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It is kind of a miracle that sites like Groupon and Livingsocial have been able to dominate the field of online deals for that long without any interference of the 'big boys' out there: Google and Facebook. Now within a short period of time both successful social deal – sites saw the two biggest players on the web enter their markets.
Google last year tried to buy Groupon but failed. Groupon felt is was just too successful to be bought out. So Google then decided to start working on their own offering site and last week Google offers made its beta-appearance. And if that wasn't enough competition yet Facebook this week decided to launch "Social Deals".
The story was broken by Techcrunch who found a page on The New York Times website with the title "Facebook's Groupon/LivingSocial "killer"."
Facebook deals
Let's start off with Facebook. The Social Network already had a "Facebook Deals" running. This however was a different kind of deals-program on the website, a deals option for advertisers which focussed very much on local and mobile, connected to Facebook Places. This Deals is now renamed to "check-in deals", which makes a lot more sense since the deals are offered when you actually check in somewhere.
The "new" Facebook Deals are different from the checkins in several ways. For starters advertisers have to buy them up front. And they can be bought with regular cash but also using Facebook's 'monopoly-money': Facebook Credits.
Social Deals are very much focused on local businesses. Offline events and experiences are very much pushed, yes like Groupon and Livingsocial do. Facebook wants to make the online world of Facebook connect with the offline world. You will therefore see more 'social' deals like events rather than the regular 'daily deals' of products.
Interesting to see is that Facebook made a few adjustments to the way you can make a deal: you can like a deal without buying them, you can share and privately invite selected friends on specific deals and e-mail them. This off course being yet another very interesting source of data for Facebook.
Facebook Deals starts of as a test service in five cities initially: Atlanta, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, and San Francisco. Very much US focussed again therefore.
Google offers
When Google failed to buy Groupon they were bound to be looking in different directions. Another 'real' competitor of Groupon to buy wasn't really available so making a competitor themselves was the next best thing. And that is what Google is doing. Google is launching Google offers in beta, in Portland, New York, and San Francisco. Again, US only for now.
Google had announced the coming of Google offers several months ago. The setup from Google is a bit different than from Facebook. Google really is aiming at discount deals. According to the sign up site, Google Offers will provide 50 percent minimum discounts from different merchants. Google will aim for the products and less for the social part of it.
The video below shows what it is probably going to be doing:
What about Groupon and LivingSocial?
What does this mean for sites like Groupon and Livingsocial? Should they be worried? The answer: maybe a little bit, but not just yet.
Especially Google's effort doesn't look like the Groupon killer just yet. And Google doesn't really have a successful social history.
If you look at the two services Google Offers is a lot more like Groupon, which really goes for offers and also on products, where Facebook is much more like Livingsocial: social events are leading.
Most probably Facebook will have the biggest chance of making a difference here. But time will tell.


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CatBot was created to replace an old bot that had been built on NodeJS but never updated to meet the needs of a specific guild. The very foundation of CatBot was built on top of DotNet Core and Discord.Net, starting with a framework based on SoraBot v2. CatBot has since been mostly rewritten, so it shares only a minimal amount of similarities to it's parent.
This bot can be used on any Discord guild, with each guild having it's own separate configuration that does not interact with each other. During development of this bot, the goal is to keep this mindset in place. Extensibility and Reliability are the most important aspects of this bot. The bot will respond to various commands based on what users of the server type. For example, if a user types !help, they will see the list of commands available to them. The ! prefix can be changed using the prefix command. By default, the prefix is set to ! when joining new guilds.

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How to Perform A Bibliography for a Research-Paper
Choosing an unbiased instructional specialist (IEC) to greatly help navigate the school admissions procedure is a rising development, specifically among "high-achievers," according to Lipman Hearne, an advertising and communications agency that directly monitors college hiring tactics. Inside the only nationwide survey done to-date to the utilization of IECs, Lipman Hearne unearthed that from 1,264 students who obtained in the 70th percentile or more around the SITTING (atleast 1150 from 1600) or ACT (a composite score of at the very least 25), 26 percentage hired an IEC to support them in their university research. And even though amounts are still somewhat modest, the CIRP (Cooperative Institutional Research Program) 2015 Freshman Study accounts that for four consecutive decades, the percentage of pupils explaining the function ninjaessays.us of private school professionals within their school search as "very important" has elevated. Meanwhile, the usa Team of education reviews that public-school advisors (including primary and secondary) have duty for on average 475 studentsa caseload nicely above-recommended amounts. Along with the National Organization for School Admission Therapy (NACAC) finds that on-average public school experts invested simply 24 percentage of their hours on postsecondary guidance. Therefore an obvious and convincing market on the market for university advising solutions is obviously increasing. Not too sometime ago, faculty consulting was regarded a " Avenue " type of luxury, which just the richest families can manage. But with counseling workloads achieving the approach along with the bursting point becoming a hopeless tangle of procedures that are changing, middle income parents and learners are significantly hitting out for service.
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The Need For JA
According to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, "The financial preparedness of our nation's young people is essential to their well-being and of vital importance to our economic future." However, a growing body of research finds that U.S. children are woefully ill prepared to become successful economic citizens of tomorrow. Evidence indicates today's students lack basic money management concepts as well as the skills needed to be effective employees. Recent studies show:
- American high school students scored just 48.3% when tested on basic money knowledge – the lowest score in the survey's 14 year history. - Jump$tart Coalition
- Over one third of parents do not discuss financial matters with their children, but 84 of teens say their parents are their source of information about money management. – All State Foundation Survey – 2015
- Overall, students who drop out are twice as likely to be unemployed; three times as likely to live in poverty; eight times as likely to end up in prison; and two times as likely to become a parent of a drop out.
The state of Wisconsin mandates no financial literacy education for its youth. It's increasingly evident that this lack of economic education is devastating our children, their future success, and Wisconsin's ability to be economic leader in the global marketplace. While our educational system continues to struggle with budget cuts and rising educational costs, Junior Achievement provides relevant, meaningful hands-on learning to bridge the gap and ensure that today's young people are well prepared for an economically successful future.
Relevant. Bold. Innovative Programs at Work
Junior Achievement offers powerful, age, grade specific programs that support and enable youth in a number of ways, including in their quest toward high school graduation.
- JA's elementary school programs are the foundation of its K-12 curricula. Six sequential themes, each with five hands-on activities, as well as after-school and experiential learning labs, work to change students' lives by helping them understand financial literacy and economics.
- JA's middle grades programs for students in grades 6-8 include economics and business curricula and experiential learning labs. The dynamic interaction between the volunteer and students promotes active learning and brings theory to life while highlighting the need for continued education.
- JA provides 11 high school programs that help students make informed, intelligent decisions about their future, and foster skills that will be used in real life. Experiential learning labs allow students to build critical thinking, problem solving and creativity skills to empower their future success.
Volunteer Driven
Volunteers & Staff
Volunteers play a key role in bringing Junior Achievement programs to life. By sharing their personal and professional experiences and skills with students they help them make the connection between what they are learning in school and what they will need to succeed in work and life. During the 2014 - 2015 school year, there were 8,493 volunteers delivering over 1.4 million contact hours to Wisconsin students.
Measured Program Results
The impact of the Junior Achievement program is measured locally through the implementation of nationally developed evaluation instruments, pre- and post-testing of students and teacher and volunteer surveys. Wisconsin also regularly participates in independent national evaluations coordinated by JA USA.
Evaluations include both objective referenced testing to measure knowledge gained as well as alternative assessments to measure the participants' ability to apply their new found knowledge. Results from both the objective-referenced testing as well as the alternative assessments clearly indicate that JA students outperform their peers who are not participating in Junior Achievement.
Proven Results
Outcomes and highlights from evaluations include the following:
- 76% of area student indicated greater confidence in their own abilities after a JA experiential learning session.
- Compared to students in general, JA students report increased confidence in: Making decisions, setting personal and financial goals, and taking more responsibility for their behavior.
- For eleven years in a row, elementary school teachers rate Junior Achievement a 3.5 or better on a four-point scale for overall content, effectiveness and success.
- 92% of JA alumni report they could successfully compete in a business environment verses only 45% of non-JA participants.


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Motiontribe privacy and cookies policy
1. Who we are and how to contact us
This Privacy Policy is an agreement between Motiontribe S.A. (referred here as "Motiontribe", "Us", "Our" or "We"), and the User. Our address is Quai Paul Verlaine 2, 6000 Charleroi Belgium. For the porpuse of the GDPR we are the controller of your data.
Motiontribe is an online platform that connects gear owner and gear renters. We allow our members to add their gear online and to rent it to other members of the community. Through our partner AXA, we offer an insurance and a way to pay online through Stripe. We verify all our members to make sure they are who they say they are and to have a proof that they belong to the audio-visual industry. Our goal is to build a safe community.
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UK: airlines to include debit card surcharges in headline prices
Following enforcement action of the U.K. Office of Fair Trading (OFT), 12 airlines have agreed to include debit card surcharges in the headline price rather than surprise consumers at the end of the booking process. Any surcharges for paying by credit card will be easy to find when booking online. Aer Lingus, BMI Baby, Eastern Airways, easyJet, Flybe, German Wings, Jet2, Lufthansa, Ryanair, Thomas Cook, Thomson (TUI) and Wizz Air were subject to an OFT consumer law investigation and have agreed to change their practices.
The OFT believes that people should not have to incur surcharges to use a debit card online. Debit cards are the online equivalent of cash which means that headline prices should be the price people can pay.
The OFT believes that traders may still impose surcharges for credit cards, which can be more costly to process. However, it is critical that these charges are transparent and not sprung on shoppers towards the end of the booking process. As part of the OFT's enforcement action the airlines agreed to make surcharges for credit cards more transparent so that these charges will be clearer and easier to find during the booking process.


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No question the most important part of the tennis match is the serve. The serve dictates the entire point if it doesn't win the point immediately. Here are three helpful tips to improve the effectiveness of your tennis serve.
Spin! Putting spin on your serve can keep your opponent off balance. Even if your opponent is on your serve the spin can keep them from booming it back at you. A good slice can force your opponent wide and open up the court for you.
Mix it Up! Most tennis players have one serve they use almost exclusively. There is nothing worse than a predictable serve. Try to show your opponent different serves to keep them off balance.
The Toss! Learn to hit different types of serves from the same toss. It is wonderful in tennis when you hit three flat serves and then fire a kick serve with the same toss on the fourth serve. Watch your opponent's reaction. Hitting different serves from the same toss will keep your opponent guessing and not allow them to settle in with strong returns.
Use the above three tips to improve your tennis serve and have more success on the court.


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It's a fragment of Leviticus!
Live Science reports: (H/T ECM)
A burned 1,500-year-old Hebrew scroll found on the shore of the Dead Sea was recently deciphered, 45 years after archaeologists discovered it, researchers in Israel have announced.
"The deciphering of the scroll, which was a puzzle for us for 45 years, is very exciting," Sefi Porath, the archaeologist who discovered the scroll in 1970 in Ein Gedi, Israel, said in a statement from The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA).
The Ein Gedi parchment scroll is the oldest scroll discovered from the Hebrew Bible since the Dead Sea Scrolls, which date to the end of the Second Temple period, about 2,000 years ago.
The parchment scroll was so charred that it was illegible to the naked eye. Only with advanced technology did the scroll reveal the opening verses of the book of Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible.
So, this is the second oldest fragment of the Old Testament, with the Dead Sea Scrolls being earlier, and containing far more material than this fragment. The deciphering was done using micro-CT scanners.
And what's the text on it?
On the newly deciphered scroll, the text (from the beginning of the book of Leviticus), translated from the original Hebrew, reads as follows:
"The Lord summoned Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying: Speak to the people of Israel and say to them: When any of you bring an offering of livestock to the Lord, you shall bring your offering from the herd or from the flock. If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you shall offer a male without blemish; you shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, for acceptance in your behalf before the Lord. You shall lay your hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be acceptable in your behalf as atonement for you. The bull shall be slaughtered before the Lord; and Aaron's sons the priests shall offer the blood, dashing the blood against all sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting. The burnt offering shall be flayed and cut up into its parts. The sons of the priest Aaron shall put fire on the altar and arrange wood on the fire. Aaron's sons the priests shall arrange the parts, with the head and the suet, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar." (Leviticus 1:1-8).
The biblical text marks the first time a Torah scroll was found inside a synagogue in any archaeological excavation, according to the IAA.
The Live Science story notes that other fragments are still being analyzed, so we may get more stories like this sooner, rather than later.


text: The jacket I designed for Mynt1792 is shipping out today. That means I finally get to see how all of you style it. I just got mine in the mail so you'll be seeing me do a few posts here and there, styling it various ways. It's pretty exciting having something come to life after imagining it in your head for so long. I'm really just anxious to see all of you wearing it. People expect me to always be so happy because I'm touching people's lives but it's hard to fully register it because it's through a computer. I think once I see the people who support me wearing my product, i'll probably break down in tears. haha. Be sure to send me pictures! You guys can still purchase it HERE!


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Parenting Humor – The Truths of Having Children
Being a parent – not an easy job. The reward is almost always worth the effort, but sometimes we have to sit down with a
bottle glass of wine and laugh at the days events. I'm here to help you do just that!
Here's a collection of some of the more funny jokes, comics, and things other parents have said, that I have found along my travels through the dark side of internet parenting.
(I'll give you a second to grab your wine ….)
This man is a genius when it comes to capturing all of the insanely funny things about parenting and displaying them in the form of the cutest duckies you will ever friggin see! He worked at Hallmark for many years and now apparently draws duck parents all day. Thank you Brian Gordon ….. Thank you, you beautiful man!
You can find more of these awesome parenting truths right here!
Ever planned a birthday party for your children? Ah, then you will find the humor in this next one quickly! The people over at mycentralfloridafamily.com summed up every parents dream party for their children …..
This next one is one of my favorites. It might be the simple way she portrays life as a married mom, or it could be that the truth behind her cartoons can be related to by every freakin parent on earth! Whatever the reason, she has a fan here!
You can find more hilarious comics here!
We all worry our children will inherit the worst sides of our personalities, but sometimes you have to stand back and feel a little proud because you know they're gunna be alright!
The people over at Olliegarky.com summed that up quite well with this mums business photo!
There are times during our parenting adventures when people ask something so stupid it requires a snarky answer. That is exactly what Sherri Long, from Pinterest, captured in this next picture.
Okay Guys, Gals, and everyone in between ….. That's it for today. I hope you got a good laugh from these awesome comics, and feel a small sence of relief knowing that you are Not Alone!
Until next time (which will be soon since there is no shortage of hilarious parenting truths on the internet!) happy parenting!


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This is my very first quilt. I call it Travelling Footballs. I gave it to my brother 3 years late. It's called that b/c he goes to all the World Cups and Euro Cups that he can - he's there now. it's a flannel/denim rag quilt. The rags ended up being only a quarter inch. I bound it - binding through only two layers I found difficult so I need more practice on that and on mitring the binding. Oh, and on lining up the squares - not all are connected right. And I learned the benefits of prewashing - this one was washed after it was all done and it's a bit puckered and the denim ran a bit.
He loved it - I gave it to him on May 2. I have another one in mind for him already - he's a musician so it'll be a bargello pattern with a music theme... that one will be better.
flannel side - Travelling Footballs
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It is easy to be distracted by the scale of looting. Yet there are also intellectual consequences as find-spots and contexts are lost or fabricated. What are the implications for the study of ancient trade? I was considering the commercial mark on an Attic black-figured neck-amphora of Panathenaic shape that passed through Sotheby's in London (July 17, 1985, lot 313).
The mark falls into Alan Johnston's (Trademarks on Greek Vases: Addenda) Type 25A. There are thirteen examples. Eight of them (all but this one Type B amphorae) are attributed to 'Group E'. Three of the amphorae are said to have been found at Vulci in Etruria (as well as possibly a column-krater now in the Vatican). In addition to the amphora of Panathenaic shape, a Type B amphora, also attributed to Group E, passed through Sotheby's in London the year before (July 9-10, 1984, lot 314); it is now in Canberra (84.02). What was the history of the two pieces before they were auctioned at Sotheby's? Where were they found?
The commercial mark also appears to be listed as Johnston Type 15A (a not dissimilar mark). Here Sotheby's, July 17, 1985, lot 313 is attributed to the painter of Louvre F6; four of the twelve pots bearing this mark are attributed to this "painter" of which two were said to have been found at Vulci. Could this trademark be an abbreviation of an Etruscan personal name (as Johnston suggests)?
Are these two marks evidence for Greek trade? An Etruscan trader? Are they linked to a particular Athenian pottery workshop, perhaps suggesting that the marks were applied to a batch (or batches) of imported pottery? Were they applied at Vulci (or at least in Etruria)?
We are unlikely to know as the majority of the find-spots have been lost. The amphora of Panathenaic shape is likely to have been found in Italy. Why do I say that? Photographs of it were found in Geneva, "In the Polaroids, the amphora is broken and dirty with earth."
Indeed the amphora was among the antiquities returned to Italy by Shelby White earlier this year. So collecting recently surfaced antiquities does have intellectual consequences.
Discussion of the archaeological ethics surrounding the collecting of antiquities and archaeological material.
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In todays Mises Daily article, David Howden talks how banks should be regulated "the Austrian way." Its basically making quick jabs at fractional reserve banking, bringing up that all too common full reservist objection of how banks could lend out a fraction of your deposits, when it should just be kept in their vaults in full because its your money! This objection just shows that full reservists aren't interested in continuing an intellectual debate because this objection has been answered so many times that most serious scholars on banks basically laugh at this objection now.
Though, the real point of the post isn't meant to critique this full reservist position. The point of this post has to do with these two statements by Howden:
The first group correctly notes that there are two specific drawbacks of increasing regulation. On the one hand, "one size fits all" regulatory policies (such as is commonly the case on the Federal level) are rarely capable of handling the intricacies and dynamics of business.
By ending this legal privilege, we eliminate the ability for banks to grow to such inordinate sizes. By abiding by the same legal principles (or "regulations," if you will) as any other deposit-taking firm, banks are not unduly advantaged.
These two statements are in a sense contradictory, I think anyway. Howden in the first statement makes the claim that regulatory policies (like those at the Federal level) create this "one size fits all" spectrum for which makes these policies "rarely capable of handling the intricacies ad dynamics of business."
Then in the second statement, he calls for a direct "one size fits all" policy so that banks could be "abiding by the same legal principles" or regulations as other deposit-taking firms.
Doesn't Howden even consider that this "one size fits all" policy on banks leaves aside the intricacies and dynamics of how modern banking works? Well maybe he doesn't, for he doesn't even grasp why his earlier objection on fractional reserves is just plain faulty and misunderstands fractional reserve banking at its very elementary level. Gotta love those Rothbardians…


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Field Trips Part II - An Additional Contest Hint
Okay, so nobody even attempted to guess where we went on our super-sized field trip!!!???
So, I'm giving it to Monday, June 30th. I'll post a new pictoral "hint" every day.
For more information about this contest, please go to Field Trips - Learning by Experience, and scroll down to the photograph at the bottom. Good luck! Oh, and if you're into stamp collecting - you really should try. Oh - and if you want to put in multiple guesses, you're allowed.
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The dust is finally settling, literally, after a chaotic few weeks thanks to a leaking water pipe under the kitchen floor. Half of the kitchen, including the sink and washing machine had to come out so that the floor could be dug up to locate the leaking pipe - the day before Aidan's 7th birthday. That was the end of any thoughts of a party at home but I managed to rustle up a cake with my mum's help (as always) in her kitchen.
It wasn't the double decker cake he had requested but it did the job for the day and there is the promise of a late party plus cake in the summer.
After 2 weeks without a kitchen sink or washing machine things are almost back to normal again and we don't need to wash-up in the bath anymore. Although things aren't quite as before, we now have mismatched work surfaces and the hot water comes out of the cold tap but hey, there isn't water seeping out of the brickwork and the chance of the back of the house dropping off at any moment.
A friend gave me a beautiful bunch of flowers which I was able to look at whenever the dust and dirty dishes and general chaos became too much. Yes they are in a 2 pint beer mug but the contents of the removed cupboards, vases included, were packed away.


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Native widgets are called peers. A java AWT component needs a peer to be shown on the screen. Lightweight, Swing (J prefix) components do not. However they must be shown in a toplevel container (JApplet, JFrame, JWindow, etc) which does need a peer or native widget.
The AWT is the original abstract windowing tookit. The Swing set came out in j2se 1.2
You can find a lot of AWT code on the web, old applets and the like. Also, I think the mobile phone people use AWT. Swing is easier to use, has more options and is most common in use by developers. It is best not to mix the two. You can but there are some gotchas to be aware of.
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There are those down in Silicon Valley who are telling teens and youngsters to go into "Real" Engineering™ instead of Computing Science in university, claiming that or else they will get sidelined or "passed over" when they start developing their careers. They are surely well meaning in advising that, but...
Engineers: please stop telling people what to do with their own lives.
This is speaking to the Computer, Electrical, or so-called Software Engineers out there, but really, this applies to those in any engineering field, e.g. including Petroleum Engineers.
Was there a course in Engineering School that taught you to propagate the Cult of the Engineer? Did you Silicon Valley types ever stop to think that maybe telling people what to do by appealing to your having a job in "Silicon Valley" is just an appeal to authority (by association to a geographic region)? It's no more convincing than appealing to having a job on Wall Street, or being an American (in a more international context).
Who do these engineers think they work for anyway? Well, why don't we have a look at who many of these Engineers™ work for and what their educational background is (according to Wikipedia anyway, for what that's worth...):
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook co-founder.
"He studied psychology and computer science"
Sergey Brin: Google co-founder.
"He earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Maryland, following in his father's and grandfather's footsteps by studying mathematics, as well as computer science."
Elon Musk: Tesla, PayPal, and SpaceX founder or co-founder.
"after spending two years at Queen's University, Musk transferred to the University of Pennsylvania where he eventually received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School. Musk stayed on a year to finish his second bachelor's degree[27] In 1995, age 24, Musk moved to California to begin a PhD in Applied physics at Stanford, but left the program after two days to pursue his entrepreneurial aspirations"
Peter Norvig: Director of Research (formerly Director of Search Quality) at Google.
"Norvig received a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics from Brown University[6] and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.[1]"
Pierre Omidyar: eBay founder.
"He graduated from Tufts University in Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, with a bachelor's degree in computer science in 1988."
Matt Cutts: Google software engineer, the head of Google's Webspam team.
"Cutts received a Bachelor's degree in computer science and mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1995.[4][5] He went on to receive a Master of Science degree [looks like from the Department of Computer Science] from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.[6]"
Steve Ballmer: Microsoft's 30th employee, first business manager, and Owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Oh, and ex-CEO of Microsoft.
"In 1977, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in applied mathematics and economics.[16]"
Christopher Bishop: Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research in Cambridge, leading the Machine Learning and Perception group.
"Bishop was educated at Earlham School in Norwich then went to study for a Bachelor of Arts degree in Physics at St Catherine's College, Oxford, graduating in 1980. He then went on to the University of Edinburgh for a PhD in Theoretical Physics"
Andrew Ng: Chief Scientist at Baidu Research.
"received his undergraduate degree in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as the class of 1997. Then, he attained his master's degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts as the class of 1998 and received his PhD from University of California, Berkeley in 2002 [in Computer Science]. "
Larry Page: Google co-founder.
"He holds a Bachelor of Science in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, with honors and a Master of Science in computer science from Stanford University."
Finally, someone sensible and has an engineering degree! I guess only Page will be successful and not be sidelined!
Other than Larry Page, who still went into Computer Science for his Master's degree, apparently these people didn't get "Real" Engineering™ degrees.
These are just some famous people I thought of, off the cuff, and of course you could assemble a different list of CEOs and researchers who did get engineering degrees. But that's not the point.
After all, if getting sidelined or "passed over" means becoming the Director of Research at Google like Peter Norvig, if it means becoming a founder of SpaceX like Elon Musk, or if it means becoming the CEO of Microsoft like Steve Ballmer, then please, please, please sideline me.
In other words, there's nothing wrong with getting degrees in Computing Science instead of in Engineering.
Or maybe it means that there's nothing wrong with getting degrees in Math either. There were more on the above list of people with math degrees than engineering degrees. huh…
So maybe what all this really means is: stop spreading FUD about getting "sidelined" or "passed over" if you don't get an engineering degree. And stop putting other people down just because they didn't go into a field as technical or challenging as you did (I'm talking to you mathematicians out there).


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A Vision for an Equitable DC
A Vision for An Equitable DC by the Urban Institute, and commissioned by the Meyer Foundation and the Consumer Health Foundation, examines census data around income and assets, employment, education, health, and housing to compare the current reality of racial inequity for DC residents with a vision for what equity would look like.
The data reveal stark differences by race and ethnicity in each area. For example, more than 80 percent of black children and 22 percent of Hispanic children in DC live in poverty, while the number of white children living in poverty is statistically zero. Further, the unemployment rate for black DC residents is more than 5.5 times that of white residents, and double that of Hispanic residents.
In an equitable DC:
- 33,000 more black residents and 12,000 more Hispanic residents would have high school degrees, and almost 98,000 more black residents would have some college
- 24,000 more black residents and 2,200 more Hispanic residents would be employed, including 17,000 residents of wards 5, 7, and 8
- 35,000 more black families and 5,200 more Latino families would earn a living wage (which in DC is more than $38 an hour)
- 14,000 more black households (7,500 in Ward 8 alone) and 3,900 more Latino households would own homes
- No child would live in poverty
Without DC's stark racial inequities, the city could be a more prosperous and competitive place. According to the National Equity Atlas, if people of color earned the same as their white counterparts, the city's economy would have been more than $65 billion larger in 2012.
Access the full digital feature, A Vision for an Equitable DC.
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I can offer a recent story.
He is currently taking care of his wife after a bone marrow transplant. So I write this in his stead.
As I was driving in my car, after picking up children from school, I received a call from a union plan. They had an urgent matter wherein a member was close to exhausting their transplant benefit and was still in need of a transplant. They wondered aloud if there was anything I could do to solve this problem. The union plan only allotted a $150,000 transplant benefit. The member was close to exhausting that amount and still hadn't conducted donor match services yet nor the transplant itself.
I advised the union plan that we needed to exhaust the transplant benefit, within the union plan, and then terminate the member. This would create a qualifying event. It afforded an opportunity to put her on a ACA plan which would pick up the remainder of costs associated with hospitalization and transplant.
For the record, an average bone marrow transplant is $1,000,000+. Working in conjunction with the union plan, we carefully watched each claim and waited to exhaust the member's benefit. When the moment arrived, I immediately transferred the member to an ACA plan without interruption of coverage. Interruption of coverage would have brought about certain death. I coordinated the member's care with UC Davis and verified benefits would, in fact, cover the totality of costs associated with the transplant and subsequent hospitalization for recovery.
As of February 14th, the member is scheduled to be released from the hospital to convalesce at home after a successful transplant. It cannot be stressed enough that a pre-existing condition of this magnitude would have rendered this member to certain death without the ACA.


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I always get rather impatient this time of year. Is it the hunting seasons that are forthcoming? No, not really. Then, why? Well, I am anxiously waiting to harvest elderberries. Elderberries! Yep. I am thinking about that tasty elderberry jelly that a buddy of mine makes. Oh, so good! It is berry picking time in Nebraska or nearing it and not just for elderberries but for other popular wild fruits and berries as well. In fact, I have already gathered …Read More »
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"Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it."
~ E.O. Wilson, Biodiversity
Kudos to Sebastian Martinez on his new 13-minute Newsy documentary, "Saving the Migration," featuring Dr. Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch, MPF's Carol Davit, Norman Murray with Mo. Dept. of Conservation, and Kelly Srigley-Werner of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, among others.
Please share this link/video with your friends and family, and plant some milkweed or other native plants this fall at your home or property. It's easy to do and will directly benefit native pollinators, including monarchs. To find a native plant retailer near you, visit our Grow Native! resource guide.


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The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941
The CIO Challenge to the AFL: A History of the American Labor Movement, 1935-1941
The period covered by this study, from the formation of the CIO to the entrance of the United States into the second World War, was one of the most significant in the history of the American labor movement. Within the brief span of six years, American workers in the basic industrial sector of the nation witnessed the transformation of their bargaining organizations from relatively impotent bodies into equal partners in the industrial relations system. It is no exaggeration to say that there was a fundamental, almost revolutionary change in the power relationships of American society. Few episodes in our history have been as dramatic as the upward thrust of American labor, suddenly breaking the bonds of constraint which had checked it for half a century.
The plan of the work is simple. There is an introductory chapter which deals with the establishment of the CIO and the history of its tortuous peace negotiations with the AFL. There then follows a number of chapters on the development of unionism in particular industries. The final section is concerned with substantive issues common to the entire labor movement.
Slicing history into chronological segments is not without its difficulties. The stories of specific industries or unions do not always begin and end at just the right time. It was sometimes necessary to start in the middle of an episode, or to end on an inconclusive note. This problem proved less serious for the newly formed CIO unions than for the older AFL organizations. But even for the latter, I tried to focus on the central problems that faced the organizations, in order to keep the narrative from hanging in mid-air.
During the four years of accumulating the data that have gone into this volume, I incurred a heavy indebtedness to the many people who were generous enough to give me the benefit of their advice and assistance. Among those who read and commented upon portions of the manuscript were Arthur J. Goldberg of Goldberg, Feller and Bredhoff; Meyer Bernstein and Otis Brubaker of the United Steelworkers of America; Nat Weinberg and Frank Winn of the United Automobile, Aircraft and Agricultural Implement Workers; Professor Vernon H. Jensen of the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations; President L. S. Buckmaster of the United . . .


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People are telling me Christmas is coming. The days are getting longer and temperatures (slowly) getting hotter, but those around me insist that yuletide time is around the corner. I guess technically good ole' xmas day is next week, but for me, in Australia, the holiday couldn't seem more foreign or distant.
Thursday, December 19, 2013
'Tis the Season?
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Lunch on the Road at Forrest Brewing Company
It only takes driving down the Great Ocean Road once to realize that you don't wanna drive down it again on the way home. Don't get me wrong, the scenery that the road winds amongst is gorgeous. It's one of those places of beauty that photos don't do justice... beauty of a degree that you can't comprehend until you see it for yourself. You'll also see that the repetitive tight curves of the road can induce motion sickness and that the distance takes forever because of low speed limits and cliff-side squeezes. That's why we took the road up from Skenes Creek and through Forrest on the way home from Port Campbell a few weeks ago, and ended up at the Forrest Brewing Company eating mixed berry cheesecake with marshmallow for lunch.
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Tuesday, November 26, 2013
I'm Now a Yarra Valley Expert
Parent month has sadly drawn to an end. For Charlie and me, it was a month full of laughter, day trips, free meals (so much more than that!) and fun with our loved ones after almost eight months of living away from home. During just one month, Charlie and I travelled with our parents to Sydney, the Great Ocean Road and Phillip Island, and, of course, the Yarra Valley... twice. Now I think I can say with some amount of confidence that I know a bit about the Yarra Valley. Or at least about its food options (since I still know little about wine, save for the coincidental occasion on which I pick up a scent that's actually in the ballpark of what I'm supposed to smell).
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Soft-Shell Sidewalker at Hammer & Tong
Been reading about some seriously good soft-shell crab burgers at Hammer & Tong 412 for some time now, and finally got around to popping by with Denise and Ed this past weekend. I anticipated a line since that's the theme for well-reviewed Melbourne cafes, but, nope. Right in to an empty four-top in front of the bar.
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Johnston Street Hispanic Fiesta Too Crowded
...But that didn't mean I was going to miss out on an authentic fix of the delicious comidas tipicas I've been craving from home. My former roommates and parents, Ed and Denise, are currently visiting and together with Chaz we headed to the Hispanic Fiesta on Johnston St around 3:30 pm this past Sunday, knowing quite well that walking freely could possibly be a bit too much to ask.
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Labels: Australia, El Salvador, festivals, fish tacos, Fitzroy, Melbourne, mexican, pupusas, tacos
Monday, November 11, 2013
Cheap Seafood at the Sydney Fish Market
Yo – you a seafood eater? Then you better get yourself on down to the Sydney Fish Market, where coppin' cheap and fresh seafoods is all the rage. If you're going on a weekend, it's best to arrive early. The place will be teeming with eaters by lunch time, all craving a quick salt-water fix. Or freshwater, I guess. To me, it's all about shellfish.
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Cumulus Inc. is Worth the Wait
Although it's one of Melbourne's hottest spots, Charlie and I took our chances and showed up to Cumulus Inc. at around 6:45 last Friday night. I'd read warnings that a no bookings policy leads to hours of waiting, but we were met with a delay of just one hour and 15 minutes. We popped down to Cherry on ACDC lane for a drink or two, and our spot at Cumulus' kitchen counter was ready in seemingly no time. I generally prefer to sit at an actual table, especially on a special occasion such as this (Charlie's day of birth, bless him,) but here I was happy to watch the kitchen buzz through the night's busy service.
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Green Curry Mussels and Empty Apartments
I moved to Australia a few months ago with nothing more than the clothes on my back (and in two suitcases and a dedicated shoe-bag,) and had a mini boredom meltdown when I moved into a bland, unfurnished Melbourne apartment. Six months later I've just moved out, and, ironically, I'm just finally feeling like that collection of rooms was home.
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Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Chicken Treat is Semi-Appalling
In the vast world of the Western Australian desert, not many restaurants can survive off of the parched land. Which is why I can't really understand how Chicken Treat actually exists. Because it sucks.
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Labels: Australia, Chicken, fast food, fast-food, lunch, sandwiches, Western Australia
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Coral Resort Bakery: Birthplace of My Pie Obsession
The most intuitive of you will be thinking that the beach isn't really the best place to be eating fatty, cheesy, gravy filled beef pies. I mean, in this environment you're almost obligated to wear a bathing suit and pies aren't exactly slimming. And it's kinda hot out to be consuming steamy baked pastry. But to that I say: don't ever skip the pies if you find yourself in Coral Bay, Western Australia. And, invest in a good one piece.
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Tuesday, September 17, 2013
How to Snorkel the Great Barrier Reef in Queensland, Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is something that only existed in my head and on television until just recently, when I got the chance to find out that it's actually real. How much longer it will exist for is another story, but for now, it exists in full glory, off the Australian coast of Queensland. And I swam on it, biotches.
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Labels: Australia, Cairns, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, seafood, snorkeling, travel
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
F.T Tuckshop: A South Melbourne Staple
An edited version of this post appeared on MilkBarMag.com on September 9th, 2013
F.T Tuckshop, a retail outlet of Food Traders Catering Company, offers South Melbourne something that not many other places do: quality lunch food at affordable prices for a working woman such as myself. While Coventry and Clarendon Streets are scattered with upmarket cafes geared towards a yuppy lunch crowd and low quality chains like Subway and KFC, F.T Tuckshop offers the middle ground, and a breath of fresh air.
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Labels: Australia, jaffles, lunch, meatballs, Melbourne, sandwiches, South Melbourne
Thursday, August 22, 2013
The Luna 1878 Night Market is Well Done
I love a good market. It's great when everything can just come together to create that atmosphere, like great food, music, enough space and cheap-ish alcohol. I'm not talking about boring ones, like the Midtown NYC street fairs that generally have greasy, shit mozzarepas, expensive iced fruit drinks in novelty cups and tons of stalls selling Peruvian flute CDs and fake sunglasses. Fairs of that type are just more of a transport obstacle than a fun excursion, but Luna 1878 at the Queen Vic Market is not one of those fairs. It's well thought out, carefully planned and delicious.
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Labels: Australia, chicken wings, Filipino, Hungarian, langos, Luna Night Market, Melbourne, Night Market, Philly cheesesteak, pork, queen victoria market
Monday, August 19, 2013
I'd Move to St. Kilda for Bay City Burrito
I've got a thing for burritos and it goes like this: rice, beans and other ingredients of my choice, slathered in salsa and at least two sauces and wrapped up into a slightly steamed, flexible flour wrap. Then wrapped again in tinfoil. The whole thing should weigh almost as much as my computer and should be an amazing combo of millions of Ameri-Mexican flavors.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
Ihaw Ihaw Filipino Makes Good Food in Cairns
To a discerning eater, Cairns can seem like a desert -- a mud flat of shit food sprawling across the town's CBD. Cairns is basically a country town turned big by its outstanding natural features, namely its easy access to the Great Barrier Reef. It's luring to travelers and simultaneously weird. At any time the streets of Cairns visibly boast sunburnt tourists, drunk and broke backpackers, relaxed retirees, inebriated and barefoot Aboriginals and other hard looking locals.
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Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Dainty Sichuan is Pretty...Spicy
Have you ever eaten a Sichuan peppercorn? It's not a thing of heat. Crush one on your tongue and expect a bitter, anise-y, peppery evolving sensation that will leave your taste buds literally tingling for minutes, and then you'll want more. Our table of seven at Dainty Sichuan last week ended up trading peppercorns, quails eggs, Chinese sausages and rice sticks like drugs.
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Saturday, July 20, 2013
Bagel Sandwiches at Manchester Press
I was hoping for a beacon of light in a dark place from Manchester Press. A bagel oasis in an otherwise bagel desert of this lost continent. We rocked up, on the brink of slightly hungover starvation, around 2:05 on a rainy Saturday afternoon, and maybe that was a mistake. We were confronted with a harsh reality: a line for bagels that actually rivals that on a Saturday morning at Bagel Boss.
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Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Eating the Melbourne Pizza Festival 2013
When I read about the closing party of the Melbourne Pizza Festival, I knew I had to go. I haven't really been in Melbourne long enough yet to be familiar with all of the master pizza makers slinging pies at the event, thus, it was the perfect way to get a taste of each. Melbourne has a surprising large Italian population, so a pizza festival here is bound to be serious.
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Sunday, June 30, 2013
I Left My Heart in Europe at Ferdydurke
On Sunday, Pierogi Pierogi, a Melbourne purveyor of pierogi and all that is Polish, hit Ferdydurke for their "I Left My Heart in Europe" party. Coincidence has it that when I laid eyes on the poster promoting this party, I had recently unsuccessfully scoured the frozen section of my neighborhood IGA for pierogi. :( I recognized fate and vowed not to miss my chance for Eastern European dumpling goodness at Ferdy's.
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Friday, June 28, 2013
Looking for Taco Love at La Tortilleria
I hadn't really seen anything that quite resembled actual Mexican food in Australia until Lauren from Footscray Food Blog pointed out La Tortilleria in this month's issue of Gram Melbourne. What I mean by actual Mexican is tiny tacos, topped only with onions and a menu with no flour tortillas in sight. La Tortillera makes their own tortillas in the way of Nixtamal, a process that involves stone ground corn and dates back to the good old days of the Aztecs. My Mexican food options at the food store here consist of Mission wraps and Old El Paso products, so the more I read, the more I was DTF with these tacos.
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Labels: al pastor, Australia, carne asada, flan, Melbourne, quesadilla, sopes, tacos, tortillas
Tuesday, June 25, 2013
On Laap and "Travel Writing"
Laap, a Lao dish known in the west as larb, is not a pretty food, but a simple and flavorful one. I was reminded of my first laap experience the other day as I wrote a story about the growth of luxury travel in Laos, specifically in the tiny city of Luang Prabang, for the website I work at. When I went to Laos two years ago, it was quiet, friendly and un-corrupt; it was my favorite of the countries I visited on that trip. Recently, I felt excited to write about Luang Prabang at my job because I thought it would be a refreshing change from writing about places I'll never see or experience. Really it just left me feeling conflicted.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Tiba's Lebanese: Our New Favorite Late-Night Food
After visiting Tiba's one time for a late-night falafel wrap and realizing that the place was poppin' off even at like 10pm, we resolved to return to try the big plates of kebab goodness that we saw heading out to crammed tables of devout followers. At that moment, $15 for a main just wasn't doable for us, but once we secured jobs we knew where we wanted to splurge.
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Labels: Australia, babaganoush, doner, lamb, lebanese, middle eastern, shawarma, sydney road
Friday, June 7, 2013
Footscray is a Food Town
Native Melburnians think that Footscray is the ghetto. I know this because I overheard one of my new co-workers saying that she pees herself every time the doors open there on the V-Line train. (That's the regional train service here.) Sure, Footscray seems a little rough around the edges. I can't speak for the area at night, but I can say that it didn't seem nearly as scary as the Bronx. Besides that, all I can tell you is that there's some great food over there.
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Monday, June 3, 2013
I Wrote About Lucky Duck Cider for 3000melbourne Magazine
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Monday, May 27, 2013
Oysters and Guinness at The Last Jar
We've been past The Last Jar a ton of times on the tram not far from our place but never been in, so, naturally, when I read in Time Out about their annual Oyster and Guinness Festival this past weekend, I pushed Charlie and friends to partake. How could you pass up $2 oysters and $6 pints? (Easily, anywhere besides freakin' Melbourne, where those are actually decent prices. In NYC, it's not a deal until those little shuckers are $1.)
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Friday, May 24, 2013
We Made the Best Lamb Kofta Wraps Ever
This dish was inspired by our need to use up a left-over half head of red cabbage, and somehow turned into one of the best meals we've made in a while. Beautiful. I've never really had kofta but my general understanding is that it's minced meat on a stick cooked on a grill. Ours took the form of lamb meatballs. Above you can see our shiny new $50 Ikea kitchen table (all white errrything,) which will be on sale in about 8-10 months. I'll start the bidding at $30.
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Wednesday, May 22, 2013
How to Stay Full for Next to Nothing in Melbourne: A Guide
OK, maybe not next to nothing, but with a few learned tips, Charlie and I have definitely managed to cut our grocery bill! (I have no numeric proof, but we MUST be saving money.) ((This post could be a sign of my withdrawal from working at All You, a womens' value minded maga-- stop.))
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Labels: Australia, cheap food, lebanese, markets, Melbourne, queen victoria market, sydney road, travel
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Fish and Chips and Beauty in Williamstown, VIC
Such is my first post about Australia. My one month here so far has been one of searching for a home and a job. It's expensive here, and we're starting to feel the anxiety of unemployment, so the last week or so has been all about what we can do around the area for cheap. Last Saturday, that quest took us to the Prahan Market and for a walk up Chapel St., and then on a free walking tour of the CBD, the Central Business District. On Sunday, we took a little train trip to Williamstown, a suburban area overlooking the Hobson and Port Phillip Bays with gorgeous views of the Melbourne skyline and some really nice coastline paths.
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Labels: Australia, fish and chips, Melbourne, scallops, seafood
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Hong Kong Dai Pai Dongs
All the cool kids in Hong Kong eat on the streets. The streets west of Nathan road in Jordan and Yau Ma Tei are lined with rickety tables and stools outside of tiny stalls selling seafood concoctions and clay pot rice dishes. We chose a spot near our room at the Temple Night Market; they all look the same and have mostly Asians eating so in that area I'd say its pretty hard to go wrong. Western tourists don't really get up to the northernmost part of the market.
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Monday, May 13, 2013
Markets of Mong Kok, Hong Kong
I don't think you should say that you've truly been to Hong Kong until you've had a few hours wandering around the frenetic neighborhood of Mong Kok. Travel north on Nathan Road until you hit Mong Kok, and then let the sights and smells suck you in. Actually, it smells pretty putrid, but if you can get past that, there are some great photo opps, shopping stalls and street morsels to indulge in.
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Go to For Kee for Pork Chop
For Kee is tucked in on a back street in Sheung Wan, a quieter neighborhood to the west of Central on HK island. The menu shows shades of a typical Hong Kong cha chaan teng -- an inexpensive type of comfort cuisine that developed in HK in the 1950s and 60s and just seems bizarre to me. Think of a fusion of western foods like buttered toast with scrambled eggs or peanut butter and like spaghetti and meatballs and coffee mixed with tea and condensed milk and then think about your local Chinese take-out chef whipping these things up and ask yourself "why?" IDK. Anyway, For Kee is particularly known for its pork chop, and that is exactly what we went for.
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Labels: asian, fried rice, hong kong, pork, pork chop
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Procuring Hong Kong Street Snacks Can Be Intimidating: A Guide
Walking around the streets of Kowloon, the mainland part of Hong Kong, is a mouthwatering, yet terrifying experience. If you people-watch for just a few minutes, you'll see scores of people eating; corner stalls full of pork buns or roasted ducks or sticks with weird looking meatballs and sausages on them abound. Then you think about trying to obtain a snack for yourself. "How do I approach that mean looking vendor with the dumplings? Where does the line start? How do I pay? DO I LOOK STUPID?" These phrases will probably haunt you every time you want a tasty morsel, which is like once every five minutes for me. Seems like a huge hassle for a mere cha siu bao. Lucky for me, I have been able to conjure up the courage to get past that shit and make it happen; if it were up to my travel companion, Chuck, I might just starve. Lucky for him too, then, I guess!
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Labels: asian, dessert, dumplings, guide to hong kong street food, hong kong, pork, pork belly, pork buns, street food, travel
Thursday, April 25, 2013
McDonald's Asia has Grilled Chicken Twisted Pasta...
...for breakfast. In fact, they have it at every meal, but I was most disturbed to see this choice gracing the limited breakfast menu in the Hong Kong airport. Alongside normal McD's breakfast offerings like sausage egg mcmuffin and hot cakes, customers are also faced with fliet o'fish sandwich and this bowl of cavatappi, corn, chicken and broth. What's worse is that instead of chicken, this dish also exists with egg and sausage on top. K?
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Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Get Indian Food at Hong Kong's Chungking Mansions
The Chungking Mansions on Nathan Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong are pretty much the stuff nightmares are made of. Think of a huge, knackered apartment building with tiny old elevators and battered flats turned into fluorescent-lit guesthouses named for random obscure countries. Then think of having to enter the building through two dim floors full of currency exchange places, cell phone hawkers, samosa sellers and general riff-raff. To get in any elevator you'll most likely have to wait online, and don't even think about making a quick escape down from a high floor. You'll have to let numerous elevators pass up and down and try to get on one until you don't hear the dreaded beeping of the overload warning. Could take 20 minutes of waiting. Now you have a good feeling for the Chungking Mansions.
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Monday, April 22, 2013
Wang Fu Dumplings in Hong Kong -- Just OK
On our last night in Hong Kong, after four full days of eating Asian food, Charlie and I were both craving the same thing: burgers. ANYTHING but Asian food. I researched a few burger places but let's face it, burgers aren't an Eastern specialty. We chose one on Wellington Street but said we'd browse the rest of the local options first before committing to Western sin, because I think we both felt a little guilty cheating on the Asians. We came across Wang Fu, which I'd read about on a few blogs. They're known for their dumplings, especially their interesting filling combo of egg and tomato. We persevered and found our second wind.
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Sunday, April 21, 2013
Wonton Noodle Soup at Tsim Chai Kee
OK. I'm finally writing about Hong Kong. When we got there, I hadn't done too too much research on the exact places I wanted to eat. I knew we had to get dim sum, seafood and wonton noodle soup, but I did not know where to go for each. Sitting on the bed in our little Yau Ma Tei room (acquired through airbnb.com,) I had my first Eastern Hemisphere meltdown. There are just too many choices of where to eat in Hong Kong. Every website has different suggestions, and when I would finally settle on one place, I'd find another site shit-talking it. I was overwhelmed and terrified of wasting my money -- Hong Kong ain't cheap, yo.
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Wednesday, March 27, 2013
At Salvation Taco, Get the Torta
It's never a great sign when people recommend you get something different than the food item that is in a given restaurant's title. The tacos at Salvation are tasty; I will not deny that. The Moroccan lamb naan thing is inventive and my friends really liked the curried cauliflower. But two overarching themes of our brunch on a quiet Sunday in the Pod 39 hotel's colorful lounge were, "these portions are tiny," and "whoa, that is effing spicy." At $3 for the cauliflower taco, this contender rings in around NYC's taco pricing average, but the filling was sparse and inconsistent from taco to taco. The lamb on soft naan was yum but $5. I could get more food for $5.
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Thursday, March 14, 2013
Guys, it's Pi(e) Day
Guys, it's pi and pie day and I'm scared because for lunch I went to Pie Face which is an Australian meat pie chain and my last day at work is next week and I'm moving to Australia without a job or an apartment or a dream and I'm scared. Will I be good at making coffee? Will a cheese shop take a chance and hire this novice cheese enthusiast? Will I end up selling my hair to pay rent like Fantine?
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My Love Affair with MoMA's Cafe 2
My relationship with Cafe 2 hurts, as any affair would, because there are so many difficult obstacles that need to be navigated before the love can commence.
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Thursday, March 7, 2013
Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos: YES
HAD to go get the new Cool Ranch taco at Taco Bell today, obvi. I've been anticipating this moment ever since the original Doritos Locos Taco came out at TBell a year ago and I hated it. I just knew in my heart that this one would be better for sooooooo many reasons!
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Sunday, February 24, 2013
Verdict is out on Jamie's 15-Minute Meals
Anyone trying to pretend to be British must be a fan of Jamie Oliver, the chef on Downton Abbey. (He's not but that would be great casting.) This is especially true if your respective Brit-boyfriend is one who thinks he's a chef. Jamie just makes cooking look so effortless and his product always looks beautiful. He always seems to have just the perfect huge ceramic platter or the old butcher's block hanging around to throw some meat onto, surround it in a circle with salad and drizzle with oil and pomegranate seeds. His presentation is some serious stuff. The magazine slave in me would die to see his prop closet.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Butter Poached Lobster at Roots Bistro Gourmand
For my birthday my roommates brought me to Roots Bistro Gourmand, a West Islip/Babylon newcomer with a modern "French"menu. I mean, I picked the place so I guess they brought me but I brought them. I'm sure they at least suspected that since it was my birthday, I'd be going with the lobster.
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Labels: lobster, long island, rice balls
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Las Brasas Does Some Decent Peruvian
The idea of Las Brasas, a shopping-center Peruvian restaurant on Sunrise Highway at Brentwood Road, has been marinating in my brain for quite some time. It's kind of like a sleeper cell in there next to the awesome aquarium store that has an alligator. It's unassuming and kind of hard to judge from the outside. There's next to no info on the Interweb except for like four reviews on Yelp. I wanted to do a drive by through the parking lot to scope it out up close, but Dad didn't get that memo before parking on the side of the building. We were out of the car and totally committed.
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Labels: Bay Shore, ceviche, Chicken, long island, Peruvian
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Fancy Lee and Monsoon Dish up Asian Fusion in Babylon
For some reason, I always crave Asian foods during the New Year holiday season. Who knows why. Maybe because my body sees the salty goodness as a rebellion against turkeys and pork loins and all the rest of the traditional holiday foods we have downed over the past two months. Luckily, my hometown is not lacking in options.
Asian restaurants like Fancy Lee, Monsoon, Aji 53, Sumou and more dot Montauk highway from west to east -- perfect representations of how restauranteurs dealing in Asian cuisines have built their business plans to cater to the mid- and upper-class residents of the suburbs of NYC. My town and others like it are brimming with customers who love the idea of sushi-meets-nightclub-meets-expensive cocktails in a modern interior. Throw in some upscale chicken and broccoli for the land lovers and voila: ya rollin' in $$$. All of these places will stay busy as long as they keep the dim lights, pumping music and ever-evolving sushi roll options. I'm down for any of these places -- if someone else is payin'.
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Labels: asian, Babylon, long island
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Dim Sum at Nom Wah Tea Parlor
I finally netted a poor sucker to gorge on dim sum in NYC with me. I haven't had enough experience with this heavenly service of small Chinese plates, and I'm usually faced with a lack of people who might be willing to try some of the more funky choices. Therefore, when Charles is around, I must take advantage of the opportunity. Nom Wah Tea Parlor tucked in on Doyers St. is regarded a less intense experience than cart-laden powerhouse Golden Unicorn and the like and is the perfect place to test out foreign dishes at your leisure.
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Saturday, January 5, 2013
A Secret About McDonald's Grilled Onion Cheddar Burger
The Grilled Onion Cheddar Burger at McDonald's looks really great on the drive through menu. It looks big and juicy and enticing. Voluminous. Looking at the picture on the light up board, I was excited that I was getting something special. New. Especially on the way home from New Years Eve the morning after. It looks like the perfect item to combine with some chicken nuggets and a few stolen bites of a McRib.
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Friday, January 4, 2013
Southampton's Clamman is Good for Lunch
Charlie and I decided to take a ride out to the Hamptons the other day to get a quick seafood lunch and some fresh air. Our destination was the village of Southampton and the Clamman fish market just outside of it. It's about an hour drive east from my house on Sunrise Highway, Route 27. Guess what happened on my way there: big old speeding ticket. Happy new year to me! Start it off January 2nd going the same speed as everyone else (76 to be exact) and get a huge fine just for living my life. I've never been pulled over before, but my tear ducts were rendered inactive by anger when the officer approached my window. Good thing lunch was cheap.
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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – Gettysburg scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth to break a 2-all tie and defeat McDaniel 4-2 in Centennial Conference (CC) baseball action on Friday.
Evan Finch (Laurel, Md./St. John's College) led the Green Terror (11-17, 4-12 CC) with two hits on the afternoon.
Josh Cubell paced the Bullets (11-21, 5-11 CC) with two hits, including the go-ahead single in the fourth.
Tied at 2-all, Logan Sneed led off the fourth with an infield hit before a Sean Murphy double down the right-field line put runners at second and third.
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Matt Szczesny was hit by a pitch with one out in the bottom of the first before a Joe Giovinco infiled single put runners at first and second.
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