The race for the 2022 KNC Groundworks Scottish Rally Championship title is back on. Just when you thought David Bogie was on course for his 6th national title, the hiss of escaping air punctured his hopes.
Bogie’s Fiesta Rally2 punctured a front and rear tyre on the same side on the Castle O’er stage and with only one spare in the boot he was out. That set up one helluva scrap for the lead of the Dumfries & Galloway RSAC Scottish Rally with Michael Binnie and Claire Mole snatching a superb victory in the Evo9.
At the halfway point, just three seconds covered the top three with David Henderson and Chris Lees in second place ahead of Freddie Milne and Patrick Walsh. Henderson punctured in the very next stage after first service and this caused the Fiesta Rally2 to spin losing even more time, then it punctured again in SS5, but Milne was already out. A double puncture stopped his Rally2 in SS4. That pitched John Wink and Neil Shanks into the runner up position behind Binnie, then the Hyundai stopped and parked up mid Stage 5.
That put the Fiesta R5 of Joe Hegarty and David Turkington into runner-up contention with the similar car of Hugh Brunton and Drew Sturrock. Hegarty broke a driveshaft which then bust the steering in the final stage but somehow he manhandled the car through while Brunton momentarily lost concentration and his car appeared with some of the Galloway undergrowth adorning the front end.
Meanwhile Henderson was determined to finish on a high scorching through the final stage to snatch third place from Hegarty.
Binnie managed to hang on and was virtually speechless at the rally finish. “I don’t know how that just happened,” he said, “it didn’t feel quick but the times showed otherwise.” And no punctures!
There was also a fearful scrap going on for fifth place between the Lancers of Angus Lawrie/Paul Gribben and Willie Paterson/Tom Hynd. Despite bending a bottom front arm Lawrie squeaked a six second gap over Paterson who admitted to a double ‘off’ when he almost binned it in SS2.
Mark McCulloch and Michael Hendry might have done better in the Proton if they hadn’t lost over a minute with a puncture in SS2 and just managed to hang on to 7th place by one second from the Fiesta R5 of John Rintoul and Ross Hynd.
Top 2WD was the Escort Mk2 of Stuart Egglestone and Brian Hodgson in 9th place with the Fiesta R5 of Bob Adamson and Jamie Edwards rounding off the top ten. Only 27 seconds behind Egglestone was the FWD Peugeot Rally4 of Peter Stewart/Harry Marchbank in 11th place overall.
It wasn’t a particularly long rally, but it packed a lot of action and drama into its six stages with rain on the last two turning what was already a very tricky surface into a very tricky and slippery surface. At least the rain kept the dust down and the midges at home.
The quote of the rally came from Steven Brown co-driving the top Junior, Robert Proudlock in the Vauxhall Adam which finished 20th overall: “He (Robert) drove like a fanny on the first stage, and I co-drove like a fanny on the last one slowing him down!” This is only Robert’s fifth rally!
Full report in next Thursday’s ‘Motorsport News’.
1, Michael Binnie/Claire Mole (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9) 42m 20s
2, Hugh Brunton/Drew Sturrock (Ford Fiesta R5) +45s
3, David Henderson/Chris Lees (Ford Fiesta Rally2) +1m 34s
4, Joe Hegarty/ David Turkington, Ford Fiesta R5) +2m 05s
5, Angus Lawrie/Paul Gribben (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo9) +2m 10s
6, William Patterson/Tom Hynd (Mitsubishi Evo9) +2m 16s
7, Mark McCulloch/Michael Hendry (Proton Satria Evo) 3m 30s
8, John Rintoul/Ross Hynd (Ford Fiesta R5) +3m 31s
9, Stuart Egglestone/Brian Hodgson (Ford Escort Mk2) +3m 40s
10, Robert Adamson/Jamie Edwards (Ford Fiesta Rally2) +3m 51s


i need some help with a pattern. It is a lace wrap.
I am knitting the back right now and the pattern looks like this..
Row 1: K2tog, yo, k1, yo, slp 1, k1, psso, p2 repeat to last five stitches and then K2tog, yo, k1, yo, slp 1, k1, psso.
Row 2: P5, K2, P5 repeat * to end.
then it says...
keeping continuity of Patt as set (throughout) work 6 more rows... which I have done..
Work 25 rows inc 1 stitch at each end of next and every following 8th row until 83 stitches. work 7 more rows without shaping.
okay.... so how do I increase at each end of a lace pattern and work it in?
also, for the armhole shaping I will have to decrease 1 stitch at each end of 5 consecutive rows.
Thanks in advance for your help!!!
Cara 'lost in lace'


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Finance and Trade Under Edward III the London Lay Subsidy of 1332. Originally published by Manchester University Press, Manchester, 1918.
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The history of the Estate of Merchants during the seven years that intervened between the crisis of 1347 and the enactment of the Statute of Staples in 1354 may be briefly outlined in the light of the above interpretation of the preceding development By the spring of 1348 the resources of the small group of English financiers who now furnished the King's supplies were rapidly becoming exhausted, and Edward was obliged to meet a Parliament in which, as we have seen, the wool growers and the merchants were united in their opposition to the restraints on the wool trade and to the continuance of the maletote A grant of direct taxation for three years was only to be obtained by a promise that the illegal indirect taxation on wool should cease Whether under normal circumstances the King would have fulfilled his purpose is a point that is perhaps hardly worth discussion But the circumstances were very far from being normal The Black Death, which began its ravages in the autumn of 1348, must have greatly diminished the produce of direct taxation, whilst it gave the King a good reason for not meeting Parliament until 1351 That Edward therefore should, in spite of his pledge, seek to retain his hold upon the maletote is readily intelligible The main obstacle to success in this direction lay in the impending bankruptcy of the firm of Chiriton, Swanland and Wendlingburgh, which had been financing the maletote and the purveyance of wool since 1346 (fn. 1) As a means of staving off this eventuality the King, in March 1349, attempted to resuscitate an Estate of Merchants on the lines of that of 1343, except that it was to consist of only half the number of members He summoned to his counsels at Easter (fn. 2) an assembly of seventy-six merchants in the hope, apparently, that by authorising some of their number to take over the farm of the subsidy, they would not only save the financial situation but would conter a quasi-legality on the maletote and provide some guarantee of its efficient collection If this was the King's scheme it failed A body of thirty-two merchants was indeed got together who undertook to be guarantors for Chiriton & Co, but only four or five of them had been amongst those summoned to the assembly, nor do they appear to have possessed any other claim to a representative character A year later they were involved in the ruin and disgrace which, sooner or later, overtook all the King's creditors, (fn. 3) and the King himself, especially as the truce with France was expiring, was again compelled to seek parliamentary sanction for his finance
The importance of these middle years of the fourteenth century in the history of Parliament can scarcely be exaggerated During the first half of the reign of Edward III all the main features of our parliamentary constitution had emerged, but none of them had attained fixity The exclusive right of a properly constituted parliament, as distinguished from a Great Council however summoned, to authorise taxation, and its claim to initiate and determine legislation had been repeatedly asserted by the Commons and clearly acknowledged by the King But Great Councils in consultation with irregular assemblies of merchants had continued to levy new taxation, the petitions of the Commons, even when fully granted, had remained without statutory effect, and the representative basis of the Commons, as determined by writs of summons, had changed its character from one Parliament to another The conflict on all these connected issues had been clearly approaching a climax in the January and March sessions of 1348, but the pestilence of the autumn had enabled the King once more to repudiate his concessions and to reassume control over finance and legislation.
In view of what had happened, the parliament of 1351 could hardly be expected to make a new grant of direct taxation in the simple faith that the King would cease to impose the wool tax Since the renewal of war necessitated further taxation it was safer to authorise for a limited period the subsidy which the King was certain to exact, and to extort in return as many concessions and safeguards as possible.
This was the origin of the "free trade" enactments of 1351, (fn. 4) which, so far from embodying, as has been generally supposed, a policy of plenty conceived and inaugurated by the King (fn. 5) represent the protests made by the Commons against the King's fiscal expedients in the past and the safeguards adopted by the Commons against the repetition of those expedients in the future The Commons pray that, "as the tax of forty shillings on the sack of wool which the merchants have granted to the King falls in no wise on the merchant, but on the people, that it may please the King for the relief of his people that the said forty shillings be not henceforth demanded or levied, and that commission be not made for such special grants except in full Parliament, and that if any such grant be made outside Parliament it may be held as of no effect And that all manner of merchants, poor as well as rich, aliens as well as the King's subjects, the King's enemies only excepted, may be free to pass with their merchandise without being restrained by those who call themselves the King's merchants or by any other individual as long as they pay the King what is due And in case it please the King in this his great necessity to have the aforesaid subsidy of forty shillings for half a year or a year longer, may it please him to show his will to the Peers and Commons of the land for their comfort (fn. 6) "
The grant of the subsidy for two more years which the Lords and Commons were ultimately induced to make was, it is clear, the price paid for the King's consent to the Statute in which their demands for freedom of trade were fully conceded There were, however, three serious elements of instability in the settlement thus attempted in 1351 In the first place, the new statute, in empowering all merchants, native or foreign, to buy and sell freely in all parts of the realm, set aside, not merely the monopoly of a small group of financiers, but the gild privileges enjoyed by a considerable number of that middle section of the trading class from which the Estate of Merchants had been mainly drawn In the second place, the King was not likely to accept as final a settlement which would not only deprive him in two years time of his main fiscal resource, but would, in the meantime, if strictly observed, prevent him from offering special terms to any body of merchants in return for an advance on the subsidy And in the third place, whilst free trade in wool was nominally established, the staple at Bruges, in which that trade had for ten years been concentrated, was still in operation and possessed all the advantages of a highly organised market
It was this last condition that gave force to the other two, as it enabled the King to negotiate once more with the exporting merchants In the autumn of 1351 he obtained £5,000 in advances upon the security of future subsidy from over a hundred exporters In half a dozen cases the loans were made by boroughs in their corporate capacities, including Norwich, Lynn, and Coventry As early as April the aldermen and certain leading commoners of London, on behalf of the city, had given their consent to a much larger loan of 20,000 marks on the same security, but the main body of the commoners had repudiated the action of their representatives, and even brought two of them for trial at the Guildhall Similar opposition to the assessment of the loan was manifested at Coventry (fn. 9) and York (fn. 10) Without entering more fully into the wider social and economic significance of these municipal conflicts we may, I think, take it for granted that the negotiations of the loans with the mercantile oligarchies of the towns involved a deliberate infraction of the conditions upon which the Commons had agreed to continue the subsidy It foreboded in fact a renewal of the attempt to displace Parliament by an Estate of Merchants, and it is this attempt and its failure that afford the main clues to the constitutional development of 1352-4, as recorded in the Rolls of Parliament.
The issues raised in the Parliament of January 1352 and the Great Council of July 1352 have not been overlooked by historians, but their bearing and importance become clearer in the light of the previous history of the Estate of Merchants and of the subsequent events of 1353-4 In opening the January Parliament on behalf of the King, Chief Justice Shareshill proposed that the Commons should delegate twenty-four or thirty of their number to negotiate with the great men of the Council This, it will be remembered, had been the course adopted with the Assembly of Merchants in 1343, and the result had been to separate the interests of the delegates from those of the main body of merchants The Commons refused to derogate from their responsibility as an assembly, and insisted on continuing to deliberate as a whole. The other issue was the vital one of their legislative capacity Again and again since the beginning of the war the King had purchased supplies by granting the petitions of the Commons, but no effective way had been found of giving statutory force to those concessions or of preventing subsequent evasion of his promises by the King In 1348 the Commons had requested that their petitions might be heard by a committee of prelates, lords and judges in the presence of four or six of their own members so that they might be reasonably answered in the present Parliament and when they were answered in full the answers might remain in force without being changed (fn. 12) In 1351 the full text of the principal statutes enacted in that year, including the Statute of Labourers and the statute in which the "free trade" demands of the Commons were embodied, was appended to the Roll of Parliament As a precedent these steps were of great consequence, but, measured by the standards of solid constitutional achievement, they were no more than tentative beginnings-the expressions of a tendency that might easily be frustrated
From this point of view the procedure of the January Parliament of 1352 is of great interest In making his appeal to the whole Commons for a further grant of supply, after their tacit refusal to negotiate through delegates, Chief Justice Shareshill encouraged them to present to Parliament petitions either for redress of grievances or for amendment of the law. The Commons, after long consultations with their constituents on the one hand, and with members of the King's Council on the other hand, upon the two inseparable questions of supply and the legislative redress of grievances, appeared again before the King to present a roll in which a grant of two tenths and fifteenths was made conditional upon a speedy and favourable reply to a long list of forty-three petitions attached to the offer It is true that according to the literal sense of the roll the only absolute condition was the grant of the first petition, i e that the fines levied for breach of the Statute of Labourers should go to the diminution of the taxes, but there can be no doubt that the favourable replies attached to the great majority of the other petitions, including the full text of the new Statute of Treasons, were clearly intended as part of the bargain and recorded as such upon the Roll (fn. 14)
The solution of his financial problems which the King thus achieved was but a temporary one Experience had shown that the expense of the war which had now recommenced required the simultaneous imposition of the wool subsidy along with direct taxation Parliament had now made a grant of direct taxation, whilst the wool subsidy previously authorised had still a year to run, but the price of this concession was the acknowledgment of its control over taxation in future, and it was not at all likely to authorise the simultaneous renewal of both forms of revenue At this point there was added to the problem a further complication The foreign staple at Bluges which, through the organisation of a restricted market, had rendered it possible for the King to secure not only a high export tax on wool but also monopoly profits in addition, was ceasing in the summer of 1352 to be practicable owing to the growing hostility of the Flemings (fn. 15) If the large revenue hitherto derived from the wool trade was to be maintained some new arrangement must be made Staple restrictions were not absolutely essential to the imposition of a high subsidy, though they made its collection easier, but they were essential to any scheme of monopoly, and the prospect of sharing in monopoly profits had been the chief motive that had induced successive assemblies of merchants to authorise the subsidy, and to make advances on the security of it The great majority of the native traders had found that prospect to be illusory, and in recent parliaments their denunciations of the staple at Bruges and the forms of monopoly associated with it had been blended in a common protest with the wool growers' denunciations of the subsidy The abandonment of the Bruges staple which was becoming a political and fiscal necessity might be represented as a valuable concession with which the King might expect to purchase some kind of parliamentary authorisation of the continuance of the subsidy But such a bargain would be most likely to be successfully accomplished in an assembly dominated by the native traders, since their objections to the foreign staple were stronger and their objections to the subsidy were weaker than those of the wool growers Moreover, the separate interest of the native traders, more especially those of the home staple towns, would afford the most convenient basis for a new arrangement for collecting the subsidy and for negotiating loans
Some such considerations as these would at any rate serve to explain the character and the sequence of the assemblies called together in 1352-3, the Great Council of August 1352, the Assembly of Merchants of July 1353, and the Great Council of September 1353 It was in the last of these assemblies that the Ordinance of the Staple was enacted, but the question had very probably been under discussion in all three The development of their representative character is therefore worth noting Eleven boroughs and the Cinque Ports were represented in the first, twenty-three in the second, and forty-three (including the Cinque Ports) in the third In the first and second assemblies the towns represented were, with two or three exceptions, ports or previously recognised "home staples," whilst in the final assembly over a dozen of the chief inland centres of the wool trade were added (fn. 16)
From the constitutional point of view, however, the character of these assemblies is determined not so much by the narrower or wider representation of the mercantile element as by the due subordination of that element to the larger social interests that had come to find normal expression in parliament The Great Council of July 1352, with its thirtyseven knights and fourteen borough members, was a miniature parliament not much larger than the committee which the Commons had been invited to appoint in the spring It would doubtless have been a dangerous precedent for such a body to have assumed the power of discussing the future basis of taxation, but as the county members summoned were in a considerable majority over the borough members, they would be scarcely likely to sacrifice the interests of the wool growers to those of the merchants The Great Council was probably summoned to deal administratively with the threatened stoppage of the Bruges staple, and as the re-establishment of the home staples would, apart from the question of the subsidy, be a popular measure, the King may have mooted the proposal at this assembly, especially as all the boroughs represented, but one, were included in the subsequent scheme But from the King's point of view the "home staples" proposal was a valuable concession to be sold to the highest bidder, and he would not be likely therefore to begin serious negotiations about it except with an assembly that would find it worth while to offer a high price, i e with an assembly composed mainly of merchants
In those negotiations two main stages are clearly indicated by the calling of two quite distinct assemblies in July and September 1353, but it is only the second of these bodies-the Great Council-by which the ordinances of the staple were fully discussed and finally approved that has left us any account of its deliberations We may be quite sure that the earlier assembly was called to consider the staple question, but in what form this was done and what relation the proposals laid before it or emanating from it bore to the later ordinances must be entirely a matter for inference or conjecture In its composition and the form of its summonses the assembly did not differ from the bodies with which in 1337 and 1343 the King had concluded his contracts of monopoly except that it contained, along with seventy-one native wool merchants, thirteen of the King's Italian and German creditors (fn. 17) The possibility, therefore, that some project of monopoly was considered and rejected by the assembly cannot be altogether excluded On the other hand, it is to be noted that the merchants summoned were not, as in the case of earlier assemblies, largely from inland wool-producing districts, but, with two exceptions, were all from staple towns or from the ports, a fact which makes it extremely probable that they were consulted in the drafting of the ordinances that established the home staples It is indeed not impossible that the scheme in its main features was drawn up by this purely mercantile body and was afterwards submitted to the more parliamentary assembly of September, partly in order to secure a greater degree of sanction, but still more as a valuable concession by which a continuance of the wool subsidy might be purchased.
Of the assembly that met at Westminster on September 23, 1353, Stubbs says "This body acted very much as a parliament it was in fact a 'magnum concilium,' including a representation of the Commons except the beneficed clergy it contained all the elements which were necessary to a perfect parliament, but these elements were combined in different proportions" (fn. 18) And Sir James Ramsay says "It was in fact an expanded merchant assembly summoned to sanction a change of mercantile policy" (fn. 19) Each of these descriptions is true, but the whole truth is best expressed by a combination of both In summoning eighty-two burghers from forty-three towns specially selected for their interest in the wool trade, and only a single belted knight from each of thirty-seven shires, the King undoubtedly intended to give such a preponderance to the mercantile element as would facilitate his bargain about the subsidy and the staple, and it is equally certain that by including the knights and the other elements of a perfect parliament he hoped to secure parliamentary sanction for any bargain that was struck He was successful in both these immediate aims, but if he hoped to establish a precedent he was disappointed The Great Council, it is true, " acted very much as a parliament", it authorised a three years' continuance of the wool subsidy and it enacted the Ordinances of the Staple But whilst consenting to exercise temporarily the powers of a parliament, it showed in two important respects an effective desire to safeguard the rights of a properly constituted House of Commons Its own attitude and procedure were those of a parliament, and not those of an assembly of merchants, and it insisted that its legislative action should be confirmed and recorded by a parliament summoned on strictly constitutional lines (fn. 20)
The procedure adopted in regard to the enactment of the Ordinances of the Staple constitutes perhaps the first formal acknowledgment of the legislative power of Parliament The ordinance as first presented to the representatives of the Commons took the form, not of an administrative measure framed primarily in the King's fiscal interests, but of a remedy devised against a popular grievance-the admitted monopoly of the King's financiers in the foreign staple It had been drawn up by the prelates and great men of the King's Council without the advice of the Commons, but now that their assent was sought they were requested to put in writing any amendment to the ordinance which seemed to them desirable "And upon that the Commons demanded a copy of the said points, which copy was delivered to them, this is to say, one copy to the knights of the shires and another to the citizens and burgesses And they, after great deliberation, had between them showed to the Council their opinion in writing, which writing, having been read and debated by the magnates, the Ordinances of the Staple were made in the following form 'Edward by the grace of God, etc Inasmuch as after good deliberation with prelates, dukes, earls, barons, knights of shires, and commons of cities and boroughs, we have, by the counsel and common assent of the said prelates, dukes, earls, barons, knights and commons aforesaid, ordained and established' " (fn. 21)
From this it is clear that the Commons took an active part in framing the ordinances From the actual provisions of the ordinances, from the demands that they should receive statutory form, from the later petitions of the Commons that they should be thoroughly enforced, and from the indignation of the Commons when they were set aside, it is equally clear that they represented in the main a body of concessions made by the King to his people at large This aspect of the matter is somewhat obscured by the fact that the primary object of the ordinances was the organisation of the home staples, and this seems to be a fiscal concern of the King's Even on this side, however, the purpose of the ordinances was to displace an unconstitutional and monopolistic organisation of foreign trade by an organisation which, whilst duly providing for the collection of the revenue, would leave to buyer and to seller the greatest possible amount of freedom Viewed as a whole the ordinances of 1353, and the statute of 1354 may be regarded as a re-enactment of the "free trade" statute of 1351 with the addition of elaborate machinery intended to secure the practical realisation of the policy demanded by the Commons Wool and hides, lead and tin must be taken before exportation to the staples that they might be duly cocketed and customed, but they might be bargained for freely by native or foreign merchants in any part of the country, and similar freedom was conferred upon the import trade in wine, victuals and other commodities (fn. 22)
To this general demand for free trade there was a remarkable exception which has been a stumblingblock to most commentators, but which is seen on closer examination to be an exception that proves the rule Native merchants were entirely prohibited from exporting staple produce, (fn. 23) and a similar though not quite so complete a restriction was placed on the native importation of Gascon wines As the King gained by the higher rate of custom paid by aliens on staple produce, it is possible to regard this clause of the Ordinance entirely as a concession to his fiscal interests But those who have followed the history of the wool trade as it has been recorded will probably find no difficulty in believing that the exclusion of the native exporter was supported, not only by the wool growers, but by the majority of native traders as a necessary safeguard on the freedom of trade In the incurable division of interest which this implies, and which was destined to endure for a generation to come, the Statute of Staples may be considered as marking the final collapse of the Estate of Merchants as a dangerous rival to the House of Commons (fn. 24)

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3 edition of The Prussian evolutions in actual engagements found in the catalog.
The Prussian evolutions in actual engagements
by Printed for the author, by J. Douglass M"Dougall, printer, book-biner [sic] and stationer, at his shop in Chestnut-Street, three doors below Second-Street. in Philadelphia
Written in English
|Statement||By Thomas Hanson, adjutant to the 2d Battalion. and teacher of part of the American militia.|
|Series||Early American imprints -- no. 14098.|
|Contributions||Norman, John, ca. 1748-1817., Hutt, John.|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||, iv, 64, 56 p., 30 folded leaves of plates|
|Number of Pages||64|
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The Enlightenment emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as Renaissance consider the publication of Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica. In that war, the fabled Prussian discipline really became what the Prussians were known for, since they would, in line with the Prussian virtues, almost blindly follow every order.
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by John Taylor Gatto Chapter 7 of The Underground History of American Public Education On approaching the enemy, the marching columns of Prussians wheeled in succession to the right or left, passed along the front of the enemy until the rear company had wheeled. Then the whole together wheeled into line facing the enemy.
These movements brought the infantry into two long well .What do the Bavarians in the book attribute with "Prussian"? In this case one of the so-called Prussian virtues, punctuality. These virtues, and punctuality especially coould also be called as a "German virtue". But as this is an educational book it also alludes to this virtue as a secondary one.
The King of Prussia and father of Fredrick the Great had a kink for military, so he decided to spend almost 4/5 of all the money they earned from tariffs and taxes on the military.
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The SI-Master BS8-D is an extended SI control. In addition to being able to be programmed by you like any other control, it can also be used as a Time Master, and as an Extended Time Master. A Time Master allows the quick setting of the real-time clocks in other controls. As Extended Time Master it additionally clears the backup memory of the other controls. See the downloads section below for more info.
The BSF8 Timing Control comes as either a "display top" (DT) unit or a "display bottom" (DB) unit. This distinction refers to the location of the LCD readout on the control - either on the top or the bottom of the unit. In general, if a control is to have a control code sticker on its top surface, the "display bottom" unit is recommended. The DB unit is available in blue or red. The DT unit is available in blue only. Every control station you order will come with a control sticker of your choice.
With much improved physical changes, this new control station functions identically to its predecessor, the BSF8. See below for details. Every control station you order will come with a control sticker of your choice.
Main station with USB interface to computer. Allows programming of controls and downloading of finger-stick information See the downloads section below for a document describing the features of this control.
Download station with USB interface to computer. Allows programming of controls and downloading of finger-stick information. This unit does not contain an internal battery, it is powered by the USB port. It features very low power consumption, the laptop battery will not be stressed. The unit will retain all downloads even if the unit is unplugged for a while.
This coupler is needed to enable communication between a USB or RS232 main station and a control. Insert the coupler into the hole of the main station and lay the control on top of the main station. The control will send the RF signal from the one control to the other.
This is a complete set to handle the timing for Enduro races. Your event can have up to 5 stages (and more can be added with extra control stations), and the racers will record the time on timing cards that every biker carries with him/her. As soon as the biker arrives at the finish, the timing data can be downloaded and published. The timing cards are reusable. Extra timing cards are available. Please contact us. Custom designed cards can be arranged. The Enduro set includes the following items: 50 timing cards (pCards 5 Start and 5 Finish timing controls 1 time master to prepare the timing cards and quickly synchronize the timing controls 1 USB timing card reader 1 coupling stick, 1 Service/Off management finger-stick
The older, larger BS7s and the smaller, newer BS8s each have two options for mounting holders. One is the bracket - a piece that runs lengthwise, with the control snapping into place. The other is the plate - a piece the size of the base of the control, into which the control snaps.
This adapter has been tested and works well with SPORTident equipment on XP (SP3) and up (tested on XP [32-bit], Windows 7 [64-bit] and Windows 8.1 [32-bit]). Drivers are native in Windows 7 and up (possibly also Vista). The latest drivers can be downloaded from href=http://server.iad.liveperson.net/hc/s-21882319/cmd/kbresource/kb-2791656651557503245/view_document!PAGETYPE?sq=26886 Note the files on the right near the top, and click on the appropriate file icon


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“Most educated people can name half a dozen poets who are more famous for their messy lives and deaths than for their poems… The narratives endure because they align with the popular understanding of what it is to be an artist.”
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First photo credit: Andy Keate
This is a house made entirely of antique books, mostly English literature published in the United Kingdom. Spines out, pages in, the work is a library turned in on itself, a space of infinite possibility where nothing may be read yet everything imagined.
The work has no windows and in the absence of external stimulation, we must imagine the worlds of the books, and hear the voice in our head that talks to us when we read. Books, the stories they tell about the opportunity they offer for escape into other worlds, are a key inspiration for Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets the OK to tunnel under Los Angeles suburb
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s tunnel-boring outfit, The Boring Company, has won permission from the Los Angeles suburb of Hawthorne, CA, to dig a tunnel nearly 2 miles long and up to 44 feet deep under city streets, according to Curbed Los Angeles. The project must still get permitting from the state labor and transportation debartments.
The tunnel will start beneath one of Musk’s SpaceX parking areas, where the company has already dug a 160-foot test trench, Wired reported. The 12.5-foot-wide tunnel will test a system of electric sleds that can move vehicles at speeds of up to 125 mph.
The company’s goal is to speed up tunneling and reduce costs by a “factor of 10 or more,” according to its website. That could lead to an increase in the number of tunnels, allowing Musk’s hyperloop concept to be implemented more broadly nationwide.
Last month, Musk announced via Twitter that he had received the verbal go-ahead from the U.S. government to dig a high-speed, hyperloop train tunnel from Washington, DC, to New York City. Musk said the train would offer travel between the two metros in less than 30 minutes, with stops in Philadelphia and Baltimore. White House representatives said they have been in talks with Musk about such a transportation initiative, but no city officials have confirmed being contacted about such a plan.
As far as tunneling, anything Musk can do to reduce the standard cost and length of digging time would be a benefit to the industry. Eliminating breakdowns, or at least devising a way to fast-track repairs so operations aren’t sidetracked for years, as they were when the tunnel boring machine carving a path under Seattle for the Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement project broke down, would put The Boring Company closer to its goal.
Cost projections for another major tunnel project — the connection of the Long Island Rail Road to New York City’s Grand Central Station — are sky high even without any major mechanical problems. As of 2015, the tunnel was estimated at $1 million per foot, with a total cost of more than $10 billion.
Regardless of its underground prospects, the hyperloop is making progress above ground. Earlier this month, Hyperloop One, one of the companies racing to achieve a functioning hyperloop system, achieved a passenger pod speed of 192 mph in five seconds. On its current track, Hyperloop One officials said their goal is to reach 250 mph. Higher speeds will require more track.
This article was originally written by Kim Slowey and appeared here.

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Browse abstracts scheduled for poster presentation at Neuroscience 2017 via the online Neuroscience Meeting Planner.
Poster sessions at SfN's annual meeting allow for the casual exchange of key scientific breakthroughs and emerging innovations within the neuroscience field. During each four-hour session, presenters and attendees have the unique opportunity to connect with leading researchers from around the world.
SfN receives more than 15,000 abstracts each year for presentation at the annual meeting. After abstract submission, the Program Committee reviews each abstract and sessions them into topically-relevant poster sessions and nanosymposia. A select number of abstracts are assigned to dynamic poster sessions.
How to Present a Poster
SfN members are invited to submit an abstract for presentation at the annual meeting. Presenters must submit an abstract in order to be considered for participation in a poster session. To indicate a preference for a poster presentation, submitters should select "Poster Only" for their presentation preference during abstract submission. For information on preparing a poster, please visit the Presentation Tips section of SfN.org.
Once an abstract is submitted, it is sessioned by SfN's Program Committee into topically-based poster sessions and nanosymposia based on the themes and topics list. Submitters can propose their own poster sessions using the linking group function during abstract submission. Linking groups indicate to the Program Committee that a group of abstracts wish to be sessioned together in the same poster session. Up to 20 abstracts can be included in a linking group requesting to be assigned in a poster session. Linking group requests are not guaranteed.
The Abstract Topic Forum is now open on Neuronline! Use this member-only forum to find colleagues with similar interests and prepare to form linking groups to propose a self-assembled poster session.
During a Poster Session
Each poster presenter is assigned a six foot (1.8 m) by four foot (1.2 m) poster board to use for presentation. Poster presenters are assigned to present in one of the nine half-day poster sessions that occur during the annual meeting. Poster sessions take place from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday and from 8 a.m.-noon and from 1-5 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday.
Posters are placed on display for the entirety of the assigned four-hour poster session. Within each session, poster presenters are given a specific, one-hour presentation time when they are expected to be present at their poster. Presenters may stay longer, but are required to be present during their assigned presentation time.
Theme J Posters Session
Theme J (History and Education) abstracts are presented in a Theme J poster session that takes place Saturday–Sunday during the annual meeting. Theme J posters are displayed beginning at 1 p.m. on Saturday and remain posted until 5 p.m. on Sunday. One-hour presentation times occur either Saturday afternoon or Sunday morning.

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Srinagar: State Information Commission (SIC), an appellate body to enforce right to information and ensure compliance of State Right to Information Act, continues to remain virtually defunct, as the commission besides being headless is also without the two member commissioners.
The commission is a three-member autonomous body headed by chief information commissioner (CIC) with two other commissioners. SIC is presently functioning without any officer bearers, as all of them completed their term earlier and the state government so far failed to appoint new members and the CIC.
The undue delay in appointment of new SIC and other two members have left the commission completely defunct. The former CIC, GR Sufi, completed his term on February 29, while the post of one State Information Commissioner was already vacant.
The need to appoint new CIC and other two commissioners, according to RTI activists, is need of the hour so that people could use RTI Act effectively.
After retirement of State Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) G R Sufi and other two members, State Information Commission (SIC) has become defunct and this is creating a big hurdle for implementation of RTI Act. Lots of cases are pending before Information Commission. We appeal Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti for her immediate intervention so that these vacancies are filled as soon as possible, said Raja Muzafar Bhat, a noted RTI activist.
Under the provisions of J&K RTI Act 2009 the Information Commissioners and Chief Information Commissioner (CIC) can only be appointed by the Governor when the selection committee consisting of CM , Leader of Opposition and one cabinet minister nominated by CM recommends the suitable candidate. The government must initiative the process immediately."
It is very sad that the elected government could not short list the names of probable Information Commissioners after Dr S K Sharma retired in October 2015. They had almost three months until death of Chief Minister Mufti Mohammad Syed to appoint new Information Commissioner. But now we demand immediate appointment of these posts said an RTI activist.
Presently, the SIC has no Commissioner. In absence of CIC and other two members, the SIC has become completely defunct.
The delay in appointment of new members to SIC has discouraged information seekers and encouraged corrupt officials to deny information to applicants on one pretext or another, said a group of RTI activities.
The fact is that the act is dying its silent death due to official apathy, they added. (KNS)
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Not Ilayaraja, Kerala man was Oscar winner AR Rahman's first guru
Contrary to popular belief, it was not Ilayaraja who helped AR Rahman initially, but a Keralite who provided the opportunity for Rahman on keyboard. He is master MK Arjunan.
The death of Kerala melody king master MK Arjunan has brought about some facts before fans of AR Rahman.
It is said that master Arjunan was the one who first gave AR Rahman the opportunity to play keyboard. Master Arjunan also was responsible for the success of KJ Yesudas in his singing career.
Rahman took to Twitter to express his gratitude and grief towards the death of master Arjunan 84, who died yesterday. The legendary music composer has scored music in 600 films.
Rahman posted a photo of him as a child with the legendary music composer and wrote" An act of kindness lasts a lifetime. I will never forget the love & encouragement you gave me during my childhood.Your innumerable melodic songs are a testament for your everlasting legacy. May you rest in peace MK Arjunan Master...My condolences to the family, friends & admirers".
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Rahman and Yesudas have come together on a number of occasions to work in films. But many had no clue that both had a common guru who helped them in their music career.

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Are you ready for a new RPG from Sega involving money, school kids and butt kicking?
Hero Bank is a new RPG from Sega that is being touted as a “battle life RPG” revolving around gaining copious amounts of money. In the game, the main character, Kaito Gosho, somehow gets into enormous debt in the tune of one billion yen. In order to pay off his debt, he enters into the Hero Battle, a cyber sport where participants fight against each other and can gain cold hard cash. Throughout the game, you have the chance to use a variety of heroes in the Hero Battle who can give Kaito better chances at defeating increasingly difficult enemies. For the first time publicly, Sega showed off their latest RPG at TGS this year, and while the presentation is pleasant, the controls are problematic.
The demo starts out with Kaito having a quick chat with some of his friends at his school. After talking with them, you are free to roam around. The game insisted on telling you to use the touch screen to control Kaito. The bottom screen had a map, showing your character's location as well as various obstacles and people in the area. I quickly switched to using the Circle Pad to control and was somewhat annoyed by the fact that you had to press the B button to allow him to run. It wasn’t difficult. The control scheme just seemed archaic.
Battles in the game thrust your character into a digital, circular wrestling ring to face off against the enemy, with coins scattered around the ring. Navigation was again handled by the touch screen, only this time, you did not have the option to use the Circle Pad or D-Pad to move around. It made for a very slow and tedious trudge around the arena while the enemy would glide around with ease. Collecting the money laying around the stage is necessary to utilize various combat techniques. Once you are close enough to the enemy, a red button lights up on the touch screen indicating that you are able to attack. In the demo, there were four different attacks, each dealing out different amounts of damage based on how much money they cost Basically, the more expensive they are, the more damage they deal. Defense is also handled similarly, giving players the option to soften incoming damage by paying out some cash.
Hero Bank is an interesting concept and would work a whole lot better if the control scheme allowed for more intuitive and simple movement. With the game coming out sometime in 2014, we can only hope that Sega rethinks the control methods for the final version.

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Five Nights at Freddy’s isn’t ready to go the way of Angry Birds or Flappy Bird just yet. This once-huge name wants to keep its momentum going. According to a brief and enigmatic posting from the series creator, console ports are indeed on the way.
Five Nights at Freddy’s probably needs no introduction. The original game first arrived in 2014, bringing a uniquely immerse and visceral horror experience. From a totally simple premise emerged a huge media empire, spanning everything from novels to action figures. Quite an achievement for one-man development team Scott Cawthorn.
The jump-tastic franchise may have conquered PC and mobile, but it hasn’t ventured onto consoles yet. I’ve been overdue, though. Back in May 2016, as Polygon reported, talks were underway to port the original titles to console. Over a year later, in September 2017, Cawthorn announced that said ports had been cancelled, stating:
“I've called it off due to concerns about the deal. This is something that's very important to me, and I'm not going to do it unless it's done right.”
Still, there’s a lot of flip-flopping in the magical world of games development. Especially where the ever-enigmatic and unpredictable Five Nights at Freddy’s creator is concerned. For now, at least, it seems as though the console versions we were promised are actually on the way and taking shape.
As Destructoid reports, Cawthorn had published a new update on the subject. In the Steam Community for spin-off Ultimate Custom Night (a mash-up title featuring 50 different characters from the Freddy’s universe), he posted a huge update on the franchise and upcoming projects. Among other things, a first draft of the first FNaF movie is complete, and outlines have been completed for a second and third film. This isn’t a guarantee that all three will get made, he states, but a cohesive story is taking shape.
If that weren’t enough for the FNaF faithful, Cawthorn also confirmed that work on the ports is underway. He kept it short and sweet, as is his wont (“Console Port Progress: Deal signed; ports in progress! More news coming soon!”), but that’s nothing fans aren’t used to. They’ll probably be content enough with the knowledge that everything does seem to be going ahead. There was a real fear that the ports were going to be stuck in limbo, after all.


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Reporter Leonardo Feldman has left Telemundo network and Spanish-language news.
He has jumped to English-language cable network Newsmax as a Miami-based correspondent, covering the Southeastern U.S., the Caribbean and Latin America.
The move marks his official cross-over to English-language news, although he has done some reporting in English in the past. He did so recently for Telemundo’s “Pulso News,” the millennial-targeted news show produced for the now defunct Quibi mobile platform.
Feldman spent one year as a political reporter at Telemundo network.
He previously worked as an MMJ at Voice of America’s Spanish-language news service and WZDC, the former ZGS-owned Telemundo affiliate, both jobs in Washington, D.C.

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Why are mustard seeds hot like chili peppers? Why is some mustard bright and mellow, while others are murky and hot? Here's the quick breakdown on how mustard works in the kitchen!
The painful headache that accompanies some of our favorite icy treats is something that even doctors and scientists debate. There are a few theories that have been put forward to help explain the pain, and I've got some quick remedies to help you quell the nasty feeling when it starts to attack!
As the weather takes a turn into cooler temperatures I find myself longing for maple syrup. I want to imbue its flavor into everything I bake, be it savory or sweet. Well, if you're wondering where that sweet sap comes from and how we get it, look no further!
When the weather changes, and the air becomes crisp with wintery anticipation our minds turn to the burnished flavors of fall. Apple, cinnamon, pumpkin, and that king of all syrups: maple. At some point in our lives each of us has pulled a bottle of the liquid gold off the grocery store shelf and marveled at the price tag. Indeed, maple syrup is a costly item, but one that is more than worth the investment
Rice is the staple food for over half of the world’s population. As a commercial crop it has the third highest worldwide production (after maize and sugarcane). But, considering that much maize is not even grown for human consumption, rice is the most important crop to our species. It provides more than one fifth of the calories consumed around the world by humans.
Looking to refuel after a grueling workout? Learn the science behind electrolytes and get a better understanding of what your body needs when you've been sweating.
Microbes are the oldest life form on this planet. They can be found in the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, and indeed inside our own bodies. Check out how food-hackers are changing the flavor of coffee with these tiny organisms!
Ever wonder what makes some muscles darker than others? We've all got a preference when we sit down at the dinner table, some of us are die-hard white meat lovers and some are obsessed with dark meat. Whatever your inclination, here are some things to know about muscle fiber when you get in the kitchen.

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On 8 March 2022, the Minister for Family and Integration, Corinne Cahen, invited to a press conference to present the study "Racism and ethno-racial discrimination in Luxembourg" in the presence of representatives of LISER and CEFIS.
"This study is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the Department of Integration of the Ministry for Family, Integration and the Greater Region (MIFA) and researchers from LISER and CEFIS," the minister emphasised. "I would also particularly like to thank the many people who, in one way or another, shared their experience, their knowledge and their expertise. I would like to express my gratitude and respect to them.
Racism and ethno-racial discrimination exist and cannot be ignored. LISER researchers and CEFIS have produced a report on these two key issues to address a lack of data and to enable effective policies to be put in place.
Racism and discrimination in a multicultural society
Focusing on the main areas of residents' social life (employment, housing, health, school, education, public administration, etc.), the report reflects the reality of living together and integration in Luxembourg's de facto multicultural society, draws conclusions, proposes concrete ways of improving the situation and provides rich and in-depth material for reflection and action.
On the one hand, the quantitative survey carried out by LISER makes it possible to measure the perceptions of the resident population and its so-called minority groups. On the other hand, the qualitative survey carried out by CEFIS identifies the dominant perceptions of field actors and experts, directly or indirectly related to racism and discrimination in Luxembourg.
The origins of the study
Following the publication of the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights' report, Being Black in the EU, the Chamber of Deputies adopted a motion in July 2020 inviting the Luxembourg Government to "commission a study on the phenomenon of racism in Luxembourg in order to develop a coherent strategy to combat it".
The Department of Integration of the Ministry of Family, Integration and the Greater Region therefore commissioned the Centre for Intercultural and Social Studies and Training (CEFIS) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) to participate in the design of the study, to carry it out and to report on its main results. On the basis of these results, CEFIS and LISER were also asked to formulate policy recommendations in the field of the fight against racism and ethno-racial discrimination.


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The Scrupulous Palate’s Guide
Whether your passions run to superior brewed coffee or exquisite espresso, your pursuit of specialty coffee puts you in valuable company. In the $40 billion domestic-coffee market, the specialty-coffee business claims $14 billion of that, with independent coffee stores leading the recent charge. Most telling are studies showing that the specialty-coffee consumer now outnumbers the wine-drinking population, according to Strand.
“Scarcity is driving the interest in the small coffee producers,” Strand explains, discussing the zeal with which java lovers snap up the latest, greatest small-batch productions. “Coffee is becoming the way wine was before wine became so popular.” To procure the absolute finest, here’s what belongs on your must list:
Know your beans. Sample enough single-origin coffee beans and, like wine connoisseurs, you’ll come to know growing regions and terroirs you prefer as you develop a stronger sense of the flavor profiles best suited to your palate. Whereas your penchant may run to Central and South America, you might occasionally find that African or Middle Eastern producers feed your need for a truly memorable cup. Belonging to a coffee club that curates the planet’s finest beans, following sustainable, fair-trade practices, sets you on the right path. A Citizen Bean membership provides you a pound of coffee each month. $199 per year, citizenbean.com
And it can’t hurt to inquire at places specializing in posh. Colin Walsh, food and beverage director at the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, trains his staff to keep an eye out for the guest who wants something special in coffee. “When we know who will appreciate it, we offer Sanani. It’s not only robust and flavorful and rich, but it has this great story that we like to tell our guests.”
One of the latest single-origin coffees to impress palates, Sanani comes from Yemen on the southern Arabian Peninsula. Originally shipped from the port of Mocha to other ports in the 16th century, the dark, strong coffee imparts the slightest chocolate hint on the nose. $24 for a 8.8-ounce box of whole beans, sanani.com
Romance your roaster. Because the world’s best coffees come from single farms, your personal relationship with a roaster buying from such growers guarantees you the world’s finest finds. The insiders’ list of the most-reputable roasters typically includes PT’s Coffee Roasting Company, Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, and Counter Culture Coffee. The name that comes up the most, however, is Stumptown Coffee Roasters, based in Portland, Oregon.
“Our reputation, without exception, hinges on sourcing the best coffee from the top producers in the world,” says Matt Lounsbury, Stumptown’s director of operations. “In some cases, we’re buying the entire farm and we often pay two, three, or five times what our competitors will pay.” Although Stumptown offers retail locations in Portland, Seattle, and New York, customers everywhere can mail-order via the company’s website. stumptowncoffee.com
Particular palates wanting to roast their own beans order from Sweet Maria’s, a coffee-roasting supplier that also buys the world’s most desirable lots at auction and ships green beans to individuals to roast at home. sweetmarias.com


Copenhagen Airport to make more room for long-haul
Copenhagen Airport says it will be investing a quarter-billion Danish kroner (€33.5 million) in expanding its Pier C to “provide more space and better service for both passengers and the large aircraft used for intercontinental flights”.
The airport is making room for an additional 2,900 square metres for passengers and three new stands with air bridges for large planes. Within the next 18 months, more than 100 workmen, builders and engineers will expand Pier C, which is used for long-haul flights and flights to non-Schengen destinations.
“Denmark now has direct flights to 27 intercontinental destinations. We expect more growth in the years ahead, so we need to build more now,” explained Copenhagen Airport CTO Christian Poulsen.
There is a clearly defined goal for the project, he added. “We want the new part of Pier C to be a pleasant, spacious and relaxed place for passengers while they are waiting to board their flight for a long trip.”
In January, Copenhagen Airport announced its Expanding CPH “vision” regarding the creation over the next two to three decades of more space and facilities for handling 40 million passengers a year, almost twice the 24.1 million passengers who passed through the airport last year. The first visible part of this idea will be the expansion and refurbishment of Pier C. The new butterfly-shaped addition to the pier will be ready by the end of 2015, serving the larger aircraft used for flights to destinations in Asia and North America – including the A380 if it is deployed for flights to Copenhagen sometime in the future.
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Conti cuts sales forecast – tire replacement business weak
Weighed down by a weak replacement tire business worldwide, Continental is cutting its sales forecast for this year after an overall strong second quarter. The DAX Group now expects sales of around 41.5 to 44.5 billion euros in 2023. So far, 42 to 45 billion euros have been promised. The group confirmed the forecast of adjusted EBIT margin, according to which profit should increase to 5.5 to 6.5 percent from 5.0 percent last year. As known since mid-July, consolidated sales increased by 10 percent to EUR 10.4 billion in the second quarter. Conti increased its adjusted operating profit (EBIT) by almost five euros to a good 497 million euros. The proportional rate rose to 4.8 from 4.3 percent.
Vitesco achieves a significant increase in operating profit in the 2nd quarter
Vitesco significantly increased sales and adjusted operating profit in the second quarter. The bottom line, however, was the loss due to spoilage. The automaker confirmed its full-year forecast. In three months, Vitesco Technologies increased group sales by a good ten percent to 2.44 billion euros. Adjusted operating results (EBIT adjusted) rose to 76.3 million from 34.9 million euros, amounting to 3.1 percent after 1.6 percent in the same period last year.
Daimler Truck mourns the death of CFO Jochen Goetz
Daimler Truck CEO Jochen Goetz died suddenly and unexpectedly in a tragic accident on Saturday. The management board, management board and employees reacted with dismay and sadness to the news of the death of their chief financial officer, as the truck manufacturer announced. Goetz was 52 years old and had been a member of the Management Board of Daimler Truck Holding AG since July 2021 and had a financing and control role in this transaction.
Porsche Holding confirms the outlook after a decline in profits in the first half
Porsche Holding has confirmed expectations for 2023 after a decline in profits in the first half of the year. According to the Porsche and Piech family holding company, which owns most of Volkswagen’s ordinary shares, profit after tax in 2023 should be between 4.5 and 6.5 billion euros after 4.8 billion euros in the previous year. In the first six months, income after tax decreased to 2.4 billion from 3.8 billion euros the previous year.
Rivian reduces losses – increases production target
Introducing the electric car Rivian narrowed its losses more than expected in the second quarter and increased its production target. The company also lowered its spending target for this year. Net losses fell to $1.2 billion from $1.7 billion in the three months. According to Factset, consensus analysts expected a deficit of $1.5 billion. Adjusted loss per share is $1.08 versus the consensus estimate of $1.41. Sales rose to $1.1 billion from $364 million last year. Here, the market was expected to be 1 billion dollars.
Tesla-CFO Zachary Kirkhorn stepped back
Tesla is getting a new chief financial officer. As the American electric car maker announced, Chief Financial Officer Zachary Kirkhorn resigned last week after 13 years with the company. Kirkhorn will remain with the company through the end of the year to support the transition. Tesla appointed Vaibhav Taneja as its new CFO on August 4. Taneja previously served as Tesla’s Chief Accounting Officer.
Honda Motor can profit more than twice
A rebound in the auto business has given Honda Motor a sharp rise in net profit in the first fiscal quarter. But the motorcycle business was also booming. A Japanese group confirmed that view. In the period from April to June, net profit increased to 363 billion yen – equivalent to 2.3 billion euros – from 149 billion. Analysts expected 232 billion in concessions from Quick. Sales rose five percent to 4.6 trillion yen.
Mazda Motor confirms profit guidance after strong start to year
Japanese automaker Mazda benefited from higher prices and higher sales volume in the first quarter of the business year. Sales and profits rose sharply despite rising costs. Mazda Motor confirmed its earnings for the full year. Revenue rose 77 percent to 1.1 trillion yen in the April-June quarter. Operating profit was 30 billion yen after a loss of nearly 20 billion yen in the previous year. The bottom line is that Mazda earned 37.2 billion yen after 15 billion a year ago.
ANALYSIS/Japanese automakers lagging behind in China
Japanese automakers are reviewing their operations in China. The reason: local competition is beating them more and more. The next few years should determine whether Japanese automakers can survive in the world’s largest auto market. Like their Western counterparts, Japanese automakers have lost ground in China amid competition from local brands that dominate the fast-growing electric car market. Japanese automakers are now introducing timelines for new technology and electric vehicles in China, responding to what regulators see as a closing window.
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Manhattan Theater Club, the New York nonprofit theater company, will round out its Broadway season with “Airline Highway,” the new play by Lisa D’Amour (“Detroit”) that will premiere later this fall at Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater.
Joe Mantello (“Wicked,” Sting musical “The Last Ship”) will direct the play, about a gathering in the parking lot of a New Orleans motel to honor a burlesque performer who requested a funeral before she dies. Casting for the 15-actor ensemble remains to be set.
“Airline Highway” marks the latest Broadway outing for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theater, which originated shows including “August: Osage County” and the current Main Stem title “This Is Our Youth.”
“Airline Highway” begins previews at MTC’s Samuel J. Friedman Theater April 1 prior to a April 23 opening, coming in just under the wire for Tony Award eligibility for the 2014-15 season. The show joins an MTC slate on Broadway that also includes “The Country House,” the Blythe Danner starrer that opens later this fall, and Jake Gyllenhaal topliner “Constellations.”


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Colorado has universal background checks, a “high capacity” magazine ban, and 10 officers shot in five weeks, three fatally.
The Democrats persuaded the state that it would not be this way when they passed their California-style gun controls in the wake of the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary. Rank and file lawmakers, and Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) too, jumped on gun control as a way of preventing violence in Colorado yet the state has experienced violence against officers and high profile attacks on the public since gun control was implemented.
On October 31, 2015, Noah Harpman opened fire on the streets of Colorado Springs, killing three innocents before he was killed by police. Moreover, Harpman complied with all gun controls in acquiring the firearms he possessed at the time of the attack.
Less than a month later, on November 27, 2015, Robert L. Dear opened fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, killing two civilians and a police officer before being apprehended by police.
During the last five weeks alone 10 officers have been shot in Colorado. The Denver Post reports that El Paso County Deputy Micah Flick was shot and killed on February 5, Adams County Deputy Heath Gumm was shot and killed on January 24, and Douglas County Deputy Zack Parrish was killed on December 31, 2017.
Colorado has universal background checks, which Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) described as the gun control “North Star” for Democrats. They also have a “high capacity” magazine ban, regulations on how long a gun can be loaned to a friend before a another background check must required, and other controls. And so far, these gun controls have simply correlated with high profile shootings and a war on police.
Following the November 27, 2015, high-profile shooting CNN’s Brianna Keilar looked at Gov. Hickenlooper and said, “Those [gun control] efforts that you helped spearhead obviously didn’t [prevent the Planned Parenthood shooting].” An honest assessment today would show that “those [gun control] efforts” also failed to prevent other high profile shootings and the current surge in violence that resulted in the deaths of three officers and left seven others wounded.
Gun control never makes the vulnerable less vulnerable, only moreso.
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart podcast Bullets, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at email@example.com. Sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange