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The BMW F 800 GT: hit the road and let the journey begin.
Simply climb on and go, leave your daily routine behind and enjoy pure riding pleasure: The redesigned F 800 GT gives you even more sporty and dynamic performance on every tour – for idyllic lanes, winding alpine passes and endless highways. Thanks to a punchy two-cylinder in-line engine with an impressive 66 kW (90 hp) of power, every tour will get moving fast – and you'll be meeting the new EU-4 standard at the same time. This bike also comes with Ride-by-Wire, a range of riding modes and ABS as standard features. Other options include ASC (Automatic Stability Control) and the tried-and-tested Dynamic ESA (Electronic Suspension Adjustment). In short: All you have to do is climb on and let your journey begin.
Classic GT. Unstoppable tour.
The design: powerfully lightweight and elegant.
The body features a dynamic design and is ideal for touring in any weather. Clear lines promise pure riding pleasure right from the start – a promise that is delivered. The cockpit features a new dial design and provides a wider range of information. Handsome details like the new windscreen with a matte GT logo or the galvanised side panel with the F 800 GT lettering accentuate the new design. Another eye-catcher is the new rear silencer, which is not only attractive, it also meets the EU-4 standard.
Three colour options are available for a distinct look. Each one gives the F 800 GT a different character, from elegant to super sporty. You can decide which one suits you and your riding style best.
The technology: powerful two-cylinder for dynamic touring.
A twist of the throttle and 90 horsepower (66 kW) ensure that your everyday routine won't catch up to anytime soon. The water-cooled 2-cylinder in-line engine with a capacity of 798 cc provides remarkable thrust on every trip, delivering supreme power thanks to a low-maintenance toothed-belt drive. The long rear-wheel swing arm and tight suspension ensure a high level of ride stability, guaranteeing a superb riding experience.
The equipment: comfort and safety are the best travel companions.
Perfect control and comfort are also guaranteed with this powerful fun machine: A wide range of seat choices and adjustable clutch and brake levers allow you to tailor the bike to your individual ergonomic needs. The Dynamic ESA (Electronic Suspension Adjustment) lets you adjust rebound-stage damping in the rear for optimum damping action and riding comfort. Thanks to the Ride-by-Wire system, you now have much finer throttle control. Thanks to the standard Rain and Road modes and the optional Dynamic mode, the F 800 GT can be perfectly adapted to any road surface and riding style.
The BMW Motorrad ABS is also included as a standard feature to assist you with every braking manoeuvre. The optional ASC traction control provides even more safety – especially on wet roads.
More individuality: optional equipment and accessories.
The standard F 800 GT already captures the Gran Turismo ideal almost perfectly by combining sportiness and touring comfort. BMW Motorrad also offers a wide range of optional equipment and accessories for personalising the F 800 GT to your exact needs. For example, we offer a variety of practical storage solutions. With these solutions, you can take anything you want with you, whether for long trips, short outings or your daily commute to work.


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Budgeting 101
Plain and simple a budget is considered balanced when what goes out (expenses) equals what comes in (revenues). I think I learned the economic input-output model when I was fourth grade. As if we haven't heard it a hundred times, there is a budget shortfall of over $600 million in the City, i.e. our expenses exceed our revenues by over $600 million. In order to balance the budget one can reduce expenses (output) or increase revenues (input).
Mayor Fenty is proposing a budget that reflects reducing expenses. According to the Washington Examiner, some of the City Councilmembers want to increase revenue via taxes. Moving on to the next lesson.
Economics 101
On the very first day of Economics 101, everyone draws a supply and demand curve. Focusing on the demand curve, the fundamental principle is as the price per unit decreases, the demand increases. The reverse is also true, as the price per unit increases, the demand decreases. All clear on that? Council is proposing the following: "The council's collective decision to jack up the sales tax from 5.75 to 6 percent, the cigarette tax from $2 to $2.50 a pack and the gas tax from 20 cents to 23.5 cents a gallon would generate an estimated $34 million combined, according to the finance office." (Directly quoted from the Washington Examiner).
Pop quiz: If the price per unit increases, the demand will? If you guessed decrease, you are correct!!! You win higher taxes. YEAH!!!
The other flaws in this whole little scheme are:
- DC is already leaking $1 billion in sales to neighboring jurisdictions
- The cigarette tax in VA and MD are $1.50 and $1.00 per pack, respectively. Um... won't people just drive across the border?
- The sales tax in VA and MD are 5% and 6%, respectively. Maryland isn't the issues, since no one shops in MD. But Virginia... that's a big deal. Did I mention that we are already losing sales to neighboring jurisdictions?
The gas tax thing is a little messier and I don't have time to calculate, but based on general observation gas is cheaper in Arlington than in my neighborhood. I'm only buying gas in my neighborhood now because of my Buy Wards 7 and 8 Challenge.
Common Sense 101
Now, what I'm about to show you will shock and amaze you. These are quotes from members of the City Council. Some of it will be completely logical... and some of it... not so much.
At-Large Councilmember David Catania: "We tax the things we want to discourage."
Sigh... cigarettes I get. Even gas I get. Let's apply this sentence to sales tax. All of a sudden this sentence loses something. I sincerely hope that we aren't trying to discourage sales. Careful there Mr. Cantania. Aren't you up for reelection in 2010? (Raises brow)
At-Large Councilmember Michael Brown: "We're breaking the backs of the poor, so let's level the playing field."
(Side-eye) Just to put this statement in context the paragraph before was referring to all the social programs that assist the poor that have been impacted by budget cuts. However, poor people smoke (I think they may be the biggest smokers), poor people buy gas, and guess what poor people buy things. It's a good thing we aren't going to raises taxes so the poor people won't have to pay more... oops.
Ward 2 Councilmember Jack Evans: "Tax increases are "like cocaine" — if the government allows expenses to continue rise it will be back for more." (not exactly a direct quote)
PREACH, brother, preach. What a logical statement. If you don't fix the government waste, which by the way Fenty admitted to this morning on Fenty on FOX... if you don't address the inefficiencies... if we don't rethink expenses.... we will be revisiting this issue the same time next year.
Ms V's Advanced Class in Logic 301
I don't mind paying taxes. Even Jesus said, "Give to Cesar what is Cesar's" [Luke 20:25]. Here are my real issues:
- Don't insult my intelligence, Mr. Brown and Mr. Cantania. Kindly do not give faulty logic to justify the increase. Just say you are going to increase taxes and leave it at that.
- Address government waste. How much money have we wasted investigating Councilmembers and Fenty's appointees? How much money have we wasted on ineffective ANCs? How much money have we wasted on that baseball stadium? (Yes I went there with the baseball stadium).
- Address government inefficiencies. I'm a big proponent of consolidating some of the City Departments. There is way too much overlap between the mission of agencies and departments.
- Let's not try to stop the hemorrhaging with a band-aid. Let's sit down, think strategically, and stop the bleeding with a long term, forward thinking sustainable solution.

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Jenny is in perpetual search for easy, weeknight recipes to attempt to feed her family. When they balk, she just eats more.
The other day I arrived home from work to a rectangular package on my porch, its outer wrapping somewhat ripped, postmarked Los Angeles. I opened it to find a wooden box, which likely once housed a bottle of wine but now carried four Meyer lemons. There was a scribbled note inside -- "We miss you in Brentwood, love Jamie."
I smiled to myself, imagining my friend Jamie sitting in her backyard at dusk, inhaling the smell of lavender and sage as she watched the sky turn lavender behind her lemon tree, feeling slightly guilty for her citrus bounty, thinking "Who can I unload some of these lemons on? Oh yeah! Jennifer! Poor dear living in that land of $5 asparagus! She always loved my lemons."
She then no doubt piled herself into her Prius – which happens to be covered in polka dots – and hastily deposited my lemons at the post office before running off to her kid's school to yell at the headmaster about the fact that California elementary schools never seem to teach the American Revolution and why is that?
I allowed myself an hour to feel sad, imagining my old self driving a black Pontiac aimlessly along Santa Monica Blvd pondering what to eat for lunch instead of my current self who chases Senator Jim DeMint down a flight of stairs.
And then I got busy with this Lemon Tart with Olive Oil. Which, as it turns out, is a slightly modified version of this recipe from epicurious. I only discovered this after I made the tart, so I'll tell you what it was like following the modified version.
I will tell you that nancy d. has a creative way of looking at the world – one minute she is talking about a cup of this and a teaspoon of that, and then the next thing you know she's dealing in ounces. No matter, you have a kitchen scale right?
Also, how much is the juice of three lemons in her mind? Let's call it half a cup. And let me tell you, this interesting crust, really more cookie than pastry, is not getting pressed up the sides of anything. Prod it bit by bit until it spreads across your tart pan and say a small prayer.
She also never tells you quite how long to cook that curd -- which you should do in a heavy bottomed pot -- and so I became impatient when it did not thicken and tossed in a bit more corn starch. Big mistake. I never fully got out the smallest lumps, even when in stirred in my butter and the delicious olive oil that my friend Helene recently brought me from Italy.
Be patient people.
A few hours later, chilled tart in hand, I trotted off to Bethesda for dinner at M & A's house, during which I explained that I probably was going to have to relocate soon because there are no left turn lanes in DC and I'd recently seen a grown man carrying his MetroCard around his neck. They patiently pressed their case for DC, explaining we would have a good bakery in Farragut Square any day now.
As M told us a story involving the Irish ambassador set in the wilds of rural Alaska, we dug into the tart -- which is basically a giant lemon bar, and quite tasty – and drank a bit more wine. My friends pretended not to see the lumps. Because that's what great friends do, no matter where you happen to find them.
Lemon Curd Tart with Olive Oil from epicurious
Photo by James Ransom
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The Unexpected Circumnavigation: Unusual Boat, Unusual People Part 1 – San Diego to Australia
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No one expected these thirty-something professionals to give up their successful careers to pilot their own small boat around the world, especially because they started with almost no boating experience. Instead of the expected sailboat, they chose a 43 foot trawler powerboat, which many believed was incapable of crossing oceans. Most people expected them to fail. But they surprised the skeptics when they successfully circumnavigated the globe in two years, visiting 110 places along the way in thirty-four countries. Part 1 of "The Unexpected Circumnavigation" follows Christi and Eric daily as they travel to eighteen exotic South Pacific islands that few people ever see. You will experience the local food and cultures, participate in island tours and adventure activities (include going to the rim of an active volcano!), and feel what it is like to be on long sea passages. Learn about the challenges, rewards and the surprises that come with both traveling and boating.
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Jun 19, 2010Excellent account: A fun read especially for anyone who is considering circumnavigation in a Nordhavn. Looking forward to part 2 and 3. Congratulations
Mar 30, 2010A very interesting story about a couple who discover the world beyond their suburban US experiences, when they circumnavigate in their small Nordhavn power yacht. This book is part one of the journey. In addition to being introduced to the many South Pacific islands at which the couple stopped, we are taken through all the emotional difficulties encountered during their trans-pacific passage. These included seasickness, uncertainties about their own competences, weather, and stamina, and frustrations with some customs officials. We are also reminded of the wonderful surprises and personal growth that come with the discovery that the rest of the world is not "just like us". I bought this book because my family is considering a circumnavigation, and I have read a few other similar books. This book was different because there was a lot more focus on the emotions experienced by the couple, and not as much emphasis on the planning or technical execution of the passages. I would... More > recommend this book to people interested in circumnavigating under power, and also those who wonder "what it would be like" to kick off from dry land without decades of ocean-going experience to draw upon. I would also recommend Ken Williams' "Crossing An Ocean Under Power", Beebe and Leishman's "Voyaging Under Power", and even Ron and Eva Stob's "Honey, Let's Get a Boat..." (although that one's about cruising North America's Great Loop). Criticisms: I would have liked to see some photographs (there are none inside the book, although a few are on the cover). I also would like to have read more about the passage planning and technical issues. I look forward to reading the next installment.< Less
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Friendship Day was originally promoted by Joyce Hall, the founder of Hallmark cards in 1919, and intended to be a day where people celebrated their friendships by sending cards. Traditionally , the Day takes place on the first Sunday of August.
The United Nations International Day of Friendship was proclaimed in 2011 by the UN General Assembly with the idea that friendship between peoples, countries, cultures and individuals can inspire peace efforts and build bridges between communities.
The Day is also intended to support the goals and objectives of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace and the International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World (2001-2010).
Initially, the date was proposed by the "International Crusade for Friendship", a movement created in Paraguay in 1958.
According to the Friendship Day declaration, the UN Member States and the civil society are invited to "observe this day in an appropriate manner, in accordance with the culture and other appropriate circumstances or customs of their local, national and regional communities, including through education and public awareness-raising activities".
The resolution (A/RES/65/275) places particular emphasis on involving young people, as future leaders, in community activities that include different cultures and promote international understanding and respect for diversity.
In honor of Friendship Day in 1998, Nane Annan, wife of Secretary-General Kofi_Annan, named Winnie the Pooh as the world's Ambassador of Friendship at the United Nations.
** United Nations International Day of Friendship Website
** 5 Ways to Celebrate Friendship Day
Many friends acknowledge each other with exchange of gifts and cards on this day. Friendship bands are very popular in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and parts of South America. With the advent of social networking sites, friendship day is also being celebrated online.
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Reports that China may step up the diversification of its huge foreign exchange reserves is not great news for U.S. Treasurys, already under pressure from talk about an easing in the Federal Reserve's bond-buying program. But, the fall-out from such a move is likely to be limited, analysts say.
The body that manages China's currency reserves has set up an operation in New York to invest in private equity, real estate and other assets as it steps up its diversification away from U.S. government bonds, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday, citing sources familiar with the move.
(Read More: When Will China Join the Global Stocks Party?)
China has the biggest currency reserves in the world, worth more than $3 trillion. It's also the biggest foreign holder of U.S. government debt – no surprise then that in recent years any talk that it might unwind some of those bond holdings has led to some nervousness in markets.
"This story has been knocking around for a long time. I suppose if they [Chinese officials] are internationalizing their forex reserves it could be truer now than in the past," said Bank of Singapore's chief economist Richard Jerram.
"At the margin it would be bad news, but then what else is going on? The Japanese QE [quantitative easing] is going to leak into bond markets globally and some of that money is going to support Treasurys," he added, referring to the Bank of Japan's aggressive asset-buying program.
Renewed talk that the Fed is starting to mull an unwinding of its bond-buying program has pushed U.S. Treasury yields higher. The yield on benchmark 10-year bonds is around 1.97 percent, close to two-month highs hit last week at 1.985 percent.
(Read More: Retailers in the Headlines but Focus Is on Fed)
"It may be that they [the Chinese] are anticipating yields to rise over the next one or two years and may want to pull back a little," Jerram said.
Less Appealing?
In a sign that Chinese appetite for U.S. government bonds may be waning, latest data on foreign holdings of Treasurys show that China held about $1.250 trillion worth of U.S. debt in March compared with about $1.251 trillion in February.
"You see the Chinese are concerned about holding Treasurys," Axel Merk, chief investment officer at Merk Investments told CNBC Asia's "Squawk Box," referring to the reports on the diversification of China's reserves.
However, looking at the big picture, the prospect of the Fed unwinding its ultra-lose monetary policy is likely to be a greater headwind for Treasurys than any diversification of China's currency reserves, analysts said.
(Read More: The Market Is Not the Economy: What the Fed Misses)
"We don't need the Chinese to dump bonds for there to be trouble in the bond market. What we need is to have a return to historic levels of volatility," Merk said.
"The bond market has been an eerily quiet place. Economic growth can bring that volatility into the market and that will unleash a momentum [that could push] players out of the market and who knows where that will end. [Fed chief Ben] Bernanke's efforts have been aimed at keeping the long–end of the yield curve safe," he added.
The Fed is currently buying $85 billion worth of U.S. Treasury and mortgage-backed bonds every month and its asset-buying has helped keep interest rates low, helping the economy recover.
"Realistically, the timing and nature of the Fed tapering QE is the dominant factor for Treasurys and I wouldn't have thought that this kind of thing [China's forex diversification] could be a big deal," said Bank of Singapore's Jerram.
— By CNBC.Com's Dhara Ranasinghe; follow her on Twitter @DharaCNBC


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Thermador Groupe specializes in distributing plumbing fixtures to wholesalers. Net sales per family of products break down as follows:
- pumps (21.5%): essentially domestic water pumps;
- valves (21.3%);
- heating accessories (18.3%);
- pipes made of synthetic materials (13.6%): for supply to sanitary networks and central heating radiators;
- motorization materials (5.7%): motorized fans, pneumatic actuators, steam purge vents, etc.
The remaining sales (19.6%) are from sales of components to large do-it-yourself stores and to boiler manufacturers.France accounts for 90.3% of net sales.


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A key prosecution witness at the Lockerbie bombing trial has been accused of changing his opinion of the facts to suit his theory of how Pan Am flight 103 was destroyed, reported BBC.online Thursday.
It said Professor Christopher Peel had earlier told the Scottish court in the Netherlands he calculated the bomb was 60cm (24 inches) inside the fuselage in a baggage container and weighed about 500 grams (one pound).
However, defense advocate Richard Keen referred to an earlier report by Professor Peel which used a different model to establish the location and size of the device.
Keen put it to him that he had changed his opinion of the facts to fit his new theory.
Professor Peel replied he had not done so consciously, as quoted by BBC.
Professor Peel, a chief scientist with the Defense Research and Evaluation Agency (Dera), explained that a reconstruction of the part of the plane where the bomb exploded was used to try to locate the source of the blast, the report added.
He said he applied a series of algebraic calculations to data describing the damage to the skin of the aircraft to work out the location and weight of the bomb.
He said only a unique combination of charge size and distance from the fuselage could have caused the damage he observed.
He added his conclusions were confirmed by a computer simulation.
On Wednesday, the court heard evidence relating to the cargo container believed to have held the suitcase containing the bomb.
Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi, 48, and Al Amin Khalifa Fhimah, 44, plead not guilty.
They are charged with murdering 270 people
They face alternative charges of conspiracy to murder and a breach of the 1982 Aviation Security Act.
They have lodged special defenses of incrimination blaming, among others, members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command
About 1,000 witnesses are expected to give evidence.
The trial could last for a year
Dera official Ian Cullis told the court the bomb could not have been in a case on the floor of a cargo container.
Cullis gave evidence on experiments into the effects of explosives on baggage and baggage containers within aircraft.
He said that pitting, which could look like a roughening of the surface, was caused by small particles from the explosion traveling at speeds of up to 2,500 meters a second (about 1.5 miles a second) – Albawaba.com
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'Upstream Color' (unrated)
The good news is: Shane Carruth is back.
The bad news is: Shane Carruth is back.
The oddball auteur of the polarizing 2004 Primer — an arthouse take on time travel that the former engineer and self-taught filmmaker wrote, directed, produced, edited, starred in and wrote the music for — has just released his second film, which he has also micromanaged to a fare-thee-well. (Somebody teach this guy to delegate.)
Like that earlier movie, which inspired both cultish devotion and a chorus of confused what-the-hecks, Upstream Color will bring unmitigated delight to some while infuriating others. For a certain group of people in the middle, it may even manage both simultaneously, inducing head-scratching consternation even as it confirms Carruth's standing as one of the most brilliant, if obtuse, artists of today.
I think I fall in the third category, though it's hard to know. Since I left the theater, certainty has never seemed more elusive.
One thing's for sure: I liked Upstream Color much more than Primer.
That's not to say I understand it. The movie, which concerns a couple played by Amy Seimetz and Carruth, follows a bafflingly fragmentary narrative involving narcotic grub worms and vaguely disturbing surgical experimentation incorporating pigs and human beings. Bizarrely, it ends where it begins — with the cultivation and harvesting of the aforementioned psychotropic bugs by an unscrupulous thief (Thiago Martins) — suggesting a timeline that is not linear but endlessly, maddeningly circular.
From a visual standpoint, it's beautifully told, evoking both dreamlike horror and a kind of spiritual wonder. I don't know what Carruth intended — and I'm not sure he does either — but Upstream Color gets into an area that feels very much like religion, and in a way that Terrence Malick's similarly fragmentary and more heavy-handed To the Wonder tries to, and fails. To the extent that Carruth's story is about anything, it seems to be about an ageless mystery that has a lot to do with the nature of existence and identity, and with meaning itself.
After Kris (Seimetz) is kidnapped, drugged, robbed, operated on and fired from her job (in roughly that order), her memories start to become dislodged — except for passages from Thoreau's Walden, which she can recite by heart. Then, she meets and falls in love with Jeff (Carruth), who may be a victim of the same Mengele-like lab that has done — well, what exactly has it done? — to Kris. His memories start to blur together with hers, while the two of them share a strange, possibly justifiable, paranoia.
It's all very confusing and rapturous.
Attempting to untangle or even articulate the plot of Upstream Color feels like banging your head against the wall. It isn't science fiction so much as myth.
Should you see Upstream Color? A better question may be: How many times should you see it?
As Carruth told Entertainment Weekly, he's tickled to have made yet another movie that no one can digest in a single viewing. "As far as being able to see movies over and over and realize, Oh, there's something else in there? I like that," he said.
He's right about one thing. There's something else in there.
Cast: Amy Seimetz. Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, Thiago Martins.
Writer-director: Shane Carruth.
Producers: Shane Carruth, Casey Gooden, Ben LeClair.
Running time: 96 minutes. Vulgar language, brief violence, gore, adult themes. In Miami-Dade only: O Cinema Wynwood.


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Dominic Cooper is having a very good week. It started last Friday, when Captain America: The First Avenger premiered to great reviews and even greater box office, at least in some part thanks to Cooper's charming, seemingly effortless performance as the industrialist father of Iron Man, Howard Stark. This Friday Cooper is taking more than his fair share of a starring role, doing double duty both as Saddam's son Uday Hussein and Uday's body double in The Devil's Double. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year and has been praised ever since for Cooper's fierce performance; we'll have an interview later this week in which he discusses a lot of the particular details of what went into it.
Now Showbiz 411 has the news that Cooper might be considering the next project to add to his presumably full plate. They hear he's considering joining Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father, the ever-changing biopic of John Gotti that's currently set to star John Travolta as the famous mobster. As you might guess from the title, the role of John Gotti Jr. is a pretty big one, and not only because the son is one of the producers on the film. The film will be directed by Barry Levinson, who took over for Nick Cassavetes and has essentially reshaped the entire film, including bringing on James Toback to do rewrites. Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Kelly Preston are already set for roles in the film.
When I saw Mamma Mia! in 2008-- OK, fine, I saw it twice, don't judge me-- I watched Cooper dancing on a beach in flippers and especially dancing in a pink sleeveless jumpsuit in the "Waterloo" credit sequence and worried his career might never recover. Lucky for him and for all of us, he's doing just fine, and probably even better than ever. While I'm still a little skeptical about Gotti thanks to the three ring circus of its pre-production process, it sounds like a good role for Cooper among the many good ones he's taken. Maybe he'll even manage to bring a decent performance out of Travolta too-- after all, they've got embarrassing musical numbers to bond over.


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Kirchner injury blow for Springboks
August 17, 2010
Fullback Kirchner is set to miss the remainder of this year's Tri-Nations © Getty Images
South Africa fullback Zane Kirchner has been ruled out of Saturday's Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand due to a knee cartilage injury.
The 26-year-old will miss the Johannesburg clash after a scan on his left knee showed the damage, the South African Rugby Union announced. Kirchner sustained the injury during the Blue Bulls' narrow 15-12 Currie Cup defeat to Western Province
The Springboks' medical team made the decision to withdraw the player following a scan on the injury and a decision on his availability for the remainder of the Tri-Nations will be made at a later date.
South Africa:
Backs: Gio Aplon (Stormers), Juan de Jongh (Stormers), Jean de Villiers (Western Province), Bryan Habana (Stormers), Francois Hougaard (Bulls), Butch James (Bath), Ricky Januarie (Stormers), Wynand Olivier (Bulls), JP Pietersen (Sharks), Morne Steyn (Bulls)
Forwards: Schalk Burger (Stormers), Jannie du Plessis (Sharks), Francois Louw (Stormers), Victor Matfield (Bulls), Dewald Potgieter (Bulls), Chiliboy Ralepelle (Bulls), Danie Rossouw (Bulls), John Smit (Sharks, capt), Juan Smith (Cheetahs), Pierre Spies (Bulls), Gurthrö Steenkamp (Bulls), CJ van der Linde (Cheetahs), Flip van der Merwe (Bulls)
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