roman Republic given the task of defeating the great Carthaginian general Hannibal in southern Italy during the Second Punic War (218–202 BC). At the start of the war, Hannibal boldly crossed the Alps in wintertime and invaded Italy. Due to Hannibal's skill as a general, he repeatedly inflicted devastating losses on the Romans despite the numerical inferiority of his army...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of Charles Dickens with Free Movies, eBooks and Audio Books
Dickens on Screen - YouTube
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Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay). It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.
The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel that had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham, was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
Apart from a general compression of time and detail necessary to adopt any novel to film, the major changes from the novel to the screenplay include the following:
The happy ending of the film differs greatly from the novel, which takes place 11 years after most of the events and is slightly more ambiguous.
The characters of Orlick, Matthew and Belinda Pocket, Startop, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Creppock, Mrs. Wopsle, Mr. Barley, The Society of the Finches and Miss Skiffins are omitted.
The convict who is Magwitch's nemesis is not named in the film. It is revealed in the novel that he is Compeyson, the man who jilted Miss Havisham.
Pip's sister's assault at the hands of Orlick is deleted; instead she dies of illness earlier than she does in the novel.
Biddy is portrayed as being closer to Joe's age than Pip's, and Pip never intends to marry her as he does in the book.
Drummle does not appear until after Estella arrives in London, and he does in fact marry her in the novel.
In the novel, Miss Havisham's immolation happens later, after Estella is married, and is not immediately fatal. She instead passes away during Pip's illness.
Estella's true parentage is never revealed to her in the novel.
John Mills as Pip as an adult
Jean Simmons as Estella as a girl. Simmons later played Miss Havisham in a 1989 miniseries directed by Kevin Connor.
Valerie Hobson as Estella as an adult, and as Molly
Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham
Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch
Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers
Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery
Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket as an adult
Anthony Wager as Pip as a boy
John Forrest as Herbert Pocket as a boy
Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery
Ivor Barnard as Mr. Wemmick
Torin Thatcher as Bentley Drummle
O. B. Clarence as The Aged Parent
The film won critical praise upon release, with many of them hailing it as the finest film yet made from a Dickens novel. In 1999, it came fifth in a BFI poll of the top 100 British films, while in 2004, Total Film named it the fourteenth greatest British film of all time. It was the first British film to win an Oscar for its cinematography.
[edit]Awards
Great Expectations won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
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Today is the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens. He was born in Portsmouth, England on February 7, 1812, the second of eight children. When he was 12 years old his father was sent to debtors’ prison, along with most of his family, and Charles went to live with a friend of the family, an impoverished old lady. He was forced to quit school and work in a blacking factory, where he pasted labels on jars of shoe polish.
Dickens never forgot those early traumas. He incorporated his experiences and observations of social injustice into his works, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. (Find free novels below.) He was the most popular writer of Victorian England, a virtual rock star in the days before recorded music and movies. His stories, published serially in magazines, were eagerly awaited by the public. Most have remained in print ever since.
The Dickens bicentenary is being celebrated with special events around the world, including a wreath-laying ceremony this morning at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where actor and filmmaker Ralph Fiennes, author Claire Tomalin, and two of Dickens’s descendants are scheduled to give readings. For a listing of events today and throughout the year, go to Dickens2012.org. Also take a look at the short retrospective of Dickens-inspired movies (above) from the British Film Institute.
To help celebrate, we have gathered together some of the best Dickens material from across the Web:
Films (see our complete list of Free Movies):
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Great Expectations is a 1946 British film which won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography) and was nominated for three others (Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay). It was directed by David Lean, based on the novel by Charles Dickens and stars John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt, Alec Guinness and Valerie Hobson.
The script, a slimmed-down version of Dickens' novel that had been inspired after seeing an abridged stage version of the novel, in which Guinness (responsible for the adaptation) played Herbert Pocket and Martita Hunt was Miss Havisham, was written by David Lean, Anthony Havelock-Allan, Cecil McGivern, Ronald Neame and Kay Walsh. Guinness and Hunt reprised their roles in the film, but the film was not a strict adaptation of the stage version. The film was produced by Ronald Neame and photographed by Guy Green. It was the first of two films Lean directed based on Dickens' novels, the other being his 1948 adaptation of Oliver Twist.
Apart from a general compression of time and detail necessary to adopt any novel to film, the major changes from the novel to the screenplay include the following:
The happy ending of the film differs greatly from the novel, which takes place 11 years after most of the events and is slightly more ambiguous.
The characters of Orlick, Matthew and Belinda Pocket, Startop, Mr. and Mrs. Hubbard, Mr. Creppock, Mrs. Wopsle, Mr. Barley, The Society of the Finches and Miss Skiffins are omitted.
The convict who is Magwitch's nemesis is not named in the film. It is revealed in the novel that he is Compeyson, the man who jilted Miss Havisham.
Pip's sister's assault at the hands of Orlick is deleted; instead she dies of illness earlier than she does in the novel.
Biddy is portrayed as being closer to Joe's age than Pip's, and Pip never intends to marry her as he does in the book.
Drummle does not appear until after Estella arrives in London, and he does in fact marry her in the novel.
In the novel, Miss Havisham's immolation happens later, after Estella is married, and is not immediately fatal. She instead passes away during Pip's illness.
Estella's true parentage is never revealed to her in the novel.
John Mills as Pip as an adult
Jean Simmons as Estella as a girl. Simmons later played Miss Havisham in a 1989 miniseries directed by Kevin Connor.
Valerie Hobson as Estella as an adult, and as Molly
Martita Hunt as Miss Havisham
Finlay Currie as Abel Magwitch
Francis L. Sullivan as Mr. Jaggers
Bernard Miles as Joe Gargery
Alec Guinness as Herbert Pocket as an adult
Anthony Wager as Pip as a boy
John Forrest as Herbert Pocket as a boy
Freda Jackson as Mrs. Joe Gargery
Ivor Barnard as Mr. Wemmick
Torin Thatcher as Bentley Drummle
O. B. Clarence as The Aged Parent
The film won critical praise upon release, with many of them hailing it as the finest film yet made from a Dickens novel. In 1999, it came fifth in a BFI poll of the top 100 British films, while in 2004, Total Film named it the fourteenth greatest British film of all time. It was the first British film to win an Oscar for its cinematography.
[edit]Awards
Great Expectations won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Black-and-White (John Bryan, Wilfred Shingleton) and Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, and was nominated for Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Screenplay.
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Dickens never forgot those early traumas. He incorporated his experiences and observations of social injustice into his works, including David Copperfield, Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol. (Find free novels below.) He was the most popular writer of Victorian England, a virtual rock star in the days before recorded music and movies. His stories, published serially in magazines, were eagerly awaited by the public. Most have remained in print ever since.
The Dickens bicentenary is being celebrated with special events around the world, including a wreath-laying ceremony this morning at Poets’ Corner in Westminster Abbey, where actor and filmmaker Ralph Fiennes, author Claire Tomalin, and two of Dickens’s descendants are scheduled to give readings. For a listing of events today and throughout the year, go to Dickens2012.org. Also take a look at the short retrospective of Dickens-inspired movies (above) from the British Film Institute.
To help celebrate, we have gathered together some of the best Dickens material from across the Web:
Films (see our complete list of Free Movies):
- Great Expectations: The classic 1946 version directed by David Lean and starring John Mills, Bernard Miles, Finlay Currie, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt and Alec Guinness. The film won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography.
- Oliver Twist: Another classic by David Lean, this 1948 film stars John Howard Davies as Oliver and Alec Guinness as Fagin. In 1999 it was ranked 46th on the BFI’s list of the top 100 British films of all time.
- A Tale of Two Cities: The 1958 film by Ralph Thomas, starring Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton and Dorothy Tutin as Lucie Manette. The film was shot in France’s Loire Valley, with several thousand U.S. soldiers, posted in nearby Orleans, cast as extras.
- A Christmas Carol: George C. Scott gives an excellent performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in this critically acclaimed 1984 film directed by Clive Donner. It premiered in America on CBS television, and was released theatrically in Great Britain.
- David Copperfield: A 2000 U.S.-Irish television adaptation starring Hugh Dancy as David Copperfield, Michael Richards as Wilkins Micawber and Sally Field as Betsey Trotwood.
- The Pickwick Papers: A 1952 film, adapted and directed by Noel Langley and starring James Hayter as Samuel Pickwick.
- A Christmas Carol – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats - Kindle
- A Tale of Two Cities – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats
- Bleak House – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats – Kindle
- David Copperfield – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats
- Great Expectations – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats –Kindle
- Hard Times – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats
- Mystery of Edwin Drood – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats
- Oliver Twist – Read Online – Download Multiple Formats - Kindle
- A Christmas Carol – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- A Tale of Two Cities – Free iTunes - Free MP3 Zip File
- A Collection of Christmas Stories - Free iTunes
- Bleak House – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
- David Copperfield – Free iTunes – Free MP3
- Great Expectations – Free iTunes – Free MP3 Zip File
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Brilliant Teacher
My learning about many things has been greatly advanced by watching the many wonderful TED Speeches. Sometimes watching favorite speeches many times over. Mike deGruy generated enthusiasm for the oceans with his passionate presentation and he was a pleasure to watch.
In this talk, as in his photography and his many films, you can sense Mike’s infectious humor, his passion for the oceans — and his example of a life well and richly lived.
We are saddened by the news that ocean photographer, filmmaker and storyteller Mike deGruy died yesterday in a helicopter crash in Australia. Mike was truly one of the great teachers and advocates for the oceans, as you can see in his TEDTalk, filmed aboard Mission Blue in 2010:
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
About "Take Care" Program
Conservation & Communities
Africa loses more than 10 million acres of forest every year -- twice the world’s deforestation rate. Global demand for forest and extractive industry products is growing, with competition for Africa’s natural resources at an all-time high. Meanwhile population growth in Africa is faster than anywhere else, with accompanying poverty, and basic needs unmet. To be effective, forest and species conservation must address the deeply rooted human problems associated with poverty. As Jane says, “How can we even try to save the chimpanzees and forests if the people are so obviously struggling to survive?”
JGI’s community-centered conservation approach provides local communities the tools needed to manage their natural resources for long-term economic gain and environmental prosperity. With increased local capacity, responsibility, and participation in the sustainable management of natural resources, communities are much better positioned to effectively preserve the natural environment and wildlife of their area.
We do not "parachute in" with defined solutions. Rather, we support communities as they identify priority development and conservation goals. As a result, our projects set is eclectic – reflecting the diversity of communities in Africa and the myriad problems they face.
Here’s an idea of what our activities look like on the ground:
- We educate farmers on sustainable farming methods such as rotating crops for soil fertility and re-cropping rather than clearing forest to make new fields
- We promote the use of fuel-efficient stoves that reduce the need for fuel wood by two-thirds and are made from local materials – saving time, money and trees
- We organize micro-credit programs that allow villagers – especially women – to obtain capital for small business ventures by pooling their own money seeded by JGI funds. The payback rate is impressive – over 85 percent.
- We work with villages to improve health through training and infrastructure development, including spring protection, shallow and bore wells, and ventilated improved pit latrines
- We place a special emphasis on girls’ education, providing scholarships that have help girls in Tanzania complete secondary school and beyond.
These sample projects are part of JGI’s conservation and community programming, which falls into four broad areas:
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