The Photographs Norman Rockwell Used to Create His Famous Paintings

Interesting.

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Chabad.org

Hence the popularity of Facebook, Twitter and the like.

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How Democrats Became Liberal Republicans

Interesting assessment. I have been wondering how the Democrats and Republicans managed to switch sides since the time of the Civil War. Back then, the Republicans represented the liberals who wanted to free slaves, and the Democrats were the conservative states rights/small Federal government party that thought slavery was a fine thing for each state that wanted it. By the time of Roosevelt the Democrats had moved to the left. The Republicans seem to have moved to the right after Eisenhower, who would probably be regarded now as a socialist radical for his warning against the military industrial complex. The party was surely way to the right by the time Goldwater was nominated. Now, as the Democrats move right, will the Republicans move left and shed their lunatic wing as they try to get some leverage with the minorities they antagonized in the last election? Will both parties collide in the middle, and realign, or will the nation continue its overall conservative drift, and exit the world, stage right? Watch the headlines for the next few hundred years for the answer. I have no idea :-(

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BTS: Documenting Lions in the African Bush For Over Thirty Years

Fascinating wildlife story.

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CNN Panelist: This Conversation Could Be Much Uglier

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AP News : Firefighter shot at scene of blaze in western NY

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Average voter is unable to accurately assess politicians, new research shows

This is news?

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Testing Blogger's official blogging app

A post from the ipad. I don't know how to apply formatting, but I can attach a photo. Looks like a pretty lame app.

Shana Tova

May the coming year bring to


you and your loved ones

all the blessings of

peace, good health and joy


Hilda and Clive

I received my Kindle Fire

I bought a Kindle Fire to replace my aging Kindle (1st Model). For me it will make a fine book reader, (especially for reading in the dark) with some enhanced functions. Overall, it feels like a prototype - everything works, almost, but not very smoothly. It is based on a fork of Google's Android, but oddly enough, does not have a native Google Maps app - it has Mapquest instead.
Screen scrolling is jerky. I like the size - great for books, not so great for magazines.
It feels heavy - but I expect my muscles will develop with use :-)

For a full review - read any of the reviews popping up all over the web.

Havana Staircase 2009

My latest watercolor painting. I was struck by this staircase in Havana, Cuba, on my visit in 2009.

Havana Staircase 2009

This blog is back

The demise of this blog was prematurely announced by myself. Its back!

Shouting in the crowd - A quick guide to social media

Tweeting is like standing in a large square packed with people, all shouting loudly and hoping that someone will reply to them, or at least hear their message and pass it on. Some of the shouting is advertising.

Blogging is like standing in a large square populated by speakers on soapboxes and shouting your story, hoping to attract a crowd, possibly from a nearby blogger. You make  deals with some of your fellow speakers to send some of your crowd over to them. Some of the soapboxes are plastered with ads, for which the speaker gets paid.

Google+ is like much like blogging, but the speakers cluster closer together so that they can hear and respond to each other, and their crowds overlap and chat with each other. The speakers do not get paid for any advertising.

Facebook is like sitting in your living room chatting with friends and family. Most people present are not really interested in what the others say, but listen politely and occasionally respond. You are not sure who some of the people in the room are, or why they are there. You may think the conversations are private, but your friends can take notes and tell their friends. Oddly enough, your walls are plastered with ads, for which you do not get paid.

Email is like leaving a notes in your friends' mailboxes mailboxes. You feel offended if they do not respond.

Texting is like attaching a note to a rock and throwing at your friend's house

Moving on...

Technology has moved on. Thus, so have I. From now on, you can find what I would have blogged here on Google+, at
this address: gplus.to/chmoss

If this does not work for me, I will be back here soon :-)

In case anyone was wondering -- it is hot in Chicago and getting hotter :-(

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Senator Shelby - an Economics illiterate - feels that Nobel Prize winners don't understand Economics.

From The New York Times.

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The leading opponent to my appointment, Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the ranking Republican on the committee, has questioned the relevance of my expertise. “Does Dr. Diamond have any experience in conducting monetary policy? No,” he said in March. “His academic work has been on pensions and labor market theory.”

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To the public, the Washington debate is often about more versus less — in both spending and regulation. There is too little public awareness of the real consequences of some of these decisions. In reality, we need more spending on some programs and less spending on others, and we need more good regulations and fewer bad ones.

Analytical expertise is needed to accomplish this, to make government more effective and efficient. Skilled analytical thinking should not be drowned out by mistaken, ideologically driven views that more is always better or less is always better. I had hoped to bring some of my own expertise and experience to the Fed. Now I hope someone else can.

Peter A. Diamond is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

via nytimes.com

Is it not time we stopped electing demagogues?

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Why I love my Nikon!

via youtube.com

I would never do this with a cigarette in my mouth, however.

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Is this Blog obsolete?

New social media seem to be making personal blogs and websites obsolete. For quick thought that one wants to share with the world, Twitter feels more appropriate. It gets pushed to friends, and broadcast to the world for anyone following a specific subject to see. For more private thoughts for friends only, Facebook is the place. For photographs - Flickr, Smugmug, Facebook, or any of dozens of photo sharing sites are more convenient.

Fragmentation across media is a problem - but it is being addressed by  platforms like TweetDeck, Seesmic, and the like.

So - why would anyone (including me) other than business or organizations continue to maintain a blog and a website?

IPhone meets Van Gogh

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View from the cheap seats

Our view for Muti conducting Verdi's Otello @CSO. We will have a great view of Muti - but little else.

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