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I believe it is definitely related to the worm gear in the electronic assist unit.
What I don't understand is why the symptoms don't occur when the vehicle is new. From what I have read it seems to happen to cars several years old. Perhaps someone can tell me I'm wrong and their car suffered when new? If it's true that new cars are OK then what changes in the worm gear with time? Would dismantling, cleaning and new lube fix it for a few more years? Is this possible?
It gets worse at high speed as the steering boost is diminished (variable boost)
It definitely gets worse if the car is parked in the sun with the roof and windows closed but why would new cars not have this same heat issue? It seems to happen after driving for a couple of hours even in cool temperatures so time seems to matter, perhaps time creates heat in the servo and worm gear.
There should be a general recall for this issue as it is a design fault...the NHTSA let the owners down big time...perhaps they were afraid of being litigated to death by BMW.
Shame on BMW for not stepping up.
Rush4....Can you please provide an update on the long term success of your mechanic's fix?
Do you know if he cleaned and lubed the EPS worm gear as well as the bearing you described?
The Sticky Wheel Syndrome might be age-related, but it's not usage dependent. I just got an '04 with only 12,000 miles and so far it has happened to me once - the one time the cabin got hot from sitting in the sun with the top up. Sucks!
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I am a retired 30 year veteran heavy duty diesel mechanic a a Freightliner dealership in CA. I believe that these problems of expansion of one of the steering components on hot days.My Z4 has done this several times and I have only had it happen when it warms up! As we know heat expands almost everything and cold makes it shrink.The Question of the day is why it did not happen off the show room floor and what triggered it? Even with my years of experience i'm not ready to tear into this thing or modify the system! You would have to look hard and far to find a more dangerous situation. Those who have driven the car when this happens you know first hand! I talked with a service manager in the east bay last night and he said he will do what he can to help so I will drop off today. Temperatures are expected to be 96 today so I hope it does it thing! I will try to post the outcome! The Sitting machine!
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I had the situation occur this winter driving in 4 Celsius (40 F) with the top down on a sunny day. I had the heater on full blast/high heat to the feet and had the sticky wheel syndrome occur on my 2004 Z4. I'm going with the heat effecting the electronics.... Even with the heat pouring out it I don't believe it was hot enough for worm gears to be effected that much to cause the sticky wheel syndrome....but...electronics quite possibly.
Were this to occur to me in the summer I'd run the AC and direct it all to the feet....even with the top down. It will direct cold air to the area and cool the electronics .....likely minimizing or greatly reducing the issue.
Thats my take on the issue...for what it's worth.
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After more thought I believe you might be right with the electronics and the temperatures.It only takes a couple of degrees to foul up a circuit board.I dropped of my Z4 at the dealer on thursday and talked with the service manager and forman in depth. I told them they could have the car as long as they needed as I don't plan on doing much hiway driving until I trust it won't happen again.My wife had purchased a S-mini from this dealership and had traded it in on a 128 so maybe they will be more inclined to make it right! I got a positive feeling from the service manager and forman so I am keeping my fingers crossed! I will up date post when I get some info.
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I happened to do some reading on Shipkillers website on EPS system....
A very good explanation on the effect of heat on the EPS system and a deliberate gradual reduction in servo assistance to the steering.... Which is clearly what happened to me.
As electronics age its possible that the system is more sensitive to heat on some Z4's.... Translating into the "sticky wheel syndrome"....
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Beginning 2013 I bought a 2005 Z4 that had the problems of the "sticky", "magnet" or "ribbed" steering feeling. The problem occured only if the cabin temperature was hot for a while (standing in the sun or a long drive). After much debate, I got BMW so far as to pay for a replacement column.
I hope my below message helps all affected Z4 owners and will convince BMW to take their responsability for this safety critical issue.
In the German magazine AutoBild you can find a rough explanation for this problem.
(check "BMW Z4 klebelenkung" in google = German for "sticky steering")
With my engineering experience I filled the gaps to make the explanation as shown below. I have no proof it is true but it correlates with the description of the problem.
The problem of the sticky steering of the Z4 is related to the worm/reduction gear mechanism that transmits the torque from the electric motor to the steering shaft.
The circular reduction gear has a nylon crown with teeth. All the surrounding parts are metal (steel or aluminium).
The thermal expansion of the nylon is 3X bigger than the surrounding parts. To compensate for this expansion, there should be a clearance between the worm gear and the reduction gear. Unfortunately BMW and their steering supplier ZF Nacam chose this clearance too small. When the nylon gets warm, the clearance with the worm gear becomes zero and the reduction gear is stuck with the worm gear. The friction increases dramatically and you will then "feel" the engagement of the individual teeth of the reduction gear.
On top of that Nylon absorbs water up to 2yrs after being made (after which it is saturated). This absorption causes the nylon to expand making the clearance even smaller. Therefore cars that didn't had the problem when new can get it after some time in service.
You cannot adjust the clearance between worm and reduction gear as it is determined by the position of the bearings.
A complete EPS column replacement is the only possibility.
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After working with BMW north america I was not satisfied with what was on the table. The fix was to replace the steering column and assist motor and another six hundred dollar control! total $4500.00 I Emailed BMW in Germany and explained my circumstances. It must have reached the right people because the end result was excellent! All was replaced and the car drives fantastic now. Kudos to BMW in Germany for taking Great care of my problem! Remember people that the squeaky wheel is the one that gets the Grease!
George, I'd appreciate knowing who you contacted in BMWNA and Germany. I am the original owner of a 2004 Z4 and one of the frustrated NHTSA complaintees. While under warranty - extended I might add - I complained to my dealer on each visit but was told that the steering was within spec. I have not been back since the warranty expired 3 years ago. During each summer I have the "sticky steering" problem every day I park in an open lot and the temps reach 80+. It is not yet severe enough to be a real safety hazard but it eliminates the joy of driving and I suspect it will eventually get worse. Since I love every other aspect of this car I am now debating whether to have this repaired at my own expense since I believed that contacting anyone at BMW would be a complete waste of my time. Your experience says otherwise and I would appreciate anything you or anyone else can share. Thanks.
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I went online and found the most expensive looking BMW site, I am sure I was just lucky but don't give up.
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2003 3.0i, 18775 miles, problem with steering column locking if switched off with wheels anywhere but dead ahead since day 2 of new purchase. Then about 4 years ago onset of "ratchet steering" whenever car hot, such as sitting out all day. Out of garage had no issue. Grew worse and worse and very hairy driving at times. Wife quit driving it. Changed out tires to michelin pilot sports, non-RFTs. maybe helped a little but driving still most interesting if hot. Dealer decided was defect in column, with no parts available to repair short of changing out column to the tune of $3606. Uhhh, no. Commented on satisfaction survey after the visit, was contacted by BMW, discussed the issue, including the facts that this has been a well recognized and discussed problem on the Internet. Expressed my safety concerns, my disappointment that an owner advisory had never been received (I'm original owner), and my plans to replace the car with another (not BMW) if I could be assured that a future owner's safety would not be compromised. I was contacted 2-3 days later by my dealership and informed BMW would foot the entire bill. WOW. The part (new steering column) has been ordered and then appt to repair. Very nice but what about the new part's reliability and what about all the other folks with bad columns. Anyway, found a new Boxster I like.
Like everyone else I have this steering problem. I don't understand how some people get help from BMW and some like me are told that BMW will do nothing for me. I encourage everyone with the problem to go to www.safercar.gov and put in a complaint under car owner site to find the form to fill out. NHTSA needs to reopen this issue as it is safety related. If anyone knows the person at BMW that will help with this problem please give me the names, numbers, etc.
I have had excellent success with this DIY fix
Been a couple of years since I drilled the hole and I lube the shaft once a year...the car is like new again. Note, I did not install a Zerk for grease, I just drilled the hole large enough for a standard spray straw to fit. I started by injecting oil and ATF into the hole but this year my Indie used a high tech spray grease designed for light gears and that has provided me the best result. The car literally handles like new again and yesterday I had it parked in the sun 33 degrees C with the top up...no sign of the sticky steering. It's an easy solution. IMHO the problem was caused by lack of lube or the original lube drying up in the shaft, aggravated by heat expansion.
I recently reported a sticky steering issue I was having on my z4 to my mechanic and he replaced the front end bushings which were shredded. Didn't mention the bearing, though.
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I've just completed a steering column tear-down. This may help some people replacing bearings etc.
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Crocus Technology SA, a company developing magnetic random access memory (MRAM) technology and secure microcontrollers based on MRAM, has raised €34 million (about US$45 million) in a Series D round of funding.
Crocus was founded in Grenoble in a 2004, and the latest tranche of funding brings the amount raised by the company to about $80 million, not counting the promise of $300 million from the Russian state investment agency RUSNANO to create a manufacturing joint venture in Russia.
The latest funding round was led by Idinvest Partners and included Industrial Investors and RUSNANO. Established investors Sofinnova Ventures, Innovation Capital, Nanodimension, and Ventech also took part.
The money is a significant amount in a market that has seen investment in semiconductor startups declining for several years.
Crocus plans to use the money to move forward on a number of fronts. It plans to ramp up manufacturing at its foundry Tower Semiconductors Ltd. in Migdal Haemek, Israel, while also qualifying its Russian joint venture fab in Moscow. First engineering wafers are expected out of Crocus Nano Electronics in the summer.
At the same time, Crocus plans to develop with IBM a third generation of magnetic logic unit (MLU) technology for secure microcontrollers that will target smartcards. Crocus also intends to launch a magnetic sensor product line that makes use of the same MLU manufacturing platform.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Seminoles.com) – She started by helping spark the rise of the Florida State women's basketball program as a standout player on the court from 1997 to 2001. Ten years later, Brooke Wyckoff is set to return to Tallahassee in a brand new role on the bench.
FSU women's basketball coach Sue Semrau announced Tuesday that Wyckoff — one of the best players in school history — has been hired as an assistant coach. She replaces Cori Close, who accepted the women's basketball head coaching job at UCLA in April.
"Brooke has been associated with every aspect of women's basketball," said Semrau, who is currently serving as an assistant coach with the USA Basketball U19 World Championship Team. "As a player she excelled at every level from college to USA Basketball to the WNBA. As a coach, she has proven to be a strong teacher and has a passion for the defensive end of the floor. Brooke Wyckoff is a rising star in the coaching world."
A native of West Chester, Ohio, the talented forward was one of the top high school players in the country before signing a National Letter of Intent with FSU in 1997 in what was Semrau's first season in Tallahassee.
In her rookie year, Wyckoff made an immediate impact as she set a single-season record at the time with 80 blocks on her way to earning ACC All-Freshman Team honors. Conference accolades continued to roll in during her next three years with a pair of All-ACC Third Team accolades (1999 and 2000) and finally an All-ACC First Team selection as a senior in 2001.
Wyckoff's 1,350 career points is still the 10th-most in school history and her 804 rebounds are sixth. She ranks No. 2 at FSU in career blocks with 209.
Perhaps most importantly, Wyckoff was the cornerstone of the Seminoles' first winning season in nine years as the team posted a 19-12 record in 2001 and finished fourth in the ACC. That season culminated in the school's first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 10 years and All-America honors for Wyckoff, which was the first national accolade for an FSU women's basketball player since 1993.
She also played with the USA Women's Basketball Select Team for three consecutive summers.
"I am thrilled to be back with the Florida State University women's basketball program," Wyckoff said. "My experience here as a player was the springboard for so many wonderful opportunities over the last 10 years and it is an honor to come full circle and take the next step in my basketball career; this time as a coach. I am joining a spectacular group of student-athletes, coaches and administrators that have worked tirelessly to make FSU a top program and I am excited to work alongside them in their quest for a national championship."
Following her senior year, Wyckoff was selected by the Orlando Miracle in the second round of the WNBA Draft. She spent two seasons in Orlando before the team moved to Connecticut where she played another three seasons with the Sun.
She was then selected by the Chicago Sky in the 2006 WNBA Expansion draft and played for that franchise until 2009.
"I always knew she was going to be a good teacher some day," Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault said. "She's smart. She is a very upbeat person, which will serve her well out on the recruiting trail. Obviously being an alumnus there, she has a passion about the program. She was one of the best teammates we've ever had here."
Since concluding her professional basketball career, Wyckoff has served as an assistant girl's basketball coach at Lakota East High School in Cincinnati, Ohio.
In addition to boasting the honor of being just one of four former 'Noles to have their jerseys retired, Wyckoff was also an outstanding performer in the classroom. She is the only Seminole to ever earn four All-ACC Academic Women's Basketball Team honors as well as four nods to the ACC Academic Honor Roll.
In 2001 she earned an ACC Postgraduate scholarship and last year was named to the ACC Legends Class of 2010.
Upon her return to Tallahassee, Wyckoff will join a coaching staff that has directed a program to unprecedented new heights. The 2010-11 season marked FSU's school-record seventh consecutive trip to the NCAA Tournament; a streak that is the longest of any Division I men's or women's basketball program in the state of Florida.
"Brooke Wyckoff was a tremendous asset to the Sky during her time in Chicago," Chicago Sky owner Michael Alter said. "She played with tremendous passion and energy. She had fun. She was a smart player and a great leader on and off the court. These are qualities that allowed her to flourish as a player, and we expect them to propel her to great heights as a coach.
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World Series Game 3: Red Sox manager John Farrell bungled in critical moment
ST. LOUIS — Obscured by the unprecedented way that Game 3 of the World Series ended on Saturday night was something that was brewing throughout the ninth inning right up until the time Allen Craig was ruled safe with the winning run in the St. Louis Cardinals' 5-4 victory on an obstruction call.
The bizarre finish, at least in some respects, got Boston Red Sox manager John Farrell off the hook for a thorough bungling of his personnel usage. How thorough? Farrell even admitted it.
"Yeah, in hindsight, probably should have double-switched after Salty made the final out of the previous inning, with Workman coming in the game," Farrell said. "I felt like if we get into an extended situation, which that game was looking like it was going to — held Nap back in the event that spot came up again."
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Salty is Jarrod Saltalamacchia, the catcher who grounded out to second base to end the eighth inning. Workman is Brandon Workman, the pitcher who inexplicably was allowed to hit for himself in the ninth inning. Nap is Mike Napoli, hitter of 23 home runs this season and benchwarmer for the night.
"In hindsight, having Workman hit against (Cardinals closer Trevor) Rosenthal is a mismatch," Farrell said. "I recognize it, but we needed more than one inning out of Workman."
Farrell got an inning and a third out of Workman, who struck out Matt Adams to begin the bottom of the ninth, but then gave up a single to Yadier Molina. At that point, Farrell called to the bullpen for closer Koji Uehara, who gave up the double to pinch-hitter Allen Craig and the ground ball to Jon Jay that became the decisive play.
Never mind how badly it backfired — Farrell's move was wrong in the first place.
With one out in the ninth inning of a tie game, the Red Sox manager sent to the plate a batter with exactly zero career plate appearances. Zero in the major leagues, zero in the minor leagues. Round number that signifies a complete lack of experience.
Now, sometimes this can work out. Back in 2011, San Francisco Giants reliever Santiago Casilla had his first plate appearance in a game in Miami, stood as far away from the plate as he could, and drew a four-pitch walk from a confused Marlins pitcher named Jose Ceda. Not coincidentally, Ceda has not pitched in the major leagues since 2011.
Trevor Rosenthal is not Jose Ceda. He is a pitcher who throws 100 mph fastballs and this is the World Series, not some 5-2 game in August.
Farrell neglected the double switch, but that did not mean he was locked into seeing his mistake through to the conclusion. He still could have sent up Napoli, or David Ross (the catcher who would have replaced Saltalamacchia in that hypothetical double switch), or the speedy Quintin Berry.
Maybe Berry could have laid down a bunt and gotten himself on base. Who knows? Even Ryan Dempster — one of two Red Sox relievers who did not get into the game, along with Franklin Morales — has a postseason hit on his resume, having gone 1-for-2 for the Chicago Cubs in 2008.
"Baseball is a crazy game, and anything can happen," Rosenthal said, although he was talking about the wild finish, not the possibility of Workman getting a hit against him, because that was never, ever going to happen.
Really, anybody but Workman would have been the right choice to bat in that situation. And then, as it was, Farrell did not have the faith in Workman to stick with him in a runner-on-first, one-out situation, with a pinch-hitter coming to the plate.
Farrell never got to use Napoli, and his insistence on sticking with Workman, then wavering, helped lead to the way that the game ended.
The Red Sox have conceded the decisive runs in back-to-back games on wild throws to third base, but the error by Boston's skipper was plenty costly, too.


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Large-diameter low-speed overhead fans are paying big dividends at the North Kingstown, RI, manufacturing plant of HVAC-equipment manufacturer Siefert MTM. During cold winter months, the firm's non-air-conditioned 19,000-sq.-ft. warehouse—ironically full of air conditioners and heat exchangers—traps hot air near the roof, leaving cold pockets at the workers' level below.
"Knowing what we know about thermal technology, the heaters in the building are poorly placed," says logistics and operations manager Rob Granai. "Even when we cranked the heat up to 80 deg., the heaters would just pump the hot air straight up to the ceiling."
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Abstract: The evolution of the procedure of comparing the column total of addi-tions (footings) of the journal with the debit and credit totals of the same time period in the ledger is discussed as it reflects the contributions of E. T. Jones of England.
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Throughout the book, numerous new and updated exercises ranging from routine computations and verifications to challenging programming and proofs are provided, allowing readers to immediately engage in applying the presented concepts. The new edition also incorporates MATLAB to solve real–world problems in electrical circuits, mass–spring systems, and simple partial differential equations, and an index of MATLAB terms assists readers with understanding the basic concepts related to the software.
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1 Gaussian Elimination and Its Variants.
1.1 Matrix Multiplication.
1.2 Systems of Linear Equations.
1.3 Triangular Systems.
1.4 Positive Definite Systems; Cholesky Decomposition.
1.5 Banded Positive Definite Systems.
1.6 Sparse Positive Definite Systems.
1.7 Gaussian Elimination and the LU Decomposition.
1.8 Gaussain Elimination and Pivoting.
1.9 Sparse Gaussian Elimination.
2 Sensitivity of Linear Systems.
2.1 Vector and Matrix Norms.
2.2 Condition Numbers.
2.3 Perturbing the Coefficient Matrix.
2.4 A Posteriori Error Analysis Using the Residual.
2.5 Roundoff Errors; Backward Stability.
2.6 Propagation of Roundoff Errors.
2.7 Backward Error Analysis of Gaussian Elimination.
2.8 Scaling.
2.9 Componentwise Sensitivity Analysis.
3 The Least Squares Problem.
3.1 The Discrete Square Problem.
3.2 Orthogonal Matrices, Rotators and Reflectors.
3.3 Solution of the Least Squares Problem.
3.4 The Gram–Schmidt Process.
3.5 Geometric Approach.
3.6 Updating the QR Decomposition.
4 The Singular Value Decomposition.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 Some Basic Applications of Singular Values.
4.3 The SVD and the Least Squares Problem.
4.4 Sensitivity of the Least Squares Problem.
5 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors I.
5.1 Systems of Differential Equations.
5.2 Basic Facts.
5.3 The Power Method and Some Simple Extensions.
5.4 Similarity Transforms.
5.5 Reduction to Hessenberg and Tridiagonal Forms.
5.6 Francis′s Algorithm.
5.7 Use of Francis′s Algorithm to Calculate Eigenvectors.
5.8 The SVD Revisted.
6 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors II.
6.1 Eigenspaces and Invariant Subspaces.
6.2 Subspace Iteration and Simultaneous Iteration.
6.3 Krylov Subspaces and Francis′s Algorithm.
6.4 Large Sparse Eigenvalue Problems.
6.5 Implicit Restarts.
6.6 The Jacobi–Davidson and Related Algorithms.
7 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors III.
7.1 Sensitivity of Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors.
7.2 Methods for the Symmetric Eigenvalue Problem.
7.3 Product Eigenvalue Problems.
7.4 The Generalized Eigenvalue Problem.
8 Iterative Methods for Linear Systems.
8.1 A Model Problem.
8.2 The Classical Iterative Methods.
8.3 Convergence of Iterative Methods.
8.4 Descent Methods; Steepest Descent.
8.5 On Stopping Criteria.
8.6 Preconditioners.
8.7 The Conjugate–Gradient Method.
8.8 Derivation of the CG Algorithm.
8.9 Convergence of the CG Algorithm.
8.10 Indefinite and Nonsymmetric Problems.
Index of MATLAB Terms.


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The rupiah touched its weakest level since April 2009 on Wednesday, while the ringgit had its biggest weekly drop in three months.
Overseas investors pulled US$381 million from Indonesian and Thai stocks this week, exchange data show.
The US Senate voted on Friday to finance the government through Nov. 15 after removing language to choke off funding for a healthcare law, putting pressure on the US House of Representatives to avoid a federal shutdown set for Oct. 1.
In Taipei, the New Taiwan dollar advanced 0.3 percent to NT$29.656 this week, compared with NT$29.752 on Sept. 18, the final day of trading last week before markets closed for the four-day Mid-Autumn Festival holiday.
The greenback shed NT$0.017 against the local currency to close at NT$29.656 on Friday as foreign institutional investors shifted to the buy side on the TAIEX to boost demand for the NT dollar, dealers said.
The repatriation of funds by local exporters from their overseas production bases also added downward pressure on the US currency, they said.
As it has done in recent sessions, the central bank intervened to bolster the US dollar, helping the unit recoup most of its earlier losses and capping the NT dollar's gains, they said. Intervention became evident as the US dollar moved closer to NT$29.50, indicating the bank is determined to prevent the greenback from falling below that level in the near future, dealers said.
Elsewhere in Asia, China's yuan was little changed at 6.1202 per US dollar, South Korea's won rose 0.2 percent to 1,073.65 and Vietnam's dong held steady at 21,114.
In Jakarta, the rupiah slid 1.7 percent this week to 11,539 per US dollar, while in Malaysia, the ringgit declined 1.9 percent to 3.2276.
The Philippine peso weakened 0.7 percent to 43.33, Thailand's baht fell 0.7 percent to 31.33 and India's rupee lost 0.4 percent to 62.4975.
Thailand's baht had its first weekly loss in three on concern that the nation's recession will deter foreign inflows.
Barclays PLC cut the country's economic growth forecast for the year to 2.5 percent from 3.5 percent, citing a domestic credit crunch, waning stimulus and lack of confidence after GDP decreased in the first two quarters. Overseas sales fell in each of the three months through July.
The US dollar fell in the longest stretch since June this week, as the yen rallied the most against the greenback's 16 major peers after comments from Japanese Minister of Finance Taro Aso dampened bets that Tokyo will cut corporate taxes.
The US currency was little changed at US$1.3522 per euro and gained 1.1 percent to ¥98.24. Japan's currency added 1.1 percent to ¥132.86 versus the euro.
The Bloomberg US Dollar Index, which tracks the performance of a basket of 10 leading global currencies against the greenback, fell 0.1 percent this week to 1,012.75 in New York. It reached 1,006.40 on Sept. 19, the lowest level on a closing basis since Feb. 20.
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Unmasking the Grim Reaper's Foot Soldiers by Selwyn Duke, Posted Mar 1, 2013
One day back in high school, a very interesting English teacher asked our class a moral question: if you could press a button and get a million dollars, but a little old man — with no family, friends, or ties of any kind — in the backwoods of China would die, would you push that button?
Approximately a third of the class raised their hands in the affirmative.
This story always comes to mind when I ponder the abortion question. The old line of the pro-abortion lobby was that they wanted abortion to be "safe, legal, and rare," implying it's some sort of necessary evil. Their reasoning always was, "Well, we don't know when human life begins, so whether or not to end a pregnancy should be the woman's choice." Of course, this position was never morally or philosophically sound. After all, if what lies within the womb is just an "unviable tissue mass," why worry about abortion being "rare"? Oh, yes, the pro-aborts aren't sure about the intrauterine being's status. All right, then what they're essentially saying is that they'll err on the side of recklessness. It may be murder, you know — so we'll just do it a little bit.
Yet the truth is different still.
The militant pro-aborts couldn't have cared less about any of the above.
It was simply that pushing the button worked for them.
And now that we've descended further down the rabbit hole of atheism and barbarity, the mask is coming off. New York's Governor Andrew Cuomo just recently bloviated about keeping people safe from imaginary "assault weapons," but then in a later speech advocated abortion almost without restriction. He repeated passionately, "It's her body, her choice!" — three times. Interestingly, this political tactic for manipulating the masses was recommended by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf: he said that the average person had a very short memory, so you must use pithy, catchy slogans and repeat them frequently. Hey, now we know why talk-show host Bob Grant dubbed Cuomo's father, a former NY governor, "Il Duce."
But Cuomo the Younger has plenty of company. When Barack Obama infected the Illinois Senate, he voted against the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (BAIPA) and inveighed against it on the Senate floor — on more than one occasion. And understand this law's purpose. It would sometimes happen that a baby was born alive during a botched abortion, and, well, a good contract killer always finishes the job. So these poor children would be left to die of exposure, perhaps in lonely, soiled storerooms. And BAIPA would have prohibited this. But Push-button Obama?
He clearly had no problem with it.
Of course, he did say during the 2008 campaign that the question of when human life begins was above his "pay grade." But how far above? Is it that the president believes human life begins when a person can vote Democrat?
A better explanation was provided by former Obama aide Neera Tanden, who said that her ex-boss "really doesn't like people." And, well, people are people, no matter how small (hat tip: Dr. Seuss).
In reality, however, my erstwhile high-school peers, Cuomo, Obama, and the rest of the Push-button Baal worshipers are simply moving closer to intellectual consistency as they move further from moral sanity. After all, think about where the "pro-choice" position takes us. It doesn't really matter what month one says human life "may" begin because we're always presented with the same correlative questions. What week of that month? What day of that week? What hour and minute of that day? And, then, what second of that minute?
This lends perspective. For what we then must accept is that one second the intrauterine entity isn't a person, but the next second it — although I suppose at that moment we can say "he" — somehow magically becomes one. And this isn't even the moment of conception, a seminal event without which there would be no development in the womb whatsoever. So how, pro-aborts, does this humanizing transformation take place?
And this logic also applies to the justification of abortion throughout pregnancy…and beyond. After all, if it's okay to kill the intrauterine being in a certain month, what is the exact week, day, hour, and second of that month before which it isn't morally licit? This is a case where when seconds count, the police will never come because the wrong second deems you push-button prey.
But here is the reality: that being inside the womb is a person. And forget the intellectual contortions — the truth will out. If it's all right to murder an innocent person one second, there is no reason to think it isn't okay the next, and then the next and the next and…well, finish the progression. So is Obama's tolerance for killing the already born really surprising? "Already born" simply refers to a change in a person's location — not status. And, note, the same is true of "born a long, long time ago."
This brings us back to my question of how the post-conception, second-to-second humanizing transformation occurs. The only logical (which isn't necessarily synonymous with correct) argument is that the moment in question is when the being is implanted with a soul; this is, after all, why Christians say that conception is when personhood begins. Yet theological discussions would be pointless here because the vanguard pro-aborts are secularists who, by and large, don't subscribe to antiquated ideas about souls and "sky fairies." They are materialists.
And this is why the atheistic world view ultimately makes respect for life incomprehensible. For if we don't have souls, we're just some pounds of chemicals and water — mere organic robots — as Stephen Hawking says he considers us. And what could be wrong with terminating the function of a robot? This "insight" frees you from the burden of performing more complex intellectual contortions. Big robot, small robot, temporarily residing inside a larger robot; what does it matter? Robots are robots, no matter how tall.
Taking the matter further, note that if there is no God, there can be no transcendent Moral Truth. Following from this is that what we call morality is just a reflection of man's wants, which means there isn't really any such thing as right and wrong; as the liberals are wont to say, it's all just a matter of "perspective." And with no Truth but only taste, no virtues but only "values," the formula becomes, as occultist Aleister Crowley devilishly put it, "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
This is why I've said that if the leftists' moral relativism is taken to its logical conclusion, the result is sociopathy. After all, how does a conscience compute, fellow organic robots, if there is nothing to be conscientious about?
Now perhaps you better understand why leftists' behavior is often so sociopathic. And be afraid, be very afraid. Once the godless left has the power and the mask drops completely, it may be you who they push the button on next.
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Cyclo-cross has changed. No more is it just that traditional miserable hour's racing through the winter to keep roadies on form over the off-season and neither is it the reserve of weird winter masochists who hibernate somewhere over the summer. With vast amounts of people buying 'cross bikes with no intention of racing them but instead using them for surviving broken roads and maybe tackling a little bit of gentle off-road the whole demographic of CX ownership has changed.
To meet the change cyclo-cross has changed too, CX Sportives have sprung up to cater to those that want to ride their bikes around a bit and don't know how to read a map and the likes of the Rapha SuperCross have changed the race format into something like an "Event" with a friendly image, despite cyclo-cross always being a very inclusive sport, never sneering at anyone turning up on whatever bike they have and just giving it a go, with trade stands and fun things going on and associated merchandise rather than just a sports pavilion smelling of sweat and embrocation and the club secretary's wife selling tea and cake. The Morvélo CityCross takes this evolution one step further.
Originally destined to be set in the grounds of the derelict Old Mill in Halifax and make full use of damp mossy rubble to create the course, permission to use the venue was suddenly withdrawn with a fortnight to go and rather than cancel the whole event and disappoint a whole bunch of people the organizers swiftly found a new venue at Old Shroggs Tip in the town, which was a little less "City" and a more traditional cyclo-cross venue of a scruffy bit of land. They worked hard to make the new setting work though, removing nearly 150 bin-bags of rubbish, bulldozing and digging features in and transforming the unloved and slightly iffy corner of Halifax into a cyclo-cross course.
Cyclo-cross it may be, but CityCross chose a different format to your usual hour lap, the races were a series of knock out rounds, or motos as Morvélo called them, a hangover from their love of BMX, with the top 50% from each moto going through to the next round. And there was no bunching together of categories either, Under 8's and Novices and Juniors and Women and Seniors and Vets would each race in their own individual motos, and the top three of each category would receive equal prize money as just part of the over £8,000 prize pot. This format meant that races had to be kept short and intense to fit them all into the day and each rider wore a chip on their ankle for accurate timing of close racing. This meant that for both racers and spectators there was an entire day of racing to endure or cheer, racing started at nine in the morning and went all the way through till past 5pm with only short gaps between races to grab some frites, moules, a slice of hog-roast , some wood-fired pizza, maybe some organic cake and wash it down with some coffee or beer from the variety of stalls clustered around the start.
Within seconds of the gun riders were funneled into the sand trap, which with about 60 wheels all trying to get a clean line through was a little bit elbows friendly and the sound of flesh on metal immediately behind a sharp incentive to keep pedaling, hard. Off the sand under the Red Bull teepee a tight right hander led to a slight rise and the course swept to the left around the natural bowl of the arena before heading under the bridge, you could stop here and do some South Coast Sprints roller-racing, if you wanted, down a short descent into the flat boggy field of the tip. Opinion was split as to whether it was better to run or ride through this ankle and rim deep muddy section past the (sadly not aflame) methane vents before turning 180 degrees to head up the gentle slope to the "Kinesis Kowbell Krest" and the corridor of Kowbell. At the top of the climb was the scaffold bridge with it's sharp up ramp that had more than a few riders fighting for breath, legs and grip, down the other side and the chance to gulp some air for three pedal strokes before leaping off the bike to scrabble up the steep wooded bank which 3 Peaks veterans likened to Ingleborough for gradient, turn right at the top and try not to crash on the cobbled descent that soon became coated with a friction free layer of mud, a swoop down and to the left up a tarmac climb and down the short sharp descent to Vulpine Corner where competitors were pelted with cabbage leaves and marshmallows by excitable people dressed in fox costumes, obviously. The novices had the added bonus of the Dark Star Brew Co beer short-cut to contemplate, they could avoid the steep up and down bit before Vulpine Corner and head straight on instead, but had to stop and take a small amount of the south coast's finest 7.2% Belgian IPA as an, er, penalty. Not many took the offer up on the first lap, by the next time round numbers were up. Back on course it was off the bike again for a short push and down towards the arena and tempting wafts of roasting pork where the course split into either the easier but longer choice of a bermed left-handed corner or the shorter but potentially dangerous straight-on option that included a jump over the "Kinesis Khasm", needless to say that's where most of the crowd congregated. A loop up and down a bank and it was back through the cheers and more cowbells to the sandpit again. Repeat for twenty minutes. Then have a little rest and do it again if you've made the tactical error of making it through to the next race. Proper hard.
With such a short and feature heavy lap there wasn't much chance of a bit of a breather, as soon as you'd recovered from one bit you were straight into the next, so no chance to get into a rhythm, and do you go full gas in your first race to be sure to get into the top half or do you hold a bit back for the next race? Or do you just do your best to beat that bloke in the blue and yellow top on the red bike that you've been yo-yoing with for the previous two laps? That. It was a great form of racing for spectators as nowhere on the course was more than two minutes walk away and there was always someone panting round to cheer or heckle, which in turn makes it more involving for racers as rather than just the traditional crowd at a 'cross race of someone's bored girlfriend and the old man who's always there to shout "Dig in lad!!" on the climb the CityCross course was rich with spectators and noise. Lovely.
CityCross had a great atmosphere, total acceptance of the new race format, shocked bewilderment at how hard it was, cheery cheering, and that nice handshakes at the end thing between close combatants. In twenty years of cross racing I've never seen so many kids race, and I've never seen so many women race cyclo-cross either, brilliant. Mountainbikes, singlespeeds, national champions and 3-Peaks winners rubbed shoulders with complete novices, people that turned up the day before to see what was going on and decided to race, and a man who had salvaged his bike from a skip and wore gardening gloves to see who was best. At the end of the day as darkness wrapped around the tip and it threatened to revert to it's old self and people grabbed the last of the pizza before the Citroen H van shut it was time for the prizes, unsurprisingly Paul Oldham and Louise Robinson were crowned as the winners of the Seniors and Women, but handmade trophies from The Bicycle Academy went to the top 3 in all classes and others benefited from a massive embarrassment of prizes including spot prizes for "Most Sartorially Dressed" and "Person Most In Need Of Some New Wheels".
That's the official video there. If you were at CityCross and would like to win a GoPro Hero 3 worth £350 then there is one up for grabs for the best photo or video from the day. Simply e-mail Morvelo the links to your photos or videos with the subject line "GoPro Comp". Easy. Entries close Monday 18th March and the winner will be announced soon after with all the submissions shown on the CityCross website.
Recovering from spending too long in a rubbish tip in the north of England Morvélo's Oli Pepper is a bit tired but very happy - "To think that up until a month or two ago no-one even knew about CityCross we're just completely bowled overly the amount of enthusiasm for this new format and the great turn out. From top flight national standard racers to under 8's, every race had a great battle and lots of smiling faces in amongst the grimacing. Also a decent mix of cross bikes and MTBs, in particular 29ers, showing that this new format is a prefect way for them to compete against each other. So now we know there is now a call for this type of racing we'd like to do one that involves city streets, steps, alleys and urban woods. Hopefully this first CityCross will go a long way to convincing more councils to open up those underused or forgotten pieces of land and we can host more of them and give a great show for racers and spectators alike. The excitement behind CityCross has made the hard graft worth while."
Indeed. More of this sort of thing please.
Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he's not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he's not doing either of those he's pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he's agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don't He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.


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By John Wasik
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Investors chasing yield in this low-rate environment are jumping into alternative vehicles. That's helping closed-end income funds stage a comeback.
Such funds, which offer a fixed number of shares and are closed to new capital once they start operating, have their attractions, but investors should exercise caution. Expenses for closed-end funds tend to be higher than with exchange-traded funds, they are more complex and they usually carry more risk. Their active managers are free to use leverage and invest in a variety of assets in the hope of delivering higher returns than mutual funds with static bond mixes.
In 2008, initial public offerings of closed-end mutual funds fell off sharply, to just one, from about 30 the year before. They fell out of favor because of the market meltdown and other debacles. There were 11 in 2009, 12 in 2010, four in 2011 and 13 last year, according to Lipper, a Thomson Reuters company.
This year so far, there have been eight closed-fund IPOs - six in the first quarter alone, all of them income-oriented - raising some $5 billion. There are more on the way, according to Investment News.
Leading the pack is the Pimco Dynamic Credit Income Fund (PCI), which raised $3 billion for the world's largest bond-fund manager.
While it's too soon to tell whether the fund will live up to its high management pedigree, the fund may be worth watching to see whether it can outperform similar funds, including mutual funds or ETFs within the Pimco family.
Investors buy and sell shares in closed-end funds like individual stocks, but I don't recommend trading them through full-service brokers. Each transaction earns the broker a commission that eats away at your return. If your broker is trying to sell you on a strategy of actively trading closed-end funds, be wary.
In the past, broker "churning" of closed-end funds has been a problem. In 2009, Merrill Lynch and UBS Financial Services were fined $150,000 and $100,000, respectively, by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (Finra) for recommending that customers sell their funds at a loss and use the proceeds to buy shares of new funds - a practice that could be considered churning because it generates extra commissions. Since those funds had sales charges of 4.5 percent, the turnover was lucrative for the brokers, which neither admitted nor denied the charges.
David Blain, a financial planner in New Bern, North Carolina, prefers ETFs for his clients over closed-end funds for a number of other reasons. ETFs are also traded on the stock market as if they were stock, but they carry lower management expenses and greater transparency. He doesn't like closed-end funds because the pricing structure "adds another layer of complexity and it's difficult for active management to add value."
To know whether you're getting a good deal, you have to understand the layers of closed-end fund pricing. Shares may trade at a premium or discount to the underlying holdings, expressed by what is called the net asset value. While premiums are always desirable, discounts are typically seen after an IPO period ends and underwriters withdraw their support. So the total value of the fund is a matter of market supply and demand and how much the fund's holdings are worth.
ETFs, on the other hand, offer lower internal costs, greater visibility of what managers own and tax efficiency, says Blain, who notes that many basic bond ETFs are commission-free through companies like Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard. In addition, fund management expense ratios average 1.5 percent for closed-end funds, versus 0.31 percent for corporate-index ETFs.
It's difficult to compare the recent crop of closed-end funds to an index or single exchange-traded fund because several actively managed objectives are represented.
As an investor, you need to ask: How do they compare when you consider costs, risk and the impact of leverage? How much can you lose if interest rates decline 1 percent?
To figure out what's best for you, compare closed-end funds you're considering with ETFs or mutual funds with similar objectives. Many closed-end funds may be able to garner higher yield due to leverage - adding an additional layer of risk - although they may not pay off over time if their managers can't navigate interest-rate swings.
For instance, you could compare a relatively popular closed-end fund like the DoubleLine Opportunistic Credit Fund with the Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities Index Fund, since both hold mortgage-backed securities.
The DoubleLine fund, which was launched last year, is up 3.67 percent this year (through April 25) on net asset value and down 0.06 percent on price, compared with a 0.36 percent net asset value increase and a 0.38 percent price gain for the Vanguard fund.
When you compare expenses, though, it's no contest: DoubleLine will charge 1.3 percent annually in addition to a brokerage commission to buy shares, while Vanguard levies a 0.12 percent annual expense and you can buy it directly without a commission.
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