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Questions: Is Hevesi "cooperating" with authorities -- meaning, has he agreed to provide information and testify against others who are allegedly involved, such as noted political campaign strategist Hank Morris (previously indicted)? This New York Times report cites sources who say Hevesi will cooperate.
Will we learn the names of other placement agents involved in how public employee pension funds were allocated and invested, and how fees were generated?
Is Hevesi's own deal related to a deal to spare either or both of Hevesi's sons (Andrew Hevesi, Dan Hevesi), both of whom have been active in New York City and State politics, further investigation or their own risk of prosecution -- as reported weeks ago by most New York papers?
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Canelo vs Saunders Ends With A TKO By Alvarez
There was quite a bit of speculation going into the Canelo vs Saunders match-up. Several viewers were expecting Saunders to be the one to stop Canelo from becoming the super undisputed champion of the middleweight category. But it did not take long for Canelo Alvarez to lay those doubts to rest.
Proceedings Of Canelo vs Saunders Fight
After an adjustment in the middle of the match, Billy Joes Saunders was working to get back in the match. With a record of 30-1 and a total of 14 KOs, he was a tricky opponent. However, in the 8th Round, Alvarez landed an uppercut with his right which finished the Englishman for good. Canelo Alvarez currently has a record of 56 wins, 1 draw, and 2 losses, and a total of 38 KOs.
Saunders' right eye seemed to have swelled up from the damage. The Great Britain native reported to his corner that he had lost vision in the eye. Mark Calo-Oy, the referee, stopped the fight before the next round started.
With the win in the Canelo vs Saunders, Alvarez now holds the WBA, the WBC, and the WBO title simultaneously. Saunders was the previous holder of the WBO title. The Canelo vs Alvarez fight drew in an audience of 73,126 to Arlington's AT&T Stadium, in Texas. It was a new global record for indoor boxing attendance.
After the Canelo vs Saunders fight, the Mexican said that he had already expected round 8 to be the latest development stage of the fight. However, he also said that the fight was easier than he expected. He credited the fact to his daily preparation.
At 168 pounds, Canelo Alvarez, 30, is now the reigning king of boxing when it comes to exchanging blows. When the fight was stopped, Alvarez was leading in all the scorecards: 78-74, 77-75, and 78-74.
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Created by a Brighton inventor and clockmaker's son, Volk's is the oldest electric railway in the world.
What is Volk's Electric Railway?
Welcome to Volk's Electric Railway, the oldest continuously running, electric railway in the World.
Situated in the seaside town of Brighton, the Railway was constructed by Magnus Volk and first opened to the public in 1883. The route runs for one mile along Brighton seafront, with three stations where passengers can alight. Trains run frequently from March to October and for special events throughout the rest of the year.


Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - Divorce by mutual consent - Both the parties are supposed to move second motion not earlier than six months after the date of presentation of the petition for divorce by mutual consent - It implies that even during second motion, mutual consent shall subsist; otherwise, there would have been no scope for both the parties to join together for making second motion - Mutual consent shall be expressed by both parties together - If one of the parties backs out of the mutual consent for whatever reason it may be, the petition for divorce by mutual consent is liable to be dismissed. (177) P.L.R.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - For dissolution of marriage by mutual consent - The appellant as recorded by the trial Court, paid Rs.6 lakhs to the respondent as permanent alimony - The respondent, however, did not make a statement at the stage of second motion, leaving no option with the trial Court but to dismiss the petition - The appellant's prayer, in the context of aforesaid facts, for restitution of Rs.6 lakhs must necessarily succeed (Restitution application would be in the same Court) - Matter remitted to the District Judge (Family Court) - Civil Procedure Code, 1908 (V of 1908) S. 144. (182) P.L.R.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - Legislature in its wisdom did not introduce any relaxation in Section 13-B of the Act - There is nothing in the language of Section which can suggest that the provisions of Section 13-B of the Act are simplicitor procedurally directed and can be moulded by the court in exercise of its judicial discretion depending on the facts and circumstances of a case - This provision is intended to liberalise the provisions relating to divorce - The Legislature chose not to add any Proviso granting relaxation to the conditions imposed under Section 13B(1) and/or 13B(2) of the Act. (177) P.L.R.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - Petition under Section 13-B of the Act is founded upon mutual consent - An adverse inference or an inference of consent cannot be drawn against a party which refuses to make a statement at second motion - The trial Court, therefore, rightly dismissed the petition - A party receives an amount, at the stage of first motion, in view of parties mutually agreeing to bring the marriage to an end - If the party that receives money retracts from mutual consent, such a party would, in our considered opinion, be required to restitute the amount so received.(181) P.L.R.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - Terms and conditions mutually arrived at between the parties before filing the petition under Section 13-B of the Act would disclose that the respondent had agreed to have the custody of the child born to them and also agreed to receive a sum of Rs.5 lacs in lump-sum, not only for her maintenance, but also for the maintenance of the child - Trial Court without any issue having arisen as regards the lien of the minor over the property of the appellant or his father, chose to grant lien over the property of the appellant and his father - Trial Court is not supposed to issue such directions in its whims and fancies - Trial Court cannot traverse beyond the mutual consent agreed between the parties, while passing a decree under Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 - The trial Court also can pass an order for maintenance under the scheme of Sections 25 and 26 of the Act only on the agreed terms of the parties while passing a decree by mutual consent invoking the provision under Section 13-B of the Act. (180) P.L.R.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - Trial Court wrongly compelled the presence of the petitioner for making statement at the second motion, especially when he had constituted his brother, as his attorney - At the most, the trial Court could satisfy itself, as to whether attorney brother of the petitioner is his duly and validly constituted attorney or not - It is found that he is his lawfully constituted attorney, in that event, his statement shall be recorded at the second motion and the petition be disposed of, in terms of the statements of respondent, as also of attorney of the petitioners. (175) P.L.R.
Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955) S. 13-B - Wife having received the amount on the representation that she agrees to give divorce at the time of first motion of the proceedings of the joint petition but later on her refusal for divorce at the second motion, though legal, would necessarily imply that the benefit that she received on her representation for divorce is to be refunded and restored. (175) P.L.R.


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Measuring Capacity to Serve Survivors with Disabilities Performance Indicators
Disability Organization Implementation Guide
Domestic Violence Program (with Residential Services) Implementation Guide
Domestic Violence Program (without Residential Services) Implementation Guide
Rape Crisis Center Implementation Guide
Programs Addressing Domestic and Sexual Violence Implementation Guide
Using performance indicators, this one-of-a-kind resource relies on Vera's Center on Victimization and Safety's 10 years of experience at the intersection of violence and disability to help practitioners—from disability organizations, domestic violence programs, rape crisis centers, and dual agencies—measure their organizations' capacity to serve survivors with disabilities against field standards. The indicators help practitioners track progress towards specific goals and refine their capacity-building efforts to better meet those goals over time. They also draw upon data and resources that organizations typically have access to and provide step-by-step information on implementation, including how to collect, analyze, and interpret their data.
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Ensuring Access for People with Disabilities and Deaf People
This practical tool meets the growing need for straightforward and cost-effective ways for disability organizations, domestic violence programs, rape crisis centers, and dual programs that address domestic and sexual violence to track their progress in serving survivors of domestic and sexual violence who have disabilities.
The indicators in this guide give organizations a first-of-its-kind comprehensive tool to track and improve their capacity to serve people with disabilities who have experienced domestic and sexual violence, as well as step-by-step instructions for implementation the indicators.
The indicators measure an organizations level of commitment to addressing domestic and sexual violence against people with disability and to what extent it has the capacity (knowledge, skills, and resources) required to do so.
The indicators are designed to be measured every six months so providers can track their progress and make adjustments as needed to maximize the impact of their capacity-building efforts.
Research has shown that people with disabilities experience violent victimization —including rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault— at rates 2.5 times higher than people without disabilities.
People with disabilities routinely face barriers to help when reaching out to services, from staff members not knowing how to respond to limited to no connections with local victim services organizations who could help if referrals were made.
There is a dearth of information about whether current reform efforts to address the gaps in service are effective.


Technically speaking it takes 2 to 5 years to turn a barren area into valuable green area providing water, micro-climate, agricultural crops, feed and food, trees, shelter, biodiversity and other ecosystem services. There are impressive examples in China, Jordan, Egypt, Mali. The Dutch King Willem Alexander – on his request – visited the Löss-Yan'an-plateau (size: about France) in China just recently.
One of the Jordan princesses recently provided a large area to catalyze greening developments. In Andalusia, South Africa and Ethiopia projects with the same ecological principles are established. Dutch (social) entrepreneurs and ecologists are often involved. A handful of Dutch techno-starters have the know-how and low-tech technologies to combine local labour with minimal water resources to get things started. When accompanied within the right ecological context (building with nature) microclimates will establish.
Based on the principles of 'ecomimicry', learning by ecological phenomena, the greening of the MENA-region is an extensive task. It is an endeavour that will take decades of natural development. As all big challenges, it can be done step-by-step. We envision this development as a massive process of succession, in an ecological sense. The result can be a region that has a high standard in biodiversity, living conditions for humans and flora and fauna and the ability to have a high biomass-production for food and bio-based products. The effect on livability is huge: water will be caught and stored, (micro-) climate will be positively affected and greening the region will bring a solid ground for resilient and strong social networks.
Below we just point out the relevant principles. Deeper understanding and activation on location(s) is needed to show the real power of ecology.
In nature, restoration is not an issue. When the situation changes, nature will adapt to this and there will develop a new ecosystem, fit to the situation. This principle is the starting point of our ecology-based approach. The creation of the conditions is the first step in the greening of area's. Based on the knowledge and experiences all around the world, we now know that creation of the right circumstances will be the starting point for greening an area.
The key question is: how to create the right conditions?
Long time it was done by external interventions based on technical skills and insights. Irrigation, canalization and other technical approaches were the basic measurements. In "Building Nature with Nature", we adapt to local physical (abiotic) patterns.
Using moisture in the wind (even in the driest area's) and proper landscaping, greening becomes possible. If a location additionally receives torrential Run-off water, this water can kept locally available to penetrate into to ground by (cascades of) dams, i.e. dams not to keep the water away but to provide time for the water to enrich the hydrological structure of the soil and underground. When there is torrential rainfall at the location, digging trenches have at large the same effect. These technics when properly applied create the hydrological circumstances for ecological succession and provide drinking water.
In these highly dynamic situation we see the start in greening by agriculture: the first stages in succession as the pioneer-species will find their way. Together with local specialists, familiar with the geological, meteorological situation and the life- sciences at location a thorough analysis will be made of probable interventions. These are systems interventions that are the 'leverages' towards redesign of the natural capital. Smart use of situation/ condition-resisting and -fit species is part of each local quest. No species can be used that hinders at the long(er) time-perspective the development of biodiversity.
How agriculture can foster biodiversity is knowledge that is embedded in ecomimicry: In the ecology an important understanding is the consistency between spatial differences/ transitions and diversity. Borders are transitions from one situation to the other. Especially those transitions, gradients, have a strong influence on diversity and thus on the quality of ecosystems. Where there is a 'hard' gradient (limes convergens), there will be two situations with no overlap or overflow. The walls of rivers are a good example of this: a strict separation between wet and dry. Hard limits are outgoing borders. If there is a 'soft' gradient the situations flow into each other. A sloping shore delivers wet/dry situations where different types of organisms feel at home. These are places with a rich (bio-) diversity. Soft limits are connective by character.
Building nature with nature implies the creation of conditions for growth, green growth. This is a general perspective that needs thorough study of local situations: there we will find the natural qualities that foster the natural conditions that can be activated. The human interventions will be as low dynamic as possible which means that we do not use 'hard technology' but nature-based technologies, such as airflows, sun-orientation, moist, existing 'green islands' and other non-living and living natural qualities.
Carbon is stored in oceans as long as earth exists. Trees, shrubs and plants store carbon for 350 million years. So next to their contribution to biodiversity, providing shelter, fruits and building materials, moderate temperature, adding to micro-climate richness, trees and shrubs provide the highly needed extra carbon storage to slow down climate change. Storage of carbon continues, largely by the root system, as long as the tree is alive.
The art of creation, we express as identification of local mechanisms in landscape, nature and society. Using our basic material, the Alphabet of Patterns, on which our methodology is based. Using these mechanisms (or patterns), we identify the leverages in the system: where can we do an intervention that will enhance the state of the habitat. One of the basic ideas is that agriculture can be seen as a first stage in succession: with a low bio-diversity a relatively high biomass production will appear. This mechanism is immediately an incentive: there is an economical value. By using agriculture as the first stage of development, it is important to nourish the surrounding areas: the greening will continue.
Mechanism design is a strong new view on economic development, it is part of the work of Hurwicz, Maskin and Myerson with which they won the Nobel Prize 2007. This is a system based approach, stating that individuals and organizations will be influenced by organized incentives in their surroundings. Translation of this concept into greening the MENA-region has not been applied up till now but gives a strong potential. This needs to be applied to the specifics of the region, the ambition of greening the region and creating more stable life conditions.


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Guide to stamping out junk mail
This guide talks you through the most effective – and free – ways of reducing unsolicited junk mail.
Different types of junk mail need to be tackled in different ways. This guide aims to give you all the information you need to become 'junk mail free'. I'll also deal with some specific types of junk mail such as paper directories, 'To the Occupier' letters and junk mail sent to people who have died. If you don't want to read lots and lots information about stopping junk mail you might want to hop over to the 15-minute guide or visit Junk Buster – a website that allows you to quickly contact a number of opt-out schemes for junk mail in one go.
I first wrote a guide to stamping out junk mail in early 2007. At the time it contained just a couple of practical tips for cutting back on junk mail. I quickly learned that stopping unwanted adverts is not only needlessly complicated but also that it's deliberately so. I decided that it was my job to point out all the things that are wrong in the world of junk mail.
The result is a ridiculously large guide which few people are prepared to read from start to finish. Still, it would be wrong to simply explain that, for instance, you can stop unaddressed mail distributed by the Royal Mail by signing up to the company's Door-to-Door Opt-Out without also explaining that the scheme has serious shortcomings and really shouldn't exists in the first place. Opt-out schemes for unaddressed junk mail don't work, for the simple reason that such schemes can only cover a small portion of all unsolicited leaflets. Before we dive in, then, we should have a quick word about why stopping junk mail in the UK is so complicated. The answer can be summarised in a single word:
Self-regulation is jargon for letting the fox guard the henhouse. In the UK the fox is the Direct Marketing Association (and you're obviously in the henhouse). It's the official representative of the UK's junk mail lobby and exists to ward off legislation that would require advertisers to respect people's wishes. The organisation runs no less than three opt-out schemes for junk mail – with no involvement from consumer champions such as Which. The schemes are run by the industry for the industry.
I'm not saying that all opt-out schemes are bad. The opt-out scheme for addressed junk mail, the Mailing Preference Service, certainly is useful. My criticism, though, is that the scheme is not near as effective as it could be. It's a voluntary scheme that only applies to members of the Direct Marketing Association and it makes a bizarre exception for junk mail addressed to a generic addressee, such as 'To the Occupier'. It's unthinkable that the scheme would be so laissez-faire had it been run by an organisation which has the interests of consumers at its heart.
An opt-out scheme which is really bad is the Direct Marketing Association's Your Choice Preference Service. The 'service' doesn't allow you to register online and the Your Choice opt-out pack includes the most draconian warnings about the consequences of stopping unsolicited, unaddressed mail. After you've registered you won't get a confirmation letter, and you'll have to wait three months before your opt-out becomes fully effective . Worse, it's completely unclear how many items the scheme is likely to stop. It will prevent unaddressed junk mail distributed by DMA-members – but of course you'll never know whether a leaflet was distributed by a DMA-member. And to add insult to injury the Direct Marketing Association will automatically opt you back in when your registration expires (after a meagre two years). Think about that; instead of asking you if you want to continue to use their 'service' they assume you want to cancel your membership. Do you know of any other organisation that doesn't even send members a reminder that their registration is about to expire?
And then I haven't even pointed out that Your Choice is redundant – if only the Direct Marketing Association would endorse letterbox stickers there would be no need for bureaucratic, malfunctioning opt-out schemes for unsolicited leaflets.
As said, throughout this guide there are examples of how self-regulation is making reducing unsolicited mail needlessly complicated. Self-regulation isn't necessarily bad but there should be a sensible balance between the interests of the industry and the hoi polloi. In the UK there's no such balance. As long long as ordinary people and/or consumer organisations don't have a say in how things are regulated the fox will continue to attack us poor hens.
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Note: I have several posts on here about my mom and her impact/influence on my weight and her death in 2007. Her death was one of the triggering life events that got me to my highest weight, but it is also one of the biggest reasons I continue to fight for my health. She, with Parkinson's Disease, didn't have the choice to let her body deteriorate. I do. I choose life, and am striving to live a life full of experiences she wasn't able to. Today would have been her 57th birthday.
Why did you never step in front of the camera? Not for TV or anything, but for photos? I have gone back so many times to try to find photos of you the way I remembered you, and can't. I have about 3 photos and the rest are all from when I was under the age of 6. It's frustrating, but it really just makes me sad. Why would you not stand in front of the camera? Dad had it out all the time. Though really, we seem to have more pictures of plants that people (his love of bonsai's in particular).
Every time I go through the photos I would get a little miffed. Until earlier this week.
I was trying to find photos from undergrad: ones that show me at my higher weights. And I can barely find any. It's like I dropped off the face of the earth from 2000-2006, and then resurfaced once I lost weight. I disappeared again for a bit from 2008-2009 when I gained the weight back after you died (not that I blame you – I just didn't know how to cope.) I thought perhaps it was because I was avoiding the camera. But thinking back, I realized it was because I wasn't ever in any situations worth photographing. I hate saying, "I didn't have a life," instead, I think that I was just not living. I was stuck in a perpetual state of self-loathing, and unless you count TV watching and binge eating a life, I wasn't living. Damn that makes me sad.
Anyway, shame on both you and I for not being confident in our own skin. Though really it's what we're taught to do: if we don't look a certain way, we don't deserve to enjoy everything in life. We're always shown that our bodies aren't ideal, so we spend tens of thousands of dollars and lots of wasted time trying to lose weight to chase the ideal. Bah.
Thankfully, I did find one photo today. I know you would probably hate it because I know your hair doesn't look how you wanted it to, you're not wearing any of your clip on earrings, and you're at a weight you always tried to escape, but I think you're beautiful. I miss that smile, and nowadays struggle to remember your laugh.
I tried to prepare myself yesterday for the impending sense of sadness that was coming today. I put on a skirt covered entirely in sequins, played fun music, looked at funny dog videos, and buried myself in working until 3am. It held things at bay until I started to write this post. You would think each year would get a little easier, but in some ways it seems to get harder as I struggle to remember certain things. I've lost what your voice sounds like again, but hopefully it will come back to me. If not, I'll go through some home videos, though you're not seen in most of them either. Maybe you'll come to me in a dream and sing me one of your silly car songs about traffic lights or "home again home again, jiggity jig…" But even if you don't, you're in my heart. Forever and always.


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Archive for sleaze fiction
Desperate Women by Michael Hemmingson (Olympia Press/New Traveller's Companion #160, 2010)
Posted in crime noir, noir fiction, pulp fiction with tags Beat to a Pulp, erotic fiction, Olympia Press, sleaze fiction on May 22, 2010 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Seven sinful, shameful stories of haunting, sensual and romantic desperation–one woman will do anything to keep winning in Las Vegas; another woman will do anything to keep her married lover while another woman desperately uses her body to blackmail men, until her own lustful greed backfires on her. Two young women turn to much older men for education and salvation while a desperate and lonely housewife falls in love with a man she only knows through email.
A story from the collection, "I Paid the Whore," is online this week at Beat to a Pulp.
Recommended: Abnormal Norma: Confessions of a Postmodern Slattern by Valerie Gray (Ophelia Press, 2010)
Posted in noir fiction, Orrie Hitt, pulp fiction with tags erotic ebook, erotic fiction, erotica, sleaze fiction, smut, Valerie Gray on May 9, 2010 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Not to be confused with Orrie Hitt's Abnormal Norma.
What if A Clockwork Orange had been written by a crazy gang girl instead of a boy? This is the book.
It's dedicated to Kathy Acker, and the influence shows. Seems Gray was once a student of Acker's at UCSD.
Get the paperback at Amazon or as Kindle.
Regular ebook from the publisher.
Leased – Jack Woodford & Orrie Hitt (Signature Press, 1954)
Posted in Orrie Hitt, pulp fiction, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks with tags farm fiction, nude photos, nudie pictures, prostitution, sleaze fiction on April 21, 2010 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Leased is one of the many "co-authored" books that Jack Woodford did with up-and-coming adult fiction writers in the 1950s. We see the same today — the co-written works with Tom Clancey, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, etc. — a commercially viable writer who is getting old and cannot produce like they once could will generate outlines, or have existing book ideas done by younger, hungrier writers.
I am guessing that Signature Books was most likely a precursor of The Woodford Press, where Woodford did the same. The back cover of Leased lists nothing but Woodford and co-authors on many books:
We noted before that the books from Key that Hitt seemed to co-wrote as Charles Verne and Roger Normandie had Woodford's silent stamp all over them.
In 1954, Hitt only had two books published the year before, I'll Call Every Monday and Love in the Arctic, in hardback from Red Lantern Books. In '54, Monday was reprinted by Avon, and Beacon issued two paperback originals: She Got What She Wanted and Shabby Street.
What's curious is that the reprint edition of Leased, published as Trapped (Beacon, 1958), only has Hitt's byline. Perhaps because Hitt seems to have written most if not all the book, using an idea of Woodford's, and the Beacon edition has extra text, which has five more opening pages than the hardcover edition. Chapters throughout have more material, so either Hitt added it in to get the paperback to a commercial 60,000 word length, or the Signature edition had edited down Hitt's original typescript.
Leased/Trapped is narrated by a big red-headed man named Brick Hayden, who co-runs a farm with his alcoholic partner, Roy. The two don't seem to get along well, or see eye-to-eye on business matters, and Brick has been sleeping with the gal Roy plans to marry, a gal Brick has known for along time, and she admits she wished he had taken her virginity when she was ten and had a crush on him, when he was 14.
The novel opens with Brick negotiating with a guy who runs a "camera club" to lease out part of the farm for three months so young women can model for amateur photographers. Brick is hesitant, but he needs the money, and one of the lead models, a gorgeous woman named Gloria, entices his decision with her looks:
She had long, black hair that wasn't too curly and that hung down across the deep tan of her shoulders She had a high forehead and very dark narrow eyebrows. Below those were a couple of smoky, laughing eyes that looked out at me across a small, roundly pointed nose. Her lips were full and sensuous, half-parted, and I could see her white teeth and just a trace of her red tongue […] I felt the hair stand up on the back to my legs and the end of my toes became numb and dead. (p. 7)
Brick soon regrets his decision when he realizes that this "camera club" is a ruse for prostitution, that the men are brought in to eye the girls and pick, and pay for, sex. This is a common Hitt theme in later books, such as Campus Tramp and Three Strange Women, as well as the whole racket of nude photos, found in The Promoter, I 'll Cal Every Monday, Hotel Woman, Naked Model, Sin Doll, As Bad as They Come, Affairs of a Beauty Queen, and countless others, including Hitt's last published novel, Nude Model (1970).
A semi-violent love affair happens between Brick and Gloria. He demands she get out of the hooker business and away from the nude photos but she seems to like the seediness of it. But as we know from many Hitt books, when the hero falls for a sexy woman beyond his means, he's usually being played.
Leased isn't up to par with Hitt's other 1954 titles, like the excellent Shabby Street, but for its connection to the legendary Woodford, and the beginning of one of his obsessive pet themes, it's an interesting read; on the Hitt Scale, however, it gets a 7 for dragging along.
The House of Seven Sins by Andrew Shaw (Lawrence Block or William Coons?), Nightstand Books #1575
Posted in Andrew Shaw, Lawrence Block, Nightstand Books, pulp fiction, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks with tags collaboritive novel, Cornith, early Lawrence Block, Greenleaf, incest, Lawrence Block, rape in fiction, sleaze fiction, underage prostitute, William Coons on December 29, 2009 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Another good early Andrew Shaw about a neophyte writer in the big city of big sin and lust…
Lou Packer, 25, has come from upper NY state Clarksonsville to chase his dream of being a writer — he rents a two room apartment in a building in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan, to sit down and write his first novel, with hopes of selling it to one of the Manhattan publishers. Not an hour after he arrives, does the super, a sexy woman named Ameila, have sex with him — several times.
Well, this is a sleaze novel…or, in the case of Nightstand Books, a sleaze periodical, that has all the characteristics of early Larry Block….or does it? According to Lynn Munroe's Reed Nightstand checklist, this Shaw was penned by William Coons, reprinted in 1973 as The Obsessed.
Coons started ghosting for Block in 1961, the first Passion Slaves (NB 1563), and if he did ghost this one (1961 seemed to be a busy year for Block as he began to publish under his own name at Gold Medal, first with Mona), he did a good job imitating Block's style — the clipped paragropaghs and the long chapters — there are only nine chapters here, and Block's usually has nine or ten chapters. (This is easy to see why — each chapter is 5,000 words, and 10 makes a 50,000 word book. Craftsmanship.)
At least, I thought this was entirely Block after Chapter One, but reading on it is evident this is not entirely Block. I'm thinking Block wrote Chapter One (and maybe a few others) and Coons took over. This seemed to be the modus operandi for Block back then with his ghosters like Donald Westlake and Bill Coons and whoever else…
Recommended: Hellcat Hellions on Sin Campus by Dawn Elliott
Posted in Don Elliott with tags Dawn Elliott, sex fiction, sleaze fiction on December 26, 2009 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Olympia Press has recently published as an e-book, Hellcat Hellions on Sin Campus by Dawn Elliott (pen name of Sandra Boise, it seems) and is a wild romp like, or so it claims, like Terry Southern's Candy.
The novel also seems to be a core element in an SF time travle yarn called Time Lust.
Is "Dawn Elliott" a take on Silverberg's sleaze nom de plume, Don Elliott?
Older Woman by Sheldon Lord (Lawrence Block or Donald Westlake), Beacon Books, 1962
Posted in pulp fiction, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks with tags Beacon Books, college campus sex, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, married women, May/December romance, older woman, Professor's wife, sex fiction, sex with older women, sex with younger men, Sheldon Lord, sleaze fiction, tramps on September 2, 2009 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Not sure who was the name behind this Sheldon Lord — some parts read like early Lawrence Block, some parts read like Westlake…it could be one of those books where they collaborated.
Older Woman is about the May/December thing, a coming-of-age novel for a young man with no experience and the married older woman in need of love, or sex….or attention.
The young man is Andy McNeil (Andrew Shaw?), who attends a small college the mid-west that is not unlike Antioch College in Ohio (where Block went to school, later to drop out and pursue the life of a writer in New York at age 19).
This was written/published around the same time as April North, but does not include the little in-jokes and clues found in April North and many of the Andrew Shaw books for Nightstand.
It's a brisk and fun read, as are many Block and Westlake novels. Andy is awkward among gils. There is one he likes, but when he findsout she's an easy tramp, he is hurt, especially when his dorm mate sleeps with her at a party.
Natalie Foster is 39 and married to a 50 year old professor she chased after when she was an undergraduate. She chased him hard back when she was 19, and she got him; the 20 years of marriage have gone from good to bad. He's too wrapped up in his research of 18th Century poetry and a monograph and his high brow career to pay attention to her needs…
She and Andy both get cast in a play at the off-campus theater. She rents a motel room nearby, her excuse is to not disturb her husband when she comes in late, but her real motive is to have somewhere to take lovers — she has her sites on Andy, a good-looking freshman who seems virile.
Andy is terrified — he is attracted to Natalie, he'd like to have sex with her, but he's a vrigin and doesn't know what to do. He goes into Springfield to a brothel to learn, but he's so nervous he cannot get an erection.
Eventually he tells Natalie this. She is touched, and says she will teach him all he needs to know. For the next two months, during rehearsal and the run of the play, they go to the motel each night where he stays and learns to become an excellent cocksman of the campus.
I have had older women in my life, from age 16 to 29, so I identified with this story in certain ways, mainly knowing why it is, psychologically, some women will seek younger males when they know there is no future in it…and especially married woman, where danger lurks.
Her husband never finds out but he does realize he's been a lousy husband, so he shows up on closing night with roses, and whisks his wife away, much to Andy's chagrin.
Andy does have confidece in himself to take what he has learned and apply this knowledge to the girls on campus, so we know he will be just fine in the end. Natalie was a necessary component in the sexual education of a young lad — she reminds him their affair was mutually beneficial: she needed sex and he needed to learn about sex.
Not the best of the Sheldon Lord novels, but not the worst either.
Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks — The Coolness of the Past
Posted in Uncategorized, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks with tags Barry N. Mazlberg, Beatnik Wanton, Gang Girl, Horizontal Woman, Kimberly Kemp, Loren Beauchamp, Midwood Books, Nightstand Books, Octavus Cohen, paperbacks, pulp fiction, pulp fiction art, Robert Silverberg, Sin on Wheels, sinner books, sleaze fiction, vintage erotica, vintage pulp ficttion, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks, Vintage Soft-Core books on July 19, 2009 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
Welcome this Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks Blog. The purpose of this blog is to post some hot, cool paperback covers for the gaze of your eye sockets, and to review and discuss selected titles.
Most of the titles will be from Don Elliott, Lauren Beauchamp, David Challon, Mark Ryan (all pen names of Robert Silverberg), Gerrold Watkins and Mel Johnson (pen names of Barry N. Malzberg), as "notes" toward the two monographs I am writing, one on Malzberg and one on Silverberg and his pen names.
(But I will discuss others too as I go along — Joan Ellis, March Hastings, Andrew Shaw [aka Lawrence Block and Donald Westlake], Don Bellmore, etc etc.]
I wanted to write a short monograph or essay on the Don Elliott/Laoren Beauchamp books, as they were/are of high quality, compared to many books of the time or even erotica today. They also exhibit Silverberg's early style. But I was uncertain where such an essay or book would find a home — best here on the net.
I have discussed Barry Malzber's US-era Olympia Press titles under his name and Gerrold Watkins in a monograph, Barry N. Malzberg: Beyond Science Fiction, Toward Psychoanalysis (Borgo Press) due out late 2009, but I do not have 3 of the Watkins and none of the Johnson (Midwood Books) that are hard to find…as I do locate them, I will post a blog here.
The Fires Within by Loren Beauchamp
Posted in Loren Beauchamp, Midbook Books, Robert Silverberg, Vintage Sleaze Paperbacks with tags affair, Bad Karma and Kinky Sex, blackmail fiction, desperate housewife, Drama, infidelity fiction, Long Island, older woman, rich housewife fiction, sleaze fiction on June 3, 2009 by vintagesleazepaperbacks
A desperate housewife yarn. Not as engaging as Silveberg's other Beauchamps, but a good guilty pleasure read…
She's 37 but books 27, married to a man ten years her senior who is a big time Manhattan lawyer living in a giant house on Long Island, two cars, lots of money…and no sex life…
A yoing auto mehcanics sets the fire within her loisn and she has an affair with him; one day they go to a motel where the owner is a former client of her husband's. This sleazy motel owner blackmails her: have sex with him or he'll tell her husband. Seems he does this to a lot of married women who come to his motel for a romp. But he likes to spank and hit and bruise. She only does it once. He threatens to tell. She tells her husband the truth and he forgives her, but her husband and the motel owner have it out, the motel guy falls down the stairs and dies and her husband has a heart attack.
Now she is a rich widow and can sleep with whomever she wants…this is not a morality play, obviously, and does not have the patent "happy" ending the other books have.
Robert Silverberg must have had, or still does, a thing for busty red-heads, and many of this heroines thus far are all that — Connie, Meg, Wayward Widow, other womne in the Don Elliott books…just an observation.
(Sidenote: the woman in this novel reminded me a lot of a certain married woman I had an affair with in the late 1990s, who was also 37, older than me at the time — I was 29-30 — and well off. She was an actress ad hung around my theater crowd at The Fritz Theater in San Diego. She was in a sexless marriage, but also on a crazy binge after the death of her mother. But she was just like the woman in this book, so I find it…curious and odd I suppose…and she was a red head! I write about this affair in semi-autobio fashion in my novel Drama (Blue Moon Books, 2002), reprinted as Bad Karma and Kinky Sex (Ophir/OlympiaPress, 2009).


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'Harry Potter' Star Matthew Lewis Wants The Rock to Be His Patronus
A wizard can dream, can't he?
By Zoë Weiner
Gerardo Mora/Getty Images
As any Harry Potter fan knows, a wizard's Patronus charm is just about as personal as it gets. And Matthew Lewis, the actor who played Neville Longbottom in all eight HP films, has a very specific (and hilarious) idea about what his should be. No, it's not a phoenix or a hippogriff or (thankfully) a unicorn. Matthew wants his Patronus to be none other than — wait for it — Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
It began when Twitter user Ocean Weeks tweeted that both Matthew and The Rock are Hufflepuffs, based on an online test that the actors took in the past.
"The fact that @TheRock and @Mattdavelewis are Hufflepuffs makes my heart extremely happy tbh 😍😍," he wrote.
"If this is legit, I take back everything I ever said about being a Hufflepuff," Matthew responded on Twitter. "I was obviously born to be in that house." If you recall, Matthew's character, Neville Longbottom, was a Gryffindor alongside Harry, Ron, and Hermione — but Matthew was sorted into the house of loyalty and hard work when he took a Pottermore quiz in 2015.
A few minutes later, he followed up with a Tweet that takes his and The Rock's wizarding world connection to a whole new level:
...So, so much better than a unicorn.
And the best part? Pottermore (AKA, "the digital heart of the Wizarding World") confirmed that this dream could become a reality:
For anyone who didn't spend the better part of the last decade poring over Harry Potter books/movies/fan pages and isn't familiar with the spell, according to Pottermore, the Patronus is " is a defensive spell which produces a silver, animal guardian, used to protect" someone from all of the dangers of the magical realm.
Considering The Rock would be the world's greatest protector (he's so strong and lovable!), it's no wonder Matthew wants to have the magical ability to make him appear with the flick of his magic wand. It's hard to blame him — it would be an especially convenient setup in any situation where heavy lifting or on-demand laughter is required.
Related: Matthew Lewis Opened Up About Whether He'll Ever Play Neville Longbottom Again
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A statue that changes heads, a portrait cancelled out and renewed: this is the image of the sovereigns, this is the image of power, and this is what happens when power changes hands. In 1807, a competition was announced in Lucca for the commission of a statue of Napoleon to be placed in Piazza Napoleon. The winner was the sculptor Pietro Fontana, but when the negotiations began for the purchase of the necessary block of marble, preference shifted to the sculptor Leopoldo Vannelli for the lower cost of his estimate for the work. Fontana's complaints were in vain and on 12 March 1813, the marble was transported to Vannelli's studio. But the work was still not finished when the Baciocchi left Lucca.
In 1817, the new sovereign, Marie Louise of Bourbon, had the statue transformed into a likeness of her father, Charles III of Spain, after having the head of Napoleon replaced. In 1822, the monument was placed in Piazza Napoleon, but it was soon removed in favour of one dedicated to Marie Louise herself. The statue of Charles III was therefore moved to the bastion of S. Paolino and, after the Second World War, was set up in the garden of the Museum of Villa Guinigi.


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Welcome to our Governors' section.
The Role of the Governor
The main role of the Governing Body is to help raise the standards and performance of the school by supporting the work of the headteacher and staff. We work very closely with the Senior leadership team and the rest of the school staff to provide support, but we also challenge and ask questions to ensure that the best possible decisions are made for the school and its pupils.
We meet as a full Governing Body at least once a term to consider a wide range of issues including school improvement, policies and finances.
Chair of Governors: Helen Webber
We have also established two subcommittees which allow us to discuss issues around:
- Buildings & Finance (Chair: Hannah Maiden)
- Pupil Progress & Welfare (Chair: Elaine Miller)
We will also be carrying out monitoring visits to help us understand and appreciate the functionality of the school and how the school vision is realised. Being on site and talking to staff and children help inform our judgements and carry out our roles effectively.
Please find detailed governance information below:
Instrument of Government Revised.pdf
Governing Body Membership and Meeting Attendance 2022-2023
Governor Name
Election date
End of Office
Elected / Appointed By
Governor Type
Sub Committee Meetings attended
Full Committee Meetings attended
Mrs Helen Webber 31/03/2022 4 years
Chair - 1 year term of office 30/03/2026 Governing Body Co-opted
Chair appointed from 14/09/22 2/2 2/2
Mrs Hannah Maiden 22/03/2021 4 years 21/03/2025 Governing Body LA 1/1 2/2
Mrs Elaine Miller 28/03/2019 4 years 27/03/2023 Staff Staff 1/1 0/2
Mr Terentius Jackson 01/09/2021 by virtue of office By virtue of office Governing Body Staff 2/2 2/2
Rev Canon Angela Overton-Benge 11/01/2018 Ex-officio
Vice Chair -1 year term of office Ex-officio Diocese of Carlisle Foundation (ex-officio)
Vice Chair appointed from
31/03/2022 0/1 1/2
Mrs Jean Hughes 31/03/2022 4 years 30/03/2026 Diocese of Carlisle Foundation 1/1 2/2
Mrs Kirsty Muncaster 29/04/2021 4 years 28/04/2025 Governing Body Parent 1/1 2/2
Mrs Linda Sloan 31/03/2022 4 years 30/03/2026 Governing Body Co-opted 1/1 2/2
Mr Karl Fox 05/07/2022 4 years 04/07/2026 Parents Parent 0/1 1/2
Governing Board Register of Personal and Pecuniary Interests 2022-2023
Name Name of Organisation Nature of Interest i.e. business, relationship or governorship roles in other educational establishments Date Interest was Registered Date of Cessation of Interest
Comments/
Mr Terentius Jackson None 14/09/2022 Still Active
Mrs Helen Webber Non 14/09/2022 Still Active
Rev Angela Overton-Benge None 08/12/2022 Still Active
Mrs Elaine Miller None 09/09/2021 Still Active
Mrs Jean Hughes None 14/09/2022 Still Active
Mrs Hannah Maiden
St James' CE Junior School
School Business Manager & Clerk to Governors
22/03/2021 Still Active
Captain Shaw's School Governing Body
Related to a governor
Mrs Kirsty Muncaster None 14/09/2022 Still Active
Mrs Linda Sloan
Mr Karl Fox None 14/09/2022 Still Active
The following also to be published here this Autumn 2022:
2022-23 GB School visit calendar and agenda.


An interesting study came out this week from Moz (previously SEOMoz) showing the direct correlation between Google +1s and Higher SEO Rankings (above diagram).
In short it suggested that +1's were now being directly used in Google's algorithm.
What has ended up coming out in the wash, and directly from Matt Cutts, is that +1's are in fact not used directly in Google's algorithm.
Though what I take from the great Moz research is that Google+ posts do pass SEO benefits not found easily in other social platforms. e.g. shared links pass link equity, semantic relevance (unique url, 50 characters in title tag, ability for detailed subject analysis thus direct correlation to higher rankings, etc) and direct authorship integration (that will at some point surely be used to influence where you rank).
So in summary due to many +1's on a site resulting in a shared post on Google+, which in turn creates a followed link back to the post and thus aiding link building activity, it would be folly to not at least consider developing your brands Google+ standing.


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Q: Auth synchronization between aws-amplify and @aws-amplify/ui-react I'm migrating my application from aws-amplify-react to the new @aws-amplify/ui-react.
On app load in a browser that the user has already signed-in with I am getting a discrepancy in authentication state between aws-amplify and the useAuthenticator hook in @aws-amplify/ui-react.
import { useAuthenticator } from '@aws-amplify/ui-react';
import { Authenticator } from '@aws-amplify/ui-react';
import { Auth } from 'aws-amplify';

on app load if I do:
Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser()
  .then((user) => {
    console.log('AUTHENTICATED');
  })
  .catch((err) => {
      console.error(err);
  });
 };

const { user } = useAuthenticator((context) => [context.user]);
const { route } = useAuthenticator((context) => [context.route]);

console.log(route, user)

I see that Auth.currentAuthenticatedUser() reports AUTHENTICATED but route === 'idle'  and user === null.
If I render an <Authenticator /> component then the latter updates to 'authenticated' (without the signin UI actually being displayed).
Note that I'm not wrapping my entire app in <Authenticator /> but <Authenticator.Provider />  and trying to only render <Authenticator /> in my /login (react-router) route since I have a mix of protected and unprotected routes and a mix of roll requirements.
How am I meant to keep these two states synchronized?

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This week I have action from two of the most traditional holiday tournaments in Stockholm and Hastings, but first a mini-match in China between rising star Wei Yi and strong Czech grandmaster David Navara.
Navara took the first match game with an interesting queen sacrifice that was sound and solid but snowballed as the game went on.
Hastings, perhaps the most hallowed name in holiday tournaments, has had its ups and downs over the years. I played in round-robin events there in 1984 and 87, the latter a high-level GM event. It seems the emergence of the London Classic, which is usually nestled into the schedule a little before Hastings, has certainly eclipsed the older event. Still, the 2017-18 event, a nine-round Swiss system Open, sported a number of grandmasters, including returning champion Deep Sengupta. The Indian grandmaster seems to like the cold, damp winter air of the English seaside, as he repeated his winning score of 7-2. This time he had to settle for a tie, as Chinese IM Lou Yiping equaled that score, setting the pace and taking a draw in the last round. Sengupta did not leave him waiting for long with a quick demolition of GM Danny Gormally.
In the end, Russian GM Kirill Alekseenko took first with 7.5 points. Alekseenko took the top spot by defeating the co-leader Johan Salomon in the last round.


Make unique and eye-catching sports-themed craft projects, using the American Crafts Sport Double-Sided Cardstock pack. This pack includes 12 sheets of archival quality double-sided cardstock that measure 12 x 12 inches and feature unique designs on each side. Featuring lovely sports-inspired designs, these cardstock sheets are a great choice to make window cards, creative gift tags, scrapbook covers, gift boxes and more. Choose from a range of designs that are available.


Vitamins and dietary supplements are beneficial as an integral part of the Atkins food regimen because of the extreme restriction of nutrients present in regular carbohydrates like fruit and vegetables. Atkins recommends about 30 different dietary supplements, and even has a chapter devoted to why they are so vital in his eating regimen.
The fourth day consists of bananas and milk solely. You're nonetheless restricted to 8 bananas and no more than three glasses of milk for the day. It's advised that you restrict your surprise soup intake on this day. If for some cause you do not drink milk, I'd additionally counsel substituting it with almond milk, coconut milk or soy milk.
Seafood is an excellent supply of protein as a result of it is often low in fat. Seafood is best for weight reduction than poultry as a result of anti-inflammatory properties of fish and likewise the added antibiotics and hormones that are usually added to land-based animals. So, the extra you possibly can incorporate fish the better outcome you will get.
Low carb, high protein diets work by drastically decreasing the intake of carbohydrates. By doing this the physique will enter a state known as ketosis, where it will burn fats for gasoline. When there are lots of carbohydrates in accessible our physique will use these as fuel as a substitute. When persons are in ketosis additionally they are typically less hungry, which means they will eat less and lose much more weight. While the advantages of inducing this state for weight loss appear clear, there are also some risks associated with it. Some studies have proven that ketosis could cause kidney failure in some individuals.
The meat which is allowed on the Dukan Food regimen is lean beef and lean ham. Because of the increased fat content other pork products are not permitted and neither is lamb. The omission of lamb is a disappointment to me as I really like lamb. Nonetheless happily I'm additionally very keen on beef and ham and these are very versatile ingredients so there may be absolutely no excuse in your meal instances to be boring just since you are on a weight-reduction plan.


UIDAI, which is the authority established to issue Aadhaar numbers, has launched the m-Aadhaar app for mobile users that will allow users to carry unique identification profile on mobile. Users can download their Aadhaar number profile on their Android smartphones and will therefore not require hard copies of the card, wherever applicable.
It allows the user to carry their Aadhaar demographic information, i.e. name, date of birth, gender, address and the photograph linked with their Aadhaar number, on their smartphones.
In one shot UIDAI has addressed a lot of privacy concerns regarding Aadhaar. Now people don't need to store their Aadhaar number unprotected on their devices, as the m-Aadhaar app comes with a password protection. It is not advisable to store your Aadhaar number without password protection on your mobile anyway. Also, you can conveniently lock your biometrics from your smartphone, which will give a lot of comfort to people who are worried about their biometric information being abused.
Aadhaar based e-KYC had a challenge, which many of us have faced, that the OTP SMS gets delayed by the order of minutes regularly, and for hours on occasions. Given the millions of OTPs which UIDAI serves every day, this is understandable. Now that problem is solved by the TOTP feature on the application, instead of waiting for the OTP SMS to arrive, you can just go to the application and get the TOTP and use it for e-KYC purposes.
Even with the push of Government and the digital nature of Aadhaar, people were using Aadhaar with its hard copy all the time. Now, with the m-Aadhaar application, Aadhaar has truly gone digital. Gone would be the days when people carry hard copies of their identity and address proofs.
As the smartphone penetration is all time high, with the numbers nearly reaching 400 million and an equal number becoming literate digitally; this will increase the feasibility and adaptability of Aadhaar platform. Especially in the context of the last 8 months, the acceptability of smartphone as a gateway for digital payments has opened the scope further. Now with the launch of m-Aadhaar, the services now offered will suit to the demand of the customers. These services can be directly accessed via their 12 digit Aadhaar number on just a single tap of their smartphone. We are heading towards an India where all services can be assessed and granted with a single tap.


Flametal is a California band that combines the Spanish musical style, Flamenco, with metal. Flamenco is a song, music and dance style which is strongly influenced by the Gitanos, but which has its deeper roots in Moorish and Jewish musical traditions.
Flamenco culture originated in Andalusia (Spain), but has since become one of the icons of Spanish music and even Spanish culture in general.
Flametal's songs are sung in both English and Spanish.


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Sun | West Sound A & E
From Sun news services — Feb 13th, 2004
'50 FIRST DATES' -- The meager laughs never justify the elaborate setup of this "Memento"-meets-"Groundhog Day" romantic comedy, which has a puppyish Adam Sandler falling for Drew Barrymore, a cutie who, because of a car accident involving a cow, never remembers anything from the previous day, thus forcing Sandler to woo her over and over. The typical Sandler combination of juvenile humor and sentimentality rarely has never seemed so out of sync. See review page 22. PG-13 (crude sexual humor, drug references). 1:36. ** 1/2
Showing: Bainbridge, Gig Harbor, Kitsap 8, Poulsbo, South Sound
'ALONG CAME POLLY' -- Ben Stiller once again plays a victim of disastrous dates, and Jennifer Aniston plays the flighty bohemian who distracts him after his newlywed wife (Debra Messing) cheats on him. Writer-director John Hamburg's lack of confidence in this amiable but obvious material is evident in the reliance on gags involving gastrointestinal distress and pet mishaps. With Philip Seymour Hoffman, Alec Baldwin and Hank Azaria. PG-13 (sexual content, language, crude humor, some drug references). 1:30. **
Showing: Bainbridge, Kitsap, Poulsbo, South Sound
'BARBERSHOP 2: BACK IN BUSINESS' -- The gang from Calvin's barbershop is back. Eddie (Cedric the Entertainer) is still busting chops, Terri (Eve) is still dissing the boys, Ricky (Michael Ealy) is still pulling Terri's chain, Dinka (Leonard Earl Howze) is still looking for love, and Isaac (Troy Garity) is still the Eminem of the scissors trade. Overseeing it all is shop owner Calvin (Ice Cube). PG-13 (language, sexual material and some drug references). 1:38. **
Showing: Silverdale, South Sound
'BIG FISH' -- Beguiling filmmaker Tim Burton takes a painful subject -- a father-and-son reconciliation during the father's terminal illness -- and weaves around it a web of artifice and fancy, spinning a delightful set of tall tales. PG-13 (a fight scene, some images of nudity and a suggestive reference). 2:05. *** 1/2
Showing: Kitsap 8, Poulsbo
'THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT' -- Ashton Kutcher plays a college student who, by reading his old journals, can travel back into his troubled childhood and create alternate life paths for himself and his pals. However, the new life paths are just as ugly as the old ones. The material is skillfully handled, but able execution goes only so far when you're dealing with such time-tested material as time travel. R (violence, sexual content, language, brief drug use). 1:53. ** 1/2
'CALENDAR GIRLS' -- A vivacious Helen Mirren and Julie Walters lead a group of Yorkshire women who go Almost Full Monty for a charity calendar in this quaint, not-too-cloying British comedy. The film doles out few surprises, but it creates a strong sense of a living, breathing community, and you root for its affectionately drawn characters as they experience the giddiness of triumph without forgetting the project's bittersweet inspiration. PG-13 (nudity, some language, drug-related material). 1:33. ***
Showing: Bainbridge, South Sound, Rose Theater (Port Townsend)
'CATCH THAT KID' -- You and your kids will most likely be bored by this monotonous bank-heist caper, which has none of the creativity or heart of "Spy Kids" but is aiming for the same audience. The story follows 12-year-old Maddy (Kristen Stewart of "Panic Room") and her two lovesick male friends (Corbin Bleu and Max Thieriot) as they plot to steal a quarter-million dollars from the bank so they can get Maddy's dad (Sam Robards) an operation. With Jennifer Beals. PG (language, thematic elements and some rude humor). 1:31. * 1/2
Showing: Gig Harbor, Kitsap 8, Poulsbo, South Sound
'COLD MOUNTAIN' -- Director Anthony Minghella's adaptation of Charles Frazier's novel is exquisitely shot, lovingly designed and populated with talented actors. But for the film version of this Civil War romance epic to have the same impact as the novel, it would have to convince you that you're experiencing actual people's lives, not admiring a work of art. With Renee Zellweger, Donald Sutherland, Brendan Gleeson. R (violence, sexuality). 2:30. ** 1/2
'GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING' -- This stunningly shot movie is about Dutch master painter Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth) and the creation of his masterpiece, told from the viewpoint of the fictitious maidservant (Scarlett Johansson) who poses for it. Faithfully based on Tracy Chevalier's novel, director Peter Webber's film is a work of resplendent visual beauty and a sad study of how society entraps artists and lovers. PG-13 (sexual themes and language). 1:39. *** 1/2
Showing: Grand Cinema (Tacoma)
'THE LAST SAMURAI' -- A stunning spectacle of cultural violence and a loving tribute to Akira Kurosawa's great Japanese samurai movies, director Edward Zwick's splashy adventure epic triumphs over an initially preposterous premise: Tom Cruise as an American mercenary soldier in 19th-century Japan, fighting alongside a last rebellious band of samurai warriors. R (violence). 2:34. ***
Showing: Uptown (Port Townsend)
'LOST IN TRANSLATION' -- Director Sofia Coppola follows her impressive debut, "The Virgin Suicides," with another film that plunges viewers into unsettling dream worlds. The setting here is a gleaming, bustling Tokyo, where a jaded, aging actor (Bill Murray) and a photographer's wife (Scarlett Johansson) strike up a friendship while isolated in a hotel. The movie conforms to almost none of the existing stereotypes regarding stories about an older man and younger woman. R (some sexual content). 1:45. *** 1/2
Showing: Poulsbo
'MIRACLE' -- The 1980 U.S. Olympic ice hockey team's improbable victory over the Soviets is certainly rousing source material for a film. Kurt Russell stars as Team USA's coach, the late Herb Brooks. And like the coach, Russell is dedicated to crafting a winner by working hard without placing himself above his team. But the filmmakers are prone to stating the obvious, spelling out every idea in big block letters. They needn't sell their case so strenuously. PG (language, some rough sports action). 2:15. ** 1/2
Showing: Bainbridge, Gig Harbor, Poulsbo, South Sound
'MONSTER' -- In this true-crime drama about serial killer Aileen Wuornos, actress Charlize Theron performs a shocking physical/emotional transformation, bulking up her body, mottling her flesh and fitting herself with dental prosthetics. Theron makes us understand Wuornos, a woman whose abusive childhood, harsh life and sometimes-violent clients helped streamline her path to murder. R (strong violence, sexual content and pervasive language). 1:49. ***
Showing: Bainbridge, Grand Cinema (Tacoma)
'MYSTIC RIVER' -- Three 11-year-old Boston boys are pulled into an awful act of transgression, and 25 years later, an even more terrible crime reunites them. Clint Eastwood directs this powerful film, which is based on a novel by Dennis Lehane. R (language, violence, sexual themes). 2:17. ****
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'THE PERFECT SCORE' -- Two students (Chris Evans and Bryan Greenberg) cook up a plan to steal the answers to the SAT after bombing on their tests. They recruit a savvy rich girl (Scarlett Johansson) to help them, and soon a number of other students want in on the heist, including a basketball star seeking a scholarship (NBA player Darius Miles, who shouldn't quit his day job) and a stoner who uses blackmail (Leonardo Nam). PG-13 (language, sexual content and some drug references). 1:33. ***
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Showing: Grand Cinema (Tacoma), Lynwood Theatre (Bainbridge), Rose Theatre (Port Townsend)
'YOU GOT SERVED' -- Best friends Elgin and David (Marques Houston and Omari Grandberry) lead a dance crew and compete for money at the local dance-o-rama. After their honor is challenged, they "get served" on the dance floor by a rival crew that hijacks their best moves, thanks to a Benedict Arnold move by a former friend. Despite personal conflicts, a beating and even death, revenge in the form of fancy footwork is inevitable. PG-13 (thematic elements and sexual references). 1:33. * 1/2
Showing: Kitsap 8
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El municipio de Franklin (en inglés: Franklin Township) es un municipio ubicado en el condado de Lake en el estado estadounidense de Dakota del Sur. En el año 2010 tenía una población de 307 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 3,29 personas por km².

Geografía
El municipio de Franklin se encuentra ubicado en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, el municipio tiene una superficie total de 93.37 km², de la cual 93,07 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (0,32 %) 0,3 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 307 personas residiendo en el municipio de Franklin. La densidad de población era de 3,29 hab./km². De los 307 habitantes, el municipio de Franklin estaba compuesto por el 98,05 % blancos, el 0,33 % eran amerindios y el 1,63 % eran de una mezcla de razas. Del total de la población el 0,33 % eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Municipios de Dakota del Sur
Localidades del condado de Lake (Dakota del Sur)

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Published on August 15th, 2011 | by Ken Yarbrough, Editor
Toy Soldiers: Cold War Review
Full Disclosure: I never played the original Toy Soldiers, and after the first mission of Cold War, I thought I wouldn't be playing this one very long.
Part of that is because I had no real idea of what Toy Soldiers: Cold War really was. Is it a third-person shooter? RTS? Well, it's both of those, and a little more. At it's heart, Toy Soldiers: Cold War is a tower defense game. Generally speaking, I don't enjoy tower defense games very much. What sets Cold War apart, however, is in it's implementation of third-person action sequences.
The campaign will take you through a number of stages where you are asked to defend your toybox. You do so by building structures on predetermined pads. These structures range from anti-infantry machine gun turrets, all the way up to wave-clearing artillery stations. Each pad can be upgraded (eventually) twice, to a maximum level of three. The strategic goal is to determine which structures are best for the situation. The game will throw waves of toy soldiers at you: infantry, tanks, helis, and jets. As mentioned above, there are anti-infantry turrets, anti-vehicle cannons, and even anti-air launchers to deal with that pesky air force. There are even a few specialty stations you can build: A flamethrower type device, and a mortar, though I never found much use for them during the campaign.
In many cases, you will find yourself selling off old structures to build more practical structures for the situation.
The twist in the game is that at any point, you can man any of these structures yourself. Placing yourself in control seems to yield far better results than letting the AI control your defenses. While you can only control one device at a time, you can easily and quickly switch between them.
Most of the campaign maps also feature a remote controlled tank, helicopter, or jet that you can also control. You simply have to maintain your battery life to use them effectively. When they are destroyed, or run out of juice, they respawn on their respective pads, and you must wait for them to recharge their batteries before using them again.
Finally, the game also grants you special powers in the form of Barrages that are earned when your kill streak gets high enough. Activating these barrages can mean turning the tide of battle. Some of them include sending down a giant Rambo-esque action figure that you can control, that eats through infantry and vehicles alike, and even a Nuclear launch in the later stages. All of these barrages are extremely powerful, and can wipe out entire waves by themselves.
Graphically the game looks as you would expect it to. That is to say, it is neither amazing, nor bad. The soldiers look plastic-y for the most part, and the explosions are nice to look at as well.
The music is sufficiently "patriotic" and war-like. Most of the game I was unable to really focus on the music, as the sound effects of plastic soldiers melting and tanks being exploded drowned it out. That's a good thing though, as any game of this ilk should focus on the sound effects anyway.
Controls were fine, for the most part. In some situations, I found the camera didn't help me out too much, but this was a rare occurrence. The only real complaint I had with the controls was in the piloting of the jet. It was VERY difficult to use the bombing run mechanic of the jet due to the wonky camera. Some of the structures suffered from this control issue as well, but it seemed to really only interfere with the mortar cannons, which as I mentioned earlier, I found no use for.
All-in-all Toy Soldiers: Cold War is yet another enjoyable experience for Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade. The campaign will take you anywhere from 3-5 hours to finish, depending on your proficiency, though there are plenty of medals and commendations that will keep you coming back to earn better scores. At 1200 MSP, I still find the title to be a little on the pricey side, but that's what I've said all summer long about each of the titles. Microsoft has really got some blockbuster Arcade titles on it's hands this year, and Cold War simply adds to the success.
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Unfortunately, as this was played prior to the official release date, I was unable to get into any co-op or versus matches. If there are any glaring issues with either after launch, I will be sure to update this review. Otherwise, this review will stand.
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Ken Yarbrough, Editor I'm the guy everyone loves to hate. The resident Devil's Advocate for GAMINGtruth, my words are harsh, my message serious. The gaming industry needs some big changes to keep from destroying itself.
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Our Lady Peace is a Canadian Alternative rock band. They formed in 1992 in Toronto. The members of the group are Raine Maida, the singer, who also plays the rhythm guitar, Jeremy Taggart, who plays the drums, Duncan Coutts, who plays the Bass guitar and Backing vocals and Steve Mazur, who plays the guitar and Backing vocals. A Decade is the name of their greatest hits album. They have a live audience DVD out also. They have many Billboard awards.
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St Vincent de Paul said action was needed to protect consumers from "predatory and exploitative" forms of credit.
Siptu said the recommendation to close the print works in Sandyford is "strategically flawed".
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The Sinn Féin Bill carries a possible penalty of five years in jail for the offence.
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13,600 more trackers victims have been added to the growing number – it now stands at 33,7000.
The fine reflects the significant increase in penalties imposed for such breaches in recent years.
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Deputy Governor Ed Sibley said he expects board members to be held to account over the errors.
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The minister has called in all the banks next week to tell them their actions are unacceptable.
More than 20,000 people were impacted by the scandal and numbers are likely to rise.
Financial institutions have paid out €163 million to affected customers to date.
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DEAF KIDS and TIMEKILLER are two bands from Volta Redonda and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, respectively. Deaf Kids have more of a noise rock thing going on, seemingly in order to make their namesake more indicative of their experience, soaking the vocals in reverb and letting them waft over the chaotic and crashing rhythms of the instrumentation. Their side of the split consists of two tracks "Limbo" and "Configuracao do Lamento," which blend into each other. Timekiller have much more of a traditional punk sound, but they are just as distortion soaked as their peers on this record, only here, it's pure tube overdrive over what sounds like the entirety of their master. The vocals scratch and snarl as the vocals bark "BEATING AROUND THE BUSH" on the bands opening song before bringing a driving punk riff that sounds like riding a motorcycle straight into our ever-expanding sun.


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