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Pretty amazing what can be achieved in a single day with no budget. Yes, we can get into a discussion about what constitutes no budget, but still… by Sebastian Lopez: This is what i achieved after 20 exhausting hours of shooting on a green screen stage in Buenos Aires, in a single day. No budget at all; just me and some friends. I composited, did the FX and everything else later on After Effects. My good friend Colin Devlin along with Brian Byrne created the amazing soundtrack you’ll hear on it.

Obvious Child by Gillian Robespierre: “A romantic comedy about an unplanned pregnancy, an abortion, and a great first date in an unlikely location.” (21:39) (sidenote: the last scene during the credits is around the corner from where I used to live in Brooklyn.) via:libberon

Dec 06 2009 Sermon

Dec 06 2009 Sunday Seminar

This weekend's shooter is pink with vodka, grenadine and milk. Yet another simple but tasty little recipe for a starter night of cocktail drinking.

Climate negotiators and world leaders from 192 nations are about to descend on Copenhagen. The long awaited climate talks will run for the next two weeks. The aim is to get the world to agree to an all-encompassing package to combat global warming. Our Climate Change Minister Penny Wong is expected to arrive at the talks in the next few days.

He's been in the music making business for 50 years, and has released many great albums. Smokey is back. The King of Motown made around 25 hit singles with the Miracles and another 20-plus as a solo act. He's still going and this album has him writing all but two tracks, co-producing and mixing. Is it worth the effort -- for a man who doesn't need to make any more albums -- to have it said that he has 'made his mark'? Smokey doesn't just go through the motions.

Tracing our family roots is a popular pastime. Most of us are curious about the people and places that made us who we are today. Many of you can trace your family history back hundreds of years -- but how many of you know about your 'deep ancestry', that is, looking back 60,000 years. A five year study called the Genographic Project, launched by National Geographic and IBM, has done just that. Project director Dr Spencer Wells is in Australia, to reveal the results of 100 DNA tests conducted in Australia in October. He is also Explorer in Residence with the National Geographic Society.

The ABC's daily morning current affairs program hosted by Tony Eastley.

Health and hospital reform remains one of the big unfulfilled promises of Kevin Rudd's first term. During the 2007 election campaign he announced the Commonwealth would be prepared to assume responsibility for all 750 public hospitals if the states had failed to fix the system and reduce waiting lists by the middle of this year. The takeover threat was never carried out. Instead, the Prime Minister set up the Health and Hospitals Reform Commission to look at a complete redesign of the public health system. Since its final report in June of this year, the PM and his health minister have embarked on a national roadshow, visiting more than 20 hospitals to discuss the Commission's 100-plus recommendations. They include a plan for Canberra to fund all outpatient services and emergency department admissions, which could, in turn, lead to a complete Commonwealth takeover. Kevin Rudd will provide a progress report to the state and territory leaders at today's COAG meeting in Brisbane. The talks will be hosted by Queensland premier Anna Bligh, who has her own health reform agenda that she will put to her fellow leaders.

Our sharemarket should get a boost this morning following some good news in the US on the jobs front. And the massive iron ore joint venture between BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto has also moved a step closer.

The latest sports news with Warwick Hadfield.

Some sectors of the local tourism industry might be suffering a downturn but when it comes to cruising, it's a booming industry. The latest Access Economics report into the Australian cruise industry, out today, shows that cruising is a standout performer, its contribution to the national economy rising 54% to $1.2 billion dollars last year. And the predictions are that the industry will grow at the rate of 7% a year over the next decade. But there are problems hindering the sector's growth, particularly when it comes to ports and issues like gaming, customs regulations and disease control. The Access report was commissioned by Carnival Australia, part of the largest cruise group in the world.

The pundits, the players and the coach say it isn't quite the 'group of death', but it must be close. The groupings for next year's Football World Cup was announced on the weekend. Australia is in Group D and will face Germany, the three time world cup winners, along with two of football's in form teams, Ghana and Serbia. Australia will open their campaign in Durban in June 13. All the world cup games will be broadcast by SBS.

Eight years after the fall of the Taliban, women and girls in the country continue to suffer high levels of violence and discrimination, and have poor access to justice and education. As the world debates the merits of the United States' new surge strategy in Afghanistan, a report by Human Rights Watch says the plight of Afghan women is getting worse.

Last month on Breakfast, we spoke with cattle farmers Matt and Sandra Ireson. They run a property at Booligal in the New South Wales Riverina. The Iresons are among the hundreds of farming families who rely on the lower Lachlan River for their water supply. But the river is running dry. Heartbreaking drought and a contentious decision by the New South Wales Government to stop the River at Condobolin has slowed the Lachlan to just a trickle. With the emissions trading legislation again rejected in the Senate and the start this week of the Copenhagen climate conference, we thought it timely to return to tiny Booligal to see how stricken farmers are coping.

What's in the newspapers? James Carleton's daily wrap of the print media.

download 09j-gingatetsudo-an Music Artist: AlmaNova Album: After Hours 07-Massimo Dancing This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence. transcript 向（む）こうとこっちの岸（きし）に星のかたちとつるはしを書いた旗（はた）がたっていました。 「あれなんの旗（はた）だろうね」ジョバンニがやっとものを言（い）いました。 「さあ、わからないねえ、地図にもないんだもの。鉄（てつ）の舟（ふね）がおいてあるねえ」 「ああ」 「橋（はし）を架（か）けるとこじゃないんでしょうか」女の子が言（い）いました。 「ああ、あれ工兵（こうへい）の旗（はた）だねえ。架橋演習（かきょうえんしゅう）をしてるんだ。けれど兵隊（へいたい）のかたちが見えないねえ」 その時向（む）こう岸（ぎし）ちかくの少し下流（かりゅう）の方で、見えない天の川の水がぎらっと光って、柱（はしら）のように高くはねあがり、どおとはげしい音がしました。 「発破（はっぱ）だよ、発破（はっぱ）だよ」カムパネルラはこおどりしました。 その柱（はしら）のようになった水は見えなくなり、大きな鮭（さけ）や鱒（ます）がきらっきらっと白く腹（はら）を光らせて空中にほうり出されてまるい輪（わ）を描（えが）いてまた水に落（お）ちました。ジョバンニはもうはねあがりたいくらい気持（きも）ちが軽（かる）くなって言（い）いました。 「空の工兵大隊（こうへいだいたい）だ。どうだ、鱒（ます）なんかがまるでこんなになってはねあげられたねえ。僕（ぼく）こんな愉快（ゆかい）な旅（たび）はしたことない。いいねえ」 「あの鱒（ます）なら近くで見たらこれくらいあるねえ、たくさんさかないるんだな、この水の中に」 「小さなお魚もいるんでしょうか」女の子が談（はなし）につり込（こ）まれて言（い）いました。 「いるんでしょう。大きなのがいるんだから小さいのもいるんでしょう。けれど遠くだから、いま小さいの見えなかったねえ」ジョバンニはもうすっかり機嫌（きげん）が直（なお）っておもしろそうにわらって女の子に答えました。 「あれきっと双子（ふたご）のお星さまのお宮（みや）だよ」男の子がいきなり窓（まど）の外をさして叫（さけ）びました。 右手の低（ひく）い丘（おか）の上に小さな水晶（すいしょう）ででもこさえたような二つのお宮（みや）がならんで立っていました。 「双子（ふたご）のお星さまのお宮（みや）ってなんだい」 「あたし前になんべんもお母（っか）さんから聞いたわ。ちゃんと小さな水晶（すいしょう）のお宮（みや）で二つならんでいるからきっとそうだわ」 「はなしてごらん。双子（ふたご）のお星さまが何をしたっての」 「ぼくも知ってらい。双子（ふたご）のお星さまが野原へ遊（あそ）びにでて、からすと喧嘩（けんか）したんだろう」 「そうじゃないわよ。あのね、天の川の岸（きし）にね、おっかさんお話しなすったわ、……」 「それから彗星（ほうきぼし）がギーギーフーギーギーフーて言（い）って来たねえ」 「いやだわ、たあちゃん、そうじゃないわよ。それはべつの方だわ」 「するとあすこにいま笛（ふえ）を吹（ふ）いているんだろうか」 「いま海へ行ってらあ」 「いけないわよ。もう海からあがっていらっしゃったのよ」 「そうそう。ぼく知ってらあ、ぼくおはなししよう」 川の向こう岸（ぎし）がにわかに赤くなりました。 楊（やなぎ）の木や何かもまっ黒にすかし出され、見えない天の川の波（なみ）も、ときどきちらちら針（はり）のように赤く光りました。まったく向（む）こう岸（ぎし）の野原に大きなまっ赤な火が燃（もや）され、その黒いけむりは高く桔梗（ききょう）いろのつめたそうな天をも焦（こ）がしそうでした。ルビーよりも赤くすきとおり、リチウムよりもうつくしく酔（よ）ったようになって、その火は燃（も）えているのでした。 Many thanks for the text : Aozora-Bunko (http://www.aozora.gr.jp) Original text here (http://www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/000081/card43737.html ) Without music , Public Domain to come

Decades of war have had a devastating effect on the Congo region. Not only the people of this region, but the gorillas and the habitat on which they rely. The Tayna Center for Conservation Biology is training the next generation of conservationists in the Congo and is the nation's only community-run conservation university. Learn more at: http://www.conservation.org/Campaigns/Lost_There_Felt_Here/