Deets After Dark

May 16 2012 ∞
willisistalking: stadium-love-: Staples Center to host 6 playoff games in 4 days - Associated Press Staples Center is always among the world’s busiest arenas, hosting a jam-packed slate of concerts and shows crammed between games for the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and the NHL’s Kings. But the downtown Los Angeles venue is preparing for its craziest weekend ever. After a remarkable run of simultaneous postseason success, Staples Center’s three main tenants are combining to host six playoff games in just four days. Starting with Game 3 of the Kings’ Western Conference final against the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night and concluding with Game 4 of the Clippers’ second-round series against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night, the building will host a noon-to-night barrage of dunks and slap shots, 3-pointers and glove saves in a succession of pressure-packed postseason games. Read More Pretty crazy. Three teams using one arena? Playoff games? This is too much for this Minnesotan to comprehend.

willisistalking:

stadium-love-:

Staples Center to host 6 playoff games in 4 days - Associated Press

Staples Center is always among the world’s busiest arenas, hosting a jam-packed slate of concerts and shows crammed between games for the NBA’s Lakers and Clippers and the NHL’s Kings.

But the downtown Los Angeles venue is preparing for its craziest weekend ever. After a remarkable run of simultaneous postseason success, Staples Center’s three main tenants are combining to host six playoff games in just four days.

Starting with Game 3 of the Kings’ Western Conference final against the Phoenix Coyotes on Thursday night and concluding with Game 4 of the Clippers’ second-round series against the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night, the building will host a noon-to-night barrage of dunks and slap shots, 3-pointers and glove saves in a succession of pressure-packed postseason games. Read More

Pretty crazy.

Three teams using one arena?

Playoff games?

This is too much for this Minnesotan to comprehend.

May 15 2012 ∞

Virgin Airlines to allow in-flight cell phone calls

soupsoup:

Passengers on certain Virgin Atlantic flights are now able to use their cell phones to make and receive phone calls at 35,000 feet, the airline announced Tuesday.

I hope they have phone booths on the planes.

May 14 2012 ∞
Hmm, maybe that explains Linden Hills, mid-North Minneapolis, and NE-NE Minneapolis being red?

Hmm, maybe that explains Linden Hills, mid-North Minneapolis, and NE-NE Minneapolis being red?

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Minneapolis BikeScore heat map. The Midtown Greenway bike highway sure stands out.  That said, question their scoring based on downtown Minneapolis, where it’s certainly possible to bike but not bike friendly throughout. And, while there may not be many dedicated bike lanes in Linden Hills or western North Minneapolis, it’s still bike friendly.

Minneapolis BikeScore heat map. The Midtown Greenway bike highway sure stands out. 

That said, question their scoring based on downtown Minneapolis, where it’s certainly possible to bike but not bike friendly throughout. And, while there may not be many dedicated bike lanes in Linden Hills or western North Minneapolis, it’s still bike friendly.

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Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, for example, saw the open purse as a chance to grab some money for the poor, requesting $400 million in bonding to fix up public housing “creating the same number of [construction] jobs as the stadium, coincidentally.”

Or not coincidentally.

Rep. Morrie Lanning R-Moorhead, sponsor of the stadium bill, called Clark’s amendment “not germane” and “another attempt to spend money we don’t have.”

I swear, he did this with a straight face.
— Vikings stadium sausage making.
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good: According to a new Pew study, increasing your earning potential may require literally moving on up: If you aim to climb the income ladder in the United States, your best bet might be to move north and east—and definitely stay out of the south.

good:

According to a new Pew study, increasing your earning potential may require literally moving on up: If you aim to climb the income ladder in the United States, your best bet might be to move north and east—and definitely stay out of the south.

(via publicradiointernational)

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Many ethanol producers routinely add antibiotics like medically important penicillin and erythromycin, as well as virginiamycin and tylosin, when mixing corn mash and warm water to ferment the ethanol.

Producers use antibiotics to keep the tanks from being contaminated with Lactobacilli, bacteria that compete with the yeast and lowers the ethanol yield. Contamination is common so tanks are often inoculated as a preventative measure.

So, what does this process have to do with food safety and antimicrobial resistance? Well, the leftover distillers grains can contain antibiotic residues and they are routinely fed to food animals.
— If our goal was to generate antibiotic resistant bacteria, this could be a way to go about doing so on a large scale.
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unconsumption: Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups - Design - The Atlantic Cities: Copenhagen designer So Hoj noticed, and was bothered by, piles of spent coffee cups spilling out of trash cans and onto the sidewalk around the city.  Hoj, a self-employed designer with a background in accessories, took up the problem herself by converting tall, slender cardboard tubes from the post office into receptacles for discarded cups. The idea is simple enough: you can hold more cups in a smaller space when they’re stacked neatly inside each other. Hoj’s theory was that this would alleviate the cup problem by giving them their own, more compact space, and leaving larger trash cans for other items. … She mounted her “test tube” cup collectors and put them on two trash cans along the waterfront. Quickly, her fellow Copenhageners caught on. Here’s what the the trash cans used to look before her solution:

unconsumption:

Public Trash Cans That Aren’t Overflowing with Empty Coffee Cups - Design - The Atlantic Cities:

Copenhagen designer So Hoj noticed, and was bothered by, piles of spent coffee cups spilling out of trash cans and onto the sidewalk around the city. 

Hoj, a self-employed designer with a background in accessories, took up the problem herself by converting tall, slender cardboard tubes from the post office into receptacles for discarded cups.

The idea is simple enough: you can hold more cups in a smaller space when they’re stacked neatly inside each other. Hoj’s theory was that this would alleviate the cup problem by giving them their own, more compact space, and leaving larger trash cans for other items.

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She mounted her “test tube” cup collectors and put them on two trash cans along the waterfront. Quickly, her fellow Copenhageners caught on.

Here’s what the the trash cans used to look before her solution:

May 11 2012 ∞

: Stadium Bill Passes! (No—Not That One)

mn70s:

Vision of a Downtown Minneapolis Stadium, Circulated by Boosters of the Bloomington, MN, Site, c. 1977

How’s this for a coincidence:

On May 11, 1977, the Minnesota legislature approved a bill clearing the way for construction of a new stadium somewhere in the Twin Cities metro area. The…

The downtown entertainment taxes that were used to pay for the Metrodome shifted to the convention center and are now back to pay for another stadium. But, since the NFL’s taste in stadiums has far outpaced inflation and the growth in our local economy, the state had to come up with $350 million through gambling revenues to meet the NFL’s demands.

May 06 2012 ∞

Minnesota

dmdhashw:

thecallus:

Right now, union workers are holding a protest because they want to pass a bill that would give the NFL’s rich-ass owners hundreds of millions of dollars. They’re protesting to keep their tiny piece at the behest of super-rich interests. This is a microcosm of everything that we are fucking up.

I didn’t realize people outside of the Midwest were paying attention to this. 

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