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"Don't let all that goodwill from Hundred Acres Manor fool you. Their top priority is to take you to the edge of sanity and than throw you over the edge into the abyss."
- The Travel Channel
"One of America's Scariest Halloween Attractions"
"Prepare to scream! Pittsburgh Pennsylvania has many haunted houses but there are NONE that match up to the SCREAMS of Hundred Acres Manor a multi themed screampark with several haunted houses in one location.
Other haunted houses in Pittsburgh claim to be scarier but the reality is this is by far the biggest & best haunted attraction in the state of Pennsylvania."
- Haunt World Magazine
"Legit the craziest one I have ever been in. I can't even go to another haunted house."
- Pittsburgh Slim, Rapper
"You know how to focus our attention on one thing then turn around and scare us with something else...
Scaring is a science and you totally nailed it!"
- Pittsburgh City Paper
#3 Haunted House in the World
- Top Haunts Magazine
"When you think of a haunted house that raises money for charity, you might expect a simple affair put together on a small budget. In the case of Hundred Acres Manor in Pittsburgh, PA you would be dead wrong... They trick you with animatronics and people such that you don't know what is real and what is not."
- Onezumi Studios
Hundred Acres Manor has been ranked as one of the best haunted house in the world. Here are a few of our awards:
One of America's Creepiest Haunted Houses | LA Times | 2015
Travel's Best Halloween Attractions 2015 | The Travel Channel | 2015
13 of the Most Terrifying Haunted Houses in Pennsylvania | BLT Travel Blog | 2015
Best of the Burgh Award | Pittsburgh Magazine | 2015
Best Overall Haunted House | Insanity Lurks Inside & Kitsuneverse | 2014
One of The Best Haunted Houses In U.S. | Forbes.com | 2014
One of America's Scariest Halloween Attractions | The Travel Channel | 2013
Best Overall Haunted House | Insanity Lurks Inside & Kitsuneverse | 2013
#3 Haunted House in the World | Top Haunts Magazine | 2013
One of Americas Best Haunted Houses | HauntWorld.com | 2012 & 2013
Best Haunt Complex | Onezumi Studios | 2012
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Containerization Is More than the New Virtualization
Docker offers a new, lightweight approach to application portability. Applications are shipped using a common container format and managed with a high-level API. Their processes run within isolated namespaces that abstract the operating environment independently of the distribution, versions, network setup, and other details of this environment.
This "containerization" has often been nicknamed "the new virtualization." But containers are more than lightweight virtual machines. Beyond their smaller footprint, shorter boot times, and higher consolidation factors, they also bring a lot of new features and use cases that were not possible with classical virtual machines.
In his session at DevOps Summit, Jerome Petazzoni, Senior Engineer at Docker, will focus on one of those features: separation of operational concerns. Specifically, he will demonstrate how some fundamental tasks like logging, remote access, backups, and troubleshooting can be entirely decoupled from the deployment of applications and services. This decoupling results in independent, smaller, simpler moving parts; just like microservice architectures break down large monolithic apps in more manageable components.
Speaker Bio:
Jerome Petazzoni is a senior engineer at Docker, where he helps others to containerize all the things. In another life he built and operated Xen clouds when EC2 was just the name of a plane, developed a GIS to deploy fiber interconnects through the French subway, managed commando deployments of large-scale video streaming systems in bandwidth-constrained environments such as conference centers, operated and scale the dotCloud PAAS, and various other feats of technical wizardry. When annoyed, he threatens to replace things with a very small shell script.
Using Docker For a Complex IoT Application
Aater Suleman, CEO & Co-Founder at Flux7, is an industry veteran in performance optimization on servers and distributed systems. He earned his PhD at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also currently teaches computer systems design and architecture. His current interests are in optimizing DevOps and reducing cloud costs.
In his @ThingsExpo presentation, Aaater Suleman will discuss DevOps, Linux containers, Docker in developing a complex Internet of Things application.
The goal of any DevOps solution is to optimize multiple processes in an organization. And success does not necessarily require that in executing the strategy everything needs to be automated to produce an effective plan. Yet, it is important that processes are put in place to handle a necessary list of items.
Flux7 is a consulting group with a focus on helping organizations build, maintain and optimize DevOps processes. The group has a wide view across DevOps challenges and benefits, including:
- The distinct challenge of a skills shortage in this area and how organizations are coping to meet demands with limited resources.
- The technical requirements: From stacks to scripts, and what works.
- The practical and political challenges: Beyond the stacks and the human element is a critical success factor in DevOps.
Recently at Flux7, we developed an end-to-end Internet of Things project that received sensor data to provide reports to service-provider end users. Our client asked us to support multiple service providers for his new business venture. We knew that rearchitecting the application to incorporate major changes would prove to be both time-consuming and expensive for our client. It also would have required a far more complicated, rigid and difficult-to-maintain codebase.
We had been exploring the potential of using Docker to set up Flux7's internal development environments, and, based on our findings, believed we could use it in order to avoid a major application rewrite. So, we decided to use Docker containers to provide quick, easy, and inexpensive multi-tenancy by creating isolated environments for running app tier multiple instances for each provider.
What is Docker?
Docker provides a user-friendly layer on top of Linux Containers (LXCs). LXCs provide operating-system-level virtualization by limiting a process's resources. In addition to using the chroot command to change accessible directories for a given process, Docker effectively provides isolation of one group of processes from other files and system processes without the expense of running another operating system. [continued]
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3rd International Internet of @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014 at the Santa Clara Convention Center, Santa Clara, California with over 100 major sponsors and exhibitors in 2014 and more than 6,000 delegates from 17 countries.
Internet of @ThingsExpo this week launched the premiere issue of its monthly newsletter which contains highlights of the hottest sessions and speakers from Internet of @ThingsExpo, speaking information as well as sponsorship opportunities.
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Chris Matthieu Named Internet of @ThingsExpo Tech Chair
Internet of @ThingsExpo has announced today that Chris Matthieu has been named tech chair of Internet of @ThingsExpo 2014 Silicon Valley.
The 2nd Global Internet of @ThingsExpo will take place on November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Chris Matthieu has two decades of telecom and web experience. He launched his Teleku cloud communications-as-a-service platform at eComm in 2010, which was acquired by Voxeo. Next he built an open source Node.JS PaaS called Nodester, which was acquired by AppFog. His new startup is Twelephone (http://twelephone.com). Leveraging HTML5 and WebRTC, Twelephone's BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) is to become the next generation telecom company running in the Web browser.
Power panel discussion at Internet of @ThingsExpo New York
Tracks and topics for Internet of @ThingsExpo will include:
Consumer IoT & Wearables
- Wearables
- Smart Appliances
- Smart Cars
- Smartphones 2.0
- Smart Travel
- Personal Fitness
- Health Care
- Personalized Marketing
- Customized Shopping
- Personal Finance
- The Digital Divide
- Mobile Cash & Markets
- Games & the IoT
- The Future of Education
- Virtual Reality
Video: @ThingsExpo power panel discussion at Internet of @ThingsExpo New York
Enterprise IoT
- The Business Case for IoT
- Smart Grids
- Smart Cities
- Smart Transportation
- The Smart Home
- Authentication/Security
- Wiring the IoT
- The Internet of Everything
- Digital Transformation of Enterprise IT
- Agriculture
- Transportation
- Manufacturing
- Local & State Government
- Federal Government
IoT Developers
- Eclipse Foundation
- Cloud Foundry
- Linux Containers
- WebRTC
- Node-Red
- Open Source Hardware
- AJAX and the IoT
- Leveraging SOA
- Multi-Cloud IoT
- Evolving Standards
- WebSockets
- Security & Privacy Protocols
- GPS & Proximity Services
- Bluetooth/RFID/etc.
- Nest Labs
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Internet of @ThingsExpo 2014 Silicon Valley "show prospectus" has shipped. Sponsorship, exhibit, and keynote opportunities can be obtained from Carmen Gonzalez by email at events (at) sys-con.com, or by phone 201 802-3021.
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We visited for overnight in 2013. Looks comletly new. It is an ex hospital, so outised is looking very dull and unatractive, but inside very modern, beautifull and very clean. The staff is frendly helpful and profesional. Breakfast was very rich and tastefull. We got it at low rate but the service was excelent. Recomend it for people who dont mind out of center location, don+t care for outside apperance.
It is close to Matzleinsdorfer platz station (500m) - with train and tram conections (line 1 connests you to the metro at Karlsplatz station-10 minutes) . I reccomend buing a daily metro ticket for all public tranport sistems (metro, tram and train) - 6 €. However you will need a taxi if you are out after midnight - but the one we had was not very expensive compered to other cities. For center to hotel 15€ (copared to Lyon it is very littlle).
Lot's of parking at the hotel - 16€per day.
I'd take my family there too.
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Are you a "chow and chat" or a "grab and gulp" family? It makes a difference: Your household eating style influences the physical and emotional health of each family member. While 60 percent to 70 percent of folks, including teens, say they sit down together most nights, the majority of people admit they eat with the TV on (always or sometimes), and 5 percent confess to texting or emailing at the table. And many family meals last 20 minutes or less — not enough time to digest all the good things that can come from eating together.
1. Teens who regularly eat dinner at home with their parents are less likely to be depressed or to smoke tobacco and marijuana, and studies show they're generally more helpful.
2. Kids don't pack on extra pounds if they have regular family dinners — probably because there are healthier nutritional choices available (even if they don't love veggies yet), and they're less stressed.
3. During shared dinners, parents can teach everything from manners to cultural traditions (including food choices). That's important for improved nutrition and family unity.
4. If you eat together, maybe you also can get in the habit of cooking together. It's a great way to expand kids' food tastes (they like to eat what they cook).
So tonight, evaluate your family meal: If it's "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle," "Babette's Feast" or "My Dinner with Andre" (we don't think you have to talk that much!), it could be time to rescript.
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Metropolitan Tikhon pays respects to terrorist victims at DC's French Embassy
On Saturday, November 14, 2015, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon visited the French Embassy, Washington, DC to pay respect to those who lost their lives in the multiple terrorist attacks on Paris, France one day earlier.
"On behalf of the Orthodox Church in America, I offer my condolences to the people of France, to the citizens of Paris, and to the President for this terrible tragedy endured in the land of France," said Metropolitan Tikhon, speaking in English and French. "We offer our prayers that indeed such events will cease and that people will come to reason and to understand that life is important and death accomplishes nothing, certainly not senseless death."
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I strongly feel the need for an is_approved field in the User model (django.contrib.auth.models). This field would allow for user systems that require email verification, user systems that require subscriptions/payment, etc...
Checking for is_approved at login should be an option. Here are ome possible solutions, which would both allow for optional approval and backwards compatibility:
- A modified login_required decorator:
- A setting in settings.py:
LOGIN_REQUIRES_APPROVAL = True
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by Esaj
Couldn't is_active be used for the same purpose?
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by adrian
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from new to closed
Won't fix. To do this, just create a separate TemporaryUser model and save unapproved users in there. Then, when they're approved, make them official User objects.
comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by ubernostrum
I'm with Esaj in thinking is_active is a better fit than a new field. Also a better fit than any sort of temporary model; just set things up so the user's account isn't active until they confirm it or give the secret handshake or whatever.
comment:4 Changed 10 years ago by germish@…
- Resolution wontfix deleted
- Status changed from closed to reopened
ASP.NET's built in Membership system, which I'm sure was thoroughly thought out, has an IsAppproved (is_approved) field in addition to their IsLockedOut (is_active) field.
I'm not sure you all are seeing the difference between is_active and is_approved. An email verification system works by locking out a user until that user has verified their email address by clicking on a link. If we implement that verification view by having it turn on is_active (is_active = True) instead of using is_approved, then we can never explicitly make our users inactive, because all they would have to do to reactivate their account is click their email verification link. Thus we need to separate the two, having an is_approved field in addition to the is_active field.
comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by germish@…
Oh, and the problem with using a TemporaryUser object is how do you handle someone changing their email address after they've registered? What would deleting or moving the User object to TemporaryUser do to all of that User's posts (the author FK of post)?
comment:6 Changed 10 years ago by adrian
- Resolution set to wontfix
- Status changed from reopened to closed
Won't fix.
comment:7 Changed 10 years ago by ubernostrum
Per discussion of this on the mailing list, I'm now advocating a user profile class as the best way to do this; that's the standard, built-in way to manage any addiitonal attributes you need on users.
comment:8 Changed 10 years ago by Home
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British author Downing's engaging if slow-moving first in a WWI-era spy series introduces Jack McColl, a globe-trotting Scottish car salesman moonlighting as a British agent. Months before August 1914, McColl is trying to sell his company's luxury car, the Maia, in China—and sniffing around for clues as to what the Germans and the Chinese are up to for his British government handlers back in London. He and Caitlin Hanley, a beautiful American journalist he meets in Peking, embark on a round-the-world journey that takes them to San Francisco and on to New York. Later, McColl heads to Mexico, and finally to Britain. Along the way, he survives a stabbing, falls in love, and tracks a German spy, gathering intelligence on a variety of revolutionary movements. Fans of Downing's WWII-era spy series that concluded with Masaryk Station will appreciate the author's command of history and period detail, though some may find the book reads more like a travelogue than a thriller. Agent: Charlie Viney, Viney Agency. (May)
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Set on the eve of the First World War, across oceans and continents, steamliners and cross-country trains, David Downing's complex and thrilling new espionage novel takes us all the way back to the dawn of that most fascinating of 20th century characters—the spy.
It is 1913, and those who follow the news closely can see the world is teetering on the brink of war. Jack McColl, a Scottish car salesman with an uncanny ear for languages, has always hoped to make a job for himself as a spy. As his sales calls take him from city to great city—Hong Kong to Shanghai to San Francisco to New York—he moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Secret Service, but British espionage is in its infancy and Jack has nothing but a shoestring budget and the very tenuous protection of a boss in far-away London. He knows, though, that a geopolitical catastrophe is brewing, and now is both the moment to prove himself and the moment his country needs him most.
Unfortunately, this is also the moment he begins to realize what his aspiration might cost him. He understands his life is at stake when activities in China suddenly escalate from innocent data-gathering and casual strolls along German military concessions to arrest warrants and knife attacks. Meanwhile, a sharp, vivacious American suffragette journalist has wiled her way deep into his affections, and it is not long before he realizes that her Irish-American family might be embroiled in the Irish Republican movement Jack's bosses are fighting against. How can he choose between his country and the woman he loves? And would he even be able to make such a choice without losing both?
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British author Downing's engaging if slow-moving first in a WWI-era spy series introduces Jack McColl, a globe-trotting Scottish car salesman moonlighting as a British agent. Months before August 1914, McColl is trying to sell his company's luxury car, the Maia, in China—and sniffing around for clues as to what the Germans and the Chinese are up to for his British government handlers back in London. He and Caitlin Hanley, a beautiful American journalist he meets in Peking, embark on a round-the-world journey that takes them to San Francisco and on to New York. Later, McColl heads to Mexico, and finally to Britain. Along the way, he survives a stabbing, falls in love, and tracks a German spy, gathering intelligence on a variety of revolutionary movements. Fans of Downing's WWII-era spy series that concluded with Masaryk Station will appreciate the author's command of history and period detail, though some may find the book reads more like a travelogue than a thriller. Agent: Charlie Viney, Viney Agency. (May)
A rookie spy gets in over his head when he's forced to choose between his assignment and the dynamic woman he's fallen for. It's 1913, and for the past few years, Scottish car dealer Jack McColl has folded small missions for the nascent British Intelligence Service into his overseas business trips. The income rarely covers more than travel expenses, but the work definitely makes his travels more interesting. Two new elements change the equation on his latest excursion from Tsingtau, China, to Shanghai to San Francisco and, ultimately, New York. Political tensions have been accelerated by the looming European war, making China far less safe, and McColl finds surprising romance with Caitlin Hanley, a vibrant young American journalist. They meet in Peking, and though McColl continues with his espionage commitments, he can't get her off his mind. When they meet again, they rekindle their affair, fueled by an ardor the time apart has triggered. But Cumming, the British naval officer who employs McColl, and Rainer von Schön, a German engineer with whom he trades information, are less than thrilled that he has Caitlin in tow. Her intrusive questions turn von Schön icy. In San Francisco, McColl is briefed by Jatish, an undercover agent who's later murdered. Could McColl himself have been the intended victim?This first installment of a proposed series by the author of the six John Russell novels (Masaryk Station, 2013, etc.) moves deliberately but colorfully, with intelligent prose and a strong period feel.
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"[Downing] is a master at bringing the past to life through the careful and often loving observation of even minor players and through the artful deployment of specific detail. In addition, Jack McColl's debut has a zest, an exoticism and a joie de vivre well-suited to an era when best sellers were being written by Zane Grey, suffragettes were demanding the vote, and opium parlors were a readily accessible temptation."
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
"Moves along briskly and offers interesting facts about events now a century past. It's always entertaining."
—The Washington Post
"When his "innocent" data-gathering escalates into knife fights and arrest warrants, McColl finds himself in an advanced game of espionage he hadn't intended on playing. I can already see Gerard Butler in the lead role of the film version of this book."
"[Downing] is smart and erudite, with a knack for fully rounded characters and atmospheric but unfussy prose . . . a ripping good tale."
—The Seattle Times
"Already had aficionados reaching for new adjectives to praise the author."
—The Independent (UK)
"Downing, a fiendish researcher, does a believable job of inserting McColl into real life events, and the result is a novel marked by surprising adventures of an oddly amiable sort."
—Toronto Star
"Downing seamlessly moves from Ian Flemming adventure to John le Carré politics across the broad canvas of a particular time period, never losing the intimacy with his characters."
—MysteryPeople Bookstore, Austin
"As McColl travels the globe, Downing deftly depicts the complex prelude to World War I a web of unrest that connects German coal-hoarding in China, anti-imperialist protests in India, and labor strife in New Jersey, among other seemingly disparate tensions . . . It's fun to watch the novice spy learn his craft."
—The Onion A.V. Club
"Jack of Spies is lush with details about not only China and the U.S., but also England, Ireland, and even Mexico . . . with an urbane operative who is sure to be a hit with readers."
—The Denver Post
"A powerhouse of a series debut . . . Think Raiders of the Lost Ark as told by John le Carré. The book is just damn fun."
—Arizona Republic
"As I was reading, I kept thinking this novel would be terrific theatre—Masterpiece, that is."
—Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
"A nice introduction to Jack [McColl] and His Majesty's Service."
—Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
"A captivating, intelligent new World War I espionage tale by British author David Downing melds accurate historical detail with intricately crafted plotlines as it transports readers from China to San Francisco, Britain and beyond."
—Express Milwaukee
"[McColl] is a winsome companion, which bodes well for the future of this new series. I, for one, am already eager for the next installment."
—John Wilson, Books & Culture
"Just what we were waiting to read at the start of the summer."
—Mystery Tribune
"Few other contemporary writers meld history and espionage quite like David Downing."
"Some of the best and most involving espionage novels aren't about super-spys, the James Bonds, but about ordinary people caught up in circumstances beyond their control. And that is what Downing does in Jack of Spies."
—Oline Cogdill, Mystery Scene Magazine
"Highly recommended for readers of spy novels like John le Carré as well as fans of historical thrillers, like The Meaning of Night and The Alienist."
—The Brooklyn Daily
"[A] master of the genre . . . Downing is capable of wringing more suspense out of a simple cat-and-mouse chase played out in a train yard than some of his better-known contemporaries can with a squadron of troubled covert-ops agents. That quality alone makes Downing and Jack of Spies a joy to read."
"An attractive prospect for summer reading. More than that, however, it is a sound beginning for what looks to develop into an important series. Astute readers will want to be in at the start."
—Reviewing The Evidence
"Those who already know Downing's craft realize his deft hand with romantic passion and delicately portrayed merging of lust and love—and like the 'Station' series, Jack of Spies includes a serious affair of the heart."
—Kingdom Books
"Realistic espionage (for once!), a deep feel for its period, an emphasis on the shock of the new that must have been felt at the development of world-shaking technology in the early twentieth century, a likeable and believable protagonist with enough of a personal life to ground him . . . I'm very much looking forward to the second installment."
—Broadway World
"The talented Downing is off and running once again."
"This first installment of a proposed series moves deliberately but colorfully, with intelligent prose and a strong period feel."
—Kirkus Reviews
"Fans of Downing's previous spy tales will not be disappointed with this excellent series launch that is full of rich historical and cultural details, revealed as his protagonist learns the espionage business on the eve of World War I."
—Library Journal
"Vividly explores the worldwide intrigues that spawned World War I, through the all-too-human British spy Jack McColl and the lover he betrays."
—Francine Mathews, author of Jack 1939
"It would already be enough that Jack of Spies is a taut, highly intelligent spy thriller without it being a brilliant historical portrait and a captivating love story to boot. A remarkably engaging world tour of pre-World War One espionage featuring an honorable protagonist begging for a long series."
—Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham
Praise for David Downing's John Russell World War II Thriller series
"Epic in scope, Mr. Downing's "Station" cycle creates a fictional universe rich with a historian's expertise but rendered with literary style and heart."
—The Wall Street Journal
"A beautifully crafted and compelling thriller with a heart-stopping ending . . . An unforgettable read."
—Charles Todd, author of the Inspector Ian Rutledge Series
"Downing's outstanding evocation of the times (as masterly as that found in Alan Furst's novels or Philip Kerr's Bernie Gunther series), thematic complexity (as rich as that of John le Carré), and the wide assortment of fully rendered characters provide as much or more pleasure than the plot, where disparate threads are tied together in satisfying and unexpected ways."
—Library Journal, Starred Review
"Downing is brilliant at weaving history and fiction . . . equally clever and unexpected."
—Toronto Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition.
Known for his John Russell espionage series set in World War II Berlin (Masaryk Station), Downing begins a new historical series featuring Scottish car salesman Jack McColl. McColl's affinity for languages and a job that takes him around the globe make it possible for him to covertly collect intelligence for His Majesty's Navy. It's 1913, and the world is on the brink of war, escalating McColl's spy duties and danger quotient. He makes his way from China to the United States and Mexico, then back to Europe as he chases German spies and their conspirators and falls in love with Caitlin Hanley, a spirited Irish American journalist, whose brother may be involved in a plot against the British. Now McColl will have to choose between love and country as he arrives in Ireland and tries to stop an explosive plan that could cost many lives. VERDICT Fans of Downing's previous spy tales will not be disappointed with this excellent series launch that is full of rich historical and cultural details, revealed as his protagonist learns the espionage business on the eve of World War I. [Previewed in Editors' Spring Picks, LJ 2/15/13, p. 28.]—MelissaDeWild, Kent District Lib., Comstock Park, MI
Product Details
- 9781616952686
- Publisher:
- Soho Press, Incorporated
- Publication date:
- 05/13/2014
- Pages:
- 352
- Sales rank:
- 1,166,701
- Product dimensions:
- 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)
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At the foot of the hill, Tsingtau's Government House stood alone on a slight mound, its gabled upper-floor windows and elegant corner tower looking out across the rest of the town. Substantial German houses with red-tiled roofs peppered the slope leading down to the Pacific beach and pier; beyond them the even grander buildings of the commercial district fronted the bay and its harbors. Away to the right, the native township of Taipautau offered little in the way of variety—the houses were smaller, perhaps a bit closer together, but more European than classically Chinese. In less than two decades, the Germans had come, organized, and recast this tiny piece of Asia in their own image. Give them half a chance, Jack McColl mused, and they would do the same for the rest of the world.
He remembered the Welsh mining engineer leaning over the Moldavia's rail in mid–Indian Ocean and spoiling a beautiful day with tales of the atrocities the Germans had committed in South-West Africa over the last few years. At least a hundred thousand Africans had perished. Many of the native men had died in battle; most of the remainder, along with the women and children, had been driven into the desert, where some thoughtful German had already poisoned the water holes. A few lucky ones had ended up in concentration camps, where a doctor named Fischer had used them for a series of involuntary medical experiments. Children had been injected with smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis.
The white man's burden, as conceived in Berlin. McColl had passed two descending Germans on his way up the hill, but the well-kept viewing area had been empty, and there was no sign of other sightseers below. To the east the hills rose into a jagged horizon, and the earthworks surrounding the 28-centimeter guns on Bismarck Hill were barely visible against the mountains beyond. Some magnification would have helped,
but an Englishman training binoculars on foreign defenses was likely to arouse suspicion, and from what he'd seen so far, the guns were where the Admiralty had thought they would be. There was some building work going on near the battery that covered Auguste-Victoria Bay, but not on a scale that seemed significant. He might risk a closer look early one morning, when the army was still drilling.
The East Asia Squadron was where it had been the day before—Scharnhorst and Emden sharing the long jetty, Gneisenau and Nürnberg anchored in the bay beyond. Leipzig had been gone a week now—to the Marianas, if his Chinese informer was correct. Several coalers were lined up farther out, and one was unloading by the onshore wharves, sending occasional clouds of black dust up into the clear, cold air.
These ships were the reason for his brief visit, these ships and what they might do if war broke out. Their presence was no secret, of course—the local British consul probably played golf with the admiral in command. The same consul could have kept the Admiralty informed about Tsingtau's defenses and done his best to pump his German counterpart for military secrets, but of course he hadn't. Such work was considered ungentlemanly by the fools who ran the Foreign Office and staffed its embassies—not that long ago a British military attaché had refused to tell his employers in London what he'd witnessed at his host country's military maneuvers, on the grounds that he'd be breaking a confidence.
It was left to part-time spies to do the dirty work. Over the last few years, McColl—and, he presumed, other British businessmen who traveled the world—had been approached and asked to ferret out those secrets the empire's enemies wanted kept. The man who employed them on this part-time basis was an old naval officer named Cumming, who worked from an office in Whitehall and answered, at least in theory, to the Admiralty and its political masters.
When it came to Tsingtau, the secret that mattered most was what orders the East Asia Squadron had for the day that a European war broke out. Any hard evidence as to their intentions, as Cumming had told McColl on their farewell stroll down the Embankment, would be "really appreciated."
His insistence on how vital all this was to the empire's continued well-being had been somewhat undermined by his allocation of a paltry three hundred pounds for global expenses, but the trip as a whole had been slightly more lucrative than McColl had expected. The luxury Maia automobile that he was hawking around the world—the one now back in Shanghai, he hoped, with his brother Jed and colleague Mac—had caught the fancy of several rulers hungry for initiation into the seductive world of motorized speed, and the resultant orders had at least paid the trio's traveling bills.
This was gratifying, but probably more of a swan song than a sign of things to come. The automobile business was not what it had been even two years before, not for the small independents—nowadays you needed capital, and lots of it. Spying, on the other hand, seemed an occupation with a promising future. Over the last few years, even the British had realized the need for an espionage service, and once the men holding the purse strings finally got past the shame of it all, they would realize that only a truly professional body would do. One that paid a commensurate salary.
A war would probably help, but until Europe's governments were stupid enough to start one, McColl would have to make do with piecework. Before McColl's departure from England the previous autumn, Cumming had taken note of his planned itinerary and returned with a list of "little jobs" that McColl could do in the various ports of call—a wealthy renegade to assess in Cairo, a fellow Brit to investigate in Bombay, the Germans here in Tsingtau. Their next stop with the Maia was San Francisco, where a ragtag bunch of Indian exiles were apparently planning the empire's demise.
A lot of it seemed pretty inconsequential to McColl. There were no doubt plenty of would-be picadors intent on goading the imperial bull, but it didn't seem noticeably weaker. And where was the matador to finish it off? The Kaiser probably practiced sword strokes in his bedroom mirror, but it would be a long time before Germany acquired the necessary global reach.
He lit a German cigarette and stared out across the town. The sun was dropping toward the distant horizon, the harbor lighthouse glowing brighter by the minute. The lines of lamps in the warship rigging reminded him of Christmas trees.
He would be back in Shanghai for the Chinese New Year, he realized.
Caitlin Hanley, the young American woman he'd met in Peking, was probably there already.
The sun was an orange orb, almost touching the distant hills. He ground out the cigarette and started back down the uneven path while he could still see his way. Two hopeful coolies were waiting with their rickshaws at the bottom, but he waved them both away and walked briskly down Bismarckstrasse toward the beach. There were lights burning in the British consulate, but no other sign of life within.
His hotel was at the western end of the waterfront, beyond the deserted pleasure pier. The desk clerk still had his hair in a pigtail—an increasingly rare sight in Shanghai but common enough in Tsingtau, where German rule offered little encouragement to China's zealous modernizers. The room key changed hands with the usual bow and blank expression, and McColl climbed the stairs to his second-floor room overlooking the ocean.
A quick check revealed that someone had been though his possessions, which was only to be expected—Tsingtau might be a popular summer destination with all sorts of foreigners, but an Englishman turning up in January was bound to provoke some suspicion. Whoever it was had found nothing to undermine his oft-repeated story, that he was here in China on business and seeing as much of the country as money and time would allow.
He went back downstairs to the restaurant. Most of the clientele were German businessmen in stiff collars and spats, either eager to grab their slice of China or boasting of claims already staked. There were also a handful of officers, including one in a uniform McColl didn't recognize. He was enthusiastically outlining plans for establishing an aviation unit in Tsingtau when he noticed McColl's arrival and abruptly stopped to ask the man beside him something.
"Don't worry, Pluschow, he doesn't speak German," was the audible answer, which allowed the exposition to continue.
Since his arrival in Tsingtau, McColl had taken pains to stress his sad lack of linguistic skills, and this was not the first time the lie had worked to his advantage. Apparently absorbed in his month-old Times, he listened with interest to the aviation enthusiast. He couldn't see much strategic relevance in the news—what could a few German planes hope to achieve so far from home?—but the Japanese might well be interested. And any little nugget of intelligence should be worth a few of Cumming's precious pounds.
The conversation took a less interesting tack, and eventually the party broke up. McColl sipped his Russian tea and idly wondered where he would dine later that evening. He glanced through the paper for the umpteenth time and reminded himself that he needed fresh reading for the Pacific crossing. There was a small shop he knew on Shanghai's Nanking Road where novels jettisoned by foreigners mysteriously ended up.
More people came in—two older Germans in naval uniform, who ignored him, and a stout married couple, who returned his smile of acknowledgment with almost risible Prussian hauteur.
He was getting up to leave when Rainer von Schön appeared. McColl had met the young German soon after arriving in Tsingtau—they were both staying at this hotel—and taken an instant liking to him. The fact that von Schön spoke near-perfect English made conversation easy, and the man himself was likable and intelligent. A water engineer by trade, he had admitted to a bout of homesickness and delved into his wallet for an explanatory photo of his pretty wife and daughter.
That evening he had an English edition of William Le Queux's Invasion of 1910 under his arm.
"What do you think of it?" McColl asked him once the waiter had taken the German's order.
"Well, several things. It's so badly written, for one. The plot's ridiculous, and the tone is hysterical."
"But otherwise you like it?"
Von Schön smiled. "It is strangely entertaining. And the fact that so many English people bought it makes it fascinating to a German. And a little scary, I have to say."
"Don't you have any ranters in Germany?"
Von Schön leaned slightly forward, a mischievous expression on his face. "With the Kaiser at the helm, we don't need them."
McColl laughed. "So what have you been doing today?"
"Finishing up, actually. I'll be leaving in a couple of days."
"Homeward bound?"
"Eventually. I have work in Tokyo first. But after that . . ."
"Well, if I don't see you before you go, have a safe journey."
"You, too." Von Schön drained the last of his schnapps and got to his feet. "And now I have someone I need to see."
Once the German was gone, McColl consulted his watch. It was time he visited the Blue Dragon, before the evening rush began. He left a generous tip, recovered his winter coat from the downstairs cloakroom, and walked out to the waiting line of rickshaws.
The temperature had already dropped appreciably, and he was hugging himself as the coolie turned left onto the well-lit Friedrichstrasse and started up the hill. The shops were closed by this time, the restaurants readying themselves for their evening trade. The architecture, the faces, the cooking smells, all were European—apart from his coolie, the only Chinese in sight was a man collecting horse dung.
It was quiet, too—so quiet that the sudden blast of a locomotive whistle from the nearby railway station made him jump.
The coolie reached the brow of the low hill and started down the opposite slope into Taipautau. The township was almost as neat and widely spaced as the German districts, and in the cold air even the smells seemed more muted than they had in Shanghai. They were halfway down Shantung Strasse before McColl could hear the beginnings of evening revelry in the sailors' bars at the bottom.
The Blue Dragon was open for business but not yet really awake. The usual old man sat beneath the candlelit lanterns on the rickety veranda, beside the screened-off entrance. He grinned when he recognized McColl and cheerfully spat on the floor to his right, adding one more glistening glob to an impressive mosaic.
McColl was barely through the doorway when an old woman hurried down the hall toward him. "This way, please!" she insisted in pidgin German. "All type girls!"
"I'm here to see Hsu Ch'ing-lan," he told her in Mandarin, but she just looked blank. "Hsu Ch'ing-lan," he repeated.
The name seemed to percolate. She gestured for him to follow and led him through to the reception area, where "all type girls" were waiting in an assortment of tawdry traditional costumes on long red-velvet sofas. Some were barely out of puberty, others close to menopause. One seemed amazingly large for a Chinese woman, causing McColl to wonder whether she'd been fattened up to satisfy some particular Prussian yearning.
The old woman led him down the corridor beyond, put her head around the final door, and told Madame that a laowai wanted to see her. Assent forthcoming, she ushered McColl inside.
Hsu Ch'ing-lan was sitting at her desk, apparently doing her accounts. Some kind of incense was burning in a large dragon holder beyond, sending up coils of smoke.
"Herr McColl," she said with an ironic smile. "Please. Take a seat."
She was wearing the usual dress, blue silk embroidered in silver and gold, ankle-length but slit to the hip. Her hair was piled up in curls, secured by what looked like an ornamental chopstick. She was in her thirties, he guessed, and much more desirable than any of the girls in reception. When they'd first met, she'd told him that she was a retired prostitute, as if that were a major achievement. It probably was.
He had chosen this brothel for two reasons. It offered a twotier service—those girls in reception who catered to ordinary sailors and the occasional NCO, and another, more exclusive, group who did house calls at officers' clubs and businessmen's hotels. The latter were no younger, no more beautiful, and no more sexually inventive than the former, but as Jane Austen might have put it, they offered more in the way of accomplishments. They sang, they danced, they made a ritual out of making tea. They provided, in Ch'ing-lan's vivid phrase, "localcolor fuck."
She was his second reason for choosing the place. She came from Shanghai and, unlike any other madam in Tsingtau, spoke the Chinese dialect that McColl knew best.
She pulled a bell cord, ordered tea from the small girl who came running, and asked him, rather surprisingly, what he knew of the latest political developments.
"In China?" he asked.
She looked at him as if he were mad. "What could matter here?" she asked.
"Sun Yat-sen could win and start modernizing the country," he suggested. "Or Yuan Shih-kai could become the new emperor and keep the country locked in the past."
"Pah. You foreign devils have decided we must modernize, so Yuan cannot win. And you control our trade, so Sun could win only as your puppet."
"Yuan bought one of my cars."
"He thinks it will make him look modern, but it won't. It doesn't matter what he or Sun does. In today's China everything depends on what the foreign devils do. Is there going to be a war between you? And if there is, what will happen here in Tsingtau?"
"If there's a war, the Japanese will take over. The Germans might dig themselves in—who knows? If they do, the town will be shelled. If I were you, I'd take the boat back home to Shanghai before the fighting starts."
"Mmm." Her eyes wandered around the room, as if she were deciding what to take with her.
The tea arrived and was poured.
"So what do you have for me?" McColl asked.
"Not very much, I'm afraid." The East Asia Squadron was going to sea at the end of February, for a six-week cruise. The Scharnhorst had a new vice captain, and there'd been a serious accident on the Emden—several sailors had been killed in an explosion. The recent gunnery trials had been won by the Gneisenau, but all five ships had shown a marked improvement, and the Kaiser had sent a congratulatory telegram to Vice Admiral von Spee. And a new officer had arrived from Germany to set up a unit of flying machines.
"I know about him," McColl said.
"He likes to be spanked," Ch'ing-lan revealed.
McColl wondered out loud whether verbal abuse might sting the Germans into indiscretions. Maybe the girls could deride their German clients, make fun of their puny fleet. What hope did they have against the mighty Royal Navy?
As she noted this down, a swelling sequence of ecstatic moans resounded through the building. Ch'ing-lan shook her head. "I'll have to talk to her," she said. "The others do the same because they think their tips will be smaller if they don't, and after a while none of us can hear ourselves think. It's ridiculous."
McColl laughed.
"But I do have some good news for you. I have a new girl, a cousin from Shanghai. She speaks a little English, and now she's learning a little German—she knows that a lot of the men like someone they can talk to."
"That sounds promising."
"And more expensive."
"Of course—I have no problem paying good money for good information." He thought for a moment. "She could be worried that her officer might be killed in a war. The British are so much more powerful, yes? She could ask for reassurance, ask him how he thinks his fleet can win."
She nodded.
"And the flying-machine man. I'd like to know how many machines, what type, and how he intends to use them. Between spanks, of course."
She nodded again. "Is that all?"
"I think so. I'll come back on Friday, yes?"
"Okay. You want girl tonight? Half price?"
He hesitated and saw Caitlin Hanley's face in his mind's eye.
"No, not tonight." He smiled at her. "You're still retired, right?"
"You couldn't afford me."
"Probably not." He gave her a bow, shut the door after him, and walked back down the corridor. Bedsprings were squeaking behind several curtained doorways, and several girls seemed intent on winning the prize for most voluble pleasure. Out on the veranda, the old man gave him a leer and added another splash of phlegm to his iridescent patchwork.
It was enough to put a man off his dinner.
Meet the Author
David Downing grew up in suburban London. He is the author of One Man's Flag, The Red Eagles, and six books in the John Russell espionage series set in WWII Berlin: Zoo Station, Silesian Station, Stettin Station, Potsdam Station, Lehrter Station, and Masaryk Station. He lives with his wife, an American acupuncturist, in Guildford, England.
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Having finished the WWII spy series I looked forward to this book focused on the Great War run up and the English spy McColl. This was disappointingly dull and lacked the character development of the prior well written WWII series.
One of the most boring books I have not read in a long time. Not read because I had to give up. Let me enjoy Alan Furst, Charles McCarry, and many others.
An astute view of the nature of "intelligence" gathering as it was practiced in the early days of the 20th century and the "hum-drum" routines that collected the pieces of the puzzle that were the foundations of national apprehensions and expectations.
I'm always leery of espionage fiction because I know quite a bit about the real subject as well as things like weaponry. Unless it's intended to be James Bond-type slapstick, I cannot tolerate most spy tales. I was attracted to this book by its setting, though, and I wasn't disappointed. Personal relationships are the thing it seems most authors struggle with most, and that was true of this book as well. I suspect that's because all readers will view any relationship through the prism of their own experiences and what may seem plausible and realistic to one will strike another as unlikely. Beyond that, and which is only a minor criticism, I enjoyed the story. The history was accurate, or where it wasn't it was believable, the backgrounds drew me in, and I could care about what happened to the characters. I'm looking forward to the next book in the series.
Source: Free copy from Soho Press in exchange for a review. All reviews are expressed from my own opinions and feelings. Summary: Jack McColl, is a middle age traveling salesman in 1913. His ancestry is Scottish. When the book begins he is in China, stalking German's for information about what they're up to in a possible war in Europe. Jack's "real" job is intelligence for the British government. Intelligence and espionage is in its infancy. Jack's pay for the work is minimal and traveling is lengthy. Jack of Spies, is the first book in what will be series on the British spy Jack McColl, during the period of time before World War I and during World War I. Ground work begins in Jack of Spies. What kind of personality Jack has, his talents and abilities, weak points; also, the history of intelligence during this era is explored. Jack of Spies, gives a panoramic view of the world in 1913-1914. From China to Japan, from the west coast to the east coast of America, England and Ireland, Germany, and Mexico. Significant events from the countries are depicted, for example the uprising and bloodshed in Dublin, Ireland. My Thoughts: I love all of the "Station" series written by David Downing. When I found out his new book, Jack of Spies, had been published, I was pronto to read and review it. When reading the first book in a series, it is important to take in to consideration the first book is a foundation for the future books. It is not a puzzle piece standing alone, but is the first in which several others will then be placed, all bringing about a full and clear image. I feel Jack of Spies is a splendid first story. Jack is not a spy compared to what we see on modern film. He is at times floundering, unprepared, anxious, lonely, average. Humanity is shown in his imperfect character. This is a captivating way to lay-out a character, because he is fallible, and thus we are not quite sure he will "make-it." His friend with benefits is assertive, sensual, prepared, young. In some ways she is the opposite of our hero Jack. A spectrum of the world in 1913-1914. I loved the essence of all that was captured in how people in other countries lived, their fear of war, political unrest in Ireland, availability of newspapers highlighting information available from all pivots of the world, a changing perspective of women in regards to equality and rights. Contrasting views are seen. For example, a young female prostitute in China who is unable to secure a job doing anything else, versus an American woman that is an independent-minded-feminist journalist. Spy techniques at this time is minimal. A spy wanting information finds someone willing to be paid to "find out what they can". Sometimes those who accept money from you might also be accepting money from the enemy. It's a rag tag game
Having concluded the popular "Station" series, which covered the years from prior to World War II to the period following its end, David Downing has now turned his attention to World War I. One thing each series has in common is that the protagonist is a spy, but in this new effort, Jack McColl begins as a part-time contractor for an incipient intelligence arm in HRH Majesty's Admiralty. It is difficult to imagine in this age of the CIA, MI5 and the KGB (in its various incarnations) that there was a time without established spy agencies. In any event, the story begins when Jack, his brother and a co-worker embark on a world trip beginning in China to sell a British luxury automobile. Jack is asked to gather information on German activities along the way. In China he gathers intelligence on gun emplacements in the German concession, as well naval plans. Then on to San Francisco, where Irish separatists seem to be plotting with Indians seeking independence and Germans apparently supporting their efforts, in an attempt to weaken Great Britain in any future conflict. Next on to New York, after which he is sent to Mexico, where the oil supply to the British navy is being threatened to be cut off. Along the way, beginning in China, he starts a torrid love affair with a liberated woman (for the times). Unfortunately, her family is involved in the quest for Irish independence, which unduly complicates the relationship, but does help Jack attain a permanent position as an agent. Jack's development as a character begins slowly, but builds as his adventures take him (and the reader) forward, and we learn more about his thinking. The scope of the novel is wide, and the book is deeply researched, an ability for which the author is well-known. Presumably, the forthcoming volumes will take us into the mud and trenches of France, and this reader (and hopefully many others) will be looking forward to reading it. Meanwhile, "Jack" is recommended.


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ROMAN HOLIDAY: ROMAN HOLIDAY was nominated for ten Academy Awards, and Audrey Hepburn captured an Oscar for her portrayal of a modern-day princess rebelling against her royal obligations who explores Rome on her own. She meets Gregory Peck, an American newspaperman who, seeking an exclusive story, pretends ignorance of her true identity. But his plan falters as they fall in love. Eddie Albert contributes to the fun as Peck's carefree cameraman pal. Stylishly directed by William Wyler, this romantic comedy ranks as one of the most enjoyable films of all time.
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S: From the opening strains of Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer's haunting Oscar-winning song "Moon River," you'll once again be under the alluring spell of that madcap, carefree New York playgirl known as Holly Golighty (Audrey Hepburn) in this 24-carat romantic comedy based on Truman Capote's best-selling novella. George Peppard is the struggling and "sponsored" young writer who finds himself swept into Holly's dizzying, delightfully unstructured lifestyle as she determinedly scours Manhattan for a suitable millionaire to marry. The sparkling special features on this Anniversary Edition DVD only add to the luster of director Black Edwards' timeless film classic.
SABRINA: SABRINA is charming, humorous and aglow with some of Hollywood's greatest stars. Humphrey Bogart, William Holden and Audrey Hepburn star in a Cinderella story directed by renowned filmmaker Billy Wilder (Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot). Bogie and Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island. Bogie's all work, Holden's all playboy. But when SABRINA, daughter of the family's chauffeur, returns from Paris all grown up and glamorous, the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn's delightful charms.
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Aspect Ratio
|Standard/Anamorphic Widescreen 1.33:1 [4:3]/1.85:1
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Cast & Crew
|Arthur Schmidt - [Sabrina] Editor
|Audrey Hepburn - [all] Actor
|Billy Wilder - [Sabrina] Producer
|Billy Wilder - [Sabrina] Director
|Billy Wilder - [Sabrina] Writer
|Blake Edwards - [Breakfast] Director
|Buddy Ebsen - [Breakfast] Actor
|Charles Lang, Jr. - [Sabrina] Director of Photography
|Dalton Trumbo - [Roman] Story By
|Dalton Trumbo - [Roman] Screenplay
|Eddie Albert - [Roman] Actor
|Edith Head - [all] Costume Designer
|Ernest Lehman - [Sabrina] Writer
|Frank Planer - [Roman, Breakfast] of Photography
|Frederick Hollander - [Sabrina] Musical Score
|George Axelrod - [Breakfast] Screenplay
|George Peppard - [Breakfast] Actor
|Georges Auric - [Roman] Musical Score
|Gregory Peck - [Roman] Actor
|Hartley Power - [Roman] Actor
|Henri Alekan - [Roman] of Photography
|Henry Mancini - [Breakfast] Musical Score
|Howard Smith - [Breakfast] Editor
|Humphrey Bogart - [Sabrina] Actor
|John Dighton - [Roman] Screenplay
|John McGiver - [Breakfast] Actor
|John Williams - [Sabrina] Actor
|Martha Hyer - [Sabrina] Actor
|Martin Balsam - [Breakfast] Actor
|Martin Jurow - [Breakfast] Producer
|Patricia Neal - [Breakfast] Actor
|Richard Shepherd - [Breakfast] Producer
|Robert Swink - [Roman] Editor
|Robert Wyler - [Roman] Producer
|Samuel A. Taylor - [Sabrina] Based On Play By
|Samuel A. Taylor - [Sabrina] Writer
|Truman Capote - [Breakfast] On Novel By
|Walter Hampden - [Sabrina] Actor
|William Holden - [Sabrina]
|William Wyler - [Roman] Director
|William Wyler - [Roman] Producer
|Ellen Corby - [Sabrina] Actor
|Harcourt Williams - [Roman] Actor
|William Holden - [Sabrina] Actor
|Oscar (1962)
|Audrey Hepburn, Nominee, [Breakfast] Best Actress,Henry Mancini, Winner, [Breakfast] Best Music, Scoring Of A Dramatic Or Comedy Picture,Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, Winner, [Breakfast] Best Music, Song ("Moon River")
|Oscar (1955)
|Audrey Hepburn, Nominee, [Sabrina] Best Actress,Billy Wilder, Nominee, [Sabrina] Best Director,Edith Head, Winner, [Sabrina] Best Costume Design: Black-And-White
|Oscar (1954)
|Audrey Hepburn, Winner, [Roman] Best Actress,Eddie Albert, Nominee, [Roman] Best Supporting Actor,John Dighton & Dalton Trumbo, Winner, [Roman] Best Writing, Motion Picture Story,William Wyler, Nominee, [Roman] Best Director,William Wyler, Nominee, [Roman] Best Picture
|Nominee (1962)
|Golden Globe, Audrey Hepburn, [Breakfast] Best Motion Picture Actress - Musical/Comedy,Oscar, Audrey Hepburn, [Breakfast] Best Actress in a Leading Role
|Winner (1962)
|Oscar, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer, [Breakfast] Best Music, Original Song,Oscar, Henry Mancini, [Breakfast] Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture
|Winner (1955)
|Golden Globe, Billy Wilder, et. al., [Sabrina] Best Screenplay,Oscar, Edith Head, [Sabrina] Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
|Nominee (1955)
|Oscar, Audrey Hepburn, [Sabrina] Best Actress in a Leading Role
|Winner (1954)
|British Academy Awards, Audrey Hepburn, [Roman] Best British Actress,Golden Globe, Audrey Hepburn, [Roman] Best Motion Picture Actress - Drama,Oscar, Audrey Hepburn, [Roman] Best Actress in a Leading Role,Oscar, Dalton Trumbo, [Roman] Best Writing, Motion Picture Story,Oscar, Edith Head, [Roman] Best Costume Design, Black-and-White
|The Motion Picture Guide
|[Breakfast] ...With this movie a new kind of woman made her first significant appearance on the screen; Hepburn stands as a precursor to the liberated woman who would appear in the films of the late 1960s. One who, in spite of her independence, realizes that she is not as tough as she would have us believe.
|James Berardinelli's ReelViews
|[Sabrina] ...a perfect example of the kind of film where the actors have greater importance than any other aspect of the production... Audrey Hepburn is radiant in the title role. Bogart, best known for his tough guy image, plays effectively against type as a romantic lead. And Wiliam Holden...is the perfect playboy... Sabrina is playfully seductive, and will leave almost all viewers...with a smile on their lips and a warm glow in their hearts.
|[Roman] For lovers of romantic comedies through the ages, Roman Holiday remains a favorite. Despite being directed by one of Hollywood's "heavy hitters," William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives, Ben-Hur), and starring bankable star Gregory Peck, the movie is perhaps best known as the coming out party for Audrey Hepburn, who won a Best Actress Oscar in this, her first lead role. Shot on location in Rome with a budget of about $1.5 million, the film's domestic box-office take of $5 million put it comfortably in the black and established Hepburn as a major acting force. Because of its romantic appeal and whimsical qualities, this remains one of only a few black-and-white movies that modern audiences willingly watch...If you're in the mood for something airy and uplifting, Roman Holiday is the trip to take.
|James Berardinelli
|DVD Verdict
|[Sabrina] As part of the Paramount Audrey Hepburn collection, the original classic Sabrina is now available once more for a new generation of romantic comedy enthusiasts. This is one of the best romantic comedies of all time, one in which not only our heartstrings are tugged but our minds can learn even today about the class differences between rich and poor. A fine remake was done in 1995 with Harrison Ford, but it still couldn't compete with the original cast and brilliant direction of Billy Wilder. With Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, and William Holden in the leading roles it is hard to think of a better team...If you have a romantic bone in your body, you should see this film at least once. If you are a fan of Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, or William Holden you should see this film as well.
|Norman Short
|[Breakfast] It's been 45 years since Breakfast at Tiffany's hit theaters and Audrey Hepburn made her indelible impression as beautiful, vulnerable, flighty Holly Golightly - a woman who could teach Carrie Bradshaw and her pals a thing or two about Sex and the City...For those who have somehow managed to miss one of Hepburn's most luminous turns in the spotlight, her Holly is a gal-about-town who expects to eventually marry a millionaire and whom men generously tip $50 each time she goes to the powder room. In other words, she is a hooker, though this 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's novella was not going to be vulgar enough to say so out loud...As movie romances go, there are few finer than Breakfast at Tiffany's, and after 45 years, it's lost none of its glow.
|Pam Grady
|DVD, Widescreen, No Longer Produced
Product Attributes
|Paramount Home Video
|Music Format
|Video Format
|Almar Haflidason, BBCi
|[Roman] Hepburn is the epitome of poise and elegance...
|Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
|[Roman] Utterly charming.
|The Motion Picture Guide
|[Breakfast] ...Hepburn stands as a precursor to the liberated woman who would appear in the films of the late 1960s.
|VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever
|[Roman] Hepburn's first starring role is a charmer...
|Almar Haflidason, BBC Film Review
|[Roman] Hepburn is the epitome of poise and elegance...
|Luanne Brown, Chico Enterprise-Record
|[Sabrina] Skip the Harrison Ford remake and go straight to this original classic.
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A day without orange juice is like a day without sunshine, went an old TV commercial. Now we're more concerned with the health benefits of juice than a sunny start to our day. You've seen the ads and read the headlines. Cranberry juice prevents urinary tract infections. Pomegranate juice may clear clogged arteries. Grape juice lowers risk of blood clots. But are these claims valid? And if so, does that mean the more juice you drink, the healthier you'll be?
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Director: Paolo Banana
Company: Kick Ass Pictures
Cast: Nadia Styles, Kelly Wells, Nikki Nievez, Tony Tedeschi, Tyler Knight, Kris Knight, Demi Marx, Veronica Lynn, Melissa Lauren, Sandra Romain, Valentino (I), Chris Mountain, Lee Bang, Lefty La Rue, Dana Vespoli, Naudia Nyce, Brandon Iron, Amber Rayne
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: Gonzo
The opening scene in Sack Lunch 2 with Kelly Wells will undoubtedly make your average viewers testicles crawl back into his body. It was a terrible choice to open a wonderful movie. It's like a creepy, erotic salute to brain damage.
Put that aside and you've got nine appropriately kickass blowjob scenes. Melissa Lauren, Dana Vespoli and Veronica Lynn are all highlights, but none match the excellent depravity and filthy mouth of Amber Rayne.
Pre-Nom for Best Oral-Themed Series.
Retailing: Nine hot blowjob scenes out of ten make this one a surefire winner for your blowjob fans!


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Suit seeks to save Cheney filesBreaking News
In a preemptive move, several of them have agreed to join the advocacy group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington in asking a federal judge to declare that Cheney's records are covered by the Presidential Records Act of 1978 and cannot be destroyed, taken or withheld without proper review.
The group expects to file the lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It will name Cheney, the executive offices of the president and vice president, and the National Archives and chief archivist Allen Weinstein as defendants.
The goal, they say, is to protect a trove of information about national security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, domestic wiretapping, energy policy and other major issues that could be hidden from the public if Cheney adheres to his view that he is not part of the executive branch and is not required to make his papers public after leaving office.
Access to the documents is crucial because he is widely considered to be the most influential vice president in U.S. history, they say.
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CAMP PERRY -- Two members of the Vienna Cougars junior rifle team earned state championships.
Chris Keller, a junior from Girard High, shot 1,584 to repeat as champion in the Kreidler Prone Championship, a 1,600-point match.
Stephanie Birmingham of New Springfield took second with 1,579.
The Cougars squad of Keller, Birmingham, Laura Kuntz of Columbiana and Ryan Pearce of Warren shot 6,297 to take the team title.
Birmingham shot 1,058 (out of 1,200) to take first in the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association Three Position Championship.
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