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"Dreams Come True" will be the theme of the 125th Rose Parade on New Year's Day 2014, Tournament of Roses Association President R. Scott Jenkins announced Thursday night.
"The 2014 theme is a reminder that not only is it possible to reach seemingly impossible goals, but that by boldly pursuing those goals, we have actually attained them," Jenkins said.
The 2013 Rose Parade theme was "Oh the Places You Will Go."
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Forty-nine years ago, President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech in Berlin and commended the people on their spirit and dedication to democracy. President Kennedy extolled the spirit of the citizens and city of Berlin, "besieged for 18 years," yet living with "the vitality and the force, and the hope and the determination." In solidarity, he declared on June 26, 1963, "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"
The "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech was derived in part from a speech President Kennedy delivered on May 4, 1962 in New Orleans:
Two thousand years ago the proudest boast was to say, "I am a citizen of Rome." Today, I believe, in 1962 the proudest boast is to say, "I am a citizen of the United States." And it is not enough to merely say it; we must live it. Anyone can say it. But Americans who serve today in West Berlin--your sons and brothers--or in Viet-Nam, or in other sections of the world, or who work in laboratories, to give us leadership, those are the Americans who are bearing the great burden.


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PORTLAND, Ore. —
It's the kind of jump-the-gun October ad that brings the same excuse, year after year: "This may SEEM a little premature to you - but it really is NOT . . . " Ah, yes: It's once again the time of year when retail giants begin their insistent reminders that there are "not many days left in which to do your Christmas buying."
But here's the catch: This ad ran in 1912.
The gripe about Christmas coming "earlier every year" is a hardy media perennial across decades and borders, as British complaints in 1954 and American ones in 1968 about September Santas attest. But the practice of pushing early shopping is much older - older, even, than that 1912 ad - and the blame goes to everyone from retailers to rabble-rousers to the U.S. government.
Like so many of our retailing habits, early shopping dates back to the late Victorians. Along with inventing cash registers, mail-order catalogs, and escalator-filled flagship stores, the Victorians also discovered the value of starting the Yuletide shopping season before Thanksgiving. A Nov. 19, 1885, ad by South Carolina retailer Wilhite & Wilhite already shows the familiar combination of apology and all-caps hucksterism: "KEEP IT IN MIND! It is needless to remind you that CHRISTMAS IS COMING, But we want everybody who intends purchasing CHRISTMAS PRESENTS to comprehend that we are now all ready . . ."
It was only a short leap from ad copy to in-store blowouts. A Nov. 16, 1888, event by the Kansas City, Mo., emporium Bullene, Moore, Emery & Company saw a preholiday rush that "packed every square foot of the store," while promotions for an 1893 "Early Christmas Event" by one Salt Lake City retailer almost reads like a ransom note: "This is no joke. We mean it. We will do it . . . MONDAY, MONDAY, MONDAY."
Inevitably, complaints followed. The problem, then as now, was not the idea of shopping before Thanksgiving - that barrier had already toppled - but the more heated question of pushing past another holiday and into the precincts of Halloween. Sioux City, Iowa, merchants were berated in 1901 for revving up Christmas sales in mid-October, and that same season saw the Philadelphia Inquirer sighing the annual complaint that "Gift buying has begun in earnest - seems to get earlier every year."
Early shopping might have faded into history like other Gilded Age excesses were it not for the arrival of an utterly counterintuitive player into our story: progressive titan Florence Kelley. Better known today as a co-founder of the NAACP - and for teaming up with Upton Sinclair and Jack London to start the Intercollegiate Socialist Society - Kelley also has a special place under the historian's Christmas tree. Her widely distributed 1903 essay, "The Travesty of Christmas," was not, as you might expect from a socialist suffragette, an attack on early shopping - it was in support of it.
The December rush on stores, Kelley explained, brought "a bitter inversion of the order of holiday cheer" for overwhelmed clerks and delivery boys. Early shopping was part of Kelley's crusades for child labor laws and an eight-hour workday, because the last few weeks before Christmas were exactly when overtime and seasonal child labor were most abused. The employment of messenger and delivery boys especially appalled her, as these were the "many children for whom the cruel exposure attending their holiday work is followed by nervous prostration, or pneumonia, too often ending in tuberculosis."
Kelley's mass movement, the National Consumers League, turned their "Shop Early Campaign" into a progressive juggernaut over the next decade: Tens of thousands of posters were distributed in cities each year to halt "the inhuman nature of the eleventh-hour rush" on sales clerks. Cities were annually plastered with "Do Your Christmas Shopping Early" signs - "they are everywhere," a wire service reported from New York City in 1913.
Savvy merchants were quick to adopt the Shop Early Campaign, which made for strange bedfellows: Shop Early was promoted by retail clerk unions and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce alike. And as ever, a few retailers were ready to push beyond even these new boundaries of good taste. One 1914 Hoosier Cabinet ad coyly appealed to American wives: "Just Wink your Christmas eye at Mr. Husband and say 'Hoosier.' " The ad ran in August.
The transformation of the early shopping movement was complete by 1918, when the Council of National Defense backed early buying to ease transport and labor shortages - and ran jaw-dropping ads of Santa Claus in a doughboy uniform, urging Americans to "Take the Crush out of Your Christmas Shopping and Put It Into Winning the War."
Retailers' fondness for early shopping meant that these efforts were kept up after the war, too. One Albuquerque, N.M., retailer in 1920 demanded, with unanswerable logic, "If Christmas Came Tomorrow, Would You Be Ready?" Americans were: Shop Early drives roared through the 1920s and 1930s, and the Washington Times even held prize contests for schoolchildren to write 100-word essays on "Why Everybody Should Do Their Christmas Shopping Early." The notion continued making wartime surges, with the postmaster general urging Americans in August 1943 to shop "really early, indeed right now" - a situation revisited in the Vietnam War.
By then, early Christmas shopping had fermented into the potent historical brew of idealism, patriotism and sheer retail gluttony that we know today. Uneasiness over November shopping and outright ire over September and October sales are now some of America's oldest Yuletide traditions. Like the annual unwrapping of a fruitcake or an ugly sweater, the idea that Christmas "comes earlier every year" is entirely predictable, bound by tradition - and yet somehow always surprising to us.
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PORTLAND, Ore. —
It's the kind of jump-the-gun October ad that brings the same excuse, year after year: "This may SEEM a little premature to you - but it really is NOT . . . " Ah, yes: It's once again the time of year when retail giants begin their insistent reminders that there are "not many days left in which to do your Christmas buying."
Church's denied request for National Guard visit draws national attention
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Potter fan one: "So, who do you 'ship'?"
Potter fan two: [blank expression] "Ship?"
We at Leaky have gotten many emails about the phenomena in the fandom of 'shipping' (which is the 'relationshipping' or rooting for romantic pairings of characters in the Harry Potter novels). Many discussions about this take place on various fan sites and in fan-fiction as well. Today, the San Francisco Chronicle takes a look at this, in particular the post-HBP fallout between those that 'ship' Harry/Ginny versus the followers of Harry/Hermione.
Readers will remember a few weeks ago, our own Melissa and Emerson of MuggleNet conducted an interview with author J.K. Rowling. During that interview, the topic of shipping came up, with the word 'delusional' used at one point, and in the interview it became apparent that one ship was errm, sunk. Despite apologies and clarifications of the use of that word 'delusional' in regards to followers of one particular ship, there was an uproar by a small portion of fans over that portion of the interview. One fan quoted in this article notes that she felt the use of the word 'delusional' lacked tact, saying "I think it was just carelessness and was not meant maliciously."
Both Emerson and Melissa were asked about this outpouring of emotion which did include hateful emails, threats, and much anger towards even JKR.
Anelli, 25, who works as a journalist when she isn't overseeing the Leaky Cauldron, says that most abuse came from a small faction of vociferous fans. "They've lost the ability to divorce themselves between what J.K. Rowling is doing and what they'd like to see happen, and they've taken their disappointment and projected it onto her," she says. "I can totally understand how you could be upset if your preference didn't happen, but I can't understand or tolerate that people who claim to be her fans can be so mean to her."
"I was surprised," says Spartz, 18, of the furious response. "But in hindsight, I shouldn't have been. I forgot how emotionally invested these 'shippers get. I knew they weren't going to be happy ... but I did not see it generating this much hate." He adds, "Romance in the books is the most prominent source of debate in the online fandom, where many of the fans border on obsessive, but casual readers will never understand what the big deal is."
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Somerset County wants to improve its ability to find individuals with mental health illnesses or substance abuse problems within its criminal justice system.
So the commissioners, along with the Somerset County Criminal Justice Advisory Board and Behavioral Health Services of Somerset and Bedford Counties Inc. recently applied for a grant through the U.S. Department of Justice's Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program. They were awarded $50,000. The money will cover the cost of the project's first phase, which will be to collect data from government officials, law enforcement agents, emergency responders, community organizers and others.
"The federal funds will help us develop what they call a system of care that prevents some individuals from entering the criminal justice system, decreases incarceration and provides for successful re-entry (into society)," said project manager Tracy Shultz, a representative of the county's behavioral health services system.
No in-depth detection program is currently in place.
"This is a huge gap of services in our county," said Shultz.
Based on a rough estimate, possibly half of the accused criminals or convicts in the county's criminal justice system could have mental health issues or substance abuse problems, according to Shultz.
"I would think a lot of them would be substance abuse," said Somerset County Commissioner John Vatavuk.
The criminal justice board plans to spend the next year collecting data and developing the outline of a plan. The county will be able to apply for more federal funds for the project in the future.
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CBS Stations and the Big Play Button
May 31, 2007 11:29 AM
The CBS Stations Group launched a new video player for its owned station Web sites last week. I've always liked what CBS has done online for its local stations so I am eager to check out the new player.
To get started, I check out the tutorial video that CBS sent me. This one is hosted on the WCCO site. The station's Jeanette Trompeter talks about the addition of the big play button.
Oh, be still my beating heart. I love nothing better online than the big play button, that enticing, silhouetted arrow icon that lures me into any online video. Who am I, mere mortal reporter waxing on about online video, to resist its allure? Next, Jeannette points out the countdown clock that tells you how many minutes are left in the video. Who doesn't love that? Then she mentions the "pop out" feature but I don't see a link for it.
No matter. Now that I've finished my less than two-minute tutorial—a length suited to satisfy my online attention deficit side—I head straight to www.cbs5.com to see the video player in action.
OK, here's the best part. The video window is on the home page, it stays on the home page, it plays instantly and easily without buffering, and, yes, it's got that big play button. I have no choice. I'm swooning, actually swooning, as I watch this video.
My one criticism is when I mouse over the video while watching it, I'd like for the play button to pop back up so I can pause it.
One more thing. I also check out www.cbs2.com for good measure and I do spot the "pop out" feature. It's kind of cool and pops the video out into a separate window.
Every media company should check out what the owned CBS stations are doing online with video. Really. It's that easy to use. Some networks, ahem, could learn a lesson.


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The Barlow Mountain Bobcats are blooming this year. With a growing sensory garden and the efforts behind several families, teachers and staff members, students have been able to dive right into the new curriculum. Friday evening, thewas a popular topic at the beginning-of-the-year picnic.
"The most rewarding part of [the garden] is seeing the kids," Anne Ueker, a BMES parent said. "They will eat the tomato right off of the vine—they won't just eat a tomato when you put it on a salad," she said.
Uecker is the co-owner of GrowYourVeggies.com, a Ridgefield based site created to assist people in the development of their personal gardens. She teamed up with Emily Mills, another BMES parent to create the structure of the garden, which students have affectionately named, Blooming Bobcats. Ueker assisted with fence building and Mills has created a guide for families that will be caring for the garden in the coming weeks.
"It's very much a sensory garden," Mills stated. "I tell the kids to touch the herbs and then smell their hands—they are always surprised."
The students have come across plants that smell like spaghetti and peppermint and seem particularly excited, according to Mills. She enjoys seeing their enthusiastic reactions when they are in the outdoor classroom. Something she is particularly proud of is the garden that she refers to as the three sisters garden. Squash, corn and string beans can be found in this planting box.
"The three sisters garden is how to Native Americans would have done it," Mills said. "It's part of the first-grade curriculum."
"I'm really enjoying working on it," Mills' eight-year-old son, Ethan said. "I love [gardening] everyday after school—I'm really glad that now the rest of Barlow gets to see how it turned out."
Ethan and his fellow third-grader, Ryan Barrett, proudly pointed out their blueberry bush to several friends during the picnic. As they were growing their garden, they learned that blueberry bushes pollinate each other, according to Uecker.
has been responsible for the overall installation of the sensory gardens, at each of Ridgefield's elementary schools, according to Barlow Mountain Principal, Rebecca Pembrook.
"I believe the GVI has helped all along," Pembrook said. "It took two weekends for the full installation."
"GVI's mother ship is out of Westport, so I was surprised to see them make Ridgefield's schools a top priority," Mills stated. "They've been very helpful."
Two days before the process began, a rainstorm had shed light on the issues that the GVI would have to face, that they may not have otherwise thought about, according to Mills.
"Our biggest issue was the drainage," Mills said. "We dug a moat and installed a French drain."
Installing the French drain was an unexpected, last-minute expense that BMES students were happy to help out with.
"The student council raised the money for the French drain with a penny drive," Mills explained. "They were so great."
Glen Smith of the Zoning Board of Appeals attended the picnic on Friday evening, and was happy to see the garden that his first-grader will be digging into.
"I think they have a really good opportunity to teach kids to grow locally, which is becoming a really popular process—it's teaching the kids to become locavores."
The GVI wanted the adults involved in the project to see the potential they could reach with the Blooming Bobcats. Mills, Pembrook and Uecker and joined the GVI on a tour of Miller-Driscoll School's sensory garden in Wilton.
"It really helped us dream big," Mills stated. "We started thinking about this in terms of curriculum, and this is really just the beginning."
The GVI has created a garden curriculum for teachers in order to best instruct students through outdoor learning, according to Pembrook. Other people who have been helpful in the process are families who have donated their time and items needed for a complete garden, as well as teachers.
"We've already had one family order one picnic table for the garden," Mills said. "Other families can still donate."
Kendra Gordillo, a seventh-grader at BMES helped out at the tattoo table during Friday's picnic.
"Today has been really fun," Gordillo said. "I think the garden is very impressive—I was amazed when I saw it."
Ridgefield is the first district in Connecticut to have a sensory garden at every school, according to Pembrook. Second-grade teacher, Lisa Whelan plans to improve the BMES garden with worm composting. She hopes to get this started next month.


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Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer.read more
Gracious life-giving God, you call us to live out our faith in ways that honor you and bless our neighbors, and we recognize that worship is an essential part of our faith journey.read more
God in our distant places
Draw us closer
The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
The seed of God is in us.
If you are an intelligent and hard-working farmer,
it will thrive and grow up into God,
Take and eat: take and meet
This is my body: I am the bread
The bread of life, the bread of lives
We eat with our friends, enjoying a meal
In fellowship sweet; it has great appeal;
The same was for Jesus; it was a strong sign
To demonstrate friendship — in bread and in wine.
Show me the suffering of the most miserable;
So I will know my people's plight.
Free me to pray for others;
For you are present in every person.
These can be favoured times when life has dignity,
When rule of law and human rights breed liberty;
If justice is pursued,
If truth is not subdued,
If we decide to live in peace and harmony.
Hearken, children, to the sound
A bird dives, screaming, to the ground
Rise out of the water!
Stand up from the water!
Children, children, rise!
We have a vision of the world not yet realised
All: Where they will beat their swords into ploughshares
A candle is burning yellow near the rail of an altar
In the church setting its flame will likely not falter
Where does this Jesus live? Where does he stay?
Are gospel stories right in what they say?
We wish to know where Jesus spends the night.
'Nowhere to lay his head' – Could this be right?
Look at me! Check it out! I am grinning like a kid again!
I am one with the world in a flow of wonder!
Land, sea and sky join in my delight
In the beginning, was Logos.
Logos – logic – reason – demonstration – Logos the Word:
But Logos could not be heard.
We know it won't be easy to turn the world around
We know it will take time to climb to higher ground
Oh, vacant sky! Oh, empty land!
Oh heart of mine, bereft of hope!
Why do I even bother crying? What's the use
Of even complaining? When there is no one to hear
And no one to see my tears?
World religions foster justice,
Teach of wisdom to pursue;
Why then is there so much malice
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Updated at 11:19 a.m.: Massachusetts State Police have released an update on the accident, and said traffic will be impacted for "some time."
"Three lanes and the breakdown lane have been closed," the release said. "The operator of the truck has sustained some injuries and will need to be extricated from the cab. The extent of the injuries are not entirely known but not expected to be fatal."
According to police, troopers from the State Police Barracks in Andover, Massachusetts Department of Transportation and members from the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section are all on scene.
Original Story: State Police are encouraging drivers on I-93 North to seek alternate routes on Tuesday morning as a large amount of debris is cleaned up after a crash near Exit 40.
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The truck was reportedly filled with trash, which was spread across the roadway when it overturned.
Shortly after the crash, Massachusetts State Police tweeted confirming the crash. Police said the Massachusetts Department of Transportation was en route and that three lanes on I-93 were closed.
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LOCKPORT — A North Tonawanda woman who is accused of stabbing a man to death with a kitchen knife in February was arraigned in Niagara County Court on Tuesday, where she pleaded not guilty to two counts of manslaughter.
Jennifer Marchant, 23, was indicted last week on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter, for allegedly killing her boyfriend, Ralph D. Stone, 24, inside her Oliver Street apartment. The charges were reduced from the initial second-degree murder count levied by police when she was arrested.
Marchant will return to court for a pretrial hearing May 7 in front of Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, when she will decide whether she will continue to be represented by the private law firm HoganWilig, which has represented her since her arrest.
Marchant was sent to Niagara Count Jail after the arraignment, where she was held without bail since police took her into custody. However, Farkas issued $100,000 cash or $200,000 property bail, leaving a chance for her temporary release.
Marchant's attorney, Steven M. Cohen, said Stone's death was the result of self-defense, the explanation his client has maintained since she was taken into custody.
"It remains the defense's position that this is the quintessential case of self-defense," Cohen said. "We're learning more about the (incident) as time goes on and everything we're learning adds credibility to the justification for self-defense."
Cohen accused the Niagara County District Attorney's office of withholding Stone's autopsy report.
"We have advised the court that we want copies of the medical examiner's report," he said. "The district attorney's office has continued to withhold that from us. Protecting confidential sources is one thing, shielding facts from the defense team is quite another."
Family and friends of Stone, a man who had a lengthy arrest record, have characterized him as nonviolent. A close relative of the victim who did not wish to be identified said in an interview on Tuesday she was pleased with the evolution of the case.
"I feel good about this," the person said of the manslaughter charges.
Marchant, who appeared in pornographic movies for several years prior to Stone's death, was convicted twice of DWI since early 2012. Stone was arrested 11 times between 2006 and 2010, mostly on drug-related charges.
Those who knew Marchant and Stone said they had been involved in a quarrel the night of the incident, which sent police to the second-floor apartment, where Stone was found bleeding profusely. Police said Marchant used a six- to eight-inch kitchen knife to stab Stone once in the neck.
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The counterfeit items display the routing number 053000196, which is assigned to Bank of America, N.A., Richmond, Virginia. The counterfeit items are markedly dissimilar to authentic official checks. They are white with the words "CASHIER'S CHECK" in the top center. The bank's name ("Greenville First Bank"), displayed between two darkened lines, and address ("112 Haywood Rd., Greenville, SC 29607") are shown in the top-left corner. The phrase "Purchased By" is in the lower-left corner, and the word "Signature" is below the signature line.
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I write about how technology shapes society
Wired covers an angel investor who has decided to stay on the sidelines as the market becomes less and less favorable for investors:
As an investor Hartz points to the usual signs of too much money-chasing deals. The billboards on highway 101 between San Francisco and Silicon Valley touting startups no one has heard of. The bus stop signs in tech-heavy locales like Mountain View and Palo Alto advertising scads of engineering jobs.
"Everyone is competing for the same people, going after the same real estate, the same support services," Hartz says. "The natural resources of the startup world are getting scarcer and scarcer, and the cost is getting higher and higher. It's all an outgrowth of an abundance of capital."
There's an interesting question here that's totally unaddressed in the article: why are "the natural resources of the startup world"—people, real estate, and support services—getting scarcer and scarcer? Silicon Valley is part of a large and highly-educated nation that currently has a high unemployment rate. If Silicon Valley firms are desperate to hire more engineers, and investors are desperate to invest in more startups, why don't more engineers move from other parts of the country, where demand is depressed, to Silicon Valley?
Obviously, many have. But since 1990, the population of the Bay Area has grown by less than 20 percent. That's slower than the growth rate for the country as a whole. Silicon Valley is creating new opportunities at a rapid pace, but relatively few people are moving there to take advantage of them.
Probably the most important reason, as Ryan Avent has pointed out, is that housing regulations make it impossible to build a significant number of new housing units. A variety of regulations—minimum lot sizes, maximum building heights, parking mandates, restrictions on renting out basements, and so forth—place an upper bound on the number of units of housing that can be built in any given municipality in the Bay Area. And developers have simply run out of new places to build that are within a reasonable commuting distance of Silicon Valley or San Francisco.
Hartz suggests that the limited supply of real estate is limiting the growth of the tech industry. Obviously, land is finite but apartments and office space need not be. San Francisco has plenty of room to build upwards. Silicon Valley wouldn't even need to build upward—it could dramatically expand its housing stock simply by allowing the construction of more duplexes, row houses, and low-rise apartment buildings.
The same point applies to "support services." Tech companies' ability to recruit engineers from elsewhere in the country is hampered by the Bay Area's high housing costs, but they're also hampered by the high costs of all sorts of other services. Those brainy engineers might want haircuts, tax preparation help, fancy restaurant meals, day care, massages, kitchen renovations, and so forth. But the people who provide those services in the Bay Area need to charge high prices themselves in order to afford the high rents in the Bay Area. So a tech company looking to lure talent to the Bay Area need to offer a hefty premium just to compensate for the high cost of living.
Today, the Bay Area has about 7 million residents. In a free housing market, the population of the San Francisco Bay Area would have been growing rapidly over the last two decades. For example, between 1900 and 1920, the growth of the auto industry helped the population of the Detroit metro area nearly triple, from 540,000 people to 1.4 million people. If the San Francisco Bay Area had grown that fast since 1990, it would have about 16 million people today.
Of course, that was long ago and Detroit was starting from a smaller base. A more reasonable benchmark would be metro areas like Atlanta, Phoenix, or Las Vegas, all of which roughly doubled in size in the last 20 years. Growing as fast as Phoenix, the slowest-growing of the three, would have given the Bay Area a population of 11 million today.
Among those extra 4 million people would likely have been hundreds of thousands of additional engineers starting new firms or expanding the Google and Facebook workforces. In short, the reason there's too much money chasing too few businesses isn't that the country is running out of people with good technology ideas. It's just that bad housing policies mean that there's nowhere for additional people to live.
Mr. Lee,
You wrote:"Probably the most important reason…is that housing regulations make it impossible to build a significant number of new housing units. A variety of regulations—minimum lot sizes, maximum building heights, parking mandates, restrictions on renting out basements, and so forth—place an upper bound on the number of units of housing that can be built in any given municipality in the Bay Area. And developers have simply run out of new places to build that are within a reasonable commuting distance of Silicon Valley or San Francisco."
Almost every piece of open land in the San Francisco Bay area that can be developed has been. There are a great many multifamily dwellings, especially in San Jose, if not Palo Alto. All of the remaining open space is park land or in some way not available for development. Further, the transportation infrastructure is similarly saturated. Building large amounts of high density housing, which San Francisco and Oakland do already have, makes no sense if the people living there cannot get anywhere. It has to be remembered that most of the open area in the larger Bay Area is in fact the *bay* itself. There are only a few direct routes east to west across the bay (four bridges and the BART tunnel) and none north to south. Silcon Valley is bordered on one side by the Bay and rather rugged mountains to the west. There is little physical opportunity to increase either living space or transportation infrastructure.
The San Francisco Bay area has certain physical limitations that simply cannot be ignored.
> Silcon Valley is bordered on one side by the Bay and rather
> rugged mountains to the west. There is little physical
> opportunity to increase either living space or transportation
> infrastructure.
This is the dumbest thing I've read in weeks.
World population density rankings:
Only one US city makes that list, granted there is a huge disparity in standard of living. Despite this, many first world cities are on that list.
Now by the US:
San Francisco is the 4th most populous city (the Bay area is one of the larger metro areas) yet it's population density is 23rd.
Whether or not you believe the REGULATIONS preventing increased population density are there, you'd be a fool to think that there are any "physical" or natural limitations. Crappy public transit doesn't help (but it's improving!).=
Bo, you can't compare densities of a bunch of bedroom communities outside the cities of NY, Boston, LA, DC, etc with a large city. Compare SF to NYC, DC, Boston, etc.
SF itself is the 2nd most dense large city, behind only NYC.
Even of you do compare all types of cities, the difference between places is minimal within major units 17. 18, etc, and the difference of a few people per square mile is negligible. In other words, it's not about rankings.
There's a real need to question whether it's good to have a city full of high-rises, with unsustainable density. Or if the South Bay should sprawl like Phoenix.
I agree with Rae Vella – this is about regulation in general, and the premise is all wrong.
Higher-density housing could certainly address one problem, but another issue would soon become the new limiting factor: traffic. We're finally expanding some of our public transit, but that limits of its own, including parking near suburban stations. There isn't much room to expand the road network.
Wouldn't that kind of growth make highway driving almost impossible?
Good, it's crowded enough here. The limitations on housing development were put in place precisely to prevent the kind of density you are talking about
I think the author must be too young to remember the dotcom boom of 1997 to 2001.
During that time, there were lots of new arrivals to the Bay Area. There were apartments in Fremont that had a half-dozen engineers from India living there, some with their families. Flats in the Mission District with half-dozen hipster Web designers from the Midwest. California bungalows in Mountain View packed with bro-grammers. And so on.
Housing was not a limiting factor for growth then, and it is not an absolute factor today. The ill-informed author has an axe to grind about regulation, rather than an interest in getting to the truth of the matter.
As other commenters have called out, there is a definite transportation component to what you are calling for. The solution isn't better public transit. There are very few in the Silicon Valley that will resort to public transit even if it were much better than its current sorry state. People in the Silicon Valley are drawn to the culture of the valley. It's a culture of living and enjoying the non-urban world around them. 365 days a year there is something to do and see here and it goes far beyond shopping and museums. Mix in another 4 million people and what makes this valley great would disappear or at least get crowded out.
This of course assumes that there are 2M qualified engineers to support the 4M new people that would move here. That also seems unlikely.
Build HSR, expand Muni, build an extra tube for BART along with another line through SOMA and the Bay Area could handle the extra residents just fine. People will get out of their cars if you give them a good alternative.


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An administrative judge has denied unemployment benefits to a woman who was fired from her job for keeping a journal detailing her efforts to avoid work.
Emmalee Bauer, 25, of Elkhart, was employed by the Sheraton hotel company as a sales coordinator in Des Moines. While on the job, she kept a handwritten journal. A supervisor told her to stop writing on company time, but instead, Bauer wrote her journal, all 300 single-spaced pages, on her work computer.
In the journal, portions of which were introduced during a recent hearing regarding Bauer's request for unemployment, Bauer describes her efforts to avoid work.
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Bauer also wrote: "I am only here for the money and, lately, for the printer access. I haven't really accomplished anything in a long while ... and I am still getting paid more than I ever have at a job before, with less to do than I have ever had before. It's actually quite nice when I think of it that way. I can shop online, play games and read message boards and still get paid for it."
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Fire her, then fire the reporter.
She was handwriting it when a supervisor caught her and told her to stop. Instead of stopping, she instead typed it up on the computer."If anything worthwhile comes of this tragedy, it should be the realization by every citizen that often the only thing that stands between them and losing everything they hold dear... is the man wearing a badge." -- Ronald Reagan, in the wake of the deaths of 4 CHP troopers in the Newhall Incident, 1970
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You're right. I misread and the reporter kept using the vernacular "writing". I still want both fired, out of a canon, if one is available.
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The ultimate package for preparing you to take the PMP exam Project management is one of the most desired skills in today's IT marketplace and the Project Management Professional (PMP) exam reflects your level of proficiency and preparedness as a project manager. This comprehensive study guide features the Sybex test engine with two practice PMP exams, electronic flashcards, two hours of audio review, as well as two bonus Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) exams. The book covers a wide-range of project management and exam topics, concepts, and key terms. Not only does this...
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The new edition of Marchewa's Information Technology Project Management focuses on more simplified chapters, practical examples and the addition of small case studies to every chapter. The text contains the same level of depth and brevity that's simply written and easy to understand as previous issues. Marchewka continues to focus on how to create measurable organizational value (MOV) to create a solid foundation for making decisions throughout the project's lifecycle as well as for integrating project management and IT concepts, tools, and techniques. ...
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Your 2-in-1 Self-Paced Training Kit: Ace your preparation for the skills measured by the updated PMP Exam, aligned with the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), Fifth Edition. Work at your own pace through a series of lessons and reviews that fully cover each exam task. Then, reinforce what you've learned by applying your knowledge to real-world case scenarios and practice exercises. This guide is designed to help make the most of your study time. Maximize your performance on the exam by mastering these tasks: Initiating the project Planning the...
50 Top IT Project Management Challenges
By: Premanand Doraiswamy; Premi Shiv
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A summary of the challenges facing today's IT project manager Discussions on project management forums highlight many of the challenges facing a project manager during the course of a project. Unclear requirements, scope creep and undefined roles are well-trodden issues that can derail a project. Other challenges are less obvious, often more subtle, but equally destructive. Facing up to the challenges This book offers a focused and concise summary of 50 challenges facing today's IT project manager. The authors draw on years of practical experience (rather than classroom theory) to...
PM Crash Course™ for IT Professionals: Real-World Project Management Tools and Techniques for IT Initiatives
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Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition, Video Enhanced Edition
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The President of the United StatesTakes Pleasure in PresentingThe Distinguished Service CrossToStephen C. SanfordPrivate First Class, U.S. ArmyFor Services as Set Forth in the Following Citation:For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with the 2d Battalion, 1st Infantry Regiment, 172d Stryker Brigade Combat Team, on 19 November 2005, during combat operations against an armed enemy of the United States, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Private Sanford displayed extraordinary courage during the evacuation of casualties from a home in Mosul, Iraq, while under intense enemy fire. Although shot through the leg during his squad's initial assault attempt, he accompanied his squad during their second assault. Once inside the house, he provided a heavy volume of suppressive fire while the casualties were evacuated. He continued to engage the enemy while escorting the wounded Soldiers from the house. He returned to the house a second time to provide vital covering fire and security for the final withdrawal of the casualties. When the last Soldier leaving the house was shot in the neck, Private Sanford, with complete disregard for his own safety, moved to the Soldier and began performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation. While attempting to revive the other Soldier, he was shot twice more in the back. Protecting the fallen Soldier, Private Sanford returned fire and killed an insurgent while receiving two more potentially fatal gunshot wounds. He continued to return devastating fire on the enemy while helping his wounded comrade until he was incapacitated by his own loss of blood. Private Sanford's gallant deed was truly above and beyond the call of duty and is in keeping with the finest traditions of the military service, reflecting great credit upon himself, Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry, the United States Army, and the United States of America.
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It's been a month since Superstorm Sandy roared ashore in Lavallette.
But the streets have been cleared, the water is safe to drink, the electricity has been turned on and even the cable television service is back.
Just about the only thing missing in the small, barrier island borough is its residents – and Mayor Walter LaCicero wants that to change, quickly.
"Lavallette is one community that miraculously did not suffer the structural damage that occurred both to the north and to the south," LaCicero said in a letter mailed to Gov. Chris Christie Nov. 21.
By Thursday, LaCicero said he had not heard a formal response from Christie pertaining to repopulating his town, which has 1,884 year-round residents.
"I've gotten two texts from the office of the governor," said LaCicero. "They got the letter, they haven't forgotten about us, but I have not gotten a response yet."
Lavallette is unique in that it has its own electrical distribution system, water system and sanitary sewer system. It also has its own public works and police departments, as well as a borough school district for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
The borough is ready to repopulate permanently, and LaCicero said he sees no reason why residents should be held up any longer.
"We're ready, we've had electric since Nov. 10," he said. "We never lost water, we never lost sewer. My cable TV is on, my Internet works."
Presently, residents are able to return to their homes during daylight hours on a staggered schedule.
The only service the borough does not have is natural gas, though service is expected to be restored within a few weeks, and in other areas such as Long Beach Island, those without gas service were issued space heaters to be used temporarily.
LaCicero, who attended a tour of the barrier island by state legislators and other officials Thursday, said he spoke with State Police officials who informed him of "a different route" that could lead to opening up the town.
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Der Energieversorger RWE will seinen Stromkunden im kommenden Jahr 2008 so etwas wie eine Preisgarantie, also eine Strompreisgarantie geben. Die regionalen Gesellschaften die den großen Konzern vertreten sind damit beauftragt.
Alles soll ganz einfach sein: Der Kunde schließt einen Vertrag über 3 Jahre ab, bekommt dafür eine Strompreisgarantie (http://www.strompreisgarantie.org), kann aber, wie die FTD meldet, schon nach 12 Monaten wieder kündigen.
Man ist jetzt schon gespannt darauf, wie viele der mehr als 5 Millionen Kunden der RWE das Angebot annehmen werden.
Allerdings gibt es auch warnende Stimmen. Diese kommen meist von den Verbraucherzentralen. Dort sagt man, dass solche Offerten der Energieanbieter mit Vorsicht zu genießen sind. Gerade das RWE Angebot muss wettbewerbsfähig bleiben und man wisse daher nicht, wie sich der Preis nach den 3 Jahre entwickele.
Immer wieder geraten die Stromkonzerne wegen Preiserhöhungen unter Kritik. Bundeswirtschaftsminister Glos (CSU) fordert besser Preismodelle. Leider bestimmen immer die Konzerne den Preis, der Verbrauche muss nur zahlen.
The geomagnetic field was quiet to unsettled on December 9. Solar wind speed ranged between 452 and 548 km/sec. Solar flare activity was low. Solar flux was 156.3, the planetary A index was 8 (STAR Ap – based on the mean of three hour ap indices: 9.4). Three hour interval K indices: 32122322 (planetary), 21212212 (Boulder). The background x-ray flux is at the class C1 level. At midnight there were 13 spotted regions on the visible disk, 1 of which has not yet been numbered. A total of 9 C class flares were recorded during the day. Region 10205 rotated over the northwest limb. Flare: C1.1 at 22:04 UTC. Region 10207 rotated quietly over the southwest limb. Region 10209 decayed slowly and quietly. Region 10212 decayed and lost about half of its penumbral area. Region 10213 was quiet and stable. Region 10214 decayed into spotless plage at the northwest limb. Region 10215 developed a few new spots but lost some of its penumbral area. Region 10216 decayed slowly and quietly and could soon become spotless. Region 10217 decayed slowly as the only penumbra split off its smallest spot. Region 10218 was mostly quiet and stable. Flare: C1.9 at 17:13 UTC. New region 10219 emerged in the southeast quadrant on December 6 and was finally noticed by SEC on December 9. The region developed a few small spots early in the day, however, these spots had disappeared by midnight. Flare: C1.5 at 06:32 UTC. New region 10220 emerged in the southeast quadrant on December 8 and developed very quickly on December 9. The region has a magnetic delta in the large trailing penumbra. M class flares are likely. Flares: C2.4 at 20:00, C4.1 at 21:37, C1.0 at 22:13 and C2.0 at 23:38 UTC. The region produced a C5.5 flare at 01:32 on December 10. New region 10221 rotated into view at the northeast limb on December 8 and was numbered on Dec.9. Spotted regions not yet numbered by SEC: [S49] A new region emerged in the southeast quadrant on December 9. Location at midnight: S24E31. Comment added at 11:22 UTC on December 10: A new region has emerged in the southeast quadrant and will be located at S07E15 at noon. This DAO region had 7 spots a short while ago. Currently 10 spotted regions are visible with several of the regions decaying. Region 10220 continues to develop but at a slower pace than yesterday. Comment added at 12:48 UTC: Region 10220 produced an M1.1 flare at 12:26 UTC. It is not yet known if there was a CME associated with this event. Further M class flares are likely as long as the current magnetic delta configuration is present.
Coronal mass ejections (CMEs)
December 7-9: No obviously geoeffective CMEs noted.
Coronal holes
Coronal hole history (starting late October 2002) Compare today's report with the situation one solar rotation ago: 28 days ago 27 days ago 26 days ago A fairly small, decaying, recurrent coronal hole in the southern hemisphere will rotate into a geoeffective position on December 10-11. Processed SOHO EIT 284 image at 19:06 UTC on December 9. Any black areas on the solar disk are likely coronal holes.
The geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled on December 10-13. A weak coronal stream will likely begin on December 13. Long distance medium wave (AM) band propagation along east-west paths over high and upper middle latitudes is fair to poor.


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This is a 1* Free Play on the Texas Rangers.
The Rangers are worth the short price here as they have their best pitcher on the mound. Texas has Yu Darvish (9-5, 2.88 ERA) on the hill who is coming off one of his best starts of the season, the Japanese born pitcher struck out 12 batters while allowing just one run in 6 2/3's innings in a win over the Blue Jays. Note that the right-hander is a strong 2-0 with a 1.35 ERA in three starts lifetime versus the pinstripes. The Yankees will respond with David Phelps (4-4, 3.87 ERA); the right-hander went 6 1/3 innings in Friday's 4-3 win over Cincinnati, giving up three runs --two earned - with seven strikeouts for his first victory since June 19th. New York, which has put up the second-fewest runs in the AL (393), was held scoreless for 17 innings by a Rangers team with the highest ERA in the AL before tying it in the 13th after Texas had gone ahead last night. Keep in mind the Yankees are 1-9 as a home underdog of +100- 125 this season. With Darvish on the hill the Rangers feel they can beat anyone and should the way he has pitched of late. Look for the visitors to get some revenge from last night's extra inning thriller.
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SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Three people were rushed to the hospital after a three car crash along Corridor G.
It happened just before 3:30 p.m. Sunday near Parkway Road, according to Metro 911.
South Charleston Police tell WSAZ.com that one car stopped abruptly and a second car rear ended the first. Both of the cars stayed on the road and officers say a third car smashed into the other two.
Officers are not sure if weather may have played a role in the crash.
Officers say three people were transported to CAMC General including a 13-year-old, and 18-year-old and a 40-year-old. All three were in the second car that rear ended the first.
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