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Marijuana contains an amazing chemical, beta-caryophyllene, and scientists have thoroughly proven that it could be used to treat pain, inflammation, atherosclerosis, and osteoporosis.

Jürg Gertsch, of ETH Zürich, and his collaborators from three other universities learned that the natural molecule can activate a protein called cannabinoid receptor type 2. When that biological button is pushed, it soothes the immune system, increases bone mass, and blocks pain signals — without causing euphoria or interfering with the central nervous system.

Gertsch and his team published their findings on June 23 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.They focused on the anti-inflammatory properties of the impressive substance — testing it on immune cells called monocytes and also in mice.

Since beta-caryophyllene seems to be powerful, occurs naturally in many foods, and does not get people high, it could turn out to be a nearly ideal medication. The organic compound is also phenomenally cheap. Sigma Aldrich sells it, in kosher form, for forty-two dollars per kilogram.

Unfortunately, big pharmaceutical companies tend not to seek FDA approval for natural chemicals, and most doctors are reluctant to prescribe drugs that have not received a green light from the regulatory agency. Thus, it would require a heroic effort by academic researchers to prove that beta-caryophyllene is safe and effective in humans.

Perhaps, before that happens, the natural substance will find its way into the herbal medicine aisle of health food stores.

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BERLIN (Reuters) A woman trying to make “manure bombs” using stockings, slipped into a slurry tank and fled the scene naked, German police said Friday.

Two women entered a farm in the northern village of Eberholzen Wednesday evening and started to fill the stockings with manure.

“One of them slipped into the manure tank, right into the cow muck,” said a spokesman for local police. “The other one helped her out. We found their clothes in a field. One seems to have run off completely naked, the other in her underwear.”

Police said it was unclear what the women had intended to do with the “manure bombs,” but added the incident could be linked to victory celebrations surrounding the Euro 2008 semi-finals on Wednesday evening, when Germany beat Turkey 3-2

“The women can get their clothes back from the local police station — unwashed,” the spokesman added.

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From CNN.com:

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Retail gas prices rose to a new record high overnight while diesel prices fell slightly, a daily survey by motorist group AAA showed Monday.

The national average price for a gallon of gasoline climbed to $4.086, up seven-tenths of a cent from $4.079 the previous day.

Gas prices have risen 2.9% in the last month and are almost 38% higher than where they were a year ago.

The survey showed that 33 states and the District of Colombia have an average gas price above $4 a gallon.

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The old cliche is that the numbers don’t lie. The adult retail business should be all about the numbers. You’re running a business, and you live and die by the numbers. So let’s look at some numbers.

Each week there are a little under 100 releases from adult studios (minus comps and catalog). According to IVD (the leading distributor), the average price for those 100 titles is a little above $16. So if you wanted to carry those 100 titles every week you’d be looking at spending $1600 each week, which adds up to over $6000 per month. To make your profit you’d need to do about $5000/week in sales. (I subscribe to the ‘3times’ mentality…1 time to cover the cost of goods, 1 time to cover the overhead, and 1 time to make the profit that enables you to expand, advertise, etc.). If you derived 50% of your sales from rentals and 50% from sales, you’d need to have about 800 movie-night rentals per week @ $3 and sell about 80 movies per week @ $30. Now of course you will make more money with novelties, magazines and sell-through…but what I’m trying to convey is that trying to carry everything from everyone might be a little unrealistic. That’s why buyers have become more discriminating in what they stock on their adult shelves. However, many have went in the wrong direction. They use the quantity over quality mentality and buy simply the cheapest “New Releases” available. The problem is that those DVDs aren’t the good ones. So, while you may have saved money, you now have a unit of inventory that no one wants, and that will be played out immediately. You should also question why that title is so cheap. Chances are it doesn’t involve new footage, and doesn’t use the top talent, directors and action. Another old adage comes to mind: “You get what you pay for”.

Here’s a chilling reality that few people think about. Go look at all the movies on your shelves. You got a nice section of some studios built up right? You got that deal from them for a bunch of “new” titles for $3 and you made a big section hoping your customers would eat it up. Well instead of looking at your inventory as what you got…think of it as….what is left. That’s right. Everything on your shelf is stuff that hasn’t sold. Unless you just recently stocked it, it’s leftovers. The demand for it is only going to diminish. If it’s still priced the same as this week’s releases, there’s no way most of them are going to compete.

But you had titles that sold. They sold the first week you put them out. They were out on rent for weeks then some guy bought it. Where’s that title now? Would it still sell if it were out there? Maybe. Maybe not. But you’ll never know. Maybe the next time that company releases a title you should order 2 or 3 copies. They’ll all rent enough to make your money back, and then they’ll sell out. That’s a winning formula. So why is it I see stores that say…”Oh yeah Hush Hush…they sell out as soon as I get them”. Then order more, silly!

If you mosey on down to Austin, Texas and go to any Dreamers store, you’ll see the owner posts his stores 3 principles. They are posted for everyone to see, customers and employees. They are:

  1. Bring in the new. (New titles, new prices, new products and new customers)
  2. Replace what moves. (If it’s popular and is in demand, keep riding that horse)
  3. Discount what doesn’t move to make room and pay for the new. (Discount the price as time goes on to ensure you get rid of that product)

Pretty simple, but incredibly effective. It’s no wonder that these stores are the single best adult retail stores I’ve ever seen. This company should be the model that all other adult stores strive to be. From the top down, this is a top notch organization that just does everything right.

A lot of stores do some things right, and some stores do a lot of things right. But one area where I’m constantly amazed is how little effort seems to be put into really analyzing the numbers. I know some people don’t like crunching numbers but if that’s the case you shouldn’t be a buyer. You should be a stat junkie who’s constantly trying to analyze your data, detect trends and make adjustments. You should be picky, but be smart about being picky. Carry just the top notch titles, they will be the ones that will be constant money makers. Reorder those titles that keep getting rented or bought. Restock best sellers every week. Mark down that stuff no one wants until you find a price where it will move. That’s retail.

It’s tempting to see the adult industry through the wrong lens. If your focus is on titties, ass and hot chicks…you are doing it wrong. You should see every DVD as a widget…some more valuable than others. I remember when I was a buyer and being super excited when I negotiated a great deal on a top line of transsexual titles. I have zero interest myself in transsexuals, but I knew that this was a top line, that my customers would love it and appreciate it, and the proof would be in the sales. I tracked the sales and immediately saw the results to be even better than I projected. This is the approach you must take as a buyer. If you are selective about what you carry, smart about the price you carry it for, and take the time to see the product all the way through the retail cycle, you will see the results you want.

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MEYRIN, Switzerland - The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.

But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?

Ridiculous, say scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known by its French initials CERN — some of whom have been working for a generation on the $5.8 billion collider, or LHC.

“Obviously, the world will not end when the LHC switches on,” said project leader Lyn Evans.

David Francis, a physicist on the collider’s huge ATLAS particle detector, smiled when asked whether he worried about black holes and hypothetical killer particles known as strangelets.

“If I thought that this was going to happen, I would be well away from here,” he said.

The collider basically consists of a ring of supercooled magnets 17 miles in circumference attached to huge barrel-shaped detectors. The ring, which straddles the French and Swiss border, is buried 330 feet underground.

The machine, which has been called the largest scientific experiment in history, isn’t expected to begin test runs until August, and ramping up to full power could take months. But once it is working, it is expected to produce some startling findings.

Scientists plan to hunt for signs of the invisible “dark matter” and “dark energy” that make up more than 96 percent of the universe, and hope to glimpse the elusive Higgs boson, a so-far undiscovered particle thought to give matter its mass.

The collider could find evidence of extra dimensions, a boon for superstring theory, which holds that quarks, the particles that make up atoms, are infinitesimal vibrating strings.

The theory could resolve many of physics’ unanswered questions, but requires about 10 dimensions — far more than the three spatial dimensions our senses experience.

The safety of the collider, which will generate energies seven times higher than its most powerful rival, at Fermilab near Chicago, has been debated for years. The physicist Martin Rees has estimated the chance of an accelerator producing a global catastrophe at one in 50 million — long odds, to be sure, but about the same as winning some lotteries.

By contrast, a CERN team this month issued a report concluding that there is “no conceivable danger” of a cataclysmic event. The report essentially confirmed the findings of a 2003 CERN safety report, and a panel of five prominent scientists not affiliated with CERN, including one Nobel laureate, endorsed its conclusions.

Critics of the LHC filed a lawsuit in a Hawaiian court in March seeking to block its startup, alleging that there was “a significant risk that … operation of the Collider may have unintended consequences which could ultimately result in the destruction of our planet.”

One of the plaintiffs, Walter L. Wagner, a physicist and lawyer, said Wednesday CERN’s safety report, released June 20, “has several major flaws,” and his views on the risks of using the particle accelerator had not changed.

On Tuesday, U.S. Justice Department lawyers representing the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation filed a motion to dismiss the case.

The two agencies have contributed $531 million to building the collider, and the NSF has agreed to pay $87 million of its annual operating costs. Hundreds of American scientists will participate in the research.

The lawyers called the plaintiffs’ allegations “extraordinarily speculative,” and said “there is no basis for any conceivable threat” from black holes or other objects the LHC might produce. A hearing on the motion is expected in late July or August.

In rebutting doomsday scenarios, CERN scientists point out that cosmic rays have been bombarding the earth, and triggering collisions similar to those planned for the collider, since the solar system formed 4.5 billion years ago.

And so far, Earth has survived.

“The LHC is only going to reproduce what nature does every second, what it has been doing for billions of years,” said John Ellis, a British theoretical physicist at CERN.

Critics like Wagner have said the collisions caused by accelerators could be more hazardous than those of cosmic rays.

Both may produce micro black holes, subatomic versions of cosmic black holes — collapsed stars whose gravity fields are so powerful that they can suck in planets and other stars.

But micro black holes produced by cosmic ray collisions would likely be traveling so fast they would pass harmlessly through the earth.

Micro black holes produced by a collider, the skeptics theorize, would move more slowly and might be trapped inside the earth’s gravitational field — and eventually threaten the planet.

Ellis said doomsayers assume that the collider will create micro black holes in the first place, which he called unlikely. And even if they appeared, he said, they would instantly evaporate, as predicted by the British physicist Stephen Hawking.

As for strangelets, CERN scientists point out that they have never been proven to exist. They said that even if these particles formed inside the Collider they would quickly break down.

When the LHC is finally at full power, two beams of protons will race around the huge ring 11,000 times a second in opposite directions. They will travel in two tubes about the width of fire hoses, speeding through a vacuum that is colder and emptier than outer space.

Their trajectory will be curved by supercooled magnets — to guide the beams around the rings and prevent the packets of protons from cutting through the surrounding magnets like a blowtorch.

The paths of these beams will cross, and a few of the protons in them will collide, at a series of cylindrical detectors along the ring. The two largest detectors are essentially huge digital cameras, each weighing thousands of tons, capable of taking millions of snapshots a second.

Each year the detectors will generate 15 petabytes of data, the equivalent of a stack of CDs 12 miles tall. The data will require a high speed global network of computers for analysis.

Wagner and others filed a lawsuit to halt operation of the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, or RHIC, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York state in 1999. The courts dismissed the suit.

The leafy campus of CERN, a short drive from the shores of Lake Geneva, hardly seems like ground zero for doomsday. And locals don’t seem overly concerned. Thousands attended an open house here this spring.

“There is a huge army of scientists who know what they are talking about and are sleeping quite soundly as far as concerns the LHC,” said project leader Evans.

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Here’s my formula for adult retail success:

  1. Get a good location - Find a location with good traffic, both car and foot, make sure you are in compliance with all zoning laws.
  2. Have a decent looking storefront.  Update from time to time to keep the store looking new and clean.
  3. Advertise and make sure you can be found online.  Register your own domain address, create a myspace, list your site on search engines and directories.
  4. Make the inside of your store clean and friendly.
  5. Hire employees with high work ethics and pay them well.  Keep the store clean and organized.
  6. Carry the best titles from the top studios, not just the cheapest crap you can find.
  7. Offer prices that are not only competitive locally, but against most online stores.
  8. Offer your customers a variety of options.  Some want to buy movies, some want to rent, some want to trade and some want to sell you back movies.  Make sure your movies are priced to sell.  Collectors and regulars will be your best customers.
  9. Carry the nicest novelties and keep them clean.  Dust on any products in your store should be unacceptable.  If you have employees working there, they should be actually WORKING their entire shift.
  10. Use Point of Sale software to identify the top titles, studios, stars and toys.  Reorder that which consistently sells and increase your initial offering of titles that are sure to move.
  11. Pay your taxes.  This industry is constantly under fire.  Don’t give the opposition any ammo to take you down.
  12. Create compelling displays and promotions within your store and make sure that new customers are made aware of them.  Your regulars will keep you in business, but you can take care of regulars while attracting new customers.
  13. Read pornnewz.com and email Nate with all your ideas, questions and suggestions!
From Cnet.com
This is ridiculous! Godaddy.com is still only about $10 per domain!

Starting July 1, users who have registered domains with Yahoo’s small-business site will see their annual fee for the service jump from $9.95 to $34.95.

The news came in form of e-mail for anyone who has registered a domain with Yahoo Small Business, and a Yahoo representative told CNET News.com Friday that the e-mails have been sent 90 days, 60 days, and 30 days before users were set to renew their domain registration.

But some blogs are expressing dismay at the price increase, which is three and a half times what domain owners have paid in past years.

Yahoo said the $25 price increase is primarily being instituted to match the cost of doing business, and that registering domains–the process of creating a new Web address–can cost even more with other Web sites.

However, other competitors have much lower prices, including GoDaddy.com or Google Apps, both of which charge annual fees of around $10.

Since domain registration is not the core of Yahoo’s small-business site, the company said its prices can not be as low as those of sites that focus on registering domains.

Low domain registration fees, though, can be a foot in the door to coax customers to upgrade to more profitable services.

According to Yahoo, new domain registrations will still only cost $9.95 and after a year, the fee will go up to $34.95.

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From CNN.com

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — A 25-second snippet of video showing actor Verne Troyer and a former girlfriend having sex, available online over the past couple of days, is all the world will see of the tape — for now.

Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini Me in

Verne Troyer, best known for playing Mini Me in “Austin Powers,” says a sex tape was stolen from his home.

On Friday, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order requested by Troyer’s attorneys that prevents porn distributors from taking orders for the full-length video and prevents TMZ from broadcasting any more clips.

The celebrity Web site posted the short segment on its site Wednesday; Troyer sued the site and porn distributors Thursday for $20 million in damages.

U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez wrote that Troyer’s motion “demonstrated that he will suffer irreparable harm to his reputation” if the tape is distributed. It barred further broadcasting of the tape, which Troyer’s attorney, Tracy Rane, interpreted as meaning that TMZ has to remove the video from its site.

TMZ removed the snippet of the tape by late Friday afternoon, instead redirecting Web viewers to its home page. Another post describing the lawsuit remained active Friday.

Troyer is most famous for his role as Mini-Me in two of the “Austin Powers” movies and also co-stars in the new movie “The Love Guru.” He claims that the sex tape he made with a former girlfriend was stolen from his home months ago.

TMZ, which did not return telephone messages Friday, reported that the video could fetch $100,000 from a porn distributor. SugarDVD wrote in a statement on its Web site that it hoped to reach a deal with Troyer to distribute the full 50-minute version.

Gutierrez also indicated in his ruling that he may be inclined to issue a more forceful preliminary injunction unless TMZ and other parties demonstrate why it should be released.

Troyer’s suit claims that release of an excerpt of the tape was an invasion of privacy and copyright infringement. He is also seeking the return of all copies of the video.

His suit claims that he made the tape with his former girlfriend and never intended it to be shown publicly.

The lawsuit included a pair of letters e-mailed to TMZ and SugarDVD, telling both entities to remove mentions of the tape from their Web sites and halt any plans to distribute it.

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LONDON — Dave West directs his first movie for Harmony Films, “Slam
It! In a Young Whore,” the latest addition to the company’s award
winning all sex series featuring performer Sasha Grey.

The title also features Alexis Texas, Priva, Jennifer Dark, Dana
DeArmand, Samantha Sin and Keisha Kane. “Slam It! In a Young Whore” is
scheduled to hit store shelves on July 1.

“Working with the cast I had for ‘Slam It! In a Young Whore’ was a
blast,” West said. “They are some of the best performers working in
the business and all the scenes are amazing. How can you go wrong with
a movie that features Sasha Grey, Priva and Alexis Texas? I’m really
looking forward to shooting future volumes in the ‘Slam It!’ series.”

Jason Maskell, Harmony Films’ sales and marketing manager, said West
is a great addition to the company’s roster of award winning
directors.

“We’ve worked with Dave in the past and he’s always impressed us as
someone with the skill and talent to be a top notch director,” Maskell
added. “More importantly, he has his own distinct style which we prize
at Harmony Films. He’ll be at home with our other acclaimed directors,
Gazzman and Tanya Hyde.”

Harmony’s webpage can be found at harmonyuk.com with links to B2B and
press information; its myspace page can be found at
www.myspace.com/harmonyfilms.

From Cnet.com:

There’s no question that Verizon Communications hit a home run with its aggressive fiber strategy.

The fiber-to-the-home network called Fios has enabled Verizon to supercharge broadband speeds and compete against cable in the TV market.

Fios also has helped future-proof Verizon’s network. While its cable competitors buckle under the pressure of peer-to-peer traffic on their networks, Verizon has enough capacity in its network, thanks to its fiber upgrades, to weather the storm unscathed and work on its own timetable to find more efficient ways to handle peer-to-peer traffic.

Mark Wegleitner, Verizon’s senior vice president of technology in charge of broadband and consumer services, has helped develop and drive Verizon’s fiber strategy. I sat down with him at the Nxtcomm trade show in Las Vegas last week to talk about a wide variety of topics, including the controversy over Comcast’s treatment of BitTorrent traffic, faster speeds for Fios, and what the company plans to do next when it reaches its 2010 goal of passing 18 million homes with fiber.

Below is an edited excerpt from that conversation. Feel free to share your thoughts after in the “TalkBack” section.

Q: As you know, Comcast got caught slowing down peer-to-peer traffic on its network. As a network provider yourself, do you think it’s necessary to manage your customers’ traffic?
Wegleitner: I think we can come up with scenarios where network management would be necessary. While there might be plenty of bandwidth out there, you can’t really guarantee that you can get an error-free transmission of, say, a video file that will be guaranteed at a specific point in time. That is why you might need rational network management.

So what would you consider to be acceptable network management?
Wegleitner: It’s still a work in progress. But it’s important to ensure the capabilities of applications.

But is it acceptable to identify and slow down specific types of traffic like BitTorrent or other peer-to-peer applications?
Wegleitner: Well, it’s sort of a glass-half-full situation. Degrading traffic for one application enables another to work better. But we have to allow people who use the peer-to-peer applications for lawful and legitimate purposes to do so.

Verizon is working with several peer-to-peer companies to find ways to use the technology to distribute content more efficiently. How can the P2P protocol benefit service providers like Verizon?
Wegleitner: Peer-to-peer is a distribution enabler. But often when people talk about P2P, it gets lumped into a category with things that are bad, mainly because it takes up so much capacity on the network. But whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, there is underlying technology for P2P that can be used to everyone’s advantage to get content like video, which everyone is asking for, distributed in the most efficient way.

We conducted some tests with the P4P group and Yale University, and showed that customers have a better experience, and we use fewer resources, when we used the P2P technology. It’s really a win-win situation for us and the customer.

Degrading traffic for one application enables another to work better. But we have to allow people who use the peer-to-peer applications for lawful and legitimate purposes to do so.

And we’re still working cooperatively with P2P companies and the rest of the folks in the P4P group to employ the technology in a way that would maximize its impact.

Verizon has said it expects to pass 18 million homes with its Fios fiber- to-the-home service in 2010. Where are you guys in that deployment?
Wegleitner: I’d say we are slightly ahead of schedule for homes passed. But in general, I’d describe us as on schedule. We will have 12 million homes passed this year, which is the goal we had previously stated.

Verizon announced recently that it’s increasing the speed of its Fios service to 50Mbps on its high-end tier of service. How much faster can the speeds on Fios get?
Wegleitner: The original specification for the Passive Optical Network, or the FTTP network, we are using allows us to provide 100Mbps to the home. So that’s probably a reasonable ceiling, given the current technology. But we are also deploying GPON, which is an enhancement to the original fiber technology we’re using.

The specification for that calls for 200Mbps to the home, with 400Mbps peak utilization. But we’ll probably see the next generation of technology allow us to deliver between 125Mbps and 175Mbps to the home. We are working with suppliers for that technology to go even faster. But 100Mbps is within range, and we could even go a little higher.

Are people really using the 50Mbps service?
Wegleitner: Under specific circumstances, transferring files at 50Mbps is better than 10Mbps. The key here, though, is concurrent use. In the old days, when you had one PC, there probably wasn’t much need for these kinds of speeds. But now there are multiple devices connected to broadband in the home. And that number is only going to grow. So it’s important to have the performance there.

Verizon has begun selling a bundle that includes Verizon Wireless service and high-speed Internet and video, and no home phone line. How long before you think that the old landline telephones will be obsolete and will disappear altogether?
Wegleitner: In the broadband world, voice service is a small increment of traffic, in terms of bandwidth and cost. And in a converged world, we can give people who keep a voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) landline a rich set of features. So I don’t know that it won’t be a useful service for a large portion of the population. I don’t think the last chapter has been written on voice yet.

So when you talk about new voice services, are you talking about offering unified communications in the home?
Wegleitner: Yes, we can offer a unified communication experience in the home today with point solutions. And we have run way left for more sophisticated and converged services.

When will we see these services?
Wegleitner: We can already provide the ability to forward calls. But the find-me and follow-me services haven’t caught on as rapidly as we thought. Sometimes the first time an application comes out of the shoot, it doesn’t catch. But then later, it does. I don’t think we’ve created enough selection or a compelling-enough template to drive mass-market adoption of some of these services yet. But that will come. I don’t think we’re talking more than a couple of years away.

Verizon’s original Fios plan goes through 2010. What happens after that? Will Verizon continue to deploy fiber to more customers in its footprint, or will you focus more on DSL?
Wegleitner: I think there is more gas in the engine for fiber-to-the-home beyond 2010 that will help us get into the remainder of households in our footprint. Will we cover all the homes in our footprint? Probably not.

In the lowest-density areas, it’s hard to justify new wireline deployment. And technically, DSL is available over copper. But it has limitations on long loops. Wireless solutions are attractive in these rural areas. We are looking at options in that area. But it’s worth noting that even many of the small towns in our footprint are still within miles of a city center. So it’s only about 30 percent that is out in low-density areas.

Right now, the primary horse we are betting on will be 3G and 4G solutions for wireless.

Would Verizon use LTE or WiMax to provide wireless broadband in those rural areas?
Wegleitner: Well, LTE is the horse we are riding right now. So that will likely move to the head of the line, in terms of the high-speed wireless-broadband data service we’ll offer. We are already offering direct broadcast satellite for video delivery where we aren’t offering Fios TV. So we could pair DBS with wireless data to also offer a triple-play offering in those rural areas.

Some of your cell phone competitors, such as AT&T and T-Mobile, are using Wi-Fi in different ways to extend their broadband networks to public hot spots. T-Mobile is actually using it to augment its cellular voice service. Will Verizon use Wi-Fi?
Wegleitner: We might see Wi-Fi used in the home to provide multiple device interconnection. Right now, we are using the Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) cable standard to deliver connectivity using the existing cable infrastructure in the home. But we could use other kinds of connectivity in the home, such as Wi-Fi or power line.

But as far as offering Wi-Fi in hot spots or covering whole communities with Wi-Fi, we’ve tried it. We provided Wi-Fi in Manhattan, but we no longer offer that service.

I remember that. A few years ago, you guys turned your existing phone booths in Manhattan into Verizon Wi-Fi hot spots. But when you rolled out EV-DO service, you shut down the Wi-Fi hot spots. Why?
Wegleitner: The economics just didn’t pan out. I think right now, the primary horse we are betting on will be 3G and 4G solutions for wireless.

Speaking of 4G, there’s been so much talk about moving to the next generation of wireless networks. What do you see as the biggest challenges in building and running the next-generation broadband wireless networks?
Wegleitner: One challenge will be the sheer number of new devices on the network. It’s a double-edged sword. There’s more capability for end users, but it also means that the network provider has to understand these capabilities. There’s not going to be a common denominator, so we will have to be able to identify and recognize the devices and their capabilities, and adapt to it.

The other thing is that we’ll need additional management for all these devices. We’ll have to be able to localize problems, identify them, and be able to fix them. And we’ll have to make sure we can do this at a reasonable cost.

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From cybersource.com:

Managing online fraud continues to be a significant and
growing cost for merchants of all sizes. To better understand
the impact of payment fraud for online merchants,
CyberSource sponsors annual surveys addressing the
detection, prevention and management of online fraud. This
report summarizes findings from our ninth annual survey.

Overview

Over the past few years the percent of online revenues lost
to payment fraud has been slowly declining from 1.8%
in 2004 to 1.4% this year. However, total losses from
online payment fraud in the U.S. and Canada have steadily
increased during this time as eCommerce has continued to
grow 20% or more each year.1 In 2007, we estimate that
$3.6 billion in online revenues will be lost to online fraud
— up from $3.1 billion in 2006.

Key Fraud Metrics

The percent of accepted orders which are later determined
to be fraudulent increased slightly. In 2007 the survey
shows the overall average fraudulent order rate was 1.3%
vs. 1.1% in 2006. The share of incoming orders merchants
decline to accept due to suspicion of payment fraud was
also up slightly. In 2007 the overall order rejection rate
due to suspicion of fraud was 4.2% compared to 4.1%

in 2006. Some merchants of similar online revenue size
selling similar goods online have order rejection rates
significantly below 4% while still maintaining low fraud
rates. Therefore, we believe that merchants with order
rejection rates near or above the 4.2% rate are rejecting a
significant number of valid orders.

Chargebacks Understate Fraud Loss
by as Much as 50%

This year’s survey again probed the percent of fraud losses
accounted for by chargebacks versus those incurred as a
result of merchants issuing credit to reverse a charge in
response to a consumer’s claim of fraudulent account use.
Overall, merchants continue to report that chargebacks
accounted for less than half of fraud losses.

International Order Risk 2 ½ Times Higher
Than Domestic Orders

On average, merchants say the rate offraud associated
with international orders is over two-and-one-half times
as high as domestic orders. Merchants also reject international
orders at a rate two-and-one-half times higher than domestic orders.

Manual Review Rates Increase

After declining in 2006, manual review rates moved back
towards levels recorded in 2004 – 2005. Manual review
rates increased from an average of 23% of orders in 2006
to 27%. Overall, 82% of merchants are engaging in manual
order review. These merchants on average are reviewing
one out of every three orders. Large online merchants, who
typically employ more automation, continue to have much
lower manual review rates. In 2007 large online merchants
($25+M in online sales) reported a small drop in manual
review rates from 15% to 14%. However, for many large
merchants the drop in manual review rates did not offset
their growth in online orders so it is likely that they are
reviewing more orders. Survey data indicates that, in total,
online merchants increased their spending on manual
review staff in 2007 by as much as $100 million.

Efficiency Gains of As Much As 20%
May Be Required

As online eCommerce sales continue to grow 15% to 20%
per year, merchants face the growing problem of screening
more online orders. Continued reliance on manual review
presents a serious challenge to scalability. Can merchants
grow their review staffing sufficiently to keep pace with
fraud? Only 20% of online merchants report having budget
to increase manual review staff in 2008 to cope with
higher order volumes. Therefore, each year, merchants
must increase fraud management efficiency approximately
20% just to keep pace.

Total Pipeline View

Businesses that focus solely on managing chargebacks
may not be seeing the complete financial picture. Online
payment fraud impacts profits from online sales in multiple
ways. Besides direct revenue losses plus the cost of stolen
goods/services and associated delivery/fulfillment costs,
there are the additional costs of rejecting valid orders,
staffing manual review teams, administration of fraud
claims, as well as challenges associated with business
scalability. Merchants can gain efficiency by taking a total
pipeline view of operations and costs. While the fraud rate
is one metric to monitor (and contain within industry and
association limits), an end-to-end view is required to arrive
at the best possible financial outcome.
In 2007, these “profit leaks” in the Risk Management
Pipeline™ impact as much as 47+% of orders for medium
merchants and as much as 19+% of orders for larger
merchants—restricting profits, operating efficiency and
scalability. This report details key metrics and practices at
each point in the pipeline to provide you with benchmarks
and, hopefully, insight. Custom views of these benchmarks
and practices are available through CyberSource—see end
of report for contact information.

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From Wired.com:

The Bat-plan was simple: Base-jump off one Hong Kong skyscraper, smash through the window of another, grab the Chinese crime boss, then hitch a drag chute to a passing C-130 cargo plane for a daring aerial escape. And on to Gotham! An instant, no-fuss extradition in the best tradition of American vigilantism. Just another working day for Batman and, presumably, just another feat of digital wizardry for the visual effects team. Except for one thing: Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight, wanted to do it for real.

Which is a funny thing to want when you’re making a lavish superhero sequel here in the heyday of the greenscreen. And certainly not an easy thing to get, 88 stories above a juddering megacity on the other side of the world. “They spent weeks in preproduction working out a way to hang the stuntman from one helicopter and have a second helicopter following him with the camera,” says Wally Pfister, the movie’s director of photography. Two choppers and a stuntman on a string — all to make a comic- book hero seem as credible on film as Frank Serpico or The French Connection’s Popeye Doyle. All to make a comic-book movie speak the cinematic language of crime thrillers.

And not a moment too soon. While today’s action heroes routinely come dressed in shades of the giddy synthetic (à la Spider-Man and Iron Man), movie fans have gorged on digital eye candy — and, perhaps fearing retinal diabetes, now they’re cutting back (Speed Racer, anyone?). Still, gritty naturalism is no small leap for the spandex genre. It’s a mood more identified with art noir and the prestige pic, the kind of cinema built to attract Oscars, not mass audiences.

Nolan wants to clothe that grim aesthetic in a cape and cowl — and then project it onto an enormous wraparound screen. He’s the first Hollywood director to shoot key sequences of a major feature in Imax, the giant-screen film format still known mainly for whopping nature documentaries. For Nolan, reality beats the hell out of gee-whiz special effects. But keeping it real doesn’t come cheap: The $180 million flick is Warner Bros.’ biggest summer tent pole, and after Speed Racer’s flameout, its only box-office hope.

The studio should take heart. Nolan has a cogent Theory of Applied Batmatics: Insist on reality — no effects, no tricks — up to the point where insisting on reality becomes unrealistic. Then, in postproduction, make what is necessarily unreal as real as possible. “Anything you notice as technology reminds you that you’re in a movie theater,” Nolan explains. “Even if you’re trying to portray something fantastical and otherworldly, it’s always about trying to achieve invisible manipulation.” Especially, he adds, with Batman, “the most real of all the superheroes, who has no superpowers.”

How “real” are we talking here? When Nolan unveiled a six-minute Knight prologue on Imax screens last December (a twisty bank heist with a jarring Joker reveal), it was clear that his cinematic vision owes more to director Sidney Lumet than golden-age DC comics. You can feel the tension of Lumet’s 1975 Dog Day Afternoon and Michael Mann’s 1995 drama, Heat.

Nolan had an ally in Pfister, his collaborator on every film since the 2000 sleeper hit Memento. “When I was a kid, that bank heist scene in Dog Day Afternoon was real,” Pfister recalls. “It was that whole time around The French Connection and Bullitt and The Seven-Ups. That’s what Chris was going for. Only we were shooting in Imax, this format where you’re used to seeing beautiful sunsets and helicopter shots of gazelles running across mountainsides. Instead, we’ve got machine-gun fire and Heath Ledger.”

Nolan’s use of Imax is the natural fulfillment of an experiment he launched with Batman Begins in 2005. That film depicted Batman’s dogged, bruising rise from angry rich kid to driven crime fighter, and it hinted at the consequences of embracing one’s inner demon, even in the service of good. Begins ended with a warning: Batman has escalated the war. His presence ensures the rise of equally quixotic, equally obsessed adversaries. One of these leaves a calling card at murder scenes: a joker. Batman promises the police he’ll look into it. In The Dark Knight, he does, and it looks right back at him, with the leering, paint-smeared face of the late Heath Ledger. Eight stories tall. Cruel reality mashed up with the comic-book carnivalesque — unvarnished, without the comforting buffer of f/x. In an Imax theater, your eyes can’t wander off Nolan’s enveloping canvas and can’t easily dismiss what they’re seeing as trickery. Maybe that’s the most special effect of all.

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From defendourporn.org

The Defend Our Porn DVD is the first DVD compilation to contain scenes from every current Evil Angel director and former Evil Angel director Jules Jordan. All of Evil Angel’s proceeds from the movie will go into the legal defense fund to defend Evil Angel against the recent federal indictments on obscenity, and at the end of the case all remaining funds will continue to be used to fight the government’s war on pornography. These scenes and all production costs related to creating this DVD were donated in support of Evil Angel.

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From abcnews.com

Dot-com is so 1990s. The group that oversees the naming of Internet domains approved a measure today that will broadly expand what words can follow the period in a Web address — everything from .ABC to .sex — potentially sparking a domain-naming boom.

The Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, an international nonprofit corporation overseen by the U.S. Department of Commerce, approved two measures at a meeting in Paris today that will allow virtually any word in any language to be used in a domain name.

“There are two items on the agenda,” an ICANN consultant unauthorized to speak with the press told ABC News from the sidelines of the conference. “The first would allow for new domain names. So a company could apply for a dot company address, .ebay or .ABC.”

The policy would expand the short list of approved domains like .com, .org, .edu and country names to allow for almost anything, including steamy-sounding domains like .sex. ICANN recently turned down a proposal to create a .xxx domain for pornography sites, but if the new policy is approved, virtually any name, including .xxx, would be permitted.

New names will likely not appear online until at least 2009. The organization still must work out many of the details, including fees for obtaining new names, expected to exceed $100,000 apiece, to help ICANN cover millions of dollars in costs

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I just made it into Fargo, North Dakota.  Home to such celebrities as Ed Schultz, Roger Maris and guys being fed to woodchippers, it’s also the largest city in North Dakota.

If you have a store in this area or nearby for that matter, contact me at nate@hushinc.com or (818) 730-4666.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic — With exploding ratings in the UK and a viewership hungry for its behind the scenes look at the adult industry, Virgin Television Media’s Bravo television network renewed its reality show hit “Porn Week” for a fourth season.

In response to the growing interest in “Porn Week,” the network also ordered an extended run for the series, shot during the premium fantasy camp getaways of the same name organized by award winning adult director Gazzman and acclaimed entrepreneur and director Dave West. Porn Week’s vacations are held around the world and offer a front row seat to a live adult set. Started in 2001, Maxim, FHM and Stuff featured Porn Week and it was named a top 10 adult destination by AskMen.com and AOL.com. Its brand has grown to include a hardcore version of the reality show distributed by Shane’s World, also titled “Porn Week.”

“We knew Bravo’s response to the show was tremendous and grew with each season, but this took us by surprise,” Gazzman said. “We’re planning bigger and better Porn Week events so this is great news. Our trip to LA was in the can when we got word of the expanded season and we’re pleased the viewers will be able to watch us on our next stop, St. Tropez in France.”

West said the unique experience Porn Week offers — instruction by award winning directors, nighttime events with porn stars and special castings for participants looking to get in front of the camera — makes for great television and explains the program’s growing popularity on networks such as Bravo, Showcase in Canada and iNDEMAND in the US.

“What goes on during a shoot is something that many people wonder about,” West said. “It’s something many people would like to do. Visitors aren’t usually invited to sets because they’d just get in the way, but Porn Week’s organized so we can do our job and they can watch us work. The guests also get the chance to learn how the business operates and, unlike crowded fan and trade shows, get to know their favorite performers on a one-on-one basis.”

The fourth season of “Porn Week” will premiere in Spring 2009.

For more information, interested fans may visit www.pornweek.com or
email sales@pornweek.com.

For DVD sales, call Megan Stokes at 818-717-8851 or e-mail
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From CNN.com:

MIAMI, Florida (AP) — An alleged brothel-on-wheels that authorities said they busted over the weekend gives a whole new meaning to keeping the party moving.

An alleged mobile brothel that authorities busted is parked Wednesday in Miami Beach, Florida.

An alleged mobile brothel that authorities busted is parked Wednesday in Miami Beach, Florida.

Miami Beach undercover detectives who paid a $40 entry fee and boarded a stretch limousine bus Sunday found women onboard offering oral sex and lap dances for money, authorities said.

Authorities arrested Christine Morteh, 29, of Miramar, and the driver, Clyde Scott, along with four other people Sunday. Miami-Dade jail spokeswoman Janell Hall said Morteh faces charges including offering to commit or engage in prostitution, conducting business without a license, directing another to a place of prostitution and deriving support from prostitution.

Hall said Morteh was released on $7,000 bail on Tuesday and does not yet have an attorney. A telephone listing for her couldn’t be found.

Scott, 41, also faces charges including directing another to prostitution, possession of a controlled substance and deriving support from prostitution, Hall said. He was released Sunday on $11,500 bond. It was not immediately known if he had an attorney.

The bust was part of a nationwide undercover sweep called “Operation Cross Country” that was aimed at finding child prostitutes and headed by the FBI. Operations in 16 cities led to the recovery of 21 children, the FBI said.

FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said 78 people were arrested in Miami and two in Tampa during the sweep.

Orihuela said there were no child prostitutes in the limousine.

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Looks like Verne Troyer has a sex tape and it’s in someone else’s hands.  This has been verified.

More on this as it unfolds.

Do you use security cases for your movies, or do you keep your inventory behind the counter? It’s a dilemma most adult stores face. If you keep the movies behind the counter, your inventory is safe from shoplifting. However, there are drawbacks to this. First, you lose a significant amount of retail space to secure your DVDs. Secondly, you run the risk of adding significant waiting time to completing each transaction.

If you decide to use security cases, you can devote almost all your retail space to actual retailing, and speed through transactions. However, you must add in the cost of the case itself. Some cases can cost as much as $2 each. If you carry a large inventory, that can add up to a lot.

If you do decide to case your movies, you then must decide which type of case you want to use. Alpha Security makes a great sturdy case with a small footprint. The footprint is the bottom part of the case that sits on the shelf. A large footprint can reduce the amount of DVDs you can put on a shelf. Alpha can also install a ferrite coil that works with Sensormatic systems. It’s also a very clean and clear case that doesn’t detract or dull the color palette of the DVD covers.

It’s a tough decision, both ways have pros and cons. Research what would work best for your unique situation before making that decision.

Gianna Michaels:

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From twincities.com:

A man who lost numerous legal battles with Minnesota’s Morrison County over his now-closed adult entertainment businesses was fatally shot after he walked into a county board meeting Tuesday and held at least seven people hostage.

Gordon Wheeler Sr., 60, of Little Falls, was wounded after the county sheriff, a sheriff’s lieutenant and a state trooper opened fire, minutes after he took several county officials hostage as they were wrapping up a board meeting.

Wheeler died later at St. Gabriel’s Hospital in Little Falls, about 100 miles northwest of St. Paul.

It was unclear whether Wheeler returned fire or if he turned the gun on himself, said Dave Bjerga, assistant superintendent for the state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension.

No one else was injured.County Commissioner Tom Wenzel said eight county officials were at the meeting about 10:20 a.m. They were four of the five county commissioners and the county’s administrator, attorney, clerk and auditor.

Wheeler allowed the auditor as well as a cable television camera operator and a newspaper intern to leave. Then he began a long diatribe, Wenzel said.

“He talked the whole while, he never quit talking for at least 10 minutes, until the climax,” Wenzel said.

Wenzel declined to comment on what Wheeler said and the events surrounding the shooting, noting that it was an ongoing investigation.

Kyle Kuphal, 27, a senior at St. Cloud State University, was starting the third week of his first journalism

internship at the weekly Morrison County Record. He was seated in the front row of the board’s chambers.”They had just made the motion to adjourn, and before anybody could second the motion, he stood up to say, ‘Wait just a minute,’ ” Kuphal said.

“He looked to me like a farmer; he didn’t seem out of the ordinary. I thought, ‘Oh, maybe it was somebody with news or something to say.’

“He had something to say, I guess.”

Wheeler pulled a red handkerchief out of his bib overalls and unwrapped a gun, which he waved at those present while he stepped forward, Kuphal said.

“He kind of motioned in our direction and said, ‘If you want to leave, go on.’ We took him up on that offer,” Kuphal said.

The offices of Sheriff Michel Wetzel — who had left the meeting before the incident began — are in the same building. One of those released ran to get Wetzel, who returned along with a deputy and a state trooper.

Police filed into the hallway leading to the board chambers, Kuphal said. Outside, SWAT team members took positions on rooftops.

“It was over in a matter of minutes,” said Bjerga. The exact details of the shooting remained under investigation Tuesday.

Though none of the items on Tuesday’s agenda was related to Wheeler, he had a history of conflict with the county.Wheeler had owned a few adult businesses in the county. In 2003, the county tightened its land-use ordinance for sex-related businesses and shut down an adult book and video store Wheeler owned near Swanville called Lookin’ Fine Smut and Porno, according to reports by the St. Cloud Times.

After the Swanville store was closed, Wheeler remained the owner of an exotic dancing club called Camp Bar near Camp Ripley. Wheeler was convicted in 2006 of promoting and profiting from prostitution and owning or operating a disorderly house after an investigation by the Minneapolis Police Department’s vice unit.

According to an administrative law judge’s findings of fact submitted in November 2005 to the Morrison County Board, two police officers were offered sex by dancers within the bar — of which a portion, the dancers said, would go to Wheeler.

The county board denied Wheeler’s liquor license for the Camp Bar, and a judge ordered the bar to close two years ago.

A little more than a year later, Wheeler sued the county and several county officials, accusing them of corruption. The suits were dismissed.

The BCA is handling the investigation of the shooting. Bjerga said the Minnesota attorney general’s office will review its results.

Wheeler’s autopsy was scheduled for today, said Don Gorrie, a spokesman for the Ramsey County medical examiner’s office.

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From IMDB.com:

Peer-to-peer technology, the file-sharing applications like BitTorrent that are generally associated with online music and movie piracy, account for 44 percent of all bandwidth used in North America, according to Sandvine, a vendor of bandwidth-management systems and reported by the online Multichannel News today (Tuesday). The website observed that Comcast, the cable company that is known to be seeking ways to limit the use of peer-to-peer technology, is a Sandvine client. The same study indicated that 14.8 percent of bandwidth used is consumed by streaming technologies, which also primarily deliver movies and TV shows to users, albeit mostly legitimately. Web browsing accounts for 27.3 percent of all bandwidth consumed, the study said.

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