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Available for quick move-in. This 4 bedroom, 2 full bath, 1 story home has been updated with wood flooring and fresh paint. Tile and wood flooring throughout. Split plan. Master has extra large walk-in closet. 3 bedrooms in front, large 4th bedroom would make a great game room.

Property Amenities
  • Ceiling Fan
  • Dishwasher
  • Dryer
  • Garbage Disposer
  • Microwave
  • Range - Electric
  • Refrigerator
  • Washer
  • MLS Listing ID: 26207406
  • MLS Name: Houston Realtors Information Service
  • Year Built: 2005
  • Parking Spaces: 2
  • Parking Type: Garage - Attached
  • Parking Type: Open
  • Floor Covering: Tile
  • Floor Covering: Wood
  • Heating fuel: Natural Gas
  • Cooling System: Central A/C
  • Roof Type: Unknown
  • Architecture Style: Other
Students who live in this home at 18539 Windy Village Lane attend the following Cypress-Fairbanks ISD (Unified School District) public schools*:
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Primary School McFee Elementary School
Middle School Kahla Middle School
High School Cypress Springs High School
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How To Stop Binge Eating

Tips to stop overeating, stop emotional eating, stop eating fast food, stop eating junk food

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    Hellooo so I have been binge eating for over a year now, and the past month or so I have been trying a new tactic which is NOT restricting anything.

    It has been working, I bought a book giving me really nice recipes with pasta, something which i never would of dreamt of eating for fear of gaining weight!

    I have still been bingeing though, maybe once a week and sometimes twice. I’ve read here that a lot of people stay with a low carb, high fat and protein diet but to be honest that doesn’t really work with me, i love carbs. Anyone else?

    Today I am feeling alright though, and hoping the rest of the week will be the same.

    Good luck every one on your path to recovery!

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holiday baking

As soon as nights get longer and colder, I find myself scouring cook books and magazines for festive recipes.  The irony is that I may whip up one of two of these temptations, but always, always, I return to childhood standbys.  While new flavors tease family taste buds, traditional recipes comfort and connect us to loved ones and times long gone.


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Yo' momma came over last night and gave up the SCALP, It was almost as good as your sister last week when she gave up the brains.
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verb - to remove the skin from one's head; see circumcision
The doctor scalped little Billy soon after he was born.
Beküldő: ToasterParade 2006. március 28.
From the word copper-scalp, refering to somone who is both stupid and a wanker. However, it is most commenly used for somone who, due to their own stupidity, makes thw wrong decistions and ends up being a heavy-set nobody.
" U-Turn only you piss-faced scalp!" -My dad
"Jeez, you can be a real scalp sometimes"-Me to my friend after he parked his car halfway up a hillock and forget to put the handbrake on. It knocked his dads fence over.
Beküldő: C-Dawg (no, really) 2006. április 3.
head, face love, monica lewinsky, top, brain, knowledge, putting one's mind to it, salami wash
yo, that bitch gave me mad scalp last night
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Serendipity is *NOT* what I'd call it... (A different Imadoki! by way of stichomancy)

Stichomancy (n.)
Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.

While anticipating the final two episodes of Alice Academy to complete my shippers' guide, I wracked my brain for something to blog about. And remembered this one blog: The Galactic Question Center, which poses questions and invites readers to answer them in the comments section.

I only took up the invite once: for the Stichomancy entry that urges readers to approach the book nearest you and open it up to a random page. Point to the first sentence you see. What does it say?

As you can see, the proposition was certainly intriguing — intriguing enough to garner a respectable number of responses. The replies were as diverse and as complex as the multitude that comprises the blog audience. My own contribution (which tickled me pink to no end) was: No gun, but I can handle myself.

Thus "armed" with this inspiration, I decided to conduct a similar experiment, but one with an animanga twist: grab a manga series I've read, open each volume to a random page, write down the first dialog bit that catches my eye, and see if taken all together they make up a coherent plot.

(Walks up to bookshelf, covers eyes, reaches out with hand, and grabs...)

And the random dialog I scribbled down are (numbers denote volumes):

  2. Never. I will never leave you...
  3. My baby...
  4. I can't take this... My friends... The one I love... This is worse than the time I was being bullied... I can't take it anymore...
  5. I... I won't see you again...

Imadoki! Volume 1 front cover

As you can see, serendipity is *NOT* what I'd call it ^^; But me and hubby had a good laugh. And on the upside, the experiment evolved into a warning to never take things out of context ^^ Because if you haven't read Imadoki! and only went by those five lines, you'da thunk story was a tragic five-alarm Kleenex gusher (fret not, it's an HEA, although you might want to keep the tissue box near during certain points of the narrative). And if you've read it, you might have LMAO'd like I did.

Miaka and the Suzaku Seishi image from Suzaku Seishi.com

Since we're already in Watase Yuu territory, Animax Asia is currently promoting the Curious Play (AKA Fushigi Yuugi) OAV, slated for an 11 June airing (8PM JKT/BKK local time, 9PM SIN). The thing is they're calling it the "OVA II Eikoden." Huh? Far as I know, Eikoden is the third OAV (it's just personal preference for me to use OAV -- Original Animated Video over OVA -- Original Video Animation; it's not a typo). So do they mean the first-and-second or the third OAV? Guess we won't know until a more informative promo plug gets shown (or watch the thing). But my guess is it IS Eikoden as only four episodes are scheduled to air versus the three and six episodes that make up the first and second OAV (which were marketed in the States as a DVD box set, which could account for why Animax dubs Eikoden "OAV II"). But it still begs the question: why skip the earlier OAVs?

Fullmetal Alchemist wall thumbnail I noted this already in its original entry but let me just reiterate: the four Fullmetal Alchemist walls I said were available from Animax Asia have been taken off the site. They've been replaced by a short synopsis of FMA. Here's a wall thumb for posterity » OOPS. As at 2006.05.30, the walls were still intact. Sowwy..

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No gun, but I can handle myself comes from page 107 of the first Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter book, Guilty Pleasures, written by Laurell K. Hamilton (the ACE Books paperback edition).

Imadoki! AKA Nowadays! in English is a five volume, non-magical girl manga by the goddess Watase Yuu (of Curious Play fame). The story follows the exploits of the ingenuous , a Hokkaido native who lands a place in Tokyo's elite Meio School, where she meets rich boy . A droolicious bishounen who can give an icicle lessons in maintaining zero degree temperature, Kouki finds himself drawn to the tenacious Tanpopo despite himself...and his clingy fiancée.

The random dialog came from the Gramedia m&c! official Indonesian release of Imadoki! Here are the Indonesian originals that I translated, along with who uttered them:

  1. KUGYOU KOUKI!!! (Tanpopo calling to Kouki while the latter is delivering a speech in front of the Meio School students, Imadoki! Volume 1 p.35)
  2. Tak mungkin... Aku tak akan pernah meninggalkanmu... (Kouki reassuring his neurotic fiancée Erika that he will always be by her side, Imadoki! Volume 2 p.101)
  3. Bayiku... (Tanpopo's Ko-Gal friend Uchimura when she feared she was having a miscarriage, Imadoki! Volume 3 p.82)
  4. Percuma... Ini terlalu berat.. Teman-temanku... Orang yang kucintai... Jauh lebih berat dibanding waktu aku ditindas dulu... Tak bisa kugenggam lagi... (Tanpopo after being forced by Erika to resign from the gardening club and thus, give up on Kouki, Imadoki! Volume 4, p.52)
  5. Aku... Aku tak akan menemuimu lagi... (Erika promising Kouki she would never come in between Tanpopo and Kouki again, Imadoki! Volume 5, p.71)

invaluable resources

  1. The online dictionary of Mind Infinity » Stichomancy definition
  2. The Galactic Question Center » Stichomancy (2006.01.09 entry)
  3. Animax Asia
  4. Anime News Network » Fushigi Yugi Eikoden (OAV) entry and Fushigi Yuugi (Mysterious Play) OVA DVD review by Bamboo Dong
  5. Fushigi Yuugi DVD official website
  6. Suzaku Seishi.com for the Fushigi Yuugi image used

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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

February 18, 2009 – The Los Angeles campus observed its annual Founders Day program on Tuesday, February 10th, in conjunction with a major conference in honor of the 40th Anniversary of the School of Jewish Communal Service and paying tribute to its Founding Director, Professor Gerald Bubis. Following a Founders Day worship service, led by HUC-JIR President David Ellenson, Professor Gerald Bubis delivered the annual Founders Day address. Focusing on the leadership attributes of HUC-JIR’s founding Presidents, Rabbis Isaac M. Wise and Stephen S. Wise, and describing the key elements that led to the creation of the School of Jewish Communal Service, Professor Bubis offered a special tribute to the creative and significant role played by Dr. Alfred Gottschalk, the sixth president of HUC-JIR and Chancellor Emeritus of the College-Institute, in helping to shape the formation of this school. Citing Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise’s desire to train and educate not just rabbis, but communal professionals as well, Professor Bubis noted the efforts by the College in the early part of the 20th Century to create in Cincinnati one of the first training programs for this nation’s communal leaders, leading ultimately to the establishment in 1968 of America’s oldest program for the training of Jewish professional leadership.

Bringing greetings from the College-Institute, Rhea Coskey, Chair of the SJCS Advisory Board and a member of the LA Board of Overseers, acknowledged the work of the School’s Interim Director, Richard Siegel in creating the new strategic plan for the SJCS and in planning the day’s activities. Some 125 community and alumni guests joined students and faculty for this occasion. In his luncheon remarks, President Ellenson announced that the College-Institute will be awarding the Rabbi Alfred Gottschalk Chair in Jewish Communal Service to Dr. Windmueller in March during the meetings of the College’s Board of Governors in Los Angeles.

The day-long festivities were co-sponsored with the Jewish Communal Professionals of Southern California, an association of over 250 Jewish community professional leaders, many of whom are alumni of HUC-JIR. The lunch session featured the first public presentation of the JCPSC’s newly drafted “Brit Miksoah – The Covenant of Jewish Professional Leadership.” The panel of Michael Hirschfeld, President of the JCPSC, and alumni Marsha Rothpan and Abigail Fleishman, and chaired by Richard Siegel generated a lively discussion about the values and context of the field of Jewish communal service.

The Chairman of the Board of the Los Angeles Jewish Federation, and former HUC-JIR Board of Governors Chair, Stanley Gold, offered his perspective as lay leader on the re-visioning of the LA Federation. In an interchange with Dr. Steven Windmueller, Dean of the Los Angeles campus, Gold provided some insights on leading the community through the Madoff scandal and the current financial crisis and other critical issues pertaining to the future of the federation system.

The closing panel, chaired by Marla Abraham, a 1985 alum of SJCS and the immediate past Interim Director of the School, focused on the changing professional character of the field of communal service, highlighted by a discussion related to the emerging role that the millennial generation will play in reshaping the professional and programmatic directions of this field. Among the panel’s participants was the current President of the LA Federation, John Fishel, David Levy, a 1987 SJCS alum, and Sally Weber, an instructor on the HUC-LA campus and a senior staff member of the Jewish Family Services of Los Angeles. The proceedings from this symposium will be part of a special issue of the Journal of Jewish Communal Service in honor of the SJCS’s 40th anniversary to be published in Fall 2009.

Founded in 1875, Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion is North America's first institution of higher Jewish education and the academic, spiritual, and professional leadership development center of Reform Judaism. HUC-JIR educates men and women for service to North American and world Jewry as rabbis, cantors, educators, and nonprofit management professionals, and offers graduate programs to scholars and clergy of all faiths. With centers of learning in Cincinnati, Jerusalem, Los Angeles, and New York, HUC-JIR's scholarly resources comprise the renowned Klau Library, The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives, research institutes and centers, and academic publications. In partnership with the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis, HUC-JIR sustains the Reform Movement's congregations and professional and lay leaders. HUC-JIR's campuses invite the community to cultural and educational programs illuminating Jewish heritage and fostering interfaith and multiethnic understanding.


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Dear Editor:

This letter is in response to the letter written last week in the Weehawken Reporter by Mr. Artie Strandberg regarding the use of the Weehawken Stadium. On the day in question, I personally called the Recreation Coach who authorized the practice session for Artie’s two children and a friend. I immediately stopped them because they jumped the fence and the field was unsupervised. When the coach showed up the young men continued their practice session without interruption. Artie, no one was chased off the field. We are not trying to deny use of the facility but we are trying to provide a safe and secure environment for everyone to play in.

Remember many of the users of this field play baseball and football which have resulted in serious injuries over the years, especially when unsupervised. As a result our insurance companies have required tighter control whenever a serious injury has taken place.

I have been maintaining this field for close to 20 years and the biggest complaint from Recreation Personnel, including the late Louis Ferullo himself, was the use of this field unsupervised or without authorization (when this has happened it has often lead to vandalism and unnecessary injuries).

Any of our young athletes or adults can request the use of our field through myself (Department of Public Works) or the Recreation Department and I guarantee we will do everything we can to provide a Recreation Coach to supervise their play. All you have to do is ask.

Thank you
Mr. Robert Barsa
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Social & Domestic Issues

In praise of partisan media

In praise of partisan media

As much as it pains me, let me take a few moments to defend MSNBC.

Media bias is a perpetual grievance of the right — for obvious reasons. But maybe the only way to improve on the situation is to champion more openly ideologically driven political journalism. By any measure, it’s a lot less destructive than what we had for decades: media feigning impartiality.

Take last week’s much-talked-about testy exchange between anchorman Thomas Roberts and Republican National Chairman Reince Priebus. It can be uncomfortable watching a head-on collision of hackery, but the truth is that the exchange between Roberts and Priebus was weirdly honest, entertaining and informative. It’s not often a TV anchorman admits to viewers that he’s reading “directly from what the president just gave us.” At least he’s honest. And it’s not as if Priebus was on MSNBC to offer his dispassionate impression of the situation, either. He should be challenged.

We all know where MSNBC and Fox News Channel stand. It’s establishment media masquerading as impartial that have the real impact. This bias is rooted in insularity, showing a lack of curiosity about the other side’s worldview — the ignorance about religion, guns and free market economic ideas, for example — and, even worse, a lack of skepticism toward its own conceptions about how things work.

To the untrained eye, the Obamacare rollout may seem like an unmitigated disaster. But editors at Reuters (“Web traffic, glitches slow Obamacare exchanges launch”) and The Associated Press (“Rollout of ‘historic’ Obamacare in California hits some snags”) will try to dissuade people of this notion. Bias is found in not what you write but what you don’t, in what goes above the fold and what sort of delicate nouns and adjectives you sprinkle in your headlines.

And when Obamacare was a bit, you know, glitchy, the media struggled to find someone who could make the federally run health insurance rollout a success story.

They came up with Chad Henderson, a 21-year-old part-time child care worker and conscientious son — the kind of person we’re supposed to believe Obamacare can really help.

The Washington Post reported, “Meet Chad Henderson, the Obamacare enrollee tons of reporters are calling.” (The article was penned, incidentally, by the reporter who believes that Kermit Gosnell was a mere local crime story.) “I haven’t had health insurance for 14 years,” Henderson told the Post. “My dad put me on BlueCross BlueShield, but the premiums kept rising, and we dropped it since he wasn’t making that much.” What the author, much less any editor at the Post, won’t ask: “Wait. Doesn’t this guy sound like he’s full of crap?” “Hold on. Do we believe his claims about affordability?” “Hey, why don’t we hound one of the thousands of people who failed to enroll?”

The entire story turned out to be bogus. But it took Peter Suderman at libertarian Reason — a place where, we imagine, the ideological sensibilities of the staff are naturally skeptical about feel-good collectivist enterprises — to debunk every angle of the story. But you have to wonder how many Chad Hendersons get away with it.

The establishment media could, of course, hire more ideologically diverse staffs to fix this problem. There could have been a Suderman at the Post. Despite what many conservatives believe, there are many media professionals who take their craft very seriously, many who break important stories, many who are immensely talented — but very few who aren’t biased to some extent.

Having a point of view doesn’t preclude a political journalist from being honest or curious or a critical thinker (though, after hearing Thomas Roberts’ confused understanding of lawmaking, it’s obviously not mandatory), but journalists believe — or act as if they believe — that their work is immune from ideology. With a few noteworthy exceptions, of course, that’s impossible. And that’s fine. The key to making it work isn’t impartiality; it’s diversity.

David Harsanyi is a senior editor at The Federalist. Follow him on Twitter @davidharsanyi.

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Saturday, 23 May 2015

Nail of the Day - Kiko 280

Rating: 7/10

Kiko is a budget Italian make-up brand which I first discovered in Sicily in 2010. The shade 280 is a bright, creme orange that I purchased for about €3.90, which is a bargain considering the formula, application and wear-time. I don't wear it often, but every time I do I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I like it. It's bright and happy, and the application is fairly stress free.

The formula is a cream so it is prone to streaking and it is a little opaque after 2 coats, but considering the difficulty of producing an orange nail polish, the formula is still good and fairly easy to work with. However, when I applied my Essie Good to Go topcoat weird things did start to happen (the whole polish dragged) so I wouldn't recommend applying a topcoat until the polish is completely dry. Without a topcoat, you'll get about 3 good days of wear before chips.

I'm off to Italy again this year, so no doubt I'll be returning with some more Kiko polishes to add to my collection... Woohoo!

Saturday, 30 August 2014

Eating @ Pho Vietnam House, Edinburgh

My score: 3.5 or 4/5
TripAdvisor review: here.
Location: here.

Last week Anthony Bourdain's 'No Reservations' was on the tv and he made a return trip to Vietnam, and instantly I was craving the fresh tastes of Vietnam.

Vietnam being somewhat far away, I had to settle for Pho Vietnam House on Grove St. I've actually visited this restaurant before, but it was four years ago just after the place had opened. I didn't know anything about the flavours of Vietnam, and if I'm honest I don't really know now, but I've cooked a few Vietnamese dishes before so I like to think I have a general idea of the flavours I'm looking for. At the very least, I expect fresh flavours!

The place is a little out of the way unless you know where you're going (it's on a side road of Morrison Street) and is a fairly small restaurant. I guess it fits about 30 people maximum. I gather that it's fairly popular so I would recommend booking if you intend to head there on a weekend. The decor is nice enough (a homely feel) and the staff are attentive. It's BYOB.

The starter and dessert menu is fairly limited, but there's a nice selection of mains and about four different choices of pho to chose from. I ordered the prawns salad for my starter and the raw beef pho for my main.

As I was the only person in the restaurant at the time, my starter arrived fairly promptly. It was a nice size for one person, but at £6.95 a little overpriced! My decent sized bowl of pho was only £7.95. If I'm honest, all the starters are over priced. The salad came with four large prawn crackers which was a pleasant surprise. Guilty pleasure, hello! The salad was a mix of cabbage, onions and carrots and was covered in crushed peanuts and crispy shallots. The sauce was slightly sweet, with hints of mint that I appreciated. The texture was the  right blend between soft and crunchy. The prawns themselves were a let down, however, as I'm pretty sure they're the sub standards frozen prawns you'd get in a prawn and mayo sandwich. If you order the salad I recommend to get it with chicken. Prawns aside, I certainly enjoyed my salad. Salads don't have to be boring!

So, as I said, I've visited this restaurant once before and at that time I also had the pho. I don't remember very much about it which in retrospect was perhaps a sign. My bowl arrived shortly after I finished my starter. The pho came with the usual accompaniments (mint, a quarter of a lime and cabbage) and siracha was available on the table for those who need a hit of spice. The beef was nice and pink when it arrived and the broth was clear, a good sign. Before I added my condiments I gave the broth a sip. Mellow flavour with a hit of chilli; nothing too overwhelming. I did notice straight away however that it was missing any star anise/cinnamon flavour. Afterwards I piled in all the mint and lime that was available to me. A hint of siracha and it was time to eat. The noodles were well cooked, just tender but not too soft. Nicely done. The beef was soft but seemed to be lacking any beef flavour. It was more texture than flavour. The soup was at a good temperature; hot enough to enjoy without burning your tongue! I enjoyed my first few slurps but the more I ate, the more I began to realise that the broth was just lacking any oomph. No amount of extra mint or lime would help, I just couldn't get the taste out of the broth that I wanted. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad broth, but it wasn't making my tongue dance with delight. I expect a pho to be fresh and zingy; alive with flavours! For me, this somehow fell short. It has all the makings to be a good pho, but the flavour of the broth just seems to be a little lacking. It's a shame.

It's hard for me to rate this restaurant because while the food didn't blow me away, there was nothing wrong with it specifically. I feel that this could be a great restaurant, but at the moment I feel that the owners are content with having a good restaurant. If I do return it will be to try something other than the pho, but if the rest of the main dishes are of the same caliber I won't be returning. This restaurant is so close to being an amazing taste of Vietnam in Edinburgh, but just seems to fall short.

(Bad quality phone photos coming soon. Yay.)

Sunday, 27 July 2014

Eating @ Affogato, Edinburgh

My score: 5/5
TripAdvisor review: here.
Address: here.

A gelateria in Scotland seems like a pretty risky enterprise in my opinion, but thankfully Affogato does gelato so well that I'm certain they'll be having customers no matter what the weather. At the very least, I'll be there!

I mean, look at that delicious gelato to the left. Creamy, home-made, bursting with flavour and all delightfully served in a crispy waffle cone (or a tub, if you're that way inclined...). Yes, this is gelato like they make in Italy and thankfully it's come to Edinburgh's West End. Since I discovered this shop earlier this month I've been back 3 times, recommended it to all my friends, taken an Italian friend and I intend to be taking family there next week. Did that I mention I love gelato? I won't deny it.

All the gelato is home-made and changes on a regular basis. I myself have had coconut, dark chocolate, chocolate malt, fig and ricotta gelato and dark chocolate sorbet (the moment I tasted the dark chocolate sorbet I knew I was in love. The fig and ricotta is pretty damn delicious too!). If you're not sure about what flavour you would like the friendly staff are more than happy to let you taste their wide selection of flavours because, let's be honest, trying to choose between salted caramel and stracciatella can be a hard choice. A small cone (£2.80) comes with 2 flavours as standard, as in Italy. The serving sizes are pretty generous and the price is completely fair. For gelato this good, it's an outright bargain! They also sell milkshakes, cakes and other ice-cream based treats.

The cafe itself if very homely and a bit like the Tardis in that it's a lot bigger on the inside than you would expect! Comfy couches, maps of Italy, candles and an inquisitive old dog (yes, this cafe is dog friendly) create a comfy, if not thrilling, atmosphere where you can happily sit and chat for hours. The shop is open until 10pm making it a wonderful spot for late night relaxation and chat.

Simply put, Affogato is a taste of Italy right here in Scotland. Can't wait until your next holiday for your gelato fix? Get yourself to Affogato. Job done.

Mi piace il gelato!

Friday, 11 July 2014

Easting @ Petit Paris, Edinburgh

My score: 4/5
TripAdvisor review: here.
Adress: here.

When I was in Paris, I stayed at a Korean hostel that served delicious Korean food, and the only time I ended up eating out I ordered a French version of a Turkish dish (ha!), so I'm no expert on French food.  In this spirit of ignorance, I was excited to try Petit Paris' offerings as I'd read good things on TripAdvisor.

Petit Paris is located in Grassmarket which is a prime tourist spot, which would normally mean it is a place to avoid (like the plague), but I am pleased to say that Petit Paris is not a tourist trap. The restaurant itself is exactly as one would expect for the area: outdoor seating, atmospheric interior and hunky French waiters enticing in the passing tourists. Aforesaid waiters are friendly and attentive, and I had no complaints with the service. A 10% service charge is added to the bill if you sit outside or are a party of over 8. The menu is fairly priced for Edinburgh, with a small, but wide, selection of dishes. There is also a decently priced set meal if you want to spend less than £10.

My friend and I ordered a glass of the house white each, and while he settled on the cod in saffron and mussel sauce, I ordered the vegetable and goat's cheese pie. We were also given some delicious bread and butter and a side of chunky, salty chips (I'm not sure who dish these belonged to, but they were most welcome!). I was told me pie would take about 20 minutes to cook, but I can't say I felt that I waited to long for my freshly baked pie. All I can say about my friend's dish is that he enjoyed it. As for my pie, it was really rather delicious! The pie is obviously freshly baked and comes to the table in a piping hot ramekin, with the butter still freshly sizzling. The pie crust is light, and on the right side of flaky. The vegetables on the inside (courgette, pepper and tomato) are soft and perfectly seasoned, and the goat's cheese doesn't overpower the dish as can sometimes happen. It's not a heavy dish, but it does an excellent job of satisfying one's taste buds and tummy. At £14.80 it is about £2 overpriced for my liking, but it was delicious and if I'm honest, I'd order it again. Especially if it comes with a side of chips...

So, do I recommend Petit Paris to all those tourists and non-tourists who find themselves in Grassmarket and in need of nourishment? I most certainly do!

Sunday, 29 June 2014

Eating @ Quattro Zero, Edinburgh

My score: 3.5/5
TripAdvisor review: here.
Adress: here.

Ah, Quattro Zero! I have mixed feelings about you! So much promise and yet...

Let me start by saying that I am reviewing the take-out lunch menu ONLY, and not the restaurant as a whole. With that out of the way, on to my review!

One rainy workday lunch time I was asking around my work colleagues for recommendations on where I could get something other than a sandwich for my lunch. Upon the suggestion that there was a restaurant nearby that I could get a slice (ha! How little I knew at this point) of wood-oven cooked pizza, I was sold and dutifully headed to Quattro Zero.

To my taste buds, the perfect Margherita pizza has a thin, hand-stetched base, a rich tomato sauce, a sparing layer of fresh buffalo mozzarella and a drizzle of olive oil on top. Some fresh tomatoes and basil would be nice. Cook it in a wood oven and I am a happy camper!

For me, the pizza was disappointingly average. The pizza dough is fresh but has a strange aftertaste, especially the crust. The tomato sauce is slightly too sweet and exceptionally normal (no secret recipe sauce here!) and, the worst crime of all, the pizza is covered in cheap mozzarella that solidifies into a cold 'cheese' lump very fast! The end result is an unexceptional pizza that has a lot of promise but ultimately fails to deliver.

What rescues Quattro Zero is that this freshly made, 12" pizza only cost me £3!!! Yes, that's right, £3!  For that price I'm willing to overlook the flavour flaws of Quattro Zero's Margherita pizza and I know I will be returning every now and then for a quick pizza fix. The lunch menu is quite varied encompassing burgers, pasta, panini and, of course, pizza. Everything is priced within £3 to £5.

By the way, pictured is Quattro Zero's mushroom and thyme pizza (also £3) that my workmate ordered. She loves Quattro Zero's pizzas, so I guess in the end whether you enjoy your pizza depends on your personal preferences. At £3 a pizza, it's certainly worth a try!

Friday, 13 June 2014

Eating @ Rice Terraces, Edinburgh

My score: 4/5.
TripAdvisor review: here.
Address: here.

It has taken me far too long to write this review! So, let's get on with it!

Rice Terraces is a fairly new restaurant and as far as I know, the only Filipino restaurant in Edinburgh (and the whole of Scotland?). During my time in Japan, I made had many Filipino friends and I remember how fondly they talked about their (pork) food but as none of them were big cookers, I never got to try anything Filipino. With this in mind, I headed to Rice Terraces with an ignorant but excited mind.

The restaurant itself is tucked away in a fairly quiet back street in Edinburgh's south side, but if you know the area it's not hard to find. It's essentially opposite Homebase (free parking anyone?). The restaurant it not too big, about 25 people max, and the decoration is simple but pleasant enough. A word of warning, the bathroom is cold!

As I said, I have no idea about Filipino food beyond the basics (adobo, lechon and polvorón being about the extent of my knowledge) but luckily the staff (a family affair, by the way) are friendly and are happy to explain about their food and make recommendations. The waiting staff all seem very proud of their food, which is a nice sign. I decided to go for a starter, main and dessert and with a little help from my server chose Lumpiang Sariwa, a spicy pork dish that I forgot the name of (opps) with a side of rice, and Ube Halayan. To drink I had mango juice and plenty of water. All of my dishes arrived in good time and the service from the waiters was attentive and friendly. On to the food!

My starter, Lumpiang Sariwa, was certainly larger than I expected! It also tasted completely different than I expected! it was like a thick pancake, covered in crushed peanut and filled with bean sprouts and other veggies. Occasionally I get a kick of black pepper where someone hadn't mixed properly, but otherwise the filling was good and the pancake was good overall. The veggies in the middle were tasty and fresh and the overall experience was a good one. The peanut and garlic sauce was delicious but I could have done with more of it! Not enough gravy is a crime.

I have forgotten the name of my main dish, apologies, as it was on the list of specials, all of which sounded delicious! My dish came to my table sizzling hot, and I was asked if I wanted a fresh egg cracked and scrambled on my dish, which I most certainly did! This is optional. The dish consisted of (deep-fried?) pork cubes in a smokey, peppery gravy. This dish was apparently spicy, but I have an extremely high tolerance to spice and say this was about... a 7 out of 10? But don't trust me because I love spicy food... The dish was good, but I wouldn't order it again, if I'm honest. It was a little too heavy for me, and although the dish had good flavour, as a stand-alone main (with rice) it can become a little same-y. There are many other wonderful sounding mains at this restaurant that I would rather try!

As for my dessert, well, this was called a soufflé but it most certainly is not! Ube Halayan is a very heavy, thick dessert made of ube, a delicious purple tuber, and coconut. There was a delicious caramel/chocolate sauce around the outside, but again this was in short supply! I must warn you that this is a very heavy dessert, and best shared! The texture is like a very thick mousse, and the flavour is of mild coconut and ube (uhm, duhh). I can't say I loved it, but I think if I had someone to share it with, or had eaten a lighter meal beforehand I would have enjoyed this. It was freshly made, which I appreciate.

My overall experience at Rice Terraces was good, and I certainly recommend anyone to try this restaurant! The portions are huge, the food is freshly and lovingly made, the service is friendly and the price is fair! However, I recommend this as a place to visit with family or friends where you can order a wide variety of dishes and enjoy many different flavours and textures. For me, I don't think I ordered the best dished for my tastebuds, but I will certainly be back to give it another try!

For a nice list of Filipino food, please see here

Sunday, 8 June 2014

Eating @ Bobby's Sandwich Bar, Edinburgh

My score: 4/5.
Address: here.

It seems unfair to judge a shop on a take-away bacon bap, but that's what I'm doing. It is, after all, a take-away sandwich shop. So how was my bacon bap? Well, there was a good amount of bacon and it was nicely warmed. Also, it had a good proportion of fat to bacon and a nice smokey taste. I got a gentle amount of ketchup, as asked, no butter, with a nice soft roll. I must say that the bap was very pleasing. Service seemed a bit slow but everything seems slow when you're in a rush. 3 to 5 min was all I waited, truth be told.

So, for £1.35 this bap was definitely worth getting, and I will come back to Bobby's Sandwhich Bar in the future to satisfy my bacon needs!


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Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Yet Another... Web Framework (in C++)

What? YAWF - yet another web framework? But this is mine(!) ... and it's very small - a Simple Embeddable C++ Webframework for Qt!

1. The need

I have discussed this topic on this blog earlier*, so you shouldn't be surprised to hear about it again: a C++ web framework. You'd think there isn't such thing? Wrong! From my own research and from the comments of friendly internauts I collected a quite a list of possible frameworks:
And recently I found even another one:
  • CppCMS

    Do you see its cool logo? It says that programming in C++ is a good thing, as it isn't hard on the environment, and thus can maybe even stop the global warning ;). I must admit that I never seen C++ from that angle! Interesting point, isn't it? Ok, when you think of all that multicores and figths about cache lines then C++ does quite naturally comes to mind with its very direct memory control, doesn't it? Kind of "lean programming" :).
And don't forget the new kid on the block:

It's rather a wide range of possiblities, so you'd think the world doesn't need another framework, and least at all by yours truly. That's what I thought too, untill I stumbled upon a rather simple problem. Currently I develop a Qt application that runs in the background (call it demon, service, headless, etc.) and would like to have an admin interface for it. Of course I could write a standalone GUI client connecting to the application's command socket but that's so nineties! Only a web interface is fashionable these days. Thus I need a small webapp for the admin console.

So at first then, I thought I'd use some open source code from the above list. But all of them would either not integrate well with Qt events, or require 3rd party includes and dependencies, and gwan would even have to be started as an external server! Well, I didn't use gwan before and it does sound like a border case usage for it, just imagine all that debugging of its servlet compiler in run-time...

Then you may ask: isn't there any HTTP server in the Qt framework? Yes indeed, I found one, but it's an extension of the framework (they call it an option I think...) and it's running as Windows service, not as an additional interface to an existing binary. So we've got the same case as with gwan. BTW, why hasn't C++ a standard HTTP server class? Go has one, Python has one, Javascript has one, but C++ - nope! Well, that's not completely true, CINDER framework has one, and cpp-netlib got one as well, but I wanted to avoid big includes and dependencies like Boost.

But hey, Qt has a couple of HTTP support classes, so I thought: boy, that cannot be that hard! And I just hacked my own mini HTTP server.

2. The design

Of course that gives me an opportunity to design a web framework the way it should be always designed at last :-), because all the others seem to be somehow overcomplex or overcomplicated :-). So let's go down to the brass tacks then!

First we have to decide on the name - let simply try YAWF(4q), and in best software giant tradition I'll use an internal codename, for example "CutieW".

The design will be simple, plain and oldskool, as I need something working and that fast. Besides, never underestimate the power of KISS!

The basic ingredients are the Qt classes for TCP socket handling and HTTP request and response parsing. Then we'll have request handler objects with a process() method. The handler objects (kind of servlets for the Java minded) will have to be derived from a superclass (how uncool, I know) and statically instatiated, so that they can register themself with the server in the startup phase. They register with a name string**, for example "user" or "page", so they can be bound to an URI (see below for the example).

Let's sum it up: there will be a server executable, it will set the URL path configuration in startup phase, each path wil get its own handler. When a request arrives, a fresh instance of the handler will be created, this the handler classes need a clone() method for this.

The server will thus find the matching handler prototype for the URI, clone it, and then invoke its process() method. As you see, there's 1 to 1 relation betweem URI and the handler object in the current implementation, but an extension to "multiple dispatch" isn't difficult, and I'll program it when I have some spare time.

Now to the general usage pattern of YAWF4q. In Clojure you'd write the following:

  (defn display []
(html [:h1 "hello!"]))

(defroutes myroutes
(GET "/" [] (display)))

(defonce server (run-jetty #'myroutes
{:join? false
:port 8080}))
In cpp-netlib this:
  struct hello_world {
void operator()(server::request const &request,
server::response &response) {
// your code here ...
} handler;
  server server_(argv[1], argv[2], handler);
But in yawf4q it's all pretty plain, non-clever, and almost boring:
  #include "CuteHttpServer.hpp" // the cutie

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
// your application:
QApplication* qtAppl = new QApplication(argc, argv);

// the webserver on port 3100
ibkrj::yawf4q::CuteHttpServer testServer(3100);
string error;

return -1;

// run Qt
The server just starts, finds the config file (using a default, hardcoded name), sets the routes, and waits for requests. If you don't define any handlers, a simple "I'm alive" response is sent back.

3. The example

How to write your handlers? Look, you have to derive them from the TestHandlerBase class. First let us implement the handler of the index page:
  class TestHandlerBase
: public MiniHttpHandler
: MiniHttpHandler("TestHandlerBase") {};
// base overrides
virtual MiniHttpHandler* clone() { return new TestHandlerBase; }
virtual void process(AnalyzerRequest& reqData, std::string& respData);
} g_handler1;
OK that's rather much boilerplate, as we need to supply the name string plus the clone() and process() methods, so maybe I should provide a macro like this:
  // --- OR maybe a MACRO?:
class TestHandlerBase
: public MiniHttpHandler

... your functions ...
} g_xxx;
I don't know, as a matter of fact I hate macros in frameworks! But as an alternative maybe it isn't that bad. Another possibility would be using CRTP, as to automatically add the clone() method, but wouldn't you say this would be somehow too clever when compared with the rest of the design?

And here is the processing method:
  void TestHandlerBase::process(AnalyzerRequest& reqData, std::string& respData)
respData = " TestHandlerBase alive!!!! ";

respData =
"<title>TestHandlerBase is alive!</title>"

respData.append("
 Input your user data:

");
respData.append(testform); // HTTP form for UserName, UserMail and Text, action="person"

respData += "";
OK this doesn't look very cool, but the view component isn't yet there, wait a little. What this handler does is to ask for some user data. Now the second handler follows, which will processes the submitted user data:
  class TestHandlerPerson
: public MiniHttpHandler
BASE_TEST_HANDLER_FUNC(TestHandlerPerson); // here process() is already defined

} g_handler2;

///////////// impl:
void TestHandlerPerson::process(AnalyzerRequest& reqData, std::string& respData)
respData =
"<title>TestHandlerBase is alive!</title>"

respData.append("
 Thank you for your data!
");

// parse the data for display:
map<string,string>& data = reqData.formularData;
map<string,string>::iterator iter;

"

"

for(iter = data.begin(); iter != data.end(); iter )

respData.append("

 Back
");

respData += "";

Rather grotty servlet or .jsp style here, isn't it? Mixing presentation with code?!

Don't despair, you can use a template. Yes, let's be modern! I chose the mustache :{{ template syntax. I decided for mustache, well, because it's pretty new, generates much buzz, and isn't looking too bad. For those who don't know mustache, it is a simple HTML templating syntax with values encoded like this:

and sections, which can be rendered multiple times, if they receive a list as input data:
{{value1}} => {{value2}}
So there's no need to code anly loops in the template. YAWF contains an implementation of mustache :{{, which seems to render correctly all the examples I found in the online mustache docs. The implementation is based on a simple idea: the template is parsed into a linear sequence of "nodes", and the data items passed to the template take care of rendering and walking the node list. Have a look at the source code*** if you want.

So our response handler would now look like this:
  // using templating:
#include "CuteMstchData.hpp"
void TestHandlerPerson::process(CuteSrvRequest& reqData, std::string& respData)
string templ =
"<title>TestHandlerBase is alive!</title>"
"
 Thank you for your data!
"
"
"
"
Field	 Value
"
"
 {{field}} 	  {{value}}
"
"Back
"

// convert data to JSON represenation:
map<string,string>& inpData = reqData.formularData;
map<string,string>::iterator iter;
int i;
ibkrj::yawf4q::CuteMstchValMap templData;

for(iter = inpData.begin(), i = 0; iter != inpData.end(); iter++, i++)
templData.addToList("datatable", i, "field", iter->first);
templData.addToList("datatable", i, "value", iter->second);

// display page with data (the View of MVC)
respData = CuteHttpHandler::renderThis(templData, templ);
It maybe doesn't look much better than the plain HTML code, but here we could save the template in file, and read it in at the runtime. And we've got the View part of the MVC pattern. The handler objects stand for "C", but so far don't have support for "M" in YAWF4q.

Now, as last part of the puzzle, we have to configure the server paths, but this is simple:
# test configuration

index.html$ :: TestHandlerBase
person/.*$ :: TestHandlerPerson

You see, regular expressions are supported. Now let it run baby! The first handler gives us:

Then we willingly give our data:

And see the results:

4. Summing up

At the moment the code*** is only very basic, as I haven't got time to work on it a much as I'd like. I wrote it on my private time, as my customer did decide in favor of a general, grand-scheme, system management solution. So as for today, I wrote only a single test, that one which was described above, and tested it with Visual C++ on Windows. YAWF isn't more than a toy just now as many features are simply missing, for example I'd like to have a built in support for configurable error pages to round the things off. And as next thing, I'd like to add the Model component using my CuteWorkers framework (I hope I'll come to write a post about Qt-workers too).

But there's much more that could done, like:

- HTTPS support in the sever (that shouldn't be very difficult as Qt offers QSslSocket and other classes)
- cookies and session data handling
- dynamic loading and caching of the templates
- dynamic loading of the servelts vial DLL (kind of what ASP is doing)
- a "Clojure example" like dynamic interface

and so on, and so on. Look at my TODO list in the github repository. Nonetheless it's simple (KISS!), it's pluggable, it doesn't have any dependecies other than Qt. Requirements fullfilled!

* check out these previous posts: servlets-in-c.html, c-servlets-again.html, c-server-pages.html

** we cannot forget that C++ hasn't much to offer in terms of introspection. But we won't give up automatic registration and detection of handler prototypes!

*** You can find the code at Github: https://github.com/mrkkrj/yawf4q

Pau said...

I know at least two more based on Qt: QtWUI and Creole. Both of them seem to be dead, though. There is also the Qt Web Client experiment in Qt Labs, which seems dead too.

Cautionary tale: the first version of Wt (witty) was based on Qt but they moved to Boost after they found the Qt threading model did not fit their needs.

wdu said...

FYI: Wt mixes with Qt pretty straightforward. There's an example (wtwithqt) that demonstrates how the event loops can interact.

Marek Krj said...

Well, one time they say they didn't like Qt's signals, but the other time that the licence model wasn't right. I guess the second is true, as prevoiusly you had to pay for Qt, and if you already have to pay for Wt it's not that cool.

correct, I've seen elsewhere an example of Boost & Qt slot/signal mechanisms working together... But for my purpose it's a little too big, and it isn't free (think so).

Dean Michael said...

Nice write-up, I like what you've done -- it's OOP, which more people might be able to grok than the GP I use in cpp-netlib. :)

Also, the correct link for cpp-netlib is http://github.com/cpp-netlib/cpp-netlib. The Sourceforge project is now "defunct". I should really delete that project on Sourceforge... ;)

Marek Krj said...

@Dean Michael
Oops, don't know how I couls mix the links up! Will correct ASAP.

Concerning OOP vs GP - if you are working with Qt you feel like a prisoner in the 90-ties, not much modern C++ :(

Anonymous said...

Great post, I've been after that?!?

Sumeet said...

Hi Marek,
Nice post this one...
I have been developing a C++ web application framework (ffead-cpp) lately and have tried to implement whatever i thought would be useful.
I believe in keeping things simple, and this simplicity has driven the development until now. It would be great if you could please review the framework and provide an honest opinion on the same.


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Best Movies You’ve Never Seen: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD

There are good movies that, for whatever reason, don’t make much of an impression on the public when they were released. They either bombed in the theater, or just went straight-to-dvd. This is one of them

This movie has a pedigree that, on paper, reads like an Oscar-winning blockbuster. Sam Raimi directs a cast that stars Russell Crowe, Leonardo Dicaprio, Gene Hackman and Sharone Stone, with smaller parts by Tobin Bell, Gary Sinise, Lance Henriksen, & Keith David. But what’s funny about this film is that when it was made, back in 1995, Sharon Stone (who also executive produced it) was the biggest star in the cast, while Crowe and Dicaprio didn’t even warrant a spot on the official poster. I don’t think anyone watching this film back then would have predicted that those two would one day become internationally known A-list stars.

Well, no one won any Oscars for this film, but it wasn’t trying to be that kind of movie. This is a good old fashioned spaghetti western, with a mysterious cowboy riding into a town to avenge the death of a loved one. Except, in this case, the cowboy is a cowgirl. Sharon Stone plays “The Lady”, who rides into a town called Redemption, which we soon learn is run by a man named John Herod (Hackman), who is known for being absolutely fearless and the quickest gunman in town, and is also the man that The Lady holds responsible for the death of her father when she was a young girl. Herod sponsors a $100,000 quick draw contest in town, and several of the cowboys in town enter it, including The Lady. Meanwhile, Herod has kidnapped a preacher named Cort (Crowe), and forces him to enter the contest, against his will. We find out that years ago, before he was a preacher, Cort was Herod’s protege and a fellow outlaw, who eventually became disillusioned with his evil ways and renounced all violence. The Lady also meets a young man called “The Kid” (Dicaprio), who runs a local gun shop and claims to be Herod’s illegitimate son. The Kid flirts with The Lady, to no avail, and also enters the contest.

We get several scenes of gunfights, all held in the classic “quick-draw” competition. Two men face each other and when the clock strikes they draw their guns and shoot. Whomever’s fastest wins. The best fights are The Lady’s first time (against a character played by Tobin Bell), Cort’s first time (where he had claimed he wouldn’t shoot) and his fight against a seemingly unkillable Native American man, and Herod’s fights against gaudy showoff named Ace (Henriksen) and against Keith David’s character, who had been hired by some of the townsfolk to kill him. The drama of who will shoot first is played very well in each scene. Then there’s the lead up to the showdown between Herod and Cort, and The Lady’s final revelation about the death of her father.

This is just a fun popcorn movie. Not too heavy on the dcharacterization, and the climax might be a bit overboard, but I think anyone who ever played Cowboys and Indians as a kid, or dressed up as one or the other for Halloween, will get a kick out of it.

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    I really love this film. The director hit home with many themes which left me wanting more. I think this has a chance of becoming an iconic film.

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President Clinton Delivers Commencement Address to Mount Sinai School of Medicine Class of 2010

The following remarks were delivered by President Bill Clinton on Thursday, May 13, 2010, at Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s 41st commencement ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York City.

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 – May 13, 2010 /Press Release/  ––

I should tell you all that you're probably wondering why you got stuck with a politician at the School of Medicine commencement. I'm here really for one reason. There is one group of graduates that I am particularly interested in, those who are getting their degrees in genetic counseling. I want someone to explain to me the significance of my being 4 percent Neanderthal. It might be an excuse for every mistake I made going back to my fourth birthday.

Well, let me say seriously to all of you, first, congratulations, and, second, thank you. Thank you for doing this work.

As I read over the degrees being given, not only those of you who will become physicians but those with PhDs in bioscience, neuroscience, master's of public health, clinical research, and genetic counseling, you are going to take America into the 21st century. You are going to deal with the problems of this country and the challenges in this country.

We are living in an interdependent world, a world in which we get lots of benefits, and you are Exhibit-A. I mean, look at this class, and you have more diversity than ever before. The majority of you are women. You are going to help us immensely, and going into a hard economy after some pretty tough years.

One of the things I tried to drum into the American people, especially when I was president, is you live in a big, open society and you can't put the walls back up. You have to have a solution, a new economic energy every eight years or so.

For the next few years we will go about working in energy, changing the ways we produce energy. It's also very important in helping us deal with our climate change.

Beyond that, I think biomedicine will be an enormous generator of untold and unprecedented, unimagined economic activities for our country.

Another big change we have to combat is inequality in America and around the world. And those of you who are involved in public health will have a lot to say about that. I'm very proud to say in just a couple of days I'm going to give another one of these speeches to a class in which one of the graduates who is getting a master's in public health is my daughter.

So I thank you for helping your country and the things you will do, and I thank you for helping to bridge the enormous gaps in inequality that are manifested in the diseases and afflictions of the poor, both here and around the world. You are going to play a major role in making sure that this century is the most interesting, progressive, and peaceful time in history.

The three biggest changes we face — I've already mentioned two of them. We live in an independent world, and what that means is divorce is not an option. We can't put the walls back up. And a lot of the political noise in our system is coming from people who feel profoundly disoriented. They think they are afflicted. They think the ground is moving under them and they don't have any purpose. They don't know whether they can stand and have the identity they had in the past.

When you see Virginia reeling with economic problems and instead of the legislators helping them with initiatives to respond to them, they bring back the Confederacy and they have no mention of slavery, does that mean they all became racist in the last month? No. It means that there are people there who are screaming for some little something that pretends to take the world back to some idealist past which never really existed. Stop the world, I want to get off.

When do you see people like Gary Varvel and Bloomsbury who had a field day saying the most important legislative priority among all the turmoil is to make sure people can carry a loaded, unconcealed weapon in Starbucks and order their cowboy latte? Is that really what this is all about? No. It's about maybe this one little thing could put my life back in control. Everything else is spinning out of control. I've been out of work for several months, and I haven't had a raise in four years.

The things that you are doing are dealing with people's health concerns for the poor, but in a larger sense, if you succeed you will be bridging these terrible divisions in our society and throughout the world.

I hope some of you will work in other countries. I spend a lot of my time working in our AIDS program, our malaria program, and now, of course, the work I'm doing now in Haiti with the United Nations and with the Haitian government. We need people who understand public health and understand how to train people and believe in their heart of hearts that intelligence and ability are evenly distributed, that the willingness to work is evenly distributed.

But structured systems, the kinds of things that brought you to this day into that seat, are not evenly distributed.In poor countries the No. 1 problem is the absence of systems, the absence of structures that give predictability to lawful people.

Just think about the things you take for granted. You'd be astonished if the air conditioner went out, the lights went out, and the microphone broke. But there are countries where people don't take any of that for granted.

We still have more than a million people spending the night in tents in Haiti. And we need people who understand how to bring what you have learned here to impact the lives of people that have the same rights that we do, to raise their children in decent health. So I hope you will think about that.

We could not be where we are today if it had not been for the million in number of doctors and nurses and paramedical people and other workers in public health who rushed to help Haiti after the earthquake and have stayed and gone back over and over and over again. Now we've got to build them a health system where they can stand on their own and care for their own people.

In the United States, fewer than 2 percent of the African-American population is Haitian, but 11 percent of our African-American doctors are Haitian. They can build their own medical system and they can have a public health system, but they need people like you who care enough to do it. And I hope all of you in your lifetime will find a way to do that.

In America our health challenges are quite different. But they reflect the general challenges of rich countries in the world. We have all the systems in the world, that's how we got there, but our systems get a little long in the tooth, and they become more interested in preserving the individual than the purpose for which they were established in the first place.

So our whole health-care system is, frankly, a mess. I would have voted for the health care reform bill had I been in congress. But it is just the beginning.

We spend 17.2 percent on health care, our relative competitors, who are all between nine and 10-and-a-half — except for Switzerland, they are at 11-and-a-half — but the disparity amounts to $200 a year. I think covering everybody is a good first step. Providing more affordable alternatives is a good first step. But we have to find a way to make health care a continually attractive career, not just for physicians, but for others, and yet rethink the delivery system and fine-tune the benefits, otherwise our equality problems within America will continue to increase.

The biggest public health problem in the country is a lifestyle problem — childhood obesity. And that, too, is a product of our system — the way we grow food, the way we market it, the way we sell it.

The parents are working and involved in their own lives and have little time to prepare their own food. The economic pressure on our schools, encouraging them to buy food for general consumption for the students and the staff that is high in bulk and calories but low in nutritional content. The school that does not have enough money for an exercise facility. These, too, are health-care issues.

So the problems with rich countries are different than with poor countries. Poor countries need systems, rich countries have them, but they become rigid and more concerned with the rigidity than the very thing that was the purpose for which they were set. They need you to help that, too.

We need Americans to feel comfortable again in the process of change. All these wacky things that are happening are people that are terrified in the face of the changes that are going on and they think they are going to lose. They feel they are in quicksand and they can't pull themselves out. So all of you need to see yourself in whatever health field you have embraced and making a positive change. And in a way, you are all in public health, even if that's not what your degree is in, because there are implications for the public interest in everything you do. What to research and what to not. What we know about the impact of policies on the general society and what we don't. So I ask you to think about that.

Never before in human history have we been so interdependent, and never before have private citizens had more power to do public good.

I bet some of you did it after the earthquake. I bet you went on to one of those telephone text numbers and gave 10 bucks to the earthquake relief.

Whatever we do in life, a big part of our future as citizens will involve more than voting. It will involve being involved in some nongovernmental effort to advance the public interest.

Today, those of us who work in health care — and my foundation sells and dispenses eight medicines in 70 countries, and we have health care operations in more than 30 countries, and I am really worried now.

For the first time in 10 years, I'm worried. Because more and more people are living with AIDS and they can't get the medicines, and the more people who live with it, the more people need medicines. Even though we are able to cut the cost by about 50 percent by using the generic drug, it's still a bigger bill. And yet, you could make a very compelling argument, as did our administration, our government has done that, the time has come to go build comprehensive health systems in these poor countries. And even with the 50 percent generic drugs, we are dealing with other diseases like malaria that costs less to deal with and kills a lot of people.

You can make all these arguments. But we are going to see real conflict over scarcer health care coverage in a way that may cause a crisis in many more countries in the world even as we try to deal with a very different source of challenges here at home. We need people like you to help us work through it.

So that's my last point. Whatever your degree is in, whatever you are doing next, whether you want it or not, you are in public health. And one of the great challenges of your age is to reduce the disparities and improve the systems by which we deliver health care.

That may mean that in addition to your job, you have to devote some time, some efforts, to nongovernmental work that will bridge the gaps that always exist between what the private sector can provide and what the government can provide. And bridging that gap will determine the world your own children will live in.

I'm still very optimistic at this point about the 21st century, mostly because of people like you. But it's very important that you realize that it has started with the right dimensions, and it's your job, whatever your other job is, whatever your specific degree is, to do what you can with the knowledge and skills that you have to build a positive world that will reduce the negative forces of our common future.

When the genome was sequenced in 2000 for the first time in my presidency — and we spent a lot of your tax money to finish that — as a non-scientist, the most interesting thing to me was the immediate conclusion that genetically, all human genomes were 99.9 percent the same.

And then Gregg Feero said, no, that's not true. We are only 99.4 percent the same. Now, with 3 million genomes that's a significant number, right? Half of 1 percent scientifically. But to a politician it doesn't sound like much.

And I do think that if we look around the graduating class at every single difference you can see, everything obvious to your eye from gender to skin color to eye color to size and shape, everything noticeable is the result of something less than one-tenth and a half percent of our genome makeup, but otherwise we are the same. Essentially, confirming all the teachings of all the great witnesses from time and memorial — that what we have in common is more important than our interests and differences.

You live in a world where you will only be able to appreciate the differences if we embrace what we have in common and act on it. I hope you will do that. If you do, you are going to have a great ride.

Thank you and congratulations.

About The Mount Sinai Medical Center

The Mount Sinai Medical Center encompasses both The Mount Sinai Hospital and Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Established in 1968, Mount Sinai School of Medicine is one of few medical schools embedded in a hospital in the United States. It has more than 3,400 faculty in 32 departments and 15 institutes, and ranks among the top 20 medical schools both in National Institute of Health funding and by U.S. News & World Report. The school received the 2009 Spencer Foreman Award for Outstanding Community Service from the Association of American Medical Colleges.

The Mount Sinai Hospital, founded in 1852, is a 1,171-bed tertiary- and quaternary-care teaching facility and one of the nation’s oldest, largest and most-respected voluntary hospitals. In 2009, U.S. News & World Report ranked The Mount Sinai Hospital among the nation’s top 20 hospitals based on reputation, patient safety, and other patient-care factors. Nearly 60,000 people were treated at Mount Sinai as inpatients last year, and approximately 530,000 outpatient visits took place.

For more information, visit www.mountsinai.org.


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Why Republicans Can’t Quit Their New Black Friend

He feeds the myth that racism is over

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Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain greets supporters at the Cane Creek Golf Club in McClellan, Ala., Oct. 28, 2011.

Meghan McCain fascinatingly characterized the Republican primaries as akin to dating in that the electorate keeps having one fling after another in the hopes of avoiding the seemingly inevitable marriage to the boringly dependable Mitt Romney. Herman Cain has lasted too long to be called a fling, but the GOP’s ardor for him has blinded it to his obvious ineptness in almost every aspect on which you’d test a candidate (foreign policy, domestic affairs, likeliness to seduce voters outside the party, ability to deal with the media microscope, ability to cope with scandal). The only aspect that he does well is exude charisma, as if he’s the kid who doesn’t study but somehow charms the teacher into passing him.

The party’s love for him has not cooled despite a sexual harassment scandal he continues to handle poorly. (Justin Bieber is handling his nascent paternity scandal with more forthrightness, directness and crisis management wisdom than Cain did.) Cain seems to be surviving the scandal because the GOP truly likes him and because the party really has nowhere else to go but to Romney and because this is a rather tepid scandal compared to what we’ve grown used to from politicians (he abused power but there’s not even allegations of actual sex, so for most people it doesn’t really matter). But there’s also something else. The GOP’s relationship with Cain is more psychologically important than its relationship with any other candidate because Cain is that special thing: the party’s cool new black friend. You ever see white people in the beginning stage of latching on to a new black friend? They’re more excited because it’s something new and cool, a font of new thoughts and experiences. This isn’t simply racial: its the thrill of making a connection with someone unlike you who opens you up to new things, like a woman with a new gay friend.

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Cain has to survive his still metastasizing sex harassment scandal and his many gaffes and his clear lack of competence, experience and serious intellect because the GOP is so excited about him that they are refusing to really kick the tires (or admit to themselves that when they kick the tires they prove flat). Because they know they need him. See, Cain feeds the myth that racism is over.

Some Obama critics feel they have been wrongly painted as racist for the crime of opposing Obama. Some of their critique has been racist, some has been reasonable, some has been unreasonable but what would be leveled at any Democrat. Either way, Cain offers absolution and liberation from feeling like a racist. For how can the party be racist if there’s a black frontrunner? I think many in the party genuinely like him and are won over by his chutzpah and respect his journey from Morehouse to CEO. Fair enough. But the ascension of Cain does not prove that racism is over. Just because the party has a cool, new black friend it’s excited about, doesn’t erase decades of condescending opinions and harmful policies toward blacks.

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Alas Cain, in particular, is not the best person on which to hang your proof that your party isn’t racist. A black man who denies that racism has an impact on today’s world gives great comfort to people who wish for the race conversation, as opposed to racism, to be over. A black man who thinks if you don’t have a job, it’s your fault gives comfort to those on one side of the class war. A black man who wraps himself in minstrelish tropes, like wanting the Secret Service to call him Cornbread and breaking into song at campaign events, surely gives comfort to those who are still not comfortable seeing blacks as Alpha men. A black man who can lead in the polls for weeks without seriously convincing anyone that he’s going to win is like having your chocolate and not getting fat. Or getting the walk-on-the-wild-side thrill of dating a black guy without worrying that you’ll ever be pressured to marry him.

Even if he’s not the nominee, Cain has already proven himself a psychologically transformative candidate for the GOP because the confidence that comes from having “dated” him is like a shield off of which all accusations will bounce. It’s impenetrable to white guilt. We’re not racist, they can now say without fear. One of our best candidates is black.

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The U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision on GPS tracking is a mixed bag for privacy rights.

In a unanimous ruling, the justices required law enforcement officials to obtain a search warrant before they attach a GPS tracking device to a vehicle. A warrantless search would violate the Fourth Amendment.

But the court ducked the larger issue of whether warrants are required for other kinds of surveillance technology, including geolocation tracking in cellphones and RFID tags.

It may be disappointing, but it doesn't come as a complete surprise. Sure, the justices engaged in a lively discussion last November of a person's reasonable expectation of privacy in a digital world. But in their eyes, the case centered around the "physical intrusion on [the Defendant's] Jeep."

The decision concerned the case of Antoine Jones, who was sentenced to life in prison for possession and distribution of drugs. Law enforcement gathered evidence for his conviction with by placing a GPS tracking device on his vehicle—without obtaining a warrant.

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Pumpkin Carving Continues To Grow Even Geekier

Above, clockwise from upper left: nerd pumpkins include a nod to Mac OS, Mario of Mario Brothers video games, The Pi symbol, and a Space Invader from the video game of the same name.

All Hallow's Eve (aka Halloween) always brings out the geek in everyone, especially when it comes to carving pumpkins. Being a geek myself, I carve my pumpkins each year in the shape of my dog (without a stencil), and turn them into Halloween cards, two of which are shown below.

More and more carving pumpkins seem to be inspired by technology and sci-fi. Each year tons of pictures are uploaded to flickr, sent to Wired magazine and blogged about by tech nerds everywhere.

Below is an impressive collection 'Star Wars' inspired pumpkins from 2007 (you really should click on the image to enlarge it):

And , of course, the Death Star pumpkin:

Wanna carve your own death star pumpkin? here's a tutorial for you.

I was sent a round up of carved jack o' lanterns that would appeal to the tech set, sci-fans or just plain 'geeks' from reader Eran Abramson that are worth taking a peek at. It's clear he found several from last year's WIRED magazines "show us your geeky pumpkins" contest (which, by the way, received over 2000 entries).

Why people are carving internet browsers and feed reader icons into pumpkins, I'll never know, but they clearly are:

Above: RSS, internet explorer logo and firefox logo's carved into pumpkins

Wanna see more? Read the full post of Eran's 34 Geeky Pumpkins here.

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John said...

Yeah 'hip', like Walamrt...

Laura Sweet said...

and "hip" like your spelling skills , LOL

RPDA said...

What an idiot. LOL (to Laura's comment that is)!

Anonymous said...

These are cool and like these nerdy pumpkins I have to a be nerd to tell you that the pumpkin between the rss and firefox logo is actually the internet explorer logo not earthlink.

Laura Sweet said...

How right you are! Thanks so much for the correction, I should have known better. I've been outgeeked!

C'mon people, it's only a dollar.
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