Dollar smashes another high mark - Business The New Zealand dollar has again set a new 15-month high this morning - the second time in a few days it has done so. The kiwi has passed through the US76c mark. By 8am the NZ dollar was buying US76.21c, having peaked an hour earlier at a 15-month high near US76.35c. That follows its close of around US75c last night. Support for the kiwi is being largely driven by a weak US dollar. This morning on Radio Live, banking and finance commentator Bernard Hickey said it's not out of the question to contemplate the kiwi valued at dollar-for-dollar with the greenback one day soon. "It will hurt exporters a lot - but this is great news for anyone thinking about buying a consumer product or planning that trip overseas", Hickey said. "It's all because the American dollar is fast losing ground as an index currency." The last time the kiwi hit 76 US cents was July 22 last year when it was trading at 76.11 US cents. But ANZ said it appeared the market was reading too much into the comments.
Cymatics: New Music Video for Nigel Stanford Merges Music and Science Experiments With a host of audio-based science experiments from sine waves blasting through streams of water, to visualizations of audio frequencies using sand, and sound waves traveling through flammable gas, this new video by Nigel Stanford has it all. Titled Cymatics, the music video was created for the first single from his new album, Solar Echoes. If you want to learn more about the science, there’s plenty of behind-the-scenes footage with explanation behind each experiment on his Vimeo channel. World in 2000 as Predicted in 1910 Illustrations by French artist Villemard in 1910 of how he imagined the future to be in the year 2000. In the 21st century, in order to control traffic jams in the air, there will be more and more flying policemen. Firemen will be equipped with “bat wings” to be able to easily access top floors and roofs. Just one for the road… Wars will be fought by “combat cars”. Schools will be equipped with audio books. Horses will be so rare that people will pay to see them. You’ll be able to send mail just by dictating it into loudspeaker. Heating with Radium. Building sites will be equipped with automatic devices and machines. Makeup will be applied just by pressing few buttons. Hair salon. Electric train from Paris to Beijing. Rescue plane. Tailor. Airship. Motorized roller skates. Video-telegraph. Police will use armored bicycles (motorcycles?) Listening to an audio-newspaper. Spy helicopters. The avenue of the Opera, Paris.
AWOL Tigger, or a Soviet Take on the World-Famous Cartoon Characters Apart from the Soviet writers’ prolific input into the children literature, a great deal of stories was translated into Russian, so the kids of the USSR grew up on the stories by Hans Andersen, Charles Pierrot and the Grimm brothers. Often the translators took the liberty of changing the plot of the storyline: this is how the famous book by A. Milne “Winnie the Pooh” in its Russian version features no Tigger yet there are some extra characters not from the original script. Arguably, it allowed the translator to become somewhat of an author and hence their name went onto the book cover (this is what happened to the Russian version of The Wizard of Oz). As cartoon making was one of the most developed (and certainly less censored ones) graphic arts, it can be of interest to see how the Russian animators saw the traditional Western fairy tales characters. Piglet, Winnie the Pooh and Rabbit. 1969 Little Red Riding Hood Dr Doolittle. 1984
The Imaginary Museum: Collecting Paul Celan Reading these letters doubled with poems is also to delimit the space where Celan habitually deployed his language, and which he referred to – not entirely seriously – as his “Celanie”: the Rue des Ecoles, the Rue de Lota, the Rue de Montevideo, the Rue de Longchamp, the Rue d’Ulm, the Rue Cabanis (Faculty Clinic, Saint-Anne), the Rue Tournefort and Avenue Émile Zola … – Bertrand Badiou, “Notice Editoriale”. In Paul Celan & Gisèle Celan-Lestrange. Correspondance (1951-1970). 2 vols. Map of Bukovina[Israel Chalfen (1979)] I did some translations from Paul Celan, from his posthumously-published book Schneepart (1971), in about 2001 (You can find them online here). Now, ten years later, I've re-entered the Celanian labyrinth (not that I ever really left it), and am working on some more translations (mostly from the poems included in his letters to his wife, the artist Gisèle Celan-Lestrange). A lot of new books have appeared or been translated in these ten years. [Texts:] Celan, Paul.
Совок внутри Если котик кажется милым — это паразит диктует вам свою волю. Фотография: Thinkstock Мы привыкли, что котики милые. Сама мысль о том, что котики являются ничем иным, как гнездовым паразитом, не приходит в голову обычному человеку. Но давайте посмотрим в лицо фактам, как бы сильно они не противоречили нашему личному опыту, эмоциям и интуиции. Котики умело манипулируют сознанием хозяев, формируя у тех устойчивую зависимость от общения с собой, и получая взамен корм, защиту и помощь в распространении. Кандидат биологических наук и научный журналист Александр Панчин рассказал о механизмах котогнездового паразитизма, и тех уловках, благодаря которым пришельцу удается убедить хозяина в том, что он — член семьи, а значит нуждается во всей доступной еде, любви и заботе. ( О котанах, жуках-извращенцах и природе влеченияRéduire ) Обсудить в блоге автора
10 Most Awesome Floors Ever Created | Floorstoyourhome Posted on January 8, 2010 by Frank A new part 2 of this article is now posted here! Most flooring is pretty unimaginative and boring. However, the following is a selection of cool floors which aim to keep you staring at the ground; just make sure you don’t bump into anyone. Enjoy, and please let us know which one is you favorite. 1. Do you have money burning a hole in your pocket? Source 2. While there may be tall buildings popping up all over the world these days, few still have the presence of the Sears Tower in Chicago. Source 3. This is a floor that may leave you asking, “What exactly is going on in Belgium anyway?” Source 4. Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. Source 5. Lights in the floor at Finsbury Avenue Square serve to create a very futuristic and almost otherworldly look to the environment. Source 6. When you hear “concrete floor,” you might think that sounds like a recipe for a pretty boring floor. Source 7. Source 8. Source 9. Source 10. What!?! Source Discount Laminate Flooring
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