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STAMFORD -- With less than four minutes to play in a tight battle between the King and St. Luke's boys basketball teams, Storm guard Jackson Prince held the ball at midcourt with the shot clock winding down.
Trailing by four at the time, Prince launched a shot from near mid-court, almost completely unaware of how little time he had in the crucial possession, and sank it so calmly it was as if that was the plan all along.
His next 3-pointer two minutes later, which was far more conventional, iced the game and sent St. Luke's to a 59-53 win over the Vikings on Friday evening, the second win over its arch rival this season.
"It was all reactive," Prince said. "I just looked up, saw two (seconds) left and let it go. It was a fortunate turn of events there that could have gone either way. I was glad to see it go our way."
The desperation shot sparked a 12-2 run to end the game for the Storm (5-6), as their intensity level visibly increased after given a new lease on life during a second half that saw neither team lead by more than four points until the final seconds. Prince led all scorers with 22 points, including six 3-pointers.
"We had set up a play out of the timeout but (King) switched to a zone," St. Luke's coach Brian Kriftcher said. "I knew (Prince) had good range but I didn't think he had that kind of range. He's a gamer, a senior captain and a great shooter."
After back-to-back lay-ups by Jalen Latta gave the Storm a 54-51 advantage, the visitors dug in defensively to secure the win. The Vikings did not have a field goal for the final 5:53 of the game, and Prince's 3-pointer with 1:56 left increased St. Luke's lead to 57-53.
"We came out with fire today," Prince said. "We played 32 minutes of hard basketball; we never let up for a minute. We have struggled a little with playing all 32 minutes but today we executed well."
Needing a basket to halt the momentum down the stretch, the Vikings put the ball in star guard Drew Sawyer's hands. For one of the few times this season, Sawyer (21 points) was held in check in crunch time as St. Luke's forced him into taking pressured shots.
"Shots didn't go down when we needed them to go down, but from my perspective we gave a lot of possessions away in this game," King coach Greg Dobbs said. "You have to give (Sawyer) more rope than you give most players. He has won us games plenty of times; he has the ability to take over a game at any time."
The victory by the Storm clinched a sweep of their rivals after St. Luke's rolled to a 75-56 victory on Dec. 19. Despite two impressive performances, Kriftcher doesn't necessarily believe his side has the secret to defeating the 9-5 Vikings.
"I don't put a lot of stock in that," Kriftcher said. "Every game in the FAA is a new game; any team can beat any other team. We don't have (King's) number, we just played hard in the two games we've played them. A rivalry does that to you."
St. Luke's 59, King 53
Kevin Florio 0 0-0 0; J.B. Boggs 1 0-0 2; Sean Cullinane 2 5-6 10; Jay Latta 4 9-12 17; Ami Lakoju 2 0-3 4; Jackson Prince 7 2-2 22; Aidan Stone 2 0-0 4; Elijah Holifield 0 0-0 0. Totals: 18 16-23 59.
Mike Correa 1 0-0 3; Conor Harris 4 0-0 9; Drew Sawyer 6 7-12 21; Nick Della Jacono 1 1-2 4; Guilbert Francois 5 6-10 16; Chris Massucco 0 0-0 0; Ed Meizels 0 0-0 0. Totals: 17 14-24 53.
3-Pointers: StL--Cullinane, Prince 6. K--Correa, Harris, Sawyer 2, Della Jacono.
Highlights: StL--Lakoju 11 rebounds, 4 blocks. Cullinane 10 rebounds. K -- Francois 15 rebounds.


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But I'll be honest. I'm really not in the mood for writing a long report. Don't get me wrong...I'm really happy with my run (3:02:21) and happy with setting a 6 minute PR! I really want to write this report using bullet points (just to irritate Glaven, mainly) but instead I'll put a little bit extra work into it and use Picture Points:
The start of the marathon was 26.2 miles northwest of Eagle River, at the White Birch Resort. The resort had opened up their lobby and provided coffee and snacks, which was a big plus considering it was 34 degrees out. I lined up somewhere in the middle, and after a gun sounded (fired by a politician, no less...insert joke here), I was off. Yes, I'm wearing the "ladies ballroom gloves" too.
By about Mile 5, the field of 99 had been spread out so much that I could only see one runner in front of me, and zero behind me. I was running the first half (which contained endless rolling hills) as easy as possible.
At Mile 13, the course leaves the very hilly county highway and starts its 'journey' over a bunch of roads that are all named after lakes. While it is a beautiful area of Wisconsin, these roads were pretty forgettable. With the exception, of course of the runner ahead of me, sporting jean shorts, going shirtless, and letting his shoulder-length gray hear flow in the wind. Parsenn couldn't believe someone was running in that either, and literally never even saw me as I ran past at this point.
After passing Jean Shorts, he said "Congrats. You're now in 8th place." Really? The next time my parents came up to me, I asked them to drive ahead and find 7th place and time the split back to me. About ten minutes later they informed me I was roughly 5 minutes back. Considering it was about mile 21, I was going to need some serious bonking to occur on their part, so I just kept plugging away. I must have been feeling it a bit, too, as my mom asked at one point, "Nic, are you okay?" Between breaths, I managed to answer that I had just completed running 23 miles and still had 3 to go. So no, I was starting to feel a bit tired.
Garmin Snafu (more on that later) I really wasn't sure of my exact time for the event. I didn't know my first half split, but knew I was close to running the second half in under 1:30. At mile 24 I started to push it, seeing if I could sneak in under 1:30...and perhaps break 3 hours. My 24 was my fastest mile of the run (6:40), and just about killed me, so I decided sub-3 would have to wait for Grandma's, and finished strong. The picture above shows zero celebration, and I managed to even keep my eyes shut as I crossed, in 3:02:21.
I celebrated a 6 minute PR with a single beer, and then it was off to the car. My feet were KILLING me. I ran in Brooks T5's...and there simply isn't enough shoe available for a marathon. My right big toe feels like the nail's gonna fall off, and the tops of my left toes are all blistered. The shoes worked well, though: I ran 3 events in them (Milwaukee Marathon, Dick Lytie Half Marathon, and Journeys) and set 3 PR's. Parsenn was also exhausted from a big morning. He needed a nap and a dip in the lake :)
I had told my dad this morning that I wanted to run a PR and maybe even sub-3, and that I think that would put me in position to possibly win an award...and I did! 8th overall, 3rd in the 19-29 age group!
This picture was included for Ellie. She always tells me my (big) ears are "cute" and is especially fond of pictures which seem to accentuate them. I think this one qualifies! Perhaps the ears are the reason for the good run--we had a 10 mph tailwind the whole time :)
20 comments:
- Jess said...
Congrats on your PR and 8th place!
- May 11, 2009 at 7:51 AM
- Marcy said...
CONGRATS Dr Nic! A super fine performance and 3rd place in your AG too?! Dang!
OMFG I'm dying over that pic! High fivers for getting that baby. Seriously, jean shorts?!? I hope he Body Glided his n*t s@ck (that's for G) is all I'm sayin . . . Good for you, putting him in his place ;-)
I never noticed your big ears until now so thanks for pointing that out :P I kid! You don't look like you have big ears to me.
- May 11, 2009 at 8:52 AM
- nwgdc said...
Yeah, they're not as bad as they once were...my head has grown into them.
As for jean shorts...they were so short you could see the pocket sticking out the bottom. Classy.
If GQH ever runs a marathon (well, ever runs at all), I could see him sporting a similar look.
- May 11, 2009 at 9:55 AM
- Rachel said...
Congrats on the PR!
- May 11, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- SteveQ said...
I was thinking "Jean Shorts" was an actual name! May you break the 3 hour barrier the way I did (I went from 3:05 to 2:42 in three months).
- May 11, 2009 at 10:29 AM
- Glaven Q. Heisenberg said...
Congrats on the PR, Man!
Know how I decided to represent when Teh Marcy made me BotW?
By trying to make the term "n*ts@ck" go viral.
It didn't work. There are people out there - I see them all the time - who never use the word "n*ts@ck". It saddens me.
Now, I intend to try to make the phrase "Dr Nic's N*ts@ck-shaped Ears" go viral.
Wish me luck!
I would totally run in those jeans shorts. But not a marry because Teh 'Bride wouldn't let me!
Congrats again, Nic! I think the three hour mark is going down. (Personally, I'd be uncomfortable having someone named "mark" go down on me, even if his first name were "three hour" ... but I guess that's one of the many ways I'm different from you. Hahahahahahaha!)
P.S. Wow! Teh Marcy has SOME mouth on her! Really, Marcy? N*ts@ck? In mixed company?
For shame!
- May 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM
- Adam said...
Nice work bro! 3-hr mark IS going down in Duluth, hopefully it's not at Old Chicago in front of me;) John Maas will be gunning for sub-3 and my buddy Tom always wants to start at 3:00 pace. We'll create our own 3:00 pace group. You can draft me until I collapse in a heap and start drinking with the college kids along the course.
- May 11, 2009 at 12:08 PM
- Nitmos said...
Damn, that's impressive. First, it sure was convenient that that resort was 26.2 miles away from the finish. Imagine the coincidence! Also, way to make the rest of us look like putz's by sleepwalking across the finish line after a 3:02. What's next? Moonwalking to the finish in 2:58?
- May 11, 2009 at 2:42 PM
- Vava said...
Congratulations on a super PR! Goes without saying that those hills are to blame for the extra 2:21, but I think a sub-3hr marathon is soon to come. Well done! (Are you locked in with the Running Laminator or what?!)
- May 11, 2009 at 3:26 PM
- Aron said...
CONGRATS!!! awesome job... 8th place and a PR! you are very close to your sub 3 :)
- May 11, 2009 at 3:59 PM
- Carolina John said...
nice marathon nic. good pr.
- May 11, 2009 at 5:08 PM
- Runner Tammy said...
3:02 is a really impressive marathon time! I see a sub-3 hour marathon in your future when you have more favorable conditions including a flat course, wind at your back, and an operational Garmin.
Great job on placing 3rd in your age category...Way to go!!
Now go rest, recover and enjoy your victory.
- May 11, 2009 at 6:48 PM
- The Laminator said...
Congrats Nic on your big PR and great AG finish. You manage to run the exact same time I did in Boston this year. Crazy. Big Ups to you for a great race weekend.
- May 11, 2009 at 10:58 PM
- Helen said...
Holy shit that was some running. You are in serious form considering the tough races you've had already this year. Grandma's will see the end of 3:..!!
I, on the other hand am revising upwards the way things are going :(
But will celebrate regardless!
- May 11, 2009 at 11:01 PM
- Ace said...
Rock on! Grandma's gonna bake you up some under-3-hour cookies for sure! Them will taste good. At least I imagine they will. I will be gnawing on the mud brick of "a whole lot slower than that" for quite some time. :)
- May 12, 2009 at 10:35 AM
- joyRuN said...
Congrats on an excellent time :) No freakin' problem on that sub-3 soon.
As for the jean shorts - I cry at the thought of THAT chafeage.
- May 12, 2009 at 3:12 PM
- Elisabeth said...
That pic of Parsenn looking at the denim cut-off guy is simply priceless.
Congratulations on a great race!! You set the bar...
- May 12, 2009 at 9:10 PM
- Grellan said...
Great race Nic. I never celebrated a marathon finish, unless crying counts.
Keeping you fastest mile until mile 24 just shows the strength and depth of your endurance. Sub-3 hours in Grandma's for sure!
- May 13, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Marcy said...
Awwwwhhhhh yeah. I'll be your pusher (wo)man.
Where the hell is G?! Only 1 comment on this post. 1 stinkin comment! You did make him mad HAHA
- May 13, 2009 at 8:34 AM
- SteveQ said...
The denim's bad enough, but looking at the photo again, did the guy have a mullet? Probably slowed him down doin' the achy-breaky at the aid stations.
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10:16 PT - DM: Also very environmentally friendly. Every MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air meets the EPEAT Gold standard and Energy Star version 5 coming out this summer. World's greenest lineup of notebooks.
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10:25 PT - DM: Even more speed too. 64-bit JavaScript performance is 50% faster.
10:26 PT - DM: QuickTime has a fancy new icon, shiny and purple. All new QuickTime X in Snow Leopard. Modern foundation, hardware acceleration, ColorSync, and new technology for streaming, HTTP streaming. Works with any webserver, like an Apache server. Also change the User Interface. Looks a lot like QuickLook window, and even the title bar goes away when it's inactive.
10:27 PT - DM: We're going to take a look at some of the features and little touches. Craig Federighi, VP of Mac OS Engineering is going to come talk about the refinements. Three areas to cover.
10:27 PT - DM: Dock and the Finder. First up, Stacks. In Snow Leopard, Stacks handles large contents better than ever, you can now scroll through a large Stack, and you can drill into sub-folders. In Icon view in the Finder, there's now a magnificiation slider, and the icons are live previews, so you can play movies, page through PDFs, etc.
10:28 PT - DM: Dock Expose. Lots of windows open by the end of the day. Usually know which app has the window looking for. If you click and hold on the app icon in the dock, and you get a look at all the images. (It also looks smoother, and they've relocated the title). You can zoom in on a window without leaving Expose. And moving content across windows is easier. Dock Expose into Finder, find the image, and drag it to Mail to get Mail Expose, get the correct window and drop it in.
10:31 PT - JS: Apple spending some of its demo focusing on user productivity in Snow Leopard. You know, it might not make big waves at a press event, but it's the sort of thing that makes people feel they're enjoying their Mac computing experience more, which can lead to more satisfied customers. Interesting that they're bringing it up here.
10:32 PT - DM: QuickTime X. Playback controls superimposed on video, and then everything fades away when you take the mouse off. Fade in when you mouseover. Ability to trim and share. Get a visual timeline of the video, can drag the endpoints with seamless scrubbing, click trim, and you get the edited clip. Can share to YouTube, MobileMe, or iTunes (for export to playback on iPhone).
10:34 PT - JS: The new QuickTime interface looks nice. So what happens when you open an audio file instead of a video file?
10:34 PT - DM: Just a few of the many touches to Snow Leopard. Bertrand's back.
10:34 PT - DM: Powerful new technologies as well. All these new resources: gigabytes of RAM; powerful processor at a frequency in GHz, multicore, 64-bit capable; and the GPU with enormous raw processing power. But to take advantage of it, you need the right software.
10:35 PT - DM: First 64-bit. Primary reason is to address a lot of memory. 32-bit software taps out at 4GB; 64-bit has a limit of 16 billion gigabytes. Certain processes run up to twice as fast under 64-bit. Snow Leopard now running all the major system apps in 64-bit mode.
10:36 PT - DM: Next, multicore. Used to just increase frequency for the chips, but now we have more and more cores. The challenge of multicores is how to take advantage of them. Answer is threads. New technology called Grand Central Dispatch. Built in support for multicore across all of Snow Leopard. Integration with all system APIs, tools to tune programs. Just to give a taste of using GCD, looking at Threads in Leopard Mail.
10:37 PT - JS: Oooh, my favorite subject! The problem of multiprocessing. Snow Leopard's Grand Central Dispatch is meant to make it easier for programmers to chop their programs' work up into little pieces so that they can be fed to all of those processor cores inside your computer. The result: faster programs that can take advantage of all the processing power they've packed into your Mac.
10:37 PT - DM: When Mail is busy, it has a certain number of threads; when idle, it has the same number of threads. But in Snow Leopard, it uses more threads when busy, fewer when idle.
10:38 PT - DM: Next, talking graphics. Using OpenGL, but want to use power for all kinds of things. So there's a technology called OpenCL ("c" stands for "computing"). Based on C, hardware abstracted, automatic optimization, and numerical accuracy, so you can use it for scientific computation. And it's an open standard, with lots of companies participating (EA, AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Broadcom, etc.). That's OpenCL.
10:40 PT - DM: Those are just three of the technologies that we have in Snow Leopard. This power is power for Apple to innovate in the OS and power for third-party applications.
10:40 PT - DM: Third area to cover is Exchange. People want to take their Mac to work. Works great, for most part, thanks to thinks like Boot Camp and virtualiation, file & print, Microsoft Office, more. Have decided to build Exchange support into main three apps: Mail, iCal, and Address Book. Just fill in email address and password, and you're setup in all three apps.
10:41 PT - DM: Demo of Exchange support. Personal mail accounts already set up, but want to add Exchange. Add an account, type in email address and password, and it auto-discovers the server and sets everything up. Exchange emails, folders, To Dos, Notes, etc. Instant searching of Exchange data. Can use all OS X features, for example data detectors spot addresses for contacts and mapping. Meeting invitations show up in Inbox, can accept in Mail or open it in iCal.
10:43 PT - DM: iCal has an integrated view of both Exchange calendars and personal calendars. Address Book shows an integrated view of Exchange contacts and local contacts. If you want to set up meeting with people in Exchange, drag contact folder out of Address Book and just drop it into iCal. Plus you can schedule meeting rooms by searching location field. iCal can look for next available time in a meeting room and reschedule meeting automatically.
10:45 PT - DM: Exchange support requires MS Exchange Server 2007. With Exchange support built into Snow Leopard, it has no extra charge for Mac OS while Windows users usually have to pay extra. So Snow Leopard: lots of refinements, powerful new technologies, and Exchange support. That's Snow Leopard.
10:46 PT - DM: Snow Leopard will be available for all Intel Macs, past and present (sorry, PowerPC folks). How shall we price it? Leopard is $129. We want all users to upgrade to Snow Leopard, because Snow Leopard is a better Leopard. So it's priced at $29—for Leopard users. Family pack at $49. Available in September. Near final Developer Preview available today. That concludes the info on the Mac, and now we're going to hear from Scott Forstall on iPhone.
10:47 PT - DM: Scott's wearing that same black jumper that he usually seems to be wearing. Incredible year for the iPhone; less than a year ago, released 2.0 and the native SDK. Allowed developers to go beyond Web development and build native apps. Response has been staggering. Free SDK has been downloaded more than 1 million times. Developers have been prolific in posting apps to the App Store; now more than 50,000 apps on the App Store.
10:48 PT - DM: Apps from the App Store run on all iPhones and iPod touches; have already sold over 40 million iPhones and iPod touches. Customers love downloading and running apps. On April 23rd, they crossed 1 billion apps downloaded from the App Store. In just 9 months. Scott would like to say thank you to customers, and especially thank you to the developers. Heard some amazing story from developers, so here's a little video.
10:47 PT - DM: Scott's wearing that same black jumper that he usually seems to be wearing. Incredible year for the iPhone; less than a year ago, released 2.0 and the native SDK. Allowed developers to go beyond Web development and build native apps. Response has been staggering. Free SDK has been downloaded more than 1 million times. Developers have been prolific in posting apps to the App Store; now more than 50,000 apps on the App Store.
10:48 PT - DM: Apps from the App Store run on all iPhones and iPod touches; have already sold over 40 million iPhones and iPod touches. Customers love downloading and running apps. On April 23rd, they crossed 1 billion apps downloaded from the App Store. In just 9 months. Scott would like to say thank you to customers, and especially thank you to the developers. Heard some amazing story from developers, so here's a little video.
10:50 PT - DM: Lots of different developers from game developers, medical app developers, and MLB's app developer.
10:55 PT - DM: That gets a nice round of applause from the developers, as you might expect. Good, they deserve it.
10:55 PT - DM: Let's talk about iPhone OS 3.0. Major update, bringing 100 new features, let's talk about a few. Cut, Copy and Paste. Nice, simple, touch-based interface for Cut, Copy, and Paste. Works across apps from Apple and from third parties, and undo support with shake, as well as Developer APIs to expand what types of data you can cut, copy and paste.
10:56 PT - DM: Landscape. Have had it in Safari since iPhone 1.0. In 3.0, landscape comes to all key apps: Mail, Notes, and Messages. Speaking of Messages. MMS has been added. Allows you to send and receive photos, locations, contact info, and voice recording. All of that support in the same app that supports text messages. One app to rule them all: Messages. MMS requires carrier support. 29 of carrier partners in 76 countries will support MMS at launch of iPhone OS 3.0. In the United States, AT&T will be ready to support MMS later this summer (that got an "oooh" from the crowd).
10:57 - MH: O2 is listed as one of the supporting carriers so we should get MMS here in the UK.
10:57 PT - DM: Search goes beyond contacts. Calendar, music, notes, and email. Search not only the messages downloaded to phone, but also potentially thousands of messages on your server.
10:58 PT - DM: In addition, adding Spotlight. Single location on Home screen that allows you to search across phone, even searching apps. If you, like Scott, have over 100 apps on your phone, you can search and launch right from Spotlight.
10:58 PT - JS: Wow, some boos in the audience for AT&T. Apple definitely making its displeasure known by suggesting that AT&T is dragging its feet when it comes to supporting MMS on the iPhone.
10:59 PT - DM: iTunes now lets you rent and purchase movies right from your phone. Great if you're at an airport. Also TV shows, music videos, and audiobooks. And support for iTunes U right on the phone as well, since they care about education.
10:59 PT - DM: Parental Controls. In addition to the existing ones, for things like Safari or YouTube, they've added other controls. Movies, TV shows, and apps. Parent can limit to their child to only view G or PG movies. Likewise can limit child to only running apps that are age appropriate (though that means they have to rate stuff, doesn't it?)
11:00 PT - DM: Tethering, which allows you to share iPhone Internet connection with computer. If you've got no Wi-Fi, you can share the Internet conncetion that your phone already has with your computer. Works with Macs and PCs, works over USB or over Bluetooth. Seamless experience. Once you'ver turned on tethering, you don't have to run any app on your computer. Requires carrier support, 22 carriers in 44 countries. "More on that later." Ummm. Way to leave us hanging, Scott.
11:02 PT - DM: Safari. On iPhone 2.2.1, iPhone 3G, Safari runs SunSpider JavaScript Benchmark at 126 seconds; most phones can't even run the benchmark. JavaScript almost 3x faster on 3.0, only 43 seconds. Web pages load and render really fast.
11:02 PT - JS: Wow, Apple's giving AT&T the stick today. All unsaid, of course, but the list of carriers that support tethering on iPhone 3.0 is huge, and yet... AT&T isn't in there. Are we seeing Apple negotiating its next carrier deal in public?
11:02 PT - DM: Suport for HTTP streaming audio and video. This protocol picks the right bit rate and data quality for your current connection: EDGE, 3G, or Wi-Fi. HTTP, so it can go through firewalls.
11:03 PT - DM: Autofill, can optionally remember usernames and passwords for websites (thank the lord). Contact information on your phone can help you fill out web forms. So: great performance, HTTP streaming, auto-fill, and HTML5 support in Safari on the iPhone. Adding support for emerging standards like audio and video tags.
11:04 PT - DM: Languages: ship a single OS around the world, localized into every language supported. Multilingual customer running in English can switch to a different language on their keyboard. Support for even more languages in iPhone OS 3.0. Hebrew and Arabic (yay). Greek, Korean, and Thai. Now support more than 30 languages in iPhone OS 3.0. Every one of the languages has both portrait and landscape keyboards.
11:05 PT - DM: Find My iPhone. If you've ever misplaced or lost your phone, it can be somewhat traumatic. 30 Rock clip where Tina Fey lost her phone to a cabbie. Hopefully you haven't had a 30 Rock experience, says Scott. So Find My iPhone is a service available only to MobileMe customers. If you lose or misplace your phone and you can log in to MobileMe and it will show you where you left your phone. You can send a message to your phone from the home, and it plays an alert (whether or not you left it in silent mode). And the sound alert means that you lost it at your house, the sound still plays so you can walk around to find it.
11:07 PT - DM: If phone really is lost or stolen, you can also send it a remote wipe command to delete all of your data. Erase contacts, mail, and everything. And if you find it again, you can plug it in and it will restore from backup. Alright, I'll grant you pretty cool.
11:08 PT - JS: Okay, Apple, that's how you make MobileMe more valuable.
11:09 PT - DF: This will sell many MobileMe subscriptions all by itself.
11:08 PT - DM: 1,000 new developer APIs. Starting with in-app purchase. Allows developers to make financial purchases from within the app, enabling things like magazine subscriptions and additional game packs. Business terms are the same as apps on the store. Free apps remain free, so you can't give away a free app and then charge for additional content.
11:09 PT - DM: Suport for Peer to Peer networking. Peer to Peer support automatically finds other client over Bluetooth, no pairing necessary. Great for any application that wants to form peer to peer connection between two devices.
11:10 PT - DM: Accessories. Opening up ability for hardware developers to build software apps for their accessories. LifeScan said it would build a companion iPhone app for its OneTouch glucose scanner. Will calculate how much insulin you need to take for your next meal.
11:11 PT - DM: Companion apps can talk to accessories via dock connector or over Bluetooth. Use standard protocol or create custom procotols to talk to your own custom hardware.
11:11 PT - DM: Cocoa Touch control to embed Google Mas, including satellite and hybrid views, directly into your applications. This control is heart of the Maps application, and you get everything you expect, like pan and zoom, custom annotations, current location, geocoding. Developers can build turn-by-turn direction applications using Core Location.
11:12 PT - DM: Push Notifications are *in* iPhone OS 3.0. Generic push notification service for developers. Allows developers to push things like scoring alerts, as well as instant messages. Three types of notfications: text alerts, badges, and custom alert sounds. A few of the more than 1000 new APIs that make up SDK for iPhone OS 3.0.
11:13 PT - DM: Ever since we announced 3.0, have seeded developers with betas. Many have been taking advantage of features with 3.0, and so we're going to hear from some developers who are using the 3.0 features.
11:13 PT - DM: Mark Hickey from Gameloft. Announcing Asphalt 5 racing game. Let's take the Audi R8 through a spin in the mountains. Media player access lets your car stereo access your iPod music. Peer to peer multiplayer over Bluetooth, worldwide multiplayer over Wi-Fi including voice chat, and additional content like additional cars and tracks for $0.99.
11:16 PT - DM: Next up, Airstrip Technologies. Medical software that allows healthcare providers to monitor patient information on their devices. Dr. Cameron Powell coming out to speak. AirStrip Critical Care. Push notification. Pre-select clinical parameters per patient, for example lab results. Can jump to information. With AirStrip CC can virtually look into patients room by providing real-time vital signs.
This is pretty cool. It kind of makes me wish I'd finished going to med school. Or started going to med school.
11:20 PT - DM: Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion. Built around bringing great content to iPhone. New in-app bookstore, powered by in-app purchase. Over 500 best-selling books in the app store. 50 major magazines, over 170 daily newspapers, over 1 million books to the App Store. You can pinch to zoom the view, swipe to the next page. Citations made possible with copy and paste, and you go write into an email form inside the app. Partnered with several textbook publishers liek Hougton-Mifflin, Wiley, McGraw-Hill. Coming soon to an iPhone near you.
11:22 PT - DM: TomTom. Man, we have been waiting to hear from these guys for year. Both application and accessory integration. Peter-Frans Pauwels. Using new features in iPhone 3.0 to deliver real TomTom navigation as a true iPhone experience. Plan a route from Moscone West to Sausalito. Best route at the best time of day. And it has the voice cues. Demo looks a little jerky. Create an optional accessory that's like a little cradle that suctions into the window. Not just a holder, it securely docks iPhone, and you can flip it into landscape. Thanks to accessory framework, they can enhance GPS, also give you hands free calling, power, and a loudspeaker. Both will be available this summer, with a range of maps.
11:26 PT - DM: Neil Young from ngmoco. Star Defense (like Tower Defense but, you know, in space). Expansions is the word of the day here. Major new content and feature packs. Just a few dollars more for extra content. Push to play challenges allows you to play online. Launching today, but 3.0 features will come when iPhone 3.0 launches (uh, hey guys, let us know when that will be, huh?).
11:29 PT - DM: Pasco to teach science to kids in K-12. Wayne Grant of Pasco to show off their science-teaching app. Ballon bursting sensors. Scott Forstall comes out in lab coat, goggles, and ear protectors. He's going to blow up a balloon until it pops. "The rapid increase in pressure is right here." says the founder as the balloon fails to inflate. Awww, fail. So we'll walk it through as though it had happened. "That flat line actually zooms quite well." Poor guy, but he's rolling with the punches.
11:33 PT - DM: "Last time I'm dressing up for an experiment," says Scott. Zipcar is next.
11:33 PT - DM: Zipcar's Luke Schneider. New Zipcar iPhone app. Maps show you all zip car locations all around the city. Green pins indicate available cars. Tap on a pin, up pops name and number of cars. Instantly see Zipcars in any lcoation. Gives him a list of the cars, and you can set cars as favorites. Tap Reserve, pick a time, and duration. And you can tap the horn icon on the iPhone to have it beep the horn for your car, so it's easy to find and you can unlock the car from the iPhone. That's Zipcar on the iPhone.
11:37 PT - DM: Final demo from Line 6 and Planet Waves. Together, they let you control your guitar and your amp at your next gig. Marcus Ryle. Using accessory framework you can connect iPhone to connect amp and guitar. Can choose the amp style. "This doesn't run on compressed air, but it could still have some technical issues." Can also adjust treble and bass. Can also change what kind of guitars, change into acoustic. "That's not acoustic." Whoooopsie. You can design your own guitar. You'll all have to go to Line6.com to hear what it actually sounds like. Change the tuning of the guitar without using a tuning peg. You can move the frets around—apparently it sounds impressive when it works.
11:41 PT - JS: Okay, so that didn't go well. They're not going to say iPhone 3.0 is shipping today, are they? Because with crashes like these, maybe there's some more debugging to be done, either in the apps or the OS.
11:41 PT - DM: "The chance of something going wrong is directly related to the number of people watching," says Scott. He says it worked great in demos.
11:42 PT - DM: That's iPhone 3.0. It will be free for all iPhone customers, both of original iPhone and iPhone 3G. Cost $9.95 for iPod touch customers, both of 1G and 2G models. And it will be available worldwide June 17th. Next Wednesday, folks. All paid developers will have golden master seed of iPhone OS 3.0 today. Can go and download it today. Number one, you need to go to iTunes Connect and assign a rating for your applications, and number two, test your apps against 3.0. If not, quickly submit an update.
11:43 PT - JS: iPhone 3.0 drops a week from Wednesday. But developers get it today, so they've got time to make sure their stuff works!
11:43 PT - JS: Adding parental control age ratings to iPhone apps is huge. Even if you don't have kids. Why? Because all of these ridiculous app rejections will cease once Apple can approve "questionable content" that's rated for mature audiences only.
11:44 PT - DM: And Phil's back. "To call iPhone 3G a hit would be the understatement of the year." Wasn't that long ago that we were frustrated with these "crappy" devices. Two thirds of all mobile browsing is done an iPhone OS device.
11:45 PT - DM: Comparing the iPhone App Store: over 50,000 apps. Android is almost 5,000. Nokia Ovi Store, took a lot of phones and added them together 1,088. "And somebody else. I can't read it, it's small." The last in reference to Palm's 18 apps. Zing, Phil. Zing.
11:46 PT - DM: And an entirely new version. The iPhone 3GS—the "S" stands for "speed." Same great design of iPhone 3G, but what's inside is entirely new. Launching messages app, twice as fast. Loading a game, 2.4x faster. Viewing attachments, 3.6x faster. Load NY Times, 2.9x faster. Speed against iPhone 3G running iPhone 3.0 software. Even faster with the 3GS, from 126 to 43 on iPhone 3.0, on iPhone 3GS, it's just 15 seconds.
11:48 PT - DM: Up to 2x faster on average. Great performance technology, OpenGL|ES 2.0. 3GS is ready for 7.2 Mbps HSDPA. Also has amazing features. Brand new built-in camera. Looking at Flickr daily number of users loading pictures from cellphone: iPhone is 3.5x more than any other cellphone. Brand new 3 megapixel autofocus camera. Beautiful pic of the Golden Gate. In addition to Autofocus, also tap to focus. Tap the subject of whatever you want to focus on, and it'll focus and auto compensate. Improve low-light sensitivity lets you take better pictures. Auto focus also has auto-macro. As close as 10cm away. API lets developers take advantage of camera and get features for free.
11:51 PT - DM: Oh, and it also captures video. Just go into Camera app and there's a switch for still or movie, flick to what you want to take, and it takes 30fps VGA with audio, and it's auto focus, auto white balance, auto exposure.
11:52 PT - DM: Videos are right alongside your pictures. You can scrub through a timeline and edit with a tap of your finger, picking an in-point and end-point and hit "trim." And you can tap the share button to email, over MMS ("if my carrier supports it"), MobileMe gallery, and YouTube. Expect iPhone 3GS to become most popular cell phone for video. Just like still camera, there's an API for adding video capture to your applications.
11:53 PT - DM: Voice Control! Heck yeah. In any application, hold down the Home button and the Voice Control UI pops up. Commands you can give scroll by. "Call Scott Forstall." You can play music or playlists. Can ask iPhone what's playing now and iPhone will speak back to you and tell you title and artist. Can even trigger Genius by saying "play songs like this." That's Voice Control.
11:55 PT - DM: There's also a built-in digital compass. (One guy whooped it up on that, and Phil commented about a crazy compass guy). Gives you Longitude and Latitude, can jump into maps. Tap a second time and it'll even flip the map to orient the way you're facing. Developer API for this as well.
11:55 PT - DM: Accessibility. VoiceOver support can read to people. Zoom in the display to have larger icons. Invert colors. Even can pipe mono audio through and speak auto-text corrections.
11:56 PT - DM: Built in support for Nike+. Can talk to the sensors, play your power song.
11:57 PT - DM: Enterprise-requested feature: hardware encryption. If you use Exchange service or Find Your iPhone, remote wipe is instantaneous, and backups are encrypted.
11:57 PT - DM: And they've improved the battery life too. Put up the battery specs for the iPhone 3G running iPhone 3.0. But 3GS is even better. 9hrs of Internet on Wi-Fi, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2G talk time and 5 hours of 3G talk time.
11:58 PT - DM: Also, most environmentally-friendly iPhone yet. Arsenic-free glass, BFR-free, mercury-free LCD, PVC-free system, 23% smaller packaging. Smaller packaging means can ship millions around the world in less space.
11:58 PT - DM: Also, most environmentally-friendly iPhone yet. Arsenic-free glass, BFR-free, mercury-free LCD, PVC-free system, 23% smaller packaging. Smaller packaging means can ship millions around the world in less space.
11:58 PT - DM: iPhone 3GS will ship with iPhone 3.0 features. Rate of applications on App Store still accelerating. iPhone 3GS will be just $199 for 16GB version. $299 for 32GB iPhone. AT&T prices in the U.S. for new and qualified customers. And both come in black and white.
11:58 PT - DM: iPhone 3GS will ship with iPhone 3.0 features. Rate of applications on App Store still accelerating. iPhone 3GS will be just $199 for 16GB version. $299 for 32GB iPhone. AT&T prices in the U.S. for new and qualified customers. And both come in black and white.
12:00 PT - DM: Want to reach more customers, so they'll keep the iPhone 3G on the market at just $99 for 8GB. That pricing starts today.
12:01 PT - DM: Here's the lineup: iPhone 3G at $99 for 8GB; iPhone 3GS 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299.
12:01 PT - DM: iPhone 3GS available on June 19th. In U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and U.K.. Week later to six more, and in July to more countries, and into August to even more. Very quickly will take it to all over 80 countries iPhone is already in.
12:02 PT - DM: We're so excited, we created a new ad. Cute ad.
12:03 PT - DM: Recap time. Whole new line of MacBook Pros. Snow Leopard. iPhone OS 3.0. And iPhone 3GS.
12:03 PT - DM: Just the start of the show this week. 129 sessions, 147 hands-on labs, 1000 Apple engineers. Want to thank all the amazing people at Apple.
12:05 PT - DM: And that's it folks! Hope you enjoyed our liveblog and are looking forward to all the new exciting stuff Apple has to offer. Of course, we'll have full coverage of all these devices, software updates, and more at Macworld.com. Thanks for dropping in.
12:05 PT - JS: Okay, that does it. Thanks as always to Dan Moren for putting his fingers on the line to handle the play-by-play.
12:05 PT - MH: And here at Macworld UK we'd like to thank the Macworld US team, in particular Jason Snell, and Dan Moren for providing us with their live coverage; and also Curt Poff for providing the behind-the-scenes technical support and for keeping the system running. Thanks a lot guys.
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To get myself started, I decided to make pencil holders for my sewing room.
I used this tutorial as a starting point.
I made a green one using green scraps for my crayons.
A blue one using blue scraps for my washable markers.
And a pink one using pink scraps for my cutting tools.
I have to say, these are little bit addictive - and when my sweetie came in to my sewing room earlier this week, he asked me to make him one for his computer desk upstairs. Now that's a compliment!
Even though I completed these in 2015, I'm going to count these as scrappy project #1 and I'm going to be linking up at Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday.
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Bell: NFL playoff expansion would come at a price
- NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said the league could expand the playoffs by 2015
- Fans and teams should expect the NFL to capitalize on the revenue opportunity
- Though more games might be an enticing prospect%2C expanded playoffs means a watered-down product
WASHINGTON — If the NFL moves forward with the notion of expanding its playoff field to 14 teams, at least one marketing slogan is already in the bag:
Eight-and-eight can win a date ... to the Big Dance.
As league owners wrapped up their day-long fall meetings Tuesday, Commissioner Roger Goodell said it's possible that the playoffs, set at 12 teams since 1990, can be expanded for the 2015 season at the earliest.
It will happen.
Goodell opened the meetings by declaring to owners that the league is in the strongest position it has been in during his 32 years with the NFL.
With a long-term labor deal with players, another huge increase in network TV contracts, more stadium projects in the works and, most important, enormous popularity, it's tough to argue that the business of the NFL has ever been stronger.
It even settled, for $765 million, the concussion case with retired players that threatened to cost a lot more, perhaps in the billions.
Now would be a good time to expand the NFL playoffs.
People will watch, accompanied by hype and ratings.
And as Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones likes to say, they can find another way to grow the pie.
It also makes sense for the league on another level.
The league can reduce the dreaded preseason to, say, three games. As it stands now, not a single game from the final week of the preseason is televised nationally.
And why have an 18-game regular season when you can have 8-8 playoff teams?
Had the NFL had 14 playoff teams last season, the Chicago Bears (10-6) and Pittsburgh Steelers (8-8) would have made the cut.
That's emphasis on last season's Steelers, not the current squad.
Two seasons ago, the Tennessee Titans (9-7) and the survivor of a tiebreaker scenario involving four teams — Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas or Arizona — would have gotten in.
Over the past five years, an 11-5 New England Patriots squad (2008) and the 10-6 New York Giants (2010) would have made the playoffs.
Yet, over the past five years, just as many eight-win teams would have made it as 10-win teams ... along which a bunch of 9-7 outfits.
So, the playoffs in the parity-balanced league — with its weekly drama of close games — would be diluted with an extra round.
Goodell sees it all as half full rather than half empty. With expanded playoffs, more of the games later in the regular season will be meaningful.
As if the Super Bowl runs in recent years by the sixth-seeded Packers and fifth-seeded Giants didn't fuel enough hope, there would be another layer with more playoff teams.
"That's a good thing for fans," Goodell said.
The competition committee will study the issue in 2014. The biggest issue, though, might be simply figuring how out to schedule two more playoff teams.
Tripleheaders on Saturday and Sunday the first postseason weekend?
Goodell said it's possible that two games would be played on Friday night.
One thing seems certain: It's coming ... from the league that already gives you Thursday Night Football. Also:
— The controversy regarding the racial slur that is the Washington Redskins' nickname wasn't on the agenda for the meetings, but it was undoubtedly part of the backdrop.
Goodell, who repeated his stance that the league should listen to the concerns of offended people, didn't rule out his possible attendance at a meeting the league is in the process of arranging with the Oneida Indian Nation.
Although Redskins owner Daniel Snyder has maintained that he will never change the team's nickname, Goodell was non-committal about whether Snyder should be compelled to meet with Native Americans.
Several NFL owners declined to comment on the controversy.
"That's Dan's issue," San Francisco 49ers owner John York said.
Does York see a point where owners will urge Snyder to personally take an active role in discussions with Native Americans?
"Not now," York said.
Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay was struck by President Obama's recent comment that he would consider switching the name if he owned the team.
"When the president speaks, it's going to raise attention to any issue," Irsay said.
— New Orleans, Indianapolis and Minneapolis were selected as the finalists to host Super Bowl LII in 2018. Good thing: The power outage that delayed the most recent Super Bowl didn't hurt New Orleans' chances. Meanwhile, Minneapolis is in the mix with a new stadium deal on the map. Indianapolis is riding momentum built with its first Super Bowl in February 2012.
Said Irsay: "This proves that Indianapolis is really a unique city in the sense that as a medium-sized market in a colder market without 80 degrees and beaches, that we're able to compete again -- not just on a payback aspect of having built a stadium, but on the merits of the job we did."
— The NFL will expand its global presence by staging three games in London in 2014, with the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons and Oakland Raiders pegged as the home teams. This season, the league is holding two games in London for the first time.
Goodell said he doesn't view the expansion of games as a clear signal that the NFL will place a franchise in London, but he reiterated the possibility.
"A lot would have to happen for that," he said.
The Jaguars, who will host the 49ers at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 27 in their first U.K. appearance, have committed to playing home games for four consecutive years in London.
Team owner Shad Khan said the additional games don't diminish any of his franchise's efforts to establish itself as an NFL pillar in the London market.
"We're the only one with a multiyear commitment," Khan said.
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Making your music folder better, one song at a time.
_Pretty much everyday I seem to find some amazing exclusive tracks that
some awesome artists are giving away for free as a special one off
promotion. Today, it occured to me that instead of just downloading
them, maybe reposting them on facebook if they're special enough/someone I know and
then moving on, I should start a little music blog on here. Even if it
doesn't last forever, it's still a free song for you each day that it
does! I'd say the character of this blog is mostly electropop and singer/songwriter but I've got plans for mathcore, post-rock and glitch-hop. A lot of these tracks have a download limit of 100 so get in there on the quick. I'd also point out that a lot of the songs will need renaming once you've downloaded them so I'd do them one at a time.
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Recall that the -dimensional discrete cube is the set of all binary vectors ( vectors) of length n. We say that two binary vectors are adjacent if they differ in precisely one coordinate. (In other words, their Hamming distance is 1.) This gives the -dimensional discrete cube a structure of a graph, so from now on , we will refer to binary vectors as vertices.
Suppose that you want to send a message so that it will reach all vertices of the discrete -dimensional cube. At each time unit (or round) you can send the message to one vertex. When a vertex gets the message at round all its neighbors will receive it at round .
The question is
how many rounds it will take to transmit the message to all vertices?
Here is a very simple way to go about it: At round 1 you send the message to vertex (0,0,0,…,0). At round 2 you send the message to vertex (1,1,…,1). Then you wait and sit. With this strategy it will take rounds.
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These restaurants are open for Thanksgiving service. In most cases, reservations are either required or advised. On Tuesday morning, a few restaurants were booked solid or close to it. Prices and times are subject to change. Always call.
Boston Market (6336 York Road, 410-372-0220; 1317 Reisterstown Road, 410-484-2400; other locations; bostonmarket.com): Boston Market is offering a special $10.99 Thanksgiving Day Meal, which includes roasted turkey breast with two home style sides, freshly baked cornbread and a slice of apple or pumpkin pie. Hours vary.
Regi's (1002 Light St., 410-539-7344, .regisamericanbistro.com): The Federal Hill bistro is serving a four-course holiday dinner menu. The regular menu will be available as well. The cost is $29.95; $9.95 for children 9 and under. Open 10 a.m.-9 p.m. The best availability is before 3 p.m. or between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.
Rocco's Capriccio (846 Fawn St., 410-685-2710, roccosinlittleitaly.com): The Little Italy restaurant is open noon to 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Still have reservations available throughout the day, with best availability between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.
Royal Sonesta Harbor Court (550 Light St., 410-347-9750, sonesta.com/baltimore): The Inner Harbor hotel is offering early and late-dining options. First is a Southern Style Thanksgiving buffet with seatings at 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. The cost is $56; $21 for children 4-12. Following is a traditional Thanksgiving fixed-price dinner from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. The cost is $48; $18 for children 4-12. Still have reservations available for both dinners. Walk-ins won't be turned away but reservations are encouraged.
Rusty Scupper (402 Key Highway, 410-727-3678, rusty-scupper.com): The Inner Harbor seafood restaurant is offering a buffet dinner of traditional Thanksgiving favorites and seafood. Reservations are required. The cost is $40.95 adults, $19.95 for children 10 and under. Open noon-6 p.m. Reservations still available, with best availability for parties of four or fewer, at noon or 5:15 p.m.
Sheraton North Baltimore (903 Dulaney Valley Road, 410-321-7400, sheratonbaltimorenorth.com): The Towson hotel is serving a traditional Thanksgiving buffet from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The cost is $33.95, $26.95 for seniors, $16.95 for children 4-12. Reservations still being taken, except for 1 p.m.
Sip and Bite (2200 Boston St., 410-675-7077, sipandbite.com) The Canton restaurant is open all day for Thanksgiving service.
Tersiguel's (8293 Main St., Ellicott City, 410-465-4004, tersiguels.com): The French restaurant is serving a limited a la carte menu. Open noon-7 p.m. Reservations are still available any time before 4 p.m. or after 6 p.m.
Waterfront Kitchen (
, 443-681-5310, waterfrontkitchen.com): The Fells Point farm-to-table restaurant is serving a three-course, fixed-price dinner, with both traditional and non-traditional options. The regular menu will also be available. The cost is $49 ($69 with wine pairings). Open 2-8 p.m.
Watertable Restaurant (202 E. Pratt St., 410-685-843 ): The restaurant in the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel is serving a menu of traditional Thanksgiving favorites, seafood and chicken. The cost is $48; $18.95 for children 5-12. Still have reservations available, with best availability at noon and 2 p.m.
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Oracle did not have a good fiscal Q2, as El Reg reported on Tuesday after the market closed. Server sales plummeted and new software license sales did not grow anywhere near what Ellison & Co expected.
But the Exadata and Exalogic lines of machinery were a bright spot, and may well be fluffing up Apple's iCloud.
Well, at least it looks like Apple, unless you think Motorola is quietly building some kind of cloud ahead of its acquisition by Google.
"A very large American smartphone manufacturer now has over 30 Exadata systems as they build their cloud," Ellison said in a conference call with Wall Street analysts.
Ellison mentioned a lot of Exadata database cluster and Exalogic middle cluster customers by name, but not this one.
Apple has been pretty secretive about the gear that is installed inside the Maiden, North Carolina, data center that it opened for biz back in June.
Video shots of the inside of the Maiden data center clearly show Teradata data warehousing appliances, plus racks and racks of servers where the images were so fuzzy it was not possible to discern with any accuracy what the brand was. Others looking at the same pictures thought they saw Hewlett-Packard ProLiant servers and NetApp storage arrays.
If you parse the language from Oracle in the past couple of quarterly conference calls and in the statements the company made at Oracle's OpenWorld extravaganza in October, it looks like when Oracle says "system" in reference to Exadata and Exalogic machines, it means something akin to "rack of gear."
An Exadata X2-2 database rack has eight two-socket servers, three QDR InfiniBand switches, and fourteen Exadata storage arrays that have lots of flash memory and special software to compress and preprocess data for the database cluster inside the rack, which of course runs Oracle's 11g database. That rack has a list price of $1.1m. (See this story for an analysis of Oracle's Exadata pricing and configuration.)
So 30 such racks would be something on the order of 240 database nodes costing on the order of $33m at list price for the hardware and not including the database software. Put Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition and the Real Application Clusters (RAC) extensions onto these machines, and now you are talking about $134.1m at list price. Even at half off list price, that's a lot of iTunes downloads that Apple has to sell to cover the costs.
In addition to hinting about Apple using the Exadata clusters, Ellison did a lot of name dropping about who was buying the Exa machines and how it was stealing away business from IBM and fellow server upstart Cisco Systems. On the Exalogic front, the University of Melbourne bought four systems to run Fusion middleware, beating out a rack of Cisco blade servers running VMware virtualization. (The Exalogic machines run Oracle's implementation of the Xen hypervisor on the cluster and plunk Fusion instances on top of Oracle's RHEL-ish Linux.)
The US Food and Drug Administration bought five Exalogic machines to sit between applications and the Exadata database clusters the agency already has installed. Retailer Amway tossed out IBM's Power Systems machines and put in two racks of Exalogic to act as the middleware layer supporting a mix of homegrown and Oracle E-Business Suite apps, and another IBM account, Hyundai Kia Motor Company, bought an Exalogic box.
"I know that IBM is running a lot of ads saying that their machines run faster than ours, but I'd love to see their customer references because we haven't seen one," quipped Ellison. "We've seen a lot of ads, no customer references. We have lots and lots of customer references where we are replacing pSeries and running much faster than IBM. I'd like to see one from IBM."
In addition to the presumed Apple greenfield win, Ellison said that a big European bank now had over 24 Exadata "systems" and that media monitor AC Nielsen had moved a chunk of its data relating to the Wal-Mart retail giant off IBM machinery and onto Exadata iron. Oracle also won four SAP shops, moving their databases from other systems to Exadata. Oracle didn't say what those prior systems were, but given the distribution of servers running SAP apps, the likelihood is that it was not Sparc iron, but Hewlett-Packard Itanium or x86 gear or IBM Power Systems iron. ®


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Reckless driving charges have been filed in the case of a freeway chase involving pop star Justin Bieber and a freelance photographer, the city attorney's office announced in a news release Wednesday.
Paul Raef, identified by the city attorney as a self-employed freelance paparazzo, was charged with following another vehicle too closely and reckless driving with the intent to capture pictures for commercial gain; one count of reckless driving; and one count of failing to obey the lawful order of a peace officer.
Bieber, driving a chrome-coated Fisker Karma, was pulled over in the San Fernando Valley after what an LA City Council member who witnessed the chase described as a "horrific" traffic situation. The 18-year-old Bieber was issued a citation.
Raef faces up to on year in jail and fines totaling $3,500. Arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 9.
The case marks the first prosecution under California AB 2479, approved in 2010. It imposes additional penalties on paparazzi who drive dangerously in pursuit of a celebrity photos or video.
Councilmember Dennis Zine was among the callers who reported speeding cars on the 101 Freeway July 6 -- among them, a difficult-to-miss shiny Fisker Karma. The base model runs about $103,000 and offers several high-tech features, including a hybrid-drive system and solar panels on the roof.
About six other vehicles were involved in the chase, which exceeded 80 mph across all lanes, according to the city attorney. One of the vehicles, a Toyota Rav 4, was driven by Raef, the city attorney said.
Bieber "immediately responded" to CHP officers' orders to pull over, but Raef did not stop as instructed, according to the city attorney. After the traffic stop, Bieber called 911 to report that the same Rav 4 was following him again.
Officers found Raef and the vehicle at a downtown LA parking garage.
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Chevron U.S.A. is planning to build a new downtown skyscraper for its growing Houston workforce
The energy giant said this morning it will build a 50-story tower with 1.7 million square feet at 1600 Louisiana St. at Pease.
The building will add to Chevron's existing downtown footprint, which includes 1500 Louisiana and 1400 Smith, the former Enron buildings.
The company said the buildings will comprise an "urban campus with indoor and outdoor common areas, enhanced dining facilities, a fitness center, training and conference facilities, and additional parking."
"This announcement underscores Chevron's long-term commitment to Houston and its role as the epicenter of the global energy industry," Bereket Haregot, president of Chevron's business and real estate services division said in a statement. "Houston plays a vital and growing role in Chevron's global business. The new building and expanded urban campus will provide a first-rate work environment for our employees and help us remain the employer of choice."
The headquarters of Chevron Corp., the parent company of Chevron U.S.A., will remain in California, where it has been located for more than 130 years.
The tower was designed by HOK. Groundbreaking is expected after the second quarter of next year, and occupancy is anticipated to begin in the fourth quarter of 2016.
Chevron employs about 9,000 employees and contractors in Houston, where nine of its businesses are headquartered. In addition to its downtown buildings, the company has locations in Bellaire and the Westchase District.
UPDATE — The tower project is set to reap a nice financial boost from state. Gov. Rick Perry said the Texas Enterprise Fund will contribute $12 million to the Chevron project. The development, he said, will create 1,752 jobs. Those new jobs, according to Chevron spokesman Russell Johnson, will be new hires to support the company's growth in Houston over the next several years.
The public incentive deal requires Chevron to receive a "local incentive," as well, the state said. Chevron is in discussions with the city of Houston about the availability of economic development programs for the property, Johnson said, adding: "There are no details to share at this time."
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Personally, I would love to know why economists are on this list. Economists in academia, at least, seem to have flexible schedules that should let them get lots of sleep. Maybe a lot of them are grad students scrambling to publish, publish, publish. Or maybe there are a lot of folks like Larry Summers who prefer allocating more hours for work.I've never met Larry Summers, but, based on what I've read, I don't think there are a lot of folks like him.
But the "scrambling to publish, publish, publish" certainly doesn't end in grad school - indeed, that's only the beginning of it. I really like being an academic, but its not quite so cushy as people seem to think. However, I'm not sure why that would be worse for economists than other academics - if anything, it should be better for us because our job market is better than in most disciplines. But it does seem to be the case that economists are disproportionately represented among the faculty I see around the building late at night or on the weekends. Perhaps economists face a lower opportunity cost of working (i.e., we have lousy social lives).
Or maybe we just love what we do!
However, there doesn't seem to be much variance among occupations. The least sleep-deprived group is "forest, logging workers" who get 7 hours and 20 minutes of sleep - that's only about 3 percent more than economists. As an economist, I wonder if that's a statistically significant difference.


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Harley Pasternak Blogs: Three Reasons to Resistance Train
Not only does it make us stronger, improve our posture, and help shape and sculpt our muscles, it has several other less-mentioned benefits
Whenever I meet with new client, I explain to them that there are three main areas we focus on.
The first two – diet and aerobic exercise – I've written about in great detail in previous blog posts. The third, resistance exercise, is essential to achieving a leaner, fitter, healthier body.
From dumbbells and barbells, to resistance machines and body weight movements, to yoga and Pilates, there are many different types of resistance training.
Not only does it make us stronger, improve our posture, and help shape and sculpt our muscles, it has several other less-mentioned benefits. A few recent studies shed light on even more reasons you should resistance train. Here are three:
1. You'll be more likely to stick to your diet
A recent study conducted at the University of Pittsburgh showed that when we do resistance training, we're more likely to stay on track with our diets. Not only do we boost our metabolism and burn more calories, we also reinforce the positive behavior in ourselves.
Moreover, when we exercise, we feel better mentally and physically. When we feel our best, we're most likely to perform our best – even when it comes to sticking to a diet.
The other key factor here is that resistance training burns calories and boosts our metabolism without leaving us famished when we're done. My clients often complain that after they are done with a heavy cardio session – like a spin class or a cardio boot camp – they leave starving and end up eating whatever they can get their hands on first.
Do yourself a favor – in lieu of ultra intense cardio, do a mix of moderate aerobic activity (walk, jog, etc) and incorporate some resistance training into your daily routine.
2. You'll lose up to 40 percent more fat
Here's the truth: Doing cardio burns more calories than (non-high intensity) resistance training per minute of activity. The catch: This is true only while you're actually doing the activity.
After you step off the elliptical or bike, or stop jogging, your calorie burn goes very quickly back to your resting rate. When we do resistance training, studies show that we continue to burn calories at an elevated rate for hours (and even days) after we're done.
The other major factor to consider is resistance training's effect on calorie burn and fat loss is, when we do resistance work, we're building muscle which increases our base metabolic rate. This means the more muscle we have, the faster we're burning calories, because muscle takes more energy to sustain than fat.
For every three pounds of muscle you build, you'll burn approximately 120 more calories a day. Maybe that doesn't sound like a ton, but think of it this way: over a year, that's about 10 pounds of body fat!
Research shows that when we go on a diet (and don t do resistance training), 75 percent of our weight loss is fat, but the other 25 percent is actually muscle! Yes, that means a drop on the scale, but we're losing our ability to continuously burn calories, too!
Researchers at Penn State University investigating this principle took a group of overweight individuals and put them all on a reduced calorie diet and then split them into three groups: One did no exercise, one did cardio only, and the third did cardio mixed with resistance training.
They found that while all three groups lost a comparable amount of weight, the group that did cardio mixed with resistance lost about 40 percent more body fat than the cardio-only group. If we resistance train while we're dieting, we're building and protecting our muscle while losing fat. Its a win-win!
3. You'll be more productive
Perhaps the most surprising effect of resistance training is that it increases our productivity both at work and at home. Exercise keeps our brains sharp. A group of recent studies found that subjects who did regular resistance training exhibited improved cognitive function in the form of better verbal reasoning, attention span and especially memory.
Specifically, resistance training seems to specifically benefit the part of our brain devoted to "executive functioning" or task management.
A study done by researchers at the University of Bristol in the U.K. found that workers who did strength training on work days had an increase in productivity and performance. They also found that general mood and interpersonal skills increased markedly.
A lot of people, especially women, are reluctant to embark on resistant training programs in fear of "bulking up." Let me dispel this exercise myth once and for all – our bodies don't do that!
In order for that to happen, one would need to consume a considerably larger amount of calories. The beauty of resistance training is that it won't spike your appetite. So unless you are seeking to pack on pounds of muscle, adding a small resistant training circuit will make you look leaner, longer and more toned.
Do you have any questions about exercise or healthy eating? Tweet me @harleypasternak.


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Things to Do in Woodstock, CT
Woodstock may be small from a population standpoint, but it covers a large area. With almost 62 square miles, it is actually the second biggest town in Connecticut. There are a number of fun, unique and interesting things to do in town. Jump to: Special Events | Attractions | Dining | Shopping | Outdoor Recreation | Parks/Campgrounds | Organizations/Clubs.
Please see the blue Calendar tab (above) for information about upcoming events, the Recreation web page, and Recreation Documents area, also click on Community Links for more information about lodging, organizations, programs, and Woodstock Weather.
Please note that the presence of any link anywhere on this site does not constitute an endorsement, favoring, or approval of the site or any specific commercial product, commodity or service by the Town of Woodstock.
Special Events
- Programs and Trips (Recreation Dept.)
- Artists in the Country and various art shows
- Memorial Day Race (10K) and Parade on Memorial Day. Visit our Facebook page.
- Fourth of July Jamboree on the green in East Woodstock
- Woodstock Fair, one of the oldest and largest agricultural fairs in New England, is held every year on Labor Day weekend, from Friday morning through Monday evening. Attendance averages more than150,000 people. Off-season events are also held there.
- Celebrating Agriculture, usually the third week in September
- Roseland Cottage Arts & Crafts Festival (held the weekend after Columbus day in October each year) and summer evening concerts.
- Shopping - antiques, crafts, florists, orchards, furniture makers, pottery, and MORE. Also see merchant events.
- Woodstock Grown - You can find a variety of locally grown or made products, including Christmas trees and seasonal greenery, honey, fresh fruits and vegetables, nursery and greenhouse products, dairy, wineries and fiber and yarn.
- The Inn at Woodstock Hill - 94 Plaine Hill Road, South Woodstock. Elegant dining (lunch and dinner.)
- Java Jive - 283 Route 169, Woodstock (near the fairgrounds) - gourmet coffee, full breakfast, lunch and desert, gourmet foods.
- The Mansion at Bald Hill 29 Plaine Hill Road, South Woodstock. Elegant dining featuring seasonal menus.
- Mrs. Bridges Pantry - 292 Route 169, South Woodstock.
- Sherwood's of Woodstock. 35 Route 171, South Woodstock.
- Sweet Evalina's Stand - 688 Route 169. Deli, groceries, ice cream, soups, wraps, grinders, salads, thin crust Italian pizza.
- Village Restaurant & Pizza - 22 Woodstock Ave.
- Woodstock Grill and Pizza - 45 Route 171.
- Woodstock Valley Country Store - 1484 Route 171, Woodstock Valley. pizza, grinders, deli, snacks.
Places to Visit/Tours/Attractions - check websites for dates, times, fees and directions
- Cemeteries dating back to the 1700's.
- Fairvue Farms: a working dairy farm that offers tours seven days a week, and an observation area where you can watch milking in progress. MORE
- Libraries: Bracken Memorial, May Memorial, North Woodstock and West Woodstock.
- Palmer Arboretum, a lovely, small botanical park located on Woodstock Hill: education, enjoyment and enlightenment.
- Quasset School - a historical, early American one-room school house.
- Palmer Hall - Woodstock Historical Society, with a library, various historical collections, and period exhibits
- Roseland Cottage, a unique historic house you can tour, and a variety of special events. Woodstock residents can tour the cottage for free! The Recreation Commission also sponsors several free Summer Twilight concerts on the lawn from June - August. See schedule. The Cottage is an excellent example of Gothic Revival Architecture.
- Taylor Brooke Winery - Part of the CT Wine Trail, with tastings, tours and a gift shop.
Outdoor Recreation
- Golf - Two public courses: Woodstock Golf Course and Driving Range across from Roseland Park ( 9 hole, with driving range [grass, mat], putting green, chipping, clubhouse pro shop and snacks) and Harrisville Golf Course, and Harrisville Golf Course (9 holes, pro shop, snacks). We also have a new 18 hole Frisbee Disc Golf Course located at Camp Nahaco! Click here to read more about it!
- Lakes: Four lakes are accessible to the public: Muddy Brook Pond (also known as Pond Factory), Black Pond, Crystal Pond (Crystal Pond Park), and Roseland Lake.
- Little League
- Scenic drives - CT State Route 169.
- Trails and other Parks in town - there are a number of hiking trails at Crystal Pond Park, the Fifty-Acre Wood, Nipmuck State Forest, Palmer Arboretum, Roseland Park, Wyndham Land Trust, and more, offering varying degrees of difficulty and views.
Parks and Campgrounds
- Crystal Pond Park - 120 acres on Crystal Pond. Swimming, picnicking, fishing, boating and ice skating; hiking, cross-country skiing, horseback riding; environmental education for youth and adults, including walks and talks; summer camping for youth and/or adults Rental of facilities to offset costs (weddings, graduation parties, family reunions, business picnics, etc.)
- Roseland Park -Playground, boating, skating, fishing, picnicking, walking and running. No swimming or camping is permitted. Pets must be leashed. Lake and grounds, pavilion, basketball court, benches, changing/bath house, boat launch. Rental: The park can be reserved for $75/day a day for weddings or parties.
- The Town Beach -Swimming, fishing, canoeing, and picnicking. No pets are allowed. Swimming is "AT YOUR OWN RISK". There are no lifeguards on duty. The Town Beach is also used for birthday celebrations, parties, and even weddings if desired.
- Camping: In addition to day camp at Crystal Pond Park, Woodstock has several public campgrounds, including Beaver Pines Campground, Chamberlain Lake Campground, and Solair (family-oriented nudist resort.)
- Senior Citizen programs. The Woodstock Seniors Club Inc. is a private organization with regular meetings and special events and trips, such as coffee hours, exercise, arts and crafts, card, dominoes and Scrabble.
- Theft Detection Society - the oldest, continuously active law enforcement society in the nation.
- The Woodstock Garden Club
- Woodstock Academy Alumni Association
- Woodstock Historical Society - periodic educational programs and exhibits, library and collection
- Volunteer! Woodstock has a number of boards and commissions. Volunteering is a great way to meet people, learn, and help shape the future of our wonderful town.