Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Leicester, UK, 28 June 2011 : Purchasing baby clothing at half the regular prices. More than just a fair deal! A leading supplier of clothing and home textiles, Universal Textiles has announced huge discounts on clothes for the newly born babies. The discounts are applicable only until the stock lasts. Available in a variety of designs and materials, people can now get baby clothes on really great .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
With an eye to July 4, I recently bought a pack of sparklers and a red, white and blue baby dress for a friend whose newborn daughter I will meet during the holiday weekend.Feeling smugly patriotic, I got home and took a closer look at the sparklers.”Made in Thailand,” the box read.I plucked the tag on the tiny dress.”Made in Thailand” again.Then I got a little crazy about label-checking.My purse: .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
The road was steep and barely wide enough for our jeep as we inched along amid a throng of donkeys, goats and farmers. Our driver negotiated another nausea-inducing hairpin turn and I clutched my five-month-old daughter’s car seat. The car seat was attached to nothing – cars in Ethiopia don’t have seatbelts – so it bordered on the ridiculous. Yet it provided me with a modicum of .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
On June 16th, a member of the Kelowna RCMP’s Central Okanagan Traffic Services pulled over a white Chev Pickup that was speeding on Hwy 97 near Lodge Rd.While dealing with the 31 year old male driver, the officer detected the unmistakable odour of vegetative Marihuana coming from within the vehicle. The officer placed the driver under arrest for Possession of a Controlled Substance. The driver .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
In Potiskum, musical instruments are drugs By Maurice Archibong Thursday, June 09, 2011 Welcome to Potiskum, an ancient aboriginal Ngizim settlement in Yobe State. Yobe is part of Nigeria’s North Eastern geopolitical zone, and hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years before pharmacists were born and they began to produce drugs; the Ngizim had ways of treating certain ailments. How they .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
“When your best days are yester, the rest’r twice as dear” (Stephen Schwartz, Pippin )I personally like this thought better than Kohelet’s (Ecclesiates), when he says, “Appreciate your vigor in the days of your youth, before those days of sorrow come and those years arrive of which you will say, I have no pleasure in them.” (Eccl 12:1). It’s all about getting old, people.The Torah is filled with .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
The road was steep and barely wide enough for our jeep as we inched along amid a throng of donkeys, goats and farmers. Our driver negotiated another nausea-inducing hairpin turn and I clutched my five-month-old daughter’s car seat. The car seat was attached to nothing – cars in Ethiopia don’t have seatbelts – so it bordered on the ridiculous. Yet it provided me with a modicum of .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
A woman and her toddler son were hospitalized on Tuesday after the stroller-pushing mother was struck by a pickup truck, according to officials and witnesses. The accident at Northwest 19th Street and 29th Avenue occurred about 10 a.m., Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue spokesman Matt Little said.Both the 22-year-old woman and her 13-month-old son, of Fort Lauderdale, were taken to Broward General .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Police arrested 55-year-old Bertha Dona Vargas of West Covina at about 8 a.m. in an apartment in the Rampart area of Los Angeles. Vargas was at the apartment with her daughter.Norma Lizette Reyes, 51, of Silver Lake, remains at large. KNX 1070′s Jon Baird reports the two women have struck nearly six times since April, primarily in the fashion district in downtown L.A. And true to their .. more …
Thursday, June 30th, 2011
Economic development includes retaining existing businesses andhelping them growth and attracting new businesses. The pro-businessatmosphere in Highland keeps provides a base for the community’ssuccess as a place to live, work and do business.Highland boasts many businesses that have called the town “home”for decades, and that continue to have a vibrant presence in thecommunity. Among them are .. more …