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<title>Love Bytes</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ Welcome to the meat market.

Once shunned and labelled something for the socially inept and desperate, internet dating has come out of the closet and found itself soaring with popularity amongst a large majority of people in the dating scene. Though some with hidden pictures on their profiles might not be too keen to admit to their participation within the scene; internet dating has appeared to overcome most of the stigma attached to its culture.
With a Smorgasbord of sites all offering to help you find your soul mate in the relationship stakes, there is also a whole bevy of other sites dedicated to the polygamist.  There is dating sites catering for every type of person, from Christians to inmates, from Goths to Fetishists. 
With our lives too busy it seems to conventionally date, the world of internet dating seems to offer us a list of pros and cons. People theorize or perhaps the proper term maybe ‘justify’ that internet dating gives you a chance to ‘mentally’ get to know another person, especially in a sober state rather than tackling the club scene where most people frequent in search of something more casual.
The one main con of the internet dating culture is that more people are stating that it has become a meat market. When meeting and forming a potential relationship with one person it is then way too easy and tempting to log back in and continue to search the buffet of other ‘potentials’ always within reach of your finger tips because you think you might be able to do a little better. This itself is on the onset of a vicious circle and leads to issues of trust and the possibility that internet dating is becoming an addiction to some people, rather than a true search for a potential life partner.
In the world of traditional methods of finding a mate we do not have the convenience of a bevy of potential mates within arm’s reach, however with the technology of the internet we have the ability to log on to thousands of different dating sites 24 hours a day 7 days a week from our computers at home and work and even our mobile phones.
What does this convenience mean to the delicate fabric of modern relationships and has the internet dating culture lead to an increase of affairs which inevitably leads to the destruction of already formed relationships and marriages?  Especially nowadays when you can register on sites that specifically cater for ‘extramarital liaisons’ rather than having to purposely go out and seek them in say seedy bars or office store rooms. Is this culture now offering the temptation of an affair to those who would not normally encounter the opportunity to partake in one?
Once you have met and formed a relationship with someone via a dating site how do you know they are not logging back on to continue searching and that you will not soon be discarded when someone they feel has more ‘potential’ comes along? Of course with internet dating it has its own style of etiquette and this etiquette states that it is considered the right thing to do to remove or hide your profile from public viewing once you have established a ‘potential’ relationship with someone. Though we may see for ourselves that our prospective partner has indeed removed or hidden their profile as an act of etiquette or sign of faith, how do we know that they do not have a multitude of profiles on other dating sites as it is custom for ‘daters’ to register with several dating sites and not just one. I suppose we could bring ourselves to spend hours searching the data bases of other sites in the hope that we do not find our partner listed there or we could just blindly put our trust in a person we met via the whole internet dating charade.
Yes internet dating is easy and has its advantages but with it a whole new set of troubles and risks brew with it forming a complex spider web of dos and don’ts, plus the whole concept of placing our trust in a stranger that we have met in a world that is a cesspool of deception, fake profiles and players.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>What Are You Doing This N.Y.E. TODDICUS?</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1315/2008-12-24.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ INTERVIEW WITH HOUSTON PERSONALITY AND GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST TODDICUS AND ENTERTAINER FOR HOUSTON BLACK TIE, BIG HEARTS EVENT AT HOTEL ZAZA]]></description>
<author>Abraham</author>
<category>ENTERTAINMENT</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Obama and McCain - Dance Off!</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1280/2008-12-07.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Obama and McCain - Dance Off!]]></description>
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<category>ENTERTAINMENT</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nerd Walk</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1279/2008-12-07.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Nerd Walk by short334]]></description>
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<category>ENTERTAINMENT</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>As Eden Burns: One of Houston's Heaviest</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/261/ARTICLE/1278/2008-12-05.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A look at As Eden Burns and the making of a local Houston metal band.]]></description>
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<category>LIVE BANDS</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Therapy Apparel</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/288/ARTICLE/1266/2008-11-24.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Skate team originated in Houston, TX]]></description>
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<category>STREET LOOKS</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Getting to Know Subversa</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/261/ARTICLE/1195/2008-10-09.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Band Interview: Subversa]]></description>
<author>Claudia Gutierrez</author>
<category>LIVE BANDS</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>When Something’s Broken Call Upon DJ FIX</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/148/ARTICLE/1194/2008-10-08.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Interview With DJ Fix]]></description>
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<category>THIS DJ</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:32:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Texas Primaries</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1176/2008-02-15.html</link>
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<category>ENTERTAINMENT</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>DJ Sample</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/148/ARTICLE/1168/2007-11-27.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ This is a test of this section]]></description>
<author>Staff</author>
<category>THIS DJ</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Mysterious Steps, Explained at Last</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1078/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ At Mammoth Hot Springs, in Yellowstone National Park, the mineral-rich waters flow over a surreal landscape of stepped terraces and ponds.]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>He Was a Teenage Spy, Surrounded by Treacherous Adults</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1094/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ LONDON, July 17 — The problem with most movie action heroes, said Alex Pettyfer, who plays a teenage secret agent in the forthcoming film “Stormbreaker,” is that they are way too old.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Even Without an Alice, City Ballet’s ‘Russian Seasons’ Offers a Wonderland Nevertheless</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1093/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Alexei Ratmansky’s “Russian Seasons,” which celebrated its premiere at New York City Ballet in June, is such a marvel of a dance that when the curtain fell, it was like awakening from a vivid dream. To borrow a line from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Mr. Ratmansky’s favorite book, “It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first.”]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>In Riga, Creating an Identity Through the Arts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[ IT’S 2 a.m. in Riga, and the cobbled streets of the Old Town are crowded. The pelmeni shop, where you can fill up on stuffed noodles (the ex-Soviet world’s answer to ravioli) for a dollar or two, is doing a brisk business. A line of teenagers, good-humored and mildly raucous, snakes out the door of Pulkvedim Neviens Neraksta (No One Writes to the Colonel), the reigning alt-music temple. And windows on every street frame views of people dancing to loud, loud music: in a restaurant, booked for a private party; in a nightclub that has reserved a window spot for its strippers’ pole; and, most incongruously, in a tearoom, where exuberant bodies have carved out a dance floor amid the little round tables and echoes of gently clinking cups.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>The Quest for the $1,000 Human Genome</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1076/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ As part of an intensive effort to develop a new generation of machines that will sequence DNA at a vastly reduced cost, scientists are decoding a new human genome — that of James D. Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA and the first director of the National Institutes of Health’s human genome project.]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:59:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Camcorders Catch Up to High-Definition</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1075/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ With more high-definition televisions sold by the day, makers of camcorders are taking notice.]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>At Avery Fisher, Goran Bregovic Proves Himself a Composer of, and for, Many Settings</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1073/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Dancers filled the aisles of Avery Fisher Hall on Thursday night for a good part of the concert by Goran Bregovic’s Wedding and Funeral Orchestra, soon after one of its subgroups — an eight-man Gypsy brass band — oompahed into the foreground.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bob Seger’s Latest Road Heads Straight on Through to Country</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1072/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ LOS ANGELES, July 14 — Given that the rock legend Bob Seger first bemoaned the eclipse of “old time rock ’n’ roll” in 1978, one can only imagine how he feels now. Rock music remains a popular radio genre, but part of its audience has been drifting away. So where is a resurgent rock star, known for hits like “Hollywood Nights” and “Night Moves,” to turn? To country music fans.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Orrin Hatch, Lyricist</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1071/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ IF the rule is to write what you know, then perhaps only a senator could write a song called “The Answer’s Not in Washington.”]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>John Musto’s New Piano Concerto at Caramoor</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1070/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ KATONAH, N.Y., July 15 — John Musto spent a number of years writing his new Piano Concerto and had to wait a few more for its first public hearing, on Saturday night here at the Caramoor International Music Festival, where he is the composer in residence. Michael Barrett conducted the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and Mr. Musto was the piano soloist.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Directing the Film, Then Its Hype</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1069/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Among the more obscure entries in Johnny Depp’s filmography is a sly cameo in “The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan,” a 2004 film about the making of Mr. Shyamalan’s period thriller, “The Village.” Mr. Depp explains that he decided not to appear in the earlier movie “Signs” because Mr. Shyamalan wanted to exert some creepy control over his cast, requiring a confidentiality agreement and feeding the actors comments to spout to the press (as if that never happens).]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Avast, Me Critics! Ye Kill the Fun: Critics and the Masses Disagree About Film Choices</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/122/ARTICLE/1068/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Let’s start with a few numbers. At Rottentomatoes.com, a Web site that quantifies movie reviews on a 100-point scale, the aggregate score for “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” stands at a sodden 54. Metacritic.com, a similar site, crunches the critical prose of the nation’s reviewers and comes up with a numerical grade of 52 out of 100. Even in an era of rampant grade inflation, that’s a solid F.]]></description>
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<category>CONTENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Race to the Swift? Not Necessarily</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1063/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ INDIANAPOLIS — Steve Spence arrived in Tokyo on an August day in 1991 to run a world championship marathon. He knew right away that it would be bad.]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:22:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Making Several Stops at Shops Online, but Paying All at Google</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1062/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ GOOGLE has trained millions of people to head first to the Web to find information. Can it now train consumers to buy?]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Windows Is Ready to Tout PC’s as Gaming Devices</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1061/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Quick, name the world’s most popular electronic game system.]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Brainy Robots Start Stepping Into Daily Life</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/120/ARTICLE/1058/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ Robot cars drive themselves across the desert, electronic eyes perform lifeguard duty in swimming pools and virtual enemies with humanlike behavior battle video game players.]]></description>
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<category>LIFESTYLES</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 05:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Bush's comments caught on mic</title>
<link>http://www.snc247.com/news/126/ARTICLE/1053/2006-07-18.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[ A microphone picked up US President George W Bush saying that Syria should press Hezbollah to 'stop doing this shit' and that his secretary of state may go to the Middle East soon.]]></description>
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<category>ENTERTAINMENT</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jul 2006 04:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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