Jkpi - Untitled

Kees Timmer (Dutch, 1903-1978), Hondententoonstelling [Dog Show], c.1965 (partially repainted c.1973). Oil on board, 84 x 60 cm.

Copiers are full of your secrets!

Copiers are full of secrets.

Did you know that modern copiers have a hard drive that digitally retains every (or nearly every) document copied on that machine and the vast majority of those machines are without any mechanism to erase or encrypt the data.  As a result when you sell or trade in a copier you are probably sending all kinds of private information that identity thieves can then get their hands on.

In addition, lawyers conducting discovery should be aware that an individual's copier or a company's copier may be a source of information relevant to an on going law suit.

One law firm I spoke with purchased what was represented as brand new copier and its hard drive was full of documents from and accounting firm. 

For a brief primer check out this video from CBS News that aired in 2010.  

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6412572n

AL Green - Love and Happiness (RE-MASTERED) HD OFFICIAL VIDEO

Had to be done. Couldn't find anything out there with Good Quality Audio and Video. VDJ's Enjoy.

Happy 70th Birthday!

Rasta Girl

While running the other night I met a woman with long dread locks that I've seen working out and at races throughout the year.  She keeps them pulled back with a bandanna.  She also seems to run to the beat of her own drummer, which is cool.  She had been kicking my ass, but on this occasion, I caught and passed her.  I figured she must have raced or run long the day before and was just doing a recovery  run.  Having lived in the Caribbean for 2 and 1/2 years, I was into the dreads.  When I passed her I wanted to say, "Hey, Natty Dread" but you never know how folks will react.

Anyway, we met when she caught up to where I was cooling down.  I told her about liking the locks and nearly calling her Natty Dread.  As she ran off in her tie-dyed Bob Marley T-shirt she said, "If you forget my name, Natty Dread will do."

You've got to like that attitude. 

What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas.

Three words, Suzy Favor Hamilton.

Story of cities #29: Los Angeles and the 'great American streetcar scandal'

The last train on the last line of greater Los Angeles’ Pacific Electric streetcar network made its last run on April 9, 1961.

Between 1938 and 1950, one company purchased and took over the transit systems of more than 25 American cities. 

Their name, National City Lines, sounded innocuous enough, but the list of their investors included General Motors, the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Standard Oil of California, Phillips Petroleum, Mack Trucks, and other companies who stood to benefit much more from a future running on gasoline and rubber than on electricity and rails. 

National City Lines acquired the Los Angeles Railway in 1945, and within 20 years diesel buses – or indeed private automobiles – would carry all the yellow cars’ former passengers. Does that strike you as a coincidence?

Read the full story.

Photographs: AP (top); Paul Popper/Popperfoto/Getty Images (middle); Dan Chung for the Guardian (bottom)

Shore and Surf, Nassau -  Winslow Homer , 1899.

American, 1836-1910

Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper , 14 15/16 x 21 3/8 in. 37.9 x 54.3 cm.

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Beaanachtai’ na la’ Feile Padraig (Happy St. Patrick’s Day!)