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CAMBRIDGE — Every fall, Leslie Cohen Berlowitz, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, oversees the induction of hundreds of the brightest scholars, artists, and leaders into the prestigious organization, one of the nation's oldest and most respected honorary societies, whose membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.
But records show that Berlowitz, who has led the academy for 17 years, has exaggerated her own academic achievement as part of efforts to win hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funding.
In at least two applications for federal grants over the past decade, Berlowitz said she received a doctorate in English from New York University in 1969, a degree NYU said she never earned.
Berlowitz said in the applications for funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities that she had a "D. Phil" — the British abbreviation for a doctorate of philosophy or PhD — from NYU. The academy also described her repeatedly as a doctor in an employment ad.
But NYU spokesman James Devitt said the university has no record of her receiving a doctorate or completing her dissertation.
A resume on file at NYU from when Berlowitz worked there indicated she was still working on her doctorate in the late 1980s or early 1990s, decades after she claimed to have received the degree in the grant applications.
Devitt also said the school's records contradict statements in her resume about her employment history at the university, showing she misstated one job title and the length of time she held another.
Berlowitz, a 69-year-old New York native, declined repeated requests for interviews over the past two weeks and refused to meet with a reporter who stopped by the academy Monday morning. The academy referred calls to an outside public relations consultant, Ray Howell, who declined to answer specific questions but issued a general statement Monday evening:
"Neither the academy nor President Berlowitz is going to respond to subjective, interpretive, and gossipy allegations from former employees and unnamed sources," Howell said in the statement. "Nor are they going to respond to personal questions that are irrelevant, do not belong in the public domain and, frankly, smack of sexism."
The misleading resume is just the latest controversy to shadow Berlowitz's tenure at the academic think tank, which was founded during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, and other Harvard College graduates as Boston's answer to Benjamin Franklin's American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia.
Staff members have long complained that Berlowitz micromanages their work and that she dishes out frequent tongue-lashings. Some workers left after only a few days or weeks.
"She's an impossible executive," said Robert Haselkorn, a University of Chicago plant biologist and former member of the governing board who stopped paying dues more than a decade ago because he was so upset with Berlowitz's leadership.
But she is an extremely well-paid executive. The academy recently reported that her paycheck has risen to more than $598,000 for the fiscal year ending March 2012, far more than her peers, according to tax records. In fact, Berlowitz earned more than most university presidents, even though the academy has only a few dozen employees and a comparatively small budget.
Despite the complaints, Berlowitz has impressed directors by raising money, balancing the budget, and launching new programs, according to several former members of the governing board.
"She has done quite well," said Carolyn Shoemaker, a past board member and noted astronomer who acknowledges that she had little contact with academy staff members because she lived in Arizona. "Though we might not always approve of the way she treated staff, she was pretty effective as a fund-raiser and getting good publicity for the American Academy."
Berlowitz also made a point of cultivating relationships with members of the board. One recalled that she offered to have the academy cover most of his expenses to attend a meeting in Italy.
"She was quite effective in handing out the goodies," said Martin Dworkin, a former board member and microbiologist at the University of Minnesota. He noted that staff members sometimes said that "she kissed up and kicked down."
Dworkin credits Berlowitz with helping to energize a once-sleepy institution by stepping up fund-raising and launching new initiatives, such as fellowship programs. But Dworkin said he ultimately concluded Berlowitz should be let go because she treated underlings so harshly.
Board members did not respond to requests for comment individually. But the chairman of the board, 91-year-old retired industrialist Louis W. Cabot, and the board as a whole released a statement backing Berlowitz late Monday:
"President Berlowitz has the highest integrity, a record of outstanding achievement, and our unqualified support," the statement said. "We look forward to her leading the academy for years to come."
At other academic institutions, people who fabricate degrees have often faced severe consequences.
Doug Lynch, a vice dean at the University of Pennsylvania, resigned last year after revelations that he falsely claimed to have a doctorate from Columbia University. Marilee Jones, a beloved admissions dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, left in disgrace in 2007 after she admitted she falsified her degrees.
"In most situations at a university, lying about a professional degree would be grounds for instantaneous dismissal," said Ronald G. Ehrenberg, director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute. "In academia, academic integrity is what we hold most dearly."
Though the academy is not itself a university, its focus on honoring scholarship and academic achievements puts it squarely in the same realm. Several of the board members are current or retired professors from elite universities.
The academy refused multiple requests to provide a copy of Berlowitz's resume or biography. Instead, a spokesman referred the Globe to a Wikipedia entry created by her public relations staff member that said she earned her "undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University and Columbia University" but was vague about specific degrees.
However, she listed the nonexistent degree on at least two successful grant applications with the National Endowment for the Humanities, one from 2003 and another from 2010, that the Globe obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The agency gave the academy $650,000 based on the two grant applications.
The resume included in the applications also said she was vice president for academic advancement from 1991 to 1996 at NYU, when university records shows she was actually vice president for institutional advancement, handling fund-raising, rather than academic programs. The mischaracterization made Berlowitz's work at NYU appear more relevant to the academy's scholarly programs, which could be funded by the grants.
In addition, the resume said she was director of academic program development for eight years, when university records say she actually held the title for just over one.
Berlowitz personally signed the cover letter and other documents endorsing the 2003 grant application. And former employees said she insisted on reading every document that left the academy.
The nonexistent doctorate was also mentioned in a draft of an obituary the academy prepared a few years ago to be used in the event of her death; prominent people often have obituaries prepared in advance. The obituary praised her as "a scholar of American literature" who "received undergraduate and doctoral degrees from New York University."
In addition, a six-page employment ad for the academy refers to her as "Dr. Berlowitz" three times — though the only doctorate it mentions is an honorary degree from Northeastern University, similar to ones awarded to actor Edward Asner and Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis . It is generally frowned on in academic circles to call oneself doctor after receiving a ceremonial accolade.
The questions about her biography come after Berlowitz's critics have already tried unsuccessfully to oust her for other reasons.
She was almost fired in 1997, a year after she became chief executive of the academy, because of her heavy-handed management style, according to a former member of the governance board who asked not to be named.
Gail Loffredo lasted just 14 days as Berlowitz's executive assistant in 2012. She said Berlowitz fired her last year after her teenage daughter found a lump in her chest and Loffredo told Berlowitz she needed to take her daughter to the doctor the following week. Loffredo later learned that Berlowitz had gone through as many as five other assistants in as many months.
"She is horrible," Loffredo said, adding that she regularly witnessed Berlowitz scolding employees in her office in front of colleagues.
Ben Didsbury, a former membership coordinator charged with compiling contact information for academy fellows, recalled being ordered to apologize in front of other staffers after Berlowitz mistakenly called a person's fax number rather the voice line and thought Didsbury had reversed the numbers.
"There was fear permeating through the whole place," said Didsbury, who now works as a freelance audio engineer in Cambridge.
Workers were even afraid to speak much of the time, making the office seem eerily quiet. Didsbury recalls one time when an office assistant asked him if he needed any more staples, and Berlowitz stormed into his office yelling: "You do not talk to each other!"
At the same time, records show Berlowitz's pay has swelled to nearly $600,000 in total compensation in 2012, quadruple what leaders of other similarly sized nonprofits earned, based on a survey by the nonprofit information clearinghouse Guidestar USA.
The executive of the academy's onetime rival, the American Philosophical Society, earned less than $220,000 in 2011. The head of the Archaeological Institute of America, another scholarly institution based in Massachusetts, earned about $200,000 last fiscal year.
"Given the academy's size, the compensation seems very high," said Pete Smith, a nonprofit compensation consultant based in Washington, D.C. The academy reported it had just 44 employees (including part-time workers) and a budget of $8.5 million in 2012.
In addition to their unhappiness about Berlowitz's outsized paycheck, former workers grumbled that she flies first class, stays at the nicest hotels, orders catered meals at the academy, and requires workers to chauffeur her between the office and her luxury apartment along the Charles River in Cambridge.
A former member of the academy board said he was shocked to learn about Berlowitz's rising pay and benefits, suggesting that Berlowitz has taken increased control over the organization in recent years. In 2010, she added president of the academy to her title of chief executive, assuming a position previously held by an outside person.
"I am saddened and surprised to learn how much her salary has gone up," said Roger Myerson, a Nobel laureate in economics at the University of Chicago. "I can't believe that an independent president of the academy would have tolerated this kind of spending."
Berlowitz has weathered criticism in the past. A decade ago, after years of infighting and at least one effort to oust her, she joked that she should celebrate seven years of running the academy. "A survival party," she called it.
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OTTAWA — There could soon be less spring in the step of those at National Defence as the department considers halting the decade-long practice of distributing free Viagra to the troops.
Also under consideration is the cancellation of taxpayer-funded transgender medical procedures for members of the military.
Defence sources say both programs -- worth over $2 million a year -- have been offered up for elimination by the department twice in the last two years as part of the strategic review process and the departmental spending review.
The suggestions were rejected once, but are now back under consideration as part of the $1.5 billion in defence cuts mandated over three years as part of Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's March 29 budget, officials said.
A senior defence source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said decisions on the future of both programs will be made after the budget is formally adopted later this spring.
Asked whether either health initiative faced elimination, National Defence responded with a terse statement saying the military's health services branch "is focusing on its core mandate" of providing high-quality care.
The statement noted that the only cuts as part of the strategic review involved massage therapy and a health information line, but carefully left the door open to further reductions.
"Once changes to the Military Healthcare System are known, they will be communicated to all (Canadian Forces) personnel," said the written response.
Within government, officials have expressed concern for years about the rising cost of the wildly popular Viagra program, which saw members limited to six of the little blue pills a month -- at a cost of between $15 and $22 per pill.
The drug is used to treat erectile dysfunction in men.
When introduced in 2000, the government justified supplying the prescription wonder drug to troops as a health policy meant to ensure all soldiers were mentally fit and ready for the battlefield.
While serving members of the military might be cut off, ex-soldiers would not be not be affected, says a spokeswoman for Veterans Affairs, which in the past has spent more than $1.5 million a year on its program.
"Veterans Affairs Canada continues to cover Viagra for eligible veterans," Janice Summerby said in an email statement.
"Costs of prescription drugs (approved by Health Canada), including Viagra, are reimbursed to address a health need as prescribed by a health professional."
Getting the federal government to cover the cost was the result of years of lobbying by the War Amps of Canada in the late 1990s.
Both the U.S. and Australia have similar programs of passing out free pills to their soldiers.
A University of Ottawa law professor said an economic case could be made for discontinuing Viagra, even though it's pocket change in comparison to the multibillion-dollar weapons systems the department is reviewing.
But transgender surgeries is another matter entirely, said Errol Mendes, a constitutional law expert.
"It shows the Canadian military is more open and progressive, especially when compared to what you see south of the border," he said. "This cut could be ideological and playing to (the Conservative) base."
The policy of helping cover some of the cost of transgender medical procedures dates back to 1998, but has its roots in the Canadian military's decision to allow gay and lesbian members to serve openly without fear of reprisal.
National Defence, as recently as 18 month ago, reportedly updated its dress policy to allow soldiers to wear the uniform of their "target gender," a move that was hailed as respectful and progressive.
Fear of legal repercussions, in the form of human-rights complaint or even a Charter of Rights challenge, has apparently given federal officials pause about the elimination of the surgeries, said the defence sources.
The Forces was caught in a decade-long fight with a transgendered Quebec lawyer who claimed she was discriminated against when the military refused in 1999 to enlist her.
A federal human rights tribunal rejected the complaint in 2009.
Mendes said the rights of the transgendered have not been explicitly dealt with by the Supreme Court and challenging the elimination of the program would be tricky.
The court could deem them a vulnerable group, but proving a disadvantage may be more difficult, he added.

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JUPITER, Fla. – Louis Oosthuizen will take two months away from golf to let a series of injuries heal.
Oosthuizen had to withdraw from the U.S. Open and the British Open because of injuries to his neck, back and hip. He will miss the Bridgestone Invitational this week and the PGA Championship next week at Oak Hill.
The 2010 British Open champion is treating the injuries with rest and strengthening exercises. He hopes to return at the Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland at the end of September.
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The start of the 2016 presidential primary season is at least 16 months away, which means that it's almost too late for Democrats to think about running for President. At least, that's what Politico's Alexander Burns suggests — tongue in cheek, no doubt — in his look at potential Democratic contenders whose names don't sound like, er, Dillary Dinton. A few Democrats haven't gotten the memo (from 2006?) that 2016 will be a coronation of Hillary Clinton, and are starting to take the first tenuous steps to making the primary a challenge:
But with the next Iowa caucuses a mere 29 or so months away, other, lesser-known Democrats have begun to take tentative steps to raise their national profiles. Last week, Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley ventured outside his home state to stump for Newark Mayor Cory Booker's Senate campaign in New Jersey. This Friday, Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a well-liked and quick-witted Democrat* in her second term, will speak at the North Iowa Democrats' 10th Annual Wing Ding Dinner. The AP reported this week that New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has just inked a book deal to write "a memoir and a call to action for women."
And on Sept. 15, both Vice President Joe Biden — no stranger to the voters, or to the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner Circuit — and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro will both speak at Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin's annual steak fry, a traditional stop on the road to a presidential primary campaign.
For any non-Clinton Democrat, exploring the 2016 election is something of an exercise in perceived futility, at least for the moment. She looms larger over the primary landscape than any undeclared candidate since perhaps Dwight Eisenhower, and the drop-off in prominence between her and the next tier of Democrats makes it all but impossible for any less famous politician to win consideration as a credible alternative.
That is, unless Clinton doesn't run.
Or unless she does, and fares as well as she did in 2007-8. The continuing perception of Hillary's inevitability is simply mystifying. The media had the exact same perception of her at this stage of the 2008 cycle and almost all the way through 2007 until the primaries actually began. At that time, she was just six years past the end of her popular husband's administration and six years into a Senate career that gave her a separate political identity, plus the Clinton machine was in full stride.
Even with all of that going for her, she lost to a first-term Senate backbencher with an utterly unremarkable career outside of a few speeches. Now Hillary has four years as Secretary of State shepherding a failed foreign policy, which ended on the collapse of an under-protected diplomatic facility in Benghazi that got attacked by terrorist forces unleashed by the Obama administration's ill-advised intervention in Libya. She will be 69 years old and her husband's presidency will be as relevant to the electorate as Eisenhower's was to the Jimmy Carter electorate — literally, with 16 years separating them.
If Hillary proves that invincible, it will be a measure of the rest of the field, and not her. Consider the candidates described by Burns in this article. We have only one governor, Martin O'Malley, who's not exactly known for his charm and wit. There are two second-term Senators, neither of whom have exerted any kind of leadership within their own party. Next we get the mayor of San Antonio as a presidential contender? What's next, an Assemblyman from California? Other than O'Malley, the only really legit contender mentioned is Joe Biden, who also lost to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in 2007-8.
Perhaps this New York Times report on the disarray at the Clinton foundation might encourage a few more Democrats to test the waters:
Worried that the foundation's operating revenues depend too heavily on Mr. Clinton's nonstop fund-raising, the three Clintons are embarking on a drive to raise an endowment of as much as $250 million, with events already scheduled in the Hamptons and London. And after years of relying on Bruce R. Lindsey, the former White House counsel whose friendship with Mr. Clinton stretches back decades, to run the organization while living part-time in Arkansas, the family has hired a New York-based chief executive with a background in management consulting.
"We're trying to institutionalize the foundation so that it will be here long after the lives of any of us," Mr. Lindsey said. "That's our challenge and that is what we are trying to address."
But the changing of the guard has aggravated long-simmering tensions within the former first family's inner circle as the foundation tries to juggle the political and philanthropic ambitions of a former president, a potential future president, and their increasingly visible daughter.
And efforts to insulate the foundation from potential conflicts have highlighted just how difficult it can be to disentangle the Clintons' charity work from Mr. Clinton's moneymaking ventures and Mrs. Clinton's political future, according to interviews with more than two dozen former and current foundation employees, donors and advisers to the family. Nearly all of them declined to speak for attribution, citing their unwillingness to alienate the Clinton family.
The Telegraph calls this "devastating":
The NYT runs the scoop in its usual balanced, inoffensive way – but the problem jumps right off the page. The Clintons have never been able to separate the impulses to help others and to help themselves, turning noble philanthropic ventures into glitzy, costly promos for some future campaign (can you remember a time in human history when a Clinton wasn't running for office?). And their "Ain't I Great?!" ethos attracts the rich and powerful with such naked abandon that it ends up compromising whatever moral crusade they happen to have endorsed that month. That the Clinton Global Initiative is alleged to have bought Natalie Portman a first-class ticket for her and her dog to attend an event in 2009 is the tip of the iceberg. More troubling is that businessmen have been able to expand the profile of their companies by working generously alongside the Clinton Foundation. …
The cynical might infer from the NYT piece that the Clintons are willing to sell themselves, their image, and even their Foundation's reputation in exchange for money to finance their personal projects. In Bill's case, saving the world. In Hillary's case, maybe, running for president.
It's nothing new to report that there's an unhealthy relationship in America between money and politics, but it's there all the same. While the little people are getting hit with Obamacare, high taxes and joblessness, a class of businessmen enjoys ready access to politicians of both Left and Right that poses troubling questions for how the republic can continue to call itself a democracy so long as it functions as an aristocracy of the monied. Part of the reason why America's elites get away with it is becuase they employ such fantastic salesmen. For too long now, Bill Clinton has pitched himself, almost without question, as a homespun populist: the Boy from Hope. The reality is that this is a man who – in May 1993 – prevented other planes from landing at LAX for 90 minues while he got a haircut from a Beverley Hills hairdresser aboard Air Force One. The Clintons are populists in the same way that Barack Obama is a Nobel prize winner. Oh, wait…
Don't expect Hillary to waltz through a coronation, in other words. Just like 2007-8.
Addendum: Klobuchar is personally well-liked, and for good reason; she's a genuinely nice person. I've met her and chatted briefly with her twice. But that's not the same thing as political charisma, which few Minnesota politicians have, and neither Klobuchar nor Al Franken are an exception to that rule. She succeeds in Minnesota where voters like their politicians to be boring and competent, but she's not going to garner much support anywhere else.


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How's this for a weekend conference: Some of the smartest people in the world are gathering in New York to try to figure out how to build lifelike copies of humans ... to be eventually uploaded with the contents of a real human brain.
It's the brainchild of a Russian multimillionaire, Dmitry Itskov. He says he's perfectly serious, and that it could be accomplished by 2035.
Crazy? The New York Times gave Itskov a front-page profile on its Sunday Business page a week and a half ago.
Imagine this: A digital copy of your brain in a different life form that could live for hundreds of years and be replaced.
(Read More: Russian Tycoon Aims to Make Immortality a Reality Using Robots)
There are several stages to his proposal, including an early stage (Avatar A) where lifelike avatars (androids) are created, but without an actual brain in them. Instead you would be able to mentally "occupy" the avatar and would have the same sensations.
If you have ever seen the movie "Surrogates" with Bruce Willis, a 2009 film, this is the first stage. In that movie, Willis remotely moves around an android that is an optimized version of himself. He is in a darkened room and has a live telepresence of that avatar, including all senses.
Dmitry says that we could have the first phase—that will enable people to operate a nonbiological body—in the next seven years. And he believes that the concept can be proved to be viable in the next three years. He is talking about an artificial body with sensations—the sensation that you would be walking in the body.
The next phase (Avatar B) is brain transplantation. Instead of your dying, neurosurgeons isolate the brain and some of the spinal chord, put it in a life support system, and that is inserted into the android developed in Avatar A. The timetable: 2020-25.
In the next phase (Avatar C), you make the brain non-biological by uploading it into a computer. The timetable: 2030-35.
Sounds crazy? One of the speakers, Theodore Berger, will show how he has already replaced the hippocampus of a rat with a computer chip. The hippocampus is the part most heavily associated with memory — Berger has shown that rats implanted with these computer chips can have a memory without the original biological part.
The final phase (Avatar D) is replacement of the physical body with a nonphysical, hologram-like body. You are essentially living inside a computer, but you can physically manifest yourself as a hologram. Think Princess Leia in "Star Wars." The goal: 2045.
Work has already started in Avatars A, B and C. These are parallel threads of scientific research, Itskov said.
Heady stuff indeed, but some impressive scientists from Harvard, MIT and Berkeley are attending the Global Future 2045 World Conference in New York City this weekend, a showpiece for Itskov and ideas around the concept of life extension.
Many investors are attending, including, according to the sponsors, Allen & Co.,Citigroup, Barclays, and several VCs and hedge funds. Credit Suisse, which has a heavy investment in a Swiss robotics lab along with the Swiss government, will also be there.
Why the interest from business? The intersection of humans and machines involves many fields with huge investment potential: robotics, defense, computers, anti-aging, genetics, prosthetics.
Uploading a human brain may be a couple of decades away, if ever, but along the way a lot of new, highly profitable technologies may be developed. Itskov will be unveiling a series of products that are immediately investable to the investors present.
(Read More: Spying Robots & More: The Coming Robotics Revolution)
IBM, for example, scored a huge PR hit when its Watson computer defeated the reigning "Jeopardy" champion. Watson is essentially a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence; it is now being tested for use as an advisor to doctors for medical diagnoses. The potential market: every doctor in the world.
Itskov acknowledges the importance of developing artificial intelligence, but his main interest is in allowing humans to develop their full potential—and that includes the options to occupy a new life form.
"The avatar is a transition for human beings ... a transition which will allow us to stop aging ... get rid of diseases ... and finally to be almost immortal," he said.
To show how far these technologies have come, Itskov plans to unveil a robotic model of his own head that will move and talk in tandem with his movements, built by Hanson Robotics.
Here is the conference agenda: http://gf2045.com/program/
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YouTube has partnered with the Scottish Premier League to show highlight reels of soccer action. That move has PaidContent.org wondering if the online video giant might go after England's Premier League next.
YouTube is not itself producing the videos for the Scottish league but is instead acting as a platform for the league's own videos. Still, this sort of dissemination could prove a watershed in the exceptionally high-priced world of sports video content — especially when it comes to the Premier League, which is the world's most watched soccer league.
The two companies that purchased live rights for the Premier League — BskyB and BT — paid more than US$4.6 billion for three years worth of content. But those rights don't include "near-live" rights — which is where Google might make a bid. PaidContent goes over some of the logistics involved in such a deal.
First Court Documents, Now Video
Earlier this week, details of the arrest of Kim Dotcom, founder of the file-sharing site Megaupload, who is wanted on copyright charges in the U.S., emerged in the form of court documents. The testimonies therein depict an over-the-top scene with helicopters and, according to Dotcom, some punches and kicks, as well.
Now there is video of the raid:
The arrest came at the request of U.S. authorities, who are currently trying to extradite Dotcom to the States to put him on trial for what is believed to be the grandest case of copyright infringement in history.
Social Media Used In Philippines Flooding
In the Philippines, which has been ravaged by floods in recent days, citizens, nonprofit organizations and government agencies are using social media to coordinate relief efforts, according to Mashable.
The floods, which have displaced a reported 80,000 residents and killed at least 50 people, have inspired people to use Facebook and Twitter to disseminate information.
Filipino citizens are among the most social media-savvy in the world, according to Mashable. About 50 percent of the population uses social networks, and they're using them now to save lives. Twitter hashtags such as #RescuePH (for rescue calls), #FloodsPH (for breaking news) and #PHalert (for official government alerts) have, quite literally, become lifesavers.
Locals have also created a map through Google Maps to detail where relief centers are, and have set up rescue requests through Google Docs.
Facebook Takes Down Crude Australian Page
Facebook removed a page that depicted Australia's Aboriginal people as drunks and leeches of the welfare system, according to the BBC.
The page, Aboriginal Memes, invited people to post jokes about Aboriginals. A petition with thousands of signatures, as well as a government condemnation, prompted Facebook to take down the page.
The creator of the page was a 16-year-old boy from the city of Perth.
Australia's communications minister, Stephen Conroy, applauded the removal of the page. He added that Australia doesn't abide by American laws — apparently a reference to hate speech falling under the umbrella of free speech — and said that just because Facebook is American doesn't mean such discrimination should be permitted.
China Focused on Cyberpolitics
Noting that "cyber politics" played a roll in the tumult in North Africa and the Middle East, China's Communist Party — already plenty wary of the Internet — is now even more paranoid about the Web, according to WantChinaTimes.com.
WantChinaTimes cites the People's Tribune, which published an article this week saying the Internet had altered the geopolitics of the Arab World, starting with the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia in early 2011. The article — published under the watchful eye of the Communist Party — says that it is increasingly easy for revolutionaries to incite unrest via the Web.
This, the article said, has changed the political life of Chinese citizens and introduced new challenges to China's authoritarian government. Among the challenges mentioned by the People's Tribune are the organizational power of microblogging platforms and the rise of individualism.


text: Julia Kozerski is simply a successful story for a woman who lost half of her weight or exactly 160 pound , which is very hard task for any person. When Julia Kozerski saw a camera, she would duck and dodge out of the way. She'd hide behind other people or offer to take the picture to avoid being photographed. "It was an embarrassment, somebody having that photograph," she said, who at her heaviest weighed 338 pounds. "They told the truth. It haunts you." But when Kozerski got married in 2009, she had to face the camera for obvious reasons, as every bride does. "I hadn't taken a photo in 10 years," she said. When she saw her wedding pictures, Kozerski said, "I didn't see that happiness. I saw someone scared of the camera -- that wasn't me." Her inhibitions about being photographed are upended in her self-portraits chronicling her weight-loss, called "Half." In a society where perfection and Photoshop are givens, Kozerski disrobes and photographs herself just the way she is -- no makeup, no clothes, no hairstyles, no computer tricks to nip and tuck. In the series, a somber Kozerski faces a mirror, a scale in another scene, and a refrigerator stocked with food -- "They serve as reflections of my experience and address and explore my physically and emotionally painful, private struggles with food, obsession, self-control, and self-image," the photography student at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design wrote on her website. She came from a family with a history of weight problems and grew up on fast food. The family made halfhearted attempts to lose weight and tried Slim Fast shakes and Weight Watchers, but these efforts fizzled. "I don't think we knew the steps to take, we had never been introduced to diets or proper food," she said. At school, she never felt like she fit in and began shopping at plus-size stores during middle school. By the time Kozerski got married, her body mass index was 49.9 -- a BMI over 30 is considered obese. When she saw her wedding photos, that was the last straw. She woke up one day and told herself, "I'm done being sad." She started a weight-loss blog and used a free online calorie counter. She kicked the habits of eating out and drinking soda, and picked up more fruits and vegetables. Her exercises started with small steps -- walking her dog every day, taking stairs instead of the elevator and parking far away from the store. As she shed weight, Kozerski chose her project for her photography class. She started with close-up shots of her back, her abdomen. These were faceless photographs that she brought to class. "It was shocking in a way that provoked conversation," Kozerski said. "This is a story people relate to and talk about. I was just being as honest as I can. It becomes less about my experience and more about this greater story." Everyone has something to hide that he or she is embarrassed about, Kozerski said. And here she was showing body parts that women tried to hide. She gradually started showing her face in the photographs. Her husband, family and friends wanted to know why she'd put revealing images of herself into the public sphere. About her husband, Kozerski said, "He began to understand the emotions, although I couldn't verbalize them. He realized it's more universal." Her photos show her in distraught, hopeless and difficult moments. There are tears in her eyes. "It's an internal struggle, this whole thing -- it just bottled up. I couldn't express myself, even through the photos," Kozerski said. She called certain photos of her naked body "casing" or "ruins." The way Kozerski presented her journey is "revealing in every way," said body image expert Robyn Silverman. Society has a definitive view of what it means to be fat. People associate the word "thin" with positive words like popular, sexy, and controlled. With the word "fat," they associate traits like laziness, ugliness, lack of control in a way that "the term fat is no longer a descriptor of weight and size, but an assessment of character," Silverman said. The words Kozerski uses to describe her body -- like "ruins" -- still serve as "a reminder of the feeling of worthlessness, not being good enough" and how she and others who are overweight or obese struggle with these character labels, said Silverman, author of "Good Girls Don't Get Fat." Kozerski had the classic grass-is-greener mentality that everything would be fine after she lost weight. "It's not related to a number or a size, or where you shop -- I thought it was about that," she said. "I've realized it's about who you are. If you're confident and healthy, that's where you want to be and that's where you need to be as a person." She lost 160 pounds -- essentially the weight of another person. She has maintained her weight for a year. It doesn't take an army of nutritionists, personal trainers or experts to get healthier, Kozerski said. "I'm just a 27-year-old, Midwestern wife and fulltime college student. By definition, I am the 'Average Jane,' I just realized that I was unhappy about myself and about my health and made simple changes to my lifestyle by eating better and moving more. "Before I was horrified of imperfections, now I see the imperfections as battle scars. I'm proud of what I've gone through and what I've done now." Source : CNN Health


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LimeWire has agreed to pay record labels US$105 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that the file-sharing service allowed its users to infringe copyright, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced late Thursday.
Thirteen record labels, in a lawsuit filed in August 2006, alleged that LimeWire was "devoted essentially to the Internet piracy" of music. Judge Kimba Wood of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ordered LimeWire to stop distributing its peer-to-peer software in October of last year.
The out-of-court settlement came after a jury trial that focused on damages to be paid by LimeWire and CEO Mark Gorton began in New York last week.
"We are pleased to have reached a large monetary settlement following the court's finding both LimeWire and its founder Mark Gorton personally liable for copyright infringement," RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Bainwol said in a statement. "As the court heard during the last two weeks, LimeWire wreaked enormous damage on the music community, helping contribute to thousands of lost jobs and fewer opportunities for aspiring artists."
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The settlement reinforces the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against P2P vendor Grokster in 2005, Bainwol added. The court ruled that Grokster and StreamCast Networks can be held liable for copyright infringement committed by users.
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Lockheed to settle securities fraud suit for $19.5 million
Lockheed Martin Corp has agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle a securities fraud class-action lawsuit accusing the company of misleading investors about the prospects for its information technology division, according to court papers.
The settlement, which requires a judge's approval, was detailed by the plaintiffs in papers filed in U.S. District Court in New York on Tuesday.
The accord would resolve more than two years of litigation by shareholders who blamed alleged misstatements by Lockheed for a decline in its stock price.
Spokeswoman Jennifer Allen said in a statement Wednesday Lockheed agreed to the accord to "to avoid the expense and distraction of litigation."
"We continue to believe that our disclosures were legal and appropriate and that we would have prevailed in the litigation," she said.
Samuel Rudman, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd, declined comment.
The lawsuit was filed in July 2011 by the City of Pontiac General Employees' Retirement System, the public employees' pension fund for Pontiac, Michigan. It named as defendants Lockheed and company executives, including Chief Executive Robert Stevens.
The plaintiffs alleged that Lockheed overstated the financial projections for its information systems and global services division for 2009.
After the company announced disappointing results for the division in July 2009, shares dropped 8 percent to $75.13, the complaint said. The lawsuit said the decline was due to the alleged fraud coming to light.
The company denied the allegations. Lockheed last year sought to dismiss the lawsuit after saying six former employees who were not identified by name in the complaint recanted statements supporting the securities fraud allegations when the company learned their identities.
The judge held a hearing in October in which five of the witnesses testified to what they told a private investigator hired by the plaintiffs' law firm.
After that testimony, Senior U.S. Judge Jed Rakoff said he questioned the credibility of three of the witnesses. In December, the judge denied Lockheed's bid to dismiss the lawsuit and certified the case as a class action.
Lawyers for the lead plaintiff at the law firm Robbins Geller plan to ask Rakoff to award them as much as a third of the settlement as fees as well as reimbursement of up to $1 million in expenses, according to papers filed Tuesday.
The case is City of Pontiac General Employees' Retirement System v. Lockheed Martin Corporation, et al., U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 11-05026.
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found several examples of galaxies containing quasars, which act as gravitational lenses, amplifying and distorting images of galaxies aligned behind them.
Quasars are among the brightest objects in the universe, far outshining the total starlight of their host galaxies. Quasars are powered by supermassive black holes.
To find these rare cases of galaxy-quasar combinations acting as lenses, a team of astronomers led by Frederic Courbin at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland) selected 23,000 quasar spectra in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). They looked for the spectral imprint of galaxies at much greater distances that happened to align with foreground galaxies. Once candidates were identified, Hubble's sharp view was used to look for gravitational arcs and rings (which are indicated by the arrows in these three Hubble photos) that would be produced by gravitational lensing.
Quasar host galaxies are hard or even impossible to see because the central quasar far outshines the galaxy. Therefore, it is difficult to estimate the mass of a host galaxy based on the collective brightness of its stars. However, gravitational lensing candidates are invaluable for estimating the mass of a quasar's host galaxy because the amount of distortion in the lens can be used to estimate a galaxy's mass.
The next step for the team is to build a catalog of "quasar-lenses" that will allow them to determine masses for a statistically significant number of quasar host galaxies and to compare them with galaxies without quasars. With the numerous wide-field surveys that will start in the near future or that are already started, hundreds of thousands of quasars will be accessible for looking for lensing effects.
The team involved in this research includes: F. Courbin, C. Faure, F. Rerat, M. Tewes, and G. Meylan (EPFL, Switzerland), S.G. Djorgovski, A. Mahabal (Caltech), D. Stern (JPL), T. Boroson (NOAO), D. Sluse (Bonn University, Germany), and R. Dheeraj (University of Maryland). The full study will be published in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
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Washington: NASA wants to know how you can improve the International Space Station as a technology test bed.
NASA's International Space Station National Laboratory and Technology Demonstration offices are asking for proposals on how the space station may be used to develop advanced or improved exploration technologies. NASA is also seeking proposals about how new approaches, technologies and capabilities could improve the unique laboratory environment of the orbiting outpost.
The annoucement will provide successful proposers access to the space station's microgravity environment, crew support and robotic servicing. It closes Sept. 30.
"The space station is a world-class facility and critical to NASA's plan to extend humanity's presence beyond low-Earth orbit," said Andrew Clem of the Technology Demonstration Office in the International Space Station Program at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. "This is an opportunity for researchers, inventors and designers to demonstrate a technology needed for future human spaceflights or to improve an existing space station capability."
NASA will review submissions throughout the year as they are received. The agency will cover launch and integration costs for selected proposals. Successful submissions also may be eligible for limited additional funding.
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Proposals for new exploration technologies could include strategies to reduce mass, maintenance and power requirements, while also increasing efficiency, reliability and safety. The idea could be a new technology or a new, improved use of existing space hardware. Proposals also may have the potential to yield benefits for humanity, such as testing a new material or stimulating economic growth.
Alternately, proposers could address improvements to the existing capabilities of the U.S. National Laboratory, such as new uses for existing experiment tools and infrastructure aboard the orbiting outpost, or potential efficiencies like advances in data communications. Other possibilities include ground equipment for space studies, in-orbit analytical tools, three-dimensional cell and tissue culture hardware, or improvements or new uses for existing station research resources.
The enhancements sought in this announcement will further efforts by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space to promote research aboard the station's U.S. National Laboratory.


text: It's fashion legend that Yves Saint Laurent dressed both Mick and Bianca Jagger for their wedding in St Tropez, May 1971. How well the bride wore white YSL tailoring was the ultimate endorsement of Monsieur Yves' sartorial liberation, a crowning glory years before 75's iconic Helmut Newton photograph.In 2013, Kim Gordon half-wears a Le Smoking, photographed by Hedi Slimane as part of his Saint Laurent music project, premiered here. A portrait series drawing on the relationship between rock icons and the house since its earliest days, the killer move being the artists style themselves in its seasonal and permanent collections to create an image of their own expression.Inaugurated when the creative shot Christopher Owens as part of Saint Laurent's reset, the ex-Girl was succeeded by Beck for the SS13 campaign. And follows Slimane's history clothing Bowie, Jagger, The Libertines, The Kills, Franz Ferdinand; his ongoing photographic Rock Diary featuring emerging and established talents; commissioning show soundtracks by Daft Punk, Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees as well as shooting Sky Ferreira for Saint Laurent's pre-fall lookbook.Gordon maintains the signature brilliance of a mannish woman in her picture, even nabbing Hedi's own scarf. Part suited she treads a tightrope familiar from Sonic Youth, a free spirited girl with total TCB steeliness.Courtney Love, photographed several times by Slimane over the past decade, is seen at home in a pinstriped suit and silk ruffle shirt wigging out over her guitar. Let It Bleed, Love's ink locked in standoff with an evening dress, is a statement Mick J has history with, cake sculpture optional.Marilyn Manson, he who drawled "I'm not an artist but a fucking work of art" follows, complemented by Ariel Pink who shows off his party trick with chipped nail polish. Both wear bikers.If Yves Saint Laurent was fascinated with the arts – think of the epic Ballet Russes collection of AW76, though not only – this quartet have a subliminal link in Hedi's exploration of West Coast cultural mythology.Beyond that? They wear it well, a reminder of the magnetic insouciance that separates a rock star with someone who is simply in a band. Vive la difference.


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Toshiba Gigabeat information
HDD playersThe MEG-Fxx and MEG-Xxx models :
The mini-B connector on the cradle can also connect to the AT2LP and to the USB 1.1 device controller of the S3C2440.
The type A connector is connected to the USB 1.1 host controller of S3C2440. Here is the Google cache version of a Excel document with all the parts: partlist.html For more info:
Firmware Analysis4 extracted files from a firmware update file: http://daniel.haxx.se/x30/ It clearly shows a ~13MB 'romfs' image for Linux on ARM. patch-2.4.18-rmk6-gb4r.bz2: a patch made from the linux kernel source from Toshiba. It turnes out to be identical to the linux source for the Kenwood HD20GA7 / HD30GA9
Gigabeat S information
External links
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The Letters
DVD Review
by Kam Williams
Faith-Based Biopic Revisits the Life of Mother Teresa
Mother Teresa (Juliet Stevenson) was born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Kosovo on August 26, 1910. At the age of 12, she already expressed an interest in becoming a nun in order to minister to the poor in Calcutta.
A half-dozen years later, she abandoned Albania for Ireland to enter the convent of the Sisters of Loreto. After completing her novitiate in Darjeeling near the Himalayan mountains, she took her vows in 1931 and began her career as a teacher at a Catholic high school for girls.
However, her original calling continued to nag at Teresa, so she soon prevailed upon her Mother Superior (Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal) for permission to relocate to Calcutta. That would depend upon a special dispensation from the Vatican, because of her prior promise to remain cloistered in a monastery and to not move among the masses of the great unwashed.
Eventually, Teresa was not only allowed to leave the Sisters of Loreto but to found her own order in Calcutta, the Missionaries of Charity. Over the ensuing decades, its ranks would swell to 4,000 with convents in 100 countries.
Written and directed by William Riead, The Letters is a reverential biopic paying homage to the pious patron saint of the poor, sick and dying. The movie's title is based on her half-century long exchange of intimate missives with her confidant and spiritual adviser, Father Celeste van Exem (Max von Sydow)
Despite the accolades and fanfare the high-profile icon ultimately attracted, the production aspires to drive home the point that this humble servant of the Lord never let herself be distracted from her appointed rounds. "I am just a pencil in God's hand," she explained. Nevertheless, she would be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and canonized posthumously by Pope John Paul II in 2003.
Faith-oriented fare designed to appeal to the choir it's clearly preaching to.
Good (2 stars)
Rated PG for mature themes
Running time: 119 minutes
Distributor: Distributor: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Extras: Audio commentary by director William Riead and cast members Rutger Hauer and Priya Darshini; and Behind-the-Scenes of The Letters.
To see a trailer for The Letters, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0zDwMQ9Oak


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Farming interns sow their sustainable oats
A New Jersey farm teaches developing-world farmers and Americans with a desire to get back to the earth.
On my first visit to Howell Living History Farm, Rob Flory led me directly to the manure pile – a formidable mountain of dirty straw bonded together by the odorous excretions of horses and oxen.
"Time to fill the spreader," Farmer Rob explained as he handed me a long-handled pitchfork and
pointed toward the empty wagon.
My suspicion was that "The Pile" was my first test, intended to dispel any romantic illusions surrounding agricultural labor. As a prospective farm intern, I needed to demonstrate my willingness to stand ankle-deep in it five days a week. I wanted the job, so I got dirty quick.
Experience has since taught me that the goal when shoveling manure is just the opposite – try not to get dirty, and don't pitch into the wind. But I did get the job.
I'm one of those young adults you hear about who comes down with a sudden, unshakable yearning to grow some vegetables. After graduating from college in 2005 and completing several tours of duty in fluorescent-lit offices, I decided I needed to get back to the earth. A slight difference in my case is that I went way back, about 100 years or so.
Howell Farm, located on 130 public-owned acres in Mercer County, N.J., is both a real farm and an active museum, dedicated to the preservation of American farming practices circa 1900. For the past six months I've had the opportunity to guide old-fashioned walking plows, seed drills, and cultivators through the fields behind 1,800-pound draft horses or one-ton oxen.
Through its internship program, the farm is an outdoor academy – a training ground for farmers from developing countries and sustainability-minded Americans who see value in using hay-powered draft animals over gas-powered tractors. Interns have come here from as far as Ecuador, Kenya, and Nepal, and from all walks of American life. The job of an intern involves rising at 7 a.m. and occasionally working to dusk in order to feed the chickens, muck the horse stalls, and complete all the daily barnyard tasks and fieldwork.
One thing that drew me to Howell was the idea that lessons in historic farming might provide unique insight on important modern issues: global warming and peak oil, the safety and quality of our food, and the movement toward sustainability and self-sufficiency. Essentially, I wanted to travel back in time and see for myself if the good old days were as good as advertised and perhaps worth returning to.
I moved into Howell's moldy, drafty farmhouse in late February. I started blogging about my daily experiences, using my laptop computer and the Internet connection available at the farm's visitor center. In one of my first posts, when the nostalgia of it all was still fresh, I wrote this:
"Every act is intimate. Need breakfast? Fry an egg from the henhouse. Need firewood? Harvest a dead tree and then get to work sawing. Fertilizer for the fields? Put on your boots and start shoveling. I don't think any animals get slaughtered for meat at Howell, but if they did, it would be an intimate affair, and the people who ate that animal would know where their burger came from."
One of my readers posted this reply: "Sometimes I wonder if glorifying these tasks is a luxury. I think about my grandmother, who CAN grow her own food and find edible mushrooms in the forest and wring a tom turkey's neck and gut a hog and can her own raspberries. For most of these things, she doesn't see the point in doing it herself when you can get the same result for cheaper at the Sharp Shopper."
My season at Howell has helped me realize that the choice between hard-earned sustainability and modern abundance is not a simple one.
The ideal of a closed system of agriculture, where even waste is not waste, is attractive to me because it seems so intuitively sensible. Howell Farm's ever-growing pile of manure gets spread over the fields as fertilizer in a wooden wagon pulled by the same horses and oxen that make it. Months later, the animals that work these fields – providing the power to plow, plant, cultivate, and harvest – will be fed by the same hay and corn crops they helped grow. And then the cycle starts all over again. No oil or tractor parts required.
The small farm is already a relic in this country. One consequence of our industrial food production system is a widening disconnect between people and their appreciation of where food actually comes from. I've observed it most strikingly in the questions of school children who visit the farm on class trips, often from inner-city areas of Trenton, N.J., and Philadelphia.
"Wait, you mean chicken is a chicken?"
"Where did you get all the dirt from?"
The strange questions kids ask are usually good for a chuckle when they're retold during coffee breaks around the farmhouse kitchen table. But, there's something tragic lurking behind the joke.
One of Howell Farm's most important missions is outreach – children leave knowing that vegetables grow in the ground. For some, it's the first chance they've had to see them growing.
And yet, as much as working on an old-fashioned farm has reinforced for me the many virtues of a simpler, agricultural lifestyle, I've also been surprised by how much the experience has made me appreciate oil-powered progress.
Here's a truth about Howell Farm: When time is short and there is fieldwork that must be completed, the farm turns to its hidden stable of modern tractors. I've had many opportunities to witness animal power measured up against tractor power, and there's really no comparison to be made. Next to a hitch of even the strongest draft horses in the world, a John Deere 5420 tractor is an iron-muscled labor-demolishing monster.
Everything from plowing to cutting fields to moving around dirt has been revolutionized by the combustion engine. I learned this lesson while working on hay wagons in 95-degree F. heat. For two guys stacking hay by hand behind a modern hay baler and tractor, the job may be every bit as grueling as stacking it loose behind an oxen-powered version of the machine. The big difference if you used a tractor is that, at the end of the day, the hay field is empty, and the job is done. If you used animal power, you're not even close.
Oil is a valuable, increasingly rare commodity, and when you use it up it doesn't come back. But so is time. If I knew I was going to be farming for the next 30 years, it would be a life-altering choice indeed to trade thousands of hours for the very real but less tangible benefits I see in sustainable farming. I'm not sure I could.
But my fellow intern, Tom Paduano of Clark, N.J., came away feeling different. Though we worked side by side and learned all the same lessons, he's convinced he does want to farm with horses.
"I think horses will make my life harder," he admits. "It's more labor, and more time, and one more skill I have to learn."
Tom graduated from Boston University in 2003 with a degree in computer systems engineering. He worked in information technology for a few years and found it unfulfilling. He decided to make a big change in his life and that was to grow food for people while embracing sustainability.
Tom has helped me understand why someone would make the choice to use horses. His reasoning isn't the same as that of Howell Farm, which exists primarily to preserve history. Neither is it the same as the Amish farmer, who does so for cultural and religious reasons.
It's simple. He does it because he likes it. And he likes it because he finds it meaningful.
"When I first told my parents I was going to be a farmer, they said, 'That's crazy; that's hard work,' " Tom remembers. "When I first told them I wanted to farm using horses, they said, 'You're crazy; they're hard work.' But if I was in it for it to be easy, I'd be a computer engineer."
As for me, I probably won't end up a farmer, and if I were one, the first thing I'd buy would be a small, used tractor. But that doesn't mean I'm turning away from embracing more sustainable living in a way that makes sense to me. As many philosophers have advised through the centuries, I will definitely tend my own garden.


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Colin McRae Rally 2005
Submitted by: Haspa
To enable cheats without entering them, open your "options" file located in your
savegame folder (c:\Colin2005\SG\) with a hexeditor. Go to location "Ch" - this
is the 13th position from the beginnig of the file and overwrite with "FF FF".
Go to location "10h", this is the 16th position from the beginning of the file
and overwrite with "FF FF".
Now you have all cars, tracks and even the secret "mirror mode" activated!
Overwrite both hex positions with "FF" only if you do not want the mirror mode.
Overwrite with "FF FF FF" to get small RC Cars!
Cheat Codes:
Enter of the following codes as a name to active the corresponding cheat function.
Note: The game's codes are matched to the bonus code of each game, which will vary.
The following codes will only work with discs that have the same bonus code.
Two wheel drive vehicles for rally and stage mode - Enter "AVXBUL" as a code
(bonus code 35628).
* Also downshift if you are driving uphill. Even in long slopes, a few downshifts
are enough to give you a little boost.
* If you hear "Very long" and any number, it is often good to aim for one gear
lower than the call. "Very long 4" indicates that you are aiming for third gear.
* It is also good to downshift just before a bridge. This gives you better control
of the car and you will avoid hitting the edges.
* When changing surface from tarmac to gravel or from snow to ice, downshift to
improve control on the more slippery surface.
* When using semi-automatic transmission you can override the CPU's choice of gears.
This is useful because several cars have rather bad torque. Often you can brake
hard and then downshift one gear more than announced. For example, when your co-
driver says "Three right" when heading in the turn, brake hard enough or downshift
so you are in second gear. This will result in a slight acceleration when exiting
the turn.
If your tuning seems difficult, use these tips:
Anti-rollbar: Set it to the furthest left and never change it.
Gearbox: Mostly, on almost any stage it can stay in the middle. For the Japan stages,
adjust it one step to the left. This results in better acceleration in the tight
Recommended 2WD cars: Volkswagen Polo. It is rather good compared to the others.
Recommended 4WD cars: Citroen Xsara or when possible the Peugot 206. This depends on
driving style, but the Mitusbishi Lancer or Subaru Impreza is slightly longer (meaning
it is easier to hit objects at the side of the course).
Recommended RWD cars: In order, try the Ford Sierra, Lancia Stratos, Alfetta GTV and
Lancia 037. The last one has a lot of horsepower, but is difficult to control or get
the power into the ground.
Suspension: The rule of thumb is a soft surface requires a soft suspension and a hard
surface requires a hard suspension. "Soft" is anything that is not tarmac or ice. Try
using the second softest setting. The most soft suspension can decrease the control
somewhat. "Hard" is tarmac or ice.
Tires: If there is a mix of tarmac and gravel, add the two stages ahead. Mostly
gravel or tarmac has a higher total. Go for that choice. If they are roughly equal,
choose gravel if you are more comfortable on that surface or vice versa. When the
total of gravel is 33%, use the second hardest (total of tarmac 33% second softest).
Parts testing:
Note: You can try the tests again if you fail both attempts.
Brake test: This consists of three tests. Even if you pass the first two and fail the
last you have to restart. Rev up fully before the timer reaches zero in all tests.
Dampers: This is easy in theory and harder in practice. Rev up before timer reaches
zero. The hard jumps will fill the meter during the course. Brake only enough so you
can pass the turn and avoid hitting too many cones. Clear the stage with full green
meter and you will have passed the test. The hard part is avoiding cones and keeping
a good speed. If you move at too slow a speed, the meter will not fill in time.
Engine test: You must reach 9 (or 7 depending on car) gears and hold them for a while.
Here you have to shift gears manually. Rev up and just before reaching the green area,
release the accelerator. If you have too high rpm, brake or just let it fall to the
correct rpm. When done correctly it revs up and continues within the area during the
needed time. Shift up a gear and repeat this until you reach fifth gear (or fourth
gear for some cars, for example, the MG). Downshift and continue until you reach
first gear again. Sometimes this goes well but other times several tries may be
Exhaust test: Rev up before the timer reaches zero. Head for the left side and brake
hard before the first (right turn). After braking you can use the handbrake and steer
shortly to provoke the car into harder turning. Cut the next right corner with the
same technique. Then square left, square left and full throttle on the straight.
Brake hard just before the crest and steer left. The next right turn can be passed
by full throttle. Brake the slightest amount before the crest so you can see the
bridge from the top of the crest. Full throttle after the bridge, then brake very
hard in the right turn. Throttle up and brake slightly in the left corner. Flat out
over next crest and you will have made it (if not knocking down too many cones at
the sides).
First test: Hold slightly left in first corner. Brake the least possible so you
still manage the corner (avoids the cones). Aim to stop before the red square.
You can always drive the extra meters then brake hard again.
Gearbox: This is the same as engine test except the gears are random.
You also must pass more gears.
Second test. It is slightly longer that the first test. In the section with the
stripes, aim slightly to the left of the stripes. If done correctly, you will pass
the left-right-left turns straight through. Then, brake extremely hard and you will
make it.
Third test. This is longer than the first two tests. Hold slightly left at the start
(avoids the cones). Brake the slightest amount possible so you can still pass the
turns. Just aim to get on left side where cones are on the right and vice versa. Aim
to stop before the square and drive the extra meters slowly.