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Good morning and welcome to Summit Up, the world's only daily column that's totally overwhelmed from the SIA Snow Show.
That's right. Your one-and-only Summit Up abandoned headquarters and headed down to Denver to take in what is the thousands of exhibitors, buyers and media wanting in on the latest and greatest in the ski world.
It's mayhem, that show. First you get there and you're ambushed by the credential folks, battering you for identification - even though you're just another one of the peons wandering the expanse that is the exhibit hall at the Colorado Convention Center.
Then, when you step inside the hall, you're hit with an onslaught of, well, smells. After all, it's 20,000 or so people all gathered in one room! It's like a wave crashing over you, and not exactly a refreshing one.
You think to yourself, "Well, just eight hours to go until they start handing out the beer."
Sounds irresponsible, we know. This is supposed to be a gathering of professionals, after all.
But, let's face it, ski industry professionals like to party. Sure, they'll show off their product and see if they can make a sale, but when it's all said and done, the end of the day comes, and they want a cold beer in hand. Sometimes, they'll bring more than a cooler to keep the beer cold. Sometimes, they'll even have a little hidden frig to keep those brews cold.
And we're here to tell you: It's perfectly OK.
You try walking back and forth, tallying about five miles in a day, maybe more, all while constantly talking to people. This ain't no hike through the woods, folks. This could be an endurance race.
And what better way to celebrate the end of an endurance race than with a cold brew?
What's funny is, we here at the Summit Up World Headquarters usually only go for a day. We're such wusses! Guess what? Those ski industry professionals do it for a whole four days before they're let off the hook. Talk about endurance. Four days, walking and talking, walking and talking? Then, they get a few hours to head up to Winter Park to set up the demo village that stays up for two days before they get a breath of fresh air - finally.
We're in awe of these beer-guzzling ski industry professionals. We hope this Summit Up has made you feel the same way.
With that, we're off. Ta ta and happy Sunday!


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Kansas is not only the nation's leader in the production and milling of wheat, with Friday's grand opening of the Kansas Wheat Innovation Center, Kansas is now home to a state-of-the-art wheat research complex.
Governor Sam Brownback said the innovation center will be an asset for the state and will further solidify Kansas as a leader in the wheat sector.
"In order to continue meeting demands from consumers around the globe, we must conduct research to improve our crops and growing practices," Brownback said. "The Kansas Wheat Innovation Center will play a pivotal role in discovering new technologies and techniques to improve the wheat industry in Kansas and around the world."
Secretary of Agriculture Dale Rodman, who attended the ribbon cutting ceremony, commended the Kansas Wheat Commission for its commitment to being a leader in the U.S. wheat industry. In addition to including office space for the Kansas Wheat Commission and Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, it also will have research space for Heartland Plant Innovations and some of K-State's Wheat Genetics and Genomics Resource Center. The new center is adjacent to K-State's Grain Science and Industry complex on K-State's north campus.
"I applaud the visionary leaders at Kansas Wheat and look forward to partnering with them going forward," Secretary Rodman said.
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BERKELEY -- If Brittany Boyd's injured right ankle was still tender in the second half of Cal's 74-63 victory over No. 15 Arizona State on Sunday at Haas Pavilion, she didn't play like it.
The junior point guard hit her stride coming out of halftime, and, not surprisingly, her teammates followed suit.
Boyd scored 19 of her 21 points after the break, when the No. 22 Bears used an 11-0 run to take control and move into sole possession of second place in the Pac-12. Her strong all-around game also included eight rebounds, six assists and three steals.
"She was on fire," said senior Afure Jemerigbe, who finished with a career-high 23 points. "Definitely Boyd kicking it into gear was the key."
Boyd had rolled the ankle while colliding with an opponent in Friday's win over Arizona, and her status for the Bears' pivotal game against the Sun Devils was uncertain.
But Boyd had barely removed the ice from her injured ankle that night when she informed coach Lindsay Gottlieb that she didn't intend to miss any time.
"She's the toughest competitor that I've ever coached," Gottlieb said. "If there's a chance she can go, she's going to go. ... It was critical for us today that she's such a tough kid."
Boyd winced in pain a few times in the first half when she shot just 1 of 7 from the field.
After the game, she said her ankle felt "fine," it just took her awhile to get into a rhythm.
"I just had to relax," Boyd said. "I just needed to see my layups fall, see the ball in the basket. That really helped me."
Gennifer Brandon and Reshanda Gray both posted double-doubles for the Bears, who avenged a 68-59 loss to the Sun Devils on Jan. 17. Brandon had 15 points and 14 rebounds, while Gray added 11 points and 12 rebounds.
Cal (18-7, 10-4 Pac-12) led by as many as 15 points with 6:48 to play before Arizona State (20-6, 9-5) went on a run, getting within 63-58 with 2:40 left.
But the Bears made enough free throws and grabbed enough rebounds in the closing minutes to secure their fourth straight victory.
"We've showed how much we've improved from when we played (Arizona State) down there," Gottlieb said. "Our collective toughness was really good."
Cal (18-7, 10-4 Pac-12) at UCLA (11-14, 5-8), 8 p.m.
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Thousands of gallons of water flooded a street in downtown Duluth and seeped into some nearby businesses.
Police, firefighters and public works employees worked to keep drivers away from the area Tuesday afternoon after an old water main burst, sending a torrent of water down Superior Street.
Water manager Howard Jacobsen tells the Duluth News Tribune (http://bit.ly/Wedin6 ) the breakage was probably caused when the ground shifted around the aging pipe, causing it to crack.
Water seeped into the Minnesota Power building, but no major damage was expected.
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It doesn't take much to awaken one's inner Scheherazade -- or inner Indiana Jones. The heady aroma of cumin, turmeric and ras el hanout fires the imagination. The complex flavors of a tagine awaken the palate. And your thoughts turn, irresistibly, to Saharan dunes, ancient medinas and, well, dinner. Definitely that.
The tagines of North Africa hold considerable allure, not just in Morocco, where the Berber tribes originated both the distinctive ceramic vessel and the fragrant stews, but here in California, where the cuisine is interpreted at restaurants such as Oakland's Doukkala, and chef Eric Lanvert uses local ingredients to evoke the dishes of Fes, Casablanca and Marrakech.
"Back in the days when I was in the French army, they used to ship us to Dakar in Senegal," Lanvert says. "We used to stop in Morocco and try the delicious cuisine."
So it didn't take much convincing when Doukkala owner Jamal Zahid approached Lanvert and suggested he turn his French background -- he was the chef at San Francisco's Rue Saint Jacques and Cote Sud -- south of the Mediterranean Sea. Now he spends his days surrounded by tagines -- both the pots and the stews.
"We have a considerable amount of tagines," he says. "Forty of them. They constantly break! And none of them is the same size. In a restaurant setting, it's not ideal."
Ah, but on the dinner table it's delicious -- and it's a different type of flavor profile than many of us are used to. In Lanvert's hands, lamb is simmered with almonds and prunes or apricots. For Paris-born Michel Paillet, who runs Faim d'Epices, a cooking school just outside Marrakech, it's beef with pears and candied oranges.
"It's a great combination," Lanvert says. "Something sweet, something sour, something salty. Lamb is a very flavorful meat -- gamy -- the sweetness softens that. You add those fruits, and it starts making sense on the palate. Most of the dishes use dried fruit, but I make beef cheeks and put preserved lemon in there. When you eat it, it's like, 'Oh yeah.'"
Paillet and his staff offer a daylong cooking class that starts with batbout, incredibly easy inch-high flatbreads that are baked in communal ovens in the city's ancient medina -- but can be made in a skillet on the stove just as easily -- and continues on through tagines and the small salads traditionally served by the trio, the quartet or, if you're really lucky, a dozen little bowls strewn across the table.
Those salads and tagines are a topic that sends any lover of Moroccan food into a state of gushing delight. New York food writer Mark Kurlansky breezed through the Bay Area last month on a book tour for "International Night" (Bloomsbury, $29, 374 pages), a cookbook project he did with daughter Talia, a well-traveled high school freshman whose Friday night dinners were inspired by spinning a globe. They ended up loving Moroccan food so much, they devoted two of the 52 Friday night menus in the book to tagines, pastillas and other dishes they learned to make in Marrakech.
Kurlansky included recipes for everything from batbout and a tagine -- lamb with candied oranges, a dish, he says, that comes together relatively quickly because the tagine pot is such an efficient cooking vessel -- to those little salads, including an eggplant salad that is mashed before serving.
"It's garlic, tomato and eggplant, and you basically mush it together," Talia says. "It looks a little weird, but it's a good mush."
Paillet and Lanvert's versions of zaalouk are somewhat less mashed, so the flavors and textures remain distinct.
"The salads are very simple, very tasty, and you have all those fresh vegetables while having tagine or couscous," Lanvert says. "Those salads are very classic -- eggplant, a few spices, a little olive oil. I do beet salad with quail eggs, and I give it a French twist with mache. Shredded cucumber and shredded carrots with garlic and spices. Asparagus with a honey vinaigrette and spices."
And oranges, Mark Kurlansky adds, with olives, fresh herbs and argan oil, a nutty oil unique to Morocco. "That happens to be one of my two favorite recipes in the book," he says.
The beauty of those salads is that they can be thrown together quickly, during the hour the tagine is burbling away on the stove.
"A tagine," Mark says, "does not take all day to make."
That the aromas perfume your home and send your thoughts drifting in a Saharan direction is just a bonus.
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The distinctive ceramic pots used in North African cooking don't just look great. They are incredibly versatile. They promote slow, even cooking on the stovetop over a direct flame or electric burner, and their conical tops gently trap and drip the dish's moisture and juices back into the stew or couscous.
Moroccan fare
Moroccan food is not as well-represented in the Bay Area as, say, Sichuan or Mexican food, but there are a number of enticing Moroccan restaurants around. Here's just a sampling that runs the full gamut, from Michelin-starred Aziza to Menara, which offers belly dancing and a hookah lounge:
Aziza, 5800 Geary Blvd., San Francisco; www.aziza-sf.com
Doukkala, 4905 Telegraph Ave., Oakland; www.doukkalarestaurant.com
El Morocco, 2203 Morello Ave., Pleasant Hill; http://elmorocco.net
Le Tajine, 663 Laurel St., San Carlos; www.letajinerestaurant.com
Menara Moroccan, 41 E. Gish Road, San Jose; www.menara41.com
Cooking classes
Kitchen on Fire: This Berkeley cooking school offers Moroccan cooking classes as part of its Couples in the Kitchen and regional cooking series. Check out the schedule at http://kitchenonfire.com.
Draeger's Cooking School: Joanne Weir is teaching a course on modern Moroccan cooking at the San Mateo cooking school on Sept. 25; www.draegerscookingschool.com.
If you're heading to Morocco and want to not only taste the culture but learn to cook it as well, Faim d'Epices' highly entertaining daylong classes include transportation to and from your Marrakech hotel; www.faimdepices.com.


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For more information on mental illness, visit mygcal.com or www.behavioralhealthlink.com.
If you or a loved one is at risk, you can call the Georgia Crisis & Access Line at 1-800-715-4225.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW) -- After the latest mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut, President Obama has promised to make the country safer by making it harder to buy guns, but he also says access to mental health can help in preventing violent tragedies. However, getting that help can be difficult.
When you first enter the room, nothing seems out of the ordinary -- just a group of people singing and enjoying time together, but before the music started, the group was talking about situations, problems, feelings and most importantly how to overcome their own mental health issues.
"Mental illness is not a bad thing. Mental illness is not a negative," said Ann Lewis, who works at Friendship Community Center.
The center helps adults in recovery from emotional and mental disorders.
Lewis says mental illness affects everyone.
"There are people who are living with mental illness who are successful. There are people who are living with mental illness who are homeless," Lewis said.
Dr. Alex Mabe, a clinical psychologist and professor at GRU Augusta, says access to mental health across the country can be tough to get.
"Probably somewhere around 80 percent of people who have a mental illness of some sort cannot get or don't get the services they actually need," Mabe said.
And that number could be worse here.
"Especially in the state of Georgia, we have not nearly enough manpower for mental health services. We don't have enough psychologist, psychiatrist, to really meet the needs at hand," Mabe said.
That's something Lewis has experienced firsthand. She says the help is there, but you have to search for it and have patience.
"You do have to do work, and my work was making sure I made it to my appointments. Sometimes if it took a couple of hours for me to be seen, but that was OK. It was worth it, 'cause not being seen was worse," Lewis said.
And mental health experts might argue that not being seen can have very dangerous consequences.
"Never be ashamed, never be afraid, always ask for help," Lewis said.
For more information on mental illness, visit mygcal.com or http://www.behavioralhealthlink.com. If you or a loved one is at risk, you can call the Georgia Crisis & Access Line at 1-800-715-4225.


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Dr. Oz, union plumber aid injured British tourist
Published: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 8:34 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at 8:34 a.m.
NEW YORK (AP) — Quick-thinking good Samaritans, including a union plumber and celebrity doctor Mehmet Oz, helped save the life of a British tourist whose leg was severed by a runaway taxi in midtown Manhattan.
The 23-year-old victim, Sian Green, was struck in Rockefeller Center on Tuesday.
David Justino fashioned a tourniquet with his plumber's belt for one of Green's legs. He used a dog leash for the other injured leg.
TV's "Dr. Oz," who was walking in the area, rushed over when he heard the accident. He credited Justino for saving the woman's life.
A nearby food truck owner, Max Crespo, said he placed her severed limb in a bucket of ice.
Police say the cab driver was issued a summons for being an unauthorized driver. The circumstances of the accident are under investigation.
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JUNIOR (2012): Undoubtedly one of Santa Clara's top players and was named an All-WCC Honorable Mention award-winner ... played in all 19 games, helping SCU go 11-6-2 overall and 8-2-2 in WCC play ... started in 16 of those contests ... scored three goals, had three assists and totaled 26 shots ... Montes' 26 shots ranked third on the team and his 12 shots on goal tied for second ... had an assist in SCU's early-season victory at Duke (Aug. 31) ... followed that up with a goal against N.C. State (Sept. 2) two days later ... scored again vs. San Jose State (Sept. 9) at home ... credited with a career-best two assists vs. NJIT (Sept. 21) ... scored in SCU's WCC-opening win vs. San Diego (Sept. 28) ... notched a season-best six shots vs. Gonzaga (Oct. 14), putting five on goal.
SOPHOMORE (2011): Was once again a key part of Santa Clara's side in 2011 ... played in 18 of the team's 20 games and started 15 times, helping the Broncos post the WCC's best overall record (11-5-4) and earn a national ranking of No. 18 ... Montes scored twice, had three assists and totaled 20 shots ... his first-ever collegiate goal came during a 4-0 rout over Nebraska-Omaha (Sept. 9) ... had two shots or more in eight different games ... he had a season-high three shots and dished out two assists in a 4-2 win at No. 14 Cal (Sept. 16) ... he scored and assisted to account for three-points and help Santa Clara knock off WCC rival San Diego (Oct. 30) ... played all but five combined minutes in critical road wins to close out the season at Gonzaga (Nov. 11) and at Portland (Nov. 13) to give SCU a chance at winning the WCC title.
FRESHMAN (2010): Part of an outstanding first-year class that helped Santa Clara win the 2010 West Coast Conference Championship ... one of just four players to start in all 21 games, including the NCAA tournament match at Sacramento State (Nov. 18) ... totaled 17 shots and put six on goal ... the 17 shots ranked sixth on the team ... distributed an assist in a pivotal 2-1 victory at San Diego (Oct. 29), during a weekend in which the Broncos took over first place in the league standings ... totaled a season-high three shots in two early-season games, vs. Wisconsin (Sept. 4) and vs. Valparaiso (Sept. 10) ... played a total of 1,126 minutes, which was among the most by any Bronco in 2010.
AT JAMES LICK: 2010 graduate of James Lick High School in San Jose, Calif. … played for the De Anza Force in the US Soccer Development Academy … coached by Raymond Iniguez … was a 2009 US Soccer Academy Select Team/Showcase selection … coached by Santa Clara staff while playing with De Anza Force Academy … was a 2010 Northwest Division Market Training team honoree … also played golf and ran cross country.
PERSONAL DATA: Born in San Jose, Calif. … parents are Carlos and Dora Montes … has one younger brother, Anthony … hobbies include soccer, golf, and playing all sports … aspires to play professional soccer and have a career in business after college … He will be majoring in Finance.


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Jerry's offers a lineup of well over 100 sandwiches, including named creations, warm sandwiches, burgers, hickory-smoked stuff, and rotating collection of specials. In addition, we allow customers "in the know" to create their own sandwiches by mixing and matching. And we've become a bar, featuring many (and only) North American craft beers as well as a growing collection of American whiskeys. Rounding out the excess, Jerry's offers some fine music from a digital database of tens of thousands of songs.
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Great neighborhood BYOB (with no corkage fee) restaurant. The Crab Rangoon and wide varieties of sushi are fresh and all of our food is tasty and well presented.
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365-days-a-year for great food and fun! We offer several seating areas for your dining pleasure. Come enjoy our all-weather patio with retractable roof or cozy up next to the fireplace in our dining room. You can eat, drink, and converse with your friends outside at our dog friendly front side cafe or catch your favorite sporting event in our lounge. We offer the best late night dining on the North Side, serving food until 3am!
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Yarn Profile:
First Impressions
Natural dyeing requires far more time and effort but produces some truly stunning colors while treading gently on the environment. Rather than use synthetic chemicals or even natural dye extracts, Hayes uses actual dyestuffs (such as madder, cochineal, logwood, and brazilwood), harvesting almost one-third of all dyestuffs herself.
Hayes currently offers her Nature's Palette naturally dyed yarns in 30 solid colors and five multicolored options called "Odd Duck" because of the random process she uses to create them. Even among the solids, there can be a delicate shift among hues, as I noticed with the yarn in this review.
Nature's Palette is currently available in fingering and worsted weights. For this review I focus on the DK weight, which is the most common weight for her patterns, in the Light Teal color.
Knitting Up
Blocking / Washing
Even while wet, I could see a distinct surface bloom. The rippled surface had also calmed slightly.
Once the swatches dried, I saw no fading of color. But my unwashed 6.5 stitches per inch on US 5 needles had relaxed to a fairly steady 6 stitches per inch.
This particular yarn wears well because of the hard spin and two plies, although even more plies would help any harder-wearing socks.
True to merino, my swatches did not cause any itching, even when rubbed against more sensitive areas such as face and neck. This means you could make marvelous scarves and form-fitting sweaters with this yarn.
Structurally the yarn reminds me of Koigu Premium Merino, only with more yardage, a lower price, and a dramatically different underlying color philosophy.
This yarn begs to be knit into socks or an openwork lace scarf. A medium-sized pair of women's socks with some trim detail will require 350 yards, or two skeins (a mere $20). A shawl similar to the Charlotte's Web shawl from Koigu would require about five skeins, or $50.
Sure, you could probably find a similar-weight yarn for less—but it may not be a pure merino that's been carefully hand-dyed in small batches right here in the U.S. using only natural dye materials. I know I have my eye on a few colors for my next pair of handknit socks.
Yarn name
Nature's Palette
Hand Jive Knits
Fiber content
100% merino wool
None given on label. Knits up at fingering weight (7 to 8 stitches per inch on US 1-3 needles) but can easily expand to US 10 needles for patterns with more open stitchwork, such as lace
Average retail price
Where to buy online
Hand Jive Knits
Weight/yardage per skein
50 g / 185 yards
Country of origin
Manufacturer's suggested wash method
Hand wash with cold water. Air dry flat. (We also recommend keeping your yarn out of direct sunlight because naturally dyed yarns tend to be less colorfast than their chemically treated counterparts.)
Review date
Color used in review
Light Teal (NP-110)
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They neatly condense our world into bite-size bytes. They comfort us with their supreme confidence and refreshing brevity. And they could be destined to become the hieroglyphics of our digital age.
The "Top 10 Lists of 2012" are now pouring over the transom of our email inboxes and Twitter streams, spurred by the social media explosion and a cavalry of blogging pundits promising to make sense of the chaos out there. And like moths to that online flame, we find ourselves sucked right in.
Facebook doesn't simply tell us what just happened -- it employs its trending algorithms to line up the year's events in an orderly queue of popularity, the "U.S. Presidential Election" parked just in front of "Super Bowl XLVI" and "Death of Whitney Houston."
Google (GOOG) takes the "toptenification" of America to new heights, releasing this past week its annual "Year-End Zeitgeist," which it calls "a spirit of the times that showcases the people, places, and topics that captured the world's attention this year."
And while Time gives us the "Worst Tweets of 2012," and list-crazy sites like Poptens.com deliver us the year's "Richest Rappers," Linktown serves up the Top Tattoo Artists in San Antonio, selected presumably by tatted-up Texans who know these places firsthand, or perhaps first-biceps.
"These lists take our world and translate it into digestible bites," says Buford Barr, a professor at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University. "They're a reflection not only of the fact that people nowadays don't read -- they scan -- but also of the speed of our lives. If something doesn't download in five seconds, we move on."
Lists, of course, come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. But Shell Harris, founder of list-site Toptenz.net, says, "Twelve or eight or seven just aren't good numbers. There's something really soothing about 10."
Earlier this month, the godfather of the Top Ten List, late-night talk-show host David Letterman, was awarded the Kennedy Center Honors and saluted by President Barack Obama. Actor Alec Baldwin even offered a Top Ten List of the reasons Letterman was winning the prize, considered one of the nation's cultural crown jewels.
There's also something emotionally agitating about these lists, says Harris, who founded his site in 2008 as an ode to a short form of writing that has become a mainstay of magazines -- Cosmo's sex tips, anyone? -- and now the Web. Lists touch a nerve, Harris says, because "people will never agree on all 10 items on any given list. We always get arguments breaking out in the comment section of our site.
"And if you really want to start a fire, do a list about politics or religion," he says. "I can have a list of five Democrats and five Republicans, and the Republicans will say there are too many Democrats on the list while the Democrats say there are too many Republicans."
And so we plod through the thicket of the top-10 season, where scores of lists lay out the past year for us like some collective autopsy of the calendar's corpse. There are the scientific, based-on-real-numbers lists, like Bloomberg's Best and Worst U.S. Large-Cap Stock Investments of 2012 (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, up 219 percent; Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), down 49 percent). There are those vote-your-favorite, user-generated lists like the one hoisting South Presa Ink Tattoos & Piercing to the coveted top spot in San Antonio.
And then there are those lists borne of what New York blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash calls "the spirit of holiday laziness. You see these lists come out at the very end of the year, when people aren't very productive," he says. "So you have people reading the lists, who are lazy and half checked-out and looking for ways to waste time at work, and then you have the writers and editors who don't want to do some big investigative piece at the end of December. It's easy to knock out 10 things on a list."
Meanwhile, the crush of online year-end lists seems to be mushrooming. And it probably is, given the way websites and blogs make you click through 10 pages to see the 10 items, thus creating 10 separate platforms for ads to appear. As Dash puts it, "Given the economics of the Internet, things that drive a lot of advertising will get a disproportionate amount of Web pages. And there is no easier way to get people to click on 10 pages than to create a list of 10 things."
Heck, maybe Web entrepreneurs have found the Holy Grail in the top 10 list. As Santa Clara University's Barr points out, "Once you hook a reader into that first thing on the list, they're quite likely to read all 10. The items are usually short and easy to read, and they give users this superficial knowledge they can then share with their buddies and sound intelligent."
And even with all that heavy clicking, Cult of Mac Editor and Publisher Leander Kahney says, "Everyone loves these lists because they give people a chance to debate the subject at hand. Before he died, we used to do a list of the top 10 Steve Jobs quotes of the year, and people would always say, 'I can't believe you left out such and such.'"
Kahney calls the top-10 lists "Web crack."
But Dash disagrees.
"Lists are not as energetic as crack; they're more like Web mashed potatoes," he says. "You just keep eating them up at year's end until January arrives."
Contact Patrick May at 408-920-5689 or follow him at Twitter.com/patmaymerc.


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Tesla's Elon Musk Joins The Obama Victory Lap
Mitt Romney memorably dubbed Tesla Motors a "loser" during the presidential race, lumping the electric car company together with other troubled (or bankrupt) businesses that received government support from the Obama administration.
Now, with Romney recovering from the biggest loss of his life and the Tesla Model S sedan last night being awarded Motor Trend's Car of the Year prize, its CEO Elon Musk is having a brief moment of gloat — for his car, but also toward the man who dubbed his business a loser.
Speaking at a media event yesterday celebrating the Car of the Year award, here's what Musk had to say, according to Fox News:
Musk contrasted the Model S, the winner of the award, to the "loser" remark made during the campaign–by parsing the comment grammatically.
Mr. Romney, he suggested, had gotten "the object, but not the subject" of the remark right.
A standing-room-only crowd of Tesla owners and depositors laughed and cheered his comment.
And here's what Motor Trend's Angus MacKenzie had to say about the Model S, the first electric vehicle to ever win the award:
The 2013 Motor Trend Car of the Year is one of the quickest American four-doors ever built. It drives like a sports car, eager and agile and instantly responsive. But it's also as smoothly effortless as a Rolls-Royce, can carry almost as much stuff as a Chevy Equinox, and is more efficient than a Toyota Prius. Oh, and it'll sashay up to the valet at a luxury hotel like a supermodel working a Paris catwalk. By any measure, the Tesla Model S is a truly remarkable automobile, perhaps the most accomplished all-new luxury car since the original Lexus LS 400. That's why it's our 2013 Car of the Year.
The WSJ's Jonathan Welsh, who describes car of the year awards as "mostly useless," gives this particular award a little more credence than many thanks to its history – but acknowledges some dud cars have managed to win it in the past:
At least Motor Trend magazine, known as MT, can say it has been giving its Car of the Year award for more than 60 years, making the rest look like Johnny-come-lately. That's not to say the glossy road-test book has a perfect record. I think two words, "Renault Alliance," suggest how many grains of salt one should take with this award. That awful car won the award in 1983.
Other questionable winners include the 1971 Chevrolet Vega, 1976 Plymouth Volare, 1990 Lincoln Town Car and 1997 Chevy Malibu, (rental-car of the year, maybe).
But MT often gets it right, as with Ford's first-generation Taurus and this year with the Tesla Model S.
Here are the Motor Trend judges debating the various candidates for the top prize this year:


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SAN DIEGO -- Real-world issues are rare at Comic-Con where fantasy almost always trumps reality. But for the stars and the director of "Ender's Game," comments made by Orson Scott Card regarding gay marriage are leading to questions about the issue as they promote the science fiction film.
Card has expressed opposition to gay marriage in the past and that has led some to call for a boycott. There were no signs of protest Wednesday as young stars Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld and the film's director, Gavin Hood, began to promote the sci-fi adventure film based on Card's novel. There was a full day of questions ahead, though, as "Ender's Game" took center stage Thursday.
"My view is I've been a member of the Courage Campaign for many years and I'm a little distressed by his point of view on gay marriage," Hood said.
"However, the book is not about that issue, so I hope people can still appreciate the book because I think he wrote a great book, and the themes and ideas in the book, I think, are universal and timeless and applicable, and I hope the book will still be appreciated as a great work of art, even though I don't agree with the author. I optioned the book, not an author, and I love what the author said in that book."
Card turned down an interview request by The Associated Press. He told Entertainment Weekly that the issue is now "moot" given the Supreme Court's recent ruling and, "Now it will be interesting to see whether the victorious proponents of gay marriage will show tolerance toward those who disagreed with them when the issue was still in dispute."
Lionsgate Entertainment also issued a statement rebuking Card's position and said it would hold a benefit premiere to LGBT causes.
Butterfield, who plays the film's title character, said "I agree with rights for everybody" and that Card's views shouldn't change how audiences receive the film or book.
"You can't blame a work for its author," the 16-year-old British actor said.
Hood said the book's themes of kindness and compassion are what drew him to the story, and he was surprised by Card's position.
"I think it's slightly bitterly ironic that those themes that are present in the book are not carried through on his particular view on gay marriage," Hood said.
AP writer Ryan Pearson in San Diego contributed to this report. Follow AP Music Writer Chris Talbott: http://twitter.com/Chris--Talbott .


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Comments about Haul-Master 5/16 in. Quick Links 3 Pc:
I used them to attach heavy duty buckets to a cattle panel fence as feeders for my ram sheep. They (rams) can be pretty hard on the buckets by rubbing on them. Heavy wire was no match for the rams. The rams would manage to unbend it and rip the buckets off the fence. These quick links are the only thing that has held up. So far, problem solved...
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Good quality at reasonable prices. Use quick links and chain to hang/attach things that need to be safe/secure
I like the use of the quick links and most of all the cost
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I use the quick links on my trailer to latch onto straps.I like the strength they are capable of holding.
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Good finish on parts and threads align properly.
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Out of the packages I bought none were the same size didn't work well went back to the store the same issue was present in all of the packages.
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Behold, the perfect storm of Paz de la Huerta: America's messiest starlet eating burrito while having a purposeful wardrobe malfunction, in front of the paparazzi on a street in New York. Paz, bra, burrito. Let this be the holy trinity of New York City celebrity sightings, forever.
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Solid fun show from '89, 4.... out of 5.
Sunday, 05/21/1989
320 Spear Street, Burlington, VT
Set 1: HoodHarry Hood, Foam, Contact, Mike'sMike's Song[1] > HydrogenI Am Hydrogen > WeekapaugWeekapaug Groove, SOAMeltSplit Open and Melt, Dazed and Confused[2], SlothThe Sloth, YEMYou Enjoy Myself > Ya Mar, BagAC/DC Bag > DividedDivided Sky
Set 2: AlumniAlumni Blues, Possum
[1] Alternate lyrics.
[2] First known Phish performance.
· Godzilla vocal jam in You Enjoy Myself
Average Song Gap: 2.43
Performers: Trey Anastasio, Page McConnell, Jon Fishman, Mike Gordon
Notes: Before Contact, the band announced that the police were towing cars out on Spear Street. This version of Mike's Song, known also as "Molly's Song," included alternate lyrics. This show marked the only known Phish performance of Dazed and Confused. YEM included a Godzilla vocal jam. SOAM was introduced as being "about a pig." The setlist for set II is unknown except for Chris Kuroda's guest sit-in on vocals for either Alumni Blues or Possum. It is also possible that Kuroda sat in on both songs. There are no recordings of set II in circulation. Some recordings that circulate are mislabeled as The Front. The set II information comes from phish.com.
Song Distribution:
4 Junta
4 The White Tape
3 The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday
2 Stash
1 Lawn Boy
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This show was part of the "1989 Tour."
Solid fun show from '89, 4.... out of 5.
Just one of those real good-time gigs that's a blast to listen to and imagine being at. 4 stars for this, easily.
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UN Chief Acts on Labor Camps
For the human rights groups that work hard to bring international attention to the abuses at North Korea's network of vast prison camps, Monday's call for an international inquiry into the camps by the United Nations' human rights chief marked a breakthrough moment.
More-visible human rights violations in countries such as Syria tend to hog media attention, despite the significantly larger scale of the problem in North Korea. Political interest in North Korea is usually concentrated on the threat it represents to neighboring countries rather than to its own people.
For UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay, a meeting that helped convince her of the need for more attention on the rights abuses came last year with two survivors of North Korea's labor camps, including Shin Dong-hyuk, a man who spent the first 23 years of his life in a camp.
"Their personal stories were extremely harrowing," Ms. Pillay said. "They described a system that represents the very antithesis of international human rights norms."
North Korea's camps are estimated to hold around 200,000 people who are subjected to brutal living conditions, forced hard labor, torture and malnutrition. Pyongyang denies the existence of any camps despite first-hand testimony and detailed satellite imagery.
Citizens' Alliance for North Korean Human Rights, a non-governmental organization based in Seoul, brought Mr. Shin to meet Ms. Pillay in Geneva, part of a decade-long campaign aimed at convincing officials to take fresh action.
"For Citizens' Alliance and me personally this is very important because it's been 10 years since we started to go to Geneva to draw attention to human rights abuses in North Korea," said Joanna Hosaniak, head of international campaigns at the group.
"At that time, the environment was very hostile and not many diplomats wanted to talk to us," she said.
To move the process forward now, a resolution calling for a commission of inquiry needs to be submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in March.
Japan or the U.K. are viewed as potential sponsors, although both countries are likely to be wary of the backlash from North Korea of taking such a step. The U.K. maintains an embassy in Pyongyang and runs cultural programs in the North, while Japan has been in negotiations over the unresolved issue of Japanese nationals abducted by the North.
Ms. Pillay's call for an inquiry is the latest ramp-up of international pressure on North Korea over human rights. Last year, the general assembly of the UN passed a resolution condemning North Korea's human rights abuses by consensus and without any opposition from China, the North's main supporter. The U.S. also extended its North Korea human rights act through 2017 last year, while Japan has similar legislation and the EU regularly raises human rights problems in North Korea.
For outsiders, one puzzling question is why South Korea doesn't apply more pressure on North Korea over human rights, including those of South Korean nationals held in the North. Legislation addressing the problem occasionally gets submitted to parliament but is routinely blocked by left-of-center parties over concerns it will upset the North. There was no substantial debate over human rights in North Korea during the race for South Korea's presidency last year.
Ms. Pillay also called for North Korea to clarify the fate of many Japanese and South Korean nationals abducted or forcibly detained by the North.
South Korea's Unification Ministry, which handles relations with North Korea, said it appreciated the UN's involvement in the issue.
"We are well aware of the human rights situation in North Korea and we welcome the international community's efforts on this issue," a spokesman said.


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The Linux Foundation Summit: Of Maddogs and Englishmen (and Sharks)
By barton808 on Apr 11, 2008
Earlier this week I attended the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, serendipitously held here Austin. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet a lot of the people in the community whom I hadn't met before as well as to catch up with old friends.
Maddog (R) helping Executive Director Jim "Led" Zemlin to Flourish
Great Speakers
(and I'm not talking Bose, which really aren't great speakers anyway)
There was an impressive line up of panels and speakers the first day of the summit ranging from Al Gillen of IDC to the Kernel Hackers panel to Brian Stevens, CTO of Red Hat (here's a good write up of the panel and Al's presentation). My personal favorite, and I may be biased, was Marten Mickos' presentation. I thought he came across as sincere and relaxed, yet authoritative. Marten re-affirmed MySQL's commitment to GNU/Linux and talked about the "New Sun" characterized by, among other things, a "bold and humble new management."
One thing that struck me, particularly during the Q&A session of the kernel panel, was the preponderance of Englishmen. It seemed for a while there, one question after another was being asked by someone sounding like Hugh Grant (or at least closer to M. Grant than Ricky Gervais).
A Super Location
The event was held at UT's Super Computing Center about 10 minutes from my office and the exact same place where, six weeks ago I attended the dedication of Ranger: the Sun Constellation Linux Cluster. In fact during the Summit they had tours of Ranger, aka"the world's most powerful supercomputer for open science research."
If you want to get a feel of what its like to walk-through this uber computer check out this video that Whurley shot during the tour.
Qua bottle lounge, where Tuesday's fete was held: Below the plexiglass dance floor swam sharks and manta rays.
Open Source, Open Bar
Of course the biggest value in a summit like this comes in the after hours get togethers where you really get to meet people. The Summit was no exception. While the breakfast spread at the conference was put to shame by the breakfast spread that the Free Software Foundation (the Free Software Foundation!) offered at its member meeting, the food and drink Tuesday night was first class.
I can't remember the last time I've been to a truly open bar. I reflexively asked for a beer at the bar assuming that beverages would be limited to beer and two colors of wine. I was quite surprised then a little while later when the hostess asked the person next to me what they wanted to drink he asked for a vodka tonic. From there on it was margaritas for me!
James Bottomley (kernel SCSI god) picks the second winner in the raffle. I was the first winner and will be getting the new HP mini note running SUSE, Yippee!
Old Apple buddies, Mark Murphy (now of Canonical and who has the pleasure of dealing with me on a regular basis) and Zaheda Bhorat (of Google and tireless ODF champion)


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I have taken the drive out of the case to see which drive is inside and it was an st2000dm001 though that doesn't mean a lot. The important bit is the serial number mine was Z1Exxxxx. The Z means that it was made in Thailand and the E means that it is one of the 2 platter hdd's. I found this guide.
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I purchased two of these to use to back up my data. One being used, one offsite.
I use Windows 7 Backup scheduled to backup at midnight each day. Or at least I would have liked to!
These drives are not supported by Windows Backup since they use a 4K sector size. A technological advancement that has been around for years and Microsoft are intent on ignoring for anything other than Win8.
Note: This is not Seagates fault but MS's, however it would be nice if Seagate (who do know about this issue) state this fact and stop people wasting their money.
These drives do however work, quite adequately as external hard drives if all you want to do is copy files over manually.
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Developers eyeing Staunton Avenue location for facility
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VIENNA — A new multimillion-dollar retirement community will be coming to Wood County. The announcement of the Lakeside Landing retirement community will be made during a gathering from 3-5 p.m....
If this is out on I 77, why is Mr. Newell involved? Is they city planning to annex Route 47 ?
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If this is out on I 77, why is Mr. Newell involved? Is they city planning to annex Route 47 ?
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Well said "beepbeep"
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Well said Beepbeep. Tabledoc has the typical Right Wing attitude when it comes to anything POSITIVE or PROGRESSIVE that happens in this MID OHIO VALLEY. I wouldn't expect to see our Congressman McKinley {R} there either. He too, would be NEGATIVE because it may have some JOBS for this area and might possibly look good for OBAMA.
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This should be a positive development for Parkersburg. I hope the Mayor is not the only leader who has vision for the area.
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I just hope they make this a real retirement community and keep the welfare baby mamas and druggies out!
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It is not on I77 but I cant tell you where you will have to wait just start looking around and you can find it shure hope they raise they raise the $2.50 a weak to $5.00 if they are going to pocket some may as well get a bunch like to know where it all goes which has nothing to do with the retirement center just something on my mind don't live in pburg but I shure am gonna drive all over to get my $2.50 worth god bless
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Hope they use local workers bet they wont
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Goldnblue are you a buckeye fan
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When has Parkersburg become a haven for high end retirement types? Housing development with benefits might go over big in the Sun Belt but here in the MOV Crud Belt, not so much. Aren't places named landings usually on the water? Hope this works out a lot better than the 757's using the Airport for layovers and repair. Has the same smell, invest in Lee Hill get stuck with a whole lot of a lot.
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My guess is it will be on the Little Kanawha. Near Millers Landing on Happy Valley road. Charles Townsend once tried to build a development on it, but never got the financing. Big field right beside the North Bend trail. On another positive note, one of my friends has a high dollar residence and was looking for advice from a local bank.He was considering selling it. He was advised to wait. He was told that there was a possibility that a "cracker plant" was in the works for the property between the Sabic plant and Northwest Pipe.Larry Morehead must of had a reason to finally rehab the Uptowner Inn for weekly rentals. It has been laying fallow for decades. I heard a rumor that the folks that occupy the ground where the plant may go in are looking for another place to put their ball fields. Just a rumor. But alot of dots are beginning to connect.
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Northwest Pipe is also part of the land needed. Plants directly upstream are planning for overpasses across the tracks because of the number of tank cars to be parked on the tracks. Isn't the fields beyond Miller's Landing in the flood plain?
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I have not seen the Miller Property under water. Now that you bring it up. I did hear that the Northwest pipe property was part of the deal. They were shown property to relocate in. So far no deal. There are pyrophoric radioactive chemicals encased in a clay on the property that belong to the US in the southwest corner. I heard that there have been core sampling in the field.Personally, I think it is going to happen.Drive to Clarksburg on rt 50 . Doddridge county is looking like a pincushion. That beautiful valley on the right near Tarklin rd has been destroyed. Cement trucks, water trucks in convoy. They are hard at it.The second energy boom is unfolding all around us. And we will see very little of the money. WV has been used and abused for 150 years. We have the energy and someone steals it from us. Look at the southern coalfields, billions of dollars of coal extracted on the backs of WV miners, and yet the poorest counties in America. This has got to be corrected.
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The Doddridge County Court House made 30,000 dollars in one month at 25 cents a copy from abstactors searching titles. They are scheduling access to the courthouse records.All up and down the Burning Springs Anticline, from Brooke County south it is the same. There are so many outsiders working here it is a boon to Camper sales. They are clustered wherever they can rent a spot with power, water and sewage. And yet the PNS has yet to report anything . This is a VERY big event. A Parkersburg Upholstery shop spent the winter making skirts for trailers to keep pipes from freezing. And the sounds of silence from the PNS. Send Todd out, he might "trip" over something!
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WTAP reports WVUP is getting neighbors, so it sounds as if Hobie might be right on location. To the east and now Washington county is seeing much drilling activity. Drove up at of Lowell to view one of the pads that had just been bulldozed but no rigs set yet. Ended up in Macksburg and a 10 story rotary rig high on a hill with a gateguard so no entry. Cabot plans to drill in Wood County within the year and lay a 30" gas pipeline to supplement the existing pipes. All that gas is going somewhere and hopefully that will end at the cracker plant in Washington bottom. 3 to 4 billion in construction with more plants that use the materials as feed stock. The second oil and gas boom may at last bring some economic boost the area sorely needs. Our children need more than flipping burgers as a future.
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beepbeep I see you cant read between the lines also
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If someone is going to complain about grammar, they should at least know how to spell it.
I hope the cracker lands in Wood county, just not at the old Ames plant site, the air is bad enough from the asphalt plant on Hickory St. At least our livers aren't processing the paint from Ames any longer. Yes, that plant was listed among the highest in the nation for emissions of liver toxins. Funny how you never heard of that.
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Buying your first home, or any home, involves a good deal of planning, prioritizing, and decision-making. When the time comes, you will have to make decisions about what you want, and what you are willing to give up, in order to make the best decision you can. Economics involves making choices. This lesson will help you learn how to identify and compare alternatives when making a financial decision.
In this lesson, you will listen to an audio file describing some of the factors people have to consider when making choices about buying a new home. Then you will develop a list of priorities you and your classmates would consider most important when buying your own home. Finally, you will evaluate a selection of homes to determine what you would choose – and what you would choose to give up – if you were buying one of the homes on the list. You will be able to see how advertising may increase competition among buyers and/or sellers, and therefore affect costs and prices.
Activity One
Look at the housing advertisement section of a newspaper or online, and pick one house you find appealing. Answer the following questions about the housing ad:
- Why did you select that house? List five reasons.
- Which words in the ad made the house appealing?
- What factors did you find most important?
For ads check the following realtors websites:
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Enter your zip code and a search radius then click "Find Properties!"
Select one of the Century 21 offices that come up
On the right hand menu select "view all our listings"
Enter your zip code in the box that says "Search Millions of U.S. Properties"
Enter your City, State, County, and Zip code in the Quick Searches Box
- TIP: If you are having trouble finding houses, expand your search radius under the advanced search option if one is available.
Listen to the Marketplace audio file from August 6, 2001 . Play from 1:10 through 3:12.
Then re-read your chosen advertisement and decide what the factors are that made you most interested in that home. With the entire class, discuss the following:
Opportunity cost is the value, whether monetary or personal, of what we give up in favor of something we have decided is more important. Every decision has a cost – the next best alternative we give up in favor of the chosen product or service.
When buying a home, purchasers weigh all the factors they would like in a home, and then they pick the closest combination of factors to their "ideal" in order to make a decision. The next best alternative is the opportunity cost in that decision.
- If you were buying a house, would you choose to live further from your job in order to get a bigger house? Why or why not?
- What factors would you prioritize? Cost? School system? Yard size? Number of bedrooms? Age of the home?
- Why do different people choose different options for their homes? How do you decide when you have to give up something you really want?
Activity Two
With your teacher, make a list of factors students in your class would prioritize when making a decision about buying a home. Using the group list, take turns sharing the top three factors you and your classmates would choose as most important. Have someone in the class, or your teacher, make tally marks next to each factor as it is chosen as someone's "number one" priority.
Does your class share priorities, or are there differences? Look at the housing advertisement from the earlier activity and decide the following:
- How did the advertisements affect which house you chose?
- Were there descriptors listed in one advertisement that made you look for the same descriptors in another advertisement?
- Do you think buyers have more influence over what sellers advertise or do sellers' advertisements have more influence over what buyers look for?
Discuss with a partner whether you would still choose that house over another one based on the criteria you have listed.
Activity Three
Complete the interactive activity titled Reality Realty. A printable version of the houses and their descriptions is also available.
If you need help thinking of adjectives to describe your house, click on the help button or use the Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus .
Take turns sharing your descriptions with your classmates. Explain how you used your understanding of opportunity cost to make decisions about which home you would select.
Write a letter to your parents describing your first home purchase. Tell them about the things you considered when making your decision. What did you prioritize? What did you give up? Explain how you came to your decision, and whether you feel you made the right decision for yourself.
Answer the following questions about a house you create. If you have questions, refer to the houses in the "Reality Realty" activity or the print version of the houses and their descriptions.
- How would buying a house be different if advertisements included good and not so good things about the house being sold?
- How would opportunity cost still apply to the decision making process?
After you complete the activity, print your answers and discuss them in small groups or as a class.