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Re_Acciona

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:44:19 -0500

Experience Re_ in a way you’ve never seen before. Re_ is an attitude. A call to action to begin the thousand actions we need to do together. And to do it now. http://re.acciona.com

Mirror Avenue

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 04:54:23 -0500

Software & Plug-ins: Quartz Composer 3.0 Ive used a motion sensor plugin by Samuel Kass http://www.samkass.com/blog/page4/page4.html to isolate the motion in the live feed and then put together with the v002 Rutt Etra plugin thart emulates the 1972 - Rutt-etra Video Synthesizer originallly build by Bill Etra and Steve Rutt, downloadable in digital version by http://vade.info/ at http://002.vade.info/?page_id=19 Hardware: Dazzle 101 digitizer (Echofx videoglide driver needed for mac) Old Security Camera with a 3.5 - 8mm manual iris, zoom & focus lense MacComputer 3200 ansi-lumens projector LEE filters 53D difussion filter. Fottage is from the opening 24. January 2009 Music: Unknown artist. Track name Brooklin ]]>

1965: The Year of AstroTurf, Kevlar, and the AC Cobra Part 1

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:30:22 -0400

Exotic Classic Muscle Car Rentals Las Vegas http://www.extrememotorsportsoflasvegas.com/ The year 1965 brought us a lot of new inventions that we are still very thankful today. Some of these inventions where the AstroTurf, Kevlar and the 1965 AC Cobra. One of the greatest inventions of that year was the AstroTurf. AstroTurf is a brand of artificial turf or synthetic grass that was co-invented by James Faria and Robert Wright of Monsanto Industries. The first AstroTurf was first used by Judge Roy Hofheinz when he built the AstroDome in Houston, Texas. The first players to ever play on it was the Houston Astro’s baseball team for their 1966 season. The Houston Oilers' AFL football season also began playing on a 125,000 square feet removable AstroTurf at the Astrodome. The first AstroTurf to be installed on an outdoor stadium was Indiana State's University Stadium in Terre Haute. Another invention that came out in the year 1965 was NutraSweet. NutraSweet was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter. Mr. Schlatter was a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company when he discovered NutraSweet. Now it is still one of the best sugar substitutes around and is being used in more than 5,000 products and consumed by over 250 million people worldwide. The compact disk was also invented in 1965. It was invented by James Russell and had 22 patents that covered its various elements of the compact disk system that were granted so that he could be the rightful inventor of the CD. But his invention did not became popular in 1965, only when Philips manufactured it in 1980 that the CD started became known by all. Classic Rental Cars Las Vegas

Tim Bray - Hard Problems in Network Computing

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:19:34 -0500

Biography: Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada in 1987–1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation in 1989, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited “Namespaces in XML” between 1996 and 1999, founded Antarctica Systems in 1999, and served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2002–2004. Currently, he serves as Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, publishes a popular weblog, and co- chairs the IETF AtomPub Working Group. [From Oram & Wilson’s “Beautiful Code”, 2007] Abstract: The good news is that we make progress in hardware, and in software at both the infrastructure and application levels. The other good news is that there are still lots of hard problems that we don't know how to solve. This will be a tour through some of the gnarliest and ugliest things that keep the leaders of the software community awake at nights. My completely-un-hidden agenda is to get the student audience worried about some of them too, so you can spend some of your nights trying to solve them in ways nobody's thought of yet, instead of wasting your time sleeping.

minhalma

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:26:20 -0400

In the era of modernity, in a social activity, where everyone put in, where is the space for individuality, the soul of each space, space to dream, the intrinsic and essential dream ... What is the hidden fears, which arise, as in private? There will be space in the area of each, to accept what we are, essentially, to accept what the others are? We met enough to realize that space is that we need? This mini movie, done by young creative, director, Pedro Duarte, with the participation of the actress, Andreia Barata, seeks to express, in its peculiar essence, this idea, which aims to bring each of us to reflect who we are, essentially, and of how this form to be fitted to our presence in the world, that we share, every day of our lives ...

NASA Meet the SAM Team: Jesse Lewis

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:24:16 -0500

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=283424434 Or get tweeted by NASA: http://twitter.com/nasaexplorer Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) is a suite of instruments developed for use on the Mars Science Laboratory. By looking for evidence of water, carbon, and other important building blocks of life in the Mars soil and atmosphere, this suite will help answer one of humankind’s biggest questions about the planet: did it ever support life? SAM was designed and built in an international collaboration between Goddard Space Flight Center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Paris, and Honeybee Robotics. This video series highlights the mission, its objectives, and some of Goddard's contributors to the project. This video profiles Jess Lewis, designer of SAM's Solid Sample Inlet Tube (SSIT). The SSIT is essentially a high-tech funnel that helps direct the Mars soil into the SAM suite for analysis. This video profiles Jess Lewis, designer of SAM's Solid Sample Inlet Tube (SSIT). The SSIT is essentially a high-tech funnel that helps direct the Mars soil into the SAM suite for analysis.]]>

Success of surge in Iraq is temporary

Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:32:42 -0500

J. Hiltermann: Surge may keep Iraq "stable" till US elections but policy leads to more violent civil war Transcript: VOICE OF CARLO BASILONE, PRESENTER: US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made an unannounced visit to Iraq this weekend to meet with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and other senior officials. Despite renewed attacks this weekend that killed at least 53 people, the Bush administration continues to insist that the surge is responsible for the overall reduction in violence in Iraq. The Real News spoke with Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group. JOOST HILTERMANN, INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP, MIDDLE EAST PROGRAM: Well, I think that, yes, the military surge, the extra deployment of troops in Baghdad and some other parts of Iraq has had a real impact on the ground. It has had both a direct impact by pushing back al-Qaeda, which was operating in these areas, and an indirect impact by forcing other actors to take certain evasive action, and that in turn has led, again, other actors to step forward and to start fighting really on the side of the United States. And together this has created a situation that is far from stable, far from peaceful, but it is better than what we had a year ago. And the real problem is that, yes, we've seen this military progress, but it is not sustainable unless there is also progress on the political front. And, unfortunately, on that score we've seen very little. BASILONE: These other actors—who are we speaking of? HILTERMANN: Well, the surge was targeting in particular the group known as al-Qaeda in Iraq, which is basically now an Iraqi group with foreign leadership and with some foreign jihadis coming in to blow themselves up. That is on the Sunni side. And then on the Shiite side, the group known as the Mahdi Army, operating under the Sadrist movement. And they are representing, essentially, the Shiite underclass and underemployed urban Shiite youth. And these two groups were specifically targeted. Al-Qaeda fought back. The Sadrists decided to lie low. And so the fight we've seen and that's continuing until today is really mostly between the United States and the al-Qaeda group. Now, these other actors that have come up as an indirect result of this surge are the so-called awakening councils and concerned citizen groups in Baghdad neighborhoods. And they have joined forces with the United States to oust al-Qaeda in Iraq from their territory and from Iraq eventually, and they are now securing Sunni-dominated neighborhoods and mixed neighborhoods where the Sunnis have a major presence in Baghdad and around Baghdad. BASILONE: They're strictly Sunni, though. And the Shiites already had those kind of groups? HILTERMANN: Well, see, the Shiites, they have—well, this is the Sadrists, of course, and they have taken control over a number of Baghdad neighborhoods, including mixed neighborhoods. They are now being pushed back from the mixed neighborhoods and are consolidating their control over sort of strictly Shiite neighborhoods. And there is the Supreme Council, which is the militia-based group that came in from Iran in 2003. These are Iraqis, though, and they are very powerful. They have ensconced themselves in government and in the security forces. And so they're essentially operating in the uniforms of the Iraqi security forces. BASILONE: These Sunni groups—vigilante groups or whatever they may be—are they becoming legitimized? Will they be wearing uniforms? Are they wearing uniforms? Will they be part of the Iraqi police and army? HILTERMANN: Well, this is the $5 million question, because if they don't, then all we have done in the past year, or all the United States has done, is to train, equip, fund one side in a civil war, the sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites, while of course they continue to build the Iraqi security forces, which is the other side in the civil war, 'cause they're dominated by the Shiite militias. What ought to happen is the gradual incorporation of these Sunni militias into the security apparatus of the Iraqi state. But that is a very difficult process. It's being resisted by the Iraqi government because it's controlled by Shiite militias. And so this is going to be extremely difficult. And if it fails, then we may be back to square one, but, as I said, with actors that are better armed and equipped than before. BASILONE: And so the chances of a civil war then aren't gone. HILTERMAN: The chances of a re-escalation of the civil war are quite significant, but it's mostly because I don't see any real energy being exerted by the Bush administration to bring about these political deals. I think the Bush administration is quite content if the situation remains relatively stable through the surge until the November elections, and then it's, you know, après moi le deluge. And so whoever comes to the White House, Democrat or Republican, will inherit the mess that will be unleashed once American forces start to draw down, as eventually they must. The key is to bring some kind of political accommodation at the top, and this is where we just have seen no real progress. DISCLAIMER: Please note that TRNN transcripts are typed from a recording of the program; The Real News Network cannot guarantee their complete accuracy.

You’re Beautiful - Influencers Conference Opener

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:29:03 -0400

This video clip was played on a large curved screen 2160x576px on stage during a song and dance item. This screen is also used as a multi-screen during church as it is essentially three 4:3 screens. This means it can show three different cameras at once or one camera across all three screens. The audio I edited this clip to jumps in places as the order of the verses was rearranged to match the music that was being played live on the night. The end part of the song is essentially a still frame as it was a backdrop for the singers and dancers on stage. The greatest challenge I found editing this was that I didn’t have footage of a high enough resolution, so ended up making an animation with high res textures. Needless to say render time for both previewing and outputting was horrendous! ]]>