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Just thought I´d start this as I expect there won´t be a thread after the game with more action likely along the sack the manager theme!
Good first half even if Luis is strangely wayward with some of his shooting. Great equaliser from Sturridge who I hope comes out second half.
Playing with perhaps just a little too much caution for me maybe and relying on scoring on the break but overall a pleasing showing so far. Defense much better overall which is nice. Jamie obviously having his usual influence.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
I normally like to write up my post match review but the office is cold and my fingers hurt so I am going to do a short sentence analysis player by player!
Reina: Other then the mistake looked really solid and reliable, crazy moment would have been easily forgotten had Aguero not pulled off that audacious finish. When you find yourself coming to his defence so regularly, there is a problem.
Johnson: For me, only Zabaletta could hold a claim to being a more consistent performer, ironic that they both dropped a clanger each today. Wouldnt swap him for anyone in England.
Carragher: Never let pace be a concern, so tight to his man and uses every part of his body and mind to avoid being caught in 1 vs 1's. Like a new signing.
Agger: Looked woeful 1st half but adds so much to the build up going forward.
Enrique: Average outing but understandable on return from injury.
Downing: Goes through some graft, not amazing creatively today but looked progressive and intelligent.
Gerrard: Made some weird hollywood attempts, I guess they always either look great or woeful, fantastic engine and nothing needs be said about that strike.
Lucas: Looked the 'old' Lucas, hustle and bustle and snappy passing.
Henderson: Joe Allen must be kicking himself watching Jordy tear it up, his shirt to lose now.
Sturridge: Probably the best he has ever played for anyone, absolute menace, great passing, never lost the ball and venomous striking. Awful tache though.
Suarez: Nice jinkery and work rate, finishing was poor considering how many chances he had.
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Hobs, I agree with much of that, and it's actually amazing that despite some not having outstanding performances we are able to hold our own, which tells me a small step up and this squad can produce even more.
Jose stands out for me. We really do look a much more balanced side when he's in the starting 11 both defensively and going forward, but I agree he did not have an outstanding day at the office which makes him a real threat for us when he is at his best.
I'd also call out Lucas, who I felt did a magnificent job in patrolling the center, leaving the City front line feeding on scraps. It's not pretty what he does, but it is efficient and it allows Gerrard, and now Henderson to really be influential.
The one that has me scratching my head is Riena. Understandable why everyone is pointing to the rush of blood that made him come out for a ball he had no business going after, but I agree with you, other than that it's really hard to fault his performance yesterday. He made the saves he had to, and was the outlet behind the center backs when they needed him.
There is a lot of talk about which keeper we should be going for in the summer but I'd advise caution. I know Pepe has made too many mistakes of late, but good keepers (and he is a top class keeper) may have dips in form, mental lapses, but they don't go bad overnight.
He's still relatively young for a keeper and still has at least 5 maybe 7 or 8 good years in him, and I'd hate to see him at his best somewhere else. Now maybe his head has been turned by talk of Barca, and maybe that is the problem because he's already half out the door. If that is the case of course we need to look for a replacement, however I'm not sure we as fans should be the ones trying to push him the rest of the way out the door.
I watched the game on Sky yesterday, expecting Citeh to put you away, to be honest.
They were fortunate to get a point at the end of the day and I was impressed by the pace and aggressiveness of your team. Gerrard and Sturridge scored two contenders for goal of the season.
Thoroughly enjoyed the game.
Consistency is now the aim, play like that every week and .......
LFC_Armchair_Supporter LFC_Armchair_Supporter Feb 3, 2013 21:47 Flag
Gerrard's passing was a little off..
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True armchair and his goal was pure rubbish as well! Glass half empty for you again I see.
Miguel...just read that UniTURD are in like Flynn for Begovic in a 9 mill squid deal obviously getting a jump on end of season to get their job done as they have stated they will be getting rid of David DE gEA to anyone prepared to match what they paid for him. That in tandem with Stoke signing Jack Butland seems to leave that part of our admin structure responsible for getting the job done with egg on their faces ..as usual...think these guys responsible for this farce should be down the road sooner rather than later and some competent bods brought in. Those of u about to quote Sturridge..no option we were too light up front ...and Couhtino...when will he play and how necessary was he/is he by comparison to a left back MONSTER centre back and new keeper ? The very least we should be doing is not letting UniTURD get away with it so easy we shopuld push the price of Begovic through the ceiling and then drop out and drop him expensive on their toes or worst ways we still get him and they dont...NOT just sit around and let them purchase best keeper around for a feckin song !
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Isn't it amazing how we outplayed City on two occasions this season, drawing both 2-2, with both ending in just terrible 1 time mistakes..? A back pass by Skrtel, and a brainless mistake by Reina.. Or as Peter Drury said "absolutely STUPID".
We were absolutely fantastic in every aspect, and I'm heartbroken by that mistake, and when seeing Rodgers' face, all I could feel was disgust, because that was all ours..
I personally targeted 4 points from these 2 difficult away fixtures, and actually leaned on this for the win since Arsenal refuse to lose to us, and with 2 pts at the worst case. We've got West Brom and Swans back to back at home, neither are a slouch, but that type of effort can earn 6 pts..
As for Reina, he can start house shopping in Barcelona now. I'd be all chips in for Begovic from Stoke, afterall, they bought Butland for a reason..
Again, an absolutely mangificent performance from the entire team, and the fans. If that wasn't a sign of us progressing, than I don't know what is. As a positive person, all I can do is think good thoughts when including other/newer players, and adapting more and more to BR's system, along with whatever he does in the summer.
Even in a draw, I feel extremely proud today, only sad for the players. And, Suarez was active, but not as sharp as usual, and we still menaced them at the back and all around the box!
Onwards and upwards! YNWA
Caution lads! I´d like to agree when you say fourth is attainable but its one hell of a points gap at the moment and we are due another massive step backwards if our season stays true to form - hopefully not against WBA though.
Well done all today YNWA
Miguel...Great game fiercely contested. Dont know about others but considering the venue and the status of the opposition Id say it was our best performance of the season .Shame poor positioning sense from Reina...yet again...cost us those extra two points.
Two points from the two away fixtures v Arsenal and Citeh this last wek was the best Id expected and well..its two games we didnt lose to TOP 6 opposition eh . Two superb goals from Stevie G and Dan Sturridge today !
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Agree with you both.
Best performance of the season by a country mile. If we can keep that up 'til the end of the season then it really will give some cause for optimism for next year.
best we´ve played all season.
Thanks Pepe, you cost us three points with that idiotic display from which Aguero scored!!
We were overall the better team.
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Miguel..agree with u we were defo overall the better team.


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When Sixth Avenue Psychiatric Rehabilitation Partners moved off of Sixth Avenue, it made sense that a name change would follow.
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Members of the Harry B. Dorst, Unit 24 of the American Legion Auxiliary, department of Kansas, met April 1. The meeting was conducted by past president Peg Henningsen. Opening prayer was given by vice president Tammy Purdy, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance and the Preamble to the Constitution of the American Legion Auxiliary. There were six officers and two past presidents in attendance. There were no new members or guests introduced.
Peg Henningsen and Nancy Janssen conducted a memorial service for the following unit members lost this past year: Jayne Bremyer, ElVera Cunningham, Joyce Decker, Loretta Pierson, Jeanne Price, Johnnie Schmidt and EdMae Urbanek.
Minutes of the March meeting were read, corrected and approved as corrected. Treasurer Ferne Anderson gave the March financial report, which was accepted and will be filed for audit. Peg reported the unit has made a donation to the fifth district to help pay for new district flags.
Correspondence included information from department President Cherie Thomas and letters of endorsement for candidates for department and district officers. A thank you card was read from Vivian Embers; a thank you letter from Morgan Anderson, last year's Sunflower Girls State delegate sponsored by the unit; and a thank you letter from the Robert J. Dole Veterans Medical Center in Wichita for the unit's monthly donation to the hospitalized veterans.
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- The CS123 cases tend to be web-based or Java-oriented, so the
students probably don't feel the need to learn C++. I know they'll find it useful because the industry wants (expects, even!) C++ programming skills, so we're teaching it because they need some background in it, but I don't think they'll practice it a lot unless they see that really need it. It will be hard for them to concentrate on that when they're working on a project in another language.
How important is C++ programming? I'm probably just going to give them a very light background - syntax, header files and implementation files, methods, objects and classes (and friends, of course), maybe even multiple inheritance, but not GUI because there's no real standard. We might be able to do networking, but it's somewhat iffy, as their projects won't require it. Thoughts:
(a) They have to worry about CS152, CS101, and the implementation of their CS123 project (which will probably be in a different language), so they might not work on C++ as much. After all, CS123 is a software engineering course, not a language course. We'll keep C++ light and easy.
(b) We can force them to learn C++ if we make it a required part of their project. Java clients and a C++ server pass text data over the network. If so, then we'll place more emphasis on databases and networking, and less on OOP. This is more risk, but makes C++ a bit more useful.
(c) Teach them C++. Allow them to choose between starting with a Java or a hybrid Java/C++ system. If they work on a Java version first, they'd have worked through some of the logic bugs in the Java version, and they have a working version to restore if they can't get the C++ version to work... Then they can just do translation (with lots of kludging). Upside: trains them to port. Downside: They'll essentially be translating, so they might not appreciate multiple inheritance, friends, and other weird C++ features.
- I've used mindmaps for two days in a row now, and it's been a lot of
fun. I don't refer to it that often, but it's there for the students to look at, and I've used it to organize my notes on nifty projects and topics to be discussed. The mindmapping software I use is called Freemind, and it can be downloaded from http://freemind.sourceforge.net .
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Potential downside: Some students might be intimidated by other people who are so much faster. We discuss important concepts in class, and I point out probable errors. A number of students have dropped in for consultation - some review old topics, some want to learn more. I think this is not really a problem.
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In September, Save Oakland Sports held a "Stadium Aid" fundraiser and fan mixer at Ricky's Sports Theatre and Grill in San Leandro. Given the nature of the event -- keep the A's in Oakland -- the location begged the question: no matter Ricky's stature in East Bay sports history, why celebrate at a place in San Leandro?
Does Oakland not have a sports bar where fans can save Oakland sports?
"No," wrote one wise guy on Twitter.
False. Oakland has several and added one more: HalfTime Sports Bar, which opened a month ago at 316 14th St. in downtown Oakland. The timing was too late for Save Oakland Sports. But every one of HalfTime's 12 TVs was being closely watched by A's fans during the Oct. 6 opener of the American League Division Series.
The fans watching could see a TV screen from every angle in the bar, which stretches from the entrance, past the bar and back into the poolroom.
Outside, "Let's go Oakland," echoed down 14th Street, faintly audible a block away in either direction of Harrison or Webster streets.
Inside, HalfTime looked like a sea of green flecked with yellow. The air was hot and beery.
Detroit led 2-1 in the top of the fourth inning, and knuckles were beginning to turn white.
"It's pretty good so far," a fan said.
"OH! Foul ball!" Let's Go Oakland's Garth Kimball said, wincing.
I walked up a flight of carpeted stairs into what someone said, jokingly, looked like a mix between a dance studio and a torture chamber.
At least it was airy, cooled by two open windows and a fan.
Mirrors covered one wall. There were two TVs and about a dozen men on folding chairs watching them. Three of them snacked on barbecue wings and french fries.
The owner, James Dailey, sat nearby.
He said he was not part of the group that owned the previous incarnation of the bar, Geisha, whose name generated controversy well before it opened.
I looked up at Jarrod Parker pitching a 92 mph ball, which appeared to bounce off Jhonny Peralta's bat. "He should be playing soccer with that kind of drama," yelled a fan.
On the way downstairs, more shouting erupted.
Peralta struck out, Andy Dirks flew out and Delmon Young got caught stealing second in the bottom of the fourth. I moved out of the way of the hugs, high fives and sweaty men jumping on each other.
Rounds of beer were purchased. A man carrying red baskets lined with wax paper emerged from the kitchen. Inside was a big fat sandwich that looked like it had the appropriate amount of cheese and meat for sports bar fare.
The owners had been warned the day before to expect a large crowd for the series opener. They still started off with a single bartender until the crowds grew too large and backup was called in. That didn't sit well with the patrons who arrived early. Aside from that, no complaints. The fans saved the complaints for the game.
"Si Cespedes!" people began to chant, making the name of A's star Yoenis
Cespedes rhyme with "Si se puede."
Instead of the A's scoring, Detroit tipped the scale to 3-1, in the Tiger's favor. The reaction from the crowds was not something you want to chance getting stuck in the middle of.
Then came the bliss of watching Josh Reddick slide across the outfield and hold up his glove to reveal the white ball that only moments before had been sent sailing into the sky by a Detroit bat. That might have been the high point of the game. A little while later, a man was yelling at Reddick's image on TV, "Put those emotions away! Focus!"
Reddick didn't seem to hear him and struck out.
Sullen fans shook their head in disappointment.
Others were not so easy to dissuade.
"Very high," is how Katelyn Gurnari rated the A's chance of a comeback.
"Really?" I asked when they were down 3-1 in the bottom of the sixth.
"They came back from 5-1 (before)," said Mike Gurnari, Katelyn's equally optimistic husband.
Were they big fans? "Yes!" the wife said. "Absolutely," the husband added.
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Somebody recently noted that, what with all the bombing and killing and tyrannical madness going on in the world, how can we waste all this time talking about free software? Surely there's more important stuff to worry about?
Well, they're absolutely right that there are bigger problems in the world. When I get a chance to do something more direct about it, I plan to. So far, it looks like voting is about it, though.
On the other hand, you can't trivialize peacetime matters. Peace is more important than stopping war. It's the thing we need to protect when we deal with the evils in the world.
Regrettably, peace usually works the soft and slow way, while war is swift and always seems like the simpler solution. Hence our constant error in trying to make wars to stop wars. It is always a mistake to try to stop the processes of peace just because war seems more urgent. Because peace is what actually stops wars.
Free software does, in my opinion, make significant strides forward in creating long-term peace for humanity. A web, constructed of free software now connects us all, enemies and friends alike—and people who used to be enemies are becoming friends. Or perhaps only their children are.
This is the real thing that those "evil internet chat rooms" are doing to our children: they are connecting them. They're allowing people who wouldn't talk to each other before the chance to do so in relative safety, unencumbered by distance. They're allowing them to come to terms with each other on a personal, down-to-Earth level like nothing else can. It makes a difference when you know that the "foreigner" with the odd skin color and the funny-looking clothes has a name and a pet hamster named "Rodrigo".
The thing breeding in those internet chat rooms is surely the power-mongerers of the world's worst nightmare: it's a new generation of people who are beginning to think of their race as "Human" and their nation as "Earth". I'm not saying we're there yet, but there is something happening. Something that happens through shared experiences and exchanged knowledge. Something personal that treaties and laws and propaganda ministers can't get to. People are talking to each other.
There's a forum on the internet that I have visited where Hindi and Muslim Kashmiris hurl insults at each other, pretty much incessantly. But they are talking to each other. I regularly converse with people from all over the English-speaking world, and also with a few people from Japan, Russia, Germany, France, Sweden, India, Italy, and Brazil (a Brazillian made some important contributions to a project I'm still working on, while my main collaborator is Swedish—so some of these relationships have been significant, productive experiences), not to mention Guam and Iceland.
It's also largely on the internet that the knowledge of treachery and deceit in governments has been disseminated, because it's a nearly unsuppressable press with few chokepoints that would-be tyrants can throttle. And when they do try, as they are trying, it is largely through free software that work-arounds are made.
Free software is also hard at work, leveling the economic playing field for developing economies trying to modernize, without finding themselves under the thrall of developed nations' software corporations. It's free software that's showing that sophisticated technology needn't be equated with powerful, centralized control, and that sharing doesn't have to forced by a command economy in order to work.
GNU/Linux is making affordable embedded devices (whether they are the OLPC laptops or just mobile phones) that can be deployed to more people in more remote locations, in order to empower those people with the ability to speak back and to solve their own problems in their own way on their own terms, using their own resources, instead of falling deeper and deeper into World Bank debt or some other form of debt-slavery imposed by developed-world power holders.
Happy, well-fed, well-educated, hopeful people do not become suicide bombers and neither do they elect fear-mongerers. So if you really want to stop the violence and bring back sanity, then the best way to do it is to do whatever it takes to make people in even the most far-away lands happy, well-fed, well-educated, and hopeful. It's not just humanitarian and altruistic, it's also enlightened self-interest. And you could make worse choices than free software as a means of furthering that goal.
it's a new generation of people who are beginning to think of their race as "Human" and their nation as "Earth".
"Happy, well-fed, well-educated, hopeful people do not become suicide bombers and neither do they elect fear-mongerers."
Beautifully put, Terry, the connections I have been honored with world-wide are positive, as you describe. Thanks for sharing.
Well Said
You have articulated well the expanding dialog via the Internet. I have been increasingly impressed by the attitude of cooperation extended by the Free Software communities. I am nearly overwhelmed when I compare the attitudes of huge proprietary system producers with that of any open source producer.
It took me about a month of being in the open source world to find and become involved with the community. There are of course some exceptions but in general I was made to feel welcome and quickly assimilated into the group. A complete reversal of the "allowed" looking over the fence at a knowledge base to being greeted personally and invited into the community.
I have, like you, have a global conversation that has torn down prejudices and misconceptions. This alone would have justified my move to open source.
It always bothers me when
It always bothers me when people only want to deal with one problem at a time. We can't do "X" until we solve "Y". Well, it might be that X helps us get to Y, right?
I try not to become too carelessly utopian about what computers and this networked world will do for us, but I do hope for the best, and I suspect that if we're given the time, new generations will grow up feeling more connected and part of a world community. And I think free software will be a necessary ingredient in this.
And I really should avoid incessantly quoting Rush lyrics, but this comes to mind: "Better the pride that resides / in a citizen of the world / than the pride that divides / when a colorful rag is unfurled."
Rush and Utopia
So you have that album too? ;-)
I don't think the internet (or any technology) will ever bring about a "utopia" (if by that we mean a perfect society where there are no problems), but I guess you could say I'm a "progressive": I think it's possible to make better societies (by which I mean societies that do a better job of serving more of the needs of more of their members), even if they won't be perfect (and I think that's a good enough goal for us mere mortals).
The truth is, as contributions towards a better world go, free software production gives you a lot of "bang for your buck": sure it's hard work designing software and writing code (though easier with free software than without), but once you've done it, it's out there and it has the potential to grow and be copied. Almost as good as a Von Neumann machine.
I like the idea of not having to solve the same problem over and over again (now if I can just figure out how to apply that to housework!).
Improving the solution
I think I'm unrealistic and naive enough to still hope/dream about utopia, but more realistically, I should learn to focus on trying for improvements where possible. Maybe that's why I'm getting involved with free software more these days.
It's very late, so I'll go to the quote well again. This seems to me like a wise, gradual view:
"We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on."
-- Richard Feynman
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Dear Terry,
I'm planning to translate this article to Turkish to be published on my blog ( marenostrum.blogsome.com ) and to be sent to some Free Software e-mail groups here in Turkey.
What I would like to ask: Is the question mark at the end of the last sentence of the first paragraph proper or is it a typo? I doubt both from the points of syntax and semantics.
My e-mail:
kdenizogut (at) gmail (dot) com
K. Deniz Ogut
proper question mark
Hi Deniz, thanks for the interest.
Yes, that question mark is meant to be there, it's kind of colloqual, but "surely" is often used to mean something like "Don't you think...?" which makes the sentence a question.
earth is beautiful
Great article!
I really feel as of my race as "Human" and my nation as "Earth". See my avatar - The Blue Marble :-) Of course, I can't deny that I'm influenced by my culture, but aren't all human beings extremely similar, despite of 'different' cultures?
I hope so much that through computers and the internet, society will get improved, that our live (and that of future generations) will have a greater quality. Yes, it's a bit utopian. But if you haven't an utopia in mind, you can't help work towards it. Of course I'm conscious that we can never reach real utopia - nothing can ever be 'perfect', but everything can always get improved.
But as much as I hope, as much do I fear. Fear, that we'll miss chances to create a better world. The whole thing is so fragile. Think about all the people that are part of our global society. Think about all the things that influence their thinking. Think about all the emotions that can explode suddenly, if some fool says something wrong. And think about all the people that have only their-selves in mind, or maybe their-selves and some guys that happen to have the same blood, or the same nationality. But we can't ignore the fact that we all live on the same planet and that we all are men.
There will be problems until everybody is happy. So let's try and make everybody on this planet at least happier.
Glad you added hopeful to the list of things that stop people being suicide bombers because merely being well fed and educated aren't enough.
You can't be serious
Because peace is what actually stops wars.
I strongly disagree. Peace doesn't stop wars. Victory stops wars. Chamberlain tried the "peaceful" solution with Hitler. It didn't work. It was the defeat of the Nazis and Japan that created peace in Europe and in Japan. Look at those two nations now; they're economic powerhouses and bastions of freedom in their corners of the world.
You define peace as surrender. I define peace as tryrannical regimes being removed.
Actually, no I didn't
No I don't think I said anything about "surrender".
You're clearly trying to make this into some kind of political statement about foreign policy or the war in Iraq, but I didn't mention either (I do have a position on that, but this article has nothing to do with it one way or the other. Whether I supported continued engagement or a full-scale pull-out, would be completely orthogonal to the point made here).
It doesn't matter whether the US stays in Iraq or against, the constant fighting of war will never solve any conflict. (Well, unless you, like Hitler, consider extermination a "solution").
What actually stops wars is when people stop wanting to fight.
When does that happen? It happens when they no longer perceive fighting as the only way to solve their immediate problems.
So long as we continue to allow the living conditions of people around the world to decline and ignore the basic needs of other human beings, we are creating constantly increasing tensions that will eventually lead to war of some kind. So if we stop thinking about "peacetime concerns" during war, we'll only prolong the wars and/or cause new ones to spring up.
That's why it's always a silly argument to say we should stop being concerned about free software (or the economy, or health care, or food production, or the environment, etc) just because there are wars and injustice in the world. Making the world a safer place for the people in it is fighting injustice.
I can't help myself, but I must point out that Europe is not a country anymore than North America is one.
Removing the base for war should stop war just as effectively as attacking a country far away. If noone follows a tyrant, there is no reason to go to war removing one, since the tyranny will never occur. If nobody had followed Hitler or the military leaders surrounding emperor Hirohito, there would be no need to overthrow them.
Enlightenment and education is the best war-stopper. That includes education of the US public, IMHO. Statements like yours make it all to evident, if I may be frank.
It should be so...
Happy, well-fed, well-educated, hopeful people do not become suicide bombers and neither do they elect fear-mongerers.
But look at us in the US. The description is not so far off. Still we have elected fear-mongers. There seems to be an underlying fear always waiting to be released in the majority of people that I have ever known.
Still I share some of your optimism that time can heal some of this.
Your definition of Peace is wrong.
I'll just put the first definition from Webster's online dictionary although there are many others.
1. the normal, nonwarring condition of a nation, group of nations, or the world.
No, your dictionary is wrong
Defining peace as "the absence of war" is naive and shallow. That's like defining "success" as "the absence of failure".
Peace is the maintenance of a productive process that fulfills people's basic needs and resolves residual conflicts without the need for violence.
War is the absence of peace. It's when the system that drives peace breaks down, leaving only the primitive pre-civilization mechanisms to resolve conflict. Hence the violence.
War is always a failure, essentially by definition.
Good article, marred by:
silly English mistake:
Fair point, but both are probably legit: "monger" is both a noun meaning "A trader; a dealer" (archaic but pretty neutral) and a verb meaning "To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic" (GCIDE). Hence it makes a bit more sense to use "mongerer" as a pejorative.
And it gets a little closer everyday ... everyday
Using FOSS to solve world problems .... No that would never work ... people don't change just because they have access to new information ... Like 'Voice of America' - just a radio show - had nothing to do with the demise of the Berlin Wall ....
Hmmm, wonder if we spent 1 billion dollars each day dropping Negroponte's notebooks full of low tech water distillation, crop growing techniques, logical social discourse, travel guides , maps, vehicle manuals and, of course, comics on those same impoverished areas - seems like we could teach some people how to fish too somewhere along the way.
And then ask them to write some comments here - meaningful dialogue would probably be a bad idea too - soon they would be questioning our methodology or maybe, just maybe showing us a new and different way.
I intentionally avoided specifically endorsing a particular technology or project. That's because such calls are always controversial, and in the end it doesn't matter that much: ultimately "the market" (or "natural selection") will decide that.
But I think the most important aspect of programs like the OLPC is that it provides a meaningful tool for people in developing countries to act on their own. Too often, development programs are based on the flawed assumption that people in developed nations always know what's best for people in developing nations.
The OLPC has been criticized on just those grounds, but I think such criticisms miss the point that the OLPC is a very general-purpose tool. Though much of the promotional copy for OLPC goes on about it as a means for "education" (which can be regarded negatively as spoon-feeding developed world values to the developing world), they are, as general purpose computers, equally capable of communicating developing world ideas back to the developed world (what I clumsily described as "speaking back" above) and of course, for citizens of developing nations to speak to each other.
Consider the place we'll be when the first OLPC-owning kid from a developing nation starts a free software project at Sourceforge (or another community site). We're still educated to think of the developing world as a burden to be born by the developed world (they used to call this idea the "white man's burden"—a less politically correct but more honest label). But minds are assets, not burdens. And tools that amplify the power of those minds enhance those assets.
Of course, naysayers will argue that most kids won't be able to take advantage of these tools. But that's true in the developed world, too. But let's just imagine what happens if just 0.1% of the people receiving OLPC laptops explore their new capabilities and learn how to develop them. If OLPC actually hits their 100 million unit goal, that's 100,000 new developers!
And remember, these are kids whose first computer experience will be a GNU/Linux system, based on free software. It's hard for me to imagine any outcome where this does not result in enormous new production and innovation. We're not used to imagining that kind of thing coming from the developing world, but things like OLPC will make it possible.
I find that a really inspiring idea.


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OAKLAND -- If there were any lingering doubts over whether BART's bitter labor dispute will be settled soon, they were eliminated Wednesday when the rail line said the opposing sides were staring down a nearly $100 million disagreement despite months of talking.
During an extraordinary airing of grievances, management and unions testified before a state panel commissioned by Gov. Jerry Brown to determine whether he should, by Sunday, order a 60-day "cooling-off" period to keep trains running at least through mid-October.
The hearing finally provided some clarity on where each side stands after all the public posturing. But there was no less acrimony.
BART calculated that its proposal for employee pay and benefits would cost the agency $99.3 million less over four years, compared with the unions' current offer. Union leaders rejected that figure, but their own calculations put the two sides $56 million apart over three years.
Panel members, at times acting like parents to two feuding siblings, repeatedly reminded both sides that they were not there to determine which side was right but to simply figure out whether another strike would be likely without Brown issuing the two-month delay. The panel's public report, expected Friday, is a legally required step before Brown can issue the longer strike ban.
Union leaders urged Brown not to call a two-month truce, saying that if only management would have a "change of heart" and offer employees more money, they were confident they could reach a deal by Sunday night's deadline to avert a second strike Monday.
"I can see an agreement -- and I would not say that if I didn't think it was possible," said Josie Mooney, chief negotiator for the local Service Employees International Union, who maintained that management was stalling.
BART executives strongly disagreed, saying they weren't about to cave now after three months of negotiations and needed extra time at the bargaining table to avert an even lengthier rail shutdown.
At least one panel member saw the agency's point.
"I'm daunted by the number of proposals," board member Micki Callahan, San Francisco's human resources director, told union leaders. "I'm a little surprised to hear you think this can be achieved by Sunday night."
Both sides announced that they would return to the bargaining table Thursday and Friday for the first time since Brown averted a second strike last weekend, but during the public hearing, they spent hour after hour bashing one another yet again.
The hearing provided the first publicly released proposals since state mediators issued a gag order on the talks following the end of the first, 4½-day rail shutdown on July 5, but they appeared similar to the offers released more than a month ago.
BART's total four-year proposal would cost the agency another $18.5 million while the union's offer would cost $117.8 million over the same time, BART's budget staff estimates.
Management's offer includes 9 percent wage hikes and a 5 percent increase in employee pension contributions for current workers, both slight concessions from a month ago, while new employees would pay a slightly higher share toward pensions. Blue-collar union workers currently do not contribute toward their pensions and earn $76,500 in gross pay on average.
According to BART, the rail line's two largest unions countered with a three-year deal totaling 21.5 percent in pay bumps, including an 11.5 percent increase in the first year. The unions, however, insist that the raise is actually only 15 percent over three years because 6.5 percent of their total pay raise would be offset by larger pension contributions.
Vincent Harrington, an attorney representing the local Service Employees International Union, said their pay increase proposal was about equal to the same amount of real and predicted inflation from 2008 to 2016, since employees' wages have remained flat for several years.
"As we run to catch up over the wage freeze," Harrington said, "we'd like to at least be running in place, and not running behind."
The final of the three main issues -- health care -- represents a much smaller dispute, however. Employees currently pay $92 each month for medical benefits, or 5 percent of the cost, and management has dropped its offer to double that contribution to 10 percent, leaving the sides just $4.3 million apart, BART estimates.
"Unfortunately, we remain far apart on the major issues of this contract," General Manager Grace Crunican said.
Dozens of employees clad in purple union shirts reading "will strike if provoked" packed a state office auditorium in preparation of the hearing, which was chaired by Brown adviser Jacob Applesmith and also included former construction union president Robert Balgenorth.
Tensions ran high when the panel opened the floor for public comment, with some audience members booing speakers who criticized BART employee salaries and applauding those who spoke out in support of workers.
One of the last audience members to speak, a station agent and union negotiator, grew teary-eyed as she spoke about her desire to negotiate with management.
"I don't know why there's so much disdain from our employers," said Yuri Holley. "I implore you to please help resolve this because I would like to get back home and resume my duties as a mom, a working mom."
Staff writer Brittny Mejia contributed to this report. Contact Mike Rosenberg at 408-920-5705. Follow him at twitter.com/RosenbergMerc.


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As details of alleged cop killer Jeremy Goulet's past continue to emerge Thursday, the picture continued to grow darker.
In 2006, the former Blackhawk helicopter pilot beat charges that could have landed him in a military prison for life, with a former defense attorney saying the Army dropped two separate rape charges against Goulet in Hawaii. And Santa Cruz County officials said Thursday they were investigating a previously unknown molestation case against the 35-year-old former barista, adding to a growing list of past sex and violence charges.
"These officers possessed limited information about Goulet. They were investigating a misdemeanor case. They had no information that led them to believe that they were in danger or that Goulet, at that time, was a danger to them," Santa Cruz County Sheriff Phil Wowak said Thursday.
First reported by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser, the new revelations add to Goulet's history of peeping activity, with misdemeanor convictions in San Diego, Portland, Ore. and Berkeley.
Friday, Goulet allegedly broke into the home of a co-worker after a night of drinking an in apparent sex assault attempt, an incident that set in motion Tuesday's shooting deaths of two Santa Cruz police detectives.
That allegation -- which occurred after a night of after-work drinks, sources familiar with the incident say -- mirrors the facts behind a rape charge brought against Goulet while he served in the military. Army officials later agreed to drop all charges under a plea deal, and did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
Former Goulet defense attorney Don Wilkerson in Hawaii said the first charges stemmed from an incident just days after being stationed at Wheeler Army Airfield, Honolulu.
A group of soldiers threw a party, which was attended by a young female officer who lived off base. After going home, locking her doors and going to bed, Goulet allegedly attacked her.
"The first one happened within one week of his arrival here," Wilkerson said. "Mr. Goulet was accused of crawling in through her bathroom window and raping her."
Rather than lock up Goulet, military brass grounded him and ordered him not to leave the base. He was assigned to watch over barracks.
Several months later, a group of military personnel in one of Goulet's barracks threw a party the night before deploying to Iraq. After that party, Goulet allegedly raped a second female officer.
After the second allegation, the military locked up Goulet in Naval Brig Ford Island in the middle of Pearl Harbor, Wilkerson said. Goulet stayed there for several months.
Lack of consent was not an issue in either case, Wilkerson said. However, there were identification issues in the first and credibility issues in the second.
Wilkerson negotiated a plea deal that saw the Army drop the case in exchange for a less-than-honorable discharge.
Military records confirm Goulet was assigned to Hawaii in April 2006. He was discharged in early 2007, and immediately embarked for Portland, Ore., records show.
Later that year, Goulet was arrested over a peeping incident and subsequent brawl, during which a gun was discharged. Beaten badly by the victim's boyfriend -- as well as the victim herself, who wielded a shelf -- a jury acquitted Goulet of four felonies, finding him guilty of two misdemeanors.
Portland investigators found evidence that Goulet secretly taped another victim as well. He admitted on the stand to video recording women. People close to the case, who did not want to be identified, said the jury did not see what everyone else connected to the case did -- that's something was wrong with Goulet.
Though given probation on the misdemeanors and not required to register as a sex offender, Judge Eric Bloch ordered Goulet to undergo treatment and submit to polygraph tests and searches of his computers and cellphones. But Goulet rejected treatment and fought with his female probation officer, even refusing to leave the premises and peering into her office windows after one meeting was cut short.
Rather than comply with the terms of probation, Goulet chose jail instead. Bloch took the highly unusual step of giving him maximum misdemeanor penalties, and strung them back-to-back.
Bloch also refused to reduce the sentence, which is standard in many Oregon cases. Goulet served two years in jail.
"I felt it was my duty to impose the maximum penalty within my power because I was very concerned that he was a risk to the community," Bloch told the Oregonian newspaper this week. "He thought his behavior was normal, and I was very clear to him that I thought his behavior was not normal and not appropriate."
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Joyce Winslow instilled in her sons the value of giving.
"My mom told me there were two places in town that you need to take care of, because they can't be replaced, and those are the hospital and Chandler," Todd Winslow recalls.
For Joyce's husband, Peter, the value of giving also came early on in life. During his childhood, his own mother went out of her way to give to the less fortunate. During their marriage, Peter and Joyce, in spirit and action, carried on that tradition.
The family nurturer and steadfast promoter of harmony, Joyce gave smiles and kindness to her children, their friends, and the customers she met at family-owned Belmains where she worked for more than 30 years. She was so thoughtful, says Peter, that if someone needed clothing, she'd take clothes right out of her own closet to give.
Together Joyce, Peter, their sons, and their first business – Magee Office Products, also in Randolph – have for years supported a variety of Vermont organizations, including annual gifts to Gifford. "We were a family of giving," says Peter, who moved his family to Randolph in 1959.
When Joyce passed away in Gifford's Garden Room 52 years later in November of 2011, it stands to reason that this family of giving once again considered how they could support their community. They designated both Gifford and Chandler for memorial donations in Joyce's name. Memorial gifts soon came in great numbers.
The following summer Todd took up his mother's memory once again as a participant in Gifford's annual Last Mile Ride, a charity motorcycle ride for end-of-life care. Todd collected donations in Joyce's name totaling more than $5,000 – the most money raised by a rider that year, or any year.
Todd credits the quality of the Garden Room and Gifford as two reasons behind the giving. "Most towns don't have a hospital like Gifford," he says.
But the real motivator was surely his mother.
"I really think it was because of my mom," Todd said after the charity motorcycle ride in August. "One guy (I asked for a donation) said, 'How can you not say yes?'"
In Joyce's memory and for the good of their community, the Winslow family has made a tradition of saying yes.


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Kenneth Olugbode rushed for 151 yards and scored twice in leading top-seeded Bellarmine College Prep past No. 8 Terra Nova 33-14 on Friday night in the first round of the Central Coast Section Open Division playoffs at San Jose City College.
K.J. Carta-Samuels threw for one touchdown and ran for another as the Bells (10-1) won their 10th in a row to advance into the semifinals, where they will play WCAL rival Serra, a 52-35 winner over Palo Alto.
"Any team that steps in our way to a CCS championship, well, it's a little personal," Carta-Samuels said. "We have to come out and play like we did the first time against them. We hope that all the preparation and the hard work pays off."
Olugbode gained 119 of his yards in the second half, including a 62-yard romp on the first play of the half, set up by the blocking of Bells linemen Collin Burdsall, Daniel Fields and Justin Barreras among others.
"He's a workhorse," Carta-Samuels said. "I can't even begin to explain all the extra yards he gets for us. He just keeps getting first downs."
Tanner Piccolotti rushed for 100 yards on 19 carries for Terra Nova (6-5), which won its fourth consecutive PAL title. K're Span threw for 120 yards and an 8-yard scoring toss to Jaylen Jones. He also rushed for 59 yards and another score.
"This was a very strong effort on our part," Tigers coach Bill Gray said. "I'm proud of our guys. I'm not going to say it was a moral victory but I think we're getting closer to being able to play in the Open Division."
Olugbode's run early in the second half made it tough for the Tigers to mount any kind of comeback, especially after letting Joey Sanfilippo get loose for an 88-yard punt return toward the end of the first half.
"That opening play of the second half was a killer," Gray said. "That other scoring drive seemed like it took 20 plays. That offense wears you down."
The Bells rushed for 225 yards and threw for another 39. Carta-Samuels attempted one pass in the second half. The Tigers gained yards overall, 120 through the air.
Jared Vallner ended any hopes Terra Nova had of coming back with a leaping interception in the game's final two minutes.
Bellarmine got a few breaks in the first half, scoring its first touchdown after a series of misplays and a partially blocked punt gave the Bells possession at the Terra Nova nine. Olugbode bulled his way the final eight yards of the two-play drive.
The Tigers had Bellarmine in a third and long situation early in the second quarter but that didn't stop Carta-Samuels from finding Vallner at the back of the end zone on a 36-yard scoring toss.
Span scrambled 14 yards for Terra Nova's first touchdown, set up by a 41-yard gain from Piccolotti.
The Tigers actually outgained Bellarmine, 174-102, in the first half but the Bells took a 21-7 lead into halftime as Sanfilippo wove 88 yards on a punt return for another Bells' score with 1:15 left in the second quarter.
Terra Nova lost another chance to score when Bellarmine's Dominic Luca recovered a Tigers fumble at the Bells' 2-yard line.
Terra Nova 0 "7 "7 "0--14
Bellarmine 7 "14 "6 "6--33
BCP-- Olugbode 8 run (Bush kick)
BCP-- Vallner 36 pass from Carta-Samuels (Bush kick)
TN -- Span 14 run (Grande kick)
BCP-- Sanfilippo 88 punt return (Bush kick)
BCP-- Olugbode 62 run (kick failed)
TN -- Jones 8 pass from Span (Grande kick)
BCP-- Carta-Samuels 1 run (kick failed)
Records -- Terra Nova 6-5; Bellarmine College Prep 10-1.
Elijah Dale rushed for 101 yards and two touchdowns as the Wildcats (8-3), who won the CCS Division III title in 2011, dispatched the Chieftains (8-3), last year's Division IV champion, at Salinas Sports Complex.
Quarterback Jack Stinn and receiver Andrew Vollert hooked up on two TD passes for St. Ignatius.
Senior defensive back Albert Walter returned an interception for another score to help SI improve to 7-1 in its last eight road games.
Visiting Sequoia kept the ball on the ground rushing for 334 yards in 62 carries as the Cherokees downed Menlo-Atherton.
Behind an offensive line nicknamed "The Union," bruising back Matt Jenkins gained 158 yards in 23 carries, while teammate Dylan Anderson had rushing touchdowns of 19 and 35 yards for fifth-seeded Sequoia.
Menlo-Atherton was held to six yards on the ground, with Tasi Teu scoring on an 8-yard touchdown run with 1:43 left in the second quarter to cut the deficit to 10-7 before halftime.
But one of four second-half sacks forced a fumble that Sequoia linebacker Gabe de los Reyes returned 42 yards to set up a 1-yard plunge by quarterback Mike Taylor to seal the win with 4:39 left in the fourth quarter. Taylor rushed for 72 yards in 23 carries.
Sequoia 0 "10 "10 "7--27
Menlo-Atherton 0 "7 "0 "0-- 7
S -- Anderson 19 run (Sehl kick)
S -- Lopiparo 35 FG
M-A -- Teu 8 run (Olsen kick)
S -- Anderson 35 run (Sehl kick)
S -- Lopiparo 32 FG
S -- Taylor 1 run (Sehl kick)
Records -- Sequoia 9-2; Menlo-Atherton 6-5.
Milpitas built a 49-0 halftime lead on its way to a dominant victory over visiting Silver Creek in an opening-round Division I game.
Ronnie Reed threw two touchdown passes, and CJ Reyes scored on runs of 17 and 16 yards for the top-seeded Trojans, who advanced to the semifinals next weekend against fifth-seeded Sequoia.
Milpitas also returned two interceptions for scores, one from 38 yards by Tre Hartley and the other from 65 yards by Eric Palomo.
Silver Creek 0 "0 "0 "7--7
Milpitas 21 "28 "0 "7--56
SC-- scoring unavailable
M -- Reyes 17 run (Gonzalez kick)
M -- Chu 15 pass from Reed (Gonzalez kick)
M -- Hartley 38 interception return (Gonzalez kick)
M -- Vea 10 run (Gonzalez kick)
M -- Sualua 20 pass from Reed (Gonzalez kick
M -- Reyes 16 run (Gonzalez kick)
M -- Palomo 65 interception return (Gonzalez kick)
M -- Chu pass from Keller (Bunyard kick)
Records -- Silver Creek 5-6; Milpitas 8-3.
High-scoring junior running back Keenan Smith managed just 36 yards and never found the end zone as the Firebirds (8-3) made an early exit from the playoffs.
Fremont managed just 57 yards on the ground and 52 through the air. The Firebirds' defense also struggled, allowing 452 yards.
Salinas' Everett Ball rushed 21 times for 230 yards and two touchdowns, while teammate Jordan Torres had 14 carries for 113 yards and two TDs and also returned a fumble 33 yards for a score on defense.
San Benito ended Alisal's season in a CCS Division I playoff opener, setting the tone for the night with two first-half interceptions.
An opportunity presented itself early in the first quarter for Alisal after it recovered a fumble in San Benito territory. However, the Trojans could not capitalize, and this would be as close to the end zone as they would get all night.
After a scoreless first quarter, San Benito's Guillermo Regalado intercepted a pass that set up their first touchdown, a 2 yard run by quarterback David Stanton, his first of three scoring runs.
Sophomore tailback Joey Wood had 190 yards and a touchdown on 27 carries as the reigning Division II champion Wildcats won the rematch of last year's title game.
After senior Brent McCoy opened the game with a 98-yard kickoff return, Nico Aimonetti recovered a fumble caused by fellow defensive lineman Bailey McNally to set up a 23-yard field goal by Logan Chapman that staked Los Gatos to a 10-0 lead. The Wildcats never looked back after that.
"We talked to the kids about (Pioneer) being really fired up after us being down by 14 in the championship game last year (and coming back to win)," Los Gatos coach Butch Cattolico said. "We wanted to establish ourselves early and take the fire out of them."
Senior linebacker Tyler Perkins led Los Gatos' defense with 14 tackles.
Junior tight end Joseph Londre caught a 23-yard pass from senior quarterback Drew Fryhoff in the third quarter for Pioneer's lone touchdown. Oswaldo Orozco kicked two field goals for the Mustangs.
Pioneer 0 "3 "9 "0--12
Los Gatos 17 "0 "7 "14--38
LG -- McCoy 98 kickoff return (Chapman kick)
LG -- Chapman 23 FG
LG -- Wood 1 run (Chapman kick)
P -- Orozco 32 FG
P -- Orozco 42 FG
LG -- Wood 6 run (Chapman kick)
P -- Londre 23 pass from Fryhoff (kick failed)
LG -- Bawden 2 run (Chapman kick)
LG -- Herman 15 run (Chapman kick)
Records -- Pioneer 4-7; Los Gatos 7-4.
Alex Andrighetto and Austin Guibor each scored two first-half touchdowns as the Lancers cruised.
One of Guibor's TDs came on a 24-yard pass from senior quarterback Mike Lauck, who went 7-for-16 for 168 yards, all in the first half. Senior linebacker Eddie Wadors returned a fumble nine yards for a score to lead a defense that held the Royals (6-5) to eight total yards -- four passing, four rushing.
"Overfelt played well in the first half," St. Francis coach Nick Navarro said. "They didn't give up. Things just started going wrong for them -- fumbles and stuff like that."
Overfelt 0 "0 "0 "0-- 0
St. Francis 14 "14 "14 "0--42
SF -- A. Andrighetto 2 run (Fordham kick)
SF -- Guibor 1 run (Fordham kick)
SF -- A. Andrighetto 4 run (Fordham kick)
SF -- Guibor 24 pass from Lauck (Fordham kick)
SF -- Wadors 9 fumble return (Fordham kick)
SF -- Hurtado 11 run (Quinn kick)
Records -- Overfelt 6-5; St. Francis 6-5.
Seniors Kyle Kaye and J.D. Elzie each caught a touchdown pass from junior quarterback Nathaniel Blood and also rushed for one TD apiece as the Dons earned their first road playoff win since 1998.
Aragon (8-3) never trailed, but Leland (6-5) did make things close in the fourth quarter. Kenny Portera scored on an 18-yard run and Matt Mohs caught a 5-yard TD pass from fellow junior Matt McLaughlin to narrow the score to 28-21.
Elzie responded by hauling in Blood's second TD pass of the game to put the Chargers away.
"We turned the ball over a bunch, and that'll kill you every time against a team solid as (the Dons)," Leland coach Mike Carrozzo said. "We just didn't execute -- our defense didn't make stops when it needed to. They executed better and won the game."
Aragon got 21 tackles from versatile senior David Manoa, who lined up at both defensive end and linebacker.
Aragon 7 "7 "14 "7--35
Leland 0 "7 "0 "14--21
A-- Jackson 20 run (Garcia kick)
L -- Portera 1 run (Newkirk kick)
A -- Kaye 5 run (Garcia kick)
A -- Kaye 25 pass from Blood (Garcia kick)
A -- Elzie 80 run (Garcia kick)
L -- Portera 18 run (Newkirk kick)
L -- Mohs 5 pass from McLaughlin (Newkirk kick)
A -- Elzie 17 pass from Blood (Garcia kick)
Records -- Aragon 8-3; Leland 6-5.
Junior Delshawn Mitchell (23 carries for 182 yards) scored a 54-yard touchdown run and senior Roland Luke (20 carries for 118 yards) chipped in with scoring runs of 10 and 1 yards to lead Wilcox to the second round of the playoffs.
Sione Finefeuiaki (five tackles) returned an interception for 71 yards in the fourth quarter.
On the defensive end, Kanaloa Joy had 9 tackles, Alex Ortiz had 8 tackles, and Corbin Jackson had 6 tackles and an interception.
South S.F. 7 "0 "0 "7--14
Wilcox 7 "14 10 "7--38
W -- Mitchell 54 run (Bowles kick)
SSF-- Johnson 7 pass from Malvia (Jatta kick)
W --Luke 10 run (Bowles kick)
W -- Luke 1 run (Bowles kick)
W --Bowles 24 FG
W --Barraclough 15 pass from Dipko (Bowles kick)
W --Finefeuiaki 71 interception return (Bowles kick)
SSF-- Skuratov score (Jatta kick)
Records -- South San Francisco 7-4; Wilcox 8-3.
Aptos took a 28-0 halftime lead and held on to move on to the next round of the playoffs.
The Mariners were led by seniors Elijah Marta with two touchdowns on runs of 23 and 2 yards and Brodie Bennet with a 5-yard touchdown run.
Tight end Alec Bonsall caught a 9 yard pass from Alex Joh for the game winner. Aptos will face Monterey in the second round.
Aptos 14 "14 "0 "0--28
Saratoga 0 "0 "14 3--24
A-- Bennet 5 run (Nicholson kick)
A-- Marta 23 run (Nicholson kick)
S -- Kane 1 run (Feyzi kick)
A-- Bonsall 9 pass from Joh (Nicholson kick)
A-- Marta 2 run (Nicholson kick)
S -- Mederios 9 pass from Walters (Feyzi kick)
S -- Yates 1 run (Feyzi kick)
S -- Feyzi 29 FG
Records -- Aptos 9-2; Saratoga 6-5.
Ambrose Chioini-Narvarez rushed for 128 yards in 18 carries as Monterey (9-2) downed Soledad (6-5) at Monterey Peninsula College.
The third quarter was all Monterey with a 49-yard touchdown run by quarterback Jimmy Hill, a 73-yard punt return touchdown by Donte Murphy, and a 46 yard touchdown run by Akiwi Jones.
The Toreadores finished the scoring with a 6-yard touchdown run by Ambrose Chioini-Narvarez.
Jermiah Murillo rushed for 119 yards in 20 carries for Soledad.
Justin Ewing became the CCS' all-time rushing leader, but couldn't lead the Mustangs (6-5) to a playoff win over the No. 1-seeded Spartans (11-0).
The senior rushed for 184 yards, giving him 2,933 for his career. Ewing needed just 50 to surpass the old mark of 2,798, set by Burlingame's Onan Reyes in 1998.
Soquel running back Fabiano Hale rushed for 375 yards and six touchdowns on 39 carries as the Knights overcame Carmel at Pacific Grove.
No. 3 Carmel (9-2) led 42-41 when Connor Marden found receiver William Kehoe in the corner of the end zone with 7:32 left in the game, but Soquel answered with a 10-play, 58-yard drive that was capped off by a 4-yard scoring run by Hale.
Carmel wide receiver Thomas Spanos had two touchdowns, a 39-yard rushing touchdown and a 92-yard kickoff return.
No. 6 Soquel (9-2) advances to face the winner of Saturday's game between Pacific Grove and Sacred Heart Prep.
Backed by four first half touchdowns from senior tailback Heru Peacock, Menlo School rolled past Monte Vista Christian at Sequoia High.
Red-hot from the start, Menlo scored touchdowns on all five possessions in the first half.
Quarterback Jack Heneghan threw for 310 yards and two touchdown passes, one to Peacock for 23 yards and nine yards to Connor Stastny.
Monte Vista Chr. 0 "0 "7 "7--14
Menlo School 21 "14 "0 "7--42
MS -- Peacock 6 run (Costa kick)
MS -- Peacock 3 run (Costa kick)
MS -- Peacock 23 pass from Heneghan (Costa kick)
MS -- Stastny 9 pass from Heneghan (Costa kick)
MS -- Peacock 2 run (Costa kick)
MVC -- Renteria 4 run (Renteria kick)
MS -- Jimenez 19 pass (Costa kick)
MVC -- Hightower 52 pass from Matiasevich (Renteria kick)
Records -- Monte Vista Christian 8-3; Menlo School 9-2.