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Tom Perkins's "Silicon Valley Is Not Wall Street" (op-ed, Feb. 25) accurately describes the nature of venture capital firms and how they differ in almost every regard from the investment banks that Washington feels compelled to more tightly regulate. The venture capital industry poses risks only to those actively engaged in it—the limited partners who provide capital and the entrepreneurs who provide innovation. These risks are fully understood by all participants and entail no systemic risk to the broader economy.
But I am surprised that Mr. Perkins fails to identify the driving forces behind Washington's threat to regulate venture capital firms along with investment banks.
A key characteristic of the venture-capital industry is that the wealth generated by the few successes (probably much less than 10% of all venture investments) is staggering. This wealth is captured by the investors in venture-capital firms, by the partners of these firms, and by the entrepreneurs employing venture capital to launch startups. It is the dream of becoming the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs that motivates so many entrepreneurs to work such ungodly hours at so little pay despite the fact that the odds are stacked against them.
This wealth only accrues to those who are right, to those who correctly invested in or built the right product or service at the right time. Success in venture capital has nothing to do with need or fairness; rather, it is entirely driven by intelligence and the willingness to work hard. In fact, the venture-capital economy is probably the closest approximation of Ayn Rand's "Galt's Gulch" ever invented. And it is this that Washington dislikes.
Virtually every aspect of the venture-capital industry is at odds with Washington's worldview. It is exclusively profit motivated. Wealth is highly concentrated (for every Sergey Brin and Larry Page there are thousands of failures). And although some do look to Washington for handouts (green energy in particular), venture capital operates almost completely independent of Washington. In some ways it occupies a different universe.
Kevin Walsh
Coto de Caza, Calif.
Tom Perkins concentrates on the job creation aspect of venture capital, but there is another aspect that, in the long run, is equally if not more important for our country: technological innovation. It would be difficult to find any industry, worldwide, that has not been impacted by technology funded by venture capital since its birth in the 1960s in New England through its expansion to Silicon Valley.
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Despicable Me 2's special July 4th was independent in more ways that one: it was Universals biggest ever opening for a movie, with a total of $34.3m on Wednesday, despite most American's enjoying the seasonally good weather. This has set it up to perform well over the weekend, as those little minions continue to delight audiences.
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The hilarious animation – starring Steve Carell as the evil genius-cum-family man Gru – followed up the impressive Wednesday with a solid Thursday, managing $23.5m. All in all, a domestic total of $84.3m so far is good going, especially considering it's still got a holiday weekend to sell. Even better news for Universal is, considering it's an animation, it was rather cheap, costing a mere $76m to make – it's already broken even and more!
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One is a team captain.
The other, soon enough in his career, will be.
On Friday, the Chargers declared safety Darrell Stuckey, their special teams captain, and inside linebacker Donald Butler out for Sunday's game against the Bengals. Wide receiver Eddie Royal was also ruled out.
None of three were able to practice this week.
Tight end Dante Rosario (hamstring) is listed doubtful while the injuries to the Chargers defense, already without strong safety Atari Bigby, extend to Jarret Johnson.
The veteran outside linebacker was limited in Thursday's practice with a back ailment and stuck to mental reps Friday. He is questionable, but there is hope he'll be able to play.
Bigby (groin), Butler (groin) and Stuckey (hamstring) all suffered injuries in the first half of Sunday's loss to the Ravens. Bigby was placed this week on season-ending injured reserve.
For all three, Sunday will be the first missed game of the year.
Butler has made 27 straight starts dating back to the start of last season and leads the Chargers with 72 total tackles in 2012. Bigby is second with 68.
Demorrio Williams will start for Butler alongside inside linebacker Takeo Spikes.
Williams, 32, has had a strong season, contributing on special teams and defensive sub-packages. It was with no disrespect to him Friday that players acknowledged Butler's absence will be felt.
"It's just different personalities," Spikes said. "It's different because you build a chemistry and bond with certain people. You already know what he brings to the table. Proven playmaker. He's got the respect of all the guys. His leadership ability."
Stuckey leads the team with 12 special teams tackles, including 10 solo.
He's the first Chargers player to have 12 special-teams tackles in consecutive seasons since Pro Bowl gunner Kassim Osgood did it from 2007 to 2009.
It won't be one player asked to step in at gunner for Stuckey.
"We've played a lot of guys in there," coach Norv Turner said. "We'll just roll them around."
Royal will miss his fourth game, including second straight, to a lingering hamstring injury. He has 16 catches this season for 134 yards and a score.
Free safety Eric Weddle (concussion), guard Tyronne Green (hamstring), punter Mike Scifres (right ankle), tackle Jeromey Clary (thigh), outside linebacker Antwan Barnes (hamstring) and outside linebacker Larry English (calf) are listed as probable.
All were full participants at Friday's practice.
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There was no flag, and there will be no fine.
While the Chargers took issue with a hit in Sunday's loss to the Ravens, the authorities on the matter evidently did not.
Ravens wide receiver Anquan Boldin won't be charged a cent, an NFL spokesman said Friday, for a block he delivered on Weddle during a fourth-and-29 conversion. The play led to a game-tying field goal as regulation expired, and the Ravens won in overtime.
Weddle suffered a concussion on the hit, which appeared to possibly have been from behind. It was ruled clean.
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He shoved cornerback Marcus Gilchrist late on a 4-yard Torrey Smith reception, drawing a 15-yard penalty and now $7,875 charge.
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i took my student there and he got no respect and they treated him wrong
As an educated professional I chose to move into this upcoming community and send my kids to this school. I discovered that the school focuses on student needs above all else. It has a demanding "can do" school culture that many of us love!
Don t let the supposed high test scores fool you (less than half of all students are passing the tests sounds like a failing grade to me). Sousa does not provide the best middle school education in DCPS. Any school with such a high turnaround of staff does not have the tools to provide an education comparable to Sousa s peers in Georgetown or in the VA and MD suburbs. Think again before you send your child to Sousa. Our communities are regularly taken advantage of and it should not be tolerated. The administration assumes that families in this community are uneducated. If your student reports that they have witnessed any unusual activity call the school. Then call your local media outlet. Sousa has a spotlight on it due to it s supposed turnaround under the last principal. I am sure that other media outlets would like to hear that Sousa is still failing the children of SE.
This is the school I truly underestimated about. This is daughter first year @ Sousa. And Sousa has truly exceeded my expectation. My daughter finally found her comfort zone. And that is truly wonderful from the previous school setting that she was in. The leadership @ Sousa is not only a Principal he demonstrates to me to be a wonderful mentor to our trouble youth men. As a Vice President of the PTA my mission is to get more parents involvement which the lacks in. However we are seeing it increases as meetings are forming. I am so forward to see more wonder things @ Sousa. If you are a parent seeking a great school Sousa Middle School is the school of choice no doubt.
I Am So Pleased That My Child is in This School Because it is a great enviorment and staff i am so glad that my 2 children are succeeding in school and this would be a great middle school for your tween or teen to go to.
I was in sousa for a year which was last year.The staff at sousa really cared and encouraged the students.You could tell they cared.There were a few problem children which is normal that would be handled the right way-right away i would recommend this school.Which is why i was sad when i had to change schools for an unorganized maryland school
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If you're fed up preparing for Christmas and want a distraction, and if the possibilities for distraction include reading poems, you might consider checking out Read This! online. My poem, 'Bananas', is fourth down. Good also to see a poem there from fine young Indian writer, Aditi Machado.
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Thanks for the mention Rob!
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Thanks for the mention, also. : ) I was very excited to see that I was in the same issue as you.
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Savannakhet (Agenzia Fides) - Two Laotian Christian pastors were arrested on February 5, 2013 on charges of "spreading the Christian religion" have been released and, since mid-March, they returned to their families. This was confirmed to Fides Agency by the NGO "Christian Solidarity Worldwide", through direct contacts with the local Christian communities.
The three Christian Protestant pastors Bounma, Somkaew and Bounmee were arrested on 5 February in Phin District, Savannakhet province, after a police officer caught them while they were watching and duplicating a DVD of Christian content, titled "The End of Times " in a copy shop in the district market (see Fides 08/02/2013). The authorities accused them of "spreading the Christian religion" through the film. The salesman and one of the Pastors were released shortly after their arrest, the other two were held and brought to the county jail in Phin. For a while the two were detained in a high security section of the prison, reserved for prisoners who have committed the most serious crimes. The conditions in this part of the prison are particularly restrictive: the prisoners are chained together and cannot even leave the cell to carry out their physiological needs. Pastor Bounma was severely beaten by the police in prison in an attempt to get him to confess.
The NGO CSW welcomes the release of the Pastors and denounces the false accusations against the three men and the use of torture to extort a confession. "We urge the Lao authorities to protect the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion, and to ensure that prisoners are not subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, in line with the obligations of the Government of Laos, under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights," says a note sent to Fides by CSW. (PA) (Agenzia Fides 09/04/2013)
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- 2015-09-21 - One of the Christians condemned for praying for a sick woman has died in prison
- 2015-09-15 - A Protestant Pastor killed in a cold-blooded manner by the police
- 2015-09-07 - Christians arrested on charges of proselytizing
- 2015-05-12 - The Vicar of Paksè: "We hope the 17 Laotian martyrs can be celebrated all together"
- 2015-05-07 - Fr.Mario Borzaga and Laotian catechist martyrs: the joy of Bishops and young people
- 2015-05-04 - ASIA/LAOS – The Christians convicted of illegal practice of medicine have appealed against the sentence
- 2015-03-06 - Three new priests, hope for the little Church in Laos
- 2015-03-04 - Prayer for the sick is a crime
- 2015-02-16 - Prayers for a dying woman: five Pastors charged with "abuse of medical profession"
- 2014-11-15 - Families evicted from villages after converting to Christianity


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31 May 2015
This is just to say
Sometimes I almost feel guilty talking about things in my own life with her. I have complaints, but they are few and generally, even the a/c being out for a week and the high cost of the replacement unit, pale in comparison to any one of the issues she's dealing with. I'm mostly satisfied. But I'm a naturally melancholy person; I want to just take her pain for her and hold onto it and let her get on with life. I can't do that. She wouldn't let me if I could. She would be horrified at the thought that I might ever feel guilty because I'm not dealing with the stress she is.
I'm supposed to be an adult. I am an adult. I'm plenty old enough to have already figured out how to handle situations like this, except, I'm starting to think we never really figure out exactly how to handle anything. We just fake it. We just try to make something up on the fly and hope it works. We can't make up generic patterns for every situation we're likely to find ourselves in; every situation is different. All we can do is try to look at the past and apply the lessons to the present. And even that's not as easy to do as it is to write.
Life is confusing. Bad stretches come and go; good times, too. I guess we just keep making it up as we go along.
01 January 2015
Many people--perhaps a majority--on my Facebook feed seem not have had a particularly good 2014. I had my ups and downs; it wasn't a year where I accomplished as much as I wanted, but it was a year when I started some really big projects. It's easy for me to complain that I didn't do this or I didn't do that, that I suffered this or that setback (certainly true), that I once again put off this or that big life goal (also true). But these things are always true. And I suspect, on reading through the things people were saying about 2014, that this was true for most. No, it wasn't a great year. It also wasn't terrible. Some folks I know did have a rotten 2014, but for most people, what it really was, the strongest nail in 2014's unlamented coffin, is that it was just more of the same. The same tendencies and habits ruled our lives. The same worries kept us up nights, and the same complaints drove our friends and family crazy. Deep-rooted patterns that can't be undone in a week or a month with a fervent resolution remained in our lives and we did not change them. In 2014, what most of us did--and what was so dissatisfying--is the same thing we were doing in 2013, and 2012, and every other year. 2014 is not a year when we grew or a changed much. But that is true every year. It will be true in 2015, too. That's the nature of life.
That's not meant to be depressing. That we can look at ourselves and see where we need to change and improve and grow is great benefit. We first world types give ourselves grief for complaining about little things when billions of people don't have clean water...but that's the great good fortune of our lives. We can complain that we don't care for our jobs, avoid the gym too often, need to eat better, and spend too much time on Facebook, because we don't have to worry about other things. Is it depressing that in our lives of plenty we still find things we would like to change? No! Gracious, what would we become if we decided we were all satisfied with what we have simply because we know, deep down, that we have enough, indeed more than enough, to survive and be happy? We should consider our tendency to be negative about ourselves as a great driving force that can better the world, if only we learn how to harness it.
Maybe what 2014 was, then--and I'll say this, outside in the world at large, it was dreadful, almost all the news was terrible and our leaders made everything worse--was a year when we all collectively realized we--we as individuals, we as a community, and we as a collective humanity--can do better, and there's no reason why we shouldn't. What a fantastic thing that would be for us as people and our world at large.
Yesterday and today, then, my friends who'd been negative the previous few days suddenly switched tunes. It's traditional to bring in a new year with a sense of hope and optimism. I wondered based on the negativity I was seeing whether that would be true this year. It was. Most of us are glad to see the back of 2014, but I note that many more of us are glad to see the start of something new. That after a dissatisfying year our sense of optimism still abounds is the best news I've seen in a long time.
So, then, what about Smitty? What are Smitty's goals in 2015? Why, they're the same as all of yours. I want to be a bit more the person I can be and a bit less the person I too often am. I want to travel more, sit home less, write more, click less, experience more, buy less. I want to interact more in the real world and less in the digital one; and, late in the summer when all is dreary and I feel like the year hasn't gone the way I'd hoped, I want to remember that 2015 started on a happy note, and that my ability to be critical and dissatisfied is not greater than my ability to change.
Now I'm off to start the new year right, surrounded by friends and good times. Happy 2015, everybody.
21 December 2014
SNAFU Actually Does Mean Something, You Know
And then of course it was several days before I could replace it. Naturally the next day was the day I had to turn in a big project in an effort to save my grade in my English course, so I spent much of that day in a dingy computer lab trying to make myself care about my grade enough to turn in work slightly better than awful.
I did not, in the absence of my computer, spend time each day writing in a journal or anything. Why would I do that? That would require work.
The new computer seems to be okay mostly, but the wireless adapter is clearly garbage, can't find a strong signal if I'm sitting next to the antenna and drops out all the time. On the one hand, yaay, force me to be productive instead of surfing the internet! On the other hand, what the fuck, you know? Anybody know anything about replacing/upgrading wireless receivers in laptops?
Now I'm struggling to figure out what exactly went wrong with the previous computer. I plugged the hard drive in to this new machine to extract the valuable data from it and unfortunately, a significant portion of the data appears to be corrupted. I don't understand how this came to be, since the data didn't seem to be corrupted before the blue screens of death. In Windows Explorer now, I can see the folder the file I want is in, and I can see the file. But when I try to copy it from the hard drive to the new computer, it tells me that the file is no longer in that location and can't be copied. Weird.
Some of the files that won't copy--no doubt a lot of them, in fact--are of no importance, but there are a handful of things there that would be nice to have back, including among them a bunch of edited files for a game that would take probably twenty to thirty hours to recreate. It's not that I can't do that...but gosh, that's a lot of time to spend for something that ultimately is not worthwhile. Plus there are some pictures and stuff that I would like to have back. Not sure what to do about those, but I'll try to find someone who can help.
Is it worthwhile to recreate all those game files? I don't know. On the one hand I enjoy playing the game more with those edits. On the other hand the time invested is pretty high; redoing it all seems like a waste. How do you value time spent on something that is ultimately unproductive? I enjoy the game, certainly, it's good recreation, but at the same time so are lots of other things. Maybe I should just download a copy of SimCity 4 again and roll with that.
08 December 2014
Is longform blogging dead?
30 October 2014
An Old Story
The nature of study abroad programs often entails unexpected changes in schedules and activities as well as changes due to unfamiliar cultural norms. As such, an individual studying abroad should possess patience, the ability to be flexible, and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. Thinking about patience, flexibility, and adaptability, describe an example in your life where you demonstrated these qualities and discuss how it might relate to your experience abroad.
I'm sure they were looking for something short and sweet. I wrote this. Then, of course, I forgot to finish the application and the deadline closed and I was all upset, and then, glory of glories, yesterday I got an email that they'd extended the application. Yaay! So now I can apply and maybe have an awesome time in Costa Rica next March. Anyway. I reread this little ditty and it reminded me of a very wonderful trip I took long ago. I thought it was a charming enough story, so here it is:
I was visiting Carnac, France, and had spent an afternoon walking amongst the stones, and was due to catch a bus back to the train station in Auray, about 20 km up the road. I stood at the stop where I had gotten off the bus that morning...but of course the bus was northbound, now, and thus on the other side of the road, and though there was no bus stop sign over there the bus did not stop for me. It didn't stop at all, in fact, just drove on by, since no one was waiting by the road. This could be a serious problem; I had very limited French language skills, no personal contacts at all, and no idea how I was supposed to get where I was going--I was expecting to spend the night in the Quimper, a two-hour train ride away. What to do?
I hadn't been by the center of town, but I assumed there might be a tourist information center, so I started walking. I walked back through the standing stones and around the north side of town, because I had no idea which direction to go. Finally I saw a street sign indicating the center of town, and I headed that way. On my way I passed by a sign in someone's front yard: taxi. I didn't stop. I went into town and saw the museum dedicated to the stones (closed, as it was an off-season weekday), and the tourist bureau, which was also closed. The sign said it would re-open in a couple of hours, but by that time my train was going to have left. I was starting to think I needed to find a place to stay the night, and then I remembered the taxi sign.
I walked back up the road. I didn't speak French and didn't know this person and couldn't have been farther outside my comfort zone, but I knocked on the front door. In halting French I explained that I missed my bus and needed a ride to the train in Auray. I'm sure it came out like "no bus I was missing Auray train station. Please." The gentleman looked at me, then put up a finger, telling me to wait. He reappeared after a moment with a young girl, maybe 12 years old. "English?" she said. I explained what had happened. Then I stopped myself and explained it again more slowly. She smiled and translated for us. Her father would take me, it would be 40 francs (this was in the pre-Euro days, when a franc was worth about 1/7 of a dollar), but he would need two minutes. Then he disappeared. His daughter stood in the doorway and looked at me. "Did you lose your way?" she asked. I smiled nervously. "I just didn't make it to the bus on time." "I won't be able to ride to Auray with you," she said, and then disappeared, leaving me standing at an open front door. Was I supposed to go in? Stay out? Close the door either way?
Soon enough her father reappeared and with a great deal of gesturing and smiling pointed me toward the car, which said TAXI on it in foot-high letters; evidently, assuming that anyone who doesn't speak your language is a bit slow is a trait that crosses cultural barriers. We got in; he said grandly "Le gare d'Auray!" with a fluttering hand motion like a plane taking off, and we departed. He talked much of the way, and eventually I started trying to respond, with gestures and flourishes mostly. He would repeat things if I didn't seem to understand, and I would respond in English, and he would look at me instead of the road and really examine me like he would find the meaning of the words written on my face. Then he'd look back at the road, swerve suddenly to avoid whatever was in the way (something always was), and laugh uproariously. It was without question the best cab ride I've ever had. I still don't know what we talked about, but we made great sport of the traffic and agreed that McDonald's (McDo) is not so good. We made it to Auray with about 10 minutes to spare; I gave the man 100 francs and we were each on our separate ways.
So, what is the point of this whole story? Only this: keep an open mind and be willing to do uncomfortable things. Travel requires as much.
31 May 2014
Just a morning rant
Earlier this year after I'd bought the house and settled in things were looking good: my job paid well enough for me to actually eat out from time to time, go have beers with friends like once a week, that sort of thing, and I had put together a savings plan and some financial goals for the year, and it really looked like it was going to work. I wanted three months' expenses set aside in one account, and in two other savings accounts I was putting money so I could travel (two exotic trips, to Virginia and Ohio), buy a sound bar (I'm tired of listening to music through my television speakers, so I don't listen to music any more; my ex-wife sold my old speaker set at a garage sale and I can't for the life of me imagine why I let her), pay for a personal trainer certification course, and other small things.
And the thing is I just about got all three accounts filled up. The two-months-expenses one is good. The savings for travel and other things are basically where I want them; I overestimated travel expenses and other costs so that, even though I'm about 10% shy in both accounts, I think I'll be good. And I've got some cash stashed away for the travel expenses that probably more than makes up the shortfall.
Of course, I could just turn all the money out of all three accounts and finally pay off the goddamn credit card (I finally made the last payment on the second one earlier this year, hooray), but what is the point of this life if I can't get out of town once in a while? Well, that's the nature of low income. You don't get to do the stuff you want. Piss.
And of course, I went and bought a new mattress a couple months ago. Wasn't planning to do that, either, but it became obvious that my old mattress was the cause (or at least a cause) of my back and neck pain. And it was expensive, and I'm still paying for it, and it was sooooo worth it. The new mattress is fantastic. I love it. It hasn't helped with the anxiety and stress that keep me from sleeping well most nights, but I don't wake up in pain any more, and it's hard to put a price on that. But there was a price on it, and I'm still paying it.
Nonetheless, with a new roommate helping me pay for the mortgage and bills, my savings accounts look good enough that I've been seriously shopping for a new bike. My current bike is a ten-year-old mountain bike, but I don't trail ride any more and don't care to. I'm going to use the bike as a daily commuter to campus, and have been thinking it would be nice to have a more efficient one, something designed for roads where the high gears are actually, you know, high gears, and where the top speed is better than 20 mph at full tilt.
Road bikes are expensive. You can find some really cheap ones on line for as little as $300 from Bikes Direct. And they are worth $300. According to most of the reviews they'll get you about 1000 miles. They are intended as "intro" bikes for new riders who will either ride for a while and decide they don't like it, or will quickly want to upgrade to a better machine. I'm not the target consumer there; 1000 miles is somewhat less than one year's commuting (assuming I bike in 4 days a week), which means sometime next spring I must either buy another $300 bike or replace all the components on the old one. That just doesn't make sense.
And I thought to myself, you know, I just spent $350 I didn't have on a brake job on my car. My whole goal here is to put more miles on the bike around town in the next year than on the car. Shouldn't I at least consider spending more than $300 on my daily commuter? That doesn't seem unreasonable, right? I plan to ride this thing almost every day and use it as my primary transportation. My car cost me 16 times as much and I have to put $40 worth of dead dinosaurs in it every week (which is over $2,000 a year) and pay hundreds more in additional maintenance a few times a year, just to keep it running. Cars are terrible investments. By comparison it would be crazy not to buy a good bike.
I can get a very good road bike that will last me for many years and be an efficient and useful daily commuter from the bike shop on my delivery route, for about a grand (or half the cost of gas for a year). If I hadn't had to replace the car's brakes I'd have a third of that price in savings right now. But I don't. And if I hadn't replaced the mattress I'd have the rest of that money in savings right now, too. But I don't. And again, while I don't regret either of those purchases (it's hard to regret replacing your car's brakes, you know?) it does make it tough to justify spending any money at all on a new bicycle when I have an old bicycle. It doesn't really meet my needs, but it exists. If I'd paid off my divorce debt entirely already and not gone to Mexico in the spring on last fall's savings, I wouldn't be worrying about this, I suppose. It's not that I've spent money on things I wish I hadn't; it's that I wish I hadn't NEEDED to spend money on some of those things.
It's been seven years now since I earned enough money that I wasn't constantly doing this simple calculus. This is why I'm going back to school. My job prospects seem limited to the exact sort of dead-endery I've been doing the last several years. Oh sure, I could have stayed at the factory and after five years been earning more than enough, but the intervening time would still be fraught with this constant cost-benefit analysis and the necessary choices to give up things I want to do for things I have to do. And I don't want to work in a factory on the night shift for the rest of my life. Or drive a FedEx truck.
And I'm rich by the standards of my neighborhood! Hell, many of my neighbors make 2/3 of what I make, or less. I know how they manage it; I know I could manage it. I've done it. I don't want to anymore.
But what really got me pissed this morning... I mean, these things are all true, and that's what life is, and I live with that every day because honestly it's way better than the alternative, so it's really not something I normally feel the need to rant about. It's frustrating, finances are frustrating when you don't make much, but it's hardly impossible. There's lots of stuff I'd like to do and lots of it simply will not get done, probably ever. Living with that reality is shite, but it's shite I'm used to and it's what most people deal with on one level or another. What's interesting after a few years of this is how different the things I want to do but can't are than they used to be; when I was comfortable (back in my USAF days) I wanted to rip out my kitchen and take a rally-driving school in New Hampshire, things with five and two thousand dollar price tags, respectively. Now I want to finish putting ornamental grasses in the front yard and take a trip to Cedar Point, things with $100 and $450 price tags.
No, what pissed me off this morning is piss. Specifically cat piss. On my nice couch.
It's not enough that he pissed on the guest mattress some months ago. He got himself locked in the guest room while I was on an overnight trip, and obviously at some point he had to pee. Okay. He peed directly on the large pile of clothes (including a suit and several old flight suits) and also peed in nine other discreet locations around the bed. The entire mattress is trashed. I haven't replaced it yet because I can't justify spending hundreds of dollars on a mattress that's going to get slept on at most ten nights out of the year. I need to find a $100 mattress somewhere, maybe Sears Outlet or Big Lots, but with those places I also have to get the damn thing home.
But the couch? Why my fucking couch? What is the bastard's problem? He's done this once before, after we moved into the apartment in Greenville. I chalked it up to his being scared in a new home and went out and bought this current couch, which is frankly better in every way anyway (but wasn't too expensive).
It's not a medical issue. He goes outside most of the time, and is perfectly capable of using his litter box; he also doesn't habitually pee on furniture. But all three couch cushions right now smell like cat piss. I don't know when he did it or why, but suffice to say he had no reason to. He gets fed more than enough and any time he wants it; has a clean litter box; gets to spend most of his day outside if he wants or stay in if he'd prefer; he even has a new human around to give him extra scritches and cuddles. The thanks I get is a comfortable and essentially brand new couch that now smell like fucking cat piss.
I can't afford a new couch. But I can't even sit on my nice comfy couch any more because of the smell. Where the fuck is that money supposed to come from? Seriously. If I was really poor I'd just have to live with it, but thankfully I can at least fathom the idea of taking all the money out of savings to replace something that was brand new two years ago and should have been able to last twenty more. And of course that's put the kibosh on the new bike idea, if not on Cedar Point as well. So it goes.
Money is always spent before it's earned. Maybe earning more isn't the answer. Maybe I shouldn't go back to school at all, but just sell everything I own and backpack around the world on tramp steamers and stay in hostels until all the money runs out and I mooch off of relatives and friends for the rest of my life. That sounds pretty nice, actually.
So who has a couch I can crash on?
01 January 2014
Happy International Introspection Day
Often I've looked back over the previous year in horror or disappointment, but 2013 was different for me. For the first time in a while I took control of events this year in a way I often avoid. It's been good. And as I look around at what may be coming in 2014, I see a lot of sprouts from seeds planted in the past year. Things are working pretty well.
I decided in 2013 that I was going to go back to school. Not only that, I decided where to go and what to study. I decided I wanted to own a home again, own land (I still say all I really need is a big field with a kitchen and bath), be able to make it my own. And here I am, in a different city in a different state in my own living room. I raked mulch and cut the grass today. I organized seeds and made arrangements to get a few yards of compost delivered. Last year I planted several trees I've been growing in pots for the last few years.
I've had a delay in my school plans, but it's just a delay, and that, too, is my own doing. It's not like I planned to fail a class this spring so I'd screw myself over later, but at least I know where the issue is, whose fault it is, and what to do to fix it. I can quite comfortable look at 2014 and say it's the year I will go back to college, and that's a good feeling.
Not that 2013 was perfect. Not that I did everything I wanted or should have done, or refrained from doing everything I should have avoided. No year is perfect. It would have been nice not to fail that class this spring but there you are. I might have hoped to move into my home earlier, to pay less for it. I would have liked to pay off my credit card debt sooner, and fully (there's still a little chunk sitting there laughing at me). I really wanted to go home to see the family but never made the trip. And the job I'm working…well, it wasn't exactly what I was looking for.
Still, on balance, 2013 was one of the better years I've had of late; we'd have to go well back into the last decade to find one that went as well. And so it comes to look forward to 2014. I have some travel planned already, which is good, and I have a steady paycheck to start the year with. I have a class scheduled for the spring that should be tons of fun (and where I should get a solid A, which I need), and look forward to starting full time in the summer or fall. I have lots of plans for the yard, for the vineyard and the sorghum patch and the vegetable and herb gardens.
But some things do need to change. I'm not big on New Years Resolutions because I think too many people (myself included) tend to look at them as a New Year New You proposition, and nobody and nothing changes overnight. But there are things I need to work on. Budgeting is a problem, so I've come up with a list of financial goals—amounts I want to get stored up in my savings accounts to pay for stuff like travel (I have two trips planned, three more in the planning stage) and a new sound bar (I'm sick of listening to music through the TV speakers), and to have a nice three-month cushion in the main savings account. And I have a plan to get there.
I need to carve out time in my days to meditate, something I didn't do often in 2013. But I'm not going to say I want to meditate for 20 minutes every day. If I could do that starting today, I would have started months ago. I figure if I can manage five minutes a day that would be a good start, but even that could be tough so I'm saying five minutes a day, at least four days out of the week. That's an attainable goal, and by the end of January if I'm managing that, I can add minutes or days in small steps. That would be nice. Habits take time to build.
I need to write more. That should be easy since if I write 10,000 words all year I think I'll double my 2013 output. This here is a nice start, and to keep things simple I'm going to start by trying to write a few stories, vignettes about the Air Force, deployments, the farm, maybe some other things. There are some open mic nights in the area for storytelling, spoken-word creative nonfiction. I really want to go to one, but I need to work on a story to tell. I have plenty. I shall spend some time writing them down. This is a much simpler task than working on Lauderdale or another novel or story, since the characters and plot are already set and I need only to work on the craft of writing.
And finally I intend to earn my Personal Trainer certificate. I've been talking about it for eight months, it's time to take action. One of my savings goals is money for the CPT study materials and test; I'm leaning toward going through NSCA to get my certification, as it's a more respected organization than NASM while being less expensive than ASCM. I have just about enough money in savings right now to start on this, and I plan to take the plunge this month. It's time. If things work out right, I could study for a few months, test, and with any luck have a job in the field by summer.
Certainly there are plenty of other things I could stand to work on; self-improvement is not really one of those things that has an end-game. I have got to do something about this tendinitis; my right arm is on fire just from typing this (well, and assembling drawers today which required screwing in about 100 little screws). I'm terrible at maintaining friendships over any meaningful geographic distance and feel awful about that, but I don't know what to do. For that matter I don't relate well to people seated next to me, but I think that's just me. If I was meant to relate well to other people I'm pretty sure I'd be better at it. Doesn't mean I shouldn't try.
Also, I want a puppy (or a nice shelter mutt). Everybody wants a puppy, right?
07 July 2013
22 June 2013
Then there's the sort of thing that happened to me today. I went out to Lake Wheeler Park and rented a kayak. It was a sit-on-top kayak, which I always find incredibly uncomfortable (I miss my old kayak, which was very comfy but also 16 feet long and a bit of a nightmare to take places), so I spent much of my paddling tour sitting lotus-style on the back end of the boat. This is very peaceful and calming but not conducive to getting anywhere very quickly.
I paddled down one arm of the lake to find the end. It was very quiet; there was a little drizzle, and consequently very few people on the water. I drifted along the shore, past what looked like an anhinga (couldn't have been though, right? This far north?) resting on a branch sticking out of the water, and down a small stream lined with alders. It was peaceful. I drifted by a turtle sitting on a log and the turtle didn't even feel the need to dive into the water.
The alder-lined stream got too narrow, so I went back out by the anhinga-lookalike and down the next channel. This was all rushes and cattails and willows, completely different from the almost exclusively alder community down the stream literally forty or so feet to the south. I pulled the paddle out of the water and laid back in the kayak and just drifted.
And a fish jumped in the boat.
Actually this was entirely terrifying. You don't expect a fish to jump in your boat, especially when you haven't seen any fish all day anyway. And it was so quiet and peaceful, light rain, almost no sound at all, and then *splash* there's a fish flopping around by your feet.
It wasn't a mullet, either (that would have been truly shocking in a small lake in inland North Carolina). I don't know what it was; I would guess some sort of lake bream or something, but it was pretty big, 14-18 inches. I've honestly never seen a bass in my recent life except in that Dan Aykroyd SNL commercial (and that may not have been a bass) so I wouldn't recognize one. This fish was not tall like a bluegill or crappie, though, so that's what it may have been.
I did not fall out of the boat but if I'd been sitting up lotus style on the back of it I definitely would have. As it was I struggled to get up and tried to grab the poor thing, but he kept slipping out of my hands. After probably two seconds (it seemed longer) the fish flopped out of my hands and out of the boat and back into the water. I watched him go; he stirred up the dirt on the bottom, and then jumped again a few feet away from the boat. Maybe he had a parasite he was trying to dislodge.
In any event, given the ease with which fish simply present themselves to me, it seems unsporting to actually go fishing.
Oh, hey, there aren't any trails at Lake Wheeler Park that I know of, apart from a par course. There's the lake. That's enough reason to go, right? Kayak rental is $5 an hour (they also have canoes and other sorts of floating things). You can park way closer to the rental building than I did; when you go for the first time, just keep driving toward the water and you'll see the final parking lot on the right when the only alternative is to drive into the lake.


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The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team
As I settle back into my desk after an exciting week at BUILD, I wanted to send a reminder that all of the sessions should be available for streaming on http://channel9.msdn.com/events/BUILD/BUILD2011.
Since this is a Visual Studio blog, here are links to the main VS sessions at BUILD:
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Wife and I are having a disagreement over this. Let's let foo make the call.
Wife and I are having a disagreement over this. Let's let foo make the call.
You've made a bet and lost. You bet double what you originally bet and if you win, you owe nothing, if she wins, she gets twice the original bet. If you go again, you win, you owe nothing. She wins, she gets FOUR times the original bet now. And so on.
you've bet and won once. you bet a second time to either double your money or lose it all.
edit - it's an even bet for the winner, nothing means you go back to where you started; same for the loser in reverse, I guess
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i think it's just about whether you look at it from the winner's or the loser's perspective?
You lose a $5 bet. Instead of paying the $5, you offer to toss a coin for another $5 bet. If you lose the coin toss you will pay them $10, if you win you cancel out the original loss.
some of you beat me to the punch, but at least my response was at 12:19 on 12/19
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Ok, here's how I understand it:
Person 1 loses a bet to Person 2. Person 1 offers a second "double or nothing" bet. If person 1 wins, they owe nothing, else they owe person 2 double the original bet. Thus, double or nothing.
It gives the loser a chance to get his/her money back on the second bet.
I love noodles.
it's a loser's bet, isn't it?
OK, I had grown up playing "double or nothing" this way:
Example: Cuda and I bet on something, winner gets $50 from the loser. Cuda wins, but offers double or nothing. I take that to mean that I am absolved of my debt, and the next time we bet, winner gets $100 from the loser, regardless of if I win or he wins.
I guess I was trained wrong? At least according to Wiki. But if I had known the best I could do in a second bet was come out even, maybe I wouldn't have gone double or nothing!
Siu, are we on the same page? My head hurts and I can't figure it out.
Double or nothing is for the loser... not the winner.
You only offer double or nothing if you lose the bet in order to try and come out not owing anything. So, Cuda wouldn't have (or shouldn't have!) offered that, but in any case, no, you aren't absolved of your debt until the outcome is determined by the next event.
If you accepted double or nothing and won the next event, you would owe nothing. If you lost, you would owe twice the original bet.
Well, slap butter on my bottom and call me toast then! I guess I'm wrong. Enjoy it while you can, Cuda.
*Grabs the butter
I love noodles.
Which is why, in my original post, I assumed YOU won and he was trying to wriggle out!
Just trying to help. That's what I do.....I'm a helper.
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The Main subjects taught are world archaeology, archaeological theory and archaeological science. The department and associated staff are involved in archaeological projects world-wide, ranging from Argentina to Kazakhstan.
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The Department of Archaeology has a teaching staff of 18, and is the oldest department of its kind in the UK. It offers Undergraduate and Masters (MPhil) courses in a wide range of archaeological topics, and facilities for research leading to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in archaeology across its entire range of specialisations and periods. Undergraduate students of the Department participate in field trips and excavations as a part of their study, and also have the opportunity to be involved with fieldwork abroad.
Most researchers are based in the Department of Archaeology and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, with others in the Cambridge Archaeological Unit, the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies (LCHES), the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), and in the Faculties of Classics, Continuing Education, and (prior to the 2007 transfer of Ancient Near East staff into Archaeology) Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. The Department of Archaeology maintains close contact with the Departments of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic, Classics, Earth Sciences and Plant Sciences, the Quaternary Palaeoenvironments Group, and the Unit for Landscape Modelling.
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Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge is the longest established and one of the most respected of such courses
in the country. Small student numbers facilitate regular contact between students and staff in seminars. The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research hosts a wide range of research seminars, discussion groups, and facilitates interaction within a diverse post-graduate and post-doctoral research environment. The Institute produces the Cambridge Archaeological Journal and publishes the McDonald Institute Monographs. Since 2008 undergraduate teaching in the languages, history and archaeology of the Ancient Near East (Egypt and Mesopotamia) transferred from the former Faculty of Oriental Studies to the Department of Archaeology.
Whilst they only offer one Undergraduate degree; Human, Social, and Political Sciences BA, the structure allows either a broad-based first year and specialisation in second and third years or significant specialisation from the first year. . Courses offered include; Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, and Assyriology and Egyptology.
Post graduate courses include taught and research degrees allowing specialisation across a wide spectrum of interests covering archaeology and ancient languages.
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Droid 2 for Verizon will be launching on August 12 -- although it seems to be something of a soft launch, because marketing efforts aren't scheduled to kick in until a week and a half later on the 23rd. What's even more interesting, though, is that there'll be a Star Wars edition of the phone launching with a white R2-D2 on the back. For the record, this isn't the first time Verizon has toyed with the Droid line's Star Wars origins; Motorola actually had to license the name from Lucasfilm, and to promote the original phone, Big Red sent around remote-control Artoos last year to various media outlets. What we don't know is whether the special edition will be launching at the same time as the stock version -- so if the plain-vanilla Droid 2 comes out first, that might automatically make the decision of which to buy for some folks. What about you?
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Caroline is 26 years old and she needs a change. Frustrated that Matthew Haynes hasn't returned the feelings she has for him, Caroline decides she's ready to move from her small town of Barton Creek to a big city. Life in the city starts off exciting but quickly leads Caroline away from her faith and those most important to her. With Caroline away, will Matthew realize his true feelings — and act on them — before it's too late? (REALMS, Jan., 304 pp., $12.99)
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I have an application with an Interactive Report that is a bit slow. Clicking on the column headers to filter and re-sort can take 5-6 seconds. One of my users complained today that if you click on one of the headers, realize you'd made a mistake, and click on the another, the page "froze" and never finished refreshing.
It turns out that if you start an IR sorting and then click on a different column heading before the IR has had a chance to finish refreshing, a Javascript error is thrown. Because of the Javascript error, the spinning wait icon (does that thing have a name?) never goes away and the IR is unresponsive to further interaction.
In debug mode, I've tracked this down to $u_eval in apex_4_2.js. Normally, the parameter to $u_eval looks like "({"dialog":{"id":"9559702428861475398","hide":["apexir_info"... (including quotes). In other words, I think it's basically a JSON string. When clicking around rapidly, I think the parameter to $u_eval looks more like this: "(<div id="apexir_TOOLBAR_OPEN" class="apexir_TOOLBAR_OPEN">... This causes the call to eval() to throw an error.
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A man accused of running a fake charity has pleaded not guilty to additional charges of prostitution, assault and harassment.
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Picture: Hugh Jackman - Bafta Arrivals at British Academy Film Awards - London, United Kingdom - Sunday 10th February 2013
With all these Hugh Jackman rumors flying about (and they have been for years) Jackman himself has decided to speak out in a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
But he doesn't relay the toll those rumors have on his life, but rather his wife of 16 years. "Just recently, it bugs her," he said of the media questioning his sexuality. "She goes, 'It's big. It's everywhere!" Jackman's X-Men producer, Lauren Shuler Donner, denied the rumors a touch more emphatically. "I have seen him with Deborra since the beginning of their trip to Hollywood, and I've been on five movie sets with him and have never seen him stray, have never seen him eye anyone," Donner explained. "I met him when he did 'Oklahoma!' [at London's Royal National Theatre in 1999]. He was genuine, hugely talented. He was in love with his wife that day and still is."
Aside from his sexuality, which really is no one's business, there is actual news in the Jackman camp. He and his Les Miserables cronies will be waiting with baited breath come this Sunday, 24th Feb, as he's up for Best Actor and Les Mis is up for best film. They'll be facing stiff competition from Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln, as he and his film are amongst the hot favourites to take the top prizes.
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Cornmeal-Coated Chicken Recipe
The pepper really comes through in this quick and convenient coating mix for chicken. "Not only is it tasty, it's certainly more economical than the store-bought kind," assures Aljene Wendling of Seattle, Washington.
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1 cup cornmeal
- 4 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 2 teaspoons dried oregano
- 1 teaspoon salt, optional
- 1 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 broiler/fryer chicken (3 pounds), cut up and skin removed
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 1. In a large resealable plastic bag, combine the first nine ingredients. Store in a cool dry place for up to 6 months. Yield: 3 batches (2-1/4 cups total).
- 2. To prepare chicken: Place 3/4 cup coating mix in a resealable plastic bag. Dip chicken in butter; add chicken to bag, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. Place in a greased 15-in. x 10-in. x 1-in. baking pan. Bake, uncovered, at 375° for 45-50 minutes or until juices run clear. Yield: 4 servings per batch.
Nutritional Facts
One serving (prepared with reduced-fat margarine and without salt) equals 314 calories, 10 g fat (0 saturated fat), 106 mg cholesterol, 218 mg sodium, 18 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 35 g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 4 lean meat, 1 starch.
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So you're saying to be a DJ, I have to put these headphones around my neck all askew and press this play button?
Relax chahi its really not that easy…
Uh, idn't there supposed to be an audience?
He only plays beats that sound like Douche! Douche! Douche! Douche! Douche! Douche!
"Why does the marquee say "Pauly D-bag'… ohhhhhhhh."
"Why you guys keep introducin' me as 'broccoli head'?"
Who let the douche out?
"If Paris can be a DJ, I can be a fuckin' DJ! Now, how come I can't hear the music I'm spinnin'?!?"
You know, I've some great ringtones on my phone but will the big clubs let me play them? Will they fuck, it's all politics.
"Hey yo, this Mic tastes like farts again."
You're doing it wrong.
At some point in the future I bet he'll be in this exact same position except that mic is a dick and you don't even wanna know what he's licking.
Nothing screams A-list celeb like touring Carson CA.
Looking at the hot guy dancing above.
"OK, Pauly, now put the mic in your mouth, take off your shoes, and step into the puddle on the concrete floor…"
Have I-tunes, can d.j.
"Yo I said i wanted a black mike, black mike… What part of that didnt you get?"
20 dollars if anyone can find me a picture of Pauly D without his god damn tongue out like that. Like everything the dumbass does requires his full concentration.


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I am testing with RSpec + Capybara + Selenium (Firefox). No matter what subset of my acceptance tests I run, the first one fails (next tests do work correctly) with "reason" like this:
Failure/Error: visit '/'
My application relies on GoogleMaps and BackboneJS heavily. When I run tests, page does not finish to load and "transferring data from maps.googleapis.com" message stays in bottom-left of Firefox window, however page looks like it loaded properly (maps and other content are present). I've already set timeout to 60 secs to exclude any slow network problems. And all the subsequent tests do work very fast (like proper Google scripts were fetched and are already cached). Also when I start server in development environment and access it (
localhost:3000) everything works fine.
Firefox 17.0.1. Some of my gems:
capybara (2.0.1)
database_cleaner (0.9.1)
mongoid (3.0.13)
rspec (2.12.0)
rspec-core (2.12.1)
rspec-expectations (2.12.0)
rspec-mocks (2.12.0)
rspec-rails (2.12.0)
selenium-webdriver (2.26.0)
Do you have any idea why this happens and how to prevent it?
# This file is copied to spec/ when you run 'rails generate rspec:install' ENV["RAILS_ENV"] ||= 'test' require File.expand_path("../../config/environment", __FILE__) require 'rspec/rails' require 'rspec/autorun' # Requires supporting ruby files with custom matchers and macros, etc, # in spec/support/ and its subdirectories. Dir[Rails.root.join("spec/support/**/*.rb")].each {|f| require f} RSpec.configure do |config| config.include FactoryGirl::Syntax::Methods config.treat_symbols_as_metadata_keys_with_true_values = true config.infer_base_class_for_anonymous_controllers = false #config.order = "random" end
require_relative "../spec_helper" require 'capybara/rspec' Capybara.default_driver = :selenium Capybara.default_wait_time = 60
It used to work properly before (few weeks ago; this project was halted for that time).
Could be introduced by RSpec upgrade from 2.11 to 2.12 (which I did those few weeks ago), but I've just tried to downgrade it and same things do happen. I've reverted whole codebase to the point month ago to exclude possible gem regression. Problem still happens.
I've just discovered that if I comment out the line responsible for attaching map from Google:
new google.maps.Map($("#map")[0], mapOptions)
then everything works like a charm.
Source code of example application: https://github.com/skalee/capybara-google-maps-failure
Running all specs will result with Timeout::Error in the first one (at least for me). However, all specs will pass when:
- You remove line which initializes Geocoder (it's not used in example app, but I use it in mine).
- You remove line which initializes Map.
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Elton Brand said that he is still contemplating retirement.
Elton Brand said during his exit interview that he will take several weeks before making a decision on whether or not he will return for a 17th season.
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Veteran big man Elton Brand had eight points, three rebounds, one steal and one block in a rare start at center on Sunday.
Elton Brand will start in place of Al Horford against the Kings on Monday.
Elton Brand has returned to the Hawks after dealing with a death in his family.
Elton Brand nearly double-doubled on Saturday, finishing with nine points, nine rebounds, three assists and one block in 28 minutes.
Elton Brand will start at center in place of Al Horford (pectoral) on Monday.
The Hawks officially signed Elton Brand to a one-year, $2 million contract on Tuesday.
Atlanta has re-signed Elton Brand to a one-year, $2M deal for the 2014-2015 season.
The Hawks are reportedly in talks to bring back unrestricted free agent Elton Brand.
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In 1959, Herman Rusch, 74, a self-taught artist, built his first concrete and stone planter. By the close of 1974, Rusch had created nearly forty huge concrete, stone, and rock sculptures, using inventive fabrication techniques and materials including bricks, iron wheels, old grain drills, crockery, glass, and seashells; plus related flower beds. A colorful folk art tour d'force, thegardens are a preservation project of the Kohler Foundation, Inc. Donations appreciated.
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Garden open year-round dawn-dusk. Museum open by appointment.
Highway 35 northwest from Fountain City about 6 miles. Just past the Cochrane-Fountain City School, turn left onto Prairie Moon Road; the site is located 1/2 mile on the left.
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