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Johannesburg - A police officer allegedly linked to the kidnapping and attempted murder case against Czech fugitive Radovan Krejcir applied for bail in the Palm Ridge Regional Court on Thursday.
Sitting in the dock with his arms folded, Warrant Officer Jan Mofokeng listened to the court proceedings.
The small court was empty, but nine officers kept watch inside, with four more at the door outside.
Prosecutor Lethabo Mashiane told the court the State opposed bail because Mofokeng knew who the witnesses were and some witnesses had already been threatened. The court heard that Mofokeng was arrested on January 28 after police started looking for him in November.
Mashiane, reading an affidavit from the investigating officer, said Mofokeng knew there was a warrant for his arrest but absconded to Bloemfontein in the Free State.
"The State's case is very strong against the accused and his co-accused," he said.
Mofokeng was the sixth man arrested in connection with the kidnapping and attempted murder case against Krejcir. They allegedly kidnapped and assaulting a man whose brother, known only as "Doctor", disappeared with a 25kg shipment of tik he had been recruited to help smuggle through OR Tambo International Airport.
They allegedly kept the man at Krejcir's Money Point business in Bedfordview, Johannesburg, for four days, and assaulted him.
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Dear Carolyn • My sister told me that she thought my co-workers were Taiwanese and Korean based on X and Y behaviors. They were actually from Vietnam and Hong Kong, respectively. She told me my friend who did an Ironman race must have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder because all people who participate in Ironmans do. I told her: "You haven't seen his bathroom." She gave my husband a book for Christmas about introverts because she thinks he is one. And she just commented about a friend Matt who has a speech impediment. He doesn't.
I truly think she is unaware of how she comes across. She thinks these are real observations she is making and that her assessments are completely true. What can I say to let her know that her perceptions do not translate to universal truths?
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Dear Annoyed Sister • Is it a universal truth that everyone who jumps to conclusions needs to be fixed?
I realize your sister's labeling habit inevitably veers into one -ist or another, with side trips into "judgmental" and "cuckoo bird." This will sometimes hurt, offend or just mystify others, which in turn would affect her socially.
But seeing it as your responsibility to break her of this habit risks turning you into a milder version of her one who reduces people to a set of traits and declares herself an expert on them. (Ahem.)
Instead, stick to case-by-case responses to opinions you find problematic. If you're close enough which the fact of your letter suggests you aren't you can cut straight to, "You do realize how bonkers that sounds, right?" Otherwise, play it straight: "If someone tagged my ethnicity based on X behavior, I'd find that offensive." "I doubt you'd appreciate being group-diagnosed like that."
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Usually peppy talk show host Ellen DeGeneres wasn't her usual self on Tuesday, July 16, after the death of her pal and one-time guest Talia Castellano, a 13-year-old cancer-stricken teen.
"This year I met a very special girl, and today we lost her," she tweeted early Tuesday morning. "Sending my heart to Talia's family. I'm so sad."
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Several hours later, DeGeneres posted an image of Castellano in a mock-up of a CoverGirl ad to her Instagram account, with the words "In Loving Memory" printed across the bottom. In the heartbreaking photo, Castellano shows off her trademark bright smile.
The Orlando teen first sat down with DeGeneres, 55, on her show in September 2012 after fans of the YouTube star's makeup tutorials started a grassroots movement to make Castellano's dream of meeting the talk show host come true.
"You really are quite something. There's a depth to your soul that is not a 13-year-old soul," DeGeneres observed at one point during their interview. "You're an old soul, and you are very special and amazing, and I'm so honored that you wanted to meet me and that I got to meet you."
Castellano was diagnosed with neuroblastoma six years prior to her death, and had more recently been diagnosed with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), a condition formerly known as preleukemia. During her interview with DeGeneres, however, the teen expressed nothing but positivity about her situation.
"When people ask me [how I stay positive], what do you want me to do, be depressed?" the sage teen told DeGeneres. "I mean, a little fishy told me, 'Just keep swimming, just keep swimming!'"
Later in the show, DeGeneres surprised Castellano with her very own CoverGirl ad.
On Tuesday, fans of the YouTube star showed an outpouring of condolences for the brave teen (the 13-year-old has more than 750,000 followers on her YouTube channel).
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"God speed little one, may you be free from pain and suffering, may your soul feel the light and love that you brought to so many of us on this Earth during the short time you were here with us," read a heartfelt message on her Facebook page. "We will miss you more than you will ever know, baby girl."
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GOP candidate says he paid taxes every year in past decade
Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney declared Thursday he has paid at least 13 percent of his income in federal taxes every year for the past decade, offering that new detail while still decrying a "small-minded" fascination over returns he will not release. President Barack Obama's campaign shot back in doubt: "Prove it."
Campaigning separately, Romney and running mate Paul Ryan also worked to explain their views on overhauling Medicare, the health care program relied on by millions of seniors.
Romney, the former company CEO, set up a whiteboard to make his case with a marker, while lawmaker Ryan tried to explain why his budget plan includes the same $700 billion Medicare cut that he and Romney are assailing Obama for endorsing.
Politically, both topics tie into major elements of the presidential race less than three months before the election: how well the candidates relate to the daily concerns and to the life circumstances of typical voters. Democrats are using the tax issue to raise doubts about Romney's trustworthiness — or, as Republicans contend, to distract from a weak economic recovery under Obama.
Romney's comments in South Carolina — at a news conference designed to focus on Medicare — showed that he remains sensitive to criticism of his tax payments but still is determined to release no more than two years of records despite contrary advice from some prominent Republicans.
The Obama campaign has aired an ad that, without evidence, raises the prospect that Romney paid no taxes some years. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has claimed, also without proof, that Romney paid no taxes for 10 years.
"I did go back and look at my taxes, and over the past 10 years I never paid less than 13 percent," Romney told reporters after he landed in South Carolina for a fundraising event. "I think the most recent year is 13.6 or something like that. So I paid taxes every single year."
Aides later said Romney meant to say 13.9 percent, the amount he already disclosed for his 2010 federal return.
On average, middle-income families, those making from $50,000 to $75,000 a year, pay 12.8 percent of their income in federal taxes, according to the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation. In 2010 and 2011, Romney made about $21 million a year.
Romney is able to keep his tax rate low because most of his income is from investments, which are generally taxed at a lower rate than wages.
Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have released their returns for the years since 2000. The Obamas paid 20.5 percent in federal income taxes in 2011.
Ryan, meanwhile, explained his plan for Medicare.
He and Romney have launched a new strategy of criticizing Obama for taking more than $700 billion in Medicare funds to help pay for his health care overhaul. Yet those same cuts are in a House Republican budget blueprint authored by Ryan.
A reporter pressed him on the issue in Warren, Ohio.
His explanation was that the Medicare cuts were part of the existing baseline budget, including the Obama health care law he opposes.
"It gets a little wonky, but it was already in the baseline," Ryan said. "We would never have done it in the first place."


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Last week we reported that the Family Research Council asked members to pray against "homosexual tyranny" in America after the federal government agreed to have Blue Cross Blue Shield offer full benefits for a same-sex spouse of a federal employee after a judge ruled in favor of the employee in her lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act. Naturally, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality president Peter LaBarbera is demanding that Congress impeach President Obama as a result of his administration's decision to grant her health benefits:
"This is another shocking act by the Obama administration, which has got to be the most arrogant and Constitution-abusing president in America's history," he decides. "The Obama administration didn't like the Defense of Marriage Act, which was passed by Congress [and] signed into law by then-President Clinton, and so now they're just ignoring it and blatantly disregarding it."
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"I believe that President Obama should be impeached on this alone," he suggests. "He's not dictator of the United States of America; he's president, and he can't just ignore the law, ignore the Constitution, to pander to his homosexual activist base."
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A somewhat backhanded cheer to the National Rifle Association for contributing an idea worth considering to the debate over guns, mental health and violence in the wake of the tragic murder of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., a little over a week ago.
CHEERS: A somewhat backhanded cheer to the National Rifle Association for contributing an idea worth considering to the debate over guns, mental health and violence in the wake of the tragic murder of 20 schoolchildren in Newtown, Conn., a little over a week ago.
Of course, most of NRA chief executive Wayne LaPierre's Friday news conference, in which he took no questions, was ridiculous. He rambled on about the media being out to get the organization and the gun owners it represents, ignoring completely his own organization's complicity in spreading dangerous, unnecessary and unregulated weapons throughout the country. And it's weird that he wants to go after video game guns, but the real ones should face no regulation.
But he did put forth an idea that could be part of President Barack Obama's initiative to prevent more mass murders — having retired police officers and military serve as trained, armed guards in schools.
Some schools have had resource police officers for years (in fact, there was one outside of Columbine High School at the time of the 1999 massacre there), so this proposal isn't a stretch.
Like a lot of the ideas floating out there, there's no guarantee this idea will be successful, and past experience has shown its shortcomings, but at this point, the country needs to experiment with a lot of proposals and see what works. Of course, it's only part of a comprehensive solution that includes bolstering mental health programs, banning high-capacity magazines and a national gun buyback program.
LaPierre talked about Congress simply cutting a check for such guards, at one point implying it should come from the foreign aid budget.
A better funding source would be gun manufacturers, sellers and buyers. Since they insist on having a heavily armed and gun-crazy society and refuse to support more gun safety laws, they can pay for these guards in the form of a new sales tax.
CHEERS to Springfield aldermen for approving a $1 increase in the city's recycling, yard waste and large item pickup fee, bringing the fee to $1.50. The city's general fund has been subsidizing those services for years, a bad financial practice that must stop. It should also allow for more apartment buildings to offer recycling.
More importantly, this fee will now be collected by the city, instead of the waste haulers, on City Water, Light and Power bills.
We view this as a way for the city to show residents that it can competently collect this fee and as a precursor to the revival of Ald. Cory Jobe and Doris Turner's ordinance that would put all trash collection billing under the city, ensuring that every resident has garbage service.
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CHEERS to final approval by the Federal Railroad Administration of the city's plan to consolidate rail traffic in Springfield along the 10th Street corridor.
City and county leaders and our congressional delegation fought a long time for approval of this plan. Its approval means the medical district has a shot of realizing its potential as a major employer and place to live for decades to come in Springfield. It means that progress in revitalizing downtown Springfield won't be reversed.
Now, for the hard part: Getting the federal and state governments to fund much of the $316 million cost of moving rail traffic from Third Street to 10th Street. It will be an uphill task, but our leaders have shown so far that they're up to the job.
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An international school or English Schools Foundation (ESF) education is usually the default choice for expatriate families in Hong Kong. But this may not be the case for much longer. More progressive local schools have begun offering international curricula, and their lower fees coupled with solid academic standards make them a compelling choice for many families.
The leader of this pack is undoubtedly the YMCA of Hong Kong Christian College in Tung Chung. When the school was set up 10 years ago expatriates made up just 10 per cent of the student body. Now they account for 70 per cent of its 950 students, who are drawn from more than 40 countries.
Maddie Leonczek is among the newer students. The 15-year-old Briton had attended an international school when her family lived in Hong Lok Yuen, but she transferred when they moved to Tung Chung. She has settled in well, although liberal studies, a compulsory subject introduced under 2009 curriculum changes, took some getting used to. But Maddie is relishing the greater exposure to Hong Kong culture at her new school.
"Liberal studies is very different from what I learned before as it covers many things ... like adolescence and youth problems in Hong Kong, which I wouldn't pay attention to normally," she says.
Maddie has been learning Putonghua in class and has picked up a smattering of Cantonese from local students.
The broadening of education choices for expatriate families stems from the Direct Subsidy Scheme (DSS), a programme set up to enhance the quality of private school education.
DSS colleges enjoy greater autonomy than government or aided schools and are free to decide on areas such as the medium of instruction, class sizes and curricula. And in the past couple of years they have begun teaching international programmes. too. Seven of the city's 61 DSS secondary schools now offer international curricula such as the International Baccalaureate (IB) and the General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE), up from just five schools in 2010-11.
More non-Chinese families are turning to these schools as a cheaper alternative to international schools and educators find both local and expatriate students are benefiting from the greater diversity.
Affordability was certainly the major consideration when airline industry executive Evans Mendonca and his wife transferred their two sons, Manav and Neil, from Beacon Hill School, an ESF school, to the YMCA college.
"ESF is highly overpriced," Mendonca says. "Their tuition fees, costing HK$14,000 per month, used to eat a big chunk of the family income. Now I just pay HK$2,500 for Manav and HK$2,000 for Neil. When we were in ESF, there were significant fee increases and we left just before the capital levy was introduced.
"I don't see any difference in the education standards at ESF and here. The teachers are highly trained and my sons are doing extremely well."
As a DSS school, the YMCA college prepares students for the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education (HKDSE) as well as the International GCSE. But Dion Chen, the school's vice-principal, has taken measures to ensure expatriate students can cope with requisite Chinese modules in the local curriculum. Instead of taking Chinese history, which requires a good command of the language, the children sign up for Hong Kong Chinese studies, which covers Chinese culture and history and gives them sufficient grounding to undertake liberal studies in senior forms.
"Foreign students taking the diploma exam can also take GCSE Chinese, which is an acceptable arrangement for local university applications," he says.
Ngan Po Ling College, a DSS school in To Kwa Wan, also introduced GCSE Chinese and IGCSE French for non-Chinese students two years ago, instead of Chinese history and Chinese language studies that locals undertake.
The move has attracted more expatriates, who now make up 10 per cent of its students, Mukunthan Anuradha, prefect of studies at the college, says. Some came from international primary schools like Kowloon Junior School, while others joined in Form Two or Form Three after their families moved to Hong Kong.
"Our mode of instruction is English. All teachers, even the ones teaching Chinese, passed the English benchmark exams and can speak English well. So non-Chinese students feel comfortable learning here."
Noticing that a significant number of students were leaving for Britain or the US before graduation, Ngan Po Ling is launching an IB programme next year. It's a way to reverse the "brain drain", Anuradha says.
Creative Secondary School (CSS) in Tseung Kwan, which was founded in 2006, was the first DSS secondary school to offer an international programme. And while expatriates make up only about a fifth of the student body, principal Cheung Siu-ming thinks his school is more culturally diverse than many international schools.
The range of bilingual teachers on its staff reflects this, Cheung says. Besides English, teachers speak Dutch, Hindi and Korean. There's also an ethnic Chinese teacher who was born in Venezuela and studied in Canada; so while she speaks Cantonese at home, she is fluent in Spanish and English. Thirteen nationalities are represented on its student body.
"In Hong Kong, the definition of international school is one which does not offer [the] Hong Kong curriculum, but this is totally misleading," Cheung says.
CSS charges range from HK$54,500 to HK$81,900 in the current academic year, which make the fees competitive in comparison with other non-DSS IB schools, he says. "As a DSS school we are non-profit making and do not charge levies and debentures."
With international schools charging hefty capital levies and debentures besides annual tuition fees of up to HK$170,000, Cheung thinks schools like his are growing more attractive.
As far as Direct Subsidy Scheme Schools Council chairman Lam Kin-wah is concerned, the rising intake of expatriate students in DSS schools is a welcome development in local education. "Hong Kong is an international city. DSS schools give more choice to expatriate parents and can reduce the fierce competition for international school places among expatriates," he says.
Business groups have frequently complained of a severe lack of education choices for expatriate families - one confirmed by a recent government survey which found Hong Kong to be short of 4,200 international school places.
Cheung of the CSS argues the Education Bureau can do more to meet the needs of local and expatriate students by easing restrictions on DSS schools.
Bureau regulations require local schools, including DSS institutions, to "offer principally a curriculum targeted at local students and prepare their students to sit for local public examinations". And students in international streams cannot exceed 49 per cent of the total.
With more local students also opting for the IB programme, Cheung says setting such a quota will force some youngsters to leave the school rather than pursue a curriculum that is not of their choice. "We have approached the bureau about the issue, but they are unwilling to discuss a review."
YMCA college's Chen also calls for greater flexibility: "If more DSS schools take in international students, it can help the government attain its aim of turning Hong Kong into an education hub."
Still, foreign students may take a while to adjust to DSS schools, where the culture and teaching style sit midway between the deferential ethos of Asia and the free-wheeling ways of the West.
"Our students stand up to greet teachers at the start of lessons as we prize the Chinese virtue of respect to elders. But we cannot be as strict as local schools as Western parents will feel uncomfortable with too much restriction. A permissive approach with too much freedom will worry local parents. So we try to get the best from both cultures," Chen says.
The YMCA college puts a lot of emphasis on the concept of students assuming leadership roles, he adds. For instance, students were invited to design the new uniforms last year.
Fergus Yiu, 16, certainly found it hard to adjust to his new life when he first transferred to Ngan Po Ling College last year from King George V School. Having spent his early childhood in Canada, Fergus says he was more used to the laissez-faire attitude at his previous school where students were allowed to dye their hair and bring their mobile phones into class.
At Ngan Po Ling phones will be confiscated for a whole term if they aren't put away in lockers during lessons. While he used to learn through group activities such presentations, Fergus now finds himself doing mostly individual work. And from simpler lessons involving simplified Chinese characters, he now has to use traditional Chinese characters and read classics.
"The academic atmosphere here is more robust. There is more homework and after-school tutorials run until 6pm. I care more about my studies here," he says.
His mother, Camay Fong Yuen-kwan, is delighted with the change of attitude towards his studies.
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If students and their parents are Hong Kong permanent residents, by definition they are not "expatriates" they are local. What your article means is that they are not Chinese and there is the heart of the reason why ESF students and parents are being discriminated against.
In reply to: ctringham (May 3rd 2013, 8:48pm)
Interesting what is happening in the UK regarding the IB, and don't get me wrong - that is all great But we have that in Hong Kong already too: it is fine for DSS schools to also offer IB. See article above. I still don't see the UK funding state schools teaching other countries' exam curriculum (French, German, US...), which is what the ESF is doing in Hong Kong.
The problem with the ESF remains that they don't want to prepare students for HK exams, nor do they want to be subject to the EDB's school assessment and quality control regime. They want to teach UK GCSE etc plus the IB, and left alone. That really makes them, yes, an international school.
Look, I would like to see funding for the ESF too, but I still don't see you proposing any satisfactory answer to what the policy should be to make this possible. Fund any school teaching any curriculum without any checks and balances to control it? As mentioned, if it is ok for a school (like the ESF) to prepare for UKGCSE+IB, then why not also fund schools that prepare for other countries' exams, with or without the IB?
The policy at the moment is: funding for schools that prepare for the HKDSE, and they can have an IB stream too if they like. Great, and just like in the UK actually. Please do propose a new workable policy principle if you can think of one.
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In reply to: impala (May 2nd 2013, 6:47am)
Why is it OK for DSS schools to have 49% of their students studying for non-local exams? And why is it not OK to have 59% or 69% when there there is clearly the demand there?
It's an arbitrary rule.
In reply to: ctringham (May 2nd 2013, 10:38pm)
Apart from the fact that next to zero percent of ESF students take local exams, why is it arbitrary to decide that a school doesn't get Hong Kong government money if it does not prepare at least a majority of its students for Hong Kong exams?
Do you know any other country (or territory) in the world that grants government money to schools preparing their students for foreign exams? You see the UK financing schools that educate pupils to take, say, the German Abitur?
And as I have mentioned in a different comment, we could decide to be the odd one out, and grant all schools the same subsidy, no matter what exams they prepare their students for. But that would mean we would then also be financing pretty much every international school here. There is no reason the ESF is special in this regard. It would make Hong Kong instantly the most attractive place for secondary schools to come too in the world. Come to Hong Kong y'all, teach, say, your French Lycee curriculum or anything else, and receive a bag of money, no questions asked.
It would be unworkable and unsustainable. The EDB's position regarding the ESF is completely rational. And I do hope a decent compromise will be struck; some solution found. But if you polarise the debate with accusations of discrimination and arbitrary ruling on the gov's side, we won't get anywhere.
In reply to: impala (May 3rd 2013, 8:40am)
Oh, and there are state schools in the UK offering the IB Diploma: ****www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/sep/07/international-baccalaureate-state-schools-a-levels


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Running Time: 58 min.
Production Date: 5 / 14 / 2002 and 4 / 24 / 2003
Director: Janet and Steve Mason
Cast: Janet Mason, Lex, and Isaac
Initial Expectations: I�ve really liked a lot of what I�ve seen from Janet Mason, so I�m going into this one with fairly high hopes.
Initial Reaction: It�s another winner!
Who Should Watch It : Anybody wanting to see sex that feels like something real
Who Should Avoid It: Anybody who wants nasty interracial sex
Audio /Video Quality: For an amateur feature, the technical aspects are excellent. The audio is clear and well balanced, even when she�s talking with Steve behind the camera, and there are very few background noises. The video is much the same. It�s well lit, free of grain, and even right out to the edges. There are very few remnants, and I think it looks better than many releases I�ve seem from the major studios. The only problem with the video is that it flashes to a slight orange tint a few times early in the second scene (roughly thirteen minutes in).
Music: None
Disc Complaints: There�s no time stamp on the DVD, which always ticks me off. I like to jump around in movies and sometimes go directly to specific spots on the DVD, but without a time stamp this can�t be done. Janet seems to be just getting into DVDs recently, so I�m hoping that this will become a problem of the past in the future.
Menus: The main menu is nicely animated and works in clips of the movie to give a very good first impression. The chapter menu is pretty simple, but keeps the theme going while letting you choose a scene based on the title for the scene and a still from each scene. After you select a scene, you�re given another menu that lets you jump to one of several places in the scene.
The Feature: The Janet Exposed series (and website) revolves around Janet Mason. Janet�s a small redhead in her thirties with a tight body and tastefully augmented tits. Janet�s site advertises her as �loving wife, devoted mother, exhibitionist, swinger�, and looking at her you�d never guess that she was in the second half of her thirties or that she has three kids. Janet also has a love for young, black cock, and seems to try to get it as often as she can. This installment captures a couple of her shorter scenes with Lex and Isaac, two decent looking (at least I assume Isaac is decent looking as his face is normally hidden during his scene) black studs.
Things start off with Lex in Oral Ecstasy. They come back to Janet�s place after dinner, and decide that it�s time for a bit of dessert. Lex drops down to gently eat Janet�s pussy while fingering her ass. She turns around so Lex can get a better angle at her ass, letting him eat it, finger it, and spank it. After a while she decides it�s time to return the favor, and helps Lex strip down before dropping down to work him over orally. She gives his nipples a bit of attention before sucking his cock and giggles like a schoolgirl in the glee of sucking Lex�s cock. She finally lets Lex pop in her mouth, accepting his dick droppings with wide open eyes and a few comments to spur him on. She even lets Lex take a hand in matters and jerk off on her face while she diddles herself and doesn�t flinch in the least when he gets a little jizz in her eye.
As usual, Janet delivers a great scene. There�s tremendous chemistry between Lex and Janet, and there�s absolutely no doubt that Janet loves what she�s doing. She smiles and laughs frequently, and nothing in the scene ever seems faked. Heck, Janet doesn�t even undressed for the scene, only hoisting up her dress so they can get the job done. The only complaint I can have about this scene is that the flashbacks near the end of the scene take up a little too much time.
Creampie Afternoon pairs Isaac with Janet. It�s Janet�s thirty sixth birthday, so Steve brings in a black stripper for her to fulfill that fantasy for her. She calls Isaac on the phone, and then gets ready for him after he agrees to come over while talking about things with Steve. When Isaac (who�s face is normally covered by a large black dot) arrives they talk very briefly before getting down to business, with Janet singing Happy Birthday to herself while Isaac strips down. They take turns showing off for each other on the bed before Isaac tongues Janet�s ass and eats her pussy from behind. Janet rolls over so that Isaac�s tongue can have a little easier access, and then has Isaac turn around so she can have a turn. She has Isaac get on all fours and sucks his cock from behind as well as eating his ass. Isaac rolls over to give Janet an easier time sucking him, and they even sixty-nine a bit before Janet lets Isaac fuck her from behind. Isaac also nails Janet missionary style before dropping his load in her pussy. Janet slowly pushes it out on her back before turning around and letting it run down her leg. She picks it up and eats it with a smile on her face and more than a few giggles before trying to squeeze out every last drop of Isaac�s huge load and eating all that she can.
There�s nothing new with this scene, and that�s a good thing! That means that there�s excellent chemistry, nice energy, and some very obvious enjoyment from both Isaac and Janet. There�s no denying that Janet and Isaac are having a great time, and I love the exuberance she takes the internal pop with. I�ll admit that the black dot over Isaac�s face interfered with the action a little for me, but the scene is still a winner!
Janet Exposed 36: Black Cock Quickies is another winner from Janet and Steve Mason. Both scenes are overflowing with chemistry, and there�s never any doubt about whether Janet�s really enjoying herself or just doing it for a little extra cash. She giggles frequently and the only time her smile seems to disappear from her face is when there�s a cock stuck in it. Even then her eyes keep the smile until it�s replaced by a look of pure lust. It�s easy to see why her website has been so successful and why people were requesting her to move onto the DVD format! Although the feature is titled Black Cock Quickies, the scenes aren�t too short, lasting over twenty minutes each. It�s a nice length for each of the scenes, which feel very natural rather than feeling rushed or strung out. Janet Exposed 36: Black Cock Quickies is another Janet Mason movie that�s well worth checking out for anybody who enjoys amateur porn!
Extras: The photo gallery can be viewed with or without music. It lasts about two and three quarter minutes with roughly five seconds per very nice looking full screen photo. There�s also over twenty minutes of trailers for ten of Janet�s other movies.
Themes: Straight, amateur, interracial, anal (finger), rimming (male > female and female > male), and internal pop shots
Raincoat Factor: Very high
Condom Usage: None
Overall: You can find Janet�s DVDs on her website for $24 (if you�re a member of her site) or $30 if you�re not. Although this is a little higher than I try to pay for anything (and I have no clue where that stereotype of Scots being cheap comes from), with every episode of Janet�s series I�m inching a little closer to thinking it worthwhile. The scenes are hot and show the chemistry and feeling that makes so many people a fan of amateur features. The technical aspects are great, but there isn�t much special for extras.
Note to Janet Exposed: Thank you for bringing your scenes to DVD! The only things I can think that would improve your DVDs are a time stamp and to change the extras a little since the photo gallery is the only thing I�ve seen change in them.
If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me .
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RE: [fw-wiz] PKI is the pits?
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To: "Eugene Kuznetsov" <email@example.com>, "'Christopher Hicks'" <firstname.lastname@example.com>, "'Firewall Wizards Mailing List'" <email@example.com> Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 09:53:17 -0400
Eugene Kuznetsov wrote:
>I read this, and I'm not impressed.
I agree. With the caveat that, while it's generally uncool to whine
and point and screech "PKI sucks!", a lot of people tried very
hard to stave off that particular disaster by giving heartfelt and
often excellent advice long before it was too late. The state of
PKI is a disaster because of a combination of technical people
being buttheaded, marketers over-selling a concept, and sheer
greed on the part of vendors that played a phyrric form of
"last man standing" for market dominance.
>1. in my experience, public key cryptography is far more prevalent that full
>public key infrastructure, which means that many of these additional
>complications are simply not present...
You are absolutely correct; what we see is that public key crypto
is widely used, but only in small ways that really don't give it much
meaning. Am I the only person who finds it silly that public key is
largely used to set up temporary pipes over which passwords are
exchanged? There is definite value to this, but "the cool stuff" is
exactly what doesn't work. It's maddening and saddening but may
be an unavoidable consequence of the way market forces pushed
public key into the limelight before the human factors problems
were well compensated-for.
>2. simpler protocols and solutions are far more prevalent than their more
>advanced cousins; for example, people use simple HTTP-CRL's much more than
>OCSP; sometimes "key revocation" is accomplished by simply deleting
>authorized certs from gateways or servers
Precisely; because the more complex protocols and solutions were
never considered in the light of human factors. The big vendors were
too busy rubbing their hands and thinking, "we will get $19.95 for a
certificate from every man, woman, and coke machine on earth!!!"
to think about the scalability issues in handling CRLs for a population
of any size. Indeed, CRLs were a threat to the business model of
some companies that intended to make their $19.95 every year,
which made expiring certificates more valuable. What I am saying
is that the complex technologies never happened because they
existed in a vacuum - lacking a survivable business use case
_that_made_the_vendors_happy_ the technology didn't happen
except where it happened badly. The standards bodies had no
prayer in playing in this space, because complexity is something
the IETF and ISO are historically slow in coping with, and the
patent issues made sure they were excluded from the game.
>3. every large organization has some kind of PKI in place, although its
>penetration into all of the applications is often limited; this is probably
>because both of the challenges cited and the lack of strong business
Most of the PKIs in large organizations have happened because
someone expended so much money that _something_ had to be
done with it or jobs would have been at stake.
>4. one of the most frequent uses of "PKI" is partners connecting to
>extranets by using mutually authenticated SSL; usually there is absolutely
>no "infrastructure", other than loading authorized cert (or signing cert)
>onto the access control proxy or maybe into LDAP; revocation involves
>deleting the cert.
Correct; this is functionally the same thing as pre-exchanging
secret keys - only the key is the cert and it's "authenticated" via
a telephone call. This is still primitive cryptography, it's just
using high-tech tools: kind of like using a CNC milling machine
to implement a stone axe. In most of these cases, secret keys
would work just as well, be easier to field, have less performance
(network and compute) cost, and be much less complex.
>5. some of the work in XKMS and web services more generally does address
>some of the traditional pkI challenges, and also creates a new field of
>application for the technology; digital signatures of individual
>transactions and public key encryption are probably getting more used now
>than in the preceding 20 years, precisely because of WS-Security, SAML, etc;
>unfortunately, XKMS is not taking off as quickly as one might hope
There has to be a reason why it isn't taking off quickly. Either because
the problem it addresses isn't correctly framed or painful enough, or it
doesn't solve it well or cost-effectively - or something. Do you have
any sense of what might be going on there?
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"New Jersey is a solidly blue state. Problem is right now Chris Christie has everyone fooled into believing he is some kind of moderate. A majority of voters either weren't sure or didn't know whether he is pro-choice or not when in FACT he is NOT pro-choice – he is vehemently anti-choice! Worse, the same statistics hold true that registered voters are unsure on his position on marriage equality – when he VETEOD [sic] our law here in New Jersey," the email reads.
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Dallas, TX (Sports Network) - Kari Lehtonen stopped 20 shots and the Dallas Stars got goals from three different players in a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.
Trevor Daley, Jamie Benn and Loui Eriksson lit the lamp for Dallas, which earned its 758th win since moving to Texas 19 seasons ago. That equals the victory total the team had in 26 seasons as the Minnesota North Stars.
The Stars have earned points in seven consecutive home games against the Ducks, compiling a 6-0-1 record in that span. Anaheim has not won in regulation at American Airlines Center since Oct. 26, 2010.
Jonas Hiller stopped 14-of-16 shots in the opening period for the Stars, but was lifted after suffering a lower body injury. Rookie Viktor Fasth allowed a goal on 12 shots the rest of the way.
Nick Bonino scored the lone goal for the Ducks, who had a four-game winning streak broken.
The Stars, who won their third in a row overall, capitalized on a roughing penalty to Brad Staubitz and scored on the power play 8:48 into the contest on Daley's blast from the high slot.
Dallas expanded to a 2-0 lead thanks to another man-advantage goal, this one resulting from a 5-minute major and game misconduct from Staubitz after a spearing penalty was called.
"It wasn't a penalty," Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said. "What do you want me to say. Good refs have bad games. Like good hockey players have bad games, good refs have bad games. He didn't do anything. A spear, as far as I know, is when you take the butt of the stick or the blade of the stick and you stick it in someone's gut. It hit him (Brenden Dillon) three quarters of the way up the shaft."
Benn netted the goal at the 12:59 mark when his tight-angle shot from below the left circle clanked off the far post and into the net.
"We wanted to get on them early," Benn said. "They're obviously a good team and they're on a bit of a hot streak so we wanted to go right after them and not give them any confidence. We used our home building to an advantage."
Bonino cut the deficit in half with 4:37 left in the second period on a deflection in front off a blue line shot from Luca Sbisa.
Eriksson moved the Stars ahead by two again with 7:14 left in regulation. Alex Goligoski passed the puck from the left boards across the ice to the right circle where Ericksson let go a successful wrist shot that beat Fasth to the glove side.
The Ducks had just one shot on goal in the last period and suffered their first regulation road loss of the season.
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El Rey Network From Dusk Till Dawn TV Series Season 1 (2014) Trailer
El Rey Network From Dusk Till Dawn - TV Series Season 1 (2014)
Year: 2014
Genres: Horror, Action, Crime
Type: Trailers
Duration: 2M32S
Cast: Robert Patrick, Jake Busey, Jamie Tisdale, Zane Holtz, Brandon Soo Hoo, Jesse Garcia, Don Johnson, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Carolee Crawford, Wilmer Valderrama, D.J. Cotrona, Eiza González, Madison Davenport, Samantha Esteban
Director(s): Robert Rodriguez, Eduardo Sánchez, Dwight H. Little, Joe Menendez
This is the full trailer for the highly anticipated El Rey Network and Robert Rodriguez From Dusk Till Dawn TV series Season 1. You know there will be a From Dusk Till Dawn season 2. Look out for the premiere on the El Rey Network this upcoming Tuesday, March 11, 2014. The new vampire TV series is sure to be a hit and I can not wait to see it. The trailer looks totally badass and we get to see many on the vampires with changes only in their eyes, almost reptile like eyes but nice.
Starring in From Dusk Till Dawn: The TV series is Wilmer Valderrama as enigmatic crime lord Carlos; Madison Davenport as Kate Fuller; Brandon Soo Hoo as Scott Fuller; Adrianne Palicki as Vanessa Styles; Jake Busey as Professor Aiden Tanner; Lane Garrison as Pete; and Eiza Gonzalez as Santanico Pandemonium
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Based on the thrill-ride film, "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" is a supernatural crime saga centered around bank robber, Seth Gecko (Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard "Richie" Gecko (Holtz), who are wanted by the FBI and Texas Rangers Earl McGraw (Johnson) and Freddie Gonzalez (Garcia) after a bank heist leaves several people dead. While on the run to Mexico, Seth and Richie encounter former pastor Jacob Fuller (Patrick) and his family, whom they take hostage. Using the family RV to cross the border, chaos ensues when the group detours to a strip club that is populated by vampires. They are forced to fight until dawn in order to get out alive. The series deepens the tone and expands the storyline of the film, adds new characters and backstories, and explores the Mesoamerican mythology behind the creatures inside the club.
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