| Bottled Water Boycotts: Back-to-the-Tap Movement Gains Momentum
From San Francisco to New York to Paris, city governments, high-class restaurants, schools, and religious groups are ditching bottled water in favor of what comes out of the faucet. With people no longer content to pay 1,000 times as much for bottled water, a product no better than water from the tap, a backlash against bottled water is growing. The U.S. Conference of Mayors, which represents some 1,100 American cities, discussed at its June 2007 meeting the irony of purchasing bottled water for city employees and for city functions while at the same time touting the quality of municipal water. The group passed a resolution sponsored by Mayors Gavin Newsom of San Francisco, Rocky Anderson of Salt Lake City, and R. T. Rybak of Minneapolis that called for the examination of bottled water's environmental impact.
Skepticism of Faculty and Tenure
So the AAUP followed that with a brief definition of tenure (that it is granted only after a probationary period of about seven years and that once tenure is granted, “professors usually can be dismissed only for serious misconduct or incompetence"). Given the reality that many people haven’t heard of tenure, Gross said he was skeptical of poll results that did not include a definition. (A Zogby spokesman confirmed that no definition was given.) The AAUP survey ended up with results that were quite similar to Zogby’s on the percentage of the public believing classroom bias is a serious problem. The AAUP found that percentage to be 37.5 percent, just a little more than a percentage point under the Zogby level. But Gross said that there was a key difference in that the AAUP asked the public how it viewed a range of potential problems on campus.
Paranoia aside, Sheriff Joe Arpaio and County Attorney Andrew Thomas ...
On a blind date, Unger met a manager from a Big Four accounting firm. "We were playing tennis, and before the second set was over, I knew I was going to marry her," Unger says. The tennis partner is now Unger's wife of 30 years, Jennifer. By 1982, Fred and Jennifer had three children and a fourth on the way. They walked away from their stable, well-paying jobs in real estate and accounting to start their own company in Long Beach. "We put together relationships with lenders and investors, with the goal of buying property, improving it and making a profit for our investors," Unger says, recalling the invigorating risk of that first venture. With those original investor dollars, Unger bought George Lucas' former Star Wars headquarters in San Rafael, California. "Lucas' people had left all the computer screens.
Sweden December CPIX +0.1% On Month
STOCKHOLM (Dow Jones)--The inflation rate increased to 3.5% in December from 3.3% in November. Swedish consumer prices increased on average by 0.2 from November to December 2007. Prices were unchanged during the same period 2006. The CPI for December 2007 was 296.32 (1980=100). Higher prices on milk, cheese and eggs (4.3%) contributed upwards with 0.1% age points in December. Higher mortgage interest costs (2.4%) and higher prices on electricity and fuels (1.1%) contributed upwards with 0.1% age points each. Higher prices on package holidays (4.7%) according to the normal seasonal pattern also contributed with 0.1%age points. Lower prices on clothing (-1.6%) and fuels for personal transport equipment (- 1.4%) counteracted the increase with 0.1%age points each. The underlying inflation rate according to CPIX was 2.0% in December (1.9% in November).
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Smith: Skate America woes
No Canadian network has the rights to cover the Grand Prix events, other than the domestic Skate Canada next week in Quebec City. The Grand Prix television rights are offered by the International Skating Union, which also holds the rights to the world championships. Right now, no Canadian network has the rights to the world figure skating championships next March in Sweden, either. The price demanded by the ISU is, apparently too high and their demands too costly. Currently, for the first time in many years, CBC holds the domestic rights to the Canadian championships and Skate Canada next week. There's a new thing this year called icenetwork.com, an on-demand online linkup to skating events. It's a subsidiary of the U.S. Figure Skating Association, and it operates the site in a joint venture with a company called MLB Advanced Media.
Emily Spence: On Cooperation and Competition
At the same time, meerkats will, when they come across a den of others of their kind, purposefully invade it to slaughter all of the young (potential future competitors for resources) by mercilessly biting them to death. Furthermore, the top female, if she is in estrus, will breed with "enemy" males, ones outside of her troop that she might come across. So, it seems that the tendency toward promoting a large gene pool (or, conversely put, an injunction against incest) is not only a trend amongst humans, but applies to other species, too. In the same vein, we see multitudinous illustrations of the same sort of behaviors occurring amongst people. In disgust and horror, we can remember the many, fairly recent murders carried out between different competing factions in Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia, Ireland and several other countries.
SBC DSL--Promises Made, Promises Kept?
Mind you, we had an IBM, a MAC, and a Dell. None worked. Finally, after probably spending 12 hours over the course of 2 days on the phone with SBC's tech support (all of the other companies agreed that it was in fact nothing wrong with the internal settings of the computers), we got one rep who actually knew something about computers and the wireless routers, had us change one setting on the router, and it's been fine ever since. Mind you, that's after paying for a router and 3 months of service with almost no use of the internet and probably the equivalent of a week on the phone with various customer service reps who had no idea what they were talking about and sounded like they were making it all up on the spot. You know it's bad if they don't even sound like they know what's going on.
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