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I ran to the Lower Peirce reservoir last Sunday. Nothing unusual of course, except that I've not been running in this direction since the beginning of the Hungry Ghost Festival. My friend, a runner and triathlete, had advised me to avoid this route; the winding Old Upper Thomson Road, to be specific, because it's dark and quiet. Yes, the perfect setting for a ghostly encounter. He's an experienced sportsman, so I'd decided to take his advice. But it's also for its tranquility, coupled with the green, natural surrounding and the company of unobtrusive monkeys (and the occasional wildboar) that make this my favourite running route in Singapore so far. At night, especially.
My run began at 8 am (ahah, so this is not a ghost story!) that Sunday, so I completed 14 km around 9.30 am. Brunch at Paradise Pavilion was to start at 1 pm, so I had ample time to shop for ingredients for my curry dish at the neighbourhood wet market. I decided to stop by a tiny shop manned by a middle-aged lady. To be honest, I was rather disappointed with the garam masala that she offered as it came pre-packed. But the cost was only a micro fraction of the Masterfoods version on the supermarket shelf, so it was a compromise.
The lady looked at me curiously as I handed over the plastic basket of mostly spices to be checked out. Boy, what do you want to cook? she asked. I told her of my plan to cook a pot of vegetable curry with yoghurt. She gave me a few cooking tips and seemed pleased that I'm taking on an Indian-style curry. She just didn't know that that's the only style that I know of.
Why vegetable curry? I thought a mélange of colourful vegetables would make the dish more photogenic and this post more attractive. This plan of mine was laid out a few days earlier, after reading about the unofficial Cook And Share A Pot Of Curry campaign and receiving an invitation from Keropokman on Facebook.
There were five types of vegetables in my curry – brinjal, cauliflower, long bean, carrot, corn. There were pureed tomatoes too, for a creamy texture; a tip I'd picked up from the lovely Anjum Anand. I'd initially thought of including tamarind paste for a bit of tang and savouriness but replaced that with yoghurt and a light touch of cider vinegar instead. A handful of chopped coriander was mixed into the curry as I left the curry to cool. It's obviously a simple dish to prepare but the combination of spices like cumin, turmeric, cinnamon, pepper and coriander was really aromatic and appetizing. Soon, version 2.0 will include more fried spices, tamarind paste, curry leaves, chilli paste and definitely more of the full fat yoghurt from the same stall. The yoghurt was so smooth and rich that I'd selfishly saved some to top my own serving.
Coincidentally, I had lunch with a colleague from Bangalore the next day and shared some of my vegetable curry with him. I almost burst into laughter when he said it was very tasty. I'm sure he was just being courteous. He then shared his lunch of more vegetarian curries cooked by his maid (what a lucky man) that made mine tasted like an elementary school science project. Over lunch, we discussed many issues including the curry campaign (of course) and the presidential election. It was an enjoyable lunch, one that I'll gladly have regularly.
So that's my Cook And Share A Pot Of Curry story. I had fun that Sunday.
It's amazing how a Facebook page of such triviality can spice up our lives. As I welcome Cook A Bowl Of Bak Chor Mee Saturday or Fry A Plate Of Hokkien Mee Friday in the future, I should still exercise good judgement before clicking "ATTENDING", so to not be misinformed and subsequently, misinterpreting and tarnishing the campaign.
Anyway, I don't see such socio-culinary events taking place in this week. Everyone's busy choosing their next President. So, happy voting, my Singaporean friends!
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Cooked And Shared A Pot Of Curry
I ran to the Lower Peirce reservoir last Sunday. Nothing unusual of course, except that I've not been running in this direction since the beginning of the Hungry Ghost Festival. My friend, a runner and triathlete, had advised me to avoid this route; the winding Old Upper Thomson Road, to be specific, because it's dark and quiet. Yes, the perfect setting for a ghostly encounter. He's an experienced sportsman, so I'd decided to take his advice. But it's also for its tranquility, coupled with the green, natural surrounding and the company of unobtrusive monkeys (and the occasional wildboar) that make this my favourite running route in Singapore so far. At night, especially.
Posted by HairyBerry at 8/25/2011
Labels: Cook And Share A Pot Of Curry, Singapore
13 comments:
- choi yen said...
quite some DIY cooking post recently huh.. :)
- Thursday, 25 August, 2011
- Life for Beginners | Kenny Mah said...
Ooh, a new challenge could be attempting a Malay or Chinese style curry but giving it your special HairyBerry touch to make it more unique? :D
- Thursday, 25 August, 2011
- Pureglutton said...
That curry looks really good - i'm sure it'll go darn well with some roti pratha or thosai!
- Thursday, 25 August, 2011
- MelMel said...
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- Friday, 26 August, 2011
- CUMI & CIKI said...
He's an experienced sportsman, so I'd decided to take his advice - and so u promptly decided to ignore him anyway right:P You mean no ghosts after the HGF one ar? maybe some leftovers..
I thought I was the only one who runs and buy stuff all hot and sweaty after a run. Unlike you, me and Cumi stop by the sec17 market - not the swanky sort of supermarket lk Pav. Shy la.. and don't you feel cold in your wet clothes?! :)
- Monday, 29 August, 2011
- babe_kl said...
I like vegetables curries too in any style. Too bad I was outstation, otherwise I wud hv cooked a pot of curry too but at least I ate curry laksa in support :p
- Wednesday, 31 August, 2011
- UnkaLeong said...
Like Ciki, I thought I was the only one who would waddle with his bicycle through the SS2 Market to buy groceries after a bike ride. LOL!
I reckon tamarind in curry will make it taste better. But interesting supplement this apple cider vinegar ;)
- Friday, 02 September, 2011
- baDboyzs said...
very impressive effort !
- Sunday, 04 September, 2011
- HairyBerry said...
choi yen, yupe. it's fun, actually. and eating out can be an expensive affair also, sometimes...hehe.
kenny, ya know, i've always wanted to attempt ayam masak merah! not sure if that is considered a curry but i sure like the dish very much. hmmmm, now for that hairyberry touch...a bit susah la..haha.
pureglutton, thanks! :) i agree. some thosai would be good. i thought of making some tomato rice but was already quite tired after that. next time.. :)
melmel, try making it sometimes. it's quite easy. :) enjoy!
cumi & ciki, omg, you are so right about the leftovers! a friend said leftovers are the scariest and asked me to offset to a a few days more before running again! hahahaha. i guess we should be clear by now. the other good thing about the wet market is that, everyone's sweating, so it doesn't really matter. :) and i do feel cold! sometimes, i'll pass by the petrol kiosk to get some water and gosh, thermal shock, yo!
babe_kl, it's the thought that counts. your support is much appreciated! :) i hope the next campaign is about hokkien mee...
unkaleong, hi5! maybe we should all go workout and have breakfast at the wet market! that'll be interesting...haha. agree on the tamarind. i'll definitely include that in my curry next time. *fingers crossed*
badboyzs, wooahhhh, long time no hear from you guys! thanks for the support! :)
- Monday, 05 September, 2011
- choi yen said...
wait for me, I'll cook if I have my own kitchen, hope can be very soon *fingers crossed*
- Tuesday, 06 September, 2011
- HairyBerry said...
choi yen, oooohh, nice! i'll be waiting for your DIY posts! it's gonna be interesting and fun! :)
- Thursday, 08 September, 2011
- Life for Beginners | Kenny Mah said...
Apparently the HairyBerry touch includes making his own noodles wor. *bows, bows*
- Friday, 09 September, 2011
- HairyBerry said...
kenny, haha, but i don't think the noodles will go well with ayam masak merah. ooooh, then again, can make mee goreng, the red-red Singapore type hor? hmmm...sounds like an idea....
- Tuesday, 13 September, 2011


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I am sure that it will be better when I figure out just where everything is again!!
My image has been colored with my copic markers and stickles added to the bows.
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What a gorgeous frame Janiel just so beautiful and I love the image she is so cute and such a precious teddy bear! Chanelle xx
Awwww cuuuuuuute ♥
Beautiful frame Janiel, love the image of Tilda, gorgeous colours and love the verse...so cute.
Luv CHRISSYxx
What a gorgeous sentiment and a fabulous framed picture. xx
Wow Janiel this is just stunning - love it.
Have a great weekend.
Be back to see you soon.
Toodle pip.
Hazel x
Wow Janiel
A stunning and beautiful picture frame
Hugs Dianne xx :)
This is really cute, love the idea.....
You know Janiel, I was going to mention it on my post how I did not like the new blogger but I thought I would be the only one not liking the new format....whew...I am not alone. I hate change too and I really do not like the new way of posting. So we shall grumble together!!!!
Now I will say, there is no grumbling AT ALL with this framed piece of work....you have done it again! I absolutely LOVE that shade of copic you used on her bow...it is so rich and adorable. The poem is super duper cute! Love your post today!
OMG, I LOVE your frame!!! Tilda is coloured beautifully and your little poem is wonderful!!! This is a piece of Art! Hugs, Brigitte
I recently got this cutie in the mail and I'm hoping to get the chance to color her soon. Your frame turned out great. As for blogger, I switched earlier this month and I'm still learning where things are. Seems like there's a lot of symbols now, rather than having titles written out. It's not as intuitive, I guess. I'm learning, though. Some things are easier, but others are just nuts!
Beautiful card, I love the images and vers.
Hugs and a nice sunday
You are an amazing crafter! This is spectacular and the poem is precious. You just keep on batting 1000! Okay, I'm really into baseball right now so you'll have to forgive me! Stunning work my dear...hugs...Barb <><
Your frame is so adorable! Your teddy bear text is great! Awesome coloring.
This is gorgeous! : )
So very, very cute Janiel! You have always had the touch and the vision!
Oh My goodness, This is such a gorgeous frame, I love the poem and how perfect with this image. Your colors are spectacular also. I enjoy your work.
Love this frame, the colors are so pretty. I'm a sucker for teddy bears anyway so you had me at the title before I ever saw it...seeing it just made it even better!
Wowzer, Janny, this takes my breath away. Love everything about this and the poem is so appropriate. A work of art.
a stunning altered frame, and love the little poem
Oh Janiel, I dont know how you do it lovely lady but you do it brilliantly!! all your work are masterpieces!!! ooh I wish I could even think up half the stuff you create, this is another beautiful frame darlin, have alovely day huggies and love June xxxx
WOW love your gorgeous and adorable frame Janiel.
Wow!! this is so gorgeous, the whole project is beautiful all the pretty little detailing and that sweet Tilda.
Suzi x
Ohhhh Janiel!!
This is so cute! Love, love, love it! Stunningly soft beautifully inked image and that little text is so beautiful!
Amazing flowers too :)
Hugs and have a great sunday!
Gorgeous Janiel Great project.
Hugs Astrid
WOW...WOW...WOW... Simply gorgeous!! Hugs May x x x
Wow!!! this is so gorgeous Janiel!! Love the colours of the paper - so soft and pretty and all your details are amazing as always! hugs, Jane xxx
Wow this is just breathtaking!!!! I just love your work Jan!!!! Wow you really are an excellent designer!!!! Way to go!!!! Wow!!!
Janiel I love this frame so much! The image, the DP, the embellishments, the beautiful colours. And how clever you are to write that lovely poem.
Take care,
Kat xx
Absolutely gorgeous!! Love this and your poem is great too. You rock!
Your card is adorable! I love Magnolia stamps.
Janny this is gorgeous hun, love the detail and awesome colours, hugs Liz xx
OMG this is gorgeous! I love your design and that saying is perfect. Great coloring, too.
What a wonderful card Janiel.
Hugs Riet.xx
Another PERFECT piece of art!
Hugs, Cathy-Lynn
Just too cute Janiel. Love it. joann sassy raggedy
just adorable, thanks for sharing ta just some lines
What a beautiful card Janiel. I love the colors and the wonderful details.
Hugs Jannie
Ok, first the frame and all the details you added are just incredible looking. But I must say your poem is fantastic....love it. This is an awesome, great project.
Wow!!! This is fabulous, I so love all the details
WoW!! Janiel that turned out super cute...tfs
Fabulous swirls, beautiful floral arrangements, gorgeous colourwork and what lovely poem! I know just how you feel about Blogger changes! Giant hugs, Lesley
Adorable as always and the poem is so cute.
Wondeful frame. I love the poem. Have a nice day. Lily
Gorgeous creation. Everything you did with this beautiful frame is fabulous.
Hey there Janiel!! This is spectacular!!! Love the colours, your colouring everything - so creative!!! Bigs hugs to you sweetie!! Juliexx
Hi Janiel! This is gorgeous hun! I just love the colors and pretty poem in the frame. Beautiful embellishing with the flourishes and flowers. A lovely gift for someone sweet!
ps. I hate the blogger changes too. But I managed to click on something to get my old blogger setup back. Let me know if you want to find out how. ;) hugs, Angela
This is just so gorgeous and creative. Love the little verse and how you have decorated the frame. Perfect for a sweet little princess' room.
Gorgeous Tilda frame Jan. Another amazing creation. Love that sweet poem :o)
Totally awesome! Hugs Christine x
Beautifull !!
Hugs Monique
OMG..., Janiel your frame is absolutely gorgeous..., LOVE it !!!
Thanks a lot for joining us at Just Magnolia this week.
Big Hugs,
This frame is soooo gorgeous and I love your poem. It is absolutely adorable.
Hugs, Dawn
Wonderful creation and great idea!
I love it!
Thanks for joining us at TSM challenge!
This is just gorgeous Janiel, I love the little verse, Beautifully done
Hugs julie P
WOW!!! Really fantastic creation!! Tilda's look is so adorable!
Thanks for joining us at TSM challenge.
Such a wonderful and creative frame you have made. Tilda is so lovely with her little teddy.
Thank you for joining us over at the Fairy Fun Friday this time.

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Alan Jackson's Daughter Victim of Facebook Hoax
Reports that Alan Jackson's middle daughter Ali was hospitalized after a car accident have proven untrue after the singer's publicist confirmed the story was a hoax. A fake Alan Jackson Facebook page was set up with a post that seemed to come from the hitmaker. It was not his official page, however.
Music Row confirmed suspicions of the hoax. Similar hoaxes have fooled fans of Reba McEntire, Garth Brooks and Blake Shelton in recent years. This one claimed Ali Jackson was in a car accident and seemed fine until she began coughing up blood during dinner. In addition to hundreds of fans, singer Wynonna Judd was among those tricked. She offered a tweet in support of Jackson and his family.
The fake Facebook page had just 40,000 followers, compared to nearly two million for the official account. Other clues would be the "with Ainsely Jackson-Wright" text at the end of the message. It's not clear who that is, as Ali's full name is Alexandra Jane. Also, the famously private singer rarely leaves messages on his social media sites, so a message with this much detail would be highly unusual.
Shortly after noon ET his team left this message on his official account:
Hey, folks - we appreciate your thoughts and concerns for Alan's family. There is someone posing as Alan on Facebook and posting false information about him and his family. We want everyone to know his family is fine. Please keep in mind that this is the only accurate and official Facebook page for Alan Jackson. Thanks again.


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You can specify a broker's configuration properties in either of two ways:
Edit the broker's configuration file.
Supply the property values directly from the command line.
The following sections describe these two methods of configuring a broker.
Broker configuration files contain property settings for configuring a broker. They are kept in a directory whose location depends on the operating system platform you are using; see Appendix A, Platform-Specific Locations of Message Queue Data for details. Message Queue maintains the following broker configuration files:
A default configuration file (default.properties) that is loaded on startup. This file is not editable, but you can read it to determine default settings and find the exact names of properties you want to change.
An installation configuration file (install.properties) containing any properties specified when Message Queue was installed. This file cannot be edited after installation.
A separate instance configuration file (config.properties) for each individual broker instance.
In addition, if you connect broker instances in a cluster, you may need to use a cluster configuration file (cluster.properties) to specify configuration information for the cluster; see Cluster Configuration Properties for more information.
Also, Message Queue makes use of en environment configuration file, imqenv.conf, which is used to provide the locations of external files needed by Message Queue, such as the default Java SE location and the locations of database drivers, JAAS login modules, and so forth.
At startup, the broker merges property values from the various configuration files. As shown in Figure 4–1, the files form a hierarchy in which values specified in the instance configuration file override those in the installation configuration file, which in turn override those in the default configuration file. At the top of the hierarchy, you can manually override any property values specified in the configuration files by using command line options to the imqbrokerd command.
The first time you run a broker, an instance configuration file is created containing configuration properties for that particular broker instance. The instance configuration file is named config.properties and is located in a directory identified by the name of the broker instance to which it belongs:
(See Appendix A, Platform-Specific Locations of Message Queue Data for the location of the instances directory.) If the file does not yet exist, you must use the -name option when starting the broker (see Broker Utility) to specify an instance name that Message Queue can use to create the file.
The instances/instanceName directory and the instance configuration file are owned by the user who initially started the corresponding broker instance by using the imqbrokerd —name brokerName option. The broker instance must always be restarted by that same user.
The instance configuration file is maintained by the broker instance and is modified when you make configuration changes using Message Queue administration utilities. You can also edit an instance configuration file by hand. To do so, you must be the owner of the instances/instanceName directory or log in as the root user to change the directory's access privileges.
The broker reads its instance configuration file only at startup. To effect any changes to the broker's configuration, you must shut down the broker and then restart it. Property definitions in the config.properties file (or any configuration file) use the following syntax:
propertyName=value [ [,value1] … ]
For example, the following entry specifies that the broker will hold up to 50,000 messages in memory and persistent storage before rejecting additional messages:
The following entry specifies that a new log file will be created once a day (every 86,400 seconds):
See Broker Services and Chapter 16, Broker Properties Reference for information on the available broker configuration properties and their default values.
You can enter broker configuration properties from the command line when you start a broker, or afterward.
At startup time, you use the Broker utility (imqbrokerd) to start a broker instance. Using the command's -D option, you can specify any broker configuration property and its value; see Starting Brokers and Broker Utility for more information. If you start the broker as a Windows service, using the Service Administrator utility (imqsvcadmin), you use the -args option to specify startup configuration properties; see Service Administrator Utility.
You can also change certain broker configuration properties while a broker is running. To modify the configuration of a running broker, you use the Command utility's imqcmd update bkr command; see Updating Broker Properties and Broker Management.


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Some gunner last sem hid a bunch of west reporters our section needed for the legal writing project. I guess he's never heard of westlaw.
I threw on one of the Air Force's newly issued pink ponchos just for today. Very classy.
You look great in pink, Julie. Unfortunately, the AF does not issue pink uniforms, or I would post a picture of me wearing one.


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History of Seattle.gov Web Site
Internet Timeline for Seattle.Gov and the World
In September of 2011, the Seattle.Gov web site was awarded a Best of the Web award from the Center for Digital Government, named First Place in the City Portal category for the United States.
Highlights for the City of Seattle web site in 2010 included:
- A new design and architecture for the Seattle.gov home page and portal pages.
Highlights for the City of Seattle web site in 2006 included:
- Seattle.Gov wins Best of the Web City Portal Award from the Center for Digital Government
- My Neighborhood -- The City of Seattle's Mapping Portal
- Seattle 101 - A Guide for Travelers and Tourists
Elsewhere, the World Wide Web continues to create a culture of individual self-publishing and cooperative self-publishing with blogs, wikis and photo publishing sites like Flickr, file sharing continues to rise as a popular form of sharing information, and web sites offer increasing amounts of all types of media -- print, radio, television and film -- over the internet at popular sites such as U Tube, Itunes and many more.
Highlights for the City of Seattle web site in 2005 included:
- A new design for the Seattle.Gov home page.
- Seattle Electronic Filing System
- Non-English Language Information Index of City Services and Community Information
- Online Registration for City Community Center Classes, Courses and Activities
Seattle.Gov Home Page:
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Elsewhere, Google Map hacks became the cutting edge thing on the web, Voodoo, the first 3D consumer graphic accelerator is released, and a survey from Netcraft reports there are more than 60 million web sites online.
City of Seattle online payments were expanded to include:
- Pay Your Electric and Water/Sewer/Garbage Bills Online
- Renew and Pay Seattle Business Licenses
- File and Pay Business Taxes
- Register and Pay for Fire and Police Exam Applications
In the spring of 2004, Seattle.Gov launched a new design of its home page and portal pages.
In 2004, 50% of Seattle residents used the City web site, and averaged over 900,000 user sessions per month.
Seattle.Gov Home Page:
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Elsewhere, the CERNET2 backbone connected 25 universities in China, broadband connections became even more popular, almost everyone agreed that spamming made online life less pleasant, podcasting entered the internet lexicon, the smart phone market heated up, the FCC encouraged deployment of fiber optic broadband networks capable of delivering advanced data, video and voice service to the mass market by local telephone companies, and the Mozilla Firefox web browser was released.
In 2003, the Department of Planning and Development launched their GIS application, enabling people to interactively build, view, and print map displays from online Seattle GIS data, including an integrated property research tool.
The City developed a partnership with Real Networks, and began indexing videos of City Council meetings so users could click on topics of interest. The Seattle Channel website won a best government TV channel website award from NATOA and was named the best local government web application by the Center for Digital Government.
The City's Central Web Team Developed new presentation and accessibility standards that formed the basis for a redesign of the site in 2004. The City website averaged 2.7 million page views per month, and upgraded its search engine and web statistics.
Elsewhere, the first official Swiss online election took place, the Public Interest Registry took over as the dot org registry operator, spam accounted for half of all emails, multitudes of systems were impacted by worms such as SQL Slammer, Sobig.F and Blaster, and an international team set new Internet2 land speed records by transferring 6.7 gigabytes of data across over 6,800 miles of network in less than one minute.
In 2002, the City launched www.seattlechannel.org, a website designed to encourage and support citizen interaction with government. In addition to serving as an improved website for channel information such at the broadcast schedule, the website has interactive features such as polling, issue-based content, and highlights.
At the end of 2002, over 500 videos of Council meetings, Mayoral press conferences, and various programs produced by the Seattle Channel were available via web streaming.
In March of 2002, the City purchased a Content Management System from Stellent.
In 2002, the City established the Web Governance Board, part of the overall IT governance structure in the City.
Elsewhere, blogs became hip, the US created the kids-safe dot-kids domain, 65% of all American children used the internet, there were 544 million worldwide internet users, internet radio stations observed a Day of Silence to protest increased song royalty rates, and the Internet population continued to grow as cell phones, pagers, PDAs, laptops and other technologies allowed people to carry the internet with them wherever they went.
The most significant initiative in 2001-2002 began with the City's TV channel, but quickly expanded to create a vision to inform and engage citizens in the governmental, civic, and cultural affairs of Seattle through compelling use of television, Internet, and other media.
The Seattle Commission on Electronic Communications' charge was to develop a short-term and long-term vision and direction for the City's television station and its web site in order to increase public awareness, understanding and participation in government, community and cultural affairs. The Commission was also asked to explore areas of structure, finance, programming, marketing, teledemocracy and emerging technologies.
The Seattle Data Sheet produced by the Office of Intergovernmental Relations provides basic facts about the City, its population, economy and other general information. The datasheet has been translated into five languages - Spanish, Chinese, French, Japanese and Italian.
The domain name seattle.gov was registered and made the official name for the City website.
These photos show our old server in the Dexter Horton Building in downtown Seattle, and how part of the ceiling fell in during the quake but missed the servers, fortunately!
The City web site remained up and running after the quake.
The City activated its Emergency Operations Center minutes after the quake, and used the City web site to get important post-quake information out to citizens and the world.
Old Server Room Before Quake
Old Server Room After Quake
Elsewhere, the full Unicode character set opened up most of the world's languages, SETI@Home was launched, 9.8 billion electronic messages were sent every day, internet users found free wi-fi available at library, schools, cafes and many other locations, the first internet cybercrime treaty was established, Apple's iPod appeared, and the Digital Agenda Act of Australia made forwarding emails there illegal.
Between 1999 and 2000, all City departments launched their own web sites, except for the City Attorney's Office, which launched its web site in early 2001.
The Seattle Public Utilities Garbage, Recycling and Yard Waste Calendar and Department of Planning and Development (then, DCLU) Building Permit Status web sites were launched.
In mid-2000, the City launched a major web redesign. Portal pages and the City Highlights feature on the home page were introduced.
Live streaming was added to the City web site, as well as an expanded number of online forms and the Consultant Roster Program Application.
In 2000, 30% of Seattle residents used the City web site.
The City of Seattle web site was named "Best of the Web" by the Center for Digital Government.
COS Home Page:
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Elsewhere, web size surpassed 1 billion indexable pages, ASP, Napster and wireless devices emerged as hot technologies, more than 1,200 North American newspapers offered online services, and on January 1, the US Timekeeper service reported the new year as 19100. The internet stock bubble burst, closing the initial public offering (IPO) window and causing many dotcoms to close up shop.
The City introduced a banner promoting the City web site.
The City of Seattle launched a new web address, cityofseattle.net.
In November of 1999, the City hosted the World Trade Organization (WTO) Conference.
Elsewhere, the first largescale cyberwar took place, the first full service bank available only on the Net opened for business, the domain name business.com sold for $7.5 million, internet shopping rapidly became popular, PayPal appeared, the Internet Societal Task Force was formed, 2,200 radio stations broadcast on the internet, and Seattle ranked #3 in the top ten wired American cities.
The City of Seattle began video streaming, launched its Real Property Finder application, the City Directory, and the News Release database.
The City also published its first document in Spanish, supported a section of HistoryLink and offered the Community Computer Fair, a community technology outreach and support event in South Central Seattle.
In 1998, 18% of Seattle residents used the City web site.
Elsewhere, a television sports show's outcome was determined by internet users and viewers for the first time, electronic postal stamps were offered by the US Postal Service, Network Solutions registered its 2 millionth domain, Canada launched the first optical national internet, 50% of US homes had personal computers, and eCommerce, eAuctions and eTrade emerged as important technologies.
The City of Seattle launched its database-driven Calendar of Events, allowing citizens to post their own event items on the City calendar.
The City also launched Community Resources Online and Online Parking Ticket Payments this year, also hiring a Community Technology Planner. The Bulletin Board Service (BBS) was closed.
In 1997, 10% of Seattle residents used the City web site.
Elsewhere, the domain name business.com sold for $150,000, Internet Official Protocol Standards were established, The American Registry for Internet Numbers began operation, NASA net broadcast Pathfinder images from Mars, the DVD format was released, and the Indonesian Government, NASA, the UK Conservative Party and the Spice Girls all had their web sites hacked.
The City launched a new web site design and concept, introducing the "Citizen/Business/Visitor" model, which subsequently became one of the most-used internet navigation models in the world! The new site design was later affectionately nicknamed "The Blue Whale" by the City web team.
COS Home Page:
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Elsewhere, the internet browser war began heating up, international leaders met for the first time in an online interactive chat session, the US Communications Decency Act was passed into law and subsequently ruled unconstitutional, BackRub -- which later became Google -- was developed, the Internet2 project began, and various ISPs suffered extended outages as internet users surged to 45 million strong.
There was a grand opening for PAN with several public officials in January 1995.
The web interface (http://www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us) was activated during the week ending February 1, 1995. A total of 33 users accessed the site that day.
PAN Home Page:
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On February 7, 1995, a picture of the City Council linked to a bio of each individual member was implemented.
Elsewhere, JAVA was first launched, Real Audio began netcasting, large-scale online dial-up services offered internet access, the Canadian Government and the Vatican went online, the Y2K problem was first addressed, E-Bay was founded, Amazon.com was launched, the Internet Explorer and Mozilla web browsers were released, cable modems and applets spread in use, and the WWW became the service with the most internet traffic.
The official City of Seattle PAN launch (for the Bulletin Board System) was a quiet one during the week of December 7, 1994.
PAN BBS Home Page:
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Original PAN Web Team?
Elsewhere, the first United States House and Senate information servers were launched, the first cyberbank opened for business, banner ads began to appear in greater numbers on dot com sites, search engines, web pages and spamming entered the internet lexicon, cgi-bins spread in use, the Netscape and Opera web browsers were released, the first international WWW conference was held at CERN in Geneva, and you could order a pizza online.
Ten-Year Anniversary
In February of 2005, the City of Seattle proudly celebrated the 10th Anniversary of its web site, Seattle.Gov!
Thanks to Our Team
The City of Seattle Central Web Team sincerely thanks all of the web and content managers, developers, designers and everyone else who has contributed to Seattle.Gov these past ten years.
City of Seattle Central Web Team Members
During the Past Ten Years:
Bruce Blood
Busbong Sears
Dana Hedberg
David Keyes
Derrick Hall
Elizabeth Holland
Eric Svaren
James Rice
Jeff Beckstrom
Jeff Crist
Jenn Ramirez
JoanE O'Brien
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Laurie Kraft
Lenny Roberts
Mark Butler
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Michael Robinson
Nate Eckstine
Patrick Broemeling
Phil Klein
Roger Iida
Steve Ripley
Terrell Ross
Valeria Musafir
Terry Wittman
Neil Berry
Erickson Moskito
Alex Orda
And last but not least,
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1) Triclosan: It's found in many antibacterial hand soaps, gels, and body washes. Triclosan is believed to interfere with thyroid function. It is also has been linked to the creation of "superbugs," which are resistant to antibiotics. Alternative? Soap and water. Even the FDA says it "does not have evidence that triclosan in antibacterial soaps and body washes provides any benefit over washing with regular soap and water."
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Apex on Thoth Gateway and IIS 7
I finally had the chance (and the time!) to test the configuration on a server running IIS 7. The biggest challenge was understanding the new administration console user interface for IIS 7; it was was slightly confusing for someone who is used to IIS 6.
After a bit of fiddling, I got the gateway up and running:
I have updated the installation instructions in the latest download package (version 1.2.1) with separate sections for IIS 6 and IIS 7. So download, unzip and read the instructions in the "doc" folder.
And leave a comment if you run into problems (or leave a comment if you managed to get it up and running using the instructions!).
8 comments:
- carl.schmid said...
Hi Morten
Thank you very much for the IIS7 installation instructions. Everythin is fine but i receive the following Exception:
[FormatException: Die Eingabezeichenfolge hat das falsche Format.]
System.Number.StringToNumber(String str, NumberStyles options, NumberBuffer& number, NumberFormatInfo info, Boolean parseDecimal) +7471623
System.Number.ParseInt32(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) +119
System.Int16.Parse(String s, NumberStyles style, NumberFormatInfo info) +39
PLSQLGatewayModule.OracleInterface.SetupOwaCGI(List`1 serverVariables, String hostName, String hostAddress, String basicAuthUsername, String basicAuthPassword) +315
PLSQLGatewayModule.PLSQLHttpModule.HandleRequest(Object o, EventArgs a) +823
System.Web.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() +68
System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously) +75
Versionsinformationen: Microsoft .NET Framework-Version:2.0.50727.4927; ASP.NET-Version:2.0.50727.4927
Do you have any idea, what's wrong?
- July 15, 2010
- Morten Braten said...
Looks like it's a parsing error that happens when the gateway tries to split the client IP address into 4 numeric values and passing them on to the OWA package in the database.
I need to add some more logging and/or an exception handler to the relevant code, will post a comment here when I have a new build available.
- July 15, 2010
- Salim Hlayel said...
I got the same error as well.
- July 16, 2010
Got this working successfully. Thanks for testing & writing up the notes for IIS 7.5 as we are going to use this for an external project.
Do you have any ideas how the authentication on IIS 7.5 could be switched on for internal use? I am looking at Windows authentication so I can trap the REMOTE_USER var.
- July 27, 2010
Hi Morten
Any news? May we help?
- August 05, 2010
- Morten Braten said...
@Carl: I believe I have fixed your problem, but I am currently working on a few enhancements that I would like to roll into the next version along with the bug fix.
This includes proxy user authentication in Oracle using Integrated Windows Authentication on IIS, see http://code.google.com/p/thoth-gateway/issues/detail?id=2 for details.
Should have something ready over the weekend, stay tuned!
- Morten
- August 05, 2010
- Morten Braten said...
@Carl: There is a new version of the Thoth Gateway available (1.3.0), please download it and see if it fixes your problem.
- Morten
- August 08, 2010
Hi Morten
Everything works perfect now!
Many thanks!
- August 10, 2010


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Hope College will feature guitarist Carlos de la Barrera on Friday, Sept. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre.
de la Barrera, a native of Buenos Aires, Argentina, came to the United States in 1991. His extensive South American performances include solo recitals at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Vale Benetto, Santa María, Brazil; and Centro Cultural para las Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay.
Although he will be making his first solo performance at Hope College, he did perform a joint recital with Paul Vondiziano at the Knickerbocker Theatre in 2005. Other past performances as a soloist with orchestra include several appearances with The Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra and The Holland Symphony Orchestra. He has also been featured with Mark O'Connor and the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra in O'Connor's "Summer."
de la Barrera's guitar concerto repertoire ranges from the traditional music of J. Rodrigo and A. Vivaldi to the contemporary compositions by A. Piazzolla, A. Kernis, and O. Macha. His recent five performances of guitar solos and guitar concertos with the Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra were described as "captivating, with a virtuoso flourish" by Jeffrey Kaczmarczyk music critic at "The Grand Rapids Press."
de la Barrera holds a master's degree from the College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati where he has been a guest faculty at the Summer Classical Guitar Workshop. He is also the director of the Grand Valley State University Annual Classical Guitar Workshop, and president of the GVSU Classical Guitar Society. He is currently teaching guitar at Grand Valley State University and Calvin College.
Additional information may be obtained by visiting de la Barrera's Web site at www.concertguitarist.com.
Tickets are on sale at the ticket office in the main lobby of the DeVos Fieldhouse, and cost $10 for regular admission, and $5 for Hope students, faculty and staff. The ticket office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and can be called at (616) 395-7890.
The DeVos Fieldhouse is located at 222 Fairbanks Ave., between Ninth and 11th streets. The Knickerbocker Theatre is located in downtown Holland at 86 E. Eighth St.


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NFC North NFL Combine Outlook
The NFL combine began yesterday in Indianapolis, and NFC North teams will look to build off a solid 2012 season as three teams had winning records and two of them made the playoffs.
Green Bay Packers:
The Packers were the NFC North champions for a second consecutive year, but fell short again in the Divisional Playoffs for a second time since winning the Super Bowl two years ago.
The Packers have made some offseason moves already, releasing veterans Charles Woodson and Jeff Saturday to clear cap space. Their biggest offseason task may be deciding what to do with free agent wide receiver Greg Jennings.
In the combine, the Packers will shift their focus to finding the next great member of the Green and Gold for future seasons. They have multiple needs, and a few positions to look at may be inside linebacker, defensive line, safety, running back and offensive line.
Their biggest task may be finding a running back, as they have not had a back since Brandon Jackson in 2010 rush for over 100 yards.
The Packers own the 26th draft pick in the first round in April.
Minnesota Vikings:
The Vikings made it to the playoffs, but fell short to the Green Bay Packers in the Wild Card round. The Vikings were led by Most Valuable Player, Adrian Peterson.
The most surprising player for the Vikings may have been Christian Ponder toward the end of the season, including the last game of the season against the Packers. Ponder threw for 234 yards, three touchdowns, no interceptions, and completed 57.1 percent of his passes in Week 17.
Harrison Smith was also a bright spot for the team. The young rookie had 103 total tackles, a forced fumble, a fumble recovery, three interceptions, and 11 passes defended.
The Vikings still have some draft needs, and none may be bigger than the wide receiver position, especially after trade rumors involving Percy Harvin.
Other needs may a be a back-up quarterback, safety (opposite Smith), offensive line (the Vikings had a 2,000 yard rusher, but also allowed 49 sacks), and defensive tackle (Kevin Williams is aging).
The Vikings have the 23rd pick.
Chicago Bears:
The Chicago Bears started 2012 with a 7-1 record, but finished slow and with a 10-6 record to miss the playoffs. They also fired Lovie Smith, and have a new head coach, Marc Trestman.
The Bears have a few glaring draft needs heading into Indianapolis. First, a left tackle may be their biggest need, and then help in the linebacking corp as Brian Urlacher and Lance Briggs aren't getting any younger.
A few more offensive playmakers, like a tight end or a wide receiver Brandon Marshall might not be a bad idea either. Drafting Stanford's tight end Zach Ertz or Notre Dame's Tyler Eifert may be the best draft picks at number 20 since a majority of the top offensive lineman will be gone.
Detroit Lions:
The Lions made the playoffs in 2011, but didn't look the best in 2012 despite Calvin Johnson's "mega" year. The Lions finished 4-12 and will own the fifth draft pick in April's draft.
The Lions released defensive lineman Kyle Vanden Bosch, and Cliff Avril is a free agent. The Lions also released Titus Young.
A pass rusher may be their biggest need, and with a top-five draft pick, the Lions are in prime position to do so. The Lions could potentially draft Bjoern Werner, Damontre Moore, or Barkevious Mingo.
Secondary help is also a must need for the Lions, and Alabama's cornerback Dee Milner would fit the mold, but it's being reported he needs surgery to recover from a torn labrum after the Combine.
Other needs include a running back (Jahvid Best has a cloudy future), another wide receiver (opposite Calvin Johnson), and safety.
The NFL Combine runs until next Tuesday, February 26th.


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Research Highlights
July 2005
Simulation of PNNL protein identification process featured in journal special edition
The results of a computational study done by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory scientists will be published in the August (Special Edition honoring John Yates III) issue of the Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (JASMS). A figure from that JASMS article will be prominently featured on the cover of the issue (Figure 1).
The paper, entitled "The Utility of Accurate Mass and LC Elution Time Information in the Analysis of Complex Proteomes," presents an analysis of a PNNL-developed protein/peptide characterization method. Authors are Angela Norbeck, Matthew Monroe, Kevin Anderson, Don Daly, Joshua Adkins, and Richard Smith from PNNL. The work is sponsored by the Department of Energy's Office of Biological and Environmental Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and PNNL's Biomolecular Systems Initiative.
Figure 1. a) Global representation of tryptic digests of all proteins for all four systems studied. b) Cysteine-containing peptides from tryptic digests for all four systems studied. Predicted Normalized Elution Time (NET) is plotted along the x-axis, and monoisotoptic mass in Daltons is plotted along the y-axis. Inset views are representative of the region contained within 1950-2000 Da and 0.3-0.4 NET. Full Image
Figure 2. Granular view of dense region from H. sapiens. Cysteine-containing peptides are represented as triangles. The SLiC scores for ±1 ppm/0.01 NET are underlined, while those for ± 5 ppm/0.05 NET are present for each data point. The peptide sequences for points A-C are LVWEEAMSRFCEAEFSVK, FGLLMVENLEEHSEASNIE, and DDLDEQIRHMLFSWAER, respectively. Full Image
Figure 3. Percent of peptides that are unique (i.e., distinctive) versus peptide mass for the four systems for no NET constraint and for ±0.05 and 0.01 NET, as well as for different levels of mass accuracy. Cysteinyl-only peptides are shown for H. sapiens in addition to all peptides for H. sapiens. Full Image
Mass spectrometry is a technique that can be used to observe the masses of proteins or peptides, thereby providing accurate identifications from biological samples. For very complex samples, such as found in human cells, peptides generally cannot be differentiated by mass alone; mass measurements must be combined with additional information to provide a unique characterization of each peptide.
The PNNL article explores the applicability of a method in which a combination of an accurate mass measurement with a normalized elution time (NET) of a peptide, as observed by liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry, is used to create a unique peptide signature in the context of complex biological systems.
Two-dimensional reference databases, defined by mass and elution time, can be used to locate such peptide signature points for protein identification. The paper addresses the applicability of this signature method to a variety of peptide reference databases and examines an approach to addressing ambiguities when two peptide signatures have similar masses and normalize elution times. The creation of a signature from NET values, in addition to clarifying ambiguity, represents an improved approach to identifying proteins using data acquired on high-resolution, high mass accuracy LC-MS instrumentation.
Mass-NET values of a range of peptides were predicted using Protein Digestion Simulator, a PNNL-written computer program that is freely available to the public. The values were then placed into a two-dimensional reference space, and the probability of a match between the actual measurement and the signature reference point was calculated. Despite inherent uncertainties, it was found that accurate mass and elution time values provide the basis for an acceptable level of certainty in peptide identification. Further, the researchers show that the value of these approaches can be augmented by using specific chemistries in the sample preparation techniques for isolating select peptides (see Figures 2 and 3).
This unique mass-NET signature method of characterization has broad application in proteomics, benefiting both the throughput and sensitivity of measurements.


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Breakfast Torta (Mexican Breakfast Sandwich with Eggs, Crispy Pork, and Beans) Recipe
The greatest column since sliced bread.
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- Yield:Makes 4 sandwiches
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:30 minutes
- 4 sturdy rolls
- 1 (16-ounce) can refried beans
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 1 to 2 tablespoons hot sauce such as Cholula or Valentina
- 1 cup chicharrones, coarsely crushed
- 1/2 cup (2 ounces) cotija cheese, crumbled
- 1 avocado, sliced
- 1/2 small yellow onion, finely chopped
- 1/2 cup cilantro or culantro, chopped
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 4 large eggs
- Salt and pepper
- Pickled jalapeños and lime wedges to taste
Adjust oven rack to middle position and preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange rolls on baking sheet and place in oven and bake until heated through, about 7 minutes.
Meanwhile, heat beans in microwave or small skillet until completely heated through, about 2 minutes. Set aside. In small bowl, combine mayonnaise and hot sauce. Set aside.
With clean dish rag or oven mitts, transfer warm bread to cutting board. With serrated knife, split each roll in half. Spread inside of 4 bottom pieces of each roll with 1/4 of beans. Layer beans with chicharrones, cotija, avocado, onion, and cilantro, distributing each topping evenly among 4 rolls. Spread inside of 4 top pieces with mayonnaise mixture.
Melt butter in large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Crack eggs into pan, season with salt and pepper, and cook until whites begin to set and turn opaque. Cover pan and cook until yolks and whites are cooked to preferred doneness, 2 to 4 minutes.
Place 1 egg on top of each roll, then close top of sandwich. Serve with pickled jalapeños and lime wedges.
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Bawful After Dark - Black Friday Edition
By Wild Yams at 3:56 PM
22 comments
Is it just me or does this look more like ballet than basketball?
Man, what a horrid pair of games that was last night. The Hawks had one great run near the end of the first half, but then just got obliterated the rest of the game. They made it look like they were the ones who had played the day before, when in fact it was the Magic who were on the second night of a back to back. Maybe it was the new 'ATL' jerseys they were using, I don't know. Then the Bulls came out and got flattened from start to finish against a Jazz team that's hovering around .500 for the season. My guess is that by this point the Bulls are feeling like Dorothy from
The Wizard of Oz
and can't wait to get the hell home. Unfortunately for them they gotta stop in Milwaukee first before their Circus Trip comes to a close.
On to tonight, and it seems fitting that we've got these games up for 'Black Friday' as it looks like some pretty horribly lopsided events are lined up for this evening.
Nationally Televised Games:
Generals at Heat
- The Wiz look for their second road win of the year (and for a chance to shed that "Generals" tag) against a Miami team that were last seen beating the Magic on a possible offensive goaltending call.
Bucks at Thunder
- Kudos to ESPN for having the pre-season foresight to decide to broadcast this one, as it looks like a much better matchup now than it must have looked back in September or October.
Turns out
they didn't have such foresight after all
(good catch, Anon).
All The Other Games:
Hawks at 76ers
- Just one of the many potential blowouts on tap for this evening, unless the Hawks are as tired tonight as they looked yesterday.
Crabs at Cats
- Sorry, couldn't resist saying "Crabs at Cats" for this Cleveland v. Charlotte
game. Who knows, Shaq might even put in a rare appearance.
Raptors at Celtics
- On paper this one looks like it could get ugly, but then again Boston's coming off of a 3 point win over the lowly 76ers and a buzzer beater OT win against the horrendous Knicks (not to mention a loss at home to Orlando), so maybe this one will actually be competitive. Tune in and see.
Clippers at Pistons
- After the Clips epic performance against the Pacers the other night, I'm tempted to dub this the Basketbawful Game of the Night just by default, but I think there's a worse one on tap just a little further down...
Mavericks at Pacers
- The potential for one-sided games continues with this matchup. Look for Dirk du Soleil to lead Cuban's boys to an easy win tonight.
Spurs at Rockets
- San Antonio
doesn't have a road win this year, and Houston is
scrappy. At least the Spurs are getting healthier, thought they'll most likely still be without the seemingly always-injured Manu Ginobili tonight.
Knicks at Nuggets
- This one could get ugly. Who am I kidding? My guess is we'll be seeing at least two quarters of garbage time in this one.
Suns at Timberwolves
- In Kurt "Clothesline" Rambis's first turn as a head coach, he started off going 11-1 (with the Lakers in 1999). My guess is after tonight, his second stint as head coach is gonna be marked with a 1-15 record. It's looking like Phoenix already has more wins this season than Minnesota will get all year.
Grizzlies at Trail Blazers
- See what I mean about there being a ton of potential beatdowns scheduled for tonight? Still, Marc Gasol's playing pretty good this year, so the Oden Watch will definitely be in effect for this one.
Nyets at Kings
- Ahhh, last
but not
and least, it's tonight Basketbawful Game of the Night!
Saturday's Games:
Bobcats at Wizards
- Odd that the Basketbawful Game of the Night is the only one that's being broadcast nationally (on NBA TV). Maybe one of the readers here is a program director over there?
Mavs at Crabs
- Drew Gooden returns to the place where he attempted to popularize
the back of the neck goatee
(what the hell was that thing called?). If that's not enough to get you to watch, there's always the annual
Shaq vs. "Erica" Dampier drama
(provided either one is healthy enough to play).
Magic at Bucks
- Look for Stan Van Gundy to be
extra grumpy
about having to spend Thanksgiving weekend in Milwaukee.
Trail Blazers at Jazz
- Ostertag is still retired, and Mehmet Okur's almost entirely a perimeter shooter, so the Oden Watch may get a night off for this one.
Lakers at Warriors
- Stop the presses, it's a Laker road game! Too bad this one isn't nationally televised, otherwise we'd all be able to tell our grandchildren we were actually around to see the Lakers play on the road during the 2009-2010 season.
Sunday's Games:
Celtics at Heat
- We're actually gonna get a chance on national TV (NBA TV) to see if the Celtics are really struggling or not by having to play a road game against a better than average team.
Hawks at Pistons
- The Pistons are starting two guys (Ben Wallace and Jonas Jerebko) who combined average less points per game than any single player in Atlanta's starting lineup averages by himself. Might be a bad sign.
Grizzlies at Clippers
- As if there was any doubt, this is your Basketbawful Game of the Night.
Suns at Raptors
- Steve Nash returns to Canada where we'll get to see if he, like Dracula before him, has extra super powers when he's on his home soil.
Magic at Knicks
- The New and Improved Eddy Curry (strangely similar to the Old and Unimproved Eddy Curry) gets to try out his new lean physique against Dwight Howard. Good luck with that, Eds.
76ers at Spurs
- Luckily for Spurs fans, this game is being played in San Antonio, where the Spurs have actually won basketball games this year.
Rockets at Thunder
- Trevor Ariza vs. Kevin Durant may not have the star matchup cache that Kobe vs. LeBron does, but give credit where it's due: these teams are two of the real pleasant surprises in the West thus far this season.
Timberwolves vs. Nuggets
- I'm plagiarizing someone here (though I can't remember who), but this has all the makings of a snuff film.
Hornets at Kings
- Peja Stojakovic returns to his old stopming ground and the home of his glory days. I'm sure that fact warms the cockles of chris's heart.
Nyets at Lakers
- The league's only winless team could be looking to equal the Clippers' two 0-17 starts by taking on the defending champs. Either that happens or stephanie g will get her wish of seeing the Nyets narrowly avoid history at the hands of some epic failure by the Lakers. Also it should be pointed out that Staples Center gets to host the Grizzlies, Clippers and Nyets all in one day, due to both Clipper and Laker home games there on Sunday. That's gotta be some record of bawfulry which may park a black cloud over the arena for a while.
Bawful After Dark
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22 Comments:
ESPN did not have the foresight to schedule it. the game was moved after Jennings exploded for 55
Dan B.
I'd just like to point out that we all remember what happened the last time Agent Zero played a game in Miami. Can you say
Agent Zero, Turnover Machine
? I highly doubt he'll repeat that 12-turnover performance tonight. I do, however, expect him to continue his sub-40% shooting slump.
Toes should be pointed.
Wild Yams
Anon - Updated. Good call :)
Dan B.
I have to say it. I love watching Earl Boykins (all 5'5" of him) play. It's like watching a midget nearly put up a double-double. Insane.
Nothing like watching the Kings playing the Knicks and Nyets two games in three nights to make yourself feel better.
The Kings are beating the Nyets by 17 points already in the 2nd quarter.
Can whoever had the "0-10 is enough" picture please notify us when they get the "0-20 is enough" ticket promotion?
Kings beat the Nyets. Jersey is now 0-16.
Wild Yams
A couple big surprises and upsets tonight. First, the Crabs got mangled by the Bobcats, the Wizards won in Miami, the Clippers won in Detroit (any Clipper win is basically an upset), then the Knicks
won in Denver, and now the Grizzlies won in Portland. It really is Black Friday for a few teams out there. At least the Hawks, Celtics, Mavs and Suns kept up their end of the bargain. The Nyets are still looking for their first win, the Spurs
won on the road, and the Thunder looked pretty dominant.
What's with
Paul Pierce throwing a knee into Chris Bosh's man-region and then taunting him about it afterward?
That's not nice, and that's The Truth.
Also, check out
this picture
from the
ESPN recap of the Clippers-Pistons game
. Jonas Jerebko and his "no photo available" status makes
these fans very unhappy
49er16, speaking of playing bad teams...
The Nuggets' last 3 opponents were the Nets (0-13 coming in), Wolves (1-13 with a win over the Nets), and Knicks (3-12 with a win over the Nets). Their next opponent is the Wolves (now 1-15). I think that might be the historically worst combined win percentage for 4 straight opponents in NBA history (not counting playing 4 winless teams in the first 4 games of the season.) Not surprisingly, the Nugs have a 4-game win streak going (tied with the Lakers and Spurs for best in the NBA right now.)
Watching these games has been bawful. Two blowouts against historically turribl teams, and then a close game against a hot-shooting Knicks team. How do you celebrate that? "Nice job takin' down the powerhouse Knicks, guys! Keep the win streak alive!"
A poll should be started, if hat capability exists on Bawful. When will the Nyets finally pick up a victory?
- @ Lakers Sunday night to avoid tying the worst start ever
- Home vs. Dallas Wednesday to avoid breaking the record
- Home vs. Charlotte next Friday
- @ Knicks next Sunday
- @ Bulls Tuesday 12/8
- Home vs. Golden State Wed. 12/9 (would be 0-22 by this point)
- Some time in the next 5 games after that
- 0-82!!
On a positive note, they DO get Minnesota at home two days before Christmas. That might just do it.
Could you imagine if New Jersey went winless all the way up until that Minnesota game, and then beat a Timberwolves team that had lost all of its games since the season opener, being 1-and-whatever coming in? You'd have two 1-and-29-ish teams whose only victories were over each other. When can we demote them to the NBDL, Euro-soccer-style?
Wild Yams
Heading into tonight's game against the Lakers, the Nets try to tie the Clippers' record of an 0-17 start, but it turns out they won't be with coach Lawrence Frank
on account of his having been fired
. As a Laker fan I'm probably being way overly nervous about this game, because after demolishing the Warriors in Oakland last night by 33, a game against a winless team at home now featuring a new coach seems like a textbook trap game. I hope the Lakers take this game seriously tonight, or else they could get dead coach bounced.
Wild Yams
BTW, the Oden Watch numbers for the weekend:
Friday - 4 fouls in 28 minutes in a loss against Memphis
Saturday - 5 fouls in 24 minutes in a loss against Utah
It should be pointed out that Portland trailed the Grizzlies by 29 at one point in their home loss on Friday, and they trailed the Jazz by 27 at one point in that loss in Utah last night. Methinks Nate McMillan is getting ever closer to being on the famed hot seat with what is going on up there in the Pacific Northwest these days.
I'm about to watch this history making-or-breaking game on YES. The only way I see the Lakers losing is if they only play their bench and intentionally lose so that the Clippers keep the record. The commercials are infinitely hilarious.
Well that was fun while it lasted. Nets had a 8-5 lead, then proceeded to miss their next 19 shots, with turnovers. Literally.
I didn't watch the game, but just looking at the quarter by quarter score of the grizzlies-clippers is the essence of bawful. The Grizzlies were up 16 going in to the 4th, then proceeded to score 7 points in the last twelve minutes, and let the Clippers drop 33 on them in the frame to lose by 10. Epic fail.
Clifton - Mark me down for the Knicks. Those knuckleheads can't even score in an empty gym.
I also noticed that the Nyets fired their coach. It's kinda like putting a cotton ball in a submarine hull-breach. Or ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife. Just once I'd like to see managers just fire themselves. At least then they could claim unemployment or secure themselves a nice severance...
Wild Yams
I dunno which was the most bawful event tonight: the Nyets finally matching the all-time record for worst start in NBA history, Mike Dunleavy getting his 600th career coaching victory, or the Nuggets letting the Timberwolves get their second win of the season in Denver.
The Lakers have now won six games in a row by double digits, and in all six of those games the Lakers have held a lead of no less than 24 points at some point in the 4th quarter. The Lakers get one more relatively easy game (Tuesday against the Hornets), but after that the schedule finally starts to get tougher for them (though they don't play a road game till December 12th).
Wild Yams: So, how many losses does Dunleavy have? I think that's the more relevant stat for him - the wins measure his (unfortunate) longevity as a coach in the Association, despite few noticeable skills. Hey, can we all say that Sam Cassell was the coach for the playoff year?!
(And I am still very disappointed we did not get a Hallway Series. Though, ironically, from 1984 to 1999, with some one-off exceptions, the Clippers were the only one of the LA basketball teams to play IN the city limits, the Lakers having left for Inglewood in '67...)
Wild Yams
chris - According to
Mike Dunleavy may be "celebrating" another coaching milestone as soon as this week, as he is only two losses shy of 700 for his career. Go Mike go!
Some extra bawful for you: did anyone else see
this horrendous play by Rajon Rondo
today? He almost looks like he's been studying that
infamous possession
by Zach Randolph or something. Way to dribble the shot clock all the way down to one before attempting a contested turnaround fadeaway three from a few feet behind the arc, Rondo.
What is all that "related video" stuff after the HorRondous play?
Sukhmani Sahib? 8-.
I would like to nominate this Ricky Rubio nipple revealing photoshoot for a WotN: http://www.rickyrubio9.com/es/2009/11/cuando-20-anos-no-es-mucho/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs : Zero
I still don't care for the YYY's last two records, but this song is all kinds of awesome.
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
Sooo good live too.
I feel like their new album really grows on you though...
Def not as immediately awesome as Fever to Tell though.
so much better live than recorded. karen o puts on a fabulous show.
LOVE the yeah yeah yeahs. zero is legendary. hysteric, is pretty damn good too.
all of the YYYs is amazing. Rockers to swallow is my fav. just the right amount of grunge in it :)


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The woefully underrated Saints Row 2 showed us that Volition could work wonders with a modern-day setting. Red Faction: Guerrilla shows us that it also has what it takes to bring a dystopian vision of the future to us in an immensely playable form.
Red Faction is a third-person action game that drops you into the boots of one Alec Mason, a miner by trade who finds himself at the forefront of the class struggle between the downtrodden working class of Mars and their oppressors, the Earth Defense Force. Outgunned and outnumbered, Mason and the Red Faction must resort to guerrilla warfare tactics in order to bring down the EDF. You'll use Alec's considerable demolitions expertise to sabotage the EDF's propaganda machine, destroy its key structures, and fight a constant moving battle against their drone soldiers, using hit-and-run tactics to avoid capture while living to fight another day.
Break The Walls Down
Destruction is at the core of Red Faction: Guerrilla's gameplay, its most significant feature being the destructible environments. Any structure you can see, from the tallest building to the most expansive bridge, can all be smashed to itty bitty pieces. The physics behind this carnage are remarkable to behold. Destroy the supporting walls at the base of a large domed edifice and you can watch it smash itself apart as it rolls away. See a wind turbine on four supports? Knock one out from underneath and watch it teeter before it all comes tumbling down. Red Faction: Guerrilla captures the feel of being a futuristic Paul Bunyan, your hefty sledgehammer replacing the lumberjack's axe, which you'll use to level the EDF's facilities like so many trees.
Blowing things up is the name of the game, and Red Faction: Guerrilla hands you a toy chest of explosive goodies and destructive tools to help make it happen. From remotely detonated mines and rocket launchers to the Mother Of All Bombs, you'll have plenty of fun with unstable material.
Did I mention that you get to pilot mechanized walkers for even greater levels of carnage? Once again we see that you can improve any game by adding giant robots.
No Rest for the Weary
Red Faction: Guerrilla manages the pace and challenge of the campaign with a sure hand, allowing you to feel like your attacks are having an impact but keeping you on your toes. Stay in any one location for too long and you're sure to be smacked down unceremoniously. Even on the lower difficulty settings Red Faction: Guerrilla offers a challenge.
In multiplayer you have access to backpacks that significantly enhance your combat abilities. The rhino pack allows you to charge through walls like, well, like a big horned animal that charges at stuff. Other packs provide X-Ray vision, stealth, jetpack flight, and so on. There's enough variety here to really mix up the strategies with each respawn, almost like a mini version of Team Fortress 2's classes.
Explosions can be things of beauty.
When in Doubt, Blow it Up
Red Faction takes full advantage of its destructibility, putting this feature at the very core of its unique multiplayer modes. The damage control mode is a fight for control over three strategic points; destroy your opponents' point and rebuild it to gain points for your team. Other modes will have you killing opposing players or protecting key structures; the latter is like playing a Martian security guard with carte blanche to kill vandals on sight. You'll earn experience points to unlock nifty new weapon and character models, along with a host of other goodies.
The destructible terrain makes Red Faction: Guerrilla's multiplayer feel unlike anything else out there. Just take capture the flag as an example. Have you ever played a game of CTF where the best way to recapture the flag was to bring down the building on top of the flag carrier's head? Is there a sniper camping out behind a wall bringing your team down? Approach from the opposite side of the wall and smash through it with a sledgehammer to ruin his day and bring a smile to your face.
The hotseat multiplayer Wrecking Crew mode doesn't offer the same long-lasting experience of the competitive online modes. You take turns destroying stuff on a small map, competing with your friends for the highest score. It's actually quite snooze-worthy compared to the comparatively much more exciting online fare.
Story, Shmory, Bring On More Explosions!
So if the lengthy campaign is so well-paced, and the online multiplayer modes are so much fun, what's holding Red Faction: Guerrilla back? It starts with the pedestrian characters and limited efforts in storytelling. You don't get to ever really know the characters you meet, including the protagonist. The short cut-scenes and radio messages do little to ingratiate the characters with the player, instead banking everything on the gameplay.
Despite its lackluster storytelling, Red Faction: Guerrilla is a whole lot of fun to play, thanks to its meaty campaign and well-rounded multiplayer offerings. The game makes sure you have a good time blowing stuff up, and in this case, that's more than enough.
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Sportcaster Bob Costas expanded on his recent statements regarding gun control in an interview with "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart on Monday.
"I think any sane person believes that we ought not to have high capacity magazines and assault rifles and that there ought to be background checks," Costas said. "We can tighten all that stuff up without replacing the second amendment."
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Costas found himself in the middle of a debate over America's gun culture in December when he delivered remarks about gun control during the Sunday Night Football halftime show following a murder-suicide by player Jovan Belcher.
Costas told Stewart that "there is a gun culture and it isn't good."
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East-West Dialogues: Modern Architectures in Florida is a two-part symposium designed as forum to investigate the multiple forms and meanings of mid-century architecture across the State of Florida. The symposium was organized to solicit critical reflections on modern Florida through the lens of the architects who defined it, and to further survey the discourse among them. These architects, and the diversity of their work, have received varying attention as individuals, but little recognition as a group. This symposium is particularly inspired by the architectural legacy of Mark Hampton, a critically acclaimed Florida architect with work spanning the state from Tampa to Miami.
While one purpose of the symposium is to further explore the work of Florida's modernists on both coasts, East-West Dialogues will also explore the proximities and limits of east-west discourse. In an era of improving communications, Florida architects at mid-century took inspiration from diverse sources: the coastal polarity of US institutions; the cross-influences of modernism among Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas; and the flow of ideas around the tropic belt were all important.
The confluence of these variables, positioned through the development of a regionally specific architecture, forged an identity in Florida, where modernity acquired new meanings.
Sponsored by the James Deering Danielson Foundation, organized by the University of Miami School of Architecture and co-sponsored by Docomomo US/Florida, East-West Dialogues features symposia in Miami and Tampa. East-West Miami, November 16-17, 2012, focused on the Florida modern home. East-West Tampa, scheduled for October 25-26, 2013, will concentrate on schools, universities, and other institutional works. It will incorporate two sessions and a roundtable discussion.
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Schools, colleges and universities were critical building blocks for the development of a modern civil society in Florida, and modern architecture became an instrument in the expression of a regional identity in the State. In fact, Florida was an important laboratory for innovation in education, both on a policy level and on the ground with new building programs that struggled to keep up with its growth. Beginning in the 1930s and continuing to the late 1960s, a new educational infrastructure transformed Florida.
In several respects, Florida's experience tracks larger national and even international trends. The New Deal of the 1930s gave a major boost to the number and quality of American schools while modernizing their pedagogic program and expressing the new theories of progressive education. By the late 1930s, innovative modern schools like William Lescaze's Ansonia High School in Ansonia, Connecticut (1937), and the Crow Island School in Winnetka, Illinois by Perkins, Wheeler & Will and Eliel and Eero Saarinen (1940), put a modernist face on progressive educational ideas. By the 1960s, the Open Schools and Free Schools movements brought radical changes to school typologies. Major new campuses, like the University of Miami by Robert L. Weed and Marion Manley (started in1945), and Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College (started in 1938), were landmark structures of the modern school movement. The rise of community colleges, like the Team Ten-inspired campuses by Peter Spillis and Hilario Candela in Miami (1960-1974) and I.M Pei's New College (1965) in Sarasota, created a whole new paradigm of education.
Recent events related to Florida's midcentury resources, such as the demolition of Paul Rudolph's Riverview High School (June 2009), require an immediate debate about the value of these structures. A better understanding of their appearance (the lack of which has frequently caused their early dismissal by the same educational institutions that generated them), needs to be developed. The problem is not limited to Florida. Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, many Modern public schools in New Orleans were slated for demolition. These include schools designed by Charles R. Colbert, Ricciuti Associates, and Curtis & Davis (George Washington Carver Junior-Senior High, built 1958).
Likewise, Wayland High School in Wayland, Massachusetts, among the many schools designed by The Architects Collaborative (TAC) and an instant emblem of midcentury design and educational innovation when it opened in 1960, was demolished in early 2012.
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The primary focus of East-West Tampa will be the design and development of modern schools, community colleges and universities. The symposium will be divided into two main sessions:
Session 1 – East-West: The modern school movement across Florida
The first session will identify, reflect, discuss and bring into deeper and broader understanding the nature of the modern schools movement in Florida. It will evaluate the relevance of this movement in the overall development of the State and explore the regional discourse that led to the development of tropical modernism.
Session 2 – East-West: The modern schools movement and its impact on architecture and society
The second session will explore the broader faces of the modern schools movement in the US, and examine architecture for education internationally.
The symposium intends to explore the ideas and practices involved in the development of modern schools. Contributors are invited to propose papers preferably dealing with archival and primary material ; interdisciplinary approaches are encouraged. A series of session themes/topics has been identified but the organizers encourage paper presenters to explore outside the bounds of these topics. Among the topics defined are:
- The impact of educational philosophy on school design
- Tropical influences in the design of the educational and the campus facility
- Evolution of modern school design
- The impact of campuses upon their urban context
- Postwar trends in building for higher education: The rise of the community colleges and the development of new suburban campuses
- The impact of technology and new materials on school design
- The Open Schools movement
- Modern schools in the American hemisphere (non-US)
Other Events
Organizers are keen on making East-West Tampa a point of encounter for scholars from Florida, the Caribbean and the United States. In addition to the two main sessions, a keynote address and roundtable discussion are planned. Conference organizers will also organize tours to important examples of campus and college planning in the city. A full calendar of events will be announced closer to the symposium date.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts are due on July 8, 2013. Abstract submissions must be between 300-350 words, and sent in PDF format by email to firstname.lastname@example.com . A submission will be considered registered only upon receipt of a confirmation message by the Organizing Committee.
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Organizing Committee
Conference Chair: Allan Shulman, Associate Professor
University of Miami School of Architecture
Conference Co-chairs:
Jean-Francois Lejeune, Professor
University of Miami School of Architecture
Sonya de Long
Sarasota Architectural Foundation
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August 5, 2013 – Notification of acceptance
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Norfolk Police Lip Sync 'Uptown Funk' on Their Lunch Break
The one-take lip sync videos are back, thanks to a group of police officers from Norfolk, Virginia. The officers gleefully danced through their headquarters to Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" and the video is truly delightful. A whole lot of other people thought so, too, with the video racking up almost 30 million views in just two days. That's what you call viral.
According to Mashable, the officers were challenged by Texas' Corinth Police Department to create the lip sync video. Corinth PD tried their hand at Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA." Norfolk stepped up to the plate and created their music video during their lunch break. TBH their lunch break seems a lot more fun than mine.
It wasn't just the police officers who participated in Norfolk's video. They recruited bomb squad members, firemen, and even a newborn baby to be a part of the fun.
Norfolk has now challenged Seattle Police Department, Norfolk Constabulary, Virginia Beach Police Department, and St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department to join the party.


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I have no idea if this problem is related to Ubuntu or Xfce, but as I've already written on the Ubuntu forums, I have a problem with getting Xfce to localize in Norwegian.
I've downloaded all packages with "nb-NO" in them and set "Norwegian" in "System -> Language". However, Xubuntu is still serving me English. Well, mostly. Some menu items are displayed in Norwegian (like "File" ("Fil") and "Help" ("Hjelp")), but most of the text in Xubuntu is still in English. I've installed the Norwegian language packages for Thunderbird and Firefox too, but both applications are completely English. I've even tried to download the Norwegian language Add-on, without success.
You might want to try xfce on gentoo. In gentoo you can set packages to compile with specific LINGUAS flags, and they generally pay more attention than with binary-based distributions such as Ubuntu.
Since my computer-illiterate mother is going to use this computer, I'd like to be able to use apt to keep Linux and all packages automatically up to date. If I compile stuff myself, I won't get that luxury, no -- not even in Gentoo?
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- The functions of this office are currently performed by the Office of Housing and Community Development.
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- In January 1968, Mayor James H. J. Tate, created the Office of the Deputy Managing Director for Housing to marshal and coordinate all resources needed to meet the housing needs of the City s low-income residents. The Office was designed to implement a comprehensive housing program. The scope of the office included the direct administration of the Relocation Service and the Neighborhood Renewal Program. The Housing Director worked with other City and non-City agencies to coordinate those aspects of their operations which bear on low-income housing construction, rehabilitation, and maintenance. In addition to program administration and coordination, the Office performed other activities, including long-range planning for low-income housing development; assistance to groups in low-income areas in their efforts to utilize the housing and neighborhood development programs; review of existing and proposed governmental housing programs; and collection of all information on publicly assisted production of low and low-moderate income housing.
The Deputy Managing Director for Housing replaced the Development Coordinator in the Mayor's Office, and was in turn replaced by the Office of Housing and Community Development during the Rizzo Administration.
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