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Ronny, you will not even remember fraud 5 years from now, much less 50, and neither will anyone else. guy is a boring a-hole that has never been involved in a memorable fight. zzzzz. pac on the other hand will be remembered and rewatched until the end of time.Posted January 4, 2014 1:47 am
TruDat Correctamundo! I'm in my early 20s and if Floyd doesn't man-up 50 years from now (if I live so long) I'll be sitting in rocking chair by my fireplace telling my dear grand children about the time when a self proclaimed over hyped Fraud Maywhatever refused to face a warrior known as The PacMan. And eventually someone's grandchildren will tell Fraud's grandchildren that their granddaddy was a punk that would rather beat up on their grand momma but never on The PacMan. Legacy? What Legacy?Posted January 3, 2014 9:43 pm
@EZE An accurate and good simple comment. Needless to add more. Many will agree that FMJ's legacy will be trashed, the chic chic CHICKEN label will follow him wherever he goes and will have to endure hearing Manny proclaimed everywhere he shows his puzzy face. The fact that he himself confessed that he feared for his health is well documented. Nuff said. Truedat.Posted January 3, 2014 9:08 pm
ANONYMOUS Good points but your missing mine. I never said that Manny would defeat Floyd & too bad that we'll probably never actually know. But you can rest assured that if Floyd refuses to fight Pac it will NEVER be a forgotten subject in the careers of BOTH fighters, but even more so in Floyd's case, especially in these most recent turn of events. Peace!Posted January 3, 2014 8:28 pm
Pacquiao is the true p4p king and "People's Champion." So let Mayweather keep his "0" and we'll see how well he does without the support of fans who gave him his life style.Posted January 3, 2014 6:15 pm
EZ E Floyd never needed Manny period not for his legacy. Floyd is undefeated and he beat undefeated guys. Name one undefeated guy Manny beat? You see you need to compare wins and accomplishments and Manny falls way short. Scared? Floyd beat Marquez with one hand tied behind his back and the same guy almost killed Manny. Floyd beat Oscar, Cotto at 154 not dehydrated like Manny. Name one pure boxer Manny beat better yet did he avenge his losses? Has he Koed anyone in five years? The answer is no to all the above. Not to mention Manny has lost his star power along with a lot of fans and his ability to sell his fights. Right now the only person to benefit from them fighting is Manny. People who dont know the sport or the drama behind it look at fear. IF Floyd was scared why did Manny turn down the fight and 40 million. But again Manny will get his ass kicked this year again before he even makes it to Floyd or out of his slave contract with Arum. Bradley or Ruslan will beat him for sure. I look for Manny to be brain damaged and broke by the end of his career. taking all those hits add up ask Ali….Posted January 3, 2014 3:41 pm
Will this ever end?? Apparently not. If Floyd retires without ever facing Pac this topic will follow HIM/BOTH to their graves and beyond. Just like Ali & Frazier, Gatti & Ward, Cotto & Margarito… they will forever be linked to one another. Yes, forever! That will be something Floyd will never be able to avoid. The same will probably will hold true for Pac as well. Peace to all.Posted January 3, 2014 2:23 pm
john smith
last fight of his ….it was given in the casino in vegas for free ……..just boycott this pos boycottttt all his fightPosted January 3, 2014 1:13 pm
Beast Mode
You won't ever see this kind of crap posted on Fightnews. Notice the difference in the quality of journalism from here to there.Posted January 3, 2014 11:13 am
john smith
I am the best , ill fight pacquiao …. in track …. you all fool still paying ppv in Las Vegas We give them for free —-hahahaha You cant fool boxing fans not this time …..frauddddddddPosted January 3, 2014 8:18 am
Losing patience!
Mayweathers chick,chick,chicken. Nuff said!Posted January 3, 2014 6:44 am
What! Didn't you Mayweather is the great pretender and Pacquiao is the real p4p king and the "People's Champion?"
What kind of champion insults fighters from the safety of his home? Even dear ole dad said "no, no, no, I don't want my son to fight that little man!" And Mayweather is too concerned about his health. So let Mayweather keep facing low level fighters like Khan and Guerrero and his defenders continue buying into his exhibitions being passed off fights.Posted January 3, 2014 4:08 am
Ray Ray
Manny should fight Clottey or Diaz or Old guys like Morales an Berrara. Stay away from the 40 yr old Marquez cause he'l put him 2 sleep zzzzzzxzzPosted January 3, 2014 3:36 am
Get over it
No one scared of Arum, Manny was zero star power and zero control over his own career Arum is his daddy. And Manny is a loyal dumb imagrant. No one can work with Arum look at the history of Top rank aside from Manny have you ever seen his fighters fight outside of top rank? Say with a Golden boy fighter or another promoter hell no and you never will mark my words Tim Bradley is the next victiom to be stuck fighting only Top rank guys. him and Manny should be fighting Floyd, Garcia, Maidana and Mallinagi but you can forget about these fights. Arum is the chief thief. He tries to monopolize the sport but it doesnt work because no one will deal with him thats why all the fighters he had wised up and bounced but he keeps finding dumb one like Pac and his tards….Posted January 3, 2014 1:47 am
Mayweather scared of Bob Arum
TMT= Taunting Manny & TerrifiedPosted January 3, 2014 12:13 am
Floyd was fake-retired to avoid Pac
Here we go again peej says he ain't making excuses then turns around and makes more.
Boxing knowledge, so I guess your boxing IQ is the best in the business huh peej ? like when you picked rios ko pac 10? wow!Posted January 2, 2014 11:55 pm
"Im afraid of needles blah blah" Do you really believe he said this out of his mind? Of course not. Though a Pac fan i believe his legacy maybe tarnished by the fact that he says and does whatever arum says. He wanted the fight.
floydiots are not boxing fans
floydiots are not boxing fans, they are just floyd's fans and happy to give their money to floyd.Posted January 2, 2014 8:30 pm
floydiots are not boxing fans
Unless he is fighting Wladimir Klitschko he isn't winning the heavyweight championship. Just a belt discarded by a 42 year old that he would lose to.Posted January 2, 2014 8:29 pm
Peej all the Pac fans instantly have amnesia when you mention blood test. They go from Steven Hawking of boxing to Old Coot in a micro second when the word random pops up with test.Posted January 2, 2014 8:26 pm
Ray Ray
Lightsoutihio-im more inclined 2 b impressed with the old school belts….not so with all these weight classes inbetween, unless offcourse the weight brings 2 elite level guys 2gether. Lightweight, welterweight, middleweight old school…..has a nice ring 2 it. Has any1 ever done that?Posted January 2, 2014 7:38 pm
I have no doubt mayweather wins a decision over pacman, ive said it before and will say it again, but I still want to see a compeditive bout between our generation s best. Ps I would have put my money on manny 5 years ago but cant take nothng away from a floyd win now, mayweather s older than pacman.Posted January 2, 2014 6:41 pm
If we all agreed on everthing boxing forums would suck and not open are minds to new thought and ideas so im glad theres diversity in opinion and im also glad we have the mexican/ Italian EINSTEIN, peej in our conversation s to enlighten us with his great insightulness and brilliant boxing observation s. Im humbled to be in your presence oh mighty one.
Kinda laying it think aren't I.Posted January 2, 2014 6:21 pm
I agree RayRay. Sergio is a small 160 (mostly fought at 154) Mayweather picking up another division belt would be legendaryPosted January 2, 2014 6:18 pm
Manny Pacquiao Gets Knocked Out Cold By Juan Manuel Marquez! Wake upPosted January 2, 2014 6:14 pm
Aright im done peej , back to boxing. PeacePosted January 2, 2014 6:13 pm
Ray Ray
Lightsoutidio-I think Sergio vs Floyd 4 sergios belt would b awesome….hate or love Floyd its rare air, a guy with a chance of becoming a lightweight, welterweight an middleweight champ? Rare indeedPosted January 2, 2014 6:10 pm
Only thing your knowledgable at peej is making excuses and talking bias garbage, i read your post and there always the same old disappointing pessimistic downer fight stopping excuse making post on the entire worldwide web.
I guess you belive your own hype as the boxing professor, but your not.
You cant take construction criticism either, thats a bad flaw in addition to thinking your a know it all.Posted January 2, 2014 6:04 pm
Well look at all the excuses Pac and company made. But you don't bring those up. You only hear what Floyd says. I actually posted the excuses that where from Arums mouth. So like I said step your knowledge up son. Maybe you can contend on here.Posted January 2, 2014 6:01 pm
Here we go again peej says he ain't making excuses then turns around and makes more.
Boxing knowledge, so I guess your boxing IQ is the best in the business huh peej ?
I dont make claims to know everything or ever say im the most knowledgable in the boxing arena but apparently you are the self-proclaimed boxing wizard hun sonny boy ?Posted January 2, 2014 5:58 pm
Yo MOMMA
Seriously though, Mayweather is no saint neither. He has put on A LOT of obstacles. He wants leverage in the fight. He's no fool. He knows if he fought Pacquioa when he had momentum he would have gotten a beating. Only now that he knows that Pacquioa's stock is down in the gutter can he "tweet" freely and make fun of him. He has that leverage that he was looking for.Posted January 2, 2014 5:58 pm
This fight will happen once they are both in a nursing home and by chance, on a hot day at the home care facility, they encounter each other at the ice cream dispenser …….LOLPosted January 2, 2014 5:57 pm
Mayweather vs Sergio is a better challenge for Mayweather. Sergio has 2 fights left with HBO(1- warmup Rubio 2-Cotto) late 2014 Sergio vs Mayweather at 154.Posted January 2, 2014 5:54 pm
Eric needs to step up his boxing knowledge. You should do that before addressing me son.Posted January 2, 2014 5:54 pm
Yo MOMMA
Im not saying that if they ever fought that it would be an easy night for Mayweather. No, not at all. Floyd would earn every cent of that fight. It would be a hard battle but Floyd would neutralize Pacquioa's style,speed and power…..eventually.Posted January 2, 2014 5:53 pm
Peace !Posted January 2, 2014 5:53 pm
Sorry yo momma just tired of baby sitting, peej just needs a time out. Lol.
Sometime talking s@it get s to be annoying and I bit frustrating.
I say lets get in on baby!!!!!!!!!! Fight time !!!!!!! Thats what in talking about !!!!!!Posted January 2, 2014 5:52 pm
I have not made a single excuse. Want to hear excuses? Here you go
Yo MOMMA
Truth is that Im no fan of Mayweather, the dude has skills and Im sure if they ever fight, Mayweather will win. Sorry Pacquioa fans. It is what it is. Floyd talks but he backs it up. Boxing is his life, his job, his passion. Pacquioa has too many distractions. Politics, IRS, promotion troubles, plus he is always trying HELP out his fellow country. It is very nice and noble of Pacquioa but its also distracting. Floyd helps himself. The people he has in his cirlce are people that make him happy and work around his schedule. Make him more money and productive. He doesnt even need sponsors.Posted January 2, 2014 5:49 pm
Hey Eric sorry God gave you a peewee the can't extended pass your pant zipper. Fight won't happen until Bob arum not with Manny.Fact!punk. Mayweather &GBP hates Bob and top stink. Why work with him? When top stink did the same in house fights for years. Time to shut down top stink.its best for boxing! To much corruption from top stink…marigacheater loaded gloves, Manny vs Bradley & Avril vs Rios scoring, and not testing a fighter that failed drug test: Chavez JrPosted January 2, 2014 5:49 pm
Lady Girl
like it ever was going to happen LOLPosted January 2, 2014 5:48 pm
When fight fans want to see two of the best in a division fight each other its not hate, it is just simply wanting to see a great fight, plain and simple, nothing more nothing less.
The pactards and the mayweather nutt warmers are in categories of their own, possibly the twilight zone of complete desperation.
You guys are the drama queens and excuses kings, not normal boxing fans that look for a good debates or just to chat boxing.
You know who you guys are.Posted January 2, 2014 5:47 pm
Yo MOMMA
-I HAD to laugh at this. This was funny. Forgot how rowdy it can get in here sometimes…lolPosted January 2, 2014 5:43 pm
Ray Ray
Prince is 100% correct…..Posted January 2, 2014 5:37 pm
Peej never says anything positive in regaurds to that fight, you can lie and twist and duck all you want, im not your puppets and im not stupid either, I cant spell good but not stupid.
Peej is a complete dodger and excuses making machine.
Its horrendous to real boxing fans that support great fights getting made.
Its a total disgusting disgrace as far as im concerned.
Some of you guys that consistant ly look for the path of least resistant for your hero's lessen the sports credibility and those you support, you should be ashamed at minimum.
Your not boxing fans, you dont have a love for the sport or the men that represent these organizations.
Boxing fans want to see boxing matches thats why were boxing fans, you guys are boxing killer's that make no sense.Posted January 2, 2014 5:35 pm
Peej- loves drama!!!!Posted January 2, 2014 5:33 pm
Too much drama.Posted January 2, 2014 5:26 pm
If floyd followed his fans and nutt warmers cues, he would never even consider the fight.
Who cares what all you little b@itches say, I want to see the fight and may the best man win.
Instead of crying try to be proactive and lobby for fights to come to fruition.
Sure the fights past mannys prime, so that means mayweather should dominate pac with ease, and if he does he will get credit just not as much.
If floyd wins history will be on his side, no question about it.Posted January 2, 2014 5:24 pm
Peej only stated a Fact dude. Rumors are a Lie…from Mayweather. Also Manny Buddy Koncz stated the same. Fight happens when Bob arum out the picture. PeriodPosted January 2, 2014 5:22 pm
Na I seriously doubt that. In that case boxing would already be gone since this fight has yet to happen or ever will. Guess we are in serious trouble. You should get your boxing knowledge up and see the facts.Posted January 2, 2014 5:19 pm
Peej has to be the biggest downer and pessimistic poster on this site in regaurds to manny vs mayweather.
Fighthype has already addressed this issue. It is not happening.Posted January 2, 2014 5:11 pm
Too much drama and the Floydiots are enjoying it.Posted January 2, 2014 5:09 pm
The Prince
If the rumors are true, then the same haters on ESB whom claim Floyd was scarred of Manny, will start saying that the fight should have happened back in 09 and Floyd winning doesn't mean anything. Heck, I've noticed a couple of early post by haters already creating that copout excuse. How about some faith in your fighter? hmmm….Posted January 2, 2014 4:55 pm
Why would the P4P king that did over 2.2 mil in PPVs need to use Manny name- a guy that's 1-2 in he's last three fights & only 500k in ppvs vs Rios. Wow Anonymous your the poster boy for Jerry's kids. That's what Top Stink does just like after the mismatch vs Rios called out Mayweather …..only to set another top stink fight That night. Just like the past few years. Its Bob arum retarded hype job. Its old! Just like saying mayweather wouldn't fight Cotto or Canelo( who weight 165 on fight night) who he Schooled. Manny can't hang with the best counter puncher in the game periodPosted January 2, 2014 4:54 pm
The Prince
I believe it. I said last year that the fight was going to happen in Sept 14. Floyd is going to fight Khan or Maidana first. Then he's going to fight Pacquiao and shut you detractors up for good. Of course, some detractors will still find and excuse no to give Mayweather credit, if he wins.Posted January 2, 2014 4:49 pm
make the fight or shuddupPosted January 2, 2014 4:38 pm
Prof Konje
This fight should have happened a long time ago. It's lost its appeal to many with the exception of some who are living in the past. The best thing that boxing fans can hope for is that Mayweather and Pacquaio clean out the 147 pound division and then both retire.Posted January 2, 2014 4:35 pm
Jay rock
Leave it to Arum to mess this up!Posted January 2, 2014 4:32 pm
It would have been nice if they leave the drama to them selves and tell the boxing fans if they are fighting or not. What they doing is they are using this drama to hype up their next fight.Posted January 2, 2014 4:23 pm
Fight Aficionado
Maybe this source correctly predicted the Guerrero and Alvarez bouts but I don't buy this Pac-Floyd report. Everytime they schedule bouts their camps start throwing carrots out there for us to bite. It's partly how they fuel interest in the wrong boxing matches — by teasing us with the one and only match at 147 that makes sense. Screw them.Posted January 2, 2014 4:21 pm
Mayweather is hyping again for his next match in Mayweather by using PAC's name to sell his fights as he has always been doing since 2006.Posted January 2, 2014 4:20 pm
PAC wants to fight Mayweather with his FISTS, but Mayweather wants to fight PAC with his MOUTH. How could this fight happen? NEVER happens because Mayweather is so SCARED of Pacquiao.Posted January 2, 2014 4:18 pm
Brazilian Boxing Fan
I do not care. I will believe that they will fight when they are actually in the ring, throwing punches at each other.Posted January 2, 2014 4:16 pm
We all know they like to talk about fighting each other whenever they have a fight coming up.Posted January 2, 2014 3:57 pm
Hec Dog
No need to hear any rumors until Manny or Floyd say the fight is a done deal. Speculations, rumors are tiring. Give the fans the truth.Posted January 2, 2014 3:38 pm
the fight will be held in a uk mosque.Posted January 2, 2014 3:35 pm
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The idea for the company--which makes a dry cleaner hanger made entirely from recycled paper--came after founder and Chief Operating Officer J.D. Schulman's mother asked him to throw away a bunch of old wire hangers. He put them in the garbage, the hangers poked a hole in the bag, and gravy dripped on her white carpet when Schulman took the garbage out, says HangerNetwork CEO Bob Kantor.
The result was the EcoHanger, a sturdy replacement for wire hangers that can be folded and tossed into the ordinary household recycling bin. Because they biodegrade relatively quickly, the hanger conceivably could displace significant amounts of difficult-to-dispose-of garbage every year.
"3.5 billion wire hangers go into U.S. landfills every year, and they sit in there for over a hundred years," Kantor said.
Perhaps just as important, the company says it can bring these hangers to market in an economical way that makes it attractive for dry cleaners to switch. HangerNetwork doesn't sell its hangers. It gives them free to dry cleaners, who ordinarily have to pay about 8 cents per wire hanger.
So who foots the bill? National advertisers pay HangerNetwork to put ads on the hangers, which then stare consumers in the face when they get dressed in the morning.
"We have Van Heusen shirts, L'Oreal, Dunkin' Donuts, Mitchum antiperspirant," Kantor said. "On average, (the hanger) stays in your closet six to eight weeks."
The company is already pulling in "multimillions" in ad revenue, he said. Ad campaigns can be targeted at men or women and will be available nationwide or aimed at specific markets. The ad campaigns start at 250,000 hangers.
The company this week announced it has landed $8 million in venture dollars from Kodiak Venture Partners and Sigma Partners, and Kantor said the company will use the money on introducing itself to thousands of independent dry cleaners nationwide. So far, the company has mostly sold its hangers in the New York metropolitan area, but now it is expanding nationwide. In about two weeks, the hangers will start popping up in dry cleaners in San Francisco and a few other major metropolitan markets, Kantor said.
Cleaners Supply, the largest distributor of dry cleaning products in the U.S., offers the free hangers from the front page of its Web site. The supply outfit serves approximately 35,000 dry cleaners.
The company reflects how many clean-tech companies are marketing themselves, touting their green attributes but giving equal weight to the idea that they can compete with products made of standard materials. Cereplast of Santa Monica, Calif., for instance, has come up with a way to make forks, knives and other disposable products out of cornstarch, rather than petroleum byproducts. The forks can be safely put into a landfill, and the cornstarch blend is comparable to traditional materials.
Technically speaking, the EcoHanger is made from 34-point paperboard (a relatively thick paper) that is folded onto itself. The hanger is then glued and laminated for extra strength. In the end, the hanger is strong enough to hold clothes, but remains flexible. The company has sought patents on the device.
The benefits the EcoHanger has over wire hangers pave the way for it to become an ad vehicle, asserted Kantor. After all, it gets rid of a device--wire hangers--that many people don't like or don't know how to get rid of. Even many dry cleaners now refuse to take back wire hangers. Thus, any potential resistance to a new form of advertising coming into the home gets outweighed by environmental benefits and easier disposal, he said. To use advertising industry buzzwords, the ads are "invited" into the home.
Advertisers also benefit because the ads can last longer than other forms of collateral advertisements. Those insulating cardboard coffee rings now ubiquitous in coffee shops are kept only until people are done with their coffee. The EcoHanger can be (and often is) reused by the customer, Kantor said. Thus, a given customer will see the siren song for Dunkin' Donuts a few times a month. (Interestingly, the doughnut chain was also one of the first advertisers to sign up with Massive, which inserts ads into video games. Massive subsequently got bought by Microsoft.) The company says its cost per impression comes to around 4.5 cents.
The ads, Kantor added, are also tough to miss.
Has the company thought about adopting the famous wire hanger line from the movie Mommie Dearest as a motto or jingle? Yes, Kantor admitted, but he said there are issues with royalties.
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7 commentsJoin the conversation! Add your comment
- What good are they?
- If I can't open my car door with them when I lock myself out ?
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- Hangers or hanged?
- While I am excited to see the environmental benefits of this new form of hanger I am troubled that we (the end users of wire hangers) could not figure out a simpler, cheaper, and more effective solution to this problem. That being, return hangers to the store for reuse. This would 1) reduce waste by not having the hangers end up in the landfill, 2) reduce energy by not requiring that a new cardboard hanger be made for each shirt, skirt, or coat that is cleaned, 3) reduce waste by now having the cardboard hangers be hauled to the landfill after each cleaning, and 4) reduce the visual polution of more advertising being put under our noses at one more location in our private homes, the closet.
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- good news!
- ClotheslineSA.com uses the EcoHangers, and our customers
recycle them several times before they give out, about the same
as wire hangers. It's an easier return, because they don't get
bent up, and the paint doesn't chip off. They actually last longer.
My customers say the ads on easily degradable post consumer
waste cardboard outweigh the huge landfill problems caused by
wire hangers.
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- dumb & dumber
- Another dumb idea that encourages our throw-away culture. The paper hangers will likely cause more environmental harm than good. Most dry cleaners already take wire hangers back for reuse so unless the user is lazy, there is already a recycling system in place. Wire hangers are also a recyclable metal that can be placed in the metals bin. Throwing the paper hangers into the trash, as many will do, will take up diminishing landfill space, not to mention the effects of the inks and the papermaking process itself. I doubt anyone wants more ads invading their lives and lcosets, what next, ads for McDonald's on toilet paper?
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- I agree
- Idiots will flush them. Insist on wires. I have plastic hangers and I
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Biodiesel, which in the United States is produced primarily from soybeans, comprises several percent of the nation's total biofuel production. Methanol and caustic (sodium hydroxide) are used in the production of biodiesel. Glycerin is a major co-product that has a low market value currently, in large part due to biodiesel production. Because of this, it is sometimes viewed as a major waste product, but greater commercial uses for glycerol could make biodiesel production more profitable. Biodiesel itself burns much cleaner than petrochemical diesel and enjoys considerable advantage in terms of lower air pollution.
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I finished up building the Casa 90 early this year (will post pics soon) been experimenting / learning for several months (when I get time). Having a problem with the dough shaping. I have searched a bit here, saw some references to shaping a wet dough for WFO vs a dry dough, but didn't seem to see a solution. I do pretty well at indoor / regular oven pizza (lower hydration), but seem to easily get weak spots in the dough for the WFO.
Here's what I'm doing:
- Using Caputo 00 flour, the recipe from the sticky page on this forum (500 grams 00 flour, 62 to 64% water / hydration, salt, instant yeast)
- After I make the dough divide into about 260 gram balls and store in refrigerator overnight (in very slightly oiled container)
- Take out about 2 hours before ready to cook
Problem I see:
When I shape the dough, I am putting down some flour on the table, pressing out the dough into a circle, and shape it out the best I can. I do not pick up the dough and stretch with fists (this seems to really stretch too quickly and add the weak spots). Even on the counter, I have had trouble getting a good, consistent thin shaping without introducing the thin / weak spots in the dough. When I put the sauce down and bake it, it often times burns through and I have a hole in the pizza, some sauce / cheese falls through and makes a bit of a mess. Compensated a bit by keeping the whole thing a bit thicker, but I believe its too thick and need to make it thinner and more consistent.
Any tips / tricks / things I'm doing wrong? Would the overnight fermentation be a source of any problems here (this is my habit from my pre-WFO days, but I'm not strictly following the recipe on the sticky page here). Any advice is much appreciated.
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Hi Tim!
62-64% hyrdation 00 should not be very sticky - that is not particularly high or difficult. Are you mixing it thoroughly? Try folding it a few times before the rest before forming the balls. The balls should be very elastic and cooperative the next day. Your description makes me feel you may be undermixing (not enough gluten development).
Try using a lot of flour on the counter (I use a half sheet pan with flour at my WFO). The excess can easily be shaken off. Use your finger tips to dimple it and spread it and start on the outside - well flatten it first to about 1/2 inch and then spread the outside area first - leaving a small hump in the middle. If you don't leave the hump the center will get too thin as you spread the dough. I know professionals who do all their shaping on the bench. It is not mandatory to sling or toss the dough though many do and it does help get rid of excess flour.
Don't stress too much over how thin the dough is. Make a 9-10 inch pizza and you will be fine!
Good Luck!
Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
I have a Kitchenaid with the S-hook (much better than the C-hooks), I get a good 6-7 minutes of mixing it. It comes out pretty smooth, but I could try a few more minutes.
I did not do the folding, will try that. Also sounds like good advice on the shaping, will try, hopefully Sunday. Will let you know. Thanks,
Attached pictures of the oven/deck (before the built in benches) ... will post to the ovens pics section this weekend.
Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
Hi Tim!
Hmmm... Well mixing isn't it. Are you using a scale or are you using volumes?
Your flour may be wet. My local VPN pizzaria uses Caputo exclusively and gets enormous variation in water content - sometimes his scaled 55% dough behaves like 65. I have had some similar "wierdness". Superwet doughs are kind of a pain to deal with but make really great pizza.
I will almost promise if you try putting lots of flour in a sheet pan and form on the flour in the pan you will be able to get round pizzas that are (relatively) uniformly thick (or thin). And the crust should be puffy and wonderful!
Sounds like you are pretty much doing everything right. Hang in there, it will come around. And...if you feel your dough is too wet, make the next batch drier or vice versa. You will get there!
Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
I love the green oven! Very original and great looking!
I am always suprised at how thin I can make the dough without it tearing. It sounds like you and I use a similar dough preparation (you don't mention a bulk fermentation and I don't use one).
Is the dough easy to handle other than the shaping? Ae you having problems with sticking?
You say you are getting sauce burning through, does that mean that you do not have a hole when it goes into the oven, but that one forms when you turn the dough?
Maybe you are turning the dough before it has had time to set up in the oven?
My only other thought is acutally over mixing...I use a spiral mixer (SP5) and start with cold ingredients (ice cold water) and work to a temp of (I think) 65 degrees (I am at work now, so I don't have my recipe). Then it goes straight into small lightly oiled containers in the fridge. It is not super smooth and window-pane like at that point, but the retardation takes care of that in my experience.
I do tend to pick it up and stretch it slightly and it gets very thin. Even the thinest spot poof nicely in the oven, and the only time I get holes is when it sticks to the peel on the way in the oven or sometimes if I put way too many ingredients on it.
Could you be over-topping? You should be able to see the dough through the sauce....
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Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
I find all these discussions about hydration very interesting but for 5 years now we have been using the recipe as we were taught by Roberto and it has never failed us and our pizza crust ranks up there with the best we have ever tasted.
They say the proof is in the pudding, but here the proof is in the Caputo. Never used any other flour, never want to. We just use the recipe as taught by the master, 1L warm water, 1.78K flour, 3g fresh yeast and 1.5oz salt, that's it. It works perfect everytime with 8hr room temp rise being the best.
We have yet to veer from the recipe and have been rewarded with perfect pizza everytime. Rises perfectly, shapes perfectly and cooks to that absolute goodness in a very hot, 900F, oven.
Had I not learned what I know today from master Roberto, the discussions may lead me to not even try making my own pizza. It's not that difficult at all. It's all in the ingredients.
Now back to my dough for today,
Tom in PA
Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
So if my math is correct you are using about 56% hydration? What type of crust does it yield? I ask because I have found 60-65% to be a bit low for what I want and made mine 70% hydration this weekend with the best results yet. I am trying to get big airy bubbles in my crust, and although I didn't get the result I wanted at 70% I got by far the closest to it with many big bubbles.
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Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
It yields the best crust I have ever had. If you want big airy bubbles, you got it, just don't put anything on that area and bubble it will. We just used the 4 dough balls leftover from yesterday for lunch today and the results after refrigeration overnight are almost the same.
Considering Roberto's pizza was just voted the best Neopolitan in NYC at his new Bleeker street establishment, Keste, I really don't think i should tinker with a successful recipe that garnishes this type of award.
Play all you want, I am sticking to what works for me.
Good Luck,
Tom in Pa
Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
Thanks for posting, I read a bit on Roberto and pulled up some pictures of his crust as Keste...looks good. I'm going to give it a shot next time I fire the oven. Do you work it in a mixer or by hand? How much?
Re: Problem with high hydration dough shaping
I do what texassourdough said with flour on a sheet pan. I use a 1/2 sheet pan with a 1-2c. pile of flour in one corner. I dip the entire ball in the flour before I start to shape and try and keep as little flour as possible on the rest of the pan. If I've gotten too much on or under the dough during shaping I pick it up and flop it around once or twice between my hands to shake off the excess before putting it onto my peel. The sheet pan itself makes for a nice, self-contained dough prep area and is easy clean up.
I think picking up the round and letting it stretch that way takes a lot of practice and very quick hands. Watch some of the youtube videos of the pizzaiolos doing it and you'll see what I mean.
Does your dough pass the windowpane test before you set it to ferment? Maybe try letting it knead for a few minutes longer and see what that gets you. With very wet doughs, it seems like it is almost impossible to over-develop the gluten especially with that long of a timeout between mixing and shaping.
Or maybe you're just trying to get it too thin/big! I like it fairly thin, and with a ~280g. ball I get about a 12" round. Anything bigger than that has a tendency to go wrong once it gets ingredients on top of it.
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What Is The 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act?
Q: Can you explain the 2010 Safe Cosmetics Act? What does it purport to do and has it been signed into law?
The Safe Cosmetics Act was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives in July 2010 by Democrats Jan Schakowsky of Illinois, Ed Markey of Massachusetts and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin. But it never got past committee reviews and thus never came up for a vote.
The proposed bill aimed to ensure that all personal care products for sale in the U.S. would be free of harmful ingredients and that all ingredients would be fully disclosed. The bill would've given the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) the authority to prohibit the use of certain ingredients, including carcinogens and reproductive and developmental toxins, to recall products that fail to meet safety standards, and to require product labels to name each ingredient.
The FDA has only limited say in what cosmetics manufacturers can and cannot put into their products. And the cosmetics industry has essentially been regulating itself for some three decades, and would like to keep it that way. In response to failed efforts in the 1970s to force the FDA to regulate cosmetics more like drugs – with required pre-market safety assessments – the industry decided to take matters into its own hands, creating the Cosmetics Industry Review Panel to judge the safety of various ingredients.
Critics argue that self-regulation isn't appropriate for an industry trading in potentially carcinogenic products. "It's a panel funded by the trade association," Stacy Malkan of the non-profit Campaign for Safe Cosmetics told the Washington, DC-based Corporate Crime Reporter. "For 30 years that they have been in operation, they have only looked at about 13 percent of the chemicals in cosmetics. They do cursory reviews. They look mostly for short term health effects. It's a panel of mostly dermatologists, not toxicologists. So, they don't have the expertise to be looking at long-term health effects like cancer."
Another non-profit, the Environmental Working Group (EWG), has identified upwards of 100 different products that passed Cosmetics Industry Review Panel safety assessments despite obvious violations of that body's own guidelines. According to EWG's research, 22 percent of all personal care products on store shelves today – including children's products – may contain a cancer-causing ingredient (1,4-Dioxane), while some 60 percent of sunscreens contain oxybenzone, a potential hormone disruptor.
In response to the government not requiring cosmetics manufacturers to be more responsible, EWG launched the Skin Deep website, an easy-to-use, keyword-searchable database of cosmetics and their health risks and environmental footprints. The idea behind the website is to let users decide for themselves which cosmetics to purchase; EWG hopes that making this information freely available and easy-to-access will help drive demand for safer products.
Supporters of the Safe Cosmetics Act were hopeful that passage of their bill would usher in a new era of more rigorous mandatory screening of cosmetics here at home, and leadership in a global marketplace hungry for safer, greener products. Advocates for safe cosmetics hope that lawmakers will muster the resolve to reintroduce the bill, or another like it, in the current or some future session of Congress.
CONTACTS: FDA, www.fda.gov; Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, www.safecosmetics.org; Corporate Crime Reporter, www.corporatecrimereporter.com; Skin Deep, www.ewg.org/skindeep/.
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The potential for chemical reform is quite exciting, but it should be done in a way that doesn"™t sacrifice millions of animals (for toxicity testing) in the name of better protection for human health and the environment. The revised bill should mandate and create market incentives to use nonanimal methods. We need to ensure that chemical testing is in line with the 21st century and relies on modern, human cell and computer-based methods that provide accurate data on how a chemical acts and what the impact on human health may be.
I know this is an old story now but it is very near and dear to my heart. I have a home based All Natural personal care business which is directly affected by this proposed law and myself along with the handcrafted soap makers guild are very worried because it would force me and my fellow home based "sapponeurs" to pay for extremely expensive testing because simple things such as Water which the government controls have many chemicals that are not easy to find now must be listed and at great expense (through testing) that can only be passed on to my customers =( which means people will continue to purchase inferior products because we can not compete price wise as it is. Great intentions, however terrible execution.


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The proposed Rogun Dam in Tajikistan has the potential to bring much-needed electricity and heat to people across the country and to bolster Tajikistan's economy through exports of surplus power. At 335 meters, the Rogun Dam is slated to become the tallest dam in the world. Tajik President Emomali Rahmon has stressed that completing the Rogun Dam is of "life or death importance" for the nation, which suffers from chronic energy shortages in the winter months. But thousands of people have already been compelled to resettle to make way for the dam and more will be resettled in the future. The government has obligations to respect their rights and to ensure that they do not suffer undue hardships and harm.
The dam will create a massive reservoir that will displace an estimated 7,000 families (about 42,000 people) by the time the project is completed. Between 2009 and early 2014, the government has already resettled approximately 1,500 families out of the reservoir zone to several other locations in Tajikistan.
This report documents the human rights violations associated with the resettlement process and makes specific recommendations both to remedy past abuses and to prevent future human rights violations for the tens of thousands of individuals who have yet to be resettled. Based on interviews with people at various stages of the resettlement process, Human Rights Watch has found that the standard of living for many resettled families has seriously deteriorated and that there are a number of barriers that undermine their ability to re-establish the standard of living they enjoyed prior to being resettled. Loss of land for farming and raising livestock, lack of employment, and poor access to essential services in resettled communities have combined to create significant hardship for resettled families, seriously diminishing the exercise and enjoyment of fundamental rights.
Various parties, including the government of neighboring Uzbekistan, have raised other concerns about the Rogun Dam project, such as the feasibility of its height or composition, its potential environmental impacts – including their potential to further harm human rights – potential political consequences, and where Tajikistan will procure the estimated US$2 to $6 billion required for its construction. These issues have been the subject of much international discussion but are beyond the scope of this report.
Many families compelled to resettle by the government have faced serious hardships in trying to re-establish their lives in new locations, including reduced access to food, water, and education. The government has allocated land to displaced families, but it has not built houses for them on that land nor provided sufficient compensation to all families in accordance with international human rights standards to build new homes of a similar size and standard to those they previously owned. In many cases, families suffered undue burdens due to the loss of agricultural lands that provided means of subsistence and income to the majority of families prior to resettlement. The government of Tajikistan should urgently take steps to address shortcomings in the resettlement process and prevent similar types of issues from occurring during future resettlements.
In 2010 the government suspended future resettlements pending the release of two World Bank-sponsored studies on the construction of the Rogun Dam, one of which examines Tajikistan's compliance with the bank's safeguard policies, including its involuntary resettlement policy and the Rogun Dam's effects on those subject to resettlement. However, resettlements continue from initially designated villages in Rogun and Nurabod districts.
The government plans to resettle all families living in the reservoir zone, in addition to those in villages adjacent to the construction site who will be subject to safety risks caused by the construction even though their homes will not be submerged. The government agency in charge of resettlement, the Directorate for the Flood Zone of Rogun Hydropower Plant (Flood Zone Directorate), has prioritized resettlement of families residing in lower lying areas that are among the first to be submerged as well as those closest to the Rogun Dam's construction site. The 1,500 families already resettled now live in purpose-built sites in four locations, three of which are located between 100 and 200 kilometers from the original villages.
To resettle families out of the flood zone, the government first appraised each house, including its fences, fruit-bearing trees, and other structures such as barns. The government then determined compensation awards to be paid in three installments. Because all land in Tajikistan is by law the property of the state, residents do not receive compensation for land, but the government allocates a land plot to each family at the resettlement site of their choice. Because the government does not begin to distribute compensation payments until it allocates land, most residents have waited for several years between the assessment and the time that they receive their first compensation payment.
Most villagers within the flood zone engage in farming or raise livestock and other animals, either on their household land or on additional lands known as dekhan farms. They grow wheat and cultivate vegetable gardens and orchards of varying sizes that produce apples, pears, mulberries, apricots, cherries, and walnuts. People used produce from the land as well as eggs, milk, and meat from poultry and livestock as a major food source and, in some cases, as a supplemental source of income. Very few resettled individuals have applied for or begun cultivating dekhan farms, in part because they do not know whether the government has made dekhan land available in their new communities.
In addition to losing dekhan farmland, resettled families have been awarded significantly smaller household land plots. Over 85 percent of resettled families interviewed by Human Rights Watch stated that they had lost access to land or described feeling compelled to sell livestock due to lack of adequate land in the resettlement sites and the need to raise additional funds to finance home construction. Although multi-family households receive one plot per family, the size of each plot is such that a house occupies much of it, leaving little room for livestock or farming. People who had previously relied on their lands to provide food reported that, after resettlement, they had to purchase most or all of their food at markets, leaving less money for other household needs.
Government representatives have acknowledged the importance of farmland to people facing resettlement. The Flood Zone Directorate has allocated 100 and 80 hectares of land for farms and pastures in two of the resettlement sites, Saidon y Bolo and Yoli Garm Oba, respectively, close to existing villages near the dam site that were under construction when Human Rights Watch visited in early 2014. However, those resettled to some other sites will not have access to farm and pasture land.
Resettled people also reported few prospects for formal, long term employment. Resettled people in some communities complained that, despite government promises of job placement and assistance, they have not been able to secure employment. For example, according to Paiman J., who resettled to the community in Tursunzoda district from Sech village in early 2013, "Employment is the biggest problem we have here. I am an experienced plumber, but I can't find work here. My wife and [adult] daughter recently got jobs as cleaners in the new school, but they earn only 100 somoni [about $20] each per month. There are no jobs here." Unemployment is prevalent throughout Tajikistan, but resettled people often face particular hardship because they have been uprooted from communities where they were able to produce their own food through farming and raising livestock.
Some people who had worked in Russia told Human Rights Watch researchers that they could not migrate for work until they finished building their houses, a process that can take several years. Hundreds of thousands of migrant laborers from Tajikistan work in other countries each year, and remittances from migrant work comprise nearly half of Tajikistan's GDP. Resettled individuals who would otherwise earn income from employment abroad are faced with the dilemma of leaving their families in an unfinished home to earn money for construction or staying while spending their savings.
In some resettled communities visited by Human Rights Watch, residents faced water shortages that left them without sufficient water for drinking and other household needs and prevented them from growing even a small amount of food. Prior to resettlement, families typically had continual access to water via mountain springs. In certain resettled communities, they often receive water supplied by electric pumps for only a few hours a day. To compensate for the lack of reliable water supply, resettled families collect water in bottles and tanks to use throughout the day for drinking and household tasks, but when mechanical problems interrupt the water supply, they must walk several kilometers to a canal or river and carry containers of water home. Resettled residents also stated that water shortages made it difficult to mix concrete or make clay bricks used to build their homes, slowing construction times.
The government is responsible for building schools in each resettled community, but despite Flood Zone Directorate representatives emphasizing plans to prioritize building schools, the communities in Rudaki and Dangara have been without a local school for several years. Children and parents in those areas reported that children spent as much as two hours walking to school, due to the long distances. During certain times of the year, children as young as seven years old must walk to or from school in the dark. Some parents told Human Rights Watch that they keep their children home from school in the cold or inclement weather and reported that their children resisted attending school because of the long walk. Parents in both resettled and yet to be resettled communities reported that children with disabilities did not attend local schools, and only a few went to specialized education programs in Dushanbe for a few weeks per year.
People in all resettled communities reported that the authorities promptly built small healthcare facilities known locally as "med-points" to address routine, basic medical care and that these facilities functioned reliably. Med-points distribute prescriptions, treat minor injuries or illnesses, and send a healthcare practitioner into the surrounding neighborhoods to visit people who cannot leave their homes. As is common throughout rural Tajikistan, however, those with serious medical conditions or disabilities must travel to the capital, Dushanbe, for specialized care.
Some people awaiting resettlement remain in the villages closest to the Rogun Dam construction site, where workers accumulate vast amounts of earth and stones to be used as building materials for the dam and associated structures. People still living in these communities stated that blasting for these materials has damaged their homes, shattering all of their windows and cracking their walls. According to all resettled people Human Rights Watch interviewed, the government has not awarded compensation to any residents for this damage.
Some of the difficulties that resettled people face, such as lack of local employment and limited access to electricity and water, mirror nationwide issues affecting millions of people in Tajikistan. The government should nonetheless take steps to address these issues in resettled communities because it was government action that caused or exacerbated their effects with respect to resettled people. For instance, people in the resettled communities in Rudaki have been without a local school or an adequate, reliable water supply for several years, marking a significant and long lasting reduction in their standard of living and social and economic rights that the government has an obligation to rectify.
People at all stages of the resettlement process reported that the government did not provide sufficient compensation for the homes that they must leave behind. Most people told Human Rights Watch that they had to spend considerable amounts of their own money in order to build a house of similar size and quality to their former home. Residents stated that they were compelled to contribute their own funds to construction not only due to the amount of compensation awarded but also due to significant delays between assessment and compensation, during which time the cost of construction materials increased significantly due to inflation. Most people reported taking several years to complete construction of their main house and needing to repeatedly travel long distances from their existing homes to resettlement sites to do so.
In addition, outside of the summer months, the government provides electricity to resettled communities for only a few hours per day. While this is common throughout Tajikistan, including in some of villages where families were moving from, people reported that the absence of electricity for lighting and power tools was increasing construction times.
While the authorities responsible for resettlement have developed an assessment and compensation system based on actual measurements and what they term "market value," as required under Tajik law, they award compensation that does not reflect the actual cost of building materials for a new home, let alone the cost of hiring qualified builders. Human Rights Watch documented some instances where some individuals in female headed households or households containing a person with a disability stated that they lacked adult relatives to help with construction and that they therefore required practical or financial assistance from the government.
Government representatives told Human Rights Watch that they had built a number of homes for people needing special assistance, such as for widows, war veterans, and people with disabilities. But when researchers visited those houses and spoke with residents, they found that only government employees (who did not have disabilities) lived there and that the houses were in any event not wheelchair accessible.
Those who built their own houses told Human Rights Watch researchers that they spent on average three years building the main house, plus additional time constructing outbuildings such as a kitchen, bathing room, food storage shed, and toilet, consistent with their previous living structures and typical households in Tajikistan.
Longer construction times often compelled families who resettled quickly to new villages to live in half-completed houses, sometimes cooking outdoors or bathing in unfinished basements. In other cases, families remained in their original homes while male relatives regularly traveled distances of up to 200 kilometers to complete construction of new homes, often spending significant amounts of money on transportation. Men reported spending as much as a month at a time away from their families, sleeping in tents, neighbors' homes, or in their unfinished houses while building their new homes. Many families in this situation noted the significant costs of running two households at once. Others expressed satisfaction that they were able to continue using their old homes and farms while construction was ongoing.
The government has not taken sufficient steps to provide families awaiting resettlement and those who have already resettled with timely, accurate, and specific information about certain aspects of the resettlement process such as compensation procedures, complaint mechanisms, availability of land for farms and pastures, employment opportunities, and other assistance. Nor did the government provide people with an opportunity to meaningfully participate in the crafting of the proposed resettlement plan or facilitate legal, technical and other advice to people about their rights and options. For instance, many residents told Human Rights Watch that they had no idea whether farmland was available in their new communities or how to apply for it. Similarly, people with other concerns reported not understanding the complaint process or the roles of the many government agencies involved in providing particular services or resolving problems. In many cases, residents expressed resignation and a sense of futility with respect to interacting with the government about any aspect of the resettlement process.
The government does not have an on-the-ground monitoring or outreach system to assess resettled people's needs, to determine whether officials and agencies are fulfilling their duties, or to provide assistance to people in crisis. Instead they rely on an opaque complaint system to settle issues on a case-by-case basis. The government's approach does not address structural flaws in the resettlement process, and it risks overlooking serious harms that may occur as consequences of resettlement to marginalized individuals such as widows, divorced women, and persons with disabilities. Inadequate compensation, lowered standards of living due to inadequate housing as well as loss of access to food, water and education may impact these individuals disproportionately. Marginalized individuals may also face specific challenges when bringing complaints. In addition, it has not always recognized many of the particular negative impacts marginalized people might suffer as a consequence of resettlement.
Tajikistan's government has a unique opportunity to address problems with the resettlement process before they impact thousands more families. It should re-examine its policies and practices to ensure that it respects human rights and makes changes that address the violations documented in this report. Further, it should provide adequate remedies to those who have already suffered violations because they were resettled.
On June 17, 2014, the World Bank published the final draft of its Rogun Dam studies for consultation, as well as its own draft paper, "Key Issues for Consideration on the Proposed Rogun Hydropower Project." The World Bank acknowledged that the required resettlements would have a major impact on building the Rogun Dam, that the project would result in economic, as well as physical, displacement, and that restoring livelihoods during and after resettlement would be a critical element of the resettlement process. However, while the draft Environmental and Social Impact Assessment importantly considers international environmental treaties and international water laws, it does not consider relevant international human rights instruments regarding resettlement. As these studies are finalized, the World Bank, its consultants, and its economic and social panel of experts should be guided by international human rights standards.
While the World Bank has not committed to funding the Rogun Dam itself, it and other international actors should provide financial assistance to the resettlement process, including funding for effective monitoring to ensure that human rights standards are being met.
The government of Tajikistan has obligations under the constitution of Tajikistan as well as under international law to protect people's rights to adequate housing, food, water, health, work, and education. It must also avoid taking any steps that would negatively impact or cause a regression in people's realization of these rights. In the context of involuntary resettlement, the government must ensure fair compensation for all losses that resettlement imposes upon people forced to resettle and ensure that people do not bear an undue burden as the result of being resettled. The government must provide timely and adequate information to and consult in advance with residents facing resettlement and provide access to effective remedies if rights violations occur.
As it moves forward with the Rogun Dam project, the government of Tajikistan should respect and uphold the United Nations Basic Principles and Guidelines on Development-Based Evictions and Displacement, the international human rights standards that they are based on, and the World Bank's Involuntary Resettlement Policy. With over 5,500 families yet to be resettled, the government has an opportunity to effect a positive change on many lives in the near future.


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Apple's iDevices are not 3D-capable — They neither record nor display 3D content. Somehow, though, that hasn't stopped many of the app world's industrious developers from creating kitschy mobile software to simulate the effect.
One new release, VideoCam3D, has made a gallant effort at pulling off the trick. Developed by NXP Software (of CineXPlayer fame), the app is simple and to-the-point. All you do is launch it, select or record your clip, and kick off the conversion process. Unfortunately, the conversion takes some time to complete, and the end-result (presented in your choice of red/blue anaglyph or side-by-side stereogram) is underwhelming.
Of course, that's to be expected: You simply can't produce a 3D image without a two-lens camera system. Instead of creating images with actual elemental depth, you get a sort of sunken presentation, where the video looks wholly recessed but still altogether flattened. If you're familiar with either the cross-eyed or "disfocus" method, you can check out some glasses-free samples I made with the app (from a November trip to Ithaca, New York) in the gallery below.
More than anything, the app's a noble effort at an impossible task. If you're still interested, you can pick up VideoCam3D for $1.99 on the App Store, though a free version is also available to try.


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Late in the second quarter of the Nets-Celtics game, with the Nets up by 16, Kevin Garnett drove to the basket and Kris Humphries fouled him hard, sending him to the ground. Rajon Rondo took umbrage from the play, pushed Humphries hard, got in his face and threw some punches, starting a fracas that went into the stands. (see the video here) Rajon Rondo is a punk. What was he thinking? First off, going after another player will immediately get him ejected and he knows that. Doesn't he know that he is the team's most important player? Doesn't he know that the Celtics can't win without him? Doesn't he know that this is a divisional rivalry game against a good team that has already beaten his team once? The game was still early enough for the Celtics to possibly come back. Isn't he also aware that he has a personal streak, a historical 37-game streak of double-digit assists on the line? The foul wasn't even egregious. Garnett was driving down the baseline, Humphries was defending him, K...
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