French Open Final Set for 7AM Monday

With Rafael Nadal trying to protect a 6-4, 6-3, 2-6, 1-2 lead over a surging Novak Djokovic, who's seeded No. 1. A tarp was pulled over the court, and after another hour or so, the decision was made to stop for the day and resume Monday.

Nadal and Djokovic were scheduled to resume at 1 p.m. local time (7 a.m. EDT) on Monday, when the forecast calls for intermittent rain. NBC, which aired Sunday's action, said Monday's U.S. TV coverage will shift to NBC Sports Network, a cable channel in about 35 million fewer homes than the broadcast network. It also will be streamed online at NBCSports.com.

'Slutty Wednesday' at One High School in New York

To protest the school's new dress code, students at Stuyvesant High School in New York City took a stand against the administration. Last week, nearly 100 students participated in a student-organized "Slutty Wednesday" protest.

The students- both boy and girls took to the streets of lower Manhattan in revealing clothing, with flyers that read, "Redress the Dress Code."

It still remains to be scene if the protest was a success.

The much discussed dress code bans the exposure of midriffs, visible underwear, shoulders and lower backs, and mandated that the hemlines of all shorts, skirts and dresses fall below the line of the fingertips. It also prohibits students from wearing articles of clothing with images or words deemed inappropriate.

Freshman Lucy Greider, who claims that she’s been sent to the office 10 times this year for dress code violations, told the New York Post: “We work our a**es off here and school is about learning. Clothing is not important."

The administration has a different perspective on the matter. Principal Stanley Teitel told a student resporter from the Stuyvesant Spectator that the new dress code was put into place because students were wearing inappropriate clothing to school last fall.

Stanley Teitel
“The bottom line is, some things are a distraction," said Teitel. "And we don’t need to distract students from what is supposed to be going on here, which is learning.”

The students at this school are above-average students and do well on standardized tests, they didn't appear to be too distracted.

Maybe it was the teachers and staff that were distracted.

If nothing else, it gives us another reason to call Wednesday, "Hump Day."

Wildfires Spread Out West

Firefighters in Colorado and New Mexico are battling wind-fueled wildfires that are moving fast through parched forests, forcing scores of evacuations and destroying or damaging numerous structures.

A blaze in northern Colorado was first reported Saturday morning and had grown to about 8,000 acres by mid-evening, while a fire in southern New Mexico was small for a few days until it began growing Friday, reaching about 10,000 acres.

Both fires have damaged property and forced numerous evacuations, but officials haven't yet released specific figures on the numbers who fled.

The wildfire in the mountainous Paradise Park area, about 20 miles northwest of Fort Collins, prompted several dozen evacuation orders.

Larimer County Sheriff's Office spokesman John Schulz said the fire expanded rapidly during the late afternoon and evening and by Saturday night, residents living along several roads in the region had been ordered to evacuate and many more were warned that they might have to flee. An evacuation center has been set up at a Laporte middle school.

Officials didn't specify how many residents had evacuated but said they had sent out 800 emergency notifications urging people to be prepared to evacuate if necessary.

Wind was also playing a major role in the expansion of a lightning-sparked blaze in New Mexico's Lincoln National Forest that jumped its containment lines and raced through thick conifer forests. Fire managers said 20 structures were damaged or destroyed.

Spanning only a few acres on Wednesday, the Little Bear fire began to grow Friday and by Saturday afternoon about 10,000 acres had been charred northwest of the mountain community of Ruidoso.

Atlanta Should Try and Lure E3 From L.A.

With word out that the E3 show may not return to Southern California, Atlanta should try and get the show back.

E3 was once held in Atlanta as well as Tokyo and Santa Monica, CA.

Michael Gallagher, president of the Entertainment Software Association, has said that if issues with the construction of Farmer’s Field are not resolved immediately, he may be forced to hold the trade show elsewhere. Although Gallagher did not comment directly on what other cities he has been in talks with.

With the L.A. Convention Center possible out of commission for 2013, this show should come back east.

“We need assurance on things like square footage, the quality of the space, the ease of loading and unloading equipment, signage throughout the convention center for marketing and sponsorships,” Gallagher said. “We love being in Los Angeles, but we also have a show to put on.”

With the summer months being slow for tradeshows and conventions in Atlanta, this would be a perfect show for the World Congress Center and the Georgia Dome.

I'm sure all the hotels, restaurants and businesses in Downtown Atlanta, Midtown and Buckhead would agree.

Encyclopedia Britannica to Aid Bing Search

The Encyclopedia Britannica is trying to remain relevant, so they going the way of Bing.

Microsoft’s search engine, just entered into a partnership with Encyclopedia Britannica to provide Britannica Online answers directly on the Bing results page as part of Bing’s answers feature.

The internet has displaced the need for books, to some degree, and Encyclopedia Britannica and its 32-volume printed edition felt that pressure. The company ceased its print edition in March and said it would focus on selling its established reference works to subscribers online, as well as mobile platforms such as smartphones and tablets.

Mobile will be the next hurdle where Encyclopedia Britannica will need to stay relevant. “We’re living in an increasingly non-PC world,” says Pidgeon. “Smartphones are going to leapfrog PCs. The best thing to do is a web-based strategy, which would work on a mobile web browser.”