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I, Keano: Football, lies, loose talk and drink
DAVID KELLY: Remember the last pre-World Cup meeting we had? 2002? Outside your room in Saipan after everyone else had gone? You with no shirt on and Dylan's 'Positively 4th Street' blasting in the background?
ROY KEANE: You were trying to get into my room, was that what it was?
DK: Still as big a Dylan fan as ever?
RK: Yeah, of course. He's the man, no doubts. I go to see him live as much as possible, yeah. He's still going strong too.
DK: That really left a lasting impression, in terms of all the madness of the time, you seemed so chilled. Not necessarily switched off, but switched into something else. There's this crazy tumult convulsing the whole world, it seemed, and the guy in the middle is the calmest of the lot! How come?
RK: I think for years and years, or whatever, my frustration, whatever stuff had gone on then, I'd come to a conclusion. I mean, I wasn't listening to Bob Dylan at 3.0am, I was thinking about what was happening. But then the next morning, when I knew the team was gone, I said it is over now. I said to myself : 'Hey, I may as well chill out and play a bit of music.' Do you know what I mean?
I wasn't chilled out throughout all of it. But there comes a point where you say: 'Ah listen'. And if there was ever a morning to listen to Bob, it was that morning. I remember that now, yeah, now that you're asking me.
I do remember incidents like that, there are times in your life and career you recall as an important time. That was one. The team had gone by then. I thought there's no going back now. I might as well get my bag organised, pay my hotel bill and hopefully the flight will be okay. It wasn't like a doom and gloom moment. More, 'this is it'.
DK: Is that an easy thing for you to do generally, whatever it is, say, if you have a puncture?
RK: I think sometimes when it comes to the end of something, whether it be situations with Ireland, with Sunderland, United, Celtic, there can be times of indecision. But once you've come to that decision it's a case of, like Saipan, that morning, 'well it's done now'. There's no point worrying about it or thinking what if? It was done.
It happens in family life too. When you come to a conclusion, you might as well relax with it. Whether it's right or wrong, I don't know. The hard part is making the decision.
People look back over my career where I've had incidents or major stuff and they've gone: 'Oh, he's relaxed'. But I'm not and I've been hurt by certain stuff. But there comes a certain point where you go, it's over now, move on.
But a lot of stuff happens in between. But then you come to a point ... When I left United, people thought he's dead blasé about it, he's a tough man. But people get upset around me, I get upset with certain stuff.
But there comes a point ... get on with it. Whether that means listening to music, doing the school runs, taking holidays, whatever. You have to move on.
DK: Don't forget the dogs!
RK: Of course. People have this image. The usual clip comes up of me walking the dogs, as if I don't do anything else. It's the only one they show, perhaps it's the only clip they've got. Some people think it's the only thing I ever do. It's not. I've family stuff to do, friends to meet. There's plenty of stuff to do. And anyway now my dogs can't walk too much, especially the oldest one. I don't do it all the time.
DK: The last 10 years have been fairly interesting. Do you wonder what the next 10 years might hold or do you try not to look that far ahead?
RK: I try not to. I certainly don't want to be a manager that's changing clubs every two or three years. I know managers have less of a choice. It's different when you're a player, you get a four or five-year contract and if you're doing well, you stay there.
I don't want to be uprooting my family. But I do, in the back of my mind, know my choices are going to be less in terms of being able to make a choice like that. My family have moved down there (to Ipswich), we're happy there, but that can change this evening.
That's the down side of management. But then I suppose none of us know what's around the corner. I don't mind that, I don't mind that. You have to be brave as well.
The average employment is 13 months in the Championship. There's so much uncertainty being a manager, you can't look too far ahead, but I'm pretty relaxed with that.
DK: But you still want to be managing in 10 years, still in football?
RK: I do enjoy the management side of it. I've still got lots to learn. I've learned more this year than at any time in my entire life. Obviously, management is a hundred times harder than being a player, because then I only had to look after myself.
DK: Have you tried to do anything different this time around, with Ipswich?
RK: There's been different stuff thrown at us. If anybody had predicted the bad start, the amount of draws. There's stuff in the background which we've done, we do feel we've made progress there, myself and the staff. But you're judged on the results, I know that. They haven't been good enough.
But, hopefully, I've learned from the mistakes at Sunderland and the mistakes I've made here. Hopefully, I won't make the same next year. But I look at top managers and see them making mistakes.
I think what I've always been is very critical of myself, particularly towards the end of my time at Sunderland.
Sometimes I have to go easier on myself a little bit and that's something I hope will come from experience.
DK: About that overly self-critical side of your character, do you think that continuing quest for perfection is ever going to be realistic?
RK: It's not, you're right. There's a danger in that. Being a manager there's a lot more disappointments than ups, only a few of them can win trophies, usually the bigger teams. Even in our league, West Brom and Newcastle were always going up.
I've got to learn that it's more about progress rather than perfection. And that's something that's held me back a little bit, but also it makes me the person that I am. This is the way I was made and there are pluses and minuses to that, like with everybody. But as a manager, I have to go easier on myself.
DK: So, not change your core values entirely, maybe moderate them?
RK: Yeah, moderated a little bit.
"You got a lotta nerve
To say you are my friend
When I was down
You just stood there grinning"
DK: Trust is another word I have down. You, maybe, over-rely on people you trust.
RK: There's not too many I trust ...
DK: Sorry, I meant should there be more people you can trust?
RK: No, because generally speaking the people I have put a lot of trust in over the years have proved me wrong, believe it or not. I don't think that's too much I should worry about.
I see managers who take staff wherever they go. Martin O'Neill has three or four staff who have followed him around from Wycombe to Leicester and Celtic and you understand why.
Before, I used to wonder why they do that, but now I understand. They develop a trusting relationship with them and build on that. I'm only in this management game two minutes, but I bring the same staff with me now. There is that element of trust. I don't think you can go around trusting every Tom, Dick and Harry. No you can't. I did that a little bit at Sunderland, people I thought I knew, but no ...
DK: There are loads of assumptions out there, a public perception about your anger issues, going back to the quest for perfection, the intemperate behaviour on occasions ...
RK: Anger is an emotion. Do I get angry? Bet your life I do. Do I get angry like people think I do? Of course I don't! I wouldn't get a wink's sleep, I'd be too tired all the time. As you say, people assume things. But that's a very dangerous thing to do.
Hopefully I've had the balance right. At the beginning of the season, we'd a bad start, but I was as cool as a breeze.
The same at Sunderland, but there were a couple of incidents which were blown up as usual.
I've worked with managers and they could quite happily lose their temper, let me tell you. Alex Ferguson, Brian Clough. My manager at Rockmount. If you needed telling something, they'd tell you. I don't tip toe around players either. It will come from experience.
I appreciate some players need an arm put around them and others need a telling off. But you've got to be careful. You've got to make sure they know who's in charge.
DK: So, it's all about people management as much as football management?
RK: There's a skill to it, of course, and that's something I need to improve ...
DK: You're getting a little bit better ...
RK: Of course. It's like anything, there's skills to deal with being a good dad, being a good husband, skills for dealing with the media. There are different skills I think I'm okay on, certain others I think I can brush up on.
But it's not something that will keep me awake at night. That's something that will come down the line from being in management. Again, I see loads of football matches and top managers and say: 'Ah, I wouldn't have done that'. And they're top managers, vastly experienced managers. So, if I think I'm not going to make any mistakes, I'm kidding myself.
DK: Would you have put Messi wide against Inter instead of leaving him in the middle?
RK: But it's amazing. You're saying that, but he's had a decent start, that manager ...
DK: But you talk about managers making mistakes even at the highest level ...
RK: But we know that at the highest levels of sport, it's about the fine margins. Maybe he's sitting there this morning, thinking I should have done that. Or maybe not. Because they still had chances, the boy missed a header.
For some reason, we have a chat at work ... we talk about Inter like a pub team. But they've got established South American internationals, 50 or 60 caps.
We're saying Barcelona should do this or that. No matter how Barcelona play, they're going to have these five or six guys on the edge of the box. Good luck to them breaking that down.
We're all sitting at home watching it, saying he should have done this or that. But that's why we're sitting at home! I was in a hotel bar last night watching it thinking the same.
I'd love to have been on that sideline and then the next morning someone saying you should have done this. But I wasn't. So, you get on with your job and I'll get on with mine. Because we're all great managers. All the great managers are sitting on the sofa with a mug of tea and a chocolate biscuit. I'm like that as well. But at least I get a chance every Saturday.
DK: What are your best qualities as a manager? Or do you know what they are yet?
RK: I think you'd have to ask players I've worked with.
There'll always be the ones who are upset with you, usually the lads who don't play in the team. We saw an interview last week, the lad Boateng talking about the previous manager at Hull. What chance have you got with these type of players? They're slagging every manager off. I mean, you don't have to like the manager, but a bit of respect does help.
What are my strengths? I can tell you my weaknesses (laughs). Nah, there's loads of things I need to improve upon, spotting players, getting the right people around me.
"Do you take me for such a fool
To think I'd make contact
With the one who tries to hide
What he don't know to begin with"
DK: You've said that you're going to stop using your club press conferences to talk about subjects other than Ipswich Town. Why?
RK: With the television? Listen, I do the media every Friday. I spend10 minutes talking about Ipswich then at the end someone would ask me who do you think will win between Man United and Chelsea and then it's boom! I appreciate that happens, but I've stepped back from that.
Someone came over to me a while ago from an Irish paper and asked me about Munster, two questions. Then two days later, it's my insight into rugby, my knowledge of rugby. I answered two questions.
I know very little about rugby. But this stupid message goes out that I'm a supposed expert on rugby, it was the 'Times,' I think, exclusive about rugby! For Jesus' sake. You try to be respectful and answer their questions.
Let's not get sidetracked by rugby or who's going to be the next Celtic manager.
DK: But you answered that Celtic one didn't you?
RK: No, I didn't. They'll go back to something I said before a year ago. They'll ask me who's going to be the next manager and I'll say they have a manager. So, they presume that's 'Keane says give job to Lennon!' But I didn't actually say that!
You'll have to go to one of my press conferences.
It was the same at Sunderland. I know this is the way it is and I can't do much about it. Keane lashes this, Keane blasts that. It's lazy journalism, there are a lot of lazy journalists out there. Steve Bruce took his own PR person to Sunderland. I'd never do that, but I understand why he did it. All the politicians have them, they control the media, you write this, you write that.
I've never gone down that road and all the trouble I've ever gotten into is from what I'm supposed to have said, going back to Saipan, United. Silly headlines. Lies. And all of a sudden you're moving club and you're moving this ...
DK: But, in fairness, if someone goes from Ireland or London to Ipswich on a Friday, they're more interested in, say, Trapattoni and Andy Reid than who's going to start up front for Ipswich?
RK: It's amazing. Last year over here, someone was asking me about players in England. I was saying I couldn't get my head around the fact that players up and down the country weren't lasting 90 minutes, they were being taken off after an hour because they aren't fit enough.
A few days later, suddenly it was if I was having a go at Andy Reid. Amazing. I never mentioned the boy. But then there's these headlines because there'd been other silly headlines before about him when people asked me about the Ireland team.
But that's up to Trapattoni.
I don't know if you can stop it now, really, there's always something rolling throughout the last few years with my career. It's frustrating, as I say lazy journalism. I'd like to meet a reporter who'd ask me different questions instead of the same old stuff.
Who's going to get the Celtic job? What about United? Who's going to win the league? For Christ's sake?
DK: Can I ask you a very personal question? Were you really an alcoholic?
RK: Sorry?
DK: Were you an alcoholic?
RK: That's none of your business.
DK: Okay, It's an assumption out there, it's been written.
RK: I'm sure it is. It's nobody's business. There's been enough porkies told about me, this and that. I had it at the World Cup. There was a story I got this girl pregnant in Dublin ...
DK: But you drank a lot back in the days, over a weekend, after a match ... that's different ...
RK: In a sense, it is, but that's nobody's business -- what I was then and what I am now. And that's where I find you have to draw the line with certain people. People can write lies all they want. Stuff like that doesn't keep me awake, but you draw the line in certain ...
DK: But surely it's not nice to be called that?
RK: People get called worse. There'll be something next week about something else. If people want to say that about me, or anger ... Stuff like that doesn't upset me. Because a few years ago, I was the hero of Ireland, then I let them down. I was captain of United and then I'm not mentioned anymore. So, people betray you as something.
So, never get carried away when people call you a 'great one.' I certainly don't get carried away. If people say drink issues, anger issues, let the country down, whatever people want to add ... stuff like that. I know myself what's real and not real. Talk like that is nonsense, absolute nonsense.
DK: Do you still have a drink?
RK: No I don't have a drink, nah.
DK: A glass of wine with dinner?
RK: Nah, I've no interest. I think I've had my time with it. I don't go out much anyway. My relaxation is going to the pictures, walking the dogs, watching football. Ten years ago, I had a different way of doing things. I was going out with the lads in Dublin, back to Cork. Now I'm over here, drinking tea and tucked up in bed at ten.
DK: It's called getting old!
RK: I'm not old yet.
DK: What would your epitaph be?
RK: Who knows?
DK: Who knows? That would be a good one!
RK: I won't be worried about it at that stage.
DK: Would you like your kids to follow in a similar career path?
RK: They've taken more of an interest in Ipswich. They're older, I suppose. They've only been at one match, I think. But they've taken more interest in me as a manager than as a player. They don't really know me as a player. When they were younger, they'd no interest, but it was a military operation bringing them to matches, so my wife didn't bother too much with doing that.
We'd got to functions, we'd good nights out with the other families though, I wouldn't say otherwise. But my kids never got bogged down in what I was doing. My kids wouldn't have a clue whom I've played for or what I've won, not that I'm aware of, because we never discussed it.
I remember winning the league one year, I can't remember what year it was, they used to give us chocolate medals for the kids. The kids were more interested in that, not the fact we were after winning the league. That's what it's all about. When you've a good family around you, that's important, not getting too carried away with winning leagues.
I think they've their own paths to go down, they do all sports, the four girls and the young fella. I trust them to do what they want. And the kids don't worry about me either.
Hopefully, we can keep our base here if I can make this work. In fairness, it's the first time we've moved in 15 years. We've always been based in Manchester.
But I could be here for 10 years or gone this evening. Managers have lost their job after better seasons than the one I just had. I don't worry about stuff I'm not in control of anymore. I used to. The people at Ipswich are good to me, they treat me with respect and that's all I ask. But what will be, will be.
DK: That's the quirk of the whole managerial thing, isn't it? You don't know what's going to happen, you don't know where you might go next. And you haven't made a success of it yet?
RK: You're right. My family are switched on to that, especially my wife, if I have to move on. As a manager, I'll probably experience more moves than I did as a player. It's unusual in management. I'm open-minded.
If we have to move house and schools, we will. I don't want to do it every two or three years. I like being in a house, having dinner with the family.
"When you know as well as me
You'd rather see me paralysed
Why don't you just come out once and scream it"
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Silver Speedsters – Mercedes-Benz Speed-Record Cars, 1934-1939
Silver Speedsters
Mercedes-Benz Speed-Record Cars, 1934-1939
Article Graham Robson
Images Daimler Archives
How on earth did they manage it – and how could they find the time? These days, maintaining just two state-of-the-art Mercedes-Benz racecars on the F1 circuits of the world requires more than a thousand highly dedicated team members at Mercedes AMG Petronas facilities at Brackley and Brixworth in England. Compare this with preparing a much larger stable of Grand Prix cars for racing between 1934 and 1939 – a task likely accomplished with fewer than 50 people.
That was a miracle in itself. And while it's true there were not as many major events to tackle in those days, somehow there also was time during the winter for crew members to turn their attention to building a series of ultra-fast machines to pit against both existing speed records and the cars of the company's great rival of the day, Auto Union. How on earth did they do it? We have no idea, but it was done with great flair and success.
Early W25 speed-record cars
The first of the legendary Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow Grand Prix cars arrived in 1934; in addition, the company was already thinking of experimenting with cars that would challenge land-speed records during the winter months when there were no Grand Prix events scheduled to keep technicians occupied.
This first project was based on a rather quaint-looking W25 car, with chassis and running gear closely related to that of the then-current GP machines. There were two versions – both with fully exposed wheels and much smaller frontal air intakes – but one of them had a smart if claustrophobic bubble hardtop; the other employed an open cockpit.
Whereas the 8-cylinder engine of the W25 GP car produced 348 brake horsepower, that of the record car, enlarged to 4.0-liters, and boosted by the use of exotic fuel and higher supercharger pressure, produced a remarkable 430 brake horsepower.
The cars began speed trials on a new concrete highway at Gyon, Hungary, near Budapest, in October 1934. The open-top car was at once crippled with a broken engine. However, Rudolf Caracciola (see The Star, July-August 2016) steered the coupe to no less than 196.78 mph. This was far higher than had ever before been achieved by a 3.0- to 5.0-liter machine.
In December, Caracciola drove the same closed car on the new "Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übungsstrasse" or AVUS (Automobile Traffic and Practice Road), a hybrid test track and controlled-access highway built near Berlin. AVUS was a designated stretch of autobahn modified to include a steeply banked hairpin bend which allowed the segment to be shut off for use as a high-speed closed circuit.
Caracciola's attempt that day yielded no new record. The closed-top design was then retired once and for all: Although in the future, air would be rushing past an open cockpit at over 250 mph, at least the driver could cling to the hope that if a rapid exit from the vehicle did became necessary, doing so would be far easier!
Although Mercedes-Benz made no further top-speed attempts in 1935, the firm returned with a vengeance in 1936. Even though the latest GP car, the W25, was not a racing success – mainly due to indifferent handling – its chassis was used for speed-record purposes, complete with elegantly streamlined coachwork and a brand-new V-12 engine.
The new DAB engine had a 60-degree V-angle, twin camshafts on each cylinder bank and two valves per cylinder, and measured 5,577cc. It was originally intended for use in the GP machines, but weighing 250 pounds more than the existing 8-cylinder GP engine, proved too large and heavy for circuit racing. The engine's power output was never a problem – tests showed that it developed 570 brake horsepower. For speed record attempts, that would be boosted to 616 brake horsepower. Once it was installed in the new machine, the point was proved.
The 1936 record breaker was perhaps the prettiest of the entire breed, not only shattering a host of records on new German autobahns over two years, but also looked so neat, and was clearly a wind-cheater as well. High-speed air-flow testing was carried out in the wind tunnel at the Zeppelin airship works at Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance in the south of Germany – an early instance of an aeronautical wind tunnel employed to test automobile aerodynamics.
The silver car's initial speed-record attempts began in October-November 1936. Mercedes-Benz selected a section of the brand-new Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn near Frankfurt Airport where, with Caracciola at the wheel, the car reached a stunning 228 mph. But this was only a start. At a Formula Libre (Free Formula) race at AVUS in spring 1937, the streamliner was assigned to Manfred von Brauchitsch. The car ran without road-wheel covers to assist brake cooling when slowing the vehicle for the tight turns at the ends of the circuit.
Perhaps it was unrealistic to expect such a specialized vehicle to win a longer-distance race, particularly as there was very strong competition from Auto Union, but von Brauchitsch did his best, winning the second of three heats; ultimately, the car's transmission failed in the final heat.
W125 speed-record car
No matter, for in 1937 the team came up with yet another version, this time a W125-based record car, now fitted with a colossally powerful 736-horsepower version of the DAB V-12 engine, and with a heavily revised version of the same streamlined bodywork – 8.7 inches narrower and up to 4.7 inches lower than the previous speed-record car: The new vehicle's drag coefficient had been reduced to an incredibly low 0.181.
Once again, the chosen driver was Caracciola; once again, the venue was the new Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn. This time the Mercedes-Benz ace reached 248 mph. Sadly for company publicists, a sleek Auto Union streamliner also competing reached an amazing 252 mph.
Deeply stung – and equally determined to have good news to trumpet before the Berlin Motor Show in February – the Mercedes-Benz team toiled around the clock to improve their latest machine. Although the only obvious outward change was a smaller, two-piece front air intake, water and ice were added to the car's enlarged cooling system and extensive refinement in the wind tunnel reduced the drag coefficient to 0.157.
During winter 1937-1938, in the middle of Germany's preparations for war, there was little time for testing – and none at all for leisurely practice and experimentation – so it was remarkable that the car turned up at the then-familiar Frankfurt-Darmstadt site, and that the first and only record runs were made early in the morning of January 28, 1938.
Caracciola, as smooth and unruffled as ever, had settled into his car with a smile, pointed it up the none-too-wide autobahn and recorded a colossal 268.49 mph. According to his published quote afterward: "The car hugged the road beautifully. …" To this day, no other car has achieved a higher speed on what was essentially a public road. By 9 a.m. that day, new records had been established; the team then loaded up car and equipment and returned home to Stuttgart.
Even so, the W125-based machine might have done even better on a new road between Dessau and Bitterfeld, between the cities of Hanover and Dresden. This part of the new autobahn – which ran north-south – was specifically built for high-speed testing, for on one designated five-mile segment, the central median had been concreted over, creating an autobahn that was no less than 100 feet wide on that stretch. The team decamped there in February 1939, but did not run because of unsuitable conditions.
W154 speed record car
Appearing in 1939, the last of the conventional prewar speed-record cars was totally new and visually very different from its predecessors. This advanced vehicle was based on the chassis and running gear of the 1938-1939 W154 GP cars, which used a 60-degree V-12 M154/M163 3-liter engine (Grand Prix regulations having changed at the start of the 1938 season). In normal, open-wheel road racing form, this machine produced approximately 450-460 horsepower; output was boosted to 468 horsepower for the record-attempt car in 1939.
While the chassis and running gear were well known by 1939, the shape of the new record car was quite novel and, in its own way, astonishing. Every lesson offered by the experience of the W25/W125 types, with their extremely powerful engines, had been learned. The team was anxious to squeeze every possible element of speed out of this 3-liter-engine machine, which would be attacking different capacity class records.
Strangely enough, not only did this car look different from its predecessors, but it was also quite a bit less aerodynamically "clean" than before. It was by no means as integrated in style; some observers likened it to a road-racing W154 in which the main elements of the racecar's body shell had been retained, mated to four distinct nacelles covering the road wheels. According to published figures, the Grand Prix open-wheeler had a drag coefficient of 0.599, while the record car's equivalent figure, with wheel covers fitted and all, was down to Cd 0.293.
The only major attempt to reduce drag was to limit the front air intake to a tiny circular opening. An ice engine-cooling pack was installed in the smooth tail.
The finished car was ready to run at Dessau in February 1939 in what would be its only public appearance. After setting several new standing-start records, Caracciola clocked a momentous 248.3 mph for the flying mile. This was the last time that a Mercedes-Benz record car would appear in public until the 1970s.
It is intriguing to recall that the original 1934 speed-record contender had reached a speed of 196.78 mph with a 430-horsepower engine, and that less than five years later, a 3-liter-engined car producing 468 horsepower reached 248 mph. In that time, it seems so much had been learned about aerodynamics that Mercedes-Benz had pushed up the cars' top speed by 52 mph while having just 38 horsepower more available with which to do it – a remarkable tribute to the way that the streamlining qualities of the body shells had improved.
The unfinished Type 80
Although the Type 80 never ran – and though the car survives, it will never run under its own power – it was very nearly completed and ready to go in 1939-1940. Only the outbreak of war put a halt to this stupendously ambitious land-speed-record project.
Developed in total secrecy from 1936, its very existence was not known until 1945, when occupying forces inspecting the battered remains of the Mercedes-Benz factory discovered the incomplete machine.
It was Hans Stuck, not himself a regular Mercedes-Benz driver, who in 1936 conceived the idea of a Mercedes-Benz land-speed-record contender. The previous year, Britain's Sir Malcolm Campbell had recorded 301 mph in his Rolls-Royce aero-engine-powered "Bluebird" on Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. Stuck yearned to beat that mark, not only for himself, but also for the greater glory of a new Germany.
His plan, which lacked only money – a great deal of money indeed – was for an advanced new machine to be designed by Dr. Ferdinand Porsche. The vehicle would have a mid-rear engine and six wheels – four in tandem at the rear to handle and tame all the necessary horsepower. It was to be powered by a massive cutting-edge Mercedes-Benz aero engine, the incredible DB601, which was a supercharged V-12 monster slated to become standard in military machines such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter.
Porsche was fascinated by the idea, but concluded that the challenge – perhaps technically insuperable at the time – was that Stuck's proposed machine would need to generate somewhere between 2,000 and 2,500 horsepower in order to reach a targeted top speed of around 350 mph. Not even the latest DB601 engine could produce that. Undaunted, Stuck got Mercedes-Benz to agree to build the vehicle and provide the latest engine. Construction began in secrecy in 1937.
Work was hampered by slow development of the engine, but when the new, much larger 44.5-liter DB603 version was run, the secret vehicle began to look competitive – especially considering the futuristic body style was so aerodynamically smooth. Once this more powerful engine was available, Porsche raised his forecast to a top speed of 373 mph.
As the radical new machine neared completion in 1939, the international political situation continued to worsen. The factory team had to abandon earlier plans to use the Bonneville Salt Flats and instead aimed to use the new Dessau concrete road, already sampled by the speed-record team. With 3,000 horsepower expected from the latest engine, all looked promising. However, the outbreak of war in September 1939 killed off all hopes; the promised engine was reallocated to the military. The untested Type 80 was returned to Stuttgart. Stored throughout the conflict, it miraculously survived heavy Allied aerial bombing.
On the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn October 11, 1936, Rudolf Caracciola established five international category records and a world record with the Mercedes-Benz W25 12-cylinder streamlined car.
Initial Mercedes-Benz W25 speed trials on the new concrete road at Gyon near Budapest, October 28 & 30, 1934.
AVUS circuit, Berlin, December 10, 1934:
Before his run in the bubble-topped W25 coupe, driver Rudolf Caracciola speaks with head engineer Alfred Neubauer (in dark hat).
The W25 reached 193.86 mph. Near Frankfurt, on October 26, 1936, Caracciola set three international class records in the pretty W25 12-cylinder streamliner; on his fourth run, wind resistance dented the little silver car's nose.
Manfred von Brauchitsch in the W25 12-cylinder streamlined car during practice at AVUS, May 30, 1937.
In the race, the car ran without wheel covers to aid brake cooling.
Titan under the hood: the mighty 736bhp 12-cylinder DAB engine.
On January 28, 1938, Rudolf Caracciola flashes past an unfinished Frankfurt Airport on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn in the futuristic 12-cylinder W125 during his historic run to 268.49 mph. Ninety minutes later, his great rival, the dashing Auto Union driver Bernd Rosemeyer, was killed while trying to break the new record on the same stretch of autobahn.
MAIN IMAGE: February 9, 1939 on the Dessau-Bitterfeld Autobahn, Rudolf Caracciola reaches 248.3 mph for the flying mile in the Mercedes-Benz 12-cylinder W154.
ABOVE: The radical Type 80 Streamliner of 1939-1940, seen in period. The car, which never ran, is preserved at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart.
Mercedes-Benz Speed-Record Cars 1934-1939
Year Model Engine Speed Location1934 W25 coupe 3,980cc/430bhp 196.78 mph Gyon, Hungary1934 W25 coupe 3,980cc/430bhp 193.86 mph AVUS, Germany1936 W25 streamliner 5,577cc/616bhp 228.0 mph Frankfurt, Germany1937 W125 streamliner 5,577cc/679bhp 248 mph Frankfurt, Germany1938 W125 streamliner 5,577cc/736bhp 268.49 mph Frankfurt, Germany1939 W154 streamliner 2,963cc/468bhp 248.3 mph Dessau, GermanyUnfinished1939 Type 80 streamliner 44,500cc/3,000bhp 373mph Dessau, German
Mercedes-Benz & Auto Union
Early in 1934, upstart Auto Union set a new one-hour world speed record, at once demonstrating its technical prowess and throwing down the gauntlet to Mercedes-Benz. From 1934 to 1939 – driven by pride and skill to outdo each other – the pair of manufacturers vied for victory on Europe's racetracks, fame in the international speed ledger, and the attention of the German public. In early 1938, after Auto Union driver Bernd Rosemeyer died while trying to break a new record set by Rudolf Caracciola, some of the heat began to go out of the rivalry.
TOP TO BOTTOM: Initial Mercedes-Benz W25 speed trials on the new concrete road at Gyon near Budapest, October 28 & 30, 1934. AVUS circuit, Berlin, December 10, 1934: Before his run in the bubble-topped W25 coupe, driver Rudolf Caracciola speaks with head engineer Alfred Neubauer (in dark hat). The W25 reached 193.86 mph. Near Frankfurt, on October 26, 1936, Caracciola set three international class records in the pretty W25 12-cylinder streamliner; on his fourth run, wind resistance dented the little silver car's nose.
FROM THE TOP: Manfred von Brauchitsch in the W25 12-cylinder streamlined car during practice at AVUS, May 30, 1937. In the race, the car ran without wheel covers to aid brake cooling. Titan under the hood: the mighty 736bhp 12-cylinder DAB engine. MAIN IMAGE: On January 28, 1938, Rudolf Caracciola flashes past an unfinished Frankfurt Airport on the Frankfurt-Darmstadt Autobahn in the futuristic 12-cylinder W125 during his historic run to 268.49 mph. Ninety minutes later, his great rival, the dashing Auto Union driver Bernd Rosemeyer, was killed while trying to break the new record on the same stretch of autobahn.
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This is the new Mercedes E-Class Estate and the big news, literally, is the boot. A huge, cavernous, sofa-swallowing boot.
At 1950 litres is will have more load space than any of its rivals when it goes on sale early next year. And, like the outgoing model, it has a party trick - an optional third row of seats that fold flat into the floor, making it a seven-seater. There's even a secret compartment under the boot floor in which to store gimps and other bits and bobs.
It has a more spacious interior than the outgoing model, giving your head and elbows and other bodily extremities some extra space.
And to make sure you don't plough along with the boot weighed down and the bonnet pointing to the sky, the E Estate has automatic self-levelling suspension as standard to keep you nice and horizontal.
Expect the usual array of engines, from an E250 four-cylinder diesel kicking out just 150g/km CO2 to a meaty 5.4-litre V8 with 388bhp.
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Burnsville, Minnesota (PressExposure) August 25, 2009 -- ThumbPeople, Inc. announced today that it is stepping up its efforts to be a voice for children. A committed voice that raises the awareness that every child needs to be loved unconditionally and also the voice that speaks that message of unconditional love out to children.
To kick off this campaign, ThumbPeople has released the "Kids Need" video. ThumbPeople founder, Mark Arens, says, "ThumbPeople is committed to being the voice for children who are existing in emotional poverty. Just like tomorrow may be too late to feed a child living with hunger, tomorrow may also be too late to meet the needs of a child living in emotional poverty. Our message has urgency and has the capacity to change the course for children who tomorrow may experiment with drugs, cut themselves, quit school and look for the love they are starving for in the wrong places."
ThumbPeople's intent in creating and releasing its "Kids Need" video is to create a movement of intentional parenting where parents are equipped with life-giving, empowering words for their children. Every parent, regardless of economic status, has the ability to give their child positive and affirming words.
Established with the premise that words have the power to build up or tear down, ThumbPeople has created the Thumbuddy children's book series, positive music for children, Thumbuddy Club preschool curriculum, and encouraging soaking music for adults. All ThumbPeople products affirm the intrinsic value and worth of every individual.
The thumbprint character, Thumbuddy, has been developed to convey the message that just like your thumb stands out from your fingers, you were meant to stand out and live an outstanding life. And, just like your thumb leaves a unique thumbprint, you leave your unique imprint in the world.
ThumbPeople, Inc. is located in Burnsville and produces children's literature through the Thumbuddy book series. ThumbPeople, Inc. also produces nurturing and encouraging music for children and adults. They've been recognized for their efforts in positive youth development in building self-confidence in children. ThumbPeople, Inc. produces Thumbuddy Club preschool curriculum with a positive message geared for both the secular and Christian environments and provides training opportunities through public speaking events.


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In a media-saturated culture that worships fear and outrage, how can we talk about emergencies, both public and private, in a way that cuts through surface truths? Kilby Smith-McGregor confronts this question with a dizzying range of voices animated by desire, humour, pleasure and grief. This remarkable debut collection from the winner of the 2010 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award is richly nuanced, filled with poetry that strikes a balance between baroque elegance and haunting understatement.
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"Smith-McGregor's Kids in Triage shows a bone-deep understanding of history, both personal and public. And yet the poet somehow balances the necessary emotional distance with empathy, tenderness and dark wit. Beyond that there's an obvious joy in the care that goes with good writing – gusts of cadence, fired language and glimpsed insight that left me breathless."
– Gil Adamson, author of The Outlander and Ashland
"Amputation, spontaneous human combustion, shot nerves, the common bruise – Kids in Triage spans strata of material and metaphysical injury to provide a diagnostic manual for the mess of the human condition, 'exception and rule.' Voices arise out of black matter and pooling red, turning the screw toward emergency. Patients are many and resources few, and Kilby Smith-McGregor potently catalogues our desperation to cure illness, violence, the ache of being. But these poems don't soothe or heal: her words embed like shrapnel, 'shattered in some speaking accident.'"
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Naturae Design
Handcrafted hairpieces created by maker and designer Daniella van den Huijssen. Fascinated by the history of precious heirloom and her love for nature she came across an antique Myrtle crown and Naturae Design was born. Every piece is inspired by natural elements made by a combination of the best in antique and modern craftsmanship. Gold and silver plated pieces and precious stones are wired and soldered by hand so that each piece holds its fairness through long periods of time. The designs are perfect for a bride to be as well as being able to wear in daily life.
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Elle + Adhira presents a boutique collection of bridal accessories that speak to a modern, confident bride - one who carries her own enduring and alluring edge into her wedding day. Created in collaboration with designers from all over the world, Elle + Adhira's veils, headpieces, jewels and accessories evoke a unique aesthetic shaped by a love of contrast between opposing forces - the light and dark, the soft and strong, and the elegant and exotic.
Colette Malouf
Colette Malouf is a luxury boutique brand of accessories designed for the independent, culture-seeking woman who has a strong sense of personal style. Since the launch of the brand in 1987, Colette creates timelessly elegant, artisanal jewelry for the hair and body that offer personalized styling options – making Colette Malouf the ultimate luxury accessory brand for those who use style as an outlet for self-expression.
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Since the launch of her first collections, there has been a remarkable hype surrounding the brand. Jannie Baltzer is inspired by details from the past era, but updated to the fashion-forward and modern bride today. All headpieces and veils are handmade at the studio in Copenhagen using only the most luxurious materials. The designer graduated from the Scandinavian Academy of International Fashion and Design in Copenhagen, receiving an honorary prize from Her Royal Highness Princess Benedict for the most creative collection. Jannie Baltzer' designs are regularly featured in magazines like VOGUE, Elle and Harper's Bazaar.


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A prospective client recently asked me - what is the difference between their brand and their identity. When we asked them why the need for clarification, they replied that the agency that had up until recently produced all their marketing collateral, had always dismissed the two as being one and the same.
So I felt I would share my own views on this matter, in the hope it will help businesses identify the value of having both.
To me, the brand is the emotional relationship that instils reliability and trust between a business and its customers, whereas the identity reflects the look and feel of a business or organisation.
Understating the difference should be ignored at one's peril. After all, it's not really the client's responsibility to know the answer, but the duty of the agency to impart their knowledge and experience and deliver both.
The marketing sector needs to smarten up its act and take more responsibility for the brands that are being entrusted into its care, as fundamental mistakes and bad advice can have a detrimental impact on any business.
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The Air obelisk is located in level 7 wilderness, and can be reached by climbing the ladder north of the Black demons in Edgeville Dungeon. It is used for enchanting an unpowered orb into an air orb (requires level 66 magic), which will cost you 3 cosmic runes and 30 air runes per orb charges; it will give you 76 magic experience. At level 66 crafting, an air orb can be attached to a battlestaff to make an air battlestaff, granting 137.5 crafting experience.
As the Air Obelisk is in the Wilderness, extreme caution should be taken when visiting it, as player killing happens in the wilderness, and an unprepared charger can end up losing their orbs and runes. Bringing teleport items such as an Amulet of glory or runes may be wise, although one still has to be careful, since players with a high magic level may teleblock you.
Enchanting orbs into air orbs is a good way of training Magic because a player can earn up to 40,000 experience an hour.
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I would imagine tha it is hard task to train a puppy to sit on a potty, I've always taught mine to run to the back door and bark when they need to relieve themselves.
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I prefer the crate training method. Use the crate when you are not able to directly supervise your puppy and do not crate your puppy for longer than 2 hours at a time. When your puppy is out, watch closely for any indication that s/he needs to go "potty." Take her out on leash and wait 1-2 minutes, then come inside. If she eliminates while you're out, praise her and give her a treat. If she doesn't go, and you think s/he should have to, put him/her int he crate (in a matter-of-fact way) for 10-15 minutes and try again. When s/he goes, s/he an be out, but beware, if s/he plays, s/he will probably have to go again! Take your puppy out first thing in the morning, last thing at night, after eating, after play, and after waking up from a nap. The reason crate training is effective is because dogs do not prefer to eliminate where they sleep. That's it in a nutshell - one more thing --- do not punish your puppy! Any advice that tells you to punish your dog, for example by pushing her/his nose in its urine or stool, is wrong - don't do it!
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Winter market generates hope for spike in spring
February 4, 2002,
New York — Optimism is in the atmosphere for this week's winter market at 295 Fifth Avenue. With many holiday placements already locked up, suppliers and retailers are focused on getting a jump on April market.
"Generally we've found out that the results of market are in by the time it arrives. And in table linens, especially the seasonal business, [it] is so large and important relative to the annual business that, via previews and numbers of retailer visits prior to market, you pretty much know where you stand. And the results for the industry will be such that staying even with last year will be considered a success," said Chris Mooney, vp, design and marketing, Braintree, MA-based Avon Home Fashions.
New York City-based Ashford Court is another company looking to reap the maximum benefits from mini-market.
"I think we'll get a jump on April market. We're showing extensions of our Northern Exposure collection as a sneak preview for April. We have also a large assortment of Americana for July 4th," said Amy Bell, design director and executive vp. "And last but not least is our Christmas collection, which is more opulent and decorative with velvets, brocades and beading. We're having a nice response and nice amount of appointments made."
Though winter market has historically been holiday-heavy, some retailers also view it as a jump start to April market, an opportunity to lock in new and exclusive products for their assortments.
"We want to be ahead of the curve," said Bruce Morel, divisional vp, dmm, soft home for the Proffitt's/McRae's division of the Saks Department Store Group, Birmingham, AL. "Mini-market allows us to preview collections and gives us a chance of exclusivity or early shipment."
Saks attends the market as a whole company and not as divisions, he added, and the usual four buyers are going. For the major markets, Saks' divisions shop separately. He also thought that some mills have a limited presentation at this market, so his group may cut a day out of it.
As for buying, Saks' plans are conservative, Morel said, though it is still planning increases. "We will fund things that are hot — not things that are not. We're open-to-reason."
For specialty retailer Strouds, previewing fashion bedding is a priority, though mini-market remains critical for holiday merchandise as well, said Rob Valone, president, Strouds, City of Industry, CA.
His priorities are to preview Christmas and finalize assortments by March 1, as well as get a jump on April market by previewing fashion bedding that can be shipped in April or May.
Strouds will be attending without its outlet buyers this year, he said, because the mini-market has never been that productive for them, he said, but it still is an important market for the full-line group to attend.
"We're going to look across all categories for newness and innovation. I'm not sure if there was a lull or not, but it seems like vendors have scaled back. We're thirsty for newness," Valone said. In addition, inventories are a bit light, he said, and the retailer is in a good position for spring.
Paul Fitzpatrick, senior vp, gmm, home, Macy's West, San Francisco, will be in New York for corporate meetings and will visit vendors if able, he said, particularly to preview collections.
Tuesday Morning, Dallas, will attend as usual and with the same number of people, said Bill Kendall, vp, textiles, who said the company's open to buy. "We're always looking for opportunistic buys of upper-end name brands ... We're anxious to get there and see what's available."
Many vendors are anxious to show retail buyers exactly what's available.
For Carson, CA-based Brentwood Originals, "this mini-market is very important for us because it's our throw market ... but we'll also use it to preview what we are introducing in April," said Loren Sweet, president. "It's our chance to show our customers coming in to see throws what we are also planning for our pillows and window treatment introductions in the spring."
Sweet explained that it's advantageous for Brentwood to land placements "early on," prior to the April market, "to give us a jump-start."
Park B. Smith Ltd., based here, is prepping to give "a major previewing of our spring line" at April market, said Valborg Linn, director of design and merchandising. "It's a very good time to get feedback and work in advance for retailers. We're looking to make advanced placements this mini-market."
Added Park B. Smith Sr., chairman: "We fully expect this mini-market to be major in every way."
Bob Flesca, vp, sales, Calhoun, GA-based Brumlow Mills, said he expects this mini-market to be "normal" for the company, with emphasis on holiday and Christmas design introductions as well as some new kitchen slice rug collections. Brumlow already has 10 percent more appointments for this market vs. its roster from last October.
"We see this as another opportunity for us to see our accounts and further develop our programs placed with them," Flesca said. "We're very optimistic, but we are always optimistic whenever we get a chance to meet with an account. This market is no different."
Dale Talbert, vp, Panorama City, CA-based Veratex, said mini-market is another opportunity for more face time with important customers.
"[Mini-market] sets a real deadline for when people are going to be looking again and for your company to start thinking about the spring market," Talbert said. "It's also good to get in front of the customer's face. Mini-market is definitely worth it because it can give you a direction. Maybe you need to go back and work on something."
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Weathers...I think that all the weathers link to our internal feelings and conditions .. if you have a good weather in your heart and head then cold winter could feel like a summer and you can feel cool breeze in hot desert .. so keep good healthy balance weathers inside always and...
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Johnny Cash: Singing at His Best Trailer (2004)
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The incomparable "Man in Black," Johnny Cash, will forever reign as one of the most soulful performers in country music. But his appeal crossed over to other genres, as he captivated audiences of all stripes with his heartfelt lyricism and stellar musicianship. Here, Cash reprises many of the tunes for which he's known, including "Guess Things Happen That Way," "Don't Take Your Guns to Town," "Big River," "Heartbreak Hotel" and more.
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EPA's power plant rule shrank during White House review - 10 congressional races to watch - Keystone back in the news - GOP plans gas price response bill votes
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WHAT HAPPENS AT OMB… The EPA's apparent reversal on plans to limit greenhouse gas emissions at existing power plants came during White House review of the agency's proposed greenhouse gas rule for new plants, according to documents obtained by POLITICO.
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A draft version of the proposed rule for new plants' emissions repeatedly references the agency's controversial plans to eventually regulate greenhouse gases from existing plants. Martinson has the story (and documents) for Pros: http://politico.pro/HKjEJM.
HERE COMES KEYSTONE: The House has put the Keystone XL pipeline back in the national spotlight, attaching language green-lighting the pipeline to a 90-day extension of transportation programs. The House Rules Committee meets Tuesday on the extension, which means it could be on the House floor as soon as Wednesday. More on the bill: http://bit.ly/Ii5tWl.
HAPPY MONDAY and welcome to Morning Energy, where your host is playing favorites today, interspersing his top picks for books, music, movies and whatever else. Now, your host is not so presumptuous as to believe that readers are thinking to themselves, "You know, I WAS curious about what Patrick Reis watches on Netflix, and I can never get enough of hearing about his breakfast plans." But he is hoping that if he tosses out a few favorites, you'll hook ME up with good stuff to read, watch and listen to. So send ME your top picks — and your best energy news — at firstname.lastname@example.com.
CUT THE BUDGET… SOMEWHERE ELSE: Rand Paul rode into the Senate last year as a libertarian standard-bearer, promising to shrink the government's reach and slash its budget. But when he took office and his home-state constituents came looking for federal favors, Paul learned a lesson that many other lawmakers — including many self-avowed deficit hawks — have adopted as Hill gospel: The worst place to cut spending is in on your own constituents. The best place to cut spending? Anywhere else. A random number generator has the story: http://politi.co/HKxht3.
FAVORITE SONG[s]: "Skinny Love" by Bahn Eyevur ( http://bit.ly/qzYItz) and "Beast of Burden" by the Rolling Stones ( http://bit.ly/34cAW).
TEN RACES TO WATCH: Soaring gasoline prices have members of Congress and their opponents running scared all across the country — and trying to seize the advantage. Darren Samuelsohn chronicles the 10 emerging contests where energy issues are flaring early and where the winners promise to be key players in the 113th Congress: http://politi.co/HJLc1I.
FAVORITE ALBUM: "Blonde on Blonde" by Bob Dylan.
PRO TRANSPORTATION: It's finally here! Tuesday marks the official launch of POLITICO Pro Transportation, a vertical that will cover T&I just as we do energy. Hopefully, you already subscribe to Adam Snider and Burgess Everett's Morning Transportation. Now you can get even more from the T&I team by signing up: firstname.lastname@example.com, (703) 341-4600 or www.politicopro.com/proinfo.
FRACKTASTIC: For all the anger and divisiveness of the fracking debate, one nonprofit disclosure website may be something that almost everyone can agree on. FracFocus, a year-old site affiliated with coalitions of state governments, has won praise from Hill lawmakers, industry groups and even some environmentalists as a model for states taking the lead on disclosing the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations. Buford has the story, including nagging doubts about the site: http://politi.co/JlBDRH.
FAVORITE NOVEL: "The Quiet American" by Graham Greene.
** A message from America's Natural Gas Alliance: ANGA member companies are proud to support the disclosure of additives used in the hydraulic fracturing process at the website www.fracfocus.org. Visit this site for well-by-well data and more information from state regulators. **
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FAVORITE NONFICTION: "The Forever War" by Dexter Filkins.
MAKING MOVES: Energy and Commerce's Energy and Power Subcommittee meets this week to vote on a pair of bills that are part of the GOP's response to high gas prices: one from Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) curbing EPA regulation of gasoline and studying the agency's impact on prices and another from Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) requiring an increase in federal lands leased for oil and gas drilling that's proportional to any tapping of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The voting starts Tuesday at 10 a.m. in 2123 Rayburn, but the committee will also convene at 4 p.m. today for opening statements on the bills.
Committee Chairman Fred Upton used Sunday's Republican weekly video address to talk about energy policy and hype the two bills. Check it out here: http://bit.ly/IXj0IV.
FAVORITE BOOK SERIES: Dune (the six Frank Herbert books).
MORE FRACKING: Republicans are blasting Obama's executive order to create a working group aimed at coordinating the various federal agencies and tasked with regulating natural gas. Mitt Romney's spokeswoman Andrea Saul said Obama had created "a formal role for at least thirteen different federal agencies to interfere with natural gas development and prevent America's emergence as an energy superpower," and a host of congressional Republicans painted it as an impediment to natural gas development. But the natural gas developers themselves seem mostly pleased with the group, Samuelsohn reports: http://politico.pro/HAyzRN.
FAVORITE MOVIE: "The Prestige" ( http://bit.ly/HYFrb7).
PATRICK GAVIN, TONY ROMM AND FREE BEER: All three are on the agenda Tuesday night when POLITICO Pro Trivia returns. So, Pros, RSVP with your team of four to firstname.lastname@example.com and get ready to go for the gold[en beverage].
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INTERNATIONAL LOVE: UN climate chief Christiana Figueres will meet with reporters Tuesday morning in D.C. to discuss her expectations for the year ahead in international global warming negotiations. Figueres's U.S. visit continues after her press event with talks at the World Bank and Global Environment Fund, as well as a spot on a diverse speaking roster --Tony Blair and Cindy McCain — Wednesday at the Global Philanthropy Forum (http://bit.ly/IwidJ3) at the Fairmont Hotel in D.C.
FAVORITE TELEVISION SHOW: "Party Down."
CUE PETEY PABLO: North Carolina on Friday became the latest state seeking to intervene on the EPA's behalf in the case over the Mercury and Air Toxics Standard for power plants, White Stallion Energy Center v. EPA. The Tar Heel state joins 12 states and two cities defending the rule. The brief: http://politico.pro/HKoVAH.
FAVORITE POLITICO STORY FROM LAST WEEK: http://politi.co/IKCvCx (h/t Caitlin McDevitt)
TIME'S UP: The EPA is proposing a federal plan to cut air pollution that reduces visibility in national parks ("haze") in Montana, after the state declined to submit its own regional haze plan in 2006. At the same time the agency is approving a change to the state's visibility plan, saying the two plans combined will meet the requirements of the Clean Air Act. The approval: http://bit.ly/JnXXtL.
FAVORITE ATHLETE: Current Boston Celtic and one-time Milwaukee Buck Ray Allen.
TALKING E: POLITICO's special energy section today includes a quartet of opinion pieces from leading public officials. Heather Zichal says conservation and economic growth can mix ( http://politi.co/IP3WJB) … Rep. Cliff Stearns calls for more development of domestic fossil fuel reserves ( http://politi.co/INKHCt) … Sen. Bill Nelson puts in a plug for energy independence ( http://politi.co/INKLSN) … North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven touts his state as an energy success story ( http://politi.co/INN0pd).
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-- Louisiana's economic recovery from the 2010 BP spill has been quicker than expected, the New Orleans Times-Picayune reports: http://bit.ly/HEhmqB.
-- The EPA is reopening the comment period for New Hampshire's regional haze plan: http://1.usa.gov/IP9shO.
-- Electric cars can have a carbon footprint equivalent to or greater than conventional vehicles if charged in regions where electricity comes from coal, according to a new report. New York Times: http://nyti.ms/HVZriG.
-- ConocoPhillips's coming split will leave Chevron and ExxonMobil to duke it out for U.S. supremacy. Wall Street Journal: http://on.wsj.com/J0woqU.
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From the diabolical to the macabre, this "essential collection" presents nine critically acclaimed P.D. James film adaptations on 15 discs – each starring Roy Marsden in a compelling Adam Dalgliesh Mystery. Includes: Death of an Expert Witness, Shroud for a Nightingale, Cover Her Face, The Black Tower, A Taste for Death, Devices and Desires, Unnatural Causes, A Mind for Murder, Original Sin
Roy Marsden stars as poetry-loving detective Adam Dalgliesh in this three-part adaptation of P.D. James' A Certain Justice.
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Intelligent, often poignant, and valuable for offering an oral history by those who witnessed one of the most traumatic events of the 20th century.
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To say that watching this footage is harrowing would be an understatement -- and to call watching it "painful" would be a serious insult to the survivors.
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August 6, 2007
[A] simple, apolitical reminder -- an act of passionate but clearheaded pleading -- that we must never forget the horrors of Japan in the summer of 1945.
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No warning can really prepare you for these images of ashen corpses, maimed survivors and apocalyptic destruction, but in an age of renewed nuclear tension, there can be no question as to their relevance.
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Film's sobering impact lets the images and witnesses' words speak for themselves.
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Beginning November 1, Amazon shoppers in Alabama will have to pay more for their purchases. The online shopping site will start collecting an 8% state sales tax.
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, the online retailer will start collecting an 8% sales tax. This means, if you purchase a $20 dollar item on Amazon, you'll pay about an extra $1.60 in taxes.
Amazon is the latest company to sign on to a deal making it easier for states to collect state taxes already owed.
"I'll probably just do more price checking and if it's cheaper I'd still get it online because it's sometimes more convenient," said Gunner Miller, an Amazon shopper.
"I definitely think seeing the prices rise a bit would be a bit discouraging, but overall when I go to Amazon I look for the lowest price so I don't think it would necessarily be noticeable," said Pierce Newman, an Amazon shopper.
While some shoppers may feel the impact of the tax, some think this will bring a big boost to the state.
"The fact that the state would be gaining revenue and they could put that towards the education system and towards roads and things around the state would be useful overall," said Newman.
According to Alabama Revenue Deputy Commissioner Joe Garrett, the state expects to collect $30-$50 million in the second full year of the program.
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EDWARDSVILLE – Her prep girls basketball career with the Southwestern Piasa Birds produced 2,000-plus points, 124 victories and two Associated Press all-state selections.
But by summer, Maddy Greeling was at peace with her decision to give up the sport and relinquish her dream of college basketball.
Then a chance appearance in a 3-on-3 tournament with friends at SIUE triggered a chain of events that got Greeling back in the game. Peacetime would not survive autumn.
"The biggest thing I wanted to know when I met with her, do you still love the game?," SIUE women's basketball coach Paula Buscher said of her sit-down with Greeling. "Do you still want to play? Because if you don't love the game and if you don't want to play, this is all too much. But she was like, no coach, I miss it, I really miss it.
"I said, OK, let's go for this and see what happens."
What's happened for Maddy Greeling is a Division I basketball opportunity and a career reborn with the SIUE Cougars.
"That was kind of hard to turn down," Greeling said of Buscher's proposal. "It took me a couple days because I didn't do anything all summer. And especially going from Southwestern to Division I, it was a humongous jump. I'm still working on it. There's still a whole bunch of things I need to do, but the process has been great so far."
The 5-foot-6 Greeling was a four-time Telegraph Small-Schools Player of the Year with the Piasa Birds. She graduated in 2016 as Southwestern's career leader in points (2,145), rebounds (616) and assists (370).
The Birds have averaged nearly 24 victories per season in coach Steve Wooley's 19 years in charge of the program, but Greeling is Southwestern's first AP all-state pick. The three highest-scoring games in Birds history – 37, 35 and 33 points – all belong to Greeling, who was an all-tourney pick in all 12 regular-season tournaments in which she played for Southwestern.
Greeling had Division II, NAIA and junior college options to continue playing, but opted out. She originally planned on attending Illinois State as a student, but made a late switch to SIUE.
Once on campus in Edwardsville, Greeling was asked by a NARP (non-athletic real person) to play in a 3-on-3 basketball tourney. "I was like, yeah, why not," she said.
That 3-on-3 attracted a couple Cougars as spectators watching friends play. Greeling caught their eye and was given an invitation to join the Cougars at an informal open gym. There, Greeling again impressed a couple of what would become her future teammates.
"They came down and told (assistant coach Lacey) Shalenko, 'Hey, there's a kid there that's really good. You guys need to talk to her,'" Buscher said.
When the Cougars head coach asked for a name of this kid, they were certain beyond nothing more than Maddy. "I said, Maddy who?," Buscher continued. "They came back and said Maddy Greeling."
That name rang a bell to a coach and staff that followed Greeling with interest at Southwestern, but were not in position to offer a scholarship. Buscher smiled at the recollection. "I said, get her number and tell her to call me."
Within a few days, it was Buscher that made the call to Greeling and requested a meeting. "She had no idea what I was going to talk to her about," Buscher said. "I just thank God she came in and talked to me. … She's another good guard for us, another kid who knows how to play the game, can shoot the ball, just a great player for us to have on the team. So I feel lucky."
Greeling has taken on the D-I grind of practice, weights and conditioning, film study and travel that made her hesitant over the summer. With her first semester's class schedule already set before she joined the team, there are conflicts that sometimes have Greeling running from practice to class without time for a wardrobe change.
But the early returns are positive as both student and athlete.
"Surprisingly, I've been able to balance it pretty well," Greeling said. "I thought it would be much harder. But everyone on the coaching staff, they help you out and they know school comes first."
The bigger transition comes on the court against athletes that are bigger and stronger. Even something she considered so routine as a crossover dribble can be a challenge.
"It's a much faster pace," Greeling said. "My big disadvantage is I'm not nearly as strong. That can make a huge difference. Everything is so quick, it's just hard. You're pretty much non-stop running, there's no time to call plays. It's transition, transition, transition."
Bigger, stronger, faster are hurdles she works to clear daily.
"It's all of that," Greeling said. "And it's a lot of communication. That's a big difference for me. In high school, we talked obviously, but it wasn't a huge role in the game. You come here and if you don't talk, it's all mixed up and you have no clue what's going on. Communication is a very big deal here."
If it was a D-I heart inside a D-II body that kept Greeling off some recruiting lists, Buscher said the talent is there to overcome.
"She's got skills and she's got the ability to play this game," Buscher said. "What she's going to have to learn is how to play it at this level. She's not going to change her body size. She's going to learn how to play the game against bigger players with what she has. She's going to use her quickness, she's going to use her spacing and I think we can do some things with setting screens and different things like that."
The Cougars were already well stocked with more experienced guards and Greeling did not play in Sunday's 69-60 exhibition victory over Lindenwood. But Buscher does foresee a role for Greeling as a freshman.
"We've got some junior guards, some older guards, but Maddy's going to be a kid who can be that sparkplug coming off the bench," Buscher said. "Hopefully, she'll get some minutes as the season progresses. Like I always tell them, once you get a few minutes, all you want to do is build on those minutes."
For a player whose 120 starts as a four-year starter at Southwestern was mostly spent as the best player on the court, a view from the bench brought new perspective.
"I didn't get in," Greeling said of Sunday's date with Lindenwood. "That opened my eyes that I need to work twice as hard here because everyone is just as good or better than you. You cannot underestimate anybody. It just makes me work twice as hard."
But Greeling also sees a role for herself as a freshman for the Cougars.
"Since I am a walk-on, I just need to keep my energy up at all times," Greeling said. "If I come off the bench and get just a couple minutes, even if I don't score or do anything, I feel like my energy and communication can play a role. Just talking, always having something positive to say."
Basketball refused to remain in the past for Greeling. Her love for the game never left.
"I'm having fun," Greeling said. "It's a big change, but it's been a fun experience so far."
And the Cougars are glad Greeling has become a part of their family.
"We're the lucky ones," Buscher said. "I think it's a win-win situation. Hopefully, Maddy feels the same way."
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After Shadowed Cures were defeated by 5★Stars Pretty Cure, they reborned as normal girls without anything evil in their souls and without any memories about their past life. Now their mission is to get the memories back, along with fighting their new enemy Broken Stars.
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Shageki Yumeko (射撃 夢子 Shageki Yumeko?)/ Cure Starfall (キュアスターフォール Kyua Sutaforu?)
Voiced by: Iida Riho
Yumeko is a cheerful, kind 14 year old girl who is obsessed with anything that is sparkly and also loves drawing. She is crared of darkness and will definitely scream if someone brings her in a dark place. She used to be Shadowed Sirius, but her present alter ego is Cure Starfall, the Cure of Shooting Stars and her theme color is magenta.
Masayoshi Akada (正義 赤田 Masayoshi Akada?)/ Cure Meteor (キュアメテオ Kyua Meteo?)
Voiced by: Morinaka Rika
Akada is a wise and strong 14 year old girl who plays lacrosse and likes to help with various things, but hates people who are selfish or cruel. She used to be Shadowed Antares, but her present alter ego is Cure Meteor, the Cure of Starry Justice and her theme color is crimson.
Utako Kirara (唄光 キララ Utakō Kirara?)/ Cure Glitter (キュアグリッター Kyua Gurittā?)
Voiced by: Tokui Sora
Kirara is a daring and at the same time modest 13 year old girl who has a bubbly attitude and inspires to be an idol, though is shy about her singing. She used to be Shadowed Alfa Centauri, but her present alter ego is Cure Glitter, the Cure of Starry Stage and her theme color is dark yellow.
Kyokuchi Akari (極致 あかり Kyokuchi Akari?)/ Cure Light (キュアライト Kyua Raito?)
Voiced by: Honna Yoko
Akari is a loud and emotinal 13 year old girl who tries her best to set things right and is afraid of making any mistakes. If she does something wrong, she will cry and turn into a nervous person. She used to be Shadowed Vega, but her present alter ego is Cure Light, the Cure of Starry Perfection and her theme color is dark green.
Mirai Onpu (未来 おんぷ Mirai Onpu?)/ Cure Way (キュアウェイ Kyua U~ei?)
Voiced by: Sendai Eri
Onpu is a cheerful and calm 15 year old girl who is also a great musician. Due to being friendly and social she is nearly the most popular student in her school. She used to be Shadowed Spica, but her present alter ego is Cure Way, the Cure of Starry Future and her theme color is navy blue.
Starlit (スターリット Sutāritto?)
Starlit is the only mascot of the series who later reveales to be Blade's reincornation. He is always serious about the Cures' mission and doesn't like when they act too carefree. He ends his sentences with "~ritto!".
Kira Flashlight (キラフラッシュライト Kira Furasshuraito?) is the Cures' transformation device.
Memory Jewel (メモリジュエル Memori Jueru?) is an item that can be used to get the past memories back.