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Nearly one million Michigan workers are forced to financially support a union in order to keep their jobs. Although federal law permits unions and employers to force workers to pay for union representation in the workplace, the law does not extend to forcing workers to pay unions for representation in the political arena. Over three-fourths of union workers are not aware that they do not have to fund their unions' political, social, and ideological agendas. This report documents the developing law surrounding compulsory union dues in Michigan, shows workers how to exercise their rights to a dues refund, presents positive union strategies for making workers aware of their rights, and calls for executive action by the governor. 28 pp.


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If you have a one-of-a-kind snapshot that tells the world about the reach of that thing we call the Steeler Nation, have I got a contest for younz. I'm writing a book about the Steelers' history, due out in Fall 2012, and for my chapter about The Steeler Nation I am hoping fans will send me a copy of a tell-tale photograph, along with the permission to publish it.
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A Channel 10 news cameraman has been taken to hospital after a helicopter crash east of Perth, but the pilot has escaped uninjured.
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"In loving memory of Wyatt"
Wyatt's birthday is on Sunday. I'm hoping to make it into a day of celebrating the most wonderful 5 months and 3 weeks we had with him. I have attached the video(thanks to my genius 11 year old) that my brother Doug put together for Wyatt's viewing. He did such an amazing job in just a short few days. I think it's a perfect way to remember our little boy and celebrate his life. It is a little long so if you don't have time to watch the whole thing at least fast forward to 8:38 and watch and listen to the last song. It is a combination of my testimony, my love for the savior and the hope I have of being with my Wyatt forever. Happy Birthday Wyatt! We love you and miss you! Thanks to all that are releasing balloons and attending the temple in his memory this weekend.
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- taguefamily said...
sister Larsen you don't know me. I have been following your blog for months now threw Gillians blog. I wanted to tell you for so long now how much I have felt Our Heavenly Fathers love threw your blog. I have gain so much from your words and you have been teaching me so much. You are an amazing person! Thank you for sharing this beautiful video of your son. It really is one of the sweetest videos I have ever seen. you did a great job on this. I can see from looking at the photos of your son that he is a perfect child sent to you forever. Thank you for sharing this with all of us. praying for your Family sister Gidget Tague
- September 16, 2008 at 2:53 AM
- Gedge family said...
What an amazing video tribute to your little Wyatt. I know this birthday will be extremely hard and I will be thinking of you and your family. I have told you before, but it is my birthday on Sunday as well. My birthday gift to myself is to go to the Temple. This is a big deal because I have not been in 10 years. I am so honored and happy that I can go to the Temple and honor your little one. Thank you so much for sharing this video with us and I want you to know you are NOT alone. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
- September 16, 2008 at 5:22 PM
- Robyn said...
I absolutely love this video! Wyatt is one special baby. Pres. Monson talks about great big spirits packed into little bodies, that is exactly what Wyatt is. A great big spirit packed into a little body. You are one special mom!! I love you.
- September 16, 2008 at 9:33 PM
- neener said...
Thank you for that beautiful video, when it got to that past 8 min part where you mentioned a special song and your testimony... I broke out into tears as I haven't heard that song since my mission and your right it is a true testiment of the Love our Savior has for us and we will be together forever someday. Thanks for that beautiful tribute..
P.s. I love the bath time part of the video.. I wish I would've thought of wrapping them in a towel in the bath tub and scrubbing the cradle cap with a tooth brush. I loved it... Makes me want to pull out all the movies of Tanner. Thanks.
Lots of love;
- September 17, 2008 at 10:20 AM
- Jill said...
I love that video!! My favorite part is the bath. He looks up at you with so much love. He was so completely happy. Maybe he was such a happy baby because he knew more than we do. Such a precious child of God. I love you Andrea!
- September 17, 2008 at 1:00 PM
- Jill said...
I love that video!! My favorite part is the bath. He looks up at you with so much love. He was so completely happy. Maybe he was such a happy baby because he knew more than we do. Such a precious child of God. I love you Andrea!
- September 17, 2008 at 1:01 PM
- Amanda said...
I love that video so much!!! I am glad you posted it. You are amazing andrea! I love you
- September 19, 2008 at 10:59 AM
- Danielle said...
What a lovely video. What a sweet sweet boy. I can see how five months with Wyatt was a gift.
I hope you can celebrate his birth, his gifts and all he has left you all.
He is not the sum of how long he was here but the love he gave you all.
Happy Birthday Wyatt xxx
- September 20, 2008 at 5:57 AM
- Natalie said...
That video always gets me! I love all the sweet pictures of Wyatt and I also love the bath part. I think it shows exactly how wonderful of a mother you truly are!! My thought and prayers will be with you and Wyatt this weekend! Love you!
- September 20, 2008 at 2:15 PM
- Natalie said...
I just wanted to tell you something I thought was special to me that happened tonight. Addie and I were saying her nightly prayer and she asked me to say it for her tonight. After I finished the prayer she said, "Mom, you forgot Wyatt's birthday." I said, "What?", and she said, "You forgot to prayer for Wyatt's birthday." We watched Wyatt's video today but I don't know how she knew it was Wyatt's birthday tomorrow or how she knew that was something we should pray for. Needless to say, I immediately felt the spirit as I prayed again for you, your family and Wyatt's birthday. Tears were flowing as once again, I was reminded how amazing it is that Heavenly Father has blessed us to be mothers of his children and how special the time we have with them is. I gave Addie a big hug and told her how much I love her. Thank you Andrea, for your amazing example to me as a mother. I love you and your family so much. I wish I could be with you but know I am through thoughts and prayers. Love always!
- September 20, 2008 at 9:32 PM
- carolyn q said...
It's just close after 12:00 a.m. and I wanted you to know that I could not sleep until I let you know I was thinking of you knowing what a bitter-sweet day today will be with it being Wyatt's earthly b-day. Oh, how I wish that he was here for you to hold and love physically, as no mother should have to celebrate their child's b-day at the Cemetery. However, I have a feeling he knows of your deep love and your heartache too and I pray that somehow you will feel peace today and angel kisses from above. Happy Birthday sweet Wyatt!
Heart Hugs,
Carolyn Quigley
Angel Hope's Mommy
- September 21, 2008 at 12:13 AM
- Katie said...
My heart goes out to you and your family. What a beautiful little boy and sweet tribute to him. You have a beautiful family.
- September 23, 2008 at 2:48 PM
- jenjamin said...
What a perfect little baby. I am so grateful the church is true!
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This is a new semi-weekly column from Leitch. It has words, and pictures. It's called Ten Humans Of The Week. It might or might not work. But here it is.
Two years ago, I wrote a piece for the sadly defunct PLAY Magazine about mathemeticians trying to crack the NCAA Tournament code. They didn't have much more luck at it than you or I did: Ultimately, they said the best predictions are made, amusingly, by Vegas odds. It's Wisdom Of Crowds at its best: Individually we know nothing, collectively, we know something, though it's still not that much more than nothing.
My favorite tip, though, came from a man named Brad Carlin, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Minnesota. He said, essentially, you're better off not watching games at all. "The best handicappers are people who don't watch games," Carlin told me. "The brain is one of the least effective predictive machines we have." That is to say: We bring our own biases, and if we watched, say, Minnesota play well a couple of times, we're going to think they're better than they actually are.
I break this rule all the time. Particularly as the lone Big Ten defender left. I think the Big Ten is a far better conference than anyone gives it credit for — don't think it's ruining basketball as we know it — and I therefore overrate them every tournament. This year is no different: I have Michigan State in the Final Four, Purdue in the Elite Eight and the conference going 6-1 in the first round. (Michigan's the only team I have losing; I have Illinois falling to Gonzaga in the second round.)
The fun part of the predicting the NCAA Tournament is making bold predictions about teams that, by definition, you know absolutely nothing about. North Dakota State is a hot upset candidate this week, though I guarantee you not a single person has watched them play all year. And that's the irony: According to the experts, this makes you a better predictor. To be ignorant is to have no biases at all. No wonder sportswriters are always boasting how unbiased they are.
Pittsburgh's winning this whole thing, by the way. I saw them play a couple times, and I vaguely remember some highlights on "SportsCenter." So I know.
Geno Auriemma. Like most of you, I'm sure, I haven't watched any women's college basketball this year — I should therefore kill in the brackets — so it wasn't until a few weeks ago that I realized that what was happening with the Connecticut women's team. It is worth positing that this might be the single most dominant team in organized top-level sports over the last 25 years. Connecticut is 33-0 and have won by an average of 31 points a game. In the Big East Championship Game, they beat Louisville, supposedly the No. 5 team in the country, 75-36. It's like playing a video game on the rookie mode, but actually running a whole season that way without stopping because you're bored. Are there only 12 good players in women's college basketball and they all play for Connecticut? How does this happen? I think I'd really enjoy a women's college basketball steroid scandal, actually. By the way, at this point, I note my favorite factoid about Geno Auriemma: He said, just a couple of years ago, that he'd love to be a men's coach, but he can't get anyone to offer him a job. Can that possibly be true? On either side?
Jay Bilas. Watching Jay Bilas — an analyst I once loved, thanks mostly to his inspired, Bill Raftery-esque elation during the Illinois-Arizona Elite Eight game back in 2005 — turn into a Billy Packer-like grouchy crank over the last couple of years has been a thoroughly depressing experience. My guess: It started happening during the Duke lacrosse case. I think it legitimately turned Bilas — who took a lot of heat for defending the team before anyone else was — into someone who discovered that he hated everyone in the media, and most of the planet. (That case would do it.) Only this current incarnation of Bilas could turn Dick Vitale into a poor, doddering victim like he did on ESPN's telecast Sunday. Whoever you think is right in that scenario — and I think it's Vitale — Bilas went after him with a sniggering, mocking, oh-you-foolish-old-man vigor that was unmistakable in its smug dismissiveness. Ladies and gentlemen, your next Billy Packer. Shame, too: I loved Bilas in that Dolph Lundgren movie. "I come in peace ... you go in PIECES!"
Todd Bozeman. One of the fun human-interest stories — I love that we live in a journalism world where you have to designate stories as "human-interest" — of the NCAA Tournament involves Morgan State coach Todd Bozeman, who was essentially banned from coaching for eight years after paying players while at California. (Oh, also making "lewd" phone calls to a Cal undergrad. During his time in the wilderness, he served as a scout for the Vancouver Grizzlies. He obviously did a great job!) I'm not sure why this is something to be celebrated, but that's not why I love Todd Bozeman stories. I love Todd Bozeman stories because, while coaching Morgan State a couple of years ago, Bozeman threatened and "shook" a restaurant worker near the Longwood campus for giving his players sandwiches with ham and turkey. "I ain't scared of you country bumpkins. I want my . . . money back!" he screamed. Todd Bozeman does not like your pork or your poultry. Keep that in mind when filling out your pool sheets.
Lenny Dykstra. About a year or so ago, when Lenny Dykstra was showing up on HBO's "Real Sports" and telling the world he was a genius stockpicker, my old magazine asked me to write a story about him. I had no luck getting a hold of any of his people, and, in fact, had a hard time finding much proof that the magazine's staff existed at all. Therefore it wasn't surprising to see just how mercurial of a boss he turned out to be. (Of all the quotes in the Dykstra GQ story, the "spearchuckers" line is getting the play, but I'm fond of this exchange:
"I don't wear jewelry, except for this," he says. "It's the best in the world-costs sixty-five grand."
It's a nice watch-a Patek Philippe-but I have no idea what it has to do with Lenny's magazine or my qualifications for a job there. I just nod, and he goes on.
"You see, Kevin, The Players Club is not just a magazine. It's an actual club of players helping players. Do you want to be a part of the Players Club?"
Woo-hoo! Lenny Dykstra is Literal Man!)
I know this will seem a shock to hear, but it turns out, Lenny Dykstra — the wobbling, drunken, clearly-just-a-couple-steps-from-oblivion guy we've seen on our televisions — is not actually a genius at the market. Why did we think he was? Who was it that vouched for him? Oh, yeah: Jim Cramer! Of course! "He is one of the great ones in this business," Cramer said. Yep. He said that.
Davey Johnson. I thought Davey Johnson was supposed to be the "serious" World Baseball Classic manager. Do you realize, late in the United States' "win" over the Netherlands, he was going to put Ted Lilly in left field? Why, you ask? Todd Verducci had the scoop: Johnson "liked the way [Lilly] went after foul balls." Indeed! In the last week, Chipper Jones, Dustin Pedroia, Matt Lindstrom and Ryan Braun were all injured in the WBC, and I'm sure every team in baseball with a guy playing for the USA is begging them to lose tonight so everyone can come back home. It's like having guys under fire overseas. Johnson, for some reason, thought he was going to reverse this, stop the "embarrassment" of 2006's sixth-place finish. But a sixth-place finish is fine! We don't care! Did you see how few people were at this game? We're America! We don't even know other countries exist! (Until they pull their investments out of our country, anyway.) Please: Bring the troops home, Davey. Though keep Ted Lilly in left field: He's a Cub.
Harold Maxwell. It's important to remember, in this wintry economic climate, that the truly important research studies in the field of science are still taking place. I'd like to personally thank Harold Maxwell for teaching us about the sad, disfigured souls who sneeze when they have an orgasm. Some people, the study discovered, sneeze merely when they're feeling a little tinkle in their winkle, but others go the whole hog, blasting phlegm and saliva across the room as their own personal money shot. Good to know! From now on, I am going to assume the rest of humanity has this condition, thus guaranteeing me endless moments of private amusement when I offer random people tissues after they sneeze. It's the little things in life that get you through.
The Mighty MJD. Hey, suck on it, Joe Lunardi, Jerry Palm, whoever it is who did the projections for SI.com. (I assume Seth Davis saved his good stuff for CBS. They pay more.) There was one bracketologist who got every single team nailed, 65 out of 65, and that person was The Mighty MJD. Yeah! Suck it, rest of earth! I look forward to MJD taking over Lunardi's job on ESPN next year, where he will co-host a Bracketology 101 program with the elusive Muff Stubble Girl.
Kige Ramsey. We haven't heard from our old pal Kige in a while, though I guess he's still doing videos. Even though he wears Kentucky Wildcats garb in all his on-spot reporting for YouTube Sports, he's actually a student at Western Kentucky ... hated foe of my beloved Illini! Even though a little part of me worries whether or not Kige is gonna be able to stay up late enough for the 9:55 ET start Thursday night, I've decided to personally call him out right now. If Illinois wins, he has to shave his head and break up with Nicole Richie. If Western Kentucky wins, I will hit myself in the face with a cookie sheet. Though, as mental penance for what I did to Daulerio, I do that every day anyway.
Le Anne Schreiber. By the end, ESPN had buried her so low down on the page that no one would have noticed this, but everyone's crush-worthy ESPN ombudswoman has hung up her red pencil. In her last column, she wrote, "When I cast my mind back over two years of mail, searching for that taproot, the first word that came to mind was "arrogance." That wasn't the word most frequently used by fans, but accusations of arrogance were implicit in the many complaints I received about specific anchors who imposed their personalities on the news, announcers who elevated their own chatter over the game at hand, commentators who leapt to the absolute in a single shout, columnists who heaped scorn on minor sports or minor markets, and the relentless corporate "me, me, me" of multiplatform cross-promotion." Which is probably why her last column was down at the bottom of the page, next to the Bassmaster Elite Series and the National Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. We'll miss you. Suggestion for next ombudsperson hire: Mike Freeman! Or me. I'd do it!
Isiah Thomas. Wondering what Isiah has been up to? He is, after all, still on the Knicks' payroll, playing his own little AIG guy as the executive Madison Square Garden pays to stay away from the team. Well, he hasn't tried to kill himself again: He's actually scouting and helping the team prepare for the NBA Draft. Part of me thinks this is a good idea — drafting is the one managerial role he ever showed any proficiency at — and the other part makes me worry that he shouldn't be left alone on the road for that long. Best part of the Associated Press story about the incident: He was in Las Vegas last week filming a television appearance with Bob Knight and Billy Packer. Boy, now there's a party.


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Singer Jennifer Hudson should not have been allowed to testify against her former brother-in-law because she had no direct knowledge of the murders of three family members and her celebrity unfairly influenced the jury, defense attorneys argued today in seeking a new trial.
Hudson was the first witness called by prosecutors in the trial of William Balfour, convicted last month of killing the Oscar-winning actress' mother, brother and young nephew because he was jealous that his estranged wife, Hudson's sister, wanted out of the relationship and was seeing another man.
The Chicago-born superstar testified tearfully that she knew Balfour from growing up in the Englewood neighborhood and that no one in the family liked him. Hudson testified she begged her sister, Julia, not to marry him, but she did anyway.
In seeking a new trial, Balfour's attorneys revealed that they had objected to Jennifer Hudson's testimony before trial in a closed-door hearing before Judge Charles Burns.
The defense maintained that Burns erred in allowing Hudson to take the stand, calling her testimony irrelevant. Because of Hudson's fame, "the prejudicial effect of the testimony on the jury far outweighed any probative value it would have," Balfour's lawyers wrote in the court filing.
The 19-page filing also revealed that prosecutors informed the defense about "a potential alternate suspect" in the triple murder after the jury had been selected and only three days before opening statements took place. Balfour's lawyers did not provide in its filing any further details of that alleged suspect.
The defense also alleged that prosecutors made "improper and inflammatory" statements during closing arguments in the trial.
Burns scheduled a hearing on the new trial request for July 24. If it is denied, Balfour, 31, could be sentenced that day. He faces mandatory life imprisonment.
A Cook County jury convicted him of killing Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson, 57; brother Jason Hudson, 29; and 7-year-old nephew, Julian King.


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Proposals to Suppress Competition in Electricity and Mandate Renewable Energy Use Would Raise Prices Without Improving Service or Environment
The state's experience with partial deregulation indicates "more competition and less regulation would better serve the public"
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MIDLAND — In a study released today, Mackinac Center adjunct scholars Diane S. Katz and Dr. Theodore Bolema examine the drawbacks of proposals in the Michigan Legislature to limit competition among electricity suppliers and mandate greater use of "renewable energy," such as solar, wind or hydroelectric power. The study finds that such regulation would significantly raise electricity rates without improving energy reliability or environmental quality. Katz and Bolema document the lower electricity prices that resulted from Michigan's partial deregulation of electricity generation in 2000 and argue that the public would be better served if policymakers removed regulatory obstacles to a fully competitive energy market.
"Family budgets and the state economy would be hit hard if the Legislature revived utility monopolies," Katz said today. "A cap on competition would benefit the big utilities, but hurt consumers and restrict Michigan's sources of electrical power. In fact, the track record of competition in Michigan and the rest of the nation shows that the real threat to affordable and reliable electricity is shielding utilities from market forces."
Katz also noted that the environmental benefits touted for renewable energy quotas are unlikely to materialize. "Under present state regulations, mandated use of renewable energy won't scale back the current production of conventional energy, so carbon emissions won't decline. Moreover, renewables have their own environmental impacts, and these won't be addressed if renewable energy suppliers are guaranteed a market share. On top of this, the public would face rate hikes due to the higher cost of renewable energies."
Bolema, co-author of the study, noted that deregulation is a more promising policy reform: "The choice program that began in 2000 among electricity providers has yielded substantial cost savings for customers. Higher natural gas prices have reduced some of that savings recently, but the real roadblock to competition emerged after 2004, when the state placed large surcharges on competing suppliers' customers to subsidize the big utilities. Policymakers should recognize that more competition and less regulation would better serve the public."
The Mackinac Center study, "Proposals to Further Regulate Michigan's Electricity Market: An Assessment," is available at www.mackinac.org/9467. Katz is director of risk, environment and energy policy at the free-market Fraser Institute. Bolema is an attorney in the Finance and Law Department of Central Michigan University's College of Business Administration.


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If there's one sure way to figure out whether your claims and views are bordering on utter lunacy, there's at least one good way to find out: If Alan Keyes agrees with you, you've gone off the deep end. So I'm hardly surprised to see Keyes supporting Michele Bachmann's witch hunt of Huma Abedin and anyone else who has ever been in line at Starbucks with someone who is Muslim.
During the GOP's blatantly rigged 2012 primary season, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., distinguished herself as a sincere spokeswoman for the conservative grass-roots constituency the nomination of Mitt Romney will emphatically betray. Just recently she joined with several of her colleagues courageously to demand an investigation into evidence the Obama faction has placed people associated with organizations that promote Islamic jihad and Shariah law into high-level positions in the U.S. government, from which they may be exerting inordinate influence on America's foreign and national-security policy. Now key members of the elitist faction's leadership in the Democratic and Republican parties have embarked upon a scurrilous campaign of personal destruction aimed at discrediting Bachmann's demand. Their campaign makes use of ad hominem attacks that accuse her of anti-Muslim bigotry and falsely suggest that her apprehension has no factual basis. Yet the ad hominem assault appears to have been launched precisely because Rep. Bachmann capably established the solid basis for her concerns…Why has the GOP leadership unleashed this communist-style purge against Michele Bachmann? Why do they seek to thwart the demand seriously to investigate what could very well be a fatal threat to America's security? Why do they cooperate in discouraging an inquiry into what appears to be a serious lapse of competence and/or loyalty in the Obama faction's stewardship of America's most vital national-security interests?
Apparently, when Keyes uses the term "elitist" what he really means is "not as batshit crazy as I am." And oh, the delicious irony of accusing Bachmann's critics of engaging in a "communist-style purge." I'll give that about 900 milli-Fischers on the psychological projection scale.


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Patch 3.1 was released 5 months after release. Patch 3.2 was released 4 months after patch 3.1. At this pace we could see the expansion in early to mid summer 2010 or late summer to early fall if you give it a little padding. Of course, these are just slightly educated guesses, and could be very far from the truth. However, I think it is reasonable to assume that WotLK is at least in its midlife and could be well on its way to retirement. With that in mind I would like to lay out some goals for the time we have left in WotLK.
These are pretty easy to guess.
Goal: Kill everything on the on the hardest mode possible before a 3.0 style of nerf. I really like that I killed everything in TBC before WotLK was released, but a good portion of the kills were not progression kills, and we didn't get anything down in Sunwell before the big nerf. I would like to improve upon that in WotLK.
Probability: Very Good. Times have been a little rough lately, but the guild was very stable from when I joined last year in September to May of this year. If we can repeat that stability again then we should kill everything. If not, it will be difficult.
Goal: Get all e-peen enhancers. This goes right along with "kill everything," but I want to emphasise it. Basically, I want all of the 310% drakes and all of the titles that mean anything. I would love to get the server first titles, but I know that's not going to happen. Everything else though is up for grabs.
Probability: Good. My biggest worry here is the Ulduar Meta. We are very close to killing Mimiron hard mode. Vezax and Crazy Cat Lady should go down fairly easily once we focus on them. The big obstacles are Yogg+1 and time. We have at least 30 days to get this all done, and I think we can do it in that time if we focus on it, but you never know. Luckily we probably have a little more time then that. My new guess is that they will remove toe drakes with patch 3.3.
My Warlock and my Priest are already level 80. I am doing some raiding with the Warlock, but I don't have any big hopes for either of them. I wouldn't mind completing all of the phasing for them but that is unlikely to happen.
Goal: Level Grayvik the Mage to 80.I know I can buy the herbs of the AH with out much problem, but I don't like not having gatherers incase I need to farm a little bit. My mage is entirely a gatherer with Herbilism and Skinning as his two professions. This may not seem like a big deal, but I like the peace of mind and it will support some of my other goals.
Probability: Almost guaranteed. he's level 72 at the moment. Its really just a matter of time.
Goal: Level Graybel the Shaman to Northrend.I would love to get him to 80, but that is not my primary concern. He is a skinner/leatherworker, and I want to get him to a point where he can max out his professions.
Probability: 50/50. He is currently level 23 and has a long way to go. In the past it has taken me about 8 or 9 months to get to max level. Grayvik is taking a little longer, but that is understandable given the expansion and the time I took to level my 3 level 80s. I think I can do it. I just depends on when the expansion hits and how well my other goals go.
Goal: Level Graydeth the Death Knight to Northrend.You haven't heard about this guy before. I started him to see the Death Knight starting area, I haven't played him much. However, I think he would be a good choice to level up a Blacksmith. A this point I would level him up purely for the professions.
Probability: Doubtful. Again, time is the big issue. This goal is pretty far down the list and I doubt I will get to it by the time the next expansion is released if I'm honest with myself.
On my three 80's I have Alchemy, Inscriptions, Tailoring, Enchanting, Jewelcrafting, and Mining maxed out or within a few points of being maxed out. Skinning and Herbilism aren't far behind on my mage.
Goal: Max out Fishing.I hate fishing. I don't like it, but there are some advantages to being able to fish. I would like to have it maxed out to take advantage of those benefits just in case I need them.
Probability: 50/50. Thank god for the changes they made to Fishing during WotLK. At the end of TBC I was about 50 points away from Max skill, and I couldn't bring myself to level it. Now, I knock out a little at a time doing fishing dailys or just to kill some time in Dalaran. I think I will get there but who knows.
Goal: Max out Leatherworking on Graybel.I would be nice to have a leather worker to back up Graylo since he can wear leather. Plus, there are other opportunities I would like to be able to take advantage of.
Probability: 50/50. If I get him to Northrend, he will max out leather working. I've used the skins farmed by my mage to level his leather working and his skill is well beyond his current level. The only thing currently holding back is skill is his own level.
Goal: Max out Blacksmithing on Graydeth.I want this purely to make gold.
Probability: Doubtful. I think if I level him it won't be hard to max out his professions, but I doubt I have time to get him there.
Goblinish Goals:
As you can probably tell, a lot of my goals have been leading up to this one.
Goal: Have 100k gold when the expansion is released.If you want to make a lot of gold in WoW you have to find the imperfections in the market and beat them to death. Since everything in WoW is available to every player, these imperfections are usually the result of a lack of knowledge. Consumers don't realize that they could buy the herbs for that glyph for just a couple of gold and buy the glyph for 20g instead. Producers don't realize they can make 1000% profit on an item so they don't enter the market. So the people who see the opportunities make a killing. However, even if you see these opportunities you need the capital to take advantage of them. That is why I want 100k gold.
Probability: Iffy. You may have read the report about the MMO-Champion guy making 125k gold in 7 weeks. That makes my goal sound easy, but lets face the facts for a second.
- First of all he makes his living off of WoW. He is probably very knowledgeable about the different tricks, and can have a computer open next to him at all times to take advantage of the opportunities that present themselves. I don't know how he did it for sure, but I would be surprised if he wasn't camping the AH to some extent. Most people just don't have that kind of time.
- Second, not all servers are the same. Some are very undeveloped, with few competitors. In such a situation your able to sell your goods at a fairly high price for a lot of profit. Other servers will have a tighter market. Take mine for example. According the the MMO-Champion guides you should sell your glyphs for a minimum of 4 or 5 gold, buy eternal earth and eternal shadow for around 10g or less, and buy green gems for around a gold apiece. On my server, 4 or 5 gold is often the market price for Glyphs, good luck trying to sell them for more. The market price for eternal earth and shadow are around 15g and rarely goes lower then 10. Green Quality Gems go for 2g or more.


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Her voice choked with emotion, Quinsigamond Community College police officer Andrea Prinsen, 32, described on the witness stand Thursday how her supervisor, Sgt. Mark A. Brooks, "went off on her" after she confronted him early the morning of Jan. 31 about why he didn't respond to her request for backup when investigating a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot.
Sgt. Brooks, 44, of 11 Church St., Oxford, allegedly grabbed her wrist, twisted her arm, threw her into a door and onto the ground, tried to choke her, sprayed her with pepper spray, blocked her from telephoning their chief and took away her cellphone and keys when she tried to get help.
"Spit was hitting my face, he was yelling so loud," Ms. Prinsen said. "He said it's not going to end pretty for me. … I didn't think I was going to go home that night."
Judge Janet J. McGuiggan determined Friday morning, after a dangerousness hearing in Central District Court that lasted two days, that Sgt. Brooks posed a danger to the alleged victim and to the community.
The judge set bail at $10,000 cash or $100,000 surety, which Sgt. Brooks' lawyer, James B. Triplett, said he would meet.
She placed Sgt. Brooks on house arrest and ordered him to wear a GPS monitor, stay away from Ms. Prinsen and her town of West Brookfield, and only leave his home for medical or legal visits or to attend mandatory meetings at the college.
Sgt. Brooks is charged with assault to murder, two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery on a police officer, two counts of intimidation of a witness, carrying a dangerous weapon on school grounds and three counts of improper storage of a firearm.
He has been suspended from his job and is prohibited from returning to campus during the investigation, according to a college spokesman.
A pretrial hearing is scheduled for March 7.
Mr. Triplett said in his closing statement, "The essence of this is … a he-said-she-said situation."
He questioned Ms. Prinsen's potentially ulterior motives as "payback" for previous friction with Sgt. Brooks. Both Ms. Prinsen and her mother, who also works as a campus police officer, had been called "insubordinate" by Sgt. Brooks on at least one other occasion.
Mr. Triplett said that Sgt. Brooks had an impeccable work record over 25 years as a campus police officer, and that he had received two awards for good conduct. He said the incident on Jan. 31 was a work disagreement that resulted in an altercation when Sgt. Brooks relieved Ms. Prinsen of duty.
Testifying for the defense Thursday, Leo F. Polizoti, a clinical psychologist who administered a short version of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and interviewed Sgt. Brooks, said the defendant's psychological profile showed no signs of aggressive or impulsive behavior.
"There is absolutely nothing that I see that he would behave in this way at all," Mr. Polizoti said.
Mr. Polizoti said that Sgt. Brooks told him that when he attempted to escort Ms. Prinsen out of the building after relieving her of duty, "She came marching back in and shoved him hard."
Ms. Prinsen, who is 4 feet 11 inches tall, testified she hasn't returned to work since the incident and she lives in fear of her 6-foot-2-inch assailant.
Worcester Police Officer Michael LaHair testified for the prosecution Friday that when he responded to a call about an assault in progress at the college around 3 a.m. Jan. 31, he found Ms. Prinsen visibly shaken.
"She was absolutely in shock," Officer LaHair said. He described Ms. Prinsen as trembling and grabbing onto her arm. She was covered in mud and had orange residue on her face and sputum coming out of her mouth and nose.
She told Officer LaHair that she pleaded with Sgt. Brooks to return her cellphone and help her get something for the pepper spray in her eyes and mouth. He returned her phone and keys after she promised not to tell anybody about the assault. She then escaped to another building, hid in an elevator and called 911.
Assistant District Attorney Timothy Westerman said that when Ms. Prinsen confronted Sgt. Brooks after he failed to assist her, he "snapped."
In arguing for Sgt. Brooks not to be released, Mr. Westerman said: "Andrea is in fear of this defendant. The defendant told her 'This will not end well.' If released, there's nothing to stop this individual from finishing what he started."
Tracy Lee Brooks, Sgt. Brooks' wife, testified for the defense Friday, describing her husband as "a normal guy."
She said he helps take care of the couple's three daughters, who are home-schooled, and he goes to work. Most of his time is spent around home.


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Tickets for the 2013 Series, to be shown on BBC network television, have been frozen at 2012 prices - which start at £25 for the Prince William Cup clash with the Boks and £10 (concessions) for each of the other matches.
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For the first time the RBS Six Nations matches in Cardiff will be priced differently, with both the Italy and Scotland fixtures significantly reduced and the France fixture frozen at 2013 prices.
When Wales begin their title defence against Italy on Saturday 1st February, kick-off 2.30pm, tickets will be priced at £25, £35, £55 and £65. This is the same top price as a ticket in 2009 and is a reduction of over 18% on this year's prices.
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The Wivenhoe Dam in southeastern Queensland will discharge 76.6 billion gallons over the next nine days to prevent Brisbane from being flooded again, The Australian reported Sunday.
Forecasters predict at least three more cyclones off the coast of Queensland by the end of April.
Before the floods, state water authorities kept 300 billion gallons of water in the reservoir. But engineers and hydrologists warned recently that a full reservoir could increase the risk of renewed flooding.
The reservoir peaked at 190 percent capacity at the height of the floods Jan. 11, before water was released. But in mid-2007, it was at 15 percent after years of drought.
"Southeast Queenslanders ... expect us to learn" from the catastrophic floods," Natural Resources Minister Stephen Robertson said.
"The decision we've taken today is about looking forward for the rest of the wet season and taking a very cautious approach until we get the longer term addressed by the independent commission of inquiry."


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jFeed, the jQuery RSS/ATOM feed parser plugin I wrote lately has a drawback: you must use a server-side proxy to load cross-domain feeds.
It's a little bit annoying, so I looked for a more elegant solution.
There exist some web services and libraries that convert RSS/ATOM feeds to JavaScript code, so you can embed external content in your HTML document, but I'd prefer something more generic.
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Are you thinking about relocating to Santa Rosa Beach?
Even if you already live here, I have some surprising facts about our beach community.
1. Best Beach Destination
I�m sure you already know that Santa Rosa Beach lies between Destin and Panama City Beach. And I can pretty much bet that you know that the north and south borders are the Choctawhatchee Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.But were you aware that in 2011 Santa Rosa Beach was named one of the �10 Best Beach Destinations for 2011� by Yahoo! Travel? We have been mentioned many other times by various media outlets, so you can be confident that you are relocating to a truly beautiful place with over 50 beach and 26 bay access points.
2. Not Governed�Well, Sort Of
We are unincorporated. To use Wikipedia�s definition we are, �a region of land that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, which is instead administered as part of larger administrative divisions.� Yep, that�s us!
3. Population Growth = More Businesses
Since 2000, Santa Rosa Beach has seen a growth of over 95 percent. We now have approximately 12,000 residents calling Santa Rosa Beach home. This population growth has enabled us to enjoy the benefits of new businesses wanting to relocate here. We are anxiously awaiting the opening of our very own Carmike Cinema at Grand Boulevard. This theater is set to open in 2013 just in time for spring breakers. The Boulevard 10 will offer what Carmike Cinema brands as the adults-only �Ovation Club� featuring light food and adult beverages. You will be able to enjoy this feature while you watch your movie in the comfort of a high-backed leather seat! I know I can hardly wait!
4. Average Cost of a Home
Some people get a little surprised, by this but the average cost of a home in Santa Rosa Beach is $233,000. This is actually a 1.16 percent growth over last year. Currently in Santa Rosa Beach there are 430 homes active on the MLS, and they are in some terrific neighborhoods. The prices begin at the very low price of $59,000 for a cozy 2 bedroom/1 bath home, and transition to the luxury bay front living of a 5 bedroom/3 bath home listed at $7 million.
5. Residents from All Over
What I love about living in Santa Rosa Beach is that the residents come from all walks of life. Being a �destination� vacation spot, visitors travel here, fall in love, and then decide to move or buy a second home. That�s how I ended up here!Also, don�t be surprised when you walk down the street and see a �celebrity� or two. It�s not unusual for celebrities such Ronnie Dunn, Dierks Bentley, Morgan Freeman and Goldie Hawn to be seen visiting our area. Britney Spears, Sheryl Crow, Vince Gill & Amy Grant, Tim McGraw & Faith Hill, all own homes here too!
6. Jobs Jobs Jobs
As I said above, we are a �destination� vacation spot so it makes sense that the majority of our residents work in the service, sales or office industries in and around Santa Rosa Beach. It�s no secret that some in the service industry make the majority of their yearly income during our summer season. Our residents have a median income of $50,000-$75,000 per year, and jobs in our area have increased by 0.56 percent over last year.
7. Fantastic Schools
When I decided that relocating to Santa Rosa Beach was perfect for me, I also wanted to make sure that the schools were perfect for my kids. Well, I was in luck and so are you because we have Grade �A� schools. Florida grades schools according to student test results using what is called FCAT � Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test. The FCAT was created by a group of Florida teachers in the mid-1990s to make sure that students are learning the basic skills they are supposed to be learning.
8. The Doctor Will See You Now
We welcomed the not-for-profit Sacred Heart Hospital to Santa Rosa Beach in 2003, and it continues to grow as our area does. The hospital offers a large range of services including a 24-hour emergency room. In November of 2012, the hospital announced it had just earned The Joint Commission�s Seal of approval for its Joint Replacement Program. This award recognizes Sacred
Heart�s �dedication to continuous compliance with The Joint Commission�s state-of-the-art standards.� Sacred Heart�s physicians and staff are committed to the highest level of care for their patients. This is why they were named �One of the Nation�s Top 100 Hospitals� by Thomson Reuters in 2012.
9. Sunshine!
This fact may not be that surprising but I feel it�s important to know when relocating to Santa Rosa Beach. We typically have 229 sunny days! July is typically the hottest month with an average temperature of 91, and January being the coldest with a low of 38. Not too bad!
There are many more surprising facts that could convince you that relocating to Santa Rosa Beach is a great move, but that�s another day.
Bonnie Hall is a broker associate with Coldwell Banker United, Realtors. Bonnie obtained her real estate license in 2003 and has been resident of Santa Rosa Beach for more than 10 years. Contact Bonnie at 850-240-9901 or visit www.BNDestin.com


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ST. LOUIS — The back end of two demanding road games isn't usually the place to find a spike of energy.
Among the reasons that give the Ducks' season a feeling of greater future accomplishment, their resolve in a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night at Scottrade Center was the thing to recognize.
Not only did the Ducks (37-9-5) ratchet up their energy a night after getting out-hustled in a 4-2 loss at defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago, they withstood the best, last effort from the Blues (32-10-5), who scored two third-period goals.
"All the guys battled hard, especially at the end," Ducks rookie goalie Frederik Andersen said after a 34-save effort in which he denied St. Louis in the game's final 5:31.
"It only took one shot, but we showed a lot of character, stayed together, kept blocking shots and showed the will to win."
Andersen, given the start over Jonas Hiller because he also won at St. Louis on Dec.7, responded to a frenzied crowd and a power-play goal by Jaden Schwartz from the side that sneaked in off the goalie's back by denying the Blues' T.J. Oshie on a clean shot.
"I don't know if he wanted to go five-hole, but he didn't score," Andersen said.
The Ducks, who've won 19 of their last 21 games, haven't suffered consecutive regulation losses since Nov. 14.
The night after his goal differential while on the ice was minus-three in the loss to the Blackhawks, Ducks forward Matt Beleskey starred in their two-goal second period.
"Some nights, you don't got it," Beleskey said. "Tonight we did. Good bounce-back, good win."
Beleskey first took a pass from center Nick Bonino off Bonino's steal and fired a shot that went off and slowly under Blues goalie Brian Elliott.
That increased the Blues' desperation, and they swarmed, battling behind the Ducks' net when a penalty was called against Blues forward Alexander Steen for interference.
With the man advantage, Beleskey moved toward the Blues' goal and was belted by David Backes, knocking Beleskey's helmet off but not affecting his courage.
Without the protection, Beleskey dared to screen Elliott as Ducks defenseman Cam Fowler belted a wrist shot that beat Elliott to his left for a 3-0 lead.
"That takes a lot of guts," Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau said. "Perfect screen, no lid on, that puck's up around your shoulders … and he just stood there."
Said Beleskey: "That's my job — let Cam pick the corners, and he did. I got the last laugh."
After Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf gave Andersen a goal's cushion 5:27 into the game with career-high-tying 25th goal, the young goalie looked like he'd taken the wind from the Blues' sails himself by stopping all 19 shots he faced in the first two periods.
The Blues started the week 18-2-2 at home, but the Kings and Ducks both beat them.
The return of 24-goal scorer Steen from an 11-game concussion absence didn't provide the lift they expected. In 20:56 of ice time, Steen had four shots on goal, with seven blocked.
The Ducks, meanwhile, have seven of their final eight games before the Olympic break in Southern California — six at Honda Center, where they're 20-0-2.
"We love it at home, can't wait to get there," Boudreau said.
The Ducks also learned Saturday that with traded center Peter Holland playing his 25th game for the Toronto Maple Leafs, the conditional draft pick they received increased in value to a second-round pick later this year. Anaheim now has two first-round picks — their own and Ottawa's — and two in the second.
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After looking through the forums I cant find a full answer to this, so maybe someone can help.
I'm looking for a button or one click solution which will create the email and then use the template I want for that specific purpose, rather than the:
Write > email Message (from template) > choose email template > click open
I have looked at the "How To Customize a Menu or Toolbar in ACT!" but it doesnt put any meat on the bone like parameters etc.
I have tried the customize toolbars and dragged the "email Message (from template)" to create a new button, but i cant find how to edit it any further to open and use the template.
This is important as we now have a couple of instances where people are using/selecting the wrong email template from the list when their busy.
Any help suggestions would be appreciated - I really dont want to buy another addon as it seems a simple option.
Many thanks
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ACT! by Sage 2008 (10.0) Version 10.0.3.182
Act email
Unfortunately, the custom commands can only be used to execute a single process and choosing a custom template involves more than one process.
The only workaround I know of is to assign the custom template you want to be your default email template by renaming it to Emailbody.adt. This template is used as the default when Write/E-mail Message is clicked...so if you added this command to your toolbar, it will generate the email using whatever template is name "Emailbody.adt". When renaming the custom template, you would first have to rename the current "Emailbody.adt" file to something else.
Note: "Emailbody.adt" is the default if you are using MS Word as your word processor. If using the ACT! Word Processor, then the file would be named "Emailbody.tpl".
Greig Hollister
Note: Effective 6/1/13, Sage no longers provides support for the Act! software. This is now provided by Swiftpage.
Thanks for the reply!
So I guess theres only one template I can do this with. i.e. one email message template?
I might have a try at macros then and see if this can be done. IIRC In the old versions of Act there used to be a macro function. But I cant find this in the current version I use, has it been deprecated?
Anyway, unless someone has an alternative, Im going to have to go down this route.
I've been stumbling with this as well.
One solution that works for single email messages is when using Word as the email editor there is a function on the Insert menu called Quickparts. With this preformatted blocks of text can be saved in the Quickparts folder and then inserted into the document.
It isn't as streamlined as a form email template. Most of my emails are one-offs and usually need different sections added so it works for me.
I haven't found a solution to this either. I submitted it to the SAGE wishlist ages ago.
It seems realy no-brainer to me. Presumably more than just a few of us have a menu of standard emails we send a lot and would like to just click one button to do so.
Having lost the ability to do this as a macro as we could under previous versions of ACT is a big backward step.
We have a free add-on that will do this and a few other things. This add on adds a button to the left of ALL email field on the contact details window. This button is customizable and allows you to select one or multiple email templates.
Go to http://durkincomputing.com/Download.aspx then scroll down to the "FREE ACT! Addons" section at the bottom.
There you will find our add-on Durkin Toolkit Visual for ACT!. This is the free version of our more populate Durkin Toolkit that creates custom tables. This version has all the visual features of the full version but does not support custom tables.
Hope this helps.
-- Jim Durkin
It's a trial version rather than free isn't it?
Had a look at it but installation took over the left side of my ACT screen including the quick look up bit.
No The Durkin Toolkit Visual version is FREE!
This version does everything the full toolkit does but it does not support custom tables. That's why its free.
If you want to create 1 custom table then you need to buy the lite version. If you want unlimited custom tables you will need the runtime version.
You can turn off the Toolbar option by following these steps: in ACT go to the tools menu and select DURKIN TOOLKIT then click on the TOOLBAR tab and uncheck the Toolbar switch. You will now see the native ACT! toolbar.
Hope this helps
-- Jim Durkin
In the new version of Act!, so Act! 2011, the emailbody.adt is already this template that act! use to write an email?
I have try to change this template for all of my email, but it's only a new email that open, with my signature.
many thanks for your help


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News and media
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Russia sees closer energy ties with Asia
Forces transforming the energy industry are full of opportunities and challenges for Russia, according to senior officials who spoke at the Daegu 2013 Congress on 16 October. Alexander Novak, Russian Minister of Energy, said "We have lots of natural gas and we don't see a necessity in producing shale gas," but added that "We'll look […]
Posted on 16 October 2013
Korea's "green growth" story reveals possibilities, challenges for Asia
Many Asian countries have integrated the concept of green growth into their national visions or strategies to cope with rising energy demand, delegates at the Daegu 2013 Congress were told on 16 October. South Korea's "green economy" offers an example for the rest of Asia of how to reduce the region's dependence on coal. Korea adopted […]
Posted on 16 October 2013
Korea to play "important" part in global energy market, says Royal Dutch Shell CEO
Energy demand in Asia could more than double in the next 50 years, and a "historic phase" of industrialization and urbanization in Asia's emerging economies means Korea is well-placed to be an important player, said Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell. "South Korea is an appropriate place to focus on this issue," he […]
Posted on 15 October 2013
Shale gas revolution impact may be limited in Asia
Panel participants said on 15 October that shale gas is a significant game changer, particularly in North America, but those in Asia who hope it will transform energy pricing are unlikely to be satisfied because the pace and scale of the shale gas revolution in North America will be difficult to replicate. China has vast […]
Posted on 15 October 2013
Untapped resources in Central Asia promise great rewards and challenges
Central Asia offers vast potential for energy procurement, but challenges lie ahead for the region's nations as well as the foreign players that are needed to develop energy resources, which could produce around 3% of global energy needs, the World Energy Congress was told on 15 October. The area offers resources that include coal, natural […]
Posted on 15 October 2013
North Korea holds key to East Asian "super-grid"
North Korea remains the biggest issue of uncertainty in shaping a vision for a "super-grid" to integrate power generation and distribution in Northeast Asia, industry leaders said on 15 October. The innovative proposal, still very much in the drawing board stages, would connect the electricity grids of China, Mongolia, Japan, South Korea, Russia, and potentially […]
Posted on 15 October 2013
Japan remains committed to nuclear even after Fukushima
Nuclear energy remains very much a part of Japan's energy mix even after the Fukushima accident, said executive vice president and chief nuclear officer of Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) at a session on Monday of the World Energy Congress in Daegu, South Korea. "Japan has limited sources of renewable energy such as wind, solar or hydro," […]
Posted on 14 October 2013
WEC Lebanon resumes activities under new leadership
The WEC's Lebanon member committee has renewed its activities at an official gathering on 9 July in the capital Beirut. WEC Lebanon aims to create a national energy platform to help the country move towards the adoption of sustainable energy policies. The committee was previously dormant but is now hosted by the Lebanese Center for […]
Posted on 23 August 2013
Asian ministers endorse 22nd World Energy Congress
LONDON / SEOUL, 31 May 2013 – The Organizing Committee of the 22nd World Energy Congress on Friday welcomed the endorsement of the world's premier energy event by Asian government ministers at a United Nations-sponsored energy conference. In a communique issued Thursday, ministers at the Asian and Pacific Energy Forum (APEF) welcomed the offer of […]
Posted on 31 May 2013
Asian leaders to address 2013 World Energy Congress
Government and industry figures among 150 confirmed speakers LONDON / SEOUL, 28 May 2013 – Senior government and industry figures from Asia's leading economies are among the 150 speakers confirmed today by organisers of the 22nd World Energy Congress, which takes place in Daegu, South Korea, from 13 to 17 October 2013. This is only […]
Posted on 28 May 2013


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Little Tomato's Playroom Cityscape
Name: Little Tomato (3)
Location: Nebraska
Color Inspiration: The room was inspired by a children's book author/ illustrator Laura Ljungvist. She uses bold colors and accentuates the geometry of objects in a unique and graphically dynamic way. Her "Follow the Line" series of books are fantastic.
Tip for Using Color: Start with something you love and build around it. I loved the graphic nature of the children's books, and the palette of colors from the Target Itso bins and used them both as a springboard for the 'murals' and room accents. And, if you use saturated colors, use a grey primer. Or plan on many, many coats...
Colors Used: All Sherwin Williams colors: Top neutral: SW 7536 Restful White. Bottom Neutral: SW6407 Ancestral Gold. Accents: SW6643 Yam (Orange), SW6841 Dynamo (Pink), SW6286 Mature Grape (Purple), SW6409 Edgy Gold (Green), SW6767 Aquarium (Teal Blue)
Thanks for your colorful entry Mia and good luck!
What's at stake? Bragging rights AND $1000 worth of prizes from P'kolino!


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The Roadhouse, built around 1917, is one of the oldest establishments still in operation on Main Street in "Beautiful Downtown Talkeetna." Our kitchen is open to the public and we've become famous for big breakfasts, hearty soups, homebaked breads and genuine frontier hospitality. Our bakery produces all sorts of treats each day such as pies, a variety of cinnamon rolls, cookies, cakes, brownies and savory pasties.
The historic end-of-the-road town of Talkeetna is known today throughout the world as the base for international climbers making their way to climb Denali (Mt. McKinley), North America's tallest peak. Denali and the other peaks of the Alaska Range offer a magnificent backdrop for this picturesque town of around 800 people, located about two and a half hours north of Anchorage and halfway between Anchorage and Denali park entrance both by rail and road.
The guest rooms range from private to hostel-style, rustic cabins to the school teacher's apartment located above the Talkeetna Historical Society Museum. Bathrooms are "down the hall" in typical Roadhouse fashion, and even though a bathroom has been added to Trapper John's Cabin, guests can still use its 5-Star outhouse! Breakfast is a separate charge but we provide our guests with coffee/cocoa/tea throughout their stay.
Check out the photogallery
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text: There's always a lot of events in the calendar. Whether it's this expo, that summit or such-and-such a showcase, there's always something going on. And that makes standing out a bit difficult. We've discussed Apple's way with invites at length, but there is another tack: be knowingly dull. Honestly… Read more


text: Farm Bill Update: 'It Shouldn't Be This Hard' September 16, 2013 09:50 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Nate Birt Top Producer Managing Editor Email While he and other members of the House Agriculture Committee will complete their work done, Chairman Frank Lucas says getting a farm bill has proven challenging in 2013. "It shouldn't be this hard to make sure everybody has enough to eat," Lucas tells AgriTalk in the second of a four-part series. "The other thing I would say is, the magnitude by which (Ranking Member Rep.) Collin (Peterson (D-MN)) and I have been pelted from both the left and the right, this is not a political issue." (Click to read Part 1: Frank Lucas Talks Path to a 2013 Farm Bill) Colleagues on the left don't want to spend any money on rural America, he says, while colleagues on the right are opposed to spending money under any circumstances. "That would be great, except we need a safety need in the production title. We need to continue our investments in conservation. We need to make sure that rural development resources are there so somebody would live in rural America. The nutrition title is important. We've made the statement now through the years, we're not going to let anybody starve to death. We're going to help them." Click play below to watch the complete clip with Lucas: Back to news


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Halal Guys: New York, New York
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Ringtone Startup Courts MP3.com-style Legal Battle
from the byo-tunes dept
The ringtone market has been under pressure for some time, caused mainly by content providers' greed, but also by the growing number of ways for users to make their own ringtones from digital music files. A Silicon Valley startup called Phonezoo is targeting this market in a somewhat interesting way: users can submit their own ringtones for others to download for free, but if the ringtone is of a copyrighted song, users must upload a digital version of the song to "prove" they own it. Once you do this, Phonezoo apparently takes that upload and extracts the relevant snippet, or lets users edit it before downloading. It's a cool idea, and it's great to see free ringtones -- however it seems awfully unlikely that the recording industry will agree. Phonezoo's model sounds pretty similar to that of MP3.com's My.MP3.com service of several years ago, which gave users access to online copies of music once they'd inserted a copy of a CD in their computer to verify they actually owned it. The service, of course, got shut down by the record labels in 2000, and although many people thought MP3.com had plenty of grounds to appeal, the legal system made it essentially impossible for them to do so. Phonezoo's raised money from a group of angel investors including well-known VC Tim Draper, and is now looking to raise a few million dollars more -- but they're probably going to need much more than that to battle the record labels. Despite the weakness of the MP3.com decision, it looks like Phonezoo is setting themselves up for an uphill battle, After all, it's really difficult to see how uploading a ripped or downloaded version of a song actually proves a user legitimately bought it. Still, this doesn't validate the recording industry's approach to the ringtone market, which is based, essentially, on ripping people off and using lawsuits to protect the market. Call us crazy, but combining sales of recorded music with ringtones and other types of content so they offer consumers better value is just one idea they could use in an attempt to grow, rather than just try to maintain, their sales.


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Some images of historic GNU press items. While many of these are still available, others are not.
For a complete up to date list of the items available from the Free Software Foundation, please see the FSF's online store.
If you have any other historical GNU press items, I would love to see them. Please send high-resolution images, or if you no longer want them and would be happy to donate them to the FSF, please send me an email, firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hillary Clinton's supporters gear up for 2016 with event in Denver on Wednesday
The 2016 presidential election is coming up and Hillary Clinton's supporters are ready for her to run.
Ready for Hillary, an independent grassroots organization, is hosting a kick-off party Wednesday in north Denver in hopes of persuading Clinton to return to the campaign trail. The Readyforhillary.com web site notes Clinton has not had a formal political operation in four years and needs help rebuilding grassroots support.
Rep. Beth McCann of Denver, former Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, First Lady Wilma Webb and other prominent Democrats will help host the event at Sushi Hai on West 32nd Avenue.
Clinton ran for president in 2008 but was bested by current president, Barack Obama, in the Democratic primary. She nominated Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.
Clinton will be delivering a keynote address in Broomfield June 2.


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In this activity, learners will experiment with ultraviolet light sensitive plastic beads, which are generally white but turn colors when exposed to UV light. Participants are informed about the nature and risks of UV light and are asked to explore... (View More) what types of materials keep the beads, and hence the user, safe from UV light. (View Less)
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This is an activity about magnetism. In this activity, polystyrene spheres and several strong neodymium magnets are used to represent the Sun and Earth and their distinct magnetic fields. Participants construct and use a field detector to predict... (View More) where the magnetic fields are on the Sun and Earth, and use field bits, which is the term used in the lesson plan, made from the closed staples to form loops and trace the invisible magnetic fields of the Sun and Earth. The activity is designed to be used in an informal public outreach setting, for example as a stand-alone station in a family science day event. It can also be modified for use as a simple classroom demonstration. There are background information sheets provided that can be printed to go along with the activity station. This activity requires two polystyrene spheres, 8 neodymium magnets, epoxy adhesive, wire clippers, needle nose pliers, and acrylic paints, along with other easily obtained materials. (View Less)
This is an activity about the states of matter. Learners will participate in a demonstration to reintroduce them to three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. The demonstration also introduces them to a fourth state of matter, plasma, through... (View More) investigation of the properties of volume and shape as they relate to common solids, liquids, and gases, and to the mystery matter later identified at the end as plasma. The demonstration also covers plasma's connection to the Sun and connections to science related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. The demonstration requires use of a small plasma ball and, ideally, a slightly darkened room so that the plasma ball can be more easily seen. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/125ZW5k. (View Less)
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This is a lesson about the states of matter. Learners will participate in a kinesthetic activity to reintroduce them to three states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas and introduce them to a fourth state of matter, plasma, its connection to the Sun,... (View More) and connections to science related to the Interstellar Boundary Explorer, or IBEX, spacecraft. This activity also demonstrates how the addition of energy can transform matter from one state to another and reviews common examples of matter in each state. This activity complements other IBEX informal education materials. An instructional video explaining how to facilitate this activity is available: http://bit.ly/16eHjJh. (View Less)
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