text: 1011 1 NCGC PRX2598 Confirmation Concentration-Response Assay for Inhibitors of the Schistosoma mansoni Redox Cascade NIH Molecular Libraries Screening Centers Network [MLSCN] NIH Chemical Genomics Center [NCGC] MLSCN Grant: MH076449-01 Assay Provider: Prof David Williams, Illinois State University This is a confirmation assay for PubChem BioAssay AID 448. Schistosoma mansoni, a causative agent of schistosomiasis, resides in the bloodstream of their host up to 30 years without being eliminated by the host immune attack. One proposed survival mechanism is the production of an antioxidant "firewall" that neutralizes the oxidative assault of the host's immune attack. Schistosoma mansoni peroxiredoxins (Prx) are important parasite antioxidant proteins that play a crucial role in redox balance mechanisms. Data strongly suggest the possible use of Prx as novel drug targets. First, the proteins are essential for the parasite survival. Second, the proteins exhibit sufficient biochemical and structural differences from host Prx proteins. Third, the protein(s) is amenable for study at the molecular level and can be produced in bacteria in large quantities, in soluble and active form. Inhibition of Prx activity was screened in a coupled-enzyme format with reducing equivalents being transferred from NADPH to glutathione intermediate via thioredoxin/glutathione reductase (TGR)-catalyzed reaction, then from thioredoxin to hydrogen peroxide via Prx-catalyzed electron transfer. A decrease in the fluorescence intensity of NADPH was used to measure the enzyme activity. Purified S. mansoni TGR and Prx were provided by Professor David L. Williams, Illinois State University. Buffer: 100 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.4, 10 mM EDTA, 0.01% Tween-20. Reagents / Controls: 100 uM NADPH in columns 3 and 4 as negative control (fully inhibited, zero % activity). 100 uM NADPH/25 nM TGR/700 uM GSH/50 nM Prx2 mixture in columns 1, 2, 5-48. Titration of control potassium antimonyl tartrate (PAT, from 1 mM, then 1:5) pin-transferred to lower half of column 2. Column 1 and upper half of column 2 are neutral (100% activity). Assay Steps: Three uL of reagents were dispensed to 1536-well Greiner black plates. Compounds and controls (20 nL) were transferred via Kalypsys PinTool. The plates were incubated for 15 min at room temperature, and then a 1 uL aliquot of 400 uM NADPH/700 uM GSH was added, immediately followed by a 1uL aliquot of 2.5 mM H2O2 (to start the reaction). The plate was transferred to ViewLux (Perkin-Elmer) High-throughput CCD imager where kinetic measurements (every 30 sec, for a total of 8 min) of NADPH fluorescence were taken using 365 nm excitation/450 nm emission filter set. During dispense, enzyme-containing reagent bottles were kept submerged into 4 deg C water bath to minimize degradation. Keywords: NIH Roadmap, MLSCN, MLI, MLSMR, David Williams, Peroxyredoxin, Schistosoma mansoni, prx2, prx-2, tgr, qHTS, NCGC Compounds are ranked (PUBCHEM_ACTIVITY_SCORE) by potency using ceiling of -10*Fit_LogAC50 value. All inactive compounds had a score of 0. http://www.ncgc.nih.gov 16864780 448 1 Phenotype Indicates type of activity observed: inhibitor, activator, fluorescent, cytotoxic, inactive, or inconclusive. 4 2 Potency Concentration at which compound exhibits half-maximal efficacy, AC50. Extrapolated AC50s also include the highest efficacy observed and the concentration of compound at which it was observed. 1 5 3 Fit_LogAC50 The logarithm of the AC50 from a fit of the data to the Hill equation (calculated based on Molar Units). 1 254 4 Fit_InfiniteActivity The asymptotic efficacy from a fit of the data to the Hill equation. 1 15 5 Fit_HillSlope The Hill slope from a fit of the data to the Hill equation. 1 254 1 thioredoxin peroxidase [Schistosoma mansoni] 4325211 1 Schistosoma mansoni taxon 6183 2 1


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Johannesburg - The National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) looks set to defy an order by Cosatu not to pursue action that would feed into divisions in the federation.
Although it could not be confirmed on Monday night, The Star was informed by an insider that Numsa's national executive committee had decided to go against a Cosatu resolution to hold fire for a month.
All Numsa spokesman Castro Ngobese would say was that the union's national office-bearers were consolidating decisions on the way forward.
Numsa's national executive committee met for two days to decide whether it should toe the line.
The pow-wow, which insiders described as tense, came after a resolution by Cosatu's central executive committee that its 19 affiliates, including Numsa, may not pursue action which would further "militate hostilities" in South Africa's largest trade union federation.
This ceasefire is meant to last for a month while the ANC attempts to broker a peace deal in Cosatu.
Affiliates had until Monday to get buy-in from their members on the Cosatu resolution.
Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said last week that if Numsa, or any of the other affiliates, did not co-operate, the federation would hold an extraordinary meeting where the union would be sanctioned.
Ngobese said Numsa would make its decisions known on Tuesday.
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Grass Valley PG&E workers return from storm work in N.Y.
November 18, 2012
As Jeff Painter disembarked a charter plane in Westchester, N.Y., Oct. 28, the havoc of Superstorm Sandy was not as immediately prevalent as he had expected.
But within a few blocks, Painter saw downed trees and telephone poles from the window of the bus transporting him and three other Grass Valley Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) employees there to help repair those same downed power lines.
"What we saw immediately wasn't even close to what we ended up seeing," Painter said Friday, back home in Grass Valley.
Painter, along with fellow Grass Valley workers Mike Rubio, Darrell Webb and Armando Wilkins, were among 300 PG&E employees who traveled to the East Coast to help restore power to more than 23,000 customers through Con Edison and Long Island Power Authority in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan, according to a company spokesperson.
At its peak, the storm knocked out power to 8.5 million homes and businesses in 21 states, the highest outage total ever.
The Edison Electric Institute, an industry group, estimates 67,000 workers from utilities and other firms in several states worked to restore power, but faced a huge volume of work. For example, New Jersey's largest utility, Public Service Electric & Gas, had to cut down 41,000 trees, replace 2,500 poles and install 1,000 new transformers. At its peak, 77 percent of PSE&G'S 2.2 million customers lost power.
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Painter and his crew mates tackled similar problems. They replaced and repaired electric wire, transformers and other equipment, and also cut and pruned fallen trees, he said. The worst damage he saw was in Brooklyn, where traversed block after block of downed trees and telephone poles.
But most of the damage in Brooklyn was from flooding, Painter said, describing endless blocks of homes with furniture stacked curbside, water damaged and awaiting pickup for disposal.
While the flood waters receded, leaving boats six blocks ashore and cars high centered on retaining walls, water remained in basements — where many of the home's electrical panels are located, Painter said.
A week or two without power is, without question, a difficult and frustrating hardship. Food spoils in the fridges. No electricity also can mean no heat. And there's the fire danger from relying on candles to see at night. In tall apartment buildings, no power means no elevator service, a serious problem for the infirm or elderly who can't navigate stairs.
For those who rely on mobile phones for communication, it means no way to charge phones — and therefore no way to communicate with loved ones or emergency services.
"You would expect people to be upset because they have had no power for so long," Painter said. "One thing about New Yorkers is how resilient they are. That much catastrophe and turmoil, it doesn't slow them down. We were treated like gold by those customers."
Word spread fast that the boys in blue trucks were from California, Painter said. They were greeted by clapping and cheers. Residents offered coffee, food and even places to sleep if they needed it.
"A lot of people called us heroes," Painter said. "I wouldn't say that, but it makes you feel proud. It was the opportunity of a lifetime."
The support helped Painter and his fellow Grass Valley PG&E workers plow through the fatigue of 16-hour days, he said.
"No matter which culture, they respected us," Painter said, "It made you feel good at the end of a day."
An Associated Press analysis of outage times from other big hurricanes and tropical storms suggests that, on the whole, the response to Sandy by utility companies, especially in hardest-hit New York and New Jersey, was typical — or even a little faster than elsewhere after other huge storms.
The Associated Press, with the assistance of Ventyx, a software company that helps utilities manage their grids, used U.S. Energy Department data to determine how many days it took to restore 95 percent of the peak number of customers left without power after major hurricanes since 2004, including Ivan, Katrina, Rita, Wilma, Ike and Irene.
After Sandy, New York utilities restored power to at least 95 percent of customers 13 days after the peak number of outages was reported. New Jersey reached that same level in 11 days and West Virginia in 10 days.
Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma in 2005 and Ike in 2008 all resulted in longer outages for customers in Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi and Florida.
The longest stretch to 95 percent restoration since 2004 was Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, where local utilities had power restored to only three-quarters of their customers after 23 days before Hurricane Rita hit and caused additional outages.
However, determining the quality of a utility's restoration efforts after an outage is difficult to do, experts say. That's because every storm generates a unique cocktail of mayhem that differs from location to location.
Just because New York and New Jersey utilities restored power in a range that is normal by historical standards does not prove that all of the utilities in the region performed equally well, or that they performed better or worse than their peers responding to outages in other states, or that there isn't plenty of room for improvement.
The fact that it has taken utilities roughly the same amount of time to restore the vast majority of customers as after similar-sized storms suggests that restoring power after an enormous weather event is simply a long, difficult process.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has defended the response of the utilities in his state, and perhaps for good reason. Sixty-five percent of New Jersey utility customers lost power, 2.6 million homes and businesses. Compared with other big storms, New Jersey's utilities restored power to most customers in the shortest amount of time for a state with such a high percentage of outages. One measurement Painter touted was that none of PG&E's visiting workers sustained injuries, he said.
"That's impressive in an unfamiliar area with unfamiliar systems," Painter said. "That is something to be real proud of."
Painter returned home Wednesday to his wife and three kids. After his experiences with gracious people from a melting pot of cultures, he plans to return someday.
"I want to take my family there," Painter said. "I had never been there, never thought about going there. But now that I've been there, I definitely want to go back."
Associated Press contributed to this report. To contact Staff Writer Christopher Rosacker, email firstname.lastname@example.com or call (530) 477-4236.
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As a BWAC Exhibiting Artist: You participate in a community of artists helping each other advance their careers. Working with your peers is the greatest benefit you receive. The more you give the more you get. See you soon. You are accepted into all three shows (Shows are open from 1-6PM only on weekends):
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Thu, 02 Jun 2011 15:21:13 GMT —
Our Facebook Charity Challenge is in full swing. Once we reach 11,000 friends on Facebook, we'll donate $1,000 to the Amarillo SPCA.
In light of our Facebook Charity Challenge, we took a trip out to Amarillo SPCA to check out the organization and see how a $1000 donation could help out our furry friends.
If you're a sucker for "puppy eyes", then SPCA is the place to visit. SPCA is full of loving cats and dogs and the volunteers at this non-profit organization are doing their best to make sure these temporary cage homes don't become permanent ones. In fact, the Amarillo SPCA is a no-kill shelter.
"SPCA, the definition is Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and we take in animals, rescue animals, dogs and cats and try to find them good homes", said shelter manager Kelley Micke.
With about 30 cats and 60 dogs living at the shelter, it makes for one full house... so full, in fact, that sometimes they are forced to turn animals away.
"We just physically just don't have room for them, can't take them in, that's kind of tough", says Micke.
Mickey said all donations are gladly accepted and one for $1,000 dollars would go a long way.
Micke admitted, "We get a lot of smaller donations, a lot of people send us donations monthly, $25, $50, etc., things like that. So, $1000 is definitely a big boost for us."
So whether you're donating or adopting, it's a win-win for SPCA, and the love behind those puppy eyes might be all the thanks you'll ever need.
"As weird as it sounds, they know they're being rescued. I mean, they know when they're going home with you they know that you've done something nice for them. they're not have to stay in a cage anymore. It's just a great place to get your next best friend", said Micke.
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Lyne are you there?
Hi, how are you?
are you okay?
hello i have a daugther jessica she need help
Parle francais, no?
Where do you and your daughter live Lyne? In which state do you live in the US?
i m so sorry my englais is noy good
oui je parle francais
Your english is fine Lyne I understand you fine
where do you live in the US:
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what state Lyne?
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Ok is that near Miami?
Miami Lyne?
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hello, my name is Jessica.
I'm Lyne's daughter.
Lyne que je vois vraiment où vous vivez sur la carte. Si je parle à votre fille il ne va pas l'aider, mais puisqu'elle est sous l'âge 18 vous pouvez recevoir son aide tout de suite. Je veux savoir si vous avez la famille qui parle l'anglais coulant ainsi si je vous dis que vous devez faire vous pouvez le faire ? S'il vous plaît faites-moi savoir. Cathy
are you there?
Sorry Lyne if I made mistakes. I do not use French every day. Sorry if I made some mistakes, do you understand me?
yes I am right here
well, this is jessica, lyne's daughter.
Hi jessica and I see you speak english?
so whats going on Jessica?
why is mom so worrried about you?
whats going on that mom is so worried?
i've been...
doing stuff to hurt myself.
not cutting or anything.
but, like burning myself and making myself throw up.
why are you doing that Jessica? how come?
Lyne and Jessica? are you there?
Okay I am going to move this over to q and a
hold on one second.
recently, i just got out of a relationship with this boy that i was with for two months. and, just recently, i've been bleeding excessively from my vagina, so i figured it was a miscarriage. i told him about it and he so happened to tell one of my ex best friends. she called me and laughed about it. so i called him and asked him why he told her. and he said he was worried about it, so he went to her, but now, my reputation is on the line and i'm afraid what people will think or say. this all happened today. i started making myself throw up 3 weeks ago and i've lost 15+ pounds. and i have two burn marks. one on my wrist and one on my leg.
Hi Jessica. JA has rules that we are not allowed to work with people under the age of 18 so the best I can do is to email you and your MOM and make sure Mom is there on Q and A. can we do this Jessica?
of course.
her email is***@******.***
Okay I am switching this over and from this point forward it becomes an email exchange. Here we go.
I am not going to email her. I am going to switch the format on JA from live chat to email chat. You will see that happen in a moment or two. Thanks for your patience.
what am i suppose to do with the email?
click the link to view my answer?
Hi Lyne and Jessica. I am sorry. On JA we are not permitted to work with people under the age of 18 but I am addressing this to Lyne and am glad Jessica is there to translate because as we saw my French is horrible.
Okay, first things first. Lyne is very very upset and beside herself that Jessica is self harming and Jessica gave me answer that sounds very much like what most teenagers do. Not such great behavior at all, not such safe behavior but none the less, what teenagers do. So Jessica is behaving as if she is a teenager and not a grown up lady and Lyne naturally is scared out of her wits, as I would be.
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(CBS) SKIPPACK TWP., Pa. - Tristan Stahley, a 16-year-old Pennsylvania boy, was arrested Saturday night after allegedly stabbing his 17-year-old girlfriend to death in a park, CBS Philly reports.
Authorities say Stahley and his girlfriend, Julianne Siller, were overheard arguing at Stahley's residence in Skippack Township, Pa., before leaving a short time later for nearby Palmer Park, according to the station.
Authorities say the couple continued arguing there until Stahley stabbed Siller in the throat. He reportedly continued stabbing her and then dragged her body off a walking trail into a densely wooded area.
According to the station, State Police were called to the Stahley's home at around 10 p.m. Saturday over reports of an altercation between the teen and his father. The 16-year-old was taken into custody and investigators reportedly found the victim's body at the park a short time later.
Friends of Siller said they tried to warn her about her boyfriend and his troubles.
"We always told her to keep your distance and break it off," Rhett McDonald, one of the victim's friends, told CBS Philly.
Siller was a senior at Spring Ford High School and was set to attend Penn State Altoona in the fall.
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Children and parents at Bradleys Both Primary School have raised £506 to help the people of the Philippines still struggling after the last November's typhoon.
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I've had 2 IPL's And a V-Beam, none of which reduced the redness on cheeks, chin, or nose. My doctor says the v-beam won't get deep enough. What other laser options are available? Purpuric? Different lasers? I'm at my breaking point and I don't want to keep trying to same thing if they won't help. What would you recommend for a difficult case of rosacea redness? My nose is always red, yet my cheeks react to certain things.
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Rosacea redness should respond to laser/lights
Rosacea redness should get better from Intense Pulsed Light or Pulsed Dye Laser therapy. It can take many treatments. I would questions the settings the doctor is using, make sure they are aggressive. Also, maybe you don't have rosacea. See your primary care doctor and make sure you don't have an alternative cause for redness/flushing.
What to do with rosacea not responding to IPL or pulse dye laser
The two things you tried are generally excellent for redness. The Nd YAG laser also treats vascular structures but it treats individual blood vessels.
It may be that you may need more treatments. The number that you have had is relatively small. You should see some improvement, but not total resolution.
Also, are you controlling the exacerbating factors: direct sunlight, heat, alcohol, spicy or hot foods, hot drinks? Those will cause dilatation of blood vessels.
Finally, there are other things that can cause facial redness besides rosacea. I suggest a consultation with a board certified dermatologist for a thorough evaluation.
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Stricken teens were in trailer watching movie
Three Cedaredge High School students who were accidentally poisoned by carbon monoxide had been watching movies aided by an on-board generator inside a fifth-wheel trailer in an enclosed garage, according to the Delta County Sheriff's Department.
Reid Gates died of exposure from the incident Sunday, while student Aaron Henrie is still in critical condition and student Tyler Cooper is still listed in good condition, both at Denver hospitals, Delta County Sheriff Fred McKee said.
The boys were flown to Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center and Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children after first being taken to Delta County Memorial Hospital.
All three students were players on the Cedaredge High School football team and Gates won a state track championship in the high jump earlier this year.
McKee said Tuesday the incident appears to be an accident and no charges will be filed.
He lamented that the accident could have happened to children anywhere, as plenty of kids use campers parked at parents' homes and in driveways to sleep in.
"It happens every weekend all across this country," McKee said.
McKee said the Cedaredge community and the school district is coming together in support of the family.
Carbon monoxide is an odorless, colorless gas that is found in combustion fumes produced by engines, stoves, lanterns, burning charcoal and wood, gas ranges and heating units. Carbon monoxide that builds up in an enclosed or semi-enclosed space can poison people and animals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning can include headache, dizziness, weakness, nausea, vomiting, chest pain, and confusion and high concentrations of carbon monoxide can cause the loss of consciousness and death, the CDC reported.
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Materials from Revolution Recovery, a commercial and C&D recycling facility in Philadelphia Recycled materials were used to create the sculptures in "Oil and Water," a project created by The Dufala Brothers featured in the city's The Hidden City Festival. The exhibit is stationed at Globe Dye Works, an industrial building in Northeast Philadelphia, and speaks to the transition of the building from a prolific industrial factory to a historic showpiece.
The larger-than-life-size works of art comprise everything from electrical wire cables to five-gallon bucket lids to steel ductwork. The majority of the materials were sourced from Revolution Recovery, who donates the items to The Dufala Brothers and other artist groups. Fern Gookin, LEED AP at Revolution Recovery says, "We were happy to provide materials to The Dufala Brothers for their Hidden City Festival installation and are excited to see waste material take on a new life. Creating art from waste is another form of recycling that we hope will inspire people to think about the waste stream differently."
Billy and Steve Dufala are a collaborative artist duo who are inspired by materials they find themselves in the waste stream at Revolution Recovery among other places. The duo hopes their exhibit will ask visitors to think of their waste, even such as out of use buildings, in a new way. Globe Dye Works is the perfect location for their installation due to its grandiose but inactive state. Like much of the materials within the exhibit, Globe Dye Works has been cast off as a dilapidated building, but as The Dufala Brothers hope to point out, has loads of potential.
The Hidden City Festival connects people with once well-known or popular buildings that have since fallen into obscurity. Each site will showcase artwork by a variety of artists in the city. The festival is open to the public until June 30.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Quick Hits: 2011 Tasks
2010 was great, and saw some good things happen. Wrote a little for Palladium, turned in my manuscript for Chaos Earth: First Responders, established Jason Richards Publishing, and for the first time did writing and publishing work under my own banner. Artists were employed, products were created, and sales were made. All very, very exciting for me.
Now what? Sales of Complete Characters have been very encouraging, and well received. However, there's no time to rest on those laurels, and it's high time that this project moved forward. Forward in this case means adding stats from various game systems to the Complete Characters. Utilizing the Open Gaming License, most characters will soon see a d20 stat sheet added to the end of the character. Stats will be given for each character at low, medium, and high levels to best fit with any campaign.
I currently have designs for d20 character sheets nearly done, and may develop Open D6 character sheets as well. That's the next step for that particular project. I should probably mention that there are still five free downloads for Complete Characters, and the rest are still on sale for only 50 cents each for a very limited time; once the characters are updated with d20 stats, those will be provided to you for free if you've already bought them, so this is a good chance to pick them up cheap.
There are other projects in the vein of Complete Characters, featuring other gaming materials, but announcements to those ends will have to wait. Plus, there are the changes and upgrades and streamlining of this site that will inevitably be neglected.
I also need to do some actual gaming this year. I have a killer Star Wars D6 campaign just totally ready to go, and I've been dying to run it for a smallish group of friends. Not to mention, I need to get a game group together and warmed up to prepare for the next issue.
I'm very excited about a large project, however, which will be my first foray into designing a game setting for publication, from the ground up. With a couple of colleagues, I'll be designing a game using the Mini Six system that I think fans of my work will really enjoy. A working title for this game is Breach, and it will be a highly-cinematic, action-packed setting with lots of danger, intrigue, and character. Expect "kitchen sink" gaming of the highest order, where anything goes, but with some built-in direction to help center the world and create a common point for conflict and intrigue. Using Mini Six will allow us to jump right in to building our sandbox and not having to worry about breaking in a new ruleset. Its methods of character generation will also eliminate the need for us to create a ton of specific character classes in favor of writing up a few examples and then letting the players and Game Masters run with it; one less thing to worry about in the design stage.
And hey, look at that... a post of less than ten pages! That's why we call it a Quick Hit, folks. What do you think? Will this be the best year ever? What are your gaming or writing or blogging goals? Anything you want to see from yours truly?
Posted by Jason Richards at 2:21 PM
Labels: game design, gaming, quick hit, rpg
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- A.L. said...
Keep word coming on what you're up to man. It sounds interesting.
About my only goal is to finish up my WIP game that's been going since...well, last January. Though, with school it has been back burnered a couple of times. Still, play-test campaigns were very promising, so hopefully I can finish it up and figure out what to do with it once that is over.
- January 11, 2011 at 2:52 PM
- Jason Richards said...
That last 25% of putting any project together is by far the hardest. Fine-tuning, testing, etc. are all so time and effort-intensive. You can do it, though!
- January 11, 2011 at 3:22 PM


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Watermelon Keg Tapping Kit Video
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Whats better on a summers day than watermelon? Alcoholic watermelon fruit cocktail of course! This keg tapping kit allows you to make a watermelon into a drink tap giving a watermelon twist to your favourite drinks. All you have to do is hollow out the fruit, attach the keg tap and fill the watermelon with your chosen drink. Then pull the keg and enjoy a watermelon twist on your favourite drink.
Perfect for a summers day! This is great for parties, BBQs and picnics and can be used again and again on different watermelons. Once finished you can hand wash the equipment and start on another watermelon. In the autumn you can use this kit on a pumpkin and make pumpkin spiced drinks.
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The American Taxpayer Relief Act—better known as the last-minute "fiscal-cliff deal" in January—brought many new tax rules. A couple of them could prove valuable for investors who own an IRA or Roth IRA.
Thanks to the new law, workers saving for retirement in a 401(k) have an easier time switching over to the Roth option in their 401(k), assuming their employer offers one. Read: A Roth 401(k) may be coming to you soon.
Meanwhile, people age 70½ or older can once again turn their government-mandated IRA distribution into a donation to charity.
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This benefit, which lets you shield your IRA distribution from income tax, isn't new—but some other provisions of the new law make the charity rollover a better idea for more people.
Until now, for many people the choice was a wash: they could either take the distribution, donate the money and claim a charitable deduction for that amount, or, equally valuable from a tax perspective, they could donate the money directly from their IRA and avoid income tax on that distribution, said Michael S. Jackson, a partner in tax services with Grant Thornton LLP, in Philadelphia.
"This really wasn't something that a lot of my clients took advantage of over the last couple of years, because the income and deduction were washing out," he said.
Jackson was speaking as part of a roundtable discussion at a recent MarketWatch Retirement Adviser event in San Francisco, hosted by columnist Robert Powell, editor of MarketWatch's Retirement Weekly e-newsletter.
The law changed that decision for some high-income taxpayers, thanks to the return of the Pease limitation, which limits deductions based on your adjusted gross income.
"Now that we have several different types of AGI-based increases in the tax rate, it is going to make a difference and will save them a few dollars if they go through the mechanics of actually distributing it directly to the charity," Jackson said.
Others agreed. "This is a really great provision," said Mary Kay Foss, who also participated in the MarketWatch roundtable discussion. Foss is a CPA and director with Sweeney Kovar Financial Advisors Inc., in Danville, Calif.
There are a variety of benefits to the charity rollover rule, Foss said. "You don't get a charitable deduction for it, but it doesn't increase your adjusted gross income which [means] the amount of Social Security benefits that are subject to tax may be lower," she said.
Also, "If somebody is charitable, but doesn't itemize deductions, they're still going to get the benefit by doing things this way. If somebody has a charitable contribution carry-over it's going to benefit them," she said. "It's really a win-win situation and I think a lot of people should consider it."
Still, it's available solely to people aged 70-1/2 and older; you have to be at least that age when making the donation, Foss said. She added that the $100,000 limit is a maximum; charitable-minded taxpayers can give less, but they should check with their IRA custodian—some firms may not be willing to transfer very small amounts.
Also, Foss said, it's possible to donate to more than one charitable organization via the charity rollover.


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British actress Zoe Lucker spoke to Hello! Magazine about how being pregnant has brought her so much happiness. Lucker, 34, is most famous for her role as Tanya Turner in British show Footballers' Wives and is currently on screen in Holby Blue. She is expecting her first baby with fiance Jim Herbert in August.
"Fantastic. I am at a stage in my life where I am happy and content. I am much more sorted than I have ever felt. Pregnancy has unexpected benefits too. I feel comfortable walking down the street with people looking at me, whereas I used to hate it. There is something very liberating about being pregnant. Not that you let yourself go, but there is nothing you can do and you give your body to someone else. In the first few months it is a very odd thing, waking up every day and your body is changing without you doing anything about it."
Source: Hello! Magazine – Issue 1025 – June 17 2008 – Pg 34-37
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Finally, we are now back up to 2 buses running every weekend. Louis has started driving for us, after the long process of getting his bus license, he's settling in well.
We have opened up the extra places for the weekends now, so we've got plenty of space (for the moment), so get back on it people. We've spent a bit of time up on the track too, sorting out the puddles, so it's running sweet at the moment.
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"State of the Black Child Symposium" set for July 23, 2010
During a time when the health and well being of a Black child seems to be of little concern to the masses, Great Beginnings for Black Babies, Inc. (GBBB) will commemorate its 20 years of community service by hosting a free "State of the Black Child Symposium" beginning at 9 a.m., Friday, July 23, 2010 in The California Endowment facilities, 1000 N. Alameda St.
Offering free workshops, breakfast, luncheon and a closing reception. The Symposium will also feature a wide array of topics and presenters pertinent to the state of the Black child, its family and community.
Opening with a welcome address from Supervisor Mark Ridley-Thomas, a panel of presenters will follow including child and health expert heavy hitters Holly Mitchell, CEO, Crystal Stairs, Inc.; Healthy African American Families II CEO Loretta Jones; Areva Martin, Esq., CEO, Special Needs Network, Inc.; Zena Oglesby, CEO, The Institute for Black Parenting; LAUSD School Board Member Marguerite LaMotte; and, Cynthia Harding, L.A. County Department of Health, Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health Programs director.
Covering the topics "Taking Care of Our Children," "The Destruction of the Black Family," and, "The Crib to the Penitentiary Pipeline – Breaking the Cycle," the Symposium will feature Black Women for Wellness CEO Jan Robinson Flint; Elaini Negussie, associate director, African American Programs, American Diabetes Association; Cynthia Davis, director, HIV Education and Outreach, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Outreach; Bernita Walker, executive director, Project Peacemakers (domestic violence); Torre Reese, CEO, Famili, Inc.; Dr. Ron Banks, CEO, Project Fatherhood; Cheryl Branch, Special Services for Groups/Homeless Outreach Program; Dr. Elisa Lansdowne, Kaiser Permanente West; Meschellia Smith, Much More Bounce, Inc./Unity One, Inc., and Aquil Basheer, Maximum Force gang intervention and prevention.
A luncheon address will be delivered by Dr. Robert Ross, CEO of The California Endowment with special commendations to follow from locally invited political officials including long-time GBBB Board member, Inglewood City council member Danny Tabor; Senator Curren Price; Board of Equalization member Jerome Horton; Assembly member Mike Davis, and Carson City Council member Mike Gipson. A special tribute also will be paid to GBBB's co-founder and former executive director for 18 years, Zola Jones. City Council member Tabor will moderate the opening panel, as well as serve as Master of Ceremonies during the tribute luncheon. Participants will receive a special treat with a performance by The Inner City Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles under the direction of Southeast Symphony Conductor Charles Dickerson.
Participating vendors include the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association, the March of Dimes, El Nido, the L.A. Urban League, Special Needs Network, Inc., Shields for Families, L.A. CARE, SEE-LA, the Crenshaw and Watts Farmers Markets, Great Beginnings for Black Babies, Inc. and Health Net, which also is a Symposium sponsor, along with the American Heart Association.
A nonprofit dedicated to reducing infant mortality by encouraging women to seek early and continuous prenatal care, encourage healthy lifestyles, and promote the healthy development and growth of babies, children, youth and families. Great Beginnings for Black Babies, Inc. was founded in 1990.
"We are proud and humbled that so many outstanding health professionals, as well as political dignitaries, have answered our call to address issues impacting the Black child, its family and community," commented GBBB Executive Director Rae Jones. "This 'State of the Black Child Symposium' is right in line with the mission established by GBBB founders 20 years ago," she added.
To register or to obtain additional information on the "State of the Black Child Symposium" please call (323) 789-7955.


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Stratford, CT, United States, 2011/04/20 - VCs and angel investors to speak at "Madison, Wisconsin, early-stage venture event.".
On May 19, FundingPost will host a panel discussion with local Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors at its "Madison VC and Angel Event," sponsored by Perkins Coie LLC. FundingPost has organized 180+ sold-out venture events over the past 10 years. Leading Venture Capital and Angel Investors are set to speak and coach entrepreneurs at the Madison FundingPost event on May 19, 2011. This event will allow entrepreneurs to both learn from these investors during the panel discussion and network with them during the cocktail party.
Top Venture Firms and Angel Investors will gather at FundingPost's upcoming event to discuss trends in Early-Stage Investing, hot sectors, sectors that these local Angel Investors and VCs look at, things that are most important to them when they are considering an Investment, the best and worst things an entrepreneur can do to get their attention, additional advice for entrepreneurs, and, of course, the best ways to reach these and other Investors.
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Our first two Investor speakers have been announced with additional Angels and VCs to be announced shortly.
We are excited to be organizing an event in Madison, Wisconsin, for the first time, said Joe Rubin, Director, FundingPost. The economy for early-stage investing is improving. Our investor panels are excited to see the new dealflow, and the entrepreneurs seem enthusiastic about learning investors tips and responses helpful for improving and refining their pitches.
As with all FundingPost events, there will be pitching and plenty of networking time for the entrepreneurs to meet the investors! There is still space available, but seating is limited!
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WBEZ News
Jackson's staff sends handful of campaign-related emails from congressional addresses
Updated at 7:45 p.m.
There's a blurring of ethics guidelines at the office of a member of Congress from Illinois. Staff to U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., sent election-related messages from their government email accounts, in apparent violation of U.S. House rules.
The Chicago Democrat is already under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, in part for allegations he used taxpayer-funded resources in his bid to win a Senate appointment in 2008.
That practice appears to have continued in the past few months, as Jackson prepared for a primary election challenge from former U.S. Rep. Debbie Halvorson.
The recent emails
As Halvorson moved toward launching her campaign in September and early October of 2011, WBEZ asked for comment from Jackson's staff. In two instances, the aides sent statements from their government e-mail accounts, once with the subject line "Jesse Jr. statement in response to Halvorson" and another titled "Halverson statement" [sic].
In February, an unsolicited press release was sent noting the congressman's opposition to a proposed immigrant detention center in south suburban Crete, Halvorson's hometown. Deep in that document is a reference to Jackson's "congressional opponent, Debbie Halvorson," and a statement from the congressman noting that Halvorson did not speak out on the issue when she was in Congress. The release was sent from a government email account on government letterhead and remains posted on Jackson's government website.
This past Monday, an unsolicited email, from a Jackson staff member's government email account, contained nothing but a news clip about how a Super PAC is targeting Jackson in the upcoming election.
Did they cross the line?
Shown the four emails, a spokesperson for the House Administration Committee, Salley Wood, said - on their face - the messages "do not conform" to House rules prohibiting the use of government resources for campaign purposes.
The staff director for the House Ethics Committee, Dan Schwager, said in an email that the committee "does not comment on specific factual allegations."
Meredith McGeHee, policy director at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., said she believed all but one of the emails - the news clip regarding the Super PAC - appeared to cross the ethical line.
"These don't strike me as particularly egregious examples, but they are inappropriate in my view," McGeHee said. "And an admonishment to all staff as you get close to the election is wise. Because when you start talking about using taxpayer-funded resources, which are only available to incumbents, there's already such a leg-up that they have. It's incredibly important to have bright lines and to follow those lines closely."
The rules
The House rules make clear a prohibition against using government email accounts for campaign or political purposes.
"[T]he use of one's office desktop computer (including one's mail.house.gov e-mail address) to send or receive such communications continues to be prohibited," the rules manual reads.
In another section, the rules for similar activity are more vague. The manual states that a press secretary "should not give an interview that is substantially devoted to the campaign, or initiate any call that is campaign-related."
But there is an exception. Press secretaries "in congressional offices may answer occasional questions on political matters, and may also respond to such questions that are merely incidental to an interview focused on the Member's official activities."
In neither of the two instances in which WBEZ requested a response from Jackson's staff was the station asking about the congressman's "official activities" - only his potential re-election campaign.
Still, McGeHee does not believe these emails rise to the level of a House Ethics Committee investigation. Neither does Craig Holman, a lobbyist for the group Public Citizen, who said in his experience the House Franking Commission has been more lax when it comes to websites and email than with traditional mail.
Jackson's response
A statement from Jackson's campaign was released Tuesday afternoon, after having been vetted by lawyers, according to spokesperson Kitty Kurth.
"The Jackson staff follow the guidelines in the House Ethics manual," Kurth wrote.
Kurth said the emails in question were all appropriate because of a limited exemption allowing press secretaries to "answer occasional questions on political matters." She said all the emails followed requests from some member of the media.
In a separate conversation, Kurth said she was not aware of the language in the House manual prohibiting the use of "mail.house.gov" accounts to send or receive campaign emails.
The campaign's vetted statement also requested that WBEZ reporters not send campaign-related questions to the government email addresses of Jackson's congressional staff "as you continue to put them in to situations which some may find questionable."
It should be noted that in none of the instances of questionable emails did WBEZ send initial requests for comment to the government email addresses of Jackson's staff.
Continuing investigation
These new questions come as Jackson remains under investigation by the House Ethics Committee for his efforts to convince then-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich to appoint him to the Senate. A big part of that investigation is whether Jackson directed any sort of pay-to-play offer to get the Senate appointment. He strongly denies that and hasn't been charged with any crime.
But the other part of the ethics investigation has to do with a similar situation to the one that's arisen in recent weeks: an allegation that Jackson's staff used government resources for political purposes.


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Lehigh Valley Opens Training Camp February 26th
Allentown, PA: The Lehigh Valley Steelhawks are in the midst of finalizing their 2017 preseason training camp roster for the upcoming National Arena League season. The team is allowed to bring forty players into camp to vie for twenty-four roster spots leading into the teams NAL season opener on March 19th. As the team comes together, we'll start a camp preview series breaking down the team by position. Up today, are the back end skills players: Defensive Backs.
The Steelhawks currently have a good mix of experienced veterans and exciting rookies on the roster at the defensive back position. Returning from the 2016 season are the leaders of the defensive backfield, James Pitts (6'1, 190lbs, Villanova) and John Williams III (5'10, 185lbs, Tabor). Another back with experience in the arena game is Rodney Hall Jr. (6'1, 185lbs, Benedict). Antonio Penn (6'3, 195lbs, Iowa Wesleyan) and Keith Trumps (6'1, 200lbs, Tuskegee) were found at open tryouts; and DB Jakeem Polk (6'2, 210lbs) is a rookie from Wingate University.
The 2016 'Hawks were led by the ball-hawking skills of Pitts and Williams III. The two combined for almost 50% of the teams total interceptions; Pitts had five (with 2 pbu's) and Williams III had a team leading nine (with 10 pbu's). The duo also led a hard hitting backfield; Pitts led the team with 39 tackles while Williams III was close behind with 37.
Hall Jr. played with the Philadelphia Yellow Jackets in 2016. Penn and Trumps earned contracts after impressing all the coaches the first open tryout held for the upcoming season.
Polk is a rookie coming to the Lehigh Valley. While playing four years at Wingate University, he tallied 156 tackles and eight interceptions.
Head Coach Chris Thompson knows it is important to get this group on the same page quickly. "We are very excited to start working with this group of DB's. Defensive Coordinator Bob Kohler and I feel we have a great mix of young and experienced DB's coming into camp. The key will be trying to get these rookies up to speed as quickly as we can and getting everyone on the same page early. There is no doubts this is a position that is very important to our success and we have been fortunate to have some great ones over the last couple of years that have moved up to NFL and AFL teams and we feel this group can keep that tradition going."
Training camp begins Sunday, February 26th for the Steelhawks. It will wrap up with the Annual Lehigh Valley Health Network Black and Vegas Gold Scrimmage on Saturday, March 11th. A full camp schedule will be announced at a later date.
Steelhawks' 2017 season tickets are on sale now with packages starting as low as $48! All Steelhawks' games are played on Embassy Bank Field inside the PPL Center in Allentown.
Stay up to date with the Steelhawks by visiting the team website at www.LVSteelhawks.com.


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A Collection of Fun Little Cupcakes
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What is it about cupcakes that everyone is so enamored with? Is it that they're small? I'm pretty sure that's the #1 reason people love cupcakes. It's just a tiny, cute little version of a piece of cake. You feel less guilty eating them and they always seem to bring a smile.
Plus nowadays it seems that a whole lot of creativity is involved in making cupcakes. Isn't that lovely. Speaking of creativity you're gonna like this photo gallery.
Check out these awesome cupcakes
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This panorama was taken in Galloway Forest Park. It was taken from Bruce's Stone which overlooks Loch Trool. The stone commemorates the victory of Robert the Bruce and his men over the English near this spot in 1307.
Galloway Forest Park is similar to a State Park in the USA. This park is very hilly and forested with numerous streams, waterfalls, and cascades. This stream and bridge are by the visitor's center for the park.
This cascade is just down stream from the bridge in the previous photo. It was raining the entire time I was in Galloway Forest Park.
I went for a hike on a trail up a valley toward the top of a mountain/hill (Merrick). The trail, seen in the above photo, was narrow and often included water running downhill toward me (due to the rain). It didn't take long before my sneakers and socks were completely soaked. But I would do it again. I made the best of the time I had, rain or shine (mostly rain).
There was a raging stream coming down the small valley that I hiked up. After coming back down I went further down hill into some woods. This was what the stream looked like in the woods near a small bridge. The stream was "squeezed" between the rocky outcroppings to make a small waterfall. There were a lot of ferns and mosses growing on the rock walls.
This was a single-lane bridge crossing the small stream (The small waterfall in the previous photo is about 30 feet to the left of the bridge). This forest, road, and bridge reminded me of something that would be seen in a Robin Hood movie set in Sherwood Forest.
I thought I would end with a little about the food. I tried to eat the local cuisine as much as possible. I tried a few new things. The above photo was my first meal in Scotland at a small restaurant in Stranraer. This was breakfast at lunchtime. The only odd thing was baked beans for breakfast.
A "traditional" Scottish food is haggis. This is the haggis that I had in Stranraer (the dark stuff on the left). According to Wikipedia it is a "savoury pudding containing sheep's 'pluck' (heart, liver and lungs), minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach". I had it served the traditional way with "neeps and tatties" (Swedish turnips and mashed potatoes). I ate haggis this one time, but didn't have it again. I had "black pudding", also known as "blood sausage", twice for breakfast. It was okay. A few other things that I had were fish and chips, steak pie, and a "ham roll" (just ham in a roll) and chips. Overall the food wasn't all that great.


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Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi has come quite a ways since her days of wild hookups and arrests on the beaches of the "Jersey Shore."
Now mom to a son and pregnant with her second child, the 26-year-old stopped by Access Hollywood Live on Tuesday, where guest co-host Hoda Kotb commented on how much more composed Snooki seems now, as compared to her past interviews.
"I was probably drunk!" Snooki – whose new book, "Baby Bumps: From Party Girl to Proud Mama, and all the Messy Milestones Along the Way," is available now – told Hoda and Kit Hoover of her interviews. "I did every interview drunk… it was literally like a party stage.
PHOTOS: Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi - Life After The 'Shore'
"It was like, 'This is awesome.' So I would drink all the time," she added.
While that phase of her life is behind her, the young mom – who is expecting a baby girl with fiancé Jionni LaValle – doesn't regret her raucous past.
"I don't regret it because it's brought me to where I am today. It's made me the person I am today," she said. "So I had to go through all of that crap to get to where I am."
And she's already figured out what she'll say to her children if they happen to see clips of her wilder days.
"If they see it, I'm just gonna be like, 'This is what not to do. Learn from my mistakes. And if you ever need me, just call me. Don't be scared and get in car with somebody else,'" she said.
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Tampa, FL, United States, 2013/06/10 - AVI-SPL announced it has introduced a new capability as part of its award winning VNOC Symphony® platform that eliminates the complexity of remotely managing devices within the customers protected network - AVISPL.com.
AVI-SPL, the worlds leading video communications provider, announced today it has introduced a new capability as part of its award winning VNOC Symphony® platform that eliminates the complexity of remotely managing devices within the customers protected network. The Communicator Proxy is a revolutionary way to extend the capabilities of Symphony behind a customer firewall. AVI-SPL developed new methods of leveraging existing firewall technology to communicate between the main Symphony cloud application and the Communicator Proxy on the customers network to perform all of the functions required to remotely manage a meeting room environment without the need for costly dedicated network connections and complex security configurations.
Every video managed service provider today requires a connection to the customers network in order to monitor and access video components in the protected network. The challenge is security and reliable bi-directional communication with each device being managed, said John Vitale, vice president of products, AVI-SPL. The Communicator Proxy ensures the customer is receiving a simple yet secure solution that provides the services they need.
The Communicator Proxy addresses some key functions that were previously performed by the main Symphony platform in the cloud.
Monitoring: The Communicator Proxy provides standards-based polling of all devices within the customers network and reports the information back to the VNOC Symphony cloud in real-time. Instead of hundreds of devices trying to talk to the cloud through the enterprise firewall, all communication is consolidated to a single entity which then provides the information to the VNOC. This effectively minimizes communication to a single device traversing customer security measures.
Management: Part of VNOC Symphonys powerful toolset is the automated call launching ability and device control. The Communicator Proxy once again provides a secure link from the Symphony cloud to the Communicator Proxy which then sends the information to the hundreds of devices located on the secure network.
Secure Access: Many times the VNOC personnel need to remotely control or access the individual devices within the customers network. The Communicator Proxy provides a secure, single egress point for the VNOC to access the devices via their integrated remote management capabilities. This dramatically simplifies the network connectivity and security policies between the VNOC and the customer.
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Trinity Loren
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|Trinity Loren
|Joyce Evelyn McPherson
August 21, 1964
La Jolla, California
|October 25, 1998(aged 34)
|Other names
|Trinity Barnes, Roxanne McPherson, Boom Boom Larue
|5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)
|No. of adult films
|209 (+99 compilations)[1]
Trinity Loren (born Joyce Evelyn McPherson; August 21, 1964 in La Jolla, California – October 25, 1998[2]) was a pornographic film actress, model, and stripper.
Career and life[edit]
Loren danced in Show World, where she was a featured performer.[3] She began her porn career on screen in late 1985, and quickly achieved renown as one of the first starlets of the straight-to-video era of adult films. She retired from pornographic films in the early 1990s. Loren moved back to California and did photo layouts for men's magazines including Hustler, Gent and D-Cup.
Loren died on October 25, 1998; her death is variously referenced as caused by a brain aneurysm[3] or an overdose of prescription painkillers.[2] She is buried in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.[4] Her former partner Joe Gallant started his company, Black Mirror Productions, in part to raise money to support Loren's daughter.[5]
Partial filmography[edit]
- Midnight Pink (1986)
- Amazing Tails (1987)
- I love you Molly Flynn (1988)
- Sorority Pink (1989)
- Buttman's Bend Over Babes (1990)
- Battle of the Ultra Milkmaids (1992)
- Tit to Tit (1994)
- "Dreams in the Forbidden Zone"
- ^ "Trinity Loren - biography filmography". iafd.com. Retrieved Aug 31, 2014.
- ^ a b Lentz, Harris M. (1998). Obituaries in the Performing Arts. McFarland & Company.
- ^ a b Butler, Jerry. Raw Talent: The Adult Film Industry As Seen by Its Most Popular Male Star. Prometheus Books. pp. 16, 20. ISBN 9781615922574.
- ^ Brooks, Patricia; Brooks, Jonathan (2006). Laid to Rest in California: A Guide to the Cemeteries and Grave Sites of the Rich and Famous. Globe Pequot. pp. 118–19. ISBN 9780762741014.
- ^ "Adult Education", by Amy Sohn, March 18, 2002, New York Magazine. Retrieved 2007-08-04.
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- 1964 births
- 1998 deaths
- American female erotic dancers
- American erotic dancers
- American female adult models
- American pornographic film actresses
- Burials at Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery
- Actresses from San Diego
- Drug-related deaths in California
- Pornographic film actors from California
- 20th-century American actresses


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Paonia girls dominant in district championship win over Rangely
The Paonia High School girls basketball team dominated its 2A Western Slope League competition all season.
There was no reason why it would be any different during the district tournament at Rangely High School.
The Eagles (20-1) rolled past the host Panthers 48-34 on Saturday in the championship game.
"Rangely is well coached. We'd get up by 19 and they'd cut it back to 10," Paonia coach Scott Rienks said. "It was tough playing on their court, but we did what we had to do."
The Eagles were led by Grayson Pipher's 16 points. Jordyn Rienks added 11 points.
Brittany Babineaux led the way for Rangely with 10 points.
By winning the district tournament, Paonia will be the No. 1 seed at this weekend's regional tournament at Mesa State College. The Eagles will play Nederland in the first game. Hayden and Hoehne are also in the regional tournament.
"It wouldn't surprise me to see Hayden in the championship," Rienks said. "They are that good."
In the Class 2A boys playoffs, Hayden upset previously unbeaten Meeker 65-58 for the championship. With the win, the Tigers will host the boys side of the regional tournament at Mesa State College. Despite finishing 21-1, Meeker plays at Durango High School with Alexander Dawson, Antonito, and Ignacio.
In the Class 4A boys playoffs, it was a rough night for the Western Slope. No. 2 seed Glenwood Springs lost at home to No. 3 Thomas Jefferson 54-38. Montrose traveled to No. 1 Longmont and lost 73-59.
In girls 4A, Rifle lost at home to No. 3 Cheyenne Mountain 64-54. Montrose lost on the road to No. 2 Conifer 54-37.


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Still with Tigers, Porcello faces uncertain role
Mon, 28 Jan 2013 04:52:19 GMT —
From the moment the Detroit Tigers re-signed right-hander Anibal Sanchez to an $80 million, five-year contract this offseason, Rick Porcello has had a lot to prove. The top four spots in Detroit's rotation are now set, with Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Doug Fister and Sanchez locked in.
That leaves Porcello and Drew Smyly as candidates for the last opening.
Porcello is a seasoned veteran with a $5.1 million contract - but he just turned 24 last month. That puts the right-hander in an unusual position with spring training coming up. There's a sense he could be traded at any moment.
Porcello went 10-12 with a 4.59 ERA last year, and he was not in the postseason rotation.


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It's not often a teenage hobby—especially one initially pursued in downtime between the standard adolescent-boy priorities, video-gaming and skateboarding—leads to a career. For the four members of the French DJ team C2C (Pfel, 32, and Greem, 20Syl, and Atom, all 33), the rickety record turntable 20Syl owned started as just another distraction.
But then, something happened: fooling around with "turntablism," a technique using record turntables and a mixer, they became really, really good. For proof, take their four-year winning streak at the Disco Mix Club (DMC) World Team Championships, from 2003 to 2006.
In performance, they're pure fun. Unlike many DJs, C2C has never taken to standing still. Rather, they twist, turn, bounce, and switch positions with one another as they spin records, all in a sort of choreography synced with the beat. Various neon shapes, from lip-syncing mouths to geometric orbs, undulate to the music on screens in the front of their turntables.
The band samples fragmented melodies from different countries and cultures, drawing most on old-school American hip-hop, as well as the genre's roots. "Down the Road," for instance, takes its name and chorus from a line in blues singer Eddie Cusic's "You Don't Have to Go." Another track mixes jazz icon Louis Armstrong's "Mack the Knife." The first notes of "F·U·Y·A" start with a single voice singing, before dissolving into layers of string, percussion, and a humming chorus. In the video, the band appears to be playing in the nave of a Gothic cathedral.
The four members have three bands between them: Greem and 20Syl go by Hocus Pocus, and Pfel and Atom make up Beat Torrent. The two sub-bands sometimes tour separately. The foursome, though, is never apart for long. Their new album Tetra is out this week, and they are about to tour in the United States for the first time, including a high-profile gig at Coachella.
With all this and more on the horizon, Pfel and Greem spoke with Interview about their musical strengths, admitted vocal shortcomings, and pumping up crowds around the world.
RACHEL SMALL: You're very popular in Europe, but most people don't know you very well in New York. So, to get some background, how did you the four of you meet?
GREEM: It's a long story. We met in high school, and we were studying, skateboarding, and playing video games, like friends do. At first, the turntables were just another game we played together. But then, we started competing, and it became more serious.
SMALL: Back in high school, how did you get your hands on those turntables?
GREEM: 20Syl was using a turntable for making hip-hop music in his home studio. He was doing some scratching with old equipment. [laughs] When I was hanging out with him in his home studio I really, totally, fell in love with making music on the turntable. I like the freedom that it gave me, to scratch with any kind of instrument. So after I discovered it, I transmitted the "virus," so to speak, to my friend Atom, and then he introduced me to his friend Pfel. So then we started playing together, jamming and freestyling with turntables. People like XMan and Beat Junkies were really our models at the time.
SMALL: How did you refine your style?
PFEL: When we were performing at my flat, where we had four or five turntables that we were using to practice, we watched old VHS tapes of old competitions before 2000. We noticed that they were not playing in a really musical way, so we channeled our efforts in to making our sounds more musical. When we started performing in competitions, we would try to find the right track, the right music, to make the crowd go wild.
SMALL: Cool. So it sounds like before you started with the turntables, you didn't have that much musical background. Were the turntables the first instrument you played?
PFEL: Yeah, it was the main first instrument. We had a little experience with other instruments when we were kids, but nothing big. 20Syl played the horn and the drums. I played the guitar for three years. Atom did too. Um, Greem, can you tell us about your first instrument? [laughs]
GREEM: I'm a, um... a professional percussionist? The triangle, all that stuff... [both laugh]
SMALL: [laughs] So, what was your first big break, and what catapulted you to fame?
PFEL: It took a lot of labor, and progressed slowly. At first, we did a lot in France. Then we went on to the world championships. I think at that time, we were famous in the DJ world—that was very special. Then, when we posted our songs on the Internet and YouTube, we began to break borrders. I remember one year, in 2006, playing at the Cultura Urbana in Madrid, it was crazy, because all the people knew our set from last year. We were really surprised, and that made us realize the effect of the Internet. With our single "Down the Road," and this upcoming album, we've seen that even more.
SMALL: So it seems like you guys are on the verge of becoming known all over the world. Can you tell me a little bit more about your new album? How is it different from what you've done before?
PFEL: It's totally different. With our DMC shows, we were restricted. We could only play six minutes. It was a set format. We wanted really to express our music, our feelings, on tracks, and to make real songs. So, it's been very special for C2C, that we've had a lot of freedom as we composed the songs on Tetra. We are not doing hip-hop music, or electronic music. We don't want to be limited. So, we're taking sounds from all over the world, and all ages. Take, for example, "Down the Road." It's a really unique mix between old-school stuff, like blues music, and more new school, like hip-hop or electro. So, this album was really realized with this idea that we are free to compose different elements together. So you see a variety in it, but it keeps the essence of C2C, which is, first, a mix of analog and electronic sounds.
SMALL: You were talking about how you like sampling from jazz, blues and other old-school music, like in "Down the Road." How do you find new sounds like that?
PFEL: First we go through samples to make a rough track, and we don't limit ourselves. We also have a few instruments in the studio, and we try to reproduce the sound we have in mind, and we might make our own materials, too. We even sing sometimes...
SMALL: Cool. Who's the best singer?
[both laugh]
PFEL: I have a high-pitched voice. But, yeah, we try to get involved as much as we can, to make our own materials for the sample.
SMALL: How would you describe your sound in just one sentence?
GREEM: Hmm... I would say "world-electro."
SMALL: Yeah, because you guys are French, obviously, and your sound is very electronic, but at the same time Louis Armstrong is this quintessentially American performer, and "Down the Road" obviously has that cool blues element.
GREEM: When we first started, we all began with hip-hop music, especially from the US. I think we discovered all the other kinds of music through the samples that hip-hop uses. Like, as we were listening, one day we started wondering: This sound, where is this coming from? And which keyboard are they using? And we started discovering other worlds that hip-hop music draws on, like soul and jazz. Really, the roots of C2C come from US hip-hop. As we discovered this music, we were especially inspired by A Tribe Called Quest. They're really putting a fat beat with the bass, and adding some samples from jazz bands, rock-'n'-roll, and even from movie soundtracks. And they were doing a really crazy mix, and we wanted to go further with that type of competition. That's really our roots, like, it's our thing.
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Tipton takes on Geithner over ending tax breaks
U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner sparred Wednesday on the Obama administration's desire to revert to the Clinton-era tax code for high earners.
Eliminating the Bush tax cuts and going back to the previous tax code would affect only 3 percent of small businesses, Geithner testified before the House Small Business Committee on Wednesday.
Retaining the current rates, which include the Bush tax cuts, for the top 2 percent of earners means the nation has to borrow $700 billion, Geithner said after agreeing with Tipton that the nation's economy has a long way to go to recover.
Geithner was wrongly dismissive of how reverting to the Clinton-era tax code would affect the 3 percent of small businesses, Tipton said.
"There are 770,000 small businesses and 27 million jobs reflected in that 3 percent," Tipton said later.
The Bush tax cuts include reduced capital-gains and reduced high-income marginal rates from 39.6 percent to 35 percent.
The first priority for the government should be increasing employment, "which would create taxpayers," Tipton told Geithner. "It will create revenues if you get people back to work."
Tipton also invited Geithner to visit the 3rd Congressional District, which includes most of the Western Slope and much of southern Colorado.
"The 3rd Congressional District of Colorado has not seen the ship righting," Tipton said of the economy, noting many communities "are not in a recession, but in a depression."


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Probabilistic Checkpointing Protocol to Sensor Network Fault-Tolerant
A wireless sensor network WSN is a collection of autonomous sensors nodes organized into a cooperative network. A sensor node transmits the data quantity to the sink. Indeed, a failed sink may abort the overall mission of the network. Due to their crucial functions, sinks must be designed and maintained to be robust enough in order to face trouble coming from the harsh environment. Thus, as a keystone of a WSN, a sink has to be provided with ability to recover from failures.
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New Canaan: Happy to Be Off Beaten Path
New Canaan, an affluent town in southern Connecticut, offers its residents a bucolic countryside, expansive parks and a quaint New England village—all within commuting distance to Manhattan.
And that commute, around 70 minutes on Metro-North, comes with a nearly guaranteed seat, because the New Canaan station is the first and last stop on a spur off the New Haven line.
"A nice thing for commuters is that in the morning...


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Whether you love or hate public opinion polls — or both — you won't want to miss the results of this broad-ranging survey Portland Monthly commissioned from long-time pollsters DHM. Why now? Editor-in-chief Randy Gragg has a answer for that:
The answer is easy: at a time when all eyes are on Obama, Romney, Hales, and Smith—or, really, on a wishy-washy micro-minority who will decide who wins — we felt an urge (if not a desperate need) to step back, turn around, and look at the bigger us: in a sense, our neighbors. With the help of DHM Research, which has been polling Portland attitudes for 30 years, we asked some basic questions, such as: Who among us believes in a god, feels underpaid, spanks their kids? Who thinks the "creative economy" is real? And, of course, who's having lots of sex—or none at all?
Among the results: 64% believe (in something); 16% cheat; 57% spank; 87% would pull the plug. You can read the full results — with answers to more than 75 questions — in the October issue of Portland Monthly.
Do you find some of these poll results suprising? Which ones? Why?
- Randy Gragg: Editor-in-chief of Portland Monthly Magazine
- Kasey Cordell: Senior editor of Portland Monthly Magazine


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manipulating the ebuilds as described in the wiki)
: app-portage/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.1 (added EAPI, but did _not_
change DESTDIR to EDEST)
: app-editors/emacs-22.0.50_pre20050225 (added EAPI, using aqua
breaks. I tried to get the cvs ebuild to work, but "ebuild [...]
digest" just does nothing, no error, no digest. Any ideas?)
: sys-apps/ed-0.2-r6 (tetex-dependency)
Stuff that doesn't work yet
: app-text/tetex both tetex-2 and tetex-3 fail to emerge because they
call libtool (from odcctools) with gnu options (--mode=compile) and
really would like glibtool (gnu). How can I tell them to use that?
I'll try setting LIBTOOL=${PREFIX}/usr/bin/glibtool in the meantime.
: app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre3 emerges fine, but does not work:
$ equery --help
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/Volumes/portage/prefix/usr/bin/equery", line 27, in ?
import gentoolkit
ImportError: No module named gentoolkit
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In 1995, President William Jefferson Clinton proclaimed the first full week of April as National Public Health Week.
Each year since then, communities across the nation have observed National Public Health week, celebrating the work of public health and better health for all. Each year a different topic is selected.
This year's theme is "Public Health is ROI: Save Lives, Save Money."
According to Carver County, the value of a strong public health system is all around us. It's in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and the places where we live, learn, work, and play. It's in the thousands of people whose lives are saved by seat belts, the young people who say "No!" to tobacco, and the children given a healthy start, thanks to vaccines. We are all living examples of the public health return on investment.
This year, Carver County invites members of the community to join it for National Public Health Week by taking small, easy steps to protect their health.
• Ensure a Safe, Healthy Home for Your Family. Health and safety begin at home. Test your smoke alarms each month to make sure they are working. While you're at it, install a carbon monoxide detector on each floor. Post this number on your fridge and by your phone: 1-800-222-1222; it will automatically connect you to your regional poison control center. Properly dispose of unused medications; visit www.co.carver.mn.us/medicine to learn how.
• Provide a Safe Environment for Children at School. Schools are the perfect setting for improving child health. Support your school's smoke- and tobacco-free policies. Learn about school-wide policies and action against bullying, and create a safe space for kids experiencing bullying to get help. Every student deserves to feel safe and respected at school.
• Create a Healthy Workplace. Wellness and safety in the workplace are good for health and for business. Understand and follow all workplace safety regulations and best practices, and practice fire safety drills. Take simple steps to create workplace wellness, such as posting hand-washing reminders, catering meetings with healthy foods, or organizing workplace walking groups on lunch breaks.
• Protect Yourself and Your Family While You're on the Move. Safety on the go is often in our own hands, but it's also tied to community design. Together, we can turn our streets into roads to better health. Always buckle your seat belt – no matter how short the trip – and never text while driving. If possible, choose to walk or bike to daily destinations, such as work or school. Choosing biking or walking over driving is an easy way to get more physical activity into your life.
• Empower a Healthy Community. Support public health efforts that create healthy opportunities for all. Good health is a community affair. Stay up-to-date on recommended vaccinations for yourself and your loved ones. Support your local famer's market, neighborhood garden, and other access points to fresh fruits and vegetables. Inquire about volunteer opportunities at community health centers.
"National Public Health Week helps educate and engage community members in the movement to create a healthier Carver County for ourselves and the generations to come," said Randy Wolf, Director of the Public Health & Environment Division. "We all have a role to play in making Carver County a healthy and safe place to live, work, learn, and play. It starts with each of us taking simple preventive steps that lead to better health."
For more information about National Public Health Week, visit www.nphw.org.
To learn more about public health efforts in Carver County, visit www.co.carver.mn.us/departments/PH.
National Public Health Week being celebrated April 1-7
In 1995, President William Jefferson Clinton proclaimed the first full week of April as National Public Health Week.


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One simple, creative way that I use to celebrate different holiday with my kids is to create easy, themed snack mixes. My kids LOVE them, they take almost no time to put together, and they're a fun way to mark holidays and special occasions. With Valentine's Day coming up, I wanted to create a themed snack mix that my kids would enjoy over the next week or so as we celebrate the day of love!
First, I wanted to create covered pretzels to add to the mix. I melted a handful of white melting wafers, added a couple of drops of food coloring, dipped my pretzels, and covered them with sprinkles.
Place on a sheet of parchment paper, put in the refrigerator to quicken hardening process, and that's it!
Add to the rest of your ingredients. I used rice cereal, oyster crackers, mini marshmallows, yogurt raisins, and a few conversation hearts to create my snack mix. Toss together.
What simple, creative ways do you celebrate holidays with your family?
Need more Valentine's Day inspiration? Here's an easy handprint heart canvas, and 20 modern Valentine's Day crafts!
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Our Mission: Remote Footprints is a nonprofit organization dedicated to utilizing experiential outdoor learning and scientific exploration as tools to inspire individuals and families to appreciate biodiversity and remote areas.
We were featured on WFSU's Local Routes program! This 6.5-minute video provides a great overview of Project Remote:
Project Remote. We are identifying the remotest locations in each of the 50 United States–and mounting documentary expeditions into them–to generate new knowledge about these special, previously unknown, places. Follow us as we learn just how remote America remains in the early 21st century..
Get Outside. We offer many resources to help you get outside and experience the joy of being remote. Visit this page for questions about remote locations near you, citizen science opportunities, and details about our Camping Clinics.
Take Action. This page is a resource for information about the latest in roadless area conservation issues and opportunities to join the remoteness discussion.
Please browse our web pages to learn more about remote areas conservation. Remote Footprints cannot accomplish its mission without the support of people and organizations like you who share our belief that it is necessary to preserve remote, roadless areas and connect people to wildlands. Click here to learn how you can help us succeed in our mission and become part of the Remote Footprints community.
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Hi Peter and all, I may have described this poorly, let me try again. 1. We have a Unicode database that has a particular dash character in it that gets dumped incorrectly. When dumped (from 7.0.x) the dash becomes the character 0xAD but is not properly encoded in UTF-8 (at least my limited knowledge of UTF-8 says so). My understanding is that all characters above 0x7F should be encoded but this particular character is not encoded/escaped at all in the dump. 2. The given dump can be imported into 7.1 without visible problem to 7.1. The character in question can be viewed via queries in PSQL. The only time that there is a problem is when the character is accessed via JDBC. If byte array returned from the backend to the JDBC driver is supposed to be UTF-8 format but (I believe) is incorrectly formatted. The character in question is, still, by itself as 0xAD and this is not valid UTF-8. When the Java UTF-8 to internal Unicode converter hits this character it dies and the resulting string is truncated right before the character. I think there may be a bug in Java that an InvalidEncoding exception isn't thrown but nonetheless the bytes aren't valid UTF-8. 3. My guess is that some part of Postgres' UTF-8 conversion routines are wrong. I looked at the code but couldn't find the relavant parts. I hope this is clearer. Thanks, --Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter T Mount [mailto:peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk] > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 8:13 PM > To: rmager(at)vgkk(dot)com; pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org; pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org > Cc: pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org > Subject: Re: [BUGS] 7.0.3 dumps aren't accessible via JDBC in 7.1 > > > Hmmm, this sounds like either a backend issue, or something is > misconfigured. > Have you got unicode support enabled in the backend? > > Peter > > -- > Peter Mount peter(at)retep(dot)org(dot)uk > PostgreSQL JDBC Driver: http://www.retep.org.uk/postgres/ > RetepPDF PDF library for Java: http://www.retep.org.uk/pdf/
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