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Why Stay at the SSSP Convention Hotel?
Why should I stay at the SSSP convention hotel during the Annual Meeting?
This is a frequently asked question by our members. Please consider these reasons.
- Staying at the convention hotel provides many advantages. The awards ceremony takes place at the convention hotel, as do receptions and most special events. You have the opportunity to renew acquaintances with other members and meet newcomers. Informal gatherings are easy to arrange because the largest proportion of our members will stay at the convention hotel.
And by staying with us, you can help the organization financially! Let us explain.
- Booking your reservation outside of the SSSP room block via internet travel sites or by not mentioning to the reservationist that you are with SSSP has a long-term negative impact on the SSSP meeting. The number of rooms that we can attribute as reserved by SSSP attendees help us to negotiate lower room rates with the hotels. With fewer rooms directly attributable to SSSP, convention rental rates will rise which may impact the rates SSSP can charge for meeting registration. Additionally, hotels have started to place financial penalties on associations for each room not used by our attendees. We appreciate you supporting SSSP by booking hotel rooms within our official block.
- In order to secure a favorable sleeping room rate and to avoid paying high meeting room rental costs, SSSP must guarantee the hotel that our members will occupy a certain number of room nights. To honor our contract, we must utilize 725 sleeping room nights over our meeting dates (SSSP reservation deadline: July 15, 2017).
- In the event that we do not meet our sleeping room guarantee, the hotel will charge the Society an additional fee for using the meeting space in which we hold our sessions.
- The 'room pick-up,' actual rooms occupied by SSSP members during the days of our contract, has implications for the final hotel bill. Terms of the contract grant the Society a number of complimentary rooms used to house officers and other volunteers who give their time to the organization. In the event that our 'room pick-up' is low, we must pay for these rooms.
- Hotels review our 'room pick-up' history when we request a bid for a future annual meeting. A favorable record (meeting or exceeding our room block) assures the hotel of a certain level of income. Hotels make their money by having as close to full occupancy as possible. Saving rooms for convention goers who do not occupy them means that they may have an empty room that could have been sold to someone not attending the convention.
- Members attending the convention should reserve a room for the nights they will attend and honor their reservation. This action helps save the Society money and improves the experience.
Confirmed Room Rates:
Single/Double Occupancy: $189 CAD + tax per room/per night
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Room rates are exclusive of a 5% Goods & Services Tax, 9.975% Provincial Tax, and 3.5% Occupancy Tax per night. All taxes and fees are subject to change.
The cut-off date for the SSSP's group rate is July 15, 2017. Reservation must be confirmed by this date to guarantee the group room rate. Reservations made after July 15th or after the room block is filled are subject to availability and rate increase. For information on our hotel reservations visit: http://www.sssp1.org/index.cfm/m/695/Hotel_Reservation_Information/.
So . . . please stay with us. We and the Society would appreciate it immensely and we think you will be glad you did!
Héctor L. Delgado, Executive Officer
Michele Koontz, Administrative Officer & Meeting Manager


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There is nothing to do in Battambang.
OK that's not strictly true. It is a new place with people and things there, not some white cube prison floating in a vacuum. What I was trying to say is that it lacks the show stopping tourist attractions, natural beauty, or vibrant social scene cocktail that usually allure people to visit an area. What it does hold in it's arsenal is a laid back atmosphere of the cafe culture variety and bright colonial architecture. This coupled with the quiet thoroughfares and arty upstarts make it a pleasant riverside town from which to prepare oneself for the madness of Siem Reap and Angkor Wat to the north east. I would call Battambang lazy, with all of the positive connotations that that adjective can muster.
Every town we have visited thus far in Cambodia has craft businesses or restaurants dedicated to helping the disadvantaged of the country. These projects are wide ranging and varied, but all have the common goal of inclusion, respect and equality. They are admirable enterprises and something that should be even more present and wide ranging in countries with better facilities such as the UK. The Lonely Tree Cafe, pictured above and modelled by my glamorous assistant/boss supports cultural preservation and disability oganisations in the area. It is a Khmer (Cambodian) tapas restaurant and is delicious. Below they have a handicraft shop selling traditional gingham scarves and other textiles. The procedes of which again go to good causes. The scarves mentioned above are everywhere and most Cambodians own one and adourn it in different styles. I thought that was worth saying so that you can imagine the aesthetics of local life more precisely, and you thought I was just wittering. It's all important content on here.
Steven notices that:
Everywhere you go there seem to be 'Seeing Hands' massage parlours. The massuers of which are blind, the idea being that once the sense of sight is taken away the touch will heighten and identify the problem areas to alleviate more effectively. Obviously I'm aware of the drawbacks and possibilities of exploitation in such situations. The less cynical part of me however likes to think of this at it's best, as another example of including everybody in the community and giving the disadvantaged a purpose, status and important role in their society.
Many people are disabled in Cambodia, the majority of which are the effects of the countries most recent conflicts. As a result the country does seem to have a surprisingly liberal and forward thinking attitude towards disability, given it's status as one of the poorer countries in the world.
The end of the Khmer Rouge rule and the subsequent tourism boom has helped create jobs and give disabled people a job in hospitality and entertainment. Cambodia has one of the worlds premier tourist attractions, if you don't know Wat it is then I'll give you a little clue, it sounds like 'anchor what', but we'll discuss that later.
A friend of ours called Ben worked in Cambodia for almost a year for landmine charity MAG. There are an estimated 6 million mines still unexploded in Cambodia. A very real ghost from the Khmer Rouge time and the Vietnam War before then. The below is genuine transcript from a real WhatsApp conversation with Ben about what MAG actually do…
'We've got different stuff going on in Somalia, but in Cambodia mag are clearing landmines and other explosive things that should have gone off a long time ago. About 80% of people are farmers and lands becoming scarce, so freeing this up for productive community use (as people are often too scared to go near those sorts of places) is the main aim'
Isn't he lovely?
Ben's job is basicly to save, or reconstruct lives. Ben is handsome beyond words, possessing the kind of knock out eyelashes that you wish you could slide down, before clutching onto the curls at the end, whilst screaming 'take me with you!'
You'd agree trust me. He is now doing such work in Somalia AND he's single, so my best advice would be to book a flight there ASAP. You heard me, this travel blog says that you should book a flight to Somalia NOW. Ben will protect you.
I can't say for sure yet, but it's looking like we may well prefer Cambodia to Vietnam. It is more ruggedly beautiful than it's neighbour, and benefits noticably from the twenty year head start it gave the Vietnamese in the tourist industry.
The coffee shop situated at the end of this road (balcony view below) serves spectacularly good coffee in all of it's popular manifestations. You could be in Manchester's Northern Quarter were it not for the distinct lack of rain and the presence of colour as opposed to washy greys.
Battambangs main attraction is it's circus. We didn't go because there are no shows on Tuesdays or Wednesdays and that is when we were there. Impeccable timing.
Anyway I hate clowns. Hate them, hate them, hate them. If you're a clown and reading this, then F**K YOU.
Ahem… Once, on a family holiday in Spain, a clown approached me, proceding to perform one of those inifinite handkerchief tricks, whereby they pull a seemingly never ending series of knotted together colourful handkerchiefs out of a part of their victims person, often the ear… Yaaay, fun right? Not when he's pulling it from the leg of your shorts and you're 12 years old 🚓.
Regardless of the clowns, we had to start to think about leaving Battambang. The mode of transport we chose and the subsequent journey aboard actually became our highlight of Battambang for us and the primary reason that we can now muster to visit. It doesn't do the place justice to say that the highlight was leaving, but the journey gave us a glimpse into a side of Cambodia that we hadn't yet encountered.
The boat from Battambang to Siem Reap costs $20 which is a bit steep really, but with one family company doing the trip they had a monopoly. Cambodias national currency is the Riel. There are 6000 Riel to the pound and roughly 4000 to the US dollar. The currency is largely redundant in big quantities and so is just used for small change. US dollars are the most widely used form of currency here due to the unstable nature of the Riel. So when we've been quoting prices in dollars that's why. Thank god I got that off my chest. Been worrying me that.
Back to the boat.
The boat was a simple contraption. It was a similar size to a barge (one for the Brits) if not a tad wider, made of wood with an outboard motor at the back. The deck consisted of one level with 2 benches either side facing eachother, there is a sturdy canopy roof overhead that doubles up as a roof rack and convenient place to bask in the sun. We opted for the shade below. We were crammed onto the small boat with close to sixty other people, ranging from brave explorers like ourselves to locals with vast amounts of produce to take back to the floating villages.
The river was shallow and narrow due to dry season. This makes navigating it more difficult and the boat regularly became beached along the way on the muddy river bed.
Along the banks of the river local life bustles along. One is given a more rural glimpse of domesticity and hence poverty. Floating villages line the wider points of the river where larger communities have settled.
At one point we pulled up to a kind of floating village hall to drop off some supplies for a wedding party that seemed to be in full swing. We were greeted by 8 or so kids who all ran to the balcony edge, waving and chirping hello, the first word on the path to making a living in tourism. One particularly happy little boy ran up naked and whilst waving manicly with one hand, and joining in with the hello chorus, had a wee at our boat with the other. He was a happy boy. Innocence takes many forms.
The journey takes nine hours with a half time lunch stop at a floating village families diner. To us the journey was a valuable insight into how some Cambodians live independent of the tourist industry.
In the last hour of the journey the scenery transforms with the Siem Reap River we had been meandering somewhat claustrophobicly, abruptly opening out into Tonle Sap Lake, which is the largest lake in Cambo. The contrast is welcome and the final phase of the journey allows one to witness some local fishing and contemplate, in the way that open expanses of vista often inspire, the time ahead in Siem Reap, inland off the shore ahead.
Once at Siem Reap's outskirts our boat captors handed us over to a fleet of energetic tuck tuck drivers. We were to haggle our ransom fee and safe passage to the city. We bargained hard and ultimately brought the price down by sharing our ride with a pair of breezy, fun loving sightseers from the US. They recommended their hotel to us and we gave it a whirl.
Garden Village Hotel was cheap, clean and central. This usually is criteria fulfilled enough for us to be happy with our base. We stayed for an evening and left the next morning however. The problem being that for $10 a night the bathroom was shared, the wifi was crap and the crowd there consisted of reclining Brits all nursing and comparing hangovers. Like casualties from a mundane war. We knew that the Wat Bo area was more pleasant than the debauched centre, because a Lonely Planet book said so (why would they lie to us) and so we stayed there for the four remaining days in the region.
I'm going to tell you about Siem Reap now. Maybe make a cup of tea, get a choccy biccie and rejoin here in a minute. This is a long post.
Siem Reap is the old capital of Cambodia and possibly the busiest tourist town in the whole of South East Asia. The reason being that it has a fantastic bowling alley.
No wait, that's not it. It's because it is the closest town (5km distance) to Angkor Wat. The largest surviving temple complex on the planet. But more on that soonly.
Leave your bowling shoes at home.
Siem Reap services every kind of visitor, but is particularly adept at the drunken lout category. The road that best fits this purpose is the aptly named, Pub Street. The name is actually quite traditional as most towns have streets named by genre of business or just by numbers in Cambodia. That's where the traditional features of the road end. This street looks like it came last in a Las Vegas impersonation competition. I'm sure people have a lot of fun there. It's just not the kind of fun we are seeking👴.
Juxtaposed to this foreigner orientated strip is the Khmer Pub Street. It's a bit out of town but by name alone promised to be more authentically Cambodian. That it was, we only saw natives along the whole mile strip. Said length consisted exclusively of these beer signs (locals get sponsored by beer companies who provide the sign in exchange for a quotation of beer orders being met, they're an instant beacon of a Khmer establishment) for Khmer bar/ restaurants. Each business seemed large, all with plastic garden chair seating, big stages for KTV (karaoke is huge in all of Asia it seems) and big gangs of cackling, jovial local youths half filling each place. No eatery/bar seemed busier than another (so no barometer of quality). In the doorway to every single tavern stood or sat ten or more prostitutes, as the sad, slow, ghostly karaoke wailed across the quiet, neon embellished evening. We flagged a tuck tuck out of the heart of darkness and back to the relative paradise of regular Pub Street.
Siem Reap on the whole is a straightforward maze of bars, restaurants, guesthouses and tat markets, flogging baggy elephant pants and saggy beer vests. These are the traveller's free spirit and individuality uniform.
Crocodile leather shops are one in twenty and of course there are tuck tucks in abundance. Walking down the road one is acosted by five drivers a minute. That's three hundred calls of 'tuck tuck' and 'maybe later' every hour if you're doing laps of the town. It can be testing for a scatter brain like me to hold a fluent conversation without interuption and forgetting the point one was making. Something regular readers of this blog will be used to.
OK. Now the moment you've all been waiting for, the business end of proceedings, the main attraction, the bowling alley! I mean…
Angkor Wat
So the area is vast. Roughly fifty kilometres squared of land with different temple complexes from numerous kings spattered throughout. By far the most prolific erector was Jayavarman VII.
He went temple nuts he did. Each complex has it's merits and all a startlingly varied in design and ambition. The best way to talk you through our time in this region is to literally follow our itinerary day by day. We felt like we saw a very satisfactory selection of the most impressive sights with the time alotted by our $40 three day pass. The most famous complex is Angkor Wat. So let's start there as that is also where we started. Handy.
Day 1: Angkor Wat, Prasat Kravan, Sra Srang, Banteay Kdei, Ta Prohm
Angkor Wat is the closest complex to Siem Reap and so we opted to take on this cultural colossus on our 1st day templing on bicycles. The distances involved were conjusive to pedal power. Some may prefer to leave Angkor Wat until last but we wanted our hit of awe imminent, sudden and straight up. We simply could not wait. The roads leading up to the temples have all been picturesquely and sensitively restored to cope with the influx of visitors. Travelling along the jungle surrounded roads, dodging monkeys, anticipating the wonders ahead is especially fulfilling on your own steam.
Angkor Wat's famous silhouette becomes evident as you skirt around the vast moat, taking the final right towards the front entrance. The view from the ground is different from those offered by Google Images, as those are elevated to show off all the spires of the temple all at once. Camera phones and human thumbs find it hard to adequately capture the iconic image too. Excuses excuses. In fact for this post we have been able to uplpad some snaps from our decent camera. Why not see if you can tell the difference? Either way you'll have to use your imagination and I'll use my GCSE A descriptive prowess. Deal? You impressed? OK good.
The spires, akin to pine cones, offset by the blazing white hot sun are quite a first sight. One is reminded that these temples were built with the explicit notion of creating a vision of heaven on Earth. The God King Suryavarman II that commissioned this Mount Meru, Hindu heavenly replica undertaking had his impressive vision very nearly realised. The monumental feat is astounding when one considers the scale of what was being built in Europe at the same time in 1030 AD. Like most of the temple complexes in the region, Angkor Wat is beautifully symmetrical and flanked by a stupendous moat.
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That's how many elephants were used to build it. Six thousand of em. Plus three hundred thousand slaves. Neither actually wanted to help. Selfish. The temple was built for the purpose of honouring Vishnu and was intended as a mausoleum for Suryavarman II. The idiot went and died in battle and was never composted there though. The temples are well preserved because they were constantly used. Most of the stone carving and ornate tit bits are still very much intact. The Khmer Rouge even left this area alone because they saw it as a formidable symbol of Cambodian greatness. Their only correct decision.
All you need to really know on here is that it is a totally unique and stunning ode to humanity's whacky obsession with religion and the infinite and tumultuous struggle to find meaning and worth in being a concious mind, plonked on this planet.
An obvious and important point to remember is that you are not the only person who wants to see these sights. Although the images one encounters before arrival make the sights seem eerie and lush, millions of people go each year, as long as one is ready for the crowds, this place lives up to the hype and does not disappoint.
After Wat we took a peek at Prasat Kravan, which is a lot smaller and well preserved inside. It was empty which was welcome but is pretty unremarkable to view when put into context of the other sites on offer. Allow 10 minutes.
Sra Srang was next, a huge lake that once bore a diminutive temple in it's centre. When we visited it the perimeter was under construction and it was probably the least inspiring scene of the day.
Bantaey Kdei
Built by Jayavarman VII (Mr. Prolific) it's a big temple considering it isn't among the famous ones. Tis hipster templers delight. Spend 30 minutes there. No more or you'll miss other stuff. GO!
The silver medal in the day's discoveries went to Ta Prohm, many a visitors favourite site. Amongst those are Angelina Jolie, who decided to play Lara Croft: Tomb Raider here. Cameras captured the resulting scenes and the film was released to the public thereafter. Jolie fell in love with some Cambodian kids whilst filming and brought them back to Brad as a holiday gift. He was livid but having lost the receipt the no refund policy was triggered and they were stuck with them (they probably love them very much).
Ta Prohm conjures magical imagery and is indeed a perfect setting for an explorer action film. The jungle it nestles within has strangled and penetrated it's stoney features. The result is the perfect blend of fascination, restoration and conservation. The now controlled digestion of the temples facets lends a tangible sense of time and events past to the setting that can be lost in more polished and upkept structures.
Day 2: Pre Rup, Banteay Srei, Roluos Complex; within which are Bakong, Preah Ko, Lolei
Our next and penultimate visit to the temples of Angkor came after a days rest. Our saddle sore skeletons were grateful of it and repayed us by stopping screaming. We had earmarked Banteay Srei and the Roluos Complex for day two.
On the way to our first stop of the day we stumbled across a grand, towering temple.
Pre Rup was an unexpected gem, the kind that could hold it's own as the premier attraction in any region other than the abundant Angkor.
Bantaey Srei is 32km from Siem Reap. This was a job for a tuck tuck. After haggling with a few drivers, we got the price dropped from $30 for the whole day, to $20. $10 each ain't bad for the mileage (said Jeremy Clarkson whilst running over as many puppies as he can in 30 seconds for his latest Top Gear challenge, before driving his 4×4 as a suicide bomb into the Green Party headquarters in the name of Tory terrorism. He's grinning, with Hammond in the passenger seat, also grinning, but inwardly very scared).
Tuck tucks are a great way to see Cambodia. One can relax and absorb the scenery in a strangely exotic luxury, whilst the journey is uncomfortable, rickety and perilous enough for you to feel like you're travelling in the manner befitting of an open minded, interested journeyman.
The fact that these temples are further away does mean that they are slightly less crowded which is pleasing.
Bantaey Srei is famed as one of the best examples of ancient stone carving in existance. If that doesn't rev your engine then I submit that you're dead inside. The intricate carvings baked in the heat of the day like an elaborate ancient comic book cake, created by a psychopath, hold their own enough to grasp your attention for an hour or so.
The Roluos Complex was a 40 minute trundle away and trundle there we did. They are among the earliet and oldest of the Khmer god king dynasty temples.
The Bakong Temple is the largest and most absorbing of this rubble rabble. It again constitutes an effort at an earthly incarnation of Mount Meru, I suppose if you're going to build a temple, aim high.
Preah Ko
The Lonely Planet book that I'm trawling through for facts says that this one's dedicated to Shiva (Hindu Destroyer and Transformer God). It has magnificent examples of ancient plasterwork. So a lot like some houses I've rented. The name means Sacred Ox. To my knowledge no houses that I've rented have been called Sacred Ox.
This small temple had 4 typically symmetrical brick towers, that at time of visit 24th January 2015 were surrounded by scaffolding and construction parafenalia. It was rubbish. Who cares if it was once important, UURRRGH it was icky. Yuk.
Day 3: Angkor Thom; within which is Bayon, Baphuon
Then… Preah Khan, Preah Neak Poan, Phnom Bakheng
The Ancient City of Angkor Thom
Back on the bicycles again for our final day of Cambodge (Cambodia in Cambodian) bygone wanderlust.
The bridge/moat on the way into the south entrance of the ancient city has fifty four stone demons on one rail and an equal number of gods on the other, all pulling in the opposite direction to their enemies. It's called The Churning of the Ocean of the Milk in Hindu scripture. Did you know that I'm an expert in Hindu scripture? I'm not really. I can make farting noises with my hand in my armpit though so I'm not totally useless. Anyway that moat is quite the entrance, you'd butter believe it.👍
The fortified city of Angkor Thom totals ten square kilometres. Branded as the last great capital of Khmer Empire, it was built as a reaction to the sacking of Angkor by the Chams (remember we mentioned the Cham minority now living in Vietnam? They used to be bloody terrors). After this embarrassment Jayavarman VII (nutter) decided that the empire would never again be vulnerable. Angkor Thom therefore boasts a huge wall and moat. At the cities height, it is estimated that 1 million people lived there. Compare that to the 50,000 living in London at the same time and you get a sense of what a mighty empire Cambodge was.
The focal point of Angkor Thom is the Bayon temple, situated exactly in middle of the city. North, east, south, west; all roads lead to Bayon. This goliath has fifty four towers with two hundred and sixteen faces (four on either side of the fifty four, but you'd already done the maths hadn't you clever clogs).
The suggestively, slightly grinning mugs are supposed to be Avalokiteshvara, who is the godly embodiment of great compassion, but look a lot like Jayavarman VII. This boy had an ego and this temple is a fitting manifestation of it.
Oh my word this is a long post. Go and make another brew, maybe even grab a sandwich, food for fort thoughts. You must be hungry by now. I know I am. My thumbs have cramp and a have a pixel headache. Let's all just take 5. We'll get through this together.
Hi there! OK so we're still close to the Thom walls here. Baphuon has a 200m walkway on small plynth supports. Walkways add the grandiose to any venture don't they? It existed before Angkor Thom but feels small compared to that and the other newer ones around it. A bit like how I'll feel when I return home to find ALL of my siblings are now taller than me.
After Angkor Thom we headed east to another errrm temple, yeh temple.
Preah Khan
Guess who commissioned this one? Jayavarman VII. Again. Nutter nutter nutter. Twas his temporary residence while Thom was being built. There were no Travel Inns at the time you see. It's very long, narrow corridors are a standout feature here. They jut along for an eternity, like this post. It is a multi faith temple of kinds being both Buddhist and Hindu which is interesting that the two could coexist so long ago isn't it. Hmmm yeh.
Preah Neak Poan
He's at it again! Jayavarman VII oh my days! This one is magnifique. It has four square pools surrounding a monument surrounded by what used to be a lake (but is now more of an atmospheric swamp with dead trees clawing out of it like awakened zombies) with an epic wooden plank walkway through it. Very different from the others making it a welcome addition to any itinerary. An itinerary for temple viewing in Cambodia anyway. It wouldn't be practical on a Christmas shopping in Manchester itinerary for example. The distances just don't make for a productive day.
That was nearly it. We had one last stop on our journey through Angkor history.
Tour agencies and travellers alike make a big deal out of seeing the sun rise and/or set over Angkor Wat. As our day drew to an end, the route home happened to intersect the famous vantage point. We decided to join the sunset pilgrimage.
Phnom Bakheng
This is the temple on top of the hill that overlooks Angkor Wat. We were made to queue for a whole half hour to get to the top. They semi strictly regulate the numbers allowed up each rise and set to 300 visitors. It used to reach way over 1000 and get quite out of hand apparently.
If you don't want to walk up the hill you can ride elephants up there. Seeing elephants around the temples was very bizarre and I exclaimed in glee the first sight of one. Glee. Later I regretted it when I realised that the elephants are treated like Oliver Twist. The sight of them does fuel the imagination when one recollects the fact that they were used so much in the construction of the temples over one thousand years before 🐘.
Once at the top the crowds do not help create the kind of reflective ambience necessary to view the day ending earnestly. The evening was also relatively hazy, and the other Angkor temples hard to make out without an outstanding camera lense. It was an anticlimatic end to a wonderful few days dipping into a history that we knew nothing about beforehand.
Three days successive temple gawping can be mentally draining. Luckily the three day ticket is for three days within one week. Following our first day at Angkor Wat where we cycled close to 50km in one day, we needed a rest.
So a day was spent chilling in Siem Reap and writing some of this for you and us. Lovely it was. We've started affording ourselves rests more frequently. These heavy schedules of tourism are tiring and one appreciates things more when you take a step back and write manicly about it. Sister Srey Cafe is nice in Siem Riep. Lovely in fact. We discovered another kind of Café altogether that day too. 'Happy Happy Pizza' places number eight or more in town. We'd heard talk about them and had an inclination of what the extra 'Happy' entailed. We sat down like two naughty kids and brazenly ordered a small Margherita Happy HAPPY Pizza. The waiters sideways glance for eye contact and stoic nod confirmed that the code was real and had been recognised. Our $3 order arrived twenty minutes later. It was indeed covered in cannabis. Yes that's right parents. We're druggies now. From temple addicts to cannabis addicts. Who knows what is next. Temple is the gateway drug they say. So if 'Happy Happy' is cannabis, then Happy Happy Happy Happy is presumably ketamine (horse tranquiliser), a shot of tequila in the eye and a massage? Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Happy Pizza is topped with crack with a crystal meth stuffed crust.
Some people smoke, some rotters even inject, we do pizza. Small pizza. It was actually rather nice. The high occured slowly throughout the evening and culminated in us both intensely watching Sin City, then rolling CNN news back at our hotel. It all seemed to matter so much. We are wild.
Now that we've seen Angkor Wat I feel like packing up and leaving South East Asia. It is extremely difficult for me to comprehend another sight that can inspire like this one. It makes Cambodia one of the most fantastic countries I can conjure a reason to visit. One can only admire how it has been maintained and is presented as a modern day attraction that can still make a 28 year old cynic in moments of awe, feel like he's Indianna Jones. I want to go back NOW. But we have other less amazing places to see. What a tough act to follow. Cambodia's east and the town of Kratie are next. Kratie has dolphins. Everybody likes dolphins.

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Snake dragon by antilousWatch
©2013-2017 antilous
This describe a normal man become a great fighter because Snake dragon give him power.
Daily DeviationGiven 2014-02-24
Snake dragon by antilous ( Suggested by Kida-neechan and Featured by VelCake )
cool picture and congrats on the DD!
Whoa.. O_O This is awesome. Love the many details and the colors. XD Amazing.
I highly doubt this was your intention, but I see Son Goku... not to mention in your description you say a dragon gave him power. I don't mean that all his power came from the dragons but he was made a god/dragon because of them. Not to mention he's blonde with orange pants . _ . I know it's just me, but still xD
ANYWAY amazing job!! this is beautiful with wonderful proportions, use of space and good a sharing of action all throughout the piece! Keep it up and congratulations on the DD!
Totally Amazing!!!!! *O*
muito louco, parabéns!
The detail and lighting is really well done. Congrats.
It's amazing
wow that's amazing!!!!!
nice pose and style and colours!
a wyrm
amazing!!! congrats on the DD!!
Love this
awsome work
Amazing! Love the details~
I love it!
This is amazing. Very well done and very well made. Definitely would make for a great story if you chose to write about it.
very nice,great wrk,hope to see more
OMG OMG!! WOnderfull!!!
the energy and power in this is incredible!! well done!
amazing bro
Now that's what I call a, "Holy shit, oh my God!" picture. Actually, your whole gallery is like that...
Congrats on the DD! ^∇^ /
Congratulations on the Daily Deviation!
Congrats on the DD!
Have a nice day!
Have a nice day!
wow! amazing
Wow~! So much detail, I'm so captivated *3*
Wow, awesome work!!
*_* w-wow....
congratulations to the well deserved Daily Deviation
amazing job congrats on the dd
When I saw this I actually spoke out loud -
"Ohh... Wow."
And coming from me, that's a lot! XD
Congrats on the DD!
Well done! Congrats on the DD
... Wow...
Congrats on the DD (first)
ITS amazing
great work!
Love the dragon!
Great job!
Really cool
super dibujo un 10!!!!!!!!! detalle color ,aspecto ,lo tiene todo
So. FREAKING. SHINYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
Great sense of motion
Great sense of motion


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Volunteer Opportunities
Putting our faith into action
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United Methodists have believed, from the beginning, that each of us is called to participate in the outreaching ministry of Jesus Christ. John Wesley described this work in simple, practical terms: "Do all the good you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can."
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Asako Hideyoshi was appointed as governor of Kyuden Asako in 839. He worked out a basic layout for reconstruction, building a modern castle with a three-storied tower. [1]
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text: It's not often I find myself in a mall, but when I do go, I can never seem to find my way around. Those monolithic maps never seem to be where you need them, and that's where Point Inside Maps comes in. This free app has a database of US and Canadian malls providing the name, address, phone number, store list, event and promotion information, and locations of any services such as lockers or ATM's. In addition, there is a list of dining options that include food courts and attached restaurants. Selecting one of these, shows you hours of operation, and lets you call to make a reservation at the very prestigious Applebee's, for example. The app gives you the option to use your GPS location as well. I've found this is most effective at the outdoor outlet type malls, rather than inside. This is mainly due to spotty GPS signals indoors, and not a fault of the app. For me, this is the main "selling" point and is great for the directionally challenged. What's wrong with it? At the moment, it's missing a lot of malls in certain areas. Depending on where you live, this may not matter to you. For me, it's missing many in my area, and only has one (recently added) in my entire state. The floor maps are also images and have a finite resolution. When zooming all the way in, they do get a bit muddy. The readability is also affected by the fact that in many cases, store names overlap and appear misaligned. The store names are fixed in the image, so rotation and zoom depth are not the cause. In the end, this isn't a deal breaker. You probably know what store you're looking for, and will see the name outside rather than having to stand around squinting at your phone. Point Inside Maps for Malls Pros -Decent size database of US/Canadian malls (and growing) -Contact information and hours for stores and restaurants -Shows your GPS location on floor maps Cons -Some areas have poor coverage -Readability of maps can be difficult with misaligned text


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Mageia 3 and Linux Mint Debian Edition
This month we bring you two great desktop distributions: Mageia 3, from the all-volunteer community that forked the commercial Mandriva Linux distribution, and Linux Mint Debian, a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.
Mageia [1] [2] improvements in this latest version include new support for recent hardware, a choice to install non-free firmware and drivers during the installation process, support for installation on Xen paravirtualized disks and Btrfs filesystems, an upgrade to the package management system, security upgrades, and numerous tool bug fixes [3]. Mageia now has experimental UEFI boot support [4].
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) [5] combines the power and elegance of Linux Mint, the fourth most widely used home operating system, and the security and stability of Debian. LMDE now comes with a new custom installer and device driver manager to ease the installation process. LMDE does not support EFI, GPT, or secure boot [6] [7].
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- Mageia UEFI: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/UEFI_booting
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It has been awhile since I have baked for an entire day, or atleast a good part of it. Earlier this week I decided that I was overdue, so I planned a Baking Day for today. Crystal, has been baking up a storm this week in preperation for baby #3 and blogged through it, so I decided to blog through mine as well.
As the day progresses I will update my post with my progress. Unfortunately, since I still cannot figure out why my computer won't recognize my camera–there won't be any pictures. You'll have to use your imagination!
Here is my "To-Accomplish" List
- Chocolate Chip Cookies for next weeks snacks. I'm going to try out this recipe instead of ol' trusty.
- Try not to eat all of the cookie batter! It's my weakness.
French Bread Baguettes for DH's sandwiches. (same recipe, different method. I hope to share my "new" way later.) They are all shaped, and are working on their second rise.DONE! Oat Bran Bread. It's on it's second rise. This is a new one to me–and I just don't know about it….**It's done–and it is not so good! Any ideas on how to salvage it? Granola Bars.Finished and bagged up! Chocolate Zuchinni Cake (Thanks for the reminder, Jessica!) In the oven, and I just remembered I forgot to add the butter! Hope it turns out!DONE! And delish! Since I've single handedly eaten almost half of it, I froze the rest of it in 2 seperate portions. Cheese Crackers. I was going to experiment and come up with a recipe, but Laura took out all the guess work for me.DONE!
- Clean up the kitchen.
- Freeze half of the Chocolate Chip Cookies.
Let Noah help me. This is always a hard one for me, as I mentioned here.It was SO much fun having him in the kitchen!
- Have Fun! Of course!
Find a snippet of time to do a load of laundry.Getting ready to start load #3! Start dinner by 4:30pm.Well, 4:45–close enough.
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'Roscoe Jenkins': There's Fun In That Painful Family Party
Friday, February 8, 2008
When it comes to connecting with audiences, Martin Lawrence knows it ain't about the plot.
Five minutes into "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," you know that's the truth. What really counts -- at least, to his adoring (and critic-proof) audiences -- is the way the jug-eared performer navigates his way through a painfully familiar hell, the kind we all bring upon ourselves. By doing so, Lawrence transforms an otherwise kitschy comedy into something with greater impact -- if it can be measured in snorts of mirthful recognition.
In "Roscoe Jenkins," he achieves this by turning the heat on himself. There he is, right in front of the barbecue, one of the great social hubs of African American culture. That's where the sizzling pork and the neighborhood gossip are laid out, side by side. Where the dirt gets dished. And in the latest film, that's where Roscoe, a narcissistic talk show host who has begrudgingly returned for a family reunion in the sticks, gets his comeuppance.
Full of himself with his modelicious fiancee (Joy Bryant) at his side, he's ripe for a moral lesson, country-style. He gets it good, from an archetypal gallery of Mama 'n' 'em characters, including a long-suffering matriarch (Margaret Avery), a sternly disapproving Papa (James Earl Jones) and the head-shaking sassy Cuz (Mo'Nique), who leaves no stone unturned when it comes to insult or profanity. And then there's his archenemy: the cousin (Cedric the Entertainer) who beat Roscoe at everything when they were boys, including a date with Roscoe's would-be sweetheart (Nicole Ari Parker).
If this all seems groan-inducingly unoriginal, that's part of the point. The recognition factor is crucial to the process. And it's best understood sitting with the right audience, the one talking back to the screen, issuing the "yup's" and "ooooh noo's" and creating a sort of living presence out of the movie. For these viewers, the fun is watching Lawrence squirm, cringe or shudder at the fix he's in, whether he faces a you-know-what whupping from his muscle-bound brother (Michael Clarke Duncan) or blackmail from his conniving sib (Mike Epps), who just saw Roscoe making out with the Other Woman. And then there's the ultimate crowd pleaser, a slapstick encounter between two amorous dogs that you would never see in "My Dog Skip."
Getting into a jam is pretty standard for any character. But Lawrence's figures have a way of making this predicament seem especially painful and, of course, funny. We've seen him do this over and over, as the cross-dressing detective in "Big Momma's House," or the perpetually bickersome narc-partner (to Will Smith) in the "Bad Boys" franchise.
In every role, we have the distinct feeling Lawrence is winking at the audience. He's trying to bring it home, to break down the wall between screen character and human audience. But while this is a successful formula for Lawrence and enjoyable for his ticket-paying devotees, it's also disappointing and unseemly. A wickedly talented comedian, Lawrence has leaned all too easily on the tried and trite. And "Roscoe Jenkins" is another case in point, mere copycatting of the successful comedies built around Mabel Simmons, the fictional Madea played in Tyler Perry's films, and those Klump-centric farces of Eddie Murphy. Imagine if Lawrence were to stretch a little for once, test his flair against some fresh premises. While this could be risky at the box office, it might show him what it's like to take pride in, not just profit out of, his work.
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (113 minutes, at area theaters) is rated PG-13 for crude, sexual comedy, profanity and drug references.


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The City of Robinson presently has one of the lowest crime rates within Texas and is far below the national or state average crime rates. Our success can be attributed to the support of the community and the professionalism of the men and women of our department.
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Shocked Groom Sues Bride For Trauma after Seeing Her Bare-Faced For The First Time
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Algeria - They say that love is all about accepting the flaws and imperfections of your partner. But looks like this groom was not able to do it as he got the shock of his life when he saw his bride's bare face for the first time. What he did next would shock you even more. The bride kept her real face hidden before the wedding and it resulted an unexpected reaction of astonishment from her new groom who even thought she was a thief. He even sued his wife after seeing her for the first time without make-up.
He married his new wife due to her beauty that was enhanced by make-up, apparently saw her in his room after the wedding and refused to believe that she was his wife without her make-up on. He cannot believe that his wife without make-up on looks so different. He even accused her as a "thief who came to steal his apartment".
"The groom told the judge that he could not recognize his wife after she washed the make-up off her face. He said he was deceived by her as she used to fill up her face with make-up before their marriage. He said she looked very beautiful and attractive before their marriage, but when he woke up in the morning and found that she had washed the make-up off her face, he was frightened as he thought she was a thief." - A court source to Emirates 247The groom is reportedly demanding £13,000 damages for "psychological suffering" or trauma.


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When I turned 11, my parents wanted me to have the best birthday party possible. They sat me down one morning and asked me what I wanted to do. I didn't know at first, but I soon came to the conclusion that I wanted to go and do laser tag. I had never been before, and my friends were constantly telling me just how awesome it was. They told me about the blacklit mazes and pounding rave music that they blasted while you shot your friends with small, red rays. It sounded like the most fun thing in the world, and I begged my parents to let me go. My dad loved the idea, but my slightly overprotective mother was a bit tentative. She said that I might get lost or scared, but in a small amount of time my dad convinced her to let me go.
My party rolled around on a Friday. I had invited all of my friends, and a few of my cousins as well. Me and my friends messed around in the arcade, ate pizza, and had loads of fun, even before the first game of laser tag started. Finally, it was time to begin the first game. I went up to the place where you could register a nickname that they would put on your scorecards. I came up with the name "Falcon" on the spot. No real reason, it just seemed cool. We approached a large door that was decked out to look like the entrance to a huge vault. The marshal for our game got us all riled up, asking us things like, "Are you ready?" and then, "I can't hear you!" After we were all at maximum giddiness, we entered a large, blacklit room, with all of the laser packs hanging off of stands on the walls. The walls were all dressed up to look like some sort of alien planet. I made the mistake of wearing a white shirt, which made me a very easy target in the eerie glow of the blacklight. My friend joked with me, saying that I looked like a glowstick. We put on the packs, turned on our lasers, and all approached the door to the laser arena.
Before we entered, the marshal told us that if anything went wrong, than we were to point our lasers to the ceiling, wave them around, and scream 'marshal, marshal, marshal!' I was the most excited I had been in a while. Finally, after the marshal told us the last of the rules, she ushered us into the foggy arena. We had ten seconds to run about and find a good spot before our lasers activated and we could commence the tagging, and we ran in all directions like crazy people. I twisted and turned all throughout the dimly lit maze. All of the walls were decorated in some way, shape or form. There were parts that looked like the alien planet of the pack room, others that looked like caves with crystal shards sticking out of the ground.
I got good and lost there in that maze, but I didn't care one bit. I was too jittery to realize I was way, way far away from the entrance. I was underneath a castle of sorts, where you could go up and shoot people from above. However, the floors were screened, and I had great joy in shooting people right from under them and watching their confusion as to who tagged them. I had so much fun in that first game. I shot and got shot, Me and my friend even teamed up for a bit before I turned on him in the last few seconds of the game. Needless to say, he didn't talk to me much for the rest of the party, but hey, it's just a game, right?
I remember at one point, I hunkered down in a corner, waiting for people to come by, when I saw a dark, ambiguous figure, moving around a few feet away from me. Even though it had none of the flashing lights of a laser pack, a shot at it. A startled, but playful "Hey!" gave me the idea that it was the marshal, patrolling the area, making sure everything was alright.
The first game ended and we all ran out, dripping with sweat and beaming to no end, to see our scores. Surprisingly, I got 2nd place, beaten by 5 points by my cousin. We exchanged some playful looks and I assured that I would get him in the next game. The birthday package came with two games if you haven't guessed already, so in the gap between the next game we ate my cake, and opened presents. It was shaping up to be the best birthday I'd ever had.
Most of the people that I didn't know had left, so now it was just me and my friends in this game. The marshal led us in, skipping the rules as we put on our packs. We once again ran throughout the maze like madmen, shooting at each other, and having a fantastic time. After tagging the cousin that beat me in the previous game, I ran off to look for more prey.
I ran around that place for what seemed like 5 minutes, however, it seemed there was no one present. I listened over the loud music and noticed I couldn't hear any laser sounds, or the pitter-patter of rapid footsteps. I ran around, around, and around the maze, long enough so that I could have memorized it. I knew by now that the game definitely should have been over. However, when a game WAS over, someone over the loudspeaker would always let you know it was done. Not only that, but lights over the entrance to the laser arena would flash brightly, and you could follow those back to the entrance. I was confused, and out of not knowing what to do I rose my laser and screamed, "Marshal, marshal, marshal!" I waited a while, then again, louder, "Marshal, Marshal Marshal!" No friendly staff member came to my aid. I was decently frightened at this point. It all of a sudden occurred to me to check if the entrance was open. But to my dismay, it wasn't.
I continued to wander around, blacklight glowing, techno music blaring, for at least half an hour, desperately trying to find an exit. I even tried to open the fire escape, but even that wouldn't open. It was then that I saw the same, dark figure I saw in the first game. I think I was in the same area where I first saw it, too. I thought it was a staff member, so I called to it. It stopped moving. I stared at it blankly for a few seconds. I was about to call for it again, but then, the blasting rave music, that was playing this whole time, stopped.
The new found silence messed with my head, in a weird way deafening me. I stood there for a few seconds more before I heard the loudspeaker click on. I thought it would be the marshal, but, there was only the sound of light breathing. After a short time the breathing increased in volume, as if whoever was doing it leaned in to the microphone. In a dull, slightly raspy voice, distorted by the poor quality of the PA, I heard a name that simply terrified me.
At that moment the figure started to move towards me. I was terrified to the point where I couldn't move. As the shadow moved towards me, I noticed something in the middle of its face, glowing brightly in the blacklight. As it neared closer I realized, it was a smile. Not just any smile, but a very... unnerving one. My instincts were telling me that whatever this figure was meant to do harm to me, yet, in a strange way, the smile seemed friendly, like the smile of the marshal that ushered us in. For perhaps a nanosecond, I thought that it might be the marshal, but that all changed when it stopped, just in front of a light bulb I was under, so that I could see its true form. It wasn't the marshal.
It was wearing what appeared to be a tattered, dirty version of the staff uniform. It was tall and lanky, and appeared to be holding a slightly atrophied version of the laser gun, but it wasn't attached to a pack. I looked at its face. It seemed like the face of a man, but my brain was telling me it was something else. Something was just so inhuman about it. Its eyes appeared to have no irises, as where there should be color, there was just black. Its eyes were wide, with what emotion, I could not say, but at that moment I would say it was hunger. Its smile was still glowing. In the context of the rest of its face, it was no longer friendly, but malicious. It too was wide, with was a slight gap between the two rows of its giant, pearly white teeth. It probably doesn't sound too horrible, but in that moment it was the most terrifying thing I had ever seen. And to this day, it probably still is. As I stood there, frozen with terror, it pointed the laser at me and I heard it whisper, "Are you ready?"
Just as I regained my senses and began to run, it shot its laser at me. I dodged it just in time, but I realized it made a louder, more realistic noise than the regular laser guns. I looked back for a second to the place where it shot, and looked in horror at a burnt, black, smoking hole in the wall. That wasn't a play laser. I screamed and ran away. As I did, I heard it exclaim from behind me,
All of my primal instincts kicked in, and I ran as fast as I possibly could. It seemed that everywhere I turned, I could hear it giggling to itself, almost as I did in that first round of laser tag. I put every ounce of my energy into trying to get away from him. I ran into him a few times, each time his hungry eyes and horrific smile growing wider, narrowly escaping his death beam each time. One of the times, it grazed my arm, leaving a thin, but painfully burnt cut on my upper arm, from which I felt blood trickle down. Finally, after what seemed like an hour of running, I had to stop. I found a dark and shady corner, the darkest and the arena, and took refuge there, praying to whatever God there was that it wouldn't find me. After a minute or two, I saw it. It was roaming around with that same wretched, glowing smile, and I could tell it was looking for me. I thought it wouldn't find me, until the awful remembrance washed over me, and my eyes grew wide with fear. My shirt. It was all white. The blacklight.
The thing that had been chasing me, who was at lest a yard away from me, finally centered its piercing gaze on me. Even though I couldn't see them from here, I could feel his near-colorless eyes searing into me. It was then that everything went black. All of the light bulbs, blacklights, everything shut off with a loud clunk. I let out a pitiful cry of terror, and heard it reverberate throughout the arena. Now, in the darkness, their was nothing separating me and the thing. It could be far away, or right in front of me, ready to shoot me. After a while of silently trembling there in the corner, I cried when I saw its glowing grin make its way into my vision. I almost accepted that I was a about to die.
However, something came over me. a sudden rush of feeling washed over me, and I let out a fearsome cry of a mix of fear and rage. I don't know why I did, but I started shooting at it with my laser. It sounds stupid, but it seemed to drive the smile back. I continued to shoot at it until, strangely, the smile disappeared from my vision. It melted into the darkness of the arena, and it was then that I probably passed out. From exhaustion or shock, I don't know.
I woke up outside the arena. Outside the laser tag building, in fact. I was laying in the grass, just behind the place. As soon as I came to my senses, I sat up and assessed my surroundings. I squinted, as my eyes were not yet adjusted to the my sunlit surroundings. I felt the cool breeze blow towards me. I stood up, and wobbled a little as I was strangely dizzy. I shambled my way towards the front of the building to find a parking lot filled with police cars. My mom was standing outside and picked me up as soon as she saw me, hugging me so hard she almost smothered me. My dad did much of the same. I don't truly know what happened that day, as I was told to wait in my car with my mom. I eavesdropped on a conversation with a police officer and my dad, however. I could only hear the following words:
"He appears... escaped... put away for strange... we have no idea how he... into the arena... we don't know... what he was h... or how he made it..."
I looked to the opposite side of the car, I saw the cousin that had beaten me being wheeled into an ambulance. He was unconscious and appeared to have a deep, bloody wound in his upper leg. I looked to the other side where dad was still talking to the police officer, but I didn't listen in, and I couldn't. There in the back of an armored police van, there he was. Still smiling at me. His eyes, staring into mine were just as dark and menacing, though they seemed to be squinted a bit, and a little damaged. What is the most strange though, is that his smile, though now in the dim, overcast light of the late afternoon, still seemed to slightly glow as it did in the blacklight.


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December 24, 2014
Tableau Tip: How to make KPI donut charts
If you have any experience with floating objects in Tableau, you know the pain of taking lots of time to make a dashboard look perfect in Desktop with floating objects, only to have it get all messed up once you publish it to Server or Public. I rarely recommend using floating objects for just this reason; it's frustrating and can make your work look sloppy. Hopefully Tableau soon fixes this bug that has been around as long as floating objects have existed.
Another reason to avoid floating objects is that there are more objects that have to be drawn on the dashboard, which can potentially have a performance impact.
While I typically hate pie charts, I think that donut charts, used in this specific way, can indeed be effective. As Ryan says in his post:
When used for the specific purpose of showing a metric's progress to goal, with one "slice" being the current state of the KPI and one "slice" being the remainder to goal, I think a donut chart works well.Here's how I would create a donut chart in Tableau using a single worksheet. The final product looks like this:
Step 1: Create a two-slice pie chart. This example uses actual sales and sales left to hit the goal.
Step 2: Drag the Number of Records measure to the Rows shelf and change the aggregation to an average. Repeat this a second time and then right-click on the second pill and choose "Dual Axis". Finally, remember to synchronize the axes.
Step 3: Double click on the left axis to bring up the Edit Axis window. Uncheck Include Zero.
Step 4: Do a bit of formatting: (1) Remove Zero line, (2) Remove Row & Column dividers, (3) Hide the headers
Step 5: On the secondary axis, remove Measure Names from color and Measure Values from Angle. Click the Color shelf and choose white. Adjust the size of the pie down slightly to reveal the donut.
Step 6: Add Region to the Columns shelf and then hide the headers.
Step 7: On the first pie chart on the Marks card, add Region to the Label shelf, set the alignment to the top and make the font bigger.
Step 8: On the second pie chart on the Marks card, add a % to goal measure to the Label shelf and customize the font.
Step 9: Sort Region by the % to goal metric in descending order.
Download the Tableau workbook used to create this post here.
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Hi Andy,ReplyDelete
I know you are not a big fan of pie charts, but what if one of the regions above succeeded it's goal. Can we add a 3rd color to represent the success in the donut chart?
Would love to hear back from you.
Protyush, I can't recommend that you use donuts any time. I wrote this as a joke.Delete
I figured it! You need to create 2 calculated metrics, in addition to the Actual Sales in the Measure Values of the first Pie (Assuming the forecast number is also present in the data set)
1st Calculated metric: Exceed Goal:(Let's color this Orange)
If (Sales>=Forecast) then Sales - Forecast else 0 end;
2nd Calculated metric:Left to achieve Goal: (Let's color this Grey)
If (Sales<Forecast) then Forecast - Sales else 0 end;
3rd is the Sales:(Let's color this Blue)
Thanks Andy for showing how to create a donut chart.
Hi Andy: Any reason why you hate pie charts ? I learnt that atleast twice so far. First on your blogs, under About Me. And again here today.ReplyDeleteReplies
Hi Andy,ReplyDelete
How to handle the situation when sales has exceeded the goal? If sales goal was 100 and we sold 120.Replies
Simple, don't use a donut chart. Use a bullet graph instead.Delete
Hi Andi, Is there any way to set the anegel of the donut chat...............?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, you use the Angle shelf.Delete
When I try to adjust the size of the second pie chart, Tableau also adjust the size for the first one. what should I do?ReplyDeleteReplies
You are likely adjusting the size on the All option on the Marks card. Make sure you only adjust the size for the metric you want to resize.Delete
Hi folks, I'm getting the same issue. Resizing one pie and the other one automatically adjusts to the new size. I'm selecting the Size individually for each metric as opposed to adjusting the size for 'All'. Anyone know how to decouple this?Delete
Ok, I figured it out. I had some extra marks on my second pie. Once I removed everything but the Label, I was able to resize the second pie without it adjusting the first.Delete
Is there a possibility to make the middle chart to be on top all the time, because now, if i click on the bigger one it sets the white one in background. Looked everywhere how to lock somehow the layers, but with no luck :)
Any ideas?
Can you add the pictures back ;) links are broken! This was our go-to place to pick up donut making instructions!ReplyDelete
Can you add the pictures back ;) links are broken! This was our go-to place to pick up donut making instructions!ReplyDeleteReplies
The pictures are there.Delete
Hi Andy. Thanks for posting this. I have a question. I created a parameter to let customer choose which group's data they want to see. But any time when they change the group names, the label inside of the donut chart will change the position, will not be show in the right middle anymore. Do you have any idea how to fix the position of the label? ThanksReplyDeleteReplies
Hi AndyReplyDelete
Thanks for the great guide. I have an issue.
I have created my donut chart, and filtered by relative date (current month).
Hvem no data has been inserted by the 1. of the month, the donut disappears.
How can I make a rule to show the pie and the % even though no data has been inserted?Replies
How can you expect Tableau to draw something if no data exists?Delete
I know.Delete
The pis illustrates reports made on 82 locations.
Every month a report should be made, so at the 1st of the month, no reports are made, so i would like the pie to show the total sum of locations, and the 100% missing value - does it make sense? :)
Then you need a separate chart in the view that only displays on the first of the month and hides when it's not the first of the month. Please don't be ridiculous and create a view with 82 donut charts.Delete
I try it out, and try not to be rediculous :)ReplyDelete
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This comment has been removed by the author.ReplyDeleteReplies
Right click anywhere in the view area and choose Format. Click on the little paint brush on the Format Pane. On the Zero Line option, set it to None.Delete
Hi AndyReplyDelete
I just tried removing the Measure Names from color and Measure Values from Angle in the secondary axis. But it removes the entire chart, is there a way to lock the all options in the marks card.
Tried it in my worksheet and also in your workbook in sheet -4 . Need some help here.
Ok I figured it out. The size of the first axis needs to increased.ReplyDelete
Andy, can I rotate the pie chart to start on the horizontal axis instead of the vertical Axis?ReplyDelete
This is awesome! Although I don't yet understand why Number of Records is used. I don't have another suggestion, will just accept because it worked.ReplyDelete
Any thoughts on showing this in a Speedometer view. For example 1-3 represents a Low-Med-High risk ranking. color scale also. Needle points to the respective ranking. Get the idea?
oh, look, how cool of you to be so above donut charts as to make a tutorial and then tell those asking questions in earnest that you are doing this as a joke. You really showed them!ReplyDelete
How will the donut chart look like if sales exceeds the target(goal)?
How will the visualization look like?Replies
Simple, don't use a donut chart. Use a bullet graph or other alternatives.Delete
I can't find example on the list of files. I'd really like to see what your data looks like. I am getting pie angle and percent that just don't match.ReplyDeleteReplies
Download the workbook and unzip it.Delete


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The 38-year-old Yeezy designer went a tweeting spree on Saturday (27.02.16) to rave about the comedic actor, after he watched Ben Stiller's hit comedy 'Zoolander 2' in which Will reprised his role as the evil fashion genius Jacobim Mugatu.
The tweets - of which there are nine in total - go: "I saw Zoolander 2 for the 2nd time. Will Ferrell has reached walking living breathing god status! His existence is a blessing. Perhaps it was seeing him play the same character from 15 years ago with 15 more years experience.(sic)"
It's unclear whether Kanye has ever met Will, but he went on to compare the 48-year-old actor to the late Hollywood icon Bruce Lee, who was famed for his popular martial arts movies including 'Enter The Dragon'.
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Operation Dark Heart
September 10, 2010 by USA Post
Operation Dark Heart, United States Department of Defense is trying to buy the whole print run of the play "Operation Dark Heart", which had already been printed. The book's author is Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer who served in Afghanistan in 2003. The book reveals a number of secret service operations, including high-tech espionage oriented high-level al-Qaeda. Many of the incidents took place in rural areas of Pakistan.
Review copies of books already in circulation. The Washington Post and other media received a review copy and the book is about to be released to the public. Shaffer is able to do undercover operations and use of methods of the CIA. It may well be that the leak of the Pentagon to buy back-story is just an attempt to increase sales of the book.
The book appears on Amazon and already has a range of sales. It actually has a sales rank of # 7 in the books. This means that a considerable number of books were sold and delivered. While the Department of Defense is often the target of critics, I doubt that they are so stupid. If you do not want the book circulated, was not invited to the media at the party.
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Apple insists banks don't pass on Apple Pay charges to customers. Banks accept this in most countries. But not in Australia and, by extension, New Zealand.1
Wrangling over the issue slowed Apple Pay's progress in both countries.
Three of Australia's four big banks asked that country's regulator for permission to negotiate with Apple as a group.2
The fourth bank, ANZ, has its own agreement with Apple.
On Monday Westpac, Commonwealth Bank and National Australia Bank took fees off the table. In return they want Apple to open up the NFC chip in iPhone. That will allow them to run their digital wallets in direct competition to Apple Pay.
The dispute is almost academic. Digital wallet take-up rates are miniscule. For now digital wallets are a rounding error in transaction statistics. Yet everyone involved thinks they will soon be huge.
The Australian reports ANZ completed 10 million Apple Pay transactions since launching nine months ago. This compares to seven billion credit and debit card transactions in a year.
Banks and phone makers expect digital wallets to take off when they add other features. Driver's licences, loyalty cards and membership schemes are at the front of the list. So are public transport cards.
Both Apple and the Australian banks hope people will one day no longer carry conventional wallets. Both want the game to play out their way.
The key to understanding the dispute is that both sides are big, powerful semi-monopolies. Both want control and both want to clip the ticket on every transaction. It can mean rivers of gold.
The Australian banks argue that opening up the iPhone NFC chip will allow innovation to flourish. Apple argues customers will get a better digital wallet experience if it retains control. Among other things it means customers can run cards issued by different banks from a single app.
Banks elsewhere might be as uneasy with Apple Pay, but few banking markets are as tight-held as Australia and New Zealand. This gives the local big banks a clout that, say, US banks don't have.
Customers want them all to get
on with it. A handful of geeks have swapped to ANZ to use
Apple Pay. If that trickle was a flood, the other banks
would soon change their tune.
- That's because Australia's dominant big four banks are also New Zealand's largest banks.
- Good question. I'm glad you asked. In normal times it is illegal for competitors to collude with each other. Regulators fear this can lead to bad things for customers.
Here's the thing about Apple Pay and banks was first posted at billbennett.co.nz.


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regelate — re·ge·late … English syllables
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text: The Lost Colony of Roanoke Which theory has the best supporting evidence to explain what happened to the colonists at Roanoke? By Kimberly Williams and Sydni Lambert Even though there isn't a lot of proof of the theory that had the most evidence was that the "friendly" Indians weren't all that friendly. The name of their tribe was written all over on trees and there was a skull on a log carved with the words "Croatan" once again pointing to the tribes name, the Croatans.


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I would love to explore more of Europe and Israel. There are so many beautiful places with lots of history and lots of surprising experiences to have.
Hard to say. Either my Kindle app, so I can read anywhere, or Two Dots game app.
I love exploring the National Mall. Day or night, I always seem to discover something new.