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Desperate Housewives" beauty Eva Longoria has become the latest star caught up in a sex tape scandal after bedroom footage of her and new husband Tony Parker was reportedly stolen from her home and leaked online. The explicit tape, which has already started appearing on pay-per-view adult Web sites, features intimate footage of the newlyweds having sex, according to British newspaper The Sun. This is the second time the Latina has been linked to such reports -- in 2006, Longoria was rumored to have starred in a Paris Hilton-style sex tape, but it was later proved to be a hoax. Representatives for both Longoria and Parker have yet to comment. The news breaks as Longoria appears in a new online spoof sex tape film for Web site FunnyOrDie.com, in which she bounces on a bed in sexy lingerie with a male pal she calls Perry.
Bucks couple struggling as debt crisis hits home
I discovered the wonderful world of refinancing," he said. Cash from the first three refinancings - $160,000 in 1997, $230,000 in 2000 and $360,000 in 2003 - went mostly into home improvements including kitchen repairs, a new roof, a new furnace, vinyl siding, new windows, a new outside staircase, an upstairs addition, and hardwood floors for the living room. The size of the Salamones' refinancings outpaced the growth in average house prices in Warwick Township. The median sale price there - meaning half the homes in the township sold for more and half sold for less - climbed from $168,650 in 1997 to $375,000 in 2006. That's a 122 percent gain, compared with a 165 percent gain for the amount lent against the Salamones' house. Trouble started after the 2003 refinancing, the first involving a so-called piggyback loan.
David Blott from Moncton, NB, Canada writes:
If that is the case then why won't Harper state that he believes Canada should stay in it current role beyond 2009 instead of hiding behind both the Manley Commission and a spring vote that he knows has little likelihood of happening as the odds are Canadians will be in an election campaign?
Leadership would require that Harper makes his ambitions known now, not at some point in the future. Posted 27/12/07 at 1:05 AM EST | Alert an Editor | Link to Comment .
Honey, you blocked my card
Dear Heloise: In reference to the hint about NOTIFYING YOUR CREDIT-CARD COMPANIES if you are going on a trip, especially out of the U.S., be sure to let them know if your spouse is not coming with you. As a corporate travel agent, I recently had a spouse whose husband was overseas call me because her purchase was declined. He had to contact the credit-card companies to let them know that his wife was still at home and had access to the cards. Kitty Hodges, Frisco, Texas Who would have thought? It could sure put a crimp in shopping. Heloise Dear Heloise: I think making a welcome basket for guests is a great hint, with one word of warning: When we had company visit last year, I prepared a lovely basket with essential items and left it in their bedroom. However, I used a very expensive basket.
Flames Roar Through 16 Buildings in Massachusetts; 1 Injured
LAWRENCE, Mass. A massive seven-alarm blaze that started in an empty downtown nightclub quickly spread through 16 buildings Monday, destroying homes and businesses and forcing residents to flee in their pajamas into bitter cold. One person suffered minor injuries in the blaze at Market and South Union streets that engulfed apartment buildings and a home for the mentally disabled. The fire was first spotted by an ambulance crew on an unrelated call about 2:30 a.m., state Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said. Coan said the fire started in the nightclub, which was being renovated. The club had no walls, and that "gave the fire an opportunity to take hold very quickly," he said. Click here for a video report from MyFoxBoston.com.
Time to bring back happy Hollywood
The two weighty candidates this year are No Country For Old Men and There Will Be Blood. Interesting choices. I thought No Country For Old Men was dreadful, worst film of the year, and it put me right off the cinema. But Hollywood has a magical power to surprise, and what do you know? There Will Be Blood turned out to be a strong candidate for the worst film of all time. These two 'epics' (despite their lavish reviews and jostling basket of Oscar nominations) share what would normally be a very rare ability to make me feel simultaneously angry and bored. They're boring because they are shapeless and random; both tell me that if I'm hoping for an ending to be neat, conclusive or significant, then I am bourgeois, philistine and stupid. Life isn't neat or conclusive, you see. Shit happens.
Without Fear of Contradiction - - -
Suppose I tell you that the government will design a product and make you buy it. If you say no thanks, that's too bad. The government will decide what you need and what you will buy. If you say you can't afford it, we'll send in government investigators to check, and if they conclude indeed you can't afford it, we'll tax your neighbors and make them subsidize you so you can pay for it. We'll set up a government bureaucracy to monitor and make sure you're cooperating. If they discover you haven't made the purchase, they'll go to your employer and have your wages garnisheed. Let's assume further that total spending for this government-designed and -mandated product accounts for about a fifth of the nation's total economy. The former Soviet Union? Communist China? No, this is the new Hillarycare.
Global Payments Enables Discover Network Card Acceptance for its ...
ATLANTA, Nov. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Global Payments Inc. (NYSE: GPN) , a world leader in payment processing services, announced today that it has activated the first of its Independent Sales Organizations (ISOs) relationships - EVO, Mercury Payments, North American Bankcard and Total Merchant Services - to acquire Discover Network merchants in a manner consistent with Visa's and MasterCard's acquiring programs. When the rollout of this program is finalized, Global's entire merchant portfolio including its ISO channel will have the capability of processing Discover Network card transactions with full customer support services. The company anticipates finalization by the third quarter of calendar 2008. Global Payments will serve as the Discover Network acquiring program sponsor on behalf of the participating ISOs.
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Random sports thoughts. Mike Wahle was cut by the Panthers yesterday. Does anybody think that the Packers should bring him back. I think they should. He's only 30, which admittedly isn't in his prime, but certainly not past it either. If they sign Wahle at guard, that would solidify a position that was arguably the weakest on the team last year. He's not a long term solution by any means, but let him play for a year or 2 while Colledge learns behind him. I really believe that Colledge can be a pretty good guard given the time. Signing Wahle would give him that time. Of course, I don't want to see them overpay for him, but it's something to think about. This just in, the Bucks are horrible. They lost to the Knicks and Clippers at home, yet the coach still tries to sell us on the fact that they can miraculously turn this around after the all star break.
TheStar.com | Business | Halal flexes its marketing muscle
His series of Muslim websites gets 25 million page views a year and lists more than 360 halal restaurants in Toronto alone. "A great by-product of this is there is a huge segment (of people) that wouldn't have kept halal, but now do so because it's easy," Amanullah said. "There's no excuse any more." Halal's burgeoning popularity can be linked to religious fervour, and beliefs that it's cleaner, healthier and tastier. Some argue it's driven by consumers' urge to follow ritual or their desire for acceptance, while others see it part and parcel to another rising trend. "The attraction to halal is the creeping of fundamentalism into the west," said Munir Pervaiz, secretary general of the Muslim Canadian Congress, which represents moderate and secular Muslims.
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