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State to commuters: No restriping at Marquette Interchange till spring
A one-lane bottleneck on westbound I-794 may be causing most of the traffic backups at the Marquette Interchange in Milwaukee, but the state does not plan to grant commuters' requests to reopen a second lane of traffic right away, a state spokesman said Tuesday.
The restriping that will re-establish a second lane of traffic won't happen till the spring after the state adds another lane farther west. That's because officials are concerned that reopening a second lane on I-794 would undermine the improvements in traffic flow from southbound I-43 onto westbound I-94, Wisconsin Department of Transportation spokesman Michael Pyritz said Tuesday.
"That's not practical at this point," he said. "In order for us to undo that striping position, that will back up the entire system once again. We don't really come away with any improvements. It's likely to (mess up) both movements." »Read Full Blog Post(9)
Archdiocese, parishes win key victory in bankruptcy
The Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee's 200-plus parishes are separate legal entities and their assets will not be consolidated with the archdiocese's as part of its bankruptcy, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Susan V. Kelley ruled Thursday in a major victory for the church.
But the parishes could still face separate lawsuits over more than $35 million in parish investment funds that the archdiocese moved off its books in 2005.
Kelley could decide as early as Friday whether to allow the bankruptcy creditors - including hundreds of sexual abuse victims, the archdiocese's pension and health care funds, and others - to sue to recover at least a portion of those millions. »Read Full Article(65)
Police panel abruptly ends meeting after protest
Under fire for reinstating a police officer who punched a handcuffed woman in the face, the Milwaukee Fire and Police Commission announced at its meeting Thursday that it would revisit the decision next week.
But the announcement did nothing to quell the audience's outrage, which boiled over as dozens of people demanded the removal of commissioners, Police Chief Edward Flynn and Mayor Tom Barrett.
Commissioners left without adjourning the meeting as audience members confronted Flynn, demanding that he leave town. They lambasted him for ignoring them and sending text messages as they spoke. »Read Full Article(202)
Motorist dies after crash with Racine bus
A motorist died Thursday when the SUV he was driving collided with a city bus about 2:30 p.m. at Dekovan Ave. and S. Memorial Drive in Racine, police said.
The motorist was not identified.
The SUV was northbound on Memorial Drive and the bus was eastbound on Dekovan when the crash occurred, police said.
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call Racine police at (262) 635-7771. (2)
DA reviewing death of West Allis man after Taser incident
Prosecutors are investigating how West Allis police officers handled a drunken-driving suspect found dead the day after they used force and a Taser on him to obtain a blood draw.
West Allis police requested the review, Chief Deputy District Attorney Kent Lovern said Thursday.
He said it was appropriate to examine whether there was any connection between police conduct and the man's death a short time later, but said he did not expect to have an answer before next week. »Read Full Article
Mining bill would give DNR 2 years to review proposals
The state Department of Natural Resources would get two years to review a mining application, under a series of streamlining measures reviewed on Thursday by a legislative committee controlled by Democrats.
The changes address timelines and the DNR's review of future mining projects, and stem from suggestions by a former mining executive and others who believe Wisconsin has to remove barriers that have kept the industry out of state.
But the recommendations didn't go far enough, complained the state's largest business group and a lobbyist for a proposed iron ore mine that is waiting in the wings. The company behind the $1.5 billion project will proceed if the regulatory landscape looks favorable. »Read Full Article(202)
Ball wins Doak Walker Award
Madison - Wisconsin senior tailback Montee Ball on Thursday was named the winner of the 2012 Doak Walker Award, given annually to the top running back in the nation.
Ball, a finalist for the award last season, has rushed for 1,730 yards, 5.2 yards per carry, with 21 touchdowns in 13 games this season. He becomes the second UW runner to win the award, joining Ron Dayne (1999).
The other finalists were Oregon's Kenjon Barner (1,624 yards, 6.6-yard average, 21 TDs) and UCLA's Johnathan Franklin (1,700 yards, 6.3-yard average, 13 TDs).
"Speaking for me personally, I had to face some adversity off the field," Ball said Thursday night the college football awards show on ESPN, referring to the injuries he suffered during an assault before preseason camp. "The team did as well but obviously we made a statement our last game."
UW whipped Nebraska, 70-31, in the Big Ten Conference title game last week in Indianapolis.
Ball rushed 21 times for 202 yards and three touchdowns in the game. Since being held to 46 yards on 22 carries in a loss to Michigan State in Game 9, Ball has rushed 114 times for 702 yards (6.2-yard average), with eight touchdowns, in UW's last four games.
"As of right now," Ball said, "I'm just honored to share this entire experience with my family and most importantly the other two great running backs here today."
Ball faced four teams with top-25 run defenses during the regular season. In those games, Ball averaged 121.8 yards per game.
Franklin has faced two top-25 run defenses and averaged 72.0 yards per game in those games.
Barner faced one top-25 run defense and was held to 66 yards. »Read Full Blog Post(11)
He salvaged dreams from old bicycles
It's hard to say just how the Christmas bicycle project got started. Maybe he passed a discarded bike and, well, just couldn't pass it by.
Thomas Feldman didn't talk much about a lot of things, like how he went to live in an orphanage during the Great Depression after his father died. Sometimes, he wasn't in the best mood. He could be ornery. But he was good at collecting things, fixing things, giving things away. He liked the giving-them-away part.
He lived his last few years at Bradley Villas, where he died Nov. 7 at age 92. Years before, Feldman had been many things to Lannon - he served on the Village Board and the volunteer Fire Department. He was Lions Club president. For 53 years beginning in 1953, he and his late wife, Laura Mae (Dolly), ran the Lannon House restaurant and bar. And for at least 150 kids, he served as a St. Nicholas of sorts. He gave them a bicycle that they weren't likely to get otherwise. »Read Full Article
LogistiCare may not be leaving state
Wisconsin's embattled medical transportation provider, LogistiCare, may not be leaving the state after all.
Last month, LogistiCare's chief executive officer notified state officials that the company was terminating its three-year contract effective Feb. 17. But in an email obtained by the Journal Sentinel, a LogistiCare manager reveals that the company plans to bid on a new contract - a move that could grant the company more money to provide the services.
"The Department of Health Services . . . will be releasing a new (request for proposals) and Logisticare, along with others, will be competing for the work," a Madison-based LogistiCare manager wrote in an email to transportation providers on Nov. 21, just hours after the state publicly announced the termination. »Read Full Article(8)
County panel rejects union payment for excessive furloughs
A Milwaukee County Board panel Thursday rejected a proposed payout of $1.2 million to settle a union claim over employee furloughs for 2011 that were found excessive.
The board's judiciary panel voted against the move on a 3-2 vote, with Supervisors Mark Borkowski, Gerry Broderick and Jim "Luigi" Schmidt voting against making the payments to county employees. Supervisors Nikiya Harris and John Weishan Jr. voted for the payments.
District Council 48 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees claimed in a lawsuit that 2011 furloughs beyond 45 hours per year violated a union agreement. »Read Full Article(5)
State seeking fund managers for venture, angel capital program
The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. said Thursday that it is seeking fund managers who might be interested in participating in a venture and angel capital program the state may start in 2013.
The program would likely involve $150 million to $200 million of taxpayer money over about six years, and its goal would be to boost investment in young businesses that would create jobs, and to expand the number of venture funds and fund managers in the state, WEDC documents said.
The documents suggest the program would be included in the budget that Gov. Scott Walker will propose to the Legislature early next year, rather than in a separate bill. It would require authorization every two years with each new budget, the documents suggested. »Read Full Article(4)
UW regents propose raising out-of-state enrollment cap
Madison - A slightly higher percentage of students from outside Wisconsin would be allowed to enroll at University of Wisconsin System campuses for the first time in more than 40 years, starting next fall, under a compromise expected to be approved Friday by the UW Board of Regents.
A regents committee Thursday unanimously approved the compromise, raising the nonresident enrollment cap from 25% to 27.5% on a three-year rolling average.
UW-Madison had proposed a nonresident enrollment cap of 30% on a rolling three-year average to help manage its enrollment. But it quickly became clear that the 30% cap wasn't going to fly. »Read Full Article(5)
Clarke threatens to sue if he loses oversight of Franklin lockup
Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. will sue Milwaukee County if it persists in a plan to strip him of authority over the County Correctional Facility-South in Franklin and give it to an appointed superintendent, a lawyer for the sheriff said Thursday.
County Executive Chris Abele would appoint a superintendent to run the Franklin jail under a change the County Board approved as part of the 2013 budget.
Clarke has constitutional authority over both jails in the county - the downtown jail as well as the CCF-South, attorney Michael Whitcomb told a County Board panel. Clarke renamed the Franklin lockup, formerly known as the House of Correction, when he took it over in 2009 at the request of then-County Executive Scott Walker. »Read Full Article(53)
Northern Lake Service lands part of EPA contract
Northern Lake Service Inc., which has facilities in Waukesha and Crandon, said Thursday it is one of four laboratories to land part of an Environmental Protection Agency contract for monitoring water samples from public water systems across the U.S.
The program is one of the requirements of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and affects all public water systems that serve more than 10,000 people, Northern Lake Service said in a statement.
The total value of the contract is $8.5 million. »Read Full Article
Court approves Quad purchase of Baltimore printer
Quad/Graphics Inc. said Thursday that U.S. Bankruptcy Court has approved its proposed purchase of Vertis Holdings Inc.
The companies are in the final stages of integration planning and expect the sale of the Baltimore printer to close in January, Quad said.
Sussex-based Quad/Graphics and Vertis announced an agreement Oct. 10 in which Quad would acquire substantially all of the assets of Vertis' businesses for $258 million. Vertis simultaneously filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 relief from creditors to complete the sale while maintaining continuity for its clients and employees. »Read Full Article(6)
Ald. Hamilton rips Walker on same-day registration
Ald. Ashanti Hamilton had strong words on Wednesday for Gov. Scott Walker on the topic of same-day registration, saying he wondered whether the governor should be arrested or jailed for taking away "our residents' most fundamental rights."
Hamilton issued a statement as the debate over same-day registration – a law that has been in place for 36 years – broke out on Wednesday.
Here is what Hamilton said: »Read Full Blog Post(709)
Echoes of Wisconsin in Lansing, Mich.
Labor protests have broken out in Michigan following Gov. Rick Snyder's announcement that he was shifting direction and seeking so-called "right-to-work" legislation in his state.
The Capitol in Lansing was shut down and mace was used by state troopers amid the protests of the legislation by unions there, the Detroit Free Press reports.
The legislation would allow public and private workers in Michigan to opt out of joining a union covering their workplace and paying dues. »Read Full Blog Post(58)
Burlington relatives trying to find subject of WWII letter
Burlington - Andy Rausch pulled out a pad of lined paper and a pencil and wrote a letter to a girl in Pittsburgh.
In his looping script penmanship, Rausch complained about the food and the living conditions, told the girl she was pretty and shyly admitted how much he liked her. His B-24 crew had flown four missions and he was eager for more, Rausch wrote. He jotted the date - Jan. 9, 1945 - and his location, Palau Islands.
At the end of the three-page letter he scribbled "Bye now. Love, Andy." »Read Full Article(5)
Paging through annual best writing collections
In the fourth quarter of each year, the annual best-of writing anthologies swarm the display tables and impulse-buy spaces of bookstores, vying for your holiday shopping dollars. Nearly all are available as e-books, too.
Let's take a look at what some of this year's collections offer.
Once again, two of the annual best science writing collections have picked work by University of Wisconsin-Madison professor Deborah Blum, who's become one of the country's leading popular writers on scientific subjects, especially chemical ones. (While her breakthrough book "The Poisoner's Handbook" is a nonfiction, historical narrative, it also belongs in the library of anyone who cares about crime fiction.) »Read Full Article
Wisconsin wins $22.7 million in Race to the Top funds
After losing previous rounds of federal Race to the Top grant competitions, Wisconsin won a slice of funding Thursday: a $22.7 million grant that will help expand and improve services for young children in day care centers, preschools and kindergarten classrooms.
Wisconsin joined Colorado, Illinois, New Mexico and Oregon in sharing the $133 million Race to the Top-Early Learning Challenge grant, the U.S. Department of Education announced Thursday.
Wisconsin's grant will be spent over four years on strengthening and expanding the YoungStar child care rating system and also accelerating work on a data system that would track kids in early childhood and target more disadvantaged children for services. »Read Full Article(44)
Homicide charge sought against teen driver
A 16-year-old driver now faces possible homicide charges in the November crash that killed her 15-year-old passenger, and injured three others.
The Grant County Sheriff's Department announced Thursday that it has recommended prosecutors charge Morgan Hoehne with homicide by negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and three counts of reckless driving causing great bodily harm.
Hoehne, of Lancaster, will also be issued traffic citations, according to the sheriff's department. »Read Full Article
One person arrested in West Allis bank robbery
A suspect was arrested shortly after a bank robbery in West Allis Thursday morning, police there said.
The robbery was reported at the Equitable Bank, near 74th St. and Oklahoma Ave., around 10 a.m., according to a news release from Acting Chief Charles Padgett. Officers responded and found one suspect outside the bank.
No one was injured during the robbery or arrest, Padgett said, but the incident remains under investigation. (2)
Wisconsin Energy announces higher dividend, affirms profit forecast
Wisconsin Energy Corp. (WEC) will raise its quarterly dividend by 13% in the first quarter of 2013, the parent company of We Energies said Thursday.
The new dividend would be 34 cents per share, up from 30 cents currently.
Wisconsin Energy said it expected to declare the higher dividend January and make it payable March 1. »Read Full Blog Post(18)
Marcus declares special dividend, accelerates quarterly dividends
Milwaukee-based hotel and theater operator Marcus Corp. declared a special cash dividend Thursday of $1 per common share, and has accelerated the next two regular quarterly cash dividend payments totaling 17 cents per common share.
The dividends are payable on Dec. 28 to shareholders of record on Dec. 17.
"The special cash dividend reflects our continuing commitment to enhancing shareholder value," said Stephen H. Marcus, chairman. "Due to potential changes in the tax law in 2013, we have also accelerated the quarterly cash dividends that would typically have been paid in February and May of 2013. We plan on returning to our regular quarterly dividend payment schedule beginning in August 2013." (3)
Bob Costas sticks to his guns
Sportscaster Bob Costas, who reignited the debate over gun control with his remarks on "Sunday Night Football," stood by those remarks in an interview in The Nation.
Costas made his original remarks one day after the murder by Kansas City Chiefs player Jovan Belcher of his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins. Belcher later killed himself.
Watch Costas' commentary here. In the new interview, in The Nation he says his only regret was that he did not have enough air time to talk about all the factors involved in the tragedy. »Read Full Blog Post(81)
Northwestern Mutual office tower could reach 35 stories, $350 million
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s planned downtown Milwaukee office tower will likely be 30 to 35 stories, and the project costs could reach $350 million, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John Schlifske said Thursday.
Schlifske made those remarks at a media conference following the story I broke Wednesday about Northwestern Mutual's plans. Schlifske told me yesterday that the tower could be over 30 stories, with an estimated $300 million price tag.
Of course, all of these height and cost estimates are preliminary. The planned office building's design and specifications are still in the works. Construction isn't scheduled to begin until 2014.
I'll have more later at JSOnline, and in Friday's Journal Sentinel, on reaction to the proposed $48 million city financing plan for the project. (34)
Special Assembly election to come in Waukesha County
At least three candidates are running to fill a Waukesha County Assembly seat being vacated by Rep. Paul Farrow (R-Pewaukee).
Farrow won a special election Tuesday night to the 33rd state Senate district, which opened after Rich Zipperer left his seat to become Gov. Scott Walker's deputy chief of staff. Farrow is expected to be sworn in as soon as Dec. 14 and will leave his 98th Assembly district seat open.
The Republican candidates running for the Assembly seat include Jeanne Tarantino, the former chief of staff to Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch; Adam Neylon, owner of a commercial window cleaning business and a former legislative and congressional aide; Todd Greenwald, a construction project manager; and Matt Morzy, a student seeking his master's degree in business administration from Marquette University.
Spokesmen for Gov. Scott Walker and the Government Accountability Board had no immediate comment on when the special Assembly election might be held. (3)
PSC allows We Energies to buy Iowa County wind farm
We Energies won approval from state regulators Thursday to buy the Montfort wind farm in Iowa County for $27 million.
The purchase, from a subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources Inc. of Florida, was approved in a 2-1 vote by the state Public Service Commission.
Commission Chairman Phil Montgomery and commissioner Ellen Nowak said a key aspect of the deal is that it gives the Milwaukee utility to repower the site in the future. »Read Full Blog Post(15)
Student-run roaster to sell coffee at New Berlin Sendik's
Buena Vida Coffee, a Milwaukee coffee roaster run by students in the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship at Marquette University, will begin selling three coffee blends on Friday at the New Berlin Sendik's Food Market.
Buena Vida until now has primarily sold its coffee through university student clubs and organizations for fundraising purposes. The Sendik's arrangement represents an expansion into retail spaces.
Buena Vida was founded in 2010 by Marquette graduate student Katie Novotny as a not-for-profit that imports organic, free-trade coffee through Stone Creek Coffee Roasters. For every bag of coffee sold, Buena Vida provides one meal to a child at the Sociedad Amigos de los Ninos orphanage in Honduras. (2)
Governor to propose funds to hire nurses at Veterans Home
Gov. Scott Walker plans to include money in his upcoming budget for the 2013-'15 fiscal years to hire 25 additional full-time registered nurses and almost 58 certified nurse assistant for the Wisconsin Veterans Home at King, the governor's office announced Thursday.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs's included the additional staffing in its budget request to ensure proper staffing levels and to increase capacity at the long-term care facility for elderly and disabled veterans. (10)
Police arrest man, 24, in homicide
Police have arrested a 24-year-old man in a homicide on Milwaukee's northwest side early Wednesday
Terrance T. Armstrong, 34, was fatally shot inside an apartment in the 10200 block of W. Fond du Lac Ave. at 12:15 a.m. Wednesday. Police are not searching for additional suspects.
New home construction permits rose 23% in November
Permits to construct new homes rose 23% in Wisconsin's five most-populated areas in November, continuing a slow but steady improvement in the state's home-building market.
There were 234 building permits issued for single-family homes and duplexes last month in the Greater Milwaukee area, Dane County, the Green Bay-Door County area, Fox Valley and the Racine-Kenosha area, new data from MTD Marketing Services of Wisconsin Inc. shows. That's up from 190 in November of 2011.
Through the first 11 months of the year, home construction permits are up about 20% from the same period in 2011. »Read Full Article(1)
Roadrunner prices stock sale at $17.25 a share
Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. has priced a public offering of 3.5 million common shares at $17.25 a share, the Cudahy trucking and logistics company said Thursday.
Roadrunner, which went public in May 2010 at $14 a share, said it expects the stock sale to close on Dec. 11. The company expects to receive proceeds from the offering of $54.9 million after expenses.
Roadrunner said it expects to use the proceeds from the stock sale to repay debt under its revolving line of credit and for working capital and other general corporate purposes. »Read Full Article(2)
Old Navy, Loft, other new tenants coming to Southridge
Old Navy, which closed at Southridge Mall this past spring, will return to a new location at Southridge in 2013, mall owner Simon Property Group Inc. announced Thursday.
Old Navy will open a store with just under 13,000 square feet near Macy's department store by June.
The retailer closed its 20,000-square-foot store earlier this year but wanted to have a Southridge location with its new, smaller format, said Mary Mokwa, mall general manager. The former Old Navy has since been filled by three retailers: Tilly's, Buckle and Body Central. »Read Full Blog Post(20)
1 dead, 1 injured in Rhinelander house fire
Rhinelander - Investigators are looking into the cause of a fatal house fire in Rhinelander.
Fire officials say a man died in the fire Wednesday, but a woman was able to escape. Witnesses told WJFW-TV she is the victim's wife.
Authorities say she was already outside of the residence when firefighters arrived. She was transported to the hospital as firefighters focused on trying to find the man as the fire raged.
The state fire marshal has been contacted.
Next man up: lineman Don Barclay
Green Bay – Don Barclay's roommate in training camp, right tackle Bryan Bulaga, has also been a pretty good mentor to him, helping him with his technique, giving him tips on how to play. And yet all of Bulaga's advice couldn't prepare Barclay for everything.
Like being thrown in to a middle of an important division game. At home in Lambeau. In an emergency.
There's no substitute for that kind of experience and Barclay got plenty of it last Sunday against the Minnesota Vikings and their front four including end Brian Robison. »Read Full Blog Post(26)
OWI charge re-filed v. former Michigan State Police commander
The Michigan State Police commander from the Upper Peninsula whose drunken driving case was dismissed after questionable investigative missteps will have to face the charges after all.
Lt. William H. Smith, commander of the MSP's Gladstone post, was arrested in early July near Sault Ste. Marie after a one-car crash in his personal vehicle. Smith, 43, was suspended with pay, then demoted and transferred to lower Michigan.
In August, a judge dismissed the charges because a blood test was conducted on the basis of search warrant signed by a former magistrate weeks after she'd been relieved of her duties over mental health concerns. »Read Full Blog Post(3)
Half-brother faces charges in torture, death of autistic man
Mazomanie - Matthew Graville couldn't read well or remember numbers. He could drive his friends crazy with his incessant talking. But all he really wanted, by all accounts, was to fit in.
When detectives found the 27-year-old autistic man's body buried in the woods months after he disappeared, they uncovered what investigators say was a horrific story of family violence. His half brother, Jeffrey Vogelsberg, had repeatedly tortured and abused Graville, prosecutors say, and the beatings finally went too far.
"(Vogelsberg) is someone who deserves to be hung up . . . and left to be tortured," said Richard Swangstu, who befriended Graville when they were teenagers living in a foster home. "Matt was a brother to me. I didn't lose a friend. I lost family." »Read Full Article
Winter weather advisory in effect up north; rain on tap for Milwaukee area
A winter weather advisory is in effect Thursday morning until 9 a.m. for parts of north central and northeast Wisconsin because of light rain and freezing snow that's making some roads slick.
In the Milwaukee area, rain is not in the forecast until Thursday evening, according to the National Weather Service. Forecasters are pegging the chance for rain at 40% due to a weak cool front which could push a few scattered light showers into the area. Highs on Thursday are expected to reach 48 with partly cloudy skies.
A storm is expected to move into the western Great Lakes region Sunday into Sunday night bringing a wintry mix of snow and rain. In southeastern Wisconsin the bulk of the precipitation may fall as rain because of milder air that might keep temperatures above freezing, according to WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) meteorologist Michael Fish. »Read Full Article(2)
Man holds 2 accused of road rage at gunpoint in Wausau
Wausau - Police say a man who accused two people in a road rage incident in Wausau held them at gunpoint until officers arrived.
A 49-year-old Appleton man called 911 from Highway 29 Tuesday afternoon saying the van he had just passed was ramming his SUV from behind. The dispatcher told the caller to pull off the road and wait for officers.
The SUV driver says the van followed and the couple inside began hitting him and stabbing him with car keys. The driver then pulled out his gun and pointed it at the two until police arrived.
The Wausau Daily Herald says the couple was booked on possible charges of battery and disorderly conduct. Authorities say the SUV driver has a permit to carry a concealed weapon. (38)
Separate trials set for brothers accused in fatal Argyle fire
Darlington - Two southwestern Wisconsin brothers accused in a fire that killed three children will be tried separately.
Armin Wand III and Jeremy Wand pleaded not guilty to all charges against them in Lafayette County Circuit Court Wednesday.
Prosecutors allege the brothers set Armin Wand's Argyle home on fire Sept. 7 in an effort to kill Armin Wand's family because he wanted a fresh start. »Read Full Article
Judge allows electronic poker at Ho-Chunk casino
Madison - A federal judge said the Ho-Chunk tribe can continue to offer electronic poker at its Madison casino.
U.S. District Judge Barbara Crabb ruled an arbitrator exceeded his power and did not have authority to ban the game. The dispute with the state is over how electronic poker is classified. The Ho-Chunk say it's Class II gaming, which the tribe can offer without a compact. The state says it's Class III gaming, which does require a compact.
Department of Justice spokeswoman Dana Brueck told the Wisconsin State Journal that a decision has not been made on whether to take the case to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals. (2)
Astronautics defers decision on headquarters relocation
Over the past few years, there's been discussion about the possible relocation of Astronautics Corp. of America's headquarters from Milwaukee's north side to the former Pabst brewery.
With executives at the low-key, family-owned company saying little, that talk has died down. I last mentioned Astronautics in an October 2011 article about the ongoing redevelopment of the Pabst complex, now known as The Brewery.
Astronautics was considering a consolidation of its headquarters, 4115 N. Teutonia Ave., with its manufacturing facilities, at 1426 W. National Ave. and 133 E. Washington St. Astronautics makes navigation systems, avionics displays and other parts for aircraft. »Read Full Blog Post(6)
Deadline nears for mortgage review program
Milwaukee mortgage holders who may have been victimized by improper lending practices have a chance to recover some of their losses through the Independent Foreclosure Review Program.
But time is running out. The program is ending on Dec. 31.
Ald. Joe Davis Sr. said at a news conference on Wednesday that anyone whose mortgage was in the foreclosure process in 2009 and 2010 and who may have lost money because of mortgage service provider errors should look into the Independent Foreclosure Review Program. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
DNR urges Wisconsin residents to cut down on holiday waste
Madison - Wisconsin environmental officials are urging people to cut down on their holiday waste.
The federal government estimates the volume of household waste jumps 25% between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day as families dispose of gift wrap, decorations, packaging, disposable plates and leftover food.
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources waste reduction officials suggest replacing old light strings with energy-efficient strings, using timers to turn lights off, using washable dishes and silverware and dividing leftovers among visitors.
They also suggest giving family and friends gift cards, using reusable bags when shopping, wrapping gifts in newspapers, recycling wrapping paper, and saving gift boxes and bows for other occasions. (16)
On Tap Today: Funk under glass
We just know you haven't heard "White Christmas" enough yet this season to be sick of Christmas music. But in the off chance you are, there's a great alternative gig tonight at the Mitchell Domes' "Music Under Glass." Tweed Funk brings its edgy R&B sounds to the stage. Here's more
And for another alternative to traditional holiday fare, check out Second City's "Dysfunctional Holiday Revue."
What will be in the show? Hey, it's improv, so no one really knows. But whatever it is, it will be sassy. »Read Full Blog Post


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Apple Retail Stores: Buh-Bye WindowsCE, Hello iPod touch!
Looks like the rumors were true and Apple is finally set to replace the aging, WindowsCE + stylus based EasyPay point-of-sale devices used by the retail store staff with sexy new credit card reading, barcode scanning iPod touches. Apple will be using the same accessory access APIs supplied to developers in the iPhone 3.0 SDK.
AppleInsider reports that a trial is now being run at the closest Apple Store to the Cupertino Headquarters, the Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara, but hopefully the rest of Apple Retail will be able to enjoy the cool new gadgets sometime in the near future as well.
IFOAppleStore confirms the switch to iPod touch EasyPay, and adds that Apple will also be ditching the color-coded shirts used to distinguish different types of staff. (Not because Microsoft iCloned them but because they were ultimately more confusing than helpful to customers).
[Small print: The above video is of Apple Store staff cheering for a new store opening, not for their new iPod touch EasyPay systems]
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Apple Retail Stores: Buh-Bye WindowsCE, Hello iPod touch!
They've been using touches for Genius appointments and inventory from what I've seen, not for scanning and credit card processing. Now with 3.0 and the add-ons, they can go all-in...
I doubt there would be any technical security issue, but there might be some additional social security issues for the store itself. After all, those CE devices have the twin retail advantages of being impossible for a customer to confuse with Apple products and unusable/unsalable for any thief. :)
On the other hand, even with a screen reader attachment, an unattended iPod touch POS might look like a demo unit to play with for a customer, or a new music player/quick profit for somebody with sticky fingers. Certainly not something to cause Apple panic, but the very desirability of an iPod touch means they have to think those aspects through.
More interesting is if the POS solution is Apple-created or third party, and, after the bugs and kinks are worked out of the system, if Apple/that third party would sell this as a solution for retailers.
It was stupid how Microsoft copied Apple with the store and cheering loudly when the store opened and people walked in, but it's just as stupid that Apple employees do it... is this a cult or something?
I'm at Valley Fair right now. I'm going to head over to the Apple Store to check them out.
I was at the Apple Store in Ann Arbor, MI earlier today and they said that they'd switch in three weeks. The guy that I talked to said that the hardware was custom designed and currently includes some sort of stylus for customer to sign their name. He said that they expected to ditch the stylus almost immediately when people sign with their fingers instead.
The exit of WinCE devices from Apple Stores can't come a moment too soon. They were ugly, for one. But it's hard to argue with Apple's success in retail. Beating the revenue per square foot of high-margin outfits like Tiffany's? Regularly? Get out of town!
The kind of high-end storefront Apple has been rolling out in New York, Beijing, and the like begs the question how commodity vendors like Dell (and by extension, Microsoft, which requires bargain-basement commodity boxes produced at thin margins by efficient OEMs in order to make Microsoft's pre-installed products seem inexpensive) hope to make money copying Apple's retail behavior. High-rent retail locations don't make sense for commodity products, and taking on support overhead works against MSFT's historical margins strategy (to push support to OEMs to retain maximum profit). Given that MSFT's new OS isn't working against Apple's apparent long-term trend toward higher penetration, and Apple's component purchasing power places it in a position from which competitors have a hard time profitably chasing Apple's various products, it seems that a "me-too" retail strategy will either be vastly overpriced for its delivered profit or will be a transparent effort to dress up a trailer park like a community of established brownstones.
I predict both Dell and Microsoft will find retail an inefficient way to reclaim high-margin share from Apple. I suspect Apple will continue to hold and expand high-margin business despite effort to compete on price.


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Joined: 8/25/08
I've gotten two professions up to 200 (Huntsman and Leatherworking), but I'm having a hard time finding any redeeming quality to the crafting system, other than the XP gains.
As I see it, here are the problems:
1. It costs more to craft an item then you can sell it for.
2. By gathering your own mats (not purchasing them on the TP), you cannot get enough crafting done to be high enough level to make anything for yourself.
3. Dropped items are equal to or better than anything you can craft, and are cheaper to buy on the TP than to produce yourself.
Now I may be missing something here, but it just feels like other than the XP you get from making new items, that there's no real point in crafting. Except for being able to craft legendary stuff @ 400, but still... that's a lot of grind for something you could just purchase later.
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Guess the only real advantage of crafting is being able to craft a set with specific stats, versus trying to find the exact stats from drops.
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Joined: 9/18/09
Originally posted by encopitt
Pretty sure you get legendaries through crafting so that's a nice bonus. You can totally gather all your own mats and get enough crafting done to keep up with your level. The only mats that are even remotely difficult to come by are Leather and Cloth [I see you're a Leatherworker]. Even if this weren't the case, it's an MMO, sometimes you have to use all those other players for something other than a reminder that you're not playing a single player game. As far as dropped items = to crafted one's, I simply never get enough drops of the type I need to keep up. Usually with armor I'm ok, but if I want to stick with particular weapons sometimes the drops will leave me behind. The other advantage of making it myself is to get the stats that I want.
I agree that it shouldn't cost more to make an item than you can sell it for on the TP. Hopefully that balances out as playerbase and prices stabilize. Right now it's simply a bunch of folks trying to undercut one another.
The advantage of crafting is indeed just XP.
Ok.. you can craft exotic gear, and you wanna have it. Just to get the right stats. But as it is right now, you can buy it at the TH for little less money more, as it would cost you yourself. And to get the skill to 400 is much more expensive as this difference.
On the other side.. the XP bonus is huge. So if you got enough Gold(for leveling an alt), it is by far the easiest way to drop just a lot of money, and leveling up with crafting.
But in a game like GW2(or any other themepark) the ingame economy is more or less non existant, and crafting is more or less useless. In WoW as example(and i could name other themeparks here as well) it was even worse, you dont even got XP for crafting, and the best Gear was more or less only from Raids.. so crafting there was even more useless.
Truth is, crafting will just be rewarding, if there is a solid ingame economy in place. And for that you more or less need a sandbox, you need gear with limited durability, which will fall apart sooner or later(and for a good economy better sooner than later). And some kind of loot system will help to increase the demand, too. And then of course, crafting items have to be the most effective way(not necessarily the best gear) to get gear.
And if it is a real sandbox you than even got all those crafting which comes with building up houses, towns, or whatever, which of course should be also under limited durability, with the necessarity to repair it once in a while. And of course the ability to destroy it all together.
Then crafting is a key factor of that game, and with constant demand of new stuff, and heavily satisfing to be a crafter, and even possible, to be just that.. only a crafter. But not in a themepark game.
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Joined: 4/14/06
OP, the only benefit I've seen for crafting aside from the XP is for making a bit of money off the TP.
There was an addon in WoW that did the research for you called LilSparky's Workshop where it would check all the mats necessary for the recipes you knew and tell you which ones would turn a profit based on the cost of the raw mats at the AH- in GW2 you can turn a profit the same way but it's up to you to do the research.
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Joined: 11/19/05
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
XP. You can make some spare change on the TP but you can make about the same spare change in relatively short period of time running around looking for nodes and doing a few DEs in the Orrian areas.
The economy (what little there is of it) is going downhill very quickly, regretfully.
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Joined: 8/25/08
& here I was thinking folks were going to flame me for trolling... Looks like I was right on the mark in that there's not a whole lot of value outside of legendaries and XP to crafting. Thanks for the input...
Guess I'll put the tools back on the shelf and grind some more.
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Joined: 1/17/08
Originally posted by encopitt
1) I crafted a full level 80 rare set for cheaper than buying it on the TP by under 50% cost.
2) Exotics are far cheaper to craft yourself than to buy them.
3) At current cost, you can make more $$ by crafting items and selling them, than to just sell the mats themselves.
4) Unique discoveries that are killer fun (for example, Artificers are the only ones that can make the chair/tree transformation potions, and those are account bound).
5) Dropped items look like crap compared to crafted sets and their looks.
6) Gathering gives XP, and by doing zone completion (i.e. ciricling a map), you can gather enough mats to go from 0 to 400 by completing all maps. That's without circling, but if you circle you can do one map.
7) I wish there was a taco feast in cooking.
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Joined: 11/19/05
The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
If you are crafting for yourself and you know your cool armor is coming up, it is possible to save some cash by using custom buy orders. Try to buy a Glob of Ecto (16-18 silver, need 5 for an exotic 80 armor piece) for 5 silver and you'll never get it. Try to buy 13, 14, 15 and you MIGHT get lucky. Since you need 30 of them for a full set, saving 1 or 2 silver per CAN be some good savings. Depends on who is buying/selling at a given hour.
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Joined: 1/02/08
"Always borrow money from a pessimist. They won't expect it back."
Cooking is the only profession I think that's worth it. It cost me very little to level it to 400 and the xp is worth it. The other professions I don't see it being worth it for the armor/weapons, you can buy armor/weapons much cheaper than making them yourself. I made a lot of gold just selling the mats on the TP, I have 2 exotic suits and 2 sets of exotic weapons as well and gold that I have nothing to spend it on. I do like that GW2 is the first game that I've played in a long time that crafted gear is worth having though.
What happens when you log off your characters????.....
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Joined: 8/21/04
Logic be damned!
Last night, I got my toon up to 55 and then through crafting (Weaponsmith) got myself to 56 and 1/2 while raising my crafting skill to make level 55 blue weapons.
I spent about 2 silver to get the last few 225+ mats I needed, I only had like 2/3 of one drop mat and 1/3 of another, and I just sold the pre-55 iron based stuff I had equipped and made more $ than I spent, and was able to craft 3 pieces of Darksteel (55) platinum based weapons for myself.
My Jewelcrafting is a little behind, can only make level 45 stuff but gold was really hard to come by, now I'm finding a lot more of it and hopefully will catch my JC up to 225+ and craft lvl 55 stuff soon - I've got tons of gems (thank you transmutes) just need more gold.
Point is - it's awesome for keeping yourself well geared for leveling - without much added effort, but obviously some trade skills are more useful than others in this regard.
GW2 is the first MMO where I feel like keeping your crafting even to your level is not only fairly easy to do but very useful as well.
I don't really care too much if I can make $ off of it at "end-game" if I can craft an exotic set for myself at 80 I'll be happy, and sounds like I can craft 4 pieces of the same 80 rare and use Mystic Forge to turn them into a single 80 Exotic?
I could probably get the pieces I craft cheaper on the TP than the TIME it takes to gather the mats, but I gather all the mats when leveling anyway so I like the extra XP from crafting and like the feeling/knowing of actually being able to use what I craft.
Sense of pride/accomplishment thing.
I've probably been lurking for way, way too long.
I have 400 Armour, 400 Weapon, 120 something Leather and around 50 Huntsman.
The answer is no, not really. Once you have your gear (which is as cheap as crap to buy anyway) and once you are 80, it is pretty pointless.
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Joined: 1/04/05
Originally posted by bunnyhopper
Not if you are in a guild. It always helps to have someone crafting.
Hard Core Member
Joined: 3/22/07
Leveling crafting is really cheap pre-exotics and the stuff you craft is almost always better than drops. It's not a big boost or anything, but there's really no downside. Yeah, you'll spend a few gold on it. You'll get 20 levels' worth of XP and customised equipment. It's more than worth it.
Jeweler is especially handy, as it allows you to get great accessories almost for free. You barely ever get them as drops and for storyline stuff, so they're really handy.
Originally posted by botrytis
Free stuff is always great and giving out stuff to guildies is equally cool, but it's not actually needed. I really can't see anyone struggling for gear at any point, regardless of guild hand outs.
Or are you refering to WvWvW stuff?
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Joined: 2/27/07
I craft for something else to do besides combat all the time. It has done a good job of keeping my characters up to date with gear and I have made some money on the TP.
I hope down the road they add other non combat hobbies like fishing for example. I would also like to see housing at some point integrated with crafting.
Originally posted by Siphaed
Yeah.. of course. o.O
Example. I crafted today, actually for 5 mins. an Orichalicum Ring of Berserker. It costs me 2 Gold 65 Silber.
And at this point this item is at the TH for 2 Gold 85 Silber. Profit?
Well, if i put it into the TH i have to pay 5% for offering, and another 5%(or even 10%) for selling to the TH(fee).
So.. now if i would sell this ring i would actually made a lose of money.. so much about Exotics are far cheaper to craft yourself.. dont kidding yourself. It isnt worth shit.
You can really just sell to friends, without the fee of the TH to make more or less a little bit of the fee profit. Thats it.
And.. it is not just this ring, is it more or less with any item available.
Originally posted by Scalpless
Yeap.. or you could always buy your stuff from TH, there everything(especially jewelery) is cheaper as you could craft it. I was more or less not able to sell one item as i crafted up to 400, to buy with profit.. or with other words, i wasted a lot of Gold for getting it up on 400.
But.. it is actually a good way to lvl up.. it is Gold -> XP. There is no faster way to lvl up. But also no more expensive way to do so.
Originally posted by BadSpock
Another urban legend. Just for the fun of it i tested that on a little bit more indeepth.
Well.. i trashed around 500 green items into the forge. Point is you dont get any time a better(yellow) item out of it. The Ratio is around 10:0.7, with other words, if you waste around 100 green items, you will get out around 7 yellow ones. A lost around 50 silber with that.. but well.. i just want to do this test. ;)
With other words, the mystic forge may have a purpose(legendary items or other recipes), but not for trashing random items.
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Joined: 9/22/11
No there is not much point. It is standard modern themepark crafting which is side-game,means to "play AH" and moreor less fun distraction to some. There is standard oversupply and not enough demand and crafting is not essential for preety much anything.
As per usual there are some consumeables that are bit useful (here mostly grouped in cooking).
That's it - not much point really.


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[Videos] K. Michelle Performs At SOB's, Shows Love To Monica And Keyshia Cole
K. Michelle may come with a bit of spunk and tons of attitude, but when it comes to performing you can always count on her to bring it.
On Thursday, she shut the stage down with a live band during a sold out show at SOB's in New York City. Among the songs she performed were 'Can't Raise A Man', 'I Won't Complain', 'Can't Do This' and '10 Minutes With God' and she also performed a medley of hits that included Mary J. Blige's ' Love No Limit' and Monica's 'Before You Walk Out My Life.'
At on point in the show, she took a brief break to address an alleged beef with Keyshia Cole. She also spoke on the first time she met Monica and how Monica encouraged her to keep pushing:
Mrs. Keyshia Cole A lot of people wanted us to fight, do you know what I'm saying? And they tried but one hard thing about it is a real b***h is a real b***h and we are going to see one another and we are going to lay the hit and see what it is.
Mrs. Monica, one of the first ladies in the music industry to kind of reach out to me and tell me, you got it, don't let these muthaf**kers f**k with you. I respect her so much because she came to me…it's like God always sends you an angel or sends you somebody that you looked up to as a little girl or something when you feel like it's f**k up out here [..] but this young lady Monica, she is a woman that I look up to dearly.
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Charleston has become an ever-growing melting pot of inspired artisans, foodies, fashionistas and the latest yogis. Yoga and Charleston seem to go together like your favorite cliché duos. This is why Chelsea Atilla, of Sola Yoga LLC, has partnered up with Natalie Halt, of Gather Yoga, to showcase the potential for community events in Charleston.
Body: Their first event of the season will be Sunday, March 16, in Cannon Park, to celebrate one full week of Daylight Savings Time. The festivities will begin at 3 p.m. with live music from Charlestons own DJ Jake Butler. Chelsea will lead yogis in a 60-minute Vinyasa flow yoga class followed with bites provided from some of Charlestons favorites: Verde and King of Pops. Cannon Park is located at 131 Rutledge Ave, Charleston, S.C. A $10 donation to those involved is asked in exchange for a beautiful Sunday afternoon of yoga, music, community and sunshine. Please arrive early. Parking is limited, carpool or bike if possible.
Chelsea Atilla founded Sola Yoga LLC this year and is Charlestons latest stop for popup and community yoga around the city. Natalie Halt, founder of www.GatherYoga.com, has put together a beautiful online yoga community for people around the world to connect, grow and share all that is yoga. The two companies similar ideas and parallel love for gathering in yogas name made this collaboration effortless.
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It is Passover, 1865. The Civil War has just ended, and Confederate officer Caleb DeLeon returns to Virginia to find his home destroyed, his family missing, and only two former slaves remaining. Badly wounded, Caleb must depend on the two men, Simon and John, to save his life. The three men wrestle with their shared past, their uncertain futures, and the bitter irony of Jewish slave-owning, and as the sun sets on the last night of Passover, bitter secrets and painful truths burst to the surface in this haunting and powerful play.
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- Properties of dense quark matter in and out of chemical equilibrium are studied within the SU(3) Nambu Jona-Lasinio model. In addition to the 4 fermion scalar and vector terms the model includes also the 6 fermion flavour mixing interaction. First we study a novel form of deconfined matter, meso-matter, which is composed of equal number of quarks and antiquarks. It can be thought of as a strongly compressed meson gas where mesons are melted into their elementary constituents, quarks and antiquarks. Strongly bound states in this quark antiquark matter are predicted for all flavour combinations of qq pairs. The maximum binding energy reaches up to 180 MeV per qq pair for mixtures with about 70% of strange (s¯s) pairs. Equilibrated baryon rich quark matter with various flavour compositions is also studied. In this case only shallow bound states appear in systems with a significant admixture(about 40%) of strange quarks (strangelets). Their binding energies are quite sensitive to the relative strengths of scalar and vector interactions. The common property of all these bound states is that they appear at high particle densities when the chiral symmetry is nearly restored. Thermal properties of meso-matter as well as chemically equilibrated strange quark matter are also investigated. Possible decay modes of these bound states are discussed.
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If you like one of the many doodles used by Google to commemorate holidays and events, why not personalize Google's homepage and replace the standard logo with your favorite doodle? A Greasemonkey script created by the Google employee Tiffany Lane will help you pick a doodle from this page and make it sticky.
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When you've been at the top, there's only moving room below. Bishop England boys track and field coach Tony Colizzi hopes the new senior class will embrace high expectations this season and not suffer a letdown on the heels of a state championship last year.
"It is very difficult to defend a state championship," Colizzi said. "State championships usually come on the backs of your seniors, so the following year it is new cast of athletes that must carry on the tradition.
"You hope each year that the new class will step up and compete to the best of their abilities."
Colizzi was clear, though. This group's goal is to continue winning state titles.
He'll rely on notable returners, such as DeAngelo Stephenson, Griffie Loy, Parkwood Griffith, Alex Righi, Cristian Widenhouse and Andrew Furmanchik. "We also have a host of younger and new athletes that we are expecting some good things out of this year," Colizzi said.
Stephenson has dominated sprinting events in the past. Loy signed with the Naval Academy for throwing field events, proving his high caliber at the high school level. Griffith competes in pole vault. Righi, Widenhouse and Furmanchik highlight the Bishops' distance events.
Colizzi noted areas for improvement in jumping and hurdles.
Some key dates on the Bishop England schedule include the Coaches Classic in late March, the Father Kelly Classic – which the Bishops host – in early April and the Taco Bell tournament one week later.
The Wando boys track and field team boasts the coveted balance of talented individuals and a strong overall team.
Last season, the Warriors finished as champions of Charleston County and their region. Kenny Waring, a freshman at the time, claimed the state championship in the 100 meter dash, and he placed second in the long jump.
Dezmon Venning earned the runner-up spot in the state discus meet as a senior, and the 4x100 relay team earned sixth place.
Waring returns as the fifth ranked sophomore in the nation in the 100 meter with a time of 10.70. He was also slotted No. 1 in the country for his age in the long jump with a mark of 23 feet 9 inches. "Obviously, Kenny Waring will be a big part of our team placing in two events in the state meet last year," coach Kevin Shiver said. "Kenny's goal this season is to win the 100 meter and long jump."
Waring's football teammates are also making a name for themselves in track and field. Seniors Davis Banks and Zach Dauscher compete in the pole vault. Newcomer and sophomore Gauge Wood "is showing great potential," Shiver said. "All three vaulters have the ability to go over 14 feet this season."
Seniors Chuck Rouse, Rashaun Brown and Kaiser Pinkney, along with junior Nolan Kelleher figure to tally high throwing totals this season for Wando.
"In the sprints, we look to make it for the third straight year in the 4x100 with Kenny anchoring that team," Shiver said. "It is early, but it looks like two seniors that are new to track and field – Rudder Brown and Nate Wright – will help Wando reach our goals: breaking the school record the third straight year and competing for a first place finish at state."
The distance group is also led by seniors with Andrew Roberts, Andrew Tyler, Johnathon Rice and Myles Clarke figuring to make impacts in the 800, 1600 and 3200 meter runs.
A.J. Gawryluk comes off a strong cross country season and is a state contender for the 3200 meter championship.
"We are working hard in all events and plan on making a splash at the SCHSL State Championships this season," Shiver said. "This is the most seniors we have ever had going into a season, and they are hungry to put rings on their fingers.
"Each competitor has his individual goals but our ultimate team goal will be focused on doing what we need to do as a team to place as many guys as we can at the state meet to win the overall team championship."
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So, this Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 22, Warren Elementary School is hosting the second annual Mad River Valley Turkey Trot. The race starts at 10 a.m. at the school and runners will travel 2.8 miles through historic Warren Village before making their way back to the school.
Last year, 125 runners participated in the event, raising $1,000 for the Warren Elementary School PTO. "It was a big success," Anna Mays, one of the event organizers, said. Race volunteers wore turkey legs on their heads, race winners received apple pies donated by the East Warren Community Market and everyone returned home with healthy appetites.


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Updated: Apple Introduces In-App Purchase for Free App -- Buh-Bye Lite, Hello Demo!
Apple has just sent out a letter to developers introducing in-app purchasing for free apps.
UPDATE: Developers Erica Sadun on TUAW, and Marco Arment delve deeper into the subject, as does Techcrunch (twice).
ORIGINAL: Here's what Apple had to say:
In App Purchase is being rapidly adopted by developers in their paid apps. Now you can use In App Purchase in your free apps to sell content, subscriptions, and digital services.
You can also simplify your development by creating a single version of your app that uses In App Purchase to unlock additional functionality, eliminating the need to create Lite versions of your app. Using In App Purchase in your app can also help combat some of the problems of software piracy by allowing you to verify In App Purchases.
Visit the App Store Resource Center for more details about how you can add In App Purchases to your free apps.
So in one email, Apple ends the clutter of Lite apps, provides a real possibility for demoware (a developer can provide 1 level of a game, for example, for free, and 10 more via in-app purchase), and offers developers the carrot of anti-piracy measures at the same time.
Previously, Apple was resolute about "free apps stay free" so as to avoid user confusion. What changed their mind, all of the above? And will in-app purchases in free apps be extra-carefully marked to avoid just such confusion?
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I'm really concerned about this because they need to require developers to explicitly state what Add Ons you can (or have to) purchase for the free ones.
I can foresee a lot of bad reviews for apps where people downloaded something not knowing it requires an upgrade within the app because it wasn't disclosed.
I think this is a flawed move, but at the same time, I think it's a case of apple looking at what they have, and what people are demanding, and trying to figure out how to get from 'have + want' to 'satisfied' in the least amount of 'making something new' possible.
I thought I heard Apple stated when they first introduce the iPhone Firmware 3.0 that any Dev with free Apps can't charge there customers for any In App Purchases?
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"I thought I heard Apple stated when they first introduce the iPhone Firmware 3.0 that any Dev with free Apps can't charge there customers for any In App Purchases?"
You did. That is why this is news!
I wonder if the in-app purchases can be for a fixed length of time, allowing for a subscription model?
No, in-app purchases can't have an expiration date, but they do allow for subscription models.
"2.3 Content and services may be offered through the In App Purchase API on a subscription basis (e.g., subscriptions to a magazine, comic series, or financial reporting service); however, rentals of content, services or functionality through the In App Purchase API are not allowed (e.g., use of a particular game item or digital book for a pre-determined, limited period of time)."
The regular boxcar listing on iTunes still shows a price, but the techcrunch article has the link:
Im so glad to see this! Im also happy that Apple is suggesting developers do away with Lite apps. While its nice to try apps, Ive always hated how lite apps clutter up the appstore. I really hope we can do away with lite apps altogether. It is also interesting how this might help out with piracy. Good idea. I look forward to this change.
Thansks for that good info.
Also Wired http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/tablet-print-2/ has story about in-app sales combined with the putative iTablet being geared toward rescuing the Print Media.
The Wall Street Journal will later this month begin charging for most of the content it delivers through its free app, and the Financial Times has an app that only offers up to 10 free stories a month without a subscription to the newspaper. But for the most part, publishers have loathed charging for an app, even if it then enabled them to try to charge for content within that point of sale. Reducing the cost barrier of that business model to zero changes things considerably. At least one small publisher, Scarab Magazine, has already taken advantage of the change.
As I've said many times here, if the iTablet does nothing but change the business model of the Main Stream Press, it will be ground breaking, and all the nay-sayers will be out buying an iTablet within a year.
This change to in-app purchase capabilities is the tip of the iceberg.
My 2 thoughts:
1. This is good. The reason they had this rule is because they didn't want people downloading a "free" app that costs $5. That's good, but instead, they have "$1" apps that actually cost $5, and you're already out the $1. A boneheaded move that thankfully has been fixed.
- This is the last nail in the coffin for the non-pirate JB community. Can't personally confirm this, but according to Tapulous, IAPs don't work on JB devices. And this move has the potential to completely flip the App Store economy upside down, making jailbreaking a dumb move.
As a developer with a combination of free and paid apps on the App Store, I'm concerned about ownership migration. As I see it, in order to transition, I will need to add in-app purchase support to my paid apps, then remove my "lite" apps from the store and change the pricing tier of the paid apps to "free." At this point, I see no clear path to unlock in-app features for those who have bought the paid apps already.
I don't see the big deal. It seems like its worse to pay something (even a small amount) for an app and then realize that you have to pay more for it to be useful. If you get a free app and then find out you have to pay more to really use it, you may have lost a few minutes of time but you haven't lost any money if you just decide not to use it.


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