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TV sales are almost as high during the winter holiday season, but there is a key difference: "During the holiday season people buy them more as gifts," said Ed Mrozowski, a manager at Best Buy's Oxford Valley, Pa., store. "We see a lot more of the mid-(sized) ... and a lot of the small TVs." NPD research shows that holiday TV sales jump because people are responding to sales, or, in industry jargon, "deep discounting." When buying for the Super Bowl, however, sports fans are acquiring a TV for themselves, often with a Super Bowl party in mind. These shoppers aren't willing to settle for holiday overstock; they're looking for the newest, biggest and best. And price is often no object. "It shifts a little bit for home theaters to the big screen TVs because people want that big experience," Mrozowski said.
Canseco book: Players injected each other
In the book, Canseco sticks to his 80 percent claim and says some MLB owners condoned steroid use because they felt a deluge of home runs would help win back the fans after the strike wiped out the 1994 World Series.
Canseco says the Major League Baseball Players' Association also condoned steroid use because the power surge would ultimately increase the players' salaries.
President Bush was the Rangers' managing general partner in the early 1990s, and Canseco reportedly says Bush must have known about the steroid use on that team. Yesterday, White House spokesman Trent Duffy said Bush's position on steroids "has been known for some time," noting that he condemned the drugs in his 2004 State of the Union address.
Baseball stiffened its drug-testing policy this winter, as the owners and players union agreed to alter the collective bargaining agreement.
Downtown charms lure Black Friday shoppers
Simon, Julio and Cecilia couldn't have had a better day. The three ferrets, sporting Christmas bandanas and bells, spent the day after Thanksgiving being wheeled around downtown Stone Harbor as part of the town's holiday pet parade. Onlookers smiled as the animals, which appeared to be the only ferrets in the parade, passed by, and to top it all off they won the coveted best-in-show award. "It's their first parade," said proud ferret owner Mimi Walker, adding the ferrets routinely tag along on family outings such as summer trips to the beach. Ferrets, of course, were not the only pets on parade. .
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After diligently re-checking its math, it has admitted that the 44% figure was really more like 15%. But even that number doesn't tell the full story. Only 20% of college students live on campus, which means that if college students are responsible for 15% of the movie studios' piracy-related losses (a number we still find dubious), then campus networks are responsible for something like 3%. So the MPAA is urging universities to install expensive, ubiquitous, and ultimately futile filters and surveillance equipment to solve 3% of their piracy problem. Makes you wonder if colleges and universities are really the best place to attack movie piracy, doesn't it? These “restated" MPAA numbers suggest that the MPAA is targeting universities not because college kids are a serious threat to the movie industry's bottom line, but because the studios hope to set a precedent on campus that can be used to force filtering on larger commercial ISPs.
Verizon Adds Voyager, Venus to Galaxy of Smartphones
Verizon's Voyager, released Wednesday, is a feature-rich mobile phone that costs $100 less than AT&T's iPhone. The LG-made device comes with a touchscreen keyboard and a traditional one under a flip-open hood. The phone can also download music from Verizon's VCast store wirelessly, pull up YouTube videos and record voice memos. Free Newsletter Now Available From TechNewsWorld. Tech News Flash is your one-stop source for daily technology news and information, delivered straight to your inbox directly from TechNewsWorld. Keep up with the latest breaking tech news and enjoy insightful analysis from our team of expert writers and reporters. Subscribe Today. .
Voter Turnout Expected to Be High on Super Tuesday
Whitehead says, she's ready for the big turnout. "My mom owns a flower shop and so I know what it's like to be a Valentine's Day at a flower shop. And this is my Valentines Day at the Election office!" says Whitehead with a laugh. Whitehead says Johnson County's best voter turnout was at 79 percent. She'll be happy with more than 50 percent, but says considering their high early voter turnout they may very well beat their record of 79 percent. .
Beach narrows its list of potential Dome developers
City leaders are short-listing three developers who want a chance to turn the long-vacant Dome site into an entertainment district two blocks from the beach. Representatives from the three companies will be interviewed in the next month. One company could then be chosen for six months of exclusive negotiations with the Virginia Beach Development Authority. "We’re going to bring those guys in as soon as we can to ask them more questions," said Steve Herbert, the city’s chief development officer. "Their concept of development, their experience … their thoughts of Virginia Beach." The chosen developers are: - A partnership of Armada Hoffler, Bruce Smith Enterprise and The Cordish Co . Armada Hoffler is the company that built Virginia Beach’s Town Center and has worked before with Bruce Smith, a former NFL star turned developer.
What's opening or closing
Oct. 25
Owner Ally Nisbet and chef Brendan Noonan of the Scottish Arms in the Central West End have announced their intention to take over the former Pestalozzi Place space at 2900 Virginia Avenue in the Tower Grove East neighborhood. Nisbet says that the restaurant will be "a high-quality neighborhood bistro with a lovely artistic interior, serving seasonal American cuisine backed by European tradition." Look for an opening early next year. … B. Donovan's Steakhouse Grill, which last year took over and renovated the old Big Chief Dakota space in Wildwood, will also soon occupy the former
Applebee's space at 1095 North Chesterfield Parkway in Chesterfield.
Oct. 11
Closing . . . and opening
West County Middle Eastern restaurant Simon's Cafe has closed after an approximately four-year run at 79 Forum Center, at the corner of Olive Boulevard
and Woods Mill Road.
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