Year: 2007
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Helping Out the FBI With Data
Here’s a pretty extreme example of public/private data cooperation. The Visible Man: An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online There are already tons of pictures there. Elahi will post about a hundred today — the rooms he sat in, the food he ate, the coffees he ordered. Poke around his site and you’ll find…
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Second City Cop on Emergency Preparedness in Chicago
 Second City Cop is one of my favorite weblogs in the world. Tons of valuable info on what’s really going on in my town. Here’s SCC sounding off about the latest Chicago story on emergency preparedness. By the way, has anyone gotten their updated orders on how to operate in a terror attack zone? How…
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7th Grade CCD Project: A Catholic Framework for Economic Life
This Spring I was the substitute teacher for a 7th grade CCD class. 7th grade is a tough class to teach or to be a student in, since the kids generally have a bored-with-it-all mien and there’s no sacrament to focus on, like First Communion or confirmation. So instead of teaching from the book, and…
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Wide Right Turn– Early Knockoff
Wide Right Turn– Early Knockoff, originally uploaded by juggernautco. To my endless delight and surprise, I continue to find new variations of the wide right turn sign. I now have about 130 of them collected here and here. I added about 10 over the last month. One of them is here– it seems to be…
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2101 N. Humboldt [Monte Hermon Church & Rectory/offices]
Permit #: 100179087 Applicant: Donald Higgins Owner: Leida G. Perez Permit Description: Addition to Church. Renovation to Church. Renovation of existing building. [Proposed demolition of 2-story ‘link’ between church and rectory/office building and construction of a new 2-story link.] Status (if applicable): Released 5/25/2007