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Four years ago, Rosie Romero sold a majority stake in Legacy Custom Builders and Remodeling Inc. to Mark Olson, an apartment development specialist. One year later, Olson recruited Brian Shaurette, a residential construction professional with a new-home construction background, to manage the company. Since then, Olson and Shaurette have analyzed each part of the company, from the types of service they offer to the types of marketing they use, to determine their most profitable activities. The goal, says Olson, is to grow the company so it will hit $10 million in revenues within the next few years. Shaurette and Olson sat down with Qualified Remodeler to talk about their success, particularly in the area of sales and marketing.
QR : How do you plan your sales and marketing activity?
Brian : It is not as complex as you might think. Basically, since Mark and I joined the company, Rosie Romero has had a radio show on Saturday morning that is the No. 1 radio show on the dial. At the time, we were struggling to make sure that we were using our marketing dollars as effectively as possible. Buying print ads and hiring marketing companies for thousands of dollars had been tried with no real good turnout.
Mark : I have a financial background and I was analyzing the operation on an ongoing basis from the day that I got here. I could see that Rosie took a broader approach to remodeling services. He really didn't appear to have the people or the information systems in place to understand the profitability of each area. You have to have good reporting systems to be able to ascertain what you are doing right and what you are doing wrong. So that was an evolutionary process. And as we were doing that, we shut down the things that we felt we were not good at and focused on what we are good at. In conjunction with the marketing dollars we are spending, we track our lead sources for all of our contracts, so we know the return we are getting on each marketing dollar. So that helped us to pinpoint some of the things that we wanted to do.
QR : After you analyzed the business, what were the key remodeling segments that you stayed with?
Mark : We decided to focus on remodeling jobs, not handyman, not custom homes, not a concierge service as we had been doing in the past. That is not to take anything away from what anybody in the organization was doing prior to our coming on board. It was just inconsistent with our vision. We like to pick a farm and farm it. We wanted to direct all of our energies toward the core business.
QR : When you analyzed Legacy's most effective marketing sources, it must have had a major impact on how you allocate your marketing budget.
Brian : Our analysis showed that most of our leads were coming from our "Rosie on the House" connection — the 60-second spot that Rosie was doing during his show on Saturday morning. And Rosie would make mention of us throughout the show, so overwhelmingly, most of our leads were coming from that avenue. Like I said, Rosie had tried high-end marketing agencies spending thousands of dollars. We had tried print ads for the company, but nothing had shown so clearly as the leads from Rosie's show. The trouble was that most of the audience for Rosie's show was small-job orientated. We have a $20,000 minimum job size. We do kitchens, baths, whole-house, exterior and interior. We had to filter through a lot of those leads to get to the bread-and-butter leads.
QR : What is your process for filtering leads?
Brian : We have a very good person answering the phone who knows how to talk to the people and find that out. We don't like to make anybody feel like they are being judged on that phone call so we pretty much steer almost everything to one of our project consultants for a personal phone call and a visit to the person's house, unless it is quite evident that it is a small, one-trade job. In those cases we counsel that person back into the "Rosie on the House" referral network. After seeing those leads from Rosie's show — and I have been a longtime talk-radio listener — that is what started us getting talking about doing more radio advertising.
QR : What is your arrangement with Rosie and his radio show?
Mark : The deal I struck with Rosie when he gave up the majority ownership was to have him under a marketing services agreement for five years with the ability to extend it. We pay a monthly fee for that.
QR : What other areas do you use to generate leads to market your company?
Brian : We knew that radio was clearly the way to go. So we tried another step. We went with an upscale jazz radio station. We did not stop what we were doing on the Rosie show, but just supplemented that. We tried that for six months to a year and it did not turn out to be lucrative at all.
QR : What were the frequency and the length of the ads that you were running?
Brian : There were 30-second commercials and 60-second commercials and they were not as frequent as any ad agency would say that you need to have. But it was a big step. And there were some 15-second riders where they would put four commercials together. But we did not see anything that showed us that it was working for us. So Mark and I began to have conversations, and we decided to stay with the station that Rosie was on, but to add commercials outside of his show at other times of the day. Then we expanded on that and went to the other competitive radio station. At the same time we were increasing the frequency. We still rotated between 30s and 60s. And Rosie and I personally write those and we try to find out something that is happening within our company, or within the economy, or within the area. And that has shown to be extremely successful. I have more friends and family that tell me that they have been hearing our ads on the radio.
Mark : One of the other things that provided a foundation and superseded the decision to go to talk radio was that when we did the analysis, we began to understand the demographics of our target market. We spent a lot of time reviewing and discussing with our project consultants the most suitable audience for our services, developing a profile of our clientele.
QR : And what is the profile of your clientele?
Mark : It is probably a little bit broader, but I will tell you what, we like going for doctors. Doctors don't want to be analyzing and looking over your shoulder day-in and day-out, as some people do throughout a project. They typically have a nice home and they want to do an upscale remodel. And they don't want to be involved in the day-to-day activities.
Brian : That is a very valid point. They typically have made the decision that in their life, as busy as they are, that they want a company that really knows how to manage a remodel. We do many, many $40,000 to $70,000 jobs for people who are not doctors, but they have that same kind of personality trait. They are fearful of having the horror of a bad remodeling experience happen to them and we clearly demonstrate to them that we know what we are doing. We have a lot of clients who are engineers and lawyers. They are persnickety and particular. They are difficult when you have to meet those expectations. We are extremely careful when we are setting our expectations in the sales process that we are not infallible. We do make mistakes and we are operating in a very difficult climate. But what I try to instill in our sales people is that we operate in this market as its leader. Right now, we are the best at doing it.
Mark : It occurs to me also, as I listen to Brian describe all of that, is part of that also is setting your pricing properly. And over the years we have done some experimentation in reducing our markup to try to increase our volume. We have a pricing structure that adjusts the markup from a large job to a small job by increments of $5,000 in cost. We look at what we have done in the past and how profitable each job is based on the size of the job. And we have made some decisions on how to price jobs, and how many jobs of each size we are going to be doing in a given year. So that is a pretty important component. We don't have one price and one markup for all of the jobs that we do. It is incremental. And it seems to be working. We are at 185 percent of last year's sales as of August 2005 versus all of '04 and we expect to hit 200 percent.
QR : So the expansion into talk radio, a more targeted clientele profile and enhanced attention to pricing structure are paying off?
Mark : And there is a fourth. We have also been able to attract a highly competent sales and field team. And that is at the foundation of being able to sell it. We've got good people in the field who know how to deliver it and we have people who know how to sell it.
Brian : That was the first step, even prior to going further into radio, to slowly elevate the caliber of people starting with the sales force. And Mark and I moved through the office team and out in to production.
QR : How many people sell?
Brian : We have seven people selling right now and we are probably going to settle in around nine in the next few months. I learned this some time ago; you are not going to attract good salespeople with integrity and knowledge, unless they are compensated appropriately.
QR : In terms of a sales person's activity, how do you manage them? Do you look for activity or sales results within a given period?
Brian : I am now three years into it. I understand now what can be produced by the company. People tell us what they can sell. Once I have talked with the salespeople and once Mark and I have talked, we develop two budget numbers. We have what the sales people have told me they can do. And we have what Mark and I have in mind as a more realistic goal based on what we know from having been here a few years.
QR : The sales person has an annual and monthly budget?
Brian : It is annual. We break it down monthly. We have a sales report that can show positive and negative progress. We publish that information to our team. And we have sales contests, etc. Nobody likes to see themselves falling behind their goal.
Mark : One of the things that I do to help me guide the organization is prepare static projections and budgets that remain in place throughout the year based on our knowledge and what were assumptions were at that time. But I also complete another version, which I update each month with actual results and I do that throughout the year so that I can understand the trends. I can make adjustments, and I call that my working budget. These adjustments are based on better information that I have at the time. Mid-year, we may make adjustments to our markup, schedule or whatever we need to continue to guide things in the proper direction. With the sales and the overall budget we do that.
QR : Are there additional marketing sources?
Brian : The first year I joined the company, we took an idea from another remodeler out of state. We now do something on a Saturday afternoon that we call 'Remodelers Weekend.' Our clients and potential customers only get one piece of mail from us each year and it is an invitation to this event. We hand out personal invitations to friends, family and trades and people that we are working with. And it is an RSVP-only event. We discourage bringing children, so we can focus on people's remodeling projects. We have our trades set up and they talk about how they fit into our organization. Attendees come in and meet our office staff. They meet members of our CAD department. They meet the estimator.
QR : So it is an open house?
Brian : It is an open house and it is by RSVP. We offer donuts and coffee in the morning and in the afternoon we do Cajun deep-fried turkey catered by Rosie's mother and his brother from their restaurant. We now write contracts with people who have been coming to two and three of these events. They get comfortable with us, and when they want to do a remodeling project, they decide to buy from us. We get a lot of business from that. We have all types of dog-and-pony shows going on throughout that day. We have a large plasma TV in the CAD department where they can do conceptual designs for the customers in an interactive way. People can sit and relax with a laser pointer and discuss moving 'this wall' and 'that window.'
The third component is that we stay involved in the largest builder/remodeler show in the Valley. We focus on this one trade show. We get about 80 leads from it. And we will write five or 10 jobs from it. Our 'Remodelers Weekend' is higher than that. We also have a well-placed Yellow Pages ad that brands Legacy and the "Rosie on the House" program.
One of the things we have learned is that we don't take a shotgun approach to advertising. We are focused. We stay the course. And if we change, it will be simply to add more frequency to what we already do.
Mark : We also have a pretty decent Web site at www.legacyaz.com.
QR : Do you pay for referrals?
Brian : We don't pay for referrals. We don't pay for them from designers or from architects. I don't pay my guys for them. I don't require them to do a certain amount of canvassing. I know that there are a lot of companies that don't believe in that. Then again, we just got voted No. 1 remodeler in the Valley.
Mark : When the receptionist takes the call, she fills out a lead sheet that provides a lot of background information and of course that includes the lead source and she maintains that information on an ongoing basis in a lead-tracking software. And then I use that to analyze the amount of leads, the amount of revenue and the profitability by lead source. So at the end of each year I know exactly what we got from each one and how much we paid to generate that.
QR : You are at 185 percent of '04, and '05 is not over yet. Is that increase something that you carefully planned for?
Brian : It is absolutely carefully planned. We don't want to overwhelm our production and pull the legs out from underneath the business that has taken so long to establish. We are staffing prior to our volume. We know our amount of volume. We know the municipalities and the time it takes to get permitting and everything. We know with our vice president of production and our general superintendent consistently interviewing and looking for people, that we knew we were going to raise our volume of business.
Mark : And I will jump in here again. We have a five-year plan for growth that is updated on an annual basis. So the strategic plan kind of provides the roadmap. Then we augment that with proper communications among the key team members so everybody understands what the visions is and what we are doing to get there. That communicative process is very important to be able to carry out.
QR : Will you grow another 100 percent in 2006?
Mark : No. We have a goal of getting to $10 million within the next few years. So we just keep pushing and pushing to move in that direction. To do that we are investing in the organizational infrastructure on an ongoing basis: the people, the systems, office improvements and everything that goes along with it. I would imagine it is probably a more modest increase but it keeps us on target to get to that $10 million.
Brian : It is going to have a lot to do with what everyone is trying to speculate and guess at, what the economy is going to do in '06. But we like to think that with our efficiencies that we have right now, that even the market does soften, that we are going to capture a good bit of it.
Mark : Well-structured companies actually excel in the difficult times. Many competitors are not as well put together and won't be able to attract the continuing level of business that we've had. So a lot of business will go to the more successful organization. That is what we hope and plan to do with Legacy; continue to attract and hire the right kind of people and put the right systems in place.
Legacy Custom Building & Remodeling Inc.
Location: Scottsdale, Ariz.
Year founded: 1988
2004 Revenue: $5,227,665
2004 Jobs: 78
Web site: www.legacyaz.com
Principal remodeling activity: Design/Build
Claim to fame: Founder Rosie Romero hosts a local Saturday morning radio show "Rosie on the House," which is perennially No. 1 in its time slot.


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You wouldn't have to overload the UI with all the extensions, just the ones that are in question from time to time (Eg: they may not ALWAYS be available.) and those two would only be s3tc and texture_float which you could capture by running glxinfo | grep "s3tc" ; glxinfo | grep "texture_float."
I completely agree on not declaring EVERY extension that's loaded, but having those 2 explicitly checked and declared would be nice
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Yes I'm a hd4770 owner to and sure its better to lose 20% of the speed and use a modern Linux distribution instead. Its just not a option to use old Open-Source software only because a buggy and shitty catalyst driver force you to.
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- Thoroughly wash all metal pans, ceramic dishes and utensils that came in contact with flood water with hot soapy water and sanitize by boiling them in clean water or by immersing them for 15 minutes in a solution of 1 tablespoon of unscented, liquid chlorine bleach per gallon of drinking water.
- Undamaged, commercially prepared foods in all-metal cans and retort pouches (for example, flexible, shelf-stable juice or seafood pouches) can be saved. Follow the Steps to Salvage All-Metal Cans and Retort Pouches in the publication "Keeping Food Safe During an Emergency."
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One of the oldest colleges in Illinois, founded in 1837. Blackburn is also one of only seven colleges in the U.S. where students work in exchange for tuition credit, and the only one whose Work program is student-run. This keeps Blackburn's tuition among the lowest of all private colleges in the United States. Over the years, students have literally built Blackburn, brick by brick; the only college campus in the United States to be largely built by its students.
Greenville College
Greenville College's H.J. Long Gymnasium, a 2,000-seat venue, houses the varsity volleyball and basketball programs, and is capable of being configured for two additional courts. The Crum Recreation Center features a fantastic gym setup, and can handle two basketball, tennis or volleyball courts.
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Re: Be The Penguin
Hey, what's black and white, and black and white, and black and white, and black and white, and black and white? Answer: A penguin rolling down a hill! GMV
Re: Dwarf-Back Ride
Interesting concept. Very clever and definitely done very well, but a darker shirt colour may help. P.s. You're now one vote closer to reaching 100!!
Re: Skull Island Treasure Map
Damn. im a sucker for pirate shirts. Especially really awesome ones like this!! Love the detail and the general drawing style. Definitely GMV!!
Re: Stars Upon Thars...
I know what this is. But I can see wearing this and my friends asking why I have a star on my shirt for Halloween. They just are not as inclined as I..
Re: Escaped Convict!
I really like this idea. The prison suit underneath looks incredible. Like it really is a different material. Great job.
Noooooo! I was so disappointed this morning when I went to see if this shirt was still in the fog. This shirt was awesome, and I would have bought it with or without the text. Say it ain't so, woot!
Re: Rorschach Test
I see the makes of a skeletal system, ie: ribs, spine, hip bones...
Re: PRESS MY BUTTONS
Cool shirt...but I think Woot's gonna get sued if they try to sell it.
Re: Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot
who doesnt love a Rock 'em Sock 'em Robot?
Loved this game!!! GMV
cls31s wrote:GREAT USAGE OF COLOR!...wow
thanks! i had a lot of fun with this one!
Re: Yabba Dabba Doo!
I like this shirt a lot! But I cannot vote for it, because I already own one that I got on a different site.. Good Luck! It looks great! (ahhh, who cares, I'll vote for it anyway! gmv)
A little too large of a print, and I think it would look way better on Royal Blue, but otherwise, great idea.
female wrote:They don't copyright them, but they do trademark them. They get design trademarks on various shapes and configurations that define the product. The Game Boy design was officially trademarked in 1992, but it's not an active trademark anymore. It expired in 2003. Hope this helps clear things up.
This is good to know!! GMV btw. I love it and I'll probably buy it
trade mark infring?
I dressed up as a Game Boy once. It was the dorkiest costume ever: a big box with armholes, a neck hole and the buttons and screen drawn on the front. This shirt is way better.
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Love it! Want it! =)
Andy47240 wrote:I really like this idea. The prison suit underneath looks incredible. Like it really is a different material. Great job.
Thanks! That's the part that took the longest...
sharptoothpiranha wrote:llo funny!
I like the art, but I don't think it fits the theme. Who's going to be tucking their head into a shirt all night? Anyway, at least it looks good - who wouldn't want a gnome on their shirt?
Re: Congratulations, it's a Marsupial.
This would be especially funny for me, since I am pregnant.
ansharp wrote:A little too large of a print, and I think it would look way better on Royal Blue, but otherwise, great idea.
thanks, i was actually wondering the same - between the two colors - but it looks like my color-blindness got the best of me yet again!
Great idea! Too bad it was submitted so late. . .GMV, though
Kwatson29 wrote:I know what this is. But I can see wearing this and my friends asking why I have a star on my shirt for Halloween. They just are not as inclined as I..
You need to ditch those friends! Just kidding...
Re: I Am Phelps
Awesome! I want one! GMV
very creative! honestly, this is probably the only shirt this week that i would buy (besides for mine, ofcourse :P) GMV!
Awesome shirt. I hope it still has a chance to win!
How come some of the best designs end up being the most basic but also the most striking? Excellent job!
You must be new here. I predict only one outcome.
Re: Alaska Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition
not a bad shirt... you have my vote
Re: This MIGHT be a good shirt!
is there a shirt like this anywhere??? i want a "Big Old Carpet" shirt
Re: BE THE LEGEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh yeah!.. feedback... feedback... Uh... yeah... The texture makes it look like an iron-on. You probably should have make use of the effort in making the pockets/belt look more realistic. And stretching the shirts to make it look like the design would actually fit right, is ridiculous. Oops! That was critical, wasn't it?..... :/
Being a HUGE fan of Dr. Seuss, I like this idea, but I would really like to see a more funky star instead of a perfectly formed one like this...Dr. Seuss has a quirky illustration style and would drive the point home even better. -m-
Equal parts creative and psychotic. I love it. Got my vote.
oswandel wrote:78layers RULES!!
Equal parts creative and psychotic. I love it. You've got my vote.
Re: Fee! Fie! Foe! Fum!
Nice! Simple, but wonderfully detailed. Thought it was a Zelda reference when I saw the thumbnail, and wouldn't have voted for it. Zelda is pretty much played out. But the quality made me curious (and I couldn't remember anything about a harp in Zelda), so I checked out the comp. I love the design. Thanks TGentry. BTW.. What's with the hating on TGentry. I doubt a significant percentage of voters actually participate in the threads or would know him from any other artist. People vote on what they like. It just so happens that TGentry is good at making shirts people like. I rarely know who the artist is for any design I vote for. I see what I like and vote for it.
theinfinityloop wrote:This turned out so good Boots! I actually like how it's not a gross hand, like with hair or green nails or something.
Agreed, but only because that might have looked too cartoonish. I like the realism of it. Fun shirt, and the orange shirt is a perfect pick.
Re: Caring Bear
Go Cowboys!
Re: Devil Inside
I'm surprised this is not higher up... damn!
I'm still waiting for josmul to come back and explain the vagina-button to us.
Re: Shirt Kebab
My first design for the derby and I got it in late. My next one will be on time and better!
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American Fiddle Method Volume 1 (Beginning Fiddle Tunes and Techniques). Composed by Brian Wicklund. For Fiddle. Saddle-stitched, Methods. American Fiddle Method. Bluegrass & Country. Beginning. Book/CD/DVD Set. 64 pages. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.99471SET).
ISBN 9780786668656. Bluegrass & Country. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Destined to become a classic, this method provides the beginner with the elements needed to become a proficient fiddler. Based on many years of teaching experience, the author introduces the concepts and techniques that yields solid results. This method encourages creativity in the student by including variations to the tunes and illustrating how they can serve as a basis for improvisation. To assist in the development of ensemble skills, chords and lyrics, basic music theory, and demonstrations of such skills as backup and lead playing are included in this profusely- illustrated book. This book is beneficial for both fiddle students and classical Suzuki violin students. A CD for listening and play-along captures the excitement of the music and aids instruction. This set also includes the companion DVD, in which the author guides you through the basic skills of learning the fiddle and shares his pointers and shortcuts to help you learn faster and more efficiently.
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Main Street Galena
Galena's historic Main Street -- named "Best Main Street in the Midwest" by Midwest Living magazine and one of America's Best Main Streets by Fodor's -- curves past nearly 100 19th-century storefronts. Galena looks much as it did during the time of the Civil War, although now the historic red brick buildings are home to charming boutiques, art galleries and restaurants. Galena is also known for its cozy lodgings, with quaint bed and breakfasts dotting the picturesque hillsides surrounding the town.
Apple River Fort State Historic Site
Apple River Fort State Historic Site, located in Elizabeth, Illinois, is the site of one of the battles fought during the Black Hawk War. Black Hawk and his 200 warriors attacked the hastily erected fort on June 24, 1832. His story and that of the early settlers are told.
Galena Carriage Co.
Historic carriage rides, dinner rides, "romance and roses" rides. Friday-Saturday evenings, 5 p.m.-9 p.m. Seasonal sleigh rides. Reservations recommended.
DeSoto House Hotel
Stay the night at the DeSoto House Hotel on Galena's Main Street, which dates back to 1855 and is Illinois' oldest operating hotel. The DeSoto has hosted such notable guests as Abraham Lincoln (who spoke from a hotel balcony to the assembled crowd below) and served as the presidential campaign headquarters for Ulysses S. Grant. The hotel features 55 Victorian-style guest rooms, three restaurants and boutiques.
Ulysses S. Grant Home State Historic Site
This Italianate home was presented to U.S. Grant in 1865 and opened to the public in 1904. Furnishings original.
Galena Trolley Tours
City tours of Galena, tour of homes and nightly ghost tour. Group services and charters. Original tour company since 1988.
Elihu B. Washburne House State Historic Site
Washburne was a popular congressman/friend of Lincoln and Grant. Grant's election news was received in the library via telegraph.
Chicago Great Western Railway Depot Museum
Experience railroading during its glory days at a former link for the Chicago Great Western Railway from Chicago, Illinois to Oelwein, Iowa by taking a tour through our extensive collection of railway memorabilia. See a full-size caboose, both G-scale and HO-scale operating model railroads and artifacts of northwestern Illinois railroads.
Linmar Gardens
Enchanting Linmar Gardens is nestled in a hillside overlooking the historic town of Galena. The secluded 3.5-acre garden is situated on natural outcroppings which have been enhanced with hand-built terraces. Meander on a guided tour along paths through a collection vibrant annual and perennial flowers including hostas, viburnums, conifers, grasses and daylilies.
Galena Main Street Walking Tours with General Grant
Partake in an one-hour tour with one of Galena's most notable citizens, General Ulysses S. Grant, and explore the historic highlights of this award-winning Main Street. The tour also features the 'Field of Dreams' movie locations that were captured in downtown Galena. Reservations are not required to join in the tour.
Blackhawk War Monument
This monument is located on the site of Kellogg's Grove, an early settlement established in 1827 on a mail route between Peoria and Galena, and now on the National Register of Historic Places. It honors those killed in the Blackhawk War, including in the final Illinois Battle which occurred at this grove in June, 1832. Abraham Lincoln, a member of the Illinois militia, helped bury five of the slain men. The remaining soldiers were originally buried throughout the area at the spots at which they fell. Fifty years after the war, local farmers collected the remains and buried them in one enclosure on top of this hill overlooking the Yellow Creek Valley. The 34-foot high monument was dedicated in 1886.
All About A Ghost Tour
Walking tour with researched, authentic stories about Galena's ghostly past & present. Mix of history and mystery.
1876 Banwarth House and Museum
A fascinating, hands-on experience awaits! Join period interpreters on a journey through the fine Victorian home of Charles Banwarth.
Tri-State Trolley
Galena's only ADA-compliant and climate-controlled trolley service! Daily narrated tours, May-October. Unique group tours, wedding transportation offered year-round.
The Old Blacksmith Shop
Authentic 1897 blacksmith shop with working forges. Original tools/equipment and an on-site historian. Gift shop: Galena-forged items.
Old Stockade on the Cobblestone Street
Used as a refuge for women and children of the Galena area during the Blackhawk War of 1832, the Old Stockade brings Galena's earliest history to life in this 1820's log building. Come, share!
Galena/Jo Daviess County Historical Society
A qualified museum guide will board your group's motorcoach and take you through Galena, with stops that can include the Galena/Jo Daviess History Museum, Ulysses S. Grant Home and Old Market House.
The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design
This satellite facility of the international museum features contemporary art, architecture and photography from around the world.
General Grant Walking Tour
Whether you are a history buff or someone who is just looking for insight behind the makeup of Galena, join in an one-hour walking tour with Galena's own General Ulysses S. Grant on Main Street in downtown Galena. Periodically, his fellow eight Civil War generals make an appearance. Be on the lookout!
Dowling House
Galena's oldest house, Dowling House, was built in 1826 by John Dowling. Built of limestone, it was once the only trading post in the city. The Dowling House was equipped with primitive living quarters and hosted many fur traders in years past. Tour guides provide a complete history of the development of the City of Galena and Dowling House while you browse through quaint artifacts from the early nineteenth century. Thirty-minute tours. Noreen's Old Tyme Photo & gift shop on site.
Amelia's Galena Ghost Tours, Inc.
Nightly ghost tours on a luxury air-conditioned shuttle bus with a theatrical flair exploring several locations in historically haunted Galena.
Market Street Commons at the Kraft Building
Market Street Commons is located in the heart of the Mt. Carroll historic district, in the old Kraft Building. The Kraft Building houses the community Welcome Center and Chamber of Commerce, along with shops.
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Lena Water Tower
Built in 1896, the 100-foot-tall tower is believed to be one of only three in Illinois of similar construction, and has become the symbol of the Village of Lena.
Galena & U.S. Grant Museum
Discover Ulysses S. Grant, one of the most celebrated Generals of the Civil War and United States President, in this museum bearing his name. Featuring 'Ghosts of the Grants' hologram, Civil War exhibits, 1830s lead mine shaft. Book/gift shop. Galena merchandise.


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place? A place where they were listed by county and city so you could find the newspapers your ancestors read?
This is the purpose of the Online Historical Newspapers Website. It is
meant to be used as an aid to genealogists, historians, and other
There's a lot of work that needs to be done to this site, and with all the digitized newspapers becoming available, it's likely this project will be a continuous work-in-progress! My goal is to first list all I can find for the United States and then go on to add newspapers for other countries. There will be also lists of resources, articles, and ideas of where to find offline historical newspapers. These links include both free sites and subscription database websites. Expand
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As of my knowledge there is no clipboard register for Mac OS X unlike Windows (VimTip21). However you can use pbcopy/pbpaste command to achieve the same thing.
:.!pbcopy "Copy current line clipboard :4,8!pbcopy "Copy line 4 to 8 :!echo "%:p" | pbcopy "Copy current filename to clipboard :r !pbpaste "Paste clipboard content to current line
For MacVim and Windows Gvim, I have the following in my ~/.vimrc:
set clipboard=unnamed
Operations such as yy
, and P
work with the system clipboard. No need to prefix them with "+
or "*
You can use homebrew to install the latest vim and you're clipboard should work in the terminal.
brew install vim
I find that the +
register works for transferring back and forth to the OS X clipboard.
I failed to mention that I compile Vim with '--without-x --disable-gui' therefore I don't have access to the unnamed registers. pbcopy/pbpaste is a work around.
I use 4,8w !pbcopy
which prevents the deletion of lines within the window-file where I run the command.
I've got the following lines in my .vimrc:
map <F2> :.w !pbcopy<CR><CR> map <F3> :r !pbpaste<CR>
Pressing <F2> copies the current line to the clipboard, pressing <F3> pastes the current content from the clipboard.
My maps just add onto what these guys have worked on.
- <F1> pastes, but I have it configured so it works very well in insert mode and in normal mode. The nopaste setting makes sure that auto-indent doesn't go crazy when you try to paste something in.
- <F2> copies text. If you are in normal mode, it will just grab the line your working on. If you in visual mode however, it will grab all the selected text.
nmap <F1> :set paste<CR>:r !pbpaste<CR>:set nopaste<CR> imap <F1> <Esc>:set paste<CR>:r !pbpaste<CR>:set nopaste<CR> nmap <F2> :.w !pbcopy<CR><CR> vmap <F2> :w !pbcopy<CR><CR>
Comment: the nmap commands work perfectly, but unfortunately the vmap-copy doesn't (it grabs the whole line instead of the selected text). I'm working with the non-GUI version on Mac OS X. Later I will try to figure out a workaround.
Use fakeclip pseudo clipboard register for non-GUI version of Vim on Cygwin and Mac OS X
It looks like there's a problem with fakeclip on Mac OS X (I don't know which versions are affected). For everyone who gets "Platform not supported: Unknown" or something like this should try this:
In autoload/fakeclip.vim
: Search for system('uname -o')
and change it to system('uname')
. Now it should work.
Another tip: For cross-platform clipboard sharing you can use the open-source (GPL) ClipboardMultiSharer with text and image data on any platform that runs Java; in particular, Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.
Since version 7.3 the console version of Vim supports Mac OS X clipboard. As noted above just add the following to ~/.vimrc
set clipboard=unnamed
As of Mountain Lion, the previous tip does not appear to work in system-provided vim; yanked lines do not go into the system clipboard, nor does anything yanked to the * or + registers.
It does however work with MacVim in terminal mode.
Also on Lion
set clipboard=unnamed
no longer works but pbcopy and pbpaste still do. Tip is still valid.


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The XLj Driver is designed for kids ages 9-13 or with a height of 53'' and above This fairway driver is designed with a low-profile head for a low center of gravity, generating higher, longer and straighter shots from the tee or fairway. Top Flite's youth driver has a shaft with a unique junior flex to maximize clubhead speed. The Top Flite XLj Driver is an excellent addition to a junior's set of clubs.
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What do you think of the F# language? I would like to learn it's positive and negative points.
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What do you think of the F# language? I would like to learn it's positive and negative points. What is your experience with this language? When should or shouldn't someone use F#? See also: F# at Microsoft Research |
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I have mixed feelings about F#. I have a strong functional programming background and many years of C# experience, so I can see it from both sides and I think that F# makes too many compromises to satisfy people from either group. It's worth pointing out as well that .net is fundamentally an object-oriented imperative execution environment. It's not terribly well suited to a language like F#, so there are compromises to be made everywhere. At the end of the day, all F# programs need to be turned into a pile of CLI types and methods which, largely, have C#-like semantics. There is a lot to like about F#, but I'm going to focus on the negative here, since the good things are more obvious and well documented.
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As a C# programmer who has recently been exploring F# by reading The F# Survival Guide, I can't help thinking that if I'd been exposed to it back when we were still using C# 2.0, I would have thought it was awesome. Now, however, that C# 3.0 has added LINQ and type inference and anonymous types and lambda expressions and all the fun with IEnumerables, I feel like all the things would have been better expressed in F# can now be expressed pretty damn well in C# too. Also, as a stylistic judgement, my gut feeling that there was way too much going on with punctuation. Too many pipes and underscores and multi-symbol constructs like [| and -> and (| and (_). Reminded me of Perl. I just find that too much meaning attached to punctuation makes for completely unreadable code. |
Well, I wanted to write a simple application to connect to a MySQL database and do mathematical functions on the data. Running functions on data seems to be a natural fit to a functional language. That didn't work well (you can find remnants of the project as questions on StackOverflow). My take-away from that project was that the MS database libraries are ridiculously duplicated and hard to use. Further, the imperative paradigm is hard to directly map to F#. Also, the syntax is 'relatively' easy to read, but very hard to understand well enough to write in a non-trvial fashion. I found at the time (2008) a terrible gap between the "hello world" tutorials and the advanced technique discussion. Today, a problem is that the language has evolved so that the early material on it breaks when compiled today. I have a generalized gripe about whitespace delimiting in general, and F# unfortunately falls in that bucket. So I didn't have a good experience with it. But, I think if you have a full-time project with it, in a domain that maps well, F# is going to be a right solution (Along with Haskell, OCaml, and Lisp). |
I didnt like how classes require me to name the this pointer instead of allowing me to access member variables implicitly. That was the #1 reason for me not to continue learning it. I felt if i cant access member vars easily that many other things will not be easy as well. I also wasnt impress with the go programming language. However i do like boo even tho i never programmed with it. |


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