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Proposals to curb emissions from trucks, airplanes, oil and natural-gas operations, and power plants
The Obama administration is planning a series of actions this summer to rein in greenhouse-gas emissions from wide swaths of the economy, including trucks, airplanes and power plants, kicking into high gear an ambitious climate agenda that the president sees as key to his legacy.
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce as soon as Wednesday plans to regulate carbon emissions from airlines, and soon after that, draft rules to cut carbon emissions from big trucks, according to people familiar with the proposals. In the coming weeks, the EPA is also expected to unveil rules aimed at reducing emissions of methane—a potent greenhouse gas—from oil and natural-gas operations.
And in August, the agency will complete a suite of three regulations lowering carbon from the nation's power plants—the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's climate-change agenda.
The proposals represent the biggest climate push by the administration since 2009, when the House passed a national cap-and-trade system proposed by the White House aimed at reducing carbon emissions.
Anticipating the rules, some of which have been telegraphed in advance, opponents of Mr. Obama's regulatory efforts are moving to block them. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.), is urging governors across the country to defy the EPA by not submitting plans to comply with its rule cutting power-plant emissions.
Nearly all Republicans and some Democrats representing states dependent on fossil fuels say the Obama administration is going beyond the boundary of the law and usurping the role of Congress by imposing regulations that amount to a national energy tax driven by ideological considerations.
"The Administration seems determined to double down on the type of deeply regressive regulatory policy we've already seen it try to impose on lower-and-middle-class families in every state," Mr. McConnell said in a statement. "These Obama administration regulations share several things in common with the upcoming directives: they seem motivated more by ideology than science, and they're likely to negatively affect the economy and hurt both the cost and reliability of energy for hard-working American families and small-business owners."
Supporters of Mr. Obama's efforts say the regulatory push has the backing of both science and the force of law. They cite a 2007 Supreme Court decision that compelled the EPA to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions if the agency found they endanger the public's health and welfare, which the EPA did in 2009 with a scientific finding shortly after Mr. Obama became president.
1. Blizzard slams into the Northeast
A massive winter storm hit the Northeast on Monday, shutting down roads and transportation systems in New York City and Boston, and dumping more than a foot of snow on parts of New England. The National Weather Service had warned as much as 30 inches of snow in New York, but the city appeared to have been spared the worst, with eight inches falling overnight at LaGuardia Airport. The National Weather Service said hours more of heavy snow were coming Tuesday, repeating the warning that, "This is a serious life-threatening storm!" [The Boston Globe, NY1]
2. Kurds regain control of Kobani
Kurdish fighters claimed on Monday that they had driven Islamic State militants out of the contested Syrian border town of Kobani. The Kurds, aided by U.S. airstrikes, fought ISIS in the streets for months to regain full control of the town. On the Turkish side of the border, thousands of Kurdish refugees who fled fearing an ISIS takeover celebrated the news. Kobani is in ruins, but the defeat marked a major setback for ISIS, which seized vast swaths of Iraq and Syria last year. [Bloomberg]
3. Ex-CIA officer convicted of disclosing secret information
Former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling was convicted Monday on charges that he leaked details of a covert operation to New York Times reporter James Risen. The case became the focus of intense debate about the Obama administration's prosecution of alleged leakers after federal prosecutors subpoenaed Risen in an attempt to force him to say who told him about the top secret operation to disrupt Iran's controversial nuclear program, which he described in a book. Risen refused to disclose his source. [CNN]
4. Obama visits Saudi Arabia after king's death
President Obama headed to Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to lead a U.S. delegation offering condolences to the oil-rich country's royal family following the death of 90-year-old King Abdullah. Obama, who just finished a three-day visit to India, will meet with Abdullah's successor, King Salman. The high-powered delegation will include high-ranking Republicans, such as Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), as well as other high-ranking Obama administration officials — an indication of the importance Washington places on Saudi Arabia, a key oil supplier and counterterrorism ally. [The New York Times]
5. At least 10 killed when jet crashes during NATO training in Spain
A Greek F-16 fighter jet crashed during NATO training at a base in southeastern Spain on Monday, killing at least 10 people. The jet lost power during take-off and hit other aircraft that were parked on the ground, sending flames and smoke into the air. Eight of the people killed were French military personnel. Two were Greek. At least 21 other service members, including 11 Italians and 10 French, were injured. [The Associated Press]
6. Federal worker says he was controlling drone that crashed near White House
A federal employee came forward Monday and said he was responsible for the two-foot wide quadcopter drone that crashed on White House grounds hours earlier. The man, who does not work at the White House, said he was flying the remote-controlled quadcopter for fun around 3 a.m. when he lost control of it, not meaning for it to go near the White House. The Secret Service briefly locked down the White House when the drone was discovered. The Secret Service said the man appeared to be telling the truth. [The New York Times]
7. Koch brothers reportedly plan to spend $889 million on 2016 election
A conservative advocacy network backed by the billionaire Koch brothers intends to spend $889 million on the 2016 election. The plan was announced at an annual meeting hosted by Freedom Partners, a tax-exempt business lobby at the heart of Charles and David Koch's political operations, according to a person who attended. The money would go toward field operations, technology, and other resources. Together, the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees are expected to spend about $1 billion. [The Washington Post]
8. CBO says deficit falling to lowest of Obama's presidency
The Congressional Budget Office said Monday that the budget deficit should shrink this year to its lowest level as a percentage of the economy since 2007. The nonpartisan agency said the deficit for the fiscal year, which ends in September, will be $468 billion, down a tick from last year's $483 billion mark. In addition, the CBO said there were 19 million fewer uninsured Americans this year compared to the year before thanks to changes implemented under ObamaCare. [The Associated Press]
9. Survivors mark 70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
About 300 Auschwitz survivors gathered Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation the former Nazi concentration camp by Russian troops. The presidents of Poland, Germany, France, and Ukraine will be among the dignitaries who will be present for the commemoration at the site of the camp, in southern Poland, where 1.1 million people, most of them European Jews, were killed during World War II. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the anniversary should serve as a reminder of the world's responsibility to continue to "expose those who promote prejudices." [Reuters]
10. Kobe Bryant to have season-ending shoulder surgery
Los Angeles Lakers star guard Kobe Bryant has decided to follow his doctor's advice and have shoulder surgery that is expected to end his season, according to a statement released by the basketball team on Monday. Bryant tore his right rotator cuff last week. He has been having one of the worst seasons of his career, and with the Lakers at the bottom of the standings had little reason to hurry back and risk further injury. [USA Today]
Obama picks Ash Carter as Defense secretary, Russia heads into a recession, and more
1. Obama to nominate former Pentagon official Ashton Carter to replace Hagel
President Barack Obama has picked Ashton Carter, a former high-ranking Pentagon official, to replace Chuck Hagel as Defense secretary, Obama administration officials said Tuesday. Hagel got the job over Carter in 2013, and later in the year Carter left due to a rift between the two. This time he was the last top prospect not to drop out of the running. A formal announcement is expected in days, after Carter is vetted. Carter is respected by Republican hawks, which is expected to help in confirmation hearings. [Politico, The New York Times]
2. Russia enters recession as oil prices fall
Plummeting oil prices are pushing the Russian economy into a recession, officials in Moscow announced Tuesday. Russian leaders had been expecting their economy to grow in 2015 — but that was when they were assuming oil would remain at $100 a barrel. Revised estimates show that the country's economy will contract by 0.8 percent if prices hover around $80 per barrel. With the ruble losing value and oil now around $71 per barrel, Moscow says under a more "pessimistic" scenario, with $60-per-barrel oil, its economy could drop by up to 4 percent. [CNN]
3. Boehner argues against government shutdown over immigration
House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday urged fellow Republicans to avoid a government shutdown by approving a long-term government spending bill next week. Many conservatives want to use the bill to deny money the Homeland Security Department needs to carry out President Obama's executive order shielding as many as 4.7 million undocumented immigrants from deportation. Boehner reportedly argued for funding most federal programs through September, and revisiting Homeland Security's budget in 2015, when the GOP will control the Senate. [Reuters]
4. Police investigate Michael Brown's stepfather for remarks during riot
St. Louis County police said Tuesday they were investigating Louis Head, the stepfather of Michael Brown, to see whether angry remarks he made incited rioting on the night a grand jury decided not to indict the white police officer who shot and killed the unarmed black teenager in August. A video reportedly surfaced in which Head tells an angry mob, "burn this bitch down," shortly before protesters began burning cars. Police said the inquiry was part of a broader investigation of the violence. [The New York Times]
5. Detroit public buildings lose power
A power outage caused by a "major cable failure" cut off electricity to Detroit's fire stations, schools, and other public buildings on Tuesday. Traffic signals and the city's People Mover shut off downtown, and firefighters spent much of the day rescuing people from elevators stuck in public buildings. The outage affected more than 900 sites, with some going without lights all day after the grid shut down around 10:30 a.m. [Detroit Free Press]
6. Netanyahu fires two ministers and calls for early elections
Israel's coalition government collapsed on Tuesday when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired his finance and justice ministers, Yair Lapid and Tzipi Livni, saying they had "harshly attacked" him and his government. Netanyahu called for dissolving the Knesset, Israel's parliament, andholding elections two years early so that he can get "a clear mandate to lead Israel." The parties of Lapid and Livni had clashed with Netanyahu over a host of issues, most recently a proposed law declaring Israel a Jewish state. [BBC News]
7. Hong Kong protest founders announce their "surrender"
Three founders of Hong Kong's pro-democracy movement announced that they would "surrender" to police on Wednesday. The trio — Occupy Central leader Benny Tai, and co-founders Chan Kin-man and Chu Yiu-ming — tearfully urged protesters to retreat from three major intersections they have been blocking since late September. While some protesters called the move a "betrayal," teenage protest leader Joshua Wong, who began a hunger strike on Monday, praised Tai for his role starting the movement, and said the fight for free elections in the Chinese-run city would continue. [Agence France Presse]
8. CDC considers call for stressing circumcision health benefits
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing federal recommendations that would state that all males, including teenage boys, should be counseled on the health benefits of circumcision. Studies in Africa over the last 15 years indicate that circumcision lowers men's risk of HIV infection from heterosexual intercourse by 50 to 60 percent. The procedure also reduces the risk of herpes and human papillomavirus. The American Academy of Pediatrics said in 2012 that circumcision's benefits outweigh its risks. [NPR]
9. Woman sues Cosby, accusing him of sexual assault at the Playboy Mansion
A 55-year-old California woman, Judy Huth, filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby on Tuesday, accusing the embattled comedian of sexually assaulting her at the Playboy Mansion in 1974, when she was 15. In the lawsuit, Huth says she and a friend met Cosby at a park, and that the assault occurred after Cosby gave her alcohol. The suit was the latest in a flurry of rape accusations against Cosby. Lawyers for Cosby, who has resisted commenting on the allegations, were not immediately available for comment. [Los Angeles Times]
10. Rolling Stones sax player Bobby Keys dies
Bobby Keys, who played on-and-off with the Rolling Stones for decades, died on Tuesday at his Tennessee home after a long illness. He was 70. Keys played memorable sax solos on such Stones hits as Brown Sugar, Can't You Hear Me Knocking, and Sweet Virginia. He also contributed to John Lennon's Whatever Gets You Through the Night. "I have lost the largest pal in the world," the Stones' Keith Richards wrote in a statement, "and I can't express the sense of sadness I feel, although Bobby would tell me to cheer up." [The Associated Press]
Attorney General Eric Holder, the first African-American to hold the top law enforcement position in the United States, announced on Thursday that he plans to step down from his position as soon as a successor can be confirmed. If he remains in office until December, Holder will become the third longest-serving Attorney General in the history of the United States. Here are some key components of his legacy.
He decided not to defend DOMA
The Obama administration initially defended the Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, which banned federal recognition of same-sex marriages. At first, Holder maintained that while the administration disagreed with the law, it was the Justice Department'sresponsibility to defend the laws that Congress had passed. (Some of the briefs written by Justice Department lawyers arguing that DOMA was constitutional were considered offensive by gay rights organizations.)
But Holder's analysis changed. He announced in February 2011 that the Justice Department would no longer defend components of the statute because DOMA "contains numerous expressions reflecting moral disapproval of gays and lesbians and their intimate and family relationships — precisely the kind of stereotype-based thinking and animus the (Constitution's) Equal Protection Clause is designed to guard against." Ultimately, the Supreme Court agreed, ruling in June 2013 that key portions of DOMA were unconstitutional.
He lost the fight to bring the Sept. 11 trial out of Guantanamo Bay and into New York City
In one of the biggest disappointments of his tenure, Holder ultimately lost the fight to try the key perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks in federal court in New York City. The plan, first announced by Holder in Nov. 2009, faced stiff resistance from many politicians in New York who feared the impact a high-profile trial would have on the city. Others objected because they believed that a military commission was a more appropriate venue for the terrorism trial. Holder ultimately announced he was reversing his decision to try the cases in New York and moved them back to the military commission in Guantanamo.
While the process in Guantanamo has hit numerous roadblocks, Holder's Justice Department has gathered a string of wins against other terror suspects in federal court. Holder has remarked that the Sept. 11 defendants "would be on death row as we speak" if the case had been allowed to proceed in federal court.
He helped turn around the Civil Rights Division and fought for voting rights
The Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department was heavily politicized during the Bush administration. A 2008 inspector general report found the conservative leadership had hired lawyers with little to no civil rights experience into positions due to their ideological beliefs. The environment caused a massive exodus in the Civil Rights Division: more than 70 percent of its attorneys left between 2003 and 2007. Holder, who has long made civil rights a top priority, was widely credited with overseeing the turnaround of the division.
"I think Eric Holder put the 'J' back in DOJ, and in particular he restored the luster of the crown jewel which is the Civil Rights Division, and I had the privilege of having a front-row seat for that," Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who headed the Civil Rights Division from 2009 to 2013, told The Huffington Post after Holder's announcement on Thursday.
Holder oversaw several of the Justice Department's successful voting rights lawsuits during President Barack Obama's first term, as well as the agency's continued efforts after the Supreme Court struck down a key provision of the Voting Rights Act. DOJ is currently involved in several voting rights cases, including high-profile suits against voter ID laws in North Carolina and Texas.
He addressed racism head on.
Shortly after his confirmation in 2009, Holder delivered a speech to Justice Department employees at an event commemorating Black History Month. In his remarks, he called out the U.S. as a "nation of cowards" when it comes to addressing race. He said Americans believe that "certain subjects are off-limits and that to explore them risks at best embarrassment and at worst the questioning of one's character."
Those words echoed throughout Holder's tenure at the DOJ as he fought back against laws that suppressed voting and defended the Voting Rights Act. He stepped in to request federal oversight of the New York City Police Department's stop-and-friskpolicy, a program that has overwhelmingly targeted black and Latino individuals. More recently, he ordered a civil rights investigation into the largely white police force in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting death of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown at the hands of Officer Darren Wilson.
"Will we yet again turn a blind eye to the hard truths that Ferguson exposed?" Holder asked during a speech this week, echoing his 2009 remarks. "Or will we finally accept this mandate for open and honest dialogue?"
He oversaw a crackdown on leaks and disappointed civil liberties advocates
Under Holder, the Justice Department has aggressively — some would say obsessively — pursued government leakers. Eight have been charged with violating the draconian Espionage Act of 1917, more than under all previous administrations combined. Journalists have also come under the gun: Holder's DOJ subpoenaed AP reporters' phone logs in a leak investigation, named a Fox News reporter as an "un-indicted co-conspirator" in another case, and is still trying to force Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter James Risen to testify about his sources under threat of jail time.
All of that led Risen to call Holder's boss, Obama, "the greatest enemy to press freedom in a generation."
One of the leakers charged, Edward Snowden, revealed another disappointment for civil liberties advocates: the DOJ's intimate role in coming up with the legal rationale that underlies the National Security Agency's bulk collection of American phone records.
The FBI's frayed relationship with Muslim communities, meanwhile, has seen little improvement under Holder. The bureau has continued to use sting operations, which critics say are tantamount to entrapment, to arrest Muslims involved in bogus terror "plots." And NPR reported on Wednesday that the racial profiling guidelines set to be released soon will still allow the FBI to "map" the demographics of Muslim communities.
Perhaps most worrying for many across the spectrum, it was Holder's DOJ that came up with the "drone memos" — the legal justification that the Obama administration leaned on to kill al Qaeda propagandist and American citizen Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen without a trial.
He released the so-called "torture memos," but didn't go after their authors — Shadee
Two months after assuming office in 2009, Holder moved to publicly release a series of previously classified "torture memos" from the Bush administration that sanctioned specific acts of torture, including waterboarding, for CIA use against al Qaeda suspects.
"There is no reason we cannot wage an effective fight against those who have sworn to harm us while we respect our most honored constitutional traditions," Holder said in March 2009 after releasing nine previously classified Justice Department memos.
Despite the release, which faced significant pushback from senior intelligence officials, the attorney general's office never brought criminal charges against any government officials investigated for their involvements in over 100 cases of severe prisoner abuse.
While crediting Holder in other areas, American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero issued a statement on Thursday noting "profound disagreements with the Attorney General on national security issues."
"During his tenure, DOJ approved the drone killing of an American far away from any battlefield, approved the NSA's mass surveillance programs, failed to prosecute any of the Bush administration torturers, and presided over more leak prosecutions than all previous Justice Departments combined," Romero said.
He became the first-ever cabinet member to be held in contempt of Congress
In 2012, Holder became the only sitting cabinet member in history to be held in contempt of Congress after the White House claimed executive privilege over documents subpoenaed in relation to Operation Fast and Furious, a botched federal investigation intended to combat gun smuggling. The documents that the Justice Department refused to turn over related not to the actual operation, but rather to how DOJ responded once Congress began investigating the matter.
Holder later dismissed the vote — led by the Republican-controlled House — as political theater, calling it "a crass effort and a grave disservice to the American people."
The White House also indicated in 2012 that Holder would not face any criminal charges in the matter since the documents being sought were protected by executive privilege.
He took on "draconian" drug sentences and slowly but surely scaled back the war on drugs.
In what Obama described as a "gutsy speech" in front of the American Bar Association in 2013, Holder outlined his plan for "sweeping, systemic changes" to how the Justice Department prosecutes drug-related offenses. While Holder initially faced a lot of internal resistance from career federal prosecutors as he attempted to rein in the so-called war on drugs, he pressed ahead, pushing for changes like allowing low-level and nonviolent drug offenders to avoid "draconian" mandatory minimum sentences and permitting the early release of some elderly defendants.
He continued to push for sentencing reform in March, lending his support to aproposal that would reduce penalties for some drug offenders and help cut prison costs.
"This overreliance on incarceration is not just financially unsustainable, it comes with human and moral costs that are impossible to calculate," he said.
Holder has also urged first responders to carry the heroin overdose antidote naloxone.
He oversaw a crackdown on marijuana shops, but allowed state legalization to move forward
During the first term of the Obama administration, Holder oversaw an expansive federal crackdown on hundreds of state-compliant medical marijuana dispensaries in states like Colorado and California, which was spearheaded by the Drug Enforcement Agency and several U.S. attorneys.
But in a historic step, Holder announced in 2013 that DOJ would allow for Colorado and Washington to implement their groundbreaking new laws legalizing and regulating the possession, use and sale of recreational marijuana.
While Holder never explicitly came out in favor of legalization or decriminalization, he has been more open to rescheduling marijuana, which is still classified by the federal government as a Schedule I substance like heroin. Holder said the Obama administration would be "more than glad" to work with Congress to re-examine how cannabis is scheduled federally. He even said in April that he's "cautiously optimistic"about how the historic changes in marijuana law were working out in Washington and Colorado.
And now, as he plans to step down from his post, he appears to be more open than ever to the possibility of classifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. He said in an interview just this week that "we need to ask ourselves, whether or not marijuana is as serious of a drug as heroin" adding that science should be used to make that determination.
He reached big settlements on pollution cases
The DOJ reached a record $4 billion settlement with BP in November 2012 over criminal charges stemming from the 2010 oil spill, which dumped 4.9 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico. That included charges related to the deaths of 11 workers on the rig and the "misconduct or neglect of ships' officers." The DOJ is still pursuing civil charges related to the spill, but the agency recently scored a big win when a federal judge ruled that BP was grossly negligent in allowing the spill to occur — a ruling that opens the door to up to $18 billion in civil penalties that could be levied against the company.
The DOJ topped its own record fine this year, however, with a $5.15 billion settlementin April 2014 with Anadarko Petroleum over a decades-long legacy of pollution left by one of its subsidiaries.
He failed to hold Wall Street accountable for the financial crisis
Holder's legacy is likely to be marred by what critics view as DOJ's lax approach to investigating and prosecuting the alleged crimes that sparked, or exacerbated, the 2007-09 financial crisis.
Few Wall Street firms, and even fewer senior financial executives, were officially charged with breaking the law for conduct related to the crisis, despite what experts contend is a wealth of evidence — thanks to civil lawsuits brought by aggrieved investors, prior investigations by state authorities, and probes by Congress and the federal Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission — that at the very least should have prompted the Justice Department to investigate further.
Holder's approach to crisis-era wrongdoing stands in stark contrast to the playbook followed by federal prosecutors contending with the fallout of the savings-and-loan debacle of the late 1980s and early 90s.
"In striking contrast with these past prosecutions, not a single high-level executive has been successfully prosecuted in connection with the recent financial crisis, and given the fact that most of the relevant criminal provisions are governed by a five-year statute of limitations, it appears likely that none will be," Judge Jed Rakoff of the U.S. District Court in Manhattan wrote earlier this year in the New York Review of Books.
The lack of public evidence that Holder's Justice Department thoroughly investigated crisis-era wrongdoing has contributed to the perception — one eagerly promoted by the defense bar — that perhaps few crimes were even committed in the runup to the financial crisis.
"But if, by contrast, the Great Recession was in material part the product of intentional fraud," Rakoff wrote, "the failure to prosecute those responsible must be judged one of the more egregious failures of the criminal justice system in many years."
Surely the Right Wing talking-heads will find something wrong with this UN ritual…wait and see.
The U.S. bombs Syrian refineries controlled by ISIS, Islamists behead a French hostage in Algeria, and more
1. U.S. bombs Syrian refineries that were financing ISIS
The U.S. and Arab allies on Wednesday bombed a dozen small Syrian oil refineries controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, in an attempt to cut off the Islamist militant group's funding. ISIS was estimated to be making $2 million a day from the facilities. The Obama administration also labeled 11 people and one so-called charity as terrorists, accusing them of aiding ISIS. President Obama chaired a United Nations Security Council vote approving a resolution compelling countries to stop recruits from joining ISIS and other terrorist militias. [Los Angeles Times, BBC News]
2. French hostage beheaded in Algeria
Algerian Islamist extremists released a video on Wednesday in which they appear to behead French tourist Herve Gourde to retaliate for France's airstrikes against ISIS. Gourdel, a nature guide and photographer, was kidnapped on Sunday as he drove into a remote mountain area to go hiking. French President Francois Hollande said Gourdel, 55, had been "killed cruelly and in a cowardly way," but his murder would not shake France's resolve to help defeat ISIS. [Reuters]
3. Judge denies defense request to move Boston Marathon bombing trial
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to move his trial out of Boston. U.S. District Judge George O'Toole said that despite extensive media coverage, it "stretches the imagination" to suggest that it will be impossible to find 12 fair and impartial jurors in a metropolitan area of five million people. O'Toole did delay the trial's start from Nov. 3 to Jan. 5, 2015. The defense wanted a longer delay to go over the large volume of information in the case. [CNN]
4. Court tells Ohio, a key swing state, to expand early voting
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld an Ohio judge's order expanding the time people will have in the swing state to vote this fall. Under the ruling, early ballots can be cast as early as next Tuesday, instead of Oct. 7. A federal judge had temporarily blocked a state law narrowing the early-voting window, and told election officials to give people more options. State officials had argued Ohio already offered more time for early voting than many other states. [The Associated Press]
5. Navajo Nation to receive $554 million under settlement with government
The Obama administration has agreed to pay the Navajo Nation $554 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the federal government of mismanaging funds and resources at the 14-million-acre Navajo reservation in Arizona, Utah, and New Mexico. The settlement — the largest ever for a single Native American tribe — will end disputes dating as far back as five decades. Attorney General Eric Holder said the deal shows the government's "firm commitment to strengthening our partnerships with tribal nations." [The Washington Post]
6. Colorado students protest anti-civil-disobedience proposal
Hundreds of Colorado high-school students walked out of their classrooms on Wednesday to protest their school district's conservative-led school board's proposal "to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism, and respect for authority." The students waved flags and held up signs reading, "There is nothing more patriotic than protest." The Jefferson County school board is considering establishing a committee to review history texts and weed out materials that "condone civil disorder." [The Associated Press]
7. Grand jury clears police in shooting of Walmart shopper carrying air rifle
The U.S. Justice Department will investigate possible civil rights violations in the shooting death of a Walmart shopper carrying an air rifle he had apparently taken off a store shelf, the state attorney general said Wednesday. The announcement was made after a special grand jury ruled out charges against police officers who shot the 22-year-old man, John Crawford III, on Aug. 5 as he talked on a cellphone and walked around the store. [The Cincinnati Enquirer]
8. More than 100 Boko Haram fighters surrender to Nigerian forces
Nigeria's military announced Wednesday that more than 130 Boko Haram Islamist fighters had surrendered to government forces. Defense Ministry spokesman Major-General Chris Olukolade also said that in a recent clash soldiers had killed a man named Mohammed Bashir, who had claimed to be Boko Haram's late leader Abubakar Shekau. The army has increased operations in the remote areas which Boko Haram declared to be "Muslim territory" after taking over several small towns. [Reuters]
9. Apple scrambles to fix glitch in software updates for iPhone 6
Apple issued an apology Wednesday after some users of its newest iPhones ran into software glitches that prevented them from making or receiving calls. The news came as other users reported the popular iPhone 6 models were vulnerable to bending. Apple said it would stop distributing the software update that caused the blocked calls — iOS 8.0.1. Some users also reported problems with a feature allowing them to unlock the phones with their fingerprint. Apple said it would issue advice on a fix "as quickly as we can." [CNET]
10. Grand jury clears race-car driver Tony Stewart in fatal crash
A grand jury on Wednesday decided there was no evidence to justify filing criminal charges against race-car driver Tony Stewart in the death of fellow driver Kevin Ward Jr. at Canandaigua Motorsports Park in New York. A toxicology report said Ward had marijuana in his system when he crashed into a wall and got out of his car before Stewart's right-rear tire struck him. Ward's family said "the matter is not at rest." [Yahoo! Sports]
Israeli tank fire kills 15 in a U.N. school, Obama calls for closing overseas tax loopholes, and more
1. Protests rock the West Bank ahead of a "day of rage"
Israel deployed thousands of security forces around Jerusalem after Palestinian leaders called for a "day of rage" on Friday following massive overnight protests in the West Bank. Israeli tank shells reportedly hit a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing at least 15 people. Dozens of Palestinians had sought shelter there from fighting between Israel and Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian faction that runs Gaza. Israel said it did not target the school. [NBC News, USA Today]
2. Obama urges Congress to close overseas tax loopholes for businesses
President Obama on Thursday called on Congress to close loopholes allowing businesses to use foreign partnerships to avoid taxes at home, even when their headquarters and main operations remain in the U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who is the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, said he was all for asking companies to pay their fair share, but that Obama administration policies were "punitive and restrictive to businesses." [CBS News]
3. Ukraine's prime minister submits his resignation
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk resigned on Thursday after two parties quit the government coalition, forcing new elections to renew a parliament unchanged since the ouster of pro-Russian president Viktor Yanukovich in February. The country's new president, Petro Poroshenko, backed Yatseniuk's departure, saying forcing new elections would purge the chamber of "Moscow agents." [Reuters]
4. Air Algerie wreck blamed on weather
The wreckage of a chartered Air Algerie jetliner was found Thursday in Mali. The plane was carrying 110 passengers and six crew members when it left Burkina Faso's capital, Ouagadougou, for Algiers early Thursday. There did not appear to be any survivors. Burkina Faso's top military leader, Gen. Gilbert Diendere, said fierce thunderstorms that were pounding the Sahara as the plane flew over probably played a role in the crash. [The New York Times]
5. Amazon losses climb due to big investments to woo customers
Amazon.com reported its biggest quarterly loss since 2012 on Thursday. The world's largest online retailer lost $126 million, far higher than the average analyst's forecast of $66.7 million. Amazon's sales climbed by 23 percent to $19.3 billion, but CEO Jeff Bezos' strategy of investing heavily in services and gadgets to inspire customer loyalty hurt profits. Amazon stock fell by more than 11 percent on the news. [Bloomberg News]
6. One killed, two wounded in Pennsylvania psychiatric hospital shooting
A gunman killed one person and wounded two others during a Thursday shooting at the psychiatric unit of Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pennsylvania. The suspect — a patient — entered Dr. Lee Silverman's office with a female caseworker and allegedly opened fire. Silverman, who was wounded, pulled his own gun and wounded the assailant after the caseworker was killed. [The Associated Press]
7. Arizona officials defend controversial execution
Arizona prison officials denied Thursday that the two-hour execution of double-murderer Joseph Rudolph Wood had been "botched." State officials said that Wood was brain-dead during 90 minutes of gulping and snorting before he was declared dead. Wood's attorneys unsuccessfully asked a judge to stop the procedure as Wood got a second round of lethal-injection drugs. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) called the process "torture." [The Arizona Republic]
8. U.S. considers screening refugees in Honduras to discourage illegal immigration
The Obama administration is considering screening thousands of young people in Honduras to see if they should be allowed to enter the U.S. as refugees or on emergency humanitarian grounds. It would be the first such move involving a country linked by land to the U.S. The White House is seeking ways to discourage young Hondurans from joining the wave of undocumented child immigrants streaming over the U.S.-Mexico border. [The New York Times]
9. Pope meets with Sudanese Christian sentenced to death for her faith
Meriam Yehya Ibrahim, a Sudanese Christian woman sentenced to death by an Islamist judge for refusing to renounce her faith, met Pope Francis at the Vatican on Thursday. Ibrahim was convicted for apostasy for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity. She insisted she had been raised Christian, and was released last month under international pressure. The pope thanked her for staying true to her faith, a Vatican spokesman said. [The Washington Post]
10. Fifty Shades of Grey trailer debuts
The first trailer of the film adaptation of author E.L. James' wildly popular, bondage-themed Fifty Shades of Grey books made its debut on NBC's Today on Thursday. NBC only aired part of the steamy clip, in which the Christian Grey character tells paramour Anastasia Steele to stay away from him because she wouldn't understand his quirky tastes. "Enlighten me," she replies. The film opens Feb. 13. [AceShowbiz]
The Obama administration addresses illegal immigration, an Egyptian court sentences more than 180 to death, and more
1. Obama administration announces new measures to counteract illegal immigration
The United States will not tolerate a surge of women and children crossing the Mexico border into Texas, administration officials said on Friday as they announced new measures to stymie the recent immigrant influx. Many of those crossing the border are from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras, and the White House said it will invest $9.6 million to help those countries repatriate their citizens. The administration is also sending additional immigration judges and attorneys to Texas, in order to expedite asylum claims. More than 52,000 unaccompanied minors, and 39,000 adults with children have been apprehended along the border so far this year. [The Washington Post]
2. Egypt court sentences more than 180 to death in mass trial
In what is considered the largest mass trial in recent Egyptian history, a court handed down more than 180 death sentences today, stemming from an August attack on a police station that killed one officer and one civilian. Those sentenced to death include the Muslim Brotherhood's spiritual leader, Mohammed Badie. However, the international community has condemned the mass death sentences, saying Egypt's government is becoming increasingly politicized. One man sentenced, Mustafa Youssef, "was born blind," noted his lawyer. "How would he kill, burn and loot?" [The Associated Press]
3. Ukraine begins unilateral ceasefire as Russia redeploys troops to border
Following weeks of fighting, new Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko instigated a week-long, unilateral ceasefire on Friday, although he was quick to note that while forces would not take offensive action against pro-Russian militants, they would still defend themselves against any attacks. During the week, separatists have a chance to turn in weapons, although the Donetsk People's Republic gave no sign of relenting as the ceasefire began. Meanwhile, U.S. officials said that Russia had sent tanks and heavy artillery back across the border on Friday, although Moscow claimed it was merely bolstering troops on its side of a border steeped in fighting. [The Washington Post]
4. U.N.: Number of displaced people reaches more than 50 million
For the first time since World War II, more than 50 million people are living under forced displacement, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. At least 51.2 million people, roughly the equivalent of the entire population of Spain, are currently seeking refuge or asylum, and at least half of that number are children. And with renewed violence in Iraq, the U.N, says the number may increase this year. "We are seeing here the immense costs of not ending wars," Antonio Guterres, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees says. "Peace is today dangerously in deficit." [NPR]
5. Iran, six powers remain in stalemate after nuclear settlement talks
Saying Iran will not reach an agreement until six big powers "abandon excessive demands," Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left this week's nuclear talks in a stalemate. The United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany met with representatives from Tehran in an attempt to broker a deal to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for more regulations on the country's nuclear work. The major powers are aiming for a July 20 deadline, in the midst of renewed fears of Middle East wars. [Reuters]
6. Report: Pentagon, VA not assessing success rate of PTSD treatments
A report released on Friday by the Institute of Medicine says neither the Department of Veterans Affairs nor the Pentagon is tracking the success of PTSD treatments offered to troops. The VA spent more than $3 billion on PTSD care in 2012, but it failed to study whether the treatments actually helped soldiers. Meanwhile, the Pentagon's treatments "appear to be local, ad hoc, incremental, crisis-driven, with little planning devoted to the development of a long-range approach to obtaining desired outcomes," the IOM reports. While five percent of all troops report cases of PTSD, the number is much higher for those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. [Time]
7. Presbyterian Church will allow ministers to perform same-sex marriages
Changing its constitution's definition of marriage from "a man and a woman" to "two people," the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted on Thursday to allow ministers in states that have legalized same-sex marriages discretion to perform the nuptials. Actually changing the language in the church's Book of Order to reflect the amendment requires a year-long ratification process, and conservative members of the General Assembly may still push against that measure. "There were some of us with tears of joy, and some of us with tears of grief," Rev. Susan De George, a lesbian minister of the Hudson River Presbytery, in New York, said of the vote. [The New York Times]
8. Scientists discover new species of Neanderthal in Spain
Researchers published a description in the journal Science on Thursday of a new, Neanderthal-esque prehistoric human species. The remains, found in a cave in northern Spain, do not dramatically alter the current theory of human evolution. They do, however, suggest that there were several isolated, unique human species existing at the same time in different parts of the world, which may have eventually fought for the same land. [The Washington Post]
9. Disney taps Rian Johnson to write, direct Star Wars: Episode VIII
With production just barely underway on Star Wars: Episode VII, Disney and Lucasfilm have already selected director Rian Johnson to helm the next film in the series. Best known for Looper, a sci-fi action film featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, Johnson also directed several episodes of Breaking Bad and was on the shortlist for the Star Trek reboot. [Variety]
10. Peanut the mutt wins 'World's Ugliest Dog' title
As far as titles go, "World's Ugliest Dog" sounds like one most canines would rather not win, but that's too bad for 2-year-old mutt Peanut. Peanut's owner, Holly Chandler, entered the dog in the 25th annual competition in California to bring attention to the traumas of pet abuse, and she said she will use the $1,500 prize to pay for other injured animals' veterinary expenses. While Peanut is healthy now, he was seriously burned as a puppy, resulting in the unsightly, hairless patches all over his body that earned him Friday's victory. [The Associated Press]
President Barack Obama said Friday that he had reluctantly accepted the resignation of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, giving in to growing calls from lawmakers and veterans' advocates that he step down in the wake of widespread reports that VA hospitals falsified waiting lists.
"I want to reiterate: he is a very good man," Obama said of Shinseki. However, the president said the decorated retired Army general concluded "he could not carry out the next stages of reform without being a distraction…I regret that he has to resign under these circumstances."
The secretary had set in motion several firings and disciplinary actions, the president said, and more changes were coming — significant ones. "There is a need for a change in culture …that makes sure bad news surfaces quickly so things can be fixed," he said.
Shinseki "is deeply disappointed in the fact that bad news did not get to him and that the structures weren't in place for him to identify this problem quickly and fix it," the president said. "His priority now is to make sure that happens, and he felt like new leadership would be — would serve our veterans best, and I agree with him."
Obama said Deputy VA Secretary Sloan Gibson, who's only been in that job for three months, will step in temporarily as VA secretary while the administration looks for a permanent head for the department.
In that post, "I want someone who is spending every minute of every day figuring out, have we called every veteran that's waiting?" the president said.
Obama also he recognizes that, regardless of personnel moves, he is the one ultimately responsible for the failures at the VA.
"This is my administration; I always take responsibility for whatever happens," he said, adding that he's been deeply concerned about veterans' issues since serving on the Veterans Affairs committee in the Senate.
Key lawmakers said they welcomed Shinseki's departure, but had no warning of it before the president spoke.
"Leadership matters; calling for Secretary Shinseki's resignation did not come lightly to me, but accountability starts at the top and the step taken today is just the beginning," Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Ks.) said. "We now need accountability and true reform within the VA all across the country. For this to occur, we need a fresh perspective and a leader who is willing to shake up the VA's bureaucratic culture."
House Veteran Affairs Chairman Jeff Miller (R-Fla.) said he'd received no heads up from the administration or Shinseki about the announcement, which Obama delivered at a hastily-called press conference just after meeting with the VA secretary.
Shinseki becomes the highest-profile member of the Obama administration to be forced out — a major departure for Obama, who has consistently stuck by aides in crisis.
But from the beginning, this one was different: a CNN report revealed efforts to conceal the extent of the backlog processing veteran's health claims at a facility in Phoenix, casting doubt on the success often touted over the past year by Shinseki and the White House about VA efforts cutting the backlog in half. CNN's report cited up to 40 veterans' deaths as attributable to not being seen in time at health facilities, with thousands more left waiting for care while VA officials racked up bonuses by appearing to move cut the backlog.
Heading into the midterms, the GOP has been trying to use the controversy as the latest reminder of what they say is a dysfunctional, failed Obama administration — which they're looking to hang on Democratic Senate and House candidates across the country.
Filling the spot won't be easy. Between the depth of the problems and the scrutiny over fixing them, there's no clear path to success.
Obama's statement came immediately after what the president had earlier described as a "serious conversation" he had planned to have with Shinseki about the secretary's "capacity" to adequately handle the problems in the department.
"I'll have a serious conversation with him about whether he thinks he's prepared and has the capacity to take on the job of fixing it, because I don't want any veteran to not be getting the kind of services they deserve," the president said during the excerpt of an interview with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan that was taped on Thursday and aired on Friday.
Shinseki on Friday delivered to the president an internal audit on the situation at the VA.
Obama had come under increasing pressure to fire Shinseki over the VA scandal. An interim inspector general report released this week detailed "systemic" problems in the department, prompting a flurry of lawmakers on the left and right to call for the secretary's resignation. The IG review came after reports that said at least 40 veterans died while waiting for health care in the Phoenix VA system.
During a speech earlier Friday morning at the National Coalition for Homeless Veterans annual conference in Washington, Shinseki had apologized for what he acknowledged were systemic problems inside the VA health system but gave no sign he would step aside amid calls for his resignation.
Shinseki said then that he was removing the leadership of the Phoenix VA center that has been ground zero of the scandal, suspending bonuses for senior leaders and endorsing action by Congress to enhance VA's ability to fire some workers.
"This situation can be fixed," he said.
The secretary also acknowledged that it has been a "challenging" time for the department.
"The past few weeks have been challenging for everyone at VA because we take caring for veterans so very seriously," he said near the beginning of his remarks. "We've done tremendous work together these past five years."


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Hey gang I know NOTHING about track racing but I want to go to Frisco and check it out. Sadly every weekend is taken for me in October and it looks like they don't have anything to see in December...
I'm curious to know are all the races done with fancy track bikes or do they do any with "stock" bikes?
I don't plan on racing but I sure want to go watch. This would be something fun to take my kids to!
Also, why the heck do they not post ANY pictures on the Frisco Velodrome site? How goofy is that?

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A core material for automobile bumpers which is composed of a molded article of foamed particles of a polypropylene-type resin. The molded article has a density of 0.015 to 0.045 g/cm3 and a compression stress at 50% compression of at least 1 kg/cm2. The core material simultaneously has excellent energy absorbing property and dimensional recovery and a low density.
1. In an automobile bumper which is composed of a core material and a surface covering material, the improvement wherein said core material is composed of a molded article of foamed particles of a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene with 1 to 30% by weight of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with it, said molded article having a density of 0.015 to 0.045 g/cm3 and a compression stress at 50% compression of at least 1 kg/cm2, and the said surface covering material is a synthetic resin.
2. An automobile bumper of claim 1 wherein the copolymer is a random copolymer of ethylene and propylene with an ethylene unit content of 1 to 30% by weight.
3. An automobile bumper of claim 1 wherein the core material of claim 1 which has an energy absorption efficiency of at least 70% and a dimensional recovery of at least 90%, and when heated at a temperature of 100� C. for a period of 22 hours, a volume shrinkage of less than 20%.
This application is a division of now abandoned application Ser. No. 504,289, filed June 14, 1983.
This invention relates to a core material for use in the production of automobile bumpers.
Conventionally, automobile bumpers are made of metallic bars. In recent years, however, with the need for lighter weights of automobiles to save energy, some plastic bumpers have been suggested to replace the metallic bumpers. The plastic bumpers are usually composed of a core material of a plastic foam and a surface material of a synthetic resin, etc. enclosing the foam core. Polyurethane, polyethylene and polystyrene foams have been proposed as the foam core material.
The foam core material is an important component part which affects the performance of an automobile bumper, and is generally required to have excellent energy absorbing property and dimensional recovery. Furthermore, to decrease the weight of an automobile, the bumper core material should be of low density.
The polyurethane foam proposed as a core material for bumpers has excellent energy absorbing property and dimensional recovery, but its density is high (usually 0.09 to 0.15 g/cm3). Hence, it has a large weight and its cost is high. The polyethylene foam has the defect of being inferior in energy absorbing property and heat resistance. The polystyrene foam, on the other hand, has poor dimensional recovery and impact strength. Thus, the conventional core material for automobile bumpers have advantages and disadvantages, and no core material has been obtained which can simultaneously meet the three requirements (1), (2) and (3) for bumper cores. (1) They should have excellent energy absorbing properties. (2) They should have an excellent dimensional recovery. (3) They should be of low density for lighter weights of bumpers.
It is an object of this invention therefore to provide a core material for bumpers which meets all of the three requirements.
We have now found that the above object of the invention can be achieved by a molded article of foamed particles of a polypropylene-type resin, which has a density of 0.015 to 0.045 g/cm3 and a compression stress at 50% compression of at least 1 kg/cm2.
Thus, the present invention provides a core material for automobile bumpers, said core material being composed of a molded article of foamed particles of a polypropylene-type resin, said article having a density of 0.015 to 0.045 g/cm3 and a compression stress at 50% compression of at least 1 kg/cm2.
The polypropylene-type resin constituting the core material in accordance with this invention denotes a homopolymer of propylene or a copolymer of propylene with 1 to 30% by weight, preferably 1 to 5%, of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer copolymerizable with it. The polymer or copolymer may be a composition containing up to 40% by weight, preferably up to 30% by weight, of low-density polyethylene, an ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymer or both. An ethylene-propylene random copolymer is a preferred copolymer. The polypropylene-type resins may be crosslinked or non-crosslinked, but is preferably non-crosslinked.
The molded article of foamed particles of the polypropylene-type resin, which constitutes the core material of this invention, denotes a molded article obtained by feeding preliminarily foamed particles of the polypropylene-type resin in a mold capable of enclosing the particles but allowing escape of gases therefrom, and heating the foamed particles at a temperature at which the resin particles expand and soften and melt-adhere to each other into a mass, whereby a foamed molded article expanded to the same shape and size as the cavity of the mold is formed.
It has been found in accordance with this invention that the molded article of foamed particles has better energy absorbing property and dimensional recovery than an extruded and foamed article obtained by mixing a molten polypropylene-type resin with a blowing agent in an extruder, and extruding the mixture from the extruder to expand the resin.
According to one example of a method for producing the core material of the invention, preliminarily foamed particles are prepared by dispersing particles of the polypropylene-type resin and a volatile blowing agent in water in a closed vessel, heating the dispersion at a temperature at which the particles soften or at a higher temperature thereby impregnating the particles with the blowing agent, thereafter opening one end of the vessel, and while maintaining the pressure of the inside of the vessel at a predetermined value, releasing the particles and water into an atmosphere kept at a lower pressure than the inside of the vessel. Thereafter, the preliminarily foamed particles are pressurized and aged by using an inorganic gas or a mixture of it with a volatile blowing agent to impart an elevated pressure to the inside of the particles. Then, the preliminarily foamed particles are filled in a mold capable of enclosing the particles but allowing escape of gases therefrom. The particles are heated to expand them whereby the particles melt-adhere to each other to form a molded article having a shape conforming to the mold.
The method of producing the preliminarily foamed particles of the polypropylene-type resin and the method of producing a molded article from the resulting preliminarily foamed particles mentioned above are described in detail in, for example, Japanese Laid-Open Patent Publication Nos. 23834/1983 and 25334/1983.
In the past, it was difficult to produce molded articles of foamed particles of polypropylene-type resins. But their production has become easy by the development of the aforesaid methods.
The core material of the invention should have a density in the range of 0.015 to 0.045 g/cm3, preferably 0.02 to 0.035 g/cm3. If it is less than 0.015 g/cm3, the core material has poor energy absorbing property. If it exceeds 0.045 g/cm3, it has a poor dimensional recovery and cannot withstand use in automobile bumpers.
One embodiment of this invention is described below with reference to the accompanying drawings in which:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of an automobile bumper having the core material of this invention, with a part of the outer covering material removed;
FIG. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view taken along line II--II of FIG. 1; and
FIG. 3 is a graph showing a stress-strain curve of the core material.
As shown in FIG. 1, a core material 1 of this invention for automobile bumpers is formed in substantially the same shape as a finished automobile bumper by molding preliminarily foamed particles of the polypropylene-type resin. The core material 1 so formed is covered with a surface covering material 2 made of polyurethane, polypropylene, polyethylene, etc. to produce an automobile bumper 3. The core material and the surface covering material may, or may not, be bonded into a one-piece structure by such means as adhesion or melt-adhesion. The core material 1 and the surface covering material 2 may also be molded into a one-piece structure. Or they may first be produced separately, and the covering material 2 may be applied to the core material 1.
The following examples specifically illustrate the production of the core material.
One hundred parts by weight of particles of each of the resins indicated in Table 1, dichlorodifluoromethane as a volatile blowing agent in each of the amounts indicated in Table 1, 0.5 part by weight of aluminum oxide as a dispersing agent and 300 parts by weight of water were put in a closed vessel. The resin particles, and the blowing agent were dispersed in water with the aid of the dispersing agent. With stirring, the dispersion was heated at 145� C. for 1 hour to impregnate the resin particles with the blowing agent. Then, one end of the vessel was opened, and while the pressure of the inside of the vessel was maintained at 35 kg/cm2, the resin particles and water were simultaneously released into the open atmosphere.
The preliminarily foamed particles obtained were left to stand at room temperature and atmospheric pressure for 48 hours, and put in a pressurized vessel where they were pressurized and aged at a temperature of 20� C. under a pressure of 2 kg/cm2.G. The aged particles were filled in a mold which could enclose the particles but allowed escape of gases therefrom and which had a cavity of the same shape as the intended core material, and heated with steam under 3.2 kg/cm2.G to foam and expand them. Thus, a core material having the shape conforming to the cavity of the mold was obtained.
Table 1 summarizes the densities and compression stresses at 50% compression of the various core materials obtained.
The core materials were subjected to tests for the efficiency of energy absorption, dimensional recovery and heat resistance. The results are shown in Table 1.
In Comparative Examples 3 and 4, commercially available molded articles were used.
TABLE 1__________________________________________________________________________ Amount of Properties of the core material blowing Compression Efficiency agent stress at 50% of energy Dimensional Heat (parts by Density compression adsorption recovery resistance Base resin weight) (g/cm3) (kg/cm2) (*1) (*2) (*3)__________________________________________________________________________Example 1 Ethylene/propylene 20 0.017 1.1 ○ ⊚ ○ random copolymer 2 Ethylene/propylene 18 0.020 1.3 ○ ⊚ ⊚ random copolymer 3 Ethylene/propylene 16.5 0.030 1.6 ○ ⊚ ⊚ random copolymer 4 Ethylene/propylene 15 0.040 2.0 ○ ⊚ ⊚ random copolymerComparative 1 Ethylene/propylene 23 0.013 0.7 X ⊚ ○Example random copolymer 2 Ethylene/propylene 13 0.047 2.5 ○ X ⊚ random copolymer 3 Low-density -- 0.030 0.6 Δ ⊚ X polyethylene 4 Polystyrene -- 0.030 2.5 ○ X X__________________________________________________________________________ (*1): Efficiency of energy absorption A sample was compressed under the following conditions. Sample temperature: 20� C. Compression speed: 10 mm/min. From the stressstrain curve shown in FIG. 3 which was obtained upon compression, the efficiency of energy absorption was calculated as follows: ##STR1## The result was evaluated on the following scale. ○ : at least 70% Δ: at least 50% but less than 70% X: less than 50% (*2): Dimensional recovery The dimensional recovery is the percentage of the size of a sample measured 30 minutes after the compression test described in (*1) above based on the size of the sample before the compression test. The result was evaluated on the following scale. ⊚: at least 90% ○ : at least 80% but less than 90% Δ: at least 70% but less than 80% X: less than 70% (*3): Heat resistance The volume shrinkage of a sample after heating at 100� C. for 22 hours was measured, and the result was evaluated on the following scale. ⊚: less than 10% ○ : at least 10% but less than 20% Δ: at least 20% but less than 50% X: at least 50%
As is seen from the foregoing description, the core material of this invention can meet the three requirements for core materials of automobile bumpers. Specifically, it has excellent energy absorbing property, an excellent dimensional recovery, and a low density that is conductive to lighter weights of automobiles. Moreover, it is low in cost and also has superior heat resistance, impact strength, shape retention, dimensional accuracy and chemical resistance.
A core material made of a polystyrene foam may produce a sound of friction between it and a polyurethane outer covering material when it is subjected to an external force, and this sound is likely to detract from the marketing value of the bumper. The core material of this invention, however, does not produce such a frictional sound.
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There are very few things as a professional that are as awesome as receiving an endorsement from someone that helped pave the way for you. Kevin Owens received just that this week. During an interview, Hulk Hogan was asked for his opinions on NXT, and he was quick to praise Owens as being the guy that made him a believer in the product again. Hogan feels that there is a very bright future on the main roster in WWE for Owens.
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This TV includes 4 pairs of 3D glasses and supports passive 3D technology, which means that batteries are not required for 3D viewing. With one component video and four HDMI inputs, there are multiple options for connecting high-definition sources. The component video input also acts as a hybrid port, which allows you to connect an additional composite video source. In addition to a standard remote control, this TV also includes a second one-touch remote for instant content sharing between the display and a mobile device.
For audio, Sony's S-Force virtual surround technology works with the curved 40 watt 4 channel speaker system of this TV to simulate a 5.1 speaker environment. This technology is designed to add a sense of depth to audio and widen the soundstage for listeners who are sitting off-center. Even with built-in surround simulation, you have the option of using the TV's optical output to connect to a traditional surround sound audio system.
- Sony X-Reality PRO Picture Engine
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- Triluminos technology is designed to add depth to images and produce life-like natural shades and colors. Hard-to-reproduce reds, aqua blues and emerald greens are optimized, so landscapes and seascapes look vivid and faces appear natural.
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- Dynamic Edge LED Backlighting uses local dimming, which delivers pitch-black night scenes and illuminates bright scenes. Rather than illuminating the entire screen, contrast is boosted in just the right areas to produce a life-like picture.
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- Motionflow XR 480 takes motion clarity beyond refresh rates. This technology is designed to smooth out the image and minimize distortion on fast-moving content to produce clearer and natural movement.
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- Control the TV or browse the channel guide with your Android or iOS smartphone or tablet without interfering with what you're watching on the TV. You can even use your mobile device to learn more about the show you're watching right now, like cast and episode details. SideView allows you to search what's available to watch on TV, Internet videos, and streaming apps like Netflix. Once you find what you want to watch, you can select to view it on the TV. You can use your portable device to access social network sites and share what you're watching.
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- With Mobile High Definition Link (MHL) you can connect your MHL compatible smartphone or tablet to your television and "mirror" your mobile device image on your TV. Video, photos and apps are re-sized and scaled to fit the larger TV screen, you can then use the TV remote to navigate the phone, while it's charging from the TV. Using screen mirroring technology, you can wirelessly connect phones that are Miracast enabled to the TV. You can also connect your smartphone or tablet to your TV with one-touch NFC, which allows you to use the included one-touch remote to instantly share your mobile device's screen on your television.
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Network: This Sony TV features built-in Wi-Fi and DLNA for streaming content like pictures and music directly to your television from other DLNA devices. When Wi-Fi isn't available, this TV also has a 10/100 Ethernet connection for wired high-speed Internet access. Three USB 2.0 ports are also included for photo viewing and media playback. Skype subscribers can connect a webcam to one of the TV's USB interfaces for Skype video conferencing.
Video: This TV features four HDMI, one composite video and one component video input. The component video input also functions as a second composite video input. One of its HDMI inputs supports Mobile HD Link (MHL) and Audio Return Channel (ARC). MHL allows you to connect a mini-HDMI cable to your smartphone or tablet for HD display on your television, while ARC allows you to listen to TV audio from an external audio system without using a separate digital optical cable.
Custom Installation: Custom Installers can utilize the display's RS-232C and IR interfaces, which utilizes command codes for simplified system integration and control.
- S-Force Front Surround Technology
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i think its a little too soon to even rate this album.
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dumbest band name ever like wtf
Album Rating: 2.0@Josh D.
I know, I love sarcasm also...this scrapes rock bottom for him though...
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National Australia Bank on Wednesday announced a reshuffle at the top of its technology team, including what the bank describes as a promotion for Chief Information Officer Adam Bennett.
Mr. Bennett, who's been Group CIO for more than three years, will step into the newly-created role of Executive General Manager of Enterprise Transformation in the group's Business Services division.
NAB said Mr. Bennett would oversee the transformation of the bank's enterprise technology–which includes systems like the NextGen program, Enterprise Architecture, and Enterprise Project Services.
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Crazy Colts Fan - Short but Harsh Words for Purdue QB Robert Marve off Colts Twitter Feed This is one of those case where the picture really does say 1000 words--and none of them spoke to kindly of Purdue QB Robert Marve. The exchange went down during the tail end of the draft on Saturday as the team prepared to draft Mr. Irrelevant, the final player taken in the draft. Last year the Colts had the honor as well and took Northern Illinois quarterback Chandler Harnish. Now it does not make sense to take another QB unless the team is unhappy with Andrew Luck, newly signed Matt Hasselbeck, and Harnish in any way. They are clearly happy with Luck, they just signed Hasselbeck, and I've heard nothing bad about Harnish. So there is no need for a QB. I am sure that Mitch is either a Purdue fan or for some reason really likes Marve, and as a fan it's cool that he go out on a limb and ask that Marve be taken. Fans are suppose to support their players.... (To see th...
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The thing that concerns me with MacK is all those reports that state he often just watches the game happening around him when he doesn't have the puck
, sadly I haven't been able to watch the QMJHL apart from a couple of Remparts games so I'm not really in a postion to comment on him and Drouin all that much.
On another note, I just love the way Barkov and Valeri Nichushkin play, those two are going to be stars in this league for quite some time IMHO, but I have some serious concerns about Valeri Nichushkin coming over.
Where are you hearing this? From the game's I've watched he always tries to position himself well. He may not be able to process the game like Drouin but he still thinks it well.
There is nothing concerning to me about Mackinnon. The guy's skating already is in the upper echelon in the world. He's great defensively and really hounds the puck and wins a ton of battles. Shift in and shift out he always gives everything he's got. He gives Parise like effort.
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