plans of the issuer to convert a portion of the site in a virtual attraction where visitors can see how to make your favorite
BBC Television Centre was closed on Sunday, but the company has ambitious plans to return after redevelopment, with an attractive virtual, allowing visitors to explore the creation of your favorite programs, including Top Gear, EastEnders and Radio 4 Today.
After a series of farewell events over several weeks, the last of more than 5,000 employees have left the site in Wood Lane BBC the weekend, ending nearly 53 years occupation.
The movement was a decade in the planning, as part of a strategic portfolio rationalization property of the BBC, including the remodeling ? 1bn Broadcasting House in central London and World Service Near leaving Bush House.
Coincidentally, the timing of the move allows the company to put some distance between the center of the TV and it has associations with the sexual abuse scandal Jimmy Savile.
However, the BBC will continue, after a break of two years in the building designed by Graham Dawbarn with programs like Strictly Come Dancing - who temporarily move to Elstree - about to return to center TV in 2015 after again.
Before that, the developer Stanhope, who bought the site for 200 million pounds in a 999-year lease, start work to demolish the dilapidated parts in 1970 and the site office building, shops , apartments and a hotel.
The BBC has created a joint venture with Stanhope, TVC Development to oversee the next chapter in the history of Television Centre. Although no longer the seat of power, channel controllers and other senior executives who move to New Broadcasting House, with BBC News, the company is re-occupy 20% of Television Centre after it is remodeled .
Part of the site is a "digital experience of the BBC" - audience by providing better facilities and additional shows, interactive attractions These include an exploration area of ??programming companies. succession. A proposal is that visitors do they use programmed with your date of birth to images of virtual reality programs for the small display as a tourist attraction.
Alan Yentob, creative director of the BBC, which began work in the television center there are more than 40 years, said there was a debate about the exact form of attraction should take, but he was determined to reach ambitious. Yentob provides an attraction that gives "an idea of ??the scale of the BBC and the scope of what he does, and the roots of early television, from there now."
addition to exploring the history of the BBC, said he wanted Yentob attraction for visitors to discover how it is now showing that rigor, Top Gear, Doctor Who and Sherlock made .
"You can imagine the virtual BBC at any time of the day - walking into a room and see John Humphrys make the show now and then to see what is going on in India BBC World, "he said." Then see EastEnders being recorded in the morning. BBC would be a virtual experience. "
BBC Studios and Post Production Lease Backthree studies and new dressing rooms prior art from 2015, so that the center can accommodate television as more ... with Jools Holland and children in need. The old exam television center, where they were issued today, Newsnight and BBC1 bulletins and the main reception will be redesigned to provide offices for the sales staff Corporation 1200 arm, BBC Worldwide, to from 2014.
In a gesture to the BBC open to the public, was abandoned traditional queue waiting outside Television Centre for a ticket to a show. Instead, the public will be allowed to central court building "donut" for a drink or a meal before a show.
There are also plans to turn the giant courtyard in front of the TV Center - an area the size of Trafalgar Square -. In a public space that could be used to host programs, events and farmers markets
Andrew Fullerton, project development planning and design trade BBC, said the goal was to open the redesigned site to its subscribers, whether they come to shows or company with the staff of the Company. "The idea in the future, which is welcome, arrive early, relax, have a coffee, and then go into the studio."
Andy Griffee, the project manager of the BBC for the transfer of thousands of officials Centre TV New Broadcasting House, said more than 10 years, streamlining the real estate portfolio of the company has produced a gain of 736m - not including ? 200 million from the sale of the land to the west of London, in Stanhope.
Figures
New BBC Broadcasting House renovation: EUR 1.046bn
Construction Costs: ? 800
technology costs: EUR 154m
Number of employees increased from Television Centre New Broadcasting House and other buildings in central London BBC 5500
Number of offices in New Broadcasting House: 4500
The final curtain call of BBC TV Centre
Last show of the study: Comic Relief - March 15
LiveLast event: Madness Live: Goodbye Television Centre - March 22
Last Performance recorded Study: BBC variety show Entertainment - March 25
last race to go through the galleries of study: Urbi et Orbi, the Pope - March 31
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afternoon beloved Moleskine The author seems to have a profound influence on their tablet computers based cousins ??
Bruce Chatwinhas a lot to answer for. More specifically, it is responsible for an upcoming initial public offering (IPO) on the Italian Stock Exchange. It goes back to what I wrote in his book
The Songlines
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Moleskine:. "Moleskine", in this case, with its black rubber union Everytime I went to Paris, I would buy a new offer Stationery rue de l'Ancienne Comedie " Chatwin then relates how the laptops were made by a small company of Tours, whose owner has died and whose heirs sold the company. So it is assumed that the source of his beloved books had dried. What he did not know was that the company had been bought by a Milanese stationery has finally started to produce new laptops. And what he could not know that one day, the company trades on the stock exchange (April 3, to be exact). The IPO could value the company up to 560 million ( 473m).
regular users of their products to find information on pre-IPO interesting documents. The price of a Moleskine notebook, for example, is at least twice that of comparable products, so the company has an operating margin - 41.7% - to impress even the Apple children. The explanation, of course, is the basic ingredient of a Moleskine notebook - paper - is really cheap. (And it shows -. Since users quickly find pen)
MoleskineThe reason he gets away with charging so much a camera as insensitive, is that it is not so much the sale of a product as an ethos. Call it Chatwin syndrome: the illusion that has the portable type Hemingway, Oscar Wilde, Picasso could use momentum grants panache and other desirable qualities the proud owner. And - who knows? - Maybe you're right
- What brings this to mind is the idea that if everyone used to go over what is called laughing my work, I have met people who were armed of Moleskine notebooks now most of them have iPads. And - shock, horror! - They seem to use it as
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A manned spacecraft Soyuz set a record for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS), which comes six hours after launch instead of two days. Soyuz 34 was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Friday, March 28 at 16:43 EDT (8:43 GMT) and docked with the ISS at 10: 28 PM EDT (3:28 GMT). He managed to catch up and merge paths to the ISS orbiting only four have been tested using new techniques in rendezvouses ISS Progress cargo without Russian pilot ... Continue reading speed record broken Soyuz to the ISS
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men can run the world, but women are always fun in social networks to push back against sexism in mainstream culture,
For Hilary Bowman-Smart, the latest in a long list of evidence that suggests that women must change their behavior to prevent sexual violence was the last straw.
last week, Bowman-Smart, a student based in Melbourne and describes # feministkilljoy, did not hesitate to parody a tweet that she thought it was nonsense advice.
Soon # safetytipsforladies was shared by thousands of women who have chosen to use Twitter (and sense of humor) to push back against what they perceive as ignorance about of sexual violence - specifically, how they perpetrated and who is to blame.
And what began as a humble hashtag (now viral) Twitter Tumblr past artist Liz Chesterman created artwork done around some of the tweets and posted on his blog.
"I think the reason I went on Twitter (quite unexpected for me) is that it allows us to express a huge frustration for women to be told how to prevent rapists, rather than rapists are advised not to violate, "Smart-Bowman told the Guardian.
- And last year, Twitter has exploded with # FlushRush after Shock Jock Rush Limbaugh called law student Sandra Fluke a "prostitute" after testifying before Congress about the need for contraception mandate in the health care law Obama.
This is why seemingly small, individual acts of sexism - that innocent jokes dongle - Material. These "micro-aggressions" combine to strengthen the structural sexism. ARM and ordinary geeks expressing similar attitudes can not be radical activists ... but they are radical advocates of the status quo.
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What the critics thought: Read Sheryl Sandberg, Julie Myerson is the challenge and Mary Beard Addressing classic "may seem a bit pretentious to say lean
represents a turning point in the feminist debate. But Or at least it could, if we let them. "'s book Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook has been widely discussed in the last fortnight, and criticized as narrow and reactionary, but Sarah Vine The Times came out strong in their defense: "She firmly grasps the nettle of convenience feminist rejects defeatism and calls for a new strategy in the fight against sexism women have achieved great things through the sexual revolution, but not rather, we must continue to fight .... It would not, but no excuses ... Ladies, it's time to be a man ... Yes, it is annoying Yes, it makes a lot of money Yes, it is an authoritarian Yes, it flies around the world in a private jet and a way of life very privileged. Yeah, it's boring and quite thin. But the bottom line is a good idea. If women really want to have meaningful participation in the operation the world, we need to stop making excuses and move on. " Daisy Goodwin
in the Sunday Times are strongly agree "Sandberg urges working mothers, or as she calls them" parents who love the breed, "to overcome their fear of being inadequate mothers ... I do not care if Sandberg leads Prada Birkenstock shoes with a valid argument. There is nothing to be complacent. " Anne-Marie Slaughter in the New York Times said the book is full of gems" slogans that women ambitious would do well to pin up on your wall. "The problem is that" she has decided to focus only on "internal barriers" for the advancement of women, "how women hold." "Julie Myerson 'only ever once seen a ghost herself." This is the desired level of conviction of the author of a ghost story, "argues Charlotte Heathcote
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famous social network's seventh birthday - and see how Arthur C Clarke predicted the Internet and the PC for four decades
Viral Video Chart this week, check out the digital technology. In 1974, Arthur C. Clarke, standing in a bunker team says a giddy child on Australian television when he was as old as the reporter - that would be the year 2001 - would compact version of one of these teams . He predicted he would be able to use it to get all the information I needed: bank statements, theater bookings. The presenter was worried about what this would mean in social terms. "This would mean that people can live in any part of the earth [and do their work]," said Clark. Oh, those crazy castles in the air ...
in this area. Did you know that Twitter is now seven years old? It seems like just yesterday we were trying to find out where you can find the hashtag on a keyboard. To celebrate, Twitter has become one of the videos Feelgood illustrate the important role he played in the history of the world. Cue the plane that crashed into the Hudson River in New York, in Tahrir Square, the earthquake and tsunami in Japan ... you get the picture.
If you think dating is uncomfortable when people start to use Google glass can secretly record all night long (or check your Twitter feed at the same time while trying finding stakeholders) - This little glimpse of the future is the idea seems romantic. Of course, it would be tempting to have a long virtual coach winger, but it can go very wrong, as this video shows.
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important results in the new smartphone in the first month how difficult period of job losses, but $ 98 million net profit for the last quarter
BlackBerryis recovering from back to results indicate a healthy demand for its first smartphone with your Z10 a million phones shipped in its first month of sale.
founder Mike Lazaridis had the opportunity to retire in the proportion of better than expected phonemaker beleaguered financial results, announcing that he would resign from his position as vice president and leave the Board of Directors on May 1.
After successive rounds of redundancies, BlackBerry posted a $ 98m ( 82.9m) net profit for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year, compared to 9 million in the previous quarter and loss of $ 125 million in the same period a year ago.
However, the number of subscribers to the BlackBerry network - users pay a fee for services and access to secure data channels of society - has declined more rapidly than expected, 79 million in the last quarter of $ 76 million
CEO, Thorsten Heins, promised results would show the company the balance in the next quarter, based on a "lower cost base, the supply chain more effective and improve margins material. "Improvement comes despite a 50% increase in marketing spending to support the global launch of BlackBerry 10, its new software platform for smart phones.
- "With the launch of BlackBerry 10, I think I have fulfilled my commitment to the board," said Mike Lazaridis. "Thorsten and his team have done an excellent job in the conduct of BlackBerry 10. We have much to be proud of. I think I'm now in good hands.'m Always a big fan of BlackBerry and, of course, I that the company and its people well. "
- analysts described the million sales of the Z10 as "stellar" because the phone is on sale in the UK only four weeks before the end of the year BlackBerry March 2, and n have not reached the critical U.S. market until last week.
During the last year, BlackBerry has made more money in Africa than any other continent. In this case, the figure fell to $ 4.5 billion to $ 1.2 billion, but the total was still well above the $ 587 million in North America, the second biggest hit of the region the company.
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