Drew's Nugget of the Month

BYP Lounge Series_006 Featuring Tim White, Ph.D., President, University of Idaho

2008-06-12T10:27:00.004-06:00

Audio adjustments until about 1 min :30 secs...then it cleans up and sounds fine.

Death Grip with a Vengeance - an i48 Winner!

2008-06-09T10:32:00.003-06:00

Peppershock and Associates participated in i48 for the 5th year in a row...and we finally won something! ...Best Use of Dialogue in the Open Category.
Congrats to everyone that helped out this year...you can stop by the office and admire our wonderful little trophy.
In case you missed our masterpiece...it's posted below.

Boise Young Professionals Mayor Bieter Unplugged

2008-06-05T01:14:00.002-06:00

Boise Young Professionals Mayor Bieter Unplugged

Lounging Series with Steve Hanks, Former CEO, Washington Division of URS

2008-05-05T11:29:00.008-06:00

Steve Hanks, former CEO of the Washington Division of URS. In the summer of 1978, Steve became a corporate attorney at international engineering and construction company Morrison Knudsen Corporation, Boise . Following a stream of promotions in the legal department, he was named senior vice president and general counsel in 1992. In 1999, he led the acquisition of the government services business of CBS’s Westinghouse Electric Company, a move that doubled Morrison Knudsen’s size and greatly expanded its market reach in nuclear services and environmental remediation. Steve was named president of Morrison Knudsen in 2000, the year it acquired Raytheon Engineers & Constructors. He led the integration of Morrison Knudsen, Westinghouse Government Services and Raytheon Engineers & Constructors into a much larger engineering, construction and management company named Washington Group International. In 2001, he became chief executive officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Washington Group International. In addition to the positive impact Steve made for Washington Group and the engineering and construction industry, he also has made a difference through community service. His past service includes being president and director of the Boise Public Schools Education Foundation and the Discovery Center of Idaho, a hands-on learning center for youth. He currently is president and a board member of the Western Region Boy Scouts of America and serves on the National Board of the Boy Scouts of America, the Danny Thompson Memorial Leukemia Foundation, Inc., and the Business Roundtable. He also is a director of Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc., a global designer and manufacturer of welding and cutting products.

BYP Lounge Series_004 Featuring Steve Appleton_CEO of Micron

2008-04-30T16:44:00.005-06:00

We were having technical difficulties periodically throughout this recording. We apologize for the obnoxious static.

For the Love of Politics - BYP Event Podcast

2008-03-18T21:09:00.005-06:00

March 18 - For the Love of Politics Six young, politically involved panelists discuss how they got into politics and how young professionals can get involved. The focus is on involvement in politics, rather than debating specific political issues.

BYP Lounge Series_002 Featuring Linda Copple Trout - Former Idaho Supreme Court Chief Justice

2008-03-07T08:42:00.008-07:00

This is only a short excerpt from the full discussion.

BYP Lounge Series_003 Featuring Mark Rivers - Developer of BoDo

2008-03-07T08:38:00.003-07:00

If You Love Graphic Tees and Great Design, You'll Love Threadless.com

2008-01-21T15:35:00.000-07:00

A great business model...create a community of t-shirt lovers, graphic designers, allow them to vote, mix in some cash rewards and you've got yourself an automated machine.
Threadless.com is a site that allows users to upload their t-shirt designs for other users to vote on. The designs with the most votes are the ones that get printed and sold. You can find a design to fit any personality.

BYP Lounge Series Podcast - Featuring Former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus

2007-12-07T09:14:00.001-07:00

Drew's First Nugget - Fun New Technology

2007-12-04T13:54:00.000-07:00

Storage start-up fits 250 hours of HD content on one disc

Posted by Erica Ogg

An Israeli start-up has created a way to store a whole lot of data on optical discs using fluorescence.

The TeraDisc looks like a regular CD, except it's chartreuse and see-through. Mempile says its disc will start off able to store 600GB to 700GB and in a year will be able to write 1TB worth of data. There are two physical layers of plastic, but 200 virtual layers on the one-sided disc. That means 250 hours of high-definition content or 300,000 digital photos. HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc can currently hold about 50GB of data on dual-layer discs.

(Credit: Mempile)

The TeraDisc gets its green/yellow hue from the molecules used to store the data. A red laser writes the disc by focusing on a particular point, causing a chemical reaction so that the fluorescent molecules change state. The laser reads the disc by looking for the presence or absence of fluorescence.

The TeraDisc will need its own drive, which won't be all that different than optical drives currently on the market, according to Beth Erez, Mempile's chief marketing officer. TeraDisc will have little to no effect on the so-called format war between Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD because their market is in pre-recorded formats, and is actually "a battle over revenues and intellectual property," Erez said. She sees TeraDisc as a way for consumers to archive their purchased content.

Mempile will eventually license the technology and so far is in talks with several Asian manufacturers, according to Erez.

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