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Brad Lackey on his way to "First America" status by winning the 1982 FIM World Championship.
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The late Jim Pomeroy turned the world upside day when he showed up at the opening round of the 1973 250cc World Championships in Sabadell, Spain, and won the race on his Bultaco motorcycle. It was the first time an American had ever won a Grand Prix race, shocking the Europeans. Two years later Pomeroy would also become the first American to win a moto at the annual Motocross des Nations, but Team USA as a whole would not win until a half-dozen years later.
Jim Pomeroy takes the checkerd flag and America's first win at the 1973 Spanish 250cc Grand Prix.
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Way back in the 1950s, Bud Ekins was traveling across Europe when he decided to enter a Grand Prix in England. He ended up finishing tenth in one moto, and in doing so he earned a single championship point. It marked the first time an American had ever scored a GP point.
In 1980 Marty Moates rode the race of his life at Carlsbad to become the first American to win the United States Grand Prix of Motocross. He rode a privateer LOP Yamaha and shocked not only Europe's best, but also the top American riders of the day; Moates had never won an outdoor National or Supercross to that point. In fact, he never would, but on that one day he was the absolute fastest man on the planet.
In 1981 the Team USA quartet of American Honda riders Donnie Hansen, Danny LaPorte, Johnny O'Mara and Chuck Sun would join together to upset the rest of the world at the Motocross and Trophee des Nations in Belgium and Germany. Those races marked the first American wins at either, and set the stage for a streak of dominance that would last 13 years.
One year later Danny "Magoo" Chandler become the first and only man ever to win sweep all four motos at the Motocross and Trophee des Nations, which meant riding first a 250 and then a 500. His fortnight in Europe rates among the most remarkable performances in global motocross history.
Team USA in 1982 featured Danny "Magoo" Chandler (3), who swept all four motos of the Motocross and Trophee des Nations, becoming the first American to win those races. Sweet sponsor name beneath the numers on those bibs!
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In 1973 "Jammin'" Jimmy Weinert navigated the mud of the Rio Bravo Trans-AMA on his Kawasaki to become the first American to win a Trans-AMA race. Up to that point the series had been dominated by the likes of Roger DeCoster, Adolf Weil, Ake Jonsson and more.
The first Inter-Am winner of American descent was Gary Bailey, who took a round from the touring Europeans on July Fourth, 1969, winning the 250cc Inter-Am race at Saddleback Park, topping some of Europe's best riders of the day in Arne Kring and Olle Peterson and more.
In 1975 Marty Smith become the first American to win a 125cc Grand Prix when he scored the win at the Valvoline 125cc U.S. Grand Prix at Mid-Ohio. One year later he would become the first American to win a 125cc GP in Europe as well, taking the Grand Prix of Denmark from the late Gaston Rahier.
Gary Bailey became the first American to win a major race agains the Europeans when he won the 1969 Saddleback Inter-Am race.
Photo courtesy AMA Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame
Marty Smith at the 1975 U.S. Grand Prix at Mid-Ohio, where he become the first American to win a USGP in this class.
Photo courtesy AMA Motorcycle Museum Hall of Fame
In 1978 Bob "Hurricane" Hannah ended many years of frustration for Americans by winning the Trans-AMA title over Europe's best riders. It marked the beginning of the end of Europe's dominance over the Americans, as well as the beginning of the end of the Trans-AMA series. What used to be a working vacation for European riders like DeCoster and Weil had become a real dogfight!
In 1989 Trampas Parker raced out of relative obscurity to become the first American to win the FIM 125cc World Championship on a KTM -- the brand's first 125cc title. Two years later Parker also became the first American to win two world titles, taking the 250cc crown over Mike Healey (another American). One year later, in 1992, Donny Schmit would match Parker's feat, adding the 250 GP title to the one he took in the 125cc class in '90.
Trampas Parker became the first American to win the FIM 125cc World Championship.
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One of the things I promised myself I'd do in 2010 is keep track of my reading. To that end, I've started a page on my home blog where I'll post short reviews of books as I finish them. I just posted my entry for Native Son and wowie, are my students in for it right out of the gate! Thanks, Carson!
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It is how I track my reading list
You could just keep one, but I get sneaky and make a new one for each year.
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What Is the Rankings & Estimates Report and How Can I Use It to Benefit My State?
Rankings & Estimates is an annual report that the National Education Association's Research Department has produced for 70 years. The report consists of two parts:
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The Arkansas Education Association, as an organization, uses the Rankings to develop salary goals and proposals. In the Arkansas court case resolving their adequacy and equity issues, the NEA's Rankings & Estimates data were used in calculating adequate funding for state aide matrix funding for school districts.
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- To raise public awareness and to organize groups in my state to take action on issues such as teacher compensation and class size.
Washington uses the Rankings & Estimates publication in internal and external PR and organizing throughout the bargaining and legislative session.
--Marie Cañas, Center for Education Quality, Research
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- To advocate for higher pay for teachers and more state funding for public schools by showing how my state compares to others.
The North Carolina Association of Educators, in a non-collective bargaining state, uses the Rankings data on average teacher salary rankings and per pupil expenditure rankings as a vital and main negotiating chip to lobby for teacher raises and increased K-12 education funding. During the late 1990s, a former governor took on an initiative NCAE developed to raise teacher salaries to the national average by 2000. It was NCAE's main theme for membership recruitment, trainings, and the top association goal. The campaign was "Average Salary 2000." NCAE went from a rank of 43rd to 20th during that time frame, which was close to the U.S. average.
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This Atlanta hotel has a restaurant and a bar. Room service is also available. The business center is open 24-hours a day and complimentary wireless Internet access is available throughout the hotel and guestrooms. The hotel has a rooftop outdoor pool with views of the skyline and a fitness center. Laundry facilities are on site and dry cleaning services are available (surcharge). Parking is available onsite for a fee. The hotel provides complimentary area shuttle service, taking guests to within three miles of the hotel.
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Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal
Volume 34 Issue 2 (Mar/Apr 2010)
To cite this article: Kelly, Paul M; Graham, Simon and Sullivan, Elizabeth A. Pregnancy and Perinatal Health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women and Their Babies: A Literature Review [online]. Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2010: 15-16. Availability: <http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=941847465526729;res=IELAPA> ISSN: 1037-3403. [cited 29 Jun 17].
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Source: Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2, Mar/Apr 2010: 15-16
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Pregnancy; Australian Institute of Health and Welfare; Aboriginal Australians--Medical care; Women, Aboriginal Australian; Newborn infants--Health and hygiene;
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Health seems likely to be the story of the day. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Andrew Lansley are all appearing together at an event with NHS staff. They are not going to unveil changes to the health bill, but, according to the BBC, they will announce that that they are appointing a panel of experts to review the legislation. Yesterday Clegg said there would be "substantive, real changes" to the bill. Today's announcement will be the first step in that process.
Otherwise, it seems relatively quiet. MPs have started their Easter recess (although the Lords is still sitting). Here are the items in the diary.
Morning: David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Andrew Lansley hold a Q&A with NHS staff.
11am: Lord Fowler raises phone hacking during questions in the Lords.
12.30pm: Vince Cable, the business secretary, speaks at the Higher Education Funding Council (HEFCE) annual conference. As my colleagues Jeevan Vasagar and Jessica Shepherd report, he is going to warn universities that imposing fees of £9,000 could backfire.
As usual, I'll be covering all the breaking political news, as well as looking at the papers (unlike yesterday, when I didn't have time - sorry) and bringing you the best politics from the web. I'll post a lunchtime summary at around 1pm and an afternoon one at about 4pm.
It's the start of the new tax year and, as my colleagues Polly Curtis and Larry Elliott report, Ed Balls has dubbed it "black Wednesday" because of the impact on working families. Balls was on the Today programme this morning setting out his case. According to PoliticsHome, this is what he said:
I think you'll find that government ministers will not be willing to say that the effect of these budgets is progressive because they know it is regressive, because of the VAT rise which outweighs by far the personal allowance rise. However, even on today's figures, if you are a family with children, if you are a woman rather than a man, in particular if you are a woman in part-time work, you lose very substantially.
The IFS have said that a family with two kids on £18,000 plus will lose... up to £1,500. The question is, if we're all in this together, why is it women rather than men, families with children, part-time working women losing their child support who are being hit the hardest in a set of changes that is not progressive, but is regressive?
But he was wrong about ministers not being willing to describe their tax policies as progressive. This is what Danny Alexander, the chief secretary to the Treasury, had to say about an hour later when he was asked if his changes were progressive.
I think they are, yes. If you look at the information that we published in the budget document and the spending review document last October, they do show that everyone is making a contribution, but that those on the highest income are contributing most and that's right. Those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden.
If unpaid internships are to be discouraged, I presume that the government will now put unpaid Parliamentary Private Secretaries onto the government payroll?
Glossy flyer with 'we love the NHS' given out at event - PM told cabinet important to get reform right - wonder if he gave them a flyer too?
My colleague Severin Carrell is at Clydebank College for the launch of Labour's manifesto for the Scottish elections. The press notice about the event describes it as "a fantastic new campus which was built by the previous Labour government in Scotland with an investment in excess of £20m". But Severin has just called to say that the fire alarm has just gone off, and journalists and Labour's Scottish high command are all now standing outside in the rain. He'll be filing a full story about the launch later, after it actually gets going.
here. And all the politics stories filed yesterday, including some in today's paper, are here.You can read all today's Guardian politics stories
As for the rest of the papers, they've cleared depressed Tim Montgomerie at ConservativeHome. Having read them, he has posted a blog under the heading: "At the slightest of opportunities, the Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Express will kick Cameron." Here are the articles that I found interesting.
• James Kirkup and Christopher Hope in the Daily Telegraph say David Cameron blamed Britain for many of the world's historic problems on his trip to Pakistan yesterday.
His remarks came on a visit to Pakistan, when he was asked how Britain could help to end the row over Kashmir.
He insisted that it was not his place to intervene in the dispute, saying: "I don't want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world's problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place."
His remarks about Kashmir were greeted warmly by the audience of Pakistani students and academics, but drew accusations from historians that the Prime Minister was wrongly apologising for Britain's past.
Daisy Cooper, the director of the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, said: "This is typical of the UK's schizophrenic relationship with former colonies where it is both proud and embarrassed about its past. The Coalition has said that it has big ambitions for a modern Commonwealth and the UK should stop being embarrassed about its colonial past and they should work with other countries to help improve their human rights."
• The Times (paywall) in a leader says Cameron should reshuffle his cabinet.
Serious questions have to be asked about whether a number of Cabinet ministers are being deployed in the right place. Despite the brave face he put on the pause in his legislation, Andrew Lansley has lost the political argument at Health. Since he was caught speaking out of turn, Vince Cable's future at Business has been in doubt; a move to Health could suit him well. Liam Fox, the Defence Secretary, was not distinguished in the Comprehensive Spending Review, but can he be moved during a war? Eric Pickles appears intent on starting fights with as many councils as he can; and, at the Ministry of Justice, Kenneth Clarke's proposals for prisons are a disaster in the making.
Any reshuffle involves the juggling of both personal and political relationships, but it is not as if there is no talent available. Nick Herbert is proving impressive as Minister of State at the Home Office, as is Greg Clark at Communities. If David Laws is ever freed from the endless investigation into his expenses he would be welcomed back into Government. Distinguished politicians such as Stephen Dorrell, Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon and Sir Malcolm Rifkind still have a lot to offer.
• Chris Giles in the Financial Times (subscription) says Gregory Clark, an American professor, has produced research suggesting that there is about as much social mobility in Britain now as there was in the Middle Ages.
"The huge social resources spent on publicly provided education and health have seemingly created no gains in the rate of social mobility," Prof Clark said.
"The modern meritocracy is no better at achieving social mobility than the medieval oligarchy. Instead that rate seems to be a constant of social physics, beyond the control of social engineering."
• Lord Young of Graffham, David Cameron's former enterprise adviser, tells the Financial Times in an interview (subscription) that Cameron should "resist Nick Clegg's plan to encourage fathers to take more time off work to look after young children because it will harm small businesses".
Lord Young of Graffham, who was forced to quit Number 10 last year after suggesting people were not suffering in the recession, said small companies were already thinking "two or three times before they take on a woman of childbearing age" and needed to be left in peace.
"You don't have to make [maternity leave] interchangeable. Why should men take time off?" the Conservative peer said in his first interview since leaving the government. "No, they can leave things how they are. What I think would be extremely difficult is to have [extended leave] going to the men as well."
Rules come into force on Wednesday allowing fathers to take up a mother's unused maternity leave if she returns to work within 12 months. Mr Clegg wants to extend this further to allow parents to share leave in small chunks rather than take it as a single block.
at PoliticsHome has got an interesting take on the story about Benjamin Zephaniah supposedly being airbrushed out of pro-AV literature distributed by the Yes to Fairer Votes campaign outside London.Paul Waugh
I've just learned that the real story is the exact opposite. It wasn't Zephaniah who was airbrushed out in the West Country - it was Tony Robinson (aka Baldrick) who was removed from the London leaflets.
I understand that one member of the Yes camp spotted the leaflet with Robinson on it and said that in the capital it would look strange to have no ethnic minority faces. As a result, Zephaniah was airbrushed in, rather than airbrushed out.
(to use Nick Clegg's word) the changes to the legislation will be.David Cameron's NHS event is going to start shortly. I'll be dependent on BBC News or Sky for my coverage because I'm in Westminster, but it's a quiet day and I'm expecting them to show most if it live. Cameron is not now expected to announce any specific changes to the health bill. But we may get a better idea of quite how "substantive"
According to a post from the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg on Twitter, the literature being distributed by the government at the event includes an implicit admission that ministers have so far failed to win public support for their plans.
Govt flyer admits failure to sell reforms to NHS staff 'we know real change will only happen if we have people who work in the NHS on board'
David Cameron is speaking now. He's in Frimley, Surrey. He says he believes "passionately" in the NHS. He says that he knows what it is like to rely on the NHS, and to put people that he cares about in its hands. He knows what it is like to turn up at a hospital in the middle of the night. It matters to everyone, he says. And it is "precious" because people know that they don't have to turn up at hospital with a credit card.
Cameron says he is determined to protect the NHS.
But it has to change, he says, for two reasons.
First, it could be better. It is not as effective as the best health services in the world, he says.
Second, the pressures on the NHS will grow. It already treats 25,000 patients an hour. As the population ages, these numbers will grow.
Cameron says he recognises that there are some "big questions" from doctors about what the government is doing.
We want to work with you, not against you.
There will be a pause before the bill returns to the floor of the Commons, he says. The government will use this time to reflect. It will bring forward changes to improve the will.
We will listen, and we will make any necessary changes.
Nick Clegg is speaking now at the same event. He is delivering a very similar message to Cameron's. Change is essential, he says.
Clegg says he cares more about getting NHS reform right than getting it done. It is unusual to have a pause while a bill is going through parliament. But it is also unusual to have a government that listens, he says.
There will be "no privatisation of the NHS", he says.
Private providers have always had a role in the NHS. The government will strengthen that role. But it won't allow private providers to cherry pick the easy cases.
Andrew Lansley is speaking now. He says that there is no more important institution in the UK than the NHS.
There is widespread support of a patient-centred service, he says.
But people have had "genuine concerns" about the detail of the health bill.
Lansley says this re-think will focus on four areas.
But - just as he starts to tell us what these areas are - Sky cuts away to the funeral of Ronan Kerr in Northern Ireland.
Live blogging an event from the TV has many advantages, but occasionally it goes wrong. Sky abandoned their coverage of the Cameron event just as Andrew Lansley was about to tell us about the areas where the government might be willing to make changes to the health bill. As soon as I can find out what he said, I'll let you know.
The royal wedding is expected to be seen by 2bn people around the world, Jeremy Hunt, the culture secretary, told colleagues at the cabinet meeting this morning, according to Number 10.
PoliticsHome, this is what he said:Libya is potentially a "goldmine", according to Tony Blair. He made the comment in an interview with Danish TV. According to
The thing about Libya is that, potentially, it is a goldmine of a country. It has got fantastic financial resources, it has got amazing tourist sites. If it opened up its economy, and opened up its society and take that route of reform once they change government then Libya will be a phenomenally successful country but we need to be there to partner them to do that.
Back to the Cameron Q&A. Cameron is taking questions now.
Q: How can you ensure that medicine remains flexible?
Cameron says he does not want to create a "dictatorial" system.
The health future forum - the body that he is setting up to advise on possible changes to the bill - will ensure that the new structure is not too rigid, he says.
In response to another question, Cameron says that some waiting targets are being maintained. But it is important to be flexible, he says. The four-hour maximum waiting time for people in A&E did not suit people who might have wanted to wait a bit to see if a condition settled down. It led to some people being pushed into hospital quicker than they wanted, he says.
Cameron says that the government will ban competition on price in the health bill.
they voted for various proposed amendments to the bill, including one calling for councillors to get half the seats on the boards of the commissioning consortia.The Cameron health event has now finished. Since I only heard about half of it, my understanding of what was announced is a bit patchy. I'll post a proper summary once I've had a full account of what was said. But, according to the BBC, Cameron and his colleagues dropped strong hints about hospital doctors, nurses and councillors being allowed to sit on the new GP-led commissioning consortia. This would be an important concession to the Lib Dems. At their spring conference,
a proposal to build a mosque in his constituency overlooking the overlooking Sandhurst Royal Military Academy. Gove said that he objected to the plan on architectural grounds. But he also said that the fact that it would overlook Sandhurst meant that it was inappropriate "for all sorts of other reasons". In a blog on this, which includes the video footage, the campaign says: "This is the bloke responsible for education in our country and if he is blind to how such a statement could cause offence to the over 200 Muslim soldiers in the army of our country, then one has to wonder about his ability and his judgement as a secretary of state."Michael Gove, the education secretary, has been accused of causing offence to Muslims serving in the armed forces. The Save EMA campaign made the allegation after seeing video of Gove giving an interview about
I've put a call out to a spokesman for Gove to see what he has to say. I'll let you know when I get a response.
Here's a lunchtime summary.
• David Cameron has invited patients and health professionals to suggest changes to the government's health bill. In a move that is expected to lead to the legislation being amended significantly, the prime minister launched a two-month "listening exercise". Steve Field, a former chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners, will chair a new "NHS future forum" that will present the views of patients and NHS staff to ministers. Cameron appeared alongside Nick Clegg and Andrew Lansley at a Q&A with NHS professionals to announce the move. Lansley said the consultation would focus in particular on four issues: the role of choice and competition; ensuring public accountability; new arrangements for education and training; and how different healthcare professions can be involved in improving patient care. (See 12.31pm.)
• Lord Prescott has urged the government to stop News Corporation buying BSkyB until the investigation into phone hacking is over. Speaking in the Lords, he said that Rebekah Brooks, the News International chief executive, had in the past admitted that Sun journalists had paid police officers for information, which is against the law. "Is the government aware, in giving this decision on BSkyB, that it would be totally unacceptable for a company like this that is actively involved at all levels in criminal acts to be given control of BSkyB?" Prescott asked. Replying for the government, Lord Wallace did not accept the need for the take-over to be suspended. But, in response to a call from Lord Fowler for an independent inquiry into phone hacking once criminal proceedings are over, Wallace said he would discuss the idea with ministers.
John Healey, the shadow health secretary, has dismissed David Cameron's consultation on the health bill as "spin". He's put out this statement.
David Cameron has said nothing today to clear up the confusion or deal with the crisis of confidence in his handling of the NHS. If the prime minister is serious about listening rather than PR spin, people will expect root and branch changes to his NHS plans. But while they claim to be listening, the Tory-led government is in fact still ploughing on with their NHS reorganisation.
Evan Harris, the former Lib Dem MP who played a key role in getting the Lib Dem conference to vote for wholesale changes to the health bill, does not seem to think that the concessions announced by David Cameron today go far enough. Here's the statement that he has put out.
A well-known saying among doctors is "first do no harm", and all the pressures on the health service that the Prime Minister identified, such as an aging population, as reasons why the NHS must change, are also reasons why the NHS needs to be protected from damaging reforms.
The government is wise to take stock and listen and should be applauded for it. The areas identified in the listening exercise do not include questions to do with the ultimate responsibility of the secretary of state to secure a comprehensive service, nor the need for commissioning bodies to be coterminous with local authorities which were a key part of the Liberal Democrats demands.
The establishment of the NHS future forum should be able to identify the best way to make the changes required but any number of experts will not change the political reality that the Liberal Democrats require specific changes to be made to comply with the coalition agreement and with what the party voted for at the Sheffield conference.
the speech he gave to the Higher Education Funding Council for England conference at lunchtime and it's much stronger than you would have guessed from the advance briefing. As well as calling universities "irrational", Cable accused them of failing to cut their costs. Here are the main points.Vince Cable, the business secretary, has accused universities planning to charge £9,000 in tuition fees of being "irrational". I've just read
• Cable claimed that some of the figures published about the number of universities charging tuition fees of £9,000 - the maximum allowed - have been misleading.
Excitement has been created by reports that universities are all bunching around £9,000 charges. The leader of the opposition has claimed that 80 per cent are doing so. It depends on how you measure this, but current estimates suggest that 22 out of 46 Universities are aiming for £9,000. I know adult numeracy is a problem – but under no system of mathematics that I am aware of does 22 out of 46 represent 80 per cent.
And, of course, the headline £9,000 figure disguises fee waivers and scholarships ... The sticker prices released to the press by some institutions is not the same as the actual price to many students, once substantial waivers are factored in for applicants from poorer backgrounds. It is a shame that reporting in the media has tended to focus on the maximum institutions intend to charge – rather than on the charge that their students are likely to experience on average.
But Cable did appear to concede that universities were charging more than the £7,500 average expected by the government.
• He predicted that students would conclude that fees of £9,000 were poor value for money. An average sixth form student receives 620 hours of teaching a year at a cost of £4,800, he said. "To then receive less intensive teaching – perhaps with academics not appointed on the basis of their teaching abilities – will leave them wondering why university is so expensive."
• He accused universities of failing to think creatively about cutting costs.
I expect to see, in a university sector faced with the onset of more competition and more demanding students, a ferment of creative thinking on how to redesign course structures and manage major change among staff so as to promote higher quality but lower-cost teaching. I may be missing something, but I haven't seen much evidence of this ...
I am certain – based on the continuing efficiency measures being absorbed in central government – that more can be done to reduce administrative overheads, wage bills, and to run campus facilities more effectively.
• He accused universities of being "irrational".
I'll go further. Attempts by universities to pitch their charges near the top of the range is a zero sum in terms of available resources. It is economically irrational on a collective basis – and it's very likely irrational in individual cases too.
• He suggested the government would consider giving the Office for Fair Access stronger powers. Offa is the body that has to approve any application to charge more than £6,000.
• He said he wanted more competition in higher education. The forthcoming white paper on higher education would make it easier for private universities and further education colleges to enter this market, he suggested.
• He said that universities which charge low fees could be allowed to take on more students. The government would have to retain the right to control student numbers as long as it continued to provide a subsidy, he said. But he described limits on student numbers as an "egregious constraint on competition" in higher education.
PoliticsHome, this is what he told BBC News.Lord Fowler, the former Tory cabinet minister, has been saying more about his call for an independent inquiry into phone hacking once criminal proceedings are over. (See 1.23pm.) Fowler is chairman of the Lords communications committee. According to
It is a matter of public interest that we get this straightened out. I think we would want to know why there has been this five year delay between the end of one investigation the beginning of another. We do need to look at the relationship between the police and the press, and whether that it too close. I'm putting the questions, which arise out of what has taken place over the past months and years, and they need answers. This is not part of legitimate journalism, phone hacking. I think we should recognise it for what it is, and we should see what has happened and how it can be put right.
Here's an afternoon reading list.
• Anthony Wells at UK Polling Report says public opinion is turning against Britain's involvement in Libya.
Opinion has shifting significantly over the last week on whether it's going well or not – a week ago 57% thought it was going well, 19% thought it was going badly. Today it is 42% going well, 34% going badly. This is now starting to reflect in the people who think it is right or wrong for us to take military action against Libya – something which has previously been pretty steady. For the first time so far YouGov's tracker today showed more people (43%) thinking the military action was wrong than those in favour of it (38%).
• George Eaton at the Staggers says any election between now and 2013 would be fought under first past the post, even if Britain votes for the alternative vote next month.
• Mark Easton says on his BBC blog that Nick Clegg is not guilty of hypocrisy over internships.
Nick Clegg, however, does not disguise the fact that he benefited from an expensive private education and all the advantages of well-connected parents. He would argue, with some justification, that he is not trying to hide or deny his past.
Indeed, it would be tempting to suggest that the accusations of hypocrisy over his internship come from some of those who would rather not see that particular route of middle-class privilege closed: a case of playing the man, not the ball.
Here's an afternoon summary.
• Vince Cable has accused universities planning to charge £9,000 in tuition fees of being "irrational". In a major speech, he has also suggested that universities that don't offer good value could face a cut in student places. (See 2.45pm.)
• Labour is using its first local election party political broadcast to promote Ed Miliband. The broadcast, which you can watch here and which is going out tonight, is entirely about Miliband, rather than his party or his policies. He talks about his comprehensive school education and about his father (although he speaks about his father's time in the Royal Navy and how he worked as a removal man while he was studying at night school, rather than about his subsequent career as an eminent Marxist academic). Miliband also pays tribute to the "heroic" work of ordinary people. "There are so many things about our country that are fantastic, we have just heroic people all round the country who are doing extraordinary things and that is the thing I feel most privileged about to be doing this job, is to be meeting those people," he says.
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HYP Beer Olympics @ ViewHouse
Denver Habitat Young Professionals
Saturday, September 7, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (MST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
This charity event will be a fun break from the normal networking function. Taking place on the View House lawn, HYP is hosting a bracket style tournament where teams of four will pair off against one another in games such as flip-cup, giant beer pong, beer run, and of course, the epic Das Boot chug off finale. Food will be provided compliments of View House, as well as three compimentary beers, and free beer for all of the games.
As if networking, charity, and free stuff aren't enough to incentivize you, the grand prize of the tournament is a Luxury Denver Nuggets package for a game this upcoming season which include: Four courtside seats, limo transportation to and from the game, and a VIP tour of the Pepsi Center. We will also be giving away a list of other great prizes including a Demaryius Thomas autographed football helmet and baseball signed by Troy Tulowitzki.
Be sure to sign up quickly because we are capping the number of teams able to enter at 32 as a way to help the tournament flow in a smooth, enjoyable manner. We are also reserving 80 spots for individuals who would like to come on standby in the case players or teams aren't able to make it. With standby tickets, you will still get all the free stuff that the normal ticket offers, as well as two guaranteed beer games to keep you limber in the event you are called in to close for a team that doesn't show, or if players have to leave.
There will be a prize given to the best dressed team so make sure you come dressed to the nines! Keep in mind, all of the ticket proceeds go straight to Habitat for Humanity, so come join us in supporting the community while having a little fun getting to know the up-and-coming young professionals of Denver.
When & Where
The View House
2015 Market Street
Saturday, September 7, 2013 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM (MST)
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Denver Habitat Young Professionals (HYP) is a diverse group of high-energy, motivated young professionals committed to making a difference in the Denver community through volunteering, fundraising, and spreading the word about Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. HYP is about having fun and making personal and professional connections throughout Denver, while striving to give hardworking, low-income metro Denver families a chance to own a home.


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Limited Edition Bentleys Honor Winners Of Le Mans Race [Pics]
The car manufacturer is celebrating its success with a vehicle inspired by the spirit of the Bentley Boys.
Bentley has created a limited edition vehicle to commemorate its six-time success at the Le Mans 24 Hours race. The winning drivers from 1924 to 2003 are known as the 'Bentley Boys' and the Le Mans Edition features six distinctive specifications designed to convey the individual spirit of each of them.
The vehicle has been designed with a classic sporting style, underscoring the Bentley Boys' unique personalities with statement color combinations and sumptuous details. The six different interior and exterior designs celebrate the success of John Duff, Dudley Benjafield, Woolf Barnato, Tim Birkin, Glen Kidston, and Guy Smith.
Each vehicle features a sequential numbered badge (1 of 48) that signifies it's part of a limited series. They also have special contrast stitching on the diamond-quilted areas of the seats, Le Mans embroidery on the headrests, a Le Mans clock face, and Le Mans Edition treadplates. Click through to see images of the limited edition Bentley:


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Prince Philip was in the headlines this week after making an inappropriate comment to a lady about her dress whilst on a visit to Bromley. At the age of 90, the Duke can clearly still deliver a witty one-liner, and I like to think that one day what are currently referred to as his 'gaffes' will become better known as amusing quotations. Some of his lines rival Oscar Wilde for sheer pith and wit.
So in honour of our esteemed Queen's Consort in this Jubilee year, I've picked some of my favourites for this week's Friday 5:
1. In 1967, when asked whether he'd like to visit the Soviet Union, the Duke replied 'I would like to go to Russia very much — although the bastards murdered half my family.'
2. At the height of the recession in 1981, he commented 'Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.'
3. 'People think there's a rigid class system here, but Dukes have been known to marry chorus girls. Some have even married Americans.' In 2000.
4. To the Aircraft Research Association in 2002: 'If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort, provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.'
5. Lamenting the rate of British tax in 1963, Prince Philip noted that 'All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.'
And just because I can, and because it's my very favourite of all, here's one more, which says it all: "You can take it from me, the Queen has the quality of tolerance in abundance." Love it!


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maybe it's a signon August 20, 2010 at 2:00 am
Not long ago, I was driving home, and I noticed a "Road Closed – High Water" sign standing nearly on the shoulder of a side road I pass often. So, I thought to myself, "Ooo… look at that. I'd better drive down there and see what's going on." So, I did. Now, my purpose was innocent curiosity, but as I started passing flooded homes and finally came to the spot where the road was completely submerged, I realized that I had totally blown off a very real sign placed by the local authorities. I'm rather strict when obeying traffic rules, but for whatever reason, it never registered to me that the sign I saw was meant for me. This lead to the realization that I have probably walked straight through all kinds of signs in my life without realizing they were meant for me. Maybe we should all keep a better eye out.
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Background: I have to park everyday in one of two chronically overflowing garages at my University in Downtown Portland. The spaces range from pretty-damn-small to so-small-you-have-to-fold-your-mirrors-to-fit. I'm usually already pretty aggravated by having to circle 15-20 minutes to get a spot, so I tend to flip a **** when I see an asshat parked over the lines. EVERYBODY knows that the garages are always full, and it's a massive douche-move to waste a spot like that.
So basically, s*** like this:
Makes me do stuff like this:
In retrospect, it might have been a teensy bit douchey. But did I feel better after I did it? Absolutely. If I can park backwards when I had maybe 1-2" max of clearance either side (thanks to your craptastic parking), I fully expect that you can fit your pile-of-**** Explorer within the lines at the very very least. If you can't, they should take your license and cut it up.
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Just one ARP rod bolt doesn't feel right during torquing
I wasn't going to post about this problem, but I guess I can take the expected ragging and although I am fairly certain I already know what I should do, the fact is I'm not sure, so maybe this is worth posting.
About 2 years ago I rebuilt my FE (broke a piston; timing set wrong as balancer had slipped) and as I was torquing the rod nuts, I came across one that felt funny. It did come up to torque, but seemed to come up more slowly than all the rest. In other words, it took more of a turn to get that last bit of full torque.
For example, if all the other rod bolts took ¼ turn to got from 40 ft-lbs to the last step of 50 ft-lbs, the one bolt in question took more like ½ turn.
I gave it a good visual inspection, removed the bearing shells to check for grit behind them, tried swapping nuts, but couldn't find anything wrong. (I didn't really know much about measuring bolt stretch at that time).
Based on the fact these were ARP rod bolts, only torqued 5 or 6 times, and had 4000 miles on the engine, I decided to continue on with the assembly. Also, when applying torque, it didn't feel like the bolt was stripping, as the torque did keep building. When threaded fasteners strip, the torque flattens out, and then drops as the threads become more an more damaged. My experience with stretching bolts is limited to removal of rusty stuff, and in those cases, the bolt doesn't seem to yield at all, but suddenly snaps off. But that's more of a shear thing than tension.
So, mistake number one; I finished the engine assembly without ever finding out what was going on as well as rectifying the problem. Yes I feel stupid about that now.
Eventually I removed the oil pan (for a variety of reasons) and checked the rod in question. Everything looked fine, and the nuts didn't move with the torque wrench set to spec. This was after about 1000 miles of operation. I might have hit 6000 rpm a few times, but generally I short shift just having fun on the street.
Mistake number 2: I buttoned it up again without finding out and fixing what might have been wrong. Admitting that makes me feel twice as stupid.
I've now driven another 500 trouble free miles and everything is working fine. But I have this nagging thought the bolt might fail.
As I'm still worried, I'm thinking of replacing the bolt, however in the meantime, I did a bit of research and also some rod bolt testing.
I thought I'd share what I found out as it may prove of interest to all of you, but take it with a grain of salt. My measuring technique was without a proper stretch gauge, and I'm not sure if I understand all the theory 100%.
1/ I tested a couple of old (stock) connecting rods had from a 390 parts engine. Interestingly, one of the 4 rod bolts I tightened, felt the same as the mystery bolt in my engine. Basically, the torque came up more smoothly and slowly than the other 3.
This could be explained by the following pie-chart which shows how much of the applied torque is wasted in frictional forces. Basically, if the nut seat on the connecting rod cap and/or the bolt threads were a bit more burnished than the other bolts/caps, this could explain it. A bolt failure analysis I found on the net had this to say:
i. The thread friction coefficient could vary between 0.14 and 0.25.
ii. The under-head friction coefficient could vary between 0.10 and 0.18.
That's a lot of change from one seemingly identical fastener to another.
2/ Next I decided to try to measure the stretch. It wasn't easy as I only had digital callipers to work with and these Ford Factory bolts have uneven ends. Here's what I found out about stretch:
At 40 ft-lbs, there was no stretch that I could detect.
At 50 ft-lbs, the stretch was about 0.004
At 60 ft-lbs, the stretch was about 0.009
Keep in mind, these Ford bolts have a torque spec of 45 ft-lbs and my ARP bolts in the engine have a 50 ft-lb spec.
3/ For the next step I decided to torque to yield. Basically, the torque tapered off around 70 ft-lbs and then dropped to 65 ft-lbs. It stayed at 65 ft-lbs for many turns of the wrench as the bolt stretched. I never did go much further to see if it would break. See below:
ARP states their specs are for a 75% clamp load. You can see that's quite a ways down from the yield point and on the linear portion of the stress-strain curve.
It appears that when my test bolt stretched it was high up in the yield area, and although it was really stretching, it had not yet fallen off the chart to the point of failure. The test bolt is definitely strong for its size and certainly not brittle.
When I've broken (other type) bolts in the past (from loosening), they have just suddenly snapped off. This was due to either corrosion on the threads or under the bolt head. My over-tightening experience has only shown up in stripped threads due to multiple disassembly and reassembly, but these wern't rod bolts either. These rod bolts really stretch, and even the one I stretched a lot, still had some spring back, although no where near its original length.
4/ Based on information from those engine-heads with more experience under their belts than I, tightening an ARP bolt by the stretch spec requires a much higher torque than the torque spec. Some thought is the type of lube used on the bolt threads and under the bolt head must be of a certain type, or the readings wont correlate.
5/ If my ARP bolt was really stretching when I tightened it, I would have either had to be above the yield point, about 67 ft-lbs (if the ARP spec of 50 ft-lbs is 75% of yield), which it wasn't, or I would be on the downward side of the stress-strain curve and the bolt would have shown signs of stretching, which a visual inspection did not show.
6/ Based on all this, as well as the fact I've quite a lot of miles since the re-build, I doubt my installed ARP bolt will fail, although I may be merely trying to convince myself. Whatever I decide to do, I think I'm in the market for a proper stretch gauge.
So my questions are:
1/ Do you think the rod bolt was stretching? Other thoughts might be excessive bearing crush, deformed rod cap or nicked/burred bolt threads.
2/ Based on merely a feeling something wasn't right, should I bite the bullet, stop running the engine, and start a teardown, or based on the engine lasting 1500 miles so far, and a check at 1000 miles indicating things are fine, just keep driving it?
3/ Has anyone ever had a similar experience tightening rod bolts, particularly ARP, and if so, what did you find out?
I'd leave it and run it as is. Stretch is a much easier way to measure the tensile stress the bolt a fully has the. Trying to correlate torque. As you found out torque can be off by a lot for many reasons. Torque is actually relatively meaningless but it's a quick and easy way to guesstimate tensile load and has seemed to work well enough in most applications. Stretch is much more accurate but sometimes good enough is good enough.
Its very likely the bolt head wasn't seated in the rod fully. The extra 1/2 turn fixed it. I wouldn't worry about either.
You are that pretentious! If you assembled the engine with that fine a microscope, I bet that its fine.
A extra 1/2 turn and you are going to tear it down. That is only one side too. When the bearing cap was fitted there could have been a little more clamp left to do.
While I agree with your findings and the comments, you will ALWAYS have this nagging doubt about that bolt and the 'What If' factor. For peace of mind, change it out. Give ARP a call and discuss it with them as well. I had some questions a few years ago when building an engine. The CS tech spent quite a bit of time plus supplied some replacements at a much reduced price
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Thank-you for your responses. Although I've tried to do some research to convince myself everything's OK, I am still paranoid about it. I'm also lazy and am not looking forward to swapping out the bolt.
Winged oil pan (bolt access isn't the easiest), windage tray (so two gaskets) and all put together with The Right Stuff (tough as nails). Going to be nasty getting the pan off. But nastier still if that bolt ever fails.
With regards to some of the comments, I am sure the bolt had pulled through as far as it could (i.e. it was seated). I tired and retried torquing this bolt, but always with the same result. I even swapped the nuts from the other side of the rod, but no difference. I also tried tightening the problem bolt first in case it was due to too much bearing crush, but no difference.
I've chalked it up to either the surface of the rod cap (under the nut), the bolt is actually failing, or the cap may have been distorted (see pic below).
I am under the impression that a rod bolt goes through more stress during tightening than it ever does while the enigne is running, and that's why I've been taking the chance it's OK.
However, as I worry, I think I'll change it despite the effort. And won't I be ticked off if the new bolt behaves the same way when I tighten it! Then what? LOL.
And good idea about calling ARP. Will be interesting to hear what they have to say.
Now here's sort of a pic which could explain things a bit. I suppose it's possible the cap may have become distored a bit and doesn't fit quite right. I exagerated the "gap" in the pic. So it's possible the bolt is merely pulling the gap together when I tighten it. I didn't think of this at the time, or would have checked the rod cap.
Could have happened I suppose. Prior to the rebuild, I did rev the engine a bit too high once... a bit over 6200 rpm and it does have stock rods.
Replacing the bolt(s) will also require you to resize the rod again. Since the caps parting surface is cut on an angle, this is obviously a flaw or defect from it being resized to begin with and should also be replaced as well.
The FE is very finicky about rods and rod bolts. The rod journals and bearing shells are quite large in diameter while being quite narrow as a percentage of the diameter. This makes it easy to blow the oil wedge out with the disastrous results you'd expect. This is the problem with the FE that the 406 and finally the 427 that could no longer be ignored which caused Ford to explore cross bolted mains, side oiling with priority to the mains thus the rods and finally with the Leman and NASCAR cranks wider journals and bearings and cap-screw rod fasteners. So this is no place for a so-so fastener that may not cause a problem in other engines but one that can easily lead to disaster with the FE.
I back up your through research on plastic deformation of bolts and say YES you have a bolt that is stretching too much for the torque being put on it. And YES torque is a secondary way of measuring the stretch, the stretch being what's important. The assumption, made by test, is that when the friction in the threads is uniform from bolt to bolt (also unstated is the quality of the steel and manufacturing processing against the engineering specification resulted in bolts that actually meet those technical specifications) then a relationship can be made relating an applied torque resulting in proper stretch. But you can see the possibilities where these assumptions fly apart. Measuring bolt stretch gets around the problems inherent with tightening to a torque spec and hoping the inter-thread friction is at least close to the test articles that made the spec. But even measuring stretch is no guarantee that a problem doesn't exist with the bolt continuing to stretch at that applied load. That is if you arrive at a load that gives the proper stretch but that load levels off and the bolt or nut in this case continues to rotate the bolt is continuing to stretch and will neck down as in your picture and will eventually fail at that point.
Your example of the rod cap forming an angle with the shank is a common occurrence with rebuilt rods. It adds a bending load to the rod bolt which is not desirable, one reason why I don't use remanufactured rods. This could give you a similar feel to that of plastic deformation in the bolt from neither the cap or shank mating flat to each other as well as a similar event occurring between the nut or bolt head if using cap screws.
ARP uses a proprietary thread lubricant where most OEMs use motor oil. Anytime you switch the lubricant you must adjust the torque to the lubricant being used. The thread lubricant also needs to be used on the underside of the nut or bolt head where contact with the part to be fastened is made.
When I use a torque wrench I always raise the torque in small amounts 10-15 foot pounds and stop about 5 foot pounds under the end value letting the fastener rest a few minutes then pulling the final 5 foot pounds which shouldn't take much of a turn. Then I let the fasteners rest again, then go back and check each. The torque should read correct with no further rotation. If the fastener moves, the part gets disassembled in rotation and the offending fastener gets replaced. Also in this situation if its fastener threading into a casting, that threaded hole gets a very close inspection to identify whether the casting itself or its threads are failing.
I certainly would not have continued to close the engine up with a situation you are seeing with that rod bolt, especially with an FE that will see some high RPMS as this engine is not very tolerant of problems in this spot.
I called ARP, explained the situation, and asked if it were possible I was stretching the bolt when only applying 50 ft-lbs of torque while keeping in mind a stock Ford bolt took 75 ft-lbs to yield and then a constant 65 ft-lbs to keep stretching it.
He said it was probably stretching and I should replace ALL the bolts. He did base this partly on the fact I've had my engine stripped down 3 times. He says some people get away with re-using them up to 10 times, but others feel they need to replace them every tear-down.
The situation gets worse every time I ask a question... LOL.
A better response would be- check the stretch. Done.
But if you like dancing around the problem there are plenty of people who will love to sell you some music.
Now there's another question. I see no problem tapping out an ARP rod bolt with the engine in the car and then installing a new one (once the damn pan is off), however there is the thought that rod big-end resizing is required when installing new rod bolts. It was even mentioned earlier in this thread.
Is this true for replacing a rod bolt with an identical one, or is it reserved for when switching from a stock bolt to an after-market bolt?
(suspect I'm gonna cringe when I read the response to this...)
As far as dancing around goes, I've decided to do something so I can sit down and rest. At a minimum I will replace the problem bolt, but mostly so I can worry less.
Stupid as it was to have not rectified the problem when I had the chance, it's hard to believe that particular bolt was yielding when I torqued it. It's more likely due to a different reason, but as I can't identify what that might be, I will have to replace the bolt and see if it acts "normally" when I tighten it.
When you worked with plasti gauge and you torqued stuff down, how much difference did 1/2 turn make on the clearances? For me the difference could have been negligible.
Argess, supplied a lot of information, but is he over thinking this? I think so.
Why was there a deviation from procedure in reguard to torque steps?
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Bela Tarr swaps film making for running unique school
By Daria Sito-Sucic
SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Revered Hungarian director Bela Tarr's famously uncompromising approach to cinema will now be passed to future generations as he begins a new course for budding filmmakers in Sarajevo.
The 57-year-old retired from directing after the release in 2011 of "The Turin Horse", a bleak, black-and-white portrayal of a peasant and his daughter abandoned by man and God in their remote, windswept cottage.
Its long takes and sparse dialogue and narrative were trademarks of Tarr, who won over critics around the world and is perhaps most famous for his seven-hour epic "Satantango" based on a novel by compatriot Laszlo Krasznahorkai.
It will come as little surprise to hear Tarr speak not of commercial success in cinema, but artistic integrity at a time when independent filmmakers are struggling to raise money to make movies that have limited box office potential.
"Film is different - you cannot teach, you can do only one thing which is to develop young filmmakers -- give them freedom, tell them they can be brave, they can be themselves, do what they really want," Tarr said in an interview.
Last week classes began at his newly launched Film Factory at the Sarajevo University School for Science and Technology, offering a three-year programme which Tarr and his associates said would adopt a fresh approach to filmmaking.
"It started when I decided not to make any more movies," Tarr said of his idea to launch an international PhD-level film programme for mature directors.
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Witnesses said five followers of General Aideed were first handed over to officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Mogadishu. About an hour later, the General's chief financier, Osman Atto, his spokesman, Mohamed Hassan Awale, and Omar Salad, another top aide, were handed over to the ICRC.
General Aideed, who has been in Nairobi over the past three weeks, would not comment immediately. His aides said he would make a statement after studying the whole situation. 'The chairman (General Aideed) has no immediate comment to make on the release of the prisoners. But he is following the events and will make a full response later,' said an official from General Aideed's umbrella Somali National Alliance. The freed men were driven straight to an SNA rally.Reuse content


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Young Americans are underinsured.
A report from InsuranceQuotes.com revealed that, despite the Affordable Care Act's mandate that all Americans have health insurance, those ages 18 to 29 are more likely than others to have no coverage.
Analyst Laura Adams says overconfidence among millennials is an issue.
Adams says they often think they are prepared for the financial consequences of risky events like car accidents, theft, or major medical emergencies.
The number one reason millennials give for having no life insurance is cost, but Adams says many actually overestimate the potential expense.
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Fog today disrupted flights at Heathrow and London City Airport to and from Europe - just 24 hours after similar delays and cancellations due to the austerity strike action.
Services to and from Paris Orly and Munich were particularly badly hit.
Other destinations to suffer as visibility worsened included Amersterdam, Bern, Frankfurt and Zurich.
A spokesman at London City said: "Due to poor visibility flights to and from the airport are experiencing disruption.
"Passengers are advised to contact their airline for further information."
Travellers heading to Heathrow by rail suffered delays due to signal failure.
This disrupted Heathrow Express, Heathrow Connect and First Great Western (FGW) trains to and from Paddington.
Thames Clippers, which operates the riverboat commuter service, said a yellow warning was in force as dense fog started to sweep across the lower Thames.
As peak time approached all services were operating but passengers warned to expect delays.
On the Tube there were severe delays to Hammersmith & City line services between Moorgate and Barking due to a signal failure at Whitechapel.
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Today is Wednesday, July 23, the 204th day of 2014. There are 161 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On July 23, 1914, Austria-Hungary presented a list of demands to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serb assassin; Serbia's refusal to agree to the entire ultimatum led to World War I.
On this date:
In 1885, Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the United States, died in Mount McGregor, N.Y., at age 63.
In 1886, a legend was born as Steve Brodie claimed to have made a daredevil plunge from the Brooklyn Bridge into New York's East River. (However, there are doubts about whether the dive actually took place.)
In 1945, French Marshal Henri Petain, who had headed the Vichy government during World War II, went on trial, charged with treason. (He was convicted and condemned to death, but the sentence was commuted.)
In 1951, Henri Petain died in prison.
In 1952, Egyptian military officers led by Gamal Abdel Nasser launched a successful coup against King Farouk I.
In 1967, a week of deadly race-related rioting that claimed 43 lives erupted in Detroit.
In 1977, a jury in Washington, D.C., convicted 12 Hanafi Muslims of charges stemming from the hostage siege at three buildings the previous March.
In 1982, actor Vic Morrow and two child actors, 7-year-old Myca Dinh Le and 6-year-old Renee Shin-Yi Chen, were killed when a helicopter crashed on top of them during filming of a Vietnam War scene for "Twilight Zone: The Movie." (Director John Landis and four associates were later acquitted of man-slaughter charges.)
In 1984, Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign her title, after nude photographs of her taken in 1982 were published in Penthouse magazine.
In 1997, the search for Andrew Cunanan, the suspected killer of designer Gianni Versace and others, ended as police found his body on a houseboat in Miami Beach, an apparent suicide.
In 2011, singer Amy Winehouse, 27, was found dead in her London home from accidental alcohol poisoning.
Ten years ago: Militants in Iraq took hostage an Egyptian diplomat (Mohammed Mamdouh Helmi Qutb), demanding his country abandon any plans it had to send security experts to Iraq. (He was freed after three days of diplomatic efforts.) The Pentagon released newly discovered payroll records from President George W. Bush's 1972 service in the Alabama National Guard, though the records shed no new light on the future president's activities during that summer.
Today's Birthdays: Actress Gloria DeHaven is 89. Concert pianist Leon Fleisher is 86. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy is 78. Actor Ronny Cox is 76. Radio personality Don Imus is 74. Country singer Tony Joe White is 71. Rock singer David Essex is 67. Actor Larry Manetti is 67. Singer-songwriter John Hall is 66. Actress Belinda Montgomery is 64. Rock musician Blair Thornton (Bachman Turner Overdrive) is 64. Actress Edie McClurg is 63.
Actress-writer Lydia Cornell is 61. Actor Woody Harrelson is 53. Rock musician Martin Gore (Depeche Mode) is 53. Actor Eriq Lasalle is 52. Rock musician Yuval Gabay is 51. Rock musician Slash is 49. Rock musician Nick Menza is 46. Model-actress Stephanie Seymour is 46. Actress Charisma Carpenter is 44. Rhythm-and-blues singer Sam Watters is 44. Country singer Alison Krauss is 43. Rhythm-and-blues singer Dalvin DeGrate is 43. Rock musician Chad Gracey (Live) is 43.
Actor-comedian Marlon Wayans is 42. Country singer Shannon Brown is 41. Actress Kathryn Hahn is 41. Retired MLB All-Star Nomar Garciaparra is 41. Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is 41. Actress Stephanie March is 40. Country musician David Pichette (Emerson Drive) is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Michelle Williams is 34. Actor Paul Wesley is 32. Actor Daniel Radcliffe is 25.
Country musician Neil Perry is 24.
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This year, a record number of women are nominated for directing at the 2013 Emmys. Of this season's 10 Emmy nods for directing episodic television, fully half recognize women — three for comedy and two for drama. There are also two women nominated in the movies and miniseries category which brings the total up to seven. It's the most in the history of the awards.
While it's exciting, it's also a time to think about how the industry had been incredibly slow to admit women to the ranks of episodic television directors and filmmaking in general. The LA Times writes that "Of more than 3,100 episodes of television in the 2011-12 season (the most recent for which data are available from the Directors Guild of America), just 15% were directed by women." MAKER Callie Khouri, Oscar-winning screenwriter believes "it's not statistically possible that there are so few qualified women. It's sexist."
While this year's record breaking Emmy nominations for female directors indicate that film and television are making strides in the right direction, more attention should continue to be paid to the incredible accomplishments made by women in a industry that has persisted to resist a closing of the gender gap.
For that reason, we take a look at some trailblazing female directors that any film buff should know about. Take a look! And good luck to the Emmy nominated directors!


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Wow today was vry eventful. Mommy decided to let us have our first "NIP" party and boy was it fun. I think I got a little bit naughty though. I kept wanted to pick on Vixen for all the times she has picked on me and I never do anything. HEHEHE I got her good. Then after having our "NIP' party I was kinda tired so I took a little nap but it was just a little one. I was in the living room with mommy when a brazen bird landing right on my window sill. I don't know who that bird thought he was but this is MY house and I don't want no birds here. I taught him real quick who was the boss though cause I launched myself right at the screen and sent him flying away in a big panic...silly bird he won't try that again. Anyway after all the excitement I am kinda tired again so I think I will take a nap. Maybe tomorrow something fun will happen again and I can tell all about it.
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First off, I have to apologize to you nice people, but I also could use a hand to make this "Your Town Thursday" song extra special.
First off, I have to apologize to you nice people, but I also could use a hand to make this "Your Town Thursday" song extra special.
I haven't done this in awhile, and I'm itching to get back to it, so if you submit a town and some fun facts, I'll create a jingle for you on Your Town Thursday. Here's all you have to do
Hudson - you might be a tough town to beat. Lots of response, and a ton of "clicks" on our website to hear the tune. I really appreciate it. Now who's next?
Anyone that has seen "Batman: The Dark Knight Rises" is going to bust a gut laughing at at "Bane Cat".
I can't wait to get started with writing the next town tune. By popular demand, it's going to be the booming Saratoga town of Wilton, New York.
Recently the bar has been raised for this little segment that we do on the Sean and Richie show called Your Town Thursday. Greenville residents sent loads of information to me, and so many people "liked" and responded to the article that I was flabbergasted. No pressure here, but I'm just sayin'....
This was a tough assigment, I'm not gonna lie to you. Maybe a lot of Schodackians are on vacation. But somehow I got information the very last minute, thanks in part to devoted listener, Len Bates. Song to follow
We were very busy with our very successful "Small Town Tour". However, it threw me off schedule-wise, because it happened on a Friday. I usually debuted my town theme songs on Thursday. But now the tour is done for awhile, so we can go back to our regularly scheduled program
Nice to get so much input from contributors, and this was no exception. The Mayfield folks came through again, and it actually caused a major dilemma - how am I supposed to get all of this into one song? Well, I gave it the old college try. The results are below
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Palliative Care in the NICU: What Barriers Do Neonatal Nurses Face?
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What has been changed between when it ran OK and now?
Between when the timing was done by ear last summer and when the truck first began exhibiting these problems, all I did was begin the cooling system flush, an oil change and added a can of Restore. The other stuff was the cables and battery posts. It drove just fine up until the day before the problems began.
After the truck began having problems, I was advised to check the ignition components. I check the spark plugs, the ICM and the coil. The spark plugs were fouled, more so on the passenger side
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. The ICM passed the test at Autozone twice. The coil was tested using a multimeter and while I was able to get a reading for the primary, but not for the secondary. The coil was swapped out under warranty, but the results were the same
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. Once I put everything back together, the truck began running just fine again. But there was some light smoke seen from the passenger-side of the firewall. It began a few minutes after the truck was turned off, and was there for a couple of minutes at the most.
Ever since after that, the truck only ran fin the next day. I cleaned out the glass-cased fuel filter in front of the carb which had crud in it
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. I checked on the choke. I tried running it with the choke plate wired open. Most recently, I moved the distributor back and forth and turned out the idle mixture screws on the carb to a full six turns
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. The distributor ended up in the same place as before, with the canister touching the intake manifold. I did not take for a spin after that.
This morning, I started up the truck to move it for the street sweeper. I let it warm up for a about three minutes and then began moving it to park on the other side of the street. As soon as the truck began turning, the
light came on for a brief moment. I let the truck continue to warm up for a bit and then decided to take it for a spin.
The truck ran pretty good. Not perfect, but the shifting was happening a lot more quickly and softly and there wasn't much hesitation. Definitely no bogging. But I could detect slightly less power. I took it onto the main street and it got up well beyond 45 mph before I had to slow down. I parked the truck and it revved with no hesitation, even though it had been hesitating around the 2,500 rpm mark. The
came on only once and it was soon as I began driving and made a turn.
I turned off the truck and came back to it about 30 minutes later and took it for a quick spin. As usual, the idle was a lot lower than when it is first started in the morning (1,500 rpm vs 750 rpm). Again, the truck ran good, but not perfect. I parked it again and came back to it about an hour later.
Letting the engine run and leaving the transmission in "Park", I first checked the transmission fluid. Didn't see much on the dipstick. I put it back in and checked it again:
I then turned the engine off and checked the oil. Nothing showed on the dipstick. I then started truck, let it run for about 30 seconds, turned it off and checked again. There was quite a bit of oil after that:
So that's where its at. Some time tomorrow morning, I should be posting results from hooking up the vacuum gauge to the intake manifold, along with a test of the diaphragm. Maybe even check a plug or two. Distributor re-installation tentatively set for Saturday.
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Make yourself at home in one of the 101 air-conditioned rooms featuring MP3 docking stations and minibars. Satellite programming along with DVD players are provided for your entertainment. Bathrooms have showers and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones, as well as safes and desks.
Take advantage of recreation opportunities such as an outdoor pool or take in the view from a rooftop terrace and a garden. Additional amenities at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access and gift shops/newsstands.
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Don't Try Things That You Don't Know What It Is
It happens at least once a week. You walk through the office you work at, or even at home and see someone eating something you haven't seen before. You ask the question, "What is that?" only to get a fork or spoon shoved in your face with the eater responding, "Here, try it." I don't want to try it. Especially if I don't know what it is.
My wife does it all the time. My Dad did it to me as a kid. I just want to know what you're eating that's all. I know I might look like a guy who likes to eat every minute of the day, but to just simply ask what you're eating just needs a simple answer.
It's delicious, you should have had some.
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There is now a renewed interest in agriculture. The Malaysian government wants to revitalize the agriculture sector to become the third engine of growth after the services and manufacturing sectors. For that matter, a total of RM11.7 billions is allocated under the 9th. Malaysian Plan (9MP) to transform agriculture sector into a modern, dynamic and competitive sector. With the emphasis given by the government, Malaysia has to have her younger generation who are willing to venture into agricultural industries. But, is Malaysian younger generation willing to venture into agriculture? The study aimed at determining the young generation's (students) interest in agriculture related jobs and their perceptions about occupations in agriculture. The findings indicated that students were moderately interested in agriculture related jobs (M = 2.68; SD =.86). Their perceptions about jobs in agriculture were moderate (M=3.41, SD. = .97). Based on the study actions have to be taken to ensure that young people would want to venture into agricultural careers. Even though they were interested in agriculture but their moderately positive perceptions about agriculture will hinder their movement into agricultural industries.
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Valentine's Day not just for couples
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Valentine's Day isn't just for couples. Instead of feeling depressed and wallowing in self pity, singles should celebrate and enjoy the day, according to a relationship expert.
Forty three percent of U.S. residents over 18 years old, or 95.9 million people are unmarried. And more than 61 percent have never been married, according to figures from the U.S. Census Bureau.
So even if a significant other isn't in the picture, singles are not really alone on Valentine's Day.
"Make fun of the assumption that people need to be coupled," said Tony Jurich, a professor of family studies and human services at Kansas State University.
Instead of a solitary binge of chocolates, or bemoaning the lack of flowers or a card, Jurich advises singles to get together at a restaurant to celebrate Valentine's Day, or even throw an Un-Valentine's Day party at home.
"Make light of it, kind of get even a little bit with the assumptions. Celebrate your singleness together," Jurich added.
More than 152 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged on February 14, according Hallmark, which offers 2,000 Valentine's Day cards.
But not all of them will be to spouses and partners. Mothers receive a sizable portion of cards. Continued...