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The stewards have made a decision on the drivers who failed to observe the yellow flags during qualifying in Suzuka today.
We have just been told that there is to be a five place drop on the grid for Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Fernando Alonso, Adrian Sutil and Sebastien Buemi.
In an unrelated matter, it seems that Heikki Kovalainen may have to move back five places also due to the need to change gearbox after an accident.
Button and Barrichello are due to speak shortly.
Ross Brawn confirmed that neither lifted for the yellow flags which were put out to warn drivers of debris on the track following Buemi's accident with the wall on the back straight.
From Button's point of view although it means Sebastian Vettel is likely to reduce his points gap to him tomorrow, his main title rival, Rubens Barrichello will still be only two places ahead on the grid.
Barrichello lies 15 points behind with tomorrow's race and two others to go.
good news for niki and kimi
Well that should spice things up a little. As there seems to be an issue with cars being able to stay on the circuit (a ride height issue, maybe?) I wonder how many times the safety car will put in an appearance? My money is on two safety cars and someone on a lucky strategy from halfway down the grid taking the chequered flag.
I raise you 1 safety car, and a complete stoppage; race will be in two halves with aggregated times.
Any bets who will cause the red flag?
Nelson Piquet???
They had to do this really, if anything they got away pretty light with it. Should be an interesting race 😀
A cynic might say that the stewards decisions keep the world championships alive for at least one more race....but F1 is dead straight. Isn't it?
A realist might say the penalties are absolutely correct! Regardless of championship implications.
and to give Toyota a chance to win their home race + sub in the Japanese driver =)
It was a disaster for qualy. People scrubbing tyres for no reason. Great laps aborted. Fuel startegies fubar'ed. JB and RB were on their only fast lap!
Fuel will not be an issue for next season but it makes me wonder if drivers who were on track shouls be awarded an extra lap after the session closes. Lots of people lost out thru the action of others.
Feel a bit sorry for fernando who was complaining that other drivers had not lifted so should be penalised 😛
As a corkscrew!
In all fairness Leslie, these penalties were straight up and obvious
@ Leslie.
Last week Nico received a penalty for breaking the pit line rules & vettel a penalty for pit speed rules.... even though it's been proven he didn't exceed the allowed speed.
Ross Brawn has said neither driver slowed down for the yellow flag. It's as blatant an infringement as any other this season.
The teams and drivers will probably be fairly pragmatic about this, as if they had lifted they wouldn't have been able to set a time at all and would have been outside the top ten anyway.
This isn't just a case of the drivers ignoring the rules. Rather it was a situation created by the rules themselves.
totally agree!
Even in my sleep-deprived state of mind early this morning, it was obvious certainly Button and 'Chello would get penalties for not lifting. It isn't up to the driver in those circumstances to decide if they can avoid the danger. The yellow means slow down and be prepared to stop - at 150+ mph that takes some time to do. The crest there is blind and had Jaime suddenly lost control of his damaged car and slewed across the track he'd have been t-boned with dire consequences. I am a Button fan but this time the stewards are right to act IMHO.
I agree with Leslie, above.
We really need more transparency in F1. All the shady deals and secrecy are beginning to look rather shabby. And this sort of thing, where the stewards appear to rig things, only lends strength to the claim that F1 is little more than a commercial circus.
So, FIA and FOM, is F1 the motorized equivalent of professional wrestling, or a real sport?
Alonso will be annoyed, he said he lifted.
I read this on the official f1-website, quite a different story...
"Alonso's excuse that he was blinded by Buemi's dust and therefore didn't see the yellow flags cut no mustard with the stewards."
That wasn't Buemi's dust, then, it was the smoke from Alonso's pants being on fire again.
So does that mean our grid tomorrow looks like this? (If Kovi and Glock get their penalties too)
1. Vettel
2. Trulli
3. Hamilton
4. Heidfeld
5. Raikkonen
6. Rosberg
7. Kubica
8. Alguesuari
9. Sutil
10. Barrichello
11. Fisichella
12. Button
13. Nakajima
14. Kovalainen
15. Buemi
16. Grosjean
17. Alonso
18. Webber
19. Glock
20. Liuzzi
Notice Alguesuari being a major benefactor of this!
I tried to post this before, but it didn't seem to come through:
Based on the times at which each driver carried out the things that got them penalties (which is how the stewards are supposedly going to hand out the penalties) then this is how the grid will look. I applied the penalties in this order: Buemi, Alonso, Button, Barrichello, Sutil, Kovalainen, Glock.
The penalties were deserved by the Brawns but I thought I saw Alonso clearly slow down.
Regarding next year, Kova is toast!
I foresee a big win for Vettel with only a few, if any, points for the Brawns.
But for what it is worth.... Go Jenson!
Hi James,
y was Alonso given the penalty?
From Autosport:
"I'm sure tomorrow I'll start a lot higher than 12th,"
"I avoided the front wing in the middle of the track and I lifted and I came into the pits and we didn't make it to Q3. I think some people improved their laps but that's the way it is."
The stewards determined that Alonso did actually slow down, but not until after he had passed the incident.
Is the decision on Alonso not strange? He came right after qualifying on Spanish TV to claim that he had lifted and others not and therefore he was waiting for an interesting stewards meeting.
And hearing him being interviewed..I believed him.
Or was this smart Alonso using the media to yell: catch the thief! catch the thief!
I guess that will be the same Alonso that knew nothing about crashgate?
I think some of the quote got missed, because a couple of other places seem to be reporting that he said something along the lines of 'I lifted, but unfortunately not quickly enough'.
The whole session was such a mess that I can't even decide whether I think the penalties are just or not. I have therefore given up!
Not too bad for Jenson as Ruby is really his main threat. Even if Seb wins this one as long as Ruby does not score big points Jenson is still sitting pretty for the title. On paper Rubens is the main loser here but who knows with an eventful race he can score some good points. It will be interesting to see what Nick and Kimi can do against Seb Lewis and Jarno.
James, thanks for answering my question re: Taku in one of the previous posts. He confirmed to Reuter that he was indeed hunting for a drive.
I spotted Ralf on another photo from Suzuka on formula1.com.
Is he too contemplating a come back? He is very experienced so would be a big help for one of the new teams so why not ?
Off topics question for you: Are folks from the paddock following your blog and if so what are they making of it?
And of course are they any famous guys among the followers (ie:David Coulthard or Martin Brundle)?
Finally you were wondering why so may finns are reading the blog. I guess it has to do with your surname, they think you are one of them 🙂
About Ralf: He´s only a stand in for Nikki Lauda at German Television.
Hi Dan,
After hearing Mike Gascoigne say he had been talking to drivers with a lot of experience Ralf came to mind. Personally, I hope not, but if I had a pound I'd put him at Lotus next year. Only thing stopping me is MG strikes me as a sensible person.
Generally I expected Fisi to do better, maybe this puts Badoers "achievements" in a different perspective, the Ferrari seems to be difficult to drive, or is Kimi that good?
Ferrari is difficult to drive and we see now, how good just Kimi is.
Why Fernando Alonso?
He said on interviews that he had slowed down on yellow flag and could not improve his lap time which is why he missed qualification to Q3.
There should be a fairer procedure in place to counter the time lost when laps are abandoned in red flag scenarios. Last week at Singapore the final session was stopped after Barrichello crashed, and nobody could make use of the remaining 26 seconds. As we saw today, drivers felt compelled to take risks in order to set their only times.
Perhaps the clock could start ticking again only once the first of the runners starts a timed lap?
sounds like a good idea.
Perhaps they should add "stoppage time" to qualifying.
Not a big enough penalty for Buemi. He should have been black flagged and disqualified.
Hmmm, that was a nice, confusing end to what's probably the messiest qualifying I've ever seen.
Perhaps they should add the amount of time for an out-lap back on to the session after a red flag, so those that are out on flying laps can at least get that shot back in.
I was miffed about how last weekend's qualy ended in a red flag, with 28 secs or something on the clock and no chance to see if Vettel or Rosberg would clinch the top spot, but today was just a total joke
Suppose the next 2 races, Button scores no points and Vettel gets both wins. 5 points difference in last race.
Yes, please.
Alonso gets a penalty? He didnt even complete that lap!
Ah there we go again, I see the hands of you know all over this, trying to prolong Jensen agony? Not really my favorite driver on the grid, but I really hope he wins it tomorrow, you've got to admire the fact that when given the opportunity at the beginning of the season he took it, while the Red bulls were making all sorts of silly mistakes. I actually believe Jensen has been one of the most consistent driver through out the season bared the shunt with Lewis in Belgium. Good luck to him he deserves it.
do you know how they are going to apply the penalties? if they do them sequentially, in order, you get a different result to if you do them all together...
Brawn really do have an issue with set up and qualifying at the moment. This trick of leaving late and having 1 timed run has cost Button a decent crack at a good starting position for the second race running. The Brawn isn't strong here, but you have to question an approach that makes them this vulnerable to incidents. Surely from a risk management point of view it is clearly not paying off.
Still, as long as JB gets some points tomorrow, it is all good.
James, I'm not sure if you're going to make a separate post, but it would be great to see a corrected starting grid and fuel weights list.
Good news for Rosberg and Kubica - they've been bumped up into top 8 grid positions with 20kg extra fuel than the others - they could be in for a good race tomorrow
Is there a rule that you have to lift your arm to show that you respect the yellows? Because Alonso talked quite a bit about him lifting off and expecting others to get penalised, but got penalised himself. On the other hand it seems Nick got off the hook because he lifted his arm?
Also the Brawn guys didnt improve, so it seems the rule about not gaining time is not consistent?
I think Alonso was found to slow down AFTER the yellow flag area. This was obtained by studying his telemetry data.
"... while Alonso only backed off only after passing the hazard ...".
Nice try Nando 😉
I don't understand why Barrichello and Button took part in Q3? I was under the impression that the disqualification of their fastest time (in Q2) was the correct punishment for setting a faster time under yellows? This would have meant they - effectively - set no valid time in Q2 and should be starting something like 14th and 15th.
The implemented interpretation of the rules appears to have disproportionately punished Alonso, who had an existing valid time and backed-off (albeit late) and aborted the lap, against Barrichello and Button who - openly admitted - had no intention of obeying the flags.
BAR4ever :Ah, I was going to post exactly the same, so thanks for saving me time and effort.
Monktonnik, the revised grid is out. The penalties have been applied on the grid positions and not on the qualifying times itself. In any case, such a judgement would be hard unless the case was heard before Q3. Meaning if they penalised JB & RB by taking away their Q2 times, you cannot the restore the Q3 opportunity to the drivers who missed it , in this case, Rosberg & Kubica.
A really valid point. Perhaps this is why there is no grid as yet.
I think you are probably right.
I agree. While I believe that the purpose of the yellow flag is not "avoid making a great laptime" but "be careful in this sector", and the Stewards have decided that Alonso did not lift enough (if anything) in the yellow flagged sector, I would have penalised Button and Barrichello a bit further.
Actually, what the Stewards (or the Reglament) are saying is: "we will punish you with 5 grid positions, but race like hell and perhaps you can even get into Q3".
No lap time should be considered if the racer has to drive through a yellow flagged sector. Perhaps a rules change is in order. And it is for security!
It is going to be interesting to see what Kimi and Lewis will be able to do with KERS at the start.
James, do you think quali rules should again be revisited after an incident like today's? I'm not too keen on the rules, but what happens if the 5 drivers had slowed down so much and weren't able to get a flying lap in? I'd assume they won't get through to quali 3, but that seems incredibly unfair and downright stupid. 2 red flags and a yellow...some drivers would not have been able to get a flying lap in due to no fault of their own. Should the rules be changed for contingencies like these?
Does anyone know why Brawn kept leaving it so late to send their drivers out, when it was quite predictable that there'd be further incidents?
If Jenson had lifted and set a slow time would he have been ahead of a penalised Barry despite not getting into Q3?
Have to agree with those saying that alonso appears to have bee harshly treated.
He did lift (albeit late), didnt complete the lap and therefore got no benefit from it.
Yet he gets the same penalty as Buemi who caused most of the chaos by driving his clearly far too battered torro rosso back to the pits.
He also gets the same penalty as the brawns who got their one and only time from driving straight through the yellow flags flat out with no lifting at all.
I feel this has something to do with his comments backing flav the other week...
I have no sympathy for any of the drivers who didn't lift, or lifted too late. As has been said, but I think needs repeating, at least in the hearing of drivers, the decision whether to slow is not theirs to make.
Double waved yellows requires more than just a perfunctory lift, it means be ready to stop if necessary. We've had enough marshalls injured and killed.
I have always thought that F1 is a sport and the stewards should consider the spectacle. But in this case there is no leeway. I think just five grid slots, the same as changing a gearbox I believe, is very light, especially as so many ignored them.
Alonso's backing off late is not backing off at all.
Shame that it might affect the racing but it is a sacrifice I am prepared to make.
Should Buemi be counting his lucky stars today? I was expecting him to be starting from the pitlane behind Webbs after causing the whole fracas in the first place

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his wife, Mary Wiggins, b. 1837, d. 1907 [note stone marked wrong, b. 1827 - ACC]
Native of the Parish of Foyran, Co. Westmeath, Ireland
Children of Thomas & Mary
Mary Jane, b. 1/6/1867, d. 5/18/1875
Ann, b. 11/20/1868, d. 5/22/1875
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Bridget [Gerahty], d. 8/8/1881, age 76 yrs
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I probably shouldn't have opened the can of worms yesterday when I complained about the new Blizzard World of Warcraft downloader. To be clear, I wasn't complaining about a beta having bugs. I was complaining about what seemed to be a senseless and self-defeating design.
But now I've seen the system work (sort of) and I sort of feel obligated to set the record straight:
The new streaming downloader is a great concept. It's not quite working as advertised yet (beta, naturally) but once it does it really could save us from those awful seven hour patching sessions. Now that I see it working, I can tell the problem yesterday wasn't with the new system so much as the way it was rolled out. They asked you to uninstall the client. While annoying, this made sense. Then you had to download this 15GB monster. This download :
Once that thing was done it launched, ignored the 15BG it had just downloaded, and began streaming the game as intended. That first download step was the problem. It made no dang sense.
So, the new system could turn out to be great. I think the initial bulk download was erroneous. It also confused things because I naturally assumed this bulk download was the new "streaming" system, which made no sense. It wasn't.
Again, it's boring fussing over the details of an installer for a beta that isn't even out yet, but after I heaped shame on them I felt like I needed to make clear what was going on.
(Note to self, this is why you shouldn't write about technical problems in a beta. Even if it seems like horrible design, there may well be explanations other an idiocy.)
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Can we find common ground about "common" and "ground"?
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These casually used words have serious implications which we ignore at our peril
One of the easier-to-keep resolutions I recently made was to try to be more careful when using the many technical words that populate our discussions. We use the same words for different things, and different words for the same things: think, for example, of words such as driver, buffer, and switch. The result ranges from occasional confusion, even among our technical peers, to serious misunderstanding and design problems.
The word-pair that can really cloud our thinking is "ground" and "common", and the use of the former when we really should use the latter. Ground implies that the circuit and system somehow, somewhere, has an eventual connection to a true Earth ground, with all the technical good and bad that such a connection brings. But so many products these days have no true Earth connection--and I am not referring just to spacecraft. Battery-powered units generally have no need or provision for a true ground connection, and will never see one. Their charging modules, if they have one, may have a true ground on the AC-line side, but may not.
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Bosconian (new version) dip switch settings: -------------------------------------------- Dip bank #1: DIFFICULTY: (dips 1-2) - Easy OFF ON - Medium* OFF OFF - Hardest ON OFF - Auto ON ON UNKNOWN: (dip 3) - Off* OFF - On ON DEMO SOUNDS: (dip 4) - Off OFF - On* ON FREEZE: (dip 5) - Off* OFF - On ON ALLOW CONTINUE: (dip 6) - No ON - Yes* OFF UNKNOWN: (dip 7) - Off* OFF - On ON CABINET: (dip 8) - Upright* OFF - Cocktail ON Dip bank #2: COINAGE: (dips 1-3) - 4 Coins/1 Credit OFF ON ON - 3 Coins/1 Credit ON OFF ON - 2 Coins/1 Credit OFF OFF ON - 1 Coin/1 Credit* OFF OFF OFF - 2 Coins/3 Credits ON ON OFF - 1 Coin/2 Credits ON OFF OFF - 1 Coin/3 Credits OFF ON OFF - Free Play ON ON ON BONUS FIGHTER: (dips 4-6) - 15K 50K ON OFF OFF - 20K 70K OFF OFF OFF - 10K 50K 50K* OFF ON ON - 15K 50K 50K ON OFF ON - 15K 70K 70K OFF OFF ON - 20K 70K 70K ON ON OFF - 30K 100K 100K OFF ON OFF - None ON ON ON LIVES: (dips 7-8) - 1 ON ON - 2 OFF ON - 3* ON OFF - 5 OFF OFF * - default setting WARNING: These dip switches are parsed from MAME source files so they can be incorrect! www.solvalou.com
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Similarly named games (worth checking if dip switches were not found or the information was incorrect) are Bosconian (old version), Bosconian (older version), Bosconian (Midway and Bosconian (Midway.
Games with similar hardware (may contain applicable dip switches) are Battles, Bosconian (Midway, Bosconian (Midway, Bosconian (old version), Bosconian (older version), Dig Dug (Atari, Dig Dug (Atari, Dig Dug (rev 1), Dig Dug (rev 2), Galaga (Midway set 1), Galaga (Midway set 2), Galaga (Namco rev. B), Galaga (Namco), Gallag, Gatsbee, Super Xevious, Xevios, Xevious (Atari set 1), Xevious (Atari set 2), Xevious (Atari set 3), Xevious (Namco) and Zig Zag (Dig Dug hardware).


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The 3rd annual Exec Think Tank took a good, hard look at the future of business and what entrepreneurs and executives should be implementing today if they want to be growing their organisations in the future.
1. The rules of transacting have changed – and you need to change with them
Anton Musgrave, futurist and Senior Partner at FutureWorld International, offered a simple description of how businesses transact: Need meets supply and both parties agree to a transfer of price. That's it. That's what business is about. The rest is just processes to enable that one transaction.
However, as the world changes, so those processes change. What we do to get to the transaction has to move with the times.
"Too many companies still think of business and the digital department as separate entities. They aren't. Digital should permeate the whole business," said Musgrave.
"We're in the fourth industrial revolution, and new technologies are driving down costs in business. We're now transacting at profoundly different operating costs, in new markets through new industries. If this has all changed, then the way we do business must too.
"There are only four relevant questions that should shape every business decision you make: Is it insightful, is it exponential, is it changing the way we do things, and does it excite people?
"Unlearn everything you've ever learnt. Learn about the rules of a new, future world, where everything is interconnected and digital. And once you've done that, start again. That's how quickly things are moving.
"If you can do that, you might be ready for the future."
2. Dream big and live your destiny
"My dreams have value, and life validates me," said Nonkululeko Gobodo, co-founder of SizweNtsalubaGobodo and current CEO at Nkululeko Leadership Consulting, as she unpacked how the courage to pursue her own dreams has shaped her success in life. "The power of the fulfilment of the dream exists within the dream itself," she said, "You just need to not be scared of pursuing your dreams."
Related: How SNG Built A Leadership Legacy
To clarify her point, Gobodo pointed out how babies learn: with determination, and without fear. "They conquer challenges every day," she said. "They haven't learnt fear, which is critical to their ability to overcome all the obstacles in their way.
"We grow up and take things so seriously. When we were young we did things naturally. We need to get back to that. We need to learn to trust our own learnings, our bodies, and our minds."
3. Become a leader that others will follow
Gobodo is a firm believer that personality affects leadership style and this should be used to a leader's advantage rather than ignored. "The more self-aware we become, the more we're able to channel strengths, manage weaknesses and minimise conflicts within our teams," she said.
"To be a good leader, you need to be aware of your psychological and spiritual state. We all bring energy to the job. A good leader is aware of what that energy is."
"Don't let your team carry the burden of your leadership style."
She also believes that leaders are respectful. "Everyone has value. If you can embrace this idea, your organisation will follow your lead. This won't only affect your business, but will make an impact on the community around you. Together, we can rebuild our country, and make a difference to millions of lives."
4. Manage your online reputation
It takes a lifetime to build a reputation, and seconds to destroy it. In the digital age, when social media permeates every aspect of our lives, this statement has never been truer.
Emma Sadleir, Social Media Law Specialist, started her talk by pointing out that it's not a question of whether you're going to be on social media. You already are. Your stakeholders are. Rather, do it well, and learn how to manage your business's online image. This starts with your employees.
Related: How To Manage Your Business Reputation Online
"Social media is instant. I can think something, publish it and it's out there. There's no time to filter my thoughts.
"Ten years ago companies could decide on who would be their voice, and what the company message would be. This has radically changed. You can perhaps control your brand accounts, but your employees are linked to you, even when they tweet or post in their personal capacities, and your customers are talking about you.
"There's no escaping it."
So what should companies be doing?
"First, remember that digital content is dangerous content, and anything can be digital: Anyone can post a video about you, tweet about something you've said, screen grab a private conversation. Nothing is safe.
"Reputation management is therefore critical. Educate your employees. Help them to understand what they say – even through private accounts – impacts the brand, and outline fireable offences. Put firm guidelines in place, and then monitor your brand image."
Most of all, remember that whether you like it or not, your brand has a digital presence. Rather manage it than ignore it.
5. Build your business on a combination of culture and strategy
"Initially, we didn't talk culture," said Sam Paddock, who started GetSmarter from nothing eight years ago and grew it into a company that now boasts something north of R360 million turnover (and aiming for R1 billion by 2018), "Culture was just how you behaved."
For Sam and his brother, Rob, their breakthrough came when they read Mastering the Rockefeller Habits (Verne Hamish), which distilled the world of business into one simple concept – business is about people doing things.
Related: How GetSmarter Got Smarter
"We need to build simple models of the world. The challenge of business is – the right people doing the right things right."
The overarching question for business leaders around culture was, "Do you and your people know the character of your company?"
Deeply ingrained into GetSmarter's culture is a clear set of values that every employee buys into. These values promote learning, encourage process evolution and centre on nurturing relationships – both with their customers and with each other.
But Paddock was insistent that culture means nothing without strategy. To define strategy, he drew from Harvard Business Review's two questions: Where to play, and How to win.
"If we're clear about our strategy, our team will pick up the tools and do the work with us."


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Module code: LZ1400 Number of Aston credits: 10 Entry requirements: None Language of Delivery: Mainly Arabic
Apply: Online
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Duration: 2 hours per week for 12 weeks per module Teaching Period when Offered: Teaching Period 2
Module Convenor: Mr Ghizlane Lafdi
Further information: View contacts for all your University Wide Language Programme enquiries.
The module content follows the Languages Ladder framework, provides student with the basic structures needed at this level, and ensures progression in language ability and proficiency.
The Module will help students to develop strategies for coping with Arabic in real-life situations. At the end of this module students will be entitled to take Arabic for Beginners II.
This module is an intensive language course, which aims to bring beginners up to a standard in which they are able to communicate and understand basic ideas in Arabic. The module aims to develop language skills in all four areas: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Furthermore, basic grammatical structures and vocabulary will be integrated into the learning process in meaningful contexts. The course is organized around interactive and communicative activities that will allow students to build all skills in the most effective way. On completion of this module students will be able to:
Knowledge and understanding:
Cognitive skills: students will be able to
Subject-specific skills: students will be able to
Transferable skills: students will have practised
Communication in Arabic will be encouraged from the outset. Classes will be conducted mainly in the target language, enabling students to learn and practise the new grammatical structures and vocabulary covered in each session. In order to develop and consolidate skills in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, classes will be highly interactive. The course will consist of two hours per week. In addition, several hours a week should be devoted to Arabic outside the classroom to do work set by the tutor, and practise reading, writing and listening skills.
The module will consist of two contact hours per week.
A minimum of 2 hours a week, in addition to the 2 taught hours, should be devoted to Arabic outside the classroom to complete work set by the tutor, assignments on grammar structures, learn and revise vocabulary and practise reading, writing, and listening skills.
Seminar - A discussion or classroom session focusing on a particular topic or project - (20%) Independent Study - might include preparation for scheduled sessions, follow-up work, wider reading or practice, completion of assessment tasks, revision, etc - (80%)
Feedback will be given through:
Formative and summative feedback following the oral presentation.
Summative written feedback as part of the marking process for the exam.
Students are advised that all marks obtained in tests are subject to moderation, and approval by the external examiner.
Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar (2004): Read and Speak Arabic. Oxfordshire, wkt Co. Ltd.
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Jane Wightwick and Mahmoud Gaafar (2005): Mastering Arabic grammar. G-and-w publishing, PALGRAVE MACMILAN.
N. Awde & K. Smith (2004) Bennett & Bloom Arabic dictionary. London, Newtown Printing.
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Ruifeng Shi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in aircraft design at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China, in 1999 and 2002, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in system engineering at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronauticsm China, in 2006. He has been a Postdoctoral Researcher at the same university at the School of Computer Science and Engineering. He is now an instructor of system engineering at North China Electric Power University. His interests are multiobjective optimization, evolutionary computation, and its application on scheduling and power systems. He has been a Member of IEEE Intelligence Computation Society since 2008.
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Place: Ichi Bento
Location : A few doors away from Starbucks Kota Damansara
GPS Coordinate : N3 09.163 E101 35.600
Address : 17-1, Jln PJU 5/11, Dataran Sunway, Kota Damansara, 47610, Petaling Jaya, Selangor
Contact No : 03-6141 7787 (Ashley Ong)
Business Hour : Tue – Thur 11.30am to 10.30pm / Fri – Sat 11.30am to 11.30pm / Sun 12.00pm to 10.30pm
Off Day : Monday
Food Type: Japanese Bento Boxes
Price: Reasonable. Please refer picture
Cleanliness Votes : 5/5
Food Votes : 4/5
Air Conditioned : YES
Halal :No
Smoking and non smoking zone : YES
Tax : None
Recommended Foods : Mix and match your own bento box food
Recommended Drinks: Try their herbal infusion teas.
A pretty special Japanese restaurant. It emphasize its business towards bento (Japanese Lunch Box) style. You have to choose 1 of the item from each category in their menu cards to form a bento box set. The more you mix, the more foods you will get at a cheaper price.


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Directors Guild of America National Vice President Ed Sherin announced the winners of the Ninth Annual DGA East Coast Student Filmmakers Awards.
The prestigious award brings prizes of $2,500 to the winner in each of the following categories: Best African-American Student Filmmaker, Best Asian-American Student Filmmaker, Best Latino Student Filmmaker, and Best Woman Student Filmmaker.
"The DGA East Coast Student Film Awards provide the Guild with the opportunity to honor, encourage and bring attention to emerging director talent," Sherin said in announcing the four individuals receiving the award. "These four individuals exemplify the best in student filmmaking, and their work demonstrates that talent, vision and ability are not limited by either race or gender," said Sherin. "We look forward to seeing more of their work in the future."
The 2003 winners, selected by a panel of 12 distinguished DGA member judges, are:
Best African-American Student Filmmaker:
RANDALL DOTTIN - A-Alike - Columbia University
Best Asian-American Student Filmmaker:
DENNIS LEE - Jesus Henry Christ - Columbia University
Best Latino Student Filmmaker:
PATRICIA RIGGEN - La Milpa - Columbia University
Best Woman Student Filmmaker:
ALISON COLE - Drowning - School of Visual Arts
In response to the selection of Columbia School of the Arts students for three of the four awards this year, the Dean of the Columbia School of the Arts, Bruce W. Ferguson stated, "At the Columbia School of the Arts we are very proud to have won six gold medals at the Student Academy Awards in the last seven years, and three of the four DGA East awards this year.
I am particularly proud of these students who have not only captured awards but proven that our approach to training filmmakers is one of the most successful in the United States."
The award-winning films were shown at an invitation-only screening on Tuesday, October 14 at 6:30 at the Directors Guild Theater, 110 West 57TH Street, New York.


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SUNDERLAND snappers are being urged to get into the frame as part of a photography competition.
The Port of Tyne's Reflect Awards is the biggest photo and film competition in the North East, and it is open to amateurs and professionals.
Sunderland-born author Terry Deary, who created the Horrible Histories series, is on the judging panel, and he is urging fellow Wearsiders to get involved.
Terry, who is judging the 16-and-under photo and film category, said: "I want to see young talent in the North East nourished and encouraged. This competition is a great platform for young people to show what they can do."
Sunderland-born photographer Paul Swinney, a finalist in the 2007 Urban Photographer of the Year competition and the Nikon UK Best Photographer 2009 competition, is also in the frame for this year's contest and said Reflect has an important role to play in promoting the North East.
He said: "Reflect is a great way to celebrate the best of Sunderland and the North East. Although I now live in London, much of my photography remains focused on Sunderland.
"I've had many comments from people who've seen my work that they didn't even know Sunderland was on the coast.
"I would love to see the people of Sunderland really getting behind the competition and submitting their entries."
For details about how to enter, visit www.portoftyne.co.uk/reflect. Entries close on September 19.


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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve said Wednesday it rejected plans by Citigroup Inc. and four other large U.S. banks for dividend payments and stock buybacks after annual stress tests.
Those tests raised questions about weaknesses in the risk-planning processes of Citi and three other banks. And the Fed rejected the capital distribution plan of one firm, Zions Bancorp. of Salt Lake City, because of concerns about its financial health during an extreme financial downturn.
Overall, 25 of the 30 biggest banks received regulatory approval to pay back money to shareholders after the tests indicated the firms could withstand a severe economic shock even after shedding that capital.
Bank of America Corp. and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. received approval only after scaling back their capital distribution plans in the past week, allowing the banks to pass a key test of financial soundness.
Zions was the only bank whose plan was rejected because it would leave the bank at risk of failure in a deep recession.
The company was the one bank that effectively failed the first round of stress tests last week. Those tests did not take into account this year's dividend and stock-buyback plans.
The other three banks that, along with Citigroup, had problems in their planning processes were HSBC North America Holdings Inc., RBS Citizens Financial Group Inc. and Santander Holdings USA Inc.
The Fed said those four banks showed weakness in drawing up their capital distribution plans, such as how they assess risk and model potential losses.
Those four banks can't increase their dividend payments or stock buybacks this year, but are allowed to duplicate last year's distributions when they resubmit their plans to the Fed for approval.
Fed officials said this year's results showed that the nation's largest banks now were better able to handle a deep recession than they were when the first stress tests were done in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
"With each year, we have seen broad improvement in the industry's ability to assess its capital needs under stress and continuing improvements to the risk-measurement and -management practices that support good capital planning," said Federal Reserve Gov. Daniel K. Tarullo, who oversees the central banks regulatory functions.
"However, both the firms and supervisors have more work to do as we continue to raise expectations for the quality of risk management in the nation's largest banks," he said.
Bank of America and Goldman Sachs reduced their planned capital distributions to shareholders after getting the results from the first round of this year's tests last week. Under their original distribution plans, both firms would have had too much leverage, the stress tests found.
As part of the stress tests, the Fed has been raising its standards for how banks assess risk and plan to distribute capital.
Last year, the Fed had problems with the internal planning process at Goldman and JPMorgan Chase & Co. But they were given conditional approval for their capital distribution plans as long as they fixed the weaknesses, which they did.
This year, the four banks were not given such approval. The Fed expanded the number of banks tested this year to 30 from 18. The 30 are the largest U.S. bank holdings companies and have a combined $13.5 trillion in assets, nearly 80 percent of the U.S. industry.
In Citigroup's case, the Fed found problems in the bank's ability to project revenue and losses in much of its global operations under an extreme-stress scenario.
The Fed objected to plans by the other banks because of "significant deficiencies" in their processes.


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All gay cruise by Atlantis, leaving from San Diego to the Mexican Riviera and back, on Holland America Westerdam.
All gay cruise from La to Mexico and back on Norwegian Jewel with 2600 guys. Sailing from San Diego to the famous gay destination Puerto Vallarta Cabo, and stops at Mazatlan and Cabo San Lucas and back to San Diego.
What is it like?Atlantis cruises attract mostly gays, and usually a few lesbians. Age varies, but on the Mexico cruise it's usually quite younger crowd. The concept is all about making everybody happy, day time entertainment at the pools, have nice dinners with (new) friends, see fun shows in the theatres, and 1 or more parties till the sun comes up.
This cruise is well known for its way out party atmosphere, by the West Coast gay scene.
Some of the parties have themes (whiteparty, classic disco, tropical etc), and most of the guys really dress up for those. Watch the Youtube video to get an impression. Many also decorate their cabin doors.
San Diego hotels and informationThe cruise will start and end in San Diego. See our gay destination guide on where to book your hotel and gay nightlife info.
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