| Source: H-F suspends Sanni, Saffold for game
In the Jan. 11 Sports section, Homewood-Flossmoor basketball players Supo Sanni and Jeremy Saffold were erroneously reported as being suspended for their game against Lincoln-Way East. Sanni had 16 points and 7 rebounds in the game, while Saffold played sparingly in the Vikings' 60-37 win.
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Apple refreshes its MacBook Pro lineup
Apple on Tuesday updated its MacBook Pro notebook lineup with the biggest additions being the latest Intel Core 2 Duo chips, more memory and the multi-touch trackpad that's found in the MacBook Air. Apple also updated its MacBook lineup. Apple rolled out a 2.4 GHz, 15-inch MacBook Pro starting at $1,999. The refreshed lineup, which was flagged as imminent by Jason O'Grady last week, will be closely watched by Wall Street, which is increasingly worried about growth for Apple's iPod and iPhone businesses. The consensus view is that strong Mac sales will carry Apple for a few quarters. By the specs: 15.4-inch widescreen LED-backlit 1440 x 900 LCD display; 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB shared L2 cache; 800 MHz front-side bus; 2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 4GB; 200GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor; A slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+/-R DL / DVD+/-RW / CD-RW) optical drive; NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT with 256MB GDDR3 memory; DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video adapter sold separately); Built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display; Built-in iSight video camera; Gigabit Ethernet port; Built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR; ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot; Two USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port and one FireWire 400 port; One audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog; Multi-Touch trackpad and illuminated keyboard; and 85 Watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Lauren London & Mos Def? Ja Rule to Retire? New Lil ...
OK, all of the people that submitted rumors to me to be the Rumors Sidekicks it is time for you to show and prove that you are the person for the gig. I reviewed all of the emails that said “Rumors Sidekick" in the subject heading. Now, it is dome for you to send me sample rumor that I will print on the site to see who is who. This will also involve the people like Boss Up and Mak, who will Yay or Nay people for their style and swagger. With that, I charge you all to send me your best, exclusive, well-written and witty rumors to me for the next two weeks. The strong will survive and get the gig. Very important, put in the subject “Sample Rumors For Illseed" and send it to AHHrumors@gmail.com. On your mark, get set – GO! LAUREN LONDON AND MOS DEF? I can see it now – the rumors are about to start, “Mos Def is dating Lauren London." I noticed something with my girl Noree (and the Lil' Scrappy rumor), as soon as two people star in something together, there are rumors after that.
NetApp Ushers in Next Wave of Data Center Transformation
SUNNYVALE, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- NetApp (NASDAQ:NTAP) today announced new products and capabilities as part of the NetApp(R) Manageability Software Family to enable customers to transform their data center architectures. Today's announcement is driven by NetApp storage innovations for virtualized servers that will help customers improve their IT infrastructure and processes. Enterprise customers are undergoing significant data center transformations to enhance IT flexibility and efficiency as server virtualization moves into broader deployment. To enable this transformation, NetApp is providing customers a proven storage platform for virtualized environments to achieve increased service levels, higher asset utilization, and greater data center power, space, and cooling efficiencies.
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InterCall Announces Support for Microsoft Office Communications Server ...
CHICAGO, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- InterCall, a global conferencing provider and leader in collaboration services, today announced it will sell and support corporate deployments of Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007. Both products further InterCall's ongoing strategy of supporting businesses with the most innovative tools that are in-step with Unified Communications. According to Ken Kurz, Director of Unified Communications at InterCall, "As one of the largest resellers of Microsoft collaboration software, InterCall has worked closely with Microsoft to integrate our most innovative and reliable tools into their solutions. Because of this strategic relationship, InterCall is ready to provide training and consultation, while offering a full suite of products and solutions that take advantage of the Office Communications Server 2007 and Office Communicator 2007 services." "InterCall takes advantage of Microsoft's Communications Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communicator 2007, and Microsoft Office Live Meeting Service to enable their customers significant communication benefits in remote meetings," said Mandeep Bhullar, channel development manager, Unified Communications Group, at Microsoft Corp.
Windows Server 2008
As well as supporting the latest hardware technologies, Windows Server 2008 is easier to install and manage. ZDNet UK's (the sister site of ZDNet.com.au) lab tests, we found that the installation process has been streamlined and it's now much quicker and easier to install a new server system. The installation utility asked for our country and licence number, and then a dialogue box offered full or Server Core versions of the Standard, Enterprise or Datacenter editions. Had we run the installation tool in an existing Windows Server 2003 system, the option to upgrade or make a clean install would also have been offered. After selecting the target disk partition, the installation tool proceeded to the end without stopping. .
Vuze to Comcast: It's not a fair race when you own the track
In a conference call, Vuze's general counsel Jay Monahan drew the starkest analogy. What Comcast is really doing, he said, wasn't at all comparable to limiting the number of cars that enter a highway. Instead, it was more like a horse race where the cable company owns one of the horses and the racetrack itself. By slowing down the horse of a competitor like Vuze, even for a few seconds, Comcast makes it harder for that horse to compete. "Which horse would you bet on in a race like that?" asked Monahan. Vuze offers its own video content distributed through P2P technology, and it sees services like Comcast's own video-on-demand offerings as a direct competitor. But smaller, independent publishers also value P2P technology because it allows them to "compete with the big boys" by offering high-quality video files in a way that would not be possible if a nonprofit had to pay directly for all the download bandwidth.
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His words gave me pause, for on so many Christmas Eves past, I had driven to the bakery on Columbia Avenue for a dozen or so fresh, hot, hard rolls sprinkled with numerous little black seeds - they were always sold out. This year with Eric J. Greene's words in mind I hoped, and then I hoped some more. I hoped until I fell asleep. And so it was that I woke up that cold Monday morning, hoping that this was my year; that it was going to happen. It did. I got my hard rolls; the exact ones I always wanted, but never before hoped for. Thank you, Eric. Oh, one more thing: I also got my butt out of bed an hour earlier. John Schwark Battle Creek Candidates dance around questions If all the presidential hopefuls would be required to answer questions posed to them with a simple yes or no, we might have a better understanding of exactly what they stand for.
Stocks off lows despite weak economic report
The index, which surveys purchasing managers in the sector, fell to 48.3 from 50.7 in February. Economists were expecting a reading of 49. Any reading below 50 indicates contraction in the manufacturing sector. Meanwhile, oil prices surged nearly $2 a barrel to $103.77 in New York, setting an intraday record of $103.92. Crude prices have been supported in recent weeks by speculative investment and the softening of the dollar, which makes the commodity more appealing to overseas buyers. Other commodities, such as precious metals and wheat, have also been in high demand as the dollar falters. The greenback hit a three-year low against the yen but regained some ground against the euro. The dollar sank to an all-time low against the euro last week. Ahead of the ISM report, Philadelphia Federal Reserve President Charles I.
Phil Tippett a special-effects pioneer
Tippett walks into his upstairs conference room with his shirttail out and a wild ring of long gray hair that only adds to the mad professor vibe. Tippett is friendly, but anxious - co-workers say that's his permanent state. He relaxes a bit when he starts a film reel, which is heavy with stop-motion work from two of his biggest influences: "King Kong" special-effects worker Willis O'Brien and "Jason and the Argonauts" mastermind Ray Harryhausen. "It was this scene right here that I saw at the (Berkeley) Oaks theater, when I was 7 years old in 1958," Tippett says, pointing at the screen as a few actors throw spears at a four-story-tall Harryhausen creation. "This was the thing that inspired me, that scene with the Cyclops in 'The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.' And I was never the same since." With no special-effects industry jobs to aspire to, the young Tippett mowed lawns for the money to make his own stop-motion films.
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