| Like their playoff-bound Mustangs, the University of Western Ontario ...
With a history dating back 125 years and a place of prominence as one of Canada's top Universities, the University of Western Ontario is a place of tradition and excellence. However, it is also a thoroughly modern school providing near campus-wide WiFi , promoting the use of RSS feeds, Podcasting and blogs among faculty and students. The embracing of technology can lead to other issues though, one of these being SPAM. �Out of a daily average of about 96,000 emails, about 85,000 were spam.� Explains Eric Cartman, System Administrator at Western. Eric and the rest of Western's IT team was already familiar with a couple of Roaring Penguin's products. �We'd been using SpamAssassin and [Roaring Penguin's] MimeDefang with success but were spending hours whitelisting, blacklisting, and tweaking settings trying to serve the diverse and changing needs of our users.
UF organization hosts panel on interracial dating
A group of about 20 students of various backgrounds, including white, black, Hispanic and Asian, discussed interracial dating and its role in society Thursday night at Griffin-Floyd Hall.FEARLESS, or Fiercely Eradicate All Racism, Love Enemies, and Serve Society, a UF student organization that speaks out against racism, invited three panelists to answer questions and offer opinions on interracial relationships.The group showed various video clips to the audience, including one from "The Ricki Lake Show" in which a black woman was angry because her white co-worker was dating a black man. .
Clinton seeks to beat slump, but new defeats likely loom
Hillary Clinton scrambled to bust out of a slump but her White House rival Barack Obama was tipped to sweep Tuesday's trio of Washington-area nominating contests to swell his growing momentum. With her campaign reeling from her decision to replace her campaign manager, the one-time Democratic front-runner slipped behind Obama in the race for convention delegates who will formally crown the party's presidential nominee. A new nationwide opinion poll for USA Today newspaper meanwhile had Obama up 47 to 44 percent, the first time in a year he had led the former first lady. Obama's mounting head of steam came as he basked in the glow of weekend victories in Washington state, Nebraska, Louisiana and the US Virgin Islands, and a wider-than-expected win in Maine.
Bush Signs $168 Billion 'Booster Shot' Package to Boost Sagging U.S ...
Democrats and Republicans who put aside deep differences to craft the plan and rush it to enactment joined the president at the White House for the signing ceremony in the East Room. The package is designed in part to inoculate lawmakers from voter blame should the economy continue to lag as the November elections bear down. Congressional leaders already are considering more economic rescue measures that could include transportation spending, unemployment aid and measures to address the housing crunch that's at the root of the current economic doldrums. In the meantime, economists are debating how effective the rebates will be, with critics arguing that debt-burdened consumers will use the money to pay bills rather than spending the checks and spurring growth. An Associated Press-Ipsos poll found that only 19 percent of those surveyed said they planned to spend their rebate checks.
Lynx tells online Casanovas to get real
A tongue-in-cheek digital advertising campaign from deodorant brand Lynx is aiming to help men who spend too much time flirting on Facebook and in chatrooms to learn how to pull women in real life. The campaign, the first work by creative ad agency BBH since it won Lynx's digital business in December, aims to give men "diverse digital content to use to play the seduction game in real life". In recognition of the fact that the web and gadgets are part of most young men's lifestyle, BBH has put a website, called Get in There, at the heart of the campaign. The site, lynxeffect.com, has tools including a range of mobile phone applications that will turn a handset into "a pulling tool, a weapon of mass seduction". Lynx's Fit Girl Finder emits a bleeping sound that "homes in" on an attractive lady.
Tennis' road to Ohio is paved with Subway Sandwiches
What happens when the Maroons hit the road and have to take their game beyond the Ivory Tower? Sports staff writer and men's tennis starter Steve Saltarelli provides some insight as he takes us around DIII as a part of his column. Tennis is a weird college sport. In its natural environment, tennis is played either individually or as a doubles team. This is the way all players know the sport growing up and traveling to play tournaments. Then, when college comes around, this strange notion of team comes into play. Now, you are playing the same exact sport, except with a school name on your chest. Now you can win your match, yet the team can lose. That team dimension takes on a whole new meaning when you start sharing a bus or hotel room and need to drown out the fans of opposing squads during a match.
Anniversary 'cards' for Cook's Corner
My files are full of the recipes she finds and with them is pure Americana. I have ethnic and regional food I would not have had access to otherwise, and the vignettes of family history just add to the experience. Ms. Cicero is a treasure, and we have been fortunate to have had her all this time. P.A. Kilcoyne, via e-mail I have enjoyed your column for as long as you have been writing it, and submitted a few recipes that you included a couple of times. With the times a changin', you have remained one of the few constants in life. And yes, that's a good thing, as there are so few. I wish you another 25 years of continued success. With any luck, I will be around that many to check you out every Thursday morning with coffee. Linda Brewer, via e-mail Sometime in the late 1970s or early '80s, Linda Cicero interviewed my Coral Park High French students, who cooked a grand diner for themselves, teachers, parents, administrators and, on this very special day, The Miami Herald! Linda and her photographer should know how honored these Latin American immigrants were to be asked their opinions and have their picture taken for an American newspaper.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Angel Lola Luv’s Implants EXPOSED! Jim Jones Vs. Max ...
Diddy wants another assistant and he is using the internet to find his candidate – kinda. I don't know what happened to the first round of youtube boobs, but he is at it again. Stay tuned for the rumor below. First, peep the site WorkForPdiddy.com (is he going back to P.Diddy?). Also, click here for further details.
Here is the rumor. I heard that Diddy is going to be taping at all this open calls and it is all going to be turned in to a television series like American Idol or something. I don't think I can hold an umbrella long enough to be Diddy's assistant.
CHUCK D ADDRESSES THE DEF JAM RUMORS
There have been Def Jam rumors swirling around for some time as to who will replace Jay-Z as the president of the label.
Guilty pleas in old rape case in Greenwich
Stamford (AP)_ Two men charged with a rape dating back to 1991 in Greenwich after police made DNA matches have pleaded guilty in exchange for sentences of 10 years in prison. Brian K. Higgins, 36, of New Haven, and Robert A. Barter, 37, of Greenwich, Tuesday pleaded guilty to first-degree sexual assault and kidnapping in connection with a 1991 rape of a then-19-year-old woman inside her apartment. A prosecutor says Superior Court Judge John Kavanewsky Jr. accepted the pleas and agreed to sentence both men to 10 years in prison and 10 years of special probation including sex offender treatment, counseling, and other conditions. The Connecticut State Police Crime Lab in Meriden in May linked Higgins to the crime and the next month police arrested Barter.
Wrestling's 'dean' dies
Johnny Weaver, one of the most popular professional wrestlers to ever appear in the Carolinas, died of natural causes Friday at his home in Charlotte at the age of 72. Weaver was the top babyface (good guy) for the Charlotte-based CrockettPromotions throughout the '60s and early '70s and teamed for much of that time as a headline act with partner George Becker. The two held the regional tag-team titles on several occasions. Weaver also held a slew of singles titles during his lengthy ring career. He won his first title, the NWA Southern tag-team belts, with partner Cowboy Bob Ellis in 1963. Known as "the dean of professional wrestling," Weaver wore many hats during his career, including wrestler, broadcaster, booker and mentor. Born in East St. Louis, Ill., Weaver began his pro career in 1957 and teamed with the late Sonny Myers as the Weaver Brothers.
Getty Images sold for $2.4bn
For a split-second, everything falls into place, the occasion, the movement and the light combining to produce a picture that is much more than a mere photograph. Bobby Moore holding up the World Cup in 1966. Charles and Diana's balcony kiss. The image of St Paul's during the Blitz. What price can you put on photographs such as these? Indeed, what price an entire collection? The answer, it seems, is $2.4 billion (£1.2 billion) - the amount agreed by Hellman & Friedman, the private equity firm, to buy the archive of Getty Images, one of the world's best-known picture libraries. The collection has about 70 million pictures and 30,000 hours of film footage. Getty's historic Hulton Archive has photographs dating back to the early years of photography in the mid-19th century.
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