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:: Monday, February 9 2015 ::
If I were to describe my time (this time) in Paris, I would probably tell many stories of interesting events I walked into, or amazing places I visited, or things of that nature. What I might not mention is my current impression of life here, which is basically 'my mouth is falling apart'. When I arrived back in December, I went to the dentist because I was having pain. He did some major work, and I was happy. Then on Friday, the first day of a road trip out of Paris, I lost a crown. So today I went back, again, to my dentist's office, and I'll go, again, tomorrow. I imagine it will end up like the Scottish Death Flu (a sickness I acquired while visiting Edinburgh). If prompted, I'll remember it happened, but my narrative of events, given the choice, will omit the bad (or uninteresting) stuff. :: David (9:54 in Arkansas, 16:54 in Paris) - Comment :: Friday, January 9 2015 :: Life in the big city is weird. Life in the big city of a not-very-big country is even weirder. Everything is so local. Not only because often, it actually happened in the city, but also because, at least in the case of London or Paris, when big things happen the government responds, and the government is located in those cities. So even big things that happen far away, like the Sivens dam project, which is about as far from here as you can get and still be in mainland France, it still feels like much of the action is happening right next door. Unfortunately, the most recent thing to happen really did happen right next door. Gunmen stormed the building of Charlie Hebdo and shot many of the staff members. There's no question at this point that it was Islamic extremists. They escaped, and a manhunt is still underway. Although I never felt threatened, I was certainly relieved that when they headed to the suburbs, they went the other direction. I went yesterday to their offices - it was actually an accident, but once I saw the long line of satellite trucks and reporters I decided to walk by. It feels a little odd, actually - I had my camera, but I felt awkward taking pictures. Clearly the media felt no such compuctions. I even watched what seemed to be a staged laying of flowers at an impromptu memorial. Right now it looks like the (inter)national outpouring of support will mean Charlie Hebdo will survive. It's a shame people wait until you're no longer living to say how important your work is. The articles written for an international audience have been very complimentary, as Le Monde notes. :: David (3:18 in Arkansas, 10:18 in Paris) - Comment :: Friday, November 21 2014 :: Some simple rules: 35% of something is more than 25% of something. Every so often politicians think they know better, and you end up plans to cut taxes but spend the same amount because of [magic]. Kansas did it, and is reaping the benefits, as did North Carolina. Now it looks like we'll be seeing it on the national scale too. :: David (2:46 in Arkansas, 9:46 in Paris) - Comment :: Tuesday, November 18 2014 :: Went to a fascinating talk today about toilets. Tomorrow is apparently world toilet day and UCL decided to celebrate with a lecture about loos. It's actually a massive problem, in that more than a third of the planet's population don't have access to sanitation, and this leads to a huge number of health problems. There was also a fascinating discussion of how the built environment determines who gets to use public spaces - apparently in Victorian London there were only public toilets for men, because women were not expected to leave the house. And since there were no toilets for them, really, they couldn't. The speaker then drew a connection from that, through race, disability, and now transgender. Really interesting stuff. :: David (9:20 in Arkansas, 16:20 in Paris) - Comment :: Saturday, November 8 2014 :: It always terrifies me when I get an email from my hosting provider saying they need to migrate my website to a new machine. I once had two years of files suddenly disappear after a 'backup/restore' situation. Oh dear - in rereading the message, I see I am being kicked off my host. There's a joke about 'you get what you pay for', but I really do dislike having to find a new hosting provider. Sigh. Oh well - when rates increase by 100% it's clearly time to start looking around. :: David (2:13 in Arkansas, 9:13 in Paris) - Comment :: Tuesday, November 4 2014 :: Had my phone stolen straight out of my hand by some guy on a bike Sunday night. Apparently this is becoming quite common in London - they call it, cleverly, 'Apple picking'. So now I'm trying to get the old Nexus One working and shopping for a new phone. That I will hold on to much more tightly... :: David (15:41 in Arkansas, 22:41 in Paris) - Comment :: Wednesday, October 15 2014 :: I use a link shortening service called bit.ly when I post something to social media, in part because it makes the links look a little neater, and in part because it allows me to track how popular something I've shared is. It's interesting to see what becomes popular and what doesn't, although how much of that is facebook sorting things and how much is actual interest I can't tell. I realized that all the links I've shortened are public, which is fine since I share things publicly on facebook anyway. If you'd like to see a list of the articles I'm sharing, I think you can just take a look at my bit.ly profile - I imagine it's live, so as soon as I've shortened something it will appear there. I've actually taken to sharing things strategically when I want people to read them, which is a sad statement on the facebook algorithm. I've been using the new social media service Ello (you can see my profile on Ello, which is currently public to everyone) as a reaction to all the things I don't like about Facebook. I'm not sure it will take off - network is all, and right now there aren't a large number of my friends over there. But I'm hopeful. It remains to be seen what they will do to raise money for the service - it costs a great deal to maintain over 50PB of data). :: David (5:37 in Arkansas, 12:37 in Paris) - Comment :: Thursday, September 25 2014 :: Man, do I hate apartment hunting! We're trying to find a place in Paris, and it feels like no matter what you do someone is taking you to the cleaners. Ideally we would do it direct, but then there's the fear that we show up and someone has taken our money and not provided an apartment. And with the agencies, you have a limited selection at a higher price. Bleah. :: David (3:46 in Arkansas, 10:46 in Paris) - Comment :: Thursday, September 11 2014 :: I have been obsessed with the referendum on Scottish independence these last few months. Now that a poll has come out suggesting 'Yes' might actually win, Westminster has been running around like chickens with their heads cut off to try and find a way to prevent the breakup of the UK. It's possible that up until last weekend I was paying more attention to the Scots than the government was. But now it's real, and it's happening in one week. We watched one of the televised debates, more's the pity, as it was a shoutfest and a bunch of "we'll use the pound" "no you won't" "yes we will". The questions of how the breakup would occur, and how Scotland would work afterward, are real, but the politicians haven't been offering any real evidence, one way or the other. Even Paul Krugman, who usually has a pretty steady head on, just came out with seemingly random words (to be fair, maybe based on what the politicans were saying). I think having a plan is important. I think you work the details out once you decide it's happening, not before. Either way, it's going to get more exciting as the days go by, and next Friday we may get a whole new country! :: David (16:45 in Arkansas, 23:45 in Paris) - Comment :: Tuesday, September 9 2014 :: Settled in to downtown London. Our flat is quite nice, and the location is quite hard to beat - there's a bus stop literally across the street, so on several occasions we've been able to ride straight to or straight from our door. I'm experimenting with the so-called 'Boris Bikes' which are cheap rental bikes located all over the city. The only real downside has been how much time is spent in settling in. I had hoped to spend a lot more time taking photos, but haven't found it to be as easy as 'wake up in the morning and go take pictures'. In part because even though London isn't all that big, getting anywhere is either very slow or very expensive. It's still early days for the classes Sasha is doing, but outside of a technical glitch (self inflicted when we installed Windows 8 on her laptop) things seem to be going well there. We've had the chance to socialize quite a little bit, which has been nice, and even spent the day brewing beer at a friend's house. So life is quite busy, overall, in a (mostly) good way. Once a week or so we're scheduled to see plays, and so far that's been good too. A well-acted Shakespeare play is hard to beat. Rather than additional typing I'm going to head out now - there's a photo contest St Paul's Cathedral is running, and I'm trying to at least put up a fight, as the prize is a private tour and a nice dinner. :: David (4:43 in Arkansas, 11:43 in Paris) - Comment :: Monday, August 11 2014 :: It's been a while since I posted anything here, and there's a pretty good reason why: since last I posted, we have moved out of our home in Arkansas and into a series of temporary lodgings in Europe. At first this seemed like something that would not be too challenging, but I have discovered that, barring financial impetus, having some minimum standard of lodging impacts my ability or desire to post things online. Even on Facebook, where I am usually most active (and where I have been posting photos the whole time), I have found myself without the time and energy to do much interacting. Now that we have settled in to a single location for what will hopefully be a fairly lengthy span of days, I am hopeful that I'll be able to update things a bit more regularly. :: David (7:14 in Arkansas, 14:14 in Paris) - Comment :: Saturday, June 7 2014 :: I was recently looking at slate, and noticed that their commenting system is powered by live fyre, a fairly popular third party commenting system. It got me thinking once again about this blog, and the way I built my own, somewhat clunky, comment system. And I realized that part of the reason is sheer attrition: I've outlasted most of the Internet's big companies. So a system that is huge today might not (will not) be big in a decade. Which on some level makes me worry, our wonder, or something - what happens to the billions of comments people write when the system goes down? I mean, I'm pretty sure I know the answer, but it boggles the mind to think all that heat and light will fade to black. :: David (23:58 in Arkansas, 6:58 in Paris) - Comment :: Sunday, May 25 2014 :: Leaving a job is always a strange thing - you spend a lot of time with people, and develop all these relationships, but of course it's also your job, as opposed to the things you do when people aren't paying you to do them. This was the longest I had ever worked at one place, and it felt sad to say goodbye. Fortunately I'm also distracted by the things we have to do before we move abroad, which is fast approaching. It's also strange to think that I'll be coming back - usually when I move, I'm leaving for good. This time it's only for a year. :: David (0:20 in Arkansas, 7:20 in Paris) - Comment :: Tuesday, April 29 2014 :: Another tornado rolled through the area Sunday night. It hit Mayflower and Vilonia, both of which seem like unfair targets for nature's wrath, given that Mayflower had an oil spill barely one year ago, and Vilonia was just now starting to recover from the last tornado, which hit it almost exactly three years ago. My work day was spent in a weird combination of checking to make sure everyone and their loved ones were safe, trying to work out whether our organization could donate some t-shirts to the relief effort, and the day-to-day operations that would ordinarily be how I spend my day.
Also at lunch a woman came by collecting toiletries for some of her family down in Mayflower. I gave her our collection of hotel shampoo bottles. It's hard to know what's useful, and your default impulse is to pile everything in. My colleagues spent the last part of the day in large part trying to figure out how to get home. Although the early morning traffic through the affected area had been smooth, cleanup efforts and gawker backups now meant a quick drive had become an epic journey. I expect tomorrow I'll hear stories of being trapped on small roads west of the highway for hours. Or perhaps they're still driving. The full extent of the damage is not yet completely known, but we know it's bad - at least 14 people are confirmed dead. Despite the grimness, there is one point of light - the way the community pulls together to help. It was amazing to me how quickly cleanup crews were organized - almost before the twister had spun itself out, churches and other groups were planning next steps. It would not surprise me if every person who owned a chainsaw in the area had turned up the next morning to begin clearing debris. If this community acted with such purpose all the time it would be unstoppable. :: David (0:19 in Arkansas, 7:19 in Paris) - Comment :: Wednesday, April 16 2014 :: As I get closer to this summer, when we will be relocating abroad, I have started trying to narrow down exactly what I'll be doing once we get to Europe. Options are somewhat endless, and every day brings a new idea (today's was "maybe I should learn Korean"). Business plans for when we return to the states are also multiplying exponentially. The recent tech gathering we had here in town, Barcamp Conway, added several new ideas and contacts to the list. I imagine I'll take some time in the summer to actually narrow these ideas down - certainly right now I'm too busy to narrow it down - the calendar is starting to fill up with end-of-school-year activities. Regardless, one thing I'm fairly certain of is that I will start blogging again, more frequently. I haven't decided if I'll use this blog or one that's a bit more tailored to photos - maybe start a tumblr for the next year or so. I've been looking at domains to get the photos rolling, but it's hard to choose a name that isn't either already taken or is just plain terrible. :: David (14:59 in Arkansas, 21:59 in Paris) - Comment :: Thursday, March 6 2014 :: This is the image I had mentioned in my previous post. Clicking it will, apparently, take you to the licensing page at Getty. As you can see, this could be a great source of fun images. Unrelated: as you may have guessed, I've fixed the problem of not being able to embed things! :: David (11:44 in Arkansas, 18:44 in Paris) - Comment So this was going to be a post about how Getty Imaging has decided to open most of their catalogfor use by the public. I was going to embed an image from them of Lupita Nyong'o at the Oscars, to demonstrate how the embed process works. It involves dropping the following block of code into your site, and then you get the image, but it's a lower resolution version, and it links back to Getty (so your users, I guess, can license a bigger version?) <iframe src="//embed.gettyimages.com/embed/476933715?et=x5aIseITD0yGl_Bw7crYcA&sig=m0ZA49g5fPnfZunrzRW0hIgVabaXOgzYyIS40B5DLEE=" width="594" height="457" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe> But in starting to post, I realized that I had made changes to the blog such that I'm not sure I can post raw HTML into a blog post anymore. Oops. So the above might be code, or it might be a picture. I don't know which way it's going to go yet. Anyway, regarding the whole embedding images business, I'm not really sure what I think of it. I mean, I probably wouldn't post about the Oscars, but I might about a big news event. And if I were doing so, I might want an image. Previously, I would have gone to Flickr and searched their creative commons stuff for something appropriate. Now I guess I might use a Getty image? I dunno - I'm not sure what they gain. Maybe name recognition? :: David (10:40 in Arkansas, 17:40 in Paris) - Comment :: Monday, February 17 2014 :: Did a bit of updating on the blog software today, updated some tools that I'm sure were a security risk (to new tools that will someday become a security risk). I'm thinking about starting a new blog, or a new line of posts, and I can't decide whether I should use my main blog for it, or start a new one dedicated only to the topic I want to write on. The topic would be unemployment - there would be some of the same things I write about here - the economics of unemployment - but it would be more of a 'this is my personal journey through unemployment'. As someone who, for reasons either structural, personal, or reasons of sheer luck, has never really had to deal with unemployment as a problem (as opposed to unemployment as a choice), I think it might be of interest to people to see how that journey goes (I will be unemployed by my own choice in a few months, and will be finding ways to occupy myself before heading back out into the job market in a year or so). I know from past experience that even when you choose to be unemployed it's a big hit to the psyche, so I'm interested to see how it goes this time, when I'm a very well qualified employee (call me mid-level?) who expects, more or less, to have the world at my feet (even though I know, or think I know, that the market is not at all good, both due to the crash and because of where I live). :: David (12:28 in Arkansas, 19:28 in Paris) - Comment :: Friday, February 14 2014 ::
One of the fun things about running a service on the internet is the days when the internet goes out.
In theory, this should never happen - remember that the internet was built specifically to allow communications in the event that towns got nuked. Apparently somewhere between then and now, the specs have gotten a bit more lax.
The worst part about it, of course, is the fact that, if there's nothing you can do (because the outage is upstream), there is literally nothing that you can do. Sit and click 'reload'.
:: Thursday, February 6 2014 ::
I've been super excited to see some of the developments taking place in, let's call it 'Western', news media. I wonder how many of the changes we should lay at Edward Snowden's door. Several new media outlets seem to be taking shape, and at least a couple of them seem to take the role of watchdog on government seriously. I'm excited to see what First Look Media and whatever Vox Media are doing. Call me 'optimistic' that we'll get some honest-to-God real reporting. Will it affect what seems like our increasingly corrupt nations? That I'm less sure of - it might, however, curb some of the excesses.
:: Tuesday, February 4 2014 ::
It always seems odd when 'blogging' becomes something you put on your resume. I remember early on when it was something you specifically avoided mentioning (as they now tell us our facebook profile / whatever social media platform profile should be). The tension between the public and the private in (forgive me) cyberspace does not look like it's going to resolve anytime soon.
:: Tuesday, December 10 2013 :: This was a meme going around facebook, but I thought it was interesting enough to post here. There were a few authors I skipped, but I thought this was a nice cross section. Rules: Don't take too long to think about it. 15 books you've read that will always stick with you. First 15 you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.
1. Stand on Zanzibar / John Brunner
Bonus (for me, not you) - use the links, and Amazon gives me a kickback
:: Thursday, December 5 2013 ::
On the drive home from work I heard the news that Nelson Mandela had passed away. He was 95, which seems an excellent age to live to, especially given he spent nearly three decades in prison. He would probably not characterize it this way, since he spent a lot of time trying to ensure that South Africa didn't disintegrate under the weight of its past, but it seems to me a nice middle finger to the people who supported apartheid that he lived for so long after his imprisonment, and did so much. I also appreciate the fact that he was able to come around to peace and reconciliation, despite an earlier support for armed resistance. On a personal level, Mandela forms part of my earliest memories of politics - I remember vividly the boycott of Coca Cola, and my own complete incomprehension that something like apartheid could exist in the world.
:: Tuesday, November 19 2013 :: :: Saturday, November 16 2013 ::
Dear Android phone makers: please build some phones that actually fit in people's hands (and pockets)! Bigger is not better.
:: Tuesday, November 12 2013 ::
Last night, one of the members of the West Memphis Three, Damien Echols, spoke at the University of Central Arkansas. He was brought in by the English department to talk about writing, both the books he is publishing and the journals etc. he kept while in prison. It was interesting - he received a standing ovation as he walked in, and when he had finished reading. I hadn't been sure what to expect, but it wasn't what I got - he was surprisingly erudite in certain areas, and his last few years in prison had made him quite spiritual (in an esoteric way). In addition, his description of what for him was mundane prison life was frankly riveting. A friend noted afterward that everyone should have to see someone who has served time in prison talk about their experiences. Overall, it was a fascinating evening. The local newspaper did a write up of the event which has some additional details and some interesting quotes.
:: Thursday, October 3 2013 ::
Hendrix College restarted their football program this year. It's been a fraught thing for students and faculty, but seems to have launched without a hitch (I took photos at the first game - if I remember I'll try to post them here). Now a couple of stories have been released detailing why a small college might want to have a football program. The short version: follow the money. Read more about it at SB Nation and Deadspin.
:: Wednesday, September 11 2013 :: While trying to embed a Google Plus post, I think I discovered a bug or a feature in my blog software. I'm going to try again... :: David (15:33 in Arkansas, 22:33 in Paris) - Comment
While I'm trying the facebook embed, I should try the Google Plus embed as well. I'm concerned this one won't work - it has some funky code.
I heard about, then promptly forgot, that I could embed facebook posts in other sites. I'm going to try it here, and see what blows up. Post by David Barber. :: David (14:53 in Arkansas, 21:53 in Paris) - Comment :: Sunday, September 8 2013 ::
Another day, another attempt to wrest control of your identity by a (the) social network. I've been thinking about the various and sundry attempts I've made to build my own stack - some successful (this blog runs on custom software), some less so (I wanted to build my own like tracker - didn't happen). The open web was supposed to give us access to these tools - someone else builds them, and we benefit. The shared economy. But there was a revenue stream to be had, and now we are the product, and everything is once again locked down. Add in the NSA for some solid tin-foil fun. The one good thing I see is that people are becoming aware that privacy is a myth, and some of the best and brightest are taking this on. But there's not an easy answer - unless you run the whole stack out of your house, it's hard to see a path to real privacy. Well, excepting going offline altogether...
:: Saturday, August 31 2013 ::
I bought myself an early birthday present - the Sigma 18-35mm F1.8 DC HSM Lens
which is a brand new thing in a zoom lens - previously you couldn't get a 1.8 aperture in a zoom. I did some test shots with it after we picked it up, and it's quite something. I'm concerned about the weight of the lens, but the image quality is very nice - much better than I think any of my other lenses will do.
:: Sunday, August 25 2013 ::
Posted the pics from Alaska on my travels in the USA page.
:: Thursday, August 22 2013 :: I'm very pleased to see some high profile folks addressing the whole 'math in economics' question. Noah Smith wrote a rather lengthy essay on why he doesn't find the insane math some economists use to be particularly helpful. Math can also be used as obscurantism; if every paper in a field starts with a dense thicket of formal statements and functional equations, it will be difficult for even very smart outsiders to come in and evaluate what the people in a field are doing with their time. Again, I doubt all but the most cynical macroeconomists would be intentionally obscurantist; they would just be subtly rewarded for doing things that ended up having an obscurantist result.Paul Krugman responds by noting that math can offer a clarity that words might not, but acknowledges that "[w]hat is true is that all too many economists have lost sight of this purpose; they treat their models as The Truth, and/or judge each othersÆ work by how hard the math is." One of the things that every intro to econometrics class tries to instill in students is the idea that the formula is there to represent a well-thought-out model. You don't just throw math at the problem until it goes away. However, this seems often to be the last time that point gets made. I sincerely hope this conversation leads to some reflection among economists about the role math is playing in their work.
:: Wednesday, August 21 2013 ::
I've been letting this whole 'why aren't people having kids' thing percolate for a while. It seems like the nationwide excitement got ramped back up after the Time magazine cover story. Thinking as an economist, the question seems ridiculous - people can't afford to have children. Economic uncertainty. Hollowed out middle class. Etc. But there's a lot more - falling birth rates in developed countries is a thing, and the causes are surely more complex. So it's sitting up in my brain, waiting for a moment to come out. But, as may be clear, if I let things percolate nothing ever gets posted here. So this is where I am, at least on this topic.
:: Saturday, July 13 2013 ::
We headed up to Alaska for a week. I shot a lot of photos. Still working through them - turns out sorting good from bad is kinda hard! The trip was nice - saw family friends that I've not seen in a while. I think I will need to go back to Alaska at some point, as it was extraordinary!
:: Tuesday, June 18 2013 ::
You should check out this Slate article on our friend Margaret's portraits of female hunters.
Some recent economic data shows the labor force participation rate still in the toilet. Another way of saying that is 'people still don't have jobs, six years on'. Because I've been doing an awful lot of driving of late, I've listened to quite a lot of folks discuss causes, effects, and next steps (I listen to a lot of podcasts in the car, from the London School of Economics, the BBC, and others). It's more than a little depressing that, with so very many people focused on the problem, we've made no progress at all. When I lived in Japan in the late '90s/early 2000s I often wondered 'how do you lose a whole decade?' I guess now I know.
It's always interesting to me when a widget I've included on the blog changes in a fundamental way. I see Twitter has changed things quite a bit, which makes it a bit like coming to my web page to see someone else has updated it.
:: Saturday, June 8 2013 ::
The PRISM program is interesting not only from a tech and privacy perspective, but also from an economic one. Much like the recent GMO wheat debacle, there is a real question as to what impact this will have on foreign consumption of goods and services. I've seen people calling for boycotts of cloud services, for example. Don't get me wrong - this isn't some 'sky is falling' type of comment. It's just a note that there can be an impact. Probably small, for any individual incident (probably). Build enough small incidents, though, and you end up with where American food is - generally suspect - our beef has been banned repeatedly is Asia, our wheat and corn modified (which is not appreciated some places).
:: Thursday, April 18 2013 ::
Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas needs to be voted out of office in 2014. He runs as a Democrat but votes on major issues like a Republican. Internet, make it happen.
:: Thursday, April 4 2013 ::
Information on the Arkansas Oil Spill is flowing so fast (no pun intended) that it's hard to keep up with. The company (ExxonMobile) has been having some bumps with the first amendment (for example, the local media were told they could go with governor on tour of the effected area, then Exxon threw them out). A no-fly zone was imposed, then rolled back to allow media after an outcry. Local politicians have been scrambling to look like they care (some of them probably do, to be fair). Implications for the Keystone XL pipeline are being debated endlessly in the media. And it turns out that the Kalamazoo spill was also a spill of this type, which is not crude oil in the traditional sense, but some sort of slurry of oil and sand and stuff. Rachel Maddow did a show detailing how, three years later, the Kalamazoo spill still isn't cleaned up. I'm hoping to go take a look tomorrow and see if there's anything to be seen from on lake Conway (the lake that is asserted to be oil free).
:: Tuesday, April 2 2013 ::
I wrote a major post about the Arkansas oil spill yesterday, but forgot to press 'submit'. Very frustrating. On the other hand, now I'll have a bit more information. In the meantime, watch the video of the spill if you haven't already.
:: Sunday, March 24 2013 ::
A pleasant Spring break spent touring the state, as well as some new sights in Memphis. The weather did not exactly cooperate (it snowed one day while we were in Eureka Springs, for example), but hiking and sightseeing was nevertheless accomplished. I may also have a new goal - creating a travel guide for the state, and publishing it for fun and profit. We'll see. I'll need some more experienced consultants to make it happen, but it's very clear to me that there is a major gap in travel guides in Arkansas, and I just don't think wikivoyage is up to the task. Add it to the list of things I'm going to do once I'm unemployed.
:: Friday, March 15 2013 ::
One of the things I love about having a blog is that, years later, I can refer back to it and figure out what the heck was going on in my life. Like a journal, but also handy for pointing updates to others. So: updates. We just got a new pope. OK - that's not really my life, but it's a noteworthy event. It also intersects with a number of social issues I have an interest in, like gay rights and poverty/development. He's very bad on one, but looks promising on the other. We'll see. More locally, the Arkansas legislature has been particularly insane this year, having turned over to Republican for the first time since reconstruction. It looks as though they're trying to take everything back to the 1800's. On a more personal note, my friend Jason and his wife Janae will be visiting us for the next week. It will be nice to get out of the house and see Arkansas through the eyes of a tourist for a while. Hopefully I'll take my camera along and get lots of nice 'Spring in Arkansas' pictures. Finally, on the subject of pictures, I attended the first (what I hope is annual) Raspberry Pi Bake-off last night at Hendrix College. I took the camera along and got a few photos.
:: Tuesday, March 5 2013 ::
Hopefully the last update on the Tamron lens I had worked on - after shipping it back a second time (when the fit and finish just weren't acceptable) it came back last week seemingly good as new. I took a few photos of some baby owls near our house over the weekend and the action was back to nice and clean and silent.
:: Tuesday, February 26 2013 ::
Related to my previous post, about how online comments aren't very good, is my new pet project, events. Scheduling parties online isn't very good either. The problem is facebook and their walled garden. 85 percent of the people I want at my party are on facebook. Which leaves several who aren't, and what the heck do I do with that? I'm trying several tools to see if one of them works, but of course it's hard when you only have so many parties...
:: Friday, February 22 2013 :: TechCrunch has an excellent article up titled The Best Platform For Online Discussion DoesnÆt Exist Yet. In it they discuss their work on integrating first facebook comments and then another platform (Livefyre), and how, in general, we don't have this whole business worked out yet. There's also some wonderful nostalgia for the days when we actually tried to track across the web who else was talking about a topic (automatically!) - and the rise of the troll. Right now, I have an account at my local newspaper, at a podcast I listen to regularly, at several (non-commercial) blogs I follow, and at several (commercial) blogs I follow, all of which I would love to easily know the status of - has someone responded to my comments, has someone written elsewhere on the same topic, has the story been updated with new information? It's interesting to think about all of this as 'race against the troll' - it seems like, for the most part, the troll hasn't been solved, but has been relegated to a dull roar. On any particular post it seems like not a lot of spam gets through. And even if it does, on most boards there's enough traffic that I'd still like to be reminded that I posted there, and that updates have happened. And, like tumblr, I'd like to know when my material has been used or referred to elsewhere. I just can't decide if this is one of those 'romanticized solutions that cannot ever happen', or a legitimate problem waiting to be solved.
:: Wednesday, February 13 2013 ::
BTW - follow up on my lens repair. The lens came back all messed up. Squeaking and focusing oddly. Shipping it back. Again.
Spent the evening taking pictures to update my LED Light Bulb page. Thinking I may reverse the order of the data, so the most recent stuff is first. I'm always a little surprised when the post-data-collection phase (i.e. the updating the web page part) takes effort. I tend to think of the data collection as the 'hard part', but in fact it's a little bit different than that.
:: Monday, January 28 2013 ::
About a year ago I purchased a new zoom lens for my camera (for search engine purposes I'm going to give the full model info - it's the Tamron SP AF 70-300mm F/4-5.6 Di VC). The first real trip I took with it was to the Cayman Islands this past Christmas. It performed beautifully. Except when it didn't perform at all. Certain photos, specifically when I was near 300mm and pointing the lens more or less at the sun, would cause my camera to say there had been an error in the communication between the camera and the lens. Although it was very infrequent, I decided when I got home to send the lens in and see what would happen. Today I received the note that they were 'adjusting or replacing the aperture assembly'. Which was also what I found when I went searching for the error on websites after it happened. I'm pleased that the lens has been fixed, but it always makes me nervous when something happens to more than a few people - will I have to be concerned about the lens doing this again? I'll keep my fingers crossed!
:: Friday, January 25 2013 :: According to the wikipedia article on the history of blogging, "The term 'weblog' was coined by Jorn Barger on 17 December 1997. The short form, 'blog,' was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in April or May 1999." I took a few more years to really get into it, although in 1999 I was already keeping an online travel journal of my time in Japan. But for the traditional blog it took me another four years. So, on January 25th, 2003 (ten years ago today), I posted my first blog entry: ōA little experiment in use of web-based weblogging. What could be more fun?ö I'm not exactly sure what 'non-web-based weblogging' would look like - don't ask me. I'm pretty sure this was the same day I got the software up and running, although more likely is that, the night before, I was up until 4am plugging away at it, and finally got it working after waking up at noon. Over the next ten years, the software was my go-to programming task when I felt the need to do some hacking. One of the things that accidentally worked very well for me was that, because my blog was flat files rather than some higher-tech solution, the old pages still look the way they did when they were posted. This preserved, for the most part, both the design and things like the so-called blogroll. I noticed one of the links from 2003 was the Baghdad blogger, who was at the moment I was writing possibly the most famous blogger in the world. In many ways I felt connected to the other bloggers of the time - everyone was getting famous, either because they themselves were interesting, or because their situation was interesting, and later everyone was getting a book deal. It seemed like simply writing something interesting often enough was a ticket to fame. And at first it felt like a very exclusive club. Early on, the blog felt like a great social tool - the long format meant you really felt like you knew the person on the other end, even if they were a work of fiction. Thinking about this today, it's interesting how this has evolved into the 'catfishing' in the news because of Manti Te'o. But outside of that, or maybe even including that, in the first few years blogging was our social network. Today, blogs have evolved into the new version of magazines. Social networks serve the purpose of talking about your day, generally. And just like with print, long form has given way to short form. Even though people mock the 140 character limit of twitter, I'm fairly certain most facebook posts meet that length limit as well.
So what does the next ten years hold? I don't know. I like long-form writing sometimes, but often I'm creating a dedicated web page for it (like my recent how-to for creating a custom lightroom web gallery (still in progress)). But sometimes you just need more than a paragraph to express an idea. I also expect facebook to die, and some other social tech to replace it. I hope that will be something more open, allowing me to integrate what I say here into it in a more cohesive way than adding a link to it on my wall with a pithy comment. But truth be told, even if it isn't, I expect I'll still be back from time to time to wax lyrical on somesuch topic or another.
:: Saturday, January 19 2013 ::
20 years ago a friend of mine in high school lent me some books, I'm going to say two or three, which were the first books in fantasy series called The Wheel of Time. Since that time both the person who lent me the books, and the author of those books, has passed away. A new author stepped in to finish the final volume, and in a recent blog post he expresses some of the same thoughts I have about books that have been with me my entire adult life. I associate them first with my friend, but also with my first trip abroad - the sixth book accompanied me on my 'grand tour' of Europe in college. I've discussed the books with many, many people, some of whom I never would have guessed would read them. In short, they have been with me in a way that very few books have been, for a very long time. And this week, the final book of the series arrived on my doorstep. Partially written by the original author, partially by someone else, it's a massive tome. And I find myself somewhat reluctant to read it - to finish the journey. It's been a long time coming, and I'll be sad to see it end.
:: Wednesday, January 16 2013 ::
I was looking at my site analytics, checking to see how some new content was doing, and, as always, my old college paper on the anti-globalization movement was my highest ranked page. Probably because it's late, my brain wandered off with that and came back with the point that a lot of people are using my paper to learn about a topic. Even more probably use information I or someone like me has posted to wikipedia. And it sort of opens the question of 'who is an academic'. And again because it's late I immediately leapt to the term 'content creator'. Which puts researchers and artists on the same big playing field. It also then led me to an idea recently discussed on Econtalk (a podcast I listen to, often so I can yell at the host in my head how wrong his and his guests' analyses are) - the attention economy (and note that I linked to wikipedia there!). In the marketplace of people's attention, I am carving off an infinitesimally small slice of one narrow topic. But in doing so, for that brief span of time I am preventing them from doing literally anything else with their attention. Which makes me wish I'd been a better paper writer back in the day.
:: Tuesday, January 15 2013 ::
Did a little housekeeping on the blog - moved 2011 and 2012 to their own page, for a start. It's been interesting to watch blogging grow, come into its own, and then descend again. A recent article I read on TechCrunch talked about how some startup that had been designed to help people have longer conversations was now suggesting you chop your posts into shorter bits. Just like twitter. And it's true - I post a million things on facebook for every thing I post here, because getting a coherent series of sentences is much harder than getting one sentence that makes sense. I'm not going to mourn the loss of civilized discourse because long form writing is dead, though. I think we're doing just fine at communicating - we're just finding our way with new tools.
Looks like Facebook has been doing some crazy things with their widgets - it's currently floating over top of everything else. I've actually been doing some serious web page creating over the past few days, working my way through creating custom web galleries for Lightroom (it's a program for organizing your photographs). I note this because often when it's time to work on web pages, I have to rebuild the entire infrastructure from scratch (the perils of changing computers so often). But this time I should be able to fix the whole thing in no time flat! Which is good - Facebook is apparently making some kind of super-exciting announcement today (well, an announcement, at the very least - super-exciting is probably hoping for too much) which might mean they will be shaking up all their code base and breaking things. We'll see what happens.
:: Friday, December 21 2012 ::
The end of the year has been full of parties, and nationally, of guns (due to the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting) and so-called fiscal cliffs. It's astonishing to me how effectively the same topics get avoided again and again. We'll see if this time things are different, on either topic, but I'm not holding my breath.
:: Saturday, December 8 2012 :: So I decided to compare phone plans. Since I never talk on the phone, minutes were not of interest. I just wanted to know what the cheapest plan (with data) I could find was. I also wanted to know whether buying a phone outright made sense.
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A Des Moines woman told police someone broke into her home while she was away for a week.
According to a police report, the woman told police someone broke into her home in the 1200 block of East 22nd Street sometime between July 21 and 29 while she was away.
She told police the burglar had entered her home from an unlocked window.
According to the police report, the homeowner said the burglar had urinated on the carpet and on several items of clothing.
The woman reported her refrigerator, microwave, several DVDs, some articles of clothing, and 6 pairs of shoes were missing.
No arrests have been made in the incident.
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Debbie's Deals: Friday freebies and deals for April 5
DENVER - It's time for the latest round of freebies, coupons and deals. As always, these deals can and do expire quickly. And NEVER give your credit card or real birthday for a free offer.
Get free admission on Saturday (April 6) at the Denver Art Museum. See the full list of free days at local museums here: http://ch7ne.ws/XwPQCt
Try Einstein Bros bagel clusters for free. Get the coupon: http://www.einsteinbros.com/sampling/
Free sample of Eucerin: http://m.eucerinus.com/pledge/index
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Get $15 off a $75 purchase (or $25 off a $100 purchase) at Chico's. Coupon expires April 8. http://ebm.cheetahmail.com/c/tag/hBRWro3B75AdqB8xtypNsmj$V5O/doc.html
See more coupons on BeCentSable.net: http://www.becentsable.net/
It's BOGO month for sandwiches in the morning at Subway. Buy one 6" sandwich, get one 6" sandwich free until 9 a.m. each day in April. Details: http://www.subway.com/subwayroot/default.aspx
Buy any regularly prices sandwich and get a free shake at Arby's until April 9. Print coupon here: http://coupon.arbys.com/AprilArbysFreeShake04092013/
I haven't checked this one out, but HeyItsFree.net says text Slurp7 to 711711 and you've receive a coupon good for a medium slurpee before April 30.
I haven't check this one out either, but the same website said like Turbo condoms on Facebook and get a free sample: https://www.facebook.com/LifeStylesUSA?sk=app_232508516838313
If you're interested in adopting a cat, the Dumb Friends League is offering cats, 1 year and older, for $10. http://www.ddfl.org/adopt
Mile High Ace Hardware is offering free shredding on Saturday (April 6) from noon to 2 p.m. They are at 2800 W, 104th Ave in Federal Heights. They will shred any paper, files, hanging files, envelopes etc. Paper clips and alligator clips are fine, they do not need to be removed. They cannot take binders or hard covered books.
If you need dental work and can't afford, check out Summit Family Dentistry's free dental care day April 27: http://ch7ne.ws/12oiBJM
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Faubion Pat sells $82,149 worth of Comerica Inc /new/ (CMA) stock; 2 Additional Transactions
Faubion Pat sold 2,347 shares of Comerica Inc /new/ stock, or $82,149 worth, as noted in an SEC Filing today. As reported in the filing, the transactions occurred on February 1, 2013.
After the transaction, Faubion Pat's stake was reported as 41,824 shares of Comerica Inc /new/ stock. In addition, Faubion Pat performed several other transactions, including using transaction codes 'M' (exercise, usually of options).


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Syracuse, NY.-----I have some really sad news to report to today.
Two Central New York teen-agers whose stories helped raise awareness about the need for African-American and other minorities to sign up for the National Marrow Donor Program died within three days of each other.
Edward Swain, 19, of Baldwinsville, died Saturday and Eunique Darby, a 15-year-old at Corcoran High School, died Monday.
Here's Eunique's obituary. Read Edward's obituary.
The teen-agers died at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester where they were recuperating after undergoing bone marrow transplant. They were both battling acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a cancer that affects the white blood cells.
Read my full story in today's Post-Standard.
I've told their story numerous times on this blog to draw attention to the need for bone marrow donors, especially people of color.
The William G. Pomeroy Foundation, a local organization created in 2005 to fund and support research related to blood cancers, especially among minority groups, organized a series of bone marrow drives in the community to recruit minority donors. Only 8 percent of the 7 million people on the National Marrow Donor Registry are African-Americans.
The foundation has registered 1,000 donors, the majority of them minority, said Paula Miller, the foundation's executive director. The foundation is named for William Pomeroy, founder of CXtec, an engineering firm in North Syracuse.
"We're incredibly sad," Miller said. "I think they inspired so many people. In addition to heightened awareness, they inspired so many people to join the registry. Lives will be saved because of that, so we've got to keep up their fight."
Edward and Eunique were in really good spirits when I first met them in May. At the time, Eunique learned that she had a bone marrow match and Edward was still waiting for one. He was hopeful, though. I met Edward at a bone marrow drive organized by SUNY Upstate Medical University.
The medical university printed posters, fliers and brochures about Eunique and Edward to encourage their employees and visitors to the hospital to join the campaign.
Edward underwent three bone marrow transplants, but developed an infection, said Sandra Hudson, his guardian.
"The staff at Strong were wonderful. They worked really hard and did everything they could, he just couldn't fight off that last infection," she said.
Edward graduated from C.W.Baker High School in June while undergoing chemotherapy treatment. He was hoping to study nursing so he could give back to the community, Sandra Hudson said.
This tragedy should motivate the community to continue to sign up for the registry, said Syracuse Deputy Police Chief Frank Fowler, co-chair of the William G. Pomeroy Foundation.
Only 8 percent of the 7 million registered donors on the National Marrow Donor Program are black. Racial and ethnic heritage are key in bone marrow transplants because tissue types are inherited, and patients are most likely to match with someone of their own race or ethnicity, experts say.
"We don't want people to lose hope,'' he said. "We should use this to motivate us to get the word out faster.''


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Schumacher immediately under 2003's pole time
When Michael Schumacher set his fastest time of 1m 21.552s at Hungaroring this morning it was not just under Fernando Alonsos 2003 pole time right away (by a tenth of a second), but also 2.4s quicker than anybody else had gone to that point. It was trademark Schumacher: out, bang in the big lap, and in again. It was, of course, designed to out-psyche the others.
Subsequently team mate Rubens Barrichello posted 1m 21.938s but it took him a few laps to get there, then Anthony Davidson, who as usual had been setting the pace all session until Schumacher came out, dipped into the 21s with 1m 21.951s for BAR.
There had been some token rain this morning, which amounted to nothing more than a few drops, but there is more predicted for the afternoon. As it was, this session ran on a bone dry track, but very dirty and slippery track. Local hero Zsolt Baumgartner (whose Minardi had to be pushed back to the pits), Giancarlo Fisichella (shortly after setting what was at that point the fastest time of 1m 24.198s), Giorgio Pantano, Juan Pablo Montoya, Gianmaria Bruni and Christian Klien all discovered that at various points, Fisichella and Montoya in particular being lucky to avoid contact with tyre walls.
After a brief intervention by the Hungarian cousin of one of the famous Silverstone hares, which ran around on the track for a few moments, the final 10 minutes became a shoot-out with nearly everyone running at once.
The McLarens came out late, and Kimi Raikkonen immediately jumped up to fourth on 1m 23.024s with David Coulthard (sporting a new helmet with saltire now mixed with Coulthard tartan and Scottish lions) right behind once again on 1n 23.100s. Montoyas 1m 24.753s left his long-nosed Williams sixth, ahead of the Toyotas of Olivier Panis (1m 23.827s) and impressive newcomer Ryan Briscoe (1m 24.108s). The top 10 was rounded out by Jarno Trulli (1m 24.124s) and Jenson Button (1m 24.140s), but the next group was very tightly bunched in the order: Fernando Alonso (1m 24.191s), Fisichella (1m 24.198s), Ricardo Zonta (1m 24.226s), Bjorn Wirdheim (1m 24.265s), Pantano (1m 24.353s), Antonio Pizzonia (1m 24.381s), Nick Heidfeld (1m 24.462s), Timo Glock (1m 24.843s) and Takuma Sato (1m 25.071s).
Felipe Massa ended the session with 20th fastest 1m 25.218s for Sauber, ahead of Klien (1m 25.834s), the Minardis of Bas Leinders (1m 26.074s), Baumgartner (1m 28.296s) and Bruni (1m 28.893s) and Mark Webber, who did only four installation laps in his Jaguar without recording a time.
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quote:And with the 15th pick in the 2013 NFL draft, the New Orleans Saints select Manti T'eo. Linebacker Notre Dame..... What do yall think? Who do yall think that we should pick first?
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MEDFORD, Ore. — October and November is the time of year that deer and elk start looking for mates, and often become roadkill victims, but it's not just the deer and elk and other animals who die.
State Police say November is the highest month of the year for wildlife-involved traffic crashes. October is almost as bad, with July, August and September close behind.
ODOT and insurance studies say wildlife vs. vehicle crashes increased from about 900 in 2007 to almost 1,200 a year last year. 17 of those killed someone in the vehicles that hit the animals.


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During the whole month of August, on Fridays and Sundays, The Apordoc and doclisboa planned the sessions dedicated to different countries and to contemporary themes. Released works on Brazil, Latin America, Asia and Turkey are part of the selection.
Winner of the Joris Ivens Award in 2007, "Náufragos" retakes one of the most astounding stories on the limits of the human being. Thirty five years after an airplane fall in the Andes cordillera, the flight survivors, who had resisted to cold and hunger during 72 days in an altitude of four thousand meters, return to the scenery of this epic adventure.
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Webconverger 7.0 Released
Updates to the Debian-based browser-only OS include a move from "lenny" to "squeeze".
The release notes, which were posted on a blog over the weekend, list additional updates and improvements, including Firefox 3.6.12, Adobe Flash 10.2, and faster booting. Visit the Webconverger site to learn more about the easy-to-use, old-hardware-friendly operating system.
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HP's annual Cyber Risk report offers a bleak look at the state of IT.
Linus Torvalds Announces Linux 4.0
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Microsoft Frees CoreCLR
.NET Core execution engine is the basis for cross-platform .NET implementations.
New Trojan Attacks Linux Servers
The Xnote trojan hides itself on the target system and will launch a variety of attacks on command.
Cisco Releases Annual Security Report
Spammers go low-volume, and 90% of IE browsers are unpatched.
Zero Day Exploits Target Flash
Adobe scrambles to release patches for vulnerable Flash Player.
Intel Unveils Compute Stick
Four-inch-long computer on a stick lets you boot a full Linux system from any HDMI display device.
Obama Proposes Personal Data Notification Law
New statute would require companies to report break-ins to consumers.
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Weird data transfer technique avoids all standard security measures.
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In Georgia, a deprived child is "one who is without proper parental care or control, subsistence, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for one's physical, mental or emotional health or morals; or one who has been placed for care or adoption in violation of law; or one who has been abandoned by parents or other legal custodian; or one who is without a parent, guardian or custodian." (See Georgia Code Section 15-11-2)
'Child' means any individual who is: (A) Under the age of 17 years;(B) Under the age of 21 years, who committed an act of delinquency before reaching the age of 17 years, and who has been placed under the supervision of the court or on probation to the court; or (C) Under the age of 18 years, if alleged to be a 'deprived child' or a 'status offender' as defined by this Code section. A deprivation case can be initiated by several different parties including DFACS, Police, schools, relatives, or medical providers.
In some instances deprivations are committed by teenage parents or even adult parents who are scared or do not know how to deal with an infant or child. In order to save some of these children, Georgia is one of the many states that have a safe haven law to give children a chance.
Georgia's safe haven law can be found in Georgia Code Section 19-10A-4. It says, "A mother shall not be prosecuted for the crimes of cruelty to a child, Code Section 16-5-70; contributing to the delinquency, unruliness, or deprivation of a child, Code Section 16-12-1; or abandonment of a dependent child, Code Section 19-10-1, because of the act of leaving her newborn child in the physical custody of an employee, agent, or member of the staff of a medical facility who is on duty, whether they're in a paid or volunteer position, provided that the newborn child is no more than one week old and the mother shows proof of her identity, if available, to the person with whom the newborn is left and provides her name and address." In other words, in Georgia it is not a crime, and you cannot be prosecuted for leaving a newborn at the hospital.
The safe haven law is just one example of how the state can combat depravations and it is only where infants are concerned. Other ways that the state tries to help families who may enter the legal system because of depravation are Case Plans and Homestead Services.
A Case Plan is "a written agreement that defines those actions that will allow a family to achieve a level of functioning, ensures protection and safety of children and eliminates, or significantly decreases, the risk of maltreatment. It includes developing measurable and specific outcomes directly related to the maltreatment and to risk reduction. Outcomes/goals are broken down into specific steps with time frames for accomplishment and review." (http://dhs.georgia.gov)
Homestead Services are the Department of Family and Children's Services' (DFACS) "most intensive family preservation service. It is a contracted service. It is a family focused, crisis-oriented, short-term (180 days), intensive in-home counseling program for families with children at risk of foster care placement. Homestead Services may also be provided to families who are ready for reunification." (http://dhs.georgia.gov)
Ultimately, if the family preservation plans do not work parental rights can be terminated. What happens when parental rights are terminated? "An order terminating parental rights ends all rights and obligations of the parent with respect to the child and/or the child to the parent, including the right of inheritance. The parent will have no right to object or not object to the future adoption of that child into another home. The termination of one parent's rights with respect to the child has no effect on the rights of another legal parent to the care and control of that child." (http://dhs.georgia.gov)
So avoiding having a deprivation case initiated against you is important because the implications could be dire. Once that has happened, though, deprivation proceedings can be tricky and hard to navigate, they also move fast, much faster than cases in the adult criminal or civil system. If your child has been taken away, and/or you are facing a deprivation case we can help. Call us today at (404) 287-2393 for a consultation.
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This unfinished 10-room dollhouse kit is right out of a fairy tale. It is corner-opening with a removable roof section and lift-off turret. Other features include: 3.6mm die-cut punch-out plywood construction Fireplaces and silk-screened bay windows Trim, skylight and secret tower Latticework for foundation Shingles shown are not included. We used six bags of #7105 Fishscale Shingles, sold separately. 41 1/2"W x 40"H x 30 1/2"D For air delivery of this dollhouse (including delivery outside the contiguous United States), contact 1.800.223.7171 or email@example.com. Scale: 1/12 Style: Victorian Assembly Required: Yes1/12 scale, also referred to as one-inch scale (or 1" scale), means 1 inch = 1 foot
Once this amazing doll house was completed..... I loved it and was not disappointed. But I found the instructions difficult at times, and the precuts not very precise (keep a dremel handy)...if it wasnt for a patient husband who helped me assemble it, it would have never been completed. Definitely a 2 person project!
If i didnt have such a devoted father, then this thing wouldve been thrown into the burnpile on the first step. I heard some swear words in the process, and i agreed. The assembly is so time consuming. But here i and my father are, a year and a half later, and were still alive. I love my new mini home so much that i wish i could shrink down to size and live in it. I recommend this kit to anyone who has a good sense of humor and lots of spare time.
Greenleaf has great kits, I got mine in 1982
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A Minneapolis police SWAT team kicked in the wrong door yesterday during an early morning raid, prompting the man of the house to grab his gun and open fire on the officers who entered the house.
"He took out his shotgun and he said if they are bad guys I'll shoot, I'll scare them away," Dao Khang, the brother of the homeowner, Vang Khang, tells the Star Tribune. "He fired first, he told me it was two shots."
Dao Khang says his brother was trying to protect his wife and six children. No one from the family was hit during the exchange of gunfire. Vang hit two officers, but the Pioneer Press says they were protected by ballistic vests and helmets.
"I must've heard over 20 or 30 shots, I swear, it was scary," Ruth Hayes, the family's next-door neighbor, tells WCCO-TV. "It was like 30 SWAT guys out here ... it was crazy it was just like havoc."
KARE-TV reports that Vang was detained at the scene and released a few hours later. Police say there may have been a "language barrier" between the residents and the officers.
"It was some bad information that was received on the front end that kind-of trickled all the way through," police Sgt. Jesse Garcia tells the station. "It's unfortunate because we have officers that were hit by gunfire and this truly, truly could have been a much worse situation."
Police haven't decided whether they'll try to charge Khang with a crime. KMSP-TV says the Khang family is consulting with a civil attorney.
How can they even be considering charging the homeowner with a crime? They were at the wrong house, they kicked in the wrong door. The homeowner did nothing wrong in my opinion.
I am surprised that the SWAT team did not return fire and kill the homeowner.
I would imagine a civil suit is forthcoming, possibly justifiably so.


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275 gr fine semolina (1 2/3 c) 50 gr flour (1/3 c 250 gr sugar (1 c + 2T) 50 gr melted butter (1/3 c) 9 eggs, separated Grated zest of one small lemon 1 pinch falt
For preparing pan: ½ T butter for greasing pan 1 T flour
Syrup: 950 gr sugar (4 c) 800 gr water (3 ¼ c) 1 T lemon juice
Butter pan, then shake 1T flour around the pan to coat well. Separate eggs. To the yolks, add the sugar and lemon zest, and whisk for 7-8 minutes or beat until foamy with a hand mixer. In another clean bowl, beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until soft peaks are formed. Add the semolina and flour to the yolks, followed by the butter, and finally fold in the egg whites. Pour and scrape this dough into the prepared pan, and bake in a medium oven for approximately one hour. When the revani is done, pour over the syrup and allow to cool completely before serving.
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750 gr kadayıf dough (available at middle eastern grocery stores) 350 gr clarified butter (1 ½ c) 200 gr shelled pistachios or chopped walnuts
Syrup: 1150 gr sugar (1 ¾ c) 925 gr water (3 ¾ c) 1 T lemon juice
First make the syrup: Combine sugar, water and lemon juice in a saucepan and boil together for 5 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside. Divide the kadayıf dough into two parts, and fluff so that no lumps or heavy/light places exist. Spread half of the dough evenly on the bottom of a round baking pan. Spread the nuts over this, and top with the other half of the kadayıf dough. Melt the butter and drizzle evenly over the surface of the kadayıf, then bake for 40 minutes in a medium oven until the top has browned evenly. When it is done, remove from the oven and immediately pour the prepared syrup over the top. Allow to cool and serve.
Yoğurt Tatlısı Yogurt Pastry
250 gr firm yogurt (1 c) 250 gr powdered sugar (1 ½ c) 300 gr flour (2 c) 25 gr melted butter (2 ½ T) 3 eggs ½ level teaspoon baking powder
Syrup: 750 gr sugar (3 c) 870 gr water (3 ½ c) 1 t lemon juice Place the yogurt in a bowl and stir well to remove lumps. Add the powdered sugar, eggs, the butter and the flour, and stir or knead to make a dough. Spread this dough in a round baking pan, and bake in a medium oven for 45-50 minutes until lightly brown. While the pastry is baking, make the syrup: Combine sugar, water and lemon juice in a saucepan and boil together for 5 minutes. When done, remove from the oven and slowly drizzle the syrup over the top, allowing it to soak in well. When cool, cut in squares or diamonds and serve.
1 500 gr package of ready made puff pastry 1 c ground almonds or walnuts 1/3 c coconut 1 egg, separated 1/3 c sugar
Syrup: 4 c sugar 3 c water Juice of ½ lemon
Thaw the puff pastry. In a bowl, mix the egg white, the coconut, ground nuts and sugar. It should be like a thick paste. Take one square of puff pastry and open it a bit with a rolling pin till it is 2 mm thick. Take a spoonful of this and spread along one edge of a piece of puff pastry, fold over once, then roll up. Cut this roll into four equal pieces. Repeat with the remaining sheets and arrange in a pan. Brush tops with egg white. Arrange in a pan and bake in a medium oven (180 C) until puffed and nicely browned. While they are baking, boil together the sugar, water and lemon juice. When the samsa are done, put into a deep dish and pour the hot syrup over the hot samsa and allow to cool and soak for 2 hours.


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WILMINGTON -- We're learning more about the death of that East Carolina student who was visiting Wilmington this weekend.
Autopsy results came back Monday. According to the coroner's office, 20-year-old Sam Flinn died of a brain hemorrhage from being hit in the chin.
Investigators also say the autopsy revealed that Flinn was hit with a fist, not with an object.
Flinn's body was found in front of a townhouse in the Carleton Place, near the UNCW campus.
Flinn was a student at East Carolina University and was in town visiting friends. Police think Flinn's death may have stemmed from a fight involving several men.
UNCW residents say rumors have been swirling through the campus about what exactly happened early Sunday morning. No charges have been placed at this time.
Carleton Place resident and neighbor Edward Dawson said, "I think that that the kid that punched him should be charged with murder. He didn't use -- I guess you can use your fist and that can be considered a dangerous weapon."
The Wilmington Police Department is now working with the district attorney's office to decide whether any charges will be filed in the incident.
Toxicology reports are not yet available. The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with any information about this case should call the Wilmington police department at (910) 343-3600.


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Here are some of mine. Now your turn: Do you have a best-loved holiday ornament? Tell me: I want to know!
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Christine D. Petruzzell - Commercial Litigation Attorney in NJ
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United States District Court for District of New Jersey, 1976
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit, 1982
United States Supreme Court, 2014
J.D., Rutgers School of Law - Newark, 1976
B.A., Douglass College, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1973
Christine D. Petruzzell has been a shareholder of Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer P.A. since 1985 where she has practiced law since 1980. She concentrates in commercial litigation in the areas of practice indicated above, and has handled both the litigation and mediation of such disputes. She is a member of the firm's Commercial Litigation Team as well as the Appellate Practice Group and is Chair of the Real Estate Tax Appeals Group
Ms. Petruzzell is a member of the American Bar Association and of the New Jersey State, Middlesex and Union County and Federal Bar Associations and of Women Lawyers of Union County. She served as Chair of the Equity Jurisprudence Committee of the New Jersey State Bar Association (NJSBA) (June 2005-June 2007) and is a member of the Appellate Practice Committee. Ms. Petruzzell was also a member and contributing editor of the Editorial Board of the New Jersey Lawyer from January 1999-November 2008. In 2005, Ms. Petruzzell was appointed to the Supreme Court Committee on the Rules of Evidence and serves on the New Jersey Supreme Court on Character (appointed July 2007)
Ms. Petruzzell's community service activities include having served as Chair of the Board of Trustee of Monarch Housing Associates during 2002-2004, of which she remains a Trustee and as President of the Rutgers Newark Law School Alumni Association during 2004-2005
Ms. Petruzzell's publications include "Brief Thoughts On Effective Brief Writing, NJ Lawyer Magazine (Apr. 2009), Don't Go Blindly Into That Law Blog, NJ Lawyer Magazine (Feb. 2008), The Elective Share: An Often Illusory Right, 176 N.J.L.J. 748 (May 31, 2004), Accrual of Actions for Negligent Property Appraisal, NJ Lawyer (Sept. 11, 2000), Protection of Confidential Information In The Absence Of A Non-Disclosure Agreement, Corporate Legal Advisor (Summer, 1996)
Area of Emphasis:
Partnership and Shareholder Disputes
Restrictive Covenant Litigation
Trade Secret/Unfair Competition Litigation
Construction Litigation
Contract Litigation
Probate Litigation
Real Estate Tax Appeals
Appellate Practice
Chancery Practice
Lawyer Publications:
- Appellate Docket - Fall 2008
- Brief Thoughts on Effective Brief Writing
- Don't Go Blindly Into That Law Blog
- Protection of Confidential Business Administration
- Real Estate Tax Appeals - Facts, Dates and Deadlines
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Also, parents: When I was a youngster my mom got me a "bed tent" similar to these $50 ones on Amazon. I think mine was in the shape of a apatosaurus, but it served as a secret fortress, a space ship, and a wandering barbarian's cave just fine.
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Barely tipping the scales at 798 grams, the new 12-inch Surface Pro 3 has all the power and performance of a premium laptop in a thin and lightweight design. It also comes with the all-new Surface Pen which delivers a natural writing and drawing experience.
Featuring a gorgeous 12-inch display encased in a sleek magnesium frame, Surface Pro 3 is the thinnest and lightest in our Pro family. Refined to its essential elements, Surface Pro 3 is as beautiful as it is functional so you can stay productive from anywhere. Just slip it into your bag or backpack and go.
Pre-loaded with Windows 8.1 Pro, you can install your favourite desktop software, including the full Microsoft Office Suite1 and thousands of programs created for the Windows platform. Surface Pro 3 also has a 4th generation Intel Core processor which delivers blazing-fast performance.
Offering unmatched versatility, you can go from tablet to laptop in a snap with the multi-position Kickstand and Surface Pro 3 Type Cover.3 Magnetic stability keeps the Surface Pro 3 Type Cover steady, so you can work just as comfortably on your lap as at your desk. Plus, you can easily connect your peripherals and transfer files via a full-size USB 3.0, microSD card reader and Mini DisplayPort.4
Behold the most natural writing and drawing experience on a tablet thanks to the new Surface Pen. Use the Pen to mark up presentations, sign documents or enjoy art apps. You can also open a blank OneNote document with a click of the Surface Pen to instantly capture your next idea–even if your device is in sleep mode.
Use the multi-position Kickstand for a hands-free way to watch films on the brilliant Full HD display.5 Enjoy Dolby audio as you stream millions of songs for free, and import your iTunes playlists. Easily integrate all your social content with free apps like Facebook and Twitter, or stay productive with pre-installed apps like OneNote and Skype.
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Dimensions: 292.1 x 201.4 x 9.1 mm • Weight: 800g • Casing: VaporMg • Colour: Silver • Physical buttons: Volume, Power, Home
64GB or 128GB storage with 4GB RAM
256GB or 512GB storage with 8GB RAM2
Screen: 12" ClearType Full HD Plus Display • Resolution: 2160 x 1440 • Aspect Ratio: 3:2 • Touch: 10-point multi-touch
4th generation Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 Processor options • System memory: 4GB or 8GB • TPM Chip for enterprise security • Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11ac/802.11 a/b/g/n • Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy technology
Up to 9 hours of battery life5
Two 5MP HD cameras, front and rear-facing • Stereo microphones • Stereo speakers with Dolby sound
Full-size USB 3.0 • microSD card reader • Headphone jack • Mini DisplayPort • Cover port
Ambient light sensor • Accelerometer • Gyroscope • Magnetometer
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Dimensions: 135mm (length), 9.5mm (diameter) • Weight: 20g +/- 2.0g
Flipboard • Skype Wi-Fi • Skype • OneNote MX • Solitaire • Mahjong • Sudoku/Microsoft Number Puzzle • Fresh Paint • Note Anytime
Surface Pro 3 • Surface Pen • 36-watt power supply • Quick Start Guide • Safety and warranty documents
A: Yes, Surface Pro 3 is a full laptop replacement. It can run any program that runs on Windows, including Office, iTunes, and Photoshop.1
A: Yes, you can connect to most monitors via the Surface Pro 3 mini DisplayPort and an optional AV adapter or VGA adapter.
A: You can mark up any document in Word, Excel, and OneNote, and at any thickness you want. Office programs1 appear with a "Pen" tab on the ribbon which gives you all the options you need. There are also many Pen apps to markup PDFs and other documents, such as Drawboard PDF.
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A: Download the Surface Pro 3 user guide and make sure you've installed the latest updates.
1 Office and Photoshop are each sold separately.
2 System software uses significant storage space. Available storage is subject to change based on system software updates and apps usage. 1GB = 1 billion bytes. For more information, see surface.com/storage.
3 Surface Covers sold separately
4 Adapter required, sold separately.
5 Up to 9 hours of battery life for web browsing. Battery life for other uses will vary.
6 Your new Surface comes with a one-year limited hardware warranty and 90 days of technical support.


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Clarke Peters | |
Clarke Peters, August 2010 | |
Born | Peter Clarke April 7, 1952 New York City |
Occupation | Actor and singer |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Clarke Peters | |
Clarke Peters, August 2010 | |
Born | Peter Clarke April 7, 1952 New York City |
Occupation | Actor and singer |
Years active | 1970s–present |
Clarke Peters (born April 7, 1952) is an American-British actor, singer, writer and director best known for his roles as detective Lester Freamon and Albert "Big Chief" Lambreaux on the HBO dramas The Wire and Treme, respectively. More recently, Peters has portrayed Alonzo Quinn on the CBS crime drama Person of Interest and Isaiah Page on The Divide.
Peters was born Peter Clarke, as the second of four sons, in New York City, and grew up in Englewood, New Jersey. At the age of 12, he had his first theater experience, in a school production of My Fair Lady. He began to have serious ambitions to work in the theater at the age of 14.[1] He graduated from Dwight Morrow High School in 1970.[citation needed]
Shortly before he left the United States, he was arrested for obstructing police lines after an anti-Vietnam war demonstration, but was cleared. He later said of this experience: "It made me more angry than anything else, because what I experienced was how impotent you could be as an American citizen."[2]
In 1971, Peters' elder brother enabled him to work as a costume designer for a production of the musical Hair in Paris, in which he later starred.[1] While there, he received a letter from the FBI that accused him of draft evasion. When he went to New Jersey to contest his charge, he said "if the enemy comes to America, I'll be there, but I don't know the Vietnamese. If you put me in the army, I'm not going there."[2]
In 1973, he moved to London,[1] and changed his name to Clarke Peters due to Equity rules.[2] While in London, he formed a soul band, The Majestics, and worked as a backup singer on such hits as "Love and Affection" by Joan Armatrading, "Boogie Nights" by Heatwave, and some David Essex songs. However, music was not Peters' main ambition, and he preferred to work in the theater.[1]
His first West End theatre musical roles, which he received with assistance from his friend Ned Sherrin, were I Gotta Shoe (1976) and Bubbling Brown Sugar (1977).[1] Other West End credits include Blues in the Night, Porgy and Bess, The Witches of Eastwick, Chicago, and Chess. In 1981, Peters starred in the Sean Connery space Western Outland as the treacherous Sgt. Ballard, and had an almost wordless role as Anderson, a vicious pimp in Neil Jordan's Mona Lisa in 1986.
After writing several revues with Sherrin, In 1990 Peters wrote the revue Five Guys Named Moe, which received a Tony Award nomination for Best Book of a Musical. He followed this up with Unforgettable, a musical about Nat King Cole, which received scathing reviews.[2] He also starred in the 2010 UK production of Five Guys Named Moe.[2]
As an actor, he has appeared on Broadway in The Iceman Cometh (1999), which won him the Theatre World Award, and as shady lawyer Billy Flynn in the revival of Chicago in 2000 and 2003. In regional theatre he has appeared in Driving Miss Daisy, The Wiz, Bubbling Brown Sugar, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Carmen Jones, and The Amen Corner.
Peters is familiar to television viewers as Detective Lester Freamon in the critically acclaimed HBO series The Wire. Peters also starred in the HBO mini-series The Corner, portraying a drug addict named Fat Curt, as well as the FX series Damages as Dave Pell. Both The Wire and The Corner were created by writer and former Baltimore Sun journalist David Simon. Peters also stars in Simon's HBO series Treme, in the role of Mardi Gras Indian chief Albert Lambreaux.[3] Other screen credits include Notting Hill, K-Pax, Mona Lisa, Freedomland, Nativity! and Marley & Me.
Peters appeared in two episodes of the U.S. time-travel/detective TV series Life On Mars (2008) as NYPD Captain Fletcher Bellow.[4]
He also appeared in the UK show Holby City, as Derek Newman, the father of nurse Donna Jackson. He voiced a part in the Doctor Who animated episode Dreamland, and in the In Plain Sight episode "Duplicate Bridge" as a man in Witness Protection named Norman Baker/Norman Danzer. He played Nelson Mandela in the 2009 film Endgame, and Bishop Enoch in Spike Lee's 2012 film, Red Hook Summer. In 2010, Peters read Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption for BBC 7.[5] In that year, he also had a guest appearance as Professor Mark Ramsay in the pilot episode of the USA Network TV series Covert Affairs.[6]
In September 2011, Peters appeared on stage in a Sheffield Crucible Theatre production of Shakespeare's Othello, playing the title role opposite his Wire co-star Dominic West, who played Iago.
Peters narrated the audiobook version of Telegraph Avenue, a novel by Michael Chabon released in September 2012 by HarperAudio.[7]
Since 2012, Clarke Peters has had a recurring role as Alonzo D. Quinn in the CBS TV series Person of Interest.
He has played Gloucester in King Lear at the 2014 New York Shakespeare in the Park festival.[8]
Peters splits his time between a house in the Charles Village section of Baltimore, which he bought in 2006 while working on The Wire, and one in London, where his wife Penny and third son Max live.[9][10][11] Max played the young Michael Jackson in the West End production of the musical Thriller – Live.[1] Peters had two sons from an earlier relationship: Joe Jacobs, an actor,[1] and Guppy, who died of a kidney tumor at the age of four in 1992.[2][12]
He is a follower of the Brahma Kumaris.[13]
He encountered the Brahma Kumaris a couple of years later ... found what [he] was looking for.


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