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House members lost their MINDS when Johnny Manziel, winner of the Heisman 2012, hit the House floor today for a congratulatory resolution.
(Thanks to Rep. Stefani Carter, R-Dallas, for taking the phone onto the floor for the shot…)
That's him on the dais in the gray suit behind the House speaker. All the people crowded in front are the lawmakers, showing their support for the res.
Even House Parliamentarian got into it, sporting a Texas A&M jersey below his required suit coat.


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Geochemistry of low-temperature springs northwest of Yellowstone caldera: Seeking the link between seismicity, deformation, and fluid flow
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AbstractA comprehensive geochemical survey of springs outside the northwest margin of the Yellowstone caldera was undertaken in 2003 and 2004. This survey was designed to detect: (1) active leakage from a huge reservoir of CO2 gas recently postulated to extend from beneath the caldera into this area; and (2) lingering evidence for subsurface flow of magmatic fluids into this area during the 1985 seismic swarm and concomitant caldera subsidence. Spring temperatures are low (< 15 ??C), but two large-discharge springs contain 14C-dead carbon that can be identified as magmatic from calculated end-member values for ??13C(dead) and 3He/C(dead) of - 4??? and 1 ?? 10- 10, respectively, similar to values for intra-caldera fumarolic and hot-spring gases. However, the combined discharge of magmatic C is only 5.4 tonnes/day, < 0.1% of the total output from Yellowstone. The two springs have slightly elevated 3He/4He ratios near 1 RA and anomalous concentrations of Cl, Li, and B, and appear to represent minor leakage of gas-depleted, thermal waters out of the caldera. The small CO2 signal detected in the springs is difficult to reconcile with a large underlying reservoir of gas in faulted and seismically active terrain. When considered with analyses from previous decades, the results provide no evidence to associate the ten-year period of caldera deflation that began in 1985 with expulsion of magmatic fluids through the caldera rim in this area.
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"Bobby Wade's steady," said wide receivers coach Darryl Drake. "He doesn't possess great speed, but he's where he's supposed to be, and he makes plays and makes catches. There's a place for him (on the team)."
That will likely be in a supporting role. Twenty of his receptions came on third down, which will give Rex Grossman a reliable slot receiver to look for when he needs to move the chains.
Wade is also part of the punt return competition, but because he lacks the speed of Berrian or moves of Nathan Vasher is running third in the derby. If Berrian wins a starting job and the Bears are worried about the depth behind Vasher at cornerback, Wade could take the spot by default.
However, Smith has never hesitated when it comes to using key players on special teams. Both Jerry Azumah and R.W. McQuarters returned kicks and punts while being in the starting lineup.
If Wade doesn't win the punt return job and falls to fourth on the depth at wideout, there are those that feel he could be on the bubble to make the team.
With an abundance of young unproven receivers on the squad, the Bears know what they have in Wade. He's not spectacular, yet his sure hands make him a consistent intermediate threat. It will be difficult to let that go when the coaches have to trim the roster down to 53.


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There are plenty of reasons you should use a credit card instead of a debit card (if both are available) but here's one that is especially compelling. A debit card is directly linked to your checking account, whereas a credit card is linked to an ephemeral credit limit. When Burger King accidentally bills you $2,243 instead of $22.43 or when they bill you $8,648 instead of $86.48, you aren't suddenly emptied of all your funds.
Debit cards used to suffer from weaker fraud protection, that's no longer the case. Debit cards used to be less widely accepted because they used a network that differed from credit cards, that's less and less the case. However, debit cards will always be linked to your bank account (that's by definition) so when someone accidentally enters in $2000 instead of $20, you'll be out that money until someone is around to resolve it.
In the meanwhile, any checks you've written or any future debit transactions will result in NSF (not sufficient funds) and overdraft fees – which will likely put a smile on your bank's face and a huge frown on yours.
So, if you want yet another reason not to use debit cards, this is a big one. Don't underestimate the power of carelessness and stupidity.{ 20 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


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December 15: Upscale Singers present "Songs of the Season"
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Venue: Desert Hills Presbyterian Church
The Upscale Singers present their once-a-year Christmas concert "Songs of the Season" Dec. 15 at 5 p.m. at Desert Hills Presbyterian Church. The concert also features the Upscale Kids and the Upscale Scholars who won this fall's vocal scholarship audition.
"One of my favorite holiday treats!"
"We look forward to this every year!"
These are just some of the comments about past performances made by the crowd that gathers for this annual event.
This year's "Songs of the Season" begins with light-hearted favorites, and then moves into choral arrangements of best-loved carols. The culmination of the concert features the Upscale Kids singing the round "Dona Nobis Pacem." Next, the adults join in with the carol "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Then in despair I bowed my head:
"There is no peace on earth," I said,
"For hate is strong, and it mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will to men."
Longfellow resolves his gloom as he hears the pealing of the Christmas bells. The choral arrangement by David Hamilton ends with the children and the adults once again singing quietly, prayerfully, "Dona Nobis Pacem."
Fervent as that prayer is, it's no way to end a concert – and so the choir bursts joyfully into "African Noel" as they bid everyone to "Go Tell It on the Mountain" followed, of course, with cheer as they wish everyone a Merry Christmas.
The concert will be held at Desert Hills Presbyterian Church, where the setting sun over the boulders behind the sanctuary is as special as the music. Mark this date on your calendars early, for it's an evening not to be missed.


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Yo this girl named Vanessa Romano knows how to cause laughter!
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The distinct sound of JOY in the air; POSITIVE reaction to any situation; the sound that eminates from within when you are HAPPY!
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Jewel: I'm Not The Popular Girl
Jewel transformed herself from pop-folk poet to techno-dance diva and country artist. Now, the girl who grew up poor in Alaska and later sold more than 27 million albums returns to NBC's Nashville Star, judging young stars-in-the-making who'd love to achieve her success.
Jewel looks as earthly and beautiful as ever, perhaps a reflection of shunning the L.A. lifestyle in favor of life on a Texas ranch with rodeo champ Ty Murray.
Last year you hosted Nashville Star, this year you're a judge. Is that a little tougher?
"As a host, you just get to be everybody's friend and as a judge you have to put yourself on the line a lot more. But I love it cause they let us mentor the contestants. I feel like we're not there to tear people down, or at least I'm not. I want to be honest. I can't lie and say I thought somebody was good if they weren't. But I'm not trying to do it in a mean way or do it to get some sound bite on television by being maliciously clever like you see the judges do on some shows."
How do you feel about a winner suddenly becoming an overnight star?
"There's only, like, one-and-a-half great performers that have come from American Idol . It's hard. Just because you're given the chance doesn't mean you have everything that it takes. I feel lucky that I got to grow slow. As we used to say, 'Hard wood does grow slowly.'"
You've been judged along the way haven't you?
"I remember really early in my career people thought I was copying other singers. But I was still experimenting and I knew it would just take time. I've taken a lot of criticism to heart. But there are other times that you feel like you have to find your own way and be stubborn about it."
Some people are surprised that you've made the transition to country music.
"I was raised on country music. It's not as if I woke up one day and said, 'I think I'll be a country singer.' I'm doing the same kind of music now that I have always done. If 'You Were Meant For Me' was released today, it would be a country song. I've got songs I wrote when I was 18-years-old that are ready for Nashville."
Do you still get energized from performing live?
"There are always real people in front of you, and it's not that people just love you—you feel everything on stage. You don't just feel love, you feel contempt, you feel mindless adoration, you feel all sorts of things. It's overwhelming. But the travel part—being constantly on the road — is real hard for me."
You dropped out for a couple of years and then did an album Good-Bye Alice In Wonderland, which sort of chronicled your unhappiness with becoming famous.
"It was really just being constantly in the public eye—the struggle between being an artist and a songwriter vs. being a star and a celebrity. I've let go of a lot of money and a lot of things that kind of made me more famous because I felt like they weren't necessarily good for me as a writer or as a human. And I don't regret that at all. I'm not always going to be in favor. I'm not always going to be the popular girl. But you've got to have the courage to keep persevering—e ven if it differs from what people want. You can't be afraid to take risks.


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IT IS a long and choppy way from Oban on the windswept west coast of Scotland to Clarenville on the east coast of Canada – 2,240 miles to be precise. But thanks to a cable stretched out two miles below the cold Atlantic Ocean, Scotland's links to North America became if not physically closer, then a lot clearer, 50 years ago this month.
The first transatlantic submarine cable went live at 6pm on 25 September 1956 – instantly trebling the number of calls that could be made between the UK and the United States or Canada and giving customers vastly improved sound quality. The cable, which replaced unreliable, crackly radio links, allowed for 36 simultaneous transatlantic conversations.
Amazingly, considering that it cost the princely sum of 3 for three minutes – today the same call would cost less than 30p – the cable carried almost 300,000 calls in its first year of service.
The cost reflected the huge investment and technological difficulties of installing the cable, in a joint initiative between the Post Office Engineering Department, the American Telegraph and Telephone Company (AT&T), Bell Telephone Laboratories and the Canadian Overseas Telecommunications Corporation. Fifty per cent of the shares were held by the American companies, 40 per cent by the Post Office Telecommunications and 10 per cent by the Canadians.
The project was extremely ambitious, with two armoured sub-sea cables developed by Bell Laboratories used to connect Oban with Clarenville. The cable was laid by the cableship Monarch – built by the Post Office in 1945 to replace a vessel of the same name destroyed during the war - and it was the only ship capable of conveying the 1,500 nautical miles of cable which had to be laid in one piece across the deepest part of the Atlantic.
The Oban end of the cable was then connected to Glasgow and London, with the Clarenville end linked to Newfoundland and on to Nova Scotia.
"The advent of the first transatlantic cable, which was nicknamed TAT1, was hailed as a major breakthrough in telecommunications and heralded the age of reliable and cost effective mass communication across the Atlantic," says David Hay, BT's head of heritage and corporate memory.
Using technologies developed during and after the Second World War, the cable cost 12.5 million to lay and took three years to complete. Hay adds: "By any standards this was a historically significant engineering achievement."
When transatlantic calls arrived, the service was opened at Lancaster House in London by the Postmaster General, who spoke to the AT&T chairman calling from New York, and to the Canadian minister of transport.
It was instantly popular with members of the public wealthy enough to use it. In the first 24 hours, there were 588 calls made between London and the US and 119 from London to Canada. In its first year of service, TAT1 carried about 220,000 calls between Britain and the US and 75,000 between Britain and Canada, raising 2 million revenue shared between the three countries."Those first callers would have noticed a massive difference in the quality of service," says Hays. "Not only was TAT1 able to sustain a far greater number of calls at any one time, and most calls could be placed within 10 minutes of a request to the operator, but radio calls were often plagued by interference and fading and people had to wait hours to be connected."
While TAT1 ceased service in 1978, it proved a starting point for future research and developments – including the much more sophisticated transatlantic projects TAT8 and TAT9 – involving the use of optical fibre cables and digital technology.
"It would have been impossible to predict 50 years ago the kind of volumes of traffic crossing the Atlantic today," adds Hay. "With the development of broadband and internet-based technologies, mass communications between Britain and North America can only be set to grow.
"None of it would have been possible without these early technological breakthroughs."
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Threshold Cryptography
is the art of chopping a secret into little bits.
Only by possessing more than a threshold number of bits of the secret can the secret be determined.
For example if I had four copies of a key and cut each key into three pieces, distributing one piece each to twelve people then it would probably take about five people to use the key. The minimum threshold in this case would be three, and the maximum number of servers to contact would be 9. That's with random distribution. With algorithmic, non-random distribution based on name (e.g. the four lowest in the alphabet get piece1, the next four get piece2, etc.), this can be reduced to exactly three successful contacts necessary to find the whole key.
Algorithms exist to break any secret up such that at least and exactly M out of N holders of pieces of the secret must give approval (and their partial secret or key) in order to compute the total secret (e.g. 3 of 5, 3 of 12, 5 of 12, etc.). Removing probability has a cost, though... a secret must be broken into C(N,M-1) pieces and each holder carries (N-M+1)/N parts of the whole key... so '3 of 12' is more expensive per-node than '5 of 12'. (These numbers come from the pigeonhole principle and constraints: any piece 'pK' must be found on N-M+1 holders so that access to a full M secret-holders guarantees 'pK' will be known, whilst access to M-1 computers must guarantee that there is at least one piece not found, so 'pK' must NOT be with the other M-1 computers. The minimum number of component 'pK' elements to do this is (N) Choose (M-1). Individual pK elements can be made artificially large in order to subvert guessing of one or two missing pieces; the combinator function needn't be straightforward append. However, The computation and storage cost of this approach is high, and it may do well to combine it with some straightforward split-and-distribute as listed above; e.g. splitting the 'require 5 of 7 pieces' to 'more than 7' people is the natural extension to splitting 'require 3 of 3 pieces' to '12 people'. The combined effect can avoid the massive costs of splitting and storing, say '5 of 20' parts (C(20,4) unique parts, every node holding ~16/20ths of total secret, vs. C(7,4) parts with each node holding 3/7ths of total secret). The main advantage of mixing in this algorithmic division approach is in achieving better guarantees as to redundancy and survivability while simultaneously increasing the number of users one must access to possess the whole secret. E.g. for the other approach, to require 5 users would require splitting the key into 5 pieces and divvying that up among, say, 15 people; it would take access to 5 people to gain the secret, and the secret could be lost by losing 3 people. Splitting it to 5 of 7 first, then dividing the 7 chunks among 14 people results in 2 different people having a copy of any given chunk, and the secret won't be lost before losing 6 people (losing three whole chunks).
As a security measure,
requires that many systems must be compromised prior to taking control of a secret, inherently including resistance to snooping or abuse by any superusers of the computation resource (who would have the ability to do so if the secret were wholly on one system). It also provides inherent redundancy of the secret... e.g. if you can guarantee that it takes at least and at most 5 of 12 secret-holders to build the secret, you can guarantee that a failure of up to 7 systems is tolerable without failure. With a probabilistic split, you can easily calculate a percentage chance that the data is unavailable for each loss of node... and, with intelligent split of components, you can guarantee that at least some count of nodes must be lost before the data has any chance of being lost.
In the case of authorization to access a different system (e.g. to control a power plant), security can be increased further by demanding that a few parts of the approval come from -particular- people that are known to still be accessible... and by changing these people at regular intervals. This makes it much more difficult to gain access even by compromising the systems... because you can't easily know which
systems ought to be compromised. E.g. in the split requiring 3 approvals from 12 people, one could conceivably gain access by compromising just 3 systems, and the larger number of systems would conceivably mean that there is less oversight and security on each one. However, if the final guard to the system demands that at least one piece come with signature from 'person X', with a different X at different times (e.g. changing once each 8-hour shift), would mean that compromising just 3 systems might not include person X at least 9/12ths of the time. By jumping upwards to a combination and in number of secret-holders, one reduces the window in a combinatorial manner (e.g. requiring 3 particular people of 14 would have C(14,3) possible combinations and thus compromising exactly 3 systems would only offer a window open 1/364ths of the time. Also, if some systems are known to be especially well guarded against compromise, one could require approval from one of those systems as part of the whole package. The strength of this defense is orthoganal to the number of parts into which the secret is split, but it can only help in cases of where the collective authorization-secret is examined ultimately by yet another secure agent (e.g. each person is giving approval and a partial key to access a system that will reject access until you have both the key and approval from -particular- people).
The strongest reason for using this mechanism over straightforward encryption is that a secret might need to be available to users that can only provide a -certificate- authorizing access to a file or service, and the primary encryption isn't against any key with which individuals share long-term access (there is no shared key). E.g. one can use
to encrypt files or split keys requiring, say, either 'Secret' clearance with 'Power Grid' specialization, or 'Top Secret' clearance, represented as a certificate signed by a government master key not in expiration, and any individual that can prove to M of N systems that he or she possesses the necessary clearances will be provided the capability to actually perform the task. Key distribution is a difficult problem, doubly so when you won't trust that any one key distribution server hasn't been compromised;
is one of the more elegant answers to that particular problem.
can also be used in
... e.g. to ensure that so many pieces of a puzzle are found before it is even -possible- to put them together to form something meaningful (no cheating!).
doing it with Java
calculating partial signatures on different servers then combining, key parts never in direct contact.
software for splitting files requiring
people to reassemble
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Hale Kai (Ocean House) is an historic estate located on 3 pristine landscaped acres with over 500'of OCEANFRONT,a tennis court,swimming pool and one of the only private docks on the Big Island. The compound was designed by world-reowned architect, Vladimir Ossipoff-the "Frank Lloyd Wright of Hawaii"- and consists of 7 bedrooms and 6 baths sprea out over 4 houses and cottages, with the entire property being enclosed behind a gated 5' high lava rock wall for exclusive privacy and security.
Hale Kai is landscaped with beautiful tropical gardens and palm trees, including the arched tree under which actor John Wayn was married in the ealy 1960's. Because of its unique location, the property offers a sweeping 270 degrees of oceanfront viewing over the sparkling deep blue Pacific Ocean and the beautiful sapphire/turquoise water of Keauhou Bay.
The atmosphere of "Hale Kai" is classic "Old Hawaii" and once you enter the property, it's as if you're a million miles from anywhere and you've gone 50 years back in time-but with all modern day conveniences.
Historic "Hale Kai" is the perfect Hawaiian vacation spot for romantic getaway, family vacations, reunions, retreats, and weddings. It will truly be your own private resort. After you have experienced "Hale Kai" there will be little wonder why Hawaiian royalty, including King Kamehameha I himself, once resided here.


text: San Francisco native and graphic designer Benny Gold has unleashed his recent collaborative project with Real Skateboards. The project is realized on a trio of skateboards and a graphic T-shirt adorned with a reappropriation of the skate company's logo featuring Benny's familiar design aesthetics. The wood-grain skate decks are limited to 25 of each color and made available exclusively to the Benny Gold flagship location, while a variant utilizing gold foil is limited to 100 and will be distributed by Real.


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The 1970s was the golden era of adult entertainment. Porn in the 70s was made for the adventure of having sex on camera in a time when adult films were censored and performers did it for the love of fucking instead of money and stardom. The 70s brought us such classic porn stars as Seka, Marilyn Chambers, Vanessa del Rio, Annette Haven, Desiree Cousteau, Kay Parker, Gloria Leonard, Georgina Spelvin, Lisa DeLeeuw, Veronica Hart and many more. The porn pioneers of the 70s shot their sexual encounters on loops and 8mm film.
70s pornstars had their sexual escapades distributed by the likes of the Mitchell Brothers, Swedish Erotica, and Caballero Control Corporation. 1970's porn was before the video age of adult entertainment, usually shot in low budget hotel rooms or borrowed homes in either northern Los Angeles or San Francisco.
Seka, Marilyn Chambers, and Linda Lovelace became household names in the 1970's. They fought public ridicule, court orders, and prudish politicians to enable the sexual revolution to become mainstream. The golden era 70's pornstars blazed the path for 1980's video queens like Ginger Lynn and Amber Lynn, not to mention paving the streets of gold for the Jenna Jameson and Tera Patrick's of the world.
For many, the 1970's meant a calm period in America following the turbulent 1960's. In adult entertainment, 70s pornstars generated an explosion that unleashed the sex age. To put it blunt, the 1970's was the Sex Age in America thanks to the willingness of beautiful women like Seka and Marilyn Chambers to risk everything for the love of porn. Here's more on the top 70s pornstars:
John Holmes
- John Holmes
He was (and still is) the king of porn. The crown was heavy on his head and his fame didn't shelter him from the self-destructive tendencies that ultimately were his downfall. His 13 1/2-inch cock is one of porn's landmarks, a physical monument that Holmes wielded with pride as he blazed a trail that every other man who fucks on camera follows. He was the first male porn superstar and he remains the most famous male porn performer ever. He played porn's first continuing character, Johnny Wadd - a hardboiled, hardcore detective who scored with every chick who crossed his path, and he made hundreds of other films. Holmes was a gangly, skinny man who came across as non-threatening with a crooked, warm smile, and audiences just couldn't get enough of his work. He wasn't a pretty guy and that bonded him with viewers who wanted to fuck in their fantasies through his big cock. It is hardly a surprise that the mainstream's most successful movie about adult, Paul Thomas Anderson's 1997 Boogie Nights, was loosely based on Holmes. Holmes was a chronic liar, but one who used his real name in his movies, as he was proud of them. Big cocks come and go, but 13 years after his death from AIDS, Holmes' continues to tower above all the rest.
Seka -
Before other girls known only by one name, there was Seka, the platinum blonde who blazed onto the screen in the late-'70s, made the golden age of the industry shine and was one of the first real superstars of the adult industry who people asked for by name. Her scenes, particularly with the late John Holmes, burned her into the memory of adult aficionados everywhere, with such titles as Caballero Video's Swedish Erotica series, and Inside Seka. The AVN Hall of Famer also stood out in her titles with John Holmes, which includes Bob Chinn's Blonde Fire and Angel in Mr. Holmes. While most names in adult are forgotten in six months, Seka's name lives on. When one thinks of 70s porn or 70s pornstars the name Seka is always at the top of the list.
Chambers -
Marilyn Chambers Videos
One of the main figureheads of the '70s Golden Age, Marilyn Chambers made her first impression in the Mitchell Brothers' classic 1972 film Behind The Green Door, following that dialogue-less performance with an impressive acting performance in The Resurrection of Eve the next year. These porn performances contrasted with the pert-young-mother image she projected on the box of Ivory Snow that she had posed for as a model a while before, leading an embarrassed Procter & Gamble to redesign the box with an illustration. In the afterglow of porno chic she appeared in such mainstream B-movies as Rabid, directed by David Cronenberg, and The Angel of H.E.A.T., but she kept working in adult as well, and surprised many people by signing a VCA contract in 1998, making Still Insatiable, Dark Chambers and Edge Play with fellow Golden Age performer, now director, Veronica Hart.
Vanessa Del
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Vanessa Del Rio Videos
Back in the day, the first - and still the best known - Latina porn queen, voluptuous Vanessa del Rio, set the standard for female on-camera nastiness. Few performers to this day can capture the raw animal heat that wafted off the super-sultry half Puerto Rican/half Cuban bombshell. Maybe because this was one smut slut who actually loved her work. Asked if she enjoyed doing porn, she answered, "Are you serious? Didn't I look like I was enjoying it, huh? What a dumb question! Twelve years of sucking cock and stretching my mouth til my features were distorted and my eyes rolled back in my head and you ask me if I enjoyed it?" Even though del Rio retired in the mid-1980s due to her fear of contracting AIDS, she remains immensely popular - a tribute to her trailblazing impact. Of her close to 200 titles, she names as her favorites her very first porno - 1974's China Doll - plus Filthy Rich, Dracula Exotic, the Dancers, Pink Ladies and Deep Inside Vanessa. She also appeared in such classics as Babylon Pink, Her Name Was Lisa and Devil in Miss Jones 3. Del Rio was - and remains - the embodiment of lust.
Mitchell - Sharon
Mitchell Videos
She prefers a "Miss" at the front - has a career spanning almost 25 years in the adult video industry, winning AVN's first Best Actress - Film award in 1983, but perhaps her most important work has been accomplished since she retired from on-camera sex work nearly three years ago. It was Mitchell who, in 1998, worked tirelessly to trace the source of an HIV infection that threatened to sweep through the adult industry, and which could have signaled the end of adult video as we know it. Working at that time under the auspices of Protecting Adult Welfare, Mitchell broke away from that organization and formed the Adult Industry Medical (AIM) Foundation, which now performs the majority of the HIV testing in the industry.
Lovelace -
The Linda Lovelace Video
Download Site
Thirty years after Deep Throat made her the first female porn star, Linda Lovelace remains among the most well known names in adult film history. Her starring role in the Gerard Damiano classic made her an instant celebrity; she was the world's first porn star and an emblem of '70s porno chic. Almost overnight, she went from the shady, illegal world of early New York underground loops to appearing on talk shows and making the scene at the Playboy Mansion; as documented in Eric Danville's recent book The Complete Linda Lovelace, she became a part of the American pop culture lexicon. During her porn heyday, Lovelace soaked up the limelight as a self-proclaimed nympho, but her 1979 book Ordeal presented a radically different version of events. Stating that she was the victim of coercion and abuse at the hands of manager Chuck Traynor, Lovelace emerged as one of porn's most outspoken opponents. She testified against the industry and followed Ordeal with another memoir, Out of Bondage. Though Lovelace remains firm in her anti-porn stance, she did pose for a layout in the January 2001 issue of Leg Show... go figure.
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Here are the candidates running for public offices in Tuesday's local elections in Morris County, along with public questions on the ballot in Chatham and Kinnelon.
Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. in every town.
Results of the contested races will be posted here as soon as possible after the polls close Tuesday night. Full coverage of New Jersey's congressional elections can be found here.
Stars denote incumbents, an "x" indicates an uncontested election.
Click here to load this Caspio Online Database app.


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Ocean Mirror with Stingray Frame
Mirrors usually reflect the surface placed in front of them and when they are facing the blue skies or some water they seem to be depicting the ocean itself. Mirrors are also very nice and effective home accessories because they look so nice in any room you may place them. So, except for the very pragmatic use – when people use them to see their reflection and adjust it, mirrors can be used to bring a certain specific touch of elegance and style to any home. This Ocean Mirror with Stingray Frame is all the more special because its frame is made of a very unusual and rare material: stingray skin.
Stingrays are mainly known because they look like giant and unusual birds living under the ocean. They are actually fish but their skin is very resistant and when it is dried it is used for manufacturing different objects. Craftsmen love this material because it looks great, has a whitish look and also makes every object pretty special. To be honest, stingrays remind me of the late "crocodile hunter" Steve Irwin, but this mirror is really beautiful, so I try not to think of this, but of the special design and the amazing way of processing stingray skin until it is ready to be used in the frame of a mirror. This mirror is available for 2,033 at Uber Interiors.


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The Magmatic Studies Group uses multidisciplinary approaches to investigate the petrogenesis of carbonated and carbonate-rich igneous rocks (both locally and internationally), the magmatic phenomena occurring on the Palaeozoic sea floors of Ireland, and the formation of ore mineralizations associated with magmatic activity.
field geology, petrography, geochemistry, numerical and experimental modelling, and fluid inclusion studies (in collaboration with the Geofluids Research Group)
Kathryn Moore
Explosive dyke cross-cutting Carboniferous strata, White Ball Head, Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork.
Outcrop of the core of a diatreme pipe at Black Ball Head, Beara Peninsula, Co. Cork.
Carbonatite magma mingling and mixing: investigations including petrography and geochemistry (in collaboration with Professor Frances Wall as above and Dr Farid Divaev of the Institute of Mineral Resources, Tashkent, Uzbekistan), and numerical modelling (in collaboration with Luca Valentini, University of Perugia, Italy)
The role of carbonate in diatremic magmatism: student research project (Aoife Brady) investigating the chemistry of carbonate minerals; in collaboration with Professor Frances Wall (Camborne School of Mines, Cornwall, UK) and Professor Troels Nielsen (Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland,Copenhagen, Denmark).
Carbonatite magma genesis in orogenic and post-orogenic tectonic settings: numerical modelling investigation in collaboration with Professor Paul Ryan, NUI Galway, Ireland.
Mechanisms of explosive emplacement of subvolcanic magmas: field investigations assisted by the undergraduate students of NUI Galway.
Explosive Magmatism, Peperites and Magma-sediment Interaction at the Bunmahon Volcano, County Waterford: student research project (Catherine Breheny) investigating the relationship between ocean floor magmatism and ore deposits on the Copper Coast; in collaboration with Dr Martin Feely, NUI Galway, Ireland.
Volcanology and petrology of arc magmatism in South Mayo: comparative stratigraphy of convergent margins. Student research project (Zara Archibald) investigating the relationship between basalt chemistry, eruption phenomena and lava morphology of the Ordovician Bencorragh Formation in Finny.


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The Roberto Luongo-Tim Thomas Show, sadly, wasn't to be, and Sunday was our harshest reminder yet of what could've been.
The Panthers still gave away Thomas' bobblehead, despite the fact that they traded him earlier in the week.
It's Tim Thomas bobblehead day at the Panthers game. Yes, still. pic.twitter.com/gdqjn0U2Fg
— Amalie Benjamin (@AmalieBenjamin) March 9, 2014
The best part, though, is that fans at BB&T Center got a Luongo poster, too. 1-for-2 isn't bad.
Everyone in attendance will receive a Luongo poster! First 7500 can also take home a Thomas Bobblehead. pic.twitter.com/a26QjFGvaE
— Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) March 9, 2014
As is custom, the situation led to passive-aggressive joking/sniping between the teams' Twitter accounts.
@DallasStars We could, but you should probably find someone more qualified to back up Timmy for now (just to be safe).
— Florida Panthers (@FlaPanthers) March 9, 2014
@FlaPanthers we did. He beat you guys in September, remember? http://t.co/BPGPJcMEjH
— Dallas Stars (@DallasStars) March 9, 2014
The Stars didn't go full Bieber on Florida, though, which is nice.
MORE: A history of Tim Thomas' terrible goalie masks


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Dark Lotus
|Dark Lotus
|Detroit, Michigan, United States
|Hip hop, horrorcore
|Years active
|1998 – present
|Associated acts
|Insane Clown Posse, Twiztid, Krazy Klan
|Violent J (1998—present)
Shaggy 2 Dope (1998—present)
Jamie Madrox (1998—present)
Monoxide Child (1998—present)
Blaze Ya Dead Homie (2000—present)
|Past members
|Marz (2001)
Anybody Killa (2001—2006)
Dark Lotus is an American hip hop group based in Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 1998, the group consists of Insane Clown Posse (Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J), Blaze Ya Dead Homie, and Twiztid (Jamie Madrox and Monoxide Child).
Dark Lotus made its debut with the single "Echoside,"[1] which was originally intended for the group's debut, but released on Insane Clown Posse's 1999 album The Amazing Jeckel Brothers instead, because the Dark Lotus album's production took longer than expected.[1] It was later announced that each member "would act as a 'petal' of the lotus,"[2] and that there would be six members. After speculation as to who the sixth member would be, including rumors that either Esham or Vampiro would join the group, it was announced that Marz would be a member.[2]
Dark Lotus released their first album, Tales from the Lotus Pod, in 2001. Mike E. Clark was brought in to produce the album, but left the project after producing four songs, and Fritz the Cat produced the rest of the album.[3] The album peaked at #1 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart, #6 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and #158 on the Billboard 200.[4] Marz left the group, and was replaced by Anybody Killa. In 2002, Tales from the Lotus Pod was reissued in a new version removing Marz's vocals.[5] On April 6, 2004, Dark Lotus released their second studio album, Black Rain. It peaked at #3 on the Top Independent Albums chart, and at #71 on the Billboard 200.[4]
Lowery left the group, and a third album, The Opaque Brotherhood, on April 15, 2008 was released without him.[2][6] It peaked at #4 on the Top Independent Albums chart, #23 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, #45 on the Top Internet Albums chart, and #45 on the Billboard 200.[4] Allrovi reviewer Stewart Mason praised the album, writing "Nothing on The Opaque Brotherhood will convince anyone who isn't already a fan, but the tormented lyrics and matter-of-fact delivery remove a layer or two of distance and artifice from the band's familiar themes, and make them that much more disturbing as a result."[7] Twiztid left Psychopathic Records on December 13, 2012,[8] but according to Violent J, Dark Lotus have not broken up and will continue to release music on Psychopathic Records as time permits.[9]
It was announced on February 18, 2014 that all 5 members of Dark Lotus were in the studio together recording a new album. This will be the group's first album since 2008's The Opaque Brotherhood. It will be released at the 15th annual Gathering of the Juggalos. In March 2014 Faygoluvers.net posted a picture with the DL sign, with Roman numerals underneath, in numbers they read "7-29-2014" possibly meaning that the new Dark Lotus album could be in stores on that date. It was later confirmed by Psychopathic Records, that the upcoming album will be available in stores on July 29.
In the June 6 edition of the Hatchet Herald the album title for the new Dark Lotus album was revealed. The album is entitled, The Mud, Water, Air & Blood. The album will feature 16 tracks, and will have its first ever guest feature, from former member Anybody Killa.
Music and lyrics[edit]
Kimberly Chun of the San Francisco Chronicle described Dark Lotus' musical style as a mixture of "dub, goth, metal, shock rock and hip-hop, with a WWF announcer's delivery and shuffling stoner beats thrown in for good measure."[10] Much of Dark Lotus' lyrics revolve around the occult.[2]
|Release Date
|Catalog #
|Peak chart positions
|RIAA Certification
(sales thresholds)
|US Indie
|US Rap
|US Heat
|US R&B/Hip-Hop Albums
|Tastemaker Albums
|July 17, 2001
|Tales from the Lotus Pod
|April 6, 2004
|Black Rain
|April 15, 2008
|The Opaque Brotherhood
|July 29, 2014
|The Mud, Water, Air & Blood[11]
- ^ a b Bruce, Joseph; Echlin, Hobey (August 2003). "Complete Discography". In Nathan Fostey. ICP: Behind the Paint (2nd ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 560–561. ISBN 0-9741846-0-8.
- ^ a b c d "Dark Lotus > Biography". Allrovi. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ Bruce, Joseph; Echlin, Hobey (August 2003). "Hatchet Rising". In Nathan Fostey. ICP: Behind the Paint (2nd ed.). Royal Oak, Michigan: Psychopathic Records. pp. 470–496. ISBN 0-9741846-0-8.
- ^ a b c "Charts and awards for Dark Lotus". Allrovi. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
- ^ D'Angelo, Joe (September 25, 2001). "Insane Clown Posse Axed By Label, Launching Tour". MTV News. Retrieved 2008-11-03.
- ^ Bonaventura, Andrea (October 25, 2006). "The Calm Before the Storm". Real Detroit Weekly. Retrieved 2008-07-14.
- ^ Mason, Stewart. "Review of The Opaque Brotherhood". Allrovi. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ https://twitter.com/tweetmesohard
- ^ http://www.insaneclownposse.com
- ^ Chun, Kimberly (October 10, 2001). "Hip-hop on pop at Insane Clown Posse plus Paula West and Basement Jaxx". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ "The Title of the New Dark Lotus Album Is NOW REVEALED!". Psychopathicrecords.com. Psychopathicrecords.com. June 6, 2014. Retrieved May 11, 2014.


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The curtain hasn't yet come down on a rundown 1915 theater building slated for demolition by the city of Amarillo.
Rather than approve or deny a city of Amarillo request to demolish the Liberty Theater, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted instead to table the matter for 120 days, giving those lobbying for the theater time to devise a plan to restore the building through private means.
The city owns the theater, a separate single-story structure that abuts it and the entire block of vacant property on which the two buildings sit. The city purchased the theater building in October 2008 with the intention of demolishing it and the other structure to clear the way for a landscaped parking lot to serve patrons of nearby city buildings, including the Amarillo Downtown Public Library, Globe-News Center for the Performing Arts, Civic Center and Police Department.
Few historical elements of the theater remain, city Building Official Scott McDonald said, and the Texas Historical Commission has said it is not eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
"The (theater) building, as a whole, is not habitable in any way, shape or form," McDonald said. Many of the 15 people who testified before the Planning and Zoning Commission on Monday said they didn't know it was at risk for demolition.
Melissa Dailey, executive director of Downtown Amarillo Inc., said the organization's board members want time to determine whether a restored theater could contribute to downtown revitalization. DAI is a city-created entity designed to promote downtown development.
Several spoke against razing the theater for a parking lot.
"I do not for one moment believe that parking is the issue - the real issue here," said Keith Jones, a lawyer who had been involved a few years ago in a potential real estate deal for the building that fell through.
Jones also argued against the city's request to raze the theater at a July 2 public meeting of the city Board of Review for Landmarks and Historical Districts.
Because the board gave a unanimous thumbs down to the request, the city appealed the decision to the planning commission.
The July 2 review board decision effectively places a one-year moratorium on tearing down the structure, a mechanism that buys time for possible alternatives to be sought. But because the rights of property owners supersede historical designations, the city could move forward with demolition in a year if no compromise is reached.
The planning commission will revisit the matter in 120 days, making the final decision on whether the building can be razed or will stand until July 2010, when the moratorium barring demolition would end.
But even if a restoration plan materializes, the building's future remains unclear.
"Both Lewis Gilley, the city's staff architect, and I, as building official, are of the opinion the building is not structurally sound enough to survive a move to another location" McDonald wrote in a letter to the planning commission. "This could be the only option as the city, as owner of the property, has development plans that do not include the building remaining on this site."
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Yes, that sounds like what it is saying to me.My aunt, who used to be a nursing professor, asked for some research behind the whole grains as anti-nutrients thing. I was doing some research with my University's library, and I came accross this abstract. It's a little too "sciency" for me to fully grasp, but I think their conclusion is that the lectins in wheat interfere with our gastrointestinal functioning. But I'm not sure. Haha. I'll paste it below if you don't mind telling me which side they are on:
"Wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) is a plant protein that binds specifically to sugars expressed, among many others, by human gastrointestinal epithelial and immune cells. WGA is a toxic compound and an anti-nutritional factor, but recent works have shown that it may have potential as an anti-tumor drug and as a carrier for oral drugs. To quantitate the toxicity threshold for WGA on normal epithelial cells we previously investigated the effects of the lectin on differentiated Caco2 cells, and showed that in the micromolar range of concentrations WGA could alter the integrity of the epithelium layer and increase its permeability to both mannitol and dextran. WGA was shown to be uptaken by Caco2 cells and only [approximately equal to]0.1% molecules were observed to cross the epithelium layer by transcytosis. Here we show that at nanomolar concentrations WGA is unexpectedly bioactive on immune cells. The supernatants of WGA-stimulated peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) can alter the integrity of the epithelium layer when administered to the basolateral side of differentiated Caco2 cells and the effects can be partially inhibited by monoclonal antibodies against IL1, IL6 and IL8. At nanomolar concentrations WGA stimulates the synthesis of pro-inflammatory cytokines and thus the biological activity of WGA should be reconsidered by taking into account the effects of WGA on the immune system at the gastrointestinal interface. These results shed new light onto the molecular mechanisms underlying the onset of gastrointestinal disorders observed in vivo upon dietary intake of wheat-based foods."
Effects of wheat germ agglutinin on human gastrointestinal epithelium: Insights from an experimental model of immune/epithelial cell interaction. Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology. June 1, 2009 v237 i2 p146(8). Authors: Chiara Dalla Pellegrina (a), Omar Perbellini (b), Maria Teresa Scupoli (b)(c), Carlo Tomelleri (b), Chiara Zanetti (a), Gianni Zoccatelli (a), Marina Fusi (a), Angelo Peruffo (a), Corrado Rizzi (a), Roberto Chignola (a)


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Legislative Item
File Number: 111716
|Printable PDF Format Clerk's Official Copy
|File Number: 111716
|File Type: Resolution
|Status: Adopted
|Version: 0
|Reference: R-645-11
|Control: Board of County Commissioners
|Requester: NONE
|Final Action: 9/1/2011
|Sunset Provision: No
|Effective Date:
|Expiration Date:
|Registered Lobbyist:
|None Listed
Legislative History
|Acting Body
|Agenda Item
|Sent To
|Due Date
|Board of County Commissioners
|Chairman Martinez relinquished the Chair to Commissioner Diaz. First Assistant County Attorney Abigail Price-Williams read the foregoing proposed resolution into the record. Acting Chairman Diaz opened the public hearing for persons wishing to appear before the Commission in connection with this proposed ordinance. After hearing no one, he closed the public hearing. Hearing no questions or comments, the Commission proceeded to vote on the foregoing proposed resolution as presented. Chairman Martinez resumed the Chair.
|County Attorney
|Jess M. McCarty
|Legislative Text
RESOLUTION CODESIGNATING N.W. 97th AVENUE FROM N.W. 3rd STREET TO N.W. 12th STREET AS "JOSE 'PEPE' CANCIO AVENUE"; CODESIGNATING THE N.W. 97th AVENUE BRIDGE OVER STATE ROAD 836 AS THE "JOSE 'PEPE' CANCIO BRIDGE"; URGING THE CITY OF DORAL TO JOIN IN THESE CODESIGNATIONS
WHEREAS, Jose "Pepe" Cancio was born in Havana, Cuba, the son of Jose Fernando Cancio Erro and Mary Lilliam Goudie y de Monteverde; and
WHEREAS, Cancio moved to the U.S. on December 9, 1960; and
WHEREAS, his first job in the U.S. was selling Coca-Cola at the Orange Bowl; and
WHEREAS, in 1961 and 1962, Cancio served in the Transport and Command Group, Brigade 2506; and
WHEREAS, during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, Cancio volunteered to serve in the U.S. Army, serving in both 1962 and 1963; and
WHEREAS, in 1963, Cancio worked at Cellucraft in Hialeah; and
WHEREAS, in 1964, Cancio married Mariana V. Castaneda Cano, and they have four children, Mariana, Jose, Patricia and Claudia, 13 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter; and
WHEREAS, from 1964 to 1970, Cancio was owner-operator of a dry cleaning business; and
WHEREAS, in 1970, Cancio moved to Brazil along with his family, and from 1970 to 1983, Cancio worked as manager, regional manager and eventually general manager of Concretex S.A. in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the largest concrete company in South America with more than $320 million in sales and 2,200 employees; and
WHEREAS, in 1983, Cancio founded a construction material company in Arizona, Blue Circle Arizona, and from 1983 to 1988, Cancio was founder and Executive Vice President of Blue Circle, with $170 million in sales, 850 employees, and which became the second largest construction material company in Arizona; and
WHEREAS, in 1988 and 1989, Cancio was a consultant for Oldcastle, California; and
WHEREAS, from 1989 to present, Cancio has served as founder and CEO of Central Concrete Supermix in Miami-Dade County, which eventually became the largest Hispanic ready mix concrete company in Florida and one of the 100 largest concrete companies in the U.S.; and
WHEREAS, from 2009 to present, Cancio also has owned North Florida Hauling LLC., based in High Springs, Florida; and
WHEREAS, Cancio served as Chairman of Florida Concrete and Products Association in 1995 and 1996, as Director of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association from 2003 to 2006, 2007 to 2010, and 2011 to date; and
WHEREAS, in 2003, the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association named Cancio Grassroots Activist of the Year; and
WHEREAS, while running a very successful business as President and CEO, Cancio always found time to serve the community; and
WHEREAS, in 1996, Cancio was elected to the Community Council in Doral, where he served until 2000, and in 2002, then-Governor Jeb Bush appointed Cancio to fill an open seat on the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners; and
WHEREAS, Cancio also was instrumental in the incorporation of the City of Doral and in the building of the N.W. 97th Avenue bridge over State Road 836; and
WHEREAS, in 2011, Cancio was a candidate for Mayor of Miami-Dade County; and
WHEREAS, N.W. 97th Avenue from N.W. 3rd Street to N.W. 12th Street is a County road located partially in unincorporated Miami-Dade County and partially in the City of Doral; and
WHEREAS, the N.W. 97th Avenue bridge over State Road 836 is a County bridge located in unincorporated Miami-Dade County with the northern portion ending in the City of Doral; and
WHEREAS, this Board would like to honor Jose "Pepe" Cancio with these codesignations; and
WHEREAS, these proposed codesignations are located in County Commission Districts 10 and 12,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, FLORIDA, that this Board:
Section 1. Having considered this matter at a public hearing, finds that Jose "Pepe" Cancio has made a direct, significant lifetime contribution to this community.
Section 2. By a three-fifths vote of the members present, codesignates N.W. 97th Avenue from N.W. 3rd Street to N.W. 12th Street as "Jose 'Pepe' Cancio Avenue".
Section 3. By a three-fifths vote of the members present, further codesignates the N.W. 97th Avenue bridge over State Road 836 as the "Jose 'Pepe' Cancio Bridge".
Section 4. Urges the City of Doral to join in these codesignations for the portion located within the City of Doral.
Section 5. Directs the Mayor or designee to install signage at all intersections and on all streets, including street signs on mast arms, intersecting N.W. 97th Avenue from N.W. 3rd Street to N.W. 12th Street identifying this portion of N.W. 97th Avenue as "Jose 'Pepe' Cancio Avenue", and further directs the Mayor or designee to install signage on both ends of the N.W. 97th Avenue bridge over State Road 836 identifying it as the "Jose 'Pepe' Cancio Bridge".
Section 6. Directs the Clerk of the Board to transmit a certified copy of this resolution to the United States Postal Service, the Mayor and Council Members of the City of Doral, the Traffic Signals and Signs Division of the Public Works Department, the Land Development Division of the Public Works Department, the City of Doral Police Department, the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Department.
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While I was super sick in the fall and early winter, I decided not to coupon. I just didn't have time or energy. That's what is nice about having a stockpile of necessities – we only had to buy one or two necessities during those months without coupons!
7 Tips to Save Your Family More Than $4,000/Year
We all like to save money. What started out as a necessity in our household has become somewhat of a game for me. How much money can I save during this shopping trip? How can we save an extra $20 this month? Can we get by on $25 worth of groceries this week (without going hungry)? It's my own personal challenge. 😉
Define Necessity
I saw this image going around Facebook the entire week of Thanksgiving, and it struck a chord with me.
I've been trying to live by this philosophy for quite a while. When Hubster was in grad school and I got pregnant with C/lost my job/dropped out of grad school, we ended up living below the federal poverty line for two years. I became somewhat of a wizard with our finances. We sold things that we didn't need. We started grocery shopping at Aldi or buying only sale items at the bigger grocery stores. I learned how to coupon, and then how to coupon effectively by matching manufacturer coupons with store sales and incentives. We cut unnecessary expenses out of our lives. We bought each other a joint Christmas gift instead of numerous gifts, and we bought them on Black Friday so that we saved the maximum amount of money on them.
Another Day, Another Dollar
It's the beginning of a new week, which means that I have my coupons clipped, scouted the best deals, and sorted lists and coupons by store!
I'm so glad that I'm able to contribute to our finances with couponing. Standing at the checkout and watching my total come down with the scanning of each coupon is an awesome high. It's like a game to see what I can get for $1 or less each week. 🙂
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The unadvertised deal is that you will get a $5 Target gift card when you purchase three Desitin Diaper Cream products, through 2/4. The unadvertised sale is that the purple box of Desitin that says "20% more" is ringing up as $2.48. You can score three boxes for free when you print three of these coupons and combine them with the sales: $1.00/1 – Desitin Diaper Rash product, Any (excludes 1 oz.) – (smartsource.com) . You may need to use two computers in order to print three of these, but I was able to do it with one computer.
Couponing 201: Strategy and Cost Standards
Here is lesson two in my couponing series! You can find the first one, Couponing 101, here. Today we'll go more in-depth about couponing strategy.
I've found that it's best to purchase two newspapers each week. Be sure to check to see if the coupon inserts are inside before buying your papers! There are people that steal coupon inserts or sometimes a paper gets missed in the stuffing process, but you don't want to get home and discover that they're missing.


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Foes and Friends in Trump Bankruptcy
Texas banker and math whiz Andrew Beal honed his skills by anticipating other players' moves in multimillion-dollar poker games.
But Mr. Beal got blindsided when his friend and former business partner Donald Trump switched sides in the bankruptcy-court struggle over Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc., which owns the three Trump casinos in Atlantic City, N.J.
Messrs. Beal and Trump had been close allies in a fight against a group of casino bondholders who hold roughly $1.25 billion in unsecured debt. Earlier this month, Mr. Trump joined that rival camp, wrecking the strategy of Mr. Beal, whose Beal Bank of Dallas holds $486 million in first-mortgage liens on the casinos. Mr. Beal initially was furious that Mr. Trump didn't tell him about his change of heart before it was announced, according to people familiar with the matter.
Under the plan favored by the bondholders and Mr. Trump, the star of TV's "The Apprentice" would maintain a 5% to 10% stake in the company.
Mr. Beal's plan, proposed last week, would remove Mr. Trump from any involvement in his namesake casinos. Mr. Beal's side contends that the casinos would still have the right under their mortgages to use the Trump name for 10 years even if Mr. Trump has no involvement or ownership. The Trump side contests this view.
"Who needs him," said Mr. Beal's lawyer, Thomas Lauria, head of restructuring at White & Case LLP.
Mr. Trump's defection sets the stage for a poker game of titans pitting the flamboyant Mr. Trump against the 57-year-old Mr. Beal. During his Texas Hold 'Em heyday between 2001 and 2004, the banker insisted on such high stakes that a group of the best poker players in the country had to pool their resources to play against him, dubbing themselves "the Corporation."
Many in the camp of Mr. Trump and the bondholders believe Mr. Beal is bluffing when he says Beal Bank is ready to take over the casinos, an unusual asset for a bank. Mr. Beal insists he isn't. "If we think taking the keys is our best option, we'll take the keys," he said in an interview.
A settlement also is a possibility. The two sides are negotiating in New York this week. Messrs. Trump and Beal both say they are still friends, although Mr. Beal declines to discuss his initial reaction to Mr. Trump's decision to switch sides.
Mr. Trump said that one of the reasons he reached a deal with the bondholders was because the company was bleeding money in bankruptcy-related fees. They currently exceed $2 million a week, according to one person familiar with the matter.
"The fees going out are very harmful," Mr. Trump said in an interview. "It was time that everybody got together and made a deal for the good of the company."
Mr. Trump has a long history of high-stakes gamesmanship in the real-estate and casino worlds. Before the Trump Entertainment Resorts bankruptcy filing in February, the Trump casinos had sought bankruptcy protection in the early 1990s and in 2004.
Each time after emerging, he received a sizeable equity stake on the strength of his name and marketing skills. Most recently he was chairman of the company with a 23% stake, but didn't get involved in day-to-day management.
In Mr. Beal, Mr. Trump faces a formidable opponent. Mr. Beal dropped out of college but has a math theory named after him. Beal Bank, founded in 1988, laid low during the boom years and escaped much of the real-estate bust. It has since gone on an opportunistic buying and lending binge, increasing its assets to $7 billion from $2.9 billion in 2007.
While Mr. Beal has stopped playing poker, his battles against "the Corporation," in which pots regularly exceeded $1 million, are still legendary in the poker world. "He wanted to say he busted us all and he nearly did," said professional poker player Barry Greenstein, a member of the group.
Mr. Beal first got involved with the Atlantic City casinos in the early part of the decade when he started buying their bonds. In the years that followed, Messrs. Trump and Beal also became friends. They would occasionally dine together when Mr. Beal visited New York, and Mr. Beal attended the October wedding of Mr. Trump's daughter, Ivanka. She has been heavily involved in the casino battle on her father's side.
In the latest bankruptcy, Messrs. Trump and Beal at first joined forces to take control of the casinos. Under their original plan, they would have both injected $50 million and Beal would have extended its $486 million loan. The $1.25 billion in debt held by the unsecured bondholders would have been wiped out.
But over the summer, the bondholders made progress in bankruptcy court, persuading the judge to allow them to propose a rival reorganization plan and to appoint an examiner to investigate why the company was supporting the Trump-Beal plan. Depositions were under way when Mr. Trump switched sides.
Bankruptcy Judge Judith Wizmur has put pressure on both parties to settle. But it is too soon to know who will emerge controlling the casinos. Mr. Beal declined to comment on the discussions.
Mr. Trump said he wants the Chapter 11 process to end soon because his image is hurt when assets bearing his name are in bankruptcy. "I'm not a big fan of the 'B' word," he said.
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The dedication to The Rewarde of Wickednesse is dated 1574, but printer's device at foot of colophon dated 1573 (probably a simple mistake). The poem begins by establishing a winter setting for the poet's night of drinking that eventually leads to his journey into Hell with the god Morpheus. He tells the reader that he wandered into a pub and proceeded to enjoy Ale with a jolly crowd. Robinson continues to drink with this crowd until closing time when they all search for a place in the tavern to rest for the night and fall into a drunken slumber. However, Robinson's rest is interrupted, he tells us, just shortly after falling asleep: "Not lying thus one houre by the clocke, [. . .] I hearde one knocke, / (And sayde what) S…
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85C Bakery Cafe
It's been quite a while since my last post on 85C Bakery even though I've been there many times. 85C Bakery is an extremely popular Taiwanese bakery and cafe that comes from a chain from Taiwan. The original location opened in Irvine a few years ago, and recently a second location opened in Hacienda Heights.
I've never been to the Hacienda Heights location, but I can't resist stopping by the Irvine location whenever I'm in the area. With breads literally coming out fresh every 2 minutes, how can one resist? Despite having been opened several years, the popularity only seems to grow. On weekends, lines are out the door until late at night. The line does move fairly fast though, so you usually don't spend too much time waiting.
What makes the bakery so popular is that it offers dozens upon dozens of different types of bread and they are constantly baking them so the bread you buy is super fresh and soft. These bakeries are actually quite common in Taiwan, though since there aren't many here, it remains very popular. Ironically, in Taiwan the chain is more known for their coffee (hence the name which is supposed to be the perfect temperature for serving coffee) than their bread. We saw them all over the place during our trip and my cousins were surprised to hear they even sell bread.
The bakery cafe offers fresh baked breads, pastries, cakes, and coffee and tea drinks.
There is quite a huge selection of Taiwanese-style breads which have a super soft and fluffy texture. Every time I go, it seems they've come out with a new item. So I thought since it's been a while, I would do an updated post with some of the new breads.
This is the most popular item at 85C. They make quite a few but they also sell out quite quickly. Usually they will have extras still cooling near the front of the register which you can request to add it to your stash. It's unlike the French brioche. This bread has a much softer texture and is sweeter, but also still buttery.
Giant Egg Custard
Not quite like the egg tarts you get at dim sum. The custard is much sweeter, almost like creme brulee.
Taro Swirl Roll
The second most popular item. Like the brioche, you will rarely find it ever make itself to the shelf. But when you get close to the register, you should see some cooling on a rack and you can request a few. The outside appearance isn't much but inside the bread is really really soft, and has almost a steamed bun-like texture. And it has swirls of taro. This is the favorite of several of my family members.
I don't remember the name of this one, but it's one of their "healthier" breads using whole wheat flour, nuts and dried fruit.
Blueberry bread
I always enjoy this one because it's good and one of the cheapest ones offered ($1 each). Inside there is a blueberry cheesecake cream-like filling.
Pork Sung Bun
The outside is covered in pork sung and the inside has no filling. Just soft sweet bread.
Milk bread
It's been a while since my last visit, but I think this one was called milk bread and was the newest item when we last went. It was really good. Milky, buttery, a little more dense than some of the other breads.
They also offer quite a selection of savory breads but I don't like them as much between the bread base has a tinge of sweet.
On my last visit I also noticed these cake rolls, similar to swiss rolls. I got a green tea and red bean one, and a chocolate marble one.
Soft spongy cakes with a little cream rolled inside.
If you are ever in the area, I definitely recommend you checking this place out. I also like getting a sea salt coffee when I'm here (you can order at the register, no need to get back in the cafe line). The cakes are good though a little overpriced. Best time to come is early on the weekday mornings when there is no line. Weekends there is almost always a line. But the wait isn't usually too long.
My previous posts can be found here, here, here, and here.
Pink Candles at Ridgemont High has been here quite a few times too. You can read about it here and here.
85C Bakery Cafe
2700 Alton Pkwy, Ste 123
Irvine, CA 92606
(949) 553-8585
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Yum, I love Asian bakeries. You guys have way more variety than we do in the stores by me!!
I haven't had a spongy cake roll in a while! That was my favorite at a bakery inside the local Ranch 99 supermarket (has long since closed). I've tried it from other bakeries since but they're never quite the same.
oooh, those treats look awesomeeee. I should check this place out the next time I head north (which should be in a couple weeks)!
i love that place! i wish we had one in san diego! my favorites are anything with blueberry or chocolate! i also like the bread with the cut up hot dogs in it.
One day I will finally try 85C.
i went there and bought some. their bread are so oily , i think they might put eiter lard or shortening in the bread. My hands got so sticky with oil. they seem to copy the Japanese bakeries, but it is not as good as Japanese bakeries though.
i think it's just overated.


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It's official, the Division I-A will house three more schools starting in the fall.
Las Vegas schools Del Sol, Spring Valley and Sierra Vista will transition to the league after being approved for realignment by the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association Board of Control at last week's meeting in Reno.
Del Sol will join the Sunrise League, while Spring Valley and Sierra Vista move to the Sunset League. The Southern DI-A increases to 16 schools in the two leagues.
Del Sol did not record a point over the past two years, while Sierra Vista had seven and Spring Valley 11. The rubric assigns point totals for league championships, playoff wins and appearances and regional and state championships, to name a few.
The NIAA also approved a modification to the Southern Nevada Rubric for the next two-year cycle.
According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the threshold for schools to move from the DI to the DI-A has been altered. DI schools with 30 or fewer points will be realigned, which is up from the 15 points used in the last two-year cycle.
DI schools with 15 or more points were not eligible to transition in the 2012-14 period.
Faith Lutheran and Boulder City were the only Southern DI-A schools to reach the 150-point benchmark over the two-year period but exercised their options to remain in the DI-A this year.
In addition, the board also approved to allow Southern DI-A schools Faith Lutheran, Boulder City, Moapa Valley and Virgin Valley to keep their option to remain in the DI-A even if they meet the required 150 points to move to the DI.


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We had the first snow in nearly two weeks and it snowed all day. Fourtunately, Beccy, Joe and I had the day off, along with others from Rentals and we went riding all day! It was my first experience of powder snow. It was awesome to be able to fall over and not get hurt like I have been doing the past 10 days as I've been learning. And the forecast is for more snow for the next 3 days!!! We were going to head up the mountain to ride today but the roads and lfts were closed due to the snow and wind. We're working tomorrow, but I'm hoping to get an extra hour for lunch so that I can have a good couple of hours in the fresh snow.
It was a bit chaotic leaving the mountain yesterday as 2 busses slid off the road into the ditch (on the up-hill side not down the steep side!) and we had to put chains on the car for the first time. Beccy and Helen (who works in Rentals) did a great job of fitting the chains.
We had to turn the car around to face down hill and joing the queue of traffic heading back to town so I tried to drive off but we weren't going anywhere so everyone got out and pushed to try to get us going. This went on for about 2 minutes with much scrambling at the back of the car, when Beccy tapped on the window and said "you've left the handbrake on haven't you?!!!". That was my moment for the day! It eventually took us an hour to dive back into town, which would usually take 20 minutes.
Check out the other pictures (and short vid) of town this morning, it looks stunning in the snow.
I hope you are all well and I wish you were here having fun in the snow!
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When I first became a stay-at-home dad a couple of years ago, I began to form a better understanding of how the numerous appliances around the house worked. I'm not saying that I was clueless before, but I was by no means that aloof husband you might see on a television sitcom who tries to run a load of clothes in a washing machine and ends up flooding the entire laundry room with bubbles. Yet because I wasn't the primary user of several of the appliances in our house, I occasionally found myself facing a learning curve.
I eventually became pretty comfortable with everything in our old house, but when my family moved earlier this summer into a new house, I found myself surrounded by several newer appliances with far more features than I was used to, and I again had some learning to do.
Now that it's been a couple of months, I can honestly say that I do not believe today's appliances are at all better than their ancestors. In some ways they're worse, and in many ways they're super-annoying.
Take our refrigerator for example. It has an ice-maker, which is a feature that is common to a lot of other families, but not mine. Am I the only one who doesn't understand what the point of such a thing is? Let me rephrase that, because I of course understand what it does: Am I the only one who thinks that the manual action of occasionally filling up an ice-tray and placing it in a freezer isn't all that daunting of a task? Is the avoidance of that five-second process truly worth all of the random, clunky sounds coming from the fridge at times when you're trying to concentrate on something or just relax? Plus, the darn thing's loud enough that it sometimes fools my blind dog into thinking an intruder has just entered the house, which stresses her out and drives me nuts.
The kitchen timer on our new oven really bothers me. Once it winds down to zero seconds, it beeps five or six times which is just fine. But if you don't walk over and physically push the "off" button on the timer within 30 seconds or so, it delivers another series of beeps. 30 seconds later, more beeps. The beeps are loud, and this routine goes on and on until the "off" button is pushed.
To me, the entire point of a timer is to alert someone when a specified amount of time is passed. A timer shouldn't endlessly nag people afterwards until they perform a specific action. If I'm in the middle of something or my hands are full, and I can't immediately make it over to the oven, it's as if I'm being heckled by a machine intent on reminding me that I'm an inferior being.
As far as I'm concerned, kitchen timer technology hasn't actually evolved since the days of those plastic handheld timers that emitted a single, high-pitched ding. Sure, they'd melt if they were positioned too close to a stove burner, but at least they wouldn't badger you.
And while we're at it, does anyone have one of those clothes dryers that ends its cycle with a similar alert sound or one of those long, loud buzzing noises? Who came up with that idea? Certainly not someone who ever threw a wet load of laundry into a dryer before going to bed or taking a nap on a couch. Is the declaration of bathroom towels being dry really important enough to wake someone up?
Let's talk about electric irons. I learned how to iron clothes in my parents' basement when I was a kid. Back then, the iron we owned had exactly three settings to choose from: Low, High, and Off. I never ran into any problems while using it. Even when I occasionally forgot to put water in it, it seemed to work pretty darned well. The iron my family now owns has a digital readout on it with 8 fabric-type/temperature settings and a half dozen steam-release settings. When I need to iron something, I find myself stressing out over which setting is the right one to use. What am I supposed to do if a shirt is 50% cotton and 50% polyester? There's no setting for mixed fabric types! Or maybe there is, and I'm just not reading the display correctly. Am I going to ruin what I'm ironing if I get the setting wrong? I shouldn't be forced to think about such things!
Now I fully admit that televisions have come a long way over the years. The move to flat screens and high definition programming obviously gives television viewers a much superior picture. But when my family's first flat screen television, which we bought a year ago, died after just a couple weeks of use, it was quite discouraging. I'm 40 years old and that was the first time I ever had to have a television repaired. And when I griped to friends about it, they all had similar stories of their own modern-day televisions going out and having to be repaired.
You know, those old-school, huge and heavy TVs (my family still owns two) may nearly break my back anytime I need to move one of them, but boy are they resilient. They don't die! They've been the most reliable appliances I've ever owned, and if I ever decided to sell one of them, I doubt I could get more than a dollar for it because nobody wants those things anymore. They've become like those tiny, round exercise trampolines that I used to see at seemingly every garage sale I went to - the lonely item that never sells, yet people can't bring themselves to throw it away because it still works.
Dishwashing machines. No matter how many new buttons and pretty display lights turn up the newer models, I have yet to own a dishwasher than does a great job of washing dishes. With all of the technological advances our country has achieved over the decades, it boggles my mind that I'm still having to use my fingernail to scrape dry, hard food remnants off of plates before putting them away in cupboards. We first put a man on the moon back in the 1960's, but we still can't find a way to get a machine to knock a stray strand of shredded cheese of a plastic dish? Amazing.
At least this all gives me hope that our future as human beings won't go the route of James Cameron's "Terminator" movies. Skynet won't create super-advanced robots to conquer mankind and take over the world. Far more likely, Samsung, Frigidaire, and General Electric will continue to give us useless features promoted to us as "upgrades," and wind up eventually annoying the human race to death. That will be the true judgement day my friends!
John Daly is married with two children. Read his blog Tuesdays on Greeley Moms. Also check out John's personal site.


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Tustin chamber holds mixer
The Tustin Chamber of Commerce recently held a mixer at Granada Plaza in Tustin.
Here are a few photos from the event.
The chamber will also take part in the 10th Annual Orange County's Largest Mixer on March 20 at the Orange County Fair & Event Center.
For more information, visit tustinchamber.org.
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