VALENTINES DAY

Ten Classic Valentines Sayings 1. Love is friendship set on fire. Jeremy Taylor 2. Love is a game that two can play and both win. Eva Gabor 3. Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Jerome K. Jerome 4. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. Elizabeth Barrett Browning 5. 'Lucky is the man who is the first love of a woman, but luckier is the woman who is the last love of a man.' Anon 6. For twas not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. Twas not my lips you kissed but my soul. Judy Garland 7. Love is the heart of the soul. Robert Paul 8. A hundred hearts would be too few to carry all my love for you. Anon 9. My girlfriend told me that she was seeing another man. I told her to rub her eyes. Emo Philips 10. I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. Anon Funny Valentine's Day Sayings • I thought that I could love no other Until, that is, I met your brother. • Roses are red, violets are blue, sugar is sweet, and so are you. But the roses are wilting, the violets are dead, the sugar bowl's empty and so is your head. • Of loving beauty you float with grace If only you could hide your face. • Kind, intelligent, loving and hot This describes everything you are not. • I want to feel your sweet embrace But don't take that paper bag off of your face. • I love your smile, your face, and your eyes Damn, I'm good at telling lies! • I see your face when I am dreaming. That's why I always wake up screaming. • My love, you take my breath away. What have you stepped in to smell this way? • My feelings for you no words can tell Except for maybe 'Go To Hell'. • What inspired this amorous rhyme? Two parts vodka, one part lime ... Love and Marriage • A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it because the thief was spending less than his wife did. • Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener. • The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. • When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure of one thing: either the car is new or the wife. • Before marriage, a man will lie awake all night thinking about something you say. After marriage, he will fall asleep before you finish. • A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man • A little boy asked his father, 'Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?' And the father replied, 'I don't know, son, I'm still paying for it.' • A couple was having a discussion about family finances. Finally the husband exploded, 'If it weren't for my money, the house wouldn't be here!' The wife replied, 'My dear, if it weren't for your money, I wouldn't be here.'

PARALYMPIC GAMES

Sport for athletes with an impairment has existed for more than 100 years, and the first sport clubs for the deaf were already in existence in 1888 in Berlin. It was not until after World War II however, that it was widely introduced. The purpose of it at that time was to assist the large number of war veterans and civilians who had been injured during wartime. In 1944, at the request of the British Government, Dr. Ludwig Guttmann opened a spinal injuries centre at the Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Great Britain, and in time, rehabilitation sport evolved to recreational sport and then to competitive sport. On 29 July 1948, the day of the Opening Ceremony of the London 1948 Olympic Games, Dr. Guttmann organized the first competition for wheelchair athletes which he named the Stoke Mandeville Games. They involved 16 injured servicemen and women who took part in Archery. In 1952, Dutch ex-servicemen joined the Movement and the International Stoke Mandeville Games were founded. These Games later became the Paralympic Games which first took place in Rome, Italy in 1960 featuring 400 athletes from 23 countries. Since then they have taken place every four years. In 1976 the first Paralympic Winter Games were held in Sweden, and as with the Summer Games, have taken place every four years. Since the Summer Games of Seoul, Korea in 1988 and the Winter Games in Albertville, France in 1992 the Games have also taken part in the same cities and venues as the Olympics due to an agreement between the IPC and IOC. Also in 1960, under the aegis of the World Federation of ex-servicemen, an International Working Group on Sport for the Disabled was set up to study the problems of sport for persons with a disability. It resulted in the creation, in 1964, of the International Sport Organization for the Disabled (IOSD) who offered opportunities for those athletes who could not affiliate to the International Stoke Mandeville Games: visually impaired, amputees, persons with cerebral palsy and paraplegics. At the start, 16 countries were affiliated to ISOD and the organization pushed very hard to include blind and amputee athletes into the Toronto 1976 Paralympics and athletes with cerebral palsy in 1980 in Arnhem. Its aim was to embrace all disabilities in the future and to act as a Co-coordinating Committee. Nevertheless, other disability-orientated international organizations such as the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CPISRA) and International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA) were founded in 1978 and 1980. The four international organizations experienced the need of coordinating the Games so they created the "International Co-coordinating Committee Sports for the Disabled in the World" (ICC) in 1982. The ICC was originally composed of the four presidents of CPISRA, IBSA, ISMGF and ISOD, the general secretaries and one additional member (in the beginning it was the Vice-President, and later on the Technical Officer). The International Committee of Sport for the Deaf (CISS) and International Sports Federations for Persons with an Intellectual Disability (INAS-FID) joined in 1986, but the deaf still maintained their own organization. However, the member nations demanded more national and regional representation in the organization. Finally, on 22 September 1989, the International Paralympic Committee was founded as an international non-profit organization in Dusseldorf, Germany to act as the global governing body of the Paralympic Movement. The word “Paralympic” derives from the Greek preposition “para” (beside or alongside) and the word “Olympic”. Its meaning is that Paralympics are the parallel Games to the Olympics and illustrates how the two movements exist side-by-side.