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A three-men Supreme Court bench has refused an urgent application by Peter O’Neill this morning seeking orders to stay the Parliament from sitting today. Mr. O’Neill is arguing that for Parliament to be called, there has to be a declaration of all 118 seats. The bench refused the application after it ruled that there is no urgency in the application. Solicitor-General Tauvasa Tanuvasa who represented the Attorney-General in the matter said Parliament is already in the process of meeting this morning and Mr O’Neill did not satisfy the court that he would be prejudiced in any way if Parliament met.  NBC / PNG Today Next :  PNG National budget set for September

Brought over by the Romans almost a thousand years ago, Box plants had proven to be extremely robust and versatile right up until the past decade or so when the calamitous introductions of Box blight and Box caterpillar moth occured. With few effective methods of control, arguably the best option is to no longer plant Buxus sempervirens and instead consider alternative species and cultivars in its place.  The problem with both of these inflictions’ is that an awful of of damage has happened before the problem is identifies. Then secondly, it is difficult or even illegal without a commercial spraying licence for the man-in-the-street to purchase any of the control methods. This is where the magnificent plant boffins at RHS Wisley come in. They have dedicated a large garden in the grounds dedicated to the possible alternatives to box hedging, and in doing so have created what could be called a masterpiece of mixed topiary. So if you would like to see see more content like this then ...

This video is about stop motion of Balinesse Dance “Joged”, made from 600 of van dyke prints/brown prints on (image) size about 24×36 mm. Joged dance has quite fast & energetic choreography. That dance was performed by Irma Indriyani, shoot on video in 30 fps, cut into 60 seconds, then extracted to 1800 frames. I’ve pick 600 frames (1 frame every 3 frames), tonal adjusted and converted those frames into grayscale, inverted to negative images and made that into a single contact sheet file. Next step is printed that contact sheet into prepress/offset film, cut into every single frame and printed by van dyke technique. alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/kallitypes/a-non-silver-manual-vandyke-brown alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/kallitypes/vandyke-notes At the printing stage i worked with 7 printing artists from KOPPI (Keluarga Old Photographic Process ISI/Old Photographic Process Family of Indonesia Institute of Art) : Husain HAH , Aprillio Akbar , ...