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The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has come upwith of the primary explanation for the endorsement by thestate Senate of a rewrite of cable television regulations thatharms consumers and communities while benefitting out-of-statetelecommunications corporations. The 23 senators who voted in favor of thelegislation accepted a total of $1.2 million in campaigncontributions from special interests that support the proposal,according to the Democracy Campaign. In contrast the nine senators who opposedthe bill had accepted less than $100,000 in total contributionsfrom the special interests. Reduced to raw numbers: The average senatorwho supported the controversial measure -- which was crafted tobenefit its chief proponent. AT&T -- collected $52,297 frominterests associated with AT&T and its allies. The average senator who opposed the bill hadcontributions from the same interests of around $11,000. The Madison Democrat is still incensed thatthe group pushing for cable deregulation misrepresented hisposition on the bill and he wants to put a stop to thepractice. Parisi and Rep. Sondy Pope-Roberts,D-Middleton -- who also opposed the cable bill but was categorizedas a supporter in documents submitted by TV4US to state lawmakers-- started seeking co-sponsors Wednesday on legislation that wouldprohibit special-interest groups from misrepresenting constituents'views to lawmakers. Sen. Fred Risser. D-Madison will alsointroduce a Senate version of the bill. The legislation according to an analysis bythe Legislative Reference Bureau would require anyone submitting acommunication to lawmakers with the names of constituents to firstobtain "a written or electronic document which proves that thenamed constituent has taken a position in support of or inopposition to the proposal identified in the communication." "The onus would be on the interest group tohave some kind of documentation," Parisi said in an interview. Meanwhile tried to pin Senator Russ Decker down as whether or not the "video competition" bill was his priority and apparently struck a nerve. A very defensive comment from a "sallyjones" reads very much like it came from Barb Worcester a senior staffer of Decker's and Chuck Chvala's wife: Russ Decker never said it was a priority. JohnNichols never interviewed him on the topic and has no quote to fromDecker saying it is a priority. Go ahead and ask him. Decker was askedif we would schedule the bill everyone took that to mean it was apriority. This bill has been out there for months and the only reasonpeople had some to build support for amendments to make it better isbecause Decker insisted it go to the Joint Finance Committee. Sen. Robson and others wanted the bill passed in the spring and there aredirect quotes for that. He also didn't put in the liquor provision. Some folks upset aboutthe change in leadership are spreading rumors that just aren't true. And as a woman I'm a little disappointed that other women wouldcount a woman working in Decker's office as being in "cahoots." Have alittle more respect for your own gender than letting people talk youinto believing that a professional woman still gets her orders from herhusband on what to do. (bold emphasis Waxing America's)

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Peter Hart champions IMA Recognition Council

Montreal. Quebec and New York. New York November 12. 2007 . North America's leading provider of Web-based today is proud to inform that Peter Hart. President and CEO has accepted the position of Acting President of the Incentive Marketing Association's new Recognition Council."The Recognition Council will provide an awareness of how recognition and awards in their many forms are part of an effective strategy for achieving better business performance. The council's focus is to ameliorate and promote the benefits of recognition and rewards to the world wide business community." states Karen Renk. Executive Director of IMA. Rideau's Peter Hart feels that it is so important to create a Recognition Council within the IMA because there are so many companies offering products and web solutions under the banner of recognition without incorporating the recognition fundamentals. "A special interest group who specialize in all aspects of recognition is what the IMA really needs." believes Peter Hart the Council's inaugural president. The Recognition Council's acting Board of Directors includes: Peter Hart. CRP. Rideau Recognition Solutions. Council President; Susan Adams. Dittman Incentive Marketing Group. Council Vice President; Robbie Floyd. CRP. Diamond H Recognition. Council Vice President; Louise Anderson. Anderson Performance Improvement; Jeff Beegle. MotivAction; Karen Erbacher. Erbacher & Company; Jane Herod. Maritz Motivation; Tom Miller. The Miller affiliate; Rob Purdy. The Carlton Group; Beth Schleske. ITAGroup; and Michelle Smith. CPIM. CRP. O. C. Tanner. (CRP-Certified Professional of Incentive Management/CPIM - Certified Recognition Professional). More information about the Recognition Council is available at www incentivemarketing org. About the Incentive Marketing AssociationHeadquartered in Naperville. Illinois the Incentive Marketing Association (IMA) is the leading voice of suppliers in the incentive marketplace. IMA provides education and information services publications conferences and seminars and research to businesses to help them effectively use incentive programs to motivate employees and customers. IMA is a founding member of the Incentive Industry Performance Campaign and is a leader in the Incentive Federation the industry's government relations organization. IMA is comprised of several special interest groups including IMA-Canada Council. IMA-Europe the Global Incentive Council the Incentive Gift Card Council the Incentive Manufacturers & Representatives Alliance the Performance Improvement Council the Incentive Travel Council the Recognition Council and the Incentive Technology Council. More information about the IMA and the incentive marketplace isavailable on its web site at www incentivemarketing org. About RideauRideau's Technology Enabled Services enhances all of the relationships that impact business performance through a comprehensive suite of rewards and recognition products. Rideau's Human Capital Management (HCM) offerings consider performance awards that reinforce excellent work habits and celebrate achievement and service awards that commemorate loyalty. It's a unique bundled approach that has caught on among many of the Fortune 500 and leading HRO providers. For example. Ceridian last year became the first to include employee recognition with traditional HR services by partnering with Rideau. From RBC Financial Group to FedEx and from Lucent Technologies to attach Canada global businesses of all sizes use Rideau's rewards and recognition solutions to reduce turnover and engender loyalty. For more information please go to or call1.877.789.0449 extension 242. This press release was distributed through eMediawire by Human Resources Marketer (HR Marketer: www. HRmarketer com) on behalf of the company listed above.

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ANDY FITZPATRICK Congressional Democrats are pushing a bill for ...

Congressional Democrats are for drastically decreased funding for the Iraq war as come up as a timetable to pull military forces out of the war zone has promised to veto the bill and it is highly unlikely a veto override could be mustered in this case. So the whole thing while sincere is really more of a statement than anything else. The Democrats are doing it because they believe the war is wrong and this is how they can affect it. The Republicans act comfort in it because they accept in drawing the war out and are hoping this shows Americans that the Democrats are cut-and-runners in a measure of war. The problem which is frankly troubling is this mention from a color House statement: This goes right to the heart of the matter. I think. It's an act to direct the United States Armed Forces into the role of an entity that is serving its own ends. In other words the country can't change the course of the war by virtue of the fact that the I'll say it again because when I realized it it took me a while to process the information without at the same time my hit exploding. The furnish administration is attempting to rationalize the war on the grounds that it exists. Bringing the troops home you see is in conflict with that. If the troops are home and you experience. come up.. what kind of war is that? They undergo a mission! If you change that mission then they won't have that mission anymore! Therefore you can't change the mission! By the way those "radical interest groups"? Them's. Of cover if you support the war you're likely to not believe such things. I have my own reservations about polling but it's interesting nonetheless. I think we can use the president's rationale for a lot of things though. For example why should we even undergo elections every four years? The people voted Bush in right? Why would we change that? Shouldn't he just stay in office? Aren't we just putting the interests of radical interest groups ahead of Bush and his mission? For that matter why should I collect a paycheck every few weeks? Aren't I just putting my own radical needs for alcohol ahead of Gannett's mission to deliver money? All of that being said. I evaluate this is a contend that ordain act far into the next election. Bush won't allow the war to end before he leaves office and if someone desire takes office we'll all have a new definition of "radical interests." This communicate is a chance for the punks. Goths freaks hippies and musicians to read about themselves and others just like them. And it's also a come about for their parents employers and the greatercommunity to get a better understanding of the real inside world of theCounterculturalist.

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Interest groups

On ITT I have noticed person X,Y,and Z say that they are interested in various topics like location services or PIM and would be spending time investigating those topics. So far I mostly see this forum get used for very specific technical questions. It might be useful to create public but smaller more casual communities for populate to bound ideas off of each other and transfer code (not necessarily on the same project,) maybe even coming up with libraries organically. Does this already happen? If not is this something people would be? I have too many projects so I don't know how soon I would be using it personally. :( But I thought I would bring it up. --Sarah _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing enumerate maemo-developers[at]maemo.org Hi. isn't this exactly what garage maemo org is all about? There you can undergo projects mailing lists share code look for other developers etc. Cheers. Martin 2007/11/14. Sarah Newman <newmans[at]sonic.net>: > > On ITT I undergo noticed person X,Y,and Z say that they are interested in > various topics like location services or PIM and would be spending measure > investigating those topics. > > So far I mostly see this forum get used for very specific technical > questions. It might be useful to form public but smaller more casual > communities for people to bounce ideas off of each other and exchange > code (not necessarily on the same project,) maybe even coming up with > libraries organically. > > Does this already come about? If not is this something people would want? > > I have too many projects so I don't experience how soon I would be using it > personally. :( But I thought I would bring it up. > > --Sarah > _______________________________________________ > maemo-developers mailing enumerate > maemo-developers[at]maemo.org > > Maybe you don't all want to work on the same project. Or maybe you want to discuss projects before declaring one on garage. We can't list interests on our profile. And can we actually start new mailing lists? If there is a way to use store in the way I'm talking about and there could be..

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More on the bill mandating OA at the NIH

[On the original passage of the bill by both houses of Congress:] "It's very clear and a matter of public record that a good broach of money is spent by the publishers on lobbying about issues desire this," Cockerill says. "But clearly in this case that wasn't enough to block the act toward increasing OA in investigate. The strength of feeling in government and among the research community has been able to beat that strong lobby. Just as importantly. Cockerill suggests that the three-year history of the effort to go the NIH initiative into law has resulted in increasing awareness of OA among researchers academic administrators and elected officials. "The high compose of this bill has certainly kept OA in populate's attention." he says. "A lot of the give for OA has been coming not just from those directly involved in the investigate community but also those who undergo an interest in medical investigate -- patients disease-interest groups taxpayers and people who undergo an interest from a lay person's point of believe. I think it has been very good in continuing to further awareness of OA." Cockerill says that the rise of the Internet has increased the bespeak for accessibility in general. People he says are asking. "Who benefits from freezing find to data? Is it the public or is it only special interest groups who want to maintain the status quo? That question is arising in many situations." As one proof of the increased awareness. Cockerill cites a recent student forum he attended at Harvard Medical educate. Several years ago he suggests such a forum would probably undergo debated the merits of OA. Now the debate is over the most practical steps needed to apply it. Increasingly the basic desirability of OA is being taken for granted.... The change state find movement: Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the internet. Making it available remove of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. Removing the barriers to serious investigate.

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Catalogers Interest Group Meeting

connect area Catalogers for a discussion of what's new at your library!Topics to Discuss: TBAInterest Groups are open to all interested parties so connect us and share your tips and tricks! Free but registration is required [] The deadline to register is Wednesday. April 23rd. 2008

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