Archive for March 13, 2010

Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Domestic Abuse Shadows Another Paterson Aide

The Executive Services Detail, formerly called the Protective Services Unit, is a detail within the State Police that is responsible for providing protection to the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, dignitaries visiting New York State, and any other public official, at the direction of the Superintendent.
Many say that the best way to depoliticize the unit is to remove it from the State Police and employ private security forces.
The Governor’s security detail came under scrutiny in early 2008 after it was revealed that former Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been patronizing a prostitute at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC, on Feb. 13, 2008, the eve of Valentine’s Day. He had been in Washington to testify before a Congressional committee.
Questions were raised about how former Spitzer was able to patronize prostitutes supposedly without the knowledge of those state troopers who were supposed to be guarding him.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Analysis: NY politics goes from drama to tragedy

Larry Levy of the National Center for Suburban Studies says such an outsider image, if it can be cultivated, could be essential in this year’s governor’s race.
There’s a reason 55 percent of New Yorkers told a Siena College poll this month that they are embarrassed to say they are from New York. The unprecedented stretch of scandal began when Democratic Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in March 2008 amid a prostitution scandal and includes the conviction this year of former Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno, a Republican, for pocketing more than $1 million in consulting fees. In between was the sentencing of 30-year veteran Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio, a Democrat, for collecting $1 million in consulting fees for, in his own words, “doing nothing”; and Sen. Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat, who was expelled from his seat in February following a misdemeanor assault conviction involving his girlfriend.

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Manhattan Massage Parlors: Plainfield Police Scandal Confirmed

Plainfield Police Scandal Confirmed
PLAINFIELD — News 12 New Jersey’s Walt Kane followed up on our report about Plainfield’s public safety director, who received a three day suspension after he was caught making arrangements on his city computer for an erotic massage.
Plainfield Public Safety Director Martin Hellwig was confronted by News 12 New Jersey’s Walt Kane. Click on picture to view the video at News12.com
Martin Hellwig also allegedly used a police vehicle to drive to the male prostitute’s house in North Jersey while on duty.
Kane confirmed the legitimacy of documents purported to be a police report and copies of e-mail messages between Hellwig and the alleged hooker, Jason Taylor.
Hellwig refused to say much when Kane confronted him at a City Council meeting, but he did deny being suspended because he “solicited a prostitute with a city computer on city time.”

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Manhattan Strip Clubs: THEATER PREVIEW: Characters in rock opera ‘Rent’ struggle to survive

It was a time when many people were contracting HIV and dying of AIDS, especially young people who were engaging in unprotected sex and intravenous drug use. The show features Larson’s dynamic music, including the iconic “Seasons of Love.” During its 12-year run on Broadway, the show won a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award for Best Musical and a legion of loyal fans fondly known as “Rentheads.”
The Company Theatre in Norwell presents its version March 19-April 18.
Ken Bayliss is Roger, an aspiring songwriter and HIV positive ex-drug addict. His girlfriend, also an addict, has recently killed herself.
He meets Mimi, (Clarisse Shields) a stripper who is also a drug addict. Without going into detail, Bayliss says it is not hard for him to relate to what Roger is going through.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Amanda Seyfried: ‘I’m on a raw-food diet and it’s awful’

… I HAVE TO BE SKINNY FOR MY JOB’”If I didn’t run and work out, there’s no way I would be this thin,” she told Glamour UK. “But I have to stay in shape because I’m an actress.”
She adds: “It’s f**ked up and twisted, but I wouldn’t get the roles otherwise. If I had been bigger, I don’t think they would have cast me for [the 2008 comedy] Mamma Mia! So I work out a lot and I’m pretty moderate about what I eat.”
Like other celebs, Seyfried has battled eating disorders and body-image issues in the past. “I’m not a beautiful prom-girl type,” she has said. “It’s very easy for me to gain weight. Even though I tried not eating for a week when I was really young, I couldn’t do it any longer because I liked my food too much.”
Seyfried next stars as a troubled call girl in Chloe (co-starring Julianne Moore), which opens March 26.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: A Matter of Timing

About East Jerusalem, Clinton proposed that what is Jewish should be joined to the State of Israel and what is Arab should be joined to the state of Palestine. He assumed (rightly, I believe) that Yasser Arafat was ready for such a compromise, which would have joined some new Jewish neighborhoods in East Jerusalem to Israel. But Clinton was not wise enough to foresee the consequences of his proposal.
In practice, it was an open invitation to the Israeli government to speed up the establishment of new settlements in East Jerusalem, expecting them to become part of Israel. And indeed, since then successive Israeli governments have invested all available resources in this endeavor. Since money has no smell, every Jewish casino-owner in America and every Jewish brothel-keeper in Europe was invited to join the effort. The Biblical injunction – “Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God, for any vow; for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God” (Deuteronomy 23:18) – was suspended for this holy cause.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: How David Paterson blew it

When the combative Spitzer left office embroiled in a prostitution scandal, Paterson became the first African-American governor of New York, and only the fourth in the history of the United States, and New Yorkers almost breathed a sigh of relief. Paterson, who was known for his consensus-building style in the Senate was expected to bring that to the Governor’s Mansion as well, and the legally blind, married, nice-seeming Paterson was considered unlikely to have much in the way of political baggage.

New Yorkers, once, had a dream: that the first African-American governor could help New York move past the Spitzer scandal and enact the progressive agenda they had elected the duo to bring to the state. Instead, they got one man who unsuccessfully attempted to bully legislators in his own party and resigned after the world discovered he was hiring high-priced prostitutes, and they got another who allegedly used his position to intimidate a victim of domestic violence and failed to enact much of …

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Interview With NBC’S Andrea Mitchell

Countries have passed laws, and some are even enforcing them, against– domestic violence. We’ve made a lot of progress in the international effort against human trafficking. There are many points of progress. But there are still so many women who are deprived of education, deprived of health care, denied their basic right to– chart their own course. There are so many brave women who stand up to those rights.
I will never forget meeting a young girl who had been married at the age of ten to a man much older than she by her family– in Yemen, who got away from the house and went to a courthouse and waited until somebody noticed her. And when they asked what she was doing there, she said, “I want a divorce.” I mean, I can’t even imagine the courage it must have taken for that child. I meet women who– were trafficked into prostitution who are now rescuing other women.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: US Dept of State – Hillary Rodham Clinton – Remarks at the UN Commission on …

Women raise the worlds children, but too often receive inadequate care when they give birth. And as a result, childbirth remains a leading cause of death and injury to women worldwide.
Women rarely cause armed conflicts, but they always suffer their consequences. And when warring sides sit at one table to negotiate peace, women are often excluded, even though it is their future and their childrens future that is being decided.
Though many countries have passed laws to deter violence against women, it remains a global pandemic. Women and girls are bought and sold to settle debts and resolve disputes. They are raped as both a tactic and a prize of armed conflict. They are beaten as punishment for disobedience and as a warning to other women who might assert their rights. And millions of women and girls are enslaved in brothels, forced to work as prostitutes, while police officers pocket bribes and look the other way.

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Manhattan Adult Entertainment: Even-handed, fascinating look at Alice creator

Woolf effectively deals with these issues. She shows clearly that the nudity of little girls was considered in Victorian times to be the epitome of innocence and beauty, that Carroll was following a painting and photographic tradition, that there was never a hint by his subjects of anything but a chaste, innocent and caring relationship, and that Carroll took great care with those relationships to avoid controversy.
She shows that his professed hatred of boys was a pose, that he had friendships with both genders and a wide variety of ages, and some significant friendships with older women, and that he enjoyed confronting conventional morality while at the same time espousing high moral principles.
Woolf deftly juggles known facts about Carroll’s life and Victorian time with reasonable inferences; there are no wild leaps of faith that has allowed other biographers to superimpose upon Carroll their own sense of what he must have done.
Take, for example, her excellent discussion of whether Carroll’s diary notes of asking for forgiveness for sin imply that he had an adulterous affair, or that he engaged prostitutes, as others have conjectured.

See the full article from “Winnipeg Free Press”

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