| Penthouse Purchases Various, Inc., Sale Includes Bondage.com
"San Francisco-based Bondage.com was founded in 1996 to deliver an exciting, educational, and erotic experience to BDSM devotees and the curious. The free site features photos of members, stories, columns on topics relating to Bondage, Fetish, BDSM, personals ads and active chat rooms. The company has developed advanced technology to deliver a unique adult internet experience. Various plans to run Bondage.com as a completely separate site to preserve it's unique chemistry and community." In this latest acquisition, Penthouse purchased Various, Inc. for an approximate $500 Million USD. Included in the sale is over 25 social networking sites, including Bondage.com, Alt.com, Adultfriendfinder.com, Gradfinder.com and Bigchuch.com, etc. Current plans by Penthouse are to retain all sites previously owned by Various, Inc.
Jangl Selects Level 3 to Support Voice Platform
BOSTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Level 3 Communications (NASDAQ: LVLT) today announced that Jangl is leveraging Level 3's wholesale voice and data services to provide converged communications to its customers by offering integrated wireline/wireless Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services. Distributed directly to consumers at Jangl.com and through partnerships with leaders in social networking, social media and online personals communities, Jangl's service is a simple and easy-to-use way to let people initiate phone connections without sharing their personal information. Under the terms of the multi-year agreement, Level 3(R) is providing Local Inbound, Voice Termination, International Voice Termination, Toll Free, and High Speed IP (HSIP) services to Jangl. Level 3 hands off the call to Jangl's platform, enabling Jangl to assign a new number that provides a way for consumers to interact with one another without divulging personal information like private phone numbers.
Yahoo Messenger 9.0 beta
Yahoo Messenger allows you to see when friends are online and you can send them instant messages. It can also alert you to new mail in your Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Personals account, or when you have an upcoming meeting recorded in Yahoo Calendar. Yahoo Messenger offers firewall support; a standby mode that minimizes the program until an Internet connection is made; the ability to save and print your conversations; and a tabbed interface that provides quick access to your favorite stocks, news, and sports scores. Other features include the ability to create a chat room automatically, stock price alerts, the ability to send messages to friends even if they're not online when you are, a Quick Compact mode that hides the Messenger tools to maximize your viewing area, Messenger Themes, and the Online Presence, a small HTML button you can put on your Web site to allow your Yahoo buddies to instantly see if you are currently online, and voice chat, which allows you to talk for free to anybody else on the Internet.
PM wants university headscarf ban lifted asap
TURKISH Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he wants a ban on the Islamic headscarf in universities abolished "as soon as possible" despite harsh objections from secularists, Anatolia news agency reported. "We want this issue to be resolved as soon as possible within the democratic parliamentarian order... It is time for this problem to come to an end," Mr Erdogan told a gathering of his Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Istanbul, Anatolia reported. The AKP reached a preliminary deal with an opposition party on Thursday on a constitutional amendment to lift the ban, despite severe criticism from the judiciary and members of the academic community. The AKP, the offshoot of a now-banned Islamist party, has long opposed the ban, arguing that it violates both the freedom of conscience and the right to education.
WHAT: “Love, Operation Vacation Style” singles auction and dance ...
WHATS IT ALL ABOUT: The free singles night will boast dancing and games, drink specials and a DJ spinning for the crowd. Most importantly, dates with singles from Fort Carson and the Glenwood area will be up for bid, with proceeds benefiting Operation Vacation. .
Jim Salisbury: A window on how arbitration works
Some are downright absurd. Such as the one involving a pinch-hitter several years ago. An agent recalled the story yesterday. "He was one of the best pinch-hitters in baseball," the agent said. "That's what he did. He was a lefthanded pinch-hitter. He hit singles and doubles. He rarely entered the game in any other capacity." Management opened the hearing by skewering the player: There are five things you need to do in baseball: Hit, hit for power, run, throw and field. This player can't field, can't throw and can't run. He's got no power, and he only hits righthanded pitching. So he only has one-half of the five tools a baseball player needs. The player won the case. "Management's argument was so absurd it was helpful," the agent recalled.
Hip-Hop Rumors: New G-Unit Vid! Rihanna In High School!
I mean, I don't know all of what is going to happen, but I am interested in hearing what Cameron has to say.
I don't know if this is news or what, but somebody allegedly snapped this pic of Cam'ron at Micky D's. The person that claims they took it lives in the Ill Commuity, but passed through McDonalds.
Here we go with Cam'ron at the Micky Deez…hey, everybody likes a Big Mac here and there. In Cam's case….it might be a big Mac 10.
YOUNG RETIREMENT FOR JEEZY?
When I heard that Young Jeezy was about to retire, I was totally shocked and amazed.
The Main Street Hyannis location closed June 21
I support the concept of having any industry that can come into Middleboro and be a good neighbor. If the results bring a financial benefit, even better." Read the rest of this Brockton Enterprise story here. ________________________ On the waterfront, real estate economics become bizarre How a poor man can afford to own his own waterview BAYSIDE, Maine — The midday sky darkens as the Surprise slides toward its mooring. We drop the sails. We have everything tied down just as the rain shifts from drops to downpour. The radio announces thunderstorms along the entire midcoast of Maine, an area that might be the most beautiful place to sail in the world... Another answer: Rent a waterfront house. Though it might cost $500k or more to buy one of those properties, a great many cottages are available by the week for about $1k.
Holy matrimoney: Couple on newlywed reality TV show
Show business brought them together, and now Dana and Steve Krashin are hoping it will help their marriage get off to a well-financed start. The couple, high school sweethearts who met at Framingham High School during a musical production of "Working," now live in New York and are one of seven couples to be featured in "Here Come the Newlyweds," a reality show debuting March 2 on ABC. The show, a cross between "The Newlywed Game" and "Survivor," pits the seven couples against each other through a series of challenges. Winners get to add to a pot of money they'll take away if they come out on top, while losers are voted off the show by other contestants. Among the challenges the husband-and-wife teams face in the first episode is one in which blindfolded husbands are asked to identify their wife's kiss and a test to see whether wives can direct their blindfolded husbands through an automobile obstacle course.
Happy birthday, 'leapers'
Stuart Watamaniuk turns two today, and already he can swim, ski, and converse fluidly. No, he's not a super baby, he's a leap year baby, or "leaper." The Edmonton Grade 3 student is one of approximately 22,800 leapers in Canada, or .07 per cent of the population. Moreover, he's a millennium leaper, which he knows makes him extra special. Most years, Stuart celebrates his birthday whenever it's most convenient for his family. .
Call for GCSE languages regrade
The Association of Language Learning (ALL) had suggested to a review of languages by Lord Dearing that there should be adjustments to the grading of GCSEs to redress what it said was the imbalance between languages and other subjects. England's QCA, in a report, says there are counter-arguments and that instead the focus should be on improving teaching and raising pupils' performance. It says: "The present examination system is not based on an aptitude-based conception of comparability and its adoption would create a major threat to public confidence in students' results. .
Latest Share Chat
Amomg AIM newcomers, Coastal Energy started life, post the share consolidation, at 121-1/2 pence, while Greenko Group, the owner and operator of clean energy projects in India, was quoted at 104-1/2, compared with an issue price of 97.6 pence. Asia Distribution Solutions, which provides distribution and manufacturing services for foreign and People's Republic of China (PRC) companies to import and sell their branded beverage and food products in the PRC, began at 29-1/2. Elsewhere, London & Stamford, a newly formed closed-ended investment company based in Guernsey, ticked up to 102 from the offer price of 100. On the downside, Charterhouse Communications dropped 27 pct - or 0.375 to a penny - after the company warned it is not certain at this stage it will meet the current year's overall profit expectations.
Laser shone at aircraft over Sydney
The incidents were reported to have occurred at Merrylands between 9.30pm (AEDT) and 10.30pm yesterday. A member of the public also tipped off police about a laser light being pointed at vehicles and aircraft from a car at the same time at nearby Pendle Hill. Police have been spoken to a number of people and have seized a laser. After a similar incident last year, the Civil Aviation Safety Authority said laser lights could endanger aircraft by temporarily blinding the pilots. The federal transport department said last year it had identified up to 20 laser incidents across Australia, including one involving a Royal Flying Doctor Service aircraft. In another recent incident, a laser was shone into an emergency helicopter carrying a critically ill patient as it flew over Sydney's inner west last September, forcing the pilot to delay landing.
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