| Vumber Launches Virtual Phone Number Service on Paltalk.com
NEW YORK, Feb. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Vumber (www.vumber.com), the secure, two-way disposable calling service, today announced a new partnership with Paltalk (www.paltalk.com), the leading real-time, video-based community with over 4 million active members, to provide privacy-ensured virtual phone numbers to its user base. "Online dating and chat groups continue to be a fast growing trend, yet some participants are reluctant to share their personal phone numbers online," said Vumber Co-Founder Cliff Wener. "With Vumber, Paltalk members will have more privacy, control and freedom when providing phone numbers to one another." According to a study by Pew Internet and American Life Project, 11% of all American Internet-using adults - about 16 million people - say they have gone to an online dating website or other site where they can meet people online.
Archive for the 'Kathy Griffin' Category
Yes, that really is Kathy Griffin on the cover of the new Advocate. She personally called up Mariah and asked for the name of her retoucher. Flawless work! You can barely tell she's 47 years old….or human! Permalink / 353 comments (RSS) » .
Mel C Angered By Lesbian Rumours.
Spice Girl Melanie Chisholm has hit out in frustration after being branded a lesbian. The singer, 33, was nicknamed 'Butch Spice' after the band split in 2001, after she put on weight and cropped her hair. She was also dogged by rumours of an affair with her female assistant. But the star - who has been dating property developer Thomas Starr for the past five years - insists they are nothing but cheap jibes. .
Stocks On The Move: Burger King, Take-Two
Lennar (LEN) popped 2%. Based in Miami, speculation that a group of investors from United Arab Emirates had offered to buy Lennar sent the stock higher. – I love this story, Karen Finerman says. DROPS (stocks that slid lower) Deckers Outdoor Corp (DECK) dropped 7%. The EPS forecast for the maker of "Uggs" boots was shy of expectations. – “Ugg" says it all, says Karen Finerman. Dean Foods (DF) dropped 12%. After a nice run for food stocks across the board, Dean Foods plummeted Friday after the company announced it would sell more shares. – Walk away, counsels Jeff Macke. Google (GOOG) dropped 7%. Internet audience research firm comScore issued a report on Monday showing a 7% drop in advertisements viewed on Google during January compared with December, even as Web searches rose 9% over the same period.
Steve and Mia check out the surprising, play-it-straight Museum of Sex
THE DAILY NEWS dispatched romance columnists Steve and Mia to the Museum of Sex in New York City for their annual column to honor Valentine's Day. The museum, on Fifth Avenue at 27th Street, and waggishly nicknamed MoSex, celebrated its fifth anniversary in October. Its current exhibition is titled, "Sex in Design/Design in Sex," about conscious and subconscious sexual imagery in design. The museum also features one floor devoted to "sex and the moving image," and another to the best of past exhibits. So: Is it romantic? Yucky? Titillating? Appropriate for a first date? Here's what Steve and Mia had to say: Steve: This museum is a fraud, Mia. I saw things from the 19th century. It was my generation that invented sex for fun.
Cinequest Films
(Canada/India) Being a nice guy rarely pays, and neither does a film about a nice guy. In this drama by screenwriter/director Richie Mehta (co-written by Shaun Mehta), electric rickshaw driver Amal (Rupinder Nagra) cuts everyone slack but himself and still has nothing to show for it in the end. The plot moves slowly, alternating between scenes focusing on Amal and an older man (in Hindi) and on a lawyer and potential beneficiaries of an estate (in English). Though not a thrill ride (rickshaws only move so fast, mind you), some of the film's highlights come by way of straight-forward acting in scenes depicting genuine human connections, and the reality of life is that it isn't always particularly exciting. (CT) March 8 at 7:30pm and Mar 9 at 1:30pm, both at the California Theatre.
Diana's butler faces probe of testimony
The Sun newspaper said it obtained the secret recording of Burrell and was turning the tape over to the court Tuesday afternoon. The judge at the inquest, Lord Justice Scott Baker, said in court Monday that he had requested the tape. The newspaper reported on the tape in its Monday edition and posted selected portions of the black-and-white video on its Web site. The Sun's headline read, "Butler admits perjury," but the footage posted doesn't contain such an admission. Burrell is heard saying he didn't tell the inquest everything he knew and that he threw in some "red herrings." "Perjury is not a very nice thing to have to consider," Burrell says in the tape. "I told the truth as far as I could, but I didn't tell the whole truth." Burrell did not respond to repeated attempts by CNN to contact him for comment.
Global Initiative To Protect Children From Secondhand Smoke
To back these messages, UICC is publishing a 40-page expert report, "Protecting our children against secondhand smoke". "I love my smoke-free childhood" is the first focus within the World Cancer Campaign, a five-year cancer-prevention effort launched on World Cancer Day 2007. The Campaign offers parents simple steps to share with children to prevent cancer later in life. (http://www.worldcancercampaign.org)
"Tobacco-related cancers lead the list of preventable deaths and hundreds of thousands of people who have never smoked die each year from diseases caused by secondhand smoke. That's why this initiative is so important," says Isabel Mortara, UICC executive director.
In addition to targeting individuals, the UICC encourages decision makers to put cancer on the public agenda.
Malawi churches review role of condoms in AIDS fight
Still, he added, "The church has not changed its stand on the use of condoms, and we will not support wholesale use of condoms."
In the past, a number of church denominations in Malawi have condemned the use of condoms for encouraging, as they believe, promiscuity and pre-marital sex among young people. Instead of condoms, the churches have called for sexual abstinence before marriage.
Bishop Bvumbwe was speaking at a meeting to review an MCC manual on HIV and AIDS. He also said that clergy should fight any harmful cultural practices that might increase the spread of the virus.
Bvumbwe said, however, that the process of uprooting harmful cultural practices should not affect Malawi's national traditions. "We should preserve our Malawian identity and not become westernised," he cautioned.
Of course children don't need fathers
Again, jolly nice for the kids lucky enough to get full-beam attention. But to turn nice into necessary requires a denial of history as well as of geography — there are still many parts of the world where the bearing and raising of children is entirely the province of women — and, indeed, of nature itself: for every male swan, happy to embrace monogamy and even to squat on a clutch of spring eggs, there is a bull to inseminate a promiscuous dozen, unable to care less for the resulting progeny. Yet both species, rather like our own, seem to truck along quite nicely. Among opponents to this hot-potato Bill there is a less shrill cabal of those who agree that, as long as adequate provision is made for the physical nurture of children, and as long as there are sufficiently committed female parents, the routine presence of a man might not be important; nevertheless, they say, children should have a "right" at least to know who their genetic father is.
Junk Science: Looming Lightbulb Liability
The speeding freight train carrying toxic waste liability for makers, sellers and purchasers of compact fluorescent lightbulbs, or CFLs, was only faintly audible in the distance last spring when this column first warned of it. Now we're beginning to see that environmentalist-stoked train speed toward its victims, whom President Bush and Congress just finished tying to the tracks. CFLs and all other fluorescent lightbulbs require special clean-up and disposal procedures because they contain small amounts of mercury, which is neurotoxic at sufficiently high exposures. For example, you're not supposed to vacuum breakage or toss used bulbs in household trash. Despite these clean-up and disposal hassles, environmental groups, bulb makers and retailers relentlessly have promoted CFL use as a strategy for reducing electricity consumption and the power plant emissions allegedly causing global warming.
Mall Gunman Admitted He was Satanic, Attempted Suicide
OMAHA, Neb. The teen gunman who killed eight people and himself in a mall this month once told social workers he was satanic and acknowledged that he often acted before thinking of the consequences, according to newly released court records. Robert Hawkins' file includes hundreds of pages of court transcripts, drug tests and letters from caseworkers, therapists and family members. They give the clearest picture yet of a young man who told a therapist in April 2005 that "he is not sure if there is a God or life after death and that when he dies, he'll probably go to hell." More than two years later, on Dec. 5, the 19-year-old Hawkins walked into a department store in the Westroads Mall and shot 11 people, then committed suicide. Click here to see photos of the victims Click here to watch video: Witness Recalls Shooting Click here for more about the eight victims .
Darkroom Productions Keeps the Good News Coming
We get a number of boastful e-mails from local hip-hop labels, and trust us when we say they're not all newsworthy. But pretty much anytime Juan Donovan, who along with Jamal Roberts makes up Darkroom Productions, sends out an e-mail blast, he's got something genuinely exciting to tell us. Every few weeks there's another major-label rapper they're collaborating with, or another show on MTV that they're composing original music for. And this morning came a whole slew of information from Donovan, including the release date for Darkroom's first nationally distributed album, among other things. In January, Donovan first announced that Darkroom Productions had signed a deal to release Hamsterdam The Album with distribution from independent hip-hop giant Koch.
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