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Just one month ago, a Mexican organization called Football Coaching signed an encouraging partnership with Rush Soccer to create Mérida Rush: a great opportunity to expand our big family in our sister country. México is the most populous Spanish-speaking country in the world, and it's strongly linked to the United States. Soccer is the most popular sport in México, and it's the birthplace of soccer players like Hugo Sánchez, Rafael Márquez and Javier "Chicharito" Hernández. The Mexican National Soccer Team won the gold medal in the last Olympics in London 2012 against Brazil and it's considered a team with great potential for the future.
Passion for soccer and talent are two important ingredients in Mexican soccer, but something is missing: a solid structure, especially in the youth system of the clubs. Developing young players and establishing a strong foundation are the main objectives of Mérida Rush, and Rush Soccer is a role model in that field. Jair Vasquez, Director of Coaching Juniors in Colorado Rush, knew this lacked in México and he actively contributed to arrange the agreement with our new Latin American partner. Jair Vasquez, Technical Director of South America as well, has many years of experience as a professional soccer player in different countries around South America and Europe. "The gear and the rest of soccer material is needed in Latin America, but what Mérida Rush needs the most is to grow as a club following the Rush philosophy," recognizes Jair Vásquez.
The most helpful way to accomplish this aim is being in constant and fluid communication between both sides. Giancarlo Salazar, UEFA licensed coach and Mérida Rush Technical Director, notices: "The most positive aspect for us is learning from the knowledge and experience of Rush Soccer. They have set an excellent foundation to developing young players for many years, and the results prove it." The Rush footprint already arrived to México: "Rush Soccer makes soccer more accessible for our children and it's a really attractive opportunity for us, because Rush is a prestigious organization in both the United States and internationally," says Salazar.
Rush Soccer wants to thank the confidence showed by Mérida Rush and make them feel part of the big family as soon as possible. "We would like to invite Mérida Rush to the Denver Cup for next year. At this moment it's just an idea, but we'll work hard to accomplish it," says Jair Vásquez. The Denver Cup is one of the biggest tournaments in the country and over 200 Premier teams attended this event in 2012.
This thrilling future is a motivation for Mérida Rush: "Our long terms goals are to exchange players between Mérida Rush and Rush Soccer, create soccer clinics in Mérida, instruct the best coaches and prepare our players to become professional players in México and/or the United States," admits Giancarlo Salazar, Mérida Rush Technical Director.
Soccer is a useful tool to build a stronger society and Rush Soccer will try to share all its knowledge and experience with Mérida Rush. Welcome aboard.


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Hi Guys
I ordered some braided hose for my gauntlets and it worked out cheaper to buy 30 meters then just the amount i needed so does anybody need some as i got loads!!!!!!!!!
If anybody needs some, let me know.
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Hi Guys
I ordered some braided hose for my gauntlets and it worked out cheaper to buy 30 meters then just the amount i needed so does anybody need some as i got loads!!!!!!!!!
If anybody needs some, let me know.
:fettrotj :skull
Actually yer, seein as I've just started on my costume, such things could be handy.
How much do you have spare, how much do you want for enough to do the gauntlets, and where are you located?
3 feet of hose should be enough.. (roughly 1 foot per hoose connection)
3 feet = 1 m => 1 foot = 30 cm
Is it for Boba? Or Jango? Or is there any difference? (Sorry, not that familiar with Jango's suit)
Hi Fettster,
I am too am just starting my costumes so this would come in really handy so if you wouldn't mind i would like to purchase about 4 feet of hose from you please, if you could PM me with your paypal addy and how much you are asking and where you are located i will get payment off to you when i hear from you.
Thanks in advance.
Homer-Fett :fettrotj
OK, put me down for 1.8m of hose (or 6ft depending on how you measure) and PM your paypal addy and how much ye want for it :)
PM Sent
Hi everyone.
Thanks for the response. Super jedi, i dont know the difference between boba and jango hose but this stuff is boba hose.
Sorry to anyone i havent pm'd yet, this is the first time i have looked at this thread since posting it. i have answered all the pm's i have recieved.
In a nutshell, Im not trying to make money out of anyone so its £2.00 per hose plus postage.
Im going to the post office on thursday so i hope to have every thing sorted with postage costs by then, anyone interested that i havent pm'd yet, send me your address so i can work out the postage.
if I recall, jango's hose is black wile bobas is usualy white or grey
You in the UK, mate?
If so, I'll take some off ya...
Yeah, i live in birmingham,
Reverend Scapegoat said:
OK, how much am I needing for an ESB Boba, then?
6 foot?
What's the damage, and do you take PayPal?
Or I can pay direct to your bank if that's easier...
I'm in Glasgow.
As per the PMs buddy, dont forget about me!
pm sentQuote:
Reverend Scapegoat said:
I havent forgot you mate.
Info,s on the way soon.
mandalore697 said:
Hi All,
Im planning on getting postage quotes for everyone who is interested by this time tomorrow.
I will be going to the post office on thursday so i want to get everybody order out then.
I will pm everyone payment details when i have the postage quotes.
Thanks to everyone that has shown an interest.
rich :lol
Hi every one.
Every one that has enquired about the hose pipe has recieved a pm with price including postage.
I can only get to the post office on a thursday so i hope to get this confirmed by then, every one has my paypal address and if you could all include your full address, i will get them all posted on thursday.
I still have some left if anyone is in need.
thanks everyone
Hi Rich,
braided hose received mate, thank you very much.
great, hope it works for you ;)
home depot, lowes or ace has them"plumbing"
Spotted this thread and thought I'd resurected it.
I need to replace my Jango hoses as they are too short.
I want to run all 5 hoses up to the top of my shoulder which mean I need approximatley 2.25 mtrs.
1. Does anyone know where I can get good quality 'Jango hose' from in the UK?
2. Would anyone be able to mail me some from the US. (I have US Military post office address, if that helps)

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Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Henrique Capriles on Monday vowed to end the OPEC nation's shipments of subsidized oil to communist-run Cuba, slamming acting President Nicolas Maduro as a puppet of Havana.
Capriles has berated Maduro as a weak imitation of the late Hugo Chavez, whose death two weeks ago convulsed the country and triggered the April 14 vote. The opposition also accuses the government of failing to fight crime and control inflation.
"The giveaways to other countries are going to end. Not another drop of oil will go toward financing the government of the Castros," Capriles said, referring to Cuba's present and past leaders, Raul and Fidel Castro.
"Nicolas is the candidate of Raul Castro; I'm the candidate of the Venezuelan people," Capriles said during a speech to university students in the oil-rich state of Zulia.
The election marks the first test of the "Chavismo" movement's ability to maintain the late leader's radical socialism after his death, and it will be crucial for regional allies that depend on Caracas for financing and cheap fuel.
A victory for Capriles, 40, would likely give global oil companies greater access to the world's largest crude reserves and offer investors more market-friendly policies after years of state-centered economics.
Maduro, a 50-year-old former bus driver seen as having the advantage in the vote, has vowed to continue Chavez's economic model that included frequent nationalizations and heavy regulation of private enterprise alongside generous social welfare programs that underpinned his popularity.
The youthful Capriles, who lost to Chavez by 11 percentage points in 2012, faces a delicate balancing act to highlight the flaws of Chavez's governance without appearing to be attacking the former president or seeking to tarnish his legacy.
He has exchanged furious barbs with Maduro since launching his candidacy and renewed his criticisms from last year's campaign over day-to-day problems such as unchecked crime, product shortages and high cost of living.
"Every day it's harder to find food, and every day food is more expensive," Capriles said. "This model is not viable."
He said halting cheap oil sales to Cuba would free up resources to boost public employee salaries by 40 percent to make up for inflation that is one of the region's highest.
Ties to Cuba are likely to remain a central part of the campaign. Capriles for months accused authorities of compromising the country's sovereignty by letting Chavez govern for two months from a Havana hospital.
Venezuela provides close to 100,000 barrels per day of oil to Cuba in exchange for a host of services including doctors that staff free health clinics in slums and rural areas.
Supporters say it has helped expand access to health care, while critics call it a mere subsidy to the Castro government.
Maduro's frequent visits to the island during Chavez's two-month convalescence there led opposition leaders to joke that he had picked up a Cuban accent.
The emotional outpouring of affection for Chavez following his March 5 death, along with ample use of government television broadcasts, has helped give Maduro a leg up in the race.
Millions of bereaved supporters have lined up before Chavez's remains to pay respects to a leader who was loved by many of the country's poor but reviled by adversaries who called him a fledgling dictator.
Two recent opinion polls showed Capriles trailing Maduro.
Respected local pollster Datanalisis gave Maduro 46.4 percent versus 34.3 percent for Capriles in a survey carried out before Chavez's death.
He enraged Maduro by accusing him of repeatedly lying about the late president's two-year battle with cancer, and of then cynically using his death as a campaign tool. He later apologized to Chavez's family if his words had offended them.
Maduro last week described a plot by "far right" U.S. elements linked to two senior former members of the George W. Bush administration to kill Capriles. Both officials denied the charges.
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The family of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru was informed about his hanging by the Tihar authorities and the Jammu & Kashmir government was taken into confidence before his execution, the Centre said on Saturday.
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really nice looking handbags , great jobs
Welcome to the Quilting Board!
really nice looking handbags , great jobs
Have a great day and happy sewing !
Very nice bags!
Wow they all look awesome.
God Bless you all.
I carry my Margo almost every day! I have made 2 of them in addition to several other Lazy Girl Design patterns. Her instructions are the best!
They are lovely, great job and thank you for sharing
Have a Blessed night
I ordered this bag and have received the pattern. Did you do the drop down front on your own or is it in the pattern?
It is part of the pattern. I made the second one larger so it would hold my ipad.
I love what you did with the drop down pocket. Did you create this on your own? I have this pattern but have not made it yet. I love that pocket.


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Ok, I've been studting up for this for a while.... I have the CBT Nugget videos, although outdated, and also a nice 700+ page book, which is also outdated. I feel pretty comfortable with the subject, as I have been working with a network for the past year out here, on a every day basis. Is their anyone with knowledge of the exam, and questions I should familarize myself with? Or does anyone know of good test prep's that I can use, and where I might be able to aquire it at (Measure Up, etc...)? Any help would be helpful. I am planning on taking this test sometime mid march, when i re-deploy from Iraq (<22 days )
Its a gift to know everything, but for me, its torture.


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- NVIDIA Quadro 2000 GPU Graphics Card
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The WSJ tells the tale this morning – get ready for unprecedented tax increases on the middle class after the election. They will craftily employ semantics to say that no taxes have been raised; only that several tax benefits will be allowed to expire (all bold emphasis is mine):
The tax benefits are hugely popular with the public but they have drawn the panel's focus, in part because the White House said these and other breaks cost the government a $1 trillion dollars a year.
At stake, in addition to the mortgage-interest deductions, child tax care credits, and the ability of employees to pay their portion of their health-insurance tab with pre-tax dollars.
The way things like this work is that the President calls for a bi-partisan commission to hash out these issues and deliver reports to Congress and the President for action. The beauty of it is that the bad news is delivered by those not facing the electorate, and then your Congress-critter and President can vote for it and say they were just following recommendations. The liberals blogs have taken to calling the deficit reduction commission as "the Cat Food Commission", referring to the possibility that retired seniors will be forced to subsist on cat food. The best case scenario for the above will be the lowering of the amount of exemptions. The worst case scenario would be the loss of all exemptions. My personal increased taxation exposure in a typical year would be approximately $18,000 in taxable income, with an increased tax liability of $4680 (if taxed at 26%).
I've already received an email from my employer's HR department regarding the taxation of tuition benefits:
If you are currently enrolled in or are considering enrolling in a graduate program [at the University], we want to make you aware of the pending expiration of the tax exemption currently offered under IRS Code, Section 127 and how this will affect your tuition benefit. This exemption allows employees to receive up to $5,250 in tax-free graduate tuition benefits each calendar year.
This exemption is set to expire on December 31, 2010. If Congress doesn't renew it, the exemption will no longer be available as of January 2011. This means if you are planning to use [the University's] tuition benefit for Spring 2011 for any graduate programs (degree or non-degree), your benefit will be taxable from the first dollar. Generally, undergraduate tuition benefits are not considered taxable. However, if you're in a program classified as graduate, any undergraduate courses you take while in that program will also be taxable.
The exemption has been extended several times since its initial creation, but at this time our office has no information on whether it will be extended again or allowed to expire. For this reason, we will treat your Spring 2011 tuition benefit as fully taxable. Please be prepared for the additional balance on your student account due to withholding from the elimination of the $5,250 exemption.
Rest assured, a Republican Congress indebted to the plutocrats and teabaggers will have no qualms sticking it to the middle class. Oh, and tax cuts for the wealthy will surely be extended.
Perhaps someone should ask the Congressional candidates where they stand on these issues?


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I meant to say if the flame (not wick) is pointed at the top, etc.
A "spikey" flame is a sign that the wick is too long.
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How to: upload VITA screenshots to a message board (simplified)[ Edited ]
The following is a tutorial which should simplify screenshots uploads (on the VITA <- to -> the forum) using the VITA's flickr app and a PC/Mobile/Tablet. The VITA's flickr app is a required download for this tutorial. The flickr app even allows one to upload a VITA screenshot while still running a game session.
The tutorial is not limited just to community.us.playstation but some workarounds/troubleshooting might be required (depending on the websites like Neogaf). Here's the guide,
On VITA:
- Open VITA flickr app
- "Sign in"
- Click/confirm 'allow the app to authorize usage on VITA'. (Again, if you haven't already done so)
- Create a "Soul Sacrifice" set (optional)
- Scroll down to Uploads -> click "Photo" -> "Screenshot" -> Soul Sacrifice DEMO (or any other folder) -> option (privacy: "public") ->
On PC (click on "flickr.com" - on your mobile/tablet - to access desktop settings):
- Click on desired photo
- click on the "share" drop down menu -> click on "Grab the HTML/BBCode" -> check "bbcode" (I use medium settings) -> copy
- Go to your forum "Message" -> paste (Deleting everything before+after the "[img][/img]" tags just shares the image)
^ This method did not format nicely on this message board. To troubleshoot the issue,
- Copy the ".jpg" url (inside the "[img][/img]" tags) -> click on the insert/edit message (on the tool bar) -> upload from website -> "Large" dimensions ->
For step one (on VITA) it's best not to use web browser while you have a game running. (There are cases where the browser refreshes automatically while games run). I also preffer just using the wireless settings (on "content manager") and uploading pictures to photobucket, however CM requires all apps/games to close while in use. Again, VITA's flickr app can be used while other games/apps are running.
Re: Tutorial: How to upload VITA screenshots to message board (simplified)[ Edited ]
Icestar10 wrote:
Thanks for the info!
Hi, and welcome! Thanks for the kudos! ^^
The community.us.playstaion boards do not format (on tablet/mobile) the same as it does on your PC browser (even if desktop mode is enabled on the forum template modifier). By this, I mean the tool bar is not visible on your mobile device.
I'm currently working on how to trouble shoot this problem. Any help out there would be awesome!
I don't really see any way to work around the issue mentioned above. (I'm on my iphone). For mobile users on the community.us.playstation boards, I just suggest doing the following to share your VITA screenshots:
- Click on desired image
- Click "share" (drop down) button -> "Grab the link" + copy URL -> paste
This will share the link to the entire flickr photostream and w/e other sets you have set public. I don't have anything to hide on that account, so I invite everyone to browse (it's full of Soul Sacrifice screenshots).
Re: Tutorial: How to upload VITA screenshots to message board (simplified)[ Edited ]
P.s. I've found that the flickr app on VITA crashes when viewing images. (I have the latest flickr app patch installed, others have encountered similar issues with the VITA's flickr app)
It's best to use the VITA's web browser -> flickr.com (bookmark it!).
And the iphone app is fine app for viewing pictures! Search -> people -> "vitauploads" (for all my VITA stuff).
p.p.s. If using the screenshot sharing method (mentioned in OP), ensure each upload goes to the right set before clicking "upload" (unless it's a core photostream upload). Re-ordering multiple pictures into a set (later on, after uploading from VITA) can be time consuming!
Re: Tutorial: How to upload VITA screenshots to message board (simplified)
W1Z4RDRY wrote:
Very cool, thanks! I wondered how people were doing this. Kudos.
Thanks wiz.
Also, pls do not post on message boards while games are running. Vita constantly refreshes web pages and bugs out while games run (especially on this website).
Just going to share another pic,
from my vita.
ps. Be careful when switching between tabs (for the aforementioned a.i.o vita screenshot sharing tutorial) not to accidentally close a tab! ;p
How to: upload VITA screenshots to a message board (simplified)
On VITA (the "no additional hardware required" step):
- Go to "Settings"
- click on the bottom left -> "Add Term" -> type in
A. Onto the Interwebs!
- Open vita web browser ->
- flicker.com (bookmark to skip this step in the future!) ->
- tap desired photo ->
- "share" ->
- "grab the link" ->
- (click on text field to make it easier to) check "show short url"
- Switch between [message board post <-> flickr image]
- (In your post) Type in the first few letter of http://flic.kr/p/ ("predictive text" will take care of the rest)
- Punch in the rest of the 6 digit url (likely camelcase sensitive - meaning upper and lower case letter matter!) after the "p/"
Final product:
It's best not to use the VITA's web browser while you have a game running. (There are cases where the browser refreshes automatically while games run).
Compared to previous methods, (in this tut) this one defeats the purpose of not closing a VITA gameplay session. However, this is the only solution which does not require additional hardware.
P.s. This is (currently) the only way to see flickr images on the VITA. Clicking to view images on the VITA's (downloadable) flickr app prompts the app to crash, taking the user back to the livearea.
I made a set vine vids to go along with the tutorial. This will show how to upload and post, just using a vita!
Step 1 (using the vita flickr app)
Step 2 ('get short url' + 'Add Term')
Step 3 (sharing online)
. . . I used vine because they are videos viewable right on the VITA's web browser. (Try it out! Visit this page on your vita's browser and follow the links!) The vita does not have a vine app, but it just so happens to have a twitter (LiveTweet) app. You can follow the tweets that go along with these vids on,


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This is pretty amazing! Bees are amazing!
Nanoparticles carrying a toxin found in bee venom can destroy human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) while leaving surrounding cells unharmed, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have shown.
See the press release from the University of Washington for more details: http://news.wustl.edu/news/Pages/25061.aspx
An older study supported by the National Cancer Institute showed that similar nanoparticles were effective against tumours in mice - http://www.cancer.gov/aboutnci/servi...ances/nanobees
Is there anything these ladies can't do!


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In the real world, what is shared is divided. In the world of ideas, what is shared is multiplied.
"A plan is an example of what could happen, not a prediction of what will happen." – Kent Beck
"If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy." anonymous
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
"He who can look into the future and discern conditions that are not manifest, will never make a blunder and therefore invariably win".
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To save one night of hotel, my company granted me only one day in 3GSM Barcelona : departure the morning from Paris, return in the evening. With a sized handicap : a strike of the Paris' Air Controllers.
Obviously : a late meeting in Barcelona. Direct impact : modification of the initial plan : rent a car for Girona Airport (100 km from Barcelona) in the evening, hotel at Girona central town for the night, takeoff the next day at noon for Beauvais Airport (70 km from Paris), another car rent to return to the company. Added a 3 hours delay - thanks to RyanAir plane blocked by fog in Germany (official statment ...).
Conclusion: to avoid a Hotel (my initial request), my company paid a Hotel, two rented cars and a working day passed visiting the town of Girona :-(
Next time, I will get my two days in Barcelona ...
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Indictment of 17 Individuals Announced
Guillermo Gil, United States Attorney, District of Puerto Rico; Jane M. Erickson, Assistant Special Agent in Chargeof Public Corruption matters for the FBI in Puerto Rico; Donald Reid, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Office of the Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Education, and Manuel Diaz Saldana, Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico, announced today the indictment of the following individuals:
Victor Fajardo-Velez, former Secretary of the Puerto Rico Department of Education(PRDE)
Jose Omar Cruz-Mercado, Associate Secretary of the PRDE
Maria Ramos-Matos, also known as "Bibi," representative for National Consulting Group
Ruperto Vazquez-Lopez, President of RV Research and Management Group, Inc.
Jesus E. Rivera-Class, President and owner of Quality Educational Services, Inc.
Eduardo Fuertes-Pasarell, owner of Pro Data Services, Inc.
Jose E. Santos-Rodriguez, "Consultores Educativos Y Psicologicos" (CONEP)
Victor J. Alvarez-Ramos CONEP
Fidel Alonso-Valls, President and owner of PRODECEN, Inc.
Richard D'Costa-Ofrey, President and owner of Universal Career Counseling Center
Victoria Vargas-Esquilin, President and owner of World Learning Systems, Inc.
Norman T. Olson, president and owner of National School Services of Puerto Rico, Inc.
Marta J. Santos-Sanchez, representative of National School in Puerto Rico
Maritere Perez-Huertas, former PRDE Special Assistant
Roberto O. Bonano-Rodriguez, Attorney contracted by the PRDE to reclassify personnel
Angel A. Pabon-Molina, SAJA Creative Projects, Inc.
Sylvia Janet Lopez-Velez, SAJA Creative Projects, Inc.
The defendants were indicted for violation of Title 18, United States Code (U.S.C.) Section 1951 and 2, "Conspiracy to Interfere with Commerce by Extortion induced by Economic Fear and/or Under Color of Office Right"(Hobbs Act); "Theft concerning Programs Receiving Federal Funds," Title 18, U.S.C., Section 666; "Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering, Title 18, USC, Section 1956 (h) and "Money Laundering Forfeiture Allegations" Title. l8, U.S.C., Section 982.
According to the indictment, between 1994 and September, 2000, the defendants conspired to unlawfully attempt to obstruct and affect commerce by extortion and to obtain monies for defendants Victor Fajardo-Velez, Maria Ramos-Matos, Jose Omar Cruz-Mercado, Ruperto Vazquez-Lopez and Maritere Perez-Huertas. The indictment alleges that Fajardo-Velez and Cruz-Mercado kept a safe in the office of defendant Fajardo-Velez in order to stash large amounts of currency extorted from PRDE contractors. In addition, the defendant Fajardo-Velez recruited the services of his sister-in-law, defendant Maria Ramos-Matos and RupertoVazquez-Lopez to act as main representatives of two corporations in order to divert PRDE funds as well as extortion money paid by different contractors of PRDE.
It is further alleged that Fajardo-Velez and Cruz-Mercado requested from PRDE contractors approximately 10% of their total contract amount. The payment was to be made in cash or by the payment of outstanding invoices of their political party. Between 1995 and 2000, defendant Fajardo-Velez awarded approximately $138,060,396.00, in contracts to four corporations owned by other defendants. In returned, Fajardo-Velez was paid $745,000.00 in kickbacks. In addition, on October 10, 2000, defendant Jesus Emilio Rivexa delivered to co-defendant Ramos-Matos a check for $750, 000.00 made payable to National Consulting, subsequently defendant Fajardo-Velez used the money to purchase a property that Rivera owned at Highway #2, Villa Caparra Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Moreover, between October 1996, and June 2000, defendants Fajardo-Velez, and Cruz-Mercado demanded from defendants cash and the payment of invoices of expenses incurred by their political party totaling approximately $460,339.00. It is also alleged that Fajardo and Crux Mercado extorted approximately $4.3 million from pRDE contractors.
This investigation was conducted by the FBI San Juan, and the Office of Inspector General (OIG), U.S. Department of Education, in coordination with the Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico and the United States Attorney's Office.
Penalties for convictions of the offenses alleged in the indictment, range from 10 years to 20 years. The public is reminded that an indictment contains only charges and is not evidence of guilt. The defendants are presumed innocent and are entitled to a fair trial and the government has the burden of proving guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.


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Sahak Parparyan is the It's Showtime 85MAX World Champion, last defending it against Andrew Tate on May 12 in Belgium, where he won a five round unanimous decision. Sahak hasn't fought since then but he returned to the ring yesterday.
Yesterday in Alkmaar, Netherlands, Iron Ring took place where the biggest fight on the card was Sahak Parparyan vs. Jason Wilnis, an up and coming 21 year old Dutch fighter. Sahak ended up winning a decision and getting another win this year, advancing his record in 2012 to 5-0 after four wins in the first half of the year. It's still a good win for Sahak as he was able to get some ring time against a competent opponent after not fighting since May.
For Wilnis, he is just only 21 so he's still got a future ahead of him. He did lose to Cheick Sidibe on May 12 at It's Showtime but still has potential and it's way too early to write him off.
Also on the card was another up and coming Dutch prospect, Steve Poort, who is still fighting in the B Class. Poort actually lost a decision, surprisingly, to Regian Eersel but again, it's another case like Wilnis' where losses to young up and comers don't mean you can write them off. It's not unusual for a prospect to lose in the B Class and come back much better, just like the likes of Robin van Roosmalen have done.


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ARSC T3D Users' Newsletter 28, March 24, 1995
A Summary of T3D Information from the Denver CUG
The North American Cray User's Group Meeting was held March 13th to 17th in Denver and was sponsored by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). In conjunction with this CUG, the CRI PATP (Parallel Applications Technology Program) put on a conference that was run in parallel with the CUG sessions. This "conference in a conference" was called the SPAD (Scalable Parallel Applications Developers) conference and was a forum for CRI and members of the PATP to present their results on the T3D.
Together with the regular sessions of the CUG and SPAD conference there were 27 hours of presentations about the T3D in the four and a half day CUG conference. I counted at least 6 hours in which there were two or more T3D sessions going on at the same time and one 1 hour session was overlapped with 4 half hour sessions. There was a lot of information presented. The T3D related talks that were part of CUG will eventually appear in the CUG proceedings. Unfortunately there are no current plans to publish the SPAD results, you just had to be there. The SPAD results might someday be available on the CRI web server but prior to the conference there weren't any plans to capture this information.
Below is the list of all T3D activities at CUG or SPAD with the notes I have from the ones I attended:
- 8:00 - 10:00
- Single PE Optimization. Jeff Brooks, CRI
Jeff did a real good job illustrating the T3D processor with small snippets of Fortran. He correlated hardware performance with the measured performance of a Fortran code. Jeff also will be making the optimized routines and utilities of benchlib available and I have contacted him about distributing it. Jeff also gave a few details about the T3E processor:
- 250 MHz
- 500 MFLOPs
- 8KB I and D cache, 98 KB secondary cache
- I and D cache are 3-way set associative
- No Y-MP front end
- 10:30 - 12:00
- MPP Performance Tool. Carol Beatty, CRI
This was a talk about Totalview and Apprentice. It was a good overall talk and gave the status of the current versions. From the talk:
- Totalview line mode version in 4th quarter 1995
- Totalview with your own signals causes problems
- Totalview requires entry/exit macro for CAM routines
- Apprentice can be controlled by instrumenting your own calls (see man page apprif)
- Apprentice doesn't count what goes in a library like libm.a
- Both Totalview and Apprentice don't work well with CRI's C++ because that C++ is based on cfront that converts a C++ job into a C program with new variable names.
- 5:00 - 6:30
- Cray T3D Sparse & Dense Matrix Solvers. Guangye Li and Majed Sidani, CRI
- Guangye described CRI's ambitious plans for callable sparse iterative solvers. Basically a user will be supplied with tools and a library that they use to access optimized solvers. There was no date given on availability. I have a copy of Guangye's slides.
- Majed described the distributed dense solvers based on SCALAPACK, parallel blas (PBlas) and the communication blas (Blacs) out of Oak Ridge National Labs. The PBlas and Blacs are in the current 1.2 PE but there is an inconsistency with the newest version of SCALAPACK 2.0 released from ORNL in the past month and the calling sequence of T3D Blacs. I will try to sort this situation out in a future newsletter. There is a man page on Blacs on denali.
- 8:30 - 9:30
- Parallel Applications Status. Sara Graffunder, CRI
The Application Department of Cray has become a Division putting it on a equal footing with Development and Sales & Marketing. This reflects CRI's commitment to getting applications up and running on the T3D. Someone at the conference paraphrased the currently MPP marketing strategy as: "It's the applications, stupid!" (As in "It's the economy stupid!" from the last election.) The vehicle for these applications is the PATP which is a three year program now consisting of 100 to 200 researchers and scientists worldwide. The four early T3D sites that belong to the PATP group are:
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Lawrence Livemore National Laboratories
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Currently available on the T3D: Chemistry: AMBER,CHARMM,GMAESS,SUPERMOLECULE Structures: LS-DYNA3D CFD: FLO67 Electronics: FAIM,SEED,FDTD Environmental: IFS,PCCM,POP Petroleum: 3DGEO Math: Elegant,NAG (1PE) Available in '95 on the T3D: Chemistry: CHARMM (MSI),DGAUSS,XPLOR,Gaussian '94, Discover,MND094,Turbomole Structures: MARC,PAMCRASH,RADIOSS CFD: RAMPANT,NEKTON,FIRE,AIRPLANE Environmental: HIRLAM,SKIHI Petroleum: VIP,3DPOSTSDM,ECLIPSE,DISCO,MIGDM03 Math: IMSL,HARWELL,NAG (multiple PEs) Misc. notes: Gaussian depends on Linda running on the T3D. ABAQUS will be ported to the SP2 first, then to the T3D. NASTRAN might be ported by 1996. 32 PEs on LS-DYNA3D and PAMCRASH are about the same as 1 C90 processor.
- 8:30 - 9:00
- LS DYNA3D in Production on the T3D. John Gregory, CRI
- 8:30 - 9:00
- Operation of a CRAY T3D. Mike Brown, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre
- 9:00 - 9:30
- CRAY T3D at ECMWF. Graham Holt, ECMWF
- Didn't attend, I have a paper in ECMWF's T3D and Y-MP performance.
- 9:00 - 9:30
- Programming Models for Cray MPPs. Tom MacDonald, CRI
- 9:30 - 10:00
- Elegant Math. Alex Yeremin, Elegant Mathematics, Inc.
- This was a Russian software house getting good results on sparse matrix solvers and a Fortran analyzer. They were looking for partners. I have copies of papers on the sparse solvers and the Fortran analyzer.
- 1:30 - 2:00
- CRAY T3D Metal Forming Applications. Rob Neely, Lawrence Livermore Labs
- This was a description of the ALE3D package converted to the LLNL Meiko machine. They plan to convert to the T3D but haven't done so yet. This has been an 8 year project and includes about 20 people. The functionality is greater than LS-DYNA3D and will scale to about 32 PEs. On this application 16 PEs are about equal to one Y-MP Processor.
- 2:00 - 2:30
- CRAY T3D CFD Applications. Roland Richter, CRI
- This application uses the master/slave paradigm to implement an adaptable mesh to 2 and 3 dimensional flows. There was a lot of details on cache management and word alignment that I'll illustrate in future newsletters. On this application he got about 15 to 20 Mflops per PE.
- 2:30 - 3:00
- CRAY T3D Biomedical Applications. Nick Nystrom, PSC
This was description of the Chemistry programs ported to the T3D at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and most are on Sara Graffunder's list. Nick also gave some typical speed for their applications:
PVM to host: 3 to 13 Mb/s File I/O: 35-45 Mb/sBeing one of the oldest T3D sites they have basically exhausted what they can do on the T3D as far as speed goes and they are waiting for the T3E. I have a copy of Nick's slides.
- 3:30 - 5:00
- Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
- 3:30 - 4:00
- Binary-swap Volume Rendering on the CRAY T3D. Hansen, et al, Los Alamos
- This was a port of CM5 code to the T3D, the port hasn't gone too well and most of the results were from the CM5 effort.
- 4:00 - 4:30
- Medical Diagnostics using the CRAY T3D. Jon Genetti & Greg Johnson, ARSC
- This talk described using AVS running on a workstation as a front end to to volume rendering modules running on the T3D. The images formed on the T3D are sent to the /proc file on the Y-MP and then onto the workstation. There was a video demonstrating almost real time interaction. I can supply copies of the paper.
- 8:30 - 9:00
- TOP2 Tool Suite. Ulrich Detert and Michael Gerndt, KFA Juelich
- This was a very interesting tool that takes a program running on the Y-MP and moves parts of the calling tree onto the T3D. A user annotates his Fortran to specify what should run on the T3D and the tools produce a Y-MP master program and a T3D slave program. The program starts running on the Y-MP and then transfers all arrays and variables to the T3D for further processing. When the T3D is done the entire state is sent back to the Y-MP. Currently the transfers are done with either shared files or UNIX sockets.
- 9:00 - 9:30
- AC and the CRAY T3D. Jesse Draper and Bill Carlson, SRC and IDA
- This was a description of the port of the GNU C compiler, gcc, to the T3D. The performance was in some cases 3 times better than the CRI C compiler and the compiler has a single extension 'dist' (for distributive) which allows shared arrays in C. In one application the AC compiler produced an executable 3 times faster than the CRI C compiler. I am trying to get a copy of this compiler for use at ARSC. I have a copy of the report and the slides.
- 9:30 - 10:00
- Remote Memory Access. Libsma, Karl Feind, CRI
- This was a description of the SHMEM routines from CRI. The speaker went over the internals of how SHMEMs are implemented and some of the new routines that are available in the 1.2 PE. In future newsletters I'll describe some of the effects of SHMEMs and cache coherency. I have a copy of the slides.
- 1:30 - 2:00
- Sorting on the CRAY T3D. Brandon Dixon, University of Alabama
- How fast can you sort on the T3D? There are several tricks here that were fun to see (the radix sort is the winner). In these applications the AC compiler was about 30% faster than the CRI C compiler.
- 2:00 - 2:30
- Evolution on MD Codes from PVP to the CRAY T3D/T3E. Barry Bolding, CRI
- Although CHARMM has been converted to the T3D it doesn't always scale up well in the number of PEs. The speaker reports on the results of a 20 person team funded by a CRADA that wrote from scratch a MD code with the functionality of CHARMM but written to scale with the number of processors. The project is not yet done but it will be an interesting data point in the argument of "porting" vs. "rewriting" as the way to get good performance on MPPs. I have a copy of the slides.
- 2:30 - 3:00
- Spectral FE Model for Shallow Water Equations. Giovanni Erbacci, CINECA
- This finite element model implementation was done on both a C90 and a T3D. The performance was roughly 1 C90 processor = 4 T3D PEs, but it pointed out some of the tradeoffs that help the T3D are not advantageous to the C90.
- 3:30 - 4:00
- Timesharing on the CRAY T3D. Brent Gorda, LLNL
- On busy T3D sites there are situations where a mismatch between requests of PE configurations can lead to a underutilized machine. With a limited amount of roll out and roll in capability, the T3D can be "repacked" to use more of the PEs for a given sequence of requests. This work in progress manually does this rollin/rollout. The problems with swap space and time for swapping for T3D applications will be big issues for MPPs in the future.
- 4:00 - 4:30
- Modeling Serverized UNICOS on the T3D. Bruce Schneider, CRI
- CRI is studying the tradeoffs for a distributive O.S. on the T3E. This talk supplied no performance numbers but showed that with simulation decisions could be made about how the O.S. functions would be split between PEs. CRI will use an internally developed SCX channel to implement connections between T3E PEs and attached peripherals. The T3E will be "self-hosted", i.e. no Y-MP front end.
- 4:30 - 5:00
- A Parallel Algorithm for Image Sequence Coding on the CRAY T3D. Henri Nicolas & Martin Schutz, CRI and Swiss Inst. of Tech.
This result from a PATP member was about image processing.
- 8:30 - 9:00
- PATP Status. John Champine, CRI
- 8:30 - 9:00
- Parallel I/O. Kent Koeninger, CRI
Kent distributed some good ideas about I/O on the T3D and I will experiment with these in the next few months. As more and more applications find I/O is a bottleneck, more effort is spend finding out why. Kent also reviewed the status and performance of Phase I, II and III I/O, his advice for a site like ARSC was to stay with Phase I I/O and try experimenting with:
- well-formed I/O
- disk striping, user-implemented and system-implemented
- balancing IOG capacity and disk contention
- tuning the mpp agent
- 9:00 - 9:30
- Performance of Parallel Programs Optimization. W. Nagel, KFA Juelich
- This tool from the PARBENCH effort, instruments the message-passing routines to provide a trace history of communication during a program run. It is a typical tool from the Intel Paragon environment but CRI resists these tools as their emphasis is on large configurations where this tool is impractical. Small runs can produce trace files up to 1 GW. ARSC will try to make this program available on denali.
- 9:00 - 9:30
- UNICOS/mk. Gabriel Broner, CRI
- 9:00 - 10:00
- Centric Engineering. Mike Eldredge, ISV
- 9:30 - 10:00
- High Level Language & Cache Issues on the Cray T3D. Ken Koch, Los Alamos
- This was a horror story of a port of a CM5 3D reservoir modeling code to the T3D. The expectations were low at 10% of peak on the T3D but because the CM5 code had no notion of data locality the cache performance was atrocious on the T3D. Also the CM5 code was written in TMC's Fortran 90 extensions and the T3D Fortran 90 had lots of trouble with it. In particular, the Fortran 90 didn't do a good job on loop fusion. The developers went back to Craft F77 but still couldn't get good performance. They did a lot of work on cache and page management. They are hoping that the T3E will be much better. I have a copy of the paper.
- 1:30 - 2:00
- Cray T3D Petroleum Applications. Bob Stephenson, CRI?
- 1:30 - 2:00
- Support Functions for CRAY T3D Users at ARSC. Mike Ess, ARSC
- This was a well-received talk on how the T3D support is different from the Y-MP support. I have copies of the slides and the paper.
- 2:00 - 2:30
- CRAY T3D Aerospace Applications. Steve Taylor, Caltech
- 2:30 - 3:00
- CRAY T3D Atmosphere Applications. Jim Rosinski, NCAR
- 2:30 - 3:00
- CRAY T3D Help Desk Panel.
- This open discussion was about how each site is developing its own experience in the T3D world. We all agreed there was little coordination of T3D information and we each fight the steep learning curve by ourselves. The older users, like the PATP group, haven't found a way to impart their experience to the newer T3D users, except through something like the SPAD conference.
- 3:30 - 4:00
- MPP Mutual Interest Group.
- Not being a SIG (Special Interest Group) the MIG was disbanded for lack of interest. The motion to disband was a surprise to most attendees, I think. Basically no one has the time to organize and run a MPP SIG. I don't think the problem was a lack of interest, just a lack of commitment. Future talks about T3D will be part of the regular CUG proceedings.
- 4:00 - 4:30
- SPAD Business Meeting. John Champine, CRI
- Everyone agreed that there was a tremendous amount of collective experience on the T3D and that a lot of it got out at this SPAD conference. That there would be no written record of SPAD would be a real loss for new users and CRI. John Champine was going to look into whether some of the SPAD material could be made available on the CRI web server.
- 5:00 - 6:00
- Parallel Visualization Workshop.
- This panel discussion went over what LLNL, Los Alamos, JPL and CRI were doing in visualization. The general feeling was that the Y-MP gets in the way of what the T3D could produce and there was much anticipation of the T3E. There seemed to be different camps as to whether AVS, Wavefront or roll your own was the correct approach to visualization on the T3D. But the group tried to separate visualization into different tasks and then decide what was suitable for the T3D and then what was the proper software tool on the T3D.
- 8:00 - 9:30
- Parallel I/O Tutorial. Paul Helvig, CRI
In a logical format, Paul outlined approaches to I/O on the T3D. He discussed the advantages and disadvantages and provided performance data on which approaches are most promising. Over and over he came back to the tradeoffs between:
- IOG capacity
- Disk contention
- System activity
- 8:30 - 9:00
- Simulating Quarks and Gluons. Tom DeGrand & Bob Sugar, Univ. of Colorado
- 9:30 - 10:00
- Clusters vs. MPP. Kent Koeninger, CRI
- 9:30 - 10:00
- Terrain Correction of SAR Imagery using the CRAY T3D. Tom Logan, ARSC
- Tom gave the results of his master's thesis in porting different modules of SAR processing to the T3D. With the new 8MW nodes and Tom's effort, the SAR processing will be more cost effective than the same processing on the Y-MP. Tom's experience has made him one on the most knowledgeable T3D users at ARSC.
Further InformationI have the e-mail addresses, phone numbers and mailing addresses of the authors above. If you would like details on any of their talks I can send this information to you and you can contact them directly. For those talks that I have a copy of the slides or paper, I will send out copies upon request.
The Future of CRI HardwareHere is my long-term picture for CRI hardware from what I gathered at the CUG (severe speculation). The follow-on to the T3D is the T3E that will be shipped in the 1st quarter of 1996. Once CRI has made the transition to a distributive O.S. on the T3D they will be in a position to use commodity processors and fold in the programming environment and tools from the Y-MP line, this will be when CRI develops the "scalable node" architecture. The scalable node architecture will be nodes of a small number of processors sharing memory (the Y-MP model) and these nodes can be scalably configured together (the T3E connections). There will be no follow-on to the T90 or J90, the time of customized architectures is almost over. CRI's long-term future will look something like:
1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 T3D--------------->T3E------------------->The Scalable Node / / ...C90------T90----------------------/ J90The long-term future of CRI is tied to both the T3D line and the older Y-MP line. So effort invested in the T3D/T3E is effort that will grow with the future of CRI.
ARSC T3D Future UpgradesWe are testing the upgrade to the T3D 1.2 Programming Environment (libraries, tools and compilers.) If all goes well it will be on the system in one week.
We are also planning to install CF90 and C++ for the T3D. This will come after the upgrade to the 1.2 P.E. I am interested in hearing from users who want to use the CF90 and C++ products as soon as they are available.
List of Differences Between T3D and Y-MPThe current list of differences between the T3D and the Y-MP is:
- Data type sizes are not the same (Newsletter #5)
- Uninitialized variables are different (Newsletter #6)
- The effect of the -a static compiler switch (Newsletter #7)
- There is no GETENV on the T3D (Newsletter #8)
- Missing routine SMACH on T3D (Newsletter #9)
- Different Arithmetics (Newsletter #9)
- Different clock granularities for gettimeofday (Newsletter #11)
- Restrictions on record length for direct I/O files (Newsletter #19)
- Implied DO loop is not "vectorized" on the T3D (Newsletter #20)
- Missing Linpack and Eispack routines in libsci (Newsletter #25)
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Ed Kornkven ARSC HPC Specialist ph: 907-450-8669 Kate Hedstrom ARSC Oceanographic Specialist ph: 907-450-8678 Arctic Region Supercomputing Center University of Alaska Fairbanks PO Box 756020 Fairbanks AK 99775-6020
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Silent shelter in the heart of the city, close to the Nyugati railway station and just a couple of minutes from the Vígszínház away. This well-equipped studio flat with good layout is the ideal accomodation for couples and families. TV, WiFi, washing machine and ironing possibility are at your service.
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15. We do not accept reservations for stag or hen parties, or of football supporters coming to European Championship matches. Thank you for your understanding.
16. Please use only the 2. section of the window from the right.
17. There is a free WIFI access in the apartment.
18. The city tax not included in the total price.
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