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Best Buy coming to McKinley Mall
ByDerekFrom Business First… The McKinley Mall’s redevelopment effort has landed one of the biggest names in electronic retailing. Best Buy has signed a long-term lease to occupy 30,000-square-feet in the town of Hamburg shopping center. The store is slated to open by June 2007. “Best Buy is an important part of the redevelopment at McKinley,”…
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Central Terminal Old Home Week tour a success!
ByDerekOver 130 people showed up for the Buffalo Old Home Week tour of the Central Terminal today. The crowd was certainly larger than expected and pretty close to unmanageable for only three of us, and with many of the barricades down due to Terminus I spent a lot of time chasing people out of the…
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Memorial Day Geocaching
ByDerekOur holiday geocaching trip took started off with lunch at Curt’s Stop In on Route 5. It was our first experience at the local eatery. Pretty much a typical local diner type place. Not bad, but I’m partial to Red Top when it comes to local grill joints. We decided to take another shot at…
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Two more from Small Strobes, Big Results
ByDerekHere’s two more shots from Small Strobes, Big Results Buffalo. What’s really cool about these is the complete difference between the actual scene and the shot created with artificial light. Here’s a great example. Reality: But here’s the shot we created: This was an “artificial sun” shot, tungsten balanced strobe so the ambient background light…
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I don’t think I can hold it until intermission
ByDerekNo matter how many times I read this, I can’t make up my mind whether it’s really cool or really dumb. I’m torn, because I think the idea of building an instrument to play the next few notes of a piece while that piece is being played is a neat idea. I think the idea…
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Forget FEMA, rely on Wal-Mart & Home Depot in a disaster
ByDerekSteven Horwitz, a professor of economics at St. Lawrence University, published a study that shows why local businesses are more effective in assisting in an emergency than the federal government. The study says Wal-Mart, Home Depot and Lowe’s made use of their local knowledge about supply chains, infrastructure, decision makers and other resources to provide…
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