| Former Iowan checks into 'Paradise 2' reality hotel
The first "Paradise Hotel" deposited a group of singles into a secluded resort, where they took turns sharing hotel rooms.
The show was a hit.
The second incarnation of the series, "Paradise Hotel 2," debuted Monday, introducing "11 sexy singles," one of whom is former Iowan Mike Ranallo, 26, a graduate of West Des Moines Dowling Catholic High School. The show concludes May 19. .
Sex and sensibility: Why abstinence is the wrong focus
Cambridge, Mass. - Canned spinach or chocolate cake? That's how singles today are made to see the choice between premarital sexual abstinence and conventional sexualized dating. Popular culture screams: "Take the cake." Abstinence advocates preach: "Eat your vegetables." But it is a false choice. Premarital sex is the stale, half-eaten Twinkie. It too often goes hand in hand with much unhappiness: emotional distress, lackluster school performance, diverted dreams, career stagnation, and misguided marriage choices. But when you're head over heels in love, something called "abstinence" doesn't exactly make the heart sing. I'll pass on the canned spinach, thank you. Is that the only vegetable you have today? What about those perfectly sweet heirloom tomatoes? There is a third way, however, one that bypasses the Hollywood illusions and the finger-wagging didactics.
Online dating site offers DNA matching
AN online dating website that compares the DNA of its customers promises a more satisfying sex life and healthier children for couples who are genetically matched. Scientific Match helps singles find their "genetic match" by analysing their DNA and recommending a partner who has different immune system genes than themselves for a subscription fee of $US1995 ($2323) per year. "Welcome to a new era of human relationships. We're the only introduction service that creates matches with actual physical chemistry," the website's homepage says. After signing up to the website, clients are sent a DNA collection kit containing cheek-swabs and a pre-paid return envelope. Their saliva samples are then processed and they are matched with other users whose genetic profiles are different to their own.
Hotel bash offers meet-ups, revenge for singles on Valentine's Day
If the soundtrack to your life is "Love Hurts" rather than "Always and Forever," there's an anti-Valentine's Day ball with your name on it. The recently dumped and the happily single are being encouraged to stop cowering indoors and embrace their footloose and fancy ways Thursday, the most loved-up night of the year. The New York Helmsley Hotel on E. 42nd St. is holding its second annual bash for the unattached, complete with sexy models and an aphrodisiac buffet. And for those really seeking revenge, the strictly "singles only" event will set up a giant shredder to dispose of any painful mementos from your lost loves. "Why be locked in your apartment?" said New York Helmsley general manager Mark Briskin. "If you were concerned about being single in the first place, you're guaranteed to become depressed on Valentine's Day.
Sex, Romance Fades At JDate As World Of Jewish Fine Tunes Dating
Jerusalem ----August 17 ....... Talk about sex appeal, then talk about the World of Jewish. Talk about boredom and tired formulas, then talk JDate. There was a time when Jewish singles looking for a match through the Internet went straight to JDate, the largest Internet based Jewish dating service. The idea was simple, fill in a short questionnaire based on your dating preferences and the JDate search engine would return a listing of all those of the opposite sex that answer to your criteria. If you saw someone in the listing, you paid JDate a good sum of money to be in touch by email with your potential match. For a yearly fee approaching a couple of hundred dollars, you could search JDate's listings and be in touch with whomever you desired. Now, when you think of it, a couple of hundred of dollars a year may not sound like so much, especially with this virtual smorgasbord of potential Jewish dating mates at your fingertips.
Police Warn of Rapes After Online Sex Postings
After a rash of rapes in the Temple Hills and Suitland areas, police are warning women to be careful on online singles sites and online communities.
At least six rapes have been reported in the last few months in those areas, some after women posted ads on Craigslist looking for sex. In the most recent sexual assault on February 19th, police say they responded to the 9100 block of Baltimore Avenue for reports of a rape in Suitland.
The victim said she met the suspect on a chat line and agreed to meet with him. When the victim met the suspect, he showed a handgun and raped her in the building stairwell.
Major Dan Dusseau, Commander of the Criminal Investigations Division, said, "We want to alert women who are soliciting for sex online to use caution.
Clarksville Singles Conference 2008
A Singles Conference will be held at Zion of Praise, 815 Crossland Ave, Clarksville, April 19 at 5 p.m. The speaker for that evening will be Chris Jackson, author of "Dating and Sexuailty."
His topic for the conference "How to recognize Mr. or Ms. Right" (...And what to do in the mean time).
Registration is $20 (dinner included, and the registration deadline is March 29. For more information please contact Natasha Shuler, 220-1949, Sheena Johnson, 217-0533 or leave message at church, 552-2766 .
Just Call Me Wingmom
When my two best friends, Erika and Carol, announced that they were sick of nursing their broken hearts and were ready to start dating again, I was elated for them and terrified for myself. Where, I wondered would that leave me? At age 38, with two kids under 6 and a husband, my romantic life was far from exciting. Although we are all the same age, and Carol also has two children, the possibility loomed that they would soon be leading exciting lives as youngish singletons while I was stuck in the doldrums of advancing years and married life. The first inkling of what lay ahead came last Halloween. Erika, who doesn't have children, went to a singles party dressed as a sexy bee and danced till dawn on a podium. I, on the other hand, spent Halloween trudging around a Medway subdivision trying to keep Kieran, my milk-allergic son, from accidentally ingesting a Milky Way while I was unsuccessfully scraping dog poop from the bottom of my shoe.
Photographer focuses on things humans can't normally see
It's an arresting image, but also one that offers a glimpse into what the refuge's protected birds, some of which are capable of seeing infrared light, might see.The woman's dress appears white with dark spots. In truth, Van Zyl said, the dress is a dark navy blue with white polka dots.Van Zyl, of Upper Darby, Pa., is an artist and musician who is best known for his long career as a radio personality at WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's radio station.A mail carrier by trade, Van Zyl has hosted the station's legendary "Star's End" program, one of the world's longest-running radio shows of ambient music, for more than 25 years.While he has been taking pictures since he was a teenager, Van Zyl said his interest in infrared photography came in 2004 after he heard a radio program featuring an artist who went to all 50 states to photograph homes using infrared film.With his interest piqued, Van Zyl said he bought a few rolls of Kodak High Speed Infrared, or HIE, film and decided to give it a go.
Egyptian firm says it wins mobile phone licence in NKorea
SEOUL: An Egyptian firm says it has won the right to provide a mobile phone service in communist North Korea, a country which has strictly restricted such services to the general public. Orascom Telecom, in a statement on Wednesday on its website, said the licence was granted to its subsidiary CHEO Technology, which is 25 percent owned by the state-run Korea Post and Telecommunications Corporation. It said the terms allow it to offer services throughout the country over a 25-year period with an exclusivity period of four years. "Orascom Telecom intends to invest up to 400 million dollars in network infrastructure and licence fee over the first three years in order to rapidly deploy a high quality network and offer voice, data and value-added services at accessible prices to the Korean people," it said.
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. .
Weekend planner
A dinner of venison and other wild game, plus swamp cabbage cooked on site with an open bar, are part of the attraction. But then there's the auction and door prizes that include fishing and hunting gear. Money raised goes to local charities, including Rotary's Camp Florida, the Emergency Care Help Organization and the Brandon Outreach Clinic. Don't forget to bring your stories about the "one that got away." Tickets are $70 at (813) 315-6533 for more information or reservations. he young art lovers that make up Les Fauves, supporters of the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, 12211 Walsingham Road in Largo, will get a look at the new Liquid Metal exhibition but also get a chance to create their metal artwork Friday from 7 to 10 p.m. There also will be furniture and jewelry for sale, cocktails, nibbles and music by The Human Condition.
Long-Wed Couples Offer Lessons in Love
One of my favorite spectator sports involves watching long-married couples interact. Their gestures and mannerisms, comments and silences, form a private language, spoken and unspoken, that each pair has honed during their 50 or 60 years together. Consider the way a husband absently pats his wife's shoulder as they walk, or the way she straightens his collar or brushes off a piece of lint, real or imagined, on his coat. Watch the way he says, "Ready to go, Mother?" when they finish their meal in a restaurant. The way she smiles patiently as he tells a favorite story or joke for the thousandth time. And the way he opens her car door - a vestige of gallantry from an earlier age. With their easy familiarity and quiet solicitude, these couples serve as unsuspecting examples of patience and enduring affection.
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