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A new iOS app released today by developer XVision is a remake of the 1981 classic "Donkey.Bas", which was co-written by none other than Microsoft's Bill Gates for IBM PCs running DOS.
The 99 cent app is available now for both iPad and iPhone and promises to be a faithful port with 8-bit graphics and sounds for a look and feel almost identical to the original game.
You're cruising in your new supercar on a little-used, dead-straight rural road when suddenly a zombified donkey Keep Reading
In case you hadn't heard, Netflix had plans to jump on board the video game rental train last year, right alongside the Qwikster plan. Netflix had plans to offer games for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3, and Wii.
This was all until the Qwikster and PR debacle that all but tanked the company and thus sent the company back to the drawing board. Keep Reading
A report from Kotaku today claimed Microsoft will upgrade its disc drive in the next-gen Xbox (720?) from its standard DVD drive to a Blu-Ray drive similar to the one in Sony's PS3.
The report cites various "reliable" industry sources, and also claimed Microsoft was planning on creating a method of preventing used games from running on the next-gen console. Keep Reading
Earlier we told you about Blizzard's upcoming 2012 Battle.net World Championships for StarCraft II and World of Warcraft Arena players, but today we bring you another way to get in on Blizzard and WoW history– this time for a charitable cause.
Blizzard has announced (via Mashable) it will be selling 2000 retired HP p-Class server blades with 100% of the proceeds donated to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Each server blade will be marked with a WoW logo as well as the name of the realm it used to help host Keep Reading
Life isn't perfect, sometimes you have to get up to turn on the TV, when your remote is hard to find or beyond a remote distance away. Who can forget those other inconvenient situations, like waking up before noon or having to go outside?
But is there anything more burdensome, any act more obstructive to pursuing our free liberties than having to put down a controller, so that we can pick up a hot-pocket? For you consumers of the lean pocket, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about…you're on the treadmill or busy buying overpriced Under Armour garments that will cause more discomfort than your first suit. Keep Reading
No matter what style and era of mobile gaming you enjoy most, there's likely a half decent port available or soon to be available on the App Store or Android Market. Atari and arcade game makers are quickly re-releasing all of their classic titles, while Sega titles like Sonic and third-party Nintendo games from SNES to Gameboy are also being ported to the popular mobile platforms.
Rather than reminiscing with some retro console titles, take a second today to remember what the best mobile games once looked like on cellphones. Remember Snake? Keep Reading
With Resident Evil 6 announced and the new trailer for the RE: Retribution movie just out, the spotlight is back on one of the most successful franchises in the world of video games:
What started with the legen- (wait for it) -dary survival horror Biohazard aka Resident Evil 1 has morphed into a series of 22 cross-platform, cross-genre games that have collectively been sold 46 million times! Oh, and the franchise now also covers comic books, novels, collectible merchandise, and movies (live action and CGI). Keep Reading
You might be familiar with the 'Blizzard Cup' events from recent years where Starcraft players battled it out in a tournament organized by Blizzard in conjunction with online sports organizations like World Cyber Games, GSL, and MLG.
In 2012 Blizzard seems to be taking it a step further, announcing on its blog today that it will be hosting its own "Battle.net World Championship" for World of Warcraft Arena and StarCraft II players. Keep Reading
Hyperkin dropped its SNES handheld console last year to get us in the mood for portable remakes of retro consoles, and now SNK Playmore is getting to drop a new Neo Geo handheld preloaded with 20 classic games on its 2GB of onboard storage.
The device has a 4.3-inch display, SD card slot, original stick from the NEO Geo console pad, four game buttons, and two shoulder buttons. Japanese language blog Famicom-Plaza got its hands on the device (via andriasang) and also provided a list of twenty classic titles (below) that will come with the console including a couple notables: Metal Slug, King of Fighters '94. and Fatal Fury. Keep Reading
According to a new poll on Fox News.com, the fastest growing demographic of the video game-playing public happens to have a habit of pooping their pants and belching uncontrollably. While that may sounds like most male gamers in general, we're actually referring to toddlers.
Based on our past coverage, it may seem like the last news outlet you want covering video games and their impact on youth is FOX News, but in a poll conducted by the NPD Group — a well-respected market research and polling group — the number of toddler video game players has jumped to nearly 20%. making it officially the fastest growing video game-playing demo in the country. Keep Reading
For your own benefit up until now we haven't brought you the endless "Shit gamers say" videos that have inevitably littered the internet over the past weeks. We couldn't, however, help ourselves from getting in on the conversation for the "Shit Gamer Girls Say" video posted by Machinima.
If you've seen any of the Shit __ say videos, there aren't a ton of surprises here. Although, this particular video seems to, for no good reason, be getting a lot of hate from the gaming community. The comments attached to the YouTube video are a clear indication of just how welcomed female gamers are within the community online, and it certainly isn't any better in-game on Xbox Live or elsewhere. Keep Reading
One of the biggest mobile game publishers on the market, Gameloft, is getting set to introduce a new gaming feature on smartphones that was previously unavailable — in-game voice chat over 4G on Android devices.
Gameloft made things official at the Qualcomm booth during CES 2012 this month by announcing that they would initially be partnering with Verizon to roll the service out across devices on its 4G LTE network.
We now know the first game to get in-game chat will be Ashphalt 6: Adrenaline and the feature will be rolling out to users across various Gameloft titles later this year. Keep Reading
Yesterday we announced that the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) support for SOPA has spun off a new 'League for Gamers', aiming to give the gaming community a voice in Washington, D.C.
Today we received notice that Night Owl Games, a Texas based gaming company best known for the Dungeon Overlord strategy game, is joining the cause: Keep Reading
If you're anticipating Mass Effect 3 like just about everybody else, you may or may not be excited to learn the latest trailer focuses mainly on the RPG's Kinect integration.
Normally when we think of the Kinect's motion gestures in any genre of hardcore shooter the vision of PlayStation's Kevin Butler using his hand as a gun is the first thing that comes to mind.
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You may not be surprised to see "booth babes" in this BBC report from the show floor at CES 2012. However, the report doesn't just show off the women, but instead the BBC's Matt Danzico went to CES to find out how females working in the tech industry feel about booth babes.
The report starts out interviewing various female technology writers including Molly McHugh of Digital Trends who says "it's sending this message of what my sex is here to do… I'd rather be learning about the products". McHugh says the booth babes' presence at the shows is "uncomfortable" but in her opinion not degrading. Keep Reading
If you were crushed the day you found out classic FPS Doom was pulled from Xbox Live Arcade a few months back, you'll be happy to know the title is now once again available for download.
In case you never stuck around to get an answer as to why it was pulled, according to Joystiq "expiring rights" following Zenimax acquiring Id Software originally lead to its removal from XBLA. Zenimax promised then that Bethesda would be re-releasing the title and it looks like today that it exactly what has happened. Keep Reading
They're dubbing themselves the "League For Gamers" and they have one goal in mind: to combat the Entertainment Sofware Administration's (ESA) support of the controversial SOPA and PIPA acts of legislation.
For those of you not privy to the ESA, it is comprised of the biggest video game and computer software companies on the face of the planet, and perhaps most notably is responsible for owning and operating the E3 Convention.
But ESA has most recently been fitted with the dubious distinction of being an organization in "support of SOPA and PIPA". Here is their official statement on the matter: Keep Reading
This isn't the first time that PC case and accessory maker Thermaltake and BMW subsidiary Designworks USA have teamed up on a new product designed specifically for gamers. The new Level 10 M gaming mouse announced by the two companies today is an unconventional design created with the pro gamer in mind. You might be familiar with the popular Level 10 PC case the companies unveiled back in 2009.
As you can see in the images, the Level 10 M mouse has a hollowed out body that Keep Reading
The Razer Project Fiona is generating some unprecedented hype for a gaming console. Much of that is due to it not being a traditional gaming console — it's a tablet.
But it isn't so much about the hype as it is the hi-res video we have of someone actually playing the game on ultra-high settings. Quite simply put, it looks unlike anything we've ever seen before (dare we say at first glance a bit awkward).
Its pros, according to several CES attendees, outweigh the cons — largely because of the sidebar controllers, eliminating the need for a touchscreen with tablet gaming Keep Reading
Following the NES controller concept for iPhone that we showed you last week, a new mod discovered by blogger Paul Rickards allows you to use an actual NES controller with your iPad over USB.
In a post over at biosrhythm, Rickards explains that the discovery was the result of an accident while using the C64 homebrew keyboard he modded to work with his iPad using Apple's Camera Connection Kit. Rickards explains the process (via TouchArcade): Keep Reading


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Climate change and the regulation of greenhouse gas ("GHG") emissions continue to be hot topics among regulators and industry leaders, and in the courts in California. There have been three key developments in the past month on the climate change front, in addition to the Ninth Circuit's decision last month in Center For Biological Diversity v. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
*CAPCOA Offers Air Agencies' Views on CEQA and Climate Change. Most relevant to developers in California was the issuance on January 2, 2008, of a 155-page white paper by the California Air Pollution Control Officers Association ("CAPCOA"), entitled "CEQA & Climate Change: Evaluating and Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Projects Subject to the California Environmental Quality Act."
*CARB Adopts Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirements. California Air Resources Board's December 6, 2007, adoption of mandatory greenhouse gas reporting requirements for the largest GHG-emitting facilities in the state.
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Understanding the PeopleTools Utilities
As you work with the PeopleSoft system, you find that there are some administrative tasks that you only need to perform occasionally. These tasks include such things as maintaining error messages and setting DDL model defaults. The PeopleTools Utilities menu is where you find tools for accomplishing some of these more infrequent tasks.
The documentation of the utilities matches the menu structure of the Utilities interface. For example, the PeopleTools Options utility is under the Administration menu in the Utilities interface; therefore, the documentation for PeopleTools Options is in the Using Administration Utilities section in this topic. Also, in many cases this book refers to other PeopleBooks for the detailed documentation of a utility.


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Oman's tourism industry is likely to see continued growth in the year ahead, attracting a wave of hoteliers and investors eyeing low risk, emerging markets, a report by Euromonitor International has said.
Tourism related projects, which remain on track in the Gulf state, will help it edge closer to its target of 12m visitors by 2020, with key developments including the construction of new airports in Sohar and Duqm and a number of new hotel resorts according to the research.
"With a proven track record in reforms and developments, Oman is likely to see continued positive growth in tourism arrivals," wrote Euromonitor's travel and tourism analyst Nadejda Popova in the report.
"More hotels are likely to target Oman, as global chains revise their strategies to stay away from high risk markets and make the most out of emerging destinations such as Oman. Given the country's on-going safety and stability, investors will continue to demonstrate an interest in this market."
She added that Oman, which currently attracts just 3m tourists per year, would benefit greatly from the completion of new hotels and resorts, which were key to the market's growth by providing travel accommodation.
Whilst some 1,400 new rooms were made available to visitors in 2011, several outlets are being planned for completion within the next 5-10 years, including a large pool of luxury 4 and 5-star hotels being developed by companies such as Orascom Development Holding.
Other projects such as the Wave, Muscat Hills and Muriya would help boost the number of visitor attractions and facilities, the report said, whilst the government's strategy of targeting GCC and BRIC markets would continue to be important in order to attract high spenders from emerging and growing economies.
However, Popova warned that the growth in the sector could be slowed by the regional unrest, which is affecting all of the region as visitors from Europe remain vary of Middle Eastern markets.
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Novell Adopts OpenLDAP
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a client-server protocol for obtaining directory-based information. It was originally developed at the University of Michigan as a method to access X.500 directory information over TCP/IP.
Today, LDAP servers are typically stand-alone applications rather than gateways to X.500 directories. This isn't a terribly surprising development, since X.500 can be difficult to implement and resource-intensive for X.500 clients.
LDAP is an Internet standard controlled by the IETF and is used in products by Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, Netscape and many others.
While the description of LDAP sounds fairly boring, it's an incredibly useful tool. Most users' first experience with LDAP will be looking up someone's e-mail address on a large LDAP server like Bigfoot. Check out your address book in Netscape, and you'll see that you can use various LDAP servers to search for people.
Founded in 1983 as a LAN specialist, Novell is now best known for NetWare and Novell Directory Services (NDS), and is present in over 80% of Fortune 500 companies.
Novell's major competitor in the commercial network directory market is Microsoft, which is planning to unveil their Active Directory as part of the Windows 2000 release.
In January, Novell announced the planned release of their LDAP Libraries for C Software Development Kit. The new SDK will allow developers to use the LDAP API to access Novell's NDS eDirectory. While this was possible before using third-party LDAP libraries, this is the first Novell developer library to support the LDAP API. The LDAP SDK will be released as part of the Novell Developer Kit (NDK) in March.
The SDK is based on the OpenLDAP Project's client library, written in C. Created to promote and develop commercial-grade open-source LDAP applications and tools, the OpenLDAP Project is coordinated by the OpenLDAP Foundation, a not-for-profit corporation.
How will this new relationship between Novell and OpenLDAP benefit OpenLDAP and the Open Source community? Novell is now a member of the OpenLDAP development community and is contributing enhancements, bug fixes, testing and documentation.
According to OpenLDAP's chief architect Kurt Zeilenga, "Novell developers are active on project mailing lists and have contributed a number of minor enhancements and bug fixes. We look forward to more significant contributions from Novell."
The impact of Novell's contribution to the OpenLDAP project will not likely be seen by OpenLDAP users until the release of OpenLDAP 2.0, scheduled for general release sometime in the first quarter of 2000.
Not surprisingly, Novell's plans extend beyond just helping the OpenLDAP Project. This includes enhancing the OpenLDAP client libraries by adding NDS-specific extensions that will eventually be available as source code from Novell, creating tutorials and enhanced API documentation and providing commercial technical support. Novell will offer commercial support through its Developer Support program, ranging from free newsgroup access to paid support technicians.
Novell's customers also stand to benefit from the LDAP SDK. Kris Magnusson, open-source architect for Novell, believes, "Novell's LDAP SDK promotes an open standard, LDAP v3, as the preferred access mechanism for NDS eDirectory. Because developers will be able to use the LDAP v3 Internet standard to access NDS eDirectory, they can write to a single, open SDK."
In order to use the Novell LDAP SDK, Windows developers will use an InstallShield-based self-extracting executable, while NetWare installation will take place through Novell Installation Services. Linux and UNIX users will install source or binary packages distributed as "tarballs", a common choice for open-source projects.
Using open-source products as part of commercial products is becoming increasingly popular, and OpenLDAP's software is a perfect fit. As part of their eServer product, Caldera Systems has also included OpenLDAP's software.
Novell's adoption of OpenLDAP's open-source SDK and commitment to contribute source code and documentation signal a change in corporate strategy. Novell's LDAP SDK plans provide clear benefits to both the Open Source community and Novell, resulting in a win-win solution.
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BOISE -- The families of four elementary students have filed a tort claim against the Boise School District saying their kids got sick from improperly installed carpet at Hidden Springs Elementary School.
This is a story KTVB first covered earlier this year when parents said they thought their children got sick because of carpet glue that never dried, sending harmful fumes into the classrooms.
Tort claim: Children became sick and school didn t act promptly
In Tuesday's filed tort claim, parents say the school district was warned of dangerous gasses coming from the carpet glue and didn't warn parents or fix the problem for years. They say moisture in the school s concrete slab never allowed the glue to dry fully.
Officials at BSD [Boise School District] were warned in November of 2011 that improperly install carpet and glue at the Hidden Springs Elementary School were out-gassing hazardous toxins...that are widely known to cause health problems, the tort claim reads.
Further, the families claim the district did not fix the problem and acted only when the danger became a matter of public knowledge in May of 2013.
In the claim, the attorney for the families explains children and some employees experienced symptoms such as respiratory problems, headaches, sore throats, vision problems, nausea, stomachaches, vomiting, fatigue and other symptoms.
A history of carpet issues at Hidden Springs
In KTVB s initial story, the school s principal explained the history of the carpets in the building. Four years ago, there were issues with a high moisture level in the building s concrete slab when the district took over the school.
The school ripped up the carpet at that time and for a while, the school went without carpet, instead having concrete floors. Then, the carpet was replaced and some parents complained of noxious fumes and children with illnesses.
After a meeting and new tests on the building, the moisture level was found to be high again, and in June 2013, the district ripped up the carpet again.
Hidden Springs' principal told KTVB in June he did not believe there was a health risk for students and hoped ripping up the carpet again would help ease concerns.
Future claims could include negligence, personal injury
In the tort claim, the attorney says future claims against the school could include negligence, personal injury, and violations of state and federal laws, including those governing the safety of students and children.
The group says each child's case is worth compensation of at least $1.4 million and the adults compensation should be no less than $750,000 each.
Boise School District officials confirmed Tuesday that they did receive the claim after hours and that it has been forwarded to the district's attorney. At this time, they could offer no further comment.
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Artichoke, olive & lemon pasta
Cooking timePrep: 5 mins Cook: 10 mins
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- Boil the pasta. While it cooks, mix together the lemon zest and juice, oil and Parmesan.
- Drain the pasta, reserving 3 tbsp of the cooking water, then return to the pan with the lemon mix, cooking water, artichokes and olives. Heat through briefly, season well, stir through the rocket, then serve.
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David Goldfarb, a preservationist attorney who submitted a formal request for designation of the camp and the Day cottage in August 1997, says landmarks "dragged their feet for years," though he believes "they knew they were in danger." Asked by Raab's consultant to participate in the final months of direct negotiations with Discala, Goldfarb found no indication of cooperation from Discala. Even though the three Worker cottages were on an open-space portion of the siteand could not be built onDiscala "felt they would be an eyesore," says Goldfarb, and "didn't want a lot of visitors coming there." According to Goldfarb, Discala never "wanted them designated," and Raab "likes to work out a deal with the owner," so she "miscalculated."
"Previous commissioners tried to work something out, but if they saw that it wasn't going right, they'd just designate," Goldfarb said. He believes Raab should have designated the cottage between the time Discala went to contract on the parcel in early 1997 and the closing in January 2000 so "Discala would have known when he bought it that he was getting a historic site." An officer of a citywide preservation organization that monitors the commission, Goldfarb insists that the Day cottage could have been "designated in a matter of a month or two," precisely the time period described by the commission itself in public brochures.
Finally, a month or so after the Day cottage was gone, Raab put a still pending item on her agenda to salvage the ground underneath it and the last four bungalows on the camp site, even though Day had nothing to do with the ones that remain. Raab's dalliance was condemned in Staten Island Advance and Staten Island Register editorials, as well as by preservation leaders, including Hal Bromm of the Historic Districts Council, who sent Raab a searing letter he refused to release. Bromm told the Voice that Raab had given in to "wishful thinking" and said that the commission's inaction on the cottage suggests that it needs advocates "to remind them of what the landmark law says." Laura Hansen of Place Matters, a committee of the Municipal Art Society, deplored the commission delays and said, "Maybe they'll have a different attitude now that all this has happened."
Raab won't. Insisting that she "moved as fast as I could" on Day, Raab will not even be around to decide the pending designation. She will soon become the president of Hunter College, a City University sinecure secured for her by Giuliani, whose initial campaign for mayor she helped run in 1989.
Dorothy Day, who lived out many of her final days in this Staten Island cottage, ate the same soup she served the poor in her Catholic Worker houses, wore the same discarded clothes she gave them, and carried only a prayer book and coffee jar on her trips across the country.
Discala, his family, his partners, and their families have donated at least $41,000 to Republicans since 1997, including the mayor, the governor, Congressman Vito Fossella, Borough President Guy Molinari, and various party committees. They are as a group among the biggest GOP donors on the island, with some of them included in intimate settings with both Giuliani and Governor Pataki. Fossella's father, Vito Sr., is Discala's engineer and has represented the Central Park East Estates projectwhich contemplates the construction of 35 luxurious homes by a private beachin meetings with Raab and other city officials.
Molinari, who used to be the lawyer for the Spanish Naturopath Society that sold the camp to Discala, has quietly supported the project. Molinari aide Al De Lillo was the law partner of Discala lawyer Pat Corbo in a two-member firm for years. Corbo represented the camp society after Molinari and handled the sale to Discala, who soon became his client.
Jim Molinaro, Molinari's deputy who is running for borough president this year with Giuliani's support, is so close to Discala partner Otto Savo that Savo says he recently switched his party registration from Republican to Conservative as a sign of his support for Conservative Party chair Molinaro. Savo acknowledges that his family has also given to the Molinaro campaign, but the committee will not have to disclose donations until July.
The Buildings Department official who got the Raab memo asking for a stop-order on demolition permits, Bill Hinckley, contributed $250 to Congressman Fossella's campaign in August 2000 and is listed as finance director of the Molinari Republican Club, which was founded by Guy Molinari and is supporting Molinaro's beep candidacy. Another buildings official, Rudy Hahn, who oversees the department's citywide demolition unit, has operated an inspection company on the side and was hired by Discala. His company was fined by the state for illegally putting rat poison in many occupied cottages on the Spanish Camp site.
While Discala acknowledges knowing Hinckley, there is no evidence that Hinckley or Hahn had anything to do with granting the particular permits for the Worker cottages. Indeed, the D.A.'s probe appears to be focused on whether the permit applications misled the department about which cottages would be demolished. Neither Molinari, Molinaro, nor Fossellathe GOP establishment on the islandhave ever said a public word in defense of the Day cottage or in criticism of its demolition. On the other hand, independent Republicans like Councilman Steve Fiala wrote Raab to urge the cottage's designation and even helped find a home for Day's frail former secretary, Rosemary Morse, when Discala evicted her from the bungalow in 1998. And Jay O'Donovan, the city councilman who is the Democratic candidate for borough president, joined Mark Green in a post-demolition press conference denouncing Discala and calling for D.A. Murphy's criminal investigation.
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The Philadelphia Phillies selected Garces catcher Jake Sweaney in the fourth round (pick No. 121 overall) of the Major League Baseball Draft on Friday. It's the highest a Kern County player has been picked since Centennial infielder Brent Morel went to the White Sox in the third round in 2008 out of Cal Poly (Morel eventually made it to the big leagues, though he's now back to Class AAA after an injury-ridden 2012).
Anyway, Sweaney was watching the live webcast of the draft at his home today with friends and family when his name was called — unlike football and basketball, baseball players often don't get a call from the team that picks them until after they're announced. The reaction is priceless, and it's captured on tape, thanks to Jake's dad, Andy:


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"Jilendra Kamala Prasad Pandey, 58, was booked under section 379 (theft) IPC on Tuesday. A resident of Nalasopara in Thane district, Pandey was inspector-in-charge at the railway ticket printing press in Byculla. He had taken voluntary retirement three years ago. We have recovered gold ornaments and six mobile phones collectively valued over Rs1 lakh from his home," said senior police inspector Bharat Rane of Mumbai Central railway police station.
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The first such incident came to light on June 11 when businessman Anand Kumar Patel, 53, who was travelling by IInd/AC in Gujarat Mail from Anand to MCT, alighted at Dadar for a while. Upon returning, he was shocked to find his leather bag containing Rs8,500 cash and a credit card missing.
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Staff ERA is now 4.43, 9th place in the NL. Staff strikeouts rank 6th.
How many of you think they have a chance to keep the ERA under 5 for the season this year? And if they do, what do some of you statisticians project for a win total?
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Staff ERA is now 4.43, 9th place in the NL. Staff strikeouts rank 6th.
How many of you think they have a chance to keep the ERA under 5 for the season this year? And if they do, what do some of you statisticians project for a win total?
under 5 I'd say the certainly win more than they lose :)
I don't see the Reds ERA staying under 5. The GABP is a hitter's park, and the reds being in the central division face a lot of good hitting teams. Yes the reds can still win a lot of games with their hitting, but I do not see teams like the cards, astros, cubs, and brewers coming in to our stadium and not putting some runs on the board. As of right now we really only have two defining pitchers. The bats will get hot as the season goes along, pitchers will be figured out and runs will be scored. So I say no way the reds keep the ERA under 5.
While this has been covered extensively elsewhere, the park factors for GABP to date (since it opened) show it as a homer-friendly, but run neutral park. It is very double/triple unfriendly.Quote:
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Based on the numbers, the Reds hitting & pitching the last few years are more reflective of their hitting & pitching talent than park effects.
A number of us have also gone through the exercise of showing how the team can maintain an ERA under 5.00 for the entire season. Basically, we need to NOT have a starter get 30+ starts with a mid 6.00 ERA and we need the 11th and 12th guys in the bullpen to not implode completely.
I'm not saying it will or won't happen, but it very reasonably could happen. Do a search through my post history to find the full explication.
This is very true. i would add one point, however. For the Reds to keep that staff ERA under 5, I think another starter needs to be brought in. Between Claussen, Ramirez, Williams, Milton, Wilson etc. I think it's entirely possible that one of them will accumulate a high number of starts and a 6+ ERA. One or even two might surprise, but one is bound to hit his career norms.Quote:
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If the Reds are able to pick up another starter that's capable of pitching a good number of innings with a 4.5 ERA, I think this team can and will compete.
I get tired of seeing the HR numbers by park. It has less to do with the Park as it does the team that plays there. The Reds have a team with a very powerful offense that hits lots of HR's period. The other thing is that they have a pitching staff, particularly starting staff that are notorious for giving up a ton of HR's. I don't think the Power numbers would be a lot different if the Reds called another park home unless it was say RFK or something just so out of the ordinary.
Not necessaily disagreeing with you, but none of Claussen, Williams, Milton or Wilson has an ERA anywhere close to 6.00+ as a "career norm".Quote:
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What park factor does is compare how many homers are hit (or runs scored, doubles, etc.) in GABP by the Reds and their opponents relative to the number of homers hit by the Reds and their opponents on the road.Quote:
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So the park factor is the ratio of these things. So a 1.2 Home Run park factor means that the Reds AND their opponents hit 20% more homers at home than on the road. Essentially, this controls for the quality of the team playing in that park. That is to say, if the Reds lost Adam Dunn tomorrow, their park factor would not change.
Again, Park Factors are not counts of events -- they are ratios comparing the rate at which events happen at one stadium compared to other stadiums.
I believe Harang and Arroyo end the year 3.50-3.75. We need Claussen to end the year 4.00-4.25. Then we are really looking for 4.50-4.75 out of two of Ramirez, Milton, Williams, and Wilson, and you could even throw in Germano. I like Ramirez's chances, although it might be too early for him to be in the majors. The other guys need good (not great, but good) years in my estimation to hit that target.
It will if six out of every seven runs given up continue to be unearned...
3.99 Over the last 30 days (9th in majors)
2.07 Over the last 7 days (leaders)
Good combination recently, I think bully ERA is under 2 over the last 3 weeks or so.
GABP might be a hitters park but those are not hitting teams besides the Card, right now there winning on all pitching.Quote:
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"A few years later, the revelation of his gender orientation rocked the movie industry. Many were disappointed but he was the epitome of honesty and integrity. BB Gandanghari deserves plaudits. May he serve as a role model for others who lead a double life and continue to delude the Filipino audience."
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A preliminary report prepared by the Fire Department on last week's devastating fire at the AMRI Hospitals, Dhakuria, has confirmed the presence of combustible material in the basement of hospital which prolonged the fire resulting in it becoming deadly, Minister for Fire and Emergency Javed Ahmed Khan State said here on Wednesday.
"There was the presence of diesel, ether, spirit and other combustible substances which sustained the fire for a longer period," he told The Hindu.
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Mr. Khan said that a preliminary report was submitted to him by Director-General of Fire Services D. P .Tarania.
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Canyon of the Eagles Lodge and Nature Park, 18 miles west-northwest of Burnet on Ranch Road 2341 (800-977-0081, fax 512-715-9819; www.canyonoftheeagles.com). Double occupancy $67-$100 (includes breakfast), additional adults $10 each; children under fourteen free. No televisions. No smoking indoors. Pets allowed, on leashes. AE, MC, V.
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Chinati Hot Springs, 47 miles west of Presidio on Ranch Road 170 (915-229-4166). Cabins are $40; the "honeymoon suite" is $60 (breakfast not included). Cabins have evaporative coolers. Communal bathroom (tubs only, no showers); no telephones or televisions. No smoking indoors. Cash or check only.
Country Woods, 420 Grand Avenue, Glen Rose (888-849-6637, fax 254-897-4586). Rates range from $90 for a double room to $150 for a cabin (includes breakfast). No smoking indoors. AE, DS, MC, V.
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Havana Riverwalk Inn, 1015 Navarro, San Antonio (210-222-2008, fax 210-222-2717; www.havanahotel.com). Doubles range from $110 for a small studio to $600 for the two-floor suite with whirlpool bath (breakfast not included). No children under sixteen. No smoking, no pets. AE, DC, DS, MC, V.
Hotel St. Germain, 2516 Maple Avenue, Dallas (214-871-2516, fax 214-871-0740; www.hotelstgermain.com). The suites are $290-$650 per night (includes breakfast). Smoking in courtyard only; no pets. AE, MC, V.
Houseboats: rental information, 800-255-5561, fax 480-998-7399; www.foreverresorts.com. Lake Amistad Marina, Lake Amistad National Recreation Area, Diablo East, U.S. 90 West, 20 miles west of Del Rio (830-774-4157). Marina at Lake Meredith, Lake Meredith National Recreation Area, south end of Sanford Yake Road, Fritch; Fritch is 38 miles north-northeast of Amarillo (806-865-3391). Rental fee $1,995 during peak season (Memorial Day through Labor Day) for a three-day weekend or four days midweek, about half that during the winter; three-day minimum. No pets. AE, DS, MC, V.
Inn Above Onion Creek, 444 Texas Highway 105 West, Kyle; from I-35, take exit 213, turn west onto FM 150, go through Kyle to next stop sign, turn right (staying on FM 150), and go 5.3 miles (800-579-7686, fax 512-268-1090; www.innaboveonioncreek.com). Double rooms $175-$275 weekends and holidays (includes breakfast and dinner); 20 percent discount Sunday through Thursday. No children under twelve. No smoking, no pets. AE, MC, V.
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Kiepersol Estates Bed and Breakfast, from Bullard (about 20 miles south of Tyler), turn east off U.S 69 onto FM 344 and go 1.8 miles (903-894-3300, fax 903-894-4140; www.kiepersol.com/). Double rooms $120- $180 (includes breakfast). Dinner about $50 per person. No pets. AE, DC, DS, MC, V.
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South Bend 9″ Metal Lathe 3c Collet Closer Drawbar And Assorted Parts
Used collet closer drawbar from a South Bend 9" lathe. It also includes the spindle thread protector and 7 assorted collets though some are the same size and one is undrilled. Please understand THIS IS NOT COMPLETE and is missing the 3C spindle adapter that allows the collets to fit in the spindle. The drawbar threads are fine and even the collets look to be in good useable shape but this item is used and sold as-is. No warranty is expressed or implied but if a defect I overlooked is found I will work with you to make things right. Any questions please ask before bidding and thanks for looking.


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Staff Reports
Cash Dollars Abroad
|Previous title: "The Determinants of the International Use of U.S. Cash Dollars"
|October 2009 Number 400
|Revised February 2011
|JEL classification: F24, F3, F31, F4, O17
Authors: Rebecca Hellerstein and William Ryan
This paper examines the use of U.S. cash dollars as a secondary currency in informal transactions worldwide. While there is considerable interest in and a large theoretical literature on the use of secondary currencies, few empirical results have been established. The primary reason is that the amount of hard foreign cash in circulation in an economy is generally unknown. We provide a window into this underground world of cash transactions with the first systematic evidence on the demand for physical cash dollars across countries. We use an extraordinarily detailed new data set with every wholesale shipment of physical cash dollars between 100 countries and the United States from 1990 to 2007. We define an extensive and intensive margin of currency substitution and examine the effects on each of a history of macroeconomic instability, competition with other currencies (the euro), and trade flows, along with the usual suspects such as country size, recent macroeconomic performance, and transaction costs. The highest inflation rate recorded over the previous thirty years significantly affects the demand for cash dollars, even after controlling for more recent movements in consumer price indexes. The intensive margin of dollar currency substitution has a positive relationship to the size of a country's trade flows and of its informal sector. Finally, we find a pattern of elasticities consistent with substitution from the dollar to the euro as a secondary currency in countries with significant trade with the euro area.


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Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:
Salmonella Found at 2nd Mexican Farm
The strain of salmonella that has been linked to more than 1,300 illnesses in the United States has been found on a second farm in Mexico, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
"We have a smoking gun, it appears," Lonnie King, the chief of the Centers for Disease Control's center for foodborne illnesses, told the AP.
But health officials cautioned that the investigation wasn't over and that contamination of several different types of produce was still possible.
The latest farm to have contamination, in this case tainted irrigation water and a contaminated serrano pepper, was identified in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, the AP reported. Previously, contamination of a sample of jalapeno peppers was identified at another Mexican farm in a different part of the country.
Fresh tomatoes had been the suspected source of the nationwide outbreak that began in April. But two weeks ago, U.S. health officials cleared the current crop for consumers. And at the start of last week, they found the first tainted pepper. And by the end of last week, they had narrowed the source to crops in Mexico, not the United States.
Meanwhile, in British Columbia, Canadian health officials were struggling with their own salmonella outbreak, which apparently has sickened hundreds, according to the Globe and Mail.
The bacteria strain of is Salmonella enteritidis, health officials said, which is linked to poultry and egg products.
Alzheimer's Drug Shows No Benefit in Most Patients
The experimental Alzheimer's drug bapineuzumab showed no benefit for most patients and was linked to a brain-swelling condition called vasogenic edema, says a study presented Tuesday at the International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease in Chicago.
The drug, made by Elan Corp and Wyeth, did slow memory loss in some patients better than existing treatments, but it had no effect in people with the ApoE4 gene, which is found in about half of all Alzheimer's patients, Bloomberg news reported.
Bapineuzumab is designed to remove clumps of protein that accumulate in the brains of Alzheimer's patients.
Twelve cases of vasogenic edema occurred in the trial of 234 patients, and 10 of those cases occurred in patients with the ApoE4 gene, Bloomberg reported. Both cases of vasogenic edema in patients without the gene were in the highest-dose group, as were eight of those with the gene.
Who's Happiest? Younger Women and Older Men
Young adult women tend to be happier than their male counterparts, but the roles reverse as people age, according to a new study cited by United Press International.
Later in life, it's generally men who are happier and more satisfied with their lives, U.S. and British researchers reported in the Journal of Happiness Studies.
Happiness depends on factors such as family stability and financial security, according to study authors Richard Easterlin at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and Anke Plagnol at the University of Cambridge in England.


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Fresh out of college, I will be starting a new job soon as a software engineer at a large Fortune 500 company. The company uses Java and Spring MVC for its online services.
I know how to write classes in Java, but I have found that there is so much more to Java out there (e.g. Java Enterprise Edition, Java Beans, JavaBeans, JSP, Servlets, etc., etc., etc.). I would like to get at least a little familiar with "large-scale"/"corporate" Java use before the job begins in a few weeks.
How is Java used in the corporate world? Are there any suggestions on how to take my "small-scale" Java knowledge to the "large-scale"?


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Bayside Oslo apartment in Central Oslo, walk to Royal Palace
Located in Central Oslo, this apartment is within a 10-minute walk of Henrik Ibsen Museum, Royal Palace, and Nobel Peace Center. Oslo City Hall and Aker Brygge are also within 10 minutes.
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Laundry facilities, express check-out, and multilingual staff are available at this smoke-free apartment. WiFi in public areas is free.
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All 29 individually furnished apartments feature free WiFi and Select Comfort beds. Kitchenettes with refrigerators and stovetops are standard, and guests will also find flat-screen TVs with cable channels and sofa beds.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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Frogner House Apartments - Arbinsgate 3 features multilingual staff, laundry facilities, and express check-out. Public areas are equipped with complimentary high-speed wireless Internet access. This Oslo apartment also offers discounted use of a nearby fitness facility and an elevator (lift).
Frogner House Apartments - Arbinsgate 3 is a smoke-free property.
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Total number of rooms - 29
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Case Studies
Southern Water UMP project
7 September 2011
Southern Water is carrying out a major programme of environmental and service improvements during the current regulatory period.The Universal Metering Programme (UMP) includes the management of an intensive meter installation process and the subsequent collection and management of the meter readings to ensure accurate and timely billing of customers.more »
National Grid Ellipse
7 September 2011
National Grid's MIMS solution contained a significant portfolio of customisations implemented in previous initiatives to bridge gaps between core capability and business requirements. The latest version of the software had the potential to fill many of these gaps and precluded the requirement for forward fitting the customisations. National Grid accordingly took the decision to upgrade the MIMS system to the latest version of Ellipse.more »
Ellipse Web Portal in Scottish Water
28 August 2011
Working with Scottish Water, AMT-SYBEX identified two areas of their business that could be enhanced by deploying new applications using the Ellipse Web Application Portal.more »
Device Replacement and FDCS Optimisation at Southern Water
28 August 2011
AMT-SYBEX has concluded a Mobile application project with Southern Water which replaced existing life-expired hand-held devices used to receive work orders in the field.more »
Sink or Swim with Smart Meter Data Management
28 August 2011
When the UK government announced that the introduction of smart metering technologies to all homes would be a top priority, we immediately recognised that the proposed rollout presented both a challenge and an opportunity that would soon be repeated in other global energy markets.more »
Bord Gáis
24 August 2011
The AMT-SYBEX Data Transfer Solution (DTS*) was chosen by BGE after a competitive tender process. The flexibility of the product, which uses a catalogue driven approach to market data, shortened the time required to implement the solution and the risks associated with this complex project were minimised.more »
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24 August 2011
Our Mobile Working solutions enable Transport for London (TfL) to improve travel conditions and enforce traffic regulations more effectively on London's Red Routes.more »


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Re: Is Ch 27 automatic radio check dead in Tochester?
Might a corroded antenna connection(s). VHF radios are really tough, and most of those on sail boats are not exposed to the elements like those aboard power boats. Consequently, they seem to last forever. Use a multimeter and check the connections before shelling out the money for a new one. I though mine dropped dead while at the rendezvous, stopped at west marine and picked up a new one today. While removing the old one the radio suddenly came to life. Turned out to be a corroded crimp connection on the negative power line. I removed both crimps, soldered and heat shrinked the connections, and my 15-year-old VHF still works like a champ.
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Recent Posts in technology
February 9, 2015
Joseph Grado, founder of Brooklyn's high fidelity Grado Labs, died on Saturday at age 90. Grado, who was a master watchmaker, started the company in 1953 in the space that once housed the family fruit store in Sunset Park. Grado Labs began by making phono cartridges, and when Joseph's nephew John took over the company in 1990 the focus shifted to their great headphones. (They still make cartridges, though.) The Grado family offered up these words on their website:
The Grado family holds Uncle Joe in the highest regard, and without him, not only would we still be working in a fruit store, but we would have never started making headphones.Joseph Grado, you made music sound better. Rest in peace.
Watch a video tour of Grado's Brooklyn labs, plus a 2003 Girlmore Girls clip where Dave Rygalski (Adam Brody) talks Grados, below...
Continue reading "Brooklyn headphone-maker Joseph Grado (Grado Labs), RIP"
January 8, 2015
thousands of MS-DOS (Commodore 64, Apple II) games from the '80s & '90s now playable for free via The Internet Archive
by Bill Pearis
The Internet Archive already had the potential for being a time suck black hole, saving copies of websites long gone, not to mention its giant library of books, magazines, movies, music and more. They've also got an Arcade which already includes thousands of old arcade, Atari 2600 and other home systems, PC games and loads more, all of which are playable either using an emulator or through your browser (which doesn't always work so well, be warned).
But for those who remember 5" floppy discs, the Archive Arcade's gravitational pull on your productivity has just gotten stronger as they've added a couple thousand MS-DOS computer games from the '80s and early '90s that were originally for Commodore 64, Apple II and other systems. That includes such favorites as the original Castle Wolfenstein, Leisure Suit Larry (which inspired Todd Terje), Oregon Trail, Lode Runner, Bruce Lee, Maniac Mansion, as well as many you probably didn't know existed, like Alf: The First Adventure and, um, 1991's Omar Sharif on Bridge where the Lawrence of Arabia and Dr. Zhivago star teaches you the classic card game (and unfortunately not about the actor being on a bridge catching bungee jumpers) .
Have fun, and appologies to your boss.
November 17, 2014
Uber and Spotify just announced a hip app partnership that starts going into effect in 10 major cities this Friday (11/21). As a demo video illusrates, Spotify premium users will be be able to choose the music they want to play in their Uber taxi ride in advance. "When your ride arrives, your tunes will be playing on the speakers. You can also change what's playing during your journey right through the Spotify and Uber mobile apps. It's all there - your own music and playlists and well as specially curated Uber playlists."
The ten "global launch cities" are London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Nashville, New York, San Francisco, Singapore, Stockholm, Sydney and Toronto. To generate some buzz, "Spotify and Uber are giving fans a chance to connect with some of their favorite artists" in those cities. Exact details haven't been announced yet, but "participating artists include: Andrew W.K., The Sam Willows, Ximena Sariñana, Ansiktet, Professor Green, Diplo, Matt and Kim, Ricki Lee, Kevin Drew and Jake Owen. These special events for Uber and Spotify users - including artist ride-alongs and exclusive live sessions in five of the 10 cities - will take place on Friday, November 21. Stay tuned for additional details."
This actually could be cool, especially for those 2012-like moments when you really just need to hear "Call Me Maybe," but for the sake of your driver, please choose your playlists responsibly, and never, ever call an Uber.... while the streets have been shut down by police in riot gear...
Continue reading "annoy your Uber driver with your own Spotify playlist"
September 9, 2014
After today's Apple keynote in Cupertino, CA where they announced the new iPhone 6, Apple Watch and the new U2 album, the online store was immediately updated. One long-running Apple product is no longer there: the clickwheel iPod Classic, which has been discontinued, reports Engadget.
The iPod debuted on October 23, 2001 with a then-enormous 5-gig hard drive. By 2007, its storage grew to up to 160 gigs, and also saw the release of the smaller Nano and the super-tiny Shuffle. By that time, the iPhone had been released and people started to realize maybe they didn't need a separate device for their music. The shuffle remains available, but the iPods that Apple sells now are basically iPhones without cell service.
iPod Classic, rest well in clickwheel heaven. Check out the very first iPod commercial, and some of the 'Silhouette" series, below...
August 28, 2014
After dabbling in film and coffee, James Murphy has finally gotten back to making music. Sort of. Murphy has teamed up with some big brains at IBM to generate music based on game data from 2014 US Open matches which is happening as we speak out in Forest Hills, Queens. (Did they pick him for his fondness for wearing white?) The project, called The US Open Sessions, uses every point, ace and foot fault to create bleeps and bloops coming out of your speakers. (It's very bleepy and bloopy.) Some 400 hours of it will be generated by the end of things on September 8. It's being generated live, so if you're watching on TV and want a soundtrack to it, here you go. The matches' music is archived as well. For more on this, a short video of how this all came about can be watched in this post.
In related news, we weren't able to get James to sit on our City Gardens Q&A panel at AMC Loews Village 7 tonight (8/28), but we do hope he comes to watch the documentary about the club he once worked at as a bouncer.
US Open Sessions video below...
Continue reading "James Murphy making music based on data from US Open tennis matches"
April 17, 2014
"Star Talk Live" with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman returns to Beacon Theatre in June (tix on sale)
Neil deGrasse Tyson and Eugene Mirman have been doing a live version of space-oriented radio show "Star Talk" for some time, though Tyson is a lot better known these days, thanks to the reboot of science series Cosmos. But Neil and Eugene are still talking stars (live!) and will do so at Beacon Theatre on June 5 with special guests: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., His Holiness The Gyalwang Drukpa and more! Tickets for this show are currently on fan presale (password is "cosmic") and go on sale to the general public Friday (4/18) at 11 AM.
In other live science show news, Bill Nye the Science Guy will be at Irving Plaza for three nights in July
April 9, 2014
Bill Nye hanging with Barack Obama and Neil deGrasse Tyson
With his quirky/funny '90s-era afternoon PBS show, Bill Nye "the Science Guy" taught a lot of us about the world around us and beyond. He's been back in the news lately, debating creationist Ken Ham back in February, hanging with Cosmos/Star Talk host Neil deGrasse Tyson and President Obama, and currently shopping around a demo reel of a new TV show pitch. It would be great to have him back on television.
In the meantime, Bill Nye will be in NYC this summer for three lectures at Iriving Plaza on July 18, 19 & 20. Bill says in a short teaser video, "I'll be talking about you and me. Humankind. I'll be talking about evolution. And energy, and the cosmos and places within it, and our place in space." Bill says also it will be funny. Tickets are on sale Friday (4/11) at 10 AM with a Live Nation and Music Geeks presale (password is "music geeks") beginning Thursday (4/10) at 10 AM.
Check out that teaser video, the debate with Ham, and a few clips from his '90s show below...
Continue reading "Bill Nye the Science Guy shopping a new TV show, doing three nights at Irving Plaza"
March 12, 2014
Neil Young talking Pono @ SXSW (via @allisonleighwalter)
Neil Young talked about his new Pono high-resolution music system yesterday (3/11) at SXSW and cleared up a few things. It uses FLAC files but the sample rate is 192 kHz. (CDs uses 44.1 kHz). (The Toblerone-shaped Pono player will play other formats too.) Said Young:
When all the artists and engineers, all the arrangers and musicians that played on giant tracks by people like Phil Spector, with 12 tambourines and two pianos -- those people were still in the studios in Los Angeles, playing. But all of [that] started to die -- it was the most amazing thing, this vibrant creative culture started to go away. And it was because of the MP3 and the cheapening of the quality to the point where it was practically unrecognizable.Then things got real awkward. Billboard reports that after Young's speech, Pono CEO John Hamm (not Jon Hamm) opened the floor to questions:
...the last question from the audience shifted the tone of the entire presentation. A young man asked: "What's your cut?" Referring, of course, to Apple's now-famous 30% cut of sales on the iTunes Store.Perhaps his cut will be addressed by the time the Pono goes on presale this Saturday (3/15) via via Kickstarter. Watch a demo video below.
Hamm, after a flustered moment, responded: "It surprises most people that everyone who buys music from the record labels pays exactly the same amount." To which several audience members shouted, "What?!"
"That's a delicate question, isn't it?" Young asked. After which Hamm turned to the moderator, slightly flushed at this point, and said, "We can end it." "You can answer the question if you like," Snider said. Hamm shook his head slightly before Snider closed the discussion.
Speaking of SXSW, most of us at BV are here as we speak. You can follow our exploits via @BVSXSW and @BVAustin and on our @BrooklynVegan Instagram and @BV Austin Instagram.
Pono Kickstarter video below...
Continue reading "Neil Young talked Pono @ SXSW...until money came up"
March 10, 2014
No 'Zune' jokes, please
Neil Young has been working on his own digital music format and player for a while and has just announced details. Originally called "PureTone," the company is now called Pono and promises "the highest-quality digital music to discerning, passionate consumers, who wish to experience music the way the artists intended, with emotion, detail and power intact."
What that entails is a new lossless music format and also its own portable high-resolution digital-music player (pictured above) that holds 128 gigs of music, which comes out to "about 100-500 high-resolution digital-music albums, depending on the resolution and length of the original recording." You can use memory cards for additional music. There's also an iTunes-like Pono interface.
While the lossless Pono format may only appeal to audiophile types, the player might hold some interest for others. One of the biggest criticisms lobbed at the iPod was it's not-very-good internal amplifier and digital-to-analog converter. So if you've always wanted a better-sounding player... this could be it. There are some questions, such as "Will this also play my MP3s?," "Will I have to repurchase albums I already own in other formats," "Can I rip my CDs into the Pono format," "Is there cloud storage?," "Can I play Words With Friends on it?" and "If this all goes belly-up do I get my money back?" Those remain unanswered but you can pre-order your Pono player starting March 15 via Kickstarter.
Some of those questions might be addressed by Neil Young himself who will talk about Pono on Tuesday (3/11) at SXSW.
June 7, 2013
could this be the new Brooklyn wing of Amazon?
Williamsburg is now fully established as a choice place to live and play and even to work. Vallywag reports:
According to a source, Amazon may have settled on a location for the mammoth office space the company began seeking in February: the Williamsburg waterfront.Rumors that Amazon's new Brooklyn address could be the old Domino Sugar factory are mostly refuted in the same article. Also mentioned in there is this tidbit about something we've been wondering about the status of: the NYC branch of beloved UK indie store Rough Trade Records that was supposed to open last year. Says their source:
Back in February, both the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg reported that Amazon was seeking up between 250,000 and 500,000 sq. ft. of office space in New York City, greatly expanding its presence here beyond its Midtown outpost. Williamsburg was thrown around as a possibility, along with One World Trade and Brookfield Place.
This past November, Amazon announced it was leasing a 40,000 sq. ft. warehouse at 35 Kent Avenue in Williamsburg to serve as a photo studio to shoot images of products/"mecca" for "creative talent." But the source told Valleywag that the waterfront deal is "bigger and hush hush." - [Valleywag]
Rough Trade is in the middle of a 30,000 retail renovation on N9 and NO ONE knows about it because they did the deal with a warehouse owner and are doing a complete renovation on their dime."In the middle"?


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Also note that PE says that such bleaches are not tested with modern films so you are taking a risk in terms of dye stability.
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Also note that PE says that such bleaches are not tested with modern films so you are taking a risk in terms of dye stability.
If you want seperate bleach and fixer the Kodak Flexicolor SM chmical pack F2 contains a cube of bleach and one of fixer. You use the bleach straight and mix the fixer concentrate 1:1 with water. One pack has enough chemical to process two or three hundred rolls and is fairly compact. Look for these as expired or short date (they will last a long time after the date) on evilbay. I have bought the case pack (2 ea. F2's) for around thirty five bucks shipped.
As mentioned, regeneration is different than replenishment. But in practice it's super simple. I have a 5L container of bleach I use. It does about 44-48 rolls in the SSK4. I save the used bleach into a different container (the SSK makes this easy). When the used container of bleach is full, I use Kodak's bleach regenerator to regenerate it. Basically add the 100ml or whatever is needed, shake it up, and then pour it back into the original bleach container. Then start all over again, and do another 44-48 rolls of film.


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