| A festive day safe from PC police
A walk through my child's elementary school provides a glimpse into a distant past (mine) of hallways festooned with cut-out hearts made of pink and red construction paper, placed carefully on lacy paper doilies. Inside the classrooms are the paper bags at each desk that will act as receptacles for cards and trinkets on Feb. 14. All of the flagrant decoration made me realize that Valentine's Day is still the one semi-holiday that hasn't yet been under fire from the international PC police, even though this St. Valentine guy was a bishop with the PR machine of the Catholic church behind him. The fact that Cupid doesn't wear pants presents no objections, as well. As with almost all popular modern holidays, the concept of celebrating love, lust, desire and companionship began as a pagan ritual.
Reporter: Susan Ramsett
I've been snowmobiling since 1964 and the trails have never been better for seeing our beautiful winter wonderland. The bars who support the sport are doing their best to provide their clients with food, hot drinks,gas, and a place to warm up and rest for a while. People who choose to drink and drive their snowmobiles are the ones who might do the same in a car, on a motorcyle, and even a bicycle. The cities need to make it more accessible for snowmobilers to get to restaurants, gas, motels. All we've seen on reporting is negative reporting. Clubs donate thousands of dollars in fund raisers, the sport employes thousands of people, we've seen families of 3 and 4 generations out snowmobiling. When snows are deep you'd be surpized on how many deer can walk on a trail and fill their bellies. Go for a drive past some bars and see how many drove in a car and how are they getting home after being there a few hours.
Goodbye, cruel world ...
The nomadic existence of undergrowth and ocean-dwelling is not for him: he needs a home. Each new paying resident of Second Life is offered a plot of land. Kenny chooses one on Blacktail Ridge. It is, I have to say, a disappointment: a dark and icy wasteland with a few scattered shacks. I'm reminded of my grandfather who emigrated to Australia in the Twenties on the promise of a parcel of verdant farmland in Victoria, and got there to discover he had been given some acres of waterlogged bog. He stayed for a decade. Kenny returns promptly to the beach. Good land has become so rare in Second Life that people are prepared to pay hundreds of real dollars for it. You can buy a private island for $1,250, plus a monthly charge of $195 in land fees. There are several takers. Anshe Chung, Second Life's richest avatar, owns a property empire on the site worth $250,000 (£137,000) and employs 17 real-life people.
ALLHIPHOP NEWS RUN DOWN
Music celebrities are all in LA this week getting ready for the Grammys. Yesterday began the first day of "Backstage at the Grammys." Celebrities on hand were Shawn and Kim Wayans, Chingy, Chrisette Michelle ,Tank, Lil' Mama, Rick Ross, Three Six Mafia and more. "The Trey the Chocolate Jock More Jump-off" is one of the many radio shows on hand conducting interviews and, of course, my girl morning show co-host, Kendra G. checked in with me.
Tank pretty much confirmed that the "TGT" album, (Tyrese, Ginuwine and Tank) will be out no time soon! Without naming which member Tank said in so many words that there is an ego problem going on and that the money should be split evenly amongst all three people. I can't say, but Tyrese is very excited about the project.
Dearnature.com, a Website Designed by LogoBee, Will be Online ...
Dearnature.com will be online and available to serve their clients needs September 28th. This Montreal based natural product store will be able to offer their healthy products and information about living a healthy lifestyle to clients all over the world thanks to their new e-commerce portal designed by LogoBee. .
Distance Ed’s New Market — in Spanish
An online master's program in teaching Spanish for non-Spanish speakers at the Universidad de León, in Spain seemed to fit the bill. One of about 25 master's, 60 continuing education and two Ph.D. programs offered through a decade-old, Barcelona-based international alliance that set up shop in the United States in February, the program offered the dose of global vision Pol was seeking. “This is a new, evolving field. This program specifically gives you a global perspective," Pol said. For instance, he said, like in the United States, where Spanish instructors combat the influence of “Spanglish" on more formal study of the language, in Uruguay, teachers have to deal with “Portuñol," a mixture of Portuguese and Spanish. “I never would have known that unless I spoke with a teacher that is based out of Uruguay." “They're in my class.
REMICADE(R) Becomes First Anti-TNF Biologic Therapy to Treat One ...
HORSHAM, Pa. and KENILWORTH, N.J., Nov. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Centocor, Inc., Schering-Plough Corporation, and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation announced today that an estimated one million patients have now been treated with REMICADE(R) (infliximab), the leading anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha therapy worldwide. In fact, REMICADE has been used to treat more patients worldwide than all other anti-TNF-alpha agents combined. REMICADE was the first anti-TNF-alpha treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), when it was indicated for the treatment of acute moderate to severe Crohn's disease in 1998. The indication for Crohn's disease was quickly followed by additional indications, such as rheumatoid arthritis. "Rheumatoid arthritis derailed my life," said Ellen Shmueli, RA patient.
Woman shot in neck
They're not the sort of people who will start shooting at strangers and pets for a laugh with a gun they bought anonymously from a high street shop. [quote]Get off your soapbox before you fall and injure your gob.[/quote] I would suggest you properly think things though before posting. .
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