when you're sick and you put lotus silk on your skin, the pain subsides. >> lotus silk is in huge demand, both as a souvenir and as an export product. italy imports of bales of buddha's thread. a customized lotus silk jacket sells for 7000 euros. the head of the silk factory says business is booming. >> the reforms are good for myanmar. finally, we can show the world who we are. for me, it is an opportunity to make the business international. lotus silk has a golden future. >> but change is not affecting everyone at the same pace. apart from the increase in tourism, not much has changed for the into -- the intha people. these houses on stilts might look idyllic, but for the people living here, it is a life of grinding poverty. electricity, plumbing, and mobile phones are outside of their reach. in the evening when the tourists have left, stillness returns. for a few hours, the inle lake belongs to the intha people again. >> translated into english, it's a literally means "the sons of the lake." but the new developments around them raise the question of how much longer they can continue t

white lotus silk is fast becoming a cash commodity in burma. a very different solar system. how farmers in nicaragua secured their harvest using the sun. and the plans for a controversial dam project in laos sparked fears in countries further downstream.

clutching his chest he old lotus through a crowd of hundreds of friends and strangers and made his way beyond the row of bodies to be cremated. at last after pushing his way past his brother and a former prison guard made it to the coffin if he was just completing good in the silence that followed he could place the lotus flowers on the feast of his friend that he helped to build the structure going into the orange flames of a crematorium. overcome with grief he uttered a prayer for his dead friend that there remains a main goal did your ashes a try to atone for my sin if he was not with his own sadness of a premature death he might have heard another voice of gupta seeking a higher power. who will show me the way of the world? >> host: this has an incredible go to of rich detail and makes the hairs stand on end. how difficult was it is searching? what sort of reaction were you getting? obviously the backdrop was part of a scandal. you has been a dogged supporter but i think a book of the scale and death, what does that feel like? >> it was difficult because so many members of the indi

supportive because they feel it's made the neighborhood a lot safer the i have a space called the red lotus room in brooklyn. i couldn't have it in manhattan because it wouldn't be possible, it would cost too much money the it's a little bit of a challenge to keep it secret. i'll say on the invitages, no blogging, no press, no party lists, no checking in -- so there is only so much you control. it is the year that it is, but i do my best to keep it secret because i don't know, i feel like sometimes when people go to more of an effort to find a place, to find out about an event, to dress for it, they -- it's much more special for them. i feel like it's an important thing because there's not enough glamor in the world. >> the very glamorous juliette campbell. there's a problem you don't find every day -- how to keep a speakeasy secret in the day of the internet. they didn't have that problem in the 1920's. this brings the show to a close. you can carry on watching bbc news on our 24-hour channel. thanks so much for watching. ee you back here tomorrow. >> funding of this presentation is made p

upper 60's and lotus 7's. upper 60'sille -- and the low 70's. we will keep the temperature down because of the cloud cover and the rain. the wind is 7 miles per hour around baltimore city. the heavy rain will be the major concern. maybe some thunder popping up as well. right now the halfies of the grain is moving into cecil counter. --right now the heaviest of the rain is moving into cecil county. we have a light rain showers up towards howard county. plenty more rain on the way as a tropical storm andrea moves north. the wind had dropped down to about 45 miles per hour. that is good news. it will still continue to attract up the coast. we have a flood watch all across the central part of the state. the biggest concern could be around at baltimore for flooding. 82will warm up tomorrow, degrees. still at an isolated chance for a thunderstorm tomorrow afternoon. fewe mostly dry with a isolated thunderstorms popping up.com >> i guess the only good news is it is friday. looking great.ot we could have some problem spots. there is a problem in crofton

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of the season sees him search the six points clear of a long as over zero with kenny what i can of lotus in third after seven races. staying with motorsports where three time world champion if i was among the winners in the first of that russian stage of the world's touring car championship weigel brings us this pit stop report. with the sun scorching down on the newly built moscow raceway roughly eighty kilometers outside of the russian capital the six week end of the world touring car championship got on the way with three time champion yvonne miller in pole position off the course the cation. made no mistake in a race one of the day avoiding an early pileup to take full advantage of early on and although the red flag was deployed on lap four was never really in much danger for the rest of the race registering his full feeling of the season. and in race two it was michelle mchale who took the top spot he did of the season after the dame battled it out for almost the whole race against morocco's men in the ninety who didn't even manage to finish despite a quick start spinning out of the

kron4's grant lotus breaks down a few of the possible scenarios.he simplest outcome, proposition 8 is declared unconstitutional. in boxing terms, that's a knockout. boom! the legal debate is over same-sex marriages are legal in every state. or the court could rule out prop. 8 on more narrow technical grounds. call it a technical knockout. the decision would apply to california only. the california will join the growing number states where an that same-sex marriages are legal. or the court could uphold prop. 8 state san the state have the right to determine who can marry. a knockdown, but not the end of the fight. it will likely trigger a voter initiative to overturn prop. 8. and public opinion has shifted in favor of some six mayor sent it was passed into the night. the final scenario, and won some court watchers consider most likely is this. the court ruled that the group defending proposition 8 had no legal standing to do so. that is a no decision at a decision in effect sending the case back to a ruling by federal judge vaughn walker three years

do you remember lotus 1-2-3? if that computer ever dies, we are in trouble. we need to fix that. modernizing and simplifying these processes and systems is essential to the mission. i am happy to say we are very near completion of a pilot project and the review that should allow us to decide how to move forward in updating our reports systems. it will make it easier on our respondents. we will be able to do a lot of things on the web and it will make it easier for our employees. a lot of stuff has to be entered by hand and checked by hand and we can do a lot of that electronically now. we recently created a new state of the art data center. it will reduce the rent we pay to the secretary of a million dollars over the next four years. good morning, c-span! >> this needs to be fixed. the second imperative for me became as i began to hear the rhetoric regarding this issue, an important issue, but as a christian, i knew that it was god's kindness that brought me to repent. i also knew that when jesus had to travel to galilee and go through samaria, he did not do what other jews are s

surveys at the heart of our mission that curly -- currently rely on a myriad of legacy. 1-2-3.remember lotus ? if that computer ever dies, we are in trouble. we need to fix that. modernizing and simplifying these processes and systems is essential to the mission. i am happy to say we are very near completion of a pilot project and the review that should allow us to decide how to move forward in updating our reports systems. it will make it easier on our respondents. we will be able to do a lot of things on the web and it will make it easier for our employees. a lot of stuff has to be entered by hand and checked by hand and we can do a lot of that electronically now. new stately created a noos of the art data center. it will reduce the rent we pay to the secretary of a million dollars over the next four years. it supports green i.t. initiatives. i said we needed to increase our analytical impact. we have done a number of things. a daily new york city gasoline survey following hurricane sandy. for those of you with the federal government, you know it takes abouts -- it six months or more to ge