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February is Teen Dating Violence (DV) Prevention and Awareness Month! If you follow us @loveisrespect or on Facebook, you have probably noticed a lot of talk about it and what you can do to spread awareness.
What is teenDVmonth?
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Looking at porn in 2011, you might be dismayed by the abundance of over-inflated breasts, arrogant jizz-spurting jocks, and a rather noticeable lack of true sensuality. Why not head back to a time when hardcore adult movies were less about cramming something as huge as possible into the tightest hole available and more about putting a man and a woman, both sexy and eager to please, into a scene together and watching the sparks fly. Retro Raw hosts a great collection of vintage smut starring some of the sexiest men and women to ever grace the small (or large) screen. This is one hardcore porn site that knows that the 70's simply can't be beat!
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In a 1998 interview with fellow filmmaker Mike Figgis, Paul Thomas Anderson, director of Boogie Nights (1997) lamented the current state of the porn industry, calling out male actors for not being particularly sexy, the positions employed for being unnatural, and the tendency of directors to force the performers to accommodate the camera and not the other way round. It seems that if "PTA" made Boogie Nights about the contemporary porn world, it would be a lot less affectionate. It's easy to understand his point of view; just take a look at any decent fuck flick from the 70s and you'll see something that looks like,and may very well be, genuine sexual chemistry amid all the tittyfucks, deep throats, and cumshots. Guys like John Holmes weren't just known for their significant physical endowments, but for their performance abilities. In other words: a big dick does not a legend make, you gotta be able to act, too! Retro Raw is one of the leading European websites devoted entirely to vintage pornography. Hosting some of the best work from the Golden Age's greatest performers - Holmes, Ginger Lynn, Vanessa Del Rio, Seka, and the early efforts of Peter North and Nina Hartley - for roughly $27.63 per month (converted from €19.95), Retro Raw might be a tad on the expensive side, but no more than shelling out for some vintage Super8 or 16mm film reels; and it's much, much more convenient.
Presenting some of the last great superstars of porn, Retro Raw hosts the work of Tori Welles, Barbara Dark, Seka, Loni Sanders, Samantha Fox, Penny Nichols, Al Goldstein, John C. Holmes, Taylor Wane, Shauna Grant, Ginger Lynn, Candida Royale, Tom Byron, Nina Hartley, and John Martin, among many others.
Hosting some extremely racy movies that showcase everything from blowjobs to outdoor assfucking, there's some truly exceptional sex hosted here at Retro Raw. The performers seem like natural gods and goddesses of cock and cunt, and manage to inject a strong dose of sensuality into porn, something that's often missing these days.
Ever seen puppets have sex? Well, aside from in Team America: World Police? Didn't think so. You'll see it here at Retro Raw, though, as well as oral, anal, vaginal gangbangs, lesbians, huge dildos, lingerie fetish, BDSM, and much, much more. Who said the olden days were boring?
Hosting 138 scenes, Retro Raw has gathered a pretty decent collection of Golden Age hardcore and it's presented to you in a fairly clear and concise fashion. Each movie is pulled from a DVD release and brings better quality than you'd expect from 30-year-old productions, and the runtimes often push 70 minutes and bring lots of great stuff your way.
It's surprising to find Retro Raw offering no other viewing options besides the two downloadable WMV formats (640x480 and 320x240 pixels). When movies are this old, it's important to be able to sample them before committing to an often lengthy download. Oh yeah, the downloads could be a lot swifter on better, faster servers.
Obviously none of Retro Raw's titles are exclusive or original, but that pretty much goes without saying, doesn't it? They may be found on any number of online retro porn archives, as well as in adult store bargain bins nationwide.
There's very little to the navigation system of Retro Raw. Adding more features would make the site much easier and more fruitful to browse. A model index, content category list, update list, and studio sub-sections would be great.
It's a shame to find that Retro Raw, like most other vintage hardcore sites, have neglected photographic content altogether. Pictorials were and still are a very important part of the pornography industry, so why exclude them?
Retro Raw is an apt name for this site: offering Golden Age of Porn content that is extremely ribald and sexy, hosted in a rather rough, homemade fashion, "raw" aptly describes both this site and its content. With more than 130 full-length feature porn movies online, there's a decent, if not exactly huge, archive growing here and those of you who long for the glory days of the adult industry when AIDS and fake tits were seldom seen will immensely enjoy these vintage productions. Retro Raw does, however, need quite a lot of work. The navigation system offers next to nothing for the information-hungry home viewer, a complete lack of photo content that would marvelously supplement the videos, and not a single streaming video on the entire site. These issues may seem minor but they definitely have an impact on your enjoyment of this otherwise fine 70s porn emporium.


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A Message from the SIPA Trustee's Chief Counsel, David J. Sheehan
Note: As of February 6, 2015, the SIPA Trustee has recovered or entered into agreements to recover $10.551 billion; the Madoff Victim Fund (MVF) holds approximately $4 billion; and on February 6, 2015, the SIPA Trustee commenced a fifth interim pro rata distribution of approximately $355.8 million, which brings total distributions, including SIPC advances, to nearly $7.207 billion.
November 27, 2013 - Recently, the Special Master of the Department of Justice's Madoff Victim Fund (MVF), Richard C. Breeden, announced his approach to the distribution of forfeited monies to certain victims of Madoff's Ponzi scheme. The MVF currently holds approximately $2.35 billion of forfeitures that have been obtained by the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York in cases related to the Ponzi scheme operated through Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC (BLMIS).
The MVF is separate from the $9.508 billion that has been recovered to date by the Securities Investor Protection Act (SIPA) Trustee Irving Picard. Because the liquidation of BLMIS is a SIPA liquidation, the SIPA Trustee's approach to the distribution of recovered monies is governed by the Securities Investor Protection Act and the Bankruptcy Code.
To date, the SIPA Trustee has distributed approximately 42.86 percent from the BLMIS Customer Fund, for a total of $4.833 billion returned to BLMIS customers with allowed claims. This is in addition to the approximately $811 million in cash advances SIPC has committed to speed financial relief to BLMIS customers with allowed claims. Further distributions will occur upon the resolution of certain pending legal disputes as well as upon the resolution of the SIPA Trustee's lawsuits. Since the start of the claims process in January 2009, the SIPA Trustee and the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) have collaborated to return recoveries to BLMIS customers with allowed claims as quickly as possible, without one penny of associated costs coming out of these resources.
As outlined by Mr. Breeden, the Special Master's distribution approach differs in some ways from the approach mandated by SIPA, and these differences have raised a number of questions. In this letter, we will address questions surrounding distributions in the SIPA liquidation of BLMIS to "indirect" investors, a large group of individuals and entities who invested in "feeder funds," which in turn funneled money to BLMIS. We hope the following brings clarity to this matter and the extraordinary steps the SIPA Trustee is taking to ensure recoveries are distributed to indirect investors in this unprecedented liquidation.
At the outset, we want to emphasize that the end goal of both the Special Master's and the SIPA Trustee's distributions is the same: to return principal lost in the fraud, as calculated by the net investment method, to its rightful owners in the most timely and efficient manner possible.
Based on reports regarding how the MVF will be administered, the Special Master intends to distribute recoveries based on net losses, or cash in versus cash out, both to those who invested directly in BLMIS and also to those who invested indirectly, through vehicles such as feeder funds, investment partnerships or family trusts. The Special Master does not expect to distribute recoveries to the feeder funds or other vehicles of the indirect investors; the only way a feeder fund is eligible to receive a payment from the MVF is if it invested its own money in BLMIS.
The Special Master correctly notes that this is different from the method used in the BLMIS liquidation. Basing his approach on SIPA, the SIPA Trustee makes distributions to allowed claimants who were actual customers of BLMIS – who had entrusted principal deposits with BLMIS – as of the December 11, 2008 filing date for the SIPA proceeding. This approach was affirmed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
However, this does not mean that the individual, indirect investors in their respective feeder funds do not benefit from the SIPA Trustee's distributions. In fact, in situations where the SIPA Trustee has approved a feeder fund's claims, he has taken extensive steps to ensure that the money received by the feeder fund is distributed to its investors.
For example, the SIPA Trustee approved the claims of certain of the Tremont-managed funds (Tremont) in the approximate amount of $2.9 billion, after Tremont settled with the SIPA Trustee. And to date, the SIPA Trustee has distributed from the BLMIS Customer Fund to Tremont 42.86 percent of their allowed claims, totaling more than $1.2 billion.
(Due to a class action suit filed on behalf of Tremont investors, the approximately $1.2 billion from the BLMIS Customer Fund went to an escrow agent. Ultimately the distributions of the funds will be overseen by United States District Court Judge Griesa as part of the class action. The class action settlement is currently under review by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.)
Once the class action settlement is resolved, the individual investors in Tremont will receive their shares of the $1.2 billion distribution from the SIPA Trustee. In addition, the SIPA Trustee structured the settlement with Tremont so that each time an additional BLMIS Customer Fund distribution is made, Tremont's pro rata share of the distribution will go to Tremont's individual investors pursuant to Judge Griesa's orders.
Moreover, to ensure that Tremont investors receive the maximum benefit from the SIPA Trustee's recovery efforts, the settlement agreement with Tremont specifically provides that none of the SIPA Trustee's distributions can be paid to Tremont management for any purpose. This model has been and will be followed in future settlements with other feeder funds.
The SIPA Trustee's approach is the approved avenue under SIPA, which has enabled the unprecedented recoveries and distributions in the BLMIS liquidation to date. BLMIS did not maintain – nor would it have any reason to maintain – records of either the identity of investors in various BLMIS feeder funds or, more importantly, the amounts invested by each feeder fund investor. Those records are likely maintained by the feeder funds, with which the investors have a legal relationship, and may show the identity of the customers and the amounts they are owed on a cash in-cash out basis.
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Though the approaches by the SIPA Trustee and the Special Master may differ, the ultimate goal is the same: to return stolen monies to their rightful owners as quickly as possible. We hope this posting clarifies the differences between the distribution processes and we will provide further clarifications if the need arises.


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SANTOSH OSTWAL, husband and father of two, lost his apartment in 2001 after quitting his job in Pune to solve an engineering problem he'd been thinking about for twenty years. Today his solution – a mobile-phone adaptation that triggers irrigation pumps remotely – is saving water in India and helping more than 10,000 farmers avoid several taxing, dangerous long walks a day. I talked to Mr Santosh for a podcast earlier this year, but it's worth digging back into the transcript now to help explain the Indian concept of jugaad, an inspired kind of duct-taped ingenuity that employs only the tools at hand.
In 1981 Mr Ostwal, then an adolescent, visited his family's village near Pune during his summer vacation. Every midnight, his 82-year-old grandfather (who had lost a leg to gangrene and walked with a stick) would walk a mile to switch on the water-pump to ensure that his oranges were ready to ship the next morning. Since the water and electric supply were erratic (and allocated to the industrial belt during the daytime), he would make up to ten such trips a night. Mr Ostwal felt a deep desire to help his grandfather, but couldn't do anything about it as a student.
Seven years later, after completing his engineering degree, he visited the village again. The problem had not gone away. He suggested to the farmers that a remotely controlled switch might make their lives easier, and was surprised to hear their reactions.
I will tell you one wonderful thing. Farmers were not accepting this as a problem of theirs. They would tell me that this is routine work for us and our sons. Why do you worry so much? Walking a couple of miles daily is no big deal. What other work do we and our sons have? Let them work hard and appreciate the food that they get at the end of each day!
He was aghast with the explanation but let it pass, since he had a far more measurable problem to deal with. He did a back-of-the-envelope calculation.
There are 3.1 million official connections of water pump sets in Maharashtra alone. The all-India figure is more than 1 billion. While farmers didn't mind too much with the drill of walking up to the farm to switch on their motor pump sets and then head back home, I found that there was a strong resistance to walk back all the way to the farm to switch off their pump sets. A lot of water and electricity would be wasted. A 5 HP motor which wastes 4 to 5 hours of water daily not only consumes upto 1000 litres per day, but also results in soil erosion which decreases the yield… And then in that 15 day period for me, I decided, 'Yes. This is my career and I am going to make my career in irrigation automation. That's all.' This was in 1991.
He started with a $2 alarm clock. The farmer set a time, and the sound of the alarm fed into an interface that signaled the coil of the pump's starter. It was a user-friendly technique, but the alarm could be set only once; the farmer still had to walk to his fields to switch the pump off. Mr Ostwal would scooter to the fields himself at midnight and take out his multi-meter and oscilloscope, and he began to win the farmers over. But every new jugaad was met with a stern warning from the farmer:
If you mess up, you have to pay up. I've got to water my sugarcane yield this night. If something goes wrong with my pump, you'll have to bear the cost of my loss.
During the day, Mr Ostwal observed farmers, conducted workshops and gathered feedback. And his wife took the night shift in the workshop.
My wife is an electronics engineer. She used to assemble all the things in our bedroom. I used to play the things all over the day on the farm. She used to work during night. I used to come home at midnight or 2 or even 3 o'clock. She would ask me, 'Tomorrow morning which tool do you want to take away with you?' In my sleep, I would hand over some modifications to her and tell her to make that prototype in time for my early morning visit at 6. And my wife did it at 3 o' clock in the morning with two kids beside her – one is of 3 years and the other of one year.
In 1998, he abandoned the alarm clock and considered a remote control that would use a radio frequency allocated to him by the ministry of communications. He first had to convince the ministry that his remote control was not capable of deploying a bomb and that he could be trusted with it. But this demanded a hefty investment, and he had to acquire licences to operate the technology, which cost up to 50,000 rupees. And then in 2001, running out of money, he realized that the solution didn't have to be that expensive.
For about 9 months, I was not having any bread and butter at all. Me, my wife and my two kids… I was driven out of the house by the house owner and really came on the road in 2002. I was unable to fuel my innovations anymore. Sustainability was totally finished. But (at the time) thanks to mobile phone technology, one fine morning of Ganesh Chaturthi in 2003, I thought to myself, 'why do I have to go for these licenses? Why can't I try the same technology by using wireless connectivity of the mobile phone? I immediately tried the same technology with wireless connectivity of the mobile and surprisingly, I can tell you within 15 minutes, I got the result using the bulky Motorolla T 180 mobile ha ha ha! So instead of investing in a license, I piggy-backed on the wireless connectivity of the mobile phone. And since the day was Ganesh chaturthi, I chose the name of my service as 'Ganesh' which over time was changed to 'Nano Ganesh,' as the mobile phones kept getting smaller in size.
At the awards ceremony in Barcelona this year of Nokia's mobile innovation contest, Mr Ostwal showed a live audience how he could control an electric pump in front of them using a mobile phone in Pune. Nano Ganesh won the grand prize in the contest's emerging-markets division, which drew around a thousand applicants. The device is now being used in Egypt and Australia. Mr Ostwal has incorporated as "Ossian Agro", and is talking with venture capitalists and trying to find a sustainable revenue model. He admits that his product cannot be patented, and he invites as many players as want to join the market, so long as they are not in it only to make money.
One reason why he cracked this problem, says Mr Ostwal, is that his own family farms, and he's spent more than a decade observing farmers and their routines. Perhaps the urban engineers didn't see this problem because they didn't face it themselves in their walks of life. Trained as an engineer, Santosh Ostwal may actually be a humanitarian.
… initially farmers would laugh at me or sometimes were afraid of me because I would do all experiments, but now my wife who has helped me all throughout gets adoption offers. There are families which want to adopt her! Can you believe that! Haha, I am lucky!
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Simple and a great story!
While I appreciate the spirit of the multi million dollar competitions like the X-PRIZE and such, it just goes to show that the innovation that has the power to change the the lives of millions of people in a very real, very direct way can still appear from someone's apartment bedroom....and requires will and self belief, rather than simple financial incentive.
In these days of big money research and mega corporate labs it is nice to see a throwback to another age, when lone inventors tinkered in their sheds.
In these days of big money research and mega corporate labs it is nice to see a throwback to another age, when lone inventors tinkered in their sheds.
As an engineer, this is the sort of success and applied problem solving with widespread effect and utility that a lot of us dreamed of. Too many feel stuck in an office patching symptoms in the rich world because of the pay rather than traveling to where clear sight and applied problem solving can help improve life for many. The same ability to analyze cost/benefit in a problem guides us to work that has far less positive externality because of the internal returns to us. Providing a safety net for people to attack these issues might go a long way to improving the world. Engineers without borders is a start, something like peace corps for engineers might be a better solution.
The simple mobile phone - not speaking here of iPhones - is perhaps the most underutilized technology platform we have.
It can be used for remote control of thousands of devices just by sending customized SMS (text) messages.
Inspiring. Education is solving problems you see.
P.S.: Every time an engineering innovation from India comes up, the press (western and Indian) tags it as Jugaad. This is real engineering, where is Jugaad in it.
Lets give these guy their due respect as engineers.
@ AB ve,
He IS getting respect. He won an international innovation contest held in Spain paid for by Nokia (a Finnish company). He became famous through that competition. Did you even read the article?
Also, I do not think that an Indian company would hold an international contest and then give the top prize to a non-Indian. In fact, just today, this magazine was talking about how new the idea was of a non-Indian heading India's biggest multinational company (that makes most of its money outside India.)
And most of the venture capital will probably come from American VC firms.
You should be grateful at how tolerant and open minded the West is, rather than probe every article, trying to find fault with insignificant semantics.
And BTW, Jugaad is simply an Indian term referring to innovating with what you have. It is not offensive, and most Indians take pride in it.
Not sure if this story is much praise for Indian "jugaad". It lists just about everything that is wrong with innovation in India:
1. Farmers' resistance to technology
2. Lack of government support to innovation
3. Resistance from government (you'd imagine that govt would love this innovation, but no. Some stupid IAS wanted Rs. 50,000)
4. Poor understanding of technology among Indians (farmers would laugh at me or sometimes were afraid of me)
5. Ostwal trying to play down commercial angle (not in it only to make money)
Couldn't they just use a clock? I have one attached to my house that regulates a pump that turns on and off sprinklers. Did I miss something from this article?
Even if the problem is a sporadic grid you could use a counting system that restarts each day so that if the start time has passed and the count is < 1 then it automatically starts when power is available. If the count of that day is = 1 then it skips its run program for the day. K.I.S.S.
Great story!!!!!! great way to show the world that designs are made from bottom to top!! little things can change the world!! the only thing that worries me is that just a little part of the report give credit to the wife!! the one that was working as hard as him at nights!!!
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Love the story. But Mr Ostwal could have a workable solution with his first try using an alarm clock. One clock to turn on the pump and another to turn it off. Modify a chess player's clock perhaps.
A clock... Why didn't I think of that...
Slow day at the economist.
WOW! Awe-inspiring tale. Hats off to Mr Santosh Ostwal & his equally admirable spouse & soul-mate. He's Nobel Prize material in more ways than one. Stuff that great men are made of.
And then there's the rest of us, self-absorbed & inward-looking human maggots, who can't see beyond our little selfish worlds.
How humbling..
I am making a comment based on the irrigation needs of an Indian farmer in Indian scenario. I think , the mobile based solution is best for the Indian farmers who want to monitor and switch on off their pumpset from wherever they are, maybe in the farms, residence, market or on travel. In the timers, there is no monitoring of whether a pump is on or off, whether a power is available or not at the pump.But, the mobile connectivity makes it is possible to check the status. Plus , in the agriculture, there might be needs of so many times of on/off of the pumps in the irrigation processes depending on the actual physical status in the farms activities. Hence, it needs a perfect engineering solution based on closed loop system rather than an open loop systems like timers.A perfect engineering solves the problems in an emerging market very much effectively, but for that someone must undestand the needs of an emerging market and for which there is only a way - to be among them and to understand their needs. No question of blaming anybody's situation or no question of contraversy about Indian or Non Indian should arise, but a real attitude to help a human being in the problems is a must.
Great story about drive and doing something that truly matters.
My question though -- when you wrote that families "want to adopt her", is that like saying they are fond of her, or does "adopting" have some other meaning?
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Thank you, Babbage, for reproducing them faithfully :)
Salute the entrepreneural spirit, especially how the family pulled on when they were broke ..I wonder how people draw such inner strength.
What a wonderful uplifting story!
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by rphillips in Reader Tips & Comments, July 3, 2010Our focus this week was on sweet berries and how to get the most out of them this summer. You had some tasty suggestions! We also threw in some grilling tips for your 4th of July get-together and asked for your thoughts on artificial food dyes. Thanks for the comments this week and keep 'em coming!
From Blueberries 5 Ways:
We featured a salad with blueberries and asked you how you ate yours.
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"Just added some blueberries to cut up cantaloupe. Very pretty and tastes good too." — MomDarLena, via Heatlhy Eats
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"You can combine figs and strawberries to make a great tasting preserve." – Joy, via Healthy Eats
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — They are so different yet so much alike: Egypt and Zimbabwe seem related.
For several weeks Zimbabweans have been glued to their TV sets watching the revolution in Cairo unfold. Both countries are former British dependencies; their arthritic leaders are in their mid-80s and have been in office for 30 years. The two leaders were the best of pals and Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe invariably ensuring landed his plane in Cairo when travelling to the Far East; their subjects suffered equally from poverty, corruption and repression.
In the last two weeks Libya's ruler, Muammar Gaddafi, has joined the club of elderly African dictators on the brink. Zimbabweans are hoping he won't end up in Harare. He has pretensions to head the African continent which annoy Africans south of the Sahara, especially when he dresses up as a character from a Gilbert & Sullivan opera.
So why do Zimbabweans not occupy Africa Unity Square in the center of Harare and topple a regime long past its sell-by date?
The answer is simple: Zimbabweans are unable to mobilize a critical mass. They have been so bludgeoned over the years — with nothing to show for it — that they have lost their appetite for confrontation. Small bands of protesters make good targets for the riot police.
Zimbabwe's civil society has confined itself to a virtual revolution in Harare courtesy of Al Jazeera, willing the Egyptians on but unable to emulate them.
Even then they are not safe. A former MP Munyaradzi Gwisai and 45 others including trade unionists have been arrested and charged with treason for watching video footage of events in Egypt. They were accused of plotting an Egyptian-style uprising in Zimbabwe.
"On 16 February they held a meeting and the purpose of the meeting was to organize, strategize and implement the removal of a constitutional government of Zimbabwe by unconstitutional means, the Tunisian-Egyptian way," charged prosecutor Edmore Nyazamba. "In their speeches, the accused highlighted that there was a long serving dictator/authoritarian leader, general hunger, poverty, unemployment and capitalist tendencies where wealth is enjoyed by a few individuals while the general populace is suffering."
On Wednesday, the Zimbabweans' lawyer said he would oppose the charge against his clients, who were ordered to remain in custody overnight.
Zimbaweans are asking themselves, 'What was the secret to Egypt's success?'
"We have lost our fear," protesters told TV stations. And very simply, Zimbabweans haven't. Their courage has been knocked out of them. In Egypt's middle class revolution social networking played an important role. In Zimbabwe internet sites have not yet been used to organize people on a significant scale.
Another key difference is the role of the army. In Egypt the army is adored, particularly after its success in the 1973 war with Israel. In Zimbabwe the army has been suborned, its leaders bought off. The Zimbabwe National Army is a crucial agency of Mugabe's brutal regime and appears to relish its role in suppressing democracy. The generals regard Zimbabwe's democratic opposition with barely concealed contempt.


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It is so sunny and beautiful and everyone is so happy to be alive. I feel like anytime people are leaving for a break of any sort, there is a certain energy on campus that indicates a break is coming. The parking lots start clearing out, the residence halls have a soft quiet that falls over them, and people just radiate a bit of excitement. Another fun aspect of today: a bunch of people dressed in tuxes and fancy dresses with plastic name tags are walking around campus in herds. There is something incredibly funny about a group of sharply dressed people wandering around in a confused daze with a laminated neon plastic tag stuck on their front. I'm not sure who they are or why they're here, but I feel really good about it.
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Paul Raymond (15 November 1925 – 2 March 2008), born Geoffrey Anthony Quinn, was an English publisher, club owner, and real estate developer.[1]
After opening the UK's first strip club, Raymond became very wealthy, buying property on a scale that got him dubbed "King of Soho"[citation needed], and launching Paul Raymond Publications with the soft-porn magazine Men Only, soon followed by Escort, Club International, Mayfair and many other best-selling titles.[1] He was starting to hand over control to his daughter Debbie when she died of an overdose in 1992, after which he became a recluse.[1]
Born and raised in Liverpool, the family was abandoned by the father (a haulage contractor) when he was five. He also attended St. Francis Xavier's College.[2] The outbreak of World War II prompted relocation to Glossop, Derbyshire, where he was educated by the Irish Christian Brothers. Leaving school at 15, he was a Manchester Ship Canal office boy before taking up the drums with dance bands.[1] Feigning a heart condition, he avoided imprisonment for evading National Service instead served as a switchboard operator and bandsman all the while a self-confessed spiv selling nylons and petrol coupons on the black market.[3] His name change occurred when, at 22, he attempted a show business career as a mind-reader on Clacton pier.[4]
The Lord Chamberlain's Office controlled what was allowed on theatre stages and ruled that nudes could not move so when he toured with a show featuring nudes they were presented as statues, which moved about the stage on podiums;[5] He also circumvented the authority of the Lord Chamberlain's powers in 1958 when he opened the Raymond Revuebar strip club as a private club[5] in the former Doric Ballroom in Soho's Walker's Court,[6] the first British strip club. Within two years it had 45,000 members.[7]
The seedy reputation of the clubs did not stop regular attendance by celebrities, including the actor John Mills and comedian Peter Sellers. Nevertheless, there were regular clashes with the authorities about show content.[8] In 1961, Raymond was fined £5,000 following a magistrate's decision that permitting members to ring the Ding Dong Girl's bells constituted an "unruly house".[1] There was also the issue about an on stage performer swallowing a snake earning the an official reputation as "filthy, disgusting and beastly".[3]
Publishing was launched in 1964 with the short lived men's magazine King (ceased publication[1] after two issues).[4] In 1971, he took over the adult title Men Only; his other magazines eventually included Razzle and Mayfair. Among the models featured in his magazines were Fiona Richmond, who became Raymond's girlfriend towards the end of his marriage to Jean Bradley (1951–74).[3]
On 22 January 1967, Raymond was initiated into the Grand Order of Water Rats for his contribution to entertainment in the UK.In 1974, he purchased the lease on the Windmill Cinema and return it to the original name, the Windmill Theatre. Other theatres controlled by Raymond included the Whitehall Theatre where the sex comedy Pyjama Tops ran for more than five years along with several sequels,[3] and the Royalty Theatre.
Raymond diversified, investing millions into buildings and real estate, notably in Soho starting in the 1970s,[9] through his company, Soho Estates.[10] He was a frequent name on lists of the UK's wealthy reportedly with an estimated £650 million by the time of his death (one associate claimed the estate was worth billions),[11] and Forbes placed him on its list of US dollar billionaires.[12] Often dubbed by the press 'King of Soho'[citation needed]. He was the target of two extortion attempts,[13] released Metropolitan Police papers in October 2010 disclosed. The second attempt, presumed the IRA, were decorators threatening Raymond with bombing and shooting.[14]
Around 1990 Raymond began to hand over control of his empire to his daughter Debbie until her death from a heroin overdose in 1992.[6] Raymond also had two sons; Derry McCarthy (born Darryl) being from a previous relationship prior to his marriage (the woman rejecting his proposal).[15] His ex-wife Jean Bradley became estranged blaming Debbie's death on Raymond.[16] Raymond acknowledged only four grandchildren: Cheyenne and Boston Raymond, from son Howard, and Fawn and India Rose James from daughter Debbie.[17]
A recluse in his last years and living in a penthouse near the Ritz Hotel,[7] he died of respiratory failure in 2008, age 82.[18] His granddaughters Fawn and India James stand to inherit his estate once estimated at £650m. Fawn plans to devote herself to charity work.[19]
The Look of Love (released, 26 April 2013) is about his life:[20] Michael Winterbottom (director), Steve Coogan (Raymond), Anna Friel (wife, Jean), Imogen Poots (daughter, Debbie) and then-current Paul Raymond Publications employees and editors (extras or pseudo-cameos). The working title, The King of Soho (trademarked by a Raymond son) prompted a title change.[21]


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"Some of the women would have been in crisis because of the lack of care," says Dr. Les Wasserman, an obstetrician who has worked at the clinic since 2005. "And in most cases, the problems could have been prevented with good prenatal care."
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I've been meaning to start this for a while after seeing Rainbabies gorgeous picture of her beautiful family. Only problem is, is that its so hard to have them all sat, clean together at the same time isn't it So I'm gonna have to update this with my picture later on d'oh But please post your pics of your families!
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I don't have any recent ones. But we're all off out tomorrow so I'll take a photo then and post here!
I've just called my kids in for a photo they are all filthy There not impressed at all, I'm having to bribe the 4yr old with sweets! Hope you have better luck tomorrow
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I'm going to cheat here but the only picture I have of them all is on cd and my computer won't cooperate. So here are my older 4 the first day of school this year:
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And here is my 3 year old her first day of school because I can't leave her out! The baby is in my avatar pic! LOL
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I have to say that you all are making my desire for a large family that much stronger! Gorgeous babies!
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Here is me with my babies a few weeks ago at the zoo...
Oh and our newest...at our 3D u/s on saturday...22 weeks 3 days gestation...
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man I never can get them all together. Here is a cheater from me too
This was last winter and not a "cool" picture haha and talk about GRUBBY!
this was Disney in March (minus Ameline but PLUS Alyssa our "adopted dd who is 21 today!) I look really FAT and That is ok... I am haha
exactly a yr ago
My most recent pictures are in my siggie (done by SERENA!) but here is a picture of my three youngest boys last week when I cut all their hair off and gave them Faux hawks
BEFORE the Hawks (son #3,4 and 5 and girl #1) (also youngest son Avery's first day of school)
LAST WEEK when I did the CUT! Staring son #3,4 and 5!
in order Avery, Ansen and Arris
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Great idea I love seeing pics! Such cute kiddos you all have. Here's our older 5 seeing Toy Story 1+2 3D last week
Here's me and kiddos in 2008:
Me and Dh in August:
And lastly our new Itty Bitty, Avery 3wks old.
yup it is offical, the reason we have large families is because we need to keep the population of pretty people alive and growing HAHAH
Love baby Avery's super blond hair! Reminds me when my 3rd son Ansen was born. his hair was as white as hers! Pretty baby
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Here is a pic I have of all the kids..we do this montly on the 13th to show her growth as well as the boys.(same set up each month)
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Sara ~~ Proud mommy to01 04 05 07 09
Steve (DH ) and our Abigail 09-18-13!Our family is complete!
I quit to quit
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It is not recent (2 years ago) but you can see the whole family - normally I only take pictures of the girls
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We're not a big family but I'd say right in the middle. This was last weekend at the corn maze! DH always looks mad if he's not smiling in pics but I swear he's not. lol. I hate it. I can never get him to smile for a photo.
Done having babies and working on the mommy buldge!
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Paris, Southern France, New York, Zürich, Vienna, Berlin – even Sylt one and a half years ago. There are so many pictures waiting to be scanned, edited, posted. There was a time when I was able motivated to keep up with it, but right now I am not. I think about ways to give this blog a new meaning, so the motivation comes back to me, but I have not found a solution yet. I will keep looking, but until then, please apologize my absence.
See you soon.
P.S. I still take pictures. You can find some of them over at instagram.
Now that everyone seems to be on their summer vacation, it occurred to me that I never shared pictures from our trip to France. This year, easter was vacation time for us: Zürich – Paris – Marseilles – Côte d'Azur. I was oblivious of how close Paris is to Zurich by TGV, and how little time it takes to get to Marseilles from there, so on a Thursday afternoon, right after work, we started our trip.
Paris was wonderful. We had rented a beautiful apartment on the 6th floor on the Avenue de la Republique, conveniently located between Le Marais with its great shops and cafés and the equally intriguing area around Canal St. Martin. We had made a few plans, yet most of the time we spent walking around, exploring and taking pictures. I will never stop loving the wide streets of Paris with their beautiful buildings and the fact that you will be able to get a decent petit café about anywhere you go.


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PM digs in on leadership
PUBLISHED: 02 Sep 2011 08:16:00 | UPDATED: 02 Sep 2011 14:39:43PRINT EDITION: 02 Sep 2011Julia Gillard insists the government will run its full term to 2013 and that she will lead it to the election due in that year. Photo:Arsineh Houspian
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Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten, a minister spoken of as a possible replacement leader, says "Julia Gillard is just doing a very, very strong job". Photo: Penny Stephens
Former opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull says a Labor leadership change is "very likely". Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Former Queensland premier Peter Beattie, who ruled out a tilt at federal politics, urged his federal Labor colleagues to "hold your nerve". Photo: AAP
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed talk of a leadership challenge as cabinet ministers and senior Labor caucus members defended her against Coalition accusations of incompetence on border security.
"I'm not going anywhere," Ms Gillard told ABC Radio on Friday morning as she faced questions over whether she would have to step down in order to give Labor a chance to rebuild political support.
Speaking on Sky News at midday, Ms Gillard insisted the government would run its full term to 2013 and that she would lead it to the election due in that year.
Environment Minister Tony Burke, Trade Minister Craig Emerson and Labor whip Joel Fitzgibbon stood by the Prime Minister in a series of media appearances on Friday morning to counter the speculation over her position.
One minister spoken of as a replacement leader, Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten, said Ms Gillard was the right Prime Minister at the right time, as he faced questions from reporters at about 11am.
"Julia Gillard is just doing a very, very strong job," he said, adding that she was "the right person at the right time" for the nation.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon also rejected talk of a change at a press conference at about the same time.
Mr Beattie urged his federal Labor colleagues to "hold your nerve" because to change the leader was to court political death.
Caucus members rejected the idea of a change in leader as the government attempts to devise a policy on asylum seekers after the failure of the Malaysia solution in the High Court on Wednesday.
Even so, some caucus members privately concede that Ms Gillard is struggling on policy and politics and that an alternative leader may have to be drafted.
Speaking on condition they not be named, some MPs said a new leader might have to be installed at the end of the year if the government's fortunes did not improve.
There is modest support for a return to the leadership by Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd while Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Regional Affairs Minister Simon Crean are spoken of as safe and experienced leaders who might halt Labor's steep fall in electoral support.
Ms Gillard said nobody in the caucus had raised concerns about her leadership.
"You can be intrigued by fevered speculation in the newspapers, I'm intrigued by whether or not people around the country today can get the benefit of a job, whether or not a child going to school today is walking into a great school, whether somebody sitting in emergency departments around the country is going to get the care they need in the time that they should have it," she told ABC Radio in Brisbane.
Mr Burke earlier played down suggestions Ms Gillard could be replaced.
"The next election is two years away. When it comes, the important thing is we've been governing and governing well," he told the Seven Network when asked on Friday about speculation Ms Gillard could be forced out of her job.
Mr Burke said he "absolutely" had confidence in Ms Gillard.
Mr Emerson described Ms Gillard as "a strong leader" and said that was what Australians wanted.
"They expect leaders to make tough decisions even if those decisions aren't always popular in the short term," he told ABC Radio.
Mr Fitzgibbon, a senior member of the NSW Right faction, said reports of a leadership change were misleading.
"There is a suggestion that Julia Gillard doesn't have authority, I would suggest to you that if she lacked authority people quoted in that article would be putting their names to those quotes."
Independent MP Tony Windsor told The Australian Financial Review he regarded the High Court decision as a good example of the operation of the separation of powers.
Mr Windsor and Tasmanian independent Andrew Wilkie expressed no opinion about the government's competence when responding to the Financial Review's requests for comment.
Labor backbencher Graham Perrett appealed to his colleagues to contain their public comments, saying their views should be kept "inside the tent".
"I've always believed disunity was death," he told ABC Radio.
"There might be some individual mutterings but I'm always guided by the collective decision."
He dismissed former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson's assessment that Ms Gillard had only another year left in The Lodge.
Former federal opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull says a Labor leadership change is "very likely" and Mr Rudd is the obvious candidate to replace Ms Gillard.
The opposition communications spokesman said in Sydney on Friday the Labor Party had lost its way and was both incompetent and lacking in conviction
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Jeannie Pepper | |
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Born | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
July 9, 1958
Ethnicity | African American |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (1.70 m) |
Weight | 118 lb (54 kg) |
No. of adult films | 250 |
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Jeannie Pepper (born July 9, 1958 in Chicago, Illinois), is a pornographic actress. She began in the business in 1982 at age 24 and has appeared in over 200 adult films. She was still an active actress as recently as 2007, participating in the mature adult genre.
Pepper was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 1997, the first African American woman to be recognized with that honor. She was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2008.[1]
Further reading[edit]
- Gerrie Lim, "Dreaming of Jeannie: AVN Hall of Famer Pepper Finds a Home in Cyberspace", AVN Online, November 1, 2001.
- Mireille Miller-Young, "Hardcore Desire: Black Women Laboring in Porn — Is It Just Another Job?", Colorlines Magazine: Race, Action, Culture, Winter 2005.
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- Jeannie Pepper at the Internet Movie Database
- Jeannie Pepper at the Internet Adult Film Database
- Jeannie Pepper at the Adult Film Database
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