Journeys with Lauren Millar
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The Last Rights - Saving the Magnificent Right Whale
Braced in the bow of a heaving research boat in the Bay of Fundy, modified cross-bow ready to fire, is the way marine biologist Moira Brown spent her summers! With a team of marine biologists devoted to the cause, her goal was to protect the North Atlantic Right Whale and bring it back from the brink of extinction. With only a handful of whales left in 1993, it was a daunting task.
But years after this film was made in 1993, Brown and her team succeeded in rerouting shipping traffic away from the whales habitat. It was the first time in the history of the International Maritime Organization that shipping lanes were detoured to avoid colliding with an endangered marine species. This is the story of passionate, devoted Moira Brown as she began her career to save the North Atlantic Right Whale! Hope you don't get seasick, 'cause this is a whale of a ride! (such a bad pun....)
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Grizzly Capture & Release!
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Ever put a collar on a grizzly bear? As you can imagine, it ain't easy and you have to be motivated by a sense of adventure & risk & devotion to protecting an endangered species! Lauren goes grizzly collaring with Warren Beatty and James Cromwell. Lol! Ok, not reaaaally, but man, have a look at the film. Wildlife biologist, Dr. Bruce McLellan is a dead-ringer for Warren Beatty and his fellow re...
Porpoise Rescue!
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One of the smallest, most elusive & mysterious whales in the sea, the Harbor Porpoise is on the World Wildlife Fund's threatened species list. Every year 100's are caught and killed in fisher's gill nets and fishing weirs. Join Lauren in this episode as Duke University marine biologist Andy Read and his team join with fishers in the waters off Grand Manan Island to rescue trapped porpoises! The...
Sex Trade Secret - Dr. Frank Plummer's AIDS immunity discovery in Nairobi
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Internationally renowned HIV / AIDS researcher & infectious diseases specialist, Dr. Frank Plummer, discovered an HIV-immunity in prostitutes in Pumwani, a Nairobi shanty town in the early 90's. He spent 17 years in Nairobi researching the emerging HIV epidemic in Africa and his ground-breaking HIV/AIDS studies, particularly on understanding natural immunity to the virus, is the foundation of t...
Dolphins! - Tracking Dolphins with Alexandra Morton & Lauren in Echo Bay!
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A passionate crusader for our marine environment, biologist Alexandra Morton has studied orcas, dolphins and the devastating impact of fish farming from her boat in the Broughton Archipeligo, northern British Columbia, since '79. While dolphins leapt around her research boat, she told Lauren mesmerizing stories of orca language, dolphin antics and the tragic drowning death of her husband, Robin...
Sky-high with The Snowbirds! 1st Woman to Break into the Snowbirds Team!
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25 year old Corporal Marlene Shillingford is the first woman to join Canada's aerobatic flying team, The Snowbirds (1993) since it was formed in 1971!! Go on a wild ride with Lauren aboard a tutor jet and see what it takes to become a member of Canada's esteemed military aerobatics flying team!
Cirque du Soleil! Behind the Masks - when it all began in 1994!
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Behind The Masks - an extraordinary film behind the scenes at Cirque du Soleil when it all began in Montreal! 1994. First look at Saltimbanco & Alegria (to become Cirque's longest running show!) The recent news (2021) about Cirque du Soleil filing for bankruptcy, has me feeling incredibly sad & nostalgic. Took me back to Cirque's beginnings - the time when it was creating, building & rehearsing...
Miracle in the Mist - Fresh Water Flowing - from Fog!
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Canadian cloud physicist, Bob Schemenauer, has a simple, elegant, low-tech solution in our high-tech world to extracting fresh drinking water from fog! In this episode, Lauren travels with Bob to 2 villages in Ecuador to discover he and his team have set up enormous nets to supply deprived villages with fresh water. Amazingly successful project. Why don't we do something like that in Canada & t...
Shark! Up Close & Personal with a 13-foot Tiger Shark!
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Dr. Kim Holland & his gang of marine biology grads at the University of Hawaii use Lauren as bait to catch a 13-foot tiger shark. Ok, not exaaactly, but they do put Lauren in the ocean while releasing a 13-foot tiger shark, to "get the shot." These intrepid researchers are actually fishing for Tiger Shark so they can save them. Once hooked on the line, the sharks are flipped on their backs, rad...
Volcano! When it All Began - Montserrat Blows Its Top - 1995
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The Soufrière Hills looked like peaceful, bucolic mountains, part of the beauty of Montserrat, a jewel in the Caribbean Islands. But on July 18, 1995, this volcano erupted pyroclastic flows with such force it destroyed the capital city, Plymouth. This eruption changed Montserrat forever - geographically, geologically and, for the people of Montserrat, psychologically. For the next 5 years, evac...
Steve "Spaz" Williams - Jurassic Park Genius! (oh, and so much more)
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Innovator, creative visionary, technical wizard, extraordinary animator, cartoon-character - all have been used to describe 'larger-than-life' CG modeler & animator, now director & educator, Steve "Spaz" Williams. Spaz's uncanny ability to create realistic digital characters while understanding highly technical computer processes caught the attention of ILM more than 25 years ago and his work i...
How many "G's"??
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Flying wingtip to wing tip with The Snowbirds over Toronto Harbor!! Absolute thrill of a lifetime. How many G's what that?? Oh my head! Whoooohooooo!
Trailer - Dolphin-Rescuing, Volcano-Erupting, High-Wire Flying.. that's Journeys!
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The multi award-winning 'Journeys with Lauren Millar' - a Discovery Channel/TVO adventure series profiling extraordinary people making tremendous impact - from scientists extracting drinking water from fog, to marine biologists battling to save endangered Right Whales, to volcano scientists racing to predict an erupting volcano's next move - Journeys reveals the personal stories of exceptional ...
Exploding Volcanos, Grizzly Bear Hunting, Formula 1 Racing - that's Journeys!
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The multi award-winning 'Journeys with Lauren Millar' was a Discovery Channel/TVO adventure series profiling extraordinary people making a tremendous impact on the planet - from doctors fighting death in the midst of genocide in Goma, Zaire to whale researchers in Maine battling to save endangered whales, to volcano scientists racing to predict an erupting volcano's next move - Journeys reveals...
Saving Endangered Right Whales Part 2
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Braced in the bow of a heaving research boat, modified cross-bow at the ready to fire, is the way marine biologist Moira Brown spent a lot of summers! Brown's goal is to protect the North Atlantic Right Whale and bring it back from the brink of extinction. Years after this film was made, Brown and her team succeeded in rerouting shipping traffic from the whales habitat - the first time in the h...
Saving Endangered Right Whales Part 1
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Saving Endangered Right Whales Part 1
What's Journeys? Trailer
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What's Journeys? Trailer

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @chaskahalliday5423
    @chaskahalliday5423 11 днів тому

    We need our beautiful Alegria back the old show with the essence. The love the passion is missing from the new and there are so many people that want to watch this show. I love the new Alegria but there is no comparison to the original . I also know that not everyone will be Able to return but it’s worth keeping this beautiful show alive . Thank you for bringing people together in my eyes cirque is peace to me.

  • @flip1sba
    @flip1sba 18 днів тому

    Napoleon Dynamite doing volcanology!

  • @Yardsoulprod
    @Yardsoulprod Місяць тому

    Thanks fir this am from Montserrat.. We lost out village

  • @peterraguseo2874
    @peterraguseo2874 2 місяці тому

    My family owned the house directly next to the Vue Pointe Hotel! Feel free to message!!! We traveled to Montserrat extensively in the late 80's until the volcano blew. We even saw the Rolling Stones play on the pool deck of the VuePointe in 1989 when they were recording Steel Wheels!

  • @prabhakarv4193
    @prabhakarv4193 2 місяці тому

    Very informative

  • @prabhakarv4193
    @prabhakarv4193 3 місяці тому

    Very nice and amazing. Thank you

  • @CountryAndProud
    @CountryAndProud 3 місяці тому

    You sound very similar to Amanda Tapping, Samantha Carter from Stargate SG-1. Made listening to this quite pleasant.

  • @Barnsy40
    @Barnsy40 3 місяці тому

    She wanted him to

  • @whyyoulidl
    @whyyoulidl 4 місяці тому

    Thank you for posting! Even after all these years, the work you and the team put in to bring us this was indeed seeing history in the making.

  • @fitro7791
    @fitro7791 4 місяці тому

    Aprendiendo sobre los rincones del mundo, hoy tocó Monserrat

  • @RafaelNinoJr
    @RafaelNinoJr 5 місяців тому

    Is nice to see this and almost 23 yeas later I work on creation with franco dragone and his way to create still amazing

  • @JohnCompton1
    @JohnCompton1 6 місяців тому

    Must've been exhilarating to be on the tip of the spear like that. wow,. Thanks so much for sharing with us!

  • @tiredofit1235
    @tiredofit1235 7 місяців тому

    This guy is awesome. Livin the life

  • @r.deeblanche6939
    @r.deeblanche6939 8 місяців тому

    She has such a lovely relaxing voice.

  • @JohnSmith-gu9gl
    @JohnSmith-gu9gl 9 місяців тому

    he is a modern version of John Dykstra John Dykstra 2.0

  • @richardsingh5827
    @richardsingh5827 10 місяців тому

    Interesting video

  • @MihzvolWuriar
    @MihzvolWuriar 11 місяців тому

    This eruption is the one that made me into a volcano hobbyist, I have seem many videos and recordings of it, but I'd never seen this documentary of it. Thank you and your team for being so thorough, I can only imagine how scared you've felt back then, since it was this eruption that made scientists create the most advanced ways we have, today, of detecting eruptions, and you could say you were a part of it, even if a small portion. In 2021, we had a smaller, but similar eruption in St. Vincent, and thanks to all the new techs created at Soufrière Hills, no one died, or even injured, that's how much the quality of prediction got in 30 years, so again, I thank you and all the scientists that were on this island, risking their live to improve science.

  • @douvil
    @douvil Рік тому

    Genius rebels often share similar journeys…´Captain oh my Captain’…

  • @sitnspin1819
    @sitnspin1819 Рік тому

    This... This is an amazing video. Thank you so much <3

  • @fabiolakochenborger484
    @fabiolakochenborger484 Рік тому

    ua-cam.com/video/lfFdhb2xI2M/v-deo.html Hi, I did several tests rendering with Power Animator 9 and none of the renderings were like the link I posted here on UA-cam. Is this type of rendered image only obtainable in versions prior to 9? If anyone gets an image like the one in the video I would like to know let me know. Thanks.

    • @mmajjouti
      @mmajjouti Рік тому

      Indeed. You used the unfortunate limited built-in render capabilities. Back then, and still at the top of its game… Pixar’s stand alone off the shelf RenderMan software was the main go to. Handling RenderMan and its subfunctions since the industry rolled over into the digital realm is a, mainly coder based, skill in itself. Hence the term ‘render wranglers’ exists since the early days. tldr: main pipe line back was(still actually is) to have dedicated modeling in one software package, animating in another and rendering rendering in a 3rd… not even taking in account skinning, rigging, compositing again another needed in+ outputs. Regards, M

    • @NUCLEARARMAMENT
      @NUCLEARARMAMENT Рік тому

      @@mmajjouti There is an old version of SoftImage|3D 3.7 Extreme for NT from 1997-1999 timeframe that actually does include RenderMan. I guess you could render out of that in a VM or a Windows 2000 machine if you want. 32-bit limited only, though, unlike SGI workstations that were slower and more expensive than NT boxes, but with the 64-bit addressing of IRIX I guess there are some highly complex scenes you wouldn't be able to recreate on NT due to the 4 GiB limitation of 32-bit addressing.

  • @katyalacrua6793
    @katyalacrua6793 Рік тому

    Good time machine!)

  • @stemcatpup7472
    @stemcatpup7472 Рік тому

    What an amazing video! Fast forward 29 years and Marlene has advanced to become the training headquarters Chief Warrant Officer!

  • @moritzherkommer285
    @moritzherkommer285 Рік тому

    Alegria's old show is much better and more beautiful from the music and costumes than the new one

    • @CaseyBlizzard
      @CaseyBlizzard 11 місяців тому

      I agree. I went to see the new version and it was disappointing.

  • @moritzherkommer285
    @moritzherkommer285 Рік тому

    Please bring the Show Back

    • @JourneysLaurenMillar
      @JourneysLaurenMillar Рік тому

      lol! If I had any control at all over that decision, I would indeed bring it back! :)

    • @moritzherkommer285
      @moritzherkommer285 Рік тому

      @@JourneysLaurenMillar I Love Saltimbanco

  • @mx472000
    @mx472000 2 роки тому

    My co-workers today worked with Spaz at ILM back at the day.

  • @luisrizo8813
    @luisrizo8813 2 роки тому

    Get ready for this to be revisited after that documentary is released.

  • @mondomacabromajor5731
    @mondomacabromajor5731 2 роки тому

    Classic old doco - Some really top level work - but pity the cgi has dated so poorly in some of Spaz other films. I bet he wishes he could redo Spawn!!

    • @JourneysLaurenMillar
      @JourneysLaurenMillar Рік тому

      Amazing how well a lot of Spaz's CGI has held up tho, 20 years later!

  • @moo-vl7yu
    @moo-vl7yu 2 роки тому

    As a guy of a certain age I so fell for your hair the second I saw you. But I came for the show. Omg it would take a lifetime to react properly to what you captured. Kudos excelsior über alles. God I am so loving his car with twelve minutes to go. If you have more absolutely wonderful mature content to release on the universe damn you should. You know. Stuff of bygone daze Baby poo pants. Nicely done. Thx forever. Happy summer The Pixar doc upcoming led me here. Appreciate and apparently some say he didn’t get enough cred Time will tell Yeah. Been drinkin Plus the now kegalz

    • @moo-vl7yu
      @moo-vl7yu 2 роки тому

      Legalz oops strains

    • @JourneysLaurenMillar
      @JourneysLaurenMillar Рік тому

      Thanks. Amazing comment, lol! Especially the hair part. Nothin' like 90's hair!

  • @micra6641
    @micra6641 2 роки тому

    This is amazing! Thanks alot

  • @Atanjeo1
    @Atanjeo1 2 роки тому

    Great project!! But, isn’t it more sustainable planting a mist collecting forest? --> Fog - collecting nets require constant manpower in terms of maintenance. Also, those expensive nets are made of plastic and after 10 years they are trash. What do you think about planting forests that are specialized for catching humidity from the air? The coastal redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) and especially the Pinus canariensis have evolved very long needles specifically to harvest fog. Within a few years, a population of Pinus canar. can be established that collects many times more water than the nets due to the much bigger surface of the millions of needles of a tree compared to the net. The tree grows in a wide range of climatic conditions, it can survive drought, heat and frost. After 25 years the forest starts to produce timber and fuel-wood for local economy. According to German Wikipedia the grown up Pinus canar. harvests on a foggy day 50 l/m² DAILY on average and only needs 1/3 of it. On a km² (~35.000 trees needed), that’s about ~30.000m³ of water going into the ground watershed DAILY. There you can get it by groundwater through aquifier wells or Qanat. I found also a lot of more info in “Plants at the Margin: Ecological Limits and Climate Change”: Even a Nine years old Pinus Canar. Forest is able to harvest 500mm/m² a year throughfall out of the fog in northern Canary. Mostly of it goes in the ground. Problems with raising up the baby trees in the first years? Then the wonderful Groasis Growboxx guarantees a 95% chance even in harsh conditions. It costs only about $1.2 per tree. ua-cam.com/video/jvc1Wm9KKro/v-deo.html Beside that there are some other trees able to catch fog in bigger amounts: "Acacia macracantha" and Casuarina. Between the trees you could plant the bushes "Eugenia" and "caesalpinia tinctoria". They are fast growing and good for animal feeding. AND then there is the Namib desert grass "Stipagrostis sabulicola". It's able to irrigate itself with fog water and a full grown plant puts about 4l/day to the ground in the hotter Namib. This grass is a perfect material for Permaculture Greening and even building Material. There are also some good working endemic plants in the Atacama. This tree/bush planting combining with some earth works to prevent the desert loosing all the rain water through flash floods is a thing that can change a lot: ua-cam.com/video/C1_ImV8U6Lk/v-deo.html MUST SEE: ua-cam.com/video/K1rKDXuZ8C0/v-deo.html And in the long term this planting binds a huge amount of CO2. --> These are just informations i collected in the internet collateral to the permaculture research for a garden project. No personal experience. Hopefully they can trigger some ideas.

    • @JourneysLaurenMillar
      @JourneysLaurenMillar Рік тому

      I love your enthusiasm for this. You should get yourself involved in a project! This doc is more than 20 yrs old, so I'm sure the technology has advanced.

    • @Atanjeo1
      @Atanjeo1 Рік тому

      @@JourneysLaurenMillar :-). No time, money and scientific background to run such a project. The cloud harvesting technology has evolved - i think the "cloudfisher" is the best commerical available system. But still, it's expensive. As far as i remember, 1000l of not mineralized water (1m³) costs about 5$ (lifetime costs) on a good place.

  • @wtc7665
    @wtc7665 2 роки тому

    i was in the volcano 5 months prior to the eruption. i have rock samples from the volvano that have sulpher on them . i saw mud bubles and steam coming out and yes i have pictures . i emailed the mov and nobody was intrested in the rock samples i had collected i thought this very odd . i thought that they would want actual rock samples for testing

    • @JourneysLaurenMillar
      @JourneysLaurenMillar Рік тому

      Interesting! I think the MOV collected a lot of their own rock samples, before, during & after the eruption. Maybe that's why they didn't need more. What a great "souvenir" to have from such an historic event!

  • @herosdn
    @herosdn 2 роки тому

    Its really amazing and innovative work. Thank you for delivering this experience to the world.

  • @flocore
    @flocore 2 роки тому

    Thank you for sharing this!

  • @AdrienneBiggs
    @AdrienneBiggs 2 роки тому

    Pumpkin pie spice 😎

  • @vazoule
    @vazoule 2 роки тому

    Wow! What an incredible look inside the creation of Alegria. Wish there was more footage of this quality from the 1994 show.

  • @jdcn2368
    @jdcn2368 2 роки тому

    the theme song XD thats great

    • @JourneysLaurenMillar
      @JourneysLaurenMillar 2 роки тому

      written for the series by Rene Brossard, a Toronto composer. Inspired by Yello I think!