<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Texas state Senator Royce West gives convention center hotel sales pitch : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Texas state Senator Royce West gives convention center hotel sales pitch : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-19T03:42:59+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Texas state Senator Royce West gives convention center hotel sales pitch]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/66840/1/" /><id>66840</id><summary><![CDATA[Texas state Senator Royce West gives convention center hotel sales pitch]]></summary><issued>2008-06-26T15:53:52+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-26T15:53:52+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The controversial convention center hotel plan in Dallas has support from most local politicians, including state Senator Royce West, who has a hard time answering a question about the project.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/60328/1/" /><id>60328</id><summary><![CDATA[Senator: China plans to spy on Olympic hotel guests]]></summary><issued>2008-05-01T20:15:25+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-01T20:15:25+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Senate lawmaker accused the Chinese government on Thursday of ordering U.S.-owned hotels in China to install Internet filters that can spy on international visitors coming to see the summer Olympic games.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Democratic Convention &quot;Coming&quot; To Denver ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/49372/1/" /><id>49372</id><summary><![CDATA[The Democratic Convention &quot;Coming&quot; To Denver ]]></summary><issued>2008-02-04T11:18:56+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-04T11:18:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Cities Businesses are expected to thrive, profits sore, but the one industry that is really going to take off, The Sex Business. Prostitutes are traveling into the city, as the 35,000 guests that arrive during a convention always drive up the illegal sex services. <br/><br/>(Dont worry Dems, the Republican Convention does it too...)]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Man rips head off tame duck that lived in hotel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36539/1/" /><id>36539</id><summary><![CDATA[Man rips head off tame duck that lived in hotel]]></summary><issued>2007-09-24T08:19:32+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-24T08:19:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Scott D. Clark, a guest at the Embassy Suites Hotel in St. Paul, cornered the duck early Saturday morning, grabbed the bird and ripped its head from its body while a hotel security guard and others watched. Clark then turned to onlookers and said: &quot;I'm hungry. I'm gonna eat it.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beatles-themed Hard Days Night Hotel opens in Liverpool]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/49172/1/" /><id>49172</id><summary><![CDATA[Beatles-themed Hard Days Night Hotel opens in Liverpool]]></summary><issued>2008-02-01T15:06:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-01T15:06:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Visitors to Liverpool, birthplace of the Beatles, can rest their heads in the Lennon or McCartney suites at the Fab Four-themed Hard Days Night Hotel that opened Friday.<br/><br/>Hotel's website: <div style='display:block;width:300px;overflow:hidden;'><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.harddaysnighthotel.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.harddaysnighthotel.com/</a></div>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[State senator caught speeding in school zone]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/57852/1/" /><id>57852</id><summary><![CDATA[State senator caught speeding in school zone]]></summary><issued>2008-04-10T23:59:39+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-10T23:59:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Senator John Goedde sponsored a bill to sharply increase fines in Idaho for speeding in school zones...<br/><br/>...Can you see where this is going?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[California State Parks - Top Picks]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/20559/1/" /><id>20559</id><summary><![CDATA[California State Parks - Top Picks]]></summary><issued>2007-05-17T00:31:21+01:00</issued><modified>2007-05-17T00:31:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gorgeous pictures of top california State parks]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[&quot;Houston, We Have A Problem&quot; Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17240/1/" /><id>17240</id><summary><![CDATA[&quot;Houston, We Have A Problem&quot; Again - Gunman and Hostage Dead at Johnson Space Center]]></summary><issued>2007-04-20T18:08:08+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-20T18:08:08+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Gunman kills one male hostage and then himself. Police say the gunman had a hand gun. <br/><br/>5:25pm EST<br/><br/>Isn't NASA a secured facility? Apparently not.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Beatles Hotel gets mixed reviews]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/50014/1/" /><id>50014</id><summary><![CDATA[Beatles Hotel gets mixed reviews]]></summary><issued>2008-02-09T20:16:05+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-09T20:16:05+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Costing some &#163;22 million, the Hard Days Night <i>(sic)</i> hotel in Liverpool is now open.  The low key Beatles styling has impressed some (such as in the article linked) but not others, as <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/news/article3333497.ece" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">evinced</a> here.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Space Invaders attack the World Trade Center]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/73092/1/" /><id>73092</id><summary><![CDATA[Space Invaders attack the World Trade Center]]></summary><issued>2008-08-21T11:28:13+01:00</issued><modified>2008-08-21T11:28:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The artist, Douglas Edric Stanley, <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://kotaku.com/5039580/artist-explains-wtc-space-invaders-exhibit-at-games-convention" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">explains his reason </a>for the art installation at a games convention. More from <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.abstractmachine.net/blog/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">his website</a> including video link.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Hotel offers smashing good time]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/26288/1/" /><id>26288</id><summary><![CDATA[Hotel offers smashing good time]]></summary><issued>2007-07-05T10:49:13+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-05T10:49:13+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Madrid hotel combined its need to refurbish its rooms and stressed-out city residents' need for an outlet, letting them take sledgehammers to their rooms and demolish it.<br/><br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/world/l/26095/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">DUPE</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Veteran Alaskan senator indicted]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/70496/1/" /><id>70496</id><summary><![CDATA[Veteran Alaskan senator indicted]]></summary><issued>2008-07-29T15:31:21+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-29T15:31:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A senator is actually being indicted for receiving and hiding gifts including renovations on his home. Only shocking thing here is why only he and not the rest of the senate is being indicted. None of them are innocent.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Soldier Refused Room At Hotel]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/74848/1/" /><id>74848</id><summary><![CDATA[Soldier Refused Room At Hotel]]></summary><issued>2008-09-04T08:37:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-09-04T08:37:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[So you're on leave from a tour of duty in Afghanistan and go to visit a wounded colleague and go to book in at a hotel only to be told, &quot;Sorry we don't accept military personnel&quot;.<br/><br/>___________________________________________<br/>*UPDATE* <br/><a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/7598523.stm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hotel says that</a>, &quot;the hotel had in recent months &quot;experienced some rather serious incidents&quot; resulting from the stay of personnel from a local barracks and staff had been requested to be &quot;cautious&quot; in taking future bookings from the armed forces.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Las Vegas Hotel Reviews]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/23761/1/" /><id>23761</id><summary><![CDATA[Las Vegas Hotel Reviews]]></summary><issued>2007-06-13T21:39:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-06-13T21:39:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Traveling to Las Vegas is usually exciting. It can be even better if you plan ahead a little and set things up around your budget, entertainment needs and location. Hotels in Las Vegas run from skanky cheap to absurdly extravagant.<br/><br/>Why settle for what your convention planners recommend, or the easiest hotel to find.  A trip to Vegas is worth taking the time to plan a few things.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[World Trade Center won't be rebuilt by 2011]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/67296/1/" /><id>67296</id><summary><![CDATA[World Trade Center won't be rebuilt by 2011]]></summary><issued>2008-07-01T05:25:53+01:00</issued><modified>2008-07-01T05:25:53+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Reconstruction of the World Trade Center site is over budget and won't be finished by the 10th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that destroyed the twin towers, the owners reported Monday.<br/><br/>&quot;The rebuilding effort is not where it should be,&quot; says New York Gov. David Paterson.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bear takes dip with hotel guests]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/science/l/64909/1/" /><id>64909</id><summary><![CDATA[Bear takes dip with hotel guests]]></summary><issued>2008-06-10T05:29:50+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-10T05:29:50+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Guests at a hotel in Ouray, Colo., said they were surprised when a &quot;cute, little cinnamon bear&quot; walked onto hotel grounds and got into the pool with them.  <br/><br/>&quot;We're doing what we can to keep our guests safe,&quot; said the general manager.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The West Wing, Obama, and Plagiarism]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/52489/1/" /><id>52489</id><summary><![CDATA[The West Wing, Obama, and Plagiarism]]></summary><issued>2008-02-28T19:35:03+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-28T19:35:03+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;Obama did not plagiarize his whole campaign from Jimmy Smits fictional campaign on The West Wing. No, no, The West Wing plagiarized Obama's campaign from the future.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Two-headed lamb born on West Bank]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/81039/1/" /><id>81039</id><summary><![CDATA[Two-headed lamb born on West Bank]]></summary><issued>2008-11-04T20:32:16+01:00</issued><modified>2008-11-04T20:32:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The animal, dubbed 'Holy' by its owner, was born on a refugee camp on the West Bank.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Senator Craig: &quot;I am not gay&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/33491/1/" /><id>33491</id><summary><![CDATA[Senator Craig: &quot;I am not gay&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-08-28T19:01:04+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-28T19:01:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Senator says newspaper is conducting a &quot;witchhunt.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Creative Hotel Rooms]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/48013/1/" /><id>48013</id><summary><![CDATA[Creative Hotel Rooms]]></summary><issued>2008-01-22T22:18:32+01:00</issued><modified>2008-01-22T22:18:32+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Escape from a night in jail, sleep like a vampire, or take a lovely stay in a room lined wall to wall to ceiling in mirrors...<br/><br/>These hotel rooms are amazing.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[West Nile virus kills 1, infects 27 in California ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28488/1/" /><id>28488</id><summary><![CDATA[West Nile virus kills 1, infects 27 in California ]]></summary><issued>2007-07-22T23:52:37+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-22T23:52:37+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[West Nile virus has surged in parts of California, killing one woman and infecting 27 other people, health officials said on Sunday. *gak*]]></content></entry></feed>