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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- Billionaire activist and hedge-fund manager, Bill Ackman is known for his investment prowess. His credits include a successful MBIA ( MBI) short position during the heat of the financial crisis and a strategic long bet on General Growth Properties ( GGP) when many gave up the mall operator as dead.Creating returns for his Pershing Square hedge fund in 2013, however, has been difficult and may become much worse soon. After a highly public battle with J.C. Penney's ( JCP) management, Ackman threw in the towel and his Pershing Square hedge fund suffered a 50% loss on its investment. Were that the end of the story, it wouldn't be so noteworthy. After all, Pershing Square investors are about even for the year, despite enduring a loss of about 5% in the third quarter. What may become more troubling is Ackman's large short bet against Herbalife ( HLF), the multilevel marketing health-products company. Ackman believes Herbalife is an illegal pyramid scheme and the stock will go to zero as soon as everyone else figures out the business model is a fraud. Ackman presented an unusually long and detailed report why he believes Herbalife should be shut down, or at least be required to change of its business model by regulators. Ackman's contention appears unlikely considering the company has operated for over 30 years. If you're like me, your first thought was how did it survive for this long and grow into a $7 billion company without raising the ire of regulators who live for the chance to shut down a high-profile nationwide fraud. Chances are federal and states agencies have already examined Herbalife's business and decided the business passes muster. Without the force of regulators coming to save Ackman, it's clear Wall Street is no longer willing to. Ackman's short position was so large in relation to the tradable float that the position size was a catalyst of discussion of a possible short squeeze. In response, Ackman shifted some of his short position into long-dated out-of-the-money put options. Regardless of the amount of time until the expiration, all options expire which means the clock is working against him.
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United States astronauts were sent to the station's Russian sector following a feared ammonia leak, but authorities later said the situation was a false alarm.
Authorities with the space agency Roscosmos identified the situation as a cooling system malfunction.
U.S. Mission Control later said it believed that a sensor gave a false alarm.
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Design: Not such a drag after all
Mazda wants to improve aerodynamics without making its vehicles look boring. The firm's designers say it takes a lot of teamwork with engineers to achieve this
The current Mazda6 is pretty good for a mainstream sedan with a Cd of 0.27. The Takeri concept from this year's Tokyo show gives a good idea of how the replacement for the Mazda6 could look. It's more radically styled but should be even more efficient. Nakayama wants to avoid the teardrop shape that gives vehicles such as the Toyota Prius their basic profile. "But we still want to perform well aerodynamically, so from the designer's point of view this is where we struggle," he says.
The focus is on the underbody and on making the rear wake as small as possible. This helps reduce turbulence and fuel consumption: "We'll try to make the underbody flat and then slightly wedged at the rear – we want the airflow from the top and the bottom to meet at the same point," Nakayama says.
More aerodynamically efficient sedans will cut Mazda's fleet-average emissions but the pressures on its MX-5 roadster are a little different. Here, the balance is more towards just looking good and handling well.
But the next MX-5 will be the first to be launched for the iPhone generation: it's hard to predict how such a basic sportscar will appeal to consumers more concerned about connectivity than double-wishbone suspension or rear-wheel drive.
Nakayama is involved in the programme and says that Mazda's intention is certainly to make this MX-5 more appealing to young consumers. He accepts that the firm has its work cut out but takes a very pragmatic view of how the market will view the results.
"Within the young generation there are several types of people that are just not interested in cars at all, and it seems that lots of them are not interested in convertibles either," Nakayama says. "And so we've had a lot of negative information.
"But we have several ideas to overcome all of that. Going back 22 years to when we made the first MX-5 we didn't expect to sell so many of them. But we decided to go for it anyway, and we sold quite a lot. So we aren't overly concerned. We think that, basically, if we make a vehicle that we want to ride in then it should sell."
Design and technology as well as low CO2 emissions help to sell vehicles. Nakayama knows that he has to keep pushing Cd figures down but he doesn't want to put his name to any boring vehicles – he still wants everything to look good too.
It comes back to teamwork: "The biggest challenge for designers is to maintain the aesthetics of the car – we don't want it to look like an electrical appliance. We need a lot of cooperation from the engineers in order to achieve that," he says.
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Obama Seeks High-Tech, Efficient Government
WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama on Monday urged his cabinet to create ways to make the government more efficient, saying American taxpayers deserve the best bang for their buck.
Mr. Obama, speaking from the White House, said he wants the federal government to be run like his campaign, whose embrace of technology helped get him elected.
"Now, once we got to Washington, instead of an operation humming with the latest technology, I had to fight really hard just to keep my BlackBerry," Mr. Obama said. "And as anyone knows, dealing with the federal government is not always high tech; it's not always user-friendly."


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Another Pierre with fantasy value? It could happen
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You might want to remember the name Pierre Garcon. The Colts second-year wide receiver is competing for the No. 3 receiver job and is starting to warrant late-round consideration in leagues with 12-plus teams.


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LeBron at the White House The Miami Heat visited the White House today to celebrate their championship and during the ceremony President Obama let King James reign supreme.When LeBron James asked whether he could share a few words, Obama responded: "You can if you want. It's your world, man."
Lego Turns 55 It was 55 years ago today that a Danish toymaker submitted a patent for the tiny plastic bricks we now know as Legos. The name came from a Danish word that means "play well."
Wardrobe Malfunction? As Jennifer Lawrence ascended to the stage to accept the best actress award at the Screen Actors Guild Awards Sunday night, she appeared to experience a wardrobe malfunction. But today, gown designer Christian Dior said nothing had gone wrong. "The dress is made with different levels of tulle and satin and that is what the viewers saw when Jennifer lifted her dress slightly," the company said in a statement. "It was not ripped. There was no malfunction."


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MADRID, Spain - World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska broke her six-match losing streak against Svetlana Kuznetsova in dramatic fashion on Wednesday, overcoming three match points to advance to the third round of the Mutua Madrid Open.
Watch highlights, interviews and more video from Madrid right here on wtatennis.com!
The Plot
Trailing Kuznetsova 10-3 in their head-to-head, Radwanska was seeking her first win against the Russian since 2008. Based on Kuznetsova's form coming into Madrid, it would be no easy task, as she made her first WTA final in over three years last week in Oeiras. Kuznetsova was looking for her 21st Top 5 win, having secured her 20th over Simona Halep a few weeks ago in Stuttgart.
Though Radwanska is titleless so far this year, her 25 match wins in 2014 coming into this clash were tied for second-most on the WTA. She was coming off a straight set triumph over World No.18 Eugenie Bouchard in her Madrid opener.
The Turning Point
Radwanska jumped out to a 4-0 lead en route to a 6-3 first set win. It appeared it could be an easy day for her when she had a 3-2, one-break advantage in the second. But Kuznetsova then caught fire and won eight of the next 10 games to win the second set and take a 4-1 lead in the third. A Radwanska rally ensued, as she reeled off four consecutive games to take a 5-4 lead and eventually it had to be settled in a tie-break. Kuznetsova took a 6-3 lead before Radwanska won five straight points to seal the 6-3, 4-6, 7-6(6) triumph.
By The Numbers
The two-hour and 35-minute affair was a dead heat in a variety of statistics, with both players converting on eight of 15 break point opportunities and Radwanska having a narrow four-point advantage in total points won.
"I think until you shake hands, you're still in it," Radwanska said. "Of course being down 6-3 in the tiebreak is never a great situation, especially with her serving twice. But in tennis anything can happen. You can always turn around the match. Fighting until the end is the most important thing. That's what I was trying to do today, and it worked.
"I'm very, very happy that I could win a really great match. I knew it was going to be a really tough one. She has been playing really good tennis on clay. It was a great win for me. Hopefully, I can play good tennis again tomorrow."
What's Next
Radwanska plays World No.20 Roberta Vinci, whom she is 6-1 against.


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Ello little balls of fluff! Lunastark here once again doing her question challenge, and just because its day 13 doesn't mean it's bad luck. But I did pick out name, it's Harper, it's a name you don't hear that much but yet it still has simple charm to it. I could talk all day about names, here's the link for the past challenges; Question challenges
Today we finish up if you could question set, and today's is If you could be In a video game, what game would you be in? I would love to be in Kingdom Hearts but you have to think, what would you be in the game? I would love to be a Keyblade Master but that's pretty hard, so I would have to work for it. I would never want to be Mortal Kombat, I guess Pokemon would be fun to be in.


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Madrid: Changing behaviour towards sustainable transportation
In order to reduce private car use, Madrid has improved the attractiveness of its public transportation by implementing a BUS/HOV system. Increasing public the capacity of infrastructure in this way has reduced travel times and changed commuters' behaviour towards public transport and carpooling. The subsequent improved traffic flow leads to a more fuel efficient economy and a better environment.
View fra Palacio de la Prensa, march 5, 2008, by cesarastudillo, Flickr Creative Commons.
The increasing population of Madrid's (Spain) metropolitan area has caused a large percentage of people to commute to the inner city. Although Madrid has an efficient metro system, it still manages to be flooded with people at peak hours as citizens taking public transport choose the metro over other options such as busses or carpools on congested highways. However, these congested highways could be much more efficient and can still carry thousands more people - simply by increasing the number of passengers in each vehicle.
Originally opened in North-West Madrid in 1995, the High
Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lane is one of the more significant
sustainable initiatives in Europe and the U.S. (The Spanish term
for HOV is VAO - vehículo con alta ocupación.) It is created
specifically for use by carpools and buses and encourages more
commuters to use sustainable transportation. It also increases the
capacity of the roads and infrastructure, hereby reducing
congestion, travel time and transport emissions per person.
Madrid's main BUS/HOV system is located in the centre lanes of its A6 highway, which extends from the suburban village of Las Rozas to the Moncloa terminal in the heart of the city. At the Moncloa terminal, the bus and carpool lanes link to the metro, other bus routes, parking lots and other forms of city transportation. Specifically, the BUS/HOV system consists of a 12.3 km double lane and a 3.8 km BUS-ONLY lane. Private motorists are allowed to enter as long as cars are used by more than one person. The facility is physically separated from the all-purpose lane by concrete barriers and reversed in the direction of the main traffic flow to match peak flows. This means that in the morning it goes in one direction and in the afternoon the opposite way. However, even though the regional government are aiming to promote carpooling, it is actually a private incevntive to create a website where motorists can share their rides and find partners.
HOV lanes usually carry fewer vehicles but more people than regular lanes. This has greatly increased throughput of traffic in Madrid. Measurements conducted in 2008 show that the BUS/HOV moves more passengers than the two railways entering Madrid relatively along the HOV lane. The busses are able to compete with the railway because they have the advantage of being able to pick people up closer to their homes and leave them closer to their destination. Compared to the 'regular' highway, the HOV lane carry 59.3% of the morning peak hour travellers using 2 lanes, while the 3 lanes of the main roadway carry only 40.7%.
Prior to the implementation of the BUS/HOV facility, the situation in the A6 corridor was characterised by chronic congestion problems. The opening of the BUS/HOV lane has improved the situation greatly and is a key factor in increasing suburban bus patronage. Private cars using the HOV lane have also had a significant growth. The fact that the number of passengers is growing faster than the number of vehicles proves the efficiency of the system. Also, it is important to note that HOV facilities benefit transit and rideshare passengers including a proportionally large share of lower income and transportation disadvantaged people. Therefore BUS/HOV lanes are progressive with respect to income and need.
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NC lawmakers head home after final flurry of bills
Posted July 26, 2013
RALEIGH, N.C. — North Carolina lawmakers headed home Friday after late-night and early-morning sessions that saw a final push to pass Republican-backed bills capping what all sides agree was one of the most transformational legislative sessions in state history.
The House adjourned shortly before noon, following the Senate's 2 a.m. adjournment.
The last bills to win approval included a sweeping measure loosening environmental regulations, legislation allowing new restrictions on abortion providers and numerous changes to state elections laws that critics say are designed to help GOP lawmakers retain power.
Items left on the table included an effort to speed up fracking for natural gas and a bill that Republican Gov. Pat McCrory wanted, to remake the state Department of Commerce as a public-private partnership focused on job creation.
McCrory now has 30 days to either sign the bills on his desk or allow them to become law without his signature. At a media conference at the governor's mansion following the adjournment, McCrory expressed concern about two bills he said may trigger his first vetoes — a measure requiring state employers to electronically verify the immigration status of those they hire and a bill requiring those applying for public food and housing assistance to first pass a drug test.
On the whole, however, McCrory said he is "very pleased" with the session, which he said accomplished 20 of the 22 objectives he laid out at the start of his term in January. He confirmed he would sign the voting changes into law, as well as the bill many see as a betrayal of his campaign pledge not to support additional restrictions on abortion providers.
Session's success divided along party lines
"We've had more reform in this state government in the last six months than this state has seen in the past 30 years," McCrory said. "And now, more than ever, we need reform, because people in North Carolina are hurting and they continue to have a broken government we have to fix."
Democrats, environmental groups, voting rights advocates and many public educators all saw it differently.
"We end this session knowing we did nothing to create jobs, we don't have that prosperity," said House Minority Leader Larry Hall, D-Durham. "We created a tax cut for the millionaires and raised the taxes on the least of these."
Republicans took control of the North Carolina Legislature in 2010 for the first time since Reconstruction and cemented full control of state government with the election of McCrory. That put them in prime position to implement a conservative platform focused on rewriting the tax code and rolling back government regulations they claim impeded prosperity. Breaking down the 2013 tax package
The GOP tax plan passed last week cuts taxes for corporations and reduces the state's tiered personal income tax brackets into one flat 5.8 percent rate. Previously, high income earners paid the maximum 7.75 percent — meaning the biggest share of the new tax cuts go to the wealthy.
Meanwhile, the $20.6 billion state budget that McCrory signed into law Friday included no cost-of-living raise for state employees, cut pay for teachers with graduate degrees, ended teacher tenure and included a measure that for the first time will allow taxpayer money to be used to pay tuition at private schools.
The legislature also passed measures that allow concealed handguns to be carried in bars, restaurants, parks and playgrounds. Armed volunteers will also be allowed into public schools as unpaid safety officers.
The sharp rightward turn in Raleigh prompted weekly protests at the legislative building that drew thousands from across the state and prompted about 930 arrests. The changes also garnered national media attention. By the numbers: General Assembly protest arrests
For their part, House Speaker Thom Tillis and Senate leader Phil Berger praised the legislative accomplishments.
"We have worked tirelessly over the course of six months to enact reforms critical to providing greater opportunities to our state's citizens," said Tillis, R-Mecklenburg. "We lived within our means to provide a fiscally responsible and economically sustainable budget, enacted a comprehensive tax reform plan to bring financial relief to all North Carolinians, and eliminated burdensome regulations to promote economic development in our state."
Berger praised GOP lawmakers for instituting policies that he said would empower the private sector to create jobs. North Carolina's unemployment rate has hovered for months around 9 percent, the fifth-highest in the nation.
"Despite fierce resistance and overblown partisan rhetoric from the left, we did exactly what millions of voters asked us to do," said Berger, R-Rockingham.
To advance their agenda, Republican leaders sometimes reverted to using many of the same legislative tactics and parliamentary procedures that they had lambasted Democrats for just a few years ago, such as passing bills in the dead of the night and slipping controversial changes into wholly unrelated legislation.
The session also saw examples of the GOP supermajority seemingly going against its stated ideological principles of smaller government and local control. Examples included the passage of bills seizing control of the state's busiest airport form the city of Charlotte and ordering Durham to annex and provide services to a proposed mega-development in the sensitive Jordan Lake watershed that's opposed by the city council.
Environmentalists warned that the effects of numerous GOP-backed measures could be felt for generations. They pointed to the removal of key scientists and environmental experts from state oversight boards, rollbacks of clean water protections and a measure making it easier to build landfills near parks and wilderness areas.
"In the blink of an eye — just six short months — many of the legislators at the General Assembly have attempted to rewrite or repeal almost every common sense law and regulation on the books impacting the environment," said N.C. Conservation Network Executive Director Brian Buzby, representing a statewide coalition of more than 60 groups.
Voting rights and civil rights groups also had harsh criticism for the GOP-backed voter ID law that was amended this week to include more than 50 additional elections-related provisions — shortening early voting by a week, ending same-day registration, and eliminating a high school civics program that registers students in advance of their 18th birthdays.
Republicans maintained the changes will restore faith in elections and prevent voter fraud, which they claim is endemic and undetected. Nonpartisan voting rights groups, Democrats and Libertarians say the true goal is suppressing voter turnout among the young, the old, the poor and minorities.
The measure also weakens disclosure requirements intended to make clear who is underwriting campaign ads, increases the cap on individual political donations to $5,000 and enables political parties to rake in unlimited corporate donations.
"The legislature chose to pass a fundamentally flawed and potentially damaging piece of legislation that will likely limit voter access to the polls and open the door to increased special interest money in our elections," said Brent Laurenz, executive director of the nonpartisan N.C. Center for Voter Education.
The elections bill is one of several new GOP-backed laws likely to face legal challenges. In a telling move, legislative leaders added a provision late Thursday night giving the House speaker and Senate leader equal standing with North Carolina's attorney general to defend their laws in court. The current attorney general, Roy Cooper, is a Democrat. A separate provision moved 19 lawyers out of the Democrat-run Justice Department to executive-branch agencies controlled by McCrory.
Lawmakers are set to return to Raleigh for their biennial "short session" in May 2014 before facing voters at the polls in November, more than 15 months from now.


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Hi everyone,
I'm still a newbie with SLE diagnosis recently. Has anyone experienced super sensitive front teeth? I am currently on Prednisone - weaning down VERY slowly from 60mg after my first ever flare that started beginning of February and led to my diagnosis 1 month ago. Down to 40mg Prednisone today.
Also I have been having chest pain for the last few weeks (to add to everything else!) It's worse laying flat on my back and feels like a heavy pressure on my sternum. My last rheumatologist appointment was 2 weeks past, and he did an ECG/EKG which showed my heart was fine. Seeing him again in another 2 weeks time, but the chest pain seems to be more constant than before. Anyone else have this?
Thanks in advance - it's so nice to have people to talk to about things! :)


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Terrorist group's supporters throw party in U.S. Congress
- By Josh Rogin
Josh Rogin covers national security and foreign policy and writes the daily Web column The Cable. His column appears bi-weekly in the print edition of The Washington Post. He can be reached for comments or tips at email@example.com.
Previously, Josh covered defense and foreign policy as a staff writer for Congressional Quarterly, writing extensively on Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, U.S.-Asia relations, defense budgeting and appropriations, and the defense lobbying and contracting industries. Prior to that, he covered military modernization, cyber warfare, space, and missile defense for Federal Computer Week Magazine. He has also served as Pentagon Staff Reporter for the Asahi Shimbun, Japan's leading daily newspaper, in its Washington, D.C., bureau, where he reported on U.S.-Japan relations, Chinese military modernization, the North Korean nuclear crisis, and more.
A graduate of George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs, Josh lived in Yokohama, Japan, and studied at Tokyo's Sophia University. He speaks conversational Japanese and has reported from the region. He has also worked at the House International Relations Committee, the Embassy of Japan, and the Brookings Institution.
Josh's reporting has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, CBS, ABC, NPR, WTOP, and several other outlets. He was a 2008-2009 National Press Foundation's Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellow, 2009 military reporting fellow with the Knight Center for Specialized Journalism and the 2011 recipient of the InterAction Award for Excellence in International Reporting. He hails from Philadelphia and lives in Washington, D.C.
It's not every day that groups supporting a State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization hold a party in the U.S. Congress, but that's exactly what happened today when the friends of the Mujahedeen e-Khalq (MEK) threw their Nowruz party in the hearing room of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
"Members of Congress will join Iranian Americans in wishing the Iranian people a Happy Nowrouz and address the humanitarian rights of Iran's main opposition in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty, in Iraq," reads the flyer for the party, which was held Thursday at the Rayburn building in room 2172, where the foreign affairs committee holds all of its public events.
The flyer says that the event is sponsored by "Iranian American communities" from around the United States, but the mention of Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty is a clear reference to the MEK, a group designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization that has about 3,000 members living in the secretive Ashraf compound in Iraq.
The U.N. and the State Department are working to move them to Camp Liberty, a former U.S. military base near the Baghdad airport, but the MEK is resisting that move, and has enlisted its many supporters in the United States to decry the conditions at the former military base. Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani even went so far as to call Camp Liberty a "concentration camp."
House Foreign Affairs Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) spoke at the event and discussed human rights in Iran, but did not mention the MEK by name. Former Homeland Security secretary and Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge, a paid advocate of the MEK, also spoke.
"The event was not sponsored by the MEK," Ros-Lehtinen's spokesperson Brad Goehner told The Cable. "The room was requested by the Iranian-American Society of South Florida and sponsored by the Iranian-American communities of 39 cities for an event commemorating the Iranian New Year. Space in Congressional office buildings is routinely made available to organizations wishing to hold events on issues important to members of Congress."
The flyer doesn't say the party is being thrown by or for the MEK, and aides who attended told The Cable that there were no MEK signs or banners at the event, as one usually sees wherever the MEK is camped out.
That could be a result of the revelation that the Treasury Department's counterterrorism unit has issued a subpoena to former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell for records related to his paid advocacy of the MEK, as part of an investigation into the web of organizations that support the terrorist group.
There is a long list of Iranian-American organizations that fund pro-MEK events and pay speakers fees to MEK supporters. Many of these organizations – such as the "Global Initiative for Democracy, whose homepage is entirely devoted to the MEK's concerns and who hosted an MEK conference in January — seem to have no other function other than to advocate for the MEK, and the actual sources of their money is unclear.
Receiving funding from a terrorist organization or even providing it with "material support," which could include advocacy, is a crime.
The campaign by the MEK's supporters to disparage Camp Liberty and lobby for the MEK's removal from the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations has included huge rallies outside the State Department, massive sit-ins at Congressional hearings, and an ongoing vigil outside the State Department's C Street entrance.
Those supporters, many of them paid, include Giuliani, Rendell, Vermont Governor Howard Dean, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. John Lewis (D-GA), former FBI Director Louis Freeh, former Sen. Robert Torricelli, former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, former National Security Advisor Gen. James Jones, former Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers, former White House Chief of Staff Andy Card, retired Gen. Wesley Clark, former Rep. Lee Hamilton, former CIA Director Porter Goss, senior advisor to the Romney campaign Mitchell Reiss, retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, and former Sen. Evan Bayh.
Congressional aides attended the event on Thursday in the hearing room both out of curiosity and hunger for free food. But multiple aides told The Cable the event was bizarre, even by Congressional standards.
"Looks like you just have to be the 'right' terrorist organization to hold a fancy party in the halls and hearing rooms of Congress," one House aide told The Cable. "Hope everyone who ate their kabobs doesn't get hit with material support subpoenas."


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Lieutenant Commander Monique Cadillac is one of the main characters from the OVA Mobile Suit Gundam MS IGLOO.
The Hidden One Year War
The Howl that Dyed the Setting Sun
During the drop to the 67th Supply Depot in Arizona, Monique Cadillac pilots a Komusai with Oliver May transporting the YMT-05 Hildolfr along with Sonnen. The Komusai was attacked by missile equipped captured Zakus being used by Federation forces. In order to keep the Komusai from crashing Sonnen gets Oliver May to drop the Hildolfr from the enemy so that he may engage them. Once on the ground Sonnen bring the Hildolfr into a suitable firing position where he used anti-tank rounds against enemy Zakus.
The Illusion That Lingers above the Orbit
The Jotunheim responds to the distress call of orbit-drowning Zeon forces retreating from Odessa, Monique sorties in the EMS-10 Zudah to engage the incoming Federation forces along with Jean Luc Duvall and Hideto Washiya. Duvall and Washiya take on the Balls while Monique helps a ground Zaku reach safety. At the same time a squad of GMs open fire on the Jotunheim. Duvall then flies around them and leads them away from the H.L.V.s. Oliver tells Monique to bring back Duvall and keep an eye on her engine, but she tells him she doesn't have time for that. Duvall pushes his engine to the limit, forcing the GMs to push themselves to the limit to keep up. One of the GMs falls back due to engine problems, but Monique destroys it. Monique reaches her engine limit and shuts it down. The three remaining GMs overload and explode. Soon after, Duvall's Zudah breaks apart and explodes in the atmosphere.
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Go Beyond the Peak of the Beams of Light
Upon arriving at A Baoa Qu, Jotunheim is visited by Col. Herbert von Kuspen immediately try to assume command of the ship but meets resistance from both Monique Cadillac and Prochnow. The ship is then reinforced with "Principality's elite soldiers" — turns out to be a group of young cadets. To Monique's shock, her own younger brother Erwin Cadillac was part of the group. At Granada airspace they run into a small Federation forces, and Erwin leads a squad of three Oggos to engage in combat. After fierce fighting, it all ends up with only Erwin and a Ball pilot remaining, both have their weapons malfunctioned. Though he manages to convinces the Federation pilot to surrender, a stray shot from a Salamis class kills them both. Monique breaks down at her brother's death.
Spirits Returning to Thunder
When the Jotunheim encounters a vanguard detachment of the Federation fleet, Monique piloting a Zudah and Kuspen in his custom Gelgoog help Oliver piloting MA-05Ad Big-Rang inflict heavy casualty on the Federation forces. Although the Big-Rang pushes back the first wave of attack, vengeful Federation soldiers eventually overwhelms and destroys the mobile armor, as well as killing Kuspen. As the retreating Jotunheim mourns the loss of their friends, a small group of survivor mobile suits approaches, among them an alive Oliver held by Monique's heavily damaged Zudah.
- Monique appears to be named after Rita Cadillac, a French singer/dancer who famously performed in the opening scene of the movie Das Boot. The name of Cadillac's film character was also Monique.
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In early 1997, I traded Barry Larkin for a promising young pitcher who was pitching way over his head. Larkin was coming off a 33-home run season in 1996 that may have been even better than his 1995 MVP campaign. This was a .300-hitting shortstop with 48 home runs and 87 stolen bases in the two previous seasons. He was off to a slow start, but my trading partner was willing to buy low to shore up such a valuable shortstop, and he didn't think the young pitcher--a guy by the name of Pedro Martinez--could possibly keep up his hotstart.
Larkin aggravated a nagging heel injury in June, playing just 16 games after June 16 with only two RBI and two stolen bases in that stretch. Meanwhile, Pedro did keep it up, finishing with a 1.90 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, 305 strikeouts, and his first of three Cy Young Awards.
Perhaps needless to say, I won my first title that year. Our league commissioner, Dave, a good friend and funny guy, told me that I was lucky. Sure, I'd been targeting Pedro for a couple of years, and I did feel that Larkin was slowing down a little, but Dave had a point. I was able to get something for Larkin when he was still healthy and the other guy was the one who suffered.
Still, is that luck? More importantly, why do we so strongly resist the fact that luck plays such a large part in this game? It's almost as if we're offended that luck has anything to do with fantasy baseball at all. Our egos are so big that we can't possibly believe that anything but our own skill has anything to do with winning. Well, that and the skills of the guys on our team.
As I write this, I am clinging to the tiniest of leads in my NL-only league. I'm at 91, with teams at 90.5, 88.5, and 88 right behind me. Am I lucky to be in first? Not in the sense that Dave described 10 years ago. If anything, I'm lucky to be in first not because my team has been abnormally healthy, but because they've been abnormally unhealthy.
How on earth is this team in first place? I thought I had a decent draft, but I did not think I would be able to contend in 2007 with the guys I had. I paid too much for Giles--at $27 he's a shoo-in to win our league's "Nick Esasky Award" for the most overpaid player. I drafted Jones and Garciaparra after suffering through their myriad injuries in 2006. I took way too many rookies in the rotation draft. I figured with Kemp, Tim Lincecum, Fred Lewis, and a few other youngsters, I might have a core for 2008, and I could trade the Beltrans and Garciaparras for more keepers. Halfway through the year I tried to do just that, but I could find no takers. It looked like I was stuck with this team.
A funny thing happened, though, while everyone was on the DL--I found a lot of free agents to keep me afloat. Guys like Ryan Ludwick, Troy Percival, Randy Messenger, Justin Miller, Tadahito Iguchi, and Cory Sullivan have all logged significant time on my active roster. Percival in particular has been one of my most valuable pitchers over the last few months, while Ludwick has hit 12 homers for my team.
Additionally, the guys who stayed healthy had few rough patches, particularly pitchers Jose Valverde, Brad Penny, and Tom Gorzelanny. By the time I was the recipient of a dump trade in July, my team was ready for the stretch run.
They say a wise man makes his own luck, and that's probably no truer than in fantasy sports. None of us like to believe that our success is due at all to luck, but the dirty little secret is that to be successful in this game, you need a little luck. My team wasn't the only contender to lose players to injury. The other contenders have lost Chris Carpenter, Hunter Pence, Edgar Renteria, Ryan Howard, Rickie Weeks, Jeremy Hermida, Brett Myers, Jim Edmonds, Jason Jennings, Carlos Quentin, Ben Sheets, Orlando Hernandez, and many more to the DL this season.
Given that injuries are part of the game and that every team will have them, how do you make your own luck?
There are always going to be other things out of your control: intentional walks, rainouts, baffling decisions by managers, arrests, locusts, etc. However, the harder you work, the less your team will be affected by happenstance.
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no one coming to help for tower dives not one kill made. waere they intentionally feeding the other team? or what - my friend went through this same thing last night and quit, im not far behind.
i know others who see this and they wont touch this game. whatever happened here, bad players, smurfs, feeding whatever. beside the draft nonesense. everything in this game is getting so old and killing any fun anymore.
I dont understand. is this the way they really want the game to become? any small advantage makes the other team unstoppable?
yea i think this is my last day, prolly play a few more but I want to thank all the people who I met in game, here and reddit that helped me along the way but there is no fun in dealing with all this crap daily anymore. and it just keeps getting worse with no fix in sight anytime soon.
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KARACHI: Pakistan cruised into the semi-finals of Asian Games hockey after defeating Bangladesh 6-1 courtesy a brace each by the experienced trio of Shakeel Abbasi, Sohail Abbas and Mohammad Imran.
Needing a win to ensure a place in the last-four following the 3-2 loss against India, Pakistan exemplified fine discipline to outclass their opponents with a clear-cut margin. Ace striker Abbasi put Pakistan ahead in the 13th minute with a flawless reverse flick. Abbas doubled the lead two minutes later off a penalty corner. Abbasi dodged three defenders and added another in the 27th-minute and two minutes later Abbas completed his brace through another short corner as Pakistan led 4-0 at half time.
Pakistan vice-captain Mohammad Imran stole the limelight in the second half and converted two penalty corners to secure a 6-0 lead for his side. Bangladesh, however, got a consolation goal from Taposh Barmon seven minutes before the final hooter went off.
Pakistan, finishing second in their Group B behind India, are expected to meet defending champions South Korea tomorrow for a place in the final. The second semi-final will be held between India and Malaysia.
"Korea is a top Asian side and we would have to give our best against them," Pakistan manager Khawaja Junaid told The Express Tribune. "We'll have to avail our chances in order to win that match."
Atlas loses squash final, bags silver
Aamir Atlas had to find solace in a silver medal after he was downed by Malaysia's Mohammad Azlan Iskandar in the men's squash final in straight games. Atlas, who shocked defending champion Ong Beng Hee, had to face tough competition by Iskandar, who left no room for error as he ousted Atlas 11-6, 11-7, 11-6 in just 39 minutes.
"I'm happy to secure at least a silver medal for my country as it came after a long time," said a content Atlas after losing the final. "This performance will give me a lot of confidence ahead of my future assignments."
Ninth position volleyball play-off
Pakistan overcame Kuwait in straight games 27-25, 25-21, 25-21 in the volleyball event. The team will play its last match in a ninth-tenth position classification match tomorrow.
Boisterous welcome for women cricketers
Pakistan women's team that won the event's first-ever cricket gold got a rousing welcome on their return. Dozens of fans, friends and family members, besides few officials of the Pakistan Cricket Board, gathered at the airport to receive the victorious side which outclassed Bangladesh in the final.
Meanwhile, Pakistan men's cricket team will start their campaign against China today. A victory against the hosts will ensure their place in the semi-finals.
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Washington • Asiana Flight 214's pilots caused the crash last year of their airliner carrying more than 300 people by bungling a landing approach in San Francisco, including inadvertently deactivating the plane's key control for airspeed, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday.
But the board also said the complexity of the Boeing 777's autothrottle and auto flight director two of the plane's key systems for controlling flight contributed to the accident. Materials provided to airlines by Boeing that fail to make clear under what conditions the autothrottle doesn't automatically maintain speed were also faulted.
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AMD Discloses Bobcat & Bulldozer Architectures at Hot Chips 2010by Anand Lal Shimpi on August 24, 2010 1:33 AM EST
It's an Out of Order Atom
Ever since the Pentium Pro (P6), we have been blessed with out of order microprocessor architectures - these being designs that can execute instructions out of program order to improve performance. Out of order architectures let you schedule independent instructions ahead of others that are either waiting for data from main memory or waiting for specific execution resources to free up. The resulting performance boost comes at the expense of power and die size. All of the tracking logic to make sure that instructions executed out of order still retire in order eats up die area as well as more power.
When Intel designed the Atom processor it went back to an in-order design as a way of reducing power. Intel has committed to using in-order architectures in Atom for 4 - 5 years post introduction (that would end sometime in the 2012 - 2013 time frame).
For smartphones, Intel's commitment to in-order makes sense. Average power consumption under load needs to remain at less than 1W and you simply can't hit that with an out-of-order Atom at 45nm.
For netbooks and notebooks however, the tradeoff makes less sense. Jarred has often argued that a CULV notebook is a far better performer than a netbook at very similar price/battery life metrics. No one is pleased with Atom's performance in a netbook, but there's clearly demand for the form factor and price point. Where there's an architectural opportunity like this, AMD is usually there to act.
Over the past decade AMD has refrained from copying an Intel design, instead AMD usually looks to leapfrog Intel by implementing forward looking technologies earlier than its competitor. We saw this with the 64-bit K8 and the cache hierarchy of the original Phenom and Phenom II processors. Both featured design decisions that Intel would later adopt, they were simply ahead of their time.
With Atom stuck in an in-order world for the near future, AMD's opportunity to innovate is clear.
The Architecture
Admittedly I was caught off guard by Bobcat's architecture: it's a dual-issue design, the first AMD has introduced since the K6 and also the same issue width Intel chose for Atom. Where AMD and Intel diverge however is in the execution side: Bobcat is a fully out of order architecture.
The move to out of order should provide a healthy single threaded performance boost over Atom, assuming AMD can ramp clocks up. Bobcat has a 15 stage integer pipeline, very close to Atom's 16 stage pipe. The two pipeline diagrams are below:
Intel's Atom pipeline
You'll note that there are technically six fetch stages, although only the first three are included in the 15 stage number I mentioned above. AMD mentioned that the remaining three stages are used for branch prediction, but in a manner it is unwilling to disclose at this time due to competitive concerns.
Bobcat has two independent, dual ported integer scheduler. One feeds two ALUs (one of which can perform integer multiplies) while the other feeds two AGUs (one for loads and one for stores).
The FPU has a single dual ported scheduler that feeds two independent FPUs. Similar to the Atom processor, only one of the ports can handle floating point multiplies. The FP mul and add units can perform two single precision (32-bit) multiplies/adds per cycle. Like the integer side, the FPU uses a physical register file to reduce power.
Bobcat supports SSE1-3, with future versions adding more instructions as necessary.
Bobcat supports out of order loads and stores similar to Intel's Core architecture as well.
The Bobcat core has a 3-cycle 64KB L1 (32KB instruction + 32KB data cache) that's 8-way set associative. The L2 cache is a 17-cycle, 512KB 16-way set associative cache. I originally measured Atom's L1 and L2 at 3 and 18 cycles respectively (I've heard numbers as low as 15 for Atom's L2) so AMD is definitely in the right ballpark here.
Intel's Atom Microarchitecture
Unlike the original Atom, Bobcat will never ship as a standalone microprocessor. Instead it will be integrated with other cores and a GPU and sold as a single SoC. The first incarnation of Bobcat will be a processor due out in early 2011 for netbooks and thin and light notebooks called Ontario. Ontario will integrate two Bobcat cores with an AMD GPU manufactured on TSMC's 40nm process (Bobcat will be the first x86 core made at TSMC). This will be the first Fusion product to hit the market.
Note that there's an on-die memory controller but it's actually housed in between the CPU and GPU in order to equally serve both masters.
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Dustin Sklavos - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - linkComments like this really bother me. You may not care about netbooks, but a lot of people do. Current ones don't pass the grandma test - your grandmother can do whatever task she needs to on them, like check e-mail, browse the internet, watch HD video - and any advance here is welcome.
Generally speaking a netbook is not supposed to be your main machine, but something you can chuck into your bag and take with you and do a little work on here and there. I write a lot, and have to work on other peoples' computers from time to time, so a netbook that doesn't completely suck is invaluable to me. Netbook performance is dismal right now, but Bobcat could successfully fix this market segment.
So no, you're not interested in netbooks and you'd rather be raked through hot coals than purchase one. But that just means they're not useful - TO YOU. There are a lot of people here interested in what Bobcat can do for these portables, and I count myself among them. Reply
Lonbjerg - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - linkI don't care that many people care for mediocore performance in a crappy format.
Not matter what you do with a netbook, it will alway be lacking.
I don't care what gandma wants (she will buy intel BTW, due to Intel's brand recognition)
I don't care for Atom either.
Or i3
Or i5
Or Phenom
I do care about a replacement for my i7 @ 3.5GHz... Reply
Dustin Sklavos - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - linkI'm trying to figure out why you're commenting on any of this at all. Reply
flipmode - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - linkSeriously Anand, it is crummy that I cannot find a whole section of your website. I hate to spam an entirely separate article, but how completely lame it is to have to spend 15 minutes doing a Google advanced search to find the Anandtech article I'm looking for.
One of the very, very few truly Class A+ hardware sites on the internet - you can count all the members of that class on one hand - and you make it seriously hard to find past articles and you completely OMIT a link to an entire category of your reviews. Insane.
Please put a link to the "System" section somewhere. Please! Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - linkOur system section hasn't had a lot of updates, but you can get there via:
In fact, most common tags can be put there (i.e. /AMD, /Intel, /NVIDIA, /HP, /ASUS, etc.) The only catch is that many of the tags will only bring up articles since the site redesign, so you'll want to stick with the older main topics for some areas. Hope that helps. Reply
mino - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - link"so I'm wondering if we'll see Bulldozer adopt a 3 - 4 channel DDR3 memory controller"
Bulldozer will use current G34 platform. Hoe that answers your wonder :) Reply
VirtualLarry - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - linkBullDozer sounds like amazing stuff. I wonder, if the way that they have arranged int units into modules, if that means that we will be getting more cores for our dollars, compared to Intel. More REAL cores, I mean. I'm just a little disappointed that the int pipelines went from 3 ALU to 2 ALU, I hope that doesn't affect performance too much. Reply
gruffi - Thursday, August 26, 2010 - linkInteger instruction pipelines are increased from 3 to 4. That's 33% more peak throughput. The number of ALUs/AGUs to keep these pipelines busy is meaningless without knowing details. K10 has 3 ALUs and 3 AGUs, but they are bottlenecked and partially idling most of the time. Bulldozer can do more operations per cycle while drawing less power, even with only 2 ALUs and 2 AGUs. How can that be disappointing? Reply
ezodagrom - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - linkI think Bulldozer has the potential to be really competitive, mainly because Sandy Bridges looks quite unimpressive.
In a recent leaked powerpoint from Intel, apparently until Q3 2011 the best Intel CPU is still going to be Gulftown based, possibly Core i7 990X. According to Intel benchmarks on the leaked powerpoint, the best Sandy Bridge, that is, Core i7 2600, apparently will be around 15% to 25% better than the i7 870, with the i7 980X being 25% to 35% better than the i7 2600. Reply
Mat3 - Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - linkI have a question.. it was earlier speculated that BD would have four ALU pipelines per integer core. It was thought that one way they could make use of them was to send a branch down two pipes and take the correct result. Obviously this isn't the case, but my question is, why not? Wouldn't it be better to do that and just discard the branch predictors entirely? Why isn't that better? Reply


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How does Red Bull get away with all the transgressions?
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30th October 2012, 0:02 at 12:02 am #214072
@raymondu999 They interviewed the steward about Vettel putting all 4 wheels off track – he didn't deny it. He just felt that Vettel gained no advantage from the maneuver and therefore did not warrant a penalty.
Now the FIA of course have a clause that allows them to deal punishment only when they see fit.
It's very hard to argue that Vettel didn't benefit when he got pole – in that case, the lap time should have been automatically excluded from consideration. This is the 2nd time that Vettel puts 4 wheels out and gets away with it. By the same token all other drivers can put the wheels out now for the next 10 seasons and veto the steward's decision and just start from whatever position they qualified in. It would simply be fair.30th October 2012, 0:10 at 12:10 am #214073
BTW, does anyone know what happened to the plate under the car issue after the race? Do we know what the actual wear was? I would have expected an article on that post race but it has disappeared as if it never happened.30th October 2012, 1:41 at 1:41 am #214074
Ah. I didn't see that (the interview with the steward).
But like I said, when the stewards see everyone doing it then they turn a blind eye. If they had penalised those off-track in quali, then we'd have 24 cars starting from the pits… Two samples from Q3:
About the skid blocks, there was no infringement, because if the block has wear due to damage (thanks to a kerb hit dislodging a nut or some such scenario) then that is deemed legal. For example Lewis' t-tray failed in Melbourne 2011, and the stewards also let that go because the plank wear was clearly due to the damaged stay, not due to the car being set at excessively low ride heights.
They can however use their discretion on this. For example, in Spa (I think it was Spa) several years back Schumi V1 had a plank with circular patterns of wear, and was deemed that it was too suspicious to be accident damage.30th October 2012, 8:21 at 8:21 am #214075
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when the stewards see everyone doing it then they turn a blind eye
The real question here is how have we got into a situation where new tracks are being built on which the stewards expect drivers to put all four wheels off the track as a matter of course.
Incidentally, just a few races ago some people were complaining Alonso was 'getting away with all the transgressions' by putting all four wheels off the track at Hockenheim.30th October 2012, 9:02 at 9:02 am #214076
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Red Bull have been involved in some fairly questionable episodes this year. Not just on track, but in terms of their car development as well. They get away with it because they don't actually break the letter of the rules – only the spirit. If the FIA catch them out, the worst they can do is force the team to remove the parts, and the results will be kept intact.
With such blatant disregard for the spirit of competition, I think the FIA should introduce a rule that states a team is automatically disqualified on their third appearance before the stewards, and instantly disqualiied on any and every subsequent appearance.30th October 2012, 9:30 at 9:30 am #214077
Red Bull are a cheat. I don't care if it's only against the spirit of the rules, but it seems that they, both drivers and team cannot win unless their car has a significant advantage thanks due some questionable device.
Whatever, I wish Pat Fry and Nikolas Tombazis would just start breaking the "spirit of the rules" like Newey and install Traction Control, ABS, adjustable ride height and so forth in the Ferrari.30th October 2012, 9:35 at 9:35 am #214078
So they make everything legal to the letter of the rules, and do that 3 times and they get disqualified? Get real PM.
How exactly do you communicate this spirit so that everyone gets an equal understanding? How, if not by words and letters, to which case you are, again – abiding by the letter and wording of the law.
There is no way any court in the world will go by a case on the spirit of the law. Numbers and letters on paper, with a properly defined definitions glossary, are clear-cut and unarguable.
You have to be careful though – Red Bull are not breaking the letter of the regulations. Installing things such as Traction Control, ABS, adjustable ride height – would.
I'm not condoning what Red Bull does, nor am I condemning it. But the "spirit of the rules" is not an enforceable concept, and never has been.30th October 2012, 9:37 at 9:37 am #214079
What is the spirit of the rules? Do you need to read the mind of the one writing them? Why didn't the rule maker just write them in full and not in riddles?
Or maybe we need a medium to connect to the realm of the dead and hear the spirits opinion? XD30th October 2012, 9:40 at 9:40 am #214080
@crr917 you could potentially write the spirit of the rules – but what happens when someone complies to the wording of this spirit of the rules, but does not comply to the intended spirit?
Or are you going to have to set all the teams asking the FIA if each of their upgrade packages is legal? Because I can tell you now, in the fast-paced world of F1,
30th October 2012, 9:41 at 9:41 am #214081
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So they make everything legal to the letter of the rules, and do that 3 times and they get disqualified?
But it's technically not legal at all. When they were called before the stewards in Germany, the FIA made it pretty clear that they only reason why they weren't punished further was because there was no rule that was broken. If the FIA has the power to force a team to remove something they don't like, then they should have the power to prosecute a team for deliberately and repeatedly doing it.
The rule would not be difficult to implement – all they would have to do is make an addendum to the sporting regulations that says if a team uses parts that force the FIA to make too many changes to the rule book mid-season, then they can be punished for it. There's an old saying that once is an accident and twice is a coincidence, but three times is a pattern. Red Bull have been involved in three separate technical rows this season. It's obvious that they're abusing the rules, and the fact that the FIA are powerless to do anything about it is beside the point.
And the added advantage is that it will cut costs. How much do you think Red Bull spent last year developing a front splitter that could flex under certain conditions, but still pass the FIA load tests? It's this kind of rampant and irresponsible spending that needs to be killed off.30th October 2012, 9:43 at 9:43 am #214082
You have to be careful though – Red Bull are not breaking the letter of the regulations. Installing things such as Traction Control, ABS, adjustable ride height – would.
Well. Let's just say Ferrari installed devices in their car that had exactly the same effect as TC, ABS & ARH – but they weren't quite the same, or perhaps Ferrari "read" the rules differently; so FIA allowed them to continue and keep a perhaps 1.5 second advantage. How would you feel?
Trust me, if I wrote what I really thought about Red Bull; it wouldn't pass the moderator filter. In fact, Keith would read it, then send it down to hell, then back up, and straight down to hell again.30th October 2012, 9:50 at 9:50 am #214083
FIA could make wording more precise and in a way that covers potential exploits. It is not doing now. Maybe it is because some of the people involved still want area for development since F1 is still not spec series.
The mapping rule change from this summer is a perfect example. Going from point A to point B you could take any road you want. This is quite obvious. But then FIA said that it has to be the straight and exactly that have been the spirit of the rules. BS.30th October 2012, 9:58 at 9:58 am #214084
But it's technically not legal at all
Prove it. Prove that your understanding of the intended spirit is the correct interpretation.
if a team uses parts that force the FIA to make too many changes to the rule book mid-season, then they can be punished for it.
Please define these parts, so everyone has the same understanding.
It's obvious that they're abusing the rules
From a personal standpoint, I personally agree. They are. Yes, in 'spirit' they're cheating – but prove that they intended to cheat. Prove that it's not something they genuinely thought was legal.
How would you feel?
I would feel that they've done a better job of interpreting the regulations, and that the other teams need to catch up. As I said to PM above, "but prove that they intended to cheat. Prove that it's not something they genuinely thought was legal."
Trust me, if I wrote what I really thought about Red Bull; it wouldn't pass the moderator filter.
I'm sorry for saying this. I really am, but reality check – your opinion, mine, Keith's or any of the users on this site – honestly does not matter in the context of this discussion. You can view them as saints, you can view them as demons – but that honestly doesn't matter in this discussion.
@kingshark @prisoner-monkeys
My point – to both of you – is how do you communicate the spirit of the rules, without using words? Because you and I both know that people will end up conforming to the wording of the spirit, not the spirit – because otherwise, then the teams will all claim that the spirit of their design complies with the spirit of the regulations. What then?
I would like to say that there was no disrespect intended in any of this. The spirit of my comment was intended to debate, not to disrespect – if you feel aggrieved, no apologies, because it was never in the spirit of the comment.30th October 2012, 10:00 at 10:00 am #214085
How does McLaren/Mercedes felt when FIA banned rotary valves? 6 years of research gone? Should they have received a penalty for it? XD30th October 2012, 10:05 at 10:05 am #214086
@crr917 I do feel there IS a spirit of the rules – but it's not communicable effectively in a fashion that everyone is guaranteed the same understanding – and given that rocky and uneven standing then no one should be held on it.
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Hello, I have a question. I have removed the blackbox-0.65.0 package so I could install the 0.70.0 beta version. However, I did not like it as much, so I removed it, but now I am having trouble reinstalling the 0.65.0 package, namely, where is it? I did an slocate for it, found it in removed_packages, but it cant install from that file, it isnt a .tgz file. I originally had blackbox installed from the install cd, do I have to run the repair disk to get it back, or is it hidden away somewhere on my computer? I tried just downloading it from the blackbox site, but it is in a .tar.gz file. I ran the configure for it, then the make, but the make failed.
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By Ben Scott
From: Fort Collins, CO
Mar 10, 2009
There's no way a #3 fits in that flared little pod between bolt 1 and 2.
Definitely a BD Camalot #2 or #2.5 should work better.
Maybe a #3 Friend is what the description is calling for?
Absolutely mandatory in my opinion as well.
The second bolt is only clipped while underclinging left hand in the pod at full extension.
If you mess that up you deck on the flake at the start, then tumble to the base of the wall.
Just about pooped myself figuring this out on lead....sketchy.
By Alex Shainman
Dec 9, 2010
As for the namesake "horn-like" pod, oh yeah a #3 Camalot is way too big! I would recommend bringing both a #2.5 and a #3 Friend; decide which fits best to your liking.
Thanks for replacing those bolts, guys!!!
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|A #2 Camalot fits nicely in the aforementioned pod. I would further state that this has got to have one of the best belay/hangout spots around!
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Congress Should Probe U.S. Propaganda in Iraqi Press
Now that the Pentagon has admitted to subverting the fragile efforts to build democracy in Iraq, will Congress begin an investigation of how this happened? The first question should be who in the Pentagon decided that he or she had the right to put words in the mouth of the Prophet Muhammad.
12/01: No single episode, not the torture pictures nor the Haliburton ripoffs, so perfectly captures the betrayal of the U.S. model of a free society as our military covertly buying the Iraqi press. The disgrace is compounded by dragging the Prophet Mohammed into this terminally deceitful enterprise.


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Bulls WRs relish chance to work with draft's top QBs
The stars of ESPN's "Gruden QB Camp," which airs at 7 p.m. Thursday night, are former Bucs coach Jon Gruden and five of the NFL Draft's top quarterbacks, but if you look closely, you'll see cameos by USF receivers, who worked out with the passers on the Bulls' new practice fields.
"The experience was great," said junior Evan Landi, part of a group of receivers that also included A.J. Love, Terrence Mitchell, Victor Marc, Derrick Hopkins, Stephen Bravo-Brown, Faron Hornes and Isaac Virgin. "The guys we were able to catch passes from are going to be first-rounders or early second-rounders. It's good experience to see guys of that caliber and to be able to work on what Coach Gruden's trying to do."
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Nelspruit - An Mpumalanga man, convicted of raping two women, was sentenced to an effective 60 years' imprisonment on Wednesday.
Mduduzi Sydwell Mnguni, 27, was first arrested on November 14, 2010, after he was accused of breaking into the home of a 49-year-old woman and raping her, a Sapa correspondent reported.
After being released on bail, he was again arrested by the community on February 11, 2012, for breaking into the home of an 85-year-old woman and raping her too.
He pleaded not guilty in the Nelspruit Regional Court to two counts of housebreaking with intent to rape and two counts of rape with grievous bodily harm.
Forensic tests carried out on Mnguni's blood linked him to the two rapes.
Passing sentencing on Wednesday, Magistrate Willie Wilkens said Mnguni entered the home of the 49-year-old woman, who lived only with a mentally ill boy, through the roof.
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So I'm in the process of applying for an M.Arch Post Professional degree, and SCI-Arc is by far my top choice! I was just wondering if anyone knew how many people apply each each? And what is the percentage intake?
Do it only if you can afford it. Debt will keep you from allowing yourself to pursue all kinds of employment/internships. Sorry that I didn't answer your question.
I believe the richest 1% of all architecture grad school applicants apply to Sci-arc .. I may be wrong
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Book reviews: Notes from Neil
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A Couple of Classics
Thursday, Mar. 6 — The time changes this weekend, can Spring be far behind? As nice as it's been to sit in a comfortable chair reading by the fireplace on these frigid evenings, I'm also remembering how nice it is to read on my sunny back deck, cold drink at the ready and wearing an offensively loud tropical shirt. Here's what we're reading:
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These stories are disturbing to anyone with even a minimal concern for the nation's food animals.
And worst of all, they don't need to keep recurring.
By now, it's well known that a California beef plant that processes primarily cull dairy cows was closed last week by USDA after clandestine videos captured by an animal activist showed what the department termed "disturbing evidence of inhumane treatment of cattle," according to a report on CNN.com
The videos, which were posted online by Compassion Over Killing operatives, showed cows at Hanford, Calif.-based Central Valley Meat Co. that appeared to be sick or lame being beaten, kicked and shocked in an attempt to get them to walk to slaughter, according to multiple news reports. The footage also showed animals repeatedly shot with a captive bolt stunner, while another cow is shown hanging from one hind leg while kicking and seemingly still alive.
The release of the undercover video and the subsequent shutdown of the plant prompted USDA, McDonald's Corp. and In-N-Out Burger to suspend or cancel contracts with the company. According to an Associated Press story, USDA bought more than 209 million pounds of ground beef worth more than $50 million from the company last year.
Predictably, USDA officials then responded with exactly the wrong message.
"While some of the footage provided from this facility shows unacceptable treatment of cattle, it does not show anything that would compromise food safety," according to a USDA statement sent to CNN.
That's not what virtually anyone among either the public or policymakers cares about. Food safety isn't the issue here. Nor are "jobs," which was the other irrelevant hot button a trio of California congressmen cited, mentioning the state's high unemployment rate, as a reason to re-open the plant.
Republican Reps. Devin Nunes, Kevin McCarthy and Jeff Denham wrote to Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, arguing that shutting down the Central Valley Meat plant does nothing to further the goal of responding to the alleged animal abuse.The representatives also asked Vilsack to intervene against "attacks that are occurring at the behest of radical groups."
A USDA spokesman said that the company cannot reopen until it resolves its humane handling issues.
"The company must first submit a corrective action plan detailing how they intend to comply with humane handling regulations before USDA considers allowing them to operate," saidUSDA spokesman Justin DeJong.
Company officials released a written statement saying that, "While the Food Safety and Inspection Service says it has no indication that food safety has been compromised at our facility, we recognize that the decision by our customers is a standard business practice and understand their concerns."
How reassuring.
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The issue here isn't yet another incident of clandestine activist videography. That's become the anti-industry's go-to tool for all the tools they recruit to do their dirty work.
Nor is food safety something that needs to be bantered about. Regulators, industry officials and animal welfare experts all understand that non-ambulatory animals are rarely afflicted with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, not to mention that regulations in place for nearly 10 years now require removal from the food chain of central nervous system tissue from all cattle, ambulatory or not.
Nobody's going to be exposed to mad cow from eating a hamburger made of meat sourced from this or any other U.S. beef plant.
Nor is the problem all about poorly trained workers or tone-deaf owners. Both of those situations exacerbate the problem, but the cause of the practices captured on video lies elsewhere: The dairy industry.
When cows are bred and managed to maximize production, the result is far too many animals that end their "careers" as milk producers weak, worn out and often struggling to remain ambulatory during transport to the increasingly few, distant cow plants. Virtually every one of the cull cow operations left in business runs on incredibly thin margins—how'd you like to balance the books on 40-cents-a-pound ground beef?—and the loss of even a handful of cows jeopardizes the plant's bottom line.
Central Meat Company owners Lawrence and Brian Coelhohave stated that their company is going to work with animal welfare experts to improve in-plant practices and increase the use of video monitoring to ensure compliance with handling standards.
That's all well and good—and necessary.
But it's even more urgent for the entire beef industry—not just the neglected stepsister cow killing plants—to focus upstream and insist on stricter standards for dairy operators. Most are careful, conscientious managers, but in addition to the occasional bad actor, the system itself is problematic.
The dairy industry could mitigate the problem of non-ambulatory cows itself with earlier culls and more aggressive programs to ensure that the animals have outdoor access, and thus exercise, throughout their productive lives.
But ultimately, without joint dairy-beef industry initiatives, backed by federal loans guarantees—if not funding—to site at least half a dozen new cow plants in key dairy states, these bad handling incidents will recur again and again.
You can't have a system that pushes processing dairy cows down to such a minimal value that only shoestring operations can continue in business, and then expect the highest levels of professional conduct from the underpaid line workers on up.
That's as much a pipe dream as hoping that activists will someday stop trying to put the few remaining cow killers out of the business.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.


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The forum is now running on the new version of vbulletin. Some of the hacks such as users online and the article section may not work for a while as I find new upgraded hacks. Please be patient.
Most features of the forum should now be working including articles, a few tweaks here and there still need to be done but besides that everything went smoothly.
What did the new version do? Everything looks the same to me ;)
I like the new edit feature. But the new posts/new threads stats next to my name at the top aren't there.
Ya I had to remove the stats thing, it wasn't working with the new software. I will get a new version up as soon as its released.
Cool!!! Now I can't wait. I did notice a funky little icon shows up on my browser instead of the standard square like on some sites. I add those things to my web sites too.
Keep up the good work that you do :D
I just noticed this now and have no idea when this was added but the scale thing, down by where the user is online or off, it has reputation points what is that for?
Oh, please don't tellme we're gonna do the rep points thing! That sux!
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