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Our stay at the Fairfield was ok. Breakfast was well done. Bed was way too soft. Towels were very soft and absorbent. I asked my wife how we could get ours to feel the same. Not the easiest to get to.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
大急流城万豪费尔菲尔德套房酒店 (Fairfield Inn & Suites Grand Rapids) 的回复 Dear John, Thank you for taking the time to leave a review for the Fairfield Inn Grand Rapids. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed our complimentary breakfast and soft towels. Please come back and be our guest the next time you are in Grand Rapids. Sincerely, Joe H. General Manager
"Very comfy stay"
Very nice beds, linens and cleanliness. It was a full hotel, but still quiet at night, so had a good rest. Only lacking towels at poolside in the morning, but that had an easy fix. Hot tub and pool both were very lovely and a perfect tempertature. Close to everything you need.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
staff very friendly and helpful, location to area restaurants perfect-15 minute ride to downtown-we would stay there againHotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great Hotel, but Paper-Thin Walls"
Overall, I was really impressed with this hotel. Convenient location, clean and nicely decorated rooms, and friendly staff. Just a couple of complaints: the walls were paper-thin and unfortunately I had very loud neighbors who decided to start running up and down the halls and screaming at 4 am, as well as what sounded like throwing things around their […] room. I was there on business, so I had been hoping for a good night's sleep, but that obviously didn't happen. Additionally, the free breakfast was definitely lack-luster. The milk was expired, the eggs were rubbery, and though there was a variety of food available (bagels, muffins, cereal, fruit, biscuits and gravy), none of it was very appetizing. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Very clean! Would stay again."
The pool was small and only 4 feet deep, but there was a hot tub, and the pool hours were good--6 a.m. til 11 p.m. for kids (midnight for adults). The rooms were nothing special, but were very clean. Beds were queen size and comfortable, although a little soft for my taste. Breakfast buffet was nice. Staff was friendly. The location was convenient for […] us, visiting friends in the area. I liked that the hotel was set back on a side street and not right up on 28th Street. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Close to event and favorite resturants."
Our stay was comfortable and convienient. The only issue we had was there must have been agroup of young girls staying in the room above us and they were jumping around, banging on the floor, and giggling until from around 9pm-12am. Other than that, our stay was enjoyable.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Good staff overall not bad"
I wish the beds were just a bit softer I kept waking up in pain, otherwise all was fine.Expedia 真实住客点评
"Great Experience"
Almost everything about this hotel was wonderful. They are currently under construction, but that did not interfere with the quality service provided by the staff. The staff was very accommodating to the needs of our group. Thanks for a great experienceHotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great room amidst construction"
Stayed there in March 2013 and found a well-appointed King suite that appeared to be recently renovated. The suite included two flatscreen TVs, pull-out sofa, desk, and king bed. Some areas of the hotel were still in the process of being renovated, but it did not bother us.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Comfortable and affordable"
They allowed me to check in early and were very accommodating. The hotel is under makeover construction as well but they had made everything as comfortable as they could for guests. I would stay with this hotel again in the future.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
I would rate it higher if I went back after the remodel is complete. The noise and clutter sort of took the shine off the visit.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Friendly staff and comfortable beds"
I was only there for one night but the room was very clean, staff was friendly and the beds were very comfortable. I will stay here again when in the area for business.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
""Great value with lots of amenities""
Staff was friendly and helpful, amenities were plentiful (free wi-fi, free breakfast, free parking, pool, hot tub). All for a great price. At the time of our visit the hotel was undergoing construction, but this did not affect our stay. The exercise room was closed, but the hotel had made arrangements so guests could use the fitness center in the hotel […] next door. Location was great close to restaurants and shopping...area was quiet so no problems getting to sleep. Definitely will stay again. 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
"Adequate-close to many restaurants and shopping"
This is a typical Fairfield Inn. The room did not have either a microwave or refrigerator which was not essential but would have been nice to have. The breakfast area is small but the selections were adequate and similar to other Fairfield Inn's we have stayed at. Our room was fairly clean, especially the bathroom, but there was a stain about the size […] of a quarter on one of the drapes that appeared to look like blood. It would have made for a more comfortable stay if the drape had been cleaned or replaced. It makes one wonder what else needs to be attended too. The room however did not have any odor, which was nice. The staff seemed friendly and professional. The location is close to many restaurants and stores. We did not have time to use either the pool or fitness center. The hotel is adequate but there are better values and hotels in the Grand Rapids area. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
I was sorry that we were only staying for one night. The room was nice and the hotel staff were friendly. They explained everything and seemed to really care about the hotel.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
The Hotel was clean and quiet. I recommend to forgo the breakfast and head over to Denny's.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
The room was exceptionally clean.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"great for the price"
Was in town for cousins grad party, did not want to be near family so stayed here. Decent price for a nice room, King bed was great the wife and I enjoyed it. hotel was located off 28th(M-11) and 1 mile for E Beltline road. one of the biggest intersections in the GR area. everything is located off these roads. The mall near the hotel is not worth it, […] just a bunch of ghetto kids running around. (just drive 15min west to the nicer mall) Overall was a nice hotel, easy to get to off I-96. close to the airport and the downtown region of GR. doors where kind of thin, but very little hotel traffic that it wasn't too noticeable. would stay again to avoid family or if flying out of GRFord airport 阅读更多信息Expedia 真实住客点评
Nice could use a little sprucing up. The air in our room had trouble keeping the room cool but was tolerable. Staff was nice and very polite! Need to post breakfast hours in the rooms or make them known at check in because didn't realize they were different depending on the day of the week and missed breakfast the last day.....had a very upset 2 year […] old when we couldn't get what she wanted for breakfast. Over all good stay. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great Stay!"
We were only there for one night, but will definitely stay there again the next time we visit the Grand Rapids area. Our rate was very reasonable and included the complimentary breakfast. With the hotel completely full, the breakfast was well stocked and was more than just bagels, donuts, juice. The waffle maker is a big hit!Hotels.com 真实住客点评
Nice staff but hotel need to be renovated.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"No Frills"
Nice Room, Big TV, plenty of outlets... Good Business Travel RoomHotels.com 真实住客点评
"The Farfield Grand Rapids"
Great room for a quick weekend, nice hot tub and pool. Excellent quick breakfast. Solid choice for basic room.Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Fairfield Hotel Grand Rapids"
Good location; quiet area and pleasant breakfast room. Very satisfiedHotels.com 真实住客点评
"Fairfield Inn Grand Rapids - a decent stay"
Pretty standard as far as hotels go. Room was very clean, had 2 Queens, desk, TV, coffeemaker, standard bathroom. Room had the typical heater and A/C mounted below the window, so it's hard to maintain consistent comfort when using both beds. The person close to the unit gets air and the far bed doesn't. The bed itself very nice, but pillows too firm […] and large. Hard to get comfortable. Grounds were well maintained and flowering trees in full bloom during our visit. Pool and hot tub area clean and stays open until midnight, which we appreciated. Continental breakfast was nice; again pretty standard fare. Desk staff friendly but didn't offer up any information unless asked. 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
"Great Breakfast"
This hotel was further from downtown than others we have stayed at but it was quite a bit less expensive so we decided to give it a try for the weekend. It was clean and comfortable, and the kids enjoyed the pool and hot tub. The complimentary breakfast was actually quite wonderful. The location really wasn't that far from the downtown area. We will […] be back! 阅读更多信息Hotels.com 真实住客点评
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changelog update
New snapshot, fix typo in 97 patch (thanks fabo).
Conditional linking for X11
* Add libx11-dev b-d to fix ftbfs with latest packages. Thanks to Modestas for the hint.
sorry fabo!
* A new svn snapshot packages
* New upstream snapshot. * Add libstreamanalyzer-dev build dependency. ftbfs atm
snapshot bump, new file
let's leave tonight building this release. (yeha, i have too much build power ;) )
should not be here either
make sure it used strigi from experimental
add new files
kdebase-runtime 4.0.68 not finished
move some files around for newer snapshots
kdebase-runtime 4.1
kdebase-runtime 4.0.2
* Add /usr/share/doc/KDE4/html/en/*/common in kdebase-runtime-data package.
* Ignore debug symbols from kdebase-runtime-kde4 (Closes: #464106)
* Update not-installed file.
add this to changelog too
umbump, cdbs versioned dep
runtime 4.0.1-1
* lowercase descriptions, just for ana - proper nouns will have to be pried from my cold, lifeless fingers
unreleased line. i hope next will be 4.0.1
Move Conflict on kdebluetooth from the source fields to the kdebase-runtime package fields.
do not ship khelpcenter in kde 4. move khelpcenter help out of kdebase-runtime-data.
+ general * line-wrap * UNRELEASED for changelogs * normalize module metapackage depends version to >=source * most -dev packages are arch-indep * add suggests for *-dbg + versions * stricter depends version for extragear-plasma*, kscreensaver-xsavers*, & libplasma-dev * remove version from kcoloredit conflict, there is no kcoloredit 4 * bump kdelibs depends version for soprano to 2.0.0 * fix kdenetwork-dev use of substvar depends version for kdebase-dev * fix libsoprano-dev depends version for libsoprano4 + dependency changes * change kdebase-runtime-dbg depends from kdelibs5-dbg to kdepimlibs-dbg * change okular-dev depends from libqt4-dev to kdelibs5-dev * specific depends for kdebase-dev & kdebase-workspace-dev, not whole modules * remove shared-mime-info depends from kdelibs5-dev, since kdelibs5 already has it * add depends kate & poxml to kdesdk-dev * kpackage suggests rpm instead of recommends * remove recommends kdm from kdebase + I like to move it, move it * change kdegames-*-data section from games to kde * move libkonq.so from kdebase-dev to libkonq5-dev * move libmarble_part.so from libmarble-dev to marble
Final touch before uploading kdebase-runtime
* Fixed -dbg deps
* Add conflicts to kdebase-runtime against kdebluetooth << 1.0~beta7-1. because of /usr/bin/kioclient. (Closes: #461211) * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Svn fields.
* tweak descriptions * correct dependency versions * remove unnecessary conflicts/replaces
* Tweak descriptions * Depends > 4:4.0.0 * binary:Version -> source:Version for binNMU * Soprano b-d > 2.0.0 * Add myself to uploaders * "KDE" -> "KDE 4"
some conflicts. we may need more
* Move hal and pmount Recommends from kdelibs to kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 package.
* Add replaces for a smoother upgrade.
* New description boilerplate, round one more than the last
* New description boilerplate, round 1
* More fun with control * Now with changelogs!
* Ooops, forgot changelog entries for r8818 * Add some periods to changelog entries * Changed some changelog entries to pkg-kde team * Pulled in QCA2 2.0.0-3, not sure why it wasn't here already
* Homepages in control
* Bump soprano build-dep version to >= 2.0.0-1.
Bump build-depends to >=4.0.0-1.
kdebase runtime 4.0.0 * Update *.install files, sounds files have been renamed and they are all now only in kdebase-runtime-data without clashing with KDE3's files. * Update years in copyright.
add two patches for disabling debug output by default. this way only important stuff ends in the konsole. when needed the debug areas can be selectively enabled with kdebugdialog. if anyone has problems with these patches please tell me.
i like the svn revision number in the changelog.
Update kdebase-runtime installed files. fix typo.
svn snapshot
* Add liphonon-dev build dependency. * Bump soprano build dependency version.
remove dupplicate file
it was moved not killed.
kdebase-workspace Svn snapshot of revision 753247
replace old (after next kde3base upload) kdebase-bin
* Add some missing replaces when conflicting with packages.
* Use source:Version when depending on arch-all packages. * Make dependency of kdebase-runtime-data on kdebase-runtime-data-common versioned.
* Remove extra LDFLAGS. Included via CDBS now.
* Use DEB_CMAKE_EXTRA_FLAGS, CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS and CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS. It will be easier to move to our cdbs classes whenever we want. * Add defs to LDFLAGS.
it was late
another typo
* Replace the meta-package kdebase-workspace with the former content of the now removed kdebase-runtime-bin. * Add "-Wl,-lz" to LDFLAGS.
- Bump build-dep to >=4:3.97.0. - Add epoch to kdepimlibs build-dep. * Add export LDFLAGS+="-Wl,--as-needed" in rules to make dpkg-shlibdeps + happier.
* Use email@example.com for Debian related work.
kdebase-runtime 3.97.0
kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 must be Arch: any
i thought i checked everything...
forgot to remove these...
replace/conflict drkonqi
hopefully fixes all problems i introduced tonight
add missing conflic and replaces
* Split out kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4 which contains files which can be provided by KDE3 or KDE4.
* Move kinfocenter into a seperate package.
* Move the rest of drkonqi into kdebase-runtime-data and remove the package.
* Depend on up to date kdepimlibs5-dev.
* Split kdebase-runtime-data-common off which contains conflicting files with KDE3's kdebase-data package. kdebase-runtime-data-common will be installed if KDE3's kdebase-data is not installed. * kdebase-runtime-data must replace kdebase-data versions less than 4:3.95.0 and not 3.95.0. * Fix 02_ksvgtopng4 and 03_ktrash4 patches.
* Add 03_ktrash4: append 4 to ktrash.
* Until consensus reached: Add 01_ksvgtopng4: append 4 to ksvgtopng.
* Add 01_kde4_information_menu: prepend kde4 to information.menu.
* Update installed files.
* Remove 01_knotify4_desktop patch. Merged upstream. * Bump kdepimlibs5-dev build dependency version. * Add libclucene-dev, libsoprano-dev and libstrigiqtdbusclient-dev build dependencies for nepomuk.
some minor stuff
* Add epoch for kdebase-runtime like kdebase and kdebase-workspace.
* Add gdb dependency to drkonqi.
* Add 01_knotify4_desktop patch. Execute the right binary name.
* Update not-installed files related to kdebase.
* Add kdebase-runtime-data build dependency to kdebase-runtime-bin.
build dependency fun
add missing comma
make kdebase-runtime-data arch all add needed replaces remove the hicolor theme again
remove epoch
added by accident
initial packaging for kdebase-runtime. the relevant parts of the copyright files are copied from kdebase and need to be reviewed. description are also definitely need some work. didn't care about co-installability issues yet...
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FPSA Response to Media Releases
Wed 20th July 2011
The FPSA Constitution provides for the Aims & Objectives of our Association. In short, the main goal is to protect and promote the welfare and interests of its Members through whatever means or channels available. Job security and a stable working environment with just rewards are allied objectives. The Association has always striven for such objectives throughout its long history of serving employees in the Public Sector of the nation. Repeatedly the Members have renewed and solidified those objectives via regularly conducted annual meetings.
In recent times since 2007, the FPSA National Coun cil has taken the initiative to protect its Members from an ongoing ons laught against their rights, e.g. lowering of retirement age, lack of pay upgrades and absence of collective bargaining etc.
However, since 2009, upon the abrogation of the Fiji Constitution, the numerous Decrees issued have further eroded the lot of our Members, the details of which are in the public domain, and against which all avenues of checks and balances, the right for appeal or redress have also been unilaterally removed. Due to these destructive developments, we cannot now approach any forum, be it a Tribunal, the Employer or the Courts in Fiji to find justice. So who do we turn to?
Such unilateral and dictatorial actions by the largest employer in the nation are against the valuable norms of reasonable thinking, the UN Declaration of Human & Rights and several ILO Conventions. The nation is a signatory to them and have pledged to uphold them. Fiji has undertaken to do all possible to uphold these cherished principles, not take actions against them, which are among the legitimate expectations of the workers of this country.
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The confirmed authority for such actions is held and strengthened each year by our Annual General Meetings, which have further mandated the National Council to exercise the rights in our Constitution. The June 2011 NC Meeting further resolved to direct the FPSA Secretariat to continue in our legitimate pursuit for the restoration of the rights of Members. Hence our approach to trade union brethren for this purpose.
The foregoing facts will more than adequately counter the suggestions and rumour mill that certain persons are relying on that FPSA Members have not authorized their Officials to embark on a mission to restore their rights. The opposite is true. There have been no approach or request by any financial and legitimate FPSA Member over past several weeks, months and years for the Council to do otherwise. Thus the release from a Govt source that certain FPSA Members have shown concern at the turn of events carries no water.
There have been no calls for the resignation of the General Secretary, and if any, then normal process must be followed. Our Members realize that they cannot run to the Employer for such a purpose. But they hold the options in their own hands to utilize under our Constitution. If a group of such Members, who should rea lize the predicament \they are in, does exist, then it can be safely surmised that they are doing it for a different purpose which is not in support of the larger rank and file membership of our union.
On another subject, five years ago the National Council sanctioned the purchase of a vehicle to replace and older model and which remains the property of the Association and its Members in accordance with our established policies. An official vehicle has been part of the FPSA holdings for over forty years. It is employed in the furtherance of the aims and objectives of the union under strict guidelines and its value and worth is always preserved. The purchase price of the current property was less than half the figure that the Minister has alluded to in his unfounded and weak diatribe against us. It reveals starkly the veracity and credibility of his sources, or perhaps the facts were padded to suit his purpose at the spur of the moment.
Furthermore, the FPSA General Secretary is elected at our AGM and his tenure is held at the whim of the Members. The current incumbent has repeatedly been returned to office for eleven years from 2000 to date. Such facts speak loudly for themselves.
Under true democratic principles all positions in the Association is open to all financial Members to vie for, but not run elsewhere with unfounded complaints.
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While I don't often agree with Joe Weis, I have to agree with his letter in the January 27 issue of the Herald-Banner. I also feel that both Obama's State of the Union coverage and that of the pony incident are closely related and both should have been on page 7. And both should have been cross-referenced to one-another.
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Across the pond in the United Kingdom just a few weeks to go to -- star of the Summer Olympics and a judge in Great Britain today gave the go ahead to a controversial plan.
The foot inside aircraft missiles on the roof of -- London apartment bill.
Folks who live in the seventeen story place called Red Wings' power and argued that missiles would make him a terror target.
The building about two miles from Olympic park -- the judge ruled there was no real threat to the residents and that the missiles were necessary for Olympic security.
There's word The British Army will begin construction within just days.
The -- she's correspondent Jonathan Hunt who lived in that neighborhood apparently one point in our near studio tonight Jonathan residents are understandably pretty disturbed about it.
Yeah I imagine -- security officials suddenly said to the good people of Kansas City.
The -- all stocked game is an attractive target for terrorists send that -- in the name of national security.
They need to put missiles on the rooms of homes in a bomb -- buildings.
Within sight of Kauffman Stadium that will that's exactly what is happening in London at this Fred -- apartment building.
And lawyers for the residents who -- they said.
This is the British government essentially saying they couldn't do what ever they want militarily.
When someone -- -- missiles on the -- -- soldiers in the living rooms could be next lesson.
We have always believed.
That an englishman home was his -- Not -- forward operating base.
It was something where we were protected what we could enjoy the quiet enjoyment -- -- hopes.
The -- implication of this judgment days.
That's so long as they managed to defense considers the national security today you know -- the -- Quiet -- your home go home is no longer your past.
Now some other residents all of that neighborhood in which I did live -- time.
A more -- line about it saying that given that -- -- perhaps the nicest bottom London.
A few missiles and a few soldiers arrived in the neighborhood might not be the worst thing for the next month us and -- much -- UK officials say this golf part of an overall security strip featuring.
Yes -- huge securities procedure in something like 27 and a half thousand security.
Personnel will be on -- -- T those missiles designed to take down.
Any hijacked Eric croft that might aim for any Olympics related buildings or any others they've also -- fighter jets on the stand by.
And the helicopters as for those missiles.
The ministry of defense spelt correctly in the British way with -- C said in a statement to we maintain.
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Not the most likely scenario and a lot of terrorism experts will tell you ship the what they fear the most likely scenario is is not some big so called spectacular attack.
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Explore our ever-changing planet in the Red Zone. Discover the natural forces that shape it, the treasures we take from it, the effect we have on it and its place in the universe.
A dramatic sculpture of the Earth takes you to the centre of the globe where you begin your journey around the planet.
Until January 2014 the Power Within gallery is closed for refurbishment. We apologise for any inconvenience.
Walk along an avenue of sculptures, and examine beautiful specimens, including a piece of the Moon. Then take the escalator up through the giant Earth sculpture made from iron, zinc and copper.
Explore the impact of human activity on our planet and how this will affect its future.
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The sweet flavors of the maple syrup and Southern Comfort are gently tempered by orange so that the glaze doesn't taste overly sweet, but instead deep and savory.
Ingredients: 1/2 cup maple syrup
1/2 cup Southern Comfort
1/2 cup cider vinegar
Grated zest and juice of 2 juice oranges (about 1/2 cup)
1 tablespoon dark brown sugar
1/4 cup brown or full-flavored yellow mustard
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1/4 cup soy or tamari sauce
Preparation:In a heavy non reactive saucepan, add the maple syrup, Southern Comfort, vinegar, orange zest and juice, brown sugar, mustard, ground nutmeg, and soy sauce. Bring to a simmer and simmer for about 30 minutes, until reduced to 1 cup. Cool the glaze, store in a clean airtight container, and refrigerate until ready to use. The glaze can be made ahead and will keep in the refrigerator for 3 weeks. To use the glaze after refrigerating, warm it over medium heat, stirring occasionally.
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I can recall now (earlier today I'd forgotten) when Mint 12 first came out a couple of times when the OS lost Gparted in the middle of an operation. I'd have Gparted doing something that, "depending on . . . this might take a long time.' And so I'd find something else to do. Later when I went to see if Gparted was finished, I wouldn't be able to find it. The only thing I could assume was that the operation was finished and Gparted had closed on it's own, or that it had crashed. But when restarted or shutdown, I'd briefly see the missing Gparted on the screen (but too late to cancel the reboot or shut down).
Well over the months since then I made it a point not to use Gparted on Mint. But today I'd forgotten why and used Mint 12 to resize my Ubuntu home partition. After a long time (say 45 minutes or so) I went to check on Gparted and I couldn't find it. When I restarted my computer, I briefly saw the missing Gparted flash on the screen just before the OS went off.
After rebooting, Lisa's Gparted showed, the Ubuntu home partition (299 Gbs) as "unallocated." So I installed Testdisk, unearthed Ubuntu's home partition and selected "write." Testdisk said I'd have to reboot for the changes to take place. But after I rebooted, the grub error message popped up on a black screen. After booting a live cd and invoking Gparted, it showed the entire hard drive as a dismal gray and marked "unallocated."
I'm presently using a Katya live dvd. Katya's disk utility shows all the former partitions as intact and when I select "Check Filesystem: check and repair the filesystem" they're all "Clean," but Gparted still shows the hard drive as unallocated.
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THE MAROON ESTABLISHED 1923 VOL. 74 NO. 18 Loyola University New Orleans FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1996 Sarandon speech to cost $10,400 By NEAL FALGOUST News Editor The Student Government Association approved a $10,400 allocation of funds to the Father Carter Lecture Series to pay actress Susan Sarandon to speak at Loyola on March 13. It also approved $58,000 in allocations to student organizations, $12,000 less than last semester. According to Lee Reid, political science senior and SGA congressperson at large, the series was originally funded for $14,000, but because of the overbudgeting of allocations to student organizations the program had to be cut back to $ 10,400. Cuts were also made in SGA's internal operating budget and in allocations to student organizations to balance the overall budget. A portion of the funds allocated to the series came from money donated by Katy Montgomery, political science senior, which she received for being SGA president. The remainder came from money not used by student organizations last semester. However, Tara Lipinsky, English senior and City College representative, believes that the responsibility of funding the series lies not only with SGA, but with other student organizations as well. "I feel the problem is that some of these other organizations could work harder, and they are not. We (Father Carter Lecture Series Committee) are going above just asking for money from the SGA. We are going out of our way to find some other donor," she said. Richard Houston, first-year law student and Law School representative, said that the money used to pay Sarandon could have been used in a more legitimate manner. 'These $10,000 are originating from student funds. And there are a great number of student organizations who are trying to do valid things, but because of this $10,000 they can't do that," he said. Reid also said that he believes the money will be well spent considering that $ 10,000 is not much to pay a speaker like Panelists discuss environmental issues By ROSE FRENCH Staff writer Differing opinions concerning the news media's role in environmental issues abounded, while attendance did not, at the Covering the Planet panel discussion on Feb. 29 in Roussel Hall. Six environmental reporters from around the country spoke about journalistic interests and questions relating to the environment posed by panel leader Lynn Sherr, correspondent for the ABC news show, 20/20. "The environment is something we all have a stake in," Sherr said. "We all feel the passion." Yet panelists stressed the journalist's responsibility to keep this "passion" in check when reporting. They also voiced concern about the term "environmental journalists," by which they are often labeled. "I'm uncomfortable with the linkage between journalism and activism," said Rae Tyson, reporter for USA Today. "We [panelists] just happen to have a specific area of expertise." Panel journalists stressed the idea of having an informed audience which has not been fed biased material. "An environmental journalist is an oxymoron," said Whitman Bassow, columnist for the global environmental magazine. Tomorrow. "Either you're a journalist or an environmentalist, but you cannot be both." Joel Makower, editor of the Green Business Letter, chooses to inform a business-oriented audience. In his newsletter, Makower reports on companies which are "degrading mines. I integrate green thinking throughout operations," he said. Associated Press editor and reporter, H. Josef Hebert, referred to environmental stories as "feel-good" pieces, while Times-Picayune reporter Mark Schleifstein likened environmental reporting to crime reporting. The only non-journalist on the panel, Timothy Andrews, media director and chief press officer for Greenpeace, U.S.A., made clear his stance as an environmental advocate and offered many opposing answers to the questions asked. "I came to Greenpeace a year and a half ago after ten years in the news business, so I know the other side of the coin," Andrews said. To accommodate the public's need for "The environment is something we all have a stake in." — Lynn Sherr By AMBER SHIELDS Whitman Bassow receives a makeup treatment prior to his appearance. Black cultural center brings controversy to UNC By CHRIS BONURA Staff writer Some unwelcome visitors dropped into Paul Hardin's office on April 16, 1993. At the time, he was chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Approximately 70 chanting and clapping protesters found their way into his office — so also did a handful of Hardin's fellow administrators and a group of campus police. The protesters were there to take over. The police were there to make sure they did not. The Daily Tarheel (April 16, 1993) reported that the day before the protest, Margo Crawford, a staff member who led the protest, announced the visit on Hardin's lawn, saying, "This man is acting like a master; I'm not going to play the slave," and "If I wasn't black, I'd probably be chancellor anyway." A delegation of 16 student protesters and one UNC resident were arrested for disorderly conduct that spring Friday morning and escorted to Orange County Court. Later that day, 180 students marched to the campus police department to protest the arrest. The issue that caused such tension on the Chapel Hill campus was the debate over the Sonya Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center. This protest was not UNC's first; in fact, it was the final battle of a two-year controversy. It came immediately after student protesters occupied the South Building rotunda for two weeks and a visit by the Rev. Jesse Jackson to the campus to make demands on behalf of the students. Much of the emotion that sparked the controversy started when Sonya Stone died in 1991. She was a professor of Afrocentrism at UNC-Chapel Hill. "After the memorial service students decided to take the center out of the cubby hole in the student center. Leon Litwack speaks on development of American culture By STEPHEN STUART Managing Editor In the 19605, events like the turbulent civil rights movement and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. not only changed America, but shook the nation to its roots, said Leon F. Litwack in his Feb. 28 speech entitled, 'To Look for America: From Hiroshima to Woodstock." "The nation appeared to be experiencing a massive breakdown manifest in every section, class and stratum, a breakdown in faith in its ideals, institutions and prospects." Litwack, a Pulitzer Prize-winning history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, discussed his impressions of this tumultuous era. He followed his lecture, which over 80 people attended in Nunemaker Hall, with a slide and film presentation. The Biever Guest Lecture Series sponsored Litwack's presentation. See PANEL, Pg. 6 See UNC, Pg. 6 See SGA, Pg. 6 See LITWACK, Pg. 4 Campaign Trai^ The Maroon will not appear next week because of mid-term exams. We will resume publication on March 22. One for One The baseball team wins hgh
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This is going to be a modern witchcraft rp. What makes it different from any other magic rp... I do not know but hey magic is a loved thing among many.
In the city of Nosnardom there is a special shop called Whichy Witchcraft?. There, there is an old woman named Silver Mist. She sells many witchcraft supplies from candles to herbs, wands and altars, ingredients and books. One day the shop catches your eye and you procede in. There your magical abilitied are awkened and soon you find out you are a decendent of witchcraft. You can be a child to an adult or even an elder. Though what brings the characters together is Silver Mist and her mysteries. You find out about magical beings and even get your very own but you must remain secret from society and if you are caught performing witchcraft you are well dead or worse tortured.
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I first wanna say thanks to Neddo and the guys over at Man sports for giving me the opportunity to log their new GDA/NP N-Force.
Here's a quick rundown of the ingredients.
The prop blend consists of the following
Amount Per Serving % Daily Value
Hyper-Force Matrix 420mg **
Gymnema Sylvestre (75% Gymnemic Acid)
Banaba Extract (2% Corosolic Acid)
Chromium Polynicotinate
Cinnamon 4:1 Extract
ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid)
I'm going to go right into it and start with my first dose experiences...
Day 1: Today's a rest day for me so I'm going to be consuming BW in g/carbs. I took 1 capsule 20 minutes prior to eating some chicken and Oatmeal (46 g carbs) + 1/2 cup of brown rice (34 g carbs)..I didn't feel any signs of hypoglycemia (some like this feeling b/c they "feel it working", others don't)... First thing I noticed upon completion of ingestion was that my body temp felt like it shot up.. More so than even when I really load up on carbs (125g+) w/o any GDA's or R-ala or anything of that nature. I don't feel very full either, which on days where I need to really down the CHO, could be to my benefit..If anyone's ever downed a ton of carbs before and tried to drink some water to quench your thirst, you get epic "slosh belly." So far, none of that.. I can drink my h20 fine..SO far so good. I really think N-Force's true colors will shine when I need to put down around 300g or so.. I usually get water retention and have a tough time stuffing it all down.. Good things to come, hopefully... Stay tuned


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Crikey, check this sign out... what a beauty!
30 December 2005
With the help of Ian Günter, Senior Conservation Officer with Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service and Queensland Co-ordinator of the Coxen's Fig Parrot Recovery Program, the you-beaut bird crew are proud to display this attractive and informative sign for the enjoyment and education of our guests.Money was generously donated through staff fundraising events to enable us to purchase this bonzer of a sign.
The Coxen's Fig Parrot is one of Australia's most endangered birds. It is the smallest of all the Australian parrots - about the size and colour of your average fig leaf! The Coxen's Fig Parrot is classed as critically endangered. This parrot has never been photographed and only 60 birds have been sighted since 1990.
Reliant on fig trees for food, this parrot has been vulnerable to the effects of the widespread clearing of its natural habitat. Conservation of the Coxen's Fig Parrot is now directed towards preserving potential habitat and determining the extent and distribution of the remaining populations. A national recovery team was formed in 1993 to investigate actions to save the Coxen's Fig Parrot. Regular searches are carried out by members of the recovery team and volunteers.
Although the population size of Coxen's Fig Parrot is now perilously low, the future of this critically endangered bird is not all loom and gloom. Confirmed or credible sightings continue to be made, with locations like the Noosa Hinterland, Maleny and Beerwah (our backyard) emerging as hot spots. As you can imagine, we here at Australia Zoo were more than happy to put our hand up and show our support for the Coxen's Fig Parrot Recovery Program. This new sign will hopefully inform our guests of the plight of this vulnerable little Aussie.


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I need to keyframe the Y position transform of a moving subject to keep her in the center of the frame and would like a set of crosshairs to help me do it. I've seen solutions which employ Motion titles, but I can't get this to work because the clip I'm translating is inside a multicam clip. I've looked, but cannot find, plugins to add this functionality. Thanks
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The Evince document viewer
Evince is quickly becoming Gnome's standard viewer for PDF and other document formats.
Like other visions of the future, the paperless office is taking much longer than anyone expected. The heaps of paper on office desks just don't seem to get any smaller. On a brighter note, some books – especially technical documentation – are now available in electronic format, alternatively or exclusively, as the case may be. Documents in the Portable Document Format (PDF) [2], an Adobe [1] development, look the same no matter what operating system you use, and this means extending genuine cross-platform compatibility to document design.
In the world of Unix and Linux, other formats such as PostScript and DVI play important roles. There are any number of Linux-based document viewers. Gnome now includes Evince (Figure 1) [3], a useful all-rounder, as the standard viewer for these file types. Evince can also handle graphic formats such as TIFF and DjVu, which are typically the result of scanning text documents.
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Twitter moralists only protect women they like: Mary Beard and Grace Dent are no Emma West
PROFESSOR of Classics at Cambridge Mary Beard says of the abuse many receive on twitter: "It is is scary and it has got to stop." Beard was threatened with rape. In response to that, many Tweeters abandoned Twitter in a 24-hour silent protest.
Professor Beard was going to be silent but then received more abuse:
"Planned to be off twitter, but I've had more threats this morning (rape and worse). It IS still going on. Tried to report to Twitter, failed."
One message was from an idiot threatening to bomb her home.
Posted: 5th, August 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The best Malcolm Tucker Doctor Who mash-ups
SO. Peter Capaldi, aka The Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker, is the BBC's new Dr Who. The Beeb's marketing department must be inundated with orders for school lunch boxes and thermos flasks featuring Capaldi's face. In the meantime, a few mash-ups:
Spotter: Sloucher Zine
Spotter: B3ta
More to follow…
Posted: 4th, August 2013 | In: Key Posts, TV & Radio | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The 22 greatest vintage guns for kids adverts
WHEN did you lean to like guns? As Lileks says:
I'm not saying it's the be-all / end-all of ideological tests, but you can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to these ads. That was then, to understate the case. Nowadays we've done away with these dangerous violent antisocial pseudo-guns, and replaced them with merry-makers like Nerf guns and Supersoakers and other items whose makers encourage you to point them at your friends.
If a Nerf gun more likely to appeal to a nascent serial killer than a Daisy? What about a victual gun on Tour of Duty? There will be studies:
Posted: 3rd, August 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Disney Princesses get the pop culture treatment – after happy ever after
WHAT happens when Disney meets pop culture? You get Mickey Mouse drugs, for sure. But what else? More drugs? Yes. Sexual innuendo? Yes, if you think about it. But what else? Therapy? For sure. Surgery? Indeed, yes. What about sex and rock 'n' roll? José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros has created DisHollywood , a show at the La Luz De Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles:
This exhibition pays tribute to the world of Hollywood, and the influence that film, television and music video has had on contemporary pop culture. It is a collection of visual curiosities that pushes the audience to reimagine the world of pop as a personalized mash-up with the freedom to merge situations, rewrite the script, and provide new dialogue in alternative scenarios to tell new stories.
DisHollywood is also a barometer for measuring our tolerance and acceptance levels; a new way of observing the "happy ending" that trumpets the time of equality is now. In contrast to the baroque fantasy implied by the original, idealized presentation of these characters, a new context of social vulnerability shows the darker side of our contemporary society.
Cue the Disney princesses:
Posted: 2nd, August 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Anthony Weiner: after these penis photos New York's must-be mayor shows us his 'slutbag' and 'twat'
CREDIT to Anthony Weiner for his unconventional mayoral campaign. After the sex pictures raised the stakes – never mind the politics, look at the length and stamina - Weiner's communications director, Barbara Morgan, (pictured above in blonde and black) introduced a new word into the political lexicon: slutbag. She also called former intern Olivia Nuzzi a "twat," and a "cunt".
When your head of media can use words like that you know the Special Relationship with the UK is safe in Weiner's free hand.
Posted: 1st, August 2013 | In: Key Posts, Politicians | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Liverpool FC wants its fans and staff to be Thought Police narks
LIVERPOOL FC's widely distributed list of things you cannot say has yet to be handed to all fans entering the Anfield ground. Your moral credentials will not be checked at the gate…yet.
I have said infantile things at football matches, mostly when I was young and thought it funny and possibly liberating to sing things I would never sing at a polite dinner table; belting out abusive lyrics to songs like the First Noel:
Hoddle, Hoddle, Hoddle, Hoddle
Born is the Queen of Golder's Green
That's racist! Nowadays it could be. I knew that words cold hurt. Well, that was the idea. You get worked up in support of your own team and say things designed to damage the opposition. You don't mean it. The song was targeting Spurs' best player and the fans, many of whom are Jewish (Golder's Green has a considerable Jewish demographic). It would also be now classed a homophobic. Hoddle is not the King of Israel, as the Spurs fans might have had it. He was the Queen. Was I a homophobic anti-Semite? No. I just thought it was funny. The song did not show me in my true colours. They were just part of the match.
Was Hoddle offended? No. He just smiled and – get this – later became a born again Christian.
(It was he who said: "You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime. I have nothing to hide about that. It is not only people with disabilities. What you sow, you have to reap.")
Arsenal fans also had this to say about their own Nwankwo Kanu:
He's big, he's black, he's had a heart attack, King Kanu, King Kanuuuuu
Posted: 31st, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
This silly season the Government wants us to spot shark porn devouring kids
CENSORSHIP disclaimer: To avoid setting off any overzealous Internet morality filters, or painfully jostling the sharp, pointy stick which (I am absolutely convinced) must be wedged up deep within David Cameron's nether zone, this article will scrupulously avoid using certain words that rhyme with "hex" or "born" (replace the H and B with an S and P, respectively).
The goal is primarily to ensure this can be read by any Britons who might run afoul of the UK's proposed anti-[p]born Internet filter which, naturally, is proposed in the name of The Children. Well, it is silly season, and with no Great White sharks have been spotted off the coast of Brighton, the Government wants us to look for and talk about minority-interest porn. Life is imitating Friends:
Posted: 31st, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, News, Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Kyron Horman: the magical August 1 deadline and what mother puts a price on her son's head?
THE Kyron Horman case is 'heating up'. It's been 3 years and 2 months since the seven-year-old boy went missing from the Skyline Elementary school in Portland Oregon. The local Multnomah County Sheriff's Office are still without a single clue as to what happened to him.
No-one has been named as a suspect. What crime, if any, befell the child has not been established. the media has been doing the police dirty work in cranking up pressure on Kyron's step-mother, Terri Horman. She is now estranged from the boy's father, Kaine Horman.
Why is the step-mother in the frame? Terri Moulton Horman is the last person known to have seen Kyron before he vanished from Skyline School on June 4 2010. And that's it.
The Oregonian reports:
Kyron Horman's mother to drop civil suit in son's disappearance
Posted: 31st, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
One Direction fans threaten to rape, stab and kill everyone at GQ magazine – the pick of the Tweets
A ONE Direction Fans writes in response to the article on the band in GQ magazine:
@trxpicalouis' "whAT THE FUCK THEY MADE LOUIS LOOK LIKE AN ASSHOLE I S2G HE IS A FUCKING ANGEL I AM GOING TO FIND GQ AND FUCKING BOMB THEM SEE YOU IN JAIL"
Posted: 30th, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, Music | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Balcombe frackers and celebrities create a sexy Glastonbury in West Sussex
DO celebrities get on your wick? Or does the grandstanding and rampant self-promotion make no difference so long as the message gets out there to great unwashed? And does being a celebrity mean you can no longer function as a private person; everything you do is cloaked in PR and marketing; you are the eternal brand?
News is that Bianca Jagger is against fracking for oil and gas in the British countryside, chiefly at Balcombe in West Sussex.
Posted: 30th, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Documerica Project: photos of Chicago's black community in the 1970s
IN the 1970s, the US Government created Documerica Project (1971-1977). The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hired freelance photographers to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life in the 1970s.
John H White was one of nearly one hundred photographers hired for DOCUMERICA. His photographs captured the spirit and struggle of the African-American community in Chicago, Illinois in the early 70′s.
The captions are the original texts:
Sidewalk Merchandise On Chicago's South Side. Many Of The City's Black Businessmen Started Small And Grew By Working Hard Today Chicago Is Believed To Be The Black Business Capital Of The United States, 06/1973
Graffiti On A Wall In Chicago. Such Writing Has Advanced And Become An Art Form, Particularly In Metropolitan Areas. Black Artists Also Have Used Walls On Buildings In Black Communities In Chicago To Paint Outdoor Murals. They Feel It Is A Means Of Sharing Art With People In The Ghetto Who Don't Go To The Museums. The Artists Also Have Given Painting Lessons To Community Groups By Decorating Walls On Some Buildings In Their Communities, 05/1973
Street Scene On 47th Street In South Side Chicago, A Busy Area Where Many Small Black Businesses Are Located, 06/1973
Black Beauties Complement A Float During The Bud Billiken Day Parade, 08/1973
Isaac Hayes Dancers Perform At The International Amphitheater In Chicago, 10/1973
Black Children Play Outside The Ida B. Wells Homes, One Of Chicago's Oldest Housing Projects. There Are 1,652 Apartments Housing 5,920 Persons In 124 Buildings On The South Side. Many Buildings In This Part Of The City Have Been Systematically Vacated For Various Reasons. Even Though Many Are Salvageable, They Are Razed And Replaced With High Rent Highrises Which Have Little Or No Appeal To The Area's Previous Residents, 05/1973
Worshippers At Holy Angel Catholic Church On Chicago's South Side. It Is The City's Largest Black Catholic Church. The Pastor Is Father George H. Clements, A Leader In The Black Community, 10/1973
Illinois Governor Dan Walker Greets Chicago Constituents During The Bud Billiken Day Parade, 08/1973
A Black Band Performs At The Lake Meadows Shopping Center In Chicago. Not Well Known, They Are Sharing Their Music At Home And Hope Their Start Will Lead To Greater Recognition, 08/1973
Black Muslim Women Dressed In White Applaud Elijah Muhammad During The Delivery Of His Annual Savior's Day Message In Chicago. The City Is Headquarters For The Black Muslims. Their $75 Million Empire Includes A Mosque, Newspaper, University Restaurants, Real Estate, Bank And Variety Of Retail Stores Muhammad Died February 25, 1975, 03/1974
"The Fruit Of Islam", A Special Group Of Bodyguards For Muslim Leader Elijah Muhammad, Sit At The Bottom Of The Platform While He Delivers His Annual Savior's Day Message In Chicago, 03/1974
The Rev. Jesse Jackson Speaks On A Radio Broadcast From The Headquarters Of Operation Push, At Its Annual Convention. One Of The Aims Of The Organization Is To Open The World Of Business To Small Black Owned Businesses. Rev. Jackson Is Credited For Helping To Make Chicago The Black Banking Capital In The Country. He Helped Persuade White Companies To Stop Taking Profits They Earned From Black Consumers To The White Suburbs, 07/1973
Vote Registration Drive Was One Aspect Of Black Expo, An Annual Exhibit Of Black Talent, Education, Products And Other Aspects Of Black Consciousness Held In Chicago. The Aim Is To Make Blacks Aware Of Their Heritage And Capabilities, And Help Them Towards A Better Life, 10/1973
Black Man Operating A Newsstand In Chicago On The West Side The City Is Believed To Be The Black Business Capital Of The United States. Census Figures Show In 1970 There Were 8,747 Black Owned Businesses In The City That Grossed More Than $332 Million. But Black Capitalists Still Have More Trouble Staying In Business Once They Begin And The Main Reason Remains Racial Prejudice. Lack Of Capital Lack Of Business Expertise And Lack Of Support From The Black Community Are Other Factors, 06/1973
Black Youngsters Performing On An Empty Lot At 5440 South Princeton Avenue On Chicago's South Side At A Small Community Program Called "an Open Air Fashion And Talent Show" Presented By "the New Between The Tracks Council", A Community Block Group. It Is One Of Many Block Clubs And Community Groups Organized To Help Youngsters "do Their Thing" During Special Weekend Programs In Empty Lots In The Black Communities, 08/1973
Black Beauties With Colorful Hair Grace A Float During The Annual Bud Billiken Day Parade Along Dr. Martin L. King Jr. Drive On Chicago's South Side. Up To Half A Million People View One Of The Largest Events Of The Year, Held For Blacks Of All Ages And Economic Status. The Parade Also Includes Black Politicians, Black Businesses Displaying Their Products And Black Bands, 08/1973
Chicago Ghetto On The South Side. Although The Percentage Of Chicago Blacks Making $7,000 Or More Jumped From 26 To 58% Between 1960 And 1970, A Large Percentage Still Remained Unemployed. The Black Unemployment Rate Generally Is Assumed To Be Twice That Of The National Unemployment Rate Published Monthly By The Bureau Of Labor Statistics, 05/1974
Posted: 29th, July 2013 | In: Flashback, Key Posts, News, Photojournalism | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Caroline Criado-Perez: twitter trolls and narks show us how police bigotry works
DO the police use an even hand when confronting the Twitter mob in full cry? When Caroline Criado-Perez decried the Bank of England decided to replace Elizabeth Fry with Winston Churchill on new £5 notes – this meant no women, save for The Queens, were on bank notes – she and others who campaigned for equality on folding money brought about a change of heart.
The Bank of England governor, Mark Carney, caved in to pressure and announced that Jane Austen is going on the £10 note.
This brought Criado-Perez to attention of the Twitter brains trust, some of whom called for her to be raped and murdered.
Posted: 28th, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Thom Yorke and Johnny Lynch entirely misunderstand Spotify and online music
THIS is one of those newspaper pieces where you have to check that the people are still living on the same planet as the rest of us. They're talking about whether Spotify is paying enough in royalties to the musicians who produce the work. Yet they manage to miss the most basic point about the whole subject:
Spotify is selling a lie, though. In this post-Napster world, the pressure is on for new independent artists to have their music sit alongside massive acts – but we're not getting anything back. We are told that it's good exposure, and will lead to increased album and ticket sales, but this simply isn't the case.
Posted: 26th, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, Money, Music, Technology | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The best British Jaegers – the Pacific Rim challenge
WHAT if Pacific Rim was set in Britain? Yeah. Pacific Rim? As if. First off, no-one would have been able to stop sniggering. And second, well, the sniggering right. But let's imagine. In the film the characters are called Jaegers. (Yeah. Like the middle-class, provincial fashion outlets). Almost all these Jaegers have two two-noun names created in a Tokyo language school randomiser: Brawler Yukon; Coyote Tango, Solar Prophet and the excellent Gipsy Danger.
Warner Bros' build-your-own-Jaeger toy lets you create your own:
Posted: 26th, July 2013 | In: Film, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The decline of man: the steady emasculation of our role models
THE decline of Man: modern man is in a state of crisis, reared on a diet of creams, depilated, patent skin and self-tanning unguents. Here, Anorak looks at the fall of manhood.
"I never fixed my eyes, but I spent more money to stretch the skin of my testicles. I did not like the wrinkles. It's a new technique, many people in Hollywood have done it. It's called 'ball ironing'."
It is generally assumed that George Clooney was joking when he delivered the above quote. One thing is true, though: 'ball ironing' (or 'male laser lift') is available at the Beauty Park in Santa Monica for just under $600, and it is proving very popular.
Clooney may not have had the treatment himself, but his familiarity with it is cause for concern. It's just the latest in a series of milestones in the steady emasculation of our role models. And the rot set in, as it so often did, in the 1950s.
Dennis Compton
Compton (second left, with Burt Lancaster and Frankie Vaughan) was a brilliant batsman with a Test average of 50 (including over 200 runs in one match against South Africa using an antique bat borrowed from the cricket museum). He also found time to play football for Arsenal, with whom he won both the league championship and the FA Cup. Unfortunately, he also became the face of Brylcreem, and set the tone for future generations of sportsmen to dabble in the darker corners of male grooming.
Elvis Presley
Presley offended people in numerous ways –not least with his habit of wearing eye makeup. None of which stopped him from being drafted into the US Army. Here the prospective GI sits his written military exam, in slightly more discreet slap.
Henry Cooper
As deodorant manufacturers attempted to broaden their appeal to the male half of the population, they recruited macho sporty types like Our 'Enery ('ere wiv' 'Arvey Smiff) who here advertises Brut with the immortal slogan 'Splash it all over'.
Ron Atkinson
Big Ron: The Sunbed Years.
Graham Gooch
In his playing days as opening bat for England, 'Goochy' sported an imperial moustache and resembled an officer at Rourk's Drift. His subsequent hair transplant came as something of a shock – and led to a series of rather defensive gestures. Defensive, not about the fact of the transplant, but the quality of the weave itself.
Here Gooch, as the official caption puts it, 'test[s] his hair replacement treatment in a Central London health Gym, to disprove claims that the treatment does not work. The former England captain is at the centre of an disgreement, after a client of AHS (Advanced Hair Studio) along with the Advertising Standards Authority claimed that adverts claiming that Gooch could swim, shower, and play sport with his hair treatment were wrong and misleading.'
David Beckham
The signs were there as a young boy, when he enjoyed wearing knickerbockers and ballet shoes. Later we had his own take on Brylcreem advertising (above) and experiments with sarongs. His nomination here, however, is for his championing of the 'back. sack and crack' – the logical conclusion of the waxing mania that overtook British manhood in the twenty-first century.
Luis Figo
Deserves his place here for his role in the general poncification of older men, with his truly terrible Just For Men advertisement – a product for disguising grey hair and beards and allowing old men to kid themselves that they are attractive to women half their age.
Cristiano Ronaldo and Rio Ferdinand
AKA: Ronaldo and Rio in hotpants hell. What were they thinking? Seriously?
Shane Warne
He held his hands up to the hair transplant, and fair play to him for that, but Shane's explanation for his subsequent transformation into a taught-faced waxwork is altogether less convincing: he attributed it to 'good moisturiser'. Others spoke of botox, facelifts and teeth whitening. Wherefore art thou, Warney-o?
Leinster Rugby
The citadel falls. Once upon a time the best you could hope for in a rugby union changing room was a bar of coal tar soap and a turd in your kit bag. Now you are more likely to find a range of hair and skin care products. Leinster Rugby are now sponsored by Nivea for Men. Or should that be 'Men'?
O tempora, o mores!
Posted: 24th, July 2013 | In: Celebrities, Fashion, Key Posts, Sports | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Brands use the royal baby to flog their crap – the best and worst examples of desperate marketing
ASK not what your can do for your future King but what your future King can do for you. Kate Middleton and Prince William's son is but a few hours old and already he's working hard:
Posted: 22nd, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Hyperflesh masks of Jack Nicholson, Ron Jeremy, Mike Tyson, Barack Obama and Charlie Sheen
OI, big head, you've got a hyperflesh masks of Jack Nicholson, Ron Jeremy, Mike Tyson, Barack Obama and Charlie Sheen head.
Spotter: BlessThisStuff, Landon Meier
Posted: 22nd, July 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts, The Consumer | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Artichoke: Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson are a vegetable sculpture
ONCE upon a time, Charles Saatchi was a figure of mystery, a man who sold us the Conservative Party and told us that a pickled, halved shark in a vat of preservative was high art. Then he married TV cook Nigella Lawson, grabbed her throat in public and became a celebrity and tabloid mainstay. Now, in tribute to the great art collector's life in ink and formaldehyde, an artist at the Lambeth fair has created Artichoke, a celebration of Nige and Chas in vegetables:
Posted: 22nd, July 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Internet porn reduces crime – so why the rush to ban it?
YOU can filter out the word "porn" from google searches. I know this because my search was blocked when I went to check more information on the Sky News story:
"PM: Child Abuse Web Searches 'Must Be Banned' - Internet companies could be forced to blacklist certain words if they do not act on their "moral duty", David Cameron will warn.
I was curious because a couple of days earlier David Cameron had been talking about crime:
"Your streets, houses and businesses are the safest they've been in a generation and are proof that our reforms are working.
"We've slashed the out-of-control bureaucracy that has seen police officers spending nearly half their shifts doing paperwork."
Posted: 21st, July 2013 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Passports of the rich, famous and enviably photogenic
EVERYONE, save for her blessed Majesty The Queen, needs a passport to travel overseas. (A British passport is issued in the name of Her Majesty, so it is unnecessary for The Queen to possess one.) This mean that Her Majesty need not pose for the dreaded passport photo – small relief given that her head is scrutinised on coinage and stamps.
Britishers applying for a passport should submit an exacting photograph:
Your photo may be rejected unless it shows you:
facing forward and looking straight at the camera
with a neutral expression and your mouth closed
without anything covering the face
in clear contrast to the background
without a head covering (unless it's worn for religious or medical reasons)
with eyes open, visible and free from reflection or glare from glasses
with your eyes not covered by sunglasses, tinted glasses, glasses frames or hair
without any shadows in the picture
In this gallery of passports, we see how the rich and famous coped with posing for tiny picture that would be scrutinised by lantern-jawed officialdom.
Passports issued in the 1950s to John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kenned.
The stamps forms an almost perfect target about his head.
Posted: 19th, July 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Pictures of famous people posing with animals
FAMOUS people and animals. Do the pets make the famous faces look more of less lovable? Are the pets just props?
Sofia Loren
Posted: 19th, July 2013 | In: Celebrities, Key Posts | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0


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The state Department of Workforce Services reports Friday that the October job count is nearly 1.3 million, up about 2.3 percent from the same time a year ago.
October's unemployment rate is down from 5.4 percent in September. It's also significantly lower than the national rate of 7.9 percent.
The industries leading the job growth are professional and business services, and trade, transportation, and utilities.
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July 27, 2005 – In Niger, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is operating in the regions of Maradi and Tahoua where MSF has treated over 12,000 children suffering from severe malnutrition* and is bringing food to children suffering from moderate malnutrition*. To successfully carry out its projects, MSF has mobilized 50 international aid workers and 450 locally hired staff. For the whole of 2005, MSF plans to distribute 8,450 tons of food, and the provisional budget of this emergency operation amounts to 9 million euros ($10.8 million).
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Hosting a major international sporting event like the Olympics or the World Cup is usually a chance for a country to put its best foot forward in the eyes of the world. India's preparations for the Commonwealth Games have been plagued with problems with less than two weeks to go before the opening ceremony. The collapse of an under construction footbridge today added to the list of problems.
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Indian security personnel stand guard in front of a collapsed pedestrian bridge outside the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi September 21, 2010. The perilous state of athletes' accommodation for next month's Commonwealth Games in Delhi has shocked visiting teams and prompted the Games' federation chief to demand authorities urgently fix a raft of problems. Complaints from team officials ranging from cleanliness to Internet access at the athletes' village have further embarrassed organizers of the October 3-14 Games, amid blown construction deadlines, corruption scandals and security concerns following a tourist shooting on Sunday.
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Laborers rest inside their makeshift tents outside the boundary wall of the 2010 Commonwealth Games athletes village in New Delhi September 21, 2010.
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Laborers pull a hand cart loaded with bricks and sacks of sand in front of boards advertising the 2010 Commonwealth Games, over a flyover in New Delhi September 21, 2010.
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Two bombings killed at least 10 people and wounded at least 14 more Sunday in Iraq, Interior Ministry officials told CNN.
A suicide car bomber struck a Kurdish security patrol in Tuz Khurmato, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad, killing eight and wounding four. The ethnically mixed part of Salaheddin province, home to Arabs, Turkmen, and Kurds, is claimed by both the central government and the Kurdish regional government.
In central Baghdad, a roadside bomb blew up a minibus, killing two people and wounding five others.


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Business School Overview
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Business School Overview
The Paul Merage School of Business at University of California--Irvine offers graduate programs in these departments and concentrations: accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management information systems, production/operations management, organizational behavior, public policy, real estate, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Its tuition is full-time: $37,945 per year (in-state); full-time: $46,584 per year (out-of-state); part-time: $31,011 per year (in-state); part-time: $31,011 per year (out-of-state); executive: $44,400 per year (in-state); and executive: $44,400 per year (out-of-state). At graduation, 69.4 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.
Located in Orange County, Calif. the University of California—Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business focuses its program on small class sizes and personalized attention. The school offers what it calls a "visionary curriculum," which encompasses three core focuses of the Merage School—strategic innovation, information technology, and analytic decision making. Students that enter the full-time M.B.A. program are immersed in an intensive two-week orientation, known as M.B.A. boot camp, which introduces students to the work and ideals they will encounter during their time on campus. During the second year of the full-time program, students have the opportunity to customize their degree by choosing elective courses, such as Brand Management or Global Competitive Strategy.
Along with the full-time program, the school also offers an executive M.B.A., a part-time M.B.A., a healthcare executive M.B.A., and a Ph.D. program. A joint degree is offered in conjunction with the UC-Irvine School of Medicine.
All students of the Merage School are members of The Merage Student Association which oversees all social and networking opportunities within the school. Students can join more than 15 clubs and organizations, including the International Business Association and the Sports & Entertainment Business Club. UC-Irvine, in Southern California, is home to 42 miles of year-round beaches and is roughly an hour's commute to both Los Angeles and San Diego.
Notable alumni of the Merage School include Wright Massey, founder and CEO of architecture and design firm Brand Architecture, Inc.; Reza Meshgin, director, president, and CEO of electronics firm Multi-Fineline Electronix, Inc.; and George Kessinger, former president and CEO of the nonprofit Goodwill Industries International.
Application deadline (U.S. residents) | April 1 |
Application deadline (international students) | April 1 |
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Enrollment (full-time) | 215 |
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Average base salary | $76,736 |
Full-time graduates employed at graduation | 69.4% |
* Business School Overview details based on 2012 data