By SUZANNE WILSON Staff Writer Monday, August 1, 2011 1 JERREY ROBERTS Molly Monets blog, Postcards from a Peaceful Divorce, has made her part of a national conversation about divorce. 2 JERREY ROBERTS Molly Monet, a former Mount Holyoke College instructor, is seen recently at Haymarket Cafe in Northampton. Her blog, Postcards from a Peaceful Divorce, has made her part of an ongoing national conversation about divorce. Below is a screen shot from her blog. SOUTH HADLEY - Molly Monet is knee-deep into the process of packing up everything she owns and moving from her home in Northampton to an apartment in Newton. Her two children, Jonah, 9, and Layla, 7, will come east with her. So too, if and when he can find a job in the Boston area, will her ex-husband. And, possibly, his girlfriend. Monet, 44, likens the relocation to a caravan. "That's sort of the way it feels," she said the other day during an interview at the Haymarket Cafe in downtown Northampton. Monet's move c...

YourTango names the 50 most influential people in love. New York, NY (PRWEB) July 31, 2011 Love transcends all, and when it comes to matters of the heart there are a lot of people who deserve recognition. Which is why YourTangothe digital leader in love and relationshipshas compiled a list of the 50 Most Influential People in Love. Spanning across eras, the list recognizes those from the past and present who impact both the concept of lovethe way people understand and think about romanceand the practice of lovethe actions people take to find, pursue, and keep it. From film and fashion to technology and television, love impacts every area of our lives. So it only makes sense that people from all walks of life affect the way we think about romance and express love," said Andrea Miller, founder and CEO, YourTango.com. The luminaries on YourTango.coms list of 50 Most Influential People in Love have had an indelible impact on romance, both directly and incidentally. They are responsibl...

Dating, for all intents and purposes is the art of self promotion. People put on clothes that highlight their strengths and not their flaws, engage in conversation that shows off their ability to communicate or highlight their intelligence. The process of dating itself is generally highly choreographed so that each person can demonstrate their assets and not their flaws. But what if, like me, your most characteristic trait is the thing that discourages people from dating you in the first place? Sitting in a wheelchair doesn't necessarily scream 'tall, dark and handsome' does it? I am not a very social person, so I tend to rely on my conversational skills to make friends, finding common ground in politics, music, movies or television shows. I am not 'the life of the party' nor will I ever be, because I detest large social gatherings. Recently however, I decided that I needed to broaden my small social circle. Taking into account all factors, I shuddered and concluded...

RICHMOND, Calif. Tucked away in a small warehouse on a dead-end street, an Internet pioneer is building a bunker to protect an endangered species: the printed word. Brewster Kahle, 50, founded the nonprofit Internet Archive in 1996 to save a copy of every Web page ever posted. Now the MIT-trained computer scientist and entrepreneur is expanding his effort to safeguard and share knowledge by trying to preserve a physical copy of every book ever published. "There is always going to be a role for books," said Kahle as he perched on the edge of a shipping container soon to be tricked out as a climate-controlled storage unit. Each container can hold about 40,000 volumes, the size of a branch library. "We want to see books live forever." So far, Kahle has gathered about 500,000 books. He thinks the warehouse itself is large enough to hold about 1 million titles, each one given a barcode that identifies the cardboard box, pallet and shipping container in which it resides....

Lilly Manning was 15 when she escaped from a cramped closet in south Sacramento, after being stabbed and beaten and shoved into the darkness. This time, she said, she knew she would have to save herself. Government documents confirm she was right. Four different agencies visited the family at least 11 times on reports of suspected abuse or neglect in a five-year period but did not move to protect her or her siblings, according to confidential records obtained by The Bee. "They came, they looked, they left," said Lilly, now 19, reflecting on the parade of visitors from law enforcement, Child Protective Services and the schools, some of whom she had secretly called. "We just gave up." Today, Lilly Manning lives with more than 100 scars etching her 5-foot-3 body, physical reminders of the hammer attacks, beatings, burns and strikes to the head with a 2-by-4 and a padlock swinging from a cord. Earlier this month, her adoptive mother and great-aunt, Lillian Manning-Horva...

Gus Chan, The Plain Dealer Bath Township police Detective Dan Lance parlayed a theft from a Lowe's store into a $1 million organized retail theft investigation. Dimorio McDowell transformed his prison cell into a business office with nothing but a mobile phone and a lot of chutzpa. From 7 a.m. until midnight, seven days a week, McDowell worked tirelessly building a Cleveland criminal enterprise that did up to $1 million worth of work. Want a jumbo flat-screen, but don't have $2,000? McDowell and his unsavory team of Cleveland shoppers could fetch a 55-inch TV and anything else you wanted -- stainless steel refrigerator, hardwood flooring, laptop computer -- for half the store price. Just give them a few days. McDowell was serving time for credit card fraud at Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey. But one of his associates would meet you at a Cleveland gas station with the loot. Incarceration in the largest U.S. prison was doing nothing to slow down McDowell's life of crim...

Lilly Manning was 15 when she escaped from a cramped closet in south Sacramento, after being stabbed and beaten and shoved into the darkness. This time, she said, she knew she would have to save herself. Government documents confirm she was right. Four different agencies visited the family at least 11 times on reports of suspected abuse or neglect in a five-year period but did not move to protect her or her siblings, according to confidential records obtained by The Bee. "They came, they looked, they left," said Lilly, now 19, reflecting on the parade of visitors from law enforcement, Child Protective Services and the schools, some of whom she had secretly called. "We just gave up." Today, Lilly Manning lives with more than 100 scars etching her 5-foot-3 body, physical reminders of the hammer attacks, beatings, burns and strikes to the head with a 2-by-4 and a padlock swinging from a cord. Earlier this month, her adoptive mother and great-aunt, Lillian Manning-Horva...

JASPER Robert Theodore "Ted" Hoge Jr., 77, of Simpsonville, S.C., died Tuesday, July 19, 2011, after a long illness.He was born April 1, 1934 in Chattanooga and spent his youth in Jasper, graduating from Marion County High School in 1953; he was a 1968 graduate of MTSU, Murfreesboro with a degree in English and Theater. Ted served in the U.S. Army in the 1960s stationed in Orleans, France. He and his family lived in West Palm Beach, Fla., for many years before moving to South Carolina. He was preceded in death by his father, Ted Hoge Sr.; and his mother, Lillie Harris Hoge, both of Jasper. In the 1950s and 1960s his mother and sister, Ann Hoge Kelly owned the Ann Hoge Florist in Jasper. Teds mother started the Jasper Public Library in the front of the flower shop and was the first librarian.Ted is survived by his wife, June Porterfield Hoge; daughter, Leslie Hoge (Rusty) Day; twin sons, Ted Hoge III and Tim Hoge, all of Simpsonville; three grandchildren, Jamie Day and Lindsay...

Members of WhatsYourPrice.com can browse profiles and pictures, including those of scantily clad women in seductive poses, before making an online offer. View more photos CAN MONEY buy you love? A Singaporean-born entrepreneur has stirred up a huge controversy in the United States over several risque online dating businesses he created that promote the idea that money can buy one love. The latest of these: WhatsYourPrice.com, launched in March 2011, lets 'generous' members bid hard cash - between US$20 (S$24) and US$100 - for dates with 'attractive' users. Read the full report in this week's edition of The Sunday Times.

MasterChef Kate Bracks with her children ahead of the final. Picture: Graham Schumann Source: The Sunday Telegraph Under siege all year, MasterChef isn't beaten yet. Through '09 and '10, it rose to become the biggest show in Australian TV history and was thought to be impregnable. But 2011 has been a different story. Seven's Australia's Got Talent caused it trouble, beating it whenever the shows were head to head, and then Nine dusted off an old favourite - The Block - and hammered it. Last Tuesday, AGT rated an average of 2.19 million, the highest rating non-sports show of the year, while MasterChef's biggest audience of the week was 1.7 million. Over the week, The Block also narrowly out-rated it in weekly averages, which, considering MasterChef was in its second last week, would have been unthinkable a month ago. However, finals week has always been when MasterChef has soared and the sole remaining NSW contestant, Kate Bracks of Orange, is not concerned abo...

The FBI will investigate the death of a homeless man fatally injured during a fight with Fullerton police, authorities confirmed Friday, as city and county leaders push for the release of video footage of the confrontation. A day after Orange County Supervisor Shawn Nelson sent a letter to the Department of Justice's civil-rights division requesting a federal inquiry into the "facts and circumstances surrounding the death of Kelly Thomas at the hands of the Fullerton Police Department," FBI officials confirmed that they have opened an investigation. Thomas, 37, a homeless man with mental issues known to frequent downtown Fullerton, died several days after a confrontation with six police officers, five of whom have since returned to duty. Officers confronted Thomas on July 5 while investigating reports of a man burglarizing cars near a bus depot. Police say Thomas became violent as two officers tried to search him, kicking off a fight in which six officers were needed to s...