| Dating expert Wygant dishes on dating, food
Does your dating life need a makeover? David Wygant is a sought-after media personality, and has been featured as a dating expert on more than 2,000 radio shows. He's appeared on "E!," "Dateline," "CBS Good Morning," "Inside Edition," "Blind Date" and many other shows. His contemporary dating and relationship advice can also be found in publications such as Maxim, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire. Online, he's worked with Match.com, Yahoo! Personals and Lavalife. Wygant is single for now, and currently works out of offices in Los Angeles and New York. To read his interactive daily blog go to: www.davidwygant.com. Q. You've met someone online. What next? .
Parent of Dating Sites Looks for a Suitor
Wanted: Single dot-com Yenta seeks ambitious Mr. Big with deep pockets for a long-term relationship. The parent company of the popular Jewish online dating site JDate has put itself up for sale, people close to the auction said Thursday, and is already in talks with several prominent media companies, the New York Times reports. The owner of JDate.com, Spark Networks, which owns dozens of online personal sites aimed at religious, ethnic and other special interests, is in early talks with suitors that include Yahoo; eHarmony; IAC/InterActiveCorp, the Barry Diller company that owns Match.com; and MySpace, which is part of the News Corporation, these people said. Shares of Spark, which trades under the ticker LOV, have jumped more than 20 percent in recent weeks. Its shares closed yesterday at $4.90, giving the company a market value of $131.4 million.
Beware Yahoo Personals’ deceptive billing policy
You might be wondering what a post like this is doing on a blog largely about VoIP, but bear with me. To some extent, this post is about VoIP. And athough I try not to air my consumer grievances here, I am writing this post to warn you about a practice that your knowledge of can save you some dollars. OK, first let us go back a year. My love life, my dating life, was in a rough patch. (If you want details, you buy the next pitcher). Not wanting to remain in the state I just referred to, I decided I would declare a jihad on loneliness. Being a creature of the Internet, I posted a profile on several dating sites including Yahoo! Personals. My Match.com profile soon led to a happy result. That's her photo on the top of my CPU tower. As soon as the ultimately "happy result" became quantifiable, I let my Yahoo! Personals account lapse.
Blossoms: Major changes add a touch of class to public Hibiscus Golf ...
No golfer attuned to the local circuit over the past five or 10 years would deny that Hibiscus Golf Club wasn't exactly the creme de la creme of choices. A pokey pro shop, a skeleton management and service crew, and no-frills landscaping would bear that out. And yet, the 20 year-old club had a certain attraction for area golfers. It was like an old shoe, accommodating, comfortable, familiar. And, the price was right, considering the plethora of expensive new courses that sprang up in anticipation of boomer-fueled, unbridled growth in the area. But still, Hibiscus Golf Club's economic performance remained static. Three years ago, owner and local entrepreneur David Nassif had a vision: upgrade the club from head to toe, resist going private, and -— most importantly — don't fleece the regulars.
West Pasco happenings
Butterfly plants, native plants and more sale: 1 to 5 p.m. today; 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The Azalea Circle of the Dade City Garden Club will have this sale at the Dade City Botanical Gardens, 13630 Fifth St. Butterfly plants, house plants, Florida native plants and trees and shrubs. Call Peggy, 813 715-7133. * * * Annual Senior Expo: 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today. Hosted by Stepping Stones to Independence and CARES at the Our Lady Queen of Peace auditorium, 5340 High St., New Port Richey. Call (727) 849-3476. * * * Pinochle: Noon today. Hudson Community Club, 1121 Water Tower Drive, (727) 856-7590 or 863-7914. Donation: $1. * * * Bingo today: - 4:30 p.m. North Buena Vista Civic Club, 2039 Orange Drive, Holiday, (727) 938-6621.
Health farce gets activist clucking
VETERAN animal rights campaigner Pam Clarke has joined calls for the State Government to better regulate the state's egg industry. Mrs Clarke said yesterday her years spent raiding battery egg farms around Australia revealed putrid conditions. Concerns about the state's egg industry have been prompted by an outbreak of salmonella in Hobart linked to contaminated eggs. At least 79 people have become seriously ill following the latest outbreak. Mrs Clarke said egg operations needed to be more closely monitored. "There is nothing worse than cramming thousands of animals into a small area where their droppings are gathering three-feet high," she said. "It is common sense." This week, the Tasmanian Greens said the Government's regulatory failures were responsible for the salmonella outbreak.
People: Cruz and Bardem "getting serious"
Fox NFL Sunday co-host Terry Bradshaw gets a nod for a "frightening" scene in which he feeds his aquarium fish while buck-naked and lis tening to hip-hop in "Failure To Launch." Donald Sutherland can take a bow for letting it all hang out as a test pilot undergoing a physical in "Space Cowboys," proving he has "the Wrong Stuff," Dermody says. .
Council axes cultural affairs plan
Despite concerted lobbying from Lowell's artist community, a split City Council last night left City Manager Bernie Lynch's proposed ordinances to create the new office and the position of its director without the two-thirds majority the measures needed to pass. The proposals would have merged the functions of the Cultural Organization of Lowell (COOL) with the city's office of Special Events, streamlining the city's marketing and special-events functions. COOL is a private nonprofit organization, but the city budget funds the nearly $46,000 per year salary of its director, LZ Nunn. Lynch's proposal promoted Nunn to head his new division, boosting her salary to about $64,400, with the pay raise being funded by COOL's budget during the current fiscal year. About 75 members of Lowell's artist and cultural community packed the council chamber for last night's debate.
County Records Committee Seeks $1,500 To Buy Cabinets
The County Records Committee voted Thursday to ask the Greene County Commission for $1,500 to be used to purchase cabinets for storing the oldest Chancery Court records. The Records Commission is seeking ways to preserve and store the county's oldest records, some of them dating back to the 1700s. Because Greeneville was not a battleground during the Civil War, its early records from before that time are mostly intact, and in great demand from genealogists and historians. Librarian Don Miller of the T. Elmer Cox Historical and Genealogical Library told the committee that two volunteers with the Genealogical Society of Utah, who are preparing Chancery records for microfilming, are "doing an outstanding job." The volunteers, Charlie and Dixie Murray, started Oct.
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The state's appeal of a recent court decision that pleased casino supporters will not drag out. The state Supreme Court guaranteed a quickened pace by ordering an expedited schedule for legal arguments to be submitted. That increases chances the state high court will rule on the appeal before a key date — Sept. 15. That is the deadline for Secretary of State John Gale to certify issues and candidates for the November general-election ballot. A Supreme Court decision before Sept. 15 would give Gale clear direction on whether to certify the three-casino initiative for placement on the ballot. Petitions are now being verified to determine if there are enough valid signatures. If a decision on the appeal is not made before Sept. 15, Gale would be faced with a difficult decision: Place the issue on the ballot based on the court decision last week, or keep it off because that decision is still on appeal.
Kings notes: Bibby adjusting to Atlanta
Bibby said he's more than comfortable with the pressure on him. "I want it to be on my shoulders," he said before the game. "I'll take the blame. Not many people can say that. I'll take the blame." Woodson said there's no better approach than Bibby's. "That's a good starting point," he said. "He's a 10-year (veteran) who's (under) a lot of pressure to come in and help us get to the playoffs, and that's huge. A lot of guys would run from it. For him to say those things says a lot about his character and how he feels about playing this game." There were plenty of games inside the game, especially between Bibby and Francisco García late. García repeatedly bumped Bibby on the floor while wearing a guilty grin during dead-ball moments and even pretended to lose his way during Bibby's fourth-quarter free throws in an attempt to distract him.
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