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Criminal Unrequitor
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Wow brackets are out already!
Group A: Saki, Kobato, Yuuki, Tomoka, KOROMOE
Group B: Toki, Azunyan, Akari, Misaki Mei
Group C: Kyouko, Kuuko, Hisa, Lotte, Erica
Group D: Mihoko, Nagi, Louise
Group E: HINAGIKU, Yuu, Taiga, Yui
Group F: Subara, Ohana, Kuro, Nadeko, Nyanthorlep, Mugi, Ryuuka, Chitanda, Ririchiyo
Group G: Momo, Mayoi, Nodoka, Yamada, Tsukihi, Squid Girl , Ako
Group H: Poplar, Shana, Kuroyukihime, Mio, Sena
*In bold - predictions on who wins the block
Favorite characters per block:
Group A: Himari, Saki, Lemon-senpai, Yuno, Koromo
Group B: Mio(Nichijou), Toki, Kawashima Ami, Misaki Mei
Group C: Mayuri, Hakase, Ringo, Ice Witch, Yune
Group D: Kurisu, Madoka, Karuta
Group E: Chiaki, Yuuko, Ringo (just for kicks), Mix, Char, Taiga, Lit. Girl
Group F: Kanna, Ohana, SUBARA, Urabe, Subaru, Nadeko, Mugi, Eru, Ririchiyo (My heart hurts for this block)
Group G: HITAGI (My one and only staple love), Yamada, Rea, Ika-Musume, Minami
Group H: Mayaka, Nano, Mio, Rika, Minori, Marika, Sena
*My favorite per block
My Top 7 Saimoe Girls:
Hitagi (One and only), Kawashima Ami, Ika-Musume, Urabe Mikoto, Chitanda Eru, Makise Kurisu, Yune
Interesting R1 matches:
Shizuno VS Kyouko (8/23): Will Kyouko be affected by Matsumoto Rise (doubt it) in winning against Shizu?
Sen Vs. Kanbaru VS Ui (8/24): Three Middle Class characters duking it out.
Mihoko Vs. Kurisu (8/28): Please let Kurisu have a bit more power. . .
Teru Vs. Madoka (8/29): Random other Saki character might affect Teru's chances of winning.
Karuta Vs. Fear (8/29): Same date, should be interesting.
Hinagiku Vs. Others (9/02): Her matches always bring votes.
Triple Saki Match (9/02): Arata Vs. Yuu but lol SakiPwnage.
Kanna Vs. Urabe Vs. Karen (9/05): It's technically Kana vs. Karen but who knows. . . Urabe is a mystery.
Kuro Vs. Subaru (9/07):Assasination possiblity?
Nadeko Vs. Nayanthorlep (9/08):Very big match that will show the strengths of both factions.
Tsumugi Vs Ryuuka (9/05): One of the biggest matches in R1. Mugi finished a vote behind Ryuuka in the Prelims but it was a triple K-ON threat then. How will she do now. . .
Momo Vs. Hachikuji (9/10): Ghost act match of the round.
Mayaka Vs. Poplar (9/16): Poplar is poplar.
Shana Vs. Izumi(9/17): Assasination attempts are wlaways there for Shana.
LC vs. Kana Vs. Eu (9/15): I love middle ground matches.
There's gonna be some sparks in R1, mostly in Block F, so things should get interesting in a few days. R2 is definitely where the tournament becomes really hot though.
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|2012-08-06, 20:12
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Ottawa, Canada
|2012-08-07, 11:56
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Shameimaru's lap
9/11 - Mio v Nodocchi v Ami, Hitagi v Kouko v Suzuha, Yuniko v Rena v Ako
All the italicized ones are a part of Team Saki... talk about synergy. Nice knowing you Rena.
|2012-08-07, 12:45
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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|2012-08-07, 16:09
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Clinton, Maryland
As for Saki not going to win this year. That's hard to say. Sure, the last two times Saki was in the tournament, the show's characters failed to make it to the finals. However, with Madoka Magica's overdominance last year, I'm a little concerned that the same thing that happened last year with Madoka Madoka will happen again this year with Saki.
|2012-08-07, 16:53
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|2012-08-07, 18:09
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2008
I don't think Saki characters have the sheer strength to pull of a similar feat. However, they do have a big advantage in numbers. There are around half a dozen Saki characters that need to be sniped. Saki also has a large group of midcarders or near elites to do some sniping of their own.
There's also the issue of Toki is in a very difficult position to snipe. Only 2 other characters in her half of the Block even finished in the top 10 of their preliminary group. Sena Airi was in Ryuuka's group and was much weaker than Ryuuka so she's unlikely to be able to do anything. The other is Minase Iori who happens to be in a Round 1 match with Jindai on the same day Toki has a Round 1 match. Of course, Toki has to beat Akari to get out of the Block. I wouldn't really consider that a sniping since Akari could simply just be stronger than Toki.
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Avon Announces Initial Steps of Cost Savings Initiative
Dec 11, 2012
NEW YORK, Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Avon Products, Inc. (NYSE: AVP) today outlined initial steps toward the company's previously communicated annual cost-savings target of $400 million by the end of 2015.
Initial steps of the cost-savings initiative will include a targeted global headcount reduction of approximately 1,500 positions and related actions. The company also announced today that it will exit the South Korea and Vietnam markets. These actions are aimed at concentrating resources on high priority markets and activities and boosting efficiencies, and are expected to be largely completed before the end of 2013.
Cost to implement these actions is expected to be in the range of $80-90 million before taxes, of which approximately $50-60 million is expected to be recorded in the fourth quarter of 2012. The company anticipates that these initial steps will account for approximately 20% of the total targeted savings.
"In order to turn around the business, we are focused on driving top-line growth and aggressively managing our cost base," said Sheri McCoy, Chief Executive Officer, Avon Products, Inc. "The decisions outlined today are necessary to stabilize the company and begin the process of returning Avon to sustainable growth."
The company expects to communicate additional steps toward the cost-savings goal as it progresses.
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ch382 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 60 designs submitted by 31 freelance designers.
As many of you great designers put it brilliantly.. I could design this myself but It's always harder to find inspiration for your own work -- So what better way than to involve some of the web's biggest and brightest! No holding back! Major concept -- make it your own!
Please READ the brief :) :) -- THANKS!!!
E L A S T I Q U E (Pronounced Ela-Steek) -- French word for "Elastic"
Elastique, or élastique, if you want to get professional :) Is the french translation for elastic. Simple and sweet.
The concept for the business name hovers around the other concept of "We'll stretch to fit your needs" or we take it to the next level...
Something definitely memorable that encapsulates the meaning of the word/branding yet remaining edgy.
Best way to put it is I want to play on the term "elastic" -- Make with that whatever you may think when you think of the word elastic..
- Text squished in certain areas like it's being pulled apart or;
- Actual elastic band somewhere around the logo or In the logo or THE logo..
- Etc, etc... Come on guys BE CREATIVE!!!
The font should be all lower-case, i.e. "elastique". Having said that, do try to put "web design" on the line underneath in an example - but at least have the "elastique" alone if you can only make one design.
A big bonus would be if you can make the logo itself on a business card as well.. I won't hold that against you if you don't but i think it will definitely help me to see how it will work on all mediums; inc. print.
Having said that -- it DEF. has to work as one color, or BLACK/GREY as it will also go on letterheads/invoices, etc.
I luv customized fonts and more importantly little touches to fonts to make the logotype look very unique and not just a regular "Helvetica Neue" - please don't think you can't use HN.. :)
Come on guys - Huge playing field.. Lots of ideas you can throw.. See what ya'll can do! :)
- Innovative and attractive
- Very memorable.. You need to look at your logo and say "yes, I'll remember that after I see a business card" etc.
- Intelligent and creative concepts.. I.e. Think outside the colloq. box.. I'll find it hard to feedback if all i see is verdana type saying elastique (for example)!!!
- Very, very, usable and functional - it HAS to be as-effective in one colour and on smaller sizes. Having said that it should look good as well say for example if it ever got printed on a shirt one day. (Just keep it in mind ;)
- 2009.. I.e. Modern... I don't want the logo to look like it was done in Photoshop 7 six years ago (very sorry if that sounded harsh :)
- Final logo delivered as illustrator ai. file (VECTOR) please so it can be scaled down. It should be finalised in final colours chosen and if possible also a black version. This isn't a deal breaker though...
- In summing up - a logo that you'd be proud of to use in your own design studio one day ;) so really try to come up with something unique :)
- Any use of vectors/cliparts that you did not make.
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|University College Cork
|No Jews.
|School type
|see Irish Educational Institutions
|Jay Grobart - Burt Reynolds character in 'The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing'
|Cork, Ireland
|Urban 9,000 sq./Acre
| 15,854.3 undergraduate,
561,238.6 graduate
|600 Godless killing machines
|Ninja Pirates
| Tilda the Menstruating Feral Cat.
Tilda is a she.
University College Cork (UCC) (Irish: Coláiste na hOllscoile Corcaigh) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland. The university is located in Cork.
The university is famous for its suicide faculty, which is staffed entirely by ex-cons and escaped mental patients. The most notable of which is the Derek Bridge who has murdered many a student and only a few lecturers, he can easily be spotted by the straight jacket he wears.
Academically, UCC has been top 20 in The Times' "Top 100 colleges in Cork" for 3 of the past 4 years. Graduates from UCC are guaranteed secure jobs for the rest of their lives in occupations such as drug trafficking and prostitution.
Campus rules are simple and fair, and are rigorously enforced by a selection of the Dean's "Sycophant-Underlings or SU for short" armed with lengthy titles and attitude. Such rules include "Miniskirt Tuesday", the "You must be, at least, this much Asian or Russian to do a post-graduate in Computer Science" rule and the rigorously enforced "Oompa-Loompa rule" for Commerce Students.
Former RTE broadcaster, Mike Murphy currently rules as President of UCC.
A Brief History of UCC
Shortly after it's founding, debate raged as to who was to be majority shareholder. This argument escalated into fullscale war in 1847 when the elected head of the transvestites lobby, Finbar, "Professer of Pain", issued an ultimatum to the leader of the Convicts, a man known only as Snake. After 6 months of intense and hilarious battle the transvestites emerged victorious. To commemorate this glorious day the college was renamed "Queen's College". The now famous clock tower building was constructed on the very site where Finbarr gave the evil convict leader his final lesson in pain! To this day the UCC crest remains emblazoned into the clock tower floor, adorned with the college motto "Where Finbarr taught, let Munster learn" To this effect, UCC has been dolling out steaming hot bowls of anguish, pressure and agony to generations of students from monster and beyond since that fateful day.
In 1849 a distinguished academic by the name of George Boole successfully applied for a professorship at UCC. During his time at the UCC mathematics department he developed many of the equations that would make it possible for many of the everyday objects we take for granted to come into existence later. 2 months after his application he had derived the "Browening Equation" specifically Bread+Fire=Toast(Which he called Pyronised Bread). The significance of this complex equation would not be fully understood until perhaps 40 years later when the toaster was invented by the descendant of Lord Sandwich, The Duke of Toastington.
In 1850 he developed an equation that would pave the way for washing machine spin-cycles, but his greatest achievement, the Boolean Automated Lawn Tennis Simulator, was not to come until midway into his career. Boole had always been an avid fan of Tennis, but, being a Vampire on his father's side, could never indulge during the polite, daytime hours. Ever since he received a book on Euclidian Geometry for his 15'th birthday, Boole had dedicated his life to solving this crepuscular dilemma of his. To do this he invented a string of sensical philosophy called Boolean Logic. Using this ingenious system, Boole was able to develop what would eventually become Computer Pong. Boole died in 1864 of pneumonia as a result of eating way too many ice lollies way too fast.
Apart from a visit from WWE wrestler Kane (which resulted in a renaming of the Tatanka Building), not much has happened since in UCC. Having risen from humble transvestite-convict roots, UCC is now Ireland's most prestigious University, next to Trinity, UCD, NUIG and DCU (but not UL).
UCC Campus Tour
Student Centre
Located just left a bit from the Honen Chapel, a small church/reliquary donated to the college by God (AKA Jim Dandy) himself exactly 14 years ago, the Student centre houses important Student Ammenities. It contains 2 Restaurants, both of which are identical in all but elevation, an Olympic size swimming pool, a downstairs late night Casino, a "New" bar, which is redecorated and restaffed every 2 months to save Administration having to come up with a better name, and the hall of a googleplex functions, which is where the Law Student come to show off their laptops when the Orb is full (See O'Rahilly Building") Arts Students attend lectures in the Student Centre from the hours of 9-3, in subjects such as "Grilled Sandwiches, a study", "The Chemical Composition of 80c Coffee", "Procrastinatology" and "Wandering Around the Rip-Off Book Shop:
The O'Rahilly BuildingIt is commonly accepted that the O'Rahilly building inspired the original idea for the popular video game Portal. Levels of the building exist in a parallel dimensional loop, causing each subsequent trip up to the next level to result in the teleportation of the traveller to some lower floor. The halls of the building are guarded by a race of Orange-Skinned, White Puffa Jacket wearing Warriors known as the Comms, and are littered with the fallen bodies or freshers who, after years of searching in vain, failed to find the exit.
The Boole Library
Named after George Boole, inventor of pong and deceased college alumni. The Boole Library was the first and only library in the world to adopt the "Helter-Skelter" filing system, developed by noted Archivist and Serial Killer Charles Manson. Under said system, each book is given a total of 666 different reference tags and numbers. The books are then placed around the library according to precise astronomical calculations which plot the course of Pluto through the solar system. A computer database is available for any student who finds this system confusing. This trusty system will not only tell you the name of the book you've entered, but also the author and cover-art, thus equipping you with all the necessary tools needed to hunt it down.
The Aula Maxima
According to Oscar Wilde "All roads lead to the Aula Maxima Frank", and, if college signposting is anything to go by, he was right! "Aula Maxima" literally means "Big Hall" in the Church's Latin, who would want to go to a university. In terms of function, it does everything it says on the tin, being both a hall, and of largish size. This room is where the UCC higher echelon take prospective investors for the final segment of the standard Campus tour. As they stand in awe of the rooms largeishness, the reps have more than enough time to pilfer every wallet they can get their sticky hands on. To this date the Aula Maxima pickpocketing initiative has netted the college over €700,000,000 in loose change, several hundred emergency condoms and a lifetimes supply of 'Buy One, Get One Feee' deals for Domino's Pizza.
The Boole Basement
Located some 20,000 leagues under the Library, the Boole Basement is in fact a facility containing lecture halls and a communal showers/computer room and not a seedy nightclub for the LGBT society as is widely believed. The Boole Basement is on floor Q-1 of the Boole Structure (The Q stands for Quality!). Underneath it is the shady and mysterious Q-2, where the college houses the Reactor granted to the Administration by the Americans during the Atoms for Peace Treaty, on clear nights the entire complex emits a gentle green glow, perfect ambient light for the scores of Lesbians, Gays, Bi-Sexuals,
The Kane Building
Named after a famous wrestler who, in 2002, became an honorary Professor of Pain, the Kane Building has won the "Architects Quarterly" prize for ugliest building 46 times running. Constructed in 1960 by the same people who built the World Trade Centre, the Kane Building is the tallest building on campus-why are the ugliest things always the easiest to find-and subsequently it's most frequented suicide drop-spot. During the nineteen-eighties, Japanese film crews used the Basement levels of the complex to film cult horror movies. The Building contains chemistry, physics, metaphysics and penis-ology labs .Despite being designed for use by perhaps several thousand students, contains only 2 bathrooms, cunningly hidden behind locker rooms in the lowest level, which coincedently is also where the perverts,phedophiles and necrophiliacs(huh?You saw me hanging round there...but i'm neither a pervert nor a phedophile). Recently the college is abuzz with widespread speculation as to the contents and purpose of floors 5 and 6 of this building, both of which are guarded by a big two headed dog called fluffy who is prone to falling asleep at inopportune moments and are adorned with warning signs sponsered by O2 Ireland.
The Food Science Buidling
None of these however compairs to the three-story tall, sub-campus spanning enigma that is the Food Science Complex. Hastilly constructed several years back by an ultra-skilled Immigrant Micronesian Work-Force, the entire complex appears from the outside to be nothing more than a perfectly normal collection of labs and lecture rooms. It is only when you step inside that you notice something is amiss........silence! The entire building is deserted...unused. The windows in some rooms still have the protective blue wrapping across them, the doors to some of the labs contain no handle or key hole. Few students, if any have ever walked it's halls with purpose. Some speculate that the Food Science Building is a religious folly built in worship of the God Cthulu, some claim that it is a means for the college to up its research grant. Whatever the answer, the Food Science Building will undoubtedly remain a part of Campus lore for many years to come.
Aras Na Laoi
Built in 1842, Aras na Laoi, also known as Aras na gee, as it also operates as an impromptu strip club, (which translates from the native Gaeilge to mean Magnolia Manor) erected to commemorate the site of Corks first public use car park. Today it is host to the Law department of the college. In stark contrast to its lofty neighbour "The Kane Buildig", Aras Na Laoa contains no less than 40 fully functional WCs. In fact, although usually mistaken as just another waste of Students Union resourses by Kevin Nelligan, it is widely speculated that, as the building was to house the Law Department (shit talking, prick headed wankers), this was just careful planning on the part of the original designers.
The Quad
An alien crop cross named after a bar on Tuckey St. in the heart of Cork's 'Public Urinal' District.To the untrained Eye the Quad is nothing More than 4 squares of grass, but to the students of UCC it is so much more.It is four squares of grass with a walkway of gravel connecting them. Many think that the folkloric curse that claims "whomever cross my breadth or span shall fail his end of year exam and to conceive" was invented by the groundsmaster to keep kids from using the quads perfectly manicured lawns as an extension of the Campus Plaza. Recent discoveries have uncovered its true origins. It was in fact started by the groundsmaster, but for a very different measures to prevent any student from entering the portal which involves a 24 hour armed guard regiment. Anyone crossing the perimeter will be shot down by an eagle eyed Campus guard (they go through 2 weeks of rigorous training you know) and dragged to the Main for "Processing".
There is a strict rule enforced that states that only graduates of UCC may cross the Quad. This rule has resulted in honorary graduate degrees being conferred upon many dogs, arts students, Bono, and the creation of the postgrad tractor.
The Rat Boy
The UCC 'Rat Boy' is known to haunt the the basements of the student center. The product of a failed final year project for some obscure food science degree he has the face of a rat but the body of a boy. Disney are reportedly interested in making a biopic of his heroic struggle to integrate into society.
The Glucksman Gallery
This truly beautiful piece of architecture was build to celebrate Cork City being named the 2005 Capital of Culchies. During the construction of this building, kitted out in ceiling to floor lapis lasulai mosiac, and with automatic sinks, the Glucksman Toilets are the college's most popular attraction. Benefactors constantly brush off accusations that the art itself is "shallow, pedantic and more off putting then seeing Vinnie Jones act", in fact exclaiming that they take pride in having a big building for themselves.
The Mardyke Arena
The Mardyke Arena is the oldest building in UCC and was originally used as a prison for republicans. However, that is not a bad thing. While kept there they had the chance to have sex with every woman named Mary that lived in Cork City. That is why it used to be called the Marydyke Arena.
It was originally built in 1275 and cost a whopping £100,000,000,000,000,000 to build, which in todays money doesn't even exist! It was subsequently blown up by Communists in 1930 and rebuilt and then renamed The Mardyke Arena after the famous Irish Communist Paddy Mardyke. From then on it went massively downhill and is second to the Food Science Building in terms of its uselessness. There is a rumour that when you are in the showers, that all the Marys ghosts are in there with you, haunted by what had happened to them.
Upon Irish independece the Mardyke Arena was used as a bomb shelter by those predicting the eminent rise of Hitler. Unfortunately, they never came out and now are burried under the swimming pool. It is well known that as well as it may look that the Mardyke Arena is about to collapse any day now because there is no proper foundations to it just dead Marys and bomb shelterers! In the year 2007 it came second in the shittiest UCC buildings award, shortlisted in 2008, and is considered one of the favourites for the 2009 award!
The Enterprise Centre
The Enterprise Centre is located on the other side of Cork Chasm; an odd yard away from civilisation. The Enterprise Centre is the shipbuilding centre responsible for the Enterprise and other starships. It is also known as the distillery fields as a nearby beer mine is the source of the New Bar's alcohol.
In order to get to it, students must cross a suspension bridge. In order to provide sufficient suspense needed for the bridge, a family of trolls live under the bridge. In the past, an agreement was made between Lord Harold Enterprise and the trolls that, in return for not "having a go at female students", the trolls would be given honorary degrees in love. After realising that the degree was considered a humanities degree, however, the trolls, outraged that love was seen as an exclusively human trait, started skirt-chasing around the bridge again. An allstudents email, the last line of defence against the trolls, was sent out almost immediately before any troll-on-human porn could have been filmed.
Notable Religions
As well as having the Honan Chapel on campus to facilitate the marriages of gambling addicted, adulterous scum such as Ronan O' Gara, the hallowed temple that is UCC also offers non-denominational Christian services as organised by the beloved Father Beardy who is known to enjoy a dirty cigarette (preferably Major) or 60 a day. Also, UCC is home to a thriving community of the Church of Jim Dandy, the actions of which are mostly visible in men's toilets across campus.
Political Sympathies
UCC is well known for its vocal support for Quebecois independence from the tyranny of les Anglo-Saxons colonists. Every fresher in the college is issued with a radicalisation pack in order to better fight the scourge of English Canada.
UCC Forum
The Forum UCC (FUCC) is the talking box for the college elders. While there are over 150 different usernames, these can be traced to the same 7 individuals who spend 19 hours a day seeking friendship, controversy and maybe even love on the boards. They are famous for their unending scrutiny of the SU and having a humour maturity which does not extend beyond making jokes about how the name of the forum sounds like a naughty word. Oftentimes this elite super force stand as the last great barrier between freedom and the Apocalypse! Thanks to their tireless and heroic efforts a recent "evil" campaign of egging is still ongoing event though it was mentioned in a local newspaper.
Societies and Clubs
The LGBT Society
For reasons uknown, the UCCLGBTLMNOPSOC, a society which "caters" (the non-food kind) for students of all sexualities, genders, non-sexuality genders and non-gender sexualities, is in fact made up of around 2 gay men, 3 lesbians and 300 straight fag-hags and fag-stags who "loves de gayz". This can possibly be explained by them being so fucking boring. On Wednesday evenings, they host a hardcore sauna in the Kane building's locker rooms.
The Netsoc
By far the oldest society still on the UCC admins pay roll, the Net Soc was started by young followers of the original Transvestite Lobby soon after the opening of the university. With the defeat of the Convicts by Finbarr, The Net Soc gained the esteemed honour of "President's Favourite" (a position currently held by the Philatio Society), in a celebration involving cake, and fizzy pop in those little plastic cups. During the 60's, the era's free spirit encouraged many of the groups most central Transvestites to come out of the closet as homosexuals. This decision was met with much rock throwing by the mostly homophobic student body (a tradition which lives on today, in the minds of the vigilant ever LGBT Society member hoping, praying that one day, they will actually have a cause to fight for). Having fully renounced the net socks of their previous alignments, they seceded and started the wildly unpopular Gloryholers, who were eventually run out of Cork by an allied coalition of annoyed plasterers, masons and carpenters.
The Dance Club
The UCC Dance Club is one of the oldest clubs on campus, perhaps being older than the college itself. Their motto, "Where Finbar pranced, let Munster pivot", was so catchy at the time that it was borrowed by the college founders. The lease for creative license to the motto is due to expire in 2012. UCC President Mike Murphy is frantically renegociating a new contract with the club. The Dance Club members can be identified by the chest down. The official club dance is "Sweet Child of Mine".
The Philosophical Society
The Philosophical Society of UCC or "the 'soph" as they call themselves are the overcoat ponderers of the university. They are believed to have originated at the dawn of time and are responsible for such historic events as the birth of Dr. Who and the Last Supper. They can be recognised by their odd demeanor, hunched backs and utterances of "saaa saaa" in heated debates. They have a strict relious pattern and refrain form drinking, eating and speaking for longer than 7 minutes. They dispute the concept of everything, and detest popular "athletes". Their leader, the coveted "Philosoph King" was once believed to ride around the college in the Jameses' Giant Peach, but this has been disproved, due to the law society's ban on peach-riding on campus. Now believed to exist in the form of one of the Nerd kings, he can be seen wandering and pondering the boole for his disciples. Ready at any moment to strike. The date on which "Philosoph day" falls is undecided at present and is believed to coincide with the Chinese new year.
Commerce Society
Reviled and revered in equal measure the UCC Commerce Society is the richest society on campus and were it not for the pesky guild would spend their massive wealth on more Dom P and Montecristos. Their lavish South Mall Penthouse, with its rich leather bound books, mahogany desks and and superb foie gras is their secret hideout and peasants are strictly forbidden.
Entrepreneur and Social Society
The E&S Society issued membership card allows members access to everything except the Enterprise Centre and the Boole on a Sunday which beyond even E&S's control. The card is said to be more valuable than the University itself and Forbe's magazine estimates that, by 2011, the card will have equal value to that of a small country's GDP. DCU's E&S has been making attempts to forge the cards to huge amounts of success. The society regularly competes in money fights with the Commerce Society where the winner gets more money. Honorary Presidents include Bill Cullen and Scrooge McDuck.
The Journalism Society
Specialising in trips to RTE, the journalism society is famous as the society where Murder She Wrote Actress, Angela Lanesbury, trained to get into character. Indeed thirty typewriters she donated to the society were made redundant with Netsoc's discovery of computers.
With the introduction of the media executive last year, who knows what zany adventures are in store for the journalism society?
The Atheist Society
Following on the footsteps of every single opinion needing to manifest itself into a society such as the anti-choice or anti-life societies, the atheist society, contrary to the Christian, Muslim, Agnostic, Voodoo, Satanist, Law, Scientology, and the Once Pricked-Twice Shy societies, believes in no God. No God can be characterised by his cigar, aviator sunglasses, and his "I have the body of a god; too bad it's a Buddha" t-shirt.. This society means that UCC can invite Richard Dawkins over if they save up enough money.
The Medieval and Renaissance Society
Made up of the reincarnations of people from a bygone age, MedRenSoc were selected to star in M. Night Shyamalan's the Village. Unfortunately, the movie was extremely successful, with many of MedRenSoc becoming highly paid Hollywood actors. So much was the success that the society had to drop the Renaissance part of their name due to dwindling numbers. They now exist as MedSoc and hide in the solitary confines of Brookfield Forest to prevent their members from contacting the outside world. Rumour has it that an entire community has grown up around Brookfield although nobody can be sure of this. Shyamalan's next movie would have you believe that UCC is that community. What a twist!
Nothing has Ever Happened Society
Age-old enemies of the Medieval and Renaissance Society, they were originally known as the Anti-Renaissance Society and believed that the renaissance was rubbish. After merging with the Society for Conspiracy Theorism and the Pessimist Society, they revised their charter and now believe that the Renaissance was not only rubbish, but simultaneously never happened.
The Snowsports Club
It's in Cork. And it's a snowsports club. Currently campaigning for real snow. Have not been successful.
The CAPriccio Society
The CAPriccio Society appreciate the Common Agricultural Policy. They do this through the art of music. Unfortunately, as agricultural is such a hard word to find rhymes for, the society spends its time doing other things.
Fianna Fáil Society
Also known as the Drinking Society, acknowledging their Parties poor performance in Government, the members choose to drink at every available opportunity in order to avoid political conversation! Recognizable members include Eoin Furlong, the eccentric Stout Swilling, Neo-Nazi, who is widely known for his Xenophobia and Euroscepticism,and Gary Keane, the Rage Machine, whos diet consists of a steady mixture of fire-lighters and Petrol, Gary is also known to be found lurking around playgrounds wearing a fake beard and long black trench coat and also Seán O'Mahony who once pawned his brother for drink money! During the 2008-09 year the Society collectively drank the equivalent of Lough Neagh in alcoholic beverages, with a total cost of their sanity.
The Cricket Club
Alleged club exists...Plays cricket.
The Rowing Club
The preserve of the upper middle class
A living legend around campus, he is also known as 'the Fleminator'. He can often be found wandering around the niteclubs of Cork, seeking his next victim. He is driven purely by his libido and is widely known to have provided Eminem with some of the lyrics for his single, 'My Name Is', including the lines; 'I'll fuck anything that walks', 'I just drank a pint of semen, dare me to drive?' and 'My English teacher wanted to have sex in junior high, the only problem is my English teacher was a guy.' Flemdog relied heavily on real life experiences when penning these lines. It is also said that Flemdog wears a showercap to bed, believing it to grant him bizarre sexual powers. It is rumoured that he is asexual (i.e. can reproduce with himself) and hoards an army of 'flempuppies' in Renasup. Flemdog also enjoys romantic facebook comments and controversial walks on the beach.
Famous Alumni
- George Boole
- Burt Reynolds
- Rafa Marquez, President of Mexico
- Sven Goran Erikson
- Your old lade
- Jim Morrison's leather pants
- Marys from the Marydyke
- James Hetfield
- Dead bombshelterers
- Robert E. Lee, Confederate General
- MacGuyver
- The Echo Man who sells the Evening Echo newspaper on Patricks Street
- Fidel Castro
- Jesus
- Andy Doyle
- John Spartan - Stallone's character from 'Demolition Man'
- Stewie Griffin
- Eddy Hobbs
- Santa Clause
- Ted DiBiase - Two time 'Million Dollar Champion'
- Ian Fleming - Author of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- John Murphy
Honourary Doctorates
Every four years UCC offer honourary doctorate's to individuals who have made a notable contribution to campus culture and have excelled in their area of expertise; this is a subtle effort by UCC to compete with the Olympics for media attention. These awards are considered to be very prestigious, with the ceremonies usually being held somewhere nice.
- Roald Dahl - British Novelist and noted paedophile
- An Honourary Doctorate - An attempt by the Physics Department at collapsing time. Nothing happened, to the amusement of Roald Dahl and the doctorate.
- Gary Glitter - 80's pop musician and childrens rights activist
- Christian Slater - Abstract Expressionist & Cubist Actor
- Juan Carlos Varela - Panamanian opposition leader and co-star of ABC's 1980's TV series 'The Wonder Years' (Randy)
- Bono - Inventor of Africa, House Music, Bonopoly and, to a lesser extent, the AIDS
- Neil Diamond - Money talks, but it dont sing and dance and it dont walk...
- Sgt. Joseph Andrew 'Joe' Bomowski - Stallone's character from 'Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot'
- Rocky Racoon - Co-Star of 'Airbud 4: Seventh Inning Stretch' and inventor of baseball
- The Postgraduate Tractor
- Adhesives, The controlled application of
- Bryan Gunn - Pixelated Norwich City goalkeeper in Sensible Soccer for the Sega Mega Drive (1992)
- 1-2-3 Kid, the
- Robert Mugabe - Philanthropist, human rights activist and Oscar nominated make-up artist.
- George W. Bush- Going to be the next President of UCC and plans to make Cork the rightfull capital of Ireland. Just because God told him to.


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Shout "KaZaA!" at any record company executive and she will most likely turn bright red with rage and scream: "Thieves! Pirates! Kill them!"
The name of the world's most popular peer-to-peer music-swapping software is, beyond doubt, the most feared word in the entire, and sometimes unintelligible, vocabulary of the popular music business.
To them, KaZaA is the electronic jemmy used by hundreds of millions of music thieves who illegally swap songs on the internet, thus depriving the labels of big money.
KaZaA was developed by two Swedes, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis, and sold in 2002 to Sharman Networks, of Sydney, which has done nicely selling advertising on the 300 million or so computers that run the software.
Sharman has been furiously assaulted in the US courts but so far not a single legal glove has been laid on it. It's not the pirate, it just builds the pirate ships.
Flush with Sharman's money, Zennstrom and Friis turned not to cold champagne and warm-hearted women on the Riviera but to their computers to hone the next potential killer application called Skype.
This time the idea was to avoid paying for telephone calls, even to places as remote as Patagonia and minor Greek islands reached by ferries that run once a month.
What KaZaA did for music sharing, Skype could do for phone calls. The potential is huge, with the added benefit that telephone companies are unlikely to hire gumshoes to stage midnight raids on Skypers, as the music companies have done over KaZaA, because no copyright issue is involved in a phone call.
Skype is not a replacement for the telephone system, but it could be the start of a revolution leading to virtually free calls to and from anywhere.
Michael Powell, chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, believes Skype could change the world.
"I knew it was over when I downloaded Skype," he told Fortune magazine recently. "When the inventors of KaZaA are distributing a program you can use to talk to anybody else and the quality is fantastic and it's free - it's over. Inevitably the world will change."
On my iMac and PowerBook using the Mac OS X version of Skype, the sound quality through the computers' speakers is better than on an average phone call.
Les Posen, a Melbourne psychologist, used Skype to talk from New York to Melbourne and locally in the US with his PowerBook on the broadband line in his hotel room. A call to a patient in one of those aforementioned Greek islands cost less than a dollar.
Charmian Gaud, secretary of the Melbourne Macintosh User Group, makes calls around Australia to computers and the POTS (plain old telephone system).
Skype is a free download from www.skype.com. You register a user name and buy "SkypeOut"credits in euros (you pay in Australian dollars using a credit card). Calls to fixed and mobile phones are seen as local at the receiver end and costs are deducted from your Skype account. Skype-to-Skype calls are internet data traffic and thus "free". You can conference with up to five people, but you cannot call Skypers from mobiles or the POTS.
Skype is peer-to-peer telephony for voice and instant messaging, not Voice Over Internet Protocol, such as Telstra is introducing for homes and which many corporations use for internal calls. The concept is not new (see Net2Phone and NetMeeting) but done better.
Because it is peer-to-peer there is a chance you could be "lurked" by a person you would not use for alligator bait, but you can block all but acceptable people.
Apple's iChat AV provides internet chat, with the advantage of video on broadband using an iSight camera - not possible with Skype. But with Skype you can call a conventional phone system, and that is the real difference.
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A pet peeve among users of Entourage and the Mac O S X Address Book is that its handy web-link map feature, which shows the location of your contacts, does not admit the existence of a place called Australia.
Stephen Withers, Melbourne Mac expert, took this shortcoming as a personal challenge and has written a neat Address Book plug-in and an AppleScript that fetches maps and driving instructions from the WhereIs service (whereis.com.au), run by Sensis, the WhitePages and Trading Post outfit.
Withers, who believes in economy of motion, says he started with the Entourage map script "because that's where I store my contacts and I was fed up with retyping addresses into WhereIs when I needed maps".
He shared that with members of iMUG, the Melbourne Macintosh User Group, who instantly challenged him to include Address Book. This time he used Apple's powerful scripting language that integrates neatly into Mac applications.
The scripts are a free download from stephenwithers.com/scripts, but I reckon they're so good they are worth a couple of dollars' donation, which you can contribute through his site.
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Environmental groups on Tuesday filed a complaint with the S.C. Supreme Court that seeks to clarify which state agency has the authority to issue permits to deepen the Savannah River.
The S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control issued the permits last year but in its filing the Southern Environmental Law Center argues that authority rests with the Savannah River Maritime Commission.
"DHEC had no authority to cut a backroom deal with Georgia and issue a permit for this destructive, wasteful project because the South Carolina Legislature gave authority over this matter to the Savannah River Maritime Commission in 2007," Frank Holleman, a senior attorney at SELC said in a prepared statement. "We're asking the South Carolina Supreme Court to declare that the DHEC Board acted unlawfully by usurping powers vested in the commission."
SELC is representing four environmental groups in South Carolina and Georgia: The Conservation Voters of South Carolina, Savannah Riverkeeper, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, and the South Carolina Wildlife Federation.
The permits, for water quality and construction in navigable waters, were controversial even before they were issued.
About a month after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issued draft harbor deepening documents in late 2010, DHEC said it planned to deny the permits because the review period was too short. The state rescinded that denial when it became clear it had more than the 60-day public comment to complete its review and in fact had up to a year.
In late October 2011, DHEC staff formally recommended a denial, citing environmental damage from the plan to dredge 38 miles of river from 42 to up to 48 feet deep. But on Nov. 10, Gov. Nikki Haley's appointees to the DHEC board approved a settlement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and DHEC staff.
S.C. lawmakers, who said Georgia's plan would not only damage the river but also put South Carolina's ports at a disadvantage, were outraged. They passed a resolution overturning the approval. Haley vetoed it. But last week lawmakers overwhelmingly overturned her veto.
"The General Assembly and the governor see the issue very differently," said Chris DeScherer, a senior attorney with SELC. "If the Supreme Court ruled it would bring much needed clarity to the issue."
It would also simplify the issue for the S.C. administrative law court, where both SELC and the Savannah River Maritime Commission have separately challenged DHEC's decision.
The permits' current viability is unclear. DHEC spokesman Adam Myrick declined to comment Tuesday citing pending litigation.
The Supreme Court has no deadline by which to decide if it will hear the case, DeScherer said.
"We are requesting they hear it given importance of the issue to the state," he said. "They could make the decision quickly or it could take time."


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Becoming Mark Rothko
Columbus, Ohio
An enormously satisfying exhibition of early Mark Rothko works now at the Columbus Museum of Art gives viewers an opportunity to hone their powers of observation. Following the artist through a decade of activity, we get to see that his apparently radical shift from suggestively figurative to purely abstract art may not be so extreme after all.
Mark Rothko:
The Decisive Decade
1940 - 1950
Columbus Museum of Art
Through May 26
In one of several perceptive catalog essays, Ruth Fine, consulting curator for Rothko works on paper at the National Gallery of Art, writes that the "general lack of awareness of the works on paper . . . was instigated in part by the artist himself." No pre-1945 works were included in the 1961 Museum of Modern Art retrospective exhibition, curated jointly by Peter Selz and Rothko, thus making "the public statement that his mature work originated in 1945." Though subsequent Rothko retrospectives included pre-1945 work, this phase of the artist's career remains so underknown as to make this show a kind of rediscovery of the early Rothko.
"Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940-1950" includes 27 of his paintings, many of them on paper, that are usually exhibited as mere prefaces to his signature glowing and complexly layered canvases. In addition to these Rothkos—selected from the 295 works donated in 1985-86 to the National Gallery of Art by the Mark Rothko Foundation (formed by his children)—the exhibition also includes 10 early works by other artists (among them Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock) that set up a rich context for the early Rothko paintings. These works share many visual characteristics, exploring the fertile territory of the unconscious that Freud and others had opened for 20th-century artists: a rich array of surreal forms that move between the representational and the symbolic. It's also a terse lesson in the concept of "signature" styles, toward which these artists were obviously striving and by which we know them best.
Rothko (1903-70) was an artist with broad intellectual scope that included his immersion in the mythologies and traditions of the classical, Judaic and Christian worlds. Eventually his philosophical and literary interests were distilled into the richly colored strata of his familiar later works. This exhibition explores the process by which he arrived at those answers, while re-experiencing his questions as well. Here Rothko's soft, muted palette and his determination to define spatial relationships—initially with figurative forms—are reminders that trying to identify radical breakthroughs is far less interesting than observing creative development. That's what Karen Brosius, executive director of the Columbia Museum of Art in South Carolina, where the exhibition originated, and Todd Herman, executive director of the Arkansas Art Center, who conceived of this exhibition with Ms. Brosius, want us to feel—and we do.
There's nothing tentative about this early work. A couple of 1941 paintings allude to the Antigone myth, with disconnected, sexually evocative body parts that assert, but do not describe, tragedy. Elsewhere, as in an untitled canvas of 1941-42, the deconstructed and reorganized Crucifixion imagery suggests the terrifying power of familiar iconographic bits and pieces. Other works have marine references that shimmer with lightly layered, translucent streaks of paint.
While thematically diverse, most of the works in this exhibition share certain organizing principles. Shapes—identifiable or not—are never arbitrarily arranged. They float in carefully defined spaces and are often firmly anchored with some sort of horizontal ground that can be as insistent as the horizon in a 17th-century Dutch seascape. Paring things down to essentials seems to have been the task the artist set for himself. In "No. 9" (1948) we watch Rothko grappling with the near-obliteration of traditional notions of pictorial space. He seems to be experimenting with the novel "push/pull" theory articulated by the influential expatriate German modernist Hans Hofmann, which held that spatial relations could be created by juxtapositions of color and form rather than by the use of perspective.
It's astonishing that despite the clear figural references in Rothko's "No. 10" of the same year, there's a sense that the painter is moving toward the glowing rectangular shapes with which he—and ultimately we—have become so comfortable. But to view this as a natural progression would be to miss the sense of struggle evident in individual works that continues to make Rothko such a challenging painter.
We're accustomed to understanding Rothko as part of the evolving style that came to be called Abstract Expressionism. But Rothko's aquatic colors are reflected in the painterly washes of a lovely 1917 John Marin seascape, unrelated to the Rothko exhibition, just outside the entrance to the show. This signals us to be wary of easy pigeonholes in our categorization of artists. While they are hung separately in the exhibition, the catalog wonderfully juxtaposes Rothko's figurative "Untitled (Man and Two Women in a Pastoral Setting)" (c. 1940) and Milton Avery's "Girl With Cello" (1958) to reveal yet other affinities that Rothko shared with his fellow artists.
It is especially gratifying to note that the National Gallery of Art is sharing its vast Rothko holdings with a range of American museums (the exhibition continues on to Little Rock, Ark., and Denver), while also promoting new scholarship. After all, art historians and museums have a continuing responsibility to rethink and rewrite art history—especially the potentially misleading history that artists sometimes create for themselves. This exhibition addresses that task superbly.
Mr. Freudenheim, a former art-museum director, served as the assistant secretary for museums at the Smithsonian.
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Environmental law professor named Fulbright Scholar
Loyola press release - April 16, 2012
Robert Verchick J.D., the Gauthier-St. Martin Eminent Scholar of the Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant for 2012-13. The award, which is part of the Fulbright-Nehru Environmental Leader Program, will support his research in India during the fall semester of 2012. Verchick is currently working on a book about how cities around the world are adapting to climate change.
Verchick is one of approximately 1,100 U.S. faculty and professionals who will travel abroad through the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program in 2012-13.
While in India, Verchick will study the cities of New Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta. The purpose of Verchick's book is to start a public conversation about the threats posed by climate change and the need to build climate resilience into urban areas.
"Cities face many threats from global warming, including sea level rise, heat waves, more erratic storms and floods and insect-borne disease. The book is about my search for 'climate-ready cities' in the U.S. and abroad, that is, cities that are attempting to identify their vulnerabilities to climate change and address those vulnerabilities," Verchick said.
The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.
Recipients of Fulbright grants are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields. The program operates in more than 155 countries worldwide.
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Visibility Assessments
In enhanced field experiments, the ARD investigates in detail the specific sources of pollution contributing to visibility impairment in selected parks. These studies are conducted to obtain the necessary ambient air quality, meteorological, and pollutant emissions data to determine the causes of visibility impairment at a park or group of parks and, in some cases, to determine the contribution of specific sources to existing visibility impairment.The ARD also frequently sponsors and conducts investigations of monitoring methods to improve ambient monitoring devices and analysis methods.
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Police are searching for any further links in the deaths of three New York City shopkeepers who were shot by the same gun.
All three victims were of Middle Eastern descent. Their stores are within a 5-mile radius, and none of them have surveillance cameras.
The latest shooting death came Friday, when 78-year-old Rahmatollah Vahidipour was killed at his store, She She, in Brooklyn's Flatbush section. He suffered gunshot wounds to the head and torso, police said.
Police said the same gun was used in the deaths of two other Brooklyn shopkeepers over the summer.
On July 6, clothing store owner Mohamed Gebeli was killed inside Valentino Fashion in Bay Ridge. On Aug. 2, Isaac Kadare was found dead at his Amazing 99 Cents Deal shop in Bensonhurst.
Authorities have said that ballistics evidence connected the weapon used in the first two deaths. Police say they don't know the motive behind any of the killings.
A call on Sunday to Vahidipour's home in Great Neck wasn't answered.
Authorities are offering rewards of $22,000 for information leading to an arrest and conviction in the three homicides


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Karen Louise Bray
Karen Louise Bray age 64 of Midway, Arkansas passed away Monday, March 25, 2013
in Little Rock. She was born in Arkadelphia, Arkansas June 29, 1948 the daughter of James Lewis and Marie Speer Cash. She graduated from Ouachita High School in 1966 and July 1 of that same year married James Raymond (Jimmy) Bray in Malvern. She was a member of the Midway Missionary Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents Daddy James Lewis Cash and Momma Marie Speer Cash.
Karen is survived by her husband Jimmy Bray, son Jimbo and daughter-in-law Haley Bray, grandchildren, Jacob, Sydney, John and James Bray.
Funeral services will be 10 AM Thursday, March 28, at the Midway Missionary Baptist Church with Brother Kevin Spurlin and Brother Fred Etheridge officiating. Burial will be in the Neighbors Cemetery. Pallbearers will be: Ray Cook, Kelly Hodges, Kendall Spurlin, Raymond Spurlin, Kregg Tugwell, and Keith Tugwell. Visitation will be 6-8 PM Wednesday at Ruggles-Wilcox Funeral Home in Arkadelphia.
In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Midway Missionary Baptist Church Building Fund, 382 Cemetery Rd., Donaldson, AR 71941, or the charity of your choice. Sign on-line guest book at www.ruggleswilcox.com.


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Chalet Hotel Les Grangettes Reviews
I have just come back from an excellent holiday in Les Grangettes Meribel. Booking the holiday with iglu was very quick and simple. The accommodation couldn't have been in a better location, 2 mins walk to the ski lift and very good location in town. The accommodation itself was very basic in the rooms however you spend such little time in the rooms it doesn't matter. The food was amazing! Breakfast had an excellent buffet selection and a hot option. Get back at 4pm after a hard days skiing and you can have soup and cake and then at 7pm you have canopies followed by a 3 course meal with unlimited wine. We were sceptical of the free wine but it was great and it was definitely unlimited!! Coming in bottles not out of plastic containers! The evening meal was brilliant from duck to legs of lamb it was all excellent. The staff were all very friendly and helpful and better than most waiters you would find in restaurants. Overall an excellent stay and would definitely book again.
Apres Ski: 4/5
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Travel ! Ugh ! We went out over New Year and were caught up in the travel debacle ! Both ways. We were 'lucky' in the we only spent 12 hours on a bus for a 2 1/2 hour transfer. Geneva to Meribel. Many spent the night out, some two ! We got to resort at midnight mostly thanks to a brilliant coach driver that took us off through the lanes and villages to by pass the mega jam on the main roads. Airports such as Geneva and Chambray are just not fit for purpose. Totally overwhelmed with ridiculous queues. We will not be flying out next time ! There are other ways. Up side we got the snow just in time for New Year so Meribel was white and skiing pretty good but icy towards the end. Hotel Grangette is ideal for ski slope access and après ski with views over the area and an easy walk. Almost ski to door ! With all the benefits of being 'in town' so close to all facilities. Hotel staff were great. Very helpful, knowledgeable, pleasant, happy and efficient. Food and service good. The building needs attention though. Our bath room had mould on the ceiling and fan did not work. In excusable at this point in the season ! Boot / ski room very tired and shabby and locks worn out. Again inexcusable at this time of the season. Should have been sorted out. Spoilt an otherwise good stay.
Apres Ski: 4/5
Accommodation & Value: 4/5
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Sacr bleu! Wards Auto World reports Citr en is considering a sortie into Canada, a move that would position its cars closer to the US border than at any time since grey-market importation ended in the 1990s. Such a plan would give PSA, now executing a worldwide expansion push, an operations base from which it could reenter the American market in a few years and an established base of native French speakers as customers. PSA has a few conditions in its favor: Canada's homologation rules are less strict than those in the US, the company's finely hewn diesels mesh with Canada's lean toward regulating emissions under Euro-4 standards (which favor lowering CO2 over California's NO2-reduction focus) and the Quebecois can pronounce its name correctly.
Citroen Considers Selling Cars in Canada [Wards Auto via Autoblog]
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The message is loud and clear: This year's draft class is light on premier-passing talent and a mere shadow of what we were treated to a season ago. Still, at least one young quarterback appears to be gaining traction in NFL circles.
DraftInsider.net's Tony Pauline reported Thursday that Syracuse quarterback Ryan Nassib is on the radar of the Kansas City Chiefs, Philadelphia Eagles and New York Jets. All three teams "think highly" of Nassib, who is currently on campus preparing for the NFL Scouting Combine with former NFL offensive coordinator Paul Hackett and Ken Anderson, a former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback.
Pauline hints at Nassib rising into the late stages of the first round. We're months away from the 2013 NFL Draft, but only West Virginia quarterback Geno Smith received a first-round grade from NFL.com's Daniel Jeremiah, a former scout for the Eagles, Baltimore Ravens and Cleveland Browns. Meanwhile, NFL Network's Mike Mayock compared Nassib to Bengals quarterback Andy Dalton and Washington Redskins pass-thrower Kirk Cousins after his lukewarm showing at the Senior Bowl.
Any one of the quarterbacks in this year's crop could see their value balloon -- it happens every year -- but the attraction to a Nassib-type is the hope you can grab him later in the draft.
The Chiefs and Eagles are logical targets. The Buffalo Bills hired Doug Marrone, Nassib's former coach, and might be open to a reunion. Down in Philly, coach Chip Kelly has more to work with under center, but we don't expect the Eagles to stand pat at the position.
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Author Notes: Growing up, my family always made cheese-and-sausage balls around the holidays. I don't know why they emerged just then; it's not like they were a Bûche de Noel or something that screams, "JUST MAKE ME IN DECEMBER." But anyway, such was the case. My mom got this recipe from her mom...I don't even know the original source, but it is simple cooking at its most flavorful.
The original recipe called for just three ingredients: Bisquick, Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage, and cheddar cheese. I try to use unrefined, all-natural foods so have remade this along those lines but have maintained the humble goodness of this treat.
You can make these ahead! Store them in the fridge, and warm before serving. —em-i-lis
Makes: about 60 balls
pound spicy pork sausage (I like andouille or hot Italian), casings removed
pound sharp or extra-sharp cheddar, grated
cups organic pancake mix (I use Whole Foods' buttermilk pancake mix)
cup buttermilk
cayenne for sprinkling
- In a 10" skillet, lightly brown the sausage to release some of the grease, crumbling the meat as you go. Drain on paper towels if necessary. Preheat the oven to 375.
- In a large bowl, mix together the browned sausage, grated cheese, and baking mix. By the 1/8 c, add buttermilk until the mix comes together. You don't want this to be wet, but you do want to be able to roll the mix into balls. Using a spoon and your hands, make walnut-size balls and place on a greased baking sheet. Sprinkle with cayenne. Cook until brown (about 15 mins), cool and serve or store.
- Note: In the picture are cheese-and-saus balls made with three different kinds of sausage, hence the variation in color. It's fun to make a mix!
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Pub Food
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Dish with Meat as a Flavoring
- This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best One-Bite Party Snack
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Arsenal take on last season's runners-up as the Champions League last 16 ties continue this week, and Goal.com's Peter Staunton believes Bayern Munich's front line will prove too hot to handle for Arsene Wenger's side.
Speaking at Wembley alongside James Richardson, Staunton lauded the Bundesliga giants' attack as "untouchable".
He argues: "Bayern's strike force has had too much for a lot of teams already this season, and I don't think Arsenal's notoriously precarious backline will be any different."
Much will depend on how possession is shared in Tuesday's contest, and while UK correspondent Greg Stobart believes Bayern will control proceedings, he insists the Gunners can still trouble Jupp Heynckes' side.
"Arsenal's main weapon is looking to get Wilshere, Cazorla and Arteta on the ball, and playing a longer pass in behind for Walcott to use his pace," he said. "I think that's how they'll try to hit Bayern Munich.
"But the main problem for Arsenal is how much they have to chase the ball, because if Wilshere's not on the ball they're not going to score."
So do you think Bayern's attack will simply cut through Arsenal like butter, or will the speed of the Gunners' counterattack cause the visitors too many problems?
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Midget I, Bantam, Atom Division action.
Daniel Sutterfield what proved to be the winning run in the third inning, lifting Town & Country over Central Security 6-5 Tuesday in Rolla Youth Baseball/Softball (RYBS) Midget I Division baseball action at Green Acres Park.
Asher Becker had two hits and scored a run for the winners while Grayson Madonna and Josiah Homan each singled and scored. Wyatt Sowers had a triple, single and scored while Collin Wells and Justin McEnaney each singled and scored and Riley Stevenson had an RBI and scored a run for Central Security.
Bantam Division
Danny Foster had a triple and scored two runs while Gavin Hansen and Xavier Baylor each singled and scored as Rolla Manor Care topped Rotary Club 7-5 Tuesday in Bantam Division baseball action at Rolla Lions Club Park.
Logan Helm had two hits and scored three runs while Quinn Beaugard and Connor Williamson each scored for Rotary Club.
In other Bantam Division games from Tuesday:
Andre Henson homered, singled and scored twice while Phoenix Riley singled and scored three runs and Dalton Skaggs had three hits as Greischer & Strange beat Mid-Missouri Credit Union 10-9. Samuel Insall had a homer, single and scored twice while Payton Lambeth singled and scored twice and Tucker Moreland had a double and single for Mid-Missouri Credit Union.
Keshawn Fannon had a pair of doubles while Isaiah Asher had a single and scored twice and John Sutton scored twice as Dr. Sherrick & Staff topped Splash Designs 8-2. Trevor Wallis and Michael Keeney both scored for Splash Designs.
Atom Division
Lane Richardson scored what proved to be the winning run in the fourth inning as Farmer's Bureau clipped Dr. Esquibel 9-8 Monday in Atom Division baseball action at Rolla Lions Club Park.
Jeff Triplett scored two runs for the winners. Brady Feeler and Dayton Dukes each scored twice for Dr. Esquibel.
In other Atom Division games from Monday:
Eli Birdsong, Kendall Johnson and Trent Mackay each scored twice as Phelps County Bank topped Kiwanis Club 9-7. No last names were provided for Kiwanis Club.
Pete's Pumpkin Patch and Lions Red tied 8-8. No last names were provided for either team.
Ashton Herran had two hits and scored three runs while Zachary Zawodnik had two hits and scored two runs and Devin Salter had a single and scored twice as Roger Vaughn Photography topped Lions Gold 10-6. Chance Hart scored twice for Lions Gold.


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