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CountDeMoney

#225
March 22, 2009, 09:19:59 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 22, 2009, 11:12:54 AM
Posting CdM's home address?

Not quite, although there's quite a few doors around there that probably still have my boot prints on them.

FunkMonk

#226
March 22, 2009, 09:25:00 PM
Quote from: The Nickname Who Was Thursday on March 22, 2009, 09:07:05 PM
The Internet has finally jumped the shark: Uncle Adolf & the Sexy Nazi Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otjftcsJ--k&feature=rec-HM-r2
I lol'ed, and then I lol'ed some more.  :D
Person. Woman. Man. Camera. TV.

Josquius

#227
March 23, 2009, 09:34:28 AM
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Savonarola

#228
March 23, 2009, 12:00:56 PM
The official mouth piece of the US Communist party will soon be no more  :(

QuoteUpdated: Ann Arbor News to close in July
by The Ann Arbor News
Monday March 23, 2009, 9:18 AM
http://annarbor.com/


The Ann Arbor News will cease publication in July. A new company, AnnArbor.com, will be launched at that time.

The Ann Arbor News will close in July after publishing as the city's daily newspaper since 1835, publisher Laurel Champion announced today.

Heavy losses in revenue drove the decision. Champion said the current "business model is not sustainable."

"This isn't about abandoning local journalism, it's about serving it up in a very different way," Champion told employees.

A new Web-based media company called AnnArbor.com LLC will be launched later this year. In addition to publishing continuously online, AnnArbor.com will publish a print edition twice a week.

Champion, who will be executive vice president of AnnArbor.com, told News employees they can apply for positions with the new company, although job losses are inevitable.

"We have an extremely talented staff at The Ann Arbor News, and they have done a tremendous job through very difficult times," Champion said in a letter to readers. "There is nothing they did or didn't do that would have sustained our seven-day print business model."

Employees gathered in a first floor conference room at 9 a.m. on Monday to hear Champion's announcement. There was an audible gasp when she told workers that the newspaper would close, and some people could be seen wiping tears from their eyes.

Afterward, reporters, editors and photographers appeared dazed as they huddled in groups to discuss the news. Ed Petykiewicz, editor of The News, looked visibly shaken as he paced the newsroom. Several times he could be seen removing his glasses to rub his eyes.

On Friday, Petykiewicz announced he would retire from The News this spring after more than 20 years with the company.

Many people in the community said they were shocked to hear the news as well.

"My biggest worry is is there going to be an adequate amount of news that will get out to the community," said Ann Arbor City Council Stephen Rapundalo. "It is a serious concern of mine."

"I sort of have tears in my eyes," said Joan Lowenstein, a former City Council member who currently serves on the Downtown Development Authority board as well as the City Planning Commission. Lowenstein is a lawyer who once represented The News.

"First of all, citizens find out about government from reading the newspaper, but government officials also find out what is happening with the citizens by reading the newspaper.

"You lose that kind of mirror as a government official. Citizens will lose the ability to follow all kinds of information."

Employees at The News will be given a severance package. Meetings were scheduled on Monday and Tuesday for current News employees to meet with Matt Kraner, president of AnnArbor.com, to discuss the new company and its job openings.

Kraner, formerly chief marketing officer of The Plain Dealer in Cleveland, was named president and chief executive officer of AnnArbor.com, and Tony Dearing, former editor of the Flint Journal who also served as business editor and managing editor of The Ann Arbor News in the 1990s, was named chief content leader.

Champion described AnnArbor.com as an innovative, community news and information service. AnnArbor.com also will produce a twice-a-week newspaper, published on Thursday and Sunday and a total-market coverage product once a week.

The Ann Arbor News will continue publishing a daily newspaper through July, she said.

Champion said AnnArbor.com will be more than a Web site with articles. For example, social networking features will allow for real-time conversations, reporters will be equipped to report news as it happens, and reader input will drive features on the site.

Community forums about AnnArbor.com will occur Thursday, April 2 at the Campus Inn at 2 p.m. and on Friday, April 3 at Weber's Inn at 10 a.m. Information on additional forums will be posted on AnnArbor.com.

In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

garbon

#229
March 23, 2009, 02:43:41 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on March 22, 2009, 09:13:29 PM
Looks like an ad for some sort of nigger art gallery.  I think.

Last year's 20-something curator:


"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

fhdz

#230
March 23, 2009, 02:48:40 PM
Quote from: garbon on March 23, 2009, 02:43:41 PM
Last year's 20-something curator:



He's making an Adam Sandler face.
and the horse you rode in on

Ed Anger

#231
March 23, 2009, 04:43:04 PM
My neighborhood is being invaded by emo skateboard punks going up and down the street.

I may have to employ countermeasures.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

jimmy olsen

#232
March 23, 2009, 04:45:41 PM
Landmines?
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Ed Anger

#233
March 23, 2009, 04:48:24 PM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on March 23, 2009, 04:45:41 PM
Landmines?

Closing the gates.  I know the fuckers are going to get on the property. And nothing pisses me off more than skakeboarders using my driveway for their lame ass board flipping tricks.

Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Neil

#234
March 23, 2009, 05:59:36 PM
Why not just get a cop to show up and beat them to death.  Cops hate skateboarders.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Ed Anger

#235
March 23, 2009, 06:33:08 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 23, 2009, 05:59:36 PM
Why not just get a cop to show up and beat them to death.  Cops hate skateboarders.

They are too busy hanging out on Interstates and State Routes writing tickets.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Barrister

#236
March 23, 2009, 06:38:39 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 23, 2009, 05:59:36 PM
Why not just get a cop to show up and beat them to death.  Cops hate skateboarders.

Not really.  I think most cops would prefer kids to be skateboarding, cuz otherwise they tend to be drinking / doing drugs...
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

Ed Anger

#237
March 23, 2009, 06:45:34 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2009, 06:38:39 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 23, 2009, 05:59:36 PM
Why not just get a cop to show up and beat them to death.  Cops hate skateboarders.

Not really.  I think most cops would prefer kids to be skateboarding, cuz otherwise they tend to be drinking / doing drugs...

They can go to the park, where the taxpayers generously built a skate park for them instead of rolling down the street with their bad haircuts and black clothes.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Neil

#238
March 23, 2009, 06:46:22 PM
Quote from: Barrister on March 23, 2009, 06:38:39 PM
Quote from: Neil on March 23, 2009, 05:59:36 PM
Why not just get a cop to show up and beat them to death.  Cops hate skateboarders.

Not really.  I think most cops would prefer kids to be skateboarding, cuz otherwise they tend to be drinking / doing drugs...
They combine the three activities.
I do not hate you, nor do I love you, but you are made out of atoms which I can use for something else.

Barrister

#239
March 23, 2009, 06:59:39 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on March 23, 2009, 04:43:04 PM
My neighborhood is being invaded by emo skateboard punks going up and down the street.

I may have to employ countermeasures.

The more I think about it the angrier this makes me.

No, not the skateboarders.

But the fact that you can have skateboarders.

I will have nearly two feet of snow in my front yard.  It still hasn't cracked above freezing.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.
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