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NHL playoffs: Penguins rout Islanders 4-0 in Game 5, take 3-2 series lead
Goalie Tomas Vokoun (92) had a solid showing in place of Marc-Andre Fleury. (Justin K. Aller/Gettty Images)
By Eli Bernstein
This series was supposed to be a cakewalk for the Penguins. After demolishing the Islanders 5-0 in Game 1, you could almost hear Morgan Freeman narrating their march to the next round. (No? Just me? OK, then.)
But after that initial pasting, the Islanders decided that they wanted to savor their first playoff appearance since 2007. What resulted were wide-open games that featured overtime heroics, wild momentum swings and delirious, bottle-throwing Long Island crowds as the Isles fought back to tie the series at 2-2. Game 5 in Pittsburgh would be pivotal, and each side had a glaring question mark in net that needed to be addressed. The Penguins got their answer in the form of a 4-0 shutout that put them back in control, 3-2, as they return to New York for a potentially decisive Game 6 on Saturday night. The Islanders, on the other hand, have a tough choice to make.
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This contest could've been titled A Tale of Two Goalies. Penguins coach Dan Bylsma chose to go with veteran Tomas Vokoun as his starter, and with good reason: Marc Andre-Fleury sported a garish .890 save percentage for the series and had let in some real clunkers in recent games -- goals that indicated his confidence had been shaken. Vokoun was solid as a backup during the regular season, posting a 13-4 record, 2.45 goals-against average and .919 save percentage. Still, he hadn't played since April 22 or started a playoff game since 2007, when he suited up for the Predators. On the other end of the ice, the Isles' Evgeni Nabokov was equally as disappointing as Fleury. Nabokov's cringe-inducing .846 series save percentage and 4.56 GAA trailed him like a cloud coming into Game 5, and he was easily the weak link on a team that had been keeping up with the Penguins in all other facets of the game.
From the drop of the puck, it was evident that both coaches wanted their teams to play a more buttoned-up style. The first period featured few sustained passing sequences by either side as they clogged the neutral zone and stepped up defensively at the blueline to stymie rushes up the ice. Even the Isles' and Pens' first lines looked tentative and disjointed, and there were a number of missed passes and icings while the play in the corners was rough from the get-go. New York's Travis Hamonic quickly opened up his checking account with a wallop on Chris Kunitz, and Brooks Orpik returned the favor about 20 seconds later by dumping Kyle Okposo behind the Penguins' net. The game's first 10 minutes featured few true scoring chances for either team, but the ice opened up from there.
Vokoun looked jittery on the first batch of shots he faced. He was initially tested at 12:44 of the first period off an Islanders rush, when Michael Grabner's shot bounced right out of his breadbasket for a juicy Colin McDonald rebound opportunity. Soon after, Vokoun made a nice stop as Okposo bore down on a semi-breakaway, but it was perhaps more luck than skill as the goalie sheepishly looked behind him after the save, as if thinking the puck had gone over the goal line. There were also a number of shots where Vokoun juggled an easy catch or failed to corral the rebound, and although no pucks found the back of the net, Byslma had to be questioning his decision to sit the battle-tested Fleury.
At the other end, Nabokov seemed to have put his demons behind him in the first period. His first major save came off a beautiful play by Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang: Malkin entered the zone and dished to a swooping Letang on the right side of the ice. The defenseman niftily kicked the puck to his stick and took a shot on goal that caromed around. Malkin managed to get in another attempt before Nabokov finally covered up. Saves on Pascal Dupuis and Chris Kunitz followed, and Nabkov emerged from the first 20 minutes unscathed.
The second period was a completely different story, as Pittsburgh's breakthrough came via Tyler Kennedy -- the Penguins' best player through the game's first 30 minutes. Byslma gave the prickly forward the nod after he sat out the series' first four games, and Kennedy made sure his coach would not regret that decision. Along with linemate Joe Vitale, he was a constant nuisance in the Islanders' zone, hitting everything in sight and dredging the corners for loose pucks. New York's Casey Cizikas has made a name for himself in this series by doing the exact same thing, and it speaks to the wonderfully populist nature of playoff hockey that erstwhile role players can have such a big impact during a postseason run.
After banging bodies for a little less than a period and a half, Kennedy found himself going in on Nabokov alone after Letang lasered a pass through the middle of the ice. The Islanders were caught badly behind the play, and could only watch as Kennedy picked the top-right corner to beat Nabakov and put the Pens ahead. Kennedy would finish with 14:11 of ice time (Vitale totaled 10:18), and you can be sure that he'll be on the first team roster as the playoffs progress.
For Nabokov and New York, the game only went downhill there from there, as 1:22 after Kennedy's snipe, Pittsburgh defenseman Douglas Murray fluttered a shot from the left point that clipped Nabokov's right shoulder and fell into the net. It was a soft goal, and the Russian netminder skated around outside his crease, head down, a thousand-yard stare on his face. It was easy to tell that the wheels were coming off, but Isles' coach Jack Capuano decided to stick with his No. 1 for the time being.
John Tavares almost gave the Islanders a crucial, momentum-changing goal immediately after Murray's tally, but Vokoun, who had settled into a nice rhythm, was up to the task of stopping him. As Tavares received the puck in the high slot with a fair amount of forward momentum, he unleashed a low slapper that forced Vokoun to react very quickly. He got his left pad out just in time. The Hart Trophy candidate also had a nice scoring chance thwarted after he walked by Paul Martin in the left circle, but it was the stop on the slap shot that might prove to be the turning point in this series.
The backbreaking goal that put the Pens up 3-0 and the game out of reach was scored by Sidney Crosby, who had been bottled up in the first period. Twice he'd given the puck away near the offensive blue line, uncharacteristic gaffes for a player with his superb vision and hockey sense. Still, his perfectly placed, soccer-like aerial pass to Jarome Iginla early in the second seemed to get his creative juices flowing, and his goal was a thing of beauty. After receiving a breakout pass from Iginla near the red line, Crosby slalomed his way into the Islanders' zone, putting the puck under Thomas Hickey's stick, then using his prodigious lower-body strength to fend off a challenge from Lubomir Visnovsky. Nabokov was left helpless as Crosby threaded a shot into the far side of the net, and just like that the game was decided.
It was interesting that Capuano didn't seem to change his team's strategy after it fell behind. Breakout passes became possible as the teams began to skate more freely, but the Islanders didn't try to stretch the ice and create odd-man rushes. Instead, they continued to play a somewhat tepid trap game that may have cost them a chance at a comeback and they allowed the Pens' second goal. There was also a lack of grit in their play, which is a must for any playoff team that has fallen behind in an opponent's building.
The one change that Capuano did make could have consequences for the rest of the series. After Letang scored on a power play with 5:43 left (off a beautiful backhand feed from Crosby), Nabokov was pulled in favor of backup Kevin Poulin. While Poulin only faced four shots and did not allow a goal, he might be between the pipes when the teams take the ice at Nassau Coliseum for Game 6. Even though he has far less experience than Nabokov, Poulin is probably a safer bet at this point than a goalie who appears to be questioning himself.


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This is another project from Meet me at Mikes, ; this was my first attempt at making pants of any kind. I cut the pattern wrong the first attempt and I had a little snafoo with the elastic, but everything was really easy and well explained. The pattern looked huge, but once you get going and you get the elastic in at the top, they look pretty normal, AND pretty cute! These are supposed to fit babies 9-12 months old. I think that's pretty accurate. I made these from a sheet I got at the thrift store, so once again, these cost me probably under a dollar to make!
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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, delivered at "New Directions in Welfare" Congress
OECD, Wednesday, 6 July 2011
(As prepared for delivery)
Ladies and Gentlemen:
It is a great pleasure to open the Congress on "New Directions in Welfare". The topic of this congress resonates well with the OECD mandate. Our organisation was founded 50 years ago to foster economic prosperity and development by supporting policy makers around the world with advice on "better policies for better lives."
This means that our focus goes beyond growth, income and financial conditions. We address the various dimensions of well-being, by putting particular emphasis on employment, social and family policies, people skills and competencies, their health and the quality of the environment in which they live and work.
Better Policies for Better Lives
Better lives cannot be captured only by the total amount of the goods and services produced, but also by how they are distributed. The well-being of the 'typical' person matters, but so do the inequalities within each country and among countries. And this concerns especially the conditions of people that are at the bottom of the well-being ladder, people with low income, poor health and little education.
For these reasons, the OECD @ 50 reaffirms its strong commitment to "go structural" but also to "go social" and to support more inclusive growth. At our anniversary Ministerial we launched major initiatives that underpin this strategic direction.
1. The Better Life Initiative
Let me start with our Better Life Initiative. What we measure shapes what we strive to pursue. Building on our almost ten-year path-finding work on Measuring Progress, this initiative puts citizens at the heart of the definition of progress and well-being. It is a quite broad-based international attempt to present comparative evidence on progress, leaning on material living conditions, quality of life and level of satisfaction.
A central element of this initiative is a web-based, interactive Better Life Index that will enable analysts and ordinary citizens to assess their well-being according to their own preferences. This is a major step forward in assessing people's true welfare that also makes them part of the process. Indeed, this is not an OECD Better Life Index; it is Your Better Life Index. It is a new way of learning what people value more. This includes governments, which can learn from this data to shape policies and get better results.
Through this Index, users will be able to compare well-being across 34 countries, based on 11 dimensions which are essential to asses our quality of life: housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety and work-life balance.
By assigning their own weights to each dimension, people will be able to see how the emphasis they place on any particular factor affects the relative position of each country. These assessments will enable OECD experts to identify and analyse patterns of preferences and distil the lessons they teach about policies that promote well-being. And we will do this, encouraged by the warm welcome of this initiative, with over one million page viewers and more than 19 000 people who have shared their Better Life Indexes on the Internet, since it was launched.
2. Better social policies for better lives
Secondly, this important work is complemented by OECD efforts in other areas, placing our imperative to "go social" into a comprehensive framework. Our indicators, analysis and policy recommendations for employment, education, skills, health and social policies have made the Organisation a strong ally of workers and businesses and of all stakeholders interested in job creation, equal opportunities and inclusive participation.
As outlined in our recent Social Policy Ministerial, overcoming inequalities by targeted social policies, by family and gender policies, by fostering intergenerational solidarity and by investing in the future of our children, will be crucial ingredients for future growth and development. The OECD will continue advising governments on all these issues to support their efforts toward the goal of shared prosperity.
3. Green and Growth can go together
Thirdly, we focus on raising living standards by promoting growth without endangering the planet. In today's world, welfare has an environmental dimension: progress of well-being is no longer a choice between a growing economy and cleaner planet, it is about both.
Indeed, in the 20th century the world population grew 4 times, economic output 22 times and fossil fuel consumption 14 times. This puts the resilience of a wide range of environmental systems to the test. It affects human health and well-being. But since the Rio Earth Summit almost twenty years ago, we have known that green and growth must go together. So, what is new about green growth now? Let me give you a simple answer: it is about making it happen.
This is exactly what the OECD is aiming to achieve. At the 50th Anniversary Ministerial we launched a Green Growth Strategy to assist policy makers and stakeholders across the board to address the major global environmental challenges of today's world, while expanding economic opportunities. The Strategy encompasses both policy recommendations to make economic growth "greener" and a set of indicators to monitor progress towards green growth. Thus, the strategy is first and foremost about implementing change and achieving a common purpose: a world that is safer, cleaner, and healthier.
4. A new approach to development
Fourthly, we are also doubling our efforts to help developing nations find a path to sustainable growth. Today we must not lose sight of the major welfare challenge: poverty. Any policy decisions we take must be scrutinised in terms of poverty reduction and development.
The good news is that the centre of economic gravity is moving from the industrialised to the large developing economies. And shifting wealth is also associated with more than 500 million people out of poverty in the developing world.
The shift we have witnessed over the years is just the beginning. There is still some way to go before developing countries achieve their full potential and greater prosperity for their citizens. At our anniversary Ministerial meeting, OECD leaders asked the Secretariat to develop a comprehensive Strategy on Development to help the widest number of countries achieve higher and more inclusive, sustainable growth.
The Strategy will take a multi-dimensional perspective on development, reflecting important factors that affect the well-being of citizens. Our new approach builds on the OECD's collective expertise in a wide range of policy areas from innovation to investment, food security, technology, to education and skills to name a few. It aims to facilitate policy sharing and mutual learning to bring new perspectives for addressing inequality and poverty. It ultimately aims to support developing countries in identifying, assessing and implementing better policies that lead to better lives.
Thus, the OECD Strategy on Development will combine our long standing experience in all these policy areas and 50 years of lessons learned in development cooperation. It will also respect the different needs and challenges of developing countries, and incorporate best practices emerging from cooperation between them, including South-South and triangular cooperation.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The OECD @ 50 strives to improve the prospects of growth and welfare in Member and partner countries, encourages civic participation and equality of opportunities, and seeks to realign the economy with the environment. I am happy to see that most of these issues, which are fundamental for progress and policy making in general, feature prominently on your agenda.
To borrow a quote from Amartya Sen, "What is important to people is to be able to do and be." Improving their quality of life and their sense of fulfilment should be the ultimate target of public policies.
I look forward to your talented, creative and innovative ideas to help us achieve the outcomes that matter the most for people's lives and for he progress of our societies.
Thank you.
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Before I get to the criticism, however, I'd like to reiterate that the show is re-energized. After a well-intentioned but deeply flawed second season, Veronica Mars is back in top form. The show's opening plot arc was tight, tense, and compelling. The characters, even when they made choices we couldn't condone or changed in ways we didn't care for, were vibrant onscreen presences (except, that is, for the ones who didn't get nearly enough air-time like Wallace, Mac and Weevil). There are, obviously, still some problem areas: as it did in its second season, the show continues to rely on idiot plotting--sometimes dumbing down the characters (Logan brings Veronica home from campus drugged to the gills, and Keith doesn't make the connection to the campus rapist), and more often simply setting its stories in an alternate universe in which a person grows enough marijuana to supply all of Neptune for their personal use, or bone cancer can be treated with a marrow transplant--which, in a detective story, is a serious flaw, one that is more likely than any other to wear away at the audience's indulgence. There's also been an increasing tendency to use pop-culture references and mug-for-the-camera acting to get laughs, which has quickly become tedious. All that said, the third season is shaping up incredibly well, and I for one can't wait to tune in for the next arc.
All of which is not to say that the rape arc has not had its problematic aspects--in fact, it is probably the most contentious story the show has ever told, and a great deal of vitriol has been spilled over the writers' choices in depicting the various groups involved in investigating (and hampering the investigation of) the serial rapes on the Hearst College campus. Chief among the complaints is that the portrayal of the Lilith House feminists--who, in their eagerness to take vengeance on fraternity members who hurt and humiliated their friend, fabricate rapes and commit sexual assault--is stereotypical, and that the revelation that two of the five reported rapes were faked hurts the real-world cause by cementing the perception of rape victims as unreliable and vindictive.
I agree that, as a story about rape and its consequences, the third season opening arc is, at best, deeply flawed. What I don't understand is why anyone is surprised at this, since compared to the first and second season's treatment of rape, the current season's problems are almost insignificant. The date rape storyline in the first season was, by far, the season's weakest aspect. When I first heard about Veronica Mars, I was intrigued by the notion of a character who was a victim of rape but for whom that victimhood was not a defining characteristic, but the show's writers went too far in sidelining the storyline. After bringing up her rape in the pilot, Veronica proceeded to ignore it completely until an accident of fate provided her with the opportunity to solve it--this while constantly referencing the other traumatic events in her life and obsessively investigating not only Lilly's murder but also Lianne's disappearance and Duncan's odd behavior. As much as I liked "A Trip to the Dentist" as a piece of storytelling, there's no denying that it prioritizes its noir-inspired message--that Veronica was raped not by a person but by a social class and a mindset--over any sort of engagement with the issue of sexual assault and its resultant trauma. And then, of course, we have the second season finale trotting out a last minute revelation of rape as a way of further cementing Beaver's villain-hood (while simultaneously undercutting the message of "A Trip to the Dentist"). So, yes, the third season once again treats rape as a means to an end--this time that old noir chestnut, everyone is guilty of something--but it is by far a more deft and delicate treatment of the topic than the show has thus far demonstrated.
More importantly, the notion that Veronica Mars, or any television show or work of art for that matter, has a duty to advance a certain social agenda, even one that I agree with, leaves me profoundly uncomfortable. The argument has been made that it is irresponsible, given the difficulties that women still have getting law enforcement officials to believe them when they complain of being raped or sexually harassed, to tell a story in which rapes are fabricated, and in which the most voluble critics of the rapes are shrill caricatures of the worst that the feminist movement has to offer. To a certain extent, I find this argument compelling, but only until I realize that if we were talking about almost any topic other than rape, I would reject it outright. When art sublimates itself to a political agenda, we get Battlestar Galactica. I was irate at the abortion storyline in that show's second season not because it ended up espousing a political opinion that I don't approve of, but because it did so by lying to its audience. In this one instance at least, Veronica Mars hasn't lied to its audience. False reports of rape do happen. People do allow political convictions and personal vendettas to cloud their judgement to the point of fanaticism. Ultimately, I think the show's portrayal of the sexual politics on campus is a great deal more nuanced, and far more sympathetic to the feminist viewpoint, than many of its critics have given it credit for. Two of the rapes were faked, but the other three were real. Faking the rapes turns out to be motivated by the desire to avenge a brutal campaign of harassment which ended up costing a student her mental health (although, and bringing us back to the issue of idiot plotting, it should be noted that if Claire hadn't kept her mouth shut in 2003, Patrice Petrelli's family could have sued the university and gotten the greeks tossed off campus then and there), and the perpetrator of that campaign is unchastened by the assault perpetrated on him, and even conspires to enable more rapes.
Finally, the resolution of the rape plotline more than makes up for any problems in its setup. Veronica once again needs to be rescued (although she does her fair share of fighting back, even while under the influence of GHB), but in a neat reversal of her failure to prevent Parker's rape, that rescue is effected by Parker. Even better, the people who ultimately save Veronica are not the men who know and love her, but strangers. "You actually think people would come a-running, huh?" Veronica wryly asks when Parker gives her a rape whistle, but at Parker's cry of "Rape!" the men of Wallace and Piz's floor do come running. Complete strangers to both Parker and Veronica, they stop to help when they realize that something isn't right. Even in Veronica Mars's noir universe, in which everyone is guilty, there are instances in which everyone can be decent. It's almost enough to make you believe in humanity.
What a pity, then, that Veronica is unconscious during this display of communal vigilance. The second most common criticism leveled against the rape arc is that Veronica's combative distrustfulness has gone from a winning personality quirk to downright annoying, and Buffy alumni can be forgiven for fearing that the show's heroine is being made into such an extreme version of herself that soon it will strain credulity that anyone would actually be willing to spend time with her. An equally vehement response to this complaint has argued that Veronica has always been bitchy and unpleasant, and that people complaining about her attitude in the current season have forgotten what show they were watching. To which I say: yes, Veronica has always been a bitch. And no, she's never been this much of a bitch, and never with so little justification. The third season's opening scene, after all, has Veronica behaving like a total prat. "Try not to piss anyone off this time around" she muses in a voice-over, and promptly proceeds to show off to her classmates and humiliate a TA who rubs her the wrong way.
The problem, I think--and hopefully this is where the writers are headed too--is that Veronica is still locked in the high school mindset. In that carefully stratified environment, the people Veronica met were neatly and clearly divided into those with and without power. The former were the popular kids, the rich kids, the gang leaders, or simply the people in positions of authority. Veronica was unique within Neptune High for being able to game the system--in spite of the fact that she wasn't rich, wasn't popular, wasn't a gang member, wasn't a faculty member, she had power over everyone. Coming into college, Veronica unthinkingly assumes that the rules are the same. What she doesn't realize is that her new environment is a far more complicated system, not as rigidly stratified by either class, wealth, or temporal power--it's actually a very clever play on the familiar story of freshmen unthinkingly carrying their high school preconceptions with them to college. In her new environment, Veronica is by no means the only person capable of gaming the system. There are plenty of other Veronicas on campus--the most notable ones being Nish and her cohorts, and the aforementioned TA, Timothy Foyle (who I really hope turns out not to be a villain--his interactions with Veronica have made for some of my favorite scenes these last nine episodes)--and in fact, as a freshman, Veronica is actually less qualified than they are to manipulate her surroundings, although she's certainly working hard to bridge the gap.
Being who she is, Veronica is of course not eager to let go of her established world-view. She doesn't even seem to have noticed that her 'everyone is out to get me' mindset is a little out of date, especially when one considers that in college, a new criteria for differentiating the powerful from the powerless is established--as a straight-A, curve-destroying teacher's pet on a full ride scholarship, Veronica yields a great deal more power than the average freshman. However misguided it may be, I don't think we can expect a change in Veronica's attitude any time in the foreseeable future. As Television Without Pity's Veronica Mars recapper, Couch Baron, puts it in his recap of the arc's penultimate episode, "Lord of the Pi's" (and by the way, if TWoP's go-to SF guy, Jacob, ever wants to find out how to incorporate a healthy degree of analysis into a recap without rendering it entirely humorless or unbearably pretentious, he could do a lot worse than study Couch Baron's recaps):
The reason [Veronica] was so evasive and brittle [when Piz asked her why she solves crimes in the season premiere]? She doesn't know. She doesn't know what's driving her, and this is one of the more interesting things about her character. Is it that she feels the world is a bad place and it needs all the help it can get? Is it a need to prove to people that you can't trust anyone (as the A-plot of "Of Vice And Men" would suggest?) At this point, it almost doesn't matter, because Veronica is unwilling truly to examine why she is the way she is.As I've argued in the past, I think Veronica's unwillingness to examine herself derives from a deep ambivalence about her own nature. Veronica is painfully aware that the very qualities that make her strong and capable also make her hardened and unlovable, and fearing the weakness that might accompany any livable compromise (or the discovery that such a compromise is beyond her capabilities), she chooses to ignore the situation. Hence the insistence that nothing's changed since she moved to college, hence the conviction that everyone is out to get her, hence the tendency towards arrogance, prickliness, and downright unpleasantness. I have to believe that the show's writers are taking us down this path intentionally--there are too many instances of both the plot and the other characters calling Veronica on her misguided attitude, culminating in the breakup with Logan in this week's episode. The real question is whether the writers intend for Veronica to end up a fundamentally damaged person--capable of fixing the world but not herself--or whether they plan for her to find some happy medium between the detective and the teenage girl.
The mention of Logan brings me to the third most common complaint against the rape arc, which is that his character has become boring. I have to say, if an interesting Logan means a return to last season's parade-o'-torture, then I'd rather see Jason Dohring off the show. I do agree that Logan hasn't had enough to do so far this season, but what little we've seen of him has been nothing short of marvelous. Yes, Obligatory Psychotic Jackass Logan is fun, but as the second season taught us, he gets tedious in a hurry. The Logan we've been getting has been less flashy and amusing, but in his moments of emotional honesty--confronting Veronica about the unevenness of their relationship in "Witchita Linebacker" and "Lord of the Pi's", gently and broken-heartedly ending their relationship in "Spit and Eggs"--he has been no less intense, and great deal more interesting, than that tortured class clown ever was. Now that he and Veronica have broken up, I hope Logan gets his own storyline, and maybe starts finding his own path in life rather than defining himself by his relationship to others.
When I wrote about Veronica Mars's second season last spring, I concluded that the show's greatest challenge was finding a way to balance a detective story with a coming-of-age drama. Were Rob Thomas and his staff writing a mystery, I asked, or a story about a girl who happens to solve mysteries? At the end of the third season's first plot arc, I'm not sure that the writers have come to a conclusion, but I do think they have managed to successfully incorporate the dilemma into the show itself by highlighting the insufficiency of either answer. Veronica the person can't be happy as regular drone, playing by the rules and keeping her head down, but gaming the system carries a cost, and may mean that she can never achieve true happiness. As the third season rape arc closes, Veronica is maybe being confronted by the realization that a compromise between the two possibilities is necessary for her to be a good person, but for Veronica Mars the series, the compromise seems to have already been achieved--and the result is a very good show.


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What is mysqli?
MYSQL has had a firm collaboration with PHP for years now. Both have matured quite
a bit, and since PHP5 and MYSQL 4.1, new features have been created that are not
supported by the mysql adapter we have grown to love. The answer was found when Georg Richter,
the creator of PHP's mysql extensions, created a new driver called MYSQLi or mysql improved, that
supports the new features found in both technologies.
Why Make the switch?
MYSQL has been known to have pretty horrible code maintenance issues, even when using
Abstraction layers.
Similiar Syntax:
You will not have to relearn syntax so to speak. MYSQLi syntax is very, very similiar to
the MYSQL extension.
New Interface:
MYSQLi provides access in both procedural form, common to the mysql extension, and also a new Object Oriented interface using the power of PHP5.
Advanced Options:
You can now set advanced connection options during initialization.
Database Overhead is a common problem for performance issues within PHP scripts, the new extension has improved speed dramatically.
Since the binary protocol in mysql has changed, and now supports prepared statements, this gives you an extremely secure method for executing queries. This completely elminated the possibility
of SQL Injections.
Also the authentication protocol has changed, making it harder to extract hashes over the network.
What are Prepared Statements, How do they work, and What is the '?' in queries?
Prepared statements seperate SQL logic and data. First, when you prepare a query, MYSQL will parse the query string and set aside placeholders for the question marks in the query.
Then when data is bound, MYSQL will execute the query with the data bound to the question marks. You can actually prepare one query string and execute it multiple times with different data with no additional
overhead, very very useful.
A BIG NOTE! Please look at the php manual for binding data. You must provide a string with data-types for the data being bound. Say we wanted to bind a string and integer to a query, we would provide bind_param("si","string",1);
How To Switch?
NOTE: Many functions of mysqli require you to provide the link from the initialization, in the way you would provide the file handler to input/output functions in php.
I really recommend having both extensions, (ext/mysql and ext/mysqli) installed, so that you can test applications using both interfaces. I make it a requirement to try to get my applications to be compatible with both adapters. More on that later.
To make the switch you need to install the new extension, either by recompiling PHP with mysqli, or adding the extension to your extensions folder and adding a line to your extensions section of php.ini. Restart your web server, and you will
have access to the new extension.
MYSQLi Procedural Style
Basic Usage Example:
// Connect to database $link = mysqli_connect('host','username','password','default database'); // Check for Errors if(mysqli_connect_errno()){ echo mysqli_connect_error(); } // Prepare Query $query = "SELECT * FROM table"; // Escape Query $query = mysqli_real_escape_string($link,$query); // Perform Query if($result = mysqli_query($link,$query)){ // Cycle through results while($row = mysqli_fetch_object($result)){ echo $row->column; } // Free Result Set mysqli_free_result($result); } // Close Connection mysqli_close($link);
Prepared Statements
// Setup Query $query = "SELECT `id` FROM employees WHERE `name`=?"; // Setup parameter to be bound into query $name = "Joey"; // Get instance of statement $stmt = mysqli_stmt_init($link); // Prepare Query if (mysqli_stmt_prepare($stmt, $query)) { // Bind Parameters [s for string] mysqli_stmt_bind_param($stmt, "s", $name); // Execute Statement mysqli_stmt_execute($stmt); // Bind results to variable mysqli_stmt_bind_result($stmt, $employee_id); // Fetch Value mysqli_stmt_fetch($stmt); // Echo Result echo "$name has an ID of $employee_id"; // Close Statement mysqli_stmt_close($stmt); }
Fresh, New, Hip, The OO Way
Basic Usage:
// New Connection $mysqli = new mysqli('host','username','password','default database'); // Check for errors if(mysqli_connect_errno()){ echo mysqli_connect_error(); } // Create Query $query = "SELECT * FROM table"; // Escape Query $query = $mysqli->real_escape_string($query); // Execute Query if($result = $mysqli->query($query)){ // Cycle through results while($row = $mysqli->fetch_object($result)){ echo $row->column; } // Free result set $result->close(); } // Close connection $mysqli->close();
Prepared Statements:
$query = "SELECT `id` FROM employees WHERE `name`=?"; // Setup parameter to be bound into query $name = "Joey"; // Get instance of statement $stmt = $mysqli->stmt_init(); // Prepare Query if($stmt->prepare($query)){ // Bind Parameters [s for string] $stmt->bind_param("s",$name); // Execute statement $stmt->execute(); // Bind result variables $stmt->bind_result($employee_id); // Fetch Value $stmt->fetch(); // Echo results echo "$name has an ID of $employee_id"; // Close Statement $stmt->close(); }
Fear of Commitment?
From now the snippets will be OO style, check php.net for procedural references.
In mysqli, you can use commit() to execute a number of queries at once, there is also a multi_query (check the manual for info) for making multiple queries.
Say we want to make multiple inserts without the overhead of multiple executions, or maybe our last transaction should not have happened (for whatever reason, I mean your hardcoding
// Turn off auto commit $mysqli->autocommit(FALSE); // Insert Values $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO employees VALUES (1234, 'JOey')"); $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO employees VALUES (1235, 'Kyle')"); $mysqli->query("INSERT INTO employees VALUES (1236, 'Steuart')"); // Commit queries $mysqli->commit(); // OOPS WE MADE A MISTAKE, We don't want these people!! // Rollback last transaction $mysqli->rollback();
Creating for Both!
It is good habit to create applications that can easily switch between either adapter. The solution is a good framework, or Abstraction layer that supports usage of either adapter through configuration.
I have created a pretty neat abstraction layer just like this with some added goodies and put it in the snippets
here on the site, you can find the link at the bottom.
The new MYSQLi extension is extremely powerful, I have only scratched the surface with this tutorial, please visit the link at the bottom to the php manual for more information. I highly suggest using the new interface for obvious security and performance reasons. As well as the OO interface.
MYSQLi PHP Manual: http://www.php.net/mysqli
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Trayvon Martin's family talks about the second-degree murder charge announced yesterday.
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If you've been following over the past week you know I'm not referring to the USA's current Secretary of State, but this guy ↓
I'm even more amazed by his feat now, especially after reading the website I referred to yesterday which catalogues all of the advanced mountaineering gear a person needs, as well as detailed maps and plans for how to summit and survive. NPR sums up my feelings best:
The immensity of what Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did that bright blue day in 1953 is nearly impossible to imagine, even for the most seasoned climber. There were no fixed ropes and aluminum ladders, no polar fleece, no GPS for guidance. Just two men, tied together, hacking steps in the ice to climb more than 29,000 feet."
Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did use oxygen, but it was a primitive system by today's standards. There were several reconnaissance missions beforehand, but it was not until these two men came to what is now known as the Hillary step that they first learned of this last, almost unsurmountable, obstacle.
In 2002, Peter Hillary and Jamling Tenzing Norgay summited Mount Everest together, to mark the 50-year anniversary of their fathers' successful ascent (along with them was Brent Bishop, son of one of the first Americans to reach the top). Peter commented on the difficulties their fathers faced, and how the climb has changed:
We came to the Hillary stair dad and Tenzing climbed 50 years ago,
this 40-foot, very steep rock and ice step just before the summit, and these guys came across it, you can imagine their anxiety, 'Can we do it? Do we have the skills to get up this thing? We've only got an hour before we've got to start turning back or we're going to start losing our oxygen.' All these sort of issues — well, we came along there and of course three or four of our Sherpas had already pulled the fixed rope … It's a totally different situation."
Apparently, once he and Tenzing Norgay summited Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary assumed that no one would want to try it again. Of course, we know that's not true. Hundreds of people attempt a summit annually, a desire that is complicated by the fact that there are only a handful of days each year when the summit can be successfully and safely navigated. Thus, on any one of those days you might be contending for your 15 minutes on top of the world with seventy other people. Clearly, this is dangerous for everyone involved, especially on the Hillary Step and the knife ridge, where there's no room for a passing lane.
In his blog for Frontline's story, "Storm Over Everest," Doug Pierson describes difficulties avoiding traffic jams and freeloaders. He talks about the mounds of trash left behind–food wrappers at Base Camp, empty oxygen canisters at Camp 4 (also known as "The Deathzone," which lies at an altitude above which your body starts to self-destroy). Indeed, there are even bodies abandoned on the trail that will remain frozen and foreboding.
I imagine this would be a disappointing sight to those who choose to climb this tallest of mountains in order to surround themselves with unblemished beauty, those who wish to feel that they've been where no (few) men have been before. Though he doesn't specifically mention Everest, Andrew Hyde wrote an interesting piece about what he calls "the tragedy of Nepal," namely the congestion and pollution that he witnessed while touring the country. Perhaps this is the fine line we now walk as adventurers, the balance between appreciating the natural beauty of nature and destroying it by flocking to the few places on earth still relatively untouched. Perhaps it seems unfair to some that no place remains undiscovered, that our world is fully google-mapped and tread upon. But perhaps if the reason you climb a mountain is to conquer what seems unconquerable, you have the wrong attitude altogether. Jamling Tenzing Norgay writes,
We believe strongly that when you climb this mountain you have to climb this mountain as if a child crawling up to its mother's lap. You don't conquer Mount Everest. We believe climbing with pride, arrogance and disrespect can lead to trouble, and that's sort of what happened in the last couple of years, where people are climbing for the wrong reason and people are climbing who should not be there at all."
As for me, this week has only reinforced all the reasons I don't want to climb Mount Everest. I'm happy to look out my kitchen window and see the moon turn the midnight snow purple, while sipping from a steaming cup of hot chocolate. I don't need to be on top of the world to recognize that beauty.


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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
CARE Resources
This morning the boys and I drove to Baltimore for an appointment at a pediatric therapy center. I had a hard time finding therapists that worked with children and took our insurance, but luckily I stumbled on the phone number to a place called CARE Resources. They work exclusively with children and take our insurance for occupational and physical therapy. They offer speech therapy, but do not accept any insurance for that service. So we will have to pay out of pocket for the speech therapy, but we feel that he really needs this extra help.
When we got to the therapy center I was greeted by some very nice women who sat and talked with me along with giving me a tour of the facility. They also played with Ryder to get an idea of what therapies he would benefit from and they agreed that speech is his big issues right now. So we are going to schedule a formal speech evaluation and then start speech therapy sessions. Once we get into a schedule for speech we will probably add in some physical therapy, but they like to start with 1 therapy and then slowly adding in others as needed. The speech sessions are 30 minutes long, but the OT and PT would be 45 minutes to 1 hour per session.
The really nice thing about using this facility for Ryder's private therapy is that these therapists are also the therapists that work for the county which means he could have the same therapists for his private therapy and the Infants & Toddlers program.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Our Weekend
Our upcoming week consists of Ryder's intake appointment with Care Therapy (OT and Speech) on Tuesday morning in Towson and then possibly a playgroup at My Gym in Bel Air on Friday.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Tonight Laura & Dani came over to watch the boys while Ben and I went to the HOA meeting. The meeting lasted about 2.5 hours and there was a lot talked about. Finances were a big part of the meeting along with information about various other things. We met a few people at the meeting, but it is pretty obvious that not many people in the community are involved (there were only about 20 people at the meeting; there are 594 houses in the community).
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Developmental Pediatrician
Today I took Ryder to the developmental pediatrician. She went over all of the surveys that we had filled out and sent ahead of time along with the notes she took while talking to the regular pediatrician. She then asked tons of questions to learn more about his development. After that she did a bunch of "tests" such as putting pegs in holes, putting shapes in the right place on a puzzle, pointing to pictures, pointing to body parts, stacking blocks, and several other things. Ryder looked at most of that as playing which is how they can get kids to cooperate for the tests. Once all of the test and questions were done she told me her findings along with what she feels Ryder needs in terms of therapy. Right now Ryder is a little over 20 months old, but his development is at about a 14 month level. Even though he is at the 14 month level he is still missing a lot of the smaller in-between skills below 14 months. She feels that Ryder would really benefit from receiving private speech therapy and private occupational therapy in addition to the free therapy he gets from the county program. She explained to me that the services provided by the county are a great resource and do wonders with working on the major milestones, but they don't really focus on all of the little things that Ryder is lacking. She would like to follow-up with another appointment in 6 months to see how his development is and then visits will spread out as he gets older. We also talked about his genetic disorder and she agrees with the geneticist that he has more going on than the average Klinefelter's boy so something else must be playing a part in everything.
Now I am working on finding out what our insurance will cover and hopefully find therapists near us.
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Monday, April 13, 2009
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Friday, April 10, 2009
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Dinnertime tonight was fun because for the first time ever the boys were able to sit at the dining room table. Our new table is just tall enough for them to eat at in their high chairs. They seemed to enjoy it even though they were not happy with what we gave them to eat. Finally, Ben heated up some peas and they were very excited to eat them.
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We're having Fidelbogen for lunch again. In my defense, the Twitter feed of this self-proclaimed philosopher of the non-feminist sector is hands down the most consistently entertaining thing in the manosphere today. In today's post, Fidey opines on Women's Suffrage (neither good nor bad), feminist "exit strategies," and why it's not necessary for MRAs to offer any evidence when they argue with feminists.
Without further ado, let's go Fidelbogening!
So what do we learn from his Twitter feed this month? Well, for one thing, that whole "oppression" thing women have been complaining about is all a big fairy tale.
The idea that "women" are (or were) "oppressed" is an hypothesis derived by interpretation — a political fable, a just-so story. #feminism
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 26, 2013
And that "women having the right to vote" thing? Just some sort of dumb fad.
Women's Suffrage was neither good nor bad. It was just historically fashionable. #Feminism #FeministArmy #women #rapeculture #fem2 #MRA
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
Apparently feminism has really big boobs:
#Feminism is disastrously top-heavy in its hubris, which towers to the sky. The crash will be appalling. #rapeculture #FeministArmy #MRA
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
And after collapsing under the weight of its own boobage, feminism had better skeedaddle, if Fidey has any say in the matter:
#Feminism needs to get busy with one hell of a PR campaign. That should include a clear description of its "exit plan". #FeministArmy #women
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
Here he explains the behavior of a lot of the MRAs who visit the comments here (and pretty much everywhere):
Assert first, debate later. Much later. #avfm #mensrights #feminism #antifeminism #MRA #MGTOW
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
And here he explains his own methodology, I guess:
Advance steadily, and let faux-insanity be your shield.
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 17, 2013
Here he tests the boundaries of incoherence:
#Feminism = Upper-middleclass women obsessed with bad behavior by lower class males.They call this "patriarchy". #rapeculture #FeministArmy
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 16, 2013
But what do I know? Maybe the only reason he doesn't make any sense at all to me is that I'm a dirty feminist.
A member of the feminist cult cannot correctly process signals from the non-feminist world. #feminism #rapeculture #FeministArmy #politics
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
But then again, I guess anyone can be a feminist, because apparently feminism means anything anyone wants it to mean.
The meaning of the word '#feminism' is up for grabs. It is an open-source project. #rapeculture #feministarmy #mensrights #humanrights
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
Huh. So if I want, feminism can be a kitty? This kitty?
Oh, wait, I guess not, because apparently feminists are no good at defining feminism.
#Feminism can never "know itself". Only an outside observer can tell feminism what feminism IS. #rapeculture #mensrights #humanrights
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
Fidelbogen certainly has a lot of novel definitions for feminism.
It's gangrene!
#Feminism is a gangrene in the social body, always growing at the edges and putrifying as it goes. #rapeculture #antifeminism #humanrights
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 15, 2013
It's cancer!
#Feminism itself could not exist, if it allowed the right to exist of people who are not feminist. Feminism is a cancer devouring the world.
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 27, 2013
It's an attempt to exonerate women from all wrongdoing!
Another definition of feminism might be, "the project to exonerate women from all wrongdoing." #feminism #antifeminism #mensrights
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 26, 2013
It's a paradigm that apparently skipped lunch!
#Feminism is an unsustainable paradigm which gobbles up everything in its path. Only an outside force can stop it. #politics #paradigm #MRA
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) July 2, 2013
It's … a car, I guess, that runs on male tears, and is lubricated by lies!
Lying is to feminism what motor oil is to a car. If God forced every feminist to be honest, feminism would seize up in 2 weeks. #humanrights
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 29, 2013
(Ok, I made up the male tears bit.)
Anway, Fidey is having none of it. Just say deedly-doodly-no!
By the end of the day, if you declare "I am not a #feminist", and stand your ground, there ain't diddly-boo they can do about it. #politics
— Fidelbogen (@fidelbogen) June 27, 2013
Excelsior, Fidelbogen! And, please, please keep Tweeting.


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Obama outlines Isaac preparations
President Barack Obama discussed preparations for Isaac from the White House Tuesday, outlining emergency efforts already under way and urging residents of areas expected to be hit to follow local officials' directions and evacuation orders.
The two-minute statement, delivered just before Obama is to embark on a three-state campaign swing, was part of an effort to drive home the message that his administration can competently handle a New Orleans-bound natural disaster.
"As we prepare for Isaac to hit, I want to encourage all residents of the Gulf Coast to listen to your local officials and follow their directions including if they tell you to evacuate," Obama said. "We're dealing with a big storm and there could be significant flooding across a large area. Now's not the time to tempt fate. Now's not the time to dismiss official warnings. You need to take this seriously."
Obama spoke just after 10 a.m., when Isaac was still classified as a tropical storm. The National Hurricane Center declared the storm a hurricane Tuesday afternoon.
The statement comes against the backdrop of revived memories of the Bush administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama seven years ago Wednesday.
Obama said he is receiving regular updates from federal disaster officials and outlined steps he has directed to prepare for the storm and its aftermath. He spoke of being briefed by Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, FEMA Director Craig Fugate and Rick Knabb, the director of the National Hurricane Center.
"This storm isn't scheduled to make landfall until later today, but at my direction FEMA has been on the ground for over a week, working with state and local officials in areas that could be affected from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to Florida and, more recently, Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi," Obama said. "Yesterday, I approved a disaster declaration for the state of Louisiana so they can get the help they need right away particularly around some of the evacuations that are taking place."
Obama faces the tricky task of taking charge of the situation without being seen as politicizing a storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast just as the Republican convention begins in Tampa. Republicans have already canceled the first day of the event Monday.
The president isn't canceling his previously scheduled campaign trip to college towns in Iowa, Colorado and Virginia.


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Boardwalk Empire's Jack Huston and his girlfriend Shannan Click have welcomed their first child, People reports.
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Sage Lavinia Huston was born April 6 in New York City. Huston, 30, and Click, 29, announced their pregnancy in October. The couple started dating two years ago.
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Last month we told you about Napster's newest idea for renting music instead of paying 99 cents a track. We informed you that the service, at $14.99, was being beta tested. The service is now available on Napster's To Go website. The only drawback is that only a few portable MP3 players work with the service. The current list of To Go compatible players include the iriver H10, Creative Zen Micro, SMT5600 Smart Phone, Zen Portable Media Center, Gateway GCM-4 Photo Jukebox, iriver H320, iriver PMC-120, and the Samsung YH-999 Portable Media Center. More compatible players are sure to be released, just look for the "Works with Napster To Go" logo. Of course, the Apple iPod is not supported. Will that make it harder for Napster to compete with iTunes? This seems to be a good service since you are able to have unlimited downloads for $15 a month. Say you download 1,000 songs, instead of paying $1,000 using iTunes, you only spend $15 a month. A very completive price, however, could the incompatibility of the iPod be this service's downfall?
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A Monday morning subway ride with a team of NBA players? Only in New York.
Video posted to the Cavaliers' Twitter account shows LeBron James and his teammates, in town to play the Knicks at Madison Square Garden, hopping on the subway from Penn Station back to their hotel after practice Monday morning. Former Knick J.R. Smith was among the train-taking contingent.
"We had two options: a 45-minute bus ride or a six-minute train ride, so we decided to hop on the train with the squad," James says in another video.
James and Dwyane Wade managed to grab seats, but their other teammates who had to stand didn't exactly have much clearance in ceiling room.
"We're squishing," James remarks as he films his teammates scrunched over in the subway car.
James said it was his first time riding the subway in New York.
Despite their apparent effort at staying incognito in hoodies, the players didn't exactly blend in. Eagle-eyed straphangers who noticed them on the train waved and said hello. But a man -- later identified as James Michael Angelo -- seated next to James became irritated when James pointed the camera in selfie mode toward him and says, "Can you not?" before putting his hand in front of his face.
New Yorkers, after all, are notoriously hard to impress.
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Later Monday, Angelo posted his own video inside his office explaining himself.
"I had no idea who LeBron James was, because I don't watch football," he said.
The woman filiming Angelo corrects, "Basketball."
"Oh it's basketball?" he says.
The MTA, for its part, tweeted in response to the video: "Thanks so much for taking the subway Lebron, but the King of this town is @kporzee and we're riding with the Knicks tonight."


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Dear Em
Just a few words to let you know Im fine and in receipt of your letter dated Jan. 17/18. Although I got one dated the 31st three days ago, I enjoyed the one you sent two weeks before. Im sending a copy of the "Stars & Stripes" in which you will get all the news as straight as any A.E.F. could hand it to you. I think the very last thing I put in my old kit bag was a few of these postals, and beleive me they will come in handy for a while. Rain seems to be the order of the day (every day) latly and things will be some what weter I expect, (although they've been pretty wet as it was).
I wrote Mrs. Holland a letter last night and it will probably be with this when it ends its long journey. Ive got no news what ever only to repeat that Im tip top in health spirit and otherwise. In your letter of Jan 17, you said that you would like to have a letter not having received one for two weeks. Well by this time you have no doubt received one or two any way, if not you should have for I have written oftener than I thought I would be able to. Im glad Emma is in touch with her baby and tell her that I was asking for her as well as the rest of the bunch.
When you think of me and the trenches just say "OH there are a hundred million others." Had some lively little time here last night but here I am writing to you yet. That is a point in itself Id ought to be thankful of. Get over that cold now Em and dont get another one. My feet are as big my legs are as thin and my nose is as long as ever so I should worry. Be it ever so funny looking there is no carcus as healthy as mine. Regards to Pa, Lena, Bert, Henry, the aunts, the Hollands and the Bunch.
P.S. If I could think of more Id write.
© Copyright 2009 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Siena hoodie. Couch. Louie on Netflix. Happy Tuesday and stuff.
So those holiday things. How were they for you? I got to see my big Irish fam, kiddo got what he wanted. I was gifted over 7.5 pounds of candy. My family likes to give the gift of Krause's:
To offset the dark chocolate overload I've been starting my days with THE GREEN MONSTER. mmmmm. If you told me six months ago that I would enjoy drinking spinach in the morning I would've laughed in your face. Stopped. Then laughed again. It's so freakin' good. I take them to work in a little cold cup when I can't lounge in my bed and enjoy.
Oh, side note. I had the chance to
house eat a portobello mushroom burger at Juicy Burgers & More, so good. A little heavy on the balsamic but still delicious. Try it, seriously, at lunch tomorrow go and eat it. Get sweet potato fries too. You'll have to run a few extra miles but it's worth it.
New Year's Eve kiddo and I went crazy, I had the champagne, he had the Shirley Temple. New Year's Day we visited the skating rink at the Empire State Plaza…I've so missed skating here! I also suspended the vegan experiment for a short while on New Year's Day to enjoy manfriend's to die for homemade pizza. It included: goat cheese, cranberries, caramelized onions and figs. Holy sh*t, it was one of the best things I've ever eaten. Why can't goat cheese be vegan? Goats eat plants, can I consider it a plant? No? Crap. Ok.
Tonight I whipped up another faboush recipe from Oh She Glows. Love her site to pieces. Creamy Avocado Pasta. 15 minutes and it's delicious!!!! This is the avocado "sauce" pre stir. If you're someone who used to enjoy cream sauces but no longer can TRY THIS RECIPE. So yummy!
Alright, back to Louie. I think i have a crush on Louis C.K. I'm still trying to absorb how wrong that is…