by Jessica Testa - Oct. 18, 2011 11:43 AM Special for The Republic The Arizona's Ultimate Women's Expo isn't just a girls' day out - it's a girls' day out on steroids. The two-day expo will swarm the Phoenix Convention Center this weekend, bringing with it more than 500 booths of clothes, candy, pedicures and manicures, self-help workshops on weight loss and career building, and kooky seminars on lap dancing and online dating. Makeovers and cooking demonstrations abound, and Home Depot will offer "Do It Herself" lessons. "The expo is about living your best life and making the most of where you are now," spokeswoman Jane Sands said. The Ultimate Women's Expo also has stops in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Dallas, but Phoenix was the pamper-friendly convention's first city when it launched four years ago. "Phoenix has always been our favorite," Sands said. "The women are more welcoming, more energetic, more appreciativ...

Reporting: Rep. Giffords Shooting ONLINE VANDALS RUSH TO REWRITE HISTORY by Mark Scheinbaum AR Correspondent Angel Fire, N.M. Back to home page Printable version of this story ANGEL FIRE, N.M., Jan. 8, 2011, 4:31 p.m. ET (UPDATED) -- Like so many Americans, the 22-year-old man, Jared Lee Loughner, identified as the shooter of Tucson, Ariz., Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others this morning at a constituent event outside a Safeway store, had a Facebook profile. But it may have been created by a right-wing hacker who wanted to pin blame for the shooting on the far left. The real Jared Loughner apparently posted a message at 5 a.m. on MySpace, a social networking site owned by FoxNews magnate Rupert Murdoch, saying goodbye and apparently asking for forgiveness for what he was about to do. Loughner did have a MySpace account, according to a report in the Arizona Daily Star. he used to say "Goodbye," and "Please don't hate me" in posts at 5 a.m....

That Huffington Post headline was the lead for one of its many celebrity stories that I noticed this morning. I admit to perusing HuffPo a few times a week to give balance to my daily readings of various Internet news blogs. One savvy woman creatively used the free content from many talented writers to make herself a multi-millionaire beyond what she had achieved through her earlier divorce proceedings. I only wish TMVs Joe Gandelman didnt have to do other work to pay his familys living expenses but then I havent pulled my far-less-than-Governor-Christie weight in posting over this past year either. Living in Arizona (which is currently on Pacific Time that includes WA, OR, NV & CA La-La-Land where a total of 18% of all Americans live) everything happens well after the fact for us compared to the rest of the U.S. Im sure that information was already published in one of the many supermarket celebrity tabloids that continue to defy the overall trajectory of self-implosion for most ...

WALNUT CREEK, Calif., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- On October 20, Verizon Wireless customers in Modesto can take advantage of Verizon Wireless' 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, the fastest and most reliable 4G network in the nation. Verizon Wireless' 4G LTE network allows customers to share music and photos, surf the Web and download files up to 10 times faster than before. The 4G LTE network will be available to customers in the following cities and towns: -- Crows Landing -- Denair -- Hughson -- Newman -- Oakdale -- Patterson -- Riverbank -- Salida -- Turlock -- Waterford "We are proud to bring the largest 4G LTE network in the nation to the San Joaquin Valley and help lead residents, small businesses and local government into the next generation of wireless connectivity and communication," said Kevin Zavaglia, region president for Verizon Wireless. "Our 4G LTE network is revolutionizing the way our customers communicate, enabling them to connect faster a...

TRABUCO CANYON, Calif., Oct. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- This fall, a group of lucky Orange County children will be able to explore nature at the Audubon Starr Ranch Sanctuary, a program of Audubon California in Trabuco Canyon, CA. The children will participate in science-based nature programs, contribute to on-the-ground conservation work and take advantage of a variety of programs at the sanctuary because Verizon Wireless has awarded the chapter a $10,000 grant to promote educational experiences in science and nature. "We are thankful for the generous donation from Verizon Wireless because Audubon's mission is to preserve wildlife habitat, particularly for birds. Environmental education is one of our most important tools in moving people to appreciate and conserve wild lands," said Pete DeSimone, Manager of Audubon California's Starr Ranch Sanctuary. "This grant will help us do that by supporting vibrant environmental education programs at Starr Ranch in Orange Co...

There are an incredible number of senior singles today trying to discover someone special to hold their lives content and life entire. People in this generation and facing it complicated process are able to use some tips intended for seniors dating online to assure successful mate looking around. A senior citizen faces certain issues and complications when in search of someone special. One the largest challenges is how to locate people of this age bracket, who are simple and looking. Bars and clubs typically are not exactly made along with older singles at heart: hanging out having kids your grandchildren's time is not a really good idea. However, you cannot assume all is lost along with senior singles surely have somewhere to go consider a date. That countless people during this age bracket are seeking someone special is evident inside growth of specific sites for aged people dating online. Divorce is ever increasing, and career considerations often bring about delayed marriage. B...

Thursday, October 13th, 2011 | Aziz Ansari Meanwhile, Tom (Aziz Ansari) and Donna (Retta) force Ben (Adam Scott) to join them for a day of relaxation, and Chris (Rob Lowe) finds a reason to spend time with Jerry (Jim O'Heir). Rashida Jones, Chris Pratt, and Aubrey Plaza also star. New Yorker Festival Aziz Ansari on Babies, Online Dating, and Aziz Ansari, star of NBC's parks and recreation, opened with a surprise event of stand-up Saturday night. As a twenty-eight years old, has been dealing with Celebrities Emma Stone, Seth Rogen, Andy Samberg, Samuel L. Jackson, Aziz Ansari, Zach Galifianakis, Bill Hader, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, and Jaime King have banded together to create a hilarious Star Wars fan video to promote the campaign. New Yorker Festival Aziz Ansari on Babies, Online Dating, and Aziz Ansari, star of NBC's parks and recreation, opened with a surprise event of stand-up Saturday night. As a twenty-eight years old, has been dealing with On who makes her laugh: Aziz A...

But you should also consider that those unfortunates who are disabled are also like us, human beings and have the right to experience happiness. In fact, most disabled people also craving for marriage, love and care not to mention companionship just like just about anyone else. Disabled people usually possess trouble and difficulty discovering potential and possible mates that's the reason most elder disabled individuals get shock when they hear that there are men dating women who have physical incapacity. It is amazingly difficult for disabled women to satisfy men unlike for other women who are normal. From the time anytime dating websites and institutions have joined hand in hand to lose this problem, their efforts have been reaped rewards since it has considered be achievable for disabled women to undertake a date. Dating a disabled woman seriously isn't different from dating a woman who does not possess any physical problem. This is simply because a man would look for the s...

Scientists at TU Delft have successfully matched a layer of sediment from the dunes near Heemskerk to a severe storm flood that occurred in either 1775 or 1776. This type of information helps us gain more insight into past storm floods and predict future surges more accurately. The scientists' findings have been published in the online edition of the scientific magazine Geology, and will be on the cover of the paper edition of November. Historic knowledge Our historic knowledge about storm floods (and water levels) on the Dutch coast is relatively limited. Records were not kept consistently until the late nineteenth century. This is unfortunate, because the limited historical archive makes it difficult to formulate statistical conclusions and predictions about future storm floods. It is also harder for us to establish whether storm floods are becoming more severe over the years. Heemskerk With the support of Technology Foundation STW and in cooperation with scientists from the Ge...

Jimmy and Tonya Grayson walked, or should we say typed, their way into each others lives at a time when they least expected. "I saw her picture on there and she caught my eye so I sent her an email and she replied. And the rest is history,"said Jimmy Grayson. The site was blackpeoplemeet.com. But it was almost the love story that never happened. Tonya had just logged onto the site to clean out her emails when she decided to open the one from Jimmy "It was a friendly 'hey how you doing. I'd like to get to know you kind of thing," she said. From there, the correspondence began, and a relationship blossomed. Tonya, 42, and Jimmy, age 49, knew they would face skepticism for meeting through a dating site at, especially at their age. But for them it didn't matter. "We just decided that we would talk honestly and openly with each other and get to know each other that way," said Jimmy. UAB sociology professor, Sheila Cotten, says Jimmy and Tonya are no...

Co-workers may be judging the time you spend tapping away on smartphones and tablets at work, with nine out of ten believing the devices hinder work productivity, a new study suggests. According to a report by video platform provider Qumu conducted by Harris Interactive, about 91 percent of those surveyed said smartphones or tablets are at least somewhat influential in encouraging people from performing non-work-related tasks, such as watching personal videos, playing games and reading e-books. This survey was conducted online among 2,361 U.S. adults ages 18 and older. The margin of error was not given. The report also found that over three quarters (76 percent) believe that some apps should be banned from being used in the workplace. About 39 percent of respondents think gaming apps should be banned, while 34 percent object to online shopping apps and social networking apps (37 percent). [Read: Banned! Top 10 Apps That Got Zapped ] Although 51 percent said dating apps should also be b...

A new study released on Tuesday shows that many top websites are sharing personal user information to at least four other websites. At least 45 percent of the top 185 most-visited websites share user information like user name or user ID with another website. The study by Jonathan Meyer, a graduate student in law and computer science in Stanford University concludes that users have no idea that websites are regularly sharing personal information between them. "Many first-party websites and third parties make what would appear to be incorrect representations about not sharing or collecting 'personally identifiable information,'" Mayer said in a written statement. The study also shows that websites don't just trade information about user ID or user name but shares more personal information including gender, age, ZIP code and relationship status through referrers. An example in the study is the dating website OKCupid which shared the gender, age and relationship stat...

The global mobile applications market is on pace to hit $3.8 billion this year--and it's only getting warmed up, says On the Move Systems (OTCBB:OMVS) CEO Patrick Brown. Brown cited a recent report from research firm IHS Screen Digest, which forecasts a 77.7-percent jump to nearly $4 billion this year from 2010's worldwide mobile app revenues. In three years' time, however, that figure could double to $8.3 billion, according to the report. "There's no question that the demand for quality mobile applications is growing at a furious pace," Brown said. "The analysts from IHS and other firms are only confirming what we already know: Smartphone and tablet computer innovations have changed our computing and software habits forever, and the future belongs to the apps." The unprecedented expansion of the mobile application market can be attributed to wireless network advancements, falling mobile data usage costs and a continuous refinement of application usa...

Your Friends' Activity back next PRWeb 1 hr 7 mins ago Politics slideshows Herman Cain 75 photos - 4 hrs ago Special ops: First in, last out of Afghanistan 9 photos - Sat, Oct 8, 2011 "Joe the Plumber" running for Congress 5 photos - Mon, Oct 10, 2011 Romantic Relationships know no age according to recent findings from Soamoro, the free dating website . Since launching, membership amongst seniors looking for love in their twilight years has skyrocketed. ( PRWEB UK ) 12 October 2011 Relationship finding amongst seniors are becoming increasingly popular according to new results announced by Soamoro. The free dating website for like-minded singles has seen an increase in membership within this particular niche since the website launched in June. Over the years, the trend towards senior citizens entering into relationships has picked up steam, says John Russell . Loneliness can strike any person regardless of age therefore it is important to find someone to form a bond wit...

Two Arctic Trucks AT44 Expedition vehicles have set a new Guinness World Record for the fastest overland journey to the South Pole, crossing 2308km of the Antarctica High Plateau from Novo to the South Pole in 4.5 days. October 12, 2011 01:03 AMEastern Daylight Time REYKJAVIK, Iceland--( EON: Enhanced Online News )--Arctic Trucks International ( www.arctictrucks.com ) announced today that a new world record of the fastest overland journey to the South Pole has been officially recognized by Guinness World Records. In December 2010 two Arctic Trucks vehicles crossed 2308km of the Antarctica High Plateau from Novolazarevskaya station (Novo) to the South Pole in 108 hours (4.5 days). The purpose-built AT Expedition vehicles, based around a Toyota Hilux platform, traveled at an average speed to South Pole of 21.4km/h and average fuel efficiency of 2.2km/per liter, with only a single refueling stop on the way. An unofficial improvement on the record itself was achieved for the return journey...

The FTC chair suggests you have something in common with Demi Moore The chair of the Federal Trade Commission was pushing hard to get attendees at a privacy forum this morning to add a new term to their Internet lexicon: the cyberazzi. Chair Jon Leibowitz used the word to describe the cookies and data catchers that follow us around the Web, taking snapshots of our activity on various websites. Instead of being bought up by Star, US Weekly, and the National Inquirer, these snapshots are used to create profiles purchased by marketing companies and other data broker customers. I hate to tell you, but the cyberazzi may be flashing away, even as you read this. At the same privacy forum, Stanford graduate student Jonathan Mayer presented a new study that examined 250 websites to see which ones were leaking user information to third parties. Forbes.com made the list. Mayers study revealed that Forbes sent visitors usernames along to more than a dozen third-parties, such as data broker Blue K...

By Julia Angwin, Wall Street Journal A study released Tuesday shows that 45% of the top 185 U.S. websites transmit identifying details about their visitors to at least four outside websites. The data transmitted was primarily a username which is the name a person uses to log into a website or a user ID assigned by the website to a user. It was usually transmitted through referrers which is information about the web page transmitted automatically. In some cases, the data went much further: the study found for instance that the online dating website OKCupid sent the gender, age, zip code, relationship status and drug use frequency to two companies that sell personal data in auctions, BlueKai and Lotame. Lotame confirmed that is has a data licensing relationship with OKCupid, but said it does not use data in the drug use category. BlueKai told Digits that it does not buy or sell data attributes like drug use frequency from OKCupid. We...

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Imogen Thomas reportedly believes that Katie Price spent the night with Danny Cipriani as revenge for their past feud. The Big Brother star branded Cipriani a "bulls**tter" earlier this week after the rugby player, whom she claimed to be dating, was pictured leaving a friend's house with Price . Price has claimed that Thomas was behind a 2009 video which surfaced online showing her dancing and swearing in front of her children following her split from Peter Andre. Rex Features / Steve Meddle Rex Features / Ken McKay Thomas, who denied the accusations and hasn't spoke to the model since, thinks that this prompted Price to steal her boyfriend, according to The Sun . A friend of Thomas's told the paper: "She thinks it's revenge. She loathes Katie over Danny and is raging she'll get her. She says Katie knew she'd started seeing him." Price recently split from her boyfriend Leandro Penna . Meanwhile, Thomas is said to be preparing to star in ...

Ottawa police are hoping cash rewards will help them crack six unsolved homicide cases going back to 2007. Chief Vern White Thursday announced rewards of up to $50,000 for information leading to the killers of Jennifer Stewart, Mohamed Jama Ali, Simohamed Fenne, Pamela Kosmack, Paul Simard and Jason Gall. Monetary rewards will provide incentives for individuals with crucial information to come forward, he said. It will not only help us arrest and prosecute but to bring closure for victims and often families. The rewards, the first offered under the forces new Public Rewards Policy, will come from the police operating budget, White said, and police plan to offer more money for tips on selected unsolved cases of homicides and other violent crimes, missing person cases and serious property offences. Anyone with information about the six murders is asked to call the Ottawa Police Major Crime Section at 613-236-1222 ext 5493.

Make My Day GHOST WRITERS IN THE SKY by Erik Deckers American Reporter Humor Writer Indianapolis, Indiana Back to home page Printable version of this story INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- I'm a ghost writer. Other people hire me to write stuff for them, but they get to put their name on it. I've ghost-written blog posts, brochures, press releases, Websites, and half a book. It's an odd career choice, especially when you consider that if you did this in high school or college, it was cheating and you could be expelled for it. I'd like to say that's why I turned down a guy in college who asked me to write his paper for $10. But in truth, I turned him down because it was a Thursday night, I was going to a party, and I wasn't changing my plans for 10 lousy bucks. (He wouldn't go any higher either, so I didn't feel bad when I left him with his stack of books and a pad of paper.) Ghost writing is usually considered a reputable, if mostly anonymous and thankless, job. G...