| Jefferson Awards Nominations
Gore are supposed to be examples for us to live by. But with his movie, his Oscar and lavish lifestyle, it appears he's only talking the talk and not walking the walk. CA
Still Not Convinced - Part Two --Friday, February 23, 2007 From my home, I can peer out my window and see I-65 and I notice that the highway department is cutting back the trees so they don't grow over into traffic. With the millions of vehicles that travel that highway from Chicago to Mobile on a single day…shouldn't every living thing next to it be dead? And that includes the hundreds of thousands of cows that add their methane to the mix. Just sayin'. Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined what reaction my latest global warming post was going to bring. Somehow, my little ol' blog made it clear across the Northern Hemisphere – from California to Canada to the United States Senate! I sometimes forget how quick blogs are picked up and read, especially if it deals with such a (ehm) hot topic as global warming.
Ellen Page's Sexuality! Jennifer Garner's Hairdo!
Tilda promises her award to her agent, but I bet he'll only take 10 percent of it. No Country for Old Men wins Best Adapted Screenplay despite the lengthy stretches with no dialogue whatsoever. What I have to say about that is . . . (silence; the wind blows a tumbleweed into the dead man's face; a coyote yelps in the distance). 9:54 p.m.: The legendary inflatable doll known as Miley Cyrus announces another lousy nominated song. Who could forget Miley's immortal Grammy moment when she professed love for dad, her brother, and Jesus Christ? The son of our Lord will be so thrilled to know he's on a par with the guy who did "Achy Breaky Heart"! 10:15 p.m.: Best Actress already? Did someone shuffle the cue cards? Cate Blanchett must be the first person to be nominated for a movie that got a 34 percent rating on rottentomatoes.com.
Rob Legato advances motion-capture technique
With Bob Zemeckis' "Beowulf" currently in theaters and James Cameron's "Avatar" now filming in New Zealand for 2009 release, the art of performance capture is finally making its next evolutionary leap. Left behind are the dead-eyed elves, robotic movements and murky teeth of the first performance capture feature, "The Polar Express." Visual effects master Rob Legato, who put the first motion-capture humans on the deck of the Titanic and pioneered a new mo-cap technique for "Avatar," is an ardent believer in harnessing the technology within -- not apart from -- the live-action realm. The VFX maverick has quit working for major FX houses like Digital Domain, where he spent six years supervising effects on such pics as "Apollo 13" and "Titanic." A passionate believer in the do-it-yourself approach, Legato is no longer willing to stay within the corporate confines of VFX behemoths like Digital Domain or Sony Imageworks, where shots are so rigidly pre-planned, storyboarded, pre-approved and budgeted that any changes down the line cost serious extra money.
More 'Tampa' letters
But during my 2 years studying there I have to say that Australian people are among the friendliest I know. The Australian government's attitude toward the boat people on board of Tampa, however, is a different story. I agree that illegal immigrants should not be given the impression that Australia is an easy country to enter. But leaving these people stranded on the boat while waiting for the three governments to negotiate is unacceptable. Norway is too far away, Indonesia lacks the resources to cater to these people (not to mention the (asylum seekers') unwillingness to go there). So why can't Australia take those people temporarily? Return them to their country later if they do not meet the requirement for refugee status.
Rianti Setiadarma
An Indonesian currently working in Oslo Our country (Australia) may look big enough to accommodate millions of people but only the coastal strips are fertile and the soil is too thin, so Australia's future cannot guarantee the wellbeing of these overwhelming rush of newcomers.
A C from Albertario, Canada writes:
A quad-core Mac Pro for dad (work and play) and iMac for the kids.
With the greatest reluctance I had to resurrect a retired PC to solve a homework conflict with the kids, as I could not afford to buy another Mac this month. It will, essentially, only be used for light internet research for school projects, and word processing. So I cleaned it up as best I could short of reinstalling the OS; I replaced IE with Firefox, I got rid of a major virus called McAfee Virus Scan and replaced it with (free) AVG anti-virus and anti-spyware, and I got rid of another major virus called MS Office and replaced it with Open Office (free). It's still pretty sluggish, I suppose I will have to take a trip through the registry at some point to clean it up, but for now, it serves the purpose quite well, and I won't be too bent out of shape if it dies.
Rivulet Communications Announces Appointment of CTO, CSO
HERNDON, Va., Feb. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Rivulet Communications, whose technology dramatically improves the performance of IP networks, today announced changes to its executive management team. Chris Roller has been named Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and Steven Rogers, Rivulet's founder, will become the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) for the company. Roller also will retain his current title of SVP, Engineering. Both appointments are effective immediately. "This is an exciting and positive change for Rivulet," said Ed Kennedy, president and CEO. "In Chris's expanded role, he will guide the company's technical direction as we continue to develop state-of-the-art products for our target markets. Steven, who is the company's founder and invented our key technologies, will bring his extensive knowledge, experience and innovative talents to bear on advancing our product strategies for these markets." Roller's 20 years of experience in R&D and product development have included hands-on leadership, technical direction, and problem-solving on a diverse set of difficult engineering problems with demanding schedules.
Dead Zones Off Oregon and Washington Likely Tied to Global Warming ...
It was a good amount of crabs," Pazar said. "But they were dead, or dying or very, very weak. Those that we managed to keep alive didn't survive for long." The fishermen called Oregon State, which dispatched a boat of researchers to investigate. "It was a big mystery," Lubchenco said. "We didn't know what was killing them." Fishermen found other oddities. As they pulled up their crab traps, they found baby octopuses, about the size of silver dollars, inching their way up the lines toward the buoys floating on the surface. "I'd tell my crewmen, be careful with these cute little things," said Dennis Krulich, a longtime fishermen in Newport. "Peel them off the rope, and we'll put them back." Only later did he realize that these babies were coming up from oxygen-depleted waters that hover near the seafloor, climbing to save their lives.
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