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Documentary suggests real cost of oil addiction

"Fuel," winner of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival audience award for best documentary, opens Friday and runs through the week at the Regal Valley River Center Valley River Center is a shopping mall located in Eugene, Oregon. As the largest shopping center south of Portland and north of San Francisco, this mall comprises over 130 local and national stores and restaurants.  Stadium 15, 500 Valley River Center.

The film features interviews with Julia Roberts, Sheryl Crow, Larry Hagman, Willie Nelson, former President Jimmy Carter, Robert Carter, Robert “King” (1663–1732) colonial official, landowner; born in Lancaster County, Va. He served in the Virginia Assembly (1691–92, 1695–99) and the Council (1699–1732).  Kennedy Jr., Larry David, Laurie David Laurie Ellen Lennard David (born March 22, 1958). She serves as a trustee on the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Children's Nature Institute and is a contributing blogger to the The Huffington Post.  and Sir Richard Branson Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950 (1950--) (age 57) in Shamley Green, Surrey, England), is a British entrepreneur, best known for his Virgin brand of over 360 .

Director Josh Tickell, a young activist, tracks the rising domination of the petrochemical industry - from Rockefeller's strategy to halt Ford's first ethanol cars to Vice President Dick Cheney's petrochemical company sponsored energy legislation. The film reveals a gamut of available solutions to "repower America" - from vertical farms that occupy skyscrapers to algae algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that  facilities that turn wastewater into fuel.

Oscar-winning filmmaker to address OSU (Open Source UNIX) Refers to the Unix variants that are maintained as open source, which were primarily BSD Unix and Linux until Sun made its Solaris operating system open source in 2005.  audience

CORVALLIS - Two-time Academy Award-winning filmmaker Bill Guttentag will visit Oregon State University Oregon State University, at Corvallis; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1858 as Corvallis College, opened 1865. In 1868 it was designated Oregon's land-grant agricultural college and was taken over completely by the state in 1885.  on Thursday to show clips from his work and discuss storytelling for the screen, the business of film and future trends in the film industry.

Guttentag will talk, followed by a question-and-answer session at 7:30 p.m.

The title of his talk is "Keeping It Real - Reflections From Capturing the Real in Film and Television." It will be preceded by a 5:30 p.m. screening of his documentary film, "Nanking."

Both events are free. The lecture and film screening will take place at the C&E Auditorium of OSU's LaSells Stewart Center, 875 S.W. 26th St., Corvallis.

Guttentag wrote and directed "Nanking," which premiered at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. The film documents the Japanese military's infamous "rape of Nanking" in 1937, which included the massacre of 200,000 civilians and the rape of at least 20,000 women

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