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03/17/14NAPA, Calif., March 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- According to a recent market research study on wine closures conducted by Tragon Corporation, 93 percent of U.S. wine consumers associate natural cork with higher quality wines, while only 11 percent of U.S. wine consumers believe wines sealed with a screw cap to be of high quality. Similar results were found in both Germany and Australia. In Germany, 93 percent of wine drinkers and 85 percent in Australia associate natural cork with higher quality wines. Participants in both the U.S. and Germany went even a step further to indicate that natural cork is a positive influence on their purchase decisions whereas screw caps and synthetic closures can deter a purchase. 03/12/14ClearWater Tech designed its new C1 mobile disinfection cart specifically for the wine and beer industries, making it easy to use for barrel, tank and surface disinfection. Ozone rate and concentration can be adjusted for the intended use. The C1 can also produce ozone gas. Details: cwtozone.com. 03/12/14The mobile farm-management app iCropTrak announced the release of its updated 4.1 system featuring improvements based on customer feedback. Some of the new features include work order status annotations and map sketch, among others. The new "action items" feature enables users to specify on a map the location of rocks causing a field obstruction. Details: icroptrak.com. 03/12/14ITW Muller introduced its new GW-4100 40-inch robotic pallet wrapper. The new machine offers twice the speed, throughput and battery life of the standard GW-400. The larger unit offers speeds of up to 60 loads per hour and comes standard with a telescoping mast to accommodate loads up to 110-inches high. Users can select from 20 wrap patterns for the bottom and top of the load. Details: itwmuller.com. 03/12/14With the new anti-counterfeit system by Selinko, each bottle of wine is fitted with a near field communication (NFC) chip to prevent counterfeiting. A smartphone scanning app is used to authenticate the bottle as well as confirm its provenance through shipping and retail channels. The company has also developed a means to certify online sales with the use of a unique digital certificate that can be checked online by the consumer before purchase. Details: selinko.com. 03/12/14Sonoco ThermoSafe added a new line of temperature-controlled shipping products specifically for use in the wine and beverage industries. The wine shipping containers can fit two or six 750ml bottles and will keep their temperatures below 77°F for up to five days. Details: thermosafe.com. 03/12/14TCW Equipment in Santa Rosa, Calif., is now offering pneumatic membrane presses from the Slovenian company L-Inox for the 2014 harvest. The presses are available in a variety of sizes and can be equipped with optional features such as a compressor for filling the membrane without in-house compressed air, 3-inch TC axial valve, touch-screen controller, hopper for dumping, leg extensions for pressing into bins and others. Details: tcwequipment.com. 03/12/14BRENTWOOD, Tenn. (March 12, 2014) – Tractor Supply Company and the National FFA Foundation recently announced the results of their second annual Growing Scholars program. From February 14-23, Tractor Supply customers across the country donated $447,671, an increase of more than 20 percent from 2013 donations. This year's donations will result in 334 scholarships awarded to FFA members in their pursuit of a college degree. CLEVELAND, Ohio — MARCH 10, 2014) Eight pressure-sensitive industry suppliers were recognized by Avery Dennison Materials Group (NYSE:AVY) during the company's inaugural supplier recognition ceremony held in Cleveland, Ohio. Winners were selected based on their performance in areas such as sustainability, innovation, service, overall value and quality. 03/07/14Vistaar Technologies, Inc., a leading provider of price management solutions, today announced that Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) has selected the company's Distributor Price Management (DPM) Solution to optimize beverage alcohol pricing throughout its organization. RNDC is the second largest distributor of premium wine and spirits in the U.S., operating in 20 states. Petaluma, California, March 6, 2014 -- Scott Labs is proud to announce that it will be joining the efforts of the Napa Valley Tour de Cure cycling event in the fight against diabetes. With numerous Scott Lab employees and customers already being avid cyclists, this was the perfect opportunity to team up and make a positive impact on the lives of those affected by diabetes. PRESS RELEASE Norfolk, Nebraska, USA, March 5, 2014 – Thermal Packaging Products introduces Chilled Wine Shipper, a temperature control shipping carton made with eco preferable insulated padding and materials. The cushioning carton liner features ultra-insulating padding made from select, purified recycled biodegradable super absorbent cotton enhanced textile fibers sandwiched between an inner layer and an outer layer of poly film sealed on all sides. The inner surface of the poly film is perforated to allow condensation from the refrigerant to wick away and be absorbed into the cotton fibers, protecting your bottle labels. The poly film contains an additive that promotes biodegradation in greater than one year as tested by ASTM 5511. Cooperages 1912 announced it is expanding the World Cooperage Profile Series to include barrels toasted with custom infrared technology. The company will offer two new infrared toast profiles: Aroma and Reflection. 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On a day when they narrowly escaped with a tight and oftentimes frustrating win over Bucknell by the score of 66-64, the Missouri Tigers got another big bump in their own personal standings, by dint of some brilliant Big Ten play and the flat-out byzantine machinations that is the college basketball ... More >>
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Best craft/microbrew selections in Baltimore (not Brewers Art)
- kimeats Jun 10, 2008 07:40 AM
Wondering what other places in Bmore have a large selection of craft or microbrews, local preferred. I will be stopping at Brewers Art again but other places would be appreciated.
I'll be staying in the Inner Harbor area but have no problem driving around for a good selection. I heard something about Red Brick Station (?) in White Marsh?
Also, what local stores have the biggest retail selections of brews? I'm hoping to pick up some brews that maybe I can't get in NY state.
Eek! Skip Red Brick Station!!! I'd say head to Max's in Fells Point. They just had a craft beer fest last month, beer list is on their website. http://www.maxs.com/
Red Star has some beers you won't find in every bar. http://www.redstarrestaurant.net/ Both are close to the harbor
Beltway liquors has a good selection of beers and you can make a six pack if you wish.
re: BaltoPhilFood
Thanks! Any idea what beers Red Star carries? I see no mention of brews on their site, sadly.
re: kimeats
they rotate selections I believe, but you'll find most of the clipper city brews there, belgians, etc. sorry I can't be of more help. max's is a short walk away so if you stop in one you can always head to the other and one will be sure to please!
Hands down, Mahaffey's Pub in Canton
As for buying beer, I would try The Wine Source in Hampden and Beltway Fine Wine out near Towson.
Metropolitan Coffee House and Wine Bar in Federal Hill... excellent craft beer, some local and some not. Check out their website, not sure what day..but they have some nice specials and beer tastings every week.
I second the Max's rec. Great beer selection, both on tap and in bottles.
The Wine Source in Hampden has a really good carry out selection. I've been getting Hugh Sisson's 12 pack sampler of the Heavy Seas line. All of them have been great so far. Try the Red Sky at Night if you can find it locally on tap.
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If you are coming in from out of town, here is the skinny on these two places:
Dog Pub in Federal Hill is a "tap house". They serve house beers which are brewed for them by Dominion Brewery, a mid sized brewery in Virginia that brews branded beers for pubs and restaurants. If you have a beer with the name of the restaurant in this area, most likely it was brewed by Dominion. I find their beers solid, but not in the same class as the Heavy Seas or Brewers Art. {Note: Someone can confirm that this is still the case at Dog Pub. I'm not sure how much has changed with the name change / opening of new locations etc}
The Wharf Rat brews there own beer. They are branded as Oliver's Ales. They are British style ales. The bar in Fells Point is fantastic and they usually have two hand pulled ales on tap. It would definitely be worth checking out. If you like it, you can find the Oliver beers around town in six packs, e.g. The Wine Source may stock them.
Good luck and report back.
re: kimeats
Hit the Wharf Rat before 7pm. 3 house beers for $4. (Same time, different kind).
There is also a Wharf Rat in the inner harbor on Pratt St. The one in Fells Point is better, IMO, but they serve the same beer.
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I'm with you on the Wharf Rat - my favorite beer is their Irish Red and I've spent WAY too much time at the Fells Point WR!!
But as for the beer at the Dog Pub - a member of my family used to work there and about, oh, I'd say a year ago, they bought a brewery and now they brew their own beer. I truly think that it's a LOT better than the Dominion (an honest assessment, despite the link! In fact, I always used to feel bad because we prefered the Oliver's beer over the Dog Pub's)
Wharf Rat Camden Yards for what I consider the best cask-conditioned bitter this side of the Atlantic. Fells Point Wharf Rat has more atmosphere, but I like to get the beer straight at the source (they brew at the Camden Yards location). Be warned that the Camden Yards loc is a madhouse on Orioles gamedays.
I will second recommendations for Mahaffey's as well. Best "corner local" in town.
Max's in Fell's Point is a must, and I also like Wharf Rat, John Stevens and Duda's. There is also a DuClaw outlet across the street from Duda's that is more modern, they make their beers in Harford County and ship them to their individual locations. Same holds true for the DOG on Cross Street in Federal Hill, who now brew their own beers in the old Clay Pipe brewery in Westminster.
I too have been impressed with the beer selection at Metropolitan in Federal Hill. I would also swing by Grand Cru on the north side of town, they have a nice selection of bottles as well as some cool draft offerings (it's a good place to hit on Sundays as you can get a beer or glass of wine as well as carry-out sixers, 750s, etc.). It is also close to Wells Liquors (closed Sunday, alas), where you can sometimes find beers you don't see elsewhere.
That said, the Wine Source is still my number one pick for liquor stores in Baltimore. They have a very knowledgeable and helpful staff and a stellar beer selection.
Joe Squared also offers a great selection of brews you can't find at many other places in Bmore.


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Dr. Ian McNiece
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Clinical Interests
Dr. McNiece is director of the graft engineering laboratory at Johns Hopkins. This laboratory is responsible for all processing of bone marrow, peripheral blood progenitor cell (PBPC) products and cord blood products for transplantation of cancer patients. He is actively involved in optimization of cellular grafts for patient treatment and the translation of basic research to clinical treatment.
It is planned to commence clinical trials early in the 4th quarter of 2005 to evaluate the potential of ex vivo expansion to improve the engraftment rate of cord blood products. In addition, a trial will commence in the 3rd quarter of 2005 using ex vivo expanded PBPC products purged with mafosfamide to eliminate leukemia cells.
Research Summary
Dr. McNiece's research seeks to better understand the biology of stem cells and progenitor cells to develop cellular therapies for regenerative and replacement-tissue engineering. The primary focus is on understanding the cells required for replacement of blood cells in settings such as high-dose chemotherapy. By defining the subpopulations of stem cells and progenitor cells involved in generation of functional mature blood cells, it is hoped that we can develop culture methods for generating these cells in vitro. These cells will provide optimal grafts for cancer patients who are at risk for infections and bleeding complications due to treatment.
Dr. McNiece's studies on ex-vivo expansion of hematopoietic cells have led to clinical trials aimed at improving engraftment in patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy. In particular, his laboratory is focused on the role of cord blood products as an alternate cellular graft and the potential for ex-vivo expanding cord-blood cells. Optimization of cord-blood products through approaches such as expansion has the potential to provide many patients who do not have an appropriate matched donor with cellular grafts to undergo treatment.
The development of mature blood cells from hematopoietic stem cells is poorly understood. Hematopoietic growth factors (HGFs) control the differentiation and proliferation of stem cells and progenitor cells. However, as the stem cells are rare cells in bone marrow or other hematopoietic tissues, their identity and biology are poorly defined. The studies being undertaken in Dr McNiece's laboratory are aimed at better defining the subpopulations of stem and progenitor cells and the interactions of combinations of HGFs required for optimal stimulation of these cells. It is hoped that by understanding the effects of growth factors that control cell production in vivo, we can duplicate these conditions in vitro and learn how to grow blood cells for therapeutic purposes.
Journal Citations
Davie, N. J., Crossno, J. T., Jr., Frid, M. G., Hofmeister, S. E., Reeves, J. T., Hyde, D. M., et al. 2003. Hypoxia-induced pulmonary artery adventitial remodeling and neovascularization: potential contribution of circulating progenitor cells. Am. J. Physiol.-Lung C. 10:1152.
McNiece, I. K., Civin, C., Harrington, J., Malehorn, M., Barber, J., Kellner, J., et al. 2003. Ex vivo expansion of mafosfamide purged PBPC products from patients with AML. Blood. 102:962a.
McNiece, I., Harrington, J., Turney, J., Kellner, J., & Shpall, E. J. 2004. Ex vivo expansion of cord blood mononuclear cells on mesenchymal stem cells (MSC). Cytotherapy. 6:311-317.
Rosinski, S. L., McNiece, I. K., Shpall, E. J., Clough, N., Russell, P., Blunk, B., et al. 2005. Prognostic analysis of pre-transplant peripheral T cell levels in patients receiving an autologous hematopoietic progenitor-cell transplant. Bone Marrow Transpl. 36:425-430.
Shpall, E. J., Quinones, R., Giller, R., Zeng, C., Baron, A. E., Jones, R. B., et al. 2002. Transplantation of ex vivo expanded cord blood. Biol. Blood Marrow Tr. 8:368-376.
Wang, Y., Huso, D. L., Harrington, J., Kellner, J., Jeong, D. K., Turney, J., et al. 2005. Outgrowth of a transformed cell population derived from normal human BM mesenchymal stem cell culture. Cytotherapy. 7:509-519.
Book Chapters
McNiece, I. K., & Briddell, R. A. 2003. Stem cell factor. In A. W. Thomas, & M. T. Lotze (Eds.), The Cytokine Handbook (pp. 1011-1016). [4th edition]. MA: Elsevier.


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Pokemon and the New 3DS August 30, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Nintendo, Nintendo DS Hardware, Pokemon.
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It is certainly expected that Nintendo, suffering from its various mis-steps with the Wii U, would tread a careful path with its other current console line, the Nintendo 3DS series. And that is what it felt like with yesterday's announcement of the New 3DS line.
There were a some comments about the button colors and how that harkens back to earlier Nintendo console controllers. Oooh, nostalgia.
But the key discussion points have been around the upgraded processor, the addition of a second analog stick (the little nub above the colored buttons, which will keep players from having to buy/use an add-on peripheral for games that require dual analog sticks), the extra shoulder buttons, the slightly larger screen, some changes in layout, and the dubious current naming plan, under which Nintendo has christened the new units (which will come in both standard and XL form) as the "New Nintendo 3DS."
I foresee in the not too distant future somebody going to GameStop and asking if they have a "Used New 3DS." Maybe that makes more sense in Japanese.
Aside from the name, there is also the question of a more powerful unit. That seems like an uncontroversial move by Nintendo, but what does it mean? What is Nintendo telling us by giving these new models more processing power?
My first thought on reading about this new unit was, "Am I going to need this for Pokemon." Because my own 3DS XL… which is a great piece of hardware… is pretty much a console for playing Pokemon games right now.
From what I have read, it does not seem likely that I will. At least not for the next release.
There were a couple of points when playing Pokemon X and Y where the hardware felt like it was struggling a bit to keep up with what it had to draw on screen, but that felt more like rough edges from Gamefreak's first attempt at a rendered Pokemon game rather than any shortfall in the hardware. I suspect we won't get to November and the Pokemon Alpha Ruby and Omega Sapphire release only to find ourselves wanting for more CPU power. At least we had better not, since the New 3DS models won't be coming to the US until some point in 2015.
But over at Forbes they are worrying that Nintendo has already said that some games will require the processor power of the new units. That gets me back to the naming scheme, because if you're going to ship games that run on one generation of a platform but not another, it had better be very clear up front which is which. Nintendo has been through this before, with the Nintendo DS to 3DS generation change, and they not only made sure everything was carefully labelled, but 3DS cartridges have a tab that sticks out, preventing them from being stuck into the older DS platform consoles.
So we shall see if Nintendo manages to fracture their user base or not with nominally compatible systems in this generation, some of which may not be able to play all of the games available. I suspect, no matter what, Pokemon will remain playable across the board. Messing with a huge selling title like that comes with risks. I bought my current 3DS XL just to play Pokemon, but I am not sure I would buy another one just a year later to carry on.
And the other aspects, the improved battery life in the standard size version and slightly larger screens, do not really move me. The current 3DS XL is big enough for me to use without putting on my reading glasses, which is what really matters to me at this point, and the larger battery pack on the XL unit has me covered.
Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Coming This November May 7, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Nintendo, Pokemon.
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Nintendo has announced the next games in the long running Pokemon series, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire.
Pokemon titles generally come in three flavors. There are the original issue pairs, which include such titles as Diamond and Pearl, Black and White, X and Y, and Ruby and Sapphire. These are the heart of the Pokemon franchise and what goes in here tends to find its way to the TV show and the trading card game.
Then there are the consolidation titles that take one of those pairs, put all the Pokemon that were exclusive to either, shake up the story a little bit, and then release as a new title. Pokemon games such as Platinum, Emerald, and Yellow fall into that category. Those used to be a staple of the years between new stories, though Game Freak, the Pokemon game developer, seems to have gotten itself tuned up to a point that it doesn't need to do that sort of thing (in the case of X and Y) or can release a double pair of such games (as with Black 2 and White 2).
And then there are the remakes.
This is when they take an older version of the game, usually from one of the past Game Boy platforms, and remake the story with all the bells and whistles that the current state of the art allows. There are only a couple of these so far, and they are easy to spot as they get compound names like FireRed and LeafGreen (remake of Red and Blue) or HeartGold and SoulSilver (remake of Gold and Silver). While this might look like an opportunity for the company to slack a bit with a remake, Game Freak seems to go all out with the remakes and they end up being some of the best games in the series. But I had the most fun playing HeartGold and SoulSilver, it being the peak of my Pokemon experience, so that might be my personal bias talking in large part.
Add in how good Pokemon X and Y look and play on the 3DS system, and I am quite looking forward to the first remake to come to the 3DS platform. I will even let Nintendo slide on the hyperbole in the wee announcement video (30 seconds pretty much just to show us some box art).
It is actually and new take on a pre-existing epic adventure… for specific definitions of epic… along with what I hope will be a dramatic new rendering of the previously visited Hoenn region of the world of Pokemon. But I still want to play. Actually, I want to play all the more so because it is a remake. I have a copy of Sapphire that I played thanks to the Game Boy Advance slot on the DS Lite (no longer part of the 3DS generation) but it definitely felt like playing the older generation hardware, where two buttons were considered sufficient, and I never finished it.
Information about the game… aside from that it is coming and obvious assumptions about the setting and story… are almost non-existent at this point. But I am sure Nintendo will feed us details over the next few months to get us ready for the launch.
But even in the current information vacuum, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are on our list or games to play this fall.
A Return to Pokemon April 2, 2014Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Nintendo, Pokemon.
Tags: Nintendo 3DS, Pokemon X & Y
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I can hear some of you groaning even now. Hush!
While 2014 might be the Year of Faff elsewhere, around here it seems more like the year of renewal and return to past happy times. Nothing new around these parts. I am bland about The Elder Scrolls Online, completely indifferent to WildStar, and can't think of any other new games that have sparked any real interest in me. No, it has been all throw backs to paths already traveled of late, what with the return to World of Warcraft, poking about in EVE Online, running up some time in Diablo III, dragging out the revamped version of Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings, and even revisiting Warcraft III.
Which, on reflection, does sound like a lot of time spent faffing about, so my year might actually be in tune with the godmother's. Might have to go grab that Year of Faff logo.
Anyway, with the year shaping up as it has, why not add in Pokemon?
It was just about six months back where I was ready to bid a final farewell to Pokemon.
Pokemon X & Y had shipped and required you have one of the new(ish) Nintendo 3DS models in order to play.
While we had a couple of DS Lites and a DSi XL sitting around the house, the current 3DS generation wasn't really in our plans. So that looked to be that.
But as Christmas approached, my daughter had a change of heart and put a Nintendo 3DS XL on her wish list… because that is what grandparents are for. And, sure enough, at my dad's house on Christmas Day there was just such a unit (in red) under the tree for her, along with a GameStop gift card from my sister.
We had to get out of the house right away after Christmas to get some games. GameStop is a very busy place the day after Christmas. And while my daughter was primarily interested in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, she did also pick up a copy of Pokemon X.
Still, I am not sure that we had shaken the malaise that Pokemon Black & White put us in. (Some long term veterans of the series reported similar feelings.)
Pokemon Diamond & Pearl was where we started. The game was fresh and exciting. Pokemon Platinum came along, the traditional interim remix of the previous titles, and we were still engaged. Pokemon HeartGold & SoulSilver, remakes of Pokemon Gold & Silver, were the peak of our time with the series. The game, the details, the Pokewalker (which I wore every day for a couple years) were all great. That was when I actually sat down and caught them all. At that point, "all" meant 493 Pokemon.
We were excited for Pokemon Black & White. We went to events, pre-ordered the games, and were ready to go on day one. And things kind of fell flat. Some combo of having played through several versions of the game already (and the base game is always nearly identical at a certain level), missing elements like your lead Pokemon walking with you in-game or the Pokewalker, and something of a general coming of age for my daughter and her becoming interested in more "girly" things than playing video games with dad contributed to this.
There was no spark there. We tried a couple of times to go back and finish the game, but we both sit at 6 gym badges out of 8 and no further. Pokemon Black 2 & White 2 were pretty much ignored by us.
So when my daughter started on Pokemon X on the 3DS XL, I was interested to hear how she liked it. While she gave it generally favorable reviews, there wasn't a lot of enthusiasm behind them. She was much more interested in Animal Crossing.
So it sat for a couple of months. I liked the idea of the 3DS XL and its big screen as well as another shot at Pokemon, but there didn't seem to be a enough interest from my daughter for me to take the plunge. And then a couple weeks back, suddenly she lit up on the Pokemon X front. She seemed to be quite into it, so I looked around and saw I had enough gift card credits at Amazon to pick up a 3DS XL myself.
Gift card money at Amazon is a special resource to me. If somebody gives me money, it goes into the general fund and gets used to pay bills or buy cat food or whatever. But credit at Amazon feels like it is uniquely mine. I can't use it to pay the mortgage or the phone bill. I can set that aside and used it on something for me.
So I splurged last week and spent my credits on a black 3DS XL, which for some reason was $10 cheaper than the other colors along with a copy of Mario Kart 7… because Mario Kart. Well, actually, I needed to but the 3DS XL and another title to get a "free" copy of Pokemon X or Y as part of a promotion Nintendo was running.
Last Wednesday the unit arrived.
I unboxed it, started it charging, then began setting it up. I had get it on our wireless, then create a Nintendo eShop account, then link that account to my Club Nintendo account, and then get everything registered so I could get my code for a copy of Pokemon Y that could be downloaded from the eShop.
As annoying as that might sounds, it actually went pretty quickly, mostly just worked, and was still a lot easier than getting one of the old DS Lite models up and connected to Nintendo WiFi back in the day. (One of the most common email questions I got for quite a stretch was, "How do I get Nintendo WiFi to work?!?!?!?!")
I was a little hesitant to only have a downloaded copy of Pokemon Y. The tradition is to have the physical cartridge, and we have at least 10 such Pokemon games in our storage box along with just about everything else purchased for the DS series. The 3DS line, which can use the DS series cartridges, stores data and downloaded games on an SD card.
The SD card thing is probably good in the long run. The 3DS XL came with a 4GB card and you can upgrade it to a 32GB card if you need more space. The upgrade process is a bit… simple? You take the card out of the 3DS, copy the files to your PC, then copy those files to the bigger SD card, and then put it back in the 3DS.
But that just makes it software, which can go away, be erased, or otherwise corrupted, as opposed to being burnt forever(-ish) into a ROM in a plastic cartridge. Such read-only media traditions go back to the days of the Atari 2600 for me. Something about it being on writable media makes me twitch a bit. Old habits.
But the game itself… is great.
It is, of course, straight from the traditional Pokemon mold. Youth with surprisingly permissive parents allowed to go wander the world, filling up their Pokedex for the local tree-named Professor of Pokemon Studies (Sycamore this time), battling various oddly focused gym leaders, thwarting an eccentrically dressed evil organization (Team Flare this time), all while on the way to becoming the Pokemon champion of the region… and collecting them all.
And the number for "all" is now 719. Oh my.
But while everything is the same, everything is also different… or better… or bother.
Everything is now represented on the big screen with 3D model… and when I say "3D" I mean it in the way we mean it when we talk about EverQuest or World of Warcraft. There is also the 3D movie effect of depth, but like most everybody else, I turned that off once the novelty faded and it started making my head hurt.
And the new models and motion in the world and the world itself… just work.
There was no moment of "Oh, now this is much better!" Instead it was just a sense of things being as they were meant to be. In fact, I was rather shocked when I went back to Pokemon Black & White to check where I had left off. Things were much flatter and pixelated just one version ago. Samples gleaned from the internet, because you cannot take screen shots in Pokemon games. (You can, in a very, very limited way in Pokemon X & Y, but that is for another post.) More is the pity.
And just to show the progression over the last decade, the first Pokemon game on the DS platform and the last one on the GameBoy Advance platform.
A lot of work clearly went into Pokemon X & Y and it represents a considerable leap in the rendering technology used for the game.
And while I can be Mister Nostalgia and long for the good old days, I have to say I am very happy with the updated graphics. Of course, that might have something to do with them being tuned for the 3DS screen… and the big 3DS XL screen especially. That screen looks really nice, Pokemon X & Y render beautifully on it, and it is big enough for me to play the game without wearing my reading glasses!
Can't do that with my faithful old DS Lite.
I will have more to say about Pokemon X & Y in future posts, as well as the Nintendo 3DS XL hardware (besides the fact that it may be the best made handheld unit they have ever produced) in future posts. This post can basically be summed up as:
Pokemon is back! There will be posts! You have been warned!
A Farewell to Pokemon October 15, 2013Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Nintendo, Nintendo DS Hardware, Pokemon.
Tags: Nintendo 2DS, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Pokemon X & Y
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We were out shopping on Sunday. For some reason my wife asked me to come along and for equally inexplicable reasons I said yes. I do not like wandering around the mall "shopping" and begin to behave like an 8 year old in making up games and distractions to pass the time. This, in turn, annoys the crap out of my long-suffering wife, so clearly neither of us was thinking straight on this call.
But as we made our way through the electronics section of Target, my daughter went over to the Nintendo section and spotted the new Pokemon X and Y games.
She actually seemed both surprised and excited to see a new Pokemon game out. I knew it had shipped. I still get email updates from Nintendo and was aware that the new games were releasing world wide this past Saturday. I just hadn't said (or written) anything about it. (Keen and Graev have some posts about the new games.) But I have to admit I have been interested in the game.
Pokemon used to be one of our things.
My daughter was attracted to the game a long ways back, when we saw a Nintendo DS on display at a store with Pokemon loaded up. It was colorful, the basic functions were immediately comprehensible to her, and the idea of capturing little pets and making them battle held an attraction for her. She was into bugs and dinosaurs and animals when she was that age. (Now, however, she screams bloody murder if there is a moth in the shower with her.)
Of course to play Pokemon you had to buy the hardware, a Nintendo DS. That was the stopping point, until we were about to go on a trip and my wife gave me the mandate to go buy one to keep our daughter entertained on the plane for five hours. So I went out and bought a pink Nintendo DS Lite along with LEGO Star Wars, Mario Party DS, and Pokemon Diamond.
I could have skipped the first two. We spent the whole trip playing Pokemon. My daughter was in kindergarten at the time and needed help reading some of the text in the game… this was before she had been trained by World of Warcraft to skip all quest text… so I spent a chunk of that time reading the game text aloud to her. That was a bit of a chore for me, but got her motivated to read.
The game was such a success that a couple of months later my wife bought me a cobalt blue Nintendo DS Lite and my own copy of Pokemon Diamond and we were off.
We played through that together, went on to Pokemon Platinum, and really hit our peak during Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver. We were wearing out Pokewalkers everywhere (and cheating a bit using physics and LEGO). There were mishaps and tragedies and meddling cats, but we were into it. We went to the Pokemon regional championships, played with Pokemon Ranch, and in went to the Pokemon Black and White tour when it showed up at a local mall. I even caught 'em all, nabbing all 493 Pokemon that were available in the series up to that point.
But then Pokemon Black and White came along and we were not quite as interested. In part that was because we had played so much Pokemon up to that point. We might have been a bit burned out having burned through all the predecessors on the DS, plus a couple of the GameBoy Advance versions, which also ran on the DS Lite.
Then there is also the fact that all Pokemon games are very much alike at some basic level. You start out in the world as a youth, you meet some Pokemon expert, you get your first Pokemon, and you head out into the world to catch Pokemon, battle gym leaders, and eventually take on the regional champions, all while battling a rival and some oddly dressed organization bent on evil. And all of it takes place in a world completely obsessed with Pokemon and where all conflict is resolved by Pokemon battles.
After a few runs through that, you might get a little tired of it.
And then there are the special features each game brings to the table. My daughter and I used to enjoy playing together in the underground in Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum. It was a shared environment you could link up in on WiFi. We were also fond of the Pokewalker and the way your lead Pokemon would walk around with you in HeartGold and SoulSilver. In Black and White the key features were the graphics, which were improved, 150 new Pokemon (groan), and a lot of online WiFi connectivity (like Global Link) that did not really click with us. Neither of us finished Black or White and we never bothered with Black 2 and White 2. (Which I still think were dumb names.)
Finally, there were just other distractions. Other games to play, other things to do. My daughter was growing up and little things like Pokemon were no longer quite so important. So we have not been playing Pokemon for quite a while. I would say that we are at least two years past the last time either of us played with any read drive.
But the memory of those times, of playing together, of figuring out where to go next, of catching and trading Pokemon, that all remains. And I think some of that came rushing back to her when we were standing there at the counter looking at the new Pokemon. She was gushing a bit when she asked, "Can we get it?"
I had to tell her we could not.
While Pokemon X and Y have the usual range of features and even a slick way to transfer your old Pokemon over to the new games via the internet (assuming you have them all in Pokemon Black or White) using a feature called Pokemon Bank, there was a problem.
Pokemon X and Y are the first versions of the main line of Pokemon games that are exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS generation of handheld gaming devices. Our Nintendo DS Lites are now pretty much obsolete. When Nintendo stops shipping Pokemon on a platform, it is done.
There certainly seems to be some hunger for a version of Pokemon on the 3DS platform. It is on track to be a big seller, moving 4 million units on its first two days. The top Pokemon games of all time are Pokemon Diamond and Pearl which together move nearly 18 million units.
My daughter had an immediate solution to this problem, which was to buy new hardware!
I have clearly failed to instill any sort of sense as to the value of money in my daughter.
I had to tell her that wasn't going to happen either. At least not right then. Something like a Nintendo 3DS is a Christmas/Birthday present (or maybe a going on long trip present) and not something we just buy on a whim while at the store on a Sunday afternoon. Even the more moderately priced Nintendo 2DS, about which I am a bit dubious given what I have read (turns out it has just one big LED panel for both screens), falls outside of the impulse buy price range in my opinion.
My daughter's response was in the "Oh well" range of emotions. She didn't seem all that put out by it and I somehow doubt that a Nintendo 3DS is going to make it to her Christmas list. And if it did, I think she is more interested in Animal Crossing: New Leaf than Pokemon.
So I suspect that we have had our time with Pokemon.
Augmented Reality Pokemon for the Nintendo 3DS October 4, 2011Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Nintendo, Nintendo DS Hardware, Pokemon.
Tags: 3D Pokedex, Augmented Reality, Nintendo 3DS, Pokedex, Pokemon Black, Pokemon White
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Pokemon.com announced a while ago the release of a 3D Pokedex for Pokemon Black and White in the Nintendo eShop for use with, and only with, the Nintendo 3Ds.
That seemed to me a bit of a gimmick, though at least it was a freebie. And people who bought 3DS units right away probably need all the support they can get, what with the short battery life and such.
But there was a more recent announcement about the 3D Pokedex, regarding the addition of augmented reality to the app.
This allows you to print out what they call and "AR Card," place it at some real, physical location, such as on your kitchen table, and then, when you view that through the 3DS, the Pokemon whose AR Card you have appears to be there, on the table.
Again, something of a gimmick in my mind. People have played with this sort of thing. Apparently, the side of the card you print out dictates how big the item will be when viewed, so there was a story over at Kotaku about people printing out poster sized cards to insert life-size Marios into the world.
Nintendo even has a poster sized AR Card that will let you view your Mii (yes, the 3DS has Miis) in full, human scale height.
Not having a 3DS as yet (call me when they get to the second generation… and only if they improve battery life) I do not know exactly what you can do, other than view the images and take pictures of them. Though that might be enough. I'd put a giant Mario next to my car for a photo op if I could.
But the Pokemon AR Cards also give you something else.
Use the AR Viewer in Pokédex 3D to view Pokémon projected into the real world! When you point the camera at these special Pokémon AR Markers, you'll be able to see and take pictures of Pokémon in 3D. In most cases, when you view one of these Pokémon AR Markers you will increase your chances of receiving the Pokémon that you've scanned. But if you scan certain Legendary or Mythical Pokémon's AR Markers, you will receive those Pokémon instantly!
Okay, you can only see Pokemon you already have. And using the AR Card for ones you do not have will increase your chance of getting that Pokemon as part of a SpotPass.
But if you view a legendary or mythical Pokemon, and you do not have it, you will receive it immediately?
I hate to cry "welfare epics," but isn't stalking and catching those rare and elusive Pokemon part of the reason to play the game?
Okay, I suppose when the obsession is upon you, you will do many things to fill that Pokedex. I know how that mania feels, and the lengths to which you will go to catch them all.
I can even go along with the SpotPass option, as it is one of the ways of getting Pokemon that are not in your version of the game. (Black and White each have their own exclusives.)
But handing out legendary Pokemon for printing out an AR Card?
That seems… hollow.
At least to me.
Yes, I have gotten my share of legendary Pokemon from download events. But at least those were out of the house, limited time, go somewhere and see other Pokemon players activities.
Ah well, gotta sell those 3DS units somehow I suppose. I bet some Pokemon fan is even now planning to buy a 3DS just to get the legendary Pokemon.
Nnitendo 3DS $170 – DS Lite $100 July 29, 2011Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Nintendo, Nintendo DS Hardware, Pokemon.
Tags: Netflix, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS Lite, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo DSi XL
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Well, Nintendo dumped the price of the 3Ds by $80 just four months after its release.
Apparently, sales were not meeting internal estimates according to Nintendo. And then there is the whole Sony PlayStation Vita thing. No doubt Nintendo wanted to win on price there early. But slow sales are registering as the primary concern.
Certainly *I* didn't run out and buy one. But for me, the 3Ds has only one compelling feature so far, NetFlix streaming, which did not even go live until last week or so.
I am tempted by that option, though I am held back when I start thinking about when I would actually use it. Am I really going to watch that much Star Trek: The Next Generation sitting in bed?
Otherwise, from what I have seen, in person and in the news, there is no killer app for the device quite yet.
Of course, if you own a 3DS already, you might be a little miffed at the drastic price drop. But Nintendo plans to make it up to you.
Meanwhile, if I were in the market for a DS right now that was just right for what I play most on the handheld gaming device, I would be looking at the DS Lite, which Nintendo has aggressively priced.
Sure, the DSi has access to the online Nintendo store and the DSi XL has a larger screen (at the same pixel resolution), but the good old DS Lite has the best battery life of the product line and it is the last of the DS line to have the GameBoy Advance cartridge slot. That last piece is key for the truly obsessive Pokemon fan, as it gives you access to several more generations of Pokemon games.
So I am not sure what Nintendo marketing thinks they are doing.
They dropped the 3Ds price right on top of the DSi XL price point. The DSi is sitting not that far behind as well in price. Meanwhile, they are sending out ads for the DS Lite at a price that pretty much pulls the rug out from underneath everybody.
That is some good work there Nintendo.
The Nintendo 3DS… I'd Buy One March 27, 2011Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in entertainment, Hardware, Nintendo, Nintendo DS Hardware.
Tags: Nintendo 3DS
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The Nintedo 3DS goes on sale today in the United States and I am considering getting one.
But not today.
I got to play with the 3DS at GDC earlier in the month. I did not mention that in my GDC post. I'd like to say that I planned that in advance, holding back until the 3DS launch, but actually I just forgot.
In my 10 minutes of play I got to try out their augmented reality demo, which uses the two cameras on the back of the unit and some cards placed on a table top to create 3D images that appear to be on your table. I then had to move the unit around to target and shoot things.
As a compelling game, it wasn't so good, but as a technological demonstration it was interesting. While everybody talks about the 3D aspect of the unit, it also has a 3D axis gyroscope and accelerometer so that the motion of the unit can be used as an aspect of game play. If you have an iPhone, this is no big news, but it does add something new to the Nintendo platform. Already one of the launch with one of the titles, Steel Diver, a submarine game, you can sit in an office chair and rotate your periscope by spinning around in the chair. I expect (and hope) that we will see more of this sort of thing. Some of it will be used as a gimmick, but somebody will find new ways to have us play games with this tech.
And there is also the expanded wireless capabilities. The Nintendo DS line has always had wireless built-in, but it has not always been exploited very well. The DSi models added in the ability to buy games for Nintendo points via a wireless connection. But the new CrossPass technology along with some very Wii-like features, such as a Mii and a Virtual Console library that will feature games from past GameBoy generations moves things another step forward.
Then there is the 3D screen, which is a beautiful 800×240 resolution unit for the upper display. The current Nintendo DS model line has a resolution of only 256×192 on both upper and lower screens.
And possibly the best thing about that new screen is that you can turn the 3D off and just have a nice big display.
Not that the 3D is bad. The augmented reality game certainly showed that 3D works well enough without glasses. And I watched the 3D trailer for the movie Rio on the 3DS. I happened to have seen that trailer in the theater in 3D already, so I was able to compare quality.
It looked VERY good on the 3DS screen.
The 3D was okay. At times the three dimensions seemed to be "near, middle, and distant," but on good effects it blended together nicely.
But the GDC announcement that there will be a Netflix streaming client for the Nintendo 3DS this summer is what has me really excited. I could totally see watching movies on that screen.
But since that is not coming until summer, I am content to wait a bit. By then there will be some more titles available. Any problems will have been identified. And maybe they will have done something about the battery life, which is a bit short compared to my current Nintendo DS Lite.
Of course, I do have one worry.
If I get one then somebody else in our house will want one… or will want to use mine all the time.
Another reason to wait a bit.
[Addendum: See, it is this sort of thing that makes me shy away from newly released hardware.]


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By Roy Kasten, Christian Schaeffer and RFT Music St. Louis isn't just a city. It's a song. Or rather songs, hundreds, thousands and more. Don't bother counting. We tried. In back rooms and basements, on stages and streets, musicians have paid tribute to St. Louis again and again. Place matters. St ... More >>
This week, KISS comes to town along with a handful of other great touring acts -- large and small. A five-band punk bill promises to provide one more hot summer night at Melt, Songbird Cafe constrastingly cools down the Focal Point, Brooklyn's Fielded brings her future pop to the Luminary and much m ... More >>
The 2014 Riverfront Times Music Showcase will be held this year on June 7 in the Grove! Think of it as St. Louis music's own official holiday and consider this the season. Throughout May we at RFT Music will be making our cases for all 140 bands and artists nominated for an RFT Music Award this year ... More >>
On a particularly frigid January afternoon this year, I stumbled upon an interesting scene in the Delmar Loop (where RFT Music HQ is located, for those unaware). Moving up and down the streets was an enthusiastic man with an acoustic guitar strapped on his back, flanked by another fella, pointing a ... More >>
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ENGLEWOOD, Fla.- Charlotte County Sheriff's Narcotics detectives, acting on numerous tips, went undercover Wednesday and arrested the owner of Michelle's Therapy, 3797 S. Access Road, Englewood. Charged with Deriving Support from the Proceeds of Prostitution, and Solicitation to Commit Prostitution, was Michele Davis Chamberlain, 36, 13100 S. McCall Road, Gardens of Gulf Cove area.
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End of an EraSeptember 10th, 2014
Dear friends of TCS,
Effective from 5th September 2014, we regret to inform you that we have closed down all of our physical stores. We will now continue our operations and commitments via our online store.
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Thank you again for all the good times!
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We turned oodles of survey data into an award-winning interactive site that lets you click around to learn more about what kinds of mobile services consumers want.
Great Beer Only Gets Better at Molson Coors
Making good beer is all about innovation, and for the brewers at Molson Coors, innovation comprises the foundation of their business.
Telco Alert! The $50 billion mobile opportunity starts with champagne
In this blog I'll share the four-step program to help telcos move up the enterprise mobility stack to higher value offerings that will allow them to tap into the opportunity.
Predictive Business – Real-Time Access Is No Longer Enough
To get and stay ahead of the competition companies must sense the present, see the future and shape it to their advantage.
Student Debt Runs Scared Thanks To Cutting Edge Tech
The University of Kentucky helps students succeed by fighting tuition hikes through the use of SAP HANA In Memory Computing.
Telco Alert! A $50 billion opportunity in enterprise mobility
We´ve all heard stories about sales reps pulling up real-time data on a tablet to close deals, or field technicians accessing instructions on a tablet while swinging from a telephone pole. But there´s a whole world of other ways mobile is changing how we work, live and play.
The Hybrid #Cloud - extended
Definitions are important, but not enough if reality changes – fast. We happen to support more companies of large scale and more users in the business cloud environment than any of the so-called cloud Version 1.0 vendors.
Former World Cup Host Turns Techie
South Africa's number one freight logistics company, Transnet, connects the country with the rest of the world spreading products, resources and culture.
Technology Preserves New Zealand's Natural Heritage
Lisa changed her luck with a wild adventure through New Zealand -- a country preserving its natural heritage through the use of technology.
Prime Time for 4G
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