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POPSIt's a Curve Convention! Successful Plus Size Models Glamour magazine is leading the way in examining the fashion industry's fascination with stick-thin models
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POPSIrish Colleges and Swine Flu
In the event of a mass swine flu epidemic, TCD is preparing to allow staff to work from home, limit access to the college and its halls of residence, and to set up isolation bays if required. It is also preparing to coordinate a mass vaccination programme, although this will depend upon when a vaccine becomes available. "Obviously, if a very large number of cases occurs in a short period of time, then the Public Health Department may well advise the temporary closure, or restriction of access to schools and colleges across the city or country," McGrath said. "We would hope that the vaccination programme will have a significant impact on the number of cases and therefore that fatalities will be few." He added that the college's student-counselling service has a plan in place to provide "the necessary supports to staff and students in the event of deaths from the virus". The state's largest university, UCD, has also compiled its own detailed flu-contingency plan, wh
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POPSMarried Men Biggest Clients of Rent Boys One affluent male prostitute, featured in Kearins's book, revealed that over 75% of the men he saw were married and kept their visits to him secret from their wives. "A lot of married guys, all they want to be able to do is touch and feel another guy", he explained. "They are generally confused about their sexuality. This generation is changing and it is becoming easier to be gay, but in the last generation everybody got married. I have a lot of regulars whose sex life with their wives has failed to satisfy them and I know there are a lot of frustrated women out there".
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POPSContagious Plant Disease Hits US Veggies Hard In the meantime, plant experts are warning gardeners to be on the lookout for the disease and to take quick action if it crops up. The first sign is often brown spots on plant stems, followed by nickel-sized olive-green or brown spots on the tops of leaves and fuzzy white fungal growth underneath. Tomato fruit will show firm, brown spots.
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POPSThese Hypocrites Oughta Make You Puke! Corruption,Lobbying, conflict of interest! Here's MORE: Carol Browner, assistant to the president for energy and climate change, disclosed earnings of between $1 million and $5 million from lobbying firm Downey McGrath Group, Inc., where her husband, Thomas Downey, is a principal. She states $450,000 in "member distribution" income, plus retirement and other benefits from The Albright Group, a lobbying firm whose principals include former Secretary of State Madeline Albright.
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POPSBig Brother is Watching You This is from my small hometown. Notice the flat land and blue sky. (It's a few miles to the mountains). Recently cameras were installed to catch traffic speeders (they must be tourist racing through). The stats on how much money comes in from this is impressive. But, lots of issues. Protesters pointed out all the data the government collects - and now this. A Foreign (!) private company runs the system: law & order for Profit!? The city no longer gets the traffic fines - the state does. This pocketbook reality helped a candidate become local sheriff promising to get rid of the traffic camera: He did so. Darn Australians! Next thing you know they'll be coming over here to introduce kangaroos and arrest non-Fosters drinkers. Ha. Ha. But do we really want foreign countries enforcing our laws for profit!? MyohMy. That's me on the right, btw, in red shirt, holding sign: "Read the Constitution, Please." Please. I've always believed in polite protest. It's a
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POPS "Get Well Soon Barbara Bush!" “The surgery went extremely well and we were able to successfully replace her aortic valve,” Lawrie was quoted as saying in the hospital’s statement. “I expect her to recover fully and soon resume her normal activities.”
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POPSThe Ashes 2009 Read more of this article at: http://www.cricketinginfo.com/908/the-ashes-2/
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POPSPost Surgery Update: Barbara Bush Taken To Methodist Hospital
She was the girl who, swept off her feet by a handsome Navy aviator, dropped out of college to marry him, "the first man I ever kissed," and thence was destined for a lifetime role as Supermom. They had had their first child, George, while still at Yale in 1946. A daughter, Robin, died in 1953 of leukemia a few weeks before her 4th birthday. The other Bush children are sons Jeb, Neil and Marvin, and daughter Dorothy. For years, Bush has been a sunny presence in American life, the sort of person who would make herself and others comfortable at your kitchen table. But she also was tough. In the course of being George H.W. Bush's wife, she had to pack up and move the household 28 times before residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington in 1988. Bush disclosed she was suffering from an overactive thyroid ailment known as Graves' disease when she lived at the White House. The disease causes teary eyes and double vision in Mrs. Bush, according to her doctors.
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POPSNot In My Backyard... But I changed my tune after recent accidents involving the platforms, part of more than 300 accidents worldwide in the last 25 years, according to a British study. The scariest for me occurred last September when a cloud of poisonous gas was expelled by a nearby natural gas rig and drifted over the island, sickening dozens of residents and forcing the evacuation of the Dauphin Island Sea Lab School. Exxon Mobil confessed to the unplanned expulsion of hydrogen sulfide, a fatally poisonous byproduct of all the wells. The noxious, sour-smelling gas is usually burned off by a continuous flame on the rig, which had inexplicably gone out, like a pilot light in the wind
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