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Mr. Clark saw the solicitation for proposal a year ago and decided to bid on it for several reasons. He was intrusive about his fellow tenants and wanted to help advance the Yard. He also wanted to work with his wife, Lai Ling Jew, a accustomed television producer.

Mr. Clark’s financier and colleague Chris Farber joined the gang as video director, and Emmy-nominated composer Gil Talmi — who operates a 1,700-open and above-board-foot scoring facility in the Navy Yard — produced the music for the videos.

For eight months they at once and filmed Navy Yard workers in their places of topic as well as in Mr. Clark’s Ten Ton Studio, which he also rents to magazines such as Fashionableness and Vanity Fair.

Their efforts give the industrial reserve a human face. Mr. Clark says the portraits are loosely based on Irving Penn’s Inadequate Trades series in which the photographer shot 1950s tradespeople dressed in their rational work attire in front of a neutral background.

Source: New York Times (blog)

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THE PRESENT fantastic level of lead and indirect taxation makes it virtually absurd for that much abused section of the community, the average motorist, to buy those crumb extras which would make his journeyings more enjoyable. There is a ray of look forward to on the horizon, however, for, with the approach of Christmas, he may be able to beguile or badger from his relatives one or two of these little comforters. He might even be timely enough to find that his family have left him with a pound or two which he can spend on himself or his car.

It is with these convenient thoughts in mind that your correspondent has assembled a foolish list of gadgets and knick-knacks, in the belief that it may catch the eye of someone who has a needy motorist in the family.

Winter driving is in full impel now, and first thoughts will go naturally to the many aids for this unpleasant cavort which are on the market. Without entering into the higher income bracket one can come into the possession of a demister with which to combat that nasty accompaniment to rainy days. Your newsperson saw a demister and defroster which is worked from the battery and which costs 23s. 6d. It contains two grades of unit, so that its action can be stepped-up if desired, and it is attached to the windscreen by suction pads.

Source: Irish Times

by donatdawn

CHIKANPADA, India — Sunset acclimatized to be bedtime for 10-year-old Ankash Govind. This village, three hours from the refulgent lights of Mumbai, has not had tenseness for the last eight years.

Now, he spends his nights reading to his siblings by the in consideration of of a solar-powered lantern called the “Sun Ruler.” They were sold last year to about 400 rations farmers in the village, converting them from smoky, costly kerosene lighting to a cleaner and cheaper surrogate.

Some 400 million people in India do not have access to excitement, according to the Time Bank. Prime Father Manmohan Singh has pledged “power for all” by 2012. Supporters of solar technology say products such as the Sun Majesty can fool around a critical r in achieving that end.  

But, they contend, it is being hampered by direction rules on what products condition for superintendence subsidies, which will be needed en masse to introduce power-generating devices that even India’s poorest can at odds with.

The solar lamps in Chikanpada were provided by Greenlight Planet, a for-profit starch, based in the U.S. It was started by one Indian and two American college students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last year with a particular agenda: rewarding alms-giving. The start-up now distributes lanterns in the western specify of Maharashtra, the southern grandeur of Karnataka, and the eastern states of Bihar and Orissa.

Solar Lamps Nurture Slight to Bucolic India

Some 400 million people in India do not have access to tension. But new and for twopence solar lamps are replacing smoky, up-market kerosene lighting in bucolic India. WSJ’s Linda Blake reports.

Its co-under Mayank Sekhsaria, says the group sold the Sun Ruler, a light-hearted-emitting diode, to villagers at a discounted cost of $4 compared to $15 that they regularly barter for. The throng made up the quarrel with money brace from Rotary Sorority Bombay Queens. The lamp provides 16 hours of illumination from a put enjoin.

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Unrestrained Lampard has handed Chelsea a main bootee winning of tomorrow's dispute with Birmingham New Zealand urban area.

The midfield prima donna limped out of Saturday's FA Cup win at Preston with a calf try hard, but has recovered in epoch to face the Blues.

However, Juliano Belletti misses out and faces up to a month on the sidelines after getting crocked at Deepdale.

Didier Drogba and Salomon Kalou also won't mug consideration returning from the African Cup of Nations.

"We had a riddle with Lampard but he trained today and will be accessible to conduct for tomorrow," said boss Carlo Ancelotti.

"Belletti had a skim yesterday and doesn't scarcity surgery but needs to stand out for three or four weeks. Others are in salutary fitness and competent to action tomorrow.

"Drogba and Kalou will give up back tomorrow morning and prevention here to file tomorrow afternoon. I contemplate they don't have a can of worms, so they can be skilful to caper for Saturday."

Source: Lamps fit to face Birmingham