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Bondage Boutique Beginners Soft Blindfold
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Perfect for bondage beginners, this soft blindfold covers your partner's eyes for tantalising sensory deprivation play. Clever sculpting over the bridge of the nose gives a complete blackout, so there'll be no peeking (unless you let them...).
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Product Description
Perfect for bondage beginners, this soft blindfold covers your partner's eyes for tantalising sensory deprivation play. Clever sculpting over the bridge of the nose gives a complete blackout, so there'll be no peeking (unless you let them...).
Padded and lined for additional comfort, and with a gently elasticated head strap to keep it firmly in place, you'll be comfortable enough to wear this eye mask all night long. Now - who brought the handcuffs?
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- Soft, secure and effective soft blindfold
- Padded with fleeced lining for comfort during wear
- Thick elasticated head strap keeps blindfold securely in place
- Fitted shape ensures total blackout during play
- Perfect for beginner bondage
How it measures up
- Length: 8.5 inches
How it feels
- Fastening: Straps
- Material: Neoprene
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Bondage Boutique Beginners Soft Blindfold
Only: £6.99
Who turned out the lights?!
Reviewed: 10 May 2016 by Racer248, a Straight Going Steady Male
Came nice and quickly in a small envelope so no clue as to what was inside.
Made of a nice soft material and looks very good too.
When first put on the elasticated strap is perhaps a little too loose for smaller heads. Does let a small amount of light in by the nose. Solved that issue but turning it inside out and the material is closer to your face so completely blocks out the light. Perfection at last!
We had to invest in this as our old one gave up the ghost so to speak so this was in for a rough time.
So far so good, it doesn't slide off your face during rough play (unlike others) and as mentioned above blocks out the light and leaves you in suspense to the next pleasure or punishment.
A must-buy for all couples as heightens any experience whether just vanilla play or more advanced bondage.
A great little buy!
- Pros
- Does block out the light.
- Cons
- Strap a touch too big.
- Bottom line
- Perfect and cheap too!
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Comfy and stays put
Reviewed: 12 January 2016 by BexiBubble, a Bisexual Engaged Female
This little blindfold is great!
It looks really good and is really well made. The eyepiece is soft and doesn't irritate the face at all. The elastic is strong enough to keep the blindfold in place but not too tight so it's totally comfortable.
It really does blindfold you as well. With all the ones I've tried in the past I have found them to be a bit too big or small and have never got the right coverage. Always being able to slightly see what is going on. But not so with this product. It was great.
The complete darkness it gives you adds so much to the experience. Every time my other half gets it out I get really excited. I know I'm in for a good time.
Well worth it, especially at such a low price. Total bargain!
- Pros
- Really well made.
- Cons
- Can't think of anything.
- Bottom line
- Total Bargain!
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Blindingly good fun
Reviewed: 21 November 2015 by New Lisa Life , a Straight Going Steady Female
This little item has so much going for it.
Looks the part, feels soft and is really comfortable to wear. It works equally well as a unisex item and I find it totally does the job which I got it for and blocks all the light out when my partner wants to keep me in the dark.
I find it a real turn on when my partner puts this on me as I can't see and can only feel what he is getting up to. I for one will definitely be bringing this out time and time again. The whole idea of being blindfolded during our intimate moments is a major buzz! Also the fact I'm a night worker gives it a double use and helps block out daylight to help me sleep.
- Pros
- Comfortable, soft and its double use as a sleep mask.
- Cons
- Nothing at all.
- Bottom line
- Great kinky fun!
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A car with an average MPG will needs 11.9 gallons of gas to get the route between these points.
The estimated cost of gas to get between Greenville, SC and Hilton Head Island, SC is $27.01.
During the route, an average car will release 233.14 pounds of CO2 to the atmosphere. Your carbon footprint is 0.91 pounds of CO2 per mile.
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To Clone or Image? That is the Question
The question has been asked whether to clone a hard drive or image a hard drive. This is honestly how the question was presented. We thought our faithful readers might enjoy the phraseology.
To clone or not to clone?
To image or not to image?
These are the questions that plague us mere mortals when faced with the reality that our personal computing devices are mortal too.
One may ask, "What the heck is the difference?"
They both backup our feeble machines.
They both restore data.
So tell me, oh soothsayer from the town of byte, why would I want to clone a hard drive when I should image the drive, or versa visa?
Life was so much easier when we use to carve all our important information into stone!
I guess the questioner was in a Shakespearian mood. The answer is not a simple one. Cloning or imaging all depends on what you want to accomplish by the process.
Purpose of Imaging Hard Drives
Imaging a drive is more for backing up purposes. The best way to use the computer imaging process would be to take an image of a healthy computer, copy that image file and put it in a safe place, then set up an incremental backup on the original image.
The purpose of copying and saving the original image is in case you incrementally backed up a virus or some other form of scumware on the original image. If that happened, you would still have the original image for restoration purposes without having to reinstall Windows and all of the other applications that have accumulated on your hard drive.
Purpose of Cloning Hard Drives
Cloning a drive actually clones the entire contents of the drive to another drive or partition and does not create an image file. Cloning a drive is useful to upgrade your hard drive or clone a failing drive to a new one. The only issue with cloning is that you need to have two physical hard drives in the same computer (unless you have an external USB hard drive enclosure on hand). This review shows how to clone a laptop hard drive with a hard drive enclosure.
During the cloning process, you choose which drive you want to clone. If you accidentally pick the new empty drive, and clone that to the original drive, you will totally overwrite all of your data. No getting it back, it's gone. Been there done that – once. This is why I recommend using the hard drive imaging process to upgrade a hard drive. It adds an extra step but it is a safety measure as well.
The Confusion
You can clone a hard drive using the imaging process. This is where the confusion may set in and the question arises about whether to clone or image. Acronis True Image 2016 includes the cloning and imaging utilities.
If you are upgrading your hard drive to a larger one, or replacing it due to the original drive starting to fail due to a physical failure, cloning is the easiest method to complete that task. All you have to do is put the new drive in the computer as a slave or secondary drive and clone the old drive to the new one. Once the process is complete, switch the new drive to the primary and you are good to go. I can't stress this enough; make sure you know which drive you are cloning so you do not overwrite the original drive.
You can also accomplish the same task by imaging the old drive to an external drive and then switch internal drives. You can then use the Acronis boot CD or bootable USB drive to restore the image to the new drive. This is the recommended method of cloning if you are not quite sure what you are doing because it reduces the risk of any accidental data loss.
Recommended Hard Drive Cloning and Imaging Utilities
Acronis True Image 2016 has been released and it is optimized for Windows 10 and the most recent Mac OS X versions. This version is up to 50% faster than the competition. This version combines the features of the previous Premium version which includes dynamic disk support and Universal Restore allowing you to restore data to a different PC even if it has different hardware. Wi-Fi support has also been added when backing up to the Acronis Cloud even to a bare-metal PC. The Media Builder has also been simplified as has the Entire PC Backup scenario. A True Image 2016 coupon code will be posted when it becomes available. See our full review of Acronis True Image. Save up to $50 on Acronis True Image 2016 products during the Acronis Summer Sale!
Acronis True Image Cloud is Windows 10 compatible and is a great tool to use if you plan on upgrading to Windows 10. Acronis True Image Cloud combines local backup and cloud backup for an extra level of security. It includes support for mobile devices allowing you to backup and recover all your pictures, videos, contacts, events from Android devices, iPhones, iPads, and Windows tablets.Simply take an image and back everything up to the cloud or a local backup if you prefer. This version of True Image comes with unlimited cloud backup and universal restore so you can restore a PC image to totally different hardware. You can now restore your computer from up to 10 previous states in Mac, and up to 20 states in Windows. It has an Online Dashboard allowing you to manage multiple computers and mobile devices so you can restore your PC or Mac Anywhere, Anytime with True Image Cloud. See our Review of Acronis True Image Cloud. Save 10% on Acronis True Image Cloud with Coupon Code: BUYACRONIS1016 Does not include upgrades.
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Released: Jul 02nd, 2007
Running Time: 114 Min.
Company: Totally Tasteless Video
Cast: Julius Ceazher, Camrie Foxxx, Tony Eveready, Shy Reeves, Dena Caly, Bambi Brown
Critical Rating: AA
Genre: Specialty
The title really leaves nothing to the imagination: Black MILFs get fucked to an oozing cream pie shot. The producers are clearly trying to make up in number of genres what is lacking in interesting sex. The women are reasonably attractive, if a bit silicone-infused. But the paycheck is more interesting than the dick. It's fuck by the numbers.
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George pocketed $3.7 million for performing at a Russian billionaire's New Year's Eve 2006 bash. The businessman paid for Michael to entertain his 300 guests with an hour-long concert. The party took place on his private estate, 32km outside Moscow. George was flown out to the billionaire's mansion with his 20-strong entourage of band and backing singers.
George wrote many of his songs while working at a movie theatre when he was a teenager.
George's album "Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1" won the Brit Award for British Album in 1991.
He won the 1997 Brit Award for British Male Solo Artist.
George wrote "Careless Whisper" at the age of 17, but didn't release it until he was 21 years old.
He is said to be worth approximately £70 million.
His last performance with "Wham!" was on June 1986 at Wembley Stadium.
In the past, George has sung duets with such singing legends including Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blidge, Elton John & Whitney Houston.
George's height is: 5' 11" (1.80m).
In October 2006, George was arrested for possession of drugs. He was taken in by the London police after he blocked traffic at a busy set of lights when he passed out in the driver's seat of his car.
Update: George will appear before London magistrates on January 11, 2007.
Source: NW magazine (Aus)
After a string of car accidents, Michael has now employed a driver to ferry him around London.
George was spotted driving haphazardly in his jeep in London in April 2006. He looked dazed and confused and was spotted falling asleep at the wheel, despite having his car radio on full volume. He crashed into a median strip and knocked over a pole. This is the second driving offence for George in as many months.
George (on his 2008 U.S. tour): I don't want to do anything on this scale again. No more stadiums. I'd like to be the Tony Bennett for my generation. It's the end of a certain era, and I'm not sure how much I really want to be a part of what's next. So, it's a kind of a way of saying thank you to everybody before I move on.
George: I hate not to be able to rise above it, but there is only so much you can take. I'm suing the individual involved who I have never, ever seen, let alone wanted to have any kind of sexual encounter with, and I'm currently investigating suing the secondary sources of libel. I am taking legal action against the photographers because they're harassing me and I should not have to worry about who's watching me at 2:30 in the morning.
George: I have been doing this on and off since I was a teenager and never once seen violence. If I want to see violence or what I call shameful behaviour, the idea that women in clubs these days have to hold their hand over their drink for fear of being drugged ... Please don't tell me as a member of the straight community that I am taking risks. I know what I do and I am sorry, but we should not be taking questions like this, from straight women in particular ... I do not deserve the criticism. What I don't have respect for is some demand for answers from an openly gay man who is living his own life. I have not cheated or lied about my sex life to anybody in my life, in my entire life.
George: It was my own stupid fault. I was in possession of class C drugs which is an offence and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.
George: The trajectory of my particular soap opera with the press launched from that statement Elton (John) made about eighteen months ago when Elton hadn't seen me for years. Elton said he thought I was really miserable for some reason. From that point on I've been trying to prove that I'm not. Unfortunately it made me incredibly vulnerable to the press.
George: Even though it's become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it's still effective and it still has to be done.
George: I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man.
George: I do think that Live Aid was a great thing, it focused people, I think it showed young kids the way in many respects and I think a lot of people are still inspired by what happened in the mid-Eighties.
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Mobility Solutions is the largest Bosch Group business sector. In 2015, its sales came to 41.7 billion euros, or 59 percent of total group sales. This makes the Bosch Group one of the leading automotive suppliers. The Mobility Solutions business sector combines the groups expertise in three mobility domains automation, electrification, and connectivity and offers its customers integrated mobility solutions. Its main areas of activity are injection technology and powertrain peripherals for internal-combustion engines, diverse solutions for powertrain electrification, vehicle safety systems, driver-assistance and automated functions, technology for user-friendly infotainment as well as vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication, repair-shop concepts, and technology and services for the automotive aftermarket. Bosch is synonymous with important automotive innovations, such as electronic engine management, the ESP anti-skid system, and common-rail diesel technology.
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2. Matthews 'Thrilled' By Obama Surge,Pushes McAuliffe: Get Vote Out
3. NYTimes on VP Picks: Lots of Conservative Labels, No Liberal Ones
4. Bipartisan Support of New FISA, Nets See 'Controversy' & 'Spying'
5. CBS's Early Show: High Gas Prices Deadly for Sick and Elderly
ABC, CBS and NBC Morning Shows All Hit
After Obama attempted to reassure Mitchell that he still supported timetables for Iraq, the CBS anchor pressed for more comforting words: "So that's still the plan, 16 months after you take office?" Over on ABC's Good Morning America, co-host Diane Sawyer pointedly told the candidate that "some of your core supporters" have been sensing "shifting positions and you've gotten quite a drubbing in a couple of fronts." She asked: "This is the question this morning: You have said previously, we will be out -- we will be out of Iraq in 16 months. Are you now saying it's your goal or that you might refine that or do you still repeat, we will be out in 16 months?"
On NBC's Today show, Matt Lauer lectured the Illinois Senator that "people" were "nervous" about Obama's backtracking on the issue of Iraq, as well as on other subjects. On Iraq, the journalist complained: "And on Iraq when, when throughout the primaries you did talk about this, this idea of getting U.S. troops out within 16 months of being elected and now you say, 'Look I'll talk to commanders and generals on the ground and my, my ideas are being refined.' People do get nervous about that Senator, you understand that?"
To prove Obama's rightward tilt on not just Iraq, the NBC co-host highlighted a complaint from leftist New York Times columnist Bob Herbert: "Let me read you what Bob Herbert said or wrote in the New York Times, on Tuesday. He said this, quote, 'Senator Obama is not just tacking gently toward the center. He's lurching right when it suits him, he's zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that's guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash.'"
When John McCain appeared on GMA on July 2, various hosts and reporters speculated five times that his trip to South America during such tough financial times might indicate a lack of caring about the economic situation of Americans. See a July 3, 2008 CyberAlert posting: www.mrc.org [1]
During the July 9 segment, however, Sawyer served up softballs for Obama to hit with campaign talking points. Noting that the Democrat will be doing an economic tour with Senator Hillary Clinton on the financial situation of women, Sawyer regurgitated: "One of the items [to be discussed] is to close the pay gap, which is now women earning 78 cents on the dollar for men. And yet it's only been closing for about two cents a year over the past decade. How are you going to close that gap?"
For the NewsBusters post on the Today show, with video: newsbusters.org [2]
For the Early Show post: newsbusters.org [3]
For the Good Morning America post: newsbusters.org [4]
Matthews 'Thrilled' By Obama Surge,Pushes
On Wednesday night's Hardball, Chris Matthews seemed "thrilled" by new poll numbers showing Obama gaining strength and was so caught up in Terry McAuliffe's prediction of a Democratic sweep he encouraged the former DNC chair "to get the vote out."
[This item, by Geoffrey Dickens, was posted Wednesday evening on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org [5]
First up, on the July 9 edition of Hardball, Matthews made the following introduction to a segment with NBC's Chuck Todd on state by state poll numbers. "Welcome back to Hardball. The NBC News political unit has some brand new battleground maps on the fight for the White House. Let's check in with NBC News political director Chuck Todd. Chuck, dazzle us right now, will ya? Because I'm thrilled with this. Obama's strength in the Northeast, the West Coast and the Great Lakes."
Now to be fair Matthews, he could have just been "thrilled" in anticipation of Todd's dazzling poll analysis. However, a little later in the program, Matthews seemed to have gotten caught up in the excitement of former DNC Chair McAuliffe anticipating a big Democratic victory in the fall:
MATTHEWS: How many senators after this is all over for the Democratic Party? 55? 56?
NYTimes on VP Picks: Lots of Conservative
While "conservatives" have trouble with Mitt Romney and Tom Ridge and like Sen. John Thune, there are apparently no liberals who have trouble with potential Democratic VP possibilities. Rounding another turn in the race to November 4, the New York Times "Election Guide -- Potential Running Mates," compiled by Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny and posted to nytimes.com on Monday, handicapped various potential vice presidents for Barack Obama and John McCain and analyzing whether they would help or hurt the candidate: politics.nytimes.com [6]
The initial filing contained twenty-one names, 11 potential Democrats and 10 potential Republicans (Democratic Sen. Jim Webb's name has since been removed after he took himself out of consideration). The rundown included seven uses of the word "conservative" as a description of either one of the candidates or a group of party supporters, including one "conservative Democrat," former senator Sam Nunn.
[This item, by Clay Waters, was posted Wednesday on the MRC's TimesWatch site: www.timeswatch.org [7] ]
We learned South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham "has occasionally rankled some conservatives by not being conservative enough," that former Pennsylvania governor Tom Ridge might not help with "McCain's already uneasy relations with conservatives," and that South Dakota Sen. John Thune "has strong credentials with social conservatives."
By contrast, not a single "liberal" was found in a lineup that included John Edwards and Hillary Clinton.
The Times didn't even talk about possible opposition from "liberal" voters to some Democratic picks, although the paper had plenty of opportunity to when discussing controversial Sen. Jim Webb, a blood-and-soil Democrat: "But any vetting process would have to take into account the vast writings of Mr. Webb, a former author, who has penned tales about the Confederacy that are controversial in the eyes of some, as well as his on-the-record comments about women serving in the military."
As for "conservative Democrat" Sam Nunn: "Mr. Obama would certainly encounter some heat from his supporters if he turned to Mr. Nunn."
Instead of vague words like "some" or "supporters," why can't the Times simply state the obvious -- that those who would oppose Nunn and Webb are liberals -- in the same manner the paper so freely tosses around the term "conservatives"?
Bipartisan Support of New FISA, Nets
Overwhelming bipartisan majorities in the Senate and House agreed to a new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) the President will happily sign, with the Senate -- including 21 Democrats -- voting for it Wednesday by 69 to 29, yet NBC and ABC painted it as "controversial" based on how the bill blocks lawsuits against telecommunications companies which cooperated with the President after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Though the program tracked communication between suspected terrorists overseas and people within the United States, not all of them Americans, NBC's Brian Williams delivered a more nefarious picture of firms that had "helped to spy on Americans" and ABC's Charles Gibson referred to "the ability to listen in on Americans without a warrant."
Williams announced: "The Senate approved controversial new rules allowing the government to listen in on phone calls and read e-mails. And what happened today is controversial in large part because America's telecommunications companies get unprecedented protection from lawsuits if they helped to spy on Americans in effect."
Gibson asserted: "One of the most controversial aspects of the bill will protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits for giving the government the ability to listen in on Americans without a warrant."
On NBC, reporter Pete Williams fretted: "This dooms more than three dozen lawsuits against telephone companies and e-mail providers over what they did to help the government intercept communications after 9/11. So this means that no court can now be asked to rule on whether the Bush administration's eavesdropping program was ever constitutional."
Only Pete Williams, however, noted the foreign requirement to the monitoring: "Now the government gets authority to spy on terror suspects overseas even if they are talking to people in the U.S. and it can do that without a court order."
In June, the bill passed the Democratic House by 293 to 129.
[This item, by the MRC's Brent Baker, was posted Wednesday on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org [8] ]
The AP dispatch, "Senate bows to Bush, approves surveillance bill," portrayed the Senate as bullied into the bill by President Bush. The lead from Washington bureau reporter Pamela Hess cited Bush's "demands" and how the telecommunication companies "helped the U.S. spy on Americans.":
See: news.yahoo.com [9]
By comparison, the WashingtonPost.com story carried a more straight-forward headline: "Senate Passes Surveillance Bill With Immunity for Telecom Firms." See: www.washingtonpost.com [10]
The New York Times article: "Senate Backs Wiretap Bill to Shield Phone Companies." See: www.nytimes.com [11]
ABC and CBS limited coverage to short items read by their anchors.
ABC's Charles Gibson, on the Wednesday, July 9 World News: "In Washington, the Senate has passed a bill which will overhaul the rules on the government's spying powers. The vote was 69-28. One of the most controversial aspects of the bill will protect telecommunications companies from lawsuits for giving the government the ability to listen in on Americans without a warrant. President Bush has been pushing hard for this bill for months."
BRIAN WILLIAMS: In Washington today, the Senate approved controversial new rules allowing the government to listen in on phone calls and read e-mails. And what happened today is controversial in large part because America's telecommunications companies get unprecedented protection from lawsuits if they helped to spy on Americans in effect. Our justice correspondent Pete Williams has more tonight from our Washington bureau. And Pete, for those who haven't kept up on this story, what's it all about?
CBS's Early Show: High Gas Prices Deadly
On Wednesday's CBS Early Show, co-host Russ Mitchell declared: "The high cost of gas is hurting everyone these days. Families, businesses, and even charities. Many organizations that deliver food to the sick and elderly are being hit extra hard." In the report that followed, correspondent Kelly Wallace went even further: "In one rural California case, according to the president of Meals on Wheels nationwide, cutting back from daily deliveries to one every 14 days proved fatal. Two seniors were found dead." The Meals on Wheels president, Enid Borden, explained: "We have people who are literally dying in their homes waiting for a meal. That's a crisis." Wallace also played a clip of Maryland Meals on Wheels executive director, Tom Grazio, who worried: "Some day in the not too distant future, unless things get better, we'll be telling people they can't eat today and that's disheartening."
[This item, by the MRC's Kyle Drennen, was posted Wednesday afternoon on the MRC's blog, NewsBusters.org: newsbusters.org [12] ]
Wallace then described "a dire situation in New York City," where Meals on Wheels director Marcia Stein continued the melodramatic theme: "For the first time in our 25-year history, we are having to ration food. We're having to make tough choices about who gets a meal, who does not get a meal, what days somebody might be without food." From this report, one is under the impression that people are literally starving to death across the country due to high gas prices. In May, the Early Show described how one woman "...pumps out her own blood, making $40 a pop so she has enough money to pump gas." See the May 29 CyberAlert: www.mrc.org [13]
Here is the full transcript of the story from the 8am half hour of the July 9 early Show:
RUSS MITCHELL: The high cost of gas is hurting everyone these days. Families, businesses, and even charities. Many organizations that deliver food to the sick and elderly are being hit extra hard. CBS News correspondent Kelly Wallace reports.
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: Meals on Wheels, Ruth.
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Laferte-sur-Aube tourism and travel guide
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Laferte-sur-Aube is situated in the Haute-Marne (Champagne-Ardenne region) in the north-east of France at 27 km from Chaumont, the department capital. (General information: Laferte-sur-Aube is 198 km from Paris).
Popular places to visit nearby include Joinville at 47 km and Langres at 48 km. For more places to visit and local tourist attractions see the map and listings below.
Laferte-sur-Aube, France: places to visit and attractions
Some places that we or our contributors have visited and reviewed and can recommend when sightseeing close to Laferte-sur-Aube. Note that all distances shown are 'direct' and real driving distances will be greater.
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Markets in and near Laferte-sur-Aube
Local markets
- Bar-sur-Aube: market Saturday (16km)
- Essoyes: market Wednesday (19km)
- Mussy-sur-Seine: market Thursday (25km)
- Chaumont: market Wednesday all day & Saturday all day (27km)
- Vendeuvre-sur-Barse: market Wednesday (28km)
- Bar-sur-Seine: market Friday (30km)
- Chatillon-sur-Seine: market Saturday (30km)
- Les Riceys: market Thursday (34km)
- Brienne-le-Chateau: market Thursday (38km)
- Nogent: market Tuesday (42km)
Tourist attractions to visit near Laferte-sur-Aube, France
Below we show places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Laferte-sur-Aube and wondering what to do next!
Recommended detour towns (fr: plus beau détour) Chatillon-sur-Seine (29km); Langres (48km)
Regional Natural Parcs Foret-d'Orient (37km)
Remarkable gardens Jardin du prieuré (44km); Le château du grand jardin (47km); Le jardin de mon moulin (49km)
Sites of natural beauty Lacs Amance et du Temple (36km); Lac d'Orient (38km)
Amusement park / theme park Nigloland (23km)
Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie) Colombe-le-Sec (18km); Neuville-sur-Seine (28km)
Geography and distances
Geographical Information
Commune: Laferte-sur-Aube
Canton: Châteauvillain
Arrondissement: Chaumont
Department: Haute-Marne
Region: Champagne-Ardenne
Postcode: 52120
Distance to Laferte-sur-Aube
from Chaumont (prefecture): 27 km
from Paris: 198 km
from Calais: 381 km
from Nice: 525 km
from Bordeaux: 547 km
from Strasbourg: 226 km
Getting here
For driving distances to Laferte-sur-Aube from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner.
We have 5 other places listed nearby (within 6 kilometres of Laferte-sur-Aube): Juvancourt, Rennepont, Silvarouvres, Villars-en-Azois and Ville-sous-la-Ferte.
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Yes sir! This Week in Michigan Football History returns for its 5th season as part of the WTKA 1050AM (and new this year, Sports Extra 1330AM in Flint) KeyBank Countdown to Kickoff.
Saturday we relive THE HORROR we jump back 11 years to the rosy season of 2003, when John Navarre and Chris Perry led the Wolverines on another championship run.
Things started off on August 30, 2003 when our pals from Mount Pleasant came to town and kept it interesting before Perry and Navarre dialed up 4 straight touchdowns in the second half. After stumbling on the road at Oregon and Iowa, Coach Carr�s crew responded in epic fashion, including the ridiculous comeback in Minnesota and the 51 Special [inset photo via the Michigan Daily] in East Lansing.
The regular season concluded in grand fashion with the glorious 100th game in Ohio State rivalry, as against Ohio State and Sweatervest McCheatypants came to town in late November and got served by the Victors Valiant.
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Dungeonland developer diary contains in-depth look at Dungeon-Master mode
Dungeonland has a new developer diary available in which Critical Studio gives the viewer an in-depth examination and explanation of the game's Dungeon-Master mode and its 3v1 gameplay. In the game, three players will work as a team to survive an adventurers' theme park full of horrible monsters, while the fourth player works against the team as the park's Dungeon-Master who even has an "evil laugh" button at his or her disposal. Check out the video below and sign up for the beta here.
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- 24 October 2012
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A television actor has been charged with the rape of a teenage boy.
The actor, who has not been named, allegedly attacked the 14-year-old at a theatre in the London area.
He is also accused of three other sex attacks and an "assault by beating" at a London school, Scotland Yard said.
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Shanghai Stocks Tumble
China's shares tumbled, posting their biggest loss in four months, as investors fretted that a recovery in the domestic economy is further away than previously expected.
The Shanghai Composite tumbled 2.7% to 2284.88, its worst loss since late November 2011, while the Shenzhen index of yuan-denominated A-shares slumped 4.1% to 951.15. Metal and mining firms led declines, largely on jitters over weak demand.
"The market previously expected the domestic economic growth rate to bottom out in the first quarter, but the latest data, including a weak [preliminary reading on a purchasing managers' index], indicate that a turnaround may be delayed to the second quarter," said Wang Ling, an analyst with Xiangcai Securities.
The losses on mainland bourses came a day after the National Bureau of Statistics reported that profits at China's largest industrial groups fell 5.2% during the first two months of the year.
"State enterprises' combined earnings are going down. This is relatively new, so sellers are using that as an excuse to drag down the market," said Steve Cheng, associate director at Shenyin Wanguo.
Losses were more subdued elsewhere in the region. Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 0.8% to 20885.42. Japan's Nikkei Stock Average fell 0.7% to 10182.57, and South Korea's Kospi lost 0.4% to 2031.74. In Mumbai, the Bombay Stock Exchange's Sensitive Index fell 0.8% to 17121.62.
But Australia's S&P/ASX 200 index rose 1% to 4343.50, its highest close since Nov. 9, after comments from Australia's central bank buoyed hopes for an interest-rate cut.
Jiangxi Copper 600362 -1.76 % fell 5.5% in Shanghai and 2.4% in Hong Kong after it reported a 33% increase in annual profit, but missed analyst forecasts.
Yanzhou Coal Mining fell 5.6% in Shanghai, while Yunnan Tin 000960 -2.43 % shed 7.7% and Hebei Iron & Steel 000709 -0.35 % declined 4.2% in Shenzhen. Aluminum Corp. of China ACH -0.62 % gave up 2.1% in Hong Kong.
Gome Electrical Appliances Holding 0493 -2.08 % slumped 21% after the appliance retailer said Tuesday that higher costs limited its 2011 net profit rise to just over 6%, falling short of expectations. The performance earned a stock downgrade to "underperform" from "outperform" from Macquarie.
Merchandise sourcing and supplying firm Li & Fung LFUGY 1.37 % slumped 5.2%, ending below the price at which it raised $501 million through a share sale.
In Tokyo, shares of Sharp SHCAY 0.56 % soared 20% on news that Hon Hai Precision Industry. 2317 -1.24 % is buying a 10% stake in the Japanese firm.
"The Hon Hai Group's roster of customers should be a strong asset for Sharp," analysts at Nomura Securities wrote in a report. "We think Hon Hai would like to leverage Sharp's strength in large-size panels to bid Apple Inc. AAPL -0.12 % 's iTV project."
Shares of Hon Hai jumped 4.6% in Taipei, also aided by better-than-expected quarterly results announced Tuesday.
But South Korean liquid crystal display makers declined on the news. LG Display fell 4.9%.
SNE 8.90 % In Sydney, shares opened flat but then leapt ahead after the Reserve Bank of Australia said economic conditions are widely divergent across the economy with business failures and debt defaults above norms. The central bank's board meets Tuesday to consider Australia's official cash rate, which sits at 4.25%.
The RBA is "now acknowledging issues the economy is facing and we could get an easing [of monetary policy] at some stage," Stan Shamu, market strategist at IG Markets, told Dow Jones Newswires. "That was as dovish as analysts would have wanted [the RBA] to be."
Gold miner Newcrest Mining NCMGY 5.23 % rose 2.9% and Fortescue Metals Group FSUGY -3.19 % added 2%. Among banks, Westpac gained 1% and National Australia Bank rose 1.1%.
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Ligand Pharmaceuticals and Trevena initiated a joint research and license alliance related to G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) therapeutics. Trevena's platform will be used to screen targets against Ligand's combinatorial library of compounds. Under the terms of the agreement, Trevena has been granted exclusive, worldwide rights to sublicense active compounds resulting from the collaboration. Ligand expects to screen 24 targets over two years and receive payments triggered by a tiered screening paradigm for each target.
"We are delighted to enter into this collaboration that allows us to generate cash flow from the combinatorial chemistry technology we gained through our acquisition of Pharmacopeia," says John L. Higgins, president and CEO of Ligand. In September 2008, Ligand offered to buy Pharmacopeia for $55 million.
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Techniques for working with devices in Linux
Device Tricks
Linux is getting much better at managing devices, and the versatility of open source software leads to some interesting innovations.
Experts and beginners will tell you that devices are the perennial challenge of Linux systems. Linux is fast, stable, and safe – if you can get it to run on your hardware. We all have our war stories, but most users will affirm that the penguin's affinity for PC hardware is improving. Many of the device problems that plagued Linux systems in the early days were solved years ago. A Linux user from 1999 would be totally amazed to install a Linux system today and watch the system auto-locate the hardware. But maybe not all the hardware. Linux still has trouble with certain devices, and the lag time between the appearance of a new driver and its integration can mean a built-in driver isn't available for months.
This month's Device Tricks cover story starts with a study of some recent developments in driver management tools for Linux. Jon Masters describes some of the obstacles facing Linux developers and looks at some recent solutions that promise more seamless device support.
The next article in this month's set looks at a library of tools for supporting MTP-based devices such as music players and webcams in Linux. We'll describe some open source applications that support MTP, and you'll learn how to communicate with MTP devices from the command line. Next we examine the aufs2 stacked filesystem, which lets you add temporary write capability to a filesystem on a read-only device. The last article in the set shows how you can protect your privacy by encrypting the data on your USB sticks.
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Mirantis to Refactor OpenStack Fuel for Kubernetes
The company is collaborating with Google and Intel to use Kubernetes as an engine for Fuel
Canonical Joins Document Foundation Advisory Board
The upcoming release of LibreOffice will be available as a snap package
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San Francisco-based chip company announces their first fully open source chip platform.
Fedora 24 Released
The whole distro gets rebuilt on glibc 2.3
Canonical Announces Cross-Distro Support for Snaps
Ubuntu Vendor tries to solve app packaging and distribution problem across distributions.
ownCloud Forked
Founder of ownCloud launches the Nextcloud project.
HP Enterprise Unveils a Futuristic Computer
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K&N 57 Series FIPK Air intake (50-State Legal)
Reviewed By Homer M (SANTA MARIA, CA) Reviewed for a 2013 Toyota Tacoma —6/10/2016 1:56 AM
Overall, the K&N air intake system looks great. The throttle response on 3rd gear (around 3000 rpm) is smoother. On the other hand, the installation guide was vague. The secondary air pump wire was little short on new the relocation site.


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Weep for me, whoever has charity, truth and justice! I did not come on this voyage for gain, honor or wealth, that is certain; for then the hope of all such things was dead. I came to Your Highnesses with honest purpose and sincere zeal; and I do not lie. I humbly beseech Your Highnesses that, if it please God to remove me hence, you will help me to go to Rome and on other pilgrimages.
Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506)
Source: Lettera Rarissima to the Sovereigns, July 7, 1503 (Fourth Voyage)
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"Thanks be to God," says the Admiral, "the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is."
Source: Journal of the First Voyage, October 8, 1492
And they know neither sect nor idolatry, with the exception that all believe that the source of all power and goodness is in the sky, and they believe very firmly that I, with these ships and people, came from the sky, and in this belief they everywhere received me, after they had overcome their fear.
Source: Letter to the Sovereigns on the First Voyage, February 15–March 4, 1493
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts. This letter, the first and rarest of all printed Americana, describes the scenery and the natives of Hispaniola.
I have always read that the world, both land and water, was spherical, as the authority and researches of Ptolemy and all the others who have written on this subject demonstrate and prove, as do the eclipses of the moon and other experiments that are made from east to west, and the elevation of the North Star from north to south.
Source: Letter to the Sovereigns on the Third Voyage, October 18, 1498
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
The tempest was terrible and separated me from my [other] vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden [access to] the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain?
The two Christians met on the way many people who were going to their towns, women and men, with a firebrand in the hand, [and] herbs to drink the smoke thereof, as they are accustomed. The first certain reference in history to smoking tobacco.
Source: Journal of the First Voyage, November 6, 1492
I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river [Ozama], and by this sea which is fresh.
Source: Journal of the Third Voyage, May 3o—August 3I, 1493
I should be judged as a captain who went from Spain to the Indies to conquer a people numerous and warlike, whose manners and religion are very different from ours, who live in sierras and mountains, without fixed settlements, and where by divine will I have placed under the sovereignty of the King and Queen our Lords, an Other World, whereby Spain, which was reckoned poor, is become the richest of countries. Columbus is coming from the Indies as a prisoner to Cadiz.
Source: Letter to Dona Juana de Torres, October 1500
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Simpson, Todd
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Degree Institution Field Dates MLIS LIU Library & Information Science 2012 MA King's College London Text & Performance Studies 2001 BA Newbold College English Literature / English History 1999
Prof. Simpson is the Electronic Resources Coordinator and institutional repository administrator at York College Library. With a background in the humanities current research interests include organization, access and preservation of performing arts resources.
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" Welcome to York College Library (Co-presenters Christina Miller and Anamika Megwalu) " May 12, 2015: York College Prof. 101 (York College).
" Overview of CUNY Academic Works, CUNY's new Institutional Repository. " December 30, 2015: York College Faculty and Staff (York College).
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John Deardorff, FACHE
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John Deardorff is the president and chief executive officer for Reston Hospital Center and the lead executive for HCA Virginia Health System's Northern Virginia Market. Throughout his healthcare career of more than 15 years, John has served in a variety of executive and leadership roles and chief executive officer of several HCA hospitals in Florida and Georgia. John received a Bachelor of Science degree from Towson University in Maryland, with a double major in business administration and health services management, and a master of health administration degree from George Washington University.
Cindy Glover, RN, MBA, NEA-BC
Vice President/Chief Nursing Officer
Before joining Reston Hospital as chief nursing officer in 1998, Cindy held the same position at HCA's Pentagon City Hospital in Arlington, VA, and served as the clinical director of nursing at Arlington Hospital Center, part of a joint venture agreement with HCA. Cindy earned her bachelor's degree in nursing from George Mason University, a master's degree in business administration from Averett College and board certification in nursing administration from the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
Walter Zolkiwsky, MD
Vice President/Chief Medical Officer
Dr. Zolkiwsky practiced Family Medicine in Sterling, Virginia for 23 years prior to assuming his current position as Vice-President for Medical Affairs at Reston Hospital Center in 1990. After receiving his medical degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara in Mexico, Dr. Zolkiwsky completed his post-graduate training at Affiliated Hospitals, School of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland. For five years following his post-graduate training, he served on Active Duty with the U.S. Army as Post Surgeon and Chief of Clinic at Ft. A.P. Hill, Virginia and at the U.S. Army Clinic at the Pentagon. Dr. Zolkiwsky is a member of the HCA Corporate Coding Compliance Committee, a member of the Professional Advisory Committee of Adventist Home Healthcare, and the Committee on Continuing Medical Education of the School of Medicine, at the University of Virginia.
Jane Raymond
Vice President/Chief Operating Officer, Ethics & Compliance Officer
On active duty in the United States Air Force from 1980 to 1983, Jane served as a critical care nurse and captain. Then, as a major in the Air Force reserves, she worked as a charge nurse at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C. Jane earned an associate degree in nursing from Lasell Junior College in Newton, MA, a bachelor's degree in nursing from Northeastern University in Boston and a master's in business administration from George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Ronnie Midgett, MBA
Vice President/Chief Financial Officer
Ronnie has spent his entire career with HCA, beginning as a staff accountant at Trident Medical Center in South Carolina when he was just out of college. While at Trident, Ronnie was promoted through the ranks of healthcare financial services from staff accountant to assistant controller and then controller after participating in HCA's CFO/Controller Development Program. Thirteen years after beginning his career with HCA he was appointed CFO at Colleton Medical Center in Walterboro, South Carolina. After two years at Colleton Medical Center, Ronnie advanced to CFO of Capital Regional Medical Center, a 242-bed facility in Tallahassee, Florida.
Ronnie earned a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in Accounting, from Charleston Southern University in Charleston, South Carolina, and later earned a Master's of Business Administration from the same university.
Lesley Channell, MBA, SPHR
Vice President of Human Resources
Beyond her responsibilities at Reston Hospital, Lesley provides human resources support for HCA's Northern Virginia market. She earned her bachelor's degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY, and a master's in business administration/human resources management from Iona College in New Rochelle, NY. Lesley is certified as a professional in human resources by the Society for Human Resources Management.


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Quarterback Geno Smith could be about to become the new Mark Sanchez for the New York Jets. In other words, Smith is in the position of becoming the second highly drafted and highly hyped young quarterback who could soon find himself forced out of the Jets organization due to poor play.
The Jets' signing of veteran free agent quarterback Michael Vick last Friday now puts Geno in the hot seat as the next guy to get the royal boot from the team. Even if the Jets choose to keep Geno on the team for the last three years of his rookie contract, he's still likely to be little more than a backup.
It's also possible that Geno could find himself pushed further down the food chain each year as the Jets add additional quarterbacks to their team, as it's unlikely that they'll keep Vick beyond the 2014 season unless he plays at a super high level and can remain injury free for them.
The Jets ignored the criticism of Geno's talent from other NFL teams last year and went ahead and drafted him with a valuable 2nd round pick out of West Virginia where he had put up spectacular passing numbers against largely weak C-level college teams. Geno had been pegged initially as a 1st round pick, but as more and more teams evaluated him, he was seen in some cases as little more than a 4th round draft caliber talent.
The Jets ignored the criticism about Smith's talent and chose to use a 2nd round pick in drafting him anyway. The Jets failed to learn their lesson from drafting a flawed quarterback in Mark Sanchez in the 1st round in 2009, and went ahead made the same mistake with Geno in 2013. Having Smith on the team ended Sanchez's 4-year reign as the Jets starter, as Jets head coach Rex Ryan seemingly couldn't wait to insert Smith as the starter for the team despite the fact that he hadn't shined in the preseason games.
The choice was out of Ryan's hands after he made the stupid mistake of putting Sanchez into a preseason game in the 4th quarter against the New York Giants behind a weak offensive line filled with nonstarters. It was a move that few other NFL coaches would have done with a top quarterback because of the risk involved in doing it. Ryan didn't seem to understand that putting Sanchez in a meaningless game behind a weak offensive line would put him in a situation where he could get hurt. As such, Sanchez was hurt and ended up missing the entire season. Ryan was then left with no choice but to name Geno as his starter for better or worse. It turned out to be worse, as Smith played horribly the entire season. Ryan made things worse by staying with him even when it was clear that he needed to be benched in favor of backup Matt Simms.
It's possible that Geno Smith could all of a sudden raise his game in 2014 and play like the player that the Jets management thought he would be when they drafted him. In a lot of cases, 2nd year quarterbacks improve dramatically. However, Smith played so horribly last season that even if he does improve this season, he'll still likely be at a level that will be too low for Ryan to keep him in as a starter. After all, his job and the Jets general manager John Idzik both have their jobs on the line this season.
The Jets team has been improved with the addition of Eric Decker and Vick, but if they still play poorly with Geno Smith as their starter, then you can bet both Idzik and Ryan will be given the boot after the season. This is why you probably won't see Geno being given too much time as the team's starter if he fails to play at a high level.


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Then Comes Seduction (Huxtable Series)by Mary Balogh
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us back in time to an age of scandal and glittering society—and brings to life an extraordinary family: the daring, passionate Huxtables. Katherine, the youngest sister—and society's most ravishing innocent—is about to turn the tables on the irresistible rakehell sworn to seduce/i>
New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh sweeps us back in time to an age of scandal and glittering society—and brings to life an extraordinary family: the daring, passionate Huxtables. Katherine, the youngest sister—and society's most ravishing innocent—is about to turn the tables on the irresistible rakehell sworn to seduce her, body and soul....
In a night of drunken revelry, Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, gambles his reputation as London's most notorious lover on one woman. His challenge? To seduce the exquisite, virtuous Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight. But when his best-laid plans go awry, Jasper devises a wager of his own. For Katherine, already wildly attracted to him, Jasper's offer is irresistible: to make London's most dangerous rake fall in love with her. Then Jasper suddenly ups the ante. Katherine knows she should refuse. But with scandal brewing and her reputation in jeopardy, she reluctantly agrees to become his wife. Now, as passion ignites, the seduction really begins. And this time the prize is nothing less than both their hearts.…
Editorial Reviews
Meet the Huxtables, a quiet country family whose lives take an unexpected turn when the youngest, 17-year-old Stephen, becomes the Earl of Merton and he and his three sisters are swept up in the unfamiliar social whirl of the ton. Young, widowed Vanessa Huxtable Dew is not about to let her elder sister, Margaret, sacrifice herself once again for her siblings, especially when it means wedding the arrogant Viscount Lyngate and giving up the dream of marrying the soldier she loves. So outspoken Nessie proposes to Lyngate herself-and his agreement stuns them both in First Comes Marriage. Peppered with brilliant banter, laced with laughter (the proposal scene is hilarious), and tingling with sexual tension, this story of two seemingly mismatched people struggling to make their marriage work tugs at a few heartstrings and skillfully paves the way for the stories to come.
When a reckless wager puts the rakish reputation of Baron Montford at risk and threatens to ruin beautiful, innocent Katherine Huxtable, Monty puts the issue to rest by claiming failure. However, three years later the two meet again, and this time they strike a double wager-where falling in love is the stakes-but this time the results are far different. Exquisite sexual chemistry permeates this charmingly complex story that seamlessly interweaves family issues with the far-reaching effects of scandal and happily ensures another Huxtable's wedded bliss in Then Comes Seduction.
Five years after jilting his fiancée and running off with her sister-in-law, the Earl of Sheringford is back in town and on a mission: to find a bride acceptable to his grandfather and marry her within 15 days-or loseeverything. Amazingly, the solution literally falls into his arms when a distraught Margaret Huxtable, fleeing an unwanted suitor, crashes into him at a ball. But if Sherry wants to win Meg, he will have to convince her-and with only two weeks to do so, it won't be easy. A multitude of fascinating threads, some cleverly unexpected, come together beautifully in this tightly woven plot that is shot through with secrets and lies and takes a hard look at what honor really means. Sparkling with sharp wit, lively repartee, and delicious sensuality, the emotionally rewarding At Last Comes Love metes out both justice and compassion; totally satisfying. Stephen's story, Seducing an Angel, will be a June hardcover release. (For an incisive Q&A with the prolific Balogh, see p. 90.)
Kristin Ramsdell
Product Details
- 9780440244233
- Publisher:
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication date:
- 03/24/2009
- Series:
- Huxtable Series
- Pages:
- 448
- Sales rank:
- 195,316
- Product dimensions:
- 6.90(w) x 4.28(h) x 1.20(d)
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Chapter One
Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, was twenty-five years old. Today was his birthday, in fact. At least, he amended mentally as he loosened the knot in his neckcloth with one hand while the other dangled his half-empty glass over the arm of the chair in which he slouched, to be strictly accurate in the matter, yesterday had been his birthday. It was now twenty minutes past four in the morning, allowing for the fact that the clock in the library of his town house was four minutes slow, as it had been for as far back as he could remember.
He eyed it with a frown of concentration. Now that he came to think about it, he must have it set right one of these days. Why should a clock be forced to go through its entire existence four minutes behind the rest of the world? It was not logical. The trouble was, though, that if the clock were suddenly right, he would be forever confused and arriving four minutes early—or did he mean late?—for meals and various other appointments. That would agitate his servants and cause consternation in the kitchen.
It was probably better to leave the clock as it was.
Having settled that important issue to his own satisfaction, he turned his attention to himself. He ought to have gone to bed an hour ago—or two. Or even better, three. He ought to have come straight home after leaving Lady Hounslow's ball—except that that would have put him in the house alone before midnight on his birthday, a damnably pathetic thing. He ought to have come after leaving White's Club an hour or so later, then. And that was precisely what he had done, he remembered, since here he was in his own familiar library in his own familiar house. But he had been unable to go straight to bed because a group of gentlemen had somehow attached themselves to him as he left White's and come home with him to celebrate the birthday that had already passed into history.
He wondered through the mist of alcohol clouding his brain—actually, it was more like a dense fog—if he had invited them. It was deuced forward of them to have come if he had not. He must ask them.
"I say," he asked, speaking slowly so that he would enunciate his words clearly, "were any of you invited here?"
They were all in their cups too. They were all slouched inelegantly in chairs except for Charlie Field, who was standing with his back to the fireplace, propping up the mantel with one shoulder and swirling the contents of his glass with admirable skill since not one drop of precious liquor sloshed over the rim.
"Were any of us—?" Charlie frowned down at him, looking affronted. "The devil, Monty, you practically dragged us here."
"By the bootstraps," Sir Isaac Kerby agreed. "We were all bent upon toddling home after we left White's to get our beauty sleep, but you would have none of it, Monty. You insisted that the night was young, and that a fellow suffered a twenty-fifth birthday only once in his life."
"Though turning twenty-five is nothing to get unduly maudlin about, old chap," Viscount Motherham said. "Wait until you turn thirty. Then you will have every female relative you ever possessed down to cousins to the second and third generations and the fourth and fifth removes admonishing you to do your duty and marry and set up your nursery."
Jasper pulled a face and clutched his temples with the thumb and middle finger of his free hand.
"Heaven forbid," he said.
"Heaven will refuse to intervene on your behalf, Monty," the viscount assured him. He was thirty-one years old and one year married. His wife had dutifully presented him with a son one month ago. "The female relatives will rout heaven every time. They are the very devil."
"Ee—nuff," Sir Isaac said, making a heroic effort to get the word past lips that looked as if they were paralyzed. "Enough of all the gloom and doom. Have another drink, Motherham, and cheer up."
"No need to stand upon ceremony," Jasper said, waving his arm in the direction of the sideboard with its impressive array of bottles and decanters, most of which looked seriously depleted. Good God, surely they had been full when they all arrived here two or three hours ago. "Can't get up to pour for you, Motherham. Some_thing has happened to m'legs. Doubt they will support m'feet."
"What a fellow needs on his twenty-fifth birthday," Charlie said, "is something to cheer him up. Some new venture. Some exhilll . . . arrrr . . . What the deuce is that word? Some new challenge."
"A challenge? A dare, you mean?" Jasper brightened considerably. "A wager?" he added hopefully.
"The devil!" Charlie said, lifting a hand to grip the edge of the mantel against which his shoulder already leaned. "You need to get an architect to take a look at this floor, Monty. It ought not to be swaying like this. It's downright dangerous."
"Sit down, Charlie," Sir Isaac advised. "You are three sheets to the wind, old boy—maybe even four or five. Just watching you sway on your pins makes my stomach queasy."
"Am I foxed?" Charlie looked surprised. "Well, that is a relief. I thought it was the floor." He weaved his way gingerly toward the nearest chair and sank gratefully into it. "What is it to be for Monty this time, then? A race?"
"I did Brighton and back just two weeks ago, Charlie," Jasper reminded him, "and came in fifty-eight minutes under the agreed-upon time. It ought to be something quite different this time. Something new."
"A drinking bout?" Motherham suggested.
"I drank Welby under the table last Saturday week," Jasper said, "and there is no one in town who can hold his liquor like Welby—or was. Lord, I think my head must have swollen to twice its normal size. My neck does not seem quite up to the task of holding it up. Does it look twice its normal size?"
"It's the liquor, Monty," Charlie said. "It will feel even larger in the morning—the head, I mean. Mine too. Not to mention my stomach."
"This is the morning," Jasper said gloomily. "We ought to be in bed."
"Not together, though, Monty," Sir Isaac said. "We might cause a scandal."
There was a bellow of raucous and risque mirth for this sorry attempt at humor—and then a collective grimace.
"Agatha Strangelove," said Henry Blackstone, rousing himself from a semicomatose state in the depths of a leather chair in order to contribute to the conversation for the first time in at least half an hour.
"What about her, Hal?" Sir Isaac asked gently.
Agatha Strangelove was a dancer at the opera house. She had luscious blond curls and ringlets, a pouting rosebud mouth, a figure that was overgenerous in all the right places, and legs that stretched all the way up to her shoulders—or so one wag had observed when she first appeared on the stage a month or two ago, and every man who heard him had known exactly what he meant. She was also very miserly in the granting of her favors to the gentlemen who crowded the green room after each performance begging for them.
"Monty should have to bed her," Hal said. "In no more than a week."
There was a small, incredulous silence.
"He did that the second week she was in town," Sir Isaac said, his voice still gentle, as though he were talking to an invalid. "Have you forgotten, Hal? It went into the betting book at White's on a Monday night with a one-week time limit, and Monty had her on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday nights, not to mention the days in between, until he had exhausted them both."
"Devil take it," Hal said in some surprise, "and so he did. I must be foxed. You ought to have sent us home an hour ago, Monty."
"Did I invite you in the first place, Hal?" Jasper asked. "Or any of you? I can't for the life of me remember. London must be duller than usual this year. There don't seem to be any really interesting or original challenges left, do there?"
He had used them all up, dash it all. And he was only twenty-five. Someone earlier in the spring had been overheard to say that if Lord Montford was sowing his wild oats, he must be intent upon sowing every inch of every field he owned—and those of his more prosperous neighbors too, for two counties in every direction. He could not possibly be down to his last inch yet, could he? Life would not be worth living.
"How about a virtuous woman?" Charlie suggested, risking the perils of an undulating floor in order to cross the room to the sideboard to replenish his glass.
"What about her?" Jasper asked. He set down his empty glass on the table beside him. Enough was enough—except that he had probably reached that limit even before leaving White's. "She sounds devilishly dull, whoever she is."
"Seduce her," Charlie said.
"Oh, I say." Hal had been sinking back into his semicoma, but he roused himself again at this interesting turn in an otherwise long-familiar line of conversation. "Which virtuous woman?"
"The most virtuous one we can think of," Charlie said with relish, having reached the safety of his chair again. "A young and lovely virgin. Someone new on the market and with a totally unblemished reputation. Lily white and all that."
"Oh, I say." But Hal, having drawn all eyes his way, could not seem to think of what he wanted to say. He was wide awake, though.
Motherham chuckled. "Now that would be something entirely new for you, Monty," he said. "A new star in your illustrious career of devilries and debaucheries." He raised his glass as if to toast his friend.
"He wouldn't do it, though," Sir Isaac said decisively, sitting upright in his chair and setting down his glass. "There are limits to what even Monty would do on a dare, and this is one of them. He would not seduce an innocent for all sorts of reasons I could name—which I will not do on account of the odd fact that my tongue and my lips and my teeth are all at odds with one another. Besides, he probably couldn't do it even if he did decide to try."
It was the wrong thing to say.
Seducing an innocent was the sort of thing no decent gentleman would even dream of attempting—or even one of society's most notorious hellions for that matter. There were limits to what one would take on for a wager, though admittedly they were few. Of course, those limits fluctuated, depending upon whether one were sober or inebriated. Jasper was very far from being sober—just about as far as it was possible to be without losing consciousness altogether, in fact. And someone had just suggested that there was something he could not accomplish even if he tried.
"Name her," he said.
"Oh, I say!"
"Ho, Monty."
"Splendid of you, old chap."
His friends had been given all the encouragement they needed. They proceeded to trot out the name of almost every young lady who was currently in town for the Season making her debut. It was a lengthy list. Yet everyone on it was gradually eliminated for one reason or another, though none by Jasper himself. Miss Bota was Isaac's second cousin once removed, while Lady Anna Marie Roache was about to be betrothed to Hal Blackstone's brother's friend's brother-in-law—or something like that. Miss Hendy had spots and therefore did not qualify as lovely . . . And so on.
And then Katherine Huxtable was named.
"Con Huxtable's cousin?" Sir Isaac said. "Better not. He would veto her name in a moment if he were still in town and here with us tonight. Wouldn't like it by half, he wouldn't."
"He would not care a straw about it," Motherham said. "There is no love lost between Con and his cousins—for obvious reasons. If Con had only had the good fortune to be born legitimate, he would now be the Earl of Merton instead of the young cub who actually has the title. Miss Katherine Huxtable is Merton's sister," he added lest any of his friends not know it.
"She is too old anyway," Hal said firmly. "She must be twenty if she is a day."
"But ladies do not come any more innocent, Hal," Motherham pointed out. "Her brother has only just succeeded to the Merton title, and it was all thoroughly unexpected. By all accounts the family was living in a tiny cottage in a remote village no one has even heard of, as poor as church mice. And now suddenly the lady finds herself sister of an earl and making her come-out before the ton during a London Season. I would say she must be as innocent as a newborn lamb. More innocent."
"She undoubtedly has country morals too, then," Charlie said with a theatrical shudder. "Puritanical values and unassailable virtue and all that. Even Monty with all his good looks and legendary charm and seductive arts would not stand a chance with her. It would be cruel of us to pick her for him."
It was again the wrong thing to say.
No challenge was ever more exciting than one that was impossible to win. There was no such thing, of course, but proving it to himself as well as to those who wagered against him was the breath of life to Jasper.
"She is the golden-haired one, is she?" he said. "The tall and willowy one with the inviting smile and the fathomless blue eyes." He pursed his lips as he pictured her. She was a beauty.
There was an appreciative roar from his friends.
"_Oh-ho, Monty," Sir Isaac said. "Been scouting her out, have you? You have a secret yearning for a leg-shackle, do you, her being an innocent and Merton's sister and all that?"
"I thought," Jasper said, raising one eyebrow, "the object was to seduce the woman, not marry her."
"I vote that we name Miss Katherine Huxtable as the lady to be seduced, then," Hal said. "It cannot be done, of course. Only matrimony will tempt females like her. And even that might not tempt her if you were the one offering, Monty, no offense meant, old chap. But you do have a reputation that scares off innocents. For once I will feel quite confident of making something back on my bet. It will be a veritable investment."
"By seduction," Sir Isaac said, "we mean full intercourse, do we?"
They all looked at him as if he had sprouted a second head.
"Stealing a kiss or pinching her bottom would hardly be a challenge worthy of Monty," Hal said, "even if the said kiss and pinch had to be willingly granted. Of course we mean full intercourse. But not ravishment, mind. That goes without saying."
Meet the Author
Mary Balogh is the New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Slightly novels: Slightly Married, Slightly Wicked, Slightly Scandalous, Slightly Tempted, Slightly Sinful, and Slightly Dangerous, as well as the romances No Man's Mistress, More than a Mistress, and One Night for Love. She is also the author of Simply Love, Simply Unforgettable, Simply Magic, and Simply Perfect, her dazzling quartet of novels set at Miss Martin's School for Girls. A former teacher herself, she grew up in Wales and now lives in Canada.
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It is a sacred rule in historical novels, that rakes do not seduce, talk to, or any way engage young ladies of good families without marriage in mind. Jasper Finley, Baron Montford violates this rule big time. He wagers (in drunken revelry on his 25th birthday) that he can seduce Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight. Thus begins Ms. Balogh's story. Jasper is a character I was ready to despise but Ms. Balogh knows how to write, and what she wants her readers to feel. She wants us to know that Jasper does not like himself very much, but needs to grow beyond that to grow into the man he will and should be. Katherine is just the woman to get him there. She longs to be married for love, but gets drawn into a forced marriage after the terms of the wager become know throught the ton. Katherine's development is another triumph of Ms. Balogh's writing. After Katherine's initial TSTL moment with Jasper at Vauxhall Gardens, she too grows into a woman we can like, feel for and root for as she battles for her and Jaspers' happiness. Great read.
I loved this book and fell a little in love with jasper! I recently finished megs story snd while it was ok this one was great. You could feel their love growing, as opposed to some books where it feels contrived and forced. I will probably read stephens story, though i am not sure i will like the heroine, i would rather skip to cons! This is a great read even if you are not following the series.
This is my favorite of the Huxtable sisters' stories. Strong characters, good dialogue, lots of tension and romance.
The drunken rake Jasper Finley bet he could have sex with innocent Lady Katherine Huxtable within a fortnight. However, when he sobers up the Baron knows he stepped over the line even for a rogue like himself so he claims he failed to win the wager. Three years later Jasper and Katherine run into each other at a gala. Though still an innocent she makes it clear she is attracted to the rake. He wants her so he offers her a wager seduce him into falling in love with her. Knowing failure would mean probable scandal and a definite broken heart, Katherine stuns Jasper and agrees to his bet as his wife; now she must get her husband to fall in love with her like she is with him. The second Huxtable sister Regency romance (see FIRST COMES MARRIAGE) is a charming tale starring two delightful lead characters who gamble on love. Jasper and Katherine are a perfect pairing as each raises the stake in what turns into a scandalous love affair enhanced by overarching family issues. Mary Balogh is two for two with one sister left to come seduce the author fans and perhaps a younger brother who deserves that magical Balogh historical touch. Harriet Klausner
I would recommened
This one is the best book of the series!
Loved this series. The characters are wonderful.
The seduction of Katherine Huxtable was supposed to be an easy wager for Jasper Finley, Baron Montford, but just at the moment when was upon him Monty drew back and his non-existent conscience prevented him from taken advantage of the beautiful country mouse. Three years later, they meet again and circumstances force them into a marriage that could destroy them both, or become their salvation. This is the second in the Huxtable series and it far surpassed the initial installment.


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