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State budgets across the nation are facing the most severe shortfalls since the Great Depression. According to the Center for State Courts, 29 states are cutting their court's budgets. In many states, the cuts have been deep and sustained. Five of them are facing cuts of ten percent or more.
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In Glover v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Ins Co., 676 F.Supp.2d 202 (WD Mich 2009), Magistrate Judge Joseph Scoville summarized a major and burgeoning issue in tort law in his usual articulate fashion on which the present writer cannot improve:
For over twenty-five years, insured parties have been caught in the crossfire between ERISA health plans and Michigan no-fault carriers, each of which contends that the other is primarily responsible for medical bills arising from an automobile accident. This case. . . proves once again the truth of the adage that the only thing worse than having no insurance policy is having two.
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When the liability lawsuit is filed, every defendant wants the defendant to have insurance coverage. The defendant may want it more than everyone else, but the plaintiff likes the defendant to be insured as well, because from the plaintiff's point of view, the best defendant is the collectible defendant.
From the defendant's point of view, it is natural to ask the question "am I covered?" but for the defendant's (or plaintiff's) attorney, the questions need to be precise. The analysis has to go in stages: (1) is the defendant an insured under the policy, (2) is this a covered claim within the terms of the insuring agreement, (3) do any exclusions apply, and (4) are there any conditions that affect coverage.
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Loweke v. Ann Arbor Ceiling: Supreme Court Clarification of Fultz
On June 6, the Supreme Court issued an opinion in Loweke v. Ann Arbor Ceiling and Partition Company, ____ Mich ____ (2001) (No. 141168) which significantly impacts members of the Negligence Section. The court in Loweke readdressed its decision in Fultz v. Union-Commerce Association, 470 Mich 460 (2004) and corrected the direction that a number of post-Fultz court of Appeals decisions had taken in light of two peremptory orders issued in Mirzejewski v. Torre and Bruglio, Inc., 477 Mich 1087 (2007) and Banaszak v. Northwest Airlines, Inc., 477 Mich 895 (2006).
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By the time this article goes to print, the Legislature will be nearly finished with its summer recess. The first six month of Governor Snyder's administration and the Legislature saw numerous accomplishments. These include passage of legislation expanding the powers of Emergency Financial Managers, and the earliest completion of the state budget in nearly a decade. As state lawmakers look toward the fall session, much of their focus will be on unfinished business, such as the international bridge project and legislation that will implement many deals tied to the aforementioned budget.
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Never: "Medicare" as a Payee Name on a Settlement Draft
In the current morass of misinformation regarding Medicare liens is the morbid fear on the part of the plaintiff's bar that a carrier will insist on putting Medicare's name on a settlement draft and the baseless concern on the part of defendants that they need to make Medicare a payee.
There is absolutely no language in the Medicare Secondary Payer statute, 42 USC §1395y(b)(2)(B)(ii), that permits or requires a carrier or other payer paying money on a claim where Medicare may have paid bills to place Medicare's name on the check as a payee.
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Fultz Lives Despite Loweke's "Clarification"
[This issue contains two articles on the Michigan Supreme Court's recent decision in Loweke v. Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition Co., LLC. The first article focuses on the way that lower courts became "misguided" in the application of Fultz v. Union-Commerce Assoc. by two subsequent peremptory orders from the Michigan Supreme Court. The second article focuses on the effect of Loweke on the future application of Fultz.]
The Michigan Supreme Court's recent decision in Loweke v. Ann Arbor Ceiling & Partition Co., LLC, ___ Mich ___ (2011), has clarified the "separate and distinct duty" analysis the Court set out in Fultz v. Union-Commerce Assoc., 470 Mich 460 (2004).
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- Night is the dark period between sunset and sunrise.
The hours between around 7 or 8 PM and 5 or 6 AM are an example of night.
The starry night sky.
- the period from sunset to sunrise
- the period of actual darkness after sunset and before sunrise; also, a part of this period before bedtime [a night at the opera] or the part between bedtime and morning [a sleepless night]
- the evening following a specified day: Christmas night
- the darkness of night
- any period or condition of darkness or gloom; specif.,
- a period of intellectual or moral degeneration
- a time of grief
- death
Origin of night
Middle English niht ; from Old English akin to German nacht ; from Indo-European base an unverified form nekwt-, an unverified form nokwt- from source Classical Greek nyx (gen. nyktos), Classical Latin nox (gen. noctis), nightadjective
- of, for, or at night
- active, working, or in use at night
make a night of it
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- a. The period between sunset and sunrise, especially the hours of darkness.b. This period considered as a unit of time: for two nights running.c. This period considered from its conditions: a rainy night.
- The period between dusk and midnight of a given day: either late Thursday night or early Friday morning.
- a. The period between evening and bedtime.b. This period considered from its activities: a night at the opera.c. This period set aside for a specific purpose: Parents' Night at school.
- a. The period between bedtime and morning: spent the night at a motel.b. One's sleep during this period: had a restless night.
- Nightfall: worked from morning to night.
- Darkness: vanished into the night.
- a. A time or condition of gloom, obscurity, ignorance, or despair: "In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o'clock in the morning" (F. Scott Fitzgerald).b. A time or condition marked by absence of moral or ethical values: "He never would have let us go untroubled into the night of private greed" (Anthony Lewis).
- Of or relating to the night: the night air.
- Intended for use at night: a night light.
- Working during the night: the night nurse.
- Active chiefly at night: night prowlers.
- Occurring after dark: night baseball.
Origin of night
Middle English, from Old English niht; see nekw-t- in Indo-European roots.night
(countable and uncountable, plural nights)
- (countable) The period between sunset and sunrise, when a location faces far away from the sun, thus when the sky is dark.
- How do you sleep at night when you attack your kids like that!?
- (countable) An evening or night spent at a particular activity.
- a night on the town
- (countable) A night (part of the days before and after it) spent in a hotel or other accommodation.
- We stayed at the Hilton for five nights.
- (uncountable) Nightfall.
- from noon till night
- (uncountable) Darkness.
- The cat disappeared into the night.
- (uncountable) A dark blue colour, midnight blue.
- Short for good night
- Night all! Thanks for a great evening!
(third-person singular simple present nights, present participle nighting, simple past and past participle nighted)
From Middle English night, nyght, niÈt, naht, from Old English niht, neht, nyht, neaht, næht ("nightâ€), from Proto-Germanic *nahts ("nightâ€), from Proto-Indo-European *nókÊ·ts ("nightâ€). Cognate with Scots nicht, neicht ("nightâ€), West Frisian nacht ("nightâ€), Dutch nacht ("nightâ€), Low German Nacht ("nightâ€), German Nacht ("nightâ€), Danish nat ("nightâ€), Swedish natt ("nightâ€), Icelandic nótt ("nightâ€), Latin nox ("nightâ€), Greek νÏχτα (nýchta, "nightâ€).


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- Some vendors use thin AP to refer to entry-level/residential-grade products with few advanced features, in comparison to fat APs rich with enterprise network features like VLAN tagging and SNMP-based management.
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- Some use thin AP to refer to products that can't be configured or used on their own, but instead are part of a WLAN switching system that governs both setup and operation. In this case, a fat AP is any stand-alone AP, no matter how extensive that AP's feature set.
- Some use thin AP to refer to products that offload selected tasks to an upstream server -- for example, communicating with 802.1X Authentication Servers, generating encryption keys, acting as a VPN gateway, or re-routing traffic for cross-network mobility. In comparison, any of these tasks could be performed directly on a fat AP, without relying on an upstream server.
Obviously, there are many ways to combine and distribute AP features; no matter how you spin it, thin and fat are just labels for opposite ends of a complex spectrum. My advice is to look at the actual features of products that you may be considering, without getting too distracted by the thin and fat labels. For example, do you want to purchase all your APs from a single vendor, or must you use APs from several sources? Does your business really need VLAN tagging or SNMP management or VPN mobility in its WLAN?
When it comes to 802.1X, I agree there are advantages to distributing responsibility. For example, encryption keys that are generated and cached on an upstream server can reduce the handoff delay when stations roam between APs -- this is important for WLANs that support latency-sensitive video or voice applications. It can also be easier to harden and secure communication with one device (a server) than many devices (individual APs), so having the server be your 802.1X Authenticator (RADIUS client) is arguably safer. But, ultimately, you must weigh these benefits against costs to decide what's best for your WLAN.
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In "To Kill a Mockingbird", why does Boo Radley stay inside all the time?
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Boo Radley never explains this to the reader, so we have to make a few assumptions about why his character stays inside all the time. The assumed reason he stays inside also changes throughout the novel.
The first reason we hear that Boo Radley stays inside is that he is forced to stay inside, first by his father, and then by his brother, Nathan. Boo was labeled a "bad kid" when his was in school. He got caught up with the wrong crowd and his father chose to punish Boo himself by keeping Boo locked up inside the house so he wouldn't be able to make any trouble.
However, Jem comes to the conclusion after the trial and after witnessing the injustice and hypocrisy of the town that perhaps "Boo Radley wants to stay inside." Jem considers the idea that Boo can see what's going on in their town--the prejudices, the gossip, the hypocrisy, the judging--and, being a topic of much of the gossip and judgements, Boo chooses to stay inside rather than subject himself to that type of environment.
Boo stays inside his home due to the residents around him. He understands what occurs in the town and wishes to isolate himself from it. Boo's decision to stay inside is a choice made by himself.
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single side logon...
i am trying to write a code that would allow single logon only...
if person A is logon at time 00:00 and person B is logon at time 00:01, person A will be automatically logout...
how can i do that with session?
the following code would tell person B that he cannot logon due to person A has already logon....how should i implement from this?
if ( $_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] <> 'POST' ) {
echo "<form method=\"POST\" action=\"" . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"] . "\">\n";
echo "UID <input type=\"text\" name=\"uid\">\n";
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please insert a number less than 102800
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echo "<input type=\"submit\" value=\" Logon \">\n";
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What you need to use is a file or database. Can't share information among sessions. Kind of defeats the purpose of sessions don't ya think?
Just store a value in a file or database indicating that someone is logged in then check that value each time someone logs in. When they log out then reset the value. Of course if they do not log out then I suppose everyone else that wants to log in is just screwed.
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Just an idea.
Supposing that PHP, or the http-server running it, have read/execute access to the folder where the sessions are stored, and supposing that everytime a session expires or is ended through session_destroy() the file corresponding to it also dies (this means you have to set a maximum time so the session expires eventually), you could do the following:
1. check if there are any files in the folder where the sessions are stored, using session_save_path(). Just do a simple open_dir()/read_dir() pattern and if file count is 0 then no sessions are active.
2. if no sessions are active, you can start your new session. Otherwise, the user is refused.
One thing I didn't understand was the following. Person A and Person B on your example were using the same Username/Password or did they have different Usernames/Passwords?
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same username and password...
actually i fix it with using hash table...
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OK, MQ is a completely different skill than HQ.
I have found that to eliminate puckers I must use much more starch and have the backing much more taunt. But it works (for me anyway LOL). Now, if I am quilting in the ditch how many stitches per inch should I try for??????? I know this is subjective, but if I just leave my machine on the normal settings the stitches are really tight and I don't like them. What setting do you use for just plain on SITD??? This is not FM quilting (where I know the length is determined by YOU) but just plain old grids with a walking foot. I must learn to crawl before I walk, and crawling I am!!!! Rosa |
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- Posted by pirate_girl (My Page) on Thu, Jun 12, 08 at 22:06
I don't have any special feet or attachments, so I can't really FM. For regular machine quilting I had started out w/ 12 stitches per inch, I seem to have gone to abt 10 spi. I don't really distinguish btwn whether that's in the ditch or not. I seem to like to use 10 spi for anything w/ turns or curves, like I do lots of echo work & concentric squares or roman key designs if you know what they are (thru tracing paper & then torn the paper off, 10 spi also seems better for the paper & easier to remove). It seems to turn the corners w/ stitching, I find go better at 10 than 12, maybe it's just me??? |
I use about 10 also, just looks good to me. Anything smaller looks too puckered or tight for my liking. If I am using a decorative stitch I adjust till I get a look I like. For stitching in the ditch I tend to wander out of the ditch more if I use a smaller stitch for some reason. beverly |
Thanks, I'll try 10 and tracing paper never occcured to me. Rosa |
- Posted by pirate_girl (My Page) on Fri, Jun 13, 08 at 21:30
Hi again Rosa, I only do the tracing paper 'cause I do wall hangings & art quilts more than bed quilts. Having never washed a quilt, I'm reluctant to mark them for quilting motifs, so I use the tracing paper. I've made my first baby quilt & have to wash it, to see that it can withstand it, I'm just nervous to do it. Any tips on washing my quilts pls. (the fabrics were all prewashed by me & dried in the hotest possible drier to try & maximize any shrinking prior to the project being made)? Hope you don't mind my adding a question of your existing thread. |
My stitch length is 1,2,3,4,5...how do I compare 10 and 12 sts. to these numbers? I can lessen the presser foot tension and I find this helps on SIYD...do any of you do this? Jean |
- Posted by damascusannie (My Page) on Sat, Jun 14, 08 at 11:30
Jean--Sew a couple of inches on each setting then take a ruler and count how many stitches per inch you have on each setting. Now you know your st/in for each. Annie |
Annie that is exactly what I did after I read the 10 SPI answer!!!!! I couldn't figure it out any other way Jean. Dear Pirate girl, |
- Posted by anitastitch (My Page) on Mon, Jun 16, 08 at 16:34
Hi Rosa. Do you recommend a brand of Color Catcher, and where can you find that? |
Anita, I use Shout brand and they are not expensive and you can find them in grocery stores next to the detergents. I have found they work very well. Rosa |
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Jennifer Lawrence lost her cool when running into Jeff Bridges at Comic-Con this past weekend.
The Oscar-winning actress, there to promote two of her upcoming films, "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" and "X-Men: Days of Future Past," turned into just another fangirl when she caught the Oscar-winning actor giving an interview to "Extra" about his upcoming fantasy film, "Seventh Son."
"Extra" cameras captured Lawrence, 22, gingerly approaching Bridges, 63, before losing her nerve and running away. When the "Silver Linings Playbook" star realized that Bridges and the "Extra" crew spotted her, she returned somewhat chagrined.
"Oh my God, I'm like your biggest fan, I'm so sorry," a flustered Lawrence said, giving her idol a hug. "I'm so sorry for interrupting you, there's cameras everywhere."
"Extra" kept the camera rolling and caught the two stars meeting for the first time, even handing the microphone to Lawrence to continue the interview with Bridges.
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"What's your favorite movie you've ever done?" a nervous Lawrence, asked, forgetting to point the microphone toward Bridges. "Who's your favorite character? Does it rhyme with 'The Shmude'?"
Bridges responded by shifting the focus toward his "Crazy Heart" director Scott Cooper and Cooper's new film, "Out of the Furnace."
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That of course prompted more gushing from Lawrence, who exclaimed, "Oh my God, that's so cool."
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(NEW YORK) -- The three Emergency Service Unit cops who went into freezing water to save five kids said they had to act quickly to reach them before they went under.
"We were in the water in a minute," said ESU cop Bill Fischer, who arrived minutes after the five broke through the ice on Bailey Pond. "We put our exposure suits on and ran because they were screaming, 'Help me, I'm drowning!'
"We had to lay down as we approached the kids and stick our hands out to them. The ice around us was breaking and we just went in and scooped the kids up," said Fischer.
"It was hard because we were falling in through the ice and trying to hold onto them. There were a lot of people on the side [who] started to pull us in," to shore with a rope, he said.
"This one turned out good," Fischer said of the rescue. "We could literally be looking for bodies at this point. These kids came real, real close to seeing their last day."
Fischer, 41, an 11-year veteran, was injured last summer when Queens madman Arthur Alalouf took on cops in a fierce gun battle that left the gunman dead and several cops wounded.
Another cop who took part in yesterday's rescue, Mike Lamantia, said the ice on the pond was only about two inches thick.
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After more than a decade on the deadly front lines of the war on terror, Ryan Kealey believes he's finally put danger behind him--and some of his demons to rest. But his calm is shattered when he's swept into a merciless terror attack during a charity gala in downtown Baltimore. Among the dozens of casualties is the wife of CIA Deputy Director John Harper. With normal channels of investigation obstructed, Harper turns to Kealey, the one man with the resources, expertise--and… (più)
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Christina Aguilera Gave Up Her Scale: Should You?
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Weight is mostly water
When you are feeling fat and your clothes aren't fitting as well, you can't tell if the issue is excess water weight or a real change in your level of body fat. Yet to gain a pound of fat, which is the weight you control and that really matters, you have to eat 3500 more calories than you burn. That is nearly impossible to do in a day, and for most people would take several days or a week of overeating to achieve. When your weight goes up or down a few pounds throughout the week, it is really a change in your water weight.
Your worth is not based on your weight
When you focus on the scale, you reinforce the belief that your weight is all that matters. You become obsessed about reaching a specific number, as if other people knew what that number was and if you had reached it. When in fact, no one knows what you weigh, and your real friends only care if your weight is a health problem. You are not your weight. You are so much more than that, just as Oprah is more than her weight. She is loved for who she is, just as those celebrities who have tossed out their scales have learned.
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Shoppers care more about bulletproofed trucks than recalls
A few months back we studied over 35,000 emails to dealerships on Mojo Motors from shoppers interesting in buying a car. What we found was shoppers don't care about recalls. Only two people asked about them. That's right, only .005 percent of people asked about recalls. Since that article was published, there have been something like a billion more vehicle recalls and that's not counting those GM recalls.
Shoppers now must really be wary of open recalls on used cars. They aren't. In a study of nearly 20,000 new email leads to dealers since May, not a single person mentioned the word recall. Most people don't even ask questions as the majority of people (81 percent) use the stock email message. Here's what everyone else (19 percent) wanted to know. [keep reading]
Every car name categorized
Have you ever wondered what the name of your car means or maybe how manufacturers come up with names? After all, we say names like Camry, Miata and Passat without pausing to think if those names have a meaning. Turns out almost every car name has some significance that can be grouped into 12 categories.
Our study looked at 215 models, but there were exclusions. We left out some discontinued models and models with letter-number naming conventions used by BMW, Lexus and Mercedes. [keep reading]
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In the first half of 2014, General Motors recalled more cars than it sold in the last five years according to this article. Between the lawsuits, hearings at Capital Hill, internal investigations, delivering new parts to dealers, getting drivers to bring in their recalled cars – this is the general state of General Motors.
The automaker, already fined a maximum of $35 million, is looking at an even larger settlement expected to be in the billions. Just last month in May of 2014, Toyota agreed to pay $1.2 billion for misleading consumers and the government on their own recalls. [keep reading]
When will you be able to buy a driverless car?
We recently published this popular infographic about the states where driverless cars are legal. While researching, we discovered there are a lot of different predictions around when the average person will actually be able to buy a self-driving car. Some automakers are already selling cars with self-driving technology. Others are predicting they will have a full lineup of self-driving cars in just over a decade. We took predictions from experts and automakers and put it all together in one beautiful infographic.
Make sure to click on the infographic below for the full-size view.
So how realistic are these predictions? The march towards autonomous cars is inevitable, but the obstacles facing the automotive industry before driverless cars reach consumers are immense. These obstacles include technology, social attitudes, legislation and infrastructure. [keep reading]
Cheapest states to buy a car
"The price you see is the price you pay" said every car dealer ever at some point. That isn't really the whole truth because a price tag that might fit comfortably within your budget doesn't factor in the taxes and dealer fees. Once those costs are added into the final price, you might be thousands over budget! See how much extra you might be paying in your state below.
And these aren't the only fees you'll face either. We've listed out the six most common dealer fees here since each dealer approaches fees a bit differently. For the purposes of the this study and the infographic above, we honed in on state and local taxes, registration fees and dealer documentation fees. The costs were calculated based on a used car listed for sale at $16,500. That's about the average price for a 2011 Honda Accord, one of the most followed cars on MojoMotors.com.
So what are state and local taxes, registration fees and dealer doc fees? Here's an explanation of each. [keep reading]
What everyone was talking about at #DD16
Mojo Motors Founder & CEO Paul Nadjarian spoke to a crowd of over one hundred dealership managers and owners during his Digital Dealer 16 session called "The biggest miss in your digital marketing strategy." The event was held from April 6 to 8 in Atlantic City and is one of the prominent dealership conventions addressing the changing consumer trends and opportunities for the auto industry to increase walk-in and web traffic, along with proven methods to improve customer experience, spur more car sales and motivate employees.
So what was the biggest miss? Alerts. Dealerships aren't leveraging the power of alerts to push shoppers through the funnel, influence purchase decision and create an urgency to buy. Alerts are used in the flight and real estate industries, but automotive is lagging behind. In fact, if you consider alerts to be web 2.0, the auto industry is still stuck in web 1.0. [keep reading]
Car shoppers don't care about recalls
Before you get all angry about the link bait title, try this stat on for size. Since April 13th, 2014 there have been nearly 350,000 Tweets with the word "recall" according to Topsy. This doesn't even come close to the nearly 800,000 Tweets containing the word "vampire" or 1.4M Tweets containing the word "taco." Tweets about recalls does, however, beat the 49 Tweets containing "vampire taco."
Using social queues like keywords isn't totally indicative of what shoppers care about, so we went further. In a study of over 35,000 email leads to car dealerships on MojoMotors.com, only two people asked about a vehicle recall. TWO! That's .005 percent! This is interesting because as automakers continue breaking records left and right by recalling millions of vehicles for anything from spiders to electronic issues, shoppers still don't care. If they do care about recalls, they definitely aren't showing it in Tweets or emails to dealers. It would seem recalls are more important to the small number of people directly affected by said recalls, the government and the media. [keep reading]
Mojo Motors Founder & CEO Speaking at #DD16
The Founder and CEO of Mojo Motors, Paul Nadjarian, will be presenting at the 16th Digital Dealer Conference & Exposition in Atlantic City at Harrah's Resort on Tuesday, May 7th from 2:00-2:50PM in Room 314.
Paul's presentation is titled 'Biggest Miss in Your Digital Marketing Strategy' and will take a look at how dealers can leverage online tools to increase sales. The internet is shifting from browsing-based platforms to alert-based platforms. The increased penetration of mobile is accelerating this shift. Learn why alerts are the future, strategies to be more intelligent with your digital marketing and how to use alerts to drive more urgency and close more sales. There will be a case study on the evolution and shift to alerts in other industries. The workshop will also show how these trends apply to automotive and your dealership.
See Paul in Room 314 from 2:00 – 2:50PM on Wednesday, May 7, 2014. Check out the 16th Digital Dealer website here.
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Mojo Motors is an automotive classified website launched in 2010. Shoppers 'Follow' used cars to get alerts when dealers drop prices or add cars to their inventory. The website is free to car shoppers and dealers pay a monthly fee.
Dealership warms up to media and gets sales
Imagine a national media rep said they could get your dealership millions of impressions for free. The only thing you have to do allow is a broadcast crew unlimited access to your staff and the inner-workings of your dealership. This includes price negotiations, office gossip, service writers pricing out costs, etc. You're probably not so keen on that offer anymore, right? What about if this press could bring you some sales?
In October of last year Town & Country Jeep Chrysler Dodge Ram of Levittown, New York took that risk. The owner, Marc Brodlieb, granted full access to the producers of This American Life, a weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. [keep reading]


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Later, in Rwanda, I interviewed a genocide survivor who told me about the weeks she spent hiding from the interahamwe, gangs of young genocidaires who did the brunt of the killing. She told me about how men beat her and those around her, killed her family, tore her clothes off and then cracked her own skull with a weapon, leaving her to die.
She didn't say what happened in between when they took her clothes and when they struck her. I had to decide whether to ask. I had a hunch -- mass rape was a tactic of genocide – and a hunch is what leads a journalist to ask questions. Also, journalists have to be loyal to the story they are telling, and to tell all of it, even the uncomfortable parts. When we sit down to interview trauma survivors, we know this is going to make them uncomfortable. That's why we do our best to explain why we're asking and give them the freedom to choose to say no. We have to trust that we explain our mission and its risks – and at some point, we also have to trust their consent.
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House Cleaning Checklist
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- Examine each room thoroughly to determine what is required to be done in every room. For example, take a view of living room where you may find out dusty shelves or vacuum cleaning required to rug. Write these tasks on the note pad or paper sheet already placed in living room. It will help you to complete your every task in short period of time.
- You can divide list of each room into daily, weekly and monthly tasks. Your daily list will include normal dusting, throwing garbage of dust bins, floor cleaning and surface cleaning. Curtain and rugs washing can be placed in weekly tasks. Watering to plants will also be placed in daily task while plants management can be fall under weekly or monthly tasks.
- Bedroom tasks include making bed, removing clutter and trash from room, cleaning and maintaining dressers, bureaus and vacuum rugs if required. Do not forget to include daily dusting and picking laundry from bedrooms.
- Kitchen list should include different chores such as dishwashing, wiping, sanitizing countertops, sweeping floor, wiping down appliances, emptying trash bin and wipe up spills.
- Bathroom tasks include check towels and straight those on racks, empty trash bin, wipe down sink, mirror and countertops and sweep floors. Do not forget to wash bathtubs with cleanser and absorbent cotton. Wipe down walls and keep bathroom free from hard water stains.
- You can also plan weekly deep cleaning to make your toilet and bathtub spotless and germ free. Do not forget to polish your furniture and shampooing carpets once a month.
- If you find any last minute task that you have skipped to write in the list write it also in the list. Update your list each day to save your time and hassles of creating new list.
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You know exactly what you're going to get with Roomful of Blues. You should know because the band has been around for 43 years, playing its brand of high-energy, horn-inflected dance-blues with few deviations from its original template. The new album brings with it new singer Phil Pemberton, but few other changes. Uptempo good-time numbers like "That's a Pretty Good Love" and "Ain't Nothin' Happenin'" predominate, and even slower numbers like "Kill Me" and "Win With Me, Baby" never stray too far from the party-on-the-dance-floor vibe. The piano-based "Time Brings About a Change" is the only tune here that might be described as deep blues.
The biggest knock against the band is its consistency, which is of course its biggest selling point for fans. If you're looking for something unexpected or new, you'll want to walk a mile to avoid these guys. However, if you want a dose of impeccably played, entirely predictable jump blues, this record will do nicely.


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(Concise Encyclopedia)Ancient district, west-central Anatolia. It was named for a people whom the Greeks called Phryges and who dominated Anatolia between the Hittite collapse (12th century BC) and ascent of Lydia (7th century BC). The Phrygians were possibly of Thracian origin (see Thrace) and had their capital at Gordium. The kingdom of their legendary ruler, Midas, ended c. 700 BC with the invasion of the Cimmerians, who burned the capital. The Phrygians excelled in metalwork, wood carving, carpet making, and embroidery. Their religious cult of the Great Mother of the Gods was passed on to the Greeks. Excavations conducted since 1945 have uncovered carved stone tombs and shrines there.
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Got a ransom note for £21.15!!! Thats the cost of a figure. Don't even want the damn Foe men! Oh well I'm looking forward to Karatti. How I hate the UK so very very much.
So... How much did you pay for it if don't mind me asking?
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Got a ransom note for £21.15!!! Thats the cost of a figure. Don't even want the damn Foe men! Oh well I'm looking forward to Karatti. How I hate the UK so very very much.
Ransom note is here as well.. Oh well.. BTW I think we should start a thread guessing how much we'll pay for our CGs when they start shipping.. :-( Wonder who's going to be closest in their guess ;-)
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Does anyone know how to change my shipping option on mattycollector.com? I can't figure it out.
I started with DHL for the first month of my half sub but want to change it back to regular now.
Picked up the farting foe men today and Karatii. Really liking Karatii but it annoys me he can't hold his sword properly in his left hand as it's open all the time.
I've sent them an e-mail, I hope they can sort it out before Octavia ships or I'll be paying through the nose for her!
To those with customs slips for FFM & Karatti is it Royal Mail or Parcelforce? I've still not heard anything about mine (Which is par for the course with PF) but RM are usually quite good at contacting me when they want money.
@Frightzone - i initialy thought that too about changing shipping each month if you wanted to , sure I read it somewhere on Matty last year when they were talking about this new "my subs" area . Then discovered early this year that you couldn't do it as and when. good luck with yours
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£21.12 customs charge for the Fighting Foe Men and Karattii.
Doesn't quite seem so bad to pay that for four figures, as I didn't pay much less just to get my hands on Snake Face.
Haven't opened them yet, busy day.
They all seem fine figures, though.
That was all Royal Mail by the way.
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£21.12 ransom note for me too. So I've had a ransom note every month now, never having a month off ... oh the joys. But I did expect to get one this month though.
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Well ive just opened Karatti and for the total price I payed of $71 I have to say, im very underwhelemed , my most hated figure so far I think apart from FFM, Spector and Carnivus...just doesnt look like a motuc....Im gonna need to sourse various images of him and see if i can improve his look..not keen at all really. GLAD I HAVE HIM THOUGH.
Its a shame UK folks can't set up a mini sub club so we can get multiple subs shipped together. That should save on shipping and fees!
I just got my first sub shipment from my USA based friend, which included Jitsu, Ram Man, Fang Man, King He-Man, Kobra Khan (early access), Snake Face, Beastman (eBay), Whiplash (eBay), Karatti and the FFM. (Netossa and early access Stinkor are waiting til next shipment) The package cost $84 to ship, so if you count FFM as 3 figures, $7 per figure.
I've been following this thread and made a chart to compare how much I've saved in shipping and fees, however I'm unsure what FFM/Karatti cost via international post (including the $4 discount and any applicable refund)?
I know I've spent $114.25 in total so far on shipping up to the FFM/Karatti. However that INCLUDES 2 eBay bought figures (one of which you could substitute for Netossa and the other for Octavia next month to get a true comparison)
With shipping and customs fees (as reported by a fellow Nottinghamshire fan in this thread) direct shipping and fees has come to $112.34 up to Snake Face last month. This month will be where the saving has really kicked in as I'm guessing International Post shipping was at least $30 and customs fees seems to be around $32. So I've saved $60 between January and May... even more if Octavia gets slapped with customs fees (if we substitute one of my eBay figures for her
I guess it only works if your patient enough though to wait... I purposely waited til May to have my stuff sent over, so I could get rid of the FFM and Karatti ASAP!
8 figures I still need: 8/Perfuma (for completeness of POP ONLY!), 7/Filmation Tung Lashor, 6/Saurod, 5/Sprag, Sprocker and Spritina, 4/Peekablue, 3/Hunga the Harpy, 2/Filmation Clawful, 1/Dylamug.
Also got a customs charge for Fighting Foe Men & Karatti for £21:12
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I feel cheated. My customs charge was £21.14. That's 2p more than most others!!!!
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Keeping Our Eyes on the Real Ball
The broad outlines, and few details, of a stimulus have been announced. The headlines focus on how much we will borrow to "stimulate" the economy–$789.5 billion. Remarkably, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charlie Rangel (D., NY) groused over the "cuts" that brought the total down below $800 billion. "Hardly anybody's happy," he said, "with having to go backward."
Go backward? Huh?
Over the last three weeks the policy experts at my institution, the Heritage Foundation, have published dozens of biting critiques of literally every aspect of the House and Senate versions of this legislative monstrosity. They agree on one thing: Under the guise of stimulating the economy, this one bill contains a generation's worth of liberal policymaking, an entire Great Society-scale agenda, one that advances the liberals' view of man and his relationship to government enough to cause LBJ himself to turn red with envy.
The pork and the overall spending are every bit as bad as the critics say, but in the long run, they are mere distractions. The real damage comes from other, less noticed provisions in the bills.
The House and/or Senate stimulus bills would undo the 1996 welfare reforms, explode entitlement spending by a cool quarter trillion dollars, lay the groundwork for the federal government's takeover of our health care system, double Uncle Sam's already overbearing role in education, require taxpayers to pick up the bail tab for potentially dangerous felons, allow unemployed Wall Street executives to qualify for Medicaid, and reignite the fires of trade protectionism, thereby risking a global trade war.
Not bad for the first month of unified liberal rule in Washington, eh?
What follows is my attempt to cull together the most salient of these critiques as published on our web site. And these are just the serious concerns that have been uncovered thus far. The Lord only knows what other travesties remain to be found.
Here goes:
Reversing the 1996 Welfare Reforms
For the first time since 1996, the federal government would begin paying bonuses to states that increase their welfare caseloads. Under the stimulus bills, the federal government will pay 80 percent of cost for each new family that a state enrolls in welfare; this matching rate is far higher than it was under the old AFDC program.
The original goal of promoting employment and self-sufficiency and moving families off long-term dependence on government assistance has been replaced with the perverse incentive of adding more families to the welfare rolls. The House bill provides $4 billion per year to reward states to increase their TANF caseloads; the Senate bill follows the same policy but allocates less money.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Robert E. Rector and Katherine Bradley: "Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform and Adds New Welfare Spending".
Expanding the Welfare State
For the first time, the federal government will give significant cash to able-bodied adults without dependent children. A major new welfare program in the stimulus bill is Obama's "Make Work Pay" refundable tax credit. This credit represents a fundamental shift in welfare policy. At a cost of around $23 billion per year, it will provide up to $400 in cash to low income adults who pay no income taxes. Since most of these individuals have little apparent need for assistance, the new credit represents "spreading the wealth" for its own sake.
There are six additional welfare expansions in the stimulus bill that will almost certainly become permanent if the bill is enacted. These include expansions to food stamps, the EITC, the refundable child credit, Medicaid eligibility standards, Pell grants, and Title I education grants. Added to the "Make Work Pay" refundable credit, the aggregate annual cost of these welfare expansions will be nearly $60 billion per year.
If these welfare expansions are made permanent–as history indicates they will–the welfare cost of the stimulus will rise another $523 billion over ten years. The total ten-year cost of welfare increases in the bill will not be $264 billion but $787 billion.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Robert E. Rector and Katherine Bradley: "Welfare Spendathon: House Stimulus Bill Will Cost Taxpayers $787 Billion in New Welfare Spending".
The Stealth Health Care Agenda
The health provisions in the House stimulus bill would expand dependence on the already-unsound Medicaid entitlement program, distort health care choices for unemployed workers, and set up a federal infrastructure that could be used as a tool for government rationing of medical treatments, procedures, and services.
America is rushing toward the financial tipping point in health care–the point where the federal government controls more health care spending than will the private sector. Today, the government controls 46 percent of all health care spending, and its share is expected to reach 49 percent by 2017. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the sundry health provisions in the stimulus plan will draw an additional 8.2 million Americans dependent into the clutches of government-sponsored health care. In combination with the recent expansion of SCHIP, we likely have passed that tipping point.
Specifically, the stimulus plan would:
· Give every state a temporary, across-the-board increase in their federal match for Medicaid but do nothing to hold state officials accountable for their past management of their Medicaid programs.
· Give unemployed workers 65% subsidies for their COBRA coverage. COBRA is a prohibitively costly option for the unemployed as well as taxpayers funding the subsidy.
· The House bill goes even further, opening the Medicaid program to unemployed workers without health care coverage. The proposed expansion of the Medicaid entitlement program to new categories, regardless of income, further destabilizes the already troubled and poor-performing program.
· The House and Senate bills would open the door to direct government intervention in the clinical decisions by physicians and other health care providers by establishing a framework and funding for comparative effectiveness research and health information technology.
· While the Senate's language is broad and vague, the House language provides further clarity. The House committee report states that "those [items] that are found to be less effective and in some cases, more expensive, will no longer be prescribed." This type of alarming language is similar to what exists today in the British National Health Service.
· In addition, billions of dollars would be spent on a health IT information "architecture" for exchanging information and training health care professionals. Combining the comparative effective research with the health IT portal opens the door to direct government intervention in the clinical decisions by physicians and other health care providers.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Nina Owcharenko "The Stimulus Bill: Why the Senate Must Fix the Health Care Provisions".
Bailing Out Irresponsible State Governments
In response to pleading governors and mayors, the House stimulus bill contains a staggering $200 billion bailout for state and local governments that have spent themselves into deficit.
It is a shell game. Sending federal aid to states would not save taxpayers a dime, because state taxpayers are also federal taxpayers. Hiking federal taxes to keep state taxes from rising is like running up your Visa card to keep the MasterCard balance from rising. Either way, you will pay.
State balanced budget amendments are supposed to force states to budget responsibly. Bypassing those tough decisions through federal bailouts renders state balanced-budget amendments meaningless. Congress already sends $467 billion a year to state and local government–up 29 percent after inflation since 2000. And yet states keep responding to temporary revenue surges with permanent new spending programs.
· Between 1994 and 2001, states flush with new revenues shunned rainy day funds and instead expanded their general fund budgets by 6.2 percent a year. The states demanded–and received–a $30 billion bailout from Washington in 2003.
· After the 2003 bailout, states went right back to spending–with annual budget hikes averaging 7.2 percent over the next four years.
The biggest losers from a federal bailout are taxpayers who live in fiscally responsible states. They played by the rules and resisted extravagant new spending programs–and will be rewarded with higher taxes to bail out states that went on unaffordable spending sprees.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Brian Riedl "Stimulus Bill Should Not Bail Out Irresponsible States".
Stimulus Bill Could Incite New Global Trade War
The stimulus packages in the House and Senate include expansions of "Buy American" provisions that discriminate against foreign goods and services in U.S. government procurement.
· The House version would require that only iron and steel products made in America be used in the myriad public works projects funded in the stimulus package–unless domestic steel adds more than 25 percent to the cost of the project.
· The Senate version is even more restrictive, banning the use of any import in stimulus-funded projects.
Regrettably, the cost of such protectionism will be inflicted on the American public, who will fail to get the best value for their hard-earned taxpayer dollars; the U.S. workers who lose their jobs when the companies they work for go out of business as countries retaliate in kind; and the economy as a whole, which will become less productive. The expansion of the Buy American program represents a step toward the same type of destructive protectionism instituted by the Smoot-Hawley tariffs of the 1920s.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Daniella Markheim "Buy American Hurts America".
The Limits of Creating Jobs through Infrastructure Spending
Congress has included a little-known provision in the economic stimulus legislation that wastes tax dollars and costs jobs. All $188 billion worth of construction projects funded in the House version of the stimulus must pay Davis-Bacon prevailing wage rates. This requirement will inflate construction costs by $17 billion and depress the economy.
Contrary to its purpose, the Davis-Bacon Act distorts construction labor markets. Davis-Bacon wages bear little relation to market wages, because the government's prevailing wage estimates are wildly inaccurate. Nationwide, Davis-Bacon rates average 22 percent above market wages and inflate the cost of federal construction by 10 percent.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by James Sherk "Davis-Bacon Wage Provisions Depress the Economy".
The infrastructure projects face three limitations: (1) the difficulty in getting such large, complicated projects up and running in a short period of time; (2) the tendency of many states to substitute federal for dedicated state money; and (3) the shortage of skilled labor needed to build them.
· Both Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt implemented ambitious infrastructure programs in the aftermath of the stock market crash of late 1929, but nine years later the unemployment rate in the United States was still over 17 percent.
· The Japanese government attempted to revive its economy through several infrastructure spending initiatives in the 1990s. None succeeded. Instead the Japanese economy has suffered from pervasive stagnation over the past decade and a half, and economic growth averaged only 0.6 percent per year since the early 1990s.
· Numerous studies of post-World War II infrastructure spending stimulus schemes have concluded that the benefits of such programs are modest at best and largely ineffective, despite the vast financial resources applied to them.
· There has been little mention of the obstacles posed by the shortage of skilled, heavy construction labor in the United States, where much of the American population manages to avoid the kind of outdoor, physical labor common to construction work. Increased infrastructure spending may lead to increased immigration, thereby leaving the existing domestic pool of unemployed workers unchanged.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D. "The Economic Stimulus Package and the Limits of Infrastructure Jobs Creation".
300,000 Jobs for Illegal Immigrants?
While the House-passed stimulus bill contains explicit language to bar employment of illegal immigrants in these construction projects, the Senate bill deliberately omits this language. If the Senate version of the bill becomes law, a great number of the workers employed in government construction programs will likely be illegal immigrants. About one out of seven (or 15 percent) of workers employed in construction in the U.S. is an illegal immigrant.
At present, all federal employees are checked by the E-Verify system, but outside contractors receiving federal funds (such as construction firms) are not required to use the system. Requiring contractors receiving stimulus funds to use E-Verify will greatly reduce the probability that those funds will be used to employ illegal immigrants.
E-Verify is a real-time, web-based verification system run by the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration. E-Verify can determine with great accuracy the authenticity of the personal information and credentials offered by employees and new hires. Despite years of use and screenings of millions of employees, there has never been a single instance in which a lawful worker lost permanent employment as a result of erroneous information provided by the E-Verify system.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Robert E. Rector "Senate Stimulus Bill Would Provide 300,000 Jobs for Illegal Immigrants".
Stimulus Funds will Be Used to Let Felons out of Jail
Both the House and Senate "stimulus" packages potentially include millions of taxpayer dollars for the release of felons before trial. Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program grants can be used by state and local governments for 29 broad criminal justice purposes, including funding pretrial release agencies.
Compared to other types of pre-trial release, research indicates that private bond agents are more effective at ensuring defendants make their court appearances.
Byrne JAG grants may actually promote policies that jeopardize public safety.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by David B. Muhlhausen, Ph.D. "Get Out of Jail Free: Why Byrne JAG Grants Should Not Be Part of Economic Stimulus Package".
Unprecedented Expansion of the Federal Role in Education
The House version of the economic stimulus package includes at least $142 billion in new federal education funding over the next two years–nearly double the total outlays of the U.S. Department of Education in 2007. This includes the creation of a $79 billion State Fiscal Stabilization Fund to assist state governments in providing public education and other services as well as significant increases for current and proposed federal programs for K-12, postsecondary, and early childhood education.
Current budget shortfalls follow years of regular increases in state spending levels. Proposed budget cuts should be placed in the context of today's historic levels of education spending. Per pupil expenditures in U.S. public schools have increased by 49 percent over the past 20 years after adjusting for inflation.
In fact, the proposed legislation would penalize states that choose to review their spending priorities and decrease education funding. The plan would require states to use funds to restore fiscal year (FY) 2008 funding levels in order to qualify for federal aid. At a time when many states should be reviewing their long-term spending commitments, the federal government would be pressuring them to do just the opposite.
A state bailout may create moral hazard for state governments: If states with the greatest budget challenges receive an extra share of stabilization funding, this effectively–and perversely– rewards irresponsible spenders and penalizes state governments that have budgeted wisely.
The proposed new spending includes a series of new regulations, including requirements that states meet federal goals for achieving equity in the distribution of high-quality teachers, develop new data systems, and reform assessment protocols for specific student populations.
The stimulus plan also stipulates that no funds be used to provide financial assistance to students to attend private elementary and secondary schools. As states explore strategies to meet fiscal challenges and improve efficiency, school-choice policies offer an attractive solution. The proposed federal spending plan would needlessly prohibit states from using potential funds to offer parental choice in education.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Dan Lips "Ten Reasons Why the 'Economic Stimulus' Should Not Include Education Spending".
Stimulus Bill Undermines Parental Rights
Buried in the economic stimulus legislation is a provision–Section 5004, "State Eligibility Option for Family Planning Services"–that undercuts parental authority and expands control of taxpayer dollars by family planning clinics.
Because the income of parents or even a spouse may not be counted in determining eligibility, states would have the option to "consider only the income of the applicant or recipient." In other words, a child in a family at any income level may be eligible for free family-planning services. A child would be able to receive benefits through a "presumptive eligibility period" and beyond without parental knowledge that he or she applied for Medicaid.
Section 5004 creates a new eligibility group that would include college students, adults without children, and even adults in a household that has significant income but little or no income for the applicant. Moreover, applicants would not have to prove their citizenship before their "presumptive eligibility" is determined.
For more information, please see the following WebMemo by Dennis G. Smith "How the House Stimulus Bill Undercuts Parental Authority".


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Friday, June 6, 2014
Alpin Haus marks 50 years
By Sudip Bhattacharya
Golden year
Fifty years after Bud Heck started a ski shop with John Daly, Alpin Haus employs more than 200 people and has expanded to four locations in the Capital Region, with a fifth in Port Jervis. ...
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