| Sanyo's High-End Camcorder Boxes You In
Sometimes things just don't work out the way they're supposed to. Take, for example, this review of Sanyo'sSANYY Xacti HD 1000 digital movie camera. I brought it along with me to test under real working conditions -- at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, last month. The idea was that my producer-cinematographer Dee Robinson would shoot me with his professional Panasonic camera (with a Leica lens) -- and I would shoot him shooting me using the Sanyo HD1000. Both of us would shoot in full HD. In the Sanyo's case, that means 1920 by 1080 pixels. The Panasonic was also set at full 1080i. The plan was for Dee to edit everything together when we got home. Notice I wrote that in the past tense. That's because we couldn't edit anything together. Actually, we couldn't even see the Sanyo's video on any of our AppleAAPL Mac or Windows computers.
Bella Vita goes belly up
Originally, delays were related to construction bids coming in higher than expected. Then the project was held up by a complaint to the state Bureau of Labor and Industries against the developer and MURA for not providing the prevailing wage rate for a public project. BOLI ruled prevailing wage rates, which were higher than the developer was anticipating, must be paid. Coupled with the national downturn in the real estate market and the mortgage-lending crisis, the project just never got its footing again. Bella Vita was estimated to cost $25 million when it was unveiled in 2005. The three six-story buildings were to consist of about 64 residential units, 55,000 square feet of office space and 19,000 square feet of commercial space. Occupancy was originally planned for the first condominiums in September 2006.
Extra! UIdaho Student Found Shot to Death
Savannah Ladd, 12, of Bremerton, Wash., looks up for help as she does push-ups in front of a U.S. Marine Corps recruiter Saturday, March 31, 2007, at the Kitsap Mall in Silverdale, Wash. The mall sponsored the annual Military Appreciation Day which featured military demonstrations, static displays and a kids' boot camp. .
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A jaunt to Nicollet Mall one chilly afternoon proved fruitful as we hunted down winter-hat styles for men. Watch the slide show at startribune.com/slideshows.
Jan 25, 2008 Slide show: Practical and stylin' winter hats
Withering Glance chatted with wearers of stylish and practical men's winter hats on a recent visit to Nicollet Mall.
Jan 25, 2008 Video: Ice carving off to a chilly start
Despite facing temperatures below zero, the hearty ice carvers started at 9 a.m. today and planned to work through 48 hours to finish their masterpieces in St. Paul's Rice Park.
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Orb Now Bundled With Hauppauge's WinTV-PVR Products in the United ...
NEW YORK, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Hauppauge Computer Works, Inc., the industry leader in providing personal computer-based TV receivers, and Orb Networks, the award-winning developer of software and services that unlock the digital media stored on personal computers, today announced that Orb will be bundled with Hauppauge's WinTV-PVR TV tuners in the U.S. The Hauppauge WinTV-PVR's are high performance PC based TV receivers which allow PC users to watch and record TV on their PCs. The internal WinTV-PVR-150 board and the external USB based WinTV-PVR-USB2 will have the Orb application included so that users can not only watch TV on their PC screens, but watch their TV while traveling. The WinTV-PVR with Orb bundles are coming to US consumers through online and retail stores throughout the United States, giving Windows PC owners the ability to take their TV anywhere.
Droplet Technology Demonstrates Live 3G Mobile Video Services at 2008 ...
MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Droplet Technology, Inc. today began a 4-day showcase of the company's 3G personal mobile video services at CES 2008 (January 7-10, Meeting Room #70127, Sands Expo & Convention Center, Las Vegas). Personal mobile video services provide real-time or non-real-time exchange of user-generated or user-selected video, with at least one mobile handset involved. At CES 2008, Droplet is showcasing video services running live on off-the-shelf commercial handsets over multiple 3G wireless (AT&T HSDPA/UMTS and Verizon EV-DO) and Wi-Fi networks, including: Droplet's patented breakthroughs in all-software video processing and video communications eliminate the traditional hardware costs, complexities, and constraints that limit today's video-enabled devices and services.
Hate Crime at a Quaker Campus?
This kind of violence is rare at a Quaker college," said Aaron Fetrow, dean of student life, in a Webcast by the newspaper. “We will not tolerate this violence or the verbal abuse." Court documents examined by the newspaper reported complaints that three students were attacked at Bryan Hall, a dormitory, and that the attackers used their fists, feet, and brass knuckles, and hurled racial slurs. The attack involved “at least 15 members of the football team," according to the police report. Three members of the football team were arrested and later released on $2,000 bond. They could not be reached and there were no reports on their version of the incident. Awartani said that he and the other two students were beaten by assailants who hurled racial epithets and called them “dirty terrorists." Awartani is a student at North Carolina State University and said that he and his two friends, who are students at Guilford, had attended a Quaker school in the West Bank before coming to the United States.
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