Pub gets UWSA bailout despite 'obscene amount' owing By Michal Tellos
News Editor August 26, 2009 On August 4, the UWSA Board of Directors (BOD) approved a $20,000 loan to the Pub in order to open in the fall.
 This recent bailout raised the total loan amount for the current fiscal year to $32,000, down from $55,000 last year.
The UWSA grants the UNIWIN Pub Inc. - the legal name for the pub - a loan that is called working capital, and the goal is to at least break even, that is, to pay the loan back.
Each year, the pub has not been able to pay the loan back, and the total debts are somewhere near $800,000.
On the surface, this does not seem like a profitable business model, but vice-president of finance Aaron Campbell believes that it is not that simple, he argues that it’s all in the perception. >> | Finding freedom in Windsor - not quite By Michal Tellos
News Editor August 26, 2009 The land of the free may be the U.S., just don’t try and leave.
Since April, Pete Eyre and Jason Talley have been traveling together, under the guise of the Motor Home Diaries (MHD) searching for freedom in North America.
Eyre and Talley met while working at a libertarian think tank in Washington, D.C., and they soon agreed that they could have a much bigger impact through a project such as MHD.
Shortly after, they split the cost of a used motor home, repainted it, and hit the road with the message that individuals should be free to act so long as they don’t initiate force against another.
The group has met with thousands of people across America, and has received support from many different political groups and individuals, including Republican congressman Ron Paul of Texas. >> | Move over HAL, ANN says who's hot or not By Michal Tellos
News Editor August 26, 2009 While hotornot.com may have been a lot of fun in Grade 12 computer science class, it may now be obsolete.
UWindsor student and researcher Josh Chauvin, a double-major in psychology and philosophy, has developed a computer program that judges the attractiveness of a human being.
The program utilizes an artificial neural network (ANN), which is pattern recognition software somewhat similar to the architecture of the brain.
Chauvin sought to provide evidence for the idea that assessments of attractiveness are biologically inherent, rather than objective.
ANN was trained by gathering 50 images of men and 50 images of women, and then having a subsequent 100 people rate the images on a scale of one to 10. >> |
