Sonic Boom In Seattle

Today Seattle was shaken with a strange sound that rumbled through the

city’s buildings. This sound was a sonic boom, but since it came during
Obama’s visit to Seattle many people were alarmed and poured to Twitter
to talk about it.

Well, according to information provided by the FFA the sonic boom in
Seattle was produced by two fighter jets dispatched from Portland after it
was discovered a small airplane had trespassed the presidential airspace
(within 8 miles of Air Force One

It was later known the aircraft was a small plane, and by the time the jet
fighters were scrambled, it had already landed at Kenmore Air Harbor. The
pilot of the airplane has been questioned regarding this incident by the
Secret Service. They seems to have concluded this was nothing but a
mistake.

Family of the pilot detailed that he and a woman were returning from a
trip to Lake Chelan and didn’t know there were restrictions in place for
the presidential visit.

The sonic boom triggered a flood of 911 calls, this caused the lines to
collapse in some areas of Pierce County.

Tiger Woods is the biggest sports star in the world

There are still moments when Tiger Woods does something and makes you forget what year it is, meaning this one.
It happened early Friday evening at the PGA at Whistling Straits, Tiger and the rest of the late starters playing in the fierce winds that came off Lake Michigan and really seemed to come all the way from a bad weather day at the British Open. The wind was blowing and darkness was coming fast and on the second hole, a long par-5, he had hit another wild drive into a National Geographic special.
From there, he was only able to advance the ball about 100 yards.
So he was still 250 yards away from the green.
His ball sitting on a cart path.

And here came one of those moments when you remembered why Woods had a longer run as the biggest sports star in the world than Michael Jordan did before him. You remembered how Woods could routinely make impossible shots seem possible, when so many sports fans only watched golf to watch him.
Woods moved the gallery out of his way. Swung at the ball like he was trying to hit it to the other side of the lake, like he was throwing a punch, hit a big swinging hook that somehow landed a few yards from the second green.
From where he made par. And made that seem routine.
On the next hole Woods could barely see the top of the flagstick from where he was standing underneath the third green. In the high junk again. Not only did he get the ball close enough to make another amazing par, from a lie that should have made spinning the ball seem like a pipe dream, he stopped the ball short of the hole.

This was David Feherty's quiet, perfect response to that on TNT:
"Really?"
Once again, Woods was all over the lot at a major championship, trying to find his swing and his game and himself, and there is no question he has made himself the biggest drama right now in sports, at the PGA Championship or anywhere else.
But if he can't win, does that still make him the biggest star?
Or look at it another way:
If Tiger Woods isn't the biggest star right now, who is?
It was really simple once, even if no torch was officially passed. There was Michael, Michael more than ever once Larry Bird and Magic Johnson were out of the way. Then there was Tiger.

Only now the Year of the Tiger, the year that began on Thanksgiving night, involves porn stars and Perkins waitresses and lost sponsors. And lost magic. And losing. He came back at the Masters and looked like he might win, and faded. He got himself into position at the U.S. Open at Pebble Beach, and then faded there. Then he finished 23rd at the British Open, at St. Andrews, a course he's always owned.

Forbes’ Best Colleges 2010

Here are the Top 10 colleges according to Forbes:



RANK NAME/STATE IN-STATE
TUITION
TYPICAL GRAD DEBT


1 Williams College, MA $37,640 $ 9,296
2 Princeton University, NJ $34,290 $14,294
3 Amherst College, MA $37,640 $12,587
4 United States Military Academy, NY 0 0
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA $37,960 $17,923
6 Stanford University, CA $36,360 $19,897
7 Swarthmore College, PA $36,490 $ 9,812
8 Harvard University, MA $36,173 $16,153
9 Claremont McKenna College, CA $37,060 $14,026
10 Yale University, CT $35,300 $20,382


Here’s and excerpt from their comments on methodology:

The best college in America isn’t in Cambridge or Princeton, West Point
or Annapolis. It’s nestled in the Berkshire Mountains. Williams College,
a 217-year-old private liberal arts school, tops our third annual ranking
of America’s Best Colleges. Our list of more than 600 undergraduate
institutions is based on the quality of the education they
provide, the experiences of the students and how much they achieve.


Williams rose to the top spot on our rankings, which are compiled with
research from the Center for College Affordability & Productivity, after
placing fourth last year and fifth in 2008. It’s a small school (just
over 2,000 undergrads) with a 7-to-1 student-to-faculty ratio, affording
students the chance to really get to know their teachers and have a unique
college experience.


“One of the things that we really embrace is that we are tiny and very
aware of where we are in the world. This fosters an incredible sense of
community,” says Amanda Esteves-Kraus, a double-major in art history and
biology in the class of 2012. “It takes a very specific type of student
to go to Williams, and there is a quirkiness here that you can’t find
anywhere else. This all makes the fact that we are in the middle of
nowhere totally irrelevant because you don’t actually want to be anywhere
else.”


To our way of thinking, a good college is one that meets student needs.
While other college rankings are based in large part on school reputation
as evaluated by college administrators, we focus on factors that directly
concern incoming students: Will my courses be interesting? Is it likely I
will graduate in four years? Will I incur a ton of debt getting my degree?
And once I get out of school, will I get a good job?


To answer these questions, the staff at CCAP gathers data from a variety
of sources. They use 11 factors in compiling these rankings, each of which
falls into one of five general categories. First, they measure how much
graduates succeed in their chosen professions after they leave school,
evaluating the average salaries of graduates reported by Payscale.com
(30%), the number of alumni listed in a Forbes/CCAP list of corporate
officers (5%), and enrollment-adjusted entries in Who’s Who in America
(10%)

Oracle Sues Google

Oracle Corp. said Thursday it is suing Google Inc., arguing that the  Internet-search giant's Android operating system for smartphones infringed the intellectual property of Oracle's Java platform.

The business-software behemoth said Google "knowingly, directly and
repeatedly" violated Java patent and copyright protection. Spokeswoman
Karen Tillman said the company is seeking "appropriate remedies."

Oracle couldn't be immediately reached to elaborate, nor was Google
immediately available for comment.


Oracle gained the Java software with its $5.6 billion takeover of Sun
Microsystems Inc., which closed earlier this year.

Google's popular Android software is a free platform that the company hopes will generate mobile advertising revenue. Thursday, data tracker Gartner Inc. said shipments of Android-based devices surged to 10.6 million units in the second quarter, increasing the operating system's market share to 17.2% from 1.8%.

Oracle shares rose 0.4%, to $23.03 in after-hours trading, while Google
was virtually flat, at $492.75.