| 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.
Paris Bails on Baby Bro
Sources tell TMZ Barron Hilton called his sister Paris right after he got busted for DUI this morning, pleading with her to bail him out. Paris said no.We're told Paris rejected her brother's request, telling her 18-year-old brother, "You're going to learn your lesson." TMZ also knows Paris was "very upset and very disappointed in him." For the record, Paris was 25 when she was busted for DUI.We've also learned Barron's mystery passenger was an on-and-off girlfriend he's been seeing for the past two years. .
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But I find it ironic that the really stupid people seem to think the rest of us are. Should Indiana bring back Bob Knight? NEW DAWG: Hell, no. He quit on his kids at Tech. If he showed up at Indiana, that would just be a slap in the face to the people who helped salvage his career. BUCK: I disagree. I would tell The General to go back to Indiana (if theyll have you) and keep the sideshow going. Hes only 67. Bob Knight has become a caricature of himself. He has 902 wins.....and Hoosier fans know from whence most of those came. Who has a better chance of getting into the Hall of Fame: Roger Clemens or Andy Pettitte? NEW DAWG: Clemens. At least he has the credentials. BUCK: Neither one: hows that? Why should they after what Pettitte described in his Feb.
Governor's agenda hits home
Central Hudson Gas & Electric Corp. spokesman John Maserjian said continued electric infrastructure in the Hudson Valley is vital because the demand for energy is projected to grow. In September, the corporation filed a request with state regulators to initiate an energy efficiency program that would provide rebates and incentives, educational outreach, technology assistance and low income-customer financial-aid programs. Central Hudson's holding company, CH Energy Group, has also invested in renewable energy projects, including two wind-farm facilities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, a biomass plant in Lyonsdale, Lewis County, and most recently, an electric generation project using gas from a municipal landfill and wastewater treatment plant in Auburn. .
Jamie Winstone gets some Phoo Action
Jaime Winstone is living it large. She has beaten up a giant purple gorilla, fallen in love with a gay Buddhist kung fu monk, and pulled out a hefty tranquilliser gun from a pair of magic hot pants. And that's just the beginning. For, as Whitey Action, the high-kicking teen protagonist of the celebrity-bashing satire Phoo Action, the 22-year-old firebrand actress has found in her angry wild-child character a kindred spirit of sorts. "In the real world you can't go round pulling tranquilliser guns out of your pants, though I wish I could," she says, her brown eyes bright with enthusiasm, her slight, pixie-like frame leaning forward on a large armchair in the corner of a swish Central London agency. "But Whitey is an anarchist in a modern day world who's fighting the pressures of bullshit celebrityism, so in a way I can relate to that." Whitey, she explains, was initially conceived by the Brit-comic guru Jamie Hewlett (Tank Girl, Gorillaz) as a punk sidekick to the martial arts monk Terry Phoo in a mid-1990s comic strip called Get The Freebies.
Clinton's cred with Latinos questionable
THE CLINTONS have demonstrated in this primary season a knack for building bridges to minority groups and then blowing them up. Having alienated African Americans, Sen. Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton are proving to be equal opportunity offenders by irritating parts of the Latino community through divisiveness, condescension and scapegoating. Then, to cover their tracks, they trot out prominent Latinos who assure the flock that the Clintons have always fought for them. Recently, Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez, has been stumping for Hillary Clinton in the Southwest. Painting Barack Obama as someone who only recently discovered Latinos, Huerta assures crowds that Hillary is "not the Johnny Come Lately" in this election and that the former first lady "has been advocating for us for 35 years" dating back to registering Hispanic voters in Texas when Clinton was fresh out of Yale Law School.
With a 69 in debut, Wie is smiling again
The 27-year-old South Korean caught Creamer with a 1-foot birdie putt on the par-5 fifth and cruised right past her. Jang hit a 7-iron to 10 feet on No. 6 and hit the same club off the tee on the par-3 eighth to set up a 15-foot birdie putt. She's coming off a strong year, surpassing $1 million in earnings, despite failing to win for the first time in three years. She had nine top-10 finishes to finish seventh on the money list and lost in a playoff to Natalie Gulbis in the Evian Masters. Both of Wie's wrists were injured last year but she kept playing, and struggling. She made only three cuts. In nine starts, she withdrew twice and only broke par twice in 19 rounds against women. Wie has played well at Ko Olina, missing a playoff by a shot in the inaugural event in 2006.
Eagles - Birds could be looking for more defensive help in offseason
Trent Cole went to the Pro Bowl, and tackles Brodrick Bunkley and Mike Patterson are solid, but Juqua Thomas might be more of a role player at the end opposite Cole. Rookie Victor Abiamiri played a limited role in six games and didn't record a sack. "I don't know if you ever have enough pressure," Johnson said. "We all want pressure, and turnovers and that . . . toward the end of the year, we became a good third-down team. To me, that's what pressure is, too. We were one of the better teams in the NFL, at least the last four, five games, on third down." Though all signs point to the Eagles looking to add to the d-line, Johnson said not to dismiss the possibility of improvement from within. "I think you're going to see a big difference in a guy like Bunkley, a better pass rusher next year," Johnson said.
A long road from Kosovo to Kurdistan
Even Osama bin Laden had been in Albania, in 1994; al-Qaeda had a solid UCK connection.
Writing in the Russian daily Ogoniok, Ovtchinky describes how Albanian Kosovar clans always controlled opium and then heroin trafficking from Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Balkans towards Western Europe; then during the late 1990s a 3% tax started to finance all UCK operations. The UCK benefited from more than 750 million euros (US$1.1 billion) in drug money to buy weapons, he wrote.
According to Interpol and Europol, just in 1999 and 2000, these Kosovar mafias made no less than 7.5 billion euros - also by diversifying from narco-smuggling into human trafficking and large-scale prostitution. In Germany, they made a killing in Kalashnikov trafficking and fake euro banknotes.
Toe-tapping returns to the Claremont
His buxom rhythm guitarist was all in black except her shoes. She wasn't wearing any. The occasion for the swank dinner-and-show package was to inaugurate an ongoing jazz series and celebrate the return of jazz to the grand ballroom since guys and dolls were swinging to the big bands on the dance floor. "The world has changed. The experience has not," so the Claremont motto goes. But in the big-band heyday, the guests were as white as the Berkeley resort and some of Albright's funkadelic songs, like "To the Max," probably would have scared the pants off Lawrence Welk, who also played there, not to mention Bill Thornburg, the Kansas farmer who built the Claremont in the 1890s, using Gold Rush riches, as a home for his nouveau riche wife. The "castle" burned to the ground July 14, 1901.
Ameranth Receives Approval of Major 'Casino Operations Management ...
SAN DIEGO, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Ameranth, Inc. announced today that it has received an official 'Notice of Allowance' from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a major patent, which will have a term extending to March 2026, on its revolutionary, automated gaming system invention. The patent is the result of work dating to 2001 at Ameranth's QueueOS division. In addition to the patent, this work resulted in Ameranth's industry-leading QueueOS automated gaming system. The approval of this key strategic patent confirms Ameranth's leading and pioneering role in automating the modern poker room and clearly establishes Ameranth as the technology leader in virtually all automated aspects of poker rooms -- as part of Ameranth's overall 21st Century Casino(TM) vision. This new patent -- combined with Ameranth's portfolio of wireless/web data synchronization patents (applicable to wireless gaming and many other casino applications) and Ameranth's recent deployment of its new QueueOS wireless handheld applications further confirm Ameranth's innovation and leadership role for many current and emerging casino applications and deployments.
Woman Convicted Of Shooting Man After Rough Sex
Jurors also convicted Carol Ann Rucker, 52, of discharging a firearm and pointing her revolver at officers who shot her four times. The panel could not reach a unanimous verdict on an allegation that Rucker's shooting of Hubert "Bert" Watson was premeditated and deliberate. Prosecutor Robert Madruga said Rucker would have faced life in prison with a chance for parole if the jurors had convicted her of premeditation. Instead, she faces up to 34 years to life when she is sentenced Aug. 5 by Judge John Thompson, the prosecutor said. During the trial, Rucker admitted shooting Watson after the two engaged in consensual but uncomfortable sex. She said the encounter reminded her of two past rapes and an abusive relationship. She testified that she was distraught when she shot Watson.
ViewDate.com Announces World's First Online Speed Dating Service
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- ViewDate, the world's first website to offer online speed dating services, today announced another free invitation-only dating session on its revolutionary website, http://www.viewdate.com Connie Jinq, ViewDate's founder, started ViewDate after hearing feedback from frustrated friends who had tried traditional speed dates and online dating. Both seemed promising, but fundamentally flawed. Ms. Jinq realized that these flaws could make meaningful relationships difficult to foster. With the help of her fiancee and friends, ViewDate was created to address these flaws and make to online dating a more personal, enjoyable experience. ViewDate allows users to see and speak to each other in real time over the Internet, and a full-fledged profile, search and messaging system lets them keep in touch between events.
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