GetUp Tv has created an AD made with the assistance of the Australia Tibet Council, which is intended to raise human rights issues in Beijing during the Olympic Games.
Click here to watch the video:
www.getup.org.au/campaign/OlympicSilenceIsNotGolden
GetUp has sent the PM a copy of the ad, and hopes this sort of diplomacy works – only last week the PM condemned the media censorship around the Olympics – and the Chinese Government eased the restrictions.
So far free-to-air stations seem reluctant to play it (who knew!)
Mozilla has unveiled a spectacular new concept browser, dubbed Aurora. The bleeding-edge browser is part of a new Mozilla Labs initiative, in which the open-source foundation is encouraging people to contribute ideas and designs for the browser of the future.
The demonstration video of the Aurora browser, created by design firm Adaptive Path, shows a highly advanced way of collaborating data gathered on the web.
Data gathered from the web – such as weather reports – are collated as ‘objects’ that can be dragged and dropped on to the desktop and dynamically manipulated. The video shows two people working in different offices comparing rain reports. In the demonstration Alan invites Jill to join him on a weather report page, where they each highlight important bits of the page for each other.
The video then shows Jill entering a 3D visual bookmarking system in which related pages are grouped by cells, modelled after cells in the human body. Recently opened pages appear closer to the screen, and gradually fall back the longer they’re ignored.
The author searches through sports, entertainment and weather cells, as well as those of her contacts, before pulling up the page she wants and dragging it onto the existing page, where it automatically overlaps comparing the two data sets.
Potentially the most interesting thing about the video is how integrated everything appears, with desktop tasks and an instant messaging utility all linked directly into the browser interface.
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Australia bid farewell this week to one of the nation’s most popular country music artists when the legendary Reg Lindsay passed away.
Along with contemporaries Slim Dusty and Smoky Dawson, Reg was one of the ‘founding fathers’ of Australian country music. His music and personality continue to influence the new breed of Australian country music artists.
Reg recorded over 65 albums and 250 singles, won three Golden Guitars at the Australasian Country Music Awards, was awarded the Order of Australia for his services to music, had his own top-rating, nationally syndicated television and radio programs, wrote more than 500 songs and toured every inch of this great continent.
“Reg Lindsay will go down in history as a true great of Australian music. His classic hits sound as beautiful today as they did when Reg recorded them. He is a master interpreter of song and this box set is the ultimate collection of his greatest works. I can’t say enough good things about Reg………It’s all true and from the heart.“ – LEE KERNAGHAN
‘No Dress Rehearsal – The Highlights’, a 4CD box-set celebrating Reg’s outstanding 45 year career will soon be released by Destra Music.
Canadian artist Peter McLeish will address aspects of his video art-work interpretation of what climate change could mean to people living in the polar regions during a national tour in support of CSIRO/Cosmos Magazine’s SCINEMA Festival of Science Film.
Entitled Polaris Terrarum (from the Latin, Stella Polaris, meaning ‘Pole Star’), the multimedia video employs images shot from high-altitude aircraft and the Space Shuttle to explore the psychological effects of climate change.
“When seen from above, there is a disturbing response we feel for our shrinking ice fields,” Mr McLeish says.
As part of National Science Week celebrations, this year’s SCINEMA Festival of Science Film will play in 120 towns across Australia.
Mr McLeish is a Montreal-based painter, multimedia artist and film-maker whose work has appeared in museums and art forums internationally, including: Chicago’s Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum, Milan’s Spazio Oberdan, Argentina’s Neuquén Museum of Fine Arts and the National Museum of Australia in Canberra.
He visited Australia in 2004 to speak at the SCINEMA Festival about his work on Red Sprites (lightning that travels up rather than down) – his previous science-art collaboration with the ill-fated Columbia Space Shuttle crew.
Mr McLeish will present addresses at the following venues:
Aug 12 – University of New South Wales, Sydney
Aug 13 – University of Melbourne & RMIT, Melbourne
Aug 14 – LaTrobe University, Melbourne
Aug 15 – Discovery Science & Technology Centre, Bendigo
Aug 16 – Ballarat Observatory
Aug 18 – University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba
Aug 19 – Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
Aug 20 – College of Art at Griffith University, Brisbane
Aug 21 – Amazing World of Science & ANU School of Art, Canberra & Australian Museum, Sydney
Aug 23 – South Australian Museum, Adelaide
His tour is supported by the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research through its National Science Week program.
Background information available at:http://www.csiro.au/scinema/program/guest.html
With the Beijing Olympics just about to start, author and body-psychotherapist Oscar Naval is urging our competitors to tap into all their physical, mental and spiritual powers as they strive for gold.
Releasing his book Full Body Orgasm – Your Energy To Love, Health, Wealth, And Happiness to coincide with the opening of the Olympic Games on August 8, Oscar believes our elite athletes have an excellent chance of winning more medals than ever before if they draw on the power of the Full Body Orgasm flowing through their bodies.
“The full body orgasm (FBO) is unrestrained joy and pleasure that opens the doors of peak experiences in all aspects of life,” says Naval. “In other words, if you can fully experience the energy of an FBO, then you will experience joy and pleasure in everything you do in life.”
This book takes a holistic view of the meaning and the function of the orgasm in the broader sense of the word as it relates not only to sexuality (the body) but in the mind and spirit as well. The FBO is your life force energy. It is a rich, personal, spiritual connection with yourself, everyone, and everything you experience in life.”
Oscar says his newly-released book incorporates a catchy title about feeling that unrestrained joy and pleasure in your life everyday. “It is truly amazing to have a ‘Full Body Orgasm Lifestyle’ or what I like to call an ‘FBO Life’. I know this may sound a bit strange to call it a lifestyle BUT that’s the best description for really feeling that good.”
His personal growth book equates the living of an uneventful life to that of a quick sneeze, “… the orgasm may be analogous to a sneeze-a pelvic sneeze, if you will. There is a slight build up and then, “Ah-choo!” It’s over – and so goes your life.”
Oscar says that an FBO life is true wealth. Gerry Robert, the best-selling author of Millionaire Mindset and president of LifeSuccess Publishing, one of the publishers of the FBO book, commented that: “having the concepts of the energy of sex and money in the same book is amazing.”
US born, and now based in Melbourne, Australia, Oscar holds a Diploma of Body-centred Psychotherapy from the Institute of Core Energetics, Australia. He is also a Hawaiian Lomi-lomi massage therapist.
The book is available from the Ingram Book Group and the Australian Book Group.
The eBook version can be downloaded from www.youpublish.com/fullbodyorgasm.
The book is available online from FBO-Book.com and Amazon.com.
