So when I heard that Java, an Indonesian restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn, offered an Americanized version of the meal, I grabbed three friends and drove down to what I hoped was a trip back to my days in Amsterdam.

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Two days later I was sitting on the bed in my hotel room, looking down on revelers in Times Square, as I sat on hold awaiting advice from IBM technical support.

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Whether we were counting down the days to my graduation or sharing our engagement (yes, as in, proposal) video with over 7, 000 people across our social media networks, we try to just be sincere, humans who happen to have a food truck.

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This is something, by the way -- going back to my involvement -- two or three days after this happened, we had a meeting down in the Situation Room in which I specifically asked Bob Gates and Mike Mullen what assets do we have that could potentially help that BP or other oil companies around the world do not have.

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Among my reasons, I noted that volume in the rally was very light compared to the volume on the down-days during the correction, which indicated insiders and large institutional investors who were selling during the correction, were not believers in the sustainability of the rally and were not participating, more likely waiting to begin selling again when the rally ends.

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