text: Like extreme sports, work in the date palms is highly skilled, a test of strength and endurance, and a bit on the dangerous side. Some of the skills required to grow dates include: balancing and carrying a 62 ft. ladder fully extended and in upright position, dangling from chains in the top of tall palm trees while wielding a razor sharp hooked machette, scrambling around free style in the crown of the tree while pollinating or tying bunches, swinging a 12 pound sledge hammer to cut offshoots at the base, etc. This is all often done in temperatures of 100 to 120 degrees all the while dodging date thorns and the occasional desert rattle snake. The date palm worker or "palmero", is paid on a piece rate or per tree basis, so work is done at a brisk pace. A good palmero is one of the most highly paid field workers, and righfully so! Dates are a very labor intensive crop to grow. Each palm may require up to 7 trips to the top annually to perform the various cultural pratices which include: dethorn, pollen flower cutting, pollination, thinning, tie down, bagging, and harvest. In beween climbing trees there's irrigation, tractoring, fertilizing, offshoot cutting, planting, and frond pick-up. As you can see, there's never a dull moment


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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge has dismissed part of a lawsuit challenging a new North Dakota law that blocks abortions based on unwanted gender or a genetic defect, such as Down syndrome.
The state's sole abortion clinic in Fargo, backed by the New York-based Center for Reproductive Rights, filed the lawsuit in June. That suit also challenges another new measure that bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected; it was temporarily blocked in July.
The measures are among four Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed into law this year with overwhelming support by the state's Republican-led Legislature.
U.S. District Judge Daniel Hovland granted the Red River Women's Clinic request to drop the gender and genetic defects part of the lawsuit on Monday. The clinic has said the ban doesn't affect it because it doesn't perform abortions for that reason.
Hovland dismissed that portion of the lawsuit without prejudice, meaning the clinic can revive a legal challenge later.
Janet Crepps, an attorney for the Center for Reproductive Rights, said in a statement that "it is not clear that the measure will have a direct impact on any women seeking abortion services at the Red River Women's Clinic at this time."
The Bismarck-based federal judge temporarily blocked the state's law that bans abortion when a fetal heartbeat is detected — as early as six weeks into pregnancy — calling it "clearly invalid and unconstitutional."
Abortion rights advocates call the heartbeat law the most restrictive in the country and an attempt to shutter Red River Women's Clinic. Supporters of the measure have said it's a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 ruling that legalized abortion up until a fetus is considered viable, usually at 22 to 24 weeks.
The clinic is not challenging another new North Dakota law that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, based on the disputed premise that a fetus can feel pain by then. Clinic officials have said the law does not apply because it doesn't perform abortions after 16 weeks.
Another new law requires a doctor who performs abortions to be a physician with hospital admitting privileges. A lawsuit challenging that measure has been combined with another one challenging a 2011 North Dakota law outlawing one of two drugs used in nonsurgical abortions. East Central Judge Wickham Corwin ruled in July that the 2011 law violates the state and U.S. constitutions.
Corwin also signed a preliminary injunction in July blocking admitting-privileges law after opponents argued it would shut down the Fargo clinic.
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Most sofas never get to experience any serious pace. On occasion they might reach a speed of around 1 km/h when burly furniture movers carry them into a house but they spend most of their tough lives doing all of 0 km/h. But not the world's fastest couch, it can travel more than the NZ speed limit and then go even faster.
An Australian-based couch has just broken the world record for the fastest couch on the plant (yes, there really is a record). A team from Sydney have turned a rather ordinary brown two-seater into a machine capable of traveling in excess of 150 km/h. In fact, it recorded a top speed of 163.12 km/h to smash the previous record of 146 km/h set by an English man back in 2008.
The couch wasn't alone in its triumph either, it shared the glory with a coffee table and a bowl of fruit. The couch was specially built for the world record attempt by Evolution Motorsport, a racing firm from Sydney.
The speedy sofa is powered by a Suzuki GSX 1400 motorbike engine and according to the project leader, Paul McKinnon the biggest challenge was battling the aerodynamic obstacles of pushing along a chunky piece of furniture. We aren't aerodynamic masters but we'd guess that the coffee table isn't just ornamental and doubles up as some sort of air splitter. Sneaky Aussies.
Bet your couch is looking pretty lame right now. To check out the record setting run, view the video below.


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July 20 (Reuters) - U.S. women's soccer team forward Abby
Wambach believes the pain of last year's crushing World Cup
final defeat to Japan will help fire them towards an Olympic
gold medal.
The team, coached by Swede Pia Sundhage, start their Olympic
campaign against France in Glasgow on Wednesday, two days before
the opening ceremony to the London Games. They will also play
North Korea and Colombia in the group stage.
While the United States are the defending champions and
highly fancied to win a third consecutive gold medal, they come
into the tournament still with some of the bitter taste from
last year's World Cup campaign in Germany.
Japan fell behind in regulation and extra time during last
year's final but fought back on both occasions for a 2-2 draw
before prevailing 3-1 on penalties over a top-ranked U.S. team.
"Because we got so close and lost in the most dramatic way
you can lose a soccer tournament, it adds even more fuel to the
fire," Wambach, who has 138 goals from 182 internationals, said
on Friday during a conference call.
"We have had a short period of time from the World Cup to
now and I think it is really nice and important for the
freshness of that loss to be stuck in our minds and honestly in
our hearts.
"What is in the past, is in the past but this team still has
something to prove."
While success in the Olympic tournament, allied with World
Cup triumphs in 1991 and 1999, makes the U.S. squad one of the
dominant forces in the women's game, Wambach believes that the
current crop are fired up to show their value.
"There is no better motivation than losing. I think that we
did a lot of really cool things in Germany last summer, we got
people excited about the women's game again and truthfully I
wasn't sure if that was going to happen again in my career.
"This team has something to prove. I know that all of us are
competitors through and through. We are competing when we are
playing ping pong in our team floor, whatever it is we want to
win," she said.
Key to the American team's chances is the strike pairing
between Wambach and 23-year-old Californian Alex Morgan.
Morgan scored in the World Cup final but until this year was
mainly used for the bench before her form forced Sundhage to
adjust her system.
"She provides speed and she is playing very well together
with Abby," said Sundhage. "This team different from the World
Cup, a different team and the way she has been playing recently
not only gives her confidence but also the whole team."
Wambach, who compared the partnership to the one she enjoyed
with Mia Hamm in the past, said Morgan had made a breakthrough
in terms of self-belief.
"Alex has had probably the biggest improvement in her
confidence, I told her time and again, when she scored the big
goal that won us a game, 'put that in your back pocket,'" said
"As a forward when you have times when you aren't scoring,
you have to remember the times that you did, especially the big
"Her confidence has been the turning point in her career,
much like my confidence was after 2004 did a huge service for me
and my career - I think Alex will continue to grow, she has had
a fantastic year."
(Reporting By Simon Evans in Miami)


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On Independence Day in the U.S., many Happy Black Woman readers are off work, enjoying the holiday. The 4th of July marks the true beginning of summer for me, but it's also a reminder that it's actually JULY! That means we're halfway through the year. The first six months of 2013 are already GONE. Done. Finito. Forever.
Last night, I posted this question in our Happy Black Woman Facebook Community:
What is ONE GOAL you want to accomplish over the NEXT six months?
Many women shared goals of losing weight, building their business, traveling, getting a new job, etc. But what I know about goals is that sometimes it's hard for us to dream BIG because we let fear get in the way. We allow ourselves to get stuck in what other people think we should be doing with our lives.
That's why on Independence Day, I decided to release my brand new manifesto…
Free Yourself: A Manifesto for Letting Go of Fear and Living Life on Your Own Terms


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A dude friend of mine brought up the fact that if a guy stumbles upon a sex toy in a girls room, he might think it's kind of hot. If not, he probably wont be turned OFF by it. However, my friend thought if a girl found a toy in his room, she might think him a creep. Because really, there aren't too many male centered toys, aside from the infamous Flesh Light.
So when I got a few of these Tenga Eggs to review, I was thrilled because, look! A dude toy! So I passed them around. These "egg beaters" (teheheh) are generally used as a masturbation aid. Inside the egg is a sleeve, sort of resembling a condom, that you lube up and go to town on.
It's a one-time only thing, which Reviewer 1 didn't know before hand, so he was generally disappointed when, after he was done, the sleeve was all stretched out of shape and impossible to clean and/or put back in its case.
Reviewer 2 knew it was disposable, because I warned him, and he found it to be a nice vacation from normal masturbation…aside from the fact that, you know, you're fucking a latex sleeve.
The Tenga Eggs can also be used as a texturizer for your Hitachi,ladies—just slip it on over the head for a nice, smooth feel. Don't own a Hitachi? Shame on you, your neglected clitoris would like a word with you.
So, have you used a Tenga Egg? Thoughts on male friendly toys?


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MILAN (Reuters) - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is still giving thousands of euros a month to aspiring showgirls who attended his colorful parties, a Milan court heard on Friday.
Weakened by a sex scandal and graft and tax fraud allegations, Berlusconi, 76, was forced to resign a year ago as Italy came close to a Greek-style debt crisis.
But the center-right leader, who recently announced he would not run as candidate for prime minister in next year's election, denies the charges and says there were no sex parties at his villa near Milan, just normal dinners.
On Friday, five women testifying in a trial in which associates of Berlusconi are accused of procuring prostitutes for him said they were still receiving cash gifts from the media magnate.
"Silvio Berlusconi still gives me 2,500 euros a month," said Elisa Toti, one of the girls who allegedly took part in the so-called "bunga bunga" sex parties.
She said the former premier had also helped her buy a house and a car, but denied having been paid to have sex with him.
The other women heard by the court also said they were receiving similar amounts from Berlusconi on a monthly basis.
In April, Berlusconi told reporters on the sidelines of a hearing that he was still giving money to the small army of women involved in the "bunga bunga" sex party case out of generosity, because they had been ruined and dishonored by the bad publicity surrounding the trial.
In a separate but related trial, he is accused of allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute and of abusing his power to have her released from police custody.
(Reporting By Sara Rossi; Editing by Andrew Osborn)


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An update from Jazmin, a senior majoring in human rights and Spanish:
"If only my head was filled with water and my eyes were a fountain of tears, then I would weep by day and night over the destruction of the flower of my people." – Jeremiah
Camp Chelmno began functioning as early as December 1941. Rolf Hoppner greatly influenced the construction of this camp as he had a proposal for "solving the Jewish problem." The way prisoners were sent to their deaths was a gruesome process. At initial arrival, prisoners were told that they needed to take off their clothing because they needed to first be disinfected in order to go to the camp to work. Prisoners would surrender their clothing and were made to believe that they were going to take a shower. After, the hostages were then loaded into automobiles to be transported to the site where they would "work." However, this did not happen.
Officials would start the motors, and exhaust fumes would enter the truck while it was driven to the Rzuchowski Forest, which was 4 kilometers from Chelmno. During this short drive, all the prisoners inside the truck died. What inmates believed to be their home and workplace for the next several weeks/months, in reality became a drive to their deaths.
My Reflection
"We dream of a better life with truth and justice a life that is not but will some day be… "
"My aim is to love and be righteous instead of being loved and adored…"
It is difficult for me to process the ruthlessness of a camp when I first arrive. My emotional state of mind is overpowered with shock as I simply cannot break down the contents to reality. In class, when I would read about the Nazi concentration camps such as Chelmno, I thought I understood the suffering of the lives of the many victims who were murdered and viciously put to work. Little did I know that I was nowhere near understanding the brutality they endured.
Let's put in perspective our own lives when we think of the Holocaust. For example, imagine that one day as you are coming home from work, you see that there are Nazi soldiers at your house. Thinking to yourself, you know that the picture before your eyes is an event from which no good can come. You quickly run inside to find that the Nazi officials have already arrested your mother, father, brother, sister, child, or any other friend or family member inside and are being brutally hit to evoke fear and power. How do you confront this? Do you fight to liberate them and die trying? Or do you join them by surrendering and suffering in the months to come… if you are even given the opportunity?
Even after researching and studying the many events that took place during the Holocaust, I do not believe that we can ever grasp the whole entity of the misery that took place during WWII. When I was at camp Chelmno, I kneeled down to feel the earth. The evening was cold, windy, and quiet. I reflected upon the commemorations and stone readings, all of which made me cry, but one in particular caught my eye. The stone read, "In memory of my father, Rachmil Strazynski, who mourned them [his wife and children] the rest of his life." When I read this, I felt a hole being blown through my body. You can never quite experience the pain so vividly as when you are present in front of the event. When I read this, I imagined a family in the past, much like mine, who ate dinner together, shared memories, and grew to make one another a better person. How did hate end the happiness of not only one family, but hundreds of thousands of families? No longer could they eat together, nor tell each other how much they loved one another.
I was truly angered, but I wasn't quite sure at who or what. I didn't know who to direct my anger toward; I was mad at myself for being so ungrateful with my family, I was mad at the government and state for limiting my education of the Holocaust, and I was mad because thousands of lives were taken ruthlessly over a 5-6 year period before anything was done to help. Who in their right mind murders families on a 5- to 10-minute automobile ride? Better yet – willingly?
At the end, I could only discuss my options with my classmates. Though they were as confused as I was, we still managed to understand that we were on this trip for awareness and a better education in hopes of making the world a better place. It is moments of enlightenment such as these that make me work harder to help humanity.


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Tommy Kent Crouch recalls that his first futures trade was in pork bellies and caused him to lose the down payment on the house for which he and his wife were saving. That was back in 1966 and Crouch calls it his "first lesson" in trading, but it was one of many and the beginning of a lifelong love affair with markets and trading.
Crouch grew up on a farm in central Indiana and was hired as a hog buyer by Heinold Commodities when he was 20 years old. In 1971 he got the opportunity to go to Chicago to be a livestock analyst for Heinold.
"I couldn't pack my bags fast enough," Crouch says. "I was responsible for giving market recommendations to branch offices throughout the country. I handled a deck, I filled a lot of orders for Heinold in second option hogs."
In 1977 he and a partner left Heinold and bought into ag-based futures broker Packers Trading Company.
Crouch always has traded throughout an eclectic career that has spanned six decades and has focused on every aspect of agribusiness. He has farmed, traded, raised cattle, bred racehorses, brokered customer orders and owned clearing firms and feedlots.
In the mid-1970s, he opened the first Pig Improvement Company (PIC) multiplier in the United States and bought a horse farm. PIC began in England in the 1960s, dedicated to providing genetic improvement in pork breeding.
He moved to Kentucky in the mid-1980s to dedicate more of his time to breeding horses, which he did quite successfully, breeding several million-dollar winners and earning an induction into the Harness Racing Hall of Fame. But it wasn't until 2010, at an age when most traders would be retiring, that Crouch launched his commodity trading advisor, TKC Investment Services.
TKC is a discretionary program that trades grain and livestock markets on fundamentals, but Crouch understands the impact of systematic trading. "Fundamentals always will win out," he says. "Do I pay attention to technicals? Absolutely. More so today than ever. There is nothing worse than being right on the fundamentals and losing money because somebody wanted to move 2,000 [lots] because the technical said something."


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Yep. Looking into them. Not ashamed to admit it. I'm not making a silly guarantee but this team has a chance to do what we have seen the last few weeks to any team anywhere and I am trying to assess my plans for the month of January and the first week of February in accordance with this reality.
It is important to be prepared.


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More than 300 farmers, community members, plant workers and federal, state and local elected officials participated in a ribbon-cutting event for the recently expanded Abengoa Bioenergy ethanol plant in Portales, N.M.
Abengoa, the fifth largest ethanol producer in the United States, doubled its ethanol production at the plant from15 million gallons to 30 million gallons annually.
National Grain Sorghum Producers (NGSP) Executive Director Tim Lust said the expanded ethanol plant would increase its sorghum usage from 5.5 million bushels to 11 million bushels annually.
"That is more sorghum than the entire state of New Mexico will produce this year. As more plants go in and we continue to see expansion of the ethanol industry farther south and west into the Sorghum Belt, it's a very positive thing for increasing the prices that our producers receive as well as growing the acreage of this crop."
On behalf of New Mexico and U.S. grain sorghum producers, Lust expressed his appreciation to Senator Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, for his leadership and perseverance in energy legislation. He also recognized contributions of New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman, ranking minority member on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
CEO and President of the Renewable Fuels Association Bob Dinneen said, "It is because of Pete Domenici's determination, his fairness, his willingness to work in a bipartisan fashion, and his skillfulness in the legislative process that we have an energy bill for the first time in almost 30 years."
Dinneen said the energy bill is the most significant rural economic stimulus package since the New Deal.
Agriculture rebirth
Senator Domenici said the energy bill is a rebirth of agriculture for America. "This bill makes agriculture solvent, solid and farmers are going to be able to believe and count on stable prices each and every year with maximum need for their products. When coupled with our international markets, agriculture will once again be a bright spot."
With a Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) that will require 7.5 billion gallons of ethanol antibodies to be sold by 2012, Dinneen said that it doubles the size of the ethanol industry. "The RFS means 2 billion barrels less imported oil as a result of this bill over its life. It means 200,000 jobs are going to be created over the next seven years as the industry gears up for increased production. It means$6 billion in investment in rural America as we prepare to meet this standard. And once this standard is up and running, it means $200 billion to Gross Domestic Product."
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, a featured speaker at the event, announced that by executive order, he would require state agencies to obtain 15 percent of their fuel from renewable fuels by 2010.


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Hawaiʻi Fresh Milk Industry establishes CTAHR scholarshipUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Communications Director, University of Hawaii Foundation
"We are appreciative of the endowed scholarship," said Sylvia Yuen, interim CTAHR dean. "It is an investment in the future—a legacy from the dairy industry that will help grow and diversify Hawai'i's economy. Many bright and deserving students will be the beneficiaries of this generous gift."
This scholarship endowment was made possible by the joint efforts of the Hawai'i dairy producers on O'ahu and the Big Island in recognition of the support given to the industry by the local community. It also builds on the dairy industry's commitment to nurturing the community.
"This scholarship will be a lasting memorial to all dairymen and Dr. Chin Lee. The dairy industry in Hawai'i has a long standing history of supporting the community it serves," said Edward Boteilho, Jr. president of HFMI. "Dairy farmers provided milk to soldiers and families in need during the war. They continued to support school programs in the 1980s – 1990s. This endowment by HFMI continues our educational efforts and vesting in the next generation of leaders in our community."
Please contact Leslie Lewis at (808) 956-9702 or firstname.lastname@example.com to make a gift to CTAHR. You can also make a gift online at https://www.uhf.hawaii.edu/GiveToCTAHR.
PHOTO CAPTION: (L to R) Sylvia Yuen, interim dean, CTAHR; Edward Boteilho, Jr., owner of Cloverleaf Dairy Inc. and president of Hawaii Fresh Milk Cooperative; Bahman Sadeghi, owner of Island Dairy Inc. and Hawaii Intermodal Tank Transport Inc.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Citing a history of inmate deaths, sexual assaults, beatings, stabbings and poor medical care at the New Orleans jail, a federal judge on Thursday approved an agreement between the U.S. Justice Department and the city's sheriff aimed at reforming the notoriously dangerous lockup.
In approving the agreement, U.S. District Judge Lance Africk rejected efforts by Mayor Mitch Landrieu's administration to squelch the pact. Landrieu has said mismanagement by Orleans Parish Sheriff Marlin Gusman is at the heart of the problems at the Orleans Parish Prison, and that the potentially expensive agreement could affect public safety by forcing the financially strapped city to cut services and even lay off police officers.
"The Court is well aware of New Orleans' high homicide rate and budgetary constraints, but the evidence shows that violent crime is endemic within OPP as well," Africk wrote. "OPP inmates, and particularly inmates with mental health issues, leave the facility more damaged, and perhaps more dangerous, than when they arrived."
Africk also said that nobody knows how much the consent decree will cost. Financial issues are to be discussed at a hearing next week.
His ruling came weeks after a contentious hearing in which the city's accusations of mismanagement by Gusman included release of an inmate-made video showing brazen drug use, gambling, beer drinking and the brandishing of a loaded handgun in a cell in a now-closed part of the jail complex. Inmates testified about sexual assaults and beatings at the hands of guards or other inmates. Prison experts said treatment for mental or physical conditions was badly lacking and that violent inmates were often mixed in with vulnerable ones.
"The Court finds that the proposed consent judgment is the only way to overcome the years of stagnation that have permitted OPP to remain an indelible stain on the community, and it will ensure that OPP inmates are treated in a manner that does not offend contemporary notions of human decency," Africk wrote.
The agreement, known as a consent decree, calls for Gusman to provide adequate medical and mental health care and overhaul policies on use of force and rape prevention, among other reforms that are expected to require more money for personnel. The sheriff, even while downplaying problems at the jail, said the agreement will aid reform, and he said the city inadequately funds the jail.
The agreement was the result of a lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on behalf of inmates in April of last year. The Justice Department later intervened in the class-action suit. The announcement of the consent decree in December raised immediate concern from city officials.
Months earlier, Landrieu's administration had reached a long-sought agreement with the Justice Department for reforms at the New Orleans Police Department, plagued by years of allegations of brutality and biased policing. Landrieu hailed that agreement as a needed reform in July 2012. But, by January he was trying to put the brakes on it, saying the city could be forced into painful personnel or service cuts if it's forced to fund the police pact and the separate jail reform consent decree.
U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan approved the police pact despite the city's objections.
The police reforms could cost in the neighborhood of $50 million over the coming years. In opposing the separate jail agreement, the Landrieu administration cites court filings indicating it could add $22 million annually to the $30.5 million the city already turns over to Gusman.
Africk's ruling was the second legal setback for Landrieu this week in the battles over criminal justice reform. On Wednesday, a federal appeals court refused to delay implementation of the police agreement pending the city's appeal.
In a related development Friday, the city's inspector general released a report calling for reforms in jail funding, touching on issues likely to be discussed in court next week. The report was critical of some Sheriff's Office accounting.
"OPSO aggregated both revenues and expenditures into categories that did not correspond to specific revenue sources or to Jail expenditures, which made it impossible to connect the City's Jail funding to Jail services and operations," the report from Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux said. "As a result, inspectors were unable to determine whether City monies allocated to OPSO in 2011 appropriately funded only the facilities and services the City was obligated to fund ...."
The report also compared spending on the Orleans Parish Prison to a comparable jail in Louisville, Ky.
"The benchmark analysis revealed that in 2011 New Orleans's Jail appeared to be adequately funded when compared to the benchmark jail and that OPSO expenditures in total and in certain categories were significantly greater than those for the Louisville Metro Department of Corrections."
Landrieu seized on that report in a statement about Africk's ruling, and he repeated his contention that Gusman should no longer run the jail. "The only way to fix the conditions and operations at the jail is to put a federal receiver in place that will run a safe and secure jail in a financially responsible way," Landrieu said.
Gusman, the Justice Department and the SPLC all hailed the agreement.
"Today's ruling enhances the possibility that the OPSO will be properly funded after years of delays," Gusman's statement said. He did not immediately address the IG report.


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The fortunes of an AHL farm club are always controlled by the whims and needs of the parent club.
The Providence Bruins found that out again over the last six days.
After winning last Friday vs. Springfield, the P-Bruins embarked on a three-game losing streak — all on the road and all without second-leading scorer Zach Hamill, who was recalled to Boston Feb. 4. By Tuesday in Charlotte, Providence no longer had winger Jordan Caron, who also joined Boston.
Other players are going to have to step up for however long Hamill and Caron are in Boston. Unexpectedly, tough guys Brian McGrattan and Lane MacDermid stepped into the void against the Falcons with a goal apiece. MacDermid added an assist in one of the losses to the Checkers. Veteran center Trent Whitfield enjoyed a two-goal game in a losing cause.
However, it's going to fall to more of Providence's skill players to keep the club's playoff hopes alive without a couple of its best players. Joe Colborne, Jamie Arniel and Max Sauve, in particular, are going to have to raise their levels — even though two of them are in their first year of pro and Arniel is in his second year — to keep the P-Bruins in the race.
Providence enters the upcoming weekend in sixth in the Atlantic Division, five points out of fourth.
Who's hot
MacDermid has recorded a goal, an assist and plus-2 rating in his last four games. …Antoine Roussel scored his first goal of the season Tuesday (29 games). … Goaltender Matt Dalton posted a .936 save percentage in three games last week.
Who's not
Sauve was goal-less in last week's four games and is now without a goal in his last six overall … Arniel is still looking for his first goals since Dec. 28.
Roster report
In addition to Hamill and Caron's call-ups to Boston, Roussel returned from a brief stint with Reading (ECHL).
Upcoming games
Friday, Feb. 11 vs. Hershey
Saturday, Feb. 12 at Springfield
Sunday, Feb. 13 vs. Hartford


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The comic version of War Machine is so good that I don't even want the movie version.
ps - how much is WM selling IM2 figures for?
Also, $6.99 for these is nice - considering they're as good or better quality than MU and those are $8.67The comic version of War Machine is so good that I don't even want the movie version.
I think the first wave is the first movie stuff and the comic series, while wave 2 is supposed to have the mark 1V, War Machine and Whiplash, plus a few other variant armors, so it's possible that the 2nd wave hasn't hit in big numbers yet.
I was half expecting to see Whiplash out in my hunt yesterday and today but no dice.
Sal, don't forget both War Machines (Comic and Movie) and Iron Man first appearance.Comic War Machine is probably the best figure out right now.
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Sounds a little like Me, Myself & Irene. I wish Jim would actually go back to comedy, cause he does make us all laugh and he has done a good run of dramas.
However, though I didn't realise... well I knew he had a production company but has it ever produced any of his movies? If JC23 owns it or has rights to it im sure he'd probebly be doing it. And if its an unusual script in a good way im sure Jim wouldnt pass up the opportunity


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Ethanol-fueled car in top 20
Iowa State's racer goes 0 to 60 in under four seconds. It tops out at 110 mph. And the little blue and white formula car cracked the top 20 at the 2005 Formula SAE races May 18-22 at the Silverdome in Pontiac, Mich.
Foundation pledges $100,000 to endow scholarships
The AEGON Transamerica Foundation, Cedar Rapids, has made a three-year pledge totaling $100,000 to the College of Business to establish an endowed scholarship for finance and accounting students.
Interim for African American Studies program named
Gary Tartakov, professor of art and design, has been named the interim director of the African American Studies program in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.
Award to mentor program for new school leaders
A mentoring program for new school district leaders has been awarded a $111,000 grant from the R.J. Carver Charitable Trust.
Solar car qualifies
Iowa State's solar car ran well in a Topeka, Kan. competition, easily qualifying for this summer's 2,500 national race.
Gift to enhance access to rare books
A Lennox Foundation gift will improve access to rare volumes in the Iowa State library and enhance preservation efforts.
Vice provost for Extension search begins
The search is under way for the next leader of Iowa State University Extension, an organization with a network of educational services in all 99 Iowa counties.
Glacier geology still cleaning Iowa groundwater
The last glacier to advance into Iowa left behind a system that is still cleaning Iowa groundwater.
Plant Sciences funds to seven projects
Iowa State's Plant Sciences Institute has awarded start-up funding to seven innovative research projects.
On-farm research program begins
An on-farm research pilot program is under way in northwest Iowa.
Englin to direct residence department
Pete Englin, Iowa State dean of students since 2000, has been named director of ISU's Department of Residence effective July 1. His appointment is pending approval by the Board of Regents, State of Iowa.
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ISU student and photographer Jasper Raven recently snapped shots of some of the small critters that abound on the ISU campus in the spring.
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ISU professor Levon Esters encourages urban students to pursue careers in agriculture.
Merge services, reduce costs
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More local governments are interested in consolidation in the face of federal and state funding cutbacks and taxpayer revolts, says Kurt Thurmaier, professor and director of ISU's public policy and administration program. Thurmaier co-edited a collection of case studies on city-county consolidations.
Hog farmers eye breeds for tastier pork
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The niche pork market is small, but experts, including ISU animal science professor M. Peter Hoffman, say it's expanding because consumers are willing to pay more for a premium product. Japanese demand sparked a comeback for the heirloom Berkshire breed, which has a higher fat content but is juicier and more flavorful, chefs say.
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Deep Freeze Expected To Let Up Today
ATLANTA (AP) — The arctic blast is easing its grip on much of the U.S., giving way to warmer, but still very chilly temperatures in many places.
Winds are expected to calm today and the weather's supposed to warm up slightly, a day after record temperatures — some more than a century-old — shattered up and down the Eastern Seaboard.
In Atlanta, where it hit a record low of 6 degrees early Tuesday, fountains froze over, a 200-foot Ferris wheel shut down and Southerners had to dig out winter coats. It shouldn't take too long to thaw out, though. The forecast Wednesday is sunny and 42 degrees.
In the Midwest and East, where brutal polar air has lingered over the past few days, temperatures were climbing, but still expected to be below freezing.


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Bills enjoy energy at voluntary workouts
Rah-rah talk and stepping lively take you only so far.
Having not made the playoffs for 13 straight seasons, however, the Buffalo Bills aren't wading cautiously into their first offseason under coach Doug Marrone.
The Bills were an energetic bunch during Thursday morning's voluntary workout, the first one open for media observation. The pace was quick. The mood was enthusiastic. Competition was borderline edgy at times despite there being no pads or tackling.
Players described a similar atmosphere in Tuesday's and Wednesday's sessions inside the field house.
"We came out doing special teams, and I thought the roof was falling in, the way we were yelling," Bills pass-rusher Mario Williams said of Wednesday's practice. "It was crazy.
"But that's what we need. We need change, and we need to see something different and hear something different and be exposed to different things."
For a passing drill early in Thursday's workout, Marrone turned his visor backward and sent shotgun snaps through his legs. With about 10 minutes left, he enthusiastically reminded his players not to walk around the field in between plays.
Offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett gave leaping hip bumps to players after successful 11-on-11 plays.
"I love it. I think it's better," Bills running back Fred Jackson said. "I love playing for guys like that.
"I think I can speak for everybody on this team when I say 'We can all feed off of that.' When the coaches are excited when you make a play, you want to get everybody on that sideline cheering."
Previous head coaches Dick Jauron and Chan Gailey preferred to operate in controlled, businesslike settings.
Jackson, who has witnessed coaching turnover before, insisted the atmosphere was not about trying to make a good first impression on Marrone or a young coaching staff trying to overhype the players.
"There's a huge difference," Jackson said. "You don't want to take anything away from that coaching staff last year, but these coaches want us to be excited.
"You sometimes get coaches who don't want that. They want you to act like you've been there before. This coaching staff is about loving to play this game and want our guys to have fun. We only get to play this game for so long in our lives. You should enjoy it."
Enthusiasm and a quick pace merely are the building blocks of Marrone's philosophy.
In addition to championship banners – two for the AFL, four for the conference titles that sent them to their Super Bowls – that have been hung on the walls behind each end zone of the field house, Marrone had a message painted underneath them:
"Don't confuse effort with results."
"The No. 1 word we hear from [Marrone] is 'accountability,' " Jackson said. "We all have to be accountable to each other. We can all go out here and run around and make plays and have fun, but are you being accountable? Are you putting in the work to get better?
"Don't hoot and holler and say, 'I got better.' You have to work at your craft. That's when the results will get there."
Jackson and Williams expressed optimism the approach will carry over through the summer and onto Sundays in the fall.
"Everything has changed," Williams said, "not just from coaches and all that, but the whole mind-set. This is definitely different.
"Just the way you see us out here running around, being positive and getting after it, getting into the playbook has definitely opened our eyes to the possibilities of what is in front of us, especially on my side on the defense, with the capabilities that he's putting out there for us."
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(LATIMES) — Angus T. Jones doesn't much like "Two and a Half Men," and he wishes viewers wouldn't watch the show.
So said the 19-year-old TV star in Christian testimony shot principally in his production trailer and posted Monday by the Forerunner Christian Church on YouTube.
"Jake from 'Two and a Half Men' means nothing. He is a nonexistent character … ," Jones said, starting about halfway through the video above. "If you watch 'Two and a Half Men,' please stop watching 'Two and a Half Men.' I'm on 'Two and a Half Men,' and I don't want to be on it.
"Please stop watching it; stop filling your head with filth. Please. People say it's just entertainment. … Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, and especially with what you watch."


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One of the subjects that I get asked for technical help on most frequently is what used to be called the "network neighborhood," or "NetHood." (NetHood is a feature of Microsoft networking that provides users a list of the systems on a network.) I'm usually happy to help solve some knotty network problem, but this is one set of problems that I dearly wish would go away. It won't, however, until we change our thinking about how to find things on a network–maybe it's time to do just that.
In its first late-1980s incarnation (the output of a command "net view"), NetHood made some sense. Networks in those days had very few servers, each of which had only a few shares each. Rather than having to remember that the office's shared documents were on ugly share names like "\\tiger\ofcshares," you could just type "net view" to get a list of all of the servers on the network. (This might yield the names TIGER, LION, and OCELOT–everyone used cute server names in those days.) Then, your memory might be jogged ( "ah, yes, that's right, it was something on TIGER!"), so you'd type "net view \\tiger" to see the names of the shares on that server. Underneath "net view" was a multitude of bandwidth-wasting broadcasts, but in those days, LAN bandwidth seemed infinite and thus no problem to waste.
The 90s-era Microsoft OSs wrought a major change in that every Microsoft OS from Windows for Workgroups onward enabled the file server service for both client and server OSs. All of a sudden, "net view" produced a much larger list of possible "servers," all broadcasting their presences every 12 minutes. (Maybe LAN bandwidth wasn't infinite after all!) The GUIs that those OSs sported meant that NetHood got a nice windowed interface that simplified clicking around looking for a network resource. People got used to this fairly inefficient way of finding things on the network, and even grew to expect to see their workstations in NetHood.
As those broadcast-happy OSs appeared, network managers responded by blocking most broadcasts, hamstringing NetHood. Microsoft responded with a bit of scaffolding to NetHood-- WINS. (I'm simplifying a bit, as WINS does other things as well.) Additionally, more and more networks found themselves with not just a handful of true, honest-to-God servers (rather than workstations claiming serverdom), but dozens or hundreds of actual file and print servers. Clever naming schemes saved users from having to spend hours clicking through NetHood to find essential network shares, but clearly NetHood's usefulness had come to an end as a resource-searching tool.
With Windows 2000, Microsoft offered a replacement: a sort of "classified ads" section in Active Directory (AD). File and print shares could be "published" in AD, and they contained keywords that people could use to locate these shares. Thus, AD offered a way to stop playing "eenie-meenie-minie-moe" and instead to ask AD, "what shares are related to the water quality study?" After publishing your file and print shares, you could then turn off the Computer Browser service on your systems, quell the broadcasts, and make your network resources more useful for your users. (Most people haven't noticed it, but the Computer Browser service is disabled by default on Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008–they use a different census-taking approach called Network Discovery.)
But wait a minute–that more efficient, to-the-point network search technology appeared back in February of 2000? Then why doesn't anyone use it, and why do we still use NetHood? Two reasons, I think. First, Microsoft didn't talk much about it. Win2K brought a truly huge host of new features – AD, Group Policy, new software deployment technologies, you name it – and I think Microsoft just never found the time to highlight it, which is a shame.
The second reason? It'd have to be the software on the client side that asks AD for that list of shares related to the water quality study. The Win2K Professional AD search interface was pretty good, but it then just about disappeared in Windows XP. (It's there, but only if you have "common tasks" enabled, and who has the screen real estate to burn on that?) Vista has a much-improved one that you can see by clicking Start / Network and then the "Search Active Directory" button.
Interested in reclaiming some network bandwidth? Then start publishing shares, tell your users how to search AD for those shares, and watch your network chatter drop!


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U.S. new-vehicle sales in September are projected to drop 4.4% year-over-year after a stellar August, according to TrueCar.
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TrueCar, an industry information provider that also provides online car listings, said auto sales will total 1.1 million vehicles this month. That would reflect a 25% decline compared to August, when sales reached their highest annualized rate since October 2007.
The September forecast calls for a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 15.4 million cars, a 4% bump over last year.
TrueCar senior analyst Jess Toprak said Labor Day sales included in last month's results cut into September volume.
"The uncertainty in the financial markets also finally caught up with auto sales, causing some hesitation for big ticket item purchases," Toprak added.
The auto industry has experienced a flurry of demand for new cars and trucks, as low interest rates and new offerings from automakers have driven consumers to upgrade.
TrueCar still expects the industry to log 15.7 million unit sales for the full year, saying fundamental drivers for market demand remain strong.
The company also said incentive spending will likely check in at $2,382 per vehicle, a slight increase over September 2012 but the lowest level since October 2012. It would also be the third consecutive month of declines for incentive spending.
General Motors (NYSE:GM), the nation's largest automaker, is expected to record a 6.2% sales decline for September, while Ford (NYSE:F) sales are forecasted to climb 2.3%. TrueCar expects Chrysler Group to post a 2% drop.
The report has Honda Motor (NYSE:HMC) increasing 1.8%, while Nissan and Toyota (NYSE:TM) are expected to fall 8.1% and 5.1%, respectively.


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BIRMINGHAM, AL (WBRC) - Birmingham Police say 24-year-old Sherri Williams died Monday afternoon in Gate City.
East Precinct officers found Williams lying in her doorway and was pronounced dead by Birmingham paramedics. She was shot while holding her 10-day old infant. The baby was unharmed.
It happened around 1p.m. in the 7500 block of 64th Courtway South. Police say that there was an altercation between two people at a nearby store and it appears that Williams was caught in the crossfire. There have been no arrests.
"It's even more sad because she was holding her infant in her arms, when she was shot. Fortunately, the baby was not injured," said Sergeant Johnny Williams with Birmingham PD. "So we really need to public to step up and give us all the information we have, so we can get this person off the street."
If you have any information in this case, call the homicide unit at 205-254-1764 or Crime Stoppers at 205-254-7777.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Had it not been for Rosa Parks and others of her era, President Barack Obama said he wouldn't be unveiling a bronze statue of the civil rights icon in the U.S. Capitol.
"We can do no greater honor ... than to carry forward her principle of courage born of conviction," Obama said at a ceremony on Wednesday.
Fifty-eight years after she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks became the first African-American woman to be honored with a full length statue in National Statuary Hall.
The statue shows Parks sitting with her hands folded neatly in her lap, reminiscent of the day of her arrest.
Her action echoed Martin Luther King Jr's notion that civil disobedience could be effective in challenging segregation.
"The tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of Montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. It is because of these men and women that I stand here today," Obama said. "It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free and more fair. A land truer to its founding creed, and that is why this statue belongs in this hall."
Obama was joined at the unveiling by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, House Speaker John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi.
Despite rising acrimony between Obama and congressional Republicans over the forced government spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday, Obama kept his remarks focused on Parks' legacy. He praised her courage and the lasting effects of her actions. Congressional leaders did the same.
The National Statuary Hall Collection consists of two sculptures gifted from each of the 50 states. They honor distinguished people throughout U.S. history, including several presidents.
Parks' statue was authorized by a special act of Congress that was introduced two days after her death in 2005.


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The following are some terms you can use as keywords to help you find what you need in CardCat. Use "and" to include these types of scores or "not" to exclude them:
"Author" in CardCat can be a singer, songwriter, bandleader, or lyricist.
"Title" can be used for searching for individual songs but it may accidentally return records for anthologies or songbooks with similar song titles. Click on "details" then use "Find" in your browser to verify an exact match for your song. Type quotation marks around a title with common words and search as a key "word" to retrieve the best results.
Subject searching usually works only for retrieving whole songbooks devoted to one subject, such as "Bride's Guide to Wedding Music," which has the subject heading "Wedding Music." If you need assistance finding songs on a theme, there are many resources to help you identify individual songs to search. Feel free to ask for assistance.
See the Subject Guide for Jazz for more guidance.
Ball State's Music Librarian, Amy Edmonds, offers one-on-one research consultations in person or by e-mail. Contact her if you need assistance.
For assistance in locating scores, recordings, or books, contact Music Collection staff at 765-285-8188, or the music librarian at 765-285-5065.


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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Metro-North Railroad has reduced service due to the winter storm headed to the Northeast.
The commuter rail line says it's cutting service on Thursday to 75 percent of regular train runs. It expects fewer riders as commuters stay home and wants to reduce the impact of the storm on equipment, tracks and other parts of the rail operation.
Metro-North says riders will get to their destinations within 10 to 15 minutes of their normal time.
Metro-North uses special third-rail shoes to clear off snow and ice buildup. The commuter railroad said it will pay particular attention to the New Haven line's overhead catenary wires that are vulnerable to ice and snow.
The railroad also has treated door panels with anti-freeze agents and put in place rail-mounted snow-fighting equipment.
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Obama: the Pepsi Candidate
The Democratic presidential nominee and the soft drink have strong affinities.
It is oddly fitting that the convention that will give Barack Obama the Democratic nomination for president will take place in Denver's Pepsi Center. During the primaries, some bloggers argued that Obama's insurgent campaign made him Pepsi to Hillary's establishment Coke. An eagle-eyed observer (who happens to work for Pepsi's P.R. firm) noticed that during the primary debates, Obama could be seen refreshing himself with Aquafina water—a Pepsi brand—while Hillary Clinton drank Coke's Dasani. In addition, Wonkette and others have noted that the round "Obama '08" logo is similar to the red and blue yin-yang-like symbol that Pepsi-Cola has used since 1991.
Of course, the connection between Obama and Pepsi is largely accidental. In early 2006, when Denver began lobbying the Democratic National Committee to host the convention, very few would have predicted that Obama would be the nominee. And PepsiCo Inc., the $40-billion-a-year food conglomerate headquartered in Purchase, N.Y., does not manage Denver's Pepsi Center; it bought the arena's naming rights for 20 years in 1999.
But while the connection may be arbitrary, the Obama-Pepsi affinity is strong. Last month, when Obama assembled a team of financial heavyweights for a summit to discuss economic issues, one of the most prominent corporate leaders in attendance was Indra Nooyi, the Pepsi CEO whose Indian heritage makes her, like Obama, one of the few nonwhites to reach the highest levels of power in her profession. Although Nooyi hasn't endorsed Obama—few CEOs make explicit endorsements—it's hard to imagine that she doesn't support him; she and her husband gave $27,000 to John Kerry's campaign in 2004. (A spokeswoman says that no comparable appearance with John McCain has been scheduled, though she's not aware of any Nooyi donation to Obama.) According to the database operated by the Center for Responsive Politics, Pepsi employees have given $39,700 to Obama's campaign, compared with a meager $6,000 from Coca-Cola employees.
Perhaps more significant, the prevailing theme of Obama's campaign meshes well with Pepsi's corporate messaging. Pepsi's marketing has for decades tried to exude youthful energy, from the early '60s attempts to adopt baby boomers as the "Pepsi generation" to the '90s fantasy commercials depicting Pepsi as a veritable soda fountain of youth, transforming nursing-home residents into skateboarders. Pepsi's advertising slogan not too long ago was "The Choice of a New Generation," which could almost be Obama's. Certainly his strategy in the general election, as it did in the primaries, will rely on youth support that is almost as fanatical and fantastic as the fictional version in Pepsi's ads.
Actually, Pepsi's appeal to the young has a corporate rationale and goes back to the beginning of its modern history. (After a bankruptcy, the company was reborn in the 1930s.) In order to build market share against the incumbent Coca-Cola and smaller rivals, Pepsi offered 12 ounces of cola for a nickel—6-ounce bottles were the standard at the time—and held fast to the 5-cent price for several years even as rising sugar prices during and after World War II compelled others to go to 6 cents and more. (This was the origin of Pepsi's renowned jingle: "Pepsi-Cola hits the spot/ Twelve full ounces, that's a lot.") As a result, Pepsi's customer base skewed very young.
It also skewed black, which is the source of Pepsi's unusually close relationship with the African-American community. Beginning in 1940, Pepsi was almost alone in the corporate world in hiring African-American salesmen and in specifically targeting the African-American consumer, about whom there was very little reliable data. This was a risky strategy, as any company seen as overtly trying to appeal to blacks could well have found itself boycotted by Southern whites.
And indeed, Pepsi's strategy created friction internally. According to Stephanie Capparell's 2007 book, The Real Pepsi Challenge, even Pepsi President Walter Mack—who was responsible for hiring the African-American sales team—seemed conflicted about it. At a 1949 company event at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, he told the crowd: "[W]e're going to have to develop a way whereby [Pepsi] will no longer be known as a nigger drink," causing at least one African-American salesman to walk out of the meeting. Nevertheless, the company continued to foster a strong relationship with African-Americans in its marketing and in its employment practices.
Pepsi's political and marketing agenda these days is much more complex. In recent years, Pepsico and others in the food and beverage industry have tried to persuade Congress to pass a "uniformity for food" law, whose main effect would be to nullify tough California labeling regulations, which forced Pepsi to stop printing soda labels in Mexico that contain lead. Pepsi also pays close attention to anti-obesity regulations—in addition to "sugar water," as Steve Jobs memorably described it to John Sculley, then president of Pepsi, it also sells potato chips and Cheetos—and keeps tabs on local prohibitions against bottled water. And one of the company's most high-profile executives is General Counsel Larry D. Thompson, who was deputy attorney general in the Bush administration and is co-chair of the lawyers' steering group for McCain.
As for Obama, for all of Pepsi's positive associations with youth and African-Americans, there are nonetheless disadvantages to being a Pepsi candidate. The soda is a perpetual runner-up, like Avis or Burger King. Moreover, Pepsi does not lose out to Coke because its product is inferior. For decades, participants in blind taste tests—the "Pepsi Challenge"—have preferred Pepsi's sweeter, citrusy, slightly less-carbonated flavor. Yet consumers consistently choose Coke in larger numbers, an anomaly usually attributed to Coke's marketing and packaging. But another theory, argued by Malcolm Gladwell in Blink, is that Pepsi's sweetness appeals more in a sip than over the course of a whole can.
For a candidate who earlier this year lost several primaries in states where opinion polls showed him ahead, that is a worrisome analogy. And perhaps that's why, on the day Obama is scheduled to make his acceptance speech, he's moved the proceedings out of the Pepsi Center and into Invesco's Mile High Stadium. Accepting the nomination in a football stadium named after a wealth management firm ... now that's the choice of a new generation.


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As a child, Lucy Chavez remembers spending plenty of time at her grandfather's mechanics shop, watching different cars roll into the shop to be fixed. Some of these four-wheeled beauties were regular cars while others were Lowriders; including her godfather's 1964 Chevy Impala. It was as a teen that Lucy first discovered Lowrider magazine, and seeing the custom cars in print only solidified her love affair with them. She vowed that she would own one someday, a vow she has made good on several times over. In fact, the 1949 Fleetline shown here is just the latest ride she has had the opportunity to own. Over the years, Lucy has had a number of rides. She has had a 1962 Chevy Impala wagon, a 1960 Brookwood wagon and a 1969 Chevy Impala wagon. Her husband, Ruben, is also into Lowriding − Bombs. On her 27th birthday, Ruben bought her the Fleetline as a gift.
Ruben is an automotive painter by trade so he took the Fleetline apart and prepped the body. He then used PPG's new water base paint to spray the classic Chevy's base coat. Ruben then patterned the roof and had Remedy from Kandy Factory in Oxnard, California pinstripe and added hand painted flowers to finish off the paint. Ruben is also pretty handy with a set of mechanics tools. He rebuilt the classic Chevy 216ci and the 3-speed transmission to make sure the Fleetline runs as good as it looks. As a birthday gift, Lucy's brother-in-law, Fernie Chavez, and family friend, Wil Carrillo, installed a custom air bag set up so the Chevy will lay low when it's parked at local Ventura County California car shows and cruise nights. The interior was refreshed by Jose from the High Desert area of California. He added a factory style interior kit to keep the clean classic look of the Fleetline. Ruben installed a custom audio system to the Bomb's interior using Pioneer, Infinity, Kicker, and Sony components.
Once the car was complete, all that there was left to do was to give it a road test. The car immediately started turning heads as soon as it hit the streets of Oxnard. It turned even more heads when people saw Lucy behind the wheel! Although the gender-based surprise reactions sometimes bother Lucy, she is more than happy to buck the stereotypes of female character. "I always wanted to have my own car to show other women that we can be in Lowriding − not as cheerleaders or old ladies but as car owners. I feel that balancing being a mother of five children and being a wife, while also participating in the Lowrider culture only further proves that women truly can have it all."
Lucy, we here at Lowrider Magazine salute you and the passion you have for Lowriding.
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Owner: Lucy Chavez
Vehicle: 1949 Chevy Fleetline
City/State: Oxnard, California
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Engine: Stock Chevrolet 216ci rebuilt by Ruben Chavez. Stock 3 speed transmission was rebuilt by Ruben Chavez. A custom glass pack exhaust system was installed for the distinct sound that we all love to hear coming from a classic Chevy bomb.
Body/Paint: Lucy's husband, Ruben, used a PPG water base custom mix to spray the base color on the Fleetline. He then patterned and flaked out the patterned the roof. Remedy, from Kandy Factory in Oxnard, California, pinstriped the car and added hand-painted flowers.
Interior: Jose from California's High Desert redid the interior using a factory style interior kit.
Chrome: Manuel from Brawley California took care of all of the chroming on the Fleetline.
Sound System: Ruben Chavez installed a Pioneer head unit in a custom under-dash enclosure with Pioneer amps. He finished off the audio system with Infinity, Kicker, and Sony speakers.
Setup: Fernie Chavez and Wil Carrillo from Precision Metal Works in Oxnard, California installed a custom air bag set up in the Fleetline. The set up was plumbed with stainless and copper hard line. A two link with a pan hard was added to the rear of the Chevy to complete the suspension customizing.
Tires: Coker 5.60 tires
Wheels: Stock Chevy Wheels with GM Accessory Hub Caps
Brands: Pioneer, Infinity, Kicker, Sony, PPG, Coker


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Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) poached Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts on Tuesday to head its retail and online stores, adding another member -- and the only woman -- to its now 10-person executive team.
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Ahrendts, 53, will officially join the Cupertino, Calif.-based iPhone maker this spring in the newly created senior vice president position reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook.
She will have oversight of the strategic direction, expansion and operation of Apple's brick-and-mortar and online stores, making her Apple's first retail head since Ron Johnson left in 2011 to lead a turnaround at ailing department store J.C. Penney (NYSE:JCP).
"She shares our values and our focus on innovation, and she places the same strong emphasis as we do on the customer experience," Cook said in a statement.
After serving as CEO of the luxury designer brand since 2006, Ahrendts will hand the reins of U.K.-based Burberry to long-time executive Christopher Bailey in mid-2014.
In a statement, Ahrendts, who previously held an executive position at Liz Claiborne, said the company remains in "brilliant shape" under one of the industry's most powerful management teams.
Shares of Apple, which continues to face steep competition from the likes of Samsung, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), ticked slightly higher to $497.75 in recent trade. They remain down about 22% from 12 months ago.


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The pomp and parades of Independence Day date back to the nation's founding
Independence Day provides us with a free day of homemade and heartfelt celebrations, ranging from small-town parades to Washington, D.C.'s capital show. Complete with cannon fire, that extravaganza of sound and light lets you imagine the bombardment that drew The Star-Spangled Banner out of Francis Scott Key's soul.
With the bicentennial of the War of 1812 upon us, it's tempting to think that our Independence Day fireworks celebrations imitate those rockets' red glares.
In fact, the tradition of pomp and parade is older still.
On July 3, 1776, founding father and second president John Adams set the standard in a letter to his wife:
The day will be most memorable in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forever more.
This is our time, and here's how we celebrate.
–Sandra Olivetti Martin
If July Fourth's falling on a Wednesday is inconvenient for your schedule or you want to get started a few days early, make the trip to the Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department (St. Mary's County: 301-373-2900; www.hvfd7.com). The firefighters reserve one day a year to unleash their inner pyromaniacs in fireworks. Before the rockets scream across the sky, spend the early afternoon gazing on chrome and gears at a car, truck and bike show (noon-3pm). After an evening full of fun games for kids (5-9pm), the fireworks rise.
Pack your picnic baskets, chair, and blankets and come to Sotterley Plantation to hear patriotic tunes by the Chesapeake Orchestra Brass Quintet, led by Jeffrey Silberschlag of St. Mary's College. You'll have a view on history, as well: the plantation gives a fine view of the Patuxent, the highway British troops traveled to burn Washington. (Raffle and silent auction, with food and drink. 1-4pm; $10 per vehicle; military families free: 301-373-2280; www.sotterley.org).
Bring the little patriots to Hancock's Resolution for a hands-on exploration of our national symbols, including patriotic music, musket firing and flag flying (1-4pm; donations: 410-255-4048; www.historichancocksresolution.org).
Rose Haven & Chesapeake Beach
At the Calvert-Anne Arundel border, Herrington Harbour in Rose Haven and the Rod 'n' Reel in Chesapeake Beach have long been rivals in patriotic pyrotechnics, often trying to anticipate or out-dazzle the other. Tonight, both loose their munitions into the sky at around 9pm. May the best display win.
Herrington Harbour South opens its lawn and beach mid-afternoon to all comers. There's music, kids activities, grilling by the Deale Volunteer Fire Department and drinks for sale. Bring a blanket and, if you like, picnic, and make yourself comfortable. Come early for good views.
Early arrivers get the best views of Chesapeake Beach fireworks, too. Activities start at 5pm at Rod 'n' Reel with a children's Fun Fest. The fireworks are shot from the jetty enclosing the harbor, so Rod 'n' Reel overlooks the spectacle.
Prime free spots — the boardwalks of both Chesapeake and North Beach — fill up fast. Boaters anchored off Holland Point get the best seats for the night's double feature, with Herrington firing to the north and Chesapeake Beach to the south.
Get back to your patriotic roots in Annapolis, hot spot of independence. At 10am, the William Paca House and Garden holds a naturalization ceremony for 40 new American citizens. Declaration of Independence signer Paca was once a new American himself.
At 6pm, join or watch the city's Independence Day parade. Gathering at Amos Garret Boulevard, it turns right on West Street, clockwise on Church Circle and down Main Street to City Dock. Prime spots for watching the march are on the Governor's Mansion side of College Avenue and Church Circle plus all along Main Street. At parade's end, the music picks up in a concert by the Naval Academy Band, set up at Susan Campbell Park and playing until dusk.
The fireworks start at 9:15pm. Watch on land from Dewey Field and Hospital Point at the Academy, from street-end parks facing Spa Creek, from the Eastport docks. Boaters get a great view from the Annapolis harbor (www.ci.annapolis.md.us).
New this year: The Atria Manresa Senior Center on the banks of the Severn River invites you to see the show from its sloping grounds, which offer live music to complement a superb view of the fireworks. Make yourself at home with lawn chairs or blanket and picnic, or buy dinner from the BBQ buffet. The party starts at 6:30. rsvp by July 1: 410-349-9529.
Fort Meade
There are few places in the area where patriotic fervor will be as undiluted on the Fourth as Fort Meade. At McGlachlin Field, within the bounds of the Fort, a free celebration is open for all comers. Food is sold starting at noon. Young ones enjoy pony rides, a trackless train, a bounce house and other rides, games and prizes. A DJ from Mix 106.5 plays tunes from 12:30-5:30pm; then the band New Monopoly takes over, playing until the fireworks begin at 9:30pm. Bring a blanket or chair (www.ftmeademwr.com).
Galesville celebrates the Fourth with a parade in classic small-town style. Aerobatic pilot Bill Finigan begins the parade with a dazzling flyover. Galesville's volunteer fire department comes next, with lights flashing and sirens blaring. Next come patriotic floats and even decorated riding mowers, antique cars, horses and bikes dolled up in red, white and blue. Everybody's welcome to join in the march, which runs a loop into town on Main Street. Judges (this year donning old-time hats in observance of the 1812 bicentennial) determine awards at noon as the parade gathers. The parade starts at 1pm at Anchors Way.
Arrive early, as Anchors Way closes at noon and Main Street closes at 12:45pm.
Severna Park
Severna Park's Independence Day starts early. Breakfast on pancakes at the Severna Park Community Center (7:30-10am: $5). At 10am, join the annual July 4th Parade, a star-spangled procession featuring Civil War re-enactors, antique cars, floats and bikes traveling through town from St. Martin's-in-the-Field Episcopal Church to Cypress Creek Park. The Community Center has a good view of the parade; bring a chair and watch from the lawn.
At parade's end begins a spirited festival, with food sold by local establishments, music by Severna Park rockers Wired Shut and numerous fun and family-friendly activities, including pony rides, a moon bounce, an array of classic cars and a Huey helicopter. The festival runs till 1:30pm. www.severnaparkcommunitycenter.com.
Shady Side
Shady Side celebrates with its annual parade beginning at 10am. Starting from Cedarhurst Road, floats, politicians, marchers, decorated bicycles, antique cars, tractors and sometimes a fire engine roll down Muddy Creek Road and wrap up at the Kiwanis Club on Snug Harbor Road.
Solomons' annual fireworks show blasts off from a barge on the Patuxent River, providing front-row seats for the entire island. Find a spot along the Riverwalk or anchor up in the river. Climb aboard the Wm. B. Tennison on a Calvert Marine Museum fireworks cruise (8pm; $35; rsvp: 410-326-2042 X41; no kids under 7).
Fireworks start around 9pm. Designated parking for the show is at Glassock Field, behind Our Lady Star of the Sea and the Solomons Medical Center, and will set you back $5.
The Inner Harbor Amphitheater hosts country-flavored rock band Mason Vixon at 4pm. The Naval Academy's Electric Brigade plays a range of patriotic and pop tunes next to the Amphitheater's stage at 7pm. Before the fireworks begin, Mayor Rawlings-Blake welcomes visitors and officially kicks off the celebration.
Then the sky over Baltimore comes alive with light in an 18-minute extravaganza synched to patriotic tunes and Top 40 hits. Find outdoor observation areas all over the city, including the harbor, Federal Hill, and the Top of the World observation floor in the World Trade Center, though the latter will be packed to the gills, so arrive early.
At Prince George's Stadium, the Baysox blend America's birthday with its national pastime as they play the Harrisburg Senators, then set the night ablaze in celebration of America's independence. (Game time 6:05pm: 301-805-6000; www.baysox.com).
Fireworks also explode over Allen Pond Park, culminating a celebration that begins in early afternoon with live music. Food and drinks go on sale in the park at 3pm. At 9pm, Mayor Robinson leads a flag ceremony and the singing of the National Anthem. Then the rockets' red glare is actualized as the sky blows up real good (301-809-3011; www.cityofbowie.org). All are welcome, save for pets.
Visitors to Six Flags America on the Fourth can gather at the wave pool at dusk for the Six Flags Fireworks Spectacular. What make the fireworks especially dazzling here are the reflections they cast on the pool below, doubling the spectacle ($56.99 w/discounts: 301-249-1500; www.sixflags.com/America).
Washington, D.C.
Make the journey to Washington, D.C., and join thousands of others marking America's independence.
The celebration begins at 11:45am with a parade of marching bands, military units and floats progressing down Constitution Avenue and Seventh Street toward the Lincoln Memorial.
On the National Mall, The D.C. Folklife Festival focuses on the nature of tradition and community, ideal topics for July Fourth. (Full list of events at www.festival.si.edu. The fest's second week runs July 4-8.)
Camp out early for a prime spot on the lawn of the Mall for the National Symphony Orchestra's annual A Capitol Fourth concert, with Star Wars movie composer John Williams conducting the orchestra.
America's birthday wraps up in grand style: fireworks burst over the capital as the United States Army Presidential Salute Battery blasts live cannons into the night around 9:15pm. Prime views also from the Capitol, Lincoln Memorial, Jefferson Memorial, FDR Memorial, Iwo Jima Memorial and Ellipse (www.nps.gov).


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Embattled financial adviser fights lienBy JAMES A. KIMBLE
Union Leader Correspondent
November 14. 2012 10:42PM
BRENTWOOD - An Exeter financial adviser charged with stealing $1 million from two former clients is moving forward with efforts to upend an alleged victim's lien on his 3,700-square-foot home.
Frederick McMenimen wants a bankruptcy judge to nullify a $900,000 lien filed against him in superior court by one of his alleged victims, Victoria Wagstaff of North Hampton.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge J. Michael Deasy has given McMenimen until Friday to submit whatever evidence he has to support his argument. Wagstaff will be able to submit evidence to rebut McMenimen's request on the same day, according to the judge's order. The matter will be taken up at a hearing in December. The hearing is among a number of court battles that began just before McMenimen's indictment by a federal grand jury in October. He faces a 31-count indictment charging him with money laundering, mail fraud and tax evasion.
McMenimen heads to trial in U.S. District Court the week of March 8.
Federal prosecutors said the two victims were financially unsophisticated and longtime family friends. The women believed they were entrusting their life savings to McMenimen for high-return investments, according to prosecutors.
At the time, McMenimen was a registered representative of Prudential. Prosecutors say Prudential has not been accused of any wrongdoing.
McMenimen allegedly used stolen funds to pay $140,000 on his home mortgage, $350,000 in personal credit card debt and $120,000 in tuition for private colleges and schools for his three children.
Wagstaff had filed a civil lawsuit against McMenimen in Rockingham County Superior Court in January, seeking to recoup her money. A judge approved a $900,000 lien on McMenimen's Exeter home, but the lawsuit was essentially brought to a halt two months later as a result of McMenimen filing for personal bankruptcy.
McMenimen is also trying to dodge another $1.4 million civil judgment awarded by a Massachusetts jury. In that case, a jury found that McMenimen defrauded his late uncle while selling him a life insurance policy. Defense lawyer Michael Feinman said in court papers that McMenimen is entitled to avoid the lien under state law. Feinman argued that a federal tax lien of $341,000, and two home mortgages already outweighs the fair market value of McMenimen's home. Feinman said the home - which is currently up for sale - is valued at $455,000.


text: In 1998 the Environmental Protection Agency declared Nahant Marsh near Davenport a Superfund site. Fifteen years later the marsh is a beautiful, thriving wetland that attracts wildlife and visitors. Charity Nebbe, talks with guests about the history and resurrection of Nahant Marsh and the challenges facing wetlands across the state of Iowa.


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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Relatives of David Foster Wallace say they're opposed to the upcoming film "The End of the Tour," which is based on David Lipsky's 2010 book "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace."
In his book, Lipsky recounts accompanying Wallace, the author best known for his 1996 novel "Infinite Jest," on his book tour.
Production on "The End of the Tour," written by Donald Margulies, directed by James Ponsoldt ("The Spectacular Now"), and starring Jason Segel as Wallace and Jesse Eisenberg as Lipsky, wrapped in late March.
Lawyers for Wallace's family and literary trust said in a news release Monday that they "have no connection with, and neither endorse nor support" the film.
They add that "the trust was given no advance notice that this production was underway" and the film "is loosely based on transcripts from an interview David consented to 18 years ago for a magazine article. ... That article was never published and David would have never agreed that those saved transcripts could later be repurposed as the basis of a movie."
There was no mention of Lipsky's book in the release, which also states that "individuals and companies involved with the production were made keenly aware of the substantive reasons for the trust's and family's objections to this project."
The estate prefers Wallace, who killed himself in 2008, be "remembered for his extraordinary writing."
A representative at Morris Yorn Barnes Levine Krintzman Rubenstein & Kohner, which represents the family, did not reply to a request from The Associated Press for further comment.
"The End of the Tour" is being produced by Anonymous Content and Kilburn Media domestically, with Sony handling international distribution. Sony, Anonymous Content and Kilburn Media also did not respond to requests for comment.
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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) said yesterday it would hold a series of rallies this month and stage a mass protest next month against the "inaction and incompetence" of the administration of President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and to let the voice of the people be heard.
"The DPP's Central Standing Committee has passed a resolution to hold a series of events with the theme: 'Needed: livelihood, democracy and reform,'" DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) said after the committee meeting yesterday.
The public and the DPP have no choice but to take to the streets to voice their anger, because the Ma administration has either stayed inactive on people's suffering or caused it due its failed policies, Su said.
"Ma has refused to reshuffle the Cabinet and to call a national affairs conference to solve the nation's fiscal problems. He has remained silent on the controversial Next Media Group (壹傳媒集團) deal and China's infringement of Taiwan's sovereignty with its new passports. Most of all, he has failed to boost the economy," Su said.
DPP caucus whip Tsai Chi-chang (蔡其昌) added that while people are lamenting their poverty, the government has shown little concern for their problems by instead focusing on whether to continue to pay year-end bonuses to public-sector retirees.
DPP spokesperson Lin Chun-hsien (林俊憲) said the party has applied for the right to protest on Ketagalan Boulevard in front of the Presidential Office on at least three dates this month, adding that the party would unveil its policies and the main thrust of next month's demonstration at the rallies.
Lin also criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has warned people about using passport stickers made by the DPP as a counter move to Beijing's inclusion of Taiwan on its new passports, saying the stickers are "a violation of regulations and could cause trouble for tourists when clearing customs and entering foreign countries."
The stickers are for passport covers rather than inside passports and there would be no violation of regulations, Lin said.
In related developments, amid a lingering dispute in the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) over a government-proposed plan to limit year-end pension benefits for government retirees, Examination Yuan President John Kuan (關中) yesterday called on the Executive Yuan to stick to its reforms.
"The government has to insist on the policy that was decided on or risk creating doubts about its determination to carry out reforms," Kuan said in an interview on Hit FM radio.
In response to concerns raised by the DPP over what it said are illegitimate and unfair privileges granted to 445,708 retirees from the military, the government, public schools and state-owned enterprises, at an amount equivalent to 1.5 months of their pre-retirement salary, Premier Sean Chen (陳冲) in October proposed reducing the recipients to two groups of people.
He proposed that only retirees or the families of deceased retirees who receive a monthly pension of less than NT$20,000 and families of retirees who were killed, injured or disabled in wars or on military exercises should receive the benefit this year.
That would slash the budget to a 19th of its original size, which was approximately NT$20.2 billion (US$697 million), and the number of recipients to about 40,000.
However, KMT lawmakers remain divided on the issue.


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The all new S550 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Ford Mustang features a major design change from previous generations, however the engine line up is pretty much the same with the exception of the all new 2.3L EcoBoost engine. BBK Performance have developed performance parts for all three engine and chassis combinations and we are excited to announce that we will have them to our aftermarket distributors, dealers and enthusiasts very shortly. Our R&D department has designed and built, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Ford Mustang GT cold air intake systems, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Mustang cold air kits and 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Mustang 2.3L Ecoboost cold air intake systems, Mustang EcoBoost, V6 and GT throttle bodies, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Mustang tuned length exhaust headers, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 EcoBoost Mustang turbo downpipes, S550 Coyote 5.0 GT long tube exhaust headers and BBK CNC series high flow H and X pipes as well as our popular line of BBK Varitune axle back and cat back exhaust systems. Follow our News stories for up to date announcements and product release dates. For now here is some good information about these great new S550 Mustangs.
Here are the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 Ford Mustang Engine Options:
The S550 Mustang engine lineup now includes the EcoBoost 2.3L 4 cylinder. This engine is creating serious interest with enthusiasts, as it is the first time a turbocharged 4 cylinder engine has been offered in the Mustang platform since the SVO Mustang back in 1986. Producing 310 horsepower and 320 lb-ft. of torque in stock trim, while retaining the best fuel mileage of all three available engines, the EcoBoost engine will certainly be a popular option. The aftermarket is already gearing up with lots of upgrades for these engines, which are sure to respond well to modifications.
For 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 the popular GT with the 5.0L Coyote V8 engine is carried over from the previous year but has been upgraded with many of the parts from the 2012 BOSS 302. Rated at 435 horsepower and 400 lb-ft. of torque, which is 15 more horsepower and 10 more lb-ft. of torque than the 2014 model. The 5.0L Mustang GT engine has already been proven to provide great performance gains from simple upgrades like cold air intakes, throttle body and exhaust upgrades.
The base 2015 and 2016 3.7L V6 remains the base engine option for the S550 Mustang. It remains mostly unchanged but power has been reduced to 300 from 305 on the previous model. Many believe this was done to help the EcoBoost engine stand out as a performance upgrade. While not as powerful as the other engines, the 3.7L has been proven to offer a good balance of performance and fuel mileage.
2015-17 Mustang Chassis:
The S550 Mustang features a totally redesigned chassis. Ford managed to make the S550 stronger than the S197 chassis it replaces without adding much weight, even though it features many major improvements such as a new double-ball-joint front suspension and an independent rear suspension (IRS). Many remember IRS was available on the new-edge Cobra, but that design was an engineering compromise that used a heavy mounting structure to make the IRS components fit on a car that was designed to use a solid axle. The S550 was designed around an independent rear suspension from the beginning, which resulted in a much better design. Ford also spent a lot of time making sure the convertible models are really solid, which translated into ride quality similar to the coupe. Earlier Mustang convertibles sacrificed a little in the handling and ride quality department in exchange for the open-air driving experience. It appears the new convertible drives very nearly the same as the hard top.


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Vera Farmiga & Joey King: 'The Conjuring' Hollywood Premiere!
Vera Farmiga is classy chic while attending the premiere of her latest film The Conjuring held at ArcLight Cinemas Cinerama Dome on Monday (July 15) in Hollywood.
The 39-year-old actress was joined by her gorgeous co-stars Joey King, Lili Taylor, Hayley McFarland, Kyla Deaver, and Mackenzie Foy.
PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Vera Farmiga
"All of the real #theconjuring sisters with us movie sisters! The Conjuring hits theaters July 19th!" Joey tweeted with a pic. Check out the pic below!
FYI: Joey is wearing a Pearl by Georgina Chapman dress and Christian Louboutin shoes. Vera is wearing a Viktor & Rolf dress.
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