2010 is the Year of the Tiger,
which is also known by its formal name of Geng Yin
Tiger people are sensitive, given to deep thinking, capable of great sympathy. They can be extremely short-tempered, however. Other people have great respect for them, but sometimes tiger people come into conflict with older people or those in authority. sometimes Tiger people cannot make up their minds, which can result in a poor, hasty decision or a sound decision arrived at too late. They are suspicious of others, but they are courageous and powerful. Tigers are most compatible with Horses, Dragons, and Dogs
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Numerous early Christian martyrs were named Valentine. The Valentines honored on February 14 are Valentine of Rome (Valentinus presb. m. Romae) and Valentine of Terni (Valentinus ep. Interamnensis m. Romae). Valentine of Rome was a priest in Rome who suffered martyrdom about AD 269 and was buried on the Via Flaminia. His relics are at the Church of Saint Praxed in Rome and at Whitefriar Street Carmelite Church in Dublin, Ireland.
The sending of Valentines was a fashion in nineteenth-century Great Britain, and, in 1847, Esther Howland developed a successful business in her Worcester, Massachusetts home with hand-made Valentine cards based on British models. The popularity of Valentine cards in 19th century America, where many Valentine cards are now general greeting cards rather than declarations of love.
The best Valentine is the one you get from your lover, friend, partner and the cute kid across the room from you in school. Surprise your lover with flowers and dinner, they will love you all year long and forever more.
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Vancouver’s Chinese New Year Parade will go ahead as planned on Feb. 14, 2010 — the second day of the Winter Olympic Games — despite Chinatown’s nearness to Olympic venues and routes.
- Parade organizers changed the route and gave the 36th annual parade an earlier-than-usual start to accomodate Olympic roadblocks — and had some crucial luck with Olympic scheduling.
- “The Chinese Gods were smiling on the parade because there are no events at GM Place on that day. If there were, we couldn’t have done the parade,” Muriel Honey, manager of films and special events for the City of Vancouver, said Tuesday.
- GM Place and B.C. Place, both Olympic venues, are a few blocks from the parade’s route through Chinatown.
- Honey said that police would have been unable to cope with tens of thousands of spectators watching the Chinese New Year’s Parade plus 17,000 Olympic ticket-holders heading to GM Place for a hockey game.
- The 36th annual parade will start at 9:30 a.m.The parade has to be off Pender Street by 11 a.m. — an hour before the traditional start time — because it connects to Hastings Street, a key Olympic transportation route, which must be kept open, said Honey.
- The parade will begin at Taylor and Abbott Streets and proceed eastbound on Pender Street, southbound on Gore Street and then westbound on Keefer Street. In an Olympic twist, the parade will continue up the Keefer Steps to the downtown “Olympic Live Site” at Georgia and Hamilton Streets, where spectators and Olympic tourists will be able to watch traditional dancing lions and other parade performers.
“The Olympic exposure will be wonderful for the parade,” said Honey.
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The 19th Annual February 14th Women's Memorial March takes place on Sunday, February 14 2010 and begins at 12pm.
- We gather each year to mourn and remember our sisters by listening to their family members, by taking over the streets, and through spiritual
ceremonies. At noon, we gather at the Carnegie Community Centre Theatre, 401 Main Street (corner Hastings, Vancouver) where family members speak in
remembrance. At 1 pm, the march takes to the streets and proceeds through the Downtown Eastside, with stops to commemorate where women were last seen or found; speeches by community activists at the police station; a healing circle at Oppenheimer Park around 3 pm; and finally a community feast at the Japanese Language Hall.
- The heinous and unimaginable violence that have taken the lives of so many has left a deep void in our hearts. The February 14th Women’s Memorial
March is an opportunity to come together to grieve the loss of our beloved sisters, remember the women who are still missing, and to dedicate
ourselves to justice. Please join us (all genders welcome) and we thank you for your support of the Women’s Memorial March.
New website launched! http://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com
On facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gidp685286200&ref=ts
Contact: marlene.george at vancouver.ca or 604-665-3005
About the Annual Women's Memorial March
- In January 1991 a woman was murdered on Powell Street. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. This woman’s
murder in particular was the catalyst that moved women into action. Out of this sense of hopelessness and anger came an annual march on Valentine’s Day to express compassion, community, and caring for all women in the Downtown Eastside, Coast Salish Territories, Vancouver.
- Nineteen years later, the march continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women. Increasing deaths of many vulnerable women from the DTES still leaves family, friends, loved ones, and community members with an overwhelming sense of grief and loss. Every year the list of women going missing also increases. Over 3000 women are known to have gone missing or been murdered in Canada since the 1970s. Last year, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women issued this statement: “Hundreds of cases involving aboriginal women who have gone missing or been murdered in the past two decades have neither
been fully investigated nor attracted priority attention.”
- Please respect the memorial march and the leadership of those organizing it. This event is organized and led by women in the DTES because women, especially Indigenous women, face physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual violence on a daily basis. This is a memorial not a protest; it is a deeply emotional time for family members and women affected
especially in Vancouver’s DTES. We ask that you please do not bring your banners, flags, or leaflets as the Women’s Memorial March carries five banners only to honour the women. Thank you.
The February 14th Women’s Memorial March needs your help, to donate:
http://womensmemorialmarch.wordpress.com/donate/
