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    Accident-l EP launches

    2012-08-31T13:32:00Z

    Accident-l create their music in a studio across the road from a rock crushing machine. When the machine stops they start. Sometimes they make music for Alien chase films. The Accident-L project was set up in 2011 by Tristan Williams and Will Harper. Bandcamp embed code The ...

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    Star is caught devouring planet

    2012-08-22T09:48:00Z

    Astronomers have found evidence for a planet being devoured by its star, yielding insights into the fate that will befall Earth in billions of years.

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    Gasoil

    2012-07-27T10:25:00Z

    Asia-Pacific gasoil prices were bolstered by strong gains in crude futures. Firm regional demand underpinned spot differentials for most grades.

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    Fuel oil and bunkers

    2012-07-27T10:23:00Z

    Singapore HSFO prices rose on Monday, tracking sharp gains in crude and paper values.

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    Energy shares boost stocks

    2012-07-03T17:47:00Z

    Six of the S&P’s 10 sectors advanced in an abbreviated session ahead of the Independence Day holiday as oil prices rallied on revived tensions over the Iranian nuclear program.

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    Irish auction marks progress

    2012-07-03T17:15:00Z

    Ireland will make a tentative step toward regaining the trust of bond investors Thursday when it sells €500 million of Treasury bills, marking its first auction since it was locked out of international capital markets in September 2010.

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    Producer-price inflation slows

    2012-07-03T17:15:00Z

    Euro-zone producer-price inflation slowed to its weakest rate in more than two years in May, pointing to a slowdown in consumer prices that would give the European Central Bank more room to cut its key interest rate.

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    Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe

    2012-04-30T17:21:00Z

    Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe was born in Aachen, Germany in 1886. He worked in the family stone-carving business before he joined the office of Bruno Paul in Berlin. He entered the studio of Peter Behrens in 1908 and remained until 1912. He made major contributions to the architectural philosophies of the late 1920s and 1930s as artistic director of the Werkbund-sponsored Weissenhof project and as Director of the Bauhaus.

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    Le Corbusier

    2012-04-30T17:20:00Z

    Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris was born in La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artist, he travelled extensively through Germany and the East. In Paris he studied under Auguste Perret and absorbed the cultural and artistic life of the city. During this period he developed a keen interest in the ...

  • Villa Savoye
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    Pure, sleek, geometric envelope

    2012-04-30T17:19:00Z Sponsored by

    Unlike the confined urban locations of most of Le Corbusier’s earlier houses, the openness of the Poissy site permitted a freestanding building and the full realization of his five-point program. Essentially the house comprises two contrasting, sharply defined, yet interpenetrating external aspects. The dominant element is the square single-storied box, ...

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    "International style" classic

    2012-04-30T17:18:00Z

    An early and classic exemplar of the “International Style”, which hovers above a grass plane on thin concrete pilotti, with strip windows, and a flat roof with a deck area, ramp, and a few contained touches of curvaceous walls.

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    Tugendhat House construction

    2012-04-30T17:15:00Z

    Thin + shape columns held in from exterior walls. glazed wall toward views. entry from ‘back’. interior recalls Barcelona Pavilion.

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    Tugendhat House

    2012-04-30T17:11:00Z

    The plan repeats that of the Barcelona Pavilion, the onyx wall and the curved one of Macassar ebony being independent of the cruciform- shaped columns. The floor is of white linoleum, the rug white wool. The curtains are of black and natural raw silk and white velvet. Behind the dining ...

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    Damon Hill joins Sky team

    2012-01-19T09:49:00Z

    Sky Sports have announced that former World Champion Damon Hill has joined their team to cover the 2012 season on their dedicated F1 channel, Sky Sports F1 HD.

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    Markets rise after Italy austerity vote

    2011-11-11T16:05:00Z

    Wall Street opens strongly as Papademos is sworn-in as Greek PM and Italy’s senate approves austerity package

  • Oscars cables
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    360 Cams, AutoCAD and many miles of fibre: the technology that goes into building an Oscars broadcast

    2011-10-10T12:35:00Z

    HOLLYWOOD — Beneath the pomp and pageantry of the Academy Awards hides a world of crushing complexity. Every detail of the production — from the precise camera placement to the deployment and construction of moving stage pieces — requires meticulous planning, fastidious engineering and heaps of tech savvy.Long before the ...

  • Oscars projectors
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    Fourteen high-def projectors are stashed in a cramped, sweltering room between the ground floor and the nosebleeds inside the Kodak Theatre

    2011-10-10T11:44:00Z

    Fourteen high-def projectors are stashed in a cramped, sweltering room between the ground floor and the nosebleeds inside the Kodak Theatre. According to Tad Scripter, the Academy’s head engineer, this bank of machines will deliver all the video and images viewers will see projected on the enormous retractable “screens” onstage. ...

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