Posted by admin on Feb 25, 2009 in
Uncategorized Oh my goodness. I was done posting for today…or so I thought. This was TOO good to pass up. Now you guys stay focused and stay out of trouble. Enjoy!
Source Link:http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2009/02/24/topless_coffee_shop_opens_in_central_maine/
VASSALBORO, Maine-A topless coffee shop that raised the ire of many residents of a small central Maine town is open for business.
The Grand View Topless Coffee Shop, located at the site of the former Grand View Motel, opened its doors Monday on busy Route 3 in Vassalboro. A sign outside says, “Over 18 only.” Another says, “No cameras, no touching, cash only.”
On Tuesday, two men sipped coffee at a booth while three topless waitresses and a bare-chested waiter stood nearby. Topless waitress Susie Wiley said men, women and couples have stopped by.
Dozens of residents objected to the shop when the Vassalboro planning board meeting took up the matter last month. But town officials said the coffee shop met the letter of the law.
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Posted by admin on Feb 25, 2009 in
Uncategorized Hey Guys, our apologies. It HAS been a minute since we dropped news on this blog that you might find relevant or NOT. Facebook seems to be winning the social network wars but MySpace is fighting for all the market share that is out there with this latest news about Webmail. This is a good read. Some readers think it is right on time while others feel it may be TOO late. Decide for yourself. Enjoy!
Source Link: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/02/24/myspace-inches-closer-to-offering-full-fledged-webmail-service/
by Jason Kincaid on February 24, 2009Last month we reported that MySpace was planning to launch a webmail service – a move that could instantly make it one of the web’s largest Email providers (provided a substantial portion of its users took advantage of the feature). Today we’ve received a number of tips that MySpace has introduced some new messaging features that indicate that the transition is well underway. Most notably, the site now allows users to send a message to multiple friends at once, as seen in the shot below.
The feature works as advertised: as users begin typing their friends’ names, an autocomplete window opens with a list of matches. Each picture in the ‘To’ line is a link to that user’s MySpace profile, which makes it easier to confirm that you’re messaging the right friend.
While the company wouldn’t comment on its webmail plans, MySpace has confirmed that the new feature launched today, and also detailed some of the other upgrades to the site’s messaging functionality. The site now offers an at-a-glance view of your sent messages so you can see if your friends have read them (frankly I find this feature to be a little creepy, but it’s not uncommon in standard Email clients). Users will also be able to attach video files to their outgoing messages.
Of course, while the site’s interface may be gradually moving towards that of most webmail clients, it is still missing one key feature: users don’t have a dedicated name@myspace.com Email address yet, so they can’t receive incoming mail. But as we noted last month, the company has started moving its corporate Email addresses from name@MySpace.com to the domain MySpace-inc.com, paving the way for users to occupy the name@MySpace.com addresses.
We should note that Facebook has also been slowly adding features to its messaging platform. While we haven’t heard anything directly related to a Facebook webmail application, the site clearly strives to be a central hub for social communication on the web, so it wouldn’t be surprising if it has similar aspirations (especially if MySpace’s experiment goes well).
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Posted by admin on Feb 11, 2009 in
College News Hey, guys. This article is pretty much hot of the presses. Jobs are being lost, money is lost, endowments are being lost BUT that does not mean YOU have to be lost. This article is going to help students weigh every single option when it comes down on WHERE to go to school. Since resources are tight, I thought this would be a great article for emerging college students, transfers and regular college students in general. ENJOY!
Source Link: http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid={DA6C44F8-48A3-4E4C-B5A0-5106CE14081A}&siteid=rss
Cost of living, career prospects should factor into school decision
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (MarketWatch) — When Dan Sharpe was looking at colleges during his senior year in high school, his search led him back to his home town near Columbus, Ohio.
Sharpe, who graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University a few years ago, also looked at East Coast schools but found their cost of living daunting. After two college internships, one of them in the Columbus area, he landed a job as a project manager with the non-profit Columbus Foundation after graduation.
Today, he lives in a spacious loft apartment in the city’s fashionable Brewery District for under $600 a month. Staying in the area during and after college “allowed me to take advantage of lots of internship options and keep my living costs reasonable,” he said.
Tuition, curriculum, and financial aid packages often top the list of considerations for high-school seniors anxiously awaiting college acceptances.
But as Sharpe’s experience shows, location can have a huge impact on college living costs, internships, and post-graduation employment.
“I’ve talked to hundreds of seniors in college who have told me that they didn’t realize how important college location was until they got to school. But it should be one of the top considerations for students and parents,” said Todd Hoffman, a college researcher and consultant who quantifies the comparative merits of various college locations with his brainchild, the College Destinations Index.
Head of the class
Using 12 measures, the index, published by the American Institute for Economic Research, analyzes data from more than 290 cities and college towns to identify 75 of the best places in America to go to school. It includes financial considerations, such as cost of living, job opportunities, and earning potential, as well as other factors such as student diversity and the availability of cultural and leisure activities.
The top 75 locations range from college towns with less than 250,000 people to major cities with populations greater than 2.5 million.
Big-city picks include Boston, New York, and San Francisco. Students who decide to live off-campus can expect to pay about $1,300 a month for a two-bedroom apartment in Boston and almost $1,500 in San Francisco — about twice what they would pay in Cleveland or St. Louis. Assuming two students shared the apartment, the cost difference between the expensive and cheaper locations for each of them would amount to several thousand dollars a year.
Despite their pricey profiles, these big cities rank highly because they offer many internship opportunities that are not available in other parts of the country. For students, the question is whether those opportunities will translate into jobs down the road.
“In a competitive job market, employers view internships as something that sets students apart and makes them more marketable,” Hoffman said.
“You’re not going to have as many of those opportunities in rural settings, even if you are attending a great college or university,” he added.
Post-graduate plans
High-cost cities also tend to have a high per-capita income, which can translate into higher starting salaries for students who decide to stay after graduation.
Of course, if major cities aren’t to your liking, there are plenty of great college destinations in smaller cities or college towns.
The Columbus, Ohio area, where Sharpe attended college, serves as a headquarters location for internship-rich companies such as Nationwide Insurance, Abercrombie & Fitch, The Limited and Bob Evans, and two-bedroom apartments can be had for under $700 a month.
Prospective students should also consider how career plans fit into a college location. Those contemplating a career in technology will probably have more success finding internships and employment in a place with a strong industry presence such as Boston or the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, while someone considering a career in public service might gravitate to a school near a state capital or in Washington, D.C.
Even an area’s real estate values can factor into a location decision. Hoffman said that with property prices at depressed levels, he’s seeing more parents buy a house or condominium, then rent the property to a child and his or her roommates and perhaps even pay the child to manage the property.
The strategy typically works best in areas such as Cleveland where real estate costs are reasonable compared to the price of on-campus housing. Despite the risk of declining property values — parents who bought at the height of the real estate boom may now be regretting the decision — becoming a child’s temporary landlord could save thousands of dollars in living costs in stable or rising markets.
The CDI’s usefulness goes beyond students, since favorable financial characteristics and amenities that create great college locations can also make the areas prime destinations for retirees, tourists, or people thinking about relocation.
Said Hoffman: “Great college destinations are also often great all-around place to be.”
Marla Brill is a Scottsdale, Ariz.-based freelance writer.
Top college destinations
Major cities
1. Boston
2. New York
3. San Francisco
4. Washington, D.C.
5. Atlanta
6. Chicago
7. Seattle
8. Baltimore
9. Los Angeles
10. Minneapolis-St. Paul
Mid-size metros
1. San Jose-Palo Alto
2. Raleigh-Durham
3. Denver
4. Austin
5. Nashville
6. Charlotte
7. Columbus
8. Milwaukee
9. Portland
10. Indianapolis
Small cities
1. Boulder, Colo.
2. Madison, Wis.
3. Anne Arbor, Mich.
4. Princeton-Trenton, N.J.
5. Santa Cruz, Calif.
6. Honolulu, Hawaii
7. New Haven, Conn.
8. Fort Collins, Colo.
9. Worcester, Mass.
10. Lincoln, Neb.
College towns (under 250,000 residents)
1. State College, Pa.
2. Bloomington, Ind.
3. Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
4. Iowa City, Iowa
5. College Station, Tex.
6. Lawrence, Kan.
7. Charlottesville, Va.
8. Columbia, Mo.
9. Gainesville, Fla.
10. Athens, Ga.
Source: American Institute for Economic Research
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