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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y., Feb. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Cupid.com/PreDating (www.cupid.com/predating), North America's largest speed dating company, will hold simultaneous speed dating events in more than 100 North American cities on February 12, 2008 during which one male and one female attendee will be chosen for the "ultimate blind date." Eric P. Straus, President & CEO of Cupid.com said, "As thousands of Cupid.com Pre-Daters will attest, speed dating is a really fun event. In recognition of Cupid's ultimate holiday, we want to find the hottest male and female speed dater in the country and match them in a blind date in Las Vegas." Bill Cloutier, Executive Vice President of Cupid.com commented, "This very special speed dating event will enable thousands of singles to meet their special Valentine.
Black Singles Meet Online Over Greens and Cornbread
GreensandCornbread.com is a premiere online dating site for African Americans. Carlton Enoch the sties creator has found a creative way to target the growing market of minority singles looking for love online. African Americans are very passionate about soul food. Soul food represents a down home quality and triggers warm and loving memories. .
DVD Report
Look at some of the other geopolitically minded movies meriting only capsule reviews on this page, then look at "Elah," and there's no questioning Haggis's storytelling smarts. He has a weakness for overdone statement at times; bookend sequences in which Hank gruffly raises a schoolyard American flag stick out unnecessarily. But there's also a fair amount here that's unexpected. Jones could easily be on curmudgeon auto-pilot, but instead he and Haggis make Hank a man who's crustily driven but also crushed in a way he won't admit to himself. It's a vital, vastly more effective character choice. Extras: A 45-minute production segment underscores that the filmmakers are against the war, not the troops, as it chats with the movie's young soldiers - some of them actual former servicemen - and a father whose story served as an inspiration.
Internet Family Sues MySpace After Teen Commits Suicide
While the Internet has a wealth of good things going for it, there are some bad points as well. Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook illustrate these points well. Most users of MySpace and Facebook use the sites as they were intended -- a place to meet friends and find like-minded people to chat with and make new friends. However, both Facebook and MySpace have had problems with sexual predators preying on unsuspecting children using the sites. DailyTech reported earlier this month that Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl, had committed suicide after a cyber-bully tormented her on her MySpace page. In the case of Meier, the local district attorney said charges were unlikely to be filed. The Dallas Morning News reports that another young girl, a 14-year-old identified only as Julie Doe from California killed herself in July of 2006 after being sexually assaulted by a 30-year-old man that she had met on MySpace named Kiley Ryan Bowers.
Another Front on Accreditation
The decision, which will be formally announced in a Federal Register notice on Friday, offers yet another sign that the department plans to move aggressively, on many fronts, to carry out the recommendations of the Secretary of Education’s Commission on the Future of Higher Education. .
Island price-rise fears as Malta and Cyprus join the eurozone
The Maltese lira and Cypriot pound became the latest European currencies to disappear as the two small island members of the European Union embraced the euro from today. Their entry into the eurozone means that 15 of the EU’s 27 countries and 320 million of its 495 million citizens are now using the single currency, which was introduced six years ago. For Cypriots, the changeover will end a tradition that stretches back to 1879, when the Cypriot pound became legal tender. It maintained parity with sterling for the next 80 years. The Maltese lira is of more recent origin, dating from 1973. Both countries have been preparing consumers and companies for the event for months. It has been compulsory to display prices in the national currency and the euro since July in Malta and since September in Cyprus.
Big block at end gives Gilbert boys BL crown
Second-seeded Gilbert, 21-2, bounced back from a 14-4 first-quarter deficit with an all-court, harassing defense, sturdy work under the boards and six 3-pointers.The top-seeded Cowboys, 19-3, went through the second and third periods scoring just nine points. At the same time, led by the outside shooting of Jim Bunel and Adam Vaccari, the Yellowjackets slowly built a lead that reached 40-31 with four minutes left in the game.To their credit, the Cowboys, who beat Gilbert twice during the regular season, mounted a furious comeback and had a shot to win or tie as time ran out. But Gilbert's Diego Cevallos, who came into the contest with only 15 seconds left when Bunel fouled out, blocked Tim Deacon's shot in the paint to secure the win. .
An Altar Beyond Olympus For A Deity Pre-Dating Zeus
Before Zeus hurled his first thunderbolt from Olympus, the pre-Greek people occupying the land presumably paid homage and offered sacrifices to their own gods and goddesses, whose nature and identities are unknown to scholars today. Archaeologists say they have now found the ashes, bones and other evidence of animal sacrifices to some pre-Zeus deity on the summit of Mount Lykaion, in the region of Greece known as Arcadia. The remains were uncovered last summer at an altar later devoted to Zeus. Fragments of a coarse, undecorated pottery in the debris indicated that the sacrifices might have been made as early as 3000 B.C., the archaeologists concluded. That was about 900 years before Greek-speaking people arrived, probably from the north in the Balkans, and brought their religion with them.
Mall Gunman Admitted He was Satanic, Attempted Suicide
OMAHA, Neb. The teen gunman who killed eight people and himself in a mall this month once told social workers he was satanic and acknowledged that he often acted before thinking of the consequences, according to newly released court records. Robert Hawkins' file includes hundreds of pages of court transcripts, drug tests and letters from caseworkers, therapists and family members. They give the clearest picture yet of a young man who told a therapist in April 2005 that "he is not sure if there is a God or life after death and that when he dies, he'll probably go to hell." More than two years later, on Dec. 5, the 19-year-old Hawkins walked into a department store in the Westroads Mall and shot 11 people, then committed suicide. Click here to see photos of the victims Click here to watch video: Witness Recalls Shooting Click here for more about the eight victims .
Hip-Hop Rumors: Fun Flicks From The Grammys!
If all goes Jay-Z's way, the rap mogul will tie rock legend Elvis for the most number one albums in history, a feat that depends on the success of the rapper's American Gangster album. Jay-Z, born Shawn Carter, landed his ninth number one album last year with Kingdom Come, which sold about 680,000 in its first week, the rapper's best to date. The Kingdom Come album put Jay-Z in a tie with another iconic rock act, The Rolling Stones, who have landed number nine number one albums throughout their 40-year career. If Jay-Z's American Gangster sells well, only The Beatles would have offered the music world more number one albums, with an incredible 19. American Gangster's main opposition include Cassidy's highly anticipated album B.A.R.S.
Upcoming performance in Lyceum Series gets jazzed up
Mississippi State students have an opportunity to experience the native sounds of New Orleans Tuesday as the Preservation Hall Jazz Band will perform at Lee Hall auditorium. Preservation Hall Jazz Band is named for a venue in the New Orleans French Quarter. The building was founded in 1961, and according to the band's Web site it is one of the "last pure musical experiences left on Earth" due to its noncommercial characteristics.
The band itself has been touring since 1963, and is a collection of musicians who meet up regularly at Preservation Hall to perform.
"The band that's going to be here Tuesday is made up of artists that one way or another associate with the actual building," said Lyceum series graduate assistant Russell Huntley.
The band will include two primary vocalists, a trombone, a bass, a drummer, a piano and a banjo.
You have 24 extra hours to fill this year - here are 29 ways you could ...
Here are some more movie-type ideas for Friday. Have a: • Boleyn day. Catch the opening of "The Other Boleyn Girl" (review, Page 9). Natalie Portman is Anne, Scarlett Johansson is Mary and Eric Bana is King Henry, who, we believe, gets all big and green whenever he's angry. Then rent the first season of "The Tudors." Or simply find some naughty sisters to hang out with. • Flint day. "Semi-Pro" was filmed in Flint. Watch it and then rent other Flint films - especially "Roger and Me" and highlights from the 2000 NCAA basketball championship. • A REAL Flint day. Drive (carefully) to Flint and see "Semi-Pro" there. • Or just catch all the new movies at once - "Semi-Pro," "The Other Boleyn Girl" and "Penelope." It will require some attitude adjustments.
Tigger, one-eyed gator, cat urine top another weird Florida year
There was the battle over Anna Nicole Smith's body, the Largo city manager who was fired after he became a she, the University of Florida student who shouted "Don't Tase me, bro!" as officers Tasered him during a John Kerry event and the astronaut love triangle involving the woman who drove 1,000 miles, allegedly using diapers to save time, to confront a romantic rival.But there was more. So much more.Like Tigger, who is becoming the "Teflon Don" of costumed characters. A few years after beating the rap on a groping charge, Tigger was accused of hitting a boy at Walt Disney World, and the 14-year-old's father turned over video to prove it. Still, investigators decided not to pursue charges.He wasn't the only celebrity that had a run in with the law. According to a police report, two-time NASCAR Busch Series champion Martin Truex Jr.
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