| Adobe ships InDesign, After Effects, InCopy updates
Adobe today released several updates to its software applications for professionals, including After Effects, InDesign, and InCopy. The Adobe After Effects CS3 Professional software 8.0.2 update provides Panasonic P2 format support, Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard compatibility fixes, Mac OpenGL support for supported video cards under Mac OS X v10.4.10 and v10.5, and other important fixes. The update for its professional video editing solution is 106.3MB and is available online. Adobe also noted that the Adobe InCopy CS3 5.02 update, for its provides key fixes in the areas of character alignment, undo and redo, text and fonts, dictionaries, import/export graphics, and others; the installer includes fixes from all previously released InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates (and previous InCopy CS3 5.0.x updates are no longer available separately.
Williams ahead of his time
The Times-Herald will feature an inductee each day leading up to the March 8 Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame banquet. D.L. Hurd could talk about Richie Williams for a week. Williams, the 5-foot-9, 133-pound blur, was ambidextrous, the guy nobody wanted to play a game of H-O-R-S-E with, stepped up his game against the best competition, was the consummate teammate and, best of all, a great person. These are just a few things Hurd lists about the very close friend he still speaks with on a once-a-week basis. Williams - a Vallejo High and Vallejo Junior College star in the 1950s, and later a basketball player at Gonzaga and San Francisco State - is slated for induction with the fifth class of the Vallejo Sports Hall of Fame on March 8. "I just can't say enough about him," said Hurd, a former football player with the Baltimore Colts and a VSHOF member.
Student filmmaker scores hometown screening at Tri-Valley festival
For his sophomore project, New York University film student Noah Lagin could have produced a cute piece of fluff comedy worthy of YouTube. Instead, the Pleasanton native decided to make the most of his $2,500 budget: he made a 12-minute movie about the Holocaust. Warsaw is a compressed thriller about a Jewish man in the Warsaw Ghetto confronting a Nazi soldier. Lagin will have his film screened at the Tri-Valley/Tri-City Jewish Film Series on March 2. It will be paired with Wondrous Oblivion, a British feature from 2003. Lagin wont be able to make the screening. A senior at NYUs Tisch School of the Arts, he is currently working on several film projects as a camera assistant. But hes happy to have his 2006 short film make its Bay Area premiere.
20- and 24-inch Aluminum iMacs
The thin-display-on-a-solid-foot design first arrived on the scene in August 2004 as the iMac G5, and survived through the Intel transition (the iMac was Apple's first Intel-based system) in January 2006. Sure, Apple has made some major improvements inside, but it's been three years since the iMac has gotten any cosmetic enhancements. That's definitely changed with the latest round of iMac updates. A new look Gone is the distinctive snow-white iMac case—Apple's design team has done some tweaking to the familiar all-in-one computer. Color Scheme The latest iMac replaces much of the body, with a solid piece of anodized aluminum—taking a cue from the Mac Pro ( ) and MacBook Pro ( ) models. The gray Apple logo has become an obsidian-like black, which matches the nearly inch-wide black border around the display.
80th Academy Awards(R) Credentialing and Seating Solutions Provided by ...
With an integration of FileMaker Pro's Web Viewer layout object and Adobe Flash(R) technology, iSolutions seating application managed seating arrangements for the Award Show, Governors' Ball and Sci-Tech Awards this season. Using iSolutions' FileMaker-based seating application for the Governors Ball, AMPAS staff was able to view the entire floor layout along with table and guest details on their computer screens. The software was used for decision making and placement of guests like Daniel-Day Lewis, George Clooney, Cate Blanchett and Michael Moore at their respective tables and made seating for the more than 2,000+ invitees much more efficient. "This year, due to the uncertainty caused by the writer's strike, we were making constant changes up to the very last minute to accommodate seating needs.
Science DARPA Announces Nanotube Anti-radiation Pill
The process often creates free radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules and in the case of radiation poisoning, cause disruption in living cells. The disruption often triggers a domino effect, propagating widespread damage throughout the organism's physiology. Unlike Rensselaer Polytechnic's CNT-based cancer, disease and toxin treatment, which creates reactive oxygen to disable target proteins, Tour's group's Nanovector Trojan Horses (NTH) soaks up the harmful free radicals created by radiation poisoning. To make the simple drug, single walled CNTs are coated with two common food preservatives, butylated hydroxyanisole and butylated hydroxytoluene. Tour explains that the same properties that make the compounds good preservatives, their ability to soak up free radicals, also makes them ideal for the treatment of radiation exposure and sickness.
Jefferson Twp. dog-sledders go distance to win
Now 21, Chris Murarik is leading six Alaskan Huskies on slick snow, competing against some of the best dog sled racers in the nation. Last week, he finished fourth at the New York Championship Race in Inlet, N.Y., after taking first place at the Tug Hill Challenge in Lorraine, N.Y. two weeks ago. "It's a thrill and a challenge in one," he said. "Every race is a new adventure with different twists and turns, out on fresh snow, out by yourself. You feel free." Murarik is a sprint racer, where dogs run at 20 mph for about six miles, compared to distance racers such as those in the Iditarod race taking place this week in Alaska, where those mushers travel an average of 6 mph along more than 1,150 miles. "The dogs have to trust you," Murarik said. "You have to get them working as one, and you're only as fast as your weakest dog.
Texas steps up security to prevent cheating on TAKS tests
Testing officials in the Duncanville, Garland and Richardson districts say some of their schools began keeping seating charts in the last year or two. Some educators and testing coordinators see the extra scrutiny as a chance to prove they're following the rules. "Our philosophy is we're doing everything right, so let them come in," said Jeremy Resnick, Richardson's assessment director. Still, not everyone's convinced every new measure will work. Take the pledge not to cheat, which earned mixed reviews from students at W.T. White High School in Dallas. Junior Jessica Sanchez said the pledge – which will be voluntary and given only to high school students – will remind students to take the test seriously. But junior Renee French said anyone who wants to cheat won't be deterred by signing a piece of paper.
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