COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) — Oscar-winner (and Sean Astin’s mom) Patty Duke had single bypass surgery Wednesday and was in fair condition, officials said. The 57-year-old actress was in the intensive care unit at the North Idaho Heart Center. “Her husband said everything went well,” said Kootenai Medical Center spokeswoman Teri Farr. The centre is part of the medical facility. [More]
Day: November 5, 2004
Special effects are now a central part of the moviemaking process. But as audiences demand more, effects houses are being forced to ramp up their processing power like never before. Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films are packed with epic battles. Behind the scenes, however, another struggle was going on. As each movie in the trilogy went into production, visual effects studio Weta Digital scrambled to add the processing power needed to render an increasing number of computationally intensive special effects shots. [More]
David Salo writes: My new book “A Gateway to Sindarin” has been published and is now available. From the website blurb: “A Gateway to Sindarin… covers the grammar, morphology, and history of the language. Supplemental material includes a vocabulary, Sindarin names, a glossary of terms, and an annotated list of works relevant to Sindarin.” My own remarks: “This book is the outcome of eight years of work and represents my effort to comprehensively cover the known facts (and some conjecture) about Sindarin. It by no means represents the last word on the subject, but will, I hope, become a foundation — however imperfect — on which future studies of Sindarin can be built.”
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