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Photo Republished at Chicago’s Near West Side Is The Next Big Thing For Tech – Ch-ch-ch-changes – Curbed Chicago

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In Need of A Few Good Windows 

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Google’s new home, the Fulton Market Cold Storage Building before renovation. Photo by Seth Anderson] The West Loop and Near West Side are gaining more momentum as Chicago’s newest tech hotspots every week. As Chicago’s economy turns towards young startups and tech incubators to help usher in the new century, neighborhood demographics and flagship business tenants are changing constantly. With dozens of new coworking spaces, names like Groupon, Lightbank and soon-to-be Motorola, River North has been the city’s tech powerhouse for at least the last five years. However some are saying that the near north neighborhood known for its luxury high rises and fine dining has become saturated and too expensive for newer, younger and less endowed companies.

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Photo Republished at Four Ways Weather Can Leave You Stranded in Airports

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Flight 1053

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Snow flies at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport. (Flickr/Seth Anderson) With 160,000 weather-related delays each year, Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) is vulnerable to snow, as well as to winds, rain and other flight-disrupting conditions. AccuWeather.com Senior Meteorologist Elliot Abrams points out, however, that much of Chicago’s snow is not the traditional lake effect, as it is not located on the proper side of Lake Michigan to receive the brunt of its snowfall. Abrams said that the city has received more snow than usual this season, contributing to delays and cancellations out of this major hub.

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Photo Republished at When the FBI asks you to weaken your security so it can spy on your users – Boing Boing

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Back Door?
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Nico Sell is the CEO of Wickr, a privacy-oriented mobile messaging system that’s been deliberately designed so that the company can’t spy on its users, even if they’re ordered to do so. As we know from the Snowden leaks, spooks hate this kind of thing, and spend $250M/year sabotaging security so that they can spy on everyone, all the time. After a recent presentation, she was approached by an FBI agent who asked her if she’d put a back-door into Wickr.

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When the FBI asks you to weaken your security so it can spy on your users – Boing Boing

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Photo Republished at AT&T offers gigabit Internet discount in exchange for your Web history | Ars Technica

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Eyeing John Marshall Law School

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AT&T is watching you browse. AT&T’s “GigaPower” all-fiber network has launched in parts of Austin, Texas, with a price of $70 per month for download speeds of 300Mbps (which will be upgraded to a gigabit at no extra cost in 2014). The $70 price is only available if you agree to see targeted ads from AT&T and its partners, however. Interestingly, AT&T labels the Internet service with targeted ads as its “premier” service while calling the service without targeted ads “standard.”

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AT&T offers gigabit Internet discount in exchange for your Web history | Ars Technica

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Reading List November 24 2013

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Some more lazyblog items for your amusement, i.e., items I would have blogged about (maybe) if last week hadn’t have been quite such an insanely busy week.

Declining Issues
Declining Issues

33 1/3 RPM soul
33 1/3 RPM soul

Price Reduced
Price Reduced

You Always Have Options
You Always Have Options

and finally, a project I’ve been working on for what seems like years is finally moving forward:

Photo Republished at Thermos Lunch Boxes Tips | My Kind of Food

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The 1st thing you’ll need to have can be a container in which to pack the lunch. It doesn’t should expense a lot of funds. For adults a tiny cooler makes a good lunch box. Fred makes use of a medium sized cooler. He’s normally gone for 24 to 48 hours, so he requirements a lot of food to maintain him going. For young children and teenagers, you may typically find inexpensive lunch boxes and insulated lunch bags at yard sales and thrift stores.

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Reading List November 16 2013

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Tweet!
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A few items you might want to read if you have time to kill…

This Man Was Talked To Death
This Man Was Talked To Death

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Defunct Tweets
Defunct Tweets

Photo Republished at Looking at a spam stream: The story of Jimmy Walker | Spamtacular

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PayDay Loans 

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I was recently asked about how to go about proving that someone was not obtaining email addresses in a direct, opt-in manner. The methodology won’t surprise you, and if you have been involved in helping problematic clients for a while, the results might not even surprise you. The “someone” at issue was a payday loaner. That is, they were an information leads broker. They took information provided by website visitors and brokered that out to other folks who would use it to email them offers for payday loans. This is referred to as a “ping tree.” In this case, the target of our investigation was also managing the ping trees for their clients.…Front Window of a financial institution in Illinois which offers payday loans. License: (Photo source: swanksalot)

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Looking at a spam stream: The story of Jimmy Walker | Spamtacular

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Photo Republished at IRS Pays Billions In Bogus Refunds—But Legit Refunds Still Get Audited – Forbes

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Tax Refund Received

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The IRS has had a string of recent failures, but paying out bogus refunds is particularly embarrassing. The IRS knows it is happening, knows which tax credits and refunds are targeted, and still can’t seem to stop it. President Obama even called for a fix back in 2009 in an executive order. The IRS is looking into it. And a new report says there’s no solution in sight. The IRS paid out $132 billion in bogus tax credits over the last decade. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration reports that the IRS is not in compliance with Executive Order 13520 to reduce improper payments. The IRS has had several warnings.…Tax Refund Received (Photo credit: swanksalot)

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IRS Pays Billions In Bogus Refunds—But Legit Refunds Still Get Audited – Forbes

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Photo Republished at Family law, adoption and the rights of children – Marilyn Stowe Blog

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Doorway to The Royal Courts of Justice

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Sir James Munby only became President of the Family Division in January but he has certainly made his voice heard across legal circles in the eight months since then. In May he warned that people should only be sent to prison for contempt of court in open court. In August he discussed the impact of legal aid cuts, leaving many people caught up in serious family cases reliant on uncertain pro bono representation. … Photo by swanksalot via Flickr under a Creative Commons licence

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Family law, adoption and the rights of children – Marilyn Stowe Blog

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Photo Republished at Grand Avenue Bridge Shut Down For Emergency Repairs: Chicagoist

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Biking over the Grand Avenue Bridge

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Grand Avenue Bridge Shut Down For Emergency Repairs Photo credit: Seth Anderson Weekend maintenance on the Grand Avenue Bridge revealed problems to the Bascule bridge that required immediate attention, so the bridge is now closed until Oct. 7 to vehicle, bicycle and pedestrian traffic..

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Photo Republished at Groupon’s latest shot at relevancy involves buying warehouses for Groupon Goods | VentureBeat

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Groupon’s history is riddled with surges and falls, missteps and pivots, expansion and retraction, and of course, the sordid saga of a delusional CEO who was ousted from his leadership role and is now pursuing a music career.

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Groupon’s latest shot at relevancy involves buying warehouses for Groupon Goods | VentureBeat

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Photo Republished at How to keep your cat indoors and prevent the escape

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Pippin and Da Bird

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Switch your cat to scheduled feeding if you didn’t already. How can this help? Simply – if you feed your cat on a schedule, his energy will be more focused, his rhythm of the day will be more clear to him, and his need to wander outside will be minimized (stating you do play with your cat before meals for at least a little bit). Also, you can schedule a meal every time you leave home, so your cat is busy as you head out. Besides, if your cat escapes, it will be easier to call him back by just rattling his food pack if he’s on a scheduled feeding. Short play before each meal will help to keep your cat indoors. Photo swanksalot, CC BY-SA 2.0

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How to keep your cat indoors and prevent the escape

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Photo Republished at Groupon stock surges 20% after Eric Lefkofsky becomes CEO | VentureBeat

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Groupon HQ 

Albeit with incorrect attribution.

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Looks like interim chief executive Eric Lefkofsky was just not ready to let go of the title. Groupon announced he would be taking over as permanent CEO today in its quarterly earnings release.

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Groupon stock surges 20% after Eric Lefkofsky becomes CEO | VentureBeat

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Reading Around on June 26th

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Life Stinks - I Like the Kinks

Life Stinks – I Like the Kinks

Some additional reading June 26th from 17:22 to 17:22:

  • Interviews > Moby: Wait For Me – I love a good old Clash record and I love listening to Pantera, I love listening to the Rolling Stones but the music that I adore the most is Nick Drake or Joy Division or Sigur Rós, quieter records and music that really aspire to be beautiful.I tend to think of it in terms of there’s social records and personal records. I love the Clash, it’s very social. If you had 20 people over on a Friday night and you’re all drinking beer put on a Clash record and it’s great. Lying in bed at 9 o’ clock on a rainy Sunday morning you want something that is more personal, and, as much as I love social records, it’s those personal records that I tend to really cherish. I listen to a lot of classical music, a lot of quiet electronic music, everything from Nick Drake to Leonard Cohen. I mentioned Sigur Rós, some Radiohead songs, songs where you really feel the artist, whether they are or whether they aren’t, but you feel as if the artist is making themselves vulnerable through their work.