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The purpose of this guide is to identify and outline sources of information about legislative enactments of the Arizona Legislature. This guide refers to materials in the Ross-Blakley Law Library, in commercial databases, and on the Arizona State Legislature website (ALIS) at http://www.azleg.gov/. The linked commercial databases require you to access them from the ASU or law school network or to use your ASURITE user ID and password. For an overview of the Arizona legislative process, see our Arizona Legislative Process research guide.
Locate the latest version of the code section (for example, A.R.S. § 44-1261) to be researched in the Arizona Revised Statutes Annotated (A.R.S.) (KFA 2430 1956 .A2). Read the history note following the code section. Note the original chapter number and date (for example, Laws 1984, Ch. 265, § 1). Determine what amendments (for example, Amended by Laws 1998, Ch. 289, § 30) are relevant to your search. Don't forget to check the pocket part. The statutes on the Arizona State Legislature website are not useful for this purpose because they do not have historical notes.
Look up the original chapter number in the Arizona Session Laws (KFA 2425 .A212) and note the original bill number and whether it originated in the House or the Senate (for example, S.B. 1283). The session laws from 1997 (43rd Legislature) to date are on the Arizona State Legislature website. The default is to the current legislative session. For another session, click on "change session" in the navigation bar at the top. Arizona Session Laws can also be found from 1864- in the Session Laws Library of HeinOnline.
House Bills (KFA 2406 .L4 State Law (1982–2007), 1997 to date on Arizona State Legislature website)
See also (KFA 2406 .L45 Law Microforms (1971–75) Cabinet 48)
See also Hayden Library AZDOC 1933–
Senate Bills (KFA 2406 .L5 State Law (1982–2007), 1997 to date on Arizona State Legislature website)
See also (KFA 2406 .L55 Law Microforms (1969–79) Cabinet 48)
See also Hayden Library AZDOC 1949–
The Arizona State Legislature website has Bills and Bill Overviews (status reports) from 1997 (43rd Legislature) to date.
If the bill you need isn't in the Law Library's collection or on the Arizona State Legislature website, you will need to go to the Clerk of the House of Representatives or the Senate Resource Center at the State Capitol (see below).
Click here for an overview of How a Bill Becomes Law in Arizona.
If using the journals in print, turn to the tab marked "History" in the House Journal (KFA 2418 .A6) and Senate Journal (KFA 2418 .A5) for the year of the legislation. Look up the bill number and copy the chronology of actions taken on the bill. Do this in both the House and Senate Journals. Note which committee(s) considered the bill, as well as the time period that the bill was considered. You may be tempted to check the pages within the Journals that are mentioned in the History, but this is a waste of time.
On the Arizona State Legislature website, select the bill. To see the full text of the bill, click on "Show Versions." To see a status report, click on "Show Bill Overview." Bills and bill overviews date from 1997 (43rd Legislature) to the present. The default is to the current legislative session. For another session, click on "change session" in the navigation bar at the top.
See if the Legislature appointed an Interim, Special, or Study committee on the subject of the legislation (for example, Joint Legislature Committee on Diploma Mills or Study Commission on the Model Administrative Procedure Act or Interim Study Committee on Teacher Retirement). Check the year the legislation was enacted, plus a year or two before. Much of the investigative work goes on in these temporary groups and they sometimes issue reports and recommendations to the Legislature generally, or to specific committees. If a committee that has been charged with investigating the topic is listed, there is a good chance that the Clerk of the House or Secretary of the Senate will have copies of these reports or minutes of their meetings. If they don't, the State Law Library 602-926-3948 or the Legislative Council Library 602-926-4236 might. Make a note.
Check the Arizona State Law Library's Legislative Study Committee Reports. For detailed information on researching this special collection, consult a reference librarian.
On the Arizona State Legislature website, check the list of Interim Committees.
If the legislation you are researching is from 1997 (43rd Legislature) or later, consult the Committee Minutes on the Arizona State Legislature website. The minutes are indexed by committee and then by the date that the committee heard the bill. It is necessary to know the committees that heard the bill and the dates they heard it. This information is available from the "Bill Overview" reports.
If the legislation you are researching is before 1997, you will need to go to the State Capitol at 1700 W. Washington Street to review the bill and committee files at the Clerk of the House (2nd floor, House of Representatives Building), 602-926-3032, and the Senate Resource Center (1st floor, Senate Building), 602-926-3848. Take all the information you have gathered thus far. Ask each clerk for the Bill File (House, 1971 to date; Senate, 1969 to date) which will contain all the proposed amendments and versions of the bill and the Committee Files (House, 1965 to date; Senate, 1967 to date) for the committees that considered the legislation. Then browse through the minutes during the time period the bill was being considered. (Don't bother with the Rules Committee file).
Watch for references to Interim Study Committees, Special Committees, or the Arizona Legislative Council. If you find a reference to a document produced by one of these groups, consult with the Clerk. These documents are rarely appended to the committee minutes. View live and video proceedings of floor debate and committee meetings from 2007--present at http://azleg.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=3. For proceedings prior to 2007 contact the Clerk of the House (2nd floor, House of Representatives Building), 602-926-3032, or the Senate Resource Center (1st floor, Senate Building), 602-926-3550.
Check the online catalogs of Arizona State University and the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records for materials that might relate to the legislation.
Check the Arizona Bar Journal 6/65–1988 (K1 .R5), Arizona Attorney, Arizona Law Review, and Arizona State Law Journal for articles that may discuss the legislation. Most of these publications are indexed in LegalTrac or can be found full-text on LexisNexis and Westlaw (1980 to date) or HeinOnline. Check LexisNexis, Westlaw, Access World News, and CD News: the Arizona Republic, Arizona Business Gazette newspaper files for commentaries that may have been in the Arizona Republic, the Arizona Business Gazette, or the Phoenix Gazette. For earlier statutes, the State Library maintains an index card file (territorial to 1987) covering the Arizona Republic and its predecessors, which might reference articles to the legislation. The Arizona State Library has complete runs of two publications that cover Arizona politics and government, The Arizona Legislative Review and the Arizona Capitol Times (1955 to date).
See also the State Library's publication Guide to Arizona Legislative History at Arizona's Capitol. For an anecdotal history of the Arizona legislature from 1912-1967 see: Richards, J. Morris. History of the Arizona State Legislature, 1912-1967, Law Microforms, KFA 2478 .M67 1990 Cabinet 48.
See if a judge referred to some aspect of the statute's legislative history in the course of her opinion. (This is truly a long shot, but necessary in the thorough investigation of legislative history.)
For information on researching initiatives and referenda in Arizona, see Tina Ching, Arizona Initiatives and Referenda, 26 Leg. Ref. Serv. Q. 21 (no. 3/4 2007).
You will now have as much information about a particular piece of legislation as there is to have. You will have to use your advocacy skills to use the information to your advantage. Good luck!! Please contact a Reference Librarian if you have questions.
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International Sportsmen's Exposition at Cal Expo is a welcomed winter relief
It's wintertime. With almost no hunting and limited fishing, outdoors-oriented men and women stay indoors. Our eyes can see fish jumping and a monster buck walking by in scope range. Like it or not, it's still some months away.
So, when the International Sportsmen's Exposition comes around each winter, outdoorsmen and women are champing at the bit to explore aisle after aisle.
It's all there, spread throughout Cal Expo in Sacramento from Jan. 10-13 with more than 600 exhibitors, some ready to sell products at reduced prices and others talking about how great their getaway is. There are more than 200 seminars, hands-on features, contests and numerous demonstrations.
The ISE fills five buildings and spills outdoors. There are products for anglers, hunters, campers, boaters, ATVers, RVers and traveling adventure seekers. Hundreds of lodges and resorts join guides and outfitters, answering questions and booking trips. And most vendors will offer show prices on their products and materials.
Kent Brown of Roseville will head the bass fishing seminar at the big demonstration tank, and he'll be aided by other bass pros, such as Auburn's Skeet Reese.
There are numerous theater offers begging for your attendance, such as The California Sportsmen Theater that's headed by one-time tackle manufacturer Sep Hendrickson, passing on his knowledge of fishing.
The Adventure Theater is sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which will host numerous seminars. Building C will have the Fly Fishing Theater and will be attended by some of the world's top fly casters passing along their knowledge.
New this year is the archery contest with competing Robin Hoods shooting at 3D pop-up targets.
For those with a strong heart, there will be a 300-foot zip line to ride. Look for the lines to be long at this one.
In Building D will be the Youth Outdoor Sports Fair, which opens 3 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11. There will be pros teaching life skills and conservation awareness. As usual, there will be the pond where aides will be available to help your youngster bag a fish.
With California hunters no longer allowed to use dogs to pursue bears for hunting, there will be a seminar bear and others hunters might like to attend. There will be seminars on scouting for elk and even gold panning.
There will be boats and RVs to look at. There is virtually something for everybody.
The ISE will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Jan. 10 and 11, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 12 and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 13.
General admission is $15 and free for kids under 16 and active military with an ID. Parking costs $10.
Current fishing
Despite all the rain, local rivers are dropping due to lessened upriver water releases from dams, and foothill lakes are being heavily planted, which will enhance any fishery.
Folsom Lake: The lake has risen enough where they've thrown the 5-mph speed limit out the window. There is still runoff debris on the water, so going full bore can present a danger with rip-rap floating, some unseen just below the surface. It's a good idea to have somebody up front in the boat keeping watch.
There are trout and salmon to be taken. Just don't expect limits. Concentrate in the deeper water around the dam and the old river channel that runs from the dam to Brown's Ravine. You can pound the water with everything in the tackle box and still not get any bass. They're tough to come by right now.
New Melones: The good news is the DFG is planting the lake every week. The lake is in fantastic shape for boating and shore angling for recent planters and the larger holdovers. If you troll, leave the lead core and downriggers at home. All you need do is top line. Lures such as Rapalas will work, or a #003 Needlefish, Excels, Kastmasters and Speedy Shiners.
Big trout are cruising the shallows and can be nailed by parking yourself on the shoreline. Wind-protected coves are a good bet, and right around Glory Hole and the Highway 49 Bridge is good, too. Don't fish deep. Use a cast-a-bubble. Tie a three-foot leader onto a barrel swivel and float either a woolly bugger, a wet fly, or garlic-scented Power Bait in either rainbow or chartreuse. Don't forget floating a night crawler with a marshmallow. Fishing for big trout at this lake in the winter is legendary. Now is the time to go.
American River: At the last check, water releases from Nimbus were reduced from 10,000 cfs to just over 6,000. That helps, but perhaps not enough. The good thing is you can go with heavier gear than you would have to use if the water were slow and clear. Before the river opening below the Hazel Avenue Bridge to the power lines near Ancil Hoffman Park, the early indications of catches in the basin were hopeful. The fish being caught are chrome bright, and there's a bunch of 10-pounders. You still need to use just enough weight to bounce bottom without hanging up, and that can be tricky. For bait offerings, roe will be your top bet, but night crawlers also are good for steelies.
Lake Amador: They're planting big trout — really big trout. Anglers have hauled big rainbows up the hill with a number of them more than 10 pounds. The biggest went near 13½ pounds. And they continue to put 600 pounds of trout in the water each weekday. While the lake is now within 16 feet of the top at the spillway, you can forgo the cost of taking the boat and get into plenty of good fishing from shore. White Power Bait has been working along with white Power Eggs. Float a crawler under a cast-a-bubble. Cast-retrieve a rainbow-colored Kastmaster or even a small, purple jig.
Jenkinson Lake: Limits are the rule. Before you get to the gate, turn right and go to the second dam. It's an easy walk from there to the lengthy shoreline. Soaking Power Bait, you can put a limit of 'bows on the stringer in a couple of hours.
Eagle Lake: The lake is closed to fishing until the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend. This lake has taken a terrible hit over the last few years as water levels keep decreasing. Hopefully, with the rain and snow that have fallen, the lake level in May and through the 2013 season will improve. There is no dam at Eagle Lake to release water.
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Niemi, 22, a recent graduate from Purdue University's nuclear engineering program, disagrees with the opinion that his generation lacks workforce readiness. While he does admit he can "definitely see where some hiring managers are coming from," he feels fully prepared for the workplace.
According to a survey published April 30 by Adecco, a global human resources consulting company, 66 percent of hiring managers said they don't think recent college graduates are prepared for the workplace. And 58 percent of hiring managers said they're not planning to hire entry-level college graduates this year.
Niemi says his classes at Purdue as well as other professional experiences at engineering firms between semesters have prepared him for the job he's taking this summer as a nuclear fuel engineer with Exelon Corp.
Additionally, a survey conducted by the National Association of Colleges and Employers reinforces the dim job-prospect expectations for younger millennials.
According to NACE's survey, employers plan to hire only 2.1 percent more college graduates from the class of 2013 than they did from the class of 2012. The report says this number is down 10.9 percent from estimates determined by a similar survey NACE conducted last fall.
"The new projection is consistent with recent job reports that show job growth is less than anticipated," said Marilyn Mackes, NACE executive director, in a written statement.
Another recent Big Ten graduate, Jack Maples, says his experience working for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's media department while pursuing a bachelor's degree in English prepared him for the workplace.
Despite having received job offers from small media companies in central Illinois, Maples, 22, is holding out for a job in Chicago. He attributes his lack of networking connections and stiff competition in the Chicago area to his current inability to find employment, not ill-preparedness.
"If a company has an open position, and somebody at that company knows a guy who can do the job as well as anybody else applying for it, why would they waste their time going through a bunch of applications?" Maples says.
One explanation for why many millennials are having such a hard time finding their first post-college job is that the Great Recession created a shift in the way businesses hire, says David Gartside, managing director of talent and organization practices for Accenture, a global management consulting firm.
"Companies have begun to say to themselves, 'I don't need to build skills; I can just hire skills,' " Gartside says. While this hiring practice can lead to high productivity in the short term, Gartside says hiring for specific skills allows a company to potentially miss out on hiring an individual who fits the culture well but needs some training to develop the specific job duties.
This trend in hiring for skills rather than developing young workers is one possible reason why so many recent college graduates are not only unemployed but underemployed, as well. For instance, a recent Accenture survey found 41 percent of workers who graduated from college in the past two years say they are underemployed and working in a job that doesn't require a college degree.
To prevent this trend from becoming a chronic problem, Gartside says students should pick majors that can help them find employment more easily when they finish school, such as science, technology, engineering and mathematics—or STEM majors. He also thinks employers should be doing more to correct this problem. Gartside says businesses could collaborate with universities to steer more students toward pursuing careers in STEM fields.
"There's a big mismatch in the market between companies having a need and that need being unsatisfied, but being unwilling to do anything about it," Gartside says.
Max Mihelich is Workforce's associate editor. Comment below or email firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow Mihelich on Twitter at @workforcemax.
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|Holyoke swimmers dive into summer competition
|Written by Holyoke Enterprise
Despite the overcast skies and cold weather, Holyoke swimmers put in a strong effort at the Northwest Kansas Swim League opening meet in Holyoke on Saturday, June 1.
Eight teams were represented by 279 swimmers at Saturday's swim meet. Forty-five competitors on Holyoke's 47-member team swam in the season opener.
Lali Marquez comes up for air during the 11-12 50 yd. butterfly.
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—Enterprise photo
Holyoke Swim Club ended the day third in the team standings. Goodland, Kan., secured first with 285.5 points, followed by Colby, Kan., 199, Holyoke 195.5, Wray 177, Oberlin, Kan., 150, Burlington 136, Flagler 42.5 and Oakley, Kan., 26.5.
The coaches were very positive after the meet. Coach Adria Colver was very pleased with the team's overall performance, noting improvements in the simmers' turns and starts, as well as some wonderful time drops.
Colver said the 11-12-year-old swimmers placed well, despite often being the youngest in their age group.
Coach Brenda Krueger commented on the promising season ahead, particularly with the 15-18 200 yd. medley relay team. The young team of 14-and 15-year-olds cut 3 seconds off their previous relay time.
The NWKSL will continue their season with a meet in Wray on Saturday, June 8.
Shianne Willmon swims breaststroke during the girls' 11-12 100 yd. individual medley event.
—Enterprise photo
Individual results for Holyoke swimmers at the June 1 meet follow:
8 and under
Girls—Erin Andersen—4th, 50 yd. freestyle.
Boys—Ethan Schneller—2nd, 25 yd. butterfly; 4th, 50 yd. freestyle; 5th, 25 yd. freestyle.
Carter Van Overbeke—6th, 25 yd. backstroke.
100 yd. girls' freestyle relay—4th, Andrea Marquez, Bria Thomas, Aspen Jagers and Andersen.
100 yd. mixed freestyle relay—4th, Schneller, Van Overbeke, Miranda Morales and Payton Ferguson.
Miranda Morales swims her way through her leg of the 8 and under 100 yd. mixed freestyle relay.
Girls—Rylee Schneller—1st, 25 yd. freestyle; 1st, 100 yd. individual medley; 2nd, 25 yd. breaststroke.
Kristin Vieselmeyer—1st, 25 yd. backstroke; 2nd, 100 yd. freestyle; 4th, 100 yd. individual medley.
Haley Van Overbeke—3rd, 100 yd. freestyle; 3rd, 25 yd. butterfly; 3rd, 25 yd. breaststroke.
Ashley Rahe—2nd, 25 yd. butterfly; 4th, 100 yd. freestyle.
Lauren Herman—3rd, 25 yd. freestyle; 5th, 25 yd. butterfly.
Elise Krogmeier—5th, 25 yd. breaststroke; 6th, 25 yd. butterfly.
Boys—Isaiah Rahe—3rd, 25 yd. backstroke; 6th, 25 yd. butterfly.
Ethan Andersen—6th, 25 yd. backstroke.
100 yd. girls' freestyle relay—1st, Schneller, Vieselmeyer, Van Overbeke and Ashley Rahe.
100 yd. girls' medley relay—2nd, Ashley Rahe, Krogmeier, Herman and Elby Kropp.
100 yd. boys' medley relay—3rd, Koby Way, Andersen, Isaiah Rahe and Tristen Ferguson.
100 yd. mixed freestyle relay—5th, Riley Ferguson, Krogmeier, Kropp and Herman.
100 yd. mixed medley relay—1st, Schneller, Van Overbeke, Vieselmeyer and Max Dirks.
Carter Van Overbeke pushes off the wall to start the 25 yd. backstroke.
Girls—Emily Jelden—2nd, 50 yd. backstroke; 2nd, 50 yd. breaststroke; 5th, 100 yd. individual medley.
Lali Marquez—2nd, 50 yd. butterfly; 4th, 100 yd. individual medley.
Demiah Hernandez—6th, 50 yd. freestyle.
Boys—Keegan Shaw—3rd, 100 yd. freestyle; 3rd, 100 yd. individual medley; 5th, 50 yd. freestyle.
Remington Hielscher—3rd, 50 yd. backstroke.
200 yd. girls' freestyle relay—2nd, Jelden, Marquez, Morganne Kumm and Hernandez.
200 yd. girls' medley relay—2nd, Jelden, Josie Herman, Marquez and Hernandez.
200 yd. mixed freestyle relay—4th, Shaw, Shianne Willmon, Lauren Bergner and Hielscher.
200 yd. mixed medley relay—4th, Hielscher, Willmon, Kumm and Shaw.
Emily Krogmeier dives in to begin her leg of the 15-18 200 yd. mixed freestyle relay.
Girls—Emily Krogmeier—1st, 50 yd. freestyle; 2nd, 100 yd. freestyle; 2nd, 200 yd. individual medley.
Tara Krueger—2nd, 100 yd. breaststroke; 3rd, 100 yd. backstroke.
Regan Van Overbeke—3rd, 100 yd. freestyle; 4th, 200 yd. individual medley; 6th, 100 yd. breaststroke.
200 yd. girls' freestyle relay—3rd, Juliana Hernandez, Anna Jelden, Regan Van Overbeke and Michalla Drake.
200 yd. girls' medley relay—3rd, Hernandez, Drake, Jelden and Van Overbeke.
Erin Vieselmeyer competed in the girls' 15-18 100 yd. butterfly event
Girls—Erin Vieselmeyer—1st, 100 yd. freestyle; 1st, 100 yd. backstroke; 1st, 100 yd. butterfly.
Danielle Brandt—2nd, 50 yd. freestyle; 2nd, 100 yd. backstroke; 3rd, 100 yd. freestyle.
Lori McWilliams—5th, 100 yd. backstroke; 5th, 100 yd. breaststroke.
Boys—Issac Brandt—3rd, 100 yd. breaststroke; 6th, 100 yd. freestyle.
200 yd. mixed freestyle relay—5th, Issac Brandt, Erin Vieselmeyer, Malena McWilliams and Kyndal Maurath of Oakley.
200 yd. mixed medley relay—3rd, Lori McWilliams, Danielle Brandt, Krueger and Krogmeier; 5th, Malena McWilliams, Erin Vieselmeyer, Issac Brandt and Megan Vieselmeyer.
Holyoke Enterprise June 6, 2013


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A look at the top digital downloads this week.
iTunes' top songs
1. "Say Something," Christina Aguilera, A Great Big World
2. "Timber (feat. Ke$ha)," Pitbull
3. "The Monster (feat. Rihanna)," Eminem
4. "Counting Stars," OneRepublic
5. "Let Her Go," Passenger
6. "Story of My Life," One Direction
7. "Royals," Lorde
8. "Demons," Imagine Dragons
9. "Burn," Ellie Goulding
10. "White Walls (feat. ScHoolboy Q & Hollis)," Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
iTunes' top albums
1. "BEYONCE," Beyonce
2. "Because the Internet," Childish Gambino
3. "Black Panties," R. Kelly
4. "Wrapped In Red," Kelly Clarkson
5. "The Grohl Sessions, Vol. 1 – EP," Zac Brown Band
6. "Frozen," Various Artists
7. "PTXmas," Pentatonix
8. "The Marshall Mathers LP2," Eminem
9. "Pure Heroine," Lorde
10. "Midnight Memories," One Direction
Google Play top songs
1. "Counting Stars," OneRepublic
2. "Pure Heroine," Lorde
3. "The Monster," Eminem
4. "Say Something(feat. Christina Augilera)," A Great Big World
5. "Let Her Go," Passenger
6. "Timber," Pitbull feat. Kesha
7. "Demons," Imagine Dragons
8. "White Walls," (feat. ScHoolboy Q & Hollis,)" Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
9. "Bottoms Up," Brantley Gilbert
10. "We Own It," 2 Chainz
Google Play top albums
1. "Christmas," Michael Buble'
2. "A Mary Christmas," Mary J. Blige
3. "The Essential NOW That's What I Call Christmas," Various
4. "The Marshall Mathers LP 2," Eminem
5. "Underground Luxury," B.O.B.
6. "Black Panties," R. Kelly
7. "Pure Heroine," Lorde
8. "CeeLo's Magic Moment," CeeLo Green
9. "Nothing Was The Same," Drake
10. "because the internet," Childish Gambino


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in spain we have the problem that spain is one country, but in reality there are at least 3 very strong differentiations inside the country.
So we have Catalunia, which has it's own language (catalan) and it's own flag and of course, in the government, you have to have the proper language flag in the language selection box.
As I see it, there is an image-array with all the flags and styles which have a country specific connection to the flags inside the array.
So Espana (ES) has the spanish flag, but how do I associate the language Catalan with it's own flag? Catalunia is no Country.
I could add new styles and add a flag add a bogus country-code in conf/msgs/L10nMsg.properties, which would probably work, but it has to be maintained over upgrades ...
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Okay this might be a dumb question. I sat down with a new user and was helping him learn zimbra. Short tutorial. The problem he found is that when you go to send an email and you click on the TO button the select address pops up.
That seems fine but its blank. Okay I told him you must add contacts to you list. Okay fine he spends the next 15 min selecting each individual person from the GAL list and add them one at a time. (There has got to be a way to add them all a once.)
So now he has added all his contacts to his list and goes back to the Select addresses. Still blank. He tries to search nothing found. If he switches to GAL and searches it comes up. Whats up with this? Am I doing something wrong here?
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The Glass House Glass For Hot Rods - Glass ActWritten by on March 1, 2009 You've Chopped The Roof, Now What About The Glass?
There are plenty of magazine articles on how to chop a roof- we've even got one in this issue- yet probably the most important piece of the jigsaw in putting the car back on the road is never mentioned. Glass. Just how do you go about cutting that down? And if it's curved, as most post-'48 windshields are, what's the trick to cutting 'em without breaking 'em?
Though it's rarely mentioned, it's always a good idea to cut the glass and then chop the car to suit, as metal (or fiberglass!) can be moved around, whereas glass is going to be the same shape, just shorter, or in thousands of pieces! It should also be considered that only laminated glass can be cut; toughened glass cannot. If the car you want to chop has toughened glass, and you can't source laminated replacements, your only option (well, apart from the hideously expensive manufacture of a one-off piece) may be to try to use glass from another make or model that's similar in shape and modify the car to accept that.
When I chopped my '49 Chevy for instance, it was before I moved to the U.S., and while replacement glass is available here, it would have been exorbitantly expensive by the time it reached England, and that was if it was still in one piece, so I made a fiberglass template from the one bullet-holed half of the windshield I did have, and then went around to parking lots laying it over windshields! Believe it or not, a section of the windshield from a curved glass VW Bug was almost exactly the same shape, enabling me to make the two halves of the Chevy windshield from two VW versions. The only modification was to the top outside corners of the body aperture, where the glass curved inward slightly more than the original. It saved me a bunch of cash and I had brand-new glass.
Speaking of new glass, while photographing for this article at The Glass House, we asked proprietor Mike Cox whether old glass is perhaps more brittle than new glass. His opinion was that so long as it is in good condition, and the layers haven't started to separate, it should be no more brittle or harder to cut without breaking than new glass. Which is good news if your glass is in good condition and you want it cut down.
Flat laminated glass is relatively easy to cut, but curved glass is infinitely more tricky. We've seen it cut with varying degrees of success in the same manner as flat glass, by scribing it, breaking the glass, then heating and cutting the plastic laminate between the layers of glass, but the risk of breaking the glass when 'snapping' it along the scribelines is high because of the curve. Something to think about if your glass is rare or expensive. Mike prefers to sand the glass down to size on a large belt sander, and though this is time-consuming, the risk of breakage is minimal. On the '51 Chevy windshield half shown here, it took three hours to sand off 3 inches.
Cut It Yourself!
I was talking to Brad Masterson, who chopped the Chevy four-door on page 18 of this issue, about cutting down glass, and he told me that a friend of his had just cut his own '57 Chevy windshield using cheap diamond mini-cutting discs from his local discount tool supply house. If you're the do-it-yourself type and want to have a go at cutting your own glass, this could be the way to go. Not wanting to recommend something I hadn't tried myself, I grabbed a set of the aforementioned discs, and scrounged a piece of glass from a local supplier (The Glass Doctor in Temecula, California) and tried them for myself.
I really wanted to cut a windshield but didn't have one at hand, and couldn't scare up a cracked one in time (deadlines are like that!) so bearing in mind the only glass I could get at short notice was household plate glass and not automotive glass, the cutting discs worked very well. There was some chipping, but I'd put this down to the high speed of my nonadjustable cheapo electric mini-grinder, and it was nothing that couldn't be corrected when polishing or beveling the edge of the glass later. However, I would say this method would take as long as sanding the glass down, not to mention it'd be very nerve-racking, but it is an option. Oh, and if you go this route, take as many precautions as you can and then some. You don't want to be breathing fine glass dust, and there'll be a lot of it.
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With the line to which the glass needed to be trimmed in place, masking tape was applied to prevent accidental damage to the glass (shown here on the bottom side of the glass). This vertical belt sander was used to literally sand away the unwanted section of glass. Using a 220-grit belt, it was a time-consuming process that eats the belts. Note the glass was upside down so Mike could see the mark he was working toward, plus it moved on the rollers easier this way, enabling Mike to work the glass from side to side.Once the marked line was reached, Mike removed some of the masking tape and beveled the edges of the glass as shown. This eliminated any rough edges or chips, which could later form weak points where a crack may start.The Glass House has hundreds of patterns for stock glass for old cars, housed in old roller cabinets. Here Mike is making a vent window for a '40 Ford using one of these patterns, though the same technique is used for cutting any flat glass, including glass for chopped cars that use flat glass. While we've seen curved glass cut down this way, we've also seen the many failed attempts before the successful final version! Using a glass-cutting tool, with WD-40 as lubricant, the desired shape was first scribed into the surface of the laminated glass.Wide-jawed pliers were then used to apply pressure to the glass and break it along the scribeline, similar to cutting a ceramic tile. The trick here is not to tackle too much of a curve at once, but rather a series of straight lines. The edges will be sanded and polished later.Gently tapping the glass can help the process; here Mike tapped it from underneath. He then turned the glass over and scribed the other side exactly over the previous lines.After following the same steps as the first side, denatured alcohol was poured into the split in the glass and then lit on fire to melt the plastic membrane between the two layers of glass.Then using the wide-jawed pliers to work the glass, a razor blade was used to cut through the softened plastic layer.
I used a new utility knife blade to cut the top sections from the center divider part of the rubber, then trimmed that section down to the required length.With a section removed from the divider between the two molded holes that mount the stainless trim, the small top piece was cut at an angle on each side and tape placed on the bodywork so I could cut the top sections at the same angle.Mocked together, it fits perfectly once installed; you can see the three joints in the rubber which were glued together later.With rubber that now fit the surround, I could start making a pattern. Heavy paper was taped over the opening with the rubber in place and marked with a pencil.This pattern would fall through the opening though, as it needs to fit inside the rubber. Measuring the depth of the channel at the top, bottom, and outside showed a depth at just over 1/2 inch which meant an extra 1/2 inch needed to be added to these areas. The center bar portion of the channel was a little shallower.If you look closely you can see where the pattern fit in the rubber (the center divider had a shallower channel than the rest of the rubber). Mike is marking the slightly tinted glass for cutting.Here's how Mike supplied the glass to me, taped to my patterns, perfectly sized, and with nice beveled edges. Perfect.
Here's how Mike supplied the glass to me, taped to my patterns, perfectly sized, and with nice beveled edges. Perfect.With the windshield laid on a flat surface, and a blanket to protect the glass, thick string (I actually use the guy rope from an old tent!) is fed into the channel, making sure to overlap the string in the center at the bottom of the windshield.With the glass and rubber laid in the opening, the string is carefully pulled through, enabling the rubber to wrap over the metal lip. Usually the glass is installed from the outside, pulling the string into the car, but the glass on the '46 installs from the inside, which made holding it fun. The garnish molding secures it in place. A second pair of hands is almost essential for this job, as you'll need someone to gently push the glass into place while you pull the string. Work across the bottom of the aperture, then up each side, then across the top, rather than attempting to pull the string from start to finish in one go. Although I didn't do it, many people find that coating the outside edge of the rubber with some dish soap will help it slide over the opening lip and prevent it from tearing.


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Notch Approximation to Low-Cycle Fatigue Analysis of Cylinder with a Hole
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A load carrying component of a structure is subjected to multi-axial cyclic loading during which localized yielding of the material occurs. In this model you perform a low cycle fatigue analysis of the part based on the Smith-Watson-Topper (SWT) model.
Due to localized yielding, you can use two methods to obtain the stress and strain distributions for the fatigue evaluation. The first method is an elastoplastic analysis with linear kinematic hardening, while the second is a linear elastic analysis with Neuber correction for plasticity, based on the Ramberg-Osgood material model. This example explores the second method. In the model "Low-Cycle Fatigue Analysis of Cylinder with a Hole", the same problem is solved using the full elastoplastic approach.


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I have a Christiansen Arms with a Remington titanium action, a titanium muzzle break, a carbon fiber stock that is chambered in the 300 WSM. It kicks like a 243, but it will make your ears ring. It is 6.5 pounds scoped, and shoots 0.6" groups, even with factory ammo. I've had it since 2005 or 2006. It is all my wife and I hunt with. She has shot an elk, 3 antelope, a mule deer, and a bighorn with it in the last 3 years.
I would fall into the group BB mentioned. I like it so much it's creepy. There's a reason the company has grown as much as it has.
I killed the ram in my avatar with in in 2009 on a solo backpack hunt in Wyoming.


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Ron Kussin's 1956 Buick Special - Simple SpecialWritten by on January 8, 2008 A Back-To-Basics Buick Cruiser
Customizing cars has always been about standing out in a crowd-distinguishing your set of wheels from the pack. Back in the '50s and '60s, you had to go to significant lengths to differentiate your ride because there were usually several other cars of the same make, model, and year cruising around your town. On today's streets, however, it's a different story. Any bone-stock '50s car will easily stand out among the sea of chromeless, jellybean pedestrian sedans and hulking SUVs that make up modern traffic.
This fact was not lost on Ron Kussin when he began building this '56 Buick Special a few years ago. Ron is no stranger to customs-he grew up in the paint and body trade and has built a long string of modified cars. Ron has the talent to build radical rides, but he quickly determined that this Buick's handsome original styling would always set it apart in a crowd. even at car shows, the stylish hardtop would stand out among the usual sea of look-alike Tri-Five Chevys and prewar Fords. Thus, he decided the best approach for this Special would be the simplest one.
With that in mind, Ron refrained from doing any major slicing on the big Buick body. Aside from shaving the badges and door handles, the biggest alteration was molding the park light housings and painting them to match the body. even the color selection-a two-tone of copper and cream hues-was relatively subtle. Ron sprayed the PPG colors himself and had Riverside, California's Wild Bill follow up with some tasteful pinstriping. The Buick's underside was left largely stock as well. Ron rebuilt the suspension, installed modified coil springs to lower the ride height, and bolted on a set of 15-inch chrome wheels shod with 1-inch whitewalls and smoothie caps. Ron and his son, Ron Jr., also rebuilt the original 322ci Nailhead V-8, bolting it up to the stock DynaFlow and making it rumble through a pair of 18-inch glasspacks. Finished off with tasty caramel 'n' cream tuck 'n' roll vinyl and a dash painted to match the exterior, this Special is a clean example of mild custom simplicity. it's also cool enough that it has already attracted another owner halfway around the world. Parting with his creations is something to which Ron has grown accustomed. He doesn't mind though. For him, the joy is in building cars and involving his son and wife, Vickie, in the process.
"The payoff for me is the enjoyment of people who buy my cars, the smiles on their faces," Ron said. "I like building '50s customs on a budget that people can afford. They're not high-tech cars; they're simply built to old-school standards, which was all i could afford growing up." The key, Ron said, "is giving the car a highdollar look on a low-dollar budget." Sounds simple, doesn't it?
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Ron Kussin
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1956 Buick Special
The 322ci Nailhead V-8 that powered the Buick from the factory was deemed worthy of motivating it for a few more miles. Ron said that if he had it to do over again, he probably would've swapped in a more economical small-block Chevy, if only to take advantage of better transmission options. We think it's cool to have a Nailhead under the hood though.
Much like the drivetrain, the chassis remains essentially stock. Ron rebuilt the suspension and swapped in custom front and rear springs to lower the ride height a few inches, but otherwise left things alone.
Wheels & Tires
The wheel and tire selection is right in line with the Buick's simple and subtle character. Chrome 15-inch wheels with smoothie caps provide a bit of shine, and are wrapped in 205/75R15 tires with 1-inch whitewalls.
Body & Paint
"i grew up in the body and paint trade and have worked for many of the great masters," Ron said,b so you can imagine the restraint it took to leave the Buick body essentially alone. Ron shaved the badges, locks, and door handles, massaged the metal straight, molded and painted the park light housing, and fine-tuned all the panel gaps before spraying the PPG copper and cream pearl paint. Pinstriper "Wild Bill" Wisslead laid down the 1-shot accents.
Caramel-and-cream-colored vinyls were wrapped around the stock Buick seats in a simple tuck 'n' roll style. Ron also peeled off the original dashpad, painted the dash to match the body, and added laminated plastic teardrop dash knobs and an aftermarket steering wheel. Finished off with black carpet, the Buick's cabin is just like the rest of the car-clean, simple, and sweet.


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I guess DISH seems to get things done faster because decisions are basically being made by one person, similar to the way Apple used to be run under Steve Jobs.
Yep and things are done in a far more haphazard and sloppy way by Dish. I'd rather it be done the right way the first time.
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While her friends were obsessed with dolls or ponies, for as long as anyone can remember Dianna Hanson talked incessantly of her love of lions and tigers.
"She's always had a fascination with big cats," Paul Hanson, her father, recalled Thursday morning. "She never played with dolls. She was a tomboy and played with boy stuff."
"I thought she would change her mind, but it was her dream, her goal, right from the start."
Dianna Hanson, of Brier, Snohomish County, paid regular visits to Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo to view the lions and tigers. She volunteered to help stray and feral cats, her father said. While in college at Western Washington University, she volunteered at a wildlife sanctuary outside Bellingham.
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But Wednesday, while his daughter was interning at an animal park in Central California, Paul Hanson's long-held fear came true. Dianna, 24, was attacked and killed by a lion that had escaped his cage.
The Fresno County Coroner's Office says the 550-pound lion used its paw to lift a partially open door and escape a smaller cage before attacking and killing Hanson, who was cleaning a larger enclosure at Cat Haven, about 45 miles east of Fresno.
She was on the phone with a co-worker in the moments before she was killed, and the co-worker became concerned when the conversation ended abruptly and Hanson failed to call back, Coroner David Hadden said Thursday.
Investigators told Hadden the 5-year-old African lion had been fed when he charged Hanson, breaking her neck and killing her with an apparent swipe of a paw.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which enforces the federal Animal Welfare Act, also hopes to learn whether the lion showed any behavior before the attack that might have indicated potential danger.
Authorities are not pursuing a criminal investigation because the death appears to have been the result of an accident, Fresno County sheriff's Lt. Robert Miller said Thursday.
"I had an awful feeling that a lion or tiger would turn on her," Paul Hanson, a Lynnwood-area attorney, said Thursday.
Deputies shoot lion
Sheriff's deputies responding to an emergency call from the park found Dianna Hanson severely injured and still lying inside the enclosure with the lion nearby, Miller said.
Another park worker had been unsuccessful in trying to lure the lion into a separate pen, so deputies shot and killed the animal to reach the woman, who died at the scene, he said.
Hadden said an autopsy revealed Hanson died instantly of a broken neck at the start of the animal's attack, so she didn't suffer from the numerous bites and clawing that followed, according to The Fresno Bee.
The facility is normally closed Wednesdays, and only one other worker was there when the mauling happened, Hadden said.
The lion, named Cous Cous, had been raised at Cat Haven since it was a cub, said Tanya Osegueda, a spokeswoman for Project Survival, the nonprofit group that operates the animal park.
Paul Hanson said his daughter had told him no one, except Cat Haven Director Dale Anderson, was allowed inside the lion's enclosure.
Hanson said he had visited Cat Haven when he dropped his daughter off at the animal park in early January to start her volunteer internship.
"She had showed me Cous Cous, the lion. She was so happy, so joyful, being there," he said.
Paul Ryan Hanson, Dianna Hanson's older brother, said his sister "had a fire for life, pursuing her dreams and achieving her goals."
"Her passion was that people were made aware of the plight of these animals," he said, speaking from his father's office. "She was following her dream."
WWU degree in biology
Hanson was a graduate of Mountlake Terrace High School and WWU, where she earned a bachelor's degree in biology in 2011.
The university issued a statement on Thursday: "Members of the Western Washington University community are deeply saddened by and share in the loss of Western graduate Dianna Hanson. We offer our sympathy and condolences to her family and friends."
Hanson had worked as a lifeguard and swim instructor at the city of Shoreline Pool since 2005.
City spokesman Eric Bratton said she planned to return to her job in the summer after her internship at Cat Haven.
"Our sympathy and thoughts go out to Dianna's family during this devastating time," said Shoreline Pool Manager James McCrackin. "This is a major blow to the Shoreline Pool staff and the pool community. She will be remembered for her dedication and caring heart. We are grateful to have known her and to have been a part of her shining life."
She also spent years working at animal shelters including the Snow Leopard Trust, PAWS, Akre Tiger Sanctuary in Bellingham and Soysambu Conservancy in Kenya, her LinkedIn account says.
She got to know the operators of the private Akre Tiger Sanctuary after a young boy she was teaching to ski at Mount Baker told her about his family's tigers, Paul Hanson said.
While working at the Bellingham sanctuary, she was able to get into the lion and tiger cages to care for the animals, her father said.
The owner of Cat Haven called Hanson's mother Wednesday afternoon to tell her about her daughter's death. She called her ex-husband and told him she was coming to his condo with news about their daughter.
"I assumed the worst," Paul Hanson said. "First I thought it was a car crash. Then I said, 'Did a cat turn on her?' She said, 'Yes.' "
100-acre park
The 100-acre Cat Haven opened in 1993 and has housed numerous big cats, including tigers, leopards and other exotic species. It is permitted to house exotic animals by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and is regulated as a zoo by the Department of Agriculture.
Cat Haven's current "restricted species" permit, which expires in November, states the park was authorized to house 47 animals but had only 28.
The facility's website says it promotes conservation and preservation of wildcats in their native habitats and offers visitors tours and educational outreach.
Results of the last 13 USDA inspections show no violations dating back to March 2010. The most recent inspection was Feb. 4.
Anderson, the Cat Haven director, said Project Survival would investigate to see if Hanson and the other worker on-site followed the group's protocols.
On Thursday, during a brief news conference, Anderson gave few new details on the attack.
Reading from a prepared statement, he said, "We want to assure the community that safety protocols were and are in place at Cat Haven."
The attack shocked Valli Murnane, who worked as a Cat Haven volunteer docent in 1999. She said workers and volunteers went through extensive training.
"Safety was No. 1, so that's why I was so surprised," she told The Fresno Bee.
Murnane said she never saw anyone in an enclosure with the large cats.
"There were protocols we followed, as you can imagine, because these were wild animals," she said.
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Seattle Times staff reporters Jack Broom and Alexa Vaughn and news researcher Miyoko Wolf contributed to this report, which includes information from
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The Nation's Voice on Mental Illness
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Grading the States 2006: Executive Summary
This report is the first comprehensive survey and grading of state adult public mental healthcare systems conducted in more than 15 years. Public systems serve people with serious mental illnesses - such as schizophrenia, bipolar illness, and major depression - who have the lowest incomes.
The report confirms in state-by-state detail what President Bush's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health called a fragmented "system in shambles."
Nationally, the system is in trouble. Its grade is no better than a D.
Too many state systems are failing
Only five states receive a B: Connecticut, Maine, Ohio, South Carolina, and Wisconsin.
Seventeen states receive Cs, 19 states get Ds, and eight get Fs. That's without the pluses and minuses.
Those states that are failing are: Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota.
This report includes tables that indicate each state's overall grade as well as its grade in each of four categories: Infrastructure, Information Access, Services, and Recovery.
Each state grade is based in part on a "take-home test," in which survey questions were submitted to state mental health agencies during October and November 2005. All but two states responded. Colorado and New York declined. They have been graded "U" for "Unresponsive."
NAMI wishes to commend Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi for their participation, which came in the wake of the twin catastrophes of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Based on the surveys and publicly available information, states were scored on 39 criteria. Consumer and family advocates also provided information through interviews that contributed to state narratives.
The "Consumer and Family Test Drive" represents a unique, innovative measurement. Access to services depends on access to information. NAMI therefore had consumers and family members navigate the Web sites and telephone systems of the state mental health agency in each state and rate their accessibility according to how easily one could obtain basic information.
To some degree, this exercise was like a "pop quiz." Over 80 percent of the states scored less than 50 percent of the total points.
In one case, an agency employee told a consumer: "No, I will not help you."
Those states that received excellent Test Drive scores were Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
Those that received the lowest Test Drive scores were Alabama, Arkansas, Missouri, New Mexico, and South Dakota.
For each state, grades in each category and scoring of the 39 criteria appear in the "State Narratives" section of the report.
The narratives provide context. Common themes emerge. In every case, they relate to choices. None are predestined. Some reflect choices made by governors and legislatures, sometimes without full appreciation of the nature of serious mental illnesses.
The report offers several basic policy recommendations:
Each state narrative also includes a list of specific "Innovations" and "Urgent Needs" to help advocates and policymakers further define agendas for action. An overall list of innovations provides an opportunity for states to learn from one another. Just a few include:
Creative action is needed. Progress is needed. As the grade distribution in the report demonstrates, the United States still has a long way to go to achieve a "New Freedom" for people living with serious mental illness - a freedom based on recovery and dignity.
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Good morning,
I have a new email address and was looking how to change it within the bugtracker, but I couldn't find a solution. And I don't want to create a new account because I'm still the same person :D and I don't want to loose my data. Does anybody has a solution or should I open a task for this in the bugtracker?
The bugzilla docs says (chapter 5.11.1) the changing of the email addresses is possible, but it seems this functionality is disabled in the bugzilla installation at Zimbra.
Thanks a lot


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Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) - Pierria Henry scored 17 points and led
Charlotte to a 71-67 upset victory over 11th-ranked Butler on Wednesday.
Willie Clayton and Chris Braswell scored 11 points apiece, while Darion Clark
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into the game off a loss against Virginia Commonwealth on Saturday.
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The Democratic governor has said the drilling practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is safe. But skeptics remain. The governor told lawmakers Friday that they should spend about $11 million for the state Health Department to study the impacts of oil and gas extraction on environmental air quality.
Hickenlooper has also requested $12 million more for schools and $10 millon for wildfire prevention.
Hickenlooper's spending plan has been adjusted because the state knows more about taxes than it did in November, when Hickenlooper made his formal budget request.
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text: I have a couple of questions about Wolf, WY a little town south of Dayton. Is the road leading into Wolf public access? How big is Wolf and are there any services there? Was thinking of exploring the area above Wolf for mule deer. Any info would be helpful. Thanks