| SheKnows Acquires LovingYou.com - #1 Marriage and Relationship Site
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- SheKnows.com (http://www.sheknows.com), one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, announced today the acquisition of LovingYou.com -- the #1 marriage and relationship site on the web. LovingYou.com is one of the top 10 online destinations for women ages 18-25 and delivers nearly half a million unique visitors per month with 12 million page views. The site has been online for over 10 years providing award-winning content spanning every stage of a loving relationship along with free interactive tools and opportunities to participate in community forums. Unlike sites focused on dating and finding a mate, LovingYou.com is a leading source for information on how to put the fire back into an existing relationship and features advice and support for staying in love.
Gay matchmaking sites find a growing market
Growing up, Bethtina Woodridge heard all kinds of advice about dating, finding a husband and getting married. "You don't have those tips about meeting women," said Woodridge, 31. "How do I approach her, how do I know she is gay?" For Woodridge, finding that special someone turned out to be easier online. Several months after signing up for dating service Chemistry.com, Woodridge was matched with her partner, who was "incredibly honest and sincere, and she stole my heart." After online giant eHarmony made headlines last year by saying its psychological research is based exclusively on heterosexual relationships, a growing number of rival online matchmakers are using their algorithms to find same-sex love as well. "There are just not enough services for creating healthy relationships, and (it is) a major gap in the gay community," said matchmaker Patrick Perrine, founder of San Francisco-based Mypartner.com, which caters to "sophisticated, cultured and relationship-oriented gay men" and has more than 50,000 clients across the nation.
Men do it better
When Jakki Chrysler wants to know why a guy hasn't called her, she does not consult her girlfriends. The 21-year-old knows they will be concerned, and would eagerly sit down to hash over the possible reasons why her love interest is not acting interested in return. But she usually opts to approach her male roommate, seeking out a perspective her female friends cannot provide. "My girlfriends will stay positive for me. They're more likely to say don't worry about it, he's probably really busy," said the currently single fashion student. "Whereas my guy friend will say you should just date other people and not be hung up on it." The notion that men give women more honest dating advice was famously introduced in an episode of Sex and the City, in which Miranda was informed by a male friend that a guy was "just not that into you." The line spawned a bestselling book called He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo that was then turned into a film, set for release this summer, starring Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore.
Our Chanukah gift guide for the weird odd special people in your life
Chanukah is less than two weeks away and Black Friday, the shopping day after Thanksgiving, is upon us. If you've been racking your brain trying to come up with gift ideas or putting off writing up your gift list, consider some suggestions from our inaugural gift guide. For the. . . .
. . . Saba and Savta Who Have Everything
Not another T-shirt from Acapulco, my closet is already overflowing, I beg my children and grandchildren. Not another book, I have a dozen stacked up that I haven't gotten around to reading.
So what can you give saba and savta, grandpa and grandma, who've been living in the same place for 35 years, have a house full of tchotchkes and every conceivable kitchen gadget?
I don't want the latest iPhone, videogame or computer attachment.
'Kids bombarded by unsuitable web ads'
A report looking at 40 websites popular with children has found that users were exposed to more than 200 ads, with many commercial messages promoting products unsuitable for children, such as gambling and dating. The study, called Fair Game?, assessed commercial activity on children's favourite websites, including Cartoon Network, CBeebies, Neopets, YouTube, Bebo, MySpace, eBay and Lime Wire. eBay: one of the sites most popular with children. Photograph: Linda Nylind Across 40 sites, the report found that when looking at just the homepage and one additional web page a total of 211 online ads were displayed. Because many of the websites popular with children are actually targeted at older groups - including many social networking and gaming websites - some of the ads were found to be unsuitable for young web surfers.
Concha Buika stands proud from flamenco crowd
Concha Buika has a confession to make, one that could irreparably damage flamenco. Preparing to make her British debut at Sadler's Wells theatre in London on March 14, the hottest property the world of traditional Spanish music has seen in many years tells me that she prefers going to bed early over trawling Andalusia's bars caterwauling until dawn. "I live a quiet, healthy life," she says, "and I only go to flamenco clubs occasionally, when my manager isn't looking." The 35-year-old singer tells me this only after I have risked developing cancer through passive smoking in La Carboneria, Seville's most notorious late-night flamenco bar. If you've ever felt short-changed after a show packaged up for tourists on the costas, this is the antidote. It is 3am and, accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, a middle-aged woman with dyed orange hair and an elaborate white dress is stomping around a tiny stage entertaining a crowd of students with tales of a life in which she has been dealt just one bad hand too many.
CROI: Recent infection responsible for one-quarter of HIV transmission ...
Recent HIV infection appears to be responsible for at least a quarter of onward HIV transmission according to two studies presented to the recent Fifteenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston. In addition, one of the studies focused primarily on gay men in London suggests that rapid onward transmission may have driven the substantial increase in HIV diagnoses seen in gay men in the UK between 1999 and 2003. Contact tracing vs. phylogenetic analysis Understanding who is most likely to transmit, and how sexual networks interact with each other is important if we are to understand how to curb the HIV epidemic. In the past, epidemiologists have used traditional contact tracing where individuals recently diagnosed with HIV name the partner(s) they believe have exposed them to the virus although, contact tracing has its limitations.
Stan Hywet restoration projects are under way
Market St., Akron. Raffle tickets are $5. Admission to the show is free. Raffle winners will be announced at 9 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Details: 330-671-3792. Grand Opening — 2nd April Galerie, The Dreg Spot & Studios celebrates its new location at 324 Cleveland Ave. N.W., Canton, with a 5 to 10 p.m. grand opening. Call 330-451-0924 or see http://www.secondapril.org/ or http://www.uncledreg.com/. Art Extravaganza — Jackson High School and Jackson School for the Arts holds the second annual All District Arts Extravaganza from 5 to 10 p.m. in the new Jackson High School commons area, where the evening's events include performance of one-act plays, a silent auction, a gift basket raffle, a 50/50 raffle, performance of the Jackson Memorial Middle School Chamber Choir, a special performance of Suessical by Jackson Memorial Middle School students, plus an exhibit of student art work.
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