Please take the time to watch these videos below to learn more about the bill and educate yourself. After that, take the time to call or write to congress and tell them you do not support taking away our freedoms.

This isnt the first time old media wanted to destroy a new technology.

VHS:  ”I say to you that the VCR is to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” -Jack Valenti

This was also the case with the MP3 Player, the Theaters Film, broadcast radio and the cassette tape.

http://torrentfreak.com/the-copyright-industry-a-century-of-deceit-111127/

http://americancensorship.org

http://vimeo.com/31100268

What is CapitalCityMenus.com?
Have you ever wanted to try a new restaurant but weren’t quite sure what they had. Or maybe you’re tired of ordering the same old thing week after week and you want to see what else is out there.

At CapitalCityMenus.com we ease this dilemma by posting online menus for all the great restaurants in and around the Capital City. We look forward to serving the Springfield community and we hope you enjoy our efforts.

 

Who created CapitalCityMenus.com?
CapitalCityMenus.com was created in 2009 by a couple of average Joe’s Like most others, this site was started out of necessity. We needed a better way of keeping track of all the menus we accumulated over the years of eating out. We figured the best thing to do was to create a website and share our efforts with everyone. This is how CapitalCityMenus.com was born

Take a look at what they have at http://www.capitalcitymenus.com

Below is a gallery of our favorite images or you can check out OUR FACEBOOK PAGE for the entire set of pictures.

The site is primarily used as a way to waste time. There are even “subreddits” which are specialized catogories. If theres a nitch you may have, chances are there are people with that same interest. There is even a SPRINGFIELD ILLINOIS subreddit! Check that out at http://www.reddit.com/r/SpringfieldIL

Reddit also hosts gift exchanges, as well as helps donate money to charitable causes. Reddit will be hosting a get together and one of the reddit users, tinyboots_ is trying to host a meetup for the central illinois crowd. The meetup will be hosted in washington park at 5 p.m. this saturday june 25th. If you have used the site and would like to meet others with the same intersts, feel free to show up for hotdogs and hamburgers.

More details can be found at the following links:

Reddit Page

http://redditgifts.com/meetups/springfield-ils-global-reddit-meetup/

Hope to see you there.

From Diane Covington,

Volunteer Coordinator:

I am serving as Volunteer Coordinator the 2011 Taste of Downtown celebration.  This year’s Taste of Downtown celebration will be on July 8-9, 2011.  “Taste” will run from 5:00 PM to Midnight on Friday, July 8, and from Noon to Midnight on Saturday, July 9.  Please save the date!!

 I am looking for volunteers to help out this year, so if you are willing and available, please let me know.  You can either email me at my office email address Diane.Covington@ieanea.org  or my home email dcov855@att.net.

Please respond with your:

1)     full name,

2)    mailing address,

3)    phone number,

4)    desired volunteer duty,

5)    hours you are available to volunteer (a minimum of 2 hours, please) and

6)    t-shirt size.

The volunteer opportunities include:

Friday:

Set Up/Tear Down (3PM to 5PM and 9PM to Close)

4th & Washington Entrance Ticket Booth (4:45 PM to 10PM)

6th & Washington Entrance Ticket Booth (4:45 PM to 10PM)

5th & Adams Street Entrance Ticket Booth (4:45 PM to 10PM)

4th & Washington Entrance Food Ticket Sales (4:45 PM to 10PM)

6th & Washington Entrance Food Ticket Sales (4:45 PM to 10PM)

5th & Adams Street Entrance Food Ticket Sales (4:45 PM to 10PM)

5th & Jefferson Security

Volunteer Sign In (4:30 PM to 10:00 PM)

I.D. Check (5 PM to 11:30 PM)

Soda Sales (5 PM to 11:00 PM)

Floater (5 PM to Midnight)

Ice Delivery (3:00 PM to 9:00 PM)

Saturday

Set Up/Tear Down (10 AM to Noon and 9PM to Close)

4th & Washington Entrance Ticket Booth (Noon to 10PM)

6th & Washington Entrance Ticket Booth (Noon to 10PM)

5th & Adams Street Entrance Ticket Booth (Noon to 10PM)

4th & Washington Entrance Food Ticket Sales (Noon to 10PM)

6th & Washington Entrance Food Ticket Sales (Noon to 10PM)

5th & Adams Street Entrance Food Ticket Sales (Noon to 10PM)

5th & Jefferson Security

Volunteer Sign In (11:30 AM to 10:00 PM)

I.D. Check (Noon to 11:30 PM)

Soda Sales – Children’s Area (Noon to 6:00 PM)

Soda Sales – 5th & Washington (Noon 11:00 PM)

Floater (Noon to Midnight)

Ice Delivery (Noon to 10:00 PM)

Thanks so much!  I hope to hear back from you!!

We originally set out to correct this, unfortunately along the way we lost sight of the goals and started adding additional features that weren’t really needed to run a community board. We had a chat room, groups pages, events calendars, rss feeds, news,  and all other things that could be made more readily available on other sites.

This made us think about the actual goal of this site a bit more, instead of focusing on things that other sites did well, we should focus on the primary goals of this site. Because of this we have converted our main page into a sort of highlights reel. Anything that goes on around this site can be promoted more efficiently through news and stories. These stories will be written by members of this site as well as pulled in from the back end of this site.

When I say back end I really mean the heart of what this site is supposed to be about. Our goals led us to use a forum to help convey the community aspect of the website. With the forum layout, the articles, groups, events on that forum can be read by what we would like to call our “staff” and important and interesting articles can have their own place on the front page.

The redesign was a complete overhaul and I do apologize for the lack of updates to the viewers but the overall goal of the redesign was to simplify the interface as well as promote more people to get on and chat. We noticed that the primary users of the website were people putting on events. This was great, but there are many many other calendars available on large customer based sites that this service already exists. We are going to keep these services but really want to promote a community feel. This is why we chose to consolidate all of our features to two parts. The front page, news style website, and more importantly, our forums.

The forums will give a place for people to communicate with each other, discuss events, and groups in a simplistic open way. Before we had all these sections separated and the ammount of links on the page started increasing. This caused an almost clustered feeling on this website. To remedy this, we have consolidated our links to the basics. A registration page, a front page, and a set of forums with topics.

I feel this choice will improve how everyday users are taking advantage of this site. Before I feel that the primary goal was to promote, and we still want to keep this feature, but we also would like to promote use of the forum overall. Everything has been consolidated to this forum look to help facilitate this.

If you have any questions about this site, feel free to leave a comment on the article, or inside the forums. There is also

Voice your comment at http://talkspringfield.com/forum/store-reviews/whats-your-favorite-place-to-eat/