Disney turns away from hand-drawn animation

Author : Ben Child

Date : Thursday 7 March 2013

Extract :  " Disney, the Hollywood titan which brought the world classics such as Fantasia, Bambi and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, has admitted it has no current plans to make hand drawn animated films.. "

Index terms :  Disney movies, hand draw techniques,  traditional techniques

Found with : Netvibes

Site :  The Guardian

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/mar/07/disney-hand-drawn-animation 

By : B.M

Transmission Russian Prison Letters Go Digital With New Smartphone App

Author : Tom Balmforth

Date : March 3, 2013

Extract : « Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service this month launched an application for smartphones that allows users to send messages and pictures to inmates held in custody.
Provided the communiques pass censorship at correction facilities, they are printed and handed to inmates within the space of three days. […] It has already delivered more than 180,000 messages. […] ​FSIN Pismo, which has a logo similar to the Russian Postal Service, began a test phase in St. Petersburg's Kresty and Moscow's Vodnik pretrial-detention centers at the beginning of this month. It will soon be offered in correction facilities across the country. »

Index terms : Prison, inmates, communication.

Found with Netvibes. RSS Feeds of « Google News »

Site : Radio Free Europe - Radio Liberty.

URL : http://www.rferl.org/content/russia-prison-smartphone-app/24928645.html

CS.

War in Syria Hurts Lebanese Tourism Sector

Map of Lebanon border

By: Voice Of America

Date : March 17, 2013

Author :  Paige Kollock

Extract : "As the war in Syria enters its third year, its economic impact is being felt by neighboring countries. Lebanon's tourist industry declined by as much as 15 percent in 2012"

Index Terms : Lebanon's tourism, tourism, war, economic crisis

Site : http://voanews.com

URL : http://www.voanews.com/content/war-in-syria-hurts-lebanons-tourism-sector/1623255.html#

Found with : Google Reader

R.O

The extreme waves that batter the Irish coast

Author:  

Claire O'Connell

Date of publication:  March 14, 2013
 

Abstract:

  
Presents a new paper publshed in Natural Hazards and Earth Systems Sciences which describes more than 50 historical extreme-wave events in Irish waters and explains the differences between tsunami, rogue wave, storm wave and surfer's wave.

Extract: 

"Trawling through sources such as buoy data, lighthouse and tsunami records, scientific and media reports and even stories of legend, the researchers looked to classify the events as storm waves or surges, tsunamis or more localised and unpredictable “rogue” waves."

"Overall what stood out from our look at extreme wave events is that we are now convinced there are more rogue waves off the west coast than anticipated, and that phenomenal sea states and swell do occur.”

Index terms:

Irish waters/ Rogue waves/ Storm waves/ 

Found with:  Netvibes

Source:  http://www.irishtimes.com

URL: http://www.irishtimes.com/the-extreme-waves-that-batter-the-irish-coast-1.1324542

By FG

The power of rogue waves

Author: Mainstreet Halifax

Date of publication: March 12, 2013 

                                                   

Abstract:   

Presents an interview with Suzan Casey, author of The Wave, a book about rogue waves published in 2010. The writer talks about her fascination with freak waves and the link between climate change and the prevalence of rogue waves. 

Extract:

""The reason I wrote the book is that I believe this is the most powerful force of nature on Earth..." 

"When a storm arises quickly, the waves become very unstable, they're steeper, and when waves are steeper they can quickly become non-linear. So in other words, you can get a 30-metre-high wave in 10-metre seas. You can get a wave that's three, four and even more times higher than the seas around it..."

""Every scientist that I spoke to is very aware that climate change is a real factor in the natural world right now, particularly in the ocean. We are seeing the waves all over the world grow..."

Index terms:

Suzan Casey/ Rogue waves/ Climate change/ 

Found with:  Netvibes

Source:  http://www.cbc.ca/mainstreetns/

URL: http://www.cbc.ca/books/2013/03/author-susan-casey-on-rogue-waves.html

By FG

We Heart Pullip 10th Anniversary Party: The Creators Behind The Custom Pullip Dolls

Mito-Idol, a japan music group

Author : Dollface

Date : 23 February 2013

Abstract : Presents the 10th anniversary of Pullips. For this occasion, several japan idols have been models to become pullips, like the music japan group H&A. Shows photographies of this party.

Index terms : Pullips / H&A / Julie Watai / Mito-Idol

URL : http://www.pullipdolldreams.com/blog/pullips/we-heart-pullip-10th-anniversary-party-the-creators-behind-the-custom-pullip-dolls_5568

Found with : Google Reader

By F.R

May 2013: Classical Alice Pullip Doll

Author : Dollface

Date : March 2013

Abstract : Describes the new pullip what will come on May 2013. The name of this Pullip is Alice, and it looks like character Alice in Wonderland, of Lewis Caroll. Presents its accessories and its price.

Index terms : Alice / pullip / Groove

URL : http://www.pullipdolldreams.com/blog/pullips/may-2013-classical-alice-pullip-doll_5487

Found with : Google Reader

By F.R