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Formula 1 moves to its 32nd new country this weekend with the inaugural Baku European Grand Prix in Azerbaijan on what looks like the fastest street track F1 has ever seen. Speeds of up to 350km/h are predicted on the 2.1km long straight, which is the kind of speed only seen at Monza and in the high altitude of Mexico!
The race is the 23rd running of the European Grand Prix, but it will be the first F1 race ever to take place in Azerbaijan. Fernando Alonso is the most recent winner of the European event after his triumph for Ferrari at Valencia in 2012, and the Spaniard has the most wins at the European GP of the current crop of drivers with three, while Vettel has two and Felipe Massa one.
At just over 6km in length, the Baku circuit is the second longest on the calendar, only behind Spa, and it has been designed by regular F1 architect, Hermann Tilke. It is not like anything seen before in F1 as most of the corners are low speed, but the straights are long and fast. This calls for two completely different downforce configurations. It will reward cars with good mechanical grip, like Mercedes and Red Bull and with plenty of engine power like Ferrari and Mercedes.
It looks very much like Mercedes will enjoy a margin this weekend. It is also a high fuel consumption circuit, so there will be some fuel management to be done.
The layout travels around the downtown area of Azerbaijan's capital city, which incorporates the UNESCO heritage site known as Icheri Sheher, the old city – where the organisers have laid temporary asphalt on the cobbled streets to allow the cars to race through – and the more modern sections on the promenade near the Caspian Sea.
As the circuit winds its way around Baku, the width of the track varies greatly. The widest part of the track is 13m, while the narrowest section, between Turns 7 and 8, is just 7.6m. Turn 8 will also be the slowest corner on the track, with an expected apex speed of 53mph.
The Baku track is also expected to have an extremely high average speed for a street circuit. This is largely because of the rapid sequence of flowing corners in the final sector that form part of the 2.1km (1.5-mile) main straight, where drivers are expected to be on full throttle for over 20 seconds and hit 350km/h. The Haas F1 team's pre-race briefing stated that the calculated lap time for the track is expected to be 101 seconds.
Wind could also play a part in the on-track action this weekend, as Baku is unofficially known as the "City of Winds" and unexpected gusts blowing along the sea front could cause the drivers problems as they hit the brakes for Turn 1.
There will be two DRS zones this weekend, one on the approach to Turn 1 and one on the straight coming into Turn 3, while McLaren has highlighted the "deceptively fast" Turn 15 as a key corner as it is lined with close barriers.
What's the strategy for Baku?
Before a car turns a wheel on the new track there are a few observations that can be made. It is a street track and given the high speeds in parts of the track, it's likely that we will see a Safety Car. This is especially true because, as a new event care will have to be taken to give the marshals time to deal with incidents.
New street circuits tend to be low grip at the outset and the grip should ramp up over the course of three days running. The temperatures will be warm and with the cars likely to run lower downforce, they will slide in the corners.
Pirelli has brought medium, soft and supersoft which is a conservative choice – due to the 'unknown' of a new track. The soft is likely to be most people's mandatory race tyre, while the supersoft will be the qualifier and first race stint tyre. The soft is proving a very durable and raceable tyre, so with pit stops quite slow and unattractive at 24 seconds, it looks like this could be a one-stop race. But there may be surprises when the cars run on Friday.
Heading to Baku: The F1 drivers in numbers
After they finished first and second in last weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel are now tied together on 1,974 career points, although in should be noted that their tallies are inflated by the changes that F1 has made to its points scoring positions in this century.
Nico Rosberg, who has seen his championship lead cut from 43 points to nine in just three races, is seeking a 14th consecutive front row start – a streak that started at the Singapore Grand Prix last season. Another qualifying statistic, albeit a worrying one for Ferrari, is that Vettel has been quickest in four FP3 sessions so far this season but neither of the Scuderia drivers has yet started on the front row of the grid.
Several drivers are on streaks of their own in recent races. Pascal Wehrlein is echoing his Manor predecessor Max Chilton, as he is only driver to have completed every race this season but without scoring a point.
At Force India, Nico Hulkenberg has scored points in last two events, the first time he has finished in the top ten in back-to-back races in 2016, but his teammate Sergio Perez saw his own a four-race scoring streak end in Canada. Esteban Gutierrez has out qualified and out raced Romain Grosjean in last two races, but is still yet to score for Haas F1.
Although many drivers up and down the grid are coming under increasing pressure to deliver good performances, two men who hold unenviable recent records are Jolyon Palmer and Daniil Kvyat. The Russian driver is yet to out qualify any teammate in 2016, as he failed to beat Daniel Ricciardo in qualifying while at Red Bull and has been out qualified by Carlos Sainz so far at Toro Rosso, while Palmer has only completed 23 racing laps in last two races thanks to his crash in Monaco and mechanical failure in Montreal.
What do you expect from this weekend's European Grand Prix? Leave your thoughts in the comment section below or head over to the the JAonF1 Facebook page for more discussion.
Still do not get it, how is this Europe?
I found an answer : if the Caucasus Mountains are the geographic limit between Europe and Asia... Baku is definitely in ASIA!
How come we are discussing basic geography? (then we do not discuss politics - human rights 🙂 ).
Alex the journalist : excellent F1 article, clear, informative, love it. Keep up!
@AlexD.. What is the definition of "Europe" anyway? Is it European now if a country is a part of the "EU" ? Maybe the UK will soon become non European. I think Azerbaijan should be forced to take its place in the EU, to be allowed to keep the "European GP" tag.
Are you reducing the continent called Europe, to which Azerbaijan is part, to the EU? How stupid!
@Jean-luc.. I do not know if that is addressed to me or @AlexD. If it was addressed to me, sorry I do not understand what you are reffering to. Maybe i am stupid 😉
No @Nomad sorry. It was a response to @alexD's comment,
Hah! 😀 but AlexD didnt mention anything about the EU now did he? 😉 So im still not any wiser about what "Are you reducing the continent called Europe, to which Azerbaijan is part, to the EU? " meant :/
Oh Look! Shiny Stars!! Those stars again i have no idea what they mean.
Petroleum money.
It's not worse than the San Marino GP.
Money talks.
There is no official border between Europe and Asia. When I was at school, we were aught that the boundary followed the Ural mountains south through Russia, and then down through the Caspian sea. The USSR straddled the boundary as did Turkey.
Historically Azerbaijan would be considered to be part of Asia, but Azerbaijan clearly wants to become more closely associated with Europe than with Asia. Considering several of their neighbours such as Georgia are nowadays considered to be in Europe, it's not a huge stretch to suggest that Azerbaijan be considered a European country.
I assume the organisers (or government) have chosen to call it the Grands Prix of Europe rather than call it the Grands Prix of Azerbaijan. Their choice I would say.
Eventually, Asia will be called Europe. By definition "A continent is one of several very large landmasses on Earth" So it is ok to call Asia Europe.
Bernie has to call it something, he has to come up with some excuse to fill his pockets even more?.
It looks like an exciting track, but I can see someone getting seriously hurt here.
I am with you. Though technically Azerbaijan is considered to be a transcontinental country located right on the virtual border of Europe and Asia (... of a single continent Eurasia). Perplexing? Sure! =)
They're in Eurovision.. maybe Australia will have two tracks
Very simple.......£'s or $'s.....
No: €'s, as this is for Europe 🙂
Wonder how few years before this race is scrapped.
Still, never mind those human rights, eh Bernie? As long as they'll pay, eh?
Its not Bernie's job to be analysing which countries screw around more with human rights violations. If that was his basis, we would be suprised at how many of our "Big Brother" group of countries would be rejected for how callously they bomb around the world, like say send a cruise missile to vanish an entire village where one suspected target might be hiding. It helps to have the media on one's side 🙂 So best to avoid getting into that argument.. this is F1, not the International Court of Justice.
While I agree that it is not F1s job to get involved with politics the reality of the situation is that F1 is used as a political tool. It is used to legitimise countries and showcase them on the world stage (hence why governments pay so much for an F1 race).
Also as a business is it really a good idea to associate yourself with countries who have a dodgy track record (ok I understand every country in the world has a chequered history). Large brands regularly cancel sponsorship contracts because of what is perceived to be less than savoury behaviour. FIFA were forced to out Blatter because of presser from their sponsors as they didn't want to tarnish their image. I believe that F1 regularly lose a lot of viewers because of the people that they associate with
Looks like another long snooze fest of a track like Valencia or Sochi. Devoid of character or proper racing characteristics. Cars will shoot off, fall into single file and stretch out between each other for miles. Commentators will rave about how exciting some scrap for 12th place is, while the leader is 30+ seconds ahead of P2.
I suspect you're right. There doesn't look like many passing opportunities.
James, Alex - I wanted to ask about the way comments notifications are being set up. I receive an eMail notification that somebody replied to my post and there is also a link. I click on the link and arrive on your blog. I see no comment and so I cannot continue the discussion. Will it not make more sense to send eMail notifications when comments are actually available on the website? What is the point of receiving a notification if the comment is not there? Thank you!
Baku? Europe? How did that happen?
We may as well have the next European Grand Prix in New Zealand at least we can have a Lord Of The Rings Theme wait a minute it's not in Europe .... or is it I mean Baku is so European.
I laughed for two minutes...
When you have measly 10m population and your country is heavily oil rich I guess they can pay to call it whatever they want.
They should have been a bit more creative and gone with BOWSER'S CASTLE Grand Prix.
Yeah, Canada is rich too, they can call it "North Pole Position GP"...
Just sayin'. By the way, Montreal track is the only surface without potholes in the province of Quebec, but just in June... but I'm not totally sure....
Just sayin'.
:O I thought only India had potholes
That makes Canada a step closer to Europe. With only one place temporarily having no potholes while the rest are strewn with potholes ...well that's more European than Baku with its perfect roads. In Baku I expect "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" to fly over the Baku Castle . Plus the Evil Child Catcher with his large net (from the film) chasing Max V, using a trail of Red Bulls resting on a pairs of clogs to entice Max.
@NickH They should rename the Chinese grand prix to the "American Grand Prix" for a year and let there be a celebration of American culture for that weekend 🙂 Barbeques et all. And maybe the next new Grand Prix that comes up in europe can be called the "Chinese Grand Prix" as they celebrate Chinese culture over the weekend. I can imagine it right now, Lewis Hamilton wearing a Cow Boy hat and saying he loved the atmosphere while winning the American Grand Prix of 2017 in China 😀
"Steady over the lava Lewis...good job, now it's hammer time" 🙂
Hammer Bros. you mean?
Will the media be fenced and silenced while they are in Baku. Men in Black following the western production teams.
Looking forward to the fast straights and tight slow corners. Could be either a mix set up or a fast set up and troubling corners. Tyres will wear quickly on this track due to the heat.
Considering I am not a fan of almost any of Herman's work and actually wished F1 stayed away from him as far as it could, I share Lewis' concerns regarding this circuit.
Le Mans 2016 clash also doesn't help (btw, I find it ridiculous FIA\FOM couldn't change the date of F1 race…)
May be I will be proven wrong – I don't mind it, let's wait until the action begins.
Free Practice will be an big learning curve in this very European Country anyone for Deer Balls I mean Dough Balls .
Given that this is by far the longest straight - even when disregarding the first part of the 2.1 km stretch which is arguably not a straight - will we see speed records? Or will downforce levels be too high for that?
By the way, technically, Kvyat out qualified Sainz in Canada, as opposed to what the article says. 😉
Azerbaijan is desperately to convince they are in Europe with a sporting drive.
1 Hosting a 'European Grand Prix' this year
2 Hosted the 2015 European Games.
3. Baku National Stadium will host Group Stage/ Quarter Final matches at the pan-european UEFA Euro 2020 football Championships.
I don't consider this country truly in Europe though but it should be decent race this weekend non the less.
Brand building. Thats what it is called
Just send them the Billion Dollar EU bills pending.. they have the Oil Monies, Marriage made in heaven if you ask me.
European GP in Azerbaijan - nice invention Bernie...! LOL
Track does look very good for tourist snaps, but not convinced it will show up a multi (or even 2) team fight like a Monaco.
In another matter - watched this & the current engines (sorry PU's) are just not F1, as much as I'm impressed by the efficiency, I just don't care enough. (how good are the brutish V12 & screaming V10?)
Imagine how good they would be around Baku...? Keep dreaming of yesterday I suppose. (I will never forget the V12's & V10's around the Adelaide F1 street track.)
Azerbaijan news outlet ABC said ticket sales have been slow, with only 18,500 tickets printed for the race and "not all of them sold".
This is a television event. Bums on seats don't make money.
But enough cynicism... I think this will be a great event. I already want to visit Baku! Looks idyllic situated right there on the edge of the Caspian.
Judging from the pics, most people can probably just look out their window to watch the race.
Great. Lets say that 1000 flats @ 2 per unit have some track sight. That's how many?
@Sebee.. Maybe its a party at all the 1000 flats 😀 or a social gathering with people coming and going from the Windows alternating with watching the tv live broad cast.
Suddenly maybe 10,000 who knows people from the flat (if there are 1000 flats in the first case 😉 ) Combine that with people who did buy stand tickets (say only 10,000 out of 18.5 k printed tickets).. The total figure would be a relatively decent PERCENTAGE of their mere 9.4 million population of the entire country!
It would be 0.22% of their entire population at the event compared to say the US GP, where its 0.03% of their population who make it. So percentage of population showing up for live race.. almost 10 TIMES HIGHER TURNOUT PER 100 PEOPLE OF THE NATION in Azerbaijan compared to USA and this would be if they just managed to sell the 18.5K printed tickets forget the flat windows over looking 😉
Small countries have advantages when it comes to such statistical figures I guess 😛 who would have though! I didnt when i started typing this post.
Better not have a GP in China and India with those stats 😉
The organizers and sponsors care not a jot about the % of the population. They care about the headcount and how it compares to the capacity over the weekend, because that's the fundamental premise of the business.
@redline.. Actually one would assume the head count barely matters to the organisers this year, its all about the number of international eye balls they get via TV and other media on their country/city for this year. Next year Head counts would matter a lot to see if this year attracted many tourists to their nation.
@Nomad... yeah that's a very valid point. TV eyes are obviously more important than headcount from a visibility perspective and raising the countries profile etc... But I suppose that actual attendance is their most important revenue stream? If making money actually matters to them at all...
@Redline.. making money with tickets? What happened to Oil Money 😀
I think the key thing here is a low grip surface with a high average speed circuit- this is likely to be very close between Mercedes and Red Bull. Ferrari I think should have a half a turn more wing to counter their grip shortfall. I think young Max tends to do really well at the high speed circuits like SPA. Very hard to predict as the set up work will be a super challenge for all drivers. I think both Ferraris will be better on their tyres in the long run becausenof the hotter conditions but maybe not enough outright pace and grip of Merc/ Red Bull. 1. Lewis 2. Max 3. Seb 4. Nico 5. Kimi 6. Dan 7. Valtteri 8. Alonso 9. Carlos 10. Sergio
Ferrari better on tyres and yet 3rd & 5th :O
Great article! Very interesting. Track looks good compared to some new tracks. Looking forward to seeing how it works out.
I wonder why the pit lanes are designed long if they know it will lead to less pit stops. Maybe shorten the entrance or exit.
Hardly Europe - more like Middle East GP.
More Middle East GP haven't we had enough of those empty lifeless circuits.
Baku is more of a Silk Trade Asian root about it.
Errrrr... Eurasian perhaps, but not really Middle East....
Who believes that "temporary asphalt laid over cobblestones" is good for F1 cars at. 350kmh ? In Baku ? World Centre of Temporary Asphalt Laying ? Where is Borat when you need him ?
Where in the name of Fangio is this place ? I am pretty good an Geographical knowledge, but this place is NOWHERE.
Just another extremely dodgy regime bunging Bernie more cash to hold a race in a place nobody knows or cares about. Really, what does he need the money for ?
As soon as I read "temporary asphalt" I thought "oh no!" Even if it's on the low speed sections, with the loads that go through an F1 tyre, what are the chances of the track breaking up?
temporary asphalt laid over cobblestones and 350kph are not in the same place....and who cares where it is, another race is more bang for my buck. Actually it's in the same place it always is...the corner of my living room.
@Ray C.. even in your living room it may not be as safe 😀 last year when they cut to the onboard footage on Max's car right before his crash into the barrier in Monaco, with the intensity of the sound, suddeness and the surprise - I almost fell of my seat in the living room ! ...and now Two Monacos from this year! Have soft carpets to land on I say! Also a handy vacuum cleaner for the split munchies 😉
The temporary asphalt will be through the narrowest, slowest part of the track. Nowhere near speeds of 350kph there. Not saying it won't fail, just saying it won't be due to cars going 350kph over it!
When I hear the name of the country I just think 'Longbow 2'. That's the only time I've ever heard of it.
Really, what does he need the money for ?
Keeping score
It seems odd that there is a trend towards city tracks being very long these days. You instantly think Monaco for a street race, with a lap time around 80 seconds, but the recent additions of Singapore, the brief stint with Valencia, Sochi and now Baku are all around the 100 second mark which feels high for an F1 track. I wonder if there is a good reason for this, such as making sure there is enough character in the track or trying to represent the city. It must make the logistics even harder, shutting more of the town, but given the fees they will pay F1 to host the race I suppose it will be a drop in the ocean.
lets hope this one is different as formula E and its city centre tracks have show this format to be a bore.
Maybe the speed and noise will make the difference.
I think that Lewis could take the lead in the WDC this weekend! It will be interesting to see which is the number 2 team this weekend (between Red Bull and Ferrari) the long straight favours the power of the Ferrari PU but the layout of the circuit favours RBs mechanical grip advantage. My money is on RB but the higher temperature could help Ferrari. How close they are will also be interesting, especially if cars can split the Mercedes drivers in qualiy
You're right. A European Grand Prix that is not held in Europe. Azerbaijan is in Asia.
This is just stupid. It's about money. Nothing less.
At first sight i am worried about the top speed of 350 mh on a street circuit. What if somebody goes off, is there enough room to decelerate before hitting a wall?
IF you condiser the two straights being side by separated by just a barrier with cars going in different opposite directions.. If the camera crews can get the shot.. we could see a passing of atleast 350+250 = 600 Kmph a FEW FEET AWAY FROM EACH OTHER separated by a concrete divider. That is just AWESOME!
Damn, I just checked the map of the circuit with a bit more interest and the side by side section wont really be very fast as one side is just after a sharp chicane like thingy while the other is right at the start of the start finish straight albiet after a high speed corner.. so what 200+ 150 kmph= 350 kmph speed difference? There goes my dreams of seeing two cars crossing each other at 600kmph difference. Maybe the next new track will have it. LAS VEGAS! Someone please tell Tilke :'(
And this concrete divider is approved by FIA, so what is to worry... Anyway as is said elsewhere a lot of people will have looked at the safety side of this. But what is the reasoning behind it, why is it deemed safe? Are accidents like Alonso this year of Verstappen last year impossible here?
Seriously...... This is motorsport & F1. It's designed to be fast & 'dangerous' (yes, dangerous). There should be more 350 km/h tracks with some risk.
No fear though, Tilk would have made sure it 'Driving Muss Daisy' safe & boring as usual
It will have met the same basic criteria for FIA approval as any track. If something still is glaringly dangerous, the drivers will have brought it up after their track walks today, you would hope too.
Big accidents can happen anywhere though and it's the ones that happen in less obvious places or with slightly unusual trajectories that are scariest.
Both Button and Rosberg did bring up issues with the track lay out. Specifically the amount and location of the run off areas, one of them (can't remember which corner) having to turn right to access it which will obviously be challenging if the car is out of control
I agree. Someone may die...
I get the points about calling this the European GP, and yes it is a little unusual, and yes its probably PR and marketing from the Government there.
But why are people so outraged by this that they seem to be writing off the weekend as a complete farce already? Its a point but it's hardly going to be the defining point of whether I enjoy the weekend or not.
The track could be good, the race could be good, the surface is completely unknown and there are so many things that could really make this a good race, not to mention that again Testicular girth could play a big part in qualifying order.
Equally it could be less than spectacular but people please, lets enjoy the excitement of the potential while it lasts.
+ many billions!!
A track needing good mechanical grip like Redbull for the slow corners and Massive Power like Ferrari for the High speed straights.. MEANS MERCEDES will win I guess 😀
Ever notice how Ferrari stings like a bee at the starts and Redbull Floats like a butterfly in sliding conditions? But its the Merc that picks up the wins usually so meh :/
Not sure about Redbull lowering downforce in lieu of top speed because the slow corners they have better suspension / mech grip anyway. Will that not hamper them in the high speed sequence of corners James?
So which Merc if its a Merc? Will it be Nico? But the high speed sequence of turns before the final straights - gut feeling says Nico will be conservative initially but build up throughout the weekened while Ham will probaly find the limits and end with a crash by free practise itself. So I would put my money on Ham for this one unless Vettel can hold on to his Ferrari and its Slippery ways.
Rosberg's front row streak started at Japan '15. Both Mercedes were off the front row at Singapore last year.
I hope they go through the red flag procedures with the drivers for this race. If there's a crash between turns 8-10 then the marshals will be screwed, trying to remove it. If the leader(s) pass the start line before a red flag, that will be a right mess. They should have routes available to bypass any potential bottleneck areas.
sounds like another stop-go circuit from Herman.
Incredibly dangerous if your car had a wing/brake failure at 200mph and you hit the concrete wall 5 metres away from you, then clobbered an adjacent barrier. Nice to see the FIA taking safety seriously.
My thoughts too when I read this article yesterday, then today Jenson has come out with concerns about T3, T7, and T13 having little to no run off areas and issues with the pit lane entrance. I hope this is not the case of FOM fees trumping driver safety.
Long straights and slow corners equals exquisite torture for car set ups!! I'm here in Baku for the race... Can't wait!!
I am guessing from all the initial comments even Europeans are not convinced this is Europe. I guess Bernie is using the socioeconomic/political definition of Europe (i.e. any country willing to give me at least $30 million a year to host a race), not the geographic. As for the race, I expect this race will rank next to Russia in F1 worthlessness. Expect a Mercedes to post the track speed record two laps before the end of the race after running at least 2/3rds f the race on one set of tires.
I'm rather looking forward to the possibility of an "African grand prix'
... I think Japan would be the the best place for it... Or maybe Norway...
Interesting to see how many races will end at Turn 8. It looks like an insult towards all the safety work done in the sport.
Tires could be a surprise: http://readmotorsport.com/2016/06/15/pirelli-baku-straight-cause-tyre-failures/ looking forward to the first practice !
I think getting pole will be important in a new circuit. Anybody else risk of being tangle.
I think that splitting strategies for both cars would be advisable.
I would stay in qualy tyres until first safety car (say no more than 40 laps), then Softs until the end. So 1 stop strategy for everybody, save you get more SC.
For P11 backwards, I'd put Soft until safety car (yeah 40 laps maximum) then Super-Softs.
I'm so grateful I can write cualquier verdura (anything) here without risk of paying any fees, penalties or commenting fines... for now.
I wanna do a case for HULK. He's getting so boring for me...
FI needs the HULK's consistency, his points and the money it means, but HULK himself needs a Podium or Nothing!
It is excellent for FI having a finisher most of the time like HULK and a podium finisher from time to time like PEREZ. But that plays well in the hands of PEREZ only.
HULK, if you are reading this lines, and I am pretty sure you do, please take into account that in Baku things could be mixed up, so do whatever to get the fricking podium. Otherwise, ...
Otherwise, ...
haha, otherwise.. otherwise KIMI may win 😀
High speed or not, this track looks like an absolute bore as far as producing good racing. Hope I am wrong.
Geography for everybody:
Azerbaijan is an European country with its capital in Asia.
In Baku, the capital, has been built three penguin-esque crystal towers that everybody loves. But there is not penguins in Azerbaijan. However it's been reported that "a penguin that escaped from the flood-ravaged Tbilisi zoo has been found alive near the border with Azerbaijan."
Azerbaijan is bounded by the Caspian Sea, so the country is a partner of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization... Uh?
Now everything is clear for me.
After watching the onboard video of the track, I have to say it looks rather boring. And far too long.
In the online video, the driver is driving slowly because there are people working everywhere and all safetys are not up.. the video was almost 3 mins while teams estimate on the simulators a 110 second lap is it?
What is SCARY is.. if that guy in the video was slow.. and the F1 cars are doubly fast.. that track looks like DEATH to me, I really wouldnt wish any of those drivers to be there. That slow video in the red car.. the narrow sections appeared wider than some of the pictures now being shown in full race spec.
While the architecture surrounding the track is beautiful there is something very UNHOLY about this track. True one can say its like monaco but faster.. but monaco itself is unreal and thank god its slow - But this one is FAST. I hope the drivers are extra careful about yellow flags and red flags for this race to avoid multi car collisions.
My initial enthusiasm for this track is severely dropping now and a sense of dread is setting in which shall only be lifted once the race is over on Sunday, only to return the next year again.
you need to relax dude, the track was vetted by alonso and whiting before any car turned a wheel there.
its likely safer than Monaco all things considered, and the last death in f1 was a freak accident followed by poor medical procedures to recover the driver.
relax, the race will be fun and sections of the circuit genuinely challenge the drivers.
you can't suddenly get cold feet cause it looks like the drivers will actually get challenged
too much talk about a country being in this or that continent.
look for daniel ricciardo's lap of the track on f1 2016, it has some interesting elements and will likely produce some good racing with its long straights into slow corners, not to mention that turn 8 complex simply looks spectacular
Jordon King ran off into one of the exit run offs some time around 33 minutes left to go in 1st practise for GP 2 and there was a LARGE VAN parked in that RUN OFF AREA and he drove past the VAN, went behind and did a power turn and cam back out. The first session being so dusty do they want to risk doing a SUZUKA moment again JAMES?
A Special Note towards those who talk badly about F1 and how weak the product is compared to Le Mans 24 hours.. I just tried to get into watching Le Man (somehow 24 hours never appealed to me before) But what i just read went over my head.. BOP WHAAAT?
Added weights to those who qualified higher plus more turbo restrictions plus some cars get more fuel allowed (to equalise them is it it??) because they were dramatically slower in qualifying? WHAT IN THE LORDS NAME IS HAPPENING??? :O
And maybe I couldnt make it out from the article properly but it felt as if some teams could just drive slower in qualifying on purpose to make their competitors look really fast which makes those fast one get penalties in the way of added weight to the car for the race; I assume in a race that is 24 hours long the qualifying deficit can be made up by those that purposely went slow.. but those who get the added weight to them for qualifying well have to live with it for 24 hours? Is that what just happened there??
Also those that sandbagged will probably not get penalties and keep sandbagging trhough the entire 24 hours except in maybe some corners to lets say make a pass?? Whole thing sounded were confusing to me
And they say F1 is confusing?
In Lieu of the Horror show and farce that i found going on in LeMans24, F1 is indeed the pinnacle of motorsport where you clearly see which brand stands where when it comes to how competent there are in churning out cutting age engineering.
Its clear, Mercedes is completely on top of Hybrid/Turbo Power, followed by Fiat/Ferrari followed by Renault (point to note is while always lacking power they seem to have good understanding of traction) followed by Honda which was a year late to join. But on the whole.. i cannot imagine them adding weights to the Merc just because Mcbooger or Manor cannot qualify as fast. thats a FARCE!!
So thats a big point for F1 and a huge minus point for 24hrsLeMans.
How do you clean up 'temporary asphalt' after the race?
hmm... just a thought > wouldn't it be interesting if the cars were setup to adapt to the circuit rather than the other way round? I mean, you can hardly call it a 'street circuit' when most of it has a new layer of asphalt laid down!
I just think it would be exciting to hear the commentator express how the Mercedes was faster on the straight but losing time vs the Red Bulls and Williams over the cobblestones...


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As online businesses keep growing and web services become pervasive, there is an increasing demand for micro-payment protocols that facilitate micro-commerce, namely selling content and services for small amounts of money (possibly less than one cent per transaction), which cannot be handled efficiently by credit cards due to substantial per transaction fee and delay. In this paper, the authors investigate the security of micropayment protocols that support low-value transactions. They focus on one type of such protocols that are based on hash chains. They present a formal specification of a typical hash chain based micropayment protocol using abstract protocol notation, and discuss how an adversary can attack this protocol using message loss, modification, and replay.

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SIR Bob Geldof has ordered British Prime Minister Tony Blair to deliver an expletive-laden message to US President George W Bush to wipe out poverty in Africa.
The BAND AID star shocked the launch of Blair's Commission For Africa campaign by telling the audience, which included the premier himself and UK chancellor Gordon Brown, it would cost America "f**k all" to help wipe out poverty in the poor continent.
Geldof said, "Tony and Gordon have to prepare to ring up George and say, 'Do this, George, do this one thing for me, it's going to cost you f**k all, do it for me.'
"The Africa Commission will only ever deliver results if each and all of its participant countries subscribe to a collective commitment to govern well."
Blair backed Geldof's tirade and added, "Because I'm a politician in a suit, I wince at the occasional word - but what he said is really what I think."
The report demands African leaders eliminate corruption and bad government - in return for rich nations to double aid, adopt fair trade and 100 per cent debt cancellation.13/03/2005 10:28
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Nissan's Sentra--a front-drive, compact sedan--was redesigned for 2007. The result: a transformer-robot exterior, ersatz 1959 Cadillac grille and goofy tiny side-view mirrors. The interior's dot-effect seat fabric is playful, though; the Spec V adds sporty red accents and bolstered front seats. Nissan updated its fascia for 2010.
Inside, tall drivers find adequate leg and headroom. The distant steering wheel tilts, but doesn't telescope. Interior surfaces: a mixture of textured plastics. Some cast annoying windshield reflections. Many pieces are hard and unpleasant. Controls work well. However, the car's amber-light, liquid crystal displays lack contrast. Heater performance was good; defrosting needs improvement. Back seat drivers sit on flat cushions.
There's a wireless key fob. Carry it and you start the engine, by twisting a switch. The 2.0-liter, 140-hp engine can be attached to an automated continuously variable transmission. A CVT's wide gear ratios should improve fuel economy. It works, but sometimes lets the engine whine annoyingly. It also bumped (slowing down) and lurched (turning takeoff). In contrast, the Spec V's 2.5-liter, 200-hp mill and clumsy-shifting, six-speed manual tranny were lively.
Sentras ride softly. Steering is lackluster. It's initially firm, becomes too light off center, and then stiffens, as one tightens the arc. Add excessive body roll and you've got a sloppy, tipsy handling buggy. The sports-tuned V is better. Stability control isn't available on the 2.0 S tester. For 2010, vehicle dynamic control (recommended) is standard on the SL, SE-R and SE-R Spec V, Standard antilock brakes worked well.
Nit-picker's delight: CVT-shifter console doesn't indicate mode, muddy sounding radio and unsightly, exposed trunk floor. Pluses: big glove box and three nicely spaced climate-control knobs; 2.0 models' rear-seat backs fold flat.
The CVT's fuel economy, during a wintery drive: 21 mpg. EPA's estimates: 29 mpg city; 36 hwy. In contrast, the horsey 2.5-liter delivered 27. Estimates: 21 city and 29 hwy.
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London, July 5(ANI): Brit privacy campaigners have condemned reports that council officials are using high-powered spy microphones on street lampposts to listen in on private conversations.
The microphones, connected to CCTV cameras, can recognize aggressive "trigger" words and sounds, then automatically direct cameras to zoom in on the speakers.
According to reports, the Sigard system has been tested in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow and Coventry.
The new devices come to light just days after around 200 cameras with number plate recognition software in Birmingham were mothballed after it was revealed that the project was a counterterrorism initiative.
Privacy campaigners said that the surveillance system is another erosion of personal freedom.
"Britain has been far too complacent about the growth of CCTV without any proper public debate or legal safeguards. With cameras linked to microphones and number-plate databases, everyone can be treated as a suspect," The Daily Express quoted Corinna Ferguson, a lawyer for human rights group Liberty, as saying.
"The Birmingham fiasco demonstrates the destructive power of snooping on whole communities who could otherwise be pulling together to fight crime and terrorism," she added.
Dylan Sharpe, from Big Brother Watch, said: "There can be no justification for giving councils or the police the capability to listen in on private conversations. There is enormous potential for abuse, or a misheard word, causing unnecessary harm with this sort of intrusive and overbearing surveillance". (ANI)


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RFID Security Risks
RFID enabled applications have significant benefits over applications based on barcodes, but the technology also introduces a number of new business risks. Flawed designs are not uncommon in today's RIFD systems and best practices and security policies are still emerging. Considering the potential vulnerabilities of backend systems attached to an RFID infrastructure the problem becomes even bigger.
RFID tags are always an integral part of a larger IT system and should be seen in this context. Typically, RFID tags contain a unique ID (for example an EPC product code or any other unique ID). Often this ID can be altered on the tag. In addition, many tags come with user data, a separate memory area that can be used to store additional information directly on the tag, for example, expiration dates for perishable goods, or the dollar value of tickets used in public transport systems. High Frequency (HF) tags traditionally come with sizable user memory, but now we see a similar development with Ultra High Frequency (UHF) tags: Major players in the EPC arena are about to release new versions of their RFID chips containing 512 bits of extra memory.
Given a compatible RFID reader device, anyone can freely read and modify data stored on these RFID tags without the legitimate owner even being aware of it. RFID auditing tools like RFDump (released as free software by the founders of NeoCatena in 2004) can be used to explore the weaknesses of existing RFID infrastructures.
On-Tag Encryption
On-tag encryption, if used at all, is typically proprietary and weak due to physical limitations and cost constraints. Once the encryption features of an RFID tag are broken, the tag becomes nothing more than an ordinary data tag that can easily be manipulated with tools like RFDump. For example, the security features of the Mifare Classic chip, which is used in public transport systems and building access control world-wide today, has recently been compromised. At the Chaos Computer Congress 2007 Karsten Nohl from the University of Virginia presented the results of his research. Nohl had analyzed the Mifare chip layer by layer under an electron microscope and reverse engineered significant parts of its proprietary encryption logic revealing major design flaws showing how easy it is to break the chip's security features. With the dollar amount of the ticket directly stored on the tag, ticketing systems based on this chip, like the Oyster Card in London or the Charlie Card in Boston, are at risk. An attacker could attempt to either clone a ticket or change its value to gain illegal access to the service provided. Similar cloning and tampering scenarios apply to other open loop applications as well, including hotel key cards, ski lift and event tickets, electronic payment systems and the electronic passport.
The Mifare Classic chip is the dinosaur among the RFID crypto chips - it was first released in 1994 and its proprietary crypto design has major flaws and well known weaknesses. In recent years, however, several researchers and companies have started working on so-called "light-weight cryptography" solutions for RFID. The idea is to re-evaluate existing crypto primitives and invent new algorithms specifically designed to achieve reasonable levels of security for low-cost passive RFID tags. This is a major challenge considering the limited computational resources as well as power and timing constraints on these chips. For example, chips used in today's low-cost EPC tags contain up to 15,000 gates. Only a fraction of these are available to implement crypto functionality, the rest is required to implement the tag's state machine, memory etc. Strong private key crypto systems on the other hand require at least 20,000 - 30,000 gates alone when implemented in hardware. Still there are a number of new cryptosystems available that can operate under these restrictions and their inventors claim security levels comparable to RSA and other well-known strong crypto systems. The jury is still out on whether these claims are true. It remains an open question whether it is possible to deliver strong security with such limited resources at all.
RFID Malware
Storage capability on RFID tags is limited but sufficient to carry attacks commonly known in the IT security world (e.g. SQL injection, buffer overflow, string format attacks etc.). Even RFID based Malware is possible, as demonstrated by Tanenbaum, Rieback et al. in their paper "Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus". Essentially we see the same attack patterns and exploits that have been studied in the network security community for a long time emerging in a new domain.
Protecting Internet communication channels using firewalls has become standard, but in today's typical RFID implementations very little is done to protect the edge of the network. This opens the door for various kinds of attacks using the RFID communication channel as an attack vector. Often RFID systems are perceived as closed loop applications with no exposure to the outside world. However, in a digital supply chain scenario, what happens after items or packages have been labeled at the manufacturing site and before they reach distribution centers or warehouses? While in transit, tags can easily be accessed and then altered or exchanged. Fake products and tags could be injected into the supply chain, a serious concern in the pharmaceutical industry. In addition, the possibility of an inside attack should not be underestimated.
Attacks Against RFID Applications
In summary, today's RFID applications are exposed to numerous technical risks with direct consequences for the business such as revenue loss, customer safety, fraud, brand damage, business continuity and liability. In addition, these risks affect legal and regulatory requirements as defined by SOX and Basel-2. These and similar legislation in various countries require the operator of an RFID application to integrate RFID into their risk management process and analyze RFID specific risk scenarios and their effect on business continuity.
Some of the technical risks and their implications are listed here:
- Cloning: Duplicating or manipulating RFID tag data to create identical copies or variations of RFID tags that will be accepted by an RFID application as valid. Goals could be to gain illegal access to a restricted area, inject counterfeit products into a digital supply chain or change price tags at the Point of Sale (Cyber Shop Lifting).
- Code Injection Attack: Manipulating RFID tag data so that it contains malicious code or code fragments (RFID Virus) with the intention to change the course of execution of backend systems or databases processing the RFID data. This Malware attempts to exploit vulnerabilities caused by sloppy software implementations bringing the system into an undefined state, or crash it otherwise (e.g. because of missing error handlers, vulnerability to buffer overflow, string format or other injection attacks). In particular SQL injection attacks may be used to alter any record in a SQL database. The goal could be to gain illegal access to backend systems, or to disable or destroy it entirely.
- Denial-of-Service Attack (DoS): Almost all resources in an RFID system can become target of a DoS attack, including tag, reader, or back end system / edge server. Attacks on the air interface include shielding tags, flooding the reader field with a multitude of tags or selectively jamming the reader field. The goal is usually to sabotage specific resources of an RFID system, such a digital supply chain, effectively making the system unavailable to its intended users.
- Man-in-the-Middle Attack: Impersonating either a legitimate reader or tag to collect RFID data and metadata, or actively manipulate data sent between tag and backend system e.g. to perform code injection attacks, gain illegal access to a restricted area etc.
- Eavesdropping / Scanning on the RF channel using special reader devices and sensitive antennas to collect RFID data, e.g. to collect information about a business (corporate espionage) or individual (profiling, tracking tracing, privacy violations). This type of attack is often used as a helper attack serving as prerequisite to perform further attacks such as a man-in-the-middle attack etc.
- Physical Attack: The simplistic architecture of low-cost RFID makes these types of attacks feasible once again. There are invasive physical attacks (microprobing, focus ion beam editing etc.) and non-invasive attacks (power / timing analysis, radio finger printing etc.). The goal of these types of attack could be to reverse engineer proprietary crypto algorithms and extract keys.
Some of the attack types listed above, the physical attacks for example, are costly and time consuming and require a high degree of technical expertise. These attacks are often impractical and only performed as a proof-of-concept in the research community. Other attacks only make sense in combination with other attacks. An eavesdropping attack, for example, could be performed to learn about the communication protocol between tag and reader to later perform a code injection attack.
Different industries use different RFID technology and face different kinds of business risks. For each vertical industry a careful analysis is required. A good starting point is a detailed threat model identifying possible incidents as well as the probability and cost associated with their occurrence. Risks can then be coupled with recommended countermeasures and solutions providing an adequate level of security can be tailored specific to an industry's or even and individual user's need.


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If you are the type of person who likes watching offense, Saturday night's game at the L.A. Coliseum was not for you. In a game that lay somewhere between a defense battle and offensive ineptitude, the Washington State Cougars won their first game at USC since 2000, beating the Trojans 10-7. Andrew Furney kicked a 41-yard field goal with 3:03 remaining for the final margin of victory.
The Cougars (1-1, 1-0 Pac-12 North) only managed to generate 222 yards of offense and did not score an offensive touchdown, but the team did manage of maneuver into position late in the game for a game winning field goal attempt. But it was the Wazzu defense, led by cornerback Damante Horton, that undid the Trojans (1-1, 0-1 Pac-12 South).
Horton had two interceptions in the game, one of which he returned 70 yards for the only Washington State touchdown at the end of the first half. His other interception, which came with 2:18 to go in the game, sealed the deal.
Horton's touchdown was important, because the Washington State offense was stalled much of the evening. The Cougars finished the game with only seven yards rushing on 22 carries. Connor Halliday completed 26 of 38 passes for 215 yards and two interceptions.
Halliday's 215 passing yards, though, was higher than the total offense for the Trojans. USC on;y had 193 yards of offense for the game. The two headed quarterback for USC, Cody Kessler and Max Wittek, combined for 54 yards passing on 21 attempts. The two quarterbacks did not complete a pass longer than eight yards.
Outside of running back Tre Madden (32 carries, 151 yards), USC did nothing on offense at all. Marqise Lee, who entered the season as a Heisman Trophy contender, had 10 total touches for 24 yards on offense and four kick/punt returns for 27 total yards. He was a complete non-factor on a night that points were at a premium.
The lack of vertical passing is curious at best, especially given the talent at receiver for USC with Lee and Nelson Agholor. In fact, Agholor didn't have an official catch in the game, and is credited with one carry for minus five yards.
There is no seat that is hotter right now than Lane Kiffin's. There are at least 11 games left this season.
What's Next for Washington State: The Cougars, fresh off of the upset, will return home to face the Thunderbirds of Southern Utah University, an FCS squad out of the Big Sky Conference.
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I've long been a fan of Alessi holsters. I think they are some of the best made leather holsters on the market. Not only that, but the company has great customer service as well.
I have been wearing the same Alessi ankle holster for the backup gun I carry at work (S&W 342) for a long time. In fact, I've worn it every single workday for 16 years! No other ankle holster I've ever used has lasted longer than a year or two.
I wear boots at work and wear the holster wrapped around my boot rather than around my leg. I find it both more comfortable and more stable that way. Most ankle holsters don't have a strap long enough to go around both my leg and the boot. The Alessi holster utilizes an innovative solution to the problem…they have an "extender" that supplements the standard strap and adds length.
After 16 years of constant use, the holster still looks great, but the Velcro on the extender was starting to wear out. I went to the Alessi website to buy one, but I couldn't find them for sale.
I sent the company an email inquiring about how I might go about purchasing a new one. I got a quick response asking for my address. They were going to ship me a new one free of charge.
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Check out Alessi holsters at their website HERE. In addition to their ankle holster, I really like their "Talon" inside the waistband holster (which was once the holster issued to its undercover operatives by the CIA). I actually like it so much that I have the Talon holster for five different carry guns!
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Have a Minnie fan at home that also adores our favorite Princess Cinderella? If so, then you'll want to head on out and buy Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Minnie-rella available on DVD today. Zoe (6) still adores Mickey Mouse Clubhouse especially when the star is Minnie. She just loves her!
Minnie-rella is inspired by our favorite fairytale but now with characters Disney Junior fans absolutely adore.
Mickey and friends are planning a surprise for Minnie but Minnie arrives at the clubhouse so all her friends ask for her help so they can head out to get her present.
Minnie gets very tired from helping all her friends, that she takes a nap. In her nap she daydreams about being Minnie-rella. She meets her fairy godmother that insists she needs to get ready for prince Mickey's ball!
Minnie says she has too much to do and wishes she could go to the ball. Fairy godmother says she can make her wishes come true with her magic wand. The magic wand didn't do its thing though. With the help of viewers Minnie needs help going to the ball.
Minnie's friends put a dress together so her dream can come true and she can become a princess for the ball.
Just like our favorite princess Cinderella, Minnie gets a new bow, glass slippers and a carriage and coachman to bring Minnie to the ball.
The fairy godmother tells Minnie she must return when the clocks strikes 12oclock, Minnie promises to return before the spell is broken.
Minnie arrives at the grand ball and sees Prince Mickey who asks her dance.
The dance finishes and the clock strikes midnight. Minnie runs off and loses her slipper. Mickey is worried he will never find her again as he doesn't know her name. They find the shoe which is the only clue on how to find the "mystery princess".
Will they find each other again to dance again and live happily ever after?
Zoe has enjoyed Minnie-rella, watching numerous times already. Like with all Mickey Mouse Clubhouse shows, children will learn about friendship, teamwork and love in this special.
Minnie-rella bonus episodes:
Pluto's Tale – In Pluto's very first fairytale adventure, we help Prince Pluto rescue Princess Bella from the clutches of sneaky Wizard Pete.
Mickey and the Enchanted Egg – Mickey finds an egg which soon hatches into a Baby Dragon. Mickey and his friends have to return the Dragon back to her castle home and convince the powerful Wizard Pete that they didn't steal the egg in the first place.
Daisy's Pony Tale – When Professor Von Drake's new invention, a Fritzer-Spritzer Spray Potion, accidentally gets spritzed on Daisy's ponytail, it makes her hair grow super long! That's not goody-good at all. Along with Mickey and Sire Goofs-a-Lot, Daisy travels on her pony to find twelve leaves of the magical plant, Rapunzel, in order to reverse the effects of the Professor's potion and fix her ponytail.
Bonus: 10 Minnie's Bow-Toons (Season 2). These are very short mini episodes that children will love!
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Survive the Pacific. By Jack Hollister. Your in a falling airplane in the pacific. a. you jump off with a parachute b. you stay on the plane and let it crash .
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By Jack Hollister
You have taken the batteries and heading back to the room with the phone you put the batteries in the phone. a. do you call your house. b. or do you call the police.
your now on the monkey infested island and you've with the phone you put the batteries in the phone. managed to build a hut for protection against the hyper evil monkeys. But now your very hungry.a. do you a eat one of the monkeysb. or do find plant life to eat.
now you've fell into a trap, and you're in a room with now way out but there is a none working cell phone that needs batteries but also in the room is a drill. But the room runs out of air in 5 minutesa. find batteries and put them in the cell phone.b. drill a hole in the roof and get out
your floating in the pacific and you see a sword fish in the water and your starving do you a. kill the swordfish and eat it b. or do you go on
you have found a bundle of bananas but the monkeys are chasing you.a. do you return on running to your cabin. b. or do you try to fend of the monkeys your self
your chasing you.floating in the pacific and suddenly you see an island but its infested with monkeys.a. do you go on and hope to find a human populated island.b. go to the monkey infested island and hope to find food.
you are now approaching a monkey, your only weapon is your bare hands you attack the monkey but the monkeys simply drop a coconut on you head and push you out to sea and your now awake floating on a coconuta. do you swim back to the monkey infested island. b. or do you go on.
So your floating in the pacific and hoping to find a human populated islandand suddenly you see a swordfish in the water.a. do you kill the sword fish and eat it. (12) b. or do you let it go and float on (8)
there was a cabinet you open it and there was a secret door that said supplies you open and see scuba gear and batteries.a. do you take the scuba gearb. or do you take the batteries
You have just killed the swordfish your now eating and you taste gasoline you throw the sword fish but you scratch it and the fish gets lit and blows up in your face and you die
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your fighting the monkeys but they have now ran away with the bananas you chase them down to the beach and you've found a kayak and a basket of food and a map you get in the kayak eat some found and head to Indonesia You Live
The plane crashes on the water and its slowly sinking and you see that the person next to you has a life jacketa. do you be nice and let him have it(4)b. or do you kill him and take it then jump out and float(7)
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you have now taken some scuba gear and you have managed to get out and your now swimming in the pacific and you spot a island and you see a city you have made it to the Philippines, You live
the police have found you their helicopter but monkeys have hijacked a police helicopter and brought you to their secret island and gave you bananas so they would have a reason to fight you buta. do you fight them of for the bananas. b. or do you get the rescue plane and now you've figured out you have to jump with a parachute at 10,00 feet.
You have made it back to your cabin and you see that their is a bump in your pocket you take it out and the monkeys have gave you a phone a. do you call your dad b. do you order scuba gear.
An eagle bits of the string on your parachute and the impact on the water breaks both your arms disabling you from swimming up and breathing thus letting you drown and die.
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- 1 egg, beaten lightly
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This is a wonderful building just two blocks from Waikiki Beach. Your lanai overlooks Honolulu's most beautiful vista - Kapiolani Park and Diamond Head Crater. This is all the benefits of 'urban' Waikiki with pleasure of nature and beautiful scenery.
Located on the Diamond Head side of Waikiki. This is the peaceful side of Waikiki where Kapiolani Park, Ala Wai Golf Course, Diamond Head Tennis Center, Honolulu Aquarium, Waikiki Shell, Kapiolani Bandstand, Honolulu Zoo, Diamond Head Crater, and the seasonal 'Sunset on the Beach' movies are your neighbors. You can enjoy your entire visit here without a rental car, since shopping, beaches, restaurants, nightlife, surf lessons, catamaran sailing, tennis, golf, walking, beachwalking, cycling, 24-Hour Fitness, snorkeling and much more are all right here. And tour buses for Pearl Harbor, Polynesian Cultural Center, Dole Cannery and more have pickups close by too.
Each room overlooks Diamond Head Crater and Kapiolani Park, a 200-acre greenway in the middle of Honolulu that King Kalakaua named after his beloved wife. Kapiolani Park is the nexus of activity each weekend with varied special events and activities. This is where the residents of the Waikiki and Diamond Head neighborhoods come to walk, jog, play in the waves and relax. Still, the vibrancy of Waikiki is at your back door.
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Great stay! Awesome location just two blocks from Waikiki beach with wonderful views of Diamond Head Crater. Very clean, spacious and had everything we needed including beach supplies! Miou was really knowledgeable about the area and local activities. She was also attentive to any and all of our needs during the stay. Would definitely stay there again.
Great place! Great location! Great view! Clean unit, comfortable bed. Miou was a wonderful hostess. We would stay there again.
Close to Waikiki beach and everything you need in the city but still has the feel of nature overlooking the zoo and the park. Beautiful view of Diamond Head Crater to wake up to every morning and so enjoyable to sit out on the wonderful lanai and drink cups of coffee made in the on-site kitchenette (saved a ton of money not eating out all of the time) and watch the sunrise. Wish I could attach pictures to this review! Also the owners were great about making sure all of our need were met - 5 stars for sure!!
We stayed for a month and had everything we needed. We normally stay in a hotel but as we were staying longer this time it suited us perfectly to do our own thing. We had a car which we were able to park on-site but the location is also just perfect for walking to the beach and shops. The washing machine/dryer on the ground floor made life nice and easy. There were also beach chairs & other equipment that we were able to borrow. Definitely would recommend this place!
We were very happy with our stay at Makee Properties. Unit was exactly as pictured, was very clean, and had assorted toiletries available for you. The location was perfect for us - beautiful view of Diamond Head and close to the quieter end of Waikiki Beach.
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The 2015 King of the Ring was a professional wrestling tournament held by WWE. The tournament was held over two nights - with the opening round matches on April 27, 2015 as part of the live Raw broadcast on USA Network from the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and the semi-finals and finals on April 28, 2015 aired live on the WWE Network from the iWireless Center in Moline, Illinois.
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A new app called 'Be My Eyes' connects volunteers with blind people through a video call to help with simple daily tasks that can prove to be big challenges.
ConsejoSano mobile app connects documented and undocumented Latinos to healthcare providers who speak Spanish.
Election Day has many Americans asking, 'Where do I vote?' Here are several ways to find out where you vote.
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iPhone 6 and iOS 8 are too secure, according to FBI director James Comey. Is that good or bad for consumers?
With the tech world abuzz over Apple's latest product releases, we look at the potential safety and security issues that come with Apple Pay, the company's new mobile payment feature.
A new study released Tuesday reveals that 71 percent of all Internet hostnames exist for less than 24 hours, while a high volume of those pose threats to everyday Web users.
Apple announced Wednesday that it is banning the use of benzene and n-hexane in the final assembly stage of its products that include the iPhone and iPad.
A bill passed Monday in the California legislature says that all smart phones sold in California beginning July 2015 will need a 'kill switch' to render them inoperable in case they get stolen.
A new report out says that the risks associated with mobile apps is continuing to rise, particularly for free apps on the iOS and Android platforms.
Facebook is acquiring the cybersecurity company PrivateCore in an announcement that comes days after a report that Russian hackers had accumulated 1.2 billion usernames and passwords worldwide.
A report by New York State, along with San Francisco and London, found that iPhone theft was dramatically decreased once kill-switch tech, which allows users to remotely lock phones and wipe devices of information, was implemented. Now Google and Microsoft are joining the kill switch movement.
Twitter admits that its workforce is too male and too white. Can education solve a hiring problem?
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With its new End-to-End encryption service, Google wants to make e-mail safe from prying eyes.
In coming weeks, all 1.28 billion Facebook users will go through a 'privacy checkup' that will ensure they know who can see their information, plus the default audience of posts will switch to 'Friends Only.'
What happens if you have an emergency but you're hearing impaired, have a speech disability, or the situation could get worse if you make noise? For those in certain areas of the US, emergency victims now have the option to text 911. Certainly a sign of progress, but there are major caveats to the service as it stands now.
Google makes it too easy to dig up someone's past, according to the EU's highest court. It ruled Tuesday that Google must honor some requests to remove links from its search engine.
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Bolanle Arowolo, the mother of 31-year-old Akolade Arowolo, who allegedly killed his banker-wife, Titilayo, on Tuesday told an Ikeja High Court, Lagos that her son had become a pastor when he was only 12 years.
The 52-year-old Bolanle, a deaconess with the Four Square Gospel Church, while testifying as the second defence witness in the ongoing trial of Akolade, absolved him of complicity in the death of Titilayo.
She said her son couldn't have killed Titilayo because he is "not that kind of a child".
She said, "The defendant [Akolade] from his childhood till the day he got married, when he stopped staying with me, was well-behaved, had the fear of God and was never violent.
"I know his behaviour well enough and he has been a pastor since the age of 12. Though I don't know what killed her [Titilayo] but I will disagree with anybody who tells me that my son killed Titilayo because he is not that kind of a child."
Bolanle, while being led in evidence by the defence lawyer, Olanrewaju Ajanaku, described the deceased as troublesome and rude, adding that she [Titilayo] was fondly called "Thatcher" because of her violent character.
She also supported the testimony of her husband, Mudashiru, who appeared as first defence witness, that the deceased's stepmother, Adetoun Oyakhire, caused bitter enmity between the couple.
She said a misunderstanding once ensued between the couple when it was discovered that Titilayo aborted a pregnancy on the orders of Adetoun without her son's knowledge.
She added that due to the misunderstanding, Titilayo moved to her father's place, adding that she was surprised when she learnt that Titilayo died in Akolade's apartment.
She said, "The news that Titilayo was in that apartment was shocking because she had long moved to her father's residence after an issue over an abortion she had without her husband's consent."
Bolanle described her son's marriage to the deceased as accidental, adding that the processes caught him unawares.
She said, "I first had contact with Titilayo in July 2007 when Akolade brought her home and introduced her to me as his school mate at a post-graduate school.
"I didn't see her [Titilayo] again until July 2008 when Akolade brought her home again that she was pregnant for him. I raised an eyebrow at the development and asked Titilayo if she was truly from a Christian home.
"Both of them appealed to me. My husband [Mudashiru] and I went to see the deceased parents after two weeks. But surprisingly, after one month, my son suddenly brought wedding invitation cards, saying he had fixed a date after consultation with the deceased's family."
During cross-examination by the Lagos State Director of Public Prosecutions, Mrs Olabisi Ogungbesan, Bolanle denied knowledge that her son's adulterous life was the cause of their marital problems.
"I'm not aware that Akolade's proposed marriage to another woman in the church he attended earned him a suspension or caused enmity between him and his wife," she said.
She told the court that Akolade's green Honda Accord, which was released to the family by the police on bond in 2011, had been sold.
She said the car, whose photograph was marked as exhibit P61, was sold to raise money "to treat injuries he [Akolade] sustained after the incident."
Justice Lateefah Okunnu adjourned till January 29 for continuation of defence.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012
I have started preparing for the 5K Color Me Rad run I've signed up for. A few weeks ago, I was out at my usual 5am, when I saw a couple of Jackrabbits race across the street in front of me. Cute, interesting yes, but it also reminded me that while I live in a city there is a wildlife corridor not too far from my house, and I've seen coyotes wandering the city streets in the early mornings.
Being a country kid, having grown up on an actual farm and playing in wooded areas, I know the last thing I want to be doing when I come across a coyote or bobcat is run. Running makes me prey.
I've had that scenario in the back of my head in the mornings; what will I do if I happen to run into a wild –beasty that's bigger then a rabbit.
Tuesday morning, I was on my way back to my house at 5:30am, when out of the corner of my eye I saw a wild creature leap from the shrubs after me!!!!
I proceeded to leap into the air and screech......which caused the poor, tan tabby-cat, that had darted from the bush and was crossing the street behind me, to come very close to having a kitty coronary.
In all fairness, he scared me first!
We parted ways; him scurrying away from the insane woman and me feeling rather embarrassed and relieved that it was so early and no one saw my less then dignified reaction to a 10lbs house cat.
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