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By David Adams
As you may know, this is a big month for A Stronger Financial Michigan, our advocacy fund formerly known as CURE. Starting in early August, we launched a statewide media campaign using television, radio and digital channels to highlight public officials who have been especially supportive to Michigan credit unions. In the ads, we encourage consumers to thank Gov. Rick Snyder for his work to improve the state economy and to thank U.S. Senate candidate Gary Peters for his support of small businesses and the auto industry. In northern Michigan, we have radio ads running that focus on the work of Representative Dan Benishek to improve access to credit for Michigan families. And for the first time in 2014, your credit union can support A Stronger Financial Michigan by making direct corporate contributions to the fund. I encourage every Credit Union to join with us by providing financial support to this fund.
Of course, that money is used to support credit union-friendly candidates in elections across the state. In the Aug. 5 primaries, we saw the majority of MCUL-endorsed candidates do well. Mike Bishop and John Moolenaar won their Republican primaries and Debbie Dingell won her Democratic primary for Congress. Rudy Hobbs, our endorsed candidate to replace Peters in the U.S. House, narrowly lost his bid for the Democratic nomination. In the state Legislature, only one MCUL-endorsed candidate, Republican Frank Foster, failed to win his primary.
We are also building awareness at the grassroots level in communities around the state this summer, working to spread the message about the Credit Union difference. In early August, CU Link sponsored the Buy Michigan Now Fest in Northville, which allowed Credit Unions to connect with consumers interested in patronizing local businesses, like Credit Unions. We also had a booth at the U.P. State Fair in Escanaba and collaborated with several credit unions at the Microbrew and Music Festival in Traverse City. In the Saginaw area, we are working with the Impact Saginaw group of Credit Unions to help with a free zoo day for families. My staff would love to hear about the community events that you will be participating in to see whether we can leverage our efforts by working together. Contact your League Representative to learn more.
Now, I'll turn to Education and Events, where our team is working on an event that should be of particular interest to CEOs and other Credit Union leaders. We know CEOs don't often have the opportunity to network exclusively with their peer group, which is what makes our Executive Summit the ideal retreat for top executives to gather and discuss strategies for leading the industry into the future. We are pleased to announce that Michigan entrepreneur and author Josh Linkner will join the event remotely to discuss how executives can disrupt and transform their organizations. Following Linkner's presentation, I will facilitate a follow-up session helping all of us to identify some disruptive ideas to position Credit Unions for the future. The summit takes place Sept. 17-19 at the Inn at Bay Harbor. If you haven't taken the time to sign up, I encourage you to do so quickly as space is limited for this event.
And while it has been a quiet month in Congress and the state Legislature as our elected officials concentrate on the election season, our government affairs team remains focused on several issues.
At the federal level, we continue to work to educate our House and Senate members about the heavy burden associated with compliance to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau regulations. At the state level, the Legislature will return in September, when we hope to make progress on several measures, including electronic titling and lien release for vehicles, as well homestead tax and recording process reforms.
We will also be working to educate our state elected officials about why they should oppose an effort to allow payday lenders to expand into the installment loan business. If you haven't done so yet, take a few moments – and encourage your staff and volunteers as well – to send an email to your state legislators to oppose the payday lending expansion.
On the regulatory side, we are keeping a close eye on NCUA, particularly the Risk Based Capital proposal. NCUA Chair Debbie Matz said that Credit Unions presented many valid concerns and that the agency was listening carefully. We do know that they plan to lower the risk weightings on investments, mortgages, member business loans and CUSOs as well as extend the implementation period beyond the proposed 18-month timeframe.
At its July board meeting, the NCUA proposed to eliminate the current five percent fixed-asset cap for federal Credit Unions under the NCUA's current Fixed Asset rule. Additionally, Chairman Matz indicated the NCUA will look to give greater flexibility to Credit Unions offering member business loans. While this appears to be good news from the NCUA, the devil is always in the details, and I would ask you to stand ready to provide your comments when these proposals are released.
Finally, I'd like to briefly share recent highlights from our service corporation, CU Solutions Group. The products offered by CUSG are a key way that we help Credit Unions serve, grow and remain strong.
As I've shared with you in previous reports, one of biggest initiatives this year is rebranding Invest in America to Love My Credit Union Rewards, which went live to members on Aug. 1. The rebrand of our program reflects added value for each of our stakeholders. First – The new name has a stronger tie to credit unions and allows CU Solutions Group to add more partners. Second – Streamlined marketing requirements and new, multi-partner materials strengthen the value propositions for member acquisition, loan growth and member retention. And finally – credit union members have a fresh site to navigate that organizes savings opportunities by category; so they can really take advantage of the exclusive discounts that they get, just for being credit union members. Take a few moments to look at the new Love My Credit Union Rewards website to see the changes.
All of our partner programs are doing very well this year, but the GM discount program is really moving the needle. More than 57,000 vehicles have been sold year-to-date with an estimated $575 million in auto loans for Credit Unions. With growth like this – more than 150 percent year-over-year – it's not surprising to see growth in our GM real-time loan lead program. When a Credit Union signs up at the premium level, you receive an email every time one of your members requests an authorization code for the GM discount. Because ninety percent of members requesting an authorization code ultimately purchase a GM vehicle, it's a great opportunity to help your members with financing while also growing your loan portfolio.
We have also recently begun strategic planning for 2015, and part of the process includes reviewing our structure to focus on the things that matter most. We are looking at acquiring or merging with an advertising agency to enhance our Marketing Solutions products. To prepare for that, we are working to combine the expertise of the Marketing and Technology groups to strengthen our offerings and reinforce synergies that already exist.
A good example of the overlap between Marketing and Technology is the current focus on digital marketing. The teams are working on a digital marketing package which includes a lead generation/marketing automation tool that will allow Credit Unions to send targeted communications with a way to measure return on investment. We are also launching a series of Digital Marketing Webinars to help Credit Unions understand how easy it can be to get started with things like responsive design, pay per click advertising and social media. If you visit the events and webinars section of our CU Solutions Group website, you can register to learn more about how digital marketing can help Credit Unions be more competitive in the marketplace.
On the technology front, ComplySight is now available nationwide with state compliance data included. ComplySight helps streamline the compliance process by providing tracking and measurement through a web-based portal. Because we know small-asset Credit Unions are being hammered by regulatory burdens, I am pleased to announce that your MCUL Board has agreed to provide Michigan Credit Unions under $50 million with FREE access to Complysite. We know they will benefit from this powerful new tool which we will now offer as a benefit of membership.
In our HR Performance Solutions division, we continue to enhance the integration between Performance Pro and Compease. Client metrics have shown that Performance Pro can reduce administration expense by 67 percent and total performance management program expense by 38 percent – all in the first year. Combine that with a salary administration tool like Compease, which can deliver nearly 4-to-1 in cost savings, and you've got a comprehensive tool that can dramatically improve your operation. Clients really seem to be enjoying the value that their integration delivers, not to mention the client support we have behind them.
I hope you will find some time to visit our website or contact your league representatives to talk about these solutions and more.
As you know, MCUL and Affiliates is always working to ensure your success, and we look forward to helping your Credit Union achieve its objectives. Please feel free to reach out to me at firstname.lastname@example.com or to any member of my staff if you have any questions. We look forward to hearing from you.
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Is the GOP candidate too far removed from average Americans?
By Steve Peoples, The Associated Press
Mitt Romney is promising to reduce taxes on middle-income Americans.
But how does he define "middle-income"? The Republican presidential nominee defined it Friday as income of $200,000 to $250,000 a year and less.
The definition of "middle income" or the "middle class" is politically charged as Romney and President Barack Obama fight to win over working-class voters. Romney would be among the wealthiest presidents, if elected, and Democrats have painted him repeatedly as out of touch with average people.
The important topic was also missing from both national conventions.
By Mark Thoma
There was something important missing from both the Democrat and Republican National Conventions -- the unemployed. We have an unemployment crisis on our hands, and nobody should be satisfied with an unemployment rate in excess of 8 percent and the slow decline in unemployment we have experienced. Yet we heard very little about plans to address the jobs crisis at the conventions, and it's the same on the campaign trail.
I didn't expect the Republicans to say much about the unemployed, except to criticize the president over the slow progress in bringing the number down. The deficit was their convention focus, including the debt clock above the stage, but it is telling that they have little to offer the unemployed beyond criticism of President Obama.
More people are tapping into their home equity, risking foreclosure or leaving their heirs holding the bill.
By Sheryl Nance-Nash
Elderly homeowners signing up for reverse mortgages might be latest victims of the housing crisis.
A reverse mortgage allows homeowners 62 and older who own their homes outright or who have low mortgage balances to get cash by borrowing against the equity in their homes. The mortgage comes due when the borrower dies, moves or sells the home – often shifting the responsibility to family members or heirs.
"Reverse mortgages have increased over the past five years. Many retirees, having experienced massive retirement income loss, due to the current state of the economy, have resulted to reverse mortgages as a financial refuge," says J. Varney Barker, author of New Rules of Home Ownership for the 21st Century.
After the 'lost decade' of the 2000s, average Americans are still suffering from 3 persistent economic ailments.
There are many reasons middle-class Americans feel squeezed right now: The high unemployment rate (8.1 percent), rising cost of college tuition, or the fact that close to one-third of homeowners are underwater. But it's a combination of three other factors that led the Pew Research Center to label the 2000s a "lost decade" for the middle class: declining household income, shrinking net worth, and a smaller middle class.
"Income peaked in 1999 and it has not yet returned to that peak," says Paul Taylor, a coauthor of the report and the executive vice president of the Pew Research Center. "It's the first decade in modern U.S. history where that's the case," he adds.
The GOP candidate seems to think he can fix the US tax code and pay down the national debt with no tax hikes -- without explaining how. What's he hiding?
GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a plan to revamp the entire U.S. tax code and change the nature of American capitalism. But he can't tell us what his plan is just yet.
Romney has revealed parts of his plan, such as his goal of cutting the tax rate in every bracket by one-fifth, slashing corporate taxes, and cutting government spending. But there are some important policies to be named later.
Romney acknowledges that cutting taxes as he proposes would leave the government short of revenue, which would have to be made up somehow. To do that, he says, he'd "limit deductions and exemptions for people at the high end." But which deductions? By how much? And what if those limitations aren't enough to keep the government solvent?
The eurozone's dismal outlook hints at what could lie ahead for Americans if they go down a similar path of austerity.
The economy added a measly 96,000 workers last month after a gain of 141,000 in July, which was revised downward. Unemployment fell slightly to 8.1%. Pitiful. For the rate to decline significantly, the U.S. needs to add at least 250,000 jobs a month over multiple months. About 151,000 jobs per month were created, on average, during the 1980s and 181,000 per month were generated in the following decade, according to a 2005 Federal Reserve research paper.
Did someone really steal Mitt Romney's tax records?
By Stephen Braun, The Associated Press
Assuming it's not a hoax, the purported theft of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's tax returns has all the trappings of a high-tech whodunit: a politically themed burglary, a $1 million demand in hard-to-trace Internet currency, password-protected data and a threat to reveal everything in three more weeks. But can it be believed?
If there is one piece of economic data that holds the key to the election, Friday's number is it. But what would it take to sway voters?
It's no coincidence that Bill Clinton and Elizabeth Warren – two high-profile Democratic politicians capable of taking complex financial concepts and boiling them down to terms a non-specialist can readily grasp –– took to the podium at their party's convention Wednesday night. Their job, in part, was to convince not only party loyalists but also the general public that the current economic picture – call it a jobless recovery, if you will – isn't something that any president can fix with a snap of his or her fingers. Party spinmeisters have already been touting the 4.5 million private sector jobs added over the last 29 months, but if they work their magic today, it could help President Barack Obama ride out any storm that might follow a disappointing jobs report scheduled to be released tomorrow morning.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Health officials say the worst of the flu season appears to be over.
The number of states reporting intense or widespread flu dropped again last week. By some measures, flu activity has been ebbing for at least four weeks. Deaths from the flu or pneumonia have been dropping for two weeks.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the latest flu numbers on Friday.
This flu season started about a month earlier than normal. Outbreaks began in the late fall, and the dominant flu strain is one that tends to make people sicker.
It's been nine years since a flu season started like this one, and that proved to be 1 of the deadliest. So far, this season has been labeled moderately severe.
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UConn junior Tyler Olander was arrested early Thursday morning and charged with trespassing during spring break in Panama City Beach, Fla.
He was taken to Bay County jail.
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He is the second UConn basketball player to be arrested in the last few months.
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Farewell to Marmo in Itajaí - April 22nd
Marmo is a little octopus with a big heart. He enjoys long swims in the sea, juggling mollusks, making new friends, and teaching kids and adults a thing or eight about ocean preservation. He wants to make the ocean a better place, but 8 legs aren't enough! He needs a few friendly hands to help him out. Marmo stars in an illustrated children's book – "Marmo Saves Our Seas" – educating children and their families about the importance of preserving the wonders of the oceans in a way that is captivating, fun and easily understandable for young children.
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Thanks to the amazing Taylor Young, I was introduced to this tasty, no sugar added, protein carrot cake recipe! Yes, you are understanding correctly – you CAN eat carrot cake on your diet…you're welcome ;). Now get baking!
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Makes 16 bars
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1 cup oat flour
2 scoops vanilla whey protein
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp nutmeg
4 egg whites
3/4 cup Stevia
8 oz baby food carrots
4 oz water
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At 12 p.m. on Saturday, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) lifted the Boil Water Order it had issued for western parts of the city on Friday.
The DEP told CBS 3 that it had detected a fecal indicator in a water sample collected on July 2, from one of the city's eight wells.
Since the positive test, the DEP has conducted five repeat tests with no signs of the indicator.
To correct the situation, the DEP stated they boosted the chlorine levels in two of the city's wells, and are installing a temporary chlorine injection system into another.
The well that tested positive for the fecal indicator will remain off-line until it is investigated for potential signs of contamination.
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Officer responded to a report of a possible suspicious death of an animal in the 5300 block of Canvasback Road. Due to the time between finding the animal and the death, officers were unable to determine the cause of death. Fish and wildlife officers were notified.
Officer checked the welfare of a woman in the 400 block of Peace Portal Drive who was sitting in the sun wearing heavy winter clothes. The woman was determined to be fine and was attempting to get a ride out of town.
Officer received a call from a person who was removed from a tavern in the 500 block of Peace Portal Drive and thought he should not have been removed. Officer contacted all persons involved including the bartender who said he asked the person to leave several times before helping him off the premises. The person left the area and said he would not return.
A three-year-old received a cut to the head in the 800 block of D Street. The accident occurred when two siblings were playing. There was no foul play.
A man in the 400 block of C Street called police to report that his 17-year-old son had pulled a knife on him, and he wanted him arrested. After investigating and talking to witnesses, officers determined the boy had grabbed the knife in defense after his father had assaulted him. The father was arrested and booked into Whatcom County Jail for Assault 4th Degree/DV.
Officer was contacted by a citizen in the 8000 block of Blue Grouse Way who reported someone had placed sand in his gas tank. There are no suspects at this time and investigation is continuing.
A person reported that a man had crashed his bicycle in front of a business in the 600 block of Peace Portal Drive and appeared to be too intoxicated to get up and resume riding. Officers checked the area but did not locate the person.
Officer received a call of a vehicle in a ditch partially blocking the road in the 1600 block of Runge Road. Officers arrived and found a person next to the vehicle drinking an alcoholic beverage. Upon seeing the officers, the person put the alcohol under the vehicle in an attempt to hide it. Officers cited the person for littering and having an open container. Since the vehicle was blocking the roadway and no one at the scene admitted to driving it, it was towed.
Officer received a complaint from a citizen that someone had placed a business card in her mailbox in the 9000 block of Lincoln Lane. The situation was brought to the attention of the U.S. Postal Service and the business was contacted and advised not to repeat this offense. The business owner said he was not aware that using the mailboxes for this purpose was a felony.
A Blaine officer assisted customs inspectors with a minor in possession investigation at the Peace Arch crossing involving two 19-year-old males who had been drinking in Canada. The boys received warnings regarding Washington�s minor in possession laws and were released to the custody of their sober designated driver.
A customer observed an adult male pick up two boxes of wine and leave a market without making an attempt to pay. A clerk escorted the suspect back to the store, recovered the wine and called police. A Blaine officer investigated and arrested the suspect after he admitted shoplifting the wine.
A citizen reported an elderly female walking down the road in the 100 block of B Street. The caller thought the person was a walk-away from a nursing home. The welfare of the female was checked and found to be fine. She was just out enjoying the weather.
A person in the 600 block of A Street contacted police to report that his neighbors upstairs were allowing their dog to use the patio as a bathroom. The urine runs through the gap between the decking and drips onto the complainant�s patio. The landlord was notified.
A Blaine officer responded to a complaint in the 200 block of Marine Drive about a transient sleeping in Marine Park. The transient was contacted and advised not to sleep in the park. He moved to an isolated area outside the park and is preparing to leave town next week.
Several people in a vehicle were contacted by U.S. Border Patrol in the 500 block of 3rd Avenue for a possible immigration violation. It was found the driver of the car had a suspended driver�s license. The driver was arrested for DWLS and the car was searched. About 3.1 grams of methamphetamine and other drug paraphernalia were found. The driver was booked into jail.
An officer investigated a possible domestic dispute after neighbors heard yelling in an apartment in the 1400 block of Bayview Drive. It was found that a boyfriend was upset because his girlfriend had not returned home after her work shift. The boyfriend agreed to keep the noise down. He also said the problem would be resolved by his moving back home to eastern Washington.
A couple reported being stopped and detained in the 1100 block of Peace Portal Drive by a male who was possible impersonating a police office. Case under investigation.
A city worker saw a young man climbing an extension ladder to a second story window on a house in the 1500 block of B Street. Officers arrived and found they had interrupted a verbal domestic dispute. The female occupant of the house was not cooperative with police. The involved parties were warned about domestic violence laws and officers cleared.


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Finding Aid for the Walter S. White papers, circa 1935-2002 0000193
Finding aid prepared by Chris Marino
Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Arts Building Room 1434
University of California
Santa Barbara, California, 93106-7130
Title: Walter S. White papers
Identifier/Call Number: 0000193
Contributing Institution: Architecture and Design Collection, Art, Design & Architecture Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 96.0 Linear feet (39 record storage boxes, 18 flat file drawers, and 2 models)
Date (inclusive): circa 1948-circa 1992
creator: White, Walter S., 1917-2002
Partially processed collection, open for use by qualified researchers.
Gift of Pamela Haines, 1998.
Walter S. White papers, Architecture and Design Collection. Art, Design & Architecture Museum; University of California, Santa Barbara.
Walter S. White was born in 1917. White worked in the Los Angeles offices of Harwell Hamilton Harris, R.M. Schindler, Leopold Fisher, and briefly with Albert Frey. White was also an inventor and industrial designer. His patented inventions include the hyperbolic paraboloid roof structure which is also known as the saddle roof (1960), as well as, the heat exchanger window which was patented in 1975. White is most well known as a California Modernist practicing industrial design and architecture in southern California during the 1950s, Colorado during the 1960s, and back in California during the 1980s. Walter S. White died in 2002, at the age of 85.
The Walter S. White papers span 96 linear feet and date from circa 1948 to circa 1992. The collection contains architectural drawings and reprographic copies of primarily residential and residential remodel designs. The collection also includes office records in the form of time cards, day planners, literature regarding federal regulations pertaining to architecture, and telephone log books. The collection also encompasses White's records regarding his architectural projects and inventions in the form of black-and-white as well as color still images and slides of his designs in the process of construction and when completed; letters to and from clients; certificates and awards; White's handwritten research notes on green structures; internal projects lists; and cassette tapes containing interviews concerning solar energy.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
White, Walter S., 1917-2002
Architectural drawings
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Commercials are always exaggerate themes of what you really experience or ride on in the park.
Remember the Surrender ads? They don't let you ride with Captain America on the ATVs and you don't run and shoot aliens on the streets of New York in Men in Black.
It would also be like saying you stand in tower of terror while a bellhop operates the drops.
It makes sense, too, since Harry rode his broomstick in the challenge.
I agree with the anonymous poster, though, in that putting a little broomstick decoration on each seat won't overcome the fact that you're still sitting in that bulky suspended coaster train. It won't look anything like that picture, folks. (Nor will riders be issued Gryffindor Quidditch kit before riding, I assume.)
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The good old whitebox PC that many of us associate with boring beige boxes has almost disappeared from retail markets. Although business-class systems remain rather simple devices, the consumer market is now fragmented and colorful. Fancy gaming systems and powerful overclocking PCs for enthusiasts are available with or without in-your-face designs and mods. Traditional home PCs are being replaced by more space-efficient notebooks.
However, two additional PC types are conquering the living room: small, low-cost nettop PCs and HTPCs (home theater PCs), which offer all the functionality of a standard PC, but feature additional enhancements for living room-type applications. This extra functionality, combined with the aesthetic demands of a very public, visible environment, demands a very special housing.
HTPC Hardware
In all actuality, most PCs can serve as an HTPC, but there are several points that require careful consideration.
First, you want to be sure that the system is powerful enough to play and record all audio and video sources, including full bit rate high-def streams. Modern integrated graphics solutions, such as AMD's 780/785G with Radeon HD 3200/4200 graphics, Intel's G45 with GMA X4500HD, and the Nvidia GeForce 9300/9400, are all capable of handling MPEG-2, VC-1, and H.264 when paired with a decent processor.
However, HD video playback doesn't stop with handling audio and video. Playback also requires decryption, which requires computing power. We want a processor that can handle everything. Hence, we recommend a 2.5 GHz dual-core CPU or better. Two gigabytes of RAM should be sufficient, but more sure doesn't hurt for Windows 7 or Vista running Media Center.
Enthusiasts will want to pay more attention to the platform nuances. Only Intel and Nvidia support 8-channel LPCM audio via HDMI through their integrated graphics solutions, which is necessary if you want to decode DTS-HD or Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio on the PC and then send 16-bit, 48 kHz sound to your receiver.
Currently, there are also a couple of options for bitstreaming those high-def audio formats, too. You could use a discrete audio card, such as Asus's Xonar HDAV 1.3,. Or, you could go with a video card like AMD's Radeon HD 5870, which has a protected audio path and now requires software support from companies like CyblerLink and Arcsoft.
HTPC Cases
Finally, there's the HTPC case, which plays a role in defining the power supply, remote control, form factor, cooling options, and visual appearance you achieve here. Some HTPC cases come with integrated touchscreen displays. Others feature a small vacuum fluorescent display (VFD), or no display at all. There are full-height and slim designs, full ATX and microATX. This article looks at four mainstream HTPC cases by GMC, Moneual, and Silverstone in the price range of up to $360.
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0Anonymous , 2 October 2009 17:24The Antec NSK 2480 was completely neglected. It's about £80 and includes a 380W 80+ PSU.
0mi1ez , 2 October 2009 20:00"The front panel is made of brushed aluminum, while the rest is 0.8 mm sheet metal."
What metal?
0Nick_C , 6 October 2009 17:24Ditto on the Antec NSK 2480 - it's an excellent, affordable, very quiet, mATX full height case and only costs $128 at today's $/£ exchange rate.
0Solitaire , 8 October 2009 20:46Hell, what about the MicroFusion? Or, given they put up the Lascala, the full-size Fusion?! Lots of good HTPC cases out there, and this lot was somewhat lacklustre for their prices!
0Stupido , 25 November 2009 15:23I also would like to see more antec HTPC cases reviewed... To me they look the most optimal price/feature/performance.
0zilexa , 3 March 2010 06:13Too bad you guys didn't reviewed the Silverstone ML02 or even the thinnest mATX HTPC case, the Silverstone LC19.
Absolutely unique about these cases is that you DO NOT have an internal power supply! Instead they give you a laptop like adapter
This is a true must for HTPC lovers since no power supply means A LOT less heat and less sound! (no power supply fan!).
The GMC or Auzentech looks like the two cases I mention, but it does have an internal PSU.
0zilexa , 3 March 2010 06:14BTW the cases I mention only deliver 120 watt. But thats more then enough for a 780G based AMD system with a 2.6 GHz CPU and 4GB ram, one 2.5" hdd and one 3.5" hdd.


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Pallets In The Home
The use of shipping pallets in the home is a bit of a trend; we've run across numerous projects recently. There are so many different ways these unique blocks of wood can be utilized by keeping them whole or reassembling them to create one of a kind pieces of furniture.
One of the most unique and beautiful ways we've seen pallets used is in a pretty unlikely place — the kitchen. Disassembling several pallets and reconstructing them, a beautiful and unique kitchen island was made. Painted black it turns into this modern and industrial addition to the space!
A rather common use of pallets is as a bed frame. Place them on the floor (or better yet on castors) and put one or several mattresses on top. While this might not be the ideal set up for a bed used every night, it's perfect for a lounger in a sunroom.
Have you used pallets in your home?
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This is a trend I think we're all going to look back on five years from now with a frothy mixture of horror and amusement, like those colorful baggy pants from the eighties.
sorry, but isn't it spelled pallet? unless you are talking about color pallettes?
Yes, annieh, I immediately thought - oh - what a nice gray pallatte! And LolaDanger, I think you are spot on, but nevertheless I find myself attracted to the piles of pallets next to my work's dumpster.
My pad has several *pallettes*, but no *pallets* since college days. Don't miss my cable spool tables either!
Even if pallets weren't nasty dirty (I do freight receiving at my job. Pallets are filthy). Even if the wood wasn't usually rough, broken down (90% of the pallets I see at work are broken in some way). Even if the wood wasn't normally chemically treated for bugs. Even then, I can't get behind the pallet as furniture thing. Stylistically it's uglier than the milk crates.
Also, those pallets, just like milk crates, are used again. They are not just thrown away, but usually recycled. For use as pallets. Our pallets are picked up by our freight company to be used again. If someone were to take them, even though they just look discarded, that would be theft.
"For those that are privy to coming across palettes, often by the dozens each and every day are a lucky, lucky bunch."
Whatever this means.
I agree with RoseCampion. They just seem icky to me.
Make me a pallette on your flooooooor...
Wood pallets are commonly treated with chemicals that contain arsenic, formaldehyde and other toxic substances. Treated wood should not be used for firewood, home remodeling projects, landscaping or animal bedding because it may release the chemicals into the air or ground.
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Ach. Me no like and wrong on so many levels. Like RoseCampion wrote, pallets are generally busted, dirty and meant to be reused by whses and truckers. I see work when I look at this, not functional pieces of furniture.
Don't forget the slivers!
I like the first two a lot actually...
Gross. There's tons of formaldehyde and other preservatives in the cheap wood that comprises pallets. It is not good for your health to have them around you and especially indoors where the toxins bleed into your living spaces.
don't understand this trend, but these are better than the effing pallet BABY CRIB posted last month.
Not only are they dirty and possibly treated nasty chemicals, they are used for storing and transporting stuff like haz chemicals and oil in drums. You really want that crap in your home? I'd limit the use of these to outside furniture, if at all.
Really good point about the chemicals.... I can also imagine getting a bunch of splinters while trying to work with this material.
the chemicals are a problem... ive heard of folks sanding the boards down, but im not sure that is a really going to get rid of the chemicals. pallets are made from cheap wood...have you ever stained a cheap wood? if you have you might have noticed that stain seeps into the wood pretty deep as such i imagine the chemicals do as well as they are met to destroy wood burrowing bugs... food for thought.
Thank you RoseCampion for voicing my horror with the pallet trend. I work in a grocery store. Pallets are disgusting. I don't even touch them without gloves because my hands and arms invariably end up itching like crazy from the exposure. It's honestly astonishing to me that people would voluntarily steal pallets and bring them into their homes, much less use them in furniture for children or around food preparation.
If you've ever worked with pallets, you know how disgusting they are. Even assuming they aren't completely falling apart by the time they are discarded by whoever is using them for shipping (which is unwise to assume), they are incredibly dirty, like, turn-your-hands-and-clothes-black dirty, and extremely rough, like, so rough sanding them is not an option unless you want to sand them into nothing.
Maybe these are pallets that were never used or were specially made by whoever is using them, but if so, why?
My dad made me a little playhouse out of pallets when I was little. Pallets can do so many things.
Thank you, everyone, for commenting about chemicals in pallets. I just don't get why this is such a trend! I think I've seen furniture in kids' rooms, an outdoor planter for herbs, and various other things on AT/Ohdeedoh/etc. Or is there a place where you can get fake pallets that are just made of untreated wood?
There are lots of uses for pallets.
I once kept two small ones in a tent, to keep luggage & a bookcase off the ground whilst camping for a month one summer, & my brother cuts up the busted ones & burns 'em in his fireplace in the winter, but there is no way on earth I'd let one into the living quarters of my house. Painted or not.
I think the answer to why we keep seeing pallets posted on AT and friends has to do with page views. We all keep saying what a bad idea it is to sleep on chemical dipped wood, but the posts keep coming. They must be looking at site analytics and seeing "wow those pallets sure attract a lot of clicks and comments" when it's a ton of people like us. If we start ignoring the pallet posts maybe they'll go away...
on the other hand, I am always curious what people do with the pallets. It's so horrible I can't look away!!!
I just made a daybed out of a pallet that I purchased for a whopping $4 & I love it. Not all pallets are treated with chemicals. I love AT but man the readers (well more specifically the commenters) can be so judgmental. Geez. If you don't like pallet furniture, then don't make it. I think it's a great way to recycle something that has a huge disposal problem.
This was, wait for it...., used in a nursery. Gasp. It's freakin' adorable & I'm sure that this mother did her research to ensure that her baby wasn't going to be harmed by any chemicals.
The "OMG CHEMICALS!!!!1!" reaction is getting old. As others have said over and over on previous pallet threads, not all pallets are treated with chemicals. Some are heat treated, and you can tell by looking on the pallet which method has been used. Sheesh.
Sorry, outraged hipsters who think I'm being judgmental, but UGLY.
It's so much a "look at us we're in college now and don't have to abide by our parents' decorating tastes and we can use GARBAGE to sleep on if we want to and let's just leave the beer bottles lying around because we're sticking it to the MAN" mindset.
Never mind the filth and potential chemicals. Ugh.
Chemicals... well I take it none of you have paint on your walls, have dirt floors and no roof. Let alone no pipes in your walls and no wood or concrete beds. Lets not forget about your food that is ALL organic rite? If not you have no idea just how many chemicals are in your house. If you treat it correctly these can be used in a home. Granted I would not eat the wood, but I wouldn't eat carpet either.
To everyone talking about not understanding the "pallet trend"... I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't like pallet furniture because it's 'trendy'. I'm interested in because it's free. I can't be sure, but I'd wager a lot of other people feel the same way.
Oh man, I just noticed this article is three years old. Guess it wasn't really a passing 'trend' then, because I still see articles and pins of pallet furniture all the time.


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For the past 25 years, Springfield has held a "First Night" event on New Year's Eve. First Night is a celebration of the arts that benefit programs and services of the Springfield Area Arts Council, such as grants and resources to local artists, arts organizations, social service agencies with arts programming and educational arts programs in public and private schools of some of Springfield's surrounding counties.
What does all this really mean? After living in Springfield for nine years and not having anything going on for the 2011 New Year's Eve, I decided to check it out.
First Night was supposed to kick off with a fireworks show at the Illinois State Capitol but it was too windy to safely shoot them off downtown. That was a bit of a bummer. Representatives from the arts council, Springfield's mayor and a few former mayors started the evening with speeches instead.
I then headed to the Old State Capitol and saw a collection of short films by the Springfield Public Schools Student Film Club. The films are created and edited by area high school students with assistance from faculty members. I wish my school in Missouri had that when I was that age. (That makes me sound old!)
Next, I headed to "Representative Hall" for a Civil War-era ball by the Springfield International Folk Dancers. Friends of mine were dancing with the group, so I stuck around and took some photos and videos of the performance. Below are a few of my favorite shots from the ball, along with a video montage of some of their dances. You can see all of the ball photos at my SmugMug site.
After the ball, I went to the Hoogland Center for the Arts. There was a lot going on at the Hoogland all night. I saw Brian the Juggler, a.k.a Brian Pankey, who is from Springfield and has been juggling and performing since he was 13 years old. He holds numerous records, has appeared on "Late Night with David Letterman," and works at the Department of Motor Vehicles. His juggling and balancing feats were great. I made the highlight video below of his performance. You can find out more about Brian at brianthejuggler.com or his YouTube channel.
I stuck around to see the beginning of the next performance, Troupe Zahava, a middle-eastern dance company, but wanted to see The Muni's "25-Year Retrospective," before the night was over. The Muni is Springfield's outdoor theatre. On New Year's Eve, performers sang numbers from the last 25 years of productions at the Muni. The theatre was packed and the performances were amazing, as always.
I'm glad I got around to checking out First Night. Even though all was over by 11 p.m., I was happy to get out and join hundreds of others for the night's festivities.
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I recently bought a GoPro Hero camera. It's a great little cam that you can mount almost anywhere. While I haven't recorded myself doing anything extreme with it, yet, I wanted to try it out in some way. I decided to take a short, leisurely bike ride down the Sangamon Valley Trail in Springfield, IL. Here's a video of that sped up several hundred times.
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I've wanted to make a stop-motion movie for a while. Below is trial number one. The images were shot at the Sangamon Valley Trail bike path in Springfield, Ill. Check out the video and read the notes below.
I ventured down to the Centennial Park entrance of the Sangamon Valley Trail on the morning of Dec. 4. It was an overcast day, great for an experiment such as this. My gear consisted of my Canon 50D camera, Canon EF-S 10-22mm lens, a UV filter and Manfrotto tripod. Because I didn't know how long I'd be shooting, I set the image quality in the camera to small, fine JPEG. This setting, with an image resolution of 2352x1568, is more than enough resolution to create an HD YouTube video, and the small file size allowed me to snap more shots, of course.
My method was simple. I would take a shot, pick up the tripod, take two steps, set it back down, recompose, take a shot and repeat. I manually set the f-stop to 7.1, for a nice depth of field, ISO to 200, manual focus and varied the shutter speed.
During editing, I batch-applied an "aged photo" look to each of the images to make them stand out a bit more. I imported the pictures into my video-editing software to make the stop-motion video. The outrageously awesome musical score is something I tapped out on Garage Band for iPad. I used the "smart" instruments. There's no way my musical ability could even come close to sounding decent.
Overall, I'm pleased with how it turned out. I played around with the exposure as I progressed down the trail. After reviewing the photos, I can see that even a few thirds of a stop can make a big difference, because you are viewing them so quickly one after another. Varying cloud conditions also contributed along the way.
I have a few ideas to try next time:
Hope you liked it!
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Tuesday, Aug. 30, was the final flag retreat ceremony of 2011 for the 114th Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry at Lincoln Tomb in Springfield. The 114th is a local group of Civil War-era reenactors who perform at many ceremonies at historical sites in central Illinois and surrounding states.
The flag is lowered with pomp and ceremony by the men of the 114th in their dress uniforms. After the lowering, the flag is folded and presented to a spectator. If you wish to be one of those lucky spectators, pre-registration is required so your name can be drawn at random. For 2011, the ceremony occurred at 7 p.m. every Tuesday night from June 1 to Aug. 30 and lasted around 45 minutes.
My wife and I attended the last ceremony this year and photographed it. Many spectators attended as it was a nice, cool evening. Please check out the photos below and visit the 114th at their Facebook page if you would like to keep up with their activities.
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This year, I went to the Old Capitol Blues & BBQ festival for the first time. The annual festival features barbecue competitions, blues music and all the barbecue you can eat.
This was the largest crowd I've ever seen at a Downtown Springfield event. The section of Fifth Street between East Washington and East Adams streets was jam-packed, almost shoulder to shoulder. A sea of people seated in lawn chairs and folding seats filled the portion of Fifth where the performer's stage was located. Despite the crowd, I was able to navigate through. I picked up some delicious barbecue along the way and snapped some photos of Jimmie Vaughan, older brother of the late Stevie Ray Vaughan and Saturday evening's headliner.
Click the thumbnails below to visit my gallery at photos.nodnarb.net.
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Happy birthday, again, America. Across our nation this weekend, citizens are venturing out to their respective city parks and other locations to catch firework shows. Despite the heat and humidity, we did the same. The following were some of my favorite shots from the July 3 celebration in Chatham, Illinois. Click any photo to view larger versions.
The last photo is one of my favorites because of a new technique I picked up this year from Creative Live. If you view the photo on my SmugMug gallery, click the Photo Info button that appears when you move your mouse to the right side of the photo. You'll see that the photo has an exposure time of 31 seconds. Most firework photos are two to five second exposures. The technique I learned involves using a black card to block the lens while taking a long exposure. When the firework explodes, move the card away. Move it back again and wait for the next firework. You can "stack" fireworks into one photo using this method. Many thanks to Creative Live and John Cornicello for putting on this free Photographing Fireworks workshop where I learned this trick.
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shoppers will now have even more choices when visiting the DeKalb County retail center. Mall management recently announced that it would be adding a new restaurant and specialty shoe store to create an enhanced shopping experience for visitors. These additions join the recently opened Subway and T-Mobile stores.
Fork in the Road is set to spice up the food options at Northlake Mall beginning this summer. Fork in the Road will be located near the main mall entrance. The full-service restaurant will serve a fresh fare of delights including burgers, fried chicken, salads and more for lunch and dinner. All sauces and salad dressings will be made from scratch daily.
Elevenup Shoes is a specialty shoe store offering brands that include Barefoot Tess, Gwyneth Shoes and J Rene. Elevenup features high fashion shoes and caters to women that wear size 11 and up. It will be located in a 633 square foot store on the upper level near the mall entrance.
These new additions join recently opened retailers Subway and T-Mobile.