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November 12, 2017

Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" - Official Live (Greenpeace)



Above, watch Italian pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi perform an original composition, "Elegy for the Arctic," on a grand piano, floating right in the middle of the Arctic Ocean. In one of his most challenging performances, Einaudi played "Elegy for the Arctic" for the very first time--a piece dedicated to the preservation of the Arctic. The home of endangered wildlife, the region also helps regulate our fragile climate. And our future depends partly on whether we keep it intact.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/12/italian-pianist-plays-a-grand-piano-while-floating-in-the-middle-of-the-arctic-ocean.html
November 11, 2017

Journalists locked out of Trump appearance at economic summit

Source: Politico

DANANG, Vietnam — Nearly all U.S. journalists covering U.S. President Donald Trump’s appearance at a major economic summit in Vietnam were barred from attending key events Friday and Saturday, including photo-ops featuring interactions between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The small group of U.S.-based reporters who track Trump’s movements abroad, known as the travel pool, was largely relegated to a holding room on Saturday while nearly two dozen world leaders posed for photographs and mingled at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in Danang.

A Fox News video crew and an official White House photographer were granted access to the meetings. Fox was the news organization that was tasked with providing pool video to other news outlets. But the rest of the pool reporters, including independent photographers from U.S. news organizations, were blocked from covering the event.

A similar situation unfolded Friday night, when planned coverage of an APEC dinner with Trump and other leaders was scrapped, leaving print reporters, photographers and other members of the pool without the ability to cover the event.

Read more: https://www.politico.eu/article/journalist-locked-out-of-trump-appearance-at-economic-summit/

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