| SheKnows Acquires Soaps.com - Leading Women's Destination Dives ...
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- SheKnows.com (http://www.sheknows.com), one of the fastest growing online destinations for women, announced today the acquisition of Soaps.com, the second largest soap opera entertainment property on the web. The investment advances SheKnows' market position as the authoritative source for both broad general and deep niche content on what's important in women's day-to-day lives. Soaps.com delivers nearly 600,000 unique visitors per month with over 15 million page views. The site is the second largest soap opera entertainment property on the web, and is dedicated to being first to publish key updates of every daytime serial drama. SheKnows delivers over 5.5 million unique visitors every month with nearly 60 million page views and provides women 25-54 a centralized destination and community built around a broad spectrum of shared interests.
Online dating 'sad and frustrating'
Susan Frohlick, an anthropology professor at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, says the women she surveyed gained a sense of empowerment from their online dating experiences. But they still wanted the man to make the first move and expected him pick up the tab. "Women are finding it as a useful tool to enter into the dating world, they find that it's safe, they find that they can be a little more bold than they would in face-to-face relationships," Ms Frohlick said of her survey, which looks at how women over 30 view online dating. "But, at the same time, they are experiencing frustration because it does seem that the internet in many ways is just the same old bar scene." .
June 2006
Not a bad game plan, some are wondering today. Consider this as you lounge on the beach this weekend, fish in Pleasant Bay or cruise to Nantucket: With the spring graduation of thousands of college seniors, many graduates and their parents—braced today with the debilitating cost of a college degree that often has extended the traditional four years to seven so students can work off some of the debt—are asking the question: Is there a better way? Once the bloom is off the rose of graduation, the math is numbing for graduates and their parents. I feel the pain. My 22-year-old son, Brendan (a product of Nauset Regional High School) just graduated from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. I also have a daughter, Colleen, who is a junior at Elon University, a son, Conor, who will be a senior at Nauset next year, and a home equity line that is wheezing.
Jay-Z Regrets 'Retirement'; Plus Beanie Sigel, Kurt Cobain, Courtney ...
Jessica Simpson gets physical in the new issue of InStyle, breaking out her trainer's plan to "get your best body now!" But she turns inward as well, telling the magazine for its November issue — which hits racks Friday (check out the full cover here) — that, "I was the princess in the fairy tale — then reality came crashing in, and I learned that isn't always how life works." She insisted that "I am in complete control of my life" after going through her divorce with Nick Lachey and, while she didn't call out ex-boyfriend John Mayer by name, she did reveal, "I've had my heart broken since my divorce. That's OK. I believe you fall in love more than once and get your heart broken more than once. Trust me, I have cried myself to sleep." ... Kanye West isn't exactly the kind of guy who needs an ego boost, but Jennifer Lopez and Pharrell puffed him up a bit anyway in recent interviews with MTV Europe.
Hereford Road needs a new direction
Life was simpler then, or so it's said, and so was the food. You didn't have to be rich to eat well, and the pollution of the food chain by the innovations that brought us joys such as BSE had not yet started. Maybe it's this memory that is driving the fightback against bad food, and the entire food industry has to respond, including restaurateurs. More and more chefs are embracing seasonal foodstuffs and changing their dishes according to what's for sale at the market, and not what can be rummaged from the freezer or bought from the factory. So it was with nostalgic excitement that I set off for Hereford Road - which claims to be bringing simple British cuisine back to the menu - and hoping that its cooking was more imaginative than its name. I can't understand the current fashion for naming restaurants after roads.
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