| A year later, Chief Illiniwek debate remains at U. Illinois
Other University traditions have not been retired along with the Chief. The traditional music that was played when the Chief was the symbol is still played by the Marching Illini during halftime of sporting events at the University. "There are people who say there's too much expression of the Chief Illiniwek still," said Tom Hardy, executive director for University relations. "They don't want him on homecoming parades, and they would change performance music from the band that pre-dates Chief Illiniwek because they associate it with the Chief." Miranda Jimenez, junior in LAS, said she feels that using the traditional music of the Chief is encouraging people to hold on to the negative ideology the Chief represented. "I think (the music) evokes the same ideologies of having a person perform traditional dances, and that's offensive," Jimenez said.
A geek’s trip to Capitol Hill on Network Management
Melvin Ammori, General Counsel, Free Press David Burstein, Editor, DSLPrime George Ou, Editor at Large, ZDNet Haruka Saito, Counselor for Telecom, Embassy of Japan Christopher S. Yoo, Professor of Law and Communications, University of Pennsylvania Christopher Yoo - After a brief introduction by Scott Wallsten who explained that the order of the presentations will be reverse alphabetical order, Christopher S. Yoo kicked off his presentation. Professor Yoo explained that networks, like roads, aren't built for everyone to use them at the same time. Yoo gave the example that if a person wants to know how fast he can travel on a freeway, he wouldn't know until he got there because we can't predict exactly how many other people will be on the road at the same time. Yoo explained the difficulty in projecting network capacity and that we can't always be right when determining whether more capacity or network management was the answer.
Search age:
I still find it hard to believe that the person Sweetie [his wife, Sana, 27], who wrote such wonderful things to me on the internet, is actually the woman I married and who has not said a nice word to me for years." Other couples, though, did better online, including singer James Blunt who "sold his sister on ebay". He explained to British GQ : "My sister was crying because she couldn't get to a funeral in Ireland. Planes were on strike, the ferry was out of season and there were no trains. I whacked it on ebay: 'Damsel in distress seeks knight in shining armour to get to a funeral in Ireland. Please help!' The guy who won had a helicopter. "That was three years ago. They're getting married this summer." Then there was the Australian photographer who gave his girlfriend a gift-wrapped house for Valentine's Day.
Keep kids busy on March break
Library staff brainstorm each year to come up with a variety of programs that will appeal to children of all ages, said Inge Saczkowski, manager of children's services. "Some programs we bring back every year because they always sell out and we always try to give the kids an opportunity to see a big live show," she said. The big show this year will be courtesy of Dan the Music Man. Library programs include: A visit by a menagerie of animals from Bird Kingdom of Niagara Falls. Craft programs include spring wreaths, wall hangings, mobiles, bracelets and door hangers. For a full description of programs including times and locations, visit www.nflibrary.ca. Parents can register in person, online, or by calling 905-356-4053.
New ripening cultures add flavour to low-fat cheese
The Danish ingredients group developed the new cultures to meet rising demand from a growing category of low-fat dairy products. The culture blends - CR-530 and CR-550 - work by speeding up the breakdown of compounds during the cheese ripening process that typically cause a bitter taste in low-fat cheeses. In full-fat cheeses, the taste of these compounds are masked by the fat, explained Nanna Borne, marketing manager at the firm's Cheese Cultures division."One of the big problems with making low-fat cheese has been the bitterness," she told FoodNavigator.com. "You can taste the broken down peptides and amino acids.""The new ripening blends speed up the process so that the compounds are already broken down to something you no longer taste."The cultures are included in Chr Hansen's Flavor Control CR-500 series and targeted at producers of low-fat variants of traditional yellow cheese with high moisture content, such as Continental, Gouda and Cheddar cheese.
Bank vault data centre tests Server 2008
Banks may be closing branches to the disgust of many customers, but for one local IT services company, a disused bank vault became the ideal secure site for a new data centre to enter the hosting market. Networking-Plus, based in Brisbane, moved into the building of an old Commonwealth Bank branch that had a large vault which was converted into a modern data centre with overhead cabling and fully-redundant air-conditioning. Infrastructure manager Robert Warren told Computerworld the company has recently branched out into hosting when the new data centre went live in July last year. "It's certainly secure as the door takes two people to move," Warren said, adding the power service is also top-notch as the building shares the same grid as an adjacent hospital. The vault data centre houses about 35 servers, most running Windows Server 2003 and some running Red Hat Linux, with capacity for hundreds more.
Ron Paul Newsletters Become Campaign Fodder
You know, often times (especially of late), I ponder if the Germans in 1933 were as apathetic to the foreboding storm that a minority voice surely tried to articulate. When the purge of this nation arrives (and it's coming), I'll remember those who willfully steered the masses into complacency. Sent by Thomas Braun | 11:32 AM ET | 01-11-2008 .
US elections 2004
For supporters of John Kerry, who have seen allegations about the Democratic candidate's military record sap his campaign, it must have seemed like a case of just deserts.
The president, George Bush, was last week looking vulnerable on the same grounds after CBS's flagship current affairs show, 60 Minutes, broadcast a report claiming he had been suspended from pilot duties for failing to meet the required standards. It was also claimed that a commanding officer had been put under pressure to "sugar coat" Mr Bush's performance reviews.
But while CBS stands by its story, allegations have now surfaced that 60 Minutes based a large part of the report on forged documents.
Although what one man - even a presidential candidate - did more than 30 years ago can seem rather trivial, the US election is being fought between a self-declared "war president" and a man who, in stump speeches, claims he would defend his country as president in the way he had defended it as a young man.
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