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You don't need me, or any chef in the world, to tell you the best ways to keep from gaining weight. They involve breakfast, balanced meals and exercise. Instead, I've become fascinated with the less obvious ways that chefs and other people who are constantly around food keep from packing on pounds.
Mission Chinese chef Danny Bowien brings his manager, Allen Yuen, with him when he goes to restaurants. "I make Allen eat everything they send out," says Bowien. "He's the closer."
Star chef Michael Chiarello (whose new Spanish restaurant opens on San Francisco's Pier 5 this spring) has the same idea. After one or two gin and tonics, he asks the bartender to just give him tonic with lime, as it looks like the same drink but doesn't pack any alcohol.
"Sometimes I switched it up with a chicken burger. And I made my sous-chef do it, too. It's way easier when someone is in it with you."
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WASHINGTON — A who's who of top Republican donors in Colorado sent a letter Tuesday beseeching Colorado's GOP delegation to embrace comprehensive immigration reform and provide a path to legal status for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
The seven donors have collectively contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to both the Republican party and to Colorado's four House Republicans' re-election efforts in the past two years.
"Doing nothing is de facto amnesty," the letter said. "We need to take control of whom we let in our country and we need to make sure everybody plays by the same rules."
Among those who signed the letter were NexGen Resources CEO Charlie McNeil, who between 2011 and 2013 contributed $107,000 to various candidates and the party, M.D.C. Holdings CEO Larry Mizel, who contributed $212,000 between 2011 and 2013, and Marilyn Ware, former ambassador to Finland and former chair of American Water Works, who donated $167,000 between 2011 and 2013 to Republican candidates and the party.
"It's something I've believed in for a very long time. We definitely are motivated to get the message to the congressional delegation," said Laramie Energy II CEO Bruce Payne, who has donated $26,000 from 2011 to 2013 to Republicans and the party. "I just believe these are the exact kind of citizens we want here. They came here at extreme risk to themselves to improve their lives, and that's the American dream."
The letter says "doing nothing" is "not the path for the Republican party."
"Immigrants are often entrepreneurial, family-minded and guided by faith. These are Republican values," the letter says. "These are Colorado values."
The donor letter does not mention the Senate immigration bill that passed with a bipartisan majority in June and gives a 13-year path to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
That measure faces no real future in the GOP-controlled House, and leaders say they may take a piecemeal approach to solving the problem.
Colorado's four Republicans have varying — and even changing — beliefs on immigration reform.
Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, told a group of immigrant rights advocates gathered at a Catholic church Sunday he supported an earned pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented people.
Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, said he supports proposals that strengthen border security and enforcement first. He said he supports a strong guest worker program in areas such as agriculture and construction.
"After that — and only after that — can we begin to look at next steps for those who are here without documentation," Gardner said.
Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Cortez, was mum Tuesday about whether he believes in a pathway to legal status for anyone.
"The House is currently in the process of putting forward an immigration reform plan of its own, and as we progress, I believe both parties need to work together with the goal of achieving a solution," he said.
Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, did not respond to the letter Tuesday.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The Facebook social graph is just the tip of the iceberg
But the concept of the graph is much more important that the framework that Facebook has established. The concept of the graph is important because of what I call context. What we, as humans, really want is to be able to contextualize everything in our world. We define people by who they know, what they do, what they like, etc. But this concept of contexualizing goes much further. Every fact and every piece of information has a context.
Context is really nothing more than everything we know or can know about any given "thing" in the world. And any "thing" in the world can have a relationship to anything else. If you have a glass sitting on a table then the relationship between the glass and the table is "sitting on". But they might also be related to a common person with the relationship "purchased by".
If you think about our world, every object has an almost infinite amount of context, so if we went overboard with this it could quickly become uselessly broad. But there is an important middle ground here. It is critically important that we as individuals be able to capture the context that *we think* is important, and it is critically important that we be able to browse the context that those close to us think is important.
For example I may want to capture that a given person has a "married to" relationship to someone. For others that may or not be important. But I should be able to capture that. Its also important that I be able to explore all of the relationship that can be captured through the everyday software I use. Obviously lots of interesting relationships can be captured from email, calendars, documents, and I want to see *all* of those relationships when I need to.
The key to having useful context is being able to access it when you need it. For example, shouldnt you be able to see, whenever you look at a contact in your address book, all the emails you have received from that person, and when you have them in your calendar. For context, user interface is clearly is as important as storage and protocols.
Now its true that there are products that do small pieces of this for you like perhaps Xobni, or Gist. But my point is a larger one. What we really want is a system that provides context for *all* of the information objects that matter to us. This is not a niche problem. Existing tools are purpose built. They are finished recipes when what we really need are ingredients. I don't want any guard rails preventing me from capturing information and creating relationship between objects.
The point in all of this is that what we are constantly looking for is context. The social graph is just one relatively narrow facility for providing us that context. Part of the reason I am excited about this discussion around graphs and the emergence of graph databases is that I think we really need a universal platform for storing context. Facebook is but one use case of what is clearly a *much* larger opportunity.
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Hank --ReplyDelete
There are many things to be said about the Facebook announcements last week. If they pull it off I think it's difficult to overestimate the impact it will have on the web.
But purely from the particular bias that I believe you and I share (that of a fondness of graph databases), two things stand out:
1) Facebook is popularizing the notion of graphs amongst the wider tech community. To this day, I frequently have to explain to people that the word *graph* in graph databases does not refer to Excel charts or video game graphics. It's a mathematical graph of nodes and relationships. Now, Zuck & crew probably said the word "graph" one *hundred* times in that keynote, and never even offered an explanation. For them, it's a natural part of the modern developer's vocabulary. That's awesome for a graph database evangelist like /me.
2) They're expanding the scope of the social graph from people<->people to pretty much *anything of value on the web*. That's a very enlightening evolution and it emphasizes how powerful the concept of a generic graph really is. I know that when I talk about graph databases, a lot of people assume that they're only good for the social graph. Well, nothing could be further from the truth! Recently I've started mixing up my examples a lot (for example I used social graph + geo in my interview with Scoble). The jury is still out on whether that drives the point home. But either way, Facebook's Open Graph vision is an important milestone in bringing a broader awareness of the power and wide applicability of graphs.
Emil Eifrem
Thanks for your comment. As I see it, the big challenge around a generic graph is the user experience. There is currently no compelling user experience around the idea of a more broadly defined graph. For more on this subject, stay tuned!
http://api.neo4j.org is not "user experience" enough for you?
Oh, I see what you mean.
Hank - Great post dude! I think it's going to end up being different tools, for different fools man. The relationships one individual, or group individuals has with people, things, companies, etc. can be different (or more or less important) than another's.ReplyDelete
As we dig deeper down the iceberg and it gets fatter, there will be more opportunities. In the meantime, there is incredible power in the social graph if one understands it!
It's all about data!
Really interesting your comments on the context and the relationship between objects. I think the graphs are an interesting concept to be studied and discussed. I agre with Emil that not everybody knows what a Graph is but I think understanding this concept will help a lot of people to really take advantage of their social networks. The real purpose of social networking sites would be easier to understand by most of their users.ReplyDelete
Sorry if I plug my own shit too much, but since Blogger doesn't support trackbacks: I elaborated on my thinking around Facebook, the age of graphs and databases over on my blog (even including a small link back to this post :).ReplyDelete
Great post.ReplyDelete
Graph is the way we gather information/context about objects. Our brain is a specialized graph. That's why it's such a close metaphor when though about on a low level.
I think it will turn out that somewhere in our brain (our IQ/language/consciousness) there is a small graph database engine.
Maybe Emil is an alien and has modified our ancestors' brains with this thing inside and now tries to put it in our computers under the name neo4j :)
That is sooooo elegant the way you put this problem. Thank you!ReplyDelete


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Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork.com) - Andrew Wiggins and the fifth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks scored 15 of the game's final 19 points to beat the fourth-ranked Duke Blue Devils by a 94-83 margin in a battle between two of the winningest programs in college basketball.
The much-anticipated showdown between Wiggins and Duke forward Jabari Parker highlighted the second game of the Champions Classic. Both players entered the season as the two top prospects in the nation.
Wiggins ended with 22 points and 10 rebounds, while Parker tallied 27 points and nine boards.
Perry Ellis had 24 points and seven rebounds for the Jayhawks (2-0), who went 27-of-35 from the foul line. Wayne Selden, Jr. and Frank Mason each added 15 points.
Amile Jefferson finished with 17 points for the Blue Devils (1-1), who fell to 7-3 all-time against Kansas. Rasheed Sulaimon and Rodney Hood tallied 13 and 11 points, respectively.
Second-ranked Michigan State held off No. 1 Kentucky 78-74 in the first game of the Champions Classic.
Parker brought the crowd to its feet with a one-handed alley-oop slam in the first minute of the second half.
The game remained close until Kansas pulled away at the end. With the score tied at 79, the Jayhawks closed out the contest on a 15-4 run.
Selden's tip-in sparked the surge that included six points from Wiggins. Ahead by two, 83-81, Wiggins made a jumper. Ellis then stole the ball from Hood and passed to Wiggins for a slam. Wiggins added two more free throws with 45.1 seconds left to make it a 92-83 contest.
Kansas went 7-of-9 from the charity stripe during the burst.
After Duke jumped out to an 8-2 margin to start the game, the Jayhawks responded with an 11-2 spurt to go in front, but the rest of the first half was a close battle. Duke took a 42-40 edge into the locker room.
Game Notes
Duke went 7-of-18 from beyond the arc and 16-of-28 from the foul line ... Quinn Cook had 10 points for the Blue Devils ... Kansas shot 56.1 percent from the field.
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