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Web site for women who love shoes

SOMERVILLE, Mass., Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts company has fired up a Web site dedicated to women who are obsessed with shoes called, naturally enough, Shoetube.tv

The Web site -- operated by Powderhouse Productions, based in Somerville, Mass. -- features instructional videos and fashion tips, The Washington Times reported.

"Shoes are universal, women love them. They connect like nobody's business," Powderhouse Productions Creative Director Bill Lattanzi said.

The Web site -- with a reported core staff of four people and multiple freelancers -- will offer weekly videos, daily clips and blogs. The site also encourages users to post videos, the newspaper said.

"Alternate your shoe choice and height from one day to the next, or from day to night. Wear a pretty ballet flat one day and romp around in your beloved platforms the next," a blogger wrote on the site.

Powderhouse, which also produces for PBS and the Discovery Channel, was looking for a fun project for the company when it got the concept from the Hello Stiletto Shoe club in Boston, Lattanzi said.

Debt notice worth less than postage

KARLSTAD, Sweden, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- A Karlstad, Sweden, woman said she received a notice from the Swedish state collections agency for a debt worth less than the postage on the envelope.

The woman said she received notice of a 62-cent penalty for failing to pay her motor vehicle tax on time, The Local reported.

Anna Jansson of the Swedish Enforcement Authority's Karlstad branch office said notifications of minor debts can be beneficial to recipients.

"If someone has a debt it goes on their permanent record, and such matters can be good to know about," she said.

Jesper Bergqvist, an official with the authority's main office in Stockholm, said the agency lobbied unsuccessfully in 2001 for authority to overlook debts less than $8.

Cambridge porn rumors finally dispelled

CAMBRIDGE, England, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- England's Cambridge University has revealed its library tower -- long rumored to hold Victorian pornography -- contains nothing more than books on courtship.

Students at the school have long fantasized about the reputed contents of the library tower -- novelist Stephen Fry famously mentioned the stash of Victorian porn in his novel, "The Liar" -- but school officials have revealed after years of speculation that the tower in fact holds Victorian-era books on marriage and romance etiquette, The Daily Telegraph reported.

"The traditional student rumor is that the contents of the tower are pornographic," said Vanessa Lacey, manager of the Cambridge University Library Tower Project. "In fact we now know it to be a treasure trove for people who want to know more about Victorian society, and among the books are these late 19th and early 20th century lifestyle guides designed to teach young couples the art of courting. At the time they were acquired, they were not considered the sort of thing that serious students should be reading, so they were put away."

Among the titles in the collection are "A Golden Guide to Matrimony," "Flirting Made Easy" and "Courtship and Marriage."

70-year perfect attendance for Rotarian

HOUSTON, Feb. 15 (UPI) -- The Rotary Club of Houston has announced a special celebration for a Rotarian who has not missed a weekly lunch at the club in 70 years.

A club official said Bernie Lorino, 93, began attending weekly Rotary Club lunches in 1938 and hasn't missed a meal since, the Houston Chronicle reported.

"We're going to have a celebration," Rotary President Vern Swisher said. "We'll have Bernie's family and special friends. We'll have a cake. We're just going to let him and his family know how very blessed we are to have him in our club."

Lorino's dedication to perfect attendance once led members of the Garden of the Gods Rotary Club in Manatee Springs, Colo., to hold a meeting at his bedside while he was recovering from a kidney ailment.

"I think that says that the Rotary's 'service above self' motto is vitally important to him," Swisher said. "Bernie not only attends, he's actively involved. He's a real asset to our club."

Lorino is modest about his accomplishment, insisting he has met a Florida Rotarian with an unbroken attendance record longer than his own 70-year streak.