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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Jul 30 2008, 01:26 PM |
Title: Boise Area Bone Marrow Donor Drive
I don't think that we have many members that are in Idaho or the Boise area, but if you are then you should definitely consider stopping by to get registered, it could make the world of difference! If you are a resident of the Treasure Valley already or will be visiting the area the weekend of August 9th please take a few moments and stop by the Boise City Hall on Capital Blvd in the heart of Downtown to register as a Bone Marrow Donor. The process is completely painless to register and also free. Typically the cost to register yourself as a donor is $50 (fifty dollars) but during this one day event that cost will be waived. See press release below.
The process is simple, painless and quick. A cheek swab is taken, tested and then entered into the nationwide database. Thousands of patients are waiting for a bone marrow donor match and you could help save a life.
More information available by calling Mark Allen at 208-381-3109 or visit www.marrow.org
I hope to see you there!
QUOTE BOISE’S LAST BONE MARROW DONOR DRIVE
TO BE HELD AUGUST 9 AT CITY HALL
Boise’s last locally-sponsored bone marrow donor drive will be held Saturday, August 9, 2008, at the Boise City Hall Plaza from 9am-4pm and will be FREE to the public. Participants wishing to help save a person’s life need only show up and undergo a simple cheek swab to be entered into the National Marrow Donor Program Registry.
The event is being sponsored by Saint Alphonsus Cancer Center and St. Luke’s MSTI, the National Donor Marrow Program, Inland Northwest Blood Center, and Group One Real Estate.
Saint Alphonsus Marrow Donor Registry closed its doors in April of this year, while St. Luke’s MSTI Marrow Donor Center will end operations in September. The decision to close the donor centers in Idaho was due to new national recruitment quotas and other requirements mandated by the National Marrow Donor Program. The donors recruited by both programs will be transferred to and managed by the Inland Northwest Blood Center in Spokane.
The August 9 drive is being held in honor of Shannah Hadley, a young Treasure Valley wife and mother of two girls who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia (a type of blood cancer) just two months ago.
There are currently over 6,000 men, women and children across the United States waiting for a bone marrow donor match to save their lives. Bone marrow and stem cell transplants are used to treat leukemia, lymphoma and other life-threatening diseases.
City Hall was selected as the location due to Mayor David Bieter’s support of bone marrow donation programs. In 2003, Mayor Bieter saved the life of a Florida donor by successfully donating his bone marrow. “I found donating to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life,” said Mayor Bieter. “Having gone through the entire process I can tell you it is much easier than you would expect. I strongly encourage every one to make time to get registered at City Hall on August 9.”
For additional information or to join the National Registry if you’re not able to participate on August 9, 2008 please go to www.marrow.org
For additional information about the August 9th Boise’s Last Bone Marrow Drive please contact Carey Farmer at 724-4062.
For additional information about local bone marrow donation please contact Call Mark Allen at MSTI at 381.3109 |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Aug 4 2007, 07:50 AM |
Title: World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King
 ANAHEIM, Calif. -- August 3, 2007 -- Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. today announced plans for the second expansion to World of Warcraft®, its award-winning massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). Unveiled at the company's BlizzCon™ gaming festival before an audience of more than 8,000 gamers, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King™ will open the forbidding wasteland of Northrend to exploration by the hardiest adventurers. New levels of power, challenging new dungeons and encounters, an exciting new character profession, and the game's first hero class are just some of the new features awaiting players in Wrath of the Lich King.
"This expansion will add some of the most infamous characters and settings from the Warcraft® universe to World of Warcraft," said Mike Morhaime, president and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment®. "In addition to new story content, Wrath of the Lich King will introduce a number of features specifically requested by players over the past couple of years. We're looking forward to sharing further details with everyone as development progresses."
Players last visited Northrend in Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne™, when Arthas Menethil fused with the spirit of Ner'zhul to become the Lich King, one of the most powerful beings in the Warcraft universe. He now broods atop the Frozen Throne deep in Icecrown Citadel, clutching the rune blade Frostmourne and marshaling the undead armies of the Scourge. In Wrath of the Lich King, the forces of the Alliance and the Horde will venture into battle against the Scourge amid Northrend's howling winds and fields of jagged ice.
Building on the foundation established in World of Warcraft and The Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich King will add a rich variety of content to an already massive game. New features coming with the game's second expansion include:
* Death Knight Hero Class: Create a high-level Death Knight character -- the game's first hero class -- once certain challenges have been met.
* Increased Level Cap: Advance to level 80 and gain potent new talents and abilities along the way.
* Northrend: Explore the harsh new continent of Northrend, packed with new zones, quests, dungeons, monsters, and items -- and do battle with the undead armies of the Lich King.
* "Inscription" Profession: Learn this exciting new profession and gain unique ways to permanently enhance spells and abilities in the game.
* Siege Weapons and Destructible Buildings: Take the battle to another level with new player-vs.-player game mechanics and new battlefields to wage war on.
* New Character Customization: Change how characters look and express themselves, with different hairstyles and dance animations.
For all the details and a look at the art/screenshots from this upcoming expansion you can head over to the Lich King website. |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Jun 12 2007, 10:26 PM |
Title: Apple Safari For Windows: Bring on the Pain
 It took security engineers perhaps less than two hours yesterday to introduce Apple's surprise entry in the field of Windows browsers to the big, cruel world of exploits and vulnerabilities, following its introduction yesterday morning at WWDC. As a result, much of the clout Safari had received as the secure browsing alternative to Internet Explorer and Firefox -- as long as it was on a Macintosh -- was burned off like fire to a flash fuse.
Read more of the story at BetaNews and at the Errata Security Blog |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Jun 12 2007, 09:45 PM |
Title: Adult Swim Star Wars Special
 So the guys at Robot Chicken have a 30 minute Star Wars special coming up this Sunday, June 17th at 10:00 PM. It should be outstanding. Check the link above for a selection of trailers, clips, and wallpapers to get you through the rest of the week.
For your viewing pleasure, if you have not already seen it, I highly recommend you navigate your browser over to this Google Video. Any Star Wars fan will appreciate it I think.
On an un-related note, I just found my way to this Ryan vs Dorkman lightsaber battle. Another good time waster if you have 10 minutes.
Very impressive work though. |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Apr 19 2007, 02:20 PM |
Title: Steam Gets HACKED
 "Half-Life gamer claims to have hacked Valve's Steam servers and is holding the company to ransom.
The chap, calling himself Maddox, says that he is not a fan of Steam - the digital distribution system for games that Valve has pioneered - and he's acting to get Valve to fix it to his satisfaction.
To prove his point, the hacker has released screenshots onto the web of Valve's internal admin system, along with details of user accounts and tips for people to set up their own 'CyberCafe' account with Valve, a privilege usually reserved for those running, well, CyberCafes.
See the rest of the story here |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Mar 28 2007, 07:25 AM |
Title: Speakeasy SOLD
Best Buy said on Tuesday it would buy Speakeasy, an independent broadband voice, data and IT services provider, for about million to strengthen its small business technology portfolio.
Best Buy, the top U.S. consumer electronics retail chain, expects to close the acquisition in the first quarter of fiscal 2008 and said the deal should not affect fiscal 2008 earnings.
Speakeasy will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Best Buy and deliver its services through the Best Buy For Business unit, which serves small businesses.
Best Buy said the purchase price represents about 1.2 times Speakeasy's calendar 2006 revenue of million.
Full article at ZDNet |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Mar 17 2007, 07:04 AM |
Title: PS3 to Fold @ Home!
 "Since 2000, Folding@Home (FAH) has led to a major jump in the capabilities of molecular simulation. By joining together hundreds of thousands of PCs throughout the world, calculations which were previously considered impossible have now become routine. FAH has targeted the study of of protein folding and protein folding disease, and numerous scientific advances have come from the project.
Now in 2006, we are looking forward to another major advance in capabilities. This advance utilizes the new Cell processor in Sony’s PLAYSTATION 3 (PS3) to achieve performance previously only possible on supercomputers. With this new technology (as well as new advances with GPUs), we will likely be able to attain performance on the 100 gigaflop scale per computer. With about 10,000 such machines, we would be able to achieve performance on the petaflop scale. With software from Sony, the PlayStation 3 will now be able to contribute to the Folding@Home project, pushing Folding@Home a major step forward.
Our goal is to apply this new technology to push Folding@Home into a new level of capabilities, applying our simulations to further study of protein folding and related diseases, including Alzheimer’s Disease, Huntington's Disease, and certain forms of cancer. With these computational advances, coupled with new simulation methodologies to harness the new techniques, we will be able to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, and make even greater impacts on our knowledge of folding and folding related diseases."
Full article here |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Mar 16 2007, 10:32 AM |
Title: Belated 2007 Resolution
My goal is to get back into the habit of regular news updates. My goal is at least one article every couple weeks or in the worst case one a month. We'll see how it goes. Anyway, expect a much more robust influx of Electronic news in the future. *stay tuned*  |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Jun 22 2006, 11:27 AM |
Title: Original Star Wars Trilogy DVD's
Just in case you hadn't heard, Lucas has finally relented and will be releasing for the first time ever on DVD the un-adulterated versions of Episode IV, V, and VI. This will be the Dolby 5.1 version with no extra cgi scenes, Hon shooting first in the cantina, and hopefully the original victory song in Return of the Jedi. Not that it was outstanding, but the new one is just horrible.
Pulling a page out of Disney's book, Lucas will release this limited time set in September 12th of this year and will pull it off the shelves December 31st. Stock up while you can. Be sure to buy an extra copy or two in case your kids accidently destroy a disk or two.
This move is a welcome one for those of us that actually remember the originals and want to be able to share them with our children.
You can see the full story at StarWars.com |
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Posted By: Andrax
Posted On: Mar 15 2006, 03:29 PM |
Title: Hark! Is that a flushing sound I hear?
No, apparently its just Infinium Labs racking up 62+million dollars in losses over the past few years.
Prospectus details how would-be PC-game-console-maker lost .7 million in three years--and is putting the Phantom on hold. Infinium Labs is focused on getting its Phantom Lapboard to market, but the cash-strapped company is in need of additional financing.
Last month, the company announced an arrangement for million in funding from Golden Gate Investors. As part of that agreement, Infinium has filed a prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission detailing the company's unprofitable past and laying out its game plan for the future.
From its inception in December of 2002 through September of last year, Infinium racked up .7 million in losses. Of that, only .5 million has been lost to development costs. The company has spent more than half that in advertising, even though none of its products or services have been released yet. More of the company's money has been going toward consultants (.8 million), salaries (.9 million), and general and administrative expenses (.9 million).
As for how the company plans to reverse its fortunes, the prospectus indicates that, for now, the company is backing off of its Phantom Game Service and focusing on getting its Phantom Lapboard peripheral to market...
...Infinium's filing also details a history of the company's broken agreements. It had signed royalty agreements with a number of publishers to provide games for its Phantom Game Service. Each publisher was guaranteed an advance royalty payment, and in each case mentioned, Infinium has so far failed to live up to its end of the bargain. It guaranteed advance royalties of 0,000 to Atari (publisher of the Dragon Ball Z and Driver series), 5,000 to Riverdeep (Carmen Sandiego, Reader Rabbit), 5,000 to Eidos (Tomb Raider, 25 to Life), ,000 to Codemasters (TOCA Race Driver 3, RF Online), and ,000 to Enlight (Bad Day L.A., Scrapland). Infinium is in default of its agreements with all of these companies.
While it might be just a tad bit early to completely close the books on Infinium, It is certianly starting to look like another big gold star on the founders list of failed companies that have cost investors millions of dollars and failed to produce anything.
You can check out the full article over at GameSpot |
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