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Clean Private Bathrooms & Showers in NYC

February 20, 2014 By DJ Yoshi Leave a Comment

Private Bathrooms & Showers in NYC?

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– via gothamist.com –
A new company is hoping that some New Yorkers and New Yorkers in need of a clean bathroom will pay big bucks for a comfort break. And by big, we mean $8 for a day pass, plus a $15 sign-up fee!

Post Stow and Go is hoping its offering of clean bathrooms, showers, baby-changing stations and lockers will strike a chord. Its website outlines its offerings:

– Private lockers with re-settable digital locks
– Storage rooms for large packages too inconvenient to carry around all day
– Private powder rooms with touch-less faucets and flushers as well as baby changing stations – cleaned after each use by our staff
– Luxury showers in approximately one in every five rooms, as well as wheelchair accessible showers and ADA compliant bathrooms

Posh Stow and Go is also looking to open up lounges for nursing mothers. The company says it’s opening up locations “in Midtown Manhattan near Grand Central and Penn Station with street level access and no stairs to climb! And close to Times Square, The Empire State Building, 5th Ave shopping, the Theater District, Rockefeller Center…well, everything! Expansion locations will be in lower Manhattan near the ferries with easy access to the Freedom Tower, the Statue of Liberty, Greenwich Village and more.”

Candy Crush Maker Files for ipo

February 18, 2014 By DJ Yoshi Leave a Comment

Candy Crush Maker: King Digital Files for iPO

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The company that brought the world the addictive puzzle game Candy Crush Saga is hoping that investors will line up for a piece of its stock as well.

King Digital Entertainment, which has headquarters in Dublin but has offices across Europe and in San Francisco, filed on Tuesday for an initial public offering in the United States. But prospective investors may be wary that players may be tiring of paying to line up shiny virtual pieces of sugar.

While King’s preliminary prospectus gave a preliminary $500 million fund-raising target to determine registration fees, the company is expected to seek a multibillion-dollar valuation. It confidentially filed for an I.P.O. last year.

King is the latest in a growing number of European social gaming companies that have become global champions.

Supercell, the Finnish tech start-up behind the Clash of Clans and Hay Day franchises, raised $1.5 billion last year from the Japanese telecommunications company Softbank, in a deal that valued Supercell at around $3 billion.

Other European gaming companies include Wooga, a Berlin-based start-up that has created a series of social gaming hits like Jelly Splash that continue to top the charts on both Apple’s iTunes and Google Play’s stores.

The rise of the nearly 11-year-old King, built largely on the huge success of Candy Crush, has had many analysts and prospective investors eagerly await an I.P.O. The company said that its profit surged more than 7,000 percent last year, to $567.6 million from $7.8 million. Revenues climbed tenfold, to nearly $1.9 billion.

In its filing, the game maker disclosed that it has 128 million daily active users, some of whom spend big amounts of money to buy lives or special tools.

Candy Crush, in which players try to line up three or more matching types of candy, contributed the vast majority of that number with an average of 93 million users a day. It remains the second-highest-grossing app on Apple’s App Store as of Tuesday, behind Clash of Clans.

Other popular games include Pet Rescue Saga and Farm Heroes Saga.

Despite the rapid successes of these European companies, analysts and investors fret that the gaming start-ups remain reliant on a small number of hits.

Share prices have slumped at American rivals like Zynga, which went public in 2011, as investors raise concerns that they will not be able to create new gaming franchises that will keep consumers entertained.

Some investors may be concerned that King could suffer the same fate. The company said that its top three games comprised 95 percent of its total gross bookings.

The company’s gross bookings and revenue declined in the fourth quarter of 2013, in part because of a decline in the Candy Crush business. King emphasized that it expected its blockbuster hit to contribute less to its overall sales over time.

JPMorgan Chase, Credit Suisse and Bank of America Merrill Lynch are leading the underwriting of the I.P.O.

(video) Man Shovels in Driver Who Stole His Snow Parking Spot

February 12, 2014 By DJ Yoshi Leave a Comment

Thou Shall Not Steal My Parking

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With piles of snow still on the streets, Bethlehem residents are protective of their shoveled out parking spots. But police say one man took things a bit too far after he allegedly took revenge on a neighbor who dared to take his spot.

Police were called to Leibert Street on Wednesday around 8:40 p.m. by a man who claimed his car was surrounded by piles of snow.

The man told police he found a spot on the street and moved an orange crate to park his vehicle. The man later discovered however, that the crate belonged to his neighbor, 64-year-old Ernest Nemeth, according to investigators. Police say Nemeth angrily told the man that he had shoveled out the parking spot and that it belonged to him.

A short time later, investigators say Nemeth and an unidentified woman surrounded the man’s car with piles of snow as a form of revenge.

“He saw these two people shoveling the snow back,” said Nellie Morales, another Bethlehem resident. “Like, ‘hey, I shoveled my car out, now you’re gonna have to do it too.”

Nemeth was charged with disorderly conduct.

A spokeswoman for the Bethlehem Police Department told NBC10 that it’s against city policy for Bethlehem residents to reserve spots.

Philadelphia Police also have a similar policy. Police say their officers can and will confiscate any item used to reserve a parking space on a city street, and residents can call 911 to report neighbors who are using items to reserve the spaces.

Petition to Deport Justin Bieber

January 30, 2014 By DJ Yoshi Leave a Comment

– via ABC –
After topping more than 100,000 signatures on “We the People,” the White House is now obligated to respond to a petition to “Deport Justin Bieber and revoke his green card.”

As of this afternoon, the petition had 193,570 signatures and climbing.

On all petitions, “We the People” states, “If a petition meets the signature threshold [in this case, 100,000], it will be reviewed by the Administration and we will issue a response.”

The petition says about the Canadian pop star, “We the people of the United States feel that we are being wrongly represented in the world of pop culture. We would like to see the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing, Justin Bieber deported and his green card revoked.”

The White House reviews and usually responds to petitions that get more than 100,000 signatures within 30 days.

Today, Jen Psaki, a State Department spokeswoman, commented on the petition, saying the petition website “doesn’t always determine a step will be taken, it’s more of another opportunity for the voices of the American people to be heard.”

Since cancelling a visa would come under the State Department’s jurisdiction, she continued: “We’re getting down quite a rabbit hole here with Justin Bieber, but … I will check and see what the visa implications would be for anybody who is found of possibly violating the law.”

To check out or sign the petition, log on HERE

Killer Whales on Display in Sochi

January 29, 2014 By DJ Yoshi Leave a Comment

Killer Whales to be Displayed in Sochi

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Two wild orcas have been captured by Russian hunters, and are on their way to be displayed in a dolphinarium at the Sochi Winter Olympics.

White Sphere, the Russian company behind this, are just looking to make a fast buck from the tourists who will be descending on to Sochi during the Games. All at the expense of these beautiful creatures who have been stolen from their ocean home.

The mammals, which can grow up to 22ft long and swim 100 miles a day, are set to be kept in a “small concrete tank” after a 4,614-mile flight from the far east of Russia. Animal experts say that transporting orcas causes them stress, that keeping them in captivity shortens their life and can even turn them “psychotic”.

As of Wednesday January 29, 2014, 227,345 people have signed a petition to stop the display of the Killer Whales.

To Join in the Petition Against the Display of the Orca Display visit
sumofus.org

Turn Beer & Liquor Bottles Into Drinking Glasses

January 24, 2014 By DJ Yoshi Leave a Comment

Liquor Before Beer…

Step 1: Grab a beer bottle preferably with thick glass such as corona bottles. Tie a string just above the label on the empty bottle
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Step 2: Keep the string tied and soak it in lighter fluid.
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Step 3:Put the string back on the bottle and hold it horizontally.
Light the sting rotating the bottle so the flame spreads. You should hear the bottle crack slightly in about 10 seconds.
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Step 4: After you hear the crack, pour cold water on the string and the top of the bottle will fall off.
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Step 5: Now grab sandpaper and sand the edges of the bottle till it is smooth.
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Finally: ENJOY The Fruits of your Labor!
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