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AS a black man who has been mugged at gunpoint by a black teenager late at night, I am not naïve: I know firsthand the awkward conundrums surrounding race, fear and crime. Trayvon Martin's killing at the hands of George Zimmerman baffles this nation. While the youth's supporters declare in solidarity "We are all Trayvon," the question is raised, to what extent is the United States also all George Zimmerman?
Under assault, I didn't dream of harming my teenage assailant, let alone taking his life.
Mr. Zimmerman reacted very differently, taking out his handgun and shooting the youth in cold blood.
What gives?
Welcome to gate-minded America.
From 2007 to 2009, I traveled 27,000 miles, living in predominantly white gated communities across this country to research a book. I threw myself into these communities with gusto — no Howard Johnson or Motel 6 for me. I borrowed or rented residents' homes. From the red-rock canyons of southern Utah to the Waffle-House-pocked exurbs of north Georgia, I lived in gated communities as a black man, with a youthful style and face, to interview and observe residents.
The perverse, pervasive real-estate speak I heard in these communities champions a bunker mentality. Residents often expressed a fear of crime that was exaggerated beyond the actual criminal threat, as documented by their police department's statistics. Since you can say "gated community" only so many times, developers hatched an array of Orwellian euphemisms to appease residents' anxieties: "master-planned community," "landscaped resort community," "secluded intimate neighborhood."
No matter the label, the product is the same: self-contained, conservative and overzealous in its demands for "safety." Gated communities churn a vicious cycle by attracting like-minded residents who seek shelter from outsiders and whose physical seclusion then worsens paranoid groupthink against outsiders. These bunker communities remind me of those Matryoshka wooden dolls. A similar-object-within-a-similar-object serves as shelter; from community to subdivision to house, each unit relies on staggered forms of security and comfort, including town authorities, zoning practices, private security systems and personal firearms.
Residents' palpable satisfaction with their communities' virtue and their evident readiness to trumpet alarm at any given "threat" create a peculiar atmosphere — an unholy alliance of smugness and insecurity. In this us-versus-them mental landscape, them refers to new immigrants, blacks, young people, renters, non-property-owners and people perceived to be poor.
Mr. Zimmerman's gated community, a 260-unit housing complex, sits in a racially mixed suburb of Orlando, Fla. Mr. Martin's "suspicious" profile amounted to more than his black skin. He was profiled as young, loitering, non-property-owning and poor. Based on their actions, police officers clearly assumed Mr. Zimmerman was the private property owner and Mr. Martin the dangerous interloper. After all, why did the police treat Mr. Martin like a criminal, instead of Mr. Zimmerman, his assailant? Why was the black corpse tested for drugs and alcohol, but the living perpetrator wasn't?
Across the United States, more than 10 million housing units are in gated communities, where access is "secured with walls or fences," according to 2009 Census Bureau data. Roughly 10 percent of the occupied homes in this country are in gated communities, though that figure is misleadingly low because it doesn't include temporarily vacant homes or second homes. Between 2001 and 2009, the United States saw a 53 percent growth in occupied housing units nestled in gated communities.
Another related trend contributed to this shooting: our increasingly privatized criminal justice system. The United States is becoming even more enamored with private ownership and decision making around policing, prisons and probation. Private companies champion private "security" services, alongside the private building and managing of prisons.
"Stand Your Ground" or "Shoot First" laws like Florida's expand the so-called castle doctrine, which permits the use of deadly force for self-defense in one's home, as long as the homeowner can prove deadly force was reasonable. Thirty-two states now permit expanded rights to self-defense.
In essence, laws nationwide sanction reckless vigilantism in the form of self-defense claims. A bunker mentality is codified by law.
Those reducing this tragedy to racism miss a more accurate and painful picture. Why is a child dead? The rise of "secure," gated communities, private cops, private roads, private parks, private schools, private playgrounds — private, private, private —exacerbates biased treatment against the young, the colored and the presumably poor.


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Lightning struck near a Boy Scout campsite in Belmont, N.H., overnight, where 23 scouts and three adults were hospitalized. All are reported to be doing well.
Twenty-three Boy Scouts were hospitalized after a lightning strike in New Hampshire on Monday night, a fire chief said.
Chief David Parenti, of Belmont Fire Station, said the Scouts, aged from 12 to 16, were at the Griswold Scout Reservation in Belmont when the incident happened.
He said they were taken to local hospitals for further evaluation.
When asked about their conditions, he said he "wouldn't even call it serious."
Parenti told NBC station WHDH that many of the injuries were minor burns. He said six scouts were given cardiac monitors because the burns were in the chest area.
However, he said this was done mostly as a precaution.
He told WHDH that the scouts had taken shelter under a tarp during the storm.
"At some point in time the lightning either struck nearby or struck the shelter they were under or a tree or something and traveled through into the meadow," he said.
Greg Osborn, marketing director for Daniel Webster Council, a division of the Boy Scouts of America, said that three leaders were also affected by the strike.
He said no one was directly hit, but all reported a tingling sensation afterward.
Osborn said they were taken to Lakes Region Hospital and Concord Hospital as a precaution.
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Maybe you got an Xbox One and your fingers are mourning the loss of the Xbox 360 controllers. They need not grieve any longer. Modders have made it possible to use Microsoft's last-gen controller—or the one that comes with the competing PS4—with the brand-spanking-new Xbox One.
Via Eurogamer comes word of an update to the CronusMax mod—which enables cross-platform peripheral support on a variety of systems—that lets it work with the Xbox One. This latest update comes from the Team Xecuter mod collective. The video above demonstrates CronusMax mod in action, showing Killer Instinct being played with a DualShock 4 and a 360 controller and a few other peripherals. You'll also see Call of Duty: Ghosts being played with a mouse and keyboard set-up.
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A week and a half ago, I attended the Museum's luncheon at the Washington Post with two of my co-workers. This was really interesting to me for a variety of reasons. Starting with the fact that it was held at the Washington Post building and it's so cool to think that within those walls, a widely respected newspaper is created every day. It was also an opportunity to meet communications professionals from DC's other museum. As I'm sure you can imagine, a larger percentage of those in attendance were representing the Smithsonian—there are 19 museums within the umbrella of the Smithsonian, after all.
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Home Made TV Station (Aug, 1949)
Next time you bitch about trying to get your video blogging software to work, check out what this guy had to scrape together to get an amateur TV station running in 1949. He built a garage full of equipment and had three giant antennas.
Radio 'Ham' Builds TV Station
California amateur sends voice and picture over transmitter made from $500 worth of war-surplus parts.
By Andrew R. Boone
PULSING through the California skies from a weather-beaten back-yard shack, the image of a beautiful brunette flows into television receivers around San Francisco Bay. The boys who have seen her call the vision Gwendolyn.
Reproduced by a collection of secondhand tubes and war-surplus video equipment, Gwendolyn represents the first standard TV image broadcast successfully and repeatedly by an amateur. Soon, from the same station, W6JDI-TV, radio ham Clarence Wolfe, Jr. hopes to televise live images.
For over a year the 35-year-old amateur has been broadcasting Gwendolyns picture from Burlingame, Calif., to demonstrate that his homemade $500 TV outfit can compete with commercial stations. His R.M.A. signal —meaning a standard TV image that meets rigid standards laid down by the Radio Manufacturers Association—was flying into the winds six months before the first commercial telecaster went on the air in nearby San Francisco.
Not many have seen Gwendolyn yet. She is an image of 525 interlaced lines per picture and 30 pictures a second. The thing that keeps her audience down to a select few is that she travels around in the 429-mc. band, reserved by the Federal Communications Commission for amateur experimental work. Standard home receivers, tuned for the commercial bands between 50 and 200 mc, must use converters to receive ham TV. To hams that's only a minor problem. There are a number of war-surplus radio altimeters that will step down the frequency properly.
Gwendolyn is the chief store-bought item in Wolfe's setup. She is a photograph of an unknown girl pasted inside a monoscope— a tube built to send a single image. Unlike the iconoscope or camera tube which scans any picture or scene, a monoscope sees only the photo bottled within it.
Two years were spent building the transmitter, but before that Wolfe spent 22 years building the experience that went into it. He became a radio bug in 1925 when he was 11 years old. In the following years he started a one-man radio service and repair shop in his home town, won his ham license (1932), and began seriously to study radio. Soon after he built the Burlingame police department's first two-way radio system.
During the war he taught radio and radar, and later installed delicate fire-control apparatus. On returning to his store after the war he started learning the ways of television, and decided to become the first ham on the air with a standard TV picture. Unable to buy expensive commercial equipment, he set about building and adapting what he had or what he could get cheaply. For help he turned to a ham friend, Leslie Seabold, an airline radio engineer.
No well-equipped laboratory awaited his experiments. He had a few pieces of test equipment and a shop-full of odd and spare parts. To make a test panel, he screwed a few sockets to a board. With Seabold, Wolfe worked out the circuits on paper. Then he tried them out in practice. Literally hundreds were tested; only the efficient survived, and these were incorporated in the final sending apparatus.
He tackled the timer first. Twenty modifications came and went before he was satisfied with the neat unit that does the job today. After that came the control assembly, an intricate array of 120 tubes.
To get Gwendolyn's picture out with a big push, Wolfe settled on the antenna array shown in these pages—64 short lengths of aluminum tubing 1″ in diameter. Half carry power, the other half serve as reflectors. In the favored direction, field strength is equivalent to 5,000 watts from a dipole. What's surprising about this figure is that the signal comes from the transmitter with only 50 watts of muscle behind it.
When field tests showed that he had what he wanted, Wolfe started his transmitter humming. "This is W6JDI-TV, broadcasting image of a girl on 429 mc," he said into the microphone suspended above his battered desk. "Do you see her?" For several months he received no response. Except for the hams who picked up the pictureless voice, no one knew an amateur was putting out a TV picture. Then a few, eager to share in the adventure, hooked up radio altimeters to. their television receivers. Six months after Wolfe went on the air, Bob Melvin, of Berkeley, answered: "Gwendolyn coming in clear and beautiful."
The name stuck. Confirmations came from Oakland, Vallejo, San Francisco, San Jose.
Incidentally, Melvin caught the bug shortly afterward and built a transmitter of his own in the family garage.
Wolfe now is trying to perfect a camera to replace his single-image monoscope. His fifth model is a simple device—three 1-lb. coffee cans enclosing an iconoscope that receives images through a 2″ f/1.5′ lens taken from an old 16-mm. movie camera. With it he hopes to transmit live images and also motion pictures. But broadcasting movies will require a projector. That's in the works, too. From a standard projector he plans to remove the intermittent mechanism and run the film through continuously. By pulsing a light source 30 times a second and projecting the illuminated images onto the iconoscope he will change the frame speed from the 24 per second used in films to the 30 needed in video.
Movies present a special problem for the ham televiser since one of the FCC rules governing ham operation is a restriction on broadcasting entertainment. Wolfe thinks that a good deal of the movie fare used on commercial TV stations runs no risk of entertaining anybody, but a legal definition of what a ham can televise is still to come.
What does the future hold for amateur TV? Wolfe doesn't expect many hams to follow his lead, at least for the present. Cost won't be the big factor. The $500 that this rig cost is a lot less than many hams put into voice equipment, but a lot of know-how and work is needed too.
Then, too, there are a lot of technical limitations that have to be overcome before TV can be reshaped into the ham tradition. First step will be simplification of the circuits and some method of getting more stations into the limited space in the airwaves. Perhaps ham ingenuity will also conquer the distance barrier that now makes television a short-range affair.
These are questions for the future. Radio once posed similar problems, and hams played a big part in solving them. Will they do the same for television? Wolfe has proved that video has a place for hams. He's given the wheel the first spin, and you never know where it will stop.


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Summer has definitely arrived in my neck of the woods. The dogs and I headed out very early yesterday morning so we could hike before the heat set in.
We missed a couple of walks last week so running was the main activity.
The heat quickly arrived so we took a couple of breaks along the trail.
Our breaks allowed me to photograph the gorgeous day.
Some of the cactus (cacti?) were blooming.
The reservoir was a welcome relief from the hot weather.
We missed a couple of our walks last week because I was busy purchasing a new (used) car. For the past eight years I've driven a Saturn sedan. I loved that car and it was always solid as a rock (nothing other than routine maintenance). However in the past few months it started having major issues. Considering the car had 172,000 miles on it I had to face reality and get something different.
As much as I loved that car, it was not good for hauling dogs. The tiny back seat meant that Sadie and Luka (and every other dog I've owned) had to contort themselves whenever we went for a ride. As I started looking for a new vehicle my main consideration (beyond the obvious price, mileage and safety) was to get something that was more comfortable for the dogs. (I think picking out a car based on canine comfort officially qualifies me for the Crazy Dog Lady Club.)
Mission accomplished.
We took the new car hiking this weekend. On the way home I turned around at a stoplight and saw this:
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In some ways, Season Three marks another new beginning for "Happy Endings."
In its freshman season, the ABC sitcom about six friends weathered some critical backbiting that initially saw it as a variation on the established formula that's worked for shows like "Friends" and "How I Met You Mother." But the show quickly found its own very distinct comedic voice and earned fresh praise for its fast and furious many-jokes-per-minute approach, and by the end of its second year on the air it had been embraced by a rabidly loyal core audience and critics who'd been gradually won over.
Now, as Season Three launches the creative forces behind the series are making a bid to elevate "Happy Endings" from a cult favorite with reliable ratings to a full-fledged hit, shaking up the status quo with a new emphasis on the personal lives of the characters amid their successful style of landing punch lines.
"We think, creatively, that really digging into the characters is going to help us, so it's not all one-off comedy," says executive producer Josh Bycel. "We felt like we left a lot of great stuff on the table at the end of the season finale. We left it with Brad [played by Damon Wayans, Jr.] having lost his job, Dave and Alex [Zachary Knighton and Elisha Cuthbert] back together, and we're really jumping into both those things."
Executive producer Jonathan Groff hopes the focus on the more personal storylines – with the same level of laughs the show's become known for – will draw in an even larger, more mainstream audience and keep them coming back. "You watch a 'Modern Family,' which is such a great show and there's so much continuity and heart and warmth and character development, and our show's very different," he says. 'We love how fast and funny it is, but we want to be that too, in a way, as much as possible: that show that viewers can find and like and not just be a cult hit."
Bycel explains that the two ongoing storylines in Season Three will be more relatable and not quite as out-there wacky as previous season storylines. "We're jumping into Brad exploring what it's like to not have a job since he was 15 years old and maybe trying some jobs: he and Max end up being bar mitzvah hype guys together, which is Brad exploring his artistic side," he reveals. "And with the Dave and Alex thing, we felt like let's just jump into it and deal with it in a real way for a couple that used to be together, had a horrible breakup and now trying to be back together – and what does that mean. In the first four episodes we try to have fun with that."
Star Cuthbert says she thinks it's a good time to re-enter the characters' interpersonal dramas – the show, after all, initially centered on the group's reaction to her character Alex's sudden decision to call off her wedding to Dave. "I think we were trying to show that it wasn't perfect, and that we weren't back together with no complications,' Cuthbert says. "I mean, there's always going to be that history with us. But I also feel that we work together as a couple and we work together as friends, so matter where the creators of the show want to take us, it's going to work. So it's nice that the audience gets to see us as a real couple this year."
Romance is also a factor for Casey Wilson's character Penny. "We're exploring is Penny in a relationship: let's see how Penny handles that,"" says Groff, "and really what happens when Penny gets what may be the perfect relationship in a lot of ways. It's not necessarily flawed, it's not a guy named Doug Hitler or a guy who's still stuck in college. It's a real guy, but what if it's not the right guy?"
"People relate to emotional storylines and there's real investment when there a lot of story and I think people will like it," says Wilson, who's pleased that her role – one of the series' zanier – will get a little romantic grounding. "It's so fun – I already get to do a lot comedy, and it's nice to play real, dare I say, tender – that sounds so gross! – scenes, and I love the guy that plays [Penny's boyfriend] Pete: Nick Zano is the dreamiest, best-looking man I've seen in person."
The cast also promises some familiarly off-kilter plots as well:
Cuthbert says Alex's parents (played by comedy vets Christopher McDonald and Julie Haggerty) will drop by: "I don't want to spoil it, but you'll really get to understand where Alex gets her eating obsession from."
Knighton reveals that Dave encounters issues during the holidays: "Dave in Thanksgiving episode has to experience the entire plight of the Native American in one 22-minute episode, and that may be the funniest thing I've been given yet."
Adam Pally says his character Max will continue in his own ongoing quest for employment: "The job hunt doesn't go great – it's ever-evolving, I would say. But that's the fun of Max. It's always fun to see someone with no job try to get a job."
Jane also has a new place, reveals Coupe: "She wants to take over, but she has met her match in Mr. Rob Corddry, who plays her boss. It's really funny, sparring with him, because they're both so feisty and manipulative." And in another storyline, she reveals, "Jane becomes Gallagher, with the mallet, the wig and everything."
Season 3 of "Happy Endings" premieres Tuesday Oct. 23 at 9 p.m. ET on ABC.


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Commences Trial Production and Reaches Certain Key Technology and Operating Milestones at In-house Polysilicon Manufacturing Facility
Hits 1 GW in Accumulated Output of PV Modules
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BAODING, China, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ — Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), one of the world's leading vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") product manufacturers, today announced that it has successfully commenced trial production and reached certain key technology and operating milestones at Fine Silicon Co., Ltd. ("Fine Silicon"), its in-house polysilicon manufacturing facility with an annual production capacity of 3,000 metric tons ("MT"). The Company also announced that its total output of PV modules has reached 1 GW since the Company began commercial production in 2002.
Commences Trial Production and Reaches Key Technology and Operating Milestones at In-house Polysilicon Manufacturing Facility
Yingli Green Energy announced its in-house polysilicon manufacturing facility, Fine Silicon, has commenced trial production and reached certain key technology and operating milestones. Designed to have an annual production capacity of 3,000 MT, the Baoding-based facility is expected to reach full production volume in late 2010. With state-of-the-art facilities and advanced monosilane-based polysilicon manufacturing technology, Fine Silicon is expected to be capable of producing high quality solar-grade and electronic-grade polysilicon through energy-efficient and environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes. Compared with the trichlorosilane ("TCS")-based polysilicon manufacturing technology, the advantages of the technology that Fine Silicon has adopted include significant electricity savings and low environmental impact. Fine Silicon's process utilizes no chlorides or TCS, and sulfate, its by-product, is easily treated.
"With Fine Silicon on-line, Yingli Green Energy will join a limited number of global PV manufacturers with fully vertically integrated business models covering the manufacturing process from polysilicon to PV modules," Mr. Liansheng Miao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Yingli Green Energy, commented. "As one of the world's leading vertically integrated PV product manufacturers we look forward to further improving our cost structure, enhancing our operating performance and increasing our flexibility as we expand our global footprint."
Mr. Miao also noted that Yingli Green Energy completed the construction of Fine Silicon in less than two years.
Accumulated Output of PV Modules Hits 1 GW
Yingli Green Energy also announced that since the Company began commercial production in 2002, it has produced a total of 1 GW of PV modules under the "Yingli Solar" brand.
Through a series of expansions, the Company has increased its annual production capacity for each of polysilicon ingots and wafers, PV cells and PV modules to 600 MW as of September 2009, up from an initial 3 MW in 2002. Annual shipments of PV modules increased from 4.7 MW in 2004 to 282 MW in 2008, and are expected to be between 490 MW and 500 MW for 2009, resulting from high product quality, extensive international sales channels and a well-recognized brand. In total, 1 GW of PV modules has an annual power output of over 1 billion kilowatt hours, which corresponds to displacement of approximately 1,000,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. In addition, Yingli Green Energy has created nearly 6,000 jobs across various areas of its business.
Mr. Miao noted that as shipment volume of "Yingli Solar" PV modules keeps growing, Yingli Green Energy's PV technology has made significant advances, and the technical improvements resulting from the Company's research and development efforts have been instrumental in significantly reducing its manufacturing costs and improving the performance of its products.


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Finally, some brave soul has taken it upon himself to record Les Miserablés' "I Dreamed a Dream" in the voice of Gollum. The song — which you might recognize from the commercials for the recent movie version of the musical, which Anne Hathaway sings while looking completely, emotionally devastated — actually works out surprisingly well for ol' Smeagol. Really, if you assume the "he" in the song is referring to the One Ring, then it could practically be a deleted scene from one of the movies.
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Former Smiths rocker Morrissey was released from a hospital in England today after collapsing on stage just one song into his concert set in the town of Swindon.
The 50-year-old singer fell when he was performing his opening song, "The Charming Man," Saturday night and band members dragged him off stage, the British newspaper The Guardian reported.
The rocker was "straining" to perform the song before his knees buckled and he fell to the stage, fans said.
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He was initially picked up for "respiratory problems" and was reported to be unconscious, according to a spokeswoman for the Great Western Ambulance Service. Morrissey was found to be "conscious," the spokeswoman said.
Morrissey was the mastermind behind the Smiths' string of rock hits from as early as the 1980s.
The rocker has been touring North America and Europe since the February release of his latest album, "Year of Refusal."


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Saginaw, Mich., B&P Process Equipment and Systems LLC has announced a partnership with Matsubo Corp., for sales, marketing and service of B&P's full range of industrial mixing and separation equipment in Japan and the ASEAN region of Southeast Asia.
Matsubo is a manufacturers' representative based in Tokyo. The firm's branch office in Osaka, Japan, focuses on the powder segment.
B&P and Matsubo announced the partnership during the Powtex show in Osaka in October, and B&P issued a news release about the news in December.
At Powtex, the companies showed a model of the new TriVolution Series Tri-Kneader, a reciprocating kneader for compounding. The model—which B&P will show at NPE 2012 in Orlando— features an acrylic barrel, allowing a look inside to see the interaction between the mixing flights and pins.
The Powtex trade show focuses on powder processing, including powder coatings and toner coatings—two key areas for B&P.
Matsubo and B&P established their working relationship when a major material producer in Japan and Malaysia requested a new 125-millimeter-bore diameter, co-rotating twin screw extruder. They moved to create a more-permanent agreement.
Michael Lazorchak, B&P's global product manager for the mixing systems business, attended Powtex in Japan.
B&P runs a TriVolution pilot line in Saginaw.
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Pedestrian Killed in South-Central South Dakota
A pedestrian died Sunday evening in a crash on US Highway 83, one mile north of White River, in Mellette County.
The South Dakota Highway Patrol says Randy Larvie, 25, of Yankton was walking on the highway around 7:50pm when he was struck by a northbound SUV driven by Jerin Warkentin, 19, of Murray, Kentucky.
The Patrol says contact was made between Larvie and the vehicle, and Larvie suffered fatal injuries.
Warkentin and his passenger, 22-year-old Marissa Warkentin, also of Murray, Kentucky, were not injured.


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Where Did Summer Go?
August 28th, 2017 by Cameron
With Labor Day just a few days away, it is official…summer is coming to an end.
Hopefully, you finished filling your bucket list, because as the fun of summer sets in the distance the fun of the new school year rises…
It seems like it wasn't that long ago that the start of school was a combination of the excitement of back to school shopping and the anxiety of a new classroom.
Things are different now, aren't they? This year there might not be a new wardrobe coming (and if there is it's filled with Bear gear) and you're in a new classroom every hour.
This year anxiety is replaced with just excitement. This is your year. This year, you can do anything. Set your goals high and achieve them. Then, set them higher and watch as you impress even yourself.
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If fitness is on your 2014 calendar you will want to put all of those painstaking workouts to use. To test your fitness in a way that will be fun and memorable Tough Mudder is the competition to enter. Tough Mudder events are hardcore obstacle courses designed to test your all around strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie, what more could you ask for.
Tough Mudder offers some of the most innovative courses and has had over one million inspiring participants worldwide to date while raising more than $6.5 million for Wounded Warrior Project. Tough Mudder is the premier adventure challenge series in the world. In 2014, Tough Mudder will host more than 60 events in countries worldwide.
If you are looking for a challenge, "Probably the Toughest Event on the Planet" Los Angeles event (held in San Bernardino, CA) is just around the corner, March 29th and 30th. Here are a few facts to help inspire you to give Tough Mudder a try.
FACT #1 – Marathon running is boring.
And the only thing more boring than doing a marathon is watching a marathon. Road-running may give you a healthy set of lungs, but will leave you with as much upper body strength as Keira Knightley. At Tough Mudder, we want to test your all-around mettle, not just your ability to run in a straight line, on your own, for hours on end, getting bored out of your mind. Our obstacle courses are designed by British Special Forces to test you in every way and are meant only for truly exceptional all-around people, not for people who have enough time and money to train their knees to run 26 miles.
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Triathlons, marathons, and other lame-ass mud runs are more stressful than fun. Not Tough Mudder. As hardcore as our courses are, we meet you at the finish line with a beer, a laugh, and a rockin' live band. It's pretty hard to take yourself seriously when you're covered in mud and have just finished an obstacle called 'Just The Tip', so please don't show up at a Tough Mudder without a sense of humor. Just check out the ridiculous team costumes in our event photos to get a feel for the spirit of Tough Mudder.
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To get through mud, fire, ice-water, and 10,000 volts of electricity you'll need teammates to pick you up when your spirits dip. To get over 12 foot walls and through underground mud tunnels, you'll need teammates to give you a boost and a push. Tough Mudders are team players who make sure no one gets left behind. To that end, all Mudders℠ are expected to uphold our ideals and exhibit teamwork and camaraderie both on the course and off it. All participants are asked to join us in reciting the Tough Mudder pledge before starting each event.
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(Pocket-lint) - While the Fujiflim X-Pro1 may have stolen the stand at CES 2012, the limited edition Fujifilm X100 Black certainly looks a classy little number all of its own.
Virtually identical to the hugely successful X100 from 2011, the Black edition does pretty much what it says on the tin by taking the case from a silver colour to all black instead. According to Fujifilm, this was no mean feat with the high quality black metal used actually very tricky to get all in the exact same shade.
Naturally, the X100 Black also comes with a few accessories to help differentiate it, as well as justify the cost, of course. The camera comes with a black metal adapter ring, lens hood, protector filter, red-lined leather camera case and a nice black presentation box to house the lot.
The final piece of the limited edition bundle is a message card from the head honcho of Fujifilm, Takeshi Higuchi, which acts as a certificate of authenticity and tells you which number model is yours between 1 and 10,000.
The Fujifilm X100 Black will be available to buy from the end of February. As for how much it will cost, Fujifilm would not say but advised we estimate with "the cost of the silver X100, plus the adapter ring, plus the lens hood, plus the leather case, plus alpha". Your guess is as good as ours, then.


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Although the idea of attaching O.J. Simpson to any product today might sound insane, back in 1970 it was an obvious choice.
Simpson had been picked first in the AFL-NFL common draft the year before and was already the star of the Buffalo Bills a year later. Who better to feature in an advertisement for the 1970 Nova?
Even though later in his life the football player would come to be best known for his association with a white Ford Bronco, back in 1970 it was O.J. nose to nose with the new Chevy Nova. It only takes a few clever comparisons to prove OJ Simpson is a lot better suited to being a football player than a five passenger automobile, but in the process Chevrolet manages to show off their "compact" car.
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Now, we're ready for some great conversation. Here my friendly readers and I talk about God, organizing our homes, we share household tips, we have fun with holidays all through the year (even Chinese New Year and Leap Year), we share recipes. Just yesterday, one of my readers gave me her first place award winning recipe for Peanut Butter Brownie Torte.
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My grand-mother used to say "show me your friends and I will tell you who you are," so to help you mingle in this party, let me introduce you to just a few of the people who visit me and those I visit. When you come back, you'll meet a lot more, but for today, here's just a few:
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- Texas Tanya is a mom who adopted two wonderful boys, has great ideas and likes photography;
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- Look over at my right sidebar and you'll see more people who link to me and people I visit.
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thank you for your dedication, thank you for your thoroughness, thank you for explaining it all in a way that anyone can understand. thank you for wanting us to understand what's happening and what you've been working on.
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A large real life farm in the UK is turning into a Farmville game. It's called the MyFarm experiment and the 2,500 Wimpole Estate farm will be run by 10,000 people over the internet. How will it work?
The online 'farmers' will have to pay around $50 to become a member and once they do, they'll be able to discuss and vote on what each plot of land should be used for. No cannabis or bananas though (why no weed?). The real life farmer will try and help inform the online farmers by giving them advice on blogs and videos but those 10,000 people are the ones who will eventually call the shots. The most popular vote wins out.
Tons of people I don't know play Farmville (47 million a month apparently!), let's see what they're made of in real life, eh? [On Earth via TechCrunch]


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BOWLING. Josh Scanlon rolls two strikes in the 10th frame during the Team USA trials. Then the ball comically slips out of his hands on his third shot. The ball takes it from there.
And...bowling. Bowling.
Moving on. Tomorrow: Luke O'Brien substitutes for Brian Hickey during the Wild Card weekend. You may remember Luke as our World Cup correspondent who once kind of had a handsy make-out session with Landon Donovan's wife. Here's an excerpt:
It's kind of sad, I realize, that I remember this so poignantly. But you can't control what sticks. Bianca will surely have deleted me from her cortex, and who can blame her? She might even sue if I go into too much detail. She might deny tugging on the Eddie Bauer gray and pulling me on the dance floor, pulling me close, legs tight, the booze setting in, all that getting-to-know-you stuff over with. She might deny running her hand down my flank, and she might deny that my hand cradled her lovely Slovak bottom. She might tell you that she didn't nuzzle my neck or throw me a scent of her perfumed hair. Or that we didn't do that thing you do when you're drunk and dancing and want to kiss but don't want to kiss in front of a crowd and just slowly rub noses and brush lips. But this all happened, by god. And she liked it.
Anyway, keep him occupied and shower him with effusive praise. That's what I have to say about that.
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Big Brother 15 houseguest Aaryn Gries, a 22-year-old college student and unemployed model from Texas, has been denounced by Big Brother fans, as well as mainstream media, for spewing racist and homophobic remarks.
Last night, Aaryn was unanimously voted out of the Big Brother house, and now she'll join Candice Stewart, Jessie Kowalski, and Helen Kim in the jury house. But first… a little chat with Julie Chen…
Much to my amazement, Julie grilled Aaryn last night, and I think she did the best she could with the "no info from the outside world" rule she must follow to keep the jury fair. Also a shock? CBS let the audience BOO! Aaryn.


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I'm cross-posting this from the Eloquent Woman blog to let our DGC readers weigh in on this discussion: My speaker trainings help you learn how to speak eloquently and without notes where possible, but for many speeches, a text is essential...and creates more problems for speakers. Pages get dropped, make noise, look awkward when you're toting them to the lectern and occupy your hands when you might be gesturing. That's why I got excited this weekend reading about the new Amazon Kindle. This new e-reader device is sold out at the moment, so I haven't tried it yet. (I'll review it in a future post, and welcome comments from early adopters below.) But this latest entry into electronic books offers new features that have great potential for speakers. With it, you can:
I'm looking forward to testing the Kindle with our trainees and for my own upcoming speeches, and will report back here. In the meantime, if you've tried an Amazon Kindle, use it for displaying your speech text or talking points and give us your feedback in the comments below.
-Display your speech--not just books with speeches: Its wireless access allows you to email your own documents (think speech text) to your Amazon Kindle and display them just as you would books; because the wireless access is built on cellular phone signals, it's available more widely (and it's free).
-No more shuffling pages: The page "turning" controls are large keys on either side, allowing easy movement back and forth; you'll use your thumbs to page through the text. This lets you avoid dropping pages, shuffling noises and carrying your very obvious printed documents to the lectern. (The Amazon Kindle is the size of a small paperback.) Looks to me as if you can page forward with only one thumb or finger, leaving another hand free to gesture.
-See your speech text in sunlight or indoors: No-glare screens that lack a computer backlight make it possible to read your text in any setting.
-Adjust to large-type settings: Six font sizes allow you to create the display you can best see.
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WB8NUT - Operator/Station Background
I was first licensed in late 1972 as WN8NUT (Novice Class). At that time, the Novice Class license expired after two years. Not wanting to lose my ham radio license, but also not very proficient in CW, I decided to upgrade to Technician. I upgraded to Technician in 1974, and my call was changed to WB8NUT.
At that time Technicians did not have any HF privileges, so all my time was spent on 6 and 2 meters. I really fell in love with 6 meters, operating principally on 50.4 using AM.
The family moved to St. Louis in 1986 after McDonnell Douglas (now known as Boeing) transferred me there. Around that same time Technicians were given access to the 10 meter voice band. Sun spots were hopping at that time and I was getting my first taste of real DX. I had to increase my CW speed so I could pass the 13 wpm test and upgrade to General. On a business trip to Houston, I picked up some CW tapes at a downtown ham store, studied very hard and passed the 13 wpm CW test in June of 1987 at the Egyptian Hamfest in Illinois.
While living in St. Louis, I almost Worked All States. Actually got up to 46 states. But we moved back to Cincinnati in 1990 and that pretty much started the process all over again. In February 2002, I finally achieved WAS. I was able to get my WAC certificate while I lived in St. Louis. I recently reached 103 confirmed countries and submitted the QSL cards to the ARRL for DXCC. On September 26, 2003, I was awarded DXCC certificate #39,162. I am currently working on WAS RTTY endorsement and WAS Digital endorsement and only a few states yet to achieve those endorsements. In late 2011 I received a second all-mode WAS award just using the ARRL LOTW system. In 2012 I received another award for WAS using Digital only. In early 2013, I received a fourth award for WAS using only the JT-65 digital mode. So now I have one WAS award achieved using traditional paper QSL cards, and three WAS awards that used all digital QSL cards!
I am active on HF on all bands except 160. Rigs are a Kenwood TS-590S, Yaesu FTdx-1200 with digital interface, Yaesu FT-817 (QRP), MFJ 9420 (QRP), various FM VHF and UHF transceivers and handhelds for 2 meters, 220 and 440; ID-51A handheld for D-Star plus an ID-880H for D-Star from the shack. Connect Systems CS-750, CS-800, CS-800D and Tytera MD-380 radios for DMR. I also use an Alinco DR-235 for FM on 220Mhz. HF antenna is a 6-Band (6BTV) vertical and a 6 Meter dipole.
Many years ago I jumped aboard the digital bandwagon and operate on the more popular digital modes like PSK31, MFSK, and Hellschreiber. FeldHell (a Hellschreiber mode) is my favorite mode on HF with most of my activity on 80 and 20 meters. I primarily now use Ham Radio Deluxe/DM-780, but will occasionally use the MixW, FLDigi and MultiPSK software for all the new soundcard digital modes including SSTV. You can find me on 14.070 (PSK31), 14.076 (JT-65) 14.063 (Hellschreiber), 14.080 (MFSK) and 14.230 (SSTV). I also use JT-65HF for low power digital contacts using the JT-65 mode. In fact, as of February 2013, I achieved WAS using just JT-65 and all contacts confirmed on LoTW.
All of my software for digital modes runs on a Hewlett-Packard computer system with a quad-core Intel processor and 6GBs of memory and Windows 10. I needed a beefy computer since I run so many amateur related software applications at the same time. For example, on most days I have the AGWPE Pro application for connecting to several TNCs at the same time, APRSIS32 for APRS tracking, DVAR Hotspot for the D-Star hotspot, D-RATS or D-Chat for D-Star texting, and using the digital programs of DM-780 (Ham Radio Deluxe), MultiPSK and MixW, I still have processing power to spare.
Below are some sample SSTV pictures that I received using the JVCOMM32 program.
(these samples are 25% of the actual size)
As previously noted I am active on APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System). My home APRS packet station is on continuously on 144.39 Mhz and serves as a fill-in digipeater for the Eastern Cincinnati and an IGate (Internet Gateway) for the entire Greater Cincinnati area. My APRS digi station consist of a Kantronics KPC3+ TNC connected to Kenwood D710 for digipeating through the International Space Station (ISS) and the built-in TNC running in APRS mode for the local APRS network. Software controlling the APRS station is APRSIS32 as it is the only APRS program that can interface to the Kenwood D710's internal TNC when in APRS mode.
Field Day 1998 from the backyardWhen the weather is nice, I love operating outside on the back patio. In 1998 I participated in Field Day using QRP and battery power on the patio. If you are interested in seeing pictures of my Field Day '98 (QRP of course!) operation (I can't believe it was that long ago since the last time I operated Field Day from the house). Here is a picture the XYL took of my patio Field Day Operation.
GQRP Club - 8452
American Radio Relay League (the organization every ham should join)
Fists - 9920
Flying Pigs QRP - 464
Feld Hell Club - 75
Ten-Ten - 45041
PODXS 070 Club - 172
Current Operating Awards:WAC - Isn't this everyone's first award?
WAS - Using 100% paper QSL cards
WAS - Using 100% LoTW Electronic QSLs
WAS - All Digital
WAS - All JT65
WAS - All RTTY
DXCC - Mixed
DXCC - Phone
DXCC - 15 Meter Band
DXCC - 10 Meter Band
WPX - Mixed
WPX - Digital
WPX - Mixed North America
WPX - Digital North America
VUCC - 6 Meters
I QSL 100% using standard postcard QSLs or via LOTW. If sending QSL by mail, please include an SASE.
Please feel free to use the Contact Page to send me a note.


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Microplane Classic zester grater for zesting citrus fruit easily and grating hard cheeses into fine shreds.
Microplane graters have distinguished themselves from other graters by using a signature chemical process to create ultra sharp, razor-like cutting edges. They effortlessly cut through hard and soft ingredients: citrus fruit, nutmeg, ginger, chocolate, hard cheeses.
Microplane graters have become an essential utensil in the kitchens of many prestigious chefs and restauranteurs.
From the workbench to the kitchen...
Frustated by her kitchen zester, a Canadian housewife decides to use one of her husband's favourite woodworking tools. The zest turns out to be extremely fine and light, better than she had imagined!
It's 1994: her Armenian orange cake is a huge success and her husband's Microplane® will soon become a must-have grater in home kitchens.


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A $13.4 billion loan to General Motors and Chrysler may be followed by $4 billion more if the Obama administration finds sufficient progress.
This article is by David E. Sanger, David M. Herszenhorn and Bill Vlasic.
WASHINGTON — The emergency bailout of General Motors and Chrysler announced by President Bush on Friday gives the companies a few months to get their businesses in order, but hands off to President-elect Barack Obama the difficult political task of ruling on their future.
The plan pumps $13.4 billion by mid-January into the companies from the fund that Congress authorized to rescue the financial industry. But the two companies have until March 31 to produce a plan for long-term profitability, including concessions from unions, creditors, suppliers and dealers.
In February, another $4 billion will be available for G.M. if the rest of the $700 billion bailout package has been released.
Even before the March 31 deadline, it might fall to the Obama administration to persuade Congress to release the second $350 billion of the Treasury Department's huge financial system stabilization program — a request that the Bush administration is reluctant to make.
The auto bailout plan sets "targets" rather than concrete requirements about what those concessions may be, meaning that Mr. Obama and his advisers have enormous latitude to decide how to define long-term viability.
While Mr. Obama has broadly insisted that the automakers radically increase the fuel efficiency of their fleets, reduce carbon emissions and save the maximum number of jobs possible, he will have just nine weeks after taking office to press for a detailed transformation of an industry whose problems have been building for three decades.
In Chicago, Mr. Obama embraced the plan but said he had not had enough time to study the details. He never addressed the question of how he would turn a program designed as a short-term bridge loan into a long-term reorganization.
"I do want to emphasize to the Big Three automakers and their executives that the American people's patience is running out, and that they should seize on this opportunity over the next several weeks and months to come up with a plan that is sustainable. And that means that they're going to have to make some hard choices," he said.
Mr. Obama said it was his intention to preserve jobs "for years to come" and that he wanted to make sure "that it's not just workers who are bearing the brunt of that restructure, that they're not the ones who are taking all the hits."
Yet as the economy falters and joblessness balloons, Mr. Obama will be under extreme political pressure not to be too tough on the industry.
Already, Ron Gettelfinger, the president of the United Automobile Workers union, said he was pleased that the administration acted on the loan requests, but said the president added "unfair conditions" that singled out blue-collar workers.
Mr. Gettelfinger said the union expected to appeal to Mr. Obama to alter the expectations for wage and benefit cuts. According to Treasury Department officials who drafted the wording, Mr. Obama would be free to change the requirements and loosen the standards, especially on how much workers would have to give up.
Mr. Bush announced the plan early Friday, before the markets opened, and took no questions about its details. The day before, he conceded that he had been forced by the severity of the economic downturn to ignore many of the free-market principles he came to office embracing.
G.M. said it expected to draw on the first installment of its loans by Dec. 29. Soon after it pays suppliers and workers, the troubled automaker will begin putting drastic downsizing plans into effect, outlined to Congress this month, which include eliminating more than 30,000 jobs, shutting factories, shedding dealerships and determining the future of its Saab, Saturn and Pontiac brands.
In Detroit, a visibly relieved Rick Wagoner, G.M.'s chairman, told reporters that the loans would allow the automakers to pay their bills and prevent a financial crisis from spreading through the industry's suppliers and dealers.
Mr. Wagoner, who has been G.M.'s chief executive for eight years, added that he had no plans to step aside during the difficult months ahead. "Do you think I would have gone through what I've gone through in the past two months if I didn't want to stay?"
His reaction was echoed at Chrysler. "We intend to be accountable for this loan, including meeting the specific requirements set forth by the government, and will continue to implement our plan for long-term viability," Chrysler's chairman, Robert L. Nardelli, said in an e-mail message to employees.
Beyond the initial hurdles to provide all of the money, it will be left to Mr. Obama to make the tough judgments needed about the future of the industry. Are enough jobs being cut and factories being closed? Have the right product lines been consolidated? Are all of the stakeholders on the same page enough to make the long-term viability plans workable? And how should financial viability be defined?
On paper, Mr. Obama will inherit a club to wield against the automakers and the unions: he can threaten to "call" the loans and require repayment in 30 days.
Yet as a practical matter, demanding immediate repayment would be enormously difficult to do, unless Mr. Obama chose to drive the two icons of American industrial strength into bankruptcy court during the first 70 days of his administration.
His aides know that he will come under tremendous pressure, including from the U.A.W., which supported his candidacy and helped finance his campaign. "What we've seen from the U.A.W. already forces Obama to make a decision over whether to throw the U.A.W. under the bus," said Brian Johnson, an analyst with Barclays Capital.
The bailout Mr. Bush announced is missing one major element: a "car czar" to administer the program, a key feature of the legislation that was defeated in the Senate last week. Until the end of Mr. Bush's presidency, in just over a month, the Treasury secretary, Henry M. Paulson Jr., will play that role. But it is unclear what will happen after Mr. Obama is sworn in.
For now, his auto brain trust is mainly composed of Paul A. Volcker, the former Federal Reserve chairman, who was on the board for the Chrysler bailout in 1979; Austan Goolsbee, whose expertise at the University of Chicago has been the economics of industrial organizations; and Joshua Steiner, who is experienced in financial restructuring.
While many elements of the loan requirements are drawn from legislation that failed in Congress, there is one crucial difference between Mr. Bush's plan and the one the House approved: it strips away a requirement that Cerberus Capital Management, the private equity firm that owns 80 percent of Chrysler, be held liable for any losses experienced by the taxpayers.
Instead, Cerberus on Friday said it would give the first $2 billion to the government if it ever sold Chrysler Financial, the company's financing arm. While it has not asked for immediate help, the Ford Motor Company said it welcomed the assistance to G.M. and Chrysler because of the fragile, interdependent nature of the industry and its vast network of suppliers.
Both G.M. and Chrysler outlined a turnaround program calling for deep cuts in operations and expenses in their original requests to Congress for government loans.
But the White House appears to be expecting more than conventional restructuring strategies. Mr. Bush called for the companies to extract major concessions from their bondholders, creditors, dealers, suppliers and the U.A.W.
Under the Bush administration plan, G.M. and Chrysler would each have immediate access to $4 billion upon the signing of the emergency loan agreements with the Treasury. G.M. would then have access to an addition $5.4 billion on Jan. 16 and another $4 billion on Feb. 17 provided that Congress has released the remaining $350 billion for the Treasury's rescue program.
The companies would be required to limit executive pay, eliminate "golden parachute" severance packages and sell their corporate jets. While the loans are outstanding, the companies would be barred from paying shareholder dividends.
The loan deal also requires the companies to quickly reduce their huge debt obligations by two-thirds, mostly through debt-for-equity swaps, and to reach agreements on wage and benefit cuts with the unions by Dec. 31.


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As the lead for Accenture's Information Security business in Europe, Africa and Latin America (EALA), Floris drives the implementation of security for business and technology for clients across multiple sectors.
With more than 25 years of vast experience in the IT and information security domain, Floris has a holistic approach to security, helping organizations consider the wider implications of their security strategies. His recent client engagements demonstrate the depth and breadth of his work:
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Working on the implementation of Identity & Access Management (I&AM) for large multinationals
Helping large multinationals and financial institutions meet compliance requirements on secure infrastructures
Floris has published several articles on information security, and is a regular speaker at conferences around the world. He is also a part-time lecturer at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he teaches information security as part of the university's post-graduate program in IT Auditing.
Floris is a board member of Bible League International. He is passionate about music, listening to and playing the guitar and piano, as well as running half marathons. His mantra in life is: "Love what you do and do what you love."


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Racer is a reality-based video game. Instead of rendering a simulated car running through a virtual track, Racer lets you control a model car through a real track using wireless video. I want this, internet playable and with real cars.
I have the feeling that this could be a big success, because of the sense of physical destruction it will transmit to players. Actually, RC cars could be enough, perhaps multiple bigger ones running on an open air track. Better yet: Make an RC airplane dogfighting game with real pellet guns and mini-rockets, all internet controlled, flying for real against each other. Heck, strike that: Let's make a full World War II game, one in which players can control RC tanks, planes, and robotic artillery through a huge battlefield. [Racer]


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2011 is leaving and a new year begins. Let 2012 be at least as good as 2011!
I am celebrating new year's eve in New York (thus the photo in Times Square), and I will be in the US (San Francisco) for the first two weeks of the year because of work, so again, no miniature related activity will be done these days. Not the best way to begin the year for the blog, I know! But I will return and I'm sure I'll have a lot of stuff to share with you guys.
Enjoy in the meantime! And I wish you all a wonderful 2012.


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Biden, Whoopi Goldberg ride Amtrak together
WASHINGTON — Here's a couple you didn't expect to see riding the train together on a Friday afternoon: Vice President Joe Biden and Whoopi Goldberg.
The vice president's office tweeted a photo of Biden and the Oscar-winning comedienne sitting side by side and smiling on an Amtrak train.
Biden on Friday was scheduled to travel to his home state of
Delaware on Friday to accept an award from the Delaware Barristers Association. A lifelong Amtrak passenger, Biden frequently takes the train to and from weekend stays at his Delaware home.
The vice president's office says the locomotive rendezvous was a complete coincidence.
Goldberg helped raise money for President Barack Obama's re-election. And Biden once chatted up Goldberg and her gal pals when he was a guest on ABC's "The View."