Monthly Archives: February 2012

Facts and statistics on the coming plastic bag ban in California

Plastic bags contribute to the pollution of California’s ocean and beaches. Californians use approximately 16 billion plastic bags per year – more than 400 annually per person. Less than 5 percent of plastic bags are recycled. Instead, they end up sitting in landfills, littering streets, clogging streams, fouling beaches, or floating out to sea. Plastic …

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MLB to test out new 'Live In-Game Audio during Spring Training

“We’ve pretty much pushed the limits of video, but audio is untapped,” said Tony Petitti, the president of MLB Network. On March 7, the network will try to take a leap in audio, televising a spring training game between the Indians and Diamondbacks in which up to six players a team will wear microphones. What …

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MLB to test out new ‘Live In-Game Audio during Spring Training

“We’ve pretty much pushed the limits of video, but audio is untapped,” said Tony Petitti, the president of MLB Network. On March 7, the network will try to take a leap in audio, televising a spring training game between the Indians and Diamondbacks in which up to six players a team will wear microphones. What …

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Profiles on the million dollar projects of Kickstarter

Idea Lab: On Monday, Kickstarter saw the third project in its short history, a Web comic book, raise over $1 million. Before that, the first two projects to cross the million dollar mark — a computer adventure game and a fetching American-made iPhone dock — did so just days prior, on February 10, and both …

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Kickstarter to provide more funding for arts than NEA

Kickstarter is having an amazing year, even by the standards of other white hot Web startup companies, and more is yet to come. (The Start-up) is on track to distribute over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, or more than entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts …

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Baseball Spring Training is here! – 22 Angels games will be broadcast on TV and radio

I’m excited for Angels Spring Training and the 22 televised games this March and April. The games will also be live on AM830. Visit Halo Nation for the press release about the games, the two bolded games are Dodgers broadcasts. 3/5  – Oakland – 12:05pm – FSW 3/6 – White Sox – 12:05pm – FSW 3/7 – Seattle – 12:05pm …

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Los Angeles has second most solar installations in California, behind leader San Diego

Los Angeles ranks second in the state in terms of the number of solar installations on residential, commercial and government buildings, with just over 4,000 projects installed. Los Angles is also second in the state in terms of the total amount of solar electricity generated, measured in capacity, with 36 megawatts. “The good news is …

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