The outage *should* be brief.

We will be off-line for a short time to add better tracking of our visitors, referrers and search terms. We will also be making changes to how our urls are structured which will make "nicer" urls for search engines and for sharing with friends.

We will make a backup immediately after going off-line so any changes made this evening to your account will be preserved.

On November thirteenth 2009 Wisconsin Student Public Interest Research Group and Big Red Go Green invite you to march with fellow students and citizens in support of green solutions. 3 - 5 pm.

This march is intended to raise awareness about the Climate Summit in December in Copenhagen, The American Clean Energy and Security Act, and climate change.

We were having a couple issues with our website that should be resolved now.

1. Members were receiving spam email from the Contact form
2. The website was often unavailable, resulting in a blank screen or a 404 error.

Both of these issues should now be fixed. Please contact us if you experience these or other problems.

Madison Hours website will be off-line between 10:30 and 11:30 pm this evening for a security update. We will also be making some slight changes that should cause pages to load quicker. Thanks for your patience.

"Not Ready for Prime Time"

By MIKE WHITNEY

. . . $7.76 trillion . . .

That is what Bloomberg reports has been committed on behalf of the American taxpayer to bailout America’s finance system. This includes spending by the Treasury, Federal Reserve and FDIC.

The amount is equal to half the value of everything produced in the United States last year.

It is $24,000 for every man, woman and child in America.

The policy was changed at the August 25, 2008 Board Meeting. The older policy is listed below.

For any pancake breakfast that results in payment of less than $120, we will also pay the co-hosting organization Madison Hours sufficient to bring their total compensation to $120.

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Old policy:

At our special meeting on August 5, 2008 the following members were elected to the Madison Hours Board of Directors:

Art Paul Schlosser
Erin Schneider
Jon Hain
Rob McClure

Board Election Coming Up.

We have 4 self-nominations for the upcoming election thus far. View their candidate statements here.

Members can also self-nominate at the Special Meeting to Elect Directors which will be held at 7:30 on Tuesday, August 5 at the Social Justice Center Conference Room, 1202 Williamson St.

We received this in our Madison Hours email and wanted to share the concept. This is a new system that uses potential energy as a non-inflationary store of value.

You may be interested to learn about Kilowatt Cards - gift cards that pay for 10 kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity in any residential utility account, anywhere in the world. They demonstrate fixed-value paper.