| 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.
Jay-Z Sued for Slavery - A Top Story This Week
Jay-Z Sued for Slavery was a top story on Wednesday. Here it is again: (antiMusic) In today's edition of frivolous lawsuits exposed we see Jay-Z tied up in litigation claiming he somehow profited from slavery. Can we hear a chorus cry of "tort reform now!"? Our good friends at Hecklerspray have more info on this: Think you know Jay-Z? Well, you don't, so think again. Unless you already think that he is partially to blame for the enslavement of thousands of Africans in pre-1807 Britain, in which case you don't need to think again, because you're absolutely right, according to Brooklyn Activist Clive Campbell and Da Black Defense League. They have filed a $5 billion dollar lawsuit against Jay-Z, along with Barclay's Bank and Forest City Ratner, a real estate developer, because they have: "profited from the African Slave Trade and continue to profit from these gains, through a conspiracy dating back hundreds of years and continue to date to oppress Black people, enslave them, unlawfully deport them to all corners of the Earth." You see, according to recent findings from studies released on the 200th anniversary of Britain's abolition of the slave trade by The Restitution Study Group, Barclay's Bank (then Heywood's Bank) was involved in over 120 slave trading missions and allegedly enslaved more than 38,000 Africans, with Jay-Z and Ratner apparently connected through their ties with Barclay's Bank in a $4 billion Atlantic Yards project taking place in Brooklyn, which plans to build a basketball arena for the New Jersey Nets (partially owned by Jay-Z), over 6,000 new apartments, offices and a hotel.
Theater Reviews
She also ran a successful business and had trouble finding love because men found her to be so smart, quirky and intimidating. Dating 65 guys in four months is laden with comic potential. It's also a well-trod storytelling device that's provided the grist for everything from Helen Gurley Brown's "Sex and the Single Girl" to Theresa Rebeck's "Bad Dates." In having her character hopscotch from homes in New York and Vero Beach, Fla., and trade her pink Chanel for black Armani, Goldman strings together a bunch of zingy one liners ("Maybe golf removes the penis") but offers precious little insight on the themes of modern love and self-reliance. And neither director Scott Schwartz (Broadway's "Golda's Balcony") nor his New York-based creative team can smooth out the rough spots with their technological gimmickry.
Rapper Mr. Serv-On Writes Dating Book For Black Women
Former No Limit Soldier Mr. Serv-On is gearing up for his return to the public eye, via a new dating and relationship guide written by the artist himself.
Entitled Inside the Mind of Brothas: A Young Black Man's Guide for Black Women Trying to Survive the Dating Game in Today's Hip-Hop Generation, the book aims to resolve the most common conflicts faced by young African-American couples today.
“Seventy percent of the time, Black Women's hearts get broken because of their own blind misjudgment and greediness for a man based on outside attributes," explained Mr. Serv-On.
“With this book, I hope to teach women about today's Black men in the Hip-Hop community, so that the playing fields are equal and every black woman will end up with the right guy," the rapper continued.
Save the Planet by Surfing the Web, 'Green' Websites Promise
On the internet, anyone can be an environmentalist. All you have to do, is, well, nothing. A number of "green" internet businesses promise users they can help save the planet by doing little more than surfing the right websites. For instance, Blackle.com claims to help you save energy by offering a version of Google that has a black background, which may cut down on your display's electricity consumption. There are green search engines, green shopping sites, and even green dating sites -- it's an impressive abundance of good intentions. .
Ex-Olympian on sex charges
A FORMER Olympic diving star has appeared in court accused of a catalogue of child sex abuse offences. Brian Phelps, who won six gold medals, two silver and one bronze accolade at Olympic, Commonwealth and European Games, returned from his retirement home in France to face 43 charges. Bournemouth magistrates heard how the 63-year-old former Poole gym owner was accused of four rape charges, 19 indecent assaults, 19 gross indecency offences and one attempted rape dating back to between 1976 and 1986. Dressed in a beige jacket and black polo neck jumper, the grey-haired father-of-two spoke only to confirm his name and address in Le Val Besnot, France. Bail was objected to on the grounds Phelps now lives in France and no longer has ties in England, that he might fail to surrender to custody, could interfere with witnesses and there are concerns for his personal protection.
Sharing the Negro Leagues' story
Once neglected like a forgotten field of dreams, the history of blacks in baseball is being shared again, thanks to people such as Raymond Doswell, chief curator and deputy director of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Mo. The museum doesn't just tell of pioneering ballplayers like Satchel Paige, Buck O'Neil and Josh Gibson. It passes on the more important story of how blacks refused to let segregation prevent them from enjoying what was theirs to enjoy. Founded in 1990, the NLBM is a privately funded, nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history of black baseball. The museum features tours of multimedia displays and hundreds of artifacts dating from the late 1800s to the 1960s. Doswell spoke to the Gannett about the museum.
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. .
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