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| [2006-08-01] $5 million in goods stolen from Hermitage |
| Russia's famed State Hermitage Museum on Monday reported the theft of more than 220 works, including jewelry and enameled objects, worth around $5 million, an incident that highlighted the poor security at Russian cultural institutions.
The Hermitage — housed in the ornate Winter Palace of the Russian czars in St. Petersburg, overlooking the Neva River — said museum employees were likely involved in the thefts.
In a statement, the museum said staff members learned of the missing items during a routine inventory check. When the check started, the curator in charge of most of the collection [...] |
| [2006-10-17] £250,000 for life for wife who gave up lucrative career for family |
| JULIA McFarlane's QC told the Law Lords that she was entitled to £250,000 a year for life because she had put the "spadework" into her 16-year marriage to her husband Kenneth.
She could have had a shot at a high-flying career herself as a city solicitor, but instead gave up the chance of earning big money to look after her children, said Barry Singleton, QC.
In making their judgement yesterday, the Law Lords appear to have agreed with this assessment.
The couple met as students at Durham University and started living together in their 20s as their respective careers took off. Mrs Mc [...] |
| [2006-10-17] £30 billion spent on looking for love |
| Lonely Britons spend £30 billion a year looking for love. Some £14.8 billion is spent on the search for the perfect partner with a further £15.2 billion going on keeping love alive, says the internet dating firm Parship. [...] |
| [2006-08-17] £30bn a year - that's the cost of loving in Britain |
| LONELY Britons collectively spend £30bn a year looking for love, a study revealed.
Some £14.8bn is spent on the search for the perfect partner with a further £15.2bn going on keeping the sparks of love alive, internet dating firm Parship said.
Its Cost of Love Index found Britain's 9m singletons are prepared to splash out more money than ever to find their perfect match - to the tune of £1,650 a year.
More than £1,008 goes on nights out "on the pull", with another £156 spent on dating services and £602 going on an average of seven first dates each year.
B [...] |
| [2006-09-23] £5000 is price to pay for true love |
| J-LO may have sung that Love Don't Cost a Thing but for most Glaswegians there is a high price to pay for romance. Singles in the city are splashing out a massive £5000 per year in pursuit of true love. This can be up to a third of an annual wage. The figure is among the highest in the UK, with only Birmingham topping that spend. More than half of respondents to the survey, by milk brand The One, in advance of Sunday's National Dating Day, admitted to splashing out more than £50 before even leaving the house. It was revealed 20% regularly spent more than £100 to look in top shap [...] |
| [2006-09-12] Émigré Literature |
| Afterthe1917Revolution, many eminent writers, critics, philosophers, and scholars left Russia to set down new roots in Europe. Paris, France, became the center of émigré intellectual life, although lively émigré communities existed in Berlin, Germany, and other European capitals. Bunin, Kuprin, Merezhkovsky, Zamiatin, poets Viacheslav Ivanov and Marina Tsvetaeva, and many others continued to write in the tradition in which they had begun in Russia. The most original new talent among the émigrés was poet, essayist, and novelist Vladimir Nabokov, a brilliant stylist [...] |
| [2008-01-29] Ñhange on the Russian visa regime |
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Good news (for a change) on the Russian visa regime. I confirmed today thatit is possible, fast, easy and cheap to be registered at a private home --regardless of whether you have a PRIVATE or BUSINESS visa. All you need do is go to the nearest post office with the followingdocuments:- Your Passport- Your Immigration Card- Your Host's Russian Passport- Less than 300 RoublesIf the post office isn't busy, everything can be done in about 40 minutes,but to speed things up (and to prevent problems in case there are 'technicalissues' with the post office photocopier -- or if they don't have one),b [...] |
| [] www.chanceforlove.com: user’s manual |
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Every tool has its manual. Even batteries for your player have instructions! Our site is also a tool, but much more complicated: it can help you find your close friend, your special someone, Mrs. Right. The main point is to use this tool in the right way. Quite recently we changed our site, it has become more modern, informative and attractive. Here are the letters we received:
“Wow you changed your home page Looks great and a lot of information. May I be the first to congratulate you on the new site”. Steve
“I wanted to let you know that I have been looking at your improved we [...] |
| [2006-11-29] 1 in 5 men classed as excessive drinkers |
| One in five men is a "heavy drinker", consuming more than four pints of beer every day of the week, says a study.The research raises fresh concerns about Tony Blair's "open all hours" licensing policy and shows that as many as one in three men, while not defined as a "heavy drinker", still exceed Government levels on sensible drinking.
Death rates of people in their 20s and 30s are predicted to rise steeply
According to the report commissioned by the Department of Health, more people than ever — 69 per cent — know what constitutes sensible drinking but simply choose to igno [...] |
| [2007-03-29] 10 women have been selected to make a trip out to Silicon Valley to meet the potential loves of their lives. |
| Apparently, an online dating website is organizing a tour in partnership with an agency in northern California for wealthy professional women who simply don't have the time to find a good man here in Shanghai. Scheduled for next month, the tour will match these women with men from the Chinese mainland who, we suspect, also fit the description above (the "not having time" part, not the "wanting to find a good man" part).Before all you busy, single women dying to take advantage of this special opportunity put away your Redberries and start packing the luggage, there are some criteria you have to [...] |
| [2007-02-07] 10 worst dating disasters |
| You somehow got it together to ask this person out – after much gnashing of teeth and many sleepless nights. The big evening approaches, but somehow you have a feeling things might not work out the way you hoped. So what are the ten worst dating disasters? Car accident. There is something worse than a car breaking down, and that is having an actual accident. And I am not talking small dent here. The souvenir that your date would like to have from the evening out, is probably not a shattered kneecap or a broken arm.
A chaperone. An unexpected third person, like a mother or a cousin, can swiftl [...] |
| [2007-07-04] 10 Years of Marriage Worth $4,802 |
| It's a story as old as time. A man and a woman meet, fall in love and marry -- but after 10 years, they become bored. So the husband asks the wife to begin sleeping with other people in front of him. The wife obliges, then falls for one of her lovers. Heartbroken, the husband sues the lover under an arcane statute.
OK, so maybe this story isn't exactly universal. German Blinov, of Cook County, Ill., has been ordered to cough up $4,802 for "stealing the affections" of Arthur Friedman's wife, Natalie. Using a little-known state law, Friedman successfully convinced a jury that he was entitled t [...] |
| [2006-09-06] 1000-year Kazan |
| Hearty welcome to all in 1000-year Kazan! Great celebration all August! Come and see this beautiful city combining all traits of Russian and Eastern cultures.In short about Kazan:The population of Kazan is more than 1.1 million people. And that's not taking into account a lot people from all over Russia and CIS working here.Kazan is a large railway, highway and aviation unit, the largest port on the Volga River.It's a big centre of science. The third in Russia, after Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, the Kazan State University was founded. In total in the city 30 work: higher educational institutio [...] |
| [2006-03-28] 11 UK Visa Application Centres to be opened in Russia |
| From28 November 2005, the British Embassy changed the process of applying for a visa and it no longer accepts personal callers at the Visa section. After a detailed tender consideration process, the British Embassy chose to appoint Visa Facilitation Services (VFS) as their Outsourcing partner in Russia. VFS is a well-established Indian company, and part of the Switzerland-headquartered Kuoni travel group. VFS operates Outsourcing in Russia in partnership with the Russian tourism operator, Star Travel.
From the middle of April till the beginning of May, they will open UK Visa Application Centr [...] |
| [2007-04-20] 118 online dates, for those keeping score at home |
| By Angela Benfield
After jettisoning the perfect Mr. Wrong, I was ready, at the ripe young age of 39, to throw in the towel on finding even a slightly unperfect Mr. Right. Then, a good friend, one with a shiny new beau, encouraged me to get modern and try online dating. When I hesitated, she pointed out how easily the computer helps separate the dudes from the duds. OK, maybe I was up for just one more dive into the dating pool.
Turns out, that pool is Olympic-sized. The U.S. online dating industry is worth about $500 million and is expected to climb 9 percent a year. And according to revenu [...] |
| [2007-04-23] 118 online dates, for those keeping score at home |
| After jettisoning the perfect Mr. Wrong, I was ready, at the ripe young age of 39, to throw in the towel on finding even a slightly unperfect Mr. Right. Then, a good friend, one with a shiny new beau, encouraged me to get modern and try online dating. When I hesitated, she pointed out how easily the computer helps separate the dudes from the duds. OK, maybe I was up for just one more dive into the dating pool.
Turns out, that pool is Olympic-sized. The U.S. online dating industry is worth about $500 million and is expected to climb 9 percent a year. And according to revenuetoday.com, there ar [...] |
| [2006-12-21] 12 Steps To Get Noticed And Get A Date Online |
| If you want to achieve success with online dating, you will need to educate yourself with the online dating scene. Online dating sites provide a service for people to meet but a dating site can only do so much of the work and input is required from you if you are serious about meeting a partner online.
Whilst thousands of people are joining dating sites every day, hundreds are not making the most of the services a dating site has to offer. I’m no psychic but I’m pretty certain that someone who writes a dull or uninformative profile, doesn’t include a photo and makes no effort to contact anyon [...] |
| [2007-05-01] 120 singles have signed up for a chance to meet that special someone on the 'love boat' to Pulau Redang. |
| 120 singles have signed up for a chance to meet that special someone on the 'love boat' to Pulau Redang. Participants from a diverse background and aged between early 20s and 60, had 40 hours to get to know each other. It was a nervous start but with some ice breaking activities, the atmosphere soon warmed up. The cruise was organised by Romancing Singapore with the help of four dating agencies. Participants also got relationship advice during a one-on-one session with dating professionals [...] |
| [2007-05-14] 13 A bitter feud has broken out among several U.S. online dating Web sites over the issue of rejecting applicants. |
| The Washington Post reported on the feud, made public in television ads that specifically attack California's eHarmony for rejecting applicants based on an extensive questionnaire.The campaign by Chemistry.com, an offshoot of Match.com, is aimed at portraying eHarmony as unaccepting and Chemistry as a more open-minded site. The television ads for Chemistry feature men and women wondering why they were turned down by eHarmony.The Post said eHarmony has begun to fight back, arguing that the site rejects applicants who are married or younger than the minimum age of 21. The site is also fighting a [...] |
| [2006-03-06] 13 countries to adopt an air ticket tax to help the poor |
| Thirteen countries forged an alliance to adopt a levy on plane tickets to help poor countries fight AIDS and other killer diseases. The countries are Brazil, Britain, Chile, Congo, Cyprus, France, Ivory Coast, Jordan, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mauritius, Nicaragua and Norway. A further 25 countries opted not to impose the tax but promised to contribute to a central pot which the core group of 13 will create from the levy to fund the purchase of generic drugs and other medicines to help the poor. Among these countries are Germany, Belgium, Austria, South Africa, South Korea and Mexico. The USA, I [...] |
| [2007-01-25] 13 Tips To Write A Winning Online Profile And Attract A Date |
| How long do you spend getting ready for a night out? At a guess I would say that if you’re a woman you can probably spend 1 hour upwards preening and titivating and if you’re a man you can be showered, shaved and out of the door within 20 minutes (unless, of course, you’re a metro-sexual in which case you probably take longer than a woman!).
Now let me ask you how long you would spend (or have spent) writing a profile for an online dating site? Less than 5 minutes, possibly 10 minutes maximum?
When you consider that you literally have minutes to impress someone and stand out from the rest i [...] |
| [2006-10-05] 13 years since the Moscow street war |
| There was a communist rally in Moscow today, to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the clashes in Moscow between violent communist/nationalist protesters and pro-Yeltsin police and army units. The clashes ended in the storming of the Supreme Council the next day, the event commonly summarised as “Yeltsin shelled the parliament”.
The parliament, one must keep reminding oneself, that had, several days before, issued a decree that disobeying this parliament’s orders (orders?) was punishable by death, and presided by a smug Ruslan Khasbulatov who had, on the day before, called on the pro-parlia [...] |
| [2006-10-05] 13 years since the Moscow street war |
| There was a communist rally in Moscow today, to commemorate the 13th anniversary of the clashes in Moscow between violent communist/nationalist protesters and pro-Yeltsin police and army units. The clashes ended in the storming of the Supreme Council the next day, the event commonly summarised as “Yeltsin shelled the parliament”.
The parliament, one must keep reminding oneself, that had, several days before, issued a decree that disobeying this parliament’s orders (orders?) was punishable by death, and presided by a smug Ruslan Khasbulatov who had, on the day before, called on the pro-parlia [...] |
| [2007-01-08] 15 Dating Tips On Creating And Maintaining Love Connections |
| 1. Visualize and "act as if" each person you meet really "gets you" - in other words, really understands you.
2. Make a decision to make each person you meet feel really comfortable. This will alleviate any nervousness you’re feeling. Think of yourself as a gracious, charming host/hostess wherever you are.
3. For the next 30 days concentrate on really liking the opposite sex - thinking of each one as a safe ally.
4. Become your own best cheerleader and your own best friend - this will aid you towards "flourishing" in a relationship, not "needing" a relationship.
5. Always speak well of [...] |
| [2008-01-23] 18 percent of 18- to 29-year-old Internet users have visited an online dating site |
| Traditionally thought of as a last resort for lonely hearts, Internet datingsites are reporting co-eds and frat brothers are also joining the ranks ofonline daters.According to a March 2006 report from the Pew Internet & American LifeProject, 18 percent of 18- to 29-year-old Internet users have visited anonline dating site and 31 percent of American adults know someone who hasused a dating website.Gail Laguna, a spokeswoman for Collegeluv.com, a dating site with 500,000members, said young people use the Internet to search for love because theyfeel comfortable in this kind of interaction."I [...] |
| [2008-01-16] 19-year old convicted for duping a French widow |
| He is a secondary school leaver, but at 19, Bashiru Jimmy Omitokun is already the leader of an internet fraud syndicate that specializes in defrauding women, especially widows who are desperate to find love again. Omitokun and his accomplice, Oladapopu Wasiu,Dopemu Rasheed Lukman and Fatia Ganiu will-spend the next 12 years behind bars for defrauding a widow of French nationality of 17,400 dollars (about N2.16 million) under false pretence.
The suspects were sentenced without option of fine at the Ikeja High Court by Justice Olubunmi Oyewole. They had early been arrested by operatives of the [...] |
| [2007-11-21] 2 Husbands Try To Buy Cut-Rate Mail-Order Brides |
| It's not a reality TV show, at least not yet, but it does appear to be a real Internet phenomenon. It's called "The 2 Husbands" and if it's not a hoax, I'm sure it or something like it could end up on TV as soon as this summer.
The concept: Two guys are auditioning for wives, but instead of making the decision themselves, they're leaving it up to the Internet-voting public. That's right, strangers on the internet decide who they marry, paying $2 per vote for the privilege. That's where the prize money comes from: Winning brides get fifty grand each.
Also, the second guy, Tanner, is gay. Rea [...] |
| [2006-11-27] 20 funny reasons why it's better to be a woman |
| 1. Women can talk to attractive members of the opposite sex without having to picture them naked.2. A woman can never be blamed if it's wet on the floor around the toilet bowl. 3. If a woman cheats on her spouse everyone will assume it's because she was being emotionally neglected.4. Women are capable of doing at least two different things to a passable standard at the same time.5. Women live longer than men. 6. Women don't feel uncomfortable with gay waiters or hairdressers. 7. A woman can fully assess a person just by looking at their shoes. 8. Women know the truth about whether size matters [...] |
| [2006-07-04] 2006 Dating Industry Study Available |
| John LaRosa of Marketdata publishes the only in-depth study of "The U.S. Dating Services Market." His newest addition, dated April 2006, is now available.
I've sold a lot of the last version to everyone from dating site owners, laywers, venture capitalists and others involved in the dating and social networking industries. Feedback has been positive across the board.
Price for readers is $1,395 (30% off) for the full study (reg. list price $1,995). You may also purchase specific sections of the report. I'll email details if you are interested.
Email devans at corante dot com or call 617- [...] |
| [2007-03-01] 2007 Ukraine population statistics |
| The State Statistics Committee of Ukraine has announced that the population of Ukraine at the beginning of 2007 was 46,646,000. Of these 33,777,000 lived in urban areas and 14,869,000 in the countryside. The population of Kiev was 2,718,000. [...] |
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