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Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Signs of the times: Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) shrinking enrollment by 25%...
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
Chicago's Dean Mike Schill to become next President of U of Oregon
It breaks my heart to have to post this, since Mike Schill has been a terrific Dean here the last 5 1/2 years, but we all knew he was in demand elsewhere: he will be the new President of the University of Oregon, come July 1. Oregon is damn lucky, and I know I speak for everyone at Chicago in saying that Mike Schill will be greatly missed here.
April 14, 2015 in Faculty News | Permalink
Monday, April 13, 2015
Paul Campos's final implosion
Stephen Diamond (Santa Clara) has the details. He won't be missed, it's fair to say.
UPDATE: Ohio Northern Dean Richard Bales raises the question whether Campos should be fired, without even noting that Campos himself has confessed in print to being a "fraud."
April 13, 2015 in Law Professors Saying Dumb Things, Of Academic Interest | Permalink
Saturday, April 11, 2015
Offsetting Biases (Michael Simkovic)
Deborah Merritt and Kyle McEntee conflated "response rates" with nonresponse bias and response bias. After I brought this error to light, Professor Merritt explained that she and Mr. McEntee were not confused about basic statistical terminology, but rather were being intentionally vague in their critique to be more polite* to the law schools.
Professor Merritt also changed the topic of conversation from Georgetown's employment statistics—which had been mentioned in The New York Times and discussed by me, Professor Merritt, and Kyle McEntee—to the employment statistics of the institution where I teach.**
What Professor Merritt meant to say is that law schools have not been properly weighting their data to take into account nonresponse bias. This is an interesting critique. However, proper weights and adjustments to data should take into account all forms of nonresponse bias and response bias, not just the issue of over-representation of large law firms in NALP salary data raised by Professor Merritt.
While such over-representation would have an effect on the mean, it is unclear how much impact, if any, it would have on reported medians—the measure of central tendency used by The New York Times and critiqued by Mr. McEntee.
Other biases such as systematic under-reporting of incomes by highly educated individuals,*** under-reporting of bonuses and outside income, and the like should be taken into account.**** To the extent that these biases cut in opposite directions, they can offset each other. It's possible that in aggregate the data are unbiased, or that the bias is much smaller than examination of a single bias would suggest.
Moreover, focusing on first year salaries as indicative of the value of a lifetime investment is itself a bias. As The Economic Value of a Law Degree, showed, incomes tend to rise rapidly among law graduates. They do not appreciably decrease, either, until the fourth decade of employment.
If Professor Merritt's view is that differences between NALP, ABA, and U.S. Census Bureau data collection and reporting conventions make law school-collected data more difficult to compare to other data sources and make law school data less useful, then I am glad to see Professor Merritt coming around to a point I have made repeatedly.
I have gone further and suggested that perhaps the Census Bureau and other government agencies should be collecting all data for graduate degree programs to ensure the accuracy and comparability of data across programs and avoid wasting resources on duplicative data collection efforts.
This could also help avoid an undue amount of focus on short-term outcomes, which can be misleading in light of the rapid growth of law graduate earnings as they gain experience. The inappropriate focus on the short term can be misleading if students are not aware of the growth trajectory and how it compares to the growth trajectory of likely earnings without a law degree.
* Readers of Professor Merritt's blog posts will be familiar with Professor Merritt's general level of politeness. In her latest, Professor Merritt describes me as "clueless."
** This tactic, bringing up the employment statistics of the institution where those whom she disagrees with teach, is something of a habit for Professor Merritt. See her response Anders Walker at St. Louis).
*** Law graduates outside of the big firms are highly educated, high-income individuals compared to most of the rest of individuals in the United States. That is the benchmark used by researchers when they identified the reporting biases in census data that lead to under-reporting of incomes.
**** The risk of under-reporting income in law may be particularly high because of opportunities for tax evasion for those who run small businesses or have income outside of their salary.
UPDATE (4/14/2015): I just confirmed with NALP that their starting salary data does not include end of year bonuses.
April 11, 2015 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Professional Advice, Science, Student Advice, Weblogs | Permalink
Friday, April 10, 2015
Information overload and response rates (Michael Simkovic)
Did law schools behave unethically by providing employment and earnings information without simultaneously reporting survey response rates? Or is this standard practice?
The answer is that not reporting response rates is standard practice in communication with most audiences. For most users of employment and earnings data, response rates are a technical detail that is not relevant or interesting. The U.S. Government and other data providers routinely report earnings and employment figures separate from survey response rates.*
Sometimes, too much information can be distracting.** It's often best to keep communication simple and focus only on the most important details.
Nonresponse is not the same thing as nonresponse bias. Law school critics do not seem to understand this distinction. A problem only arises if the individuals who respond are systematically different from those who do not respond along the dimensions being measured. Weighting and imputation can often alleviate these problems. The critics' claims about the existence, direction, and magnitude of biases in the survey data are unsubstantiated.
High non-response rates to questions about income are not a sign of something amiss, but rather are normal and expected. The U.S. Census Bureau routinely finds that questions about income have lower response rates (higher allocation rates) than other questions.
Law school critics claim that law school graduates who do not respond to questions about income are likely to have lower incomes than those who do respond. This claim is not consistent with the evidence. To the contrary, high-income individuals often value privacy and are reluctant to share details about their finances.***
Another potential problem is "response bias", in which individuals respond to survey questions in a way that is systematically different from the underlying value being measured. For example, some individuals may under report or over-report their incomes.
The best way to determine whether or not we have nonresponse bias or response bias problems is to gather additional information about non-responders and responders.
Researchers have compared income reported to Census surveys with administrative earnings data from the Social Security Administration and Internal Revenue Service. They find that highly educated, high-income individuals systematically under-report their incomes, while less educated, lower income individuals over-report. (Assuming the administrative data is more accurate than the survey data).
Part of the problem seems to be that bonuses are underreported, and bonuses can be substantial. Another problem seems to be that high-income workers sometimes report their take-home pay (after tax withholding and deductions for benefits) rather than their gross pay.
Other studies have also found that response bias and nonresponse bias lead to underestimation of earnings and employment figures.
In other words, there may indeed be biases in law school earnings data, but if there is, it is likely in the opposite direction of the one the law school critics have claimed.
Of course, the presence of such biases in law school data would not necessarily be a problem if the same biases exist in data on employment and earnings for alternatives to law school. After all, earnings and employment data is only useful when compared to a likely alternative to law school.
As with gross employment data, the critics are yet again claiming that an uncontroversial and nearly universal data reporting practice, regularly used by the United States Government, is somehow scandalous when done by law schools.
The only thing the law school critics have demonstrated is their unfamiliarity with basic statistical concepts that are central to their views.
* Reporting earnings and employment estimates without response rates in communication intended for a general audience—and even some fairly technically sophisticated audiences—is standard practice for U.S. government agencies such as the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics. A few examples below:
- Earnings and unemployment by education level
- Unemployment rates
- Employment population ratio
- Tabular summaries from
- the Survey of Income and Program Participation (see here and here)
- The American Community Survey (see also here)
** Information on response rates is available for researchers working with microdata to develop their own estimates, and for those who want to scour the technical and methodological documentation. But response rates aren't of much interest to most audiences.
*** After the JD researchers noted that young law graduates working in large urban markets—presumably a relatively high-income group—were particularly reluctant to respond to the survey. From After the JD III:
"Responses . . . varied by urban and rural or regional status, law school rank, and practice setting. By Wave 2, in the adjusted sample, the significant difference between respondents and nonrespondents continued to be by geographic areas, meaning those from larger legal markets (i.e. New York City) were less likely to respond to the survey. By Wave 3, now over 12 years out into practice, nonrespondents and respondents did not seem to differ significantly in these selected characteristics."
In the first wave of the study, non-respondents were also more likely to be male and black. All in all, it may be hard to say what the overall direction of any nonresponse bias might be with respect to incomes. A fairly reasonable assumption might be that the responders and non-responders are reasonably close with respect to income, at least within job categories.
April 10, 2015 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Law in Cyberspace, Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Professional Advice, Science, Student Advice, Weblogs | Permalink
Thursday, April 9, 2015
Congratulations to the Chicago alumni who got tenure-track jobs this year
It was another tight year on the law teaching market, probably even more difficult than last year. Happily most of our candidates once again were successful at securing tenure-track positions. They are:
Laura Napoli Coordes '10 who will join the faculty at Arizona State University, where she is presently a VAP. She graduated with Honors from the Law School, where she was a member of the Law Review and served as a Legal Fellow at the Student Press Law Center upon graduation, before working at Weil, Gotshal & Manges as a bankruptcy associate in New York. Her teaching and research interests include bankruptcy, commercial law, contracts, and corporate finance.
Goldburn P. Maynard, Jr. '05, who will join the faculty at the University of Louisville. He was a member of the Law Review at Chicago,and also earned an LL.M. in tax at Northwestern. He was a tax associate at Skadden Arps in Chicago, and then an estate tax attorney with the I.R.S. for four years. He was a VAP at Washington University, St. Louis and at Florida State University. His research and teaching interests include federal tax, estates and trusts, and estate and gift tax.
Joshua Sellers '08 who will join the faculty at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. At Chicago, he was Articles Editor of the Law Review and also earned a Ph.D. in Political Science with a dissertation on "The 'Crown Jewel' at a Crossroads: Appraising the Contemporary Political Function of the Voting Rights Act." He clerked for Judge Barkett on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and was an associate at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. for three years, where he primarily litigated insurance claims. Most recently, he was a post-doc in the Maxwell School of Public Policy at Syracuse University. His research and teaching interests include election law, civil rights, constitutional law, legislation, insurance law, and torts.
Sloan G. Speck '07 who will join the faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He graduated with Honors from the Law School, where he also served as Articles Editor of the Law Review. He also earned an M.A. in History from Chicago (where he focused on the history of tax and business) and an LL.M. in tax (2010) from New York University, where he has been Acting Assistant Professor of Tax Law since 2013. He will receive his PhD in History from Chicago in 2016. He was a tax associate at Skadden Arps in Chicago for five years. His teaching and research interests include tax law and policy (including corporate and international tax), as well as legal and business history.
Matthew J. Tokson '08 who will join the faculty at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law at Northern Kentucky University. He graduated with High Honors and Order of the Coif from the Law School, where he served as both Executive Articles Editor and Book Review Editor of the Law Review. He clerked for Judge Randolph on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, served first as a Kauffman Fellow then as a Bigelow Fellow at the Law School from 2009-2011, before clerking on the U.S. Supreme Court for both Justice Ginsburg and Justice Souter in 2011-12. He was also a litigation associate at WilmerHale in Washington, D.C. His teaching and research interests include criminal procedure, privacy, intellectual property, judicial behavior, criminal law and torts.
If you're curious, you can read about some of our recent placements in law teaching here, here, here and here, and see a more comprehensive listing here.
(I will have a separate post about our Bigelows and other Fellows once their situations are all settled; as always, they all have tenure-track offers.)
April 9, 2015 in Advice for Academic Job Seekers, Faculty News | Permalink
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Opportunities, College Majors, and Occupations (Compared to what? continued) (Michael Simkovic)
Opportunity costs and tradeoffs are foundational principles of micro-economics. Comparison between earnings with a law degree and earnings with likely alternatives to law school is the core of The Economic Value of a Law Degree.
In her recent post, Professor Merritt raises interesting questions about whether some students who now go to law school could have had more success elsewhere if they had majored in a STEM (Science Technology Engineering & Math) field rather than humanities or social sciences.
These questions, however, don't invalidate our analysis. A percentage of those who major in STEM fields of course go on to law school, and our data suggest that they also receive a large boost to their earnings compared to a bachelor's degree. Some studies suggest that among those who go to law school, the STEM and economics majors earn more than the rest.
Research on college major selection reveals that many more individuals intend to major in STEM fields than ultimately complete those majors. STEM/Econ majors who persist have higher standardized test scores than humanities/social science majors at the same institution and also higher scores than those who switch from STEM/Econ to humanities or social science. Those who switch out of STEM received lower grades in their STEM classes than those who persist. Compared to Humanities and Social Science majors, the STEM majors spend more time studying, receive lower grades, and take longer to complete their majors.
In other words, many of the individuals who end up majoring in the humanities and social sciences may have attempted, unsuccessfully, to major in STEM fields. (For a review of the literature, see Risk Based Student Loans and The Knowledge Tax).
In The Economic Value of a Law Degree, Frank McIntyre and I investigated whether the subset of humanities majors who go to law school had unusually high earning potential and found no evidence suggesting this. The humanities majors who attend law school are about as much above the average humanities major in terms of earning potential as the STEM majors who attend law school are above the average STEM major.
In her recent post, Professor Merritt does not suggest alternatives to law school. Instead she selectively discusses occupations other than being a lawyer. These are generally very highly paid and desirable occupations, such as senior managerial roles, and many individuals who pursue such jobs will be unable to obtain them. In other words, these high paid jobs cited by Professor Merritt are not the likely alternative outcome for most of those who now go to law school if they chose another path. (Indeed, given the high earnings premium to law school including the 40 percent of graduates who do not practice law, a law degree probably increases the likelihood of obtaining highly paid jobs other than practicing law).
Occupations are outcomes. Education is a treatment. Students choose education programs (subject to restrictive admissions policies and challenges of completing different programs), but have more limited control over their ultimate occupation. Comparing occupations as if they were purely choices would be an error. Not every MBA who sets out to be a Human Resources Manager will land that job, just as not every law school graduate will become a lawyer at a big firm. Analysis of nationally representative data from the U.S. Census Bureau using standard statistical techniques from labor economics to consider realistic earnings opportunities--rather than selective focus on the very highest paid occupations tracked by the BLS--suggests that most of the folks who go to law school would be in much less attractive positions if they had stuck with a bachelor's degree.
Frank McIntyre and I have previously noted the importance of additional research into how the value of a law degree varies by college major, and how the causal effect of different kinds of graduate degrees varies for different sorts of people.
We appreciate Professor Merritt's interest in these issues and look forward to discussing them in the future when more methodologically rigorous research becomes available. Professor Merritt raises some interesting ancillary issues about response rates, but discussion of those issues will have to wait for a future post.
April 8, 2015 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Professional Advice, Science, Student Advice, Weblogs | Permalink
Lots of hires with tenure at Texas A&M Law (formerly Texas Wesleyan)
So far the leadership of Dean Andrew Morriss seems to already be paying dividends, with five senior hires:
Irene Calboli (intellectual property, international trade, and comparative law) from Marquette University.
Susan Fortney (legal ethics, legal professions, legal malpractice, bioethics and torts) from Hofstra University.
Nuno Garoupa (law & economics, comparative law) from University of Illinois.
Glynn S. Lunney, Jr. (intellectual property, law & economics) from Tulane University.
Peter Yu (intellectual property, communications law and policy, and comparative and international law) from Drake University.
April 8, 2015 in Faculty News | Permalink
Empower the Census Bureau to Collect Graduate Employment Data (Michael Simkovic)
After my first post on employment definitions, a law school dean emailed me to suggest that perhaps the ABA felt it needed to be extra tough because it was worried it couldn't trust some of the law schools to make close judgment calls in categorizing employment data.
The Census Bureau does a wonderful job collecting and reporting earnings and employment data using standard methods and definitions. Why not empower the Census Bureau to collect the relevant data about law schools and all programs of higher education?
There are two potential uses of employment outcome data of law school graduates.
(1) Comparing law school to alternatives to law school
(2) Comparing law schools to teach other
Census Bureau data is very well suited to the first use, and could also be useful for high level information about geography or rank even if not for comparisons of individual institutions. If the Current Population Survey and the American Community Survey—which have larger sample sizes and release data more regularly than the Survey of Income and Program Participation—were expanded to include questions on graduate education field (i.e., law, medicine, business) as well as level (B.A., PhD, Master's, or Professional degree), and specific information about institution or caliber or geography of institution attended, that would go along way toward making law school data redundant. Census surveys will not have data on every law graduate, but as long as the sample is representative, that is not much of a problem.
The Census Bureau data would likely be superior to law school data in the most important respects because it would be comparable to data for those with other educational backgrounds. Since Census Bureau data is for a representative sample of the population, it would not encourage an unhealthy and misleading fixation on short-term outcomes.
As far as comparing individual law schools to each other, student loan default data from the Department of Education might serve this function at least as well as ABA data. To the extent we are concerned about poor outcomes at any particular law school, such poor outcomes will show up in higher student loan default rates.
Default rates will reflect outcomes not only for graduates, but also for those who fail to complete the program. This data would also not be sensitive to response bias on the low end—individuals who do not respond to their student loan bills will be counted as defaulters. Another advantage of this data is that it can be compared with other educational programs. Of course, we would still need to be mindful of the issue of selection versus causation. (Although we could quibble about how the Department of Education calculates its default rates (they publish more than one), the specifics of the definition are far less important that the fact that it is applied consistently across institutions, is used for comparative purposes, and is correlated with other validated measures).
If the Department of Education required colleges and universities to release separate default rate data for every field of graduate study (and perhaps for every college major), that would go a long way to helping inform students and increasing comparability of information about risk levels across programs. (I've discussed the merits of this kind of granular disclosure before).
The data won't capture differences in the boost to earnings across law schools for students in the middle or high end of the distribution, since relatively few students default on their loans. It also won't tell us anything about the students who don't need to borrow. Nor will it tell us which schools have the strongest alumni networks in specific geographies or industries. That purpose might be better served by expanding longitudinal studies like After the JD, Baccalaureate and Beyond, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, and the National Survey of College Graduates to include larger samples, better information about pre-law school differences in characteristics, and more long term information on post-graduate earnings and employment.
The Census Bureau's ethics and incentives are unimpeachable. Putting data collection in its capable hands and into the hands of similar agencies charged with broad-based data collection would enable these agencies to do more of what they do best and free law schools from the burdens of a task they may not be well equipped to handle.
Resources that are now wasted collecting very precise but not very useful data about initial outcomes for law graduates could instead be redeployed to analyzing the higher quality data. (Or if we still think short term ABA and NALP data provide incremental value that exceeds the costs of collecting, reporting, and interpreting the data—and the costs of predictable misinterpretation and misuse—we could have that much more data to work with).
Food for thought.
April 8, 2015 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Science, Weblogs | Permalink
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
Kyle McEntee Attacks The New York Times for Using Data Honestly (Michael Simkovic)
Recently, The New York Times reported on law school and the legal profession based on hard data and peer reviewed research rather than anecdote and innuendo. The New York Times came to the conclusion that anyone looking honestly at the data would naturally come to—law school seems to be a pretty good investment, at least compared to a terminal bachelor's degree.
This contradicts the story that Mr. McEntee has been telling for the last few years. Mr. McEntee is not happy with The New York Times.
Mr. McEntee suggests incorrectly that The New York Times reported Georgetown's median private sector salary without providing information on what percentage of the class or of those employed were working in the private sector. (Mr. McEntee also seems to be confused about the difference between response rates—the percentage of those surveyed who respond to the survey or to a particular question—and response bias—whether those who respond to a survey are systematically different along the measured variable from those who do not).
The New York Times wrote:
Last year, 93.2 percent of the 645 students of the Georgetown Law class of 2013 were employed. Sixty percent of the 2013 graduates were in the private sector with a median starting salary of $160,000.
Deborah Merritt disputes the accuracy of these numbers, suggesting it is 60 percent of the 93.2 percent of the graduating class who were employed that were employed in the private sector. This would come to 56 percent of the class employed in the private sector and is a small enough difference that The New York Times may have simply rounded up.
In any case, it is clear that The New York Times provided information about the percent of graduates working in the private sector.
Mr. McEntee also repeats the odd claim that by reporting employment numbers that appear to be close to consistent with the standard definition of "employment" established by the U.S. Census Bureau and promulgated internationally by the International Labor Organization, The New York Times is somehow misleading its readers.
To the contrary, it is Mr. McEntee's non-standard definitions of employment, taken out of context, that are likely to mislead those attempting to compare law school statistics to the employment statistics of the next best alternative. Mr. McEntee discusses full-time employment statistics for law schools without noting that the full-time employment rate for law graduates is higher than the full-time employment rate for bachelor's degree holders with similar levels of experience and backgrounds under consistent definitions and survey methods. And he overlooks the evidence that those who do not practice law still benefit from their law degrees.
Mr. McEntee also inaccurately describes my research with Frank McIntyre, claiming incorrectly that we do not take into account those who graduated after 2008. Timing Law School was specifically designed to address this limitation of our earlier research.
Timing Law School includes an analysis of two proxies for law school graduates from the American Community Survey: (1) young professional degree holders excluding those working in medical professions, and (2) young lawyers. This analysis includes individuals who graduated as recently as 2013, and finds no evidence of a decline in recent law graduates' outcomes relative to those of similar bachelor's degree holders. (See also here for a discussion of recent data for the subset of law graduates who work as lawyers).
Timing Law School also simulates the long term effects on the earnings premium of graduating into a recession based on the experiences of those who have graduated into previous recessions. The differences between graduating into a recession and graduating into an average economy are not very large (there is a large boost for those graduating into a boom, but booms and recessions are not predictable at the time of law school matriculation).
Moreover, in Timing Law School we find that fluctuations in short-term outcomes for recent graduates are not good predictors of outcomes for those who are currently deciding whether or not to enter law school; long term historical data is a better predictor.
The Economic Value of a Law Degree did not include data on those who graduated after 2008 because such data was not available in the Survey of Income and Program Participation. However, it did include earnings data through 2013, and found no evidence of the earnings premium for law graduates declining in recent years to below its historical average.
Frank and I have noted repeatedly that our analysis compares a law degree to a terminal bachelor's degree and that we think an important area for future research is careful comparative analysis of alternate graduate degrees, being mindful of selection effects (read The Economic Value of a Law Degree or for the most recent example, see our post from two days ago). While a casual (i.e., not causal) examination of raw data suggests that a law degree likely compares reasonably well to most alternatives other than a medical degree, we've noted that it's possible that more rigorous analysis will reveal that another graduate degree is a better option for some prospective law students, especially when subjective preferences are taken into account along with financial considerations.
Mr. McEntee claims incorrectly that when it comes to other graduate degrees, "McIntyre and Simkovic don't know and don't care; they're convinced that the value of a law degree as immutable as the laws of nature."
Mr. McEntee insists that law graduates, even at the higher ranked schools, will find it challenging to repay their student loans. However, data from After the JD shows that law school graduates from the class of 2000/2001 have been paying down their loans rapidly.
What about those who entered repayment more recently, when tuition was higher and job prospects less plentiful?
Data from the U.S. Department of Education shows that law students, even at low ranked law schools, remain much less likely to default than most student borrowers. This is true even though law students typically graduate with higher debt levels.
Indeed, The Economic Value of a Law Degree suggests that law graduates generally have higher incomes after taxes and after paying additional debt service than they likely would have had with a terminal bachelor's degree, even before taking into account debt forgiveness available under Income Based Repayment plans.
Based in part on our research, private student lenders have noticed how unlikely law graduates are to fail to repay their loans. These lenders offer refinancing at substantially lower rates than those charged by the federal government, further reducing the costs of legal education for many graduates (while earning a profit in the process).
Mr. McEntee's problem is not that The New York Times got the facts wrong. His problem is that The New York Times got too many of the facts right. Mr. McEntee simply dislikes the facts.
No matter what new information becomes available, Mr. McEntee insists that law school is financially disastrous. This is curious for a public figure who claims that his goal is providing prospective law students more accurate information about law school.
April 7, 2015 in Guest Blogger: Michael Simkovic, Legal Profession, Of Academic Interest, Professional Advice, Science, Student Advice, Weblogs | Permalink


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An Upstate Memorial Day tradition is returning this year. The annual Aloft Festival, which takes place at Simpsonville's Heritage Park, will be held for the 33rd year May 23-26.
The festival brings together food, music and hot air balloons for a unique Memorial Day experience. Aloft, which was rebranded last year, also now includes a range of outdoor activities like ziplining, stand up paddle boarding, aerobatics helicopter rides and beer and wine tasting.
Last year's festival also brought premier entertainment including the rock band Third Eye blind. ...

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I liked the convenience of this hotel, right next to the Mustafa Centre which is open 24 hours and close to all the great restaurants and shops. The rooms werent so bad, a welcoming change after a months stay in India especially loved the bed. Though I felt like I was once again in India but a clean one :) For the price you pay I dont really think its worth it. Employees of the hotel are downright unfriendly and rude and customer service is very slow. There was no milk provided in our room and we had to remind them several times to bring it. It is a bit noisy and you can hear people talking in the next room. We had been travelling around so much and were at that stage that we didnt care so much anymore, we were glad to be just heading back home and looking forward to our own home and bed. I will however not stay there again if I go.
Did not like it very much!
We stayed 3 nights in New Park with two small children and we didn't like it very much. The lobby looks OK, but our room was really dirty. The beds looked clean, but we found black hairs in it...And the bathroom was dirty and in every place was a lot of dust. No, we certainly won't return! I think you can get a better, more clean hotel in Singapore!
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Due to heavy workload, I usually check in hotels over the weekend to pamper myself.
Been to New Park a few times and my last encounter, prompted me to write this review, my very first review of hotels.
1) The check in procedure took painfully long while. Gets worst if there's a queue.
2) When I went up to the reception for my check in, the staff looked "offended" by my presence. Perhaps I was just booking into their cheaper rooms, the staff made me felt unwelcomed. No eye contact.
3) The next morning when I had my breakfast at new park cafe, notice the staff was busy. Busy chatting with other staff. I was wondering if they're there to clean tables and that's it.
Guess I won't want to go back there again. Went back there initially cos my girl like their croissant but guess after our last experience, it's best not to go back........
The room was ok apart from the fact that we had booked a double room via an agent, and on arrival were told that it wasnt available. Secondly we found the staff rude, and were a little confused why Singaporeans couldnt understand english, when it is their offical language, apparently. Finally, I wouldn't recommend anyone staying in Little India if they are easily intimidated. As a young white girl I had lots of unwelcomed attention!
Could not get a good nights sleep
Only stayed here for one night but did not enjoy it. After a late flight on Sunday night everyone in the hotel was noisey.
Throughout the night could hear people in the hall way so we didnt have a nice sleep.
Break fast was okay.
It just was not my 'cup of tea' however for those who love culture staying in little india would be great. New Park is one of the best hotels in Little India. Being in this hotel you are in a different world maybe india?
Good value
Good value hotel in Littel India area. Hotel is about 10 mins walk to nearest Metro, 15 mins walk to intersection with Orchard road. Hotel is very large, modern, with fairly good sized rooms. Swimming pool clean and tidy, food in restaurant good and service generally helpful. Stayed for 3 nights in April 2003, would return again if looking for value for money.
Good value for the money.
This is a 3 star hotel in Little India. I got a room for $50 with breakfast from S-pore. Room was a bit old but was kept clean. I arrived very late and was given a room with an adjoining room. Eventhough the door between the rooms were locked I could hear conversations from the other room. This was a nuisence but I was tired and it was very late. I asked for a late checkou till 6pm. I was told it will cost me half a day's rate. That was OK with me. But it turned out to be the same as a full night's rate, because they used the rack rate of SGD 160. Overall it was an OK experience.
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British Steve McIntyre joined Debian in 1996 and has lead the project since 2008. In his platform statement he tells of his reluctance to run for the post a second time, and how he was finally convinced to do so by his friends. If he does win, McIntyre says he will appoint Luk Claes as his assistant. McIntyre has been calling for more communication within the Debian Project since he was elected in 2008 and some of the goals he set himself he failed to realize because of the enormous complexity of the workload. Which is why he wants the support of Claes this time around, he says.
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In the latest example of a practice known as a ''mini-tender,'' a tiny investment company offered yesterday to buy 2 percent of the outstanding stock of the RJR Nabisco Holdings Corporation for $24 a share, or 8 percent lower than its recent closing price.
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People are tagging themselves, with microchips. [via] [previous]
RoombaFrogger: Game of the Future
RoombaFrogger. At SXSW, DIY hackers took an innocent Roomba, modded it and used it to play real-life Frogger on the streets of Austin.
Do-it-yourself funerals
Home funerals Think the cost of funerals is out of control? Do it yourself!
DIY fireflies
LED Throwies (QT) A simple combination of lithium battery, diffused LED, strong magnet and a little tape. Developed by the Graffiti Research Lab division of the Eyebeam R&D OpenLab, full instructions are posted and take only a few minutes to follow.
Cardboard domes
Cardboard Geodesic Dome. A how-to on building a geodesic dome out of cardboard, a bit of wood, some duct tape and paint. Plus some rebar if you don't want the finished dome to fly like a kite. If you like the concept but not the size calculate your own then apply the concept.
Death (?) of a Small-Press Legend
Death (?) of a Small-Press Legend The link points to a page dedicated to Bill-Dale Marcinko, one-time gonzo Rutgers University newspaper editor, small press publisher and a character it seems no one who knew could ever stop thinking about. Marcinko, who had been supporting himself selling CDs on eBay, apparently died in a house fire when firemen were held back by cardboard boxes full of his collections. Still, he did fake his death several times before. His friends, most of whom haven't spoken to him in years, are hoping this is just a more elaborate prank. Clifford Meth's tribute page celebrates Bill-Dale and his work, including AFTA zine, described as perhaps "the first comics 'zine distributed to book and comic shops that combined comedy, politics and reviews on books, films, and comics. It was very much an underground version of Crawdaddy, though with vastly personal content." (via Mike Appelstein, a contributor to the Rutgers Livingston Medium)
Another Synth Guru Has Left Our Presence
John "Paia" Simonton died late last week. His company, PAiA is one of the grandfathers of the DIY synth scene. I have one of his modular synths half-constructed in my garage. He helped create an American buzz for electronic music and DIY music gear in the 70s, and was highly influential till his passing away.
Own an iPod/Nano? These uber-kool mittens rock!!!
Own an iPod/Nano? These uber-kool mittens rock!!! Cozy and stylish! I want a pair... and I don't even own an iPod! heh! Comes with knitting instructions [PDF]! Su-weeet!
Conquer the world with greenhouses, one plant at a time
Huge "Do it with friends" Greenhouse, Medium DIY PVC Greenhouse[pdf], Small DIY PVC Greenhouse. Now make some money with that greenhouse.
I've always wondered how to make a fart machine....
Instructables for showing what you make and how to make it. Not just any DIY site, the creator Saul Griffith has an impressive pedigree. The site comes with all the things you'd expect from a new collaborative widget including Creative Commons licensing options and of course tags. From the about page: "We like to think about the physical world as something that is programmable. We like to think of objects or stuff you make as 'code'. In other words, we are approaching the physical world as something that is describable and replicable." Dive in and learn how to make a pimped out megaphone helmet, Hungarian bookshelves or canned applesauce. (via)
Asphalt art
Asphalt mosaics: Forget spraypaint, a DIY to a more permanent form of public art.
"We believe everything should be free!" Oolsi is a new zine about free tools, self-learning and living free. Won't somebody just make a new Whole Earth Catalog already?
Discover the goodness that is Hack A Day
Discover the goodness that is Hack A Day -- DIY geekery of all sorts awaits you: vacuum forming • Infrared web cams and digital cams • robotic helicopter • Telemarketer Interception System • Jacob's Ladder • Dobsonian telescope [pdf] • prison tatoo gun • TIG welder • parallel and serial port sound • LCD projector • FM transmitter [tripod] • computer-controlled glider • jet-powered beer cooler • retro wooden laptop • White Trash hoverboard • refrigerator speaker cabinet • tornado machine [pdf] • fog machine • LED Pimp Bed • seismometer • persistence-of-vision game system • webcam telescope • racing game controllers • Segway • laser projectors • flamethrower • bagpipes and hours upon hours of time wasting others.
Meet The Melloman
"What did you do to my Intelligent Synthesizer?" Wonderful collection of DIY sound gizmos from Mike Walters at Mystery Circuits. Includes the Pena-Tron, the Electronic Earthball and detailed instructions for the Moog Source Membrane Switch Cure. Most recent: The Melloman, a hilariously elliptical DIY Mellotron. [note: 3rd, 4th and 8th links are mp3s] [via]
The Pixel Reanimator
Bring dead LCD pixels back to life! Did you know you can often fix dead LCD pixels by forcing them to rapidly cycle through red, green, and blue? Neither did I, but the video linked here worked on one of my older screens after a few hours of looped playback. YMMV, but what have you got to lose?
french fried vehicles
Biodiesel could be one way out of high fuel costs and foreign oil dependency. Fuel efficient vehicles are on my mind lately. Will we ever be driving vehicles like this DIY special? or even this one?
How grampa might have done it.
Vintage Projects do it yourself plans, vintage reprints and building ideas from the 40's, 50's and 60's for farm, workshop, woodshop, machineshop, kids and camping. Includes plans for a pop-up camper, toy excavator, snow blower, and concrete block machine.
Bicycle Bricolage
Bicycle Bricolage Bicycles built from found items.
un BEE lievable. Get it?
Photographing flying insects. Most of the pages are devoted to a very detailed tutorial, but pages 2, 4, 9 & 10 show the results of the various setups. Some spectacular hi-speed (bee wings frozen in mid buzz) stuff in here.
The only way to travel
Build your own Rocket Belt (Jet Pack)! Jealous of 007 in Thunderball? Missed that eBay rocket belt sale a few years ago? Have a lust to fly like a bird (sort of) with a real rocket belt? Then build your own rocket belt just like Stuart Ross. Watch out for stuck throttles (avi file) though.
The future of single-wheeled transportation!
The Electric Unicycle makes transportation a breeze: "You lean forward to accelerate, lean backwards to brake, and gyrate your arms wildly to turn." (Invented by the man who thought his own homemade Segway had one wheel too many)
You know you like to tinker
First came the O'Reilly hacks series. There there was Make magazine, which claims to be the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration. Now a niche publication for Lego geeks who want to know everything about wee plastic bricks.
Woah, cool!
Roll your own air-conditioning. I'm a student, with limited funds and a cheap house without air conditioning. To avoid dying this summer, I've built a primitive air conditioner. It's a basic heat pump, using water as the medium. You'll probably need to fiddle a bit with the dimensions of the supplies based on your resources and preferences. Not sure I'd do this but hey, when you're sweltering hot, anything is worth a try.
The NYC Midnight Run is happening right now! Today, dozens of teams are hard at work writing, scripting, recording, and editing a film which must be complete twentifour hours from the time they were given the subject and genre. But we in Greater New York are not alone. There are 24 hour film festivals cropping up all over. Why?
(Disclosure: Though I will be participating in the festival, I am not in any way an organizer or affiliated with the organization itself. This should be viewed as the equivalent of someone who uses a search engine pointing out a cool point about search engines).
(Disclosure: Though I will be participating in the festival, I am not in any way an organizer or affiliated with the organization itself. This should be viewed as the equivalent of someone who uses a search engine pointing out a cool point about search engines).
Bamboo bike
Bicycle enthusiast Brano Meres constructed this bike frame from bamboo. I'm not sure how well it would hold up, but it looks pretty sweet. [via coolhunting]
Creating an organizational system
How do you make a "trusted system"? A planning and organisational system which can be relied upon to contain your events, tasks, projects and thoughts?... One of the biggest obstacles for many people is how to create a system that is always there, at the ready, and worthy of your trust.
Make fake stakes? Rake lake snakes? Brake, flake.
Make is a new mook (magazine/book) from O'Reilly "devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and D.I.Y. inspiration.". The first issue should be shipped by February 28th and contains articles from Yak Shaving (not literally) to a $14 video camera stabilizer to a DIY gauss rifle and lots of stuff in between. A section called MakeShift requests readers to send in their solutions to a difficult scenario. It's quarterly, around 200 pages, apparently in 9x7 format and a yearly subscription is $35 while single issues are $15 (cover price). Each project has a page for commentary as well as RSS/Atom feeds and MAKE:audio is coming soon.
Do you be havin' cards?
Organizing the Hipster PDA has become even greater. Following up on his initial post on the matter, Merlin Mann has produced an extension of the Hipster PDA based on the knowledge he's gained in the past year. (via bOING bOING)
Have you driven a couch lately?
Brent and Eivind's Couchbike Adventure. "In 2002, two intrepid cyclists rode a human powered couch through Maritime Canada." Via Gadling.
Extreme Origami
I enjoy some basic origami birds that can flap their wings as much as the next guy, but check out this how-to origami gallery of insane projects. The Sea Urchin?! The Octopus?! The Rickshaw?! I have no idea how they did half of these. [via red ferret]
... because what every man really wants is A JET TO FLY
Just a little off the top, please
SmartKlamp "Do it Yourself" home circumcision.
More than a tweak.
Music & photography. How to soup up that digital camera.(via coolios)
I can see for megabytes
Do your windows overlook scenes of inspiration? Do you even have windows? Why not choose your view?
Give me the Oscillation Overthruster!
How to build yourself a Glow Discharge Panel. No, really. Woah, that's freakin' cool. UFO stuff, I think to myself. Heh. Oh.. Oh holy crap!
The Frugal Frankenstien
How to Build Your Own Scientific Laboratory For Free: Parts One, Two, and Three. (Though I suppose if you have a bit of cash and happen to live in Boston, you can always check out the MIT Swap Meet to pick up those endless piles of oscillators or half-functioning VAX computers you almost certainly need...)
dream machine
dream machine The dream machine is a creation of Brion Gysin, a Canadian-English expatriate colleague of William S. Burroughs and Paul Bowles. Timothy Leary called this device "the most sophisticated neuro-phenomenological device ever designed." A dream machine is being exhibited this week in San Francisco. If you can't make it there, you can perhaps build your own.
l33t on wheels Guy takes 'mobile computing' to a new level. via Blue's News. Also, a wave to the TLD owner, he's a friend.
I'll start with corky
Make your own classic pleasure boat.
Fold your own double CD case
Burning discs for a friend? Fold your own double CD case to put 'em in. Several other templates previously discussed here. [via TRFJ]
They make my head hurt.
Bzzzzt... thank you for flying!
Reach Out and Zap Someone. Bruce Schneier points out a link on how to turn a normal everyday disposable camera into a stun gun in his most recent Crypto-Gram. Honestly Mr. DHS it's to take pictures of the kids...
Build your own wokfi system!
USB adaptors & a Spider Skimmer = Poor Man's Wifi!


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- I brewed 9 batches of extract with steeped grain and made several good beers. Then I realized 12 lbs of grain would fit into my 6 gallon pot and jumped head-first into all grain as BIAB. I currently use that 6 gal pot as a mash tune (with bazooka screen) and am rockin some all grain brews.rnrnMy favorite thing about homebrewing: Crafting my own unique recipe and reaping the benefits. A beer after work tastes so much better when it's a fresh homebrew!rnrnI don't really have a favorite style and tend to brew what I am in the mood for. Generally, that means dark and roasty in the winter and light and hoppy through the summer.rnrnI made a great stout last winter using some Brown Malt for a deep roasty flavor, then brewed a very good Belgian similar to Rare Vos. I am playing with a Kolsch recipe using honey malt that has been a success. My latest was a rye IPA using Centennial and Cascade hops - that recipe quickly became a house recipe.rnrnMy goal for 2015 is to brew 8 batches.
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- Brewed the first 2 batches as straight extract, then discovered steeping fresh grain added a level of flavor I was looking for and brewed another 8 beers with steeping grains. I was hesitant to buy a ton of equipment for an all grain set up and a little squemish about the process until I stumbled across Brew-In-A-Bag (BIAB). I've completed several brews on this method and am slowly adding equipment at about $100 / year. I recently bought a bazooka screen and will be brewing my first beer without the bag tomorrow. Mash tun is my old kettle replaced by a big 10 gall kettle that I love.
- People often ask "What's your favorite beer?" and I honestly give them the answer "I like them all." To me it depends on what I'm in the mood for. rnI'm in Houston, Tx and it's friggin hot here 10 months out of the year and "cool" the other 2. I love belgian beers but crave hoppy pale ales and IPAs in the summer heat.
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Posted in thread: Sour Mash odor behind your house? on 03-04-2015 at 04:33 PM
I agree that spreading it out thin will help the spent grain dry faster, equating to less funk.
Try covering each layer with soil or mulch. Microbes in the soil will break down the sugars
faster befor...
Posted in thread: Ommegang Rare Vos - recipe needed on 03-04-2015 at 03:40 PM
I brewed the original recipe in November, let it ferment and age in primary until March. I ust
tapped the keg last night (March 3) and really enjoyed it. I wouldn't call it a rare vos clone,
but it is...
Posted in thread: Coming up with a recipe on 01-09-2015 at 02:45 PM
Search for Orfy's Mild Mannered Ale. It's a dark mildly and very good. I also second the above
post about Northern Brewer's online recipes. I use them (often with my own tweaks) all the
Posted in thread: Yeast Washing Illustrated on 11-12-2014 at 11:35 AM
I just wanted to share my success at yeast washing. The kolsch yeast (Wyeast 2565) that I
harvested from a yeastcake & washed on a whim 3 months ago went nuts in the starter and spilled
down the side ...
Posted in thread: Pitching Wyeast 2565 on 10-10-2014 at 04:29 AM
Wyeast 2565 is a great yeast. I typicay let it ferment all the way out to FG and then go
straight to bottling. There is no reason why you could not or should not extend time in the
secondary for this ...
Posted in thread: Favorite malt for single malt batches? on 08-30-2014 at 02:53 PM
I just did a kolsch smash with a kolsch malt from AHS. It seemed slightly breadier than pils
malt to me. I think of pils malts as being cracker-like. Hopped with Tradition and it came out
nice althoug...
Posted in thread: Wyeast 1007 on 07-27-2014 at 10:47 PM
Did you pitch a starter? What was your mash temp? Your fermentation temps seem ok for the style
and yeast. I used Wyeast 1007 in an alt use two months ago and was impressed by how clean it
was. Also, ...
Posted in thread: brewing waste - hops, yeast, grain, water... on 07-26-2014 at 11:37 PM
I compost the grains and hops. I just started washing my yeast. I run the water from my CFC
into flower beds and the new trees in our front yard. I usually wash kettles, equipment and
carboys in the b...
Posted in thread: Mash Tun Drain Problems on 07-25-2014 at 01:06 PM
Spend $12 and buy a bazooka tube. I've never had a stuck sparge with mine and they are sturdy
enough to support a lot of grain. Last weekend I made a rye kolsch with 20% rye and had no
issues; and I c...
Posted in thread: Karbach Barn Burner Saison Clone on 03-29-2014 at 08:04 PM
Barn burner turned me back onto saisons. I stayed away from them after I made one that came out
WAY too spicy and with an alcoholic burn (fermented too hot) and tried another saison (one of
the Icons ...