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For the past two years I have worked the one day Under Armor underclassmen tryout at Avon Old Farms simply because it's provided an opportunity for me to see some of the best players in New England. The first summer I inherited a stacked squad, so loaded that I had four legit goalies. The goalie depth forced me to sit one of them in the final game and he stormed off, furious that I didn't give him enough run. So now I'll use this forum to apologize to current DU starter Jamie Faus.
Last summer was no different. The entire tryout was stacked. I felt like Scrooge McDuck on a pile of money. Only I had a wealth of high level DI talent. Several DI coaches told me they thought that New England would win the tournament going away. That they didn't is not an indication of a lack of talent, in fact I could use this entire column discussing the depth of goalie talent alone in New England, and maybe someday IL will allow me to take a look at the wealth of goalie talent here. However, I'm not going to do that. Instead, I will contemplate some of the team's everyone knows; Duxbury, Deerfield, and Salisbury, and a bunch more you don't.
New England players are making major contributions on big time teams this spring. Former Brewster Academy star Stephen Keogh is perhaps the most noteworthy. Mark Goodrich of Rivers has recovered from his injuries and is making his mark for Johns Hopkins. Duke sports a trio of young NE talent in Josh Dionne (Avon Old Farms), Luke Duprey (Andover) and Dave Lawson (Middlesex). Rob Schlesinger (Nobles) has a hard time getting off the field for Brown, while Eric Slingerland (Exeter) performs in a similar fashion for Harvard. UMass has tapped into the homegrown pipeline as well getting a spark from Connor Mooney (Avon Old Farms) that included an early season game winning goal. You get the point. New England may not be the first place you look to when considering the lacrosse hotbeds, but the talent is here about that there is no doubt.
With summer club teams like NESLL, Laxachusetts and the Top Gun Fighting Clams tearing up the summer circuit it's time to inspect the nooks and crannies of the New England prep and public lax scene to see where these players are hiding, not from DI coaches but from the lacrosse literati. The difference between New England schools and Baltimore, Philly and New York teams? Generally it's depth, however, the region is full of very good teams and some great talent.
The biggest question in each league this year is, do any of the challengers have what it takes to unseat the champ? Out west, while Deerfield gets the hype and the headlines, they need to knock off Salisbury to regain the 'Ship. Do Brunswick, Avon Old Farms or even Berkshire, in their first D1 season, have what it takes to shake up the top of NE West 1?
With ISL champ Middlesex graduating half their team is another of the perennial contenders ready to step up and snatch the title?
Can either St. Johns Prep repeat? Or can Billerica stop the machine down on the south shore? Perhaps Duxbury and it's cadre of D1 talent simply roll through the Massachusetts public school season? What follows isn't rankings but a series of observations on some of the top contenders in New England this year.
Deerfield has a glut of talent and is among the few New England schools to garner national attention year in year out. This year there will be attackmen committed to Division I programs coming off the bench. The four-headed monster at attack features junior Ian Ardery (Harvard), senior Jimmy Bitter (UNC), senir John Hogan (Cornell) and one of three Dartmouth recruits, senior Mike Muller. On the defensive end, slick take away artist Bobby Osgood (Dartmouth) looks to step in for John Rose (currently at Harvard). Playing close D behind him is wunderkind sophomore Ray Horgan. Their midfield will be led by gritty senior Brian Browne (Fairfield) who does it all, from facing off of to dropping outside bombs, he will be the fire starter between the boxes for this team. The Big Green will once again make some serious noise nationally. However, it's important to note that despite all the accolades they've either lost the NE West title or shared it with Salisbury in two of the last three years.
Out in Western MA a Division II team is making the jump to D1 and appears poised to make some noise, largely on the back of a stable the of Vermont —yes you read that right— Vermont talent. Senior attackman Geordie Beldock is a balls to the wall, gun slinging hard riding attackman who never takes a moment off. The midfield is led by Keith Wyatt(Lafayette). Defensively the twin towers of the Green Mountains form a fordable back line. Cooper Fersen, a freshman out of Vermont, will give New England west players fits for the next four years.
Out west, Salisbury will look to knock Deerfield from their lofty heights. With two dynamic and talented senior midfielders headed to ACC schools next year, they can run with anyone. Rhode Island native Walker Chafee is headed to UNC. His running mate David Solomon will look to step in for coach Tillman and the Terps next year. Goalie Willie Joyce out of Chevy Chase, Maryland will take his talents to Cornell in the fall. This team always has the horses, and this year should be no different.
All teams have to deal with the graduation of talent each year but, with the exception of Middlesex (ISL), nobody in New Enlgand has had so much talent walk out the door. Avon lost Josh Dionne (Duke), Connor Mooney (UMass) and Hakeem Lecky (Syracuse) to graduation. They might have the best player in the region in senior midfielder Bronson Kelly (Johns Hopkins) and can count of Kieran Morris (Rutgers) to lock up the opposition's top attackman. Will it be enough to challenge the top two? The answer to that question remains to be answered, but there is no doubt that coach Skip Flanagan will get the most out of his team.
Brunswick had the opportunity to prove its worth early in the season with a home opener against Deerfield April 2. They dropped a one-goal decision to The Big Green proving they belong, but leaving questions about their ability to get over the hump. They've got one of the most technically sound and compettive defensemen in the league in senior David Better who will become a Yale Bulldog this fall. Explosive senior attackman Conrad Oberbeck will also head to Yale. Oberbeck will look to pair with senior attackman Robert Stafford (Georgetown), who might give Avon Middie Bronson Kelly a run for his money as best middie in the league. This team has been poised for years to make a push for the 'Ship, and now they've got the leadership and competitiveness to perhaps make the push. They've got to dig out of the 0-1 hole, but it's early, and anything is possible.
Govs is loaded and the rest of the ISL is worried. How, the wonder, can they contain the stable of athletic horses that coach Peter Bidstrup has at his command. The senior leadership will come from slick two way middie Taylor Pirie (Middlebury), Clark McMahon, a big attackman with a heavy shot and perhaps the best defenseman in New England in Penn State bound Reed Kennedy. And while those three are all impact players in their own right, it's the underclassmen who will drive this wagon.
Junior middie J.C. Vivian (Georgetown) plays with a fire that belies his stature but matches his bright red flow. Junior middie Sam Davis (Penn State) is unstoppable between the boxes and is an eminently athletic defender with the ability to also get to the cage at will. Another Jr. playmaker is AJ Enchil; a darting player with a crafty left hand and the ability to finish close to the net. Add to that trio the young buck, Sophomore Tate Jozokos (UNC), who tore it up as New England's lone rep at The Philly Schowcase this fall and you're looking at probably the best midfield unit in the five state region. Junior Nick Baxter mans the pipes and is as solid as any in the league. Govs is the heavy favorite to win the ISL this year with coach Bidstrup hinting that he may shelve the deliberate offensive strategy employed in years past and allow these horses to run.
Rivers, long considered one of the most offensively dynamic teams in the league, will lean heavily on a pair of Sr. Defensemen while their young offense gets a feel for the league and the inventive schemes of coach Justin Walker. Seniors Tom Rehnhart (Air Force) and Tanner Powers (UVM) will provide defensive stability along with junior LSM Chase Williams (UVM). Junior goalie Sam Bloomstone, a new starter, will benefit from the stability and strength of the solid backline as he gets his feet wet in the crease. The offense will be led by senior Captain Alex Bunick and junior Conor Van Duzur at the midfield, and the dynamic attack duo of Brendan McNeil and Jack Rautiola. These two will need to replace the prolific offensive output of the recently departed Jordy Greenfield (Fairfield) if Rivers is going to push for an ISL banner. It may take some time for the offense to rev up, but rest assured it will rev up, and Rivers will be pushing the top teams for the ISL championship.
St. Sebastian's has come within a goal of the ISL Championship but lost one of the most dominating face-off men the league has ever seen. Peter Burke is currently taking draws for Bucknell and dominated the draw for Seb's last year. If they will again push the top of the league this year, it will be because they have two seniors with pedigree. Murph Vandevelde who is off to Harvard next year will push the quartet at Governors for consensus as the leagues best middie. In goal Packy Wallace is a vocal leader and a solid ball stopper who will head to Avon Old Farms next year to PG before making a decision on college.
Nobles coach Michael Herring has over 200 career wins and a couple ISL championships under his belt. This team was a last minute goal from beating Middlesex and winning the championship again last spring. They lost a ton of leadership with all three of last years captains going on to pay high level college hockey. What remains is a bunch of lacrosse players who will need to figure out what it takes to lead. The defense is anchored by senior net-minder Zack Ellison who is ending his lacrosse career to choose between a Jefferson Scholarship at UVA, and Stanford. His top running mates are close defensmen Matty Rezor (Trinity) and Thomas Park( Skidmore). This team leans on just a couple of midfielders to carry the load. First among them is senior Philip Hession (Dartmouth) who might be the most athletic player in New England, never mind the league. He's a converted soccer player with a raw stick but he's a shut down defender and can get to the cage at will. He's flanked by a gritty, yet nifty junior Max Franklin and a sneaky senior finisher, Jack Palmer. Do it all attackman Sean Shakespeare (Yale) will, deservedly, garner much of the attention from opposing defenses leaving room for junior Brad Rigloi and Freshman Michael Herring to operate. Their unconventional offense can give teams fits but do they have enough talent and toughness to get it done?
Duxbury's success is perhaps even more well known than Deerfield's, as homegrown players seem to bring more recognition to their town than prep players do to their schools. The Quinzani name will perhaps always reign supreme in this town that borders Cape Cod, but there are new legions of Duxbury Dragons ready to make a name for themselves and reclaim the state title that has become something of a birth right. With several DI players, this team can run with most anyone in the country. The attack is fearsome. The question of who draws the number one defensemen may not have an affirmative answer. Juniors Paul Heller (Fairfield), Seamus Connelly (Duke) and senior Kane Haffey lead the dynamic offense that hasn't slowed down much since Quinzani left. The defense will be led by lockdown defenders Riley Naton and Max Randall (Dartmouth).
Billerica is led by maybe the most dynamic schoolboy player in the state, senior attackman Grant Whiteway. Whiteway is a scoring machine, but is by no means a finesse player. He plays like a snot-blowing rhino with skill to match his blue-collar determination. By all accounts, this team is outmatched on paper but don't count them out. They play with a gritty determination and all ten players seem determined to win every ground ball, never quitting on a play. With nine guys working to get Whiteway the ball they have a chance against even the deepest of teams. While Duxbury and The Prep are, the favorites do not bet against Whiteway and his cavalry of hard-nosed teammates.
The Prep returns almost all their D1 championship team and yet it seems that they are regarded as underdogs in the state this year. The Eagles bring back big time offensive fire power with Jimmy O'Connell (Trinity), Matt Scalise (Harvard) and Colin Blackwell (Harvard for Hockey) at attack. Blair Freidenson and Ryan Delisle anchor the defense for the Prep. This team has shown they can take on Duxbury Lacrosse, butdDo they have the guns to get into a shootout with the Dragons this year? hopefully we'll see them matched up again at Harvard Stadium playing for the state title to find the answer.
Phillips Andover is another perennial powerhouse and this year should be an interesting one for the independent school from the north of Massachusetts. They will be led by the crafty dodger and finisher headed to Harvard next fall, senior Will Walker. Complementing him in the midfield is the hyper athletic but raw Joey Kruy(Duke) whose motor never stops. You can bet that intelligent, skilled players ready to make themselves known to the New England lacrosse world will surround this pair. Andover, an independent team, plays a tough and diverse schedule that will test them week in, week out.
Another independent powerhouse is Tabor Academy. The school sits at the edges of Cape Cod and is more famous for their hockey alums, Jeremy Roenick and Tony Amonte, than their lacrosse. They gave teams fits last year and now seem poised to start knocking off some of the top teams in the ISL and independents. They return all American Cam Spiro at attack, who is headed off to play hockey for Boston College in the fall; he is complemented by lefty finisher Cutty Dimond (Sacred Heart) who is a shoe-in for next year's All-Name team. The defense is backboned by Oakville Ontario native Sean Young, who has the requisite Canadian toughness and stick. He will be headed to Towson to play for coach Tony Seaman.
Brewster has come out of nowhere in the last decade to take the New England scene by storm. At the forefront of the Canuck invasion, they've had numerous helmets donned with the familiar maple leaf and they've won the Northern New England league championship seven straight years. They've always relied on high pressure defense, up-tempo play, and the ability of deadly finishers to take advantage of unsettled situations. Following in the tradition of recent 50+ goal scorers of Stephen Keogh (Syracuse), Carter Bender (Hartford) and Connor McNamara (Vermont) they've got a sneaky Canadian in Jr. Austin Shanks of Whitby Ontario. Shanks has the ability to match the school record of 73 goals in a season, shared by McNamara and Keogh, but this team will be leaning on several players to score the ball, including some homegrown players. Two brothers out of Duxbury, who must have had a hard time getting their official release from coach Sweet, lead the midfield. Senior Jimmy Murphy (Hartford) and his sophomore brother Kevin will do the dirty work between the boxes and in breaking down defenses so that a talented young attack group led by Shanks can share the finishing. Beside Shanks are two left-handed sophomores, Massachusetts native Johnny McNamara and freshman Ryder Garnsey. This talented young offense will be helped by strong leadership at the other end of the field with Sr. defensemen Mitchell Chapman (Bryant) and PG LSM Patrick Eaker (Marist). The Bobcats will lean on Trey Adams (Akwesasne Mohawk Nation) in the net.

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L 1-2 at Delaware
Sun. 12 at Hofstra 2pm
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- How to Hack a Conference, Dmitri Sarle, CEO of ArticStartup
- Nokia X for Android developers. Same code base, new user base, Jukka Silvennoinen, Nokia Developer Experience
- Mobile Companies in Finnvera VC Portfolio, Jukka Suokas, Finnvera Venture Capital
- Creating User Engagement and Intelligence on Mobile, Lari Tuominen, CEO of Qvik
In addition we have an excellent demo corner where you can see the latest Nokia devices! And of course - like always - we will have some free hot food and cool drinks sponsored by ArcticStartup and Nokia.
Don't forget our Open Mic possibility: share your ideas and gather feedback from peers in MoMo (get in touch to book a slot in advance).
Warm welcome to #MoMoTre event again!
Schedule on 5th May
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~19.00 Networking and free-form discussion
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I focused Friday on how Aaron Rodgers handled questions about his support for disgraced baseball player Ryan Braun. During the same interview session, Rodgers also addressed the persistent offseason pokes he has received from former teammate and current Minnesota Vikings receiver Greg Jennings.
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Jennings has implied several times that the credit Rodgers has received and accepted over the years in essence overshadowed the work of the Packers' receivers. Friday, Rodgers predictably brushed off the entire subject.
"… I've got a great responsibility to the guys in this locker room and the fans," Rodgers said, "and at this point, I don't have a whole lot of time or energy to spend worrying about things that are said outside the building. I know those are stories for [the media], but personally, I'm focused on this team. Obviously, you hear about them, but I'm not going to spend a lot of time or energy on them."
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Wallace first appeared as Kat Slater in the soap in 2000. She took a break in 2005 before returning in 2010. Dean, 45, was part of the original cast when EastEnders launched on BBC1 in 1985 and returned to the soap in August this year for her third stint as Sharon Watts, now known by her married name Rickman.
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Getting in gear for winter!
Being someone who loves winter, but is stubborn to change from my uniform of shorts and skirts to winter clothing, finding a gem like Simons brand clothing for winter is awesome!Below I have shared some of my favourite trends for the winter season, all from Simons!You can never go wrong with a...
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I'm sure we all have a few obsessions--things we collect ridiculous amounts of because we're just THAT entranced by them. One thing I've always had a metric ton of are bindis! Bindis are decorative dots one wears on their forehead, between their eyes, in the location of the third eye chakra....
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Hey everyone! To celebrate summer finally rollin' around, I wanted to start off with 1 of 2 giveaways I'll be hosting in the near future! This one is for Yoyo Melody, & there are 3 prizes!--PRIZES--Grand Prize: $50 to spend on the Yoyo Melody websiteTwo Second Prizes: $30 each to spend...
Sasquatch! music festival, 2014
My boyfriend, best friend, her boyfriend & I went to Sasquatch festival just the other week! We'd never been before, and it was really fun! It was held in the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington State. It was really quite beautiful! (And not nearly as cloudy as it appears in these pictures--we...
California dreamin' ~ trip pt. 2!
Our friend Ryan took film photos of us on his old camera from the 1970's! The photo below is actually a photo of 4 of us friends, but for some reason the camera messed up and we all turned into pillars of light!These shirts are from Ryan's clothing line, Lemurian Paradise! Love the designs he...
Holly's spring wedding!
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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – The Northern Arizona swimming & diving team took another step towards filling the void left by its decorated graduated senior class with the addition of three incoming freshmen who signed their National Letters of Intent during the spring signing period. The Lumberjacks received commitments from a pair of international swimmers and an elite diver from California to further reload their WAC Championship squad heading into the fall.
"I'm really excited about this class," said head coach Andy Johns. "These three athletes are good compliments to the group we signed in the fall. They'll be hard pressed to do what the group that we lost was able to do, but this class gives us solid, quality depth. We had a few holes last year and we may have a few holes next year, but we'll be good in different ways and in different events. We're excited about the group of girls coming in to help us defend the title."
NAU's diving unit will take a hit with the graduation of Gwen Smithberg and Jane Wakefield, but the Lumberjacks add an important piece to their contingent in Emma Simmonds out of Castaic, Calif. Simmonds was a four-year letterwinner and two-year team captain at West Ranch High School where she enjoyed an accomplished prep career. Simmonds was a three-time CIF diver and became the first diver at her high school to win the league championship, an accomplishment she achieved twice in her career along with a runner-up finish. She was a three-time Scholar Athlete Award recipient for her work in the classroom and also ran on the cross country team for three years.
"Emma will be able to score points for us right off the bat," said diving coach Nikki Huffman. "She comes from a really good program – Rose Bowl Aquatics – where one of her coaches, Hunter Shafer, was an NAU alum. It'll be nice to get her here and she is a great talent. I think Emma can be scoring in the top-eight (at the WAC Championships) in two years just like Carlye Townsend did this year."
The Lumberjack distance crew lost one of the program's all-time greats in Emma Lowther, but they found a fellow swimmer from New Zealand to ease the loss. Kimberly Richter will join the Lumberjacks out of Howick College, the same prep school as Lowther, and will have the opportunity to contribute in the freestyle distance events immediately. The Papakura, Auckland product holds multiple regional county records and was a National Age Group swimming medalist with best times of 2:05.5 in the 200 free, 4:19.6 in the 400 free and 8:54.8 in the 800 free while also swimming the 100 and 200 butterfly events. In 2012, she was part of the women's 4x200m freestyle relay silver medal team at the New Zealand Open Championships with Lowther.
"Kimmy is going to step in and help out in the more distance-oriented freestyle events and she could see some 200 fly swims during the season," Johns said. "She is coming from the same club team as Emma and Rachel (Palmer), so we have a strong connection there and we're excited to have another swimmer from Auckland joining the squad."
To help their sprint crew, the Lumberjacks will add Alina Staffeldt to the roster. Staffeldt, out of Hannover, Germany, will improve the team's depth in the butterfly events and join Alexis Juergens who earned two top-eight finishes at the WAC Championships. She holds the SGS Hannover Swim Club long course and short course records in the 50 fly, 100 fly and 200 fly as well as the 50 fly short course record in Lower Saxony. Most recently, last month Staffeldt placed eighth in the 100 fly at the German National meet.
"Alina is a sprinter in the butterfly and freestyle, so with Alexis and even (fall signee) Samm Crocker, we've gotten stronger in the sprint events which should help our relays," Johns said. "We think we got a good one in her. She's kind of like Andrea Derflinger, but she's better at the sprints whereas Andrea was better at the 200."
The three additions bring the total up to eight NAU signees with Crocker (Des Peres, Mo.), Claire Hammond (Roseville, Calif.), Melanie Harris (Henderson, Nev.) and Allison and Audrey Mann (Phoenix, Ariz.) from the fall signing period.


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If you're looking for a new way to engage with your audience, you might try using Snapchat. That's what the University of Michigan did, and according to a LinkedIn post, it appears to be going well so far.
Of course, Snapchat might not be right for every brand. If you have an older audience, want long lasting proof of your social media efforts, and enjoy analytics, you might want to stick to other social media platforms. But if your audience is young and already likely using Snapchat, and if you're willing to experiment a bit with a newer app, Snapchat might be worth your time.
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The Railway Club is one of Vancouver's longest continually operating stand-alone music venues, occupying the same premises uninterrupted since 1931 and hosting music events since 1981. Back in the 1930's, the Railway Club used to limit its membership to the railway workers who worked at the CPR Station (now the Seabus Terminal) just down Seymour Street at the waterfront but it has since opened up to the general public.
Over the years the 'Rail' has distinguished itself with some of the most innovative music in town with tons of local bands and some big touring acts too. This is where k.d. lang got her 'big break' - Spirit of the West got their start here as well. Other bands that have played at the Railway include Los Lobos, The Rheostatics, The Tragically Hip, Blue Rodeo, Hard Rock Miners, Barenaked Ladies, Grapes of Wrath, Great Big Sea and thousands more. The tradition lives on today as new acts as well as current favourites continue to perform every single night at the Railway.


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Originally Posted by Santos
No, I was quite serious. I moonlight, occasionally, as an English tutor, and your written English is far better than any of my (native) students. Though, it's not exactly shocking to me to learn that there are five assholes on the Internet.
Oh, and I was impressed to have received a personal email in response to signing up for the beta! Made me wonder if that's what the Internet would have been like, were it around four or five decades ago.


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Say it isn't so — my Macbook will not sleep! When I abandoned Windows for a Macbook, I hoped I would resolve a problem with not sleeping (entering sleep mode) that I have posted about before — my Windows XP Sleep and Hibernation posts continue to generate thousands of views, but alas, Snow Leopard, OS X doesn't always sleep, either.
I have done a fair amount of research and think I understand why my macbook will not enter sleep mode, and how the OS X sleep process works. And importantly (and unlike Windows): what you can do to resolve the issue. The short answer is: there's no built-in way to ensure your Mac goes to sleep automatically, but there's a great bit of free software you can install, which in my tests works perfectly: PleaseSleep.
PleaseSleep will save me around $25/yr in wasted electricity (assuming I use it six hours a day, and it sleeps 18 hours). It will also prevent some unexpected battery depletion when I travel.
The Staggering Cost in Energy and Dollars of Sleepless Computers
If there are indeed a billion personal computers in the world, and for sake of argument 10% of them are suffering some sort of insomnia, and 10% of them are Macintoshes, that's 10 million computers trying but failing to go to sleep. Let's say I am over-estimating by 10 times, we're talking about 1M computers that are sleepless. If each of them was like mine, needlessly using 20 watts for 18 hours a day, that would be a lot of watts, simply wasted.
Math? 20W * 18 hours/day = 360W/day/computer, * 1,000,000 computers = 360M Watt hours per day, or 360,000 kWh per day. In the US, the average price of a kWh is $0.10 so that's about $13M/year in wasted electricity. And that's just from Macs, assuming they're all the most efficient ones (like mine) that for one reason or other don't sleep. And for all of us Mac "fanbois" out there, assuming PCs are as bad and as efficient (they are worse, and less efficient), that's another $117M/year in wasted electricity dollars. Granted, we probably spend that amount in a day fighting some war, but hey, this is about the things we can control.
My Macbook (late 2008, Unibody aluminum, 13″ screen) uses between 14 and 20 watts when the disks and screen are off — it was designed to use very little energy (one reason I bought it: yes, to be good to the planet, but also: the battery lasts longer). Older models, larger models, non-laptop, and more powerful models will use more if they don't turn off. So, unless you have my computer or later, assume you have a less efficient model — pay the guy who gives away PleaseSleep accordingly.
So, making a lot of assumptions, my rough guess is that $13,000,000 per year is wasted by Macs that don't sleep as expected.
But, fear not: we can control our computers. It's easy (at least in this case). Download and install PleaseSleep for free. Then donate your first six months of electrical savings to the guy who wrote it. For most people (having lower electrical rates), that would be about $5 – $10.
I Think Guilt May Work With Apple (Tried With Microsoft: They Said "Upgrade to Vista")
If Apple wants to call themselves environmentally responsible (and yes, Apple, you do, I know it's true), they should spent the day or two it would take to build the functionality of PleaseSleep into their operating system. Heck, take a week and go the extra mile. If one nice guy can write a program to do this, surely Apple can do it, as well.
Heck, Apple should just pay the guy that wrote PleaseSleep $13 million dollars and just do the right thing.
Macintosh Insomnia and Related Sleeping Disorders
All recent versions of Mac OS X have an "Energy Saver" option in the Preferences panel. Preferences are set (and on by default) to turn off the hard disks, turn off the monitor, and then really enter "sleep mode".
There doesn't seem to be a problem with hard disk sleeping, nor does there seem to be a problem with turning off the monitor, but depending on your model, when it's using the processor (doing some computing) the computer itself can use a little or a lot. Of course not all Macs fail to sleep properly. (And some won't wake up, which I might describe as a more serious ailment.)
Why Macs Don't Sleep
When a Mac (or other computer) is on, it's doing various tasks : working. When you browse a website it's working. When you type it's working. When you download
porn classical music it's working.
But other things require the computer to do only a little work in the background: checking for new email, staying connected to the network, seeing if anything needs to be backed up, listening to see if anyone has requested a file on your shared drive, displaying accurate time and so on. Mostly, these kinds of tasks are non-critical. And they are especially not important when you are not using the computer. Yet it is frequently these non-critical tasks that prevent your trusty Mac from sleeping.
The decision about when to sleep is made by your Energy Saving preferences. Think of "Energy Saver" as the parents. "Time to go to bed, kids!"
The decision about whether to sleep could be overruled by any running program. The running programs are not just the ones in the dock that have the dot under them — they are also the ones in the menu bar along the top (the clock, battery indicator and so on). But there are more — so-called "daemons" that are waiting for the most mundane things to happen, in the background, invisible for the most part. If you have little kids they are analogous to "running programs". If you have "tweens" they are like the menu bar programs. If you have teenagers, they are demons. Oh, I mean "they are like daemons".
Or do I? Mu-ha-haha!
And of course at least a little of the computer has to be waiting for an indication that it should wake up. Sleep isn't a dirt nap. It shouldn't be eternal. Usually a keypress or mouse movement will wake up a sleeping Mac.
But any old program (it's probably those daemons) can decided to ring the alarm. On my computer, I could get it to sleep manually (e.g. clicking the Sleep item from the Apple menu) … but within a few minutes, it would wake up. Programs that decide to wake a computer are one class of energy wasters — sneaky or passive-agressive ones.
In fairness, about the last thing programmers think about is whether their programs should accept requests to sleep. The trick is that some work is required to accept and respond to a request to sleep. And OS X demurs politely to any whose response is anything other than "Go for it, dude!". Any one such ill-behaved little whippersnapper of a program can keep everything running. I'm a parent: I know what it's like.
Why Can't OS X Just Force Sleep?
Well here's the thing. There are some programs whose execution is critically important. Or at least convenient. And at the very least some things in progress may need to finish.
At least some things that should wake the computer — the power button, a keyboard press, a mouse motion. Yet depending on how your computer is being used, you may want it to wake for other reasons. If you are sharing a folder for others at home, they may want to be able to get at it. If you screen-share with a computer at work, it will need to wake up. If your computer is a web server or database server it may not even want to go to sleep at all. Maybe you want your BitTorrent download to complete before the computer sleeps.
But when a program goes to sleep, it may have to do a few last things before bed. The network connection may need to alert the network, files open may need to be closed and stuff like that. The computer needs to make sure it's in a consistent state so that when it wakes up, it will know what to do if things are a little different than when it slept. Maybe the network went away. Maybe the other computer sharing files or using your shares went away.
Once things are tidied up, OS X keeps everything in memory and remembers a few details about each of the processes running — a snapshot of the computer's "state", at which point it needs to do very little work, and sets the processor to idle state, and saves electricity … a lot. And if I am not mistaken, this state information is written to a compressed file on the disk so that in the case of power failure, the computer can still resume (this is known as hibernation).
How To Determine Which Program Is Preventing Your Mac From Going to Sleep
OS X does a lot better than Windows XP (the last version I used regularly) — it does create a log of such requests to sleep. And Macs tend to have a lot less junk installed on them — a favorite ploy of PC makers to get more money by installing crippled versions of software in hopes you'll upgrade.
But in the end, OS X merely records the request to sleep, it does not force. You really have to be a geek to identify when a request to sleep was denied and figure out who. "Why it's simple" (my co-geeks will say) — "just look at kernel.log through the Console!" Simple, for example, last time I moved my mouse when the computer was sleeping, here's what Console (looking at kernel.log, of course) told me:
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: sleep
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: Wake reason = EHC2
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: System Wake
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: Previous Sleep Cause: 5
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: USB (EHCI):Port 2 on bus 0x26 has remote wakeup from some device
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: en1: 802.11d country code set to 'X0'.
Sep 26 17:55:19 macbook kernel[0]: en1: Supported channels 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 100 104 108 112 116 120 124 128 132 136 140 149 153 157 161 165
Sep 26 17:55:20 macbook kernel[0]: The USB device USB Receiver (Port 2 of Hub at 0x26200000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup
So a hint: open Console.app (from Finder in Utilities), find the kernal.log from the list, and search on "wake" or "sleep". Once you have found something plausible, note the time, and scroll to that time to see everything that's happening. Of course, perhaps you're not enlightened when you see crap like the above and say, "Aha, now I know what's wrong!" You are like the other 98.9% of humanity, and perhaps the other 99.998% of people who bought Macs because they would never have to deal with such things, fear not.
For the rest of us (an elite bunch of nerds, I like to think), at least it's possible. Why then we can write up useful blog posts that people will find and click on. But I think that's really not the Mac/Apple way. I really think there should be a better part of OS X to do more than silently and obtusely record these events in some godforsaken log.
Indeed PleaseSleep has a nice little log of its own. And that helped me identify one problem preventing my computer from sleeping: one of my keys, or the touchpad was saying it was pressed … or something; enough to make Mac stay awake.
Links And Resources To Sleep Issues
- Apple's Explanation of How Sleep Works
- Apple's Explanation of Why Sleep Can Fail
- About 50 Suggestions, None of Which Worked for Me, But Might for You
- Implications that Upgrading to Snow Leopard Cause Sleep Issues, which I did, but none of the diagnostics suggested I had any issues
- More Stuff from Apple About Why Sleep May Not Work, None of Which Applied to Me, But Might for You


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Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Centrefold magazine
Recently, I've kind of turned my back on the mainstream fashion magazines, Vogue, Grazia, Harper's and the like. Don't get me wrong, I love the editorials and articles and discovering brands I'd never heard of. But lately the amount of adverts in them has been absolutely ridiculous. I do like campaign shots, some of them can be better than editorial shots, but leafing through 25 pages before you even get to the contents page is ridiculous. That's why I've turned towards smaller magazines, like Centrefold. The current issue of the bi-annual magazine was released last month and focused on the "explorations in colour, intricate typography and pushing fashion photography as pieces of art, open to the interpretation of the reader for the purpose of eliciting a response that could be desire, happiness, joy, excitement or hope".
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With bracket buster pairings set to be announced tonight, Keith Dambrot checked into whether instead of having a home game, as the Zips are slated to get the weekend of Feb. 22-23, could be on the road, according to a report from ESPN's Andy Katz.
Call it enlightened self-interest. Dambrot knows that there's no guarantee that his team will win the season-ending MAC Tournament. Don't read that as a lack of confidence, but more of a lack of arrogance. Therefore he's preparing a different path to the NCAA tournament – an at-large bid. In the MAC placing more than one team in the big dance has happened just six times, the most recent being in 1999 when Kent State won the conference and Miami received an invitation.
Playing on the road would likely mean that the Zips are playing a better opponent.
"We thought if we could win a road game it would help our RPI a little bit," Dambrot said this afternoon.
Right now according to several websites, the Zips RPI sits at 53. The RedHawks' was around that number when they were selected.


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The administrator in charge of Saab Automobile's reconstruction has given up his efforts to save the car company, Bloomberg News reports.
The problem is a lack of funds and the refusal of previous owner General Motors to agree to proposed financing deals, the news agency reports. In an application to end the struggling car company's salvage process, court-appointed administrator Guy Lofalk said Wednesday that Saab's owner, Swedish Automobile, has failed to deliver sufficient bridge-financing to cover costs during the reorganization.
He also said there wasn't enough time to find a financing solution that GM will accept. GM's Jim Cain tells Drive On that the problem is that GM would not license its technology if the ownership changed, as Saab had proposed.
Lofalk said this is partly because of "General Motor's categorical no to contributing to any proposal that has been presented to them so far, despite the fact the parties have stayed within the framework of demands in existing contracts."
Saab has stopped production at its main plant in Sweden.
Chris Woodyard is an auto writer for USA TODAY who covers all aspects of motoring. He revels in the exhaust note of a Maserati and the sharp creases of a Cadillac CTS. Chris strives to live a Porsche life on a Scion budget. More about Chris


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Click here to listen to the Detective Luis Rosa story
Sixteen years ago, Luis was just one of the law enforcement officers pitching in by running a leg in the Special Olympics Law Enforcement Torch Run; but on the last day of the event, Luis cousin, a Torch Run leg coordinator, roped him into an extra runthe final leg, which leads into the track and field stadium and kicks off the opening ceremony. As Rosa entered the stadium, where the torch is handed off to an athlete to light the cauldron, his eyes opened to a new world. When I ran into the stadium, I looked at all the athletes and saw the place packed (with people) and thats how I got hooked
I saw the athletes and how thrilled they were to see us, and their family members who were saying things like, thank you for doing what you do to make a difference for my child to be able to compete in sporting events. I thought, Whoa, I need to get involved more. So Detective Rosa went on to investigate all that Special Olympics encompasses. Thats when I started to learn that this is not just a torch run three-day event, its a year round event, said Rosa.
The torch run now runs for three days, involves 3,000 runners, all connected to law enforcement agencies, 120-plus police departments, and raises nearly a half-million dollars. For each of the three days, there are two runs that merge together for a big rally at the end of the day. On the last day, the runners meet in the stadium.
The time and effort that this group of volunteers puts into Special Olympics is enormous. But what they get back is even grander. Its a challenge but it is worth it
when we see the athletes smiling at us, thats enough. Thats our reward. Rosa continues, It is that deep warm feeling that we receive when we (the Law Enforcement Torch Runners) see the joy we bring to the athlete, family and friends
the athletes train and compete in all types of sports, along with building relationships with other athletes, volunteers, and supports. Building a friendship, and sharing a feeling, is so rewarding. One of the unique rewards comes in the form of exemplary sportsmanship. At one track and field meet, one of the runners fell down and all the other athletes stopped running. They waited for the runner to get up and allowed him to be the winner. As Rosa notes, Its not all about winning; its about being able to compete.
While they may not coach or train, the officers who volunteer have plenty of opportunities to form friendships with the athletes through the opening and award ceremonies, the games themselves, and other year-round fundraising events. Every year, athletes and their families eagerly await the awards ceremony, where the officers present medals to the athletes. In fact, they ask for the officers, just to make sure that they will be there. The officers, in turn, have the thrill of seeing the positive impact that their fundraisingand their presencehas on thousands of families. From golf tournaments to polar plunges, those volunteering with the Torch Run are working at all times to ensure that there will always be enough funds to provide athletes with the chance to compete. The Law Enforcement Torch Run is the highest grassroots fundraising community for the Special Olympics. Without us, Rosa says, they cant compete.
Even the biggest and toughest of officers get teary eyed as they watch an athlete light the cauldron. As it did with Rosa, the moment comes when their interest is sparked. They are ready to be a part of the love and commitment that the law enforcement team has for the Special Olympics. These officers who, by profession, have chosen to be the ones to solve problems while others run to safety, dont easily admit to being heroes; however, one glance at the athletes as the cauldron is lit or as they receive their medals from the officers, will tell you that they are some of Connecticuts biggest heroes. Luis hopes that other officers will see the joy and the happiness that they can help bring to the community and decide to be a hero, too.