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10 Space Technologies That Help On Earth
NASA nurtured many innovations, from a portable communications system to an ultrasound machine for telemedicine, that have made the leap from space to Earth.
Two technologies with "life saving" potential are about to be induced into the Space Technology Hall of Fame in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The technologies -- an inflatable satellite communication system and a compact, low-power ultrasound machine -- will be inducted into the nonprofit Space Foundation's Space Technology Hall of Fame on April 11. The Hall of Fame recognizes innovations developed for use in space that are repurposed in ways that improve life on Earth.
The GATR Inflatable Satellite Communication System is a portable, inflatable antenna that uses geostationary satellites to establish communications in remote areas. The result of a partnership between NASA's Glenn Research Center and SRS Technologies, the system has been used in emergency relief efforts, as well as by the U.S. government for military and security operations.
The other Hall of Fame inductee is a compact, low-power ultrasound machine (pictured here), originally conceived to support telemedicine in space. The ultrasound devices were developed through the Advanced Diagnostic Ultrasound in Microgravity (ADUM) experiment, which took place on the International Space Station from 2003 to 2005. Experts on the ground received diagnostic-quality images from the Space Station through satellite connections. The ADUM team worked with Henry Ford Hospital, Wyle and Epiphan Systems to adapt the technology to send ultrasound scans over long distances on Earth without loss of image quality.
Sixty-seven technologies have been inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame since it opened 25 years ago. They illustrate how space exploration can have "unexpected benefits" on Earth, said Kevin Cook, the Space Foundation's director of Space Awareness Programs. "Our inductees remind us of what we can achieve when we dare to explore," Cook said. "They have directly improved the quality of life we enjoy today by creating industry, protecting resources and saving lives."
NASA has long partnered with the private sector, academia and other government agencies to repurpose space technologies for commercial use. Many of those advances are documented in the agency's annual Spinoff publication, which has featured more than 1,800 spinoffs in health and medicine, transportation, public safety, consumer goods, energy and the environment, IT and industrial productivity. The latest edition of Spinoff highlighted 44 innovations, including a search and rescue system enabled by satellite ground stations, and a robot assistant that roams hospitals and registers patients. NASA says spin-off technologies save lives and contribute to the economy.
The Space Foundation works closely with the NASA spinoff group to identify nominations for the Space Technology Hall of Fame and validate them. While most inductees have been NASA technologies, the Space Foundation also works with the European Space Agency, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Chinese Manned Space Office, Canadian Space Agency and others. Going forward, the foundation expects to see an increase in inductees from other nations.¬¬
In this visual guide, we highlight the 10 most recent tech innovations to be inducted into the Space Technology Hall of Fame. Image credit: NASA
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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New dragons are added regularly!
Misfit Pygmies are brightly-colored dragons who love to make life miserable for other creatures. When several Misfits group together, it is certain that there is mischief afoot. They do everything they can to tease, causing general mayhem for all. Misfit Dragons will steal food from beneath other dragons' noses both for fun, and to fill their bellies. While they are known for their tricks and pranks, they have a rarely-displayed sweet side and will search out little treasures to present to their chosen mate.
Dragons are highly-intelligent reptilian creatures that—from a human perspective, at least—appear to live forever. Many different varieties of dragon exist, each with their own unique qualities, habitats, and behavior. Adolescence in dragons is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. In Galsreim, dragons and humans coexist peacefully.
Pygmy dragons are the smallest category of dragons, being on the same scale as domesticated animals. They are often found around concentrated populations of dragons, relying on their larger brethren to ward away potential predators and leave scraps. As such, the majority of a pygmy's diet is scavenged. Due to their tiny size, pygmies do not breed with larger varieties of dragons.


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Julia's Eyes
Guillem Morales
If the psychological thriller is your genre of choice, you'll be wanting to add Julia's Eyes to your collection. Dark and genuinely disturbing, it's also as classy and captivating as you'd expect from a film produced by Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth).
Julia (Belén Rueda) suffers from a degenerative eye disease which will ultimately result in blindness. When she discovers her sister – another sufferer – dead, it's a race against time to prove she didn't commit suicide and discover what really happened. As Julia's sight gradually begins to fail, clever "point-of-view" shooting shows us the world literally through her eyes, and every so often we catch an ominous glimpse of someone lurking in the shadows.
The sense of threat is palpable throughout, and much of this is due to a superb central performance from Rueda. Previously seen in a similarly tormented role in The Orphanage, she's the best actress you've probably never heard of, and does an excellent line in vulnerability. You'll find it uncomfortable at times, but that's exactly what makes it effective, and unmissable.
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Each year Aurubis Bulgaria implements a wide range of social projects at the national and regional level by combining its corporate values with its objective of helping people. People should feel that the company working near their homes is socially engaged and working in their interests.
Aurubis Bulgaria's projects are implemented through social agreements with the Municipalities of Pirdop and Zlatitsa. These agreements are fulfilled on an annual basis and reflect the social policy of the company and the priorities of the respective municipalities.
Each year the company supports the Municipalities of Pirdop and Zlatitsa by implementing social projects aimed at supporting permanently unemployed individuals, disabled people, students and talented children, sports initiatives, etc. For the past 10 years the company has made donations amounting to over BGN 6 million. In 2011 Aurubis Bulgaria was named Corporate Donor of the Year by the Bulgarian Donors' Forum.
We also implement interesting "green" initiatives, especially for our employees. Apart from the projects included in the social agreements, Aurubis Bulgaria implements other considerable social projects in cooperation with associations, schools and other organizations that share common ideas about the development of the region.
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Family with epileptic son touched after stranger pays for dinner, sends kind note
A North Carolina family with an epileptic child was given a touching gift on Friday when an anonymous stranger paid for their dinner at a restaurant, leaving them a note that is, not surprisingly, going viral online.
The note read: "God only gives special children to special people."
The message was delivered to Ashley England and her family, including her 8-year-old son, Riley, at the Stag-N-Doe pizza restaurant in China Grove, N.C., on Friday by a waitress.
"I'll try to do this without crying," the waitress told the family, according to WBTV.com. "But another customer has paid for your bill tonight and wanted me to give you this note."
England said Riley, who is nonverbal, gets frustrated because he can't speak, and he had been especially rowdy during the meal.
"He threw the phone and started screaming," England told WBTV. "The past few weeks have been very hard and trying for us, especially with public outings. Riley was getting loud and hitting the table, and I know it was aggravating to some people."
Riley's seizures started when he was 18 months old, England said.
She said the mystery diner's random act of kindness brought her to tears.
"To have someone do that small act towards us shows that some people absolutely understand what we are going through and how hard it is to face the public sometimes," she said. "They made me cry, blessed me more than they know. I felt like out of all the rude negative comments that we are faced with, these outweighs them. The people who care. Little did he know what struggles we had been facing lately, and this was surely needed at that moment."
England posted the note on Facebook with a message of her own: "Dear stranger, thank you for giving me a blessing tonight in a way you will never know."
England told CNN plans to return to the restaurant this week so she can "find the man to thank him personally."


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1959 Imperial Speedster
As owner, designer and builder Murray Pfaff puts it, the Imperial Speedster is the concept car that Chrysler never envisioned. It's a two-seat roadster hewn from a massive 1959 Imperial Crown Custom sedan. There simply isn't room here to get into every detail that consumed 10,000 hours of painstaking craftsmanship, but in a nutshell, the car's body was cut into 46 major sections and welded back together in his Royal Oak, Mich. home's two-garage. Well, not all of it went back together.
"Proportion was the foremost priority with the car," says Pfaff. "With the vision of what I wanted the car to look like, I concentrating on getting the body and its proportions just right. Once that was accomplished, I focused on putting a frame and drivetrain beneath it."
Pfaff and a number of friends whacked the land yacht in five places to take 52 inches – that's more than 4 feet – out of its length. He also sliced a big swath out of the middle, narrowing the car by 8 inches, and sectioned it by 3 inches. If you aren't familiar with that latter customizing technique, it literally involves removing a horizontal band of the bodywork around the entire car. It's the same principle as chopping a top, but doing it to the entire body.
If that degree of sheet metal surgery doesn't totally floor you, the rest of the car's details surely will. The doors, for example, seamlessly meld the fronts of the original front door with the rear sections of the rear doors, while undersides of front fender tops are trimmed, with the headlight buckets separated from the grille bar and moved up into the fenders for a more serious appearance. And let's not forget that this thing originally had a roof when Pfaff started.
Indeed, it is more than sheet metal surgery. It is art rendered with a plasma cutter and welder – and finished off in a Jaguar Topaz color from PPG that is similar to the car's original color.
Inside, a completely custom interior is set off by the unique, rectangular steering wheel and gauge cluster from a 1960 Imperial. The gauges themselves are custom, refaced instruments from New Vintage USA. PJ's Trim Shop in Hemlock, Mich., sewed up the sumptuous cabin.
"When you stand back and look at it, it has the classic styling from the Motorama era," says Pfaff. "All of the details were standing in plain sight on the stock, four-door Imperial, but there was simply too much sheet metal between them. We simply carved the Speedster out of the sedan."
Once the body was chiseled into its final form, it was placed on – of all things – a slightly modified version of the 1969 Camaro G-Machine chassis from Schwartz Performance. The Imperial Speedster rides on a 91-inch wheelbase, with an independent front and rear suspensions. The rear axle is from a Dodge Viper. Again, many mods were required to make it all work, but work it does; and at the corners are Dayton wire wheels (17x8-in. front/18x10-in. rear) with Lamborghini Orange rims, wrapped in Goodyear tires.
The torque to spin those big Daytons comes from a late-model 6.1-liter Mopar SRT HEMI engine, rated at 425 horsepower and 410 lb.-ft. of torque. Like the rest of the car, it has been worked over to become one of its artful elements, including custom valve covers and a modified intake manifold. The manifold was actually turned around on the engine, with the throttle body facing the firewall. That allowed Pfaff to fabricate the stylish "intake blades" motif that faces forward under the hood.
A 518 four-speed automatic transmission built by Phoenix Transmission Products backs the stylized HEMI, sending torque to a Dana 44 diff fitted with highway-friendly 3.07 gears via a custom Dynotech driveshaft.
The chassis system works well and the 425-horsepower HEMI delivers plenty of on-demand power, making the car a great driver. Pfaff and the Imperial Speedster are regulars along Woodward Avenue, in suburban Detroit, during the summer cruising season and the car is a veteran of the Hot Rod Power Tour. In fact, Pfaff has put nearly 4,000 miles so far on a car most people would assume is hermetically sealed when not collecting awards and trophies at events around the country.
"Somebody told me it's like a trailer queen without the trailer," laughs Pfaff. "I thought that was a perfect summation."
Well, it did hitch a ride on a transporter at least once, when auto shipper Pilot Transport delivered the car to Naples, Fla., so Pfaff's 92-year-old father could check it out and go for a ride.
Indeed, the Speedster's blend of classic Detroit style and modern performance and mind-bending craftsmanship makes the Imperial Speedster more than a custom car. It is the embodiment of the boundless spirit and visionary design that drove Detroit decades ago – and a reminder of the days when function followed form.
"I believe this car could have sprung from the design table of the late Virgil Exner – Chrysler's famous design chief," says Pfaff. "Detroit was at its best when styling trumped all else."
That's certainly the case with the Imperial Speedster.
Are you going to be at the 2012 SEMA Show and want to see more of the Imperial Speedster? Drop by the AutoTrader Classics booth (#22697) in Hot Rod Alley and see this amazing vehicle in person!
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About Classic Tapers
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Roger Scoble blogs about the latest gadgets, travel and luxury…
Norway, Aruba and Orlando have emerged as some of the top 10 family destinations for 2014, according to a group of family vacation experts. Though the Christmas holidays may have just ended, parents of school-aged children know that spring break is coming soon.
Here are a few suggestions from the editors of US-based FamilyVacationCritic.com, whose list of best family-friendly destinations is topped by Aruba, also known as "one happy island."
In addition to a wide range of family-friendly activities like windsurfing, cave exploration and shell-hunting tours, the Aruba government is developing the Caribbean's largest linear park (characterized as being longer than they are wide), which will feature playgrounds and bike paths.
This year also marks the 60th anniversary of Aruba's Carnival, the island's biggest annual party, notes FamilyVacationCritic, a kid-friendly festival that includes a children's parade.
Inspired by the "storybook-like" village of Bergen, Disney's latest animated film "Frozen" captures some of Norway's best assets: the country's dramatic landscapes, fjords, mountains and cascading waterfalls. Disney also hopes to make the unlikely destination top of mind for parents, having added the country to their Adventures by Disney roster which offers guided family vacations for 2014.
Highlights of Disney's eight-day Norwegian trips scheduled for the summer months include a visit to Bergen, the inspiration for the kingdom of Arendelle; trout fishing; river rafting and Norwegian folk dance lessons.
Orlando, FL
No surprise here, Orlando is a perennial favorite for family travel with its slew of theme parks. New this year, Universal Orlando will be expanding its wildly popular Harry Potter space with the addition of Diagon Alley and the Hogwarts Express. Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom is also undergoing its largest ever expansion that will include the debut of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train.
This summer, the posh 444-room Four Seasons Resort Orlando will open its doors to families looking for a luxury stay, that will come complete with a five-acre "Explorer Island" featuring a pool, climbing wall, water park, and outdoor movie nights.
Kansas City, MO
This kid-friendly city features destinations like a Planet Snoopy at Worlds of Fun, a LEGOLAND Discovery Center and the Crayola Café. But the real reason Kansas City is poised to become a go-to destination for families in 2014? The opening of the Verruckt, the tallest, fastest waterslide in the world, at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark this year.
Here are the top 10 family destinations for 2014, according to FamilyVacationCritic.com.
1. Aruba
2. Orlando
3. Cruise the Mediterranean
4. Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
5. Beaver Creek, Colorado
6. Norway
7. Kansas, City, Missouri
8. Yosemite National Park, California
9. Rhode Island, NY
10. New York City
Roger Scoble blogs about the latest gadgets, travel and luxury news. A graduate of UCLA, Roger loves to travel, drive luxe autos and have amazing adventures.


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When considering the overall tax position of your family, it is worth considering if you can justify employing your spouse in your business.
This is a means of transferring income from you to your spouse. It is likely to show a tax saving if your spouse has unused personal allowances or pays tax at a lower rate than you do.
In order to justify a salary, the following points must be borne in mind:
- The level of salary must be commercially justifiable and wholly and exclusively incurred in the course of the trade
- The salary must actually be paid to your spouse (and therefore affordable for you)
- The national minimum or living wage regulations are likely to apply unless the business is a self employment, where the "family member" exemption may apply
- If the salary is sufficient (over £10,000 per annum) there may also be an obligation to implement a workplace pension scheme and enrol them in it.
It is important to apply the same principles when paying a spouse as you would when employing someone not connected to you.
As well as a salary, you may be able to pay premiums for a special pension arrangement for your spouse even if they are not required to be enrolled in auto-enrolment.
These should not be taxable on your spouse and should save you tax as a business expense provided that the overall salary package is reasonable in relation to the work done.
The total salary package is the amount which is considered when deciding whether the payments are justified under the wholly and exclusively rule.
All the above considerations apply equally to an unmarried partner or indeed to any other individual.
Administering a salary
If your spouse has no other employment, the starter form (previously P46) should be signed with the Statement B ("This is my only or main job") ticked. You may then pay up to the Lower Earnings Limit (£118 for 2019/20) without any further formality, provided that you have no other employees.
If you already have a PAYE scheme for other employees, or don't mind setting up a scheme for your spouse, you should consider the following points:
- A salary between £118 and £166 per week will protect an entitlement to basic state pension and other contributory benefits without incurring any actual national insurance liability
- A salary between £166 and £962 per week is subject to employees' national insurance at 12% and between £162 and £892 employers' national insurance at 13.8%, although you may be able to claim Employment Allowance which reduces the employer national insurance bill by up to £3,000 a year
- The income tax position depends on your spouse's personal circumstances
- The amount of salary exceeding £962 a week is subject to employees' national insurance at 2% and employers' national insurance at 13.8%, without upper limit


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Identify the Parts of Your Knife
Know Your Knife
Knives are a commonly used tool that we often take for granted. We expect them to perform and cut with ease, but we rarely pay any more attention to our knives than that. To understand your knife, it is important to learn about its construction and be able to identify the various knife parts.
First, it is easy to divide the knife into two main parts, the handle and the blade. But each of those two parts can also be subdivided into its own parts. With the help of the photo at right and the descriptions below, you will better understand what components make up your knife.
Point – The point is the part of the knife where the edge and spine come together. The point is often used for piercing.
Tip – The tip is the forward part of the knife and includes the knife point. The tip is used for detailed or delicate cutting.
Edge – The edge is the cutting part of the blade. It extends from the point to the heel of the knife.
Heel - The heel is the rear part of the edge, opposite the point.
Spine - The spine is the top of the knife blade, opposite the knife edge.
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Tang - The tang is the part of the blade that extends into the handle of the knife. It is the surface to which the handle attaches to the blade.
Scales – The scales are the part of the knife that creates the handle. Scales are often made of synthetic material or wood. Two scales are typically attached to the tang with rivets.
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The Police Beat
Common ground. Chicago, Illinois; London, England; Tehran, Iran; and Ramat Gan, Israel. It turns out there's one thing the governments in Iran, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S.A. can all agree on: massive police brutality against political protesters.
Lausanne, Switzerland. World Radio Switzerland (2009-06-09): Perjury claim reopens police brutality case. A cop in the Swiss city of Lausanne stopped a 16 year old Eritrean immigrant twice on New Year's eve; the second time, they decided to douse him with pepper spray and leave him out in the woods. He tried to lodge a complaint, but the local police wouldn't accept the complaint. When the case finally got investigated and went to trial, the cop was acquitted in court because his gang-brothers lied for him on the stand. The case is back in the news because it's been re-opened after a former cop accused them of perjuring themselves in order to cover up police brutality.
Sergeant Naofumi Nomura. Okayama, Japan. A 75 year old woman recently got Served and Protected by Police Sergeant Naofumi Nomura when he stole her purse and about 10,000 yen inside it. He was arrested after two high school boys chased him down on their bicycles. (Via Reason Daily Brickbats.)
Northern Territory police. Darwin, Australia. Tara Ravens, Brisbane Times (2009-06-10): Coroner slams NT police over man's death. Northern Territory police pulled a former journalist named Greg Plasto off the street and forced him into the hospital for a
mental health assessment
because they thought he wasacting strangely,
in their arbitrary judgment, which apparently is good enough to put you in a psychoprison these days; after he had been forced to wait nearly two hours in an ambulance, he got up and said he wanted to go outside. Rather than asking him why he wanted to go outside, or just letting him get up and walk around, a gang ofup to six
cops tackled Plasto, who, again, had not been accused of any crime at all, then wrestled him to the ground, smashed his head into the ground, and held him down on the ground for four minutes while he turned blue and smothered to death. The coroner who reviewed the case says that the problem is that police needbetter training.
Officer Joseph J. Rios III. Passaic, New Jersey. (Cont'd.) I previously mentioned the case of Officer Joseph J. Rios III, who was videotaped beating the hell out of a defenseless black man, over and over again, for not having zipped up his jacket on command. (Rios, formerly a counter-insurgency soldier in occupied Iraq, remained on active patrol duty while the incident was being Internally Investigated, right up until after the video evidence was released to the public, at which point the city government's police department let him keep his job, but put him on a desk job. Then, in response to public protest, Mayor Alex Blanco had the city government's police department give Rios a [paid vacation](http://www.northjersey.com/breakingnews/Officeraccusedofexcessiveforce_suspended.html instead. Later, in response to ongoing protests, he had it changed to an unpaid vacation.
Officer Joseph J. Rios III has since come out with a public statement for the press, insisting that he
stands by his actions
; saying (through his lawyer) thatThere were communications by Mr. Holloway and the officer as well as an earlier encounter during the day between the men that wasn't on the tape
(apparently thinking that verbalcommunications
might somehow — how? — justify this relentless beat-down); he asserts that hedid what was proper
and (what he wrongly believes to be the same thing) hedid what I was trained to do.
Supposing that's true, what does that tell you about the training?Well, if you say so …. Botched SWAT raid. Prince George's County Sheriff's Department. Prince George's County, Maryland. Radley Balko, Hit & Run (2009-06-20): Prince George's County Sheriff's Department Declares Itself Blame-Free in Cheye Calvo Raid In which the Prince George's County Sheriff's Department issues a report in which it is reported that the Prince George's County Sheriff's Department did nothing wrong in the no-knock, no-evidence SWAT raid on Cheye Calvo's family home. (This is more or less what passes for
when cops commit violence against merecivilians.
) Sheriff Michael Jackson says the Internal Investigation's resultsare consistent with what I've felt all along: My deputies did their job to the fullest extent of their abilities.
No doubt.Oops. Our bad. (Cont'd.) Botched SWAT raid. Mustang, Oklahoma. Six heavily-armed strangers in black bullet-proof vests stormed Terry Speck's house back in March and, without telling her who the hell they were or what they were doing in her house, told her they were looking for her 20-year-old nephew, Cory Davis. Terrified, she tried to tell them he was in prison. They didn't believe her, so they ransacked her house for 20 minutes before they left, without ever identifying themselves. The Specks were later able to figure out that they were police by reviewing the tapes from their home security cameras. Cory Davis had in fact been in state prison since November, but apparently when an arrest warrant on new charges was issued, none of the narcs bothered to check where he was, instead of storming first and asking questions later. Of course, for being terrorized at the hands of six heavily-armed strangers for absolutely no reason, Terry Speck got an
Oops, our bad
from the state. (Via Reason Daily Brickbats 2009-06-14.)Murderers and batterers on patrol. Officer Jason Thomas Anderson. Big Lake, Minnesota. I've remarked before on the connections between paramilitary policing and violent hypermasculinity. So I'll just mention, here, that it turns out that when Officer Jason Thomas Anderson is not busy shooting teenage Hmong bike-riders in the back (or shooting them five more times in the chest after they're already bleeding on the ground), he also likes to get himself arrested on domestic violence charges.
Roughing up and arresting an innocent woman for filming the police. Richmond, Virginia. Richmond police were dealing with a lot of drunks down in Shockoe Bottom at 2:00am last September. Joanne Jefferson decided to observe and film how the cops were handling people in the crowd; so the cops responded by ordering her to leave, then grabbing her arm, slamming her into a wall, and then forcing her down onto the ground and arresting her for
impeding traffic.
The story is now in the news because the Richmond D.A. has decided to drop the charges against Ms. Jefferson. Even though filming the police on public property is not a crime, and even though the D.A. has determined that the police had absolutely no basis for arresting Ms. Jefferson, let alone grabbing her, slamming her into a wall, and forcing her down onto the ground in order to do so, he thinks thatthe officers did not act with excessive force.
If the appropriate level of force is zero, how is this not excessive force? Nevertheless, the D.A. has stated that he seesno evidence that would support a criminal investigation of a police officer.
Arresting an innocent priest for filming the police. Officer David Cari. East Haven, Connecticut. East Haven cop David Cari arrested a Roman Catholic priest, James Manship, for filming police treatment of Latino immigrants in East Haven. The police report claims that he had to be arrested for
disorderly conduct
andinterfering with an officer
because he was holding anunknown shiny silver object
in his hand (with the obvious intent to suggest that the cop thought it might have been a gun) and struggled with a cop who tried to take it from him. Turns out that the video footage from the camera shows Officer David Cari asking the priestIs there a reason you have a camera on me?
Manship replyingI'm taking a video of what's going on here,
and Cari approaching Manship and saying,Well, I'll tell you what I'm going to do with that camera.
The police department's lawyer saysYou've got to conclude that he was out there with a video camera in an attempt, in my view, to provoke the police to do something.
(Well, whatever you want; but if cops just can't help butdo something
like arrest an innocent man for a non-crime whenprovoked
by the public they allegedly serve trying to record their behavior, then why should such dangerous thugs continue being cops?) (Via Reason Daily Brickbats 2009-06-01: Caught on Tape.)Roughing up and arresting an innocent woman for raising her voice at a police officer. Officer Bobby Wright and New Mexico State Police. Espa?@c3;b1;ola, New Mexico. In New Mexico, a couple of State Police, responding to reports of
shots fired in the area,
rolled up on Dolores Jacquez, a 17 year old pregnant girl, and her boyfriend, who were sitting in a car minding their own business. They pointed automatic rifles at the two of them and ordered them to stand outside the car with their hands in the air. Her boyfriend has only one leg, which made it hard for him to do what they were ordering. Rather than acting like human beings, and in spite of the fact that neither of these kids had committed any crime, the State Police shoved the 17 year old pregnant girl and her one-legged boyfriend down to the ground. During this absolutely pointless manhandling, Jacquezspoke angrily to the officers, raising her voice while talking to them, using profanity at times;
for which the State Police decided that she and her boyfriend ought to be arrested. So they shoved her into their patrol car and called up a city government cop, Officer Bobby Wright, to take her to jail. When she asked what would happen to her boyfriend, he repliedShut up, [expletive].
Then he handcuffed her to a bench at the State Police station, making the cuff so tight that it cut into the skin and left a mark on her wrist for days, refused to let her use the bathroom, and threatened to make the cuffseven tighter
if she did notshut up.
This complaint makes at least the fourth complaint for brutality or unlawful arrests against Officer Bobby Wright. The State Police never bothered to file any charges, because, of course, cussing at cops is not a crime. But while you can beat the rap, you can't beat the ride, so they arrested the kids anyway, because they could. The State Public Safety Department has settled the separate lawsuit that Jacquez filed against the two State Police cops for terrorizing her, roughing her up and arresting her forspeaking angrily
; public servants that they are, the State Public Safety Department will be sending the bill for the settlement to a bunch of innocent taxpayers who had nothing to do with the assault or the false arrest.Four broken ribs for
a police officer. Modesto, California. Back in January 2007, Margaret Shepherd went out to a Modesto bar with her son to celebrate his 21st birthday. One of her son's friends got thrown out of the bar anda scuffle appeared to break out
between the bar's security guards and some other people in the party. Ms. Shepherd, who had nothing to do with any of this, tried to approach some cops who were in the club to ask them what the hell was going on. So they broke four of her ribs, arrested her forresisting arrest,
and then threw her in a paddy-wagon and refused to get her medical attention while she struggled to breathe in the back of the wagon. The story is in the news again because a jury just cleared the cops of any civil liability for this hyperviolent assault on an innocent woman who had done nothing other than try to ask the cops what was going on.Beating and pepper-spraying a man after he's been handcuffed for arguing with a police officer. Lieutenant Chuck McBrayer and Officer Danny Williams. Valley, Alabama. Amy Weaver, Opelika-Auburn News (2009-06-09): Third claim filed against Valley, police. Valley cops Lieutenant Chuck McBrayer and Officer Danny Williams forced their way into 64 year old Joseph E. Coker's home. Joseph E. Coker wasn't accused of any crime; they were looking for his son, Brandon Coker. Joseph Coker and Lieutenant Chuck McBrayer got into a verbal argument, so McBrayer threatened to pepper spray him for arguing with a cop who was intruding into his own home. So McBrayer ordered Officer Danny Williams to handcuff this 64-year-old man; then, after he was already being handcuffed, Lieutenant Chuck McBrayer pepper-sprayed him in the face; then he pried open Coker's right eye and pepper-sprayed him again, directly in the eye. Then they forced him down onto the ground and, while he was still cuffed and physically restrained, smashed his nose so hard he passed out and had to be hospitalized. After going on this unprovoked hyperviolent rampage against a 64-year-old man in his own home, McBrayer and Williams arrested Coker in the emergency room for
disorderly conduct
andresisting arrest.
This is the third claim of police brutality filed against the Valley police department in the last three months. The boss cops in Valley refuse to comment on anydisciplinary actions
because the incident is being Internally Investigated. (Via @InjusticeNews.)Bludgeoning a stabbing victim after he was already handcuffed to a wheelchair. Officer William Cozzi. Chicago, Illinois. In Chicago, Officer William Cozzi, a 15-year
of the Chicago Police Department, was caught on video handcuffing a stabbing victim to a wheelchair, in the hospital emergency room, and beating him with a sap. He was called into the emergency room help the man out after he had been stabbed bya female companion.
But his victim was drunk, and Cozzi was busy Investigating, so he gotfrustrated
at the alleged beneficiary of this investigation, and decided to deal with his frustration by shackling the man to a wheelchair and beating him with a sap. Then he made up some complete lies for his police report about his victim having attacked him and hospital workers. After the video came out, Cozzi plead guilty to misdemeanor charges and got 18 months of probation.Later, a series of scandals over repeated and unchecked police brutality and corruption within the Chicago Police Department forced Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weis to refer the case to the FBI for a federal civil rights investigation. Cozzi was just recently convicted and sentenced to three years in federal prison. In response, the Fraternal Order of Police in Chicago has made a public complaint about the fact that Cozzi will go to prison for beating the hell out of an innocent, wounded assault victim who was shackled to a wheelchair at the time, and who Cozzi was supposedly called in to Protect and Serve. Terence Gillespie, Cozzi's defense lawyer, says that
This is a message to all those officers in blue out there that after 15 years on the job you'll get thrown under the bus.
(See also the case of Hope Steffey for cops beating the hell out of an assault victim who gets too
while the cop is doing his Investigating.)Gang-beating a man after he's been handcuffed. Officer Brian Quilici, Officer Ronald Pilati, and Officer Jerome Volstad. Fox Lake, Illinois. Three off-duty cops — one on the Richmond city government's police force, and two on the Spring Grove city government's police force — went to a bar in Fox Lake to get drunk back in April 2005. Along the way they got into a verbal argument with a man named Ryan Hallett. When he tried to leave, the three cops followed him out of the bar, handcuffed him, and then beat him down to the ground while he was cuffed. Then, while Hallet was lying on the ground, one of the cops, Officer Brian Quilici, kicked him in the face so hard that he Hallett suffered a broken facial bone and later had to get multiple surgeries. Fox Lake police who responded to this mob beat-down by their gang brothers recommended that their victim, Ryan Hallet, be prosecuted, until a series of newspaper reports revealed that Officer Brian Quilici had already racked up multiple complaints for harassment, battery and disorderly conduct, somehow without charges ever having been filed against him or his job prospects having been hurt in the least. After the newspaper stories forced their hand, the State Police eventually started their own investigation, and Qulici was eventually charged and convicted of
mob action,
official misconduct,
andobstructing justice,
which got him a two-year prison sentence. His comrades-in-arms, Officer Ronald Pilati and Officer Jerome Volstad, plead guilty on misdemeanor charges. The story is in the news again for two reasons. First, because a federal jury recently imposed a $450,000 judgment against Quilici and the city government of Richmond for the beating. (The Richmond city government will, of course, force innocent taxpayers to pay for the government's decision to keep an out-of-control hyperviolent cop on their police force after multiple complaints.) Secondly, because a state appeals court just threw out Officer Brian Quilici's conviction, on the grounds that the judge in the original criminal trial should not haveconfused
the jury by telling them thatA police officer executing an arrest outside of his jurisdiction has no greater arrest powers than a private citizen executing a citizens' arrest.
Becausearrest powers
would have made it O.K. to pick a start fight, handcuff your victim, and then kick him in the face while he's lying on the ground?Highway robbery. Officer Jonathan Lutman. Slidell, Louisiana. In Louisiana, Slidell Police Officer Jonathan Lutman repeatedly used his police car to pull over Latino drivers (whom he targeted because he thought they'd be less likely to report the stick-up) and then demanded that they hand over their wallets. When he had the wallet, he would rip out the cash and pocket it. Officer Jonathan Lutman stole about $3,000 on these highwayman traffic stops before two of his victims reported him. The story is in the news again because he plead guilty to 12 counts of
malfeasance in office
in May. If you or I or any other non-cop were convicted of practicing highway robbery (in the most literal sense) while armed with a dangerous weapon, we would be imprisoned at hard labor for not less than ten years and not more than ninety-nine years, without benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence. But since Officer Jonathan Lutman robbed people using a government-issued weapon and under color of government authority, he plead guilty to a crime that normally carries a 5 year prison sentence. And then the judge suspended the sentence, and gave Lutman probation instead, and ordered him to complete 200 hours of community service. (Via Reason Daily Brickbats: Copping a Plead.)Corporal Jason King. South Bend, Indiana. After a high-speed chase, Corporal Jason King was filmed on his dash cam beating up the Suspect Individual he was arresting, even though his victim posed no threat and was not resisting arrest. The Chief of Police in South Bend punished Corporal King by giving him a 30-day unpaid vacation and dropping his rank to
. When even the Chief of Police concedes that he was needlessly assaulting and battering a man who posed no physical threat, why isn't Corporal Jason King going to jail?Officer John Mailander and Officer Mersed Dautovic. Des Moines, Iowa. Two Des Moines city government cops were responding to an unrelated emergency call back in September; a car with a black couple in it
failed to immediately yield
, so instead of driving on to the emergency, the cops stopped the car, screamed orders and pulled the driver, Erin Evans, out of the car, and, when her boyfriend, Octavius Bonds, tried to get them to stop assaulting her, blinded him with pepper spray, and then beat him black and blue with batons, breaking his left hand and his right arm, and cracking his head open with a gash so big it took eight staples to close. Then they lied about it in their police report to try and cover up their brutality. The story is in the news again now because Des Moines Police Chief Judy Bradshaw just recently fired the two cops responsible for this out-of-control assault on helpless victims who had not committed any crime. So, great, they lost their jobs. Why aren't these dangerous assailants in jail?Quid custodiet…? Officer Paul Abel. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh cop Paul Abel was an eight year
of the police force, and also a former counter-insurgency soldier in the U.S. government's war on Iraq. He had already racked up three outstanding complaints against him for brutality and filing false police reports on the night he went out to celebrate his wife's birthday. He decided to drive drunk — after four beers and two shots. Some dude came by and punched him in the face while he sat in his car at the stoplight. So Officer Paul Abel got out, grabbed his government-issued gun, and drove after the suspect. Then, with a blood alcohol level over 0.111, he rolled up on a young man from the neighborhood named Kaleb Miller. Miller says he wasn't the man who punched Abel; two tow-truck drivers, who were in the area and saw the punching happen, say that Miller looks nothing like the man who did punch Abel. But Officer Paul Abel, drunk off his ass, decided that he had his man, so (out of uniform, at 2 in the morning) he charged up on Miller, waving his gun around, and bellowing arbitrary commands to get down on the ground. Miller didn't get down quickly enough, so Officer Paul Abel grabbed Miller, pistol-whipped him five times, and thenaccidentally
shot him in the hand. Even the Pittsburgh Police Chief had to publicly announce thatThe gentleman who was in the physical altercation [sic] is an innocent victim as far as we can tell.
The story is in the news now because, when Abel was brought up on aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and DUI charges, he opted for a trial before a government judge (because government cops know that they are much more likely to be acquitted by a government judge than by a jury), and Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning has just recently acquitted him on all charges, even the DUI. Manning himself called the beat-down, pistol-whipping, and shootinginappropriate, imprudent and ill-advised.
But Manning chose to dismiss all the charges because Officer Paul Abel is a cop, and therefore (according to Manning) he cannot be held legally responsible for his admittedly inappropriate, imprudent, and ill-advised hyperviolent beat-down against an admittedly innocent man. Because, according to Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey A. Manning, cops are a class apart, who cannot be held to account for their unrestrained violence in mere civilian courts; or, in his own words,It is not the obligation of this court to police the police department.
So if the courts don't police the police, who does?
The answer is, of course, that most of the time, nobody does. Other arms of the government hardly ever hold government police accountable for abuse because they fob off responsibility to the
of their legally-privileged-and-immunized enforcers. The government police hardly ever hold other government police accountable for abuse because they have no incentive to restrain the conduct of their fellow government cops, and a distinct professional interest in giving their colleagues as much latitude as possible in the exercise of unchecked power over their chosen targets. And nobody outside of government can hold police accountable for abuse, because government refuses to recognize the right of any independent person or association to sit in judgment of its own actions, and so has legally declared the State and all its agents accountable to none save God alone. And if you want to know why, week after week, you see the same pattern of rampant, relentless, unchecked, unaccountable, unrepentant, overwhelming and intense violence, committed by government cops against people who are obviously harmless, helpless, or defenseless, in the defense of police prerogatives and inflicted against the very people who they are allegedly being privileged and paid to Serve and Protect — well, that's pretty much why.Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Because the cops we have are already doing so much… Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Departments, North Las Vegas Police Department, and Henderson Police Department. Carson City, Nevada. Meanwhile, in the capital of Nevada, the bosses of several Nevada police departments — which currently pay the second-highest average police salaries of any state in the U.S. — rolled into the state legislature in the state of Nevada demanding the second half of a quote-unquote
More Cops tax,
a special tax increase to be inflicted on Nevada taxpayers, in the midst of the state's worst economic crisis in three generations, solely for the purpose of hiring even more police to go on saturating Nevada city streets and doing all the things that cops do with their time, on our dime, and supposedly in our names.
See also:
- GT 2009-06-11: The Police Beat
- GT 2009-06-02: The Police Beat
- GT 2009-02-23: The Metro Police Beat
- GT 2009-04-19: Men In Uniform #3
- GT 2009-05-08: Cops are here to protect you. (#9)
- GT 2009-01-12: Cops are here to protect you. (#8)
- GT 2008-09-09: Cops are here to protect you. (#7)
- GT 2008-06-03: Cops are here to protect you. (#6)
- GT 2008-05-20: Cops are here to protect you. (#5)
- GT 2008-05-11: Cops are here to protect you. (#4)
- GT 2008-05-10: Cops are here to protect you. (#3)
- GT 2008-02-26: Cops are here to protect you. (#2)
- GT 2008-02-18: Cops are here to protect you.
- GT 2007-11-09: You got served and protected.


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The first Earth Day, celebrated on April 22, 1970, gathered 20 million American citizens who marched for a cleaner environment. Since then, every year on the same day, a wealth of initiatives celebrate the earth all over the world. They remind us that it is becoming ever more urgent and necessary to safeguard the health of our planet with concrete actions taken at various levels to fight climate change. And they remind us of the value of what we step on, breathe, use, eat, admire and inhabit.
As Slow Food, once again, we want to confirm our efforts to fight climate change through the promotion of a good, clean and fair food system which could have a great impact in controlling the changes under way. Several studies have highlighted the significant role of food production in terms of carbon emissions. From agronomic practices to intensive farming, from food treatment and processing methods (including packaging) to transport and distribution, the impact of agribusiness on global warming is huge. Intensive farming contributes to the massive degradation of ecosystems, although the agricultural future of the world depends on their preservation.
However, far too often the relationship between global warming and food production is left at the margins of the debate. And far too often, we forget to make the proper distinction between different types of agriculture. If industrial farming warms the planet, agroecology (which includes a wide variety of concepts, such as sustainable farming, ecological farming, eco-friendly cultivation, eco-farming, low input farming, organic farming, permaculture and biodynamic farming) reduces the damage. In addition, it offers other great advantages, such as the opportunity to provide for a more balanced diet and to produce more food per hectare if compared to conventional farming methods.
So what can we do – on April 22 and all the days that follow – to embrace the earth, treat it with respect, and remember that its resources are not limitless? We can choose a climate-friendly diet, helping to create the world we want with each purchase: choosing a plant-based diet,and organic, and biodynamic products or food from eco-friendly farming practices; purchasing from farmers and buying local products… And let's make sure that we are informed on what we eat. Awareness is a weapon of mass construction. And there is a huge need of such awareness, for the earth, ourselves and of those who produce the food we eat.
For more information, download Slow Food's position paper on climate change.


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The Wall Street Journal has this breaking news from the tech world:
"The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.1 billion in cash for the blogging site Tumblr."
The Journal, the only outlet reporting the approval, is sourcing its story to "people familiar with the matter." Lauren Armstrong, a Yahoo spokeswoman, told us in an email that they "don't comment on rumors or speculation."
The Journal's sister site, All Things D, had reported the deal to buy the blogging site was imminent. All Things D explained:
"Sources said that the Silicon Valley Internet giant's CEO Marissa Mayer has decided that buying Tumblr was going to be 'the stake in the ground of what her strategy is going forward for Yahoo.'
"And that is to attract younger audiences with just the kind of user-generated content Tumblr has pioneered to huge growth.
"As with all big-time acquisition deals, this one could certainly fall apart at the last minute, but source said the agreement was still in place as of today. If approved by Yahoo's board, it will be announced Monday. Yahoo has already said it has news to announce then."
It's always worth noting that these kinds of deals can fall apart.
Giga Om, by the way, ran a good story that looks at the many aspects of the deal. One of them: A $1 billion valuation for Tumblr may be a stretch. Last year, the company had revenues of less than $15 million.
Giga Om adds:
"... The painful fact is that Yahoo doesn't just look desperate — in many ways it isdesperate. Mayer has made some changes since she took over the ailing former web portal, including the acquisition of Summly and a number of other mobile-focused startups and services, but the company still needs to make some aggressive moves if it is going to jump-start any growth at all. And since Yahoo has about $4 billion in cash on hand, it can arguably afford to make a big bet."
Update at 3:35 p.m. ET. A Test For Mayer:
The New York Times, which is now also reporting the story citing "people with knowledge of the agreement," reports that this will be a test for Mayer.
The Times reports:
"[Mayer] will have to ensure that Tumblr does not get lost inside Yahoo. In the past, acquisitions made by Yahoo's former chiefs, including Geocities, an early social site, and Flickr, the popular photo-sharing Web site, have either been shuttered years later or neglected within the company.
"Yahoo and Tumblr have been in talks since last week trying to finalize details of the acquisition. Facebook, Microsoft and Google all showed interest previously in purchasing Tumblr, an employee of Tumblr said, but those talks never culminated in final offers."
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MG and Jaguar Racing Sedans
It was all a bit of a laugh at first, this saloon car racing business, to some people anyway. When the British Racing Drivers' Club added what they called a Production Touring-Car Race to the Daily Express International Trophy programme at Silverstone on 10 May 1952, they probably reckoned they had hit on a great wheeze, something to amuse the spectators between the real races. Whatever the thinking, it was a success. Ordinary saloon cars being chucked round the Grand Prix circuit certainly caught the crowd's attention.
They enjoyed watching young Stirling Moss, driving a Jaguar MkVII and tearing away to a clear victory from Ken Wharton's Healey and Sydney Allard's eponymous Allard. They also saw this very same MG YB saloon, driven by enterprising MG dealer Dick Jacobs, fighting it out with the Jowett Javelins for honours in the under 1500cc class. Autosport's reporter wrote that the spectators around the course were 'thrilled by the fantastic driving of Dick Jacobs in his maroon, 1¼-liter MG saloon'.
Time and again Jacobs would draw level with Marshall and Bennett in their 1½-liter Javelins and cheekily pass them at Stowe, only to be overhauled on the long drag up Abbey Curve. However, Jacobs refused to give up and, to the great delight of the spectators, gradually outstripped those two Javelins and set off after the class leader, another Javelin driven by Bert Hadley. When Hadley's engine expired in a cloud of smoke, Jacobs swept through to take the class victory.
Serious touring car racing began on that day, and that's what this story is all about. It might have been an amusing sideshow to motor racing's purists, but it was an important business to the participants. Jacobs was there to sell MGs from his dealership, Mill Garage in Chigwell Road, London E18. For Jaguar, the Silverstone races were a golden opportunity to demonstrate the crushing superiority of the magnificent, elegant MkVII saloon, which emerged head-and-shoulders above all rivals.
As the Production Touring-Cars had proved so popular, the BRDC kept them in the Silverstone programmes of 1953 and 1954, with Jaguar MkVIIs the outright victors every time, and Jacobs also winning his class with the same MG on all three occasions. Our archive photograph, from the 1954 race, appeared in Dick Jacobs' autobiography An MG Experience. The caption, 'Class winner Dick Jacobs lapped by Stirling Moss, car no 3' is, however, incorrect. Ian Appleyard won that race in car number 3 and the picture shows him lapping Jacobs at Copse Corner, Silverstone. The fast Jaguars lapped the MG twice that day. Following closely behind are the two MkVIIs of Tony Rolt (5) and Stirling Moss (4), the latter playing 'catchup' after the starter motor apparently jammed at the Le Mans-style start.
Apart from a change in colour, the MG has survived intact. It is owned today by Marc Hanson, who contacted us to say that the ex-works MkVII of Tony Rolt is another remarkable survivor, and owned now by a great Jaguar enthusiast, Peter Burton. Marc wondered whether we would like to reunite the cars, some six decades after that significant race.
We did exactly that. Life is somewhat less relaxed these days, however, especially at Silverstone, but Stuart Pringle and his staff at the BRDC took the trouble to accommodate us free of charge so that we could try the cars on the Grand Prix circuit and capture an image of them together again at Copse Corner – which happens to be the one part of the circuit that hasn't changed since 1954. The BRDC is conscious of the history of the club and of the circuit, and we are very grateful to all concerned.
Out on the circuit, it was obvious that both these cars are extremely well maintained and almost unbelievably original – they're just as they must have been when Jacobs and Rolt raced them all those years ago. On my first lap in the MG, it dawned on me that the introduction of production car racing in the 1950s was of extreme significance, bringing about a host of rapid improvements in everyday family saloons.
It's easy enough to produce a list of all the faults in these cars but that's hardly the point, except that it's interesting to appreciate just what the drivers had to overcome when racing them back then. The MG YB was still essentially a pre-war design, a perfectly charming small sporty saloon, with its 'suicide' doors and heavy construction, but distinctly out of date even in 1952. It feels very slow today despite its 'Stage 2' tuning, which lifted the power and speed considerably from the 46bhp and 71mph of the standard model. It has MG TD-type twin carburettors, plus bigger valves and heavier valve springs and is as it raced at Silverstone in 1953.
In 1952, the cars were meant to be standard showroom models but that Stage 2 tuning was permitted in 1953. When the rules were further relaxed for 1954, Jacobs went for a pretty wild engine specification that he claimed gave him 100mph. As that made the car almost impossible to drive in normal traffic, Marc has opted wisely for the 1953 specification.
The MG feels quite stiffly sprung and poorly damped but it handles safely and predictably, despite occasional yet harmless little skips on the limit through a fast corner. There's no denying that the outside front suspension plunges rather uselessly as you turn-in and the body rolls a lot in heavy cornering. A shift of direction when negotiating an ess-bend exposes the lethargic response of the antique chassis design.
That's the plain truth but it's still great fun to drive this immensely important early racing saloon, and it is a wonderful thing that it has survived. We have to respect Dick Jacobs' achievements, understanding what he was up against in those early days.
Approaching Peter's Jaguar in exactly the same spirit, we can note the excessive body roll in hard cornering and there's no doubt that the Jaguar drivers had to manage the rather weak drum brakes when racing these cars. Jaguar, of course, was already pioneering disc brakes but the saloons were still on drums. The MkVII is much bigger and heavier than the little MG and it is also immensely faster. Through the many direction changes at the very fast Becketts section of Silverstone, the old Jaguar turned out to be much more responsive than I expected; yes, it does roll a lot but it's not a wallowing great barge. It can be wound up and almost tricked into flicking through those bends quickly, and with surprisingly little steering movement. It was, in short, a hell of a good car in its day and Moss, Rolt and Appleyard must have felt like kings of the GP circuit back in 1954. All three shared the outright fastest lap at 2min 16sec, an average of 77.48mph.
The BRDC had put production car racing on the agenda at Silverstone very effectively but it was the Brands Hatch-based British Racing & Sports Car Club (BRSCC) that took it a stage further. Led by enterprising BRSCC Club Secretary Ken Gregory, Brands Hatch was expanding fast. The Kentish circuit had been extended in 1953 with the addition of Druids Hill Bend and plans to create a Grand Prix circuit were already in place by then. Gregory and his fellow directors were looking for ways to increase spectator attendance at Brands Hatch and the other circuits at which they had started to run meetings. Production touring cars, or saloons as they called them, fitted the bill perfectly.
If I could go back in time and see just one saloon car race of the past, it would be the BRSCC's International 'Sporting Life' Trophy for Production Saloon Cars at Oulton Park on 27 August 1955. This long-forgotten event seems perfectly astonishing now. There was one foreign entrant, Swedish driver Jo Bonnier in a very fast Alfa Romeo 1900, and he won the 15-lap race by 12.4sec from Ken Wharton's Austin A90 Westminster.
Incredibly, third place overall went to Tony Brooks, then on the brink of GP stardom but on this occasion driving a DKW to victory in the up-to- 1100cc class. Brooks even beat the supposedly faster MG Magnette, entered by Dick Jacobs and driven by Alan Foster to victory in the next class up. It gets better. Believe it or not, Stirling Moss was driving a works Standard Ten in the up-to-1100cc class. Moss had, as ever, got away first at the Le Mans-style start and, although he was overtaken immediately by the faster cars to end up second in class, his conduct of the Standard was described as 'amazing'.
That was not all. While Bonnier cruised serenely ahead, Ken Wharton had a Longbridge-Dagenham fight of mammoth proportions on his hands. His Austin was swapping second place like mad with the Ford Zephyr entered by Raymond Mays. The Ford's driver was a certain Mike Hawthorn, standing in for Peter Collins at the last minute. Unfortunately, the Mays-prepared Zephyr's engine blew up but what a race that was. Reporter Cyril Posthumus called it 'a striking demonstration of the capabilities of the modern production saloon car, and excellent entertainment throughout.'
Production car racing had really arrived and Ken Gregory went on to introduce the first BRSCC British Saloon Car Championship in 1958. There were four classes based on engine capacity, modifications were strictly limited and it was a great success. Despite fanciful suggestions about competitors being able to race the family car and also use it for shopping during the week, saloon car racing was already a serious business and manufacturers were quick to become involved.
Marc Hanson's MG YB and Peter Burton's Jaguar MkVII must be the oldest survivors from the earliest British saloon car races, making them highly prized collectors' items. It helps that the histories of both cars are known. Dick Jacobs acquired his YB direct from the MG works at Abingdon, specifically for the 1952 Silverstone race. He sold it in late 1954 and it had a series of owners who hardly used it. A basic restoration was carried out in the 1970s, when it was repainted two-tone green but otherwise left essentially undisturbed.
After following the car for some time, Marc put in a successful bid at the Silverstone Classic sale in 2009. He had the engine rebuilt by MG specialist Peter Edney, had the suspension restored to as-new condition, and now uses the car in numerous suitable events such as the Brighton Speed Trials, Jersey International Motoring Festival and sprints at Goodwood and other venues. He has collected a few trophies and, as he says, it's the first time the car has won anything for nearly 60 years.
The full history of Peter Burton's imposing Jaguar is even better known. In 1954 it was the company car of Arthur Whittaker, director and general manager of Jaguar Cars Ltd, who had been working with William Lyons since joining the Swallow Sidecar Company in 1924, aged 20. The Jaguar boss was knighted in 1956 but he was still plain Mr Lyons in 1954. Even so, it's easy to imagine him announcing sharply: 'Whittaker, we're taking your car for Major Rolt to drive in the Production Car Race at Silverstone.' It was driven into the competitions department and specially prepared with C-type engine parts and a modified, close-ratio gearbox. The suspension was stiffened and the rear spats altered. After the race it was sold but has been preserved safely ever since. As a committed Jaguar enthusiast, Peter Burton acquired 'LHP 5' recently. He uses it on the Mille Miglia re-run and hopes to race it at a future Goodwood Revival.
As the sole surviving ex-works MkVII to have competed in a major race when new, Peter's Jaguar joins Marc's MG in a place of special honour in the history of British Touring Car racing – but we can still call them saloons if we prefer.
1952 MG YB (in 1954 racing form)
Engine 1250cc four-cylinder, OHV, two 1.75in SU carburettors
Power 90bhp @ 6900rpm
Torque Not known
Transmission Four-speed manual, rear-wheel drive
Steering Rack and pinion
Suspension Front: wishbones, coil springs, lever-arm dampers, anti-roll bar. Rear: live axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs, lever-arm dampers
Brakes Drums
Weight 1041kg
Performance Top speed c100mph. 0-60mph 19sec
1951 Jaguar MkVII (in 1954 racing form)
Engine 3442cc straight-six, DOHC, two SU H8 carburettors
Power c210bhp @ 5200rpm
Torque Not known
Transmission Four-speed manual, rear-wheel drive
Steering Recirculating ball
Suspension Front: wishbones, torsion bars, telescopic dampers, anti-roll bar. Rear: live axle, semi-elliptic leaf springs, lever-arm dampers
Brakes Drums
Weight 1753kg
Performance Not measured
Published Dec 7th, 2015