Jeditroll's Journal

Start:	Feb 24, '08 10:00a
Location:	Behind The Quirino Grandstand Luneta, Manila

Contacts details:
Telephone 567 7777
Fax 567 2309
Website: www.manilaoceanpark .com


Contact Person: Ms. Gemma Jeronimo / Sales


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HISTORY
China Oceanis Group Ltd (“COG”) is a company that specializes in the
investment, building, and operation of public aquarium/oceanarium
attractions.


The Group currently owns and operates two Underwater World facilities in
China, specifically in the cities of Chong Qing and Qing Huang Dao, PRC
China. Through years of operating and design experience, the Group now
possesses an experienced team of specialists capable of providing
end-to-end services to the developer and operator of public
aquarium/oceanarium facilities.


Past projects:
Nanjing Underwater World – Nanjing PRC China
Tai Ping Yang Underwater World – Beijing PRC Chin
Xinao Underwater World – Qing Huang Dao PRC Chin
Chong Qing XinAo Underwater World – Chong Qing PRC China
Sahara Star Hotel – Mumbai India


VISION
To be the best and most admired destination for travel & tourism, marine
education, shopping and dining in the country, with its world-class,
state-of-the- art marine themed park, premium shopping mall, elegant dining
facilities and boutique hotel.


To be the best company that provides highest customer and employee
satisfaction.

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SONG WITHOUT WORDS: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy

Compelling Portrait of Tolstoy Family Told Through Pictures and Personal Journal Entries

WASHINGTON (July 9, 2007)--Much has been written about Count Leo Tolstoy, renowned author of "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina." Less well known is his wife, Sophia, who dedicated her life to her husband's career, bore him 13 children, ran the family estate --and in imaginative photographs and diaries documented her years with the famous writer in whose shadow she always remained. Photography historian Leah Bendavid-Val traces Sophia Tolstoy's extraordinarily demanding, complicated and often tumultuous life in a new book from National Geographic, SONG WITHOUT WORDS: The Photographs & Diaries of Countess Sophia Tolstoy (National Geographic Books; ISBN: 978-1-4262-0173-8; Sept. 18, 2007; $35), publishing this fall. An introduction to the book is penned by Sophia's great-grandson Vladimir Tolstoy, director of the State Museum of L.N. Tolstoy.

Through 180 rarely seen photographs, never before collected for publication, and deeply personal journal entries, this beautiful book provides an intimate glimpse into the lives of Countess Tolstoy and her husband, set against the backdrop of aristocratic Russia on the brink of its demise.

Between 1885 and 1910, Sophia made more than a thousand photographs representing her entire world--from artists to aristocrats and family members to peasants, from the Crimea to Moscow to the beloved family estate of Yasnaya Polyana, 60 miles south of Moscow. Her detailed diaries sweep us into fashionable society and local gossip, magical scenes of the Russian countryside and day-to-day happenings in the Tolstoy household. They deepen our understanding of the era as well as of this amazing woman who battled a troubled and often stormy 48-year marriage, yet was so devoted to her husband's career that she hand-copied his voluminous literary works many times over, often working far into the night.

SONG WITHOUT WORDS bears witness to Sophia's prodigious creative talents and provides a portrait of a remarkable woman engaged in a range of pursuits, always with boundless energy and enthusiasm. She photographed almost everything and everyone around her. She believed her husband was a genius, and she made many of her photographs of him and their life together with posterity in mind, generating an accurate and enduring record of Tolstoy family history.

The book showcases the photographs by theme: self-portraits; Leo Tolstoy; family scenes; household staff and local peasantry; the family estate; musicians, artists and writers who were frequent houseguests; then back to Leo, with annual wedding anniversary sessions and finally sickness and death.

Sophia's writings provide emotional context for many of the images, while insightful commentary by Bendavid-Val weaves through the book, linking diary entries with pictures and placing each in its historical and literary setting.

"Sophia Tolstoy matters to us now not simply because she was the great Lev (Leo) Tolstoy's wife, and not merely because of her surprising and consequential photographic legacy, but also because her longings--to have a life filled with creativity, purpose, and love --mirror desires we all have. She led the life of a 19th-century Russian aristocrat, but her endless effort to balance conflicting demands and possibilities is recognizable to us today, in some ways remarkably so," writes Bendavid-Val.

In his introduction, Vladimir Tolstoy writes that his great-grandmother "undertook much and succeeded a great deal by any measure." She devoted herself to those who were close to her, creating a comfortable home and providing a domestic haven for her family. She was a personality in her own right, a talent who left the world hundreds of unique and accomplished photographs, and had additional enthusiasms for painting, music, philosophy and her own literary efforts. "But the main thing for her was love--a love of enormous force: passionate, tormented by jealousy and by incessant doubt...but love, still love, and nothing else!"

Revealing and engrossing, SONG WITHOUT WORDS brings to light the gifts of a major figure whose works enrich our knowledge of literature, photography and history.
To correspond with the publication of the book, an exhibition of 70 of Sophia Tolstoy's photographs will open at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington on Sept. 4 and will travel throughout 2008. On Oct. 2, at National Geographic's Grosvenor Auditorium, two award-winning performers, actress Michael Learned and actor Rick Foucheux, will join Bendavid-Val in an illustrated presentation featuring readings from the diaries of Sophia and Leo Tolstoy.

Bendavid-Val, director of photography publishing for National Geographic Books, is a writer, photography curator and historian of photography who has been keenly interested in Russian photography for two decades. She is the author of two books featuring Russian photographers and themes — "Propaganda & Dreams" and "Changing Reality." She also specializes in the history of National Geographic photography and has written two books on this subject — "Stories on Paper & Glass" and "National Geographic: The Photographs." She has curated photography exhibitions at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington and at the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. Bendavid-Val lives in Washington.
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Contacts:
Alison Reeves
National Geographic
(202) 857-7793
areeves@ngs.org

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Jul 1, '07 07:00a

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