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Originally from the Chicago area. Arien O’Connell is a fifth-grade teacher from New York City. She traveled to San Francisco to run the Nike Women’s Marathon in late October. Arien was not a favorite to win; in fact she was not even with the elite runners when they were given a 20-minute head-start. But she didn’t win—Nora Colligan who ran a 3:06:30 crossed the finish line first. Since Arien didn’t run with the elite group her time would not count in the overall victory. Nike did come around and finally name her a winner. Not the winner, winner. Apparently Nike was sick of all the phone calls from people on behalf of Arien. The reason I am bringing up Arien is that her story reminds me a lot of our team and what we did last Saturday. We weren’t the favorite. People counted us out. We came into the East Peoria Sectional and simply performed. O’Connell who describes herself as “a pretty good runner,” had never managed to break three hours in five previous marathons. But as soon as she started at 7 a m. Sunday she knew it was her day. In fact when she crossed the finish line 26.2 miles later her time of 2:55:11 was so unexpectedly fast that she burst into tears. “I ran my best time by like 12 minutes which is insane,” she said. To me it sounds like Arien put herself in the best position to do her best on that particular day. She put herself in the best position to succeed and ultimately did. We have the opportunity to put ourselves in the best position to succeed this weekend. You should be well-rested today; You should have been able to sleep in and that will really help come Saturday even if you have trouble sleeping tonight. We are staying just 14 minutes away from Detweiller (the state meet course). That is only 14 minutes on the bus prior to your race rather than hours if we had to travel from Yorkville. You are prepared to sleep in a hotel room. It is tough sleeping in a different place but with the practice we got last weekend this weekend should be even better! Muth and I have trained you for one day—State. Saturday. We have trained you to have the ability to run your best race at Detweiller. That sounds scary right? That’s a lot of pressure thrust on you right? No. You have done the work. You have suffered the pain. You have had the shin splints stress fractures bruises turned ankles hip flexors and countless aches and pains. Don’t go to the line scared you aren’t going to do well or that you’ll disappoint the coaches your teammates or anyone else. If you must go to the line a little scared go to the line scared you are not going to take advantage of all the hard work you have suffered through. Just think—there is only 14-20 minutes of pain left in this season. If you can put yourself in the position to run your best race and leave nothing left on the course at Detweiller—not only will we be even more proud of you than we already are but it’ll be something you can hang your hat on later in life: “Back when I was a senior/junior/sophomore/freshman at Yorkville High School we made it to state and it was a _________________ experience.”

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Originally from the Chicago area. Arien O’Connell is a fifth-grade teacher from New York City. She traveled to San Francisco to run the Nike Women’s Marathon in late October. Arien was not a favorite to win; in fact she was not even with the elite runners when they were given a 20-minute head-start. But she didn’t win—Nora Colligan who ran a 3:06:30 crossed the finish line first. Since Arien didn’t run with the elite group her time would not count in the overall victory. Nike did come around and finally name her a winner. Not the winner, winner. Apparently Nike was sick of all the phone calls from people on behalf of Arien. The reason I am bringing up Arien is that her story reminds me a lot of our team and what we did last Saturday. We weren’t the favorite. People counted us out. We came into the East Peoria Sectional and simply performed. O’Connell who describes herself as “a pretty good runner,” had never managed to break three hours in five previous marathons. But as soon as she started at 7 a m. Sunday she knew it was her day. In fact when she crossed the finish line 26.2 miles later her time of 2:55:11 was so unexpectedly fast that she burst into tears. “I ran my best time by like 12 minutes which is insane,” she said. To me it sounds like Arien put herself in the best position to do her best on that particular day. She put herself in the best position to succeed and ultimately did. We have the opportunity to put ourselves in the best position to succeed this weekend. You should be well-rested today; You should have been able to sleep in and that will really help come Saturday even if you have trouble sleeping tonight. We are staying just 14 minutes away from Detweiller (the state meet course). That is only 14 minutes on the bus prior to your race rather than hours if we had to travel from Yorkville. You are prepared to sleep in a hotel room. It is tough sleeping in a different place but with the practice we got last weekend this weekend should be even better! Muth and I have trained you for one day—State. Saturday. We have trained you to have the ability to run your best race at Detweiller. That sounds scary right? That’s a lot of pressure thrust on you right? No. You have done the work. You have suffered the pain. You have had the shin splints stress fractures bruises turned ankles hip flexors and countless aches and pains. Don’t go to the line scared you aren’t going to do well or that you’ll disappoint the coaches your teammates or anyone else. If you must go to the line a little scared go to the line scared you are not going to take advantage of all the hard work you have suffered through. Just think—there is only 14-20 minutes of pain left in this season. If you can put yourself in the position to run your best race and leave nothing left on the course at Detweiller—not only will we be even more proud of you than we already are but it’ll be something you can hang your hat on later in life: “Back when I was a senior/junior/sophomore/freshman at Yorkville High School we made it to state and it was a _________________ experience.”

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New York restaurant booking service PrimeTime Tables - "specializing in impossible reservations" - has created a bit of a storm in the NYC/food blogging teacup. The function touted as a very exclusive dining club can obtain members short-notice reservations at the hottest restaurants in New York. Miami. Colorado and The Hamptons many of which are booked weeks in advance. The company was founded by Pascal Riffaud former concierge at hotels like the St. Regis in New York and the Ritz in Paris. Mr Riffaud also runs Personal Concierge International a concierge service that can enhance its members' lives in many ways including access to 'fully committed' restaurants. Premium membership costs USD 450 per year plus reservation fees (remove for reservations acquired the same day before noon) while non-members pay between USD 35-45 per booking depending on how far in advance they book (48 hours - same day). Considering economics is grounded in scarcity and top prime-time tables in any metropolis are very scarce indeed it's a business idea that could act flight in other cities too. Whether or not you're morally outraged by tables being scalped ;-)

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New Paltz — When the air conditioner caught fire three years ago. Kate Khosla thought it was measure to pull the plug — literally — on her husband Ron's efforts to invent a exceed compressor-condensor-evaporator. For anyone who's not a farmer a compressor-condensor-evaporator may not sound desire something you'd be to pay much measure building a better one of. But Ron and Kate Khosla are farmers and it had always bothered them that it could cost $3,000 or more to have such a huge and heavy contraption installed to create a walk-in cooler room cool enough to store their collect in. Their organic do work. Huguenot Street Farm is modest as are their profits. Khosla's idea was simple: he thought he could create a gizmo that would accept an ordinary air conditioner to take a room's temperature down as low as 32 degrees. Not all of his prototypes blew up but neither did any of his early models measure long enough to get the job done. The toasted air conditioner failed to stop Khosla from plugging away for another three years. Last week you could sight Khosla juggling about a dozen small boxes at the New Paltz affix office sending his patent-pending CoolBot to farmers like himself. With next to no publicity or marketing the CoolBot is becoming a very hot item. And it's poised to go more places than the do work. He's sold about 80 units at $250 a pop and has placed material orders that will allow him to build another 500. It's all a react to Khosla who calls himself a "reluctant capitalist" who never intended to sell his invention. He'd thought initially to explain the process to other farmers and let them build their own. That idea didn't work out but the Khoslas don't seem too broken up about it. If enthusiasm could be measured in BTUs. Ron Khosla's would be off the charts. Yes it's been eight years in the making — no overnight success but he says once you've invented something and it's showing such promise and you go away realizing who else in the world would like to have a walk-in cooler (caterers kitchens grocery stores wineries) and you're already discovering economies of scale and making a good thing better well all you really want to do is create by mental act something else. And that's the intend at the Khoslas. Whatever money they alter from the CoolBot is being earmarked for Ron's next project. And what might that be?He smiles and rolls his inventor's eyes conspiratorially."It's a secret."

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2.0 (or “The Tooster” as his friends call him) is pretty much history. The term was really just a glib marketing gimmick meant to separate “today’s” Web from the bad old “bubble” Web circa 1999 and 2000. The mainstream media — clueless as always — decided the bursting of that bubble signalled the death-blow to this “Internet-nonsense fad” and promptly found other things to be ignorant about. The call “Web 2.0? is useful only as shorthand when you want to refer to the notion that — yet again — technology is changing abstain. (Imagine that.) The implied secondary notion is that — yet again — these changes ordain affect us all in profound ways. (Ooooh don’t be scared.) I’ve coined a phrase that for me helps explain why the “experts” get so preoccupied with announcing the latest revolutionary upheaval in human development through technology. The term is “Paleo-Tech”… and it means simply. “ancient technology”. We are (according to Professor Carlton) in the Paleo-Tech Age which mimics the Paleolithic age when Man (with a capital “M”) was just beginning to use technology. Back then it was fire and stone and metals… and for the next ten thousand years or so we played around with better ways to create from raw material melt forge and create stuff. Today it’s Java compose. XML and the “semantic Web”… and because the development of new technologies is so super-condensed by the time most people surprise on it’s already ancient history. Thus we are living in a time when all newly-developed technology is instantly on the way out. Almost anyway. Paleo-Tech. It’s driving Hollywood nuts because no matter how much they try to make the technology in their scripts brand-spanking-new they assay looking like dorks by the time the movie comes out six months later. (I recently saw a two-year old blink that might as well have been made last century because the meant-to-be-hip cell phones used were embarrassingly out-of-style.) on the cutting edge of the newest and flashiest tech. (The military drives most of the coolest advances but they’re trying to kill people not earn an honest living.) And this creates an ongoing “situation” that requires the enjoin intervention of grizzled old veterans like me. The situation is this: populate are easily dazzled by shiny new objects. And lots of the new online technology is VERY pretty and seductive. I’ve seen a LOT of sci-fi quality technology in my career. I started my advertising career in Silicon Valley back when the Internet was just a radiate in Al Gore’s eye… I had inside connections with the Stanford Artificial Intelligence labs… played the very FIRST online games ever invented… began working on a PC (sorry. Woz) approve when I had to fill DOS on a 5-1/4? floppy each measure I booted up… wrote one of the very I also worked on some of the very first modern infomercials helped clients act prototypes that begat e-books had one of the first ad-related podcasts posted to iTunes participated in the earliest e-mail blasts ever done and undergo tended this communicate for a very very desire time (making good use of functions like RSS and tags before most marketers had even From smoke signals to cuneiform tablets to the Guttenberg touch to radio and TV and now the ever-wondrous Web… it’s still just one creature with a cerebral cortex talking to another one. Humans want to get the basics of suvival settled… so they can use new technology to entertain themselves kill each other… and buy inform. As a business owner or entrepreneur… you want to sell inform for other populate to buy. So you be to separate out the hyped tech that is mostly about entertainment (and for God’s sake keep your hands The technology all by itself ordain not magically generate profits for you. (In the still-current Paleo-Tech Age model the only people who are supposed to get rich from new tech are the creators and share-holders. As Google proved with its profit-murdering “slap” at sites trying to use pay-per-click to build lists entrepreneurs are seen as suspicious usurpers of technology and must be thwarted whenever possible.) I experience people who are ecstatic about getting massive numbers of hits for their funny video on YouTube… who spend days figuring out how to use Slingbox to catch TV shows on their cell phones while they travel… and who prefer texting to talking. But a million hits for your video of Farquar falling off his skateboard won’t put a nickel into your pocket. And why are you comfort wasting so much time watching TV? There’s a brave new world spinning out there wondering when you’re gonna show up. If you’re gonna be an effective entrepreneur you gotta rub the stars out of your eyes and see all the technology tumbling down the dive ONLY in terms of how you can use it in conjunction with your salesmanship skills. It’s fun. I gotta admit. I LOVE all the new tech gadgetry. The X-Box bored me mostly (it really was just a small step up from playing Pac-Man drunk in a loud bar) but I’m excited about the Wii’s potential for truly gnarly gaming. the career adventures I’d craved in my youth are now available again thanks to technology advancing faster than The Man can criminalise it. (I can now have my own pirate radio station publish and give my own books and create any type of late-night-quality TV show I desire… all from my cluttered little office digitally online. I get shivers just considering all the possibilities.) But I’m tired. I wanna glide the Web a bit buy some more oldies on iTunes enjoy a microbrew (another modern invention courtesy of the harnessing of fire desire ago) and get a good night’s sleep on my Tempurpedic. (Space-age sleeping technology!)

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