As an agricultural people, the Buyi worship the Land. Outside every village there is usually a Temple of the Land, inside which there are usually two stones that represent the Father Land and the Mother Land. They sacrifice a chicken or a ...
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Canadian pork producer Big Sky Farms,which ran into financial troubles due to high feed costs,has entered into receivership and may be put up for sale. Feed costs in Canada have soared due to severe drought in the US. The company said ...
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Germany - Aquanario, Europe's biggest mobile water show, celebrated its official premiere on 17 August in Berlin, Germany. For 10 nights, no less than 45.000 visitors saw an impressive show with water, lasers, fire, lights, pyrotechnics and ...
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US food group Hormel Foods saw its profits accelerate in the final quarter of its financial year amid stronger earnings from its grocery products business. Hormel, which makes Spam canned meat, booked a 13% increase in net earnings to ...
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UK-Nick Gray from London-based creative lighting and design practice Renegade'imagineered'a dramatic and striking lighting ambience-both outside and inside-London's iconic Tate Modern art gallery,which hosted the new James Bond Skyfall ...
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UK-Adlib Solutions'specialist design division,led by award winning LD Ian Tomlinson created lighting production designs for four arenas at the 2012 Creamfields Festival.The Liverpool based technical production company also supplied lighting ...
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Australia-The Victorian College of Arts has added a MA onPC command wing to its inventory to the delight of their performance technology course students. "The MA onPC command wing allows us to train the students on the MA platform at an ...
The Netherlands - Amsterdam ArenA was transformed into an oasis of white for the premiere of Sensation's new show Source Of Light recently, when 40,000 people gathered under a huge dynamic spherical centrepiece dominated by bespoke LED ...
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UK-London based lighting rental and visuals company,Colour Sound Experiment(CSE),has invested in a batch of new Robe moving lights,JTE trussing and Chauvet LED battens to help service its busy summer schedule of festivals. This kicked ...
Austria-Robe moving lights and LED fixtures-around 135 in total-were again specified by lighting designer Helmut Krammer to illuminate the 2012 Summer Night Concert,staged by the Vienna Philharmonic orchestra in the sumptuous setting of ...
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Ireland-Production Services Ireland(PSI)supplied lighting,trussing and rigging for the 2012 Live At The Marquee event in Cork,which ran for a month,offering a diverse line up of international artists-from Justice to Christy Moore,Jedward to ...
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USA-Fox TV's American Idol 2012 season finale on 22 May declared contestant Phillip Phillips the winner.Then it was time for the after show bash at the Event Deck at L.A.Live in downtown Los Angeles.Kinetic Lighting was in charge of the ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill is set to acquire ground beef processing plant in Texas,US,from AFA Foods for$14.1m,in a deal that will strengthen its existing beef business. The deal,which includes the purchase of all working ...
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Austria-Andreas Gabalier is using a High End Systems lighting rig his current Volksrock'n Roller Tour in his native Austria. The university student in Graz,Austria,made his major-label debut in 2009 with a self-produced CD that he ...
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Ireland/UK-Irish Lighting rental company Production Services Ireland(PSI)became fully embroiled in the weekend commemorating the centenary of the sinking of the world's most famous cruise ship-Titanic. The ship-the largest afloat at ...