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Trevor Murphy And Kyle Reifers Set 36-Hole Pace At BMW Charity Pro-Am.
Vermont native Trevor Murphy and Ohioan Kyle Reifers fired rounds of 66 and 64, respectively, to grab the halfway lead at the BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation. The pair sits at 12-under par 132.
A shot back are last year's NEC Series-PGA TOUR Latinoamérica leading money winner Ryan Blum, who equaled Reifers 66, and former U.S. Amateur champion Kelly Kraft, who shot 67.
All three leaders played at Green Valley Country Club, one of three sites used to host the unique Web.com Tour event that features 168 professionals paired with either a celebrity or amateur partner through the first three rounds.
Murphy has conditional Web.com Tour status this year and is playing in only his third tournament of the year. His first start came late last month when he received a sponsor exemption from Web.com to play the WNB Golf Classic in Midland, Texas. A T9 finish earned him a spot in the next tournament, the South Georgia Classic in Valdosta, where a T8 finish got him in this week's BMW event.
A turning point in his round came on the 8th hole when he rolled in a 10-footer for bogey. "The save on No. 8 was big," he said. "It kept my momentum going."
The 29-year-old nearly had the lead all to himself. A 25-footer on the 18th hole hit the left edge and spun to the right. But Murphy was not complaining. "It all evens out," he said. "You make a few, you miss a few. Murphy's Law, right!?" Murphy is looking for his first Web.com Tour win in this his 57th start. His best finish is a T7 in both 2010 and 2012 at the Nationwide Children's Hospital Championship in Columbus, Ohio.
Reifers, 30, is pursuing his second Web.com Tour title, having won the 2006 Chattanooga Classic. The Columbus, Ohio native, who has also made 62 PGA TOUR starts, already has two T3s in six starts this year, in Louisiana and Chile.
The keys to his round were birdies on his 9th and 10th holes, which came after a bogey on his 8th. "I got back on the gas after that bogey, which really helped," Reifers said.
The shot of the day for Reifers came at No. 9, his final hole, when a pulled tee ball under a tree set up a spectacular punch and run shot from 124 yards that rolled to within 6 feet of the hole, setting up his seventh birdie.
Reifers is feeling particularly at home this week as he is staying with the family of his Wake Forest University teammate Bill Haas, who lives in the Greenville area. "Bill has a great family and they are great hosts. I'm feeling very much at home."
First-round leader Blayne Barber backed off yesterday's 63 which also came at Green Valley, posting a two-under 70 at Thornblade Club. His 10-under total was matched by six other players who are T5, including Peter Tomasulo, whose 63 at Green Valley was the day's low score.
The tournament is back on schedule after Thursday's storms forced two groups to complete play this morning and back up this morning's tee times 90 minutes.
Notes & Quotes:
*Friday's Weather: Thursday's rain gave way to blue skies and very comfortable temperatures on Friday. The temperature reached 70 degrees. Winds were W 15 mph.
*There was one group on both Green Valley CC and Thornblade Club that returned to their respective courses on Friday morning to complete their first rounds, beginning at 7:45 a.m.
*The third round got underway on all three courses at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday.
*Leading the Pro-Am portion of the tournament at 23-under par are Andrew Putnam/Rolf Klam and Jonathan Randolph Ryan Floyd
*First-round leader Blayne Barber commenting on his second round: "Thornblade is a little tougher than Green Valley as it is and then the wind made it more difficult to pick clubs. I had two 3-putts and those are the only two shots where I felt like I left something out there….I feel like I'm playing well and I'm just going to keep swinging it and try to hit it at the target. You try to ride it (wave of good play) as long as you can."
*Peter Tomasulo's 63 at Green Valley Country Club on Friday featured nine birdies and one bogey. His previous best score this year was a 64 in Brazil in March. His best finish was a T8 at the Pacific Rubiales Colombia Championship, the first event of 2014.
*With no Web.com Tour status last year, Trevor Murphy spent much of last year competing on PGA TOUR Canada. He made six cuts in nine starts, highlighted by a solo second to fellow Web.com Tour member Max Gilbert at the season-ending TOUR Championship of Canada presented by Freedom 55 Financial to move to No. 20 on the season-ending Order of Merit, which secured him an exemption into the second stage of Web.com Tour Q-School.
*Duke University graduate Ryan Blum thoroughly enjoyed spending last season on the NEC Series-PGA TOUR Latinoamérica. He said, "Both tours (Web.com Tour and NEC Series-PGA TOUR Latinoamérica) are run fantastically from top to bottom. There are a lot of great guys on that tour. We had a lot of fun last year. You're staying in the same places, staying together, eating together and traveling together, and you really bond with one another. In terms of competition, it's certainly deeper on the Web.com Tour but there a lot of very good players on that tour. The whole goal of going down there was to get better as a golfer. The golf courses are very narrow so you're hitting to small targets and I think that really helped my game. I was forced to do it. The whole experience was a huge benefit to my career."
*Kelly Kraft is one-stroke off the lead after he carded a 5-under round at The Reserve at Lake Keowee.
Kraft has made three cuts this year with his best finish coming at the El Bosque Mexico Champion (T19).
Kraft will play Green Valley Country Club on Saturday for his third round. "I feel like that's the course you can get at," he said. "I'm just going to keep plugging away and minimize the mistakes."
*Andrew Putnam posted a 4-under 68 in the second round at The Reserve. The lone bogey on his card was the result of a three putt on No. 7.
Putnam won the weather-shortened WNB Golf Classic a few weeks ago.
Putnam missed the cut in his only other appearance at this event last year.
*Brett Wetterich withdrew during the round with a thumb injury.
*The second-round scores at the respective courses were:
Thornblade Club (par 71) – 69.946
Green Valley Country Club (par 72) – 70.352
The Reserve at Lake Keowee (par 72) – 71.473
*The BMW Charity Pro-Am presented by SYNNEX Corporation is the ninth of 25 events on the 2014 Web.com Tour schedule. This week's purse is $650,000 with $117,000 going to the champion. The Tour heads to Raleigh, N.C. next week for the Rex Hospital Open.


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Tuesday 7 November 2017
The men's round-robin has drawn to a close and the final play-off team has been decided in the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2017 tonight (Tuesday 7 November) at the Erina Ice Arena on the Australian Central Coast. Korea defeated Qatar 12-4 to secure the fourth placed position in the rankings and the remaining semi-final place.
Tuesday 7 November 2017
The Japanese women's team at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2017, being held in the Erina Ice Arena, on Australia's Central Coast, has secured its place in the events semi-finals. Japan, qualify along with Korea and China, so far. The final play-off spot is still available with two sessions of women's round-robin games still to play.
Sunday 5 November 2017
Qatar's men's team have won their first international curling game, since making their debut at the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships in 2016. They beat Kazakhstan 8-5 on Sunday (5 November) at the 2017 event being held in Erina, Ice Arena, on Australia's Central Coast.
Wednesday 1 November 2017
Picture the scene. It's November. You're on the beach with your finest flip-flops – or crocs – soaking up the rays. You jump in the car and ten minutes later you are in a building discarding your flip-flops for some cosy socks and shoes. Your beach bod is now covered with a few layers of insulated clothing and those swim shorts are replaced by jeans and a blanket.
Monday 30 October 2017
International curling heads to warmer climates this week, when the Pacific-Asia Curling Championships 2017 begin in Erina, Australia. The event, which runs from 2 to 9 November at the Erina Ice Arena – and which will be broadcasted on World Curling TV and national broadcasters – has 15 teams representing nine of the World Curling Federation's Pacific-Asia Member Associations.
Tuesday 31 October 2017
The World Curling Federation has taken a major step towards implementing its World of Series of Curling by appointing a World Series Manager. Jorge Vazquez, from Mexico – the first member of staff to be fully dedicated to this project – has been charged with implementing the four-leg international series, which will begin in season 2018-2019.
Thursday 26 October 2017
The World Curling Federation is delighted to announce the winners of its Sports Media Trainee Programme for the 2017-2018 curling season. The winning candidates will join the World Curling Federation's media team at curling championships over the next six months.
Wednesday 25 October 2017
The World Curling Federation's Pacific-Asia zone is becoming a rising force in world curling. A fifth of the World Curling Federation's Member Associations come from this regional area – and it recently welcomed Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Saudi Arabia to the curling family.
24 October 2017
The World Curling Federation's Olympic Celebration Tour made its first stop of the 2017-2018 season last week, in New York, United States. Almost 900 participants took part in the programme – that helps curling clubs around the globe generate interest in the sport – at Ardsley Curling Club, 20 miles north of Manhattan.
Wednesday 18 October 2017
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has published the 2018 Prohibited List. The List will come into effect on 1 January 2018. The Prohibited List details substances and methods banned in sports in-and out-of-competition. The 2018 Prohibited List, the 2018 Summary of Modifications, and the 2018 Monitoring Programme are available for download on the WCF website here: http://www.worldcurling.
New Mixed World Rankings released after the 2017 World Championship in Champéry, Switzerland.
Saturday 14 October 2017
Scotland were crowned the 2017 World Mixed Curling Champions this afternoon (Saturday 14 October) after defeating Canada 8-5 in an extra-end at the Palladium de Champéry in Champéry, Switzerland.
Tuesday 10 October 2017
Japan have fielded a women's and men's rink once before at an Olympic Winter Games – 1998 in Nagano, when they were the hosts. Some 20 years on, an impressive male team have re-joined a consistently strong women's side in a bid for medals in Pyeongchang next year.
Friday 6 October 2017
The World Curling Federation is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of its Hall of Fame member and 1965 Scotch Cup silver medallist, Ray Turnbull of Canada. Turnbull sadly passed away on Thursday 5 October, aged 78. He was inducted into the World Curling Hall of Fame in 2015 along with fellow Canadian Russ Howard and Japan's Hiroyuki Saito.
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Group of U.S. Senators and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson greet U.S. President John F Kennedy in the White House, Washington DC. Also present is Sir Alec Douglas, home from the United Kingdom. The President signs the Nuclear Test Ban Agreement (treaty had been signed in Moscow by both parties on August 5, 1963). Photographers take pictures. Close ups of signed treaty.
In 1938 an American tennis champion John Donald Budge (Don Budge) wins Wimbledon in London, England. Don Budge playing a match. The spectators seated in a stand. He wins the Wimbledon title. Budge shakes hand with United Kingdom tennis player Henry 'Bunny' Austin. From a September 16, 1963 newsreel recounting events 25 years prior.
Queen Elizabeth celebrates her 10 years of monarchy in England. Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom celebrates her 10 years of monarchy and dedicates New Zealand House. Officials greet her. Queen and officials look at the London City. Past scenes show: Queen seated in a Royal carriage passes crowd during the coronation celebration. The bishop undertakes the ceremony at the Canterbury cathedral. Prime Minister Winston Churchill attends the ceremony. Archbishop of cathedral places the King Edwards Crown on Queen's head. Queen moves through the crowd in her carriage after the ceremony.
Allied offensive in North Africa during World War II. Railroad train passes on a bridge in the United States filled with tanks and equipment bound for eastern ports. British rail carry heavy equipment and British Tanks to ports. Large number of transport trucks line up at a dock area. An Allied troop transport ship arrives at the dock. Allied troops boarding troop carrier ships in United States and England. British tanks loaded to ships. Troops disembark a train and troops embark a ship. Troops wave as the ship leaves the dock. Allied transport ships, battleships, cruisers and destroyers underway in Atlantic toward Gibraltar rendevous in 1942. Montage shows U.S. Capitol in Washington DC, President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill in conversation in late December 1941, Views of General George Marshall, General Dwight D Eisenhower in the United States following their appointments to lead the effort from the American side. General Mark Clarke in England shaking hands with Eisenhower. Neville Chamberlain also seen. A convoy of Allied ships. Allied troops aboard ships headed to Gibraltar. Two United States soldiers sew American flag patches on uniforms. Troops play games on ship deck. Battle inspection of troops and arms on the deck by their officers.
U.S. Coast Guardsmen parade in dress whites, at pier in Gibralter harbor, and assemble in formation for ceremony to dedicate a memorial. The Coast Guard Ensign hangs over, and hides a memorial plaque on wall of building.
Participants include British and American officers and British and American civilian officials, several dressed formally, with top hats. A number of ladies are seated for the event. After brief invocation by clergyman, A British military brass band plays, Coast guardsmen, with rifles, present arms, and the Coast Guard ensign is removed, unveiling the memorial plaque. The plaque honors those lost when the Cutter Tampa was torpedoed by an enemy submarine, in Bristol Channel, on September 26, 1918, with loss of all 115 souls on board. It also honors 11 officers and men of the Cutter Seneca, who volunteered, and were lost attempting to salvage the torpedoed British Steamer, Wellington, in the Bay of Biscay, September 17, 1918. The American flag is displayed above the new plaque, and Coast Guard officers place four wreaths at the base of the memorial. .


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Apple's Secret iPhone Application Business Model
June 28th, 2007
Daniel Eran Dilger
At WWDC, Apple revealed that outside developers could build custom iPhone web applications. But what about real iPhone apps, the kind that use the full power of the Cocoa frameworks and run on the bare metal of the iPhone itself, and not in a secured sandbox environment of the standards-based web?
.What's Wrong With Writing Web Apps?
The Ajax web strategy for custom iPhone apps was bemoaned by more than a few observers as an "insult" to the developers who had been dreaming up all sorts of potential for iPhone games and applications. However, to developers specializing in Ajax applications, the news was welcomed.
In an article titled In defense of Ajax for the iPhone, Ryan Breen wrote, "The call for a 'Real SDK' is galling, and I think it reflects a prejudice against web applications and a lack of understanding of the progress achieved by the Ajax community in recent years.
"I believe that Ajax on the iPhone represents nothing less than the future of mobile development, and we'll look back on Apple's decision to forsake a 'Real SDK' as an articulation of a bold and correct vision that perfectly fits where the market is heading."
A reader commenting on Breen's article noted, "I know of at least two highly paid, professional code writers that are furious that AJAX is the new SDK. They both are accustom to bidding hundreds of thousands of dollars for code work in C++, saying the project will take months, only to be underbid by someone who does it in a few hours for 1/100th of the price using AJAX and Ruby on Rails.
"Yes the future of development for not just the iPhone, but for all software is plain old AJAX with some form of off-line storage, Google Gears or whatever."
Of course, Google itself praised the iPhone's Ajax development platform, because Ajax is what Google uses to deliver nearly all of its applications, from Docs to Gmail to Reader.
[In defense of Ajax for the iPhone – Ajax Performance]
[An iPhone SDK? Predictions for WWDC 2007!]
[iPhone Gremlins: Crashing, Security, and Network Collapse!]
[Mobile Disruption: Apple's iPhone and Third Party Software]
Good for the Gander?
If web apps are such a good idea, why didn't Apple deliver its own apps via Ajax? The obvious answer is that Apple has access to the full power of the iPhone, enabling it to deliver an array of the most powerful and impressive apps ever demonstrated on an iPod-priced mobile device.
Of course, the other answer is that Apple is using Ajax to deliver applications. The first example was demonstrated in the WWDC keynote. It was just a simple company directory, but it demonstrated the ease of delivering native-looking client apps integrated with a company's own servers as well as taking full advantage of the iPhone's dialing, maps, and document viewing features.
Apple also has another application hiding out on its .Mac servers: a news reader. Visit reader.mac.com using a regular web browser and it will tell you "this application can only be viewed using the iPhone."
So much for the worries that Safari on the iPhone doesn't have RSS features. And goodbye to the claim that Apple itself 'wouldn't stoop to using Ajax' to deliver powerful and useful iPhone apps.
After the reader.mac.com site got noticed, Apple took down the iPhone RSS photo and replaced it with the generic iPhone graphic with fish. What other web applications and extensions to .Mac has Apple got up its sleeves? We won't know for another couple days.
[This application can only be viewed using the iPhone – Reader.Mac.Com]
Cuckoo for Cocoa Apps.
Quite obviously however, there are a lot of things that can't be done in Ajax. That is particularly true on the iPhone, which limits the web environment in certain ways to prevent applications from draining dead its relatively small battery. It appears that the Ajax environment won't be very good games, for example.
Having stated that, it should be pointed out that enterprising developers regularly impress with their ability to squeeze performance out of the most meager environments. Who would have thought that entertaining games could be delivered for the 5G iPod?
In any event, it really doesn't take too much imagination to think up all manner of potential applications for the iPhone. Is Apple really going to sit on that potential and leave it untapped? We don't have to speculate on the answers, because Apple executives have made it very clear that the company has big plans for the iPhone.
Back in April, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer announced details that made it clear that Apple had an ongoing plan for iPhone updates, even if that strategy was already obvious enough for me to be able to predict half a year earlier. Those plans are so significant that Apple decided to change how it would report its income.
Rather than counting the iPhone as an immediate sale, Apple announced plans for subscription accounting over a two year period. This is yet another game changing strategy that Apple is using to overturn and redefine the mobile industry.
[iPod, iPhone, iTV: Apple's New Platform]
[Newton Lessons for Apple's New Platform]
[Apple's New Dual Processor Game Console]
The Mobile Phone Subsidy Shell Game.
A lot of bloggers reported that "the iPhone would not be subsidized." I said it would be, and think it obviously is. Am I wrong? Consider Apple's plan and what it means to be subsidized. Today, most mobile phones sold in the US are subsidized with an immediate rebate that comes from the service provider.
For example, on Verizon's website, you get a $50 discount on a feature phone, or a $100 rebate on a smartphone, such as the Motorola Q. When I last checked, Verizon's webpage for my location only showed me the Black version of the Motorola Q, which costs $329.99, so after the $100 discount, the phone is $229.
With another $50 mail-in rebate promotion, the price comes down to $180. That's quite a bit more than the last time I looked, but Verizon's mobile prices seem to fluctuate like the ticket prices of airplane seats.
While saving $100 and then another $50 sounds great, those savings are only part of a deal that requires a two year contract starting at $80/month. In other words, you have to promise to pay $1920 in order to get back $150 of the $330 retail price of the Motorola Q.
When plainly stated, this system of rebates sounds more like an absurd shell game. The reason for all the hand-waving is to distract users from the significant investment they are making, and instead focus on how cheap the Q appears to be. It's a business plan revolves around treating the customer as if they were a moron.
Over the course of the two year contract of course, Verizon gets its $150 dollars back. If a user decides they want to change their phone or move or switch to another carrier, Verizon charges an early termination fee to recoup the costs it invested in snagging the customer with that subsidy rebate.
[Apple: iPhone Now Costs Less than Ballmer's Lame Motorola Q]
Why Apple Picked AT&T.
Verizon isn't alone; almost every mobile provider in the US does the same. That gave Apple little leverage for walking into the mobile industry and simply demanding a new set of rules.
Instead, Apple partnered with one provider. It apparently shopped around, as Verizon announced that it had turned Apple down.
Partnering with AT&T allowed Apple to use its new phone and its position in consumer electronics as leverage to demand that AT&T play along on a number of experimental new ways to sell mobiles.
. •Apple got AT&T to change its back end servers to support visual voicemail.
. •Apple got AT&T to offer simple rate plans that are priced competitively.
. •Apple got AT&T to change how phones are provisioned, enabling Apple to manage more of the user experience.
. •Apple got AT&T to change how mobiles are subsidized.
Instead of delivering the iPhone as a $750-900 phone like Nokia's N95, Sony's P990, or HTC's TyTN, and then artificially discounting it by hundreds of dollars when tied to an expensive service plan, Apple discounted the price of the iPhone up front.
Anyone who thinks that the iPhone can be sold at an iPod-like profit when it is only $150 more than the top end iPod hasn't given much thought to how much the iPhone's hardware actually costs. Getting numbers from iSuppli isn't going to help, because iSuppli is just guessing, and not doing a great job at it.
[More Absurd iPhone Myths: iSuppli, Subsidies, and Pricing]
[Apple iPhone vs LG Prada KE850]
The Subsidy Trap.
The point of subsidizing anything is generally to shift around costs in order to incentivize specific buying patterns. The US heavily subsidizes agriculture with the intent to incentivize investments in farming. If it didn't, the country would simply import all of its food, because that would make more sense financially.
Apple isn't playing the mobile subsidy shell game, offering users a fake discount after they sign up for $1500 of phone service. Instead, it has set up its own subsidy plan, one that makes the iPhone more attractive, competitively priced, and gives the mobile industry a much needed kick in the pants.
The problem with Verizon's Q above is that after two years, the $150 discounts are but a faded memory and the user is now holding a phone that has done nothing but grow obsolete over the last two years. Verizon is now faced with signing the customer up with a new plan by offering another fake discount on a new phone.
How The iPhone Subsidy Works.
With the iPhone, Apple is offering its phone hardware as a low-profit item, compared to its other offerings. Buying an iPhone does not give Apple an immediate windfall of profit. Instead, it earns Apple a new customer.
Rather than leaving that customer with an iPhone that grows progressively more obsolete over two years and then trying to sell them a 2009 version as the existing mobile business model does, Apple is pursing an subscription model that will hook users on its phone, in a manner that works more like a Mac than a mobile.
Apple will release regular new updates and offer new software that users can download to customize and enhance their phone. Other phone platforms promise software upgrades and third party support, but simply have done very little to deliver that in a real way.
As I pointed out earlier, the iPhone delivers more than $454 worth of popular third party Windows Mobile software. It also delivers features Windows Mobile users can't buy at any price. But it will also offer additional software that will never make it to Windows Mobile, simply because there is no good reason to write it.
While it invests in the iPhone, Apple will also recoup service fees from AT&T through the life of the contract. That changes the game. Currently, hardware makers have no reason to upgrade their phones and software once they are sold, and they rarely do. When they do offer a firmware upgrade, it is often so difficult to perform that many users never do it, or even ever realize they can.
[More Absurd iPhone Myths: Third Party Software Panic – Myth: Existing third party apps are very useful]
New iPhone Software.
New software and updates from Apple will continuously refine the iPhone and secure it from any vulnerabilities that crop up. Apple will also be able to address complaints that the iPhone doesn't support this or that feature.
We have good reason to believe Apple will deliver because it has on the Mac, the iPod, AirPort, Apple TV, QuickTime, etc. Microsoft has done a very poor job of upgrading its devices, especially Windows Mobiles. Instead, it prefers to sell a new version that often is not backwardly compatible with existing hardware.
Apple's updates will draw a stark contrast between the iPhone as a handheld Mac, and the basic smartphones that can only run mini-apps and a few poorly drawn, overpriced software titles.
Apple has turned the mobile industry into a consumer facing market, where consumers will buy the phone, get updates, and buy software from Apple. That makes Apple responsible for their security, their demanded features, and their support. That's not how things work today in the mobile world.
Selling to Consumers Rather than Providers.
Currently, the mobile industry has sold to the service providers. They are the ones paying out subsidies for the phones, so they have been dictating to hardware makers like Motorola what hardware features to support. The mobile providers don't really like WiFi and Bluetooth for example, so adoption has been slow.
Because Motorola sells to mobile providers rather than to consumers, it can't market phone features very effectively. It is also forced to make cheap phones that can appear to be free through the mobile providers' subsidy shell game illusion. That pressures Motorola to make cheap, low profit, featureless phones. Imagine Motorola's interest in upgrading them after the sale.
What about Microsoft? It licenses its Windows Mobile software to vendors like Motorola, who can only make cheap, featureless phones. Microsoft injects its own software, which similarly can't be too expensive or too functional because the hardware it runs on has to be cheap for the service providers. That means Microsoft similarly lacks any financial interest in updating Windows Mobile for users after the sale.
The Garbage Phone Market.
That has resulted in a wide array of poor phone hardware running minimalist software. Of course, there are mobile makers who market those fancy $750-900 phones, but they are relegated to obscure niches because there's such a wide gap between the free or nearly free phones and those expensive luxury ones.
Apple is nailing a position that fits a sweet spot between cheap and expensive, and is marketing it in its retail stores directly to consumers who already pay for hardware they find desirable.
Apple's phone is designed to be a long-life platform, not a disposable element designed primarily to distract from the outrageous cost of service. By leveraging the attractiveness of its hardware to bring service costs lower, Apple hopes to gain broad adoption for its phone just as consumers are demanding more functional devices.
Hook, Line, and Sinker.
For all the stink raised about Apple's vendor lock-in on iTunes, none of the wags seem to have stumbled onto the fact that the iPhone will be a far more effective trap.
Once users get accustomed to a full handheld computer that works intelligently, are they going to make any attempt to break free and grab a smartphone that really does very little, like the Motorola Q?
It will also be very difficult for other hardware makers to match Apple's product on an engineering scale. Sure, Nokia, Sony, and others can make fancier phones with features the iPhone lacks, whether its a 6 MP camera, a GPS unit, WiMax, an FM radio, or a cheese slicer, but the real trick to engineering is to know what to leave out.
Given that none of the major manufacturers have been able to deliver a competitive threat to the iPod, how much more stymied will they be in delivering an iPod with phone features, a touchscreen browser, and an extensible software platform, all at an attractive price?
And if they are able to do so, how many desperate phone companies will jump at the chance of reinventing themselves by changing their server operations, their service plans, and their accounting systems just to accommodate that new phone?
[David Sessions Tries to Milk iPhone Battery Panic in Slate]
A Hard Act To Follow.
Once Apple establishes the iPhone, it will have a position in mobiles that is difficult to copy. Hardware is easy to mock up, but its really hard to deliver software. Apple has been refining Mac OS X for a decade.
Microsoft has put a decade into WinCE, and it is now so obsolete that even Microsoft chose not to use it in the Xbox or its Origami handheld PCs, and is losing big money in its WinCE business.
Is Linux going to master the mobile before delivering a commercially viable desktop option? The majority of Linux based phones are being sold by Motorola to China, and are neither open nor part of a unified platform with the Linux offerings of other groups. Projects like OpenMoko will have zero leverage with mobile providers.
The Palm OS is an obsolete joke, and even the existing leader Symbian faces technology hurdles in moving its mobiles into the future.
Even Symbian leader Nokia decided to use Linux to power its web-based mobile tablets instead of its own Symbian, although it does not use Linux in its voice mobiles.
[The Egregious Incompetence of Palm]
[The Spectacular Failure of WinCE and Windows Mobile]
[Origins: Why the iPhone is ARM, and isn't Symbian]
[Mac OS X vs Linux on the iPhone and Mobile Devices]
What Will Apple Do on the Application Front?
In Apple's April earnings report, Oppenheimer explained what the company had in mind for the future of the iPhone in regard to software development:
"We believe the iPhone is a revolutionary device that is years ahead of the competition. At Macworld, we demonstrated a number of the iPhone's breakthrough features, including its pioneering multi-touch display and user interface, visual voicemail, desktop class e-mail and web browsing, and of course, the best iPod ever.
"We plan to build on this incredible foundation by continuing to develop new software features as well as entirely new applications and incorporate them into the iPhone. Since iPhone customers will likely be our best advocates for the product, we want to get them many of these new features and applications at no additional charge as they become available.
"Since we will be periodically providing new software features to iPhone customers free of charge, we will use subscription accounting and recognize the revenue and product cost of goods sold associated with iPhone handset sales on a straight line basis over 24 months.
"So while the cash from iPhone sales will be collected at the time of sale, we will be recording deferred revenue and costs of goods sold on our balance sheet, and amortizing both of them into our earnings on a straight line basis over 24 months. We will continue to expense our iPhone engineering, sales and marketing costs as we incur them. This accounting policy will have no impact on cash flow or the economics of our business."
[Apple reinvents consumer electronics — and announces it in an earnings call! – Blackfriars' Marketing]
[Apple – Quarter 2 – 2007 Financial Results]
Apple's Big Play.
Oppenheimer didn't leave a lot of grounds for ambiguity. Updates for the iPhone will be a major part of its attraction, and Apple will deliver them for free. The more software Apple puts on the iPhone, the more users will want it and want to retain it, and the more difficult it will be for competitors to copy it.
In this manner, Apple will be exploiting a secret to success that allowed Sun to take over the workstation business in the early 90s and Microsoft to take over cubicle business computing in the mid 90s. That well known secret will be hit on in a future article.
Come Say Hi While I Sit In Line.
I plan to go to the Union Square Apple Store and camp out for an iPhone. Not because I think it will be that difficult to get one, but because I stated in national news that I've never waited for a product, and that this could be my last chance to camp out before I get too old for that sort of thing to be exciting.
It would now be cheeky of me not to actually go do it.
I do have to admit that I'm feeling old enough already, and I still haven't had the stitches taken out from WWDC, where I managed to stab myself in the back rather severely with a broken mug by freakishly falling upon it.
So if you're in downtown SF, you can come say hi and perhaps bring me snacks. You can also help organize a flashmob rave Thursday night to help make the cold night sidewalk a little more fun.
[iPhone hype has gadget geeks camping and drooling – Yahoo! News]
[WWDC 2007: Kevin Hoffman Presents .Net vs. Cocoa: And Now A Warning: Just Three Cylinders Firing]


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The following are excerpts from the police log for the week of April 26 to May 2. Police officers responded to 157 calls during that time. The information is open to the public. It is the policy of this newspaper that the names and addresses of all persons over age 17, who are arrested and charged, are listed in the log. There are no exceptions.
Thursday, April 26
7:58 a.m., a minor motor vehicle accident occurred at the Russell Street School parking lot.
8:17 a.m., police responded to a minor verbal altercation on Colonial Drive.
11:49 p.m., a driver was lost on White Street. Police gave him directions.
Friday, April 27
1:16 a.m., police arrested Kristina L. Homoleski, 26, of 44 Prescott St. in Pepperell, and charged her with operating under the influence of liquor, and a marked lanes violation.
4:54 p.m., police cited a driver for illegal operation of a motor vehicle at the intersection of Great Road and Shaker Lane.
5:20 p.m., a police officer found an ATM card, from a machine on Great Road. The officer contacted TD BankNorth, who in turn put a stop on the card and will contact the owner of the card.
8:58 p.m., police arrested James J. Sandborn, 39, of 297 Liberty Square Road in Boxborough, and charged him with failure to stop/yield at a sign, and possession of marijuana.
9:53 p.m., police cited a driver for illegal operation of a motor vehicle on Great Road.
11:55 p.m., police arrested a 17-year-old juvenile and charged him with speeding in violation of special regulation, failure to stop for police, and negligent operation of a motor vehicle.
Saturday, April 28
11 a.m., a Matawanakee Trail resident reported that their bay window had been shot with a BB gun, possibly by youths in the neighborhood. Police spoke to the parents of the youths and advised them to speak with their children about exercising caution when using BB guns.
2:50 p.m., a motor vehicle accident occurred at the intersection of Beaver Brook and Great roads.
Sunday, April 29
4:36 p.m., police cited a driver for illegal operation of a motor vehicle on King Street. The vehicle was towed.
Monday, April 30
2:23 p.m., a resident in the lobby reported that her motor vehicle had been damaged and it appeared that something had been dropped on it while it was in the parking lot at the Russell Street Elementary School. No further information is available.
9:37 p.m., the bay door at the Littleton Electric Light and Water Dept. on Ayer Road had been left open. Officers secured the door and contacted the person who was on-call.
Tuesday, May 1
4:27 p.m., a minor motor vehicle accident occurred on King Street.
6:58 p.m., police cited a driver for illegal operation of a motor vehicle at the intersection of Great Road and Manion Place.
Wednesday, May 2
9:17 a.m., police responded to a call from a Maplehurst Road resident regarding a possible break and entering. A youth had used a screwdriver to break a window at the home. The homeowner heard him, yelled and called 911. The youth did not gain entry to the house. The suspect was last seen, by the Fire Chief, running down Goldsmith Street. The case is under investigation.
8:55 p.m., police cited a driver for illegal operation of a motor vehicle on Interstate-495. The vehicle was towed.
9:25 p.m., police arrested William F. Bertrand, 52, of 93 Bellflower Road in Billerica, and charged him with being a fugitive from justice on a court warrant.


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We do not fight people, we are fighting with a spirit. That spirit is Mammon which dominates and controls the whole world through the Anglo-American Democratic Capitalist System. It manifests in Humanism and Liberalism, through Democracy, and Capitalism, the Four Evils who enslave the whole of mankind. Many Christians who should understand the spirit of Mammon, do not. We expose and fight the spirit of Mammon, and the four evils of Humanism, Liberalism, Democracy and Capitalism.
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Australia is moving to build up its military forces and cement its military alliance with the United States. These moves, if carried through, will make Australia a more intimate part of a worldwide US defense network aimed at countering growing Soviet military power.
As the Soviet news agency Tass has warned, they would also make this largely deserted land a Soviet nuclear target in the event of war. Australia's present high degree of immunity from nuclear holocaust might be reduced.
Steps being contemplated include stationing of more than 10,000 US military personnel and dependents on Australian soil. There could also be placement of American nuclear-armed B-52 bombers on Australian airfields, and basing of US naval foces targeted for the Indian Ocean in west Australia.
Supporters of these moves, including Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser , say the country must help the US balance growing Soviet military power, especially in the Indian Ocean.
But an underlying assumption, according to many experts, is that such cooperation will entire the US into stepping up its defense commitment to this enormous, sparsely populated island continent of 14 million.
With total armed forces of 71,000 including an Army of only 32,000, Australia traditionally has looked either to the United Kingdom or the United States for protection. In return it has committed forces to help its allies fight in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II as weell as the Korean and Vietnam wars.
"Mr. Fraser speaks today of a Soviet threat," notes one prominent Australian historian. "But to many Australians that has become a code word for what has traditionally been a far-more-feared enemy -- an undefined Asian threat from the north."
Japan's attacks southward during World War II reinforced their by coming within a hair's breadth of northern Australia.
"Australia has got to be the greatest country in the world. But once the third world finds out about us, then we will be in trouble," one hotel manager commented to this correspondent.
The new Australian policy includes an offer for the US to base an Indian Ocean fleet at Cockburn Sound, in Western Australia, or at Perth in the same state. As of this writing no decision has been made on the project, which would take five to seven years to complete.
In July a high-level US Air Force team visited Australia to inspect possible staging posts for the giant nuclear-armed B-52 bombers. The areas inspected included Darwin, Learmonth, Tindal, adn Townsville. If developed, these fields could launch the bombers toward the Indian or Pacific oceans with a range that could include Vietname and China.
So far these steps have produced little public debate except among a few academics, defense strategists, and pacifists.
One reason, explains a defense expert, is that the US is not at present involved in a controversial effort like the Vietnam war. Still there is some largely unvocalized concern that Australian-based American forces could drag the country into events beyond its control.
"What if the US tried an Iran-like hostage rescue mission from Australian bases?" asked one journalist here.
At the same time, Australia is slowly moving to build up its own forces. Defense Minister James Killen recently announced an expansion program for the 17 ,000-man Navy. This follows recent acquisition of about 15 new patrol boats for waters bordering Indonesia. The latter expansion was largely triggered by the need to control the influx of Vietnamese refugee boats arriving on Australia's northern coast.
A snappy televison advertisement first hit Australian viewers last month urging adventure-seeking young men to join the Army Reserve. The $3 million campaign showing swirling helicopters, chattering machine guns, and eager young men charging through the bush seeks to boost the Army Reserve by 8,000 to 30,000 in a year.
At present the US is said to have 700 defense personnel in Australia. These are located at the Harold Holt communications base at North West Cape, the Pine Gap base near Alice Springs used for satellite control, and another installation near Woomera. There is also a defense-oriented seismic study station near Alice Springs. These produce perennial controversy over just how much Australian-based facilities are involved in planning for US nuclear retaliatory strikes on the Soviet Union.
So far it has been assumed that only a small number of Soviet missiles are targeted for Australia. If present proposals go through, that will change to some degree.


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It is that time of year that is typically the most stressful for teachers—
1st quarter report cards, conferences, American Education Week,
and maybe even observations?
Report cards don't need to stress you out and give you a constant headache!
A focus of my school this year is to make sure we utilize report cards to accurately document:
1. how the student is performing in the classroom
2. behavior/social concerns effecting performance
3. level of support currently being provided for student success
4. teacher's plan for assisting in student growth next term
Let me back up a moment and add that parents and teachers should be communicating throughout the quarter on the student's successes and challenges. The report card should not be the first time a parent is hearing this information.
The report card is the place to document the student's current successes, challenges, and student concerns.
As I scoured blogs and performed many searches on Pinterest, I so often found suggestions and resources about changing all negative things into positives.
While I do believe you should begin the comment, conferences, and any parent communication with a positive comment, it is essential that you accurately document the student's status.
The comments section is not a place to list everything taught during the quarter or to copy & paste the same comment for every student. The comment should be personalized & thorough, accurate & data-driven.
(Please keep in mind all schools, counties, and districts have their own expectations for report cards. This blog post is my personal opinion from experience and professional development.)
To help you with writing your own report card comments, I have compiled a document that I am also sharing with teachers at my own school. I printed these on bright paper, backed on a sheet of construction paper, and laminated. I am recommending that teachers store these in their grading binders for easy access.


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Good pizza. Caters to my high school on Fridays and is pretty popular. Cheap, and good quality. Would recommend to anyone who likes pizza.3
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by Johnnie Behiri | 5th July 2013
Prices are a bit more comfortable on the other side of the ocean and together with Canon's latest rebates it is even sweeter… B&H and Canon are running some special deals: DSLR + LENS BUNDLES & DSLR INSTANT REBATES For example, there's a great $200 off deal if you purchase the Canon 6D together with the Canon 24-105 f/4 IS lens, a beautiful documentary lens that we talk about in our evolving Gear Guide (click here to read our short review!). Also, there are special savings on other selected items: Canon lenses Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3 Mirrorless Micro Four Thirds Digital Camera (Black) Now $1068 instead of $1268 Tokina AT-X 116 PRO DX-II 11-16mm f/2.8 Lens Canon & Nikon Mounts now $599 instead of $669 Sony 32GB SDHC Class 10 UHS-1 Memory Card is now $24.95 instead of $45.95 Sony NEX-VG900 Full-Frame Interchangeable Lens Camcorder, Includes Free $615.90 of Accessories! Now $3298 instead of $3913.90 Some of those special offeres are running till July 6th some for a bit longer. There are special cashback deals in Europe as well running until the end of August (click here for details on the Canon UK and here for details on the Canon Germany websites).Read more
by Sebastian Wöber | 5th March 2013
The Canon C300 has just been significantly reduced in price. B&H sent out a notice announcing a $2000 pricedrop. Even though there is competition for the C300 with the introduction of the C500 and low priced C100 the C300 fills an important slot with its internal All-I codec and SDI connection possibilities. There's more competition from Sony with their new PMW-F5 model that's already in stock. Both the PL version as well as the EF version of the EOS C300 are now $2000 off and available at B&H with 0% financing. That makes the C300 priced at $13,999 right now.Read more
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Hi everybody. If you're interested in products that are currently offered at lower prices than usual, on sale or available for preorder you can check out our NEW DEALS section. Today for example the Sachtler ACE has been made availble for preorder at B&H (link here). We hope to get more retailers in, but so far B&H has been the most cooperative. Find the link at the top right hand corner of the cinema5D NEWS frontpage. Whenever you come across a hot deal please do let us know and we'll add it to the feed. CheersRead more
by Sebastian Wöber | 16th August 2011
I rarely post about product sales. The 2 cards on the left cost around $300 where I come from, so I thought it would be interesting for you US people to know that you can have them for $119.95. They're $76 off at B&H here.And while I'm on it here are some more reduced flashcards from B&H: Transcend 32GB SDHC Cl 10 $48 here Transcend 64GB SDXC Cl 10 $100 here 3x Lexar 16GB 600x CF cards $265 here ($90 off) 3x Lexar 8GB 600x CF cards $171 here ($54 off) If some of you US people have some time please share your shopping experience with B&H. From what I can tell as a European guy they seem very motivated and dedicated in what they do, they seem to be listening to the customers and to be interested in HDSLR people. We're thinking about opening a separate section for some of their deals which wouldn't interfere with the news section. Please share your thoughts, ideas and wishes. Thanks, Sebastian Woeber (your site admin)Read more
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Q: The foundation of my house and the pavement are covered with moss and mildew. Also, there is mildew on the inside of one basement wall. How can I remove it? What kind of paint should I use? Helen D. Kennedy Long Beach, N.Y.
A: Mold or mildew indicates moisture. When the source of the moisture is stanched, the mildew may go away.; I suggest you look for the source of the dampness on the outside of the foundation walls. If you do not have gutters and downspouts on your house, put them up. Perhaps there is a leaky faucet that is providing moisture over a long period of time. How about a birdbath nearby? Excessive shade?
Your local paint or hardware store stocks moss inhibitors, such as Dowacide-G by the Dow Chemical Company. Sherwin Williams also makes a moss stopper. Apply as per the manufacturer's directions after the moisture problem is solved.
If repainting is necessary, use a paint that contains a mildew inhibitor additive.
Waterproof the inside of the moldy basement wall with a cemetious paint covering, such as Sealwall, made by a company of the same name in Eastlake, Ohio , or its equal. The phone number of Sealwall is (216) 951-3455. Kill the mildew before applying the waterpoofing agent by using an effective fungicide. Follow the directions on the label.
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Popular director to direct Ram Charan's second Bollywood movie?
August 29, 2015,
Mega Power Star Ram Charan Tej made his debut with the movie 'Zanjeer' in Bollywood, which was a dud at the box office. The latest update is that he is gearing up for his second Bollywood movie.
Popular director Ashutosh Gowarikar is likely to direct Ram Charan, which is based on Krishnadevaraya. It may be noted here that Ashutosh is known for the movies like Jodha Akbar and Lagaan.
It is heard that this movie will go on floors after Ashutosh Gowarikar finishes his ongoing project Mohanjedaro'. In the mean time, Ram Charan will also be completing Bruce Lee movie.
It remains to be seen whether Ram Charan hits the success with this movie or not…
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Two items that we seem to buy every week from the grocery store are cream cheese and sour cream. Why I haven't already started making these myself sooner is beyond me. Most likely because I didn't realize how extremely easy it was to do both. For the cream cheese, I've read several recipes that call for fancy equipment or hard-to-find ingredients, but there are other ways of making it that won't make your throw your hands up in frustration. And, considering the amount of plastic packaging involved with both items, making them at home will also limit the amount of waste involved (although we do recycle both kinds of containers). These recipes are so easy, you'll wonder why you never tried them before.
Homemade Cream Cheese
1 quart homemade or store-bought plain yogurt (whole milk or low-fat, depending on your preference)
Place a clean kitchen towel or clean muslin in a colander. Place the colander in a bowl that is large enough to hold it. Add the yogurt to the lined colander and wrap the towel over the top to cover (or use a plate). Leave this to drain for about 5 hours in the refrigerator. If you want a thicker consistency, leave it longer, making sure to empty what is draining so it doesn't reach the bottom of the colander and get reabsorbed. Store your finished cream cheese in a resealable container in the fridge. Better yet, use one of your old packaged cream cheese containers to do the job!
Your cream cheese will last as long as your yogurt would, so if you used purchased yogurt (rather than making it yourself), check the expiration date and use that as your guide. (I highly recommend trying to make the yogurt yourself since this will cut down on additional waste especially if you can get your milk in returnable glass bottles.) If you want to get fancy, you can add flavorings to your cream cheese. Try adding homemade strawberry jam for strawberry-flavored cream cheese. If you spent time dehydrating onions, then adding those (or fresh green onions) and chives from your garden will make a tasty chive-and-onion cream cheese spread.
Homemade Sour Cream
1 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup sour cream or buttermilk (or even white vinegar will work)
In a screw-top jar or mason jar with lid, combine the heavy cream and sour cream (or buttermilk). Shake the ingredients up a bit to thoroughly mix and let stand, covered, at room temperature for about 24 hours or until it becomes very thick. You can store your sour cream in the refrigerator in the original jar you mixed it in (or use some other resealable container) for up to one week. Make sure that your sour cream is well chilled before using.
If you want to make a lighter sour cream, substitute whole milk for 1/2 cup of the heavy cream.
Looking for homemade cheese recipes made with easy-to-find ingredients? You can find homemade ricotta and the like in my Easy Cheese Series.
See also: Easy Cheesy: 4 Super-Simple Recipes, You Can Make Yogurt at Home and How to Make Your Own Yogurt, Kefir, Chevre
To TomCosmos...
Calves are not "killed for their digestive juices." They are killed for veal, a perfectly delicious product, and no more "inhumane" than killing them seven months later for steaks, prime rib, brisket, and pot roast. Rennet is just a by-product of the process. On the dairy farm, every cow must deliver a calf every year to keep her lactation cycle going. Half of those calves will be female (heifers), and will grow up to be milk cows. The other half will be males, and it is not economically feasable to raise all of these to maturity. In fact, virtually NO commercial dairy farms will ever raise ANY male calves to an age at which they could be called bulls and used for breeding. Virtually none of the cows on dairy farms in America will ever encounter a real bull in their lives. Reproduction of dairy cattle is an artificial process involving frozen semen that is stored in a tank of liquid nitrogen.
So, don't villianize the killing of calves as inhumane. If you purchase dairy products at all, you have bought into this process. The alternative is to give up milk and milk products or to buy a farm and a cow, and then YOU have to decide what to do with Bosssie's male offspring. Hint: they make VERY expensive pets.
A little friendly sarcasm:
I'm sorry but I looked for a good, easy cream cheese recipe and came across many like yours. I tried the process and wondered why it doesn't even taste close to cream cheese. What you describe is how to make the, now fashionable, "Greek Yogurt" (yogurt with less whey). Not a bad thing, just not cheese. To get the real taste you need a starter culture. I don't know if any earlier posts addressed this issue or not. I guess not since you would have changed the title by now. I do hope you correct your misleading title and cream cheese references, and can only hope others will become wise to the difference.
PS - Surprisingly a couple of layers of Cheese Cloth works well to get Greek style yogurt also. And you can search online for uses of the mystery liquid you mention (whey) instead of wasting it. :-)
And a little serious note:
One reason I posted this on MEN was to impart this bit of cheese info. The rennet used to make most cheeses including cream cheese comes from the intestines of calves. Calves have the most since they need to digest their mothers milk when they are young. I don't like the idea of killing calves for their digestive juices. Rennet can be made from vegetable sources and I have found a good cheddar that is made with it at Trader Joe's (not an ad). It can be found. Anyone looking for more humane treatment of animals, look for products using vegetable base rennet.
I've tried 2 different sour cream recipes, the second being the one above. Neither one has thickened! What am I doing wrong??
I tried the heavy cream and white vinegar.. AWEFULLY bitter.. going another route..
You need "cultured buttermilk" a very different product that the liquid left over from making butter. Cultured buttermilk is made from whole milk and it is sort of like drinkable yogurt.
this was ages ago so I hope that sad little jar is not still sitting out and you may have gotten your answer, but just in case... your mistake was your buttermilk. the butter milk you used from making your own butter is NOT the same thing as "buttermilk" what you used has none of the starter cultures that you need to get the milk to curdle. If no one had explained that to you before I can see how that mistake is easy to make.
it is the same for yogurt.. you need the starter.. or just a container of plain *active ingredient* yogurt for your first batch.
It won't work. You need the culture from the buttermilk.
Try it and then post the results here!
It's a culture to start the cream towards turning into sour cream without spoiling. Simple food science. How yeast for bread and citric acid for cheese works.
Instead of buttermilk for sour cream, could I use whey?
I find it weird that sour cream is an ingredient in the recipe for making sour cream....
I am going to try this too, and from my understanding, you are to place the yogurt onto the towel (or muslin) that you have placed into the colander (towel is to line the colander). This colander should be sitting in a bowl. So you have (from bottom to top): bowl, colander, towel, and yogurt. This amount of yogurt should be small enough (and the towel large enough) so the towel can then be folded up and around it - like you're wrapping it as a gift :). I am wondering if the plate then placed on top of that might help it all drain more quickly (heavy plate pressing down on the yogurt…???). Anyway, the liquid from the yogurt will drop down and pass through the towel, through the colander and into the bowl. And you probably already understand the rest, but I'll put that in my own words too, just in case : To prevent the draining liquid from getting pulled back up into the yogurt through the towel (reabsorbed), be sure you are constantly checking the level of the liquid (a clear glass bowl would be really nice for this), and pouring it off if it is getting too high (coming near the bottom of the colander). If you have a bowl that is kind of tall, but still wide enough to fit the colander into, you may get a bowl/colander combo that leaves enough space at the bottom for all of the liquid without draining, or at least fewer times to pour off/drain. Such a tall bowl would most likely not also be glass, so if you have a choice between this tall bowl versus a glass bowl, you would just have to pick which option you prefer (glass bowl = visual of liquid to see when to drain; tall bowl = more room at the bottom for liquid to collect, resulting in fewer necessary drainings). Anyway, I hope this helps it make more sense. Good luck!
Before I found this site I had tried a sour cream recipe similar to this, without success. I used buttermilk I had left from making butter (butter was made from store bought heavy whipping cream and a bit of whole milk) - about a week old and refrigerated - with half and half (also store bought). I scalded the jars in boiling water, which were small, so I had cut the recipe in half (1 c half/half & 1.5 Tbsp buttermilk). Even then, I had to split the makings into the two half cup jars. Due to that, I measured the half & half, added the buttermilk to the measuring cup and mixed the combo just slightly with a wire whisk before pouring into the hot jars, which I then shook to mix more thoroughly; I then let both jars sit at room temperature. The contents did start to settle but the instructions were to let it sit at room temperature until it reached the desired consistency, which it never did, and now it just looks curdled and is separating. I am going to try your method instead, but I don't want to make the same mistake(s) again. From what I've shared so far, can you tell what mistake(s) was/were made? Also, is there any way to save what I have left from my first attempt? It is still just sitting out - it's been about four days now. Thanks in advance!
i live in India and its hard to find inexpensice cream cheese here. i really want to try this recipe. but .. i know this is going to sound silly, but i dont really understand this recipe that well. the part where we have to put the yoghurt in the colander. are we supposed to put it on the towel? can anyone please explain a little more or give me a demonstration =
I teach English in South Korea, and cheeses are expensive here, too. A friend just posted this recipe for cottage cheese. I haven't tried it yet, but I thought I'd pass it on. Place 1 gallon of any type milk in a large cooking pot. Heat on medium to medium high heat until your electric thermometer hit 120 degrees F. Remove from heat and pour 3/4 cup of white vinegar or apple cider vinegar in the pot. Stir slowly for 2 minutes and immediately the milk and whey will begin to separate. Set aside for 30 minutes covered to become room temperature. Line a colander with a cheese cloth and pour the whole pot through the colander. Let drain 5 minutes. Gather the cloth containing the cottage cheese and rinse under cold water 3-5 minutes until completely cooled. Squeeze excess water out and put in a bowl add 1 1/2t salt and stir. Break up curd into bite size pieces. You can stir in 1/2 cup half and half or heavy cream to make it creamier, but it adds a lot more fat. Store in refrigerator.
Hi, my husband and I teach in Pago Pago, American Samoa and diary products such as sour cream and cream cheese are OUTRAGEOUSLY priced when you can find them. I am going to try the recipes I have found online. Has anyone tried either of these using UHT milk that is common in the foreign countries or does it require regular milk? Does anyone know if you can make homemade cottage cheese? Thanks for the help. BJM
Looking for down-home country advise. We are currently missionaries studing spanish in Bolivia and I am looking for things I can make and do at home. We will be moving to our village in June with even less amenaties. Thanks for all the wonderful advise and I hope to use what I find on this site frequently. Thanks so much!
Heavy cream and buttermilk will result in creme fraiche, highly coveted in cooking sauces or used with fresh fruit.
I have used this cream cheese for cheese cake and it turned out great.
I made cream cheese for the first time. It came out wonderfully! Very creamy! however, I am wondering if I can sweeten it just a little. The recipe I used called for whole milk, Rennet, and Mesophilic M.
What can I do to take the sour taste out of my cream cheese?
can i use hommade creamcheese in the cheesecake??
can i use hommade creamcheese in the cheesecake??
Can I use real buttermilk left over from when I make butter, or do I have to use cultured buttermilk from the store? Thanks!
This is a new idea for me with the cream cheese (we make ours from our goat milk, cultured with yogurt, and make LOTS of cream cheese from curds), but I do make sour cream very similarly, with home cultured buttermilk (it's easy to keep a culture going!), and cream skimmed from our goat milk. I'll never go back to store bought! Kim www.blessedfarm.com


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Because I reached a few different social media goals, I wanted to celebrate with a giveaway!
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City planners in Hot Springs have imposed a set of conditions on Oaklawn Park's planned expansion of its casino-style gambling operation.
The thoroughbred race track wants to expand its number of tables and machines by about 50 percent.
The city's Planning Commission has stipulated that all changes to vehicular and pedestrian traffic have to be approved by the state highway department. Those permits have to be in place before work starts.
The Sentinel-Record reports the city discussed requiring Oaklawn to install a pedestrian bridge over Central Avenue. But the track says it's not practical to build a crossing that can accommodate the crush of people leaving at the same time at the end of a day of racing.
Oaklawn will have to pay for any street and signal improvements.


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Consumer complaints against Direct Energy include issues concerning sales, billing, delivery and customer service. Of 630 complaints lodged with the Better Business Bureau of Houston, Texas, consumers registered 274 complaints regarding products and services and 230 complaints about billing and collection.
Recurring complaints include door-to-door sales representatives of Direct Energy misleading consumers into switching energy providers under the guise of lowering energy costs. Some complaints specifically mention the Nest thermostat, which the sales people said would work with their current energy providers.
Direct Energy representatives later handled complaints rudely or not at all. Consumers complained about poor customer service, saying representatives promised to call back but did not follow through.


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Did you all forget about the Patricia Field for ASOS.com collaboration I mentioned back in April? I sure did…I was reminded by an email this morning that the limited edition collection has just arrived. The range is quite nice, my picks are the Wide Leg Jean, Foil Print Puff Sleeve Mini Dress, Neon Zip Tote Bag and the Apple Picking Necklace. You can shop the collection here.
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Trailer rams into building as FRSC arrests drivers of unlatched containers
Tragedy was averted on Sunday afternoon as a trailer smashed into a building at the Kirikiri area of Lagos State destroying several shops.
The incident caused gridlock as most motorist who ply the newly commissioned Dillion road had to slow down around the scene of the incident where evacuation was being done by the police.
A witness, who pleaded anonymity, told newsmen at the scene that the truck was on full speed when it veered across the road and smashed the streetlights, shops and the fence of a building.
Although no life was lost and none was injured, the driver of the truck escaped from the scene immediately after the crash.
Meanwhile, the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) on Sunday said it had prosecuted 10 truck drivers for driving unlatched articulated vehicles on Lagos highways during the month.
Mr. Hyginus Omeje, the Lagos State Sector Commander of FRSC said that these were among the 52 truck drivers arrested by FRSC officials for various traffic offences.
Omeje said that they were prosecuted at the Lagos State Mobile Court following rampant cases of crashes recorded on the highways resulting from unlatched containers.
He said that the FRSC would intensify arrests and prosecutions of trucks found to be driving unlatched containers on the highways across the state.
Omeje also warned motorists to avoid contending the roads with trucks and articulated vehicles. "The FRSC is still committed to ensuring the safety of lives and properties on our roads. In recent times, there have been recurrent cases of containers falling from trucks while in motion, thereby, causing accidents and loss of lives.
"Consequently, we have started a special operation targeted at monitoring latched and unlatched containers again."
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Like most educators I've been flat out keeping on top of reports, marking, inspiring and getting through the syllabus. But when I'm not doing that I'm being a learner myself. That's right I'm a student, a learner, and an educator all in one.
This semester instead of completing another subject in my Masters of Educational Technology at Boise State I'm giving casual lecturing a go at my alma mater, the University of Technology in Sydney. It is where I completed my Diploma of Education back in 2005, can you believe it? ==>
So to my #DLDG2013 students reading this post – thanks for tuning in, this post really is for you.
This is one of the many short stimulus sessions that your lecturers will create over the coming weeks to help you think "outside of the box" in ways that you could use technology in your KLA area to meet your inquiry project (Assignment 2).
So does that give you some ideas? Or do you disagree with something I've proposed?
Leave a comment below this post, and we'll continue the discussion. If you need to register or sign up for WordPress to do so then go right ahead as we'll be using it later in the semester.
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RECIFE, Brazil - MusiGames Studio, renowned music game developer, and Oberon Media, leading provider of casual games solutions, today announced that Oberon will publish MusiGames' new titles for iPhone and iPod Touch via Oberon's publishing arm, I-play.
"Oberon is a top tier publisher of games for mainstream gamers and we know that our titles will appeal to their target audience," said Americo Amorim, CEO of MusiGames Studio. "We have had incredible success already with our innovative music and rhythm based titles on iPhone and we know that this partnership will enable us to increase our market potential."
"We are always looking to partner with developers who create innovative, fun titles," said Keith Adair, Global VP Sales & Marketing, Mobile at I-play. "We are very excited about what MusiGames can offer our players."
About iMusic Puzzle
iMusic Puzzle is a game where players need to use their skills in order to solve audio puzzles that are created with pieces of their favorite iTunes Library songs! There are two gameplay modes, including Arcade, where iMusic Puzzle will randomly select 28 songs from the user's iTunes Library, and Quick Play, where specific songs can be selected.
The game offers three puzzle styles:
- Drop: Samples of different songs are falling and the player needs to quickly drop them into their corresponding song slot!
- Memory: A deck of audio samples is displayed and the player needs to listen and find pairs with the same part of a song
- Shuffle: A portion of a song is played and then it explodes into multiple audio samples. The player has to arrange them in the correct order, making the music flow!
About Paper Boat Race
In Paper Boat Race, players blow into the microphone to make their boat travel faster as they race to win! To guide the paper boat along the course in the swimming pool, players use the accelerometer in order to pass between the flags and avoid hitting obstacles. In Paper Boat Race, the player will compete in 4 championships with 5 races each. The difficulty level will gradually increase in each circuit.
About MusiGames
MusiGames is a business unit of D'Accord Music Software, a leading developer of games and edutainment software. The company's first game, Drums Challenge, was released in June 2009 and became the fifth best-selling music game in the US AppStore in July. For more information, please visit: https://www.musigames.com.
About I-play
I-play, the publishing division of Oberon Media, Inc., is the world's leading multi-platform casual games publisher. With powerful franchises and massive distribution across the three most popular entertainment screens -- online, mobile, and interactive television -- I-play content reaches global consumers, and delivers fun, entertaining, accessible content to casual gamers of all ages. I-play's PC publishing division, formerly Oberon Games, is based in Seattle and created the hit Dream Day Series, as well as the first casual games for bestselling author James Patterson and legendary mystery author Agatha Christie, including the Causal Connect 2008 Game of the Year, Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile. I-play's mobile division has delivered some of the biggest selling franchises in the mobile space, including the world's #1 best-selling racing franchise, The Fast and the Furious, based on the blockbuster movies. I-play's interactive television group, formerly PixelPlay, creates and distributes games featuring top brands including Centipede, Missile Command, Asteroids, Monopoly, Scrabble, Boggle, and Yahtzee. I-play is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Seattle, San Mateo, London, and Dunfermline, Scotland.
About Oberon Media
Oberon Media, the world's leading multi-platform casual games company, is the first company to deliver global, integrated casual games solutions across three platforms-online, mobile and interactive television and at retail. Oberon game solutions have been adopted by the world's leading digital and media companies, such as Microsoft, AT&T, Yahoo!, Electronic Arts, Orange France and NHN. The Game Center combines casual game content, merchandizing and features to fulfill our partners' specific needs. Oberon Media's game publishing division, I-play, works with the industry's best and award-winning game developers to produce the top-selling casual games, which are played across online, mobile, console and iTV platforms in more than a dozen languages. Founded in 2003, Oberon Media is headquartered in New York with offices in North America, Europe and Asia, and is backed by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Oak Investment Partners. For more information, please visit: https://www.oberon-media.com/


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McKinney-Vento Homeless Act
The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1986 is a federal law that provides money for homeless shelter programs. "Homeless" children are also entitled to the protections of the McKinney-Vento Act.
The McKinney-Vento Act defines homeless children as "individuals who lack a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence." The act provides examples of children who would fall under this definition:
- Children sharing housing due to economic hardship or loss of housing;
- Children living in "motels, hotels, trailer parks, or camp grounds due to lack of alternative accommodations"
- Children living in "emergency or transitional shelters"
- Children whose primary nighttime residence is not ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation (e.g. park benches, etc)
- Children living in "cars, parks, public spaces, abandoned buildings, substandard housing, bus or train stations…"
The McKinney-Vento Act ensures homeless children transportation to and from school free of charge, allowing children to attend their school of origin (last school enrolled or the school they attended when they first become homeless) regardless of what district the family resides in. It requires schools to register homeless children even if they lack normally required documents, such as immunization records or proof of residence.
To see the Washington State Office of Student and Public Instruction dispute process click here.
For more information on the Tukwila School Districts McKinney-Vento program please contact your school counselor or social worker, or the district's McKinney-Vento Liaison at 206-901-7625.
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Artbreakhotel Gallery at The Carlton Arms Hotel presents dual exhibition T&A Tableau And Auspicious by Brian Dowdall VISIONARY and Alison Spiesman CONTEMPORARY. March 11-19, 2016.
MEET AND GREET with visionary artist Brian Dowdall and Alison Spiesman working on a new room at the Carlton Arms Hotel. Friday, January 29 2016 Noon-4PM.


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Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 19:43:25 -0500 (CDT) From: firstname.lastname@example.com Subject: 2002 International Space Station Status Report #22 2002 Report # 22 8 p.m. CDT, Saturday, May 4, 2002 Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas A multinational "taxi" crew departed the International Space Station this evening, having delivered a new Soyuz return vehicle to the residents of the orbital outpost. Russian Commander Yuri Gidzenko, Flight Engineer Roberto Vittori of the European Space Agency and South African businessman Mark Shuttleworth undocked their Soyuz TM-33 craft from the Pirs Docking Compartment of the ISS at 7:31 p.m. Central time (00:31 GMT May 5) over China after eight days of joint activities with Expedition Four Commander Yury Onufrienko and Flight Engineers Carl Walz and Dan Bursch. Left behind on the nadir docking port of the Zarya module of the ISS is a new Soyuz TM-34 return craft, in which Gidzenko, Vittori and Shuttleworth were launched on April 25 and which they guided to a docking to the ISS last Saturday. The older Soyuz arrived at the station last October. Fresh Soyuz spacecraft are brought to the station every six months to serve as an emergency return vehicle in the event a problem forces station residents to leave the complex prematurely. After backing the older Soyuz away from the Pirs docking port, Gidzenko fired the Soyuz' thrusters to begin a separation maneuver away from the station. Later this evening, Gidzenko will conduct a four-minute deorbit burn of the Soyuz engines to begin the capsule's descent back to Earth. Gidzenko, Vittori and Shuttleworth are scheduled to land on the steppes of Kazakhstan at 10:52 p.m. Central time (352 GMT May 5) to wrap up their mission. Gidzenko, who is completing his third flight into space, was the first former resident of the ISS to return to the complex, having been a member of the Expedition One crew, the first crew to live aboard the station. Gidzenko, Vittori and Shuttleworth spent most of their time on the station conducting experiments and educational activities. All systems aboard the ISS continue to function well as the station orbits at an average altitude of about 245 statute miles. Information on the crew's activities aboard the space station, future launch dates, as well as station sighting opportunities from anywhere on the Earth, is available on the Internet at: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov Details on station science operations can be found on an Internet site administered by the Payload Operations Center at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., at: http://www.scipoc.msfc.nasa.gov The next ISS status report will be issued on Friday, May 10, or earlier, if developments warrant. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ---- Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to firstname.lastname@example.com
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Hi all,
My LO will be one month in a couple of days. Everyone has been so generous and we have been gifted many of the things that we needed to get ready for his arrival. We are now trying to get settled in our house and I realize just how much stuff there is and how little space we have! I could use some advice on what to do with some of these gifts:
Handmade blankets – what do I do with them all? Apparently everyone I know is a knitter. And they are all beautiful. And baby sized. And how many blankets do I need exactly?
Giant clothes – some of my older relatives gave us clothes that are more suitable for a 4 year old. Do I have to store these for four years?? Similarly…
Cars? hotwheels…for a newborn? Again, do I have to keep these?
I hope I don't sound ungrateful, I just feel a little buried by the clutter…


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John Kerpan 1d took first place in the Massachusetts Go Association's Fall Tournament on October 14 in Boston, MA. Kerpan topped a field of 30 players. In second place was Mark Nahabedian 13k and in third was Chia Chan 5k; all three players were 4-0. Eva Casey directed. Photo courtesy Eva Casey.
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John Kerpan Tops MGA Fall Tourney
Wednesday October 17, 2012


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Hurricane Ike
Weather plays a major role in everyday life. Moods can range from happiness to sadness based on rain or shine. It can set what type of day you're going to be having. Issues such as global warming and hurricanes are being constantly addressed. The latest hurricane that's taken over the news and local headlines is Hurricane Ike. For the past month it's been arid, with little to no rain, desiccating all of the wildlife. Now, with Ike on the move, it's been nonstop showers. I believe weather will eventually turn the world we know today into a completely unfamiliar place. It's already effecting homes and destroying buildings. Look what happened because of Hurricane Katrina.
It crashed as a Category 2 hurricane, packing 110 mph winds and callous conditions. The waves eradicated the sea wall of Galveston and caused over seven feet of flooding. The whole island lost electricity and water pressure, enough to drive the 40% of residents who stayed frenetic. Roughly 2,000 people didn't evacuate Galveston and were left to be rescued on Sunday morning. Ike drove the residents farther inland, and roughly 40,000 Texans were seeking refuge in 250 shelters. Predictions stated that it wasn't supposed to be deadly, but so far at least eight deaths have been accounted for due to Ike.
According to AIR Worldwide, the damage on insured losses with total between eight to twelve billion, with an expected loss of ten billion. If the estimate is correct, Ike will rank as the fourth most expensive hurricane in U.S history. It'll stand behind Hurricane Wilma which struck in 2005.
In my opinion, nothing will come close to comparing to the damage caused by Katrina. Yes, I think eventually another hurricane to that magnitude will indeed hit the United States. I'm flabbergasted people chose not to evacuate when they got word Ike would hit. I understand it'd be hard to leave your possessions behind, but compared to your life it's a diminutive price to pay. It's hapless that Ike struck Galveston. The situation has enervated President Bush even more, and he declared the coast a major disaster area. He'll visit on Tuesday to see the malefic situation.
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I have had a look at the manifestos and see what they have to say on the internet and Digital Liberty. I have been very influenced by the EDRi voting exchange and summarise the issues of Digital Liberty as e-citizenship, equality before the law, privacy and copyright reform, to which for this election we must add internet governance and industrial & innovation policy. I have created a table summarising the positions of the Tories, Labour, LibDems and Greens. Possibly I should have analysed the SNP manifesto since much of this is Westmister reserved powers. I was hoping to write something easy and quick to read. I don't think I have succeeded. My super summary is in the figure immediately below, and here is the table I built to help me write this article. (I lost the excel file, so this will have to do!) My main source was the ORG pages but I have been reading the Labour Manifesto also. I feel that the opposition parties have suffered from the surprise; they probably expected more time to develop their promises. All three opposition parties 2015 manifestos covered these issues in more depth.
Tag Archives: innovation
Stack Ranking
Many company's, particularly US owned, staff evaluation schemes are based on ranking their staff, and additionally rewarding the top 20% and firing the bottom 10%. (This idea comes from the US, probably from GE; firing people because they are not as good as someone else is illegal in the UK and much of Europe.) Basically it is not about continuous improvement, it's based on a world view that thinks people are lazy and need fear to make them work hard. Fear of not getting a bonus, or fear of dismissal. This cynicism and hate will never build a successful firm.
EZweb fast new dynamic mashups
The real reason for meeting with the Telefonica representative was to gain some familiarity with the NESSI project they lead, called EZWeb. This is hosted on the Morfeo Project site, and these projects have significant support from the Spanish Government.
Future of the Internet
In March, I attended the EU's "Future of the Internet" conference. This was a meeting of Europe's top computer scientists from both business and academia, planned to discuss future research and development. The meeting was jointly convened by the rotating Presidency (the Government of Slovenia) and the Commission, and held at Lake Bled. I attended a number of sessions dealing with technical, societal and economic issues together with the state of research in the European Union. The original articles were written from notes taken at the time, posted the following week and back dated to the approximate time the speech was given; they were copied across to this ominbus blog in July 2016. It is now, really quite long. The sessions included, Dr Ziga Turk, who spoke of enlargement and the 5th freedom, Dutton on Privacy, Trust and economies of scale, Wyckoff Lovink, Johansen , Vasconcelos in a panel on economics and Heuser, Grégoire, Uddenfeldt , Nathan , Hourcade on the development of technology in Europe, and speakers from the US and Japan.
Sun, the most generous Opensource company on the planet!
Oddly, it is the 1st Anniversary of the EU's publication of their report, "Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU". In this report, they identified Sun as the single largest corporate publisher of open source code in the world
Look at what Google won't put in a press release
Last month, just before travelling to the West Coast, I practised my latest presentation,"Six reasons to choose Solaris", in which I have a slide with some company logos of the users of Solaris 10. One of my audience asked why Google wasn't on the slide
Lessons from Sun Live 2007
Sun had a customer jamboree today, and I documented my attendance on my Sun Oracle blog in a couple of articles, covering sustainability, teleworking & productivity, James Gosling on Java and CPU architecure, design and specialisation and the nature of innovation.
A visit to the Sun Labs open day(s)
My reason for being in Ca, is to visit the Sun Labs Open House. The day was opened by Bob Sproull, the Labs Director and Greg Papadopolous, Sun's EVP for R&D and CTO. They both spoke about the goals and accountability of Sun Labs. They look to create new technologies, improve our current technologies or occasionally improve Sun. They are beginning to look at Sun Labs with a venturer's view and no longer measure the output of white papers, books and conference speeches. Greg Popadopolous said, "these things are better done in Universities". After the speeches I wandered over to the main building and
Food for Thought
I was invited to Martlesham to visit BT's innovation Lab; there were some inspiring presentations and technologies on display which at the time of posting this article are a bit dated, since this is another post copied from the sun/oracle blog in March 2016, To see the original on Innovation see here, and on WiFI and Health see here. Other posts on the existential nature of networks, intelligent infrastructure, the analogue/digital interface, bio-feedback systems, and telematics, were posted here.
More on Dell's takeover of Alienware
It seems that last Thursday, Dell & Alienware agreed for Dell to take over Alienware. Interestingly (well, to me), I have just upgraded my household IT and have bought an Alienware Aurora for the games and a Dell for our household IT. (Am I a futurologist??)
SunLIVE 2006
I attended a Sun customer jamboree, called Sun LIVE 2006 and posted some blogs articles on my old sun/ora cle blog on innovation in government and the nascent mobile games industry, which I added to here.
Separating the telco hype from the reality
After lunch, Lars Godsell, one of Forrester's principal analysts shared his views about the telco industry. He promised to "separate the hype from reality".
Don't just listen, understand!
It's half term, so Sun have arranged a business trip to Barcelona. I'm attending a Sun Telco Sales team training event. The customer keynote was given by Xavier Krichner, Director de Prospectiva of Telefonica who spoke about innovation.