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The private life of Giacomo Puccini was famously as colourful as his operas, but only now has the truth emerged about the scandal that almost undid him. It's an extraordinary tale of infidelity, jealousy and vengeance that continues to haunt the lives of his descendants to this day
This year, the many celebrations marking the 150th anniversary of Puccini's birth are set to include the unveiling of a new al fresco opera house on the shores of the lake where many of his masterpieces were composed. Giacomo Puccini was the most commercially successful opera composer there has ever been. At his death in 1924 he was worth well over £130m by today's standards.
Much of this wealth came from the wonder years (1895-1904) when the Tuscan maestro turned out in rapid succession three of the most widely performed operas in the world, La Bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly, while living in idyllic surroundings in Torre del Lago on the shores of Lake Massaciuccoli. Then he seemed to run out of steam, not finishing his next work, La Fanciulla del West, until 1910. While accomplished, La Fanciulla isn't in the same league as Bohème, Tosca and Butterfly. So what went wrong?
For years it was assumed that the suicide of a maid working in the Puccini household may have had a lot to do with it. The story is well-documented. On 23 January 1909, Doria Manfredi committed suicide by taking three tablets of corrosive sublimate. It took three days for her to die from what today we would call mercury poisoning. Elvira Bonturi, the composer's 39-year-old wife, was blamed for her death, for she had hounded Doria and publicly accused her of having an affair with Puccini. When the local court ordered an autopsy, it was found that Doria was a virgin and Elvira was sued for slander. She was sentenced to five months and five days and only escaped prison when the composer offered 12,000 lire compensation to the Manfredi family. Subsequently the couple were estranged for some months, but this tragedy hardly accounts for the seven years it took Puccini to complete La Fanciulla. Besides, Elvira's persecution of Doria only began in the October of 1908. The dates simply do not match up.
Recently, fresh light has been shed on what went on in Villa Puccini 100 years ago. Giacomo Puccini had made his home in a fishing village called Torre del Lago. Here, surrounded by his common-law wife, his stepdaughter and son, he wrote music, went out in fast cars, or took his speedboat out on the lake. Or as he himself put it: "I am a mighty hunter of wild fowl, operatic librettos and attractive women."
It was Puccini's pursuit of women that created the great crisis in his life. This is a tale of infidelity, jealousy, vengeance and despair. It goes a long way towards explaining the composer's fallow period. Its repercussions are still being felt on the lakeside today.
The story begins not with Doria's suicide, but eight years earlier when Puccini was working on Madama Butterfly. It was not uncommon for the maestro to fall in love with other women when composing. He called these amourettes his "little gardens". In 1900, while working on Butterfly, Puccini fell for a young girl he met in Turin. He nicknamed her "Corinna" and was so obsessed with her that Elvira, in despair, contemplated leaving him .
Puccini and Elvira Bonturi were not married at the time. She was the wife of an old schoolfriend of his. The couple had met in 1884 when Puccini was hired to give Elvira piano lessons. They soon began an affair. In 1886, amid much scandal, Elvira had left her husband for Puccini, bringing her six-year-old daughter Fosca with her to Torre del Lago. In due course Elvira bore Puccini a son, Antonio, but the couple were unable to marry and legitimise the boy because divorce was not possible in Italy at that time. The situation may well have suited the composer, who claimed he enjoyed falling in love and certainly enjoyed teasing Elvira about his "little gardens". This time, however, the infatuation got out of control. There are suggestions that Puccini had proposed marriage to his Corinna.
However, on 25 February 1903, fate took a strange turn. On that night Puccini suffered the first-ever motorcar accident to receive widespread press coverage in Italy. Near Lucca, his chauffeur plunged off the road. The composer was found pinned underneath the car, almost asphyxiated by petrol fumes and with his right leg broken. He needed someone at home to care for him. And the very next day, by another strange act of fate, Elvira became a widow. Her husband Narciso died, leaving no obstacle to Puccini marrying his companion of 17 years.
Puccini's publisher and mentor, Giulio Ricordi, tried to convince the bedridden composer to give up Corinna and do the decent thing by Elvira. Goaded by Ricordi and pressed by his ever-attentive sisters, Puccini hired a private detective, who discovered that the Turinese girl had duped him. She was not the innocent she pretended to be. Not only was she having relationships with other men, there was ' a strong possibility money was changing hands. Puccini broke definitively with her in a note burning with shame and anger: "What an abyss of depravity and prostitution! You are a shit, and with this I leave you to your future."
Stung, Corinna wrote to him threatening legal action and to go public over the affair. Puccini panicked. We know this from a note that Elvira subsequently wrote to him.
"For that business [the alleged breach of promise] you could have gone to gaol... I still remember well how, when the famous letter [from Corinna] arrived, you became pusillanimous at the thought of a sentence and talked about fleeing to Switzerland."
According to recent research by musicologist Dieter Schickling and novelist Helmut Krausser, the situation was rescued when Corinna's father was convicted for importuning and exposing himself to an underage girl. Any accusations made by the daughter of such a family would have enjoyed little credibility in the Italian legal system. Puccini was saved but humiliated. Among Schickling and Krausser's discoveries was the fact that the Corinna correspondence was not in any Puccini archive but in the possession of the family of Elvira Bonturi's sister.
"Perhaps Elvira passed the documents to her sister for safe-keeping," says Puccini producer and scholar Vivien Hewitt, "so that she would always be able to remind him about them if he strayed in the future."
The following year, on 3 January 1904, a week after finishing Butterfly and as soon as the legal 10 months of widowhood were up, Puccini married his Elvira. It could hardly be called a good start to a marriage.
"Puccini's personal life and his creativity were always intertwined," says Hewitt. "His heartbreak over Corinna was probably instrumental in generating his most powerfully tragic music in the form of the last act of Madama Butterfly."
After 'Butterfly', the humiliated composer did not produce another opera for six years. When that opera was finally completed, it depicted a new kind of Puccini heroine: not a victim like Mimi or Butterfly, nor a jealous, destructive creature like Tosca, but a tough, capable woman, Minnie, who runs a saloon in a California mining camp.
Many people have asked where Puccini found his new muse. One of those intrigued by this question was Italian film director Paolo Benvenuti, whose film La Ragazza di Lago (The Girl of the Lake), premieres at the Venice Film Festival this August.
"Six years ago I started an in-depth research project centred on the suicide of Doria Manfredi. I soon noticed that while writing an opera, Puccini tended to fall in love with a real-life person similar to his protagonist. I could see no similarity between Doria and the heroine of La Fanciulla del West, but my research team revealed there was another woman in Torre del Lago who bore a striking similarity to the independent, gun-toting saloon owner Minnie. That woman was Doria's cousin, Giulia Manfredi."
Like Minnie, Giulia worked in a hostelry frequented by hunters and local farmers. This was the Chalet Emilio, named after her father, Emilio Manfredi. It still sits on the edge of Lake Massaciuccoli today, opposite Villa Puccini.
"She was independent and commanding but at the same time humble and affectionate with locals and strangers alike," says Benvenuti.
Gossip in Torre del Lago suggested that the composer had had an affair with Giulia, but Benvenuti had no evidence. "Then in October 2006 my research co-ordinator overheard a seaside pizza-parlour owner in Lido Di Camaiore saying that the illegitimate son of Giacomo Puccini and Giulia Manfredi always used to eat in his restaurant."
Believing that he was on to something remarkable, Benvenuti followed up the lead, tracing the Manfredi family to a modest house in Cisanello near Pisa. "The woman who answered the door was Nadia, a simple housewife who had always worked as a hairdresser. She was the daughter of Antonio Manfredi, a hotel night porter who had lived in Pisa almost all his life."
One thing Benvenuti noticed immediately: Nadia Manfredi has Giacomo Puccini's hooded eyelids.
"Nadia is a sweet, rather shy person," says Benvenuti. "She has suffered a lot from her father's sense of abandonment and his appalling doubts about his identity."
In January 2007, Nadia showed Benvenuti a dusty suitcase of her father's that had been kept in the cellar for years. Inside, the director found approximately 40 letters and various documents that revealed the truth behind the suicide of her great-aunt Doria. Most important among these was a handwritten, undated memorandum Puccini had written on two sheets of headed notepaper from a Milan hotel where he was staying. These notes reconstructed the sequence of events that led up to Doria's death.
The story that was revealed is much more complex than Elvira Bonturi's jealous persecution of an innocent domestic servant. The tragedy begins around the end of September 1908, when Puccini sent word that he was returning to Torre del Lago. By this time he had found his new "little garden" in the feisty Giulia Manfredi and was already working on Fanciulla. Puccini asked that Doria open up the house ahead of his return. "By accident," says Benvenuti, "Doria discovered Puccini's stepdaughter, Fosca, in flagrante with the librettist of Fanciulla, Guelfo Civinini, in Villa Puccini." Fosca was 28 at the time and married to the impresario Salvatore Leonardi. "Fosca was afraid that Doria would tell all so she decided to discredit Doria and accused the girl of having an affair with her stepfather. Puccini's wife Elvira sacked Doria."
Distressed, Doria wrote to Puccini, saying that Fosca had plotted against her to cover her own immoral behaviour. Puccini secretly met with Doria and reassured the girl that he would try to sort matters. We do not know if he did anything at all, but we do know that when news of Doria's accusation reached Elvira, she was furious. "She was convinced Doria was adding insult to injury," says Benvenuti. "Elvira was certainly spying on her husband at the time and one night she saw him in a compromising situation with another woman whom she now assumed to be Doria.
On 1 January 1909, Elvira accosted Doria and her cousin Giulia and called Doria a "gossip and a filthy creature". On 19 January she insulted Doria in front of the Villa Puccini before witnesses, calling her a "whore" and a "tart" and subsequently told the onlookers that Doria was a "tramp who ran after my husband" and that "sooner or later I will drown her in the lake". On 23 January she accused Giulia Manfredi of being a go-between for Puccini and Doria, and told her that Doria would never set foot in Torre del Lago again.
"Doria was entirely innocent," says Benvenuti. "But she could not defend herself without betraying both her cousin and the maestro, whom she revered and adored."
After Doria's drawn-out and painful suicide, the local court stepped in and ordered an autopsy, which revealed the girl to be a virgin; Doria's family took Elvira to court. She was convicted of defamation, slander and menaces towards Doria Manfredi on three separate occasions.
The impact on the Puccini family was huge. "Not only was there was a separation between Puccini and his wife," says Benvenuti, "but Fosca's husband, the impresario Leonardi, got wind of the truth and blackmailed her. Eventually Fosca appealed to her mother for financial help and confessed the truth [about her relationship with Guelfo Civinini and Doria's discovery that day in autumn 1908]. By this time, Elvira's finances were drained too and in the end she had to admit the truth to Giacomo and beg for help. He took her back, paying the Manfredi family to drop their legal action and Leonardi for his silence." Elvira avoided prison and as the repercussions died down, Puccini recovered something of his creativity.
But in researching his film on the two Manfredi girls, Benvenuti found he had uncovered much more than he expected. "Puccini's relationship with Giulia lasted until his own demise. Many years later, in June 1923, Giulia had a son and christened him with Puccini's grandfather's name, Antonio. The boy was farmed out to a nurse in Pisa and a contract was drawn up with her for the then-massive sum of 1,000 lire a month. Significantly for those who are sceptical that Puccini was the father of Antonio Manfredi, Benvenuti points out that the maintenance money stopped abruptly in December 1924, just days after the composer's death in Brussels.
Young Antonio was brought up away from Torre del Lago in the city of Pisa. Says Benvenuti: "Antonio Manfredi died in poverty, aged 65, in 1988. Like Giacomo and Elvira's son (also called Antonio Puccini), he died of a tumour. He bore a very striking resemblance to Puccini, as you can see from his photograph. In fact there is a resemblance that descends through the generations in the photographs of his daughter, Nadia Manfredi, his granddaughter, Giada, and his great-grandson, Giacomo Manfredi. Giacomo, now 10, is the spitting image of the young Puccini."
Emboldened by her conversations with Paolo Benvenuti, on 20 February this year Nadia Manfredi went before a court in Milan requesting a comparison between the composer's DNA and that of Antonio Manfredi. "I wish to establish whether my father was Puccini's son," she explained. "I am interested in the moral satisfaction of knowing the truth, one way or the other, so that I can put my ghosts to rest."
This move has been opposed by Simonetta Puccini, who owns Villa Puccini. In 1980, as Simonetta Giurumello, she went before Italy's highest civil tribunal, the Court of Cassation, to prove she was an illegitimate daughter of the composer's legitimate son, Antonio. Antonio Puccini had died without an heir in 1946. Thirty-four years later, Simonetta Giurumello was able to get herself legally recognised as his daughter. At that point she changed her name to Puccini, obtained a decree from Milan freezing all existing Puccini assets, and took possession of the villa in Torre del Lago.
Nadia claims she is not motivated by the Puccini fortune. "I want justice for my father because he died in complete poverty, like a beggar. My father spent his entire life not knowing who his father was. I hope to give a name to the father of my father."
Lawyers for Simonetta argue that in Italy, while the first generation have forever to prove paternity, a statute of limitation of just two years applies to subsequent descendants, such as grandchildren. Nadia's lawyers are requesting that the limitation should run for two years after finding evidence, not after the death of Giacomo Puccini.
It is significant that while Puccini's creative recovery began with La Fanciulla del West, he only regained the form that he had displayed in Bohème, Tosca and Butterfly with Turandot, the opera he was still writing at the time of his death. Interestingly, the composer hit a new musical wall in 1922 while telling the story of the vengeful, man-hating Chinese empress. It was only when he instructed his librettists to create the character of a poor servant-girl, Liu, who commits suicide rather than betray the opera's hero, that he was able to continue. Puccini died with the last act of Turandot incomplete, haemorrhaging in the aftermath of drastic throat surgery. According to the conductor Arturo Toscanini, the maestro laid down his pen after the suicide of Liu. Doria Manfredi was to haunt Puccini for the rest of his life, while her cousin was left holding the baby.
The 54th Annual Puccini Festival runs from Friday to 5 September in the village of Torre del Lago Puccini, Italy.
Adrian Mourby is the recipient of the 2007 Puccini Award for Journalism. An extended version of this piece was first published in 'Opera Now' magazine
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What huge bounce back win for us. At least Boyle was able to redeem himself by scoring our only goal in regulation. Pavelski... CLUTCH.
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I read that, and its so retarded. The Wings have dominated the past decade and more, and now the league is against them. Give me a break. I read it on the ESPN boards also, and Wings fans are just bitching like crazy. The refs were bad, but you know they were bad both ways.
The Wings on the PP and they get a phantom call on Bertuzzi. They say Vlasic dove, but really he fell and the ref called it. Bad call. Ok, now the Sharks finish the 4 on 4 and go on the PP, and the Wings play Lazy and the defender gets his stick between the legs and up over the thigh and hauls the puck carrier down, that's a penalty, they have nobody but themselves to blame for creating the 5 on 3. The 5 on 4 may not have been their fault, but they got outworked and it cost them. The Wings use their sticks a ton on players. Compare that to the sharks PK, which is about working. They get to the buck and body the player and try to get the puck out. They rarely chop at the stick of the other players or hook or anything. Most of the work is about body positioning, while the wings are very active with their sticks. Another point, Sharks on the PP, heatley drives to the net like you should and he gets pushed into Howard, and gets called for interference. You're telling me that is not on the same level? just because the sharks worked through it and did not allow a goal? The Goalie interference on Nabokov is interesting to me. I think the Sharks don't want to get into wrestling matches in front with Holmstrom, Cleary...etc. I think Nabokov is workin the refs a bit to reduce the advantage detroit has in front of the net. and I think that is smart. These WIngs guys get so hurt after going down 2-0. Look at when pavelski crashed the net and the Detroit player jumped and dove on him and gave him two rabbit punches to the back of the head. Its a cop out to talk about the officiating as THE reason for losing. They give no credit to the sharks who are outworking the Wings and outhitting them. NOt to mention, the faceoffs were won almost everytime by the Sharks. Thornton won so many clean draws to the point. It was insane, but apparently the Wing fans think all the penalties should be even. Maybe before the game, set it up so detroit will have 5 power plays and the Sharks will have 5. Please, that's not the way it works. These spoiled ass detroit fans are worse than the Colorado fans complaining about the refs. |
PATRICK MARLEAU. Where have you been? I'm glad you showed up in the end. 3-0 has got me feeling good. I would assume the Red Wings take game 4 and we end it back home in game 5. But hey, I'll take a sweep!
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Man to have that goal come off such a bad line change was a sign of something hahaha. Sweep would be nice, let Chicago and Vancouver beat each other up a bit. Sharks need to just end game four in the first. Go up by a couple, the wings won't want to come back.
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well instead, Detroit ended it in the first. SHarks not moving their feet, looking overmatched, almost seemingly conceding game 4, not good. But i think they'll be flyin tomorrow night.
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Sigh, I felt like I should of recorded the game. Could of ended this up and down night with some Sharks advancing on. Oh well. GO SHARKS!
Canucks or Blackhawks next. Don't hate yourself in the morning... sleep 'til noon.
Freakin canucks need to show some heart and force it to game 7. Would give the sharks rest and keep the winning team beat up. Sharks have a really good shot at getting to the finals. Detroit was more dangerous than either team in my eyes, but the Blackhawks are super fast, and Vancouver is very skilled.
Hey Rob, what you think of the series so far? I missed game one, but in game two the Sharks have looked pressured. The Blackhawks just won't let them relax and get comfortable to reset in the neutral zone. They're always on the attack.
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Hawks are just better right now. The Sharks are slower to the puck and Niemi has far outplayed Nabokov. Look at game 2, the Sharks were all over the Hawks early on. No goals but lots of great chances. The fans are in it, every line is buzzing, and then the hawks come down after what should have been a 2 on 0 for the sharks, and score on a 35 foot wrister, deflated everybody.
The Hawks are relentless and the Sharks need to score multiple early goals to get the confidence back. But Nabokov has to be better and the exit out of the defensive zone needs to be much better. The Hawks force lots of turnovers and the Sharks are playing right into their hands. They are starting to over pass now, not a good sign. |
Not sure if any of you guys know, but Rob Blake is retiring.
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Yeah, its been known for a while, and it looks like time. He stepped up in the playoffs, but still had a hard time keeping up with the young fast guys. Still, what a great career!
Doug Wilson is letting Nabby walk... he won't be renewing his contract this off season. Is this the start of revamping the roster or it's just something that had to be done?
I think this is just a chance... since Wilson will be next if they don't win the cup next year. Don't hate yourself in the morning... sleep 'til noon.
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What ball do you have in your profile? Good chance that's what it is....
Possible 2014 ProV1x???
Scott good point...
It is most likely the one you have on your profile, or it could be a random ball. It seems like they like to have people try out other similar balls and see what they like. Thats why they don't tell you what the balls are! Just enjoy being one of the lucky ones chosen to try out the balls! Tell us what you think of them!
I received some as well...I have the NXT Tour S in my profile, time for a comparison to what's in the bag...
This works out nicely, I have a business trip next week to Tucson and the clubs are going along for a couple of off hours rounds...looks like the test balls will get the desert treatment.
Be careful using them in the fall! I lost two on the same day in the leaves at a local course. What a waste!
Since the ProV's were new for 2013, in keeping with the 2 year time cycle, the NXT/Velocity/DT Solo lines would be up for an updating this cycle.
I received a sleeve today. The ball has larger dimples, similar to the NXT I am now using.
I have PRO V1 in my profile. Two years ago I got TEST balls with a black number. I assume that was the latest generation PRO V1. This year I received TESTballs with a dark red number on them. I assume this is the new NXT Tour. Anyone else get the same?
would LOVE to give them a whack or three!
Golfnut4 I have PRO V1 in my profile. Two years ago I got TEST balls with a black number. I assume that was the latest generation PRO V1. This year I received TESTballs with a dark red number on them. I assume this is the new NXT Tour. Anyone else get the same?
There is a good chance it is the ball listed in your profile, however ... it is a test ball. Any time I have been asked to test a golf ball, I simply compared it to the ball I usually use, that doesn't mean it is the same type of ball. The point of testing is to keep track of how the ball re-acts compared to what you usually use ... if it drives farther, make a note of it ... if it doesn't react as well around the green, make a note of that.
I think part of the reason it is marked simply "test" is so that we don't "KNOW" for sure what type of ball it is, that way we don't have any preconceived ideas as to how the ball will (or is supposed to) perform.
I always enjoyed comparing the two balls as two separate balls. Have fun with the test.
well i recieved 2 unexpected joys today 1st a couple months back my ap 2 and bag stolen so last few weeks been playing some used clubs from a friend..... after i got home today from playing around i found brand new players bag with 712 ap 2 and 913 d and 913 f seems i got an angel close by..... in mail today test balls from titleist red numbers i am thinking pro v 1x ..... going be 33 tomorrow here im going try one then save one till gets back to 80s later this week


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. March 6, 2012
Man, you people are all morons. They are obviously all paid. It's just a stupid gimmick to set it apart from all the other videos on this site. That being said, I fapped a lot to this. Not really into preggos but I love girls who reluctantly take a facial. Mainly cause my gf won't let me, sometimes I wanna just blast her so hard, little slut!
Damn!!! February 8, 2012
Rick son you crossed the line.
C January 24, 2012
I really hope her baby watches this some day.
<3 January 23, 2012
Damn shes cutee
Franck February 15, 2012
This is disgusting.
G February 20, 2012
Agree with "DAMN".A lovely sweet girl And how cud she believe she wud get into porn industry.Hope that Rick has a moral conscience and at least does pay her ...
angelo June 21, 2012
la piccola ha goduto nel farsi il ditalino e nel farsi scopare ma la sborra non le è molto piaciuta
mr Big March 26, 2012
sie mag es nicht, dass merkt man sofort....Was für eine Welt! Nicht schön!
cxzzc January 23, 2012
that;s just nasty ... wayy tooo much ..
Watching January 17, 2012
taco December 30, 2011
i didn't see the scar on his arm in this one, either its healing well or this is the one that got him cut lol
Ramses December 28, 2011
no way December 28, 2011
taking advantage of a broke preg girl. Bad Karma
how to sex December 31, 2011
that is not funny
Rickles December 31, 2011
Could not stop laughing at the end. Loved her "walk" and the milky "chalk" facial! Could she be from Kansas? "Walk Chalk Jayhawk!"
b January 12, 2012
hot pregnant girl... perfect time for a cream pie come on man!
lol January 8, 2012
i love the end
stroke4you August 9, 2012
awesome! she should have her ass pussy and mouth filled with cum like the dirty little slut she is
bo August 9, 2012
immer schön tief in die enge muschi
Storm October 23, 2013
I'm not sure how he doesn't just break out laughing at these chicks sometimes.
Ewwwwwww October 15, 2013
Umm no I would never do this hell fucking no just no 0.o
Prickuuuu October 14, 2013
Q: Ok so I take it you don't like cum?! A: HELL NO !!!
saggytits4me January 6, 2014
Poor! I think whatever I could say was already said.
RIck is a DIck January 9, 2014
Although female and enjoy watching porn, I can't help but feel sorry for this girl. If she was "acting", fine. But "RIck" is a complete pig and in my opinion takes advantage of this girl who looking for a few extra bucks.
Flower me July 22, 2014
I want to fuck rick my good he is hot
Dirty Old Man May 17, 2014
God I love fucking preggies.Must try anal like Rick.She was great took it up the ass even though she'd not had it before.
Toe jam September 17, 2013
Love the toe wiggling and foot movement as he is coming all over her face ......fucking priceless !
- September 8, 2013
dam she if hot.
Indar April 9, 2013
Ric you have reached new heights of depravity in the Valley of the Sun - fucking a Preggy broke girl up the Ass - her walk was Pricelss - and having Ric say, "I take it you have an aversion to Cum"...made my day as she is spitting his cum load on the carpet. The split screen is great - anal for a preggy newbie who never has had it is a sick twist only Ric could provide.
Barack March 14, 2013
Pregnant and still trying to get into porno...... whore.
jw November 8, 2012
Anybody know if it was a boy or girl?
child April 9, 2013
this is my mom!
oldman May 4, 2013
gets better after 11 and haf minutes
Fucked up yo! July 10, 2013
These have to be real... These girls aren't actors and they damn sure have genuinely desperate and TRUSTING emotions showing thru
Hah July 5, 2013
I'm just happy my girl let me do wat evr the fuk I want
Really Rick?? December 28, 2011
The one girl it is physically impossible for you to get pregnant and you wear a condom...poor show
fucking stupid cunt December 28, 2011
This video is so hot at the end when she looks so disgusted to have cum all over her face. This shows you that some bitches are not meant for porn wait till she finds out its not a real job just a way to show slutty cunts how pathetic they are
Wet for her December 26, 2011
Ohmy god. She's is so fucking hot. And I am more than okay with her not liking cum! Pregnant women get me so wet!
Needle Dick December 26, 2011
Rick! You are a master!
booy December 26, 2011
wow December 26, 2011
she is fuckin cute edmonton girls need to be like this
jhg December 26, 2011
holly shit!
darren December 26, 2011
richie rich December 26, 2011
All I can say is wow...
Faceatious Wit December 26, 2011
Man... I bet that baby's going to come out screaming, too.
potato_pancake December 26, 2011
Her face and reaction at the end were just priceless
chief December 26, 2011
that split screen is cool
martin December 26, 2011
woot new 1
horny December 26, 2011
i will have sex
weirdgibbon December 26, 2011
LOL :-)) "all right, so i take you don't like cum?!" "hell NO!" :-)
PEDOBEAR December 26, 2011
Trent December 26, 2011
What does he ask her at the end?
maybe December 26, 2011
id say first but im probably not lol
... December 26, 2011
what did i just watch?
ELDiablo December 26, 2011
Damn... Rick will fuck anything with tits. Wonder if the baby sucked him off.
ichbins December 26, 2011
looooooooooooooool 9:42 ahhahaha
Awww Yeahhh December 26, 2011
That Was Awesome! Nice job with the split screen.
Ricks the man December 26, 2011
this guy right here hes my fukin hero lol but be carefull rick be protected wen yu fuk random girls yu never know buddy this is america XD
Leroy December 26, 2011
that is one ugly bitch
fred December 26, 2011
at 9.42 that how my girl walks for a few hours after i give her anal but she ask for more
hodin333 December 26, 2011
oh man this is hilarious
tom December 28, 2011
Haha, more like a comedy at 9:42, hilarious! Nice one rick!
hmm December 27, 2011
I never wanted to fuck a preggo before but now I do
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suban porfa mas videos de Trastienda Casting Couch los que tienen ya aburren actualizen
zzz December 26, 2011
first anal\?
IWILLFUCKU December 26, 2011
HMMMMMMMMMMMM ... I like this kinda girl
Always Youporn December 26, 2011
This girl is beautiful, and she is carrying my baby.
FB December 26, 2011
Rick! You gave the kid dimples!
LOVER December 26, 2011
www December 26, 2011
This guy is my hero...
nice December 26, 2011
lol....i hate cum, chick wanted to throw up...lol.....he really did things to her she nver had done....his oral skills had the chick qivering....also the sex musta been the best she ever had....her baby dad prob just busted a nut in her after 1 min of being inside her
JayB December 26, 2011
Epic split screen! Good job on that ! kind of funny how she couldn't walk properly after ahhaha
analhunter December 26, 2011
this one's hilarious rick!
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- Cami is 6 months pregnant and looking to supplement her income by any means necessary. As long as her boyfriend doesn't find out. She heard that preggers chicks are popular and I confirmed that with her on the phone. So here she is in her maternal glow, shy and sweet. And then...It's true what they say about knocked up women's sex drive: I've never had a girl cum so often and so easily. Even the initially awkward masturbation demo almost got her off, but I interrupted it. To make up for it I make her cum as she's parked on the desk. Several times. She's speechless and so am I. Hey, I'm all about helping working mothers in need. Loves the fucking, too. To top it off, she agrees to anal. (Bad idea). Bonus LOL: Cami is so disgusted by the cum facial that she spits and gags, and almost runs out. To her, sperm doesn't belong in her mouth, you know?...


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The Nats wrap up a three-game series today at Dodger Stadium.
When last we saw Jason Marquis, he was suffering through the worst start of his (or most any pitcher's) career. On April 18, the veteran right-hander faced seven Brewers. He didn't retire any of them. This, after struggling big-time in his previous two starts, leaving him with the lopsided ERA of 20.52.
Nearly four months later, Marquis finally returns to a big-league mound today. His elbow is healthy, having had bone chips removed. He pitched well in his last rehab start with Class AAA Syracuse. And now he's determined to pitch the way he expected to all along after signing a two-year, $15 million contract last winter.
Because of that contract, the Nationals pretty much have no choice but to make Marquis a part of their rotation the rest of this season and into 2011. It would be nice, though, if he could at least pitch with some effectiveness and earn some of that money over the next seven weeks.
Ted Lilly, another veteran with a solid track record who missed a good chunk of time earlier this season due to injury, starts today's series finale for the Dodgers. The Nats, who lost a heartbreaker in 10 innings last night, need a win today to finish this road trip with a 4-3 record.
As you know by now, I wasn't in Los Angeles this weekend for the series. I'm flying home today from Phoenix to Washington, but I'm due to arrive before this game starts, so I should be able to post lineups before things get underway…
NATIONALS at DODGERS
Where: Dodger Stadium
Gametime: 4:10 p.m.
TV: Ch. 50, MASN2
Radio: WFED-1500 AM, WWFD-820 AM
Weather: Sunny, 68 degrees, Wind 8 mph out to CF
2B Alberto Gonzalez
SS Ian Desmond
3B Ryan Zimmerman
1B Adam Dunn
- Doc - Aug 8, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Go MarkMeister! Best blog in MLG–even when you're not at the game!
- Les in NC - Aug 8, 2010 at 5:58 PM
I hope Marquis pitches well enough to keep us in the game. The Nats have a terrible track record on Sunday games, losing the last 6 on Sunday. So for Jason's sake and the team's sake we need him to prove that he is a viable pitcher again.
- JaneB - Aug 8, 2010 at 6:05 PM
We were at that last game he pitched and the whole stadium felt for him. I hope he is the Jason Marquis he wants to be, and we all want him to be. Go Jason!
- Anonymous - Aug 8, 2010 at 6:48 PM
If he's not you could see Stammen as he has now been moved into the bullpen.
- JayB - Aug 8, 2010 at 7:31 PM
Good for the Nats for seeing the facts with Ross Detwiler….he was not ready, they did not get him ready and now he is on the DL….He needs a heavy duty off season strength and conditioning program and early start to Spring Training….like be in camp in mid January.
- OlneyNat - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:11 PM
I really like this lineup. It should be the everyday lineup with the exception of Nieves and Bernadina in CF. Kennedy should be done except as a backup/pinch hitter after another awful play last night, which may have been the worst of many this season. This lineup with Bernadina and Pudge, plus the return of Strasburg and Marquis could give us a realistic chance of playing .500 ball over the last 50 games.
- kevin rusch, section 406 - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:29 PM
well, Marquis doesn't look any better than he did in April, so far.
- Bzl. - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:34 PM
two outs now, so no more earned runs in the first. This means that there will only be one earned run in the first inning, so Marquis' ERA just dropped!
- Dryw - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM
and the Nats' chances of winning this game just dropped, too. Wow that was an ugly half inning.
- Anonymous - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:40 PM
OK. Turned off the TV already. Absolute Little League level of play. Guess I'll go cut the grass.
- Dryw - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:47 PM
Michael Morse, I love you. J-Max, way to go blind squirrel!
- Arlington Big Fish - Aug 8, 2010 at 8:59 PM
According to GameDay stats, Wil Nieves is batting .176 — .009 better than Jason Marquis. Why is this guy still in the majors, when we supposedly have a "major-league ready" catcher on the payroll?
- Anonymous8 - Aug 8, 2010 at 9:46 PM
JMax, actually swung with his head on the ball. Still has a long swing which still will cost him and thats where I don't get it with him. Hits well in AAA, comes to the bigs and looks lost.
- Anonymous8 - Aug 8, 2010 at 10:10 PM
OMG, Bob Crapenter doesn't even no the Infield Fly rule. It was men on 1st and 3rd Bob and it has to be men on 1st and 2nd or bases loaded with less than 2 outs for Infield Fly.Bob made that call in the bottom of the 6th with the Dodgers up.
- Mark - Aug 8, 2010 at 10:41 PM
A8 – You have to kNOw that Dribble didn't even corrct him. I TiVod back to listen to Bobby Carp and he is lost so often. Maybe Mark Z. can help him with rule 6.05e.
- Dryw - Aug 8, 2010 at 10:59 PM
Why can't there be a mercy rule in MLB???
- Les in NC - Aug 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM
Yeah, a mercy rule that says the Nationals shouldn't have to play on Sundays. This one makes 7 Sunday losses in a row.
- Sunshine_Bobby_Carpenter_Is_Too_Pessimistic_For_Me - Aug 8, 2010 at 11:36 PM
@Les: No wonder I've been in such lousy moods for the last month of Sundays.Jesus will save the day on Tuesday … and then pitch again next Sunday. HOORAY!
- Anonymous - Aug 9, 2010 at 12:27 AM
Nice move, a fake injury for Detweiler to create a spot for Marquis and Stammen hits the bullpen to make room for Little Stephen….FAIL!
- Sunshine_Bobby_Carpenter_Is_Too_Pessimistic_For_Me - Aug 9, 2010 at 1:32 AM
Bally Star back to SYR. Helmet manufacturers, adjust your production accordingly.
- Bote Man - Aug 9, 2010 at 2:24 AM
– High-dollar starting pitcher…check- Bone chips removed from pitching elbow…check- Same blah performance as indicated by his 10-year career pitching record…checkYep, it's the Natinals. Whaddaya expect???
- LoveDaNats - Aug 9, 2010 at 2:47 AM
Darn! I have tickets for Sunday. I hate knowing we'll lose before I even get there.
- NatsJack in Florida - Aug 9, 2010 at 12:40 PM
Jason Marquis has been an absolute bust from the moment we signed him, Mike Rizzo needs to own up to the mistake and move on.Everyone of his Spring Training performances was atrocious and every start he's made during the season has been worse. And this all started BEFORE he became a free agent back when Colorado realized he was washed up and did not include him on their play off roster.Craig Stammen has been a solid rock of consistency compared to Marquis!
- Richard - Aug 9, 2010 at 12:45 PM
This is a Monday after a particularly ugly Sunday loss. I can vent, again. So, here goes. Looks like it's that time of year again: tryout time. Put Morgan on the DL so Gonzo and Maxwell can try leading off. Start Maxwell twice in LA so he can try playing with the big boys; maybe he'll feel better. Try various pitchers — starting pitchers and bean-balling relievers. Use the DL as a taxi squad. (What's up with all the pitchers on the DL?. Are they actually hurt? Every pitcher has had some kind of injury this year or so the Nats say. But, really, how many Marquises does a GM get?) Try infielders in right field. We don't mind watching them learn a new position at the supposedly highest level of baseball. No urgency replacing an obviously under-performing Nieves. He's part of the family. They've "sold" the vets they had to swap for prospects and now it's tryout time. This after two long, long months when they tortured hopeless (hapless?) Nats' fans like me with the prospect of trading one of their most popular and productive players for yet more prospects without ever explaining what the heck their plans are, e.g., do they want to re-sign Dunn or not, are they having a problem with Dunn's contract demands and don't think they'll be able to afford him? Anyway, winning? That's nice but not a priority. Deja vu all over again.
- Ernie - Aug 9, 2010 at 1:26 PM
Is it tacky to point out that I called the Detwiler-to-DL story when the Nats were still in AZ? It probably is.http://natsinsider.blogspot.com/2010/08/game-109-nats-at-diamondbacks.html?showComment=1281067750969#c2032643494570019908
- Section 222 - Aug 9, 2010 at 1:41 PM
Hope you're enjoying your break Mark. You deserve it. Ok, can we discuss this statement: "Because of that contract, the Nationals pretty much have no choice but to make Marquis a part of their rotation the rest of this season and into 2011." I hear this over and over from sportswriters and commenters. It's the very definition of conventional wisdom. But I don't really get it. The money is spent. Where is the rule that you have to play someone who is terrible because you are paying him alot of money? I understand that you can't send him to the minors (out of options and won't accept an assignment), but there has to be a point where you cut bait on a disaster right? I'm not saying it's now — he still is coming back from an injury and I would want him to get a start or two more. But if he's healthy, at some point he has to produce, or the best move is to DFA him, right? If he's not really healthy, then put him on the disabled list and be done with it for the season. Or maybe do that if he's healthy and put off the day of reckoning. There seems to be a low threshold for the DL these days anyway. (See Detwiler, R and Morgan, N.) What am I missing here?
- Anonymous - Aug 9, 2010 at 2:05 PM
Marquis is our Oliver Perez?
- Jimmy - Aug 9, 2010 at 3:19 PM
It seems everyone keeps stats on everything that happens in baseball. Would someone please let me know the percent of success of the DOUBLE-SWITCHS made by DOUBLE-SWITCH RIGGLEMAN. He even took his genius a step farther yesterday when he pinch hitted, in the middle of a bat, Mench for Bernadina. Great move Mench pops up to end the game. He like a kid with tinker-toys! Why couldn't we have gotten someone like Showalter? I know there is someone out there better than Riggleman. And, we have to watch this guy for the rest of 2010 and 2011. He maybe a MLB Coach but not a MLB Manager. FRANK ROBINSON was the only good Manager we've had since baseball returned to Washington. And, he had lesser talent to work with than the team today. Riggleman's stupid changing of pitchers, is why they are always ineffective or on the DL. Even though they are only pitching one inning or less a day it still effects your arm loosing up everday!!The players all act like they are happy and content, but I would like to know what the are thinking under their breath.


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Danny is both detail oriented, laid back, likes older women and drives a dodge neon. Danny is a granola bar, seven different kinds of nuts. "That girl up at the desk is a granola bar, seven kinds of nuts"
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Today, we hold a jaundiced and cynical view of Congress, its function and its membership. Have you heard anything positive about the government lately? Government still works in my view. I can't cite any recent examples, however. Last year, I had a conversation with Tom Osborne, the one-time Nebraska football coach who served three terms in the House of Representatives.
He said, "Every day I went to work, I tried my hardest to make life better for the American people."
I'm sure that John Gibson held the same view. He has a record to substantiate his place in history, which actually was brought about by an accident of timing.
In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted Congress to pass the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944. There was not that much disagreement on doing something for our veterans who fought so gallantly in World War II, but to move the bill to the floor for a vote, it had to get out of committee. There was a deadlock, 3-3, and FDR needed Gibson's vote. But the congressman was nowhere to be found. He was back home in Douglas — but nobody had an inkling of his whereabouts.
Radio stations broadcast reports, asking for help to locate the congressman. State troopers stopped people on the highway and asked if they might be Gibson. Finally, he arrived home and answered the phone. It was Washington calling, asking that he return to the Capitol post-haste. Eastern Airlines had a 2:30 a.m. flight out of Jacksonville.
Gibson was rushed to the Jacksonville airport. The pilot had been told not to take off until Gibson was aboard. The plane landed in Washington at 6:37 a.m. Gibson immediately showed up to cast the tie-breaking vote, which led to the passage of what has become known as the G.I. Bill. Passage of the bill was one of the greatest decisions in the history of our government.
Not only did it show appreciation for our servicemen, it was also an investment in our country, which paid far-reaching dividends. It was a salute to higher education. It changed the face of America. It created a vast and productive middle class. More than 14 million servicemen enjoyed benefits as they became more educated when they otherwise could not have been able to afford it.
Bill Hale, former director of communications at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the University of Georgia campus, was one of those G.I.s who benefited from the passage of the bill. A product of a mill village where everybody survived on minimum wage and owed their soul to the company store, Hale, through the G.I. Bill, earned an undergraduate degree, a master's and a doctorate. His view is that he has lived a good life, made possible by the G.I. Bill. An enterprising man, Hale has for 15 years made a trip to Douglas on Veterans Day to leave a flower on the grave of Gibson.
A friend, John Higgs, who runs the local radio station, took me out to the Douglas city cemetery where I met Henry Milhollin, the cemetery superintendent. "I appreciate you coming," Milhollin said. "Glad somebody is interested in Mr. Gibson. He is special."
Gibson, in addition to his remarkable link with history, should be remembered for something else. He was elected to Congress for three terms and went there to serve. That makes him unusually special.
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The Kohler K-2269-8 will only marry up with either the K-2267 or K-6860.
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The Kohler K-2269-8 is a 3 hole sink and takes a double handle faucet with an 8" spread.
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Wow! Maybe he called one of the admis d*ckhead Anyway I'm curious what did he say to get expelled.
Phoronix: Ubuntu Expels One Of Its Developers
Besides the MPlayer fighting that's now going on, the battles within the Ubuntu community isn't limited to GNOME vs. Unity on the desktop, but in fact the Ubuntu Developer Membership board and Community Council have jointly decided to expel one of the Ubuntu developers...
Wow! Maybe he called one of the admis d*ckhead Anyway I'm curious what did he say to get expelled.
Divide and Rule (not "the empire of DVDs ").
Is it an old new strategy to fight free/open software?
The more the community is divided, the easiest to kill it is - How can you realize an important, high-performance, worldclass-production-quality project if the developers fight each other?
I understand the need for cutting off troublesome individuals or law-risk parts of code -although It would be much better to cut off the troublemaking law ("patents..." echoes), but forking for forking sake is no good to me.
Done by: "Ubuntu Developer Membership Board, Ubuntu Community Council". His response: "Thanks for every person who helped me in development for Ubuntu project. Work with you was a pleasure."
Seems to have been handled respectfully enough by the community and the dev.
They could stand to lose a couple more community members. Many of their forum and IRC moderates are completely unprofessional. I've too many instances of disrespectful administrators that purposefully try to instigate bans instead of acting with a basic degree of common sense. Mark Shuttleworth needs to keep an eye on the behavior and professionalism of his contributors if he hopes to increase Ubuntu adoption.
damn secret trials! i think that even Mark is finding about this now
is like ubuntu had an area51, that even the president doesnt know of...
Not surprising, the Ubuntu community is painfully politically correct. It's downright austere and humourless.
Also +1 the person who said some forum mods/admins are unprofessional. They'll turn away good technical support if you're 'rude', even if you're only responding appropriately to some entitled little jackarse who demands support and goes off their nut when their problems aren't solved immediately. Likewise, be too argumentative and a pack of mods will follow you around, giving you infractions over the most ridiculous, petty, minor things, as a form of intimidation. One look in the, "Resolution Centre", board will tell you everything you need to know about UF's management.
Check it at the door along with your personal problems.
grep -r "fuc" /usr/src/linux/*
I haven't bothered to in a while. But at one time it was honestly vulgar.
I'm guessing this is a problem on all spectrum's though. All software development suffers these kinds of problems, let alone all types of jobs. I could imagine it really hits hard when someone with great skills also has a character to go with it.
So, there is validity to this complaint. I think people need to switch from their Crapbuntu machines to Debian.
Ubuntu is moving away from Debian from what I heard and they don't commit much upstream (this is still a complaint) and they support censorship and rude behavior from those in charge of support and their forums. They are getting to be too much like MS so why do people still use Ubuntu when Debian is available? If you want more GUI or convenience in Debian, maybe switch to it so the community can be larger and people can share shortcuts, features and such?


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Just to see how the Intel graphics compares to low-end discrete cards with the OSS stack.
Phoronix: Low-End NVIDIA/AMD GPU Comparison On Open-Source Drivers
For those looking to purchase a low or mid-range graphics card for use with the open-source graphics drivers -- rather than being bound by NVIDIA's proprietary driver or AMD's Catalyst -- here's a comparison of nine different discrete graphics cards when benchmarked by the open-source drivers.
Just to see how the Intel graphics compares to low-end discrete cards with the OSS stack.
Thanks for the benchmarks. It's nice to see low-end/cheap hardware being tested, instead of just the latest and greatest
I have GeForce GT520. I tried ubuntu 13.04 installed on USB and I got GPU lockups with nouveau driver. My primary OS is archlinux with nvidia proprietary. The tearing I get is horrible. The card can't do a single smooth animation. World of Goo is lagging/tearing or something. I already sent a report to nvidia. I can run Team Fortress 2 at 30+ FPS with settings maxed. I get a lot of tearing which makes it look really bad and the loading time is too long. If this card can run TF2 and Serious Sam 3 at decent framerate, why can't it run 2D games?? Also, in Openarena, Nexuiz, Assaultcube and similar games from archlinux repo I get 60+ FPS and no tearing if I enable vsync. However, I get a lot of tearing in Warsow for example. Another game with noticeable tearing is Splice. Well, just saying, I'd like someone to tell me if I am the only one who has all those problems. They are all reproducible in KDE/Gnome, even worse with WMs using XRender. I tested: Archlinux x64 nvidia proprietary 313.18 Xorg 1.13 and Ubuntu 12.04.2 x64 nvidia proprietary 295.XX Xorg 1.11 ... hopefully I will get this solved in the near future.
What's the intention behing the flag: --enable-libstdcxx-debug
Do you intentionally want to create debug libraries, while testing performance of these cards? I can understand if you plan on testing and seeing if your code throws any errors/exceptions to perhaps improve the test suite.
It's not clear from the article if you ran completely bleeding edge Ubuntu 13.04 or stock, but it would be interesting to see those tests re-run with 12.04 or 12.10 with the latest patches instead. I doubt that many people are going to download and install the latest kernel and/or Mesa drivers, it's just a total pain to do so. And fraught with complexities.
Showing these results on a more mainstream, or even slightly older distro would be more useful. As it is, I'm thinking that I should upgrade my main machine to something better, but I don't game all that much and don't need super performance, just stability and 2D speed/clarity on the display.
Thanks for the work, I do appreciate it.
I found that when I upgraded from Ubuntu 11.04 -> 12.04 I got tearing in games and some video. It happened in both Unity and GNOME Shell, so maybe it was a GNOME3 thing. I was surprised with its prevalence.
I think a combination of the experimental compiz and the latest nvidia drivers (310 or 313 something) should address the tearing stuff. So hopefully it won't be much longer. However I'm not sure if this will apply to undirected full-screen windows.
I tested some cards yesterday with mesa 9.1/kernel 3.8. My gt220 worked with kms. The most problematic card i tested was 7600 gt, there only kde worked but not even xbmc or gl2benchmark (tests 1-3 work on most cards usually). It was interesting that my gt 630 oem with kepler was already capable of running tf 2 (beta) - but with lots of jumps in fps - not really playable but rendering looked correct. What i found out too is that more or less no card has support for UEFI GOP. Basically the video bios must be dual, one legacy and one uefi one, but very hard to find... Intel onboard works of course with GOP.