Bring a blanket and escape to the movies under the stars this Summer! Oscars Outdoors is a summer screening series at the Academy’s new open-air theater, located on the Academy Hollywood campus. Food Trucks provided by Roaming Hunger. Trucks will vary each night and will be tailored to the movie showing whenever possible. Trucks are …
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San Diego County San Diego continued to exhibit excellent beach water quality, with 93% of all monitoring locations receiving an A grade during summer dry weather. Winter dry weather water quality was also excellent with 93% A grades. During wet weather 77% of locations received an A or B grade, besting both the five-year average …
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So far, London 2012’s visual identity has been among the worst ever, making this year’s otherwise well-planned games something of a laughing stock. Take those awful mascots, for example. Then we have the 2004 summer Olympic games in Athens, Greece: Embarrassingly, our own mascot for the 1996 summer Olympic games in Atlanta, Georgia: …
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– …illustrate the variability of wind and solar generation relative to the comparatively smooth output from other generation sources – Power produced by geothermal, biomass, biogas, and small hydro generators can be easily dispatched, meaning it can be either increased, decreased, or controlled to remain fairly constant. – Wind resources are often more available at …
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NBC has partnered with YouTube to provide its video player and livestreaming infrastructure for the London 2012 Olympic Games. Part of its strategy is to broadcast every live event in some form, showing more than 3,600 hours of Olympic coverage…using (the YouTube) player to deliver livestreams on NBCOlympics.com. “We’ll also include replays of Web-exclusive events, all television broadcasts, interviews with …
Yesterday was the first day of Fall and Summer is officially over, which means it’s time to write my follow-up to Amy’s back to school letter…How I Spent My Summer. An act in two parts. Part I – The Taming of the Bear [box type=”shadow”]Forward, I pray, since we have come so far, And be …
This weekend, Aug 26-28, kicks off the Manhattan Beach Open. The largest and most famous of all the beach volleyball tournaments which features 64 pro teams per gender, including top Olympic teams. Often called the Masters or Wimbledon of beach volleyball. The players call it the holy grail due to its top prize money, massive media …
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Check out the great bands at the festival: Weezer, Ben Harper, Cake, G. Love & Special Sauce, Donavon Frankenreiter
Common Sense, Katchafire, JJ Grey & Mofro, Ziggy Marley
Neon Trees, Black Uhuru