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Jordan Milliken, 12, of Fort Dodge, brought part of his coin collection to the annual Fort Dodge Coin Club show at the Crossroads Mall.

He wasn't trying to sell it. He was looking for more specimens to add to it from the nearly 25 vendors at the show.

He said he began collecting in 2008 and has gravitated towards specializing in coins with errors.

Like many other collectors, he's had the good luck to find collectible coins in change.

"I found a 1943 Mercury dime," he said. "If somebody is dumb enough to spend it, I'll take it."

He also found a another dime with an error.

"I noticed the sharp edge," he said.

When Pete Fritz began collecting coins in 1952, the most difficult part was keeping the collection.

"It was very hard," he said. "Sometimes the coins would come out so we could go to the show."

Fritz said that coin collecting offers many benefits for young collectors.

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Kate Moore is bored.

Every day, she gets her kids off to school, cooks, cleans and shops, occasionally has coffee with other stay-at-home moms, folds laundry. Then she gets up the next day and does it all over again.

All-day domesticity is no life for a former CIA assassin even one who's given up the game to move to Luxembourg for her husband's mysterious new banking job.

Luckily for Kate the heroine of author Chris Pavone's new thriller, The Expats life is about to get interesting. Pavone tells weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan that while he was never a CIA agent, his life and Kate's have many parallels.

"Both Kate and I left behind careers in the United States that we were no longer that enamored with, and we were ready to make a big change, and ready to do something else and be someone else," he says.

Both Kate and her creator ran up against the difficulties of raising children and making a new home in a foreign country. "Those things are partially exciting and mostly dreadfully boring," he says.

Chris Pavone worked in the publishing industry for nearly two decades. He has also written a wine-tasting journal called The Wine Log.

Chris Pavone worked in the publishing industry for nearly two decades. He has also written a wine-tasting journal called The Wine Log.

But Luxembourg is a great place to reinvent yourself. "If you want to, you can totally just become someone else," he says. "Because the person you're talking to is from the Maldives, or Spain, and you're not. And the things in your life that would get you caught if you were lying aren't there to get you caught."

In The Expats, everyone's lying about almost everything from Kate and her husband to the mysterious American couple who just keep showing up in their lives.

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Q Would it be appropriate to honk at a person who is clearly distracted by their cellphone while driving? I saw a person who was clearly texting while driving. He was continuously looking down at his phone as he drifted out of his lane and was going at least 5 mph below the speed limit. I thought about honking at him but decided not to as I didn't want to scare him too much and cause him to suddenly swerve and cause an even greater hazard.

Greg Esch

Santa Clara

A I honked at a young woman who was texting and creeping along Hedding Street when we arrived at a red light not too long ago. To put it mildly, she became enraged -- at me. She gave me the single-finger salute, was mouthing nasty words (thankfully our windows were up) and had the scary "I'm going to clobber you" glare of an NFL middle linebacker.

So I was going to say don't honk and cause a road-rage incident, but then I stumbled across this story from a Washington, D.C.-area radio station:

"I drive around on the weekends in Washington," Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said, and when he sees what he describes as "my biggest source of irritation" -- somebody on a cellphone, LaHood takes action: "What I've been doing is kind of honking at somebody if I see him on a cellphone."

LaHood says it's his way of "taking personal responsibility" to reduce driver distractions. Hey,

Q I was driving down Highway 85, and I wanted to move into the carpool lane. I look over and there is a guy in a small car staring at his cellphone or iPod or something like that. Either way he was totally distracted. He was changing speeds all over the place while getting very close to drifting out of his lane. The entire time I could see him he was on his phone. He was definitely not paying attention for at least a few miles.

What should I have done? Call 911 or 311 or something like that? This seems comparable to drunken driving. He was endangering his and everyone else's lives on the freeway that day.

Matt Katawicz

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by admin on March 25, 2012

After that brief abbreviation of rain last week, we are back on the Pho Ba Co patio for Dot Com Pho in the hot California sun. We had a nice turn out of a dozen people making it out to the weekly Orange County meetup, which is infinite times more than the attendance at the Vancouver Dot Com Pho. Anyone is welcome to join us.Follow me on Twitter to find the time and location of the next one.

On this edition of Dot Com Pho OC, we check out the supercars at Irvine Cars and Coffee, Sally Chow tries to resize me, Braker The Brand reviews my book, and three gadgets of the week that will turn you into a video superstar. This edition of Dot Com Pho was filmed using the gadgets featured in the video. Enjoy!

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