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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - The Santa Clara University Department of Athletics and Recreation announced a number of contract extensions and promotions within its coaching staff in the sports of soccer and basketball.
Dick Davey has signed a contract extension that will ensure his position as head men's basketball coach through the 2004-2005 season. In addition, women's basketball head coach Chris Denker received a contract extension while men's basketball assistant Steve Seandel, women's soccer assistant Rich Manning and men's soccer assistant Cameron Rast were each elevated to the position of associate head coach.
"We have some extremely talented coaches on our staff and I am pleased that we can take the appropriate steps to ensure they will remain a long term and vital part of Santa Clara athletics," said Cheryl L. Levick, director of athletics and recreation. "The contract extensions of our two head basketball coaches and the elevation of the three assistants will help us continue the success and stability we have enjoyed with those sports."
Davey enters his 10th season at Santa Clara as the winningest and longest-tenured coach in the West Coast Conference. During his tenure, the Broncos have enjoyed a 73 percent home winning percentage and have the second-winningest program in the WCC over the last seven seasons. He is 160-102 as the Broncos' head coach and has been a part of the Santa Clara basketball program for 24 seasons. Last spring, he was appointed to the prestigious Board of Directors for the National Association of Basketball Coaches.
Seandel is in his 10th year on the Santa Clara men's basketball staff and is chiefly responsible for developing the program's offensive game plans and recruiting. He is in his second tenure in the Bronco program, having served as a part-time assistant coach during the 1988-90 seasons.
Denker enters his second season as head coach of the women's basketball program after leading the team to a 20-8 record and WCC regular-season co-championship last season. Denker was elevated to head coach after serving as an assistant on the Bronco staff for the previous seven seasons.
Manning, a 1986 graduate of Santa Clara, enters his fourth season on the Bronco women's soccer staff following a career as a successful youth coach in Southern California. As a player at Santa Clara, he was an all-Far West selection and team captain under former head coaches Ralph Perez and Steve Sampson.
Rast, a two-time All-America soccer player for Santa Clara, enters his eighth season on the men's soccer staff under head coach Mitch Murray. Upon graduation from SCU in 1991, he appeared as a member of the U.S. National Team and was a captain of the 1992 U.S. Olympic Team that participated in the Barcelona Games.


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Summary Meeting Notes: December 5, 2012 Infrastructure Equity PEG Meeting
Summary Meeting Notes
Infrastructure Equity Policy Expert Group
Meeting Date: December 5, 2012
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
PEG Attendees: Amalia Alarcon de Morris, Susan Aldrich, Roger Anthony, Roger Averbeck, Matt Brown, Alex Deley, Justin Fallon Dollard, Karyn Hanson, Muna Idow, Kathryn Levine, Jackeline Luna Acosta, Karen Meyer, Olivia Quiroz, Michelle Rudd, Joe VanderVeer, Randy Webster, Sara Weiner-Collier.
Other Attendees: Michele Crim, Bob Glascock, Joan Frederiksen, Michelle Kunec & Chris Scarzello (Bureau of Planning & Sustainability); Courtney Duke (Portland Bureau of Transportation); Argel Jimenez, Anna Chinburg, & Tina Buchanan (contract translators).
PEG Lead: Bob Glascock
Facilitator: Andrée Tremoulet, Commonworks Consulting
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Welcome and Introductions (10 minutes)
Presenter: Andrée Tremoulet, Facilitator
Summary: Andrée Tremoulet welcomed participants, reviewed the meeting purpose, which was to "develop a shared understanding of equity issues and how they apply to infrastructure policies of the Comprehensive Plan update," and led the group through an icebreaker.
Equity Overview (60 minutes)
Presenters: Dante James and Judith Mowry, Office of Equity and Human Rights
Summary: Judith Mowry welcomed everyone and explained that the Office of Equity and Human Rights has provided an equity training session for each of the PEGs to promote a common foundational understanding of equity and its role in the Comprehensive Plan update.
Dante James shared his definition of equity, which he said is when a person's identity cannot or does not have an impact on outcomes. He said that we cannot make change if we treat everyone the same. He urged people to instead recognize the differences and unique qualities that people possess and to accommodate them. He presented three key challenges for IE PEG members to consider:
- The importance of leading with race because it is the most effective lever for improving overall outcomes
- The need to look for correlations between historical inequities and current infrastructure gaps.
- The need to have often emotional discussions about historic and current disparities as a means to make progress.
Dante James conducted an "Elephants in the Room" session by inviting IE PEG members to write down issues about race that they do not usually discuss but that influence day-to-day interactions. He then grouped them and responded to common themes.
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No public comment was received at this meeting.
Small Group Discussions (45 minutes)
IE PEG members discussed equity implications of the proposed Centers Goal by identifying underlying assumptions, impacts on communities of color within and outside centers, and the kind of information needed to better understand equity impacts.
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Bob Glascock asked for a show of hands of who could attend the new proposed date for the January 8 IE PEG meeting from 1 – 3 PM. He confirmed that date and indicated that additional information will be sent out prior to the meeting.
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by Jim Stiles
It was true, then and now, that I did not look like the average Monticello homeowner. As I unloaded a pickup truck of furniture, my new neighbor, Todd Westcott, walked over to say hello and to welcome me to town.
My cottage is tiny and as we made our introductions, he commented on the size...
"This is a pretty small place for you and your family," he noted.
"Well," I said. "Actually I don't have a family."
Todd looked bewildered. "No kids? Not married?"
"Uh... no," I replied. "But I do have two cats!"
I realized I wasn't making matters better. But he quickly adjusted to his new neighbor's solitary lifestyle. Our homes are separated by a small field. Behind us sprawled a beautiful horse pasture. My view to the east past the horses stretched all the way to the San Juans in Colorado. It was like having Lone Cone in my "backyard."
But I worried about that field. I'd just left Moab, where fields and pastures were vanishing faster than I could shed tears for them. And it wasn't just the pro-growth development gang that was carving up the county.
Some of the "greenest" environmentalists in Utah were busy building eco-condos and insisting they weren't doing it for the money. So I wondered how long a vacant field in my backyard would survive.
One day I heard that Todd had bought the small field between us and the big pasture to the East. Someone suggested that he planned to subdivide it. I felt sick. A few days later, I saw Todd in his yard and waved him over. I figured I'd rather get bad news straight from the source that keep grieving over rumors...
Was it true, I asked? Had he bought the land?
Todd nodded. "Yep. For better or worse." It was a big investment, he said.
So I asked the question: "Is it true you're building a subdivision?
He looked at me like I was crazy. "What?" he asked. "Where'd you hear that? Nope. We bought this land so they WON'T build houses on that field. I love that view out the window in the morning. I don't know what I'd do without it, so Amy and I decided to buy it...we're gonna grow alfalfa."
Growing alfalfa is no easy task and once, with a cutting planned and rain on the way, Todd was out until 4 a.m., trying to get the alfalfa cut and baled before the storms came.
The next day, he saw me in the yard and came over to apologize ...to apologize!.. for making noise during the night. In Moab, his concern might have been real. New Moabites would have complained about decibel levels after 10 p.m. and the emissions from his tractor. For me, the sound of his equipment cutting and baling was music to my ears.
I was a strange paradox. Here was my neighbor, a devout LDS Church-going conservative, who owns ATVs and 4WDs and even has a motorized bike with training wheels for his youngest boy, who works in the energy industry—here's Todd showing more resolve to keep Monticello's open space open than my richest, most politically-correct enviro pals in Moab.
My new Life in Monticello followed that theme. Its citizens were at least tolerant, if not totally accepting. Nobody egged my car or put peanut butter on the windshield wipers.
One day I stopped at the insurance office to check a premium. It was my first visit to the Monticello branch. A big serious, crew-cut, cowboy-type with a snap front shirt sat behind the computer. I handed him my papers and he punched a few keys. Finally, still looking at the screen he said flatly, "I like your paper."
I was startled. "You do?"
"Yep." Long pause. "A lot of my friends say I shouldn't read The Zephyr. I tell them they should."
I was almost speechless. "Thanks," I mumbled.
"I think you're trying to be fair at least," he explained. "And I don't agree with you on a lot of stuff. I got eight kids."
That's a lot," I said. "But I don't have any kids, so that knocks our average down to four."
Bill Boyle, editor of the local newspaper, and I became good friends. Early on, he asked me if I'd be interested in sharing some of my Zephyr stories in the San Juan Record.
I thought he was kidding. My rants in The San Juan Record? At first I thought it better to lay low. I can't stand newcomers who arrive in town on Sunday and by Monday are trying to tell their new neighbors how to live their lives.
So I imposed a five-year moratorium on myself. No Stiles rants. But finally Boyle convinced me the time was right and so my essays, some written for The Zephyr, some exclusively for the Record began to appear. The response was gratifying. People I'd never met approached me at the market or at the post office to say hello...
"Well... I read your piece this week."
"Some of it was pretty good. Other parts of it... I didn't like."
"Fair enough."
And it was.
Bill deserves credit for daring to print my stuff in the first place. And I was grateful that even the more conservative parts of Monticello would at least give me a read.
Of course they loved my essays when I was critical of SUWA or the tourist economy, but they also read (and at least tolerated) my rants on population, consumption and the near-extinction of the buffalo.
Even my "Why I Never Became a Mormon...parts 1 & 2" were met, in most cases, with good humor and thoughtful, sometimes introspective assessments.
On the other hand, I failed to connect with the Anti-Mormons in any significant way. Maybe I was still put off by the rhetoric.
Former Monticello resident, author Amy Irvine, practically created a template for Anti-Mormon vitriol when she took extraordinary measures to explain how much she loathed the town, in her book, "Trespass: Living on the Edge of the Promised Land."
Irvine found little to respect during her brief time as a resident. A self-proclaimed ex-Mormon and a sixth generation Utahn, she describes the moment when Mormon missionaries come to her door in Monticello:
'"Come back and preach at me,' I bellow, 'when you've made love—to someone other than each other. When you've seen death. When you've walked—not driven—across the desert.'"
It was just the first of many hurled Irvine insults that portrays Monticello in as ugly a light as one can imagine. She mocked the people, their conservative values, their modest dress code.
She even criticized the lack of a good merlot in a little Mormon town where 90 percent of its residents don't drink alcohol. Or the pitiful variety of cheeses!
It should not have come as a surprise when she wasn't embraced by the community. Or that her words left bitter feelings.
Irvine departed years ago, but there remains a solid group of Anti-Mormons who share her loathing for anything LDS.
Because I'm not a Mormon and because my views are more liberal, I suppose it was assumed I was "one of them." It created some awkward moments for me.
For example, I was at the post office one day, talking to Postmaster Dorothy when a woman I barely knew stopped to invite me to a party.
"You never come to our parties!" she complained. "And you don't have to worry... none of 'those' people will be there."
"'Those' people?" I ask.
"You know," she laughed. "The people with the funny underwear."
I grimace. "I like 'funny underwear.'"
She tried to figure if I was joking. Finally she backed off, confused. It was my last invite.
The Mormon Bashing continued and I retreated farther from my old friends. But it followed me, even to The Zephyr facebook page.
Recently I had posted a history story about the uranium tailings cleanup in Monticello. Residual radiation from the old mill had caused cancer rates to soar in the 1980s and 90s.
A Monticello resident posted this on my page:
"I hope these Mormons get cancer from the background radiation under their houses and radon seeping up through their basements and die a slow horrible death, then burn in hell where they belong."
I removed the comment and blocked the user from ever posting on the Zephyr page again. But it still rankles.
I don't include these comments to further inflame an already volatile situation, and I have, in fact, seen the same kind of vitriol from members of the LDS community, but to remind my "progressive," Mormon loathing friends that ugly language is hardly limited to one side.
If there is an epiphany to be found here, it's not that I find myself agreeing with local Mormons on all issues, it's that I find a high level of tolerance for my divergent viewpoints.
Next week: Take our friends when we find them.
(Jim Stiles is publisher of the "Canyon Country Zephyr – Planet Earth Edition" now exclusively online at www.canyoncountryzephyr.com. Stiles can be reached at email@example.com.)
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MANAGEMENT has long realized that volume plays an important part in the determination of costs and profits. Direct Costing is a method of providing information about the relationship of cost-volume-profit in such a way as to make it more understandable to various levels of management. This is accomplished by integrating into the accounts various related techniques which include variable or flexible budgets, break-even charts and marginal profit analysis. These techniques are not new and did not come into being with the origination of Direct Costing. However, by the integration of the techniques into the accounting system it has been made possible to obtain facts and perform more accurate profit planning without the necessity of resorting to after-the-fact analysis.
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GAME ONE: Georgia Southwestern-3 Lynn University-2
Senior Katie Maddox would get the nod on the mound for the Blue & Gold in game one and for good reason. The native of Macon had allowed only one earned run in her last 14 innings pitched. She would continue her fine form on Wednesday.
Runs were at a premium in game one as both teams went scoreless through the first three innings. The scoreless streak would end in the fourth as Georgia Southwestern would put two on the board. It was station-to-station ball as Mason Moreland lead the inning off with a single before stealing second base. The second baseman was advance to third on a sacrifice bunt by Hayley Knight to the Lynn third baseman Anne Marie Van Casteren. Moreland would be driven home on the next play by Gabby Buck's fielder's choice to second with an error putting Buck on second. Left fielder Rachel McElroy would mimic Moreland with a single and a steal of second base behind Buck. The freshman would set-up Avery Purser who drove in Buck with a ground ball to the shortstop.
After Hayley Knight and Gabby Buck reached base to lead off the sixth inning, Rachel McElroy would tally the RBI, driving in Knight on a single to give GSW the 3-0 lead.
Starter Katie Maddox, who was lights out through the first six innings, would run into trouble in the seventh. Maddox struck out five batters through six innings before getting the leadoff batter out in the seventh with a groundball to the short stop. She would give up one run over three consecutive hits before being replaced by Jessica Martin.
Martin would come on to protect a 3-1 lead with runners on second and third and only one out. She would shut the door forcing two ground balls to second and shortstop, which allowed only one run to score. Martin would earn her first save of the season and preserve the win for Katie Maddox.
GAME TWO: Georgia Southwestern-4 Lynn University-3 (9 Innings)
Just like game one, GSW would take a 3-0 lead to begin the game. It was Mason Moreland who single handily scored the first run. The sophomore would single in the game's first at-bat, steal second, reach third on a ground ball and score on a wild pitch in a matter of two batters.
Moreland would again score a run in the third inning as the Lady 'Canes would tally two more courtesy of a RBI single by Gabby Buck and a deep fly ball by Rachel McElroy to score Moreland. The 3-0 lead would hold until the fifth inning when Lynn would tie it up with a two-run double by Callie Darlin and a RBI single by Bianca Savulak. The three-run fifth would end starter Brittny Dennison's night after throwing four innings of scoreless ball, and she would be eliminated from earning a decision.
The relief pitching's second verse was the same as the first. Jessica Martin would again come out of the bullpen for the Lady Hurricanes with the game on the line. And once again, just like in the previous game, the senior would shut the door on the Fighting Knights. Martin would end the fifth before throwing a scoreless sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth innings.
With the score deadlocked at three runs apiece after seven innings, Georgia Southwestern would go down quietly 1-2-3 at the plate in the eighth inning. Yet that wouldn't be the story in the ninth inning.
Katie Wooten, by International Softball Tie Break Rule, would be placed on second to start the inning. It was Janna Anderson who would move Wooten to third via a sacrifice bunt down the first baseline. With Jessica Chewning at the plate, Wooten at third base and only one out, Head Coach Eddie Ward went to the ace up his sleeve. Instead of giving Chewning what seemed to be the obvious green light to hit, Coach Ward instead gave the signal for Chewning to bunt into the suicide squeeze.
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With the count 2-1, Chewning placed the bunt down that caught the entire Lynn infield by surprise. The delayed reaction by pitcher Missy Montgomery not only gave Wooten enough time to score, but there wouldn't even be a play made on Chewning at first as she recorded the walk-off bunt single within the perfectly-timed suicide squeeze.
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ANDOVER, Minn. — By all the standard metrics, Rep. Michele Bachmann should be coasting to victory.
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Hotel company executive Jim Graves, her Democratic opponent, has spent more than $500,000 of his own money trying to unseat the three-term congresswoman. Bachmann has given him plenty of ammunition to attack her as an ideologue who treats her day job as a side hobby as she continually seeks the national spotlight.
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Iowa Rep. Steve King, a tea party leader and one of Bachmann's closest confidants, spoke with the congresswoman recently about her reelection battle.
"She's in a competitive race," King said in an interview. "My sense is she'll be alright. But she's in a test with a self-funded multimillionaire running against her."
It's not the first time Bachmann has faced a serious challenge. In 2008, she held off her Democratic opponent, 46 percent to 43 percent. That election came just weeks after she set off a national firestorm by declaring in a TV interview that then-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama "may have anti-American views."
To some Republicans, Bachmann's decision to wage an ill-fated presidential bid has left her vulnerable once again.
"Graves, having a few things to talk about, is making a pretty decent run of it," said Scott Cottington, a Minnesota-based GOP consultant and a former top staffer at the National Republican Congressional Committee. "Running for president and missing votes – that's got some bite to it."
Bachmann dismisses any suggestion that she could lose. She exuded confidence in a brief exchange with reporters after a Saturday evening campaign rally here, which was complete with a tea party activist dressed up in Revolutionary War attire.
"Actually, we're doing pretty well. The polling data looks very, very good, and it's just a function of working hard," she said. "Things look good, and we're happy."
But Bachmann also stresses to voters that, with her presidential run now behind her, she's focused on her congressional seat. A brochure her aides handed out at the rally used the word "Minnesota" nearly a dozen times.
"I'm Michele Bachmann, and I was running for president of the United States. Now I am running to be the next member of Congress from the 6th Congressional District, and I'm telling you one thing: You get your money's worth when you send me to Washington, D.C.," she said to wild applause.


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Attributes Revenue Growth to Focus on Automated Retail Solutions That Make Consumers' Lives Easier
BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Coinstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTR) today announced it ranked 152 on Deloitte's 2012 Technology Fast 500™, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America based on revenue growth from 2007 through 2011. During that period, Coinstar, Inc. grew consolidated revenue more than 600 percent.
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About Deloitte's 2012 Technology Fast 500™
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About Coinstar, Inc.
Coinstar, Inc. (Nasdaq: CSTR) is a leading provider of automated retail solutions offering convenient services that make life easier for consumers and drive incremental traffic and revenue for retailers. The company's core automated retail businesses include the well-known Redbox® self-service DVD and video game rental and Coinstar® self-service coin-counting brands. The company has approximately 42,400 Redbox DVD kiosks and 20,300 coin-counting kiosks in supermarkets, drug stores, mass merchants, financial institutions, convenience stores, and restaurants. Redbox also offers DVD rentals through additional kiosks acquired from NCR Corporation in June 2012. For more information, visit www.coinstarinc.com.
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Set a Healthy Holiday Table
Feeling like you want to skim some fat off your own thighs instead of the turkey's? Surprise! There are actually a lot of holiday foods that, if you prepare them in a healthful way and watch your portions, reap countless nutritional benefits and can even help you lose weight. So pull a chair up to the FITNESS holiday table, where it's your overeating anxieties — not the butter — that will melt away.
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Turkey is a dynamite healthy protein source — unless it's deep fried and slathered with gravy. Sarah Krieger, RD, National Spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, points out that a serving of turkey provides almost half of the recommended daily allowance of folic acid and is a good source of vitamin B, zinc, and potassium. These nutrients have been found to keep blood cholesterol down, protect against cancer and heart disease, and boost the immune system (not bad for an old bird). A normal portion size is usually 3 to 4 ounces — and if you stick to white meat and peel the skin off, you'll literally save hundreds of calories at the Thanksgiving table. Fortunately, turkey is one of those dieter's dream foods that will fill you up when you eat just a little.
Make the most of your leftovers with this healthy recipe for Turkey and Cranberry sandwiches
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Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are among the healthiest vegetables around — so long as they don't get doused with butter, marshmallows, or some other high-calorie holiday sabotage. If roasted — which keeps the flavor very intense without adding fat — sweet potatoes burst with fiber, vitamin A, potassium, and phytochemicals, which stave off aging, cancer, and arthritis. Plus, they're very filling, so you don't have to overload your plate with them.
MAKE IT: Warm Sweet Potato, Apple, and Sausage "Salad"
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As millions of us reach for pretty-in-pink cranberry sauce to garnish our turkey and stuffing, few realize we're getting much more than a sweet-tasting accoutrement. Krieger points out that cranberries are loaded with disease-fighting antioxidants and their fiber content helps to lower "bad" cholesterol levels. However, because these beautiful berries are naturally low in sugar, many recipes call for large doses of added sweetener. Steer clear of all that sugar and, instead, try adding a sugar substitute like Splenda to keep this side dish healthy, suggests Krieger.
Go beyond cranberry sauce and keep warm with this recipe for a Hot Cranberry-Apple Ginger Drink
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Power to the pomegranate! This gorgeous fruit is proving its worth as one of the richest sources of antioxidants around, and it's popping up more and more in holiday dishes. You can indulge in the pomegranate's benefits by simply buying a bottle of its juice to add to your favorite recipe, or sprinkling the pretty seeds over a salad.
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Talk about a healthy food in need of a name change. This fluffy side is often regarded as one of the most fattening (and, well, stomach-stuffing) holiday dishes, but with only a few minor adjustments it can actually be a healthy standout. Pack it with nuts, dried fruits, carrots, and celery, and you'll benefit from fiber and a range of vitamins, recommends Krieger. Also, and this is crucial: Use low sodium chicken broth instead of butter to keep the dish moist and low in fat.
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If it's not Thanksgiving without a slice of pumpkin pie, we've got good news for you. This veggie is packed with heart-healthy fiber and vitamin A. Plus, says Krieger, because pumpkin is very moist, you don't have to add lots of unhealthy ingredients to make it taste flavorful yet still be low-fat (sub in skim and egg substitutes to make any recipe healthier). A guaranteed way to avoid accidentally gorging on a high-fat dessert? Bring your own pie, so you know what's in it.
Go beyond pie with this simple and healthy Pumpkin Soup recipe!
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Prefer pecans to pumpkin? Instead of plunging into a heap of high-fat pie, try sprinkling this star nut over salads, add it to your stuffing, or snack on a few as a precursor to the meal. Pecans are a great source of vitamin E and magnesium, which supports muscle strength. Plus, they're packed with protein, fiber, and the same "good" fats as olive oil.
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Collard Greens
Collards are ultra-healthy — except when sabotaged by greasy fat sources like pork, a popular additive in many holiday recipes. By preparing these leafy greens in a steamer, you'll leave out the unnecessary calories and gain a ton of vitamins and antioxidants. If you just can't give up flavoring your greens, use turkey bacon or saute the veggie in olive oil, suggests Krieger.
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Nutmeg and Cinnamon
More and more research is being conducted on the health benefits of spices, says Krieger. Nutmeg, with its nutty, earthy flavor, and cinnamon, which shines with its sweetness, can do a whole lot more than garnish eggnog. Mixing these spices into fruit or vegetable sides can help you lower your cholesterol and maintain insulin levels in the blood.
Red Wine
While wine and cocktails can add needless calories to an already over-the-top meal, wine delivers heart-healthy properties in exchange for its calorie count (about 100 calories per 5-ounce serving). All wine is naturally heart-healthy, but red wines will provide the most antioxidant bang for your calorie buck. And take note: the dryer the wine, the higher the concentration of those disease-fighting properties.
To keep your calorie count to a minimum, ask your host for a spritzer — half wine, half calorie-free seltzer water.
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From Highway 101 to BART to SFO, traffic records are falling across the Bay Area.
More drivers are clogging Silicon Valley's busiest stretch of freeway now than they did during the dot-com bubble. Bay Area trains are more packed than when record gas prices peaked in summer 2008. And the region's biggest airport is busier than its pre-9/11 high.
The reason? The workforce from San Francisco to San Jose is the largest it has been in more than a decade, while East Bay worker totals are at their highest since 2008. And while airports, trains and freeways are busier these days across the country, the trend in the Bay Area is even more pronounced.
"I guess you could say it's kind of exciting to see traffic again," said Jim Wunderman, CEO of the Bay Area Council business group. "If there's frustration — gripping the steering wheel a little bit harder while sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic — at least more people are employed."
More traffic also means more train fares and gas tax revenues to keep transportation systems moving. But we're also leaning more heavily on an aging infrastructure network, and we're beginning to remember that an improving economy means more time at the wheel, standing on packed trains and waiting for delayed flights to take off.
"After the last few years, I think most people are willing to bear those inconveniences," said John Goodwin, spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission.
Santa Clara County's busiest bottleneck — where Highway 101 splits Interstates 280 and 680 — featured more vehicles in 2011 than ever during an average day, according to Caltrans data. The most heavily traveled stretch on the Peninsula, Highway 101 in San Mateo, set a record last year for rush hour vehicle counts after an extra traffic lane was added to meet the demand.
Tom De Vries sure notices.
"It is more congested during rush hour," said the Redwood City resident who often travels with his wife so they can breeze by traffic in the carpool lane. "We try to time our shopping trips so it's not during rush hour."
And all those extra cars are tying up Bay Area bridges. During the fiscal year that ended in June, the region's toll bridge traffic went up for the first time in eight years, with an extra 1.2 million vehicles — a 1 percent increase — compared with the prior year. The San Mateo and Richmond bridges are at their busiest in four years.
"It's a lot heavier," said Scott O'Donnell, who drives from Hayward to his financial services job in Alameda. "You have to be on the road before 7" in the morning.
Around the nation, miles driven by U.S. motorists increased 1.2 percent through the first five months of this year compared with last year, with an especially-pronounced bump in California.
But traffic in the East Bay, San Francisco and on the bridges still lags behind last decade's peak, and a few spots — like the busiest freeways in Alameda and Contra Costa counties — are nowhere close to record congestion, as employment levels there have yet to return to previous highs.
The transportation trend is perhaps best illustrated by BART, which this month announced a ridership record after adding nearly 10 million annual passengers in two years. Now BART is launching extra trains on the Millbrae-to-Richmond line and has balanced its budget a few years after cutting service.
"It used to be you'd get on BART at 7 at night and there'd be like one person per double-seat at most. Now, at 7 at night the stations are still crowded," said Cupertino resident Dave Morris, who has been riding BART off-and-on for 30 years.
Caltrain also just posted an all-time-high rider count after surging 17 percent in two years. San Francisco Muni and the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority each grew nearly 3 percent in the fiscal year that ended in June.
Gas prices, which are still about 50 cents a gallon below the all-time high, and the extra freeway traffic are helping transit agencies pick up new passengers.
"To be very honest with you, gas prices got everyone's attention," BART General Manager Grace Crunican said.
But Crunican said one thing "is going to come back to bite us." The extra riders increase wear and tear on infrastructure and usually help fund operations, not things like replacement vehicles. BART needs $7.5 billion to fix "the guts" of its system while the total debt for Bay Area roads and transit repairs is expected to rise above $50 billion later this year, Goodwin said.
More than 43 million passengers traveled through San Francisco International Airport in the fiscal year that ended in June, breaking a record set in 2001 before air traffic plummeted after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. SFO is the fastest growing large air hub in the nation, with traffic soaring 8 percent in the past year.
Most of SFO's newfound travelers are simply dumping Oakland and San Jose airports, which now combine to offer only 30 percent of all Bay Area flights, down from nearly half at one point last decade. As struggling airlines look to save money, they have shifted their flights to the biggest hubs.
Still, Oakland has rebounded to its busiest point in three years. The smallest of the three airports, though — San Jose — continues to shrink.
SFO is already one of the most delayed airports in the nation, earned mostly because of foggy conditions, but it's getting worse. SFO's delays have risen from a low-point average delay of 40 minutes a decade ago, when traffic bottomed out, to 65 minutes now. The airport and the FAA are working on a new air traffic control system to relieve congestion while regional officials are weighing price incentives to persuade airlines to shift traffic to Oakland and San Jose.
Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at Twitter.com/rosenberg17.
Defining a rider
You may be surprised to know that every time you take a round trip on a Bay Area bus or train, you're counted as two riders — one for each direction.
The "ridership" totals posted by transit agencies here and around the nation actually reflect one-way trips, a fact that's rarely spelled out to the public.
Consider BART, which boasted in a news release this month that it had broken a record by tallying 366,565 average daily riders during the fiscal year that ended in June. But that figure represents one-way trips, and the actual number of daily people riding is about 200,000 — with the average person being counted 1.8 times, because most people take round trips.
The totals continue to mount when you transfer transit lines, as well. Ride AC Transit and BART to work, then take the same way back home, and you'll be counted as four riders — two for each agency.
In all, when factoring in round trips and transfers, the average person riding Bay Area transit is counted about 2.2 times per day, according to government data provided from the region's Clipper card payment system.


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What I can't help but think right now is that Jackson's strange life demonstrates that it is possible to be one of the most talented, most loved people on the planet and still hate your own damn face. Embracing your body is an endless challenge in a culture that tells us certain bodies are more worthy, more valuable, more human than others.


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Hi and thank you for considering this design contest. We care deeply about design and beauty generally speaking.
We are a 2 years old French startup located in Paris. We do technical "hardcore" stuff that will probably cause you some sort of subdural hematoma if we go through the full description.
Most of our work focuses on software security, high performance computing and somehow accidentally creating skynet.
Our customers ranges from the defense industry to other startups.
All of our clients are very nice and we love them very much!
Two main classes of posts, technical related and business related.
Technical posts are pretty hardcore and dwell deeply into details and insights. They generally are about advanced C++ programming and aim senior developers (like us).
Business posts are thoughts related to how we run the company. They aim managers and startup founders (like us).
Sometimes we post miscellaneous stuff such as pictures taken during a trip, the latest geek toy we acquired or some random thought about the inner mysteries of the universe.
The goal is to increase the awareness about our work and simply share our love for what we do.
The blog must be correctly rendered by IE7, IE8, Opera and FF3. Note that we don't impose IE6. If you can make it work for IE6, all the better, but we don't require it.
We're not into having the branding and our logo all over the blog. The blog is intended to be a more relaxed zone where we can talk about the stuff we love to do. Although we'll probably use that space to promote our new products, we'd like people to understand it's first of all a blog where the programmers of the company write what goes through their mind.
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The title of the blog "Fresh out of the labs" may give you additional inspiration, especially combined with the above description.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – After delaying the Daytona 500 by more than six hours, rain is lurking as another significant factor this weekend at Daytona International Speedway.
A Thursday afternoon thunderstorm cut short Sprint Cup practice by two hours, and the lone 45-minute session could set the field for Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 (TNT, 7:30 p.m. ET). More inclement weather is in the forecast for Friday at the 2.5-mile superspeedway, which is scheduled to play host to qualifying at 5:10 p.m.
If it's a washout, Jamie McMurray (fastest in practice at 201.952 mph) will start first alongside Chip Ganassi Racing teammate Kyle Larson, with Clint Bowyer, Brad Keselowski and Jeff Gordon rounding out the top five.
Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. would start 32nd.
Given the unknowns, it's difficult to predict the contenders for Saturday's 400-miler, but here are five drivers to watch:
--McMurray: The Sprint All-Star Race winner still needs a points victory to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, and he's a restrictor-plate ace with two wins here. Since his 2010 Daytona 500 victory, he has only one top 10 (a seventh last July) in eight starts at Daytona, but that's more an indication of his team's struggles. Ganassi is back in form, and McMurray's No. 1 Chevrolet already has exhibited speed.
--Larson: It's only a matter of time until the rookie reaches victory lane. Larson had a rough Speedweeks, finishing 38th in the Daytona 500. But he also learned what not to do in the draft and will apply those lessons here, the site of breakthrough victories in the past. Greg Biffle (2003) and David Ragan (2011) are among several who scored their first victory in NASCAR's premier series at Daytona.
--Danica Patrick: She has led 13 laps in her Sprint Cup career, and all have been at Daytona or Talladega Superspeedway. There have been flashes she is getting acclimated to stock-car racing's highest level (a seventh at Kansas Speedway), but Patrick always has been most comfortable at the restrictor-plate tracks, which offer a style similar to the type of pack racing she thrived at in the IndyCar Series.
--Earnhardt: He was virtually inconsolable after the most recent restrictor-plate race in May at Talladega, where he led 26 laps but finished 26th after getting caught in traffic because of fuel strategy. Daytona offers a shot at redemption and building on his season-opening victory, which ended a 36-race winless streak in restrictor-plate races.
--Denny Hamlin: He also broke a long drought with his victory at Talladega – the first points win for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver in a restrictor-plate race after eight years and 33 attempts. Hamlin returns to Daytona after his No. 11 Toyota was a force at Speedweeks, winning the Sprint Unlimited, a qualifying event and placing second in the Daytona 500.
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Huxley: The Dystopia
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Free-to-play game site ijji.com registers 9 million players
Free-to-play gaming site ijji.com has announced that 9 million registered players have signed up for the service. Run by NHN USA, CEO Philip Yun told IndustryGamers that the flux of users has a lot to do with the economy, as "people don't have the disposable income to spend", and are drawn in by the free-to-play […]
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Fileplanet has started handing out closed Beta keys to Huxley: The Dystopia. To get in on this, all you have to do is sign up with FilePlanet – even without a subscription. You will also have to create an account with ijji.com and so far this is only open to North America. Big apologies to […]
Huxley: The Dystopia no longer cross-platform, goes free-to-play
Huxley: The Dystopia will no longer contain cross-platform play between PC and Xbox 360, and is also going with a free-to-play microtransaction business model. "At this point, yes, [Huxley is] microtransaction supported," ijji's Boo Won Kim told Joystiq. As far as no longer being cross-platform, it was confirmed to be true "at this point." More […]
Closed beta sign ups start for Huxley: The Dystopia
NHN and Webzen are accepting closed beta sign-ups for the PC version of Huxley: The Dystopia. The MMO has been in open beta in Korea since 2008, uses Unreal Engine 3, and combines FPS and RPG elements. But you knew that already. A release window for PC or Xbox 360 has yet to be announced. […]
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Oct. 13, 2008
"Meet the Broncos's Basketball Teams Sportoberfest" is set for the Sun., Oct. 19 during the Santa Clara women's and men's soccer doubleheader at Buck Shaw Stadium.
The Santa Clara men's and women's basketball teams will be introduced to the fans at half-time of the women's soccer match vs. San Francisco (1 pm start) and then sign autographs and pose for pictures at the entrance of Buck Shaw Stadium. The men's soccer team will play San Diego following the women's match (approximately 3 pm).
The special day will include free raffles of men's and women's basketball balls and gear during both the men's and women's soccer games. In addition, all fans will receive a coupon for half-price men's and women's basketball season tickets that will be good for purchase through Fri., Oct. 24 at the ticket office at the Leavey Center.
The men's basketball team plays CSU Monterey Bay in an exhibition at the Leavey Center on Fri., Nov. 7 at 7 pm and then opens the regular season at home on Fri., Nov. 14 at 7 pm vs. CSU East Bay. The women play an exhibition on Tues., Nov. 11 vs. the Melbourne Roos at 7 pm. They open the regular season at Cal State Fullerton on Fri., Nov. 14 at 7 pm before returning home to open the home schedule vs. Minnesota on Sun., Nov. 16 at 2 pm.
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Julius Peppers signs with Green Bay Packers
Julius Peppers is no longer a Chicago Bear, but he's not leaving the NFC North.
The veteran pass rusher agreed to terms Saturday on a three-year deal with the Green Bay Packers, a person with knowledge of the deal told USA TODAY Sports. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team hadn't announced details.
The deal includes $7.5 million in guarantees, will pay Peppers $8.5 million in the first year and maxes out at $30 million.
PACKERS:Green Bay brings back Raji
Peppers, 34, has 118½ sacks over 12 seasons with the Carolina Panthers and the Bears, who released him March 13. He primarily has been a 4-3 end but is expected to be a hybrid player in Dom Capers' 3-4 scheme in Green Bay, getting opportunities at both end and outside linebacker.
The Packers are revamping their defensive front. They re-signed B.J. Raji to a one-year, $4 million contract on Friday and plan to move him back to his natural position of nose tackle. They also re-signed defensive end Mike Neal to a two-year, $8 million deal.
The hope is Peppers can take some pass-rush pressure off star outside linebacker Clay Matthews in Capers' scheme, which uses a variety of fronts and features fire-zone blitzes.
For Peppers, the deal means he gets two cracks this year at his old team, the Bears, including one at Soldier Field.


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Sri Kesavaji Gaudiya Math:
What is the glory of Navadvipa? The original Supreme Personality
of Godhead Sri Krsna appeared in this world and performed His astonishing
pastimes in Vrndavana. Yet, all of His desires were not fulfilled
at that time. Those desires that were not fulfilled by Him during
His pastimes in Vrndavana were fulfilled when He appeared here in
Navadvipa-dhama in the form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. In Vrndavana
He tasted prema as the object of the prema (pure love of God) of His
devotees, but He did not know how the devotees felt in their love
for Him. He could not taste what they experience in their loving mood.
Also, in Gokula (Vrndavana manifest in this world), He did not distribute
prema to one and all. It is only here in Navadvipa-dhama that He
as Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu so freely distributed it. He tasted
the prema of the reservoir of love, His devotees, and especially the
prema of Srimati Radhika, and He also distributed prema especially
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Opinion: Is Hacking Terrorism?
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers on Asian cyber-warfare and intellectual property theft. Photo: Getty Images
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... while back to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel ... cyber warfare seems to be in the news almost every day with South Korean team the latest victim this week ... that we know of ... much damage can hackers really do ... and how we think would be damaged be are we talking about a potential nine eleven or worse ... House intelligence Committee chairman Michael Rogers is here ... to brief us by phone Sharon Rogers welcome ... Mary ... but you see far more intelligence than average citizens do obviously ... but to give us a sense of how serious the threat ... from cyber warfare ... really isn't the principal places that it's coming from ... yet it is is it a national security threat that we'd know about that we are prepared to handle ... when you look at countries like Iran who have ... shown at a very devastating capability ... that when after ... the company a ramp go in Saudi Arabia ... broke thirty thousand of their computers ... in manipulated unchanged data in most computers meaning that ... of ... the belief that there are those machines all have to be changed how they no longer function ... they weren't sure what that was real and not really took it you can imagine ... the devastating among the top ... with all that ... together ... connection and a larger scale ... in a U S financial institution ... where it could cause real chaos hundreds of thousands of people not having access ... to their current keep it in their bank ... he debate not even being aware of how much money they have the war of much money ... um was reconciled to that particular individual and it is devastating ... stuff that doesn't even count ... the ... electric grid ... the going out ... and all of the road so it is serious and ... its people are saying this ... so it should we think about this as terrorism just as we think of ... al Qaeda terrorist threats ... in it so ... I should we be prepared to do pre emptive strikes and are we ... to counter these kinds of time serious threats to our national security ... well I wish to go up to ensure a different emotion when one at the weight room for a few months were ... getting ready to go it ... with a ready ... so that we have a whole ... series of what will that actually have a political activist ... what groups like anonymous you have a criminal ... small time criminals trying to steal your personal data ... using the internet ... and have organized criminals much what we see in Eastern Europe ... these are folks who were ... used to be former cater to the KGB agent ... taking all that knowledge and experience ... on applying to an organized criminal enterprise tried to do the girls ... love to ... settle criminal offense ... and ... then you have to economic espionage ... coming in from ... mainly the Chinese ... know they're stealing intellectual property has a breathtaking vistas and I'm glad you raise China ... is shown cooperating with the likes of Iran North Korea ... on its hack attacks on the United States I don't believe they are in and here's the thing so ... you have ... um military attack ... cyberwarfare is now with the forevermore so that nations that have a cyber attack plan when it comes to military conflict we saw the Russians used to help the appeal of the aborted Georgia ... we'd go up to intelligence sources that the Chinese have that capability ... they're not interested in a military attack unless we are engaged in conflict ... Iran is different because ... they are not rational actors like that ... chairman we got lesson thirty seconds left you got a new bill ... in front of Congress ... it sells very briefly with the instances of that deal that it is to share classified so soft Cuomo of malware that the government will actual prestigious ... with the private sector to the private sector to protect its network in a nutshell that's what it ... will really keep an eye on that until recently welcome you back on the program as it makes its way through the chamber House intelligence committee chairman Mike Rogers ... thank you so much thinking and ... with us


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Solano, Marlins' young infield show promise
NEW YORK -- The Marlins gave third baseman Placido Polanco a day off on Sunday and spotted Chris Valaika into the lineup for the first time. Manager Mike Redmond said he's been happy with his infield defense so far but that he needs to make sure Polanco gets a rest from time to time.
"We talked all spring about how we need him for the long haul," he said. "I had this planned out, playing the day game after a night game -- a quick turnaround -- to give him the day off. A long trip home and get ready for Opening Day tomorrow night. He means a lot to this team, and we've got to take care of him. We don't want to overdo it. We want to make sure we have him for the course of the season."
Polanco, one of the few veterans on the team, batted .286 through his first five games. And with Polanco's absence from the starting lineup, the Marlins had a strange statistical tilt: Leadoff man Juan Pierre has more career hits (2,146) than the rest of the team's starting lineup (1,165) combined.
Miami is rebuilding with youth, and it had four players in Sunday's lineup -- Valaika (17), catcher Rob Brantly (33), shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria (36) and second baseman Donovan Solano (88) -- with less than 100 hits. And so far, Redmond has liked what he's seen from his young infielders.
"I think defensively, we've been all right," he said of his infield. "We've got young guys out there playing defense in some cold weather, which is tough. It's an adjustment for guys, but overall, I'm happy with the way we've played and with our effort. Our effort's been good. Guys are playing hard. We haven't seen the results that we want to see, but if we just keep grinding it out and keep throwing those pitchers out there in situations, they'll settle in and get comfortable. It's just a matter of time."
Solano played five positions for the Marlins last year, but so far he's been able to settle in at second base. Solano, who had three hits in his first three at-bats Sunday, said that he's excited to be in the lineup every day, and that he's happy to play wherever his manager writes him in on that given day.
"I like playing second, and it's easier to think about playing the same place. But it's still hard to play," said Solano. "The game isn't easy, and we need to fight every day. We like what we've got. We need to grow up at this level. We have a lot of young guys making their dreams come true."
Redmond, for his part, said that he's happy to keep Solano at second base but is also cognizant of the value that the youngster brings to the table by being able to field multiple positions.
"I think right now he's going to play the majority at second base," he said. "If we need to get Hechavarria a day off, he can play short. We could bounce him over to third and put Valaika at second. Se we've got options there, which is great. And you never know. He might play some shortstop and he might play some third base, but right now the plan is for him to play second every day."


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Newer yachts may also have Sun Deck Jacuzzis
A good sized Master cabin and one or two VIPs
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The yachts in this category range in rate from 24,000 to 45,000 Euros for the Mediterranean and 25,000-50,000 USD for the Caribbean depending upon time of year and length of charter. These rates do not reflect any promotions that may apply and are not inclusive of Fuel, Food & Beverages and all extras associated with the charter. Due to their popularity, you can find good promotional deals in off season date selection. You can also obtain lower rate ranges in slightly older yachts that are still in outstanding condition or get larger yachts within this category at lower end rates within this pricing category
Yachts of this category have anywhere from 3-5 crew members. All crew members have separate crew cabins and often have an experienced individual with all the sports equipment. Most of the yachts within this category have an average of 4 crew members and sometimes may add the 5th crew member for added service if the yachts crew cabins can accommodate another crew member
Accommodations in yachts of this style and category are typically a 4 cabin configuration consisting of Master Cabin, One VIP cabins and two Twin cabins. Or they may be in a Master Cabin, (2) doubles or cabins with pullman beds which are ideal for children but not adults
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There may or may not be jet skis on this size yacht. However, they will have a good range of water sports such as kayaks, windsurfs, inner tubes, wake boards and water skis.
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How can you predict future technologies? You can't, according to five great science fiction authors quoted in the new CIO Magazine. But at least you can predict what types of problems will crop up.
You shouldn't even bother trying to predict the future of technological progress, argues The Space Merchants author Frederick Pohl:
No sensible science-fiction writer tries to predict anything. Neither do the smartest futurologists. What those people do is try to imagine every important thing that may happen (so as to do in the present things which may encourage the good ones and forestall the bad) and that's what SF writers do in their daily toil.
Chiming in Nancy Kress (Dogs) says it's foolish to try to predict the course of technology more than about 15-20 years out.
Ringworld author Larry Niven is more sanguine, laying down a couple of iron-clad rules for writers seeking to predict a future technology:
1) Think about basic human goals that will never go away, like immortality or instant travel. Then think about how someone could make them happen.
2) You can't invent the car without also inventing traffic jams and gas shortages.
The whole article is worth checking out, if only to see Halting State author Charles Stross say, "Donald Rumsfeld was right." [CIO]


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WALTHAM, Mass. — Brandeis University senior guards Gabriel Moton (St. Petersburg, Fla./St.Petersburg) and Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.) combined for 48 of their team's 78 points tonight as the Judges never trailed in a 78-58 victory over Becker in non-conference men's basketball action in Auerbach Arena. With the win, Brandeis improves to 5-1 on the season, while the Hawks fall to 3-3.
Moton and Bartoldus combined to shoot 15-of-21 on the night from the field, 8-of-11 from 3-point range and 10-of-14 from the line. As a team, the Judges connected on 12-of-24 from downtown for a season-high 50 percent.
Moton finished with 28 points, four shy of his career- and season-best. He hit 7-of-10 from the field, 6-of-9 from deep and 8-of-9 on foul shots. He scored 12 points in the first half and added 16 more in the second. He also had eight rebounds – seven in the first half – and two assists.
Bartoldus came three points shy of his career-best with 20 points, hitting 8-of-11 overall, 2-of-2 from beyond the arc and 2-of-5 from the line. After scoring seven points in the first half, he added 13 more in the second.
Rookie guard Robinson Vilmont (Cambridge, Mass./Wilbraham and Monson Acad.) led the Judges with a game-high nine rebounds – three offensive - and five assists. He also scored six points on a pair of 3-pointers.
Becker had two players in double figures, led by junior guard Donovin Ford-Hayes (Windsor Locks, Conn./Windsor Locks), who had 18 points on 8-of-17 shooting, including 2-of-6 from downtown. Senior Tyler Roberson (Irvington, N.J./St. Mary's of the Assumption) had 10 points, but needed 2-of-13 from the field to get there, scoring 5-of-6 from the line. Hawk junior Chris Canady (Newark, N.J./St. Mary's of the Assumption) came off the bench to lead all players with six assists, while sophomore reserve Reginald Finney (Ansonia, Conn./Ansonia) paced the visitors with seven rebounds.
The teams traded points on their first couple of possessions before Moton gave the Judges the lead for good on a traditional three-point play just over three minutes into the game. Ford-Hayes answered with a lay-up on the next possession, but the Judges then went on a 13-3 lead over the next five-and-a-half minutes to take a 20-9 lead on two Ishmael Kalilou (Windsor, Conn./Taft School) free throws at the 11:10 mark.
Back-to-back 3-pointers by Moton and Vilmont made it a 27-14 lead for the Judges with 7:25 left in the half. The lead ballooned to as large as 16 points before a late Finney bucket cut it to 39-25 at the intermission.
An 18-9 run to open the second half was punctuated when Bartoldus slammed home an alley-oop from Moton and then hit a 3-pointer on the next possession, making it 57-34 with 14:03 left in the game. Becker would close within 14 points with 5:38 left, but would get no closer, as Moton and Vilmont hit two more back-breaking 3-pointers around the three-minute mark.
The Judges return to action this weekend at the New England Big Four Challenge at Tufts. Brandeis will take on Babson in the first round Saturday, Dec. 6, at 3 p.m. as they try to capture their fourth crown in five years and second in a row. Becker heads to Worcester-area rival Clark University Thursday at 6 p.m.


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Is Plutocracy imminent for America?
As we approach the 2014 elections there are right-wing politicians running for offices throughout the country that have been bought and sold by the perfidious Koch Brothers, who have no desire to be part of this great country, only to use it to amass enough wealth to manipulate it and create a Plutocracy.
There's no shortage of politicians willing to sell their integrity to people like the Koch's to remain in office; willing to lie to retain a false sense of power and authority.
How do we fight this insidious malignancy?


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I notice a lot of people are marking their MSO questions/suggestions as community wiki, which I think is a good thing. Since this site will be mostly discussion, opinion and feature suggestions, does rep make sense?
As far as the moderator powers that come with increased rep, couldn't those instead come after a certain level of contribution and time as an active member? As your time as an active member and number of questions and answers increases, so do your powers as a moderator?