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Always, include, ZIP, for people who don't have RAR.
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I may not have Crysis, but I say this anyway:
Always, include, ZIP, for people who don't have RAR.
Always, download, Winrar, because it's free and better than the default windows unzipper...
always ,download 7zip, because its free and better then winrar and any unzipper
well, unless you are telling him to increase the file size by double for concerning about some tiny bit of people who can't unrar or who can't be bothered to go find a solution to unrar.
Download link is broken! Luckily I could get it through one of the mirrors, but the first 3 didn't work.
Looking forward to running around this beautiful map.
got a problem that the trees won't load prop. any tips? (strange big square textures) - everything set to very high and newest steam version
Yeah same here, No trees, only yellow little balls lol, and I'm on a retail version.
Same for me :/ Theres no trees and orange balls everywhere?
can anyone help ive got the map but it is loading without trees and weird yellow balls dotted around cant seam to resolve this
The dl link doesnt work for me, had to download from indieDB
Made me reinstall Crysis, going to give this a playthrough!
Do I really have to add to the list of people who tells you that the DL link is broken??
Please re-up it!
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Apple kicks off countdown to half a billion songs
Apple today announced its countdown to half a billion songs sold on the iTunes Music Store.
To celebrate, the company is giving away an iPod mini and an a 50-song iTunes gift card to the iTunes customer who purchases the winning song at each 100,000 interval. The person who downloads the 500 millionth song will win 10 iPods of their choice, an iTunes gift card for 10,000 songs and an all-expenses paid trip for four to see Coldplay on their world tour.
Apple has posted a live song counter online to help users "participate in the race to purchase and download the 500 millionth song."
"As we prepare to cross this major milestone of half a billion songs, we want to thank our customers, the artists and the music labels who have helped make iTunes a global success," said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of applications. "iTunes continues to be the world's number one online music store featuring the world's best digital music including special performances such as the Live 8 concerts."
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Now if only there was an iTMS in Australia, I might be able to win one of those prizes…. but no. That's apparently too difficult.
Posted by Nick on July 5, 2005 at 6:25 AM (PST)
where is the live song counter?
Posted by Larouche in Montreal, QC on July 5, 2005 at 6:40 AM (PST)
Larouche: On Apple's site, in the link in the article.
Good lord it's moving fast. I had no idea it moved that fast…
Posted by Cameron Talley on July 5, 2005 at 6:49 AM (PST)
ah! ok, stupid me. i thought it was in iTunes. thanks!! and you're right, it crazy fast…
Posted by Larouche in Montreal, QC on July 5, 2005 at 7:16 AM (PST)
Wow, 500 million songs! Cool pprizes, too, but who could possible find a use for 10 iPods? Why not a nice shiny PowerBook like they gave away before? I guess having 10 brand new iPods wouldn't exactly be a bad thing though…. and the rest of the grand prize is awesome as well.
Posted by Greg on July 5, 2005 at 7:22 AM (PST)
Greg: ebay. ebay. ebay!
Posted by Cameron Talley on July 5, 2005 at 8:33 AM (PST)
I wonder how accurate the counter is. or if it is just the counting the average.
Posted by craiger in IL on July 5, 2005 at 8:45 AM (PST)
or they might make a good christmas gift or b-day gift
Posted by BIGP in Texas on July 5, 2005 at 9:11 AM (PST)
I'd rather have the option for a cash payout than 10 iPods… I already own TWO full sized iPods, lol!
Sure, you can sell them on eBay but it's a hassle, fees invovled, shipping the iPods, possible problems with buyers or non-paying buyers, etc… Just give me the money off the bat and I'd be happy.
Posted by FallN in New York, NY on July 5, 2005 at 10:15 AM (PST)
And equally huge taxes. From the rules, "Taxes. All taxes associated with the receipt or use of the prizes are the sole responsibility of each winner."
For the grand prize (estimated value at $15358-18358 and a tax rate of 6%) that would be $923.10-$1103.10.
Sort of like Oprah's car giveaway where the people had to sell the car to pay the taxes.
A $10,000 or $15,000 prize would be so much nicer.
Posted by Sts10188 on July 5, 2005 at 11:15 AM (PST)
About the live counter: Does anyone know more about it? I think its impossible for a new song to be bought every millesecond :|
Posted by John on July 5, 2005 at 1:06 PM (PST)
I thought that at first but I believe the counter is accurate. a lot of people buy whole albums and imixes, too, which would really speed things up.
and yeah 10 iPods is basically overkill and the taxes on that is ridiculous. but I think everyone who wins a prize has the option of recieving the cash value instead of the actual item. I'm going to check up on that.
Posted by jmaurand on July 5, 2005 at 2:00 PM (PST)
eh i guess not. it says "no subsitutions (including cash) in the fine print. I guess I'll get 10 60gbs and then sell a few on ebay when I win the grand prize.
Posted by jmaurand on July 5, 2005 at 2:38 PM (PST)
If you buy a CD will you get the number of downloads in the CD or only 1 "credit" when you purchase the CD?
Posted by buffalo on July 5, 2005 at 2:50 PM (PST)
buffalo: I'm not sure, but If you buy all the songs on the album separately it might increase your chances
Posted by johnnyb on July 5, 2005 at 4:22 PM (PST)
I don't know if Larry wants to post this in another news article, but Version Tracker now has the link to download a software estimating the sales.
Here's the link just in case
Posted by johnnyb on July 5, 2005 at 4:56 PM (PST)
I think the counter might be accurate. I watched it approach 480,300,000 and the rate at which it increased was incredible!!! It then slowed down afterwards.
I can just picture thousands of people with their pointer poised over 'Buy' ready to purchase. (But you don't have to purchase a song…anyone else figured that out yet??)
Posted by jamesd in Australia on July 5, 2005 at 5:50 PM (PST)
Yes! I read the complete rules before starting on the waiting spree. Hopefully not too many people noticed
Posted by johnnyb on July 5, 2005 at 6:30 PM (PST)
noticed? noticed what??
Posted by craiger in IL on July 5, 2005 at 8:19 PM (PST)
how do you download it without purchasing it?
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How Can We Make Assessments Meaningful?
July 31, 2012 | Heather Wolpert-G...I think meaningful assessments can come in many shapes and sizes. It fact, to be thoroughly engaging and to draw the best work out of the students, assessments should come in different formats.
Thankfully, with the Common Core standards exemplifying the 4Cs: Creativity and Critical Thinking (through performance-based assessments), Collaboration, and Communication (in particular through the use of interdisciplinary writing), we are looking at a more fluid future in testing formats. As long as the format itself is aligned with real-world skills, a meaningful assessment does not need to be lock step with a particular structure anymore.
When I think about my own definition of a "meaningful assessment," I think the test must meet certain requirements. The assessment must have value other than "because it's on the test." It has value to the individual student who is taking it. It must intend to impact the world beyond the student "self," whether it is on the school site, the outlying community, the state, country, world, etc. And finally, the assessment should incorporate skills that students need for their future. That is, the test must assess skills other than the mere content. It must also test how eloquent the students communicate their content.
Criteria for a Meaningful Classroom Assessment
To address these requirements, I ask myself the following guided questions:
- Does the assessment involve project-based learning?
- Does it allow for student choice of topics?
- Is it inquiry based?
- Does it ask that students use some level of internet literacy to find their answers?
- Does it involve independent problem solving?
- Does it incorporate the 4Cs?
- Do the students need to communicate their knowledge via writing in some way?
- Does the final draft or project require other modalities in its presentation? (visual, oral, data, etc...)
Clearly not all assessments achieve every single characteristic listed above. But in our attempt to address some of these elements, we will have made our classroom assessments so much more meaningful.
Because it's vital that a student connect with the value of their assessments. After all, if a student trusts that the assessment is meaningful and will help them later on, it helps with both their achievement and with your own classroom management.
Transparency in Why It's Important
That requires taking the effort to inform the students why the assessment has value. Some teachers still balk at this job, as if students should just trust that what we do in school has value to what happens outside of school. However, kids are smart these days. They know that bubbling with a #2 pencil is antiquated. They know that much of the content we teach them can be found via Google if they were so inclined. But as savvy as students are, they don't know everything about communicating their content, and we owe it to them to make sure that not only are our tests aligned with skills they must know for their future, but to make sure that we've been transparent in our rationale.
So how can high-stakes assessments be meaningful to students? For one thing, high-stakes tests shouldn't be so high-stakes. It's inauthentic. They should and still can be a mere snapshot of ability. Additionally, those occasional assessments need to take a back seat to the real learning and achievement going on in every day assessments observed by the teacher.
The key here, however, is to assess everyday. Not in boring, multiple-choice daily quizzes, but in informal, engaging assessments that take more than just a snapshot of a student's knowledge at one moment in time.
But frankly, any assessment that sounds cool can still be made meaningless. It's how the students interact with the test that makes it meaningful. Remember the 4 Cs and ask this: does the assessment allow for:
Creativity Are they students creating or just regurgitating? Are they being given credit for presenting something other than what was described?
Collaboration Have they spent some time working with others to formulate their thoughts, brainstorm, or seek feedback from peers?
Critical Thinking Are the students doing more work than the teacher in seeking out information and problem solving?
Communication Does the assessment emphasize the need to communicate the content well? Is there writing involved as well as other modalities? If asked to teach the content to other students, what methods will the student use to communicate the information and help embed it more deeply?
Rubric on Meaningful Assessments
So as an activity for myself, I created a rubric to look at whenever I was wondering if an assessment was going to be a waste of time or was going to connect with the students. (Click the chart to download the PDF.)
Click to download the PDF of this chart. (275 KB)
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Another way to ensure that an assessment is meaningful, of course, is to simply ask the students what they thought. Design a survey after each major unit or assessment. Or, better yet, if you want to encourage students to really focus on the requirements on a rubric, add a row that's only for them to fill out for you. That way, the rubric's feedback is more of a give-and-take, and you get feedback on the assessment's level of meaningfulness as soon as possible.
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Credit: Heather Wolpert-Gawron
Download the example (left) of a quick rubric I designed for a general writing assessment. I included a row that the participants could fill out that actually gave me quick feedback on how meaningful or helpful they believed the assessment was towards their own learning. As an instructor and lesson designer, I want a quick turnaround between when I assign an assessment and if I need to adjust the assessment to meet the needs of future learners. By also giving them a space to fill out, they own the rubric even more, and will pay more attention to what I fill out knowing that I gave them an opportunity to also give me feedback. It's one way the students and I can learn reciprocally.
So how do you ensure that your classroom assessments are meaningful?
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This is an excellent Post. I
This is an excellent Post. I think using a rubric and having the students knowing the expectations of the various levels of performance is critical. Therefore students/learners should be able to make their own self-assessment. Assessment should always make sense to the learner/students, authentic and have significant value. Also it must be a reliable and valid tool that is free from subjectivity.
This is a great post about
This is a great post about assessments. With the common core standards and and the emphasis on data collection and teaching to the state tests, teachers today need to stay current on the new ways to assess students. Coming up with different strategies, such as creating a rubric to help you create a meaningful assessment, are great ways to help prevent burnout while helping your students reach their greatest potential. Vanetta, your comment gave me some creative juice about creating assessments that are unique to each students needs. Creating the same assessment but catering to the different needs will help to ensure success for all. Some students are visual learners, auditory learners, tactile learners, etc., so one test will certainly not fill all!
I really liked a few things
I really liked a few things talked about here. I like that you are honest about what assessment should be. I would say that I have a hard time making assessments that fit your questions though. I am a math teacher and I was wondering about how I could make the assessment inquiry based, communication of knowledge and the multiple modalities? I like that you talked about being transparent too. That was great. The assessments have to have meaning for the students. I think that is so important. Thanks.
I agree with so many of the
I agree with so many of the points that have been made. Several assessments at my current school are used to monitor student achievement but I feel that they are not being used to their potential. Our school employs many first year teacgers and it seems we simply teach the teachers how to use the assessments and not how to interpret them. We find out which students need additional support but we don't apply appropriate strategies to aid them. Thank you for some really great ideas that I will be sure to share with out specialists.
Meaningful Assessments
I really feel strongly about the importance of informing students about the value of assessment. All to often what teachers do in a classroom seems to be a mystery to students. Educating students about why this is an important process helps them to see the value of it. I have always appreciated a good rubric for my students. I have never considered using one for assessing my own teaching skills. Thank you for all the great ideas.
I came across this blog while
I came across this blog while working on an assignment for a graduate class. I really enjoyed reading the post about assessment, and really agreed with a lot of the points that were made. I couldn't agree more that there should not be such a focus put on the results of high stakes testing as student achievement on these tests is only a snapshot of the student's ability. I also agree that assessment needs to be done everyday, and that the key to good assessment is using your results to drive your future instruction!
Additionally, I loved the rubric idea! I could definitely see how this would be attractive to students as they love to have a say or choice in the daily decisions being made in the classroom!
Meaningful Assessments
The conversation we are all concerned about is creating useful data on students so that we can support their learning. Even more so, we are all concerned about performance based pay, which is again on the tables of those in charge. What is not realized is, like most of you stated, that formal testing is focused on a small amount of our very diverse student populations. This is not fair to teachers because you can't base a teachers salary on a melting pot of students, even high performing teachers have years when the success rate within their classrooms do not increase substantially.
Daily assessment is an ingrained part of our routines that we don't even realize we are doing through active monitoring of students as they work. By doing this, we can observe how the students are learning and what they may need to reach the expectations we have for them. While I am actively monitoring and talking with my students each day, I carry a notebook/clipboard around with the intent of noting what the students are thinking. This helps me understand who needs extra support and who is ready to be challenged further within that concept.
Unfortunately, we are faced with formal state assessments which require students to apply the concepts they have learned in different situations. On the positive side, those states who have adopted the CCSS will be providing opportunities for students to create meaningful learning in multiple situations through problem solving and discovery instead of direct instruction. If we are able to anecdotally observe our students with the end result in mind, we will have a better understanding of what they know and the depth of which they know it.
Don't forget the formative...
Some of the most authentic, meaningful assessment is formative. It is done by simply walking around, talking with students, and noting your conversations.
The conversation goes something like this:
- a sincere, specific complement about the work you see.
- something that you notice and wonder about.
- one thing the student can pay attention to, work on, improve. This is most highly effective by having students identify where they are on one aspect of the rubric and where they want to be. You coach them how to get there.
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Meaningful assessments
As I am working on an assignment for one of my masters classes, I am so glad I came across your post. Having only completed one year of teaching, I quickly came to realize how important meaningful assessments are in the classroom. I often wonder what assessments are of value to student achievement and which ones do not really matter. Too often teachers teach to all the high-stakes tests, and forget about the more important informal assessments that should be taking place in the classroom. The rubric to validate the meaningfulness of an assessments will be very beneficial to me this upcoming school year. I need to start creating assessments that allow for creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication as you had mentioned. Thanks for the insight into assessments!
I agree with many of your
I agree with many of your points about standardized testing. It seems that we are relying too much on data and not enough on overall student growth. I also work in a district with a diverse population and many of those students don't do well on those types of tests and I feel that it often discourages them and makes them feel unsuccessful. While I agree that we need meaningful assessment, each region of the country is diverse and how can we compare apples and oranges? We need to focus on student growth overall, and not necessarily on a target percentage.


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By Staci DaSilva
A major pharmacy in Norfolk, NE is about to have a new competitor.
The area's first CVS Pharmacy is moving in across from Walgreens on the corner of Norfolk Ave. and 13th Street.
Construction is pretty far along and signs outside say the CVS folks are hiring.
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Maranatha High football coach will host a football camp at the school from July 22-25.
The cost of the camp is $95 and it will be held from 8:30 a.m.-Noon. The camp is athletes between grades 4-9.
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Maranatha High football coach will host a football camp at the school from July 22-25.
The cost of the camp is $95 and it will be held from 8:30 a.m.-Noon. The camp is athletes between grades 4-9.
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Pasadena coaching legend Tim Tucker will host a boys basketball camp for grades 4-9 from July 15-19 at Maranatha High School.
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Temple City High School basketball standout Eric Anthony Olivas, who was named Rio Hondo League MVP this past season, is in custody for a drive-by shooting and has implicated himself in other area shootings, according to a Temple Station Sheriff's spokesperson.
Olivas, 18 of Rosemead, was arrested earlier this week for allegedly committing a drive-by shooting in Temple City last month.
In a statement released Thursday, sheriff's officials said Olivas implicated himself in other shootings in the San Gabriel Valley. No one was injured in the shootings, authorities said.
The May 27 drive-by shooting occurred in the 5400 block of Golden West Avenue in Temple City. Detectives later identified a suspect.
On Tuesday, investigators served a search warrant at a Rosemead residence and arrested Eric Anthony Olivas on suspicion of shooting at an inhabited dwelling.
The handgun believed to have been used in the shooting, bullets, spent bullet casings and other evidence linking the suspect to the shooting were recovered, according to the statement.
No details were released about the other shootings.
Online booking records show Olivas had a Thursday court appearance in Alhambra Superior Court.
He is being held at the Inmate Reception Center in lieu of $250,000 bail.
Olivas was one top players in the area this past winter. He led Temple City to the Rio Hondo League championship and averaged 21.2 points per game. After the season, he was named the Star-News All-Area team and played in the Tribune/Star-News All-Star Classic on April 26.
Shortly after the all-star game, Olivas began attending Dr. Doug Sears Learning Center, a continuation school in the Temple City Unified School District.
Olivas' coach Eric Chin was stunned when told the news of his star player's arrest on Friday.
"I'm really surprised this happened, to be honest," Chin said. "He didn't seem like a bad kid. He's a really good kid. Very coachable. He might have hung out with the wrong people, but I'm surprised."
1. MONROVIA — Still the most talented team in the area from top to bottom. Expect more of a ground game with considerable depth at RB and a athletic QB in Potts. Wildcats could be special again if Kurt Scoby makes his way into the backfield this fall.
2. LA SALLE — The only thing more disappointing than an 0-10 record is a 10-1 record. But huge strides were made last season under head coach Russell Gordon. There's a good amount of skill talent to work with, plus some transfers. Where the worry lies is along the lines.
3. MUIR — The Mustangs are making progress slowly but surely under head coach John Hardy. The thing is that they're not operating with all the talent that could be at their disposal. Depth is a sweat, but who else you gonna like in the Pacific?
4. RIO HONDO PREP — A dynamic senior class was lost, but this program knows how to reload. The new faces will need only some seasoning because they probably already have the system down pat. RB Nate Tayco is one of the best ball carriers around and expect him to be relied on early and often.
5. ST. FRANCIS — The rebuild is on. Knights were the least explosive they've been in a while last season and that was with Jarde Lebowitz at QB. Now he's gone and there's more work to do. St. Francis needs a serious upgrade in the speed department.
6. SAN MARINO — Here's where things start to get shaky in local area. The Titans lost an excellent senior class, but reportedly have some nice prospects in the program. Head coach Mike Hobbie certainly knows what he's doing, so it's probably a matter of time before SM hit its stride again. Just don't expect anything close to last year's level of play.
7. TEMPLE CITY — The Rams started to make strides around the mid-point of last season. With some decent pieces to build around, they could put things together a lot quicker this season and make some more noise, or at least put themselves in position to again, in league.
8. MARANATHA — Former San Gabriel coach Jude Oliva takes over the head job after Pete Karavedas' abrupt exit. Some will say that Maranatha missed a golden chance to do damage with the classes it had the past few seasons. But Oliva is a proven winner and his teams have been no stranger to the end zone. Don't expect a breakout, just a solid product.
9. ARCADIA — Things aren't what they once were, but lots of programs in this area can say the same thing. The Apaches' only four wins last year came against the lower rungs of the Pacific League. And now there's another coaching change to deal with. A repeat of last year seems a safe prediction.
10. FLINTRIDGE PREP — Why not? Who do you want to put here instead, Alhambra? San Gabriel? Flintridge Prep has become one of the area's best in hoops and bases, so why not football? The Prepsters won six games last year, but weren't close against RHP. Still solid.
Baseball/softball season is officially. Flintridge Prep fell behind early and couldn't rally in a 12-4 loss to Desert Christian Academy in the semifinals of the CIF-Southern Section Division 6 baseball playoffs.
The Rebels had a great season and advanced … further … than … I hear Monrovia is loaded at running back.
And then there were two.
Flintridge Prep and Pasadena Poly high school's baseball teams are all that remain of the local teams in the CIF-Southern Section playoffs. Both will be hoping to keep their championship aspirations alive today in the Division 6 quarterfinals.
Flintridge Prep hosts Crean Lutheran at the Glendale Sports Complex at 3:15 p.m. while Pasadena Poly visits Calvary Chapel of Downey at Veteran Memorial Park at 6 p.m.
"All three teams in from our league are still in the playoffs," Flintridge Prep coach Guillermo Gonzalez said referring to his team, Poly and Webb. "Our league this year has shown a lot. We're hanging in there. We're just trying to keep our league up there."
The Rebels will have ace Brenden McKiernan on the mound today against a Crean Lutheran team that's scored 17 runs in two playoffs game this season.
Flintridge Prep has also proven capable of putting crooked numbers on the scoreboard. The Rebels have scored 20 runs so far in the postseason, but something has to give today as Crean Lutheran has allowed only one run in the postseason.
"I know we're seeing their ace on Friday and that's all I know about them right now," Gonzalez said. "We've been aggressive when we're hitting and taking advantage of mistakes other teams make."
Flintridge Prep, Poly and Webb finished in three-way tie for the Prep League championship this season. Poly has parlayed two home games into wins over Bloomington Christian and St. Margaret's.
The Panthers will be tested on the road today by a Calvary Chapel team that finished third in the Delphic League this season but pulled off playoff upsets over Santa Fe League champ Salesian and No. 2 overall seed Malibu.
Division 4
El Rancho 1, Alhambra 0 — Moors squander Jose Amezquita's great outing by not cashing in scoring opportunities.
Sonora 8, La Canada 5
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Flintridge Prep 6, Kern Valley 3
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Buena 8, Temple City 4
Division 6
Bell-Jeff 8, Pas Poly 0
Kern Valley 9, SG Mission 1
St. Bonaventure 2, Alverno 1
East 42, West 18 — Close to 4,000 fans showed up and Charter Oak's Aaren Vaughns electrified the crowd with long touchdowns, two on offense and one on defense. Chino Hills' Matty Ice Simko threw for two scores and ran for another. The East's defense laid lick after lick, but did catch some breaks in that the West had some drives in East territory stopped on downs. Of course, the East defense had a lot to do with it. Rio Hondo Prep's Jake Holguin hauled in three touchdowns to lead the West. Don't anybody give me crap when I rank Rio Hondo Prep high in the SGV(N) Top 25s. I didn't have my eyes opened to the Kares until this year, but I can tell you they would have done just fine in the Mid-Valley Division or Southeast. Holguin was just one of several all-stars they could have had. The East now leads the series 22-10-2 and has won six straight. Gladstone coach Albert Sanchez goes out a winner and South El Monte's Pablo Ocegueda provides the feel-good moment by playing despite losing four fingers in a fluke tug-a-war accident earlier this year.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. Rep. David N. Cicilline's campaign released this statement about the Brown University poll released on Wednesday that shows the Providence Democrat leading his Republican challenger, Brendan Doherty, by a slim margin.
"Voters recognize there is a very big choice in this election, and they continue to want a representative that will work with President Obama, not join the Republicans in fighting him every step of the way," Cicilline campaign manager Eric Hyers said in a statement. "Just today, David is proud to have earned the endorsement of President Obama. While these poll numbers continue to be encouraging, David will keep working hard; this election is just too important to send another Romney Republican to Congress."


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Hobee's InteriorThere's a sweet little chain of diners in the Bay Area that's so ubiquitous, such a normal, taken for granted part of the landscape up here, that it's taken years to even remember that maybe you all don't know about it, and would like to. The chain is called Hobee's and there are five or six of them in the pretty immediate vicinity, though this is the only place in the world where there are any Hobee's at all.
Hobee's, whichever one you end up in, is a good place to eat pancakes late on a Sunday morning, or a club sandwich with fries after work. If you go with kids, you'll be given crayons for them to draw on the table with. If you don't go with kids you can ask for crayons anyway. They like to lean into their status as a California diner and so give a lot of space to being "fresh" and "healthy." Their specialty, though, is giant slabs of blueberry coffee cake, which come on the side of everything you might order in the morning and are heavily encouraged at all other meals as well.
Hobee's is not exciting. It's not a fun new place for you and your co-workers to have a work-travel adventure in. I doubt anyone has ever been on a date at a Hobee's and I'm pretty sure they don't even serve wine. Still, though, there are plenty of times when you want comfort. This is why sweat pants exist. Maybe Hobee's is the sweat pants of restaurants. And maybe that's exactly what you need some nights, away from home, looking for something wholesome, simple and grounding. That's Hobee's all the way.
I think a lot of you already know about Dish Dash, the super-fresh, super-delicious Middle Eastern restaurant just a short little hop away from our hotel. It's been mentioned here before, a lot of our staff talks a lot about it, plus it's now permanently, constantly packed, so I just figure everyone's going there, and that that probably includes you too. And, anyway, if you were one of the few people in the South Bay who didn't know about it, it seemed better not to add you to the list of people I'm competing for tables with whenever I try to go there.
Good news, though! Dish Dash has just opened up a more casual version of itself, just a few blocks away. The new one is more about sandwiches and salads, you order at a counter. You know, easy take-out lunch style. This new one is called Dish N Dash and it has a separate website from Dish Dash's, though Dish Dash does refer to Dish N Dash as its sister restaurant.
Ready for even more good news? In looking up the new Dish N Dash, I found yet another version of the same restaurant. This third one is called Dish Dash Middle Eastern Grill, again with a completely separate website but referring to the other two as its sisters. The menu is the same as Dish Dash's and it seems to be a sit-down, table service kind of a place, again like Dish Dash. I know it's got to be basically the same restaurant because even the text describing the restaurant's name is identical and yet they do not claim themselves as a chain. I'm not saying I quite understand the strategy, but it's pretty exciting to have unearthed two more of one of the best restaurants in town.
If you're hungry, you've got some time to spare and you don't mind a little drive, there's a place you really might want to check out. It's called the Tribune Tavern, in reference to the Oakland Tribune, whose real estate it shares. A bit of a drive, you were warned, but oh-so-worth it if you can be bothered.
Walking in, it becomes obvious pretty fast that this place is in deep with all the foodie trends. Try, for example, ordering a Belvedere martini, which you may be used to thinking is more or less a classy kind of a drink, and you'll quickly earn the waitress' pitiful contempt. They do not carry any commercial brands. Sad as she is about your ignorance, though, she's perfectly willing to give you the paragraph she's memorized on each of the organic, local labels they do serve. And that's just cocktails. The food goes the same way. The staff has all spent quality time with every one of the animals you might choose to eat and so can vouch for both their humane treatment and the fortitude of each animal's individual character. You're free, in fact, to ask about each and every step of the process of the making of your meal, from seedling to plating, if you can stand the tedium of listening to the answers.
When this much care and attention to detail goes well, though, it sure is a pleasure. The food we ate there, the night I went, was some of the best I've had in recent memory. And, almost in spite of their best efforts, it's a really comfortable, easy place to be. The crowd isn't too hipster-ish, there's no wait. In the end, you can't even blame them for all the soliloquies on the merits of their ingredients when, really, the result is kind of spectacular. Find a night and give it a try, you won't be sorry.
This newsletter has, admittedly, been in a bit of a San Pedro Square Market rut over the past few months. I apologize, and promise it'll be over soon, but it does seem that there's one more part of it that's worth mentioning. For those of you who haven't yet ventured out there, what's interesting about the San Pablo Square Market is that it's essentially an upscale food court. A whole bunch of restaurants are sharing one big building and you, the customer, are free to wander around, mixing and matching as you choose. Normally this is an experience reserved for places like Panda Express and California Crisp, but here you can have an artisanal pizza and your date can have fresh sashimi. And not a Styrofoam carton to be seen.
One more sweet little detail of the San Pedro Market experience is that one of its many establishments is a bar. Which means that the beer wine or specialty cocktail that accompanies your meal comes from a place whose only business is beer, wine and specialty cocktails. Ditto your after dinner coffee or tea.
This may seem like a lot of hassle. Maybe you'd prefer to be in a place where you can just sit down and order what you'd like. Not an unreasonable desire. Still, it's a neat little environment they've got going on over there. Everyone little detail of your dinner is done in a place that specializes in that detail, so there's no compromise. At the very least, this is a good place to keep in mind when you've got a picky group to try and please.
There's a place at the San Pedro Square Market that deserves an award. Not that it's the best food you're going to find, though the food is fun and interesting and certainly worth finding. What this place should get is an award for the best name. CaliDog, it's called. So clear, so concise and yet so very descriptive. Go to CaliDog and get yourself an all-American hot dog, topped with the classic condiments of one of the vast array of cultures represented here in the Bay Area. Japanese style, for example, features seaweed. Yes, seaweed on a hot dog! Another one, called the SalsaDog, is drowning in shrimp ceviche. If all this is too overwhelming, they've also got a chilidog on standby, but why not have an adventure?
This place, in making their nutty hot dogs, has made itself into such a great symbol of how we live here in California. We are a collection of lots of different people from lots of different places, doing what we can to keep traditions alive, trying to maintain the comforts of home in a new country, getting to sample from everything that everyone else has brought and getting to work out some new version of how all those thing can fit together. To take the hot dog, one of the ultimate staples of Americana, and let people choose whether they want it Japanese, Vietnamese or Mexican style is such a sweet little act of cultural meshing and it really feels like how we live around here. One of the great beauties of the Bay Area is spectacular, unlikely juxtaposition and how well it can come out. This hot dog stand is a fantastic example of that.
Listen up friends, this is an important announcement: I have a new candidate for Best Pizza in the South Bay. It's called Pizza Bocca Lupo, it can be found in the San Pedro Square Market, and it is seriously amazing. It's obsessively authentic Neapolitan style; they even go so far as to claim that the reason their pizza is so much more truly the real thing is that they're the only ones in the South Bay who're making pizza in an oven imported from Naples, which feels just ever so slightly like an empty gesture, done so that it could be written about on their website. Still, who am I to criticize their ways? The pizza I ate there was so good I wanted to cry and if they say they needed to ship an oven across an ocean and a continent in order to make it, fine, it seems to have been worth it.
Traditional Neapolitan means that we're talking about a very thin crust and it means that you won't find any groovy California toppings being allowed to interfere. No avocados or sprouts on these pizzas. This is the kind of place where the margarita is going to be heaven in its perfect simplicity, but knowing that, you know that they're going to be serving up some pretty amazing sausage too. And the good thing, if it feels too hard to choose, is that this is not the heavy, greasy kind of pizza that can only be indulged in every once in a great while. This is a light delight, perfect summer fare, and going back a couple of nights later to try the one you passed up is a perfectly fine choice to make.
As mentioned previously, what we're experiencing right now is get your butt outside kind of weather and, in that spirit, this month I'm not giving you a restaurant to go sit inside of but, rather, another local farmer's market to check out. This one is on Sunday mornings and it can be found in San Jose's Japantown, which is a nice little cultural enclave to explore all by itself.
It's a whole Sunday that I'm proposing, actually. You sleep in a little then get up and have a leisurely breakfast with us. Around noon, you meander over to Japantown where you lunch on hummus, maybe dipped with organic carrots from the next stand over. (I know. I'm recommending that you go to Japantown for Middle Eastern food, but, listen, this is really good hummus.) After your farmer's market needs have been sated, you've got an afternoon in "one of the last three remaining authentic, historic Japantowns left in the United States". There's a beautiful, old Buddhist church, as well as a brand new mural project. And, of course, there are shops full of cute stuff. There should be enough to keep you occupied until it's time for the big decision: Come back to the warm embrace of our open bar, or stay in Japantown for a glass of cold sake? In this I can't guide you.
Arriving at the restaurant a friend had chosen for her birthday dinner a few weeks ago, I was a little perplexed. It was all the way in Palo Alto, which is not so very far, but it does take a little effort to get there and when we finally arrived it looked, well, really average. It was on the kind of street that's so full of shops and restaurants that I never understand how people choose one over the other. Especially since, once inside, you can so often find yourself choosing between the same steak with mashed potatoes or chicken with roasted potatoes that every place on the block is offering. As there are plenty such places to be found 10 minutes away, I did not know why we had driven 25 to get to just another bistro.
But, to my surprise, Joya is different. Tapas are their thing and we were a big group, so we got to try lots and lots of their things; everything we chose off their menu, which is an eclectic mix of Spanish, Mexican and modern American anything goes, was a delight. I don't know how my friend ever found this place, because it sits there just as lackluster, from the outside, as all the rest, but the zany rainbow of colors it we got to eat through that night were a wonderful surprise.
I wonder if this should make me wonder about all the other places I am still judging without trying, but that's a question for another day. Go give Joya a try, we'll discuss the rest later.
Do you remember when you first started hearing about Krispy Kreme donuts? Eating one of these things sounded better than being made love to by God. There were lines around blocks at 5 in the morning; people were going nuts for them. And my big expectations only swelled with the years I had to wait to get one, as they took their sweet time going west. When I finally got my teeth into one, though, I could only assume that the people who were so into them had never had a donut before they had a Krispy Kreme. I'm sorry if I'm offending anyone when I say this, but a Krispy Kreme donut is a pretty average donut. And they're kind of small.
Fast forward to the present moment in food. The uber-trendy hipsters are all doing something that a friend of mine calls "fetishizing whiteness". Hence in San Francisco's Mission District you can get $5 donuts with rosemary and lavender and a lot of other ingredients normally found in soap. I recently had, in LA, a non-fried, vegan donut. Well, vegan except for the bacon on top. These fancy things taste good if you can forget what a donut is and let them exist in some new category all their own. But, come on, a donut is meant to be cheap and easy.
Of course, I wouldn't be writing all of this to you if I didn't have the perfect solution in mind. Stan's donuts, just right around the corner from this little hotel, is making fresh donuts that are just exactly the delicate pillows of decadence you have always thought were possible. And, at less than a dollar apiece, hey, if you're gonna go for it, you may as well go all the way and get a few!
Sometimes eating in restaurants is really tiresome. This is the space that normally gets used to recommend one or another Silicon Valley dining spot, of which there are many, but this month I would like to proclaim that eating out can be terrible. You don't actually know what it is you're eating, your stomach is always a bit of a mess and you have to kind of detach yourself from the emotion of watching your money just leave. Are any of you travelers out there relating to me? Having just spent a week in New York, living off of the delis, the street gyros, the crazy expensive restaurants and the goddamn late night pizza, I find myself with absolutely no enthusiasm for restaurant recommending this month. But what's a traveler to do? What are you, my readers, to do when business takes you away from your kitchens?
No, we are not now offering a portable, fully supplied kitchen set at check-in, and, actually, I don't really even have a full answer for you. But I have a nice little idea for a fun way to get fresh food when you're here with us. Stop by the farmer's market! There are quite a few in the area nowadays, as this is an unquestionably trendy idea I'm sharing with you, and the ones in Sunnyvale and Santa Clara are pretty close to this here little hotel. Even if all you do is get some fruit to keep in your room, it's guaranteed to make you feel better than anything you're gonna find in our mini-bar. And, who knows, with just a little more effort, you could be making salads for lunch. Not a full revolution, maybe, but the possibility of a little more control.


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SFBC Biker BulletinMarch 6, 2006
The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. LEGISLATION INTRODUCED FOR CAR-FREE SATURDAYS IN GG PARK!After years of stop-and-go efforts, viable legislation was introduced last week to extend the popular car-free space on JFK Drive in Golden Gate Park on Sundays to Saturdays as well. At the urging of members of the SFBC and our allies in the Sierra Club, Walk SF and other groups, Supervisors Jake McGoldrick and Ross Mirkarimi have put forward a 6-month trial measure -- Healthy Saturdays in GG Park -- to begin in late May. Please thank them both for their leadership (firstname.lastname@example.com, email@example.com) and please contact the other 9 Supervisors and the Mayor to ask them to co-sponsor the legislation (see http://www.sfbike.org/leaders for contact info). The hearing on this legislation could be held as soon as a few weeks from now -- stay tuned for more because we'll need lots of support! ---> http://www.sfbike.org/ggp HELP NEEDED THIS WEEK FOR NEW MARKET ST. BIKE LANESWe need your help to build support for adding bike lanes on Market Street between Van Ness Ave. & Octavia Blvd. The SFBC has been working on a proposal to fill this crucial gap in the Bike Network by removing unneeded traffic lanes and re-arranging parking spaces, so that we have complete, nonstop bike lanes on Market St. Now we need your help in the following ways if we are going to succeed in getting this project approved and implemented before Bike to Work Day in May!: ---> 1. Attend a community meeting this Friday, March 10th, 9:30am at the First Baptist Church on Market & Octavia. (Sorry for the less-than-ideal time of day, but the meeting is aimed mostly to reach area merchants, who may resist some of the proposed changes.) If you live or work in the area, or ride through regularly, and can join us, please contact email@example.com. ---> 2. Help reach out to area merchants to win support for the proposal. Can you help for an hour or two this week? We'll provide you with a flyer and talking points and ask you to visit the Market St. merchants between Van Ness & Octavia to ask for their support. ---> 3. Send a note to the Supervisors whose districts converge in this area: Chris Daly, Ross Mirkarimi, and Bevan Dufty (see http://www.sfbike.org/leaders). Let them know that you support the proposal for extending bike lanes on Market St. (AND please mention support for colored bike lanes at the Market/Octavia freeway intersection). See sfbike.org for more info on Market St. efforts: ---> http://www.sfbike.org/market SICK OF RIDING OVER POTHOLES? ACT NOWYou've probably heard the good news that there's an estimated $137 million surplus headed to the city's coffers. The SFBC urges the city to use some of these funds to help fix our crumbling streets. We support Supervisor Sean Elsbernd's proposal to dedicate an additional $27 million toward much-needed road paving in the coming year. While this will only be a drop in the bucket of the city's $340 million backlog of uncompleted work, it's a start. We will work with the Supervisors and the Mayor to help devise a longer-term fix to the problem. This week, we need YOUR help. Before an important hearing on March 15th, please email the Supervisors and the Mayor (see http://www.sfbike.org/leaders) to ask them to dedicate funding from the budget surplus toward street resurfacing. Share your experiences of biking on worsening streets and urge them to find a long-term fix to this problem. ---> http://www.sfbike.org/leaders SFBC DISCOUNTS JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER!Have you used your little blue membership card lately? Well, what are you waiting for? The SFBC Discount Partner list is growing by the minute. Help us welcome these bike-friendly local establishments. Refried Cycles: Located on Haight St near Fillmore, this *new* local bike shop will be offering 10% off of parts, accessories and labor. Go check them out! Hole in the Wall Saloon: 289 8th St @ Folsom. These folks are offering $0.50 off anything when you flash your SFBC membership card. Drop by and grab a beer. Check out all our Discount Partners and use your SFBC membership card for great deals all over town! ---> http://www.sfbike.org/discounts TOP-NOTCH DESIGNER NEEDED FOR PROJECTBy now you've probably heard -- the SFBC is assembling the first-ever Report Card on Bicycling in San Francisco, a summary of critical statistics and opinions that lays out key numbers for cycling, both hard (e.g., the number of regular cyclists) and soft (e.g., how safe do you feel cycling in the city?). We need an outstanding graphic designer to help us put the first edition of this landmark report together -- if you've done data visualization and reporting work that would make Edward Tufte clap (even if you think Professor Tufte is a putz), send some clips to Andy Thornley (email@example.com) and we'll see how it all adds up. BIKE LANES COMING ON 14TH ST.We're thrilled to announce that work should begin any day now striping the new bike lanes on 14th St. between Market & Dolores Streets. Though it's only a 2-block stretch, this has been a problematic gap in the Bike Network that the SFBC has successfully advocated to improve. So ride by and check out the changes in the next week or two! And please take a moment to contact Supervisor Bevan Dufty to let him know that you support the 14th St. bike lanes and want them to be made permanent (because they're currently only a 6-month trial): email@example.com ON THE ROAD AGAIN: DAY TWO BIKE ED COURSE MARCH 25TH"Day Two" of the SFBC's Bike Ed Program is back in action: this six hour on-road course provides an opportunity to put into practice what was learned in the Day One in-classroom course. We'll be practicing emergency maneuvers and riding in various traffic conditions to test your knowledge of vehicular cycling skills. Open to adults 14 and over. Bicycle, helmet and pre-registration required (below) Prerequisite: Day 1 Street Skills Course. Space is limited, so sign up today! ---> http://www.sfbike.org/edu BIKE MURAL PHOTO COMPILATION VOLUNTEER NIGHTDrop by the SFBC HQ (995 Market at 6th) on Tuesday night March 14, anytime from 5 to 8. We'll be celebrating the *New Improved* printing of the Duboce Bikeway Mural photos. The set includes seven photo cards, each a foot long, creating an 85-inch long mural replica. Your dexterity can help collate them into packets for all those eager bike mural fans. Come away with a set of cards, new friends, and a new understanding of the word "collate." Good cheap eats in the neighborhood. Questions? Can't make it but want a set of mural cards? Email email@example.com. LOOKING FOR MEMBERS TO GIVE US A HANDThe SFBC has some great opportunities in the weeks ahead to get the word out to *new* audiences about the benefits of riding in the city and perks of being an SFBC member.
**Friday, March 10th**
**Wednesday, March 15th** Help us build and strengthen our organization, and give bicyclists a good rap in the city! If you're interested in helping, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. Please include your name, the event you're interested in, and available times. ---> http://www.sfbike.org/volunteer EMERGENCY RIDE HOME CAN BAIL YOU OUTConcerned about an emergency on days you bike or take the bus to work? Why worry? Get your company to join the Emergency Ride Home program. ERH is a program offered by the city to any company located in San Francisco in order to promote greater use of bicycles and transit. ERH allows you a ride via cab or rental car to take care of a personal emergency, or if your bike breaks down or gets stolen! The city pays for it all, and it's virtually free to your company. Find out more at: http://www.sferh.org or email Hitesh at firstname.lastname@example.com to help get your company enrolled. You're reading the SFBC Weekly Biker BulletinGet this sent directly to your inbox by signing up here. Join the SFBC and add your voice to thousands demanding a city-wide network of bike lanes, traffic calmed streets, better access to transit and secure bike parking. Together we can make San Francisco the most bicycle friendly city in the country! | ||||


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Counterfeiting as an Art FormToday, I was thinking about what is behind the relentless surge in counterfeiting beyond the obvious motivation of greed. I couldn't help but think about the intellectual drive and challenge that made hacking, which was initially an insider sport, evolve into the very real and present threat of cyberterrorism. I doubt if the first hackers even considered that they were developing the foundational skillsets for undermining national security. The spirit behind the hacking community was more intellectual "one-upmanship" than to do any real harm. How many computers could be attacked with a signature virus was a game of numbers that drew admiration from fellow hackers using cryptic monikers. Many of the hackers knew each other only by their "cybersleuth" names. Hacking was more of a scientific art form than a malicious undertaking. Even though harm was done and criminal activity eventually profited from this art form, the original hackers became famous within their own circles and because of their advanced skills with computers, eventually became employees of companies trying to protect themselves against hackers trying to penetrate firewalls. Consider the same genesis as a possibility behind counterfeiting. Pride of authorship? Imagine the initial counterfeiter's pride as he has managed to reverse engineer and duplicate an Intel processor requiring millions of transistors with multilayer interconnects. The first working wafer out of the illicit foundry operation must been a source of great pride and a cause for jubilant celebration. The skill set for such a cloning process must have been extensive with several dozen engineers and scientists involved. Now, Pandora's Box was opened and the core capabilities used to clone something as complex as a microprocessor could be used across a wide variety of semiconductor components. Dopant implant equipment, epitaxial deposition gear, diffusion ovens and chambers, lithographic photography, X-ray, masks making equipment, and numerous other types of specialized wafer production and slicing mechanisms would leave a pretty big footprint that could be followed from initial procurement to final placement. In other words, one way to track the counterfeiters is to follow the production equipment from purchase to destination. But, I hear you say, because that supply chain is muddled by second- and third-generation purchasing sequences involving used equipment, the original or used equipment cannot be tracked beyond the original purchaser. So here is a suggestion how we might better hit the counterfeiters where it hurts. Modest proposal Have all legitimate foundries identify and register their fabrication equipment serial numbers in a universal database. The serial numbers are embedded into RFID modules that are both encrypted and protected by self-destruct and alert mechanisms if tampered with. At the time of wafer fabrication, the equipment used for fab also signs itself onto an electronic traveler as the wafers go through the various stages of processing. With the final RFID write operation being assigned at final test and packaging. The traveler is then assigned a lot number cross reference whereby every wafer and every die can be traced back to the equipment that was part of the process of manufacture. I readily admit this is a gross oversimplification of a solution, but my contention is that if we want to get to the source of the counterfeiting problem, we have to be able to determine if the foundry was legitimate or not. If all foundries signed into the national database and kept their equipment status current, then with a simple RFID cross check against process/equipment travelers, it would be possible to quickly identify bogus chips. Start with the seeds As to the "art" of counterfeiting, I don't think these artists will be putting down their brushes anytime soon. But, if you consider that one way we can help combat the influx of conflict minerals is by identifying and certifying smelters around the world, why can't we do the same with semiconductor production equipment? If we add GPS tracking for major pieces of equipment, we could track the movement and final destination of used equipment. Now logistics management takes over to identify and qualify or disqualify the new foundry. RFID info is updated or removed and the supply chain is just that much more secure. As I said, it may be a gross oversimplification and I will accept all criticism for this suggestion, but if you want to get at the root of the counterfeiting problem, then you have to start at the seed level. Without the seed, no root can come into being. In like fashion, without the equipment, no wafers can grow. What do you think? Related posts: |
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Ignoring for a moment the history and religious underpinnings of Christmas and Hanukkah -- I'd love to get some gift ideas for the holidays...
Are there any books that you'd highly recommend? If you celebrate Christmas, what are you hoping to get in your stocking?
Atheist themed ideas are great, but feel free to answer with anything -- books, movies, gadgets, whatever!
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