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If these pictures don't make you think about your future or past wedding days, nothing will....

The Campus Conference Bonfire Circle is nearly completed at a cost of less than $400,000, said Mike Ellicott, vice chancellor for facilities, planning and construction. Ellicott said chipped stonework is being repaired on the circle. The facility will be used for the first time on Homecoming night, Oct. 18. Homecoming Coordinating Committee Staff Adviser Jana Vise said the facility would benefit the tradition of Homecoming. "The benefit of the facility is that we no longer have to move the location of the bonfire ever year. We now have a permanent...

I believe the Sharp Center, a new facility that will break ground this November, is an unnecessary project. The Sharp Center is a facility that will help student athletes with their academics. What bothers me is not the fact athletes should study, but there are already sufficient facilities to help students with their studies. Is something stopping them from using the PASS Center or the university Writing Center? It is true the $4.1 million project is being funded by donations, but is there a reason we should accommodate athletes yet...

blockquote>ASPEN, Colo.--The president of media giant News Corp. warns that the Internet has become a "moral-free zone," with the medium's future threatened by pornography, spam and rampant piracy. Speaking Tuesday at an annual conference organized by the Progress & Freedom Foundation, Peter Chernin decried the "enormous amount" of worthless content online. He also predicted that without new laws to stave off illicit copying, News Corp.'s vast library of movies may never be made available in digital form. "The vast potential of broadband has so far benefited nobody as clearly as...

I watched The Majestic on DVD today and got to thinking; Hollywood has no idea what to do with DVD's. I guess it must just be there old-school way of thinking but the spectrum of cool things that DVD's could contain is almost endless. How many times have you been watching a movie and heard a song that you really liked; but were unable to find in the ending credits? Why don't they institute some sort of caption for songs? Why not have a separate menu that plays a clip...

The rally got its most energetic jolt just before 2 p.m. when Minister Louis Farrakhan, head of the Nation of Islam, gave a short speech on the need to use the money responsibly, if reparations are ever approved. "We cannot settle for some little jive token," he told the crowd. "We need millions of acres of land that black people can build." (washingtonpost)The issue of slavery reparations is daunting for many reasons. It's hard for me to say that I don't agree that reparations are due because it's going to...

julius sharpe is funny.Is there any reason boxing referees need to wear bow ties?"Oh, you two are about to pummel the bejeezus out of each other? I better put on some formalwear. But just a short sleeve shirt."Then the other two guys in the ring are wearing practically nothing at all. Nothing except satin hotpants. Two guys in underwear, one guy in bowtie and short sleeve shirt -- It looks like a gay striptease act gone horribly wrong.Maybe that's why they're fighting. How bad are things going for homeless people...

Rep. Berman claims that his proposal is narrowly tailored and intended to give copyright owners relief from "anti-hacking" laws as they try to stop copyright infringement on P2P networks. The actual language of the proposal tells a different story.The Berman P2P Bill grants copyright owners and their agents the right to break any law, state or federal, civil or criminal, in the course of "disabling, interfering with, blocking, diverting, or otherwise impairing" the availability of his or her copyrighted works on a public peer-to-peer (P2P) file trading network. This power...

A 21-year-old Texas Tech student was gunned down early this morning at a Southwest Lubbock ATM. Police responding to a shots fired call shortly before 6 a.m. found Colin Matthew Schafer who had been shot twice in the torso, police spokesman Bill Morgan said. Schafer was sitting in a Jeep Cherokee parked at the Bank of America ATM at the southeast corner of 50th Street and Slide Road, Morgan said. He was rushed to University Medical Center where he was pronounced dead at 6:20 a.m., Morgan said.this is wild. we...

Step 2: Prepare OvenWith a shovel you don't plan on using again... gather a good amount of 2000? F Lava. Try to find Lava from a recent breakout, where the Lava is fairly fluid.Once you have a shovel full, place it on the ground far enough away from the Lava field that you won't worry about having to move it....

My mama had found out that the last flight to Minnesota was boarding in 10 minutes. She and my dad live 30 minutes from the airport. The doctors kept asking me if I was coming right away. It was at least a 16-hour drive. The next flight wasn't until 6 a.m. How was I going to get there? A little after 10 p.m., I called [Vikings medical services coordinator] Fred Zamberletti and asked, "Doesn't [team owner] Red McCombs have a jet?" Fred told me they were working on it. Twenty...

I don't think enough average users really care about their rights' pertaining to the internet. When you don't know a whole lot, you're much more likely to just sit back and let the policy reign down and just follow the new rules because you don't know any better. I've been trying to figure out exactly how to explain my position about the entertainment industry's lobbying of congress to establish much more lenient rules on preventing peer to peer file sharing. You may or may not know, but a bill was...

Study: School drug plans ineffectiveThe top three programs used by schools to keep students away from drugs are either ineffective or havenít been sufficiently tested, new research suggests.Allow me to comment on this for just a second. Drug prevention programs in America have always been a joke. As for myself, the only time i really ever remember a drug education program being implemented in LISD was way back in like 3rd grade. All I really remember about it was that this police officer has this little chest of drugs and...