| Tables turn into cash | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:12:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Anyone who argues that dreams don't come true is obviously unacquainted with Adam Wasserman and the other members of the "King Pong Crew." Wasserman graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in economics and immediately worked as an account executive for two years. But his life changed forever after a lunch with his friend, Dan Shuman, who graduated from U of A with a degree in marketing, during which the idea surfaced to start a business selling beer pong tables. Beer pong is a drinking "sport" in which two teams take turns throwing ping pong balls into their opponent's beer-filled cups. "We saw the potential of the idea, and one thing led to another and we started planning," Wasserman said. "Our love for the game back in school drove us to make a cheap and affordable way for students and graduates to enjoy beer pong." After testing the market by receiving feedback from friends and his college-enrolled brother, Wasserman knew he was onto a big idea.... | |
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| | | University of Arizona Selects Smartvue(R) 802.11N Draft Wireless H ... | | Posted Saturday, January 13, 2007 1:20:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Smartvue(R) Corporation, an award-winning technology leader in the IP video industry, announced that the University of Arizona had selected the Smartvue S4 IP video surveillance solution for protecting valuable property and the safety of students. Smartvue S4 is part of the Smartvue family of plug and play wireless IP video surveillance solutions which offer simple installation, superior imaging quality, and advanced security as well as video analytics for visual business intelligence. "I was tasked to find a high quality IP video surveillance for a complex installation that would have required special wiring and included difficult lighting conditions with both bright natural light and dark interiors," said Bryan Watmore, Manager of Information Technology at the College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona.... | |
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| | | Arizona Daily Wildcat | | Posted Saturday, December 30, 2006 3:11:34 PM by Blog57 Team | | Just in time to face their first ranked opponent of the season, the Wildcats moved up one spot to No. 9 in the Associated Press poll after beating Houston Sunday. Although Arizona has faced the likes of Virginia, Nevada-Las Vegas, Illinois, Louisville, and San Diego State early in the season, No.… Post the First Comment .... | |
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| | | Valley libraries expand digital offerings | | Posted Wednesday, November 15, 2006 1:16:27 PM by Blog57 Team | | A trip to the local library may no longer be necessary with the conversion of growing numbers of books, movies, special collections and record albums to digital formats. Whether users need to conduct serious research or just borrow the latest John Grisham potboiler, they can do it from the comfort of their own home computer. The latest development in a growing trend was Tuesday's announcement at the Phoenix Central Library of an eight-library arrangement with digital vendor Overdrive Inc. to provide 25,000 titles to library card holders. Participating with Phoenix are Glendale, Peoria, Scottsdale, Mesa, Gilbert, Tempe and the Arizona State Library. .... | |
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| | | Third season is the charm for Arizona's Stoops | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 7:10:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | TUCSON, Ariz. -- When Mike Stoops arrived three years ago, the University of Arizona barely qualified as a major-college football program. Morale and attendance had dipped during the three-year John Mackovic era, which ended in a disastrous 2-10 season in 2003. Stoops, who had never been a college head coach, gave the Wildcats a jolt of energy. After winning three games in each of his first two seasons, Stoops was under pressure to produce better results this year. A 2-4 start did little to excite fans. But the Wildcats kept playing hard, and it paid off in Saturday's 24-20 upset of No. 8 California. It was their second victory over a Top 25 team in two weeks. Arizona knocked off then-No. 25 Washington State in Pullman a week ago. "They've never quit," Stoops said.... | |
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| | | Global warming plan made in the shade | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:41:27 AM by Blog57 Team | | Pull down a window shade, and it cools your room. Now University of Arizona astronomer Roger Angel has taken this just a bit further — he's studying how a huge "space sunshade" could be deployed in orbit around the Earth to offset global warming. His plan is to launch trillions of ultrathin two-foot diameter shades — each about the weight of a butterfly — a million miles above the Earth into an orbit aligned with the sun. The shades would form a "cloud" that would reduce sunlight by about 2% over the entire planet, enough to balance the heating of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere, the primary cause of global warming. "The sunshade is no substitute for developing renewable energy, the only permanent solution," Angel says. "But if the planet gets into an abrupt climate crisis that can only be fixed by cooling, it would be good to be ready with some shading solutions that have been worked out." Angel presented the idea in last week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.... | |
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| | | Anti-gay marriage measure losing in Arizona | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 11:24:26 PM by Blog57 Team | | Voters in Arizona were bucking a strong national trend Tuesday and rejecting a measure that would have created a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. If the results hold, Arizona would become the first state in the nation to reject a same-sex ban on the ballot. Twenty-seven states have approved bans, including seven on Tuesday. With 95 percent of Arizona's precincts reporting Tuesday night, Proposition 107 was failing 51.5 percent to 48.5 percent. "What we're seeing is that fear-mongering around same-sex marriage is fizzling out," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. The measure drew opposition from Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon, among others, because its restrictions also applied to men and women living together but not married.... | |
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| | | Arizona plan offers chance to cast a vote, win a million | | Posted Saturday, November 04, 2006 3:45:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | It has been called "electoral Powerball'' by the New York Times, a "tawdry idea'' by USA Today and "a wretched abomination" by the Arizona Republic, but if Arizona voters pass Proposition 200 on Tuesday, one of those voters will win $1 million for casting a ballot. Prop. 200 would authorize the nation's first ballot box lottery, in which a $1 million prize will go to one randomly selected Arizona voter. The measure is the brainchild of Mark Osterloh, a 54-year-old Tucson attorney and ophthalmologist who has made a specialty of challenging Arizona voters with cutting-edge initiatives. Osterloh said he thought this one up as he was riding his bike across the state during his unsuccessful 2002 campaign for governor, pondering ways to increase turnout for state elections. "The parties and the state have all got get-out-the-vote efforts, but they're minimally effective,'' he said.... | |
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| | | Dunn, Arizona hope to keep WSU on the run | | Posted Thursday, November 02, 2006 3:19:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Believe Kasey Dunn when he says the University of Arizona's rushing attack is primed for a breakthrough. He is aiming for it to come against his former employer – Washington State – this weekend at Martin Stadium in Pullman. As it stands, the Wildcats are last in the Pacific-10 Conference in rushing offense (71.4 yards per game), and their 2.4-yards-per-carry average is second worst after Stanford's 2.3. Perhaps Dunn, in his third year as Arizona's running backs coach, was spoiled the past two seasons. At tailback he had Mike Bell, who rushed for 952 yards in 2004 and 950 last season, for teams that finished 3-8. Bell went to the NFL, leaving Dunn and the Wildcats with a rotation of inexperienced backs – Chris Jennings, Chris Henry and Xavier Smith – and a young offensive line in front of them.... | |
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| | | District considers its options | | Posted Wednesday, November 01, 2006 1:43:30 PM by Blog57 Team | | Officials in the Phoenix Elementary School District are thinking about starting up a new school, which isn't all that unusual - except that it would be a high school. The school would be housed at Phoenix Preparatory Academy at Seventh and Fillmore streets, which now serves about 900 children in Grades 7 and 8. The school site is in an ideal spot, close to a downtown Phoenix biomedical campus that includes the global headquarters of the Translational Genomics Research Institute, the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the Arizona Biomedical Collaborative, a joint research endeavor of the state's three universities. .... | |
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