| University's £160,000 logo change
Marketing bosses have dropped the dolphin, chosen 17 years ago to represent friendliness and intelligence, and picked a simple black typeface designed by London agency Precedent Communications. However, union leaders have condemned the logo's cost, which is the equivalent to four senior lecturer posts for a year and 160 bursaries for students from low incomes. The cost of changing all the campus signs and ordering new stationery is expected to add tens of thousands to the final price. David Wheatley, of the University and College Union, which represents about 1,000 academic staff, said too much money was being spent on a new logo while cuts were being made elsewhere. .
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We would say based on our laboratory data that the match is not optimal both for the H3N2 component of the vaccine and also for the influenza B component," Cox told reporters in a telephone briefing. "In Europe they have primarily had influenza A H1N1. Data generated in Europe indicate that strains circulating there are not so well-matched with the vaccine." The vaccines still help prevent serious disease, Cox said, even if they do not completely prevent infection. Last year officials were already ready to change the H3N2 vaccine and labs have been working to make a type that could be easily made into vaccine, so they have a head start, Cox said. It takes months to make a batch of vaccine. Samples of virus must be injected into carefully cultivated fertilized eggs and then grown.
Blizzard of '78 memories remain strong as a gale
Snowbanks two stories high. Cars buried so deep they were left for dead. Gales along Salisbury Beach ripping cottages off their foundations and shredding pizza stands. Kids home from school indefinitely. Ninety-nine people dead. T-shirts came next: "I survived the Blizzard of '78." If you were living on the East Coast 30 years ago today, you have a story. To view slideshow Click Here Lowell's Dan Macheras, of Macheras Oil Service, didn't sit around feeling helpless. He jumped on his snowmobile with toolbox in hand and motored through whiteout conditions to fix heaters. His brother Peter did the same with cars. The pair even ferried prescriptions to elderly people who couldn't make it to the pharmacy. "It was cold and windy. People were very happy they got their heat back on," Dan Macheras said.
Xenophobe: Warrior Princess
I know this pretty little lady. She's got a hot little husband and an adorable little boy. They are a sweet Maine family - picture perfect - including the little bun she's got growing in her oven. I call them little because they're diminutive. She barely clears five feet and he's maybe six inches taller. I don't know, maybe I'm "sizeist" but their smaller-than-average stature just adds to their allure.It adds to the surprise factor, too, when you find that they're xenophobic. Well, I'm not sure about the husband and the 2-year-old, but she definitely is. The other day she struck up a conversation with me about wanting to send the immigrants home. I asked her what tribe she was from, like the Penobscot or maybe one from away like the Cherokee. Mind you, I don't smile when I ask this - my standard rebuttal question - but for some reason every time I ask it, the person I'm asking laughs like I'm kidding.
Political Insider
Shouldn't members of the Georgia Assembly be more concerned with the rights of Georgia taxpayers and voters rather than fans of Georgia universities who live in adjoining states? The Atlanta Gator Club just finished jumping through state-required hoops for its plates. Graduates of Auburn University already have theirs. In a separate e-mail to us, Raulin added this: "Members of the General Assembly are supposed to be adults and voices of mature reason; their job descriptions do not include launching rhetorical broadsides against their fellow Georgia citizens, residents, taxpayers and voters who happened to attend out-of-state universities, nor do their job descriptions include attempting to deny their fellow Georgia taxpayers and voters due process and the equal protection of the laws of Georgia.
Wisconsin Sports Spectacular
Nobody started to go on the field at that time except for him, he was the first one that went out there and that started all the mayhem. It showed a LOT of disrespect for the officials when he KNEW that they had to make the last snap. Undoubtedly he's been on the other side of that situation before. I can maybe understand in the moment he forgot, and started to go out onto the field, but when he continued out there and shook Coughlin's hand, and then goes into the locker room when his team had to stay out there and see the last snap and the Giants celebration, that was wrong. It took something away from the last snap of the Super Bowl, which I always see as a classic moment when the winning team has the ball and is running out the clock. .
Blunt addresses the heart
James Blunt's concert at a sold-out Riviera Theatre on Friday might be the most thoroughly documented local event of 2008. Every time the lanky Brit walked near the lip of the stage, dozens of cameras were thrust into the air, fans snapping pictures as voraciously as paparazzi stalking Brad Pitt.
So it was somewhat ironic when Blunt, whose 2004 debut "Back to Bedlam" sold more than 11 million copies worldwide, lashed out at celebrity culture. He slammed photographers tracking stars such as Britney Spears, and briefly channeled grandiose U2 frontman Bono as he introduced the war-torn "No Bravery" as a "song about life and death ... and the motion of humanity."
The remainder of the 90-minute, 18-song performance dealt with matters of the heart. Blunt, backed by a four-piece band, delivered his lyrics like a raspy Casanova.
RIT's Park Point Introduces Tenants
RIT's 'College Town' is taking shape and some of its shops and restaurants are taking on names too. The area soon to be known as Park Point will open its stores and eateries this August. Wilmorite and school officials unveiled the names of several locations. Among them are Paradiso Pizza, Tiger's Sports Bar, Lovin' Cup Cafe and Music Bistro, Gallery Salon Too and Seven Days' Convenience Store. King David's and Wok With You restaurants, and an Abbotts will also come to the campus. "We know that this is going to service our students, faculty visitors and guests for years to come," said Dr. Jim Waters of RIT. "This is a tremendous, tremendous step forward for RIT." Two more locations are expected to come to Point Park. The Barnes & Noble at RIT will anchor Point Park.
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