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A Miami police sergeant who authorities say planted cocaine on a suspect and stole drugs and money from dealers has been convicted of civil rights violations, narcotics distribution conspiracy and obstruction of justice, the United States Attorney's Office said Friday.
Raul Iglesias, 40, who was with the Miami Police Department for 18 years, was found guilty by a jury after a two-week trial before U.S. District Judge Cecilia Altonaga, the Attorney's Office said.
"A law enforcement badge brings with it privileges and responsibilities," U.S. Attorney Wifredo Ferrer said in a statement. "Although it bestows on the bearer the trust and respect of the community, the bearer is expected to preserve that trust through his actions: by following the law, doing what is right, and seeking to do justice."
Ferrer said that Iglesias "did just the opposite: he broke the law by planting drugs on a private citizen, distributing drugs, obstructing justice, and making false statements."
Iglesias ran the Central District's Crime Suppression unit, which targeted drug traffickers. Rick Diaz, the attorney who represented Iglesias, had defended his client, accusing undercover detectives and FBI agents of setting up Iglesias by planting incriminating evidence on him in a sting.
An indictment cited at least four dates when Iglesias allegedly stole or planted drugs, or lied to investigators. One date was Jan. 27, 2010, when Iglesias allegedly ordered two of his officers to search a man, and when no drugs were found, Iglesias allegedly asked his officers for some "throw-down dope" to plant on the man.
Iglesias was convicted of eight counts, including two civil rights violations, conspiracy to possess and possession with the intent to distribute cocaine and crack cocaine, obstruction of justice and making false official statements, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Iglesias' sentencing is scheduled for March 28. He faces a maximum of up to 20 years in prison.
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The Sueño MLS grand finale is nearly set.
On Sunday, Univision's República Deportiva unveiled the names of the five survivors hailing from Chicago, who now join a group of five others from Houston in the Sueño MLS Finale to be held from May 5 to May 9 in Los Angeles. The final set of five players from the L.A. venue will be announced on the next edition of the TV show this coming weekend.
Check out the photo galleries HERE.
The total of 15 players left standing, who survived tryouts involving over 2,000 youth ages 14 through 18, will compete for one spot to join an MLS club youth academy. That winner will be announced on Sunday, May 9 and will join the elite company of past Sueño winners including current Chivas USA left midfielder Jorge Flores and Gabriel Funes Mori, who plays at forward for River Plate in Argentina.
The players who will represent Chicago in the Sueño MLS Finale from May 5 through May 9 are:
Oscar Barraza: The 16-year-old Mexican-American midfielder from Elgin, Illinois advanced to the Sueño MLS Finale one year after being cut after two rounds into the same competition. He's a junior at Glenbard East High School.
Juan Celleri: The freshman at Lane Tech in Chicago is originally from Guayaquil, Ecuador. He is a 15-year-old forward who can also play on the flanks.
Vicente Jaramillo: The resident of Detroit, Michigan made the 4.5 hour drive to the tryouts in Chicago. The 16-year-old is a native of Laredo, Mexico and is a sophomore at Western International High School in Michigan.
Erick Jimenez: The sophomore from Nicholas Senn High School is considered by scouts as one of the top defenders to emerge from the Chicago tryouts. The 15-year-old Mexican-American is the nephew of a Puebla FC hero from the club's first title in 1982: Luis Enrique Fernandez.
Miguel Moncada: The Honduran-American was an offensive machine in the Chicago trials. The 18-year-old resident of Jackson, Tennessee made the eight hour drive to Chicago and camped out in his car between trial dates. He is a junior at Jackson Central-Merry High School.
The players who will represent Houston in the Sueño MLS Finale from May 5 through May 9 are:
Nelson Castro: The 14-year-old defender from Houston is a Salvadoran-American and currently attends the 9th grade at Eastwood Academy.
Juan Contreras: A 16-year-old left-footed midfielder who was born in Guadalajara, Mexico but resides in Dickinson, Texas. He is a junior at Dickinson High School.
Eric Martinez: The 15-year-old freshman from Dekaney High School in Houston is a Mexican-American forward who was an ODP (Olympic Development Program) selection. His older cousin played for the reserve team of Mexican club Puebla.
Marco Ortiz: A 15-year-old playmaker who has attracted a great deal of attention at the Houston tryouts. The Mexican-American from Crowley, Texas, is a 9th grader and member of the student council at Crowley High School.
Lorenzo Salazar: The 15-year-old midfielder from Houston recently participated in the Dallas Cup. He is a freshman at Austin High School and says he was offered a trial by Mexican club Tigres.
These 10 players will be training with the Galaxy youth squad this week for the right to the five spots available for the Sueño MLS Finale. Their names will air on the May 2 República Deportiva.
Dennis Alvarado (16yrs - Fairfield, CA); Javier Castro (18yrs - Pomona, CA); Marco Granados (17yrs -Pacoima, CA); Arturo Gallegos (18yrs - Pomona, CA); Dennis Garcia (18yrs - Sacramento, CA); Ricardo Guillen (16yrs - Homeland, CA); Victor Jimenez (16yrs - Anaheim, CA); Jonathan Navas (18yrs - Los Angeles, CA), Luis Perez (18yrs - Los Angeles, CA), Oscar Velazquez (14yrs - Las Vegas, NV)

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It was an interesting time during the brief few years of Fund Holding (FH). The idea that money should play no part in who gets seen was thrown out of the window. My hospital consultant colleagues all knew that preference will be given to referrals from Fund Holding practices. It was about survival. Less urgent cases would be seen if they come from FH practices.
Our Trust was small and we had to deal with two main FH practices and five non-FH ones. Child Psychiatry used to take self referrals but overnight that was stopped by our managers. Worryingly referrals from one FH practice dropped very dramatically. So the government's clever idea may have some merit.
Then something strange happened. The other FH practice's referrals shot up dramatically and this was across all disciplines.
Our managers thought: wow, more income for the Trust.
Not so the Cockroach Catcher and despite my protestation, I had to give their referrals preferential treatment.
"I thought it was based on clinical merit."
Then, the bombshell: we were owed in excess of £2 million at the end of the second year and special administrator was sent in by the Authorities. We never got the extra money!
I quoted Prof. Waxman in an earlier post :
April 30, 2010 Jonathan Waxman
When I started in medicine, the hospital was run by about three people. Things were so much more simple when doctors and nurses treated patients, doing their best without the guidance of guidelines and targets, doing their best ... yes ... to make the patients better. How did we manage without forms to fill and waiting times compliance? Quite well actually. The medical director ran the medical side of things while matron and the accountant handled the rest. It wasn't much of a business then: it didn't have to be, because there was no internal market to manage.
The internal market's billing system is not only costly and bureaucratic, the theory that underpins it is absurd. Why should a bill for the treatment of a patient go out to Oldham or Oxford, when it is not Oldham or Oxford that pays the bill — there is only one person that picks up the tab: the taxpayer, you and me.
And there are big problems with the billing process. For example, if a patient is seen in an outpatient clinic then there is a charge made by the hospital for his or her first attendance — but follow-up appointments are not charged. And if many treatments are given in a hospital to a patient, only the most expensive of the treatment episodes is charged.
250,000 administrative staff
There are savings to be made. It is alleged that there are just 75,000 administrators at work in the NHS but this figure is laughably mythological.
One report by the Centre for Policy Studies published in 2003 indicated that there were 250,000 administrative staff employed in the NHS: at least one administrator for every nurse.
There is a general feeling in the NHS of disempowerment of the professionals. People can't face up to the incredible struggle, the disapproval that faces any of them if they have the temerity to suggest that things should be run differently.
The principle of care for all from cradle to grave is worthy and wonderful. But the current reality is a cradle rocked by accountants who are incapable of even counting the number of times that they have rocked it. The reality is gravediggers working with a cost improvement shovel made of rust.
The Nation as a whole
Moving patients from one place to another does not save the nation's money, though it might save a local hospital some dosh. So the internal market has failed because it does not consider the health of the nation as a whole, merely the finances of a single hospital department, a local hospital or GP practice.
So what should we do? Let us go back to the old discipline of the NHS. Let the professionals manage medicine, empower the professionals, the doctors and nurses and shove the internal market in the bin and screw down the lid. At this election time please let us hear from all political parties that they will ditch this absurd love-affair with the internal market. Instead let them help the NHS do what it does best — treat patients, and do so efficiently and economically without the crucifying expense and ridiculous parody of competition.
Why should anyone worry who provides healthcare? Because the weight of evidence is that private markets in health bring exorbitant administrative costs, lead to cherrypicking of more profitable patients, increase inequity and the postcode lottery gap, generate conflicts of interest, are unaccountable, and increase pressure for top-up payments and "care package" limits.
Keith Palmer on competition and choice
"…….competition and choice in contestable services may inadvertently cause deterioration in the quality of essential services provided by financially challenged trusts, and therefore widen the quality gap between the best and worst performers. Market forces alone will rarely drive trusts into voluntary agreement to reconfigure in ways that will improve quality and reduce costs. In most cases, the most likely outcome is that financially challenged trusts will suffer a downward spiral of continuing financial deficits, deterioration in the quality of care and a further widening of the quality gap. The NHS will have no alternative but to continue to fund these deficits or allow the trusts to fail." RECONFIGURING HOSPITAL SERVICES: Lessons from South East London


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There's a moment in the new Islands record - not any specific moment, but you'll know it when it arrives - where your frantically overworked senses start to lull and you begin to zone out completely. Arm's Way is brim full of all the myriad clever-dick touches we've come to expect from Islands off the back of their first release, Return To The Sea, but it's like a lungful of water in a wave machine, a rock-operatic smorgasbord of crashes and thuddingly portentous crescendos. Welcome to the new prog: it's a little like over-lit pornography.
Of course, you might not choose to see it that way – our own review pages thought it "astonishing" and focused, among others – but even its most ardent of advocates would be hard pressed to deny it's an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink job (frontman Nick Thorburn prefers to think about it as music for "an age of bloated excess", though I'm not sure that constitutes much of a defence).
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It's also, as our aforementioned reviewer already noted, overwhelmingly dark – a healthy dose of morbidity has always been key to the band's messy self-absorption, of course, but here we touch on hitherto-unscaled paranoid heights in proliferating images of murder and mutilations both real and imagined, culminating in the 'psychedelic death' of the condemned man's journey to the gallows as depicted in 'Vertigo (If It's A Crime)''s instrumental finale.
Perhaps not so surprising, given the album's backstory of shady label to-ings and fro-ings in the US and, in particular, drummer and co-founding member Jaimie Thompson's acrimonious departure from the group back in 2006: DiS attempted to unravel the whole mess in a pub at a Notting Hill boozer last month...
I remember reading somewhere Arm's Way was originally intended as a pop record but the way it's ended up it's more overwhelmingly rock – what happened there?
We started out with a pop direction and ended up veering away from that at a certain point in the writing and arrangements, I don't know if it was a conscious thing but there was a lot of lighter music that's been put on the back burner for the moment, they might end up on a future album or they might end up as B-sides. I'd say some of the older numbers we had became less relevant, and we swapped them for songs which happened to be louder and punchier.
'The Arm'
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A lot of your stuff has always had that preoccupation with death but it's even more evident on this record; the final track ('Vertigo (If It's A Crime)'), especially, is a resoundingly pessimistic note to end the album with...
Yeah, that's definitely the darkest part of the record. The last part of that song really represents a psychedelic death, you know the moment when you leave the physical world, what feels like an eternity is really just a moment... just speculation really... There was this experiment with this guy who was getting beheaded and he told his friend he would blink after his head had been chopped off to see how much longer after the event he'd be alive for... But there's two themes on the record I think, there's the really dark, death-type theme and then there's the inspirational songs like 'Life In Jail', songs that are really just trying to wake you up. A lot of the album is this introspective, existential thing... looking inward and outward at the same time.
There's also a song ('Pieces Of You') on there about a bunch of local kids that killed a fisherman back in your hometown – apparently you (Nick) had been friends with one of them at high school?
Yeah, we bonded over being lousy basketball players while sitting on the bench, then one day he stole my watch and I asked him about it and he threatened to hurt me if I kept asking about it, then later admitted he'd done it but made no attempt to return it. Months later he'd been arrested on suspicion of murder... It was weird but, you know, I was a really young kid.
Yeah... sorry to dwell on the morbid stuff.
Well you know, that's all we do!
What are the 'arms' of the title and lead track ('The Arm') actually about then – they seem quite an ambiguous image in the first song...
Yeah, I think it's something that starts out with good intentions but ultimately is something else that is harmful in some way. I just like the imagery of arms; it can be both ominous or cruel, something that could be there to help you or be part of a military faction. But 'The Arm' is like the centrepiece of the record I think; it was definitely the turning point in the band's sound. I think there was a real shift in what we were doing. We'd spent two months on the road in Europe and Aaron had just joined the band and Jaime had just left, and we came back and sunk our teeth into new material and something gelled, I dunno what it was, just a way of working together I guess.
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Has the line-up change altered the recording process for you a lot?
I think one thing that was different with this record for sure was that the first one was made in the studio before a lot of these musicians had joined the band whereas it was very much the other way around this time, the music was all written and finished before we went in. I think that made a big difference in terms of what came out. There was a lot more deliberation in terms of arrangement, we took a lot of time with the songs.
I heard you had a lot of backlogged material, was it all considered for the record or was it always intended separately?
When we went into record we knew exactly which songs we wanted for the album. There are still a dozen songs which are in the ether, and then I've got about 25 songs that are just percolating right now. It's hard to say whether those'll end up as Islands songs or not at this early stage.
And the new songs, can we expect to hear anything on them soon?
Well we always seem to be one stop ahead of ourselves, on the last tour we did in the US we were playing songs off this record and that was almost two years ago, so you know we're already sick of these songs (laughs), and the record still has three months.
So you're pretty tight on the 'old new' stuff then?
We have varying degrees of tightness. It's like an asshole that contracts and expands when shit's coming out of it. So shit's coming out of it now, it loosens up when shit comes out and we haven't been doing shit for a while. But shit's definitely getting tighter. It's not diarrhoea, but there's corn in it.
Lovely stuff. I'd also heard it was partly recorded in a studio where Elvis recorded his first release, is that right?
Not exactly, they had these things that are shaped like phonebooths, I don't know what they're called but they have lathes in them and what people would do in the fifties would be to put in a buck or two and record a song with their guitars or whatever, and they spit out a little 45. They had one in the studio, I don't know why, but allegedly Elvis made his first record with it. He made it on top of the Empire State building I think...
Thanks for clearing that up. Is it true that you performed strange rituals during recording to ward off evil spirits?
That'd be Ryan, our producer. He's a really big Joe Meek fan and he was really into the occult.Ryane just gets his mojo rising you know, puts salt on the windowsills, lights a few candles... It's just mysticism, you know, but music's full of stuff like that, it's full of legends, so I like playing into it.
Arm's Way is available on Rough Trade from Monday (May 19); have a sniff round the MySpace 'til then, or try going through official channels if you're more a by-the-book kind of a person, here.
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Trayvon Martin-esque situation sparks controversy in Arizona after a developmentally disabled man is shot and killed with shooter claiming self-defense.
Elderly brother and sister found dead inside Albuquerque mobile home.
Michael Wiener steps down as Bernalillo County vice chair, but continues his duties as commissioner.
Wind farming - the newest thing to blame for global warming.
For only $100,420, you could be the proud owner of the Sea Shadow prototype stealth ship and the Hughes Mining Barge!
One World Trade Center will overtake Empire State Building as tallest building in New York City.
Old-timey cartoons bent on traumatizing children.
Wicked awesome lava coils found on the surface of Mars.
Russian space agency says they plan to send a manned mission to Mars by 2030.
Camera traps capture images of two of the world's rarest mammals in the jungles of the Philippines.
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You Can Still Tap Your Home Equity With Bad Credit
It may seem pretty unfair that so many options for accessing the equity that you've built in your home are unavailable to you if your credit score isn't so hot. After all, it's money that you've invested into your home. Building that equity is a big reason that so many people buy a home instead of renting one, but it can be difficult to fall back on that investment if you don't have a decent credit history.
It's not totally impossible, though. Here are a few ways to tap your home equity if you have bad credit.
Home Equity Loans or HELOCs
The good news is that, even if your credit isn't great, you may qualify for certain home equity loans or HELOC (home equity line of credit) programs. However, the terms you'll be offered are likely to be less than you'd maybe imagined. This could mean that your interest rate is higher than average, or that the amount you'll be allowed to borrow isn't as much as you think it should be.
It's important to remember that these loans are secured with your home, meaning that the bank gets your home if you're unable to repay the loan.
Subprime Cash-Out Refinancing
Sometimes, when people need cash from their equity, they may be able to refinance their mortgage and receive cash, even if their credit score is poor. While this may allow you to get the cash you need right now, it may not be a feasible option in the long run. This is because, ultimately, your new mortgage terms will be less favorable and potentially up your monthly payment. If you need cash now, it's likely that paying more every single month for your mortgage payment isn't really a viable option.
Reverse Mortgages
This type of equity tap is only available to people of retirement age, so aside from any credit requirements, it simply won't work for a good portion of the population. If you are 62 or older, however, you may be able to get a reverse mortgage with less than stellar credit, particularly if you don't necessarily have a negative credit history, but just not enough of a positive one to provide you with a good credit score as sometimes non-traditional credit reports will be considered by certain reverse mortgage lenders.
Selling Your Home
This may be the obvious answer if you need access to the equity in your home and a bad credit score, as long as you have enough time to get it sold and moving is no big deal to you.
Residential Sale Leaseback
A relatively new idea when it comes to homes, a sale leaseback will allow you to sell your home and then rent it back, pocketing a hefty chunk of the equity you've built. EasyKnock offers a residential sale leaseback solution that is asset-based, meaning it doesn't depend on your credit score, but on the amount of equity you have.


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18 Unique and Unusual Ways To Reuse Old Denim Jeans.
Creative Use Of Old Denim Jeans: Here are some more cool and creative ideas of how to use your old jeans.
Jean Potholder:
A cool way to use your old jeans, just wrap your jeans around the potholder.
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Nintendo DS Lite Case:
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If you are interested in making a nintendo DS lite case from an old pair of jeans and some glue, here are the details - link.
Sofa Jeans:
Another beautiful way to use your old jeans; create a sofa out it. All you would need is old jeans, some old socks, metal sofa feet, an old tire and lots of creativity.
Jeans Furniture:
Japanese sofa maker NOyes turns old jeans into Ottomans, though the process takes about three weeks and "$400".
You can use old jeans to dress up your furniture.
Jeans Chairs:
A pair of jeans can be used to form the chair; "The design idea is centered around the notion that a simple pair of jeans can form a chair with no modification to the garment."
Another jeans chair for one person with interesting jeans design.
Octopus Jeans Chair:
The design team of AtelierBLINK created it.
IKEA Jeans Chair:
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Huge Jean Ball Art:
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This ball is made entirely of jeans, it's a part of the exhibition where every visitor has the chance to win $625 US if they can correctly guess how many pairs of jeans were used to create it.
Jeans Sculptures:
This is the creation of Lee Pirozi and it seems to be quite intriguing.
This is the work of R Pruit.
This sculpture comes from Alanya, Turkey.
Standing Jeans Sculpture:
This sculpture was created by a student using common everyday clothing and some stabilizing wire. This sculpture features a pair of blue jeans, seemingly relaxed against a light pole.
World's Biggest Pair Of Jeans:
This pair of blue jeans measures 141 feet (43 m) tall and 98 feet (30 m) wide created to break the current record which measures 114 feet tall and 82 feet wide. It features pockets, red buttons and a brown belt. What more, after the event the area school children gets backpacks created out of this jeans.
3D Chalk Art:
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Nixons Jeans:
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Spray Art On Jeans:
Jeans becomes a canvas for the art here.
Designs Jeans Art:
This comes from an art project where piece of art is created using a pair of jeans.
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CANNES, France - Ivory-skinned, red-head beauty Jessica Chastain looked like an ethereal Roman goddess for the "Foxcatcher" premiere at Cannes in a gown by Elie Saab.
The asymmetrical, one-shoulder, silk couture gown — in on-trend purple — fluttered and turned elemental as the French Riviera wind picked up, showing off the beauty of the delicate ruffles.
Taken from the haute couture spring-summer 2014, Lebanese designer Saab shows he's lost none of his talent with the va-va-voom traffic stoppers. And Chastain worked the carpet — and the wind — with grace.
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On Saturday, February 11, Moretown resident Hannah Woodruff and about 25 other high school students competed in the third annual Vermont Brain Bee at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
Students from across the state were tested on their knowledge of the intricate structure and function of the human brain through a half-hour written test, a lab practicum with several "wet" specimens and a preliminary and final oral bee, with the final structured in a "Jeopardy" game show type of format.
UVM neuroscience graduate students chaperoned groups of high school competitors to and from the written and practical exams, led brain "tours" and question-and-answer sessions in the UVM College of Medicine's anatomy lab in the Given building and graded the written and practical exams.
During the lunch break, student participants (accompanied by their teachers and parents) listened to a keynote presentation by Jeremy Sibold, Ed.D., assistant professor of rehabilitation and movement science, titled "Go to Your Happy Pace: The Relationship between Exercise & Mental Health."
The final round of the oral bee included seven students, including Hannah Woodruff of Harwood. Her fellow competitors included students representing CVU, Mount Abraham Union High School, Otter Valley Union High School, and Stowe. Woodruff was the third-place winner, following Charlotte resident Evan Trus, a sophomore at CVU who took second place, and first-place winner Liam Kelley, a CVU senior from Williston who will go on to compete in the National Brain Bee in Baltimore, Maryland, in March.
The written exams for the competition were prepared by Rae Nishi, Ph.D., UVM professor of anatomy and neurobiology, director of the Neuroscience Graduate Program, and chair of the UVM Neuroscience, Behavior and Health Spire steering committee, and Mark Stefani, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology at Middlebury College, who also served as judges of the oral rounds of the Bee. Additional Brain Bee committee members included Lisa Bernardin, a traumatic brain injury survivor from Middlebury and coordinator of the event; Anthony Morielli, Ph.D., UVM associate professor of pharmacology and current president of the Vermont Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience; Sharon Leach, Ph.D., clinical neuropsychologist and licensed psychologist at the Stern Center for Language and Learning; and Hallie Davis-Penders, UVM Neuroscience Graduate Program assistant.
Although some of the students involved are planning to pursue careers in medicine, the main goals of the competition are to help students understand themselves through study of the brain, applying what they learn to their own lives and bringing the information back to their peers at school.


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Blood Donation Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q: What will happen first?
A: You will be asked to provide some basic information such as your name, address, age, and so on. A medical history is taken and then a drop of blood is analyzed and your pulse, blood pressure and temperature are checked.
Q: How long does the donation take?
A: The procedure is done by a skilled, specially trained technician and takes 10 to 12 minutes. You will rest after donation, and enjoy refreshments. Plan to spend about an hour at the blood drive.
Q: How much blood is taken?
A: A unit, which is little less than a pint.
Q: How long will it take to replenish the pint?
A: Blood volume is replaced within 24 hours. Red cells need about 4 to 8 weeks for complete replacement. You need to wait 56 days or 8 weeks to donate again.
Q: How will I feel after donation?
A: Most people feel great! Donors who know what to expect and have eaten regular meals before donating are usually fine. After donating, drink extra fluids for the next 24 hours.
Q: How soon after donating can I get back to my regular routine?
A: Right away. Just avoid lifting, pushing or picking up heavy objects for about 4 or 5 hours after giving blood.
Q: What happens to my blood after donating?
A: After donation, your blood will be tested for blood type, hepatitis, HIV (AIDS antibody), HTLV-1, and syphilis. Then it can be used either as whole blood for one patient or, after separation into components (such as red cells, platelets, and plasma) to help several patients.
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A British Navy survey ship arrived Sunday at the spot in the Indian Ocean where a Chinese vessel detected "pulse signals" Friday and Saturday that could be from the black box of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet, a Ministry of Defense spokesperson told NBC News.
The sophisticated HMS Echo is "capable of collecting an array of military hydrographic and oceanographic data," according to Britain's Ministry of Defense.
The Australian Navy's Ocean Shield, which is carrying high-tech sound detectors from the U.S. Navy, will also deploy to the location where the crew of Haixun 01 heard pulses, but not before investigating other sounds it picked up 300 nautical miles away from the Chinese ship.
Australian military aircraft were also sent into the Haixun 01's area to investigate, said Australian Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, who is coordinating the search.
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Searchers are racing against time to recover the battery-powered black box, which presumably holds data that could solve the mystery of why Flight 370 disappeared on March 8.
Black boxes emit pings so that they can be easily found — but the batteries drain in about a month.
The pulses detected by the Chinese ship are "an important and encouraging lead, but one which I urge you to treat carefully," Houston said Sunday.
While the pulses were consistent with the Boeing 777's black box, experts warned the way they were picked up by the Chinese ship and the length of detection — about a minute and a half — didn't make sense.
"The pinger itself is continuous, it's not intermittent. Even if the battery was dying, it's either working or it isn't," NTSB crash expert Greg Feith told NBC News Saturday.
The Australian and British ships drag detection equipment slowly behind the boats, which provides a more accurate read, The Associated Press reported.


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BK9954 wrote:She was free so I can't beat that deal. This guy at the deer lease had one years ago, he was all over everything but when the guy called him, he snapped to and did exactly what the guy said. Since then I have always thought about buying one. Started with her tonight on "sit" she caught on in about 10 minutes, my buddy said they can be trained to track as well or turned into hog dogs, anyone done this?
Just to be honest you are starting behind the curve, not even at zero. I suspect there is more to the story on that dog than what they told you. The fact that it will go after some things but not others is sketchy and leads me to beieve some thing happened to it as a pup and you may never fix that. It's hard to teach hunt, or bark, or trail, or cow in to dogs... that should be genetics.
I am with cross on this... I have never seen a good healer work although I'm sure they exist. Most did more harm than good.
Forget about using it for hog hunting. Most of the dogs used like curr dogs are head dogs because you are trying to stop the hog. Healer are heal dogs... thats counter-productive. They nip and bite and will push a hog for miles. I refuse to hunt with a healer on the ground no matter what the owner claims.
Start with obedience and go from there. If all else fails you will have a good dog around the house. Be careful, cattle that are not use to dogs and/ or untrained dogs can get you or some one else hurt real fast.


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FREMONT — The Newark Memorial High boys basketball team left little doubt Friday night as to who rules the North Coast Section Division II.
The top-seeded Cougars harassed the high-octane offense of No. 2 Dublin and earned their second straight section title with a 74-60 win in the NCS championship game at Washington High.
"Our whole focus is defense," Cougars junior point guard Joey Frenchwood said. "We know we're going to get scores on offense regardless. We know they score better than most teams."
The Gaels hadn't scored fewer than 85 points in any of their three playoff games and had been explosive throughout a season that saw them set a school record for wins and capture their first league title in 40 years.
But Newark (23-7), a longtime NCS power, beat Dublin (24-6) twice earlier this season, and this victory means that half of the Gaels' losses this season came at the hands of the Cougars.
"They're a really good team," Dublin said Tom Costello said of Newark. "I think ultimately what killed us was all the second shots. I think our initial defense was pretty good, but we didn't finish the play."
Newark will find out Sunday if it will play in the inaugural Open Division when the California Interscholastic Federation Northern Regional playoffs begin next week or remain in Division II. Cougars coach Craig Ashmore prefers Division II, but Frenchwood disagrees.
"We want Open," he said. "We want to win it all. We want to compete against the best teams."
Frenchwood scored 20 points to share game-high honors with Dublin's JoJo McGlaston.
Dublin scored the first four points of the game but then fell victim to several turnovers that helped Newark go on a 14-4 run. The Gaels tightened it up and trailed 14-11 after a quarter.
Dublin pulled back in front three minutes into the second quarter when Devin Koeplin went coast to coast for a layup. He was fouled and made the free throw to give the Gaels a 20-18 advantage.
Newark scored six straight to regain the lead. After a Dublin bucket on a McGlaston dunk, the Cougars went on an 8-0 run to close the half. A layup at the buzzer by Frenchwood made it 32-22.
The Gaels pulled to within 36-33 early in the third on another dunk by McGlaston. But Newark followed with a 12-0 run, and Dublin never trailed by fewer than nine points the rest of the way.
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Auto Meter Introduces WinningRide.com Online Car Community: Virtual Car Show Site, and National Contest!
Auto Meter is pleased to announce the introduction of WinningRide.com, an all new online car community where enthusiasts unite to share their passion for vehicles and their Winning Rides with enthusiasts around the world. Utilizing state of the art web design, WinningRide.com is the most user friendly site of its kind on the internet today. Dedicated site features are designed to connect with online accounts that users already have, such as Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, and more, enthusiasts will be able to create an account and share updates on their status and activity at WinningRide.com with their friends quickly and easily. At WinningRide, users can load pictures and captions of their projects, provide updates on current builds in progress, bench race and discuss their dream vehicles, comment and like other's builds, and make new connections with others who share their passions and interests. Users can also build printable 'hero cards' or stat sheets for their cars that can be used for display at local and national car shows, detailing all the parts and modifications that make their vehicle unique.
The most exciting element that's sure to get the attention of gearheads across the nation is the fact that your WinningRide.com account serves as entry into Auto Meter's search for the most deserving vehicle to appear on the SEMA Show floor in 2011. Finalists will be judged and selected based on regional and vehicle category from WinningRide.com entries by a panel of industry experts. From those regional and category class winners, the grand prize winner will be chosen by their peers on WinningRide.com to receive the ultimate prize:
An all expense paid trip for two including covered vehicle transport to Las Vegas from anywhere in the lower 48 states, and admission to the SEMA show as Auto Meter's honored guests.
Vehicle will appear in Auto Meter's booth on the 2011 SEMA show floor as well as on the cover of the 2012 Auto Meter Catalog
Winner will get to create a Custom Instrument Set for their vehicle working together with Auto Meter's design team.
Laps around the Las Vegas Motor Speedway with the Richard Petty Experience, and more.
For more information about the site and contest visit www.winningride.com or contact Auto Meter at 1-866-248-6356.


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Nicola Hicks at Flowers Gallery, New York
Nicola Hicks' recent sculptural tableaux, depicting humans, animals, and frightful crossbreeds of towering stature, exemplify art's ability to produce rich, nonverbal worlds. Though the works on view at Flowers Gallery are classified merely as plaster (to be cast in bronze upon purchase), they in fact begin with wire skeletons that the British artist then stuffs with a mélange of straw and dirt before coating. This[…..]


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While many English-language sportswriters and sports business reporters in the U.S. were caught by surprise by Turner Sports' $180 million winning bid for the U.S. English-language media rights for the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League for August 2018-May 2021, this seemingly bold move by Turner Sports appears to this long-time observer of the U.S. sports media business to be part of a plan that was formulated by Turner Sports executives at the start of this decade.
Ever since Turner Sports won the rights in April 2010 to the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball tournament in a joint bid with CBS Sports, Turner Sports has been looking for another sports TV product with a predominately young male audience (ages 18-34) to bolster truTV, which aired its first live sports event with four "First Four" basketball games from University of Dayton Arena in March 2011. (Some readers may recall that former British Prime Minister David Cameron attended one of the "First Four" basketball games in Dayton as a guest of former U.S. President Barack Obama, and that Cameron alluded to the similarities between the NCAA basketball tournament and the English F.A. Cup in an interview conducted by truTV basketball co-commentator Clark Kellogg.)
Sportswriter Jon Wilner of San Jose Mercury News wrote the following on March 11, 2011 in his College Hotline blog:
Turner's involvement with the NCAA Tournament — specifically: its interest in building TruTV — indicates that it may come to the negotiating table (for PAC-12 Conference media rights), perhaps with a partner.
Described by one source as being "as hungry as anyone," Turner is well aware (through its experience with the NBA on TBS/TNT) that showing live sports content allows it to charge more for subscriber fees.
Having one week of college basketball on truTV each year is clearly NOT enough for Time Warner, the parent company of Turner Broadcasting and Turner Sports, to charge a premium monthly subscriber fee for truTV, in comparison to Turner Broadcasting's entertainment TV channels with live sports coverage, namely TNT, which airs National Basketball Association regular season and playoff games, and TBS which airs Major League Baseball regular season and playoff games:
Since 2011, Turner Sports had several opportunities to submit bids for video rights to sports properties with young male audiences, namely "Power 5" college football and basketball products, but Turner Sports had not been successful in landing the rights to any of those properties.


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Registration is now open for the 2012 ICAPGen Conference: Becoming an Excellent Genealogist, presented by the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists and the BYU Center for Family History and Genealogy. This conference is gearing up to be one of ICAPGen's best conferences ever! You won't want to miss this event.
The conference will be held October 19-20, 2012 at the Ernest L. Wilkinson Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. The schedule features 60 different classes in six tracks:
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Germany won the UEFA European Women's Championship. That sentence could have been written in 2009, 2005, 2001, 1997, 1995 and – with a Norway triumph in the middle – 1991 or 1989. However, that does not even begin to tell the tale of their success in Sweden.
Their 12-year run of victories in all UEFA Women's EURO games was ended with a dramatic comeback by Spain to draw 2-2 in qualifying. Then in their first game in Sweden they drew 0-0 with the Netherlands, having not dropped a finals point since 1997, and an unbeaten record stretching back a year longer was ended in the last pool game by Norway.
Yet 11 days later, Norway were beaten 1-0 and Germany were champions once again. Considering the likes of Birgit Prinz, Ariane Hingst and Kerstin Garefrekes had retired from the team, and Kim Kulig and Babett Peter were among six key injuries, many thought this would be the year Germany fell. They did not.
Sweden were the side many identified to dethrone them. There was unprecedented backing for the hosts, resulting in total ticket sales of 216,888 – over 75,000 more than any previous UEFA Women's EURO. That was especially the case with Pia Sundhage taking the helm in autumn 2012 and the presence of Lotta Schelin up front.
She had a penalty saved in the opener against Denmark but then hit form, her five goals comfortably winning her the adidas Golden Boot. However, when they were up against Germany in the semi-finals, Schelin and Sweden drew a blank and lost 1-0, though the squad were still feted during a half-time walkabout in front of a tournament record 41,301 crowd at the final.
Others felt France, after finishing fourth at the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2012 Olympics, were Europe's finest. They had the only perfect record in qualifying and were the sole side to win all their group games in Sweden, including a 3-0 victory that eliminated 2009 runners-up England.
Very hot favourites to beat Denmark in the quarter-finals, France were held 1-1 and then beaten 4-2 on penalties – Stina Petersen, who had saved that spot kick from Schelin and another from Kosovare Asllani in the same game, again proving the heroine.
Denmark's run was then ended, also 4-2 on penalties, by Norway. Although they had topped their group by beating Germany, Norway were not among most peoples' favourites, their qualifying form so shaky that a coaching change was made, Even Pellerud returning to the position in which he achieved such success between 1989 and 1996.
But their combination of an experienced spine in Ingvild Stensland, Trine Rønning and Solveig Gulbrandsen, plus teenage talents Caroline Graham Hansen and Ada Hegerberg, topped a section also including Iceland and the Netherlands, ousted Spain and Denmark in the knockouts and then came so close to dethroning Germany in Solna. But Angerer, reserve in the victorious squads of 1997, 2001 and 2005 before succeeding Silke Rottenberg in time for 2009, had other ideas.
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I've been thinking a lot about Matilda lately. You remember Matilda, right? The Roald Dahl masterpiece about a tiny girl with terrible parents who can magically move things with her mind? [SPOILER ALERT, though seriously, this book is 26 years old so you probably would have read it if you were going to read it] At the end, when Matilda finally gets some quality education, from Miss Honey instead of the evil Miss Trunchbull, her magical powers go away. When she finally puts her brain to some serious learning, she doesn't have all the extra mental energy to move salt shakers across the table.
I have a new job and I feel like Matilda when her powers vanished. A little bit bereft, but mostly thrilled to be fully engaged by the thing that I theoretically am supposed to spend so much of my time doing. I had…ahem… outgrown my previous role, and I was directing all my mental energy towards writing, blogging, and communicating with you fine people of the Interwebz.
I hope that explains a bit about my recent absence. I'm planning to continue writing and posting as much as is feasible, because I love it and it's good practice, but if it looked like I was using magical powers to produce content before, know that it was only a Matilda situation.
That said, I've written a few things lately that you should read. This week, I wrote about the douchery of dudes who try to avoid wearing condoms through pressure, guilt-tripping, shaming or old-fashioned TRICKERY. I got SO many stories from people who have experienced this terrible phenomenon. On the bright side, I learned a new term, "micro-consents," which references all the many other "yeses" we say after the initial "yes" that help us continually stay on the same page as our partners re things like protection and preferences.
Speaking of new jobs… I got this job I'm doing now through an all-lady, invite-only Facebook group. For a split-second I felt guilty about "taking advantage" of this "exclusive" network, but then I was all like, OH RIGHT OLD BOYS CLUBS HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR EVER. Two weeks ago, I wrote about the specific values of all-lady spaces:
Lastly, if you didn't catch my segment on The Morning AMp a couple of weeks ago, listen to me, Molly Adams, and Brian Babylon chat about Mt. Holyoke's new policy about transgender students, the new "normal" family, and other fun stuff.


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For artists looking to expand their creative possibilities in the digital arena Adobe Photoshop CS5 is the ideal software for this. With the new painting tools including the new Mixer Brush anyone can turn a normal photograph into a painting with a little help from the Lynda.com tutorials created by John Derry, the pioneer of digital painting and one of the authors of Corel Painter. I had the pleasure of asking him some questions about this new feature of Photoshop CS5 and how it can work for any artist from novice to professional. The Wacom tablet is the ultimate tool used in conjunction with the computer as it has a pressure sensitive stylus that can feel the strength of the touch. I have also included some creations of my own to see what results are possible. Here is the interview below.
As an artist working in a variety of media from pastel drawings to oil paintings I was very impressed with the possibilities that the new Photoshop CS5 Mixer Brush in Photoshop hold for an artist like myself. If you could describe in a couple of sentences what your Lynda tutorial would offer for painters working in traditional media, what are the most creative possibilities that you see that the Photoshop CS5 Mixer Brush functions offer for these painters?
John Derry:
The Lynda.com title, Photoshop CS5: Painting with the Mixer Brush, is primarily designed to acquaint Photoshop users with the controls associated with the Mixer Brush and Bristle Tips features new in CS5. Traditional media-based users can utilize the title to learn how techniques like brush loading, cleaning, and color mixing are performed with the Mixer Brush, as well as discover how one can craft a custom brush that matches a personal expressive style.
I was intrigued by the possibilities of the Bevel feature allowing for a raised textural effect on the individual paint stokes. Are there other effects that one could use as effectively (i.e. drop shadow,emboss etc.) ?
John Derry:
Traditionally-painted imagery has what I refer to as an "aura". This aura partially consists of the physical attributes of the object: scale, frame, canvas texture, paint impasto, the color space of physical paint. These all contribute to the object being viewed as unique. This uniqueness, in turn, contributes to the object's perceived value.
One of the visual qualities missing from most digital painting is surface texture. Many digital artists are overcoming this deficit by inkjet printing their art on canvas with archival pigment-based inks. Some artists go a step further and embellish the print with actual painted brushwork that complements the digitally painted art. The result is a melding of traditional and digital painting techniques that imbues the artwork with some of the aura described above. As a result, the object begins to have a higher perceived value—a definite plus for the artist intent on selling his art.
My use of Photoshop's Bevel and Emboss Layer Styles is a technique for viewing digitally-created paintings on a display, which is how most digital art is seen (on the web, for example). I utilize the Layer Styles' surface effects in concert with a digital canvas texture (visible in the brushstrokes) to provide a digitally-painted image with a sense of physicality. Similar to the above-described inkjet & embellishment techniques, these digitally-created surface effects borrow from the vocabulary of traditional painting to grace the overall image with the aura of the unique object.
The Drop Shadow layer style can be used to create an Abstract Illusionism look to a painting. Abstract Illusionism was popular in the late '70's ( Jack Lembeck and James Havard were major proponents). It is pretty interesting to paint on a layer with the Drop Shadow layer style enabled—it feels like painting in the air.
The art pen you use in the tutorial seems to have a distinct advantage over the standard brushes which come with the lower end Wacom tablets. As painful as it is to spend the extra money, do you feel the extra axes of motion it offers make it a worthwhile purchase and do you see other advantages for this particular Wacom Art Pen coming down the road.
John Derry:
Stylus movement can be described by six axes of motion: X, Y, Depth, Tilt, Bearing, and Barrel Rotation. It is a combination of these motions that correspond to an artist's expressive hand, wrist, and arm movement. The more of these dimensions that can be captured by a digital painting system, the higher the fidelity of the artist's resulting expression. Wacom's Art Pen—when used with the Intuos and Cintiq tablets—captures all six of the axes of motion (the Grip Pen, which is the stylus that comes with a Wacom tablet, does not capture Barrel Rotation).
For the maximum expressive input, the Art Pen is well worth the extra expense. This pen additionally has a greater pressure sensitivity range, which translates into enhanced expressivity. On the other hand, if a Wacom tablet is going to be primarily used for retouching work, the Grip Pen is sufficient.
What is a possible workflow i.e. settings etc. to create a pointillistic painting such as in the style of George Seurat while having a realistic photograph to work from as the background layer?
John Derry:
An interesting attribute of Seurat's pointillism is the use of small clustered painted multiple-related colors to create visual blending of the colors in the viewer's eye. The result is a richness of color that would not be present had the color groups been actually painted as an individual color.
It is an easy feat for a digital paint application to "jitter" color supplied to a brush. This jittering widens a dimension of a color's individual components, for example, Hue/Saturation/Brightness. By adding jitter to only a color's Hue—let's use blue-green as an example—the color supplied to the brush will vary.
In the case of blue-green, some dabs of color will skew towards blue; others towards green. The jitter can be increased to widen the color skew so that farther afield color—purples and oranges—will randomly appear in the procession of color dabs supplied to the brush. Likewise, jitter can be applied to Saturation and/or Value. This "seasoning to taste" by the artist enables a highly controllable introduction of pointillistic color coming from the brush. This supplies one ingredient of the pointillism "recipe" to a digital brush.
The second key ingredient is the originating color source, In this case, it is a photograph. The photograph is assigned to be the brush color source by selecting the photo and capturing it as a Pattern. The Pattern Stamp Tool is then used to deposit the image color. This tool has an optional Impressionist mode that jitters the applied dabs, thereby "fracturing" the image. The Brush panel's Color Dynamics dialog can be used to jitter the applied color. Put it all together and you've got an elementary digital pointillism brush.
Of course, this automated approach will not offer the same level of unique expression that Seurat accomplished in his paintings, but it does demonstrate how digital paint tools can be seasoned to suit the artist's tastes.
I would like to thank you for time and the Lynda tutorials. I never imagined there could be so many possibilities and intricacies working with the new Mixer Brushes. It will definitely take some time to master. What I found most interesting was that these tools can be used in a way to suit the individual rather than in a lock step codified way of working. Is this central to your philosophy of how knowledge is passed on from one artist to another?
John Derry:
It is my belief that a successful expressive tool—whether it is for mark-making, musical creation, or writing—must be capable of allowing the creator to express himself without imprinting the final result with a "brand name". It must be the artistic expression that is central to the work. However the result is achieved, it is personal creative expression that endures and it is this that represents the transmission of the human condition to others.


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XXL 2010 Freshman Cover!March 1, 2010
Relax and take notes 'cause class is in session. After months of speculation over which rappers made XXL's third annual Freshmen Class cover, the list of the 10 Freshmen for '10 was finally revealed last week.
Now is the unveiling of XXL's April issue's cover, featuring the 10 Freshmen for '10. Hip-hop fans got a sneak peak of the mag's special cover yesterday on MTV2's Sucker Free, when it was first seen publicly and today (March 1) it hits the web.
The new breed of hustlers includes: Roc Nation's first signee J. Cole, gangsta rap up-and-comer Nipsey Hu$$le, newly-minted Asylum lyricist Pill, 1017 Brick Squad member OJ Da Juiceman, indie-sensation Wiz Khalifa, G.O.O.D. Music's own Big Sean, underground favorite Fashawn, Gary, Indiana rep Freddie Gibbs, West Coast phenom Jay Rock and the latest addition to the Atlantic roster, Donnis.
In addition to the special issue, XXL will also be dropping an exclusive mixtape, DJ Whoo Kid Presents XXL 10 Freshman for '10 Mixtape next Monday (March 8)—available for free on XXLMag.com, radioplanet.tv and thisis50.com—that will feature new music from all 10 of the cover stars. Whoo Kid will also be playing select cuts from the tape while the artists call in to his show this coming Saturday (March 6) on Sirius/Shade45.
Keep an out for behind-the-scenes footage of the shoot and interviews with all the Freshmen on mtv.com/news, MTV2's Sucker Free and here at XXLMag.com. More info to come soon on the XXL 10 Freshmen for '10 concert later this month in New York City. (You'll also be able to win tickets to the show here.)
XXL's April issue is on sale March 16 and includes the Freshmen producers, hip-hop soul artists and hip-hop duos/groups, also an in-depth look on what it's like to be a new rapper today, a special recap of last year's Freshmen class and an Eye Candy that'll make you say ahh. —XXL Staff XXL


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Community Sports
Home run king
- Details
- Category: Community Sports
- Published on 22 July 2013
- Written by Mount Vernon Optic-Herald
A total of 18 men competed in the Homerun Derby softball benefit. Players paid $10 each to participate. Each had to hit as many softballs over the fence, set at 270 feet, as possible in a one minute time period.
Bert Wilson, Jr. keeps his head tucked in as he hits the ball during the Home Run Derby. Mr. Wilson hit seven home runs in the first round and then hit nine out of 10 balls over the fence in the second round to claim first place.


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To own a Corvette, an American Dream... To own a Corvette in Europe, sharing an American Dream!
Our club's goal is to enjoy the finest American Sports Car ever made. Joining with our German hosts, we travel thru Europe, enjoying the sites, culture and opportunities offered.
We gladly accept any opportunity to display our cars to the public, either by short 'cruises' thru cities and towns, or attending many of the numerous car shows in Europe.
And since Germany offers the fastest driving in the world we enjoy demonstrating the power of the Corvette to fans of all ages. There is no thrill like driving the Autobahn at speeds in excess of 170 MPH, passing the Porsche's, Ferrari's and Lamborghini's. Of course, frequent visits to race tracks are a must. The adrenalin rush of racing on tracks such as the world famous 'Nordschleife at the Nürburgring' or the Formula 1 'Hockenheimring' with crowds watching in the stands just can not be beat, unless of course you're part of the "opening ceremonies" and doing a "hot lap" on the track at the world famous '24 Hours of Le Mans' race with world wide TV coverage as you smoke your tires across the start/finish line.


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The sales are a great time to stock up on jeans. Last year, Team ELLE modelled their favourite pieces of denim. This Valencia pair by MiH Jeans were mine. I like the nautical style of the button front and the wide flare – great for making your legs look longer.
I think a classic white shirt always looks strong with jeans – especially if you're wearing denim at work. Mine's the perfect Oxford shirt from Gap, which is made of the softest cotton and is a great buy at £29.95. To finish my jeans-at-work look, I've added a simple black jacket from Banana Republic.
I noticed these MiH Jeans in the sale recently, reduced from £185 to just £55.50. They were available in white, too, for £92.50. Not sure if they're still in store though as they were such a bargain, so let me know if you find a pair – or if you've got any other denim sale buys to share. For more inspiration, see Team ELLE's perfect jeans.


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Laugh aloud: 'Horrible Bosses' dirty, hilarious
Horrible Bosses is funny and dirty, in about that order. Of George Carlin's famous "seven words you can never say on television," it omits only the usual one, I think, makes free with the others, and adds several that didn't make Carlin's cut. It also contains what the MPAA describes as "crude and sexual content," which I guess means both kinds at once.
The story involves three horrible bosses and the three employees who vow to murder them. What makes the movie work is how truly horrible the bosses are, what pathetic victims the employees are, and how bad the employees are at killing; they'd be fired in a second by Murder Inc. The movie causes particularly painful twinges at this moment, when employees are in a weak position and their bosses know it. Full review.Read more on: movie review
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A very funny movie indeed, it had me laughing a lot! Where is that young lady that wants a good laugh? Lets go see more movies together!


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Why does the list of the Ten Commandments published in Jewish writings differ from the common biblical one? There also seems to be a disagreement among some Christian denominations on how to identify them.
Do the phrases "old covenant" and "new covenant" indicate two different dispensations or modes of salvation in the Bible? Is there a focus on love and grace in the old covenant as there is in the new covenant? This article wrestles with these issues while arguing for greater continuity between the two covenants than is usually acknowledged.
John 5:18 contains a puzzling statement about Jesus breaking the Sabbath. Was Jesus breaking the law or not?
Is killing what the sixth commandment prohibits? Or does it prohibit murder?
What is the meaning of the phrase "the law of Christ"?
Are all statutes prohibited by the second commandment?
I understand that "law" in the Old Testament designates God's revealed will in general. How can we distinguish between the Ten Commandments and the other Old Testament legislations?
What is the meaning of the phrase "under the law" in Romans 6:14, 15?*
A discussion and analysis of the Biblical material related to the old and new covenants and the role of God's law in both covenants.
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Our IDPA monthly match for May is on the 27th @ CVPR on Rt 63 between Waterloo and Hudson just west of the John Deere Implement.
As mentioned previously, any updates/changes to this match will be posted at the iliowa practical shooters forum (sign up is free) and our Facebook page.
Match Fee is $15.00
Match times are as follows:
Setup: 07:00/07:30
Sign in: 08:30
New Shooter Orientation: 09:00
Safety brief - stage walk through: 09:30
Shooting starts: 10:00
We had 25 shooters at our season opener, looking forward to seeing more of you this month! I'm still working on the stage details, we're sharing stage "foot prints" with the USPSA stages being shot at the BHPC Memorial Day match (more info on that can be found @ the Iliowa forum mentioned above.
If you are able to be there early for set up, any and all help is appreciated!


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it is autumn in virginia. the days are getting shorter. the nights are getting cooler. the air often smells of burning wood. apples are in season, in several varieties, just begging to be crunched into or made into pie or fruit butter.
the leaves will be changing colors soon, showing off their photosynthetic magic, as they change from shades of green to yellow, orange, and red before turning brown and letting go of the branches they presently clothe.
this is when the light, summer, cotton covers get stored away for winter, and the thick, fluffy down comforters come out of storage to adorn the bed. our kitties like the down comforter. all four of them were curled up on it yesterday, doing what kitties do - sleeping and dreaming. in the early hours of morning, when daylight was just breaking, the kitties started parading up and down my sleeping self like i was a runway or something. now i know why they call it a "cat walk"! of course, this is their most effective way of letting me know that the food bowl is empty and will i please come fill it, NOW!
earlier this afternoon i was preparing marinade for chicken bulgogi so we could have korean food for dinner. as i was chopping the fresh ginger, i was overcome by a longing for african chai tea. i haven't made it in about two years, and i'm not sure why i don't make it more often. i heated milk and water on the stove, poured in loose tea, and plopped in a few slices of fresh ginger. i heated it through until it was steaming, and strained it through a sieve. i usually think of hot spiced cider as the appropriate warm beverage for autumn, but i think this year it is going to be african chai. i am fondly remembering my time spent over there, the friends i made, and the love that was shown to me. isn't it great how smells and tastes can transport you to another time and another place?
i do not welcome winter, with its bare branches and cold winds like i welcome autumn. i will purpose to enjoy this present season, without acknowledging that it leads to the next. i will enjoy autumn as long as it chooses to stay. and when winter comes, i'll dream of spring...
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Willem Vermaas, a Professor at Arizona State University, explains to ARPA-E Director Arun Majumdar how ASU researchers grow fuel from fatty acids harvested from photosynthetic bacteria. This special bacteria is used for solar powered, highly efficient production of biofuels.
Photo courtesy of Energy Department Image | Photo by Quentin Kruger | Public Domain
Date taken: 2012-02-28 00:00
If successful, the ASU project would develop a more efficient way to produce and incorporate biofuels into the existing transportation fuel infrastructure.
Chicago-based Clean Urban Energy uses the thermal properties of buildings' mass to store cooling energy during off-peak, unoccupied hours when electricity prices are low. The stored cool is released throughout the day, reducing energy consumption during peak times.
Researchers from Harvard University explain their technology to ARPA-E Director Arun Majumadar. Harvard is engineering a self-contained, scalable Electrofuels production system that can directly generate liquid fuels from bacteria, carbon dioxide (CO2), water and sunlight.
Detroit-based ARPA-E awardee General Motors explains their waste heat recovery system. If successful, GM's shape memory alloy heat engine technology would increase the fuel efficiency of U.S. vehicles up to 10% -- reducing the consumption of up to 380 million barrels of oil every year.
CUNY's Josh Galloway shows how the bike is able to charge their flow-assisted alkaline battery. The CUNY Energy Institute aims to demonstrate a better cycle life than lithium-ion batteries, which can be up to 20 times more expensive than Zinc-based batteries.
The nation's current electric grid has limited ability to store excess energy, so electricity must constantly be generated to match demand. If successful, CUNY Energy Institute's flow assisted alkaline battery project would put the U.S. on a path towards creating a smarter grid with low-cost batteries that are capable of storing enough electricity to power homes, cars and cities.
California-based Transphorm is developing transistors with gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductors that could be used to make cost-effective, high-performance power converters for a variety of applications, including electric motor drives which transmit power to a motor.
If successful, Transphorm's transistors would improve the energy efficiency of electric motor drives by 2-8%.
Indiana-based Delphi Automotive is developing power converters that are smaller and more energy efficient, reliable, and cost-effective than current power converters. If successful, Delphi would improve the efficiency of power conversion by 50% or more -- making a variety of eletric vehicles more viable alternatives to conventional gas-powered vehicles.
Researchers at the University of Maryland are developing an energy-efficient cooling system that eliminates the need for synthetic refrigerants that harm the environment. Using thermoelastic cooling systems, UMD is developing and testing shape memory alloys and a cooling device that alternately absorbs or creates heat in much the same way as a vapor compression system, but with significantly less energy and a smaller operational footprint.
Wayne Bliesner, Founder and CEO of ADI Solar, explains ADI's revolutionary high-temperature chemical storage solution, which provides dispatchable energy using the chemical energy stored in calcium hydride.


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1st date would be going out shopping n eating out
Going to the mall and hanging out is a fun date. If we have time we could go to the theater and take in a film as well!
Going on a mini shopping spree.
love should not be hidden, but must be seen happening,that no one would have a chance of being a third party!
My idea of a first date is going to the mall with a girl
Coffee or drinks a movie going out for dinner a drive in the mountains
I would have candlelight dinner on the beach dancing and making love and listen to music
I'll go shopping and buy you anything your heart wants
I just always end up having a lot of fun shopping with my friends and the such, so why not go out, browse around, chat it up, and have some fun?
Something spontaneous and exciting not the traditional dinner and small talk,But memorable damn I had a good time
Chat with her and get to know her more better
My first date would be something completely different from the "ideal" first date.
Picking me up, taking me out to a nice dinner, conversation and maybe some kissing. Then some shopping.
we both loving shopping that is interesting
I'm tired of writing all this down Vegas will go shopping or go out to eat we will go to the casino localy. Party we will


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From NWChem
Electrostatic potentials
The NWChem Electrostatic Potential (ESP) module derives partial atomic charges that fit the quantum mechanical electrostatic potential on selected grid points.
The ESP module is specified by the NWChem task directive
task esp
The input for the module is taken from the ESP input block
Grid specification
The grid points for which the quantum mechanical electrostatic potential is evaluated and used in the fitting procedure of the partial atomic charges all lie outside the van der Waals radius of the atoms and within a cutoff distance from the atomic centers. The following input parameters determine the selection of grid points.
- If a grid file is found, the grid will be read from that file. If no grid file is found, or the keyword
recalculate is given, the grid and the electrostatic potential is recalculated.
- The extent of the grid is determined by
range <real rcut> where rcut is the maximum distance in nm between a grid point and any of the atomic centers. When omitted, a default value for rcut of 0.3 nm is used.
- The grid spacing is specified by
spacing <real spac> where spac is the grid spacing in $nm$ for the regularly spaced grid points. If not specified, a default spacing of 0.05 nm is used.
- The van der Waals radius of an element can be specified by
radius <integer iatnum> <real atrad> where iatnum is the atomic number for which a van der Waals radius of atrad in nm will be used in the grid point determination. Default values will be used for atoms not specified.
- The probe radius in nm determining the envelope around the molecule is specified by
probe <real probe default 0.07>
- The distance between atomic center and probe center can be multiplied by a constant factor specified by
factor <real factor default 1.0> All grid points are discarded that lie within a distance factor*(radius(i)+probe) from any atom i.
- Schwarz screening is applied using
screen [<real scrtol default 1.0D-5>]
Additional constraints to the partial atomic charges can be imposed during the fitting procedure.
- The net charge of a subset of atoms can be constrained using
constrain <real charge> {<integer iatom>} where charge is the net charge of the set of atoms {iatom}. A negative atom number iatom can be used to specify that the partial charge of that atom is substracted in the sum for the set.
- The net charge of a sequence of atoms can be constrained using
constrain <real charge> <integer iatom> through <integer jatom> where charge is the net charge of the set of atoms {[iatom:jatom]}.
- A group of atoms can be constrained to have the same charge with
constrain equal {<integer iatom>}
- The individual charge of a group of atoms can be constrained to be equal to those of a second group of atoms with
constrain group <integer iatom> <integer jatom> to <integer katom> <integer latom> resulting in the same charge for atoms iatom and katom, for atoms iatom+1 and k atom+1, ... for atoms jatom and latom.
- A special constraint
constrain xhn <integer iatom> {<integer jatom>} can be used to constrain the set {iatom,{jatom}} to zero charge, and constrain all atoms in {jatom} to have the same charge. This can be used, for example, to restrain a methyl group to zero charge, and have all hydrogen carrying identical charges.
Restraints can be applied to each partial charge using the RESP charge fitting procedure.
- The directive for charge restraining is
restrain [hfree] (harmonic [<real scale>] | \ hyperbolic [<real scale> [<real tight>]] \ [maxiter <integer maxit>] [tolerance <real toler>])
Here hfree can be specified to exclude hydrogen atoms from the restaining procedure. Variable scale is the strength of the restraint potential, with a default of 0.005 au for the harmonic restraint and a default value of 0.001 au for the hyperbolic restraint. For the hyperbolic restraints the tightness tight can be specified to change the default value of 0.1 e. The iteration count that needs to be carried out for the hyperbolic restraint is determined by the maximum number of allowed iterations maxiter, with a default value of 25, and the tolerance in the convergence of the partial charges toler, with a default of 0.001 e.
The electrostatic potential computed on a grid can be displayed using the gOpenMol [1] code.
A necessary step requires to convert the .plt file computed by the ESP module from human readable to machine readable format; this can be achieved by using the gOpenMol Pltfile converter.
In practice, you would need to follow the following steps
- rename filename.plt to filename.plt.txt
- start gOpenMol
- open the un menu
- select the Pltfile (conversion) utility
- choose filename.plt.txt as input file name and filename.plt as the output file name
- select Formatted ==> Unformatted
- read the filename.xyz file by going to: File -> Import -> Coord -> Browse -> Apply; you should see your system in the main graphical window as connections between atoms
- plot the density by going to Plot -> Contour
- first click rowse and read the gOpenMol filename.plt file:
- then click Import
- define desired Contour level
- click pply
More details at: http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/lev.kantorovitch/codes/lev00/node71.html