TURNER, Mont.—April 5 marks the 137th Opening Day of Major League Baseball and no fans in the lower 48 states are farther from the roar of the crowd than the 61 residents here. This summer will be Turner's centennial. As part of the celebration, the town will try to round up enough players for pickup games at the old ball field on the edge of town, which has views of wheat fields and the two-lane road to Canada. The town tries to stitch together summer games, recruiting players as young as five years old and people well into their 60s. It requires some accommodation. Young kids, for instance, use a tee at bat. Parents and children sometimes man their positions together. The rule is, only adults get adults out; vice versa for kids. They tried a game of adults versus children. To even the playing field, right-handed grown-ups had to bat lefty and left-handed adults went righty. Adults had to run bases backward, facing home plate while running to first, for example. Conor Dougherty http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304750404577321971975948212.html

Home of the Turner Tornadoes http://www.turnermontana.us/

Federal Reserve Policy Statement on Rental of Residential Other Real Estate Owned Properties April 5, 2012 In light of the large volume of distressed residential properties and the indications of higher demand for rental housing in many markets, some banking organizations may choose to make greater use of rental activities in their disposition strategies than in the past. This policy statement reminds banking organizations and examiners that the Federal Reserve’s regulations and policies permit the rental of residential other real estate owned (OREO) properties to third party tenants as part of an orderly disposition strategy within statutory and regulatory limits. Read the six-page statement at: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/bcreg/bcreg20120405a1.pdf

Google Art Project is an online compilation of high-resolution images of artworks from galleries worldwide, as well as a virtual tour of the galleries in which they are housed. The project was launched on 1 February 2011 by Google, and includes works in the Tate Gallery, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; and the Uffizi, Florence. The "walk-through" feature of the project uses Google's Street View technology. Seventeen galleries and museums were included in the launch of the project. The 1,061 high-resolution images (by 486 different artists) are shown in 385 virtual gallery rooms, with 6,000 Street View-style panoramas. Each institute contributed one item of gigapixel artwork.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Art_Project

The Toledo Museum of Art has contributed digital images of 135 pieces it owns to the Google Art Project. The project announced an expansion April 3, in which Toledo joins 150 other museums and galleries that have submitted more than 30,000 high-resolution images to Google's virtual collection. You may link to Toledo's contribution at: http://www.toledoblade.com/Art/2012/04/03/Toledo-Museum-of-Art-contributes-to-Google-project.html You will need Chrome Frame in order to see Google Art Project. Google Chrome Frame is a free plug-in with access to Google Chrome's open web technologies and the JavaScript engine for Internet Explorer.

Google Chrome Frame FAQ http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/chrome-frame-getting-started/chrome-frame-faq

The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write. Arthur Plotnik "Who Loves You Like the Library?" The Writer November 2003
Quotes on moderation
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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.
Thomas Fuller, The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Book III. Of Moderation.
It is the sign of a great spirit to be moderate in prosperity.
Seneca the Elder , Suasoriae, ch. 1, sect. 3; translation from Michael Winterbottom (trans.) Declamations of the Elder Seneca (London: Heinemann, 1974) vol. 2, p. 489
Be moderate, be moderate. Why tell you me of moderation?
The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong
As that which causeth it: how can I moderate it?
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida (c. 1602), Act IV, scene 4, line 1.
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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." Thomas Paine
"Moderation in all things, including moderation." Petronius
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
True happiness springs from moderation.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Die Naturliche Tochter, II. 5. 79.
Who loves the golden mean is safe from the poverty of a tenement, is free from the envy of a palace. Horace, Carmina, II. 10. 5.
The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers. François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims. No. 18.
Safety lies in the middle course. Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book II, line 136. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Moderation

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) Roman orator, lawyer, politician, and philosopher

How a bill becomes a law http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101183.html
I'm Just a Bill with link to video http://www.schoolhouserock.tv/Bill.html

Celebrate National Library Week, April 8-14, 2012 See what bestselling author and Honorary Chair of National Library Week, Brad Meltzer, has to say about the impact of libraries on his life in 1.42 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZSqeYdV_tf8
Frequently challenged books of the 21st century http://www.ala.org/advocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/21stcenturychallenged Check your nearest public library for NLW activities.