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Buick Invicta Concept 2008

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BMW Sauber F1 2008

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Porsche Cayenne Turbo S 2009

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BMW M1 Homage Concept 2008

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DWI Trial Process

What happens after a DWI arrest in Texas?

Administrative License Revocation

To preserve your right to drive in Texas, you must request a hearing within 15 days of when you were served with a Notice of Suspension(usually the date of arrest). If you timely requested a hearing to contest your license suspension, you will be able to continue driving until the hearing. If you lose at the hearing, you can not drive after the hearing. It is our opinion you should requests the officer’s presence at the hearing. Crucial defenses can be developed at the hearing. If your license is suspended at the hearing, you may be able to secure an occupational license to drive.

1st Appearance

If you have been arrested and released for a misdemeanor DWI, you will be given a date to return to court (usually 30 days after your arrest). If you hire an attorney, the attorney can usually make this appearance for you, so that you do not have to attend. During this 30-day period, the case is sent to the County Attorney’s office for further investigation. The County Attorney then prepares an information and files this with the County Clerk, and your case is set on the court’s docket.

Pre-trial Conference:

Your attorney will discuss your case with the County Attorney to discuss the best possible resolution of your case. This conference will happen about 8-10 weeks after your 1st Appearance date.

Suppression Hearing

The Court may suppress some or all of the evidence against you if your constitutional rights have been violated. Your attorney will file motions to suppress. It occurs anywhere 6 weeks to 3 months after the pre-trial conference.

Trial

You may either request a bench trial wherein the court hears the case or a jury trial wherein a jury of your peers hears the case. If the case is a misdemeanor, the trial will be to a jury of six. If the case is a felony, the jury will be to a jury of twelve.

Sentencing

The Court imposes a sentence after a conviction at trial or after a plea bargain is accepted and a plea entered. Sentences may include jail time, numerous fees, fines, community service, alcohol classes and fines.

DWI Conviction Affects Your Insurance

Many insurance companies check your motor vehicle record only once every three years or when you’re applying for a new policy. Sometimes, accidents, tickets, and drunk-driving convictions can escape your insurer’s attention or don’t end up on your motor vehicle record. However, if your insurer does find out about a driving while intoxicated (DWI) conviction, you’re likely to feel the pinch of higher rates and possibly policy cancellation or nonrenewal.

There are two ways insurance companies generally deal with customers convicted of DWI. First, your insurer will likely raise your insurance premiums and label you a high-risk driver if it finds out you’ve been convicted of DWI. In this case, you’ll likely have to file proof of insurance for three — sometimes five — years with your state’s department of motor vehicles. Your insurance company will have to provide the DMV with an SR-22 form, which removes your license suspension by providing the state with proof of insurance. An SR-22 also means your insurance company is required to notify the DMV if it cancels your insurance for any reason.

Your auto insurer will likely raise your premiums, and it might cancel your policy if you’ve been convicted of DUI.

Most state laws require DWI convicts to get an SR-22 from their insurers, so you can’t hide. In addition, your company may cancel your insurance mid-term or terminate the policy at the end of the term because of your DWI conviction, especially if you are currently in a preferred class. Your company will send you a notice stating why you’ve been canceled, and then you’ll have to find another insurer while having a cancellation on your claims history.

Some insurance companies don’t offer SR-22 policies, so you may also be nonrenewed or canceled because your company can no longer provide what you need.

Certain states don’t allow insurance companies to drop you in the middle of the policy term even for a DWI, so make sure you know the laws in your state.

Insurers can miss DWI convictions

It’s possible that your insurance company will never find out about your conviction if you don’t have to get an SR-22. A June 2002 study by the Insurance Research Council revealed that as many as one-quarter of driving convictions never end up on motor vehicle records, due to lack of shared information between courts and motor vehicle departments or because a conviction has been erased through alternative means, such as driving school. If you get your charge reduced in a plea bargain, or have a limited license suspension, such as 30 days, it’s also very unlikely your insurer will find out about your conviction.

In most states, an insurance company has three years after a DUI to cancel you or raise your rates.

If your insurance company misses the conviction at the time it happens, it has three years, according to most state laws, to cancel your policy or raise your rates because of the DWI.

Rates don’t always go up

You may be surprised to know that when your insurer does find out about a DWI conviction it doesn’t automatically impose higher premiums. The insurer will look at your history with the company and your claims record, and your fate is in its hands.

For example, State Farm’s action depends on which subsidiary you’re with. If you have a preferred policy with State Farm Mutual Insurance Co. and receive a DWI, State Farm may move you into State Farm Fire & Casualty, which is the standard-policy company. If you’re moved from preferred to a standard status, you’ll be paying higher rates already. State Farm will also review your motor vehicle and insurance claims history to determine if it needs to raise your rates further.

by insure.com

Austin DWI -- Drink, Drive, Go to Jail….that is NOT the law!

Recently, the Gregg County (Longview) sheriff made the proclimation that if you drink and drive this independence day weekend - you will go to jail.

In December 2006, Gregg County commissioners approved a grant to participate in the statewide “Drink, Drive, Go To Jail” campaign with the funding being provided by the Texas Department of Transportation.

This grant provides resources necessary to conduct DWI enforcement throughout the holiday periods to increase the arrests of folks that drink and drive.

Captain Ken Hartley with the Gregg County Sheriff’s Department says; “We’d just like to remind people to drive responsibly. Don’t drink and drive. Enforcement will be out there and it’s not worth that chance and certainly not taking a chance of hurting yourself or others.”

Well, here lies the rub….it is not against the law to drink and then drive as long as two things are true: 1) you are at least 21 years of age, and 2) you are not intoxicated. I believe that the Sheriff is setting up a great argument for the fact that people are going to be arrested that don’t meet the above criteria. The police and prosecutors always want to lower the standard, but it just isn’t the law. Another example of their attempt to shift the standard is the “Buzzed driving is Drunk Driving” billboards. Neither Buzzed driving, nor Drunk Driving is the standard…..Intoxication is. I certainly hope a defense attorney in Gregg County is paying attention to this and is willing to use this to show the juries there that THIS Sheriff’s deputies have the potential for making wrongful arrests.

While we all know the Austin Police practice a “Drink, Drive, Go to Jail” policy, the administration has been smart enough not to voice it publicly.

Resource: http://austindwi.com

Google has lots to do with intelligence

When the nation's intelligence agencies wanted a computer network to better share information about everything from al Qaeda to North Korea, they turned to a big name in the technology industry to supply some of the equipment: Google Inc.

The Mountain View company sold the agencies servers for searching documents, marking a small victory for the company and its little-known effort to do business with the government.

"We are a very small group, and even a lot of people in the federal government don't know that we exist," said Mike Bradshaw, who leads Google's federal government sales team and its 18 employees.

The strategy is part of a broader plan at Google to expand beyond its consumer roots. Federal, state and local agencies, along with corporations and schools, are increasingly seen by the company as lucrative sources of extra revenue.

In addition to the intelligence agencies, Google's government customers include the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the state of Alabama and Washington, D.C.

Many of the contracts are for search appliances - servers for storing and searching internal documents. Agencies can use the devices to create their own mini-Googles on intranets made up entirely of government data.

Additionally, Google has had success licensing a souped-up version of its aerial mapping service, Google Earth. Agencies can use it to plot scientific data and chart the U.S. coastline, for example, giving ships another tool to navigate safely.

Spy agencies are using Google equipment as the backbone of Intellipedia, a network aimed at helping agents share intelligence. Rather than hoarding information, spies and analysts are being encouraged to post what they learn on a secure online forum where colleagues can read it and add comments.

"Each analyst, for lack of a better term, has a shoe box with their knowledge," said Sean Dennehy, chief of Intellipedia development for the CIA. "They maintained it in a shared drive or a Word document, but we're encouraging them to move those platforms so that everyone can benefit."

Like Wikipedia

The system is modeled after Wikipedia, the public online, group-edited encyclopedia. However, the cloak-and-dagger version is maintained by the director of national intelligence and is accessible only to the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and an alphabet soup of other intelligence agencies and offices.

Agents can log in, depending on their clearance, to Intellipedia's three tiers of service: top secret, secret and sensitive but unclassified. So far, 37,000 users have established accounts on the network, which contain 35,000 articles encompassing 200,000 pages, according to Dennehy.

Google supplies the computer servers that support the network, as well as the search software that allows users to sift through messages and data.

Dennehy declined to asses the quality of Google's products, but he applauded the contribution that Intellipedia can make to the government's work. Whether the network actually leads to better intelligence will largely depend on agents sharing some of their most important files and then their colleagues chiming in with incisive commentary - issues that are out of Google's hands.

Normally, Google ranks results on its consumer site by using the number of links to a Web page as a barometer of its importance. Doing so on Intellipedia isn't as effective because the service lies behind a firewall and is used by a limited number of people.

Instead, material gets more prominent placement if it is tagged, or appended by the network's users, with descriptive keywords.

Because of the complexities of doing business with the government, Google uses resellers to process orders on its behalf. Google takes care of the sales, marketing and management of the accounts.

Conspiracy theories

Google is one of many technology vendors vying for government contracts.

A single deal can be sizable, such as the one Google made with the National Security Agency, which paid more than $2 million for four search appliances plus a support agreement, according to a contract obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.

However, the amount is insignificant when measured against Google's overall revenue of $16.6 billion last year, virtually all of which came from online advertising.

On occasion, Google is the target of conspiracy theories from bloggers who say it is working with spy agencies more closely than simply selling search equipment.

The buzz got so loud two years ago that Matt Cutts, who leads Google's fight against spam Web sites, responded by ridiculing the idea in his personal blog.

Google's Bradshaw emphasized that the company sells virtually the same products to companies as it does to government agencies. Google can make minor tweaks to comply with government rules about equipment security, for example, while major customization is handled by others.

"There were some wild accusations," Bradshaw said. "But everything we do with the government is the same as what we do with our corporate customers."

Source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/29/BUQLUAP8L.DTL&feed=rss.business

6 Easy Ways to Increase your Adsense Revenue

The following are six ways that you can do this and increase your revenue at the same time:

1) Find the right place- Most website visitors read content that is in the middle of a webpage. As a result, the best place to put your Adsense block is in the top part of the page, at the beginning of your web content. You want to weave the Google Ads into your web content to give the appearance that they are extra links which expand on the information of the page.

2) Use the Large Rectangle-With Google Adsense, you have the option of picking different ad formats. Most of the time people opt to use the Leaderboard (728x90) or Wide Skyscraper (160x600) style ads. Unfortunately, this is the wrong choice, because both look like blatant advertisements. Instead smart webmasters have found that using the Large Rectangle (336x280) yields the best amount of click-thrus.

3) Ditch the border- Many people experience a sharp increase in Adsense revenue when they changing their border. What they change is very simple…they get rid of the border on their Adsense blocks. This is another way to make the advertisements look like useful web content.

4) Adapt the font- Whenever you write content, it should be the same font size and style as your Google Adsense block. This will help make it appear that the advertisements are a natural part of your website.

5) Match the colors- In addition to changing the fonts, you also should match the colors of your website. For instance, if your content is written in black, and your hyperlinks are blue, then the Adsense blocks should also be the same color. Again, this helps the advertisements appear to be normal web content.

6) Don't have too many distractions- On a webpage, it is important to give web visitor a limited number of options. By having too many links and graphics, the web visitor might go to a section that doesn't help increase your profits. While it is important to inform and entertain your web visitor, it is also vital that you monetize your site. So if the main focus of your site is to earn an income through Google Adsense, then get rid of all non-essential links and graphics.

By taking the time to implement these six simple steps, you'll see a dramatic increase in the click-thru ratio of your ads. If added to all of the content of your site, your Adsense income will skyrocket!

source::www.epiratezone.blogspot.com

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Mean mom sells son's car after finding hooch under car seat

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Video Game 'Bioshock' May Hit the Big Screen

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$2500 Car Unveiled

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Latest Aston Martin Wallpapers

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How To Open A Shrink-Wrapped CD box in Seconds!

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Top 10 Things to do with your new Panasonic 150" Plasma TV

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Visit virtual Lower East Side! NYC

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4 Quick Tips & 4 Empowering Beliefs to stop Emotional Eating

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Prosperity Unbound: A radical different solution to poverty.

Picture poverty-stricken regions of the Balkans, Latin America, USA or any part of the world, where people who leave their homes and land behind in search for a better life return to find someone else claiming ownership of their property. E. Panaritis proposes a radically different solution in Prosperity Unbound documenting hands-on experience.

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Skydiver Survives 15000 ft Fall by Landing in Bush

While all round the world the word bush has come to mean death and loss of lives, here's a story of a skydiving instructor in New Zealand who escaped death by landing in a blackberry bush after his parachute failed during a 15,000-foot free-fall recently.

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Very Hip Poster For Colin Farrell's Heist Flick, 'In Bruges'

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This Is Simpsons! VersuS FamilyGuy. Video.

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Equal Opportunities for disabled people

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Dr. Phil Combats Racists On Xbox Live (Not Physically)

Dr. Phil has “valuable” advice on dealing with racist cyber-bullies. As a black gamer on Xbox Live, Terry endures heaps of racist verbal abuse, and on Tuesday’s show, Dr. Phil filled Terry with joyous psychobabble and helped heal his wounded gamer heart.

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Will it Bend?

Freak out your future in-laws by making them think you just bent their expesensive silverware...

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The Top 10 real life Star Trek Inventions!!!

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Do Youth Media Habits Predict The Future Of Media?

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I'm a Bad Credit Card Customer, and I Like it That Way

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Outperform The Economy With A Partner

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Ice Cube Would Wear Mohawk for 'A-Team' Movie

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Xbox Live Server Problems Cause Achievements To Disappear

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The Types of Co-Workers you Hate

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Fannie Mae Must Raise $7 Billion to Help Steady Itself

Fannie Mae, weakened by deterioration in the housing market, said yesterday that it planned to raise $7 billion of new capital to help it stay on solid financial footing. The announcement was further evidence that even the giants of the mortgage funding business, have been knocked off stride by the effects of a nationwide debt bubble.

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Widow leaves $21 million to Chinese restaurant owners

A wealthy widow repaid the kindness shown to her by a family that runs a Chinese restaurant she frequented by leaving them $21 million, and a High Court judge ruled today that her will was legal.

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America's Total Debt: $161,287 Per Man, Woman, And Child

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The 4 Things That Make a Good Leader

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Cellphone user rings up $85,000 bill and it's not and iPhone

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12 Things The Holidays Teaches Us About Investing

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10 Great Gifts for CEO's and Entrepreneurs

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The 15 Richest Fictional Characters

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Chase Bank keeps woman's life savings

Chase is refusing to honor a cashiers check for $19.700.22, 82-year-old widow Willie Floyd's life savings. Willie stored the check in a $10 per year safe deposit box at the local bank. When she tried to shift the funds into a regular savings account last year, she was told that cashiers checks expire after 5 years

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The Great Fall of China

Largely ignored by the media, the latest story to come out of Washington changes the world. The story's unlikely source was the staid World Bank, which published updated statistics on the economic output of 146 countries. China's economy, said the bank, is smaller than it thought. About 40% smaller.

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31 of the Best Careers for 2008

The careers listed at left offer strong outlooks and high job satisfaction. Each career is profiled in two parts: an executive summary and a portrait of a typical day in the life.

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Big Pharma Spending on Advertising Double that of Research

Drug companies spend almost twice as much on marketing and promoting their products than on research and development, says a new study. In their analysis of data, they found that American drug companies spent US$57.5 billion on promotional activities in 2004. But only $31.5 billion on research.

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The 5 Best Foods That Will Kill You

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New Stylish Lincoln MKX 2008

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Intel Quits One Laptop Per Child Program

That didn't last long! Citing disagreements with the organization, Intel Corp. said Thursday it has abandoned the One Laptop Per Child program, dealing a big blow to the ambitious project seeking to bring millions of low-cost laptops to children in developing countries.

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5 tips every new Linux user should know

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First Look: Microsoft Office for Mac 2008

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Mobile Hard Drives Hit 500GB

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Kucinich Files Complaint on ABC Debate

Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich filed a complaint with the FCC on Friday after ABC News excluded him, fellow Democrat Mike Gravel and Republican Duncan Hunter from its prime-time debates on Saturday.

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FOX Stock at 52 Week Low Due to Electioneering Charges

NewsWire / New York / 1-5-08 // Fox News parent company NewsCorp (NWS/NYSE) has lost over $3 billion in market capitalization in less than a week as the stock plummeted to a 52 week low amid electioneering charges against Fox for excluding a major presidential candidate from a nationally televised forum. Many feel Fox is trying to rig the election.

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KDE 4.0.0 tagged in preparation for release

KDE 4.0 has been tagged in preparation for the official release. The source code is ready for packaging. Ars will be at the release event later this month to get you the inside scoop.

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Dennis Kucinich Excluded From Tomorrow's Debate

It’s happening again … They’re excluding Dennis Kucinich from tomorrow’s debate!ABC News announced today that Dennis Kucinich will not be allowed to participate in tomorrow’s nationally televised debate from St. Anselm College in New Hampshire.The Democratic Debate tomorrow is about figuring out what real Democrats care about.

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Creator of "Pay What You Think Movie is Worth" Interviewed

Interview during release of RevoLOUtion in NYC "Pay what you think it's worth - After the movie." Juliet Huddy Fox News Dayside. http://www.revoloutionmovie.com/

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