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GF: kitchen/diner, twin, shower room. FF: lounge with balcony, double with ensuite shower room, shower room. SF: kingsize double with ensuite bathroom; walk-in wardrobe and balcony, bathroom with shower over bath.
Electricity and oil central heating included, open fire (no fuel supplied), linen and towels included, cot, high chair, TV, freezer, microwave, dishwasher, w/machine, internet access, welcome pack, partially enclosed garden, enclosed private courtyard, patio area, patio furniture, off road parking. Pets welcome.
|Sleeps up to 6, 3 bedrooms
|3 bedrooms, 4 bathrooms of which 3 Family bathrooms and 1 Shower rooms
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|Great for children of all ages
|Pets welcome, Yes, smoking allowed
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|Log fire, Internet access, Sea view
|Dishwasher, Cooker, Microwave, Fridge, Washing machine
|Double beds (2), Cots (1)
|Linen provided, Towels provided, High chair
|Secure parking, Suitable for people with restricted mobility, Not suitable for wheelchair users
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Internet Access;Dishwasher;Microwave;Washing machine;Cot;High Chair;Power incl;Linen and Towels;
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Patio Area;Partially Enclosed Garden;Patio Furniture;Off Road Parking;Medium / Large Pets;
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Charlie Chaplin comedy film festival every August,
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Rowing championships in Waterville every August,
This wonderful property centrally located in the picturesque village of Waterville, 10 miles from Cahersiveen. It has been nicely finished featuring free Wi-Fi internet access, the lounge is located on the first floor with a balcony to take advantage of the wonderful lake views. From the balcony off the second floor enjoy sea and lake views. Waterville is located on the Ring of Kerry, a world famous angling resort with scenery that is second to none. An ideal location for exploring the Kerry Coast, mountains and heritage sites.
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Quite, gets dishes clean but takes a long time.
By Woodyscott1
from Lincoln, NE, United States
Comments about GE 24" Built-In Dishwasher - Black:
This dishwasher is very quiet and does get the dishes clean when the soap is released. I did not expect it to take hours to run one cycle. We are also having problems with the soap dispenser opening during the cycle.
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By Country Gal
from Waco,nc
Received this as a gift and I love it! It is so quiet and that was so important to me.
Super Quiet!
By schj20
from Big Lake, MN, United States
have had dishwasher for few months and it is so quiet you hardly know it is running, very impressed with this feature. on the other hand, the silverware baskets that hang on the front of each shelf leave a few things to be desired---everytime we use the dishwasher we have 6 to 12 pieces of silverware that need to be rewashed-cannot figure this one out. plus with the silverware baskets on the front of the shelves you are constantly getting your hands dirty when pulling the shelves out to add more dirty dishes. also in the top shelf, where the glasses sit , there is nothing to keep the dirty glasses from tipping over when the shelf is being pulled out--we have already broken a few glasses when pulling shelf out to add more dirty glasses, seems like shelf needs a different design as we do not have any problems with our other dishwasher in this area. other than these items the dishwasher is super nice!
Quite the Quiet Machine!
By madprof
from Chicago, IL, United States
We're so pleased to be able to enjoy a movie on TV while the dinner dishes wash. Our only disappointment has been with our cereal bowls not seeming to fit in safely anywhere. We're not giving up, though, for this machine cleans so well, it's worth buying ones that fit better!
Very Quiet
By Ayante
from Georgia
I've only used this once. It was so quiet that I kept checking to make sure that it was on!
Love this dishwasher!!!
By Debbie76
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I'm very satisfied with this dishwasher. It is by far the best one we've ever had! I LOVE that you can use just the top rack or the bottom rack or both!! The other thing I especially love is that it truly is very quiet! I also wanted one that had a food grinder, has lots of room and actually cleans well...this one does it all and even has hidden controls! LOVE it!!
By none1234
from Tampa, FL, United States
However your design of the silver rack is not very good. The front slots are not usable as the silverware tends to slip out and the slots are not large enough to fit some silverware.
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By Daxbelc
from Fort Wayne, IN, United States
After owning different dishwashers theough the years, this is by far and away and the quietest and cleans the best.
Nice for the Price!
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I am glad we purchased this dishwasher, it works well and was a great deal for the price. It has the piranha food disposal which is a nice feature, also the top and bottom spray bars seem to work well. The only minor issue we had was the Cascade dishwasher soap packets sometimes are not completely gone or dissolved when the cycle is over, maybe not even a reflection of the dishwasher, it may have been the packets, either way this dishwasher is well worth the money and I would recommend it to others!
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By hdsteve
from Minnesota, United States
This machine works better than the 15 year old model it replaced, but there are issues. There are too many silverware holders. The top rack is too small, eliminate the silverware and make the rack bigger. The silverware doesn't always come clean, maybe that's because it's against the door. Also the soap dispenser doesn't always empty, even though I only half fill it. It seem to leave soap scum on the dishes every so often.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Coach K's recruiting edge?
With eyebrows furrowed, some thought Coach K's appearance in an ad during March Madness somehow gave the Duke coach an edge in recruiting. Never mind the fact that Duke, one of the elite programs in NCAA basketball, normally doesn't have a problem finding promising basketballers to play there.
This year, it's the same story. On Thursday, Chevrolet aired two separate 30-second commercials featuring Krzyzewski talking about its cars.
Krzyzewski, who can command a fee as high as $100,000 to speak at corporate functions, says in one of the ads that "nothing is more important than the truth, and the truth is more Americans choose Chevy than any other brand."
Perhaps the sports fraternity will turn on Coach K, saying he's trying to gain an advantage. But what kind of an advantage is it to be promoting a brand that is part of a corporation that lost $10.6 billion last year?
If Coach K is a miracle worker, and many believe he is, let's see what he can do for General Motors. If he succeeds, he'll never have to recruit again.
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Porn Pros Network
No more one month membership wtf
Looks like they no longer offer one months here anymore, porn sites of late are making some odd decisions. I don't want to join for a year or 3 months.
Tiny 4K
Be VERY careful on the login on these PassionHD ring sites
I logged into the tiny4k site and EVERY TIME it goes to a promotional page to "upgrade" my membership for $69.95 for access to the entire network. I very clearly clicked the proceed to site link and instead of going to the site it says "processing payment"!!! WTF! I checked my email and sure enough a new membership had been created and their receipt didn't say what was charged to my card. So I did a live chat with segway (THE WORST PAYMENT PROCESSING COMPANY ON EARTH) and explained the situation. Thankfully after a extended back and forth they refunded my $70.
Exotic 4K
Current Member
less than 1 month
(at the time of review).
-Nice collection of models of varying ethnicities.
-Nicely done, slick, artistic videos.
-The best HD videos are 1920x1012. Very sharp.
-Sharp photos and large photo sets.
-Photos are zip downloadable.
-There is a lot of advertising in the members area.
-Pre checked cross sell for
-There are only 42 updates. This is borderline too small for me to bother with. For the price many sites offer much more.
-Standalone site with no extras.
-No 4K videos despite being in the name of the site. There is a non functional download option for 4K.
-Non unique name for video downloads. Download file names for all 1920x1012 are exotic4k_mp4_1080_18.
-Inconsistent rate of updates, but recently generally every two weeks. In 2014 sometimes they came weekly.
-The choices of photo sets are for screen caps 1280x720 or HD 1500x1000. Low specs for a site in 2015. They still look good though.
Bottom Line:
I have to thank fellow PUer Pyrenees for letting me know about this site. Any criticisms I have of the site do not reflect on him as he only said they had interesting videos. They do and I must agree.
Reviewing this site is like the old saying about having good news and bad news.
The good news is that I like the videos. They are nice quality 1920x1012 HD with a good selection of ethnic American models. There are Black, Latina, Middle Eastern, and Asian women, who are young, fresh and full of energy. It appears that both the men and women are into the scenes. Some are interracial and some are not. The videos are slickly, professionally shot and produced and are rather entertaining. The style is heartcore with only a few anal scenes and all, or nearly all have cunnilingus. I think that women and/or couples would enjoy the site. Once you have the videos, you should be happy. In stark contrast, the site itself is full of problems that produce angst.
The bad news is really bad. My first negative impression is that I did not catch the prechecked cross sell for
. It was only a $1 trial but I dont like this at all.
The members area is accessed only after an up sell of an additional charge of $69.95 for complete access to all their sites. They must be kidding. This same advertising is also on the top of the members page so you dont stop thinking what a great deal this would be. There are also many ads for other sites they are affiliated with. There are some good deals to be had here, so you may think this is a plus. However, I found it annoying. Every time you click on a video, they remind you that the same model is on another site that you can sign up for at an additional charge.
When I downloaded my first video I sadly discovered that the download for the 4K option was of only the audio. I tried several and finally gave up. I dont mean that my player could handle only the audio, but that what happened was that was the only part that downloaded. I was using Firefox and then switched to Google Chrome. Same problem. I contacted customer support and told them that this issue was repeatedly pointed out to them in the member comments for many of the videos. Some comments were from six months ago and the issue has still not been addressed. I was assured that their tech support people would get back to me within 24 to 48 hours. It has now been a week. The site name is Exotic4K but there is no 4K available?
After trying to download HD videos I sadly discovered that the site had non unique file names. Every HD video was exotic4k_mp4_1080_18. The photo sets did have unique file names though.
I also discovered that the number of channels I could use to download kept decreasing. When I first began I could download six videos at once. After about a half hour it went to only five, then three, then two. With files that are this large, most of about 2GB, some even 3GB, I saw it was going to take time to get them all. It eventually took me three days to get 42 videos.
The videos I would rate as 80 or 85 in quality with the negatives being that this is a standalone site with not enough content and a very slow rate of growth.
As a site, I think a 50 is generous. If they ever get back to me, I will gladly change my opinion and post that.
Exotic 4K
4K Downloads
Has anyone tried to download the 4K videos? I cannot get the video to download, only the audio.
Passion HD
Current Member
over 1 month
(at the time of review).
There are some pros for this site.
1) 124,000 + HD photos usually 200+ per scene
2) The photos can be downloaded all at once in a zip
3) 302 + scenes
4) Updates multiple times a week
5) Some of the greatest talent in the industry
6) Each scene has a nice trailer and screen caps
7) Multiple site discount savings of over 50% this is a great deal if you want all their material.
This site has some cons.
1) Can be hard to log in the first time.
2) Only 31.4% of the scenes are in 1080p MP4 HD. Those scenes are up to 2 GB in size but average 1.20 GB.
3) Does not take advantage of Talent
4) Some scenes have washed out look
5) Massage scenes and bondage scenes are very brief on the massage and bondage.
6) Only 4% of the scenes have anal.
7) About 20% of the scenes are threesomes with only a couple of DP's (Featuring Holly Michaels).
8) I hope you like Holly Micheals she is in 46 scenes or over 15% of the site.
9) A lot of the material here is from the site PornPros only it is not in nearly as good of HD. You may consider just going to PornPros.
Bottom Line:
So this site (And its entire network) have been on my radar for a long time. I know what your thinking but you like brutal sex. Well I enjoy Heart core as well =). I was excited to join but had log in problems as soon as I attempted to log in. Then I was blocked for multiple log in attempts. I had to contact support but in fairness they responded very fast fixing the issue.
I am one of those people who like to download for my own collection. I was very excited because of the level of talent on this site. I was instantly disappointed in
Passion HD
. Even their most recent scenes are only 1.4 GB large in 1080p MP4 HD. This is a far cry from the quality I am used to. The greatest sin of this site is BOTH Sensi Pearl scenes (The MAIN reason I joined) are only in 480p MP4. This is one of the biggest let downs I have ever experienced. Combined her solo scenes are 450 MB ... I am horrified.
I mentioned earlier they have some of the best Heart core talent ever assembled. This includes August Ames,
Riley Reid
, Sensi Pearl, Alexis Adams just to name a few. But the problem is they do not direct them properly to show off their talents. There are scenes with super flexible girls but you would NEVER know it after watching the scene, likewise with big breasted girls they usually do not let em get shown properly in doggy style and that is a crime against humanity. About 10% of the scenes on this site are massage but it is the briefest massage you ever saw. This site could have been so much more.
Lets talk about scene quality. I downloaded all of their quality options for their 68.6% of scenes that are not in 1080p MP4 HD. The 1080p WMV and MPG options may as well not exist. They are much more bleached than the original scenes, slightly grainy and have periods of terrible pixelation caused by HORRIBLE encoding. On top of that these scenes have visual lag and distortion when you skip.
In my conclusion I cannot at this time suggest anyone place membership here. I even turned down the exceptional discount offer to their other sites which tells you just how disappointed I am in their work. I got in for $9 and the bottom line is it was not worth it.
Now if you just want to stream or enjoy pictures you may be VERY happy with this site.
What needs to change before I can suggest this site?
1) Release ALL of the content in 1080p MP4 HD. Even if it is only 1.25 GB in size I want that HD MP4 file.
2) In the future make use of the talented performers known assets. If they love anal DP those ladies, if they are flexible then highlight that for 10 mins in every position if they have great tata's then show them bounce in multiple positions. Use what is right in front of the camera.
3) I would like for every scene to be re-encoded to at least 3 GB of quality especially the Sensi Pearl scenes but I know this will never happen.
For a site with so much potential it is all for naught if none of these changes are made.
Casting Couch X
Current Member
over 1 month
(at the time of review).
A great conveyor belt of really fresh & cute porn starlets put through their paces for our enjoyment. One of my likes is 'getting to know the girl' before the action starts and this is well done with the interview. My next like is getting to know the body and again this is well delivered as she is asked to strip off and we get to see her in all her natural glory. Yum!
Then as above, she's put through her paces before having a full face splattering of boy batter
Really, really evil and utterly dishonest cross selling. If you click on one of the (far too many) cross selling ads and try one of the options thinking it's a trailer, you'll get billed for a month of access at a stupidly high rate.
No kidding
Happened to me & when you look in to it, they have a warning on their 'customer service' (good joke) page about people fraudulently trying to get out of accounts they'd 'signed up to'. Ignore it and contact your credit card company for a refund. I did and got just that.
Bottom Line:
Good site but beware of the scamming
Porn Pros Network
Was a member approx.
1 month
prior to this review.
I had a three month membership to this site a year ago. It was so good I had to go back. I rarely do that with sites considering there is so much free stuff out there plus I like to try out different pay sites if I'm going to go that route. This site has incredible women, consistent updates and a ton of different content!! They also get tons of women just starting out before they start popping up on other sites.
It's a shame they make you pay for their other sites, passion/fantasy HD, casting couch-x, etc. They could make them available after a certain length of time the way 21st Sextury makes a new site or two available the longer you're a member. It gives you some incentive to stick around. The biggest problem they have, however, is bandwidth and dropped connections. I know it wasn't on my end bc when they dropped I still had great connections from the bangbros network.
Bottom Line:
Great content and a lot of it!! But they could really use some work on the IT side of things. Still one of my personal favorites.
Pure Mature
Current Member
less than 1 month
(at the time of review).
+ About 215 scenes of exclusive milf / mature hardcore action featuring mostly attractive gals.
+ All scenes have vids and about 98% have pic sets with zips.
+ Multiple download options on vids and vid quality is good. All vids have at least one HD download option.
+ Good download speeds for me (about 3-4 MB/sec).
+ Decent price of $18 month through TBP.
+ Bills through Epoch.
+ The inbrowser video player works well.
+ Good production values across the board.
+ Model directory seems complete.
- Not really a picture site (see below).
- Downloaded files and vids poorly labelled (just numbers).
- Too much music in the earlier produced vids.
- No real search function or tags. No model information.
- Pretty much M/F hardcore, not much anal or 3 way and zero solo or lesbian if you're into that.
- A bit too "heartcore" for my tastes.
- Updates only once a week.
- As one sort of expects with the older actresses, there is a lot of silicone to look at.
Bottom Line:
Wasn't really sure what I'd be getting here when I signed up other than a more mature line of starlets. Overall, it's pretty much a straight M/F hardcore site featuring pornstars in their late 20's to late 40's. The girls are mostly attractive pornstars (no BBW) and the production value is good to excellent across the board (no amateur feel to it). Here's the specs:
PICS: Like I said this isn't really a picture site. The pics dating from the beginning to late 2014 have portrait resolution of 1500x2700 but only have landscape resolution of 1500x840. What went wrong there? Others are a hodge podge of different sizes (a lot of 1000x1500 though). The most recent pics are all 1000x1500. The pics mostly look like HD screen grabs so there is some blurriness and cropping is questionable at times. A lot of scenes are shot in bright light or white backgrounds which causes some pixelation and washout. Most of my downloads were done in hopes that I could salvage some stuff that would look good on my monitor as opposed to looking forward to editing the sets later.
VIDS: Download speeds were good for me. With earlier vids you get options 1080 mpeg or wmv or 480. Starting in 2014 you also get 720 resolution options. This mostly a "heartcore" site which means lots of bright background lighting. The older vids show a bit of pixelation because of this but it improves over time. Also, through late 2013, the theme was "heartcore" (aka - porn for mimes) meaning that no one in the scene makes any real sex noises. Apparently the producers noticed that and thus incorporated random porn synthesizer music into various parts of the scenes to take it down another notch. The music goes away for the later vids (late 2013 onward) and the action gets more heated but there are no real story lines or conversation in the vids. The camera work is decent though and you do get some nonstandard views which is welcome.
NAV: As noted, it's pretty basic. You can only search according to model, date or ranking. If you are looking for something specific in a scene then you'll have wade through everything to find it because nothing is tagged.
MISC: There is a fair amount of POV style shooting here (run by remote or a cameraman, not the herky jerky hand held stuff done by the guy). The scene shifts in the vids can be a bit choppy at times too. Otherwise, the main theme is heartcore or heartcore with a slight edge. No real slapping or spitting here which is fine by me but it's almost too tame, especially if you've seen some of the actresses other work. As a comedian once said, "If the sex ain't dirty, you ain't doing it right."
If you're looking to add to your mature video collection it's worth taking a look at. Otherwise I'd say it's OK. If you're into pics then I'd say move along. Average is the site so average be my score.
Discount price does not work
the best porn lists discount at 17.95 but when you use the link and select join the price is 29.95
My Very First Time
Current Member
less than 1 month
(at the time of review).
- Some fresh models early in their careers
- Lots of download and streaming options
- Good production values
- TBP Discount
- Small site
- Updates are very slow to arrive
- Site will remain small unless the update schedule is increased
- Download speeds varied
- Would be better off as part of a network
Bottom Line:
When I saw this site listed as a new site on TBP I signed up. Im a big fan of collecting firsts, and especially collecting first anals. I knew this would be a small site since it was just starting out but I had high hopes that it would develop into a great site for this rare niche. And the fact that the site is affiliated with Porn Pros gave me some comfort too. I went into the membership with my eyes open and the scenes are good but unless one fatal flaw is fixed this site isn't worth the membership right now.
There are currently only nine scenes uploaded. For a new site in a narrow niche thats to be expected though. The problem specific to this site is that it appears that they only add one new scene per month. When the site started they added one new scene every three days and then they went a month before a new scene was added. Unless they pick up the pace this site will be a low value for a while.
The scenes themselves are well done. All of the models are typical porn cupcakes in that they are young (18-20), petite and natural. Several of the models will be added to my list of favorites and I hope to see a lot more of them in the future.
Of the nine scenes one is billed as the models first scene ever, one is the models first interracial scene, two are each models first (vaginal only) gang bang and five are the models first anal scenes.
The videos are available in streaming or as a download. Streaming is available in two resolutions. Downloads are available as MP4s in 1080p, 720p and 480p, as a 480p MPG1 and as a 720p WMV. I downloaded the 720p MP4s and those come in at 1280x720 and 2,600 kb/s. While the bitrate is low there is no pixilation at all and the video looks sharp.
Photos are available too as singles or as a zip. The zipped photos are 1500x1000.
The site allows download managers and I didnt have any issue using one. Download speeds varied from average to poor I often saw download speeds drop below 1MB/s. (The site seems to be affiliated with Porn Pros and I have that same issue there too.)
So would I recommend the site? Probably not, unless you really need to have one or more of the scenes. Even with the TBP discount this site isn't a good value and unless they start updating more often itll be a long time before it is a good value. This is an under-served niche and the site could be a great stand-alone site if it was updating more frequently. As it is now, however, the site would be far a better option as part of a larger network.
Passion HD
Extremely slow downloads/generic file names
The downloads are crazy slow! A 1.4gb video takes upwards of 2.5-3 hours, most others take around 20 minutes. I have broadband cable internet so it is on their side. I had a membership with another site that had HD videos and their 2gb videos were downloading in under 7 minutes. All videos have generic labels (like WMV 1080p)and have to be renamed on download to prevent a duplicate file warning, this is unacceptable. I will not renew or upgrade my membership to this site for these reasons.
Casting Couch X
site access
was locked out the first time I tried to login. not to happy.
Casting Couch X
Upsells and spam
Damn... even the login page asks if you want to buy into their network of sites. $69.95 for access to all their sites. Funny that this supposedly 24-hour sale for their members has been going on for the entire week I've been signed up.
Next, every video you look at has a list of every video that model has done on sites you don't have access to. "BUY ME! BUY ME!"
And what a coincidence it is that, ever since I signed up, my email is suddenly filled with spam - all with similar subject lines.
Yeah - we all know porn is a business. Does it really have to include bullshit like this?
Tiny 4K
Hot girls - lame scenes
This site, in a way, reminds me of the girlsdoporn site in that it COULD be such a hot site with the girl's they get on, but completely fails to be because of lame scene direction and the equally lame male talent. And this is across the board for all the Pornpros company sites because it's mostly all the same male talent, and he sucks.
Now in girlsdoporn it's the same stupid camera angles where you never get a really good money shot of anything that's the problem, always shooting from the side, or with the girl facing the camera when the guy is doggie, etc. With Tiny4k, or the other sites under this company umbrella, it's actually a pretty similar problem, although you do get close ups of the penetration at least. HOWEVER, it's still the same issue where you never really get to see the girl's vag because it always has a dick in it during the scene, the ENTIRE time. And I know what you're thinking, of course there should be a dick in the vag - but I'm talking like some scenes you literally never even see the girl's pussy once. The guy (always the same big dicked white guy) NEVER does any pull-outs during the scenes, just mechanical fucking constantly, and they edit out the position changes and lots of other stuff where you may could see the girl's private parts a bit more. I want to see a few pussy gapes from fucking, I want to see some in and outs, this boring mechanical pumping endlessly is just that - BORING!
Every once in a while I check out the latest updates, but they are all the same thing, lame. I've lost count of how many girls I literally have no idea what their pussies look like because they never once make a point to show them - and I want to see their pussies damnit! :P
Pure Mature
Long live Matures!
An excellent site if you like matures; Janet Mason,
Brandi Love
, Lisa Ann, Ava Adams, Nikki Daniels and more. If you don't like boob jobs and veteran stars with a few wrinkles then stay away. These pros can outperform just about anyone on the industry and I am elated to have found fresh scenes from them. Video quality and pics are excellent the last two years and very good prior. Highly Recommended.
Passion HD
Strange Review Leaving Off RePosting Issue
It's strange that - even though the review mentions that this site is owned by PornPros, and even though there was a comment a few months ago that this site is just posting old Porn Pro scenes as new - the review doesn't mention that fact. It's not like it has changed. The newest video on PassionHD was posted on PornPros back on 8/23/14.
I've got to say, it doesn't do much for my faith in the thoroughness of TBP reviews.
Fantasy HD
Current Member
over 2 months
(at the time of review).
- Nice modern look and feel to the site
- Great video player with fast playback, very little buffering, quality video
- Downloads offered as well as streaming
- Good quality photo sets
- Many of the models are very sexy
- Pristine video footage including brilliant lighting and clean, beautiful backgrounds
- Good videography including stable shots instead of the usual CrazyCam (handheld extreme closeups)
- Not a whole lot of fake stuff (fake boobs, fake screaming)
- Hot sex, sometimes ending in creampies
- No condoms otherwise
- Low on updates
- Mostly straight sex with the normal position progressions; nothing unusual, no surprises
Bottom Line:
.com is a part of the new school of Internet porn ushering the era of higher standards: better lighting, better editing, clearer, cleaner pictures with more beautiful models having sensual sex in elegant surroundings without intrusive, painful music, jarring camera angles. Billed female-friendly, or "couples friendly porn,"
is another site that focuses on the intense pleasure of the female instead of some guy on steroids speed fucking a bleached-blonde with fake tits, tats and a spray-on tan for 25 boring minutes. The one thing making it hard for me to keep paying for my subscription, nevertheless, is that the updates are coming FAR and FEW in between. I suppose you can't rush perfection, and you'd rather have a few scenes so hot that your dick will leak precum without touching it than to get week after week of weak sauce--pardon the pun. But at $25-$30 a MONTH, and thousands of sites out there, you Have to be able to deliver so perhaps they launched too soon. In spite of that, I plan on sticking around, and checking back for when they do upload that new video that gives me what I'm paying for.
Casting Couch X
Zips don't work
The zip downloads will not work for the sets posted since about June 2013. Prior to that the zips will work. There's no indication of technical support for this type of problem.
Porn Pros Network
looks like great content if i could get to it.
i paid for a membership yesterday, and 24 hours later i still cannot log in using my verified user / password. should have listened to the other reviews. seems like a site with this kind of high quality focus on content would have a better tech team!!
Lots of the preview page pics have nice gaping pussies then the video has 0
So for some mind boggling reason, all the previews on this site and the similar sites like
, castingcouch-x, etc all have some pretty interesting PICTURE previews of the scenes. Girls getting fucked by big dicks and having their pussies gaped open. But stop right there!!! Do not expect to see this in the videos. Video after video you will experience never once seeing the girls pussies. Scene after scene of robotic male talent never once pulling their dicks out to show us the goods. It's beyond boring and disappointing. Why in the hell do most of the pics on the preview pages focus on some pussy gaping when there is ZERO in the videos?????
Kasey Warner's scene on POVD is like a perfect example. The last 2 positions (doggie and piledriver) were absolute PERFECT opportunities for some pullouts to show a nice stretched vag. But nope, not 1 pullout during the fucking and even the pullout to switch positions is cut out. Good lord get a clue people.
Porn Pros Network
Limited download options
I've just joined this site, and I'm not happy with the limited download options even for newer videos.
For many files only 3 formats are offered: MPG 1080, WMV 1080, and MP4 480. I think it's a little odd that their go-to formats are wmv and mpg, especially if you are used to high quality mp4 files.
The worst part is that you don't even get full hd videos when you choose the 1080 MPG option. Files added before December 2013 only seem to have a resolution of 1280x720.
If you are looking for high quality full hd porn, go join another site.
Tiny 4K
Current Member
less than 1 month
(at the time of review).
- A small collection of scenes featuring some of the most petite U.S.-based models working today
- Ultra HD for those who want it
- TBP Discount
- Supports download managers
- Options for downloads
- Simple and effective site layout
- Photos available (single and zip)
- Tiny doesnt just describe the models
- 4K may be the answer to a question few are asking
- Updates are irregular
- Could / should be bundled with other sites until it grows
Bottom Line:
Ill get this out of the way first: I have no need for 4K videos so I didnt download any to keep. I view most of my porn on a 24 monitor so going that large just doesnt give me any advantage. When you factor in the file size the negligible benefit for me in viewing is offset by the extra space needed on a hard drive. For those who are interested though, the 4K files come in at 4096x2160, 10,000kb/s and 23fps.
And Ill get the sites main drawback out of the way now too: tiny doesnt just describe the models on the site. There are currently only 12 videos uploaded as I write this. A secondary drawback is that the update schedule is irregular so I cant give any indication of how quickly the site will grow. The site started in early May and by the end of May eight scenes were available. No scenes were uploaded in June and they have since added four scenes in July (as of the 15th). But since the site is affiliated with a large online porn company I suspect that they will continue to grow.
The scenes they do have are very well shot and presented with excellent production values. The models are all mainstream porn models and theyre a whos who of petite models working today. These are: Ava Taylor, Chloe Amour, Chloe Foster, Dakota Skye, Dillion Harper, Emma Stoned, Jenna J Ross, Kacey Jordan and Kacy Lane. Eleven of the scenes are b/g and one is b/g/g.
All of the scenes are vaginal only. Im not sure what constitutes couples porn, but it is fair to say that these are not rough scenes where the model endures some hard sex, though some may see it this way since the site does flaunt petite models with large men, so it isnt true artcore either. The scenes range from approximately 20 minutes to about 35 minutes.
The site is simple and effective, which it should be since it is this small. There are search functions which may prove useful as the site grows. Each scene opens into a separate page where a trailer is available, as are screencaps and photos. The photos are available as a zip but the screencaps arent. There is streaming available in SD and HD, and downloads are available in MP4 format (4K, 1080p, 720p and 480p), in 480p MPG1 and as WMV in 720p. There is some way to view the scenes that will satisfy most users. I downloaded the 720p MP4 which arent exactly that. They come in at 1280x674 and 23fps. Oddly, the bitrates vary widely from scene to scene with some being as low as 3,000 kb/s and some being as high as 10,000. Subjectively they look great even though the numbers are a bit lower than competitor sites.
The site supports download managers and I had no issue with links timing out in an unreasonably short time.
The site offers a TBP discount which is a good thing because until it grows it would be a poor value at the full price. The same company has 61 other sites listed here (
Casting Couch X
being the only one Im familiar with) and it would be a good idea to bundle it with other company sites until it grows.
The bottom line is that at $18 for 12 scenes (with more to be added, presumably) the site likely isnt a good enough value for the casual user. I think it represents fair value at the discounted price since this is a niche I like and many of the models here are those who are on my list of current favorites. I think the real measure of value here will be how quickly the site grows and how close they are able to stick to their premise of petite models while growing the site at a reasonable pace.
Current Member
less than 1 month
(at the time of review).
Very nice high quality videos
Generally very nice looking models
Good lighting and sets
A few minutes of amazing POV footage in every scene
Navigation is simple
Nice layout
Mostly US models that sometimes talk a little
Considerable variety of girls
Very little content
Some video is very distorted (think go-pro)
Many links to other sites you have to pay for
A few videos FROM other sites.
Infrequent updates
Inconsistent access and download speeds
Bottom Line:
On the face of it, this is a pretty interesting site and I joined because of their amazing POV videos peppered around the Internet. I knew the content would be small, but not THIS small. There are only about 40 videos TOTAL that are native to this site as of 5/15/2014. Fortunately, the site owners take pity on you and give you limited, rather inconsistent access to a few other sites.
This site is actually part of a network, but you don't have full access to the rest of the network. Instead, you occasionally get to watch one of the other-site videos and maybe download that content, but you don't always have access to the other sites...maybe there is a view limit to external material or something...I'm not sure. I am thankful, though, that the site owners recognize that giving away some content from their other sites is a good idea, but there really isn't enough content within this whole network to compete with some of the bigger sites out there. If you DO want to join the whole network, it will set you back $69.00 a month or so for a monthly subscription. Thanks, but no thanks. I've been a member of some of the other sites, and they are also very small (Passion-HD, Casting Couch-X, Fantasy-HD,
Pure Mature
) although the video quality is usually very good. I get that these guys have to make money, but Geeez.... explain the rules to me, please.
This site is a video site so the images are secondary and mostly just from the video shoot. Some are screen-caps but it seems that there is somebody taking pictures as well and many of these are not bad.
Download times seem a lot slower than average and downloads time out a LOT and once stopped cannot be restarted. I can't tell if this is due to a download limit or something else. Again, it would really help to know the rules.
The videos themselves are generally very good and all are 720 or 1080p. I have no idea why it has taken so long for POV videos to take off. There is nothing quite like a virtual scene where you are looking down at a totally naked girl who is on her back with her legs in the air as your virtual dick rams into her. And you get to see it from your POV for pretty much every sexual position. There is one scene where "you" are lying on a bed and a girl sits on your face, but then as the camera angle changes (you tilt your virtual head a little), you see another girl bouncing on your dick. That just seems like the pinnacle of virtual sex to me....at least until they start creating porn for an Oculus Rift!
There are a few nitpicks that I am not fond of, but other people may really like. For one, the male actor in many of the scenes is into licking assholes. A POV close-up of somebody licking a girls asshole is something you can't really un-see and I prefer not to see another tongue going into an asshole from that close....ever again. Also, there are a couple of girls that, although generally very attractive, just are not ready for their close-ups when you are talking about being a couple of inches away from their snatch in the glory of high-def. Fortunately, only a few girls fall into this category. But the most disturbing oddity is that occasionally the POV switches to that of the woman. It is sometimes interesting when the girl is in the shower or something, but this is really, really weird when the girl is getting fucked. There you are drawn into an amazing scene imagining you are screwing the lights out of this awesome girl and suddenly, the POV perspective changes, you are the girl and YOU are getting screwed! Sorry. HUGE NOPE! Same thing happens occasionally while the guy is getting head. I suppose when it comes to POV, there is "give and take", but I am not a taker in this regard. Some Day I'll fire up my Adobe Suite and edit all the junk out of these...some day...maybe. My suggestion to the camera crew and website owners is to take that stuff and create a separate girls POV site. One hetero and one lesbian, even. How about gay POV? You never know who might show up....well, except it won't be me. Sorry.
Bottom line? There are a few OMG videos here that make it worth it to visit, but try to do it at a discount and don't sign up for more than the minimum time-frame....at least until they get their video count up quite a bit. The quality is great, but the quantity is just too low for now.
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ISOP is designed to help make the transition into life in the UK and studying with us as smooth as possible for you. ISOP will cover a range of seminars and social events which will be very interactive and will give you the opportunity to meet other new and current UCL students and ask questions. For more information about the sessions please see our programme of events for the induction days.
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The iPhone has an iconic look, but not everyone is content with the standard black and white casing. A report in the New York Times details how a growing number of people are risking their warranty by modding their phones. It's not just individuals working alone in their garage, but a new set of companies whose primary business is to help you tweak your phone's appearance
There's Zeetron which offers an iGlow modification that'll light up the Apple logo when you are using your phone and Material6 which sells kits to replace the back of your iPhone with a rustic, wooden casing.
It's the predictability of the iPhone that's allowed these cottage companies to flourish. Unlike Android phones which come in a variety of sizes and shapes, the iPhone's dimensions have remained relatively consistent. Of course, there was a big jump from the iPhone 3GS to the iPhone 4, but among five models that was the biggest deviation from a consistent product design.
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is to know your pupils more
than everything else
standardized madness
equals indoctrination
not education
Inspire, evoke, plan.
Model discernment and growth.
Incorporate praise.
Give gifted teachers
A nice paycheck and freedom;
It works for Finland!
It takes a village
Stop protecting status quo
Think outside the box
Adults should ask this:
Not what do all children need;
What does THIS child need?
Technology now
It's in their world and their hands
Let's start using it!
reversal of roles
look up from their eyes, hearts - then
understanding, teaching
Don't be selective
Rich, poor, Black, White, neighborhood
Give all the same now!
NOW [New] Sophists will clear up
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Secretary of State John F. Kerry extended his sweep through Iraq Tuesday, stopping in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, where a top Kurdish leader warned that a recent advance of Sunni extremists has created "a new reality and a new Iraq."
The comments by Kurdish Regional President Massoud Barzani, who met with Mr. Kerry a day after the secretary of state visited leaders in Baghdad, prompted new speculation that Iraqi Kurds may be poised to push for independence from the nation's divided Sunni and Shiite populations.
While recent weeks have seen Kurdish militias seize control of key areas of northern Iraq in response to the surge by Sunni extremists, Mr. Barzani did not specify exactly what he meant in referring to a "new Iraq," according to The Associated Press, which reported on the Kurdish leader's remarks.
Mr. Barzani, whose minority bloc has long functioned as kingmaker in Iraqi politics, did not directly mention Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is facing the strongest challenge to his rule since he assumed power in 2006.
But Mr. al-Maliki has made little effort beyond rhetoric to win the trust of his critics, who are led by disaffected Sunnis, Kurds and even several former Shiite allies.
Without the cooperation of the Kurdish militias, who now control the oil rich city of Kirkuk, Washington's push for a new cross-sectarian government in Baghdad is likely to face significant hurdles during the days and weeks ahead.
The United States, along with Turkey, which borders Iraq to the north and also has a large Kurdish population, have long opposed the idea of an independent Kurdistan in the region and Mr. Kerry appeared to push that message on Mr. Barzani Tuesday.
"A united Iraq is a stronger Iraq, and our policy is to respect the territorial integrity of Iraq as a whole," Mr. Kerry said during an interview with NBC after meeting with the Kurdish leader, according to a transcript of the interview posted on the State Department's website.
Mr. Kerry said he is confident that, despite what Mr. Barzani may have said publicly, the Kurdish leadership will work with the other factions in Baghdad to hold Iraq together.
"At this moment, [Mr. Barzani] is going to participate in the government formation process," Mr. Kerry said. "He is committed to trying to help yet again to find a means of having a unity government."
The meeting between Mr. Kerry and Mr. Barzani in Irbil came a day after Mr. Kerry made a surprise visit to Baghdad to push a message of inclusion on leaders of Iraq's Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish political factions to confront what he called an "existential threat" to the country.
Mr. Kerry called on the bitterly divided factions to honor commitments to seat a new Iraqi parliament next week before a burgeoning Sunni insurgency — which has become aligned with al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during recent weeks — crushes any hope for a lasting peace in Iraq.
"This is a critical moment for Iraq's future," Mr. Kerry said at a press conference on Monday evening in Baghdad. "It is a moment of decision for Iraq's leaders, and it's a moment of great urgency."
Mr. al-Maliki has been focused on the security situation, spending hours each day in the main military command center, rather than politics, officials close to his inner circle say, speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren't authorized to release such details.
Despite the attention, Iraq's mainly Shiite security forces have failed to wage any successful counteroffensives against the insurgents.


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