ESPN Investigates 'Gay Porn Wrestlers' Scandal

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ESPN Investigates 'Gay Porn Wrestlers' Scandal
"Outside the Lines" segment to profile two college athletes dismissed from squad for porn work.

NEW YORK CITY — ESPN will investigate the dismissal of two college wrestlers from their athletics program for having appeared on amateur porn website. The segment featuring wrestlers Paul Donahoe and Kenny Jordan will air during ESPN's "Outside the Lines" this weekend.
Last summer, Donahoe and Jordan were dismissed from the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers wrestling squad when it was revealed they had appeared in nude photo spreads and solo masturbation vignettes on the all-male amateur website Fratmen.tv.

Both men transferred to new schools. Donahoe enrolled at Edinboro College and joined their wrestling squad, where he enjoyed an unbeaten season and advanced to the NCAA finals before losing in March on a technical violation.

ESPN reporter David Amber "investigates the dismissal of the Nebraska wrestlers for posing on a porn website, and the coaching staff's own cover-ups," the network said.

"The fact that they accepted money to promote their own image as college athletes put them in violation of NCAA regulations," ESPN notes. "Nebraska Coach Mark Manning told 'OTL' that while this particular incident did contribute to their dismissal from the team, they were released for a multitude of reasons."

However, ESPN uncovered "a pattern of leniency within the Nebraska wrestling program. Jordan and Donahoe believe the Nebraska wrestling staff's inability to cover up their much publicized internet appearance was the reason behind their dismissal."

ESPN has released a brief preview of Sunday's program. "We didn't kill anybody. We didn't put anybody in a hospital. We're not selling drugs. We're not bad kids," says Jordan in the preview. "We did some porn. Get over it… We work hard on our bodies, so why be ashamed? I didn't threaten anyone's life. If anything, I'm putting smiles on people's faces."

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Ashley Dupre

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NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey woman is suing Ashley Dupre, Joe Francis and “Girls Gone Wild” parent company Mantra Entertainment, claiming that Dupre used her lost driver’s license to appear in a “Girls Gone Wild” video.

The federal lawsuit filed last week by Amber Arpaio seeks unspecified monetary compensation for defamation and invasion of privacy.

Arpaio’s suit said that because of Dupre’s website video, she received numerous calls from friends, family and third parties. Further she claims that her name has traveled through countless websites.

Dupre gained notoriety in March when it came out that she was the high-priced call girl named “Kristen” named in court documents who allegedly was hired by N.Y. Gov. Elliot Spitzer for at least one tryst at a posh Washington hotel. Spitzer, known as “Client 9” in the documents, resigned as governor a few days after the scandal broke.

Dupre had previously filed a $10 million lawsuit against Francis and “Girls Gone Wild” over the video, which was dropped last month.

“She clearly filed her lawsuit just for publicity,” Francis said at the time. “Now that the distraction of this frivolous lawsuit is behind us and I have been vindicated, yet again, we’ve been given the green light to provide her with all the public exposure she could ask for.”

Dupre’s suit had alleged that “Girls Gone Wild” and Joe Francis had ruined Dupre’s reputation by publicizing the video. Francis countered by posting the footage indicating that Dupre had willingly volunteered to perform for the “Girls Gone Wild” cameras, providing both a verbal and written release.

The footage shows Dupre covered by a terry cloth towel and giving her name as Amber Arpaio. An unseen questioner asks if she is 18 and if the footage can be used on “Girls Gone Wild.” She said yes to both questions before her ID was photographed.

Because Dupre had offered false identification and lied about her age on camera, the West Los Angeles-based company initially declined to publish the material.

Lawyers for Francis and Dupre had no immediate comment on the lawsuit Thursday.

In related news, Dupre has is reportedly in talks to be considered for a slot on MTV. One of the concepts being considered is a dating format.

“They’re talking to MTV about Ashley being the next Tila Tequila,” a source said.

Jimmyjane Products Launch at Sephora Stores in France, Italy

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SAN FRANCISCO — Sexual accessory company Jimmyjane has partnered with cosmetics chain Sephora to offer select products from the company’s Wellbeing line. The products have been unveiled in more than 200 Sephora locations throughout France and Italy.

The Sephora chain carries over 250 brands of popular items that include makeup, skin care, fragrance, bath, hair products and beauty accessories, including Sephora's own moderately-priced private label. The chain targets a fairly upscale market of affluent customers in all age groups.

"Sephora and Jimmyjane are a natural fit," said Ethan Imboden, Jimmyjane’s founder and creative director. "Customers rely on Sephora to bring them the best products available, so we’re pleased to be a part of their carefully selected offering."

Nestled amongst mainstream products from Calvin Klein, Chanel, Ralph Lauren and Dior will be Jimmyjane’s Afterglow Natural Massage Candles. which can be used as massage oil once the wax has melted. Sephora will offer three scents — bourbon, fig leaf and pink lotus.

Another massage-themed product is the Beyond Massage Lotion infused with natural botanical ingredients and fragrant essential oils available in cooling, warming and euphoric.

As a follow-up, the store will carry Contour Ceramic Massage Stones which offer a modern take on traditional hot stone massage, available in two distinctive shapes, Contour M and Contour I.

2008 XBIZ Awards Official Nominees

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reporter's notebook The Compex Sport inflicts intense, deep pain. That's its chief selling point.

A day after riding an exercise bike while wired to the Sport--an $899 device that electrically stimulates and revives muscle tissue that ordinarily wouldn't get activated during exercise--my legs were still sore. To put on pants, I had to crouch down and sort of hop into them, and that was after several stretches. My left bicep, which temporarily got hooked up to the Sport, felt like it would had I entered a one-armed chin-up contest.

And those were the aftereffects. Being hooked up to the machine just for a few minutes made my legs feel as if they had become trapped in a vise. In short, it was scary, but oddly compelling at the same time.

The Sport is the latest piece of athletic gear to migrate from the professional locker rooms to weekend warriors. Skier Alberto Tomba employed electronic stimulation, according to the company, on his way to three gold medals at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Olympics. It's a fixture in the training rooms for soccer teams like Juventus and Ajax too.

Video: Zapped to glory
Michael Kanellos takes a ride with the Compex Sport.

Compex refashioned its professional device for the consumer market in Europe a few years ago and has just brought it to the States. It's aimed at hobby athletes who don't have time to train as much as they'd like, but still want to outdo their friends or competitors. Slap on the electrodes and that quick training session becomes a full-body experience.

Despite the pain, the device actually reduces the potential injuries, explained Heiko Van Vliet, a European marketing manager for Compex and a coach and trainer who works with the CSC bicycling team and the Norwegian national skating team. Because you don't have to lift large amounts of weights or run an extraordinary large number of miles to get an intense workout, the wear and tear on joints, bones, and cartilage gets reduced.

Regular use over time additionally builds up muscle tissue, which takes more pressure off joints and bones.

"With this, we are able to do in 25 seconds what you have never felt in your life," said Van Vliet. "For professional athletes, it is a must."

And seconds is all it takes. I only did three sets of exercises with my legs during a demo at San Francisco's City Cycle. I did the "resistance" setting for seven 7-second intervals. In this mode, the device sent electric charges through two electrodes every 7 seconds to my quadriceps while I pedaled an exercise bike. The jolt activated the slow-twitch muscle fibers in my thigh. A 30-second (or longer) rest period followed each 7-second jolt.

I followed this with seven 4-second intervals on the "explosive strength" mode, which targets fast-twitch muscle fibers. I then followed with 1.5 minutes on the much mellower "endurance" setting.

The day before the test, I had ridden my own bike approximately 50 miles over several hills, so I'm not that out of shape. Even so, after doing what amounted to less than 3 minutes of actual exercise on the Compex Sport, I was sweating, panting, and howling. Customers coming into the store stared, and then asked the sales attendant what was going on. (Weirdly, after a burst of electricity, you feel fine and can even hold conversations.)

Electrical stimulation essentially works by tricking the body. To get muscles to contract in an ordinary situation, the brain sends an electrical signal to the appropriate nerves, which then stimulate the muscle fiber.

As people age, however, certain neural pathways become predominant. When the brain sends a signal, the same fibers get tickled; the muscles that get ignored begin to atrophy.

"Your body is very efficient. Why should it conserve something that it isn't using?" Van Vliet explained.

An ordinary person who doesn't work out much uses around 35 percent of their muscle mass, while someone who works out somewhat frequently can boost that number to closer to 50 percent, he said. Body builders might use 80 percent to 85 percent.

To excite those dormant fibers, the Sport sends a signal directly to the nerves via electrodes attached to your leg, bypassing the brain all together. It stimulates as many fibers as possible, not just the ones the nerve customarily excites. When the current begins to flow, your muscles immediately jump into a hard mound.

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"We can recruit up to 99 percent of your muscle fiber," Van Vliet said. That stimulated muscle tissue is then more receptive to signals from your brain the next time you run or bike in the real world.

The pain first-time users feel after using the Sport comes from delayed onset muscle soreness that comes from doing new activities. (Think of the pain you'd have if, out of the blue, you decided to run every stair in a football stadium.) The more you use the device and exercise those ignored muscles, the more the pain decreases. Kip Potter, who is helping import the Sport to the U.S., hooks himself up to the device three times a week. He can still walk upright.

The amount of current flowing through the device is quite low--in the 20 to 40 milliamp range--said Van Vliet. Anecdotally, it seems correct. For an article in 2004, I volunteered for a hit from a Taser, which emits much higher amperage. It knocked me flat and my hands felt numb for nearly an hour after a 1-second tase.

Even during the longer, 7-second charges inflicted in "resistance" mode on the Sport, I could still talk and move, and hadn't even come close to losing consciousness--a big difference. The level of power is also controlled by the user. (In the video, Van Vliet has it set two-thirds of the way up, relatively high for a maiden voyage.) To shut it off, you can just pull the electrodes off.

But the company recommends working out with a trainer initially.

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AEE Day 2: The Show Floor

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By Steve Javors

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LAS VEGAS – Day 2 of the Adult Entertainment Expo, at the Sands Convention Center, has a distinctly different flavor than day 1. After the first day, where mostly other trade people in the adult industry traverse the show floor aisles for business and networking, during the second half of the second day the fans enter and the pace picks up considerably.

Teravision CEO Evan Seinfeld chatted with fans and business associates white sitting in the pimped-out Teravision booth. Flanked by his wife and company namesake Tera Patrick along with Sasha Grey, Seinfeld reflected on a great 2007 and told XBIZ he was very happy about recently launching his Iron Cross gonzo label.

Shane’s World star Casey Parker looked every inch the blond surfer girl right down to the longboard, surf wax on her signing table and a cute yellow bikini as she signed autographs in front of a massive Shane’s World-skinned recreational vehicle.

Third World Media provided a different flavor to the show floor with a handful of imported Asian models who were visibly excited to be in Las Vegas to greet their American fans.

The Ninn Worx_SR booth attracted a lot of attention when the company’s contract stars donned their warrior outfits for Michael Ninn’s upcoming epic “The Four.”

AbbyWinters.com also drew considerable crowds when a squad of its flexible all-natural models engaged in a group yoga session. This activity drew the attention of Evil Angel owner John Stagliano who rushed over camera in hand and began directing.

Naughty America’s ubiquitous house booth, replete with white picket fence, now includes a built-out backyard featuring extensive patio furniture. Roxy DeVille made herself at home in one of the bedrooms and invited fans to lay down with her while uber-blondes Puma Swede and Nikki Benz posed on the chrome laden Harley-Davidson in the NA driveway.

Star power was in full effect Thursday: Flower Tucci was camped out at Elegant Angel; Joanna Angel held court at Adam & Eve; Courtney Cummz looked rocker-chic at IMLive.com; Memphis Monroe greeted fans with open arms at Pink Visual; Aubrey Addams looked cute as a button at Red Light District; Savanna Samson was vivacious at Vivid; Gianna Michaels was fiercely hot at Jules Jordan Video and Jenny Hendrix looked every bit the rising star at Evil Angel.

Other companies also opted for a meeting room in AEE’s B2B Marketplace underneath the main hall. Shane’s World, Anabolic, Zero Tolerance, GVA-TWN, Vouyer Media, Metro Interactive and Northstar Associates conducted business in the meeting lounges down below.

With two measured days now in the books, show organizers and exhibitors hope days 3 and 4 provide the expected frenetic pace.

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Update (December 10, 2007 3:30 PM PST): Rogers has now publicly confirmed the activities described below.

Greetings. Please observe closely the image to your left, showing the home page for Google Canada (click the image for a full-sized, full-resolution version).

Does anything seem a bit odd about the normally clean and pristine Google front door? What the blazes is all that ISP-related verbiage taking up the top third of the page? Why would Google ever give an ISP permission to muddy up Google's public face that way?

Well, as you've probably already guessed, Google didn't give this ISP any such permission. The ISP simply decided to modify Google on their own, demonstrating a real world example of ISPs Spying On and Modifying Web Traffic that I was discussing yesterday.

Just brought to my attention today by a concerned reader who chose Google for his example, what you're looking at is reportedly an ongoing test by Rogers in Canada, scheduled for deployment to Rogers Internet customers next quarter.

In case you're curious, "ISNS" on the test Google interception page apparently stands for Internet Subscriber Notification System. For the morbidly curious, here's the javascript and associated code that enables this procedure, which can presumably be applied to any http: (unencrypted) traffic.

While Rogers' current planned use for this Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and modification system (reportedly manufactured by "In-Browser Marketing" firm "PerfTech") is for account status messages, it's obvious that commercial ISP content and ads (beyond the ISP logos already displayed) would be trivial to introduce through this mechanism. By the way, PerfTech is even using Google for one of its linked promotional examples on the PerfTech home page. I wonder if they bothered to ask Google's permission for that?

Anyway, the fact that there's an opt-out present for future account status messages on the Rogers page insertions hardly changes the extremely problematic and network neutrality unfriendly aspects of such situations, as I noted in yesterday's blog item.

Question: Will Web service providers such as Google and many others, who have spent vast resources in both talent and treasure creating and maintaining their services' appearances and quality, be willing to stand still while any ISP intercepts and modifies their traffic in such a manner?

I can't say for sure of course, but I suspect that a likely reaction might be discerned by paraphrasing Bugs Bunny: "Eh, he don't know them very well, do he?"

--Lauren--

MADISON, Wisconsin (AP) -- Bloggers and free speech advocates are calling on prosecutors not to file charges against a teacher arrested for allegedly posting an anonymous comment online praising the Columbine shooters.

In 1999, two Columbine High School students killed 12 fellow students, a teacher, and themselves.

Some were disturbed by the post that police say James Buss left on a conservative blog, but other observers said it was a sarcastic attempt to discredit critics of education spending.

The suburban Milwaukee high school chemistry teacher was arrested last week for the November 16 comment left on www.bootsandsabers.com, a blog on Wisconsin politics. The comment, left under the name "Observer," came during a discussion over teacher salaries, after some writers complained teachers were underworked and overpaid.

Buss, a former president of the teacher's union, allegedly wrote that teacher salaries made him sick because they are lazy and work only five hours a day. He praised the teen gunmen who killed 12 students and a teacher before committing suicide in the April 1999 attack at Columbine High School.

"They knew how to deal with the overpaid teacher union thugs. One shot at a time!" he wrote, adding they should be remembered as heroes.

The comment disturbed at least one teacher, who called police in West Bend, 40 miles north of Milwaukee and home of the blog's administrator. Police traveled to arrest Buss at his home in Cudahy, south of Milwaukee, last week after the blogger gave them the anonymous poster's IP address.

After his arrest, Buss spent an hour in the Washington County jail before he was released on $350 bail. He did not return phone messages and e-mails seeking comment, and it was unclear whether he had a lawyer.

Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens is considering whether to charge Buss with disorderly conduct and unlawful use of computerized communication systems.

"If you look at all the factors in this case, it's pretty clear it would be a mistake to charge," said Larry Dupuis, legal director of The American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin. "At worst, it was somebody expressing admiration for somebody who did something reprehensible. But the more reasonable explanation is this is somebody who is trying to mock the conservative view of teacher salaries."

Police Capt. Toby Netko defended the arrest. He said the teacher who complained was disturbed by the reference to "one shot at a time" and other educators agreed it was a threat.

"What happens when you say 'bomb' in an airport? That's free speech, isn't it?" he said. "And people are taken into custody for that all the time."

Donald Downs, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and expert in free speech, said that "all sorts of unsavory, controversial speech" are protected by the First Amendment.

"It has to be intended to incite violence" to be illegal, Downs said. "If it's tongue-in-cheek, there's virtually no way they can claim that."

Downs added, however, that the school district might have legal grounds to discipline Buss. The teacher has been placed on paid administrative leave while his school district considers what action to take.

Sara Larsen, superintendent of the Oak Creek school district where Buss has worked since 1994, said she was "dismayed, disappointed and discouraged" by the posting. She had worked closely with Buss when he was president of the teacher's union for three years ending in 2006.

"It's not something that I would have expected any teacher to do. As much as teachers understand the whole situation in Columbine, to reference that is certainly inappropriate," she said.