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Over the last 50 years, there have been impressive social economic and health improvements in this country. People from every class and region are healthier and living longer than ever before. Unfortunately, not everyone is able to share the benefits of these improvements. It is essential that everyone is empowered and encouraged to do so.
Health inequalities are unacceptable. They start early in life and persist not only into old age but subsequent generations. Tackling health inequalities is a top priority for this Government, and it is focused on narrowing the health gap between disadvantaged groups, communities and the rest of the country, and on improving health overall.
Concerted action to reduce the health gap permeates our programmes within the Department of Health and is supported across Government. The Secretary of State for health has announced a new comprehensive strategy for reducing health inequalities, confirmed in the Our NHS Our future: NHS next stage review - interim report. The new strategy will challenge the NHS, as a key player, to live up to its founding and enduring values of universality and fairness addressing unjustified gaps in health status, fair access to NHS services for all and good outcomes for all.
A new programme in thirty areas of the country will support the health service and local public sector organisations to work together to reduce inequalities by tackling local challenges.
Fair Society, Healthy Lives - the report of the Marmot review - was published on 11 February. It was described as a "landmark report" by Andy Burnham, Secretary of State for Health at the Marmot Review conference. The review stressed that tackling health inequalities was a matter of social justice, with real economic benefits and savings. It required action on the social gradient of health – not just on the health of the most disadvantaged – across the social determinants of health.
Health Inequalities - Progress and Next Steps outlines the Government's approach to hit the 2010 Health Inequalities PSA targets, assessing what has and hasn't worked, and setting the direction of travel beyond 2010.
Published: 7 May 2009
This report reviews developments in health inequalities over the last 10 years across government - from the publication of the Acheson report on health inequalities in November 1998 to the announcement of the post-2010 strategic review of health inequalities in November 2008. It covers developments across government on the wider social determinants of health, and the role of the NHS. It provides an assessment of developments against the Acheson report, reviews a range of key data sets covering social, economic, health and environmental indicators, and considers lessons learned and challenges for the future.
This Command Paper sets out the Government's response to the conclusions and recommendations of the House of Commons Select Committee report on health inequalities which was published on 15 March 2009. The Government welcomes the Committee's support and commendation for taking specific action to tackle health inequalities, and for its support for the national health inequalities target
This document provides an update on progress to meet the health inequalities national target to reduce the gap as measured by infant mortality and life expectancy, by 10% by 2010. It includes an assessment of whether the 70 spearhead area local authorities, which map to 62 PCTs, are on track to meet the life expectancy target.
Developed by the Department of Health and the Association of Public Health Observatories to help local health services in Spearhead areas improve life expectancy and meet the PSA target to narrow the gaps in life expectancy and infant mortality.
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people say foils are great because you just wrap up the bar and put it in the kite. no disconnecting the lines... YOU CAN DO this with an inflato!!! nothings stopping you, its actually easier with an inflato as the bridles (if any) are much less complicated.
seriously people WTF?
any then there's the performance factor... Even my 60+ year old friend thinks that foils don't provide him with as much performance as LEI. He rides his foil at times , loves it for Cadillac cruising, but knows its behind the game in performance.
dont mention Chasta, he's a paid rider for a company that has it's bias towards foils, he dont count.

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2010-11: Stroked the 1V at Eastern Sprints, finishing third... Won the IRA national championship at the 4-seat of the 1V... Invited to United States U-23 Selection Camp but did not attend as it conflicted with the Henley Royal Regatta.
2009-10: Rowed in the 4-seat of the 1V, finishing third at Eastern Sprints and fourth at IRA.
2008-09: Rowed in the 4-seat of the 3V, finishing third at Eastern Sprints.
2007-08: Stroked the 1F, winning Eastern Sprints and finishing 12th in the heavyweight event at IRA.
Before Yale: Captained the rowing team at Thomas Jefferson, winning both the Stotesbury Cup and SRAA Nationals.
Personal: Physics major... Member of Berkeley College... Interests include quantum information, metapragmatics, and sepia tones.


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Etsy Decorations to Buy This Season & Use Every Year
I love a good DIY as much as the next crafty lady, but sometimes there just isn't time. This is especially true if Ann's off golfing, and I'm the last line of defense before our first party guest rings the doorbell at 8pm. A party is like the world's largest ball of twine; it can't throw itself. Help is appreciated.
Enter the good folks who sell on Etsy. Collectively they make beautiful, well-made items that you can bring out year after year.
Be forewarned: There will be garland. Lots and lots of garland.
1. Autumn Harvest Garland from Amanda Hofmann Designs
2. Felted Acorns from Shpilka Felt
3. Hand Knit Pumpkins from Luna Cab Co.
4. Vintage Paper Garland from Mary May
5. Origami Paper Ball from Fiber Store
6. White Ceramic Pumpkin from D Krueger Botanic Art
7. Autumn Wreath from the Baker's Daughter
8. Mustard Pom Pom Flowers from Steph Loves Ben
9. Hand Crocheted Doily from Tabachin
10. Autumn Cake Decoration from A Fete Beckons
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Get an amazing ab rehab stat. This lower ab workout from better-belly specialist Elisabeth Halfpapp, a founder of Exhale Mind Body Spa in New York City, combines seven exercises that will work your midsection, including the transversus abdominis, 360 degrees — "which is the key for slimming your waist." Both our testers experienced roomier waistbands (our apple-shaped tester lost an inch; our new mom lost two) after a month by doing three-times-a-week sessions. Now it's your turn to be firm, flat, fab!
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Side Plank-Up
Targets: Rectus and transversus abdominis, obliques, and inner thighs
- Lie on left side on floor with legs stacked and a rolled-up towel between thighs, propping torso on left elbow so that left forearm is perpendicular to torso. Make it easier: Stagger feet so that side of right foot is on floor in front of left foot for a wider base of support.
- Lift hips so that body forms a straight line from head to toe and squeeze towel between thighs. Hold for 1 count, then lower.
- Do 10 reps. Switch sides and repeat. Do 3 sets.
Francine Daveta
Round Back
Targets: Rectus and transversus abdominis
- Sit on a folded towel on floor with shoulder blades against a wall and knees bent, feet flat; make sure back is rounded. Place hands on floor near hips, fingertips pressed into floor.
- Squeeze abs and lift feet off floor, bring knees toward chest, then straighten legs so toes point toward ceiling. Do 10 pulses: Bring legs 1 inch closer to wall, then move them back 1 inch. Make it easier: Keep left foot on floor and bring extended right leg toward you by grasping right calf with both hands. Hold for 30 seconds; switch legs and repeat.
- Do 3 sets.
Francine Daveta
Fly Up
Target: Rectus abdominis
- Sit on a folded towel on floor, lean back to rest on elbows and place feet together on a wall in front of you so that knees are bent about 90 degrees.
- Extend legs up, keeping feet against wall, then press rounded lower back into floor and squeeze abs as you lift arms to reach toward feet, elbows soft. Make it harder: Press feet into wall as you reach.
- Do 20 pulses: Curl torso up 1 inch, then lower 1 inch.
- Do 3 sets, hugging knees to chest to rest between sets.
Francine Daveta
Pelvic Scoop
Targets: Lower back, rectus and transversus abdominis, obliques, and butt
- Lie faceup on floor with back resting on folded towel, knees bent and feet flat on floor, arms by sides.
- Cross right ankle onto left thigh just above knee so bent right knee points out to side; flex left foot so only heel rests on floor.
- Rounding lower back and squeezing abs, lift hips off floor so pelvis tilts up toward ribs. Curl pelvis as far as you can without arching back; pull abs in to lift rather than press through left heel. Lower to floor.
- Do 10 reps, holding the lift for 10 seconds on the final one. Switch sides and repeat. Do 3 sets.
Francine Daveta
Targets: Rectus and transversus abdominis, quads, inner thighs, and calves
- Stand facing a wall with legs together, squeezing rolled-up towel between thighs.
- With knees slightly bent, hinge forward at hips to place palms on wall, arms extended, so that back is nearly parallel to floor.
- Squeeze abs and towel as you rise onto toes, then do 20 pulses: Lower hips 1 inch, then raise them 1 inch. Make it harder: Start with knees bent 90 degrees so that hips are closer to knee level, then pulse.
- Do 3 sets.
Francine Daveta
Flat Back
Targets: Rectus and transversus abdominis
- Sit on floor with lower back against a wall, knees slightly bent and feet planted wider than shoulder-width apart. Place hands on floor between legs and squeeze abs.
- Press into floor with fingertips and lift feet about 6 inches. Make it easier: Lift and lower left foot; then repeat with right to complete 1 rep.
- Do 3 sets of 20 reps.
Francine Daveta
Twisted Curl
Targets: Rectus and transversus abdominis and obliques
- Sit on a folded towel on floor with knees bent and feet flat on floor, then lean back to rest on elbows.
- Press rounded lower back into floor, squeeze abs and curl torso up toward left, lifting arms so that both hands grasp outside of left thigh.
- Maintaining curl, release hands so that both hover to outside of thigh and do 20 pulses: Curl torso up toward left by 1 inch, then lower 1 inch. Make it easier: Keep hands on thigh for pulses. Make it harder: Raise arms overhead for pulses.
- Switch sides and repeat. Do 3 sets.


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The Langham Sydney launches Australia's first 'charity suite'
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Regents: Enrollment Trends Up; Finances Stable
SOCORRO, N.M. November 18, 2009– The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents heard encouraging news about early enrollment for the fall 2010 semester.
At the regular meeting Tuesday in Albuquerque, Regents learned that applications, accepted applications and paid applications are all at record-setting levels for November.
Of the 708 applicants as of November 16, 51 students have paid their application fee. That figure is more than double the 20 paid applicants on November 16, 2008.
While noting that Tech recruiters have had success recruiting in Texas, Regent Richard Carpenter asked what the university is doing to increase recruiting out-of-state and international students.
Admission Office Director Mike Kloeppel said university recruiters attend college fairs across the West, in addition to their intense recruiting schedule in New Mexico. The Admission Office has also participated in on-line college fairs and employed students to help the recruiting effort.
Student Regent Will Villanueva, who served as a recruiter at an Albuquerque college fair, said students serve as excellent recruiters.
University President Dr. Daniel H. Lopez said the university has a pending agreement with Yangtze University in China that would see 30 new students in Socorro. Tech officials made a recruiting trip to India a couple years ago, but future overseas recruiting trips have not been scheduled, pending available funding. Tech already has a significant number of graduate students from India, Lopez said, but has not embarked on a recruiting mission to attract Indian undergraduate students, he said.
Melissa Jaramillo-Fleming, vice president of student and university relations, said the Admission and Registrar offices are also focusing on easing the transition for community college transfer students by refining the ever-changing articulation requirements. The main effort is to define the academic regimen that junior college students should complete prior to applying for admission at Tech.
Lopez said transfer students typically fare better at New Mexico Tech than first-year students because they have two years of college experience which prepares them for the rigors of a science and engineering university.
In other news, Lopez briefed the board on expected budget cuts at the state level.
The state legislature cut the "instruction and general" budget by four percent and cut the special projects budget by 6.5 percent. Lopez said the university-initiated budget cuts made at the beginning of the fiscal year should be sufficient to accommodate the state cuts mandated during the October special session.
Lopez said he's struggling to get legislative staffers to understand that many of Tech's "special projects" are truly part of the academic arm, like the Petroleum Recovery Research Center, the Bureau of Geology and the Geophysical Research Center.
"They teach just as much as they do research," Lopez said. "It's crazy for the state not to recognize that some special projects are closely linked to the research and teaching mission."
Lopez said he will continue to use his powers of persuasion at state levels to try to preserve funding for the research units that are maintain close ties to academic instruction.
The Bureau did get some good news, however. Lopez said the state Legislative Finance Committee has preliminarily recommended $15 million for a new Bureau of Geology building, while the executive branch recommended $17 million for the same project.
"I'm going to get Peter Scholle a building one way or another," Lopez said about the Bureau director, sitting across the table. "I think we'll be able to build that building."
After the meeting, Scholle said previous state funding allowed the Bureau to hire an architect to design a $20 million building to be constructed on the site of the current Information Services Department.
Dr. John Meason, director of the Energetic Materials Research and Testing Center reported that the division is in the black. The Playas Research and Training Center, a cost center within EMRTC, not only is in the black, but has repaid a portion of the university's original subsidy provided to launch the Playas Center in 2004.
Meason said EMRTC is in solid financial condition, with significant increases over last year and a positive outlook for the remainder of this year.
The research division hired a financial consultant to analyze the cost center's methodology of cost recovery and will recommend accounting methods for recovering costs.
Meason also reported that EMRTC is finalizing a contract with a private company to conduct testing of unmanned aerial systems at Playas.
"We are working with them to develop contracts for which we will earn fees to support their research area," he said. "Things are looking good in respect to Playas."
The research center in Hidalgo County still needs a larger airstrip and Meason said he has enlisted the assistance of the New Mexico Congressional delegation to engage neighboring landowners in negotiations. Playas would need more than 4,000 acres to expand the runway. Meason said he hopes to formalize an agreement within six months.
In other news:
* The Regents approved tenure and full-time professorship in political science for Dr. Lopez in the Humanities Department. Associate Vice President Dr. Scott Zeman said the department unanimously approved the appointment, with full support from the Academic Affairs Division. Each Regent praised Lopez for his leadership, political savvy and foresight. "It's amazing how you swim with the sharks year after year with the greatest of ease," Regent Ann Daily said.
* Construction of a new hot water loop has been delayed by a challenge to the bidding process. On the advice of attorney Mark Adams, Tech withdrew the proposal and issued a new request for bids. Vice President of Finance Lonnie Marquez said he hopes to open bid packages in early December and issue a contract. The hot water loop construction is a separate project from – albeit eventually connected to – the geothermal project currently underway at the base of 'M' Mountain.
* Marquez presented the October financial analysis. He said revenues are ahead of last year and expenditures are below budget. "That tells me that everyone is taking the budget cuts seriously," Marquez said.
* The Regents also approved the quarterly financial report.
* Marquez, who also serves as chairman of the Emergency Response Team, reported that the campus clinic has not seen a dramatic increase in swine flu cases in November. During the previous week, about 20 students reported flu-like symptoms, with several of them isolated their dorms.
* The Regents learned about three restricted fund purchases over $100,000.
- Rodgers and Company won a competitive bid to drill a geothermal well for $352,306.
- The Magdalena Ridge Observatory selected the sole bidder, M3 Engineering and Technology, to design and build foundations for the interferometer telescopes. The contract was for $992,493.
- The Observatory also hired URS Corp. to engineer improvements to Forest Road 235. The project will include a new automated gate, a heavy equipment facility and reconstruction of access roads. URS Corp. was the low bidder among three companies.
* The Regents expedited a degree conferral for Karen Hovsepian, who earned a doctorate in computer science.
* The Regents appointed Joe Franklin, the director of Information Services Department, as Tech's representative to the National Lambda Rail University Research Park and Economic Development Act Corporation. The organization plans to increase bandwidth between research universities to improve information sharing capabilities.
By Thomas Guengerich/New Mexico Tech


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Spanish GP 2011
Saturday Team Quotes
Red Bull-Renault
Mark Webber (1st, 1:20.981): "It was a good session. It was clear going into qualifying that we might have had a bit of a margin and would be battling for pole between ourselves today. You can never underestimate these guys though. We got through Q1 on the first set of hard tyres, which was good, and then in the crucial part of qualifying - in Q3 - it was just about getting the lap right. The lap was pretty good and I was just praying that my number went to the top when I crossed the line. It was a nice lap, a good battle with Seb and today was my day."
Sebastian Vettel (2nd, 1:21.181): "We can't speak of disappointment, at the end of the day we made a good step forward. Barcelona is the place where everyone brings a lot of new parts and you're here to find out if they all work. I think we made a step, so did the others, but it looks as though we like this track and our cars feel comfortable here. Looking to qualifying, I didn't get into the rhythm immediately, so it was not the smoothest run, but I made it on the primes. In Q2 I felt much happier on the soft compound tyres, but unfortunately in the last qualifying I lost a little bit too much and I wasn't entirely happy with my lap. Mark did a good lap and a better job today. Let's see tomorrow, it's a long race and we saved a set of tyres. I think we will be on top of KERS for the race, the guys are pushing hard and we have proved our car has become quicker, so big compliments to the aero guys in the factory and everyone here. We are working hard on KERS. I didn't have it in Q2 or Q3 today, but I'm sure we will have it tomorrow for the race."
Christian Horner, Sporting Director: "A great team performance - it's great for Mark to get his first pole position of the year after a perfect final run in Q3. Sebastian did phenomenal job to join Mark on the front row without the benefit of KERS. The pair had a big margin to our opposition in qualifying, although we know it will be smaller in the race. It was a fantastic team performance, we're looking forward to tomorrow."
Cyril Dumont, Renault: "A really good result - our second front row of the season, which is really good for the team. I feel a bit sorry for Seb because we deprived him of running this morning, due to an electrical failure on the engine; fortunately we could fix it for qualifying. It was difficult for Sebastian to catch Mark today - also with the KERS issue he had during qualifying. It's a good qualifying result and hopefully we will transform it into some good points tomorrow."
Lewis Hamilton (3rd, 1:21.961): "The Red Bulls look very strong, but I'm going to do everything I can to jump at least one - if not both - of them at the start. I hope I can attack tomorrow. When you start from the clean side of the grid, you automatically have a much better opportunity of getting a good start - and, this year, I've usually been on the dirty side, so tomorrow will be a bit of a bonus for me. Third on the grid is actually a perfect position - because, if you get a good start, you can slipstream the guys in front. My aim is to be P1 by Turn One! It doesn't normally go that way, but as long as I don't go backwards I'll be happy. When you're trying to eke every last drop out of the car, you sometimes lock the front wheels - and that's just what happened on my final lap. While the flat-spot to the front-left doesn't look perfect, we'll manage it by re-balancing the wheels, so it'll be fine. We've definitely made an improvement this weekend. We'll keep pushing: we don't give up, and with the DRS we should see some good racing tomorrow."
Jenson Button (5th, 1:21.996): "I feel that I did a good lap, so I'm happy with that; my car got better and better throughout the session - I was only three-hundredths slower than Lewis. I was a bit unlucky not to be third, then Fernando got between us as well, so you can see how close it is out there. One major positive is that, like Lewis, I'll be starting on the clean side of the grid. Another is that, also like Lewis, I've got two sets of [Option] tyres that have only done one lap and another set that's brand new - that's going to be key tomorrow. Having your tyres in good condition makes such a difference - so I think we're looking in very good shape. There's a big difference between the Option and the Prime here, so there'll be some different strategies tomorrow. We'll be looking at the strategy tonight and I'm sure we can make the harder tyre work for us too."
Martin Whitmarsh, Team Principal: "We wanted to come through qualifying having retained one set of Option tyres for both our drivers, as did Red Bull, and it was for that reason that we were determined to tackle Q1 on Prime tyres. There's a big speed differential between Options and Primes here in Barcelona, so most teams had no choice other than to use Options in Q1, for fear of not making it through to Q2. Fortunately, by contrast, like Red Bull, we were able to conserve our Options. The final result at the end of Q3 was P3 for Lewis and P5 for Jenson - in other words good grid slots on the clean side of the track for both our drivers. In actual fact they may have been a little quicker had they gone out when it was less breezy, and had we been able to get our KERS Hybrid up to optimal operating temperature; but I don't think we'd have been quite as quick as the Red Bulls. To be clear, our KERS Hybrid is an excellent system, thanks in large part to the superlative work done by Mercedes-Benz HighPerformanceEngines, but we struggled to get it up to optimal operating temperature today. Even so, we're usually a little closer to the Red Bulls' pace in race trim than we are in qualifying, and we've got two brilliant racers in Lewis and Jenson, and as I say they'll start from the clean side of the track; so, all in all, let's just say that we're looking forward to an exciting race tomorrow."
Fernando Alonso (4th, 1:21.964): "I did a perfect lap: I reckon that if I tried to repeat it twenty times, I could not do better! When you do a lap like that it's hard to put into words what one feels: always being on the limit, in every corner is a really special feeling for a driver. I am very happy with this result, because we have never made it to the second row this year. Sure, pole position is still a long way off: today, Red Bull was once again out of reach and we must work hard to try and get closer. This morning we ran some set-up changes on the car that did not produce the results we were expecting, also partly down to the conditions changing in terms of wind direction. We went back to what we had before for qualifying and instantly it was better. In general, we have made a step forward in performance terms, thanks to the updates we have brought here. So far, in the races we have gone better than in qualifying and so I think we can be in the fight for the podium. It will be tough at the start because the McLarens always get off the line well and then they have one more new set of soft tyres than we do."
Felipe Massa (8th, 1:22.888): "This was definitely not the qualifying performance we were expecting, but all weekend long we have struggled with the balance of the car: we would have needed to be perfect to start a bit further up the order and that was not the case. Let's hope that, on full tanks, the car works better and then we can see if we can get a good result. On a track like this it will not be easy to manage the tyres in the best way nor to find the best possible strategy. In Q2 we decided to stay in the garage, running the risk of not getting any further, because it would not have made much sense making the cut and then finding ourselves in Q3 without any new tyres: the outcome proved us right, even if we had hoped to make a better job of that opportunity. It is clear we suffer more than the others on the hard tyres. Overtaking? We will definitely see more than in the past at a circuit like this and that will mainly be down to tyre degradation."
Stefano Domenicali, Team Principal: "This sport never stops throwing up surprises! This morning we had the worst FP3 of the year, with both cars struggling a lot and then we find ourselves commenting on our best qualifying position. Certainly, this fourth place was down to an incredible performance from Fernando, who drove a simply stunning lap in Q3: it is further valediction, if one was ever needed, of why we have made the right choice in extending our relationship in the long term. Felipe was unable to find the right way to go in terms of set-up and he will start from the fourth row. So far this year we have seen that our race pace is better than it is in qualifying: let's hope it continues like this and that tomorrow we will manage to bring home a good result. It would be important for the team and for all our fans, of whom there are so many here, mainly down to the presence of Fernando."
Pat Fry: "A great lap from Fernando who managed to put everything together perfectly without even the slightest mistake. He was brilliant and this position is mainly down to him. We tried to manage tyre use in qualifying as well as possible, without taking risks at the start of Q1, before staying in the garage in Q2 so as to have the chance of a strong hand in Q3 with a new set of option tyres. We introduced a lot of new parts here, but the others have done the same and it seems the gaps have not changed that much: we have to do even better to catch up with the best. A track like this favours cars that have a lot of aerodynamic downforce: that can be seen very clearly by analysing the best times in each sector. Our car is competitive in the first one, but we pay a very heavy price in the other two. That's where we must improve. As for tomorrow's race, a lot will depend on tyre life and on finding the right moment to change tyres. It will be a busy time in the pits and everyone will have to give it their best shot to be perfect and that includes the drivers."
Mercedes GP
Nico Rosberg (7th, 1:22.599): "With our focus on the race pace this weekend, it was to be expected that we might suffer a little in Qualifying. However I am not too disappointed with seventh place as we should be stronger in the race tomorrow, and I believe we can aim to be better than in Istanbul. I have one set of new tyres left which is good for us, and I hope that we can move up with the right strategy."
Michael Schumacher (10th, No Time): "Unfortunately in Q3, my KERS system did not work but we reacted in the best possible way. We took the decision to go out on prime tyres to be able to react if other cars did the same. As no-one did, we came in without setting a time so we can now choose our strategy for tomorrow. I will certainly try to have another of the good starts that I have made recently, make up some positions right at the beginning, and take it from there. With DRS and KERS, overtaking is possible even in Barcelona, so it is important to use your tyres well, and I still have a set of fresh tyres left. I will definitely try to make the best out of it."
Ross Brawn, Team Principal: "We had a fairly good qualifying session today whilst being mindful of preparing for the race and being in the best possible position for tomorrow. We clearly couldn't have challenged the cars right at the front of the grid, however Nico did a very good job, and he is in great shape for tomorrow's race. Unfortunately with Michael, we incurred a KERS problem of a nature which made it difficult to think that he could achieve a competitive time, and therefore he did not complete a lap. This has the advantage of giving us maximum choice for his tyre strategy for tomorrow."
Norbert Haug, Mercedes Motorsport Director: "Michael's car suffered a KERS problem before his planned Q3 lap, and therefore we decided not to use another set of fresh tyres. Our strategy in qualifying concentrated from lap one on saving tyres for the race and that is what we have achieved today, albeit probably to the cost of a better place on the grid. Nico got the best possible result under these circumstances. We are sorry for Michael as he definitely would be starting further up the grid without the KERS issue. However tomorrow is the race, and our aim is to repeat what we have achieved in the last two races; to be placed in the top five at the finish line."
Vitaly Petrov (6th, 1:22.471): "We have got to be happy with the result. The team made a big improvement today, and the result of my car reflects that. Things felt good, the balance of the car was fine and I was able to put in a fast time in Q3 to ensure that we got the car in a good position on the grid. I knew what we had to do today, and did it so I am pleased and looking forward to tomorrow. It should be another action packed race and strategy will be very important."
Nick Heidfeld (24th, No Time): "It was a challenging day, and there was not much more we could have done after the exhaust problem this morning. The was a small hole in the right exhaust and then it overheated. Then, when I heard a strange noise, the power cut out and there were flames so I had to stop. Since then, the team worked flat out to try and get me out for the qualifying session, but it was not to be. At least I managed to get a couple of laps on the hard tyres today, and during the race tomorrow I will need to push hard to make up some ground and get up the order."
Alan Permane, Chief Race Engineer: "It's been a mixed day for us, that much is certain. It was a great day for Vitaly with P6 on the grid for tomorrow's race, but there was potential in the lap for an even better time. There was an issue in the second sector, but Vitaly's first sector was great, and his final sector was fantastic. This was satisfying after having a KERS problem with his car yesterday, which we have fixed and there were no issues from it today. It was a failure from the right hand exhaust which caught fire. The bodywork around it then caught fire too and made quite a mess. Nick was able to park the car and get out without any harm to him, but there was a lot of work required in a short period to fix the car ready for qualifying. We tried hard, but unfortunately we were not able to get the car ready for the session. We fitted a different engine and essentially replaced the entire rear end of the car, including gearbox, suspension, radiators and wiring looms. There's definitely scope for a strong race from Vitaly, especially if he drives like he did today. He has good pace and the car seems to be working well. It's going to be interesting with the tyres, as there is a big difference between the two compounds. The hard is a lot slower so the soft will be preferred, but its high degradation makes things difficult. We will have to see how the strategy evolves. With Nick, we face a big challenge because we start from the back of the field but we have more strategy options than with Vitaly."
Pastor Maldonado (9th, 1:22.952): "I am really happy for the team and all the guys. We've tried really hard to find a good balance all weekend. Yesterday's practice, particularly the first session, was really difficult for me. The car wasn't great so we took a bit of a risk and decided to run the new rear wing in qualifying. The car seems more competitive, but we still need to keep pushing and improve. I am happy today."
Rubens Barrichello (19th, 1:26.910): "I knew we had a gearbox problem as soon as I went out in Q1 as it felt strange. I think there is a big positive in saving a set of tyres, which is one way of looking at it, but having seen where Pastor finished, we could also have had a good shot inside the top ten. I will be pushing to be there tomorrow."
Sam Michael, Technical Director: "That was a great effort by Pastor today to put Williams back into the top ten in qualifying. The next step is to get some points. We had a gearbox problem on Rubens' car so we're looking into that now. He's fairly low down the order but, taking into consideration our pace and the fact that he will have new tyres, he should be able to make good progress. Thanks to everyone at the factory for their efforts in getting the new rear wings out here. We still have a lot of work to keep progressing."
Force India-Mercedes
Paul di Resta (16th, 1:26.126): "I don't think our position on the grid is that representative of our true pace this weekend. We took the decision very early on that saving tyres for the race would free up our strategy a bit. That means I've got two sets of new options and a set of new primes to use tomorrow. On paper that looks like the sensible approach so hopefully things will work out. How we use the tyres is also important because there's a big difference between the two compounds in terms of pace. Also, the prime being used here is much harder than usual and so it lasts a bit longer. I'm looking forward to the race and I'm sure we can come away with a better result than our qualifying performance."
Adrian Sutil (17th, 1:26.571): "We switched back to our traditional aero package this morning because we didn't really have enough time to understand all the new parts that we brought here. So we went back to a package and balance that we were already happy with. We also know that qualifying is not as important as it used to be and that race strategy now plays a bigger factor in your race result. That's why we only ran the prime tyres during Q2 so that we could keep some new option tyres for the race. We feel this is the best approach for tomorrow and hopefully it will pay us back."
Robert Fernley, Deputy Team Principal: "We took the decision today to sacrifice grid position to be better prepared for the race. It means losing a few places on the grid but gives Paul and Adrian three sets of new tyres for the race. From P16 and P17 it will be tough to score points, but the races so far this season have demonstrated that there is plenty of room to make the strategy work to our advantage. We also reverted back to our older spec aero platform because we haven't really found the crossover we hoped to achieve with the new introductions. That's why we felt it was safer to stick with a known quantity. We will take another look at our new concept and try to develop it through for Monaco, but I expect it to be a phased introduction over the next two or three races."
Sergio Perez (12th, 1:23.367): "I had no particular problems on my last lap, but it wasn't good. Being 12th isn't too bad and I'm very positive for the race, but my run with the new tyres today didn't work out. This is a shame because I'm happy with the car and this is crucial for tomorrow's race. Compared to this morning, we have made a lot of set up changes and they work."
Kamui Kobayashi (14th, 1:23.702): "On my last lap, when I was on new soft tyres, a Force India was in trouble in front of me, he made a mistake in turn ten and that was it for me. It is a shame because our new aero package is working well. We have clearly made progress and the car was definitely good enough for a place in the top ten. However, for the race we should be okay and dealing with the super hard tyres will be tricky for everyone."
James Key, Technical Director: "It was a bit frustrating for all of us and not representative of where we want to be. Much like the last race, we need to come back a little bit tomorrow and try make something of it in the race. We made some good changes to the car overnight, and Kamui in particular was a lot happier with his car on newer tyres this morning. His pace looked pretty promising for qualifying so we didn't really change the car much for him. For Sergio there was a little bit of work to do to improve his balance a bit, but that was worked on between FP3 and qualifying. Otherwise FP3 was generally quite good and we were happy the pace we appeared to have yesterday had carried over to this morning, so making a shot at Q3 possible. We did just a single run on soft tyres in Q1. Then we did a quick lap on used tyres in Q2 and a single lap on new tyres at the end of the session. Unfortunately Sergio was just a bit shy of the top ten, while Kamui ended up being stuck behind a slower car for half a lap, so he unfortunately lost his time and was unable to progress from P14, which was set on old tyres."
Toro Rosso-Ferrari
Sebastien Buemi (11th, 1:23.231): "I am very happy with this eleventh place. We finished ahead of the Saubers and Force India and when you consider that as planned I will have some new parts for the next race, it is also a very good sign for Monaco. On top of that we have saved an extra set of new soft tyres for the race, because we opted not to try a second run in Q2, so at the moment everything is looking good. In some ways, it is better to be eleventh than tenth, because if I had made it to Q3, we would probably have gone out and used another set of tyres, but this way, I am on the clean side of the track with one set extra."
Jaime Alguersuari (13th, 1:23.694): "The car worked well in the high speed section of the circuit, but in the slow ones, I did not have a good feel for the car, so we need to look at the data to see how to improve the car in Sector 3 before tomorrow's race. Overall, I am pleased for the team because the result for both of us is good and I think we can run a competitive race. We can expect a three pit stop strategy, because Pirelli's new Prime is harder than it was before. I am looking forward to having a good race at my home circuit."
Giorgio Ascanelli, Technical Director: "I think eleventh place is a bit better than expected, because at the end of the day, Seb pulled out a magnificent lap. Jaime's position is a more accurate reflection of our standing, even if he did not get it quite right for whatever reason. It was a difficult session as the temperatures were higher and the car was tail-happy, so Jaime was unable to manage the tyres in the final sector, but like I said Seb did a superb lap with our aggressive choice of only doing one lap on that final run. With Jaime, it was not the right decision to give him another set of tyres for another run in Q2, but you don't want to upset a driver in the heat of battle when he tells you he can go quicker! We had some updates here and they are producing the results we expected. It involved a lot of work for a small step forward and I think they will work more effectively next weekend in Monaco as we now have a better understanding of them."
Heikki Kovalainen (15th, 1:25.403): "This is obviously a great day for Team Lotus and I want to thank everyone here and back at the factory for working so hard to get us to this next step in our story. There is a lot more to come from this car and while we have performed really well today we can see that we can keep progressing and taking the fight to the cars around us on merit. With the work we did overnight and in FP3 I can feel that we have found a much better balance in the high-speed corners, and we can work more on how it feels in the low speed corners which is where I think we will find even more time, but for now this is a good feeling and puts us into a good position for the race tomorrow."
Jarno Trulli (18th, 1:26.521): "First I want to congratulate to the whole team for getting Heikki into Q2. That's a great achievement for us and a sign of what's to come. For me the session was interrupted by what looks like an electrical issue that meant I was stuck in second gear when I went out for my first run, but we changed the steering wheel and I managed to get a lap in right in the last few seconds that still put me ahead of Rubens, so we'll start tomorrow from 18th and with the pace we have in the car in race conditions I think we'll have a good afternoon."
Tony Fernandes, Team Principal: "I am so thrilled. It is almost unbelievable but this is a great day for Team Lotus and just reward for the effort that the whole team keeps putting in. I am so thrilled for everyone associated with our team. Heikki did a fantastic lap and the whole team worked together brilliantly to give him the chance to take his car into Q2, and on top of that Jarno managed to put in a great lap in the dying seconds to put himself into 18th place under a great deal of pressure. We have a lot of work to do so we are not going to get carried away, but it is important that we enjoy days like this and the feeling that comes with hard work being rewarded with this sort of result. As I keep saying, these small steps will keep us moving up the grid, so well done and thank you to everyone."
Mike Gascoyne, Technical Director: "That is a very pleasing result and thank you to the whole team for today's result. We took advantage of the misfortune that befell a couple of the other cars but Heikki did a great job to get the best out of his runs today, and Jarno put in a strong performance to get in a decent time at the end of Q1 after a gearbox problem cut into his first run. Now the important thing is to focus on having a good race tomorrow and learning as much as we can about the upgrades we have brought here over a race distance."
Thierry Salvi, Renault: "We worked hard last night on the data from yesterday and in this morning's session we were able to do more work with the floor and the new exhaust which I think helped us perform so well today. Heikki reaching Q2 is very good news for the whole team, and we feel that there is a lot more to come. Rather than just working on different parts of the car and making those parts work, we will be able to make them work well together and the results of this will continue to be seen as we progress through the season. The plan for tomorrow is to keep our focus on maintaining our reliability. The performance matters throughout the race, not just in qualifying, and we need to see how the tyre degradation influences our strategy but for now congratulations to everyone and we must enjoy this feeling today."
Vitantonio Liuzzi (21st, 1:27.809): "We can be happy about today's qualifying, there was some improvement with the upgrades, now we need to keep pushing for new updates in the next race. We are in the right direction to improve the car and the team as a whole. So we're doing well and need to work hard to make the next step. It's very positive to be in and amongst the Virgins, it's important for us to do a good race tomorrow for the home crowd. There's always a great atmosphere in Spain but it's even more motivating when you're driving for a Spanish team, you can feel the support and want to give something back to the fans by doing well. Hopefully we can get a good start tomorrow and have no issues with pit stops. It will be a difficult race as we've suffered a bit with the new Pirelli compounds."
Narain Karthikeyan (22nd, 1:27.908): "Yesterday and today have been very difficult, especially P2 and P3 where we drove with new parts and didn't have the right balance. After that I was a little bit worried about qualifying but we pulled everything together. We sat down and analysed the situation. I'm happy to be in front of our nearest competitors for the first time and also close to Tonio. I'm pleased to be in this position, especially since it's the team's home grand prix, now let's see how the race goes tomorrow."
Colin Kolles, Team Principal: "Today's qualifying had some positives and some negatives. The positive side is that we were quicker than one of the Virgins and made some steps forward. The negative part is that we could've had both Virgins behind us but Tonio didn't have the best lap. My impression is that we made some progress and will make some more, let's see what happens in the race. We will use a strategy which best suits the car, not too different from the rest. We'll try and run as much as possible on option tyres."
Timo Glock (20th, 1:27.315): "I think we had a good qualifying today. We had a bit of trouble with the first set of tyres as they didn't work as they should and I was a little worried. The second lap was pretty spot on I have to say, although I made a small mistake in turn 7 as I was pushing so hard. We spent pretty much the whole of Friday not being able to concentrate on set-up and it's been quite hard to get the old package working well again. We tried our best this morning and in the end it wasn't too bad in qualifying. Now we have to focus on the race and just stay positive as we chip away at improving the car step by step."
Jerome d'Ambrosio (23rd, 1:28.556): "It wasn't such a smooth day for me today. For some reason in the morning session we couldn't find the same speed that we had yesterday and then in qualifying I only really had one lap because I had a hydraulic failure during my first run. But even though it wasn't the most straightforward session, the team did a great job to fix the car and we are in the race, so let's see tomorrow."
John Booth, Team Principal: "This morning Jerome struggled to extract the same speed as yesterday from our race package, and his qualifying was then compromised by a hydraulic failure on his first qualifying run. The team quickly located the cause, a cut O-ring, and replaced it in record time, enabling him to get out on track, even though his time was not representative of either his or the car's potential. Timo had a better session, although he had slightly less rear grip than we expected on his first run, but a tyre pressure adjustment enabled him to set a quicker lap. As for the race tomorrow, a two-car finish continues to be our goal. We are operating both cars in a specification that complies fully with the technical directive regarding engine/exhaust configurations issued to the teams last week by the FIA. We will continue to refine our recent upgrade over the forthcoming races."


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I have an ever-increasing sense that we are witnessing the violent death throws of the Patriarchy.
I think it first hit me when I saw the footage of Pussy Riot doing their head banging stuff in a Moscow Church. The people most offended, upset and able to do something about it where a bunch of bearded men in long robes with comically large crosses hanging around their necks.
Bearded old men in the Sudan condemned a woman to death for marrying the wrong man, okay, they've gone back on that decision because of the international outcry, but they still did it.
Bearded old men in long robes encourage bearded young men to go and fight holy wars every day of the week.
Bearded old men in long robes try to justify the vile event of a bunch of tragic men who raped two teenage girls to death in India.
All of these old beardy blokes have one thing in common, they represent the patriarchy.
It's got little to do with the individual religions they profess to teach, lead, have divinely bestowed upon them by a mythical bearded old man in long robes they call God.
Now, I do understand that criticizing any culture I have little knowledge of is dangerous.
Grouping together a whole race or religious group because of the actions of one or two nut bags is the job of UKIP supporters.
However, as a white, western liberal living in a privileged bubble (apparently) I have to face an ugly fact.
I'm also a man.
The bedrock of all religious belief is by its very nature, patriarchal.
(Patriarchy: relating to or denoting a system of society or government controlled by men)
It's all about the father being in control, it's all about a great big, bearded angry dad otherwise known as god.
You don't have to be a scripture scholar to understand that all religion was dreamt up and written down by men.
Ooops, sorry, I mean God, a bloke, with a beard and long robes. My bad.
Check who wrote the New Testament in the Christian bible
It's not Matthew, Mark, Luke and Joan is it?
Who wrote the Quran?
A bloke.
Who wrote the Old Testament?
A bunch of blokes.
Religion was made by men to extoll their own virtues, control their offspring and chattels, (that's the Mrs and the cattle BTW) and lay down the law.
Many years ago I read some of theories about the dawn of patriarchy, the pre-historic connection desert people in the Fertile Crescent made between shagging and childbirth.
These theories indicate that before we started farming, keeping cattle and living in more organised, settled communities, patriarchy simply didn't exist.
We lived in a matriarchy; as the saying goes, "the mother came first, the son merely followed."
(Matriarchy: a form of social organization in which descent and relationship are through the female line)
No one knew and more importantly cared who their dad was but you knew who your mum was because she raised you.
The theory is, and it's backed up by ancient cave paintings and fertility statues, women were revered and in control of their own destiny.
I'm not saying this state of affairs was better or in any way perfect, I'm merely suggesting that patriarchy isn't 'the only way we can function.'
The human race is always evolving, new relationships and roles emerge and there is no 'right' or 'only' way to live together and raise children.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is going to be more interested in power than love.
Anyone who tells you otherwise is going to be a bloke and more likely a religious bloke in a position of power in your community.
The tedious argument that men are 'naturally dominant' only exists because we're all endlessly told that from day one.
We are, I believe, currently seeing the tattered and despoiled cloak of patriarchy slowly disintegrate and that frightens the b'jayzus out of a lot of blokes who've invested their entire existence in such dated nonsense.
Any religious nutter with a brutal countenance, long robes and a beard is a patriarch, terrified of the power of women, determined to cling on to power because, poor sausage, that's all he's got to fill the void in his heart.
These bearded gentlemen come in all flavors, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Muslim, Jew and any number of offshoots of all of them.
Big beard, long cloak and complete confidence that their particular strand of virtually the same religion is the right one.
Bit tragic isn't it?
They are all from the same Abrahamic tradition that stems from the same bit of land on the Eastern side of the Mediterranean that blokes have been fighting over for millennia.
And these squabbles always involve men, boring, tedious blokes who want to impose their self claimed 'divine law' on the rest of us.
Tedious but sadly, in some cases we are seeing at the moment, still ridiculously powerful and dangerous.
It's got naff all to do with genuine religious belief, which, despite my cascade of offense I do actually have respect for.
How weak do you have to be to express such fear from one woman who won't do as you demand?
How pathetic are you that when your daughter/sister doesn't obey your every bullying command you kill her to protect, and read this carefully, 'the honour of your family.'
'Oh yeah, they've got a lot of honour that family, they killed their daughter in the street and we all respect that.'
Hello, it's 2014, not AD 414 for pities sake.
So as a wet liberal tosser living in a privileged western bubble, I do judge cultures I don't fully understand when it's brutal, stupid and based on blatantly enforced ignorance.
As privileged western liberal men we should do all we can to deride and undermine patriarchal power no matter what flavor.
We need to show by example that it is possible to be a man, to be a real, proper bloke, without mutilating little girls, raping and murdering women when they don't obey our ridiculous demands and claiming some kind of divine superiority.
I'm not saying women are always right or in some way superior, I'm not even saying all men who believe in some sort of old-dad-god figure are brutes, rapists and murderers, but the ones who are need to be faced up to.
If you want to fight patriarchy - but won't fight religion - you're not fighting patriarchy. @ aliamjadrizvi


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For many years, Latter-day Saint scholars and travelers — including Hugh Nibley, Ross Christensen, Lynn and Hope Hilton, Warren Aston, George Potter, and S. Kent Brown — have studied the question of Lehi's route through Arabia from Jerusalem to Old World "Bountiful," where he and his party built a boat and sailed for the Americas. Their books and academic articles have reached a few interested readers.
Since 2006, however, a larger audience has been able to see the likely setting for much of 1 Nephi. They don't actually feel the staggering heat and harsh, whipping winds of the Arabian desert, but "Journey of Faith," filmed on location in Israel, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Oman, represents the next best thing to being there. The story becomes vividly real.
Including Canadian, Yemeni and Omani scholars, as well as botanists, archaeologists, historians, geologists and other scholars from Brigham Young University and elsewhere — headed up by Brown, the scholarly force behind the project — the 90-minute film places the opening pages of the Book of Mormon solidly in ancient Arabia. It comments on proposed sites for Lehi's first base camp near the Red Sea; shows the land of "Nahom," where Ishmael died and was buried; and examines the fertile but remote, almost inaccessible, inlet on the Arabian coast that is the most likely location for Lehi's Bountiful.
"Journey of Faith" is beautifully done, with music composed and conducted by Merrill Jenson and art by Joseph Brickey. Director Peter Johnson, formerly an executive producer with the Audiovisual Department of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, had, before that, led the BYU Motion Picture Studio, which became one of the top-rated university film studios in the world. His prior record as a director includes such efforts as "A More Perfect Union" (which won a regional Emmy award and was nominated for a national Emmy) and the highly acclaimed "Mountain of the Lord," about the building of the Salt Lake Temple.
The film takes its audience to locations that few Latter-day Saints will ever visit, and, not surprisingly, daunting challenges confronted the film crew. Work was delayed, for example, by the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. And when terrorists hit the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, the team was actually working in Yemen (perhaps the most isolated country in the Arab world, and, historically, one of the least stable and most hospitable of them to terrorists).
"We had spent a long day filming in the desert, and as we returned to our hotel, someone shouted, 'Something horrible has happened! Turn on CNN!' " Peter Johnson recalled afterward. "We sat transfixed in front of the television and watched the shocking events of that day. After a while, it occurred to me — these are murderous acts of terrorists against Americans … and we're here in the middle of Yemen.
"It was impossible," he continued, "to get a flight back to the U.S. We were stranded. We talked with the American Embassy, and they told us we would be safer in the desert than in the city, so we carried on and filmed for a few more days under a military escort of about 20 Yemeni soldiers. We were finally able to catch a flight to London and get out."
A sequel, "Journey of Faith: The New World," appeared in 2007. Filmed, like its predecessor, on location — this time in the steamy jungles of Guatemala and Mexico — and featuring interviews with 32 scholars, it, too, runs 90 minutes. It covers the much larger American portion of the Book of Mormon story, accompanied by breathtaking footage of lush vegetation, rugged volcanoes, ancient ruins and Mayan art.
The sequel addresses temples, political structures, warfare, the likely location of the City of Nephi, the significance of Mesoamerican pyramids, chronological parallels between the development of Mesoamerican culture and events in the Book of Mormon, cultural similarities and differences between Maya and Book of Mormon peoples, and the possibility that a volcanic storm was the actual cause of the destruction described in 3 Nephi.
The two "Journey of Faith" films are available through byubookstore.com (or 1-800-253-2578) and in many LDS bookstores, in English, Spanish and Portuguese. Many have seen these films. Many others would be interested.
Daniel C. Peterson is a native of southern California and received a bachelors degree in Greek and philosophy from BYU. He earned a Ph.D in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA after several years of study in Jerusalem and Cairo. He is a professor of Islamic Studies and Arabic at BYU and is the editor of the twice-annual FARMS Review, the author of several books and numerous articles on Islamic and Latter-day Saint topics. Peterson is also director of outreach for BYU's Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship. He spent eight years on the LDS Church's Gospel Doctrine writing committee and is the founder and manager of MormonScholarsTestify.org.


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Max-Arthur, the shark costume-wearing, Roomba-riding cat has struck again.
The Internet fell in love with the Texas kitty, who wears an awesome shark hoodie, riding the robotic vacuum and chasing a duckling around his person's kitchen.
Max-Arthur, aka CatShark is back, this time paying tribute to Shark Week while also cleaning the kitchen.
The two-minute video, which has already amassed more than 700,000 views since it went live Monday, features Max-Arthur zooming around the kitchen while his owner, Helen, shucks corn.
The appeal is as baffling as it is undeniable.
Here's the original video of Max-Arthur with the duckling.
Max-Arthur has a Facebook page and even a Twitter account to keep track of his growing fame.


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2007 Honda Civic Type-S
Honda announced the new Civic Type S, a 3-door hatchback which is the latest model in the transformation of Honda's iconic C-segment brand into a premium, individual, sporty range. Sales are expected to commence in early 2007. This new model makes its world debut at the British International Motor Show on July, 18th 2006.
2007 Honda Civic Type-S
Transmission:6-Speed Manual
Horsepower @ RPM:140@6300
Torque @ RPM:128@4300
0-60 time:8.9 sec.
Top Speed:127 mph
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Sharing the same dynamic silhouette and overall dimensions as the acclaimed 5-door model, the Civic Type S further emphasizes the Civic's sporty and fun-to-drive direction to appeal to a young audience. The styling is therefore more assertive and the suspension is tuned for sharper chassis dynamics, with revised spring and damper settings and a 20mm wider rear track.
Further emphasising its sporty nature, the Civic Type S is powered by either a 1.8 litre petrol engine or a 2.2 litre diesel engine, both of which produce 140 hp and are mated to a 6-speed manual gearbox.
Two model grades will be offered. The extensive specification of the standard Type S includes 17 inch alloys, Vehicle Stability Assist (VSA), air conditioning, cool box, remote audio controls and side curtain airbags. The Type S Plus adds dual zone air conditioning, cruise control, front fog lights, retractable mirrors, automatic wipers and automatic headlamps. Certain markets also gain HID headlamps, heated front seats and a panorama glass roof.
Sculpted and fully integrated side skirts flare outwards towards front and rear wheels and seamlessly blend into the wheel arch surrounds, familiar from the 5-door model. These in turn flow into the front and rear spoilers to complete the lower body structure, all of which is finished in a gun metallic color for added visual appeal. The deep front air intake, together with the 17 inch alloy wheels and wider rear track provide the Type S with a particularly muscular and planted look.
Black Alcantara seating and a leather trimmed steering wheel, both with silver stitching, plus aluminium pedals, set the tone for the equally sporty interior. Large seat bolsters provide reassuring support during cornering.
The cabin is focused around the unique and visually arresting Dual Link concept fascia introduced on the 5-door model. Key driving information, including vehicle speed, is displayed in the upper part of the instrument panel, while other information is provided in the lower section. This design is particularly effective in presenting information without compromising the driver's concentration on the road.
The Civic's coupe-like styling has not compromised the cabin space. The interior instead succeeds in providing a high degree of flexibility and passenger accommodation. The distance between the hip point of front and rear passengers at 803 mm, for example, equates to that in higher segment cars.
The rear seats also incorporate Honda's familiar one-motion, dive-down feature that instantaneously creates a flat loading space of a spacious 485 litres, mirroring that of the 5-door model. The cargo floor can also be dropped down to reveal an under-floor compartment. A centrally positioned fuel tank located beneath the front seats, rather than impinging on the luggage area, plays a key role in achieving this packaging efficiency.
The comprehensive safety features include ABS, Electronic Brake-force Distribution with brake assist, VSA, front and side SRS airbags, full length side curtain airbags, double seatbelt pre-tensioners on both front seats and active headrests. The instrument display also features an innovative seatbelt reminder for both front and rear seat passengers. Honda anticipates a Euro NCAP result of 5 stars for front and side impact safety, 3 stars for pedestrian safety and 4 stars for child protection safety, making it one of the safest cars in its class.
The Civic Type S forms the basis for the forthcoming Civic Type R, which is scheduled to be launched in early 2007. While the reputation of its predecessor makes it a tough act to follow, the new model will offer greater sophistication without compromising the Type R philosophy of exhilarating performance achieved through advanced engineering. More details will be provided when the Civic Type R makes its debut at the Paris Motor Show later this year.
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Thereal repeats everything badestofthebad has to say. Do you even own a damn car? This is a powerful vehicle in its class.
But then, Thereal is the same guy who insulted the new Nissan GT-R, a car which has impressed every car critic out there.
weak lil civic


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Ravens linebacker Brendan Ayanbadejo was nearly as popular a media target this morning as Chris Culliver.
But the long-time advocate of gay marriage said he's not surprised to hear the homophobic message that landed Culliver in the spotlight this morning, and hopes that having apologized, Culliver can grow as a person.
Asked about Culliver's initial suggestion that a gay player wouldn't be welcome in the locker room, Ayanbadejo replied: "It's pretty normal, it's pretty normal behavior."
Ayanbadejo has long preached a message of tolerance, and said Ravens teammates know there aere certain things they might think that they just don't say around him. But he acknowledged that seeing Culliver under such scrutiny and being forced to apologize will do more to curb overt examples of exclusion than anything he can say from a positive perspective.
"I think in San Francisco, and being from the Bay Area myself, we really try to preach love and acceptance of everybody," Ayanbadejo said. "I couldn't really say anything negative to the young man. It's just one of those things you have to live and you have to learn. In the words of Martin Luther King, 'you can't fight hate with hate, you have to fight hate with love.'
"We've all made our mistakes, we've done certain things and we've hurt people if we meant to do it or not. But more than anything, it's an opportunity to have a learning experience. . . .
"We've kind of seen that happen this time. we just have to all learn from this mistake. He apologized, and hopefully he'll learn. He's in the Bay Area, so I think he's going to learn and he's going to grow and be a better person for it."
The truth of the matter is, there are many players who believe the same thing Culliver said, he's just the poor devil who got caught saying it.
The real question becomes whether the public shaming drives the issue further underground, and makes it harder for the league to accept an active gay player.


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So perhaps you already know we have an expansive screen. But need we mention our new, not-even-a-year-old, monstrous Morian Hall of Paleontology? Yeah. It's only what the Huffington Post called one of the top dinosaur exhibits in the entire country. No big deal.
But to add to our Jurassic fierceness, our docents are guiding special <i>Jurassic</i> tours of that new Paleo Hall — spotlighting the real specimens featured in the film and separating scientific fact from fiction. Oh, yeaaaaah, we did.
For more information on our guided tours, call the Box Office at 713-639-4629 or click here to reserve your Jurassic Park 3D tickets!


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Re-learning how to think is always a difficult process. My oldest son is starting the the 7th grade and he's having to go through it. We homeschool, so we pick the curriculum. Since he's consistently been above the 95% range with respect to math going back to ever since he started school (my wife has a M.Ed. in School Psychology and does the standardized testing for a lot of the homeschooler families we know, so this is pretty easy for us to do), and because he was obviously bored out of his mind when it came to math, I made the decision to start him in Algebra I and skip pre-Algebra altogether. This was something that my wife and I discussed before I made that decision. I have intentionally said that I made the decision. That's because I knew that if was going to do Algebra I early, I was going to have to step up and be his primary teacher in the subject.I had to make the decision to take it on.
Up until this point, most of his learning has been concrete – seeing numbers and doing a computation or reading a word problem and putting the calculation together and solving. The latter requires some abstract thinking, but he didn't use variables and he definitely didn't use terms like 2xy. Of course, in Algebra you encounter that right away. An example of where he's struggling is solving something like:
2z * (2xy + 4x) =
Because of the distributive property we know the answer is 4xyz + 8xz. Watching him as we were trying some problems last night, he was coming up with answers like 4z + 4xz + 2yz for the first part of the calculation. In his mind, he's struggling with the grouping of 2, x, and y together as one term for the purposes of the multiplication. Now, if he saw the following, it wouldn't be a problem with him:
2(4) * (2(1)(3) + 4(1)) =
It wouldn't be a problem because he would immediately simplify this to 8 * (6 + 4) = 8 * 10 = 80. Those are numbers, numbers he can "touch" or "count." Dealing with variables is a whole different matter. While the process is the same (once you grasp it), until your mind clicks over, it seems like a completely foreign concept. Now, the material I'm using with him also introduces lightly the idea of doing proofs. For instance, show that when you multiply an even number and an even number, you always get an even number. Or when you multiply an even number and an odd number, you also always get an even number. Intuitively we understand these statements are true. But proving them is a different matter. In this case, though, both are actually pretty easy to show with a single proof, especially since only natural numbers have been introduced thus far.
Given the definition of an even number as 2n where n is a natural number (1, 2, 3, 4,…), assume an even number 2x (meaning x is a natural number) and a natural number y. The product of those two numbers 2x * y = 2 * xy due to the associative property of multiplication. Let z = xy. By substitution, 2 * xy = 2 * z = 2z. Due to the closure property for multiplication, since x and y are both natural numbers, their product is a natural number as well. Therefore z is a natural number. By definition, the product of 2 and a natural number is an even number. Therefore, 2z is an even natural number and we can conclude that the product of an even natural number with any other natural number is always an even natural number.
I say pretty easy to show, but I should say easy for me, and probably easy for a lot of folks who are technically minded. But for my oldest son, this is a new challenge. His initial attempts at proving either case used concrete numbers. That's what he knows. However, that allowed me the opportunity to present him with the situation that if we wanted to prove it by plugging numbers in, a single case would prove what we were stating as wrong. Therefore, that means we would have to test every case. I asked him if that was possible. And that's where I saw the first steps being taken into a broader way of thinking, when he said, "No, because there's unlimited numbers."
So what's the point of all this? Just that re-learning how to think takes time (another phrase is undergoing a paradigm shift). And we all do this from time to time if we're growing in knowledge and proficiency. For instance, for someone who is used to iterative, procedural programming languages (Pascal, C, C++, Java, VB.Net, C#, etc.), facing a set-based language like SQL requires re-learning. Or moving from either an iterative or set-based programming language to a functional language like Python requires re-learning. Learning a foreign language when you're primary language is English often requires re-learning, too. Case in point: I'm learning Koine or Common Greek, the primary language the New Testament was written in. In English we're used to certain word orders for the structure of a sentence. For instance, the subject before the verb. But in Koine Greek, those structures don't exist. The language is such that you put first what you want to emphasize. So that means you learn to identify subject, verb, direct object, etc., by endings on the words. These modify the roots. And that's definitely different than what we're used to in English.
With my son, I expect the relearning is going to take time. And I expect some initial struggling with him. I've built that into the lesson plan. This morning, before I headed into work, I pulled him aside to explain to him that if he started to get frustrated, to take a step back, take a deep breath, and relax. He's having to learn to think in a way he hasn't done much of in the past. And that means it's going to be a challenge, he's going to find difficulty in doing so, and he's going to be slower at it than he's used to with respect to completing his math work. If you're transitioning to something that's new, make the same sort of plans. Don't put together an unrealistic schedule and that beat yourself up over it if you can't keep it. Expect to struggle. Plan accordingly. If you happen to catch on quick, that's great! You'll get done faster. But expect that to be an exception, not the rule. And that reminds me of a conversation I had with a former boss about why you couldn't just send a system administrator to a development course and expect to have a developer. But that's a post for another time.