Youngsters who had spent their allowances on the fifty-dollar entry fee lined up for makeovers, sampled free eyeshadow, and hashtagged the results.
The Genie is the latest entry in the budget accessory maker's Eufy (that's "you-fee") line of home automation products.
Then there is a dizzying array of state and local taxes, access fees, relay fees, line charges, 911 service fees and so on.
When I was told that they rejected our compromise headline as well, I responded as follows in an email, "Frankly, if they object to the 'avoid the baggage fees' line, they need to stop charging baggage fees.
We will increase the licence fee in line with inflation to 2021/22 when there will be a new settlement".
Another invigilator said he was "quite surprised" the SQA had failed to increase the fee in line with the rise in the minimum and living wage.
The BBC has agreed to pay the £600m-plus annual cost of providing free TV licences for people aged over 75 in return for being allowed to increase the fee in line with inflation.
Just a week later the TEF story took an interesting twist, when the chancellor, George Osborne, announced that universities that "offer high-quality teaching" would be allowed to raise the cap on the £9,000 undergraduate fee in line with inflation from 2017-18.
Patten also raised the prospect that the charter renewal negotiations could see the BBC's remit reduced, which would nullify the government's promise to raise the licence fee in line with inflation if its scope and purpose remained the same.
The major objective functions consist of the electric fee saving, line loss reduction, and voltage deviation minimization.
