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Victoria: I know this is going to sound crazy, but I don't know if I'm even gonna be able to sleep, I'm so tired.
Toddy: I'll get you a cognac.
Victoria: That'll help me sleep?
Toddy: No, but it makes staying awake a hell of a lot more fun.
- from Victor Victoria (1982)
Rules and traditions. Rules are made by those most knowledgeable to keep us safe and in line, to help us see our way forward more clearly, smooth the bumps and make it all work. Traditions are made…and kept… to connect us from one generation to the next, tie us indelibly to a community; give meaning and sense to our daily, weekly, yearly activities: create and establish patterns of behavior that give comfort in the repetition and instill rituals we understand, habits that offer a comfortable familiarity and sense of well-being.
But I am a woman who has always taken great pleasure in breaking the rules, turning tradition on its weary head and creating my own. My whole life has been unconventional, if quietly so, loathing any rule that insists I be one person or another just to fit in with this group or that, rules that attempt to control my behavior, my likes, my desires. I ran away from home, married one so similar to I and together we wend our way through the world just as we see fit. No excuses, no regrets, only adventure and passion to guide us and help us make our decisions. Rules box us in, traditions don't allow for discovery or adventure. Stick to the conventional and life is without zest, settle for the accepted and life loses its savor, its piquancy, its fun. One man's ritual becomes another man's routine.
Henri: Some men can swing by their heels on the flying trapeze. Some men can become president of the republic. I can drink cognac.
- from Moulin Rouge (1952)
The arrival in Cognac was fraught with worry: how does one drink this fiery potion? What if I don't like it? What if I am the only one not able to endure? Will I understand the traditions that surround cognac, the rituals that infuse this heady libation with meaning? Will I seem clumsy, unfamiliar as I am with the rules associated with the drinking of cognac, the ages-old customs that have existed for centuries? I must admit that I felt out of place, wondered how I could fit in, one such as I who fits in nowhere, who follows her own lead and lives by her own rules and is, as it goes, rather uncomfortable with the standard, set rules of others. As one who finds herself for the very first time dining with Kings and Queens and stumbling through the meal, not sure which fork to use, wondering which knife is for fish and which for butter, terrified of breaking protocol when it is most expected (think: dribbling wine down one's skirt, tripping on the carpet, flinging gravy onto the tablecloth or making a joke no one else understands), I approached the weekend with Martell Cognac hesitantly, my confidence wavering, feeling as if I would be walking into some archaic and antiquated world filled with old men with some fabled cognac culture, so set their ways.
Well, I should have had my first clue that this would be no ordinary tasting weekend confined within the same old traditional rituals when it struck me that Martell Cognac was reaching out to bloggers. You see, as usual and accepted as this marketing strategy is for American companies, this is highly unusual for the French. It breaks barriers; it breaks rules; bloggers are rarely recognized as having power or influence, hardly seen as a means of communication and French companies are not in the habit of either giving away anything much less embarking on anything novel or innovative. So when it was announced that our Martell experience would not be restricted to an elegant, dark, Old World salon, sipping Very Old amidst the swirls of cigar smoke as very proper gentlemen retiring after dinner, I perked up, my curiosity aroused and I relaxed. I knew that I was in for an unusual experience! Our dinner at Les Closerie des Lilas introduced us, albeit ever so briefly, to the Pure Gourmet Concept, which would be the guiding element of the two following days and throughout every tasting, discussion and meal.
Pure basic ingredients. Terroir. The complexity, balance, harmony of flavors creating an all-around gastronomic, gustatory experience. This is the definition of Pure Gourmet: an ideology based on craftsmanship, whether in cognac making or cooking, the careful selection of ingredients from renowned terroirs, preparation in a skillful and unpretentious matter, producing clean, concise, pure tastes.
Martell Cellar Master Benoît Fil explains "The culture of flavor, of tasting and of discovering the terroirs are perhaps the most obvious links between the Martell cognacs and the recipes that have been created for Pure Gourmet. It is impossible to make a good eau-de-vie without a good wine and you cannot make a good wine without a good grape… all stems back to the origins, the ingredient. The Pure Gourmet recipes are ingredient-led, each with a focus on three pure ingredients from the most renowned terroirs, this is why my team and I have worked closely together to create ingredient and Martell pairings on which the recipes are based." The two very talented young chefs of the Château de Chanteloup, Eric Danger and Christophe Pienkowski, prepared beautiful meals for us throughout the weekend, combining three simple yet very high-quality, seasonal ingredients to create each dish; pure, unadulterated pleasure. And instead of finding the expected bottles of wine on the table at lunch and dinner each day, rather than finding our glasses filled and refilled with shimmering golden white or deep, garnet red as each course was placed before us, each dish was carefully paired with the perfect Martell cognac. Cognac. Have I used the word revelation before? The food brought out and highlighted the individual flavors, the aromas of the cognac: oranges, coffee, chocolate or plums, smoky or woody, fruity or earthy. And, in turn, the cognac heightened the flavors and the enjoyment of the food, blending beautifully rather than overpowering it.
highlights its characteristics."
Each meal was an experience shared by the group amid laughter and non-stop chatter, enjoying the pre-dinner bites, the foie gras rolled in pain d'épice and topped with crispy sweet apple chips or the luscious, luxurious risotto paired with earthy cèpes in a rich, dark sauce all under a smooth, tangy local Charentes farmhouse cream; the amazing fresh seafood lunch which started with a gorgeous Côtinère fish soup; the lobster accompanied by a fruity mango vinaigrette; milk-fed veal in a roasted grand cru coffee bean sauce; or the stunning desserts including the Jonchée de Fourras, a local mild cheese with much the taste and texture of cottage cheese or, more perfectly, French faisselle, then whipped light and astonishingly ephemeral, blended with a mere hint of sugar and bitter almond, a handful of chopped nuts then served with a salted butter caramel ice cream. The pairings were at once surprising and so completely logical, and we were forever turned onto the possibilities, that this was simply a concept that made sense and that we would continue once we returned home.
Saturday morning, we sauntered out to visit a tiny street market in the beautiful town of Saintes, seeing the food at its source. We snapped pictures, chattered amongst ourselves, were enchanted by the cèpes and truffles being sold by the woman selling newspapers and magazines as if it was the most natural thing in the world. We sallied out to a fruit and vegetable farm, rather sordid, I might add, but great fun for us anyway as we continued to get to know each other as we photographed everything in sight. Home – for now we would be happy to consider this home – for a beautiful lunch.
The afternoon we split into two groups, each having their turn at the formal tasting (which I discussed in my previous post) and the other having great fun in the kitchen with Chefs Danger and Pienkowski – baking! Our group – Ren, Qing Lin, Douglas and I accompanied by Katja and photographer Anne-Laure – watched as the two chefs joyfully made Crêpes filled with Lemon Cream, raspberries and red currents and topped with orange Sauce Suzette. To be enjoyed accompanied by cognac, bien sûr. We asked them question after question, had them explaining how they had made the previous evenings spectacular dessert with Jonchée – which they then had us taste – grilled them about their backgrounds – both come from a stone's throw from Nantes! Yay! and a great time was had by all!
Our final evening together was spent over another fabulous meal followed by Champagne and gifts in the lovely contemporary smoking room – nothing Old World or stuffy about it! We drank and we talked and as the evening wore on – with the beautiful misty blackness outside and the occasional deer wandering up and staring in at us through the French windows – we found ourselves, rather fueled by lots of Champagne and cognac, feeling all warm and fuzzy and like one big, happy, tight-knit family, squeezing into the tiny Karaoke room and singing our hearts out into the wee hours of the morning.
Sharing this experience not only with food bloggers but wine & spirits and luxury bloggers as well brought an entirely new vision and awareness to this gastronomic adventure. We approached the subject from different angles, asked different questions, saw and appreciated each combination of sensations differently. We were each challenged on a different level and sharing our thoughts and discussing our varying perceptions, some seeing cognac as a tasting/gastronomic experience, others as a drink and still others as a luxury product to be marketed to a certain clientele, some as complimenting or blending with the flavors of the food, some as standing on its own as an alcoholic beverage in all of its many forms, and the rest as part and parcel of our surroundings, the pleasure of elegance and culture… together our combined observations and understanding helped each other see cognac and Pure Gourmet in a new and complete light.
I, for one, learned to taste cognac as I would food. I pushed myself to find the individual flavors and aromas. With much patience and concentration, I taught myself to treat it alongside the food in the same gustatory fashion. And that, in and of itself, was truly a revelation.
At last I stumbled off to sleep, by far not the last one, and collapsed into my huge, luxurious bed, strains of disco and rock filtering gaily through the floor, happy and content to have been part of this stupendous experience. I knew that I was going home tomorrow with a new group of friends, a newfound understanding of and love for Cognac and the inspiration to include it in my own menus, albeit on special occasions. And how I enjoyed being part of the evolution of this venerable, almost 300-year-old House of Martell; not so much risking their reputation by turning their back on who they are as showing just how comfortable they are with transforming themselves, adapting to and growing with the times, putting a contemporary spin on the fusty, old image of cognac and cognac drinkers. They didn't turn their backs on tradition; rather they are marching into a new era by creating new traditions. From the saucy mixed cocktails to the prestigious, familiar globes of amber liquid straight up, from a splash in one's mid-morning coffee to a selection to accompany and emphasize the flavors of each dish served during mealtime, Martell showed themselves groundbreakers and quite at ease with a changing, contemporary world. Pure Gourmet brings cognac to the lunch and dinner table, a place once held exclusively by wine. And Martell, by putting two dynamic, fearless young chefs in the kitchen, working alongside the Martell Cellar Master, "reinvent the magic of cognac and food" creating a truly unique gastronomic experience.
For a truly stupendous, stunning holiday dessert using Cognac, try my Holiday Chestnut Cake with Chocolate Chestnut Cognac Cream Filling and Chocolate Buttercream Frosting or my Gingerbread Macarons filled with Chocolate Chestnut Cognac Ganache!
N.B. Round trip travel from Nantes to Cognac via Paris, all hotel accommodations and meals were courtesy of Martell. No further gift (except a wee bottle of cognac and one Madeleine tray) and/or remuneration has been solicited or offered. The decision to write about the trip was my own decision and all views and opinions are my own.
Recipe courtesy of Chefs Danger & Pienkowski and Martell Pure Gourmet (with one adjustment)
Makes 25 - 30 3-inch (8 cm) Madeleines
200 g unsalted/sweet butter
150 g good quality 70 – 75% cacao bitter or semi-sweet dark chocolate
200 g confectioner's/icing sugar
75 g flour
80 g finely ground almonds
6 large (about 180 g) egg whites
1 Tbs liquid honey
Butter and flour for the Madeleine molds
Butter each of the Madeleine molds/cups in the tins. Dust with flour then shake out the excess of flour.
Place the butter in a non-reactive small to medium-sized pan and heat over medium-low heat until melted. Continue to cook for 5 minutes until the butter is lightly browned (beurre noisette). Pour the butter off into a metal or heatproof glass or Pyrex bowl, leaving the dark dregs in the pan as much as possible, and allow to cool.
Break up the chocolate into pieces and place in a bain-marie or into a heatproof glass or Pyrex bowl set over simmering (not boiling) water and melt. Remove from the heat and allow to cool.
Sift the confectioner's sugar and flour together into a large mixing bowl. Stir (sift if you have the courage) the ground almonds into the sugar and flour until blended. Place the egg whites in a medium bowl (I prefer plastic) and beat using an electric mixer until just past foamy (they will be frothy and opaque and just start to hold a floppy peak). Beat in about a third of the sugar/flour/almond mixture then scrape it back into the large mixing bowl and whisk until smooth, creamy and well blended. Whisk or stir in the browned butter (again trying not to add in the dark dregs), the tablespoon of honey and then the melted chocolate. Blend well.
Fill the cavities in the Madeleine tins with batter almost to the top. Place the filled tins in the refrigerator for one hour to firm up.
Preheat the oven to 375°F (190°C). Remove the trays from the refrigerator and bake for 12 – 15 minutes or until they are puffed and just set in the center. Do not overbake.
Remove from the oven and rap the tray on the work surface sharply to loosen the Madeleines then pop or turn them out of the tray onto cooling racks, gently edging them out with a butter knife if necessary.
Enjoy the Madeleines warm or at room temperature, accompanied by a glass of Martell Cognac: Noblige, XO or Cordon Bleu. Bien sûr.


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KILLINGTON The town is following the same law-enforcement path as its neighbors as it prepares to create a police department.
By a unanimous vote this week, the Select Board took a page from Pittsford and Rutland Town, both of which established police departments in recent years.
I think its time for us to do this, said Selectman Jim Haff, who made the motion.
While the Select Board has the authority to create a police department, it will be the public which, on Town Meeting Day in March, will vote on an article to change the constables positions from elected posts to ones appointed by the town manager.
Members of the audience expressed support for the plan Tuesday, while at the same time posing questions about what changes might happen with a shift from constables to a police department.
Weve got a big town and I dont think it can be handled by a constable, said resident Ed Fowler. Were going to grow and have a (ski) village and were going to do a lot of good things, so I want to see a police department. I dont want to see the costs jump to a police station and a jail.
The board began the meeting by approving a motion to change the name of a budget section from constables budget to public safety.
The budget amount for the two police positions, however, will remain the same at $79,500.
John Paul Faignant, a Rutland Town selectman and second constable, oversaw his towns creation of a police department, which has neither a police station nor a detention cell.
We had an initial jump in the budget because we needed to buy some equipment, but Killington already has it, said Faignant, who has been assisting Killington Second Constable Whit Montgomery with the paperwork required by the state to create a police department. After that, the budget went back to what it was.
Haffs motion to create a police department included a caveat that the town receive some sort of assurance from Vermont State Police that troopers would still respond to calls from Killington.
All 911 calls are routed through the (state police) dispatch in Rutland, who then dispatches the officer whos closest, Faignant said. If we have a cop on duty, we respond. If nobodys on duty, they respond.
The biggest changes will be positive, based on his own experience, said Faignant. For example, a constable who makes a traffic stop will only have the information available from the Department of Motor Vehicles. A police officer who is member of a law enforcement agency has access to information from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
Statutorily speaking, if Killington voters approve the change, constables who are elected will serve their remaining terms before the town will make appointments.
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Yesterday, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced the plan in an interview that was broadcast on "Rock Center" on NBC. According to him, the move will cost Apple $100 million.
This move sparks a few questions in my head.
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Peter Pike, a severe Presbyterian critic of mine, recently wrote in a combox on my site (on 9-24-10):
Dave goes on and on about me being an anti-Catholic. . . . I defy you to produce this cornucopia of anti-Catholic statements I've supposedly uttered. Your readers are all invited to read every single one of my posts no Roman Catholicism here and find anything that supports your claim that I'm an anti-Catholic. The fact is, you won't find it.
Okay; fair enough. Despite all his lying about me recently, I try to do good even to my proclaimed "enemies" (just as our Lord Jesus says we should in the Sermon on the Mount) and so I thought I owed it to Pike to at least check out his writings more carefully, to see if I should modify my opinion of him.
This post was at first a retraction of my contention that Peter Pike was an anti-Catholic, after I looked over a bunch of his posts on Catholicism and didn't find any solid proof there. It was originally entitled: "Retraction: Peter Pike is Not an Anti-Catholic." Hence the picture of the sad-eyed puppy, who is "sorry." I clarified where I thought my reasoning had gone awry, issued an apology as well, and had written:
So how do I proceed now? . . . I shall . . . go over my posts that mention Pike, and remove the designation of anti-Catholic in descriptions of him.
But lo and behold, when I was in the process of doing that I discovered proof from Pike that he was anti-Catholic after all (therefore, that this must have been part of my rationale in the first place). He never has apparently understood the meaning of the word. He seems to think that it is almost a synonym for "bigot" whereas my use has always been, "one who denies that Catholicism as a system is a species of Christianity".
So if he thinks that my classification of him as an anti-Catholic was simply a variant of calling him a bigot, then he was out to sea as to my basic meaning. I agree that I wasn't calling him an anti-Catholic in that sense, because I have never used it with the definition of "bigot" in the first place.
The proof occurs in a Cryablogue thread: "Making the Judaizers Orthodox" (written by anti-Catholic Jason Engwer and dated 9 December 2009): in Pike's combox remarks. Engwer wrote in the post itself:
Evangelicals and Catholics disagree significantly over what "died for our sins" (1 Corinthians 15:3) means. As the book of Galatians illustrates, the adding of works to the gospel nullifies what Paul summarized in 1 Corinthians 15. As he puts it elsewhere in 1 Corinthians itself, the gospel involves the sufficiency of the crucified Christ (1 Corinthians 2:2). . . .
For an explanation of why the Roman Catholic gospel is false and why it should be considered to be under the anathema of Galatians 1, see posts # 94 and # 99 in the thread here.
The gist of the post and ensuing discussion was an analogy between the Judaizers and Catholicism: both supposedly believing in works-salvation, or Pelagianism (and elsewhere I think I have shown that the Judaizers, as the Bible describes them, were actually Christians). In the combox, Jason elaborated:
See the two posts I referenced in the Challies thread above for a further discussion of the degree to which the Judaizers' gospel was wrong and, by implication, the degree to which the Catholic gospel is wrong. . . .
For reasons I've explained already, such as in threads here and in the Challies thread linked above, the possibility that some Catholic and Orthodox signers of the Manhattan Declaration are justified in spite of their group's false gospel isn't sufficient to justify the language of the document about those groups. Individuals who attempt to be justified in a manner contrary to what their group prescribes shouldn't be considered representatives of their group's view of salvation. And the most natural way of reading the Manhattan Declaration, for reasons I've already explained, is that Catholicism and Orthodoxy are orthodox as groups, not just that some individuals within those groups are orthodox. When we judge the Catholic gospel, for example, we judge it in accordance with the assumption that people attempt to be justified through that gospel from the start. We don't assume that they believe the true gospel, then go astray after the Catholic gospel afterward. People who accept the true gospel are sometimes unfaithful to it, as we see with Peter and the Galatians. But we judge a group, like Catholicism, by its gospel alone, without an assumption that another gospel was first or later believed.
Pike made no protest against any of these notions. He responded to Truth Unites . . . and Divides ("TUAD"), who had been asking some penetrating questions, eliciting a query from TAO: "Do you believe that Rome proclaims a false gospel?" Pike then stated:
I think Jason actually addressed your question at the very end of his response when he said:
People who accept the true gospel are sometimes unfaithful to it, as we see with Peter and the Galatians. But we judge a group, like Catholicism, by its gospel alone, without an assumption that another gospel was first or later believed.
In other words, if you are to ask on an individual basis, is such-and-so Judaizer saved, then he very well could have been; but when you say "Were Judaizers as a group saved?" the answer is clearly no, as the Scripture Rhology quoted demonstrates.
The gospel of the Judaizers was a false gospel, and it would always be a false gospel even if some of its members believed in the real Gospel too. Those who believed what the Judaizers put forth would not have saving faith, but there are often people who identify themselves with a certain group without holding to all that that group maintains.
TUAD replied:
But Peter's answer (which I would put in Category D) is what every conservative anti-MD Protestant that I have read says. There are CHRISTIANS in a church/Church which teaches and preaches a false gospel, but they are not damned to Hell. So then it can't be (A) as Rhology asserts. Rather, it must be (D) as Peter argues (in so many words).
Earlier, TUAD had defined his position D as: "(D) Some Judaizers are damned to Hell. Some Judaizers are not damned to Hell. And damned if I know which Judaizer is going where." Pike then replied:
My position would not be your D) because your D) included "And damned if I know which Judaizer is going where." Maybe there are some we don't know the final destination on, but there's plenty of Biblical evidence that gives us the ability to accurately judge most of their states right now. So I can talk to a Catholic, for example, and often tell fairly quickly whether he or she is a Christian in a false church, or lost.
That nails it. That's the ironclad proof. This is classic anti-Catholicism, and is identical to the positions of Luther, Calvin, and James White. In other words, it is the belief that could be expressed as follows:
There are some real Christians in Catholicism, as in most false systems. Some Catholics are saved and will make it to heaven, but if they are, it is despite what their false "church" with its false "gospel" teaches, not because of it. The "Church" itself is a false, non-Christian system.
Hence, when Pike used the description "false church," he proved that he is anti-Catholic. The Catholic Church is a false church; i.e., it is not Christian. Individual Catholics are either "lost" (and Pike -- sadly like so many judgmental, holier-than-thou, Pharisaical anti-Catholics -- seems to think he knows about many folks' final destination, even though John Calvin said we couldn't know this for sure at all), or if they are Christian, it is despite the Catholic Church.
Thus, they are either damned or "a Christian in a false church." That is pure, unbridled anti-Catholicism. Case closed. The "lie" is not in my calling Pike what he is, but in his lying about what the Catholic Church is.
But if Pike has concluded that I am personally no Christian (since I gladly, joyfully, accept all that the Catholic Church teaches, and it is a "false church") and am, in fact, damned to hell, then that would go a long way in explaining his blistering personal attacks, wouldn't it?
One bottom line question, for example, is to ask, in determining whether a person is an ant-Catholic:
Can a Catholic believe in ALL of the doctrines of the Catholic Church and be saved?
If the answer is yes, the person cannot possibly be an anti-Catholic. If it is no, then the person is anti-Catholic, because he is saying that being a consistent Catholic is inconsistent with salvation; it makes it impossible.
Therefore, if the system precludes the possibility of salvation (assuming it is being totally adhered to) it can't possibly be a Christian system (since it is opposed to the central goal of Christianity: to be saved). Therefore, the view reduces to "Catholicism is not a Christian system," which is precisely the doctrinal definition of anti-Catholicism. And that can be determined, pretty much, by one's answer to this single question. If the system precludes salvation, it is not Christian. Period.
I have run across undeniable evidence showing that Peter Pike would deny that a person can be saved, even abiding by the Catholic soteriological doctrines alone. It occurs in a Debate on Justification with the Catholic apologist Kevin Tierney (December 2002):
Man is saved through justification, . . . In order for justification to be biblically consistent, it must conform to the ideas that we saw above. Neither the Roman Catholic system, nor the system of belief of many mainstream Evangelicals today, is harmonic with the Scripture already presented. . . .
There was a time when people felt secure enough to proclaim this truth: what you believe about justification is what you believe about the Gospel! Now, in an effort to offend as few people as possible, any such statements are delegated to the roles of the theological madmen. I am such a madman, however; and let me loudly say that the Catholic idea of justification (and all the Protestant denominations that essentially agree with the Catholic view) is not a saving Gospel. This is not to say that all Catholics are damned, for I have met some Catholics who understand this issue and actually agree with the Reformed position, although why they remain in the Catholic Church is beyond me.
Any Gospel that does not have God doing all the work and man merely passively receiving salvation is not a Gospel of grace, but is instead one of works. It does not matter if the result is so magnificent compared to such trivial labor as faith-any work done by humans at all destroys grace. . . .
Suffice it to say that the historical Reformed Protestant position is both consistent with itself and consistent with Scripture. While there are a few passages that seem to hint, at first glance, at meanings opposite of the Reformed views, any meaningful exegesis of the text will prove that there are no counter-arguments against the Reformed position on the several positive texts that I can put forth, and there are several interpretations that are at least possible, if not likely, for the "tricky" verses that I can posit. I therefore submit that the Biblical Christian must accept the Reformed doctrine of justification or else abandon the term "Biblical" in his title. (Opening Statement; my bolding)


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SEATTLE, Wash. - Cal State Northridge's Sherrina Lofton continued her impressive 2011 indoor season by winning the MPSF pentathlon with a school record and NCAA qualifying 4,092 points at the conference championships at Washington's Dempsey Indoor.
The Matador women earned a total of 22 points to finish eighth while the CSUN men earned 13.5 points to finish 10th. The Matador women were the top scoring of the three Big West Conference teams entered. Oregon won the women's title with 138 points while Stanford took home the men's crown with 107.50 points.
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In the lone distance race run by the Matador women, senior Lilyana Morejon broke her own school record in the 5,000 meters clocking a time of 16:44.11 which broke her previous record of 16:54.77.
Northridge failed to score in all but one field event but Tiana Webberley did PR in the pole vault after clearing 12-2 (3.71) to finish 12th. Ese Ntekume was 17th in the triple jump with a best of 36-9.50 (11.21) while Chelsea Wordell was 11th in the weight throw (48-10) followed by teammate Jamilah McIntosh in 16th with a toss of 45-2.25. Hooks posted a season-best of 45-9 (13.94) in the shot put to finish seventh while Wordell was 18th (34-5.50) and McIntosh was 19th (33-9.25).
Woodham's third place finish in the men's 60 meter hurdles was Northridge's best of the championships. The junior ran an indoor lifetime-best 8.09 in the final and also ran the same in the prelims. Donovan Toban finished 13th in the prelims in a season-best 8.41 and Noah Blue was 14th in a season-best of 8.42.
Waters, who also redshirted in 2010, ran his first 60 meter race of the season and finished fourth in a season-best 6.87. Horsley was eighth in a season-best 6.91 after running 6.93 in the prelims. Toban also ran a season-best in the prelims clocking a time of 6.98.
Todd's pole vault height of 16-3.50 (4.97) earned the CSUN men 1.5 points and was an indoor personal-best. Tyler Woodard finished 13th with a top height of 15-3.75 (4.67).
In the other sprints, senior David Reid finished 12th in the 200 meters in a time of 21.89 while Horsley was 16th (21.98) and Darquis Rucker was 24th (22.87). In the 400 meters, Khalid Jones had the Matadors' top time as he ran 49.93 to place 24th followed by Trevor Carroll (50.45) in 26th, Gustavo Hernandez (50.51) in 27th and Olatunbosun Oshunluyi was 28th in 50.79.
In the 800 meters, Jerrid Lewis finished 16th in a season-best 1:55.52 followed by Steven Gonzales in 17th also running a personal-best 1:55.65. Hunter Hays wound up 31st in the 3,000 meters posting a time of 9:03.14 and Juan Olea was 28th in the 5,000 meters in a time of 15:33.71.
Both Matador relay teams finished 10th as the 4x400 team ran 3:20.82 while the distance medley team ran 10:30.75.
Junior Cameron McAteer had CSUN's best finish in the field events after taking ninth in the weight throw with a mark of 49-9.25 (18.17). Jose Aviles was 10th with a season-best of 45-9.75 (13.96). Aviles then took 17th in the shot put with a best of 45-9.75 (13.96) while McAteer was 18th with a mark of 40-6 (13.24). Toban finished 12th in the long jump (22-9.25) and 13th in the triple jump (45-1.50) while Jory Rucker was 16th in the long jump with a season-best best leap of 22-4.25 (6.81).
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Apple's drive to bring iOS back to the Mac continues with Messages, Notification Center, AirPlay mirroring, and more for OS X
Apple has just announced a preview of the next major version of their Mac operating system, OS X 10.8. It's called Mountain Lion. The preview is available now and the full version, with over 100 new features, will ship this summer.
"The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters, and with Mountain Lion things get even better," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "The developer preview of Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the incredibly successful release of Lion and sets a rapid pace of development for the world's most advanced personal computer operating system."
The current OS X 10.7 Lion system was announced as a way to take iOS ideas back to the Mac, and Mountain Lion looks to accelerate this process dramatically. It's not a port of iOS to the Mac, far from it. It's the continued implementation of the best of iOS ideas on the Mac OS X system. Like Lion, some of the ideas will no doubt work better than others, but the path seems absolutely clear and Apple seems incredibly focused on getting there. Fast.
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iCloud is coming to the Mac in a big way. It will be available on signup, like iOS, and will offer not only push/store "sync" features but Documents in the Cloud as an alternative, highly abstracted way to handle files without the traditional, complex management.
iOS apps like Reminders, Notes, and Messages are coming to the Mac, and traditional Mac apps are transforming to better mirror their iOS counterparts, like Calendar (iCal) and Contacts (Address Book)
Game Center is coming to the Mac, as is Twitter integration.
Notification Center will handle alerts, just like iOS, and Share Sheets will make it easier to share information on the Mac.
AirPlay Mirroring will let your Mac screen appear on your big screen HDTV, via the Apple TV.
Gatekeeper provides a middle ground between standard apps and App Store apps, signed by a developer but not approved by Apple.
No word on Siri, Apple's personal voice assistant yet, but it's early days. Apple's Mountain Lion page is live, so check it out. Full press release below.
More: Mountain Lion on Apple.com.
Apple Releases OS X Mountain Lion Developer Preview with Over 100 New Features
CUPERTINO, California—February 16, 2012—Apple® today released a developer preview of OS X® Mountain Lion, the ninth major release of the world's most advanced operating system, which brings popular apps and features from iPad® to the Mac® and accelerates the pace of OS X innovation. Mountain Lion introduces Messages, Notes, Reminders and Game Center to the Mac, as well as Notification Center, Share Sheets, Twitter integration and AirPlay® Mirroring. Mountain Lion is the first OS X release built with iCloud® in mind for easy setup and integration with apps. The developer preview of Mountain Lion also introduces Gatekeeper, a revolutionary security feature that helps keep you safe from malicious software by giving you complete control over what apps are installed on your Mac. The preview release of Mountain Lion is available to Mac Developer Program members starting today. Mac users will be able to upgrade to Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store™ in late summer 2012.
"The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters, and with Mountain Lion things get even better," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "The developer preview of Mountain Lion comes just seven months after the incredibly successful release of Lion and sets a rapid pace of development for the world's most advanced personal computer operating system."
The developer preview of Mountain Lion features the all new Messages app which replaces iChat® and allows you to send unlimited messages, high-quality photos and videos directly from your Mac to another Mac or iOS device. Messages will continue to support AIM, Jabber, Yahoo! Messenger and Google Talk. Starting today Lion users can download a beta of Messages from www.apple.com, and the final version will be available with Mountain Lion. Reminders and Notes help you create and track your to-dos across all your devices. Game Center lets you personalize your Mac gaming experience, find new games and challenge friends to play live multiplayer games, whether they're on a Mac, iPhone®, iPad or iPod touch®.
Mountain Lion presents notifications in an elegant new way, and Notification Center provides easy access to alerts from Mail, Calendar, Messages, Reminders, system updates and third party apps. System-wide Share Sheets make it easy to share links, photos and videos directly from Apple and third party apps. Twitter is integrated throughout Mountain Lion so you can sign on once and tweet directly from Safari®, Quick Look, Photo Booth®, Preview and third party apps. Mountain Lion also introduces AirPlay Mirroring, an easy way to wirelessly send a secure 720p video stream of what's on your Mac to an HDTV using Apple TV®.
More than 100 million users have iCloud accounts, and Mountain Lion makes it easier than ever to set up iCloud and access documents across your devices. Mountain Lion uses your Apple ID to automatically set up Contacts, Mail, Calendar, Messages, FaceTime® and Find My Mac. The new iCloud Documents pushes any changes to all your devices so documents are always up to date, and a new API helps developers make document-based apps work with iCloud.
Gatekeeper is a revolutionary new security feature that gives you control over which apps can be downloaded and installed on your Mac. You can choose to install apps from any source, just as you do on a Mac today, or you can use the safer default setting to install apps from the Mac App Store, along with apps from developers that have a unique Developer ID from Apple. For maximum security, you can set Gatekeeper to only allow apps from the Mac App Store to be downloaded and installed.
Mountain Lion also has features specifically designed to support Chinese users, including significant enhancements to the Chinese input method and the option to select Baidu search in Safari. Mountain Lion makes it easy to set up Contacts, Mail and Calendar with top email service providers QQ, 126 and 163. Chinese users can also upload video via Share Sheets directly to leading video websites Youku and Tudou, and system-wide support for Sina weibo makes microblogging easy.
Hundreds of new APIs give developers access to new core technologies and enhanced features within OS X. The Game Kit APIs tap into the same services as Game Center on iOS, making it possible to create multiplayer games that work across Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. A new graphics infrastructure underpins OpenGL and OpenCL and implements GLKit, first introduced in iOS 5, to make it easier to create OpenGL apps. Using Core Animation in Cocoa apps is easier than ever, and new video APIs deliver modern 64-bit replacements for low-level QuickTime APIs. Enhanced Multi-Touch™ APIs give developers double-tap zoom support and access to the system-wide lookup gesture. Kernel ASLR improves security through enhanced mitigation against buffer overflow attacks.
Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad.
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Apple announces OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion preview, 100 new features, huge iPad influence
Totally agree! Just as the iPod pushed sales for the Mac because of its hardware software integration. The same thing is happening now with the iPhone, it will push Mac sales trough the roof. Why buy a computer that in not easily integrated to your phone. You making life easier for Apple consumer!
"The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters" - That's a disingenuous way to analyze statistics.
According to NetMarketShare Mac OS X 10.6 usage is still under 4%, that's almost half of Windows Vista - a 5 year old failure - and about the same as iPhone+iPad combined. In comparison PCs still command about 90% of the market, with Windows at 83% with the 3 main versions combined.
"The Mac is on a roll, growing faster than the PC for 23 straight quarters"
Not at all "disingenuous" ... the quote was referring to the "growth" of Mac laptop and desktop sales as compared to the rest of the market ... Windows based laptops and desktops sales have actually declined significantly for the same time period. While windows PC usage still maintains the bulk of the market ... Apple is defying the rest of the PC market trend in experiencing sales growth ... that is VERY genuine ...
And next we will get that very disingenuous Apple speak that sell numbers aren't the same as shipped numbers. The Mac is never going to catch Windows. I can make the same argument for when Windows 8 tablets arrive as to why the Mac will remain irrelevant to everyone but a small minority of users. Apple counting the iPad (do they even legally own the rights to the name?) as pc sales if nothing but fluff.
I have not upgraded to Lion yet. Does anyone have an idea if I should wait and it will cost less to go from snow Leopard than go to Lion then M Lion?
This is very exciting news and I'm a Windows user. I always felt that iCloud was extremely hyped and left a lot to be desired after it was finally released to the public. The biggest diaspontment for me was documents in the cloud. It's just not a fluid process. This Mountain Lion update seems to fill in most of the gap in iCloud. The intergration of devices and computers is second to none. This may be the tipping point where I finally buy a Mac. That's why I'm excited.
The tipping point for me will be when all major game publishers release their best titles for the Mac, and Apple equips its machines with top notch graphics and sound. Right you have a hard time even getting 5.1 sound out of an iMac, and absolutely no option of crossfire or SLI.
I will definitely not buy a Mac to run Windows to access my games. It's a too underpowered and expensive PC for that.
I agree to a degree, but I don't PC game anymore. I'm more of a console gamer because it's more convenient for me. My use of computers have changed in the last decade to organizing and editing media, web browsing, and office type applications. For what I do, I don't need a super computer. It's the user experience that will win me over, not the power. It's the same debate between super powerful Android devices for less powerful iDevices. In my opinion, iPhone still wins in that arena too.
As I said neither do I. Apple had openly boasted about 'exclusive' features in Mac Office. Ummm... What are they again? Are we to believe M$ gave Apple a better version than Windows vendors? Right. I'm convinced.
I use Adobe Creative tools daily. By the way I was a Mac devotee for yrs up until last yr. That same software runs way better on Windows without the lock ups or long delays because of the overtaxed/maxed memory filled with Apple bloat. But the Apple ecosystem appeals to some (not many with the Mac) so enjoy.
The interesting thing will be developer response. To access iCloud, programs must go through the Mac App Store. MS is not likely to give Apple a 30% cut to allow Office to save documents to iCloud, and most other large shops will likely follow suit.
It looks like there will be no way for anybody other than Apple to access the "full" Mac API anymore; some APIs are prohibited if you go the App Store, and others are prohibited if you do not go the App Store.
And this will mean that the same small minority of Apple devotees can continue their love affair with limited developer support, limited applications library, and no way to upgrade & extend the useful life of that oh so fancy box.
Save the comments about Bootcamp being a wonderful way to use Windows. It's a crap virtual desktop that's very unstable & hogs system resources like iTunes.
Bootcamp is nothing more than a virtual machine inside MAC OS. I know enough IT pros (including at my own work) who have verified that. And yes it's crap.
I also noticed you ignored all the ready of my comments about lack of apps, developer support, & an expensive box that can't be upgraded. Nuff said.
i wanna play with it now! I hate waiting...
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Many people have forgotten that Lee Westwood spent 22 weeks as the No. 1 ranked player in the world in the latter part of 2010 and early 2011. Most golf fans think of him as a very good European Tour player that has not won a major championship.
Westwood will turn 41 years old this week and won the Maybank Malaysian Open for his 23rd European Tour win last Sunday. He also has four wins in Japan, seven on the Asian Tour, three wins on the Sunshine Tour and one Australasia Tour win.
He has two victories on the PGA Tour, the 1998 Freeport-McDermott Classic in New Orleans and the 2010 St. Jude Classic in Memphis.
Prior to the win in Malaysia, his last win came on the European Tour at the 2012 Nordea Masters nearly two years ago.
He has been a major performer on eight European Ryder Cup teams and will, most likely, be a key member of Captain Paul McGinley's team at Gleneagles in September.
He is just one of a few golfers to win on every continent of the world and has recovered from the depths of golfing disparity. After a very successful start to his golfing career, he completely lost his desire and game. He fell to No. 182 in the world in 2002 before beginning his climb back, culminated by reaching No. 1 at the end of 2010.
Even with the success that Westwood has had in his 20-year career, most golf fans think of him at the top of the dreaded Best Player That Hasn't Won a Major list. He has played very well in majors, but has not been able to win one. Since 2008, he has finished inside the top 10 in 12 of the last 25 major championships.
In that time, he finished T-3 six times and was runner-up twice.
Between the 2012 and 2013 seasons, he even moved his family from England to Florida to be able to practice during the winter and better prepare for the major championships.
His good friend Darren Clarke won the 2011 Open Championship at the age of 42. Ernie Els was also 42 when he won the 2012 Open Championship at Royal Lytham. Phil Mickelson was 43 when he won last year at Muirfield, but Westwood knows his time to win at least one career major is fleeting.
At 41, Westwood still has a couple years remaining, but very few major championships are won by players over 45 years old.
In modern golf history only four men have accomplished that feat. Julius Boros was 48 when he won the 1968 PGA Championship. Jack Nicklaus was 46 in 1986 when he won his sixth green jacket. Jerry Barber won the 1961 PGA Championship at the age of 45 and Hale Irwin was 45 when he won his third U.S. Open title.
Old Tom Morris won the 1867 Open Championship at the age of 46, but the fields were less competitive back then.
Forty wins worldwide, a member of six winning Ryder Cup teams and 22 weeks at No. 1. He has won nearly €30 million on the European Tour and another $16 million on the PGA Tour. Westwood has had a career worthy of World Golf Hall of Fame consideration. The only jewel missing in his crown is a major championship trophy.
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