| Rachel Bilson's perfect Valentine's date
Rachel Bilson's perfect Valentine's date would be snuggling up on the sofa. The actress prefers a quiet night in to grand romantic gestures. The former 'O.C.' star said, "Being whisked off to Rome is obviously impressive but I think it really depends on the person taking you. If it's a guy you don't know that well who is trying to be suave it's not that impressive, but if you know someone and they take you that would be ideal. .
Real-life experiences, really well done
Some musicals only improve with age. Our own age, that is. The first time Jerry Colbert listened to "Closer Than Ever," just after the revue's 1989 off-Broadway premiere, he thought it was ... OK. "Now, I think, `How could I not have loved this show?!' " says Colbert, a Charlotte-based actor/singer featured in Collaborative Arts' current staging at Spirit Square. Maturity, Colbert explains with a shrug, has added him to the show's passionate fan base among theater insiders. "It's filled with humanity," says Colbert, describing "Closer Than Ever" as a series of entertaining and often moving observations on a range of experiences, from dating to parenthood to the loss of a spouse. "All the songs address real-life situations that I think anyone who's achieved a certain age will relate to." The show, by songwriting team David Shire and Richard Maltby Jr.
Exploding moose steals copper cables
Absolutely hilarious. I think she should be given a visa and allowed to stay indefinitely. She has done an invaluable service to this country, she has exposed a fool proof way for Al Quaeda to breach our national borders and she has also shown how worthless ID cards will be. After all, she was given a pass to allow her into Parliament, which one might think would be somewhat secure. HMG: 0 Brazilian Cleaning Ladies: 1 Steve Browne "...officials seem not to know where she got the pass or to whom it had been issued in the first place" Every security pass I've ever carried has had two things in common, they all bore a picture of my face, and my name. Sometimes more, but never less. This seems to suggest that despite all the TWaT hysteria that our 'representatives' foist upon us, those within parliament still don't really believe the threat sufficiently to implement even the basics of a door entry system such as one might find in any mid size corporation.
Spring Training: Spring of change starts for the Twins
Gardenhire reached across his desk, picked up a copy of the latest Sporting News and motioned to the magazine's cover boy. "He's right here," he said of Hunter, who is shown on the beach in a white Los Angeles Angels uniform, the familiar No. 48 on his chest. He studied the image for a moment. "Just doesn't look right, does it?" Gardenhire said. Everyone in the Minnesota clubhouse -- even the man running the show -- will have to adjust this year, as Minnesota transitions to life after Hunter, among others. Without the budget of American League rivals such as the Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Tigers and Indians, Minnesota had little choice but to bid farewell to Hunter and lefty ace Johan Santana -- as well as Carlos Silva, another Twins staple -- in the past few months.
Salmond: Back my Budget or I will seek election
Tom Harris, Glasgow South MP, told The Herald: "This is cynical grandstanding by Alex Salmond. He's already done a deal with the Tories, it is all just an empty threat." However, the SNP government claimed discussions on the support of Conservatives, Greens and independent MSP Margo MacDonald were "ongoing". But the SNP, with 47 votes, is confident that it can count on their support to reach the minimum 65 votes it needs for a majority. Part of the deal-making process was an exchange of letters yesterday in which the SNP's junior justice minister, Fergus Ewing, spelled out to Tory justice spokesman Bill Aitken how he intends to meet the Conservative demands on drugs policy. Conservatives have also used their 16-MSP leverage for more spending to recruit 500 more police by 2011, and await an announcement today from Finance Secretary John Swinney, which is expected to meet the third demand of accelerating the introduction of a small businesses' rates relief scheme.
Ms. Dina on Kanye's "Homecoming"
Jessica Simpson; Music News; ben harper; Boss is back, plus CDs celebrate a birthday and AI's Jordin Sparks signs. ; Bruce Springsteen; cds; jordin sparks; Did Live Earth's mission derail because of Madonna, plus Snoop Dogg as Aussie and ringtone breakdowns. All this week in Sixty. ; Danielle Flora; Live Earth; Music News; Ring Tones; Snoop Dogg; http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1184801975http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1125911414 .
Loncar trial concludes first week: Prosecution works to refute asthma ...
Elko County District Attorney Gary Woodbury, right, questions Dr. Edward Leis during testimony Friday. Leis is a State of Utah medical examiner who challenged conclusions of an autopsy performed by Washoe County forensic pathologist Katherine Raven. (Doug McMurdo/Elko Daily Free Press)
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Your Comments : Price of flour goes up again
Why can't the landowners give some land to capable Indians who will be able to plant many food items and sell at lower price? Common, don't be selfish, share your land. Afterall you will get paid for it. In this case you do not have to listen to a political party, just listen to your heart. God will show you the way. Nice comments by Premila Kumar to plant whatever you can in the backyard. I applaud her for her smart thinking. Even Fiji Times has been poor in giving a solution to this. Fiji Times just shows us the problems but no suggestions to solve problems. Common Fiji Times, wake up, you have so many readers Fiji wide. How about some advise to landowners like me. For once do something good for the country. 36 days & 0 hrs agoSuggest removalPermalink joseph khan of scotland says… fiji cannot produce weat we are hold to ransom by australia and usa farmers sell they wheat there at lost and claim grant government then sell the weat to poor country at lost to keep there farmers in business that is free trade for you same thing applies with rice and other crops we inport our farmers cannot compete with this country our government should open there eyes and help our farmers now 36 days & 0 hrs agoSuggest removalPermalink jj jinx of Other says… Well the natives took the land back and now they can grow wheat and make flour.What is the problem? 36 days & 0 hrs agoSuggest removalPermalink Coolair from the highlands of Fiji says… What else is next.
DN squads compete in tourneys
It was a mixed bag in tournament play for the Del Norte High boys and girls basketball teams this past weekend. After starting the year 8-0, the Warrior boys lost its first two games at the Jamie Angley Hornet Classic in Redding. On Saturday, Del Norte came back from an eight-point deficit at the end of the first half to defeat Kennedy High of Fremont 74-72 to improve to 9-2 for the year. At a tournament in Hidden Valley, Ore., the girls squad downed South Eugene, Ore., 41-38 on Friday. On Saturday, Del Norte was soundly defeated by host Hidden Valley 46-16 to drop to 6-7 for the year. Boys The Del Norte boys basketball team began play in Redding on Thursday having just returned from playing all the way in Florida at the KSA Pre-Holiday Basketball tournament in the Orlando, Fla.
A cut above
They started at 8.30am and it will take them more than six hours to complete their task. This is backbreaking work. I wonder out loud why farmers would bother to use such a time-consuming, labour intensive and expensive method of keeping their stock in a field when, surely, wooden rails and wire fencing would do the job just as well? After all, it took nine years for the plants to grow big enough to make the hedge in the first place. But as soon as the words are out of my mouth, I realise I have made a mistake. Farmer and judge Gordon Henley, who is standing next to me, looks startled. "Don't say tha" He coughs and starts to splutter. .
City schools face the axe
CITY schools were more likely to face closure because of demographic change than their country counterparts, Education Minister David Bartlett said yesterday. In his bluntest warning yet of the challenges facing the slowly emptying schools in the state's education system, Mr Bartlett said tough decisions lay ahead. The Education Department has prepared a paper on the effect of demographic change on the education system which Mr Bartlett is expected to present to the state's Demographic Change Advisory Council in the coming weeks. "I know this is a painful and emotional and difficult subject for all of us who now have children at school to face up to . . . but we have too many schools in Tasmania," he told delegates at yesterday's Tasmanian Education Forum. "We need to, over coming years, face up to that as a community and make some hard decisions about what we do." Demographic change will mean there are 10,000 fewer school-aged children in Tasmania in 10 years -- the equivalent of 43 primary schools or 19 high schools.
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