Lil Kim To Take It All Off For Playboy

August 14, 2008

LIL KIMBy Erin T. McMillon

NEW YORK (RUSHPRNEWS)AUGUST 14, 2008–Dressed in a leopard print bra and panty set and flimsy feathered robe, Lil Kim broke molds and set standards (at the time) for female rappers back when she released the now infamously sexy promotional poster for her debut album “Hardcore.” Word on the street is that the game’s littlest femcee is now taking it back to her roots with an alleged deal to pose nude for Playboy. Read more

Microsoft Drives Innovation in Video, Graphics and Photography at SIGGRAPH

August 12, 2008

Editing a video of a talking head. The input images are automatically converted to an “unwrap mosaic” without an intervening 3D reconstruction. Painting the mosaic and re-rendering the video allows us to add virtual make-up (eyebrows, moustache, and rouge on the cheeks) to the actor, as if to a texture map on a deformable 3D surface. From the paper “Unwrap Mosaics: A new representation for video editing.”LOS ANGELES (RUSHPRNEWS) Aug. 12, 2008 - Computer graphics are everywhere: on the Web, at the movies, in video games and on our cell phones. This week, the computer graphics world has converged at the Los Angeles Convention Center for SIGGRAPH 2008, the annual international conference for presenting new scholarly work in visual effects, animation and interactive techniques. Microsoft researchers are presenting papers on such diverse topics as computational photography, image-based modeling and video editing. Read more

The latest innocent victim of Bush’s Economy: Our Pets

August 12, 2008

by John Trevisani

WASHINGTON, DC (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 12, 2008–Our nation’s pets have become the latest, in a long line of iinnocent victims, to be caught in the middle of this economic mess. A growing number of cats and dogs are being abandoned by their owners because they can’t pay their bills, as reporter by the Star Tribune.   Read more

DOE to Invest up to $24 Million for Breakthrough Solar Energy Products

August 12, 2008

Twelve Industry Teams Partner with DOE to Advance  Integration of Solar Energy Systems into Electrical Grid

WASHINGTON,DC (RUSHPRNEWS) AUGUST 12, 2008–U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy John Mizroch announced today that DOE will invest up to $24 million in Fiscal Year 2008 and beyond-subject to the availability of funds-to develop solar energy products to significantly accelerate penetration of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in the United States. Read more

YO! RAPS WINS “BEST WEBSITE” AWARD AT THE 2008 UMA’S

August 12, 2008

As A Premier Online Magazine Yo! Raps Wins The Award For “Best Website” In Urban Threshold’s 6th Annual Underground Music Awards

NEW YORK(RUSHPRNEWS) August 12, 2008 - Premier online magazine Yo! Raps (www.yoraps.com) wins the “Best Website” award at the 2008 Underground Music Awards. The award show was held in BB King in NYC this Sunday (August 10). Yo! Raps defeated strong competition like Ballerstatus.com, Sixshot.com and major website HipHopDX.com. Read more

The Benefits of Getting Into Google News

August 11, 2008

Why it’s a big deal and how you will benefit from it

By Dave Manuel

Getting into Google News is a big deal. If you get one of your sites into Google News, it probably means that you run a very high-quality and informative web property. Google is very particular about which sites they let into Google News. Read more

US President Appeals for End to Bloodshed in S. Ossetia

August 9, 2008

AP PHOTOBy Paula Wolfson

Beijing (RUSHPRNEWS)09 August 2008–U.S. President George Bush is urging an end to the fighting in Georgia’s breakaway province of South Ossetia. VOA White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports from Beijing, where Mr. Bush is attending the Olympic Games.

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Statement of Senator Barack Obama on Joey Cheek and the Genocide in Darfur

August 9, 2008

DARFURJoey Cheek has been a courageous and leading voice for international action to stop the genocide in Darfur. China’s decision to revoke his visa is deeply disturbing


Chicago, IL (RUSHPRNEWS) August 09, 2008– “Joey Cheek has been a courageous and leading voice for international action to stop the genocide in Darfur. China’s decision to revoke his visa is deeply disturbing, and contradicts Beijing’s promises to run an open Olympic Games. Read more

Bernie Mac Dies Suddenly

August 9, 2008

CHICAGO,IL (RUSHPRNEWS)AUGUST 9, 2008-This tragic news was unexpected to say the least. Comedian and actor Bernie Mac has passed away apparently from complications arising from pneumonia.

CNN gives us this: Comic actor Bernie Mac died early Saturday of complications from pneumonia, according to a family member and his publicist. He was 50. Bernie Mac Bernie Mac, 50, had been hospitalized in his hometown, Chicago, with pneumonia. Read more

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