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Three New NVIDIA Tools Help Developers Quickly Debug and Speed Up Video Games
Today's top video games use complex programming and rendering techniques that can take months to create and tune in order to get the image quality and silky-smooth frame rates that gamers demand.
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Aimee Mann: I Know There's a Word
Aimee Mann travels great distances in just a few words. From her first hit, with 'Til Tuesday in 1985 (the ubiquitous “Voices Carry") through an Academy Award nomination in 1999 for “Save Me" in Paul Thomas Anderson's harrowing masterpiece Magnolia through the unfussy perfection of her new album, @#%&! Smilers (released June 3 on Superego Records), Mann is a songwriter's songwriter.
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A bonanza of blueberries and old-time fun FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
BLUEBERRY FOODS The Blueberry Food Tent is the place for blueberry, strawberry, rhubarb and peach pies, blueberry strudel, blueberry coffee cake, blueberry swirl and vanilla ice cream, and fresh blueberries. For blueberry pancakes and fresh fruit with blueberries, check out the Heaven on a Bun stall. Have a hankering for blueberry funnel cake? JR's London Broil has it.
The Morning Call |
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Art, music, dance return to Hardesty Park with Arts Expo
WEST AKRON — If it’s time for the Akron Arts Expo, then Copley leather artist Mark Mowen will be there. Mowen, who creates handbags and accessories with wife Phyllis, has lost track of how many years he has participated in the juried arts show and sale portion of the four-day festival.
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Metacafe and Microcinema International Launch MetaFest 2008
PALO ALTO, Calif.----Metacafe®, whose nearly 30 million1 unique viewers each month make it one of the world's largest video entertainment sites, and Microcinema International, a leading international rights manager, exhibitor and specialty markets distributor of the "moving image arts," are teaming to create and curate MetaFest 2008.
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GuelphMercury.com - arts - CALENDAR
Art on the Street Open air exhibit and sale, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Quebec St., Guelph; 519-836-6144.
Guelph Mercury |
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MIA Gives Concerned Artists A Soapbox
Local artists in Minnesota are being given an opportunity to air their concerns about the future of a regional art program at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. MIA's exhibition program is unique among large U.S. museums, and the recent resignation of the program's curator sparked alarm.
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COURT HOUSE -- The Cape May County 4-H Fair opens today, July 17 and continues until Saturday, July 19. A special horse event, the team penning contest, will be staged Sunday July 20 at 1 p.m.
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Making the invisible visible
Documentary photography with a mission best describes the works presented by students and graduates of the Market Photo Workshop–Johannesburg, showing at Langhans Galerie until Aug. 17.
The Prague Post |
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Art
Walter Anderson Museum of Art's Cafe Night will be 6-8 p.m. today with a French wine tasting and late Bastille Day celebration. Free for WAMA members, $5 for nonmembers. For more information, call (228) 872-3164.
Hattiesburg American |
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Wood mill burns to the ground
A wood carving mill in Haenertsburg was burnt to the ground in a fire on Thursday morning, Limpopo police said. Inspector William Ifalago said the fire started at Stevens Lumber Mills about 6am.
The Star |
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Wood mill burns to the ground
Forensic experts have been called in after a wood carving mill in Haenertsbug, Limpopo, was burnt to the ground.
Independent Online |
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Michener closing New Hope branch
Citing low attendance, officials at the James A. Michener Art Museum announced Wednesday that the museum's satellite in New Hope will close its doors in February.
The Intelligencer |
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Newark's Lincoln Park Music Festival Delivers The Best of Music, History and Green Living
NEWARK, N.J.----The Lincoln Park Music Festival will rock the Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District for the third year in a row. On Friday, July 25 an estimated 50,000 revelers are expected to attend the "Lincoln Park Music Festival: A Celebration of Spirit and Dance".
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UPDATE: Sandstone statues of presidents to be sold
FRAZEYSBURG (AP) - Thousands from across Ohio used to drive to a hillside park here to see the latest unveiling of a larger-than-life sandstone-sculpture paying tribute to a former president or general.
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Screening device to replace the pat-down at harbors
The Kaua‘i Museum’s Mezzanine Gallery, a bastion for locally-produced and locally-themed artwork, will be kicking off its exhibit of ocean photography by Bruna Stude, titled “Moana,” the Hawaiian word for ocean, with an opening reception next week.
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Markets boosted by oil price falls
A cooling in oil prices helped to boost flagging stock markets, with London's FTSE 100 Index ahead more than 1%. Light, sweet crude on the New York Mercantile Exchange - the benchmark oil price - was trading at around 134 US dollars a barrel, well down from the 147 dollar record recorded last week.
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Pick up book at quilt exhibition
The 27th Annual Fabric of Legacies International Art Quilt Exhibition, running now through Aug. 20 at the Lincoln Center, 417 W. Magnolia St. is hosting an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday.
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Fundraiser Will Assist In Buying Public Art
HAINES CITY It's not a dream - some of the area's best-loved artists will gather this weekend to celebrate the arts and raise money for Haines City's first piece of public art.
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Free workshops Friday
The ArtWorks Gallery at Lakewood Mall will celebrate the opening of Crazy Days with three free events on Friday....
Aberdeen American News |
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Youth perform Shakespeare
CEDAR CITY - Featuring a variety of William Shakespeare's vignettes, elementary students from Longview Elementary in Murray performed Wednesday at the Utah Shakespearean Festival's 10th Annual Shakes-peare Showcase.
Saint George Spectrum |
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Old--fashioned tea, art show set
Event at Sisseton's Stavig House part of Horse, Buggy Days...
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Artist Bob Morgan to hold book signing
Western artist Robert F. "Bob" Morgan will hold the first public signing of his new book, "Bob Morgan's Montana: My Life and My Art," which he wrote in collaboration with Norma Ashby, from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Montana Historical Society in Helena. Additional signings will take place at the Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center from 2 to 4 p.m. Aug. 11 and at the C.M. Russell Museum at 4 p.m. ...
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ISA EXPO Offers Technical Conference Track, Exhibit Floor Presentations Focused on Enterprise Integration
Research Triangle Park, NC (16 July 2008) - ISA EXPO 2008 will feature enterprise integration as one of six technology exchanges, offering technical conference sessions and open-to-all briefings by industry experts delivered to attendees on the exhibit floor.
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Ongoing exhibits
Natural States; Miniatures and more; Then and Now;' Art in the hallway; Photographs; Ellen Lanyon retrospective; The Iliad and the Odyssey: Paintings by James Robert Stewart; Pastels from the permanent collection; Alluring Locales: A Travelogue of Paintings; Fireworks;' Spectrum Seven; Art glass of the golden age; Beaver Creek School Museum; Building Americas Canals; Historic museum reopened
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