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...ground, students ate burgers in front of the Mather table, waiting for “Crunk Time.” Every fifteen minutes, students drank to the sounds of whistles and screams as the minute hand of the “Crunk Clock” reached Crunk Time. Although Crunk Time only occurred in fifteen minute intervals, students kept drinking throughout the morning...
Apparently, there are two parts to the election software. The front end deals with the voting itself, the tabulation of results, the addition of candidates, and so on. The back end contains the Audit Log that had been assessed by the FAS IT. Hysen says he assumed that he had been removed from both ends, but it turns out that Seiler had not removed him from the back end. But Hysen swears that he didn't log in to the program and that he was too busy campaigning to have time...
...therefore predominantly white-owned construction contractors (who in turn also tend to use their preferred subcontractors) over smaller minority-owned firms that often don't have ample equipment or personnel. Those smaller companies also have trouble finding the resources to post construction bonds (money contractors must offer up front as a guarantee that a job will be finished) on larger jobs. Serge Jean-Louis, a Haitian-American contractor and president of Nicon Engineering in Coconut Creek, Fla., near Fort Lauderdale, is struggling to land stimulus-related projects in South Florida. He says federal and state officials managing the stimulus should...
Hundreds of residents of the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou took to the streets on Monday to protest plans to build a trash incinerator in their neighborhood. In front of the municipal headquarters for one of China's largest cities, it was an unusually prominent place for a civic demonstration. And rarely has a local Chinese demonstration been so conspicuous online, where activists posted photos and comments about events as they unfolded. Those messages were then relayed to a broader audience on social networking sites like Twitter, despite its block by China's web censors. While the demonstration was local...
...Guangzhou officials say they have begun an environmental assessment of the incinerator project and are accepting public opinions of the plans. But they have a long way to go before public opinion is assuaged. Wen, the blogger, described one older woman who knelt for more than two hours in front of the municipal building in protest. The crowd began to chant, 'Auntie is kneeling; mayor come out.' Wen posted the call on his Twitter account, where it repeated dozens more times during the day by Chinese users...