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Website Grader Lessons: Bag Inspiration

… BagInspiration.com

Bag Inspiration is the brain child of two moms, Michelle and Stephanie, in Wisconsin who are passionate about protecting the environment and who have a love for bags made of recycled materials. On their site, they sell bags made from everything including candy wrappers, old Indian saris, juice boxes and mosquito netting.

Things Bag Inspiration is Doing Right

1. Michelle and Stephanie have done a great job of creating content in creative ways. They have a …

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Controversial terror hearings start today

What we’re following: 

- Controversial terror hearings start today

- Wisconsin Senate passes anti-union bill with no Dems present

- 22 killed in powerful China quake

And did you see…

- Mansion linked to the Great Gatsby scheduled to be destroyed

- Is Cap’n Crunch no more?

- Brooklyn teen charged in death of family hamster

 

 

 

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Controversial terror hearings start today

… What we’re following: 

- Controversial terror hearings start today

- Wisconsin Senate passes anti-union bill with no Dems present

- 22 killed in powerful China quake

And did you see…

- Mansion linked to the Great Gatsby scheduled to be destroyed

- Is Cap’n Crunch no more?

- Brooklyn teen charged in death of family hamster

 

 

 

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VW brings back the microbus

What we’re following: 

- Rebels fight off attacks from pro-Khaddafy troops

- Wisconsin governor wants to cut $900 million from education

- Shopping carts and reusable bags harbor nasty bacteria

And did you see…

- VW unveils new version of microbus

- Cubicle and office sizes are shrinking

- Sugary soft drinks linked to high blood pressure

 

 

 

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Unrest Spreads Across Mideast

… What we’re following: 

-Massive protests unfold across Mideast

- Wisconsin assembly passes bill stripping union rights

- First Read: The Battle for 2012 has begun

And did you see…

- Charlie Sheen’s rant leads to Two And A Half Men shutdown

- Earliest human remains discovered in Arctic

- Oscar voters’ generation gap could decide winners

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Watching the weather and covering a launch

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While our attention has been riveted on several major stories: Libya, New Zealand and Wisconsin, it’s important to remember that millions of our viewers in the South are about to be in the path of an angry and churning weather system. It is actually shaped like a trailing tornado cloud…an intense tail of a moving front bringing severe weather to several places, and the Weather Channel is ready for what the storms may bring.

And we watched as the Shuttle Discovery launched …

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Facebook adds to relationship status

… What we’re following: 

- House to vote on domestic cuts

- Wisconsin union vote on hold as democrats flee the state

- Egyptians celebrate at ‘victory march’

And did you see…

- CBS reporter speaks about speech issue at Grammys

- Facebook adds civil union and domestic partnership status

- Family sues over a nacho cheese burn at Disney World

 

 

 

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Why Yellow Pages Ads Are Becoming Obsolete

… Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin. [ source ]

Traditional land lines are being disconnected at a rate of nearly 10% each year. [ source ]

Consumers increasingly consider online services before Yellow Pages as they make purchase decisions [ source ]

“Yellow Page usage amongst people in their, say below 50, will drop to near zero over the next five years.” — Bill Gates [ source ]

Buying behavior is …

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Segway owner dies riding a Segway

… to make Internet wiretaps easier

– President Obama talks education

– Central Wisconsin gets slammed with water

And did you see…

– The owner of Segway dies riding a Segway

– Southwest airlines gets bigger

– Beer brewed by the light of a “full moon”

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Timeline of the Ohio kidnappings: Three women’s shared nightmare

… been kidnapped by one man.

Sept. 8, 2009: Police rule out the possibility that a body found in Wisconsin the previous November is Berry’s after DNA tests come back negative.

January 2013: A Cleveland inmate, Robert Wolford, is sentenced to four-and-a-half years for providing a false burial tip in Berry’s disappearance, sending authorities to a Cleveland lot in the summer of 2012 to dig for her remains.

May 6, 2013 : A neighbor hears a noise coming from the door of the Castro …

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40 years after Roe v. Wade, more states restricting abortion

… in Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin have moved to cut funds for the women’s health group. 

Jan. 22, 1973: NBC’s Garrick Utley and Betty Rollin report on the landmark decision by the Supreme Court on the issue of abortion.

Some state efforts are tied up in court; in others, Planned Parenthood was able to obtain direct federal grants to fill the gap. In Texas, the organization lost a court battle to hold …

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