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- ''Virtual Greats'' Enters $1.5 Billion Virtual Goods Market (Centre Daily Times)
Millions of Us LLC, an agency specializing in virtual worlds and large online communities, today announced that it has launched a new company, "Virtual Greats," to take advantage of the rapidly growing market for virtual goods. In connection with today's launch announcement, Millions of Us also announced that Virtual Greats will have distribution rights for virtual goods associated with the ...
- School's end weighs on parents (San Diego Union-Tribune)
My son's baseball teacher scheduled an end-of-year, mother-son game the other day, and it was a blast. The 5-year-old boys “won” (wink wink), but not before us moms got to hit a few grounders and run the bases in Central Park in the middle of a workday.
- ‘Nation’s creativity’ captured in trove of Scots poetry given to the National Library (The Herald)
A treasure trove of poetry which captures the "creativity of the nation" over the last five years has been given to the National Library of Scotland.
- Conservative Cafe vs. Bikini Barista at Espresso Gone Wild - Associated Content
Conservative Cafe vs. Bikini Barista at Espresso Gone WildAssociated Content, CO - 1 hour ago... and offer up basic American coffee without all the trappings; best of all, with the tongue-in-cheek humor that is sure to keep the would-be poets and ...
- Book festival receives grants - Caspar Star-Tribune
The Casper College/ARTCORE "Equality State Book Festival" recently received grants totaling more than $48,722 from outside funders, according to a release from the college. The festival is scheduled for Sept. 18-20 at the college and other venues ...
- Twelve Mountview students to have their stories published - Williams Lake Tribune
Williams Lake TribuneTwelve Mountview students to have their stories publishedWilliams Lake Tribune, Canada - 4 hours agoThe 12 selected stories will be published in a new book being published by the Poetry Institute of Canada Young Writers of Canada section. ...
- Tens of thousands mourn Palestinian poet Darwish - Middle East Online
RAMALLAH, West Bank - Tens of thousands of Palestinians gathered for the equivalent of a state funeral on Wednesday for Mahmud Darwish, the towering Arabic poet who gave voice to their bitter decades-old struggle. Darwish, considered the national ...
- General News - Borglobe
General NewsBorglobe, Sudan - 1 hour agoBoth are Sudanese refugees who, along with a handful of other African refugee youth in Cairo, have turned to music as their hope for resettlement and a ...
- Poet's well-versed in humor - Charlotte Observer
Poet's well-versed in humorCharlotte Observer, NC - 6 hours agoKnowing her talent for rhyme and expression, friends often asked her to write poems for special occasions. She submitted some for publication. ...
- Battle over thinning mustang herds (Seattle Times)
Five mustangs pounded across the high desert recently, their dark manes and tails giving shape to the wind. Pursued by a helicopter, they...
- Volunteers needed to help rebuild Memorial Wall of Sorrows - The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com
Volunteers needed to help rebuild Memorial Wall of SorrowsThe Plain Dealer - cleveland.com, OH - 58 minutes agoThis memorial was created by members of Survivors/Victims of Tragedy, the community and others, including Black on Black Crime, the Million Mom group and ...
- Pruning vines and verses - Financial Times
Pruning and generally cutting back vegetation is not my natural thing. Unlike my father, who has waged grim war with invasive weeds, ivy and old man’s beard, I have a weakness for letting nature take its course. Just now I am admiring the amazing ...
- Ethan Canin’s many-layered novel. - New Yorker
New YorkerEthan Canin’s many-layered novel.New Yorker, United States - 10 minutes agoAnd a complicated, many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history it is, shuttling between the twenty-first-century present and the ...
- Philip Larkin - guardian.co.uk
Philip Larkinguardian.co.uk, UK - 4 hours agoLarkin's most famous poem, of course, is the grim doggerel of This Be the Verse ("They fuck you up, your Mum and Dad..."). There's more light and shade, ...
- DAD. By Zoë Ball, Ron Atkinson, Martha Wainwright, Kirsty ... - Independent
DAD. By Zoë Ball, Ron Atkinson, Martha Wainwright, Kirsty ...Independent, UK - 28 minutes agoI recently went on a tour of America promoting my own book of poetry for five weeks, and for the first time I understood the strain he must have undergone ...
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