Mirach Energy says its associate company, CPHL (Cambodia) Company (CPHLC), intends to engage Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping Inc. (OHM) to conduct electromagnetic imaging technology at its two offshore oil fields concessions in Cambodia.
CPHLC has identified three exploration well targets within Block D in which 3D seismic survey was done. Actual drilling of these wells is expected to take place in the second quarter of 2011.
Visiting Indian President Pratibha Devisingh Patil was today accorded a traditional welcome by Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni at the Silver Pagoda Royal Palace here. School children lined up on either side of the street leading to the palace to welcome President Patil. After the ceremonial welcome, President Patil had a one-to-one meeting with the Cambodian [...]
America’s Senate ponders whether the Lockerbie bomber was set free on grounds of compassion or commerce
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Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has admitted that likes to eat spiders. In her new movie ‘Salt’, Jolie has played a tough CIA officer on the run after a Russian defector claimed that she is a spy sent by Moscow to assassinate the US President. She faces all sorts of terrible trials – including an encounter [...]
Dictators need facial hair. The way an ordinary person needs consistent sustenance, dictators must proclaim their superiority on their face, with hair.
YOU’VE GOT GRAVY IN YOUR EYES!
Photos by Susan J. Weiand
On Sunday, June 13th, various All-Star musicians converged on stage at The Great American
Music Hall to benefit the Seva Foundation. The
cast of characters included Steve Kimock, Mark Karan, Billy
Kreutzmann, Melvin Seals, Papa Mali, Lebo, Dave Brogan,
Bo Carper, Reed Mathis, Matt Hubbard, special guest Bobby
Vega and Wavy Gravy himself.
The evening started off with a set by Lebo, Carper and Brogan performing “Spike Driver’s
Blues”, “Pallet on your Floor” and Old Crowe Medicine Show’s “Wagon Wheel” joined by Karan & Seals. The band played
on for a Dave Brogan tune “Infinite Eye” before Vega joined in for a soulful offering of Allen Toussaint’s classic “On
Your Way Down”.
Steve Kimock then took the stage with Vega, Seals & Brogan for an epic version of
the Zero fan favorites “Cole’s Law” > “Tangled Hangers”. The first set then closed with a
ripping rendition of Dylan’s “Highway 61 Revisited” featuring Karan, Lebo, Brogan, Kimock,
Seals & Vega.
Set two featured 7 Walkers: Papa Mali, Billy Kreutzman, Steve Kimock, Reed Mathis and Matt
Hubbard along with a variety of the aforementioned musicians joining in a setlist that
included “Jam” >
“Sugaree”, “He’s Gone”, “Just Like Tom Thumbs Blues”, “Bertha”, “Jump Back”, “Mr. Charlie”
and “Lovelight” amongst others.
Photographer Sue Weiand was on hand to document the experience for your visual enjoyment.
JamBase | Bay Area
Thank to various helpers for piecing together the setlist. Pardon any omissions or
errors.
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6/13/10 – Wavy Gravy Seva Jam @ Great American Music Hall (San Francisco,
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Seva Foundation was founded in 1978 by a group of people who helped eradicate
small pox,
and inspired by that achievement, joined together to alleviate other suffering caused by
poverty and disease. Seva’s public health programs in India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia
Bangladesh and Tanzania work to eliminate curable blindness. Over two million people have
received sight-restoring surgeries. In Mexico and Guatemala Seva assists indigenous
communities with training and resources to attain literacy and economic self-sufficiency.
In the United States, where diabetes claims Native American lives at four times the
national average, Seva offers diabetes prevention and small grants programs, created and
directed by Native Americans.
Wavy Gravy, activist clown, former Ben & Jerry’s flavor, hippie-icon, flower-
geezer, is a
founding board member of the Seva Foundation. He is the creative director of Camp
Winnarainbow, a circus and performing arts camp in Northern California.
India’s Arvind Bhat and Trupti Murgunde crashed out of the singles event on the opening day of the main draw of Badminton Asia Championships here Wednesday.
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Avian influenza remains a threat to human health despite a decline in cases since a peak in 2006, the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned Wednesday.
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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have a brainiac in the family — their eight-year-old son Maddox!
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The listing was posted on 4 March that marks the struggling poet of “Pyaasa†(1957) as the “best role†of Guru Dutt. Amitabh Bachchan’s deep voice and broodiness for Inspector Khanna in “Zanjeer†(1973) has [...]
Angelina Jolie is reportedly drawing plans to adopt an orphan from the quake-torn region of Haiti.
The actress, who shares six kids with partner Brad Pitt, was purportedly moved after visiting the paediatric ward of Dario Contreras Hospital in neighbouring Dominican Republic.
The Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was said to have [...]
Sources close to Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are putting the kibosh on widespread reports that the stars have signed papers for a legal separation and custody over their six children.
Many sources close to the family told PEOPLE Magazine that the news — which broke in the UK’s notoriously-unreliable News of The [...]
Dayen Environmental says it recorded a revenue of $35.5 million and loss attributable to shareholders of $5.53 million for the financial year ended 30 September 2009.
The group says revenue for the year ended Sept 30 2009 increased by 20% from $29.53 million for the financial year ended Sept 30 2008 as compared to $35.5 million for the year ended Sept 30 2009. The increase was due to several key projects in Johor Bahru (Malaysia), Cambodia and Singapore being significantly completed for the financial year ended Sept 30 2009.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie reportedly contributed a whopping 6.8 million dollars to charities in 2008.
According to the Hollywood Reporter, which has obtained a 2008 tax return for their Jolie-Pitt Foundation, the amount is double of what they donated in 2007, reports Us magazine.
It has emerged that the ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ couple’s Jolie-Pitt foundation [...]
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie donated big bucks to charity last year.
According to a 2008 tax return for the Hollywood power couple’s Jolie-Pitt foundation — obtained by The Hollywood Reporter – the couple gave $6.4 million away — more than double what they gave just a year before.
The biggest recipients were Global Health with $2 [...]
Dayen Environmental says group expects to report a loss for for the full year ending 30 September 2009 (FY2009) due mainly to a reduction in the claimable portion of billings and higher costs pertaining to a project in Cambodia.
The group also recorded an impairment pertaining to an associate, Pizhou Water Holdings Pte Ltd (Singapore) as well as a revaluation loss from its investment in PT ATPK Resources TBk.
Meanwhile,CDW Holding Limited also says the group is likely to report an operating loss for the nine months ended Sept 30, 2009 although it should report an operating profit for the third quarter ended Sept 30, 2009.
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Cambodia has appointed the ousted prime minister of neighbouring Thailand, Thaksin Shinawatra, as a government adviser on the economy, a move likely to further deteriorate relations with the current government in Bangkok.
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s public embrace of Thaksin — still a deeply divisive figure in Thailand — follows a border dispute that [...]
