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CHAN:
Scientists studying Antarctic waters have filmed and captured giant sea creatures never seen before. They saw sea spiders the size of dinner plates and jelly fish with six meter long tentacles. They also filmed other unknown species of sea life. Here's more.
STORY:
A fleet of three Antarctic marine research ships returned to Australia this week ending a summer expedition to the Southern Ocean where they carried out a census of life in the icy ocean and on its floor more than one kilometer below the surface.
[Martin Riddle, Marine Scientist Doctor]:
"A huge diversity of life, very colorful, very rich, far exceeding any of our expectations."
The three ships, the Aurora Australia, France's L'Astrolabe and Japan's Umitaka Maru all docked in Hobart on Australia's southern island state of Tasmania. Their decks are full of an array of sea life including unknown species of sea creatures collected near the eastern Antarctic land mass.
[Martin Riddle, Marine Scientist Doctor]:
"There are forces happening in the world, in the atmosphere and in the ocean that are going to change even this the Antarctic and the southern ocean, so it is really important now to have baseline so that we know what we have got now, so that we can identify whether it is changing and put in place measures to protect it before it is lost."
The Australian Antarctic Division expedition will help scientists monitor the impact of environmental change in Antarctic waters.
This self-contained motion capture suit uses ultrasound to allow the recording of motions in any setting, as opposed to traditional motion capture systems that are confined to a studio. Published in SIGGRAPH 2007.
More info (PDF):
http://people.csail.mit.edu/jovan/assets/papers/vlasic-2007-
pmc.pdf
Sri Lanka's military says it's captured a town controlled by the rebel Tamil Tigers deep inside the rebels' territory. The Tamil Tigers have controlled Kokavil since 1990. It's only a few kilometres from the LTTE defacto capital, Kilinochchi. It's not possible to independently verify the army's claims. But as Al Jazeera's Minelle Fernandez reports, the Tigers remain defiant.
Google Tech Talks
October 23, 2008
ABSTRACT
Carbon dioxide capture and sequestration (CCS) has emerged as an important part of the portfolio of technologies for lowering emissions of greenhouse gases. This talk provides an overview of CCS, including the world-wide potential for emissions reductions with CCS, capture options and costs, what is known about the security of geological sequestration, potential environmental impacts and approaches for managing risks. While much of the science and technology for CCS can be borrowed from existing industries, there are outstanding issues that should be addressed to support implementation at the large scale that will be needed. This talk will discuss what we know, and what we don't knowand the steps needed to narrow the gap between hype and hope.
Speaker: Professor Sally M. Benson
Sally M. Benson was appointed GCEP Executive Director in March 2007. An internationally-recognized scientist with extensive management experience, Benson is responsible for guiding the development of GCEPs diverse research portfolio. A Professor (Research) in the Department of Energy Resources Engineering in the School of Earth Sciences, Benson has been a member of Stanfords faculty since 2007.
Prior to joining GCEP, Benson was a staff scientist in the Earth Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). In 2004, she completed a four-year term as Deputy Director of Operations at the lab. Benson also served as Division Director for Earth Sciences and Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Sciences at LBNL.
A ground water hydrologist and reservoir engineer, Benson has conducted research to address a range of issues related to energy and the environment. Her research interests include geologic storage of CO2 in deep underground formations, technologies and energy systems for a low-carbon future, influence of climate change on critical habitats, biogeochemistry of selenium, and geotechnical instrumentation for subsurface characterization and monitoring.
Benson graduated from Barnard College at Columbia University in 1977 with a bachelors degree in geology. She completed her graduate education in 1988 at the University of California, Berkeley, after receiving masters and doctoral degrees, both in materials science and mineral engineering.
The author or co-author of over 160 scientific publications, Benson is a member of the American Geophysical Union, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Chemical Society.
Read more: http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14007
A new motion-capture technology could allow even low-budget film makers to use sophisticated animation.
http://www.jimmyr.com/blog/
no stereomix? You can also download the flv then drag it onto a program called goldwave. Search video downloader on google.
Learn how to capture audio from any music video, friends video, youtube, google video, music.yahoo.com, mtv.com. It's very easy. You don't need to download any additional programs.
Sound Recorder
start - run - sndrec32
Sound Volume
start - run - sndvol32
It will be saved as wav, if you want mp3 see these. These will also let you save over 60 sec
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/download/windows
http://www.goldwave.com/release.php#download
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*note to view the tutorial please choose high quality on the lower right of the video* This is a tutorial created for the Bachelor Arts (Animation and Interactive Media) course at RMIT university. It covers a basic motion capture workaround using Maya Live and Boujou
credits: REV6
New exploit in Capture The Flag:
You need an account with 2 level higher than level 20, let say a level 30 and a level 90. Login with your level 30, register to capture the flag, logout, login with your level 90 and wait for capture the flag to start. You will be playing as a level 90 with some level 30 range. Opposit can also be done, a level 20-30 playing with some level 90. Please note, if you kill a player that is more then 9 level below your level, you don't gain any cup. This exploit is more of a FUN exploit then anything else. Enjoy it while it last.
More information about exploit can be found and discussed on rev6 forum.
In Otjiwa Game Ranch in Namibia, rangers have to be careful when it's time to move some 12-foot tall giraffes to new homes.
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Please take the time to watch a great documentary called, Afluenza.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-dib6hSlcU
World inflation
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/imf-says-some-emerging
-markets/story.aspx?guid=%7B6505E5BB%2DD913%2D432B%2D964F%2D
61756A9B9FE9%7D
food mayem
http://business.smh.com.au/imf-fears-food-prices-may-stir-ec
onomic-mayhem-20080702-30kl.html
Everything spinning out of control AP
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080621/ap_on_re_us/out_of_contr
ol
Global food crisis
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/29cff8ec-3ef4-11dd-8fd9-0000779fd2
ac.html?nclick_check=1
Summer recovery not coming
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06
/26/AR2008062604030.html .
food
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080622/midwest_flooding_food_prices.
html?.v=3
LA and Miami foreclosures Double to 5 Billion
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aYchgMdp
npC8&refer=worldwide
oil
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080624082624.w60gqlc
j&show_article=1
Based on Dodie Smith's novel of the same title, the film tells a story of a 17-year-old girl Cassandra Mortmain and her eccentric family struggling to survive in a decaying English castle. Enter an American landlord Simon Cotton and his brother Neil, and suddenly Cassandra is left on the sid