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Colquitt County- Old Berlin closed between Hopewell Church and Jonah Tilman Road. James Buckner Road between Old Albany and Buckner Thompkins Rd. Plymel Road. Paul Murphy Rd. at West end, one lane. Ladson Road, from bridge to Sumner Road. Greenfiled Church Road 600 block. George Etheridge RoadSangster Road at Ruby's Road. Bennett Road from 319 to Smith Road. Myron Hart Road from Co. Line to Zion Grove Church. J. C. Saunders at 33N.Hagins Still Rd. at bridgeWillingham Rd. at bridgeLonnie Brookard Rd. at 90 deg curveMitchell Co. Line Rd. at Holland Rd. to 111Lloyd Rd. at bridgeRufus Merritt Rd. between Lee Courthouse and Paul Moore Rd.
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If you've got a reasonably decent group (read that: solid tank, high DPS, and on-the-ball healers), the hard mode in 10 man is actually easier than the easy mode. Once the heart comes up just burn it down fast. Don't worry about the adds--let the scrapbots heal him, then kill the pummelers and bombbots fast. For the rest of the fight the only thing you have to worry about is DPSing XT...with two exceptions. Light Bombs spawn a small add called a Life Spark that your DPS must kill whenever it's up, and Gravity Bombs spawn a void patch (like the one Auriaya's Feral Defender leaves) when they go off, so if you get one you have to run back away from the raid so it doesn't become a problem.
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Updated Not quite. Despite the evidence of his petulant introduction to his Rose Garden address Monday, he's still the bully using the bully pulpit of the presidency to lash out at those who would dare to thwart his imperial ambitions. Add to that his hawkish hallucinations about Iran still being a nuclear threat from Tuesday's press conference. He's hardly weeping under his pillow.
If you missed the press conference I've included some of his mind boggling quotes about how Iran stopping its nuclear weapons program in 2003 doesn't change anything in his steel trap mind.
Bush began his Monday address with an "oh woe is me" jab at the Senate without admitting that they actually succeeded in their plan to keep him from making recess appointments. This was our petulant president in all his gory glory. Perhaps being told Iran stopped their nuclear weapon program in 2003 got him so frustrated he had to attack someone.
This is from the Monday address:
Good morning. Congress returns from its two-week Thanksgiving break today. They have just two weeks to go before they leave town again. That's not really a lot of time to squeeze in nearly a year's worth of unfinished business.
In fairness, Congress was not entirely out over the past two weeks. In a political maneuver designed to block my ability to make recess appointments, congressional leaders arranged for a senator to come in every three days or so, bang a gavel, wait for about 30 seconds, bang a gavel again, and then leave. Under the Senate rules, this counts as a full day. If 30 seconds is a full day, no wonder Congress has got a lot of work to do.
You can read the rest of his address "President Bush Discusses Congress's Legislative Priorities for the Remainder of the Year" here but frankly it's a waste of time. It's merely Bush trying to dictate the Congressional agenda.
Ho hum.
Our poor bully president now faces yet another deflation of his stuffed codpiece which is breaking news today. It turns out that Iran gave up its nuclear weapon program in 2003.
I'd pity this inadequate man who glories in the bully role but is really a limp dick if he wasn't the most destructive president in modern history.
Now Bush has to stand down on his saber rattling over Iran and is having cold water thrown over his hot wet dreams of bombing Iran.
Poor Bush, you could almost feel sorry for the poor dear who wanted to go out with a big bang bombing Iran — almost NOT!
The Democrats thwarted Bush's plans to appoint Doctor Reverend Homophobe as our nation's top doctor, and perhaps other lesser puke inducing appointees. Now he's probably trying to dare the Democrats to play the gavel game during the Christmas recess.
I hope these prissy comments piss off the Democrats enough so they assure Bush doesn't give the nation a lump of coal in a doctor's suit as a Christmas present.
More important for the nation, I hope the Democrats and rational Republicans can join together to stop Bush from running roughshod over Congress in the wanning days of his presidency.
Add slimy lying weasel to the list of descriptive terms.
At least only a gullible moron would believe his answers to media questions about how the Iranian weapons threat turned out to be a hawkish hallucination.
Here's a guy who a couple of weeks ago was talking about Iran starting World War III and now he's trying to say his opinion hasn't changed… but…. maybe it has changed… but maybe it hasn't… so he's trying to give a lecture on the technology of making atomic bombs… this smirking scientific dunderhead is trying to lecture us about… uh… science… give us a break….
Talk about trying to put lipstick on a pig.
He persists in trying to scare us about Iran, for example:
"Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon."
"The NIE says that Iran had a hidden, covert nuclear weapons program. What's to say it couldn't start another covert, nuclear weapons program?"
"I think it is very important for the international community to recognize the fact that if Iran were to develop the knowledge that they could transfer to a clandestine program, it would create a danger of the world. And so, I view this report as a warning signal that they had the program, they halted the program. The reason why it's a warning signal is they could restart it."
"I still feel strongly that Iran is a danger. I think the NIE makes it clear that Iran needs to be taken seriously as a threat to peace. My opinion hasn't changed."
"But it also tells us that the intent was there, and the risk of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons remains a very serious problem."
"While this report seems to show the Iranians have moved away from producing weapons-grade uranium, the real worry is that they still may be continuing to move forward with enrichment and processing."
Closing Statement
He said the following with indignation and his odd way of combining a smirk with a stern lecturing voice and his know-it-all gestures and posture.
Q My question, sir, is, are you feeling troubled about your standing here yesterday, about perhaps facing a credibility gap with the American people?
THE PRESIDENT: No, I'm feeling pretty spirited, pretty good about life, and have made the decision to come before you so I can explain the NIE. And I have said Iran is dangerous, and the NIE doesn't do anything to change my opinion about the danger Iran poses to the world. Quite the contrary. I'm using this NIE as an opportunity to continue to rally our colleagues and allies.
Q Do you think it —
THE PRESIDENT: It makes it — the NIE makes it clear that the strategy we have used in the past is effective. And the reason why we need to make sure that strategy goes forward for the future is because if Iran shows up with a nuclear weapon at some point in time, the world is going to say, what happened to them in 2007?
How come they couldn't see the impending danger?
What caused them not to understand that a country that once had a weapons program could reconstitute the weapons program?
How come they couldn't see that the important first step in developing a weapon is the capacity to be able to enrich uranium?
How come they didn't know that with that capacity, that knowledge could be passed on to a covert program? What blinded them to the realities of the world? And it's not going to happen on my watch, Mark.
And so, kind of Psychology 101 ain't working. It's just not working. I understand the issues, I clearly see the problems, and I'm going to use the NIE to continue to rally the international community for the sake of peace.
Thank you very much.
Here's a link to the transcript of the press conference for the masochists among you. His closing comment was about the threat of Iran and was so over the top I hope it is replayed on the news shows. I could almost hear the air raid sirens.
The CNN commentator said Bush is trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
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Bush praises our intelligence agencies for the recent NIE and takes credit for it, while in the same breath says it is meaningless. He brushes off the fact that it took them four years to determine that the Iranians had no nuclear weapons programs.
I have to wonder whether we will now see the other major western powers saying they had hard evidence from their intelligence agencies for years which they shared with the United States.
I read your latest and can only imagine what the world thinks of our leader. He has taken this country from its most sensitive time (9/11) and ruined everything. Everyone now hates us, the economy is self destructing and we will have a deficit because of his father's
revenge that will carry over for generations.
Thanks for jumping in Wally and welcome to Capitol Hill Blue. I look forward to hearing more from you.
Bush can't help himself. He's not only delusional, but he honestly can't tell fact from fiction, nor right from wrong. His 'thinking' is so twisted that it would do Rod Serling proud. This man is dangerous in the worst way, not only to himself, to this nation, but to the rest of the world as well. He insists he didn't know what was in the report while he was bellowing out his WWIII nonsense, but there's more than enough evidence to show that Cheney has been suppressing this thing for a year, so he surely was well aware of it. The words lunatic and fanatic just don't cover the insanity of these two. As long as they remain in office, no one is safe.
Also, he needs to stop braying at Congress for thwarting his plans to give us those odious recess appointments of his, and for passing bills he doesn't like, which he then vetoes. HE'S THE ONE WHO WON'T WORK WITH THEM! He got so used to that rubber stamp Republican congress of his that he forgets that until he came along the 2 branches actually worked together to compromise on the differences in bills to make laws: the president didn't just veto them without any attempt to reach some sort of agreement if the bills were important to both parties involved. My way or the highway was not the way most things worked before our Dictator in Chief: not even Reagan was that inflexible!
It's been a BAD DAY for Satanboy. It's been a bad day for Hillary. And it's been a bad day for Joe Lieberman.
I'm going to remember this for a long time. This is the BEST DAY I'VE HAD IN YEARS!
Common sense and military/nuclear reality is what always comes up missing in these scare tactics of the global terrorists residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Oh my god! They are going to have a WMD!
So, what if they do have them? Hell, lets give them a couple. We have plenty and could spare a few. What difference would it make if every middle eastern nation had them? They could never use them.
If Iran were to launch a nuclear weapon at any other country they would be commiting national suicide. Within minutes their nation would become a nuclear wasteland. There would be no Iran and no Iranians.
Isreal has enough nukes to obliterate the Middle East. Or a couple of our submarines could accomplish the same thing. Everyone knows this. So, how can the threat of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon be important or "scare" anyone? I would bet that Iran does not want any nuclear weapons. What would be the point of having something you could not use and would not actually scare anyone? Bush and Cheney's ranting about it is comical. And the Iranians are the ones laughing their asses off and congratulating each other on how they are playing these fools while the fools are laughing at how the majority of the American public is going for the same old WMD ploy.
What the hell happened to common sense? So many nations have nuclear weapons and the ability to deliver them for some distance, what difference would one more make? No matter how hard they try they could never convice the world there is some Irainian madman that would commit his nation to obiteration.
This entire senario is a ludicrous joke. But one that has been used to bankrupt our nation. When will the American people put a stop to this. Or will they ever? If they don't it will be the end of the great experiment in America.
President Sparky: What caused them not to understand that a country that once had a weapons program could reconstitute the weapons program?
Uhhh… like when Cheney, the Dick, reassured us that "we believe, that, Saddam has in fact reconstituted his nuclear weapons program." ?
Like that? And 3/4 of a trillion dollars and 4000 dead Americans later we are supposed to take their word? Again? The exact same argument?
Fool me once… shame on… shame on you… fool me twice… ummmm… fool… can't get fooled again.
— Kent Shaw
Hi SEAL,
I think the reason Americans have become so complacent is due to anti-depressant drugs. About five years ago I read that 60 million Americans were on Prozac or it's more up to date analogs. Let's say that 80-100 million are dosed on these pharmaceuticals in 2007.
People can't cope, they want to stick their heads in the sand, so they reach out for strong anti-depressants which are the equivalent of "rose-tinted" glasses in a codfish gray skied world.
This too may have been part of the NWO scheme to change the order of things. I'd say they've succeeded. I'm an affable guy and try to pick up conversations about our national state of affairs when I go about my daily business and I must say that I rarely if ever get anything back that I'd class as intelligent coming my way. In fact in most cases I seem to make the average citizen squirm and feel uncomfortable.
They seem comfortable with being simple feedlot; ie., consumeristic animals.
America's adults and it's children have been dumbed down to the level of bovine cattle. Rest assured there are a number of folks that are still clean and clear-thoughted, but their numbers are so few that these NWO conspirators feel no threat from a revolution at this point in time.
Carl Nemo **==
"In fact in most cases I seem to make the average citizen squirm and feel uncomfortable."
Denial. Things aren't bad enough yet to force them out of their denial, and your comments only remind them its only going to get worse. We are seeing open boldfaced attacks on people by government at all levels from the tasering police force to the national ID card. But the rice bowl is still usually full and none of the neighbors have had their doors yet busted in by a swat team serving a warrant for failure to pay a parking ticket, so all must be well with the world.
— Kent Shaw
Hal's comments so far :
I appreciate everyone's comments. Please keep them coming. They are the appendices to all of our columns, some of which are read months and even years later.
Amazing that when I wrote version one of this column on Monday it was just in reaction to Bush's brief address. Then came his press conference Tuesday and the at-long-last unbowed reporters persisting in nailing him on Iran. (Even Fox wouldn't suck up to him.)
I do want to link to Maureen Dowd, who
regulars know is one of my favorite OpEd writers (yes, she does exasperate me at times).
I enjoy it when I can get a piece online with a similar perspective before she does.
Below is what she wrote about this exchange:
Chicago Tribune reporter Mark Silva: "I can't help but read your body language this morning. You seem somehow dispirited, somewhat dispirited."
President: "This is like, all of a sudden, it's like Psychology 101, you know?"
(Some reporters laughed perhaps out of sympathy.)
Dowd wrote:
W. did look like a kid who'd just had his toys taken away. But he acted humorously exasperated, as he always does when the talk turns introspective.
She also addressed the daddy issue which Wally noted in his post above:
"And so," W. concluded triumphantly, and nonsensically, "kind of Psychology 101 ain't working."
W. loves to act as though psychology is voodoo even though his whole misbegotten foreign policy has been conducted from his gut, by checking the body language of his inner circle and looking into the hearts and souls of dictatorial leaders.
If I were looking at the latest fiasco from a Psych 101 point of view, I'd say it was another daddy issue for W.
To Carl about our Prozac nation:
It is telling and frightening how often George Orwell (Dowd above) and Aldous Huxley are brought up to describe our nation of sheep or lemmings.
Remember in Brave New World how citizens were given Soma, Huxley's version of Prozac.
Today it isn't only prescribed medication but an entire culture of escapism where only a fraction of the population seriously follows politics and a scary number of people vote because they are persuaded by slick ads produced by the same kinds of people who uses to convince people that cigarettes not only made you handsome or glamorous, but were actually healthy.
Bush is the gift that keeps giving to everyone from those of us on Capitol Hill Blue to the Maureen Dowds and Keith Olbermans of the media. We are proven right as he slides into ever so public Psych. 101 clinical denial he is also slinking into history as our worst president.
He's been exposed as the Constitution wrecking seller of fraudulent claim worse than a used car salesman selling a family of five a car without brakes.
For the rest of his term we will have no dearth of material to write about. After that we may be struggling to find subject matter in Hillary's iron ego or Barak's swoon inducing charisma.
"We are proven right as he slides into ever so public Psych. 101 clinical denial…"
I keep hoping for a very public screaming, weeping, angry, throwing things public tantrum and meltdown.
— Kent Shaw
Hal, I'm still trying to stop laughing at the first set of adjectives in the original title! *screaming laughter* Oh man, is that the funniest title filled with angry sarcasm you've ever seen? I love it!!!!
George Bush really is trying to be a good president in his own little way by screwing the American people over whenever he gets the chance and by blaming his political opponents for everything he's done over the past seven years. Believe me, he's trying hard to be the next Honest Abe!
Just remember,he himself is a great big ZERO.He could not have screwed up like that,
without all those advisers(like wolfovitz,Bloomberg)and all the other corporate criminals in industry and the media, supporting him.
Our entire Gov.is so infested with warmongering zionists that he probably has a rough time getting in a word edgewise.
There has to be a giant house cleaning in our Gov.,just getting rid of him will not suffice.
Bush has done an admirable job for his constituency — the haves, and the haves more. They could not have asked for a better president. The only problem is that his constituency is only about 2% of the American public. He didn't do it all alone. He had a lot of help from Reagan, Bush 41 and Clinton. And if you liked George Bush you are going to love Hillary Clinton.
— Kent Shaw
Great cartoon, KayInMaine,
I clicked on your link to WhiteNoiseInsanity to see what was up there and see they have the Rob Rogers cartoon from the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It is a great addition to what I wrote.
or if that link doesn't work try this:
The link works –
…but it takes you to today's offering so you need to arrow back/forward to see it –
…quite a few very good ones there too –
He's so used to getting his way that it's incomprehensible to him that his tenure as El Presidente' is almost over. I still don't trust him and the Bush clan; ie., the family that has made big bucks off warfare for the past 100 years at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer and won't rest somewhat easy until they've exited D.C. in January 2009.
Obviously his WMD scam won't work with this revelation, but what they are now saying is if Iran isn't enriching uranium for the purpose of power generation then it must be for nukes…!?
Who knows, maybe Iran will end up in the wholesale enriched uranium business, selling it to other nations. Maybe their entire program is nothing but b.s., but in any case it doesn't warrant attacking a sovereign nation and destroying their entire military infrastructure because Israel says so…! The derivative financial nightmare relative to the West will in no way balance out such a pre-emptive attack. It will be a "last gasp" for capitalism as we know it and our Western way of life.
Enriching uranium from the nominal 5 percent level for power generation to the 95 percent level for weapons production is a long stretch to say the least. Then they need to develop a delivery system. Yes, they have missiles, but you simply don't load weapons grade plutonium on a missile-head then launch and get an explosion unless you are going to simply launch a dirty weapon to contaminate the local real estate. The production of a viable, guided warhead takes a whole different level of expertise.
Even if they do develop several weapons and foolishly try to launch one on Tel Aviv, the Israeli's are sitting on at least 100 plus thermonuclear warheads (hydrogen capable weapons) unlike primitive atom bombs. So if the Iranians foolishly launch a "couple" of these conventional atom or simply radioactive contaminating dirty bombs; then turned into "green glass", courtesy of Israel, makes no sense.
The Iranians are not simply emotional, west-hating arabs, they are a highly sophisticated nation with very bright people involved with it's defense structure. The Grand Mullahs that control Iran are not stupid either. At this point they may simply enjoy rattling the West, but nothing is going to come of their weapons program, no different than Saddam, if so they already "know" they are dead as a nation.
The current NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) contradicts Bushco concerning the Iranian program!
Bushco is MIC, PNAC, AIPAC, NWO driven, so their main mission is to keep this nation at war and bleeding the U.S. Treasury white through the issuance of more "debt-money" at the behest of the Federal Reserve. George Bush and his running dog associates are pure b.s., plain and simple, nothing but globalist rip-off, con-artists…!
"Is Bush a whining vindictive sore loser crybaby?" The answer to that would be YES and more correctly a hubris,smarmy,feckless spoiled,lying,dictatorish, ill-tempered, indulged dolt and the worst ever President!
Yes, Judy B., he's all of these things, but to his controllers he's been a total, and absolute success…!
To "we the people" he's been all of your aforementioned descriptions of this man. Does he care…?! Absolutely not, because he's a sociopathic elitist and what we think, matters not!
To me he's no different than a Ted Bundy, except he's our national leader and instead of being a simple, pedestrian grade, serial killer; he's a "nation killer", with 300 million citizens, less several thousand of his elitist brethren as his victims…!
Carl Nemo **==
He is a nation killer and this time it is America. I can only hope the media will look into these reports and prove them to be correct or false. It is a terrible shame that our own leaders would abuse the White House to fulfill their global governance programs.
Can Bush even consider that he would have been given the wrong information and be man enough to explain this to the people?
He should have pulled out of Iraq when it was determined they had no WMDs but he wanted the head of Saddam for his own trophy. This is not the actions of a sane man. It also showed that we did not elect sane pro-Amedrican congresscritters. We must throw the bastards out as soon as possible.
I'm waiting for a couple of Republican Congress members to face the voters with their apologies for not looking more deeply into this intelligence reports. I still think that we need to get social issues out of the Congress and let them do their jobs of protecting the people and the Constitution.
Now that I have your attention I have to admit that when I decided to preface the column with the answer to the title question as "no" I was just trying for an ironic twist.
I agree with the adjectives added by Carl and Judy, and I would add to what Sandra writes that he's a nation and Constitution killer.
When he doesn't get his way he whines, is vindictive, is a sore loser, and is a crybaby. But because he's so much more and so much worse than that I wouldn't characterize him with that phrase. That's why I said "no".
The deranged hawk Cheney doesn't bother with intellectual exercises regarding Iran. He just says I know what I know so f-off you lilly liverer Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hugging liberals. But you have to be amazed at the twisted attempt to keep attacking Iran as an option as evidenced by the Cheney-Lite, national security advisor Stephen Hadley who said that the…
estimate showed that suspicions about Iran's intentions were warranted, given that it had a weapons program in the first place.
"On balance, the estimate is good news," Mr. Hadley said, appearing at the White House. "On one hand, it confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons. On the other hand, it tells us that we have made some progress in trying to ensure that that does not happen. But it also tells us that the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains a very serious problem." New York Times.
Geographers alert! De 'Nile has relocated to the White House.
It never made sense to me that the leaders of the country where my father-in-law's top Boston heart surgeon got his M.D. were stupid enough to waste national treasure on actually funding a nuclear weapons program.
Bush is an addict, but I'm not certain I agree with the poster that he is PNAC driven. He personally never signed the paper, unlike his brother Jeb.
Dick Cheney did though, along with a host of others in the White House and a few in Congress, and if you read the PNAC papers, you'll see that Iraq was in the plan all along, and controlling Mideast oil is the purpose for it.
It also mentions policing the world, so this war time spending and footing is meant to be permanent, at least in their eyes.
Bully or whiner or addict, America is being kidnapped. We must stop it now.
I'm watching his press conference.
Add slimy lying weasel to the list of descriptive terms.
At least only a gullible moron would believe his answers to questions about the Iranian weapons illusion.
Here's a guy who a couple of weeks ago was talking about Iran starting World War III and now he's trying to say his opinion hasn't changed… but…. maybe it has changed… but maybe it hasn't… so he's trying to give a lecture on the technology of making atomic bombs… this smirking scientific dunderhead is trying to lecture us about… uh… science… give us a break….
Talk about trying to put lipstick on a pig.
He persists in trying to scare us about Iran, for example:
"Iran was dangerous, Iran is dangerous, and Iran will be dangerous if they have the knowledge to make a nuclear weapon."
"What's to say they couldn't start another covert nuclear weapons program?"
"What's to say they couldn't start another covert nuclear weapons program?"
"I think it is very important for the international community to recognize the fact that if Iran were to develop the knowledge that they could transfer to a clandestine program, it would create a danger of the world. And so, I view this report as a warning signal that they had the program, they halted the program. The reason why it's a warning signal is they could restart it."
"I still feel strongly that Iran is a danger. I think the NIE makes it clear that Iran needs to be taken seriously as a threat to peace. My opinion hasn't changed."
"But it also tells us that the intent was there, and the risk of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons remains a very serious problem."
"While this report seems to show the Iranians have moved away from producing weapons-grade uranium, the real worry is that they still may be continuing to move forward with enrichment and processing."
When the transcript gets online I'll put a link to it here for the masochists among you. His closing comment was about the threat of Iran and was so over the top I hope it is replayed on the news shows. I could almost hear the air raid sirens.
The CNN commentator said Bush is trying to make lemonade out of lemons.
No George…
…YOU are the danger –
…everyone better check on their nu-chule-yer stuff –
…if any go missing, me thinks it will be planted in Iran somewhere –
"I think it is very important for the international community to recognize the fact that [if Iran were to develop the knowledge that they could transfer to a clandestine program, it would create a danger of the world.] And so, I view this report as a warning signal that they had the program, they halted the program. The reason why it's a warning signal is they could restart it." … extract from Monday address per George Bush
Bush is unequivocally the son of the "Father of Lies"…!
So why did our CIA compromise plans on how to build a nuke to the Iranians almost six years ago….?! Evidently the script writers at the CIA want to make sure we a continual stream of dangerous enemies in order to give their buddies in the MIC plenty of contract work until the 12th of never…no?!
Folks, I've gotta tell ya…we're being played by our leaders and our intelligence agencies simply to see that this country and the world are engaged in a perpetual state of war for the benefit of the defense establishment, not only for this nation, but worldwide. The MIC is everywhere, it's a global enterprise. The "oil patch" gets a derivative benefit too. Constant conflagration in the oil producing regions of the world keep the price of oil and its derivatives "pumped"…!
I've supplied a link laying out the compromised nuclear weapons plans. It was also revealed recently that Bushco was spying on us even prior to 911 when they claimed the extraordinary use of the NSA et. al. occurred post 911.
For the life of me, I have no idea why people are still cutting Bush/Cheney slack and haven't summarily impeached their butts as soon as it was disclosed that they used cooked intelligence to invade Iraq. Even the invasion of Iraq was planned prior to 911. It's been nothing but a shakedown of the American tax-debt payer. They've stolen our "National Treasure" ; ie., our nation and our wealth, seemingly to have gotten away with their crime against "we the people"…!
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This Sparkling Meyer Lemon Cocktail hits the spot on a hot summer day. Get ready to double the recipe because once your guests get a taste of this refreshing citrus beverage, they'll definitely want seconds!
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1. Combine first 3 ingredients in a microwave-safe liquid measuring cup. Microwave at HIGH for 2 1/2 minutes; stir until sugar dissolves. Let stand 10 minutes; discard rosemary. Chill.
2. Combine sugar mixture, juice, vodka, and prosecco, stirring gently. Serve immediately.
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Councilman Robin Engel welcomes Louisville Metro Animal Services S.P.O.T. (Stop Pet Overpopulation Today) mobile unit Tuesday, August 4, 2009 between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Fern Creek Community Center (6104 Bardstown Road) at the annual District 22 Animal Services Rabies, License and Microchip Clinic.
Pet owners will are able to have their cat, dog or ferret vaccinated, licensed or implanted with a microchip during this clinic. All services will be offered on a first come, first serve basis. Please remember that all restraint laws apply: your cat, dog or ferret must be restrained by leash or carrier. For more information, call 574-SPOT (574-7768) or the Office of District 22 Metro Councilman Robin Engel at 574-1122.
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Secret Color: Painting Just the Edge of a Door
What a fun (and easy!) way to introduce an accent color to a room. Paint just the edge of a door.
As someone who's been enamored of (of all things) the bright red color on just the soles of the shoes Oprah usually wears (we googled and they appear to be Christian Louboutin), this idea spotted in the current issue of LivingEtc appeals to us. Paint just the inside (or outside) edge of a door to add just a slice of accent color to a room and you only see it when the door is open!
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I love it!
It works--IF your door is perfectly balanced and doesn't catch the insides of the door frame, else the eye-catching paint will get even more eye-catching scrapes on it. Wouldn't work in my apartment :( Everything is old, made of wood, and has a tendency to swell and shrink in the humidity.
What a cool idea!
Cute teaser!
Subtle and lovely. Great wallpaper too. Anyone know the source?
Oh, I like that! I love brightly-painted doors, but never thought of doing the edges in a different color. (Though rudebega's warning is a good one to remember, too.)
What, you didn't know about Christian Louboutin? Don't you watch What Not to Wear? ;)
Other shoemakers have started to rip off that look, so it's lost its cache. Too bad, was rather cute, now it looks slutty. But that's just my opinion.
As for the door, that's rather original ... neat.
I LOVE it. Although darn, rudebega you are absolutely right. My door would get stuck and scraped. sigh
more posts like this one, please
This is super cute, but i have a related question. My appartment has those mid-80's laminated fake wood printed doors. (complete with painted metal door frames so they are harder to replace)
Is painting them ok? What about painting them a accent color? I am thinking about painting a light blue accent area and would love to pull more color into the hallway.
Thanks for the great idea though!
Just a little ribbon of color. Nice.
What a wonderful use for those small sample bottles of paint you can buy! Cool


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Women's Health
Tips to Avoid Foot Pain From High Heels
Do the most important men in your life -- and the shoe boxes in your closet -- bear the names Manolo, Jimmy C, Enzo, and Stevie M? If so, then there's a good chance high heels are a part of your life.
But unlike Carrie Bradshaw in TV's Sex and the City -- who chased men, taxis, and sometimes a dog in the park while teetering on 4-inch stilettos -- high-heeled life in the real world can be a killer.
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"Women do love their high heels, but if you wear them all the time, significant foot pain and other problems can ensue, either as a direct result of the heels or exacerbated by them," says Morris Morin, DPM, director of podiatric medicine at the Hackensack University Medical Center.
Problems range from common concerns like bunions, corns, and calluses to more complex issues like misshapen hammertoes or that excruciating pain in the ball of the foot that seems to grow worse with each passing year.
Still, many women refuse to give up their high heels: A survey conducted by the American Podiatric Medical Association showed some 42% of women admitted they'd wear a shoe they liked even if it gave them discomfort; 73% admitted already having a shoe-related foot issue.
So what's the answer? Doctors say if you must wear them at all, take a few precautions, and catch and treat problems early on. If you do, you'll not only avoid many high-heel problems, but you'll make the time you spend in spikes a happier day for your feet.
(Do you often wear high heels? Share your experiences on WebMD's Women's Health: Friends Talking message board.)
High Heels and Foot Pain: What You Should Know
Anytime you wear shoes that are tight or constrict the natural shape of your foot, doctors say it's bound to cause foot pain.
But when you add high heels in to the equation, podiatrist Stuart Mogul, DPM, says pain can quickly escalate to damage.
"In addition to restricting the foot, you are also increasing the weight on the area that is restricted, so you're not only crushing your toes, but you're crushing them and then putting weight on them, and that's a problem," says Mogul.
Among the most common problems he sees are painful, aching bunions -- those bony protrusions that usually pop up at the base of the big toe and distort the shape of the foot.
"High heels don't cause bunions, but they sure can aggravate them. Both the heel height and the point of the shoe can play a role," says Mogul.
Moreover, he says some women who have bunions also have a displaced bone on the bottom of the big toe joint, which changes the way the foot "tracks" or acts during motion.
"If the foot is then placed in a high heel, and pitched forward, the pressure on these bones increases and bunion pain grows worse," he says.
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By Daniel Kao
On 28, Jul 2014 | No Comments | In Entrepreneurship | By Daniel Kao
Competition is a good thing. It pushes people to perform better, companies to make better products, and prices to drop.
So I was taught.
But reading Peter Thiel's Zero to One brought a new perspective that I wasn't expecting.
Competition, while being very helpful for companies to make progress, serves very much as a negative reinforcement rather than a positive one. The mindset is, "If we don't make progress, we'll be put out of business." What results is a race to the bottom, bidding for the lowest price in an attempt to retain the control over the market.
The race to the bottom is nothing more than who can cut the most costs, production time, and other factors of business. This leads companies to borderline unethical if not unethical practices to minimize operating costs so that they can further lower their prices in order to beat competition.
The parallels between competition in education and competition in business is strikingly similar. When a student isn't focused on performing better than their classmates, they are able to focus on being creative and unique. Students are then able to define what it means to win in their own game, rather than how not to lose at someone else's.
The mark of a truly effective and powerful education system is one in which cheating isn't even a temptation for students, because the desire for learning and creativity become so much more powerful than the desire to merely obtain an external result.
What does the opposite of competition look like?
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By Daniel Kao
Using College to Self Hack My Education
On 30, Jun 2014 | No Comments | In Education | By Daniel Kao
I've thought about education a lot in the past couple years, especially when it comes to my own.
Most people enter college expecting the institution to hand them everything they need for their future on a silver platter. After all, college students followed all the rules in order to get into school, so the thinking is that if they continue to follow all the rules they will find themselves in a good career.
However, through my journey in learning over the past couple years, I realized I was responsible for my own learning, whether school is a part of it or not.
Strangely enough, this term used to refer to someone who is taking charge of their own learning is a "hackademic". As if somehow learning isn't supposed to be done apart from an institution, and you have to hack it in order to get take control of your learning. The other issue is that many hackademics think that being in college is somehow incompatible with being a self directed learner. I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. In fact the whole point of this post is to show how college can be used within a self directed education.
Don't get me wrong, college is a great experience to meet professors and peers, as well as open yourself up to a wide variety of perspectives and subjects. Being in school can be one of the best decisions you can make if you have reason to be in school. And even for me, I plan to finish up my Computer Science degree unless an opportunity of a lifetime presents itself before I finish. I am grateful that I have the means to attend a four year institution, and do not mean to belittle the privilege of being in school.
But by no means is college the end to learning.
Around the beginning of my undergraduate career, I began thinking about how I could fully take advantage of college while also fully being self directed in my learning. I wanted to figure out how to remain in the system in order to be relevant to my peers while also exemplifying how it was possible to have autonomy in education.
I had support from many mentors to bounce ideas off of as well as a few peers in the same boat to process things with along the way, and I am eternally grateful for their support.
I soon realized that the very core of being a self directed learner was having your own personal reason to learn, and things that you want to achieve.
I began pondering how to integrate college into self directed education by establishing a list of things I wanted to learn. As a list, I wanted to:
- Learn how businesses operate, how to go from an idea to a profit and value generating company.
- Learn how people operate, how to interact and network with people to add the most value to others.
- Learn as much as I can about technology, and areas that I can apply technology to industries such as agriculture and education in a significant, paradigm-shifting way.
The next thing I had to do was figure out the best sources to learn these different subjects, what college was good for that I could extract from, and what I needed to get around.
The good is that college is a great hub for networking and meeting people, especially being able to leverage my age and my status as a student to meet alumni and industry professionals. This power to network that comes with being a student is one that few people understand how to leverage, and fewer people actually do leverage.
The bad is that most classes bore me out of my mind, assignments often serve little purpose, and grades are often extremely arbitrary and not reflective of how well you actually learned, not to mention the astronomically unjustified price to attend college. Every once in a while you'll meet a professor who truly knows how to empower their students in a way that is engaging and relevant, but in my experience, those are hard to come by. But when you do find yourself in a class with a phenomenal professor, taking advantage and putting effort into that class is totally worth your while.
Upon realizing that the value of being in school for me personally wasn't primarily the academic material, but my ability to leverage my status as a student, I began setting up systems to implement the 80/20 rule into my academics. I began figuring out how to chunk course material in such a way that 20% of my effort would generate 80% of the academic result, while also spending time to deeply learn the things that were truly interesting to me.
One example sticks out very clear in the last quarter. I took a software engineering project project class last quarter. This class is based heavily on your team's ability to build a software product within 10 weeks of the class. As our team was discussing and brainstorming projects to do, the natural tendency was to propose difficult projects that would require large API integrations and other complexities.
But as we thought about it more, we realized that the easiest way to get the best grade possible was to simply fulfill all the requirements. We realized that it would be better to create a simple application that works flawlessly rather than a complex application that barely functioned. At the end of the quarter, we had spent a total of 10 hours to complete our project, while some other teams were working 10 hours a day to get their project working. Our final grade? 100%.
School doesn't reward people for taking bold risks, it actually often unconsciously penalizes the people who take bold risks. Failure is seen as a negative thing, not because it's explicitly warned against, but because the rewards only go to the people that have followed all the rules.
Part of applying the 80/20 rule to my academics was learning how to play the game of school without being sucked into the toxic standardization and performance mentality that has been traditionally present. I had to set up the things that I did in order to maximize authentic learning and networking while being as efficient as possible in my studies.
The hardest part I found was keeping focused when my mind simply wanted to wander and not engage in any productive activities. I ran into this issue often as I was trying to be productive, only finding myself wasting hours of my day. This problem went away when I solidified my purpose and began to intentionally build routines and structures that would help me achieve my goals.
I began applying many of the principles from Tim Ferriss and other "productivity gurus" to my daily routines (Tim Ferriss has a great article on the choice minimal lifestyle). For example, my breakfast and lunch plans were a very specific handful of dishes that I would make over and over again to simplify decision making and standardize my diet. My exercise routines were very consistent from day to day. My sleep schedule looked almost identical day to day, and even the clothes I wore were chosen from a handful on a regular basis.
By freeing up my academic as well as streamlining my life errands, I suddenly found myself with more free time to learn, explore, network, and do the things that I knew I wanted to learn. Note that this is different than "following your dream" because I set up a way to systematically take steps toward achieving the things I knew I needed to learn instead of merely being driven by how I feel on a day to day basis.
That being said, this last quarter I was able to accomplish the following:
- 4 CS classes (101, 110, 130, and 140)
- Part time internship (8 hours a week)
- Kept my blog regularly updated (once a week)
- Worked closely with Student Voice
- Did freelance web design work
- Cooked nearly every meal
- Exercised 2-3 times a week
- Had a social life to the extent that I wanted
- Read one book every two weeks
- 7-8 hours of sleep per night
- Had time to spare for spontaneous fun activities
I'm not saying this to brag, but to provide an insight into what is possible with a little bit of structure and motivation. If I can do it, anyone else can.
I've found that the core to being able to "self hack" your education isn't about whether you are a part of a system or not, but it's about the mindset that you have when it comes to being able to critically consider the strengths, weaknesses, and value of the opportunities around you, and taking the best of what is around.
An illustration that can be used is imagine shopping for a set of wrenches. Not every repair project that you take on will require every single size of wrenches, but most people would rather get a whole set of wrenches rather than just one or two. And sometimes you'll encounter projects where none of the tools in the set are adequate for what you are working on, and you'll need to go out of your way to get a specialized tool for that specific scenario.
School, while providing access to a great deal of connections. knowledge, and experience, is much like a standardized set of tools that a person can draw upon when faced with different projects. It isn't sufficient for solving every problem, and many of the tools acquired in school you will never actually find a use for. Thus, the mindset when it comes to self directed learning is your ability to combine the tools that you personally need, whether it be knowledge, experience, or connections.
The reason why most college students are simply satisfied with the tools that colleges give and rarely go out of their way to learn is because they have no idea why or what they need the tools for. And as I mentioned, the most important aspect of self directing your education is knowing what you want to achieve, and having a purpose for learning.
Self hacking your education in general isn't simply doing whatever you want, but it's about having systems that facilitate learning through understanding the value of the opportunities that are around you.
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Common Core – What is it and What Difference Does it Make?
On 23, Jun 2014 | No Comments | In Education | By Daniel Kao
Before we begin, I'd like to preface this post by saying that I am not claiming to be an expert in education or common core. I have never been a school administrator or a teacher, so this post is simply a compilation of my personal thoughts and research on common core. If you spot an inaccurate comment or interpretation or simply want to spark some good natured discussion (please share your perspective), feel free to leave a comment.
Feel free to check out the official website or video for the Common Core for more background and information.
What is Common Core?
In simple terms, Common Core is a set of unified standards that benchmark what each child should know at a certain grade level. It's purpose is to unify standards across the country so that every elementary, middle, and high school have the same standards of being "college ready" across the board. It's framed as a solution to our national achievement crisis, supposedly being the way to fix the lack of college preparedness.
The Common Core consists of math and english learning standards that can be seen here.
Up to this point, most States have begun to adopt common core, but other states are beginning to repeal Common Core, finding it difficult, frustrating, and confusing. Again, since I have no experience as an educator, I will refrain from making comments about the standards themselves and the quality of the standards. I'll leave that discussion to much more qualified individuals.
First Things First
Before we can begin discussing the implementation of Common Core and whether it plays a positive or negative role in our schools, we must define what the goals of education, and more importantly the goals of school are. Unfortunately, this point in it of itself has advocates from all over the spectrum, leaving it nearly impossible to talk about a set of goals that everyone can agree on.
But for all intents and purposes of this post, I will be building my interpretation and perspective of the Common Core off of my convictions of education. In case you haven't been reading my blog long enough to get a sense of what I believe about education, I'll give a quick run down.
I believe that the goal of education isn't to educate a certain collection of knowledge into our children, but to educate our children in such a way that they would be empowered to find their most fulfilled place in the world.
I believe that the goal of education isn't to educate a certain collection of knowledge into our children, but to educate our children in such a way that they would be empowered to find their most fulfilled place in the world. I believe that education should cultivate growth through fostering a child's creativity and curiosity by providing them the tools and instruction that is necessary. I believe that the best education isn't a school that tells students what to do, but an environment made up of resources, peers, and mentors that equip students with a practical toolkit for their specific path in life.
I believe that the goal of education is to create the next generation of thinkers, innovators, and leaders. I believe the goal of education is to help students grow in such a way that they can be challenged to fearlessly tackle and solve the problems of the future, whether it be social, technological, or otherwise.
On Standardization
With that perspective of education in mind, it brings up the question "what should be standardized, if anything?"
As Sir Ken Robinson points out, standardization is not a bad thing. Many things require standardization for our world to operate. It would be hard to imagine a world without a standard set of rules and regulations governing things from products to behavior.
However, when it comes to students, it becomes a fatal mistake to apply the same mindset from products and services onto students. Every student is unique. Parents can attest to the fact that applying the same set of standards and expectations to multiple children simply doesn't work because each child is so different. It doesn't make sense in light of our definition of education and human nature to force every student into the same cookie cutter mold.
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." – Albert Einstein
However, although I believe that students themselves should not be standardized, I think there is a difference between writing a set of standards for the students and writing a set of standards for skills. Somewhere along the line, a distinction needs to be made between who a student is and what a student does.
For example, if you walk into a physician's office, you're going to want the physician to have background in human biology before you're likely to trust the physician's judgment on your physical condition. You're going to want a standard that the physician adheres to.
In that sense, we should be careful to ensure that students acquire skills that can be backed up by standards, instead of educating students so they fit a standard. The difference is nuanced, but with extremely significant implications.
A student who is taught to achieve a standard learns that they must look exactly like a profile of a model student, often teaching students that their future success is dependent on how well they can fit the profile. But students who are empowered to most effectively be themselves learn that they will have to pick up skills of a certain standard in order to achieve where they want to go.
Tying it All Together
Bringing it back to Common Core, it seems to work in theory to apply a set of standards defining "college preparedness" to students all across the country. But in practice, I don't think that the Common Core State Standards will do much to change how much students are learning.
As I looked deeper into education and different learning philosophies, I've found that the most foundational differences to learning lie in the psychological and emotional areas of a student. In other words, the most important influences on how a child learn is their environment that is made up of their community, teachers, peers, standard of living, prospects of the future.
The reason why many charter and private schools do so well isn't because of their standards, but because of the culture and environment they cultivate in their classrooms. It isn't so much about the standards as much as it is making sure that the student is in a safe place. All the young and hip startup companies are beginning to understand the importance of a good company culture, and I believe we will see the same effects when we apply a positive learning environment to our schools.
Without a proper and healthy environment for students, implementing learning standards will likely have negligible effects. It doesn't matter whether the standards are of quality or not, the problem is that the standards are being implemented in a way that does not consider improving the learning environment of schools, practically forcing a standardization of students.
Students deserve to be free to be themselves in their learning, and teachers deserve to be themselves in their teaching.
tl;dr – Common Core is the right solution to the wrong problem. Standards in it of themselves are not a bad thing, but it depends on how they are applied. The lack of "college preparedness" isn't because of a lack of standards, it's because we aren't creating the right culture for our students to learn.
In Education
By Daniel Kao
Academic Integrity and it's Effects on Motivation
On 24, Apr 2014 | 2 Comments | In Education | By Daniel Kao
In Daniel Pink's book Drive, Pink talks extensively about the difference between intrinsic and extrinsic motivators.
An extrinsically motivated person is someone who is motivated by an external factor, usually money or some other form of good that isn't necessarily related to a person's occupation. For example, a doctor who is in it for the money is extrinsically motivated by the prospect of making money, not necessarily caring for people's well being, or a student who is in it for the grade doesn't necessarily learn, but does what is necessary for a grade.
An intrinsically motivated person is someone who is motivated by an internal factor, usually some sort of satisfaction or passion of what they get to do for themselves. For example, a programmer that works on an open source program that is freely distributed online is in it because of their love for the technology or the enjoyment of programming, not necessarily to make a name for themselves or earn great sums of money.
What's interesting is that the book points to research that shows over and over that intrinsically motivated people always win out over extrinsically motivated people. Pink suggests that the ways that businesses and schools have been motivating employees and students are far from optimal, and by switching things around to encourage intrinsic motivators, we can take our economies and future to a whole new level.
"The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. Indeed, most of the scandals and misbehavior that have seemed endemic to modern life involve shortcuts." – Drive, Daniel Pink
What's This Got To Do with Academic Integrity?
A problem that many schools face on a regular basis is academic integrity. Plagiarism and cheating not only causes harm to students, but the reputation of an institution as a whole. And as you probably know, the nearly unanimous and almost logical solution to academic dishonesty in schools is some form of punishment, whether it be detention, being dropped from a class, or expulsion.
But let me propose that by placing a punishment doesn't actually make students less inclined to cheat, it probably causes more problems. Furthermore, along the same lines of Pink's philosophy, I believe there is a much simpler and easier method to reduce academic dishonesty that would also positively impact learning and the education environment overall.
Let's start by considering the very issue of academic dishonesty. Instead of dealing with the issue through reprimands, let's consider what actually causes students to be academically dishonest in the first place, and maybe by dealing with those issues, academic dishonesty will be a thing of the past.
A student is academically dishonest when he or she chooses to take a shortcut and cheat off of somebody or something else over doing the work him or herself.
Why would a student make that decision?
That decision ultimately points to the fact that the student is more motivated by the prospect of getting a good grade than the prospect of learning the material. It doesn't necessarily mean that the student is not interested in the material, it just means that the student is more interested in the grade than they are in the material. It may be that a student's financial aid is dependent on their grades, or their college prospects are dependent on their grades, or even that their reputation is dependent on the grades they get.
Applying some principles from Drive, we find that academic dishonesty shows that a student is motivated extrinsically by the hope of getting a good grade more so than the hope of learning something they are passionate about.
Punishing students for being academically dishonest is placing cookies and vegetables in front of a child and punishing them severely for reaching for the cookies first.
Therefore, by putting grades, tests, and standardization around a subject, schools can actually turn something that a student is passionate about into something that a student dreads because their initial passion and intrinsic motivation for a subject quickly gets overtaken by the extrinsic motivation that schools place upon the student. (this happens far more often than you would think)
And if that isn't bad enough already, enforcing rules against academic dishonesty is pretty much punishing students for a problem that the school caused, making it nearly a self fulfilling prophecy that people will almost naturally want to cheat and plagiarize. Punishing students for being academically dishonest is placing cookies and vegetables in front of a child and punishing them severely for reaching for the cookies first.
It simply doesn't make sense.
That's why I always roll my eyes and let out a sigh when I have to sit through yet another academic integrity presentation.
Instead of punishing the student for a natural result of extrinsic motivation, why don't we place more emphasis on students being intrinsically motivated, and set up a grading system that doesn't interfere with a student's intrinsic motivation?
In Technology
By Daniel Kao
On 17, Apr 2014 | No Comments | In Technology | By Daniel Kao
LAHacks was both a terrible and amazing experience.
Let's start with the terrible. 36 straight hours of sitting in front of a computer or trying to sleep in the overly lit Pauley Pavilion, consuming food produced for quantity over quality, and trying to evade the crowd of people constantly storming the bathroom. I don't think I will ever be able to sleep so little again (or at least until my next hackathon).
For those of you unfamiliar with LAHacks or hackathons in general, hackathons are a place where developers come together to code products and applications in a very short amount of time. LAHacks was a 36 hour hackathon sponsored by a large number of companies, with Quixey being the head sponsor.
Beyond the hogepodge smorgasbord of people and computers everywhere, LAHacks was an opportunity for me to dive into a little bit more code, but more importantly survey the landscape of where the tech industry is headed by meeting up-and-coming companies and rockstar developers.
Perhaps what was most interesting to me was the whole culture and environment of the hackathon. Events like LAHacks would not have been possible even ten years ago, or even five years ago. Events like LAHacks are possible because of internet platforms that have freely accessible APIs for any developer to use. The ease of adapting such APIs and libraries makes building the next photo sharing app almost trivial. In other words, the barrier of entry to creating another mobile or web application has become extremely low.
The number of simple applications extending an existing platform built at LAHacks was incredible. There were countless android, iphone, music, and photo apps, all of which were built upon various platforms that already exist.
The challenge to budding entrepreneurs is no longer about making an app that works or looks cool, but the real challenge now is making an app that matters. Anyone can extend libraries and APIs to put something together, but the real question is learning to put something together in a way that really changes the world because it matters to people.
LAHacks didn't teach me just about writing code, but writing history. There's a difference.
Thanks again to everyone who made this event possible!
In Education
By Daniel Kao
BrightEyes 2014
On 10, Apr 2014 | No Comments | In Education, Entrepreneurship, Life | By Daniel Kao
April 4th, 2014 found me on the edge of my seat listening to Randy Komisar, a serial entrepreneur and partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers. He talked about entrepreneurship, venture capital, and other current trends and aspects in the market.
Over the past couple decades, Sand Hill Road has built the foundation for the Silicon Valley we know today, providing the financial footing for companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook to change the world and making millionaires appear all over the silicon valley. Growing up not twenty minutes away from where all of this history took place, BrightEyes 2014 provided me not only with an opportunity to learn more about the venture capital and technology space, but also my own hometown.
"There is no straight line from idea to success." – Randy Komisar (tweet that)
Listening to Randy was surreal. Every word he spoke was a piece of candy, inspiring and exciting the kid inside of me. Never would I have expected to be sitting in a historical venture capital firm at the age of 19, personally asking questions and interacting with a venture capitalist.
BrightEyes 2014 is a study tour that gives students an opportunity to learn about the tech and VC space in a very practical way by flying students out to the heart of the industry to meet and interact with the very people at the forefront of these industries. Run by Tiffany Stone, a 2012 UCSD grad, this study tour provided a huge supplement and a great deal of inspiration for my own education.
BrightEyes gave me the opportunity to interact with the people behind companies such as Boost VC, Nexgate, Lyft, Bitpay, AirBnB, Quixey, Andreessen Horowitz, Yahoo, Kleiner Perkins, Nest, Facebook, Sierra Ventures, Dorm Room Fund, and Amazon.
The first day started with a meeting with Adam Draper and Brayton Williams, the leaders behind Boost VC. We walked into a building with a gutted Tesla Model S turned into a desk, and walked down the stairs into a small conference room where we plopped down on beanbags.
We talked about many things, but among them included conversations about Bitcoin, where it currently is and where it's headed. The conversation offered a pretty good case for the future of bitcoin, and made me reconsider cryptocurrencies as a whole. Maybe it's onto something.
Either way, all the talk about upcoming disruptive ideas really struck a chord in me. It made me wonder not only about what the future is going to look like, but how I would take place in the whole orchestration of these evolving industries. AirBnB showed us the evolution of the hospitality industry, Lyft showed us the evolution of the transportation industry, Facebook showed us the evolution of social industries, etc etc.
For those of you who have known me or read my blog for a while, you'll know that education is a big thing on my mind, and that I'm always thinking about ways to build a better system of learning that empowers people to truly reach their potential. Meeting all of these entrepreneurs has helped me reignite my passion for learning and education, but has also given me ideas on how to practically make a difference in the world that we live in. Just because the education space has historically been a very difficult market to bring change to doesn't mean that I'm not going to give it everything that I've got.
The entire trip, from dawn to dusk, was full of conversations about building companies, developing teams, and changing the world. We had the privilege of staying at a home listed on AirBnB called Village Looky run by a very hospitable and smart entrepreneur Heigo Paartalu. Everywhere from meetings with companies to in between transportation time to meals to our stay at Villa Looky, the conversations were all nothing short of eye opening and inspiring.
One common thread that came up repeatedly when talking about the characteristics of a successful entrepreneurs and companies, was idea of "scrappiness". Scrappiness is essentially the grit, tenacity, and endurance an individual gives to the work that they do. Scrappy people take big risks because they know exactly what they care about and exactly what they believe in.
While driving on the way to a meeting at Stanford on a perfect California day, Tiffany said "I want you to know yourself", speaking it as if it was the secret that would make me successful.
Suddenly, it all made sense. The most powerful thing I would get out of all the interactions on this trip wasn't answers to specific industry problems or forecasts, but a chance to build my personal network and get to know and understand myself. It was a chance to have conversations to understand my passions, my strengths, and my weaknesses. It was a chance to learn how to communicate different aspects of who I am in different situations.
And in a strange but practical way, BrightEyes was the missing piece that I had been longing for in my educational experience. It was a study tour that helped give much more context behind the things that I am learning in school, and more vision for my education. Every student should be given the chance to interact and network with people in industries.
The most powerful thing I would get out of all the interactions on this trip wasn't answers to specific industry problems or forecasts, but a chance to build my personal network and get to know and understand myself.
Thanks BrightEyes for the amazing life-changing experience!


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Renovated in 2005, this 14-storey hotel comprises a total of 196 rooms of which 4 rooms have been adapted to cater to disabled guests. Facilities within the air-conditioned hotel include a foyer with a 24-hour reception desk, and a lift in addition to a breakfast room, free local newspaper and high speed wirless Internet access (free). It is possible to make use of the laundry service and there is also a laundrette with a dryer next the reception area. There is limited indoor parking at a cost of $ 20.00 canadian (note: maxium 6' 1" does not take large SUV or Trucks.)
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