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This being a presidential election year, politics are at the forefront of the minds of many (myself included, which is depressing when you think about it.) I do try and keep my personal beliefs on the politics of politics out of my hockey blog. However, there is no denying there are a lot of controversial issues in the NHL that can be political in nature. And we're in the middle of the 3rd lockout in 18 years to prove it. This is the first of a four part series this week, where I share my NHL political beliefs. Please leave your comments.
Today's installment: Three NHL Issues on which I am liberal.
In the politics of politics, everyone likes to frame the words liberal and conservative into definitions that suit themselves best. For my purpose in this piece, I am defining a belief as liberal if it represents something in the NHL that I would like to change, or represents the support of a recent change in the league.
Increasing Penalty Calls and Discipline
There are many areas in which I think the NHL should step up enforcement. I support the change to try and remove clutch and grab tactics that were prevalent in the 90s. I think there should be more suspensions for dangerous hits. (The joke that is the Department of Player Safety does not accomplish this, which I will cover in part four.) I think diving ought to be asuspendable offense, not this let's embarrass the players by making a list weak sauce. (And in liberal fashion, suspending divers without pay would punish players with bigger contracts more.) Seriously, publish a list, when did the NHLPA become "Harriet the Spy" writing down nasty things about their peers in a secret slam book?
Nothing makes me madder than people (usually old-timers) that hate penalty calls. They dismiss penalty calls with some variation of the phrase "let the players decide the game." Any version of this quote, frankly is crap. Players that commit penalties are deciding they game, the defender didn't have to reach around a forward just because he's slower. He choose to commit the foul, the consequences should be the same, regardless of if it's the first minute or the last in a game.
End Touch Icing
My by definition, support of touch icing is a liberal belief in NHL teams, whereas it would be a conservative belief in reference to just about every other level of hockey in the US, or internationally, where it is the norm.
The purpose of icing in the rulebook is to punish teams for failing to carry the puck over the center line. I don't see any reason to give a team that commits this violation an opportunity to cancel the violation by winning a race.
Furthermore, I find attacking face-offs far more exciting that icing races. Let's save those three seconds on the clock on the dozen or so icing violations in the game and use them on attacking faceoffs.
I think the hybrid icing being tested in college and the AHL is a step in the right direction, but I would say it's a very small step. At least hybrid icing will save those few seconds where the violating team doesn't even contest the race. However, the close plays are the ones that are most likely to cause injury, and it's the close plays that are still being played to a touch.
(Since I am advocating for touch icing everywhere, I suppose since college used automatic icing for years before, switching to hybrid is actually a step in the wrong direction for college.)
It's a no brainer to me, and the extent to which icing races are defended as exciting play is just baffling to me. Blow the whistle, pushing the dumping team, back to their zone.
Penalty Shots
Of the three views I'm presenting this one is the most controversial. I am anti-shootout, but I wouldn't mind if there were a few more penalty shots called in NHL games. One instance that I would consider would be allowing teams to opt for a penalty shot when they would otherwise get a power play in the final two minutes of the 3rd period or overtime.
Penalty shots have about 1 in 3 success rating, whereas power plays are about 1 in 5. So maybe this idea would backfire because that would make refs less hesitant to call penalties at the end of the game.
Maybe a compromise would be to allow a defender to chase the shooter from outside the center circle on these penalty shots as we see when the Wild put on free scrimmages.
This would definitely put more drama in the final minutes of close games. It also seems a better way to compensate for a minor penalty commit with 8 seconds left, than giving a team an 8 second power play.
I am glad to share my views with you. I will have the third installment tomorrow, but what say you, State of Hockey?


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In 2008, South Carolina had never received a grade higher than D on its March of Dimes premature birth report card. Dangerous complications are associated with premature births. Ending the increasingly common practice of scheduling unnecessary deliveries was a major opportunity to not only save our state millions of dollars, but to save babies.
Working together, a number of organizations in South Carolina took action by educating future moms about why it was crucial to wait 39 weeks before they gave birth. Hospitals and doctors were engaged and offered support as they worked to change their policies and processes. Later, an innovative approach to payment reform meant hospitals and doctors would no longer be paid for delivering babies early without a medical reason.
The initiative has made incredible progress. Fewer babies are dying. Fewer are born with low birth weights. Fewer are spending their first weeks of life in the neonatal intensive care unit. In South Carolina, early elective delivery rates have been cut by half. And 60 percent of our birthing hospitals have completely eliminated unnecessary early deliveries. Statewide elective deliveries have been reduced by more than half, and more than $6 million in health care expenses have been avoided.
South Carolina's highly effective, successful work in these areas has received national press and acclaim, and is now used as a case study for other states.
Partners in this effort include the 45 South Carolina birthing hospitals, BlueCross BlueShield of SC, SC American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, SC Department of Health and Human Services, SC March of Dimes, SC Neonatology Consortium, SC OBGYN Society

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I had my first encounter with a 'tube' here in Norway last year. Pretty safe to say, my perception on ways to eat and package foods has been forever changed.
The tube in Norway packages more than just toothpaste. It packages food. Pretty disgusting right? Well, hear me out…
At first when I tasted tubed food and toppings, I was very hesitant as I took my first bite. This stuff couldn't possibly be of good taste. Caviar in a tube???? Mackerel in a tube?? Ok yea…the mackerel is pretty disgusting to be honest. But the caviar is not.
The reason I love this idea is because it is convenient. I never was a mayonnaise eater back in the US until about a year and a half ago. I don't know what compelled me to begin eating it, but I became hooked quite quickly. But on the contrary, I hated soggy bread. So, when I would take a sandwich to work for lunch (let's not kid ourselves…occasions were rare since it was just as cheap for me to go next door and grab Mexican food), I made it sans mayo. Well… had the US known about the wonderful thing that is 'tubed food', I could have conveniently brought a tube to work and put it in the fridge and wouldn't need a knife or anything else. It would have been magical and the ultimate form of convenience. Currently in Norway, I find them most convenient when hiking or traveling with a cooler.
I haven't tried all the different types of tubed food or sandwich toppings, and I probably won't like all of them…but it is still nice to know they are sitting in the grocery store waiting on me to give them a shot. Especially the Jalapeno Ost (jalapeno cheese).
Would you ever eat a food or sandwich topping that came from a tube??


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Daniel Lentz
Aqua Paw | Venice, California
As an industrial designer, Daniel Lentz's path to Everyday Edisons is not a far departure from his roots. Daniel, a Virginia native currently living in Venice, Calif. is an active guy with interests in mountain biking, surfing and soccer. He currently works as a bicycle and componentry designer at Giant Bicycles.
Daniel has always had a passion for building things and finding new, innovative ways to solve problems, so when he was challenged in college to solve a common household problem, he developed the beginnings of the Aqua Paw to address the chore of dog bathing. Realizing right away that he had stumbled upon a promising idea, he kept it in the back of his mind, and years later developed a mechanism to make the product possible. He then decided to audition for Everyday Edisons to help bring his concept to fruition.
Daniel hopes that Aqua Paw becomes a product that makes pet bathing easier and more enjoyable, for both the owners and their pets. Daniel's journey as an inventor may make sense to some, given his roots in product design, but he insists he is an unconventional inventor; just a normal guy who enjoys finding new ways to make something.
"I hope viewers acquire the motivation and knowledge to possibly develop their own ideas into real products, or maybe just [develop] a real interest in product design in general."


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Philippine foreign minister warns that his country will not be lectured on human rights by the US
Meanwhile, scuffles have broken out between police and anti-US protesters outside the American embassy in the Philippine capital, Manila.
- Duterte Wants U.S. Special Forces to Leave South Philippines (video) - Bloomberg
- 'We'll never have peace': Philippines leader Duterte wants to boot US troops out of country's south (video) - RT
- Philippine President Duterte Trading U.S. Ties For China - Forbes
- I can't kill them all, says Duterte - Inquirer
- Could Duterte take a leaf out of Thailand's drugs playbook? - Al Jazeera


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- George Saunders
1. My kids have been healthy all winter. Now that it's May and sunny and 70, they are sick. Natalie fell first. She got a medium-high fever last Friday with a side of sore throat. She was back to full strength by Tuesday. Which is when Connor turned ashen during his tumbling class. He threw up twice during dinner. Yesterday, he still had a fever, so he went to bed early. Natalie, meanwhile, sat in her bed until 9:00 PM, making up songs about believing on the Lord Jesus Christ and generally being cuter than a basket of fuzzy puppies.
2. Which is why Natalie was the one who woke me at 2:00 AM with a sweet whisper. "Mom, I just threw up." My first response was, "No you didn't. You're not sick. Are you sure?" Then I leaned closer and smelled her breath. She wasn't joking. (I'm a bit of an idiot when woken from the sleep of the zombies.)
3. When Connor was sick, I could tell when he was getting ready to blow, because his moaning and writhing would increase in intensity. Therefore, I always had a bucket ready for him. Natalie, apparently, has no such Emergency Broadcast System. So there was no bucket waiting for her.
4. Since Connor had a bucket, he threw up things like apples and water. Since Natalie had no bucket, she threw up everything she had eaten in the last 12 hours (shrimp, pasta, green beans, milk, chocolate pudding and carrots -- lots of carrots). I am now on hour 8 of "Mega-Hazardous Waste Clean-Up" and the 18-inch stain by the side of her bed is finally starting to fade.
5. I gag the gag of a thousand hypochondriacs when faced with the smell of vomit. Yet God made me a mother.
6. Because of the illness, both kids stayed home from school today. Which meant the two sick kids had to accompany me to Teyla's four-month well-baby check-up. Which means I took my last remaining healthy child to the doctor so she could get shots, be cranky and run a fever.
7. After the doctor's appointment, the kids decided they felt good enough to eat lunch. They requested microwavable mac and cheese. Which smells like vomit to me.
8. I had all kinds of goals for this week. I've accomplished very few of them. Which is probably why God had me read this quote Sunday night: "I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly realized that my interruptions were my work." (Out of the Solitude, Henri Nouwen)
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I need to write that quote down myself...I'm sorry your babies are sick.:(ReplyDelete
Praying that they get well soon, and that mac and cheese will no longer smell like vomit to you.:)
God Bless,
The barfing sickness...I feel for you...it makes me dry-heave to think about it :)ReplyDelete
Hope EVERYONE starts feeling better soon!
Oh, I hate vomit! I hope the puke bug is gone soon...ReplyDelete
Oh, YUCK. It's just not right to be sick in the spring!ReplyDelete
Great quote!!
I think I would have skipped that doctor's appointment, myself.ReplyDelete
First off, love the irony quote. I'm currently living that one. Second, whoa, friend, very sorry to hear the bugs that have taken hold. Third, will be praying that the storm begins to subside.ReplyDelete
I'm so sorry! I don't do vomit well at all, either, so I feel for you contending with 2 at a time.ReplyDelete
That quote is awesome. I'm going to have to commit that one to memory and pull it out when the interruptions start piling up. Which would be every day, right? :)
Oh yuck. Stomach bugs are the very worst. I am so so sorry. (fyi_I added you to my blogroll)ReplyDelete
Oh my, what a week. Hope everyone feels better.ReplyDelete
I loved the quote at the end. So true and yet so hard to remember. I posted about something similar today.
ummm... yuck. What a week for you!ReplyDelete
Hoping everyone heals...
- AnonymousFriday, May 16, 2008 7:56:00 AM
My middle one just got done with three days of puking.... and now after reading this, it might be my turn to be sick. ;-)ReplyDelete
Seriously. I'm still waiting for the rest of the Fam to get sick, which I really pray doesn't happen. Same with you, I really hope you don't get it!
I gag the gag of a thousand hypochondriacs when faced with the smell of vomit.ReplyDelete
LOVED this! Made me laugh.
I am so sorry for the sickness and resulting clean-up. Yuck! May you all be on the mend and vomit-free very soon.
I'm sorry you've had a rough week! I hope everyone feels better soon!ReplyDelete
I don't know how you can make even throwing up seem funny.ReplyDelete
As long as it's in your house. Far far away in the north, of course!
I'd rather deal with fever and sore throat for a week than a 24 hour stomach bug - in my kids or me.
Oh girl! If I lived next store I would so be over there helping you clean up. I just wanted you to know that.ReplyDelete
One of my super powers is that I have an iron stomach and things like blood and vomit don't phase me. I just get in the zone and kinda tune it out of my consciousness altogether making me a great friend to have when you are dealing with the more precarious side of kids. :)
I would have made a great nurse in another life.
Thanks for reading my blog. Your comments always make me smile and I genuinely look forward to them!
Hang in there!
Awww..hope the babies are feeling better and that you get that funky stain out of the carpet.ReplyDelete
I also agree that microwave mac n cheese smells like vomit. Just don't smell their breath after they eat it and maybe you'll be okay..:))
With much love and compassion...
Lisa :)
Yikes. I remember when 3 or 4 of my kids and I got some stomach thing. I just made pallets on the floor for us all and each had an empty cool whip tub. I can't even look at cool whip now.ReplyDelete
Been there. Done that. More times that I care to count. When I get to heaven I want to ask why the stomach virus ALWAYS hits in the dead of night?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTuesday, May 20, 2008 5:26:00 PM
I can't believe I missed all this! I leave the blogging world for a few days and it all falls apart. Sheesh...ReplyDelete
Elliot once got sick and then was better, and I let him drink an Orange Fanta (orange soda pop). How I lived to rue that decision.
Glad that everyone's feeling better.
Oh, I love that last quote. I've not heard it, but have been thinking so much of that lately. I should blog about it.ReplyDelete
We've had massive puking here too. I think we're finally done (famous last words). I should blog about it.
I hope all is well now and you are enjoying the nice weather!


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Marble is made from durable rock. How durable is it? The marble used on your floors, countertops, columns and other surfaces could be several hundreds of thousands of years old. That's pretty durable, isn't it?
But while marble will last pretty much forever, the shine on today's contemporary marble surfaces will not. There are lots of things that can cause your marble's shine to wear off, some of which act over the long term and others which act almost instantly.
Marble Restoration NYC — Acid Eats Marble
One of the most common things to erode the shine on kitchen countertops are foods and liquids that contain a lot of acids. Things like orange juice, tomato sauce, vinegar, lemons, and other highly acidic substances will eat away at the thin coating that covers your marble countertops and provides their shine.
Be careful not to spill these types of acidic foods and liquids on your marble countertops. If they do come into contact with your marble, wipe them up as quickly as possible.
Marble Restoration NYC — Hard Water
The marble surfaces in bathroom showers can often lose its shine due to the quality of the water. Hard water, or water that is high in alkalines, can cause light etch marks to form on the marble's surface. And no matter how much or how hard you scrub, you can't clean them off.
Marble shower walls that have watermarks should be restored by a professional, who will sand, polish, and reseal them so that they look as good as new.
Marble Restoration NYC — Time and Weather
Exposure to the elements over time can also take its toll on marble, especially on outdoor marble columns, steps, and other surfaces.
If your marble has become damaged, loses its shine, or is just looking old, the professionals at Love Marble can help. Call us today for a FREE estimate!


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Readers of the alert persuasion may remember the acquisition of a PSOne (the micro, slim, white one) from the Goodwill by myself (along w/ other things) way back.1 More recently, you would maybe also remember my dusting off of the ol' big gray box PlayStation, aka PSX to fire up the likes of Final Fantasy Tactics and Grandia. The space between those 2 events is filled by, in addition to the acquisition of Dreamcasts + Genesis cartridges, the fact the acquired PSOne had a effed up motor. It would power up, but it could not read game discs. Sadness.
Until the other day!
A trip to the bank & the hardware store provided ample circumnavigation to hit up the Goodwill, where I found jack of all shits except a fuggin' cherry PSone, bagged w/ all necessary cables & a controller, for an easy TWENTY wingwangs!
Now, clearly, I had no true NEED for a PSOne, being possession of a PSX, but at the same time I had a terrible, terrible NEED for a PSOne. So the PSX, the good ol' gal, is now safe once again in her plastic storage tub in the attic3 & tis' the PSOne which resides beneath the telly.
Not satisfied (clearly not satisfied!) w/ merely swapping out identical consoles,4 I get back to some of those Atlus PSX games I researched but never purchased, along w/ some other stuff I'd sniffed out. In short order, games, via the post, were promised onto me.
ATLUS strategic JRPG, Hoshigami? Secured!
A strategic JRPG w/ a Pokemon monster-collecting element? Eternal Eyes, come to poppa!5
Do I have the spare time to play not one but 2 new tactical RPGs, on top of a host of incomplete games?6
No sir, I do not. I do not.7
I have a problem.
1 I love my dead grey console: part 2, October 5, 2006.
2 Grandia, October 1 2007.
3 Along w/ the Intellivision, the back-up Dreamcast, the back-up's back-up Dreamcast, and the SNES I still need to get a functioning controller for.
4 I really can't express the lack of room the PSOne take up. As other "retro" console types know well, the battle for space and organization when maintaining multiple platforms is hard fought. Suddenly having a given console possess a mere half the footprint it used to is a godsend.
5 While I was well aware that the original PlayStation was host to a bevy of RPGs essentially unmatched before or since, I was (vastly) unaware of just how many of them were of tactical nature.
6 Ah geez: Grandia, Final Fantasy Tactics, Phantasy Star II, Shenmue, Jet Grind Radio, Maken X, Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 2. And those are just the ones I'm truly vested in...
7 Let us not forget mention Dragon Warrior I & II for my Gameboy Color (or GBA, I s'pose) that's in the mail. Or that I've been eyeballing the numerous versions of Harvest Moon lately. Funny story abt the 1st Dragon Warrior: my 1st console was the 1st Sega Genesis, but prior to that I got my kicks off renting a NES for the weekend. Somehow, I got a hold of a copy of Nintendo Power that had the map or the walkthrough or something for DW1 (prolly kifed it from someone). When a NES was rented, I selected DW as my rental title of choice, then, being clever, but having no concept of 'leveling', I attempted to go to some ruined city and get the +30 sword or whatever. I failed spectacularly at this task, 'course, cause yr s'posed to go the easier dungeon or castle or whatever first. Sadly I didn't figure this out and played mario instead or something. So, I will extract a certain, shall we say, REVENGE against DW when it arrives: who's the clever one, now, eh?!?


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NYPD let convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein skip judge-ordered check-ins — Convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein never once checked in with city cops in the eight-plus years since a Manhattan judge ordered him to do so every 90 days — and the NYPD says it's fine with that.
Discussion: VICE, The Federalist Papers and Page Six
Tim Marcin / VICE: Acosta Says He Did All He Could in the Epstein Case. His Former Colleague Is Calling BS.
Carmine Sabia / The Federalist Papers: Schumer Has Financial Ties To Alleged Sex Trafficker, Pedophile Epstein
Francesca Bacardi / Page Six: Hillary Clinton rocks out at Earth, Wind & Fire concert after Bill denies Epstein knowledge
New York Times:
Jeffrey Epstein's 'Infinite Means' May Be a Mirage — When federal prosecutors announced sex-trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein this week, they described him as "a man of nearly infinite means." They argued that his vast wealth — and his two private jets — made him a flight risk.
Discussion: Talking Points Memo, Instapundit and Little Green Footballs
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo: The Player — An overnight article from the Times …
Hunter Walker / Yahoo News:
Republican campaign committee darkened Colin Kaepernick's skin for a fundraising ad — WASHINGTON—Former NFL star Colin Kaepernick did not look like himself in a fundraising email that was sent by the National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday.
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
House Democrats Subpoena a Who's Who of Mueller Witnesses — WASHINGTON — The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved a dozen new subpoenas targeting a who's who of witnesses cited in Robert S. Mueller III's report as Democrats sought to elevate their showdown with President Trump …
Cindyvonquednowktla / KTLA: House Committee Authorizes Subpoenas for Jared Kushner, Trump Officials in Continuing Obstruction Probe
Joe DePaolo / Mediaite: It's On: House Judiciary Authorizes Subpoenas for Kushner, Flynn, and Other Trump Heavies
John Wagner / Washington Post:
House panel votes to subpoena Kushner, former attorney general Sessions in investigation …
House panel votes to subpoena Kushner, former attorney general Sessions in investigation …
Discussion: Politico, Political Wire and POLITICUSUSA
John Bresnahan / Politico: House to vote next week on criminal contempt against Barr and Ross
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire: House Panel Votes to Subpoena Kushner and Sessions
Caitlin Oprysko / Politico:
Trump lashes out as House investigators prep more subpoenas
Trump lashes out as House investigators prep more subpoenas
Discussion: Vox, Townhall, Political Wire and IJR
Cortney O'Brien / Townhall: 'This Committee Got Rolled': Doug Collins Criticizes Nadler's Handling of Mueller Hearing
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire: Trump Lashes Out at House Investigations
Los Angeles Times:
FBI investigating tattooed deputy gangs in Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department — The FBI is investigating a secret society of tattooed deputies in East Los Angeles as well as similar gang-like groups elsewhere within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, multiple people familiar with the inquiry said.
Benjamin Oreskes / Los Angeles Times:
San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017
San Francisco homeless count goes from bad to worse, jumping 30% from 2017
Discussion: Front Page Magazine
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine: Enabling Vagrancy Works: San Fan Homeless Count Up 30%
Jason Zinoman / New York Times:
Dave Chappelle on Broadway: The Joke Is Getting Old — The comic hasn't adjusted his material for the setting: he's still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets. — For those spending hundreds of dollars to see Dave Chappelle on Broadway, some advice: Don't leave your seats too quickly.
David Choi / Business Insider:
Video appears to show Trump embracing a 2016 campaign staffer. She's now suing and claims he forcibly kissed her. — Alva Johnson, who worked for the 2016 Trump presidential campaign, is suing President Donald Trump over what she says was an unwanted attempted kiss "on the mouth."
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politico, PJ Media Home, The Gateway Pundit and Daily Wire
Chuck Ross / The Daily Caller: Trump Lawyer: Video Shows Ex-Campaign Staffer Lied About Forcible Kiss
Josh Gerstein / Politico: Trump lawyers: Video refutes ex-aide's battery claims over kiss
Jim Treacher / PJ Media Home: VIDEO: Trump Kisses Staffer Alva Johnson on the Cheek
Joseph Curl / The Gateway Pundit: Former Trump Campaign Staffer Claims He Forcibly Kissed Her. Then Trump's Lawyer Releases The Video.
Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
A Midsummer Overview Of The Democratic Field — When people ask me who I think is going to win the Democratic nomination, I shrug my shoulders and say, "I have no freaking idea." It's worth keeping in mind that in a field of 20-something candidates with no runaway frontrunner, all of the candidates are fairly heavy underdogs.
Discussion: Outside the Beltway and Morning Consult
Tanya Somanader / Crooked Media:
Pollercoaster 2020: Who's Up, Who's Down?
Pollercoaster 2020: Who's Up, Who's Down?
Discussion: Political Wire
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire: Five Democrats Lead In the Early States
Mack Lamoureux / VICE:
People Tell Us How QAnon Destroyed Their Relationships — We spoke to people who told us how the QAnon conspiracy theory ruined their marriage, turned their parents into completely different people, and otherwise made their lives miserable. — One of the most disheartening signs …
Errin Haines Whack / Associated Press:
AP Interview: Buttigieg discusses his plan to tackle racism — Pete Buttigieg has a message for white liberals who decry racism: "Good intentions are not going to be enough." — The Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend, Indiana, mayor is combating perceptions that he's …
Rachel Martin / NPR:
Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality
Buttigieg Proposes Broad Plan To Counter Racial Inequality
Discussion: Fox News, CNN, Indianapolis Star, The Daily Caller and Shakesville
Donald Judd / CNN: Pete Buttigieg unveils new details of racial justice plan in bid for black voters
Chris Sikich / Indianapolis Star: The Douglass Plan: Pete Buttigieg rolls out details of his blueprint for African Americans
Claire Smith / The Daily Caller: Pete Buttigieg Unveils New Plan Including Legalization Of Marijuana And Elimination Of Death Penalty
Washington Post:
'Outright disrespectful': Four House women struggle as Pelosi isolates them — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi admonished Democrats for personally attacking one another, warning in a closed-door meeting Wednesday that the party's fracturing was jeopardizing its majority.
Discussion: Politico, Hot Air, Townhall, RedState, Talking Points Memo, Fox News, National Review, CNN, NBC News, KTLA, Instapundit, New York Post, The Hill, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, The Daily Beast, IJR, The Gateway Pundit, Common Dreams, twitchy.com, American Thinker, Washington Free Beacon, Washington Times, The Week, Splinter, The Resurgent, JONATHAN TURLEY, Daily Wire, Wall Street Journal, The Daily Caller, Mediaite, Axios, Breitbart, TheBlaze, The Intercept and USA Today
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Ocasio-Cortez: I Wonder Why Pelosi's Attacking "Women Of Color"? Update: War
Guy Benson / Townhall: The Revolution Turns Inward: Democrats Now Blasting Each Other With Mindless Identity Politics Attacks
Sister Toldjah / RedState: Popcorn Time: AOC Goes Nuclear, Pulls "WOC" Card on Pelosi in War of Words - but Backtracks Just Hours Later
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo: Pelosi Responds To AOC's Criticism That She's 'Singling Out' Women Of Color Reps.
Alex Pappas / Fox News: Pelosi responds to AOC slam, says caucus has her back for condemning chief of staff's 'offensive' tweet
Veronica Stracqualursi / CNN: Ocasio-Cortez calls Pelosi's 'singling out' of Democratic women of color 'disrespectful'
Mwenzke / KTLA: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Suggests Nancy Pelosi Has Been 'Singling Out' Congresswomen of Color
Ed Driscoll / Instapundit: ANNALS OF LEFTIST AUTOPHAGY: Ocasio-Cortez: I wonder why Pelosi's attacking "women of color?"
Bob Fredericks / New York Post: Pelosi responds to AOC drama: 'I've said what I'm going to say'
Justin Wise / The Hill: Ocasio-Cortez accuses Pelosi of 'persistent singling out' of women of color: It's 'outright disrespectful'
Mary Chastain / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion: Meow! Ocasio-Cortez Accuses Pelosi of Racism for Persistent 'Singling Out' Women of Color
Justin Baragona / The Daily Beast: 'The View' Sides With Pelosi Over AOC: 'You're Not Allowed to Bitch About This'
Madison Dibble / IJR: 'It's Ugly and Getting Uglier': Scalise Addresses Democratic Infighting Between AOC and Pelosi
Cristina Laila / The Gateway Pundit: OUTRAGE! Pelosi Tips Off Illegals on Sunday's Rumored Deportation Raids - Gives 'Legal Advice …
Jake Johnson / Common Dreams: Fed Up With Constant Attacks and Insults, Ocasio-Cortez Slams Pelosi as 'Outright Disrespectful …
Sarah D. / twitchy.com: 'That made no sense'! AOC puts dizzying new spin on her racially charged catfight with Nancy Pelosi
Monica Showalter / American Thinker: Cat-fight escalates: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hurls race card at Nancy Pelosi
Jeffrey Cimmino / Washington Free Beacon: Pelosi Chastises Reporter: 'If You Want to Waste Your Question, You Can Waste Your Question'
Douglas Ernst / Washington Times: AOC defends claim that Pelosi targets 'women of color' as 'just pointing out a pattern'
Kathryn Krawczyk / The Week: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rips Nancy Pelosi for 'singling out newly elected women of color'
Paul Blest / Splinter: The Only Thing Nancy Pelosi Understands Is Power
Erick Erickson / The Resurgent: Democrats' Terrible Week Just Got Worse: AOC Says Pelosi is a Racist and More
Natalie Andrews / Wall Street Journal: Pelosi Has Sharp Words for House Democrats
Derek Hunter / The Daily Caller: The Civil War In The Democratic Party
Ken Meyer / Mediaite: AOC Calls Out Pelosi's 'Pattern' of Singling Out Women of Color But Insists Speaker is 'Absolutely Not' Racist
Rebecca Falconer / Axios: AOC says Pelosi is "singling out" women of color in Congress
Joel B. Pollak / Breitbart: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Calls Pelosi Racist: 'Singling Out ... Women of Color'
Aaron Colen / TheBlaze: Ocasio-Cortez implies Pelosi's criticisms are racially motivated, calls it 'outright disrespectful'
Bill Haslam / The Tennessean:
Why I am not running for U.S. Senate in 2020 | Opinion — Bill Haslam: 'This is a difficult decision because I have loved my time in public service and I believe so deeply in the importance of our political process.' — To my fellow Tennesseans: — For the last several years …
Discussion: Roll Call, Tennessee Star and Political Wire
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
GOP frets over nightmare scenario for Senate primaries — Republicans are facing an early headache of nightmare primary fights as they plot to keep control of the Senate. — In Alabama and Kansas, two deep-red states that should be safe GOP seats, the party is facing bids from conservatives Roy Moore …
Discussion: Big League Politics and Political Wire
Shane Trejo / Big League Politics: Republican Establishment Redoubles Efforts to Keep Immigration Patriots Out of Senate in 2020
Taegan Goddard / Political Wire: Primaries Complicate GOP Effort to Hold Senate
The Daily Beast:
Acosta's Epstein Excuses Are Nonsensical and Self-Serving — Three former prosecutors break down the labor secretary's explanation of the cushy plea deal he cut. — Alex Acosta took the podium Wednesday to try to put to rest a controversial plea deal he reached with accused child-sex …
Discussion: Breitbart
Fact check: Trump wrong on all 3 claims in tweet on Iran deal — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump's Wednesday tweet on the Iran nuclear deal contained three inaccurate claims. — "Iran has long been secretly 'enriching,' in total violation of the terrible 150 Billion Dollar deal …
Howard Kurtz / Fox News:
Trump moves into damage control mode (just like every other politician) — When the British ambassador to Washington was caught disparaging President Trump in cables back to London, everyone knew what happened next would be rather undiplomatic. — The president Twitter-taunted "wacky" …
Discussion: New York Times, Axios and Dispatches From the …
Jonathan Swan / Axios: Acosta digs a deeper hole
Elizabeth Warren / Team Warren:
A Fair and Welcoming Immigration System — Immigrants have always been a vital source of American strength. They grow our economy and make our communities richer and more diverse. They are our neighbors, our colleagues, and our friends — and every bit as much a part of America as those who were born in the United States.
Discussion: Politico, Washington Times, New York Times and VICE
Alex Thompson / Politico: Elizabeth Warren takes on Trump with immigration overhaul
David Sherfinski / Washington Times: Elizabeth Warren releases plan to overhaul immigration laws
Matt Stevens / New York Times: Warren's Immigration Plan Includes Pledge to Investigate Abuses Under Trump
Cameron Joseph / VICE: Elizabeth Warren Just Fired a Warning Shot at ICE and Border Patrol
Mark Hemingway / RealClearInvestigations:
Who Will Clean Up America's Voter Rolls? — Los Angeles County has too many voters. An estimated 1.6 million, according to the latest calculations - which is roughly the population of Philadelphia. That's the difference between the number of people on the county's voter rolls and the actual number of voting age residents.
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Claude Lord
Curator, Photo Library Collection, National Film Board of Canada (NFB)
Montréal, Quebec
As the National Film Board of Canada's Curator for the Photo Library Collection, Claude Lord's job is to store, preserve and share the NFB's photography collection. "Canadians discover their country and fellow Canadians through our films," says Claude.
Claude feels that it's very important to Canadians that these archives be preserved. "It's a tremendous cultural heritage. Over the decades, we can see how society has changed. We can see how the film industry has changed. There's so much information and knowledge in these pictures." During anniversaries, like the 150th anniversary of Confederation and the 50th anniversary of Expo 67, these materials help us remember. "It's important to know where we came from so that we know where we're headed," explains Claude.


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Google has made its first investment into a financial technology company and with it has given a big psychological boost to the cryptocurrency market.
Google Ventures, the investment arm of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, has decided to pour $25 million into Currencycloud, a London-based cross-border payments provider.
Additional funding was raised from companies such as Notion Capital, Sapphire Ventures, Rakuten FinTech Fund, and Anthemis. But Google's is perhaps the most noteworthy.
Currencycloud claims that it has sent $25 billion so far through its infrastructure to more than 200 countries.
The new funding from Google and others would "fuel the company's continued growth and ongoing global expansion, as it reimagines the way money flows through today's digital economy", says the company, which uses flexible APIs to remove the friction and costs of traditional cross-border payments.
Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, says: "In recent years we have seen the rise of the building block economy. Companies can combine services such as AWS, Google Maps, Stripe and Twilio to build innovative new businesses fast and without the overhead of expensive proprietary systems.
"Currencycloud provides a set of multi-currency payment and conversion tools that are helping hundreds of companies globalize fast. We are seeing massive and increasing demand for these services, with volumes growing over 150 per cent last year."
Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin are growing in both usage and variety. As well as bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies include:Cryptocurrencies receive major boost with Google's entry into fintech market Click To Tweet
Most cyptocurrencies are based on the blockchain distributed ledger technology, a global trend or development which is making traditional banking institutions take more notice and research ways in which they can become involved.
Governments are also funding research projects to try and figure out what this alien technology is and what it will mean for the future of money, if not humanity itself.
There is the possibility that cryptocurrencies will disrupt the global financial market to the extent that they may undermine the power of banks and the governments which act as the guarantors of the value the money those banks hold.
But then, what's probably more likely is that cryptocurrencies will simply expand the money supply by making money more widely available, to areas where money may not have been available to use in previous times.


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Reviewing The Anti-Coloring Book App by Susan Striker is one of the highlights of my teaching/app reviewing career! I have been using these awesome resources throughout my entire thirty-year stint as a special education teacher and am so excited to be sharing this resource as a recent app addition to iTunes. If you want to promote critical thinking skills, foster creativity, and encourage risk-taking. This is the app for you and your students! The thinking behind this suite of books is founded on the premise that open-ended questions, with no right or wrong answers, will enable kids to problem solve for themselves and growth will come naturally with experience. The Anti-Coloring Book App Series is one you don't want to miss!
We corresponded with Susan Striker, the brainchild behind the ANTI-COLORING BOOKS®, one of the most ingenious concepts in creative teaching tools ever. I have been using her Anti-Coloring books for motivating general education as well as special needs students, along with many other teachers, professional educators, museum instructors and of course parents! Susan Striker, with her prolific and inspirational efforts to bring critical thinking skills to the forefront of education via self-expression, has been a trusted and respected resource spanning several decades. Her first book was published in 1978.
Susan passionately states: I have been teaching art for many, many years. Seeing my students deeply involved in the process of self-expression daily has been a great source of joy for me in my life. Children learn to solve problems by solving problems. They learn how to use materials by using materials. In my efforts to be the best possible art teacher, I practiced radical passivity. My students learned to find their own answers to their questions. Nevertheless, it has been frustrating to know that as soon as they left the art room, my students would be coloring in coloring books at home and coloring in maps and adult-drawn pictures in their other classes. I realized that good parents and fine teachers simply thought that they needed to know a lot more about art than they felt they did in order to supervise art activities. In 1978 when I wrote my first ANTI-COLORING BOOK, that became the first alternative to coloring books.
When drawing programs and art apps came on the scene, I viewed them at first as simply another art material for potential artists to explore. I was satisfied that they had to be better than all the shooting and killing games and apps that I was seeing! Too soon I realized that what children were mastering was more like a technological coloring book than it was a tool for creative expression. On most drawing programs and games, areas "magically" fill with color at the touch of a paint can clip art has become a substitute for original drawings, all of the problems have already been solved and there are no questions to figure out answers to. This app was designed to simulate the experience of working with traditional materials...To get back to "smart kids" instead of "smart apps", I set out to create an app that closely simulated the actual experience of drawing and painting with real art materials. To color in an area, children have to use all of their fine motor skills instead of a magic button. The different art materials provide different effects, and making choices becomes important. The fantasy, imagination, and problem solving that the ANTI-COLORING BOOKS® provided are now in an app format that can be used as an alternative art material on a quest for creativity.
Susan says it best when she describes her own app: "Incredible! An app that encourages children to imagine, creates, draws, think, plan, solve problems and read! No shooting, crushing or killing!" All of the kids and adults that tried this app out couldn't seem to put it down, it was a smash hit with all ages! The Anti-Coloring Book App has a shelf-life of FOREVER! But wait, it gets even better - Susan will be following up with more of her incredible ideas in upcoming apps! Big shout-out to Matt Meyers, one of NSBA's "20 To Watch" Leaders in Educational Technology, and CEO of Slate & Tablets. Matt did the coding for this terrific app!


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Waddington is known for it's amazing fishing ! This year we will be holding a Bass Elite Tournament in Waddington for the first time. For information on the Tournament please go to www.northcountrybass.com. We also have held the World Carp Tournament and the Jr. Carp Tournaments. Come fish in our mighty St. Lawrence!


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Elasticsearch is already quite popular and its popularity just keeps growing. Looking at Google Trends chart for the last 5 years shows this nicely:
There are a number of reasons why Elasticsearch is popular: it is very easy to get going with Elasticsearch, it's user-friendly, and has great APIs, among other things. Its growing popularity is not only beneficial to Elasticsearch itself, but also to the whole community as the ecosystem around it is growing rapidly as well. There are tools developed by Elastic (the company, not software), like Logstash or Kibana and there are tools provided by third-party companies and developers like Logagent, Search Guard (you can find a blog post about it on our blog – Securing Elasticsearch and Kibana with Search Guard), Grafana and many many more.
In addition to Elasticsearch and the ecosystem built around it there are also commercial offerings. From hosted ELK as a service for logs that's a part of Sematext Cloud, to hosted Elasticsearch services like Amazon Elasticsearch Service which lets you run your own managed clusters.
Amazon Elasticsearch Service or Sematext Logsene
Before we talk about shipping data to AWS Elasticsearch service let's just do a quick check. Is AWS Elasticsearch service really what you want? To help with that decision, consider the following questions:
- What is my use case for Elasticsearch? Do I have use cases other than centralized logging?
- Do I have enough knowledge and experience to support my own Elasticsearch cluster?
- Do I want to take the full responsibility over Elasticsearch maintenance and scaling to support a growing volume of data and/or queries?
- Are there enough other people on my team to share the burden or is it all going to fall on my plate?
If some or most of the answers are no, then you may want to stop reading here, check Logsene and save yourself both time and money. If, however, your use cases potentially include, but are not limited to logging then keep reading!
Here is a diagram that helps people figure out if they should use AWS Elasticsearch, or run their own Elasticsearch, or use a service like Logsene.
If most of the answers to the questions further above were yes then you are likely considering Amazon Elasticsearch service and going through the above flow diagram should confirm that. We compared the self-hosted Elasticsearch and the Amazon Elasticsearch service some time ago – you can read about in AWS Elasticsearch Service vs. Elasticsearch on EC2 blog post. The gist is that Amazon Elasticsearch service provides:
- Automatic failed node replacement
- Node adding/removal via an API
- Rights management via IAM
- Daily S3 snapshots
- Basic CloudWatch metrics for Elasticsearch
But the downsides are:
- Increased costs compared to traditional EC2 instances
- Fewer instance types available
- Limited cluster-wide changes possible
- Unavailability of Elasticsearch logs
- Limited debugging possibilities because of API restrictions
If the pros are more valuable than cons limit you, and you would like to ship your logs to Amazon Elasticsearch Service let's see how to actually do that with Logagent, an open source, Node.js based log shipper.
Logagent ⇒ Amazon Elasticsearch Service
When using Amazon Elasticsearch Service you gain security as an out of the box feature, but you are also left hanging a bit as the official Elasticsearch client library doesn't support it. You either have to disable security and allow communication from certain hosts without authentication or choose not to rely on the official Elasticsearch client libraries. However, if your use case is log/event shipping things are not that bad – you can use Logstash with an additional plugin or the newest version of Logagent, which has lower overhead and minimal impact on the system. See Top 5 Logstash Alternatives for more details.
Configuring Logagent to ship data to Amazon Elasticsearch Service is really quite simple. For the purpose of the blog post I will simply send the contents of a file to Elasticsearch. Let's assume my file is called app.log and is that it lives in the /var/log/myapp/ directory. The input part of Logagent configuration looks as follows:
input: stdin: true files: - /var/log/myapp/app.log
Now the data that is read from the input needs to be sent to an output – in our case our AWS Elasticsearch Service instance available at https://search-blog-elasticsearch-service-u3isln3erq3ocb2vkv3v2tmt24.eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com/ (no, not available anymore – get your own! :)). To do that we will use the output module called output-aws-elasticsearch. The configuration looks as follows:
output: aws-es: module: output-aws-elasticsearch url: https://search-blog-elasticsearch-service-u3isln3erq3ocb2vkv3v2tmt24.eu-west-1.es.amazonaws.com/ index: myapp_logs type: myapp awsConfigFile: ./aws-config.json log: - type: 'stdio' levels: []
In the above output definition we mention the auth and awsConfigFile options. These are important. Logagent uses AWS SDK libraries and supports all authentication methods provided by AWS API including signed HTTP requests. Logagent assumes you will provide the credentials to access your AWS environment by using the JSON file specified using the awsConfigFile options. The content of the aws-config.json looks as follows:
{ "accessKeyId": <YOUR_ACCESS_KEY_ID>, "secretAccessKey": <YOUR_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>, "region": "us-east-1" }
So we need to provide the AWS access key, AWS secret key and the region where we have our AWS Elasticsearch Service instances created and we are good to go. All of this you can get via the AWS Console.
And this is really all you need to do. Logagent really makes data shipping easy it's Apache Licensed and open-sourced on Github, completely pluggable, featuring a number of input, output, and processor plugins, and it's very easy to add your own. For more information check out https://sematext.com/docs/logagent. Enjoy!


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- Pronunciation: pan-DOOR-ah
- Origin: Greek
- Role: Mortal
- Husband: Epimetheus
- Child: Pyrrha
- Symbol: Box
- Other Name: Heracles
Who Is Pandora?
Greek mythology mostly tells the stories of gods and goddesses. But Pandora was the first mortal woman. She was created by the gods to fulfill Zeus' requests and then was sent to Earth to punish Prometheus.
Prometheus had stolen the gift of fire and given it to humans. Zeus was angered by this and asked Hephaestus, the blacksmith god, to create the first mortal woman. Zeus wanted to send her to Earth with several enticing gifts that would complicate the lives of humans.
Pandora is mentioned in Theogony, the poem of Hesiod. It was written in the 8th century BC. The timeline puts the story of Pandora just after the Titanomachy. Historians have noted that the evil roots behind the creation of the first woman can be classified as misogynistic.
Legends and Stories
The story of Pandora has been told through poems, stories, and even modern day films. The moral of the story is still applicable today. Here is the version closest to the original Greek myth.
Pandora's Box
There once were two brothers, one named Epimetheus and the other Prometheus. The brothers irritated the gods, especially Zeus. Zeus was accustomed to humans aggravating him and had punished them in the past by taking away their ability to make fire. Humans were unable to keep warm with the heat from a fire or cook their food.
But Prometheus was very smart and he knew where to find Hephaestos, a blacksmith. He also knew that because he was a blacksmith, his fire would always be burning. Prometheus went to pay the blacksmith's residence a visit and when Hephaestos wasn't looking, he stole fire back for his fellow man.
Zeus was furious when he learned of what had taken place. Since he had taken fire away from humans the first time as punishment, he knew that punishment for this offence must be worse.
Zeus thought long and hard about what he could do and eventually came up with a plan to punish first the brothers and then the rest of the mortals. Hephaestos, who was angry at the brothers as well, created a woman from clay. She was the first mortal woman. Athena breathed life into the clay figure while the other gods and goddesses gave her physical and emotional traits to make her human. Zeus named her Pandora and sent her to Earth as a gift to Epimetheus, who wasn't as smart as his brother.
Prometheus became suspicious right away and warmed his brother to not accept anything the gods were trying to give him, especially Pandora. But Epimetheus began to fall in love with Pandora and eventually asked her to marry him.
Zeus' plan was falling into place. He sent Pandora a wedding gift. It was a beautiful box, decorated like it was meant for a goddess. But Zeus told her that if she was to keep such a box, she must never open it. Even though she was curious, Pandora agreed to the arrangement. She accepted the box and promised not to open it.
But as time went on, all she would think about was the box. She was dying to know what was inside and didn't understand why Zeus would give her something and then tell her to leave it alone. Finally, she decided to open it.
She waited until Epimetheus was gone, as she knew he would disapprove. Then she slowly opened the top and looked in. But instead of seeing jewels and gold like she had assumed would be inside, she saw the complete opposite. Instead of the nice wedding presents she had imagined, all of the evils of the world were inside the box. Humans had been spared from such things as disease and poverty, but now they escaped from the box and entered the world. There was also misery, sadness, and death.
Pandora quickly slammed the box shut but the damage was done. She began to weep and her husband heard her cries. He came in and asked her what was wrong. She told him that her curiosity had gotten the best of her. As he was consoling her, they heard a voice from inside the box asking to be let out. They discussed what to do and decided that nothing could be worse than what had already escaped.
Together, they opened the lid and allowed the final of Zeus' gifts to escape. It is a good thing they did. The last gift was hope. It flew from the box and began to heal the carnage that was already sweeping over the world. So, while Pandora was responsible for releasing evil into the world, she also helped to give the world hope.
The moral of the story focuses on how curiosity can get the best of us but it is important to remain honest and strong, as we never know what the consequences might be.
Because Pandora was created by the gods, she did not have parents in the traditional sense. She was married to Epimetheus and had one child named Pyrrha.
In artistic representations of Pandora, she is shown as a young and beautiful woman. Her hair is dark and she is usually shown holding onto a box. In some pictures, she is longingly staring at the box, fighting the urge to open it.
Pandora is mostly associated with either a box or a jar, whichever is believed to have held Zeus' gifts for mankind. She is also associated with the gifts given to her by the gods when she was created. For example, Aphrodite gave her beauty, desire, and grace while Apollo taught her how to sing and play the lyre. Hera instilled curiosity in Pandora and Zeus made her out to be foolish and mischievous.


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Wedding date: March 18th, 2017
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what is the caching of documents in datapower what is the use of xml manager what is xml threat protection difference between Rest and Soap how i can implement SLM in datapower and what is the purpose of it
Answer by kenhygh (397) | Jun 11, 2016 at 02:58 PM
caching of documents is for just that. Caching document. These are typically XML documents loaded for lookups etc. However, with later versions of DataPower, you can also cache responses for idempotent requests.
An XML Manager is an object that collects a bunch of stuff: how big input documents can be, how to attach to various backends, header management, etc. It also contains settings for XML threat protection. Read the help for what that means, but in simplistic terms it protects backends from various bad, though legal, payloads.
REST & SOAP: google it.
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Latest F1 news in brief
by Andrew Maitland
February 23, 2006
BMW 'quicker than expected' - Zanardi
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) Former formula one driver Alex Zanardi is
surprised at the pace of BMW Sauber in winter tests.
The Italian, who drove 44 grands prix in the 90s but lost his legs in
an horror Champ Car crash in 2001, said the new Hinwil collaboration
has 'got the potential' to succeed in the F1 category.
''Taking a look at the times set in the tests,'' 39-year-old Zanardi
said, ''I'd say that the team is quicker than I expected it to be.''
Bologna born Zanardi's last F1 stint was in 1999, at Williams, but he
also drove races for Lotus, Minardi and Jordan.
Today, he steers a hand-controlled BMW in the world touring car
series, and recalled how 'extremely difficult' it is 'to just be a
part' of the F1 world.
Zanardi continued: ''But it's far more demanding if you want to battle
at the front end of the grid and win races.''
Yuji Ide makes F1 test debut
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) Japanese race rookie Yuji Ide made his formula
one test debut at Barcelona on Wednesday.
The 31-year-old, to drive in grands prix alongside countryman Takuma
Sato for new Japanese team 'Super Aguri' next month, lapped more than
9 seconds off the pace over 44 laps in warm Spain, until the reworked
2002 Arrows broke down.
At the front of the field was Kimi Raikkonen, whose 2006 McLaren car
is finally showing some pace at tests.
The Finn led the field of fifteen, including both Renault racers who
endured a difficult start to the day with identical problems on their
first out-laps. The team said it was 'small software problems'.
''But it wasn't as bad as it seemed,'' said chief engineer Christian
Silk, even though neither blue and yellow car re-emerged until after
the lunch break.
Honda and MF1 were also in action, while Williams' Nico Rosberg and
Red Bull veteran David Coulthard had a little biff on the way out of
Later, DC's Ferrari engine failed.
Toyota turned up to compare its newly-uncovered Bahrain spec bodywork
package with other runners, and wound up about a full second off the
top pace.
But Ralf Schumacher said: ''It is still early to say where we stand.''
In rainy Italy, BMW Sauber joined Toro Rosso on the Imola track. An
STR statement said testing 'was pretty much wiped out' at the sodden
Revamp for Brit GP delayed
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) Silverstone's owner has delayed a controversial
proposal to redevelop the British grand prix venue, including the axe
of historic corners.
The British Racing Drivers' Club held a meeting at the
Northamptonshire track on Wednesday, but the expected members' vote
was postponed because of significant opposition.
''Members need more information,'' claimed president Sir Jackie
Stewart, ''and a longer period of consultation.''
It was reported last week that the Club, Abbey and Bridge bends could
all be axed in proposed developer St Modwen's plans for the track.
The controversial scheme would also involve horse racing company
Northern Racing, with no experience in motor sport, taking over the
running of Silverstone for a period of 25 years.
''Members are understood to have a further six weeks to make up their
minds,'' wrote the British broadsheet Daily Telegraph.
Aguri chief to retire in 2011
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) He is F1's newest team principal, but Aguri
Suzuki says he will retire in five years time.
The owner of new Honda-backed Japanese outfit 'Super Aguri', who raced
in 64 grands prix and left the driving seat in 1995, vowed to 'quit
everything' when he turns 50 in September 2011.
''I am tired,'' Suzuki, also owner of an IRL team, was quoted as
saying by the AFP agency.
''I want to spend my time doing other things.''
Before he exits the formula one paddock, though, Suzuki said he wants
to see his Leafield-based Aguri team rise to a top-three finish 'in 2
to 3 years'.
FIA seeks 'standard ECU' supplier
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) F1's governing body has ramped up plans for
standard car electronics in 2008, by seeking 'expressions of interest'
of potential suppliers of a control ECU.
The spend-hungry carmakers don't like it, but FIA president Max Mosley
intends to force all teams to fit the same 'electronic control unit' -
the 'brain' of the engine, gearbox and other systems - to their
''It will limit the amount of money that can be spent on technology,''
he said recently.
A standard ECU will also be used to log how much mileage a car has
done, thereby allowing the FIA to effectively regulate circuit
Mosley added: ''The manufacturers hate it, but that is going to be the
rule for everybody who wants to enter in 2008.''
Potential ECU suppliers are being asked to lodge their interest before
the end of March.
Not too late for Narain - Williams
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) India's Narain Karthikeyan is not too old to one
day return to the formula one grid.
That's the pledge of Sir Frank Williams, who has signed the former
Jordan racer - and his sponsor Tata - for 2006.
But Williams, 63, said his team's new second test driver has a long
way to go.
''Narain is seen as being short on experience, but still very fast,
although a bit erratic,'' the Briton told an interview with Hindustan
Times, a leading Indian newspaper.
However, at 29, Karthikeyan - presently not a regular on the winter
circuits as his race colleagues get priority - would be in his
thirties if he ever got another shot at the grid.
But Williams insisted: ''Michael Schumacher is nearly ten years older
than Narain, so there is plenty of time ahead of him.
''I do believe that he has the necessary talent.''
Frank, Mark, upbeat about '06
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) Sir Frank Williams has delivered an upbeat
message about his team's prospects for 2006.
The 63-year-old's new blue and white car, no longer powered by a works
engine or backed by a title sponsor, has shown up well on the winter
tracks, after the '05 'FW27' slumped to fifth in the team tally.
Some analysts say the new Cosworth V8, although without the financial
muscle of the other engine makers, is at least a match for Honda,
Ferrari and Renault -- if not superior.
''This year's car,'' Williams said, referring to the FW28, ''is a big
step forward compared to last year's (car).
''However, it's too early to comment as there are many unknown
A weakness last year was aerodynamics, but lead driver Mark Webber
revealed that FW28 - with an unique barb on the rear of the engine
cover - is 'very aggressive in terms of its aerodynamic design.'
The Australian told 'The Age': ''(The FW28) car has been in the wind
tunnel a long time and a lot of effort went into it. I hope that will
translate to pace.
''Cosworth made a superb engine for us,'' Webber continued, ''but
being an independent operation, I hope we are in for a solid year.''
'SA05' to get aero update
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) Super Aguri's 'SA05' car - the reworked 2002
Arrows - will get an updated bodywork package for its grand prix race
debut next month.
At the tests in Barcelona this week, although with some tweaks, the
car appeared with 'illegal' aerodynamics -- the basis of which was
designed to conform with the FIA regulations four years ago.
But we can reveal at least three elements of the package that are set
to be added to the all-white car: new endplates for the rear wing, a
higher engine cover, and extended 'flick-ups' for the rear of the two
side pods.
Chief technical officer Mark Preston is calling the Barcelona SA05 a
'systems car' -- fitted with definitive mechanical and electronic
parts but not the race-legal aero.
Max, Bernie, approve Imola upgrade
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) F1 powerbrokers Max Mosley and Bernie Ecclestone
have green lighted Imola's $12 million circuit upgrade.
Italian sports newspaper 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' reported that the
plan - headed by renowned circuit architect Hermann Tilke - was given
the all clear to proceed by both the formula one supremo and the
sport's governing body.
The plans for the ageing San Marino grand prix venue in Italy, near
Bologna, include a new pit complex, media complex and tweaked layout,
including the elimination of the 'Variante Bassa' chicane.
It will be ready for the 2007 race at the 'Enzo e Dino Ferrari'
circuit, not this year's running in late April, and completed with the
help of government part-funding.
Imola has a contract to stage grands prix until 2009.
Ex-F1 sponsor writes off Ferrari
(GMMf1NET -- Feb.23) A controversial Swedish businessman has destroyed
his $1m 'Enzo Ferrari' - one of the world's rarest road cars - in a
200kph smash.
Only 400 of the V12 vehicles were ever built at Maranello, also home
of the Italian formula one team.
The red car, torn in two after slamming into a pole in Los Angeles,
was owned by 44-year-old Stefan Eriksson, a former executive of the
failed Jordan sponsor Gizmondo.
A drunk Eriksson, who has been linked with the Swedish mafia, told
police that the driver of the vehicle was a runaway German, but police
did not find him.
The Enzo, a model of Ferrari that is also owned by Michael Schumacher,
Eric Clapton and Roger Penske, was being illegally raced at dawn
against a SLR Mercedes-Benz.
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