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The hits are for exact same URL and not for the resources (images/css/js) in it. We have the user id and all the information about user, but its a sensitive matter to contact end user; it would require many levels of approval :-) Enabling RequestDumperValve may not be an option in prod as we get lots of hits per day. ======================== Subject:Re: Multiple Hits to same JSP From:Pid (p...@pidster.com) Date:05/13/2008 01:13:39 AM List:org.apache.tomcat.users What are the hits actually for, the same page or separate pages? Is the requestor hitting a page and then getting all of the associated images, scripts, css etc? How many extra files per page do you have on average? A client with caching turned off, or behind a badly configured proxy/cache could conceivably cause an avalanche of 'hits' if you have a lot of extra files per page. Examine at the request headers using RequestDumperValve - but be aware it will generate a *lot* of data. Alternatively, if you know the user id, email them and ask what they're playing at. p ----- Original Message ---- From: Sameer Naik <email@example.com> To: email@example.com Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 2:16:10 PM Subject: Re: Multiple Hits to same JSP We just had one more incident today, 3000 hits total in 5 minutes! User agent in MSIE 7.0. We have a load balancer and 3 apache servers behind it. Since Apache is logging the request in access, for sure, it is not generating flood itself. Then the culprit could be load balancer hardware, user's buggy browser or some proxy server in between. >From the access logs, the request seems to be coming from genuine users. User's are either closing there browsers (no hits for some period) or logging out and trying again. The same page works fine when they do that. We are analyzing logs to come up with a pattern w.r.t. user agent. We cannot pat ourselves for serving so many requests, because every such time, tomcat thread count (set to 100) maxes out (we get a page), each thread borrows DB connection from pool, DB cache size goes to 100 and due to a bug/feature in Oracle connection (round robin feature for checking out connection), each one never gets cleaned up. so that increases sessions on oracle database server. ================ had a similar experience when I run the FireBug extension in FireFox. but there was not as many as 500 requests more like 20 under some circumstances. /Per Jonsson Christopher Schultz skrev: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Alan, Alan Chaney wrote: | Have you checked to see whether or not they are real requests - that is, | coming from the web. If they are there's nothing anyone on this list can | do... Not entirely. It's possible to write a throttling filter that might be able to reject some of these requests... the only question is if it is even useful to do in the first place. The processing and memory requirements might outweigh the benefits of rejecting the requests in the first place. Since all responses are 200 (success), you might just smile, say "hey, it's great that my web server can handle so many responses so fast with no errors" and sit back and relax. - -chris ----- Original Message ---- From: Sameer Naik <email@example.com> To: firstname.lastname@example.com Sent: Friday, May 9, 2008 2:07:30 PM Subject: Multiple Hits to same JSP Hi, We are using Apache 2.0.53 + mod_jk 1.2.21 + tomcat 5.0.28 combination and seeing multiple hits to a single JSP file in quick succession, like 500 hits in a minute from same user ID and same IP address. Response code is 200 for all the requests. It is happening randomly from various user agents. Did anyone encounter such scenario? Can we log something in Apache logs to debug the issue? (We are already logging referrer, UA, byte range request values etc). Thanks, Sameer ________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
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Comment - Beer - Reinheitsgebot Exegesis
By Larry Nelson | 6 March 2013
This month, the editor of Brewers' Guardian, Larry Nelson, is starting the celebration of the Reinheitsgebot a little early. Looking back, however, has prompted Larry to look forward and ask; what future for the ancient beer law?
Like many, you'll probably have heaved a huge sigh of relief when the sun rose on 22 December. The universe continued to unfold as it should despite the assurances of Mayan calendar calculators that the jig was and truly up on 21 December.
Phew. But, not so fast, beer lovers. Note the following date well, because it's one that should give the brewing industry pause for considerable thought: 23 April 2016.
This day will mark the 500th anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot - the famous Purity Law - a decree of Bavarian Duke Wilhelm IV that specified forthwith that only water, barley and hops could be used in the production of beer. (The role played by yeast, that marvellous alcohol-generating unknown, wasn't understood until Louis Pasteur got busy in his lab in the late 19th century.)
The Reinheitsgebot was intended not only to ensure beer purity, but it also eliminated competition with bakers for other gains such as rye and wheat.
It's a remarkable bit of legislation, one whose influence shaped the European understanding of beer, one that spread across the world and today remains a byword for quality in the practice and marketing of many brewers, not just those in Germany.
Barley. Hops. Water. (Yeast.) Beer Q.E.D.
But, it's not the so much the ingredients that are of interest here, it's the causation. Our historical understanding of beer stems not so much from the work of brewers per se, but from two intertwined factors: a government edict, and the Northern European climate that this govenrment enjoyed/endured.
You can make a fairly compelling argument that, over the years, governmental interventions have had as much to do with our understanding of what beer is than brewers themselves.
You think I'm kidding? Consider Nigeria in 1988 when, in an effort to preserve scarce foreign exchange availability, the Government introduced a ban on the importation of barley and malted barley. Brewers, left without a convertible source of starch for their wort, developed sorghum-based alternatives in a hurry.
Today, sorghum clear beers are becoming commonplace on the African continent. Research has spread to other indigenous raw materials, especially cassava. Beers from this material are now entering commercial production, beginning with SABMiller's introduction of Impala, a cassava-based lager in Mozambique 18 months ago, and since the beginning of this year, Guinness Ghana Breweries launch of Ruut Extra Premium Beer in its domestic market.
Consider also Japan, where again a taxation system based on raw materials rather than, say, alcoholic content or brewing output, has given rise to beers that aren't quite beers anymore. The highest rate of tax is applied to the products brewed with malted barley accounting for more than 67% of the grist weight; these can be referred to as 'beer'. To avoid this tax burden, Japanese brewers launched low-malt content products, substituting malt with sorghum, potatoes, fruits extracts. These beers, with less than 25% malted barley, became known as happoshu, which translates literally as 'sparkling spirits.' Subsequently 'new genre' drinks were developed by brewers, which are completely devoid of barley content.
As mentioned, government also skews the outcome of the brewer's art by differentiating taxes on the volumes produced by the brewery. The K's astonishing growth in microbrewery openings, with the number more than doubling over the last decade, can trace its origins to then Chancellor Gordon Brown's introduction of progressive beer duty, where the smallest of producers received a 50% reduction in standard rates. It has proven to be a huge spur to market entrants: here, a perhaps anticipatable benefit is that, with so many competitors, the country's range of beer styles is broadening as points of difference are sought in the on-trade.
It's worth remembering, too, that reduced beer duty rates are on offer in many European Union member states, spurring on the growth of microbrewing across the continent. Beer duty is banded in favour of smaller producers in the US as well. In short, not all government interventions will lead to negative outcome for beer as we understand it – but there will certainly be unforeseen consequences, and not always for the better.
Figurative landscapes
Perhaps, just as importantly as the ingredients itemised by Bavaria's rulers, was where these decisions took place. Beer was defined in the context of a landscape in which grains could be grown with relative ease, one where the balancing bitterness of hops could be plucked from gardens not far away in southern Germany and neighbouring Bohemia.
But, in a global context, over time, market differences were bound to emerge, because of differences in tastes and the availability of raw materials. The staples of mainstream American beer, brands such as Budweiser, Miller and Coors, from the outset have relied on adjuncts such as rice and corn and reduced hopping regimes for reduced bitterness on the finish. The Chinese market is today heading in the same direction, with notable reductions in colour and bitterness evident in beers brewed for the domestic market.
In the context of the Reinheitsgebot, these are negative developments – the gold standard remains malted barley, hops, water and yeast.
But imagine this: What if beer had originated in India, a vast subcontinent devoid of hop fields? The result might be something akin to Indus Pride, a recent SABMiller launch of a range of four beers that by-and-large substitute spices for hops to balance the taste. The most challenging is Fiery Cinnamon, which does what it says on the label, but there are others such as Citrusy Coriander that are much gentler and certainly sessionable.
Indus Pride challenges our northern European understanding of what good beer should resemble. And, in contrast to the sorghum beers of Africa and happoshu in Japan, it is unique in that it is packaged, priced and positioned as a premium product.
So, we're three years out from the 500th anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot. Given all that is happening in a global landscape, with unintended consequences of government policies and the possible upsides of rethinking beer from a local perspective, the question is this:
Is there a need for a new 21st century Reinheitsgebot?
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February 1963 | Volume 14, Issue 2
In their final report Colonel Jury and Mr. Weller concluded that Bullet III and Shell W had been fired in Sacco's Colt and could have been fired in no other weapon. Both pistol and bullet, they found, were the same as originally introduced in evidence. Lest this latter statement be challenged, the pistol tested bore the same serial number as the Colt offered in evidence at the trial; the bullets and shells corresponded exactly to the description and photos of the bullets and shells offered in evidence.
Even if sufficient rust had accumulated in Sacco's pistol to make impossible any comparison of bullets fired in 1961 with Bullet III, there was still the ample evidence of the 1921 test bullets. Similarly, rust on the barrel would not have affected the imprint of the breechblock on the 1961 shell cases.
Judge Musmanno even suggests that the Colt of 1961 is not the Colt of 1921. Obviously if it were a different weapon, the 1961 test bullets would not have matched the 1921 test bullets or Bullet III. And if the 1961 test bullets had not matched Bullet III I should have been the first to make this public and Judge Musmanno—forgetting the rust—would have been the first to announce that the tests had proved Sacco innocent. In mentioning Dr. Hamilton, Judge Musmanno neglects to state that the selfstyled doctor was a defense expert and was caught trying to tamper with the evidence. In a post-trial ballistics hearing Hamilton appeared in court with two new Colts of a similar type which he said he wished to compare with Sacco's. After disassembling all three pistols, he assembled them again and in so doing managed to replace the barrel of Sacco's pistol with one from his own without anyone's notice. As Hamilton was leaving the courtroom Judge Thayer called him back and impounded the two pistols that Hamilton was carrying away with him. Only later was it discovered that one of these pistols contained the barrel of Sacco's Colt. If Hamilton's scheme of switching barrels had succeeded and he had later demanded that Sacco's Colt be test-fired, the markings on such test bullets would have been completely different from Bullet III. On these grounds Hamilton would have demanded a new trial. Nevertheless the test shells would have continued to match Shell W!
After Bullet III and the other bullets were removed from the dead guard's body, they were placed, along with the shells picked up at the scene of crime, in the custody of Captain Proctor. He, and he alone, was in the position to replace the exhibits, Bullet III and Shell W, by a shell and bullet test-fired from Sacco's pistol. Yet to the end of his life Captain Proctor held to his belief, based on crude caliper measurements, that Bullet III had not come from Sacco's Colt. As I have pointed out before, if he had made such a substitution he would have known that Bullet III came from Sacco's Colt, however guilty he might have felt about his deception. The markings on the base of all four bullets—photographed by me for the first time—can be seen to be roughly similar. …
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|Egg whites
|Cream of tartar
|1 Teaspoon
|Granulated sugar
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Fresh cranberries
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
Hollow 1-inch center from cake layer.
Beat egg whites until foamy.
Gradually add cream of tartar and sugar; beat until meringue stands in stiff peaks.
Reserve 3/4 cup meringue for rippled topping.
Fill center of cake with meringue; sprinkle top with cranberries.
Fill pastry bag with remaining meringue.
Using ripple-edge tip, form circular meringue ribbon, as illustrated.
Bake in 400 °F oven 4 minutes or until meringue begins to turn light brown.
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Nutrition Facts
Serving size: Complete recipe
Calories 524 Calories from Fat 23
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 2 g3.6%
Saturated Fat 1.3 g6.7%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 593.9 mg24.7%
Total Carbohydrates 114 g37.9%
Dietary Fiber 5.1 g20.3%
Sugars 79 g
Protein 16 g31.4%
Vitamin A 1.3% Vitamin C 24.4%
Calcium 7.1% Iron 3.1%
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Caribbean Baked Squash
|Winter squash
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|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs)
|Canned crushed pineapple
|8 Ounce
|Grated orange rind
|1 Teaspoon
|1 Dash
Place squash in 1-quart casserole.
Microwave 8 to 10 minutes on HIGH, or until almost tender, stirring once.
Set aside.
Place butter in 2-cup measure.
Microwave 30 seconds on HIGH, or until butter is melted.
Add pineapple, orange rind and nutmeg.
Mix well.
Spoon mixture over cooked squash.
Microwave 2 minutes on HIGH, or until hot.
Let stand 5 minutes to finish cooking and blend flavors.
Garnish with parsley if desired.
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Serving size
Calories 178 Calories from Fat 102
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 12 g17.8%
Saturated Fat 7.3 g36.4%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 30.2 mg10.1%
Sodium 6.1 mg0.3%
Total Carbohydrates 19 g6.4%
Dietary Fiber 2.4 g9.7%
Sugars 11 g
Protein 1 g2.7%
Vitamin A 38.1% Vitamin C 26.1%
Calcium 3.7% Iron 3.7%
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Make this often. It is a great change from plain old white rice. Good with beef broth also. Very tasty
Nice & simple side. I added 1 chopped clove of garlic.
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I need to get data of Finnish 320 municipalities in Excel file. Format: Name - Link to municipality - Email1, Email2, Email3. Time frame - until Monday evening Swedish time (=middle Europe)
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Number of municipalities: 320
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any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs
I'm surprised that the Alabama legislature hasn't attempted to close the current law's gaping buttplug loophole…
An adult-store owner had asked the justices to throw out the law as an unconstitutional intrusion into the privacy of the bedroom. But the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, leaving intact a lower court ruling that upheld the law.Link
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Alabama's anti-obscenity law, enacted in 1998, bans the distribution of "any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs for anything of pecuniary value."
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any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs
I'm surprised that the Alabama legislature hasn't attempted to close the current law's gaping buttplug loophole…
This is the same state that only started allowing inter-racial marriages in 2000.
They still think George Wallace was a hero.
They have a gay marriage ban.
They have "anti-sodomy" laws.
These are not the most forward looking people.
The Court may have made the right call here. Just because a law is stupid doesn't mean its unconstitutional.
Alabama: the thinking man's Kansas.
So how long before the backwards denizens that support this nonsense elect a rube who'll treat it like the war on drugs? Crackdowns, seizures, "medical" vibrators… it's an Onion article with the potential to happen in real life.
Vibrator and sex-toy shops are springing up just over the border in Florida.
Just because a law is stupid doesn't mean it's unconstitutional.
Yes, and since this is about the sale of, not the possession or use of, sex toys, the privacy argument is pretty weak.
Fck that ns*
*ns to be fcked is the subject of the post, not boingboing or its editors or moderating staff.
So I wonder if Clarence "Long Dong Silver" Thomas recused himself?
Alabama can't legalize dildos, because they're too busy electing them to office.
But this is Ludicrous! Talk about Oppression!
somebody get some photos of a Real Doll in a 'Miss Alabma sash..
Mister Cpn. Tim, I must admit I enjoyed your disclaimer greatly.
Someone should launch a campaign to get donations of new dildos to give away at publicized events in Alabama. You wouldn't be breaking the law and it would sure piss off the bible/wife beaters in the state.
Mr. Anthrope,
Haven't seen the statute, but that's probably covered under "distribution"–not that it's a bad idea.
"My motto has been they are going to have to pry this vibrator from my cold, dead hand."
Phew! I was afraid that sentence was going to end in an entirely different way.
That would be distribution, but it wouldn't be "for anything of pecuniary value" so it'd still be legal. I'm all for it.
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…It's decisions like this that keep the former Confederacy intact as the National Reserve for Selective Inbreeding.
[Shakes head in utter dismay]
Why doesn't somebody repackage/rebrand the vibrators as a personal massager. It would be a great way to "stick it to them" and make a buck.
Of course the vibrators would have to be shaped as big black veiny dicks .
Scalia should recuse himself on account of his born-again virginity.
Conflict of Disinterest?
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I particularly like this "personal massager" one from decades of yore.
This entire decade has been full of real news stories that have been worthy of articles in The Onion.
This scares me more than anything else.
Is it wrong that when I read this headline in my feed reader I read it as: the supreme court was denying "allegations" that some alabama women had mechanically induced orgasams?
I don't get it. "Pecuniary?" Does money fall out of human genital organs when stimulated in Alabama? And why specifically "human" genital organs? Are animal vibrators okay then? And why "genital organs?" Is it okay to stimulate other organs, say nipples? Are there parts of human genitalia that aren't considered "organs?"
I am confused.
#12 alreadfy said it: giving vibrators away for free doesn't seem to be illegal.
i could imagine that would be great propaganda for the shop in question too.
I live in Birmingham, and my wife and I have access to a really great shop selling a wide variety of items labeled "For Novelty Use Only". It would seem that there are any number of ways to just barely sidestep this law and sell whatever the people want. And they do want it, let me assure you.
Be wary of the items labeled "For Novelty Use Only". They are not specifically so labeled to get around this law for sale in Alabama. They are labeled that way to get around federal regulations that would otherwise require that they not be toxic, or not be otherwise unsafe. Consult the the blog of the esteemed Violet Blue for a thorough discussion of this issue and recommendations of reputable online dealers.
guns, but no vibrators. that's fucked.
Yes– the fact that the law pertains to the sale of these objects, and not ownership of them is confusing. What if adult stores offered "free vibrator with $50 video purchase"– would that violate the law?
Plus there's the fact that the device has to be "primarily for stimulation"– so if they made one with a cigarette lighter in it or small LED clock ("see how fast to can achieve climax!"), would that skirt the law?
Perhaps the "Dildo Liberation Front" should purchase huge amounts of vibrators in bulk and give them out free in massive demonstrations. I'm sure the cops will find a way to arrest them for it and the whole process will begin again.
No abortions, no birth control, and NO self stimulation– they are trying to overpopulate the earth!
Since the law is deliberately vague, to wit:
"useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs"
a different tack might be stimulating: items that are not useful *primarily* as stimulators.
They might be "farm implements", components of "plastic fruit baskets", or "lovely lawn flamingos" — appropriately enhanced to have secondary potential — while honoring the deep sense of tradition and obliquity that Alabaman statesmen clearly treasure.
Marketing styles of the Victorian era were viscerally clever in that way.
@ Vertigo25:
"This is the same state that only started allowing inter-racial marriages in 2000."
The laws were still on the books, but no one paid attention to them. Inter-racial marriages were allowed for quite a while before that.
"They still think George Wallace was a hero."
No, overwhelmingly, they do not.
"They have "anti-sodomy" laws."
Lots of places do. They're not enforced anywhere except when prosecuting some rape cases.
"These are not the most forward looking people."
I would say that about most people across the world. Alabama isn't particularly special in that regard.
About the original post: sex toy parties are immensely popular in the area I lived in, and judging from word-of-mouth, it was the same across the state. I think the problem with Alabama sex laws is that the laws are made by aged men who don't care for a second what women might want, beyond what they need to consider in order to pander to their conservative female base… which really isn't all that demanding in terms of women's issues.
While there are ways to circumvent the law, and since it only pertains to sale, it's not a privacy issue. I feel that this is a First Amendment issue.
The spirit, if not the letter, of the law is to impose a certain morality on Alabamans, and that morality is without doubt a morality derived directly from orthodox Christianity.
I don't think it's a stretch to say that a law that imposes religious morals violates our separation of church and state.
I appreciate the tip, but I am well aware of what I am buying before I buy it, and the issues around sketchy sex toys. Much of what they sell is questionable and/or outright junk, just like any such store, but just as much is quality stuff. When I say that they are labeled for novelty use only, I mean that almost every item in the store has the exact same sticker attached. It is clear that the store is using them to skirt the edge of the law.
But, Mark, I thought we hated capitalism (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/10/02/naomi-klein-on-remak.html) Surely this effort by the Alabama state legislature to reign in shock capitalism is a good thing — we can't just have people willy nilly engaging in free exchanges of goods and services, can we?
So what's next? If your caught at a store or a "party" buying an illegal item, will you be thrown in jail, or added to the national sex offenders list, have your children taken away and added to the overpopulated child welfare system?
Perhaps there wouldn't be so many illegitimate children if couples were allowed to do more than "state sanctioned missionary" sex.
This state needs to wake up and see what is out there. There are far worse things going on than this.
It seems to me that you Americans should probably just let the deep south go ahead and become their own sovereign nation. They're a bit of an embarrassment.
ill lich @ 29, I was just thinking MP3 player. I bet these would be easy to manufacture. Less so without it leeching hazardous chemicals, mind.
#31 JacobDavis
Is a "sex toy party" an actual orgy or is it more like a tupperware event where people flog goods? Or both?
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Toyota Racing did not contest the entire FIA World Endurance Championship in their TS030 Hybrid debut season but they dominated in China to close out the 2012 season. Alexander Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre were unstoppable during the 6 Hours of Shanghai to land their third victory out of only six races that they entered.
"It was a good race for us and a 100% perfect race weekend," said Wurz. Lapierre added, "The car was great and we pushed throughout the race. Everyone at Toyota Racing did a fantastic job today. It has been a pleasure to be part of this team and a pleasure to share the drive with Alex, and also Kazuki when he has been with us. Everything has got better and better as the season has gone on."
The morning started with a light mist which caused the morning warm-up to be canceled as they had to wait out the weather for the medical helicopter to arrive at the circuit. Once the weather cleared enough, the teams prepared for what would be a demanding six hours.
"These races are never simple but we were very determined to win this race for Toyota and give everyone extra motivation over the winter. I really enjoyed it today and I couldn't wish for a better team-mate, although of course we missed Kazuki this weekend. It has been a terrific season for us. At the beginning we had some emotional and performance ups and downs but we improved every day and with every step. That is what counts and that's why we ended the season as race winners," Wurz said.
They discovered at the end of the race that they had taken third in the drivers' championship; thanks in part to the top Privateer team.
The Audi Sport Team Joest had already notched the manufacturers title, and today with their third place win, André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler, and Benoît Tréluyer landed the inaugural WEC drivers' championship.
The #1 R18 e-tron quattro finished third behind their sister car with Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen in the #2 e-tron.
Rebellion Racing earned the Privateer LM P1 trophy in Japan, and were set today to add another victory when Nicolas Prost slowed down on the main straight with just minutes left in the six hour challenge. It was a sad ending to a fantastic year for the #12 Lola Toyota. Last weekend, Bart Hayden brought the team to the USA for the American Le Mans Series' Petit Le Mans, and they won overall. However Prost, Neel Jani, Hayden and the team wanted to cap off their season with a final podium finish for the year.
It also cost Jani and Prost third place in the overall LM P1 drivers' title. The team's #13 Lola Toyota ended up with the Privateer LM P1 victory which was great news for China as the only driver in the Shanghai race from their homeland was Cong Fu 'Frankie' Cheng. Of course his teammates Andrea Belicchi and Harold Primat celebrated with Cheng. In LM P2, it was one strange battle. The trading off the lead was usually due to contact or minor problems. In the end the #25 ADR Delta ended up celebrating the class win; ahead of Starworks and OAK Racing.
It was the fourth victory of the year for the ADR Delta team, and they won at Fuji which makes Shanghai a back-to-back win for Tor Graves and John Martin. Third driver for the team was Matthias Beche whose help moved them into second for the final LM P2 standings.
Starworks Motorsports had what one would term a good day and a bad day. They were fast in their HPD ARX-03b Honda but contact between other cars put them back; yet they made up ground to take second place in the finale with drivers Ryan Dalziel, Enzo Potolicchio, and Stephane Sarrazin. The team already had sewn up the championship.
OAK Racing also had an up and down day but despite their minor issues, Jacques Nicolet, Matthieu Lahaye, Olivier Pla, and the team overcame all obstacles to place third in their Morgan Nissan.
The normal fight for first in the LM GTE Pro class ended up with the Aston Martin #97 Vantage V8 taking the win. It was not an easy victory as their rivals from the Porsche and Ferrari camps with lead changes during the six hour race. The victory by Stefan Mücke and Darren Turner secured second in the FIA Endurance Trophy for the British team.
Marc Lieb and Richard Lietz gave chase to the AMR Vantage but came up short in their #77 Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 911 RSR.
The team that had five wins this year ended third. Andrea Bertolini and Olivier Beretta was one lap down when the checkered flag waved in their #71 Ferrari 458 Italia.
In the LM GTE Am, the victory went to the #50 Larbre Competition Corvette C6-ZR1. Besides Toyota Racing's Hybrid, the Corvette team had an excellent day. Julien Canal and Patrick Bornhauser clinched for the team, the converted class trophy. With the help of third driver Pedro Lamy, Canal and Bornhauser, and of course a bit of luck, were one lap ahead of their rivals.
Team Felbermayr-Proton's #88 Porsche 911 RSR started on the pole thanks to Paolo Ruberti; alas that did not help today, and when things went wrong they could only hope for the best. Ruberti and his teammates Christian Ried and Gianluca Roda watched their title hopes go bye. With their second place finish, also came second in the LM GTE Am standings.
Taking third in the race and the championship was Tracy Krohn, Nic Jönsson, and Michele Rugolo for the #57 Krohn Racing Ferrari 458 Italia.


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Causality between Public Expenditure and Economic Growth: The Turkish Case
This paper takes into account recent advances in econometric techniques and examines Wagner's Law of long-run relationship between public expenditure and GDP for the Turkish case over the period of 1965-2000. The relationship is supposed public expenditure to be an outcome, not cause, of growth in GDP. Causality must run from GDP to public expenditure, not other ways around. Using the co-integration test and the Granger Causality test, we empirically find no causality in both directions; neither Wagner's Law nor Keynes hypothesis is valid for the Turkish case.
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Almost every fan has a primary team, of course. But we also all end up playing favorites when we flip through the channels, or end up watching a lot of another squad when our own team is on a down year. (I, for example, always find myself rooting for LSU and Stanford even though I have no connection to either school. Or remember a few years ago when everyone in the country united to pull for the Mavericks against the Heat?) Below, evaluation of each B1G team's potential for spontaneous, secondary fandom.
1. The Michigan Wolverines
- Great uniforms and giant, cool stadium.
- Hugely dedicated and geeky fans make good rooting brethren.
- Slowly getting back to the point of always having a looming, destructive monster defense.
- Having an endearingly schlubby coach (Brady Hoke) and relatively anonymous roster still coming back from the down years of the Rich Rodriguez era somehow makes the winningest school ever seem like an underdog at the moment.
- No more Denard Robinson.
- Probably not actually the best team in the B1G this year but I'm a Michigan fan and can't bear to put Ohio State first.
2. The Ohio State Buckeyes
- Win a lot.
- Urban Meyer's offense is really fun to watch, with playmakers slashing all over the field, and Braxton Miller is the perfect super-quick, big-armed guy to run it.
- Ohio Stadium is an iconic, intimidating home and their fans are totally insane.
- Chris Spielman seems like a nice guy.
- Fans idolize two former coaches: one who was fired for punching an opposing player, one who was fired for lying about his knowledge of players trading memorabilia for tattoos.
- One former star was found to have pulled his GPA up into the barely-passing range by taking classes on golf and AIDS awareness.
- Everyone in entire program seems to generally take pride in acting like a jackass.
3. The Wisconsin Badgers
- Recruit anonymous players. Turn them into beasts who crush bigger-name teams en route to Rose Bowl. Repeat.
- "Jump Around" tradition is killer.
- You feel for their fans after their meatheaded but successful coach, Bret Bielema, straight-up jumped ship and went to Arkansas.
- Big on tradition and continuinty, but had the brains and flexibility to pick up Russell Wilson for his last year of eligibility.
- The Onion started in Madison.
- Likely headed back to period of also-ran status beneath Michigan and OSU.
- Not really any other cons now that Meatbrain Bielema is gone. Good tradition, team that perennially maximizes talent and plays grade-A football that's sound but exciting — this is a good program for any uncommitted fan to get behind.
4. The Nebraska Cornhuskers
- Earth-shakingly loud stadium.
- Gonna have an octane-tastic offense this year, with a quarterback (Taylor Martinez), running back (Ameer Abdullah), and feature receiver (Kenny Bell) who are all ready and willing to slash and gash defenses that get wrong-footed by Nebraska's shifty option spread.
- Yowza.
- Coached by a character from O Brother, Where Art Thou?.
- Check out the crazy quadruple option thing at 5:18 here. Cool play.
- Defense's nickname is "Blackshirts," which sounds like a Central American paramilitary group that murders dissident nuns in the middle of the night.
- Team's nickname as a whole is something you do to give your mom a hand while she's cooking dinner. "Thanks, bud."
- Perennial almost-but-not-quite status is starting to feel a little…tepid. Time for them to win some big ones.
5. The Northwestern Wildcats
- Venric Mark is the kind of delightful, juking game-breakin' playmaker that you enjoy watching in spite of yourself as he's going for 350 all-purpose yards against your team.
- Coach Pat Fitzgerald played for the program and has stuck in Evanston to try and build a legacy rather than shipping out for a higher-profile job. If you're a loyalty-type person, it's a good team for you.
- Watching opponents try to stop the Northwestern spread offense is like watching someone try to bail out a leaky canoe with a colander.
- Played in what really might be the most absolutely ridiculous college football game since "the band is on the field!"
- Despite Pat Fitzgerald's past as a star linebacker, Northwestern's defense is itself a colander with extra-large holes.
- Years of mediocrity have left the team without much in the way of gameday tradition or atmosphere. That said, Fitzgerald and Co. are looking to change that. This is another bandwagon worth getting on. At least you know their games will have a lot of scoring.
6. The Michigan State Spartans
- "Sparty" is a good nickname.
- Persistent threat of on-campus rioting lends an edge of excitement to their hard-edged bone-crusher defense.
- They play in one of those big, old concrete stadiums where it always feels like it's about 40 degrees and raining a little. That's football. Don't come in here with your Big 12 shit where it's 75 degrees and the grass is getting brown from being in the sun so much.
- They play offense with the imagination and enthusiasm of a trip to the DMV.
- Mark Dantonio tries too hard to act tough.
7. The Penn State Nittany Lions
- Every college football fan should have the experience of driving through the rolling hills of central Pennsylvania and coming around a bend to see the massiveness of Beaver Stadium in the distance rising like a spaceship out of the heartland. Chills.
- Scrappy squad that scrapped out some quality scrapwork last year in wins over Northwestern and, especially, Wisconsin.
- Grand juries.
8. The Minnesota Golden Gophers
- Golden Gophers!
- Cool new outdoor stadium.
- General consensus that coach Jerry Kill has the program headed in the right direction, or as they say in Minnesota, "headed in the right direction." There's really no quirky Minnesotan phrase that applies here.
- Surprisingly diesel past history of success.
- Playing in the Metrodome, a venue so closely associated with the Vikings, seems to this outside observer like it kind of sapped the identity and vitality out of their image.
- Not entirely clear yet what kind of personality Kill's program will have. What does a new-era Minnesota team do to win?
9. The Indiana Hoosiers
- Unlike some programs lower on this list, Indiana at least seems to have a plan. Their new-ish coach is Kevin Wilson, who ran Oklahoma's face-melting offense in its aughts heyday. He's trying to make Indiana into, let's say, something like a poor man's Oregon, a relatively minor team in a big conference that comes out of nowhere scoring a lot of points. This is a good team to start talking up if you want to look smart in a few years.
- Nice uniforms.
- Seems like their loyal and large basketball fan base would come out in big numbers if the team was worth watching.
- The offense is pretty good already, but Indiana doesn't quite yet have the kind of big playmaker that will push them up to actually threaten the top half of the conference.
- The defense lives in a toilet.
10. The Purdue Boilermakers
- Some pretty fine players have come through West Lafayette recently. Drew Brees, Ryan Kerrigan, Cliff Avril, Bernard Pollard. There's talent at Purdue.
- Another program that's trying to figure out what it stands for. What do you get when you tune in to a Purdue football game?
- Like Illinois below, they just hired a coach whose biggest achievement was putting together a pretty good team in the MAC. It just seems like short-term, desperate thinking.
11. The Illinois Fighting Illini
- Gahhhhhh, this is a tough one.
- How about: alma mater of a surprising number of solid NFL players.
- Had a fun underdog run to the Rose Bowl in 2007.
- High point of their new coach's resumé is leading Toledo to the co-championship of a division in the MAC.
- Not trying to be mean here. Just not an easy program to get behind right now.
12. The Iowa Hawkeyes
- Former coach Hayden Fry epitomized the no-nonsense heartland football coach.
- Frequently pull off Wisconsin's trick of turning no-name recruits into stout no-nonsense defenders and smash-faced offensive linemen.
- Their leading blog is called Black Heart, Gold Pants, which is outstanding.
- Had a receiver named "Marvin McNutt."
- Play a verrrrry conservative and strategically simple brand of ball that reflects coach Kirk Ferentz's haircut.
- Are in kind of a rut right now. Not a ton to get excited about with the roster or the program's direction generally.
- Marvin McNutt never did start an Earth, Wind, and Fire cover band.
13. The Dakota University Hammerjacks
- Innovative "Run 'N' Musket" offense.
- Uniforms are made of leather and old shotgun shells.
- Stadium smells like tobacco, coffee, and sawdust.
- Frequently shoot opponents during games.
- Aren't a real team.
So that's it. We recommend you root for Michigan, Wisconsin, and Northwestern. Add your thoughts and your own pros and cons in the comments.
- President Trump said he will skip the White House correspondents' dinner. Yesterday, he called the media "the enemy of the people."
- Tom Perez has been named chair of the Democratic National Committee. He was Obama's Labor Secretary.
- Churches across the US are prepping an underground railroad system for immigrants who fear deportation under Trump.
- Here's the beef: Rapper Remy Ma dragged Nicki Minaj in a new diss track, who fired back with a Beyoncé endorsement 😱


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Alexander Pushkin in Brussels
Hi, if there is anybody still there...
I am going to Brussels in May, just read today - it's exactly 180 years since he was killed by a fellow from these places - that there is a statue, a street and even a bus stop in Brussels named after our poet Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine).
I have found the statue in Laeken (wonder where this is), between metro stations Belgica and Bockstael. No sign of any street.
Any idea how I get to this Laeken from Avenue des Merles, 9 à Woluwé Saint Pierre. The good old Google says it should take about an hour on two buses (or maybe they are metro lines). Does it look feasible?
I do not know much about Brussels, have got a Home Exchange arrangment there - helps to travel economically...
Do-it-yourself trip to Brussels
Trying Home Exchange - anyone knows where Avenue des Merles at Woluwé Saint Pierre is?
I checked internet maps, it appears to be a 1 - 2 storey suburb about 30 - 40 minutes both from the airport and Brussels centre.
Thank God, there is metro, and it looks like a direct line to Grand Place etc.
I wonder if it's feasible to plan a day trip to Brugge?
I do not know much about Brussels, unfortunately, and will hardly be an expert before I get there. For this reason I expect three days will be enough for me to see the main attractions. But I have about 10 days in May, must figure out what to do.
By the way, do they have a May 1 day off? - In France I once saw that the transportation does not function as everyone holds a meeting! And then May 8 - fireworks or something?
Dialing a mobile in Belgium
I am planning a trip to Brussels. Having communicqated with the landlady by e-mail, I have now a problem with her phone number - I guess something is missing.
The number starts with +32 for Belgium, then it has 2 for Brussels, and then seven digitals. But it doesn't go!
I tried to put in '4' - as Wikipedia advises - no result
It's the first time I have such a problem, all other numbers I dial from another country - in France or Sweden, for example - function OK
where are the French-speaking libraries in Brussels?
where to go here to BORROW books? Dutch have a good system (bruno.be), but I dont know and am not interested in that language.
Where do French speakers go?
KBR (National Library) is only for consultation sur place! I want to read at home....
Ask about transport
Hello everyone here,
I got a problem here and i really need your help .
I will arrive in Brussels airport 23:00 after 1st of Sep, even though I read through Brussels metro, I still feel confused.
So, is it possible I can purchase a ticket valid for 72hours on line either can I buy in the auto machine on the airport or.. what else option I have?
The website really made it complicated with that two kinds of card, so should I get one or not????
Thanks for helping me and I do appreciate your words.
Weekend Trip: From Paris to Belgium - Brussels-Ghent-Bruges-Antwerp
Need help on planning my itinerary :
Travelers : 2 - My wife and myself
Departing from Paris : 19th August ( Friday evening post 6 pm )
Arrival back to Paris : 22nd August ( Monday morning by 7 am )
Budget : 700 Euros for two.
Reason for traveling : Nearest destination to Paris. Wanted to visit Germany , but i felt i would lose out time on commuting between cities. Each country is different and famous for one or the other reason. Would definitely like to purchase chocolates from Belgium and have beer. I had an opportunity to visit Paris just for a month. Hence, covering Paris city on weekdays post work and planning to visit nearby countries over the weekend.
Other inputs : Haven't booked anything yet. Willing to travel by bus , train. Had visited Switzerland last weekend for 3 days. Looking for a similar weekend getaway.
- Is it feasible to cover Brussels-Ghent-Bruges-Antwerp in 2 days ? If so , how shall i plan my itinerary. How should i be booking my travel tickets ? Which places to visit ( considering time duration required to commute between these 4 cities ). Is it possible to cover all 4 ? Or should i choose 2 or 3 among these.
- Are there any Belgium passes ? Like the way it is present in Switzerland. I had purchased a TELL pass in Lucerne that got me covered for 3 days without having to pay for anything else.
- I have already made arrangements to visit Amsterdam on 27th August weekend. So that part is covered. If Brussels-Ghent-Bruges-Antwerp isn't feasible , please suggest any other better places to visit. How about Luxembourg? Or Rotterdam ? Or Cologne/ Bon ?
Getting Through Brussels Airport
Any current issues when arriving by train to Brussels Airport that one needs to be aware of
Brussels Chaleroi to Brussel city: shuttle bus after midnight
I will be arriving at Brussels Chaleroi at 2300. Does the shuttle bus to Brussels Midi/Centrale operate after midnight? And other than cabs, what is the most convenient and affordable form of transport from Brussels Midi to nearby hotels?
Airport bagagge drop times
Hi all!
I'll be flying from Brussels to Lisbon on the 16th of this Month. How are things at the airport at the moment? Big queues for dropping the baggage since I believe there are few open desks now?
The check-in is already done, only really need to drop the baggage.
Wrong phonenumbers for information!
Apparently both Qatar airways website and booking.com mention a wrong phonenumber for information regarding the Brussels attacks.
The correct number is +3278151771.
I have posted some travel alerts in the alert section here on VT.
I'll try to update them as good as possible.
One of the alerts mentions some links and phonenumbers which should always have the latest info.
Travel Alerts
Safety in Brussels for solo female wheelchair user
I am planning to spend a couple of days in Brussels at the end of March, staying near to the Grand Place. Is this area safe for a female wheelchair user travelling alone? I may attend a concert in the area which means travelling back to hotel late at night. How safe would this be? Any suggestions/tips greatly received. If I shouldn't even consider this trip, please let me know!
Thank you
Ouibus tickets
I am trying to buy 6 tickets on Ouibus to travel from Brussels to Amsterdam. Unfortunately, the website does not allow credit/debit cards from the United Arab Emirates to be processed...any ideas/suggestions to book these tickets...
How is the service anyway of Ouibus? The 6 tickets are costing me 54 Euros for travel in end-July...
Any inputs will be appreciated.
Breakfast/brunch places near the Radisson Blue Royal?
We'll be spending 2 full days in Brussels next weekend. Can you please recommend nice cute places for breakfast near our hotel, not too expensive? (We like coffee more than beer!;)))) I made some research but didn't know the name of the area we are staying so couldn't figure out if they were walking distance from our hotel.
Brussels - Park and Ride Location Safety
My wife and I are traveling around Belgium by car and will visit Brussels for 3 days. We would prefer to stay as close as possible to the center of Brussels, that is some place within a 10 minute walk of the Grand Plasce, but someplace that is also inexpensive and in a safe area. I'm using a number of sites to find a palce, however, any suggestions are welcomed.
But more importantly, where to park our car safely and for free to reduce cost. I found P+R Reyers - Kolonel Bourgstraat - 1030 Schaarbeek. This seems to be the closest to the Grand Place. We would drop our bags off at a hotel, drive to this P & R, park the car ror 3 nights and return to the city via tram.
The key question is how safe is this P & R? Are there others that would be safer to park at? Since all 8 P & R places are free, safety of the car is the key criteria.
Thank you.
Winter coat or rain coat?
Going to Belgium in early March. Should I wear a winter coat or a rain coat?
Vegetarian food
I have a two questions: 1. Specific vegetarian restaurants near the airport area? 2. Top local vegetarian dishes to order?
How safe is Brussels?
We've been planning a trip for a while to include the Netherlands, Belgium including Brussels, and Luxembourg. Traveling some time this summer.
Given the recent terrorists attacks in Paris with connections to Brussels, I'm reconsidering this part of our trip. From folks who live there or nearby, what are your thoughts/inputs? Yes, I understand that if I let the terrorists influence my decision, then they have won. But ...
Car rental
Will be renting a car from midi stn in july from hertz anyone had experience with this also need hotel close to stn for one night for 2 adults 2 kids 14 and 16
10 jump voyage validity for a jump
hi i have a 10 jump voyage mobib card . if i have to travel in metro and tram to reach a place in brussels, do i need to display the card in metro as well as bus.
Shenzhen VISA
I am from India and will be travelling to Shenzhen countries. Wish to plan visit to Brussels for two days. Is Shenzhen VISA issued by Czech Republic will be valid in Belgium or not. Do I need to take any other permission to enter Belgium.
Worth for a no-museum couple?
Hello friends, how are you doing?
My girlfriend and I are thinkin about going to Brussels and brugges in May. We know that we are going to really enjoy brugges as it looks really beautiful and it's going to be just a daytrip from Brussels, so we ain't going to be out of things to see during that day.
But, about Brussels... I have looked at some "top 10 things to do" and it looks like Brussels is mostly about museums. My girlfriend and I are not really into museums, art galleries and so on. We really like to stroll the streets (if they are worth it, of course), see outside monuments, having great views of the city landscape... Basically spending most of the day on the outside going by foot from one place to another.
We are staying only for a day, as the other day will be dedicated to Brugges. Is Brussels capable of filling a day by our taste? What do you feel about a no-museum-and-art-galleries couple spending a day at Brussels?
Thank you so much, have a nice 2016!
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Hi, everybody!
I'm going to travel from BRU Airport to the Brussels city center and to go around there. Then I need to go to Diegem (near the airport). And finally, the next day (within 24 hours) go back to the airport.
In this case, I found the STIB Jump 24h ticket very attractive. But I don't understand exactly what area it works on.
So, can I buy this ticket at the airport and:
1. Take a train to Gare Centrale (or it's for bus only - #12, 21)?
2. Take a train (or another mode) from Brussels to Diegem station?
3. Take a train from Diegem to the airport?
Thank you for your help!