Kodak confirms it had weapons-grade uranium in underground lab
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| -- Kodak -- the company known for decades for its cameras and film -- this week confirmed it used weapons-grade uranium in an underground lab in upstate New York for upwards of 30 years. A company spokesman and a former scientist for the firm say there was not enough material to sustain a nuclear chain reaction. Former Kodak researcher Albert Filo said the uranium was alloyed with aluminum in plates sealed in sleeves that were not moved for three decades. The amount of fuel was about 3½ pounds, which experts say is less than one-tenth of the amount necessary to... |
Kodak's New York HQ housed secret underground nuclear reactor
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| A Kodak industrial facility in New York, was home to a secret nuclear reactor containing weapons-grade uranium. The research reactor was housed in an underground labyrinth in one of the buildings at the former Kodak Park site in Rochester and was the size of a fridge. Kodak used it to check chemicals and other materials for impurities, as well |
Kodak Kills Off Its Color Reversal Films
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Kodak announced today that it has decided to discontinue its color reversal (AKA slide) films due to a steady decrease in sales and usage. The films discontinued are Ektachrome E100G/E100VS and Elite Chrome Extra Color 100. The company estimates that based on current sales pace, you’ll still be able to purchase the discontinued films for about six to nine months. If you were a loyal Kodak slide film shooter, it’ll soon be time to switch over to negative film or to Fujifilm color reversal films. |
Kodak to Kill Off Its Camera Business
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Kodak, the company that invented the first digital camera back in 1975, announced today that it is pulling out of the camera market entirely. The phasing out of digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames will likely happen by the end of June. Instead, the company will be focusing on licensing out its patents and brand name (much like Polaroid does), and on inkjet photo printing. Although Kodak wasn’t a big player in the digital camera space, it was once a dominant camera maker in the days of film. The original Kodak Brownie helped popularize consumer photography and... |
Kodak to Kill Off Its Camera Business
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Shocking news: Kodak, the company that invented the first digital camera back in 1975, announced today that it is pulling out of the camera market entirely. The phasing out of digital cameras, pocket video cameras, and digital picture frames will likely happen by the end of June. Instead, the company will be focusing on licensing out its patents and brand name |
Learning From Kodak's Demise [Private-Sector & Political Duopolies Never Dream People May Abandon]
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| What the end of a blue-chip company can teach us about the 2012 election.The human brain is capable of memorizing 67,890 digits of pi, composing side two of Exile on Main Street, and inventing a dog-to-human translation device called the Bowlingual. Yet, we often-brilliant, always-innovating bipeds find it impossible to imagine changing the trajectory of the world we think we live in by more than a few degrees at any given moment. Whatever dominates today we assume will dominate tomorrow. This is true for our private lives, this is true for commerce, and this is especially true for politics. Tectonic... |
Kodak and the Post Office (Thomas Sowell)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| The news that Eastman Kodak is preparing to file for bankruptcy, after being the leading photographic company in the world for more than a hundred years, truly marks the end of an era. The skills required to use the cameras and chemicals required by the photography of the mid-19th century were far beyond those of most people — until a man named George Eastman created a company called Kodak, which made cameras that ordinary people could use. It was Kodak's humble and affordable box Brownie that put photography on the map for millions of people, who just wanted to... |
Sell Kodak before it’s bankrupt
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Investors who have not yet sold their holdings in EK should get out while they still can. Management must have known about the massive gap between the company's assets and liabilities for some time, at least a year or more. Given that they have not, in this time, been able to monetize the company's patent portfolio at a level that could save the company, it is fair to assume that the court-supervised auction dictated by Chapter 11 bankruptcy will not do much better. Instead, we can expect a fight from the company's employees for as much of the benefits promised... |
A Perfect Kodak Moment Of Creative Destruction (The Iconic Film Company Might File for Bankrupcy)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Bankruptcy: News that Eastman Kodak may file for bankruptcy brought a flood of nostalgia for the venerable company. But Kodak's demise underscores the unique strength of our free-market economy — its constant renewal. Sixty-two years after Kodak was founded, economist Joseph Schumpeter popularized the term "creative destruction" to describe a key function of free market economies. "New consumers, goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization" were, he said, constantly creating new industries and new companies, while destroying old ones. Now, 70 years after Schumpeter put his finger on this phenomenon,... |
Kodak Preparing for Chapter 11 Filing (Kodak CEO Antonio Perez is member of Obama's Jobs Council...)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Eastman Kodak Co. is preparing for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy-protection filing in the coming weeks should efforts to sell a trove of digital patents fall through, people familiar with the matter said. The struggling photography icon, which employs about 19,000 people, is in discussions with potential lenders for around $1 billion in so-called debtor-in possession financing that would keep it afloat during bankruptcy proceedings, the people said. A filing could occur as soon as this month or early February, one of the people said. A Kodak spokesman said the company "does not comment on market rumor or speculation." |
Kodak shares plunge as bankruptcy fears escalate
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Investors dumped Eastman Kodak's stock Friday amid fears that the photography pioneer is headed toward bankruptcy. After its stock lost more than half its value in a volatile day of trading, Kodak tried to paint a rosier picture. "Kodak is committed to meeting all of its obligations and has no intention of filing for bankruptcy," the company said in a statement. The reassurance lifted Kodak shares in extended trading, but the rebound wasn't enough to undo the damage sustained in a brutal week for a hallowed name in U.S. business. |
KODAK IS DEAD
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| My work is done. Those words were some of the last penned by George Eastman. He included them in his suicide note. They mark an ignoble end to a noble life, the leave taking of a truly great man. The same words could now be said for the company he left behind. My work is done. For all intents and purposes, the Eastman Kodak Company is through. It has been mismanaged financially, technologically and competitively. For 20 years, its leaders have foolishly spent down the patrimony of a century’s prosperity. One of America’s bedrock brands is about to disappear, the... |
THRIFT SHOP FREAKOUT
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Most of the junque at the thrift shop today was either terminal or overpriced. I'll let it sit until they get tired of looking at it!I found this little guy way back in the showcase, it works!Pony 135 Production: 1950-1954 Film format: 135, 24x35mm frames Shutter: Kodak Flash 200 1/25 - 1/200 (M sync only) Lens: Kodak Anaston 51mm f/4.5 - f/22 Can't lose for 3 bucks! |
Kodak Is Suing RIM And Apple For $1 Billion (patent infringement)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Kodak is suing RIM and Apple to get royalty payments relating to patents, and a decision should come down today, Bloomberg says. Kodak's CEO has said that he expects to get licensing payments totaling $1 billion.A Kodak VP writes us: "the U.S. International Trade Commission is expected to announce whether it will review an initial determination from an ITC judge which suggested that Apple’s iPhone and RIM’s BlackBerry don’t infringe Kodak’s patent. If the ITC's full Commission decides to review the earlier ruling, then another process would begin at the ITC, in which the full Commission will ultimately decide if... |
Kodak takes famous film out of picture (Kodachrome)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Kodak has closed one of its oldest and most famous product lines, in the latest sign of the film business fading away against the onslaught of digital photography. The US-based group on Monday said it would cease production of Kodachrome, the line of professional quality film that was first developed in 1935 and became one of the company’s pre-eminent brands, known for stunning colours and sharpness. Kodachrome captured some of the world’s most well-known images, including the 1984 photograph ‘Afghan Girl’ of a refugee with a torn red scarf and striking green eyes, which was on the cover of National... |
Kodak To Cut Up To 4,500 Jobs After $137m Loss (Obama's Fault)
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Eastman Kodak will cut as many as 4,500 jobs this year in the latest round of restructuring at the famous American photography group. The company made a preliminary fourth-quarter loss of $137 million (£95 million) from its continuing operations, compared with a profit of $215 million in the same three months of 2007. |
Obama: 'Sober meeting' with business leaders
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| President Obama held a "very sober meeting" about the economy with 10 of the nation's business leaders at the White House Wednesday as the House debated his proposed $825 billion economic stimulus package. "They understand when it comes to rebuilding our economy, we don't have a moment to spare," Mr. Obama said of the chief executive officers attending the meeting. "They are looking for action from Washington, bold and swift." Mr. Obama characterized them as being "on the frontline of people who are seeing enormous problems in the economy right now" and said the economic difficulties were a reason for... |
Understanding the Alinsky Method of “Community Organizing”
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Poe: "They are leftists, dedicated to overthrowing our Constitutional system," and "they will go to any length to conceal their radicalism from the public." Understanding the Alinsky Method of "Community Organizing" Written by Bob Dill Sep 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM Meet the Real Obama and Cult of Alinsky " The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun." (Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV) It is becoming readily apparent that the "change" being proposed vaguely by Sen. Barack Obama is... |
Is the rich-hued Kodachrome era fading to black?
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| It is an elaborately crafted photographic film, extolled for its sharpness, vivid colors and archival durability. Yet die-hard fan Alex Webb is convinced the digital age soon will take his Kodachrome away. |
New Kodak Image Sensors for Low-Light Photography
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| New Kodak camera technology could make dark, blurry photos as thing of the past Eastman Kodak Company today announced what it considers a “groundbreaking advancement” in image sensor technology that will help reduce the accidental taking of dark and blurry digital photos. Kodak claims its new sensor technology provides a two- to four-fold increase in sensitivity to light (from one to two photographic stops) compared to current sensor designs. “This represents a new generation of image sensor technology and addresses one of the great challenges facing our industry – how to capture crisp, clear digital images in a poorly lit... |
Kodak posts wider 2Q loss of $282M
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Kodak posts wider 2Q loss of $282M ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Eastman Kodak Co., undergoing a tough transition to digital photography, posted a wider loss of $282 million in the second quarter Tuesday — its seventh quarterly loss in a row. Largely because of $214 million in restructuring costs, Kodak lost the equivalent of 98 cents a share in the April-June quarter, compared with a loss of $155 million, or 54 cents a share, a year ago. Hurt by a rapid slide in film sales, revenues fell 9 percent to $3.36 billion from $3.69 billion in last year's second quarter. Excluding... |
BP Pays Off Jesse Jackson But Faces Boycott Anyway; NLPC Urges Oil Giant to Rebuff Shakedown
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| To: National Desk, Energy Reporter Contact: Peter Flaherty of National Legal and Policy Center, 703-237-1970; Website: http://www.nlpc.org WASHINGTON, June 15 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Peter Flaherty, president of the National Legal and Policy Center (NLPC), today told British Petroleum, PLC to ignore a boycott called against the oil giant by Jesse Jackson this week at the annual Rainbow/PUSH conference in Chicago. BP is listed in the conference program as a Bronze Sponsor, a designation costing $10,000. Flaherty said, "Jesse Jackson is bluffing a foreign company. He has virtually no ability to affect the consumer habits of Americans, or even African Americans.... |
Canon to stop making single-lens camera
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| Canon to stop making single-lens camera TOKYO - Japan's top camera maker, Canon Inc., will stop developing new single-lens reflex film cameras as more people abandon film for digital, company officials said Thursday. The Tokyo-based Canon's move followed a similar move by its closest Japanese rival, Nikon Corp., which announced earlier this year it would stop making seven of its nine film cameras and concentrate on digital models. Canon will continue making film cameras already on the market as long as their demand remains. Whether to withdraw from the film camera business will be "decided appropriately by judging the market... |
New camera update
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| I bought the Kodak P850 I was interested in. With my focus on wildlife I needed the 12X, and the image stabilization is an extra bonus. The learning curve hasn't been bad, but the P850 has enough external buttons to keep any button pusher happy. The original file will print out far larger than I will ever need. |
REMEMBRANCE- St. Louis Radio Vet Recalls Vietnam
Saturday 26th of May 2012 02:41:33 AM
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| On this special day, the Radio Equalizer can't think of a better place to spend time than at Mike Anderson's 1969 Vietnam memories site, found here. Anderson, a Vietnam vet, former St. Louis radio personality and current publisher of radio information site STLMedia.net, has hundreds of photographs and stories from his 1969 tour. "The memories will be a constantly updated part of the website," Anderson notes. "Thirty-six years after the fact, it's not unusual that not everything comes immediately to mind." Putting the site together wasn't so easy, he admits.... |
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