Let er rip: Blowby blow by blog Feb 25, 2008
Shes giving an honorary Oscar to production designer Robert Boyle. Hes a thousand years old so that makes Nicole Kidman not the most brittle person on stage anymore. (MSNBC -- News)
Coen brothers come into their own Feb 25, 2008
Oscar might have just become an octogenarian, but it has nothing on this year's honorary winner, Robert Boyle, the 98-year-old wizard of production design and art direction on more than 100 movies. Looking frail yet dapper in a long white scarf that matched his snowy beard and hair, Boyle earned the longest applause of the night as well as a standing ovation. (USA Today -- Life)
Coen Brothers are big winners with 'No Country for Old Men' Feb 25, 2008
Production designer Robert Boyle received an Honorary Oscar "in recognition of one of cinema's great careers in art direction." Boyle has been nominated four times for art direction for "North by Northwest," "Gaily, Gaily," "Fiddler on the Roof" and "The Shootist.". Reclusive actor Day-Lewis summed up his emotions on the red carpet: "I'm feeling a bit like a British rail sandwich," referring to the traditional bad meal served on English trains. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Oscar night in real time: 'Welcome to the make-up sex' Feb 25, 2008
Honorary and technical Oscars: Robert Boyle; Eastman Kodak Co.; David A. Grafton ... " 10:31 p.m.Nicole Kidman in a black dress with a humungous, overflowing necklace. Are those all diamonds? My God. I can't see anything else. Is she talking? I can't concentrate. 10:34 p.m.Production designer Robert Boyle, 98, needs help to get to the podium for his honorary Oscar. Still makes a joke to open his speech. He thanked Nicole Kidman for introducing him, so I guess that's what she was saying. 10:42... (Seacoast New Hampshire)
'No Country' Tops Academy Awards Feb 25, 2008
An honorary Oscar was handed out to famed production designer Robert Boyle, whose work includes such films as "North by Northwest," "The Birds," "In Cold Blood" and "Fiddler on the Roof.". Nicole Kidman introduced Boyle, who received a standing ovation from the crowd at the Kodak Theatre. (Click2Houston, TX)
Eye on the Oscars features Feb 23, 2008
publication date: 02/22/08 ~ Robert Boyle aimed for higher truth. publication date: 02/21/08 ~ Oscar Wilde Awards honors Brooks ~ U.S.-Ireland Alliance goes beyond film ~ Meaney goes Gaelic for 'Kings. (Variety)
Honorary Oscar: Robert Boyle Feb 21, 2008
Robert Boyle aimed for a higher truth Art director's movie creations built 'for the dream' By Posted: Wed. Feb. 20, 2008, 2:47pm PT More From This Feature 'Bioshock' takes writing, audio, visual art honors2/20/2008 Winehouse, Rihanna perform at U.K. event2/20/2008 Disc sales spike for Winehouse, Hancock2/20/2008 '300,' 'Harry Potter' lead the way2/20/2008 Costume Designers Awards bow in L.A.2/19/2008 Two years shy of his 100th birthday, celebrated production designer Robert Boyle has witnessed... (Variety)
Disney pacts for 'Idol' attraction Feb 21, 2008
Honorary Oscar: Robert Boyle. Oscar Wilde Awards. (Yahoo News -- American Idol)
Event calendar Feb 16, 2008
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST AND THE ART DIRECTORS GUILD RECEPTIONWhere: Century Sales and Design CenterWhat to expect: A reception honoring production designers, set decorators and art directors nominated for achievement in art direction; also a special toast to production designer Robert Boyle. FRIDAY. (Variety)
List of nominees. Jan 24, 2008
HONORARY AWARD (Oscar statuette): Robert Boyle. Comments. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Complete list of 80th annual Academy Award nominations announced Tuesday Jan 24, 2008
Honorary Award (Oscar statuette): Robert Boyle. This article appeared on page E - 5 of the San Francisco Chronicle. (San Francisco Chronicle)
The nominees Jan 23, 2008
Honorary Award (Oscar statuette): Robert Boyle. ASSOCIATED PRESS. (Boston Globe)
Academy award nominees Jan 23, 2008
HONORARY AWARD (OSCAR STATUETTE): Robert Boyle. From the Wednesday, January 23, 2008 edition of the Augusta Chronicle Reader Comments Note: Comments are not edited and don't represent the views of The Augusta Chronicle. (The Augusta Chronicle)
80th annual Academy Award nominations announced Jan 22, 2008
"Academy Award winners previously announced this year:HONORARY AWARD (Oscar statuette): Robert Boyle E-mail this article Your name: Your e-mail: Your friend's e-mail: Your message: Comment on this article See this story as it was printed in Erie Times-News' electronic edition. .This content provided by GoErie.com/Erie Times-News is copyrighted material and all rights are reserved. You may not reproduce this or distribute it electronically, in print or otherwise without written permission.... (Erie Times-News, PA)
British Airways shows off new terminal at Heathrow Jan 16, 2008
Robert Boyle, BA's commercial director, told reporters on a tour of the new terminal that the airline cannot afford to have its reputation compromised by inadequacies at Heathrow. "We have to compete with business-class-only airlines, traditional ones and no-frill ones," Boyle said. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Robert Boyle to receive honorary Oscar Dec 13, 2007
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Organizers revealed Wednesday that production designer Robert Boyle will receive an honorary Oscar during the Academy Awards ceremony on Feb. 24, media reports said. Born in Los Angeles in 1909, Boyle was trained as an architect. (Xinhuanet, China)
Maxis chairman, two directors resign Nov 22, 2007
Megat Zaharuddin and independent directors Tan Sri Syed Anwar Jamalullail and Robert Boyle submitted their resignation letters earlier last week. Their decision to quit was accepted by the board at a meeting yesterday. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
BA raises fuel surcharges further Nov 13, 2007
"The cost of oil has reached record levels, rising by more than $20 per barrel since we last increased our fuel surcharge in June 2007," said BA's commercial director Robert Boyle. BA said it expected the cost of fuel to rise by 136m in the second half of the current financial year, with the total fuel bill set to top 2bn for the first time. (BBC News -- Europe)
British Airways raises fuel surcharges Nov 13, 2007
Robert Boyle, BA commercial director, said: "The cost of oil has reached record levels, rising by more than $20 (9.68) a barrel since we last increased our fuel surcharge in June 2007." From Thursday, the surcharge on flights lasting more than nine hours will rise by 30 to 116 for a return ticket, while the levy for sub-nine-hour long haul flights to destinations such as New York will increase by 20 to 96. The surcharge on return short-haul flights will increase by 4 to 20. (Guardian Unlimited)
Leibniz: Philosophy and Theodicy Nov 7, 2007
In Paris he met the mathematicians Renee Descartes and Blaise Pascal, and in London he became acquainted with the chemist Robert Boyle and in Holland, the eminent Spinoza. Leibniz's Connection to Sir Isaac Newton. (Suite101.com)
Pioneering 17th century British scientist's notes now online Oct 10, 2007
In an acerbic aside on Hooke's predecessor as Secretary of the Royal Society, Henry Oldenburg, Hooke wrote that the man "did me all the mischief he could." And against an entry describing a presentation by Robert Boyle, sometimes described as the father of modern chemistry, Hooke scribbled: "stolen from me.". The notes also cover discussions of gravity with Newton who did not mention Hooke in the preface to his book, "Principia.". (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
British Airways to increase Seattle-Heathrow flights Sep 21, 2007
"We're taking advantage of the opportunities provided by Open Skies to further enhance our market-leading network from London to the United States," said Robert Boyle, British Airways' commercial director, in a statement. The airline also said it's stopping flights between Heathrow and Detroit next March to accommodate the changes. (Puget Sound Business Journal, WA)
British Airways ends Detroit-London route Sep 20, 2007
"The coup de grace came with 'open skies,'" British Airways Commercial Director Robert Boyle said in an interview. "We can make more money flying to Houston.". (MSNBC -- Travel)
Dell Throws Small Business a Storage Line Sep 13, 2007
Robert Boyle, CEO of Tellurian Networks, a managed hosting provider serving medical, financial and legal customers, commends the company on the product. "It's a very polished product. It feels like a version three or version four product. It doesn't feel like a new product," he said. (SmallBusinessComputing)
More of this story Sep 4, 2007
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m., Tuesday in the Happy Hill Church with Pastor Robert Boyle officiating. Interment will be in the Oglesby Cemetery under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home tory. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Telstra seeks legal bills from C7 case Jul 30, 2007
It's been 345 years since physicist Robert Boyle published the experimental results confirming what is now known as Boyle's Law, which to paraphrase is: a gas will spread out to fill any available space. Last week, BigPond launched a new mobile telly offering, smartly named BigPond TV (knew you'd like it), with the usual selection of clips and full programs, old favourites and made for mobile. (ZDNet.com.au)
Nuclear waste is hardly a worry with climate threat Jul 26, 2007
The wealth and power that would come to anyone who mastered alchemy seduced many great scientists and philosophers, including Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and John Locke. All tried to change one element into another, and all failed. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
BA increases fuel surcharge again Jun 10, 2007
"The cost of fuel has again risen significantly in recent weeks. Unfortunately, we have little choice but to pass on some of this extra cost to our customers," said commercial director Robert Boyle. "We believe the fuel surcharge continues to be the most transparent way for our customers to understand what they are paying.". (BBC News)
BA raises flight surcharge Jun 9, 2007
Robert Boyle, BA's commercial director, said: "The cost of fuel has again risen significantly in recent weeks. Unfortunately, we have little choice but to pass on some of this extra cost to our customers.". Fuel continues to be BA's second biggest cost and the company expects to spend more than 2bn on filling up its aircraft this year. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Questioning Evolution Apr 4, 2007
It is interesting that it was creationists that laid the groundwork for modern science today: Antiseptic surgery, Joseph Wister; bacteriology, Louis Pasteur; calculus, Isaac Newton; celestial mechanics, Johannes Kepler; chemistry, Robert Boyle; comparative anatomy, George Cuvier; computer science, Charles Babbage. All believed in a creator God that made the possibility of science even possible because there was order and design that could be discovered and built upon. (Olean Times Herald, NY)
Let's have some modern saints, says vicar NickAS a vicar Nick Jowett deals in saints and sinners. But he reckons we don't have enough of the right sort of saints for the 21st century so he's written a book to put the case for more. Mar 28, 2007
The book, Wisdoms Children, puts the case for writers like the detective story novelist Dorothy L Sayers, creator of Lord Peter Wimsey, and Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment) and scientists Roger Bacon and Robert Boyle. And he also includes people from other faiths including Gandhi. (Sheffield Today, UK)
• Letters to the editor, March 11, 2007 Mar 14, 2007
All the real scientists, until the last few decades, reasoned that science was to understand God (Designer-Creator) and believed their work was discovering God in the universe - Nicolaus Coperinicus, Johannes Kepler, Galileo, Rene' Descartes, Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, Gregor Mendel, Louis Pasteur, William Thomson Kelvin, George Gabriel Planck, Wolfgang Pauli and Albert Einstein. Atheists absurdly try to claim Albert Einstein is one of their own because he... (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Where neo-nomads' ideas percolate Mar 11, 2007
" On one recent weekday, software engineer Chase Tingley, 29, worked at one table, where he telecommutes for Idiom, a Massachusetts software company. Tingley moved to San Francisco when his wife took a job at a law firm. At the next table, three friends worked on their own projects: system administrator Sean Kelly, 36, wrote database reporting scripts, while Kaytea Petro, 28, worked at her job in publishing, and Robert Boyle, 37, hacked out code for the company he's co-founded, Podaddies.com,... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Technology)
CU grapplers get ready Feb 23, 2007
Moutoux and assistant coach Robert Boyle have seen significant growth under their tutelage. Sophomore Jim Marek is 4-0, with a team-high 34. (Boulder Colorado Daily, CO)
Boeing planes picked by British Airways Feb 22, 2007
Boeing and Airbus will compete for a larger order for 34 replacement aircraft and an unspecified number of planes for expansion later this year, Robert Boyle, the airline's commercial director, said on a conference call with journalists. The larger order is the key one,'' said Chris Avery, an analyst with JP Morgan in London with a ``neutral'' rating on the stock. (Chicago Tribune)
British Airways starts renewing fleet with Boeing order Feb 22, 2007
On a conference call, BA Commercial Director Robert Boyle said the Boeing order is in no way an indication of which way the main part of its order will go. The main order will be of sufficient size to make assimilation considerations much less of a factor, he said. (MarketWatch)
British Airways chooses Boeing 777s over Airbus Feb 21, 2007
"It was a close decision between the Boeing 777s and Airbus A330s," said British Airways Commercial Director Robert Boyle. "However, the ease of assimilating up to eight aircraft into our existing 777 fleet, rather than having a small number of A330s, swung the balance in Boeing's favour," he added. (Reuters.uk)
Airbus hit by BA snub Feb 21, 2007
We already have 43 Boeing 777s and so [Boeing] clearly already had an advantage,' said BA commercial director Robert Boyle. For that to have been outweighed, [A 000021A5 irbus] would have had to have been very competitive on price. (This is Money)
Storms create backyard floods Feb 3, 2007
"I've had flooding in my basement," said Robert Boyle, another Waterbury Hill Road resident. "The last time I heard anything of this magnitude occuring, was in 1954, when a hurricane came through New York state and caused the same kind of problem in this area.". (MIllbrook Voice Ledger, NY)
BA Up After Cutting Fuel Surcharge Jan 12, 2007
BA's commercial director Robert Boyle said that "the cost of oil has reduced in recent weeks and therefore we believe that it is right that our customers benefit from lower prices on shorter flights.". BA (nyse: - - ) shares closed up 0. (Forbes -- Markets)
BA cuts some long-haul surcharges Jan 12, 2007
Robert Boyle, British Airways' commercial director, said: "The cost of oil has reduced in recent weeks and therefore we believe that it is right that our customers benefit from lower prices on shorter flights. Reducing the fuel surcharge on some of our longhaul flights means that the amount customers pay better reflects the cost of fuel to BA for their specific flight.". The move came as oil prices hover around a 19-month low of $54 a barrel. (Guardian Unlimited)
The Crusade Against Religion Oct 23, 2006
Logic Lane, a tiny road under a low, right-angled bridge, cuts sharply across to the place where Robert Boyle formulated his law on gases and Robert Hooke first used a microscope to see a living cell. A few steps away is the memorial to Percy Bysshe Shelley. (Wired News)
2 leave BA in inquiry on pricing Oct 10, 2006
Robert Boyle, British Airways' director of planning, has been appointed commercial director, effective immediately, the airline said. Thomas Coops, previously the communications director at the bank Abbey National, has been appointed interim head of corporate and media relations. (International Herald Tribune -- Business)
Two top BA officials resign over alleged fuel surcharge cartel Oct 10, 2006
BA has appointed planning director, Robert Boyle, to take over as commercial director, while Thomas Coops, former communications director at Abbey National, has been appointed interim head of corporate and media relations. According to sources, the price-fixing probe was triggered when Sir Richard Branson's rival airline, Virgin Atlantic, tipped off the OFT about alleged conversations between a BA executive and one of its staff last year over plans to increase fuel surcharges. (The Herald)
BA executives caught up in price-fixing row resign Oct 9, 2006
Mr George, who joined BA in 1987 as a brand manager, will be replaced by director of planning, Robert Boyle. Thomas Coops, a former communications director at Abbey National, was appointed as an interim replacement for Mr Burns. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
BA duo quit in fuel surcharge probe Oct 9, 2006
Last updated: 1:03 PM. From Press Association. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Alchemy recast: Modern science sees a gem Aug 9, 2006
Newton expected to achieve what the tablet said was the una res, "the one thing" by which "the world was created" and with which one could "perform miracles." The British chemist Robert Boyle, a Newton contemporary, also had a foot on each side of the alchemy-modern science divide. He dabbled for years in an alchemical obsession, the search for the philosopher's stone - the long- sought agent for transmuting lead to gold and unlocking other material and spiritual secrets. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Aldermen want to end pension, legal fees for cop accused of abuse Jul 27, 2006
Special prosecutor Robert Boyle asked Daley if he remembered receiving the letter. "I would have to receive it, so I would have to say -," Daley said before being interrupted by his attorney, who stressed the special prosecutors only were asking if he remembered receiving it. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Alchemy gets new respect in science Jul 22, 2006
One reason: Many early scientific luminaries -- including physicist Sir Isaac Newton and Robert Boyle, the father of modern chemistry -- turn out to have been closet alchemists. Newton alone spent more than 30 years working on what one historian called his "dark addiction.". (SunSpot.net)
Chicago Police Tortured Black Suspects, Report Says Jul 20, 2006
It was not dereliction of duty. " Kunkle, now a Cook County circuit judge, was not available for comment, his staff said. Mayor Richard Daley was the state's attorney during part of the period investigated, but Boyle dismissed any notion that Daley knew about the torture. Daley delegated responsibilities to people in his office, and his only mistake was "perhaps relying on the judgment of others," Boyle said. The Daley administration had no immediate comment. Pain From The Black Box The report... (Tampa Bay Online, FL -- News)
Black Suspects Tortured in Chicago, Probe Finds Jul 20, 2006
"There are cases, which we believe would justify our seeking indictments for mistreatment of prisoners by Chicago police officers," prosecutor Robert Boyle said. The statute of limitations on those alleged crimes, however, has since run out. (ABC News)
Heroic Wassaic FD saves trapped horse Jun 30, 2006
The family immediately called the fire department, and Fire Chief Robert Boyle arrived at the scene quickly and assessed the situation. He realized the only way to rescue the horse was for fire department members to clear the bushes and other entanglements themselves. (Henrietta Post, NY)
RAVES, RANTS AND ROSES, MAY 28 May 28, 2006
Historically, at least 67 scientists were creationists: Louis Pasteur, Robert Boyle, Sir Isaac Newton, Joseph Lister, Blaise Pascal, and Leonardo da Vinci are the more familiar names. The Bible reveals important facts about the history and future of the physical universe; it tells us things we could not otherwise learn. (Tyler Morning Telegraph, TX)
Big designs on pic pair Feb 13, 2006
Veteran production designer Robert Boyle introduced the five inductees into the hall of fame. "It's kind of an eerie feeling introducing a bunch of art directors who aren't here," Boyle said of the late artists. (Variety)
Boffin sees future space travel as domain of 'adventurers' ›› Jan 9, 2006
The Royal Society was established in 1660 as an intellectual talking shop for the scientific elite of the day, such as Christopher Wren and Robert Boyle, and, within a year, received its Royal Charter from Charles II.. In 1847, the society decided to elect its fellows on the basis of scientific merit alone and this more professional approach led it to become Britain's de facto national science academy. (New Zealand Herald)
