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There has been speculation that Oakland Athletics slugger Yoenis Cespedes may be invited to MLB's Home Run Derby next month, but A's manger Bob Melvin who tosses batting practice to the Cuba native says he's not too interested in taking part – though, he has an idea who might be.
Cespedas, who puts on a show in BP with Melvin nightly, smiled when asked about assisting the 26-year-old power hitter in the annual July contest, suggesting that Cespedas' mother would be a better option.
Cespedas' mother of course, is a member of the Cuban Olympic softball team.
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On possibility of Cespedes in HR Derby, Melvin smiles, says, "They'd probably have to fly me in for that. I don't aspire to throw in that."
Melvin likes the idea of Cespedes' mother, a lefty on the Cuban Olympic softball team, throwing to him if he's invited to Derby.
Yoenis currently is tied for 7th in the American League with 9 home runs, though, he has only played in 36 games. He finished the 2012 season with 23 home runs in 129 games.


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Gunpei Yokoi, the inventor of the Gameboy, lived from 1941 and died on October 4th, 1997.
Gunpei Yokoi was a true pioneer in videogame hardware engineering and game design, a man known for creating the Game Boy and Nintendo Light Gun and developing such innovative and memorable games as Metroid and Kid Icarus. His life and work influenced many in the industry and inspired players across the world with countless moments of joy, for which he posthumously earned a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2003. His sudden and tragic death in a 1997 automobile accident ended far too early a life's work devoted to the creation of innovative videogame hardware and software that brought so much happiness into this world. He was 56 and is survived by his wife and son.
Life's Work
Mr. Yokoi's work began in 1965 as a maintenance engineer on the assembly line for Nintendo's Hanafuda cards in a time before Nintendo was a game maker and before the videogame industry even existed. In fact, his work at Nintendo would prove key to developing that same industry to what it has become today. Mr. Yokoi grew up in Kyoto and received a degree in electronics from Doshisha University. A skilled and creative engineer, he devoted his spare time to the construction of unique toys and gadgets which earned him recognition from Nintendo's then president, Hiroshi Yamauchi. In 1970, he was moved to product design, where he later created many games and toys for Nintendo, including the retractable arm Ultra Hand (1970), the baseball pitching device Ultra Machine, the Ten Billion Barrel puzzle (1980), an electronic bongo drum called Ele-Conga (1973), and the Love Tester.
As part of Nintendo's new games division, Mr. Yokoi was responsible for hiring new engineers and designers, for discovering talent, both raw and refined, that could be directed into the creation of outstanding and innovative products for Nintendo's new electro-mechanical games line. This lead to the hiring of Masayuki Uemura, who collaborated with Mr. Yokoi to produce Nintendo's Beam Gun Games, the precursor of the NES Zapper light guns, and later went on to develop the Nintendo Entertainment System hardware. Mr. Yokoi also mentored many engineers and designers, most famously Shigeru Miyamoto during the young designer's work on Donkey Kong (Arcade, 1981) and Mario Bros. (Arcade, 1983). Later, Yokoi was placed in charge of one of Nintendo's first three Research and Development studios, R&D 1, where he designed Metroid, the first title in one of Nintendo's longest-running series. His studio would go on to develop high-quality titles for the Game Boy, Virtual Boy, and Super Nintendo, including the Super Mario Land series, Super Metroid, and Tetris Attack.
Yet Mr. Yokoi's most famous work was the development of Nintendo's handheld gaming systems, beginning with the Game & Watch in 1980, the Game Boy in 1989, and the Virtual Boy in 1995. Each systems' hardware design was based on his philosophy of "Lateral thinking of withered technology" (Kareta gijutsu no suihei shikou) where mature technology that is cheap and well understood is used in radical new ways to produce innovative and inexpensive products, placing emphasis on designing compelling user experiences over the desire for cutting-edge technology. This logic has since been central to Nintendo's philosophy and may be seen applied in the Wii and Nintendo DS systems. It helped lead to the success of the Game & Watch, Game Boy, and the Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom), and may also be seen in practice with Nintendo's early light guns. In addition, the Game Boy's portability, durability, and low power consumption along with its strong game library allowed it to become one of Nintendo's most profitable product series, selling more than 55 million units by 1997 and more than 118 million units worldwide throughout its lifespan.
Though Mr. Yokoi's successes with the Game Boy and in R&D 1 had earned him much praise at Nintendo, his track record was broken with the Virtual Boy in 1995, which implemented early virtual reality technology. The system's failure to catch on crushed Mr. Yokoi and it is said others at Nintendo lost confidence in his abilities. Mr. Yokoi resigned from Nintendo on August 15, 1996, shortly after the release of the Game Boy Pocket, though he maintained a close relationship with Nintendo afterward.
Shortly after, in September 11, 1996, the day after his birthday, Mr. Yokoi opened Koto Laboratory, a small company he intended to eventually rival Microsoft. Through a partnership with Bandai, Koto began development of the WonderSwan, a handheld gaming platform based on the philosophy he had applied to the Game Boy. They also began manufacturing LCD keychain toys.
However, on October 4, 1997, Mr. Yokoi was a passenger in a car that became involved in a minor accident with a truck. After Mr. Yokoi and the car's driver, Mr. Etsuo Kiso from Nintendo, stepped out to investigate the damage, they were both struck by another car, injuring Mr. Kiso but killing Mr. Yokoi. His passing was marked by obituaries in many newspapers and gaming magazines, including the The New York Times, EGM, and Nintendo Power.
His life and work inspired the love and friendship of many, and dozens of grassroots memorials exist for him throughout the Internet. The tenth anniversary of Mr. Yokoi's death was also marked by many Internet gaming and videogame news sites, a testament to his long-lasting impact on the industry. In 2006, Namco Bandai Games released Gunpey for both the Nintendo DS and Sony PlayStation Portable, a musical puzzle game based on Mr. Yokoi's designs.
Mr. Yokoi received a posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in March 2003, an award that was accepted by his wife and son, who had flown to San Jose, California for the ceremony.
In every photograph of Gunpei Yokoi I have ever seen, Mr. Yokoi is inevitably smiling, a pleasant and charismatic expression of great joy and great pride. Through these images comes a story of the man and his personality, that of a professional craftsman, an engineer and toymaker who took great pride in everything he made, and found an inexhaustible joy within his heart from knowing that his work had brought countless hours of happiness to people of all ages and across nations. It is this passion and joy seen in every photograph that we can also see transferred from the hands of the craftsman to the design of the final product, a wondrous and ingenious energy, an emotion that has become infused into each and every game and toy he ever designed. The mind of the craftsman blesses the aura of the work and we are indeed fortunate to have so many wonderful creations come from that spirit, in essence not infallible, for no man is such upon this earth, but pioneering and taking great pleasure in that process of discovery found both in the maker and in the audience and also through the pleasure of the making. He was a great and kind man, a true rarity who inspired lifelong joy and friendship in those who knew him and became a beloved legend to those who did not but who have nonetheless been touched by his creations.
- Devin Monnens
Note: Unfortunately, many of Ninendo R&D1 early games are uncredited, particularly Arcade, NES, and, Game & Watch, and Game Boy. It is quite likely Mr. Yokoi had a profound influence on the design of many of these early titles. Considerable research will have to be committed before a 100% accurate list can be compiled.
Mechanical Toys and Gadgets
- Ultra Hand (1966) [1970, acc Sheff]
- Ultra machine (1968)
- Love Tester (1969)
- Light Ray Gun SP Series (1970)
- Erekonga (1970) [electronic bongo drum]
- NB Block Crater (1970)
- Ultra Scope (1971)
- Light Ray Telephone LT (1971)
- Lefty RX (1972)
- Time Shock (1972)
- Laser Kure Clay Shooting System (1973)
- Wild Gunman (1974) [16-mm film]
- Shooting Trainer (1974)
- Light Ray Gun Custom Series (1976)
- Duck Hunt (1977)
- The Chilean Tree (1979)
- [Dancing Robot (1985)?]
- [Robotic Vacuum Cleaner (1978)?]
- Game & Watch Series (1980)
- Game & Watch Wide Screen (1981)
- Game & Watch Multiple Screen (1982)
- Computer Mah-jong (1982)
- Famicom Controller (1983)
- Game & Watch Color Screen (1984)
- ROB Robot (1985)
- NES Zapper?
- Gyromite and Stack 'em?
- Game Boy (1989)
- Super Scope (1992)
- Virtual Boy (1995)
- Game Boy Pocket (1996* )
- Metroid -producer- (1985)
- Kid Icarus -producer- (1985)
- Metroid II: Return of Samus -producer- (1990)
- Dr. Mario (1990)
- Super Metroid -producer- (1993)
- Tetris Attack (1995)
- 3D Tetris -producer- (Virtual Boy, 1996)
- Fire Emblem: Keisen no Keifu -producer- (SNES, 1996)
- Tetris Attack -producer- (Game Boy, 1996)
- Galactic Pinball -general manager- (Virtual Boy, 1995)
- Kirby's Block Ball -producer- (Game Boy, 1995) [Miyamoto was also a producer]
- Mario's Tennis -producer- (Virtual Boy, 1995)
- Teleroboxer -producer- (Virtual Boy, 1995)
- Tetris Attack -producer- (SNES, 1995)
- Super Metroid -producer- (SNES, 1994)
- Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3 -producer- (Game Boy, 1994)
- Metal Combat: Falcon's Revenge -producer- (SNES, 1993)
- Battle Clash -producer- (SNES, 1992)
- Kaeru no tame ni Kane wa Naru (For the Frog the Bell Tolls) -special thanks- (Game Boy, 1992)
- Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins -producer- (Game Boy, 1992)
- Yoshi's Cookie -producer- (Game Boy, 1992)
- Yoshi's Cookie -producer- (NES, 1992)
- Metroid II: Return of Samus -producer- (Game Boy, 1991)
- Balloon Kid -producer- (Game Boy, 1990)
- Dr. Mario -Gunpei Yokoi- (Game Boy, 1990)
- Solar Striker -producer- (Game Boy, 1990)
- Famicom Tantei Kurabu Part II: Ushiro ni Tatsu Shoujo -???- [Famicom Detective Club Part Two: The Girl in the Rear] (Famicom Disc System, 1989); based on Super Famicom port credits; could have simply been 'special thanks'
- Super Mario Land -producer- (Game Boy, 1989)
- Famicom Tantei Club: Kieta Kokeisha [Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir] -producer- (1988)
- Kid Icarus -producer- (NES, 1986)
- Metroid -producer- (NES, 1986)
- Mario Bros. -producer- (Arcade, 1984)
- Donkey Kong Jr. - producer- (Arcade, 1983)
- Donkey Kong -producer/hardware engineer- (Arcade, 1981)
- WonderSwan
- Virtual-boy site page on Gunpei Yokoi
- Kotaku.com - GameTrailers Game & Watch special
- CES 1995 interview by Steven Kent
- 3rd annual Game Developers Choice Awards 2003 Biography and award notes
- Searching for Gunpei Yokoi by Lara Crigger article at The Escapist
"He had a great sense of humor, a great smile... a very generous and outgoing fellow. He made a tremendous amount of creative contributions to Nintendo and the video game business over the years. People play Game Boy all over the world, and that's Mr. Yokoi's."
- Howard Lincoln quote about Mr. Yokoi


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Pro-choice initiatives from Prevention First to zeroing out abstinence-only funding will need support from socially conservative Democrats. That's why we need to understand the aims of anti-choice Dems.
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Nvidia Shows Off Tegra 3 Optimized Games at MWC 2012
With games like these, one may question the viability of dedicated portable gaming devices.
While Nvidia hasn't announced anything new at Mobile World Congress 2012, a slew of new games have arrived for Tegra 3-based devices. This is part of an effort to highlight how Nvidia's latest SoC is the only one in its field to offer a true gaming experience. To that end, Nvidia's doing a pretty good job. When it comes to eye bling, Nvidia reigns king in the world of mobile computing and it's showing through the number of game developers who are exclusively leveraging Tegra 3 hardware.
According to Nvidia, "these games didn't come to Tegra 3 by accident. We've been working with these leading mobile game developers for over six years to hone and refine their wares. Tegra 3, with four performance processing cores, in addition to its fifth battery saver core, and a 12-core GeForce GPU, is putting console games on notice…"
The following is a list of games being announced:
- Golden Arrow THD
- Dark Kingdom THD
- Eden to GREEEEN THD
- Hamilton's Great Adventure THD
- Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode II
These games join an existing stellar suite of 3D eye candy which includes titles like Riptide, Shadowland, and others.
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0salgado18 , February 28, 2012 11:34 PMDamn
0Granter , February 29, 2012 12:16 AMsalgado18Damn
3tipmen , February 29, 2012 12:25 AMlooks better than the wii....
1omega21xx , February 29, 2012 12:39 AMI didn't think phones would shadow the PSVita this quick, but it's to be expected when something is highly optimized. Now we just need more bluetooth/usb compatible joysticks to make these games worth playing.
0omega21xx , February 29, 2012 1:21 AMfrozonici didnt know FPS games for phones had such good graphics
Yeah, ShadowGun is the FPS they show in that video and it can be played on current tegra 2 phones, theres cracks that allow it to work on adreno gpu's as well. Gorgeous game for a phone.
0alyoshka , February 29, 2012 2:20 AMSomehow gaming on the phone always gives me the creeps, it get's me scared that the keys might get ruined 'cos after all it is a phone.
7therabiddeer , February 29, 2012 2:22 AMMain issue I have is the controls for phones. Touchscreens arent too great to me... graphics look good though.
6kyuuketsuki , February 29, 2012 3:27 AMYeah... the lack of dedicated buttons and analog sticks are still a big negative for phone gaming.
0bin1127 , February 29, 2012 4:27 AMI want to play Zombie Driver!
-3knowom , February 29, 2012 4:54 AMPeople nit picking about the controls are being over critical. You have a phone/tablet with bluetooth, usb, and hdmi and your moaning about the controls? It also happens to have multi touch display in your hands like recently announced, but unreleased Wii U.
So basically you can take your pick from bluetooth peripherals like wii and ps3 peripherals just so happen to be along with usb ones like xbox and pc happen to be. On top of that you can display it via HDMI to a HDMI device and with wifi you can remote desktop it to a pc in a different room to your HDTV for example. Hell if you have 2 one can be used as a Wii U style multitouch peripheral and the other to stream to the HDTV.
You might even be able to setup softh and remote desktop to it honestly for extra resolution and multitouch control functionality for your desktop pc.
0mman74 , February 29, 2012 5:29 AMI'm a big Playstation fan, but this is one of the reasons why Vita will not sell as many units as Sony had hoped.
1_Pez_ , February 29, 2012 5:35 AMThis is a MUST have over consoles . at least for me.
-2knowom , February 29, 2012 8:04 AMhahchbnmYeah... the lack of dedicated buttons and analog sticks are still a big negative for phone gaming.Bluetooth/USB stop acting like it's a issue PS3/Wii controller/mouse/keyboard/xbox360 controller and even kinect can be made to work with ice cream sandwich.
0Anonymous , February 29, 2012 9:43 AMnice looks but you get to see the crappiness in details after playing these for a few minutes.. what a waste of good gpu
0sonofliberty08 , February 29, 2012 11:13 AMhope all these game will run on windows 8 ARM too
1Anonymous , February 29, 2012 11:50 AMSome of these games were available on tegra2, as for it being better than the vita you don't have as controlled a development platform with this as you do with vita. You're going to have several different hardware config's available for the phone that you don't have to contend with on the vita.
I like that phones are more capable now than ever before, but until I find a control scheme that doesn't involve my fat fingers taking up screen real estate I don't see this taking over the mobile gaming market totally.
0razor512 , February 29, 2012 1:43 PMremember if you are running android, you can use a wireless PS3 controller with your phone to play those games on the go.
touchscreen controls suck, it is very hard to respond quickly with them, but with a controller, you can get a console like experience (better than the PSP can provide as you actually have a full sized controller (great for long trips on if you are stuck on a long boring flight)
3frank_drebin , February 29, 2012 2:49 PMNo Skyrim for tablets, eh? Only fancy Skyrim wallpaper...
0hoof_hearted , February 29, 2012 3:58 PMOmega21XXI didn't think phones would shadow the PSVita this quick, but it's to be expected when something is highly optimized. Now we just need more bluetooth/usb compatible joysticks to make these games worth playing.
or a ps3 controller
-1dmikov , February 29, 2012 7:43 PMMobile gaming and you talking usb/bluetooth or even better some 6 handed indian god by the looks of it wants to use mouse/keyboard. If you are holding separate controller in your hands what are you holding phone in? Are you balancing it on your ... that is if you are a guy.


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Archtober Building of the Day: Center for Architecture
At the intersection of trade and art, practice and expression, between Bleecker and West Third Streets, in the middle of a unique three-block stretch, aptly named a "Place," fronting grand superblocks of New York University, with its descending jutting voids the opposite of Breuer's overhead solids at the Whitney, lies the Center for Architecture. The Center is home to the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) and the Center for Architecture Foundation. The 12,000 square feet of galleries-as-meeting-spaces (and meeting-spaces-as-galleries) burrow two stories underground from the sidewalk level. A cut-away section lets the speakers at the podium the lowest-level Tafel Hall, the centerpiece of the ensemble, look up from their notes and see passers-by looking back. The life of the city, connected, to the discourse on architecture.
Each "Building of the Day" has received a Design Award from the AIA New York Chapter. For the next 30 days—Archtober—we will write here about the architectural ideas, the urban contexts, programs, clients, technical innovations, and architects that make these buildings noteworthy. This is a personal account. Daily posts will track highlights of New York's new architecture.
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Buildings=Energy exhibit to kickstart Archtober!
Friday, September 30, 2011
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In New York City, buildings account for almost 80 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 95 percent of electricity use. It was these facts like these that prompted the Center for Architecture to further investigate the urban energy crisis and display the findings–and potential solutions–in an exhibit entitled Buildings=Energy.
The exhibit, which opens on the evening of October 1st, explores how important choices made by designers, planners, architects, and building occupants can positively affect energy consumption in our cities. One such example featured in the exhibition is a model building designed by the firm Perkins+Will, whose proposal demonstrates the significance of site planning, materials, programs and their affects on energy costs. For instance, as firm principal Anthony Fieldman explains, tilting the exterior glass by only 10 degrees towards the street prevents a substantial amount of solar heat gains, saving the building on cooling costs throughout the summer months.
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