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A present I put together for my girlfriends 19th birthday.
I decided to make her something, due to the fact that by the time I finish work, all the stores are closed. I think this sufficed.
Now how am I supposed to top this next year?
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this was very cute
Authentically one of the best
This is authenticaly one of my favorites now. I am sure many girls including myself would love to get something with so much effort for their birthday. Cards and gifts are nice but real girls love things that take time and is from the heart. Great song, amazing sync and funny animation. Hope she enjoyed this as much( if not more) more than i did.
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You sure know how to make a girl feel special, haha. Loved the smoothness of the animation, the comical nature of the animation, and the art which spanned from minimalistic to very complex. The blankness of the background brought focus to what you did have, and in the end it all came together very nicely. Happy birthday Sara :P
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With the help of the community, the students are collecting toiletries and other less necessary items such as CD and DVDs and including them in care packages they're sending to the soldiers at Lagman in Afghanistan.
Commercial business teacher Dan Childs, who advises both the FBLA and the Entrepreneurs Club, which also is helping out, said he received a note from Sherry Wilson asking for help to send needed items to the soldiers who are serving with her husband, retired Ranger Tom Wilson in Afghanistan. The note stated that sometimes the soldiers have no heat in their tents because the generators fail.
Right now, according to a United Nations weather site, the temperatures in Afghanistan are slightly warmer to the temperatures here, highs in the 40s and lows in the 20s.
"This (sending care packages) has always been something that has come from the students. It is something they want to do," Childs said.
The students bring items into their classes and the teachers pass them on to the FBLA who then package them. This time fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students, along with some others, are busy making computerized Christmas cards to include in the next round of packages.
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SALT LAKE CITY — The delivery of future water to a huge chunk of Salt Lake County and southern Utah County is destined to be delayed because construction funding for the Central Utah Project is not part of President Barack Obama's new budget.
"There have been pretty significant cuts to the funding for the CUP," said Reed Murray, director of the Central Utah Project Completion Office. "We have been, in the year 2010, over $40 million, but this new budget for 2014 has only $3.5 million."
That reduction essentially "zeros out" any new construction beyond the contracts already in place, said Chris Finlinson, governmental affairs director for the Central Utah Water Conservancy District.
The severe reductions led Utah Gov. Gary Herbert to sound the alarm, penning a letter to key players in the U.S. Senate when it comes to the purse strings for energy and water development projects.
"The CUP is designed to develop some of Utah's allocation of the Colorado River, and its completion is critical to the future development of the state," Herbert's May letter said. "Utah cannot continue to prosper without a dependable water supply."
In a telephone interview this week, Herbert said it makes little sense for the federal government to basically eliminate vital funding for a project that is so close to nearing completion.
"All I am concerned about is that they made a commitment to Utah and others impacted by the CUP, and they ought to honor that commitment," he said. "It is not 'they came close' or were 'nearly done,' but this is the project, and it ought to be completed."
The CUP diverts water from the tributaries of the Colorado River and includes an elaborate network of tunnels and pipes. At Strawberry Reservoir, water is piped down Provo Canyon, and along the way, three hydropower plants will also eventually be part of the system.
An estimated 130 miles of pipelines, some as large as 10 ½ feet in diameter, are intended to ultimately convey water to southern Utah communities, as well as the western half of Salt Lake County and some communities on the east side.
Both Utah County and Salt Lake County recipients are slated to get 30,000 acre-feet of water per year once the project is completed, which had been slated for 2021.
"With the financial difficulty, that date will have to slip," Murray said.
Herbert said the project, which will cost $3 billion when completely finished, has never been a federal handout, but a loan from the U.S. government to ratepayers of cities that are part of the Central Utah Water Conservancy District.
"Much of that loan has been repaid, and the remaining balance will be repaid with the revenue from the sale of that water," his letter read.
Zach Frankel, executive director of the Utah Rivers Council, agrees that the CUP should probably be finished, but said the withering of federal funding may be a good time to take the financial pulse of project that has been "a hemorrhage of cash."
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Of the six academies will remain three, and property management will set up a special federal agency. This is the essence of the bill prepared by the Ministry of Education and presented at a meeting of the government. According to Dmitry Medvedev, the level of RAS does not match the current situation, and scientists should not be engaged in property management and municipal issues.
The contents of the upcoming reform of the media told anonymous government sources. Presented at the meeting of the government bill assumes that there will be only one State Academy of Science – Sciences. Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Medical Sciences will become a part of it, and the Academy of Arts, Education, and architecture, as well as building sciences will go to the jurisdiction of the federal government. Real estate management and decision of the municipal problems will the federal agency that is planned for the near future. According to the Head of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, until the new structure has a code name – Agency scientific institutes of RAS.
Livanov's crusade against the Russian Academy of Sciences in its current form began with the controversial statements on the air "Echo of Moscow", delivered in March of this year.
"This form of organization of science in the XXI century is hopeless. It (Academy of Sciences) will not live, it is not viable. But we live it … because rebuild the system that is very inefficient, unfriendly to the people out there who work and, in general, out-of-date, archaic, requires a very serious resources, "- said the Minister.
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At this meeting, the government of Prime Medvedev returned to the patient matter, in fact taking a position Livanov. According to him, the current structure of the Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as five other major scientific academies of the country has developed in the 30′s and 40′s of the last century and has long been in need of restructuring. "This system has long been in need of an update, and the topic being discussed," – said Medvedev, referring to the discussion is finished bill on the agenda at today's cabinet meeting.
Medvedev also announced that it considers necessary to rid the Russian scientists from the heavy burden of housing and management of real estate.
"It is important to enable scientists to do, first of all, science and research, and to relieve them of unusual features of property management and community services" – quoted by RIA Novosti Prime Minister.
Thus, the prime minister has made it clear that the RAS will still be reformed – wants the academic community or not.
It is worth noting that, according to media reports, the Ministry of Education Dmitry Livanov – one of the first "candidates for departure" in Medvedev's government. However, reproaches to the previous Minister of Education – Andrei Fursenko – was no less for one simple reason. According to experts, over the past 10-15 years, the system of secondary and higher education, has developed in the Soviet era was virtually destroyed. The new education system loses much the same in quality, but it costs the Russians every year more and more expensive.


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I just ran into this video, I didn't even know it existed. For those of that also didn't know this existed, here is the 2011 Sharks official Holiday Shopping Channel:
Yes, I know this is old, shut up.
Official Sharks Holiday Shopping Channel
Everything from items raided from Jaimie McGinn's locker (awkward) to year old fruit cake to game worn socks that appear to have something growing on them, for a bonus, more Marleau awkwardness and Douglas Murray even gives fashion advice. (Just look at that run on sentence, I am very proud of it)


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Estimating Deterministically Time-Varying Variances in Regression Models
AbstractThe problem of structural change justifiably attracts considerable attention in econometrics. A number of different paradigms have been adopted ranging from structural breaks which are sudden and rare to time varying coefficient models which exhibit structural change more frequently and continuously. This paper is concerned with parametric econometric models whose coefficients change deterministically and smoothly over time. In particular we provide a new estimator for unconditional time varying variances in regression models. A small Monte Carlo study indicates that the method works reasonably well for moderately large sample sizes.
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Cloud hosting company DigitalOcean raised a Series A round of $37.2 million at a $153 million valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. Previous investors IA Ventures and CrunchFund also participated, but Andreessen Horowitz is by far the largest investor in this round — and Peter Levine will join the board. Previously, the company had raised $3.2 million. Read More
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The rise of mobile platforms and bring-your-own-device is breaking down the barriers between work time and play time, creating both new opportunities and new challenges for brands who sell their products and services to other businesses.
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"They're pushing each other and demanding a high level standard of play already. And with our new training facility—the Health, Fitness & Recreation Center—it's a dream come true. We have everything we need. We have good quality players from the area, and the returners are excited to be back," said head coach Chuck Bales in his 15th season at the helm.
All of the returning players will be a major asset. The 2013 All-Region player Jordy Padilla (Eisenhower) and All-Conference player Steve Henry (Oak Lawn) are solid athletes along with sophomores Jorge Martinez (Reavis), Leo Lezama (Argo), Gilberto Andrade (Curie), and Jonatan Sandoval (Bogan). Within the group of talented freshmen are three goalkeepers, any of whom could start.
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It's National Poetry Day today and to celebrate it the BBC invited on the poet Michael Horovitz, who used it as an opportunity to whinge about Michael Gove. It was a deeply depressing demonstration of the churlishness of those people – tribal Lefties, often – who cannot bring themselves to credit the Education Secretary for anything. Here is a man – Gove – who has suggested, perfectly sensibly, that children should learn more poetry. As everyone knows, learning poetry is massively life-enhancing. He is also striving as hard as he can to improve the education of millions of children – surely a heroic task for which he should be praised. But all Horovitz could do was grumble primly that "Gove's prescription" is "too limited to British poetry and the canon" and moan about the tyranny of scansion.
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This an extremely important issue. I have been following the so called Armenian Genocide debates and was appalled to find out the historians who do not support the genocide claim are under exterem pressure to the point that one was forced to leave UCLA under pressure and threats from a Mr Hovannasian who himself claims to be a historian at UCLA! Mr Shaw's house was burned and his children were threatened beacuse he was onf the opinion that there was no eveidence supporting the claim of genocide, but ethnic strife in the middle of WW I, where many more nn-Armenians died at the same time in the same region!
When we teach our children to hate, we basically kill their future!
History should not be re-written under political and physical threats! That is a very dangerous thing. We should strive to give our children accurate picture of the social, political and economic picture of the situation, not just one sided stories.
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September 15, 2011 | Amanda Cerny, Playboy Playmates | 18 Comments
Amanda Cerny is our Playboy Playmate for October 2011, and in the Playboy Cyberclub today her exclusive online pictorial was released. Check out this gorgeous beauty as she strips off her lingerie to reveal her sexy body, that Hef must have liked to make her a Playmate. So what do you guys think of Amanda? be sure to leave your comments!
Amanda Cerny Bio
Measurements: 34C-24-34
Height: 5'7″
Weight: 125 lbs
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA
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Stephanie Heinrich Playboy Playmate October 2001
September 13, 2011 | Playboy Playmates, Stephanie Heinrich | 6 Comments
Stephanie Heinrich is the Playboy Playmate for October 2001. Stephanie was the Playboy Cyberclub's first Cybergirl of the Month, so it was time to bring her onto the blog. The 21-year-old aspiring actor was a teacher's aide in high school and studied criminal justice at the University of Cincinnati before taking time off to fulfill her teenage fantasy of posing for Playboy, first in October 2000′s Girls of Conference USA and then as Playboy's first Cyber Girl of the Month. "If I go back to finish school someday, I'd like to work my way up to being a homicide detective," she says. "I also think drugs are a big problem today, especially with younger kids. I've always wanted to see if I could fix that somehow. I would just like to help get one drug dealer off the street."
Stephanie recently went on Hef's excellent European vacation, and says it was love at first sight. "I don't know how to explain him — he's so not the average guy," she says. "He is constantly working on the magazine or his scrapbook – always going, going, going. It's unbelievable." Although Stephanie enjoys traveling at Hef speed, anyone who meets Miss October finds her remarkably grounded. "I never forget where I came from," she says. "After I moved to Los Angeles, a lot of people back home said, 'I'm surprised — you haven't changed at all.' Sometimes it's hard to find someone who cares enough to listen to your problems, but that's how I am. You might have to go back someday, so why change into something you're not? I'm totally down-to-earth."
Stephanie Heinrich Bio
Name: Stephanie Heinrich
Birthplace: Cincinnati, OH
Bust: 34D
Waist: 25
Hips: 34
Height: 5′ 3″
Weight: 110 lbs
Ambitions: To continue modeling and pursue an acting career.
Turn-Ons: Men in uniform, honesty and guys with a sense of humor.
Turnoffs: Bad teeth and breath, hangovers and conceited men.
In Ten Years I Hope I Am: A millionaire and married with a lot of kids!
My Fantasy Vacation: Go to a private island (stocked with plenty of cristal champagne) with my dream guy, relax in the sun, drinking and dancing on the beach, and having wild sex all night long!!
My Favorite Food: A chicken supreme burrito from El Polloloco
Be sure to see all of Stephanie Heinrich's nude pictorials and videos inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
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Pennelope Jimenez Playboy Playmate March 2003 Cyberclub Exclusives
September 11, 2011 | Pennelope Jimenez, Playboy Playmates | 5 Comments
Pennelope Jimenez our Playboy Playmate for March 2003, has had her Playboy Cyberclub online images restored today to nice large versions ready for you to download. This set of Pennelope is one of the hottest Playmate pictorials around, her big juicy 34D boobs just looking magnificent after a splash in the pool. Enjoy these preview pictures and be sure to grab the new videos as well inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
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Katie Vernola Playboy Playmate Xtra September 2011
September 7, 2011 | Katie Vernola, Playboy Playmates | 12 Comments
Great news for all Playboy fans, Katie Vernola is the Playboy Playmate Xtra for September 2011. Blonde beauty Katie, was our Miss June 2010, and she is back each week this month with brand new exclusive nude pictures and video! This week we kick off with Katie Vernola posing outside, in a very open summer dress, which gives us a great view of her breasts, and once that is promptly removed, a fantastic view of her entire nude body. Enjoy the pictures and video and grab the full set of pictures and full length HD video inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
Katie Vernola Bio
Measurements: 34D-26-35
Height: 5'8″
Weight: 125 lbs
Hometown: Victorville, CA
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Tiffany Toth Playboy Playmate September 2011
September 1, 2011 | Playboy Playmates, Tiffany Toth | 11 Comments
Tiffany Toth is the Playboy Playmate of the month for September 2011. A few months ago, one of Tiffany Toth's Facebook fans wished that someone would construct a beachside billboard of the sun-kissed 25-year-old so that after gazing upon her blonde image he would be able to dive straight into the ocean to cool off. What he didn't realize is that the billboard is completely unnecessary. "I love the beach, so I hang out there as much as possible," says the Orange County native and full-time model and makeup artist. "It's how I grew up. I always went to the beach with friends, laid out in the sun and rode Jet Skis and bicycles. I still look forward to those summer nights when the sun goes down and you start a bonfire, have a drink and make s'mores." But fans of the Playboy Cyber Girl don't stop with requests for gigantic signage. "They're always e-mailing me the same thing: 'You need to be a Playmate!'" It was a goal Tiffany shared. "Ever since I can remember, I've had this fascination with Playboy. I collected the magazine and idolized the Playmates. I would even imitate their hair and makeup. And now, here I am! Everything is exactly how I imagined it. In real life I hate high heels, and look, in my pictorial I'm barefoot on the beach! It's totally me, and I couldn't be happier about it."
Tiffany Toth Bio
Name: Tiffany Toth
Birthplace: Anaheim, CA
Bust: 34C
Waist: 24
Hips: 36
Height: 5′ 8″
Weight: 125 lbs
Ambitions: To keep working as a makeup artist and one day open my own bakery.
Turn-Ons: Confident, funny men who don't get jealous. Oh–and a man in uniform!
Turnoffs: Flashy guys who brag about how much money they make and care too much about status. I am not impressed!
Something I Can't Live Without: My little devil of a dog, Marley, who seems to think that couches, shoes and makeup brushes are his chew toys. But I love him anyway!
Fave Tv Show: I'm obsessed with Dexter, so please don't interrupt while it's on!
Three Words That Sum Me Up: Fun, motivated and caring.
See all of the hot nude pictures of Tiffany Toth at the Playboy Cyberclub.
As an extra special treat, here is a 90 second video of Tiffany Toth from the Cyberclub, we will be adding a lot more videos of the Playmates in the future for you to enjoy as well!
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Ashley Hobbs Playboy Playmate Xtra August Week 4
August 31, 2011 | Ashley Hobbs, Playboy Playmates | 4 Comments
Ashley Hobbs finishes off the month as our Playboy Playmate Xtra with a bang with some brand new sexy photos. With a little white number on, but its not covering her juicy breasts, Ashley Hobbs poses at the window, gazing out, checking out all the guys who must be looking in. Tan line lovers will enjoy this set with her lines showing on her breasts and down low! Check out in the Playboy Members area the entire months pictures and videos.
Ashley Hobbs Playboy Playmate Xtra August Week 3
August 24, 2011 | Ashley Hobbs, Playboy Playmates | 4 Comments
For all you car loves and boob lovers, Playboy gets the combination right with Ashley Hobbs this week in these brand new photos. A classic corvette holding a stunning naked Ashley Hobbs.. what could be better than maybe driving the named Miss December around in it! Truly sexy photos, of our bombshell blonde. Check out the full set and video inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
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Teri Harrison Playboy Playmate October 2002
August 17, 2011 | Playboy Playmates, Teri Harrison | 4 Comments
Teri Harrison is the Playboy Playmate for October 2002. Teri Harrison is the product of two different cultures, but the 21-year-old Florida native relishes her diversity. "My mom is Japanese and my father is German," she says. "I have six sumo wrestler-looking uncles and a tiny Japanese grandmother, so I stick out like a Q-Tip in family pictures. Sushi and bratwurst — that's my life!"
Now Miss October is enjoying the climate in southern California and the attentions of a new boyfriend. "I'm really into the whole rock-and-roll look," she says. "My boyfriend, Rob, has a goatee, blue eyes and black hair — nice. I want to take him out on the ocean in a yacht, have dinner and some Cristal and…I won't tell you what else. I know I'll end up asking him to marry me, because when I want something, I want it!" Teri hopes that being in Playboy will open the door to new career opportunities. "I would love to host a Wild On type of show," she says. "Traveling helps people grow by enabling them to experience new things. It's important to let readers know that Playboy isn't something I'm doing just because I can. I really enjoy being photographed, but I want people to get to know me and to see how beautiful a person can be on the inside and on the outside."
Teri Marie Harrison Bio
Name: Teri Marie Harrison
Birthplace: Bradenton, FL
Bust: 34D
Waist: 26
Hips: 33
Height: 5′ 6″
Weight: 117 lbs
Ambitions: To host a national television show, and to become a total beach bum!
Turn-Ons: Stability, a man who can watch a girly flick with me, Rock-and-Roll music, baby!
Turnoffs: Bad taste in shoes. Dishonesty and — most important — insecurity!
My Dream Travel Destination: I would love to hop the South Pacific islands, starting at Fiji.
Five Cds I Can't Live Without: Madonna, Pearl Jam, Chronic 2001, Jack Johnson and, of course, the best artists in the world, Incubuus!
The Tv Shows I Never Miss: That '70s Show, the Jamie Kennedy Experiment and the L.A. Lakers!
The Next President Should Be: Shaq Daddy! Can y'all dig it?
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Susie Owens Playboy Playmate March 1988
August 15, 2011 | Playboy Playmates, Susie Owens | 5 Comments
Susie Owens is the Playboy Playmate for March 1988. With Susie Owens' Playmate pictorial restored to high quality, it is time to revisit this stunning busty blonde from the 80′s
She decided to start a fitness business, FemLine, which offers personalized fitness counseling for women in the Dallas area. She's currently offering a lecture series called "Females & Fitness" at a large Dallas health club, and she's negotiating to do a radio show. She's making it. But that's just her career. You also ought to know that she just recently became unattached and shares a house with her nine-year-old daughter, Shauna Darlene. One more thing you might like to know is how a 31-year-old nurse gets herself into this kind of physical condition: squash. Intense, sweaty hours of squash. "I hate aerobics," she says. Not one to stifle her opinions, Susie has them on a variety of topics, a few of which we'll share with you.
On the difference between being 21 and being 31: "When I was younger, I was silent, submissive and sexless, but I'm way past that phase. When you turn 31, you don't have time for bullshit." On nursing burnout: "A lot of nurses get out of it in five to seven years. That's why there's a nursing shortage. The wages are too low for the kind of grueling work we do." On staying in shape: "I'm not like the 18-year-olds who have it naturally. I've put a lot of work into this body. That's why I don't mind showing myself naked." On the illusions of spandex: "You see those girls working out in spandex outfits? Well, I've seen some of them come into the locker room and just explode out of them. I'm not like that. I never owned a spandex outfit and never will."
Susie Owens Bio
Name: Susie Owens
Birthplace: Arkansas City, Kansas
Bust: 35
Waist: 25
Hips: 35
Height: 5′ 8″
Weight: 117 lbs
Ambitions: To expand my business in every direction possible as a fitness expert and trainer to promote women's fitness.
Turn-Ons: Being a woman, educated, informed and motivated people, giving and receiving presents, wild thunderstorms.
Turnoffs: Smoking, uncleanliness, laziness, judgmental attitudes, highly aggressive and cocky men, people who are always negative.
Favorite Sports: Squash, driving, good football, water sports (hopefully, snow skiing, since I'm learning!), hunting, fishing, photography, boating.
Favorite Tv Shows: "St. Elsewhere," "The Three Stooges."
Favorite Place: Lake Tahoe, the Caribbean.
Favorite Pampering Activities: Massages, having my hair brushed, having a maid, having my nails done, shopping.
Occupation: Registered nurse, personal fitness trainer and speaker.
Man I'd Most Like To Meet: The one I'll someday marry.
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Marketa Janska Playboy Playmate July 2003
August 14, 2011 | Marketa Janska, Playboy Playmates | 7 Comments
Marketa Janska is the Playboy Playmate for July 2003. Playboy has just restored Marketa's exclusive online pictorial so it was time to bring this gorgeous Czech babe to the blog!
At age 22 Marketa Janska received an offer to model in Los Angeles, and Playboy were delighted to learn that she moved into the apartment complex where one of our friends lives. We asked her to meet us by the building's pool rather than at the Mansion, and the minute she approached us it was clear that the casual setting suited her perfectly. Modest Marketa wears no makeup and seems immune from the posturing that often accompanies the "L.A. model" label. Miss July comes from a small village outside of Prague that she describes as down-to-earth, an atmosphere that helped her remain grounded when she left home to start modeling. "I was slowly getting used to traveling to bigger cities and meeting new people, so it was not that shocking to come to L.A.," she says. It didn't take long for Marketa to pick up on the different dating styles of Czech and American guys. Does she have a preference? "It depends on the person and how charismatic he is," she says. "In America, a guy would want to impress me by taking me to an expensive restaurant, something fancy. In the Czech Republic, we would go for a bicycle ride or on an afternoon hike or maybe enjoy a barbecue — something simple. I don't like show-offs — I like nice guys who don't try too hard. It doesn't matter what a man looks like — he should be easy to talk to and straightforward, and he should move slowly."
Marketa Janska Bio
Name: Marketa Janska
Birthplace: Most, Czech Republic
Bust: 34″
Waist: 24″
Hips: 34″
Height: 5′ 7″
Weight: 115 lbs
Ambitions: To become a successful singer and songwriter, enjoy every day and be happy.
Turn-Ons: Intelligent, charismatic, something unique about the person, confidence, nice smile.
Turnoffs: Selfish, dishonest show-offs, bad teeth.
A Few Singers That I Admire: Celine Dion, Charlotte Church, Alicia Keys, Josh Groban, Laura Pausini.
Languages That I Speak Czech, English, German.
Activities I Do To Relax: Sex, watching movies, skiing, riding a motorcycle, rollerblading on the beach.
Five Items I Can't Live Without: Piano, laptop, chocolate, candles, music CDs.
The Sexiest Man Alive: Colin Farrell.
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Tiffany Toth Miss September Exclusive Cyberclub Pictures
August 12, 2011 | Playboy Cybergirls, Playboy Playmates, Tiffany Toth | 10 Comments
With the new Playboy Magazine out today, so too is Tiffany Toth's exclusive online pictorial inside the Playboy Cyberclub. Im sure all her fans have been waiting a long time to see her become a Playboy Playmate, and finally she has, so enjoy these hot photos that show off Miss Septembers sexy body.. her boobs are as perky as ever, and nice tan lines too
Tiffany Toth Bio
Measurements: 34C-24-36
Height: 5'8″
Weight: 125 lbs
Birthplace: Anaheim, CA
See more of Tiffany Toth nude inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
Sneak peak at Miss November 2011 Ciara Price
August 11, 2011 | Ciara Price, Playboy Playmates | 3 Comments
Ciara Price looks like she will be Miss November 2011. Discovered by Stewart Smith, the same photographer that discovered Mei-Ling Lam, this hot blonde looks set to grace the pages of the November edition. The only pictures we have so far are from Stewart Smith, so credit goes to him for these pictures.
Luci Victoria Playboy Playmate September 2003
August 11, 2011 | Luci Victoria, Playboy Playmates | 2 Comments
Luci Victoria is the Playboy Playmate for September 2003. With her exclusive online pictorial restored to high quality, it was time to revisit this busty blonde from England. Luci Victoria calls Sheffield — an English city known for its cutlery — home, but this sharp 21-year-old model seems to play in a world-size backyard. "My mom's side of the family lives in Cleveland, Ohio, but I was born in England," she says in an alluring, breathy voice. "All my friends are English, but people sometimes say that my accent is a mixture and that it's hard to place."
Fresh from the plane and now in our Los Angeles studio, Luci becomes wide-eyed and leans in to whisper like she's confessing a dirty secret when we ask if she prefers the States. "New York is just a larger London, while Los Angeles is a completely different world," she says. "I would choose to live here because I love this hot weather."
When we ask Luci whether she prefers American guys to British men, she plays the diplomat. "They've both got sexy qualities," she says. "I used to go for bad boys — muscled, toned, maybe with some tattoos. Now I'm looking for someone who will look after me and put me first." Luci says she wants to focus on her career. "I'm down-to-earth," she says. "I'll always be the way I am and I'll never think I'm better than anyone else."
Luci Victoria Bio
Name: Luci Victoria
Birthplace: Sheffield, England
Bust: 34DD
Waist: 25
Hips: 35
Height: 5′ 10″
Weight: 130 lbs
Ambitions: To make it to the very top in my modeling career, then to find my Mr. Right and have babies!
Turn-Ons: Bad boys!! Strong, fit men who can look after me, scoop me up in their arms and carry me to bed!
Turnoffs: Men with hairy chests! Guys who take more time in the mirror than me are a definite NO-NO!!
If I Had More Time, I Would: Purse an acting career, spend more time with my family and friends.
Five Things Always In My Purse: That's a silly question — makeup, of course!! Money, mobile, mints, mirror and lippie.
The Most Delectable Foods Are: I love all kinds of food, like Chinese and Indian. My favorite is Italian food!
Sex Or Chocolate? Come on!! What do you think?
My Favorite Time Killer: The gym for a good workout!
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Ashley Hobbs Playboy Playmate Xtra August 2011
August 10, 2011 | Ashley Hobbs, Playboy Playmates | 1 Comment
Ashley Hobbs is the Playboy Playmate Xtra for August 2011. You will remember Ashley Hobbs as our December 2010 Playmate, and thankfully we didn't have to wait long until we got to see more of her! Each week in August we will have a brand new set of pictures and videos, so enjoy this weeks offering which has the gorgeous blonde, working hard at scrubbing the floor, until she can take no more and has to soap up those perky breasts of hers instead! Sexy new photos shot by Josh Ryan that your going to love.
Ashley Hobbs Bio
Measurements: 34C-27-32
Height: 5'6″
Weight: 120 lbs
Hometown: Harbor City, CA
See all of Ashley Hobbs' nude pictures and videos inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
Iryna Ivanova Playboy Playmate August 2011
August 3, 2011 | Iryna Ivanova, Playboy Playmates | 13 Comments
Iryna Ivanova is the Playboy Playmate for August 2011. Wow what an amazing rack Iryna has, and from the photo shoot you can see how much Stephen Wayda loved them as well, as every single photo is focused on these beauties!
Call it wanderlust, ravenous curiosity or the endless pursuit of a great party, but Iryna Ivanova possesses an unquenchable thirst to see the world. "I have always enjoyed traveling," says our wayfaring Miss August. She began her global tour in earnest at the age of 16 when her family moved from their hometown of Feodosia, Crimea, a Ukrainian port on the Black Sea, to a new life in Tucson. From there, Iryna, who is now working toward an MBA at the University of Arizona (focusing either in marketing or sports management; she's undecided at the moment) took to the winds. "I studied abroad in Greece and visited Athens and the islands. Mykonos was my favorite because it's beautiful and it's a crazy party island. For romance and calm, though, I adore Bali. Plus, the Indonesians are the nicest people I've ever met." Confidence brought her to playboy's shores. "I love my body, and my philosophy is that if you have the right kind of body, why not show it?" She adds, "Being Miss August is something I'm very proud of. Honestly, I might be prouder of being a Playmate than any of my academic achievements. There are many great schools you can attend, but there's only one Playboy. I still can't believe I'm among the few girls Hef picks each year!"
Iryna Ivanova Bio
Name: Iryna Ivanova
Birthplace: Feodosia, Ukraine
Bust: 32DD
Waist: 25
Hips: 35
Height: 5′ 4″
Weight: 105 lbs
Ambitions: Within the next five years I plan to earn my doctorate.
Turn-Ons: Guys dressed in cool but not overdone swag. Earrings do it for me!
Turnoffs: Immature, ultra needy, sloppy boys can forget about it. You want to date me? Then get your swag ON!
Meet Me On The Dance Floor: I like R&B and hip-hop that I can shake my booty to.
My First Kids: I am the proud mother of Cujo, a quite plump pug, and Katya, who is a teeny tiny Pekingese.
My Constant Companion: I'm obsessed with Starbucks, so, world travelers, look for me, the girl with the vanilla latte!
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Hiromi Oshima – Not Seeing is Believing
July 30, 2011 | Hiromi Oshima, Playboy Playmates | 3 Comments
Photographers contact Playboy daily, hoping for a chance to shoot models and become part of the Playboy legacy. Two prominent blind photographers, Bruce Hall and Peter Eckert, contacted Playboy expressing their interest in working with us. We thought it was an interesting idea and agreed to give them the opportunity to photograph a Playmate, Miss June 2004 Hiromi Oshima. Shooting for Playboy turned out to be even more exciting than both Hall and Eckert imagined.
Bruce Hall is legally blind with five percent normal eyesight, complicated by a constant movement of the eyes that can't be corrected with glasses. "Cameras, technology and other optical devices are a way to see detail I would otherwise never see," says Hall, who has 30 years of underwater and nature photography experience. This Playboy shoot required use of his intuition and imagination. "As a scuba diver and a person who is at home in water, I wanted to shoot in, around and underwater. Some of these photos were taken at night. I am night blind, so I knew this would be a challenge—if not impossible," Hall says. "Hiromi was a joy to work with. She is a total pro: exotic, beautiful and very comfortable in water."
A trained carpenter and sculptor, Peter Eckert lost his vision as an adult due to the eye disease Retinitis Pigmentosa. He discovered photography after going blind, experimenting with the infrared setting on a '50s Kodak camera. Eckert uses touch and "echo-locates" while shooting his subjects in the dark. Many of his conceptual photographs depict colored electric charges and light radiating from behind his subjects. "I wanted to stand on Playboy's ideas and push further," he says of this assignment. He does not read the Braille edition of Playboy although he notes that its availability in 1970 was a "pivotal point" in blind history. As one of Playboy's first blind photographers, Eckert makes history himself by photographing Hiromi, whom he describes as an "angel spirit."
See all the photos from this special photoshoot inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
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Jaime Faith Edmondson celebrates the end of the NFL lockout
July 28, 2011 | Jaime Faith Edmondson, Playboy Playmates | 3 Comments
Jaime Faith Edmondson shares her excitement that the NFL lockout is over!
"Right now, my heart is pounding and I'm smiling like a freakin' fool. So I'm excited for the entire league to get back to work, but I'm also looking forward to seeing how the free agent market is going to shape up and whether all the rookie contracts will get taken care of in ample time. And I'm especially excited to see what's going to happen with my team, the Miami Dolphins, and what my direct rivals will do in the Jets and Patriots. I'm in straight football mode.
I'm a huge fan of training camp, too. When I was a cheerleader for the Dolphins, our facility was at the same place where the Dolphins practiced, so we would walk into our facility during July and August when the team's two-a-days were going on. To this day, I could close my eyes and still smell and feel that heat and humidity and grass in South Florida. I could smell that sweaty offensive lineman and I love that smell. It gets my gut slut hormones flowing when I smell an offensive lineman sweating in Miami heat in August!"
While Jaime is getting all excited over the NFL season, we can enjoy Jaime's underboobage in these hot photos!
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Kimberly Phillips & Tiffany Selby Playboy Playmates Xtra July 2011 Week 4
July 27, 2011 | Kimberly Phillips, Playboy Playmates, Tiffany Selby | 2 Comments
The girls are back again this week, one more time as the Playboy Playmates Xtra. This week Tiffany Selby and Kimberly Phillips are outside in their sexist old school lingerie. Its not long til our beauties find their way out of their outfits, and find themselves naked together, with both their hot bodies enjoying the afternoon sun. See all of these girls hot pictorials from this months special, and of course all their other Playboy photoshoots inside the Playboy Cyberclub.
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Audra Lynn Playboy Playmate October 2003 Online Exclusives
July 24, 2011 | Audra Lynn, Playboy Playmates | Post A Comment
Audra Lynn has had her exclusive online Playboy Playmate pictorial for October 2003 restored to full site. Look back at this gorgeous 34C blonde beauty as she shows why she was one of the hottest Playmates for 2003 in these sexy photos. In this selection of photos, Audra Lynn peels aside her sexy pink lingerie to reveal her pierced naval and perfect breasts!
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Kimberly Phillips & Tiffany Selby Playboy Playmates Xtra July 2011 Week 3
July 21, 2011 | Kimberly Phillips, Playboy Playmates, Tiffany Selby | 4 Comments
Welcome to Week 3 of our Playmate Xtra for July 2011! Joining us are Kimberly Phillips and Tiffany Selby once again for our viewing pleasure. Kimberly and Tiffany are dressed in tshirts and jersey panties, and uber cool sunglasses. They happily pop out their big sexy breasts by the pool and show off their delicious tight bodies.
You can see more of Kimberly Phillips & Tiffany Selby at the Playboy Cyberclub.
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Vitamin A (as beta-carotene 3'500 IU & palmitate 4'000 IU) 7'500 IU / 150%
Vitamin C (as ascorbic acid) 200mg / 333%
Vitamin D-3 (as cholecalciferol) 400 IU / 100%
Vitamin E (as vitamin E succinate) 200 IU / 667%
Vitamin K 80mcg / 100%
Thiamin (vitamin B-1) 50mg / 3'333%
Riboflavin (vitamin B-2) 50mg / 2'941%
Niacinamide 25mg & [Niacin 25mg] 50mg / 250%
Vitamin B-6 (as pyridoxine HCI) 45mg / 2'250%
Folate (as folic acid) 800mcg / 200%
Vitamin B-12 (as methylcobalamin & dibencozide) 50mcg / 833%
Biotin 300mcg / 100%
Pantothenic Acid (vitamin B-5) 50mg / 500%
Calcium (as calcium carbonate' citrate' & malate) 600mg / 60%
Iron (as ferrous bis-glycinate chetate [Ferrochel]) 30mg / 167%
Iodine (as potassium iodide) 180mcg / 120%
Magnesium (as magnesium chelate & oxide) 300mg / 75%
Zinc (as zinc monomethionine [OptiZinc] and citrate) 15mg / 100%
Selenium (as L-selenomethionine 60mcg / 86%
Copper (as copper sebacate) 2mg / 100%
Manganese (as manganese citrate and succinate) 5mg / 250%
Chromium (as chromium polynicotinate [ChromeMate]) 200mcg / 167%
Molybdenum (as molybdenum chelate) 50mcg / 67%
Sodium 5mg / <1%
Potassium (as potassium chelate) 99mg / 3%
Choline (as bitartrate) 450mg / **
Chamomile Flower 100mg / **
Ginger Root 100mg / **
Peppermint Leaf / **
Bilberry Fruit Extract (25% anthocyanidins) 20mg / **
Serving Size: 1 Softgel
Amount Per Serving / % DV
Calories 5
Calories from Fat 5
Total Fat 0.5g / 1%*
Saturated Fat 0g / <1%*
Trans Fat 0g / **
Cholesterol 5g / 2%
Arctic Pure Fish Oil Concentrate 640mg / **
DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid) 275mg / **
EPA (Elcosapentaenoic Acid) 40mg / **
*Percent Daily Values (DV) are based on a 2'000 calorie diet.
**Daily Value not established.
Other Ingredients:
Gelatin' Glycetin' purified water' natural strawberry flavor' rosemary extract' ascorbyl palmitate' and natural tocopherols.
(Contains: Fish and Soy).
4 tablets and 1 softgel daily' as desired with meals.
Women who are pregnant' may become pregnant' or breastfeeding should consult a health care professional before using this or any dietary supplement. Accidental overdose of iron containing products is a leading cause of fatal poisoning in children under 6. Keep this product out of the reach of children. In case of accidental overdose' call a doctor or poison control center immediately.Do not use if either tamper-evident seal is broken or missing. Keep out of the reach of children.Contains wheat/gluten and soy.
Allergy / Dietary Needs
- GMP Certification
- Made In The Usa