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Why are romantic relationships driven by women?

Admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 07:06:13 +0000

London: Based on evidence from mobile phone calls and texts, a new study has found that women drive the formation of romantic relationships. According to a study of mobile phone calls, women call their spouse more than any other person, but that changes as their daughters become old enough to have children, after which they become the most important person in their lives.

Ministry to organise workshop to commemorate May 9 Stadium disaster

Admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 02:54:51 +0000

The Ministry of Youth and Sports in collaboration with the Medical Directorate of the National Sports Authority will on Wednesday, May 11, organize a training workshop on First Aid in Sports and Emergency Medical Response.

The one-day event, which forms part of activities to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the May 9 Stadium Disaster, will be held at the Media Centre of the Accra Sports Stadium.

A statement issued and signed by Akwasi Sarpong, Head of Public Relations at the Ministry, copied to GNA Sports on Monday, said the workshop will be heralded by a wreath laying ceremony at the main entrance of the Accra Sports Stadium by the Minister, Clement Kofi Humado.

After the workshop, there will be a football match between two national teams at the same venue.

The Ministry is therefore calling on bereaved families, the Supporters Union and the general public to come in their numbers to support and ensure the occasion becomes a success.

Over 100 fans lost their lives with scores injured during a Premier League match involving Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi Asante Kotoko at the Accra Sports Stadium on May 9, 2001.**

First annual online auction helps the animals

Admin — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:20:18 +0000

MAKE A bid online to help the animals.

Northern Animal Rescue Alliance, formerly called Dogs Deserve Better, is holding its first annual Mothers Day Auction this week.

All donations benefit the rescue alliance and assist with expenses such as, but not limited to: veterinary care, medications, transportation, food, supplies (ie collars, leashes, cat litter, treats, blankets, towels) and whatever else our rescued animal friends need to help them get ready for their Fur-ever homes!

Formal bidding begins today, Monday, May 7 with bids being accepted through Saturday, May 12, at 11:59 pm

Auction winners will be notified on Mothers Day, Sunday, May 13.

We thank everyone for their donations and their bids! Your contributions help us do the work that is so desperately needed in our communities.

Northern Animal Rescue Alliances Mothers Day Online Auction Fundraiser is at http://northernanimalrescuealliance.org.

Sanctuary for Unwanted Dogs Needs a New Home

Admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 07:02:23 +0000

Written by Louise Harley

On June 3rd, 50-year-old Brian Grove ? and the 42 dogs, two puppies and two cats in his care ? will be homeless. His refuge, or ?home,? now in Escobar, Argentina, near Buenos Aires, has sheltered unwanted, ?unadoptable?, elderly, ill and dying animals for the last nine years, giving them the only love and care they have ever known. The land where the refuge stands has been sold and Brian has 30 days to find new land, build a refuge and relocate; otherwise all the animals face an unthinkable fate. All the local shelters are full. In Argentina, nine out of ten dogs are homeless and their life expectancy is three years at most, when they die of hunger and disease or are poisoned, beaten to death or run over.

When Brian and his wife, Sheila, arrived in Argentina in 2003 with a collection of waifs and strays from Spain, Sheila began to help out at a large refuge. It is here that the story of ?Rescued Doggies Animal Refuge? really began. Sheila started to bring home the oldest and weakest dogs, so they could die loved and in comfort; taking pity on the most frightened and vulnerable and those rejected by other shelters, she brought home more and more. Brian always remembers Christmas 2005 in La Reja, spent quietly with 20 animal ?friends,? when Sheila turned to him and said it was her best Christmas ever.

Texts Ur Friend Sent U From NASCAR Talladega Race

Admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:35:13 +0000

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May 7, 2012 – You have this one buddy who goes to sporting events and decides its always a GREAT idea to send you tons of updates about the cool experience youre NOT having.

Well, unfortunately for you, your friend attended Sundays NASCAR race at Talladega and texted you the following updates from the track:

hay whats up man!! RACE DAY at Dega babyyyy. im still drunk from last night haha

Campground was off the CHAIN last night!!! cinco de drinko if you know what i mean!! you shoulda come with us!!

tent is soaked. Think its raining??? or might be from the ladys droolin all over me in the infield!! awww yeahhhhh

Actually it is raining. And man I couldnt get no ladys. I tried but damn! I dont get it, arent I a good-lookin dude?? dont answer that haha

saw lots o titties on talladega blvd tho!

Mostly man titties lol damn

LMAO just saw a guy in a Kyle DOUCHE shirt fall on his ass in the rain! He deserves it for liking Kyle DOUCHE!!!

haha screw you! just cause you dont have a sense of humor doesnt mean it aint a funny nickname bro

Thinkin today is the day for junior. Dale.Damn.JUNIOR!!!!!!! just stocked up on Diet Dew crap so i can say i bought it the day he won.

HAY save this text for later so I can say I CALLED IT when Junior wins, k?

just heard some chick say race is gonna be delayed. i said AWESOME cause that gives me time for more BEER

i wonder who invented beer?? I could kiss that guy. Like Ricky Bobby and the french dood!! hahaha

WUT???? Kurt DOUCHE is driving the car from Talladega Nights??? OMG hadnt heard that

wow for a second there I almost liked kurt busch. wtf is wrong with me haha

GREEEEEEEN FLAGGGGGGGGG!!!! you really should have come with us man. this is the best thing ever

Hay you watchin this man? mikey waltrip is winning!!! i love mikey, man. dude is HILARIOUS. his car looks like a birthday cake ahaha

do you hear the storm a comin…….??? Its JUNIOR TIME AT DEGA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUNIOR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HE IS WINNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! gahhhhhhhhhhhh

I TOLD YOU!!!!!!!!! THIS IS THE DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, shit. he fell back to like 24th.

think i might root for the Ricky bobby car. i mean, this doesnt mean I have to like kurt douche forever right? just for today i think its OK. right?

haha this is awesome!!!! just heard kurt busch say Shake n bake!!!!! that just happened

oh f you man, i am not a kurt busch fan now. u suck. I TOLD u just for TODAY

HAY have you seen me on TV yet? im wearing a green Dick Dew hat

*DIET Dew not dick. stupid autocorrect

damn WTF, no wrecks yet. this sucksss. hope theres a BIG ONE soon. as long as junior aint in it haha

aint hardly any wrecks in NASCAR lately. more like NAS-BORE, am i right?

OHHHHHHH there it is!!! I TOLD YOU it was coming!!!! big ol pileup

what r u talking about! yes I DID call it. ur a dumbass man, check ur texts!

whatever

damn the ladys look good in the stands today. cant believe ur missing this

haha brad krashalotski is winning. u watching? 30 to go!

WHAT THE HELL!!!!! Krashalotski just spun out Ricky Bobbys car!!!!! YOU SUCK KRASHALOTSKI!!!!!!

so??? i dont even know what that MEANS. you say hes cool because he tweets pics from his car? Im not even ON twitter. thats for nerds like you and krashalotski

dang looks like Matt Kenseth is going to win. FIGURES. everyone knows nascar tries to help Roush get wins because he bribes em.

What do you mean what about Richmond. u are so clueless dude, Ive been following this sport my WHOLE LIFE. pretty sure i know what im talking about

whatever. u owe me a beer when jayski reports im right

WHOAAAA huge crash!!!!! DId u see that!!! Dummy Hamlin wrecked Allmenwhatshisface. haha i dunno how to spell it.

man ur really starting to PISS ME OFF. I dont CARE what you saw on the replay. UR AT HOME. I AM HERE. AT DEGA. OK??? I SAW IT. HAMLINS FAULT GAME OVER CASE CLOSED IM RIGHT

Awwwww damn tony stewart was in it too. i like SMOKE. he puts those dumbass reporters in theyre place and always agrees with the fans. Man of the people!!!!!

green white checkered baby!!!!!! You know what THAT MEANS??? JUNIOR TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE WE GO

what happened to Junior???? hes not getting up there!!!! DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

UH OH. kyle DOUCHE is behind krashalotski!! hes gonna win from second on the last lap!!! oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit

noooooooooooooooo NOT KYLE

oh phew. well your boy Krashalotski won. well maybe hell tweet you about it, whatever the hell that means. NERDS

Hay dumbass, call me when u get tired of TWEETING people and Ill show you how to root for a REAL driver. DEW IT 88!!!

whatever

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Women’s ministry under fire for increase in witch camps

Admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:29:58 +0000

A human rights advocacy organisation, ActionAid Ghana, says the increasing number of witch camps across the country is a failure on the part of the Ministry of Women and Children’s Affairs.

Research indicates witch camps across the country are on a consistent rise. The victims of this system are living in camps located in the communities of Gambaga, Kukuo, Gnani, Bonyasi among others, all in the northern regions of Ghana.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast show, the Country Director for ActionAid Ghana, Adwoa Kwateng-Kluvitse, said the ministry promised to dis-ban the camps.

“It is now six months into the year and there has still been no action” she said. She added that Ghanaians should support the advocacy for the close down of witch camps. “The key thing is for the general public to disabuse themselves of this perception of alleged witchcraft.”

She called on the general public to support human right advocacy groups to ‘ask’ the women and children affairs ministry to ban the witch camps.

There are currently six alleged witch camps located in the Northern Regions with over 3000 women and children residing in them. Also living in the camps, are about a 1000 girls who accompanied the old women as attendants.**

Big Sporting Events Find New Frontiers

Admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 02:48:25 +0000

When the Summer Olympics open in July with the lighting of the caldron in London, it will mark the return of one of the world’s greatest sporting events to one of global sport’s traditional strongholds.

Fighting to Keep World Sports a Fair Game
(April 25, 2012)

This will be the third time that London has staged the Games — it was also the host in 1908 and 1948 — and the British capital will hold the 2017 world athletics championships in the city’s new Olympic stadium. But London is, in fact, running counter to an unmistakable trend.

The world’s biggest sporting events are gravitating, at least for now, away from traditional sites like London and in the direction of emerging powers and economies.

“The biggest challenge I think going forward is for the maturer cities to be able to really define their narrative in the face of the quite compelling narratives that are being created elsewhere,” Sebastian Coe, the chairman of the London Organizing Committee, said in an interview this week. “Because the narrative at the moment that is clearly holding sway is: This is an area we’ve never been to before, this is our chance to really drive legacy, drive engagement within the movement and help young people into sport.”

A study by the Danish Institute for Sports Studies last year explored the shifting balance of bidding power and focused on five major events: Summer and Winter Olympics, the World Cup in men’s soccer and both the swimming and the athletics world championships.

From 1990 to 1999, these major events were staged 16 times. Fourteen of them were held in “Western countries,” taken by the Danish study to mean Western Europe, Australia and North America. Two were in Japan.

From 2000 to 2009, the figures were similar, with 12 of the 16 big events in Western countries, two in Japan and one — the 2008 Summer Olympics — in China. Japan and South Korea also co-hosted the 2002 soccer World Cup.

But this decade will be radically different, with the West becoming a minority player in the major event business.

“More and more countries and cities as they come of age are saying, ‘You know what? That big-event agenda? We’re now ready for it,”’ said Michael Payne, the former marketing director for the International Olympic Committee. “There’s an appreciation of what it can do for the economy, the country. Whereas in the past, it was perhaps the exclusive remit of the Western world, you’ve got more and more countries with the resources and the understanding that gives them the ability to go for it.

“Now that’s not to say you’re never coming back to Europe or North America or Tokyo,” he added. “But I think it does mean the sports bodies, given a choice and all things being equal, will be interested in exploring a new territory.”

Not every major championship has yet been awarded, but it looks, above all, like the decade of countries like Brazil, Russia, China and South Korea. Brazil, in an unprecedented back-to-back double, will stage the 2014 World Cup and then the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which will be the first Olympics staged in South America. Russia will have the 2013 world athletics championships in Moscow, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, the 2015 world swimming championships in Kazan, and the 2018 soccer World Cup.

China had the world swimming championships in Shanghai last year and will have the 2015 world athletics championships in Beijing. South Korea had the world athletics championships in Daegu last year and in 2018 will host its first Winter Olympics, in Pyeongchang.

“I think there are two important points,” said Ricardo Leyser, secretary for high-performance sports in the Brazilian Ministry of Sports. “The first point is that now these emerging countries are not afraid to bid, so for the first time some countries are bidding and bidding in a serious way. The second point is that we have a connection between the development of the economy and sport.

“In Brazil, for example, we probably now have 10 times more money and budget for sports than 20 years ago,” he added. “It’s a big change. And you see sports in Brazil since probably 2002, every aspect has had a big jump. The activities are increasing in an amazing way, and I think that it’s a consequence of the economic development.”

Seeing-Eye Dog Guides Disabled Friend (VIDEO)

Admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:20:48 +0000

(ANIMAL FRIENDS) Blair, a rescued black lab, is guiding Tanner, a blind golden retriever with a seizure problem. The two shelter dogs bonded after Blair seemed to notice Tanners handicap. Tanner even started having less violent seizures less often, and Blair has become more sociable. The rescue organization is now hoping to find someone to adopt them together. Watch the video to see them play together! – Global Animal

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A lucky homeless dog has been given a whole new lease of life by another stray mutt.

Two-year-old Tanner was born blind and has a seizure disorder.

He was sent to Sooner Golden Retriever Rescue organization, Oklahoma City, after his owner died.

Due to the stress of his loss, his seizures became worse, making him hard to look after as he would defecate and urinate when fitting.

Local vet, Mike Jones of Woodland West Animal Hospital, Tulsa, told ABC News he even recommended putting the dog down, to relieve Tanner of his and his caretakers misery.

Fortunately for young Tanner, Blair, a one-year-old black labrador, has shown uncanny empathy for his new friend and now has taken the role as his guide.

Staff say the dogs bond is extraordinary.

ADOPTABLE PET: Animal Friends of the Valleys

Admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:08:36 +0000

Animals name: Cookie

Animal ID: 160213

Breed: Domestic short hair

Age: 2 years

Color: Grey and white

About the animal: Cookie is an unaltered female. She is good with people and likes to sit in your lap. She was named Cookie cause she loves animal cookies. She might do best in a mature home.

Agency: Animal Friends of the Valleys

Location: 33751 Mission Trail, Wildomar, CA 92595

Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 10 am to 4 pm; Wednesday 10 am to 7 pm; and Saturday 10 am to 5 pm and the third Sunday of each month from noon to 4 pm

Information: 951-674-0618 or 951-471-8344 or www.animalfriendsofthevalleys.com

Taboo Topics in Professional Wrestling

Admin — Wed, 16 May 2012 02:05:21 +0000

She is a terrific heel. Those who I have spoken with who have worked with her say she is a sweetheart. It still doesnt take away that there is a taboo conversation, amongst fans at least, of her being in the WWE only because of the passing of her husband Eddie Guerrero.

I think the fact WWE seems to have given her a lifetime contract to be a part of the WWE family is great. The taboo conversations also stem from her on-screen romantic relationships with male wrestlers as well as curiosity on possible real-life relationships.

Again, never quite grasped this because its not uncommon for someone to have relationships after a spouse passes.

I suppose the dynamic that her husband was a public figure, who suddenly passed, then she gets thrust into the public eye to make her living as an annoying cougar character is a little different from the mom down the street dating the guy at the supermarket after her husband dies.