soopergrape

A man for which there is no suitable replacement.

From the page: "Managed Chaos
A Virtual Assistant Service by Ms. James

A Virtual Assistant (VA) is a highly-skilled, independent professional who remotely provides administrative, technical and/or creative business support services."

I just came across this and remembered the services offered in India mentioned in The Four Hour Work Week. I can think of times it might be handy to have someone who is NOT 10,000 miles away...

From the page: (NaturalNews) In the wake of hundreds of dietary supplements recently being outlawed across the EU, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has quietly unleashed a regulatory scheme that, if fully implemented, could ban virtually all dietary supplements in the USA that were formulated after 1994.

An excerpt from a very short story on a possible future of the automobile. It's a plain page that has nothing on it but the story text. Hope you like it. Oh,I wrote this before I found out what Google was up to. I wonder if they use a similar concept. This is a re-post. I changed the page and broke the old link-it's easier this way.
from the page:

(Lane Lock)
or
Kathleen
... "Full auto?" asked K.C., turning toward the freeway-in full auto mode. She was painfully aware that Reese had not touched her controls once since he'd entered the car.
"Oh, yeah. Full auto. I guess I forgot. Sorry." It was not exactly legal to drive this way, but since she had been programmed to learn his habits and follow them by default, it was pretty much routine. If they passed a cop she would let him know and he would pretend to drive, but he was getting so careless she didn't connect the steering circuit unless she felt she could trust him, and then she still verified his attention and wouldn't let him do anything stupid or dangerous. She would have to admit she liked Reese-in spite of her good programming.
"That's O.K." she said. "Do you want the lights?" She could do a pretty nifty 3D Heads Up display.
"Sure, thanks."
"It's no problem." And then , "Full graphic display enabled, AYE!"
Reese smiled. Even though he'd taught her that it was still cute. The road ahead lit up with Neon trails: the highway, their path, the position and speed of traffic, and faint outlines of guard rails, bridge posts, light poles, etc. This was not just decoration, these were recorded in her database along with coordinates, road width, lane width, surface friction coefficient, elevation, angle...stuff like that. She was always checking this data, swapping with slash-dotters she came across, and with any "chirpers". These were data checkers. Small transceivers located in precisely targeted areas that verified where you were with where you thought you were. Kathleen created a 3D construct of the roads she travelled. Sometimes a detailed one was available, but you still had to verify it (Why anyone would want to put out a false highway data map was beyond her ability to comprehend. HUMANS!...

This is the absolute truth! (stolen from Selene77.)

This is a hauntingly sweet song that makes me wish I had paid more attention in French class! The vocals are so absolutely feminine, they are almost erotic without even knowing what she is saying!

FDA sends US marshals to seize elderberry juice concentrate, deems it 'unapproved drug'
According to Barry Grissom, US Attorney for Kansas, the FDA sent a warning letter to Wyldewood in 2006 to remove or modify certain health claims that it said were in violation of federal law, but the company did not comply. FDA officials claim that Wyldewood continued to make unapproved claims, and that seizing the product was the next step.

However, John Brewer, co-founder of Wyldewood, says that after receiving the initial FDA warning letter, his company hired a consultant familiar with FDA regulations to help his company reword their product descriptions. After making the appropriate changes, and clarifying that the elderberry products in question were supplements, Brewer says his company had done what it needed to in order to be in compliance.

"We haven't heard anything from (the FDA) since," he told reporters, noting that following the changes up until the raid, the FDA had ceased communicating with Wyldewood. "They've been in our facility multiple times. It's like, 'C'mon guys, we changed our label, we changed everything we thought we were supposed to do.' And then they show up and do this. (Supplements) seems to be one of their hot buttons these days."

I was looking for something more from this lady: mixingreality.com/2011/05/lupe-nunez-fernandez-new-music-video-with-amor-de... [mixingreality.com/2011/05/lupe-nunez-fernandez-new-music-video-with-amor-de...]
and came upon this group.I had been led to believe that she was in it, but apparently Google had my best interests at heart. Sounds like stuff I would have heard on the radio in the sixties...nice!