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This is the true story about my time in the Czech Republic with a bus driver named Zoltan. It is a little long, I know. Keep in mind that this happened a few months after Dude Where's My Car came out.
Our tour bus driver was named Zoltan. Naturally we all made the "Z" with our hands and bowed every time we got on the bus. This seemed to confuse him for some reason, although I admittedly understand why.
He was obviously shy and would always try to get people to talk to the tour guide on the bus (who had a microphone and loved discussing the Danube river at 3 am).
As we began to make our way into Romania we hit a looooooong line of semi trucks that was not moving. We are talking about a 4 to 5 hour wait to drive into the country. We had a concert to put on at a large Romanian church that night and this wait would have ensured we were late. Zoltan being the deity he is said in his native tongue, "Eff this!" (slight exaggeration) and pulled into the left lane where there was, at the time, no oncoming traffic.
I was seated at the back of the bus. This was a church trip so naturally I was feeling up on some 15 year old boobies (I was 15 as well). As he began to accelerate I remember seeing little heads popping up like meerkats. Zoltan really had his foot down for this.
On either side of us was farmland and there were decent sized drainage ditches surrounding the road. The right lane was still bumper to bumper semi trucks and your occasional odd looking Mercedes Euro-Van. It was at this time our short, awkward and timid youth leader, Roy (who was seated in the front and fortunately not touching boobies), noticed a semi on the horizon coming toward us. We are going over 50 mph.
I think most of us would have applied the brakes at this point and seriously reconsidered the 'plan.' Not Zoltan. We could see in his little bus driver mirror that his bleak and expressionless face turned to a smile, no, an evil little grin.
Roy stands up and points with a visibly shaky finger, "Uhmmm, Zoltan.... Zoltan????.... ZOLTAN WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!?!?"
(His smile is now showing his yellowed teeth)
Our token fat kid (who was hilarious) took the liberty to jump up and yell "You can do it Zoltan! We believe in you!" This automatically got the slow clap going with his name as the sound instead of claps.
We are now literally about 60 yards away from the semi. Both us and the semi are moving very fast. Still traffic on right, and ditch on left. Roy seems to be praying now. Fat kid is jumping up and down yelling Zoltan. People are pounding the glass. Even the more 'tame' of the group were chanting with us.
The semi is closer. Not slowing down. Not moving over. The driver of the semi has now actually opened his door. This move still confuses me. I guess he would jump out?
The semi is now too close to not hit head on. There is nowhere to go. We are moving too fast. Only Roy seems to care and is definitely praying now.
Then, SLAM! all of us standing were thrown to the right of the bus. Zoltan had swerved left. There was the beginnings of a second lane (still the wrong way mind you) and we just made it over.
We came so close that our side mirrors hit... ever so slightly that only a small chip of paint was missing.
Chaos ensued. Cheers abound (besides Roy who needed a change of pants) and praises of Zoltan filled the air. Zoltan slowed us down and undid his seat belt to stand.
He turned to address us and in the best euro-accent I have ever heard said "I am the Zoltan!" and made the "Z" with his hands and took a bow.
Seriously the most amazing thing I have ever experienced.
This story was told by reader CurlzGoneWild while we discussed the singular brilliance of finding clips from a Czech science fiction TV show, which had been posted to YouTube by a man named Zoltan.
Photo Credit: Návštěvníci "Visitors" (real life Zoltan not pictured)


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Yale Men's Hockey Opens with UOIT, Princeton
NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The 2009-10 edition of Yale men's hockey is on display this weekend with a Friday, 7 p.m. exhibition game at home against the University of Ontario Institute of Technology followed by the start of the regular season, Saturday, 7 p.m. at Princeton. This is the 114th season of Yale hockey.
Yale has won both meetings with UOIT the last two Octobers, both of them have been exhibition contests. Yale has a 122-99-8 lead on Princeton, but the Tigers have taken six of the last eight.
Yale and Princeton each won at home last winter. The Blue won 3-1 at Ingalls in January and Princeton blanked the Elis 2-0 late in February when Yale could have clinched the ECAC Hockey title. Sean Backman (Cos Cob, Conn.) tallied two goals at home. Yale goalie Alec Richards '09, who was in net for both games against the Tigers, had 55 saves. Zane Kalemba, last year's ECAC and Ivy League Player of the Year and a Hobey Baker candidate, stopped 70 Yale shots.
The Elis are coming off an Oct. 25 scrimmage at Dartmouth where the Blue scored four of the six goals. Four different forwards hit the net: sophomores Brian O'Neill and Kevin Limbert, senior Sean Backman and freshman Andrew Miller. Freshman Jeff Malcolm and senior Billy Blase shared the time in goal.
Sean Backman, a senior member of the Yale men's hockey team, was named to the College Hockey News (CHN) 2008-09 Pre-Season All-America squad. Backman, named to the second team, is one of three ECAC Hockey selections on the CHN team. He was second-team All-ECAC last year after leading his team with 20 goals. Backman, a forward, tallied the team's lone hat trick in a 5-0 win over Cornell that gave the Blue the ECAC Hockey Tournament Title and its leading scorer the tournament MVP. His career numbers are 56-35-91 in 93 games.
The Elis scored nine shorthanded goals and tied the school record in 2008-09. Broc Little (UAH, RPI, UNO, MSU, CLARK) led the nation with five while Denny Kearney (Union, Brown) assisted on five of them. Tom Dignard (Colgate) and Sean Backman (Cornell) also had them... C.J. Marottolo, on the Yale coaching staff the last 13 years, was named head coach at Sacred Heart University on Oct. 8.
Ryan Donald (St. Albert, ALB), a class of 2010 defenseman who helped Yale rank 10th nationally in scoring defense, is the captain of the 2009-10 Bulldogs. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Bulldog skater had eight assists in 2008-09. Donald is one of 20 NCAA hockey candidates for the 2009-10 Lowe's Senior CLASS Award. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence - classroom, character, community and competition. Donald has compiled a 2.93 grade point average as a political science major at one of the nation's top universities. He was recognized as a member of the ECAC All-Academic team in 2009.
Three years with Keith Allain '80 as Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey has meant remarkable progress for the program, and the most recent campaign more than established the Bulldogs on the national scene. All he did in 2008-09 was lead the Bulldogs to the best season in the history of the sport at Yale. A school-record 24 wins, Yale's first ECAC Tournament Championship and a school-best No. 5 national ranking in late March backs up that statement. The Elis' second ECAC regular-season title, a third NCAA Tournament appearance and an Ivy League crown confirm the status of the 2008-09 squad. That's why the ECAC coaches voted him the conference coach of the year (Tim Taylor Award) and College Hockey News named him national coach of the year.
Yale seniors Ryan Donald (St. Albert, Alb.), Mark Arcobello (Milford, Conn.) and Sean Backman (Cos Cob, Conn.) and juniors Denny Kearney (Hanover, N.H.) and Broc Little (Rindge, N.H.) all took part in National Hockey League Development Camps this summer. Donald was with Vancouver, Kearney and Backman worked out with Washington while Little and Arcobello were with Chicago. NHL development camps are primarily for their signed players, which could be rookies, new draft picks, top prospects and some of their AHL players. Some also include free agents, like the Yale skaters.
Seventeen of Yale's 22 lettermen return for Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey and the conference coach of the year, who was also College Hockey News (national) Coach of the Year. Five of Yale's six All-ECAC Hockey selections, the team's top 10 point producers and 101 of the Bulldogs' 113 goals return. Experience is also plentiful with five players likely to reach the 100-game milestone including senior captain and defenseman Ryan Donald.
The Bulldogs are ranked No. 7 with one first-place vote in this week's USCHO.com and USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine national polls. The Elis moved as high as No. 5 in both polls last March.
The Bulldogs, defending ECAC Hockey regular-season and tournament champions and 2009 NCAA Tournament participant, have been picked to finish first in both the ECAC Hockey Coaches' Preseason Poll and the ECAC Hockey Writers and Broadcasters Association (ECACHWBA) Preseason Poll. Yale, predicted to finish atop the ECAC Hockey standings for the first time, received 15 of 25 first-place votes and earned 278 points in the writers' poll. The Blue had seven of the 12 first-place votes in the coaches' poll. The highest prediction for a Yale squad prior to this season was fifth in 2003.

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State EDC head lauds Type A set-up
If Big Spring wants to remain a player in the economic development arena, it needs to keep its Economic Development Corp. under the current Type A set-up.That was the message delivered by Carlton Schwab, president and chief executive officer of the Texas Economic Development Council, during a town hall meeting Tuesday evening at the Hall Center for the Arts.Big Spring voters will decide Nov. 6 whether to keep the the local EDC under Type A guidelines – in which sales tax money is used strictly for economic development purposes – or to change the corporation to a Type B entity, which would allow expenditures to be used for community improvement projects.And Schwab, an unabashed and unashamed Type A advocate, said the community would be best served by leaving the EDC mandate unchanged."I can't tell you how lucky we are to have the economic development tools we have here in Texas," he said. "The EDC sales tax is the most important difference-maker in the history of economic development in our state … It has put us in the game. There are a lot of communities that don't have the ability to compete for businesses and jobs that you do."In its 20-plus-year history, the local EDC is credited with creating hundreds of jobs and adding millions of dollars to the local economy, Schwab said."Big Spring's EDC is well-run and well-respected … for its programs and its efforts in economic development," he said.Since the EDC sales tax was enacted in 1989, more than 700 Texas communities have established economic development efforts. Since that time, Schwab conceded, many have reverted to Type B operations. With few exceptions, however, he said those communities which have switched their EDC mandates have seen economic development efforts suffer as a result.The problem, he said, is that the pressure to finance all sorts of community development projects become too great to ignore, leaving little if any money for attracting or growing businesses."What would happen is that with a Type B corporation, the playing field would be broadened so much," he said. "You're going to be inundated by funding requests. For example, the Little League is going to come in and say, 'We need some new lights on our fields,' or the local softball association is going to say, 'You know, we really need some new fields' and all the other non-profits around town are going to come in, as well."Now, do you in local government want to be put in the position to say 'yes' to the Little League and 'no' to the softball association and so on?" Schwab added. "There are cities in Texas that have successful economic development under Type B, but they're very rare."And with the Texas economy recovering, now is the perfect time for a Type A EDC, he noted."You've got a real opportunity here, and that's all the more reason to have a strong economic development in place to give emerging businesses a helping hand," Schwab said. "The United States is the place to be, and Texas is the place to be in the United States … I can't help but be bullish on the future."


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Crazy Video: Firework set off inside Wendy's restaurant
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Authorities in Florida are looking for the people who threw a firework inside a Wendy's restaurant in Deerfield Beach.
The incident was captured on surveillance video on July 5.
Just before 10 p.m., one of the culprits walks up to the door but doesn't open it. The next time the door opens, one of the handful of suspects throws a firework inside. The group of suspects then take off.
In the video, red sparks start to fly and the Roman Candle type firework emits a bit of smoke before a larger flare scared a worker away.
The firework created a 7-inch hole in the base of the wall.
No one was injured.
Detectives believe eight to 10 young males are responsible for the incident.


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I get so giddy for spring because I know all the beautiful transitions that will give way to summer. There I am in my designer swimwear ready to hit the beach. I can not wait. It seems to me that Rita Rusic agrees with me. She looked hot at Miami Beach in a red hot piece of luxury swimwear. This sexy lady is toned! Get your color combination on with Pretty Young Thing (Coral).
This Croatian singer, actress and producer hit the beach at 52 looking so hot it burns our eyes. It's all about the workout ladies. Keep that lifestyle out and your luxury swimwear days will be prolonged. She totally looks strong and athletic. Check out that posture and those abdominal muscles!
Spring is a time when you're busting out your fashion game and making an entrance in less heavier clothes. It's really a time to prepare for summer. Summer is colorful and experimental. It's a time to rock patterns and a time to venture into color combinations. Don't be scared to throw yourself into an energetic taste of designs. You can be fashionable and fearless in designer swimwear just as much as you are in your street clothes!
The other thing I love about the summer are the summer dresses. Eva Longoria is wearing hers very well. I like the deep rich color and the white incorporated into the whole look. This patterns are to dye for. They mimic that whole checkered look without quite being checkered. Pair that short dress with some serious gladiator heels and your legs will go on for miles. This outfit is what you call a head-turner. The legs, the length, the hair and the bag! Wow! The greatest thing about this dress is also the airy nature of it. You can beat the heat looking fashionable and sexy. Get your pattern game on with the Heaven Can't Wait Monokini.


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2007/01/15: if you happen to read through this blog entry, please also read the comments. Steve felt a bit misquoted here, especially in the title, and I offer up my rational, and apology, but more importantly, we continue the argument :-)
As someone who believes there is some value for 'schema' in the REST world, I'd like to respond to Steve Vinoski's latest blog post "Lying Through Their Teeth: Easy vs. Simple".
Since I'm more firmly in the REST camp than the WS-* camp, and since I love an underdog, I'll side with schema just for the halibut. It's probably more correct to say that I haven't made up my mind w/r/t schema than I believe there is some value - my 'pro' stance on schema is a gut feel - I've seen no significant evidence to sway me either way.
I definitely feel like schema has gotten a bad rap from it's association with WS-*. Well-deserved, to some extent; XML schema is overly complex, resulting in folks having differing interpretations of some of the structures; WSDL itself is so overly indirect it's horribly un-DRY, while on the other hand being terribly brittle at points like hardcoding URLs to your service in the document.
So? Yeah, they got it wrong. They got a lot of stuff wrong. Anyone consider we might be throwing the baby (schema) out with the bath water (WS-*)?
I'd say my general reaction to the typical RESTafarian's rant against schema is that it's misplaced, guilt-by-association.
Let's look at some of Steve's arguments:
"After all, without such a language, how can you generate code, which in turn will ease the development of the distributed system by making it all look like a local system?"
That's making a bit of a leap - "making it all look like a local system?". That's pretty much what the WS-* world did. Why would he think someone who is pro-schema would necessarily want to repeat the mistakes of the WS-* world? I don't want to!
Anyone who's done any amount of client-side HTTP programming is going to realize there's a fair amount of boiler plate-ish code here. Setting up connections, marshalling inputs, making requests, demarshalling outputs, etc. Want caching? How about connection pooling? You're going to be writing a little framework, my friend, if you don't have one handy. And once you've done that, perhaps you'd like to wrapper some of the per-resource operation bits in some generated code, just to make your life easier. And note, I count things like dynamic proxies as code generation; it's just that isn't static code generated by a tool that you have to re-absorb back into your application.
And guess what? Your generated code doesn't have to hide the foibles of the network, if it doesn't want to. And as Steve implies, it shouldn't.
"trying to reverse-map your programming language classes into distributed services, such as via Special Object Annotations, is an attempt to turn local design artifacts into distributed ones"
Again, no. Schema and "hiding remoteness" are two separate things, they aren't necessarily related.
Similarly, with REST, you read the documentation and you write your applications appropriately, but of course the focus is different because the interface is uniform.
The documentation? What documentation? I'm picturing here that Steve has in mind a separate document (separate from the code, not generated from the code) written by a developer. But human generated documentation like this is still schema, only it's not understandable by machines, pretty much guaranteed to get out of sync with the code, probably incomplete and/or imprecise. Not that machine generated schema might fare any better, but it couldn't be any worse.
But there are more problems with this thought. The notion of hand-crafted documentation for an API is quaint, but impractical if I'm dealing with more than a handful of APIs. In fact, the "uniform interface" constraint of REST pretty much implies you are going to have a greater number of "interfaces" than had you defined the functionality as a service (or set of services) in WS-*. Though presumably each REST interface has a smaller number of operations. Of course it would be nice to have this documentation highly standardized (at least given a related 'set' of documented interfaces), available electronically, etc. I don't see that happening with documentation generated by a human.
Another problem here is that although the "uniform interfaces" themselves will be generally easy to describe - "GET returns an Xyz in the HTTP response payload" - the format of the data is certainly not uniform. Is this sufficient documentation for data structures sent in HTTP payloads? It's not for me. Documenting data structures 'by example' like that seems to be the status quo, and is of course woefully inadequate.
Lastly, I'll point out that I think the primary reason for having some kind of schema available is specifically to generate standardized, human-readable documentation. But not the only one. I think there are opportunities to have have machine-generated 'client libraries', machine-generated test suites, many-flavored documentation (PDFs, web-based, man pages, context-assisted help in editors, etc), validators, assembly tools for use by non-programmers (think Yahoo! Pipes), etc.
What the proponents of definition languages seem to miss is that such languages are primarily geared towards generating tedious interface-specific code, which is required only because the underlying system forces you to specialize your interfaces in the first place.
Right. Except for the data, which will be different; and URL template variables. Don't forget that sometimes you'll be needing to be setting cache validators up; maybe some special headers. Face it, there's plenty of tedious code here, especially if you're making more than onesy-twosey requests. Especially if you're in a low signal-to-noise ratio language like Java. Tedious code is no fun. Why not framework-ize some of it?
Even though I have this feeling that schema will be of some value in the REST world, I actually welcome having to have an argument about it. Absolutely, assume we don't need it until we find a reason that we really need it. We haven't yet hit the big time with REST, to know if we'll need it or not. When we see APIs on the order of eBay's, only REAL REST, then we'll know REST will have hit the big time.
For right now though, none of the anti-schema arguments I've ever heard is very compelling to me.
In the meantime, it's also refreshing to see folks experimenting with stuff like WADL. If we end up needing / wanting schema, it would be nice to have some practical experience with a flavor or two, for REST, before trying to settle on some kind of universal standard.


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Goan Chicken With Roasted Coconut (Shakoothi)
Goan Chicken With Roasted Coconut(Shakoothi)
2 tablespoon coriander seeds
2 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon black mustard seeds
1 inch of cinnamon, coarsely chopped
4 whole cloves
1/4 teaspoon black peppercorns
1/6 of a whole nutmeg
1 dried hot red chile
4 fresh hot green chiles
2 cups grated coconut
8 cloves garlic, chopped
1 inch cube of fresh ginger, coarsely shopped
1 1/2 cups water
4 tablespoons vegetable oil
2 medium onions, diced
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 lb boneless, skinless chicken thighs, quartered
In a saucepan over medium low heat, roast the coriander seeds, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, cinnamon, cloves, peppercorns, nutmeg and the red chile. Stir frequently until the spices are fragrant. Empty the spices into and grind until fine with a mortar and pestle or in a grinder. Set aside. Put the coconut into the same frying pan and dry roast it over medium heat. When the coconut begins to develop brown flecks, remove from flame and add to the spices in the bowl.
In a food processor or blender, combine the garlic, ginger, and green chile 4 tablespoon of water until it forms a paste. In a large frying pan, heat the oil. When hot, add the chicken, coconut-spice mixture and a sprinkle of salt. Stir the chicken until it loses its pinkness and starts to turn slightly brown, about 3-4 minutes. Add the remaining water and bring to simmer. Cover tightly and cook on low until the chicken is tender, about 20-25 minutes. Stir occasionally and turning the pieces over. Before serving, pierce one piece of chicken to make sure it is cooked through.
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This was a very interesting chicken dish to make. It was fun to work with a fresh coconut. I liked having something that was coconut-y without being sweet, a combination that is sometimes difficult to do.
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it looks so much like chicken curry or what malaysian will called rendang..ReplyDelete
Must try. thx for the recipe
Looks like you did very well.ReplyDelete
I've never thought of opening a coconut like that--I do it the way my mum does: find the softer eye to draint he liquid and then start bouncing it in your and and then whacking it with a metal mallet--yours is probably the safer method :)
I love that style of gobi (cauliflower)...mmmmm....
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nemesissPosts: 1259Joined: Sun Sep 13, 2009 7:29 pm
Re: Positive Thinking Garbage
i do not think that positive thinking in it self is a wrong thing, but in my opinion it has to be in moderation.
there are situations where positive thinking can be useful. what comes to mind to me would be such things as medical operations which have a low succes-rate. im not just writing about the patient, but also relatives and the ones doing the procedure. the idea that they will do their best to make the operation a succes, even when the odds are against them, would be benificial.
granted, there are numbers involved which can prepare the patient and relative for an unsuccesfull operation and the doctors performing the operation are aware of the odds, which to them mean that they shouldn't take the operation lightly. so we shouldn't call this blind positive thinking, but this does begs a question.
When would such thinking (positive or negative) be considered blind?
Not everything can be "dumbed-down" to simple numbers, unexpected factors can play a huge role in the outcome. Even if statiscally something is likely to happen, it does not mean it will happen.
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CosmicJoghurtPosts: 809Joined: Tue Oct 26, 2010 7:59 pm Gender: Pinecone
Re: Positive Thinking Garbage
Positive thinking, the term by itself, doesn't really give much of a clue as to the specific ideas in question.
There's those who say that all you need to be happy is want it. There's those who say a positive attitude towards everyday or not so ordinary issues helps you get through them, physically and/or emotionally. Then there's the gigantic industry of delusional self-help which I won't discuss.
I'm happy to say I haven't been through much difficulty in life until now, physically, emotionally, academically, whatever. I've had the pleasure of being born into a welcoming family that works their ass off for me.
However certain events have changed things. My father is very seriously ill and my academic success so far has proven to make my life a whole lot more stressing.
Now, I consider myself a fairly rational person - I try to see things from the reasonable, palpable view and therefore the way I think is generally a thrive for realism. As far as I know I'm not capable of just letting it go and be happy, and smile wherever I go. Doesn't work for me. I notice that I don't act like most people. Something about the way I interact with the world and others confuses me, it's kind of hard to explain...
But I digress. The best I can do is both be realistic AND see the good things around and in me.
Blissfully ignorant positive thinking, I think is garbage. A bit of optimism, combined with a fair share of motivation, I think is best.
AyameTan, I'm sad to hear about your problems, though I won't be naive enough to claim I understand how you feel. I can't really reassure you either, so I'll just say, I hope things are really better know. If writing about it here helps at all, I'm sure I'm not the only one who will welcome your thoughts.
Back to the topic. Positive thinking and stuff.
Perception of reality results in interpretation of reality which results in a deformation of reality.
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AyameTanPosts: 75Joined: Tue Mar 08, 2011 6:18 am Gender: Male
Re: Positive Thinking Garbage
CosmicJoghurt wrote:AyameTan, I'm sad to hear about your problems, though I won't be naive enough to claim I understand how you feel. I can't really reassure you either, so I'll just say, I hope things are really better know. If writing about it here helps at all, I'm sure I'm not the only one who will welcome your thoughts.
I appreciate your candor and understanding. Writing my gripes down was a gargantuan help (I wish I had that level of support when I was in high school). The best way to avert suicide is to actually listen to the people in question, and not dismiss their complaints as "whinging." The canned canard of "Think about those who have it far worse than you" is only going to make their misery and depression more profound.
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Re: Positive Thinking Garbage
The night sky may be "the same" - but, I tell you now, there's just something about having a vector viewpoint where there's nothing but a few hills around you, and seeing nothing but a night sky after working a long, intensely stressful night. Watching the sunset from a mountainside, or the sunrise while drinking water because you're stuck waiting on a mobile transport that was driven by fucking morons who couldn't tell ridge from hillside if they fell off one (spoiler: Best 72 hour day ever).
But, I digress, happiness is found in satisfaction with what one has.
Some would insinuate that being drunk at 9 in the morning to be signs of serious issues.
Me? I'd insinuate it as signs of no plans and a refrigerator full of Whiskey and Guinness.
|Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:43 am
prycejoshPosts: 20Joined: Thu Jun 25, 2015 1:57 pm Gender: Male
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its good to think positive thats how faith works. you think positive and work for that thing with action and then it happens.
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SACRAMENTO — Warriors coach Mark Jackson said starting center Andrew Bogut is a ways away from playing a preseason game, which raises questions about his status for the regular-season opener.
On Monday when the Warriors travel to Los Angeles for a preseason game against Clippers, Bogut will visit Dr. Richard Ferkel. He is going to have his surgically-repaired left ankle checked out, though the Warriors are saying it is a cautionary measure.
Fortunately for the Warriors, rookie center Festus Ezeli is giving them some insurance in case Bogut's recover takes longer than expected.
"He's been spectacular," Jackson said of Ezeli. "He's absolutely the real deal. Can't believe he was on the board at No. 30."
Ezeli, the last player drafted in the first round, has won over his coaches and teammates with his diligence and raw talent. But perhaps most important for the Warriors, considering the uncertainty surrounding Bogut, is Ezeli's bankable assets.
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Jackson said Ezeli "didn't make a mistake" defending Utah's proven big man Al Jefferson. Jackson simply instructed Bogut and forward David Lee to give Ezeli a crash course on Jefferson's game, and the rookie was set.
Jackson said he asked Lee and Carl Landry to give Ezeli a crash course on Kings center DeMarcus Cousins' game before Wednesday night's game, a 98-88 Warriors win over the Sacramento Kings. Cousins played the first five minutes, missing all four of his shots.
Both Ezeli's first-quarter shots were against Cousins. First, Ezeli showed his hustle, getting out to a tip Cousins' 7-foot jumper not even two minutes into the game. At the 8:04 mark, Ezeli showed his timing, rejecting a 8-foot jump hook by Cousins.
"I've got to keep working on my defense, keep tightening it up," Ezeli said before banging with Cousins on Wednesday. "Any challenge, I look forward to it."
His biggest challenge yet might be serving as the opening-night starter.
Before Wednesday's game, Jackson didn't sound too optimistic about Bogut being able to play in the preseason. The goal was to get Bogut, who had arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle in April, into a couple preseason games as tuneup for the opener Oct. 31 against Phoenix.
Wednesday, however, Jackson said Bogut is "a ways away." The Warriors haven't officially changed the opening target date for their starting center. Neither has Bogut, who to the untrained eye looks at least close to ready when doing drills in practice.
But if he can't get into a preseason game, it's a fair guess the season opener is questionable. Remember, Bogut hasn't played an NBA game since he fractured that ankle in January while playing for Milwaukee.
"I think it's the best thing for him and for us," Jackson said regarding Bogut playing one of the Warriors' remaining three preseason games. "But at the same time, the most important plan is to make sure he's healthy. So we're not going to do anything to set him back. So we'll see how it goes."
Working in the Warriors' favor is seven straight off days between the last preseason game, Oct. 23 against Phoenix, and the opener. Also working in the Warriors' favor: Ezeli.
But is he ready for such a big responsibility? No doubt, Ezeli has some areas he needs to improve.
No. 1, he needs to stay on the floor. To do that, he's got to limit his fouling. Ezeli had three fouls in 21 minutes in a loss to Denver on Monday. He had four fouls in eight first-half minutes Wednesday.
Rookies tend to have foul issues. So Ezeli, who said he loves to mix it up, figures to have some foul troubles while he learns the ropes. That's not much of a problem if he's backing up Bogut. But it's a different story if Bogut is out.
Jackson said he wants Ezeli to work on his rebounding, to "go after the basketball."
"He's a high IQ basketball player, especially defensively," Jackson said. "I'm very pleased with his progress. … I'm looking for Festus to be a force."
They won't return home until Tuesday, an eight-day road trip. Jackson said he chose to pass on three potential days at home to give the Warriors a road experience.
"In an ideal world we would have went away for training camp," Jackson said. "It is important for us to get the feeling of being on the road, extended road trips. I thought it was a great time for us. … We're getting prepared for what we're going to face come regular season."
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Colleges Retreat on Tuition, and More
What's News: Private U.S. colleges are offering record financial aid to keep classrooms full. Syria blames Israel for deadly air strikes. "Iron Man 3" earns $175 million over the weekend. Joanne Po reports. Photo: AP
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I am only halfway to the ALA convention in DC. I'm not driving (I live in Los Angeles!). I'm not between flights. Nope, not a train either. I am in the air using the internet on my lovely Mac. Virgin America is my new favorite airlines - I never had a favorite airlines before. I just accepted what I got. But let me tell you what I have enjoyed so far:
1. Inexpensive non-stop flights.
2. Easy check in. LAX felt almost pre-9/11 in that they actually took my luggage for me at check in. I didn't have to take it to another stop, like I had to last week on American Airlines, when I had much more luggage.
3. My own little TV screen on the seat in front of me for watching TV, movies, IMing with other passengers (ha - I should chat with other librarians), or playing games.
4. Internet access (yes, it was $10, but that is fine with me), and I think I can even charge my computer from my seat! I'll have to do that soon..
5. Nice flight attendants.
6. Clean, modern looking plane. I'm enjoying the subtle purple lights.
More on my great flight later - I haven't landed yet...
Do you have a favorite airline? Have you tried Virgin yet?
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Well I guess great minds DO think alike! I posted the same sentiments a few days ago! Go Virgin!ReplyDelete
Sounds like you're having a great summer so far! Hope the rest is just as exciting!
I just read your post, Dave- so funny! Virgin America is amazing though, really. I am so behind on my blog and my reader - I am impressed you found Archipelago during summer. I am on a bit of a hiatus..Not sure how long it will last.ReplyDelete
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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Villa A is located on the slope of the Poestling Berg – a mountain overlooking Linz, Austria. The site is accessed from the road behind leading down hills to the building's main entrance, covered by an extended cantilever roof structure. The city's panorama that it features is truly breathtaking. It can be seen from almost all rooms and from the swimming pool on a terrace.
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Americans of different ages don't agree about government surveillance of their telephone and online communications, two new polls show.
When it comes to the National Security Agency's collecting and analyzing Americans' phone records, 56 percent of adults of all ages support the idea. Those 50 to 64 are right in line with their younger counterparts, but those 65 and older are slightly more likely (61 percent) to support the idea. That's according to a poll from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press and the Washington Post, released June 10.
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A different gap appears when people are asked the following question about the collection of data from email and social networks: Do you think the government should be able to monitor everyone's email and other online activities if officials say this might prevent future terrorist attacks?
About 45 percent of those ages 18 to 49 say it's OK. The percentage of those who find the practice acceptable dips to 39 percent among ages 50 to 64 but jumps to 55 percent in the 65-plus group.
But what may be most interesting about the Pew poll is that nearly three times as many people 50 and older say they are "closely following" the news about government data collection and online tracking than those 18 to 29. At 12 percent, the youngest group appears to barely notice the fuss.
A second poll – from Huffington Post and YouGov – finds that about double the number of those 45 and older are following closely the story of government collection of phone records compared with those 18 to 29.
In that poll, a majority of every age group believes that collecting and analyzing such records is "an unnecessary intrusion." More of those 65-plus (51 percent) disagree with the statement.
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I want to tell you who the best Karateka I ever met is.
No I don't. But it does get your attention, no?
We care too much about the best, the highest, the greatest, the top.
We should care more about improving ourselves (and helping our students), which is all that really matters.
I will tell you this, the "best" Karateka (plural) I ever met where the ones who trained the hardest. They were not the best because of other people's opinions but because of their own hard work.
Let's try to be the best we can be.
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I want to tell you who the best Karateka I ever met is.
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Every month here on our blog, we'll be highlighting one of our non-profit partnerships. This month, learn a little more about Community Food Banks.
LifeSmiles initiative, we made a promise to support under-served communities by helping them gain access to healthy foods. It may be an ambitious goal, but we know the importance of well balanced meals and making them available to anyone.
Since then, Eat'n Park has expanded upon its relationships with the local food banks in the communities we serve. In Pittsburgh, we support the local Pittsburgh Community Food Bank Farm Stands by helping to provide fresh fruits and veggies in areas where they would normally be unavailable. Some very talented chefs from across the company have lent their expertise to visit the farm stands and do cooking demonstrations. Even in this summer's sweltering heat, they were slicing, dicing, and sautéing up a storm!
But that's not all. Across Ohio, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, many of our restaurants and corporate office team members have volunteered their time to visit their local food banks or pantries to help pack food or unload trucks. Each and every hand helps to make food more accessible to those who need it most.
In the next few months, we will be fostering even greater partnerships with food banks in the neighborhoods we serve through grants, donations, and volunteer time. We hope to help make an impact in providing everyone with a healthy and hearty meal.
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With lobby security to rival the nearby Empire State building, upstairs Facebook, fresh from its tumultuous Wall Street debut, is developing a data goldmine. The space is stylish and functional, with stripped back concrete beams and comfy breakout areas.
There is no hint of founder Mark Zuckerberg's signature 'hoodie style' about D'Arcy though, a smartly dressed former Time Warner executive, credited with transforming its traditional cross-platform sales business into a "media-arts" practice.
D'Arcy's role at Facebook is to bring ad creativity to the platform, developing ideas for how marketers can use the social network in campaigns. He reports to Mike Hoefflinger, Facebook's director of global customer marketing.
Despite having direct relationships with some of the world's biggest advertisers, including Heineken, Diageo and Coca-Cola, D'Arcy is a firm believer in "partnerships" with agencies and refers to his close relationship with global agency creative heads throughout.
"One of the things I was very committed to at Time Warner and I am even more committed to here at Facebook is this idea that we are a partnership company," he says.
"Our clients invest a lot of time and resources with these [agency] relationships and our job and commitment is to help leverage their talent and skills to build extraordinary things on the platform in a way that is really beneficial to them."
Prior to joining Time Warner, the New Zealander had been a creative director for 15 years. His arrival at Facebook was billed as a concerted push to strengthen ties with creative agencies and brand marketers.
Last year the site launched Facebook Studio to enable agencies to showcase their best creative Facebook campaigns. The scheme has gained traction since D'Arcy joined, and in February this year it launched an awards spin-off won by American Express, for a campaign created by Digitas with above-the-line work by Crispin Porter & Bogusky.D'Arcy believes his team can be "a bridge" into the world of Facebook, to help translate what agencies are trying to do while experimenting in "an exciting and fundamental shift in the way people are going to connect around brands".
He adds: "So that process - education, experimentation celebrating the great work - is something we take really seriously."
D'Arcy is in Cannes this week on a mission to continue the charm offensive on the creative community. One announcement is the formation of its new 'Creative Council', which follows on from the 'Client Council' unveiled at last year's festival.
The council is primarily comprised of chief creative officers from global agencies, formed from 'a spectrum of talent' from around the world, ranging from those who are deeply immersed in digital, to people running digital or 'traditional' agencies.
In a similar way to its client council counterpart, which is for marketing and agency heads, the idea of the creative council is to enable chief creative officers to come together and talk with Facebook about the best way it can service their needs.
The 14-strong council includes Linus Karlsson, chief creative officer for global brands at McCann, Mark Waites, chief creative officer and founder of Mother, Rob Feakins, chief creative officer and president at Publicis and James Hilton, chief creative officer at AKQA.
The other scheme D'Arcy says he is 'super-excited about', is the launch of 'Studio Edge', a learning platform for the agency community, which links into the council and is said to be in response to feedback from agencies that better education was needed.
The tool will sit within Facebook Studio on a revamped home page. For the first time, individuals from the creative community will be able to set up profiles where they can display links to their work and information about their agency.
It has also set up an accreditation scheme, with various levels, which enable users to collect badges to show their level of experience and understanding of the platform.
The plan is to get agencies to implement the learning scheme for employees. D'Arcy hopes Studio Edge will become a useful tool for marketers when selecting an agency, because they will be able to browse through the site and see which ones have the best work and accreditation.
"What we are inviting the creative community to do, and what they are already doing, is to embrace this platform, experiment and learn," he says.
"We think of it as a scalable solution to ramp up social by design thinking and education for not just creative team but the whole agency."There is a great deal of tactical advice out there to do this, but for D'Arcy the best way to achieve brand engagement is by asking two "incredibly simple" rhyming questions. "Why would someone care about this? And why would they share it?"
He says that the "new creative canvas" for marketing and communications should be approached from the point of view of creating something that "manifests the purpose and value of the brand voice in a way that serves this person, connects them to like-minded people that believe in the brand, so they become its voice".
He uses his recent trip to London's Emirates Stadium to watch Coldplay with his 13-year-old daughter to illustrate the point: "The best part in the concert is when Chris Martin starts singing the song and 60,000 people sing back. The song has transferred ownership to the people."
Facebook's creative ad director believes there has never been a more creative canvas in the world, noting "if a brand transfers ownership, it has cultural relevance, and that is the goal".
But with all this talk of creativity and brand building on the social networking site, the thorny issue of return on investment still remains, with businesses under ever more pressure to justify their increasing spend on the platform.
'Likes', which have become the de facto peg on which marketers have been hanging social success, are increasingly being questioned by marketers as a metric. Facebook has improved measurement tools for marketers and its insights API, over the past few years, not least its 'People talking about this metric'.
D'Arcy says: "ROI is a universal issue for marketers and we are absolutely committed to all people we work with to grow businesses, and make money on the money they are investing in this."
He points to some 'interesting things coming up', although declines to elaborate further. His team at any one time is said to be working with 100 to 150 of the world's biggest marketers 'from the ground up', to tie together a content strategy and 'an investment strategy that amplifies that message across multiple categories and geographies'.


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Governor Romney has said that as president his attitude toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would be to kick the can down the street. As a peacenik (and an Obama supporter) who believes that a two-state solution is not only the best way but the only way out of the century old conflict, it hurts me to say that the governor, whatever his motives, is right. I would much prefer to be pressing a peace plan on the president of the United States, but in my judgment, there is very little he can do to move the two parties toward a negotiation, much less toward an agreement.
Both sides have made completely clear by their actions that they do not wish to negotiate anything that comes close to a peace agreement. They both of course want to blame the other side for the lack of any negotiating, but that is just talk. I am not privy to the motives of Netanyahu or Abbas, but it is not so difficult to see the peace -making world as they see it.
President Abbas is, as a political leader, an empty shell. He has no influence whatever in Gaza, and with only minor exceptions, nearly no influence even in Ramallah. The best one can say is that he is a figurehead. Since there is no way he could implement a peace agreement if he had one, he has worked hard to stay away from any process that could actually reach one. Some of Abbas' weakness is due to Israeli efforts to not give him any victories he can show the Palestinian people. But much is also due to the failure of the Palestinian people, which includes their leadership, to accept the realities a peace agreement would require. The most glaring example is the insistence that Palestinian refugees have a right to return to their homes in Israel. In 2000-2001 Palestinian leaders – but not President Arafat – were actively negotiating with Israel for a number and framework by which a modest number of refugees could return to Israel, but since then Abbas has participated in a Palestinian drift back to a sloganized commitment to a right of return for all.
Prime Minister Netanyahu, were he to consider a peace agreement, would need to confront 350,000 Jewish settlers on the West Bank (this does not include the settlers living in East Jerusalem). Some large number of these would, in the face of a peace agreement, accept money and move out. How many would not? No one knows, and it is part of settler strategy to keep it that way, but the most optimistic number suggests that at least 26,000 would resist all efforts at a financial arrangement. This is over three times the number of Jews who were removed from Gaza. And the West Bank is not Gaza. The West Bank has religious, historical, nationalist, and security meanings not present in Gaza; many settlers on the West Bank are armed, funded, and committed to not letting Gaza happen again. For strategic reasons the settlers mainly duck the question of whether they would use force to resist being moved out by the Israeli army, but what prime minister in his right mind would be willing to take the chance – even if it is estimated a modest one – of starting a civil war, of Jews killing Jews. And this doesn't take into account the influence the settlers now have in all the relevant government ministries, the courts, and most importantly, the army itself.
More, the Israeli people, the religious settlers and the secular majority, have not faced the realities (for themselves) of an indefinite occupation by 4 or-500,000 Jewish settlers (and a substantial army) controlling 2.5 million Palestinians on the West Bank. The Israelis live in a protected bubble. Their economic and social lives are not bad. Their security is pretty good. What happens "over there" is just not their business.
In short, Israelis and Palestinians know the realities, realities they themselves have made. But facing them is too difficult, too frightening.
For both sides, then, there is no partner with whom to negotiate.
But, it is often said, the powerful United States, leading a coalition of European and other countries, could encourage, coerce, and cajole the parties, with a combination of carrots and sticks, to come to the table and negotiate. Israelis and Palestinians are both dependent on monies from the rest of the world, and of course from the U.S. in particular: threaten to withhold those monies, promise all kinds of economic and security benefits, and those parties will jump.
This is a plausible argument up to a point, and we have seen it actually work at least three times before: once in Madrid in 1991, once at Camp David in 2000, and once at Annapolis in 2007 In all three situations, many countries, led by the U.S., pressured one or both sides to come to the table, and they came. But we have also seen that on none of those three occasions did any agreement result; and in only one of them, Camp David, was there even any negotiating at all. (Arguably, Arafat didn't negotiate there either.)
No force on earth can make a head of state negotiate if he/she doesn't want to, and no force on earth can make a head of state come to an agreement if he/she doesn't want to. (Bombing the parties might be an exception to this declaration.) Netanyahu and Abbas have looked at a peace process and decided that they are better off with no negotiation and no agreement.
So what is a president to do? The proper answer is: wait for a better opportunity, and if there are ways to help make that opportunity arise, go for them. The region of this conflict is, to understate considerably, volatile. No sane person can predict with much confidence what will happen in Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, or Jordan (to take only the surrounding countries) over the next five years. Will the continued Israeli settlement expansion strike a nerve that inflames Arab resentment and large-scale violence? Will the people of those surrounding countries decide that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict deserves more than their rhetorical attention? Will the Palestinians decide that modest economic improvement is not a substitute for political improvement? Will the Sunni/Shia conflicts seek a common enemy? Will heavily armed Hamas and Hezbollah go from bark to bite? Will an economic depression energize Israelis to pull back the huge public investment now used to support settlements and their expansion? Will Iran…?
The US and the world's other major players have their hands full with many other things that they can at least try to influence. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue to evolve, and many, particularly Palestinians, will suffer (as will the U.S. reputation in the region) while it does. But ineffectual efforts at intervention, as we have seen, are worse than none.
David Matz
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace, Development and Democracy
Professor, Conflict Resolution, UMass/Boston
Partner, The Mediation Group


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Sunshine On A Cloudy Day
Gateway To The Milky Way Sunset
"Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious." - Stephen Hawking
Island Dreams
California Dreamin'
The Lone Cypress
Pigeon Point Storms
Whale of a Sunset
Palladium Boat Docks
South Maui Sunset
Yosemite Awakened
I overslept in the SUV due to shooting the same scene with the stars just a few hours earlier, but I woke up in time to still capture the morning colors of the sunrise.
Waterfall Through The Woods
Aloha Visions
Haleakala Cinder Cones
Half Dome Onlookers
Morning Storm
Super Blue Blood Moon
This is a rare trifecta of types of moons you can see. Each one by itself is pretty common, but for all 3 to land on the same night is very rare. The last time it happened was in 1866. The 3 types of moons that lined up on 1/31/2018 are the super moon, blue moon, and blood moon (total lunar eclipse).
Otherworldly Sunset
Sometimes vog (a blended word combining "volcanic", "smog" and "fog") can create sunsets that are otherworldly. Especially when low clouds that blend in with the sky are in front of the sun, making the sun appear like a planet such as Jupiter.
Tunnel Visions
Golden Sands
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