| 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.
Hip-Hop Rumors: Lil' Wayne's Detox? C-Murder & The Game's Mom? Mariah ...
My homey Johnny told me that C-Murder has signed The Game's mother to a deal. She soon is telling her life story in the form a book…and maybe a CD as rapper. “Life's Not A Fair Game" is supposedly the name of the book. I'm sure you all know, but Game's mother is a well respected OG in the Compton hood – I heard.
NELLY'S TOTAL RULE OVER OTHER PEOPLE?
Nelly is supposedly restarting the T.R.O.O.P. clothing line. What's funny about that is TROOP been “back" but they didn't get any burn. They used to say TROOP was owned by the KKK and mean Total Rule Over Other People. He needs to bring back VoKal (that site ain't been updated in 3 full years)!
LIL' WAYNE WRITING ON DETOX? There is a lil' rumor going around that Lil' Wayne might be lending his writing or non writing talents to Dr.
Iconic Stetson first made at peak’s base
National park rangers proudly wear them. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have donned them for more than a century. Colorado State Patrol troopers wear them, too. Boy Scout leaders, military drill sergeants and even Smokey Bear, the renowned champion of forest protection, wear Stetson Boss of the Plains ranger hats. Perhaps they should be standard issue for Colorado Springs police, given that the distinctive flat-brimmed felt hat with the "mountain peak" crown and leather band was conceived and created by John B. Stetson at a campfire at the base of Pikes Peak in 1862. Stetson, the son of a New Jersey hatmaker, was diagnosed with tuberculosis, so he left the family business and went to explore the West before he died. He worked as a brickmaker in St. Joseph, Mo., before joining a Pikes Peak gold-mining expedition.
Tourism folks may be sweating out the summer
June rolls around, the American psyche will have digested a full year of bad news about the economy. Think of all the would-be theme park voyagers grappling with adjustable-rate mortgages, falling home values, escalating home-heating bills and gas prices, as well as increases in the cost of other staples such as a gallon of milk.
That doesn't make for a very good vacation-planning mentality.
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Sick with the flu? Employers say 'stay home'
I used to be one those people that thought, if you are sick, just go home. I hated it when people came to work sick," said Ryan Klee, a 27-year-old marketing executive. "And yes, I'd rather be resting, but sometimes you just have to suck it up and take some medicine and get it done." Klee is sick and at work, but he's quarantined himself in his office, keeping his door shut and avoiding face-to-face chats with co-workers. Up against a tight deadline for Georgia Cancer Foundation's 25th "Celebration of Life" event featuring Vince Dooley, Klee faces meetings and a pile of papers. He says taking a couple days off was just not an option. And Klee's not the only one sick, either. "I told a co-worker on Friday, 'You look like death, you should go home,'" he said.
Gingrich goes gaga over Barackamania
If the technology is not there, that means lighter cars. Studies have already shown lighter cars are leading to more deaths. Is he willing to take the responsibility for that? As for Fiscal, he wants to reverse the Bush tax cuts that fed this economy. He says end wasteful spending, but still proposes more spending. My a comments from #15 are based upon listening to him speak. He really does not say much. As I write this, I am hearing Hannity talk to someone about what Senator Obama has accomplished. I admit ignorance. Can you name one specific accomplishment? BF, not that I am happy about it, but I believe McCain will be the next president. Hopefully he will have a good guy for vice president, because I believe the VP could easily have to assume the duties. Senator Obama will fizzle. Next November, you can remind me if I am wrong.
An imprisoned '60s radical faces freedom
Liberty City." One woman's remembrances of growing up in the turbulence of South Florida. A play by Jessica Blank and April Yvette Thompson, directed by Blank and starring Thompson. Now in previews. Opens March 4. New York Theatre Workshop. Telecharge. --"My First Time." Recollections of first sexual experiences. New World Stages. Telecharge. --"Naked Boys Singing." A musical revue. The title says it all. Plays Fridays and Saturday. New World Stages. Telecharge. --"Next to Normal." Brian d'Arcy James and Alice Ripley head the cast in this new musical about an average suburban family dealing with a dark secret. Second Stage. 212-426-4422. Closes March 16. --"Paradise Park." The world premiere of Charles Mee's play set in an amusement park that reportedly "opens up into all of America." Now in previews.
Men’s tennis bashes in Hope
In their opening dual competitions, men's tennis faced off against two potent opponents in D-I Northwestern and Chicago State. These contests in higher divisions prepared the team well, evidenced by its lopsided, 8–1 defeat of Hope College Saturday at Homewood-Flossmoor Tennis Courts to start Chicago's 2007–2008 campaign versus D-III opponents. “I think the reason we were so successful this weekend is because we were better than the other team," second-year Garrett Brinker said. “To make an analogy, we were Obama, and they were Mike Gravel. Also, our assistant coach Jeff White really pulled us through. He's probably the best assistant coach in the country." Dominating the singles matches, the Maroons were triumphant in five of the six bouts. First-year Tim Walsh was exceptional at fourth singles, losing only one game to his competitor, 6–0, 6–1.
Goodbye Heath Ledger, Rest In Peace
The 28-year-old was born in Perth, Western Australia. He left school at 17, hitched to Sydney with barely a dollar in loose change in his pocket and got his first real break in a low-budget film called Blackrock (1997). A part in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) put him on the map. He won plaudits for a cameo in Monster's Ball (2001), and revealed an unexpected talent for comedy in A Knight's Tale (2001). He could have played the beefcake, the heart-throb, over and over again: he was startlingly handsome with playful eyes and a broad-shouldered swagger. But he didn't. Reviewing his CV you realise it is littered with curios, parts he obviously took on for love or just the challenge, perhaps most notably his turn as Jacob Grimm in Gilliam's wonderfully bizarre homage to The Brothers Grimm.
Viewers turned off by Hollywood writers strike 'may never switch TV on ...
I watch football occasionally and sometimes the nightly news. Period. And I'm tempted to give up on the news because of all the "medical" commercials -- sleep aids, mucus products, and, of course, the ever-present expensive anti-cholesterol drugs. Besides, the network "news" talks about things covered on the Internet 2 days earlier! Use your computer. Read your current events. And let the unionized "entertainment" industry follow the lead of the Titanic... .
Local bands compete in marching festival at ULM
At any Friday night football game, its the athletes who take center stage. But Tuesday night, the high school bands got their chance to shine as they took the field at Malone Stadium at the University of Louisiana Monroe.
Bands from Ouachita Christian School, Sterlington, Caldwell, Bastrop, Neville, Ouachita, West Ouachita, Ruston and West Monroe all took part in the District 1 Marching Band Festival, where each got a chance to perform their halftime shows in an all-band exhibition.
Performances were rated on a scale of 1 to 5, with one being superior. West Monroe Rebel Band Director Robert Freeman stressed that al-though the bands are rated during the exhibition, the performance is not a contest.
The bands are judged against a standard, Freeman said.
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