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Mercedes boss Toto Wolff thinks the FIA will find it "impossible" to replace Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting with a single person, following his shock death ahead of the Australian Grand Prix.
Whiting passed away in his sleep on the Thursday before the F1 season opener, with the FIA putting in place emergency measures to get through the Melbourne weekend without him.
While motor racing's governing body is now trying to finalise a plan for what it does in the longer term, Wolff says that F1's chiefs are waking up to just how difficult it will be to cover off everything that Whiting did.
"I think his [Charlie's] shoes are impossible to fill," said Wolff.
"I had a chat with Ross Brawn on the way to the [grid] photo and the minute of silence, and he said they just discovered how much Charlie was doing.
"[This includes] trivialities like, are the cameras in dangerous positions. This is what Ross mentioned to me. A bunch of tasks, and I didn't have any direction with the race director in the race.
"Certainly there will be tough decisions to take in the future, and I think it's impossible to replace Charlie. But whoever takes up that job, we need to support them."
The FIA used the experienced Michael Masi, who was set to be F2 and F3 race director this year, as Whiting's stand in at the Australian Grand Prix.
It is unclear if he will continue in the role for the short term, or the governing body will look for somebody else.
FIA president Jean Todt said last weekend that talks would involve F1's teams about how best to move forward.
"We are going to work very closely with the F1 teams and we have started to think," said Todt. "Our team in Geneva is trying to see what we are going to implement for the future."


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Transcript of joint Aust/NZ PMs' press conference
Press Release – Australian Government
Subject(s): Australia-New Zealand relationship; World economic outlook; Centenary of ANZAC; Closer Economic Relations; Cyber security; Tony Hodges; Australia DayTranscript of joint press conference, Melbourne
[http://www.pm.gov.au/press-office/transcript-joint-press-conference-melbourne-3]
SUN 29 JANUARY 2012
Subject(s): Australia-New Zealand relationship; World economic outlook; Centenary of ANZAC; Closer Economic Relations; Cyber security; Tony Hodges; Australia Day
PM: It's a delight to be able to welcome Prime Minister John Key again today. We have been having a set of discussions, not only between Prime Ministers but also between a number of members of our ministerial team and I'd like to welcome them to Australia as well.
As I said when the Prime Minister first arrived yesterday, our relationship is one of being family. We saw that on display last year when we were both in times of need and having seen that on display last year this is a great time to bring us together, to bring our ministers together, to have a meeting in a joint cabinet format to talk about our relationship for the future and that's what we've been able to do today.
We do have an amazing history and we will be commemorating 100 years of that history in 2015, our ANZAC legend that binds us together, but we're also nations very focussed on the future and it's the future of the relationship that we've been focussed on today.
Both of us had key economic ministers here, including Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer Wayne Swan and his counterpart Minister Bill English and so we have had a comprehensive discussion about the global economic climate and the challenges that that poses for our respective economies.
We've talked about the strength of our region and the fact that we are both situated in the region of the world that continues to experience economic growth and will during the course of this century and that that gives us particular opportunities for the future.
I was pleased in that context to brief Prime Minister Key at his ministers on our Australia in the Asian Century whitepaper, that we are working through as a nation looking at how we can win in this Asian century of economic growth and so we can be prepared for that economic growth in the future.
On our bilateral relationship we were very much focussed on what will be a significant anniversary of our closer economic cooperation, that is next year in 2013 we celebrate 30 years of Closer Economic Relations.
Now this is one of the true partnerships around the world for economic integration, one of the standout partnerships that our two countries have been working on over 30 years. So we are world leaders in this, but we want to keep building for the future, so we've asked our two Productivity Commissions to work together on a joint study as to how we can build on our close economic ties now for the future.
We also have had a proud history of working together in defence cooperation. We have endorsed the recommendations of a 2011 review of our defence relationship, so that we can continue that relationship as strong as ever and so it can be fit for purpose in the modern age.
We're also pleased to announce the establishment of an Australia-New Zealand cyber dialogue. One of the key security challenges of our age is cyber security, so a relationship as old and as deep as this one needs to be taken into the future and deal with contemporary challenges, like cyber security.
We've agreed to develop a six month trial between New Zealand, Australia and the Queensland Government to see how we can enhance the reciprocal sharing of criminal history information for potential employees. We do have very much a shared employment market, New Zealanders come here, Australians go to New Zealand, so it makes sense to have this six month study to see how we can have a more automatic approach to sharing the kind of information that people want when they are vetting a new employee.
So our forward agenda is going to be as busy as ever, we've got work to do in our region, work to do in Afghanistan, work to do in formats like the East Asia Summit and APEC and work to do directly together.
We are, of course, together pricing carbon to tackle climate change. Together we're pursuing our joint bid for the Square Kilometre Array, a fantastic science project for the future. And perhaps most importantly to many of our people we're going to host the world cricket cup together.
So Prime Minister Key it's great to have you here, it's great to work with you and over to you.
PRIME MINISTER KEY: Thank you very much. Prime Minister, firstly thank you very much and on behalf of my ministers can I thank you for hosting us here in Melbourne, for your hospitality and for the great dialogue and engagement that we've had over the last 24 hours.
I have a number of new ministers in new portfolios with me, so it's been very useful for them to have an opportunity to exchange with their Australian counterpart.
Certainly from New Zealand's point of view we don't have another relationship which is more important than this, you're our largest source of tourists coming to New Zealand, largest source of foreign investment, you're our largest export market. Pretty much on every fact Australia is a dominant and significant part of the New Zealand economy and when Australia does well New Zealand does well.
And I think, in a way, it's such a tremendous relationship it would be easy to take it for granted. Such a comfortable relationship, we know that we can always pick up the phone and have an open, frank discussion that it would be easy just to say maybe these meetings aren't necessary, but we always get something out of them.
And I want to thank you for your personal commitment New Zealand, your willingness to give us every resource required when we had both the Pike River mine disaster and the Canterbury earthquakes has been incredible and I think it's one that New Zealanders personally (inaudible), your address to the New Zealand Parliament is still something that is remarked upon in New Zealand, so you're a great friend of New Zealand and your Government has worked very closely with ours and we're very grateful for that.
I suppose I'd just make a couple of other comments, I think in relation to 2015, 100 years of the ANZAC commemorations, is a really important time for us, not only just in hosting the Cricket World Cup, but I think it will be an opportunity for us to do other things which bind that ANZAC spirit together and have public displays of a very deep and historical relationship.
Again in 2013, you're quite right, CER reaches that 30 year milestone and again an opportunity for us to do some more work there.
The Prime Minister has laid out, I think, quite clearly the discussions we've had and will have more of those over lunch.
I suppose I'd only really raise two other issues – one would be we've had some discussions about the situation of New Zealanders who have come to Australia since 2001. They're New Zealanders that don't currently have citizenship here, but can work in Australia because of trans-Tasman travel and employment protocols.
That's a matter I know that the Australian Government is looking at, Australia has historically been generous to those New Zealanders when they've found themselves in a difficult position because of their current status here, both in relation to the Queensland floods and the Victorian bushfires.
So I know that's an area that you're doing some more work, but it's just a sign of the strength of the relationship and the amount of movement we have that there's now some people in that category.
Just in terms of what's happening with Queensland, again you'll be aware that in part the trial is being led because of a high profile case of a New Zealander that had a criminal record that wasn't made aware to the Queensland authorities.
Now that may have been possible through a rather clunky system, so in one sense the system arguably works, but only if you go to quite a number of steps. So the purpose of the trial is to see whether we can make the process easier, have better information sharing.
Obviously there are privacy and legal issues that need to be considered on both sides of the Tasman and we'll work our way through those, but in a sense we now have what I think is an Australasian employment market and we need to reflect that in the way that we share information that we possibly can.
And lastly, I think if you look at what's happening it's plain for everyone to see the strength that's emerging in the Asian region and that's not just China, that's a very powerful seismic shift which is not going to be reversed any time soon.
That presents a lot of opportunities, I think, to both Australia and New Zealand and the interesting issue for us is how we can work collaboratively together to maximise the benefit that comes from that and there are some real opportunities, I think, for us to market New Zealand and Australia together or to do some things together and we certainly have great examples of that.
And I think the defence review really talks to that, of how we can continue to be even more streamlined in what we do, have better processes and probably formalise things that historically built up because of the nature of our relationship.
So, thank you for the opportunity to be here.
PM: Thank you and I think we've agreed how we're taking questions, so it would be, I think, courteous to start with a question from the New Zealand media.
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister Gillard, Steve Marshall from Television New Zealand.
PM: Yes.
JOURNALIST: Could you please outline the plan the Australian Government might have to put New Zealanders who have moved to Australia on an equal footing with Australian citizens?
PM: Look, this has been an issue of some long standing and was discussed by one of my predecessors Prime Minister Howard with then Prime Minister Helen Clark. It has put some New Zealanders in a situation where, when for example we're trying to get people disaster relief payments very quickly, that they aren't automatically in the system.
Prime Minister Key actually raised that with me last year during our summer of natural disasters and we did make sure that we extended assistance to New Zealanders who were caught up in that situation and caught up in those disasters.
So, the Prime Minister has raised this issue with me again. We need to keep working on it, obviously it's got money implications and that's something that we've always got to be very careful about. So we'll keep working it through
JOURNALIST: Prime Minister Gillard, I'm sorry to not ask you about trans-Tasman relations-
PM: -Alright, so this is our question from the Australian media. Yes.
JOURNALIST: I think there is limited questions so I'm going to ask you about this week's protest.
PM: Sure.
JOURNALIST: Can you 100 per cent guarantee that Tony Hodges acted in a completely unilateral fashion when he passed on information that precipitated that protest? In other words was anyone else in your office part of that decision?
PM: I answered this question yesterday and the answer's no; no one else was part of that decision.
We'll have a question from the New Zealand media. Yes.
JOURNALIST: Just going back to (inaudible) there's around 100,000 New Zealanders affected at the moment who moved here in 2001. Any plan that you're working on, is it looking at trying to deal with the plight of those particular 100,000 people, or the plan will be going forward to deal with (inaudible)
PM: Prime Minister Key might just want to address that first. I think the immediate concern is for the people, the 100,000 caught up.
PRIME MINISTER KEY: So there's the historic position those that are in that position where they've been here round about eight years, they don't currently qualify for residency and in fact if they applied they probably wouldn't get that, or citizenship. And so the plan is to see how they can be put on a footing which would allow them to enjoy those rights and that's something that is solely the domain of the Australian Government, I mean they have sole rights to determine their own policies and as the Prime Minister has pointed out there are financial implications of that.
But I think both governments are conscious of the issue and the significant number of New Zealanders involved and we're hopeful that some progress can be made there.
PM: OK.
JOURNALIST: Ms Gillard, at what time on what day did Mr Hodges tell your senior staff about the phone call in question and you said yesterday that you were told of Mr Hodges actions late on Friday, roughly what time was that and why was there such a long gap in time for you to get informed of this phone call?
PM: Well I answered all of these questions yesterday too. In relation to your first question, Mr Hodges informed his immediate superiors later during Australia Day, so obviously there was the event at The Lobby Restaurant, there was the need for people to get out safely and return to Parliament House.
So a fairly dramatic event had happened and some immediate things needed to be done because of that dramatic event, including making sure everybody was safe and well.
So later that day Mr Hodges informed his superiors, my senior press secretary and my communications director.
Once again I answered your second question yesterday as well and the answer's the same: I was in country Victoria on Friday morning awarding National Emergency Medals to people, as I had been the day before at The Lobby Restaurant, the first time we've ever given these medals out.
I returned to my Melbourne office, my staff had been working to make sure that they could give me a complete factual brief.
As you would be aware there were a number of allegations circulating around the media at the time, including for example that a female staff member had made a telephone call. So matters needed to be checked, all of those matters were checked.
My staff were then in a position to give me a comprehensive brief and following that I spoke to Mr Hodges.
JOURNALIST: The statement of Kim Sattler in this morning's newspapers-
PM: -Well I think that's sneaking in what will be the last Australian question, but on that issue of a statement by Ms Sattler, Ms Sattler put out a statement yesterday which is consistent with the events as I understand them to have occurred.
Ms Sattler has obviously formed the view that she has not been accurately reported in today's media and as I'm advised she's put out a second statement today, which once again accords with the views that I hold, having been fully briefed on the events.

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Oscars Can Add Drama to Roadways
Last Sunday millions of households tuned in to watch the 91st Annual Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars. (The "Oscars" nickname derives from the golden statuettes given to winners, though the exact origin of that name is contested. [1]) The broadcast was held on Sunday, February 24, and while many households watched it on a television screen an increasing number of viewers are opting to stream the event online. Last year's show posted the lowest ratings of all time, and several factors are cited for the decline. [2] Controversies about the lack of diversity in positions of power within Hollywood were front-and-center, and as the audience for the Oscars broadcast trends younger the pressures to create a succinct and streaming-friendly show are mounting. There are even tensions between the Oscars's twin goals: putting on an engaging but not overly long show for the general public is at odds with giving even the most obscure figures in the movie industry a platform to celebrate their work and appreciate their recognition. [3]
Despite the Oscars's many challenges, it remains a highly relevant aspect of American popular culture. Movie releases for films deemed "Oscar-worthy" are still timed for the late part of the calendar when audiences have greater opportunities to watch movies – due to the holidays, extended time off, etc. – and when films can build momentum from a series of film festivals to the Golden Globe awards and then parlay those successes into the ultimate victory: an Oscar. Oscars-viewing parties remain popular, with guests sometimes dressing up in their black-tie finery and hosts sometimes concocting a version of a red-carpet event. A centerpiece of any Oscars party is a pre-show ballot, which guests use to try and predict the night's winners in each category. While the nominees for Best Picture and Best Actor/Actress are often high-profile, it is the rare Oscars viewer who can proffer anything more than a wild guess for categories like Best Sound Mixing.
Another staple of Oscars-viewing parties is alcohol. While this year's event was a "trim" 3 hours and 20 minutes, [4] the event often runs near or in excess of 4 hours. When people are socializing and consuming alcohol over such an extended period, they are at higher risk of over-consuming. Even those who attempt to remain conscious of their alcohol intake may lose track of their baseline – it is easier to monitor how intoxicated you feel in the first hour of drinking than it is after maintaining a buzz for two or more hours. But unlike the glamorous stars and Hollywood insiders stepping into and out of limousines all night at the Oscars, most viewers have to make it home on their own. On Oscars night, this can present several increased risks of injury.
February – which generally plays host to the Oscars broadcast [5] – is in some respects the safest month to be on the roads. According to 2016 data from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA), alcohol-related fatalities are relatively rare during the winter months, and crashes during the month of February make up the smallest share. [6] (Of course, February is also the shortest month, with two or three days fewer than the other winter months.) The NHTSA also collects data on fatalities incurred in speeding-related crashes, and those data reflect that February is neither among the most dangerous months nor among the safest. [7] February is the deepest part of the winter in the United States. While that may mean little to Las Vegans who enjoy relatively warm and sunny days year-around, in snowier parts of the country the winter weather likely depresses automobile use and may contribute to February's relatively strong safety profile. Those effects are more pronounced in northern Nevada's snowier communities, especially Reno and the larger Lake Tahoe region.
There is another potential risk on Oscars night, one that is inextricably wound up with the role the Academy Awards plays in popular culture. One recent study found that Generation Z was the age cohort most likely to watch the Oscars, with one-third of those surveyed saying that they planned to watch. [8] Those born in Generation Z make up roughly one-quarter of the U.S. population, [9] and most of them are now of driving age. Broadly speaking, they are also famously attached to their smartphones, Twitter feeds, and other means of staying in the know. Thus, a large and growing share of the population, a cohort that by both youth and attitude seems to be inclined to follow popular culture closely, is now increasingly getting behind the wheel on Oscars night. This young cohort is also at higher risk of drinking and driving as well as of speeding and undertaking other risky driving behaviors, but even beyond that is a hazard unique to the social media age: distracted driving.
Overall, teen drivers are among the most likely to engage in distracted driving, including texting while driving. (Here, "teen drivers" are defined as drivers between ages 15 and 19.) According to NHTSA data for 2016, teens ages 15 to 19 made up 8 percent of all distraction-affected crashes. [10] Distracted driving accidents killed 10 percent of all teen drivers who lost their lives in automobile accidents. This small bloc of drivers – representing just a four-year span of all drivers age 15 to way-too-old – made up 9 percent of all distracted drivers involved in fatal crashes. Carmakers and lawmakers alike are trying new strategies to limit the risks of distracted driving. The increased use of integrated hands-free phone systems, improvements in voice-text translation, and features that disable text messaging and other functions on mobile phones while the owner is driving combine with increasingly stiff criminal penalties for those who get behind the wheel without their full attention on the task at hand.
These innovations may not be the stuff of blockbuster films, but they can save lives and make our streets safer – and not just on Oscars night.
[1] http://mentalfloss.com/article/48892/why-are-academy-awards-statuettes-called-oscars
[2] https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/oscars-early-ratings-shape-of-water-down-1202718015/
[3] https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18232253/2019-oscars-academy-awards-backlash-kevin-hart-ceremony-...
[4] https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/91st-oscars-tv-ratings-sunday-feb-24-2019-1190257
[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards#Telecast
[6] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/812450
[8] https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonifitzgerald/2019/02/24/study-whos-watching-the-oscars-mostly-young-m...
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Z#Characteristics
[10] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public/Publication/812504
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Q: How do juvenile arrest rates vary by State?
A: State variations in juvenile arrest rates may reflect differences in juvenile law-violating behavior, police behavior, and/or community standards; therefore, comparisons should be made with caution.
Juvenile arrest rates by State, 2017
Aggravated
United States 84% 86 60 364 283 54
Alabama 77% 51 30 224 51 27
Alaska 100% 149 26 328 230 27
Arizona 91% 102 66 495 455 38
Arkansas 92% 101 34 369 299 43
California 100% 94 73 113 93 76
Colorado 91% 89 44 599 501 62
Connecticut 99% 59 55 342 164 51
Delaware 100% 195 90 497 361 88
District of Columbia 0% NA NA NA NA NA
Florida 100% 103 81 475 288 45
Georgia 79% 79 43 405 233 45
Hawaii 100% 48 43 382 338 10
Idaho 89% 64 10 536 532 52
Illinois 22% 65 203 364 284 233
Indiana 64% 121 47 456 302 45
Iowa 85% 109 33 679 320 46
Kansas 65% 66 13 235 336 26
Kentucky 97% 30 48 205 120 21
Louisiana 80% 192 68 741 347 101
Maine 100% 26 10 497 292 5
Maryland 91% 155 205 515 354 109
Massachusetts 95% 97 29 128 35 28
Michigan 98% 66 28 317 213 29
Minnesota 96% 80 68 722 337 77
Mississippi 46% 33 49 393 187 55
Missouri 92% 85 46 512 392 48
Montana 99% 86 15 770 382 17
Nebraska 12% 98 0 226 341 16
Nevada 89% 199 116 253 269 62
New Hampshire 96% 41 14 248 420 4
New Jersey 95% 63 59 241 408 65
New Mexico 39% 168 24 175 112 16
New York 51% 72 66 374 354 35
North Carolina 63% 65 70 424 228 82
North Dakota 99% 68 11 734 663 40
Ohio 80% 45 36 330 205 34
Oklahoma 96% 73 34 373 311 35
Oregon 90% 59 30 416 504 30
Pennsylvania 98% 143 89 362 293 71
Rhode Island 89% 63 44 290 129 122
South Carolina 78% 81 55 556 532 111
South Dakota 84% 140 17 759 1,258 95
Tennessee 97% 144 64 455 391 62
Texas 92% 60 49 302 331 28
Utah 85% 49 19 592 482 38
Vermont 96% 68 2 177 92 19
Virginia 92% 39 41 369 286 41
Washington 90% 71 51 304 187 34
West Virginia 63% 39 6 97 112 13
Wisconsin 98% 89 55 834 550 89
Wyoming 94% 46 5 665 881 54
NA = Crime in the United States 2017 reported no arrest counts for the District of Columbia.
Note: In this table the arrest rate is defined as the number of arrests of persons under age 18 for every 100,000 persons ages 10-17. Juvenile arrests (arrests of youth under age 18) reported at the State level in Crime in the United States cannot be disaggregated into more detailed age categories so that the arrests of persons under age 10 can be excluded in the rate calculation.
Internet citation: OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book. Online. Available: https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/qa05103.asp?qaDate=2017. Released on October 22, 2018.
Data Source: Adapted from the FBI's 2017 Crime in the United States Report [Tables 5 and 69].


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Home » World News » Pope Francis prays for Joe Biden to 'reconcile' divided US as bishops blast new POTUS
Pope Francis prays for Joe Biden to 'reconcile' divided US as bishops blast new POTUS
Joe Biden says 'give me a break man'
The Pope issued a message shortly after Mr Biden was sworn in hoping the new President would help heal the divisions in the US. Referencing the US' death toll from coronavirus, Francis also hoped Mr Biden could tackle the "grave crises" around the world. It comes as Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez, the head of the US Catholic Bishops Conference, condemned the President for his "ill-considered" pro-choice position on abortion.
Francis said he hoped Mr Biden would work towards justice, freedom and respect for Americans.
He said in his statement: "On the occasion of your inauguration as the forty-sixth President of the United States of America, I extend cordial good wishes and the assurance of my prayers that Almighty God will grant you wisdom and strength in the exercise of your high office.
"Under your leadership, may the American people continue to draw strength from the lofty political, ethical and religious values that have inspired the nation since its founding.
"I likewise ask God, the source of all wisdom and truth, to guide your efforts to foster understanding, reconciliation and peace within the United States and among the nations of the world in order to advance the universal common good."
Earlier this month, the Pope condemned the pro-Trump supporters for rioting in the US Capitol.
Francis said the violence in Washington left him "astonished" in an interview with Canale 5.
He added: "No population can boast of not having one day a case of violence. It happens in history.
"But we must understand well, so as not to repeat it, learn from history, learn that groups (…) that are not well integrated into society, sooner or later will have these eruptions of violence."
Mr Biden is the second Catholic US President, and is the first election winner to receive a congratulatory phone call from the Pope.
In an interview with Stephen Colbert, the President said: "I just had a nice phone call with His Eminence, the new cardinal in Washington, who said he just got back from Rome where the Pope signed a book for me he wants me to have.
"The Pope's been incredibly generous to our family."
A week before the election in Warm Springs, Georgia, Mr Biden praised the Pope and said: "Pope Francis warns us against this phoney populism, that appeals to 'the basest and most selfish instincts' (…)
"Pope Francis asked questions that anyone who seeks to lead this great nation should be able to answer. And my answer is this: I run to unite this nation and to heal this nation."
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Pope Francis breaks silence following health fears [INSIGHT]
Pope's plan for Vatican shake-up with 'key appointees' to be axed [UPDATE]
In contrast, the Pope and Mr Trump had a fraught relationship, with Francis questioning the former President's faith.
In 2016, Francis said of the Mexico/US border wall: "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian."
Mr Trump furiously replied: "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.
"No leader, especially a religious leader, has the right to question another man's religion or faith."
It comes after Mr Gomez served notice Catholic bishops in the US will fight Mr Biden on his positions on abortion and other moral issues.
The President personally disagrees with abortion due to his faith, but has refused to enact laws restricting birth control and treatments.
The LA bishop said: "I must point out that our new president has pledged to pursue certain policies that would advance moral evils and threaten human life and dignity, most seriously in the areas of abortion, contraception, marriage, and gender."
Cardinal Blase Cupich from Chicago responded to Mr Gomez's "ill-considered" statement, and added many American bishops had not been consulted over his remarks.
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by Ray Willington — Thursday, January 6, 2011
Velocity Micro Introduces 7", 8" and 10" Cruz Tablets At CES
We knew CES would be loaded with tablets, and that foreshadowing has proven correct so far. They're definitely a major part of this year's show, and Velocity Micro is bringing not just one, but three total tablets to the show. There's a 7", 8" and 10" version, all of which are expected to ship in late Q1 2011. All three are joining the Cruz family, and they'll ship with either Android 2.2 or Android 2.3 depending on which is available at the time of launch.
The 7" model (Cruz Tablet L37) has a 1024 x 600 capacitive touch screen, and is roughly the same size as Samsung's Galaxy Tab. There's 802.11n Wi-Fi, 4GB of internal storage, a 3G data option, front and rear-facing cameras, GPS/compass, micro HDMI output and Bluetooth 2.1. Also, the Kindle app will come pre-loaded. The 8" Cruz Table P38 has a 1024 x 768 resolution display, and most of the same specifications otherwise. The giant of the bunch is the 101." Cruz Tablet L510, which has a 1366 x 768 screen resolution, a 1GHz dual-core CPU, NVIDIA's Tegra 250, front and rear cameras and optional 3G. No pricing details were given, sadly, but it's clear that the Android tablet market is going to be extremely crowded by mid-year. The real question is this: can the Android 2.3/2.2 tablets stand a chance against the incoming Honeycomb (v3.0) tablets?
Velocity Micro Announces New Line-up of Cruz Tablets
New Generation of Android-based Tablets Include 8" and 10" options with no contract 3G access, available in late Q1
Las Vegas, NV - January 5, 2011 - Velocity Micro, the premier builder of ultra performance desktops, notebooks, peripherals, tablets, and ereaders, announces three new devices to join the Cruz family. Built with the same meticulous attention to detail and 100% US support that have made Velocity Micro famous amongst enthusiasts, these 7", 8", and 10" tablet models include features such as 3G, Bluetooth, GPS, HDMI out, and Android 2.2/2.3.
"Our goal when designing the new generation of Cruz products was to create thin, powerful, and feature rich devices," said Randy Copeland, President and CEO of Velocity Micro. "With these new Tablets, we've done just that. These are remarkable tablets-- a true extension of our ongoing philosophy to bring functionality and affordability to the mainstream."
With a 10.1" 1366x 768 capacitive touch screen and ultra thin design, the Cruz Tablet L510 is as feature rich as it is sleekly elegant. Key features include:
· NVIDIA Tegra 250 Chipset
· 1GHz dual core CPU
· Front and rear facing cameras
· 3G data options
· Bluetooth 2.1
· GPS and eCompass
· HDMI out
· Android 2.2/2.3
· Amazon Kindle application pre-installed
Featuring an 8" 1024x768 resolution capacitive screen and packed with tons of extras, the Cruz Tablet P38 is perfect for business travel, as a multimedia hub, or cruising the web from the couch. Features include:
· 802.11n wifi
· 4GB Internal memory
With a 7" 1024x600 capacitive touch screen, the Cruz Tablet L37 fits in the palm of one hand for a unique combination of power and portability in a mobile device. Features include:
· micro HDMI out
Cruz products are available from nearly every electronics retailer in the US, including Best Buy, Sears, Borders Bookstores, Amazon.com, QVC, and many others. For more information on these devices, other Cruz products, or Velocity Micro, visit CruzTablet.com.
ABOUT VELOCITY MICRO, INC.
Velocity Micro, Inc. is the premier high-performance personal computer provider in North America. Founded in 1992, Richmond, Va.-based Velocity Micro custom builds award winning gaming, mobile, multimedia, small business, workstation, visual supercomputers and peripherals. Velocity Micro products are currently available at most consumer electronics retailers nationwide. For more information, please call (800) 303-7866 or visit www.VelocityMicro.com.
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Saracens Vicky Fleetwood and Emily Scott have been named in a 28-strong England squad for the Women's Rugby World Cup in Dublin in August.
And Sarah Hunter (Bristol), who led the team to their first Six Nations Grand Slam since 2012 earlier this season, will lead the side with Emily Scarratt (Lichfield) as vice captain.
England, the current holders, are drawn in Pool B alongside Spain, Italy and USA and kick off their campaign against Spain at the UCD Bowl on Wednesday August 9 at 2pm. All England games will be broadcast live on ITV.
Head coach Simon Middleton has named a squad of significant experience, sharing a total of 1,207 caps.
Of the 28 names, 15 were part of the Red Roses' 2014 World Cup-winning squad and six players, Saracens' Scott, Waterman, Scarratt, Natasha Hunt (Lichfield), Katy Mclean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks) and Amy Wilson Hardy (Bristol), represented Team GB sevens at last year's Rio Olympic Games.
Middleton said: "We are confident we have an incredibly strong squad, made up of hugely experienced players who have featured in previous Women's Rugby World Cups and other major tournaments such as the Olympics.
"At the same time, we have younger players who have been involved in a Grand Slam-winning side and a successful three Test series against some of the best teams in the world earlier this month.
"Selection is probably one of the toughest jobs you do as a coach. This is not just a squad of the 28 players travelling to Ireland, but represents all those who have contributed so much this season to make this the team it is.
England, forwards: Zoe Aldcroft (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, 4 caps); Sarah Bern (Bristol, 10 caps); Rochelle Clark (Worcester Valkyries, 124 caps); Amy Cokayne (Lichfield, 28 caps); Vickii Cornborough (Harlequins, 25 caps); Vicky Fleetwood (Saracens, 61 caps); Sarah Hunter (captain, Bristol, 93 caps); Heather Kerr (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, 8 caps); Justine Lucas (Lichfield, 22 caps); Alex Matthews (Richmond, 31 caps); Harriet Millar-Mills (Lichfield, 46 caps); Izzy Noel-Smith (Bristol, 31 caps); Marlie Packer (Bristol, 47 caps); Abbie Scott (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, 17 caps); Tamara Taylor (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, 105 caps); backs: Rachael Burford (Harlequins, 67 caps); Natasha Hunt (Lichfield, 37 caps); Megan Jones (Bristol, 4 caps); La Toya Mason (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, 66 caps); Katy Mclean (Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, 85 caps); Amber Reed (Bristol, 39 caps); Leanne Riley (Harlequins, 10 caps); Emily Scarratt (VC) (Lichfield, 69 caps); Emily Scott (Saracens, 23 caps); Lydia Thompson (Worcester Valkyries, 34 caps); Danielle Waterman (Bristol, 70 caps); Kay Wilson (Richmond, 44 caps); Amy Wilson Hardy (Bristol, 7 caps).
Fixtures: England v Spain (August 9, UCD Bowl, Dublin, 2pm); England v Italy (August 13, Billings Park UCD, Dublin, 2.30pm); England v USA (August 17, Billings Park UCD, Dublin, 2.30pm).


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On Friday morning, I had a somewhat contentious discussion on Morning Joe with MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell regarding the criticism I wrote of his election-night comments. Salon posted the video last night -- it's here for those who haven't seen it -- and there has been extensive commentary about it in other places. There were issues raised by this dispute that are actually substantive and important, and some of them received some worthwhile attention, but by and large, O'Donnell's refusal to cease speaking for any longer than a few seconds at a time -- the standard form of adolescent cable-TV behavior -- caused the segment to degenerate into one of those cable scream-fests which was ultimately more headache-inducing than enlightening. I have a few comments to make about the substance of these issues -- and O'Donnell has invited me on his show on Monday night to discuss them, though it's unclear if the logistics will work out -- but first there is one point I particularly want to highlight and address.
[A]lmost every time I had MNSBC on, there was Lawrence O'Donnell trying to blame "the Left" and "liberalism" for the Democrats' political woes. Alan Grayson's loss was proof that outspoken liberalism fails. Blanche Lincoln's loss was the fault of the Left for mounting a serious primary challenge against her. Russ Feingold's defeat proved that voters reject liberalism in favor of conservatism, etc. etc.
Strangely, I watched Democrats including MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell try to blame the blowout on whiny progressives.
If O'Donnell didn't actually do that, he might want to ask himself why so many people think he did. Did huge numbers of people simultaneously suffer a mass hallucination, or did his comments -- spread out over the course of several hours that night -- create the impression that this was precisely the point he was making?
O'DONNELL: He was also considered a test case by many liberals making the argument that Democrats made the mistake of going too far to the middle. Alan Grayson went very clearly to the left, and it didn't work in his district.
O'DONNELL: Ed, it's Lawrence O'Donnell. I want to ask you more about Blanche Lincoln. In retrospect, does it look wise to have challenged Blanche Lincoln in a primary and weakened her, if that's what happened, given that she, in fact, did not fight health care all the way? She was a member of the Senate Finance Committee. She voted for the Senate Finance Committee bill. She was one of the pro-choice votes in the Senate Finance Committee, where not all Democrats voted for the pro-choice components of that health care bill.
She, in fact, helped it get out on to the Senate floor. She, in fact, helped it pass on the Senate floor. She did all that. And it was judged not enough by liberals who wanted to take her out in the primary.
O'DONNELL: They failed. They left a wounded nominee . . . . We may have elected in West Virginia a vote in favor of repealing the Obama health care bill, which Blanche Lincoln enabled to be legislated.
MADDOW: The situation is that Russ Feingold never earned the loyalty of his party because he was so iconoclastic, he went his own way, he made principled votes on things like the Patriot Act . . . he never earned any national favor from anyone but progressives . . . . . he's against someone who has a ton of outside help and a ton of money. He just didn't have anyone supporting him because the national party just never backed him up.
O'DONNELL: What does this have to do with the argument that's going on inside the Democratic Party between progressives and others about how Democrats should run? Did Russ Feingold lose because he wasn't liberal enough? . . . . When we talk about money in races, we have to face the fact that it's not the full explainer that everyone thinks it is. If money beat Russ Feingold in Wisconsin, why isn't it beating Jerry Brown in California? . . . ..
This is about real candidates, this is about real positions they've taken, especially if they're incumbents, like Russ Feingold, and to pretend that voting on Russ Feingold has nothing to do with his voting as an incumbent I think is to ignore the reality of life on the ballot as a Democrat in Wisconsin.. . . .
MADDOW: If you really believe he could have campaigned his way out of this race, I'd love to hear how he could have campaigned differently in a more effective way, but I just don't see it.
O'DONNELL: A liberal was defeated by a Republican -- by voters who had information about this one being a liberal, this one being a Republican. We have to then assume the voters are completely irrational and don't know what they are doing, or we assume that they do know the difference between a liberal and a Republican and they made that choice, based on his being a liberal and him being a Republican, money being whatever it was in that situation.
At times, O'Donnell phrased these views in the form of rhetorical questions and, in the Wisconsin discussion specifically, disclaimed certainty about why Feingold lost, but the remarks that he made as quoted above leave no doubt as to his point. I'm more than content to have anyone compare the summary which I wrote of his remarks to what he actually said. What I wrote was completely accurate. His meaning could not have been clearer, which is why so many people understood it exactly that way.
As for the substance of our discussion, O'Donnell -- in standard cable TV form -- basically had one simplistic point he repeated over and over: exit polls show that only a small minority of voters (a) self-identify as "liberal" and (b) agree that government should do more. There are so many obvious flaws in that "analysis." To begin with, exit polls survey only those who vote; it excludes those who chose not to vote, including the massive number of Democrats and liberals who voted in 2006 and 2008 but stayed at home this time. The failure to inspire those citizens to vote is, beyond doubt, a major cause of the Democrats' loss (see the first reason listed by CBS News for why the Democrats lost: "The Democratic Base Stayed Home"). Alienating your own base by moving to the Right via Blue Dog dependency is obviously a bad electoral tactic for Democrats, and O'Donnell's little stat does nothing to negate that; to the contrary, it bolsters that point, since the Democratic base of 2006 and 2008 stayed at home this year. O'Donnell's fixation on those who voted, while ignoring those who chose not to vote, necessarily excludes a major factor in the Democrats' loss.
But more important, voters don't think the way that cable TV personalities think. Voters don't run around basing their vote on this type of vapid sloganeering: who is a liberal? who is a conservative? who wants big government and who wants small government? It's true that the word "liberal" has been poisoned and it's thus hardly surprising that few people embrace it as their political identity. But, as I documented during the segment and O'Donnell steadfastly ignored, large majorities support positions routinely identified as "liberal," including the public option, greater restraints on Wall Street, preservation of Social Security and Medicare, etc. They can say they are not "liberal" but their specific views on substance prove otherwise.
But far more important still, what voters care about are not cable-news labels, but results. Democrats didn't lose because voters think they're too "liberal." If that were true, how would one explain massive Democratic wins in 2006 and 2008, including by liberals in conservative districts (such as Alan Grayson); were American voters liberal in 2006 and 2008 only to manically switch to being conservative this year? Was Wisconsin super-liberal for the last 18 years when it thrice elected Russ Feingold to the Senate, and then suddenly turned hostile to liberals this year? Such an explanation is absurd.
The answer is that voters make choices based on their assessment of the outcomes from the political class. They revolted against the Republican Party in the prior two elections because they hated the Iraq War and GOP corruption (not because they thought the GOP was "too conservative"), and they revolted against Democrats this year because they have no jobs, are having their homes foreclosed by the millions, are suffering severe economic anxiety, and see no plan or promise for that to change (not because they think Democrats are "too liberal").
The most widely accepted narrative to emerge from the 2010 midterm elections, in which Democrats took a "shellacking" and lost the most congressional seats since World War II, was this: Sick of liberal overreach, voters -- especially independents -- shifted their favor to the right, choosing Republican candidates in huge numbers.
Not so, according to a new exit poll by the firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner. The firm's findings, released Friday, show that voters weren't necessarily allying themselves with the GOP, but rather were voicing their disapproval with Washington as a whole, and especially with the federal government's inability to restart America's economic engine. To wit, voters polled gave equally poor favorability ratings to both parties as well as the tea party, the poll found.
What matters most to voters isn't political nit-picking or Washington drama but the economy, plain and simple. As pollster Stan Greenberg, a former Clinton White House staffer, put it, "While this clearly was a blow...to the president and Democrats for failing to fix the economy, there's very little indication it was an affirmation of conservative ideology and agenda. In fact, we were rather surprised in many ways at the fact that the voters, in large numbers, are still looking for larger answers to an economy that's not working for them in a situation that they find for the country very worrisome."
That jobs-centric conclusion probably isn't so revelatory for most Americans. After all, outside the Beltway, where such political narratives thrive, is where most unemployed people live. But it's a welcome corrective here in Washington, where the conventional wisdom suggests a GOP revival supposedly spurred by voters' newfound embrace of the Republican Party's ideas, however scarce they may be.
People aren't running around thinking: who is a liberal and who is a conservative? They're running around thinking: we have no jobs and no economic security, and thus will punish those in power. As I made explicitly clear in my original post about O'Donnell -- and people like this and this should learn to read a little bit better -- my objection to his comments was not that the massive loss of Blue Dogs proves that conservative Democrats can't win. Democrats didn't lose because they're "too conservative" any more than because they are "too liberal." My objection was that he was attempting to derive shallow meaning from the loss of specific liberal candidates -- see, voters don't like liberals! -- when that plainly was not what motivated voters; merely to negate his reasoning, I pointed out that if one did want to use O'Donnell's fundamentally flawed method (i.e., look at which candidates lost and that's how you know which ideology voters rejected), then one could far more easily make the case that they were rejecting conservative Democrats, since Blue Dogs are who bore the brunt of the bloodbath.
People are suffering economically and Democrats have done little about that. Beyond that, they failed to inspire their own voters to go to the polls. Therefore, they lost. By basing their power in Congress on Blue Dog dependence -- rather than advocating for the views of their own supporters and implementing those policies -- they failed, and failed resoundingly. Building their party around a large number of muddled, GOP-replicating corporatists not only creates a tepid and failed political image, but far worse, it prevents actual policies from being implemented that benefit large number of ordinary Americans. Democrats repeatedly refrained from advocating for such policies in deference to their Blue Dogs, failed to do much to alleviate the economic suffering of ordinary Americans, and thus got crushed. Anyone who thinks that Democrats lost because they were "too liberal" -- rather than because Americans are suffering so much economically -- is wildly out of touch, i.e., is a multi-millionaire cable TV personality who has spent decades wallowing in trite D.C. chatter.
The Republicans have long lived by what they call "The Buckley Rule": always support the furthest Right candidate who can plausibly win. This year, knowing that it would be a wave election, one that would sweep in huge numbers of Republicans in districts where they ordinarily couldn't get elected, they changed that to: support the furthest Right candidate, period. That's because they believe conservatism will work and want to advocate for it. Democrats don't do that. The DCCC constantly works to prop up the most "centrist" or conservative candidates -- i.e., corporatists -- on the ground that it's always better, more politically astute, to move to the Right. Even in the pro-Democratic wave years of 2006 and 2008, the Democratic Party blocked actual progressives and ensured that Blue Dogs were nominated, even though the anti-GOP sentiment was so strong that any Democrat, including progressives, could have won even in red districts (as Alan Grayson proved).
With that strategy, the Democratic Party now reaps what it has sown. Its message and identity are profoundly muddled, incoherent, unclear, uninspiring, and self-negating. Worse, its policies are mishmashes of inept half-measures that, with a handful of exceptions, produce little good for anyone (other than Wall Street, the Pentagon and other corporate interests). They are perceived as -- and are -- beholden to Wall Street, special interests, and the corporations they vowed to confront. They are without any ability to confront the massive unemployment crisis and financial decline the country faces. And as a result of all of that, they lay in shambles. Anyone who can survey all of that and cheer for the strategy which Democrats have been pursuing -- let's build our majorities by relying on GOP-replicating corporatist Blue Dogs -- or who thinks that this election loss happened because "Democrats are too liberal," resides in a world that has very little to do with reality. And that's true no matter how many times they repeat the simplistic snippets of exit polls to which they've obsessively attached themselves.


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Daley, Paul: Australian War Memorial's rise and rise
Daley, Paul
'Australian War Memorial: the remarkable rise and rise of the nation's secular shrine', Guardian Australia, 19 May 2015
Lengthy extracts of interview with Director Brendan Nelson. He touches on the AWM's tourism pulling power (one ahead of the pyramids in world rankings), Bean's vision, Indigenous servicemen (getting a monument including a white serviceman), Frontier Wars (not really wars and should be catered for by the National Museum), replacement of the gargoyles at the Memorial, the many innovations he has introduced, plans, the impact of the Great War.
"It is certainly not correct to say that Australia was born at Gallipoli. I mean we've got, as I say, centuries of Indigenous history, we've got the stories of the making of the nation in every sense of the word and in the federation . . . and the things that were happening in that first decade of the 20th century. But this whole concept of here we are it's our first military engagement . . . and the nation is told they've done us proud. I think that's what it's about."
He explains how he believes young people find meaning in the Anzac legend and how he hopes to mount a special exhibition in 2018 addressing the long-term impacts of the Great War.
"There was an embitterment of public discourse and policy debate following the war … 80% of the men who did return were between the ages of 18 and 24. A lot of them were gassed, limbless, disfigured, psychologically wounded – all of that. Families were carers, you had fatherless families, you had degrees of domestic violence associated with post traumatic stress, you had the pro-conscriptionists and the anti-conscriptionists still deeply embittered and polarised – the shirkers versus those who served. There was a sense that a man who had served or a woman who had gone off … was somehow a better Australian. The Indigenous men who had volunteered came back and returned to a desperately unequal society and were treated unequally," he said.
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Last week, we considered how God reveals Himself, as Creator, paying attention to the physical realm He so ingeniously designed. I look around and see His fingerprints everywhere.
Today, let's zoom in a bit, beyond the physical and lavish in the wonder of His goodness, as He reveals Himself to us in the spiritual realm.
In 2 Kings, chapter 8, Aram was at war with Israel. Elisha, the prophet, informed the king of Israel where the king of Aram was staying. When the king of Aram found out, he was enraged with Elisha. So, "he sent horses and chariots and a strong force" to surround the city of Dothan, where Elisha was.
'"When the servant of the man of God got up and went out early the next morning, an army with horses and chariots had surrounded the city. "Oh no, my lord! What shall we do?" the servant asked.
When I allow myself to become absorbed into the mentality of the world, trying to fit into society's norms, I quickly lose sight of the reality and truth, that God's army is fighting for me in every detail of my life. There is a spiritual battle going on all around me, yet God has given me absolute victory through Jesus. He reveals this truth unequivocally, through Scripture, through the life of Jesus, and through the transformation I have witnessed in my own heart, not to mention, the hearts of fellow brothers and sisters in Christ.
In my earlier walk with God, I expected Him to act as a genie, "poofing" away my problems as I sent up short, yet frequent prayers of desperation. When I struggled with a difficult person at work, I prayed the person would quit or be fired. When I failed to put gas in my car, I prayed He would get me to the next gas station, AGAIN. When I lost my keys, I prayed God would make them immediately appear, as I rushed around, frantic, frustrated because I was running late. The examples are endless.
Yet, despite my ridiculous demands, He was and is patiently and faithfully transforming my heart from "glory to glory" (2 Corinthians 3:18). Please don't misunderstand. I'm not saying it is wrong to ask God for help in the little things, but when we expect Him to produce upon demand, then doubt Him when He doesn't, we miss the better gift that He is offering; relationship, heart transformation and victory.
What about the bigger storms of life?
Years ago, I met a woman who started coming to the church I attended. She was a returning prodigal, like myself. She suffered with a serious chronic health condition, significant financial problems, and grief over the loss of her husband, who'd recently passed away at a far too early age. I prayed earnestly for God to fix her problems, as I could not imagine how she could possibly remain faithful to Him, if He didn't perform a miracle in her overwhelming situation.
Over the years that followed, she and I became close friends, and it was amazing to watch her love for the Lord grow. I saw no immediate cure, no major financial breakthrough, and she fought depression over the loss of her husband. Yet, He proved His faithfulness in the midst of her difficult circumstance, as He walked through life's trials with her. Ever present within her, God empowered her to draw close to Him and I witnessed her grow with a deep sense of peace and joy that surpasses all understanding (Philippians 4:7).
Another dear friend and her husband lost everything they owned, except what they could fit into their car, when their beloved town of Rockport was hit dead center by Hurricane Harvey. Six months later, they still remain displaced, struggling to start over, yet their compassion and love for others, fueled by their trust in the Father continues to grow. He is their Rock (Psalms 18:2).
I've watched another precious friend be transformed from fearful and insecure to confident and strong in the Lord, as her faith has exploded in the midst of life's hardships and challenges. What Satan once used as a snare, God uses to empower her (Genesis 50:20). I am encouraged every time we meet in small group Bible studies, as I witness her speaking truth boldly in love, through the power of God's Spirit, which shines brightly within.
What do these three women have in common? Faith in Almighty God, the Maestro of life, as He orchestrates His great plans for us, plans to give us hope and a future (Jeremiah 29:11), all while composing His glorious opus upon our hearts, giving us a new birth with life to the full (John 10:10).
There are many others whom I've been privileged to witness God work amazing miracles in their lives. I've seen women struggle through the healing process to forgive spouses, friends and church leaders to experience victory. I've seen men let go of their anger and pride, surrendering to a Better Way. I've seen marriages restored, fear replaced with boldness, addiction overcome through surrender.
Indeed, God reveals Himself through the spiritual realm, as His Spirit works in us and through us, "to will and to act in order to fulfill His good purpose." (Philippians 2:13) He is good!