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  1. Martin Short, despite his brilliant SCTV/SNL tenures, is indeed now beyond lame, but not nearly as lame as a grown man encouraging people to send in photos of themselves wearing "I think Marin Short is Lame" t-shirts.

    This is like watching two gelatinous squids fight for a piece of plankton.

    Do I hear FOX Celebrity boxing calling????

  2. Singapore recycling graves as space-saving measure

    Last Updated Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:45:45 EDT

    CBC News

    SINGAPORE - Singapore is opening tens of thousands of graves in a program to recycle graveyard space.

    The remains of 18,000 people are being exhumed in the first, year-long stage of the city-state's program. Another 18,000 will be exhumed in phase two, which starts in June 2006.

    Choa Chu Kang cemetery, Singapore Wednesday. (AP photo)

    Most of the bones will be cremated and placed in a vault.

    Opened in 1947, Chao Chu Kang cemetery, which holds 200,000 graves, is the only cemetery open for burial in Singapore. But in 1998, the government decided the burial period for all people in the cemetery would be limited to 15 years. Similar programs exist in Hong Kong and Taiwan.

    With a population of more than four million and its small size (roughly 700 square kilometres), Singapore could run out of burial plots if space isn't recycled.

    Government newspaper advertisements announce exhumation programs so people can identify late relatives. Any remains that are not identified are kept for three years, then scattered at sea.

    Government officials say they haven't run into any objections.

    "So far, we've not met anybody who insisted that they can't allow their ancestors to be exhumed. Some people do it on their own, they engage their own contractor. They can choose the date and time," Wong Chiu Ying, director of the exhumation program, said on Wednesday.

    There are no plans to disturb the remains of people buried in the territory's 50 to 60 other closed cemeteries.

  3. Free samples of crack handed out near Winnipeg school

    Last Updated Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:03:38 EDT

    CBC News

    WINNIPEG - Police in Winnipeg have arrested two men they say were handing out free samples of crack cocaine near a high school.

    On Tuesday, police received a tip that two men outside Churchill High School in the Fort Rouge area of the city were giving out small rocks of cocaine with information about where people could find more of the substance.

    Officers arrested two men, aged 23 and 18, who they say have been identified as members of a local street gang. Both have been charged with trafficking a controlled substance.

    Det. Sgt. Dave Black couldn't say if the men were connected to the school.

    "I don't know if they were former students or not; I have no knowledge of that," he said.

    He said Winnipeg police have never heard of such a brazen attempt to recruit new customers anywhere in Canada.

    Crack is an extremely addictive and relatively cheap form of cocaine. ::

  4. Right now, I'd kill for a job in a cubicle.

    I have two university degrees and two part-time jobs, requiring me to work 60 hours per week lifting heavy boxes in cold temperatures. I've been unsuccessfully looking for full-time work for sixteen (16) months now. Apparently, I'm over-qualified or under-qualified to do just about anything. Both of the companies I currently work for advertise their jobs on signs on the side of the road.

    Who's got my heady job? Or any job, really? (First peson to recommend Monster, Workopolis, or www.jobs.gc.ca gets a punch in the head... I'm on those sites all the time.)

    Hamilton, what are you degree's in? In my experience it's much easier to get a good job (or career if you prefer) with a diploma from a community college. I have both (degree and 2 college dimploma's) and the college diploma's are much more beneficial in the workplace (for most people). If you can find a career with what you took in univeristy all the better, but the other option is good as well.

  5. Being one of the Network Admin's for a school board is very cool. I have 2 offices at the high school and one office at each of the 9 elementary schools that I am in charge of. Our school board is geographically huge so I am 150km away from my manager at all times (it's nice not having somebody looking over your shoulder all day). I work 35 hours/week (30hours/week in the summer and get paid for 35) and work with very cool people.

    The question I just love hearing the most is "What is does Press Ctrl-Alt-Delete to begin mean?" ::

  6. CHICAGO - About one in five ninth-graders in the U.S. say they've had oral sex, a finding that adults should keep in mind when counselling teens about sex, researchers say.

    The study, which appears in the April issue of the journal Pediatrics, was designed to gauge teen perceptions of oral sex versus vaginal sex.

    Caro and Oliver, both 17, were featured in a documentary on teen relationships.

    To find out, researchers surveyed 580 ethnically diverse ninth-graders in California with an average age of 15½. Girls made up 58 per cent of those surveyed.

    Of the respondents, 20 per cent said they had engaged in oral sex, compared to 14 per cent who said they had had sexual intercourse.

    One-third also said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months.

    "These findings suggest that adults should discuss more than one type of sexual practice when they counsel teens," said Bonnie Halpern-Felsher, a professor of adolescent medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, who led the research.

    Girls and boys reported similar experiences and opinions about oral sex, said Halpern-Felsher.

    Scientists have largely learned of the risks of oral sex based on case reports and studies of HIV transmission among gay men.

    Little is known about the risks for teens, although oral sex has the potential to spread herpes, hepatitis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV.

    Although the risk of a sexually transmitted disease is less from oral sex than from intercourse, earlier studies suggest teenagers likely underestimate the risk, the study said.

    "Given the suggestion that adolescents do not view oral sex as sex, and see oral sex as a way of preserving their virginity while still gaining intimacy and sexual pleasure, they are likely to interpret sexual health messages as referring to vaginal sex," the pediatrician wrote.

    "Adolescents also believed that oral sex is more acceptable than vaginal sex for adolescents their own age in both dating and non-dating situations, oral sex is less of a threat to their values and beliefs, and more of their peers will have oral sex than vaginal sex in the near future."

    The 2002 National Survey of Family Growth asked about oral sex and is expected to offer more data on the sexual practices of U.S. teens. LINK

    [color:"red"]This line made me laugh > "One-third also said they intended to have oral sex within the next six months."

  7. WASHINGTON - By 2007, most Canadians will need a passport to enter the United States.

    And by 2008, most Americans who visit Canada won't be able to re-enter their country without a passport.

    The changes are part of border-security measures the United States will phase in over the next three years that are likely to have a major impact on U.S. tourism and even on the number of Americans who make short trips to Canada.

    Canadians without a passport will be barred from entering the United States after Dec. 31, 2006, unless they have a special U.S. "laser visa" border crossing card that includes a fingerprint or other "biometric identifier" such as a retinal scan. Those cards are issued mostly to Mexicans who want to enter the U.S.

    Currently, Canadians and Americans are able to enter the United States with little more identification than a driver's licence or a birth certificate, though a passport has sometimes made it simpler to satisfy immigration officers at the border.

    The new rules will still allow Canadians to enter the United States without being fingerprinted. The U.S. demands a fingerprint from all other foreign visitors now.

    The tighter security will be implemented first between the U.S. and Caribbean countries, then along the U.S.-Mexican border and finally between the U.S. and Canada.

    It is likely to start at airports, then spread to land crossings.

    The United States is also putting pressure on European countries to speed up introduction of new high-security passports containing a computer chip with a digital photograph.

    If the new European Union passports are not in use by the end of October, the United States says it might remove the EU's visa-waiver status. Some analysts have said that could mean a loss of more than $10 million US to the U.S. travel industry.

    Thankfully this won't apply to me ::

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