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The seamy underbelly of craigslist vs. eBay, wrapped in a family-friendly package
Craigslist, which has been under fire on and off for years regarding ads placed on its site that appear to be related to prostitution, this week pointed a finger at its nemesis/part owner down the bay: eBay.
In a post on the company blog Monday, craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said San Jose-based eBay’s classified site in Spain, Loquo.com, “features thousands of paid ads offering various sexual acts in exchange for money.” TechCrunch wrote a couple of days ago that eBay has since made Loquo inaccessible from the U.S., and GMSV got the following message when we tried to access the site this morning: “Our apologies, LoQUo is not available in your country.”
It doesn’t seem Buckmaster is naive enough to think his finger-pointing will take the heat off his company, but he appears to be doing his best to counter the perception, such as that perpetuated by a Facebook page titled “Stop Craigslist Human Trafficking – Choose Ebay Classifieds,” that eBay is more fami …

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Man fleeing deputies crashes into tree in Pleasanton
Posted: 08/12/2010 04:53:36 PM PDT
Updated: 08/12/2010 06:07:52 PM PDT
PLEASANTON — A man fleeing Alameda County sheriff’s deputies conducting a prostitution sting Wednesday crashed into a tree in Pleasanton after a short chase.
About 7:30 p.m., five people in an SUV pulled up at a Castro Valley hotel at which undercover deputies were conducting the sting, said Sgt. J.D. Nelson, spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
A woman got out of the car, as did the driver. When deputies went to talk to the driver, who was standing on the sidewalk, a passenger later identified as Maurice Buckley jumped into the driver’s seat and took off with two other people still inside, authorities said.
Nelson said Buckley nearly ran over parole agents and sheriff’s deputies as he fled. Deputies pursued the SUV on eastbound Interstate 580, but they called off the chase after they learned the identity of the driver.

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Man fleeing deputies crashes into tree in Pleasanton
Posted: 08/12/2010 04:53:36 PM PDT
Updated: 08/12/2010 06:07:52 PM PDT
PLEASANTON — A man fleeing Alameda County sheriff’s deputies conducting a prostitution sting Wednesday crashed into a tree in Pleasanton after a short chase.
About 7:30 p.m., five people in an SUV pulled up at a Castro Valley hotel at which undercover deputies were conducting the sting, said Sgt. J.D. Nelson, spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff’s Office.
A woman got out of the car, as did the driver. When deputies went to talk to the driver, who was standing on the sidewalk, a passenger later identified as Maurice Buckley jumped into the driver’s seat and took off with two other people still inside, authorities said.
Nelson said Buckley nearly ran over parole agents and sheriff’s deputies as he fled. Deputies pursued the SUV on eastbound Interstate 580, but they called off the chase after they learned the identity of the driver.

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An ABC News story in 2008  explored the double standard issue.   Reporter John Stossel noted  that a plot line in the ABC show Desperate Housewives was about a married woman who was having an affair with a high school boy. The teenager, played by Jesse Metcalfe, was portrayed as lucky and the older woman, played by Eva Longoria, was not seen as a predator. Comedy Central’s South Park ran an episode in which an elementary school boy had sex with an attractive teacher. A cop jokes, “”The crime is she isn’t doing it with me!”
ABC reports that researchers say that although most boys regard sex with older women as positive, they are more likely to have emotional and sexual problem later.
New York psychologist Dr. Richard Garner, who treats sexual abuse victims, told ABC, “They may drink a lot, they may get into drugs, they may start seeing prostitutes, they may gamble … they may be sexually dysfunctional. A whole string of things like that, none of which seem in their own mind to be related to the idea that they were sexual victims, which is very hard for a boy to say he was.”

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The accounts covered amusing and nostalgic highlights told through the filters of time, comfort and hazy memory, making farm life sound as if it indeed created a valley of delighted hearts. The event at the Saratoga Library was sponsored by the Saratoga Historical Foundation and Museum.
“We had a good time growing up that way,” said Vince Garrod, 91, after he told how “anybody that could hold a knife” pitched in to cut and dry fruit from the Saratoga orchards. His family has lived on the same land for 100 years.
Garrod and three other speakers were full of tidbits from the past.
They talked about the Peninsula interurban streetcar that served Saratoga, Los Gatos, San Jose and Palo Alto. They reminisced about the state highway commissioner who insisted that all churches needed steeples and financed the addition of a bell tower to the Saratoga Federated Church, designed by Julia Morgan. And they told tales about the wild neighborhood known as Monta Vista, home to saloons and houses of prostitution.

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The accounts covered amusing and nostalgic highlights told through the filters of time, comfort and hazy memory, making farm life sound as if it indeed created a valley of delighted hearts. The event at the Saratoga Library was sponsored by the Saratoga Historical Foundation and Museum .
“We had a good time growing up that way,” said Vince Garrod, 91, after he told how “anybody that could hold a knife” pitched in to cut and dry fruit from the Saratoga orchards. His family has lived on the same land for 100 years.
Garrod and three other speakers were full of tidbits from the past.
They talked about the Peninsula interurban street car that served Saratoga, Los Gatos, San Jose and Palo Alto. They reminisced about the state highway commissioner who insisted that all churches needed steeples and financed the addition of a bell tower to the Saratoga Federated Church, designed by Julia Morgan. And they told tales about the wild neighborhood known as Monta Vista, home to saloons and houses of prostitution.

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Iron Man 2 (PG-13) ½ A film that just wants to have fun, “Iron Man 2″ brings back Downey’s affable billionaire Tony Stark, former weapons manufacturer and self-described textbook narcissist, whose exploits inside the all-powerful Iron Man suit have bought a welcome calm to the world. The man himself, however, has to face the challenge of the erratic battery in his chest that makes him a superhero with an expiration date. 2 hours, 4 minutes.
The Kids Are All Right (R) “The Kids Are All Right” is a smart, cheerful, character-driven relationship comedy. In other words, it’s a miracle. Imagine: a boldly funny film that doesn’t trade in meet-cutes and laugh-track jokes, but carefully observes five interesting people colliding like bumper cars. 1 hour, 44 minutes.
The Killer Inside Me (R)
Lou Ford is a handsome, charming, unassuming small town sheriff’s deputy named in an idyllic West Texas town in the early 1950s. Ford has difficulty juggling his long-term girlfriend Amy, the prostitute named Joyce that he mistakenly falls for, and the sociopathic tendencies inside him. 1 hour, 48 minutes.

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: RT @CCTimes Contra Costa County ex-prosecutor, accused of rape, battles for job against claims by prostitute http://bit.ly/bRzi2C —Twittered 1 hour ago

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BELMONT, Calif.—In a July 29 story about Belmont’s moratorium on new massage therapist permits due to concerns about prostitution, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the California Massage Therapy Council said that schools it deemed illegitimate may allow sex workers to set up businesses by selling diplomas. Council CEO Ahmos Netanel said these schools also might have sold diplomas or committed other infractions unrelated to prostitution.

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