| Sweet, sweet music
From there I began buying up CDs like they were going out of fashion (it's like I was predicting the future…spooky). I took my friend's cue on Britpop and my collection mostly comprised artists like Pulp, Oasis, Elastica, Suede, the Charlatans, Ocean Colour Scene, Ash, Stone Roses, Supergrass, Catatonia, and so on. A short while later I began dating a boy who was a huge music nerd and he made a mix-tape for me (on actual cassette, remember those days?). On this tape were artists like Belle and Sebastian, the Auteurs, the Kinks, Boo Radleys, Joy Division, and most significantly – Manic Street Preachers. I used this tape (and the boy) to expand my musical horizons. I began devouring magazines, sticking up posters, camping outside venues, recording videos off TV, and reading music-related books.
Eagles' Banner, Reid say they don't know origin of Sheppard trade ...
The Eagles' president said yesterday that he will spend most of his time at the NFL scouting combine not looking at college players, but talking with agents. "They're all here and they're all wanting to have dinner and have lunch and have breakfast, and you better bring your credit card. It's a good chance to get to know them," said Banner, as he and the Eagles prepared not just for the April draft but for the start of free agency a week from today. "Most of the ones we meet with are ones that have our players, but you never know when you're going to want to have a good relationship with somebody. Almost all the deals in the league are done over the phone, and that's a difficult way to negotiate, so you want to make sure you have a personal connection with people." There is an excellent chance that Banner's dining schedule includes either Lamont Smith or Peter Schaffer, the agents who represent Birds cornerback Lito Sheppard.
Enid’s Carver Educational Center is praised by state
Youth, the saying goes, is wasted on the young. The same can be true of education.Sometimes young people don't take advantage of their educational opportunities and it isn't until they reach adulthood they realize the error of their ways.For these people, and for any adults seeking academic improvement, the Carver Education Center is a valuable asset.Recently the Carver center received visits from four representatives of Oklahoma State Department of Education's Lifelong Learning Section. They conducted interviews, observed classes and reviewed materials.The panel's conclusion? Carver Educational Center is doing a good job.Thumbs up to Carver Education Center and its staff.THUMBS UPEnid Community Foundation recently hit a milestone, hitting $11.4 million in assets.This is quite a jump from the original $1.8 million challenge grant from Sisters of Mercy in July 2000.
Textile designer ends up £5,197 better off after foreign cheque ...
As a self-employed textile designer of 17 years standing, I also act as agent for other designers from whom I take a sales percentage. For the past decade I have been selling to the US market. Over four months after I had paid in an $8,400 cheque, my NatWest branch manager informed me that it had bounced. At no point had the bank called me to say there was a problem. By then the company the cheque came from had halted all payables. In fact I paid another cheque after it issued the first one and this one cleared. The bank is not reimbursing the money but I feel it should. LW, Sheffield. When you paid in the cheque originally, a cashier overlooked the fact that it was a foreign cheque and put it through the usual sterling clearing. This had happened before but that time the mistake had been spotted and quickly corrected.
The Birth of Kosovo
The proliferation of small states since the fall of communism has made Europe more stable and democratic, from Estonia to Macedonia. A sovereign Kosovo, which follows the entry of even tinier Montenegro into the club of nations, can be a force for good in the region and in the wider Europe. Though lawyers may quibble, Kosovo differs in no way from the other stand-alone parts of Yugoslavia that won their freedom after 1991, and are now better off for it. Serbian lobbyists portray the Kosovars as Muslim terrorists, but that strains credulity, given their moderate and secular practice of Islam (and Christianity) and their stated commitment to democracy. Kosovar leaders say they want their country to join the European Union and NATO, which would open their borders to free trade and bring them into European security structures.
Women turn on ‘traitor’ Oprah Winfrey for backing Barack Obama
It's okay to me that everyone does not see or know this; what's important is that I know this. I am not defined by other's definition of me. I simply will not acquiesce to others prenomitions of what I should or should not do or be doing. I don't see Ms. Winfrey in this light and I pray to God she will not fall prey to the idiosyncrasies of white women in America! All women have suffered unmercifully at the hands of cruel, insensitive, and brain dead men. The difference white women live in a bubble that I call The Nile or denial! I have learned that crocodiles live in the The Nile (River) and they will bite! Black women will support strong black men; Ms. Winfrey threw her credibile support to Sen Obama, so do I!! .
Australian stock market opens higher on Wall St lead
At 10.16am AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was 73.8 points higher at 5670.5, while the broader All Ordinaries was up 66.6 points at 5734.9. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March share price index futures contract was 60 points higher at 5644 on 4,715 contracts. US stocks climbed higher overnight as relatively cheap valuations tempted investors back to Wall Street after a three-day losing streak that had pushed Nasdaq into an official bear market. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 46.90 points to 12,247.00 while the Standard & Poor's 500 Index added 10.46 points to 1336.91. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 14.28 points, or 0.63 per cent, at 2293.03. In London, base metal prices mostly were stronger. The big miners were stronger, with BHP Billiton adding 14 cents to $37.06 by 10.18am AEDT, while Rio Tinto gained 72 cents to $127.72.
Jockstrip: The world as we know it.
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- Police in Wichita, Kan., said a local man sealed up a crawlspace under a rental home while a suspected thief was inside taking copper pipes.
The police said the man, described as a pastor, heard a noise coming from under the house and phoned police after sealing a 48-year-old man inside the crawlspace, the Wichita Eagle reported Wednesday.
Capt. Darrell Haynes said the suspect, a prisoner out on work release, was taken to the Sedgwick County Jail. Haynes said officers noticed several copper pipes had been cut from inside the crawlspace.
Cocaine washes up on British beach
LONDON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- A Lizard Point, England, man said he turned about 110 pounds of cocaine over to police after he found it washed up on a tourist beach.
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